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How are they implementing the screenshot detection on iOS?

I searched and found some stack overflow posts, but they all seem stumped (especially for iOS 6)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13484516/ios-detection-of...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2121970/notification-of-o...
AppsForGood - Getting UK school kids to build and release mobile apps
"Some researchers are already building devices that run on “ambient” energy harvested from light, heat, vibration or TV transmitters."

Very cool.
Try http://postgresguide.com, would welcome feedback on it as content is continuing to be added and improved
At 9:30 am there was a 'moment of silence' modal popup that came across HN and limited access to the site. The popup linked to here[1] and appeared with the message to 'Honor the Victims of Sandy Hook', and then encouraged us to support gun violence prevention.

I too was wondering what was going on until I realized that Paul Graham was one of the supporters of the project at Causes.com.

[1] - http://www.causes.com/causes/807161-stand-with-sandy-hook/ac...
I love the great taste D3 displays in its design. Some real thought has been given to how the user interacts with the library and the conventions he or she needs to convert data to graphics. Fantastic stuff.
First thing I thought when I saw the title was: Linux, apache, mysql, php...
I agree Quora's answer-hiding is bad, so I share your grudge [1]. But that problem doesn't blind me to their other strengths. A focus on shared peeves may generate highly-upvoted comments but doesn't make for balanced analysis.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Internet-History/What-was-it-like-to-br...
Hey how about a blog post from the OP about how the major democratic countries (US[1], Canada, UK) all collect emails, phone calls, chat logs, ISP logs, and such for balance? China spying on its citizens is not even surprising.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...
You can usually use "-std=c99" to ban features of concern.
I think you're vehemently agreeing with Irregardless.
Ever since I've read the innovator's dilemma around 2006 or so, I've tried to watch for other examples of disruptions happening in the tech industry, including laptops (disrupting PC's), iPhone/Android phones (disrupting Nokia/RIM smartphones), iOS/Android (disrupting Windows/Mac OS) and a few others.

But while you could still find something to argue about in some of those case, especially when the "fall off a cliff" hasn't happened yet for those companies (disruption takes a few years before it's obvious to everyone, including the company being disrupted), I think the ARM vs Intel/x86 one has been by far the most obvious one, and what I'd consider a "by-the-book" disruption. It's one of the most classical disruption cases I've seen. If Clayton Christensen decides to rewrite the book again in 2020, he'll probably include the ARM vs Intel case study.

What will kill Intel is probably not a technical advantage that ARM has and will have. But the pricing advantage. It's irrelevant if Intel can make a $20 chip that is just as good as an ARM one. Intel made good ARM chips a decade ago, too. But the problem is they couldn't live off that. And they wouldn't be able to survive off $20 Atom chips. The "cost structure" of the company is built to support much higher margin chips.

They sell 120 mm2 Core chips for $200. But as the articles says, very soon any type of "Core" chip will overshoot most consumers. It has already overshot plenty, because look at how many people are using iPads and Android tablets or smartphones, and they think the performance is more than enough. In fact, as we've seen with some of the comments for Tegra 4 here, they think even these ARM chips are "more than enough" performance wise.

That means Intel is destined to compete more and more not against other $200 chips, but against other $20 chips, in the consumer market. So even if they are actually able to compete at that level from a technical point of view, they are fighting a game they can't win. They are fighting by ARM's rules.

Just like Innovator's Dilemma says, they will predictably move "up-market" in servers and supercomputers, trying to chase higher-profits as ARM is forcing them to fight with cheaper chips in the consumer market. But as we know ARM is already very serious about the server market, and we'll see what Nvidia intends to do in the supercomputer market eventually with ARM (Project Denver/Boulder).

As for Microsoft, which is directly affected by Intel/x86's fate, Apple and Google would be smart to accelerate ARM's takeover of Intel's markets. Because if Microsoft can't use their legacy apps as an advantage against iOS and Android, that means they'll have to start from scratch on the ARM ecosystem, way behind both of them. Apple could do it by using future generations of their own custom-designed ARM CPU in Macbooks, and Google by focusing more on ARM-based Chromebooks, Google TV's, and by ignoring Intel in the mobile market. Linux could take advantage of this, too, because most legacy apps work on ARM by default.
I think that seems a bit extreme. I've opted out of nearly every flight I've been on (unless crunched for time due to traffic of crazy lines or something) and I've never been treated like this, I'm not defending the TSA, I'm just saying this isn't "normal". Sometimes they'll make you stand around and wait, the shoving and the intimidation has never occurred. Making the jump to the idea that a TSA officer has a weapon, or can "issue a hit" is absurd.

edit:
Also, the most shocking part of the whole ordeal is usually the looks from the OTHER people in line, like they think you're going to be killed or assaulted, or "why don't you just cooperate, it's easier". That's the part that really makes me sad.
They are mostly not exempt, see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...

The exception are the rare members travelling with a security detail, i.e. when the security detail is armed.
Data Pipeline looks like a fine orchestration service, but it's not going to ingest 48 TB of data any faster than you can do it yourself. Which is probably not that fast.
RE: the memory model, I wrote a blog post on it because I had the same trouble. Folks seem to have found it pretty helpful!

http://tomlee.co/2012/12/managed-and-owned-boxes-in-the-rust...
Is this different from FaceBook Messenger? Looks like some duplication of functionality. Are you going to pull Messenger from the market?
"Railgun" is just a fancy name for Cloudflare's implementation of DSA (Internap and Akamai sometimes call it "Whole Site Delivery").

Every other major CDN offers some variation on this same service. Suck the bits in at a server close to the origin, compress them using proprietary voodoo, expand things at the server closest to the client.

Akamai owns the relevant patents on this (which it acquired from the Netli acquisition) and has used them to sue then acquire other companies like Cotendo. See http://www.google.com/patents/US6820133 and http://www.google.com/patents/US7293093
Having done this occasionally, it usually wasn't bad at all, but occasionally it got frustrating enough that I'd use a local clone of the repo. It's for that reason that I'm hesitant to go this route (or the iPad/keyboard route).

Interestingly enough, one of the main problems vim was attempting to solve was the annoyance of dealing with a high-latency connection:

http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/people/joy-vi.html
Huge congrats guys! I admit I'm still trying to figure out the nuances, but I really like a lot of the ideas in the language. :)
No offense, but just having root doesn't magically change the behavior of the store.
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I suppose it all ultimately comes from solar energy, which, in turn, comes from nuclear fusion.
It's Android, you don't need root to install apps that Verizon doesn't want you to get from the Play store.
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Why the mention of Google Voice? I've never had an issue using Google Voice w/ Verizon, all the way back to Droid OG days.
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I find myself in a place where I've outgrown Codeacademy but can't seem to find a strong online curriculum for grasping actual software development methedology and implementing MVC. Would anyone have any recommendations? Thanks for reading.
The main difference here is that you can set messages to expire after a certain time interval - a feature that became massively popular with SnapChat.
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Nice rip-off of SnapChat functionality.
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The Momofuku cookbook is just fantastic. Fish sauce vinaigrette is the best thing ever.
Off the top of my head adobo and many Korean stews like kimchi and pork stew (Dwaejigogi Kimchijjigae). Browning isn't a bad thing, you just don't need it for all dishes.
I hope I didn't inadvertently imply a correlation between phone rooting and Play Store behavior. It doesn't work for me now because Google wants me to upgrade my currently installed sideloaded version of wallet in order to function at all, but the Play Store won't let me and I'm tired of sideloading the app.
It's not very useless. The title suggests a perpetual motion machine, so I was wondering what that was doing on HN. Knowing you have to lift it first (from the article or from the comments) is important to know and lets one think this isn't necessarily made up.
Whenever I read about modern desktops, I think about the graphs in the Innovator's Dilemma. [1]

The incumbent players (Intel, Microsoft, Dell, HP) are all competing on the established metrics of performance & price, but those are no longer the metrics that matter. ARM is pushing the power efficiency angle. Apple is winning on industrial design.

The entire computer industry (excluding phones, which has obviously already been disrupted) is right on the verge of being flipped on its head. There were hints of that with the netbook wave, but they weren't quite good enough. The iPad and subsequent high end Android tablets are close, but not 100% there. But we are just about at the point where ARM vs x86 is equivalent for the mass market, and that really is going to shake things up.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Dis...
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, as I bypassed the article probably at least a couple times before realizing that it didn't say "Lamp Server" and just said "Lamp".
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Adobo is a great example. Thanks! Now I'm going to make an adobo this weekend.
I don't know much about SnapChat but this is very clearly a feature not a product, and a feature that Facebook's users will probably be happy to get. Trying to build a business around this one idea would be very risky.
If you had an infinitely long rope and access to an infinitely deep chasm, then there's no reason it wouldn't be considered a perpetual motion machine.
And the nuclear fusion is started if not powered by the heat and pressure caused by, wait for it...

GRAVITY!!!
There's one difference with many of these examples: unlike experiencing a mean TSA officer going through security you can get someone to help you (family member, attorney), or request another representative. If you don't like your pat-down officer at the airport you would have extreme difficulty in requesting another persons assists you.

One of the reasons we hate the TSA so much is that you lose all control between the gates. If things go badly for you you must comply regardless or face genuine time-sensitive consequences.
Which is induced by the intense pressure gravity creates in large lumps of mass :) so yeah..
Probably yes. Annoying pendants are predictably annoying.
Kind of like the ASUS PadFone?
Don't forget the passengers waiting in line. Suppose each person being screened waits 15 minutes, and makes $5 per hour at their job. That would be one billion dollars in lost productivity per year.
Google Wallet is in Google Play on my phone. It isn't on Verizon phones. There is a distinction.
Can someone explain to me the thinking behind the multiple app strategy for facebook? Personally I find it grossly inconvenient to switch apps when going from chatting with a friend to seeing their Timeline. What am I missing?
they probably just grab the alexa top 1 million csv file that they provide.
I don't think that's useless pedanticism at all. If you didn't know anything about physics, you're likely to hear "powered by gravity" and think "great, gravity is ubiquitous and free, so this is totally free energy", whereas actually these poor people will have to eat more in order to light their homes. So it's important to communicate what you actually have to do to power this light.

On the other hand, your "if you're reductive at all, you have to be 100% reductive all the time or shut up" argument is completely unhelpful.
It looks like the Clang binaries for 32-bit Ubuntu try to produce 64-bit executables by default:

# clang -v
clang version 3.2 (tags/RELEASE_32/final)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
# clang hello_world.c
/usr/include/features.h:324:10: fatal error: 'bits/predefs.h' file not found
# clang -m32 hello_world.c # (No error)

That's not right, surely?
great summary :) You're absolutely right about the stdlibs, Go has a great library, which you quickly start missing when you're using Rust which otherwise is a great language. I'm looking forward to what I think is the next stage for Rust, the stdlibs.
It's the network effect, AT&T and Verizon have the biggest networks, therefore the most valuable.

Apparently there are lots of pre-paid plans that do what you want using the big networks, not to mention T-mobile and Sprint with their smaller networks.
I was expecting a post related to Cloud9 IDE. As a mostly-front-end developer that's something I'd try.
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A volunteer usually comes along with PPAs within a week or so, though with the new buildbot it might be feasible to have official nightly binaries built for every platform.

The Windows builds are very finicky, I'd be quite surprised if they worked under Wine.
Go has a great standard library in terms of breadth. The quality of the standard library varies between packages though.

I wouldn't say they're higher quality than comparable Scala/Java libraries, but I guess that's subjective.

Still love Go though, but really looking forward to a production ready Rust.
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Seen that before. those transformers will light up like christmas trees when they start to short-curcuit. Was a weird thing though considering.
Unless I've misread these companies, I don't quite think Medium and Quora are aiming for the same thing. Medium is more of a creative platform for storytellers (fiction) while Quora is more of a factual platform for information (non-fiction).

That's not to say Medium couldn't have non-fiction as well, just as bloggers could write about fiction and non-fiction on the same blog, though bloggers tend to stick with one format or the other within the same site.
reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaWnd3LJfs
I'm a bit confused: the poll was released in August. That said, the final budget negotiations for the first half of 2013 (which included the DoHS) weren't concluded until September. Is that what you mean?
FullContact's human transcription API now in "high def"
And just like that, Poke Wars became a real thing!
Not sure if you've ever flown on a private jet but you just drive up to it, there is no TSA or security measures in place, you literally take your car onto the tarmac and walk onto a jet, it's marvelous.

With that said I don't know how many of these congressmen/women travel via mass commuter air transit (RFK died in a private jet, Sen. Ted Stevens died in a private plane, etc.) but I'm willing to bet a large majority of them don't, and therefore don't get to encounter the standard procedure or are ushered through unabated. Imagine some geek in a blue shirt telling John McCain he has to take off his shoes and belt to come though the check point... very unlikely.
Intel's problem is the technology, it is their business practices. ARM is all about customization, and Intel is about commodity motherboards. Intel has restricted every item that might give one PC manufacturer an advantage (e.g. no custom chipsets).
The level to which this is a clone of Snapchat is kind of astounding. Did FB ever try to buy them, or are they trying to destroy competition before they have to pay big bucks like they did for Instagram?

It's all business, so I suppose all's fair, but it hardly paints Facebook as a hub of innovation.
That's bullsh*t. The best programmers I know talk a lot and read a lot. Shutting off oneself just kills the creativity...
I was just thinking, "No love for ATLAS?" but here it is :) http://atlas-model.mehlhase.info/
Yeah, I don't see how you can do anything other than simple web development this way. For things like mobile, console, Flash, Unity, etc. I'm pretty sure if you're not using the standard IDEs and emulators you're going to have a bad time, and those are difficult to use remotely.

But if you're a web developer, you should by all means do whatever it takes to make development easier.
You're not optimizing for a user session measured in seconds by weakly attached people-who-are-not-technologists. Facebook is.

Slide open phone, one touch to open app, one touch to take picture, as few touches as possible to re-engage 2nd party "user" of app.
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The level to which this is a clone of Snapchat is kind of astounding. Did FB ever try to buy them, or are they trying to destroy competition before they have to pay big bucks like they did for Instagram?

It's all business, so I suppose all's fair, but it hardly paints Facebook as a hub of innovation. I quit a job a few years ago once they gave me the task of basically cloning a competitor from the ground up. There's no excitement or challenge in that, and I can only imagine some very bored Facebook developers have had a less than notable Holiday season so far.
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I moved to Verizon on my birthday on the 8th of this month. Finally ditched T-mobile to get an iPhone. I have been using Google Voice as my sole number for years now. It's very important to me. I even explained this when buying. Turns out that unannounced Verizon has started blocking Google Voice verifying your number do I cannot use it. At first I thought it was a blip but lots of Googling has discovered this appears to be a change as it's hitting everyone. If anyone can show me a fix and where I'm wrong I will happily stand corrected. But to this date every attempt to get my phone added to Google Voice has failed and blocking appears to be going on. I would not be surprised if existing iPhone Google Voice users are fine if they've already verified their number. I have no idea.
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Not all pastors are literalists.

Mostly just those from the subset of Christianity called "Fundamentalism" [0], which was founded around a hundred years ago as a reaction (IMO, an overreaction) to "Liberal Christianity" [1]. It's worth reading up on the history of those movements to get a clear understanding of where the modern move toward strong literalism originated.

You may also find it worthwhile to read Origen's De Principiis, particularly book IV sections 16-22 [2], and Augustine's On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis, particularly chapter 19 [3]. I've found a number of very early Christian scholars tend to treat certain sections of the Bible (particularly the first sections of Genesis) as not being intended to be understood literally.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity

[2] http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.vi.v.v.ii.html

[3] http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/alaffey/other_files/Aug...
Sure, it's like SnapChat, but isn't that always the dynamic in this industry: the Feature Qua Product (simplicity, focus) vs. Feature Qua Feature (integration)? Some folks, like those who use Buffer, for example, simply prefer tightly-focused, standalone apps while others prefer ones that do more, that integrate many features into a (sometimes) cohesive product a la HootSuite.

Personal note: while I'd have been tempted to compare them to Apple or Google in the past, Facebook's turning out to be a lot more like Microsoft for the web, appropriating features or buying companies to Do Everything, even if they're not the best in each vertical.
I'm trying to understand what they're going for here. The interesting part is that the "pokes" are ephemeral. Is that special because every other type of electronic message has permanence?
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vietnam, iraq and afghanistan are all proof that the largest military in the world can be defeated without having an aircraft carrier. But the citizenry can't be armed with pitchforks and expect to be able to overthrow the government (see North Korea)
cool idea..
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I think you mean "pedants". ;-)
unfortunately it ships with older 3.1 version and not 3.2 so for porting it's not the greatest. You can use clang without google's changes just fine though (just have to get the PIC and pie flags right). A few bugs fixed with C++ on android in google's version but nothing major. Or better yet, you can wait until the Apportable SDK is publicly released so your objective-c apps can run on Android. :-)
I've seen this article to be 100% correct in practice. There's a small minority of agents, who when I opt out, laugh and say "yeah, I don't blame you, I wouldn't go through these either." There's a majority who are simply trying to do whatever they can do reduce conflict without getting in trouble. And there's a small population of middle management douchebags that are trying their best to use their tiny bit of authority as a club to bludgeon the public and tell people what to do. These people make the experience miserable, because they tend to be the equivalent of "shift leaders" on the floor.

Overall, what TSA does is a huge waste of money. It's a lot to spend for security theater.
You should say "other operating systems" maybe, not "other browsers". On OS X, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome all defer to the system as to whether to default to subpixel antialiasing. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 8's metro version of IE did the same. And Firefox ignores -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased, so you still can't claim consistency.

And if you're trying to be pixel perfect to Photoshop, why aren't you using PNG? Anything else isn't going to work, after all.

But if you're only arguing for white on black, well I guess. But you don't point this out, and white on black is horrid for text anyway.
This Koomey guy better have a conversation with Ray Kurzwiel before he go's around naming this "Discovery" after himself. Considering Kuyrzwiel's book "The Singularity is Near" already covered this phenomenon 7 years ago. I didn't see anything in this article that I hadn't heard before. That chart is nearly identical to ones in Kurzwiel's book.
During your lunch break or commute home, plan out your priorities to get done at home. It might be something like 30 min guitar, read up on Google's BigTable papers for 30 min, check twitter/fb/gmail for 30 min, and then goof off guilt free.

Make sure you're spending time to exercise, meet with friends, develop interests and passions outside of work.
indeed! having lived in india, i get particularly excited by projects that could provide grid-free lighting and clean water to rural areas.

also, a quick plug for my blog [http://aleverlongenough.wordpress.com/] rounding up projects like this - it was unfortunately short-lived because life got busy, but i hope to restart it in 2013.