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Counting down to Apple Event
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How many days since New Year?
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This is the basic science that pays off in the long run. You can't just turn biomedical science projects on and off. It takes time and investment to develop the techniques and technologies to do this work, to gather the samples, and ensure data quality across the project labs. During the time that the ENCODE project was funded, the technology for doing the types of experiments to get this kind of data advanced many times. We are now talking realistically about personal genomics and the $1000 genome; at the project start we were still celebrating the 3-billion-dollar genome sequence.
They use HAProxy for load balancing which doesn't natively support SSL termination (yet...). There's probably an extra layer in there to handle that (pound/nginx maybe?) which would bump up the latency.
That is probably not accurate, as someone else mentioned the data represents only a 14-day slice of devices that accessed the app store. Newer devices will be over represented in this sample, when compared to all devices out there (some used as feature phones)
Of course this is Google's fault.

Do you really think they are the first company who has had to deal with building a core platform that third parties can add on top of (carriers, OEMs) ?

This isn't a complex problem to solve.
Seems like a fair amount. If a track gets plenty of play over your lifetime then you'll listen to it _way_ more than 99 times. If you only listen to it once, then it probably doesn't deserve more than that.
Sorry, but with respect if I ever had to work under someone who thinks like you I would probably have to quit my job. If I was your boss, I would probably have to fire you (as someone else said). I can only imagine you would happily run a restaurant which is kept immaculate up front, but the kitchen and employee conditions are a disgusting mess because "who gives a fuck?". Design is not just some pointless eye candy to make "pretty stuff", design is integral to usability. If you want efficient and happy employees and love their job and want to make their company succeed, don't skimp on important details. As well as anything else, when you give your employees the shitty stick constantly, don't be surprised when all this shit starts to creep into the customer facing experience. I suppose this would just be more "romantic" thinking though.
Opera on my phone automatically zooms whenever you tap a link near another link so you can select with no ambiguity, and I believe Chrome on Android does too:

http://www.androidcentral.com/chrome-android-walkthrough

Safari is notably lagging behind but it's a crappy browser... back button right next to the close tab button suffering from the exact problem you're describing.
> I didn't buy the right Galaxy Nexus that gets updates from Google. Silly me.

You can fix that: http://webtrickz.com/easiest-way-to-change-galaxy-nexus-from...
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I don't think the comic format was legitimately for fitting more info in to 5 pages. Probably more of a publicity gimmick.
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What percentage was iOS6? Between iOS 5/iOS 6 I would hope that it would be north of 90% at WWDC.
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I'm saying a huge amount of YouTube's content is infringing on somebody's copyright, still. Even after their Vevo, matching content to copyrighted content algorithms and all.
I'm so glad I don't have to write classes like this.
Scientific research is necessary for self-help or lifehacking now?
Judges do not write laws.
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Unless you're programming avionics.

Or medical decices. Or transportation systems. Or weapons systems.

I suppose you're more likely know whether you botched it sooner...
Why it is hard isn't that complicated, if you have ever watched someone struggle. Learning to write software is easy. Learning to debug the software you write is hard, and takes some time. Learning to write maintainable software is much harder still.

The problem of course is that the only way you will get the software to work is if you can debug it. This requires learning a new way of thinking which is why it is hard. That takes months often. Then you can go from writing very trivial programs that work to somewhat less trivial programs that work.

The problem beyond this though is that as hard as debugging is, learning to write maintainable code is even harder. It requires learning to think about the way you will be thinking (later) about the way you will be debugging the software. This can only come slowly from experience.
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Khan Academy has some nice, easy to understand videos on calculus. It depends on your current level of knowledge of course, but I found them useful when I was going back over learning stuff I'd forgotten from school.
Why ? Because most Android users don't like the fact that their devices are basically abandoned the minute they are purchased.

It is by far the number one problem with the platform at the moment. And frankly the idea that Google should do nothing about addressing Android's biggest flaw is pretty dumb.
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I believe it was sarcasm intended to show that just because Steve Jobs gives an example in a field he has no experience in doesn't mean you should take it literally.
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jaredsohn, very well and clearly put!
about what you say that one needs to wonder... the answer could be something like this...
the world is round, so where one starts counting timezones, or even where the day starts is kind of relative and a simple man made assumption
this means that there's always earlier as well as later timezones wherever you are in the world... i think its quite clearly explained at blog.feelzr.com
It would be very cool if the "paper white" display actually lives up to its name. The lowish contrast on even the latest models is disappointing.

Then if they would add proper foreign language support (full CJK fonts, real vertical text layout, ruby support), maybe I could finally get a kindle!

Oh, and epub. An e-reader without good epub support is silly.

Who am I kidding... :(
I want to fall in love with a scripting language like I did back when there was Perl. These days there are so many!

I want something with a good IDE debugger. Not because I write a lot of bugs, but because I like to interact with my code as it runs. Javascript is looking better with ES5/strict and V8+node.js, but it still looks difficult to me (I like to understand the syntax in detail).

Probably I'm just being too picky.
My son was taught this method at school as THE way to do multiplication. Imagine my confusion when he brought homework back and I started doing multiplication the way we were all taught, only to be told "DADDY, you don't know anything!".
Simple. Look at Linux. Look at Windows.

You centralize updates of the core OS and build ABIs/APIs for all of the parts of the system that are needed to be extensible e.g. drivers, libraries, shells etc. This model is proven to work and work well. It just needs Google to show some leadership.
Faulkner had the best quote here:

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
But ... Voice messages, no matter how post edited,
cannot be quickly scanned like text or photos, so demand
the full attention and time of the recipient

who will give that time to people they know will not waste time - family friends stand up comics etc.

Twitter is the right analogy here - not facebook or instagram
Not for 14 times 12, as that is (13+1) times (13-1). 'everybody' knows 1^2 = 1 and 13^2 = 169, so 14 times 12 = 169 - 1 = 168.
The "head-shaking" is not skeumorphism.
I agree. This isn't a space-saving brief. It's an attempt to inflame. But...

I think it's pretty cool that a new medium for legal discourse has been actually used. Several years after absorbing Scott McCloud's phenomenal book Understanding Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics), I set out to argue for a very technical (programming) project at work through a goofy comic. It was surprisingly effective, and got more eyes on it than the more traditional internal wiki plea. I assume that the novelty and incongruence of the medium brings the audience out of whatever comfort zone they routinely occupy.
This is nonsense.

It is easy to make up a conspiricy, and very hard to disprove it. Nevertheless...

Sweden's foreign aid policies are well respected internationally[1].

For TorrentFreak to try and imply that aid to Cambodia - one of the poorest countries in the world - was in any way linked to their coincidental arrest of a person with an international warrant out for his arrest is shameful.

If nothing else, the foreign aid was announced prior to his arrest[2] and is part of a long running aid program[3].

Not only is it entirely made up, but it puts an unnecessary taint of corruption on a program that saves lives. As anyone scanning thread can attest, the last thing a foreign aid program needs is any kind of association with corruption - especially one that is made up.

It is well known that shoddy journalists can use their pulpit to smear anything they want and there is little that the target can do (eg, questions like "Tell me when you stopped beating your wife"). That is what is going on here, and people who are falling for it should be ashamed of themselves.

[1] http://www.thelocal.se/16158/20081205/

[2] http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/574/a/94013

[3] http://www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/Embassies/Phnom-Penh/Devel...
Similar here, but based on memorization. Since I
know twelve squared ((12 * 12) = 144) by rote, the
rest is easy.

14 * 12 = (12^2) + (12*2) = 168
This has been attributed to so many places. I actually spent some time coming up with an algebraic proof that it worked when I was in college. It turns out that it is perfectly clear what is happening if you write both numbers in binary as another poster has pointed out.

However for historical purposes, the question is why? I think there is a very simple reason. Before you have based number systems, most number systems are usually derived from tally sticks. This makes some functional sense, and once you think about it from a tally stick, roman numerals make perfect sense. For example consider the number XXIV. It represents a position on a tally stick:

IIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIL

Count to the second X and then one before the V. IXL is the same. Count backwards one X and then one I from the L. So while our system of numbers today is based on position of digits, many earlier systems were based on visualized markings on tally sticks. So you have numbers without a base system. This divide and add approach works very well when you don't have a number system. You can take your tally stick, figure out the number, and the same on the other side. I cannot think of another way to do multiplication on a tally stick.

Interestingly tally sticks of a slightly different sort were in use up until the early 19th century in Britain as tax receipts and in 1836 the attempt of the British government to get rid of these humble staves leveled both houses of parliament. Before you have widespread numeracy, tally sticks are how you track amounts for everything from debts to receipts. It isn't surprising that this would be a widespread method.
Maybe it's just the looks of the main character, but this reminded me a bit of Scott McCloud - although I would like how he would do things like this in a "Understanding Comics" style.
Sweden's foreign aid program is one of the best in the world[1], and doesn't fund rich people as you are implying here.

If you have proof otherwise I'd like to see it.

Otherwise - it's is way to easy to smear something in an off-hand way like that.

[1] http://www.thelocal.se/16158/20081205/
For completeness, here's a non-cartoon summary of the other side of the story: http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2012/07/24/your-unspe...
How come SMS is so cheap?
The problem with github for business, is that you pay via the amount of repositories. You could have huge projects, or lots of small projects yet you still pay via the amount of repos you have.

This makes it impractical for certain types of business.
iOS 6 is still in beta, it will probably be out to general public sometime this month.
I've bought an android phone last week. I'd say that about 75% of all models sold are running Gingerbread. Some of them can be upgraded OTA to ICS; but a significant part have to be painfully upgraded using a PC, and another significant part can't be upgraded at all.
So maybe JB is the state of the art, but at this moment exactly one device is available with it through European biggest carriers (the Nexus). It's more reasonable to say that ICS is the state of the art and GB will remain the basic system for many phones for a long, long time.
No offense but what is the big deal about this...This seems to be extremely low risk if you can even call it a risk, and hardly a vulnerability..

Every method on your website to “exploit” this is retrieving IMEI number through alternative ways which would mean the phone would be compromised anyway...If someone can compromise the phone who cares about this?

Maybe whatsapp can be accessed more easily but isn't that moot if you already have phone access..If you have phone access already why would an attacker care about whatsapp?

Whatsapp is not necessarily insecure based on this..You are giving whatsapp bad publicity for no reason

I don't even think it's a design flaw that they used that as the password because if someone has phone access, and/or access to their number already then they are probably screwed anyway

please correct me if I'm missing the actual vuln here..
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As Google moves more and more into the market of being a (the?) content provider for Android devices, they will sooner or later find themselves in the same spot as third-party developers do now: Hurting because they can't use the features that newer platforms would provide.
It used to be thought that ~95% of the genome was "junk DNA", i.e. DNA that was there either for evolutionarily historical reasons, or as the remnants of viruses or other mobile bits of DNA, but which no longer performed a significant function.

The principal finding reported by ENCODE is that the proportion of the genome which has no ascribed role has now dropped to 20%, 5% codes for "traditional" genes and 75% is this new stuff. A lot of that new stuff appears to be regulating the activity of the traditional 5%.

As to the motivations of the scientists involved, they will be a mixture of pure intellectual curiosity and the quest for cures to diseases. Of course they also would like to be paid, and must therefore dress some of their motivations in language likely to motivate their ultimate paymasters, i.e. the public.
Jelly Bean was released for the AT&T Nexus S in the middle of July. I have the exact same phone and I got the OTA update the day it was released.

I'm not quite sure why exactly you're not seeing any updates available, but if you're interested Google does provide factory images for all Nexus devices: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#sojuajro0...
Ubiquity; works on every mobile platform. (Including Nokia/Symbian, Windows Phone) So you can talk to any of your friends if they install the app.

Phone numbers are logins. Everybody with a phone already has one, so they don't have to do the whole 'create/verify an ID/password' dance.

If you have friends in other countries, this avoids roaming SMS charges. And if you are from Ireland, or Greece, lots of your friends are in other countries.
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I seem to recall having this conversion on a previous HN article (maybe it was reddit) where an artist was blasting Spotify for paying them a fraction of a cent per song play. But the recurring nature is the key. If a consumer likes a song it will get played 1000's of time over a lifetime and easily generate more revenue than a one time buy. So it just shifts an enduring quality vs fad element to the success (and revenue) of a song.
Jolla is a real Finnish company started by Nokia employees.

The Open webOS platform beta was just released.

For that matter here's Lenovo, just starting to expand their smartphone line beyond China, citing the difficulty in "negotiating and securing rights to use other companies’ intellectual property" as one of their secondary reasons for avoiding the US market: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-30/lenovo-brings-smart...

And Lenovo is far from the only China-only smartphone player looking to broaden their horizons.
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"I've always wondered why it is that we don't do that here. It's very much in line with the 'checks and balances' concept of the government's structure."

Well, you can look at a country that does and where that leads. In Iran, their Supreme Court is called the "Council of Guardians" and they get to do a lot of pre-passage stuff, including strike the law down pre-emptively, declare that some candidates are not eligible to run, etc. and they get to do all this sua sponte. While it is a fair point that they also have their own police force, I don't think that's the only issue here. It means the judiciary is an explicitly political force accountable to the Assembly of Experts, and hence theoretically to the people, but with a voice powerful enough to shape the terms of that accountability.

I think a better solution would be to relax standing issues regarding particularity of injury where widespread Constitutional violations are alleged. For example, if it becomes illegal to criticize the President tomorrow, I would hate to think that voters registered Democrats could not challenge the law on the basis that their injury is not particularized enough. Similarly where wide-ranging searches are alleged and everyone is injured, the particularity requirement should be relaxed.
1/2.3" and f/2.8-5.9 are on the Android camera in question.

I haven't shot a film camera since disposables in the 90s but thanks for the thought.
If you knew how they found the elements together, you would be far less sanguine about the significance. They started with random sampling of close proximity of genomic positions, plus some basic structural info on how chromatins (coiled DNA molecular) are organized. Then it is a nonlinear optimization with 1e-2 convergence criteria.

Several things lay people are never told:
1. Even for fixed data, the results are variable, i.e., you will get a different answer every time you run the nonlinear programming code.
2. There are different ways of getting to 3D positions of genomes and none is ever verified.
3. Tuning parameters greatly impact results. Yet one set of tuning parameters are just as valid as another.

I had the misfortune of helping someone to extend the code for this stuff that made into a Science paper, and I can tell you right now it is the worst C++ program I have ever seen.
I tend to prefer "patent ogre" myself.
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Just tried a search on Khan. Found every obscure Khan except Khan academy. Who gets to decide what goes in? Imagine the most famous online tutorial site is not in ODP. What are those guys doing all day?
A cent a listen seems reasonable to me too considering how many times I listen to my favourite albums throughout the day.

While it may not add up to much for small, independent bands, at least they're getting their albums out there to a much larger audience. I know I've discovered bands I wouldn't have bothered to download if it wasn't for these services.
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The thing is, Samsung is getting a lot of other things right, so even though a lot of people feel burned by their lack of updates it hasn't tipped the balance away from them yet. But I do read a lot of complaints from users claiming they plan to buy from somebody else the next time around.

I think Samsung is really nailing distribution. Here in Vietnam I see their stuff in every single phone shop but have to look a lot harder to find HTC and I can't find the Asus tablets anywhere.
"most Android users"

I'm guessing most actually don't care. That's the point of Android -- if "most" really cared the market would respond in a bigger way to that. The Galaxy Nexus has done well in sales but ultimately it's losing head to head against ICS phones.
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Reminds me of "Why's Poignant Guid to Ruby" [1]. I can't say how efficient this medium is for transferring information/knowledge, but it's certainly captivating -- sometimes what's needed to get a point across is not efficiency, but captivation.

[1] http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
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I actually prefer the HTML5 version by far on the desktop

It's light and fast. No flash annoyances. Also it doesn't have DPI issues.

Now then again, it's streaming MP3/AAC so only Chrome and IE seems to work ok.

Firefox for example just cannot play it.

Thanks patents.
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My view of the situation is that the period between the Android version launch and the launch of the first non-Nexus device is Android's equivalent of iOS's public beta. Note, in particular, the large volume of changes between Android 4.0 and 4.0.3, many of which were about adapting ICS to devices other than the Galaxy Nexus. I guess Google doesn't want to talk about it that way because, among other things, you're buying the device with beta software, but, functionally, that seems to be what is happening.
Please enlighten us to the proportion of money that goes to the artist vs. how much goes to the record label.

10% goes to the artist, maybe? Even less?

I'm sincerely curious, I'm buying an album at iTunes right now