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4 - Samsung are taking market share from other Android vendors as well as Apple. 5 - Samsung have many more models than Apple most of which are much cheaper and available on contract a minimal cost to the end user.
I'm sorry to downvote, but your comment is rude and doesn't reply to the parent at all. This is not how discussions are made on this site.

Enjoy Meteor and have a nice day.
I see you've been down-voted or no reason. This is one huge problem with Hacker News. Fan-boys will down-vote you for no reason, when you come up with stuff that proves them wrong. Thanks for the link, heads up!
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I'm mostly complaining about pointless comparisons that only serve to support linkbait headlines.
probably a recruitment drive for the interception center they are building. That 260 million people statement is pretty stupid, considering facebook is in and around 4 times that. How stupid does he think people are?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Since Clojure and Scala both compile to Java bytecode, I would assume so.
They can be disrupted by adding layers on top. Consider a browser extension or mobile app or whatever that aggregates social, and that proxies interactions with Facebook for you when you try to send something to someone on Facebook, but that first tries to do an end run against Facebook.

E.g. consider the abundance of "SMS apps" that sends the message as an IM over their own network if both sender and recipient are users, but that will revert to SMS otherwise. Many of them sell themselves as cheaper, but also as having more features, such a more flexibility in what you can send, instant read confirmations etc.

Now, there's plenty of chances for lawsuits and extended wars of attrition trying to block it for someone trying to do that to facebook, but I think long term they're going to be a too tempting target.
Just want to reiterate number three. The Apple app review process is seriously dropping the ball for me right now. So much so that I've learned the basics of Android development and ported my core app while waiting for the iOS equivalent to be reviewed. Only thing remaining is to acquire an Android test device, test and submit to Google Play.
6 - Most people who want to buy an iPhone are waiting for the upcoming iPhone 5. Sales generally diminishes before a big release and crosses all bounds to more than cover the past lag within a month of release.
Is it not more that Nokia and HTC users are making the jump to Samsung? They'd get a superior model (and there are many Samsung models around at various price brackets) and get to keep their apps.

Does anyone have any Android vs iOS vs WP7 stats for the last quarter?
There probably is and we have great tools for you to find it yourself. This is a growing issue and Marco's audience has been following it for a while. I see no need to bring readers up to speed with every single post.

(I, too am not a developer. But I know how to use Google to educate myself.)
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the television caption here said "Inventor of the World Wide Web"

another cool things, the NeXT Cube was live on the web at the time and he tweeted from it.

Edit: someone just replied to me on twitter and mentioned that it was actually the Cube that he used at CERN, taken out of a museum for the ceremony.

This is the tweet that was sent out during the ceremony while he was on stage:

https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/228960085672599552

although it says 'via Twitter for iPhone' :)
The asset freecing is one thing, but trying to prosecute a company without an US address under US criminal law is much more troubling. If I have a personal blog, should it be possible to hold me accountable according to the criminal laws of every single country in the world? Obviously not, how could I possibly comply?

Now an internet company with customers around the world is different - but not so different that this should be possible under criminal law without a very clear pre-written law.
> You wrote that the British media was claiming Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet.

No, I asked if they were claiming that. As in, I asked a question. Since when is that equivalent to making a claim?
But if the total volume of iPhones still includes the three year old 3GS, would it be fair to exclude Samsung's entry line?
fitting the scence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19021660

Long PR story short: RPC was prevalent, that is how you control(led) your stuff remotely. Like Tim. Today, if you'd ask for a NeXT-like toy, you'd be denied were you an average Eastern. But western equivalent asked for it and got one, and put the gopher link address ptr in the reserved field of the text font properties (where things like bold and italics properties are stored) and voilà. You can also hire a cheap student to actually write the web client to be cross platform (its true virtue/value). Thanks to Nicola Pellow, of whom almost nobody knows about. Not to mention Groff, doing his compulsory civil service. Would the "web" have just run on NeXT, it would be long extinct, let alone take off.

On linking and hypertext: all post-war era stuff is spin. The real stuff comes from Belgium:

For ADD-ers: http://youtu.be/qwRN5m64I7Y

The story: http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/forgotten_forefather_paul...

"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1127343?ln=en

The answer is a nice PR story on the web --
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Spin_%28publi...

On values at CERN, as a warning for non-western members:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y)" [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
"Customer may not redistribute modificatin to source code"

"customer may not reverse engineer"

oh joy.
This happened without me interacting with any widgets, just by opening the original URL.
> In my last job (Dept. of Energy lab), I used to think it was hard to find people because the pay wasn't good enough, but in my current gig in the financial industry, we're willing to pay basically whatever it takes to get the best talent, but the pool of great candidates is very, very small.

I see lots of very high job requirements (postings at least) for comparatively low pay all the time. I am sure that is part of it. I would imagine at a financial institution (assuming postings actually mention decent pay) the HR gauntlet would turn away a fair share of well qualified candidates for various "check the box" reasons (missing a certificate of some kind, collegiate degree, etc, etc).
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That was exactly what I thought when I saw that UI. I'm excited about their project, I'd seriously like to see some serious innovation there.
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> This seems like a consequence of the rise of cloud computing

Could also be due to the rise of 'devops'. I see a fair number of places simply choosing to not hire (some I imagine may be having trouble hiring too) enough sysadmin staff, and instead just having developers do double duty and calling it 'devops'.
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Not just for the interception center, but they are recruiting the best pen testers and vulnerability writers since they run the main offensive arm for the US Government.

Stuxnet was written at the NSA, the other worms were almost certainly were partially written there. The MD5 signature collision attack was almost certainly developed there. You could imagine that they now have dozens, if not hundreds of developers working on finding 0day and integrating new exploits into their attack arsenal of worms.

I suddenly have a handful of friends form the old underground who went from working openly in the security industry on papers, audits etc. to no longer talking about who they work for.

I can only put two and two together and conclude that the NSA has been on a hiring binge the past few years and are hiring all the best security guys (exploit developers, more specifically).
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@comex for example expressed his likes about the UI, do not take my opinions as simple critics about the style. But looks like an UI that every UI designer could come up to. Well, it's pretty and curated. Thinking about it you have to account for customers/users with strong expectation from such a service, it's not that stupid to go for the well-trodden path.

I hope you're not going to be flooded by a too common design...
Wow, nailed it. I totally missed the Washington Post incentive angle.
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Couldn't pg just toss additional GB of RAM int the server and dedicate it to continuations cache? Just extending the time from few minutes to few hour or days should be enough.
I don't; to negate the position that the existence of communication surveillance agencies can be considered both beneficial and necessary for an arbitrary population by assumption.
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I was wondering if this would be a good idea for a security startup, let me know what you guys think. The idea is a company that does passive reconnaissance for penetration testing companies. Basically penetration testing firms would hire us to the the leg work for their external pen tests, this would include passive and semi passive reconnaissance for their targets. The idea came to me while I was doing a penetration test and I was doing very tedious reconnaissance work.
Actually, I don't think it was really running.

At least, judging by the photos I've seen (http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/story/70/00/001744/berners-lee...) the monitor was shining bright yellow, when in reality they are greyscale monitors with a bluish cast. I think the monitor was a shell, fitted with a lamp to illuminate TBL from that side.

Perhaps the keyboard was wired up to a modern laptop or tablet, or some custom system tied in with the LED system at the stadium. Most likely, it was automated for precision and correctness, and he was just miming the typing.

Which is fine, IMHO, it's good stagecraft. Voldemort and the parachuting Queen weren't real either. The rest of the light show would have been preprogrammed, so it would make sense to do the same with the message written on the LED system.

But it was definitely a Cube, NeXT keyboard, NeXT mouse, and either a modified NeXT monochrome monitor or a close facsimile. There's a lot to be said for that, given how much easier it would have been to use, say, an iPad than a full Cube system - and an iPad would be vastly more recognizable to the audience, as well.
The article says it's comparing the total volume of phone sales, not just the Galaxy S line.

And you can quite convincingly argue that Apple may come to regret ignoring this segment, just as they did in the heyday of the PC.
These days, most people who use Fedora...
Is the point to illustrate that Knuth is unaware of elementary concepts such as code reuse....

In fact, Knuth considers reusable code to be a "menace."

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
The thing hes leaving out is that this guy is almost definitely making mid 6 figures a month.

The issue comes down to Google hosts a users video for free, with the expecation that they can serve advertisements to people who watch said video. By using this service, it strips google of that right while still using its resources. Google has every right to block services it doesnt like and you have every right not to use youtube.

This is very similar to the craigslist/padmapper issue in some ways.
In that case, no, it's the US media doing that.
Do you remember when startups were terrified that MS would move in and crush them? MS would make them an offer that they couldn't refuse, sell out or be crushed.

MS don't inspire fear like they used to.
In the UK it's £319 for a 3GS. That's still a very expensive phone and you certainly couldn't describe it as entry level.

Samsung sells Android phones from around £89.99 [1] (probably cheaper, that was just a quick search). Depending on how you define 'smartphone' this article could also be including even cheaper (non-android) models at around the £50 mark [2].

[1] http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-mini-s...

[2] http://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-mobile-samsung-cht-335-met...
I have no idea about pen testing. But if you think the process is painfull and you can remove that pain- you are at something. How about making tools to make your job easier first. That way you'll understand how to improve by first hand knowledge. Then gradually you can start offering to other people.
'U.S. companies in China' ... doesn't look like it.
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I would argue that more code is a better solution in this case. The purpose was not to write short, clear code, but to illustrate a certain programming style. How am I supposed to "get" the style in 5 lines? A short solution would have been a failure.
How on earth is it misleading? It simply states that Samsung smartphones outsold iPhones which runs the gamut of Apple's smartphone offerings. What other Apple smartphones are there to measure the numbers against?
Yep. People don't google names before they "make them up".
I didn't see the opening ceremony - and not the NeXTCube scene either. Is there a video on YouTube or somewhere else?
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Yep, pissing off the odd developer is not going to eat into Apple's handset sales particularly.
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I'm thinking of the build order - a list of things built, and the supply at which they were built - like the one in the comment at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQe6UqvCOT4

Something like http://code.google.com/p/phpsc2replay/ will get the actions out of the replay, but I'm not sure how far along that particular library is when it comes to turning the actions into the list of stuff that was actually built (while discarding pointless spamming of hotkeys)
IT angle: the Olympic budget was £2.4bn, this ballooned to £13bn, but surprisingly, it was delivered on time (unlike the project Accenture did for the NHS, £12bn and nothing delivered).
Your question implied the British media was claiming Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet, otherwise you wouldn't have asked it. I never said you made the claim.

The bottom line is, TBL's appearance in the opening ceremony clearly labelled him as the inventor of the WWW.
What do you think is doing the expansion of the asterisk? It's the shell, not grep, and is called globbing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globbing

The reason there are files that start with a dot is that ls(1) and globs starting with an asterisk ignore them by default. ls needs -a (all) to show them. Some shells, but not bash, provide a globbing syntax for the recursive expansion you think you require here.

But if, as normal, you want to grep recursively down from the current directory then that's what you should specify; just pass grep one path to search, dot, the current directory.

grep -r foo .

This is very basic knowledge of the Unix command line for a programmer and I highly recommend the classic text _The Unix Programming Environment_ by Kernighan and Pike to learn the philosophy behind Unix. It has nothing on window systems, ssh, etc., nor should it have as that's modern-day noise that hides the essence. It and Kernighan and Ritchie's _The C Programming Language_ were the key books every starting-out Unix programmer read. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/013937681X/mqq-20
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The only way of fighting this is to not pay for media from any of the big sources. I don't care if that means abstaining from it or pirating it, but at this point anything we pay these people is contributing financially to a sustained attack on society.
Thanks for the input, I'm in the process of writing several tools to help me automate some of the recon work. I think there are many security consultants who would rather pay a fee and save themselves a couple of days doing recon work. I know I would.
See tmux's homepage: http://tmux.sourceforge.net/

Tmux is not only a window manager, it allows me to:

* login only once into my VPS and run all kinds of things in parallel

* leave a session at work and come back to it at home

* run processes in the background with textual feedback

Its precursor, screen, works similarily with a little less bells and whistles.
I don't find it so great; it's more than double what I pay for Netflix or Lovefilm, and I seem to be getting more use out of them overall. There's some good stuff on BBC but not that many shows I'm that excited about.

Also, iplayer is not great. The whole business of having to watch shows within a week is, frankly, pretty lame.
I remember seeing a study investigating the proportion of active accounts, vs. the number of dormant accounts. I think the study found that only about 20% of accounts were active. I can only imagine that the ratio of real accounts to automated accounts is far worse.

I also think that SV peeps use twitter at a far higher percentage than the real world, leading to very skewed perceptions.
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tmux is a CLI terminal multiplexer. As an interactive CLI program, you need a shell to use it. To run such a shell, you need a terminal emulator. iTerm2 is a Mac OS X only GUI terminal emulator.

You can run tmux in iTerm2.
This is not exactly correct. Both methods you mention here are frequentist. The first is called maximum likelihood and the second is hypothesis testing.

What a Bayesian does is not ill-defined. On the contrary, what a Bayesian does is two steps: (1) determine a prior (2) follow the math mechanically. What frequentists do when they do inference is actually much more ill-defined, as it required hidden assumptions intermixed with a mathematical derivation instead of cleanly separating assumptions from maths. In principle the bayesian way is: given assumptions, simply follow the axioms of probability to their logical conclusions. Of course that may not always be computationally feasible, so approximations have to be made sometimes. Frequentists require divine inspiration to develop a new method for each kind of problem.

The bayesian way to solve the problem would be to take a prior probability distribution on the probability of heads, and then condition that on the data that the coin ended up on heads 6 times and on tails 4 times. For example with a uniform prior, we get this posterior: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1*p%5E6%281-p%29%5E4%2F...

As your can see the peak is indeed at p=0.6, but there is probability mass around it as well.

Replace the factors of 1 with your favorite prior to see the effect (I couldn't convince wolfram alpha to compute a beta distribution in place of the 1, so you'll have to try that yourself).
I was a student representative on a disciplinary committee at tertiary level, and was left a bit disbelieving at how bad plagiarism was, and how weak the penalties were. I pushed hard for a system whereby the first offense required the work to be resubmitted, and the second offense would require resisting the whole paper (the next year). I was the only voice calling for harsher penalties though, and nothing changed.
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I often see ack recommended by word of mouth but unfortunately I feel it's between programmers that don't understand the Unix command-line enough to instruct grep, find, xargs, etc., sufficiently accurately to do what they intend and ack has the allure of doing the right thing, though often slowly, as you say. GNU grep's -I option to ignore binary files for example, or -boa to search binary files.

Once the standard commands are learnt then by all means use ack if you understand the trade-offs and can fall back to the normal way when on another system or when ack's insufficient.
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What?

No need, the password is likely 123456

Or just reset the machines, since they think Amazon works like other vps providers...
Seems like the smart thing to do on Google's part would be to detect when a service like this is accessing its site and serve and alternate version of the video with the original audio stream replaced with one that includes an audio advertisement spliced with a snippet is the original audio.
> Your question implied

Not that I can see, no.
Personally, I `shopt -s failglob' in my .bashrc so any glob that fails to expand is treated as an error by the shell and the command never gets started. I then quote all special globbing characters that I intend to pass to the command as it avoids the sometimes hard to spot errors where a glob expanded unintentionally and the command didn't see the wildcards. Relying on non-matching globbing to reach the command will bite one day.
It'd be helpful if the navigation didn't obscure the entire top left corner of the map.
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I would be curious to those stats as well; here (EU) I see only iPhones & S2+S3 phones. Besides the odd poster here on HN I know no-one who actually likes his/her wp7 phone and all people I knew well who got one brought it back to the shop to trade for an s2 or s3. So i'm also wondering if those sales figures include that; phones which were brought back; I assume they appear in the stats as 'sold phones' right?
See `failglob' elsewhere on this page. What you suggest is sometimes useful but also sometimes wrong and hard to spot because the glob might match locally and one not realise.