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> It's not discussed, but I would be interested to see if this means they will be acquiring more data than usual. i.e. does this mean every phone will be analysed, or will they only do it for phones they could (in the past) justify sending off for detailed examination.

Initially and officially, no, but eventually in practice, yes---once the capability is close, cheap(/already paid), and easy, they'll use it more.

It's like Tasers, which supposedly save lives because they're way less lethal than bullets; if they really only used them when they previously would have fired a gun, then the only people who die from tasering would presumably have died without the taser as well. Except that someone with a taser is much more likely to fire (because it's "nonlethal") than someone who only has a gun....

In the case of the mobile data, "is it worth bothering" will get much more frequent "yes" answers when the kiosk is across the office than when the lab is across the country and requires days of waiting.
I'm listening to all my podcasts at 2.5x speed. That seems like the limit before it starts to sound weird.

Your brain can understand speech much faster than most people talk.
For some reason, it seems likely to me that they are doing this so that they can eventually add their own partner/affiliate tracking. It could be the only real viable model for them.
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Want good WYSIWYG html? Try out Apple Pages, export to E-Pub, extract and look at the xhtml files. After pretty printing it's almost like human authored. It seems that we still need the Apples and Adobes of this world.
A dark and lonely place indeed. I have this idea I've been working on, but I can't decide whether it's a complete waste of time or something that could really take off.

For example, this morning I didn't want to get out of bed because I had had no motivation and couldn't see the idea going anywhere. I need to fail quickly and cut my losses I say to myself.

Finally I get up (cats are hungry) look at the website and felt a sudden rush of hope and inspiration. It all made sense again. I spent the entire day today working on it.

Unfortunately, the feeling of hopelessness is back again. I feel like I should've spent my time doing something else. Anything else.

I've never been so schizophrenic about an idea in my life. Hope me!
runs on port 8080, that's going to conflict for a lot of java devs.
It is easy to prove that for a large enough stream, assuming the stream is drawn from iid samples, this would converge to the median, by central limit theorem.

I'm not sure what proof you have in mind, but I don't think using the word "converge" is correct.

Near as I can tell, your algorithm is x[n+1]= x[n] + sign(sample[n]-x[n]).

If you are applying the c.l.t. to sign(sample[n]-x[n]), all this says is that your algorithm will output a gaussian random variable with mean=median(samples), but sigma=sqrt(n). But maybe that isn't the proof you were thinking of?

[edit: also, the clt doesn't apply to sign(sample[n]-x[n]), since that isn't an i.i.d. sequence of random variables (it's not identical).

One possible proof I thought of: consider probability vectors of the form p[n] = [P(x[n] = 1), P(x[n] = 2), ...]. You can write the evolution of the probability vectors as matrix problem, p[n+1]=A p[n]. I'll bet you can break A = Projection onto median + remainder and show the remainder has norm less than 1. Just a guess, but I think it might work.]
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Well, in the original quote that was cited from "scary crypto stuff" was surrounded with:

Last I checked they[GitHub] made you perform a bunch of scary crypto stuff on your local machine before they'd let you in.

If performing `ssh-keygen` and entering in an (optional) password from a command line constitutes "scary crypto", then maybe Git and GitHub isn't for everyone. Not that anyone needs to know how PKI works, but they might be better off knowing that `ssh-keygen` generates an ssh key pair, a pretty essential component of the `git` workflow.

Maybe that's why SVN is so strong in older development shops. Outside of the effort required to convert an SVN repo to a Git repo, all those developers already have all the tools necessary on their machines (Windows is high on that list) and in many cases inside a VPN like my division we just use WebDAV anyways, completely bypassing the need for SSH Keys in favor of ActiveDirectory.
That may be, but people interested in computer science are, in my anecdotal experience, less likely to be interested in visual design (and vice versa). E.g. I can look pretty smart when talking about math or cs, but I'd look retarded if I said anything about visual arts. Sure, maybe I could try to learn a thing or two, but I've never cared because I'd rather be learning more math.
I wonder what the equivalent of "rm -rf /" is in that environment? :)
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I saw these guys present today at TechCrunch disrupt NYC (which is why I think the link made it here) and they seemed to have a vision for bringing the learning curve of guitar down to the masses and providing some area in between guitar hero and the real thing.
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Or how about work in general? If doing something 6 hours a week is borderline what is doing something 40-60 hours a week? Assuming most people work for money, isn't this just an extreme cultural addition to money?
You can autoload keys with pageant. You have to change the shortcut in your Programs\Startup folder that loads pageant itself. From memory I think it's as simple as adding the paths (in quotes) space separated after the executable. It's certainly in the help documentation at any rate.
Halfway through that incredibly overdramatic video, it shows chains around the globe, with each link labeled something like "Police State" ... "Military/Industrial Complex" ... etc. Then there is one labelled "Vaccines". Has anyone, acting as Anonymous, ever taken an anti-Vac stance? I would have expected Anon to be on the scientific side of that issue.
I really don't understand the investment here; it's a non-voting non-dividend share right? I've asked a few people to explain this without satisfactory answer; there is now absolutely no possible connection between the success of the company and the value of these stocks (unless Zuck decides to sell at least 7% of his 57% ownership, which seems like it will be approximately never) except that all the owners decide their stock should be priced relative to how well the company is doing and other people agree.

It seems like people are investing in what other people will be willing to buy this otherwise useless stock at, and those people are only willing to do it because of yet other people willing to buy it for the same reason. Is that not correct? Seems like an extremely bizarre form of "investment", it's betting on a horse, not owning a portion of a horse.
To those suggesting there are other apps that do this well, I've yet to find one that's seamless and yet to find one that's social. I think there are tools that do this well (personally I like snip on windows + imgur for a slick upload process) but the killer feature is being native and easy for your average user to use. Imho.
I dunno, I wish them well, cause i used to drag my guitar to Dolores and Duboce parks just like him. But they don't get my $. This looks like it'll teach one critical skill, fretboard knowledge, and then... folks will try to play real guitars.

I don't think playing guitar is that hard, but i was one of those kids that got signed up for 14 years of music lessons, band and orchestra, on at least 4 instruments, so it's hard for me to say what's hard.

As analogy, if somebody learn to play keys on a cheap unweighted MIDI controller /digital piano(M-audio, yamaha, casio, one of those), and then tries to play acoustic piano, they have a devil of a time trying to play with feel.

As another analogy, Yamaha used to make MIDI controllers that looked like soprano saxes, except you didn't have to develop an embouchure, you just blew into them any way and they played.
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Depends on the game, with something like Diablo 3 you are in small groups in separate instances of the game world all the time. With something like WoW it is true that in a way the more time you have to play the game the more fun/achievement you can have, as it is an open world where you can use your hard earned gear to dominate lesser players and get involved in some very hard coordinated raids.

You are right though, pretty much when I played WoW and raided I had little time for a social life, when I stopped being a regular raider the game lost a lot of it's appeal to me.
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What would happen if the police retain the data, presumably on a hard drive, then don't follow properly dispose of the equipment after a hardware upgrade? It would be possible for criminals to acquire the information somehow, right?
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Tried on my Samsung SII only to be told 500 server error. Maybe mediafire blocks mobiles?
I mentioned that apparent contradiction in my comment.
If that becomes common, putting a fuse or some defense against "frying" would probably be an easy response.
Why wouldn't they just comment on the pull request to set a history point and review from there? This allows changes while still being able to see what may have changed and why. Honestly I can't see how slinging patches by email works better.
It takes less than 4 minutes to do. And way to ignore every, other, thing I mention in there, like how something else is probably better suited for your needs if you think it is an "utter waste of time".

The level of discourse and use the downvote just amazes me anymore. Seriously, how can you be that much of a douche after I made very basic, undisputed points?
With the amount of risqué pictures teens are sending each-other these days, I bet this becomes the worlds largest kiddie porn database.

Oh, law enforcement. Gonna be a lot of pervy police officers getting exactly what they want. Not dissimilar to the airport Body-Scanner pictures that TSA agents were caught taking home.
Just out of curiosity, what about 6 hours playing video games? 10 hours? 20? (20 can easily be 2 a night during the week (chill out after work) and then 5 at night on weekends -- time that could just as easily be spent doing other sedentary things on weekends)
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I've seen a lot of these articles about the effectiveness of facebook ads in the months leading up to - and now in the days following - the ipo. The recent ones sometimes come across as articles by people who are short the stock, trying to encourage a sell-off. Most of the time, they come across as people simply justifying to themselves why they will not or do not own shares in the company. And it's perfectly fine to write about why you won't buy facebook stock.

It's just interesting the amount of noise that goes along with the public markets. You have to take articles/news with an even bigger grain of salt when a public company is involved in the noise. You just don't know peoples' motives. I'm not saying that I think this guy is short FB, I'm just saying its possible, and that I didn't see as many of these articles one or two years ago, even though millions of SMEs were trying their hand at facebook ads back then.
Sounds like you don't understand what we do. We do seed funding. The money we invest is not the last a startup will raise; it's just enough to get them to the point where they can raise more. So YC can fund arbitrarily expensive projects.
Even putting aside concerns about openness, the mere fact that they are talking this early about an app store is evidence that they're not focused on delivering value. Apple did not start talking about an app store for iDevices until they had millions of satisfied customers. I mean, why not use the Mac App Store? Maybe they have a good answer to that question, but if so, they should tell us what it is.
I hear Samsung has blocked it, at least on other Galaxy devices. But I think you can still make it work if you modify some stuff.
The $4 price tag on Lattes mostly is there to pay for your interaction with a human barista. Mechanizing coffee production misses the point - we had automatic coffee before the Starbucks/Espresso thing happened, but people prefer to pay more for the pseudo-social interaction.
S-Voice is just Vlingo rebranded.
Addendum: i have a Korean Squier strat ($79.95) and a Samick fretless bass ($220) that I'm very fond of. I have another cheap guitar and bass that are just meh.

Also i'd add Squier Classic Vibes to the list of mfrs with at least passable QC but not their Affinities
Probability of 1.0? Are you sure you're doing the right math? What's the probability after 6,400 years? 2.0?
Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?
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For a guy who took 3 days off work to play D3 and died at his computer? Probably a lot.
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Thats a pretty big bummer considering it's the most compelling feature. Also, I know panic is a mac only shop, but platform locked desktop apps seem a bit unsavory these days. Especially applications for developers.
Perhaps the commands renaming was done to make TortoiseGit more consistent with TortoiseHg and TortoiseBzr?
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I was deemed "smart" in high school (I was regularly teased and mockingly called "Professor"), but lazy enough about things like homework that I stayed on the "B" honor roll all of the way through.

I went on to do very similar in college, getting a "B" average and graduating with a "useless" BA in English.

I had always enjoyed playing with computers and, in a desperate attempt to find a "real job" after I graduated, I took a job as a tech writer for $32K a year. I hated it.

Thinking it was the job, I switched to another tech writing job, which I hated more than the first. Turns out, I hated the profession.

At that point, I decided that what I saw the software developers doing around me was really what I wanted to do, so I spent the next couple of years working my ass off to become qualified to get hired as a software dev. I took writing gigs that were largely web-related and started building stuff in my evenings and weekends to have something to show people when applying for jobs.

A year later, I was working as a web developer at a consulting company, building database-driven web apps for 3M and Wells Fargo.

A year later, I quit full-time employment and became an independent software developer.

I have done so for 9 years. For the last 2 years running, I made $170K (in Minneapolis, MN, equiv to $235K in San Francisco).

I'm working on a product/platform to branch out from consulting revenue.

Am I retiring because I built a startup that went from 0 to $50 million in a year? No. However, I do have a comfortable life, love what I do and not a single soul has asked me about my college or high school transcript in 15 years.

What they HAVE asked me about is what I've built, what I've accomplished, etc. That's all stuff entirely within my control. I work hard to build stuff and, in doing so, get opportunities to build more interesting stuff.
From looking at the desktops of an ordinary office, it may be difficult to realize that, when you are talking about internet connected servers, it's a very *nix world.

One of the reasons why I recommend using Linux on the desktop if you develop software for anything non-Windows: it's handy to have more exposure to the environment your code will run on. If you run Eclipse to develop Java code that'll run under Tomcat on Linux, you have a lot to gain by moving to Linux yourself.

If, for some reason, I end up writing Windows-specific code once again, I'll probably develop it on a Windows box. Visual Studio is a great IDE if you want to write programs for Windows.
So, obviously, we have no choice but for some people contribute to society. Is there a fair way to decide who has to contribute, and who is allowed to opt out and play video games all day?

Not really, but we have a way anyway, and it's called money. It's the same way we use to determine who is allowed to opt out and read all day, who is allowed to opt out and go on lots of vacations, and who is allowed to opt out and study something abstruse in college for four years.
Regarding Google my understanding is that Java is only used in a few areas, and is far from the majority of their portfolio. Most their production systems are C++, while a lot of offline processing is Python. There is even a smattering of .NET (in Orkut). I think Java was used in Wave, but that is now defunct. Likely a few of these systems are being migrated to Go.

Likewise with Amazon. My understanding, from chatting with some Amazon engineers at a conference, is that they have a pretty heterogeneous portfolio, even including some Perl and Oracle PL/SQL.

Others who are better informed, please correct.
BTW it was a parody of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule
The article doesn't mention it, but this works only on ICS and/or CM9.
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Redis is far more feature-ful, and can serve the purpose as memcache. Why have two parts when you only need one?

Redis offers persistence, set operations, namespacing, you can delete multiple entries with wildcards...
I would suspect that a judge would be eminently willing to hear an argument that such a modification isn't really substantial and need not indicate the sort of editorial control that the law is considering when talking about who qualifies for various protections. It's far from clear that s/&refererId=.*//g exposes them to additional liability.
is there any evidence or possibility that this is actually done in biology already? If DNA is writable, then cells have a Von Neumann architecture!
Evil comes when the user is expected to lose significant amounts of something for no return.

Tobacco companies expect you to lose years of your life, tens of thousands of dollars and return you yellowing teeth and nails, smelling bad and lessened taste and smell. Evil.

WoW expects your monthly subscription fee and you'll probably put some time into it as well. They don't actually care how MUCH time you put into it, just that you're engaged enough to keep playing. In return they give you fun, a sense of achievement, a vibrant community and new content. Not Evil

Zynga games are boring. In fact they're worse, they're work. They guilt you into playing, they try to manipulate you into harassing your friends, they're designed to nickle-and-dime and get you playing as much as possible. In return you might get a sense of achievement, but you irritate your friends and waste a bunch of time on a game that isn't any fun. Evil.

I think it's always evil to engineer a product to be addictive. Compelling yes, addictive no. If you don't return a positive benefit to the user then even compelling is evil.
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It also has a much better ui and proper system integration. (Not that it works properly on anything but SGS3.)
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Concerning 1, I personally believe that on the flip side, having an intimate knowledge about food is beneficial to health. Being able to have at least some awareness of what you put into your body allow you to be aware of what constitutes a sensible portion, and being able to appreciate various nuances of food beyond fat, salt, and sugar will generally result in healthier eating.

Extended destructive binges are usually a symptom of some other emotional stress, and I presume that regular eating habits aren't going to be followed, anyway.
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I am still astonished at the fact that we even have SpaceX all while VCs are throwing money away to fund photo-sharing concepts to make photo-sharing easier than scratching an itch on your ass. I'm just amazed that there are wealthy people out there who haven't yet stooped down to the level of social-media rats and decided to fund projects of such astronomical proportions.

P.S. I want to hug humanity right about now.
Understanding key pairs is very basic knowledge. I don't expect people to understand everything, but things like this, I do. It's dangerous not to.
I just get "Network error. Please try again" when I try to use it.

They blocked just about everyone from using it except SGS3 users a while ago.
Out of curiosity, have you been to a gambling environment? Did you find it hard to eat and drink there?

Do you play board games with a similar intensity? What about marathon TV shows, do you wait until the end of an episode (or story arc) before ablutions?
Just to throw some paranoia on the paranoia, maybe the vaccine link shown is part of a government plot to discredit Anonymous.
Or a bomb which uses USB as the trigger.. (not condoning, only thinking out loud! best be careful..)
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Have you tried this? SHows functions in a tag bar in vim.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273
> Windows isn't like OSX/Linux in that you can just store your keys in a .ssh folder and be done with it (at least not if you don't use cygwin/msys)

Then, by all means, use Cygwin or anything that helps you, even if it doesn't come with Windows, if it isn't provided by Microsoft, doesn't look familiar and if it doesn't play well with Visual Studio. If you code for Windows you are coding against an insanely complicated set of APIs.
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I meant expected value, but I wrote "expected probably".
I think it's really interesting to see so many people here jumping up to defend gaming. Nobody is blaming games or gaming, the original post simply states that like everything else, you should make sure that you moderate the amount of gaming you do and also try to do things that are good for your body. I think it's a good message for Hacker News given the number of gamers we have here (I can easily log 20-30 hours a week when I have a new game and some free time).

If you game a lot but you don't let it get in the way of your health then this message wasn't intended for you (except perhaps as a cautionary tale).
It's easier than that, a copy of a celebs phone records was about £10-25 so a dump of their smart phone should be yours for a pony
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Over-exercising addiction actually has serious consequences on people's health, as it causes stress fractures that are often exacerbated by them trying to "power through it". That being said, few people actually have this sort of problem, and one shouldn't avoid the gym simply out of fear of becoming addicted.