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Watching the legislative process for people who claim to believe in democracy is sort of like actually reading the bible for people who claim to be christian.
It seems that what happened to wikileaks has become a blue print on how to deal with dissent. The demos allowed such monopolistic organisations such as visa and mastercard and the demos allowed the rest of what happened to wikileaks. We, the people, are to be blamed for not being willing to fight to retain our powers.
But at that point, you still have a blocking call to put it on the queue at Google's servers. Which can just as well be, well, a mail server (which maintains a queue of itself). So adding another layer of abstraction on top of it kind of defeats the purpose.
So what you are saying is that the server, upon receiving the email request, immediately sends a 200 OK response and sends the email request to another server (or spawns a new thread). Isn't this probably what happens anyways? In the case of Gmail it's likely a comet request that is held until the email is finished sending. Is the former method really that much better?
there is not a phone on the market that does not have a locked down and 100% proprietary baseband firmware (basically the part of the phone that does the actual celltower signalling/interactions).

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

There is strong indications this is used to essentially pre-empt/backdoor the main OS for monitoring and surveylance purposes, and many models suffer from serious security weaknesses.

http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device#Remotel...

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/mobile-attacks-reign-black...
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Unfortunately I doubt Facebook will even mention the SOPA law. Google might put a small piece of text on the bottom of the home page about it, but even then that's a big "maybe."
I was not fearing being locked up for anything that happened that day as I clearly did nothing wrong. And there was no requirement for me to subsequently report the problems with this technology as the operators had that duty themselves, being clearly aware of it. But there may have been a requirement for me to not report the problem publicly myself as the machines were presumably still in operation. Obviously "locked up" is a hyperbole, but presumably it's never worth the trouble to find out by how much.

I personally find it humiliating to have a nudiscan in public, especially when it then falsely identifies me as having "concealments". Anyway the way this machine was being operated would contravene the new rules, and for good reason.
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This sounds really similar to Bootstrap - http://watchbootstrap.com
And $99 yearly. iTunes Match is only $25 yearly, it's not billed monthly.

Furthermore, iTunes Match limits at 25,000 songs. At 256kbps, thats roughly 175GB.
Ok, I'll bite.

Because you need to weigh benefits against costs?

A certain number of people die from vaccines (side effects, negligence etc) every year. That's a fact. Do we stop vaccinating? No, we don't, because the number of lives saved is probably >10000X the cost.
Are these hearings that house.gov streams archived somewhere?
If not, why?
I am sorry, but every time I visit those sites on my embedded linux box I don't get much joy.

Adobe held back everyone from the web to desktops. I created the Arora web browser and countless times had 3rd party people put it on embedded devices only to turn around and ask me how to get the flash plugin working. I had no answer but to send them to Adobe and pray that they were using x86 and Adobe would be even interested in helping them and that the fee for helping wouldn't bankrupt the company.

Flash helped keep all of us on x86 more than people realize. The arm port was always a second class could you even imagine ppc or mips? And the idea of some other more radical arch? Forget it, Adobe would laugh at you for even asking. How many Linux users choose 32bit x86 (this for the OS that seems to work on everything!) for years because they knew that flash would work?

When I heard that news about its death I celebrated. I drank a beer. I would have sung a song if I was any good. While we knew it was coming having it actually set in stone was nice. The era of the web requiring flash is coming to an end and we can start to move onto interesting solutions and interesting hardware knowing that we wont have to grovel to one company hoping they will pity us and only charge us millions for a product that kills our batteries and pegs our cpu.

Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion and not of my employer.
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Taking a class and getting a piece of paper also does not a computer scientist make.
I think this is very key - you can take away blocking from a lot of scenarios without hurting user confidence/comfort if and only if you add an "aside indicator" to give the user peace of mind about important things that they want confirmation on and about the progress of the system. But, yes, they should be asides.
Although Instagram promised a brand-spankin’ new Instagram shirt if you complete the challenge correctly, they are only sending out stickers.

I hope they are not another Zynga :).
You are right about the more advanced subjects. I guess, speaking from a college freshman's point of view, I disagree with friends taking courses on subjects that can be easily learned from a book or tutorial. I think it's important to take classes in subjects that can't be easily learned through self-teaching.

PHP or jQuery can be easily learned from books and tutorials, while being a great programmer takes much more practice and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and probably a classic computer science background. So majoring in computer science would be a wise choice, while a jQuery class is unnecessary unless it's required for the major.
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Non-OEM batteries are a mistake 90% of the time. The quality is just not good. For something that can start on fire, I'm willing to spend the extra 30 bucks to know it's a good battery.
See the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114383
The scam works just as well if it does pass, too -- and the monopolistic content industries have deeper pockets than the people paying the opposition lobbyists.

Honestly, though, I think that the most likely case is that a lame duck version of the bill will pass, resulting in an incremental rather than sweeping tightening of the noose around the Internet. That's usually how this crap happens, "As The Real World Turns".
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Your first phrase captures what I assumed he meant, I was wondering if there is anything available that could help me recognize algorithms that could or should be expressed that way, and how to do it. Your Wikipedia link was helpful.

I am working on a calculus refresher right now (I really need it) and am planning on working through an elementary linear algebra text once that is done, which is why I particularly noticed the comment. I have found that having an idea of applications helps retention, which is one reason I am trying to track down something more concrete.
Is CIQ put on phones at the behest of manufacturers or carriers?

Is the data sent by CIQ charged to the user?

Regardless of the answers, this is bad, bad stuff. Given where we are with something as basic as SOPA, I doubt we'll ever see anything done to protect consumers against this type of privacy invasion.
Music files are special: they're relatively big.

I've found Dropbox works really well for documents and such, but if you're talking 100GB music collections, that's a lot of cash. Yes, this is a Dropbox issue, not an app issue. I think the app is really neat.
What I would like to see is for gadget and appliance makers to include a USB port on their devices that works as follows:

1. If you insert a formatted flash drive, the device creates a folder named after the gadget if that folder does not already exist.

2. In that folder, the device writes out a PDF copy of its manual, and of any other documents that would have come with the device when purchased.

3. If the device folder existed when the drive was inserted, and the device supports field updates of firmware, it looks in that folder for a firmware update and applies it if found.
anecdotes are not data. you have no idea of the correlation between your upbringing and your creativity and independence. twin studies disagree with you.
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I'd agree that you'd need a new one every 5 years. I'd also add that there's a difference between a Mac and Windows over those 5 years (I haven't used Linux very long so I can't speak for that OS). Windows becomes so slow that it might as well just be a brick whereas my Macs stay peppy throughout the entire 5 years. The Mac does slow a tad but it's really not much to complain about. My most recent one came with Leopard and I've gone from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.7 Lion now and she still purrs. All I use is Onyx for occasional maintenance.

I really don't want to start a Mac v. Windows argument as I despise those but it's something I've just noticed as I've replaced my machines over the last 10 or so years. My real point is that in my experience I get my money's worth to the very end with the Macs I've owned.
Sustaining 1TF on DGEMM was explicitly mentioned by Intel in the presentation/briefing.

It's also mentioned in the press release:

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011...

"The first presentation of the first silicon of “Knights Corner” co-processor showed that Intel architecture is capable of delivering more than 1 TFLOPs of double precision floating point performance (as measured by the Double-precision, General Matrix-Matrix multiplication benchmark -- DGEMM). This was the first demonstration of a single processing chip capable of achieving such a performance level."

Does it mean much? It means something to me, and is a great first step for those of us running compute intensive codes. They really wouldn't get far if they designed the chip only around being able to do this.

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the article text is incorrect. The chip we're discussing is Knights Corner not Knights Ferry. The latter has been in early user hands for quite some time now and I've spent plenty of time hacking on it. Knights Corner is the new chip that is working it's way to production via the usual process with ship for revenue in 2012.

The 2018 target is for an exascale machine, not shipment of initial MIC devices. TACC have already announced they'll be building out a 10 petaflop MIC based system next year to go operational by 2013.

Yes, I'm comparing a chip that has not shipped, but given the perf advantage, given the tools and productivity advantage, given the multiyear process advantage Intel is sustaining, this is not a chip to be ignored. Knights Corner is shipping on 22nm. Other vendors have notoriously had difficultly on previous processes, depend on fabs like TSMC who are doing 28nm for them, and will be later to 14nm etc.
How I (Accidentally) Brought "Weapons" Aboard Two Aircraft In A Row
I am writing in response to this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3242864

It is just a testament to how some simple social engineering can allow anyone to bring anything onto an aircraft. (Minus explosives perhaps which would probably set off some deafening alert sound or so I would assume.)

This is how it went down...

I purchased a full manicure kit in Shanghai, China. Lots of sharp, pointed, stainless steel objects in an easily accessible case. A huge no-no on any flight I have ever been on since 911, and I knew it.

I would never normally pack that in my carry on, but my loving girlfriend decided to do the honors for me and by accident she must have placed the manicure kit in the carry on.

We get to Shanghai airport and immediately upon going through the metal detector, I am asked if there is anything sharp in my bag.

I innocently say no, because as far as I knew I didn't. After 5-10 minutes of looking through my carry on. There it was, the manicure set, shit.

I don't know why but I pleaded with them and they let me keep it surprisingly. So that's how I got it onto the first plane. In China. A dumb look and some national pride let me keep my "weapons".

Next stop, London. But not before I grab some booze at the duty free!

Unbeknownst to me, if you are changing planes or stopping over on your trip and you buy a bottle of alcohol on your first plane, make sure that bottle is sealed with red/identifiable duty free tape, otherwise it will cause a shit storm at your next destination.

So I show up in London, carrying my manicure set and bottles of liquor... am about to go through the metal detector again... when to my astonishment, they start asking me questions about the liquor, not what's in my bags.

This turns into a situation where literally everybody working behind the xray scanners is looking at me now, with their fingers on their radios, because I am the idiot who has two bottles of potential explosives in his hand.

After another minute or two of explaining my situation, they seal the alcohol in their own duty free bags and just tell me to be more attentive next time.

Meanwhile, my manicure set has slipped clean through the xray scanner, and I am on my way to boarding another plan, in London of all places.

a) Why did the Shanghai airport not automatically inform Heathrow that I was carrying a potential weapon?

b) Why are people watching xray screens permitted to be distracted whatsoever? They should be working on a lazy boy toilet fitted recliner in a quiet room.

TL;DR Causing a distraction at the xray booth, allows numerous carry on bags to get through without being checked.
Thanks for the feedback. Obviously I am not communicating what uberzet is clearly enough.

You can do a keyword search. Also you can view popular files on uberzet. Finally you can ask uberzet to show you a random file.
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How ironic. They talk about providing the best user experience on the web, yet their site offers a sub par experience on my phone. The text doesn't scale when zooming, so basically it's unreadable on the phone.
Wow. Two weeks later and they STILL messed this up? I'm only getting sound / vibration notifications. Impressively bad. How many people are working on this project? Follow up question: how many people are working on testing this project?
Until the message has made it from my computer to the mail server, plenty of things I do could stop it from going out:

- I could quit my browser

- I could close my laptop

- If my train goes into a tunnel, I could lose my internet connection

…and I might never find out that the email didn’t make it, because my mail provider might never have found out that I was trying to send one. I need to know when the message is safely out of my hands.
I don't mean to steal Tunebox's thunder, but Audiogalaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com) might be another solution to your problems. It's completely free, supports almost all audio formats and has a ridiculously high max-song limit (200K+). Works on Android and browsers, too.
I like the sentiment, but I believe that (unfortunately) it's not an effective strategy -- because there's no guarantee the US will get its act together if we go down that road. I think a better strategy is to fight this every step of the way, delaying the apparent inevitable until the effective state of affairs (where nobody can really enforce this mercantilistic cultural monopoly crap any longer) becomes the overwhelmingly obvious and undeniable truth in all respects, and the whole point becomes moot.
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Ever since the introduction of plastic, we, human being, are slowly doomed.

This is not to say that X-Ray is good or bad. Just that, the cause of cancer is everywhere and it becomes our lifestyle.
That's a good point. If you have 100s of gigs of music, this might not be the best option.

On the other hand, there are lots of people out there who are already have their music library in Dropbox so they can sync it between their computers, so I don't think it's fatally expensive.
If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

- Dennis Crowley (@DENS)

http://startupquote.com/post/12890448224
It's grammatically correct, which means it's not a run-on sentence.
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are we sure yet that EU carriers are not also using this?
Infringement depends on permission. No third party can possibly know whether or not the use of a given work was authorized or not unless told by the copyright holder.

Now, when told by the copyright holder that no use of some work is authorized, they can flag all copies of it that they are able to find and match it under the assumption that nothing is authorized. But you couldn't add anything if we assume that every user is lying about being authorized.

Moreover, as was demonstrated in the Viacom case, even the copyright holders get it wrong. In particular, Viacom had uploaded copies of their own works and made them appear leaked. Yet these were uploaded by Viacom itself and, thereby, authorized. They even had to go back and have them put up after taking them down by mistake. And they had to remove them from their complaint after being told of their mistakes. Twice. After doing due diligence with expensive lawyers.
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True, but only where "possible" accounts for the need to write some code to ensure you actually have software, and can thus accomplish the task you wish to accomplish. The best way to write no code is to find some code that someone else wrote and distributed under a license amenable to your needs -- it is not to just throw your hands up in the air and say "Well, let's scuttle every project handed to us."
>You should be around to fix something you push if it breaks things

Which has another advantage over Amazon's pager policy: if you are up at 3am, only semiconscious, you are likely to be more useful fixing code that you broke (because you just touched in the last day or two) than some other coworker's mistake.
That is a thought experiment, not a citation.

Also, German schooling was famously rigid, and produced a sizable crop of scientists in the 1900-1960 era.
Search is the only reason to keep it around. It's a great way to search through your Gmail. The built-in mail app doesn't search that well, especially stuff on the server.

Beyond that, I find the built-in mail app to be lightyears better than the Gmail app. I'll be using the built-in app as my main app, with the Gmail app on the side for certain searches.

When Sparrow finally comes to iOS, I may switch to that. They get how to make a good Gmail app, unlike the people who make Gmail.
Decentralization.

Imagine something like a mashup between bittorrent, usenet, and TOR (store & forward + P2P) integrated into a web browser client front-end.

This sort of thing has been on my mind for years now, but it never occurred to me that it could actually be a necessary invention for maintaining a free and open internet in the developed world.
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Ask HN: So we're all against SOPA, why not jam the works?
I happen to be reading this online novel right now, "Little Brother" http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm

It's a call to action, and I think this is the time. Here's how we can jam up the works:

1. Anytime you post open source material, tag it with things that would trigger an incorrect copyright warning. //* Then fight the hell out of it. File a civil claim in municipal court if necessary.

2. Anytime you post copyrighted material, tag it with stuff that would incinerate random flag-waving idiots. //Tag your copyrighted materials along the lines of "Love the USA" and shit like that.

3. Anytime you post something negative about one of the politicians involved in SOPA, make sure you use the name of one of his biggest supporters. //If every troll started signing every anonymous comment "Rockefeller" tomorrow, I guarantee one of those assholes will jump off a roof before Christmas.
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It looks like it is! Let a million flowers bloom...
Because there is no advantage - Apple allows organizations to setup their own App delivery mechanism, which is fully secured - cost to entry is trivial compared to App dev and normal deployment costs.
I'll up vote anything promoting binaries in vm's rather then the organized mess of interpreted web-languages today.
> "The scanners are deterring people from carrying weapons right now."

The scanners aren't deterring anyone who wasn't already deterred by simple metal detectors.

Has there ever been a single case of an "impulse crime" committed with a weapon on a plane, prior to the installation of body scanners?
"Evita is the street-smart, smoking-hot hipster"

Sigh.
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Haha. Very funny.

The last MacBook Pro that was hard to take apart and put together again was sold in 2008. I have one from 2007 and it was pretty easy to replace the (non-defective but slow) HDD with an SSD. That’s, as I said, a MacBook Pro that still had the hard to replace HDD. The newer ones make the process much easier.

I’m very annoyed that the battery in newer MacBook Pros isn’t user replaceable. It’s not that the battery is hard to access and replace – certainly no harder than the HDD. I’m guessing there is some sort of legal requirement – probably? Maybe batteries have to be sold with a hard shell, the MacBook Pro battery doesn’t have that in order to save space. Since they can’t sell it on its own (only as part of the device) they can’t make it user-replaceable.

At least it’s priced appropriately (relatively): The replacement will cost you €180 (parts and work), that’s not all that much more compared to the old user-replaceable batteries which cost €140.

But yeah, except for the battery the MacBook Pros are very accessible.
Show HN: strongtrends - automated recognition of price trends (side project)
I am a software engineer but also interested in practical data mining of financial time series (did MSc and dropped out of PhD in this subject).

I have became tired of analyzing individual charts and reports looking for mid-term investment opportunities and last evening finally decided to create a simple service. I have had this idea in my mind for a while so after a few hours of coding I have built www.strongtrends.com. The service automatically analyzes price trends of multiple financial instruments on daily basis, allowing you to discover strong and stable price movements that might become interesting investment opportunities. Trend stability metric is calculated for each financial instrument which is then classified as stable, crazy or chaos - a greater value means a stronger, more stable trend. Currently major currency pairs and commodity futures are supported.

Hope you will find it useful too, for me the selection process is now much easier.
By your logic, they would be in full support of it.

Every internet provider would be buying new software, consulting services, etc. to comply with the law.
Maybe it's because I worked so long for an IBM partner and dealt with IBM customers, but DB2 runs a lot of stuff at large Fortune 500 companies.
Yes, the need is going down. That's one reason why this law is unnecessary.