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How is it a flame? The $100 OLPC doesn't exist, the $10 India PC doesn't exist and this $25 PC doesn't exist. You confirm this with your post and then claim I am flaming and downvotes warranted.

If they exist, where are they?

I might as well post about the $75 automobile we have for sale, details on engine and number of wheels not available as we haven't decided, but the one thing we know is it's $75. Completely absurd to be taking such a claim seriously. The product doesn't exist. Pointing to products that cost substantially more doesn't prove anything. I can buy a new ASUS Eee PC 1015PE Seashell with 1GB RAM, a 1.66GHz processor and a 160GB hard drive for $200. That is something that is for sale and being produced by a for-profit company. OPLCs produced for $200 are not evidence that the $100 OPLC exists. The $100 OPLC never existed, nor did the $10 Indian PC, nor does this $25 PC claim.
I agree. Not only can Google+ not get away with what FB can given their respective market positions, they could use it as a differentiating feature.

And not only that, but it seems like an obvious complement to the Circles feature, so you can present yourself differently to different Circles, even to the same person depending on which Circle you share to. And it could be a progressive enhancement, too, in that it could be completely invisible to people who aren't looking for the feature.

So many reasons to allow them, and so few good reasons not to.
Even if those at the Guardian believed the password only applied to their copy, publishing the password amounts to the Guardian making their copy a target to be copied/stolen. Why should the Guardian think they have better protection against copying their copy than the U.S. gov did in not allowing the cables to be copied in the first place?
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I think he's talking about someone who would literally be an executive at a larger company, and has had experience being such at another company.
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To be clear, these are not MY screenshots. I have no affiliation with this project.

I don't think establishing rapport is something done in secret.

To make sure I understand correctly, your objection to this project comes from the fact that it's not new ("but that's not a new concept. People have been doing that for years."). I mention that because the article clearly implies more than what is shown in the screenshots. Is that correct?

I agree that advertisers have been trying to increase interaction for a long time. This project seems to be a new attempt at achieving that. it looks promising, and I wish them well.
Ridiculous in what way? Ridiculously good compared to alternatives, or ridiculously complex or? Asking out of pure ignorance here.
Yes, of course. It'll never compete with a mythical iPhone 4 at $299. iPhone 4 currently costs ~$450 unsubsidized and is a dramatically less powerful device than the one we are discussing.

You know that Android devices are outselling iPhones, even in the high end, right? Price is not the only reason people are choosing Android devices over iPhones.
Bilski is ambiguous. At first the patent bar thought the Fed Cir would interpret it as "business as usual" but the Fed Cir has recently been using it to push back slightly against software patents. It's a terrible outcome because everyone wants a clear line on patentability and the S Ct didn't deliver.
The linux kernel archive public key (which is needed to verify the signature) is well known and many people have it's own copy for several years. But if the atacker gained access to the private key, he would be able to sign trojanized tarballs without anybody noticing. On the one hand kernel.org page doesn't mention this kind of breach and the key is still used, on the other hand there are rumors (https://lwn.net/Articles/457142/) that the private key was available on the compromised server so that the atacker could produce trojanized tarballs with proper signature - but I find it unlikely because the kernel.org admins doesn't warn users about it and haven't changed the key.
Another true gem is "The team has 120 years of combined experience between them". Never could quite figure out what a person who wrote something like this meant to actually say.
Oh. Doomed was taken out of context. I meant it in a light-hearted way. :)

However, I think we had the issue that Lloyds Cardnet wouldn't play nice with SagePay as it didn't do 3D-Secure. I could be wrong though.

And thank you for your offer. :)
This is pretty much exactly what Wordoid does with the bonus of telling you if the domain is available - http://wordoid.com/.
I take issue with your last statement as well. Anyone can idle their life away.

For many depressed people (at least myself), changing their broken neurochemistry with drugs, ECT or both is a necessary but not sufficient condition to identifying and attacking the causes of their symptoms. It's not an either-or choice, and despite lingering stereotypes that your statement seems to imply, no kind of clinical treatment (even ECT!) is intended to just numb you to those symptoms.
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How do they ban a game when you can just import it from another EU country?
Your only defense is compartmentalization. Segregate the data and encrypt each segment separately. Communicated the data and keys through separate channels to separate parties. Hope that, therefore, a compromise is limited to a single compartment.

You could also make decryption dependent upon a network connection (e.g. Adobe DRM, et al.), but with "the opposition" potentially in control of the network and/or able to compromise you physical security, and with the decrypted results readily copy-able (they always are, one way or another), this is probably more trouble than it's worth.

P.S. I didn't mean actually Adobe DRM; rather, just citing them as an example instance of such a thing (though, truth be told, I've never looked at how they do theirs, in detail).
With a 2 year contract for, roughly, $1900. Unlocked it's $649, so you can see why a similarly-spec'ed phone at half the price is kind of a big deal.

If you got this with a contract, it would go for $49. Compare that to the Epic 4G Touch for $199 with a contract.
They're called workbenches and have been around for years.
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I don't think it's so much "help our buddies out" as "bring in a known quantity that I'm comfortable with".

For example, I dislike Dick Cheney and the past Bush administration as much as anyone for a whole host of reasons. But I'd be willing to bet that their thought process with the no-bid halliburton contracts was actually based on comfort level rather than plain old corruption.

Of course, on the flip-side, it's easy to tell yourself all kinds of justifiable reasons why your buddies getting the contract is just a side effect of the things you really wanted.
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> iAd has reportedly been underperforming since its release in 2010;

The reason why I don't use iAd is because I can't. I wanted to put an ad banner across the top (or bottom) of my Landscape app at all times. My app used UISplitViewController which must be full-screen at all times and must be the root view controller. AdBannerView must be in a UIViewController and must be visible at all times. I have no problem with AdBannerView being visible at all times and UISplitViewController taking up the rest of the screen at all times. But the requirements conflict and to overcome them, I tried tons of different hacks but nothing was stable or guaranteed to work.

I would have loved to use iAd in my iPad app but since it was not possible out of the box, I didn't bother trying to use it in production. What turned me away from iAd was not the difficulty in implementation but the realization that not ONE person at Apple thought "hmm, how does one put AdBannerView in an app that uses UISplitViewController?"
Hmmm, this is probably a good way to get in touch with hackers on HN who actually started programming at the age of x, don't you think? Are you hiring at the moment?
Personally, there is not an specific point of balance for me. Balancing my life and work is something that I keep tweaking constantly, it is highly dependable in the project and my own stress levels towards the project.

In the end, if people at least acknowledge that they are experiencing stress or even a burnout and know that they need to do something about it, they will be ahead of most...
I didn't get a CS degree and therefore had no experience with state machines until I started programming professionally. Maybe that's why I took to them so quickly and used them from the get-go on my personal project. Their usefulness is so obvious.
I had my worst burnout symptoms at a 9-to-5 job after I sold my first startup. That's how I realized I'm an entrepreneur. I left the job and the lockup shares, and have since been happy, sometimes rich/stressless sometimes poor/stressed, 24/7 startup kind of guy.
Here's the blog on what we are learning as we scale: http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/09/01/blitz-io-path-finding-...
Spotify does quit when you cmd-Q. You can verify this by opening Activity Monitor and looking at the process list.

If you are running MacOS X Lion, then the OS might keep the underlying OS process around in case you start it again -- this is by design. I have not been able to observe this personally, however.
This is a good reason for not simply giving The Guardian a giant encrypted dump of all the data. Either way, The Guardian's lack of opsec doesn't set the bar for Wikileaks.

Wasn't the whole idea behind Wikileaks supposed to be that it was run by people with the greatest possible opsec/tradecraft crediblity? How does it make sense for that group to literally delegate all their security to a news publishing organization?

And having done that, by their own admission, how does pointing the finger at The Guardian's lack of opsec capability exonerate Wikileaks?
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I set up a standing configuration yesterday by putting a side table atop my desk and it's been great. If I keep liking it, I'll do a more complete solution that actually costs me money.
David is spot on when it comes to the complexity of the documentation; it's great that it's exhaustive, but it would be nice to have the "here's how to use it" documentation near the "here's how to implement your own collection type" doc.

Another trend I see in Scala is the abuse of symbols-as-method names. I see a lot of Scala (and Lift) code that looks like

val foo = bar ~-> 45 <~< "Fred" %% x

with little commonality of convention.
Read this thread first - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945185
Not to get too long-winded about it, but the problem from government's perspective is lack of jobs, not startups. We're in one of those transitional periods right now where a lot of old jobs don't exist anymore and those unemployed people vote (and don't pay much in taxes, either). So it's necessary to look like you're doing something on jobs. Old industries aren't doing it so the presumption is hey, it's small money in gov't terms to try and foster startups, let's try it and see if it works.

PS on taxes, we've got the lowest tax rates in the post-war era right now, and record corporate profits, but new jobs still aren't appearing. Why? There's no business reason for them. Taxes are only one of many variables. Contrast with the 50s and 60s when taxes were much higher as was growth and employment. That's not to say that higher taxes cause economic growth, obviously. Other variables in play.
Currently a bit overwhelmed, but not as overwhelmed as I thought I would be. Hit me up in a month or two, I'd be happy to help if my work load permits then. I'll call anybody with my cell that doesn't cost me any more than what I'm already paying for my bill ... so my reach is anyone in the US. Prefer calling cell over land lines (since my cell plan cost me more when calling land lines). I'd be happy to make international calls via your Skype account.
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He could get a business bank account, it's a merchant account which is notoriously difficult to get without a long trading history in the UK
I agree completely about the dumb network. Security, in particular, lives in the endpoints.

But still, net-boot BIOSes and BOOTP/DHCP protocols have been around since 1985 (RFC 951). They show no signs of going away. Possibly the problem of bootstrapping the configuration and security relationships will be with us as long as there are security boundaries on the networks.

And there will be security boundaries on networks as long as there are mediated boundaries in the real world.
You're right. There's a pretty big movement of compile to JS languages (http://altjs.org/), we should mention that somewhere.
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Reams of copier paper are also great for propping up your monitor. No scratching and easy to find in a lot of offices.
Well, thats a completely different topic :). I for myself live right next to the french border and most media come in international versions nowadays...

The ban is usually enforced by confiscating all copies that are in stores. Individuals are not prosecuted. Also, the customs take care that for example british sellers are not selling those goods to germans (and yes, they can be fined). So its not like it is a tight knit net, but it usually makes sure that you don't stumble on that stuff accidentally.
Interestingly I ran into the Twilio example... yesterday.

Essentially my first take at the phone stuff I had done (a bit over 3 years ago) was to just roll into a single view and hack my way through it. The requirements (at the time) were relatively simple and this served us well for 3 years.

Now our requirements for phone calls has really changed as we've added things like voice prompts, whisper files, user interaction, and a bunch of other doo-dads. Worse yet, the presence (and behavior) of these states can now vary by the customer that is using them.

So I broke that jumble of code into a state machine with clear transitions. Each state farms the actual functionality to defined strategies which can be specified on a per-customer basis.

It works like a charm:)
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>I'd highly recommend using state machines for multi-step forms. It feels very natural and keeps you sane, I believe it should be a best practice.

That's interesting. Can you elaborate on it, maybe with an example?
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what sort of "hack real hardware" do you want to do?
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I think the most ideal would be a desk which can be moved up or down via a mechanical handle bar. I have seen them in practice. That way if you get too tired you can lower it and sit.
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The problem the author probably had (and one I've experienced at times) is that those "cool projects that bring him joy and/or money" are not very cool. Unfortunately, web programming is boring. And easy. And lucrative. This means that you may not enjoy your RoR apps, but you have to do them because your more challenging projects aren't immediately monetizeable.

Building iPhone projects, on the other hand can be quite fun

This is where I think we may disagree. Fundamentally, most iPhone projects are too easy to be interesting. It's like chopping wood all day.
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Consider that a lot of us don't like Facebook and use it only grudgingly, if at all. I use it solely as an address book, it's practically never updated; I largely retain it as a service to others who have lost/forgotten my contact info.
OLPC's Give 1 Get 1 program actually cost each donor US$400, of which $200 paid for a donated laptop and $200 paid for a laptop for the donor. I don't know whether they ever eventually got the price close to $100.

I know this because I own an OLPC XO-1 that I acquired through the G1G1 program. See also http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_xo_laptop_sale.ht...
My hat is off to Google; the progress they have made with Chrome (in terms of both marketshare and features/performance) in just 3 years is remarkable. Chrome has greatly increased my enjoyment of the web as both a user and developer.
I was 19, my second semester in college, when I started programming. Incidentally, I've heard from at least 3 other successful women programmers that they started in college as well. (I'm defining "successful" as "speaks at conferences, generally well known and respected in their fields").
I think this question is cool to think about and try to answer: What is the lowest integer that doesn't have any hits on google? Is there any reasoning that can help estimating the approximate magnitude it should be?
Yes, I mean tanks with treads and turrets :)

I have to note that I'm not sure if he was forcing large dividends through or whether it was actually the company buying them, this is all 2nd hand information from one of the pro-CTOs after all.

The museum itself was only a few miles away from the company premises.

The CTO went on to co-found a b2b online insurance company, still going. There are some classic gaffes from that company over their time too, a whole contact centre full of telephone advisers sitting twiddling their thumbs without a single client for example.
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I guess we'll see how Project Kotlin [1] does to move Java forward with some of these issues in mind (especially IDE support).

[1] http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Welcome
I suppose this is a DoubleRecall competitor? If I were going to put my money on either of these projects/products I'd go with double recall, looks like it takes less effort on the part of the person viewing the ad.
Is aspell a spellchecker? And does this command randomly select one word from its dictionary?

(Note: I'm mostly a Windows user nowadays and I have never personally used aspell, sed, or wc)

What does the p at the end of the line do? Is that a mistake or is it there on purpose?