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My exact problem with my new Nexus 7. The google apps do a great job of "convenience" switching (for me and my wife - gmail, gtalk...) but "privacy" switching isn't available. Some apps (Flick Note) also have multiple login "convenience" switching, but again not much in the way of privacy switching for visitors.

Using someone else's smartphone or computer feels a little bit like wearing their underwear.
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Because a general purpose device (in this case, the browser) generally falls behind in a few ways compared to a specific purpose device (in this case Skype). A few examples:

Stability: For Skype to break, you need to either crash Skype or the entire computer or O/S. For your in-browser conferencing, you just need the web browser to crash.

Connectivity: Skype has put huge amounts of work into punching through firewalls, and has many settings dedicated to that. Furthermore it's a common enough option on SOHO/consumer routers to let it through. P2P browser connectivity just isn't there yet.

Security: Our firewall at work is configured to allow Skype through. I doubt it's configured to let browsers open direct raw socket connections to any IP and port they please. I can't even begin to imagine how a network administrator is supposed to lock these capabilities down, other than completely disallowing them.

UX: Again, Skype is a dedicated program so it can do a lot more. It can keep a little overlay window open in the corner of your screen so you can look at a web page or document but keep an eye on your call. It can hook into the O/S to ensure your microphone is selected and unmuted. It can tell your music player to pause when a call comes in. None of this is possible with a browser (yes, you could add APIs, but where do you stop - are browsers going to become the next JVM, creating a cross-platform API that plasters over the differences between O/S's?)

My last point is mildly tangential: Why would P2P in-browser conferencing disrupt Skype / Polycom when it has literally zero perceivable difference to the end-user compared to regular client-server in-browser conferencing (other than the fact that with P2P you will be able to connect to fewer people than in the client-server model)?
Every couple of weeks since I started using Android, I've checked the Play store to see if Emacs was there. So even though I don't know what I'll do with it yet, I'm excited to download the GNU Emacs app.

Anybody have any ideas for what to do with Emacs on a phone?
We'd love to do something like this - we're placing "beacons" around the site to provide uplinks for this kind of thing. We'd also like people to be able to see who they met up with or spent time with. But time's pretty tight, as the badges only arrive a week before the event, so submissions will be welcome.
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Even the FBI wouldn't be that obvious about it.

Now that I think of it, this is a great job creation program. Pay people to attack wikileaks and wikileaks pays people to defend them. Sort of like breaking windows and then someone has to fix them.
With this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/11_3/security/configurat...
This is a little out of date information. Dictionary attacks and publicly accessible Rainbow tables have existed for quite some time (late 90s probably). Salting your passwords was an important way to break rainbow tables, but doesn't prevent, only slows down, dictionary attacks. And now with GPU assisted computations salting techniques won't protect you. I almost think discussions like this should just cut to the chase and say use Bcrypt with proper iteration counts to thwart modern brute force attacks. I realize this is a 3 part series, but talking about rainbow tables is like discussing the proper way to hold your buggy whip.
ok... I'm no grammar expert but isn't the article title using improper grammar? With children being a plural form of child I would have started that question with are not is. Is children... doesn't sound right not me. If you rearrange the words so it is a statement and not a question (Our Children Is Learning Enough Grammar to Get Hired.) using is sounds bad to me. Is it trying to be ironic?
"Google paid around $25 million for Frommer's, according to a person briefed on the deal, which hasn't yet closed. But the deal is more significant for its strategy than its price tag." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044477240457758...
I would love it if the site were responsive. Reading and commenting via iPhone is an exceptional pain.
If my luggage didn't make a connection and I arrived at my final destination without it, I would think of it as "lost luggage." Would it matter to me if it was stuck in the connecting airport or sent elsewhere? No, it did not arrive with me, the airline lost it, even if temporarily. In lay person terms, the luggage is lost--the airline lost a child, yes.
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... and at 12:00 noon every ones red light on the badge turns on....

that would be pretty funny.
I think it would be more apt to call this a driveable compact plane. It clearly looks a lot more like a plane than it does a car, it just happens to be compact with folding wings and four wheels on the base.
If it happens to you it is a 100% result.

Just like it's a 100% result if your plane crashes. But we know that, statistically speaking, airline travel is safe and crashes are pretty rare.

So, of the million of interactions between men and unaccompanied children, how many result in some crazy, unjustified child-molester accusation? I'm guessing it's about the same as the percentage of flights that crash.

I don't believe that a handful of anecdotes, considered in isolation, are a good basis for making decisions.
I guess you could always disable the IR receiver via a pretty quick hardware or software hack once you got your badge if that was a concern.
If one needs a browser addon to make a site work well, then the site isn't well designed. Tumblr, for example is a delight to use on all browsers (mobile and otherwise) and it doesn't require an add-ons.
I have discussed this very topic with Larry Wall. His criteria for a name were: short, unique, and whimsical.

He wanted it to be short because he was going to type it a lot. He wanted it unique so that he could use grep to locate all Usenet discussion on it in all newsgroups. (Yes, he was pulling the Kibo trick.) And what sold him on whimsical was the presence of the 2 different possible acronyms: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, Perfectly Eclectic Rubbish Lister. He therefore included both in the documentation from day 1.

Larry himself is not particularly dogmatic on the capitalization. But as you can see in the link you posted to his original Usenet post he did not think of it as an acronym. He was at that point capitalizing it Perl or perl depending on where it appeared in the sentence.

However long ago the capitalization of the language became a litmus test for whether you had exposure to the community. See http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=510594 for evidence of that.
> I can't wait until I can read the Economist online in the correct typeface.

It's possible, but with a lot of work. It's called EcoType. If you download a PDF of one of their "Special Reports" then you can use a font-extraction tool to generate a font file (possibly missing a few rare characters), then create a custom user style sheet for your browser that sets Economist.com body text to that typeface.

Whether it's worth it is a whole other question. ;)

Thankfully, the New Yorker just came out with their iPhone app which is typographically gorgeous.
Really cool, you should re-post as "show HN" (recommend later in the day) and make an effort to get exposure on the front page.
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My apologies for the mistake. Yeah, it's hard which is why I think the brothers are just doing a great job of exploiting opportunities.
"So some United executive called Annie and Perry at home yesterday to try to cool them out."

Interesting. I would make this guy wait some 40 mins on the phone, then tell him "something has happened" and that he would have to call later. In the meantime he would have to wait and watch the news getting widespread in media. A little bit of reciprocity would be nice to educate this corporate people. It's absurd that, IMHO, parents of a missing child who have not received proper care for days, now have to give all the attention and care to some executive.
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Glitch in this pano, it's fine in this version: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731
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I would have to agree about autism being a catch-all to describe a set of symptoms, but having multiple possible causes.

Alas, the B12 shots seemed to have rather small effects on our daughter. That said, I think the diet and vitamin regime that we were on 2 years ago (diet is hard to enforce at school) worked better than the drugs that the neurologist has been trying.
vp8/xmpp/jingle are open standards with open implementations, and Safari is a Webkit browser with a pretty good track record. Whatever Apple's problems, it doesn't seem too uncomfortable with using stuff that is BSD licensed.

Nobody can force Microsoft to support open standards, without the leverage of popular adoption and demand. So it makes no sense to wait on Microsoft to support open standards before trying to use them.

So if browsers can't talk to each other, whose fault is that? If Microsoft decides to be the odd man out, it's Microsoft's fault. If everyone else allows open standards to be suppressed as they wait for Microsoft, then they will be responsible for a world where Microsoft controls everything. Is that really what you are looking for here?

Anyway, these days Microsoft has shifted more support away from things like Silverlight, so I think there is a good hope that things will not be just like the bad old days.
Taking notes with org-mode and synchronizing them to Dropbox.
Link to play with it: http://plnkr.co/edit/UFLKBx

Hint: Hit the eye icon on the right for live preview.
I agree, except this addon is useful for any site - I suggest you look at it.
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Not completely true!

In conversation with Larry Wall I found out that the existence of two reasonable backronyms was part of why he chose to call it Perl. Therefore the backronyms were known before the name itself was finalized.
My first flight was unaccompanied at 10 years old, to Maine via Boston. All the airline's flights were delayed indefinitely due to some malfunction. A stewardess took my brother and I around Boston airport and kept an eye on us for 6 hours while things got straightened out. I've had respect for Delta ever since, even if all the people involved are long gone.
In Kindle Touch you touch and hold a word for a second or two but that's beside my point. I want the ability to tap a word or move the caret in the quick definition popover to look up another word within the same interface without having to switch to the full dictionary.
He should at least preface these kinds of posts with, or add something to the sidebar, that reveals that he is positively and absolutely biased toward SML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harper_(computer_scienti...

I get an odd taste in my mouth seeing a core language contributor bashing other languages for being "inferior," whilst attempting to appear neutral.
Sorry for the 'vanity' submit, but I was hoping by dropping the link here I could get some advice on how to proceed with the info I found (detailed in the post).

I tried contacting Michigan police specifically regarding the creation of the fake seminars in an attempt to sell tickets to events that don't exist, but it's hard to get through to them because I'm not based in the States.

I've reported some of the fake profiles to facebook.

Any advice welcome.
Aren't SYN-cookies [0] the traditional defence against SYN floods? The proxy, or a device in front of it, could take care of that. Only connections that complete the 3 way handshake would take up any room in the connection table.

0 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4987
Very cool and I second that. Opening a new window loses the flow for me. A pop-up would be much better.
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Ok, Zorg.
Brilliant that it's being manufactured in Scotland, ( live in Edinburgh ) Can you reveal who the manufacturer is?
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What I find mind blowing is there at energy levels where making these mater mater vs mater energy collisions is practicably meaningless. At 7Tev a collision between 2 protons has enough energy to create over 3,500 proton anti-proton pairs. And honestly anything that makes antimatter collisions seem like small potatoes is just insane.
Captain hyperbole to the rescue!

If you are a grown adult male in the USA, you will have experienced this. People believe these stories because it aligns with their own personal experiences.

So while few of us have actually been arrested for talking to a minor, and definitely very few have ever had to deal with the police over this, a large portion of us have felt the accusing stare for daring to interact with a child. We've felt the suspicious eyes of every single mother on us as we jog past a playground. We've seen our colleagues and acquaintances make paranoid, disparaging remarks about strangers around their children.

We're not scared of children because of a few scary stories in a few newspapers - we're scared of children because this happens incredibly often and the scary news stories demonstrate just how far these situations can escalate out of control.
Does that affect the validity of his arguments?

I would be more sympathetic except that I am constantly seeing a certain subset of Haskell programmers engaged in the same kind of advocacy. Should they all disclose a conflict of interest because they like Haskell?
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I've been using SwitchMe on my tablet for my wife and I(it's free to set up two partitions, and cheap if you want more). It works pretty well and even lets you see how much space a user's account is taking up. The only real downside is that the tablet has to reboot to switch users which can take a few minutes depending on the device.
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The lack of "Fast User Switching" type functionality and the privacy separation that it provides is one of the things that has held me back from purchasing a tablet for so long.

I think the day is coming where the purchase of a tablet will make life simpler in our household but I think there is going to be a fight over who's cloud account it gets associated with and possibly some kind of continual flickering between user accounts by wipe and re-install depending on who is the primary user this month.

Oh for multi-user/multi-cloud support to come natively to a tablet.
Since most of the people who are going to be your customers will likely not be in the business long (let's be realistic), why not charge a large up front fee for them to purchase the software as opposed to letting them pay a monthly subscription? The daily deal business is extremely difficult (I work at livingsocial) and most of those clones won't last more than a couple months.
Products like the Headthere Giraffe have a heavy-ass base full of batteries so the centre of gravity is lower than an office swivel chair. Which of course keeps it stable even if the battery runs down or the software crashes.

It's not a very elegant design, though, and it makes carrying the thing a hassle.
You should also be doing "close or die" too. Or you could use use something like autodie[1]. ;)

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~pjf/autodie-2.12/lib/autodie.pm
It seems to just be a glitch in this copy of the pano. This other one is fine: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731
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There's no rule in the App Store against interpreted code that's not downloaded.
We're back to "ticker tape." (Except thermal printers have little Steampunk aesthetic value.)
Hm, I was expecting this to at least mention that exceptions in Haskell pure code is imprecise, and you can only guarantee the exception you desire by throwing it in the IO monad.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

Although I'm not sure what the point is in the article: yes, if you write a purposefully flawed instance of Typeable, you will get errors when you try to use it. I'm not convinced that this is a demonstration that it is "unsafe", since the flawed Typeable instance seems to cause errors in the code that uses the flawed Typeable instance, and not in other parts of the code.
> The world is on fire. All is not okay.

I'm well aware of this, and looking for ways to contribute to the good of humanity, rather than racking up a huge bank account. That is what I choose.
If they contributed to the Haskell type system and they are commenting on the inferiority of the type systems of other languages, absolutely yes.

This is far from his first Haskell-bashing exercise. Take a look at the Wikipedia page for Haskell: "Robert Harper, using Standard ML to teach introductory programming, has given his reasons for not using Haskell. Among these are the difficulty of reasoning about resource usage with non-strict evaluation, that laziness complicates the definition of data types and inductive reasoning,[49]and the "inferiority" of Haskell's class system compared to ML's module system.[50]"

I'm not saying his arguments aren't valid. It's just curious that he's not attacking SML with the same vitriol, and perhaps people would like to know why.
Reset button. Or you can reprogram it from your laptop...
It is why its price is rising. But it's not because the currencies purchasing it are losing purchasing power. The size of the economies associated with those other currencies are just too enormous; from their perspective the amount of money sloshing toward Bitcoin is a drop in the bucket.

A much closer analogue might be what happened to Iceland's currency. The value of BTC (and, by association, its purchasing power) is going way up because supply isn't keeping up with demand. But unless there's some strong real growth to anchor that expansion, it's just a balloon economy. And what balloon economies tend to do is keep rising until the pressure differential causes them to pop.
So YOU'RE the person downvoting my brilliance! ;)
And the initial product offering is free fellas.
I think though there is a deeper aspect of this. How can you be an employee and the parent you want to be, and still find time to do something great? The simple answer is you can't. You have to pick any two, and even there you have a bunch of tradeoffs. Want to breastfeed? How are you going to hold down a job unless you can have your kid around?

The work/home division makes this impossible especially for women. The answer of course is self-employment but that often means giving up on a "career."
I suspect the reason why this is being upvoted and what it actually says have nothing to do with each other. This is a bit of an academic debate about very precise details of exception handling, not some sort of takedown of the Haskell hype.

In the event that you really are interested in the topic at hand, you probably ought to read the followups on http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y74vn/robert_harper... .
This is yet another case of modern parental paranoia. Your child's greatest risk factor comes from people already known to you - statistically Uncle Bob is many times more dangerous than a random stranger.

As a society we have a tendency to focus our attention away from where the data leads us. We will act extremely suboptimally to prevent an incredibly remote risk, while ignoring much more likely ones altogether.

If the goal is to prevent child predators, we would do a whole lot better by starting with the people already in our immediate lives, rather than worry about a stranger on a bus.
It's a feature of the language community or ecosystem. I don't think it's impossible for such a testing infrastructure to exist for other languages.
Home computers are pretty crappy at the "multiple user" problem as it exists at home.

iTunes and Windows Media Player both assume, by default, that every user wants to have a private collection of music. Maybe when my son is 17 that will be the case, but now that he's 10, a shared pool is what we want. Neither of those programs makes managing a shared pool effortless.

Having to log out and log in (dump my son's game on the floor) so my wife can check email is just lame. (Switch users isn't much better)

Laptops today all come with cameras and face recognition technology is pretty good, so in a family situation the system should always know who's sitting in front of it.

And yeah, autocompletion on your web browser should NEVER turn up a porn site...
Well, that was inevitable. I don't care if it's Stripe or someone else, I just want a service like this for New Zealanders.
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Very neat. Attractors + <canvas> are a lot of fun...

My favorite is the Peter de Jong attractor, described here: http://paulbourke.net/fractals/peterdejong/

Here's a <canvas> version. Click and drag and release to re-seed the starting coordinates: http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/deJong/deJong.html

Here's the annotated source code: http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/deJong/docs/deJong.ht...

Edit: I've added a permalink button, so that you can link directly to interesting coordinates that you discover: http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/deJong/deJong.html#59...
Thanks. Totally bookmarked this to read later.
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yeah, I used to jokingly call this the "pseudo-Atkins" diet, but of course, you can have a potato, or some brown rice once in a while.

Glad the diet and vitamins are working well for your family. We need to get our daughter back on a more restrictive diet, I think.
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Show HN: oriDomi - Fold up the DOM like paper
Just open sourced a library I've been working on that allows you to target any DOM element and manipulate it like paper.

The core of it works via CSS 3D transforms and it has no external dependencies.

Would love to hear feedback or see what others do with it. I'll add a section for examples in the wild soon.

http://oridomi.com

source:
https://github.com/dmotz/oridomi
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clickable:

http://oridomi.com