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> At first glance, it seems unlikely that Sambreel is pervasive enough to affect the ad industry. After all, how many people are going to download junky browser plug-ins? On the other hand, Sambreel’s reported use of underhanded tactics could mean it is indeed widespread.

The pervasiveness of hijacking plug-ins is depressing. I lent my roommate my top-of-the-line MBP from 2008 and within a couple of months it was filled with bizarre homepage hijacking plugins. A few days ago I got a hijacked DM-tweet from a top investigative journalist. I wonder if general computer literacy and best practices will ever outpace spammers' ability to infect computers?
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This is an exemplar of how much courage it takes for women Muslims to dress in a manner to upkeep their beliefs. Women who wear the hijab should be praised to the utmost. The society they operate it is xenophobic, and at times very bigoted. I for one, as a late 20's person of faith, would struggle to muster up such strength.
Right, but especially in the legislature, a cohesive group can pretty much take over one of the two big parties (1994 Gingrich, 2010 Tea Party).

Parties also can implode and die (Whigs, Federalists, ...)
Perhaps the 'Eloquent JavaScript' point should actually refer to http://jsbooks.revolunet.com and mention Eqloquent as a first in a series of great resources.
Shouldn't you extend that "close enough to call it a wash" on the "faster" side as-well-as on the "slower" side?

So add "ATS, Java, Scala, Lisp, Go" to "a wash" and we're left with "Fortran, Ada, C, C++" as "faster".
I hope not, people are already losing too much time sharing pictures of cats and "interesting articles".
The Internet is a much bigger place than some people realize.

If you would like a part of it improved & expanded, please proceed to do so.
At first sight, I thought this was aimed at how some engineer compared cleartype with Retina Display.

Not the case.
I thought it was possible to do all of this without using visual studio - or any other IDE - with the possible exception of the WinRT app submission process.

I know you're wrong about sqlite and linq as I've used them on both .net and mono. I think you're using the phrase "portable library" incorrectly. In the .net world, these are libraries created by microsoft that use the more limited version of the framework on their other platforms. For example, windows phone 7 and win rt use different portable libraries (a pain to manage, admittedly).
... unpublished prior art.
Don't just scratch an itch
The people who are wondering what is this project good for. Apart from the obvious ease of using OpenGL widgets to create your UI, it has other benefits too. For example: Imagine an interactive books app. This app is actually a store for interactive books. Using Kivy, you can update this app with both logic(code) and data(assets), thus introducing a new book. Initially your books may be low on animations but as you get better at it, you insert complex animations. All that without changing the base launcher code(well, except when the base launcher library is updated once or twice a year).
Are they only looking at P2P traffic? Can we start torrenting on port 80?
Do you have any bibliography for this topic? I would be very grateful, I'm extremely interested in this.
Yup. In short, incompetent and evil.

Not a good combination for success.
This is just not true.

I'm from the US, living abroad. I registered for my google Apps account and GV number while in the US (before I moved). I can log into GV just fine while abroad (no VPN). My wife also has a google account (non-apps), with a GV number that works just fine while abroad.

Since I don't have a 'real' US phone number, my GV account is a software phone only, ringing in Gmail (computer) or Talkatone (iphone).

I have also rigged up a Twilio # which forwards to my non-US cell phone so that I can use GV when my 3G connection is not so great. This is the only stupid part of using GV when you are abroad, I'd happily give my money directly to google but instead I have to give it to Twilio for a hacked solution.
That statement in particular makes him sound kind of like a crank.
No need to use interframe compression. Just JPEG will get you around 50x ratios with virtually no discernible artifacts at pixel densities that high (for mostly-text input). And there's no slow-motion about it; the whole point of compressing is to allow for very high framerates. If you can't get the E Ink to push 30hz, then there's probably not much reason to use lossy compression anyway. If you can get over 30hz, then lossy compression will keep you from totally saturating the USB 3 bus.
To be fair the shootout uses open source language implementations and runtimes. It could be that .NET is more performant than Mono (which is used in the tests), so that's not very objective view of what is possible with a C# implementation.
There is quite a bit more to condsider, even just In the examples you provided. E.g. the abstraction of numeracy.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

Also, Physics: The arch. A triangular truss. A lever.

Also, Architecture: Lines, planes, volumes.

These are some very basic (perhaps 'unremarkable') everyday uses of geometry. I don't think at all the fact that they are rudimentary is a problem. Because they are so pervasive, it is all the more important to have mastery of the subject. IMHO.
Their sales people used to be pushy when they were all on commission, this is no longer the case though and they're actually too tame now to the point it's clear they just don't care.

If I was a brick and mortar and wanted to distinguish myself with online I'd look towards my people as the number one differentiator and providing the best customer experience possible. If Best Buy (and other traditional stores) want to survive they should do whatever it takes to give the best user experience and bend over backwards to show they care about relational selling and maintaining their customers longterm.

Customer experience doesn't just involve having nice reps that are pleasant to interact with but they should also be knowledgeable on the products they're selling - for this to work commissions and/or increased pay would be necessary and would be a short-time expense for a longtime payout with customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Personally, I still get a little excited walking into a Best Buy but by the time I'm a few feet in I'm immediately frustrated (and generally a little angry) after my interactions with the reps.
We've got plenty of work to do here without worrying about fixing the rest of the world--consider parts of Appalachia, the homeless in our own cities, and so forth. And yes, this also means military adventures abroad need to stop.

Also, if I haven't misread your post, you seem to imply that we should be bringing in these folks as cheap labor to "elevate" them...there's something vaguely off-putting about that remark.
French Apple Store suggests "iPad Mini" as search term
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Here's what Human Rights Watch had to say about Iran in 2011: http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2011/iran
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I've often wondered - do people really wish to see the earliest events of their lives? My parents took tons of videos and photos of me as I was growing up, but I've never felt the urge to look through them. Sometimes I think that these sorts of collections are more for parents to relive their children's early days (and as a parent of a 2 year old, I definitely feel like all the pictures and videos I take are more for me than my child when she's older).
Nope, 10e8 is what you're both looking for, as 1^9 is.. 1.
There's a few problems with the article. The rules argument he makes could instead be made for the more useful field of computer programming.

Also, the reductionist paradigm is dead. It worked for finding laws of physics and some chemistry, but otherwise, in the most useful fields of today, like biology/materials/chemistry (high throughput methods), computer vision, search engines etc. the automated creation of hypotheses through machine learning is winning out.

Conrad Wolfram gives a talk about the need for math education reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OVlfAUPJg

He uses the term mathematics, but completely removing that term and replacing it with computer programming and machine learning should be done. They sound cooler and this step will remove all the baggage and ill-will mathematics has in society. That way, all mathematics teachers can be simply removed from high schools and colleges and replaced with computer programmers. Estonia is one of the few enlightened places on this subject with their introduction of programming as mandatory from year 1 in k12.

Almost the entire high school drop out rate can be attributed to maths teaching, and their is no solid empirical proof of it's utility over programming (the practice of "science" hasn't been applied to "maths" itself).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_anxiety

The same argument can be made for a number of other subjects, such as chemistry (why teach the periodic table?), languages (we have google translate and should taxpayers be funding this unproductive activity), and others (everything should be reexamined in light of search engines and instant information access).

The only useful subjects in k12 are probably

- computer programming, including machine learning/statistics

- physical education,

- communication (reading/writing/public speaking/socialization)

- general studies (trivia like history, geography, astronomy),

- personal finance

- physical crafts (3d printing, woodshop, cooking)
I will agree that was the core argument, the line of dissent, I called it. But I don't think that is the reason he wrote the article, nor the reason for the shrill tone. He's pissed that someone with more public influence took their gripe to a larger public forum.

In calmer waters, Oliver would express complete willingness to educate Roth, and his biographer, on Wikipedia policies. But my sense is that, like many domain experts, especially in subjects further from hard science, for Oliver bucking the established order is to be met with only the fiercest rebuke.
A social media professional (relatively computer savvy) I know came to me recently thinking the Facebook page she managed had banner ads on it. I quickly found she had a browser extension adding it (don't remember if it's one this company created).

This company is parasitic, not adding value for anyone, the publisher or user. Despite the complaints about the Chrome store becoming more of a walled garden, perhaps it would help situations like this.
I've always found this concept somewhat amusing. What is "my money?" If I bill $X for my employer, I see maybe 1/3 of that between salary, benefits, and overhead. Is the employer taking 2/3 of "my money?" No, because if the partners weren't bringing in the clients I wouldn't be in a position to bill for that work. The same is true for every employee whose employer profits from their labor. I think the same is true for employers and employees with respect to the government. Is the government taking 1/3 of "my money?" I wouldn't be making that money without the vast array of services the government provides. Now it's not an argument for whether I'm taxed too much or too little, but I feel like the government has a legitimate right to some of the income it helped me earn. I don't think the concept of "my income" makes much sense in an interdependent society with fine-grained division of labor. We act together in large economic units, and there is no naturally right answer to how we divide up the proceeds of that work.

I could move back to my parents home country of Bangladesh if I didn't like the taxes. It's tax burden is 8% of GDP versus 26% of GDP here. I don't for the same reason I don't leave my firm--I make more money even after other people getting their cut than I would on my own.
So politicians have no control over domestic tech policy but can affect change in India by allowing their poor into the US to provide us cheap medical services? What sense does that make? You, sir, are clearly on drugs.
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Is there a recording somewhere for those who missed it?
No, the point is to foster innovation by providing a limited time monopoly to the original inventor (whether that actually works is of course a different question...), so that he can start manufacturing his product and have a decent shot at getting a profit from it.

He got a chance, but failed to make anything out of his idea, and years later other guys came along with the same idea. They most likely didn't really "copy" him, they came up with the idea independently --- a digital audio player is quite a natural evolution of, say, a Walkman. This time, some companies managed to bring a product to the market. There's no reason why they should pay him.

The patent system worked.
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Another problem with math education is that many of the people in leadership positions in public school systems are, when it come to math and related skills, functionally illiterate. Those people see themselves as successful and are respected as leaders but have little use for math themselves. It's hard, then, for them to believe that an understanding of math is genuinely essential and worth fighting for.
I still don't understand how this is legal. If you signed an agreement with your ISP for a certain speed of internet for a certain length of time, why can they just choose to violate the contract based on what some third party says?

And if they write anything about illegal copyright violations into the contract, I would hope some people who use P2P legally would challenge that (see if they get throttled, file a lawsuit).
I'm curious how you would replace mathematics with programming. My undergraduate thesis project involves a lot of programming, but I also had to determine that I can detect anomalous gamma spectra through some linear algebra, a correlation matrix, an assumption of Poisson-distributed counts, and a chi^2-distributed anomaly statistic. This gives me a statistically well-founded way to detect anomalies.

Would you have me replace this process with some sort of automated machine learning, hoping it could produce better results than a special-purpose algorithm?
Why do companies keep using size-based nomenclature? E.g. Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Galaxy Tab 7, Galaxy Tab 10?

It may seem like a good idea, but if the product is successful, how do you name next year's model? The Nexus 7-2?

If the models were only going to be updated annually, like Apple does, then I guess it would work (2012 model, 2013 model, etc). But Google and Samsung both seem to be releasing product updates faster than that, so I don't know how they can iterate without confusing average consumers (Nexus 7 2nd-generation model?).
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I wish there was a more affordable alternative to bloc.io. The idea is really great, this mentee - coach relationship should help a lot in sticking with it and having a rapid learning curve.
Thanks! :D

You're right about the design: I built the current one kind of incrementally while adding features, and I'm not a graphic designer either - but I guess you could already tell!!! ^_^.
So I'd definitely need to start fresh with a clean design... I'm striving for the help of a professional, actually.

Thanks again, I'm flattered :)
So to sum up: "It's not just inspiration, it's followthrough which makes all the difference." And it's not just a little followthrough, but you have to continually renew your enthusiasm and continue to improve even beyond your original vision.

That's if you want success, but for some of us sometimes, I think that scratching the itch is enough. If someone wants something better, they can do better.
>> or write everything directly on top of primitive arrays (as is done on the shootout) <<

Please tell us specifically which Java programs in the benchmarks game, you say, are written directly on top of primitive arrays.
Rsync would be better than SFTP, because you can start copying the file before it is done. I have large files copied to my laptop from my seedbox almost as soon as the download completes on the seedbox.
"Over the course of the next two months, each participating ISP expects to begin rolling out its version of the CAS – a system through which ISPs will pass on to their subscribers notices sent by content owners alleging copyright infringement over peer-to-peer networks."

They aren't looking at your traffic, they are waiting for complaints from third parties.

Third parties do this by connecting to P2P networks themselves and watching the traffic of certain files.
USPTO doesn't count? I've been wondering about that. What do you suggest? Scan it and publish it?
Recently I've been wondering if any co-founders have gone to a psychologist or counselor for help with conflict resolution. I guess the default assumption for a lot of people would be that you're in business with the wrong person if you have to go to therapy with them. But it could potentially make a stronger team.
Except the examples you've given like extroverts vs introverts are not scientifically rigorous and the terms already existed well before him all around the world in different cultures (outgoing vs shy/retiring etc).
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Didn't we just have this discussion?

Edit: apparently not, hours ago we discussed "Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content" which is of course, different.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679150
I'm surprised we haven't seen more of this. I fully expect companies like refer.ly and skimlinks.com to implement this model with a twist: share the revenue with customers.

Customers could install the extension/plugin and browse sites as normal. However the ads they see would be earning them cash.
Why is it even possible to install these plugins in the first place? Shouldn't they be blacklisted?
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I am a Wikipedian. Wikipedia articles like this are frequently used to argue legal claims outside the court system. The sources of this article are exceptionally poor (a tabloid newspaper notorious in Britain for sensational articles) and not adequate to the task of demonstrating the claim in the submission here (which is NOT the original article title, contrary to the HN site guidelines).

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm flagging this submission in the interest of keeping better quality articles on the HN front page. If there is really some factual basis for the claim in the submission title, there should be much better sources to submit.
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So Ubuntu could deliver a useful gain in audio performance over Android on a tablet such as the Nexus?

As input appears to be limited to on board microphone in the particular tablet we are discussing, it is unlikely that real time processing will be a major use unless the micro-usb socket can be used with an audio interface.

I certainly would drop £160 or so to try synthesis if pd/jack/effects-loops are available. Just a single cable out, not too restrictive, perhaps even streamed audio over wifi.

puredata allows you to set up your own controls for a sound synthesis program - and you can have chunky buttons and big sliders for touch I'm hoping.
Obviously the NY Times is not happy with its ads being replaced by someone.

However, in my opinion this would be acceptable if it were the intention of the user. I hold the point of view that it is entirely my decision how to display websites on my devices. For example, it is up to me whether I display ads, run Javascript, or Flash. Similarly it would be okay if I decided to install a program that replaced ads on popular websites by different ones.

But it seems obvious to me that the users installing this software have no clue what they are doing, and are in fact essentially installing hidden malware. And this should be the way this problem is attacked and dealt with. Not via some perceived moral rights by websites to not have their ads replaced, but simply by the fact that this company is essentially installing malware without consent. This is what should be criminally prosecuted in my opinion.
I think this argues rather strongly against patents. After all, if you didn't publish it and someone else came up with it independently several times over then clearly that counts as anecdotal support for ideas having a way of re-surfacing many times until the time is ripe.

The fact that you thought of it first - assuming you did, because there may be many more people like you, some of those may have had the idea even earlier - should not give you a right to a slice of someone else's pie.
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1. Two commands instead of one. :)

2. Scripting an scp, rsync etc from the internal machine is easier now, since the ssh from the external to internal machine is handled transparently for you.
Pet peeve tangent.

Compliment: Politely congratulate or praise (someone) for something.

Complement: Add to (something) in a way that enhances or improves it; make perfect.

Learn it. Live it. Love it.
I think I have too much fun doing it. Isn't work supposed to be boring, or something?
i've seen this used for security, in that you can have an extra external server you must have access to in order to get to internal servers.
You sound very happy with Spread -- no complaints? We had nothing but trouble with it ourselves.

This was Spread 3.x somewhere around 2008, so it may have improved since then, but at that time it just seemed very flaky and slow. This was in a cluster of about 8 nodes, with 100-200 messages/second published by any given node at peak, so it should have been more than adequate.

The worst part was that it was silently losing messages, and there seemed to be no trivial way to recover, get statistics/queue information, or generally determine what was going wrong.
My first ever project was a text-based MMORPG game written in Perl. This was back in 1999, so I have no idea if there is material anywhere on making PHP or Perl games like that, but my approach was to "just make it".

That project had 10,000 active users, and it was all word-of-mouth.
This is really no different from hiring a butler, with the understanding that he will clip out some of the ads in your physical newspaper and replace them with personals for shell companies he operates.
MYTH: 3D printers will never be able to print underwear

You may jest, but: http://www.shapeways.com/n12_bikini
That makes sense. I tested this in a REPL that tried to pretty-print the result.
You make good points. The problem is, you're ignoring history by thinking that technology has changed anything. There is nothing new about copyrights, patents, etc. These systems have been in place for centuries, and the debates about their value have been going on for centuries (and apparently, the pro-copyright faction are winning). Technology hasen't changed anything except to make the problem "bigger".

You're right when you say: "copyright is about forbidding you from sharing what you bought with others who didn't buy it. That's much more debatable." But most people who talk about these issues don't realize that all of these things have been debated for a long time. Most people don't add anything new to the discussion, and are woefully ignorant of the thought that's already been put in.

Sources: Read, for example, Eric Flint's writing on the subject http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2011/09/26/salvos-against...
Incorporation agreements must have outlines on how to deal with such events. Other than that, you need someone to replace you in case something happens to you. That person should have the same access and info than you.