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The byte[] buffer is deliberate because that is what will typically be passed to the network or IO device, so easier integration.

If you check the code you will see the buffer is only allocated once so the cost is not an issue.
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Provide references if you want to make huge claims like that.
What happens when there are substantial barriers to entry _and_ there is collusion; how would "laissez-faire" economics deal with it, in timeliness which would make it tenable for actual people.

I'm actually curious to know.
I really wouldn't expect this from Singularity U. I wonder if it a single rogue woo supporter or if Kurzweil has intentionally brought those kind of people in.

Personally I think Kurzweil is the poster child for plausible sounding woo. Consider this. Kurzweil thinks he's going to be able to live forever and essentially reconstruct his dead father. He takes 150 (previously 250) supplements and 10 glasses of alkaline water per day. He wrote a nutrition book about avoiding fat, particularly butter, organ meats, and eggs. If you've read anything about nutrition in the last decade, you'll probably be aware these are some of the healthiest foods on the planet and the campaign against dietary fat was always lacking evidence. To be fair, he did backpedal on this point in a later book, but then again why would a computer scientist write two nutrition books in the first place?

His predictions have always seemed rather silly to me too (turing test passed in 17 years) but they are a bit more debatable at least.
Yeah, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/12/08/us-china-execution...

/s

The entire bailout business is infuriating, coupled with no interest loans and now the LIBOR scandal, disruption needs to occur in the finance industry.
Sure, but you're only talking about form-factor inasmuch as it's a proxy for price.

So rather than suggesting people want/will be happy with the 7" Chinese tablet, the Uruguay experience is weighing in on whether the 7" Chinese tablet one can afford is better than nothing.

Which is not unrelated, but not quite the same question.

As the internals speed up, and good-enough 10" Chinese tablets arrive, I'd be interested to hear how satisfied people are with the 7" form-factor and how many stick with it rather than moving to 10".
It's not a slippery slope. The sport will put reasonable restrictions on runners' equipment that won't significantly incentivize replacing natural limbs.

Edit: who knows, you may be right. After all, gymnasts injure themselves daily and risk their lives on a minute-by-minute basis during practices and competition. I doubt they would limit self-mutilation per se.
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The thing I have felt about Google is they don't market their features well.

They will show off a lot of potential but leave it to the imagination of the developers/users to figure out what they can do with it.

I think they have improved upon that to some degree with the Jelly Bean presentation, but I really think their products would be more appreciated if they highlighted good use cases for all their new features.
I love these cats. Price transparency and efficiency in this market is waaay overdue. I would have never have guessed that chip prices rise over time. Seems like on the very lowest level of chip complexity, Moore's law doesnt apply.
Why don't you have a video showing exactly how the chat looks and works? I don't want to download something to see how it works.
With most of those products you mentioned, I can see some sense with them. I would say the Windows Media Center is the most successful of those examples.

The Kin is only one I can say made no sense for the same reason the nexus Q doesn't make sense. It's really locked, not easy for the user put there own content on the device and relies too much on the cloud.
Q looks nice, but how could they price it so high with devices like Roku, Apple TV available from $50-$100 range. Also, the main feature of friends adding to the Q is bogus, as we can anyways do it on Apple TV using airplay. As long as I am on same wifi, I can play music from my iPhone at my friend's place as long as he has airplay enabled on his Apple TV and connected to his home theater system
A little off topic, but when is the testing center partnership being started? I read the blog post announcing it, but there was no exact date on when one go and take the test.
Interesting question, let's try to compare the two events. The 2011 event involved roughly 13% of ebs volumes in the affected zone, including multi-az control plane impact, the 2012 event involved 7% of EC2 instances in the affected zone. These two events are different, since one was a power event and the other a network event, but let's see how they compare in number of impacted volumes. It's not exactly clear how to compare these numbers, but if you assume nearly all EC2 instances (7% were affected, were any EBS servers affected? possibly the same % or none or in between) have at least the boot volume and possible more attached then maybe that's roughly 7-10+% of the volumes in the affected zone. Assuming a respectable growth rate (http://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-s...) these events may have been around the same size (I'd be curious to hear other arguments for/against this guess).

If you compare the recovery time (ballpark, feel free to break down the timelines in your copious amounts of free time):

2011:

12:47AM, Apr 21 - Event started, API impaired across all availability zones

12:00PM, Apr 21 - API recovered in non-affected zones
"Customers also experienced elevated error rates until Noon
PDT on April 21st when attempting to launch new EBS-backed
EC2 instances in Availability Zones other than the affected
zone."

12:30PM, Apr 22 - Nearly all volumes in affected zone restored
"all but about 2.2% of the volumes in the affected
Availability Zone were restored by 12:30PM PDT on
April 22nd"

18:15PM, Apr 23 - API restored for affected zone
"At 6:15 PM PDT on April 23rd, API access to EBS resources
was restored in the affected Availability Zone."

2012:

20:04, July 2 - Some number of racks lose power due to drained UPSs

21:10, July 2 - API restore
"8:04pm PDT to 9:10pm PDT, customers were not able to launch
new EC2 instances, create EBS volumes, or attach volumes in
any Availability Zone in the US-East-1 Region. At 9:10pm PDT,
control plane functionality was restored for the Region."

02:45, July 3 - Vast majority of volumes restored to customers
"By 2:45am PDT, 90% of outstanding volumes had been turned
over to customers."

http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/
http://aws.amazon.com/message/67457/

Yes I'm painting with broad strokes here, and feel free to argue the details (we always do). But I do think this at least shows some improvement to answer the previous poster's question.

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"Really, modern US VPs are kinda like co-presidents.

Modern VPs have only the powers and responsibilities allotted to them by the President. Cheney was an outlier, and was able to grab so much power because Bush was a moron, and agreed to it.
But they're hardly making that environment their flagship; instead, they're making a (pretty decent) iPad clone with a better keyboard and a stand. They should be focusing on the environment where both the iPad and the PC underperform (relative to the possibility space): knowledge work and the enterprise. Microsoft needs to leapfrog, not catch up.
> But be careful-- like many careers, computer security favors specialization

I agree that this is worthwhile to be careful of, but it very much depends on your employer as well. As with any career, find a good employer. So if you care about being a generalist, find an employer that needs you to be a generalist. I know for a fact that there's plenty of these in the security space.
Awesome! I'm super excited about this. I've been using keymaster for my Chrome extension for custom key bindings [1] but it's suffering from two issues:

- Lack of "key-sequences" ala Gmail

- Bug where focusing on a page having already pushed down a modifier doesn't tell keymaster that the modifier is pushed. For example if you ctrl+tab to a page and keep the control key pushed, then hit an action key (say "f"), then what you really want is to trigger ctrl+f but keymaster doesn't recognize it because it doesn't see ctrl as having been pressed since it was already held down before the page had focus.

Looks like Mousetrap fixes both of these issues. Thanks a ton!

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/logpjaacgmcbpdkdch...
Why no FileSystem API in Firefox?
Disagree. You don't need to be a breaker to learn how things get attacked; being a fixer also works. I've broken a few things over the years, but I've learned far more by fixing things in FreeBSD which everybody else has broken.

(Maybe you don't think I'm a good secure developer, though.)
I think that "consuming education" via video + interactive quizzes (and course-specific chat room & in person meetups) is much more attractive, and engaging, than sitting on your couch watching a DVD.

It is pretty incredible to know that learning a topic of interest is literally a few clicks away...

Also, on another note, it could be that since my cost as a student is almost zero (let's take the value of my time out of the equation) then I am more willing to "try" a class and, since the Udacity classes tend to be engaging, I actually stick around.

Edit: IMO Udacity is a great way to start learning something new, such as basic CS stuff.
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I would suggest the following informal definition: A patent troll files and seeks to enforce patents of questionable merits, often in large volumes, while engaging in markedly little good-faith research.

That's not precise enough to work as a legal standard, but I think it might be a good first step in that direction.
The feature it needs for $300 is an API. Tap your phone, and it sends over the app (not a stream, the .apk itself), while said app on your phone becomes a controller.
Sure - but the idea of salting is to make the dictionary too time consuming to create. The security is NOT in how secret your methods are (it rarely is).

Additionally, each salt is still unique per password, so the attacker would need to generate a full dictionary per record that they want to crack - generally not worth it.
Linux is indeed mainstream but as
rogerchucker many measure the success of Linux from the success of desktop Linux.
From a very cynical perspective -- a lot of that is still profit driven.
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Ah. I never considered the parallels between the iPod device line.

That's probably the one argument that helps me understand and appreciate the reasoning for the 7" a bit more. However, I still consider the retina display a mandatory for all new* products that Apple releases

*where new is not a new revision of an existing device + form factor.
You could strap things like that to the bottom of your feet and vastly increase your running speed.
The gist of this discussion is that a little arbitrary shrinking of UI elements won't be a big deal, because the guidelines advocated for a few more pixels on the ipad than on the iphone.

It feels like lazy logic, and until now Apple has never forced user apps at a lower physical size that targeted by the developper, at least on the iOS front. Good quality iphone and ipad apps are expected to be pixel perfect and thoroughly designed for the target device, and Apple pushed with all it's weight in this direction. It would be strange for apple to just say from now on "screw the physical size, who cares about interface details, they'll just learn to click better"
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If I'm the cop conducting the traffic stop and see someone suspiciously reaching in their pocket for an object, I'm drawing my gun.

I could see this being used as a bystander to an arrest, but doing anything short of keeping your hands free and visible during a traffic stop is dangerous.

-Guy who makes tech for cops
I see a lot of comments here saying that the fact that they used Linux is more or less irrelevant. This is probably true to a large degree since Linux is basically a generic white label operating system that you can build on top of, so if your doing something this niche there is little reason not to use it since most of your clever stuff is probably custom anyway.

However there is definitely a large PR angle to this too. Let's imagine that they had used Microsoft Azure to crunch all the data or iPads to view/analyze it do you not think that MS or Apple would make a big deal out of it?

Whilst most HN readers probably understand the reach and dominance that Linux has in a huge number of areas, most people do not. I've heard it said many times even from people who work in tech "Linux is just a hippy OS for geeks and will never be taken seriously". LHC is now one extra thing you can add to the rebuttal.
You should provide this question/answer as a FAQ on your website. I came to HN to search for this after not finding the info on your website.
I'm calling BS on this. You can play music that you have on your phone, you just need to upload it to Google Music. Also you don't need to plug it into your TV. I understand why people say this doesn't stack up against the Apple TV. In my mind its not supposed to its supposed to stack up against this

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-DM38S-Micro-CD-System/dp/B003R6T...

Which is does very well. It is still a little pricey, but you get a lot of features, and the promise of more to come.
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Could you give some actual examples of prepared statements that are injectable? I do not understand how it would work.

For example the following example from http://de.php.net/manual/en/sqlite3.prepare.php :

$stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT bar FROM foo WHERE id=:id');

$stmt->bindValue(':id', 1, SQLITE3_INTEGER);
G4 cube was pretty influential design-wise for future iterations, specifically Apple TV and the Mac Mini.
I think I'm in the target market (tech geek, enjoy casual music listening) and I just can't wrap my head around the multi-playlist scenario:

"The Q presumably gets its name from “queue,” or playlist, and Google is especially proud of its multi-participant playlist feature. If you’re having friends over, and they, too, have Android phones, and they, too, have bought songs from Google’s music store, then they can add their own songs to your Q’s queue.

Sounds interesting in theory. In practice, there’s a lot of spontaneity-killing setup. You have to go into Settings to turn on the feature. Then you have to invite your friend to participate by — get this — sending an e-mail message. Then your friend has to download the Nexus Q app."

When I'm hanging out, music is a background thing while we talk or play games. Not something people are fiddling with on a song-by-song basis (at most: "Hey, could you change the Pandora station?").

Apple has something similar (iTunes remote? can't remember the name, it's been that long) and I'd love to know how often that feature gets used. There's also the unspoken social rule that whoever is hosting the party generally picks the music.
We do have a basis for rejecting the hypothesis that there is an intelligence "behind the scenes" that is imitating a non-teleological process. It totally untestable and does not make useful predictions about the world, so you can't do anything with it scientifically. All you can do is say "hey, it could be true" and that's the end of the conversation. Science is not about saying which hypotheses could possibly be true, it is about determining which hypotheses are likely to be true given the evidence and which are unlikely, and where possible quantifying that likeliness (via statistics). A hypothesis that can neither be supported nor refuted by any empirical evidence has no place in science. This isn't to say that we rule such a hypothesis out as impossible, but just that science has nothing useful to say on such a hypothesis.

To go to your analogy of determining whether something is a source of random numbers, of course if you only make your decision based on the first 10 million numbers you cannot distinguish between a true RNG and a source that provides 10 million random numbers and then all zeros. Bringing that analogy back to the hypothetical intelligence guiding the universe, if you only look at the first 13 billion years or so (current best estimate of the age of the universe), you can't tell the difference between a truly non-teleological universe and a universe guided by an intelligence that intentionally makes the universe act like a non-teleological one for the first 13 billion years and then starts doing something totally different (e.g. causes a scientifically unexplainable apocalypse in 2012). But what's the point of saying this? You're effectively saying that absolutely anything could happen at any time, because there aren't really any fundamental laws, just the will of a hidden intelligence that can do whatever it wants to whenever it wants to.

In summary, read this comic and replace "string theory" with "hidden intelligence guiding the universe": http://xkcd.com/171/
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Hmm, could be interesting in a multiplayer game that uses your android smart phone as the controller.
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Google is attempting to build new brand value around design, so they can better compete with Apple directly in hardware. That's the entire point of the magic eight ball. It's intentionally unusual. They want props for design, not for function.
The timing is probably more important than the actual technology used. People's attitudes towards education have changed dramatically in the past few years, in my opinion.

It wasn't long ago that Google bragged that they would only hire the best students from top universities. Now they have hired people just because they have successfully completed a Udacity course, have college dropouts amongst their ranks, you name it. That is a pretty dramatic shift in such a short time, and they're not the only company to follow in those footsteps.

It is not that mail-order education was impossible years ago, but nobody would have taken it seriously. There was a strong leaning that a college degree from a traditional school was the only way to make it. Without that, you were going to flipping burgers at McDonalds.

I think people are now ready for new ways of learning and it just happens that the web is now a great way to distribute that education.
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You've actually tried to solve one of my personal frustrations, which is good. My biz partner and I do a lot of work remotely while running continuous video.

Skype, which should be the "obvious solution", is a wreck. Every 15 minutes the app goes into some sort of CPU loop consuming >100% cpu on my MBP. It destroys my productivity. Restarting every 15 mins is not going to happen. After a dozen software updates they seem to only be able to make the problem worse.

Facetime is hopeless. Lots of CPU, retarded upright-iphone aspect ratio. Also has problems staying connected.

Google Hangout is ok. It's our current solution. It's something like ten mouse-clicks to get a session started, and drops the connection every couple hours. Still, it's the least annoying solution.

I tried QuicklyChat... and it didn't work. Not even close. Trouble connecting to my partner, trouble getting sound or video working when connected. The UX was terrible. It's way too raw to be called "beta". Sorry.
it's not just an mba or big company problem.

i've seen some outrageous misrepresentations made by startups/founders. not talking about random guys off the street either- these have been funded by well-known VC's and accelerators. as an investor, i've learned to be very wary..
Regarding Rule 2b, why did the author keep repeating "store the salt in the database along with the key". Why would you want to do this? A cracker would have access to your hash and your salt. Wouldn't it be trivial for him to append the salt and then do a regular old lookup table on common passwords?

At least if the salt is within the source code, it's hidden from plain view. Or did I miss something?
Looks nice. Are you planning to support IE<9?
This is very cool. I wish other things had historical pricing info.
About the price. Many people been blaming it on the "made in USA" + amplifier. I'm not american, and I don't understand patriotism. And I wouldn't think a product being made in USA as the main selling point, would ever work. But before the IO I saw this project on kickstarter where they were trying to sell underwear made in the US [1]. That's their only selling point, their product is made in the US, that's all. And guess what, it was immensely successful on kickstarter. The comments are filled with praises with how awesome it is to wear underwear made in america.

Maybe someone here has better understanding of that market. Could the made in the US selling point of the Q actually be big enough to drive sales? Would americans actually pay more only because of that?

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakehimself/flint-and-ti...
It could open the menu when you click it on mobile devices, and have a desktop/mobile-non-JavaScript fallback to an index page.
...or "Deep Capture" for another example.
Ridiculous. There should be absolutely no technology or mechanical aids allowed in Olympic events like running. There is no way to determine how Pistorius would run if he had legs, so any attempt at analyzing the impact of the prosthetic is untestable.

Suppose a person who suffers from Short stature(http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/ddb18756.htm) wanted to compete in Olympic sprinting. Would it be acceptable for him to wear stilts that make him 5'10", since he suffers from a medical condition which prevents him from entering the race otherwise?
Think supply and demand rather than Moore's Law. If the supply of a chip goes down (e.g., a manufacturing plant gets hit by an earthquake) or demand goes up (Apple designs the chip into the next version of the iPhone), then its price could definitely go up.

I'd guess that the markets for chips would be driven by similar dynamics as other commodities, such as oil.

Maybe the next step will be real-time feeds for chip prices, and after that people will start trading chip futures on Wall Street?
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That and misusing "begs the question" aren't the only things wrong with this article.

When I noticed the name of the publication - "Failure Magazine" - I laughed out loud.
I know I'm gonna sound short-sighted, but personally I don't 'enjoy' SCRUM in any way. For me it feels like handing over freedom and the sprints actually create a sort of pressure for me. I guess I tend to overcommit and perhaps Kanban is trying to solve this.

Still, the feeling of being limited in freedom is the greatest annoyance to me and perhaps the fact that there's little room inside sprints for emergencies (at least this was how SCRUM was implemented in the last company I worked at). I really appreciate flexibility in ordering and the execution of tasks and SCRUM didn't grant me this ability.

I wonder if people around here feel the same ...
Wake me up when XBMC runs on it. A device that only plays cloud media is a total non-starter for me.
yeah adding some other google functionnality in it would make it succeed a lot!