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It feels weirder with an iPhone connected. You either see just the iPhone menu or you're in your library. Now that it's almost like two apps with one button to switch between them.
Unfortunately I don't think I'm familiar enough to recommend a particular path, but I know that I run into lots of people at programming meetups and elsewhere who write code in their day job but it's not the finished product they're delivering. For example, working for an environmental sciences consulting company where the finished product is a report on arsenic levels in water, you might write a Python script to collate data for presentation, or a quick one-off web service for people to submit data to. In these cases, I think you'd need to develop some domain knowledge first, but with an engineering background, you should have access to a fair spectrum of possibilities.
From this I see that C# as a UI language is not the future, that's hardly surprising.

There is no doubt that Azure is being pushed as a back-end, and front end is targeting web ui, metro, and other mobile devices. Silverlight never got market traction, so needs to be dropped.

But all that code on the Azure servers - that's all going to be .net based. Of that there is little doubt.

I think the problem here is conflating UI language usage with language usage in general. The bulk of app code is going into service layers, and they are all written on C#.
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UN vote recognizes state of Palestine; US objects
Click on the dropdown in the search field and deselect "Search Entire Library". It will now change to "Search Playlist" and filter as before. Although it seems a lot slower than before.
My wife's first thought when she heard about Syria's lack of internet was that the sitting government is about to start a nasty offensive.

This was a good read and informative. One question, though.

> When the outage happened, the BGP routes to Syrian IP space were all simultaneously withdrawn from all of Syria's upstream providers.

Does withdrawn mean not advertised or was a message sent out saying these routes are no longer available?
Yes. You should be able to run any software that runs on Windows 8 (not to be confused with RT). In addition, you can connect a monitor to it through the Mini DisplayPort and mouse/keyboard through the USB 3.0 port.
Check out the lenovo X1 carbon touch. Alas, screen resolution still sucks on it.
Stop acting like you need special treatment because you're some kind of starved minority.

Windows has ABSOLUTELY dominated the world (in numbers, at least) for over two decades and is still #1. What's your problem? Not enough attention? Not getting enough hipster love for your c0rp0r4t10n?

There are 2 stories about Windows and one about Microsoft on the homepage. Boo hoo?
The traffic that is actually in Syria can't get out.

I'm not really routing savvy, but isn't it a little bit more like, the traffic could get out but no one could reply?
Been there done that. Not happy with it. He does have a good vision and he is a very nice person.. but Specialister only stress me the fuck out.
Java is crap? It was the first language i learned in uni and i would advice anyone to start with it to get basic oo programing skills and design patterns fast.
I've done a lot of this...I run a blog at MarketingFool.com and have an insiders club at Insiders.MarketingFool.com where I teach people my affiliate marketing tactics and how to use PHP...I even released a book recently at Amazon called "PHP Programming for Affiliate Marketers" http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Programming-Affiliate-Marketers-eb...

It was a #1 best seller for a few hours in its category.

Been there, done that...ready for bigger challenges...
It had several new and interesting points that weren't mentioned anywhere else, IMO.

I absolutely disagree with "Moving away from the sidebar design pattern really works here" though.
Nice... though you don't talk about what the data plan will cost. I assume it's basically like having an iPad with various carriers. But I could see that as a possible issue.

Maybe if it could connect to the wifi of my house and send some data then?
Yeah, I preferred the list view with album artwork...

You can try creating a Smart Playlist with everything (only rule being "Media Kind: Music"), maybe that will give you what you want...
I love Ruby with all my heart but that seems to be quite a mess. While a not-well-thought-through feature in some application can be forgiven (and maybe even removed), in language design it cetainly has no place. And while this should be a secondary consideration, I really feel for those poor JRuby and Rubinus guys. As if Ruby wasnt "dynamic" enough, the sheer complexity of implementing refinements must be awful!

I think, they should just leave it out (at least for now) and rather spend some more time on performance, stabilty and memory usage in MRI...
Don't know if you're going to see this, but you might be interested:

http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2012/11/29/dna-dt...

>Whole exomes ($695 at 80x coverage) and genomes ($5,495 at 30x coverage) are both listed as available products.
You hit the nail right on it's head.
sorry - it is fixed now.
Funny...I play the guitar but don't read much music :-p
It's not a surprise, although not for the reasons you mention. We've known about similar deposits in permanently shadowed craters on the Moon, and one of Messenger's early discoveries was of craters with similar conditions on Mercury. However the source of the volatiles is not the type of chemistry that happened on early Earth, but rather cometary deposits and exospheric interactions.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

Coincidentally, most of opinions here are being expressed with the help of the (optional) pseudo-anonymity allowed by Hacker News. Few would be willing to have such discussions with the same level of honesty offline or on Facebook given the public's level of hysteria. It would put a person in real physical danger.
Sleep. Seriously. Don't pull an all-nighter unless you really really have to.

Focus on a basic, fully working product rather than an ambitious semi-finished thing.
I would say that an inability to communicate with other developers in the same terms (including in code, because I suspect your code may look very different from others) is a serious barrier to working in a team, no matter how brilliant and talented you may be.

There's no question you can do the job, but it's a big question if you can do the job together with other developers, or how much time and effort (not just from you, but your coworkers) it would take to get there.

I say this as both a hiring manager and a self taught developer. As the latter, the most important part of my development as a programmer was to learn to express myself (and my code) in common terms and patterns so I could work with others.
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I'm missing the point of these laptops that focus on extreme weight reduction. Can someone chime in on the relative benefit of these more expensive yet compromised machines? They seem to compromise on cost and features for the sake of lower mass. But most of the time your laptop is sitting on a surface while you are working. You aren't working while holding it in your hands like you might be with a tablet. So why deal with a 12" or 13" screen when you can have a 15" or more and still carry it under your arm from your home to the coffee shop?
From their indiegogo page:

Indiegogo backers pay only $7.99/mth or $79/year (US subscribers) for wireless service.

moj.io uses machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular data exchange to send and receive data to and from your car. Unlike email, web browsing, etc, M2M data exchange is very small and requires only a very small data account.

Presently, moj.io will work with any car built after 1995 and has cellular coverage in Canada and US cities.
moj.io is supported by different wireless carriers in the US and Canada. When travelling from network to network, because it is on an M2M connection, there are no roaming fees.
Your moj.io's default international roaming setting is set to Off. Contact us for details on international roaming rates between Canada and the US to enable this setting.
Well there are the obvious examples from the original article; content that is not available to some people. I think that arts advance society, so preventing some people from being exposed to some art because you "put in the vault" (as in Disney) or "don't want to sell it there" is holding us back.

But, I was actually thinking of things like the VHS/Beta or Blu-Ray/HD DVD where copyright holders had undue influence on the process. Or how long it took music to be come digital and how it is still second rate because of DRM issues. Or weird stuff like HDMI requiring a security layer that puts additional technical challenges in place for engineers.

Or, how the entire internet is twisted and malformed because of copyright laws including things like 3 strikes and you lose you internet access.
Is anybody else using the OnBoard Diagnostic port? Is there some connector for an Arduino? I love this approach.
Things you should do before going live: load test obviously and monitor how memory gets used (if you hit swap you are too low of memory or mem consumption is too high and needs to be separated/load-balanced). CPU usage should be monitored and if you are going over 90% for a long duration you may be putting too much in one instance. Things like that, but from what I gathered your biggest flaw was not doing any load testing (jmeter, floor, etc, lots of tools to help you). I've been doing performance and optimization most of my web life (at least since 1992), you are not alone, people throw un-loadtested sites into the wild all the time and fail every time when slashdot/reddit/hn -effect occurs. But you can always do better now that you have learned from this failure.
So pick something simple; say a log in page, a content page, and maybe an admin screen. Something that would take about a day by yourself. Then make it with your three friends. Take the time to plan out who does what and learn to work together.
This simple task can save you hours of planning on the day of.

EDIT: I mean for you to do this task before the hackathon.
Where does the C# compiler erase an array bounds check? That would require the C# compiler to emit unsafe IL which wouldn't verify. The C# team has said they try for a fairly direct translation to MSIL; there's no super sophisticated optimization going in the C# compiler.

I think you mean the CLR/JIT often removes array checks if it can detect it (such as in certain loop constructs).

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
… but you have to do that before you switch to fullscreen mode. I’m not sure whether the ability to do this is a feature or a bug. It certainly seems like one: When you switch from fullscreen back to the desktop with the mini player you briefly see it flash its controls. That cannot be intended behavior. Anyway, they certainly should turn this into a feature.

Cohesion is a bit lacking and there are many small bugs, which is probably inevitable given the rushed release. I hope whoever worked on iTunes during the last two months (which must no doubt have been hell) gets a few days off and can then work on polishing and fixing those little bugs.
Sudoku coding challenge and office hours with Gayle Laakmann this weekend
Ruby seemed pretty easy. I flew threw the codecademy class in a couple hours with no problems whatsoever. I never got around to playing with Rails tho...

Yeah, I hand code my php stuff.
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I guess it depends on the equipment, you would have to configure them to 'default route' non-local IPs to some upstream provider, but since router doesn't know how to return them it probably just whines. But if you're cutting off the country (and it did look like that from the Cloudflare page that someone in Syria configured the routers to stop advertising a network) then you probably wouldn't install a default route to a hop outside the country.
Considering the possibilities, I'm very much surprised that Google hasn't entered this space to supplement their traffic intelligence. Just look at the possibilities of the Torque Android app and this Mojio dongle to see how powerful it is.

If Google came out with a bluetooth OBD-II dongle, they could integrate it into Google Maps/Nav and Google Now, both on Android and iOS. And you don't need an expensive cellular connection for a lot of the functionality, driving down the cost.

In the long term, this would have positive effects for them. They would have realtime analytics from the roads to vastly improve traffic analytics in Google Maps. Google Navigation would also be improved for the user by providing realtime information about speed and fuel, which would greatly improve the user experience (more accurate directions, heads up display of speed, and "nearest gas station" when you're running low).

Best of all? It would be $20, and provide them with all the data they need to make their upcoming driverless cars navigate better as well as improving navigation for existing android users in normal cars. It would also tell them how inefficient people are using their vehicles, and use this real crowdsourced data to market the efficiency of their driverless vehicles.
We work for Facebook, and make a lot of announcements on the engineering blog. We also have a group blog on WordPress-in-HHVM running here: http://www.hiphop-php.com/wp/
Well, let's take pro-copyright to it's obvious solution.

You owe a MASSIVE amount of money to the heirs of Shakespeare, anybody of Greek descent, Decartes/Leibniz/Newton, etc. etc. for your early education.

Because, if copyright really is a moral right it doesn't expire and you have a lot of back taxes to pay.

Cough it up.
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100 billion tons of water covered with organics has just made the Mercury polar regions two of the most desirable pieces of real estate in the solar system after Earth and Mars. The water would be helpful for establishing colonies and industry (like producing solar panels from silicon) as well as being a valuable resource in its own right. If there are enough organics of the right kind, they could be used to make thin films, possibly allowing solar sails to be made in-situ.

Combining this with the abundant energy and the advantageous combination of being low in the Sun's gravity well, this makes Mercury a prime location both for energy-intensive industry and export to the rest of the solar system. You see, the deeper in a gravity well you apply thrust, the more delta-v you get from it. Since the Sun is the biggest gravity well in the solar system, and since solar sails have their highest thrust near the sun, you get lots of highly-leveraged thrust for free, so the location is very advantageous for export.

I think one day Mercury is going to be in the business of packaging energy as antimatter and shipping it all over the solar system.
In the mobile space, I believe there are some connectors for vehicle monitoring tools and the like -- for tracking performance data on the track or to provide supplementary info to dashcam programs. I don't know of anything standalone like this.
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However, deniability becomes less plausible when there's other evidence that makes deniability harder... i.e. Someone claims to have had a conversation with you, the logs of the conversation exists and that person can corroborate that the person on one end was them. Of course you can claim that someone was impersonating you, but what if later you had a recorded phone conversation referencing the OTR conversation, etc.

In and of itself, a piece of evidence is plausibly deniable. In the face or corroborating evidence, it may not be.

Alas, however, I do not have an example from actual case law.

EDIT: I knew I had seen some case law sort of related to this before and it was in re Boucher and US v. Fricosu. They are not directly related to "Plausible Deniability", rather they compelled defendents to decrypt their hard drives. Certainly in the Boucher case there was reason to believe that the contents of the drive were incriminating (the file names were the giveaway, I believe) so perhaps this does not fit in to the exact facts we are trying to recreate, but those are the only two cases that relate that I can recall.
it appears to be responsive for me in chrome on my mac, and my android phone.

but i agree with your point about the site not really containing much information. its certainly not enough to entice me to sign up. there should be more of a sales pitch before capturing an email. i guess right now they are looking for anyone with an email address?
I'm uncertain whom you're replying to as I never mentioned iOS nor implied anything about it.

iOS does take less space than Windows at last check, but that's to be expected.

I personally think it's pretty disingenuous that more vendors don't advertise the usable space instead of total space.

I'm not thrilled about how much usable space I actually have left on my Nexus 7 16GB as an example...
As some other commenters have mentioned, and I've experienced myself - there are a lot of "small but profitable projects" in the internet marketing and advertising space. The best approach might be to join or partner with an online marketing agency. They often have customers who want more than a simple web page, for example a Facebook game to go together with an advertising campaign.

That said, most software engineers in the world do not work for big-team, Computer-Science-heavy software companies. They work everywhere building internal software to support the business in various other fields. However, finding or selling to these companies might be more difficult as an individual freelancer, as they might not even realise that their work could be optimised with software.
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That would be a pretty cool idea. The only thing that Moj.io has over what you're proposing is the ability to be always-on, even when a phone is not in the car (hence the touted ability to detect hit & runs and towing). It would be interesting to maybe have a system that uses and assists apps on the phone but can switch over to its own connection when in a parked car.
> ...about just shifting from PHP to a more performant language

We already shift lots of things out of PHP into more performant (c++, java, etc) languages when we are building services and/or extensions and/or other computationally intensive things.

But I think more to your point (and if not, let me indulge in the strawman), since this comes up frequently on reddit/hn: php is not somehow -uniquely- broken. While PHP might be uniquely broken as a language (ha ha), it's not -uniquely- broken as a platform/runtime. Everything you think is performant is broken at a large enough scale. Put another way, it's not just about the switching costs of rewriting in some other language. If we could magically snap our fingers and convert the entire codebase from php to some other language, that's just the beginning of understanding, tweaking, and occasionally rebuilding everything about the runtime/libraries/etc to make it work.

At the end of the day the language itself is given way too much attention in discussions like this.
Hm that's a good point, I never thought of it in those terms...
We're not releasing too much at this point, but wanted to have something publicly available. We're working hard, and should have something more visible in the next few months!

It should be responsive, it works for me on my laptop and phone.
Urbanization in general reduces family sizes. Something like free RISUG procedures for 13+ males, and the procedure being promoted during sex ed classes would probably reduce irresponsible pregnancies significantly. Even the US government would benefit significantly from reduced expenditures with a program like that.
> You aren't working while holding it in your hands like you might be with a tablet.

Why not? I do this all the time. I also bike with it in my backpack, pick it up with one hand, toss it on my bed, hold it sideways to read a paper while laying down. And it's also dual core with 4GB of ram and a long battery life, where is the compromise?

I don't understand why you would put up with an unwieldy machine for such insignificant benefits in processing power and screen size.
Apple's lack of consistency on every iTunes update always baffles me (see http://s12.postimage.org/cra1i5ax9/Captura_de_Tela_2012_11_2... for reinventing the wheel), but this time they really get the prize for changing the font on the entire UI.

Now, the real news. It is not a complete redesign until you make a separate, decent application to sync with iOS devices. The navigation when I plug the iPhone is still the same, and it sucks.

Also, how does it make any sense that iPhone apps are still managed by iTunes, not the App Store, when on the iPhone itself iTunes and App Store are clearly different apps? Come on Apple, you can do better than rely on fanboys praising everything you release on their blogs.
For some reason taligent’s very relevant response is marked dead: “Click on the dropdown in the search field and deselect ‘Search Entire Library’. It will now change to ‘Search Playlist‘ and filter as before. Although it seems a lot slower than before.”
Yea, um, trust me i didn't expect that - In fact i didn't even look until i read this now and it's true: balance 124BTC (I had around 7 before)...

Now i need to think how i can pay Bitcoins back when this is done (as i don't know if the source addresses are valid then still (if they ever were and not just a proxy source) and who sent what amount at mass sends...)
Tricky, probably can't pay bitcoin back :(
It seems US is more keen on being a good ally to Israel than doing what's right.
Yeah if this THQ bundle earns them a lot of money, maybe they do not need to work their ass off to promote indie titles from now on, and simply rely on big AAA titles sales once and then. Of course it would be stupid for them to do so (killing their brand) but it seems that they would be well off financially.
Even if the sentiment is perhaps predictable, it's still an interesting and relatively detailed critique.
Yes, Ford's OpenXC uses the OBD-II port, and talks to Android through an Arduino.

Website: http://openxcplatform.com/

OpenXC post on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745039
The two more successful ones I'm aware of are cruisewise and babelverse so far.

But really, the program isn't focused on the success of the start-ups, it's about start-ups affecting the Chilean ecosystem, and that is happening.
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Yeah, I would rather they abstain from doing things that all other platforms can do. That's part of keeping your focus on your core values. This is NOTHING like the previous bundles and this is a clear regression to me.
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trying playing with the formula on the graph gadget, then dream big!
I wouldn't be surprised if google acquired these guys to get into the space. Just imagine if it was tightly integrated with Android...and then imagine your google phone speaking perfectly with your google self-driving car. Oh the possibilities.
I haven't looked at the code yet, but how modular is the data source? Incorporating things like Google's dictionary extension could make this a pretty versatile little tool.
It's mainly server backups (encrypted by PGP even) (50% of storage), Movies, Music, Documentaries, Apps (legal and/or free/opensource) (30%), and empty space i had added a few weeks ago for more backups (switching from daily to 3hourly)
I don't know, working on HHVM certainly seems interesting enough to attract good developers.
Correct, i don't own it - I just work there.