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We still don't know how Google will use Motorola to improve Android.

According to Google, Motorola will still run independently.
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Nice! All the best to Yishan! He'll need it, that's for sure.

[edit: Okay, apparently pointing out struggles Reddit will have in maturing is not welcome here. Rest of post deleted.]
It's very cool from a geek / technological point of view but I can't help but think that non-lifesaving technology ultimately brings us little good, if you look at the big picture.
The title makes it sound like that useless old iPad was rescued from the garbage bin and given a new purpose in life. My wife has a first gen iPad and aside from being a little slower than the new one it's still a great little tablet.
Singularity is written largely in (a superset of) C#:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/
http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/make-3.79/html_...
So it's basically the same as over here. Thanks for the fast answer!
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This is interesting. Could you elaborate on this monitoring system?
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This blog post is half a year old, it was not written for Hacker News.
Thanks for the great collection of android apps. These are really useful apps and moreover, these all aps are free.
This site is really cool. Everyone interested in this sort of tracking should checkout PlanePlotter from COAA http://www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm. It does a similar sort of thing but for planes which have ADS-B transmitters and a team of volunteers sharing data. It costs 25 euros to access the shared data but well worth the money (I'm not affiliated just a happy customer).
foo x y = x >>= \a -> case a of
Leaf -> ..
Branch aleft aright -> ..

Hanging lambdas yes, but I don't see the advantage of putting the
beginning of the case into the same line.

foo x y = x >>= \a ->
case a of
Leaf -> ..
Branch aleft aright -> ..

But the example is a bit contrived, because you could write it this way:

foo x y = do
a <- x
case a of
Leaf -> ..
Branch aleft aright -> ..
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Thanks for the great collection of android apps.These are really useful apps and moreover these are all available for free.
I wonder how much it cost NASA to put that Angry Bird Plushie into space? Doesn't it cost like $10,000 per pound?
Is Google heading the dreaded Microsoft naming way?

Google Play Store. Windows Live Search, eh I mean Windows Live Search Center. Games For Windows? Surely you mean Games for Windows - Live. Or Xbox Marketplace?

Also Google Wallet is unavailable in many countries as others have noted.

Oh well, I was hoping that someone would give Apple a run for money.
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Considering the facts that are known (e.g.: http://www.digitalbond.com/2012/01/31/langners-stuxnet-deep-...) it is nigh impossible for Stuxnet to be commissioned by a nongovernmental entity.

The sheer complexity is off the charts. Stuxnet's sophistication and complexity is an cybernetic equivalent of Manhattan project. E.g.: As a domain expert on industrial automation of this kind Langners states that whoever created Stuxnet _had to have a testing facility_. How many hackers do you know who build uranium enrichment centrifuges to test their cyber attack tools?

Yeah thought so.

Edit: TL;DR: There are two pieces of evidence. No.1: Motive, No.2: Sophistication and complexity.
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Not to mention the fact that the reason Microsoft has shut up about Apple publicly is because Apple isn't nearly as an important competitor for Microsoft as they used to be.

In mobile, Microsoft's competition is Google, not Apple. Meanwhile, on the desktop, Microsoft's biggest competition is its own installed base, not the Mac.
I want better documentation for all software I use. Just this morning I have spent 3 hours trying to install something. Give me better documentation, make it easy to search.
Good luck, but I think you'll have limited success if your looking for something legal that will work on Linux.

It seems that it is the rights holders who are insisting that everybody who distributes their stuff online must use the silverlight DRM rather than the service providers themselves who I'm sure full well realise how pointless it is.

In the UK we have a service called "LoveFilm" which is similar to netflix, they used to allow streaming of all their content using Flash which wasn't ideal but it worked.

However recently they were forced by the studios to switch to silverlight, they sent an email around to all of their Linux users apologizing but saying that it was basically out of their hands.

Luckily I have spare Windows XP licenses to use on my HTPC because I'd really hate to have to pay Microsoft £150 for another copy of Windows 7 just for the privilege of running their (now deprecated) plugin.
Yes, we live in the cyberpunk future.

"High tech meets low life".
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About as much of a stretch as using a unicorn for "delete", because unicorns don't exist.

I'm getting increasingly concerned that web UIs are trading away usability for design in Apple's wake, forgetting the part about "design is how it works".
Differing calling conventions can point to combination of hand crafted object system in C with some custom code generator with some high level input that produces machine code directly without C in between. When you generate machine code that does not directly interface with system libraries it is often useful to ignore platform ABI calling conventions and make up your own.
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It appears they've had these maps in their desktop products since about April 2010, so this explanation doesn't make any sense. (And if it did, then a simple switch to turn on attribution at launch time would have worked too).
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One often forgotten but truly fascinating character in the early days of computing is Konrad Zuse [0] who arguably built the first computer. If you are interested in computer history make sure to read his autobiography "The Computer - My Life". At some point he was financed by Nazi-Germany arms producers. About this he said (rough translation by me from German):

Too often is the inventor the Faustian idealist who tries to change the world but fails due to the harsh reality. If he wants to implement his idea, he has to get involved with powers, whose sense for reality is sharper and more pronounced than his. Today such powers are, without expressing a value judgment, military and management. [...] In my experience, chances are slim to defend oneself against such pacts.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
OSM does have terrain, just not in the default map render (which includes most hand-editible data to aid contributers but is often assumed to be the single intended end product). For elevation they re-use SRTM data (and other sources) to create maps with shaded slopes or contours:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SRTM

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shaded_relief_maps_using_...

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contours
A very cool history of Lisp: while we see the changes in formatting styles over the years, we also see the personalities behind the progress of Lisp. Really nice!
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Wouldn't it be a shame if your shop got broken into, looted and set on fire?

Is the above sentence a threat? Of course it is. Not literally (I did not directly say that I would send thugs to loot your shop if you refused to pay me protection money) but a reasonable person would, more likely than not, interpret it as a threat.

If I did not mean it that way but was so dumb as not to anticipate that you would read it that way, I would deserve to go to jail for extortion anyway.

And the TSA, by virtue of having the power to add people to the No Fly List without public scrutiny and knowing of all the rumours of them having added people for political reasons, they should expect any "request" they make to be interpreted that way, and they should take extra care to ensure that it isn't.
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DistilBio lets you look up detailed information on drugs, diseases, proteins etc. You can ask questions like "Find drugs which interact with Tylenol, and proteins which are targeted by these drugs", or build more complex queries if you like.

While it is targeted at scientists in the life sciences field, we've found that many people like finding out more about drugs they're using, diseases they know about etc. We're continuing to add more data and make it more useful for the layman too.

We thought we'd like to show our app to HN users and solicit feedback before we embark on a big PR push. We rely on this forum heavily for info on all things startup related :)

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The disassembly snippet looks like typical C/assembly handcrafted object system without real classes, but responses by Kaspersky guys in blog comments seem to imply that it uses these objects even in places where it is highly impractical when writing code manually. So it's possibly C/assembly written by typical hardcore Java programmer, but I find that highly unlikely.
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Map qualifies as "set of facts" just as much as a photograph of something is representation of a fact. So no, maps are not facts. It is quite subjective model of the world. I would say that OSM is huge collaborative piece of art, and I'm proud to be one of the artists there.
The standard joke about how Lisp looks, which I believe comes from Perl's Larry Wall, is "oatmeal and toenail clippings".

It's interesting to see the old ones even if one is not a big lisp fan, though.
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Well, on this site of the ocean(I'm French, but living in the Netherlands), we wish we'd have a service such as Netflix in the first place ...

And, to be honest, your use case, while totally valid, does not apply, I think, to the general consumer.
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I'd like to see it on an updated version of this chart:

https://www.xkcd.com/radiation/

(side note: I have the HTTPS version on my clipboard because I hesitated before typing "radiation dosage" into google, and decided to load up Tor to search for it.)
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I think creating a game for the sole reason of inculcating the simple concept of gravitation into the kids is kind of inappropriate. It costs them more time to be wasted on the game that that takes for them to simply learn it from the textbook. If additional features like the extent of effect of gravitation in relation to the mass of the planet and the travelling speed of the bird are added, again, that will make the game complicated and less interesting to play.
There is a site dedicated to collecting them but I cannot find it atm. This one does a decent job however:

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
The "activate their response process" sounds like it will take weeks or even months to get the fix pushed to users.
Good point didn't occur to me!
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I wish someone would use this to 'infect' IE users (particularly older versions) with chrome-frame.
That's good, since us readers know what to expect from the article.

Though you seem to be concerned about such kind of material being posted on HN. At first I was inclined to agree that it doesn't belong here. Yet consider, there's probably a lot of opinionated articles that include a fair bit of useful information (knowing others' opinion might be useful by itself), while bias can be neutralized by critical thinking, which HN audience hopefully is capable of.

And I'd argue that on HN relatively many articles get to the front page even without sensational headlines.
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The rule is not new. Everyone claiming (or suggesting) that this rule is new is being lazy and sloppy (at best).

Here's a copy of the Android developer agreement from 2008:

http://web.archive.org/web/20081219010834/http://www.android...

Take a look at the definition of "Payment Processor" and section 3.3. That's the same rule we're talking about today. The effort put into enforcement may have changed, but the rule itself hasn't.
Wow is it really necessary to down vote this? It was a pretty relevant comment on the thread. I know it was flippant, but don't be so serious.
Yes, exactly. I think it's overall too easy to call someone else's use of spare time "trivial" because we don't understand why it could be useful for them, or to other people. We're all limited by our skills and interests. If only we could all be world-savers doing work of great impact and help to every person on earth in our free time...
it costs very little to create most content

Simply not true, the true cost is the people's time. A 20-person dev team for 6 months can easily cost north of $1M paid market rates[1], even if they are all using their own equipment and working at home. Double that if you include office space.

That is the elephant in the corner of the room: people working on open source have to have day jobs that pay well enough.

[1] Notforgetting employer's taxes
Excellent, I hope this takes off.

It seems to be unreasonably difficult at the moment to create a simple 2d game that is cross platform and mobile friendly without using Flash.

Having said that I hope adobe provide some quality cross platform tools for creating content for things like this.

It looks like google is gearing up with it's "chrome as a platform" paradigm to pull Microsoft's dinner table right out from under them.
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Wouldn't it have made more sense to use NativeClient throughout all their platforms? It's not like a more advanced 3D game that you develop for Android will work just as well in HTML5 when you port the code. With NativeClient it could be a different story. Plus, most 3D games are already written in C++ for Android. I suppose they could still do this later on though.
I'd be interested in seeing that Go code ..
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There are also the triptan class of drugs such as Relpax. The problem is you have to go to a doctor to get a prescription. Doctor visits are expensive (relative to my income for most of my life) unless you have access to a school clinic or you have insurance. Migraine medicines should be OTC. The side effects don't warrant limited access.
I am failing to see how this is great. Sorry but didn't just Adobe fix all their issues with cross platform AIR and Stage3D?

Adobe's demos are stunning... this is rather.. underwhelming. Also I'd rather invest in a proven technology with many resources on tap than yet-another-frameworkish-lang.

Is this running Dart?
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Yes, almost all significant software is produced by full time programmers. This includes open source which is why some companies will pay programmers full time to hack on projects.

There may be a few people who have the energy to work a 40-60 hour week in a serious job and then come home and put the same level of love into an open source project but these people are a minority.

If I thought I could just quit my job tomorrow and spend my time hacking on some game or open source project without having to find someone to fund me up front (who would subsequently want some plan on how I would return their investment) I would do it in a flash.
> The question isn't whether I'll get your content in the format I want, the question is will you get my money in exchange for it?
Am I wrong in assuming that Vupen's customers are bad people (for values of spam, trojans, bot-net, phishing bad)?

I'm trying to think of why else they wouldn't disclose the protected mode bypass error, but instead keep it "private for our customers".
Dude. That is beautiful. Can I ask you to email me?

I know it's annoying that I ask this a lot in this thread, but there are so many good leads here :)
It's been made hard for you because you're making so much money. It's an easy call for me because I don't make nearly as much as you... the whole "tax breaks for job investors" arguments.

If you're unhappy, confident in yourself, and have enough money to be financially secure in the short term, quit. Sometimes all you need is a little incentive to do something extraordinary.

Also, if you're looking for a job in a few months, send me an email.
Also, where are you making 300k a year as a "software dev" that you're bored? That's like lead scientist status.
This looks like the evolved "ForPlay" tool Google demoed at IO 2011 its built on top of GWT. I'm glad to see its been officially released, something like this has a lot of potential. http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/kick-ass-game-...
Native Client only works on Chrome so it's not exactly cross-platform.
The destructive consequences of alcohol or morphine addiction are in no small regard caused by the fact that it's possible to indulge in the drug daily, and therefore it is easy to completely lose yourself in the cycle of drug use.

This problem does not occur with LSD, since LSD tolerance builds up incredibly fast. It is simply not practical to use it more often than once a week, and even this frequency is unusual with most users, since longer periods of abstinence between trips have a very direct and positive influence on the quality of the experience. Most regular users are very well aware of this, and their usage patterns reflect this fact.

There is no pattern to be found in what you described, since LSD is a dramatically different kind of drug compared to the other two you mentioned.
The computer geek in me agrees with this guy, but the business major in me just laughed. Not because of his arguments -- they are sound, in my opinion -- but because of his attitude. I fail to see how this 'petulant child' attitude that we geeks like to adopt re: DRM does us any good. Yes, shit be expensive, yo. But taking an uncompromising attitude, especially when we are nothing more than a vocal minority... it's like we want the larger world to not take geeks seriously.

And World of Goo for $20? Please. It's so easy to find games at a discount that buying software online at full price is borderline idiotic. WOG, like many games (esp. indie titles), is regularly discounted through the myriad different channels it is sold in. (Humble Indie Bundle is one.) All you need is patience. On another note: World of Goo is not worth $20? Really?

There seems to be this growing attitude of petulant, childish snobbery among us geeks. "We're ADD, broke, impatient, and really, really lazy, and because we're your customers you do what we say or we pirate your shit." That's the vibe I got from Why I Pirate, and it's a vibe that smells like extortion. Giving the media companies a taste of their own medicine, perhaps? I can see the suits reading this little piece and instantly binning it. You catch more flies with honey, not vinegar.

I really like YC's stance on Hollywood (re: funding more startups that attack hollywood directly)... we all agree that Big Content needs to die, and they're putting money down to help. Writing longwinded, rambling TL;DR diatribes (hint: the 20,000 character limit is there for a REASON) does not.

Remember that we're nothing more than a vocal minority. Act as such.
Agreed with kls. I no longer believe that "having a go at a startup" is worth it. Quit when you're ready to have a go at changing the world.
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It's the time to report, analyse, produce a fix, test... and wait for the patch Tuesday, isn't it?
I thought that too, at first, but it seemed to blatantly illegal to believe. Going by their site, it's mostly for government agencies against other agencies?[1] I'm not proficient enough at law to comment on the legalities of it.

Another possibility I had in mind is that they want to get paid by people wanting to fix this vulnerability on their systems. eg, company X will have to come to them if they want their IE browsers to receive the patch against this bug.

[1] http://www.vupen.com/english/services/lea-index.php
Well, isn't PlayN old news? I remember playing with it somewhere last year.
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According to their website, they provide 'offensive exploit services' to governments and intelligence services. So possibly, depending on wether you view those people as bad people.
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Their customers are "Law enforcement agencies and governments". At least officially. But that's scary enough.
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