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I remember when Nokia released the N770 Internet Tablet.
I was so excited for that is the beginning of some magical unified internet future that would be extremely mobile and extremely powerful.

And it's clear that some in Nokia saw where the convergence was heading. But as the N770 became the N800, you could tell that there were power rifts and in-house fighting about whether or not they should just push the concept into the phone.

Ultimately, as many people have noted, a mixture of arrogance, caution, and faith in Symbian kept a great Nokia internet phone from really happening.

Then the iPhone came out, and that was that.

I distinctly remember the Maemo forums where people were defending the N800 and how it was so much better. There was a particular thread where people brought up all the bits and bobs that Maemo did that iOS could not. It reminded me of my friends who were trying to convince me that MiniDisks were better than MP3s.

And that's when I sold my tablet.
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Facebook doesn't value an Instagram user at $30 at all. Dividing sale price by user count gives you a totally useless number in the wider context of the acquisition.
There are, officially, no interrupts. As for the other bits I'm doubting it but Notch hasn't said anything official.
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This seems like a fantastic service, and I'd love to take advantage of it. However, I feel like I have nothing to offer. I'm a 17 year old programmer/Rails developer, and I interned throughout this year with a 3 man Rails startup. I'd love to speak to a number of the people on OHours, but I don't want to waste people's time.
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GPL applies to code not content, the interaction between content and code gets very messy when it comes to GPL which was never really designed to handle content.

It's why it's now common place for GPL projects to licence the content part of their product under creative commons and the code under GPL.
For the opinion of the majority to be meaningful we would need similarly priced choices.

I have a glossy, wide display because that's the only 13" OS X computer money can buy. Please don't include me in an argument by majority. :(
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The widgets layout is one of the fields we're trying to improve next.

The UX guys are looking for a way to keep it user-friendly while allowing power users to have more control over the layout.

More news on this topic soon!
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I don't think the doors are closed permanently. I know you said you have seen the message before but I think you've just checked at inconvenient times. I added a new VPS just a month ago. If you need a VPS tomorrow then yeah I can feel your pain.
That's an assertion, and I'd love to hear the explanation behind it.
Why use "const int" there instead of #define? Far fewer issues with linkage and use in multiple files with #define.
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> OP mentions “wondering, playing, amusing yourself with your imagination.” Hell, build something.

Mathematics is like AI. As soon as a company/whoever builds upon one of the advances in the field and people en masse start using a practical result that comes out of it, it stops being called mathematics/AI. When we hear the word "mathematician" we almost right away imagine an absent-minded professor not contributing anything immediately useful to the real world.

People are basically arguing about language, not realizing that they are pawns of a subtle phenomenon that the name of a discipline taught in school refers not so much to knowledge based on and derived from that discipline in the world at large, but to the actual act of teaching that discipline to children and young adults, and sometimes to performing academic-model-funded (meaning charity-like funded) research.

It's a bit sad because this trick the language plays on us probably devalues in the eyes of young people something that is actually a useful/practical skill. Kids may say to themselves, "Why do I need this? I don't want to be a schoolteacher," and they will be both right and wrong at the same time, not realizing how many high-paying jobs from engineering to banks to Wall Street require the mental skill they chose not to spend time developing.
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Yes, I remember my uncle showing me this when we were doing some roofing. He then refused to believe me when I figured out a few other ratios that would also do the same thing.
Seems to me that the Kickstarter use case here has less to do with funding than gathering serious commitments to buy so that there's not a warehouse full of unsold inventory.
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Aren't there a number of publications covering this space that are run well and provide ethical coverage? Just read them instead.
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Football players don't lift weights on the field - yet they lift weights to gain strength and conditioning to prepare for what occurs on the field.

I was a math major in college. I don't use the actual math I learned, but 4 years of solving really hard math problems at Cal honed my problem solving skills and helped me develop a type of stamina to try my hand at them for long periods of time.

My grades weren't the best, and having math Olympiads in your classes sometimes makes things harder than they should be. That said, I treasure the experience. I learned to push myself in a way I hadn't before. I learned the value of being rigorous, and even the value of getting creative to solve problems. I learned that even after 4 hours of staring at a problem, I should keep at it because I may get that ah-ha moment at the fifth or sixth hour.

So do I use math everyday? Not really. Do I use the ability to solve problems, to abstract my knowledge in one area and apply it another, to carry through long logical thoughts everyday? You bet your ass I do.
But what will be the procedure when the computer is booted for the very first time(out of the factory, anew)?
Instead of banning them, it should simply inform the user:

"Your password is used by 1.2 million other people and can be easily guessed"
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Looks fine to me on mobile Safari. Maybe he's already changed it?
Very well said. Though it is worth noting the distinctions between different types of math.

I found my studies of theoretical math in college enormous fruitful just as I found jogging beneficial. But I thought doing numerous arithmetic problems in middle school to be of minimal value and the rote memorization of things like multiplication tables to be worthless.

In short, much like exercise, studying math should be done in a way that is pushing your personal limits at least a little.
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In addition to the great answer mentioned there, it should also be mentioned that every language referred to as functional still has the ability to use mutable arrays in some manner. Yes, even Haskell, it just requires you to carefully control where the mutation is used.
I'd imagine they'll block your IP quickly if you're sending a spacebar event for dozens of different location points every second.
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The watch is just a screen + radio, apps are entirely contained on the phone.
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Right, I guess I was just thinking of the opposite direction.

Usually I download something, look at it (more to see how it works, not security, but I digress) and then sh it.
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Just got to try it out now. I see that you can scroll inside the chat list, but as soon as the scrollbar gets to the end, it automatically starts scrolling the main page. Why? It seems annoying to me, because I expect it to do one action (scroll inside the chat) and it ends up doing another (scrolling the main page).
No, I didn't watch the video until your comment.

I prefer to skim a page to get the relevant info, most video demos go way too slow for my preference and waste a lot of time on bits I'm not directly interested in.

If this is from the inPulse group I would have honestly expected that to be more prevalent on the page instead of a casual mention in the video.

This was presented, IMO, as if the "Pebble" was an all new thing... No mention of inPulse, Kickstarter campaign usually implies "new stuff", etc.
I want Calyx to succeed. I really do.

But you said it: there's still too much identifying information left on the table.

There's another angle that threatens Calyx, too: they're just one rider on a "must-pass" bill away from being shut down and tied up in court. Or worse, made to _silently_ monitor your traffic after all their publicity about their privacy.

National Security Letters make it clear: the gag orders mean even if Nick Merrill wanted to tell you his company had been compromised, he wouldn't be able to.

There does seem to be a technical workaround, known as a "canary," where Nick Merrill posts a daily message far and wide signed from an air-gapped physically-secure private key that basically says, "Today is 11/Apr/2012. Under penalty of perjury, I have not been served with any legal threats."

Thus, the day the "canary" stops appearing, it becomes obvious what has happened; it seems that our current legal climate probably cannot compel him to _commit_ perjury, and his _inaction_ in posting his "canary" does not constitute a violation of any gag order; ironically, he conforms to it and by so doing alerts his customers to the problem.

Problems with this approach include:

• All the sites he has been using for the canary could get shut down simultaneously a la Megaupload

• Compromise of his private key

• Dwindling interest by his customers in checking multiple sits every day, even if the process can be mostly automated
Am I the only one who thinks that the new UI is not very pretty? It's all (un)balanced to the left (for big enough screens) and the gray frame feels like a cage.

Maybe some things work better, but I didn't have a good gut reaction at all seeing the new thing.

P.S. I didn't watch the explanatory video, they are good at those but I wanted to see what it was without guidance.
Something about what you have written doesn't sit right with me.

If Macmillan decided not to use the iBookStore and sell their ebooks on their own to the customer (the reader of the book), and all the other publishers saw that and thought, "Hey, that's a good idea", that would lead to the destruction of what you have called the publisher-retailer market.

Is it anti-competitive to choose not to participate in a market? It doesn't seem that way to me.

If I produce a product, am I not free to choose (or create) a market to sell this product? And can I not withdraw from that market whenever I see fit?
It would be purely for reading and typing things. I've got a Kindle, the ghosting is barely visible for me, the flash isn't that much of a bother either.
The band kids and the football kids never ask their teachers and coaches, “when will I ever use this”.

Because they are playing the flute and they are playing football. They enjoy it now and that's what counts, they don't even think about the future.

And yet they come into my math class and raise their hand half-way through my demonstration of the mean value theorem to ask me when they will ever use this.

Because the "mean value theorem" sounds like boring shit and their only hope is that it may be useful in the future.

If you teach them programming to solve their physics homework and make it a game using math, they won't ask.

Never.
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What are the client-side performance implications? I am worried about running this on mobile clients (mobile web or within phonegap). Three things in particular:

1. Running complex DB queries on the client

2. The in-memory database cache described in the documentation using a lot of memory

3. Having little control over how often the client hits the server and vice versa.
Well, from the video it looks pretty good. But is e-paper the best display technology to use here? Doesn't it get ghosting? What about PixelQi?
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I think my answer if asked this question in an interview would be "A trainwreck of legacy (in)compatibility layers designed to keep grandpa from losing his teeth after he's been dead twenty years.".
But everyone gets free coverage hear. Not to mention great feedback. We don't have to ask anyone to submit ShowHN articles.
I also think this is a step backwards. I was excited by the looks of it but the feel is very inferior. The feel reminded me of Microsoft Word somehow and thats not a good thing.
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As it is a netbook, I assume that the user puts much less demand on a GPU than he would on an Apple device. I was also thinking of using it on the road -- so no wifi.
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PGFouine is nice, but it needs a major do-over. It would be good written with a plpgsql backend running against database loaded csv log files, so that it could handle huge logs, unlike now.
That sounds pretty grand, congrats to you :)
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Thanks for clarifying.

I have recently had the experiences of meeting more than one person (not super-technical engineers, but tech-literate IT people) who were very negative about even the idea of owning Apple products, but also without prompting made statements like "I hate what Google is becoming", and "everyone used to like them but now they're evil". So I can assure you the sentiments aren't limited to such a small community.

Even if this were not so, complex criticisms of a technology business would reasonably be expected to originate within a skilled technical community with a demonstrated preference for an alternative. So if these critiques did happen to be limited to this community, this would still be no reason to conclude that they do not reflect Google's behavior.

Your statements like: And the reason is clear: since 2008 Android has represented the biggest single threat to Apple's increasing dominance. are clearly an ad-hominem because you are implying that their criticisms stem from loyalty to Apple as a company, as opposed to them actually reasoning that Google's products and strategies have become counter to their specific values.

I'd say it's just as reasonable to suggest that Android amongst other things has caused Google itself to change its values, and it is this change of values that people are calling out.

Saying things like "none of this speaks to the legitimacy of.." and "Some of it is deserved.." does nothing to mitigate the ad-hominem.

If the criticism is legitimate, or the statements are deserved, then it doesn't matter what phone someone has in their pocket.
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Yep, and that's one effect that I call "community myopia". This is a very wide spread phenomenon and it can be seen in almost every online community: members of a community have problems looking back at the support of their community and criticize it.
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But the difference is that HN content is posted by any random user. It is not employing a staff of self righteous, egotistical reporters to post crap about YC firms.

The content on HN is more honest, if you will...
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I couldn't locate that book in any library as a poor high school student bumping up against his own x86 assembler and graphics limitations. Years later, I managed to track down a copy of the paperback reissue. It was already well out of date, but I greatly value it to this day. Not only is it chock full of very interesting solutions, but the writing itself manages to be highly informative without being dry. It's an excellent example of technical writing done well.
At first face it looks a genius idea, but the more I think about it the less convinced I am about it all.

It seems as though it has combined automatic polling and asynchronous updating together, and has removed traditional controllers and models. Yeah, it's cool out of the box and yeah, it's great for scaffolding and rapid development.

But really, it seems like another stack to learn and completely depend upon, and with codebase that 'liquid' it seems like it's much riskier than doing things traditionally. I'd be worried that it auto-injects into the running app.

Don't get me wrong — it's amazing. But what's the real, actual benefit here?
No its just very low contrast text compared to its background.

Depending on how your screens contrast/backlight is, you may or may not be able to read the text.
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When your opposition can legally order predator strikes on you, imprison you indefinately without charge, torture you in it's own military prisons and secretly ship you off to 3rd world prisons for more torture - then I don't think little legal tricks like reverse canaries are really going to work.
Indeed, they've just posted this:
http://press.nokia.com/2012/04/11/nokia-lowers-devices-servi...

Shares are badly hit.
You're being too dismissive and you didn't read carefully. Their goal is to be unable to turn over information, and to that end, they say they'll discard the logs you refer to. So in theory, they won't have your cell phone location, what pages you visited, etc, or at least not for long. Your credit card is small potatoes by comparison; plenty of restaurants have that.

If they're also a telecom provider who can't comply with wiretaps, that's also huge.

Personally I think this is very exciting. Governments' game has been to make secret deals for surveillance; by announcing openly that they won't cooperate, this company will either succeed or may force the government to state openly the level of surveillance they demand. Citizens should know how out-of-control it's gotten.
You can withdraw from the market, of course. It's not anti-competitive to destroy a market by rendering it redundant. But that's not what is happening here.
I see lots of GitHub support... any plans to show BitBucket some love?

(We HG users need metrics too, you know...)
Nice point. Essentially these blogs serve as (indirectly) paid news with out the heading 'paid news'.
This isn't just a web framework where all the code is on the server, Meteor code is always distributed (to the browser) so I wonder if GPL is a complete non-starter. It doesn't matter if you want to charge or not, all of your modifications on the server side would seemingly need to be distributed back out.
Disclosure matters. Everyone knows what is going on here.
Gratuitous editorialization? It's a pretty simple description of the site.
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No. If it's const it is static be default. This is the kind of shit that makes the windows api the royal pain in the ass it is.
Re "the inherent joy in playing music" - isn't that the whole point of the article? When it's not reduced to mindless rote learning, there can be an inherent joy in doing math.
I think the only people I've seen using these sorts of low-level techniques on a regular basis were electronic engineers who were writing embedded code (specifically: for Wacom-style tablets). Then again, I've never worked with games programmers, but my friends who are games programmers don't seem to come near this level.
If you're not looking for a game industry job (Gamasutra), where do you suggest someone should look for a low-level job?
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Not necessarily. Popularity makes something more likely to be exploited. Compare PCs to Macs re: viruses. Also, many security issues were due to conventions in early versions of the language, e.g. register globals.
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"Shipments of Symbian devices are declining faster than we anticipated"

Why management thought that consumers considering a Nokia smartphone (perhaps generously?) over a bevy of competitors would pull the trigger instead of waiting until a Windows8 phone is ready.
The important question to me is will this lawsuit do more good than harm. Having the government establish when prices are too high (price fixing, Apple in this case) or too low (unfair competition, Google maps in France) is a risky situation.

Consider this quote from Milton Friedman talking about the antitrust suit against Microsoft in the 90s:

"Under the circumstances, given that we do have antitrust laws, is it really in the self-interest of Silicon Valley to set the government on Microsoft? Your industry, the computer industry, moves so much more rapidly than the legal process, that by the time this suit is over, who knows what the shape of the industry will be. Never mind the fact that the human energy and the money that will be spent in hiring my fellow economists, as well as in other ways, would be much more productively employed in improving your products. It’s a waste! But beyond that, you will rue the day when you called in the government. From now on the computer industry, which has been very fortunate in that it has been relatively free of government intrusion, will experience a continuous increase in government regulation. Antitrust very quickly becomes regulation."
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Well people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates either directly or indirectly disagree with your assessment. At first I thought you were simply being wide-eyed optimistic. However, now it actually seems insulting that you just seem to hand wave around and assume the traits people have who "make it".
>>National Security Letters make it clear: the gag orders mean even if Nick Merrill wanted to tell you his company had been compromised, he wouldn't be able to.<<

Wouldn't be able to legally. If he feels strongly enough about this to start a company, he may feel strongly enough to defy the law.

I hope so.
Here's some feedback : tapping the spacebar with the phone? That's dumb. Why? I have to hit hard for the "bump" to happen. But that's not really a problem since hitting a keyboard with a cellphone makes no sense. Consider another scenario :

a) The user clicks somewhere (or vocal command?) to enter a listening state.

b) Then he shakes his phone.
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