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I was replying to your comment here:

> The "creations" that people are posting are low-res cellphone pics of food and random scenery with a faux-retro filter added. Why so serious?

... I was just pointing out that some photos are art, not just "creations".
The cost is a little higher than that, because many passengers don't fly non-stop--they may take two flights though a hub, for example, but there's only been one screening.

However, if you assume one screening per flight, and a one-way flight cost of $200, that's 5% of the flight's cost.

As TSA employees only make $12-15 an hour, I presume that most of that cost goes into paying for expensive screening machines and bomb-detection sensors, but that's pure speculation.
In the long run, I prefer Microsoft's often clumsy and transparent nastiness over Google that actually tries to make people believe it's a force for good.

I prefer neither. I don't use Windows except when forced to (at work), and I don't use any Google services except basic search and Google Maps (with all possible privacy filters in place).
Tweetro+ Gets Discounted to $4.99 vice $9.99 for the Holidays
This could work as a pretty neat anti-procrastination tool. HN is ranked 2.9k and reddit is 100-something.
This seems like a straightforward corollary of Dennard's power scaling law which says that the power of a transistor should be proportional to its area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET#MOSFET_scaling
I responded to this on the other post regarding the Poke app on the homepage:

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.
You should have made the Landing page of it..or atleast content writing :)
Not necessarily bullshit, but anecdotal. Just like your own experiences.
Not everyone has the same reaction about everything.

For some people, its not cool. And, being unable to buy a controlling stock option in the company to make it obey their wishes, they used the lever of public dissent.

Looks like it worked, too.
I generally just reformat to add newlines.
"End of the Wørld" Alumni - Wish I would've thought of this...
While my productivity may vary wildly based on the factors mentioned in the article, I've built the ideal environment described for my junior guys before, and still seen wildly differing productive output between them.

Software isn't just about flow. It's about managing complexity. I'm better at managing complexity than some guys by a factor of 10. And I've worked with people who are better than me by that same factor of 10.

We aren't all made equal. This is "everyone is a winner" nonsense, and it's not how the real world works. I agree with all of the article's arguments, but the conclusion is a non sequitur.
It certainly works for some. Giffgaff in the UK use O2's network, but have lower (and more predictable) prices.
If I were putting together something like this, I'd hire a bunch of competent but relatively inexperienced lawyers starting at $35k/year in a place like Iowa or North Dakota. Spend six months training them to quickly bat down truely meritless suits, and to recognize when they get something possibly meritorious that needs to be kicked up the chain. It would be quite doable at those prices, and is indeed more or less the model used for e.g. run of the mill insurance work.

I think you still need changes in the law to make it easier to distinguish meritorious from unmeritorious litigation. Getting rid of things like the presumption of validity, raising the bar for novelty and obviousness, etc, would all make it easier to handle each case cheaply.
Rather than just making baseless assertions about people who favor vim or emacs, please mention an IDE with the same maturity, community, cross-platform support, cross-language support, and customizability as either vim or emacs.

To pick just one random alternative, let's take gedit. It looks simple and standard, which is nice. It's newer, that could be OK. It can be installed on more than one platform (though not necessarily simply). It has the major features, it's basically feature-complete. For fancier stuff and language-specific tools, you can write plugins with Python, which makes all kinds of things possible. On the other hand, it can get crashy when you use a few plugins - maturity issue. There are few plugins and fewer actively maintained because there's not a big community to support and build on it. A lot of its behavior is reasonable but not really customizable. Random example - if I personally want to have a simpler interface in the vein of scribes or WriteRoom, I'm SOL. Of course, gedit simply cannot be used from a terminal, so you will use another editor for that, with its own keybindings etc.

Most of the good editors have a story like this. Even if it seems to work great and be flexible enough, the community and plugins aren't there.

If your goal is only (say) to write C# for Windows, Visual Studio is probably best. If you only want to write Java, (say) IDEA is probably best. These are powerful environments. But only for certain things, and in a certain way. If you want to code on another platform, different language, really change the behavior, get around a bug, or get a fancy new capability without paying a vendor lots of money, you are just going to hit limits and have to pick up yet another tool.

If you've learned vim or emacs then you at least have a default which licks all these issues at once. In this sense they are "ultimate editors". And this is an opinion informed by broad usage of many editors.
Interestingly, given that the US has a fifteen trillion dollar economy, that's only 0.006% (or 6e-05) of U.S. GDP. I suspect that the economic cost of an successful terrorist attack on a U.S. aircraft would cost the U.S. economy more than one part in fifteen thousand.
SnapChat cloning aside...

I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I really like Facebook's decision to create multiple apps. We aren't good with thinking of apps as having multiple functionalities. Our thought process is more along the lines of "This app is for this, this app is for this, etc."

Having one app means a lot of features get lost in the app, and people turn to alternative apps (like Foursquare, Batch or WeChat) for functionality.

Edit: To put it another way, what if Google had one app and inside it was GMail, Search, Maps, etc? Facebook sees these as products, not features.
On one hand I want to try. On the other hand I'll be furious if VZW actively attempts to keep me from having that functionality.

Why would they care?
I thought one of the major advantages Intel held was that it owned its own manufacturing, allowing it to iterate more quickly. However, this article seems to claim it needs to shed itself of that. Is it not really an advantage in x86 then? If it is an advantage in x86, why isn't it here? Or is this just a case of blindly copying ARM's business model?
Let me GitHub that for you - check your .gitignore in Rails projects
First I'd hit the doc. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/index.html

I also recommend the Tekpub videos on Postgres. http://tekpub.com/productions/pg
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To add to what others have already said, this is the original site that shared the code you saw:

http://www.webmomentofsilence.org/

And it was, for a brief time, discussed on HN, though not in any official capacity:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948961
It seems to me that any answer that stated specifically what those different niches and wildly different goals actually were would be a more productive exercise.

If there's room for more than one of them in this town, in which part of town would each reside?
> it's always at the low end of things - like this project - where the really inventive, exciting engineering happening.

That's why I got into the demoscene. While I'll drool over the crazy new demos pushing the latest GPUs to the limits, it's always more impressive to me when people take extremely limited systems and file sizes and do incredible things with them.
Hola bbissoon. De alguna forma puedo contactarte? Saludos!!
Ask HN: Startup / Entrepreneur Health
Hey guys, I'm a real health nut, but I have noticed reading over HN that there are a lot of entrepreneurs spending loooong hours working on projects and eating ramen noodles for days straight.

I'm interested in hearing some of your experiences about maintaining your health as an entrepreneur.

How did you do it Mr. Paul Graham?
Somewhat my area of focus.

The SE Isis uses is on the SIM, the SE GoogleWallet uses is Embedded on chip. Two different types, chosen primarily around distribution mechanisms each could protect. Google felt if it were embedded, its relationships with OEM's would primarily help its case. Carriers went the SIM route primarily due to them being the only distribution channel that matters in the US for phones.

Google Wallet can potentially work off of a SIM based SE. But this would mean that Google will have to work with in the parameters of Carrier's Isis framework. Isis framework is different in that it has no visibility in to the transaction data. Google will have to opt in to this approach (Banks require it because they fear Google). Google wants data and will never agree. Yada Yada Yada.

Verizon did block Google because of its stake in Isis. And because Banks would have explicitly sought out Carriers to block GoogleWallet on Carrier phones. Google could work with Isis with in its own framework, but it never will. Competing interests, revenue models and goals.
I agree- I'm not faulting the reasons for doing so, but it doesn't mean I have to approve of it. I just feel for the developers that were tasked with cloning an app.
Anyone have screenshots? I don't have OS X installed anywhere right now.
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Do my coding habits match yours? A look at my Github  punch card.
This is missing the point. The third party chipset market died off for exactly the same reason that you posit: all the features that were in the "chipset" are now in the SoC.

So what you seem to be saying is that ARM only makes CPU cores (and now a GPU, I guess), so there's a wide market available for NVIDIA and Qualcomm to enter to provide a complete SoC.

Intel, on the other hand, makes CPU cores, and GPUs, and display controllers, and DRAM controllers, and USB controllers, and PCI bridges, and audio hardware. And they put all that stuff on a single chip for their customers.

... and somehow you're spinning this as an advantage for ARM Ltd.?
The total span between the best developers and the average is probably 100-1000, because there are a variety of x-factors (i.e. they compound multiplicatively) some of which can easily become a factor of 10.

10x Work: this is the state of flow OP described, that can only be achieved in a healthy environment. I also think OP was right to emphasize trust. It goes both ways. Managers who ask for status (context switches) leave the engineer unable to trust the environment.

See also: What Programmers Want ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/what-programm... )

10x Learning: pick interesting projects, and socialize with people doing different kinds of stuff. Attend conferences. Take MOOCs. If you can help it, try to limit work that you don't learn from to 2 hours per day. (This may lead to political adversity, so be prepared for that.)

10x Experience: related to the above, it's hard to become a great (2.0+) programmer if you don't get a continuing stream of good projects. It's hard to de-crap your work life and it's a process that requires social skills, which leads into...

10x Communication: your work will have much more of an impact if you are able to communicate to other people how to use it. Make it easy for them. Don't write some software-as-spec system that turns into a black-box, then a legacy system. Build visibly awesome things instead.

10x Problem: this is more of a CEO/founder concern. Some problems are just 10+ times more important or rich in opportunity. Others are unimportant.

Of course, each of these factors can swing the other way and become 0.1x or even 0x (annihilating everything).

There is a talent factor, but I don't know how much of a swing it is. I've seen very smart people write awful code.
Apparently this app has been built in 12 days[1].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/blake/posts/448334501889024
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The 10W chip will be a weaker SKU, probably even weaker than current 17W IVB CULV chips. They are not magically lowering the TDP from 17W to 10W for the next generation.

Cortex A15 will get the benefit of pairing up with A7. ARM says on average the energy consumption should be about half, compared to Cortex A15 alone.

Also Haswell is rumored to cost 40% more than an IVB Core. That's close to $300 for a CULV. That's simply not sustainable when it comes to the new market that is forming for tablets. $300 is more than the whole BOM for your typical $500 tablet. I doubt you'll see that chip in anything cheaper than $800, at a time when you get "good enough" tablets for $200 whole. Intel's competitor to ARM simply isn't the Core line-up. It's Atom, for better or for worse.

And as I said, Intel will lose not because of lack of expertise in making chips, but because of an unsustainable cost structure and business model (they now have to compete against several ARM chip makers at once, including Apple). The fact that they also have no momentum or market share in the mobile market doesn't help.
I see no such thing, nor a difference. On Chrome OSX Version 23.0.1271.101
Thank you all so much for your answers, I really appreciate it.

I think you are correct. I should firts educate myself on the basics, and then contact technical people to ask these same questions.

Best wishes!
I'm a little rusty but I did read the 0.4 docs before and gave the language a try, I'll dive into 0.5 again this weekend, I am a little confused by something however. What's going on with strings? When I last looked, a lot of the string operations worked with a specific pointer sigil[1]. If I'm using managed boxes, and the methods take and return unique boxes, is it because I'm using the wrong sigil for the job or should I expect to be able to use managed strings?

Is this just me misunderstanding the memory model or is this something that just hasn't been straightened our yet? I'm pretty confused about this in particular, as I thought I understood the point of the different sigils pretty well, but the way the library is written makes me wonder. This applies to things other than strings I guess, but strings seem like a good example.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/libcore/str....
Oh, so message expiry is the new hot trend? Quickly, pivot!
I'd forgotten about GOA -- it was a little toy project I came up with to embed lambdabot in GHCi. Looks like it was revived, moved to github, and growing happily. Major flashbacks.
Compare how long it took to go from 1Ghz to 2ghz (about 2.5 years), to the current situation.

I bought an i7 920 (2.7ghz) in late 2008.

Now 4 years own and speeds have crept up to about 3.4ghz.

For the last few years AMD and Intel have just been side-grading by slapping more cores on, instead of actually making faster chips.
Cheaper, slimmer Google Nexus 7 rumored for Q1 2013
Maybe I'm stupid for asking but what is the advantage of this over a spring powered wound clock? My wristwatch can tick for two days on a wind, and while it isn't as cheap as this gravity powered wound clock I'm sure it could be made cheaper. There is nothing special about this invention; purely mechanical "gravity powered" clocks have existed for centuries in the form of old grandfather clocks etc.
Hmm, I had this in mind:

http://www.nxp.com/news/press-releases/2011/11/nxp-nfc-solut...

"Featuring a NFC radio controller and an embedded Secure Element, the PN65N is also fully validated and integrated on the latest release of Android™ 4.0."
Did you check the comparisons in the article? If they truly don't look different, I'd love to see a screenshot of the article so I can check it out and dig into it. Thanks!
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Because that 8% is bullshit propaganda and things are actually much worse?
Wait... are you telling me Santa is not real?? Oh thanks a lot!
edit your /etc/resolve.conf

nameserver 1.2.3.4
I don't see why it's hard?
I mean, did you really expect them to say something else.
It's not like they were going to say "yeah we're assholes, but don't hate tha playa, hate the game"
Interesting. I think it would be nice to see every payphone turned into a wifi hotspot wired into a city wide network. This serves two things: 1) City wide wifi (Don't we all want that?) 2)Payphones are then just VOIP handsets with a payment machine attached. Win-Win

Payphone fees could probably be reduced but maybe not. Maybe the money collected from the payphones is used to (partially?) offset the costs of running the city wide network.
That's assuming a perfectly efficient dynamo and no mechanical losses. (Which are both huge assumptions.)
The problem is 2-fold ARM is being supported by a lot of companies - Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, etc.... vs Intel by itself on x86 basically.

Second, ARM chips are too cheap. Intel's biz is built on $100+ chips. ARM chips are like $10. If intel's chip prices drop to say $25, they don't have nearly the money for R&D.

X86 won't die, but it can't grow and over time that's going to hamstring Intel.

Call it peak x86.
Only for the user. Facebook probably still keeps those messages around for 5+ years.
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I'll just leave this here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
Yeah -- this is no different than geeksquad or any other computer repair place.

Going back in time I used to know people who worked in a photo lab that did the very same thing.

I wonder, what regulations or laws are in place at the state and federal levels to prevent this?
I'm just another single data-point but I agree, and I really can't think of any good reasons to disagree with the compartmentalization.

Bottom line is that with minimal real-estate, at a certain point there's diminishing returns on packing in more features while sacrificing simplicity.

In my opinion it's the obvious move for FB, and they're executing it well.
I disagree. I'm don't want to use FourSquare and Instagram and Twitter when Path can do it all in one place. It takes longer to open multiple apps when it comes to social things. I don't want to have to think: I want to share a picture, what is the best app for that? Or I want to share what music I'm listening to... Which app should I go to? I just think I want to catch up on what my friends are doing, or I want to share something I'm soon with my friends... And Path is the one stop solution to my needs.
Yeah, but you can't really just go by clock speed.
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Do we really need ANOTHER facebook app? At this rate I'm going to have a dedicated folder of "Facebook crap". It doesn't make life easier to have all these things separate. I understand the camera app, but not things like this app or the messenger app, especially since in the messenger app I end up getting notified of new mail there and in the original facebook app...
I'm very curious about better ways to explain not just Rust pointers, but also other features that contribute to Rust's unique feel, like inherited mutability and linear types. These things are all interrelated and there are some emerging best practices, but they are still unfolding as the language evolves and people gain experience with it.

I'd recommend reading Tom Lee's post (linked previously) on the subject of pointers.

On the subject of libraries, there is a lot of work yet. The plan has been to get the language stabilized then start focusing on libraries and tooling.

The core and standard libraries are not very consistent, either in style or quality. The I/O modules (both file and network) are particularly problematic at the moment, so even a simple networking application will be difficult. Some folks have had success though by writing their own bindings to BSD sockets, ZeroMQ, mongrel, etc. (bindings for which are in cargo).

Outside of core and standard there have been a lot of graphics- and math-oriented libraries. Multimedia, particularly games, seems to be a very promising domain for Rust. There are a number of useful libraries that are not in cargo because cargo is not yet powerful enough to deal with their build requirements.

Some of the easiest, and potentially most useful, code to write when getting started are re-implementations of popular libraries, protocols, etc. in Rust. For example, I really wanted to implement mustache templates in Rust but somebody beat me to it.

Where 2012 was the year of stabilizing the language, 2013 will be for cleaning up and redesigning the libraries, and hopefully making all the tooling more usable and featureful.
Actually, it's not just anti-competitive, it's plainly illegal for Verizon to be messing with Google Wallet or Voice on any of its 4G phones.

Verizon licensed the C Block in 2008, which come with rules that REQUIRE it to allow any phone to run any app. Unfortunately the FCC has been gutless about enforcing the rule. It took the agency 10 months to force Verizon to allow tethering apps in Google App store. If they'd had any guts, they would have banned Verizon from selling the 4G iPhone which, as a locked down phone, is arguably illegal under the rules.

In fact, Google argued that it would be illegal for Verizon to sell a locked down phone on that spectrum, but then once it started to need Verizon, it refuses to stand by its earlier rules.

And these rules matter a lot, because come spring, a federal court will rule that the FCC's net neutrality rules have no legal basis and the ONLY net neutrality rules left standing will be the ones on Verizon's C Block.
This is bad advice and against the recommendation of Chrome engineers amongst others.

The short version: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/0014.h...
The long version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304

In addition: text rendering is very specific to the combination of browser & rendering layer. Targeting Mac Chrome with a webkit-wide property is a good way to get inconsistent results across your various desktop webkits and mobile webkits.
Similar in concept to the Waka Waka light, except that's powered by a solar panel (and some quite nifty electronics):

http://www.wakawakalight.com/
Which is a top 10k site...
I would love to download the book as .mobi!
"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app."

Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your timeline for everyone to see.
It's hurts to look at it because it's focused into a very narrow beam. Very bright sure - in one tiny spot, and totally useless to illuminate a room.

They even include a photo of the beam pattern - it's almost as focused as a laser.

(You can tell on an LED by looking a the top - round tops are focused, flat ones spread out.)
I'm sure Cloudflare will comment, but it seems a little different to that. Rather than suck the original bits in at a server close to the origin, it looks like it takes the compressed (delta) bits direct from the origin itself.