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NTT DOCOMO to Introduce Mobile [real time] Translation of Conversations
For a product development company, it is advisable to have a in-house development team
The best thing about firmware is that it's often interacting with other buggy firmware. All of whom are implementing poorly defines 'standards' within tight budgets (monetarily, power and cycles).

Having said that I enjoy that kind of work (writing and interfacing with). Having spent many years in assembly for video games it doesn't phase me at all.
PG: I have ~20k followers on G+ where do i put this on my YC App
I know, somehow I got all 20k users of g+ to follow me. but seriously, if facebook and twitter are on there, why not Linkedin, Angelist, and G+, you would be surprised what you can do with those.
What I like about put.io is that if somebody else already downloaded the same torrent, your download is instantaneous.

Of course, you still have to download the file from put.io, which can itself takes ages (at least from here in Japan). I guess you'll always have bottlenecks somewhere…
The story behind LG's QSlide. Interesting.
IMHO it's a far more sane country if it has some proportion of it's population who are critical of themselves (and others)

Then again I am british and the only person we loathe more than 'Johnny Foreigner' is ourselves.
I wonder whether this is related to Linn living in Norway, purchasing from Amazon.com and somehow Amazon.co.uk are getting in the middle, perhaps because they run Europe from there.

It's the game that many people play - trying to find the best Amazon (or Apple) store when they live and travel between countries. This means a constant struggle to find a combination of credit card, store with enough content (The US is best) and a local address (virtual and actual) to satisfy arcane internal rules.

Please Amazon - please move to one global store where any credit card from any country can purchase any edition of any book. Please Amazon and Apple, let us combine content from multiple stores into one account, and let us have a global price based on the best market. Yo usell more stuff, we but more as well.

Meanwhile take the chance to collect, and pay to the local authorities, consumption/sales tax based on the location of the IP address, not the credit card or address of the buyer. That way if someone is standing in the UK, buying content from the USA, then they pay UK tax (VAT), making it fairer versus the physical and local virtual alternatives.
Pfft only more reason to use "free" websites for ebook downloads such as coinread.com
Idea for raising some of that £250k: make and sell to the public replicas of a simpler mechanical computer, the Antikythera mechanism.
This makes me wonder why "settings" is included in the default icon set. Settings should be accessed via the charms bar as well.
I treat all E-books purchased with DRM as rentals.

When making a decision whether to buy or not, I look at the price and consider whether I'm willing to pay this much to rent the book for an indeterminate amount of time, possibly as little as 3 months. Quite often it turns out that the price is too high. But I never delude myself that I actually "own" any of the DRM-restricted content that I paid for.
The introduction text is misleading. Besides these enumerated values, you can also use a custom PNG. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh70048...
This post really brings into focus just how right Richard Stallman was when he penned "The Right to Read":

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
This is why you should use a DRM removal tool and use a third party e-book reader on an Android tablet.
I agree wholeheartily. I meant "what weird non-journalistic linkbait sites call infographic". ;)

I had a really hard time understanding some parts of it. The writing feels chopped and bad.
..who also recently did the voice of Vitaly the Tiger in Madagascar 3.
In my opinion, when something is less ethical (or unethical) it doesn't detract from its cleverness.
Only because they know their phones don't offer as much "value" (nothing to do with component costs) as their competitors, so they have to cut into their profits to compete.

This is funny, because I remember the old Nokia executives saying they would have to do this if they would use Android, because it would "commoditize" them. And yet they are being commoditized much faster by WP8, since all phones look alike (software wise) and their ecosystem of apps is much smaller, so they have to account for that in the price.

The Galaxy S3 has been selling for $99, too, but only for short periods of time. But as others have said, those prices are pretty irrelevant on a contract.
It's important to note that you don't actually buy e-books from Amazon, you license the right to read, and when that license is revoked/cancelled, those books are no longer available to you.
Thats like saying why understand how writing a file to disk works when we have things like notepad and emacs. What do you think these tools do under the hood?
It's almost as if they want to drive people to alernate ways of acquiring content...

I still read a mix of kindle stuff and paper books, but the kindle is invaluable for travelling light. This is disappointing to hear about.
I've never thought of the two mentioned monads (Promise and Option) as defensive. Option doesn't seem defensive because sometimes you need to represent the possibility that there is no value to be returned.

Could you elaborate on how it's defensive?
Version your Ruby objects with Aversion
I wonder if some large organisation (EU?) could force a change in this idea? It does seem like an end-run around so much in the way of consumer rights.
What's wrong with a drm removal tool and iBooks?
What is Windows RT? Redmond, we have a problem
First, it's important to note that we don't have very much information yet. Given what I've read so far, I assume stupidity on the part of Amazon.

Before everyone starts hating on Amazon specifically, remember that this same thing would happen with Apple, Xbox Live, or Barnes & Noble accounts. It's not that all these companies want to have DRM. It's the content owners who dictate the terms of licensing.
Is a Kindle usable without an Amazon account ?
I am constantly disappointed and saddened by Mashable's Minimally Viable Journalism.
Storm : a Realtime Computation System Similar to Hadoop
Cookie Opt-outs
I was thinking.. In order to opt out of cookies on websites (now that everyone has one of those opt out bars), do I need to store a cookie to say that they're not allowed store cookies on my PC?
Sharing sessions between Rails and Sinatra apps
"Aka, building tech that uses mono vm, and monodevelop to make a windows only SDK."

Off-topic, but this is interesting. Why the heck would Sony develop Windows-only SDKs on Mono, instead of native .Net??
Why would Amazon.co.uk run "europe"? The europeans outside UK, FR or DE are forced to buy the international kindle from the US.
Because it doesn't do MVCC, it locks instead.
A sentence like "We wish you luck in locating a retailer better able to meet your needs and will not be able to offer any additional insight or action on these matters" is the best explanation of the evil of monopoly.
I own 2 kindles. Got one more for Mum also. I need to get my books out ASAP. Somehow, feel very cheated. Nobody can walk into your house and take away your paperbook. This is theft! And then the arrogance of no explanations.
I've had some friends caution me over the fact that I have a "license to read" my Amazon purchased books as opposed to "own" them, however that really never hit home until now. I understand this is the way the business model works, but the customer service presented here is terrible, no indication whatsoever as to what the real problem is and no way to find out, which is sad because usually Amazon has pretty good customer service (well in my experience, I've been using Amazon for about a decade now, and customer service sucked until around 2004 or so I think when it seemed to get better).
Conducting Mobile Surveys For Better Client Interaction
Social Media Advertising – A chronology
I've been thinking for some time now that legislation is needed for the cloud and "online accounts".

Being banned from Google, Amazon & others for sometimes very fuzzy reasons can be major inconvenient. Sure, it's not a human right or a life or death situation, but they occupy dominant space on their markets and on some people life.
Very much so. Just use Calibre to load books and your fine.
Who is going to signup to a job website where you authenticate with Facebook?
http://mashable.com/2012/10/14/facebook-job-search/
http://mashable.com/2012/10/20/facebook-job-apps/
Indeed. But don't expect the sort of person whose battle cry w/re to RS is "But he's so unkempt!" to acknowledge that he tends to be correct.
There are other ways to load books on to a kindle (Calibre, IIRC, is a piece of software that can do this). This allows you to load epubs and other files.

I believe there are legal (non-pirate) ways to buy these, but I've really no idea how good the vendors are or how wide the catalogues are.
Interesting discussion on the javascript reddit about the pros/cons of this approach: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/11vpgp/javascrip...
I would have gone for

"git cherry-pick" acquired the "--allow-empty-message" option

or

"git cherry-pick" now has the "--allow-empty-message" option

myself. I think the subject is fine with the emphasis where it belongs. The verb is weird, though.
The worst part is the blatant arrogance of Mr. Michael Murphy, who does not at all consider the possibility of it all being a misunderstanding or some error on Amazon's behalf, and giving the customer no option to rectify the issue.

These are two options for who Michael Murphy is:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-murphy/17/b72/231

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-murphy/0/b84/9b5
Shame about the angle the BBC took, but the publicity worked at least in part - I've just donated :)
Thank you. It is greatly appreciated.
Free online accounting software
False. InnoDB does MVCC by default.
With 10^6 random numbers between 0 and 10^8 almost all operations will be splits, and you'll end up with 8 bytes * 10^6 = 7.6 megabytes. So indeed the chances of this working for a random sequence are extremely slim. You have to have a huge number of coalesces, which is just extremely unlikely when you choose 10^6 random numbers in a range of 10^8. So for almost all inputs this method doesn't work.

I simulated it with a Python program and you get about 10^4 coalesces. That doesn't even begin to make a dent in 10^6, and storing this will still take ~7 megabytes.
I'm not sure how it works now, but older Kindles were just mass storage devices so you could put books there by hand.
I don't think posting his personal details on the Internet is a very good idea.
Replacing Amazon as gatekeeper with Apple is something of a frying-pan-to-fire move. Amazon's device really only does e-books; most people depend on Apple devices for an awful lot more, and consequently losing access to your Apple device would be vastly more painful.
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Visual Studio commands
Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples. PART N3.

This article deals with creation, utilization and handling of Visual Studio commands in its extension modules through automation object model APIs and IDE services. The relations between IDE commands and environment UI elements, such as user menus and toolbars, will also be examined.
I'm surprised there are three responses to this comment, all starting with the word "no". I'm not arguing for scanning irrespective of the cost. I'm saying that if the cost were 0 then you should always scan.

More information should always lead to better decisions and better outcomes. If it's the case that more information leads to worse decisions then it's indicative of a problem in your rule set, not a problem with your information.

Imagine if taking someone's blood pressure was a multi-thousand dollar test that required specialized expertise to interpret, and could easily lead to misdiagnoses of heart problems. Now imagine that we just got the technology to do it cheaply and easily. It wouldn't make anyway sense to be afraid of testing blood pressure- it's just more information that can lead to a more complete picture of a patient's condition. But that's exactly what my sibling comments are arguing for now with MRI scans.

Also see number 7 in a list of ambitious startup ideas: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
With APC (and stat disabled) PHP behaves in exactly the same way. Bytecode is kept in memory between requests and you can then safely push a new version of your directory tree. All that is required is to flush the cache to have the new version go live.
This does not make any sense. All software runs on machines. Each machine is potentially a 'single point of failure'. This sometimes is a problem, and sometimes is not.

Just because software runs on multiple machines it does not mean that there is 'no SPoF', for example in a distributed messaging system you need to replicate state, unless you don't mind losing it when you have a crash.

If you don't mind losing state, then it is very easy to run RabbitMQ on more than one server.

If you do mind losing state, then RabbitMQ provides several ways to use multiple servers in a decentralised and redundant manner. See eg http://www.rabbitmq.com/distributed.html

It is very easy to write a system with multiple components. The difficulty is preserving all the additional capability (eg uptime) while maintaining a coherent system. This role can be played by a "broker" which does NOT imply a single machine or "SPoF" - it can be a distributed service. See eg http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2010/09/22/broker-vs-brokerless...
The lack of transparency from Amazon here is worrying.

Because it appears to be Amazon UK dealing with the account holder
I'd be interested to know if she would get anywhere by submitting a Subject Information Request [1].

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 an individual can submit a request for personal information held by an organization and they must comply within 40 days.

Whether she would get the information she is interested in, i.e. which account she is linked to, is another question.

[1] http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/personal_information/ho...
Licensing issues, maybe?
I have a Kindle but I don't want to have to do with Amazon. What is the best open firmware so far I can flash into it?

I'd like to retain ability to send documents from my computer to my Kindle over the internet.
What does, “Used Approved” mean from Lexus?
looking for saner nested submodule pulling , reading now
Dear Ed Bott: No, Windows 8 is not the new XP
This has been tried a few times... a lot of people have tried to provide a good service but failed. Your model looks promising.. All the best
One thing, they have an upper limit of 25 characters for the password.

Sometimes that's ok, but not always a good sign for how they store passwords.
Michael Murphy posted his personal details on the Internet. asgeirn posted links.
an increased number of stories like this will make the book pirating underground a lot more attractive to a wider audience. it exists, it's not quite napster-like yet but it's getting there. no DRM, a potentially wider catalog, etc.

this is a risk for publishers and loss-leaders (like amazon) alike.
Assuming the story as presented is accurate, it's perfectly legitimate to criticize Amazon's heavy-handedness, arrogance and opacity. AFAIK, the content owners don't mandate specific customer service policies.
I really hope you are not trying to reach the spanish market... because "Putio" sounds way too much like an spanish slang word (hard to explain, lets says its a verbalized version of what in english would be "b*tch").

Something similar happened with "webOS" and every spanish forum were making jokes about it.
Funny, since it is a link to linkedin... :-)
So this is the URL to donate to the project: http://www.justgiving.com/plan28
Wow... How would you feel if someone would send a balloon your way next time you board a plane?
What value do you provide for the social media users? Not many would be willing to post sponsored content on their networks it would decrease their influence. Any thought on that.
Two phases. Leave possibly referenced assets for a while until use of cached old files has become rare enough, then remove them.
Are you guys on Twitter as well?
TBG: Facebook’s Q3 Ad Growth Was Down To Mobile And News Feed
I assume for tax and logistics reasons. A search for "Amazon Europe" delivers an http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/gateway-eu. I'm making assumptions after that.
Well, not really, though omra's links are very interesting. But relatively speaking, 2012 Afghanistan is literally 50 times better that 1999 Afghanistan. That's why I thought it kinda qualifies... But your point is valid.
Use a machine with 32 bit bytes.
I think I was one of the first to sign the pledge you first released some time ago, good to see it's coming along. Donated.
Not even a question at this point. Mobile is still too limited for HTML to even begin to compete with native.
At Brooklyn Technology High School, Goal Isn’t to Finish in 4 Years
Sorry for the delayed reply. Yes, I would very much like to see that. I'd love to try it out, and would happily give feedback on using it in a couple of personal projects. My email's in my profile.
Surely this is what a small claims court could be used for?

I haven't read the Amazon TOS but is it really as simple as "you rent this book for as long as we feel like and we can revoke it for no reason"?

In which case I would be somewhat surprised if this really held up in a court, for example what happens if you buy a book and they immediately decide to revoke the license 1 second after purchase?
The problem is that the industry has become used to the small set of Linux users as people who are willing to go into conf files, system settings and tweaks to make software work. That is the reason I appreciate canonical and Ubuntu for all the work they have done to ensure a linux experience that just works. Canonical is also closely working with Valve to make sure that their games work well with Ubuntu.
John, what software are you going to use to do the simulation?
The work being done in http://drupal.org/node/1774312 may be a good start
I was recently interested in purchasing eBooks from Morgan Kaufmann. "The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience" costs $89.95 USD; surely for that insane price your eBook would be DRM-free, right? Wrong. Both ePub and PDF use Adobe Adept (Inept) DRM.

You can try to find the Kindle/iBook version, but as this article points out "its a license to read" ... and very often, the quality of the digital conversion is very poor, especially for literature with illustrations.

DRM-free PDF is the only way for me.
Fair point. However, it doesn't bring anything to the discussion, other than giving the temptation to 4chan fans to start a harassment campaign, so what the hell is it doing here?
We don't have a definitive answer to that yet. We've talked to various companies and some experts. If you have specific knowledge of that field I would be very interested to talk to you.

The Analytical Engine will have something like 40,000 parts...
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I just checked legalreads and it seems the site has now been closed.
AWS announces web page redirects for Amazon S3 hosted websites
(tl;dw) This talk discusses how to get the most cost effective servers from EC2 taking into account that EC2 instances are heterogeneous (that is to say they don't run the same hardware so it is almost certain that they will perform differently).

Each instance has three-four subgroups of different hardware types depending on when the configuration was installed. (2006/07/10 etc).

Also, each zone has different configurations, especially as new zones are being installed and newer hardware is being added to start with.

Variations of performance can approach 60% between the same instance types (processor,memory,disk,network).

Cost savings can be achieved by seeking for better performing instances, check it it performs well, if it does, keep it, if it does not, drop the machine and request a new instance.

Instances using E5645 are 1.6 times as effecient as the E5507, however, if you are requesting m1.large servers, you only have a 5% probability of getting a E5645 server if you rented in 2011, whereas now you have a 42% probability.

You can also wiew the slides here: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
I don't quite get the plastic bag analogy. If you fork/use a piece of software you don't deprive others (not even the creators) of anything.

Other than that, I do aggree that support for linux/bsd is very problematic on many levels, but fragmentation doesn't help with that either. Especially in BSD
Where is Apple the gatekeeper? I couldn't care less about the iBookstore, but I love iBooks - I can drop any PDF or epub from the internet on iTunes and it'll be on my iPad after the next sync. If anything, Apple has the advantage that an iTunes library is dead-easy to back up.

Android tablet, iPad, PlayBook- they'll all do the trick.
AMD Offers Gamers An Unprecedented Deal With "Never Settle" Game Bundle
You still can, but calibre lets you do format-conversion (since mobi is the only real format you can push to it while retaining readbility).

It also allows you to tidy up meta-data and stuff to make things look better.

It's definitely a "required" component as far as my Kindle is concerned.
While I agree with what is in the posts you provided (some of my friends actually don't post any pictures or "cat videos" on Facebook because they don't want their potential employers to see them from the "bad" side), I think you're maybe missing a point here. Haltura is meant to be used for one-time jobs only and so there's most likely no harm if your employer sees your drunk pictures on Facebook while he/she only needs you to cut his/her the grass in her garden.

Facebook authentication was made primarily for convenience and also to help preventing spam. But of course I might be wrong by exposing peoples' names and links to their Facebook profiles (e.g. I could also allow users to choose the username which will be displayed throughout the website). Thanks for the feedback, I will think about it!
I treat all digital (-ly distributed) content as "rental."

Most of the people I know do too... more or less.
I treat all digital (-ly distributed) content as "rental." The reality is that "ownership" of digital property is different from ownership of physical property emotionally, legally and practically.
try coinread.com then or any of the sites linked to on legalreads.com frontpage
The definition of "near space" says it starts at 60,000ft.
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