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I don't understand this...

Well it is lucky I came prepared then. Here, I brought this map along. Have a look, this bit is a continent called "America". The bit at the bottom is what was first referred to as America by colonists from Europe, although the name was eventually used for the whole connected landmass, and the bit at the top is generally referred to as "North America", in which we have Mexico, the USA and Canada. But everyone in the continent are Americans, as they are all from America.

But if you're an American,

No, I am not an American. Which is why I said I am not an American. I can understand your confusion however, as earlier I think I may have slipped into a trance and started channeling the soul of Henry Kissinger. Sorry about that, it happens sometimes.
I tend to think that Apple, and Android manufacturers for that matter, aren't really interested in full lockdown. Jailbreaking is a selling point for a good sized fraction of the market.
Help me! I start coding too early on side projects...
When it comes to Apple, I seriously doubt it.
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Healthcare in the US is expensive because it doesn't follow a normal market economy. The people using healthcare generally aren't paying for the services out of pocket, so they have no incentive to try to keep costs low. The government has encouraged this through tax deductible insurance. The system has gotten so bad that it is nearly impossible to find out how much a procedure will cost before you have it. Of course, it's all made worse by America's belief that there is a pill for everything and somehow, if you visit doctors enough and have enough procedures done, you won't die.

This is why many companies like health savings plans: they put the consumer back in touch with how much healthcare costs. The consumer has an incentive to understand and reduce costs.
10+ years ago, or maybe a bit more, enterprise hard drive sizes were probably still measured in MB. Things like the sizes of fields actually mattered, and the older the system, the more they mattered and the more people would have had to sweat about whether the field was 8, 16, or 32 characters or whatever.
Invariably there is a fork just around the corner.
I'm very excited for git annex assistant. I've been looking for a few years for a "Dropbox with my own server" type of service that I can use to easily keep large files in sync.

There are a handful of programs like unison that do the syncing well, but don't have nice fsevent type triggers for all platforms. Git based programs like Sparkleshare don't work because git chokes on large repositories. Syncany seems to be abandoned. AeroFS was close, but it kept syncing huge files back and forth between my computers when they hadn't been modified. Now I'm eagerly waiting to try git annex assistant.
I'm surprised that anyone doubts what chpwn posts, even if it is remarkably quick. After all, he's been doing this stuff for years and is quite well known for his jailbreak work; I'm sure he's spent the better part of 2 or 3 months working on a nice iOS6 hack to make this happen.

(Disclaimer: He's been a friend of mine for years, so I can't say I'm not a bit biased)
Apple can't really keep vulnerabilities in iOS even if people demand jailbreaks. It's their obligation to patch them whenever possible to avoid third parties using the same hole to do something malicious.
Hmm, the iPhone's photo is so far from "stacking up" to the 5D's photo.

I wonder if he meant to say how far the quality has come from the 4s?

On a scale of 1-10, if the 5D is a 10, I would put the iphone 5 at a 6. So maybe the 4s is at a 4 according to DC?

To illustrate this DC should also put an image taken with a 4s. But to put a 6 next to a 10 and say it "stacks up". Thats like saying a honda civic stacks up against a porche 911. It doesn't.

However, you could say today's civic stacks up much better than the 1980 civic to todays porche 911...
If that were the case, why wouldn't they make it easier?
> How do the iSheep keep up with such mediocre product?

One feature doesn't make a phone and many people don't want or need offline driving directions? When the hell am I offline and driving? I don't know about anyone else but in Canada, that's your best chance of getting a cell signal in a rural area. Find a road.
He's making a distinction between trading and investment. The purpose of the stock market is raising capital to start/grow/sell companies (investment). The technical term for high frequency trading is "scalping" (yes, exactly the same word and meaning as ticket scalping). HFT traders like to think they "create liquidity", but I haven't heard a credible argument to support that.

Divide the market into three categories of participants:

A. Holding period less than one minute (high frequency traders)

B. Holding period greater than one month (entrepreneurs, companies, value investors)

C. Everyone else (noise)

Question: Does category A really create any useful liquidity for category B? Category B is the economic purpose and intent of the stock market. He's saying: that the HFT guys are like trolls living under a bridge stealing a shoelace from each person who crosses the bridge. He's saying that doesn't fulfill an economic purpose.

I'd love to hear a counterargument. I don't know enough to have a firm position.
I don't know whalesong.

But if you include a giant runtime, the compilation and evaluation of it on every page load, and downloading it (there's evidence to show many hit CDNs with cold caches, probably screwed up firewalls or proxies that mess with caching) can make for a suboptimal experience that can't be optimized without rewriting in something that doesn't require a bytecode VM embedded in your JS.
Passwords/phrases have really got to go. They are a relic, and every year they offer less and less security. Plus even reasonably smart programmers and administrators continually make the same mistakes over and over in handling them; no real reason to think that will suddenly change. I'm not sure what the answer is, but the vast majority of people are not going to be content with typing a 30 character or more passphrase even if it's something memorable, never mind the 6 - 12 character ones that look like line noise. Password managers are just a band-aid, and again most people would find them annoying. People just want to get to their email, do their banking, shopping, pay their bills, whatever. There's got to be something better than passwords. Maybe someone can really put some consumer-oriented thinking behind something like PKI and make it EASY for the average person.
This isn't that hard to believer, chpwn is incredibly talented and to be fair iOS 6 has been available in beta form for quite some time now (enough to work out how to potentially jailbreak it).
here's some links for more info

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/19/is-one-of-our-open-sourc...

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/20/fixing-misinformatio...

http://www.hoektronics.com/2012/09/21/makerbot-and-open-sour...

tom igoe has some sensible words on this:

http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/open-innovation/408/

this is an interesting discussion in advance of this (unfortunately sold out) conference next week about open source hardware:

http://summit.oshwa.org/schedule/

(hopefully they will ustream it)

many of the videos from the last summit are up, btw:

http://goo.gl/KK8QN
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You want to watch Steve Jobs explain an antennae issue and offer everyone cases again? Why?
Why did you continue to go to the same border crossing?
If you are properly hashing a password, then the hash is always of a known length, regardless of length of password.
Um, yeah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_Louise_Ciccone
I always wondered why google+ got all that bad press and facebook didn't for real names
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> f the 3D is so bad, why didn't they just cut it and introduce it as a shiny update when it's ready?

Who says the 3D is bad? When you're looking in a city that has the 3D models, it's pretty great. If the problem is "not everyone has it" then that's a ridiculous goal. Gotta launch sometime.
Okay, I have to take this back. It looks like they did finally implement this sometime between now and June (when I last checked). Better late than never.
Gmail does not have as large of a market share as you think: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...

In general this is a common misconception at HN and in similar circles: Gmail may be ubiquitous among the tech crowd, but it's far from clear that it's even in first place among webmail providers.
Wrot wrow, the gig might be up for myself. Hopefully none of my HS friends will out me. If so, I'm going to have to close my account.

Not that I use a lot anyways. . .
Why are you blaming TC? That's Twitter's CEO trying to shift the blame off of Twitter.
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>"But everyone in the continent are Americans, as they are all from America."

You're just itching to have a ridiculous argument, aren't you? Take your pseudo-intellectual nerd-rage elsewhere.

There are genuine problems with the immigration rules in the US. Some are described in this very thread. The author's case is marginal.
No surprise that reducing copyright protections drives economic growth. It acts like a reduction in cost for the raw material of other creative and distribution businesses. What is not as clear is the impact on long-term innovation--in particular the very capital-intensive kind.

The Lord of the Rings movies would have been less expensive to make if they did not have to pay for the rights to use the story and characters. But would the studio have given the green light to such an expensive shoot if they had a lower expectation of return?
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I really feel your pain. For a lot of people reading this article, its not going to make a whole lot of sense. They are just going to think that you don't really deserve to be here no matter how much good you contribute to this earth.

I really can't stand this of ignorance!

Without going into a personal rant about this whole thing, I really want to find out if you are already "here" in the US?

If you are NOT here yet, I am going to give you fair warning NOTHING is garunteed until you are across the border!

I don't care if you have an approved H-1B visa! This means nothing. The border patrol agent has the FINAL say and can deny your entry into the US for ANY REASON AT ALL! I repeat! You can be denied ENTRY with an APPROVED H-1B!!

Make sure you have all your facts straight when you are going to cross! Your denial of entry is a HUGE problem. that is going to throw up RED flags like no other when trying to cross the border so please make sure you work closely with your lawyers here!

I really hope that all works out well for you and good luck! If you are already in the country and are just waiting to work! I'm really happy that you made it past all those bastard border patrol agents!
Yes, the HFT assumes the risk, for it is acting as a Market maker. My point was that there already was a Market maker there - another is not more liquidity. Liquidity is a binary term IMO. Having two Market makers in same product does not make more liquidity it just makes liquidity cheaper. That might benefit the seller but makes no difference to the exchange function

in the comics, when Superman is protecting Metropolis and Supergirl turns up, she cannot do anything the Man of Steel
could not do - she just looks better in tight blue Lycra.

Kudos for your recipie.

Edit removed my dumb, knee jerk, unappetising broccolli recipie/comment on state of English cooking in my childhood. Nevermind.
1. I agree, as an organization grows, the value of a CRM increases.

2. I did not mean to imply that a CRM is the only form of accountability, more that in an early stage start up with tech founders, it may be the easiest/most cost effective way to implement a system of organization and accountability. The value of a CRM at any stage cannot be underestimated, not only does it give accountability but it gives instant prioritization so that the sales person's time is maximized and they can reach buyers at the exact moment they are most ready, willing, and able to buy.

3. Many studies have shown that when human performance is measured, productivity increases. In real life, I cannot remember one nationally ranked salesperson that did not have system of organization and accountability. The Hawthorne Effect is probably the most quoted research on this subject, although it may not be the most on-point. "Researchers concluded that the workers worked harder because they thought that they were being monitored individually."
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I would assume that a company that has the money to pay a fair market wage and hire an agency recruiter would be able to give me that money as a signing bonus if they hadn't already spend it on a recruiter.

Also, if I was an employer using your agency, I'd fire your firm if I found out you were telling candidates what was going to be asked in a technical interview. You're doing them a disservice by giving out this information. At one of my jobs where I was interviewing new candidates, we had to make several tests with different questions on each one because recruiters were telling candidates what questions we asked on the test. This became painfully obvious when candidates could answer test questions perfectly, but fell short on other very basic technical question we asked. The recruiter cost us money since we had to dedicate team member time to writing multiple tests instead of working on developing our product.

This brings up another problem with agency recruiting. You can't represent both parties without there being an inherent conflict of interest. At the end of the day, most agency recruiters will misrepresent one party or the other to make a deal and get paid. This of course leads into your article's suggestion that job seekers have an agent who only represents them, but that begs the question whether any sort of middleman is necessary in this sort of transaction. Other industries manage to hire people without using an agency, but recruiting is accepted as a necessity, almost without question, in the IT industry.

Perhaps I am an anomaly because I can, as you said, "do my own taxes." To be fair, I know there are agency recruiters out there who really do manage to add value to both side of the equation. However, in my experience, they are the exception rather than the rule.

p.s. Regarding bypassing a recruiter, I only do this when the company has directly posted the listing themselves in addition to using a recruiter. If I don't see the position posted elsewhere, I assume they are looking exclusively through the recruiter, and I don't bother pursuing the position unless it's exactly the position I've been dreaming about. At that point I'll grudgingly work with the recruiter.
It's all part of a master plan to build K.I.T.T.
We'll definitely explain this in a clearer way as we move out of beta. Out of 99c Apple takes 29c and we take 20c leaving the developer with 50c, so slightly over half :)
I'd argue that people do suffer material damage by being blocked from using Facebook.
yeah, I found the same - however on mouseover and clickthrough on the wiki links to the emoji pages (above this post in the comments) I am getting the characters in both the link preview and in the title bar.

strange
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It shocks me that people keep downplaying the issue here. Storing a password in a visitors browser especially in a place where it can be exploited is lazy not only from a security perspective but if a users original password can be exposed as well as their email address a lot of people use the same password for everything (not everyone is a security conscious developer) especially email. This is just lazy programming and security at its finest, so glad I don't use Pandora.
Would the two movies be from the same genre?

For example, I would have a difficult time deciding which of the two - "The Secret in Their Eyes" or "Gladiator" - is better.
I think that both guards and inmates should be assigned fake names in prison, or addressed simply by number, to avoid prison interactions spilling out of the prison and affecting prisoners' families etc. Of course, the danger with this is that abuses within prison would become harder to track and account for.
I've got it - we'll encode Ethernet frames in JSON and tunnel them over HTTPS to an IP stack in Javascript. With a JS DHCP client, your browser will grab an IP address on the same subnet as the cloud server. And it's business up front, party in the back...

"Layering violation" is not the best term for what I meant, which is just "design mistake." Also the OSI model doesn't have much to do with reality. But if you want layering violations...
This would be a lot more useful if I could filter according to what is streamable from Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes.
my mom/sister/dad/cousin are not going to host this themselves. They might depend on me to do it, but even I'm not going to run a decentralized social network myself. There's too much liability involved. Not to mention, it's a pain in the ass.

That's not the point. Those aren't the ones decentralization benefits. Decentralization will benefit other organizations, such government agencies, companies, non-profits, NGOs, etc. These organizations most likely have other services running on either their own infrastructure or they have some one else paid to host it. They benefit by retaining control of the namespace and ability to post a message without relying on a centralized service.
It is a confusing, unclear and opaque apology for their confusing, unclear and opaque licensing policies.

I cannot deduce anything about what their true licensing policies might be from those 9 paragraphs.
Tangibot is a fork, although their Kickstarter was unsuccessful so I don't know what means for it's future: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattstrong/the-tangibot-...
My view (possibly wrong, it has been known) is that
liquidity need only be provided by one party. A competitive Market in liquidity has minimal benefits

it is unimportant if the Market maker holds for 1 pixo second or one month - what matters is that someone is there to trade. Now HFT is at a disadvantage as they have less scope to make their spread (essentially the other side must already be in the Market) but that's where if all other Market makers disappeared (and the stock slowed down) HFTs must become LFTs and hey presto are indistinguishable from the old style Market maker

yes there is a price point issue but most buyers really have a range they will buy at so more precisely I am conjecturing that there are minimal benefits to an exchange to having more than one Market maker at a given stock within a given price range.

How to provethat - not sure
Agreed. He's entertaining and probably smarter and more focused than 99% of people but his poor arguments make me think he's not a precise thinker and isn't mentally flexible. I wonder if he'd be able to answer this question: What would he have to be persuaded of to change his mind on this topic? (I wonder what everyone including myself would answer to this question.)

I wonder what his motivation is. Is he upset by poor performance in his personal account and wants to blame someone? Does he buy the shockingly confused media hype? Is he threatened by something he incompletely understands? Is he doing it to get even more attention? Is he trying to seem intelligent or gain even more status by jumping on a bandwagon to criticize a popular scapegoat?
Good article. But why out of curiosity did you include a road sign for Beer Sheva?
I read the article differently. I think he's both smart and that he is spot on (but maybe Jarvis is the real source). Apple gets a lot of "free help" from the media, not to mention Hollywood, that other companies normally have to pay for.

I don't think he's suggesting that Apple has full control over what is said about them.

But that's sort of the point, they don't have to worry about that as much as other companies. They do not have to spend as much time and money trying to control the negative portrayals and carefully releasing positive ones. The media is flooded with positives about Apple. And Apple gets them for free.
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I have the exact same experience. I've also reported more than 30 valid bugs, none have been fixed... You wouldn't believe how buggy it is, and the docs are just as bad.

Stay away - go native or phonegap
I did a quick google search and it appears that in order to switch jobs you need to have your I-140 approved, so I did misspeak on that point.

However, since the labor certification part (PERM) is a much quicker process and you can file for your I-140 and I-485 concurrently, it's not unreasonable to assume that from the date you first start the process, you'll likely to be able to switch jobs after 2 years or so.

This is actually really important for those poor souls from India and China who have priority dates that still in the 90s and won't likely get the physical green card for at least 5 years if not longer.

One thing to keep in mind is that lawyers often disagree as to how to interpret the USCIS regulations. I've had lawyers say "Jesus! Don't even leave the country!" and others say "Yeah, it's fine to switch jobs, no problem." It just depends on how risk adverse they are.
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It's interesting to study how successful leaders, especially those with their own personality cults, behave when things aren't going their way. Maybe he's in a similar position at the moment and is looking for ideas.
thingiverse scrapers and alternatives are a hot commodity these days, it seems! Have some toys:

https://github.com/grevaillot/thingscrap

https://github.com/punkmanufacturing/thingiverse-backup

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/thingiverse/bl3dr/

https://github.com/kanzure/skdb/blob/master/clients/thingive...

http://garyhodgson.com/reprap/2012/09/githubiverse-a-github-...

https://github.com/garyhodgson/githubiverse-template

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113539880459449261884/posts/bQmi...