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I'm not from Australia, but I got a Google account with a credit card before getting an iTunes account, even though I owned an iPod for years before getting an Android. It's true nonetheless that iTunes has more people hooked up because of iPods, but it's only a temporary problem and I don't really think there are many young people with a credit card anyway.

On the technical nature of Android developers and free equivalents, personally I tend to get paid apps.

For instance I bought "Extreme Call Blocker", because blocking calls and SMS messages is difficult as Android's APIs for it are private and I couldn't find a free app that worked well. I also got "GreenPower Premium" for saving battery, because such an app saves you money (I needed more battery life and the alternative would have been to replace my phone). I also bought "Paper Camera" because it's a fun app and cheaper than one coffee.

In truth there aren't many free apps that are worthwhile, most of the useful ones being clients of online services.
My point was that shaming engineers for choosing what they work on is stupid because often they work on components and don't ever build a complete missile, or "quiet, terrible, slinking thing" by themselves.

The developers at these kinds of places don't need to know what they're building. They have many tasks assigned to them and one of them is to write an API that collects a single piece of data. Many kinds of data are collected from many places and put into a database. Reports are made and cross-referenced by an analyst. Final reports are generated and fed to a guy who deals with direct marketing or advertising or sales. Any of these jobs could also be done by contractors or third parties.

You can't just tell people how to make a living without understanding what the hell you're talking about. That's my $0.02 anyway.

(P.S. people that work on missiles are often academic researchers and work for both the private and public sector on the same thing for many different clients, and aren't told what it's used for. the more you know...)
Your site automatically played audio that was sexual in nature without any warning or indication.

Why do you think this is a good idea?
There we go! I'm on board.
"Frank Schnarr, Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill Owner, Welcomes Pot Smoking In Bar"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/washington-state-ba...

This is in Olympia.
Any thoughts on how "unhackable" this system is?
So how do you explain removing the limit[1] if your organiser has attended TED (needing a $6,000 ticket[2])?

1. http://www.ted.com/pages/tedx_faq#A13

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)#Controversies_...
http://www.kiruba.com/ shows Tedx Chennai still included on his website
I've been on a visit to the US recently and while I do know quite a lot about it, some things I didn't know and it was an interesting puzzle to try to come up with reasons why certain things are done this way and not the other. So, a couple of points to keep this post interesting:

* You're mostly out of luck if you don't have the exact amount of money to ride a bus. Machines don't give change. Probably because everybody has a pre-paid ticket and tourists are expected to take a cab or rent a car.

* Showers are all built into the wall. Impossible to find a shower that you can hold in your hand. Seriously inconvenient if I want to shower my feet, for example.

* In Russia, it's the police who ask you for an id all the time. In US, it's bartenders.

* Lots of homeless people everywhere. They look much healthier than russian homeless and most seem perfectly capable of making money on some job, that requires minimum skills. But they don't work. Also, they're very entrepreneurial: unlike russian homeless, they approach you very actively and ask for a change or something else.

* Probably that's why people look at you very suspiciously when you approach them on the street to ask for a direction.

* Flight attendants and airline pilots still speak English I can hardly understand, although it's their native language.

* No kettles (been discussed here and on reddit before)

* Tipping baseline is very high. Although I'm a capitalist, I consider this practice to have nothing to do with capitalism. Because if you think about it, it's just business owners redistributing responsibility of paying their employees to me, the customer. Might be a good idea, or might piss me off: I hate calculating how much I should tip after having three beers. It does make the system less centralized, but it also reduces customer convenience. And I was also not sure where should I tip and where it's not very common. For example, no one in Europe tips a person at a bar serving you one beer. It's just beer, for god's sake. Not so in US. Now the problem for me is that when I go to another country where they don't tip, I feel very guilty for not tipping. It's a very hazardous practice for some reason.
>> I think when I run a company,

1. What will you pay?

2. Do you allow for remote working?

3. Email is available on my profile.

:-) Thanks for posting the sentiment publicly. Much appreciated.

>> enough of an insubordinate/rebellious streak to protect their creativity and curiosity through their 20s, despite their corporate masters' attempts to destroy it

This is a very nice thing to say (and I consider myself in that category), but people like this are usually the one who come out of life being absolutely clobbered and all.. People like this are very nice to watch from a distance (and admire), but it is a very unpleasant hike to be in our shoes.
Linux is very slow with removing old drivers and CPUs compared to the commercial operating systems, which is nice because it allows it to run almost everywhere on the cheapest hardware. But they cannot keep everything forever (maintainability nightmare). They also removed token ring network support just this year.
"This buzz is an annoyance for sound engineers trying to make the highest quality recordings."

It hit me a while back when I was writing the software for a test stand for a hearing aid as a summer intern. Mysterious 60/120/180 Hz frequencies appeared on our analysis, soon to be discovered as the motors for the building's ventilation unit. It was barely noticeable to anyone, but it was quite obvious to our test equipment, even in an insulated box.
Actually, yes. If you put one of these into a hand held device and had some sort of eye wear with a display on it you could use it to look through stuff. Its kind of like ultrasound though rather than light as you're looking at reflections of the RF energy of different boundary layers. No doubt you could attempt to reconstruct what that would look like but it would be imperfect, say you painted the blade of a knife white, the scanner wouldn't know that.
Rest In Peace. Silver lining: perhaps Annapurna Devi will start playing publicly now.
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For Sublime Text 2: https://github.com/condemil/Gist :)
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It was built in order to be able to create web applications in my scripting language called 'tranquil'. (And written in Objective-C to maximize performance)

Here's the first web app to be written using it: https://github.com/fjolnir/experience-tranquility
If the hum is inaudible to humans, but can be detected in the recordings, all that is necessary to create a plausible fake recording is to use a device that is incapable of capturing the hum, or severely compresses the hum so much that the hum is not distinguishable. This may not provide a means of proving the recording is authentic, but it prevents the defense from demonstrating that it was fabricated.
Apple is still expensive, but the whole "Apple Tax" meme is a myth. We pay barely more than GST than the US for Apple products, which are also never advertised with sales tax. http://anthonywrites.posterous.com/apple-tax-for-australians...

I think it's more to do with, like you said, Android phones covering such a huge spectrum of the market. Also that flagship models are often hugely discounted. Australian's love bargains.
I started to love Rails because of this and I still do. I get my bread and butter with Rails and I love my work because of it (and of course for the challenges). Four years and counting...

One of my biggest annoyances though is the really REALLY hard upgrades between different Rails versions. 2.x to 3.x was several days project including testing etc. 3.0 to 3.1 or 3.2 adds the nice assets pipeline, which of course might brake some javascript if you have lots of legacy there.

A minor change in ActiveRecord (and minor Rails upgrade) changed the behaviour to use SHOW INDEX instead of describe before loading data. The result was hazardous. So when you start to have lots of traffic, be very careful when upgrading Rails itself. And read the changelogs and the diffs.
It's an interesting release.. I had been tinkering with the beta. Oddly enough (considering the name) to me it seems really more tempting as a replacement for memcached than for couchdb.

Can someone from Couchbase or someone familiar with their plans please confirm the points here:

http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase...

Specifically these points:

* Basic data storage operations must use the memcached API.

* However, the HTTP REST API for basic CRUD operations must be updated to use the memcached protocol.

It seems that the couchdb REST API is no longer supported. Was that due to resource constraints in getting 2.0 shipped or is it an intentional design decision to not support this?
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Hey guys, just got featured on techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/social-discovery-site-drimmit-gives-dreamers-a-visual-bucket-list/) and i thought it would be a good time to see if HN would be able to review our startup! Thanks!
I ran a diskless 386DX 33mhz in my bedroom for many years, because it didn't make any noise. It ran a cut-down Linux distribution based on slackware, and I used it as a terminal and for small programming tasks.

I also kept it around for sentimental reasons, as it was the machine I did most of my early coding on. It didn't feel right to throw it out.

So thanks, Linux, for supporting my old junk hardware as long as you did! And congrats on losing ~400 lines of crufty code.
When I first started Rails I too was impressed by the scaffold generator. Now, as a more advanced Rails developer, I find myself only really generating Models, Migrations and Resources. View and Controllers are almost entirely written from scratch. As per the point about the speed of development - I found that I continued to get faster and faster as I started to understand the configuration magic of Rails and how to harness the power of gems as part of my workflow.

I must admit that Ruby on Rails was the first web framework I learned. Since then, I have dabbled with Python's Django, PHP's CakePHP and even Express on Node.js. What I tend to find is that other MVC web frameworks seem to be imitating Rails - so rather than use a follower I just stuck with the leader, Ruby on Rails. Until there is a much better alternative (looking at you Meteor/Node.js frameworks) I will be a happy Rails dev.
Student fests here are a big thing, and their branding easily can out shadow the TedX event itself.

TedX would then be just a side show, and addition to the original event.

Its an issue of co-branding, and not being part of the ethos of TedX, i.e. giving back to the community. It would be just another college event.
Hacking the system requires reproducing an identical "hum" and not necessarily compressing it. It seems difficult but I wonder if it is impossible for someone with a synthesizer and access to their database.
A point often neglected in such comparisons (regardless of the actual conclusion), is that paper towels are useful for more than just drying hands. What if I'm at a restaurant and I wish to wipe my trousers because I spilt a sauce on them? Or what if I just walked in from a walk and I want to wash and wipe my face? Or what if I just ate something oily and I wish to wipe that away (oil doesn't evaporate noticeably and will stick around until wiped away).
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On the contrary, I saved a couple of hundred dollars by getting a Macbook Pro from Japan. There's an Inquiry going on right now into IT-related pricing by Apple, Adobe and Microsoft:

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w...

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/04/15/parliamentary...
A lot of people actually.
It links to a landing page with a video that requires you press a play button. No automatic playback.
Except, for this attack you have to be link-local (fe80 is local scope, and so are router advertisements). Realistically, for most server installs you're okay. For coffee shops with an open, insecure broadcast domain, not so much
Great. It's a modern day equivalent of the lie detector for recordings.
If there's no reason to believe that the exploit is already being used in the wild, then I completely agree.

I also think that a good compromise would be to pass on the exploit information to some 3rd party, tasked with releasing full details at a certain date (or simply, the responsible release of the exploit). The focus of pressure would then shift from the researcher to this 3rd party, which would presumably have the means to resist the pressure.
I was kind of surprised when one of my friends dropped that fact the other day. I always associated Ravi with The Beatles, but I didn't know he actually fathered (in the literal sense) another excellent musician :)
If you read the wording, it says don't make TedX part of a festival.

Which is understandable, college fairs are big things here, and are definitely not about giving back to the community, but more about showing what you can do. Its the good kind of self promotion and pageant.

TedX would only be a side show and its goals and principles would be completely lost/overwritten by the Fair. (Take any of you IIT fests/IIM fests or even your Xaviers college and so on)
I believe what they're restricting is it's use WITHIN another event.

as part of a campus festival

They might be fine with students hosting the events, but TEDx shouldn't be a subheading as part of some bigger school event.
RIP Ravi. he was the first Indian musician I really got into.
You don't need their database, you just need to record some background noise (assuming that you can replace the hum in your recording with another one).
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MICs are actually roughly based on an updated Pentium 1 (P54) platform so it won't matter.

http://m.extremetech.com/extremetech/#!/entry/intels-50core-...
How true. Usually, it's buried somewhere in the fine print that their uncle is a tshirt print maker, dad is a wholesaler and they have done different tshirts in the past and have a big blog with a big audience to promote on. The devil's in the details.

For HN projects, people are also probably reusing their own prior work and code. They might have done something very similar for a different industry, or tweeking the purpose and application of something old to create something new.
I imagine you could filter out the 48-52Hz range (probably less) and make your fake recording unverifiable.

Taking the audio from the time you want to claim the recording took place and adding it shouldn't be too difficult either, though that might leave other clues that it's not genuine.
I got the impression from Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer that (aside from a few minor skin cancers) Leukemia has always been the easiest cancer to attack and study, since it shows up in the blood. But it's been a damn long road from early successes almost 70 years ago.
Keep in touch with good people. Collect contact info. Keep it up to date and backed up. Your network is as important if not more, than your skills as you go up the ladder. I think of it as my own private Google index, that I can lookup for anything that the real one can't provide.
So if one were to set up a continuous recording of mains electricity, and then provide a UI that lets you grab a slice of the hum (a time range), and sell that, you could make some rather evil money. Or, if you were the police, have your "real" recordings verified very easily.
thats sad because TED was meant to be this high signal to noise ratio talks about interesting topics.
Since this attack is based on Router Advertisements, you need to be on the same LAN to exploit it. It also does not apply if the LAN implements RA Guard (RFC6105).
Here's a program trying to address the issue by helping people from the industry get involved in teaching: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/technology/microsoft-sends.... I'm teaching an APCS class through it this year.
It helped land me a firmware development position at what was then a fortune 500 company.
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$799 is the outright price: that is, not on a contract. If you buy one one a contract you might pay $5 per month over 24 months (depending on the plan and model you get).
Neat, I like it!
You already have it set in your mind yahoo is going to keep failing. If this was the next greatest thing I'm sure you'd still have a negative comment. I care little to nothing about this, but reading your comment just made me think you aren't too keen on forgiveness and second chances. It's incredibly rare to get something right the first or even next few times.
Brubeck was a day from his 92nd birthday and Shankar was 92. That's a pretty good run for both.
The US$199 would be with a two year contract with a mobile carrier.

The A$799 is without a contract.
I'd think that most of them would be using a RTOS like VxWorks or QNX.
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I know that infix notations tends to push your intuition towards an imperative and sequential way of thinking somehow. Like, for an expression like:

( ...big thing 1... ) + ( ...big thing 2...)

...people tend to think like "compute 'big thing 1' and then, to this, add 'big thing 2'".

...but then again, "purer" languages like Haskell don't use prefix (yes, it's an alternative, but people just don't use it). And mathematical language, that is not imperative and sometimes not even sequential, uses infix. And List never made a fuss about being a "pure" functional language... it's more of a "multi paradingm" language. Still like Haskell's way of putting the operator on parentheses for prefix in infix by default, though H will definitely never be my favorite language...
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As it happens, the analogy is from the Unix Text Processing book, page 97: "Mark Horton writes us: I think of ms as the FORTRAN of nroff, mm as the PL/I, and me as the Pascal."

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions! I will plough through some of this documentation and make my way over to the list.
> To be honest what's surprising is it took this long...

I agree. I think this goes to show just how much Australians are willing to pay for technology in general. It's a shame that we get shafted on a lot of technology/electronics but the fact is that people are willing to pay.
You may have misunderstood his point or maybe I am. The way I understood, it is not about assertions such as
i = min < max ? min : max
but rather about the architecture of the software. The software should come built-in with the features that by default prevent bad software designs.

His argument is not to abolish tests and use asserts, but rather to define a set of cases for which you would not need to test because the framework, by its nature, makes it unnecessary.

His example was SQL injection. (a) If I were to write my own MySql queries which directly talk with the DB, then I would need to write tests around those query to make sure it is not possible to execute SQL injection. (b) If I am using an ORM that comes with feature so I don't write the sql queries, it creates it on its own and also comes with the feature to handles possible use-cases which would normally lead to SQl injection, in such case, there is no need to write the test.
Building web frameworks is all the rage.
I think it's more about pushing you mind towards a more imperative and sequential way of thinking than compactness (see my comment above)... but this shouldn't be "anti-Lisp" since Lisps have always tried to be "multi-paradigm"...
Crazy - a bunch of deadpoolers picked him: http://stiffs.com/celebrity/ravishankar/
Right. I am more interested in the scenario where you fake something that is judged a genuine recording but is actually not.
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The reason its so popular with corporates is that most of the expensive problems are already solved so building software is sticking a few well proven components together with some glue. It's also good at managing memory for you, which is not something that can be said for most languages.
Admin is disabled by default. But a spartan option would be nice.
The term "Generative" in "Generative art" has a pretty well-defined meaning.

Your comment is like saying that you don't think PHP arrays should be called "arrays" because element indices aren't necessarily strictly increasing. You can think that, and there's some sense to it, but it's still called "array". Similarly, you can't change the meaning of a commonly accepted term just because someone buys something at Amazon.

Assuming the OP's project can be called art, it's definitely generative. The artist does not choose which item is purchased.
The price gouging of Australian consumers is especially noticeable when it comes to intangible goods like software and games purchased digitally. As an example, when Diablo 3 came out a few months ago I purchased it via the Blizzard store for $79 (no packaging costs, no distribution costs except for a little bandwidth) and yet I paid $79 for a computer game. While that doesn't sound too bad at first, friends of mine who purchased physical copies of the game from Dick Smith paid $59 for a physical copy that required packaging, printing and a CD, not to mention shipping costs as well as store markup. We are definitely being ripped off here in Australia, just because we can afford to pay more doesn't give companies the right to charge more (especially for digital downloads).

I doubt anything will come of the inquiry to be honest, but it is nice to think that perhaps things might change.
Sparse and dense matrix math and eigensolvers would be really nice. Especially solvers that let you efficiently get the eigenvectors associated with the smallest eigenvalues as this comes up in graph and image partitioning.
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>In the bad old days, you only got to number 1 because of payola.

What old days? Dick Clark days? Because thousands of acts have been to the number one in the 80's and 90's without payola, just emerging virally (either as one hit wonders, or as more established artists).

>Chances of an unsigned Korean artist getting there. 0.

That might be in the US. In the UK and Europe there were lots of cross-cultural hits from unexpected sources, including third world and different languages.

Heck, 8 million dollars is what a #1 single would cash in just in England back in the day.
Well, there was also Anoushka, his Grammy-nominated, sitar-playing daughter:

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