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> I get tired of the fanboistic comments in a lot of these threads. There is a big, strategic, complex, technology game going on and, apparently, a bunch of smart hackers think phones are like simple breakfast cereals (and even those aren't simple).

I also upvoted you, even though I don't think you're quite correct.
I personally don't believe that "hackers (...) think that phones are like simple breakfast cereals". Not that I'm a "hacker" or anything, but most of us HN-ers know how difficult is to "make things just work". Apple does that, ie "making things just work".

And, trust me, I'm not an Apple fanboy. I use a Windows 7 machine for development at work, all my websites are hosted on Ubuntu, and the only Apple products I own are my laptop and my phone.

I know it's only anecdotal, but until yesterday I was the very happy owner of an iPhone 3 (not even 3GS). Everything had been working just fine for the last 2 years, apart from a slightly decreased battery-life and Facebook's native app suddenly not working anymore, which was the moment when I realized that maybe it was time for an upgrade. What did I do then? I went straight into the store and bought an iPhone 4, because that way I knew for a fact that for the next 2-3 years I would have no problems in using my phone. I have no such guarantee from Android phones, even though most of them are similarly priced.
HN. It is both the first and the second. A bit like the Fight Club rules.
same here, thought i might be weird ;)
So I can infer the rules better, which of my posts are appropriate for proggit and which are not?

lets try and train the bayesian filter in my brain ;)
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I have web fonts disabled (because of abuse by many developers) and this looks like rubbish. Perhaps there is way to fall back to image icons if font is not available?
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But won't somebody think of the children!!!

Oh they are. I'll shut up then... :)
Ask HN: How are the conversions like on Opera Mini ads?
I'm talking about the ad spaces on Opera Mini's homepage. Is there anyone around here who's ever bought one? How did it perform?

What was the CTR like?
How was the quality of the leads?
(Obviously, IANAL and I have no legal training).

In England people are encouraged not to go to law until they really need to.

People with family law problems (divorce, access to children, etc) are encouraged, strongly, to use mediation before they go to court. This mediation can be lawyer led, but it can also be led by other professionals.

People with employment problems usually need to filter through any internal company policies before they go to law.

Rejecting pre-trial discussions is usually a bad idea.

Solicitors will tell you that going to law is a bad idea, and expensive, and will often not get the result you want. I think, BICBW, that they need to do this as part of their professional codes of conduct. They're tightly regulated, and encouraging people to go to law if they're unlikely to win is frowned upon.

Note that none of this is a barrier to effective law; once you need to go to law you've usually had several discussions with solicitors and you know what's involved and what to expect from your barrister.

There are separate tracks for quick and easy civil "small claims" cases, but even these can sometimes be avoided by using existing legal protections. (The very consumer-friendly "Distance Buying Regulations" or the credit card protections, for example.)
Android 2.3 is good enough for most smartphone users.
Android 4.x will be good enough for most Pad users.

These are the two distributions I expect to be successful in the long run.
I'm thinking about the Nexus but the reviews have all slated the camera which is putting me off a bit
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That's because your MacBook Pro is poorly designed. I had the same problem with mine. One reason I sold it - impossible to sit with it on my lap.

Another example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZzPZ0kjyk

I now had a ThinkPad X220 which is roughly the same CPU as the MacBook Pro and has twice the memory and it never even gets warm.
I gave it a quick spin[1] but was a little disappointed that it needed to manually be reconnected to the remote inspector on every page change. It's also completely missing the Network stuff. That said, debugging CSS with this works great.

Interesting side note: it's apparently using weinre[2] as the remote inspector.

[1] Download from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/shadow.html

[2] http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/

Edit: as I understand, the limitations come from weinre because it's JavaScript based on the client side.
I think the main reason for the safety record is that there just aren't that many terrorists out there. Of course, increased security raises the bar, so it would be more appropriate to say that there aren't that many terrorists out there with the resources and skills to pull off an attack.

But if airport security actually hindered many real attempts, why don't we hear about them?

Right up until 9/11 you could ask the same question, what accounts for the safety record? After all, many years had passed without any hijackings or bombings.

Then the bubble burst, and the only possible response was to increase security measures. Any politician not supporting such measures would have been torn apart by the media if a new attack had occured.

I think that airport security _does_ provide a deterrence to unskilled terrorists, and it provides real security against some random mentally unstable guy trying to wreak havoc.

I think everyone agrees that security theatre helps people feeling safe. It's the amount of money being spent on it that is at issue. We'd all be safer if the money spent on ineffective body scanners were being spent on making roads safer, or perhaps by building more schools and hospitals in areas of political conflict.
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Don't you mean "Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union"?
// PHP is the easiest to find hosting for, to setup and to learn.
If you don't have PHP installed, it's probably the hardest to setup, much easier to install Java, Ruby (rvm), node.js.
To learn, the easiest language is the one you already know. I do believe PHP is a good language to start on if you have had no prior development knowledge, starting out with C like syntax is always a good idea, but certainly would like to thing complete newcomers would prefer the weaker more dynamic syntax of Ruby / Python.
Hosting wise, yes pretty much every server on the web hosts PHP, with the rise of platform as a service though, PHP lacks behind the other platforms offerings because of it's non-existant package management. PaaS is definitely getting a lot bigger, and takes all of the effort out of server administration, for newcomers I'd recommend PaaS, the learning curve for Sys admin is too high at the start. And in reality, heroku is one of the best offerings, just pushing up a Java app with a small dependencies file and everything gets installed for you, love to see PHP do that in the future, but in reality it just doesn't.

- PHP is still the best at generating web pages.
What?!

- PHP offers all the tools needed to build strong
applications (PHPUnit, xDebug, XHProf, ...)
Testing - PHP is probably the worst language I've ever written tests in, it is horrible compared to Ruby, Java, Node, Objective-C, C#. Other languages provider far better testing tools and debuggers. xDebug is horrible to setup compared to other languages where the debugger just works.

- PHP is not as bad as people like to say.
I agree with this point for sure, PHP 5.3 copes with most normal object oriented stuff, but so do all the other good languages for writing web applications, only the other languages have fantastic implementations, not "not as bad as people think" implementations. If this is one of your main points in recommending a language, that is shameful.
To get more people running heavy number-crunching algorithms on their monster graphic cards? Like CUDA stuff. AFAIK most these applications are on Linux platforms.
It's irritating that people blame Android, Google have been steadily releasing new editions of the OS.

Surely the actual problem is the carriers/manufacturers?
We were looking at that (as well as riak) but processing the data would require pulling all the data into PHP. I guess you could do the processing in C but it's then just as easy to store it there as well.
You start from the assumption that it's in anybody's interest that these machines do actually work. It isn't.

The real interest is for well-connected companies to sell equipment; for the approving bureaucrat to get his kickback while not being seen as abusing his position; and for the low-level unskilled TSA employee to keep quiet and keep cashing his salary.

The suggestion you give would mean the above-mentioned bureaucrat should spend additional money (which would require a lengthy fight with his superiors in order to get additional budget, possibly even triggering a review of previous expenditure) in order to push his underlings to point out flaws in the equipment he bought, so that... he can be made a fool of ?

So you see why it isn't going to happen any time soon.
Contrast this with the China hackers that went underground 15 years ago, no chats..no irc..no bbs boards..nothing..

These anonymous guys are complete effing idiots..meaning any training FBI is doing in catching these folks is actually doing the FBI more harm than good in that its not preparing them for the hard serious hacker threats such as China hackers..
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Here's another reply which tries to better answer your question:

I live in England. We have free health care available to all. But if you want to pay you can buy private medical insurance.

I was debating with some friends. They said that it was wrong for doctors who got free training in the NHS to then go and work privately; they said that doctors should work for X years in the NHS.

I said that doctors didn't get free training; they have large student debts and they work for years in tough conditions for low pay. And then I asked what the difference between doctors (educated and trained at UK tax-payer expense) and lawyers (educated at UK tax-payer expense)? Why is it wrong for doctors to work privately, and not for lawyers? Why are legal-aid lawyers so hard to find in the UK? Why is "pro-bono" so rare?

Some lawyers can be drivers of social change for good (fair pay, anti-racism, etc) but they often get hoovered into creating laws or finding loopholes for weird corporate behaviours.
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The 4th paragraph explained why they didn't go this way:

> We were reluctant to use a NoSQL solution as this would require retrieving the pixels through a socket, storing it in memory and then processing them. It makes more sense to process it where it’s stored.
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I have a great solution to this. Its cheap and easy to set up. Just tell people that planes are a bit dangerous and might well be stacked with terrorists and bombs. Fly at own risk. Be grateful if you land. No? Oh well.

In all seriousness though, I do wonder given the above, how much passenger numbers would drop. Flying is known to be very safe, and there was a statistic that showed more people died after 9/11 than in 9/11 due to people taking to the roads through fear of flying. Plus, there are not that many planes blown out of the sky by terrorists. If they did nothing, planes would still be statistically safe. Its kinda like those stats that show people drive in a more reckless manner because they now have to wear seat belts and have air bags etc. Take that lot away and people tend to drive safer.

No, Im not suggesting and of this, just food for thought.
It looks like you actually haven't figured that out that piece yet and are waiting for a vendor (Microsoft) to solve this for you.

Grown-up vendors have had this solved for decades, literally. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Parallel_Sysplex
That's not a fundamental issue unless you've redefined fundamental, you need to learn more about Economics and Manufacturing.
He meant the other way around. Train the TSA agents to be cops instead and have them do actual police duty instead of hanging around airports being annoying obstacles for travelers.
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In this case? Just demonstrate that the machines don't serve their stated purpose. Whether or not you think a measure like this is justified, the issue here is that the machines are so trivial to circumvent that they're a pure waste of money.

Those who support security measures like this ought to be angry at that, because it means money has been wasted that could've been used on measures that might actually work. Those who don't support measures like this ought to be angry because it means the privacy invasions are for nothing.

Either way, not much commentary is needed.
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They problem is that they don't, they'll take the low-risk route every time.

The debate included anecdotes saying that China, Germany and America have been pumping %-wise much higher amounts into R&D (or schemes to 'encourage' it) through their governments compared to the UK.
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What always amazes me is that companies like Adobe launch a new product, but don't bother registering the domain - adobeshadow.com (DOH!!) - guess because it's a free product?
You point out that you're familiar with the command line, thus this article isn't really for you.

For people who haven't used CLI before; or who don't have much experience of the command line: it makes some things about the Unix way a bit clearer. One program does one task, but does it well. You pass the output from one command into the input of another. Input and output are text, because text is universal.

These are important powerful concepts and I'm disappointed that they've largely been forgotten in the GUI world.

I'm also baffled that my vastly powerful computer has areas of lagginess when grinding through some seemingly trivial things. A pure-CLI trivially-easy-to-install distro[1] isn't going to happen, but imagine the use people could get from all those old computers which are not coping with modern OSs.

[1] Linux from scratch definitely does not count. TinyCore doesn't really count. Arch sort of comes close, but would need to be i) Much easier to install and ii) have a specific repository for CLI / Curses / etc software.
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It's a two-bottles-of-wine story, told with all the details.
I'm just saying that out of my own experience.
I found a bug in their driver with kernel 2.6.37 and I wrote a patch and sent them. The answer I got was:
"Our internal version works properly with 2.6.37 but we haven't had enough complaints to make releasing this patch necessary" (ok, those weren't the exact words but that was the meaning of it).
So I learned not to expect much of them.
erm, isn't "catching people committing a crime" proof that the crimes are not being deterred?
Don't be turned of by the titel to much. Its not standard language bashing (but the auther clearly has a very strong opinion).

Its basiclly about the fact that some programmes really get value out of value types. It is true that the JVM lacks some features that would be nice to have to (Value-Types, real generics, tail calls).

The articly by Cliff Click is much more intressting, you should read it (and alot of his other stuff too).

Btw. Cliff says: "A real C# expert should chime in here, I’m not able to give C# a fair treatment.". So attacking him on saying wrong things about .NET stuff is not fair.
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All he did was compare a specific instance where Java's type erasure lead to bad performance. As one commenter has said, using a hashtable specialised for primitives would yield much better results.

Then he cherry picks some examples from the language speed shoot-out, in which Java beats F# in speed in 6/8 of the challenges.
This is the least exciting thing I have seen today. There are hundreds of these throw away games which are nothing more than a time sink and contain no more depth than an A4 sheet of paper.

So there is an new/improved platform store to buy/sell these apps. Greeeaatttt....
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Even on 9/11 this happened. That's why the 4th plane crashed in a field. Passengers found out about the first 3, realised all bets were off, and took back the plane/
It's been tried before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_soviet_man
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He connected to IRC via Tor overlay. I don’t know what IRC network is Anonymous using, but even Freenode offers native Onion gateway to their network[1].

[1] http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml
I for one would just like to take a moment to welcome our new guests, the intelligence observers!

May you be inspired by the quality of debate and not may you not add any of the good HN folks to any lists.
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Yesterday I met up with a contact from HN. He happened to be in Manchester, and I was passing through, so I stopped off and we had dinner. It's brilliant having these odd, unexpected, serendipitous encounters. Same thing happened for me last week in both Edinburgh and London where I met up with several people.

I'm sure that sometimes it will be a social encounter with no great repercussions, but there's always the chance people will click and something will take off.
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I was using Debian on a compaq dual 200MHz Pentium Pro desktop until about '02. I was pretty much 100% of the time on the shell so I really didn't need anything more.

Mutt for email, irssi for IRC, links for browser, vi for the editor and a 512k ADSL connection. That was about it.

The whole machine cost me 10GBP (about $15). It replaced an old Sun machine I found in a skip in 1997.

I bought my first new computer in 2004 :)

The console rocks.
I was thinking more along the lines of a simple query is a handler registered at all, not any info about what the handler actually does.
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A handy summary of different solutions:

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as well as the rest of chapter 25..
Have you looked into the LUA scripting option for Redis? Allows for some processing to happen on the server side, and it's quite powerful.
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True that. Rami was very interested in our API and gave us great feedback in terms of the features he would like to have and some of the (technical) pitfalls to avoid when building it.

It was a great experience and these are the small things that make doing a startup really worth it.
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I'm not clear why you're worried about that. Is it the pulling, or the processing?

The pulling shouldn't be an issue -- I don't know about PHP, but in pure Python, I can pull an arbitrary 10MB string from Redis in ~85-90ms. With hiredis (C extension), that falls to about 47ms.

I can't speak to processing, since I don't know exactly what transformations you're performing.
✔ it's also good practice to check unicode first. Arrows for example are available in all shapes and directions. ➜
So if there is an icon available in unicode just use that one.
Good question. What should happen when people also have images disabled (because of abuse by many developers)?
The problem with the shoot-out it that it tests mono, right? I have not jet seen good CLR vs JVM benchmarks of the same code and algorithm (C#/Java would work well). Does anybody has any pointer.

It would be good marketing of Microsoft to show that the CLR is faster then the JVM for some typical benchmarks.
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Still RSVP! For now we don't have much planned and are literally just trying to get the Austin HN'ers together first, and then we can figure out a POA!
It's more the iteration of each pixel and it's neighbor (of which there are 8) making it around 9.6 million iterations.

We will probably head towards redis in the future when precise backups are essential. Undecided what will do this processing though.
Doesn't scale up as well as win32/GDI. Requires much faster kit with graphic hardware acceleration to run (we had to bin about 200 Matrox Parhelia cards and replace with hefty NVidia cards to make use of hardware acceleration where GDI was fine on Matrox). Can't ILmerge thanks to XAML loader problems. Editor sucks. 5-million casts required in your code. BUGS! Hard to do trivial things. Virtually impossible to produce a scalable composite application. Grinds an 16 core Xeon to a halt inside VS2010. Learning curve from hell (this hurts on a 20 man team).

It's not good progress - it's just a deeper abstraction.
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This is just a concept I made that allows a user to discern whether they have typed a password correctly before submitting. The user never sees their password, but should be able to recognise it's pattern.

Thoughts?
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My take is that Apple lets rumors run, then gets the best ones and plans them for next releases. You know, like they did in Lost, the TV show.