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Hmm. The Android Market page for this app has mostly positive reviews with no mention of spyware that I could see:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devolver.sska

Also I found mentions of this game on various Serious Sam web sites and wikis, so it appears to be a legitimate game.

Is it possible the Amazon version of the app has been modified and has had spyware added to it?

Edit: Actually, the Android Market page lists the permissions and it lists the "RETRIEVE RUNNING APPLICATIONS" permission there too. I'm guessing this is a case of "app asks for more permissions than it needs" and "Amazon reviewers flip out for no reason". Still, I don't plan on installing it on my phone.
I doubt it. My Android phone can handle getting direction by voice just fine. Also, wouldn't it be "safer" to ban directions by keyboard rather than ban them by voice? It's a very odd situation, really.
Since he has two children, you know first off that these are all equal chance historically:

BB
BG
GB
GG

Now since you know the child is a boy, it eliminates the fourth option. So now we have these possibilities:

BB
BG
GB

In only one of these is the other child a boy, so the chance is 1/3.
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REF: http://code.google.com/p/fuzzy-search-tools/

For those that don't make it all the way through the article, the author has implemented all the algorithms in Java and is available at his project page (above).
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a new take paying content creators.

It's seems pretty much like turking web media.
I like it.
Even better surely is to just tell the printer to report the toner as empty after say 30% use (like manufacturers do with inkjet carts!). Then when the customer sends the toner cart in you can recycle the toner (or just top it up and reset the cart or whatever) and sell it back to the customer ... instant sales increase.

Of course after a little while the customers going to notice a problem. So then you can sell them a fix (patched firmware) or a new printer. Play it right and you get to run the same scam again then ...
I didn't get that from the article. How's a PDF file supposed to trigger the (vulnerable) firmware update mechanism of the printer?
There's no need need for the vast majority of users to make any of their posts public. My posts are only accessible to people who I have in my circles.
My suggestion more around understanding generally if there is potential demand which is what I thought your question was. I wouldn't promote your product there directly.
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Somewhere in here lies a differential equation that includes the probability of destination being the right one and distance to it to evaluate that.
Confirmed. This works using my iPad 3G connected to my Macbook Pro.

Now turning on Internet sharing from Ethernet to Wifi to see if I can have my Mac act as a Wifi hotspot using the iPhone tether.
Hyperbole at least? It is not 'death' to fail at a startup, its part of life. An interesting life anyway.

And you cannot simply choose to stay out of the 'fight'. You have to work somewhere - may as well be for yourself.

So the metaphors are weak and chosen to stir passions. She's pissing on entrepreneurship for whatever reason, and has little meaningful to say.
Who, What, Why: How do you assess a killer's mental health?
There are many managers who do not care about pressure from subordinates. Subordinates are worthless to these managers. Management's job is to translate pressure from executives into something vaguely resembling what they sycophantically instantly promised said executive when asked about its feasibility. They don't care about the peons that are actually implementing it, it's all about how many political points from "important people" they can win themselves.

Obviously this is not true everywhere and perhaps it's not true even generally, but one should consider this before they put in years of work with only vague notions of an abstract raise sometime in the future.
The removal of duplication and the distinguishing between GB and BG are two completely different things.

If you're not meant to remove the duplicates, then why doesn't your enumeration of two gendered children run: BB, BG, GB, GG, BB, GB, BG, GG?

I number them merely to distinguish them. The "a child has 50% chance of being a boy, and 50% chance of being a girl" applies to a single child, so you need to enumerate their states independently. To do that you need to be able to distinguish between them.

It is this fact that each child's possible states should be treated independently that means you can't combine BG and GB, not any aversion to removing duplication. Because they are independent entities BG represents one - nominally called child 1 - is a B while the other - nominally called child 2 - is a girl. GB represents one - nominally called child 1 - is a G while the other - nominally called child 2 - is a B.

If the list were changes so that the fixed child is always in the list we wouldn't be enumerating all the possibilities for each child and then combining them. That would be falling into exactly the same mistake you are keen to avoid.
I'd go a little bit further: the ability to "understand" a command stated many different natural ways is exactly what makes Siri special. This app is not much different than the numerous voice command apps that existed long before Siri. The author completely misapprehends what makes Siri state of the art.
I tried Puppet because using a real deploy tool seemed like the Right Thing To Do.

When I was on my 10th puppet script, I gave up. My existing mishmash of shell scripts already does the same thing in a fraction of the effort, sans cumbersome DSL. This is with 100+ servers. Maybe when I have 1000 servers, I'll take another look.
Right, it only says

"if you can reverse engineer one of HP’s firmware updates so that you can make your own, and then insert it into a print job"

Not clear if a PDF can achieve that.
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As would I!
Cute, and nice music choice. But wasteful, and most of the things they print out on the video left me thinking "wait, why would I print that? I can read that off my smartphone in 2 seconds!" It would take longer to print than just read. The Sudoku puzzle makes more sense, and a todo list might, but still...
I haven't read the book but technical blogging has been really working out well for me. Thanks to my blog ( http://blog.vjeux.com/ ) I've been contacted by many companies and recruited for an awesome job!

I've written an article about all the benefits of a technical blog if you are interested in my views on the subject :)

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The crux of the issue is much better illustrated by the simplified problem where if a man tells you one of his kids is a boy, the other child is a boy in 1/3 cases. That's intuitive looking at the possibilities:

BG
GB
BB

Where this analysis gets confusing is when you say that if you meet the man with one of his kids at random and it's a boy, the probability changes to 1/2. The reason is in that case one of the possible outcomes was indeed GG, even if the child you met was a boy. The difference is how much knowledge you had about the situation prior to making your measurement of the outcome.

If that doesn't make your head spin even a little you're not really human.

I was able to make peace with these problems when I read about the Two Envelopes Paradox and realized that it's not really possible to pick a random integer, because by picking a random integer you're essentially limiting the domain of integers you've picked from to a finite one. If you can wrap your head around that it might help you save your sanity.
When we've had budget issues and need to hire someone I try to find a balance between what we can afford and the effort we're looking for. A good way to do this for us is to hire less than 40 hours a week. A savvy employee enjoys this, as it leaves them time to work on their own projects (which we fully support) while having a base income. We've had this system now for a few years that has worked wonderfully, and even though we've lost some great people to their own startups I'm really proud of them and we keep goodwill that allows us to call them back in a contract basis if needed.
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Ask yourself this: What good does it do you to publicly air this stuff? Take the site down if you must, but enraging your clients, even deadbeat clients, I would guess is bad for business overall. You have to leave them room to save face.
Yeah, just some quibbling over details. My point is just that any battery that's as energy dense as a modern Li-ion battery will have similar potential to cause havoc if abused, and the problem will get worse as the tech improves because we'll be packing more and more energy into our pockets and backpacks. Maybe it is the chemistry more than the density, but I'm going to bet that any chemistry with comparable density would share the same problem. So, mildly different perspectives on the same ultimate effect, I think.
This post would have been much better if the author had used more precise language. I still don't know whether the assertion being made by the father is that at least one of his children is a son born on Tuesday, or exactly one is.
How do you discover what users _need_ and not what they _want_?
I'd argue that is a significant contribution. How many open-source projects are well-documented? Very few!

Granted, I'd personally prefer to be able to view a candidate's coding style, but I would certainly not ignore a candidate who contributed to documentation on a project. I'd just make the tech interview a little harder ;)
You just described me. I am underpaid by about £5k but I don't move because I like the people I work with. Are the people I work with worth £5,000 a year?

I'm pregnant at the moment though. It don't think it would be wise to willingly enter the job market in my current 'condition'.
This is just a glimpse of the future of Windows. The days when Windows had 90% of the market will soon be over. In a few years it should only have less than 50%, maybe around 30%. The rest will be eaten up by both Apple and Google.
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The Brief addon to Firefox is working well for me. It's local, not cloud, and not social, but I don't care about either of those. I like the interface much better than GReader's.

In fact, I'm following many more blogs than I did with GReader, and I can skim through much faster than I could with GReader.

EDIT: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
Wait, I think I get it. (Sorry, too late to update).

This is indeed ingenious. The key is the step from x to y. The women in x who can say "one of my children was born on Tuesday" are the ones who can say "EITHER my first OR my second child was born on Tuesday"; the initial constraint (when you meet the person) is thus: "women who can say I have exactly 2 children and it is true to say EITHER my first OR my second child was born on a Tuesday"; obviously this is far more than 1/7th. Then the additional constraint "BOTH of them were" is a smaller addition than 1/7th.

It's not 1/7th the first time and 1/7th the second time, because the question wasn't "of women who can say they have exactly two children, the number who can say 'my elder child was born on a Tuesday'" and then "of these the women who can say 'my younger child was also born on Tuesday". This would indeed be 1/7th each time.

instead y is "EITHER my elder OR my younger child was born on Tuesday". This obviously results in a set that is greater than 1/7th of all women with two children, and, consequently, it is no surprise that there is a correspondingly smaller than 1/7th possibility that both were.
Nobody is talking about years of work on vague promises, and nobody is talking about the environment you describe in which no one would want to work.

Your weird worst-case scenario does not invalidate the point that there are tactics that can be used effectively in the general case. Life doesn't work like code, strategies don't need to secure against all conceivable threats.
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Or, "...one is a son born in an even-numbered month"
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It is indeed vitally important to remember that external APIs are unreliable and temporary. The question to ask in any given situation, though, is: How much more reliable and permanent is the code you own and manage yourself? And at what cost?

However high the odds are that the founders of a given startup will leave their company within five years, the odds that the people who built your in-house widget will leave your company within five years may well be higher. However high the odds that a given API will evolve away from your use case in five years, the odds that your use case will be obsolete in even less time may well be higher.

The underlying truth is that all APIs everywhere, in-house and out, have bugs and missing features and finite half-lives, unless you control them and continuously expend resources maintaining them. As your project grows older and more stable you may eventually discover that its expected half-life is longer than that of your provider APIs, and that's when it's time to start moving stuff in-house. This is when you realize, if you haven't already, that open-source software is your friend.
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Why should it move fast? Many excellent software don't move fast and are a please, think Vim or Putty. Moreover moving often means adding the last stuff en vogue, and it adds bloat and dependencies.
I'm curious how much data you get, and for how much money?
It's not a common name, you're right there. However, it is a name. At least in India. For example, it is a word in the South Indian languages of Kannada and Telugu derived from Shree/Shri (which in turn stands for wealth, prosperity, the goddess Lakshmi, etc). Arrgh, why am I going down this path!
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Budget is a pretty weak limiting factor when it comes to automated wiretapping. It may limit the usefulness (can't watch all the "bad guys") without limiting the abuses (creepy fed employee can watch you). Depending on the press assumes that they have both interest and visibility into the government's wiretapping, the former of which may not be true and the latter of which definitely is not.

Do you imagine that we have the ability to clearly identify terrorists via wiretaps? Why would we allow such people to walk around freely in the first place? The idea that we would simply stop them from flying is bizarre.

There are also significant drawbacks to efficient watching. Sure, it might catch a real terrorist. Or it might just watch to see if you're in a "dangerous" group: anarchist, revolutionary, extreme libertarian, etc. As a member of one of these groups, you might need to be interrogated. Meanwhile some creepy FBI agent is listening in on your wife because it gets him off, and your neighbor is being blackmailed by a DHS agent who's threatening to put him on the No Fly list and publicly reveal that he visits prostitutes.
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Really? Easiest for whom? I find switching jobs painful and stressful, and my largest percentage salary increases have come without switching employers.

And how is that the point anyway? danssig didn't say anything like that, he just said "If you want more money you need to change jobs.", and assumed the strategy in question would be blindly applied by an ignorant worker and result in exploitation. Do you have some insight that allows you to discern he meant something vastly different from what he said?
Some feedback:

- Why is "mywebsite.com" not valid? you seem to be requiring "http:// which useless IMO, also the err message is "The The Website Url is not valid" (duplicated "The")

- Nice to have: clickable confirmation link in the email

I signed up and added my website, I'll probably get back to you later.
You mean a bytecode format together with a tool to translate it to JavaScript? Or did you mean convincing all the major browsers to add support for a bytecode that has no code compiled to it yet?
If not, then it should be taken off Wikipedia.

"Siri, a common Hindu female name, meaning "Goddess Lakshmi, Wealth, God's gift of love."

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

Besides that, I know several Sikh women whose first name is Siri.

I do agree that Siri and Sri are the same, it's just a different way of spelling it.
Fun, but less great from a sustainability perspective.
Bingo :-) I was just racking my brain for a different way to explain it but luckily you got there first!

It's a real mind-bender.
This really depends on your situation. If you are writing a reusable app, then you probably want both unit tests and a sample project to run integration tests against.

For testing a basic website, you'll probably want to test any custom managers or model methods, and your views. A good guide to getting started is here: http://toastdriven.com/blog/2011/apr/10/guide-to-testing-in-...

For full-stack tests, you can use something like Splinter (http://splinter.cobrateam.info/).
It's not an excuse, it's an Appeal To A Higher Authority.

Similarly a hiring manager will tell you that she has to have your salary history and can't possibly go above an arbitrary number because HR and the VP of IT just won't stand for it. Each gambit is equally misdirecting.
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These things would make a killing at music festivals.. if you could stop people breaking them / vandalising them long enough to sell some stock
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It is never really "too late" as Microsoft could come up with something completely new and awesome just like anyone else. The article mostly talks about Windows 8 and certainly the tablets for Win8 may not be a hit, but that doesn't mean Microsoft can't come up with some new, brilliant idea out of no where that is not on anybody's radar yet. I agree in the short term things are not looking good for them, but as much as people rail on Microsoft, they do have a lot of smart people and they will carve out their part of the market one way or another.
i've been using Gleebox for chrome and Firefox to get readibility links for any article.

just type "g !read"

and it saves history so next time it's just "g !" !
Ask HN - what artistic iOS apps do you have on your iphone/ipad?
Just came across this http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/myfry/id390442062
(not on wifi, haven't installed it yet).

Any similar apps you can recommend? art, data visualization types?
The Monty hall problem is based on the idea that you will always do the same thing in response to my choice aka he can always pick an open door. It's feels add to think about it in terms of what's already happens but seems more reasonable to say it in terms of something that will happen.

So if you say I will flip 2 coins and if I get zero heads I will flip again. So, if the first coin is a head second one either a head or a tail, but if it's a tail you know the second one is a head or I would have flipped again. Thus 3 options one of which is HH.

Assuming you used the same approach with the Tuesday boy problem, aka the first one can be BMTWTFSS or GMTWTFSS and the second one can be BMTWTFSS, GMTWTFSS but if I don't get a BT from the first or second try's I will pick again. Thus BT + BMTWTFSS or GMTWTFSS, OR BMTWTFSS or GMTWTFSS + BT minus a BT,BT which would otherwise be counted twice. Thus it's 14 + 13 options with 7 + 6 being BB. Which works out to 13/27.
I use it almost daily to set any reminders/alarms etc. Also to play music. (eg: "Play songs by <artist>")
Anything can be done gracefully. A simple announcement that due to failure to make payments, service is suspended. Kind of like those emails about Ken 'pursuing other opportunities'.
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I've got an Android, but my fiancée has the 4S. She's a very normal user and this is her first smartphone.

Siri was fun for us at first and I was impressed with what it could do. But at this point my fiancée doesn't use it at all.

I disagree with others in that you DO have to learn how to speak to Siri for it to work, not the other way around. Yes, it's intelligent, but you have to bend your words a bit so that it will understand you. I can't think of a specific example right now, but I did see it happen to her a lot. And once it happens a few times you tend to give up on it.

In reality Siri accomplishes only simple things that can be done manually with a few touches. "What's the weather going to be?" Might as well just use the Weather app. "What's my schedule like today?" Just pull up your calendar and it's all there. I don't want to wait for the phone to talk to the Apple server to say "not bad. Only two meetings today." And by the way, who is Siri to say what is "not bad" or not?

And forget about using it in public. Overall I see it as the public's fascination with technology for the sake of it, not because it makes our lives better or more productive. Which is certainly Apple's wheelhouse.
There seems to be at least a new one every few days or so... by the time Jan rolls around there likely will be over a couple dozen to choose from.

I've been doing the AI class and that eats anywhere from 6-10 hours of my time per week, in addition to doing some ancillary thing (just finished LPTHW, moving on to Eloquent JS), a full time job, and having some semblance of a social life I don't know if I could handle more than 2 max, esp if they both involve programming assignments. This really is such a kid in a candy store experience, there are at least 4 I really want to take and 10 that I would if I had the time.
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He doesn't mention emacs-starter-kit, so as a community service, I'm pointing it out. I had used Emacs for a long time, and switching to this made my life much easier. And my customizations still worked fine (although I was able to remove many of them)

https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

WARNING!!! The version in git is for Emacs 24. You will need to actually download the earlier version to use with Emacs 23.
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Depending on the content, I think a scrapbook of daily updates would be a fascinating collection for my kids to one day look through. Making interesting collections of news would outweigh the wastefulness of the experience (it's far more conservative than a daily paper).
But you set it up with your smartphone. Will you be the one with the smartphone that sets up each of those people's printer?
3M has printable post-its, but they are frightfully expensive and a bit clunky. http://goo.gl/yVlB0 At least one industrial designer has taken on the challenge of a printer for normal post-its. http://goo.gl/Hicpr
This explanation makes a ton of sense. I get it now. Thank you.
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No, you don't work for people like us. We expect that respect is a two way street.
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This has been available for months now. Is this the first time people see it? I like it. It reminds me to check out Google+.
Just on a side note for the non-native speakers: shouldn't it be "API half-lifes" (as 'half-life' in terms of radioactive decay) instead of "half-live" or am I missing out the idea of the headline?
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That matches my experience with Cluzee so far. Asking, say, "What does Person XYZ do?" usually gets an answer, but asking "Where does Person XYZ work?" is an unrecognized command. Allowing more flexibility in phrasing the questions would be a big win. The app has potential, IMO.