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Using that definition, I would conclude that no progress has been blocked. The parties involved have giant unspent cash piles relative to the amount they are spending on litigation, so none of their money is going into litigation instead of product development.
> Welcome to the 'standards' world. It sucks big time.

Because a hegemony is so much better right? What fun that was last time around.
This is why you must not drop out of college/university and possibly do research. You will learn to put robust foundations behind your code, ideas, concepts. Bonus point, you will probably directly be in a niche area, with a nice address book and contacts of real people having real complex problems. Great for a startup.
making them simpler targets for thieves that want to burglar their homes

Mostly a myth.
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My only problem with this is that I can't see how this isn't going to be hugely insular, and spammed to death by self-promoting "marketers".

I'm curious how it's going to avoid turning in to what Sphinn at the worst times.
It's a pretty straightforward use-case: you have a function that returns a function, and in the case of an internal error, you want the returned function to have a reference to the error object. And the only reliable way to do that is to declare a variable with function scope, declare a function in function scope, and conditionally return this function? That's absurdly broken.

As for variable scoping rules, if you have never been bitten by loop counters being used improperly, then I assert that you haven't programmed enough javascript. There are so many ways to mess this up: forget a var declaration and it leaks scope -- and since you can only declare it once, you can't just always use "for (var i = ...". If you want to defer access to a loop counter, then you have to remember to explicitly pass it by value to an inner closure. That last one in particular bites me all the time -- JSLint at least warns you about the first one.
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And for the basics of Python: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
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I've used http://www.amcharts.com (and its mapping companion http://www.ammap.com). It was originally in flash but now there's also a js version (havent tried it yet).
I think i've read here on HN that a new flot fork has been released with jquery requirements but i cant find the link
> I'm impressed that he's willing to give up a significant amount of revenue to release the book the way he wants to see it.

I don't think that revenue would be as significant to him as it would be to the average person.

So it seems more of a control thing, which I find unfortunate. Maybe the paper version is 'better', but presumably, if the book is good, an eBook version would be better than no version, and for some people, that is the choice.
The term is enlightened self interest. Think of it like this if it is good for my customers and they all make money then they have more money to pay me. If I get my customers, who are largely start ups and developers, to believe my model, which is clearly working, works, then more people will use my product, and I will have more large clients working in the same space as my company is. Sure it is self interested, but it is also genuine and productive.
It's had "lists" (arrays) since... forever, as well as "arrays" (hash tables).

Also appearing in version 8.1 (in 1999) were Unicode and good support for threads, stuff that systems like Ruby only got recently.
I use foursquare a lot to advertise my location. It's awesome.

Sometimes a tweet is more complete when a location is attached - I can just comment on something, rather than having to specify why the comment is relevant. Less typing, less fuss, cleaner words.

Often taking a picture makes it more relevant/meaningful when location data is attached.

When posting a Runkeeper update, it is often much better with the whole map visible to people (like when I cycled from SF to Palo Alto. Without a map, it's just a 56km cycling trip, with the map it's an adventure)

What I don't do, however, is make it possible to discern where exactly I live. Doing cluster analysis on all my location-aware updates everywhere will only get you to about a ~500m radius of my building. At least 300 people live in this radius.

Even if you pinpoint my building, you don't know my name. That leaves you with about 10 apartments to check. Without eyes-on-the-ground surveillance you aren't getting anything.

And if you're going to the trouble of eyes-on-the-ground surveillance none of my location-aware updates matter. You can see where I am.
My own clickbank/adwords story: I had heard good things about clickbank, despite being filled with spammy stuff. I found a product I had personal interest in and was actually pretty cool, signed up for adwords, and submitted an ad to be ran. A day later and I'm banned from adwords never to have an account with them again because I was advertising this product.

Unlike your experience, it happened to me so fast it made my head spin. I called support, and they said they couldn't even talk to me because my account was banned. I emailed an explanation to start their appeals process, and was shot down incredibly fast.

I really need an account now, but I'm not allowed to... So yep--it does suck to be us.
There is one professor at my course that used the socratic method. Those are some of the best lectures I've been to.

A lot of professors think they're using the Socratic method, but their problem is they don't have the patience to wait for an answer. Posing questions rhetorically doesn't work, especially once the people you are teaching catch on and stop trying to come up with an answer.

I've tried doing the socratic method when tutoring people - it's extremely frustrating and most of the time I can't pull it off.

How does one gain the necessary patience for this?
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Yes they may be forced to develop these things and to include them (if by being forced to we mean they would otherwise not having enough users) but I don't see that the browsers should have any say in what is good or not for the web. Browsers should focus on making the best browsers possible.
> Even if you pinpoint my building, you don't know my name.

Is your name not Swizec Teller, as it says on your website and supposedly real name policy following G+?
The problem isn't that one browser is dominant. The problem is when Apple develops a feature entirely in secret and then doesn't bring it to a standards body, forcing other browser vendors to reverse-engineer that feature. Apple is shipping those features, and evangelizing them to developers, before the other browser vendors can even get started reverse-engineering them (which they shouldn't even have to do in the first place).

Now, you could argue that that's in Apple's interest, and you could argue that "it's their browser and they can do what they want with it". But you can't dispute the fact that they're not helping web standardization in the mobile space. Which is a problem for anyone who wants a more standardized web.
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It's 4:15am here, and I am manically laughing in my bedroom while watching these. Thanks!
A significant amount of laptop weight is the battery. If they gave that treatment to a 13" MacBook Pro it would probably be 10-15 pounds.
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I'm glad that the webkit-specific features were prefixed. I just wish they would have chosen a prefix that was a wake-up call to anyone relying on them.

Perhaps a prefix like "this-feature-will-be-deprecated-in-2013-".

Slightly off-topic, but in a similar manner, when we struggled with users permanently deleting records, ignoring the warning that they were permanently deleting records, and calling us to retrieve the irretrievable, we changed the confirmation box from "click OK" to "type the word 'irreversible". This cut the calls to near zero.
Here's my article:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-...
I haven't, but margins arent exactly high enough to be paying a per image fee. I looked into ftping everything to India, but I was looking at somewhere in the range of 10-11 cents just for a crop and basic enhancement.
If one of the main risk factors for the parasite is exposure to cats, how exactly is that increased by "risk-taking behavior"? Are cats considered risky?

You wrote a lot but none of it was persuasive. Other than random exaggerated "possibilities," what reason do you have to say it's crap science?
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Why are they the only game in town?

And html is arguably a bad document language. Look at all the different conflicting ways in which it is rendered. And don't even get me started on css....
I hope this is right. I'll be replacing my MBP in the Summer, and have been wondering if the trade down to 4GB memory and lower CPU speed in an Air will be adequately compensated by the SSD, or if I need another Pro. An Air-style Pro would be just right for me.
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Seriously, OC probably means this: When you're having seemingly psychological affects/things that are just "part of who you are," it's almost impossible to begin to think that it might be some outside force.

I used to take a medicine which I thought was fine; in the mean time, I developed worse and worse depression, anxiety, and all the time I thought it was a reasonable reaction to stuff in my life. THEN I got paranoid and thought my best friend and boyfriend were out to get me. Finally, something snapped. Finally, I thought, "whoa, this is not me." Turns out it was ALL the medicine. Yes, I had reasons to be depressed, but that's just not my type. Ended the medicine, ended all the side effects.

It only took 3 years and a CRAZY extent of the side effects for me to realize it "wasn't me."
It makes sense and it wouldn't surprise me if by the end of the rollout there's no longer a "MacBook Air" or "MacBook Pro", just a "MacBook" in 11, 13, 15 and 17 screens with the CPU and RAM gradually increasing with screen size.

Seeing as how my MBP is almost 3yo, I'll have to pick one of these up. Let's just hope it runs ubuntu well.
Apple's simplified product line is a very good thing, but they're only hurting themselves by not throwing a bone to customers with more specific needs. The Air itself finally satisfied the sub-notebook market that Apple all but ignored for a decade, and it was fantastic for their bottom line.

In a perfect world, they would have a 15 or 17 Pro model with an empty bay for BTO options, such as a 2nd battery, an optical drive, a platter HD, or a second SSD.

But we all know they won't do this. They'll cook the SSD onto to the motherboard to make it as crazy-sexy-thin as possible, the tech press will ooh and ahh, they'll sell like hotcakes, and the power users will cling to the last generation as long as they can, hoping in vain that Apple will eventually come around.
I see some combination involving running, a double-n-back program, a GPS receiver and goggles with a head up display yielding some iteractive think-while-you-run training regime.

Achievement unlocked: used the program for 100 hours without being run over by a car.
I have a pet theory that there are what I would say "right-brain coders" and "left-brain coders". Left-brain coders are the typically geeks who love math, engineering, algorithms etc. They can be extremely good at digging down on some particular piece of code, optimize it or write some algorithm for it. They do not however necessarily excel at things like overall architecture or coming up with novel solutions.

The right-brainers are more the creative types which would typically be more interested in areas like art, design or writing but has found themselves into coding. They do not necessarily like math, algorithms etc but are great at identifying greater patterns, overall architecture or thinking "out of the box"

No one is typically one or the other but people tend to be on a spectrum somewhere between, although programming tends to attract more left-brainers than right-brainers.
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We have dismissed it as the versions are deleted during compaction and aren't replicated to other nodes. Hence, dismissed.
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Netscape had a cross-platform browser. Fully implementing ActiveX in a cross-platform way was not feasible.
In my view what we've learned is the standardization process doesn't work. We had IE and Netscape doing what they liked and we got innovation; we got javascript, we got iframes, we got embedded video. Sure, each of these is a mess, to a lesser or greater extent. But they let us build the sites we want.
Then in ten years of W3C we got nothing - just the blind alleys of xhtml and css 2.1. The web has only started moving again after the WhatWG basically said to the W3C "we're going to implement this stuff, you can either call it html5 or become irrelevant".
We have learned from our mistakes. We're returning to the netscape vs IE6 days because they were better for innovation than the ten years of emptiness that followed.
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Fighting a DDOS is very hard if you do not have the resources to purchase more bandwidth. The DDOS attacks I've dealt with have been almost exclusively UDP-floods in the 500-2000 mbit range. No amount of server-side configuration will fix that unfortunately. If the attack is some more creative form, but with less bandwidth (SYN flood etc.) a cisco router can help out a lot.

Your best bet is to move to a protected hosting provider (dragonara or ddoshostingsolutions are quite good for Europe / US). Failing that you can purchase a bunch of VPS servers, round-robin DNS to them and reverse proxy to your actual server (and keep that IP off the DNS system entirely). This way only the proxy servers will go down if you are attacked.

Edit: If they are not spoofing they sender address, you can achieve some success by mailing the hosting provider of the IP performing the attack. In 90% of cases the server has been hijacked and they will shut it down, this only works for US / European companies though since Chinese / Russian hosting providers never ever reply in my experience. For maximum success you can attach a tcpdump of the attack traffic.
It'd be better if you lost the ragging on c#/c++/java and went positive by accentuating the great abilities of interpreted languages like python for rapid prototyping, which is what you are doing when you are iteratively improving analysis.

FYI it's fun to hear an academic ragging on "unmaintainable code".
This may not be simply an issue of patience.

It's tough to put yourself so throughly in your audience's headspace that you can pull off the right kind of leading questions consistently. Sometimes you get an audience that you just can't seem to model effectively enough to pull this off with.

Most of the time the biggest stumbling block is actually getting the audience to actively participate. A lot of (most?) people are used to the standard I'm-going-to-stand-here-and-spray-at-you method of lecturing so getting past that can take some work.
Damn. 3am on the East Coast and it's the day my ISP is expanding the virtual disk of my blog's dedicated server. Hacker News traffic has never taken me down before, but today it's scheduled maintenance. There's some kind of irony there somewhere.
Recall that Google recently changed the "+" operator in search from forcing inclusion of a search term to "Google+ Direct Connect" [1]. The removal of the "+" from the Chrome new tab button is simply another step toward focusing the "+" symbol on the Google+ brand. I would expect to see something like a Google+ toolbar baked into Chrome in the not-too-distant future.

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Do you trust the standardization process to make good choices? We got the stupid now-standard CSS box model over IE's sensible one (and now, twelve years(?) later, there's finally an experimental way to use the sane definition of the width of an item). We got IE's <object> with its clsid nonsense over netscape's <embed>. We got the wrong choice for iframes as well. I'm happy to believe the new gradient syntax is better (though if it's really that much better, surely webkit could have changed it themselves), but taken as a whole I'd sooner trust webkit's decision-making than the W3C's.
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It sounds like Apple is attempting to gear up before ultrabooks become established as market favourite.

The article mentions that the model referenced doesn't have style or panache .. but I've seen a couple of models that do.
2006. But a great article nevertheless.
The attacker is most likely using a program that spoofs the sender IP so every packet has a unique IP. It's not feasible to block that. You need a more intelligent router to block attacks of that kind (and lots of bandwidth).
I agree with the customizable bay idea but also that it probably won't happen. Whenever I hear rumors about moving the mechanical drive in the MBP to the SSD in the MBA, I wonder about how they're going to satisfy all of the people who don't care/know about read and write speeds but wonder why their storage space got cut in half.
The notion of a standard python is very real and meaningful, given that Jython, IronPython and PyPy all exist and have their differences from CPython. The only way you can write code that runs on all of them is with a standard.
And HN is written/run by a developer who made his fortune building web apps, yet it still manages to average a 5+ second page load time. What's your point?
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The ten years of emptiness were caused by the browser wars and its ultimate, unequivocal victor when it, and the technology it supported, became entrenched for an extended period of time. It's not as though the IE team wasn't innovating because W3C stopped them.

During the emptiness, technologies like alpha-transparent PNGs started out but never got anywhere because the gorilla didn't support it and what were you going to do? We got this idea to create layouts without using tables, but oops, box model bugs, I sure was glad to be working around the legacy of the days of innovation, and hey, wouldn't position:fixed be great? You had upstart browsers that couldn't access many websites because in the happy days of innovation the web decided that if (document.all) elseif (document.layers) was a decent way of writing code and it's not like anyone was going to rewrite those. Remember that innovative native client technology a whole bunch of banks and DRM sites decided could be good for secure, controlled internet experience? I think they called it ActiveX, sure did wonders for usability and practicality of actually innovating browsers that could not support it.

You say we've learned from our mistakes but to me the use of -webkit- and continued use of user agent sniffing (buggy, natch) suggests otherwise. Who'll be updating those sites two years from now, when Firefox Mobile's or X Mobile's rendering engine is the innovative stuff all developers love?
For Anonymous to be "terrorists", don't they have to successfully scare someone? Or, you know, kill people? Stealing code and DDoSing websites, boy, I sure am quaking in my boots.
> Let's just hope it runs ubuntu well.

Historically Macbook support under Linux has been quite poor. Unfortunately, as time passes Apple hardware (and software) becomes more closed and proprietary. I don't know if I'd buy another macbook now. I've ditched windows in 2002, and I may well ditch MacOS soon, though there is no PC laptop remotely half as nice as macbooks are.
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The irony is that <embed> was never a standard (unlike <object>); if you believe the W3C fans then you must be evil to use it. But it works, and has always worked, better than any of the alternatives.
I hear with html5 they've given up and declared it part of the standard.
So what exactly is new? It doesn't take an "Apple insider" to know that the MBPs are due for a refresh, that SSDs are the way to go, or that the next model of an Apple product is going to be lighter and thinner than the previous iterations…
It's kind of about talent vs. tech vs. product acquisition.

The best example of product acquisition taking over the host is probably eBay, a PayPal Company (now).
I like being able to swap out my HD for an SSD, and later a bigger/faster SSD. My 17" MBP is a mobile workstation. A 17" Air would suck for my purposes.
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I'm having a really hard time getting 'distribution' from having it on a screen at a party. Infringement yes, hypocrisy yes, civil suit yes, but criminal liability? Well, it's kind of moot. I'll agree with you that it's a mark of how broken the copyright laws are that we are even attempting to have a serious discussion about criminal liability in this incident.
Because of the power inversion. Historically they get to decide what will make money and when. It is frightening to them that all of that power and control can be taken away by a couple of guys in Sweden with a few servers.
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I wonder if Apple pays any attention to the users who put a 2nd HD in the optical bay? Anecdotally, it seems common among power users, but I'd be curious to find out just how widespread it actually is. And you're right, even regular users will be baffled when their shiny new laptop has less storage than their crummy old one.

All I know is, unless affordable 2TB SSDs magically appear out of nowhere, I'm never going back.
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