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While the animations are smooth, it still seems to have higher latency following finger actions than the iPhone, and when scrolling it moves the viewport by two pixels at a time as opposed to one (which makes it feel quite un-=smooth in practice).
Reddit didn't, either.
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I agree. Their is no space for another Authenticator. I already use it with Lastpass.
I don't think that Mozilla wants to get in on the web service bandwagon or they would have before now. In any case, it was abundantly clear that Thunderbird was not going anywhere without some new ideas, so shutting it down was probably the most cost effective move.
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I would think that if the attacker had access to a Dropbox employee's account, which in turn gave him/her access to user accounts, that would constitute a security breach.
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No, a hack means that any malicious attacker (you, me, your mom, etc) could exploit ("hack") a flaw in their system security in order to gain access. This is not the case here.
How much cheaper would it actually be?
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The markets interpret taxes as damage and will route capital flows around them. For example, if it is impossible to sell French securities more liquidly than a government imposed floor, sucks to own them, but with a team of engineers and billions on the line you can trivially create some instrument which proxies actually owning French stock, then trade that. For example, American Depository Receipts will move in virtual lockstep with the underlying stock but since they don't move he shares when they change hands they'd avoid the tax.

This involves more profit for middlemen than the more straightforward way. London and Wall Street thank you for your support.
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I personally haven't noticed any major change that would cause me as much strife as this. The only annoying change has been the one a while back which shows my friends comments and activity on other peoples events whom I'm not friends with and don't care about. I have to unsubscribe from these activities from each friend I see doing it to clean up my feed. Other than this things are the same.

The mantra on HN anymore seems to be to love any and every startup when they are small, but as soon as they start making lots of money they suddenly can't do anything right, should open source every aspect of their company for newer and smaller sartups to use free of charge and are generally evil. See this months threads regarding Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Dropbox for more info.
That's because they're doing vsynced triple buffering system-wide now. Apparently they couldn't get the smoothness without it - which blows my mind, personally, but that's what I was told.
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if the attacker had access to a Dropbox employee's account, which in turn gave him/her access to user accounts ...

That didn't happen. The employee account merely contained a list of email addresses.
You're right. And it's well explained despite the subtle jabs at Quantum Informations theory =P. There are definite advantages to the physics focused approach. As a physicist (which I am not), in your practice of QM you get familiarish concepts like spin, momentum , oscillators and Lagrangians.

But despite the wild successes of QFT, when it comes to explaining things it is extremely hard to do without either using broken analogies or talking about Feynman diagrams, Lagrangians and Hamiltonians. To realistically depict what is going on you are replacing one branch of math with another more complex branch with the main advantage being that someone who has learned the math of classical mechanics can have a slightly stronger physical intuition.

The advantage of QIT is that because it is relatively simple already, a slightly simplified form is still easier to understand and more representative of the real thing than a highly simplified explanation of QFT. The other advantage of this is that the simplicity allows the raw structure to be exposed and tackled much more readily.

If I would bet I would say answers to questions like what is the wave function exactly , how does the macroscopic universe arise from the cloudy quantum picture, what is really going on in measurement etc will come from QIT. I get the impression that many physicist don't have much respect for foundations but these questions are still worth answering and would have a practical effect on our world right away.

QIT is young yet, there are advantages to being able to take multiple viewpoints of the same thing. The correct viewpoint can vastly simplify a problem. To quote Egan: " Everything becomes clearer, once you express it in the proper language."
The smoothness is a huge improvement, but touch-latency and scrolling physics are still huge problem areas, even in Jelly Bean on Nexus 7 hardware.

In testing, I've enjoyed the Nexus 7 form-factor, but the iPad's responsiveness and scroll behavior are such a relief when I switch back. It was immediately noticeable, even when beta-testing an app on my old iPad 1 today.
I I also know a lot of pretty slow swimmers who nonetheless manage to do some pretty impressive feats.

With training, there's a response. You'll get faster, improve your endurance, power, strength, skill, whatever. This applies to programming, project management, swimming, gymnastics, painting, or chess.

Some people have the innate ability to go further. Some don't. All human ability falls along a spectrum, and most of us for any given activity are somewhere in the middle. Depending on the activity, the curve may be longer or shorter (you'll reach your ability after more or less training). Early adaptation is frequently fast, progress tapers off with time.

As I said above: with appropriate training, you'll be better than if you hadn't trained. How much better really depends. In most cases, though, you'll learn fairly quickly -- perhaps a few days, perhaps a few years -- how much talent you have. Developing that talent is then a matter of developing the skill. In some cases, skill/ability development can occur over many years, even decades. Pablo Morales and Dara Torres have shown that Olympic class swimmers can compete in their 30s and 40s, strength athletes may have similar careers. Some skill activities (conjuring, dance) even longer. Other skills peak early (few gymnasts compete past their teen years).

My point about the article was that there was a hell of a lot of defeatism and lack of rigor to arguments provided, on a topic that's blatantly obvious to start with.

I'll still bet most people could, if they tried, pursue a given goal further than a casual assessment would suggest.

So: no, "anything is possible" doesn't apply, but "some things are possible" does, and
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Same here except the feature I am waiting for is a full featured Android client ie sync all files to the local Android device filesystem (with the option to only sync when connected to Wifi).
Absolutely. It was hard to see why you'd get a Nexus Q instead of (or even with), for example, a Vizio Co-Star. If it were "Nexus TV" (with a lower price point), though, it becomes much more interesting.
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I saw an nginx error page one of the times I hit the homepage, fwiw
Also, would love to see some explanation of basic Haskell concepts
It's not particularly a touch paradigm either. It's simply a "new" convention introduced by Windows 8. FWIW, moving to the mouse to the corners or edges to trigger "invisible" actions isn't unprecedented, for example that's how you show an auto-hidden taskbar (ok, so there's like a 1-pixel edge visible) or show tabs in a fullscreen IE in Windows, and Mac OS X has a "hot corner" feature that has you set actions for the corners.
Imagine all the employees who were paper 'millionaires' (just over a million) for a short while, but no longer are... that's got to be a bit disheartening.
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I'm not a diver, but the overall logistics of how to get exactly the right amount of oxygen into your system is fairly interesting. Rebreather technology has been pushed and developed by the same people who use it.
Well in the valley its hard to use stock incentive stock options as a lure if the stock price is going down. That can force you into giving out stock grants and those have their own set of annoyances.

If your stock is going down you are less able to raise capital by doing a private placement (basically a pre-planned sale to fixed investors kind of like Zynga did and is currently being sued for) Anytime a company sells a large amount of stock, and then the stock continues to go down, a number of law firms will file lawsuits.

Perhaps most importantly your 'buying power' is reduced. If you notice there are a lot of 'acquihires' going around. Those can be done 'all stock' when the stock is strong but require 'cash and stock' or worse 'all cash' when the stock is weak. So if Facebook wants to continue to gobble up things like Instagram is can't go into a deal with "Hey, its a billion dollars, uh today, perhaps on Friday it will be 800 million." [1]

[1] Yes, I know its more complicated than that but I simplify for brevity.
To be honest I was mostly using the comments section for this link as a soapbox, I realize the idea isn't too relevant to this particular case with Dropbox, as no passwords are known to have been revealed. Sorry.

Though, I do think it would often mitigate the damage from this type of security breach that it seems like we've seen so much of from big name tech companies lately. I'd guess that a majority of accounts created on the internet are pretty unimportant to the account creator, and with how often passwords are reused indiscriminately, the worst effect of these password leaks is often not the unauthorized access to all those accounts on the hacked site but rather the usernames and passwords themselves - which are very often reused for bank, email, etc. accounts. With my proposal, anyone who opted not to have a password wouldn't be vulnerable to that.
Yeah this wasn't a "hack". No more than using an authentic ATM bank card with a valid PIN number is a "bank robbery".

Sounds like employee error - using the same password for their dropbox account as on their LinkedIn account.
I can see how team sports are interesting, I'm just not that into them. They definitely require problem solving.
If what you say is correct, and assuming the US Citizens on HN reflect public opinion then that would reduce support on HN even further than I estimate above.
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"Neither did they require Verizon to refund collected fees.[...] Now that might have sent a significant message with respect to ending this kind of bullshit, and to deliberately -- I'd argue, maliciously -- pushing the limits of what they can get away with."

Your suggestion doesn't go far enough. If I were Verizon playing with these rules, I'd still try to collect fees. If were caught, I'd refund those fees and go about my business. No harm, no foul.

My point is that it's not really a penalty to just refund the money you took illegally. There must be punitive damages to make the risk of breaking the law more than just a profit or break even proposition. It should be a profit or lose more money than the risk is worth proposition for companies.
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well most "security mechanisms" on phones are a joke.
Sadly, I haven't received such a physical object after working at Mozilla for 3 years. When I joined though, we did have over 1 million users per paid staff member. That is a lot of responsibility.
I agree it was good, and probably better in the past just because it was faster and less cluttered. But this attitude:

>> I'm going to hope and pray that google stops screwing with their interface design.

I don't agree with, and this is part of what I was addressing as well. I hope they do continue screwing with their interface design, but obviously I rather hope and pray that they improve it rather than make it slower and more cluttered. It doesn't make sense for me to happily use Google products and simultaneously fear that if they touch them they will make them worse. They are the owners of the product, so either I trust that they have some competency or I look elsewhere.
This isn't on the same scale. Some user email addresses were in a spreadsheet, and the employee's password was compromised. I bet every single day someone's Gmail gets "hacked" if that's the standard for that.
SMS pricing is competitive and I like it.

But unfortunately its only for USA. So still Twillo rocks for me.
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It's not necessarily that, but when v4 launched, they experienced a giant problem with their infrastructure. Likely the "fix" was to increase performance versus fix the problem programatically.

Hence their previous statements. Kevin's statement was in reference to them switching completely to NoSQL and not knowing how to scale it properly.
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I've built a couple small web apps, a few small PyQt apps, and a ton of utilities with it.

Only times I've used 2.x recently was when I needed OpenGL, and another time when I needed cgkit.

Basically the only time I use 2 is when I need a specific library and there's no alternative that runs on 3.
How about 256 words (or sets of words) representing each byte value? It's less dense by a factor of ~5, but it would work, be easy to decode, and be very difficult to identify, especially if you used sets of words. You could even cleverly generate in a way that is grammatically correct.
> all of the people I know who used Firefox now use Chrome.

Have you (or they) tried Firefox lately? I made the switch exclusively to Chrome and Chromium back in 2009: Firefox felt slow and bloated, and Webkit's tools and inspector seemed far better and smoother than Firebug.

And then three years passed.

A lot has changed.
If it gets low enough, they can just buy the remaining stock, go private again, find new revenue sources, then go IPO again. This may be the plan. Any normal CEO would be out their detailing future plans, like launching in new countries, new revenue initiatives, etc.
> Also, kindly avoid the linkbait title

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The basic gist from what I can tell is that it's a way of invoking styles, scripts and images that are screen size dependant in a way that reduces the amount of work required.
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I have to agree that this is a stellar combination. Another huge win with Python, for me at least, is RPy. It's a great way to clean up a bunch of R scripts into one centralized python file. Makes it much easier to create command line tools than doing it in pure R.
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> I know FB has to make a profit somehow, but that's really not my problem

I'm reminded of a few other blog posts I sometimes spot here on HN. They say something along the lines of "please charge me for your service so you'll still be around next year." Facebook's profit margins are a problem for all their users.

I do not agree with their methods for making a profit, but I can see why they have high costs to cover. I've had to build social-network-like features for clients. I can attest to the following about functionality like the news feed or photo sharing. It's:

1. complicated to implement

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3. resource intensive

For these reasons, maintaining the status quo requires non-trivial engineering and hardware. Users expect persistent storage of their old photos and content, after all. I could see that by refreshing my news feed a few times, I'm incurring a cost on Facebook that they can't recoup with non-invasive measures like Adwords on the side.
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Not too many prophecies ended up being fulfilled from these illustrations, though.
I read Jeff Hawkins book On Intelligence recently. Would these observations fit with the idea of visual data being passed up the hierarchy of the cortex far enough to be recognising objects as obstructions, but not far enough to be conscious of them?
Facebook is not for everyone. Quit it if you don't like it. You've quit 6 times already? Why do you keep coming back if it's so awful?

But at least admit that all of the things on your list are not really real excuses. So many birthday wishes is such a problem? Hide your birthday. People tagging you as animals? What kind of friends are those - unfriend them. Or turn off the ability for people to tag you. Twitter is so much better, with no privacy and getting spammed every time you mention the word iPhone?
Are you saying stock options are not a reward for their hard work? Its a part of their compensation package, they had to work for it. Its not a lotto.
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Why couldn't I read this 5 years ago?
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Glad you forgot to mention the C64, the computer that sold much more units than Apple could hope to sell with their ridiculously priced Apple 2, thereby bringing actual computers into millions of homes while Apple II remained on a niche market.

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Triple-buffering is only used in cases where rendering a frame takes longer than the vsync period; the first buffer is shown (again) for the second vsync period, and then the second buffer is displayed (assuming it's ready) for the third vsync period, and while the second buffer is being displayed, the third buffer is rendered, and displayed after that.

In cases where rendering is always faster than the vsync period, the third buffer will never be used.

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Well, I figure they were kinda already qualified for "people who are interested in reading webcomics" as I was only advertising on other webcomics in the first place. Guess I should have mentioned that.

My stats suggested that a pretty decent percentage of people read a good chunk of what's online and subscribed to it. Which ain't paying my bills yet but the ads are self-supporting now, and slowly growing. Or they were until I had to take the site down because malware. (Any HNers interested in building me a site that's more secure than "a Wordpress theme designed for comics"?)
These sorts of problems are why, after owning two Android phones I switched to an iPhone 4. I don't even care for apple that much (Linux user).

"Relief" is a good word for what I felt.
People call this a breakpoint?

Because, we're already using that term for actual breakpoints.
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LOL.. if a comment posted in an empty posting falls over does anyone hear it?
Sensationalist title, as usual. I don't see any evidence showing poor reviews. The only people who got it are people at IO anyway, so that's kind of a small sample. I'd say they delayed it so they could add more features before a real launch, just so it lives up to Google's standards.
I think Pogue had a really good article on it a little while ago (it's linked from this article as well) http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/the-google-nexus-q...
Interestingly, this report comes from 2008 and is presented by SEED as something totally new.

The original findings were published in Current Biology (2008; 24: R1128-R1129).

That said, it is quite fascinating, non the less.
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Let us face it. There is nothing secure about Public online services. It is just a huge honeypot waiting to be hacked.
Looks like the blog post is down. Good things won't remain down for long :)
Having your webmail service also act as an OpenID provider would be much simpler. I often login with Gmail (or rather my Google account) on sites that support it.
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The company has taken a few bad steps but it doesn't seem like they are as evil as music industry, for example. Sure, the media hypes up their potential but how is it their fault? Or is it that we just need to hate someone and might as well be them?
Apple has proprietary hardware and locks everyone out but no one complains about them.
Google tracks _everything_ I do on the web and shows me really targeted ads but no complains there (search for diamond rings and then notice your ads).
Microsoft has done its share of bad things.

At the end of the day it is a business. Is it wrong for them to make money? Also, before you point out the bot problem, I'd like to see some device numbers. I run a popular site and a lot of my visitors don't have JavaScript turned on.
I think there is a problem with the algorithm that is used for pages getting to the front page, to be honest. Pretty much every comment on here is about how vapid this post is, but how did it get to the front page???