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I've not used mathematica in a long time, and I forgot how crazy-ugly the graphs are. The cartoonish legend in the Out[18] graph is a case in point, almost a lesson in what not to do, in terms of distracting from the content.

The syntax ain't pretty either, but one does get used to that, of course.

PS. opminion is right: the unit weaving is pretty strange. But the content of the posting is interesting enough to make me think "oh well, it's just another yank" and keep reading.
As a potential customer, I for one would be scared off by the sloppy writing in the very paragraph that is supposed to inspire confidence (stray comma after "At no point"; awkward comma between the two clauses "You don't have to worry..." and "they'll never know it").
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> I feel that he was making the argument that...

Sidenote: the author is a she, not a he.
The "lesson to educators" was certainly a quick conclusion to draw from the number guessing game example. A fair comparison would be a game with sound and animation that kids have created using Scratch that you get kids to do using a "real" language like python. Furthermore, I think BYOB (build your own blocks)[1] raises the bar what can be done in a Scratch-like environment.

[1] http://byob.berkeley.edu/
Americans call it the "customary" measurement system.
I don't have any problem at all discovering good apps on the App Store. For the most part, the stuff on the top of the store is great, and when I want something a bit quirkier (i.e. a Hokkien-teaching app) I search for it. What kinds of apps do you feel are difficult to discover?
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I'm sure that Google and other large ad networks do this.

But I also see small/medium size ecommerce retailers doing "People like you also bought" type stuff. They don't do it as well as Amazon, but sometimes it seems relevant.

So I'm curious about whether hundred of millions of impressions are necessary for this type of optimisation (and that the good recommendations I've seen are just a coincidence - quite possible) or if saying "hundreds of millions" actually just means "quite a lot"
You use the phrase "technically speaking" pejoratively as though there is some special set of rules that make these countries multi-currency. There isn't. It's very plainly correct that many countries in the world use multiple currencies.

I assume one of the implications you refer to is that the people have a choice of currencies and hence protection against government sponsored inflation.
Are these training videos publicly available?
If they are this late in the cycle, they should've gone with the Cortex A7 CPU and Mali 450 GPU. They might even be cheaper than A8 and Mali400, since they are targeted at the mass-market.
>>Freedom of speech must include the freedom to remain silent.

>Why would you think that?

The same reason that atheism is covered under freedom of religion.
Saved this and passed to my programmer co-workers. It seems to be a very rare commodity to understand this topic where I live.
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Oof, look at this Rails controller code from the video in their blog post: http://cl.ly/image/2j1O2q152r0c

What a mess that code base must be.
That's one big data. Do you have firehose access?
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If Windows 8 fails, there's no guarantee Windows 9 will save them. The situation is a lot different now than it was back when Vista and Windows 7 appeared.
It's bad form for formal technical writing. I cringe whenever I see NASA or similar doing it. Popular writing can get away with it as it's supposed to be bridging the gap between technical and average readers.

Almost all serious engineering, scientific and military matters and the majority of manufacturing are metric in the U.S.

However imperial is the customary measurement system and is familiar to most people. It's also pretty easy to estimate using various body parts and has some nice features around simple fractions.

It's actually not terribly unusual though, I've been in countries that are "100% metric" and people still communicate with their local customary measures in many contexts.
Most people just call it "measuring" without knowing it has a particular category name.

Those that know call it "imperial".
>>Barrel of oil yesterday was $X today it's $X+Y
So as a vendor of goods, you won't mind if you are continually repricing the goods you sell today because the paper you received for the goods sold yesterday doesn't cover the value you expected? As a vendor I think you would start looking for a different medium of exchange. You most certainly would use a different store of value.
I think this point was that this needed to happen a long time ago, and not just now as a response to Apple and Google.
I'm sort of amused that an outfit from Shenzhen China, perhaps the worlds great manufacturing centre for options like this, is asking for US dollars to make 1000 boards, when firms like ARMJISHU can knock ARM boards out in no time and sell them cheap as chips.

There's nothing that special about this that I can see. And giving loaned Chinese money back for free when they have such a massive comparative advantage seems an exercise in market distortion to me.
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I'm also interested in this.My current internet connection sucks.
Isn't SSD disk going to cost more than this board?
Really needs to be Raspberry PI compatible to take advantage of the growing libraries.
In that case "TRUE" shouldn't be a valid value.
It means the author is getting paid by the company he's writing about to get people to use their service. That's something I expect to be disclosed in the same way I'd expect him to declare if he owned shares in the company, or was employed by them.
> Put simply: It does not exist primarily for that purpose.

You fail to provide any proof for that statement. The API doc merely states what the setting does, it says absolutely nothing about about its purpose, and neither do you.
Show HN: Drupal/ubercart based webshop
Not built by yours truly but by a very good friend and possibly one of the best Drupal Dev's I've come across.

It's built with Drupal 7 e-commerce solutions using the ubercart module.

User feedback is one thing but what he's really keen to see if some feedback from people who genuinely understand the tech behind these builds and I figure this is as good a place as any for that.

I'll forward him the link so he can see the feedback and he'll happily answer any questions via myself.

URL: http://www.leschoixderomy.com/
I think if you lean towards system programming at Google, go with Go. If you want to do web dev, either Rails or Node.js would suffice. If you want to do both backend and frontend, familiarity in javascript, go with Node.js. Rails libraries are more mature, but most new interesting libraries seem to be in javascript.
Clicky: http://www.leschoixderomy.com/
I was fortunate enough to live in Europe in the late 90s (southern Spain), and have traveled the content fairly extensively but left so much unseen and undone. Cannot wait to get back.
Am I crazy for actually liking that page you linked? I much prefer a site to carefully craft an article much like a paper magazine would, with the presentation given a great deal of thought as well as the content. You get to see high-quality images, visuals, and typography, instead of a Markdown document thrown into a Wordpress template with the article squeezing into a 40% width justified column and taking a backseat to navigation columns, ads, related articles, "share this!", survey popups, and pagination to make sure you see it all 4 times.

Besides, if you really hate original layout, you can reduce both extremes to something palatable with Readability and friends. That page happens to look great with it, though it does get rid of the image gallery and rating: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.polygon.com...
See heading 'The myth of a safe deposit box seizures order'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

As an aside I wonder what percentage of the population had boxes back then - compared to now. I mean no one I know has them now - almost everyone saves in currency/stocks etc.

Why so anti gold then if you are aware of the perils of saving in currency. Silverbug? :)
I was also surprised about the activity in Indonesia. Another spot that caught my eye is halfway between Taipei and Japan. Turns out this is Okinawa which has a large US military base. I had expected much more activity in India.

When I zoom in, so that I can see city names, I find the selection of cities that are shown strange. Large cities seem to be missing outside of the US. For example I wasn't shown neither Rio de Janeiro nor Sao Paulo nor Belo Horizonte but Vitoria was there. In southern Germany there is Augsburg, Ingolstadt and Fuerth, but Munich (the only city with over a million inhabitants) is missing.
Can anyone think what Microsoft is doing now with the Surface is "risking it all?" Because to me, it looks like yet another round of Microsoft's answer to absolutely every new development: Hey, I know, we'll put Windows on it.

Here's what "risking it all" would look like: Finally declare Windows is EOL. Put it in maintenance mode, no further updates. First step after that would be to work on an entirely new OS specifically for tablets and phones, without a hint of the old Windows UI anywhere. Then think about what they're going to do next for corporate clients, home PCs, and so on.

Yes, it would be massively painful in the short term. But Apple got through a similar transition just fine, when they ditched Mac OS 9. And if Microsoft does not do this, it's just a matter of time until some other company does it for them.
If you consider buying one, just don't assume it will be useful for your application. Do some research first, especially when it comes to the gpu/vpu.

I recommend reading this page and its links: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Allwinner_A10_devices and http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page
Yes, even crappy ones are going to be twice the price of the board itself.
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That seems to be appalling behaviour by IBM.

I did an intern year with IBM UK in the late eighties and (with hindsight) it seemed to have very good employment practices. I wonder if IBM in the US was once like that, and if so when things changed.
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Not sure why that matters?
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I assumed that it would be obvious that this was a joke, but somehow the notion of outsourcing going to the dentist was taken seriously. Something about my deadpan delivery apparently needs more fine tuning....
Does OpenStack cloud computing project need a Linus Torvalds?
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Really?

It surprises me that Pi compatibility is a criteria for stuff, though I know it's popular. Are we talking pin-compatibility?

AFAICT the Pi is just another linux on a single board device. It's low cost but otherwise fairly unremarkable.
I'm not a Ruby developer, but it looks to me that using drb when there's Celluloid is like using asyncore when there's Twisted, in Python.
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Does anyone know of a cheap electrical meter that you can hook up to the Pi to get wattage readings?
I think it would look better if it was sitting in a proper globe holder.
I will sometimes override default values in my code even when the defaults do what I want.

Sometimes it's just because I like to be explicit and sometimes I'm concerned about the default being changed in a future version of the library or due to a server with a different config.

Not to mention that a lot of code ends up on the internet and is often blindly copied and pasted by programmers in a rush.
Another board is say:
https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer...

With WiFi. Other alternatives are at the same site.

I have a few Mali devices next up on the chopping block after I finish reversing the VideoCore IV.
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I think the final price of the Cubieboard is $50, the cheapest SSDs start at around $50 too [1][2], so yeah it's going to add to the price, but it's also going to make it useful for a lot more projects than an SD card.

1 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227...

2- http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT064V4S...
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The output of "man ssh_config" is popular here lately isn't it? It was on the front page in a different guise only four days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677049
SATA port also means it's viable as a small NAS solution. Shame it doesn't come with gigabit Ethernet.
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And the power consumption.
Rolls eyes

There is a reason they keep two Soyuz ships docked on the ISS at all times as lifeboats, in case they need to evacuate in a hurry. Those things are bloody expensive; if jumping overboard was a reasonable alternative, it'd be vastly preferable to keeping ten tons of ironmongery and heat shields on hand.

Having said that, see 1963's Project MOOSE:

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/moose.htm
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Absolutely, there's all sorts of things that can be done which aren't really workable without some better performance/capacity storage than an SD card (even the nice new 64GB ones)
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The marketing has been pretty spectacular.
Great! How does a novice like me get his system setup to work with C++, lisp, javascript, or PHP? Do I need to write my own plumbing? Is there repositories of conf files for acme/sam (at least to have some examples to get inspiration from)?
I'd like to try.

I don't program in Go btw.

> Actually, it is. There are very few programs in the world where pipe throughput is not enough.

I am very surprised by this. I always thought that programs made of threads were much faster than groups of processi, which have to communicate through OS channels, rather than a common memory space. Maybe I wasn't considering the fact that interactive programs have a lot of time to spare.

Usually, I expect my interactive programs to be snappy when I ask them something, even if I don't do it often at the CPU timescale. That's the real catch in user interaction.
Look at their review scoring policy[1], I'm a little underwhelmed. A score of 5:

>indicates a bland, underwhelming game that's functional but little else. These games might still possess quirks or aspects that appeal to certain players.

So what's the purpose of scores below 5? The description for a score of 5 is the lowest possible baseline for a game I might want to play. It seems like a full half of the scoring space is essentially purposeless when viewed from the perspective of recommending games to people who might want to buy them.

[1]http://www.polygon.com/pages/about-reviews
This is amazing work. This shows that guy is creative and a great story teller. I could hire him, I would have.
Dude, that's pretty awesome!
So easy to say when you're not responsible for billions dollars of licensing fees for Windows, Office and all the supporting products. I think the new metro UI is risking quite a lot and just this change has everyone up in arms. They have more customers then most of us can every wish for and investors to answer to, so let's not start to assume that change is that easy.
Good piece of creativity
> See heading 'The myth of a safe deposit box seizures order' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Thanks, I was unaware.

> I mean no one I know has them now -

Banks have essentially stepped out of the safe business (virtual storage is easier and more lucrative). Those that still offer such services keep raising the prices in an attempt to drive customers away.

My business backups were stored in such a bank safety deposit box between 2002 and 2006, at which point they stopped offering the service.

> almost everyone saves in currency/stocks etc.

"saves" is not the word I would use in this case; I'd use "attempts to store value" for currency and "gambles recklessly" for stocks.

But even if we accept "save" - the reason is, of course, the government - think about how hard it has become to keep your gold: try taking delivery of bullion, then try selling it back; you'd probably take 10-20% spread hit if you succeed at all; now try with 10 bars, and you'll likely not succeed at all.

> Why so anti gold then if you are aware of the perils of saving in currency. Silverbug? :)

Oh, you've got me completely wrong. I'm not anti gold. I'm completely anti fiat money and QE. Its just that I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how to maintain the value of any assets I have, and am unconvinced that I can use gold for that purpose; not because it's not a good store of value (it is, as are silver, and potentially even platinum and rhodium), but because the logistics are such that I'm unlikely to be able to execute it.

Sure, a few coins here and there are easy to manage. But when I sell my apartment, and want that chunk of cash to maintain its purchasing power, a few coins won't cut it.
I did a high school career day earlier this year, talking about both my job as a frontend developer and my book ("Experiments on Babies" -- http://www.experimentsonbabies.com). About a third of the kids in each session were totally tuned out. Another third seemed interested, but I guess didn't want to seem overly interested. And the final third were really attentive and asked lots of good questions. I guess that's probably typical.

One of the things I tried to impress upon the kids is to look at where the jobs are, and what they pay. I don't think that's emphasized nearly as much as it ought to be. For instance, prior to making the switch to full-time development last year, I was working as an editor at a newspaper. I loved it, and I was good at it ... but the newspaper industry was (and still is) in the tank, and there was very little job security. And, of course, there's an oversupply of people with journalism degrees, so the wages aren't much to write home about.

I told them I wasn't trying to talk them out of pursuing a highly competitive, not-so-highly-paying career. But I think students should know, going in, what they're getting themselves into.
Or you could have a login system on the phone to get access to remote storage.

Stealing phones wouldn't be an issue anymore, except for people using trivial passwords, or writing their password on the phone.
I would imagine that this would be extremely risky, purely from the risk of collision with space junk, before looking at all the numerous other risks. To protect yourself from space junk collisions you pretty much need a small spaceship around you. Then you still have to face the problem of bleeding orbital velocity sufficiently that you can enter the atmosphere without burning to a crisp. Additionally you are accelerating towards the earth at 1g and that velocity would have to be neutralized as well.

Your "suit" will likely have to be nearly a spaceship and then really you are arguing on what point a suit becomes a spaceship.
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I don't think that was in the post originally. Either way, it's not outside scope, it's not a big deal, and it's not an excuse for weeks of failing to provide support. They didn't fail to even move the site because of the number of comments. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, commented himself that they host many blogs with far more comments than that without issue.
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I think the question was asking if survival would be at all possible, rather than whether it's a reasonable course of action in the event of an evacuation.

It looks like, for now at least, the answer is no.
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Oh true!

I'm just wondering why compatibility would be an issue. It's open source baby, we can rebuild it!
One question I have about convergence.
I understand how it helps prevent MITM attacks by getting consensus from a trusted third party as to the authenticity of a particular cert.

However what happens if the MITM attack is on the other end, in other words somebody has got into a hosting providers network and is MITMing a bunch of traffic to some of their servers.

They could use this to pass back bullshit certs/public keys to all clients (including notaries) who connect to servers they have MITMd.

One way to prevent this of course would be to have the server keep it's own list of notaries and self-check every so often and alert clients if something appears wrong.

However here you are relying on server administrators keeping this configured and working.
I could imagine less scrupulous administrators on strict SLAs disabling this and letting it fail in a way that is silent to the end user to avoid downtime. This would be more difficult to do with the traditional CA structure since the attacker would need a valid cert for the site or would need to SSL strip everything (which would eventually get noticed).

Or do I have this wrong and it is intended to augment the existing CA structure rather than replace it?
The only advantage of native app stores is in gaining initial visibility/traction. Things like the google chrome store are not good enough for that. We should have something effective for web apps instead of infesting HN, reddit and various blogs. Are there any startups working on making the process of bootstrapping a new web app easy?
>> after I finish reversing the VideoCore IV

I've only just stumbled across details of your efforts in the past couple of days.

I wish you every success, if you were to be successful, you would open the door to impressively cheap possibilities.
Maybe, but doesn't help when it's actually their photo, just a photo which I have a vested interest in who see it. It's also not my job to educate my friends how to share content because I'd only end up upsetting them.
Unless I missed something while skimming this, they're suggesting that you set your password to "something random" and then go on to use ssh keys. This means that a brute force attack is still feasible (if super incredibly unimaginably unlikely). Better still is to use, 'passwd -d -l [user]', which will delete the password (it creates a nonsense hash value, "" I think) and then lock it.

While you're messing about with config files, make sure that "PermitRootLogin" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config is set to "no" (this is now default in most distributions I think), and also add an "AllowUsers [user] [other user] [...]" line thereabouts, which will help to protect you from misbehaving packages or someone attempting to add remote users to your system without your permission.

It should go without saying that if you do all this, and you somehow lose your private key, and you don't have a good backup as the article suggests (for whatever reason), and you don't have some kind of local console access, then you're pooched. Private key management is easy to screw up, so don't scoff. Make sure you have some other way of accessing your machine if you can't get to your private key.
It's getting better with omniboxes. At worst you need to do a history search. Really, the web is too vast to be browseable through icons.