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For me FB is better for prototypin code. You have the expanded console that allows me to write code quickly on pages that I may not have direct access to (like production pages). I feel like I'm using a text editor. Webkit debugger is much more limited in this regard.
Do you complain about a gold mine, just because it's dark and you have to bend over to get the gold? Also, NDA's.
Money quote, from the first paragraph: "The belief that giving away free music will result in future sales are too far-fetch." Freed from the bounds of subject-verb agreement, the author continues rapidly down the "giving away music for free devalues the music" path. Oh, noes! Freebies is for making people accustomed to free musics!

Indies shouldn't give away their music because that will give them exposure, and possibly dethrone the few aging dinosaurs currently atop the charts.
Great news, I hope the Picasa re-branding comes with a much-needed visual overhaul (similar to the redesigns that came to Gmail, Calendar, etc). Picasa and Google Reader are the last two remaining products in my daily use that desperately need a visual refresh.
This is the reason that I've always kept both my google apps account and my gmail one. It can be very frustrating that some services aren't available otherwise.
yes, you can cache pages locally, and update when internet access is available
Yes, the individualized product names don't really fit with the sandbar. Blogger was probably OK (it's clear what it does), but Picasa doesn't communicate what it does well, and worse, the Sandbar calls it "photos" but then you land at the Picasa page, and you're not sure whether it's correct or not.
It was noted by Amy Schade during the 2008 NNG Usability Week conference that "Alertbox" would not be a wise choice if selected now but that the branding is too strong to support an easy change.
You're absolutely correct here. The 4th Amendment (giving protection from unreasonable search and seizure) starts off, "the right of the people...", not "the right of the citizens". Together with the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause, non-citizens get the same protections.

That said, the doctrine used in asset seizure cases (generally connected to the failed war on drugs) is that it's the seized property itself that is suspected to be guilty, and property doesn't have any of these rights. One can easily imagine them trying the same crap here.
RAM is cheap, is there a reason you haven't upgraded? My laptop has 8GB and it comes in handy quite a bit (for virtual machines especially).
This is nauseating. It would be nice to see some investment in the network rather than in their vast lobby. It is heartening to see at least one non-profit hold their leadership accountable though.

> And when the FCC considered its net neutrality rules, the nonprofit commentaries flowed like high speed data. Our examination of a letter written by 19 civil rights groups questioning open Internet rules found that most were recipients of Comcast, AT&T, or Verizon money. In the case of LULAC, a single grant came to $1.5 million. Groups that we have spoken with always deny any sort of outright opinion selling.
Getting Scala & SBT installed hasn't been the tough part, it's getting it working with any IDE that has been complicated.

A big part of the problem is that documentation seems to equally point to information for Scala 2.7 and 2.8, and less so for 2.9; but the directions are different for each version. Added to that are the differences between SBT 0.7.x and SBT 0.10.x. It makes it tricky to know what parts of the documentation are still valid and which parts have changed. Then you pick an IDE (Eclipse, IDEA, Emacs w/ Ensime) and figure out what plugins are valid today and what versions of Scala they work with and hope that it all matches up.

With Clojure & emacs it's just a couple of commands to get Clojure installed and have a project correctly set up.

I do like Scala, but there are still many rough edges that aren't helped by the frenetic pace of breaking changes in the ecosystem. I'm sure part of it is that I'm coming to Scala without any substantive Java background.

(For whatever it's worth, emacs with Ensime had the best / most straightforward installation path out of any of the other IDEs)
I'm not so sure that it's fast, just well organized. The extreme would be to release the product and restructure the entire system "overnight": the implementation took X years but the changes were made available quickly.

This looks more like the pieces just falling into place, though I agree, the scale is a bit staggaring.
Hackers Attack Sony Again - Plant Bogus Celeb Stories on Website
Can econometricists join?
I remember rants about the Apple App Store being submitted here. Maybe people got bored of writing them, or people got bored of submitting them to HN.
Hulu Disables Facebook Connect Over Privacy Glitch
Only a small minority of users even know what regexes are, and fewer still use them.

I'm not sure that allowing regexes would put an undue burden on the search engines. But if it ever becomes an issue, the search engine could easily deal with the problem by simply slowing down the search if it contains a regex.

I'd happily wait 2x, 5x, or even 10x as long for my query to complete if I could use a regex. For some important queries for which non-regex searches are inadequate, I'd even be willing to wait hours or days, since the alternative would be not being able to perform the search at all (or returning so many false positives as to be useless).
> Whatever the truth of the matter, it seems clear that QDOS got a real head start thanks to the existence of CP/M.

He actually attacks that notion head on in the blog, if you'd bothered to read that far. Basically he says that they needed an API and he thought using an existing one would pull developers in. If someone would have sued them right away they would have just changed the API--they weren't really wedded to it and it's not the most important part of the OS.

He also claims that if CP/M did anything it was that it proved that a "real" OS could be run on a microcomputer.

Frankly, that all seems reasonable to me.
Mad science at Nodejitsu
I think the point of the parent post was that ICE is only focusing on people linking to 'illegal streaming sites,' but not going after 'illegal streaming sites' themselves, which seems somewhat backwards. That would be like the "War on Drugs" focusing on arresting people that point out where you can find drug dealers, but not bothering to go after actual drug dealers.
http://www.google.com/codesearch allows them, so it is doable.

It may not be efficient for larger datasets and large numbers of users, but that need not be a problem for the search engine owners, as they could just take their sweet time in returning results.
Start-ups are businesses. They make money for their investors and founders. Handing off the code sounds like hippie poppycock to me. I suppose they can do it if they want to, but they don't have to.
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You know, I didn't actually know that. Thanks for the clarification.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're not trolling but are frustrated. In which case I must also assume that you haven't really spent the time to understand the argument at tauday.com. It is not that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter (called π) will change, but that the ratio of the circumference to the radius (now called τ) is more useful.

Which shouldn't come as too much of a surprise because the radius is the smallest amount of information that determines what a circle is, as well as the basis for how we define radians.
Berry floor absoluut water bestendig of toch niet
berry floor vloeren zijn water bestendig maar in sommige gevallen kan het wel eens zijn dat het krom trekt maar dat heeft helemaal te maken met de hoeveelheid en de situatie waar het hout zich bevind
Stanford robotics students show off class projects
Internet Explorer.

You could argue that this is Google's Internet Explorer moment. Disruptive technology comes along that threatens entrenched tech giant's core business. Tech giant is still lead by its brilliant, passionate founder, and still filled with many smart people. Big long memo is sent out by one of the company's VPs. Senior engineers are pulled off other projects and brought together on one team, first to catch-up to the new challenger and then to surpass it. The rest of the company is realigned to support their efforts.

Remember that Microsoft did do something this big and fast once - they won the browser wars. They probably couldn't do it now that Ballmer's in charge. But in Microsoft's heyday...yes, they could.
Regexes would be great, but I'd settle for a "raw" mode where the search engine just searches for the exact string.

Example: putting the following into the Google search box:

"*foo" "bar->baz"

Finds any page with foo, bar and baz, even thought I tried to tell it that the asterisk and arrow were important.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22*foo%22+%...
Spell checking would be the equivalent of correcting pronunciation. I would hardly mind that. It's more the idea of computers controlling the actual flow and similarly the content of the conversation.
Yes.

See: Xbox.

Within only two console generations, they went from having zero presence in the market outside of publishing some games for Windows, to one of now only three major players in the landscape. For millions of gamers, the Xbox is their first choice for games. They pushed Xbox Live to market, after years of Nintendo and Sony saying consoles were going to go online. They weren't the first console to go online, as the Dreamcast shipped with a modem, but Xbox Live was the first wild success. Nintendo and Sony scrambled to launch their not ready for market Ethernet adapters for the Gamecube and PS2.

Microsoft pulls over a billion in revenue annually with the Xbox Live Marketplace, a digital distribution avenue that didn't exist on consoles until they created it, that Sony and Nintendo again moved to emulate on their platforms. Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2009/02/22/just-over-hal...

Then, four years after the Xbox 360 had already been in homes across the globe, they reinvented the platform with the NXE (New Xbox Experience) update, that moved to make the console more family friendly, pushed entertainment options like Zune and Netflix to the forefront, and arguably set the ground work for what was to come with Kinect.

Yes. I could see Microsoft do something big, fast. Because they did.
There Is No ‘Divorce’ In The Google Plus World
DotCloud has full Java support, it's just a matter of building a war file and deploying it.
Velocitude got acquired too by Akamai.
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So far there are very few actual syntax additions slated for Objective-J 2.0, and it will be of course be backwards compatible, so we have a large base of existing tests and applications to test against.

Most of the features of Objective-J 2.0 are around what the new parser enables us to do "under the hood" rather than in syntax:

1. dramatically improved performance, in particular eliminating the "with" statements in generated code

2. line number parity in generated code for easier debugging

3. possibly features that require knowing types at compile time:

* aggressive dead-code stripping

* function inlining

* optional static type checking

* object immutability

* Objective-C 2.0-style properties
I guess it's all just semantics at this point - my point was that you'd be more correct in saying that NT was a microkernel with some changes, than a monolithic with some changes (I suppose this was your point with pulling out the Hybrid term).

FYI, most drivers including video, have been moved back to a split between User Mode and Kernel Mode, rather than being completely kernel mode as they used to be (the Wikipedia article links to something that is very out of date). IIRC, Application IPC is still Kernel-Mode.

http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc784266(WS.10).as...
I'm guessing it's his philosophy that conflicts with it. I don't think you need to understand technology necessarily.

Most politicians: more control by federal government!

Paul: less control by federal government!
"Always take the high road" ?
Understood, but you get the jist of what I was trying to do. Offer a scaling mechanism.
First steps: "Hello web" in Opa
You started by asking if $1000 for prototype in 3 days was reasonable.

Even if you were wearing the magic sock of instantly distilling functional requirements from screenshots, and even if you were wearing the magic nosewarmer of instant painless customer acceptance, that has your bill rate somewhere in the neighborhood of $60/hr.

Since the magic sock and nosewarmer don't exist, I think you should assume that:

* you've forgotten to budget 2-4 days of interactive requirements gathering as clients attempt to communicate to you what individual buttons on the page should do, noting well that many of those buttons will not be trivial CRUD actions once fully explained.

* you've forgotten to budget 4-8 customer acceptance days as clients reject your conversion because buttons do not do what they now realize the buttons should have done; while these days may not be spent iterating, and may instead just be spent arguing, you are nonetheless going to spend them.

If I had 10 interns to do this work, so that I never needed to open up Emacs or type "rails console", the thought of the time and heartache I'd burn just project managing this would keep me from offering it.
How the US is losing its tech mojo (and how it can get it back)
I started using foreman and upstart about two weeks ago.

I use it to run redis, solr, workers, schedulers with one shot.

http://michaelvanrooijen.com/articles/2011/06/08-managing-an...
Where are the statistics to suggest that people 55+ are taking all the minimum wage jobs? Why does this author mention "Bush" four times?

The blogger is editorializing worse than the WSJ here (not that the WSJ article was much better). Essentially all of the counter points were mentioned in the WSJ article up front, then they focused on minimum wage worsening the effect.

I'm not necessarily agreeing with WSJ on this one, but this guy's article is just as meaningless.
Ego is very important for drive and competition. I would rather have a team of huge egos who are calm, collected, and calculated. No ego = mental castration.
I don't think there is any obvious suffering that all iOS developers have had to go through. I've submitted 17 different apps to the app store and I haven't faced a single rejection yet.
It's τ/2. The area of a circle is τr²/2. You may be familiar with the idea of x²/2 from calculus: it's an integral, which can be used to compute areas.
It's far too cheap.
Google+ cannot be undone.
Greplin's code independence day: open source for Nagios, OOM debugging, and more
"Corroborate" not "collaborate", I think.
Researchers Break Apple’s iPhone iOS 4 encryption
I find it strange that the "Global Scope Considerations" section uses Ruby-style inline comments (#) rather than actual JS inline comments (//).
Bing for iPad adds Lasso - a new search gesture metaphor
The Nexus One's below-the-screen buttons are capacitive. The Nexus One only has a mechanical trackball.
You're allergic to facts. Whenever I use them you blank out the entire section.

Note how you never ask if anyone wants you to help, or what they'd rather you did to help. All you do is harp on this supposed help you provide whenever anyone points out a problem you caused.

Your country has killed millions in wars of aggression. That cancels out the good you accidentally do while fighting dictators you've installed. Some good is being done but it's not your primary intent.

How many roads do you think you'd have to build to cancel out the drone-guided bombing on an entire wedding party? If someone killed your family, how big of a check would they have to hand you before you agreed it was a good thing?

You might want to think about how "But I ended up helping some people" is not a defense against murder - a crime your country commits at an average rate of 500+/day in the Middle-East.
Seems like a great concept for a site. I (as well as many here) am looking forward to more comprehensive results on programming subjects.
Check out namecoin.
(this reply is also to nostrademons' comment)

You're both correct that Microsoft has done product launches which were big and done quickly, but that's different than what Google is in the process of doing.

Yes, Google launched their big product: Google+ which would be comparable to Internet Explorer or Xbox.

But Google has also redesigned all their main products, integrated many of them, and is going to rebrand other products. That's much more difficult than just launching one product. It involves more cooperation and effort from the entire company rather than just a division.
Hacked: Obama's campaign website
Woman here. I don't offend easily though...

If I were to come across this library as something that I wanted to use, it would probably merit a sigh or a shake of my head. I'd also be more likely to dismiss the whole library as a joke since the name seemed to be a (not very wise) joke, and I would look for something of better quality.

I wouldn't hold it against the host of the library, though, unless they were actively promoting it or something. There will always be bad apples in every community. As long as they're on the fringe I don't think the community as a whole should be judged by them.
Appcelerator: How to develop your mobile strategy - with Scott Schwarzhoff
Hmm...Not sure how useful they would but here are 3 suggestions:-

* Try Adding some more lesser known but useful data structures like Trie,Bloom filters etc.

* Covering recent industry topic - explanation of core concepts that drive bigtable,hadoop, nosql etc.

* Mobile programming from algorithmic prospective.
Casey Anthony found not guilty of murdering daughter – why is everyone upset?
Minor correction, YARV, written by ko1, has never been a part of the Ruby 1.8.x line to my knowledge. Some language features, (mostly stdlib I think) were back-ported in 1.8.7, but 1.8.x is and always has been an interpreter where 1.9.x has always been YARV (a VM).

Useless trivia: Once upon a time Ruby2 was going to be called "Rete" IIRC. Or maybe "Rite"? I doubt it's in any shape to be called a "formal" plan at this point, and who knows if it'll ever actually see the light of day. It was supposed to drop optional parens IIRC, it's even in the original Pickaxe I think, but I doubt that's still on the board. Don't remember what else.
When you tell your friends, the information loss over distance and time eventually makes the words turn to shades of grey.

The internet preserves those words in their original state, black and white, which makes them stick out against the shades of grey composing the background.

Even simpler...when your friends die, with them go the words you have shared. Not so with the internet. It appears to be immortal.
But this isn't a random business. They decided, intentionally, that they wanted to put your personal information in there. True story: I have manually entered personal information (name, email, birthday, phone number) for many of my friends into my email accounts' address books over the years. They have done the same to me. It's expected.

That's what I was saying: If you're going to let people see all your personal info, it should be people you would trust to use that info properly. Facebook stopping Google from importing your info but allowing Yahoo to do so won't protect you at all.
Make Food Choices Simple: Cook
Oops, wrong copy paste - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480220.aspx

(about WDDM, which move most of the display driver functionality back to user-mode)
> How does "America" feel anything?

I should have said the American Government.
I think it depends on what you mean by "due process." If you mean "whatever the law says the government can do, and/or what the government customarily does," there may have been no violation of due process.

However, the phrase "due process" also often means "what the law should say the government should do." Such an interpretation usually appeals to a higher moral authority, the Constitution, etc. This is how people often criticize the PATRIOT Act for violating due process, even though the PATRIOT Act defines clear processes to be followed. These people are saying, in effect, that the processes defined by existing law don't count as "due process."

You are right that court challenges are the way to fix problematic laws. But I disagree that "none of these people have been deprived of due process," because I think that any process worthy of being called "due process" should involve, among others, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and a bunch of documents signed by judges. I don't know what the law is really like in the US, but seizing property in the absence of a criminal conviction (except temporarily, to gather evidence) sounds like a gross violation of due process.
Right, but I don't think anyone claimed that Cisco sold a system designed for surveillance or suppression. The claims seem to be that Cisco sold networking or other common hardware that will probably be used for such purposes, or in a system (created by the Chinese government) designed for such purposes.
Good article, but I'd like to point out that while Captain Crunch is best known as a cracker, he was also a hacker.
Niche Startup Rides the Daily Deals Wave
I can't remember seeing that but I trust you're right. I access all accounts through IMAP so I wouldn't have run into them.
git status is very helpful in understanding the git because it shows you the differences between the working directory, index, and previous commi, index, and previous committ.

The first commit is missing it's 't', which it looks like the second one stole.

EDIT: Actually, you just have a copy-paste error.
"Even if China's stake was influential, why would they need it in order to censor Facebook? They censor plenty of sites in which they have no stake whatsoever."

Uh, to censor it in other countries?
Most of the examples use C style curly braces, maybe Crockford needs to do an "Apple Tech Talk".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
For those who would prefer an HTML version: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Script...
Ask HN: What do you guys think of our political satire website?
We recently launched a website for political satire:
www.thewashingtonfancy.com

Wondering what you thought of the design. Any areas for improvement?

Also, hope you get a good laugh!
clickable link: www.thewashingtonfancy.com
The first two links gave me a 404 on github...
I like it and prefer it to Twitter
SimuPOP - a general-purpose genetics simulation environment in Python
And where do you get that data from?
I've been told by people close to the company that it was in the $50-100 million range. Given how aggressive the Backtype guys are, this doesn't shock me at all.

$100 mil split three ways is quite a prize.