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You talked about:
"And if Google/Motorola are so cooperative then why are the FTC/EU investigating them for anti-competitive behaviour ?"

But now the goal post moved to patent abuse investigations, keep in mind that monopoly investigations and patent law can be engaged by diff state institutions, depending on the most effective engagement method, so you may have patent law dispute in the courts in any country and monopoly investigations conducted by an European entity. So while at any given moment, not having one corporation under investigation or defendent status does not push the innocent/guilty pendulum anywhere when acessing any given case. Or is it an indication of antagonistical reversable jurisprudence. The case at hand comes to mind.

Also, any multinational company is under the scrutiny of any government or substitutive supra governamental entity with attributed powers to do so and that is the way it will stay. There is nothing ridiculous about it. It is a needed lawful check for international law and the required balance for the implementation and usage of the Uniform Commercial Code.
A note for the author regarding Dropbox's "uncool" headers: Adding `?dl=1` to the Dropbox link will automatically prompt users to download the file upon clicking, and save you from having to write the disclaimer asking users to right-click and "Save As..."
Some of Google's projects seem ambitious in the way you are describing. The self-driving cars, in particular, are straight out of sci-fi.
Remember When Google Was A Search Engine?
A Roundup of Higgs Boson Jokes on Twitter
Google's Blogger.com Stopped Supporting Opera Browser?
I lived in Charlotte, NC when Hurricane Hugo came through. IIRC we didn't have power for over a week, perhaps closer to 10 or 14 days. Our front yard and general neighbourhood looked like a battle ground. Trees and limbs were everywhere! It took several days for enough trees to be cleared to be able to get a car out to the main road.

The point of all this is that I feel your pain. At least it was cold during that time, so the fireplace got a lot of use and kept us warm. Hope your power is restored soon!
Do you want to give comment to why you thought this was worth a look? I can't see anything special about it, but maybe I have missed something ?
Excellent article all around - I wish more people wrote this way. The author initially puts forth a thesis, "Any simple major enhancement to human intelligence is a net evolutionary disadvantage." - and then sets forth to both support it, while simultaneously identifying all of the major issues with this concept, the possible loopholes, and touching on all the popular memes that the HN crown will likely want to bring up (modafinil) and examining them through that lense of "If it's so great, why didn't we evolve that direction."

The author is opinionated, controversial, entertaining, and educational - with citations to boot.
Microsoft’s Downfall
So I assume it has multiple returns? Some smart built in error class I could actually see that removing the need for exceptions, yes.

One new way I've found interesting in obj c is giving functions (an) error handling block argument(s). It nicely does what java unhandled exceptions warnings do: make the user aware of his actions.
I believe there is far too much emphasis placed on genetic and/or chemical/biological explanations of intelligence. Whether you agree with the sentiment of the linked essay or not, the only real and true control we can ever have over intelligence through genetics/biology is via eugenics.

Until such a practice is accepted (and here's hoping it never is) we need to focus on what we can control: Culture. The unfortunate thing is this is difficult to approach from a geuinely scientific/empirical approach. The fortunate thing is that some common sense can go a long way: Feed babies/children well, set the bar high from an early age, start teaching them a second language at an early age, expose them to new and many experiences, etc.
This is some amazing stuff.
As a fan of emacs, but having no experience with javascript, I would like to be able to recreate this personally, and possibly use this as my training ground. I know the purpose of the post is to show a short video of something impressive, but could you consider providing the code samples and maybe even a guide of the code?

Regardless of whether you can or not, it truly is some amazingly impressive work. Thanks for sharing!
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Developer guide for Android. Resource on Android app development, games development, programming, coding etc.
Window Boxes from The Garden Gates
Agreed. This system rewards getting attention from the public, not necessarily adding lots of valuable features.
I thought voting something down was for trolls, not because you disagree...
It's significantly different from a patent trial. In this scheme the patent is not granted - and can't meaningfully affect the market - until it has passed some level of technical scrutiny by a (hopefully) neutral third party. In a trial the patent has already been granted, it's already affecting the work done by engineers, licensing fees may have been paid, and so on. And the evaluation by experts in the trial seems less likely to be neutral.
Because of the prefixes, yes the browser knows which properties to skip. But you were advocating removing prefixes, so I'm wondering how browser are supposed to differentiate between properties?
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Where 'vast majority' can equal 55%. Or not even then - sometimes an issue is not worth fighting over compared to others. Most people want to pay less tax, for example, but politicians of all stripes know that's not feasible, and stick with the minority desire to keep taxes up and focus on other things.

Another thing that politicians are great at ignoring is the general public's disdain for their paypackets. On this issue, even the most brazen shouter of 'my mandate comes from the people' turns to 'this is a delicate issue that the public don't understand'...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

Whitespace is so much more readable...
You are looking at it from the interpreter's perspective. I am looking at it from a document semantics perspective and what this means for more complex application environments.

Let me give you an example.

Suppose I have a GUI application that prints some XML fragments to standard output. The most natural way to do this in PHP is to write an XML pre-processor which happens to make decisions based upon operations in the GUI. In other languages you would print to standard output explicitly and the GUI would be primary. In PHP the XML output would be primary and the GUI would be secondary.

In fact your entire GUI is sort of contained in XML fragments to start with.
Why Microsoft is building a tablet - but won't build smartphones
If you already have a little exposure to machine learing, let me recomend an interesting review paper [1] on random forests: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/155552/decisionForests_MS...

It isn't everything you need know in 30 minutes, but it's a concrete coverage of lots of topics in machine learning in under 150 pages. Here's why I'm recomending this paper:

* The algoritm is easy to understand.

* It can handle classification, regression, semi-supervised learning, manifold learning, and density estimation. The paper gives an introduction to each of these topics as well as a unified framework to implement each algorithm.

* It can handle categorical data and missing data [2]

* It gives as good results as other state of the art algorithms.

* The paper is well-written and easy to understand for someone without a deep background in machine learning.

[1] It's mostly a review paper. Using random forests for density estimation is new.

[2] This review paper doesn't cover categorical data or missing data.
Of course it will - everyone needs to understand their data, how else do you think they make an informed decision?
If anything this market is increasing in size, and the Microsoft suite does an excellent job of filling the mid size end of the market.
Dont knock MSSQL till youve tried it because its pretty fucking awesome at the moment.
Investors turn entrepreneurs into insecure little teenagers
Because normally with a form you are submitting a full, complete resource from the web server's perspective.
Come again? What could be more self-indulgent and irrelevant than posting to the root of a thread announcing your opinion that a company that makes shiny gadgets is "despicable"? And you're down-voting me for pointing that out? What?
It's democratic to silence a voice once heard? 'Sorry, we decided on that, it can never be tabled again'? Ignore changing morals, new information?
Linux Users Accuse Blizzard of Unfair Bans
"Any simple major enhancement to human intelligence is a net evolutionary disadvantage."

An individual who is more intelligent might be less likely to pass on their own genes, but may well make the species as a whole more resilient. Looking at evolution from the perspective of the individual is a mistake.
I realize that Apple will be steering around the territory covered by Glass, but given the 90s "Virtual Reality" crazy and all the work done by folks such as Steve Mann[1] over the years, is there any chance whatsoever that patents involving HMDs are going to hold up?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
you might want to watch sounding like an ass.
there have been folks on the PostgreSQL lists talking about their experience with Azure running Linux/PostgreSQL.
Again, this is a gross oversimplification that describes only generic version control concepts and none of the powerful features that .

Go ahead and try explaining a rebase without trying to broach the concepts of time travel. How about why having a local copy of all commits/branches/etc related to the repository is helpful, or even at all possible, without relating it to a simpler client/server version control system.
Admittedly, in 100+ degree weather, a cold shower is pretty darn nice. But in the morning, when you just want to get clean (at least for me - maybe this is a personal preference) nothing beats a hot shower + soap + shampoo.

When camping, I usually bring a Solar Shower (http://campingsurvival.com/casoshbag.html) - left out in direct sun for a couple hours, that things gets _hot_.

The advantage of the gas powered shower, of course, is that you can use a lot more water than you can fit in a solar shower bag. The _downside_ of those gas showers (I have a coleman one) is the zillion warnings telling you not to use them indoors. Maybe if you had really good ventilation (or could run the water hose from the outside?) then you could use your internal shower stall + Hot water from outside?

This is where all the people who have Solar Powered Hot water heaters must be chuckling - though, in a broad power outage, I don't know if they have pressurized water in all locations right away. And definitely not always water that you can trust without boiling.

That's the other thing that almost _no_ people are prepared for - Day 3+ without water for hygiene (A lot of people have their emergency drinking supplies, but never even think about what they would do if they can't flush/shower - things get grim pretty quickly)
That's actually Really cool. Looks like you hacked it to do it positionally. What is the 9-1? I'm assuming that last bit is the range in a Dom content substring
I'm currently reading it to my 11 year old son (who loves it). I love how it gives me an opportunity to sneak in some lectures on rationality as I explain some of the jokes.
Banned Diablo 3 Linux Users Speak Out: We Are Not Cheaters
Hell, I want to have a son just to read it to him. Also, maybe I should give it to a few of my friends...
This all makes sense to an extent, but I'm still having a hard time grasping what is field... a field of what? I get that particles are basically excited field manifesting a value, a particle... but what constitutes a field?
>the only real and true control we can ever have over intelligence through genetics/biology is via eugenics.

There are plenty of other ways: Drugs[1], surgery, somatic gene therapy, and transcranial direct-current stimulation. All of these technologies offer much greater potential for enhancement than cultural changes. Also, changing culture is hard. Really hard. Creating intelligence-enhancing technologies is probably easier.

1. http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil and http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine are early examples of the potential of pharmaceuticals.
If you want to be like Reddit please don't require anything but a username and password for account creation
Windows 8 will be cheap, sort of
Yep - awesome author. I'll definitely be taking a look at some of his other articles. IMHO - the reason for the lack of IQ right now is that evolution is slow. We haven't really needed high IQ (that badly) for more than, say, 500 years - which is a ridiculously small amount of time.
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"The Bell Curve" way back in the 90s touched on the many ways substantially above average IQ appears to be maladaptive. You get much more than 1.5 standard deviation for the parents on IQ and infant mortality actually spikes.

Also various neuro diseases appear strongly correlated to IQ of the parents, like tay-sachs, for example.
Here file system corruption is mentioned and I read the amazon posts on the issue mentioning that they let customers check EBS disks for potential corruption in a read only state (I think it was).

Is there some kind of guide to this process? I feel like I am underprepared if my EC2 instances get hit by a similar failure.
Java Skill Test
I previously founded a credit and savings bank using mobile money in the Philippines. M-Pesa is a fantastic success in Kenya but replicating it's success in other countries has been very difficult. There are several reasons for this:
1) There were no alternatives when it was launched, eg Western Union. The best way to send money home to your family was literally to trust it to a bus driver, you can imagine how well that worked
2) The regulators were very 'soft' touch and allowed Vodaphone to launch a service which was illegal in many other countries (for money laundering reasons)
3) Vodaphone had an 80-90% market share in most segments, this prevented the 'cross-network' problem

I believe that until android (or other) smartphones become affordable to poor people, freeing innovation from the carriers, we won't see M-Pesa's success get replicated around the world. Then we will see rapid growth shortly after that tipping point is reached.
This is probably very obvious, but just a note for anyone interested in using gdb.. if you downloaded 64-bit go, you need to use the 64bit gdb to debug it

If you attempt to use the 32 bit gdb, you'll get errors about the executable you're attempting to debug is in an invalid format
Maybe have it as an account option
Netflix users watched a billion hours last month
Corecursion, codata, learning by teaching
How California Is Democratizing Solar For The 99%
Hell yes, that is an excellent story. Glad other hackers are enjoying it too :)
Especially the changed trade-offs regarding nutrition are interesting. Right now in the west we can meet pretty much arbitrarily high calorie intake requirements with decent control over its composition but we're still in the energy conserving mode, making us fat and "lazy".

Another trade-off completely changed by modern civilization is risk aversion. We can afford much more risk because of modern medicine, because of living in populous, anonymous cities, because of immense wealth to fall back on... And yet it takes a lot of courage for most people to approach and talk to a stranger (an attractive stranger of the opposite sex in particular), fight in a martial arts tournament, or stand out in any significant way (by dressing differently, by speaking loudly). Those who do usually aren't making a calculated decision but are simply unadjusted.
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Russell's Paradox is the statement "Does the set of all sets that don't contain themselves contain itself?" (Parse that as "The set of (all sets that don't contain themselves)".)

Now, obviously, the set of all sets contains itself, and in naïve set theory that isn't a problem: In naïve set theory, a set is just an unordered collection of any objects you can define; a set that contains itself poses no logical problems in an of itself.

However, once you define the set of "all sets that don't contain themselves", you run into an immediate problem: If it does not contain itself, it must, in which case it cannot, and so on, in a neat infinite recursion.

This is a real paradox, also known as a falsidical paradox, and a real paradox indicates a deep problem with the set of axioms it was derived from. (Banach-Tarski is not a real paradox by my definition; it is merely called a paradox because it is a counter-intuitive result.) Russell's Paradox blew naïve set theory out of the water; later set theories, such as Zermelo-Fraenkel (more commonly just called ZF), were very careful to not allow sets to contain themselves.
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I disagree with this. Would anybody be able to identify the shape associated with the brand without the brand logo being shown as well?

Though shape and color combined may hint at the brand, owning a shape is extremely challenging. There are only so many shapes to go around, hence the attempt to differentiate the RIM roundrect to the Apple roundrect.

Where does HP use the circle? It's in it's logo. Is it used elsewhere in HP interfaces?
How to Make a Slideshow with Music, Photos and Videos
"I have a bunch of older photos of family and friends and now I would like to transfer these to dvd and make a slide show or movie with music. What do I need to do?"
"I want to make a slideshow with music and share it to YouTube, what program should I use?"
Cloud Pricing: An *aaS Backwards Ecosystem
I came here to say the same thing. I had no idea he could smile. This is almost as important as learning of the Higgs boson.
I suspect the issue isn't with the store corrupting binaries but the application servers being under heavily load and dropping connections to the user. Begs the question why they aren't doing MD5 validation of the binaries before launching and notifying the user.

It is 4th July holiday after all. Lot more traffic.
I was very excited when I learned Go had standard library support for ASN.1 as I want to write a Go implementation of my companies ASN.1 protocol, but then I realized it was DER and not BER. I need a library that has good support for BER. That said there is a 3rd party BER 'asn1-ber' library that exists on Github, but I have not had time to explore it enough, and the description for the project says it is very basic; just enough for the LDAP protocol.
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Hoverboards
Ray Kurzweil on Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and More
We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it?
I'll definitely be taking a look at some of his other articles.

I've noticed his user name here on HN and over on Wikipedia for a while. I was just doing some more browsing around for his writings, prompted by the article submitted here today. I see "My Mistakes"

http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes

provides a lot of food for thought.
> an 80 character line limit for code [...] eliminates the need to horizontally scroll

There's other ways fit your first example within 80 chars:

setTransformStyles(context, buildTransformValue(this._transformOrder, _.pick(state, transformFunctionNames)));

How about?...

放改型(势, 做改值(这._改订购, _.挑(态, 改函数名)));
Oh man, definitely going to get this up-and-running tomorrow. This is awesome, potentially.
Wow, that is awesome!

I think it would be cool to combine it with a small JavaScript library that could make things like the transformation between animation and just drawing a path automatic. I doubt this would be too difficult, and it would make going between them much easier if you didn't have to change your code significantly.

There is no question that I'm using Swank-js for all my web development now!
Setting the record straight about online background checks
BTW, people aren't downvoting you because of your convictions as you seem to think according to your profile. They're downvoting you for a complete lack of contribution to the comment thread. That's why people downvote on Hacker News.
I've been a vim user since I was ten years old, but emacs is impressing me more and more. The learning curve for setting up some of these plugins is pretty high; does anyone have a tutorial so I can get this up and running?
I'm of two minds about this - on the one hand, I'm disheartened at the continuing saga of a patent system that allows such ludicrous ideas as "swipe to lock" to be patented. If there was ever "system or process" that didn't need patenting to have it's "methods" revealed to the public to promote the "Progress of Science and useful arts" - "Swipe to Lock" would be it.

On the other hand, actually, no, I'm just of one mind on this one.
Google supports sharing MULTIPLE Calendars in single embedded calendar web view
"Selfishness won"
Yes. Ironically it's even less "firstworldproblems" than you might otherwise think, because a lot of the jobs lost etc go to people who are very much not first world.
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How would helping "the species as a whole" increase the frequency of that person's genetic traits in the population? It sounds very pretty and virtuous -- get ahead by helping others, hooray -- but the math just doesn't work.
well, Google+ has a lot of fun features, often times more so than FB yet no one uses g+ much
I've been doing the Coursera course on Algorithms (from Stanford by Tim Roughgarden). He's going over concepts like Big-O notation as well as analyzing algorithms. This particular article is a refreshing read, and I would highly suggest the Coursera course as an accompaniment if someone wants to go deeper.
They're distributed as .zip files (renamed .ipa), so a corrupted file or bad download wouldn't extract anyway. The real issue here is in their DRM: they have to re-encrypt the binary for each user, and the encryption seems to be incorrect in some cases. That's also consistent with the FairPlay log error in Marco's post.
similar topic in many Computer Algorithm Books
If that were the case then it would affect all apps rather than a small handful of apps that updated yesterday.

Christmas day is the big one for the App Store. I doubt July 4 comes very close to that.
Great, thanks to this thread comments I have realized the only representative "my" party has on the EU Parliament did not vote... but her last bog post says she is happy they wont let ACTA to be approved. I feel... sad
I found these helpful:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193590

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198392

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198720
Also offtopic: for anyone interested in starting it, especially late in the evening, try http://www.comic-rocket.com/go?uri=http%3A//hpmor.com/chapte... ; that way, when it gets to be early in the morning, you can stop, mark your place, and come back later.
I didn't get such an email, most-likely because I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list; if there was a prompt during sign-up, I must have missed it.