skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The news apps in Windows 8 do this out of the box.
I'm not aware of an implementation that does that, and it's not required by the standard. A more common solution is to just limit the size of an array to the size of a segment (sizet max would also then be the segment size). If you think the C standard requires crossing segments, what section, what words?
Did IBM sell of Lenovo in anticipation of adopting the much more profitable Trusted Platform paradigm? Now Microsoft as well anticipates abandoning "packaged products," that necessitate years of costly support. But how long can the the castle walls hold?

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/20-01-2012-12-11-21.png
And all of that will persist for a short time until someone invents something new that disrupts it all, just like the Internet disrupted old media.

That is why I find the legal wrangling more worrying than anything else. Apple and Google can't stop me from inventing and popularizing a new technology, but the government can do a pretty good job of that, especially the second part.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XgCJqd4...
I actually don't think that computers capable of doing stuff other than media consumption will get more expensive.
I actually think the opposite will happen and you can already see the start of this.

Look at things like Raspberry Pi , ODROID and arduino. Very hackable stuff at rock bottom prices.
With faster internet connectivity comes access to remote virtual machines which can be rented by the hour and make stuff like huge scale data processing accessible to the teenage hacker in his bedroom.

Ultimately the future will require more people to understand not just how to use the tech on a basic level but people who can innovate with it.

If the US doesn't do this , another nation will and be all the richer for it.

Of course there will always be a market for passive consumption type devices as well as specialised ones. It's just that these used to be radios , TVs , CD players , calculators and nintendo consoles now they are iPads.
Protectionism was integral to the rise of the East Asian Tigers, as well as the recovery of post-WWII Europe. There is a time and place for such policies.
Really good (long) summary, zanny. That was what I had garnered from the article's musings. It's something I've thought about a lot myself actually. How would I give a child the opportunity to learn to hack or program if they wanted to? For me it started with c-64 basic cause it wasn't compiled, then visual basic when I was like 13...
I guess C# or Java could probably be taught very easily, but it feels like starting out learning martial arts by teaching them advanced maneuvers. It feels like the wax on, wax off approach really is the wise course but showing them QBasic or something hardly seems like a step forward.
One of the videos of this thing does indeed show stylus support.
> concludes in essence that most people are thieves

I think that's a little more than he concludes. He is always thoughtful, which is a good reason to read him, and he takes pains to say at the end he wasn't complaining only noting. (I don't know if you posted before he added that.)

If I can give my $0.02, coming from my perspective as having worked on a free archive for a long time. My personal experience with giving to people "out there" is that you can expect little return, beyond personal gratification. However, on reflecting on my experience, I've decided that I can't say that the people are freeloaders; probably most of them coach little league, or help out in meals on wheels, or shovel the walk of the old lady down the street. But everybody is very busy and while they sincerely intend to be part of the pay-it-forward group, on any one thing the return rate is just low. Myself, I do the same stuff.
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Commuter rail cannot exist in a vacuum without local transit. Metro North gets you into Grand Central, but most people don't work right on top of Grand Central - a supplementary transit system is necessary to get people to their actual endpoints.

The CalTrain, which is the closest SF Bay equivalent to MTA commuter trains, stops in San Francisco, but far from local mass transit connections (either MUNI light rail or BART), to the point where there is an industry for private shuttles. This is a significant barrier to the adoption of commuter rail for people who work in the city but want to live further out.

Similarly, once in the Peninsula or South Bay, the CalTrain is often not near a mass transportation connection. Some of the major tech firms are located "near" CalTrain stops, but nearness is often at automobile-scale, as opposed to walking or cycling scale.

You need a pretty-damn-good local transit solution to support commuter networks.
Have you ever tried reading a book over someone's shoulder? Or a newspaper someone else is holding up in front of you? Most people have to reach out and grab it themselves before it's comfortable to read. I think it is just a motor/sight sync issue for most people.
Blaming it on the examiner is not the point.

The idea behind patents is protecting the innovator. How does patent law protect anyone when it's trivial to argue a patent shouldn't have been granted in the first place (because it's not novel, or it's just math, blah blah)? You could say that about all patents ever filled.

It defeats the whole purpose behind patents. Whoever has the biggest patent pool and deepest pocket wins, not the little guy on the sweatshop. The only people to benefit from patents are lawyers.
Apple paid someone to hack on KHTML (In a most unfriendly manner) and Safari somehow becomes some of the most important code on the planet? Apple fans are a bit delusional.

If Safari magically disappeared today Mozilla would notice a bump in downloads and everyone would go with their day.
The article takes a truth and expands it to a generalization that is not correct.

The vast majority of ideas their imaginer has conceived are useless, impractical, unrealizable, pointless, trivial, overly complex and/or their proponents incapable of either execution or funding of the idea. So whether it is secret or not does not matter.

If you are a recognized leader in your field, you often find you less talented competitors will copy every idea you have poorly. They use espionage to find your ideas early and try to beat you to market with your own ideas. This is why Apple is very secretive. All of their ideas are rapidly copied by numerous competitors. Even a rumor that Apple might be working on something is enough to get competitive startups funded. Many Apple ideas are developed under multiple iterations over several years before anyone outside the black ops team even hears a rumor about them. It would be very counterproductive for Apple to release advance notice of the next decade or even next year's new designs.

Psychologically it is often a bad idea to present ideas to the public before they are ready, during the protected incubation stage. New ideas not fully realized are often ripped to shreds by critics. It is much better to get to the stage of having a prototype before you release your design to the general public. Maintaining secrecy at the early stage can preserve the motivation of the designers and prevent burnout, and reactionary responses to poorly thought out but virulent criticism. This can be especially troublesome if a very interesting idea developed at a publicly traded corporation leaks out and then is ridiculed by a notable writer or critic. Often the result is for the project to be cancelled in order to appease shareholders and a culture of fear of innovation takes over as everyone plays it safe to avoid criticism.
One exception is if direct competitors get a whiff of your upcoming killer, differentiating feature.

A smart competitor will try to cut you off at the pass. For example, they may decide to offer the same thing before you do. Or they may prep their argument to customers & the public as to why your feature isn't good. And it will light a fire under the competitors ass regardless.

This is typically relevant to direct competitors. For example, the free storage wars between Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail.

If you have an idea for a newfangled iPhone todo list app or whatever, yeah, nobody's gonna steal that.
It's not just mass transit that is messed up here. They mess up the highway system too. Case in point:

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.258034,-121.963785&t=...

This is the interchange at Highway 85 and Winchester Blvd. (The red roofs are Netflix and the Aventino apartment complex.) It's a half-interchange, only connecting with traffic on 85 to or from the north (west). But note the unusual configuration of the interchange: why all that empty space between the ramps and the freeway?

It's because the interchange was designed as a folded diamond:

http://www.smartmotorist.com/images/driving_guideline/folded...

http://www.smartmotorist.com/driving-guideline/driving-on-ex...

But the Town of Los Gatos didn't want extra traffic on Winchester, so they only allowed half the interchange to be built. The result is unsurprising: traffic to or from 85 on the south (east) has to get to Winchester via Highway 17 and Lark Avenue a half-mile to the south.

Lark would be a busy street without this, but with the extra Winchester/85 traffic it gets some real traffic jams. So instead of the bit of extra traffic on Winchester, there's a big mess on Lark.
Samsung cancels their WinRT projects
Quite possibly! Have re-read, but only see a misinformed comment. What was the point?
I'm not a "market fundamentalist" by a long shot, but markets generally do a pretty good job of balancing various interests like this. They're a lot better in a case like this than the government attempting to decide how many units must be available for which uses.
Long island is the suburbs, and the Long Island Railroad is pretty darn solid.
And, realistically, those corporate apps probably work perfectly fine with Apple's depreciated JVM. Oracle's JVM has been in the wild for about 5 months.
Windows Phone 8 delivers UEFI Boot Manager error message
Curious how the video focuses on features like tapping one with another for transfers and bending for fast-forwarding a video. I guess those are cool features but the thinness itself is much more interesting to me. If I could buy a kindle-style tablet that thin I would without thinking twice.
Ah. Perhaps DHH was right...

We're heading OT, but perhaps that I didn't make obvious that my comparison was relative is what caused your confusion.

Relative to new stuff, there is very little pirating of stuff over 20 years old (probably even over 1 year old since content is ephemeral). While I don't have the numbers to hand, I'm willing to assert that the amount of pirating of Elvis, The Beatles, etc is tiny relative to the pirating of Sky Fall, The Hobbit, Gangnam Style, Call Me Maybe, Games Of Thrones, etc.
Cool, although some of these UI abstractions are more neat-looking than they are practical. I'm also not sure that "each app is a tablet" is really a cost effective concept, although I'm sure it's attractive to manufacturers.
San Mateo County opted out of the initial BART system in 1961 though, and is still not a member of the BART district, which is why trips to/from San Mateo county are charged more. http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5427069831/in/photost... has plans around that include a line going down what is approximately the current Caltrain route to Palo Alto. (along with an unbuilt line to the Richmond District and Marin county, since Marin County also opted out)
Agree but the new interface is jaring enough. I wanted to use bog standard colors.

For the ebook reader on the main page at magicscroll.net you can set it to use Ethan Schoonover's solarized colors: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized which I prefer to the black on white.
Which came first; small urbanized areas that the metro north serviced, or small urbanized areas that sprang up because of the metro north stations?

If you introduce light rail without changing the zoning surrounding the stations, you end up with poorly utilized transportation that does not promote the growth of urbanized areas.
Personally I see patents and copyrights as different, very different (I know that the expiration time are different too). There's a huge difference in innovation and benefit to the society when it comes to a Viagra patent and Mickey Mouse.

It's my opinion of course.
I live in Denver and second that the light rail / bus system is pretty awesome. It should be even better with light rail expansions coming in the next year or so.
Would you pay $100 to get Mark Zuckerberg to read your message?
Keep in mind that NYC and Chicago have the unfair advantage of having most of their rail infrastructure already built during the private rail transportation boom from the 1800's to WWII. Most of the subways and rail transit in these regions are still running on lines that were built between 70 and 120 years ago. The west coast has to rely on clumsy governments and public financing to move anything forward for all of its transit infrastructure, which is why it takes so painfully long to get it right
Claiming that there's only one caltrain every half hour is a bit misleading.

The frequency of trains depends on the time of day and the station you depart from / want to arrive at.

For example, Mountain View and Palo Alto both have trains as many as four times an hour in the mornings (7-9am) and afternoon/early evening (4-7pm).

Just looking at the MV -> PA schedule; during off-peak hours there may only be one an hour (4-5am, 10am-2pm, 8-11pm) or one every half-hour. If I was to complain about anything, it's the times they only have one every hour.
For larger displays - yes. For smaller - not really. After a certain density at a given viewing distance you stop seeing the difference, but doubling the density requires 4X more powerful hardware (and battery) to keep up.
Not necessarily. This other day we had a snow storm predicted for evening and a friend wanted to check the status (delayed/cancelled) BEFORE even thinking of going to the airport.
Just my guess, as a Denver-area resident... Metro Denver has several areas with very high concentrations of office space and jobs (Downtown, DTC, Broomfield/Interlocken, Boulder, etc.). Also, the residential density (even within Denver proper) varies a great deal. The lower-density areas probably don't have great bus service. (The residential density also seems to be increasing, with a lot of infill development projects.) It helps that the Denver area is known for having strong regional cooperation with a single transit authority, instead of the crazy mix of poorly connected services in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley office space seems to be a little more spread out. When I was visiting a client in Santa Clara last year, I had to walk almost two miles to get to a light rail station to go have a nice dinner in downtown Mountain View. (And there were no buses available to cover that distance -- at least not that Google Transit knew about.)

(Disclaimer: My experience with San Jose is mostly limited to the airport area, and the Silicon Valley suburbs to the north.)
I still don't see what this has to do with grandparent's point that this was affecting piracy. I certainly agree with your point. I just don't see how it's relevant to the points of either parent or grandparent.
Look at the metros of comparable size, then make your comparison. Yes, the Valley, as poor as it is, is better than e.g. Springfield, Illinois. So?
Not Safari, WebKit.
To be completely honest, I'm not sure where I stand because it's a very complex issue.

JPEG met the novelty, non-obviousness, and usefulness tests, as did LZW. That they're considered nearly trivial these days is because they were such influential algorithms that they've become part of the programming canon.

That said, please don't represent my stance as a matter of a cutoff. Many things in this world, including the question of patentability, are fuzzy distinctions that require some subjective "good judgement." Common law legal systems are bad at handling this, which is partly why judicial philosophy is so complex.

If I oppose patenting an algorithm/data structure, it's because I don't think patent protection is necessary in order for people to push the state of the art forward.
ETags for REST
Article on ETags - the Spring support - ShallowEtagHeaderFilter, integration testing of the RESTful API, and consumption scenarios with curl.
Hrmm, I won't disagree since I've never been there, but the Street View images make it appear to be a quite urban, walkable type of place with narrow streets and wide sidewalks and lots of shops and food, with multistory buildings and all that. e.g. http://goo.gl/maps/HNcTA I see that it does appear to sprawl out a bit away from downtown, perhaps that's what you're talking about.

But Perth appears to have at least one district worth visiting. The thing you have to understand about SV is most of the "cities" there have exactly zero districts worth visiting. Mountain View has a little bit of a business district. You can walk across it in about 90 seconds. Palo Alto has University Ave. But that's about the extent of things. Here's the center of Cupertino, which appears to be a kilometer-wide intersection of two massive, pointless roads: http://goo.gl/maps/EYLq9. Here's the middle of Sunnyvale: http://goo.gl/maps/51LLL. Beautiful downtown Santa Clara: http://goo.gl/maps/q8WpU

These places are not places, they are irredeemable ruins of the 20th century. No transit system will ever work there.
Which I should point out is _nothing_ like the current software. It was geared towards very young users, very "flashy", and quite buggy.

Actually, that's been my experience with the NXT-G language (the "current software") as well.
They're likely speaking of the west bay area where only Caltrain service exists. If you're somewhere along El Camino Real, there's no BART train service -- just Caltrain, and then VTA farther south.
Exactly. Every time I've seen someone attempt to 'steal' an idea, they aren't up to the challenge of executing on it. I believe the reason for this is that there a very strong correlation between the type of personality that would consider stealing someone else's idea and then not wanting to put in the hard work of making it a reality.

That's not to say that it doesn't happen. I myself have seen someone do something I've admired and then incorporated that practice into my own procedures. That's not outright theft of an idea, but it's fairly close. Of course if this type of thing didn't occur then civilization would stop advancing.

A good case in point might be the cruchpad (http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/). Of course that went beyond theft of just an idea, but the principal still holds.
I was in NYC last week for the first time in a good number of years and noticed how the seats in the subway lines were all made of plastic. Caltrain and BART have cloth covered padded seats. While padded seats are in theory more comfortable, the plastic seats probably makes keeping a sanitary riding environment much more simple and attainable.
You're absolutely right, but it's not just about density or suburbs - it is perfectly possible to construct suburbs that can be serviced by transit.

The problem entirely lies in the subdivision format of suburbs in much of the US - full of twists, turns, cul de sacs, and in general trying as hard as they can to inhibit movement. Getting to the nearest arterial road becomes an exercise in futility where you'd find yourself walking along un-sidewalked road for a whole mile before doubling back onto another street just to end up at a bus stop.

Low-density cities that are laid in a (saner, and less classist) grid are on the other hand generally well served by transit. This is no coincidence.

Mass transit and density need not be at odds with each other, though it's a sad fact that most suburbs will never be adaptable to sane transit.
The Next Step for Online Identity
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Which is why the financial district was wiped off the map during the 1989 earthquake, whereas lower units such as those in the marina survived without problems?
Alamo/Danville voted against BART for a similar preposterous reason, "thugs" from Oakland coming out to the suburbs and causing trouble. This is why BART does not run along the 680 freeway
"They were given the copyright only with the limitation that it would expire someday. You have the argument backwards."

Maybe not, if it's something I invent or write, why does someone have to give me rights over it? They shouldn't take them instead... "shall not."

I understand how the constitution is written but
This seems to be due to the sudden combination of 1. budget cuts and 2. a big tech boom. So there were suddenly significantly more riders just as service was taking a hit. Bad combo.

Last year I started commuting into SF again from the East Bay after a 4 year break and am still surprised at how full the trains are. As recently as 2007/early 2008 it was much easier for me to get a seat.

(This is partly down to the fact that BART is funded out of so many different pots of money, including federal, that it can't just expand and contract in perfect sync with the local economy.)
You're right. http://www.bart.gov/about/planning/sanmateo_santaclara.aspx
Disclaimer - I'm out of my element as far as the science goes, but privy to relevant info.

Here are a few relevant publications from Fermi:

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5922/1688.full

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7271/pdf/nature08...

There's a difference in method between the Fermi and Nemiroff methods. The Nemiroff method is novel, but with lower statistics. Nemiroff himself has stated the results are not yet statistically significant. More short, bright GRBs need to occur.
So he's going to get 3 weeks of your work for free, then based on your work his company ---HIS company--- _might_ get investment money? In return, you get a promise of 5% of NOTHING for the foreseeable future?

No thanks.
Tokyo is fantastically dense, though. It isn't really a fair comparison.
I am not "blaming" anything on patent examiners. I am saying that they exist for their ability to interpret and decide. Were patent law black and white as you suggest, they would have no purpose.
I agree, we are in the final 60 years of our internet
I was really hoping to see my favorite game Firepower covered here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G4ngPXGGgw :)
I live in Denver too and I haven't driven to work in 6 years. Instead of driving myself, I read, listen to music and chill out. I also don't worry about traffic, weather, or really much at all. It's great for drinking after work too.

I share your enthusiasm for the upcoming expansions, in particular the line to the Airport. The train is one of the big perks of living in Denver. It's awesome and only getting better.
Are you thinking of Heroku? Heroku isn't a bank.
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Done, not done.