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This is too big and lacks hardware 'home' button. I almost like Galaxy S 2, yet it feels slightly too big. I accidentally press sensor buttons all the time, but the home button is really convenient.
Yes. Thank you for posting. This is epic.
I had a hard time explaining what the site actually does without going over the title character limit, so here goes:

Users are presented with a video of a child about to be abused by their parent/guardian. The user is prompted to call a toll-free number (from a batch of ones available for the campaign) to stop the abuse from happening. Calling the number actually starts a new video, showing that you virtually prevented the abuse.

Really inspiring use for a really good cause.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, but that is how the mp3 player and now tablet market turned out, despite a lot of credible competition.
Unencrypted HTTP has its own detrimental effects.
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> incorporated teaching him sign language from the time he was 4 months

If you don't mind elaborating on this, why did you teach him sign language?
"I don't think watching news on TV with your one year old will have the same effect as watching Barney."

The only thing that might make a difference is how many times the camera angle changes per minute, but other than that there shouldn't be any difference between content made for adults and content made for kids.
I am more or less in the same position, I'm 39 old with a very good programmer job, in this case with a Java stack. My personal opinion is that Java, J2EE, .Net will continue to be relevant because many business have migrated his legacy cobol apps to this stack, but sad but true, .Net and Java are the new cobol... you can retired woking with they, but they are not the future any more.

The future is in languages as Scala, Python, Ruby, Javascript and ideas as Node.js, NoSQL.... you want to create a new stack to play... review that are using the top startup and you will see a clear map.

My strategy is to use this new technologies in my side projects, nobody pay me for that (yet) but allow me mastering what is comming. Make this transition with a full time job, family, wife and kids is a big challenge. I want be part of the new wave in IT and no spend the rest of my life in legacy technologies.

Let me know and I can show you more ideas how start the trip...

J
TL;DR Disappointed to see Cassandra does not have Amazon Dynamo like eventual consistency. Or even acknowledge any lack thereof.
Should government turn everything it doesn’t want to do into a startup?
We came out of the MEGA startup weekend that was in mountain view last month. And we had a great teacher on our team who was part of Teach for America.

You are also correct, our school plans give admins and other teachers read-only access to all communication. The idea is that the transparency will protect teachers from any appearance of impropriety.
If I'm in a restaurant and there is a TV in my field of view, my eyes are continually drawn to it. It's the nature of the bright, changing image.
You didn't see the Gizmodo featured comment on the sharing model?
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I very much doubt it. Facebook, Twitter, and a number of other major web properties have been making moves toward more HTTPS usage. As of this month, for example, Facebook is requiring all FB app developers to have an SSL certificate for their app URLs. There are much better reasons for the switch than a niche site unknown outside of the techie community.
Printer Dots, Pervasive Tracking and the Transparent Society
Thanks. Btrax.com did our design (they gave away 10 hours of free design to the winner). I highly recommend them.
Sponsored by Zencoder.

As much as I want to trust this benchmark, I'm doubtful.

If Zencorer knew which account you used, they could've assigned the best dedicated servers to your jobs.
It's a popular trend because kids are able to do sign language before they're able to speak. IIRC it doesn't seem to help their language acquisition or cognitive develop at all, but it doesn't seem to hurt much either.
No, but I can't think of any additional threat that Google keeping backups of your mail exposes you to that just using Google as your email provider doesn't also expose you to.

If you don't trust them to keep your email backups safe, you shouldn't be using them.
It's pretty common. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_sign_language
A teaspoon is 5ccs. 3-4cc IS pretty much a tiny sip, unless you have excellent lip-control.
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I think people are taking a very narrow minded view of Dropbox. You're absolutely right that iCloud, potential entries of Google or other big players could hurt Dropbox and be competitive.

However you have to imagine Dropbox is looking beyond "just file syncing" on client computers. Do you think when Jobs re-joined Apple, he was thinking "lets make Apple a better computer company". Dropbox gave an info session/tech-talk at MIT recently (which they do often), and talked about how they want to be the "Filesystem of the internet". With the money they've raised recently, and the ferocious hiring they're doing, you have to imagine they have plans to move into other spaces that might not necessarily be exactly client/cloud file syncing. I'd gander they have other aspirations and ways to make Dropbox as a platform be pervasive throughout the internet. Dropbox can focus on this one thing. Google can offer space for super cheap, but I can't see them attacking this large problem from as many angles as Dropbox can, since it's the "one" thing they do. This is all speculation, but I don't suspect Dropbox is going to sit complacently in the space they're in with potential pressure coming from so many competitors.

Also, iCloud's goal seems to be more to lock users into Apple products rather than be a great file syncing service. Photos off my iPhone get synced to iPhoto, rather than a folder I designate on my computer (ironically, a Dropbox folder). But to be fair, I haven't dived too deep into what I can do with iCloud yet.
I read that you can do it yourself by instantiating a VM and installing dropbox there, rinse+repeat till you're maxed out.
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It looks like an interesting hypothesis.

To buy in to it I'd have to see some evidence that the hypothesis is supported in groups similar to the population of active users of HN. What I see is that a lot of main contributors are bought in heavily and so are unlikely to leave. It is these users here that are like the group in the article of whom it is said:

"The challenge to their belief presents an immense cognitive dissonance; they must find reinforcing thoughts to counter the shock, and so become more fanatical."

[at http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...]

I warrant that those who are most civil, in this context, are those who are effectively 'fanatical' about maintaining the group as a useful communication tool.

Basically the evaporative metaphor requires you to decide who the fanatics are and you can spin this in different ways according to the result that you wish to forward.
By TV they mean video content, it's still TV even if you're watching it on your computer.
http://db.tt/zAjYWpp
My wife is a teacher and completely agreed with your research. She'd never use it (fear of losing protections using anything outside school-required communications; desire to not increase coddling students with constant reminders; etc), but suggested that coaches would probably love it.
I like LustyExplorer (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890). I've mapped its 3 features like this:

,f to choose a file

,b to choose a buffer

,g to search for a word/pattern in active buffers

In each case the results are filtered incrementally, more or less like in all the other similar vim plugins and the original in TextMate.
Great feedback. Thanks.

We do have an auditing tool, and keep records of all texts back and forth. We should definitely highlight this more.

Also working on a way for parents to register their kids' phone numbers and get cced on all communication.
It's a speculative bubble too. It has a base case of value, as you observe, so it probably won't collapse to nothing and will remain an industrial commodity for the forseeable future, but I'm pretty sure the value will collapse to something more like its actual industrial value (with a bounce to below that value) as soon as it is clear that the economy has recovered. (Which on sufficiently long time scales is quite probable, but I make no claims about what may or may not happen between then and now.)

I've considered a strategy of buying gold post-collapse on the grounds that on the 30-year business cycle, gold will probably be spiking again in the next financial crisis at right about the time I'd be retiring, but that's 100% pure speculation, not buying for "intrinsic" value... but then, I scare quote the term since there really is no such thing.

I also think investing in gold in the case of total collapse is a bit bizarre, because in the event society totally collapses, the only gold that will be worth anything is the stuff in your physical possession, not numbers in your bank account, which the government trivially confiscated (shortly before it discovered that doesn't prevent collapse either, because the government's problem was never having enough numbers in computers). (They can confiscate physical gold too, of course, it's just not trivial.) I know that's not the motivation of every gold bug, though.
That's possible (though I'd argue that many of them are buying at lower price points and therefore were never really potential Apple customers) but you could also argue that Android has, through raising awareness of smartphones generally, increased the overall size of the market and created more potential customers, some of whom have bought iPhones.

But the bottom line is that Apple have maintained market share and increased the absolute number of units sold. They've also done so while remaining the single largest handset manufacturer globally and in pretty much all key markets, producing the two best selling handsets over the last 12 months (despite neither launching in that time), generated more profit than all the other handset manufacturers combined and registered the consistently highest customer satisfaction and loyalty numbers.

Is Android creating pressure on Apple? Sure, but when you compare how they're performing with RIM (reduced market share, profits down), Symbian (reduced market share, profits down), Windows Mobile (reduced market share, no idea but I'm guessing profits down) then claims about what Android is doing to Apple are put in context.
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There are protected trademarks that are registered with Google that are protected in their system but even then, I believe the rule is you cannot use the trademark in your ad copy but you can still target the term in you list. In many mature industries, the major players have reciprocal agreements in place with their suppliers and even with competitors to not bid on branded/trademarked terms.
Is it a behavioral reinforcement sort of thing, designed to overcome inertia/uncertainty in future real-world situations? That sounds sort of beneficial to me, but OTOH I'm a cynical utilitarian. I can see how a lot of people would find it creepy/objectionable. Canada's a bit mroe paternalistic than the US.
It's pretty common to teach children a little bit of sign language before they can talk, actually. I remember being really impressed that my niece was able to ask for more of something (generally food) using sign language long before she spoke her first word.
did they fix the bugs where your keypresses could appear out of order? because seriously, I don't want to have to slow down my typing to get software to work.
I find it somewhat strange that video games are OK (it's on a screen but interactive) and I guess live theater is OK (it's passive but not on a screen), but the combination of passively watching something on a screen is not OK.
http://db.tt/pUyP9ge Thank you :)
Ok, so our little privacy link needs to be bigger clearly. Thanks.

I just changed the wording on the "Perfectly Free" area and linked to our costs. Do you think that's prominent enough?
5d2 currently has a $100 manufacturer's instant rebate, $2,400 on Amazon at time of writing. Amazon says the rebate ends 10/29/11, a bit more than a week out. I doubt it'll drop much lower than that in the year or so between now and Photokina (Sept. 2012) when Canon will most likely announce the 5d2's successor.
Yeah, the injection stuff was what I was referring to.

Apple apparently changed OS X in 10.4.4 to only allow root or procmod group to do this http://guiheneuf.org/mach%20inject%20for%20intel.html
No offense. But what YOU are looking for is pretty vague. To me, this looks like you're looking for someone to do your homework. What were you doing for the other 2-weeks allocated to this project?

"You get one week to do each of projects 1, 2, and 4, but you get 2 weeks to do each of projects 3 and 5 as they represent more work and are worth double credit."

If you're looking for _assistance_ in understanding core concepts, I would recommend:

Stackoverflow -- for VERY specific questions OR #python on irc.freenode.net
Thanks for the tip! But is method swizzling OK for the App Store these days?
Google had encrypted search in beta at encrypted.google.com for almost 2 years now.
How to Prevent Your Customers From Leaving You
Have they improved on their lack of security yet? I'd recommend using wuala for work documents as they offer client side encryption, if you don't mind having java around.
It's a rare search that takes me to a page that mentions what I'm searching for exactly once.

Search result pages and destination pages serve completely different purposes, and you can't apply the same UI to both. If you ran a restaurant, you might decide to laminate the menus, but I hope you wouldn't laminate the entrees, too.
I think it's worthwhile, if only to see what all the hype is about. You may like it or you may not. That's a decision you will benefit from being able to make, though. If you know enough tools to be able to approach a particular problem and then assemble your tech stack based on which of those tools solves it the best, or to your highest liking, then you're better off than you were when you only had C# to choose from.

You most likely won't find a company that is willing to pay you while you learn one of these new languages, entirely. I suggest just diving in, and choosing a language that you think you would enjoy. One of my personal priorities is to find one that has an active community (with an IRC server on Freenode preferably). Then, pick a web framework for that language and a database to use and start hacking away at something simple, like a to-do list application. Make it a goal to use some cool tech, like a trendy database, a distributed task queue, full-text search indexing, web sockets, rpc over http, or anything. The goal here is not to build the to-do list app, but to learn about the tools out there, so go overboard with it and even though a to-do list app might not need a distributed task queue, use it anyways. (or not, I'm just a mega nerd and love seeing all these moving parts working together) You'll learn a ton during this process. Most importantly, you'll find that you have been building your tech stack of choice, all along.
Sweet! http://db.tt/3B3hp3W
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My daughter is almost the same age as yours and does the same thing. The only time we have the TV on with her around is either the Toddler Tunes channel or sports (mostly because it's the only thing we ever watch around those times). One thing I've noticed is that my daughter never sits down in front of the TV just to watch. She has no desire to do it at all. The closest she comes is she'll says "Dance, dance" and point to the TV. If we turn on the music channel she starts bouncing around, dancing with myself or my wife, or picks up a doll to dance with.

We also read every night, but don't do the sign language thing.
This Forbes article, mostly: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%...
http://db.tt/gnlkHVZ1 - Thanks!
I've done home based learning at degree level with the Open University in the UK (they're a degree awarding body). It's possible to not have any contact throughout the course and just turn up and sit the exam. Tutorial sessions are not compulsory though many (possibly all, I don't know) courses have a continuous assessment element.

I wouldn't describe the fees then as 'paying through the nose', certainly not in comparison to professional IT certifications.
Certainly a big feature, although as platform/os providers integrate similar functionality, that differentiation point for Dropbox will begin to diminish.

But you're spot on with varying OSes being willing to cooperate to allow multiple clients access to shared data stores. Google, Apple, Microsoft and open source all in agreement on file sharing? Right.....

Surely the latest Dropbox investors considered that, and gauged the probability of harmony among the OS providers for the sake of the user. And since Dropbox just closed $250MM in financing, they obviously believe their chances are pretty good. :-)
Namecheap will let you set up forwarding email addresses for free if you register the domain there. No need to screw with DNS. I'm sure others do too.
Thanks for the feedback. Just tweaked it. Let me know what you think.
Dropship no longer works.
How the iPhone Got Tail Fins
Counterpoint: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:github.com
If referrers from HTTPS pages were sent to HTTP pages by browsers anyone sniffing the connection would know the URL the user visited. For a search engine, this would make SSL pretty useless as the main thing worth encrypting is search queries and people usually end up clicking links to non-SSL pages.

I presume they're working around it for ads and (telling webmasters the user is coming from Google) by sending the user through a HTTP page before they reach the result (like DuckDuckGo does, but for the opposite reason).
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Cheers bud =)
Each of the intXX_t typedefs are optional. Each typedef is available iff the implementation has a type which is exactly XX bits.
This.

It's a digital swiss-army knife. Right now in my pocket I have an 8mp still digital camera, an HD camcorder, the world wide web, email, instant messaging, news, social networks, books, notes, digital storage, music player, video player, gameboy, etc etc etc. You couldn't fit a single one of these into you breast pocket in the 90's - I tried, and that walkman ripped that pocket right off!

Oh snap, you mean this crazy thing makes PHONE CALLS too?!
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Currently Nariya is support Github for it's deployment and a quick guide can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNptRGFAPkM
This story sounds like the story of Audion, SoundJam, and iTunes nearly 10 years ago:

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Supercomputing’s exascale arms race
I don't know, I feel like you're over-thinking it. "Mark as Read" is exactly that- "mark this as if I have read it, even though I have not". I don't see how it's broken.
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the good parents (like the ones that read HN)

I greatly respect the people I’ve interacted with on HN, but I would stop far short of assuming that intelligence and competence in something like hacking automagically transfers over to an orthogonal skill like parenting. This is partly because of my own anecdotal experience raising children while working in software development, and partly because of what I’ve observed which is that nearly every successful professional class assumes that they are good parents and clearly superior to people who are financially unsuccessful.

Often times, they are. Some people have poor life skills that translate directly into poor parenting skills. Some people have good life skills that seem to cross over directly into good parenting skills. But some poor people are great parents, and some successful people do not practice good parenting... Yet.

One of the attributes of being a good parent is to recognize when you could be even better. Thus, I guess my real message is that regardless of how we view our parenting skills, we ought to be open to the possibility that advice like this may apply to us even if we aren’t living in a trailer.

(Disclosure: I live in an extremely modest cottage that is Toronto’s equivalent to a trailer home).
What if you make the byte 16 bits? C99 doesn't require it to be exactly 8 bits--just that it be large enough to represent the basic character set.
Building Windows 8: Designing search for the Start screen
that seems reasonable to me. if something gets to the top spot on HN, I'd think its worth a try. some other random app? much different story.
I think reading that piece by the Wizard of Odds a few years ago was what made me decide I had to start my own casino rather than trying to license these things to Bally or Shufflemaster. I'm not a pitch-and-spin type guy, I once pitched YC with the alpha version of this very casino and gave up in the middle of the application. I do agree about the revenue model you're talking about working...I mean, I've seen that it works...but I have a hard time getting motivated for it, because personally I couldn't waste five minutes of my life playing a video game if there wasn't money at risk. Ditto sports. I just don't care if I don't have skin in the game, and I get bored fast. And it's hard for me to pitch to an audience that I consider to be basically throwing their time away.

This game's less configurable than the others... I like screwing with the underlying concepts of gambling. Previously I messed with 2D slots, letting players set their own symbols, weights on those symbols, and number of reels while keeping the max RTP constant but requiring some skill to calculate what you were getting. Did the same thing with Keno; fluid paytables. Then I started getting into more outlandish concepts like this: http://youtu.be/gD4GqCAAsmo and a 17-line slot with an internal bonus multiplier that hadn't been tried before... http://youtu.be/n4iwh7GNwNI

All this got some attention from software companies who I didn't want to go to work for, asking me to shut down my site and come work for them on building a nicer Pai-Gow game or whatever. Didn't work for me.

The new one's a 3D "slot" with 36 lines, that's more than 50% skill-based but still has an RTP between 96-100%, no more. Perfect play yields 100% RTP...that was the idea. Also, while the normal payouts stay constant regardless of the skill level the player chooses, the progressive jackpot is more likely to pay out the higher the skill level, an extremely difficult inversion of the paytable since those skill levels are harder to win on normally.

Anyway, I figure Zynga probably ain't interested because it's not social, it's antisocial. It's gambling.
thanks.

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