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Apple penalized $2.22 million for misleading iPad 4G ads
The Literally Sexy, Sexy Password Field
Disruptive Dashboard for Small Business and Startups
Why Wearing Fakes Makes Us Cheat More [Excerpt]
cleaning is how you transform this years crops into next year's seeds. one of the agreements you sign when you buy roundup-ready seeds is that you don't clean seeds.

basically, by seed cleaning, you don't have to buy more roundup ready seeds.
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I don't know about others, but here's an extract from the article you linked that explains why I have blind spots:

Those who have switched to the SAE's approach swear by it, however, some drivers can't adjust to not using the outside mirrors to see directly behind the car and miss being able to see their own car in the side mirrors.

The reason I need to see a bit of my car in the side mirror is because I need to know not only what is behind me, but also where it is in relation to my car.
Yup, custom domains are possible on Cloudfuji, because we're running the vast majority on Cloud Foundry OSS, which does support custom domains.

CloudFoundry.com doesn't support custom domains yet while it's in beta, but I'm sure it's on its way and should be available as they make their way out of beta.
I love that story, thanks for sharing
Show HN: online groupware in ExtJS, started as side project
>Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies.

Agreed, but joining hands with someone who fight against linux(ubuntu is linux) for patents doesn't make sense.
When I explain this to people they think that I am crazy. There is absolutely no need to see the same thing in the side mirrors and the rearview. It should be a seamless transition between them, like a multi-monitor setup.
Python 3 gives 100.5. Python 2 gives 100 (or 100.5 if you use "from __future__ import division").
Yay, yet another example of a large company doing something that does nothing but hurt consumers.
I hate to use such an overused phrase but this is why we can't have nice things.
"and what you think presents your favorite view of yourself"

Isn't this a function with a whole bunch of variables like my mood, the occasion, the people I'm with, etc?
Funny to see what a female thinks of as "wearing the same thing every day". For most dudes I know, That's a lot of clothes to own.

I think I made it to age 30 without ever owning 3 pairs of pants at one time.
Khan Academy Heat Visualization Easter Egg
Flame sounds awesome. I am always fascinated by clever bits of kit like this.

I read a piece about conficker a while ago. I thought it was super cool that it patched the security vulnerability on infected conputers to protect itself. Its just really clever. Now you have Flame which has done what it has done and is now trying to kill itself to make it look like it never existed.

Obviously though it is also deeply concerning. States are investing more and more into cyber warfare. If anything more money needs to be spent hardening computer networks and systems to protect from exactly these kind of threats.
https://sites.google.com/a/khanacademy.org/forge/khan-easter...
Not sure I follow the logic of

"The design of this new variant required world-class cryptanalysis"

to

"The finding gives support to claims that Flame must have been built by a nation state rather than cybercriminals."

Doesn't that assume world-class cryptographers only work for governments? Are there are other reasons people are assuming this was state-sponsored?
Those who can read that newspaper, and those who can't?
Good. Good luck!
While I don't disagree with your characterization of the criticism, it was more complex than just "people within the scientific community were critical and people outside thought they did the right thing in opening up the data and methodology to criticism when they could not identify a problem in the initial troubleshooting."

A large part of the community took a "wait and see" approach that was (obviously) skeptical of the results.

Because of the hype associated with the event, it's not surprising that people would end up resigning whether or not they really did anything wrong. I can't say that I have enough of a background to know if they should have resigned or not, but I certainly wouldn't use the fact that they resigned as conclusive proof that whatever was done wrong was handled incorrectly as opposed to a reasonable error.
The Programming Ape(Coda Hale)
> Numerous studies over the past thirty years have shown that when people of any age and any ability level are faced with mathematical challenges that arise naturally in a real-world context that has meaning for them, and where the outcome directly matters to them, they rapidly achieve a high level of competence. How high? Typically 98 percent, that's how high. I describe some of those studies in my book The Math Gene (Basic Books, 2000). I also provide an explanation of why those same people, when presented with the very same mathematical challenges in a traditional paper-and-pencil classroom fashion, perform at a lowly 37 percent level.

This. I love that this argument is being made. There is this notion among academics that the student should bend to the (fabricated?) stringent regulations on how math is taught or expressed. As a society, we accept the fact that there are those who grasp concepts, learn and develop sensibilities of material in various different ways.

For me personally, I found the way that math was taught in school to be completely disconnected with its purpose. There would be times where material was applied, but more often not. No other subject can get away with this. Music - instruments, scale and training. Art - painting, modelling and theory. English – writing, reading & comprehension. Science - hypothesis, experiments, conclusion. Most subjects have an execution factor. How far Jamie has to walk to get 3 bags of milk is not execution, it's practise. This is a gross simplification of a beautiful subject - but this is the point where many get lost: Purpose.

For those who absorb material differently, this is where the conversation needs to start.
... those who can count in ternary, and those that can't.

(Gratified that (after at least two down-votes) some people get the joke, mixing the two standard jokes into a single one, but disappointed it's getting more attention than the submission containing actual work and actual numbers. Ho hum.)
Amazon setting up yet another space in France
The Half Ass Consumerization of the Enterprise
Five Tips For Managing People And How To Use The Cloud
Visualization of the Week: Global BitTorrent usage
Apple's Biggest (Unknown) Supplier of E-Books
I'm not sure how that link helps me. I've already seen many of those studies. Which one satisfies, "students were given identical tasks, and a fairly large amount of time to do them"?

That is the specific study I am searching for to add to my list of papers. Did you give me this link because you were referring to Humphrey (A Discipline for Software Engineering), or something else? I can track down Humphrey, but it will take me a few days, since it's a physical book.
Bcrypt is Not the Answer
Sometime in the 90s there existed a Windows application that added a chat overlay to any webpage. Users had small rectangular icons and could move around the webpage. You could also create a "bus" and drive people around the web.
> The productivity boost for new development in Ruby is very real; I converted a 10K LoC java program to < 1K LoC Ruby in about a week, despite not knowing the language well at all

It's important not to conflate the benefits of Ruby here with benefits of dynamic typing.

Haskell is statically typed but can be as concise as Ruby (sometimes more concise, sometimes less).
I recently picked up my neice's high school alegbra book and the "mile wide inch deep" problem is plainly evident: way too much clutter and convolving of topics. When I helped her with some problems sets, it became apparent that the teacher had been drilling the students with rigid mechanized approaches to solving different types of problems. Actual THINKING about the problem at hand and gaining intuitive grasp of graphing and relationships seems to be completely ignored in the teaching. Very sad indeed.
Hmm, you really should show off a listing on the main page and the ability to browse without sign up.
Giving lusis Credit for #MonitoringSucks
Not sure if the author is an HNer or not, but since she's into leggings I have to drop a link to Black Milk: http://blackmilkclothing.com/collections/leggings

My girlfriend has been absolutely in love with these, and I've been getting her damn near every new one they come out with, because they look great and (apparently) are a great fit and good materials.
Is Microsoft Allowing Ubuntu Linux on Azure without a Patent Deal?
When coming up with a new business name, sure, it's probably possible to find a suitable name in .net space, but these days, why bother? Unless it's unique you'd not be able to find the same name free in the .com space, which is where everyone would probably look in first. Better to simply research/brainstorm further and find a name you can acquire/repurchase in the .com arena and bypass all the confusion/customer education.

On that note, I recently launched a new domain search tool called Lean Domain Search [1] which makes finding available .com's infinitely easier than it's ever been. It pairs your search term with 2,500 other keywords commonly found in domain names and instantly shows you which are still available, returning on average 1,200 available domain names per search.

Given the abundance of great .com's still out there, there is no good reason not to use a .com for your site over any of the other TLDs especially since as the author points out, for most normal people websites === .com.

[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com
Another delightful book from a man who knows more thank most about MongoDB.
It's easy on the eye and gives a nice overview of how to program.
Well worth a read, but only in the knowledge that it is an introduction.
Ivan Boesky, the famous investment banker/pawn for Michael Milken was rumored to have had many of the exact same suit so he didn't have to decide what to wear each day.
This is one of the best introductions to programming I ever readed. I'll use this for my son too in his learning process.
That is impressive performance, and steady progress. I have a renewed interest in Python since all the work for a new customer is in Python. I usually use Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Java - but, I am finding Python to be perfectly acceptable.
How many years before we can forget Gladwell?
I recently helped a female friend move out of an old apartment, and I was absolutely astounded by how much clothing she had lying around. It surprised me because she came off as a stylish, but not terribly fashion-centered person. By my rough estimate, this list represented probably 1/5 of my friend's clothing.

Granted, a sample size of 1 is not terribly informative; however, my gut feeling is that a women's wardrobe will generally be considerably larger than a man's wardrobe.

On an unrelated note, I love hearing about life hacks like these. Reminds you of how much else there is left to optimize.
It sure seems like she spent a long time thinking about how not to think about what to wear. My dressing habits can fit in a tweet.
First video In-Engine of Unreal Engine 4
Si bien hace unos días se habían mostrado unas imágenes, ahora salen a la luz los primeros videos de la demo de Unreal Engine 4 el cual está siendo desarrollado por Epic Games para la próxima generación de consolas. Son videos sin duda espectaculares donde se puede apreciar el potencial gráfico con el que cuenta el Engine estando aún en estado de desarrollo.
Last year MS was in the top 20 Linux kernel contributors:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kern...
Where do you see flaws in the analysis?
Internet-Draft: JSON Hypertext Application Language (lean format for linking)
Yeah, I was hoping more for a "Steve Jobs" approach. [I am female]

And frankly it is a bit confusing. Would you really wear a band t-shirt and a hoodie to a funeral?

[edit following comment below: I see, so it's "I wear the same thing ever day" for different values of the word "same"? I am somehow underwhelmed. ]
I'll happily take that kind of Orwell on my streets.

We have automatic speed-cameras and automatic toll systems already.

Bus and truck drivers are required to have a blackbox onboard (mainly to control that drivers don't exceed their allowed driving-periods).

I wouldn't mind a mandatory blackbox to record driving patterns. Feel free to go full Orwell and compute my insurance rate from my driving patterns, because that would most certainly fix quite a few reckless drivers.

As long as the process is transparent (i.e. everyone knows about it and the algorithms are open source) I don't see a problem with that at all. Streets are a highly regulated environment anyway (for good reasons) and since we're approaching the era of driverless cars this is just logical progression.
By attempting to be 'unconstrained' from fashion, OP has become more constrained than ever. Is she saving time & money? Maybe...but that blog post and graphics sure took some time to put together.

And now that she's made this public, she's stuck. Want to wear something different, colorful, playful? Fuck it, gotta stick to the schedule.

Clothing isn't time consuming or energy draining. It's about finding a style you're comfortable with, wearing it with confidence, and gently moving in and out of new styles as the times (and your personality) change.
LinkedIn Was Breached.
"Downvotes? Because of disagreeing?"

No, because of polluting what is generally a rational place of discussion with ludicrous extremist propaganda and general idiocy.
Multi–Tenancy In The Cloud: Understanding Its Benefits
Let's summarise what the study actually found. The researchers go in with the expectation that static languages will have advantages in their study. They designed a brand new language - 'Purity' - in both dynamically and statically typed variants, so there was no difference in documentation or other language features. The only difference is that one forces you to declare variable types, and checks them at compile time rather than at run time.

They take 49 students and train them in the language - 16 hours for the dynamic version, 18 for the static, because of "the additional effort for teaching the static type system". The students have 27 hours to complete two related tasks. All activity was logged, so they could look at the time from a test run failing with type errors to a successful test run.

- Scanner task: overall, students using the dynamically typed language were significantly quicker to complete a scanner that passed the tests - on average, about a third faster. Within that, the time spent debugging type errors doesn't differ between the groups.

- Parser task (builds on the scanner): The implementations are tested after coding has finished, showing no significant difference in success between the languages. In both groups, about half the students didn't manage a meaningful parser at all. In this part, students with dynamic typing spent significantly less time debugging type errors.
I sense that you're right about the listing. I'm going to keep working on the homepage until I find something that works well.

You can browse without signing up at the moment. It's more obvious on every page that's not the homepage. I will make it more prominent in the future once there are more listings to display (we're just getting going and getting listings is a key challenge) and I've improved the search interface more.

Thanks for checking it out.
37Signals is currently selling the domain, so the transfer of the domain would include any trademarks.
We are asking for both the domain and the application, so we an support the current users
Joe Celko does this but his outfit is a three piece suit.

He told me that it is part of his 'personal brand' so he is easy to recognize and approach when at conferences and public in general.

I wonder how different people's approach to him would be if his signature outfit was a hoodie.
There are lots of academic crypto researchers, there are some state-sponsored (i.e. secret-service) crypto researchers, and there are even a scant few commercial crypto researchers; the academics and commercial entities are usually reasonably open about their work, so that leaves state-sponsored cryptographers.

(Of course, they could be criminals. But there are other reasons to suspect that that is unlikely, most importantly the fact that Flame doesn't appear to steal credit cards.)
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I was generally regarded as math prodigy. I got my first algebra book when I was 4 years old, and mastered the material quickly. I eventually got a mathematics PhD from Harvard when I was 19 years old.

Traditional mathematics classrooms contributed very little to that learning, except for the portion of a university education directed toward mathematics major. And I even have my doubts about that part.

Meanwhile, the best bit of math teaching I've ever done may have come when I was helping my stepdaughter with her algebra homework. I noticed her applying on over-specific rule to a class of formula simplification problems. So I deliberately changed the problem she was working on to one where the bogus rule didn't apply ... :)

I've come to believe that for students of all levels, the most important part of mathematics education is when you coach them through problem-solving. Yes, the formalities are wonderfully powerful and fun, at least to my taste. But they should be a last resort, whether for solving a problem or checking the soundness of a result. Formalities-first is exactly the wrong way to approach things, for math users and math teachers alike.
AR.Drone published source code and toolchain
I don't think this is correct. With bcrypt you can adjust the work factor to keep up with the ramifications of Moore's law.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4443476/optimal-bcrypt-wo...
Why an article like this winding up on HN should surprise nobody

Seriously though, see me after class.
Yes, main reason was for virtualization(Hypervisior) and I remember greg kroah warning the code which they contributed had maintenance problems. That behaviour is expected from windows
Some of the text on that front page is very low contrast against its background. It might be aesthetically pleasing, but it sure isn't easy to read...
There is also the little fact that Flame seems to have been targeting Iran, Syria, and the West Bank. Not proof that a nation state was involved, but surely there are more profitable targets for a criminal master mind capable of inventing new cryptographic methods.
100 euros is excellent value for this kind of event.

That said, you can keep an eye on conferences and events in Paris by subscribing to the RSS or iCal feed of our Paris page on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/places/paris/
Profitability vs Economy of Scale in E-Commerce
I have to say, my first thought was "Cute, but dumb. It just makes the content inaccessible". But upon consideration, here I am in the United States, reading about some (small?) newspaper in Switzerland. They certainly got the publicity they were looking for.
The Most Echoed Seth Godin Posts
Self-destruct codes and patching up the hole you came in through are both pretty par for the course when it comes to non-trivial malware.
Having a bit of own-car in the side mirror allows for verification that the mirror is oriented as intended. Is there an orientation test for the SAE recommendation?
I think women don't fully appreciate the uniformity of men's clothes. Her plan is still more variable than most male dress codes like (dress shirt, slacks, leather shoes) or (T-shirt, jeans, sneakers). But I agree that too much choice causes stress. It must be a nice feeling to limit your possibilities and go from a 15-minute decision tree to a nearly instantaneous choice.
This whole scene reminds me so much of the record business of yore.

The bit about VCs swooping in with just enough money to keep you alive and not really giving much of a rip about your creative endeavors and as soon as it looks like you might not be a million dollar baby dropping you like a hot potato.

"punk and indie developers". I really like that.
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Git, Cloud, Node, Metro, is Microsoft starting to get a little bit cool?
Actually there's two questions here; the question I think he's asking and the question you think he's asking.

The question you think he's asking is: why is there a limit to how fast light can go? For this we have a reasonably good explanation; it's more or less a consequence of basic geometry once you've understood relativity.

The question I think he's asking is: given that we have a value of c why is it that value of c and not some other? For this we have no damn explanation, it's just an arbitrary constant that got baked into the universe for some reason. Perhaps one day we'll understand it in terms of something else, but perhaps it's just as in-principle unanswerable as "so why the fuck is there a universe in the first place?"
I would call an outfit a group of individual items, having a defined list of items (but having multiple of each) would be (to me) a "style". I guess it achieves the same goal whatever it's called so it's a moot point.

I personally have 1 (North Face) coat, 1 pair of outside jeans and... 160 t-shirts. I guess I would own more jeans if I left my apartment more than twice a month. As a side note I would recommend having so many t-shirts however they take up so much room, I have a 2 bedroom apartment to myself and both wardrobes are full of t-shirts.
I have now added a live demo for jemul8, at http://asmblah.github.com/jemul8/ - it's not up to much just yet, but is a good demonstration of real-mode CPU emulation :)

Cheers
What would this mean?

x = @ + (y = @+1)

Would this be legal?

x = 1 + (@ = @ - 1)

etc...
This article was actually really confusing. It reminded me of people who spend their time coming up with the "perfect productivity system", a quest which ends up ironically consuming all their time and preventing them from actually getting any real work done. I largely wear the same thing every day too -- I have 5 pairs of jeans, a single pair of shoes, and a bunch of polo shorts that I bought on sale once. Regardless of what I pick, it matches, so there is really no decision at all.
Personally, I prefer those moments in life when everything seems to strike a nice balance. I find they give me insight into what I love to do.

And yes, it generally involves creating something.
Or, y'know, some other image set that doesn't reinforce tech's already wobbly gender stereotyping.
Battlefield Internet: A Saga of the Year 2012