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The video does not show that anything is being logged or sent through the network.

All it shows is that a phone monitoring agent is informed about events that might be important while debugging - receiveing text, making calls, opening websites, pressing buttons. And that its hard to kill this agent without rooting the device.

What is important is:
1. Is the data logged on the device? (I guess that should be easy on a rooted device),
2. Is there any data sent even if the 'htc quality agent' is not activated? (route it through a linux box, tcpdump)
3. Is the data really anonymized if the 'htc quality agent' is enabled?
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Having played with it; and after recently building an app using "jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions" I'd say... because it's actually very good by comparison :)

For an ISV, $399 is next to nothing.
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I wonder how possible it would be both technically and legally to use the audio from the various angles as inputs into an audio processing step where you distill just the true music audio and clean it up. Ideally you'd have one 'cleaned' version of the audio playing and switching views just switches video.

This may be more legally grey than just piping through audio since you are actually producing a derivative work (even if it is mechanically produced), but the net effect would be awesome. You'd end up with better audio than any one person could record, and the more angles you get the higher quality you can make the audio.

Definitely a great idea and very well done for the first cut. You just need some Wilco on there.
Sure. Checked the site and yes, message and presentation is a bit off for B2B. Email me and I'll reply with my thoughts omid at Rennzer dot com

Also your sales process will need to be a little more expansive than just linkedin in mail messages. Download or buy "Selling to Big Companies" by Jill Konrath. B2B is a slow slog but there is some potential. Be advised that what you're proposing isn't really defensible from being replicated. There is no secret sauce. Broadcasters news feeds are already running through packaging scripts for the web, this would be the Facebook component. Companies may want to just put their own ads on a HTML5 player and keep 100% of the revenues. And they have the resources to get it done.
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From the viewpoint of a country, this makes perfect sense, short term.

Why would one invest educating one's population if other countries are willing to do that for free?

Long-term, a problem is that, if local education drops too far, you need a huge import of 'human capital' to keep average levels of education constant.
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Thanks. I guess it becomes nuanced from an accounting perspective pretty quickly, but it would seem that if you spend the injected cash and don't make it back within a given time frame, then you are no longer profitable.
I can verify that snitzr's link is the extension from the video. It is also from an "official source", the Chrome store
The artists could easily get paid 5x, completely out of the label's share, without affecting prices. Labels screw over artists, end of story.
Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2528740
Please consider posting some mac app store stats after some time, thanks!
Yeah. That's kinda what this guy was saying in his artle that we're commenting on. He wasn't really "moving on from Rails"... he was leaving the view layer behind. And then evaluating what else he really doens't need.

There's a strong movement among some of the more verteran Rails devs to write abstractions, ensuring that the ap doesn't depend on the framework as much. So as needs change, things can, and probably should, change with it.
> Were they able to know what they were missing then they might not be so happy with their limited existence.

Attaching any weight to what you're missing out is a guaranteed way to make you unhappy and has nothing to do with what you do in life. Even with unlimited resources you'll miss out on most things that require huge time commitment, like being a pro athlete.
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The most amazing study on nutrition I've ever seen, is where a morbidly obese person did not eat for one year but was kept perfectly healthy with nutrition supplements: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/

He went from 486 to 180 lbs, and kept it off afterwards, only gaining ~16 or so in the next five years.

I would be interested in knowing what nutrients he was supplied to stay alive!
Several of our clients, big consulting firms for the gov heavily use these and have no qualms about picking them up.
I used MSSQL up to MSSQL 2005 and MySQL up until about the same time. Around then I switched over to PostgreSQL completely and have not had a reason to go back. My biggest complaints had to do with simple replication and that was mostly solved in Postgres 9.0. Postgres is a damn fine database.
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Yes, but it's a fallacy to think I could practically do anything about it if only it wasn't so black box like. Do you really have time and motivation to become expert enough in all the things you deal with that you could fix any problem if only it was more explorable?

I think it's a fallacy to say you'd need to become an expert in all the things you deal with to benefit from the openness; you just need one person to fix it and distribute the changes. How many users benefit from CyanogenMod due to Android's openness, despite having never touch the source?
True that. I didn't mean to insinuate that Oakland is the safest place to live. I simply found the comment calling it a "huge shithole" mildly offensive. It may be more dangerous than other cities but I do believe, going on years of personal experience as well as observing the experiences of others, that the danger can be mitigated by one's own attitude and actions. I expend much energy in my community and leaving even that aside I believe I make Oakland a better place to live for everyone by smiling and saying hello to my neighbors every day. Perhaps not, just my take.
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If it were more usable, I'd point towards Freenet. They've been at building a system like this since 2000 -- it's just a shame it runs so slowly.
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Although it's based on growth rate in terms of revenues, not absolute profits, the Inc. 5000 list might be of interest

http://www.inc.com/inc5000/list/2011/category/internet
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They're not incorrect, but that's mostly because the C standard also allows you to assume an infinite stack, so recursive programs that ask for absurd stack depths don't violate the standard with or without TCO. But if in practice the program only runs successfully when compiled on a compiler with TCO, it's not very portable, in that it relies on non-guaranteed compiler features for it to actually work.
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Pernicious Anemia, the inability of the body (digestive system specifically) to absorb B12, can be very difficult to detect. An ex-gf had it, and spent two years going to doctors all over the world trying to figure out was wrong with her.

At various times she was diagnosed with a hole in heart (for which invasive open-heart surgery was the cure), auto-immune disease, MS, depression, and other totally worse and completely unrelated conditions. She was suspicious of all and kept getting second opinions until she finally found a doctor who got it right. The treatment is relatively simple, weekly self-administered B12 injections.

So if you find yourself feeling worn, tired, mentally "cloudy"/"fuzzy", neuropathy (fading feeling) in your extremities, or other neuro-related issues, definitely look into this before you investigate more severe conditions.
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The equivalent of a team captain or quarterback. As the situation of a match unfolds the stratcaller will do just that, call out different strategies and make decisions about what the other members should do.
oh... I forgot to tell, LiveCode can import HyperCard stacks... =)
> And if CS was still as popular, he might be still playing it.

As of this posting there are ~52000 players currently playing CS according to Steam, with a peak in the past 24 hours at ~65000. For CS:S, the numbers are 38000 and 50000 respectively.
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Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
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Good list. Would add: Does not include the names of any other competing platform (e.g., Android, Blackberry) in your description or inside the binary.
We got a reject from Apple for this very reason.
Don't have an example but the dimensions for the photos below - best advised to avoid using these proportions! Physical = 3.5" x 4.25" 0.25 inch white border at the top, .1875 inches on the sides and .875 at the bottom
By "prompt" I assume they mean an actual modal popup, or something else that can't be ignored. Advertising seems ok, but forcing the user to make a choice is not.
Hmm, seems a bit hand-waving to me, but to be fair I have never tried Node.js and would probably have hard time convincing my finger to type javascript code for server things.

Javascript always seemed to me a language that you used, and tried to use correctly, because you had to. On a server I have the choice, right? So my choice is currently Python so I read this article with some bias.

In the section "batteries not included":

> modules in the core distribution get an unfair advantage over the libraries in userspace by virtue of availability and prominance.

I would call it "unfair" if some modules had access to special backdoors and APIs, but it seem to not be the case for most modules I checked in Python. For instance, 20 mn ago, I did vim /usr/lib64/python2.6/unittest.py and could check this piece of code directly. I did see no special magic that could not be provided by other modules, like Nose or py.test. Moreover, the code was not looking like "neglected code", even if it did not look like the most modern kind.

> experimenting, and iterating is much harder

Well, that's what I like the most with core modules: they don't change overnight, and, while some of them like urllib(2) may be replaced by some because they have a better competitor, most of them are just good old friends, like scipy, that don't need to be put upside down every month because someone found a slightly more elegant way to call two of it's functions.

> "core modules"' advantage evaporates in the face of baked-in concurrent library versioning and sophisticated package management.

I have never been considered as a shy sysadmin when I was sysadmin. I am actually strongly against the "Tool X have misbehaved once therefore tool X is evil and will never put a foot again on my machine" philosophy. I know some guys who are. (I was also sound engineer before and mostly all musicians I met are this way, by the way). But still, having dealt with library version issues sometimes, I think "concurrent library versioning" and "sophisticated package management" sound awfully nightmarishly black-magic to me. I guess I would be more on the "let's understand the most of what happens and not change what don't need to" kind.
Any mention of my personal hero Chuck Norris is also an instant rejection. :( I even tried a little s/Chuck Norris/Nuck Chorris/g but to no avail. http://bit.ly/oHvY1b
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Anyone has idea what this line might mean: "Your Trial Support Package is active for 60 days after download."
Yes - a frame around the image with the bottom border being thicker: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J0yzOfVB7yk/TgC1f_wjVbI/AAAAAAAAE_...
This is way slicker than what you could build using jquery-ui and available plugins unless you are rockstar with the js and have an excellent design person. For instance, the best time-picker plugin I've been able to find for jquery-ui is nice but isn't perfectly cross-browser and not as pretty:
http://labs.perifer.se/timedatepicker/

Now look at the Kendo time picker. Design and usability are crucial to a successful product, so I'd say this looks like a smart investment, although I'd have to tinker with it more before buying.
Having spent the better part of 3 years creating REST services with .NET, I strongly recommend you do NOT use traditional WCF. The WCF Web API stuff looks interesting but still seems immature. I've found ASP.NET MVC to be the best tool for creating REST apis.
Where does this idea of "owing" somebody something come into it?

If a user is unreasonably forcing a bug to be fixed, okay. But the "owing" part?
> App looks well designed and of high quality

While this is wonderful to have on a checklist, let's be honest: the vast majority of apps fall short of this goal (and that's putting it nicely).
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That's one sweet extension!
It would be really cool if redis supported the ability to count the high bits in a string as a native command. No need to pull a 16k string down to client

Although it is another command in a growing list of them. maybe something for lua.
CS is still the most popular game on Steam[1] if you count both Source and 1.6, and has been for years. It is still played professionally[2], with a major tournament happening right now[3].

[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike#Legacy

[3]: http://dreamhack.binarybeast.com/#CS16
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> I don't think the commitment to true excellence necessarily detracts from other possible commitments in the long run. E.g. DFW was a writer of singular ability, and he was, at various points in his life, dedicated to tennis, philosophy, and mathematics.

DFW is a good example, actually. As far as I know from reading his nonfiction, in tennis he never got beyond 'very promising youth' but dropped out at some point when he realized he would never be truly great; in philosophy, he published an interesting thesis which was well-regarded - but that's not a career in philosophy, much less world-class philosophizing, and then he dropped out of that; and I'm not sure what, if anything, original he ever did in mathematics. What he is remembered for is being a writer (with interest in tennis, philosophy, and math), and being a writer is what he spent most of his short life doing.

Fact is, we don't expect world-class people to have many real interests or sidelines besides dabbling; look at the recent post on Heddy Lamar. 'My god, an actress with a brain for non-acting things, who invented frequency-hopping?' You could hear brain going 'foom' in the distance.
As a rule of thumb I search for "About" link on any website if I don't get the whole thing. Isn't it quite straightforward?
Most people who just got into a new bandwagon are handwaving regardless.
Actually, there's quite a few companies that offer professional PG support, there's a list on the official PostgreSQL page:

http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/
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Herein lies the problem with Hacker News -- raganwald may be a regular, but such a completely irrelevant, bizarre reference to John Gruber has zero place in this story. I intentionally left a counterpoint that got the expected downvotes, but how about there be some consistency.

This coddling of the regular names diminishes this site.

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PyPy is getting there.

...on some be benchmarks. It's not near the stage when it beats C or C++ in general.

And it's much easier to write correct Ruby than correct C.

C is not very type safe, but there are languages that are and have comparable performance to C (Ada, C++, etc.).
Isn't this meant to be tomorrow?

Anyhow, given that this is not the official thread. There are lots of jobs on http://jobs.usethesource.com/ --- the job board where your Hacker News karma gets you posting rights.
Thanks, I thought part of the script depends on some other script on their server.
It's a fat white border around the image. A variation of this often imitates a photo stack each having such frame.

Google images keywords: polaroid frame, polaroid stack.

Sample: http://blog.simplyjean.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/polaro...

What's interesting that this wouldn't be allowed, I think there's many apps using this framing style in the app store already.
Integers becoming 32-bit or 64-bit depending on CPU architecture, bad character-set support, comparison and identity is wacky. If anything of that has changed since last time I looked, all the better :).

He didn't insult you or slam you. He was talking about the language. You can make really neat things with a language that's really bad. Just don't take it personally.
This.

I am the guy who is quoted in her blog post, and I don't really recognize myself in what she writes.

I want to be my own boss, do interesting/meaningful work, and at least have a shot at recognition and wealth. To me, starting my own company is the surest way there. Staying in TPS-land is a sure way to never get there.
"Making a living out of making music is like making a living out of open source programming. If it does not pay enough, you have to either put more effort into it and make some sacrifices, or you have to play by some other mans notes/specs."

As a professional musician of the last 14 years, and a professional web developer of the last 2 years, I can tell you that this is not a good analogy.

There are many good analogies to be drawn between the music scene and the OSS scene, but the simple fact is that there is a fraction of a fraction of the money slushing around music that there is in software. There is a fraction of a fraction of the demand for talent in music as there is in software. It'd be like saying "I'm not making enough money as a Latin scholar, so I need to study harder." It's (for all intents) a dead industry, and no amount of individual effort is going to change that.

The fundamental paradigm of the music business - fans on one side, artists on the other, labels/gatekeepers in between - has to be changed. Neither Spotify nor iTunes nor any other offering that I know of out there do anything to advance that goal.
I don't understand why there's no proof, or even evidence that the researcher went look for proof, of the claims that this data is being sent to CarrierIQ.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/getting-little-tired-of-security...
Whatever about the merits of the product the Path team have made an incredibly beautiful user interface. Kudos to the team.
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> But still, having dealt with library version issues sometimes, I think "concurrent library versioning" and "sophisticated package management" sound awfully nightmarishly black-magic to me. I guess I would be more on the "let's understand the most of what happens and not change what don't need to" kind.

Concurrent versioning lets you do the "not change what don't need to" part really, really, well. Versions of packages that have been proven to work well with one another can continue to do so because if you need a newer version of some library then both the old and the new version can live harmoniously in the same codebase. You don't need to be paranoid about upgrading modules anymore because node and npm are already paranoid on your behalf.
Bah! I jumped the gun. Well, just let this die and I'll chime in tomorrow; apologies.
Sure. You can add jitter, packet loss, duplication, corruption, shaping, reordering, prioritisation. This page has examples: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/netwo... (netem is the kernel framework, it is to tc what netfilter is to iptables). The examples apply to outgoing traffic, search for ifb0 for a way to apply them to incoming traffic.
And the top performer is a members-only designer-goods retailer (ideeli)? In this economy? Incredible.
With respect to the second link: It always helps to know your data structures & their purposes--no matter what language you use, recognizable or not.

With respect to performance: you might want to try writing a c-like solution and run the code distributed over several machines.
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