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I know Islam is the cry-baby of organized religions, but the Turkish state (specially the secular military junta tha runs the show) uses these sort of thought crimes to both silence opposition, and also to pander to the right-wing factions.
> Quite a few of them are already at least casually interested in the iPad

Keep in mind, though, that the median household income in the US is roughly $50k. Apple doesn't make blue collar products. iPads are on the spendy side for a typical family, and they're probably less likely to buy one than a fully functional computer.
Nice try Mr. Daniel J. Bernstein.
"We have senior contacts at Google who we worked with in order to regain control of the Google Apps accounts"

Boy, its nice they get that privilege. I love gmail, but god help me the day I lose access to my account- I can only imagine the support whack-a-mole us mortals would have to go through to get any resolution.

Anyone remember the "thomas monopoly" story from a while back where gmail disabled the guy for weeks with no comment and the dude had to contact every person in the world to get someone to look at it? (And then they reinstated his account)
What's the solution to mobile file system management, then? Android has a lot going for it with its plug-and-play-esque filesystems: installed Dropbox? Now every app that uses the File API can save/load files from your Dropbox. On iOS each developer has to specifically implement each file service in each app - that's not the future.
No, I don't at all mean in general.

(See my cousin reply here).

That is not at all "about it". I mean, specifically, for the layer that a RAID produces. It's simple. When you add RAID, you add a layer on top of physical hard-drives to make them redundant.

This type of layer has a completely different expectation from all of your other examples. The example in my cousin reply is apt: it would be like expecting a checksummong algorithm (which you're ONLY using to add verification that a file is genuine) to sometimes fail and produce a random checksum in the space of possible checksums the algorithm can produce, instead of the checksum that the algorithm actually produces for that particular file. Or if it has a comparison function, to sometimes fail and say that the file checksums to the provided checksum, regardless of whether it does so.

This is ridiculous: such a layer wouldn't be a checksum, it would be completely different. The idea that I have to physically roll a layer on top of my checksum, to check whether it's currently acting like a randomized print statement or a comparison function whose truth value is randomly negated, is ridiculous.

I don't know how else to put this. Maybe instead of your RAM, bicycle, examples, I can give you these examples:
-> Imagine if you are adding a fuse to a circuit to protect it, but the fuse sometimes actually just saves up electricity so it can release it one quick burst and override the circuit. That's not a fuse.

-> Imagine if you hire an auditor to make sure your employees aren't misappropriating funds, since the business involves a lot of cash, but your auditor sometimes just pockets cash. That's not an auditor. You only thought you hired an auditor. The solution isn't to make sure the auditor has an auditor, it's to hire an actual auditor instead of someone you mistakenly think is one.

-> Imagine if you buy insurance, but actually the company sometimes will just spend lawyers on defending having to pay out, even when the event clearly happened and you were clearly covered. That's not insurance - that's a scam. You shouldn't have to insure the layer of insurance with an insurance against the insurance company out-lawyering you. You should get an actual insurance policy.

-> Imagine if you buy a seatbelt, but after buckling it, there is a realistic chance that you really haven't, and it's just a clothing item draped across your body and not attached in any way at any point.

Well if that's possible, that's just not a seatbelt. It's a defective item that was supposed to be a seatbelt but isn't.

The point is, all these examples are optional layers on TOP of a process. If they have a realistic chance of failing as in the above descriptions, they simply are not what they're claiming to be. Their chance of failure should be so low you can't even think about it; if it isn't, you should just hire or buy a different on, since you made a mistake.
No cuisine survives importation to another country, really, but authenticity can be overrated.

I remember growing in Taiwan and having "pizza" there - it doesn't really resemble the pizza you might find in Italy, nor the Americanized version. For one thing, pizza was high-class, eaten at a sit-down place with cloth napkins, forks, and knives... and toppings featured things like lobster and crab.

The reverse is true too - there is no such thing as "chicken balls", that crazy east-coast invention that claims to be Chinese, nor General Tso's chicken either. In fact, mostly everything you find in an American Chinese restaurant would never be found at the dinner table in China. But if you think that's crazy, wait till you try Chinese-Indian food. Hoo boy.

But that's the great thing about the new global society - we can remix, borrow, replace to our heart's content. I had Peking duck tacos a couple of weeks ago, it was delicious. And there's this food truck near here that has an amazing (Korean-style) roast pork Chinese bao that's garnished with Japanese pickled radishes with some Mexican flavor thrown in to boot. Sublime.

Food is, in the future, extremely unlikely to stick to its geographic and ethnic roots, and what an amazing change that is.
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Free water from home tastes worse. Making the analogy, if they want to sell content they need to give extra quality than "illegal" download. Cinema large screens, live concerts, etc. I cannot see another way.
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Hi Guys.

Paraphrased from our Kickstarter page: Thanks to those that have identified an issue with our drawing video clips, they were shot with a high fps camera and included in our video at half speed. @mcobrien this is why drawing looked "slow and careful". In response, our video will be adjusted to demonstrate the drawing at normal speed.

Additionally, we have identified areas to further optimize our algorithms for you to ensure that any latency is fully minimized. You can consider drawing speed to be equivalent experience to the iPad touch interface; if not better.

Cheers,

Rob (CEO) Collusion
yes it is similar to that
I've had an interest in polyline simplification for the last couple of weeks, and I eventually stumbled upon the Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm and a JavaScript [1] and Python [2] implementation of it.

However, one thing it doesn't do (and Visvalingam’s algorithm doesn't either) is remove loops. In many cases you wouldn't want that, but sometimes you just want to draw a line that looks right, and being able to remove redundant parts of the polyline would be very helpful. For example, in the case where you have a GPS track of a run where you run to a nearby oval, do ten laps, and then run home, and you want the simplest polyline that looks right.

1: https://github.com/mourner/simplify-js
2: https://github.com/omarestrella/simplify.py/
Thanks, I've added it to my TODO list
Tools only created to solve the lack of safe constructs in C.

C made lots of sense in the context it was developed, but the world would be better if we had safer systems programming languages.

Valgrind, purify and friends are required to C, the same way Java requires IDEs, to improve language usability.

Have said this, the new trend in having static analysis tools integrated in the development process, like Clang, Eclipse CODA, Visual Studio's tools or HP Code Advisor, among others, can bring a bit more safety into C.
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>> "The most important enhancement is not even on the list: an iPad with several hundred apps is totally unwieldable. That should be fixed."

This isn't a problem very many people face. The average iPhone user only has 65 apps installed (Source:Flurry) (I don't know about the iPad but I guess it would be around the same). Apple typically doesn't cater to the needs of a minority.

With folders you should be able to get a very large number of apps on your iPad's first home screen. I think it's around 400 (20 folders x 20 apps per folder).
This has nothing to do with the secular military. In fact, the current pro-Islamic administration has imprisoned more than 10% of the generals in the military (trial ongoing for four years); and recently started "cracking down" on liberal journalists, NGOs, artists, professors, and so forth. This trial seems to be a continuum of those crack downs.
Very nice. Going to use it.
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The OP link now leads to a different blog post. This seems to be the listed post:

http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2...
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Looks like IBM i is still/currently shipping with a single address space.

Wouldn't surprise me if Oracle and HP also have something similar.
The biggest weakness's to 2 factor auth are:

1: You can remove 2 factor auth without having to enter the auth code. So if your computer gets a virus, someone can just remove 2 factor auth via your browser

2: The "app specific passwords" are full on backdoors. If one of your app specific passwords gets hijacked, someone can login to your gmail with it and then remove the 2 factor auth pass (See above)

* http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/mobil...
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It's funny, because I recently tackled this exact same problem in Python as well. And guess what my first step was? Writing a prefix tree implementation, in order to use the exact same approach the author took in C. It never seriously occurred to me to do it any other way. It may be because I recently got into C as well after spending years with only Python, but honestly I think I would have done the same thing before that; that's just how I think. So I don't believe it's the language that dictates how much you think about efficiency, it's the programmer.
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Right now our search/suggestions is a direct API request to TMDb. Yes, they are that good (props to Fanhattan).

Re: foreign languages, they store very tidy information about all the available titles (basically a mapping from ISO 3166-1 to the title), cf. http://help.themoviedb.org/kb/api/movie-alternative-titles

Thanks for the feedback!
There is one book from a portuguese writer where the argument is something like this: press a button, you'll get a million dollars and somebody (that you don't know) in a very far way place dies. Nobody will know about it just you. Will you press it or not?
Piracy is the same. Is so easy to get and normally nobody will know, just a smaller reward and smaller consequences too. Most of people just press it..

disclaimer: I and nearly everybody somewhere during is life press it, specially if the "reward" is larger. A videogame in my country is around 75€, minimum wage less than 500€, unemployment rate among younger around 40%.
Many families have computing needs that are completely satisfied by an ipad, especially if they are in a lower income bracket (that are less likely to be doing PC-required tasks). They are still likely to get a cheap laptop since chatting is much easier with a real keyboard, but something like a Transformer begins to look very good.
>>I've had a weird glitch where it switches to optical output when I remove headphones

Similar thing was happening to me. It probably is dirty. Check to make sure it has nothing inside it, like lint.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Glad you like it. We really love movies, hope it shows.
Don't port it, it would be better if you could just add on-screen controls.
From Collusion: Hi All just in case didn't catch my reply, I'd like to direct your attention to what i posted elsewhere on hacker news:

Paraphrased from our Kickstarter page: Thanks to those that have identified an issue with our drawing video clips, they were shot with a high fps camera and included in our video at HALF SPEED. In response, our video will be adjusted to demonstrate the drawing at normal speed.
Additionally, we have identified areas to further optimize our algorithms for you to ensure that any latency is fully minimized. You can consider drawing speed to be equivalent experience to the iPad touch interface; if not better.
Cheers,
Rob (CEO) Collusion

By the way we are now 'de lurking' as we have finally got some sleep after the marathon lead-up to the kickstarter launch - 53 hours and no kip is not pleasant! Feel free to ask us questions directly. There is a LOT of work going into Collusion to address many of the existing fundamental issues of pen on tablet computing (many raised right here on hacker news inc latency, accuracy, palm rejection etc) we kindly ask you do this before reaching for the nearest pitchfork:) Talk to us.
Providing you are aware of prefix trees. I guess you could come up with the idea independently but I would assume a lot of people when presented with the problem wouldn't.
Agreed. Valgrind can be very helpful, saved me few times. You know huge modular application, one line bug, dead end situation. Too bad output is mess, ups, full of details :-)
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when did this happen? circa 1500 A.D.? oh, wait...
If you define China as 1st world... Apple is doing very well here (in China), even with its computers. It used to be Macbooks were rare, then they became fashionable but buyers would still put pirated XP on them. Today, most of those buyers are actually running OSX, they just got used to it through their iPhones/iPads. Other non-1st world countries I frequent seem very similar.

This only applies to the middle class, of course, and most people in China are not middle class. At least the kids here aren't getting hooked on google docs like back in the states; the GFW takes care of that!
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> Of the many pieces of advice proffered, four of the most common are: [...] don't drink and drive (they take it seriously here!)

That is absolutely not my impression of America. Americans I have met have a shockingly casual attitude to drink driving. I've also seen it been portrayed in a positive light on American TV (e.g. fictional protagonist regaling a tale).

In Ireland drink driving is still fairly pervasive amongst my parent's generation and in rural areas. But with younger people drink driving is totally taboo thanks to strict laws and a lot of education. Our media would never broadcast anything that was positive of drink driving in any way.
I'm a student who learns C#, Java, Php, javascript... at school. I bought "C: A Refence Manual" to learn this summer...

Hope it will make me a better programmer.
He didn't have it for his personal account. But he did have it for cloudfare.com accounts.
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Honest question: what's the raison d'etre here? Is the Maps API really that annoying that people need a wrapper?
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Not really. No appointed official woke up one morning and thought "let's make an atom bomb". A bunch of scientists came to the govt and said, "we can make an atom bomb, we just need the funding".
> However, the infamous Walled Garden has been encroaching on the OSX space. That is something to give serious consideration to. It gives me pause. I've been thinking about giving linux a go again. Ubuntu has been giving me grief in vmware, but I'm going to see about dual booting.

You can have the best of both worlds and run Linux on your MBP. You're in luck, too, since the new Fedora release supports EFI booting directly from both DVDs and USB disks. Since your MBP is 32 months old, all your hardware will most likely work out of the box with Linux.

Early this year I bought an MBP exclusively for running Arch. Things have been absolutely wonderful. Top notch Apple hardware + an amazing selection FOSS software. What else can a geek ask for?
My first though too.

They got great support, because they have a name. Any normal Gmail user would receive five automated reply emails from Goog, at most.

I'd love to move my email somewhere else, but there is not really any alternative.
Sometimes you need to shut down your laptop or mobile devices to preserve battery life on trips.
I thought Turkey was a secular country?
The www was created to put documents on the internet and it was done that way for decades before github came along and it worked very well. Still does.
This is used to great effect with the Alchemy software synthesizer's "Detail" knob, allowing you to edit sounds with surgical precision or to make broad strokes. Hand-editing additive sounds is almost impossible without it.

Alchemy in general is a jaw dropping piece of kit. It would give the UX types here a seizure though...
Apparently Hollywood made that book into a movie: http://movies.io/m/TN
Turkey is secular by constitution, but the ruling AK party is Islamist.
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Of course you can hear sounds: but you can only hear direct sounds. All reflected sounds are gone. And that's actually a high percentage of the sounds you normally hear.

An anechoic chamber is used to test acoustics in an environment with absolutely no reflection (reverb, echo, etc.).
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I would prefer infinite scrolling as on e.g. http://lookbook.nu and http://images.bing.com/search?q=cat
By far, the sound of ZX Spectrum's games loading back in 1982 , when I was a kid, is definitely the greatest and most favourite digital sound of my whole life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6uwfM8F5uU
been scanning the site. looks cool, love the concept. I got slightly annoyed that I couldn't find the price. Came back here, cntr+f price, ah seccond paragraph... ah yes it's there... oh I now see it's also on the subscribe page, yet I somehow still missed it .. I guess the colored images took my attention!
Brilliant - this is great news. I think I'm going to build myself a private cloud in my basement and begin my plans of world domination.
Valgrind - a tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.
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Surprisingly, most of the descriptions apply also to Japan. Except you need to replace forks with chopsticks, cowboys with ninjas.
For many people this is old "news," but I was recently talking with a programmer who had heard of it, but had no idea of the scope and power. I thought others might be in the same situation, hence this submission.

I look forward to contributions of uses, and perhaps other tools to complement or replace Valgrind.
Congrats on the 25th! You guys do a great job with such a well made magazine each month. A great resource for HNer's.
bookmarked for my current project, why doesn't Google Map use an API like this? Would save lives.
Also, Eclipse can trace it's roots directly to VisualAge, IBM's Smalltalk based IDE platform (Eclipse began as a rewrite of VisualAge in Java).
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It's awesome! Is there any change to made this legal??
... and also probably against the newest terms of use that Google put out recently:

https://developers.google.com/maps/terms 10.2(a):

"(a) No "Wrapping." You must not create or offer a "wrapper" for the Service, unless you obtain Google's written consent to do so. For example, you are not permitted to: ... (ii) create a Maps API Implementation that reimplements or duplicates Google Maps/Google Earth. For clarity, you are not "re-implementing or duplicating" Google Maps/Google Earth if your Maps API Implementation provides substantial additional features or content beyond Google Maps/Google Earth, and those additional features or content constitute the primary defining characteristic of your Maps API Implementation."
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The hashbang is the problem, just removing it also does the trick:
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Irish also and absolutely agree, none of my peer group would even consider driving after drinking in Ireland, but in my experience it's much more common and accepted in the US - you can even see thi in action in US television / films.
You should be excited someone validated your idea. Then you should turn it to for profit (and be one of the rare examples of for profit social enterprise that may actually work.) Then you should raise money and ramp marketing.

Or do nothing since your original goal was to do some good which by creating the idea and frame work you have accomplished.