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I'm on Orange, UK - I can't find any of the related apps in the applications list and the Voodoo app says it isn't present. I'm yet to check LogCat myself.

However, I've not actually seen anyone directly say that it's US only but I haven't seen any Europeans claiming they have it either. I'm fairly certain it's only used on American carriers at the moment.
Myself and numerous other people here have signed up to give our bone marrow to a total stranger for free. I suppose we've all hit rock bottom then?

For the sake of poor people, transplant patients, and sex workers everywhere, please don't impose your own backwards morals on everyone else.
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One way to stop this is for us consumers of news to start getting more skeptical and rational. We should not gossip, we should look into stories before posting them to Facebook or upcoming them on HN.
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Any evidence or should we assume all app are now malware?
That authorisation is an assertion of identity. This makes OAuth an identity system inasmuch as WS-Federation and the SAML protocol are identity systems. Technically they're parts of an identity system, making them identity meta-systems.
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First mover advantage.
It is this very ability of America to attract inventors (and other smart people) - from around the world, give them what they need and let them do what they love that makes me always bet for America and not against her.
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He also seems to misunderstand the Windows pricing model as some kind of subscription service (which may be true for products like MSDN, but not in general):

"As soon as you stop paying the licensing fee, you cease to own the software. This is especially impactful with their corporate clients. Imagine if Ford and GM had decided at the onset of the automotive industry that when you buy your car, you need to bring it in yearly for a checkup, with payment — and any year you miss that, the ownership of the car reverts back to them."
Most 3d models in games are are loaded whole rather than in chunks (this allows them to be smaller and rendered more efficiently), there may also be 3 or more seperate models with different levels of detail. Some of these models can be very detailed in recent games and preloading allot of them as red herrings would eat graphics memory and kill the performance.

Online games always walk a tightrope between performance and security. The currently popular model seems to be to optimise the game for performance but use a second program to verify that the client code has not been modified.

Of course you then have to make sure the anti-cheat is not modified itself. I have to say though that cheating is not a big apparent problem in most online games that I have played. Most cheating problems are in older games that have not been updated in some time.
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My favourite line:

"In the tech startup world, technology is important for success"

It reminds me of the superficial essay writing structure I had to use in high school, lacking any technical detail but trying to use broad examples, stating the obvious and then trying to interweave some vague points as "filler." It's just not very useful.

I actually think the greatest marketing tactic ever made was by Microsoft naming their browser Internet Explorer. It blows my mind how many people genuinely believe the only way to "explore" the "internet" is with internet explorer.

As a sidenote, how do you pronounce his name?
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I think you’re projecting what you want the problem to be on top of what the problem actually is (apologies in advance for the tl;dr factor below)

The economic crisis of the last couple years is not America’s problem. America’s problem is we became very successful a few decades ago and got very rich because of it. That wealth led us to create more and more jobs that “serviced” us. So our economy became service oriented while poor countries (primarily in Asia) were happy to take our manufacturing jobs.

As the article says “Designed by Apple in California, Manufactured in China”

The U.S. still leads in designing things but almost everything we design is manufactured elsewhere and the people in those other countries are putting together just enough wealth to send their kids to college. Meaning eventually we’ll start to see more design work out of Asia at which point we’re going to start losing a lot of our wealth and we’ll be left with a service economy that no longer has enough wealth to support itself.

Fixing this problem means competing on every level with countries like China. But we can’t do that because we don’t want to be like China. Foxconn could open a factory in Texas tomorrow and get enough Mexicans to staff it by the end of the week but our laws won’t allow them to pay the low wages they pay in China. These laws are based on a good instinct on our part but it’s an instinct born out of Arrogance.

“We are Americans so we can dictate what something is worth even if someone else is willing to manufacture it for less”

But the problem is we can’t dictate what something is worth. So China, who is willing to allow their people to be treated far more ruthlessly, always wins out. Until we come to terms with that and find some way to fix it we’ll still have a problem

(For the record I think automation through robotics might be the key to fixing this to a certain extent but that’s a whole different conversation)
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Neither do most people, and it seems like the most critical insight in discussions like this.

Copyright and patents exist specifically because the public wants more creative work produced, and at the time, granting temporary exclusive rights appeared to have the net result of enriching the public domain in the long run. They both represented tradeoffs: you can have a temporary monopoly if that gets you to create work that wouldn't otherwise exist, because after a relatively short time your work then becomes part of the public domain.

Those tradeoffs don't necessarily make sense now. The durations have gone up drastically, with no corresponding increase in the value we get. We also lose far more value during that time, because we've reduced the cost of copying to zero, and in the process created an astonishing number of awesome ways to work with media. The durations and rights of copyright should have gone down over the years, because authors can extract value from works more quickly (no 20 year ramp time needed), and because we lose so much by not having a work readily available to merge into our culture sooner; thus, we don't need to trade off as much value to get what we want.

When you see the whole mechanism of artificial scarcity as a society-wide "payment" for what we want, then you start wondering why we pay so much more for so much less, and whether we ought to stop buying entirely.
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I'm getting almost random results in FF8. It differs quite a lot when comparing multiple runs.

I'm more surprised that it thinks that I've logged into blogger (which I've never done on this computer) than that it misses my one-page visit to reddit about a week ago. And on the next round the results are reversed.
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It worked for me on Chrome. The one linked now gives some weird entries.
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I don't think "corrupted" is fair. Like any startup, teachers face constraints. Those constraints are not under their control; so you try to do the best thing that you can given those constraints.

That's like saying that a startup is being "corrupted" because they have to live under the constraints of the DMCA (and perhaps soon, SOPA). Do you think a startup has enough money to buy legislators the way Hollywood would? Do you think the VC's would think that was a good use of their investor's resource if they did? No, instead the startup would be urged to adapt and overcome the constraints of where the reality which surrounds them, and to pivot, if necessary. Would you call that "corruption"? I wouldn't. It's just the reality of what we all have to do.

Heck, engineers have to do the same thing. We make tradeoffs, and we work within the world that we live in --- not the world as we would wish it to be. Maybe by doing that, we can change the world, by fixing one small problem at a time --- just as teacher can change the world, one student at a time...
You can reassign the copyright of the contribution. I'd not be as willing to contribute to such a project, however.
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The automation through robotics is causing technological unemployment and a further loss of jobs for the manufacturing class.

I can see how things will get more and more automated but I dont get how it can alleviate the plight of the american middle class.
Inviting Chinese companies to the US to employ Mexicans at Chinese rates is the way to 'save America'?
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Yeah, Google got there way faster.

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Yes. Not to mention that some "pirates" release recordings of such qualities, that you cannot buy on a CD/DVD (at least in my part of the world - Eastern Europe). For someone with a decent sound system these things DO matter, and 256kbps tracks are quite bad. Some 320kbps pirated mp3 albums are (almost) indistinguishable from a CD, and I would gladly pay to the people who ripped them :)
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The success page is about as uninspiring as it gets, and I can't see that people who actually solved this problem would stand out from all other applicants - it just funnels into the same application process.

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Probably not, but you have to accept the fact you can't go back to the time when American manufactured goods could compete in price with their Chinese counterparts while employing a similarly sized workforce.

And I wouldn't blame your past few federal governments either. This is a problem that has been steadily developing for more than half a century.
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Countermeasures don't appear to be all that necessary, if the attack itself is ineffective. The results seem to be quite random, placing me at sites I've never been on and not noticing ones that I do visit regularly, such as Twitter and Facebook.
I've seen atheists who were logical and open-minded. Then there were others who completely mis-interpreted the concept of God as a bearded dictator. In atheism, you get all kinds of people. Just like in religion, business, politics, etc.

I would say, a much bigger factor is economics. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union government could not make a TV better than the tiny island of Japan. (Akio Morita observed it in his auto-biography, Made in Japan.) You would have more competition in Japan than in the Soviet Union. So companies would have an incentive in advancing science through investment, regardless of faith. The payoff would be bigger and their would be more capital and investment. Religion, language, family, etc. all would be a minor factor in relative terms to economic environment.

You can also see the difference between Malaysia and Indonesia. Located next to each other, various religions that overlap, yet different economic growth.

Any science conference would have people of different faiths, including atheists. Many religions seem to even promote business and science. More examples:

1) The ancient Greeks would still visit oracles despite advancing mathematics.

2) The best observatories were once at monasteries.

3) Gregor Mendel was a Augustinian friar.

4) Bicameral Kingdoms (Incas, ancient Egyptians) had similar religions, but stayed stagnant for thousands of years compared to the Muslims and Christians: http://saturniancosmology.org/sun.php#a10

5) If you watch the NOVA episode on Gothic Cathedrals, you see how religion led to architecture innovation: http://video.pbs.org/video/1619317222/

6) This book has more examples. (It is not limited to the Catholic Church): http://www.tomwoods.com/books/how-the-catholic-church-built-...
Some cultural notes: Lloyds is a bank; they announced a near £4bn loss and were then part-nationalised. They were also involved in mis-selling "payment protection insurance" and had to put aside approx £3bn.

Eric Daniels was chief executive, and Lloyds, despite these serious failings, awarded him a bonus of £1.45m; this is at a time when workers in the "public sector" (health, local government, police, fire, schools, etc etc) are facing cuts to pensions and no wage increases.
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I am an indie dev, and I do make things myself. But that in no way diminishes the pleasure I get at seeing other people's works, being delighted and surprised by a novel or well-executed bit of game. It's difficult to be delighted and surprised by your own works.

And yeah, they of course have the right to make what they want and I can in no way take that away from them. Remaking the same game might even be worth it, financially. But it doesn't build value like getting going making new IP can, and it doesn't give me something exciting and new to play. I'm allowed to ask, they don't have to give it to me.
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The way out of this in america, and throughout the world, will be companies like heartland robotics ($5000 robot arm), cheap 3d printers, and hydro/aeropoinic mini-farms inside homes, and the computer vision software to tie it all together. We're headed for a post-scarcity society.
This same principle often applies to reading others' code. It's common to look at it, see something inscrutable, and decide that the author was an idiot. Then you try to rewrite it, trip over all the same bugs that the author had learned to avoid, and maybe - if you're smart and honest with yourself - accept that you had unfairly maligned your colleague. I've written about this before, as have many others including Joel Spolsky. My favorite is this:

http://notinventedhe.re/on/2010-4-22

If you re-read the article with an eye toward how it describes the behavior of programmers even more than it describes that of business people, it becomes much more valuable.
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It seems the article is really about top inventors of consumer hardware products and the rare case of a company environment that attracts them and allows them to flourish.

At any given time in history there are very few top inventors or really nice products in such a circumstance worldwide. Current examples I can think of are some companies in Northern Europe, Germany, and the US. There's not a huge number making really excellent things, but this is how it always has been.

As far as the specific example, much of Apple's current fame comes from the value added by Jonathan Ives, a British citizen who is only temporarily in the US because of his job, and who has said he doesn't really like living in the US. Much other value comes from the NeXT design, both the Mach flavor of Unix which someone else invented and wasn't paid for and Apple monetized, ObjectiveC which someone else invented and wasn't paid for and Apple monetized, and the NextStep/Cocoa libraries which NeXT did invent and was paid for and which Apple monetized.
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A post about deciding what is the best chess app, and it only talks about one.

What about, say, ChessWithFriends? I've not tried either, but I'd like to know what were the differences if I wanted to get one.
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As it turns out, I'm one of the minority of users who keep NoScript in paranoid mode until I really want to see something supplied by JS -- and then I'm likely to only give temporary permission and turn that off when I'm done.

Obviously, this didn't work against me.
They can do that because they have integrated commercial software into the platform. When someone is using .Net, there's a high probability that it will run on a Windows server and probably also use MS SQL. That's where they get their money from. In the Java world they are more likely to use open source alternatives like MySQL and PostgreSQL, rather than Oracle
another problem is we might not be judging this companies by the correct metric. maybe the best outcome a company can hope for is dying and making a ton of money while dying but we will often see this as a failure of management. so instead we get companies that fight tooth and nail to stay alive but don't end up creating as much value than if they went gracefully into the night.
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Implementer's choice is the only reason. What I am saying is that since the implementer chose to make it single-threaded, they should choose not to include unnecessary locking facilities.

While locking can sometimes be a pain to reason about (having many types of locks affecting access to one piece of data, etc.), on a lot of situations they are very useful. The GIL is exactly the opposite: easy to reason about, but rarely will it save you. Consider.

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Here a GIL will not help here: while lines 1 and 3 are atomic and the call to bar() may or may not be atomic, there is no guarantee that the whole set of operations is atomic. Thus you need an explicit locking mechanism. A GIL is a pattern that makes implementation of interpreters simple. It does not help in problems where you may be burned by locks.
That was the worst hook for an article that turned out to be fairly insightful I've seen in a while. The death of Steve Jobs, or the last flight of the Space shuttle, are significant mostly symbolically, they have little to do with any decline, real or imagined.

The premise in this article that I find worth talking about is that technological innovation has had more to do with the growing inequity in wealth distribution than globalization has. This is an interesting point, but I think it misses the mark. Technology and Globalization are both methods by which corporations increase efficiency. Efficiency combined with aggressive consolidation of corporations is what drives the wealth inequity.
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Personally, I doubt that.

In my circles I have a lot of non-technical and technical people. I don't live in Silicon Valley, or in the US, so the echo chamber that a lot of people from this community does not apply to me.

I see a lot of iPhones and Android phones. Galaxy S and S2 were huge hits. Low-end Android phones were hits too, like LG Optimus One - great value for the price. I see my friends and acquaintances with these phones, like a friend of mine who's a taxi driver has a Galaxy S in his pocket. But I know NONE with a WinMo 7 phone. Its market share is completely abysmal.

Now, this company may have had the first mover advantage. Cool for them - however, personally I want a smaller piece of a bigger pie. The reason for that being that this pie is growing, exponentially even. Competition may be fierce and you won't get rich over night, however the 700 million users that Facebook has will be nothing compared to the number of people carrying Androids in their pockets, 3 years from now. A lot of people have ridden the first wave, especially when it comes to Apple's App Store. However a bigger wave is coming and I don't want to invest the limited resources I have in Microsoft's me-too-me-too platform.

Another problem is one of trust - WinMo 7 is the successor of WinMo 6, but it's a completely different platform. This is understandable, as WinMo 6 simply sucked and in my view it was the same story as with IExplorer 6 - they got something working, then they reinvested resources in the latest fad du-jour, leaving customers and developers disappointed, WinMo 7 being their latest attempt at preventing irrelevancy. I have no trust left for Microsoft to do the right thing in regards to its developers or customers, fucking with their learned knowledge all over again, or leaving them in the dust. I mean - they are discontinuing Silverlight for Christ's sake.
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"As bad as their politics has got, Americans could always comfort themselves with the knowledge that their business leaders, entrepreneurs and workers were the most dynamic and innovative in the world."

Do any people from the USA find these sentiments nauseating or is it just the rest of the world? I don't know exactly what they mean by 'dynamic', but the idea that all the most innovative people only exist in the United States (or even that people in the US are on average more innovative than others) is ridiculous, and stating it is just blind nationalism...
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Spot on, swombat. At best, he details the ethically dubious business practices of a few large companies (not startups).

I'm sensing a 'You "techies" think you're all that, but you need us business-savvy people to succeed' vibe.

Well, business skills can be learnt, and Business Cofounders are a Dime a Dozen (http://joshuavolz.com/2010/08/16/business-cofounders-are-a-d...).
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cant you just upload to S3 from your own dedicated machines? or it adds too much delay to operations?
Author posted that images are first loaded on their system, resized and so on and then loaded on s3, so at least for image upload it shouldnt be such a great problem.

disclaimer: i have no smartphone and never used their app :)
TIL that the vice president of the FED doesn't know about Moore's law.

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Agreed. However I have never seen anyone complain about how a mutex, a semaphore, etc. were implemented under the hood. We are not talking about ORMs or artificial AI here.

On top of that, my point is that providing abstractions and the low-level interfaces is better than not providing either, or just one of the two. If a sophisticated user is not happy with how something is implemented they always have the option to implement an abstraction that eill work for them.
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