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> I prefer to say I "don't believe in IQ" because it's easier to say that way than giving this long version.

Yes, but for this subject, saying it that way is completely uninformative, to the degree that it's misleading. It would be like saying Harry is not now beating his wife -- it leaves too many questions unanswered.
And then Oracle will buy Salesforce...
Larry did say something like that but he said that the price is too high.

Here is my predictions:
Salesforce is will start investing into new technologies and building cool stuff. However, that will not look good on stock price because R&D costs will skyrocket - and our "efficient" stock market does not like long term visions. The stock price will collapse. The board will panic and Larry will "save the day".
Ask HN: Media queries for high res phones?
I recently bough a Droid Razr M which has a screen resolution of 960x540.
Other phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 have a resolution of 1280x720,
as does the Droid Razr HD.

Is it acceptable to target anything 1280 and below with a
mobile-optimized view? I know netbooks are often this small
or smaller, and I often browser on my Macbook pro 17in with
two 1/2 size screens (~960px ea)

It would seem that media queries are not sufficient at this time.
We totally agree. We wanted the HN audience to get access to this first and then improve the explanation soon after for general users. Thank you!
It's not simple if your friends aren't already in your social network. The link will work for anyone you send it to.
You're right. I just assumed everybody knows about the golden ratio. I'll think of something to explain it briefly.
Did you miss the screenshot? It seems pretty self explanatory to me...
I'm not attacking you personally, I just can't grasp your argument. I would think we could take as a given that most Facebook users would say Facebook makes their life better by allowing them to keep in touch with friends, etc. Again, you could argue that Facebook's management has done business in a way you don't approve of, but Facebook the product has undoubtedly had a net positive impact on hundreds of millions of people all over the world, not to mention the thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses that are building on top of the platform.

Studies show Facebook has created over 500,000 high level, high paying jobs.

This is a social network for God's sake, not a coal mine.
The posting says they're hiring only 5 now, 40-50 next year;I inferred they're still in an exploratory phase because if they were all in, they'd be hiring more than 5 now. The posting doesn't say they're doing a migration but having worked on Oracle -> PostgreSQL migrations and sharded database infrastructures, it makes sense.
Sure, a flash would definitely help with a slow shutter, but I would think it wouldn't be too difficult or expensive to have a camera with a sufficiently fast shutter to capture moving cars in daylight without too much motion blur.
All the Oracle stuff.
How much time do you have?
Sleepycat has both the best name and logo ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepycat_Software

So good...
Good chance that author of parent has a financial interest in the sale glyconutrient supplements.
In a best case scenario, with educated and understanding people, no political interference, even with our limited technology, it would be a good thing and I'd favor it - especially for diseases which are cheap and easy to treat if caught early.

In the real world we live it, it will be bringing our economies on their knees. It's a bad idea.

Generally, I am biased against bad ideas.
If you take the bias away from this, then I agree with the underlying sentiment. However, even though I'm not particularly a fan of google myself, I'd rather this was an independent group rather than a corporate lobbying group. it ruins their credibility instantly and degrades this to playground fighting.
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For the Header Keys (which I believe this is what the attack is going after - as that is what the password unlocks), TC does use a Salt. See [0]

And for slow hashing schemes that is a fair point, but when you're looking at file decryption, there is nothing to stop parallel attempts happening at once on different machines. Also TC does support using cascading ciphers which can help to slow it down.

Note: I'm not an expert in Cryptography by any means, but this is my current understanding.

[0] http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/header-key-derivation
I'm not sure how you got this from that post, if anything the future has never looked brighter for .NET/C# developers. The ability to target all mainstream platforms, a burgeoning open source community, and fantastic tools. Of course, other technologies have had these in one way or another ... but that doesn't invalidate the C# communities advancements.

The fact is that as a C# developer currently focusing on mobile development, I am very happy these days.
I disagree with this. It's essentially the same argument that there should be a single societal focus on shipping all of our extra food to those who are starving. True, in sheer numbers we have the gross resources to do just that. We have the infrastructure in terms of ships, planes, and boots on the ground. But there are other reasons we don't do this.

Capitalism doesn't work like this. Resources are allocated via crazy, unfair market actions. 300 years ago, most of Europe resembled what we would call the Third World now. Epidemics, warfare, starvation, etc. The big driving force that changed Europe wasn't the generosity of kings, but the base-level trading and investing among the poor and emerging middle classes.

There were a lot of resources being misspent back in those days. Anyone remember a particular Dutch fascination with tulips? Money was spent on doomed voyages of exploration, fake medicines, flower-based stock bubbles, and any number of other "follies" that in hindsight could have been avoided.

But among all the mispenditure of resources over hundreds of years, hundreds of millions of people were lifted out of poverty. We went from an average lifespan of 40 years to over 80. We live in an actual age of marvels.

In our modern world, we have people building entire companies and fortunes around what are the silliest things. We have even more people copying the first successes and failing. In amongst that, there are the smaller numbers of people building companies that will laterally help those who's lives need improving.

If we lived in a society where our resources could be marshaled enmasse towards one goal or another, it wouldn't be the world we have now.

Telling entrepreneurs that one class of businesses is more socially correct than others isn't how the world works. People will find opportunities in many ways, and those will benefit the people in need. The poor will find edges in the market to improve their own lives. What might seem worthless to you might be valuable to someone else.

So if you have an idea for Bitly 4.0, do it. If you want to build cheap rockets to space, do it. If you want to build a social networking app that uses cheap cell phones to let goat herders in sub-Saharan Africa poke each other over hundreds of miles, do it. You never know how or when your product will be used, or who it will help.
> He described her as a "previously healthy 50 year-old daughter" and then she went from feeling weird to death in a month? I had no idea cancer could be so aggressive, is it 1 in a million that it can be this aggressive (from showing symptoms to death) or is this something common?

Up til just a decade ago, certain kinds of pancreatic cancer could kill you in as little as 2 weeks after diagnosis. I wouldn't be surprised if this was still the case. Also, my understanding is that sudden early death from cancer is fairly rare, but yes, it can happen.
Not in the US it isn't -- a wall socket is typically only rated to provide about 15 A * 120 V = 1800 W peak usage (* 80% = 1440 W long-term), which is less than their 2.5 kW vacuum cleaner. http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/maxload.html

15 A at 240 V could power it, though, if there's a vacuum cleaner that needs that much power.
There are many parts of Maslow's hierarchy. Curing malaria allows more people at the low end of the hierarchy move up. Obviously, this is incredibly worthy.

I don't know about Facebook for dogs, but there is an AirBnB for dogs called http://dogvacay.com which lets you board dogs in other people's homes. This allows dog owners more freedom, and allows people without dogs to hang with dogs for a few days a week. Since pet ownership reduces stress and increases people's happiness, "dumb ideas" like this move people like me slightly higher in Maslow's hierarchy.

Long story short, the OP should pick better "useless" examples.
I agree. I think that a very simple, single function service like this could be useful. You know exactly what you are sharing and who you are sharing it with.

In the past, I've been known to take a screenshot of my open maps application (with my location shown on the map), and sms that to friends to let them know where I am if I didn't have the address handy. This is clearly a better solution.
Come on, don't reject it so flippantly. Sure, for the case of a woman getting married and taking a new last name, I doubt it's that big of a deal - you can change your name for future commits, but your old name will exist for historical commits. However, there _are_ cases where you might not want your former name around (transgender, or even something like privacy / witness protection). Right now, these folk are being sort of excluded (however inadvertently) and it's worth discussing ways to fix that.
How an 'Open Innovation Workshop' can do good for your idea
Oh, I know who he is, I just didn't want to imply that he's the only person driving GNOME or Mono development.
I once wrote this: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2361456&c...
Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming
That's true, and I think assigning malice to this situation is unfounded. But maybe this is a problem worth solving?
Thanks; very nicely done. :-)
I just checked and all of the computers and devices I own for work have AES hardware in them (Mac Mini, Macbook Air, iPhone). Maybe NIST thinks that, through standardization efforts, they can encourage more people to integrate such hardware over the long term?

The amount of hardware support that AES has already is pretty substantial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set

I'd rather not suppose there's something insidious going on here, just that maybe NIST is taking a longer-term view than racing to put AES and SHA3 in everything yesterday.
Speaking as the author of multiple academic articles (theoretical physics), I would fundamentally disagree with your assessment. We usually are trying our absolute hardest to communicate a new advance in the field in anywhere from 4-8 pages, references and introduction included. We're essentially trying to sum up (in my case) 2 years of work in as short of a space as possible so, to do this, we assume that the reader has a working knowledge of the foundations of the field but provide references to this. The references serve to 1) provide evidence for unoriginal claims that you make (every sentence that communications an unoriginal result should have a citation) and 2) allow those who are unfamiliar with the field to pick up the basics as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, some of our prose is a bit obtuse because it's reasonably common for scientists to blow off their humanities courses because they're not science -- not realizing that most of our career will depend on the quality of our writing. You shouldn't confuse our incompetence with malice though.
Very nice. I recommend checking out the Whatsapp share location feature, they did a great job also.
You know, I was really trying hard to avoid the debate on patents since it wasn't very related to what I was trying to say. That apparently backfired. :)

I'm pretty familiar with the issues, both on the closed (often corporate) and open (often research, open source) sides -- it just wasn't a place I wanted to go.

I also don't really have an agenda, either with Nathan or anyone else -- you can find me online, I'm pretty much an open book.

The only thing I really do care about here? Building stuff, for- or non-profit, that adds value to humanity.
I'm surprised they didn't get Apple to join in.
An important reminder
> I'm not doing some post-modernism or whatever sneaky jab you're throwing in.

Corespondent insists that there are definitions on which different people can agree.

> You're implying that you have some definition of algebra that is truer than mine. But that is all meaningless arguments over words anyway.

Correspondent insists that there aren't definitions on which different people can agree.

When you sort out which position you're taking, post again. :)

> You've also think you know a truer definition of science than me.

There is only one definition of science. Postmodernists, of course, disagree. For a postmodernist, there are as many definitions as there are people to have them.

> I think science today is about collecting data and having computers make predictions, increasingly use black box machine learning.

That is not how science is defined. You've just described how people collect data for the purposes of science, but science is defined by the uses to which data are put, not the data itself.

> I'm inferring that you think it's about theorizing from data and writing out simple equations. I have disagree with you on that ...

Feel free. But you need to realize that there are ideas on which people agree,and science is one of them. Indeed, without agreement about what science means, there can be no science -- science requires consensus about its own meaning, even while inviting disagreement about specific scientific theories.
"If you want to build cheap rockets to space, do it"

This is a particularly good example. People have argued that money spent on a space program is essentially thrown away, when it could have been spent on fixing poverty. But the space program led to a huge number of advancement from telling us about the North Korean famine, to making little lasers that kill mosquitoes, to better refrigeration, to mobile phones currently providing communication in infrastructure-poor areas of Africa.
How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man
Its confusing isn't it? In Wikipedia speak you need someone other than the 'primary source' reporting on the information 'from' the primary source. Kind of like link authority in page rank. So if someone says "I'm the VP at JC penney and our web site is www.eatmybits.com" that is a 'primary' source but its not verified by anyone else, but if the New York times says "Oh look, JC penny just changed their primary URL to www.eatmybits.com" then that secondary source, quoting a primary source, gets approved. Its the whole 'someone we trust has vouched for something you are saying, so we kinda sort of believe it to be true.'

The whole thing is made worse by Wikipedia editors who tend to speak in a short hand which as time goes on gets more and more opaque.

All of it being a result of volunteer efforts to curate a source of 'facts.'
If you want to help the developing world it's worth the time to take a look at what has actually worked to get countries out of poverty and what hasn't. As far as I can tell there are only two proven ways for countries to get out of poverty:

(1) Kill a bunch of other people and take their stuff.

(2) Industry.

Notice that aid isn't on the list. So it seems that if you actually care about a country you should spend your time helping them get better at (1) or (2). May I humbly suggest (2)? Notice that (2) is going to involve building (or investing, if you're a foreigner) in a lot of dumb stuff. China builds lots of plastic widgets for Americans. China's also bringing tens of millions of people out of poverty.

The problem with the big fix strategy (malaria vaccines, non-profits, etc -- basically non-dumb stuff) is that it always leaves the people in poverty dependent on others. I'm sure you, Kushal, have the highest of motives. Unfortunately not everyone does, which makes leaving the poor dependent on others a very bad strategy for them.

Anyway, welcome to HN!

P.S. Can anyone think of a country that has gotten out of poverty based on aid? All the modern examples I can think of (Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.) haven't.
I think he's saying that Oracle's aggressive branding of MySQL (and other Sun products) has alienated some people.
Why should I care whether they are relevant?
How I Simplified My Life
TechCrunch: Why VCs Will Invest In Big Data Startups For Years To Come
As with anything that becomes popular, TechCrunch gets a lot of hate in the tech industry. I scan through its feed almost daily, mostly digesting just the headlines.

I find value and entertainment in its long-form, insightful content (typically written by guest writers like Nir Eyal, Semil Shah, etc.), funding announcements (knowing what's funded matters), and even its link-bait, sensational articles. I don't think TechCrunch is trying or should be THE source for deep analysis or discussion. There are other sources for that (e.g. Quibb, Quora, individual personal blogs like Joel Gasconigne)... and that's OK.
No demo video, no explanation. Why do I need yet another app for this?

html5, javascript, geolocation apis, social networking sites with client-side sharing capabilities. These are all the things I need to build a simple service that does what's described here. Why is this an app?
On the other hand, in SF you can commute by bike. I'm told that's not viable in Austin.
I can try to extrapolate what I would use this for and what will happen when I share the link, but I'm unsure at best.
"Stop building dumb stuff. Actually, just stop building anything and instead sue people who do"
Speaking of open source, Salesforce is also invested in HBase with at least one committer to the project.
Why does that matter, when Oracle already powers Salesforce?
If you live and work downtown or near UT's campus it is.

If not then you are quite right its not.
Mobypicture would love that domain..
Unfortunate how? Based on the choice of car?
Sorry, I guess a few bad experiences lately have given me in to hyperbole. I do research myself and at least with some of the papers I've read recently, I've noticed questionable vocabulary choices. I can't think of a reason for using certain obtuse words when a simpler word would be much clearer, but as you say, perhaps it is just the word that the researcher thought most apt.
The NewYork times servers send information to an information processing device, they are going to have to accept the fact that the data they send back is not the webpage on your screen and instead must be processed by the browser and other software. If the NYT doesn't like it, they can stop serving content to devices that don't render the content the way they prefer.
Should the author of the article be clued into the difference between "depreciated" and "deprecated"?
Most Citizens of the Star Wars Galaxy are Probably Totally Illiterate
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As far as I gather, these kids have been doing it as a hobby because other apps for quickly sharing a real-time location suck. The short link makes it ideal for sharing via SMS/Twitter, etc.

But great point, they should have a quick demo video, even if they are just a few young hackers. That's probably coming next.
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent
"You don't like that? Great. Stop visiting that website. That's your prerogative. But to visit the website, use their resources, AND block their way of generating revenue to pay for that...well, that's both immoral and wrong."

That's a summary opinion without the backing of law or even a thorough examination of the ethics involved. What is unethical/annoying to you may not be to someone else.

The poster is free to use AdBlock and other scripts to improve his browsing experience and the NYT is free to install ways to get around ADB (of which many exist) or make content available to those who want it for free.
What apps do you need? I know how to share my current location on all major smartphone OSes without needing any apps that aren't built in.
Built for Windows using cygwin, works a treat.
Over here in South Africa, you actually go to med school for a year, and then apply for veterinary medicine. So you have to be the best of the med school applicants to get a place. Hardest course to get admission to of any.
You hit the nail on the head, the walled garden isn't about malware, it's about killing ad replacement and the adwords revenue it kills.
Right. I don't agree with the OP, I just think that's what he was saying. Salesforce doesn't seem like someone to be put off by aggressive anything.
Whats New in .NET 4.5 (4448×3145)
Living a double life: being a parent at an early stage startup
The sites are free to ban/block users who use AdBlock and other plugins. The technology exists.

I use AdBlock and selectively whitelist domains that I support.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias"

I guess that implicit in the article is the assumption that this self-selection effect hasn't changed much in the last 4-8 years. The author is careful to stick with like-to-like comparisons.

If on the other hand there is a trend away from Google among certain groups then that would seem to be a problem for Google's branding team! Perhaps there is a market here for a left-wary search engine, say DDG hooked up to conservapedia instead of wikipedia at the backend?
That's why I qualified with "technically oriented women that would be interested in Startup School"
Ok, pretend you are picking me up. Share with me a link where you are right now... even if you are driving.
Also see http://www.kmkeen.com/jshon/
Your account is 40 minutes old.

The way HN works nowadays (per my observations) your comment will almost indubitably get deleted and your account banned, because you've made a worthless comment (void of any reasonable argument or explanation).

But I'm requesting HN mods that be to not do that please. Because this is such a recurrent response, I'd rather that one of our elders and wiser ones respond to this with their insights. Bigotry is best expunged from minds and hearts by free speech -- talking about it openly helps clear up things a lot.
Afghanistan, maybe? U.S. and Societ completely ruined the country in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s (in the 90s Soviet were gone and U.S. involvement was passive and indirect though, bu they "blessed" The Taliban as an ally nevertheless), and in the past decade U.S. and Europe have helped kinda rebuild the country by technical and financial aid.

I quite and completely agree with your comment; because that's exactly what I think (I've spent a great deal thinking about that).
That was actually suggested by one of the replies:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12748246/sorting-1-millio...
Those are called scare quotes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
As a "tech startup" (wtf does that even mean?) I'll take lower health insurance premiums for employees over any tax cuts proposed by either party.

I don't know what other people are paying, but it costs us up to $1500/m if an employee has a family to provide decent insurance in CA.

But... I don't really see that ever happening without a complete overhaul of the healthcare system.
Congrats Mikko on the book, going to read it on my flight back home:)
You would of course use a delta scheme that can encode any number using O(log n) bits. At that point having a lopsided distribution of numbers actually helps you. Cramming the first 90% of the numbers into 1% of the space can save you about six bits per number. Even if you spread out the remaining 10% the price is going to be far less than sixty bits each.