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I don't understand all the down-votes. This seems like a valid and well-meant contribution to the discussion, being voted down because it presents something slightly contrarian. Why is martingordon's suggestion any more unworthy of HN than the earlier suggestion that the person responsible for this new run be fired? They're both looking at this news inquisitively, trying to understand the forces behind the public actions of HP following their recent mutation.

If you're voting it down, just be sure you're not doing so out of disagreement with the points raised.
That didn't sound gloomy to me at all. Quite the opposite, in fact.
No they didn't. See this list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2626833
I sent this to our art department, and this is what I was told: I don’t really have time to look at this right now, but sounds interesting! Adobe creative suites have version control built in, but we have been investigating third party sources because it kind of sucks. Thanks for the heads up.
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I wouldn't begrudge Microchip their business model if they would drop this "open source" claim. Here's the first sentence of their press release about the ChipKit:

"Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog
and Flash-IP solutions, and Digilent, Inc. today launched the first
32-bit-microcontroller-based, open-source development platform that
is compatible with Arduino™ hardware and software."

As someone who makes a 32-bit-microcontroller-based development platform that is actually open-source, I don't want them claiming membership in my tribe. It's like exaggerating the specs of your hardware-- don't call it 1 GHz if it only runs at 800 MHz.

Of course, it would even better if they would join the open source tribe for real-- maybe I could have stood on their shoulders instead of next to them.
True unique identifiers are immutable. At least two of those three things can be changed.
I actually really like this idea too. However I'm inclined to install a 64-bit distro on a HD, use it on a newer laptop, but also install a 32-bit OS just in-case I want to throw it in and older computer... Or just stick with the 64-bit, and soon enough, all the older ones (today's) computers will be on that architecture too...
A general tip is not to have a negative goal.

A better general tip is to have a positive goal.

See what I did there? :)

Instead of reducing sugar in your diet, go for increasing the good stuff - vegetables, berries etc.
Sigh. Maybe I wasn't clear, but two clues in what I said, "straight SQL isn't a good interface for programmers", and "let's build a relational database"

Every time I bring this up, someone misunderstands me. I'll explain it again: I want a real RDBMS, I want ACID, I want transactions, constraints, triggers, foreign keys, etc, I just don't want the brain-dead SQL the language to interface with it. Preferably something with lispy syntax and a manual override on the planner (not hints, but full-blown "I'm in control now")

Here's what I wrote about it a few years ago: http://arohner.blogspot.com/2009/04/db-rant.html
A subversive looking Alexis that is...
Most governments only go to controlling online activity after controlling real-life activity. I don't know about Pakistan specifically, but typically the domestic "security" organizations are rather adept at tracking down groups who organize in meatspace.
Usually in this sort of situation you would withhold all IP until he's made good on his verbal agreement. Is that possible?
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Tangential: I think HP's stock might be selling for less than the company's liquidation value at this point, depending on what you think of their patents. That's ignoring the fact that they also have some profitable high margin businesses.

Sure, they're doing some boneheaded stuff lately, but I couldn't resist buying some. Buying $1 for 88 cents is usually a good move. I sold some TIPS bonds to buy shares.

Disclaimer: Obviously I just bought some of the stock. I'm not sure if they're selling for below their liquidation price. Check the financials yourself and do your own research. Etc, etc.
I like the concept, and there's a lot of directions you can take it in if you want to keep working on it.

Our team had a similar theme (http://psyche.cc), though we focused on images instead of text.
There are a lot of Stanford CS classes available online. Here's a list of the best ones according to Stanford CS majors - http://raunk.com/list/669,682,1364,2394,2395?filter=4,5
If you use steganography with plaintext, you're relying on security by obscurity.

No. It is perfectly possible to have steganographic keys, in the same way that you have cryptographic keys.

Trivial example: If the key is 7, the hidden message can be extracted by combining the least significant bits of every 7th pixel of an image. (Incidentally, that hidden message could also be, and indeed probably should also be, encrypted.)

For an example that's only slightly more complex but might actually be useful, replace "7" with a seeded CSPRNG.

you're increasing the entropy of the plaintext message you're concealing it in.

Yes. But you should still be able to conceal a low-bitrate secret message inside a high-entropy covertext/envelope/whatever-you-call-it without a significant chance of being detected.

Trivial example: With a good algorithm and a stick full of 1MB JPEGs, it shouldn't be possible for an attacker to determine which files contain a concealed (140-byte) tweet and which don't.
I totally disagree. The immediate "specialness" of the hot coffeeshop barista is not her "spiritual manifestation". Part of the uniqueness is presentation. Size, shape, weight, age, smell...I'm talking about books... the roughness of the pages etc. Bookreaders reduce this to a lowest common denominator that limits sensory bandwidth and cheapens the experience.

Can a person have the same religious fervor with an ephemeral Bible/Koran etc on a Kindle, as they would for a leather bound, gold-edged King James Version with the red tassel bookmark? And the cutout pages that let you thumb to the right chapter?
These things should only be tools because in the end we're all animals. And, trying to virtualize everything limits us to half of our birthright.
I won't argue that growth is not why they have that valuation. But, Google and Facebook, when faced with growth problems did not say, "How can we outsource our data growth problems?" They used it as a competitive advantage and a way to raise the barrier to entry for competitors. If Dropbox is paying 25%-50% more for storage than a competitor, they're going to lose as soon as a competitor comes along that gets all the other bits right.

All other things being equal, the company with lower costs wins. I'm not suggesting any other company is currently equal to Dropbox (it's what I use, and I'm constantly surprised by the number of my non-nerd friends who have the Dropbox icon on their desktop)...but, there are an awful lot of smart people out there who would love to eat their lunch.
Considering the first indication of possible P2P functionality in the license agreement is the phrase "and other users," Spotify could be more upfront.
Sure, they'd only have to sell what? 500 apps per person?
How many sites filter content based on age and really do so selectively based on a birthdate? Most age verifications, even ones that request a date, seem to be just asking the question, "Are you of legal age?"

(I prefer websites just ask that binary question, like this brewery - http://www.newbelgium.com - instead of making me waste time with a date input.)
http://www.trulia.com/property/3032935568-135-Garden-St-Camb...
Verbosity is totally a pain.

Interestingly, I didn't know ECMAscript (aka Javascript) is too verbose for folks out there.

It turns out that CFML has two syntaxes, script and tag.

The tag based html-type that's being discussed here, and and cfscript.

Cfscript is is nearly identical to javascript and based on ECMAscript. Several languages follow ECMAscript.

In a way, if you know HTML and Javascript, any language should be easier to pick up than a language that looks completely different from HTML and Javascript, no?

Googled and found:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0...

ECMAscript:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
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It would cost more to buy enough land to build the wind turbines described in the article.
Do you realize McDonalds makes almost NO margin on hamburgers? Their margin consists mainly of selling soda and fries.
Hmm, this would make a good blog post. I'll draft something up.
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I've used Tweetdeck before. Really nice Twitter app, but I don't use FB so there's no need to mesh the 2. My point is, I use Twitter and it serves me well. Without Twitter integration into G+, I have little incentive to use G+. All the friends I care about are already on Twitter, only one or two are on G+. Unless I can read my Twitter feed in G+ in addition to reading my G+ feed, it's pretty useless for me right now. Maybe when they release an API I'll come back and check it out. Thanks for the suggestion either way.
1-.5^3 = .875, eerily close to .87.

In general, if you model this as an N balls in M bins problem, then even when N == M, you'd expect a fair amount of anonyonomity preserving collisions. Maybe 1/2 of people would collide. As we then double the number of bins, we'd roughly expect the number of collisions to be cut in half.

If you imagine putting 100 balls (people) into 800 = 100 * 2^3 bins (number of different birthday-zip-gender encodings) at random, about 1/8 of the bins will have more than one ball (person) [okay, this estimate is somewhat off by a smallish constant factor, it's only true that the 100th ball tossed will collide with probability 99/800 ~= 1/8 if there were no existing collisions, and the earlier balls thrown have less to collide with], and not be uniquely identifiable.
They'll also make a loss with this shipment even though they won't sell them at $99 again. I think this is just to build more Web OS customers so they can open source, licence or sell Web OS and say "we have this many customers".
De-identified patient data does NOT have DOB or ZIP codes:

http://www.hipaa.com/2009/09/hipaa-protected-health-informat...

Sex, gender or age is allowed.
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> ...for the state of Illinois. A driver's license id was composed of birthdate, sex, and some location information....

It's worse than that: in Illinois the first four characters of your DL ID are your last name's soundex code.
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Hmm. I'd say proportional to current weight...

dweight/dheight=weight,
dweight/weight=dheight,
ln weight = height + c',

weight = c*exp(height)

Let's say you need 1000 kg for 10 meters of tower supporting another 1000 kg of load. A mass ratio of 2.

To extend that another 10 m, you need to support the above 2000 kg, so you need more beefy stuff for the next 10 m below, 2000 kg of tower.

Now you have 4000 kg to support for the next 10 m so you have to use 4000 kg of tower, 8000 for the next etc.

That's exponential.

Of course, in reality the base is less than two every 10 meters, steel is stronger per weight than that.

Though yes, on the other hand, the bending moment grows linearly only with height, and different buckling things are only power things. I don't know then if structural frequencies etc start coming in at some point.
It's always been easy to point out a few Google products that essentially own their category and a few more that are dying quietly on the vine. What would really worry me is if that culture of calculated gambles goes away.
That used to be true for MN as well, but in the time that I moved from MN to IL back to MN (about 13 years), MN dropped that.
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Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking. I'm one of the cheapos that have the TP now and would definitely pay for apps if there was something worth paying for.
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No, we should be asking for exact age and year, and then jittering each part of it by plus/minus 2 at random. Won't affect the data analysis, but will increase the anonymity considerably.
not only that. Every year in Germany 150.000 birds and bats are hit by the wings of wind turbines. Not good ..
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I did not know that. Thanks for sharing. However, that comment comes right after this one:

"The corporate PC segment continues to outperform the consumer market as companies replace systems with newer, faster, more efficient computers," Wilkins said.

Since the article doesn't distinguish consumer vs corporate sales, I suspect that they are suggesting the most of HP's computer sales being from the corporate segment, which is not at all surprising. If that's the case, it supports what I said, "HP hasn't been a major player in the consumer PC market for a long time"

Related, and maybe I missed this, but is HP selling off all of their PC division, or just the consumer PC division? If it's everything, has anyone seen any explanation why the company that shipped the most PCs by a decent margin would be looking to leave the market?
DigiNotar certificate security issue
I've always wondered what that package is actually used for, because programs like firefox, chromium, &c, maintain their own list of root CAs.
I'm not sure how banning VPN's is going to stop the terrorists. Don't they use cellphones to coordinate their strikes? You would have to stop the internet and all forms of communication to slow them down, and then still you wouldn't slow them down much. We gotta get "Right to bear encryption" next to "Right to bear arms" in the constitution/bill of rights.
But HP hasn't dropped the OS, just the hardware. They still are invested in the software, they just don't want to make the hardware. At least that's what VP of Developer Relations has said.

http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/08/the-work-of-webos-con...
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Been a fan since it was announced. Glad it has worked out so well.
You have to believe that the (huge) growth rate is perpetual. Most firms do not grow faster than US GDP growth in the long-run.
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Why not? I barely receive spam at this point, and it's pretty easy to block people that abuse the address.

On the other hand, I'd love it if the places to which I've never returned asked me why, and then changed as a result and invited me to try again.
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About a quarter of the founders in the Summer 2010 batch weren't even US residents, but we thought it was worth moving to the Bay Area for the three months of YC.

Interestingly (and anecdotally) I think more people came from abroad than from the East Coast.
35 new WebOS job openings posted by Palm in the last 3 days
I'd also highly recommend the book "Shopcraft as Soulcraft" by Matthew Crawford. It's certainly not a classic like "Walden" or "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and found it very applicable to this type of philosophical discussion.
I think that's the key; new hardware. If HP relies on the TouchPad for any more than 6 months, a year tops, they'll completely lose out on all their efforts. They need someone else to make better and still cheap hardware to keep people interested and buying. There are simply too many Android devices coming out, each one better than the last (forcing a price reduction of the last), to ride their current wave for any longer than that.

It's still very curious why they called an end to the hardware production BEFORE they had someone lined up to make new devices though.
>This 'stitching & rectifiying' is a creative act, and hence they can (and do!) claim copyright on the new item. //

I was trying to find the caselaw on a related point the other day. I remember there being something to do with, I think the British Museum or similar, taking high res scans of old paintings and claiming a renewed copyright term on that then ferreting away the original. Do you have caselaw to cite? AFAIR the act is supposed to be transformative to create a new work, stitching doesn't appear to be tranformative to me. However I also seem to recall the the "sweat of the brow" argument was made to support a new copyright in high res scans, that a large amount of work had been done and that this somehow earned them a new right.

It seems this sort of manoeuvring is within the letter of the law but not at all within the spirit of it. Very underhand for those who are supposed to be managing works owned by the country for the country itself using public money.

If one can get a copy of the original then it could be leaked to wikileaks ... the onus is not on the copier to prove they have a right but on those suing to show that tortuous infringement has occurred. The demands of OpenStreetMap may be different however.
Small typo in the last photo's description:

"This is a missing a few people..."
Palm has created many new job postings on monster.com since HP announced they where getting out of the tablet and phone business. Product managers, product engineers, software engineers, etc. Why?
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It is unbelievably amazing that YC went from literally a gleam in jl's (and pg's) eye to something that is a clear leader in not only incubators but entrepreneurial thought as well. A case of clearly superior vision getting its due. Such vision to success proportionality is not so common, I think.
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It's not, I deployed everything live, and he has access to everything.
On the plus side: It's much easier to steal credit cards there.
This is really a fresh breath of air. The current state of art in this industry is http://www.convio.com/

Good Luck Guys!
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"That's just their business model." is not a valid excuse from moral obligations.
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This blew my mind. Amazing stuff. Heroku is absolutely my favorite platform.
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I believe that blake8086 was referring to the content of the hidden message when he said plain text. He is asserting that if you hide 'hidden message here' in something, you are using security by obscurity, but if you try to hide ENC('hidden message here', 'secret key goes here') you are going to make the detection of the presence of your secret message easier.
thinkpad x200 Linux vmware ssd drive..... very pleasurable and u won't miss the t42p

Also interested in the llano and chipset as the apu concept is very cool. Unfortunately the global foundries yields are poor and amd builds aren't great
> ... the most densely populated zip codes ...

It turns out that zip codes aren't as populous as you might imagine.

As of the Y2K census, only a dozen zip codes have over 100,000 residents -- 80% of all zip codes have less than 15,000 residents, with the median zip code at 2,500.

(Source: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html )
wow. justin looks like he's going to mess somebody up. and i wore that exact same shirt this weekend.
It sounds like filling out TPS reports to me I'm afraid.

Some authors probably have tons of concurrent drafts of a novel they're writing. But I'll bet most have a single draft.

I'm afraid (to a fault), I am primarily a lone developer so this is the angle I come at these things from...
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Because anonymous, rapid, long distance communication is obviously easy to do person to person.
The 4:3 screen is what makes them special I think. Wish the new Airs had that option!
Ask HN: Moving to London. What would your salary expectations be?
I'm a software engineer building web apps for a UK based startup, with offices in the South West of England, London and San Fransisco. The opportunity to move to London has recently been presented to myself and the other engineers, with the overall objective to have all UK engineers in London before we start a large new project.

I understand that salaries in London are on average higher than the rest of the UK to make up for the cost of living. However, I'm not exactly sure how the salaries of London engineers in a similar job with similar experience stack up against my own.

If you're an engineer in London, I'd love to know what area you work in, your salary (if you're happy to say) and any other thoughts you have about startup salaries in London.

Myself, I have one and a half years experience and I'm currently on £20k.
I argued against the latter point: if you hide the encrypted message in something which is normally compressed such as JPEG or DivX, the encrypted message blends in with the rest of the data because compressed data has high entropy (the better the compression, the higher the entropy). I don't get your point about security by obscurity, that's pretty much the whole point of steganography I would suppose. Security by obscurity is mostly a slogan to criticize not publishing algorithms etc.
I absolutely agree with you but unfortunately, none of those you mentioned are currently creating "value" for shareholders, which is what these short-sighted Wall Street analysts are looking for.

In fact, two things that "destroyed" value (at least in the short term) happened under Larry's watch. 1) 12.5 Billion acquisition of Motorola 2) $500 Million settlement with the DOJ.

Read my other comment below for more details.
I like that they separated it into basic/advanced, originally I was thinking of signing up and skipping the homework when I didn't have free time for it, but now I can just do the basic and not feel bad :)
Perhaps they are pivoting their business model? Get out of hardware and into selling OS and software like Microsoft.
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A Lolcat for my data science company?
Great little project! One thing that would be nice would be syntax highlighting and automatic indentation.