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Startup School last year convinced me to leave my job at a big tech company and follow my passion. I am now a full-time freelance iOS developer and I couldn't be happier. This event is a life changer, congrats to all accepted this year.
Malaria can survive in cattle, not just humans. Mosquitoes bite infected cows (which don't necessarily have symptoms), then bite humans. It's not like most infections diseases, which can be entirely eradicated just by vaccinating a critical number of people.
Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search
Holding Home is how you launch the App Switcher on pre-Honeycomb devices. I can't see them repurposing the Menu button like that.

I'd be surprised to see current phones upgraded to ICS at all, anyway, and manufacturers who choose to use hardware buttons will likely choose the 3-button Honeycomb/ICS layout.
Apparently this and the Droid RAZR are the first with hardware accelerated GUIs, and the RAZR is silky smooth. The Nexus is almost twice as many pixels with the same processor, so I assume that has something to do with it, but I definitely hope it's just not-yet-worked-out kinks.
When I saw them unveil Face Unlock, and then have the demo fail on stage, I immediately wondered why they were even bothering with such a gimmicky feature... and your 'photo imposter' scenario is realer than most people believe [1].

[1] PDF: Paper by Nguyen Minh Duc and Bui Quang Minh from Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center/Hanoi University of Technology

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Nguyen/BlackH...
I've seen the Moving Goalposts enough in the past. You're probably one of the ones who argued that Big Pharma would never allow the discovering of a vaccine because vaccines aren't profitable enough. Today must not have been a good day for you.
@cjy, you might be right. We should give them credit for this. I'm just pretty cynical when it comes to the pharma industry.
Is milk considered a social drink?
Drew Houston's Original YC Application
I don't know about you guys but after reading the Forbes cover story, I was itching to know how his YC application was - especially since he piqued Paul's interest as a single founder!
Smart Phones Could Hear Your Password
Quite good - I almost got the last one wrong. I did immediately realised my mistake and got it wrong again before nailing it but IRL there is no button to press to tell you you got it wrong (unit test maybe?) - there are much worse gotchas and more useful fringe functionality floating around though. What do these print for example.

int aiFoo[ 5 ] = { 1 }; printf( "%d", aiFoo[ 1 ] );
static int ls_aiFoo[ 5 ]; printf( "%d", ls_aiFoo[ 1 ] );

or how about int i = 5; int aiFoo[ i ]; which is valid C99 but not C89?

At any rate - much more important than learning the minutia of C is learning to get things done. If you are passionate about writing some OS you don't need to be taught - you would already know or be learning. It costs nothing but time...
>Imagine if your mouse cursor couldn't keep up with your hand movements, or if

>letters didn't appear on the screen until a moment after you pressed your keyboard.

<eyes-closed> <imagining/> </eyes-closed>

Even in my imagination, Android installed base is still growing at nearly 2X of that of the iPhone. Apparently, most people don't care for whatever you're saying they should care about. I have experienced the lag you mention, but I have a big, lovely screen on my Galaxy S [which is one of the reasons I upgraded from my iPhone 3GS], so I'm okay with it. My wife (a realtor) has never mentioned lag as an issue.

I don't mean to be rude, but we hear so often that Android fanboys use the silliest things as justifications for the shortcomings of Android [and they do!]. At the same time, Apple fanboys trumpet the silliest of things as justifications for the superiority of iOS [witness the many apologies/rationalizations after the 4S announcement]. You're trumpeting a silly thing.
That was a terrific link and response, thank you.

OTOH, the surface area of the lens he damaged is enormous compared to the tiny little lens on my phone....
(and you can fail every bit of this test and write an OS just fine)
Google already provides remote wipe and other domain management with the Google Apps Device Policy app. Domain owners can require users that want to link an account to their phone to accept the device policy, which can include remote wipe permission, remote lock, etc.

Source:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...
Ignoring the security implications, this could be a great way to use an old spare keyboard for text entry on your phone. And with some training, it would probably be far more than 80% accurate.
Nope, you're wrong:

http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867
Just tapping the name actually placed the call? What an idea. Just for fun, I looked at an older Docomo model on my desk by NEC. It is even worse:

Phonebook > Search > List of ways to search, NONE of which is just "show me my phonebook".

Let's try name lookup > Enter a string to search for > Search results > Choose a result > Dial.

Let's try Group > List of Groups > First Group > Choose name > Dial
The “let’s cut corners because most people won’t notice or care” mentality you mentioned is where sub-par software comes from. Good software shouldn’t be a luxury that one can be “spoiled” by — it should be the standard.
Good stuff. It makes me long for more time in the day and more neurons in the skull.
What? It seems pretty obvious to me that they are all moving in slightly different directions.

(Android digs being cluttered and confusing, Apple digs being kitschy and fake. And I’m not happy about the direction each OS is going.)
there is also the HTTPS Finder[1] add-on that automatically discovers HTTPS versions of webpages, and offers to generate HTTPS-Everywhere rules for them.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-finder/
Steve
You have a line regarding setting "fuoptions". That only works in mac_vim, so you need to put that in a condition.
Breakthroughs Don't Pay
How hard is it to not buy the phone? There are other phones out there, including the iPhone that have smaller screens.

I have a Droid X, and while at first it felt a bit big, I've totally fallen in love with having a ton of screen real estate. I have relatively small hands, and I rarely have issues.

Also, I think the stuff about Apple having found the One True Size because it fits your hand for one handed action is bullshit, since one of the main novel interactions -- pinch-to-zoom -- requires two hands.

It's a simple matter of preference. I think it's fantastic that I have a range of sizes to choose from. I wish everyone would let me decide for myself.
Any reason given for why this happened?
Interesting how things change. Just a few years back it would have been impossible to associate the word 'spartan' with any tech company other than Google, let alone Microsoft (which more often than not ended up alongside 'gaudy' and 'tacky'. Like this, unfortunately: http://youtu.be/-F_ke3rxopc)
Wait, are you implying big pharma doesn't make saving lives a priority? I wonder if presidential candidates know this.
I agree. I bought a Samsung Omnia 7 with Windows Phone 7 over android (and I am a free software kind of guy) because I found the Android experience lacking. I just found every Android device to miss the nice snappy response iOS and WP7 gives.
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End of mobile unlimited data plans
What has iOS copied from Android? Serious question.
The 5DII would have also been more accurately compared with the Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II lens (according to the Exif data the sample photo was shot at 24mm).

The iPhone 4S's camera is a fixed focal length while the Canon lens they used is a zoom lens. Zoom lenses trade certain attributes for the flexibility of being able to zoom, one of which is corner softness at wide open apertures. The 24-70 is a decent all-around lens, and I have used it extensively, but I have never encountered a zoom lens that reaches the same image quality as a fixed lens for the same focal length.
"Free phones (with contract)" is a bit like saying the house you bought was one fifth the list price (with a mortgage).

Perhaps we should only count phones that are sold for the full, unsubsidized price, to avoid giving an unreasonable edge to phones that sell for $200 with contract.
I'm not deeply familiar with the Japanese tech industry, but the paralysis would seem to come quite simply from an entrenched immovable old guard with business practices that were appropriate 60 years and 5-10 generations of tech ago.

Japanese engineers are, as best I can tell, extremely competent, dedicated, and driven. Set them loose on a large scale and you could have an incredible force on your hands.
You're wrong.

This screen has an HD resolution screen with ~316 ppi. So they made a bigger and higher pixel density screen. With AMOLED.
Lower the Electric Bill
The best and simplest way to start becoming energy efficient is by using LED lights for home. The amount of light that the LED emits is approximately ninety percent higher than the regular incandescent light, which means it is about eight times more powerful.
... or pass any 64-bit integer. Windows API calls are mostly "stdcall" and use stack for parameter passing - pushing 8 bytes instead of 4 could be disasterous in many ways - especially considering that the callee cleans the stack in this case.
1200 pages of information? Why does Facebook as a service (omitting privacy) not have the ability to search through comments etc...

they need to get there shit together
As hackers, can you scrutinize my analysis for a start up?
I know this is beta, but are any pricing details available? I didn't come across anything on their site.

It looks like a very useful service.
Inspirational story, thanks for that Forbes. I wish I had started programming from an earlier age (I only started 4-5 years ago, I'm a junior at UT Austin) but Drew is still an idol for me for both his crazy development skills and entrepreneurial talent. I use Dropbox on a daily basis and definitely laude him for seeing the idea through and not selling it to a big fish.
Please - I am dying for some feedback from this community on if this strategy is productive.
It’s not a silly thing if I truly care about it. Lag drives me crazy. I hardly ever need more than a few minutes before I want to throw an Android device at the wall.

This reason is personal. Others don’t care about it. That’s certainly true. But I do. Why am I not allowed to bring this up? Why is that silly?
I think he means that all the server side stuff is Python? The native Windows application is probably written in C++ though. Or did I completely misunderstand your comment?
Who isn't letting you decide? But as an app developer the screen war makes for pain. The UX gets different (if not more difficult) as you increase screen size. A good app UX has to account for modes of operation.
"GOD IS THE ARTIST. I JUST FIND THE NINJA TURTLE IN HIS WORK."
Multitasking, notifications, voice-to-text on keyboard, etc.
It's not unheard of to die of cancer or heart disease before having children, but it's uncommon enough (even compared to accidents and suicide) that I wouldn't expect them to affect the size of the next generation. Malaria kills a lot of kids, which is to say there are a lot of potential parents that are going to be saved in places with overtaxed food and water supplies.
Daring Fireball: Robotica
Sounds like Duarte is bringing much needed focus on user experience.

I thought Honeycomb was garish and the futuristicity forced. This tones it down quite a bit, but also moves away from Apple's kitschy skeuomorphism. I like it.

I also really like the new typeface.
Try closing it and starting again. Give it at least 5 minutes. Took me a few tries.

Oh, and (as expected), they've somehow managed to make the emulator even slower now.
While this vaccine is an important development, there's still a lot of work to be done. If you'd like to develop free, publicly available tools that help researchers improve treatments for malaria and other parasites, send a resume to jobs AT apidb DOT org. We need not only people with bioinformatics backgrounds but also web developers to help us improve resources like the malaria genome database, http://plasmodb.org/
I was comparing the word 'effective' in a different context to illustrate it's misuse.

Vaccines in general are 90%+ (sometimes 100%). (See polio or hepatitis for examples).

Those that argue herd immunity - go and read it... all of the thresholds are > 50%

This is categorically not 'effective', a breakthrough, yes. But it won't get rid of malaria.
While specific details would require competent tax counsel, and there are a lot of specific details, the general rule is that if you receive anything of value that can be converted into dollars at a fair market price (which I use in a sort of technical sense, not just as a wishy-washy term, the IRS knows how to obtain a reasonable approximation of this value), the IRS will hit you in some form for that price. BitCoin has reasonably well-established values in dollars which can be used, should it become successful enough for the IRS to care it will be even more firmly established what the dollar value of a BitCoin is, and if nothing else the IRS can always assign a market valuation to the other side of the transaction, the thing being purchased/sold.

When you win A New Car! on the Price is Right, you better believe the IRS and all relevant local tax municipalities express no confusion on how to tax you for it. BitCoin would not be particularly different. Without a rigid wall completely separating the BitCoin economy from the greater global economy (in which the USD is only one player), the greater global economy will tend to efficiently price a BitCoin. ("Efficiently price" is a technical term, what it means in this case is that the conversion rate in some sense has a real existence and isn't just a polite fiction, though there's a couple of simple logical steps betwixt the raw definition and that conclusion.)

There is basically no escape from taxes, other than any that may be explicitly laid out in tax law.
Nothing fails to produce resistance. It's all a balancing act.
That's assuming you have drop box install on the computer, have an account. The point is my mom doesn't have a dropbox account so she's still sol in this example.

This isn't particularly on topic though.
You can subtract death rate from birth rate, and the world looks screwed. For China, this is (13.1 - 7.1) per 1000. For India, it's (21.76 - 6.23) per 1000. So for the world's middle class, that's about 2% population growth per year. Yikes.

But the you realize, that China and India have very few really old people. Now that they have decent medical treatment, the older Chinese and Indians live longer, pushing the population up. But they aren't having any babies, so in the long term we might not be growing like lemmings.

So you look at the fertility rate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territori...

For China, it's 1.54, and it's 2.6 for India. Anything under 2 (plus a bit for the ones who don't reach fertility) means a declining population, in the long term.
To play the Devil's Advocate, I wonder how much the Internet contributed to this development?
Third Quarter Venture Investment Slowdown
I find Droid Sans pretty attractive, myself. Why is Roboto "definitely" better?

Compare to http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans
I don't understand where the fixation for multiple founders stems from. I know it increases the chances that the startup will succeed, but sometimes it's unnecessary.
I'm starting to think that it's more of a power struggle issue- If YC can't get one founder to agree with or sign off on something, then they want to be able to approach the other founder and convince them instead.
I'm surprised that Factor was not featured.

[1]: http://factorcode.org/
[2]: http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Features/The%20lan...
Android's Touch Responsiveness Is Terrible
This is one of the reasons that malaria incidence goes down as the number of cattle being raised goes up. Anopheles is happy to take a blood meal from a beef rather than a human.
The thing with the winding streets is that they came out organically---nobody planned them that way. You can't really fix that without doing something horribly draconian.

The newspaper inserts, magazines and websites, though...you'd think someone could just say, "Wow, this is an incredible eyesore that's impossible to navigate," and, you know, just not do that anymore.

I've got a Panasonic TV with an HDD recorder(can't remember the model, I'm at work) that is incredibly simple and intuitive to use. Want to record a show? Click one button on the remote, and you're given a grid of the upcoming TV listings. Click on the show you want, and it's done. Even my 6-year-old son knows how to use it. I can't imagine Apple doing better. Good UI can certainly be done in Japan.
With that "logic" they should compare it with 5D mk II and 1200mm lens shot in extremely low light at ISO 6400.
Bangkok flights offers to visit steamy, sunny bustling Thailand
Thailand offers an amazing nightlife with beach bars, pubs and night clubs. The islands here are popular for their famous beach parties of international standard. All this and much make Thailand one of the most sought after destinations in the world.
I'm a programmer with an extreme interest in disease ecology (in particular, that of malaria). Please email me at my profile address and let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
I think you need to clarify that sentence.

Do you mean cancer isn't caused by a pathogen? Because that isn't true for some cancers, and there are suggestions that all cancers are caused by viruses.

And cancer vaccines do exist, but they need to be individually created for each case.
Thank you. All 2D surfaces can/are accelearated I would bet money that the lag is in legacy apps. For some reason, new apps have to opt-in to hardware acceleration. I can't see any lag at all in all of the hands on videos I'm seeing.

By opt in, they have to bump their targetSdkVersion, so it's not a big deal. Source: http://developer.android.com
Of course, this comparison is bullshit. They downsampled the 5D shot, no sharpening, they used f2.8 to shoot a landscape (not that it would matter much in this comparison).

iPhone 4S has no chance against 5D mk II.
So, why can't the ball cost .01?
Very happy to see the C42 guys crystallizing their vision of building their own products with revenues generated from their own services.

Many many congratulations, Sidu and Team :)
Secondary founders work for less pay than anyone else in exchange for large chunks of equity which can be a huge asset for a tiny company. Add in the validation of being able to convince someone else that you have a good enough idea to take such helps convince VC's that the idea has merit. Having someone else committed also means you have someone to bounce ideas off of at 7:30pm that knows the issues and can give new incite is huge. Finally, it reduces your buss factor where is someone get's sick the company can still operate.
Experimenting with Scala Parallel Collections
Speak for yourself. My S' screen is no match for my mighty bear claw.
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Ruby also has a vibrant 'design' community as well, a few nice projects are compass-susy for grid design and compass-html5 mixins for scss.
They aren't using a pentile layout anymore - it resulted in fuzziness while rendering line art.
Oh, but Harry Potter was a breakthrough. It's a little of Roald Dahl's magical realism, a little boarding-school fiction, and a dash of Agatha Christie. I can't think of any other writer who tried to write a magical whodunnit for teens. OK, most of the parts are derivative. But so's a lot of Roald Dahl's stuff.

According to wikipedia, he was influenced by Rudyard Kipling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Frederick Marryat and Charles Dickens; and the Norwegian fairy tales his mother (Sophia) told him.

A genuine breakthrough is a small part. It can be a nice "secret sauce", and in some cases it can give you a competitive advantage. But a real hit needs lots of parts, and lots of work, not just a single breakthrough.
Are the new system fonts part of the Ice Cream Sandwich SDK? Where might someone acquire a copy for, uh, rigorous comparison purposes?

I've never owned an Android phone, but the Droid family is gorgeous as a UI font on Ubuntu, and the more high-quality fonts available for Linux the better.
Benjamin Franklin would be delighted to know that he woefully underestimated science's impact on agriculture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wheat_yields_in_developing...
Just tried the docomo NEC (N-02A) I had lying around. Down arrow > Left right to pick the first kana of their name > select name > Press dial button. Not that bad, but a far far cry from the european Sony Ericsson's smart phonebook.

Right now I have a SH-12C as my main phone, and it's basically an Android phone with a kickass screen and all the crazy japanese features jammed in it (1seg, mobile suica, 3D camera+screen, privacy veil, etc). And it's great - Google software really makes those features finally worth it. There's even an Android widget to display your Suica balance.
October is Vaccine Damage Awareness Month. If Big Pharma is doing this, it must be because it will cause Vaccine Damage.

(No, I'm not a nutcase, but, yes, this really is Vaccine Damage Awareness Month. 'Tis the season to kill people by demonizing an extremely safe form of preventative treatment by spreading baseless rumors to sow irrational fear.)
It says "by 2015". If they mean it, that's more like 3 years. These kinds of reviews move at a snail's pace.

Worse, I wouldn't even be sure they can economically mass-produce it yet, and the ramp-up could be a major PITA. The final trial was 16,000 vaccines, the WHO says there are 250 million cases every year. They're going to need tens of millions of doses before a blip even registers. And somebody's gonna have to distribute and administer this stuff.
http://bandbinnovations.com/xda/Roboto-Fonts.zip (link from post)

http://dl.inportb.com/android/Roboto-Fonts.zip (mirrored)
How to grok Python's unusual for-else construct
From a definitional point of view, according to google define:cancer, cancer is - "The disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body."

From a practical point of view what would you call an agent which stimulates the immune system to attack cancerous cells?
I'm referring back to Facebook, who would probably like to not follow the privacy laws if they aren't convenient.
Thanks! Yes, Salesforce is in the works. What specifically would you like to see?
Googler Xavier Ducrohet on Android 4.0 SDK
Semicolons are a Shibboleth
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I was expecting an article about actual ice cream sandwiches. I'm not disappointed per se, just a little surprised.
Why Geeks Are the True Gentlemen (Irony of "A Gentleman Doesn't Kiss and Tell")
Funny, I had to take a two hour mandatory company privacy training course today and the gist of it was the company could only use personal information customers allowed for the purpose it was intended to be used for.

The personal info can't be used for anything else other than what the customer agreed to. When the information is no longer required or whatever it was used for is finished the information has to be securely destroyed, until that point it has to be stored and guarded as securely as is possible.

Anyway after all that they proudly said we have a TRUSTe rating and showed other sites which also have it one of which is Facebook. Something seems wrong with that picture.
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"My phone stores my private key" is very, very far from "Dropbox's servers can see all my data".