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I'm sorry if we imply a feature freeze by bumping to 2.0... I'm not where you got that. The plan is to backport any API changes to 1.9 or even 1.10 if we need to make one in 2014.
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"media files often contain lots of entropy that could help identify the author, such as location information"

Please, please, explain this.
Curious how Flask compares to Bottle, in terms of features, "developer velocity", performance?
O my! You need to brush up on the economics of these markets, companies are really attacking these markets on the mobile front. It is just that you don't hear about it in TechCrunch because it is very business oriented applications rather than social networks or photo apps. Since most people could not afford desktops or laptops cellphone penetration rates are very high and most innovation is done on the sms level. Blackberry is kicking butt in South Africa since they give unlimited internet for around $10 a month, which is huge since most could not afford to get internet in their phone. Take a look at mixxit's growth.

Also, something like square would be excellent for the so called spaza shop market. GPS applications for rural transportation, since most of the workforce use rural transportation and also easier payment methods. There are huge profitable markets to penetrate.
Clearly this means 1.0 is around the corner. Any specific features, changes etc, that needs to be worked on, for 1.0?
There are about 50 million people who in middle class in India, which is about the entire population of say South Korea. That to me is market that shouldn't be ignored.

It also depends on what you're selling: I have a friend of a friend who works at IBM and they see Africa as their next huge opportunity for growth (although I'll grant you that they're doing B2B and government work).
I forgot to add some background info. I'm sorry for any confusion:
As far back as the 1800s, people began to imagine a global network that would unite people, spread ideas, change the world, etc. The Internet grew out of that similar vein. So it was social right from the start. Think Engelbart's Mother of All Demos. Unfortunately, few people are using it for that. It's just an over-glorified family newsletter to most people.
Absolutely, yes. And the other side is allowed to sue in court.
"there's nothing to cause the rot"

The rot tends to set in as I install packages to Cygwin; the more I add, the slower and less stable Cygwin seems to become, to the point of taking tens of seconds to reach a prompt after opening. Make of that what you will.

"Also some antivirus programs can trip up Cygwin"

That could well be a contributing factor in my case.
No need to be a smart-ass about it.

Even if I had googled (which I didn't) then I'd probably have assumed the fixes for bugs from 2009 to have long made it into the current distro kernels.

I just didn't expect something so basic to be still (or again) broken.
I lived with one of the DIYBio co-founders. He was doing cool stuff, but it was more engineering and less science (see this: http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/01/mad-scientists-are-actua...). It was more, "let's build something cool" (and often it was) than, "Let's spend the next 3 years rigorously going over data collection, write papers, submit to journals, etc to test a theory".

Doing research in biological sciences often involves millions of dollars of funding and just isn't something that can be circumvented. My girlfriend is currently pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience. Studying that brains of hundreds of animals isn't something that I'd want her doing in the kitchen.
Or it could be that android is violating lots of patents, and the common thread is they are all making android phones. Note that they are also all paying Microsoft. It seems the common thread isn't apple and Microsoft doing something wrong, rather it is android.
Yes, that would be one valid interpretation of my post.
Frustrated voice fades in, "Right, capital L. No, slash, not backslash. The one that's leaning to the right. Bottom-left to top-right. By the shift key. On your phone? I'm not sure where it is on your phone's keyboard. Ohh, you got it? Ok, the rest is lowercase..."

Sometimes an email or text is better for everyone. But I always split up the info between two bands. Most info in an email and a SMS for the password. Or just have them change it after they log in.
Has anyone ever done this with any level of success? I can't see the public getting overly excited (or understanding basic science research) enough to fund hundreds of thousands of $ in studies to understand the expression of a gene in a rat, or measure inflamation in one area of the brain.
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There are some 950M cell phones in India. I've always wondered how the poorest of the poor actually afford these things. It isn't unusual to see someone who's leading an obviously poor life with a cellphone.
One thing that I've noted about the git integration in XCode4 -- the thing seems to put me on a branch to commit and take me off of it right after. If one isn't aware of this happening, bad things can result from an ill-timed command line git command.
Engineering isn't science. A sample size of 1 (spacecraft) is poor.
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Mosh has an optional ./configure --enable-compile-warnings=error flag that turns on -Werror. It's off by default for users who compile from source, but the Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora packaging uses it to prepare the binary package. We think this is a good compromise.
One that's pretty much always on my list of recommendations is DeMarco & Lister's "Peopleware" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects...

More than twenty years old now—yet still incredibly relevant. If you're new to building/leading/managing teams or project management, and don't have a copy, go get one now.
As an example, take a photo with a relatively new digital camera and open the JPG up with an EXIF reader. In all likelihood, you'll see GPS coordinates, the exact time you took the picture, along with the unique identifier of your camera.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format#....
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Would someone like myself, who is very strong with JavaScript but not a very good eye for design be a fit for this position?
I cannot believe i've been fiddling with jsconsole and firebuglite to debug iOS and Android. I was under the firm belief that weinre required phonegap or at least a special build thing in an IOS native shell to work.

It doesnt :) Just run the server in nodejs, embed a script tag like in the page you want to debug like with jsconsole, and there you go!
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It makes me sad that Peter Drucker is so out of style with you kids. I was recently reading a book about Google and they made a huge reference to Druker's OKR system (outcomes and key results). I found a decent article on it here if anybody wants a summary: http://jephmaystruck.com/how-do-you-measure-your-strategy/
The pore size is very slightly bigger than a single water molecule, and smaller than a single sodium ion. Heavy metal atoms are much larger than sodium atoms, and would not go through the membrane. Any kind of virus or bacteria is much, much larger than this molecular scale, and have no hope of traversing. I am not aware of any harmful water-soluble substances as small as a water molecule.
Sure that's a valid fear - and I do agree that in some sense it will be information overload. Anything will be accessible anywhere with a flick of your eyes - so the data stream will be even more accessible than with your mobile phone (which requires a series of actual user positive interactions by unlocking the phone, entering a query and so on)

Of course, the entire health effects of eye movements and constant electromagnetic radiation exposure are probably a different vertical than that however.
Yeah, head movement as a direct input won't work, for the reason you mention. Eyeball-tracking, however, can likely be made to work well.
I understand and agree with you but I also think about how much radio, microwaves and other types of electromagnetic radiation (yes I know not nuclear radiation) we are bathed in everyday, other than light and natural sources.

Also there is the inverse square law, just because we are bombarded by EM radiation doesn't mean it's damaging due to being so weak. Yet a transmitter mere millimetres from your brain cells is a greater risk.

Then again we sit in MRI machines at a flux density of 5 Tesla for health reasons!
Is this fear common amongst developers? My startup http://gitpilot.com is trying to make collaboration amongst developers using Git stupidly simple. A by-product of doing this is a simplified Git process. However, maybe our approach is off. Any opinions on the matter?
Weapons are tools to be used for many purposes. They are also designed to save lives. They are also designed to feed people. I'd venture a guess that 99%+ guns have never been used to kill a person. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
Developers matter a lot.

Developers know which users and platforms pay out the best (iOS) and this is what guides their efforts. Not patent infringement, injunctions or boycotts.
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That doesn't work on so many levels. Funding is already tight in science. No one's going to give a large amount to an undergrad to start their own lab at home.

Learning from others is important, as is having a team to work together on hard problems. If your study requires something being done every hour for 72 hours straight, one person can't do that. Not everything can be automated.

Studying something that's controlled by the government and/or dangerous is impossible outside an academic environment. Getting plutonium and building your own nuclear reactor at home is generally frowned upon. Studying smallpox at home is generally frowned upon. Getting a DEA license for legal drug research is frowned upon. Conducting medical research on humans without an oversight board (and medical support, consent, etc) is generally frowned upon. Most animal supply places won't send hundreds of genetical engineered and bred mice to your apartment.

This isn't a slap against you, but its clear that while HN understands engineering well, they don't get science for the most part.
> Why should they not pay?

A patent owner can accept FRAND conditions and the patent becomes part of the standard. They then earn a steady stream of licensing money off the ensuing trillion dollar industry.

A patent owner can reject FRAND and their technology does not get included in the standard.

There is no third option.

You can't decide after the trillion dollar industry establishes, to renege on FRAND, because your patent was only made part of the standard -- and therefore only has value -- because of that promise.
This is an oversimplification -- many (if not most) PCs are superfluous, but this is because they belong to people who do not need a computer at all.

Even with them all replaced with tablets or whatever, PCs will still live long and prosper in their original niches.
yeah true - but as with all that data, the proximity of it is in no extent to the same degree as these glasses is going to be.

a 4G chip, literally 1cm from your temple for 8-16 hours a day just cannot be something that is encouraged or that is recommended.

i just can't fathom how that could possibly be safe regardless of your view of electromagnetic radiation - having that against your head for 16 hours a day, 365 days a year. It accounts to 5840 hours of a 1cm differential of electromagnetic radiation to your brain ?

strapping a mobile phone to your head with a 4G chip and letting it sit there isn't something I can see myself doing and the entire utility of the glasses is designed to essentially be "always on" - i can't see you wearing them for 15 minutes and putting them away ? i love that Google are pushing the edge, but maybe they need to invent some sort of electromagnetic radiation wrapper so it doesn't permeate into your brain all day
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I was in MassChallenge '10 and it was a great experience. One big difference between MC and most incubators is that it's a non-profit. You get free office space, access to a great set of mentors, and, if you're one of the top teams, you get a share of $1m. Everything, including the money, is non-dilutive and comes with no strings attached.
If "highlighting a sex paragraph" makes one a pervert, then "watching a movie on serial killer" makes one a murderer?

This title is pure link bait. I wish there are blogs/publications that present facts as facts, and analyze them rationally, without using these cheap tricks.
Yes. It does. See recent case which was thrown out because they were trying to leverage FRAND patents inappropriately.
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That's surely not what kijin was referring to; that can easily be stripped out. Rather there's the problem of being able to determine location purely from the picture itself -- a picture contains a lot more information than just the particular thing you intend to point out in it.
The code looks substantially different and technically the names are different. HeX is pronounced "Hek", and Hex is probably pronounced "Heks".
Most of these companies even manufacture Windows Phones, so it makes sense to license them with Microsoft (Eg: HTC, LG). And, the patent that Microsoft is suing OEM's with is related to ActiveSync. While Apple is ridiculously suing these OEM's for other pretty trivial patents which are not related to anything like ActiveSync. So, Apple and Microsoft are not on the same track as you think.
Amen. I made a patch to RB, took me hours to find the source. It was a one liner, no credit. Ubuntu took the patch as a recommended update however, got my name on there.
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Most skillful people will tend to develop good taste and a sense of design in and around their own field of expertise. The Design of Everyday Things has helped people I know expand that sense beyond its original narrower confines to, as the title suggests, the world of everyday things.

The downside is that now some of them think they can instantly render a well-founded opinion on anything relating to design. Although that may simply be a corollary of the general phenomenon where experts in one field (and programmers and engineers may be the worst) think they possess the master key to critical thinking and problem solving in any and all fields.
That's not the point. Are you too busy to read the whole post?
The result is some very sad looking code.
Even if you scrub the EXIF data (which you absolutely should do of course) remember that it's likely possible to identify if you took a particular photograph with a particular device.

That isn't a danger that you'll be identified from the photo, but it prevents plausible denial at a later date.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/digital_camer...
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Our culture has to change a lot before a product like this can be mainstream. I don't think I could feel comfortable being in the same room with someone wearing one. The core problem is they break our ability to perceive the environment we are in. I can see that I'm in a room with 5 other people but I cannot comprehend that thousands, maybe millions, of other people are streaming it at the same time. I would constantly be thinking that one wrong move and I'm going to be embarrassing YouTube #1 clip of the day.
Sad in what sense?
This.

Many, if not a majority, of my non-technical friends and acquaintances have expressed at one time or another a reference to the "Y2K disaster" and rolled their eyes to suggest it was somehow not an issue. I was the 'Y2K compliance officer' at my startup at the time (we even got certified, and that actually may have been a scam (the certifying part)) but we identified and fixed a number of issues our box would have suffered had we not done the work.
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More features (such as the included Jinja2 templating system), similar developer velocity (built on the same principals and concepts), probably similar performance, since both rely on external http(s) servers to handle the heavy lifting.

The main advantage bottle holds over flask is that it's a single file that you can import, instead of a package. Makes it very portable.
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If you want to pay for something anonymously on the internet, you can use a prepaid gift card. It will generally be accepted just like a credit card (though there do seem to be exceptions). It doesn't require registering your address or SSN. Or at least not in the case of Vanilla Visa (they require, IIRC, a name and zip code, but there's nothing preventing you from faking those). You can't refill it, so you'll have to keep paying for new ones if you intend to do it a lot, but I guess that's the price.
Impressive find. However, given that the toxicity of graphene is not well understood[1], shouldn't there be significant concern for now about using graphene in processes which involve contact with food products? It's easy to envision a scenario in which a microscopic chunk of the stuff breaks off and ends up in the air or your stomach. The article only hints at this, where it mentions "mechanical stability."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Toxicity
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As someone who is not a web developer, but has a need to create a few internal apps, portable sounds like simple - exactly what I need.

My desire: (1) grab data, (2) render chart / graph, (3) display in browser

Without needs like session management, concurrency, etc., Bottle "sounds" easier, which is mostly based on the 1 file import thing, and why I was looking at Bottle last time I did not get this project rolling.
That is actually pretty cool.

I am noticing that many state governments are also sponsoring various forms of incubators, which also offer non-dilutive funds. I think that can be just what some start-ups need.
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Then why did Australia and the UK ban swords?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/08/1078594297517.h...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7331099.stm
The article mentions debugging support in Webkit for Objective-J/Cappucino, but it's my understanding that it's only there in Safari, not Chromium:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17356
That fact that is trending at all shows that Google+ is not populated entirely by Tech-heads.
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TortoiseHg is fantastic for Mercurial, but there are no comparable Git GUIs that I know of. Github for Windows looks nice, but it tends to be slightly unstable.

In my experience, open source GUIs for open tools generally have that unpolished "design by committee" feel of a Diablo 1 inventory hacker written in Visual Basic, so I can relate to the hate a little bit.
"In their simulations, the scientists strengthened the nanopores by passivating, or shielding, each carbon atom at the pore edge with either hydrogen atoms or hydroxyl groups."

Filed under the heading, "If someone knew how to build this stuff in volume, boy would it be useful."

This is good follow on work to other micropore work with graphene but as far as I can tell its just a simulation which points to areas that might lead to useful products.
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