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Who is making the comments you wish to discuss does have a great deal to do with it. I know nothing of OpenGL technologies so I would assume you wouldn't hold my opinion as high as Carmack's or Google employees.

Also, I've followed Carmack's exploits for something like twenty years. In my humble opinion, when he speaks of anything OpenGL I would suggest you listen to what he has to say.
Since when has Ubuntu encrypted filesystems by default? Last I used Ubuntu it sure didn't.
sounds good! I like especially 1/ and would add a dead simple API to it! Is this part of your plans?

Besides, it might be intersting to play around w/ your stuff and yahoo-pipes.
I would say "That's a shame" but it isn't. Well done Ryan, well done indeed!
out in the open, most likely unattended, for 2+ hours?

Balcony comes to mind. But yes, I'd be worried about rain showers.

I think the optimal form-factor for a portable solar charger would be a water-proof, inflatable umbrella (with a stand).

Such an umbrella charger could double as sun-shade while you're working and as rain-protection when you leave the laptop out on a table.
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Actually I have been using a similar technique for the last six months. However 30mins intervals and I only do it on days when I feel tired or unmotivated.

At the end of the period I go for a walk, or on an exercise bike for 5-10 mins. The best part is physically leaving the computer stop the eyes getting tired and drifting into a zombie state of zero productivity.

When I start a session I usually jot down a particular task to work on and review at the end. It does not guarantee productivity, but the short periods with reviews helps keep focus.
Or try 5 minutes of nothing. Just sit there but refrain from touching either keyboard or mouse. You can think/daydream/meditate/try to solve the problem you were working on in your head/etc. :D
Colors tend to be used in programming quite a bit. I'd expect quite a lot of british programmers/techies tend to write grey, even though it's not how it's spelt here. Just as we techies often write 'color' instead of 'colour'.
The logo looks an awful lot like twitter's.
Agree with this point, and here's a suggestion about one way of doing this.

You have a set of users who you believe are now using a competitor. Put a survey together specifically for these users. You need to ask them a mixture of questions about your product, and how you compare to your competition. Ask them a mixture of fact-based questions (yes/no, select from this drop down etc) and opinion based questions (both free text, and of the form: very satisfied, satisfied, dissatisfied, very dissatisfied)

Once you've got your survey together, email it to a proportion of these users - maybe 30% of them. In your email, take the approach of... we are beta and are requesting feedback from users on our product and service etc. Keep the email short. Tell them the survey is 10 questions long and should only take 2 minutes to complete (both of these points need to be true!)

Take the view that a 5% response rate is a good response rate (anything over that is a real bonus). Monitor for a few days, maybe a week. See whether the answers to your questions are of any use at all - your questions could come across as lame or open to mis-interpretation. If you are getting problems like that, make some adjustments to your questions. Then email it out to the other 70% of users.

Hopefully you now have some useful information on where you can improve.

What have you got to lose?
Or, possibly, because it's a better API and more developer-friendly environment.

Working at a low level with OpenGL is really painful, and there are no Direct3D-quality libraries on top of it to blunt that pain.
Well at least there's one positive aspect to the worst case scenario then.
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I see. I was not aware that tmux has/can be configured to have a status bar at the bottom. That makes activity updates possible.

Thanks also for elaborating about workflow. I use a similar setup with chrome and xterm and a tiling WM. I like the idea of integrating tmux and suspend/resume to build up and return to state.
"Ryan Cleary, an alleged member of the hacking group behind the claim, LulzSec, was arrested in Essex this morning by specialist cyber crime officers from Scotland Yard."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8589078/Hackers-s...
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The answers can be hashed in many ways to ensure anonymity.
Give me a break. There are no ideals, and it's not a conspiracy. It's just a bunch of trolls on summer vacation. They are doing it because they don't really care to consider consequences when they choose to do something. Mystery solved by Occam's Razor.

If you didn't know that lots of people like to do mean, pointless things all day for no reason, then welcome to 4chan, you may or may not enjoy your stay.
I didn't fill mine in, whoops
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This of course depends on the quality of the hammock, in much the same way that a poor mattress will make for a bad sleeping experience. I own a Warbonnet Blackbird hammock (http://warbonnetoutdoors.com/blackbirds.php) and it's extremely comfortable. They're one of the very best hammocks out there and are very popular with the backpacking crowd.
I am not familiar with flash's api, can anyone point us to the docs in flash on how to access the shaders or a specific example?
>There is no way dropbox would be able to explain to them what happened without scaring them silly.

Opposed to who? People who do know what it means and should be scared silly but aren't because they've been beaten into submission by breach after breach after breach.
It looks like it's a standardized dev kit. And the 250 number is for community developers. "Nokia Developer has more units for partners, champions and professional developers in general - but they are not on sale. "
Police arrest teen from Lulz Security for DDOS attack
It seems the arrest was not of a LulzSec member...
It all depends on the context. In code that is not performance-sensitive, a bit of object churn isn't a problem.

However, there are places where a lot of object churn can really be problematic. In particular, I find that Android applications tend to be somewhat sensitive to this. However, even in desktop or server applications, a lot of object churn in a tight loop can be bad.
There was an interesting comment at the bottom of the post about how TC could lose out to basically anybody who out-scoops him on a story and about how TC hangs its hat on being able to publish first. I think it would be great if they could maybe move away from the "ready, fire, aim" the author talks about and provides really sound analysis and discussion about startups.
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If 'blockable-by-IR' technology made it into the iPhone camera, it'd be a week before an IR filter exactly as you describe emerged as a Kickstarter project.

It would probably be titled 'Decensored' and accompanied by a spoof of the famous 1984 Super Bowl ad. Or, failing that, a guy in a shed with some IR filters, a pair of scissors, some Pritt Stick, and a dream.
Under 25 here, what would you hesitantly call tradition?
Well that sounds like the problem of "I learnt it wrong the first time".

Looking back at issues I've had, learning it right the first time has been very important. If I've skimmed over some concept, and learned enough to apply it simply, when it comes to applying it more generally, I'm struggling. Going back and relearning it correctly takes time, and generally has to be done more than once.

Teachers should be careful to explain things simply, but ensure that the understanding really is correct. This can't really be assessed by exercise sheets, but discussion.

(Well it can by exercise sheets, by asking students to apply the concept to a different problem, but personal experience is only a few people make the jump without help. And when they get the help, that short circuits the learning that should have happened to allow them to do it themselves.)
I think the problem here is the existence of Mt Gox itself. It seems like creating a centralized exchange for a currency that does not yet have a real economy associated with it - and which has been hyped by the internet meme machine - is just asking for the currency to become the victim of wild speculation.

Especially when the exchange is just a spot market - speculation in futures and options wouldn't undermine the viability of the currency as an actual means of exchange in the way that this situation will.
wait, how do they own translation? did they buy the .translation tld or something? or is that word now trademarked and no one else can use it?
That doesn't help anything other than dropbox's efforts to obtain new customers because they would be ill informed about the track record of the service.
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This can be a lie also, to pretend the situation that none of the members are arrested.
I'll believe it when LulzSec stops hacking things. Between the spanish police arresting the "leaders" of Anonymous, the FBI meeting with Aaron Barr to learn the identities of the "leaders" of Anonymous, and LEAs the world over generally not understanding this newfangled Internet business, I have precious little faith in their ability to actually get the people responsible. The only people who've been arrested so far were those who used LOIC.

It wouldn't surprise me if Ryan was hanging out in the LulzSec irc (hundreds did), or even if he was involved in a couple of the attacks. LulzSec has made no secret of the fact that they regularly get other people to do a lot of their attacks, and that they publish information given to them by others.

It's a lot sexier for the british police and the FBI to say they've captured a ringleader than "some guy loosely affiliated with", but I highly suspect he's the latter, if anything.
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It would be crazy to ignore MS on this point, yes. It would also be crazy, though, to take them at face value. While there are avenues for attacks via WebGL, I think it's clear that MS is being at least somewhat disingenous about the implications one can draw from the existence of such attacks. I am not enough of an expert to tell lies and facts apart in MS's statements, and so I cannot derive any real value from what they say. I am hence forced to derive my opinions on the matter from other, more trustworthy sources, such as the Mozilla blog that you linked to.
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Have you asked yourself where cigars have been 1st made?
Unless, and I guess that's what ColinWright alluded to, you have extensive stream fusion that will get rid of intermediate data structures.
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The amount of cigar lovers has become progressively growing with cigar turning into trend once again.
And what did we know about air before the 1500s or so - for the last 50 millennia?
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Decide whether to keep using their services or to use a competitors?
He could probably try to justify: Scala idioms to structure code tend to be faster than Java idioms.
So, to take it to one extreme, you think that if zero accounts were accessed, then it would be reasonable for zero users to be directly notified about this?

That doesn't sound reasonable in the least bit.
That's because when people talk about the JVM's performance, they refer to Oracle's Java SE, not Android and not Apache Harmony.
Or, to analogize, your MtGox balance is a gold certificate, MtGox is the bank with the actual gold in its vault, and someone just robbed the bank.
Apparently it's fake:

http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83168314527981568
Makes sense. EFF knows the law as well as anyone, the concern here is that they could be entangled in as-yet-unknown legal disputes because of their use of bitcoin. That'd be wasteful of both bitcoin and regular currency donations.

I think it makes sense for them to step up and admit that they don't understand the law surrounding bitcoin well enough to be comfortable accepting it. There's no point in assuming an unknown-sized risk just for bitcoin when there's other things in their mission they can work towards.

I'd hate to see the EFF financially decimated merely because they accepted bitcoin donations. They are useful people, let them pick their battles.
In this case, I believe not:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/Over...

You would not be using the stack for this.
Using the visits of the "BuyNow" page as conversion goal seems like a really bad idea to me.

By simply hiding the price, the could have increased this "conversion" even further.
Why can't anyone bother to sign their press releases, it's not like it's the 60s.
Apparently it's fake:

http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83168314527981568
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According to their Twitter, they haven't hacked the Census. Seems like someone was spreading false information...

See:

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83168314527981568

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83167715799470080

EDIT:

Those tweets were deleted. Here's the official word:

"Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us - don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first."

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83172089711964161
The claimed productivity boost was between vanilla PHP and Rails, so it's already a poor comparison.

Add to that, the reason he was using vanilla PHP is because he couldn't choose a framework, and his whole argument seems pretty flimsy to me.
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Do you have any comparisons or examples? I've found OpenGL to be a fairly straightforward API (if you ignore all the depreciated stuff)...
It sounds like a good technique if you have trouble focusing and feel unmotivated. However it feels like a lousy technique if you are :) When you're in flow-mode you don't want to have some stupid clock disturb your concentration every 25 minutes. You want to look down at your watch and go "whoops, I've spent 6 hours coding"
Oh I'm not critisizing TC. They got to do whatever pays the bills. It's just that we all know this, and really that article didn't add any insight.
The odd thing is that much of its coverage is persistently about relatively unsuccessful startups like quora, path, foursquare, asana [watch out for the flood here], colo(u)r etc, many of which owe a large part of their audience to their continued coverage. One rarely reads critical or skeptical articles on techcrunch. Lately, i 've turned to like bloomberg West instead for my SV briefing.
I'm amazed at some of the neat effects that can be had by simply messing with a few variables. I'm also amazed at the speed of the script.

Really nicely done.
LulzSec just confirmed this being rumor on their twitter account http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83167715799470080
Would be nice of the media and all the commenters (including this thread), who all publicly crucified the guy in no time, to now apologize and stop spreading bullshit rumors.

But that'll never happen.

The master-minds of the media and those commenters are still nowhere to be found.
Aren't these already in public records in the form of birth certificates and, if you own property, the title deeds?
read the related Ms article "WebGL considered harmful".
there its stated that they wont include it in BROWSER beacause it is considered harmful. so silverlight is not include either. even if it is exactly the same as WebGL
"Grey" is the usual British English (and Australian English) spelling. "Gray" is the usual American English spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey
There is no such thing as "better". There is only "better than". In this case, the OP is asking how he or she can build a product that is better than his or her competitor. In that context, pretending the competition doesn't exist is only burying your head in the sand.
Can I submit a job opportunity on HN for a non YComb startup?
Is this allowed?
Apparently the only reason to buy an Android phone was if you didn't get AT&T service (oh, or if you irrationally hated Apple, which also makes it into this list) and they seem to be doing okay. So there's precedent for people, who I might just dare to suggest are inside an Apple-flavored bubble, being surprised that most people don't buy the Apple option and get cheaper, often crappier, substitutes instead.
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I think he already sold it and moved to Seattle.
I used to do what you did too. Pure PHP without frameworks projects always grow unmaintainable. At least go with a framework like CodeIgniter. Rails is great too if you prefer Ruby (which I do).
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Don't quote me on this; but someone [a professional contact] better placed to speculate on the details than the media (or dare I say; more likely to know the truth) just told me this is not related to LulzSec but an older investigation.

This rings true with a lot of the details of the arrest FWIW.
Sounds a lot like William Gibson's idea of The Ugliest T-shirt in the World from his novel 'Zero History' [See: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/09/03/william-gibson/2...].

In it, a certain object triggers all cameras to stop recording normally, but its only implemented by a gentleman's agreement among security equipment manufacturers.
Wow, Mt. Gox sound like a bunch of criminals. Did everyone see the link (posted 2 or 3 times) where something shady happened before and they just moved jurisdiction so they couldn't be sued? I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they did this whole thing themselves to steal some bit coins.
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I remember when TC was just beginning and it was full of stories about micro companies doing cool stuff with new technologies. Big companies were rarely given any coverage at all. Today it's completely different. Most articles look like recycled PR posts about Company X raising Y millions from a Z fund.

Another thing that is completely ruining it is non-stop fan boy posts (MG anyone?).
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Beats being swayed by facts.
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Based on JQuery Mobile - runs almost anywhere.
I use any online service with the assumption that the things I put up there could likely become public, no longer anonymous, or what have you. I don't think this is overly paranoid, given how difficult computer security is.

To me; it would make sense if Dropbox stored everything encrypted (as in, encrypted pre-transfer), and you needed the private key to decrypt stuff, unless you specifically state that it is to be public. It just makes sense from a liability statement. That said, you can do this anyway as recomended in this article.
(http://lifehacker.com/5813873/how-to-add-a-second-layer-of-e...)
Yes, take a look at the "jobs" tab in the header. A lot of startups are looking for people and they aren't YC-related
Aussie Registrar loses production data and backups too. Customers enraged.
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Historic change to internet's domain name system
LulzSec The Lulz Boat

Oh well, just because we want to waste government and local authority investigation time: we hacked every website in the world. Enjoy!

11 minutes ago

LulzSec The Lulz Boat

I'm not seeing "we hacked the UK census" on our twitter feed or website... why does the media believe we hacked the UK census? #confusion

13 minutes ago

LulzSec The Lulz Boat

Not sure we claimed to hack the UK census or where that rumour started, but we assume it's because people are stupider than you and I.
LulzSec confirms they've hacked every website in the world
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Wait for a "Who's Hiring" thread and post in there.
How can you fault a guy who does what traders try to do every single day? The fault is only with Mt Gox here and this isn't the first shady thing they've done (apparently even changing jurisdictions to avoid getting sued over previous abuses). Mt Gox are scum bags and deserve to be shut down at the very least.
They now offer, duringinstallation, te option to encrypt your home directory.
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On the other hand some uses of bind variables can kill performance: http://www.dbspecialists.com/specialists/specialist2003-11.h...
The jobs tab is exclusively YC. Just read the page.
simply marks the whole memory block the first
generation was in as available

That doesn't make any sense.

On that GC run what if you just allocated an object, 0.01ms ago? You mean to tell me that it's either (a) deallocated before being used or (b) moved to the second generation already? Also, you need to basically stop the world for doing first-generation cleanup, as you described it, otherwise you're running into race-problems. That's insane.

Glossing over some details, no matter how efficient the GC is in regards to first generation treatment, you're still accessing the heap, which is an expensive operation, you're still potentially boxing/unboxing primitives in loops and you're also making single-dispatch virtual calls on those short-lived objects.

C++ has terrible performance when using heap-allocated values, but with stack-allocated objects C++ kicks Java's butt. And that's not the only potential problem for Scala, unless Scala adds some kind of tracing compiler that can avoid boxing/unboxing and runtime-dispatch when not necessary.
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Seeing as how the whole point of bitcoin is that it's unprecedented, I think it necessarily creates untested legal concerns.
It's just as likely that LulzSec wouldn't admit any of them has been captured as it for the government to say that they have.
That's not how the market works. It's the few who win, not the many.
Basing support on version numbers is stupid because version numbers mean nothing. Firefox 6 beta is due out in two weeks time!

Time based support would be better.
I don't see what's wrong with "hacky third party tools". From the looks of it, the api seems to allow for you to pull your posts, 50 at a time.

However, it is a bit concerning that there is no built in tool for laymen. It seems like tumblr needs more hires.
It looks like an improvement over the alpha but it's still pretty horrible to use on iOS + iPhone 4:

Click a link... loading message appears. Wait. Loading message disappears. Pause. View scrolls to the top. User is now totally lost & confused. Has the new page loaded? Pause. View now slides over to the new page. Page wobbles around if like me you were scrolling around the previous view to try and understand where you were. I did this 3-4 times before I gave up exploring the demo site.

Based on the demo sites alone, Sencha Touch is still the outright winner in terms of end-user experience. Which is a little unfortunate because I might prefer JQuery for both desktop and mobile-optimised sites
From the patent abstract I have a hard time imaging that they will win this lawsuit.

It's sort of like BitTorrent if you squint. Just BitTorrent provided by several central servers run by one company that wants to include DRM in every download from the system.