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illumin8 pretty much covered this already but the reason I'm hoping for a good x86 version of this type of system is so I can run existing dev tools on the system, like Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc. AFAIK there is no plan for the ARM version to be able to run x86 software (and such emulation would be painfully slow even if they tried it).

My current ASUS Transformer is great for tablet stuff (touch UI games, the stereotypical 'couch surfing', etc) and the the keyboard dock makes it great for things like lengthy email writing, web forum participation and the basic types of word processing I do (not very demanding in that area). Where it falls down is that I can't really use it as a serious self-hosted development box. A similar system based on x86 and Win8 could be my everything-box: tablet, notebook, development machine, etc.
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No, they are multidimensional even without hierarchical indexing. e.g.:

x y z value
0 0 0 32
0 0 1 64
0 1 0 23
0 1 1 3.14
1 0 0 4.3
etc.

This is essentially a 3D cube of data, no hierarchical indexing involved. The benefit of hierarchical indexing is that you can wrap your spatial dimensions into a single real dimension for e.g. code abstraction.

I have actually been developing a similar library for OCaml (even with hierarchical indexing). It is good to see our libraries share many of the same ideas! I wonder though, have you considered GPU acceleration? AFAIK neither Matlab nor R do this natively yet.
Nothing Steko said was dishonest. (S)he claimed that the consensus view is that Lion is pretty good, and, while numbers weren't provided, just looking at the mainstream papers/sites, strongly negative ones are a tiny minority.
It's my dad's sister. Crohn's can be genetic and it seems to be more common in Eastern Europe (Ashkenazi) descendent Jews.

See here as a jumping off point for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jewish_peop...
Gruber's argument started out as a criticism of Paul Thurott's comment that Windows 8 was the death knell for the iPad, but then he goes off into comparing Microsoft's and Apple's corporate release strategies... The criticism of the "Windows 8 kills iPad" comments is fair, but trying to group these tech pundits under the 'Windows' banner and use it to criticize Microsoft as a company is faulty logic at best (and purposely deceptive at worst).
Thanks for clearing that up.

Perhaps you guys could push out an update that more clearly communicates that it's for viewing only? I searched the whole app looking for how to edit things before slowly coming to realize that it wasn't possible.

Love it though. The web UI is great and the iPhone client looks promising.
I'm sorry, where do you get that? I never had a problem with iPhones, nor know anyone who ever did, except for a cracked screen or another. No antenna-gate here either. C'mon...

On the other hand, I have a 3RL'd XBox which was promptly replaced with a newer one, since it's still an amazing product and have some friends who had the same problem.
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And the yanked it just hours later: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2992774

Hooray for corporate censorship!
Re: the "best and brightest" it's more at the undergraduate level then the PhD level. My brother has tippy-top grades in physics at one of Harvard/Yale/Princeton and legit research experience in nano-tech, and he like many of his friends in similar positions are choosing between going into industry or R&D and going into finance. The lure of $120k the first year out of school and guaranteed admission to a Harvard/Stanford/Wharton MBA is hard to compete with.

A big part of the problem is systemic. The researcher that discovers new technology gets a nice $30k bonus. The owners of the capital get the millions of dollars resulting from that invention. So if you're a bright physics student in the US, why on earth would you pursue R&D? It is far more remunerative to work for those who own the capital figuring out new ways to move money around.
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does this work between 2 computers not behind the same firewall. i.e. can i sync with a computer in la while im in ny?
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Additional note for networking: I had to set the virtual NIC to "Bridged Adapter" and the type to "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop".

Besides that, the guide worked great, thanks! (I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and VirtualBox 4.1.2)
C'mon let's be fair here... What Gruber said was that "the right way to do things" depends on whether the person is writing for Apple or for Microsoft, and he (as punctuated by the "To me") doesn't feel like MS's way is the right way.

The whole article was about how different expectations are, and the process... oh, and, ironically, both user bases are equally passionate.
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This will end well. Newspapers have ALWAYS been the bastian of technological innovation, especially with proprietary products. Why I remember Delphi, CD-I, "download a PDF of our Quark Files!," and hell, the BBS I ran for one.

60 year old newspaper editor says "a tablet cost as much as our annual subscription" and somehow that leads to this, rather than maybe reevaluating the cost of their subscription.
Drag (and hence power required) is roughly proportional to the square of the velocity. You want to go twice as fast? You better be willing to pay (at least) 4x the ticket price. And since most people want cheaper tickets over flight time, you'll have to pay even more to compensate for the lack of economies of scale.

Computer efficiency still is rapidly moving up. Airplane efficiency is near its limits.
Yes, but when someone points out that single unfortunate pun, do hordes upon hordes of their friends soberly point out that it's maybe a bit of a stretch, or do they go crazy repeating it over and over and over on the internet?
There's no need for encryption of anything. Send the service a number plate, it returns you an image, tick if that's you're car, and it'll tell you where it is. If it's not it goes to the next one in the list. The issue here, is that the server team haven't tailored the API for the app. They've just dumped everything out to the app via a queryable url string, and let all the logic in there.

/api/v3/plate_search?plate=ABC123 and it can return you the closest match. Search it again from the same phone, get the second mate(track the cookie). It's not that hard, it just takes some thought, and the Westfield, and the vendor have tried to cut corners.
About six months ago I made a Mac app to play their radio streams, so that I wouldn’t have to use the web player on my Mac. I recently polished it up a bit, and began selling it in the Mac App Store.

I'm going to sidestep all the obvious stuff that is wrong with this ridiculous blog post and just say that it is unethical to sell an app which taps into someone else's content in a nonstandard way that you have no control over. Any time the people controlling the content make the slightest change they could break your app. And your customers are left with a lighter wallet and a suddenly non-functioning app.

If you're going to write a program that accesses someone else's services in an unsupported way, really the only thing you can do is give it away.
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"Simple workaround exists" maybe? I'm not saying this bug isn't a problem (especially for developers new to Android), just trying to guess what they might have been thinking when they declined it. People still reporting the problem 3 years later should be a pretty good indicator that this bug needs to be fixed though.
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Very nice. Good idea. Good luck, try to sell it.
What is your aversion to software written before 2011?

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Congrats, sir. That is awesome. I also have Crohn's, and am still developing feverishly as well. More power to ya.
Unfortunately the pronunciation of "Bing" in English is more often the same as the last one in Chinese, and frankly none of the characters you listed above, maybe except 冰 (means ice) and 饼 (means cake), has any good implications at all, let alone relevance to searching.

"Microsoft has Bing", translated to Chinese 微软有病 (literally "Microsoft has sickness", or "Microsoft is sick"), is a serious joke about Bing's launch in China. That's not to say it is a marketing mistake, though. At least it gets people's attention. It's wrong to attribute Bing's failure to capture significant market share to its Chinese name, as others suggested in the comments.

Google (谷歌) has similar problems in its Chinese branding. The name 谷歌 (valley song? WTF?) is an absolutely non-sense for a search engine.

Local brands are usually better in this regard. For example, Baidu's name (百度) comes from a famous Chinese poem by 辛弃疾 which depicts a scene where a guy is searching for his lover in a crowded festival night. Search engine? No problem!

Here's the complete poem if you can read Chinese:

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辛弃疾(宋)

东风夜放花千树，更吹落星如雨。宝马雕车香满路，凤箫声动，玉壶光转，一夜鱼龙舞。

蛾儿雪柳黄金缕，笑语盈盈暗香去。众里寻他千百度，蓦然回首，那人却在，灯火阑珊处。

PS. If you are careful enough you will find BMW's Chinese name 宝马 (means precious horse) also appeared in this poem, thought I'm pretty sure this is not the first use of the term. Ancient Chinese nobels rely heavily on horses for transportation, which matches BMW's high-end status perfectly.
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I know DropBox has had security fallacies in the past.

Inside Firewall or not Inside Firewall, how is the security designed here?
What you might be seeing is the response of intelligent people who make up their own minds, and who consider Google overall to be much less evil than, oh, I dunno, MicrosoftOracleAppleFacebooketc? At least they have a bold statement that people like us, the media and their own employees will measure them up against, every hour of every day. Whether they always unfailingly measure up to it isn't as important as having it there. Especially for a profit-driven company that has unending opportunities to get just a bit more evil.
apple also releases beta iOS and OS X for months in advance so developers can test and write apps against the new release.

but noticeably they don't unveil new hardware until it's ready and stable for the public. the knock on most competitors is that the overall experience is underwhelming or way too beta, which hardware is a big component.
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http://www.crohnsforum.com has been around since like 2006 and is pretty dominant in this vertical.
Seriously about usually showing white people in commercials? That's not what I see here, and I live in China right now. McDonald's and KFC, the two foreign fast food leaders, seem to have done a fairly good job localizing. Heck, I can't get any apple pies here, only pineapple and taro. And they serve chicken wings at McDonald's. Chicken wings! :) KFC goes one further, currently marketing a new Chinese BBQ pork set meal with rice and veggies.
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The CBC forbids packaging any content from their site... which includes URLs.

If that turns out to be legally enforceable, the internet as we know it is over. The web is based entirely on the idea of packaging URLs from other websites.
I think of quiz-shows (like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me), where there's often a bell to indicate a correct answer. Also (and probably related), Bingo.
Since there's no paperwork or contracts, I'd say just shut down the site immediately. Fuck the deadbeat.

Watch how fast the rest of the money shows up when it's no longer working. BTW, you can't be sued without a contract. No liability, no due.

Of course, you may be bad-mouthed endlessly by the deadbeat, but to deaf ears, I'd imagine.
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"P&G, it transpires, is cutting back on marketing to the disappearing middle classes, instead selling more and more to either high-income or low-income customers and abandoning the middle."..."there is even a word for this strategy, helpfully coined by Citibank: the Consumer Hourglass Theory – because it denotes a society that bulges at the top and bottom and is squeezed in the middle."

Interesting. Same trend here in Sweden I think.
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I have been diagnosed with an auto-immune issue that has a single obvious symptom and a bunch of long term, harder to track ones.

Several months ago, I was on a very low carb diet to lose some weight (which worked!) and my obvious symptom went away after 10 days on this diet. Wow! Now it's time to experiment to see what's up.

Here's what I've found - if I eat something 'bad', in 2 days time, my symptom comes back. In 3 days it peaks, and it tails off over the next 4 days. This makes it really tricky to isolate the specific food that is causing my primary symptom.

So far, I've found the outer edges of my problem foods, but I need to find the inner edges - is it sugar, or potatoes, or rice, or wheat, or beans, or beer, or all of the above? This part is harder to test specifically, as there are other things going on in my life at the same time, and I like eating out, which can sabotage any in-progress test.

Overall though, this is a much better place to be than taking the $2000 per month biologic injections that I've been prescribed for the rest of my life - and it helps that the ultra-low carb solution provides better symptom relief too!
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If anybody at Google is reading this, if you add this
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Indeed, the fact that Android doesn't already have this makes it hard for me to take it seriously as a platform. Immediate feedback is crucial to any development environment.
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This is exactly what happened during the stock market crash of 1929, and regulations were put into place in the 1930s to prevent excessive margin leverage that might result in liquidity problems at brokerages (and in the banks that lend to them). These regulations have been in place since then and probably mitigated the effects of the dot com crash in 2000. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_T as a good starting point for research.

Interestingly, I read somewhere that there were similar regulations regarding residential mortgage loans that were repealed during the 1980s, does anybody have a reference to this? I think that requiring a 20% equity/debt ration when originating or refinancing a mortgage loan probably would have made the 2008 real-estate crash look a lot more like the dot com bust and would have saved a lot of economic pain.
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In 1985 I was diagnosed with 'crohn's disease' and spent most of that summer in and out of hospital - I watched Live Aid on a hospital TV!

After a bunch of stuff failed, they eventually opened me up and whipped out 2 feet of intestine that turned out to be malformed - so probably no crohn's disease at all.

This does cause a number of interesting day-to-day issues even now!

It seems that there are a bunch of other problems that can occur with intestine problems. I currently have been diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondilitis that I am able to control with my diet (which may indicate that it's something else)

The connection between intestinal disorders and auto-immune issues seems to be growing stronger. Maybe something to watch out for.
"Here's the most important bit: Notch's testing is mind-bogglingly thorough."

For the record, this is completely contrary to his testing method for Minecraft. Every time there is a new version of Minecraft, there are more bugs than features. This is even true when a "bugfix" release comes out. More bugs are introduced in a "bugfix" release than are fixed. Seriously, check it out: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history

I say this as the owner of a library to provide bot API to Minecraft. https://github.com/superjoe30/mineflayer

All I'm saying is... "thoroughness" and "testing" are not two words I expected to be in the same sentence as Notch's methodology.
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No probs running from VirtualBox 4 on Win 7 either.
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Use an actual device, not the emulator. The emulator is super slow, but with an actual device you can have 30s iteration times.

Edit: I know 30s is still nowhere near ideal. Hell, on Linux Chromium (a massive project) we have faster iterations than that. But it's good compared to the Android emulator.

I think you should be able to go even faster, but I need to dig into how Ant actually works. It seems to be redoing more work than necessary for each build.
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The original version was marketed under the CBC brand. While that looked like a pretty clear cut violation, the author has gone to lengths to remove those references.

Now the product is just a web browser whose home page provides hyperlinks to the CBC website, just like my ISP did back in the day. When you buy the app, you are buying the web browser, not the CBC content. The CBC content is only accessible via hyperlinks which you, the user, have to specifically activate.

I get where you are coming from, but it is not clear where the line is drawn. If I create a web browser with a built-in search field that forwards the browser to Google, like many browsers do these days, am I liable to Google in the same way? What if I create an HTML form with a search field that points towards Google? What if I move the HTML form URL into an <a> tag?
So I honestly don't get it. Is this a poor mans bug tracker? A possible re-invention of a bug tracker? (something wacky and different version of a bug tracker to see if it sticks?)

I have seen people mention project management a bunch, but the view really isn't about viewing what people are doing. In fact items that don't have people assigned to them still show up. The 10 foot view isn't even that good as they all squares and text. At a glance you can not tell what changed recently, what is late etc.

I had to really grimace when it showed the internal team that was using it and one of the stacks was "bugs" and it had the most number of items and was scrollable. ugg Does that scale to thousands of open bugs (or how about just 50)?

So either this is for all of those people who have never discovered the overview page of their bug tracker or maybe it is trying an experiment to see if the process of creating a bug tracker for a project is too difficult and here you just click "new project" and blam done and later on you export it to a real bug tracker... Maybe this is all just tricking users into using a bug tracker without them knowing?

Anyone get the same feeling?
FYI, Subway (赛百味, Sai Bai Wei) would mean "better than other 100 flavors" in Chinese, which isn't true at all: for most Chinese, subways are not that tasty. But the name is great!
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The emulator sucks on all platforms, not just mac. I suspect that at google, most android app development happens on real hardware and the emulator there to tick a box.

I spent about five minutes with it before concluding that productivity was going to require some real hardware. The emulator really only gets fired up when reproducing bugs on old os versions.

The emulator project is probably under-resourced and as such they don't care about minor usability issues with known workarounds. I'm not seeing this as being some kind of jihad against mac users.
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I am a lifelong technologist. I have started or joined a number of reasonably successful projects and companies in my time. I've had some good exits, and I've had a lot of fun. I'm generally very passionate about what I do, and I love seeing the accelerating advancement of technology.

However, I am an absolute noob when it comes to social media. I set up a twitter account roughly three months ago, and I have been tweeting regularly since. After various articles convinced me that starting a blog would be an interesting experiment, I established a tumblr account and wrote my first blog entry, literally today.

That said, I really don't see the point. My experience with twitter has led me to the inevitable conclusion that nobody cares what one has to say on social media platforms -- and I don't understand the value of communicating into a vacuum.

So, I come to you, HN. What benefit is there of participating in social media? What am I missing? Thanks.