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As a web geek who loves politics, I believe the problem with campaign coverage lies much deeper. Even with data scientists on hand to analyze the same data sets the campaigns have access to I could only imagine the results would be presented in an extremely dumbed down fashion and angled to reflect each media outlet's bias. It's not a matter of ability, as they all do a decent job presenting exit poll data post election, it's that CNN knows they will achieve higher ratings showing hologram gimmicks than in depth charts and graphs.
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The ISO range is nice–as is having a full frame on a fast camera–but there aren't many people who need 14 fps (sports & wildlife photographers).

Personally, I'll wait until the 5DmII successor arrives. I like the images and video it produces now and I don't need the tougher body of the 1 series.
This is an interesting idea, but many people don't realize that editing a book is more than just "finding mistakes." That's a proof reader's job. A good developmental editor helps shape a book from the ground up, and can make a significant impact on the final product.

(Disclaimer: I edit books for a living.)
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No. The gotcha of course is on the other side. Win64 is P64, so a long won't (!!?@#!) hold a pointer.

Edit: also, pedantry: the assignment of types to sizes is part of the ABI, not the architecture.
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Good point – some kind of near light speed travel is as magic as FTL for most intents and purposes. So, no star trek.
I agree. Posting links to Twitter is one thing, having discussions in Facebook comments with your friends quite another.
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Durnit-- hopefully that's rare. We did a private beta with 60ish diverse folks and didn't run into that bug. (aside: we used TestFlight for this and it was amazing for over-the-air beta testing).

If you're willing, would love help in tracking down what's happening. webwright@gmail.com ... Thanks for the info, regardless!
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I tried to find some statistics on how many people are in prison for just marijuana possession or trafficking, but I can't seem to find any reliable numbers.

The legalization movement uses numbers that include people who were simply arrested for marijuana possession/trafficking and don't exclude those charged with other crimes (assault, possession of other illegal drugs, etc) to make the number seem as large as possible while the anti-legalization people use numbers of those found guilty of only marijuana possession but not trafficking or other non-violent crimes to make the number as small as possible.

Realistically speaking, how many people are in prison today in the US for just non-violent marijuana related crimes? Basically, how many people would we actually let out?
I'm not saying there's no cost difference or that it's not getting larger, but the post doesn't compare like with like. How would that Android phone compare to an iphone 3GS on payg? That's a more interesting question.
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The design is pretty good - well above the norm. It could still be improved though.

I like the "Perfectly Safe, Perfectly Simple, Perfectly Free", but stylistically it's quite different from the infographic on top. The logo is also a bit off from the rest in style. And the call-to-action button is a bit washed out. The main menu has horrendous choice of colours.

The sign-up form has a lot of empty space that makes the page look only half done. And there is some lack of consistency on how you style forms in general. (Grey background for the whole form or just the submit-button panel?)

All minor things, but going over them a few times could really improve the finish a lot.
And I think we can all agree that hurts Groupon in the longterm. So.... doesn't seem like it depends at all, regardless people are trying to avoid using Groupon.
Could you drop me a note if you have a few minutes to help troubleshoot? This didn't crop up in our beta and we'd love to track it down. webwright@gmail.com - thanks, regardless!
These comparisons are disingenuous. It's much like comparing similiar cars from two different years. Plus I am sure Android will "leap frog" Siri soon anyway. With a semi open platform google gets tons of new VR apps. I have been using Vlingo for some time now and it has similar features as siri, including asking it questions and getting a response w/o going to the web and one button email dictation as in "Send email to Joe..I see you at the bar" and unlike iOS I don't have to wait for semi annual updates to get improvements.
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So, hijacking shared libraries. I doubt they're actually changing the Finder process in memory. I bet their changes are localized to the library they hijack.
Yeah, well, even if you use 1/8 of the Oxford dictionary you're still around parity with a 10-symbol password using lower case, capitols, symbols and numbers. At which point we fall back to Randall's observation- one is a whole hell of a lot easier to remember than the other.
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why does there have to be some TV time?
Oh absolutely. Don't read me wrong, those are great specs for a screen. I just don't think it's a significant enough improvement (over what was previously available) to deserve being qualified of "staggering".
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I guess I'm the minority, but if I had the option a filter engineer vs farmer based on click history it would beneficial.
It's hard to tell, but I think those are actually software buttons (I think it's been clearer in other screenshots, and it makes sense since this is exactly how Honeycomb tablets work/look). So it's arguably more minimalistic than the iPhone (all screen!) but also arguably more difficult to use without looking at the device.
True, but lack of resistance helps a lot. With fewer and fewer people pushing to keep it illegal, it'll be easier to legalize.

I'm in the 'do what you want, so long as you don't affect me with it' camp. In other words, I don't want it in my system, so don't smoke it in public.
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"Mark read" is a broken interaction anyway. You only ever use it when you haven't read the message.

So why do people do it? I do it to clear out messages that aren't worth reading, to get that number of unread emails in my Inbox folder down to 0.

Why do I care about unread messages? What I'm really worried about are unseen messages, and the set of unread messages contains these.

"Read/unread" and "Seen/unseen" are really just labels anyway, right? These could be automatically applied on seeing the message in a list view and on reading the message.

Now I have some sort of cool multiple-select label filter in place, and all I need to do is select the "Inbox" and "unseen" labels to get to email that I need to peruse. Every time I look at this label combination, all mail is marked "seen" and I never have to check off messages or apply a "read" state to messages that I have not read.

Notmuch (notmuchmail.org) gets close to what I want. I want to see its ideas adopted by the major webmail/mobile interfaces, so I don't have to contend with the legacy of email sorting.
You mean "couldn't kill without" I think.
So they must either be the Fort Knox/Iron Mountain of email, or else there is no reason whatsoever to use them?
Same here. For the cases where you really do want to find the first memory address past the end of the array (if you're doing some hackish memory management, probably), I think x + sizeof(x) is more idiomatic than &x+1, because it avoids that particular arrays-are-almost-pointers weirdness in favor of regular pointer arithmetic.

Though I used to program a lot of C, I'm not a C wizard by a longshot, so I might be wrong. Are there cases where using expressions based on &x, where x is an array name, is idiomatic C?

edit: Stupid mistake, see cygx's reply (sizeof(x) gives the size of the array x in bytes, not in elements).
That is very true, I'll definitely use TH only as a last resort. Perhaps it would be cleaner to output a list of tokens, which the compiler then parses. But then that is not much far away from generating a string. :)
I think strong type systems for arrays are very much an open problem (as soon as you stick integers in there you go into dependent types land), so for dimension matching you'd probably end up with runtime type errors even in Haskell.
People make buying decisions under pressure when deep discounts are involved (auctions). And I don't think it is as hard to do as you seem think it is. Especially once a customer is familiar with the process.
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The article doesn't mention radio. Is Car Talk is going to harm my child or just make him laugh at his own jokes?
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> It's barely lower density

it's still lower. I'm sorry about your hurt feelings, but that does not qualify as "staggering"

> and it's AMOLED. It's gorgeous.

Did not enter into the comment I replied to. At all. Again, I'm not saying it's not a great screen, I'm saying calling a 1280x720 4.65" "staggering" in 2011 is overstating it by a mile.
I do understand this sentiment, to an extent. The reality is that all the banks participate in the same job market and need to compete to attract and retain talent. If a bank (regardless of bail-out status) does not compensate employees competitively, it will fail to attract and retain the necessary talent and as such fail to perform. The only way a bank could still succeed without paying bonuses is if all banks did the same thing. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
This is the best article I've seen on HN in a year or so. Well done!
Android 2.0 did integrate Facebook into the OS -- FB contacts became phone contacts, and when people called, you'd see their last status update.

It was an awesome feature, but Google disabled it in Android 2.3.3 due to data portability concerns:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-s...

That leaves plenty of room for a startup to come in.
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I think one of the advantages that everyme is purporting is the fact that their solution is device agnostic (as long as they can get an app on the device)
We did release it in all of the english speaking countries that we could pick out of the list. The app actually has canned messages as part of the functionality, so I think it'd be pretty rough to use in any country where you'd likely meet with non-english-speaking folks. So question 1) Is there an english speaking country we missed? 2) Are there enough ex-pats-who-meet-with-mostly-english-speakers that you think it'd make sense to launch without native language support?
Or, you could just delete your cookies. The NYTimes "pay wall" is not very sophisticated (probably on purpose).
This is not a study, but guidelines. And I think it's a reasonable guideline because it's a warning. It means, "We cannot show causation between the two, but we also can't rule it out based on the evidence. The data we have and our understanding of how humans develop during infancy leads us to conclude it is safer to avoid letting children under 2 watch tv."
In my opinion there has been an endless stream of attempts at selling 'security' and privacy as a stand-alone product to end users with little success.

The key to successful security is to sell security focused products that seamlessly integrate privacy and security in a way that the user can understand.

When it comes to for example storage both us at https://spideroak.com and several competing companies focus on security and privacy as a integral part of a service offering.

This way the users can be certain that their data is secure, private and accessible without having to concern themselves with adding security as a 'feature'.

This approach does add a not inconsequential cost to both the cost base and the service offering, but we believe that it is becoming a more and more important sales argument, especially as more and more business critical data moves to the cloud.
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Contacts are still a mess on both my Android and my iPhone (I make apps and have a lot of phones). I was just having this conversation at a BBQ this weekend. Issues:

* my Android has too many random GMail contacts

* my iPhone doesn't have enough contacts

* multiple users per device doesn't work at all

I may be somewhat of an edge case, but I think the contacts space has a lot of edge cases, and we'll see a lot of innovation in the next few years.
Unlikely this will happen, unless mobile OS take over the desktop: desktop OS still blow at density independence, and so do their GUI toolkit.

Highest density desktop screens you can find are still IBM's T220 and T221 (from back in 2001) with 204DPI in 22.2" screens (3840x2400 native resolution)
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Wow. You, uh, don't think much about Accessibility, do you?

I'm 39 years old, very slightly near sighted (which is a good thing for this application), and start to lose focus on the phone display when I hold it about 7" from my eyes. At that range, I can just barely perceive single-pixel transitions if the contrast is very high.

My eyesight is quite typical. Many (perhaps most, even) will have more difficulty seeing those pixels than I will. And they are your target market.

The extra resolution doesn't hurt anything, obviously. And matching existing content (e.g. 480x320 apps or 720p video streams) makes the higher pitch attractive for technical reasons.

But don't dare to assume that your per-pixel content is visible on an iPhone 4. For huge numbers of people, it isn't.
I've seen too many tools developed as "teaching aids" that seem to be rooted in the belief that teachers are somehow lacking and that a massed produced video game or application could replace them.

This is an attitude I've observed before, but don't understand. A large number of startups are developed as "X aids" rooted in the belief that an application could replace X (examples include wufoo, craigslist, wikipedia, etc).

Why do people dislike such startups when X == teaching?

You are correct, however, that your competitors (teachers, in this case) will not promote your product and your startup is likely to fail if it is based on the assumption that they will do so. Similarly, wikipedia would have failed if it required Encyclopedia Brittania to promote it.
And by the time my toddler was 18 months she could count to 16, but we don't watch TV. Your kid may have done that anyway if provided the same stimulation by other means. It's not a reason in itself to watch TV.
I will not make my kids watch TV until they are old enough for school. Why would I?
So if my bot gets me a date with a girl, can I bring it along? Why not? What happens when she finds out that I don't speak fluent Farsi?

This has to be one of the creepiest things I've seen in twenty plus years on the net. Just because something is possible to build doesn't mean that you should.
Arrays in C have always confused me a little, because books say "an array is just a pointer to the first element". Making matters even more confusing is that most C programmers first deal with arrays in the form of character buffers, which are logical arrays but are typed as pointers to the beginning of the string.

Also confusing was the first time I saw this wonderful construct:

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Not only does it work, it's also correct C99!

Writing C involves more care than usual because there are so many weird things that are easy to not understand, and not understanding those will cause subtle undefined behavior that allows people controlling the input data to 0wn your computer. Frightening.
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I'm not involved with this startup, but I did hear a bit about it from someone who was at the StartupWeekend in Seattle where it was realized.

From what I remember, they did have a teacher on the team - and were recognized as one of the stronger groups for this reason.

Also, I don't see any information about it on the site, but I think that one feature of the site may be that the teacher's bosses (department heads? headteachers?) can review all the communications. Hopefully that mitigates the legal risks a little - even if only because teachers would be more careful about what they text.
When the tech industry is booming the silicon epithet is wantonly attached to any geographical feature. I remember back in 2000 when New York was becoming "Silicon Alley", South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale - Boca Raton - West Palm Beach) was "Silicon Beach", and Israel was forming a "Silicon Wadi." New York is still mostly alleys, Florida mostly beaches and Israel mostly deserts; not many glimmers of silicon remain. I bet this time around there will be "Silicon Fjords" in Scandinavia and "Silicon Rainforests" in South America.

The tech industry will make beachheads in various places and eventually be swallowed up and integrated into the industries that already dominate the area.
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I think those who
- want to protect their privacy and don't know how
- don't want to change their online behavior
- have enough disposable income to spend money on a privacy protection tool

will be the target audience.
Command-T is a much more maintained version of this, last time I checked: https://wincent.com/products/command-t
I feel that anyone who doesn't already know "it depends on sizeof(int)" isn't going to get it anyway; I was briefly thrown off because I thought "surely if sizeof(int) matters like I think it does, I would have been told what it is?"

But I'm more annoyed that I failed the last two by not understanding C than that I failed the second by guessing sizeof(int) incorrectly.
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You do realize that the bonuses are paid to practically all staff, right? That includes IT, HR, Legal, Personal Assistants, and so on. So by your logic it's only OK for banks to pay bonuses to staff who do something that benefits society? Or banks shouldn't pay bonuses at all? What about consultancy firms or other large companies that pay bonuses?
If it hadn't been for watching Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow at that age (c.1988), I wouldn't have been able to participate in the mind bending parlor trick wherein my father handed his two year old son a box of cereal, and I promptly sounded out Maltodextrin (or whatever else).

(And if I hadn't been that two year old, it's unlikely I'd be the voracious reader and passionate lexidweeb I am now. In fact, it's unlikely I'd even have the same brain, so to speak.)

Now, my parents reading to me most every night (apparently even when I was in the womb) also had a tremendous effect, but when I was a kid my dad traveled for work upwards of 300 days a year. And my mom had to take care of everything else. So there wasn't always someone available to read to me, but Big Bird and Geordi LaForge were there every morning.

Just sayin'.

(If the point of that article wasn't "no TV under 2" but "no bullshit TV under 2," I agree, but I would ammend the statement to "no bullshit TV under 200," or simply "no bullshit.")
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"Ultimately, games are trying to deal with the human desire to clean things up." That's a fascinating way of looking at things.

In games like Quake, the "cleaning up" is eliminating opponents. But even in educational trivia, one could say the "cleaning up" is getting as many correct answers as possible. Our instinctual desires to organize, i.e. "clean".
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It is incredibly sad how many children are put in front of a TV all day. And not Sesame Street or even cartoons - but Soap Operas, Jerry Springer, Cops, Fox News etc. Picture a dirty trailer home, behind on rent, no job, fast food for every meal and a rented 52-inch rear-projection TV that is on all. the. time.

When health care professionals make statements like this, the bad parents are who they are picturing in their head. They know the good parents (like the ones that read HN) can make informed decisions for themselves. But the bad parents have to be told "absolutely no TV" because there is no concept of moderation.
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I couldn't care the slightest about exposing php. Only safe bet is to assume your public facing services will be compromised at one point.

it was a decision mostly done by usability and code clarity (separate presentation scripts from data/model ones)

But one benefit of not having the regular setup, is that even if i'm a victim of an automated attack, it will probably fail because it did not expected to not be serving .php or .phtml files as php. For a skilled targeted attack i'd still be as hopeless as the person hiding php.

had that happen when one box was compromised because of a ssh key bug. but it turned out, the attack was automated and had vectors that worked with linux x86 and several common unixes. i was running irix on an very old box. so i had just some weird log entries instead of a root kit. not that it prevented the paranoid i am to wipe the system as if i had a root kit.