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This is awesome! Is the plan to keep it as a free tool?
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I'm not sure how you can tolerate even the possibility of being banned from a computer that you own and payed for.
Twitter sort of hides the RSS links, and last time I checked did not provide any documentation on how to find them. But they are there and you can access Twitter feeds via RSS once you figure out the URL pattern.
it's poorly written, but because it says "they declined to answer" it's likely that the author means "the general of the Air Force and the new commander-in-chief General Pinochet" to be a list of two people.

(but still, your english is better than my shameful spanish, and i have lived in chile for many years...)
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That will teach those smug seismologists.
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Minnesota banned me from learning Python, for free, online.
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Does it address any of the issues presented in the article ?
I've read a lot about AdSense account bans. Or do they only ban the account for this service and the rest is left intact?
I've played around with some of those proprietary (Pearson) school formats before, and they suck.

This is a world of change for school software development.
This is pretty scary.

The potential for abuse and fraud in a computerized referendum like this is tremendous.

Even if you trust Facebook and Twitter (which you shouldn't), they are open to being hacked and sockpuppeted.

Of course none of these risks are even mentioned in the story, as the uncritical, thoughtless media just eat it up.
Ask HN: Should I Migrate to wordpress?
Hi, I have a website I build 4 years ago using cakephp and it have a decent monthly traffic. I want to add new functionalities like tags, a better publishing area, etc, to simplify things.

I've been thinking about migrating to wordpress, and keep the urls structure (I don't want to lose the organic SEO and links), but I actually don't know if it is a good idea.

What's your advise?

thank you.
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Start with the Uno. You'll cut your teeth on all the same conceptual ground you'll encounter with the Due, but you'll have a simpler platform under you with a great deal of supporting information available on the Internet.

When you grow out of the Uno, the Due will be there waiting for you.

Personally, I'm going to avoid getting a Due until I need the extra horsepower. The simplicity of the AT family of microcontrollers is very appealing. Once you have a prototype working on the Uno, creating the deployable version using an ATTiny85 or whatever is not that difficult.

Compare hooking up an 8 pin ATTiny85 and a few supporting components vs the soldering wire-wrapping nightmare of using a AT91SAM3X8E or some near equivalent.
> I need some time for sports/relaxing/whatever

Make you pet project your relaxing time, unless you truly enjoy what you are doing (especially initially) it might be a good idea to try another pet project. This is the key.

I've done many pet projects because I was truly enjoying myself doing them, even waking up earlier so I can work on my project before going to the office. BTW Weekends and holidays are great times as well. Recently celebrated our 10th anniversary I know how hard can this be with a family.

Nonetheless, I'm running my own startup for the last 3 years now (11 people at the moment) because one of those pet projects. But also I pretty much stopped doing pet-projects other than Google style 20% free time within the company.
Agreed, but a version that fell open almost instantly and swayed just for a moment would be very cool, and perhaps an improvement on the standard UI. I wonder what other subtle animations might be helpful?
The NYT is entitled to set terms that forbid the viewing of their site with Sambreel installed.
Yes, there's actually a term for the failure of the hype:

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

I think AI is currently in the phase of failing to live up to short term expectation while its long term implications are underestimated.
Happening right now.
Icenium + Kendo UI = Awesome (Hybrid App Dev)
Hard to believe that as recently as 1999 the lack of ubiquitous camera-phones meant that images like this are rare / remarkable.

You can see in the photo properties several are taken with a Sony Cybershot - eg somebody had to have the forethought to drag out an actual, gasp, camera to document these events.

In the context of this photo essay that means that many of the photos are either posed or around "events" where a camera would likely be welcome - IPO celebration, work parties, etc.

So what's mostly missing here - and everybody's photo albums of that era - are much of the unexpected, the spontaneous, etc.
The other ciphers are natively stream ciphers, and AES is a block cipher adapted via CTR mode to be a stream cipher.
Unbelievable.

At first I assumed that the scientists must have been out drinking, or must have made up the data ... but, no, they simply gave the best prediction they could, as they should.

I guess that forecasters of quakes and weather in Italy now have two alternatives: always claim a disaster is upon them, or move to a country where judges understand statistics.
It is interesting to see that it exists a cropped version of the first article image

Default image: http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2012/1210/485_hl_genomes_1...

Cropped version: http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2012/1210/232_hl_genomes_1...
The one-way nature is exactly the crux of the matter. In a purely chaotic world where people do whatever was in their best interest in the short term, everybody would infringe on copyright whenever they wanted a book (or whatever "non-scarce" commodity) and the content producers would do whatever nasty tricks they felt would stop this from happening, including distributing your book in a form that can only be accessed via computers that you don't truly control and "reserving the right" to cut you off from what you "purchased".

We, fortunately, do not live in this world. However, from the standpoint of someone that prefers to purchase books, movies, and video games to promote these arts, it seems that the entities "selling" the content to me are more eager to head down that chaotic road than I am. That's not to diminish the fact that there are many rampant copyright infringers that have already happily moved down that road and could care less about long term benefit. It's just that I am not one of those people, and I don't deserve to be hit with the crap-storm that you intend for them, particularly when there is no evidence that they feel any of that storm at all.

So I long ago decided on a solution, just do what feels right. Buy from whatever distributor you like (I tend to stay away from Amazon, competition is always good) and then circumvent whatever DRM they place on it (for instance, go to one of those places of ill repute and get the book in an accessible format). It's not perfect, but it sure as hell is better than playing the game they set up.
if you want those ports, and use it to watch video on a big screen, aren't you better (and cheaper) of running a full customizable OS with XBMC on a small form factor board (think Mini Itx)? And also have the niceness of SABNzbd/Sickbeard/Couch Potato/Headphones, which i doubt Chrome can do.
That doesn't mean at all that it worked. All that information means is that Chile, now is in a good position relative to the rest of Latin America. Taking conclusions and saying that the reason Chile is the way it is now is due to the US intervention is naive and simplistic. There are so many factors involved in that fact, that it makes little sense to make that argument.

Using the same co-relation you're trying to use, I could say that the intervention was a bad thing, because while Chile is not bad, we could be doing a lot better if it weren't because of the problems we had to face. That is also not the case, and again, too many variables involved that you're freely taking away.
Whoops! I had planned on fixing that before I shared. Thanks for the heads up.
This is even more scary for people/startups with their entire business on ec2.
Because great design inherently doesn't solve any pains for people. Getting a website up and running in 5 minutes does though.
VAT is not the same as corporation tax.

In the UK, Amazon is being accused of not paying the full amount of corporation tax they ought to be paying.
Unfortunately one that works - mainly because the general public's behaviour is driven by attention to news stories rather than informed choice.
My 30 euro simple Nokia phone has a week long battery life, and I'm pretty sure the user experience it offers will be a lot better than an e-ink Android phone.
You'd be able to display true cmyk on an e-ink display wouldn't you? Or am I completely off on that?
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Having two children, it's quite difficult for me to have side projects - but on the other hand, I find myself so desparate that I am actually more concentrated when hacking on a pet project.

What I ended up doing is always having a Netbook or at least a Linux phone with me and hack that 10-15 minutes in the bus or underground. I'll sometimes sit another minute in the train station to finish things up or use that one minute I get free when the kids sleep and my wife's busy to just get another piece of code written.

It's amazing how much I even get done that way. I think only now I really value time.
I love my CR48 but the video is choppy at 480 and above and when dual booting Ubuntu, I only have about 8gig on the SSD. I wonder it it would be possible to upgrade the SSD to a 60gig or so. I have seen them for under $40.
Windows "Next" hate is nothing new
Here is a story with a good background on the events. It's more complex than you would guess:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100622/full/465992a.html

In particular, at least one member of the civil defense bureaucracy went out of his way to say there was a consensus that there was no danger (even though there was not such a strong consensus):

"Immediately after that meeting, De Bernardinis and Barberi, acting president of the committee, held a press conference in L'Aquila, where De Bernardinis told reporters that "the scientific community tells us there is no danger, because there is an ongoing discharge of energy. The situation looks favorable". No other members of the committee were at the press conference."

There should be consequences for such grave misrepresentations. I was surprised to see that the whole committee is being punished, though, and not just the official who misrepresented the state of knowledge.

Maybe, as some other commenters have noted, this is part of a ritual of condemnation at the first judicial level and absolution upon appeal to the second or third level.
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Electronic content doesn't face the same over-supply possibility that physical content faces. For example, let's say that you buy 1M copies of Book X for $2 each to sell. Well, a year later only 250,000 have sold at $4 and the rest are just sitting in your warehouse. You don't even care if you sell them at cost now (or maybe below cost). You've spent $2M and taken in $1M and have 750k copies left. If you sell the remaining 750k copies at $2 a piece, you make money ($2.5M with costs of $2M). In fact, you could sell them for less than $2 if that would make them move to recoup the remaining $1M. So, there are supply issues that make the price of physical items more variable. With electronic items, you just get the price. Since there isn't a limited supply, you can have unlimited copies on day 1. They don't over or under buy, they transmit exactly the number of copies purchased.

Likewise, as a physical book ages, competition goes up. You might be given it once your friend is done with it or be sold it used. That doesn't happen with Kindle books (or not as much, I know the Kindle has some limited lending capability) and so the price stays stable since the level of competition is stable.

Many prices face competition with many sources. With eBooks, the number of sources declines, but electronic resources are cheap and so it's stays at a point that we merely complain about rather than searching for alternatives. So, losing first-sale rights means losing the cheaply available second-hand books that provide competition that helps to keep prices low.

Now, I'm not blind to the other side: a used book is less valuable than a new book. It's creased, written in, whatnot. A used Kindle book is identical to a new Kindle book. So, it might be disastrous for publishers to have all users be able to re-sell in an unlimited fashion because there's no aging of the physical thing like there is with physical volumes. But that's something to think about for another time.
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"seeding a pile of ebooks isn't really something for which any valid defense can usually be given"

How come? If you seed a pile of ebooks (let's assume it's a very big pile that contains a good chunk of books humanity considers important) than you're helping our culture spread. It is in fact very important for books to be massively copied in order to survive future catastrophes: whatever they come in form of nuclear winter, totalitarian copyright regime or cultural degradation and neglect.

I have my torrent of 20G of compressed ebooks and I feel very prepared for a digital nuclear winter.
IIRC that case was based entirely in the US.
As somehow Amazon UK seem to be involved in this case too, it's possible that those agreements don't apply to this case.
Sorry buddy. International is very much on our mind- but we are trying to stay focused on US right now. We love Canada though :)
I disagree.

Depends on the situation.
I'm not saying this to be rude, so I apologize in advance if you personally take offence:

In my mind, you're a complete idiot if you are an e-book consumer at this point in time.

You essentially rent the book for a price often higher than owning a physical copy of the exact same material. All this for the slight mobility advantage, and instant purchase ability. You can't share your ebooks with friends. You run the risk that the publisher might decide you're no longer worthy of that purchase.

I question the sanity of any person that has done a pro/con comparison and actually judged e-books to be superior. My guess is that most people don't bother to actually think about these purchases.

e-books can and should be revolutionary, but what is on offer now is essentially nothing more than window dressing - and people are eating it up.
The parent post wasn't some theoretical awesome scan with no false-positives; it was specifically whole-body MRI. Even if you could do a whole-body MRI scan for say a nickel, and have automated software mark all new tumors, more people would die sooner than if you hadn't done this.

Once you find a tumor you need to biopsy it before you can treat it. There is a small, but non-zero, chance of death from a biopsy. The number of tumors that won't kill you right away is so much greater than the number of tumors that will kill you right away, that this small chance of death multiplied by the large number of people with non-threatening tumors is a larger number than the small number of people with highly malignant tumors.
I have two kids 6 and 8, and a girlfreind (for 14 years). I just can't help having a side project. My advoce would be to just keep trying. Focus on one project. Do small to do lists to keep crossing things of. And get something launched!
Once you have people using your stuff, thats a great motivator.
Eventually you'll find something you just can't let go. Or at least I did.
Right now I'm doing http://muscula.com
And I also have http://obsurvey.com that I started in 2007

Keep going, less is more.
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> The issue is that Microsoft is selling the same device with two different operating systems.

Not exactly, both devices may look similar, and be called Surface, but they are two different devices, with very different hardware. That probably makes everything much more complicated.
I use a first generation Nook from Barnes and Noble. I have only 3rd party books on it purchased from publishers that make ebooks available without DRM. (O'Reilly, Manning, Pragmatic Programmers, Sitepoint) These are all backed-up up on my Dropbox account, so even if they hit the bit bucket, it would be straight-forward to restore them. This works well for me.

And, of course, gutenberg.org rocks my world with classic books available in epub.
let's burn down the observatory so this never happens again!
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There are many open questions here, but for example I'm not putting a lot of faith for WP in places like India or China, as the license costs and hardware requirements make it targeted for the high end of smartphones (for now).

Also, the situation with young Android or iOS is not exactly comparable to the one now, as then the markets were still dominated by featurephones, and so there were lots of "new" customers to convert. Now for example in USA the market is 50% smartphone, and people already have invested into one of the ecosystems. Getting those users to switch is a lot harder.
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I would have thought the same. Perhaps the 'Amazon' that is bound under this settlement is a different corporate entity as the 'Amazon' in this case. E.g. Amazon.com vs. Amazon.co.uk
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They are not in jail, and I bet they will never go to jail. I say this because, as Italian, I've seen way too many processes ended in first degree with a condemnation, and later on, in the second and third grade, ended with an absolution.
While it's up to scientist to use the best science available. No where to they say scientists are responsible for outcomes. If the failure is based on the best science then what is needed is better science.

Ultimately, the failure is on the journalists and news organizations who choose to broadcast the words of the scientists. They have their rapport with the public and have responsibility to uphold their journalistic integrity. What is really at fault here is editorial review of the news organizations. Period. Anyone can say anything, but it is the news corporations that broadcast the message.
I'd like to see a blog post in a month to show how much affiliate revenue you've made from this.
And you are ok with that? You are ok with the fact that to implement Friedman's views it was necessary to exile, torture or murder thousands of people? Do you even know something about the horrors of Pinochetist dictatorship? You seem to believe that "American interventionism" is a perfectly normal foreign policy.
That one is using an Atom CPU and a very old (I believe Imagination) GPU. The Mali T604 GPU inside this chip is brand new, and can easily play 1080p video. It's actually the only mobile GPU in the market that can support a 2560x1600 resolution right now, which we'll see in the soon to be announced Nexus 10.
Oh and a full time job
Binary Curious?
With Lynx ported over, it could be a fun text only browsing device.
Deprecated, but not removed yet. It "may be removed in a
relatively distant future"
As a CakePHP core developer, I think it makes sense to move if the following are all true:

- You run a primarily blog-like application
- You do not need a lot of custom coding - other than template features
- You are comfortable rewriting everything to use the WP structure
- You know the limitations of wordpress and they do not affect you

If only some of them are true, just add the features you need to your blogging platform.

For the record, there are plenty of plugins that allow you to 301 redirect old links to new urls.
I work full time, am married and only have 1 project I'm working on. I used to work 4 day work weeks. This was wonderful in terms of productivity. My body and mind was used to 11 hour days, so when Friday rolled around I slept in an extra hour 'til 6:30 (yay!) and went crazy. The only problem, was a lot of it was poor. I'm a sys/network admin by trade. So for me to sit down and work on code with databases, it wouldn't ever come naturally. One way I increased my productivity was I went to Openshift as a platform. My day job/natural line of thinking then became irrelevant.

Then I switched to 5 day work weeks and began commuting with my wife. We only worked about 10 minutes apart but were 30 minutes each away from our place. This gives us 30 minutes of pretty much one-on-one time where we can sit and talk to each other. Or just space out together. It's really quite wonderful. It also keeps in contact with each other more... because if she has meetings or something comes up, we let each other know. Before we'd rarely send text messages to each other. Now, it's a bit more frequent.

I only work on 1 project. That seems to be a general consensus here, and it's fairly relevant. Everything I work on stems from this single item. If I want to design, I do it. If I want to develop, I do it. DB stuff? Done. Want to do sys admin stuff? Save it for work tomorrow.

One thing I never do though, is neglect my wife. If she wants my full attention, she has it. Doesn't matter if I haven't ':w' in an hour and my laptop is about to die. I push it aside and focus on her. Life become copacetic.
Essentially ...

"Does this mean that everyone is going to drop Windows 7 in favor of 8? Probably not; chances are that a ton of businesses and consumers will still be running it when Windows 9 (or even 10) comes out. But that’s not necessarily because they hate it, it’s just the way people adopt new OSes – with new hardware."

... So will companies and consumers upgrade to laptops with touch screens?
sql is actually quite close to a natural way of expressing relations. there's a book called "sql and relational theory" by someone called chris date that goes into a lot of detail about this ("relations" is a technical term with a pretty solid mathematical basis). so you could change the syntax, but the basic ideas wouldn't change that much, assuming it was still a relational database.

the value of the different database implementations comes from how efficiently they can implement the relational model, and what optimizations they have to support particular use cases, or extensions to make supporting and maintaining them more practical. those optimizations/extensions also lead to some of the differences between what sql might be if it were "purely relational" and what is is in practice.

so dropping sql and using a different language would be more a nuisance than anything. what is important is whether the database is relational or not. and databases that are not relational have been tried - they are (misleadingly!) called "nosql databases" (they should be more accurately called "non-relational databases", of course, given the above).
Definitely interested to read this as well! Funny, this has more of a business model than say (gasp) Instagram.
AA is also problematic in IE9 (Win7):

http://i.imgur.com/mH7dZ.png

As you can see, resized PNGs are not antialised at all in IE, but they a
Yeah, if you scroll down to the test block with all the different effects, Chrome is a blocker for SVG. Might as well be VRML.
AA is also problematic in IE9 (Win7):

http://i.imgur.com/mH7dZ.png

As you can see, resized PNGs are not antialised at all in IE, but they are in Chrome.
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