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> Whether or not the NSA is looking at this kind of data is of little concern when compared to what the commercial world could use this data for.

And don't most privacy laws protect citizens against spying by the government, but not against spying by the 3rd parties (companies, other citizens). So isn't there an obvious loophole -- the govt just relies on commercial companies to provide it all the captured information. They wouldn't even need special "patriot act" laws for that. Isn't that what ChoicePoint is doing?
I think chicken scheme is even nicer for that kinna stuff.
Oops, forgot that. But H2O exposed to solar radiation tends to split into hydrogen and oxygen. That's how some scientists think Venus lost all its water. /excuse
> Rails is not bloated it's modular and quite simple if you understand ruby and can read - look at the source.

You've got to be kidding. The Routing has got to be the canonical example of bloated and confusing code.

Is inotify/fsevent built into the "full stack" framework? No?

"Hey guys, I wrote/found/whatever this code to solve a problem that another bit of code I chose to use caused for my development. Oh BTW you're a complete tool if you aren't already doing the same."

You must be awful proud of that Yak.
This is PR mastery.

Nowhere in the release does Tesla refute that owners have "bricked" their batteries. Nowhere in the release do they say that the battery can not be bricked by leaving it for a long period without a recharge. All they say is that it would take a period of weeks for a Tesla roadster to reach 0% charge, and that the Model S has battery disconnect technology that can extend this to several months. They also point out that the car will provide increasingly strenuous warnings to plug it in (which, no matter how loud they are, would be hard to hear from across the country, if you've left it in an airport parking lot).

If it were true that a Tesla battery pack couldn't be destroyed by letting it fully discharge, or that it had never happened, then they would have mentioned it in the release. In fact, they take the opposite tack, re-emphasizing near the top of the document that users should always plug the car in when parked.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still very enamored by Teslas, and I don't think that this is any different than the owner of a gas-powered car letting it run out of oil and seizing the engine -- it's neglect. If you don't get it by now, Tesla owners, you need to plug in your cars.
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I am shocked that the Sony MDR-V6 cans are so low on the list. Those headphones are legendary and there is still none that can top them in the price range (got mine for $65 on Amazon). Sennheiser is great, but I cannot put the 280 over the V6 after having both, and this is coming from a bass head.
You are welcome to give feedback :-)

We try to develop some thing like xCode for HTML5 apps so I hope VSD fits developers needs.

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This reminded me of http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
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Very cool! I'm surprised you're letting people use this for free!
I am also working on parallel processing for my Phd and implementing a Redis-based distributed shared memory queueing system that looks a lot like a tuple space. The Redis primitives fit this messaging model perfectly, allowing very loose coupling between language-neutral computational elements. I do have concerns that the single-threading may eventually impose a bottleneck with the scale of deployment intended (1000s of CPUs and GPUs). I have been looking into 0MQ to overcome these limitations and wonder how feasible it would be to implement a 0MQ socket connection option for Redis.
When does design matter?
Let's see. Practically - a web templating language with weakly-typed bolt-on OO 'featurettes' now has an embeddable, weakly-typed, object-oriented scripting language. Hello run-time heisenbugs that can NEVER be unit tested nor debugged.

Anecdotally - let's face it; there is no shortage of crappy php and javascript out there. This is an open invitation to merge the two into one extraordinary megaclusterfark.
I don't think this would be good at all for most real workloads - you'd be taking the performance hit of having high-latency memory at all times. Even most hardcore NUMA vendors try to keep DRAM CPU-local, and writing high-performance software for NUMA generally involves ensuring that your data stays close to your CPU. Otherwise missing a branch or getting preempted by another task which flushes your cache lines becomes really, really expensive.

I do think this could be useful for a memcached workload, though, in tandem with some smaller amount of fast CPU local memory - you could basically share "memory bricks" between CPUs, and swap CPUs out independently without evicting an entire system's worth of memcache.
I'm always running Redis and Mongo and Memcache and Postgres and Xcode and the iOS simulator and Mail and Skype and etc...

Local server stack + dev tools + collaboration tools, essentially.

SSD helps, as swapping fast is better than swapping slow, but best is not swapping at all.
Well that's even more interesting than v8 in PHP. Ignoring the obvious question of performance, are there any use cases that are unique to this approach? I can see procedurally generating data or writing business logic in the db, but I'm not sure whether those ideas are that limited by the current alternatives. Perhaps in situations where it's difficult to put a layer between the DB and the consumers of the DB.
And so marks the conclusion of yet another Internet shitstorm. Sound and fury, gnashing of teeth, forgotten in a week.

All this has happened before, etc.
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The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then... one day... I got in.
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Disagree and unfair. These brands are alive and well. I use Zune, Contacts and pictures on a daily basis. Please make sure you know the topic before making unfair claims.
It doesn't take hours to find stuff on line that is worth watching.

Just use Google: http://www.google.dk/search?aq=f&ix=hca&sourceid=chr...

Or some similar search engine.
> We are still typing a lot of boring cruft

This is more due to a language/API design flaw, actually. When a program (a preprocessor, a part of the IDE) generates more code starting from the code you actually wrote, it's because, for some reason, whatever you expressed in your code could not express enough to build the whole application.
I love my 280's, but I have trouble hacking with them unless I leave one ear partially off. Their around-ear noise-canceling design puts the music front and center, and I prefer to hear the music in the background farther away when hacking.

That said, they've lasted 3+ years extraordinarily well, far better then the Sony MDR-7506's I've seen die in that time frame.
I'm a longtime Head-fi member, first set of workplace cans were HD-280s about 10 years ago. This article is a decent start, but there are many better options in these respective price ranges. Head-fi is there to help - http://www.head-fi.org/

I've moved considerably upmarket over the years and won't talk about the rest of my setup, but my main cans now are Ultrasone Editions 8s. They're very pricey (retail $1500 for the basic model, but you can get them used under $1k if you spend enough time on the Head-fi classifieds). They're considered by many to be the best sounding _closed_ cans out there, and they actually isolate almost as well as good iems. Plus they're very light and comfortable at 260 grams.

So yeah, that's quite a bit of money and I am certainly an audiophile. OTOH, I use them an average of 4 hours a day and bought them used, so when the time comes I can sell them at little to no loss. I get a great deal of enjoyment out of my rig and it helps me to do my work, so I consider it a good investment. Same with my Knoll Life Chair. YMMV. I actually made a profit on limited edition headphones in the past, purchased a used pair of Audio-Technica L3000s for $1500 in 2005, sold them for $2000 in 2007. Today they tend to go in the $2500 range.
"mastery" is not a very correct word in my opinion. What they do is they provide absolutely 0 information, while still calling the blog a rumor.

I was very skeptical about the blog post up until now, when tesla essentially agreed to all it's claims, by not refuting any.

TL;DR; version of the blog: "Yes, it's true, we charge a lot of money for forgetting to plug in your tesla, don't do that or you'll regret".
This is the case for many popular headphones because a lot of them are priced low. This almost happened to me, but luckily I was too suspicious of a $90 drop in a pair of $150 monitor headphones. Once I did a google search, I found a thread that mentioned many fake ones and showed people how to check if a pair they got was real.
We are more keen on getting users for now. Once we find couple of users who are happy with the product, we may start charging some fees.
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> So Mozilla's fully open "Boot to Gecko" will power the carriers walled garden "fully closed" wet dreams?

This has always been and will always be a factor with open source. Open source means that anyone can use the code for any purpose.

North Korea can use Linux, for example, but that doesn't make Linux evil.
Same here, I've been using the same pair of HD280s for years, and they've been absolutely wonderful. The only issues I can think of are:

1) They're heavy, so they cause cranial irritation.

2) The padding at the top has come loose, though that's easily fixable with some glue or tape.

3) They're not wireless. This is the biggest thing for me. After getting some LG Bluetooth headphones to use with my Android phone for listening to music on the go, wired headphones are really starting to bug me. However, wireless isn't practical for the hours-on-end of music listening that goes on while working, since the battery would probably run out (not sure about that though - the LG's are supposed to last 10 hours).
It's really no different than early fuel-injected cars being damaged by running out of gas. The solution? Don't run out of fucking gas. That didn't stop fuel injection from becoming the dominant technology, and neither will this halt the rise of EVs.
Yes, my impression is that Star Trek technology is well beyond Star Wars technology in most ways. Replicators and transporters have no equivalent in Star Wars. Similarly, if we go to TNG and beyond, there is no comparison for holodecks,a nd medical technology in Star Trek seems better.

But one area where SW has a huge advantage is travel speed. In expanded universe material SW talks about travelling from the very edge of the Galaxy to the core in a few weeks, and that fits nicely with the few vague references in the movies. In Star Trek though it takes decades to go from the center of just one quadrant of the galaxy to the center of another (Voyager was entirely about that).

Also Star Wars has the force and Star Trek only has a few species with limited telepathy (unless you count Q of course).
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Ask HN: When will the robot revolution occur?
The microchip revolution has happened and still going strong, the internet revolution has happened and still going strong.

But when will the robot revolution begin ??

When will the day where instead of having to pay 25$ for a haircut, I can go to an automated barbershop and have it done for much less ?
Or we replace our cashiers with an automated money-taking and distribution system ?

From what I have seen, the robotic technology is used in manufacturing plants, researched in industry and a few products here and there like the Roomba.

But I still feel we are far behind, one metric of success will be when the military will deploy robots as ground forces to minimize human casualties, but that still feels far far away. And of course it will still take some time before it becomes affordable and starts replacing “people” out of a job - sorry for the cynical tone but it’s a reality that should happen to stay lean and efficient.

So what are your thoughts on the robot revolution – do you think we will see something successful in our lifetime ?

How do we start preparing, start programming on microcontrollers with servos, motors and actuators ?

Do any of you work in research labs or universities who can provide me some insights ?
JSON is not hypermedia, but specific formats encoded as JSON can be.

To clarify, "application/json" is not REST, but "application/foaf+json" can very well be.
No it is tv that is broken. I have some channels that don't have ads at all (not even between shows) but I don't watch them, because you have to watch at a particular time, can't really pause them and the movies are years old.
I agree here, I open a series of tabs of places so as not to loose the original, carefully culled search results.

+1 on saving a whole query vs. just a location, this will allow us to see new airbnb's that pop up with those parameters in the future. This is really helpful to people who are regular visitors to cities and have a price range and love a couple of neighborhoods.
> you get terrific sounds, great noise reduction and amazing comfort.

I've been using 280s at work for a few weeks now and I'm not really digging them. At home I have Shure SRH-440s, but replaced the stock pads with pads from the 840s (about $20 off amazon). They're monitor headphones so the response is meant to be flatter; the net result is notably quieter bass that sounds more "present" than pounding your ears. At first I disliked it but once you start listening for a bit you grow to appreciate it.
Why can't you put everything on the web?

Why would I want to? I really don't see the point of trying to run a real time industrial automation control from a javascript engine inside fire fox. It might be a fun hack but I fail to see any real use.
To me, re-reading that chapter, it's clear that the neither the platoon leader nor his immediate chain of command knew how to obtain atomic warheads at the time. Years later, the author met a key responsible for implementing the weapon who assured him of the two-hour metric.

Of course ... the author is biased, it's a memoir, and at time a very selective one. Take it with a grain of salt.

Hackworth was a lot of things but one thing he was above all else was very opinionated and sure of himself.
Are those meant to be casual listening phones, monitors, reference?
Performance is the really big one. I'm sure other use cases exist, but the performance difference in this case can be pretty massive. This presentation actually highlights some of the improvements in performance you'd get with it: http://pgeu-plv8.heroku.com
Finally, they're consolidating all their incoherent branding nonsense. As a PC user I'm wasn't sure of how much more of this I could take. "Windows Live Office Live for Games for Windows Live. Lets not talk about the "Windows Update" & "Microsoft Update" or "Windows 7 Starter", "Windows 7 Home Basic", "Windows 7 Home Premium", "Windows 7 Professional", "Windows 7 Enterprise", "Windows 7 Ultimate". Office Live, Live.com, Windows Live, Games for Windows Live, Windows Live Mail.

It's like they have a whole department at Microsoft dedicated to making as many brands out of the words "Windows" and "Live". Finally, I can tell my mom to just open up "Mail", or go to the "Calendar" instead of "Outlook Express" or "Windows Live Mail". Oh I forgot, I got sick of MS's multiple personality disorder and got my family Gmail accounts.
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Confusing? you map resources to URL's it's confusing if you are inept. Inotify / fsevent and such aren't built into rails just as they aren't in _EVERY OTHER FRAMEWORK_ because it's complete voodoo to make side effects of editing a file default.
This is an awesome read. I've made an HTML5-based app (overview at http://taxono.my for the curious), but have been stuck using Appcelerator, because I need to use the hooks to run code in the background- AFAIK PhoneGap and the like do not have the ability to do this unless you make an Objective-C plugin.

But the bridge between the webview and the Appcelerator code is painfully slow. I had it pinging over current location coordinates more than once per second- it worked fine in the simulator but utterly crippled the app when run on a device. For now all I can do minimize the number of calls I make, but that's hardly a great solution.
The simple answer? It is good enough. Not great, but good enough.
My $0.02. The Bose QuietComfort 15 (over-the-ear, closed, noise canceling) are fantastic to code with. With no audio playing, low bassy sounds are entirely cancelled out unless extremely loud. Highs are reduced in volume, but still come through. Add earplugs and the highs almost go away too. Lastly, turn on some music or pink noise and you're not going to hear a thing.
Zune is still going strong. It's the music app for WP7 (which MS has a lot of money riding on), for Xbox (which MS has a lot of money riding on), and for Windows 8 (which MS has their entire corporation riding on). It's been successful, if not wildly so. I don't think Zune is going anywhere.
You're pretty rare. I don't know of anyone who would still play ancient games or abandonware. The closest thing that I know of are people who still keep the Dreamcast, and I can count how many times they've played it over the last 10 years: 0. I don't feel that $VPO is a cost for most gamers as long as they can still access their game within at most a 5 year period. I would also argue that with services like Steam, players will be able to access their games for a longer period of time after changing machines.
The MDR-7506 are the pro version of the V6 -- largely because they come with an exploded diagram and all the parts are kept available.
When I served in the 82nd some of the NCOs told me that some of the vehicles we used had seen service in Vietnam. I never verified this, but I did verify that some of them were manufactured in the Vietnam era.
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I thought about that; I still doubt that there would be a high enough concentration for rust to be a problem, when you compare it to everything else (ablation damage, radiation damage, tidal forces.)

It would be like worrying about your rifle rusting while in a battle.
Realtime web browser technology has been around for over 10 years; HTTP Polling, HTTP Long-Polling, HTTP Streaming and now WebSockets. Connections can only be established between the client and server if various security restrictions and policies are met (See CORS and the WebSocket protocol).
Thanks, we'll do comparisons against other native bridges in the future also.

Cool app by the way thanks for sharing... though I wish I could try it on my Android ;-)
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Could be my bad here, but I said "reversible key-based", which isn't what most cryptographic one-way hashes are.

For ASCII text, modulo 13 is a reversible operation (a/k/a rot13). It's not key-based, may not be a hash, and I'm not aware of any specifically key-based hashes, but that's along the lines of what I was thinking.

Fully admitting winging this one though.
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> You just fundamentally cannot put everything on the web. It works for incredibly simple things. But that's it.

The web isn't everything - no perfect solution exists for every problem. But you go way too far in the other direction. Modern web browsers can run very complex code at very high speeds. Saying the web can only do incredibly simple things is like saying Java can only do incredibly simply things (which people did say, several years ago).

> What would interest me more in B2G is whether the Linux base underneath it is fully functional. And not just a slightly advanced "bootloader" for B2G. A fully functional, mostly free GNU/Linux system that gets widespread adoption, even just as a smartphone OS, would be a great blessing to the efforts of the Free Software community.

The problem is that such an OS cannot easily get widespread adoption, because it would have no apps. That is the problem of every new phone OS today, people develop for iOS and Android, and that's it.

That's what makes it so hard for Bada and Windows Phone and WebOS to get any traction - developer attention is all on the top two mobile OSes, and users buy those OSes to get those apps.

So inventing a new development platform is incredibly hard, and that's what using Linux as a development platform would get us. The only real way to get around that is to leverage an existing development platform. The best existing such platform is the web - it's open, has multiple compatible implementations, is royalty-free, and a lot of effort is going into it (look at recent advances in web browsers).

That's why B2G, WebOS and Tizen are all using the web as their development platform. It's the only approach that has a chance.

They are all also using Linux underneath - it's the best OS for that. But it's not the best app development platform.
This was my take away as well but the mastery part is where it sounds like they are refuting something. Basically, having read that post three times, I conclude that if you ignore the warnings and let your battery pack completely discharge your car will be unusable, aka a 'brick'. Which completely validates the 'rogue bloggers' point that it is a 'known issue' and one to be aware of.

I found the 'no oil' comparison to be weak. Sure if you run your gasoline engine vehicle with no oil it will likely seize up and require an engine block replacement. However, you can leave a gasoline powered car in a barn for 20 years and then re-discover it, fill up all the proper fluids and run it. (assuming it was in running condition when it was stored). You won't have to replace the engine.

The part that is missing from the Tesla response is, if your car is in this state (fully discharged), what can be done. Is there a way to 'reboot' the car? And if so what is the procedure? Can anyone do it or only the factory? And why? If the batteries become disconnected does that also brick your car? Or can you just re-attach them ? Why doesn't the Tesla vehicle have a 'full power down' state for storage?
I have to second the completely unbreakable part. I have dropped it whilst biking many times (seriously I'm embarrassed to say like 4 times) and it has only a few minor dings to show for it despite tumbling on asphalt at 10-15 mph. It seems like the thickness of the aluminum bezel coupled with the thinner screen width protects the screen better than the ipod touch's. I also prefer the UI and basically what it came down to when deciding between the two for me was what I wanted: a really good touchsceen mp3 player or a more generally useful device/portable gaming machine. I already have my phone for the latter purpose so I went with the best mp3 player.
yes but that would require server to know that which again requires some sort of ajax which cannot happen because js is disabled!
Have you been to a restaurant? Unless it's a touch screen, they probably have a 10 year old glass CRT.
I'd gladly exchange color for more pixels most of the time.