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It never did. It has simply been much more secure. The "security by obscurity" claim was a rationalization of windows fans to justify why the mac was so much more secure.

Anyone who genuinely understand security understands that obscurity is not a form of security. There are many incidents of high profile targeted attacks against owners of macs that could have occurred in the past two decades if Apple hadn't been taking security more seriously.
I don't think everyone's doing it for fun, I'm sure there are savvy dudes out there that know that there's a lot of money to be had by being a first mover in the Notch ecosystem.

But even those that are doing it for fun -- you might be underestimating the amount of nerd rage that people are capable of when stuff they don't want to have happen happens. Just sayin'.
Their DSLT and mirrorless cameras, while well behind CaNikon in popularity, are becoming more popular and more importantly, gaining respect because they're actually innovating when it comes to cameras rather than the more-megapixel, high-ISO chest-banging that tends to go on.
> You've turned something that's a person's fault into something that's the language's fault.

> You're taking a look at other people's code, and judging the language from it.

At some point, you have to start blaming the language for fostering an environment where that code is acceptable.
Changelog vs API diff
I use trello but there are things I find cumbersome about it too. I'm definitely interested to see how thetaboard develops.
It's not because Github is our main source but because we have more people from Github registered (we have connectors to support git, svn, cvs and hg open source projects from any forge).

Would be great to see people from other communities and/or languages (i.e jquery ranks 13 but John Resig is not even registered)
Which is why there are botnets of millions upon millions of Macs out there infected by viruses, while its really big news that a trojan manages to get 600,000 infections on Windows.

Oh, no, wait, its the reverse!
Apple retail stores do a great job in this area of customer service and really trying to help the customer. Too bad their product selection is limited.
A few more:
http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
https://developers.google.com/fusiontables/

There are plenty more 'databases' in the cloud. Even ones just providing say a generic mysql instance, with a HTTP interface.
I guess it is also worth slightly less than 800 AOL patents. I think it is just how much someone will pay for it vs "worth". How can you really arrive at an estimate that NY Times ~ Instagram ~ 800 Patents anyway?
- Apple sets the market
- Toshiba talking about screen sizes as a differentiator is not speaking to the market that apple has largely defined, and is highly unlikely to redefine the market.

I'm not sure how much more clear I can make it. Enjoy your new iPad!
From an earlier paper:

> such super-Turing capabilities can only be achieved
in cases where the evolving synaptic patters [sic] are themselves non-recursive (i.e., non Turing-computable)

"Interactive Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks are Super-Turing", 2012, Jérémie Cabessa
http://jcabessa.byethost32.com/papers/CabessaICAART12.pdf

So, create a neural network that changes after a non-Turing-computable pattern and its output might not be Turing-computable.
But the first C compilers were written four decades ago by a couple of people in a matter of months. And they were not just writing the compilers but also designing the language at the same time.

"When Steve Johnson visited the University of Waterloo on sabbatical in 1972, he brought B with him. It became popular on the Honeywell machines there, and later spawned Eh and Zed (the Canadian answers to `what follows B?'). When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted to find that the language whose seeds he brought to Canada had evolved back home; even his own yacc program had been rewritten in C, by Alan Snyder."

-- Dennis Ritchie, who wrote the first C compiler. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html
It's fairly easy to ensure that there isn't a lot of debris from an object at high altitude consisting mostly of composites and rocket fuel.
man, you can use pagodabox and go from dev to prod with one line of code as well.
The topic is BYOD. "Requiring" a full device wipe is a problem here then, I hope you can see - the remote server has no authority to require such a thing. That's a bug, whether it's a bug with institutions and software licensing, or with implementations, it's still a bug for proper BYOD support.
I heard Google Plus's Vic Gundotra say the same thing at SXSW. There is definitely a time and a place for ads, and while you're viewing intimate social content might not be that time.

However... recently I've been seeing facebook ads where they are simply reshowing old status updates from my friends where they have linked/liked products, and pages. I'm not sure that reminding me of things my friends have liked and linked to isn't a more meaningful advertising experience. It's certainly not sufficient to support Facebook, but it feels like a new, possibly more valuable, kind of ad.
That's the premise behind http://pair.io
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Great analogy. They are at the right place (with viral growth and momentum) at the right time (sitting between two at war competitors). I hope this doesn't set a bad example though. It's not like every company with viral growth is going to be acquired for such expensive valuations.
I'm just calling it what php.ini calls it.

The settings related to displayed errors in the page are error_reporting and display_errors. The error logging is a totally sperate group of keys starting with log_
After reading comments on other websites, im also shocked that people think its so easy to have someone else phone blocked.
Trying not to start a controversy or hijack this to an unrelated news story - but my first thought when the whole Trayvon Martin thing happened - the thing that alerts Neighborhood Watch types in bedroom communities isn't "walking while black," but just plain old "walking." It's suspicious.
Where politics meets orbital mechanics.

Texas hates government, so Texas hates Nasa, so Texas will be willing to throw grants/tax-breaks/permit waivers at anyone that looks like a non-government alternative to Nasa
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And again you make the same mistake. You take one solution, you say it doesn't work like your favorite solution (while obviously all proper solutions should be done exactly like the one you prefer, since there's only one right way to do anything and it's, not surprisingly, exactly the way you prefer) and you make it the fault of the language used for it's implementation. How that even makes sense?

I write code in a number of languages, and there's nothing "challenging" in writing proper code in PHP. The fact that your example has nothing to do with code quality or language only underlines that.

> "And, like a wiki, it's useful to have them all in one place."

Maybe, but that article isn't it.
PHP has a wiki: http://wiki.php.net/. You want to list things you want fixed in PHP and have it in one place? Ask for an account and maintain a page there. Rehashing old tired "strpos doesn't have underscore and str_rot13 has, oh noes!!! I can't use language with missing underscore!!!" is really stale by now and doesn't contribute anything new.
It's published in Neural Computation, it says so right there in the article.
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This got me thinking about whether "fly-by-wire" vision will ever be viable (or preferable) to human vision and how various sight impairments would be dealt with using such a system. Certainly myopia would be a trivial fix since the image could be placed directly in front of the eye, but how would you correct for hyperopia without a convex lens between the eye and the display?
I think they could absolutely do that. It's possible they could do both — reintroduce the MacBook and also reduce the Pro form factor down to match the Air. At that point, the question becomes "how would they sufficiently distinguish between the regular and the Pro" ... and that might be where retina displays, higher storage, touchscreens, etc. come into play.

The tiering strategy is what I find really interesting, so that's what I wanted to explore with the post. But, yeah, I could see them dropping the optical drive, and that seems to be what most people project will happen.
The thing is that you could do all that on a Turing machine, so any model just "fudging" infinite precision would be equivalent in power to a Turing machine.
Regardless of how experienced he was technically, think this is another case, among many, that demonstrate just how important it is to have sharp marketing instincts.

Behind every internet hit was a lot of clever marketing and positioning that really made it (facebook, zynga, groupon, mint, plentyoffish, hotornot, the list goes on).
I don't understand how the Instagram brand is worth $1,000,000,000.
Why? Biologically inspired ANNs have been around since the 50s. What's the problem with trying to model neural computation?
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I used screen for five years and could never internalize the copy/paste key bindings for scrollback, and screen doesn't let you configure them. I was more comfortable in tmux after an hour than after years of screen due to it being able to just work with Emacs bindings.

Apart from this, most of the advantages are only noticeable in a multi-user setup. The socket-based session sharing is great, (it just uses unix permissions) and the fact that it automatically resizes to the smallest display is a huge usability improvement. When we paired with screen we would always have to jump through hoops to make sure the guy with the smaller display joined last or he'd be unable to see everything.
Yet another emulator/debugger for DCPU-16 written in Java (VERY OO)
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No. Thanks for the catch.
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Well, but those 18 person-years did their part to allow those person-weeks.
That is: I agree, technology got far. But there's a second phenomenon involved: human knowledge. Technology steps happen in generations, often restarting from scratch. Knowledge steps on the other hand most come incremental (well, with some losses here and there). We're standing on the shoulders of giants.
I guess the person stole the title of the book instead
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"no one takes AI research seriously"

Really? You don't think modern AI research has produced any serious results? Do you know how many applications machine learning methods are used in today?
Why do some people almost always get their ideas shot down?
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No, stronger. It means the Halting Problem can be solved. Time to break out the bubbly! Or not.

The more I look into it, the more this Super-Turing business sounds like the computability-theory version of FTL neutrinos. According to Martin Davis, Siegelmann's paper involves neural nets with arbitrary real-numbered (as opposed to integer or rational) weights being able to recognize languages on the alphabet {a,b} that a Turing machine can't.

So you have this thing that can get uncomputable results because it's given uncomputable inputs! In other words, no more interesting, or practical, than attempting to do computation with the n-body problem, and almost certainly nothing we can actually build.
I'm the post's author. I submitted it to HN a couple of weeks ago, but it didn't get much attention; I'm happy to see more comments this time around.

Regarding IDEs: I guess it's a matter of taste. I don't like IDEs, but I wouldn't mind using one as long as it allowed me to code in my editor of choice.

Plotting: I decided to scratch my own itch, and created Gaston, a gnuplot interface. It already offers quite a bit of functionality. It's available at https://bitbucket.org/mbaz/gaston/

nargin vs length: this is something I overlooked when I wrote the article.

I will post a new article with the perspective and knowledge that working on Gaston has given me. I already know what the conclusion will be: julia stands a very good chance of becoming the new standard language for technical computing.
I think its a great idea and I would love to see something like this... Whenever you challenge people in power, however, its inevitable that they are going to fight back, provided your challenge is strong enough for them to take notice and potentially feel threatened. I would hope our country hasn't become that much of a police state yet to where they would immediately label you as a terrorist etc (but sometimes I worry it may already be this way), however you never really know what is going to happen and the potential for some corrupt charges to be brought against you would always be there. The way I see it, if you are going to make apps like this, either make sure you stay anonymous, so they can't find you (and it takes considerable effort to do this) or be prepared to make connections, get donors, etc and be prepared for a legal fight at some point. Hopefully a day will come when this isn't the case but I don't think we're there yet and it seems this is a point in history where the old establishment is feeling particularly threatened so just make sure you know what you are getting into before you put too much effort into the project.
What brand value? I never hear anyone talking about Instagram in real life, ok, maybe in some twitter feeds. But they'll go move on to the next big thing if the next big thing gave them more of what they wanted. Instagram is probably a bigger brand name to hackers, and developers than it is to regular users.
Here's the thing: it's not real money. It was a part cash and part shares deal, and the facebook valuation is fantasy till they float. So what they were really arguing here is a) how much cash they could get out now and b) how much instagram is worth as a proportion of facebook.
Not for now. Depends on the total registered developers and their personal score.
I'd imagine Apple just releasing a 15" MacBook Air. Keeping it simple.
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I think you're greatly underestimating the value of Google's content network, and display advertising in general. While the majority of Google's ad revenue still comes from search, Google's display advertising is sizable, and growing quickly. In fact, it's the fastest growing advertising segment for Google, having doubled last quarter to a $5B annual business from $2.5B annual business just a year ago. The crazy thing about this is that while Google “owns” the vast majority of web search advertising, they still only control less than 10% of the webs display advertising. Source:http://adage.com/article/digital/search-drives-google-displa...

Remember, Google's content and display advertising technology is only in its nascent stages relative to its Search technology. Display advertising technology is a little trickier than search advertising, as search advertising by nature of its use of keywords has targeting built into itself. Good display advertisement targeting requires the conflux of accurate user data, accurate interpretation of web content, and the understanding of advertisers goals. In some regards, it seems Facebook has a much better system to meet these needs, or at least, the potential for a better system.

On top of that, you also have to keep in mind the almost exponential growth we’re seeing in mobile platform usage. I would posit that social applications are going to make much better platforms for mobile advertising than mobile search. Just anecdotally, consider the amount of time that you and your peers spend searching on your mobile phones or tablets versus the amount of time you spend say on Facebook or social new aggregators. I would assume your social apps usage is much higher. Also, now consider from the user experience perspective how poorly advertising on mobile search would be. The times you’re searching on a mobile device is generally more often out of immediate needs, and if a user is getting an advertisement in such a rushed condition, especially with limited screen real estate, it’ll make for a much greater inconvenience than being interrupted by an advertisement while browsing a social app.
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This is part of the reason my wife and I are moving closer to the city. I've been stuck in the suburbs my whole life and you have to drive literally everywhere. The thought of being able to stroll over to the local market is very appealing to me.
> Nobody's saying you can't build app X in PHP, but it's likely that your competitor using a better language will get there first.

This is far more subtle than you think it is. The "speed" at which a team develops has very little to do with the actual language. The amount of time spent writing with the language pales in comparison to the time spent considering how your application will function, how you will structure it, and what you will call everything.

You may find, however, that it is easier to find teams that think in the "right way" in some language communities versus others. IMO, the community of developers that fit this "right way" of thinking (for startups) is migratory, so the answer today might not be the answer tomorrow. You need a team that balances conceptual purity with the pragmatism of results-based decisions.

The speed at which one language can be written versus another only applies in an "all other things being equal" scenario, and these scenarios almost never exist. The big differences in "time to successful solution" will almost always be decisions that aren't related to the language you choose.
That's the worst ranking that I can possibly think of. It doesn't even use Google Scholar, which may introduce an interesting metric, like cited papers from universities.

Also, how do people not know this already? The results number in Google is wrong. It's just an inaccurate estimate designed to give people the "wow" factor when you search in Google.
I went back and forth between a MBA 13" and a MBP 17". There are stark contrasts here. So why did I end up with a MBA 13"? It has the form factor akin to the iPad; in that you can take it anywhere. When you're carrying a MBP or other larger notebook around you sometimes feel like you might be carrying too much with you.

The higher resolution on the MBA convinced me overall. Since I've had the MBA, I guestimated that I'd use "Remote Disc" at least a few times. I've never used it and never needed to. Software on a disc is almost always older than what I can download online, I don't play games or music - but if I did it would be digital/App Store anyhow.

A 15" Air would be a great addition.
Besides, as a matter of sheer fact, the Chinese get more annual leave days than, say, Americans.
It's always interesting to compare the crowds in the Sony and Apple stores at the local upscale shopping center. Sony tends to have a couple of bored salespeople standing around twiddling their thumbs. Meanwhile the volume of business at the Apple store seems to be limited primarily by the fire code.

Amazing how far you can go in business if you refrain from suing, hacking, and generally fucking over your own customers.
Interesting, Spaceport America [1] is at 33 degrees N Lat, so 5 degrees north of Kennedy and 8 degrees north of this proposed spot. Now what delta-v difference you get per degree of latitude I do not know.

I've often wondered why we didn't keep part of Panama for the purposes of space launch. Not forward thinking I guess.

[1] http://www.spaceportamerica.com/about-us/faqs.html
What this analysis fails to point out is that the NYT company has about 2.3 Billion dollars of liabilities. Instagram is presumably debt free. Thus if you look purely at the market value of the business, instagram is still worth less than one third of the NYT.

People complaining about the troubles of newspapers tend to forget how in the nineties, when newspapers were doing very well, they all got greedy and loaded themselves with large amounts of debt in order to go on monopoly seeking acquisition sprees.
I live close to the downtown core of my city and my daily commute is a 6 km (3.7 mile) round trip by foot. People seem to think this is exotic if not downright subversive, whereas they think nothing about sitting in a car for an hour a day and stopping off at the gym for a workout.

Note that I'm not in particularly good shape and a walk of this magnitude is not at all difficult. I arrive at work every day refreshed, alert and in a good mood, and I arrive home after work feeling the same way.

You couldn't pay me enough to take a job at which I was forced to drive, though I wouldn't mind cycling to work if the distance was too long to walk in a reasonable time.
I didn't really understand why from the article, but that's pretty cool nonetheless!
But once you dig down, it becomes a less rosy picture for Dr. Web. The citation for the 1992 date doesn't actually appear to contain that information. It's a bunch of rather poorly written(perhaps by non-English speakers) reviews that don't actually give much useful information about the company or product. Secondly, the website that posted all the test results has not had any activity for over a year.

Their download.com cleaner software has not been updated since 2010.

Finally, a Google search comes up with their main website, wikipedia page, news stories with about their discovery, and several other links to sites that feel like antivirus phishing pages rather than legitimate links.

All-in-all, there isn't enough content to really judge them as absolutely trustworthy. It's really a brand recognition issue in a space where trust is absolutely key in evaluating claims. Kaspersky has the brand and trust worldwide. Dr. Web appears to have it in Russia, but not nearly as much outside of the country.