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Because, real wealth creation (not fake skimming or wealth transfer) =

1. extract raw materials

2. apply labor + capital + innovation + time

3. sell final product for more than cost of inputs

4. Profit!!!

This announcement takes #1 literally out of this world. Still dirty perhaps, but beautiful.
A great post for beginners. Also, beware of the fact that console.log() doesn't always print out the value of the object at the time it is logged; it can print out the value of the object at some time after the fact, leading you to believe there is a bug in your code when there is in fact none.

See also:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35801

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50316

http://stackoverflow.com/a/8249333/199475
Your all a bunch of morons. Since when in a civilized society to you think it is okay to belittle a guy for doing his job? By your description, he was simply looking at you and did not say anything. You are both allowed to look at each other. Your interpretation of his look is just your opinion but it sounds to me that you were the confrontational one. In what world is it okay for you to challenge anyone about meer look and reply with obscenities "What the fuck are you thinking?" I would have to say that this security guards suspicion about you was dead on. Get a life please and do not waste anyone's time again with your stupidity. I'm sorry I took the time to read your post and am now dumber myself for it.
Uh, if only it was this easy... Everyone i know is already using Dropbox.
AFAIK every odd-numbered version release of OS X breaks the networking on a significant number of machines.
@stephenhandley The readme has a link to a screencast that explains it a bit more.
The Incorporation of Hydro Storage into a Spot Price Model for New Zealand
It occurs to me that HFS might be the real culprit. A lot of the bad behaviors described here involve heavy disk use. John Siracusa has a nice round-up of all the HFS faults:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
What makes Korean touch typists really fast is the semi-regular symbol construction. Unlike an English keyboard (whether Dvorak or Qwerty), the Hanja consonants are primarily on the left while the vowels are on the right. So you typically have an alternating typing rhythm which can make typing extremely fast.

Dvorak, to a similar extent, seems to be closest to mimicking this style of typing (although I hear Colemak is better with the keystroke distribution).
Oakley Alinghi
Shark (Hive on Spark)
Free is a good option to start with. It will give your potential customers a reason to test your app - people rarely buy software nowadays without testing it. Also, it's a good way to get people to sign up for a newsletter.
Interesting, but it won't matter in the grand scheme of things because people will not waste the time it takes to exercise daily. If the researchers figured out how to get the benefits of exercise, which are supposedly awesome, then maybe it matters.

In fact I don't see why we fund any other exercise related research, or even most other health research at all until the exercise pill has been approved. Aside from the cure for cancer that is basically the only problem we have left worth worrying about.
That looks like a really useful resource, but seriously -- EXE or CHM files? I would have thought that a huge chunk of the people likely to be deploying nginx would be on either OSX or Linux machines...
Seems to me that from being an immigrant nation the US has become the Western country that is the hardest to immigrate to.
If you're bringing an object that close to home, I don't know why you'd need someone up there just to teleoperate the equipment. At that distance, the lightspeed delay gets low enough that the person with the joystick could work from earth.
A really cool chart on legal immigration into the United States for anyone interested in how hard it really is: http://i.imgur.com/yxTFW.jpg (posted here a few days ago, not sure who posted it though so no credit unfortunately)
No. The sequence of events concerning this in login:

0) `login -pf`

1) quietlog = 0

2) if ("-q" in argv) quietlog = 1

3) if (!quietlog) getlastlogxbyname(&lastlog)

4) if (!quietlog) quietlog = access(".hushlogin") == 0

5) dolastlog(quietlog) ->

6) if (!quietlog) printf(lastlog)

You can see from this that the "searching the system logs" (which, to be clear, is going to be really really fast: /var/run/utmpx is a small file with fixed length fields) happens in step #3, before .hushlogin is checked in step #4.

If you wish to verify, you can read the code at the following URL. Note that __APPLE__ and USE_PAM are defined for the OS X distribution of this code, while LOGIN_CAP is not.

http://opensource.apple.com/source/system_cmds/system_cmds-5...
This counters the tracking method used by the "Underpants Project" but does little to help against something more sophisticated that made full use of the remaining bits of identifying information.

According to Panopticlick, the biggest leaks of identifying information are the list of fonts and the plugin information string, neither of which seem to be guarded against by any existing tool except NoScript, though disabling Flash might help. However, even using NoScript, your information would still probably leak to whatever popular site is in your whitelist (e.g. Google or Facebook).

Unless someone hacks Flash to always sort the font lists and finds a way to fix the plugin list leak, one way to get rid of many of these leaks is to build a locked-down virtual machine containing a fixed set of fonts, a fixed screen resolution, UTC timezone, and possibly a fixed browser together with only the en-us locale to minimise HTTP_ACCEPT information leaks (which I presume to be the most popular one). Assuming the filesystem remains mostly untouched, the font list should always be in the same order for all instances of the VM. It might not be necessary to use any specific browser, but I presume there are many possible ways to identify a browser and perhaps even its exact version from its behaviour even without using the user agent.

Even after fixing all of the leaks identified by Panopticlick, the behaviour of the user could still be used for identification, perhaps by leaks caused by the user or by bugs and inadequacies in the "anonymisation suite". To pre-emptively counter this, an orthogonal approach like the one suggested by obituary_latte could be used (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3880822). Such a "random browser" might need to be active most of the day to minimise timezone leakage, though that might not be very practical, or even necessarily a concern for many.

Finally, a yet another thing that might help would be to use popular VPN services which would presumably reduce the amount of information leaked by your IP address.
When I was young, I had a problem learning to differentiante between the 'ㅓ' and 'ㅗ' sounds.

My way of remembering was to think of 'ㅓ' as the weaker (i.e. less powerful) sound associated with "dumb" or "uh" (same pronunciation), and 'ㅗ' as the stronger sound associated with an exclamation of "oh!" (same as your short 'o' sound reference).
I'm supposed to be teaching a class on introductory Python (students are doing their exercises now) and I want to scrap the rest of the day to talk about how phenomenally awesome this news is.

I'll settle for a strange, quiet sense of elation.
How we built Classyfy in 24 hours to win the Facebook UCLA Hackathon
This is completely unacceptable. With sandboxing, this destroys the freedom a user can have on a Mac. Time to abandon Macs.
The Creative Monopoly (David Brooks)
What makes you think this isn't about narcissism?
I agree - do your masters if you can afford to. People rarely get the chance later in life to do intense studies when you got a full time job requiring overtime, family and other responsibilities. In the end it's a better investment that will benefit you for many years to come.
The sad thing is, almost every major app on Android has gotten this wrong. I was personally the one who contacted the Facebook for Android developer to beg him to use their own app's account sync when they released FB Chat for Android. Of course there was a silent update two days later that did not require the silly and redundant login.

There are many things like this. Developers whine that "it doesn't work well on Android" because they don't bother to learn how it should work on Android and just port their iOS app are surprised that it doesn't work well. iOS and Android are pretty darn different when it comes down to the details that matter in applications.

(IE: Instragram on Android is almost silly, whereas it seems nearly necessary to make the camera in iOS worthwhile).
Unfortunately these changes aren't summarized. The differences are all the 'feature' bullets in the changes webpage from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0. I've assembled these below:

- the $connection_requests variable.
- $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables.
- the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD.
- the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives. Thanks to Samuel Behan.
- the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive.
- the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to return 307 redirections.
- the "disable_symlinks" directive.
- the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path" directives.
- multiple "limit_req" limits may be used simultaneously.
- the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the "ssl_protocols" directive.
- the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock", "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock_timeout" directives.
- the "pcre_jit" directive.
- the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular expressions.
- the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive. Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov.
- the "if_not_empty" parameter of the "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives.
- the $https variable.
- the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the first parameter.
- the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions.
- the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By default TTL returned by a DNS server is used.
- support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level.
- the "image_filter_sharpen" directive.
- support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive. Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
- "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate,
- decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used.
- the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives. Thanks to Peter Smit.
- the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module.
- the "proxy_http_version" directive.
- the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
- the "worker_aio_requests" directive.
- the module ngx_http_mp4_module.
- the "max_ranges" directive.
- now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris. Thanks to Den Ivanov.
- accept filters are now supported on NetBSD.
- cache loader run time decrease.
- "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold" options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives.
- loading time decrease of configuration with large number of HTTPS sites.
- now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers. Thanks to Adrian Kotelba.
- the "lingering_close" directive. Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
I think this Macbook Air will be my last Apple computer. I'm done with the company if they're going to play these kinds of games.
Pretty impressive reach for class notes. They were excellent though.
In Pursuit of Riches, and Travelers’ Supplies, in the Asteroid Belt
I'd crash them into the moon (no atmosphere, so they wouldn't burn up on entry) for about a decade, then send ore-processing robots to smelt them down, then figure out later how to bring the results back.
A Rakefile for dotfiles? Seriously?
Show HN: gifBase - user tagged gif database built with Slim PHP
Built using Slim (http://www.slimframework.com/) as a base, Idiorm as an ORM (http://j4mie.github.com/idiormandparis/), Twig for templating (http://twig.sensiolabs.org/), and Skeleton as a clean CSS framework (http://getskeleton.com/)

Goal is a well-tagged database that gives you a gif for every emotion/scenario. Just hit 500 submissions. Feedback appreciated, submissions even more so.

Hope some people find it useful.
Hackathons Saved My Life
Or you could do like Torvalds and get a Macbook Air but install another OS on it. Criticize the software all you want, the hardware is still damn good and at the top of what you can get.
Whoa, peace! I haven't ignored your points, only disagreed with them. I agree that the .NET open source ecosystems are probably not as "strong" as other frameworks, but this doesn't mean that they aren't doing interesting or leading edge things.

Agreed that people outside of .NET embrace open source more easily, but disagree that they don't embrace leading edge technologies. As an example, when LINQ was released, it was widely taken up.

Where I'm disagreeing with you was in your statement "the .NET ecosystem and culture is notoriously corporate, and not very innovative or leading edge". It may well be a framework loved by corporations ("notorious" is an emotive term with no substance), but you haven't proven to me that they don't innovate or that the ecosystem or culture is not leading edge. I appreciate you've committed to .NET projects, which is awesome, but argument through authority isn't really anything to disprove what I've said!

Sorry if you feel that I've ignored your points, but I raised LINQ as just one example, you dismissed Microsoft's embracement of dynamic languages in the framework and WPF and WCF aren't innovative apparently. Like I say, we can agree to disagree!

Edit: I've reread the thread, and I can see the bone of contention. My fault here: I talked merely about the leading edge technologies, whereas I was objecting more to the assertion that there was little or a minority of innovation. Of course, I didn't actually state that so the discussion went on a bit of a tangent. Sorry about that!
I think you should stay in school. I never say that to anyone but 1 more year at a good university will fly by, most american kids take 5 years for a liberal arts degree at a state school. Like the other poster said, startups come and go.
Nate - did you talk about startups at UIUC circa 2010? If so, you (inadvertently) introduced me to the world of startups as well as the YC community, and for that, I am grateful. Life changing stuff - you have no idea.
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"by default" are the key words here. It is very easy to disable this behavior, if you don't want it. But, it is a good (read: relatively safe and secure) default to have for the average person.
Will there be a version without the GPU?
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Really? This is your advice? The guy probably spent months building the app and the best you can come up with is recommending the free option?

Yes, free can also be a business model, but there needs to be a lot of consideration put into it, because even free biz models need to make money at some point.

I'd say anything but free. If the app is really useful, like he says, people will pay for it (provided he has a proper landing page). I agree some free trial based period like 14 days or a month but definitely charge money for your app. It'll filter out freeloaders and let you focus on paying customers (providing great support, adding features faster...)
> i get more emotionally heated about such things because i have contempt for his delusion of authority or power.

sometime people who have no real power will cling to whatever little power they have and assert the hell of out that (put their hands on their gun, stare at people like he did)

find it is interesting to play along and indulge them, i kind of feel sorry for them, it is the little pleasure in life they have, and i just enjoy seeing them gloat with their fake power trip.
This is amazing. Thanks for posting the link. You're awesome.
yeah but its the only real alternative for R/W support in OSX and Windows for large volumes. I've had corruption issues with NTFS and HFS+ drivers :-(
One type of immigration (aka Student/Skilled migration) is based on points.

The rest are a mixture of bribery, and racism. (See parent-contributory, english requirements, etc).

All of the above only get you Permanent residency (You can't vote, or receive non-health related welfare).

Once you can speak and read english fluently you can apply for citizenship.

Hardly a 'points based system'.
Compile .NET Code In A Browser
'B'. You got a 'b' (unless I'm very much mistaken).
None of these posts detail how to actually replace the kernel, only how to build it, nor what happens when Apple ships an update that changes the kernel.
This is awesome! Finally I can store my gifs somewhere and easily access them.
Nah people know about it, I know at least a hand full of companies (personally, there are certainly others) that use said law to get workers into the U.S. and working for them.
Now seriously, as a software developer, what would be the best skill set to help these guys... As soon as I can afford it I would knock at their door and work for them for free. What would be most usefull for them (or spaceX)... A lot of C, C++, knowing NASA's open source repos in and out, doing MIT online courses on robotics and astrophysics... ?
Granted; but skilled migration is still an excellent pathway to Australian citizenship via permanent residency if you've got desirable skills.

That said, Australians in turn have access to the E-3 visa in the USA, which is a pretty sweet ticket.
Reuters: Google Drive to offer up to 100GB of storage
Chronicle mini-story on Zed Shaw
Driving application development through Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
Lead gen
Now, more than ever, the online marketplace needs effective lead generation that is targeted and yet wide enough to spark interest in the unlikely consumer market.
Maybe...

But given that she was really motivated to master a challenge that was really hard, perhaps, just perhaps she justified her efforts by convincing herself that the results were really worthwhile.

So perhaps the policy is just, exactly right. After all, you don't see a lot of fat happy native born talking about living the American Dream (I hear them saying "you have to asleep to believe it" but as we see, there are other alternatives)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini#Influence
Ah, you mean you'd like an explanation of those concepts? Well, I think I more or less understand the details by now, but it would take some effort to put it all into words. I'm afraid I don't quite have the time for that at the moment, so this was more meant as a suggestion for the author of the article to look into.
Considering how much software is still not on the Mac App Store (notably Microsoft Office), the idea that Apple could shut off non-store software completely is pretty fantastical and unrealistic. At that point they lose me as a customer, for sure.

That said (and as a Mac fan), I don't like this move.
I'm a little surprised that billionaires haven't already done things like launched a couple more Hubble telescopes. The design is already done and debugged, just clone it, and launch it.

The same for several other successful interplanetary probes - build a (relatively) cheap fleet of clones of successful designs, and send them out to explore the solar system fully.

Heck, you don't even have to come up with all the money yourself. Sell advertising on the mission. Having a logo on the rocket, and logos on the returned pix, etc., are all fantastic opportunities for advertising.
CoinLab Attracts Venture Capital for Bitcoin Projects
Eventually, you just start getting the tones right because you speak and listen so much. I can get by native sometimes (limited only by my bad vocabulary) and I've never study tones consciously for words I learn.

When I'm really tired, I sometimes change my 'sh' to 's' and sound more southern. Nobody really cares. However, I do screw up sometimes when saying words like "jichang" and "jingcheng," and will wind up on the wrong expressway in the taxi. This has not much to do with tones though.
OpenFlow Doesn’t Undermine Vendors Even Though It Changes Everything
> he anti-photo/video side uses the bogus argument that people taking photos or videos will interfere with police business.

that is a common pattern in authoritarian regimes -- a slew of catch-all laws that can be applied selectively. there is "interfering with police business", "interfering with official business", and whole set of others that can always be used to at least get you to the police station.
"One possibility the company is considering is to nudge a small asteroid, perhaps one as long as a football field, into an orbit around Earth closer than the moon."

I hope they're careful. :-)
In fact, a lot of the exploration journeys of the 1800s were financed by advertisers and newspapers looking to sell newspapers.
But unfortunately they are not summarized anywhere.
For one thing, last I looked, Chrome Beta requires the GL_OES_egl_image extension for off-thread texture upload, and had support for the ICS-only SurfaceTexture (although judging by the WebKit source that's ifdef'd out). GL_OES_egl_image support is very spotty on pre-ICS devices.
True. What you say must imply that no PRNG-generated sequence has a particularly high K complexity (> len(PRNG)). What still interests me in this scenario is that a true random source can still generate the same sequence as a PRNG. In that case the complexity of the string becomes small. So for a given true random source you can still get strings with low K complexity. Does this affect cryptography in any way?
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Harvard Library pushes open access
That's fine, until they start requiring signed code just to boot. Apple started out in an environment like that; it wouldn't surprise me if they tried to get back to that.
"The minimalist interface all but removes the need to think. With a click, a photo is taken and all kinds of sensory and social rewards ensue."

This is drivel. Half of the content is even linkbaited away.
Ask HN: Do I need and how do I make a Terms of Service page for my web app?
I have a casual side project that involves some image uploading and sharing. Is a ToS really necessary? Do I really have to get a lawyer to write one up? Can't I just write some human-readable text? There isn't any money involved, except for ad revenue.
The only thing more annoying than people who regularly commit logical fallacies are teenagers who argue on the Internet having just read the wikipedia page on logical fallacies.

For example: "the british medical association has said that smoking increases risk of cancer" therefor it is best not to smoke.

At which point you will get "Aha! You just committed appeal to authority and a slippery slope fallacy, you must be wrong!".

I suppose this is partly because in real life arguments we very rarely have sufficient knowledge in any subject to make concrete formal arguments based on direct observations, we are usually discussing the likelyhood of different things being true.
Diversity & Inclusion Make Business Sense
great! i can move around with h, j, k, l ..... so what now? nothing happens then i time out and get sent back to little person blocking the bridge. is it my browser, ie firefox?
Nice gesture from an accomplished programmer. Makes me be appreciative of the field I am in. SO much of what I have learned over the years has been the same way. I always say Github has been the most humbling experience of my career. Just when I start to think I'm the smartest guy in the room I'll crack open a project I haven't seen before and be amazed at what other people have thought of that never even crossed my mind before, yet I'll see the immediate benefit in it.

This is seriously one of the cooler things I've seen any engineer do. Thank you!
> skilled migration is still an excellent pathway to Australian citizenship via permanent residency if you've got desirable skills.

and fluency in English.