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Was looking up mine while you posted yours. Yours looks like it gives more advance notice. I'm religiously opposed to deleting posts, however, so I'll just upvote yours.
Although using this argument promotes the idea that privacy equals secrecy. Privacy is a lot more than secrecy. You expect in day to day life to be ignored by most people, and certainly are not expecting that your every move is recorded. If you were, and knew about it, your behavior would be affected. That's another dimension of privacy that's not usually discussed, there are more.
Or:

define(function(require) {
var a = require('a');
var b = require('b');
var c = require('c');
...
});
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I'm just curious, are there any instances of Apple Killing already purchased apps? I know I still have a 4 year old tethering app. I don't know if it even works on current versions, but I just haven't deleted it. I still have VLC for iOS. So it seems like the family's paranoia that apple will kill the already purchased app overblown.
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You could have said the same thing about generalized distributed computing as well. Much like with MapReduce, the trick is to recognize that there is an 80% solution that works quite well (based around BSP):

http://kowshik.github.com/JPregel/pregel_paper.pdf

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/large-scale-graph...

The trick is not to build a generalized graph operator solution. It's to have a specialized graph operator solution, and then see how many solutions you can fit to the specialized graph operators. Turns out you can do a lot with a little.
Because it's an unethical business practice and detrimental to society as a whole.

It's like if I buy all the real-estate in New York City, then force all businesses to pay me 30% of there revenues if they want operate there, and forbid any business that competes with one of mine.
"please provide citations and don't expect people to clean up after you. and still it's a hearsay, no link to memo"

Who do you think you are that you can tell people on what terms they can cite a quote from the New York Times? No, I am not going to do a scientific research paper tracing the historical roots of this oft-cited (in reputable media) quote.

Please take your head and pull it out of your ass.
Your post adds nothing useful to the discussion. There is no point arguing about indenting style in a 7 line program, it's needless pedantry! This is almost exactly the same thing as grammar nazi-ism, and seems to have a similarly negative impact coding related websites.

I think we need to coin a new term - indent-nazi, style-nazi, or something similar - for the purpose of dismissing this kind of post and keeping people on topic.
Why are you comparing an API (malloc/free) to an implementation (mark and sweep)?

Anyway, take a look at the OCaml GC. It's simple (probably simpler than glibc's malloc) and very performant particularly if you understand how it works and use it intelligently in your app.
The C code looks very nice to me. What's the problem?
That wouldn't cut it for me, since I don't feel it is a reasonable mistake for support staff to be making. If you are hiring people to process RMAs, and they don't know what an operating system is, then I obviously can't put any faith in your RMA process. If its just "we hire clueless people and don't care" then all sorts of other legit RMAs can be rejected too. I don't have the time nor inclination to fight with a company over crap like that, so I just stick to ones where I know I don't have to.
Lawyers bill by the hour and by the action (eg writing a letter). How exactly does the lawyer lose out?
Very cool and so easy to use!
Oh cool man. This was originally Talk To The Future. I just refined the UI and got a new domain.
I'm surprised there isn't some JavaScript library service that notifies users that their browser is outdated.
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A self-driving Lexus, at that.
So you can get about 75% of Voyager 2's speed boost from a conjunction of just Jupiter and Saturn, which comes about a lot more often [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction
Yes that would not be difficult, it will be added soon.
You can't set up Siri via the mac yet, but after you've said whatever you wanted to Siri, if it's wrong you can tap on it and edit it. That's slower than if it understood you properly, but still quicker than the overall process without Siri...
Is anyone else getting awesome flashbacks to Christopher Walken's film Brainstorm?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)

One scene was how they continually used "microchips" to shrink the size of the headset.
ashish*: "Did you just suggest that, to teach Apple a lesson for protecting granted patents[1] - which is legal - the government should control what they can and cannot do with something they created?"

No, I said if the free market were in force (as opposed to the protection racket that is the patent system), then THAT would teach Apple a lesson.

I made no remark about whether there should be strings attached to government privilege, but certainly it's reasonable that if someone is profiting unjustly from government handouts (e.g. patents), then they shouldn't have carte blanche.
And then you use a popup for the signup box?
This isn't hacker news. It's DHH and car racing fan news.

Spend less time hero-worshipping and more time being a hero.
I think that's scary too, but it's probably some laziness on doing my own research. Besides, it's a cultural thing, outsourcing our health to physicians, so most of us aren't used to do it by ourselves.
No, I am referring to the set of problems related to graph partitioning.

This is essentially the same underlying problem that is the source of why distributed NoSQL databases do not support join operations. In the case of NoSQL databases, they simply do not support joins because it is not a core operations. (Technically you can still do a join, it just has terrible scaling characteristics.)

The fundamental operation of graph databases are relational joins by another name, which means that graph databases have the same limitation on distribution that distributed NoSQL databases have on joins. However, unlike NoSQL databases it is their primary operation so they can't just not support it. Consequently, the only way to have a "graph database" that is massively distributable is to solve the same problem that prevents distributed databases from supporting joins.
Dawn isn't the best we can do, though, because it's solar powered. Even in the inner solar system, solar power can't give you nearly as much power as you can get from a decent radioisotope thermoelectric generator, and in the outer solar system you can fuhggedaboudit.

If we wanted to send a probe to the middle of nowhere right now and had a billion or two to do it we'd strap our best ion drive to our best RTGs and then send it via a Jupiter slingshot. No idea how fast we could get it. Of course it would continue to accelerate until the power or the propellant ran out.
> UTC and POSIX time are adjusted, relative to TAI, to keep the number of seconds in a given day at a nice "easy" 86400

yes, technically POSIX time is defined not as a number of seconds since epoch, but as 86400 * (number of days since epoch) + (number of seconds since last midnight)
"This is a living document, and new apps presenting new questions may result in new rules at any time. Perhaps your app will trigger this."
For some lawyers, lawsuits are just "business transactions".

They move in an eviroment where lawsuits are just amuniton in a game. They believe it's ok to use them, so they get suprised with this kind of response.
The biggest problem with this is that it requires uniqueness to be traded for error tolerance. People are going to have different typing styles depending on their mental and physical state, and their typing styles will change over time. In addition, while the space of possible typing signatures is very large, the space of actual typing signatures is much smaller. So we simultaneously have to assign each person a blob of signature space which is big enough that it can positively identify them regardless of whether they've had their morning coffee (or, god help them, they cut their finger or break their arm), and small enough that we don't have so much signature overlap as to make the system useless.

In either case everybody will have to have a fallback password in case their stride is off one day. If the system works well, then that password will be rarely used. A rarely used password is harder to remember than a regularly used one, so people will choose weak passwords for the fallback.

So the only way that this system has any chance of working without grossly compromising everyone's security, is if it barely ever positively identifies anyone.

Of course, even if it did work perfectly, it would be the equivalent of having the same password everywhere. In that case, why not just memorize one strong password?
Aren't these still prototypes and not final designs? Compare these to original prototypes for android handsets.
Me too. I'd be really interested to hear their story. Has anyone been involved with fixing a system that would have been provably broken by stuff like this (and other things like Y2K)?

Bonus points if you were working on critical public infrastructure like a nuclear power plant.

Worst thing in recent history that I remember is the Zune's leap-year bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune#First_generation
Actually I've been considering/dreaming about a thing like this for a long while now (ever since I got started with jQuery and discovered how smooth I could sail through the DOM with it). The idea I came up with (I'm most likely not the first to think of it, so tell me if someone already implemented it) is a sort of JavaScript shell for *nix that'd work similar to jQuery: passing along (collections of) JavaScript objects with properties and functions.

e.g.:

var sum = 0;
$("~").ls({"type": "file", "size": ">1M"}).each(function () {sum += $(this).size("mb");});
$.echo("total size of home directory: %d MB", sum);
Should I get more sleep, or should I wake up earlier? decisions decisions....
You mean why it matters that we have leap seconds (it doesn't and they should be abolished) or why the news of it matters (because a 1000 crappy time implementations are going to walk off the end of buffers and do weird things) ?
Ford Motor Company as of a year ago was 100% IE 6. There was talk of change, but all the internal apps only work in IE 6.
I think you'd find it's much closer to the historic "Rough Music"[1] form of social justice, in which people disapproved publicly enough to make it known, but typically refrained from violence.

I don't know what the numbers would show, but I'm not sure there'd be any significantly greater actual risk from 'genuinely disturbed individuals who may take real-world action' over a particular cause like this vs doing something because the demon in the neighbour's dog told them to[2]. The mental impact of having to wade through the messages is a different matter, of course.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_music

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam
I absolutely love the mail client in Opera. In fact, it's the primary reason I still use Opera as my main browser. At work I use Chrome because we use our own webmail client (same one we sell to customers).

I have six email accounts setup in my Opera, all using IMAP. There's a unified INBOX so I can check all my messages, but still be able to review each INBOX separately. Email search is BLAZING fast, the fastest search I have ever used, though it lacks advanced search options like searching only in the subject.

The contacts view is also awesome. Click on a contact and it'll show all the mail to and from that person, instantly. No searching.

The best part is that I never have to "check" my email. Opera notifies me as soon as I get an email (thanks to IMAP) and I keep open the sidebar on the right so I can always see the UNREAD counter to know if I have new messages or not.

Since reading email and browsing the web are things I do all the time, it really makes a lot of sense to me to have those two activities live in the same window and use the same tab navigation system. I love it.
I read this and think "The singularity is coming!!" Next skynet will come online
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When I go to sleep, I usually end up thinking about how long I'm going to be out (usually not enough) so I'd just set the timer for 6 hours from now rather than for 6:00 AM. That's the way my brain works anyway. The best feature on my phone's alarm clock is that it says how far in the future the alarm will go of once it's set. That's also saved me a couple of times when I accidentally set the alarm for the next day.

During the day, it's not too hard to do the math (if I need to know something at 3:00 and it's 11:30, for example).

I haven't tested this yet, but I also imagine myself just setting it two hours ahead, for a time I'd likely need the reminder, but am pretty sure I'd have completely forgotten. As an example, my first message was set for 5 minutes in the future. Then I realized I was late for a meeting and got a call. I had completely forgotten that I had set the set message until I answered.

Also, I noticed that the message started to quickly that I missed the first part as I answered. A second pause or possibly a bumper "This is a message you left on WakeMyself" would help avoid that.
Voluntary service is a beautiful thing.

I don't like the idea being tossed around in the US about 'mandatory service' - hello oxymoron.
I figured as much when I saw it :)

Congratulations on the win!
Glass half-empty.
Awesome feature. I hate that other browsers ask you to resubmit a form when navigating back. Opera just shows you the cached page that it bad before. Combining that with the mouse flip gesture, browsing is a breeze. In Chrome you have to click BACK or use BACKSPACE (or a mouse with a dedicated nav button). In Opera, I click the right then the left mouse buttons and I'm back at the previous page. Alternate to go back forward.
Yes, it's really become my favorite JS MVC and the doc is amazing. They've also announced that Google built the new version of doubleclick on it http://blog.angularjs.org/2012/06/doubleclick-super-powered-...

Two must watch demos:

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u...

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W...
Do they have any better explanations for the Fermi paradox then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Kind of funny that of all the amazing things in that picture, that is what you notice.
The Oatmeal's content is owned by the creator and is made freely available. FunnyJunk did not even credit Inman, they were effectively stealing his copyright, not merely pirating content.

"Most other copyright holders" -- this is much too general a claim.

Do people really complain if a south park episode is taken down from youtube? No, they don't. South Park episodes can easily be viewed at South Park studios.

Do people really complain that their bootlegged copy of Avengers got taken down from a filesharing site? Yes, but not from a vigilante-style moral high ground. What people really complain about is when invasive DRM-schemes are deployed that prevent normal people from, say, making a single copy of a movie they paid for.

Do people complain when a short youtube clip is taken down (eg, a highlight from a sports game)? Yes. Why? When the clip is not available anyhwere else and it kills the conversation. People linked that video in articles and forums and emails and discussions and now it's gone.

Do people complain when mashups involving copyrighted content are taken down? Yes, because mashups are believed to be fair use.

Do people complain when a home video gets taken down because for several seconds you can hear a copyrighted movie playing in the background? Yes, because that's just fucking ridiculous and I'm sure you agree.

I think you can now see some distinctions between what internet vigilantes tend to complain about and what actually happened with TheOatmeal, and the contradction only appears because you've abstracted and stereotyped way too much.
DHH is more than a rich amateur. He's been pretty successful since the start of his racing career.

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Yes, but they tend to be relatively trivial (in terms of performance) in comparison to AAA titles.
I think gatekeeping example serves just as a proof of concept. It could be more useful for continuous monitoring. For example to tell you that somebody else may be using the computer that you are still logged in to.
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Is it any worse than calling an argument a "flame war"? Or arguments saying that if corporations are people, there should be a corporate death penalty?

I wasn't comparing digital death to real life death. Those words we put into my mouth; I never made that argument. I even used scare quotes to hint that it's a word being used out of traditional context. It's possible to have real-life terms translate into digital concepts without necessarily implying the 1:1 correlation that some have assumed. When my mouse dies it doesn't mean I've committed animal abuse, it just means I need to recharge the batteries.

I just like to have interesting discussions. That's why we're all here.
This is one of those products that seems like an obvious compliment to the "digital album", in that additional content-- interactive communication, behind-the-scenes recordings, alternate takes, and all of that goodness can accompany the output of any release.
Why it matters that we have leap seconds. It is just one second and it happens randomly based on several factors
This kind of reminds me of (my limited exposure to) XAML, in a good way.

Also interesting to note that this project seems thoroughly "de-Googled". Code hosted on github under a non-Google name, site made with bootstrap and not on a Google domain either.
I'll be so pissed off if these Google Glasses can't interact with the iPhone just because Apple and Google are pissed off at each other... Those look great. Even just as a dumb display for my iPhone with some simple touchpad gestures on the side, I'd buy one.
And my railsconf talk: http://confreaks.com/videos/891-railsconf2012-schemaless-sql...
> I'm much more fearful of a legal regime that could step in and simply dictate the business operations of a private entity.

They already do. In the US we call those dictatorial edicts regulations, and they specify how many business operations are to be done or impose restrictions on how things can be done.

Laws against putting sawdust in meat? dictating the business operations of a private entity. restrictions on how pure gasoline must be to be used in a car? dictating the business operations of a private entity. Laws restricting the reasons a business can fire someone or refuse to hire them? dictating the business operations of a private entity. I could keep going, but I think I've made my point here.

> If you are critical of Apple's 'dictatorship', how can you be comfortable with the idea that the government is going to wield its power any better?

Because in the us the government is not a dictatorship.

> You can choose not to do business with Apple. Try that with the government.

I believe that is called immigration.

> We aren't talking about public safety, fraudulent behavior, or monopolistic advantage here.

The government is not restricted to making laws abut just those things. Article 1, sections 8 through 10 of the Constitution define what the government can and can't make laws about.

> Running to a lawyer and the courts when you don't like the product offerings of a private company is absurd.

I think you are mischaracterizing what is happening here. I think it is more correct to say that what is happening is that people are running to a lawyer and the courts when a private company is trying to control how you use their product (and possibly making changes to how it works/what it does) after you have purchased it.
So the ability of this method to identify you based
on your typing style would require a certain amount
of consistency in the way you type.

Well done, you found the answer. A lot of people can't be positively identified, and the whole thing is error prone.
I like the name "International Earth Rotation Service" - I always picture some dusty cavern with a giant brass gear wheel and a little old guy coming in with a key every day to wind it up.
This thread already covered new releases pretty well, but as for old film, I'm wary of digital transfers that can be very sloppy with their "cleaning" by adding too much sharpness or other filters, distorting the colors, etc. It's something you have little choice over when the available film stock is poor, but there are still ones where the film is in good quality but the digital transfer mutilates it.

I have a weaker opinion of vinyl, but from what I understand, it's a similar situation. Vinyl is probably a lot worse than film for retaining quality technologically but because of commercial interests, sometimes the vinyl release has far better mastering than the digital release. You can see this with older music, such as David Bowie's original releases on RCA and the later CD versions that are "remastered" such that they have a lot more dynamic compression. And you can see it in new releases as well with electronic music, where the vinyl release is targeted at DJ use and the CD one for listening at home, leading to different mixing. So while digital may be strictly better than vinyl in terms of retaining quality of input, due to cultural reasons the input is uneven depending on medium.
This really reminds me of Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Does anyone with a background in physics know how it might be related (or not)?
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Thanks for the feedback! And that totally makes sense. I will add that header message.
> Today we are very much blessed with quite a few large libraries

And with magnitude orders more RAM. And just because there are large libraries doesn't mean they are either necessary or desirable.

> not just X but Qt on top of that and KDE on top of that. WebKit. ICU. These come out to dozens of megabytes.

Interestingly most apps that depend on Qt, WebKit or ICU include their own copies of this libraries.

> Static linking would add somewhat less by eliminating unused symbols

Thanks for reminding me of another benefit of static linking which I forgot to mention.

> I count 4,000 odd binaries in my PATH

I'm a fan of many small tools working well together but I can't help but feel that when you have systems with 4,000 binaries in your PATH, something has gone terribly wrong.

Also, Go's current binaries are large not because they are statically linked but because there has been basically zero optimization of generated binary size. There is no reason why Go binaries couldn't be much smaller, other than so far it has not been a problem for anyone building systems in Go.

> Today's security environment requires frequent patches to library code.

Which is not helped by dynamic linking for reasons both of complexity (see http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/versioned-... ) and because most programs anyway use their own version of such 'shared' libs (update your system's ffmpeg and chrome will keep using its own copy). Dll-hell has security implications too.

In practice people end up doing things that either nullify the alleged benefits of dynamic linking, or simply using static linking (Google deploys statically linked binaries, sometimes multiple Gb in size to their servers).