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> Hard drive space is incredibly cheap

Actually, no it isn't and at scale it makes it even more expensive, because you need redundancy. We are talking about RAID and CDN, not to mention that at scale hardware breaks a lot more often.

What actually makes it palatable for businesses such as Yahoo or Google is that many people pay for this storage without using it, while heavy users that share a lot help by marketing the product through their sharing to others.

On the other hand I've got 50 GB worth of data uploaded on Flickr. You can't tell me that 50 GB of redundant on-demand storage is worth $25 / year, unless you live in some kind of fairy land. I also have only a couple of photos shared. So what value does Flickr get from me?
Yeah, the GDI is pretty horrible. But in Microsoft's defense, those decisions were made almost 20 years ago for NT4, when prevailing views on security and stability were very different from today. The post DX10 graphics pipeline doesn't do things like this, and is really quite sane and robust. Unfortunately, you need Vista+ for DX10, and even then you still get saddled with the local GDI attack surface.
I've considered it in the past. There hasn't been much demand for it. Can you suggest the idea at http://nsscreencast.uservoice.com so people can vote on it?
What about Trip Advisor? They seem like some sort of pariah in this space. Hardly anyone talks about them, but despite their un-hipness, we've come to rely on them as our primary source of information when traveling. We regularly find more reviews on Trip Advisor than Yelp. I don't understand why Yelp gets all the attention?
Hey, actually, I think I found exactly what you want, maybe!

http://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html
- >I mean, for the daily usage of almost everyone, I don't even see the difference between a Samsung Galaxy S3 (or an iPhone 5) and my phone which is a Wiko Cink Slim.

I do.
Since so very very many things changed in backwards incompatible ways, why didn't they just go with calling it 2.0 rather than 1.9? I mean, the changes are huge and most versioning schemes increase the major version number on backwards incompatibility.
Modern mathematicians find it useful for calculating properties of black holes. Ramanujan had no more to do with black holes that, say, Newton who invented calculus after all, and that's used for black-hole describing too. Its kind of a meaningless fact to toss into the article.
But Facebook is not a passive party here. They are actively using your information to market products towards you and your friends, much more so than most sites.
So if I repurpose a photo I found on Instagram and it becomes the next Obama "Hope" poster I have to pay the photographer and Instagram? That would be lolled out of court.

Same thing with selling people's personal pics as stock photos, it doesn't matter what the user agreement says, that ain't gonna fly in front of a judge.

It would be like putting a sticker on the back of a picture frame that says whatever you put in here now belongs to Frames incorporated, NAL but it seems to me however legally binding it claims to be it wouldn't pass the smell test in court.
It seems that you can opt out by selecting to be a "private" user.
Monopoly is reached, when there is a lack of economic competition to produce the good or service and a lack of viable substitute goods.

If the service facebook provides is access and contact between people, any substitute (ie, proof that there is no monopoly) would have to be near the size of facebook to qualify. How many other viable substitutes are there that reach 30% of the population? Any at 20%, 10%, 5%, 1%?

face it, facebook has a monopoly right now in regard to a service proving access and contact between people.
Also, doesn't have most punctuation or capital letters :)
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There is still perceptible difference performance wise between iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, but I wonder if that still be the case comparing iPhone 5 and the next model.
I really see no lag now, except for network activity sometimes, but that is also the case for desktop.
I am not much of a gamer, so GPU does not mean much to me past the smooth scrolling, but iPhone had that since 2007, so…
Well ok but what is the purpose of the gun amendment?

This is getting back to my original question, do we know the purpose and use of the Constitutions or are we just following it like a holy commandment passed down from above?

I can see the purpose of the "Free Speech" it makes sense today more than ever. What is the purpose of the "right to bear arms" how does it apply?

You say:

> The constitution is there to protect the unpopular rights

What if unpopular rights are those that kill children. What if there was other crazy stuff written in there. Would you still defend it because it was signed by a few guys that started a country a while back in 200+ year ago?

> And so we have constitutional rights specifically to stop us from enacting the really obvious clever solutions to the problems of the day.

> And so we have constitutional rights specifically to stop us from enacting the really obvious clever solutions to the problems of the day.

Ok but doesn't that imply that the founding fathers somehow foresaw the advent of nuclear arms, school shootings, the internet and created a concise set of laws that would prevent us from sneaking in laws by creating loopholes. I doubt they did.
Google brings more Dead Sea Scrolls online
I also felt this was a great story ruined at the end. The author is talking about the terrorific (terror-filled) ride of his daughter's birth and young life, then flops over to a children's tale about one all-powerful being wanting more followers than a different all-powerful being.

What do these all-powerful beings have to do with his daughter and her struggle to live? What does it have to do with all of the doctors and nurses who cared for his daughter? Why thank this all-powerful being who did nothing for your child, but take for granted all of the people who worked to help her?
I don't really feel like they actually get into the specifics of how scala actually benefited them outside of what everyone already knows about scala from a really high level.

Bummer. I'm using scala at a small startup.
I'm a terrible natural cook, so I use recipe books. I can't say that this information is surprising. Recipes are always calling for things like double cream and a great deal of olive oil or deep frying where baking will do.

I just don't pay any attention to those bits. I use the semi-skim milk we have in the house and only enough oil as necessary. The food still comes out tasting good.
Fortunately for you, your collection is small. Because I love photography, but I'm a bad photographer, whenever I take my camera for a spin I always end up with 1000 photos in a couple of hours.

The result is something like 50 GB of photos, which isn't so cheap to backup on Amazon S3.

But on the other hand, we are talking about photos for which we need backups, because digital storage is incredibly unreliable and I want to show those photos to my grandchildren someday.
Those who reads German may be interested in reading the official press release (https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20121217-facebook-k...), including the decrees to Facebook Inc./USA and Facebook Ltd./Ireland.

Non-professional summary and translation:

I. Facebook is obligated by law to provide the following for the natural persons who want to use www.facebook.com in Schleswig-Holstein:

1. It must be possible to register with a pseudonym.

2. Accounts of registered users whose registration is blocked because of incomplete disclosure or non-disclosure of their real information must be reactivated.

3. Users are to be informed on www.facebook.com about the possibility to register with a pseudonym before the registration.

II. The immediate execution of the provision I. N°2 is decreed.

III. If Facebook does not implement the provisions of I. within two weeks after the delivery of this notice, it will be handed out a penalty of 20,000 EUR.
There is a HUGE difference between a company using personal data about you to target marketing to you, and company taking data (photos in this case) provided by you (or by a third party about you) and using it to market products to others.

If I see an ad about (insert product name) in my (insert Google product) stream, it is something that only I can see. If you see a picture of me (perhaps uploaded by a "friend" to a site like instagram) used to advertised products to you, then my privacy has been severely breached.
I am not aware if that gives Germany any power over them or not

Not really, it is Irish law that applies.

the data protection laws are the same across the EU, so I am making a big assumption here that it is the case

Yes and no. EU Directives set out a lot details (and usually minimum levels) for various things, but countries implement & transpose them into national law (i.e. actual law) themselves and there can be differences. Remember not all countries in EU speak same language, have same legal systems (civil law vs. common law) or use the same currency so there will be some some superficial differences. Sometimes countries get a opt-out of certain EU directives. Sometimes countries will go above and beyond the EU directives. (e.g. in UK it's possible to opt out of the 48 hr maximum working week, whereas France has no opt out and sets the maximum working week at 35 hrs.) Broadly speaking EU law will be the same across the EU.

However the next EU Data Protection / Privacy directive will allow one country to act against a company/person if they are active in that country, rather than it having to be based on where that company's headquarters are.
User funded moodpanda finally on Android
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We often hear the platitude that we should eat lots of fruits and vegetables, but it is rarely followed by extensive information that explains the tangible ways in which fruits and vegetables will improve our health.
I am shocked. Weren't social media platforms to be our friends and respect our privacy, pay for servers and programmers without anything in return?
> The general public I think would find it relevant especially based on news media reporting.

They wouldn't.
However if the law says that you must be able to use them without giving your full name then the service must abide by that.
My thought exactly. The Tegra 3 is good tablet hardware, but it doesn't compete with serious consoles. With it, the Ouya is probably doomed to have little besides scaled-up phone/tablet games.

The Tegra 4 sounds like it might be a platform for hardcore games. Not with every last bit of the latest 3D glitz enabled, but good enough to run a version of most recent games.
Could you expand a bit? I'm genuinely interested. What kind of activity do you use your phone for that requires so much computational power that you actually see the difference between a 1GHz dual-core and a 1.5GHz quad-core?
I worked for an ad network which was showcasing a banner template that looked like this: log in with your Facebook account from an ad, profile pictures of your friends appear, share stuff about the product with them. I'm pretty sure that covers "use of your pictures for advertising". It's not exactly using your face in the next Super Bowl ad, but it's still using your image for commercial purposes.
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"Can Java really compete with a Perl module that has a long list of dependencies (50+ is a pain but will work) and some code tying it together...? "
Maven does it. I'm pretty sure that all main languages have their equivalents too.
How about how they use YOUR photos?
this should end up in the European Court

Eh? I'm not sure such a thing called "the European Court" exists...
If by "god" the author means "the general goodness within most humans, which inspired them to act to save my daughter's life", then the author should say so more directly.

If the author didn't want to tie his concept of "deity-as-avatar-for-goodness" to a religion with so much baggage, he should have chosen a different word.
Sure, monopolies needs to be controlled. (Especially then there is no longer free market.)

However, for me there is a strong difference whether a monopoly chances rules (or as time goes by, the world changes - see move/music distributors) or people accepted it before it was a monopoly.

E.g. imagine that Germany say that HN needs to have pictures or, at very least, thumbnails. ;)
It seems that the vast majority users are 100% OK with giving up some level of privacy for free service. I consider myself fully within that group and do not mind targeted ads for example.

I believe where users draw the line is when a service uses their content to distribute to others for a fee. Using images, essentially intellectual property, is not OK with me. Nor am I a fan of Facebook using my name in sponsored likes. The later bothers me less, but it still annoys me that it is happening. Part of this is the fact that when you first logged on to facebook, you viewed it as a way to share in a fairly private network with your friends. Now your habits must change to protect yourself, but you have no alternative (yet).

I don’t have an answer to the problem with how free networks should grow, but personally, I am opposed to any use of my content as a distribution or free use of images. Now I feel that I have to protect myself by not posting photos to facebook in case they one day change their policy.
How SAP measures innovation: "Easy: we look at revenue"
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This is beautiful...
That's like O'Leary on the Lang & O'Leary show saying that Pinterest is a productivity search engine.
It might have escaped your notice, but a lot of people over the past few thousand years have worried about the power of governments, and a lot of effort has been expended in trying to limit this power through laws.

Any time you have an uneven distribution of power, be it a government or a corporate monopoly, you need to have some safeguards in place to ensure that power is not abused.
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Are you kidding? That's 54% of a startup investment!
The more interesting question in my opinion is "should there be laws regulating voluntary agreements".

This is the core of the libertarian stance, that there should be no laws that can override voluntary agreements. However this means no minimum wage laws, no employee protection laws, no anti-discrimination laws etc. The outcome of "law can never override contracts" is untenable to me, so yes, I think there should be laws regulating voluntary agreements.
My question is if this amounts to 1/6 the battery life.

I personally don't care for gfx intensive mobile games, i would rather OEM's focus on efficiency rather then raw power. But thats just my 2 cents.
> 6x seems like a big difference

From the user's point of view, maybe not. If you do not do anything which requires much CPU power, then the difference may be between waiting 6 milliseconds and waiting 1 millisecond. I believe the parent's question was to know which kind of task requires the CPU power.
IMHO if in 2013 a HTML5 application needs iframe + js proxies hacks to perform faster, there is something deeply wrong.

Sorry for my English
because 2.0 will be 1.9 with dropped <ie9 support.

jQuery 2.0 (early 2013, not long after 1.9): This version will support the same APIs as jQuery 1.9 does, but removes support for IE 6/7/8 oddities such as borked event model, IE7 “attroperties”, HTML5 shims, etc.

Our goal is for 1.9 and 2.0 to be interchangeable as far as the API set they support. When 2.0 comes out, your decision on which version to choose should be as simple as this: If you need IE 6/7/8 support, choose 1.9; otherwise you can use either 1.9 or 2.0.

http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an...
Its marketing. Those phones render pages relatively slow compared to my pc, and thats not just "software is better optimized on x86".

Also, hopefully, the more power for the same TDP, the sooner we can get phones which much better TDP for the same power /hopes
Tegra 4 should also have OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL/CUDA support, so that's great for games, too. It's really a shame OUYA didn't wait for it. The Cortex A15 CPU's and higher bandwidth would've also helped greatly.
Because of the way adoption of new technology works, there will always be a large group, even a majority, for whom the status quo is good enough. I don't have the fantasy to see what this chip can do for me, luckily others do, and I suspect that I will be giving them my money soon.
Wil was never a redshirt. He was the son of the ships doctor who (if I remember rightly) became the ships ensign, joined Star-Fleet and later went off to explore other planes of existence with an alien known as "The Traveller".
please change the title of this post - this is not the subject - and this post contains information that may be helpful for others iOS devs
I had a nice little game of block tennis going on but of course someone had to come along and ruin it :)

This would make a good Turing test.
I deal with my government every time I vote.

Plus the comparison is wrong IMHO. Governmental power is a resource over which a party can have a monopoly. But currently no party has.

I admit that I fail to see the point of your post. Might be just me.
Hipsters begin losing interest in instagram at a reliable rate.
Selfishness is a perfectly fine motivation. I would even consider it important to a degree.
You are the first person to complain they can't remember Wesley Crusher.
Always. I've discovered a new world in here, full of interesting things, help and great people. Thank you HN.
I don't understand the idea that, given the opportunity, one would willingly put less power into a computer.
Editing video, multi track audio recording/synthesis, 3D gaming.
More interesting to me in this regard are the "4+1" cores. The +1 is a low-powered standby core. I don't know if it's new, but if not, it could change the battery life profile quite a bit.
"That is a natural result of a powerful tool."

I never claimed that Perl wasn't powerful ... in fact I think I stated the opposite. Where I work, Perl is the lingua franca of the ops team and they certainly get things done. But the newbies don't shoot holes in their foot ... they blow it clear off and often don't survive.

My comment above may be perceived as a bit trollish but I was also thinking about "thanking Perl for a job well done". I quit Perl for what I consider valid reasons (which you completely dismiss - My experience may be "anecdotal" to you, but it's still my experience) which you're clearly not going to agree with. But notice that I never said "you shouldn't use it". I'll even admit that some people accomplish a lot with it ... and that CPAN is almost the gold standard for everything (with the exception of Maven Central I think).

So keep using Perl if you want ... but hopefully now you'll understand those of us that will no longer use it and why it's popularity is declining (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....). I expect I'll replace my current tools with something better (more productive/safer/maintainable) in the next 5 years since that's been a continuing pattern for me. What will you be using in 5, 10, 15 or 20 years?
Floats are actually much faster than integers.
you should add a bit where if there's less than (starting blocks - 2) in the main game area it resets
> I'm finding that faith and logic can go hand-in-hand after all

Well, sure, since they are mutually exclusive.
In no case does this require you to pay the photographer and Instagram. It would be legally possible for you to pay the photographer or Instagram.

This change means that Instagram could license photos published through their service to you without compensating the photographer. You always have the option of licensing the photos directly from the photographer, in which case Instagram isn't involved at all.
Because it's 2012.

We don't only use the phone for calls, but also for:

1) high performance 3D games
2) demanding web use, with Canvas, SVG and other technologies
3) image editing
4) movie editing
5) audio editing
6) hi-res video capture and playback

And at some point we will do several of those at once.
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> Axiom 3: Company has no other visible means of income

This is not true.

There are plenty of other ways for social sites to make money. If Twitter is doing billions off promoted Tweets, then surely a company like Facebook which has even more data on you can make a similar amount selling standard targeted advertising.

What we are seeing here is crossing the line. The worst thing is, this data was acquired under completely different terms and conditions. I never agreed to this when I signed up, and there is the faint scent of bullshit now that the company is trying to turn around years after that fact and retrospectively acquire my data. 'Opt out by deleting' doesn't cut it - we had a contract!
The wording makes all the difference. In this case it was "pay what you want", so "take as many potato skins as you want". Would someone who takes that invitation still be a jerk? Or just selfish? Or a hacker?

This reminds me of http://www.untoldentertainment.com/blog/2011/03/05/holding-t...
It's an interesting post, but perhaps a simpler way of looking at the whole thing is you should be using average velocity over the time elapsed rather than the just-calculated new velocity.

This becomes:

velocity_new = velocity_old + acceleration * time_elapsed

position_new = position_old + (velocity_old + velocity_new) * 0.5 * time_elapsed

It makes immediate, intuitive sense (at least it does to me) and doesn't require even thinking about differential equations (at least for constant forces).
Tasks as basic as browsing.
My bank account understands. My phone's battery too. I'm not saying we should not build powerful phones, but why would I spend more money to have something better if I can have something less expensive which is more than enough already?
Parent is talking about the GPU performance; there are six times more graphics cores. The use case for OUYA, a games console, requiring more graphics power is surely obvious.
Speech recognition and Augmented Reality apps will benefit from it. Photo apps that stitch a lot of pictures together, like Google's new Photo Sphere panorama app. I figure the new chips will also make stitching more accurate in the future.

Higher resolutions, especially for tablets. For example iPad 4 has only now gotten enough GPU performance to be as fast as iPad 2 running at its old native resolution. So iPad 4 at 2048x1536 is as fast as iPad 2 at 1024x768.

So basically the iPad has stagnated for a year and a half in performance, just to get the benefit of that crisper display. And only with new upcoming chips, the iPad will start to get higher performance for native-resolution apps.
Tegra does have 5th low power core which is for low CPU tasks. I am curious what percentage of the battery is used for CPU, compared to other parts of a phone. Turning down the screen brightness gives me a significant increase in battery life, also turning off bluetooth and wifi when i am not using them.
Wil's point about companies using information about you that you did not provide, and in fact have no relationship with, business or otherwise, is a more interesting one. For some people, contact information is a very sensitive matter, and celebrities are the uninteresting case, compared to those being stalked, witness protection, etc. How are we going to deal with this?

Especially in light of the fact that the data is essentially unprotectable. It is not often observed that "DRM in general is impossible" doesn't just apply to media conglomerates, but to people as well; there's no way to DRM your phone number or address, either. So that's pretty much out. What's next?
uh.. skype? twitter? reddit? aim? gmail? google plus?