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No one in this thread is offering up any data showing that their sales have gone down since the iOS 6 App Store has rolled out.

My app sales seem to be unchanged. In fact, my free version downloads have actually gone up since the iOS 6 release.

Another person is reporting their downloads also unchanged, "My App Store experiment is still ticking along with no big reduction in its modest number of daily downloads".
Indeed, no system is fully secure, and we don't try to hide that fact, that's one of the reasons Dropmyemail exists in the first place. We offer people an off-site backup at the cost of trusting a third party with their password. This is a risk assessment discussion, and I believe although good for raising awareness about what dropmyemail offers, the original articles fails to make a distinction between the objective information it provides and what are your personal valuations on the risk involved (for example, it assumes one of the worst possible scenarios regarding our competence). Things get a bit confusing when non security related topics like storage capacity are mixed in though. I believe you are trying to help people to be safe and choose the better tool to solve their problem, I do think you are underestimating them a bit, but in case I'm wrong I repeat how valuable your article is in raising this issues.
None of those three "big new ideas" are big or new. Go is incredibly conservative, primitive even. It takes a few tiny things like those you mentioned from languages that have had them for decades, but leaves out so much important stuff that the language is barely useful at all.
Rubbish.

> Video-content owners aren't looking for a savior and ultimately won't be satisfied with anything less than an open ecosystem accessible by any device.

If they wanted an open ecosystem, they could have had it years ago. It's called the web. You might have heard of it.

Did the networks see Youtube and say, "oh, we could have people pay to log in to a web site and watch TV! It would work on any web-capable device anywhere in the world! Hooray!"

Heck no, they didn't. They don't want an open ecosystem, they want one that they control. Rather than build one that satisfies consumers, they've tried to destroy or control anyone else who builds one.

This is not about openness; it's about control.

> Television is about to demonstrate the inadequacy of Apple's own business model.

Doesn't that sound a bit gloating?

> How TV content owners in the future will get paid is but the flip side of the question of how pipe providers will get paid.

This doesn't even make sense. We already know how "pipe providers" get paid: ISPs get paid by customers and peering agreements, and content providers get paid by viewers and listeners. The end.

What's holding up the future is not Apple or Netflix or Google; it's content providers who want to keep getting paid for channels nobody watches, distributed and restricted under complex international agreements, when they could just offer on-demand content, for money, over IP, to anyone in the world.

> Expect the TV and broadband businesses both to reorganize themselves almost overnight.

You mean like, "hey, your cable TV is now an internet connection, so just click the programs you want to see. The bandwidth we used to spend sending 100 channels while you only watched one is enough to send the 1 show you actually want in higher resolution. Enjoy!"

I guess they'll do that overnight as soon as the internet gets invented.
On this basis:

A photo-sharing service can patent "announcing a picture upload on a social website".
A location service can patent "announcing a check-in on a social website"
A restaurant review service can patent "announcing a restaurant rating on a social website"

It might actually help more such "ridiculous" patents being granted. Eventually, the non-tech crowd will be affected and the whole system will be brought into question.
Yes, it's quite plain that it is not the commenter's own voice. It is also a short step from self-gratifying quote continuation threads.
But why did he conclude the computer has seen a very complicated sequence that Kasparov himself can't even begin to see?

The reason is rather obvious, IMO. Kasparov assumed, with good reason, that a computer is not likely to make tactical mistake. Especially in an end game the computer can see x moves deep perfectly. Computers historically are far weaker strategically -- doing things like creating good pawn structures.

So when Kasparov saw a move that appeared to be a tactical flaw his first belief wasn't, "Oh, must be a bug in the program, that was a random move." He thought, "There's an attack vector here I'm not familiar with."

It would be like sitting with John Carmack in a coding session and suddenly he deletes a function that seems like it would be useful to you. Your first thought would be, "Oh, John must have realized this function isn't useful. He's smarter than me. I just don't know the whole story." You likely won't think, "Must be a bug in John's brain that on occassion he will randomly delete a function."
and "theatre" is not spelled like "théâtre"
I think the analogy of looking at a book for it's words is somewhat misguided.

Judging a book by the words it contains is wrong if you're judging literature, but when you're choosing books to teach with, you have to consider the readers vocabulary.

In practice, choosing a book based on it's words is, in fact, quite common when you're teaching english.
this may be a bit pedantic, but does it really say much about /chess/ itself as a game, or the chess ...culture?
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OP here, nice to see Gittip get positive attention every week.

I am really looking forward to seeing non-programmers on the leaderboard. That is nothing against programmers; it would just be a clear sign that the Gittip model has generalized to more than just os work.

Chad, are you aware of anyone receiving tips who is not involved in programming? I looked through the long list of people who have signed up, but most have zero tips so far. It might be interesting to post a table that lists user, tagline, and current funding level. I thought I saw a list by funding level once, but I can't seem to find it right now.
My science teacher back in 1996 told the class about the immense amount of garbage piling around orbit and told us that when we were older it would become a serious problem and that whoever figured out how to be "space garbagemen/women" would be very rich.

The class kinda laughed, space is so vast and who wants to be known as garbage men?

Should have gotten my degree as a Space Debris Collector.
Sending referer data to different domains is always allowed for non-secure URLs (otherwise, web analytics would be pretty boring). For secure URLs however, the browser should only send referer data if the destination page is also secure, regardless of domain.
"that sort of London glottal stop", dropping the T in words like "important" or "Manhattan".

So I agree with the premise of this article, but the glottal stop is found in many regional American accents.

The internet removes language barriers from lines drawn on the ground, and this small difference has sped up a still very, very slow process started by television. Language is evolving towards a single shared language, right now we can see the regional differences falling away between nations. TV has dissolved much of the regional differences within the US. The difference is still there, and probably always will be, but its a lot weaker than it was a few decades ago.
Have every new employee do customer support for two weeks
shit, thanks!
NFC enabled business cards
They should patent "Getting Away With Outrageous Misogyny In A Business That Would Seem Inhospitable For It"; that's their true and only talent.
I agree with the logic for sure - My point is more about using the active verb "Removes", as if iOS 6 gets really close to passing the referer header, but removes it at the last second.

Maybe something like "omits" or "doesn't pass" would have been more true to the story - but I understand a writer needing to have a catchy title.
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"Handle for a chain saw" patents are usually described with language precise enough they can't do that.

"Method and apparatus for lifting and operating a chain saw" would be more akin to the useless software patents that are out there.
Congratulations! Keep going and I'm sure you are headed to the right direction.
Granted, I haven't been through an accelerator but I heard a great talk by Tim Falls of SendGrid who does have a lot of experience through TechStars and he covered this topic. To get full value out of an accelerator/incubator you need to be in a position to leverage the relationships you are making AND continue iterating and developing your product/business model. And two people isn't enough to do that. Love to hear your thoughts.
AIUI the USA version is "I could care less, if I really tried hard."
And again, I am not doubting your competence. What I am saying is that we are all humans. Google might have hired the best computer scientists around the world but they still got hacked. It might even be a problem with the programming language you are using (rmb mass assignment on ROR?)

"We offer people an off-site backup at the cost of trusting a third party with their password."

Yes, this is my main point. People have to learn that they shouldn't be giving out passwords to just about anybody.

I think this guy in the comments here (http://blog.geeksphere.net/2012/09/27/response-to-dropmyemai...) made a pretty good point. Maybe you might want to answer his doubts there?
<pedantic clarification>

For those who first encounter the word "typo" indirectly as TamDenholm did, it's worth noting that a typo is not just any spelling mistake; it is a mis-spelling rendered in a type-set text and arising not through the author's ignorance of spelling but rather through a mis-operation of the typing apparatus (often arising through hasty typing). For elaboration, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_error.

If one believed (erroneously) that "spelling" were correctly rendered "speling", that would not be a typo but a spelling mistake. On the other hand, if one rendered it "speling" because of a finger slip on the second press of the "l" key then it would be a typo.

</pedantic clarification>
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There's still a huge valid question about reform as opposed to scrap. The system would work if it was actually applied correctly. (I understand application is part of said system, but I'm referring to the overall human aspect, ie, the reason AskPatents.com was made.)
Programming in C! How encouraging for the beginner! Why not ruby?

Look, astrophysics has a word for spots on the sun. Sunspots. Meanwhile the most fundamental molecule of life is deoxyribonucleic acid. That last word is a product of the classic education system which encouraged "gentlemen" (today: "engineers") to study Latin and Greek.

Now I'm not discouraging the teaching and book-printing of rudimentary languages like C and Latin, but maybe C (and Latin) aren't meant to be learned today by beginners in a conversational manner. Students who are curious will naturally look back to ancestor-languages (I have books on C and Perl now as a ruby programmer). For Latin and Greek we have sites like etymonline.com, which are great.

What is it with you guys? Are you worried that once the newbies go ruby they'll never go back? Back where? We all need to evolve as developers. Haha soapbox I apologize. I like C syntax.
Solar cell more efficient thanks to gold electrode
It's very well done, too. Great character development and a gripping story arc. From my layperson's perspective, the science of orbital debris collection is taken very seriously.

The opening sequence in the first episode powerfully illustrates the speed and devastation caused by the intersection of the orbits of a simple bolt and a passenger liner.
Take A Closer Look At The Icon For Apple's Terrible Maps App
The background story on Daily Grommet's funding from Rakuten
It's interesting that you think that this is an issue of capitalism, when it has nothing to do with capitalism at all. The vast majority of space junk is the result of governmental programs like NASA and its peers [1].

[1]http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast...
Since many of these procedures are implemented in hardware directly, maybe it could be utilized as a conditional fall-back? An example might be a MITM attack that indicates an invalid hand shake or shows that an insufficient random pool is detected so it would attempt to connect using each alternative in order till it gets to the weak link. Technically speaking this would be ideal since the government and ISP's that carry these messages are so intertwined that the breadth would cover every citizen in their own country and likely many others.
Those kits still do work for the platform they were built for though.

New platform, new kits. Same as any other company.
Here comes the map spin from Cupertino
> At one time, the philosophy was that the country was more secure when we could all be assured that the privacy of our communications was intact.

That's never really been the view of the U.S. government. It's always been the view that you should be able to have communications with your neighbor that are secure from everyone except the US government, who obviously need to snoop in order to protect us all.

The security agencies and the police agencies have always pushed for more comprehensive and more invasive surveillance. We've had wiretapping for as long as we've had wires to tap. We crippled Internet security for years. I remember the days of separate US and international Netscape releases, due to crypto export restrictions. It wasn't until 2000 that the restrictions were truly relaxed.
Not really. First of all there's multiple samples per pixel for anti-aliasing and even more when doing stocastic sampling from the circle of confusion for DOF and motion blur, so you normally need 128-512 samples per pixel.

Then for each light (unless you randomly sample a light each time - which introduces more noise), you need to test occlusion from each surface hit to check for shadows. So each pixel sample that has a solid alpha (it hit an object) needs to be tested against lights with a ray.

Then with GI pathtracing, you need to bounce the light around the scene even for diffuse (non-shiny) surfaces.

The article's still mostly rubbish though...
I see what he's saying. In terms of long term consideration though, would that early burst of ability and speed be worth some of the issues that might crop up later?
Apple makes its money on recurring hardware purchases. The iPad owner buys the iPad 2 and the iPad 3 and the iPad 4 and so on and so forth every year.

Losing customers to a low-priced Android tablet before they have the chance to get them on board their "mini tablet" upgrade cycle could be disastrous. Apple effectively had first-mover advantage in the 10" tablet market, but Android is solidly ahead in the 7" market with the existence of the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, and it's much more difficult to gain ground in that kind of market. Add in a low-price high-quality competitor and you've got a really steep uphill climb.
"I've tried out mind mapping software in the past for various things, and it has always seemed nifty, but I never really stuck with it."

I'd definitely recommend FreeMind, because as I alluded to in the article basically all other mind mapping software is designed for creating presentations and pretty graphics rather than for organizing and condensing enormous amounts of information. So if you've been using other software then there would be no way for you to get the full experience. (It's free open source software that's licensed under GPL, and it runs pretty well even on 5+ year old computers.)

Anyway it took me a few years to really learn how to use it properly. I think this is partly because there haven't really been many good examples of people actually using it well online. Most of the examples are just people using it the same way they would use other mind mapping software. So that's why between the python.mm file, and also the video, hopefully that shows two really substantive for the software and then people can kind of learn the best practices for themselves through osmosis.

I should mention also that the python.mm file includes the documentation for not just Python, but also for Jinja and Less:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/files/python.mm

I would have included my sections on JavaScript and HTML/CSS, but unfortunately they mostly come from various published books so I didn't think the publishing companies would be thrilled with that.
I don't have any feeds or Facebook. That was a far better solution if you ask me.
Not yet - but x2 in power annually, how long til they're fast enough?
You can't have it all. The HTTP RFC is very clear that referrer data from HTTPS sites should not be sent to HTTP sites (in order to protect the content of the HTTPS site - remember: Even the URL is transmitted in an encrypted way, so it might contain sensitive data).

So by doing the Google searches over HTTPS, you make the life of pages and analytics vendors harder, but you are doing a huge favor to the end users because now their searches are private between them and Google. Nobody else on the way can sniff them. No government and no neighbor/coworker.

Of course, once the user clicked and found your site, the URL the user initially used isn't that confidential any more, so in theory, passing the referrer wouldn't be a problem in this case, but that's not what the standard says and it's not what browsers are doing.

If you want to see this changed, talk to the IETF or the W3C to have the standard changed such that, for example, google could add some rel= attribute to tell the browser that sending a referrer is OK.

Or just serve your page over SSL, further helping the end-user - and it's all about them in the first place - isn't it?
Tesla’s new Superchargers leave Roadster, other EV owners flat
10 times less? Have to call you on that. Straight from their website for the cheap-o prices: mercedes c-sedan ~35K, kia forte ~15K. Amusingly the Cheap-o kia forte is a manual transmission and to upgrade to an automatic cost extra. But take note there is no way you could ever sell me the 15K kia forte as the low of the low end models manufacture's put out are _bare_ bones. After renting cars the last few years and seeing just how cheap they could be I honestly checked to see if it even had power windows. Unless you really do want a bare bones car you probably are going to be spending more on top of that 15K, but if you are only going on price why aren't you buying a used car again?
I would imagine this is because the iPhone/Pod/Pad is expected to be a slave not a master.

Why would this always be the case? I'd expect the mobile device to have more accurate/newer information than the stationary device, most of the time. If you're networking at lunch or a conference, and you put all that info into your phone, why wouldn't that be synced with the PC instead of the other way around?
Should we contact the Illuminati and make sure the "One World Government" charges a fee?

How would you force China, India and Russia and other pseudo capitalist countries to pay, let alone the United States, Europe etc?

If the UN enforced a fee of some sort, why wouldn't we just offshore space launches to a country that ignores the UN.
What was the CTA before? Right now it says "Get Started Now" which is clearly not the case.
How different is this from easel.io?
Given there's only so many hours in a day, I'd rather they focused on ways to shave energy costs by 10% than fret over which brand of Made in China pencils would save them a nickel per box.

An iPad would not even make a dent in the expense accounts of most politicians. Their photocopying bill would massively eclipse this, so anything that reduces the amount of paper required could save enormous amounts of money.
What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier
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Software patents with troll owners have long been the Sword of Damocles for the bootstrapped startup. This one is probably of no consequence but overall they represent a barrier to entry that has no basis in natural law. I really doubt we'll ever see meaningful reform because those who could effect a change don't have a clue about the technology their laws affect.
I agree that the issue w/ international payouts needs to be resolved; this is a known bug. But speaking as a "first world programmer" (https://www.gittip.com/jnoller/) the money from Gittip I have gotten has already made a huge difference for me.

For example; say I burn 40 hours a week working on PyCon or other community-related things. Ok, that's in addition to my day job, and time away from my family, and it's also hours I could spend working on side contracts from work that would pay me.

Instead, I have gittip; the funds of which have allowed me to pay some of a myriad of medical expenses (long story) and other debts that has relieved stress against my family and I and in turn make me, and my family, less stressed and concerned that the time I spend volunteering is not time misspent.

So, while yes: you are perfectly correct that 1$ in one country isn't equivalent to $1 in a "first world programmer's world", I can state that the 1$ I get from gittip helps my family and I a great deal - even if it's just $1, it's positive psychological reinforcement and stress relief.

So no, don't assume "they don't need them that much".
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Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Just downloaded and installed trail. Works really well from my initial testing. One command that most people use a lot is 'jj' for quick exiting of insert mode. Also, '$' jumps to the next to last character of a line. It should jump to the very end of the line. If you added/fixed these two things I would totally buy it!
Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona
Tractor beam? If someone could come up with one of those, that would work. No huge energy loss due to traveling into the atmosphere. No worries about refueling in orbit or potential collisions loss of life. Seems to me like that could be a thing.
>How can you be sure who will get the key, or what their motives will be?

You can never be infinitely certain, but nor can you be certain your non-backdoored crypto is secure. There are cases where "the NSA leaks their top-secret backdoor to the internet" is a vanishingly small threat vector compared to other possibilities (e.g. rubber hoses).

>Good, modern cryptography offers a level of security unparalleled in the physical world, and at a processing cost which any computer can handle. Why would you intentionally choose something inferior?

You wouldn't. But if it later turns out the NSA has a backdoor in the algorithm you happened to pick, and for whatever reason you're unable or unwilling to change algorithms now, that still doesn't mean "you've given up already and cryptography is useless to you".
I think it's pointless to make huge generalizations like this

Is two founders also one too many? Sometimes! At least with one founder you actually solve the problem of founders not agreeing on a course of action (which surely is a bigger probably two founders than an odd number like three).

I'll concede that I'm biased, but my startup has three founders and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we would be worse off with fewer people.
Meh, with the advent of Big Picture I see a console as even less likely. Why bother:

-adding a massive complication/cost in the form of a complete hardware division

-dropping a billion into upfront R/D, marketing and production

only to lose money per unit and only maybe make a profit in the end, when they can just charge Dell/Asus money for "Big Picture Certified" stickers and call it a day. Doing so on Linux just means they don't have to worry about the MS roadmap.
Not until 2014 :(