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You are welcome! :)

No really, the card readers are damn quick these days so it hardly takes much longer than paying with cash but I admit that it takes slightly longer. I would argue that most people pay their morning coffee with card in Sweden.

I have used my card all over the world, for small and large purchases, and have yet to get it skimmed - lucky I guess.

But another aspect of increased card use is that tax fraud becomes harder for the businesses as I believe the logging of card transactions are quite a lot harder to hide from the tax authority so I do see that as a positive thing.
Legality is following the letter of the law (e.g. DMCA), to which Grooveshark does and exceeds. Being praised and loved by all labels is what Spotify is doing (by paying out the ass in investor money).
From being at SXSW I can see why this didn't live up to its reputation. SXSW has become extremely noisy and only now if you've got celebrity status and a big launch and it actually provides some use to the majority of people at the conference itself, will something be somewhat successful. When Twitter and Foursquare launched, it was because more so those apps actually provided some real value to a lot of those at the conference in Austin given it allows you to comment on events and check in at specific locations. When they are so many people around the conference you can bump into normally without the need for an app and given how noisy SXSW is, I can see why it would not have done as well as I'd rather save my battery using the SXSW and twitter app and meet people by chance in that environment.
This is a totally off topic but are those legal terms or that 2012 is code year?
With some refinement, this sounds all well and good for something like logging into your computer at work. But how do you access keystroke duration on an ssh login... or a web app?

What if I'm logging in from my tablet or smart phone? Is there such a thing as "duration" of a keypress on virtual keyboard? Clearly my keyboarding style using two thumbs is going to be different than when I'm using 10 fingers on a full size keyboard.

Passwords/phrases have a usability and cross-platform utility that is hard to replicate with other approaches.
There must be a smarter way of doing it than have 1 flight and 1 device. Surely they could take 10 devices and if there was no interference thats 10 cleared and if there was an interference, they could then break up the that batch into separate flights.

I'm sure there are also other ways to make this more efficient?
I don't think that's the best approach to protecting our freedoms. While many of the provisions in the previous act are similar, I think the new order expands the power to go beyond merely protecting the flow of materials and equipment under government contract, to encompass virtually any industrial process or service that the government deems critical.

I think it's important to examine the order, determine why and how it was revised, and understand what political forces are aligned behind its revision.
The motivation was not "pure". Mike Daisey lied for money and self-promotion.
I own an HP dm4 (http://goo.gl/uCRa) running Ubuntu 11.10, it's not an ultrabook, but everything run out of the box and all working (except fingerprint device - which I don't care a bit about it).
HP in my case has been always a choice, their products work excellent with linux and just right out of the box. I recommend you also, that you make sure that everything is Intel (including the wifi card) because previoulsy I had another HP laptop with Atheros wifi that was unusable!
I have RDP open on a different port. Could you give me an option to enter the port#?
i see the condensation/mist disappearing suddenly at about 797mph.. is this the shuttle breaking the speed of sound?
I would have to trust my government a whole lot more than I do to be comfortable with this - and then trust that my government isn't going to change over the course of my lifetime.

Surely Swedes buy drugs and cheat on their taxes, just like the rest of us. Even if you don't - why wouldn't you want to ensure you can quietly conduct an illegal transaction, should a currently unforseen need arise in the future? Getting rid of cash seems awfully shortsighted.
I'm kind of amused by the number of comments on this thread that amount to "all the devices that meet the standard are still required to be tested in situ? lol wat!?". Yet, this is the same place that advocates heavy test driven development practices, which include testing your code against libraries that meet standards, testing that the libraries actually do the right thing when you use them, and personally verifying that sites work on all browsers, even if automated compliance checkers approve them. Isn't the FAA essentially doing the same thing here?
Just don't pair it up with something called gatekeeper.js
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Why the bloody fuck is this on HN?
I'm currently in a business program, but I'm fluent with several programming languages. I can't be sure that programming languages are the reason, but I feel a lot of people around me lack the logical thought process.

Many of them seem to lack the ability to think recursively, and I find myself having to draw flowcharts, even to explain the most basic if-else thought processes.
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I'm not sure if it helps but I head the HP Folio 13 support Ubuntu well out of the box.
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I'm waiting for a notebook with touchscreen, and no touchpad at all. For me its just wasted space.
If a cat is born and kept in a dark room during it's infancy, it will grow up to be blind... it's a metaphor, but you don't know what you don't know. So try it out, understand how it works and then you can make a proper appraisal. I guarantee you will think every other means of scrolling is inferior...

For example, I can scroll (smoothly) in every direction, that means diagonally and in circles, whichever way my two fingers want to go on the trackpad. I can accidentally rest a few fingers on the trackpad and, click down with my thumb and move one of the fingers and I will successfully select and drag my selection, try that anywhere else, Linux does not support this even on the Mac trackpads, although they are making inroads...

I have successfully installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a MacBook pro and it works great, you can triple boot Mac, Windows and Linux, so at this point the trackpad issue is a software problem for Linux to solve.
I'm sorry you are correct. I meant to say that by default it looks just like pygments.
Is there a reason they require device specific tests?

It's the "unknowns" not accounted for in the models that are the (potential) issue. If you have time read through this Ars Technica thread where a bunch of these questions are hashed out: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=116333...

For those without the time, I'll highlight one post from page 5:

"Unintentional radiators.

The reason they ask you to power down ALL electronics, and not just turn off radios, is that the oscillators (the clock that runs all digital devices) on the circuit board can act as miniature radios, in and of themselves, via clock signals on circuit traces. They emit at the clock frequency, and in some cases many higher level harmonics of those frequencies.

As I've stated several times, it's actually pretty easy to mitigate against known frequencies and signalling techniques...it's the ones you don't know about that are the problem. EMI can be downright spooky.

As an example: I was once testing a medical device (for the Medical Device Directive) that was required to failsafe, since it would literally be touching a patient (it was a combination pulseoximeter and a few other things all rolled into one.

There were numerous tests for both emissions and immunity, and things were going along ducky until we noticed two separate failure modes that weren't considered failsafe. At the time, we were testing ESD immunity up to 20kV. It would pass one time, and not another. We thought maybe we had a bad unit, so we got a few more from the manufacturer. That entire week we kept trying to figure out how to make the failure repeatable, without luck. My coworker and I went in over the weekend, and could simply not make any of the units fail at all, with the exact same test.

That's what triggered our thought process...what else could be causing the issue during the work week but not on a weekend?

Other immunity tests! Turns out, a dozen or so meters away, a different device was undergoing a different test...that wasn't required for the MDD. It was a conducted immunity test (it may have been Electric Fast Transients, can't recall) but the actual test signal was leaking out of that lab, and into our lab, via AC lines in the building. Our chief engineer submitted a proposal to add whatever test it was to the MDD, but I don't know whatever became of that.

I've seen simple clocks inside electronic gear cause CPUs to go haywire...in effect a single system interfering with itself. I've also seen extremely low power, yet very high frequency harmonics invade and corrupt function of another device, several meters away."
What is fundamentally flawed with the state of journalism is not what Mike Daisey does. He's an actor who created a one man show.

What is flawed is that journalists continue to mistake his one man show for investigative reporting.

The journalistic failings fall on journalists. Ira Glass from the transcript of the original This American Life piece:

When I saw Mike Daisey perform this story on stage,
when I left the theater I had a lot of questions.
I mean, he's not a reporter, and I wondered,
did he get it right?

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/t...

Rob Schmitz should be able to distinguish between a news report and entertainment. He should be able to provide context for the large themes in Daisey's performance given that they largely coincide with his own journalistic reports for Marketplace. He could have done actual journalism, instead he conflated theater with journalism and then revealed it as theater while pretending to conduct journalism.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/apple-economy/app...

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/apple-economy/china-c...

Rob Schmitz's investigation is the journalistic equivalent to revealing that Julius Caesar could not have said:

Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,
To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,
The barren, touched in this holy chase,
Shake off their sterile curse.

Because he did not speak Elizabethan English.
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Yup, you're all right, I copied the wrong snippet it seems. I don't know how that happened. And it's also true that that lambda doesn't have a closure (double fail) but in my experience a lambda usually implies the possibility of a closure. Is that a bad assumption? Thanks for the corrections.
Hahaha . I'm actually not really a fan of cricket , my cousin is .

When he came home today , he asked me to open up cricinfo for the score and i thought it was really a stupidly tedious thing to do and so WHOOPA i wrote a script :P
My guess is that it doesn't scale. It seems to violate the second law of thermodymamics.
Therefore, due to extensive end-user testing. We have deemed all devices safe to use.

Not at all: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=22383605#p22383...
I got a Thinkpad x301 (if you can get one) using Arch Linux and newest KDE. I am completely in love. Everything works lovely and fast with its 128GB SSD except for the fingerprint reader (haven't bothered to check if I can get it to work).

It has modest battery life but you can replace the DVD drive with an extra one. Amazingly light, perfect wifi and a light that illuminates your keyboard from the top.

I can do light gaming (age of empires 2, or America's Army 2.5) with integrated intel. KDE just flies.

I set circular scrolling and high sensitivity in touchpad, that way I can scroll without ever lifting the finger and work faster than with a mouse.
I wonder what that would do to the illegal drug industry.
Have you studied Touch Develop by Microsoft Research? They seem to have found a good way of enabling coding on touch devices. You can get more info at http://www.touchdevelop.com/
Hehe Thanks man ! :D

yes i will work on that for sure ..

Features ? Sure . Do let me know what all you want and i could try to code it in :) Btw you could just fork it and add the features in if you like :)
I wonder what degree of bilingualism is necessary. When I speak English, I think in English. When I speak Chinese, I think in Chinese. When I speak French, I think in English.

Moreover, when I speak to my parents, I can weave together English and Chinese to speak in the most efficient and accurate way. Those of you who have two native languages will probably understand what I mean. Some languages lack words to describe certain situations, and other languages are much more direct in describing them. Do we call this amalgamation of languages a third language, then?

I think there needs to be a distinction based on varying levels of fluency; I see it as a major contributing factor.
I speak English/Spanish once you learn another language you have the ability of learning others easier. For example because I learned Spanish I can understand much of Italian and Portuguese without having to study them. Think of it like learning C and then switching to something like Php yes it's different but you can make your way around.
So logically either:
There is a danger from these devices but 1, nobody has ever switched on an iPad/phone/ebook reader/tamogochi/iPod on a flight in the US - ever. Or 2, planes crash all the time but the government keeps it secret.

Alternatively an ebook reader doesn't emit enough RF to crash a 737.

On a recent Alaskan airlines flight you were allowed to use the $5 in flight WiFi - but Bluetooth devices were banned.
That's some pretty specific interference!
I lay my thumb on the bottom of the trackpad and hold it down, then my pointer is free to drag, lift away, reposition, and drag more. It's extremely convenient and certainly one-handed.

The trackpads are also multitouch, so they handle multiple hands as sensibly as you might expect.
Had to use one for months, went running to the better sensitiveness of my eeepc from Asus (model 1000, when they had quality parts) and the think pads clitmouse (i use touchpad there only for scrolling, all the area is a scroll wheel)

i think you are mostly comparing apple drivers to windows drivers.

The question is clearly about Linux. Where there's no such thing as bad scrolling implementation
I wouldn't compare this to TDD - the devices would have been built to 'test' specs the FAA puts out, testing via an FAA process would be a regular, repeatable things manufacturers could perform regularly, for a fee perhaps.

And... clients/bosses complain when testing takes a long time, which is what we're doing here to the FAA.

Given how many flights happen, with a variety of devices, you might think that with some extra devices and controlled test procedures, the FAA would be able to gather 'real world' test data (their devices, their tests, real flights, etc.) and make conclusions over the past 3-5 years.

MAYBE... then issue guidelines (or even paid-for device approval processes). Would Apple pay a few million to get an 'FAA-approved' sticker for iPads and iPhones? If there were specified guidelines and a testing procedure, more companies might work in that direction. I'd imagine there are guidelines, but not being in that industry, I don't know how easy to access they are. If there were public knowledge, I'd imagine device manufacturers already promoting "meets FAA guidelines for xyz", but since we don't see that, I have to assume they're not easily accessible.
Yeah, but locking out the region of origin is pretty comical.
Or you can just lift you finger, move it up where there's more space, and start dragging again, it's not complicated, actually it is very easy and fast.
He mention price. Didn't he?

No matter how much you downvote me, it still will cost 3x more than another model for the informed consumer. I know because all notebooks i have costs at least 1/3 of the apple equivalent.
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Dude! My bro brogrammed the sh*t out of this. He's my bro, for realz.
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What does the noprocrast setting do?
What does the 'noprocrast' setting do in my HN profile? It gives me a yes or a no, which is a little confusing since it's a double negative. It would be nicer if it was just 'procrast' and then it was set to yes by default, but what does procrast mean in this context?
I don't know how others prefer to drag, but I have the three-finger gesture enabled: holding down the fingers counts as a dragging motion, and if you release the fingers, it gives you about a second to lift the fingers, move them elsewhere, and continue the dragging motion. This way you can drag infinitely if you so desire, without a hardware button.
It's eye looks like the eye Argonauts used to draw on their ships. I am posting a link to an image when I find one.
Programming languages are much easier to learn than natural languages. The grammars are smaller and they don't rely on learning a massive list of exceptions like certain language do (such as Dutch, my second language).
This article would've made my life easier two years ago while I spent an entire day discussing the matter with my ex-Fiancée.
Its clitmouse. :) and i recommend you enable the touchpad for scrolling. On X you can configure all the area.
But there wasn't a big decrease when the chutes deployed. It took a while. I found that odd. I expected an immediate decrease in speed the second the chutes deployed. Maybe the counter wasn't synched with the video?
Many smartphone users are prevented from upgrading their firmware/OS. So even if the device lifecycles are shorter, developers cannot ignore legacy devices. If we look at the current Android stats for top entertainment app users:

Android 2.3.3+ = 50.79 %
Android 2.2 = 23.87 %
Android 2.1 = 7.22 %
Android 4.0.3 = 1.42 %

As a developer, am I really going to only target my html5 or native app for 4.0.3?

p.s. Sorry for the delayed reply. :)
That's like asking why integration tests are needed when individual modules have already been unit tested.
> He mention price. Didn't he?

He also mentioned ultrabooks. Last time I checked, all ultrabooks are in the Air's price range (give or take 10%, and not necessarily in the Air's disfavour).

> I know because all notebooks i have costs at least 1/3 of the apple equivalent.

It might just be that none of your notebooks are in the same category.
Weird, almost every time I have flown I see people using iPads and smartphones on the plane without any issues.

They do ask people to turn them off during take off and landing , but this is only a fairly small segment of the journey anyway.
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I think you can see ships in the background of the video, presumably for recovery. So maybe they know pretty close to where they land, close enough that they don't have to worry about hitting the ships. That's impressive.
The RPython translation to C sounds a lot like what cython is already doing with a subset of Python. Are the PyPy guys reinventing the wheel here?
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OMG !are you working as a programer ?
One wonders why the terrorists don't just buy a GNU Radio and a dish, and start dropping airplanes like flies.
They're not "crazy", but under normal circumstances with an illiquid investment like a startup, an investor has no incentive to shell out money that's just going to go into the pocket of a founder. Ideally, an investor wants 100% of their investment to go towards increasing the value of the company.

If the company is (for instance) profitable and on a clear trajectory, the incentives are different; maybe the investor in that situation is totally fine paying to take over some of the exposure of the founders. But at an unproven company?

The words "should" and "argument" don't really come into it. Company financing is a market. Don't want to accept liquidation preferences? Fine; wait for the market to get so frothy that desperate investors will fund companies without them, or don't take investments.
"I can't query all places in the code where the UI interacts with a database column." Why can't you?
Was very fun working on it!
If you guys have suggestions or questions you can find me (@altryne) or Ben (@benln) on twitter :)
Two things are totally different... The cave mentioned in the article only exists in northern China and is man made. While the cave in the picture you post is in souther China and is natural cave.
The x and t thinkpads have the same price issue of apple.

Plus the added disadvantage of no physical retailer to see the machine before buying.
from my experience, writing down/taking notes has increased retention.
Is this something to do with the action?
Every notebook in the planet can. You don't have to a) wait the manufacturer to offer you b) pay the amount they ask
Make them at least mid-five-figures a month, averaged out.
Dev time, you say. Well let me tell you a story. I am quite into 8-bit, I like buying micros from the 80s as junk and fixing them up. Recently, my old lady and I wanted a spreadsheet to track days off, vacations and so on. I could have done it on the quad-core, 8G Mac in Excel or online with Google Docs... But I actually did it in ViewSheet on a BBC Micro.

So dev time, well the last THIRTY YEARS of dev time haven't gotten me any anything I didn't have already.
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Odd. I have the Thinkpad equivalent (x120e) and I agree on almost all your points except performance. 720p plays fine in linux, 1080p plays fine too but only with vaapi acceleration. Have never booted windows on it, so I can't compare there.

Gaming wise, it can handle Xonotic at native resolution (1366x768) with most of the effects cranked up at 30 fps.

Did I mention changing the hard drive does not void the warranty?
He makes billions inventing, marketing & selling his own products.
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Does it include a primer on continually marginalizing Linux users?
That's crazy if it happens because VCs conceal the terms of their deal, or offer exploding deals that don't leave time for due diligence.

On the other hand, it's not crazy if the board knowingly accept those terms. If they do, it's because there weren't better terms to be had somewhere else. All of these terms have a dollar value. The more onerous the terms, the lower the implied valuation of the company.
The ips screen has more up/down blind color spots than the cheap version.

Can't say about color quality, but I'm cursing myself for getting one since i have to move my head up/down when i have to read the very top and very bottom of the screen with a dark colored image
It is strange the article makes no mention of grand central dispatch. It makes threading easy even for the most inexperienced developer.