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The third world would not be well served by ipads. How much time have you spent there? Reading is not a common activity or ability. But who knows what 20 years will hold. For what it's worth, Ipads and other tablets are already sold there. Typically, as soon as afforded, the devices are used for facebook, twitter and games. Internet usually turned off due to exorbitant prices.

Arduinos and Raspberry Pis have more potential for really making a difference in the lives of people in said countries. It is very important that the children have devices that are open and frictionless to tinker on and with many user serviceable parts. Framing works for more than words. The right (lack of) packaging will prime curiosity. The imposing closed sleek finish of an ipad is more an object to be admired and treated with care. It would only engage the intellect of the most innately curious.

In an environment with little resources and infrastructure people have to resort to human ingenuity to cobble up solutions that satisfice. A computing device amenable to being cobbled with cheap odds and ends, for disparate scenarios, will have the more readily compounding effect.
This guy seems closer to the win. He's been iterating on this thing for years and is the current record holder. He also founded and sold Zero Motorcycles.
Why exactly would you want support for Android development? As far as I understand, LightTable's target are languages which doesn't already have the tools they're offering (dynamic scripting languages like JS, python etc). The existing Android dev tools already have all the features that LightTable is bringing to them. We already have those in Eclipse, we don't need LightTable. Only the dynamic languages with poor tooling does.

(If you're an Android developer who misses some of the features of LightTable, you should look for some tutorials at www.eclipse.org, you'll learn eclipse can already do those and much more)
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Apart from the 'blessed' investors who purchased before the stock started trading on Nasdaq, everyone who bought FB lost money today.
Stock market performance != economic environment. Unemployment is still as high as its been in a generation (or more, depending on how you count), and real growth has been highly stagnant. Yes, we pulled away from the abyss, but outside of tech, it's brutal out there.
I'm always surprised I've never heard anything about the similar room at Facebook's old California ave. hq. There was a secret door in the basement to a small "situation room" type place.
Well, we can just hope high DPI becomes a reality so things look good again. WPF has fixed its problems by doing the pixel snapping, but other engines like whatever powers IE9's rendering (and FF, I think) have regressed and prefer "accuracy" over readability :(. MSFT even admits around half of the users dislike it, but the justification is that "everyone else is doing it". Oh well...
>Would we blame it on facebook if the spring failed to lead into summer? If not then it stands to reason that we can't credit facebook with the success either.

There is a logic fallacy in this statement: Facebook was the tool to call and organize millions of people for the Arab Spring; organization is the obligatory step 1 for a revolution; if they fail at step 2 or 3 it haves nothing to do with Facebook; it would be like pretending that telephones do not help in emergency situations because when the fireman doesn't arrive fast enough we don't blame the telephone company.
Nope 2.8b is total shares outstanding. $38*2.8b or roughly 100b ~= facebooks current valuation. That said, I'm pretty sure the volume info included the offering of 10% of the company.
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Whoa there, read more carefully. It seems that if you use the built-in FilePicker then your app can use any file on the system, provided that the OS is sure that the user has actively given you access to it. Also, there appear to be ways to obtain permissions beyond the default level.
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Nope, still crashes the iPad.
> You can't honestly look at Facebook's contribution to the Arab Spring (and similar social justice causes) or the millions of people it has reconnected (long-lost family/friends) and think that SpaceX has any chance of creating comparable positive impact at any point in the near future.

You absolutely can. The telephone did those things, too. So does Twitter. If it weren't Facebook, something else would've been used instead.

This is like celebrating the "success" of a new hammer design. There will be another tool in five years' time that will replace Facebook, too.
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Not exactly - you're right about most of what you said, except the constitutional rights/bill of rights. The Bill of Rights defends individuals against the federal government, and did not originally apply to State governments.

One by one, the amendments have been/are being slowly incorporated to protect individual rights against State governments as well, as the result of Supreme Court rulings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri...

To date, the first, second, fourth, partially fifth, (by and large) sixth, and partially eight amendments have been incorporated, i.e. apply equally to both State and Federal governments. The 2nd (the right to bear arms) was the most recent one, incorporated in 2010 here in Chicago.
Looks awesome -- downloaded. :)

PS -- I didn't realize you can fetch only the sound part of the youtube file without downloading the video... is that an accurate assumption?
Every one of the companies you just named are horrible. There's more to it than "envy". It's naive to kneejerk like that.
No, it's not a great game.

It's an uninspired and linear Fable 3 knockoff (Fable 3 wasn't great either).
I would disclose to a security firm that I felt was trustworthy and let things go from there.
The entire internet population (or at least close to it) binded by one global network -- it's a mistake to think of Facebook as just another social network in the same league as Twitter, Foursquare, etc... rather, it's probably more useful to think of it as an alternative internet, or even an operating system.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen dreamed of putting a personal computer in every home in 1975, and that dream came true over the decades following. Facebook's dream is just beginning and we're going to see big waves in internet, media, telecom, and commerce over the next few decades.
Do you have any experience with people using Looxcies? They are basically like tiny Bluetooth ear pieces but with an HD video camera. It seems like they'd be perfect for recording the cops, but I have no idea if they're actually any good or not in that sort of environment.
Let me guess: hoarding capital that wasn't even produced by a human hand? (unimproved value of land, etc.)
There is a growing number of individuals doing hard tech. They just focus on working, and not on getting Likes.

The valley may be full of social media photo sharing people, but don't forget that the Valley still has strong roots on the homebrew side.

For every social app out there, there are ten hackers pushing code on the local HackerSpace.
I've actually been arrested once for recording a police officer, I went up to her with my cellphone in hand when she was questioning my intoxicated friend on my college campus. She snatched my phone away from me and said I was prohibiting her from doing her job, and so I was taken in with my friend. Looks like i'll be fighting this one. Never thought HN would be a good source for legal advice ;)
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Do you know if anybody has pictures? That sounds interesting.
If only all these attempts at vim clones were instead spent on vim.
Another approach to editing your code while working in the REPL is to simply send code from your editor to the browser. I recently wrote a blog post about setting vim up for this: http://alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-slime-wi...
It is purely for streaming the audio of the video. You can even background the audio when the device is locked or when the application is not in the foreground.
I remember seeing a photo of it once when they were about to launch a new product. I can't seem to find it but I think Robert Scoble took it so try his Flickr account.

Edit: Here is the photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/5179450270/

Scoble calls it the War Room but I presume it's the same place. More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/tags/facebook/
i sat on an mba class for a week or so, and they taught y=ax+b and talked, talked, talked about this simple linear model the whole week. you guys remember 'beta' ? -- they emphasize as if that variable can explain everything.

i dropped out of that course the next day. i felt mba classes are just too easy and would dull me. it might be better these days, but i doubt it beats the math stats courses i took.

couple years later i talked with a friend who took mba because he was not confident. he said the mba math is joke and does not compare to ee courses he took.

i wonder if the mba uses simple tools to solve hard problems. if that's the case, it's like a bodybuilder try mining with spoon. a lanky guy with pick will produce more.
Good idea, great app.
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If you have doubts about what he means, he is essentially saying this: The state of mobile and social has come to such an advantageous point for startups that it is not feasible for investors to go for the hard, truly disruptive things. And he is very right.

Thanks to Apple products, now you can reach millions of people by writing an app. Due to the viral nature of social apps, you can now expect a useful app to reach for the masses without spending on marketing and advertisement. Can we say the same for anything other than mobile/web and social? No.

Until the social/mobile market matures, we will see each potential founder working on a mobile phone application instead of attacking a non-viral problem with a doubtful market/new technology.
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It could always be a mutually agreed upon thing too.
GOOG dropped by 3.6%, that's around $7.1B in market cap which is almost half of the entire Facebook offering - do you suppose this was driven by people who really wanted Facebook exposure, too?
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> .. some unique OS feature set to exploit!

The single biggest one is how Android apps are structured. iOS apps are effectively monolithic enclosed islands.

The structure of Android apps is that they are mashups. This covers not just the UI screens but also data, processing and events. Not only should your app be a mashup internally, but you can include components from outside the app just as easily as those from within. And you can make your components usable from outside your app so that other apps can be better because of your components.
Have you ever launched an app that reached the masses? What do you even mean by viral nature?
Windows 95 Media Player could do more than play wav files, you could certainly watch videos.

Also there was a lot of evolution between Windows 95 and XP that gets glossed over, as the internet became more important. XP, with some minor tweaks, could behave like a stabler version of 95/98 (I must admit that I stripped much of the chrome away for a few months, till I got more comfortable with the slightly different look and feel of the menus and task bar).

The also ignore one significant trend-following dead-end from the 95/98 era: Active Desktop- Vista wasn't the first time they headed up a blind UX alley.

Even with Windows 7, I think they overstate the differences with its predecessors: the Start Menu remains as important as ever.
Not that this sort of thing should really be encouraged, but this type of verbose/laboured parody/troll/nonsense would probably be more appreciated by /prog/.
Don't substitute advice on HN for real legal advice.

Also, going looking for legal trouble on this will get you people to cheer on the sidelines, but not to cover legal expenses (unless you get the EFF or something to sponsor your case).

In my experience, it's better to pick your fights, this one doesn't seem worth it (but I don't know what your situation is, so ymmv).
I remember that when it happened and totally agree. It's ok for the cop to get out of his car with his gun drawn and no identification that he is police and go up to the guy on the bike, but it's not ok that the rider had a helmet cam that recorded the entire thing?

The bottom line with these kinds of cases is that if not for the video, the victims of police brutality and abuse would have nothing to show ... and there have been many cases where police have lied to cover up their actions.

One case that sticks in my mind is when a Maryland basketball fan was attacked and beaten by three police officers completely unprovoked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYckCapjdnY

The reporting officer falsified the report and stated that the student had struck the police horse. This video turned up a few days later and shows that none of that happened. If not for the video, those officers would have gotten away with beating up a student and lying about it ... and the victim would have been the one having to pay for it with jail time, fines, and lawyer's fees.

That's exactly the kind of abuse we need to protect against.
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While this is a nice theory in principle, I think it falls down because of the timing of the ZNGA drop. The drop happened exactly when the FB shares were made available to trade (11.30 - 11.38), before this time they had been trading fine (in big volumes). You would expect the people that were holding these shares as a proxy for FB to have anticipated that others like them would have wanted to sell that morning and done so before the moment arrived. In fact, there is evidence that this did happen in that there was big movement of ZNGA in the first hour of trading and at around 10.50.

This means that is was much more likely that it was down to bad trading algorithms. Or that is how I see it anyway...
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"said I was prohibiting her from doing her job"

Translation: You've done something that I don't like, but isn't illegal, so here's a trumped up charge so you have to spend the night in jail.
In Oakland all police officers are equipped with lapel cameras. But having been involved in Occupy Oakland's legal and anti-repression work what we have found is that since police have discretion as to when they can turn the devices on and off and when to upload, the video always seems to be mysteriously missing whenever defense lawyers request it. The officer will say that they forgot to turn it on or that it malfunctioned. If there is an instance of a protestor throwing a bottle that video is always available and is splashed all over the press.
A social app has a potential to go viral, e.g. spread by word of mouth or via means built into the application. Spreading to all social contacts for example. You can't do that with a startup involving hardware or anything non-social.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think that just using the audio from youtube videos is a violation of the youtube api terms.

You can read their terms here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms

Specifically they say it is prohibited to "separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;"

and it is prohibited to

"promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;"

Like I said, I'm not a lawyer so my interpretation could be wrong.

I think in a nutshell they want you displaying the video because they have their own ads in the videos, and just streaming the audio cuts into their revenue.

Hate to be a wet blanket but I recently built a service using the YouTube API (http://chartbrain.com) and so the terms were fairly fresh in my mind.

I think other services that used only the audio from YouTube have run into trouble - songza comes to mind, they were one of the first sites to do it. http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2007/11/songza-turns-yo/
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As I remember it, the love lounge and the lucky 7 are different rooms. When Animation moved to another part of the building and Andrew got a new office, he built lucky 7 and the love lounge stayed intact.

I sat in the office next to the love lounge for over a year. Great way to see all the celebrities visiting the studio.
thedailywtf.com nicely covers that genre.
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I feel that the word "backdoor" is incorrectly used here. ZTE confirmed a vulnerability discovered in the phone, not something they placed in the phone intentionally (backdoor).
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I'm not in debt(yet), but I'm also in the position of "haven't really earned" and it's definitely pinching me, although I'm failing less each time, which is keeping me motivated.

But your guess is accurate. People want to be hands-on, social, and specific, so "I am poor and need money to survive" is a extremely truthful, realistic story that markets poorly. The story they like is the one where it has a dialogue with more specific, concrete elements: "I liked this site so much, I gave money to help keep it running..." They also adore having a foe to fight against or a person who becomes some kind of representative of a cause.

All the techniques of fiction could be employed to make the work you already have(which clearly has some value) feel like something people should contribute further to - nothing actually fake or untruthful is necessary, it just means finding a certain way in which to tell the story. At the end of it, people become inclined to give a donation, fund the writing of a book, etc. The product itself often isn't at the core of motivation to buy, so much as "I want to finish the story being told."
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That's not human powered, they accelerated it with a car. It's like saying hang-gliding is human-powered.
Can we assume this company is not Huawei/ZTE?
An investigation by FINRA should nicely paper over any wrong doing just like their investigation into Madoff found no irregularities.

If it's really serious the SEC might also have to find no evidence of wrongdoing, and perhaps if it was egregious the violators will have to pay the SEC and promise to stop doing whatever it is the violators and the SEC have agreed doesn't constitute guilt.
This is something the Scrum methodology is supposed to solve. It places the responsibility of prioritizing tasks at the hands of the stakeholders by making the tradeoffs between scheduled tasks and interruptions very explicit.

If you want something more light weight look into the Pomodoro technique. People can bring issues to you but only in breaks between blocks of uninterupted work.

If you go with either then you can explain away refusing to be distracted as merely following a proven methodology. This gives you an easy out as people will vent any frustration at it rather than you.
How is a hardwired password to allow remote access a vulnerability rather than a backdoor?
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Apps that have gone viral usually have gone viral because of tremendous effort put into marketing before the app was released. You can't expect to just release something in the App Store, have it spam your friend's FB wall, and contacts and expect a million users by next month. It doesn't work that way, though the guys at Techcrunch, and Mashable may give that appearance.
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I'm genuinely disappointed with this trasition. I don't know why Mr. John Gruber and Mr. Dan Benjamin have shied away from giving a formal explanation for this inexplicable split. And that is the thing that bugs me.
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Delete the backdoor code, with a commit message saying you have removed a security vulnerability. Watch them try to defend leaving the backdoor in the system (favorite excuse I've heard is 'we need it for troubleshooting!') - they can rollback the commit if they really want the backdoor in. Send out resume.
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Not sure why this sounds so incredulous. I have left (or even better, been laid off and happy to collect severance) more than once. It's not strictly "random" of course, it usually comes down to boredom and need for change but the bottom line is that indeed nothing could have been done.
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Given the skepticism about the Instagram acquisition, the Karma acquisition could be interpreted either positively or negatively by different investors, couldn't it?
Dan does know a lot about development. But compared to people like Marco and John Siracusa, who know about everything, Dan seems to take a back seat to the other co-hosts.
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All rocket technology is considered military technology by the US government (and probably every other government). There really isn't that much difference between a rocket that can put you into LEO and a rocket that can deliver a nuke to your enemies. And, as the North Koreans have proven, it's not the easiest thing in the world to get right.
Last analysis I saw, the access was not remote. It was a local root escalation; you need to have code running on the device before you can use it.
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