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Most modern languages such as Python 3 and Ruby 1.9 have you only care about characters and never about the internal representation.

Calling the respective methods to get a strings length for example will always return the length in characters. There is no way to get to the byte length without explicitly naming an encoding you'd like to get the byte length for.

Older languages, like PHP or JS, Python 2 and Ruby 1.8 leak their internal implementations. The methods to retrieve a string length would return the amount of bytes the internal representation of the string requires. If you need the length in characters, you need to call different methods - sometimes even from external libraries.
1) Because typical user behavior for email will require megs, not gigs. I've used apps for my business for five years running and only barely crest a gig.

2) Because Gmail's main economic contribution to Google isn't the advertising, it is in signing people up for Google accounts, just like Yahoo Mail's main purpose is to stickily draw people to the Yahoo front page. After you're logged in on Google, your rate of searching goes up, compared to otherwise demographically similar people who are not logged in. (Same if you use Chrome or the Google toolbar, by the way.) Google likes when you search because Google is a multinational advertising company and about two thirds of their inventory by revenues is on their own search result pages.

3) Separately from the totally rational reasons to prefer Gmail (a strategically important service with negligible marginal costs) over Picasa (a strategically marginal service with relatively high marginal costs), Google is also a big multinational corporation, and internal politics still happen there. There is a political angle to any project getting additional resources. Picasa is not politically favored compared to, I don't know, that I-can't-believe-its-not-Facebook that they launched recently.
It's an awesome tool for academy. I've found myself using it all the time for my undergrad homework: Everything from finding the inverse of a given matrix to plotting out the results for output to the assignment.

Admittedly I haven't found myself using it much for anything else.
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I've had decent sucess with pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/). MutiMarkdown also allows you to put raw LaTeX inline if you specify the right flags.
Nope, no need to install Firebug, as of Firefox 10. Just right-click -> Inspect Element -> Style, and edit away!
Yes, pretty much everything other than BBC.
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Groupon is in a dramatic race against financial gravity. The insiders will be desperately struggling to keep the share price up until May when the lock up period ends and they can flee the burning theatre. To do that they need to produce one more quarter of results that can keep the fantasy of a company that will one day justify a $15 billion valuation alive.

The earnings miss (3 cent loss vs 2 cent profit est) shows they are already struggling to control things and might not manage it. The VCs that paid the founders to get a piece of IPO flipping action could well be sweating by now.
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> Sadly JavaScript's 16bit strings are broken.

Then again, they're broken like most other "unicode" string types (Java's and C#'s, Python's — default — narrow builds until Python 3.3, Cocoa in some ways, etc...) in that the string "API" produces user-facing "UCS-2 plus surrogates" so it's nothing new under the sun.
R is open source, and there are plenty of "bridges" to talk to it from other languages (e.g. http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ )
> Most modern languages such as Python 3

Not true until Python 3's "flexible strings" implementation. Unless you're using "wide" builds (which use UTF-32 internally), which are already available in Python 2 and are not the default representation.
Very reminiscent of Dwarf Fortress, except that it doesn't bring my machine to a crawl.
I'd like the Google Drive to back-up my Android apps, images, videos, settings, Contacts, passwords and other data, so when I change phones or install a custom ROM, I can restore my phone 100%. They already do this with Chrome. I'd like to be able to do the same with Android.
Discussed previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3500876
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Which is why the legal system is an utter failure.

Patent trolls play the probability game which usually results in a net gain because the legal system is failing.

I would say that there should be laws against this but that will result in another loophole or way of making money.

Perhaps I'm a socialist wierdo, but I'd favour scrapping the entire patent process for something which rewards positive contributions to society as a whole rather than who can screw who first. People should be creating things that improve the human condition, not enslave it.
I agree that some prominent privacy statements would be very helpful given that the target audience hates being targeted for junk mail.
I've accounted for that by grabbing all the other fields before grabbing the title. `python pirate.py -l | grep '|'` seems to yield correct results :).

https://github.com/Bogdanp/Pirate/blob/master/pirate.py#L27
It's a supposition, sorry if thinking about the possibilities upset the fanboys out there.
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However, even with copyright we still undoubtedly lose talented authors due to them being unable to make enough money from book publishing. Same goes for software development, musicians etc.

You have merely stated your opinion as fact, and not provided anything that can back it up. The current proliferation of content producers (for want of a better word) can be just as easily put down to the larger audience granted by the web.
Out of interest, what would you view as "the worst corruption out there"?
Cofounder here...

camtarn - you're quite right & thanks for confirming our hunches. Will update the site during the next couple of days (UI & text). thx.
Nice, I'll check those out !

I listened to the first episodes but for some reason I preferred your former mixes. Let's see how the latest episodes are doing :)
What do you mean? All dual core ARM chips and above (except Tegra 2) have NEON. Also all 1 Ghz and above Snapdragon chips.
Does value need a standard or a measure? No.

Value is a different thing to different people.

Money is not required for value to exist.

There should be no intellectual property. There should be fair reward for positive contributions to society. Reward not protect. Provide an incentive rather than a pay off.

At the moment, society is based on money not value. It's founded on providing as little value for as much money as possible.
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You can monetize with this: add the feature that the ones who do the favors also can explain other how they did it, if you want to know how to do it you have pay a very small fee (maybe 10 to 50 cents). I know there are already code review pages outthere, but I would definitely add the feature to review/add code snippets.

You would rather "tax" the user for digital services (a bit like itunes which "taxes" users for digital products). Depending on a lot of stuff this might actually be a very good idea. When you have your fvp send me a mail.
What? Unless they've changed it in the last few minutes, there's an android logo smack in the middle of the page.
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>In addition it somewhat upsets me that someone could get jail time for making an offensive comment. Depending on the jurisdiction or culture, I know I have said things that would be offensive to someone (specifically regarding religion.)

But did you say them with the specific, primary intent to cause that person harassment, alarm or distress? I would wager not.

Note that I don't necessarily agree with the legislation, but it's an important distinction.
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jazzychat we're both extremely privacy conscious individuals and from day one pledged our own version of Do No Evil. In fact, during sign up, we ask for minimal info to get the unsubscribes processed: ie name & address -- which by the way the junk mailers /already have/ since they're sending you stuff.

Beyond that, some companies require your email address. We don't give them out. We supply a proxied email to ensure they dont get anything beyond what they have already. Hope this helps...

Our blog has a bit more info: http://www.paperkarma.com/blog/

edit: grammar - it's 2am & brain is running on one core in low power mode...
Thanks, it wasn't immediately obvious to me that there was any way to watch a video on the page.

I wasn't all that familiar with Tim Schafer, but now I can only think about what the collaborations for Brütal Legend with Jack Black must have been like. (I suppose that's what YouTube is for.)
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If your a coder is sure as hell does. I couldn't live without my two 22"s. Code on the left, browser on the right.

...I could maybe even do with another ;)
I always considered Groupon's creator a scam artist, just look at the History of his companies.

He is specialist in telling people what they want to hear, a la Madoff or Obama. He is really great at this.

Fool people take the bait, smart people that identifies the trick seek to also profit from the fools(speculative investment banks are not as fools as they look from outside, they know what they are making, creating bubbles that will explode onto other's people hands), and continue dancing around the music of the magic spell.

When the spell is over, people get bankrupted and the smart people(that sold their stocks long ago to the deluded) look surprised.
Even worse, they will make pointers illegal.
Personally, I found it blindingly obvious and look forward to trying it tomorrow. If it works I will give this company all my money (well not literally you understand, but I hate paper junk mail with a passion and I hate the USPS management for insisting that it's the mainstay of their economic planning...idiots). This is made of win as far as I am concerned - which probably means it's a smallish market, but hopefully large enough to make a profit from.

Which brings me to my question: I can see what the consumer benefit is immediately, but what's the business model if not large-scale group analytics? Will advertising/marketing firms pay to understand what sort of customers they do not connect with?
In all seriousness, if anyone is racking their brains for an idea I'm happy to share some thoughts. I'm an idea's guy at heart (coder by day) and there just aren't enough hours in the day.

I might even start a blog, open source ideas.
Cortex A15 and DDR3 for ARM should really start to make the ARM architecture very compelling for (low-end) laptops with very high battery life. And they're both arriving this year.
yeah right because without copyright we wouldn't have shakespeare etc. ... oh wait ... copyright didn't even exist back then?! also i feel sorry for you that you think money is the prime motivating factor for creative work. ever heard of the starving artist?
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Just out of curiosity, is it normal for companies with continual loss to go public?
If it's long-polling, why are the requests happening over and over again? It should only need to make a single connection, fire off HTTP headers, and just sit there waiting for chunked-encoded replies. No need to kill the connection and re-establish.
Other co-founder here-

The logos weren't shown on mobile devices up until a few moments ago. Now they're visible everywhere.
> Why are feet and miles the metric of distance.

Sorry to be glib, but as someone who lives with a sane system of units and measurements, I can't help but point out the irony of your statement.
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I really enjoy using duckduckgo, but both it and wolframalpha suffer from slow response time.

I'm confident that I could query google, duckduckgo and wolframalpha for any query that all three could answer ("diameter of a quarter" ) and have the answer in google and then have followed the link to the wikipedia article on the US quarter before the answer appeared in either wolframalpha or duckduckgo.

In fact, I just checked, that's the case (for me at least). With wolframalpha I would have had time to enter the query into duckduckgo and then return to wolframalpha before the link I had to click to tell wolframalpha I meant "quarter" as a currency came up. Duckduckgo didn't answer the question for me, but it was a click away (so better than wolframalpha in that regard). I enjoy using wolframalpha for the things that I know have easy answers (populations, distances and measurements of celestial bodies, time measurements--30 days ago) and give concrete numbers, but would require slightly more effort to pull out of wikipedia.

I should test exact page load times for those queries from several geographically distinct locations on multiple browsers, but it's late and I'm now going to bed.
I think you should consider a business model similar to fiverr.com, but with your unique timer/availability concept. I've gotten decent results from Fiverr (as a buyer), but find it impractical to send work over there needs to be done right away.
mvanveen, here's a link to our blog post which goes into a little more detail: http://www.paperkarma.com/blog/

In short, we don't do anything that you couldn't do yourself... we just make it a tad bit less painful.

The general pipeline is this: scans come in, they get processed (human/OCR), the company is looked up, request to unsubscribe is sent, your phone is updated. In 2 months we follow up with you to make sure they honored the request. If not, we'll follow up with them on your behalf (by our lawyer - FTC FTW).

The app basically provides convenience. We've just spent a year building up a database of who manages customer lists at what company, who the privacy officer is, whether they have customer suppression lists, etc. That's where rubber & asphalt really meet. As with each scan that comes in the DB improves.

*OCR is experimental: mixed results.

Hope this helps!

edit:formatting
Thanks. I think actually checked them out previously and just did again. I'm sure it was my allergy to "Contact us for pricing", and server software that runs on Windows, that put me off trying it myself. I guess that's "Enterprise" software for you. Maybe it's worth the pain in this case. Those graphics are perty.
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Great idea.

IMO the tagline on the HN post is far more effective than the one on the site. I'd explain this to a friend as "Take a picture of your junk mail, and this app automatically unsubscribes you from it". Things like "save the earth" confuse me.

A description of how you actually unsubscribe would be helpful too, for the curious and the skeptical. "We automatically contact the junk-mailer for you and have you removed from their subscriber list."
people familiar with the matter

This peculiar phrase appears four times in the article. Is it journalist-code for something?
I used it to help my mom convert her American recipes to metric units, including trickier queries like "how much is 1/2 cup of butter in grams?" for which you need to know the density of butter.

And problem sets of course, because typing in physical constants and converting units is annoying.

Oh, and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521445 ("orbital velocity of ISS in mach").

Anytime I need a result that requires knowledge of some quantity, I usually try Wolfram|Alpha first.
Do you really think it makes difference for a poor unknown author, whether he has exclusive rights for his book for 20 or 70 years? He can still sell his book after 20 years, after all. And regular people are not evil for the sake of it, if they want to buy a book, they would prefer to buy it from author, than from some opressive company.

BTW new economy makes it easy to extract value from the long tail. How much does author earn on each book? 10 % of final price? Probably less.

With if he self-publish an e-book, he can earn 100% of the price. Think about price difference for customer. Would you be more eager to buy book that is 1/10 the price? Would you be more eager to buy 21 years old book from author, or from some huge distributor?

Cutting out the middle man is the way to support more content producers with the same amount of customers. Copyright protects distributors, not producers.

Is it better for you to sell 10000 e-books, and know that for each book sold 10 more were pirated, or to sell 1000 e-books, and know nobody pirates them? I'd prefer the former.
Just because it's more profitable for them, doesn't make it right to users. Many people would like the flexibility of managing the extra space Google says we have in our Gmail account, so why not put people over profits for once and do what's best for users?
I can't stand the mac touchpads, don't know why. Best touchpad I had was on my old toshiba.

I have a lenovo x201t. great build quality, trackpoints are awesome. Touchpad is really not good though.

oh and Lenovo keyboards are great too!
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The discussion is here:
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3569746
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I've seen such a high percentage of laughably bad patents in the software space that the phrase "patent troll", in my mind, is becoming nearly redundant.
According to the article, the code below causes a memory leak in IE, though I fail to see how.

function addHandler() {
var el = document.getElementById('el');
el.onclick = function() {
this.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
}
}

I'm assuming the author believes `this` is evaluated immediately and refers to the `el` variable instance, rather than being evaluated when the function is called.

Any ideas?
It's just convenient. Not all of us are old enough to know/remember what happened twenty years ago.
And is life in Iraq better now?
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How is this better than porting something like gettext to iOS (if it hasn't been ported already)?

The one "downside" to gettext (at least from the OP's perspective) is that it uses the English text as the key. Personally I don't find this to be a downside at all. I hate having to make up artificial keys and then associate them with English strings. It makes programming much less natural and breaks my flow. I've never found the typo/misspelling issue to be much of an issue.

I suppose gettext also doesn't support XIB files, though it wouldn't be hard to translate back and forth between .strings and .po files...
That's an excellent point.

My point was "less money goes into book in general -> we'll have less books".

You're right that there are other factors at play here, which are all intermingled. For example:

* It's easier to produce content now, bringing down costs.

* It's easier to reach a wide audience. Both because of the internet, and because people have more time to spend on content.

* Technological changes may make many new ways of making money, etc, and in general just change things.

...

Still, at the end of the day, an author has to sit down and write for 1000s of hours to make a book, and to do this over and over again to make a good book. If people can't make money from this pursuit, less people will be able to do it. Maybe in a few decades, there'll be other ways to get compensation for these pursuits that has nothing to do with copyright. I still think the mistake is to think only of the Disney's of the world without considering the tiny indie studios, the small-time authors, who barely manage to get by today. They must be a part of this conversation as well.
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For context -- the game looks very promising, and is far into development (alphas).
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I'm in England, but assumed I was replying to an American.
I'm assuming this is a US only service - you should probably make that clearer if so.
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Because the people who (#)&#(#^^&% write Linux need money for things like houses, cars, food, health care, school, and so on. That's why money counts.
The point is not to make life better in Iran. The point is to remove the regime's nuclear capability. If the goal was to make life better in Iran there would be no economic sanctions.
Looks interesting, but yeah, going on previous comments:

1) How does it work? I can see how the app works, take a photo and magic happens, but what is that magic that stops me receiving junk mail?

2) Does it work outside the US?
Sweet :) I'd been wondering if it was a mobile site issue (should probably have pointed out that I was browsing from my Android phone, oops.)

Have now read your blog post, and am really wishing it was available in the UK now - the mechanism of getting something through your door, taking a photo, and being assured that you won't get any more is amazing... like a 'flag as spam' link for physical items. Very nicely done!