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I requested last year for an educational account ... but it never got approved. For two courses this semester I was able to manage with gh-pages [shameless advert: http://tathagata.github.com/pwndeals and http://tathagata.github.com/finmotion ], but the database course, I really wish I was able to use git ... but too big for the free membership.

Also, for some assignments Professors wont like the idea that you make your code public - simply to prevent cheating and that they want to reuse assignments. Being able to have private repos really make sense in those situation.
http://vizwiz.org/

> VizWiz is an iPhone app that allows blind users to receive quick answers to questions about their surroundings. VizWiz combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user's social network in order to collect fast and accurate answers to their questions.
It seems at least necessary to do the classic "Hey, Microsoft, we have a credible alternative, give us good pricing" move, if nothing else. Given that Microsoft is a direct competitor with Games for Windows it's not a great move for Valve to be dependent on them, lest they get Lotus'ed or something.
With the power of open source, "many eyes make all bugs shallow".

Wouldn't be a hoot if someone ran this through a simulator, and discovered a bug that had eluded NASA?
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Indeed, one would expect to drive to work in an M5 or pick-up groceries without making a scene. The M5 is a very expensive "everyday" car albeit with 7 speeds. People purchase it because they're optimizing for a "total experience" and will seriously think twice if the dashboard (or any other component) makes them say "WTF!".

On the other hand, Lamborghini knows it isn't going to lose significant sales because Dolce and Gabana (or whoever) did the UX for the dashboard!
No.

They adhere to DMCA takedowns:

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The rest is covered by the privacy policy, which states that they don't sell your data to 3rd parties, but as with all cloud services it may be subject to "lawful access": http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

It's also worth mentioning that Google Apps accounts have different sets of policies.
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If he has an iPhone, ask him to check out: http://vizwiz.org/
Tickets are now limited to 1 per person, or 5 per organization, which should help with scalping problems from previous years:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/

It's going to be a tight squeeze - most of the hotel space is already filled in the city due to the US Open taking place over a superset of these dates.
This is a nice addition to other Node.js tutorials. But a few gripes I have:
1) No explanation of callbacks or event-driven architecture
2) Mac specific instructions only. Why would you limit your tutorial to a specific brand of hardware? Please include Linux instructions or at least a link. Not everyone who wants to code wants to overpay for their hardware. Macs are great, and they are priced as a luxury good, and are consequently completely unaffordable for developers in the non-Western world.

I recommend that folks new to Node check out some much more in-depth tutorials that actually explain callbacks and event-driven design.
Google for "Mixu's node book" and "The Node Beginner Book" for a more in-depth introduction to Node.
Just in time for being ported to DCPU-16.
It wasn't part of Android itself, but SwiftKey demoed a split keyboard at the Honeycomb launch event(2/11, Win8 unveiled in 6/11).
Games are what keep me from using Linux exclusively, I can't be the only one. It would probably make a huge difference.
I built mine on nights and weekends and quit when I was able to pay myself more than my day job. I had about 9 months worth of living expenses saved up.
Well this is new. Some developers inadvertently convert most of an app to an entirely new way of doing things, and without knowing it make everything backward compatible?

I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've heard of something like this happening...
As an American it is funny you say that, when I visited France a few years back I spent time in Nice and Paris and it definitely seemed like road vehicles had the right of way. Pedestrians had to be smart about when crossing (even if that is technically, and legally incorrect).

I don't own a car, and I live in a big Northeast US city so walking and public transportation is my main mode of transit - jaywalking is a way of life in Boston and NYC from experience and is probably similar in other NE cities. However, I also think your order is totally wrong, in my mind it is the opposite, the biggest, heaviest vehicles should have ROW especially at this point in history when the average driver is distracted by so many things in his vehicle. Response times are going to be suboptimal ... pedestrians needs to be mindful of where they are traversing.
> Another friend seemed perplexed when a car stopped to let him across the road.

I'm Canadian and the motorist behaviour you get depends on what part of Canada you live in.

Out east cars stop to let pedestrians walk.

In Quebec/Ontario they seem to speed up to signal that you'd better not get in there way.

Out West cars and people seem to have an agreement that people time their walking so that the car passes them before they get to the middle of the road, but no one slows down.
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I absolutely agree. Every time someone around me wants to start programming, I introduce them to Zed Shaw's books, and none of my friends disliked the experience. His pedagogy is lightyears ahead of most technical books writers.

On the other hand, it's good that some books do actually target people with a programming background, but this is not really a problem anymore, since those people know where to find good books. Stackoverflow threads about books are here for that.
If you just want many repos without issue tracking ect. and githubs pricings structure doesn't please you, you can use codeplane:

https://codeplane.com/
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Security and its abuses, in all forms, should always be of interest at a place called Hacker News.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."
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Detailed article (also linked on the original page)
http://www.corememoryshield.com/report.html
A more complete iCloud SDK? Something about the logo that makes me think of this image:

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4f96e37b69beddd2100...
Time for Airbnb to roll out their campaign.
It's not legal in Denmark; there's a 700 kr fine.

There seems to be a strong cultural affinity for following the crosswalks and crossing lights, as well. Danes really will stand on a street corner waiting for the light to change, even if it's 2am in a small town and there are no cars for a kilometer. Someone scolded me once when I crossed on a red light! Not even a cop, just a random person told me I should follow the crossing lights. On the other hand, when pedestrians do have the right of way, cars are good about stopping; for example, cars making a right turn will wait for people to cross in a crosswalk, even if they haven't stepped off the curb yet.
Any guesses about an iPhone 5 being released there?
I think the rise of the internet and the way do business thereon - fairly transparently, and socially - has made us more aware of how 'legacy' companies are behaving. Our expectations of how businesses should work has changed.
Before I tell you a story, my recommendation is for you to attend the RubyJax meetup.

A few years ago, I moved from a large metro area (5 million) to a smaller city (250k). At the time, I worked primarily with ColdFusion. Where I moved, no one was using it.

Before I moved, I connected to the area through the local Linux Users Group mailing list. Through that list, I found two other telecommuters. The other two were python developers and one of them was also big into Flash mobile at the time. That didn't matter, we were all web developers. Once a month, we'd get together for coffee and to talk shop. It didn't matter that we all had different backgrounds. A year later, we opened the group up to a Geek Dinner style event and invited designers and others into the mix. I found I was able to "talk shop" with others and made a few friends along the way.

I can relate.

While it's good to look for a Python meetup, don't focus primarily on finding and attending a Python meetup. Go ahead and attend the RubyJax meetup. I don't think they are going to try and convert you. When you do attend, don't sit in a corner. Go around and introduce yourself to as many people as you can. Tell them you're a python programmer, that you're new to the area, and you're wanting to meet people who work in a similar field. Ask around if anyone knows any other python programmers or meetups. Build up your network.

Eventually, you'll meet other developers. After a few months, if you still haven't found the Python meetup you're looking for, think about starting one. You'll be surprised at the people who come out of the woodwork.
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English is the first examination people take in Georgia. Read more: http://www.hieroglifstranslations.ro/en/blogs/
for exactly the same reason I applied this fall and got approved quickly. Strange that you didn't.
I agree with your feelings on the look of iOS, and I think the attention to detail is generally really good. Given that I don't understand why their soft keyboard doesn't show lower case letters when inputting in lower case.
That made me think of an interesting idea. No problem is not solvable with some level of indirection!

A review aggregator website where the value of reviews from various sources is weighted by how reliable they are. For example, if there is Yelp, Facebook and Google, it can weight a restaurant 0.7 Yelp, 0.2 Facebook and 0.1 Google.
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AnandTech's article mentioned that there was no problem running a wide variety of games, including GTA III. I don't know if GTA is the most intensive game that's been released, but I know it was (at least initially) only released for a handful of phones. Xolo could run it.
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So this is why a lot of Wrox Press look like bricks. Maybe this is OK from a marketing perspective but compare one of this brick books with "The C programming language".

I think Pragmatic Programmers has a better approach at quantity vs quality.
But if today's attitudes give us any indication of future behavior, then I think the outcome is sad.

A century from now, those who had the vision, and the willingness to risk so much for something that would benefit all of mankind so much, will be even more fabulously wealthy (if it goes as planned). Yet the masses will be shouting that it's unfair that those few should have such unimaginable wealth, just because they made a lucky bet a few years back.

I picture "Occupy Cape Canaveral" protesters pillorying those who took the risks and made the future possible -- all while those same protesters are wearing platinum jewelry and using electronics that the iridium, rubidium, etc., made possible.
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Back when I was young a naive and just starting out this wonderful world of computers, my default stance was, when in doubt buy the thicker of the two books since it must contain more information. I distinctly recall standing in a book store and working out which massive Linux book would give most pages pr dollar.

Now my default stance is, when in doubt, buy the book that's under 300 pages, since if you can't cover you're points in less than 300 pages you're either trying to say way too much or your book is mostly fluff and filler.

Also I imagine the ubiquity of fast internet connections and Google has made the 1200 page "complete reference to everything" type of books more or less obsolete. More and more books these days are "focused expert knowledge in one particular area" which is a lot more suited for the 150-250 page format.
Reminds me of an art installation I saw somewhere with the "21st century camera" (can't remember if that was the actual name). It was a black box with a single red button, which when pressed captured the lat-long of the box and the current time, so you could search on picasa, flickr etc for geo-tagged pictures around that time. Fascinating to think about.
Well, let's draw a distinction here. The above isn't griefing, it's simple capitalism. It exists for some reason other than aggravating people and/or wasting their time. You
might also have griefers who would put out text-photographs like:

________________________________
/ \
|+------------------------------+|
|| This is a picture of how I ||
|| just want to tell you how ||
|| I'm feeling, gotta make you ||
|| understand, never gonna ||
|| give you up, never gonna ||
|| let you down, never gonna ||
|| turn around and desert you, ||
|| never gonna make you cry, ||
|| never gonna say goodbye, ||
|| never gonna tell a lie and ||
|| hurt you. ||
|+------------------------------+|
| |
\________________________________/
I tried to write http://eloquentjavascript.net with this in mind — building from basics, driven by actual examples.
Probably because keyboards don't and more people would find it more odd than useful.
This would be VERY good for Humble Indie Bundles, I think.
What about the "publish" part of it ?
I mean they can tell me that the code I upload online will stay my intellectual property, and I understand if they need to read it, or modify it for OCR. But why publish ?
I don't want my code published everywhere....
I think (with iPhone 4S) they're moving the release schedule to the autumn.
I have been teaching high school math and science for a while, and I am starting to teach programming within my math and science classes. I am using linux (ubuntu) for programming work for a number of reasons:

- It's what web apps are deployed to in the real world, so any student who will go on in the field will need to know linux.

- Students love linux. I have had very few students who knew anything about linux before they came to my school, but everyone enjoys using it when they have the opportunity.

- It's easy to get a programming environment up and running.

- Students get open source. They love that it's free as in price and free as in freedom.

- Using linux avoids adding to the education gap between classes. To really learn programming, you must program on your own time. You can not expect people to program well if they don't have their own computer. You must be free to have an idea after dinner, and follow up on your idea that evening. Not everyone can afford a mac; it is very easy to set someone up with a cheap or donated laptop running linux.

I'm happy to hear you are sharing your expertise with students. Many students don't find anyone in their schools that really get programming. That first contact with a real programmer can easily be life-changing.
I can see this going badly. I understand they probably have altruistic motives but I can see some website owner claiming their vulnerable site was 'safe' through obscurity but was attacked due to this public shaming. Should be interesting.

Can anyone correct me/inform us as to whether the site owner will have a leg to stand on in court?
That's absurd. Google's not going to see the filtered reviews unless they start doing a lot more JavaScript execution than they've been doing, and why would Yelp care if a browser extension or spammers see filtered reviews?
At a low level your correct, but you can use error correction and a lot of redundancy to prevent cosmic rays from corrupting solid state memory and still have a lot more than 16K of storage space for a long time.
protip: don't. encryption is not a serious capacity constraint on modern hardware.
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"Some programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory."

LOL.
Seems cruel to release it so early PST... how many people are going to wake up this morning having missed the opportunity to buy tickets? :)
That giganourmous prompt takes too much screen space. Having a few characters left to type at the end without switching lines doesn't seem very appealing to me. At least put a \n somewhere. For the directory name I'm also a fan of \w and PROMPT_DIRTRIM
Assembla offers free private repos: http://www.assembla.com/plans
Yes, uwsgi instances run separately from nginx. The uwsgi nginx module simply speaks a binary protocol for reverse proxying rather than HTTP.
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probably depends on what kind of contract terms your jurisdiction is willing to ignore on principle, as you almost certainly signed away all such rights when you bought it.
What you're talking about is the Linux desktop world and you could be right about that; maybe it will finally become more standardized but I don't see mainstream desktop markets really noticing. Linux desktop is, what, maybe 1.5% or so? This won't be the magic ingredient that suddenly makes them take over the desktop.
> I haven't had much success with SRS for Korean vocab. There are so many words that are just too similiar to each other.

Are you studying words in isolation or in context? The latter approach makes things much easier.
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I would not take an even bet that there is any meaningful bugs in that code that NASA was not already aware of.
It isn't short for debugger. A computer "bug" originated when a small moth (aka bug) was caught in a physical relay on the Mark II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology

"Debugging" came from the action of trying to find where the bug is at in a program (or, in the original case, the machine)
I'm trying to get a job so I can buy a new hard drive for my laptop. It crashed. $50 isn't in the budget right now, but I do admit this is an idea I hadn't thought about.

I will definitely look into this in the future!
I've done for my masters program. I generally leave the repo private during the course of the semester when I work on projects, then I make it public afterwards. I figure it could be good showcase of work I've done for future employers, etc

Professors know its there (because I include links my my final reports) and so far, none of them have asked me to take it down or block access. We will see in the future.
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Great idea and implementation.

I've just coded up a custom "gadget" for our internal admin panel. No more copying & pasting the email address on the ticket into our internal system.
Thanks for this. Now I'm trying to think of ways that you could actuate thin metal rods, so that you could transform a greyscale picture into a sort of texture-photograph, so that you could "see" details by placing a hand atop it. If the rods are needle-thin you could probably get a reasonable resolution on it, and even have some brightness/contrast sliders on the side to help -- but it seems like the real problem is just moving all of those little rods automatically.
cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840979 (How To Train Your Robot)
I'm using this for 2 years and it is pretty good. Then I bought a Small ($12 plan), now I'm $7.00 off each month and paying $5 monthly. But it seems I'm approaching to the end of the 2 year period so I'll be moving some of my private projects to BitBucket. That's sad.
I'd need a lot of convincing it wasn't rather a bug in the simulator. An attainable amount of convincing, but it would be my first thought.
Now you can play Angry Birds on the big screen!
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This is almost identical to gumroad.com; in fact, it is except for the arrogant teenager. I'm not trying to bring in this massive storm of hate, but propelly is going to have to hustle a lot to get their name out there above gumroad.
Calling it:
1:1 aspect ratio Macbook Square.
Yes.

Many people on HN recount their early experiences of programming. They had some home computer, and they had a magazine program listing, and they typed it in. Then they tinkered around with it. Then they read the book that came with the computer, and wrote more programs.

That is pretty much the "Learn X the Hard Way" approach, and it's really good.
I'd recommend looking at "Learn Python the Hard Way" (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/) for an awesome example of a tutorial written with teaching beginners in mind, rather than the typical uncomfortable combination of teaching and documenting that happens in most tutorial books.
Sorry, I'm totally more metacontrarian than thou. Don't even try.

Let me reiterate the most important point I had, which is that if 24 fps is so wonderful, directors will choose to use it (after the initial rush has worn off). Nothing stops them.

But they won't, because if 48fps has any fundamental problems, it's that it's still too slow.

I'm sure you can Kickstarter up some shutter glasses to blink at 24fps if you get that desperate.
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Doesn't ALSA have some pretty big limitations?
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If anything at all there will be new Macs, coinciding with Mountain Lion and Intel's release of low-power Ivy Bridge CPUs (though Macs might be a bit too unimportant to warrant the big stage and Intel might not deliver on time or Mountain Lion may not be finished). The iPhone was moved to autumn.

It's possible that there are no new hardware products at all in the keynote (though maybe not likely), only a review of what Mountain Lion brings, maybe incldluding some new software (the aging iWork is desperate for an update) and a preview of iOS6. Remember: Apple used to have preview events for the next iOS early in the year. That did not happen this year, so they have to preview iOS6 at some point before they release it, likely together with a new iPhone.
man, i still miss vindigo. is there really no market for a paid, curated, offline-cached local-information database?
Sort of an interplanetary quipu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
I never find it strange when Opera doesn't work. It's not Opera's fault, web developers generally don't care about it.
IMHO, no. You wont really be that much faster than your high-level language of choice.
It's about time they did this. Harvard's was about the only major library that didn't allow Z39.50 access to their full MARC21 records. As a private individual with a large rare and antiquarian book collection, I welcome the news, since I've found that Harvard sometimes has the only other copy of a book I'm cataloging. A few other libraries require you to jump through some hoops to get to the data (British National Library, for example), but Harvard was shutting everyone other than faculty and alumni out.
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Why?

Bugs in code made it into space. These are documented.
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complementary i suppose to the google maps problem where half the restaurants are closed....