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Why should we recognize that "he has every right...?" Going into business is not a right. Getting Apple to publish your app isn't a right. He simply wanted to make a political statement, and feels a sense of entitlement that Apple somehow owes it to him to publish his app. Apple owes him nothing.
It's just like any other business transaction. If the company wanted you not to bail out at the last minute, they would have signed a contract that stops you from doing that. Did they do that? If not, you don't have any obligations and a reason to feel like an ass.
Huh? The issue was with an .exe not being digitally signed and IE's scary warning that it might be malware. Very similar to what Apple are going to do in 10.8 (Gatekeeper).
Maybe not.

However, if that's the case, the review team should point that out, specifically.
The function call transformation is good, but one still has to parse the code to be able to do this. I remember reading an article a while ago that described the hoops the author had to go through to get a proper R parser working, though I can't find it now.
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My argument isn't based on price. Some people will always prefer hotels. You know exactly what you're getting.

Others prefer the airbnb experience, even at the same price. You get to meet new people, cook your own food if you want (anyone eating a special diet wants this), you often get to stay in a smaller building.

Some people hate all that stuff. But less than 100% of current hotel bookers. Enough people love what airbnb offers that this should start making a difference at the margins.

NYC may have more problems. I'm in Montreal, where there are a lot of renters but few horror stories.

In any case, the airbnb review system is getting better. People will learn how to avoid the dumps.
I think our tastes are very much alike. I feel what you're saying about the oppressiveness, and I wouldn't want to live in Vienna for the rest of my life either. I just think it's a bit much to call the city of Vienna horrid, especially when so many people say so many nice things about it in general.

You've actually made me want to check out LA sometime soon.
My argument isn't based on price. Some people will always prefer hotels. You know exactly what you're getting.

Others prefer the airbnb experience, even at the same price. You get to meet new people, cook your own food if you want (anyone eating a special diet wants this), you often get to stay in a smaller building with its own style.

Some people hate all that stuff. But less than 100% of current hotel bookers. Enough people love what airbnb offers that this should start making a difference at the margins.

NYC may have more problems. I'm in Montreal, where there are a lot of renters but few horror stories.

In any case, the airbnb review system is getting better. People will learn how to avoid the dumps.
This reminds me of some of the fun and games we used to have with 8-bit computers.

8-bit computers running chips such as the Z80 and 6502 were limited to 16-bit addressing and a total of 64k of addressable RAM. For most computers earlier on this wasn't a problem, but in the later 80s when machines with 128k started to become more common this meant that there were lots of strange quirks to be considered.

For example, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Timex TS2000 in the US) originally came with 16 or 48k of RAM and 16k of ROM (64k of total addressable memory). When the +128k came out in 1985, Sinclair used a fairly interesting way of getting around the 64k limit. The memory was turned into 16k banks, which were the manipulated via a port. A bit more info on how this worked is available here[1].

Incidentally someone built a 4Mb RAM upgrade for the Spectrum![2]

[1] - http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/128kreference.h...

[2] - http://8bit.yarek.pl/upgrade/zx.zx4mb/index.html
Not true, some diets raise metabolism relative to others according to recent studies, low carb diets burn about 430 more calories on average per day for the same level of activity. So that's another way of burning calories without "exercise" unless you consider sitting still exercise.
Aye, there's the rub. How do you determine "support to a reasonable degree?"

In the US, free speech only applies to the government infringing on your ability to speak, not on private corporations.

The idea of a charter is naive, and just like Google's "Don't be evil" mantra, a PR mistake waiting to happen.
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> My "64 bit" CPU has 36 bit physical addresses and 48 bit virtual addresses.

Just to clarify for anyone that doesn't catch what you mean and thinks PAE is the devil:

x86-64 CPUs must support in PAE when operating in long mode (64 bit mode). Further the version of PAE used is 'classic PAE' with an additional translation layer added to get some more physical address space. In other words even 64bit CPUs don't have a real 64bit physical address space, they still use PAE to access large amounts of ram.
This seems like an appropriate place to ask this question. At work I have an i5 with 8 GB of ram. Unfortunately we're stuck with XP 32. So is there a away for me to use more memory over all? Specifically I have to have Outlook and my VirtualBox Linux machine running at the same. I'd like to use bank switching or PAE to give my VM 4 GB. While all of the other applications just fight out for the remaining 4.
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> Conventional wisdom is that the private sector is just much more efficient than the state can ever be, but I have never been able to find evidence-based studies for or against this.

This is hard to measure empirically because of selection bias - you can only study things which have already been privatized, and the first things to be privatized are the things you think will privatize successfully. For example, there are quite a few countries that have successfully privatized their telephone networks. But that doesn't mean you could privatize the police or military with the same success!

And because you asked for evidence-based citations, here you go: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-empirical-evidence-to-support-...
if only he had confidence in himself and continued his research during those 20 years
It only took Google one year to release this after opening G+ to Google apps accounts.

In the meantime I lost interest. Oh well.
I see the same error whenever I inadvertently access the SSL version of a non-SSL site that uses Akamai CDN. Either somebody put up the wrong link, or you're using a Firefox add-on that tries too aggressively to use SSL.

By the way, http://www.london2012.com/about-us/our-brand/using-the-brand...
I didn't say the hotel industry is behind the laws. I have no idea what's begin them.

I said, I'm sure some people in the hotel industry recognize airbnbs potential threat. I was responding to your first paragraph. I should have been clearer.
Firefox's bar works exactly the same as Chrome's now. And even long before FF started letting you search from the address bar without search keywords, you could use search keywords.

I prefer the in-bar history searching in FF too.
Part of the reason HN has stayed decent is because politics and similar discussions are stamped out.
I think this problem is why academia is so valuable; academics sole purpose is to share their discoveries. What they build is not a product, but rather a set of ideas ( or others' ideas) to share with the public
Or PHP (shudders), which Facebook (for some reason) relies on.
No it's a jump to a conclusion at least, and according to a recent study may be false.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1199154.

The study seems to indicate that low carb diets actually do trigger more calories to be burned for the same level of activity, about 430 additional calories per day. It's too early to tell if this affect is real (larger study needed), but the results are interesting.
I haven't yet developed for Windows 8 and RT yet but having developed apps for the Windows scene since the 90s I have seen a lot of technologies come and go, and invariably -- and not having done the work you've done I may well be completely wrong here -- people will say it's not like the preceding technology stack and ipso facto is crap.

For instance: MFC/Straight-up GDI devs moving to VB/Delphi/Powerbuilder; Delphi users moving to .NET; .NET Winforms developers having to relearn everything when WPF came out; etc.

Is it anything like that or is it truly busted?
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Your comment made me laugh so hard.
I have a freemium app and I recently stopped asking for an account for the free tier. Traffic tripled and so did the premium accounts. So yes, I can attest that frictionless on boarding increases sales.
I love the British legal system... a U.K. judge said the tablet is “not as cool,” and thereby doesn’t infringe on the iPad.
I see your point. One day I'm going to write a guide to choosing your editor, or your trusty tools, for that matter. There are further advantages in choosing an open-source established editor.

It all boils down to a trade-off. As long as you don't invest too much time into learning a tool, you don't mind losing your investment. Recently I have switched to Opera as my default browser. I couldn't stand Firefox anymore, Chrome didn't suit me. Opera is proprietary and closed-source, but then I'm not going to dig too much into its internals.

Have a sweet day.
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I enjoy writing when I get the chance, but right now, working on my own software project, it's hard to take time away from developing in order to write blog posts. This even though I know that raising awareness about what I'm doing is as important as actually building the product.

I look with awe upon people who manage to create amazing things whilst also writing eloquently about them - I just can't handle both at once.
Was the website of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea putting up an https link. Still it makes no difference to the fact that the https should have a valid certificate, especially for a site like that.
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Interesting article. I guess it just shows how to circumvent poor documentation.
The situation is not as black-and-white. The private sector is more efficient in some cases, but that doesn't mean _everything_ should be privatized.

A trip to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) will probably leave anyone with the impression that government offices are dens of inefficiency and bureaucracy. And that may as well be.

I think the sweet spot lies in the middle. There is no reason, for example, for the government to put a (say) landscaper on its payroll to maintain a public park. The overhead of a FT government employee is just too much; the job can be done well by a myriad of private companies. Same goes with bus drivers, janitors, painters, etc.

If the job requires domain knowledge and other such intangibles, then it usually can't be outsourced. This is why many IT projects designed to "upgrade" or replace existing IT systems at government agencies suffer: there are a lot of intangibles that just can't be all laid out on the contract form.
You might want to try out GWOffice. Does nearly the same, I guess.
I say it's also a bit of marketing for his ipass.pk , which does look like a good start. Still has some time to go though.
Historically Microsoft has flown by the seat of its pants with a lot of this stuff. You wouldn't believe how horrible the Windows 95 or Windows XP interfaces were right up to the last possible minute.

As might be expected with anything "flashy" or "cool" in a company not exactly defined by those adjectives, there was a shortage of skill and an overage of opinions. Only after true "ship it" crush set in did the less qualified people seem to scurry away and worry about little details like, oh, an entire laptop product line that didn't boot.

For example: kernel dev Mark Lucovsky got some perverse thrill by checking in the startup bitmap. In his mind, this granted him some sort of final authority over the branding of a product that sells a half billion copies. We'd let him yell at the testers and people providing feedback that it looked like shit -- then we'd giggle while Dave Cutler punched holes in the walls in the build lab. Then with egg on their faces and casts on their hands, they'd go do something they were good at while the designers and a few hand-picked nerds possessing the barest hint of aesthetic capability tried to save face at the last minute.

The variable now is Sinofksy who unfortunately seems to think he really knows design. This is the guy who thought that removing items from menus "based on the user's work habits!" was a great simplifying metaphor in Office 2000. You'd look at a menu for months gradually building familiarity with the product. Then that one day when you finally needed to insert a friggin' table, the damn option wouldn't be there any more.

I'm sure he has all sorts of data proving how great everything is. I can't tell you how much data we had "proving" that the original Xbox controllers were way better than the Nintendo or Sony controllers, too.
Thanks for looking guys. You are right, I spent a lot of time on ipass.pk so trying to get a word out. Its a hobby, not a business, hence I have kept it free. I am glad you liked it.
I thought that the work that goes into multiarch support would allow you to run a single kernel and mix&match x32 and x86_64 binaries on the same system, but I might be wrong (Of course that would require a separate set of any lib/dependency).

Some numbers mentioned on the x32abi page hint on anywhere between 4% and 40% performance gains, if that is true then I'd think the benefits would outweigh the hassle of another architecture.

(Edit: Most middleware also ship straight-C versions of the routines; whether or not an x32 C compiler can measure up to handcrafted x86 or x86_64 assembly I don't know - but I'm guessing the much higher register count would help a lot. Regarding proprietary software: There are a great many server configurations that do not need anything beyond the standard open source packages available in Debian)
My logs show that neither of you actually tried it though. Did you?
But that's precisely what this article argues is a falacy. He discusses a trial carried out in hospital conditions with regulated liquid meals of exactly the same number calories but differing carbs/ protein ratios. The results showed that given the same calories and exercise all the subjects maintained the same weight.

Unless I misunderstood anything.
You're confusing trademarks with patents. Trademarks are supposed to avoid consumer confusion. In fact, in trademark lawsuits it's required that you establish that there's consumer confusion, or else you have no case. It's common on these lawsuits that consumers are interviewed and asked if they're confused by the products. Apple would've done this if they had a trademark case against Samsung. In any other IP case which isn't trademark, pointing confusion, as in the Samsung lawyer example, is just a meaningless gimmick that serves no real purpose. [1] But Apple isn't suing Samsung for trademark infringement, they're suing for patents. Which means to stop Samsung for using Apple's technological "inventions". So your argument is invalid, Apple is not trying to establish confusion. They're going specifically after Samsung simply because they're by far the biggest target. And the examples in your blog are blatant cherry-picking. [2]

[1] http://www.bonkersworld.net/obvious-similarities/

[2] http://www.bonkersworld.net/great-artists-steal/
I tried but I never got the email for the pass. Plus, I don't have iOS. I was trying in the simulator.
I think a reasonable classification of LessWrong would be a forum-blog combination; it's mostly made up of agnostics & atheists, but this is not at all a focus.

The RationalWiki article is reasonably accurate, I think (speaking as someone who hangs around on LessWrong a bit), none of it is obviously untrue, although there is a bit of "undue weight" given to some things (i.e. the some of things mentioned only come up occasionally, especially the more negative things in the Ugly and Bad sections). It is even edited[1] by LessWrong regulars (e.g. David Gerard, Gwern and Ciphergoth), and not at all as vandalism, they all seem to have added both positive and negative material.

[1]: http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=LessWrong&acti...
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Ask HN: FizzBuzz for mathematicians ...
We have enough mathematicians here to ask this: What would you suggest as an equivalent of FizzBuzz for mathematicians?

Some suggest proving sqrt(2) is irrational, but many technical types who aren't really mathematicians can do that because they've read enough popular math books. Similarly proving that there are infinitely many primes.

So, mathematicians, what would you suggest?

And for the non-mathematicians, what would you like to have explained, that you think every mathematician probably knows?

Added in edit: I thought this was a great discussion with some interesting suggestions, but I see it's been flagged off the front page.

http://hnrankings.info/4244266/

So that's that, another interesting discussion killed. Oh well, never mind.
The "shudder" is against the spirit of the quote you were replying to:

"Just because looking down your nose at C++ or Perl is the popular opinion doesn't mean that those languages aren't being used by very smart folks to build amazing, finely crafted software".

Ie: don't shudder.
Yup, the x32 ABI is pretty neat. For most architectures the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit pointers resulted in reduced performance from the extra cache pressure the bigger pointers caused. In x86-64, though, the extra registers and guaranteed SSE2 meant that you actually saw a speed increase.

Of course, there are performance advantages to bigger pointers too, sometimes. For instance, it can be easier for a garbage collector to identify pointers is the ratio of memory addresses in use to total addresses is small.
It should work in the simulator. Did you check junk mail? Otherwise let me look into it.
A standalone x32 binary will run fine on an x64 machine. But if you want to link to any libraries, the library will also have to be x32. So an x64 system, which probably has 32-bit legacy libs as well as normal 64-bit ones, will also need a complete set of x32 libs for x32 to be practical.
Trial-and-error is always my solution to poor documentation. Hence, a tool to speed upo trial and error. lol
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It's easy to see that they copied on the software side, but there are only so many ways you can distinguish a flat rectangle while making it useful for its intended function. Not everyone is willing to take a huge leap like with the nice-looking and distinct Lumia 900.

As for the box, I like Samsung's. All apple did was plaster a picture of the iPad on the front of a box.
Because I was commenting on the price for a dev certificate. There are already free ssl certificates for https that doesn't cost anything, or only 10 usd/year.
No, only Windows server editions have PAE enabled and AFAIK this isn't something you can use without kernel support.
I'm not certain that's true. What I think has happened is that more people are living in ignorance of what their software could be doing.

Instead of the traditional rule of 80% of people using 20% of an application's functionality, we now have 95% of people using 3%. They aren't even aware that the other 97% exists, even if that functionality would be very useful to them.

Take Chrome, for instance. Much of the functionality is hidden away under a single menu, far on the right, that isn't even obviously a menu.

I've worked directly with a number of "average" people now who moved to Chrome because it was recommended to them by somebody else, but they didn't even know about its main menu. You wouldn't believe their surprise when they see that Chrome allows them to open multiple tabs or windows, or that they can zoom the page, or that they can print.

These aren't stupid people, either. They're accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses, and other non-technical, but well-educated and intelligent, people. Some of them have been using computers for decades. But Chrome's poor UI design hid useful functionality from them, rather than making it obvious like traditional menus under a permanently-visible menu bar used to do.

Being unaware of Chrome's main menu, the users were also never aware of the keyboard shortcuts. Along with a highly-simplified toolbar, these prevented them from even realizing that Chrome could do anything beyond browsing a single web page at a time.

So while software today may be easier to use for typical people, I suspect that's only because it's giving them an experience that's extremely basic. These people will be very happy that Chrome's a fast web browser, but they'll silently be disappointed when they mistakenly think it isn't capable of printing a page, merely because the UI mislead them.
What next after getting that zillion dollar idea?
Okay .. So I got an idea few weeks back which I strongly believe in. I know I can make that and it will really gonna go big. I have the technical and other required knowledge, skills to work on it.

The problem is with me I don't know how to make an initial approach towards the idea. Where to start ? What to take up first ? Whom to ask for guidance ? Should I approach to an investor and get some seed fund so that I can completely concentrate on my idea leaving my well paid job ? These questions are going on my head every time I sit to work on my idea. I'm totally confused ....

Sometimes I feel lets start making an web interface for and then I complete some module. In next session I feel starting with mobile app would be great then again I do some R&D or build some sample screens and then done. Next session same story

I seriously need some mentoring and I know the readers out here can help me out with this problem. I'm afraid getting lost

Btw, This is my first post on Hacker news and my big Hi to everyone other there... This community keeps the entrepreneur inside me inspired
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What I'll be thinking in 20 years is irrelevant. I'm an adult now and so I have the right to decide for myself right now.
True. Feature request for ipass.pk: Can you create a way to see the actual JSON. As a hacker myself, I would really like to see what JSON for spit out. That a big part of my learning.

Also, consider open-source please!
In my experience: yes. But, always measure! If it's something you can accomplish in under a week, I'd say go for it.
Apple's suing on "form factor" ????
We need to curtail the Patent Industry, not Samsung.