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How did this get on the front page of HN?

This is just another rumor speculating about things that were speculated on last month, and the month before that, etc. I guess I don't understand what makes this one so much more interesting or credible/worthy of much discussion.

Edit: Also, the link/headline is totally misleading. I'm sure others have said this too.
>> "That said, the FBI probably just imaged the drives. They're not as clueful/devious as many think they are."

I would agree, but it also doesn't seem like some kind of act of charity that they plugged the thing in and tried to reconnect it and made sure it was apparently working before they left.
Really? They seemed to be doing just fine without my 5 bucks.

But let's put aside the whole Ars debate: which part of the "I want to hurt the business model" you guys haven't read? I will not support any site that relies on ads, even if there is the "freemium" alternative. I want ad-based anything to die, and to die fast.

Much like subsidized agriculture, any ad-based economy is inefficient and produces incredible unknown side-effects.

And I hate to have to keep justifying myself, but I put about $15/month on flattr. Whenever I see anyone using it with any remotely good content, I am more than happy to pay. I keep a subscription to Ubuntu One even though I barely use it. One of the features that I liked the most about github and disappeared: the link to pledgie.com. One of the YC companies that really got me excited, I participated some, but unfortunately didn't take off: micropledge.

I want to consume things of quality, but I don't see any quality coming from any business that is ad-based. If they want to see my money, first they need to get rid of ads and commit to excellence, not the other way around.
Agreed. But if forced to testify in court you would commit perjury if you said you didn't sign it.

If it came out that you intentionally mislead the other person by signing [a false name] [to get out of the obligation], good luck, you're still on the hook and now have opened yourself up to potential criminal and civil fraud charges.

Don't think you can skirt not taking the stand. More than likely this will be in a civil trial and not taking the stand will be viewed by the court and jury that you are hiding something...
If a person stole money then they should have to pay that back with reasonable interest.

What if I attempt to steal money, but fail? Do I get to walk away unpunished?

they're basically giving back what they took.

What incentive is there then to not try to steal? Best case scenario I retire on a tropical island with tens of millions in the bank. Worst case scenario I end up more or less where I started and can just try again next week.

if you make $1m/yr, then the penalty is 90% of your earnings. If you make $10m/yr, it's 99%.

What if I make $50k/yr according to the IRS, but have millions stashed away in hidden bank accounts? Do I simply pay $5000-10000 and move on to my next crime? You're basically describing a system where there is essentially no downside to white-collar crime unless you are monumentally stupid.
I depends on the type of warrant, but there are warrants that require silence under threat of prosecution.
Yeah we have that too in the Netherlands, at least for the important portions of the documents. The last time I closed on a house it took over two hours.

All relevant documents had been e-mailed to us beforehand but you still cannot ask them to skip the reading. Being too careful can be annoying too.
Yeah, and this is how the boss's nephew gets hired into a management position he's unqualified for, poisons the culture, destroys morale, and causes a mass-exodus of quality people.

I wouldn't even hire my best friend without him interviewing with 4 people (individually) who would be working with or close to him. I also wouldn't take part in the interview myself, to ensure that the treatment was 100% fair and merit based.

A personal recommendation gets you in the door to the interview faster, but you still have to prove yourself, and if you're really that good you'd want us to prove ourselves as well before signing on.
Of course they wouldn't do this, but I've love it if they made you pay $1 for every status update. Would get rid of a lot of the fluff.
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Your reference is like citing Ms Cleo - pathetic actually.

If companies actually paid those amounts listed there'd be a line of applicants at the front door every single morning wanted the job.
I'll admit I don't know the first thing about the degree of suburban sprawl, or whether greenfield development taxes are sane or not in Australia.

But as an American having grown up and multiply paid for the problems caused by sprawl, I'm definitely on the side of the concept of high greenfield development taxes.

No building is an island and there are very real and very steep costs in maintaining and growing infrastructure to handle sprawl. It's crucial to ensure those costs are accounted for in prices.

But I digress.
Well personally I wouldn't have minded being employee eight, or even employee eighty, at Google, and right now I'd be feeling pretty silly if I'd turned that opportunity down just because they wanted to ask me about golf balls in buses.
try http://www.kineticjs.com/

they use multiple canvas layers. from working a lot with canvas lately, the fastest was to draw to canvas is not to draw to it :). if you have a scrolling bg that is static, you can just use a bg image sprite and scroll it via CSS/js. anything that can be done with a sprite should probably be done with one.

even for collisions etc, you're best off doing all the logic for your shapes and manipulating a DOM element (or even a mini-canvas) than re-rendering an entire huge canvas.
Haven't seen, or known, anyone close to that in 10 years of being a DoD contractor.
This is really cool. Suggestions:

- index all public Ruby gems when searching for gems to add

- include files for easy Heroku deployment (Procfile, for example)

- include travis.yml files
I have the opposite opinion, when I lots my iPhone and fell back on my Nexus One. The maps were awful, it would never get my current positions. Preloading map areas sounded like a great idea, but it never worked well for me. It would constantly forget the surrounding area, even 1 minute after it was just working.

I understand the Google version uses vectors rather than images, so it should work better, but never did for me.
Funny how extreme the views here are. So I either hit the bars and get drunk every night or I run on a manic schedule?

The premisses here are entirely false. There is a balanced life in between which IMHO is where we should be aiming.
No. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to sponsor visas at this time.
I feel like browsers have failed to innovate on bookmarks. The problem with bookmarks is that once you have too many they become unweildy. There should be a separate between "stuff I visit a lot" and "this great article about Early Modern Spain that I want to read later". I'm glad that Safari is delving into the latter a bit now.
See http://blog.couchbase.com/how-couchbase-helped-omgpop-break-... .. not directly by a user but still a real world usage story.
I have never considered your point of view and I am curious about it. Can you explain why you think his ideology is poisonous? Also how can it be possible that he's hurting the free software movement, when I thought he CREATED the free software movement.
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Depending on what you do your mileage may vary.

What I was doing didn't fit in with what the then current frameworks offered - so I made my own... and that's how all those frameworks got their start as well.

My suggestion is to look at the various framework features and see which one best suits your needs.
welcome to automation. Its designed to work for the big guys. So there you go free motivation. If you want to be able to complain and stomp around like old ways of doing business you've got to get big.

Otherwise you use the service that is provided.
I don't quite understand high-level how this works for secure communication. Alice tosses an entangled photon to Bob and he gets the information out by reading the spin?

How do you stop Carol from just grabbing the entangled photon herself and reading the information? How can Alice know that Bob received the entangled photon? Even Carol as a MITM seems possible if she just sent Bob new entangled photons
I think you're forgetting how much a device of similar capability to the Android navigation cost before it was free on most smartphones. And subscription costs. Your inexpensive GPS unit was put on perpetual clearance by the app you're disparaging.
This is just a terribly bad analogy.
But I don't care about what was going on 5 years later. My point is that when the Apple II came out (not the IIe or the Mac or any other Apple product) they were miles ahead everyone else, and it was a product that in theory could have sold itself, but still needed a kick-ass salesperson to get off the ground. What happened years later is totally irrelevant to this point.
Google maps could definitely be improved upon. it makes mistakes all the time, and the huge feature they brag about -- being cloud based / up to date -- is never up to date enough to really matter. there has been construction going on for months on a major road in my city, and google maps still pretends it is open. so much for the cloud.
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Abraham Lincoln didn't invent Facebook (except on the Internet)
Top companies? LOL - I remember being contacted by Google (whatever division they have in the Washington DC area). They wouldn't commit to providing the hardware or software to do the job, or even keep the benefits the same when you move from project to project - so f*ck 'em.
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Like the old saying, "you can write cobol in any language".

As far as I know, there is no such 'old saying'.

However, The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.
In particular, the breathless "Video: What the Hoover Dam will look like on the iOS 6 3D Map mode".
There's nothing worse than a company where the sales department has too much power. Especially if they are able to hand off the project once the sale is made. It makes it impossible for the rest of the company to innovate on products.
Very similar to my concerns for running non-free software inside our democracies.
Tough call. If you did want to use Riak for fast bucket-drop, your best bet might be to:

a.) Run multiple clusters--not too difficult. Just give each one a different erlang cookie and run em on subsequent ports.

b.) Take bitcask_backend or leveldb_backend and add drop-bucket functionality. Custom backends are more difficult than running multiple clusters, but certainly not impossible. You could build it on top of fold or split writes up into, say, one leveldb per bucket. Don't recall if the vnode interface has drop-bucket so you might have to write some plumbing alongside Riak. jrecursive has done this in Mecha.

If I were building something like this, I might look first at Cassandra or Hbase, or possibly sharded master-slave postgres.
And Games. AAA game dev (for PC and Console) is almost entirely C++, with some embedded scripting languages (normally Lua, for performance reasons).
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Couldn't you calculate this simply by monitoring the "run time" of the devices using the gas? If we can tell how long the furnace and/or water heater run, then you can do the math vs. the gas bill?
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That would be Nokia. See:

http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/
A couple more:

http://www.favicon.cc/

http://www.stripegenerator.com/

I don't think I've ever actually used the stripe generator, but there should definitely be at least one favicon site on there.
Asana doesn't look anywhere near as good as Wunderlist.
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Maybe people for whom night vision is life and death matter shouldn't browse random pages on the internet while at work?
drawImage is usually faster. i think it's also more useful if you need alpha composition (overlays).

http://jsperf.com/canvas-drawimage-vs-putimagedata/11

also read this about imageData caching and explanations of the different opts. loop unrolling helps a bit, forget the typed array stuff for now, it wont work anywhere for some time.

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/12/faster-canvas-pixel-manipul...
The breadth and depth of Street View can be easily underestimated. They even have data for my town.

But more importantly, Street View is not as useful as having good and up to date maps. GMaps added the maps for my town much later, but now the maps have good coverage and are up to date. No other service is as good as GMaps for Europe, although Yahoo Maps was better for Europe a while back.

Another thing is turn by turn navigation. Google does have turn by turn navigation for my country, which is freaking awesome. Not only that but for my town they announced they are working on adding info on public transport routes.

And btw, when I'm saying "my town", I mean Bucharest, Romania, Eastern Europe. And I don't know how people cope with the above in other countries, but in Bucharest the data for turn by turn navigation and for the public transport routes has to be refreshed very often, so I'm sure it's a PITA doing this for so many countries.
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> Perhaps by not asking for his bonus, the employee lost his opportunity to make a claim, and cannot make a claim after resigning.

That would depend in the terms specified in the contract. If the entirety of the contract is the email message which says "We'll pay 10K for a referral that lasts 6 months", then it defaults to the contract laws in their state. I can guarantee that the contract laws of their state do not say "debts owed to employees are void after employment is terminated."

> How long is he allowed he wait? 10 years? 100 years?

Most, probably all, states also have a law defining what the limit on collecting a debt is. It usually falls between 3 and 6 years, and is considerably longer in a few.
For a general discussion of synchronisation, Martti Nurmikari gave a talk at Assembly last year

http://thedemoscene.tumblr.com/post/8659078065/martti-nurmik...

Alcatraz use an interesting system based on Clang and llvm to export all that from Maya as source code

http://thedemoscene.tumblr.com/post/22588846914/digi-alcatra...
You are making assumptions about one scenario based on limitations encountered in a very different scenario. The problems that occur around 24 cores occur on benchmarks consisting entirely of select statements against a single table. As I said, postgresql has scaled to 32 cores for real workloads for a few years. Real workloads have more than one table.

See here for an example of mysql having problems at only 8 cores (and postgresql destroying mysql's performance):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/551889/Introducing-Freebsd-70

Postgresql scaling to 28 cores in 2007:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:-ytn3fY_Lr8J:...

Postgresql on 32 core t2000 being able to scale up to 1024 concurrent clients in 2008:
http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/attachments/50_46_pgcon20...
of course, the perils of replying after skim reading!

as pointed out, hooks are a perfect fit for this.
If Apple does switch to their own maps, I'm sure Google will come out with their own independent Google Maps app in the App Store, like they have for Google+ and other products.

If nothing else, their database of businesses is hugely valuable and useful in its own app (it's what I use the Maps app for most and I don't think Apple will be able to fully replace it, at least not with the first iteration).
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The medical industry is in need of disruption. Has anyone played with the idea of "seeing" a doctor located in a different country using a video app? I imagine the experience would be better than what most people deal with in the states. US doctors have too much power and they take advantage of it. A remote doctor would be under more competition and be willing to provide better service.
I've worked for 4 companies within http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2011....

The rates that I've seen has actually gone down, Back in 2001 a developer with a TS/SCI/FSP would get around $45K with about 5 years experience (company is in the top 10). Today that same developer gets $40K with the same clearances (company within the top 50).
Exactly. Accidentally deleting a database should be a minor concern in any well-run company. It'll be painful and annoying, but shouldn't cause "scrambling" for "3 days". The ire should be directed at management that allowed that condition to exist, not the person that fat-fingered something.
sold out already.
Is street view anything more than a fringe benefit? Google Maps got popular long before they had it. As long as you've got detailed street maps, ideally with actual stores and whatnot at their addresses, that should be enough to roll out.
Where does BFQ fit into this? I've been using it as my I/O scheduler and I've noticed significant lag when I'm transferring large amounts of data between drives. Any thoughts on this? I've been thinking of switching back, but would love some thoughts on it's performance capabilities.
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On Windows it's modal. Dunno about the others.
This is exactly what we are doing with Wovyn. The issue is that there are numerous standards being used, and we're implementing a wide range of protocols to support the key platforms people are wanting to integrate with. This is exactly the space our IP exists in.
One problem I have with most of these services is that they are hosted services, i.e. they have access to my data, even in principle. Therefore, I cannot use them for work information.

I'd rather have a system that saves data locally and lets me handle the hosting on the cloud.
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One solution might be to create a small number of standard documents. Then trusted experts could certify a few (like the UL seal of approval on electronics), and people could just ask the receptionist if their document has such an endorsement.

Another would be to create a consumer protection law that prohibits doctors' offices from doing certain things even if patients explicitly signed those rights away.
The same way you cannot prevent someone from reading the amplitude of the EM wave you send through generic wired or wireless media?

The trick has always been in encrypting the aggregate information. But, I am sure that quantum cryptography will be a completely different ball game compared to what we have now.
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I have no idea why this was down voted. That really was my first thought and not meant as an insult to anyone.
Harsh considering one mention and this was in relation to an old Apple product, within context of the article. People write about Jobs too much (agreed) but this is more about mainstream familiarity than laziness.
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Because just looking at the preferences blocks everything else in Firefox? Given how important a browser is, this is quite annoying.

A trivial example is opening up preferences and then wanting to Google to figure out how to configure something. Not possible in the current design.
So if I don't know what's on the paper because no one has made sure that I do then I still can be upheld on what I signed but if the guy who gave me paper to sign doesn't know what's on the paper because he didn't notice my changes then he can't be liable?
Probably because it's the first to definitively say the new Maps are coming in iOS 6.

It's common knowledge that Apple has been buying maps companies to build their own app, but AFAIK this is the first time we've gotten a solid release date.
I don't know but I don't think the iPad was ever designed for such "critical" use cases
Sweet! competition is on with Google TV
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Wha?

My old employer had a "non-compete" contract they wanted new hires to sign along with the rest of the employment contracts. The stipulations were basically that you couldn't work for any competitor within a year of leaving employment with them.

I disagreed with it on principle and signed the rest of the paperwork, but not that one, and no one ever mentioned it.

Now you're saying that I am bound by a contract I did not accept? How's that make sense? What about Kevin Smith at Paisley Park?
How feasible is it to just implement this in hardware? That is, a sheet you can place on your iPad screen which attenuates bright whites and tints everything red. Might be the 80/20 solution in this case.
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This is dangerous thinking, and is the primary cause of organization destroying nepotism.
If you have 1000 servers and you're using Fabric to modify your init scripts, then I weep for you.

Well before you get to that level you should be using configuration management software (cfengine, puppet, et al.) to handle your servers.
And this deliberately confuses application content versus Internet content.

This might well be by design. As I understand it's a Mozilla goal to reduce the barrier between native apps and web apps. The Firefox GUI itself is even some sort of webpage (XUL)...
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I've always assumed that iOS doesn't do live turn-by-turn directions in their native maps app in part because of licensing terms encumbering the routing data. Moving away from Google to their own algorithms (or to direct deals with other data providers) could free them of those terms. If so, I'd be surprised if they didn't add turn-by-turn directions to the app.

Of course, they'd undercut all the paid turn-by-turn apps, but they haven't been shy about that sort of thing in the past.