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The good shops still have at least a few demo units, and if not you can ask someone who works there to bring out a real device to try out.

I'm not saying that's a good way to do it but it is at least possible to try them out, if you're determined. For the casual buyer having to ask to try it out is a barrier, and for those just looking it's probably a deterrent.
CTIA to Unveil ESRB Mobile App Rating System
I completely agree with your analysis, but it only holds in countries where there is an official Apple store (vs. distributors, who at least in one location that I know of, provide a bad customer service)
> (and in googles case, so far haven't' been able to compete) with Apple (and to a lesser extent, Microsoft) in adding key features to their phone operating systems.

You're gonna have to elaborate on that point because I simply don't agree.
The list appears to have been copied directly from a list of words which the NFL Shop banned from appearing on customized jerseys. So directly, in fact, that the Pakistani list has a gap of three words between "UPTHEBUTT" and "URINATE" (1071 and 1075), right where the NFL list has a few blank lines:

http://outsports.com/nfl/2005/0301nflshopnaughtywords.htm

That probably explains most of the odd choices. :)
That is so true... Most developers who get an account with Mailgun (http://mailgun.net) get so excited about the live email log or for some other reason... they love to fire up emails to @test.com. We have thousands of emails in our queue destined for test.com at any given moment.

Guys, please stop: what makes you think test.com can't be a real destination? :-) Actually, they don't have a mail server for that domain, but still...
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The favicon issue is actually a Chrome bug. Sites that don't provide a favicon will sometimes end up with the favicon of the referrer.
How SOPA Will Affect You
1. Heinkel's jet airplane development was not funded by the government, as the Nazi government saw no military purpose to jet aircraft. They only got interested after it was flying.

2. Both the German autobahn system and the US interstates were partially justified by military use, and both were done in peacetime.

3. Computer networking did happen independently from the ARPAnet, and it did cover the entire country, both with dedicated lines and piggybacking over the phone lines. All the networks I mentioned were national (and even international) in reach. Everyone with more than one computer wanted to connect them together.
That is awesome.

I've been using g++-4.6 lately and with the new lambdas I'm migrating more and more to this async task application model.

One point that seems frequently understated with the lamentations about the absence of a true double-pointer-sized DCAS is that on machines with a 64 bit CAS (e.g. x86 and x64) you could still implement something useful CAS on pairs of 32-bit handles.

2^32 concurrent work items "ought to be enough for anybody", right? :-) Well, it might be useful to those of us with less than 100 GB of RAM.
Interestingly this, combined with scars is really the only way we know how big giant squid can get. The largest that has been actually observed or caught is really quite small in comparison to the sizes indicated from sperm whale data.
It's not identical, just looks like the same orange with a single white letter in the middle, only noticed when clicking between the two just how similar they were.

Wasn't aware of the Chrome bug though, thanks.
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Congress's Approval Rating Hits 9%
Using images for icons is so CSS2. As it was shown before ( http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-social-media-icons/demo... ) , all social sign-in buttons could be done in pure CSS3/HTML and would scale to any size.
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That is not the thesis of Peltzman's book. Peltzman compares pharmaceutical innovation before the 1962 FDA amendments with after in the US, not with nazi germany.
Show HN: SoundSlug - Portable keychain used to record streaming audio.
Work proxy killed the page, with "Block Access\Standard Users\Blocked URLs\Block - Harmful & Stealth".

The thing is an overly sensitive, badly configured setup; but still troublesome?
Many Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks expected at CES, some with touchscreens, Windows 8
"People that love software want to build their own hardware." -- Alan Kay, paraphrased by Steve Jobs on at least one occasion

Apple is a product company, and their products consist of hardware and software.
Let's remember that the car companies >are< partnering with / branding with companies like Harley Davidson, Eddie Bauer, Orvis, etc. (Jeep has a Call of Duty: Black Ops branded Wrangler coming out next year.)

A "Facebook"-branded phone isn't such a long-shot, especially since Facebook is attempting to be your email/messaging/contacts database/... provider as well.

Likely as not Facebook will take a cue from Amazon, and produce a Android-no-Google phone (no Google maps, no GMail app, no Marketplace, basically nothing that requires a google authentication event. These will all be replaced by FB services.)
.com, .net, and .org are all reserved for this purpose.
Imagine if patents had been eliminated. They would have died once a big company like 3M got a sample back to their lab.

This company exists because they were able to patent their invention.

People say that patents are bad because everything relies on previous efforts. Well, they didn't invent silicon rubber. They didn't invent the volatile compound that allows their rubber to cure overnight. But they did invent a new thing.

Pretty analogous to software patents and combinations software-hardware patents like the iPhone's multi-touch.
Luckily these days people are designing algorithms/data structures that don't rely on DCAS :) So you can actually implement them on real hardware
A Microsoft-sanctioned jailbreak you inexplicably have to pay for that still only enables 10 apps.

On your phone. That you bought and, at least theoretically, own.

No, I think Android is "plagued with" the ability to run the apps you want when you want. That's not a bug.
New Open Source Project: Workflow-powered Web Scraping and Analytics Application
The hedge fund with the unluckiest name
Just to add a source, it's all in RFC 2606 section 3: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
I frequently use aa@aa.aa - last time I checked, there were no countries using .aa
"Success comes form being focused."

You yourself would find success in transmitting organized thought if you were focused on what you write. What the hell is that jumble of words? And why is it the top voted comment? Is it because of the quantity of characters therein?

The reason why any of these companies are getting into different markets is because of one thing: Money. The fact is, these organizations have a lot of money already and want to put it work --- the most obvious place to put it work would be a laterally related market segment.
"Best" is pretty subjective, and thus the metric at work here is my personal opinion.

I found Windows 7 to have several problematic UI choices that imply that it could use some more polish. (another difference between Apple and microsoft, apple ships less features but more polish, and micriosoft the reverse.)

I've not found any other phone OS that really compares, with Windows 6.5 being probably the worst ever. (I'm talking smartphones here, of course.)
Either by becoming an MVNO or doing something like Amazon's Whispernet.
I'm definitely not criticizing anyone who wants to be in the Matrix, I believe in freedom and free will. I read the referenced article and it was yet another one by someone in the Matrix complaining about the Matrix. It seems such a strange complaint since people are not only able to leave at any time but there are many other cyberworlds they could inhabit alternatively, and many they can even create themselves to their own specifications and desires. There is no need to be unhappy with the offerings of a giant multinational conglomerate run by a cynical sociopath with publicly stated contempt for his customers in an age of freedom and choice.

I'd rather save criticism of this fabulously wealthy conglomerate to be directed at the disturbing ways they are trying to claim ownership of things outside their Matrix, such as that of my personal identity, and to track my comings and goings outside their Matrix without my consent. Those parts are disturbing and dangerous, especially when coupled with their deep interest in mixing it up in politics and influencing laws to create a captive universal audience.

Matrix is fine, but I want it to stay bottled up and optional.
Video games are good for you - if you are an amblyope
This is awesome. I love the minified markup. To think what I could have been doing with all the time I've spent closing tags and quoting attributes.
This is how to tell the difference between exhaustion and burning out: you get exhausted if you pushed hard, you burn out if you pushed hard for a wrong reason. If someone claims they can fix burn out by taking a walk or a getting a nap, they're not burnt out. You are burnt out when having hard time not just doing your work, but also when trying to recuperate. Basically, that "wrong reason" depresses you, making recovery very hard. If you are lazy due to overall fatigue, the next day you'll go back to work like it never happened; if you burnt out, the "next day" never happens.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Hacks and Scams
I should add that in Great Britain as well, the government did not begin funding of jet engines nor jet aircraft until after government officials saw flying jet aircraft.

In America during WW2, the government told Lockheed to halt their dev work on jet engines and concentrate on piston engines. Flying jet aircraft (from GB and Germany) again changed their mind.
Do you really think so? It's intellectually honest to suggest that Stop Badware — a system intended to cordon off viruses, spyware and surreptitiously installed junkware — should be used to punish a site because its threat detection algorithms are overly cautious? That doesn't strike you as even a little bit spiteful?
I thought this is basic knowledge of everyone technically engaged in Internet stuff. But apparently, this isn't the case, despite its well-known and very readable documentation! [1] It says:

1) There are exactly 3 domains the IANA keeps free for that purpose:

example.com
example.net
example.org

2) In addition, all domains under the following 3 top level domains can be used freely for that purpose:

*.test
*.example
*.invalid

3) The domains under the following top level domain have some special meaning (should point to loopback IPs only):

*.localhost

Everything else is either registered, or might be registered by somebody in the future. Don't (mis)use those names unless you own them!

Unfortunately, this kind of criticism is not always welcome on HN. (for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3129459 was scored -1)

[1] RFC 2606, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
Building a Mobile App Is Not a Mobile Strategy
A phone is a computer used to access Facebook. I don't see how the car/Coke comparison is the same. They have nothing to do with each other.
Okay, so long as we're not being incredibly creepy and paranoid then.
Agreed...I do believe that working hard is great, but generally only if it is doing something you actually want to be doing.
And the mobile phone is Nokia's core business. Apple is smart to stay focused on OSX !
How much of this first million do you want?
Neither the Register nor Login links work for me in Chrome stable, view-source: shows no bytes in the response from the server.
RSA-512 Certificates abused in the wild
Interesting. I don't think it's necessarily because they are non tech people but more because as a developer, you've heard a lot of so called 'brilliant' ideas. Frankly, many are crap. Show us something that is worth putting our time in.

That said, you really need to disclose some basic things about your idea, eg sector and type of app/software. If you spark my interest, how can I quickly know it really is something for me?
Really looking forward to CES myself!!
Except that the calculations need to be done before the eInk rendering even begins. If you were just saying that the difference between 1s and 1.5s is less than between 0.1s and 0.6s then sure, but I would argue that once you are above a certain threshhold making it even slower is even more annoying and they should do anything they can to shave off whatever ms they can.
.. and that it's not "abuse" if you know what they're doing with it and expect it.

Don't share anything on Facebook that you wouldn't want to see on the news the next morning. Simple and easy.
Like I said, there's no reason why you shouldn't want to pick up something new. In fact, unless you overspecialize, picking up new things gets easier with years. It's fun and refreshing and helps you learn new things. And as a plus, you become the guy people go to because he can learn new things.

However, that doesn't mean that most of us don't have something we like and are comfortable with, more than other things. For me, it used to be Delphi, until I switched to Java and then it became Java. Nowadays I can code comfortably in C/C++, Java and Python; I have some non-trivial experience with C#, Ruby and Common Lisp; I've played a bit with Haskell, Io and Self; and I'm learning Scala because I want to write serious code in it. Despite that, if you asked me what's the language (and standard library) I'm most familiar with, I'll tell you it's Java. Doesn't mean I think it's the best thing since sliced bread or that I want to stay with it forever. It just means that's my strongest language/platform for the moment.

Most people I know have branched a lot less. They have one primary language/platform and know bits an pieces of something else (usually Perl and shell scripting) to help them with "duct-tape work". They'll pick up new things if they need/want to, but for the moment they identify themselves most strongly with their primary language/platform.
Once again PCs play catch up with the Mac ;-)
Neither of those papers describe capacitive multitouch interfaces, nor do they describe the technology Apple invented for multi-touch. The first describes a multi-point interface that does not do what Apple does, and the second doesn't even describe a touch interface at all.

This would be obvious if you'd taken a few minutes to read their abstracts, and were aware of the nature of Apple's multi-touch invention.

The issue has been laid to rest, but I can't stop you and others from continuing to link to increasingly irrelevant claims.

The real question, to my mind, is why are you so desperate to believe that Apple didn't invent anything, such that you'd disparage yourself by being as dishonest as you have been here?
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> What is Google's core business? Advertising.

While this is true, I think Google understands it well enough that they take it a step further: growing internet usage as a whole.

Google will gain advertising revenue as long as it's used, and it's used literally almost every time anyone uses the internet. Even if people don't use Google Search directly, than there's a good chance that the sites they visit use Google Adwords or some other Google product, which in the end will earn money for Google.

So it follows that Google should devote resources to ramping up internet usage, and they have. That's why they built and maintain Android and Chrome, and why they're building Google Fiber. They even reduce the amount of resources they have to devote to some of these products by open-sourcing them, and also -- especially in the case of Android with the Open Handset Alliance-- sharing the workload with groups that have similar interests.

To help ensure that people have no barriers to using the internet, which means that people will have no barriers to using Google.
It would be cool to see whether they use all that design talent they've been snapping up on this project.
If you're parallelizing algorithms with divide-and-conquer behavior (recursive algorithms, or anything that forms a tree of tasks and sub-tasks), I think it's a very natural form of parallelism.

I did something similar as a C++ library for my Master's: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/factory/ I felt it was an intuitive way of expressing task parallelism, but if the dependent tasks don't operate on strict subsets of each other's data, I agree it's not much help. If that's the case, then you've successfully expressed the parallelism, but the larger problem remains: synchronized access to data structures.

Of course, transactional memory could help there. (Hey, full circle.)
I now feel really really bad for fuck@off.com. I owe someone an apology...
Interesting that this guy could write a quick script that could take out almost any mail server on the web for more or less free.

I imagine only a few of the big guys (yahoo, microsoft, google) could handle large unexpected volumes without hiccup.
This is wonderful! That the data is going to be released to anyone willing to register for it is fantastic. I love that we can keep an eye to the stars, but it's compelling to have a world that feels alien down here on Earth.
Thanks. All the answers have been helpful, this one is perhaps the most pragmatic. I've signed as well, I suppose it wouldn't really matter in any case, as if the US was headed down that path I think I'd just jump ship.
As is jklsemicolon@asdf.com: http://www.asdf.com/asdfemail.html
Same; I get a blank page in Chrome, IE and Firefox.
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Some folks registered asdf.com, and had a similar experience. I wish they posted their inbox for all to see.

(http://asdf.com/asdfemail.html)
I've never been a fan of foo and bar as example names. Particularly in code examples, I can never keep them straight because the names are meaningless.

Anyway, we already have example.com for this purpose.
Previous submission linking to a different blog, with lots of comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3173685
The Game of Phones: How 5 Top Tech Companies Plan to Win
Beware: The browser may handle unclosed tags just fine, but many times your markup goes through a library first, and libraries vary in their support. For example, I found I had to close my tags when writing HTML in jQuery templates, and I found a bug in Zepto the other day with creating HTML from a string containing multiple self-closing tags (a similar practice).

After being bit those few times, I've gone back to closing all my tags (even when the w3 spec says unclosed is more correct). If I'm going to have to do it sometimes, I'd rather be consistent and do it all the time.
http://bar.com.nyud.net:8080/ should bring up the coral cache, if/when anyone can actually get through to the origin URI.
Yeah, the answer is a bit beyond the scope of a HN comment but it kind of boils down to clever representations for the values zero, n+1, true and false, etc. Effectively, any real number is represented as 0+1+1+1+1+1+... E.g., You can compare two numbers (less than, greater than, equal to, etc.) by decrementing them simultaneously and seeing which arrives at zero first (which requires recursion, an isZero function and boolean values for the result), etc. It's very similar to deriving Lisp as in The Little Lisper or The Little Schemer.

The execution of such a program on an actual "Turing machine" probably wouldn't be as performant as on our modern complex-instruction-set processors. Then again, I think the intent is to think of it as executing at the same speed at which a mathematical equation is true. I.e., You could go out and count 999 things or just accept that nine nine nine is a concise symbol representing the same procedure. The SKI representation isn't as terse but it's still just a symbol.

You can also read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Encoding_dataty... ...though it doesn't seem as gentle (read hand-holdingly verbose) as To Mock a Mockingbird.
You can't text 'creamy' in Pakistan? Is this for real? It seems suspect.
Kindle Fire Is A Service, Not A Product
Amazon already have a database like that, called imdb. ;)
Different technology, different operating mechanism, doesn't do the same thing as apple's multi-touch (which I've explained a number of times already.) This detects a fingers location in gross space, not the pixel the finger is intending to touch. Pixel level accuracy is one of the key components of Apple's solution.

Notice that, just like all the others in this thread, you're liking to something that is not using the same mechanism and doesn't conflict with any of the claims in Apple's multi-touch patent.

Your ideology tells you that anything having to do with touch makes Apple's multi-touch invention irrelevant.

This is like saying that there was no invention in magnetic audio recording because the phonograph had already been invented.

I know this won't convince you, of course. One of the saddest things about this topic is not that so many people are ignorant of the nature of Apple's invention, but that their ideology compels them to believe that Apple didn't invent anything, and so they have no interest in learning. And, of course, rather than address the thesis of my article, I'm getting rampantly down voted and comments that are irrelevant.
pffff.... real men buy PCs ;) (and an iPad!)
Then hope that the senator for <different state> doesn't block the purchase unless you agree to build it in their state. There is a reason that Nasa has facilities in 50states and it's not just for the airmiles
This isn't happening just in USA. People in other countries too are realizing that the Parliament is barely representing them anymore, and they are there mostly to represent themselves.

Changing parties every 4 years has become more like a false choice, as the end result seems to be more or less the same, with the parties being run by more or less the same type of people.

I do believe it's a system problem, though. I think our democracies or republics or whatever you want to call them are way overdue for some changes and some evolution in the way they work. Any thoughts on how that could be done? I think there ought to be some major changes, but also a lot of small ones, too.
Yeah, these guys are doing absolutely nothing helpful at all. You know why I'm an entrepreneur? Because the job market is so shitty that it made more sense to create my own job than be unemployed for an indefinite period of time. And even if we're able to find a job it would pay below poverty levels. Before I went into business I was a manager at a fast food restaurant. After two years and 3 promotions you know what my pay was? $10/hr. I was lucky if I could even afford the employee discounted food there.

So terms limits sound good but it's just not happening soon. The way we can impose term limits without amending the constitution is to educate people, organize them, and then make sure each of our communities bands together to vote out all incumbents after 2 or 4 years. In order to appease everyone we should also make sure there is a republican and democrat running for that office during every "vote out the incumbent" year regardless of what party currently holds the seat.

Yeah, it sounds idealistic and it is. I wouldn't try to convince anyone it would work in reality but in theory it sounds good. Too bad reality sucks.
I was just in a meeting with a company who wants to
license our software. They have hundreds of developers all over the world. They were happy to discuss architecture and business cases with me, but the one sentance where they mentioned my two best language skills was when they said they could "ramp up development over seas for a couple months."
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