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It's extra bizarre when you consider that Daniel still seems to be (based on his G+) developing for the S3
I'm running several debian i386 virtual machines. I don't see a point running 64-bit os if the memory usage stays well below 3G. And last time I ran UnixBench on squeeze i386 was still faster than amd64.

On bare metal it's a different story, though, but I still would think that there are more virtual servers than real ones.
I am loving all of these crazy analogies!

Man, if I were a timetravel agency, I'd be selling front-row tickets to the 21st century as "comedy night".
I doubt it was only the act of filming 1 second per day that changed his life. It was the discovery of the method and the process of refining it that lead to a life changing experience.

I don't think you will experience that by downloading an app. Come up with an own idea on how to reflect upon your life.
When I read that headline I ask myself is that $510k real money or is it the Bitcoin-equivalent of that sum?

And the fact that I ask that, as a techie - an enthusiast in the know about stuff like this, probably means Bitcoin still has some way to go before it can hope to achieve any sort of mainstream success.
AIG isn't a company run by widows and orphans. The department that issued that insurance was full of the most stereotypical Wall Street shark assholes around, who thought they were smarter than everyone else and getting a big free payday. They got scammed in the way a casino scams the idiot wearing sunglasses at the craps table.

Yes, the government bailout of AIG went towards paying off their counterparties. But those were actual debts that AIG owed because of their own stupidity and greed. Had AIG gone bankrupt instead, the counterparties would not have received anywhere near full payment, and there's a compelling case to be made that that's how it should have been. But this idea that AIG somehow got screwed by having to pay off their shitty bets with our money is laughable and disgusting. If the shareholders want to sue someone, it should be their own board.
A quick look gives an impression that its a bit advanced than what i am looking for... any how will take a thorough look when i have some time.. Thanks
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Was just about to say that. Make an in-app purchase and enable it for free for all the backers.
Quite a bit in common with Memoto...
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I'd sign up for a "$8/mo plus four invites" plan (i.e. keep it under $100/yr), but not without custom domains. I bought my own domain a decade+ ago for the exact reason that I never have to switch addresses again.
No I didn't. The naming conventions for this instruction set are a bit of a mess [0], with every company trying to stick their brand in the middle of it. No wonder people get confused on this. Thanks for pointing that out.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
Yes. Intel's first 64-bit CPUs were Itanium, but their popular consumer 64-bit CPUs are AMD64.
esc-#, comments the current line

ctrl-\, kills current process even xtail

xtail, tails dirs

tweaks in .inputrc to have up and down arrow do backward history search, like in ipython.
Please speed up SVG animations in Firefox 19. d3.js animations can be painfully slow in Firefox when they aren't in Webkit.
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16 months before finding time for programming again. Sounds about right.
> In this case, a corporate liquidation is exactly like death

If you actually believe this, then I believe you are a terrible person.
I'm running i386 despite having a 64 bit processor (and kernel) because it's the latest installation in a series of upgrades of an install from many years ago.

The new multiarch support should finally allow me to change that.
It was late, and I apparently read that backwards.
Protocol relative URLs for stylesheets unfortunately cause a double download (one for both HTTP and HTTPS) in IE 8 and below, which is a damn shame. Paul Irish has a lot of info on this here: http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
tunes.meteor.com doesnt look right in smaller browser.. http://i.imgur.com/oZQlG.png
But we're in 2013 now. Not 1994/1995 anymore.

I don't care if in 2002 I couldn't use Scala. That was 11 years ago and it's not exactly an excuse for not using Scala today.

There are companies working in finance today who are switching entire Java teams to Clojure. It's precisely because they have real-wold time/quality/scope constraints that they are doing so.

Most Java codebase became what Rich Hickey calls "The elephant in the room". By switching to Clojure they can reduce the size of their codebase by a factor of ten, making the elephant easier to manage.

So we're back to square one: the real issue is that there are still people regularly posting links to "design patterns" and "dependency injection" that get upvoted because a large part of HN only knows about Java/C# + ORM + XML + SQL hell...

As long as people will be doing that, you'll be able to use your argument: "but, hey, in 1995 it was all the rage!".
What I find surprising is that the download page itself contains no mention whatsoever of licensing. It lists the system requirements and has a big graphic up the top apparently attempting to upsell you to CS6 / Creative Cloud.

Would it have been so hard to say something like, 'These downloads and keys are provided for users who already possess a valid CS2 license. If you have not paid for any of these products, you are not entitled to use them.' ?

Makes me lean more towards publicity stunt.
I do a lot of design work, and the little details often consume a disproportionate amount of time. I'll have a sense of what the icon, photo or color should be and I won't stop searching and testing until I nail the zeitgeist of it.
I consider myself a well versed user and just found out recently that my Core 2 Duo laptop (which I bought in 2007) supports amd64. Have been running i386 all the while, and have even explicitly downloaded the x86 version of Fedora when they presented me the x64 download by default...
the wii's attach rate was really low, so in the end developers opted not to develop for it. Talking about the software ecosystem is talking about the handful of first-party games.
"Qualcomm + TI = good chances for AOSP..."

Um, isn't TI exiting the phone market?
I would continue to hack away and find a job where a company will pay you to code. Plain and simple. =]
I'm sure this is on their website, but:

They accept bitcoins, they pay in local currency. Where are they acquiring their local currency? Are they:

- Selling bit coins to consumers?

- Selling bit coins on open exchanges?

- - If they are selling on open exchanges, are all the local currencies currently available? I'd guess not, so they must have currency reserves in all outbound countries?

- Paying their staff in bit coins? :-D

This would be a huge multi-national operation. Not least in running the bank accounts in outbound countries, and managing ForEx reserves and bids. Let alone dealing with money laundering laws in respective countries, commercial operations expatriating or repatriating profits/revenues, etc. etc. Not for me!
I tend to agree with this. Samsung made a big event of declaring their support for developers of Exynos devices, but have stayed quiet and slow in showing that they meant it. The Mali GPU is one area where access is still locked down to a binary blob, and it doesn't look as if that will change.

The GPU is accessible under license to ARM partners according to ARM, though I've not seen it, and I think it's not Samsung's to give away unilaterally. There's competitive advantage issues involved no doubt, including the fact that Imagination GPU design, just down the M1 motorway from ARM, and used in the OMAP5, are locked down as well.

The Exynos 5 dual core is a great device, but as in so much to do with ARM licenses, the peripherals are the work of the licensee. Texas Instruments use dual Cortex-m4's along with A15's in the OMAP5 which is a very capable approach when combined with good peripherals.

I can see why Samsung would be cautious, but I do think they've been misleading in promising more than they could deliver. So far it just looks like a fork of Android Jellybean.
the form factor comes into play here as well I think. They could even start selling these to netcafes and businesses, and just attach the box to the back of a monitor.
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I'm surprised no one has linked to this: http://noahkalina.com/36/44#1

He's been taking pictures every day since 2000.
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Where best to start? Can I pay for ads? or for promote?
It's tiresome but it's also legitimate given the (ab)use of the word. If unchallenged it becomes accepted usage.

Much as it is tiresome but legitimate for trademark holders to challenge misuse of their marks lest they become generic.
Even that's probably not completely correct. If you want to blend in with what's behind you, you should look similar to what's behind you. The rules for this don't change much at night - in dim light or bright light, you still don't want to be a strikingly different shade to your surroundings!
That's partly it. TI is letting the OMAP5 out into the embedded market, where it has a lot more strength, through SOM partners like Phytec. This could look to some as a possible future subversion tactic.
Real TL;DR version: journalist got trolled.
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(Mozilla dev here)

I can guarantee you that people are working on it. I don't know the specifics, but it's coming along. You can follow the commits here [1]. Of course because it is free software, if you are not afraid to test a early prototype, you can get a build for every push to the repo. It is a bit complicated (lots of clicks in our custom CI interface), tell me if you are interested.

[1]: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/, the elm branch being the repo where people work on Win8 support.
Sorry, we're planning to cross-post this to reddit ;)
That sounds EXACTLY like the scientific publishing industry. What is the motivation for you to do free work for these parasites?
> Introducing visual inconsistency between different user profiles would feel pretty wonky to me

If GitHub made the default tab your repos instead (as it was before), all profiles would be consistent.

The default tab on projects is source—and projects can have optional wiki and issues tabs if they want. I think it should be the same with profiles' contributions tab.
I feel like the reason this might be possible is that there is information contained in a program that is not contained in that language's files. Specifically, in how the operating system treats those bits. In other words, the same decompressor + data file combo could have different but deterministic results depending on which operating system or machine executes it. We can therefore escape the pigeon hole's grip.
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Interesting, I never had this happening to me, and I have not tested your example, but I'm bookmarking this to try some time later. Can you confirm this is a problem with sbt 0.13?

Thanks for taking the time to make and example.
"We learned that government officials are often wary of, if not downright hostile to, the kind of disruption that is an all-but-inevitable consequence of innovation."

"The original idea was straightforward: Replace “error” pages, which are generated when you type a mistake in your web browser... with search results that contained paid advertising."

Cognitive, meet dissonance.
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I always assume undefined is wrong.
To be more precise, "AMD64" in this context is the same as "x86-64" (or "x64"), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 - originally created by AMD and later also licensed back to Intel for use in all the later Pentium and Core CPUs.

It should not be confused with "IA64", aka the "Intel Itanium 64" architecture, which was Intel's mostly-dud non-x86 compatible attempt at 64 bit architecture, a clean break from the x86 legacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia64#Architecture
If you want to host a webserver on an old 386 or on a credit-card sized Java smartcard, I understand your concern.

Taking 100 MB to startup may be a problem. But not exactly for a webserver.
Assembly is mostly used to optimize rarely maintained vector/matrix SIMD operations and even then it's mostly wrapped in intrinsics.
You know writing out their function does not make them longer. ;) I agree with the parent because my left pinky is always on capsLock (my ctrl; I swapped caps with ctrl) so a ctrol ap is far easier than to go to shift + 1 twice(to type !). Again, this can be different in other keyboards/setups.
I actually find presentations like this to be an easier way of obtaining information than long blog posts.

"WHO WROTE THE 'DEATH NOTE' SCRIPT?" released on HN earlier this week was very interesting but I kept losing my place down the page.

http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20script
This is interesting in a fake world with flat demand. In the world we actually live in, the world is very lumpy, and information about the disposition of lumps is not exactly trivially available, but information about the disposition of competitors is.

There are boring real-estate specific reasons why having two coffee shops on the same intersection is very unlike having one very big coffee shop at the same intersection, by the way, chiefly with regards to traffic flow. Traffic flow is a key consideration for "non-destination" commercial stores, like Starbucks. You don't get in your car to go to Starbucks, you get in your car to go to work, home, or your "third place" for the day -- perhaps that swanky restaurant you're visiting with the missus. (You will note that work/home/third place are statistically unlikely to be on corners, principally because there is a price premium for corners, given that they are commercially much more valuable for non-destination commerce than mid-street.)

Any Starbucks which catches your fancy while you're in your car can catch your business, but they're overwhelmingly more likely to be a) directly on your path between A and B and b) require a minimum of complicated driving to deviate from your path to their cut to the street (i.e. you statistically prefer a right turn straight into a store on your right versus doing a U-turn onto the other direction of a busy street, etc).

Given that you want simple turns into your place of business, it's trivially obvious why one would prefer having two streets for ingress/egress versus one street, which is only available on a corner. (Fun driving game: try to find any retail establishment on a corner which is a location that the average customer would specifically get into their car to go there. Fun variant: attempt to convince them to sell their property to you, because you're already 50% of the way to flipping it to a bank/fast food restaurant/WalGreens profitably.)

There's another wrinkle: all corners are more valuable than non-corners, but all corners are very much not equally valuable. How valuable a given corner is for a particular business is a very hard problem to solve for. Some firms and individuals are very good at solving for it. A very effective way to piggyback off of their expertise is to simply grab the corner opposite of them: while the lumpy world of geographically distributed demand for coffee is very non-trivial to access, the simple rule "If you see a Starbucks, to a first approximation, siting our next coffee shop across the street from it will be profitable" generally works.
It is worth noting that when the extension was first proposed the European Commission paid for a report that recommended the law remain as it was, since none of the arguments for a copyright extension were convincing. Thanks to some rather effective lobbying this was ignored, although the proposal was modified from the 95 years the industry wanted to 50 years.

http://www.ivir.nl/publications/helberger/EIPR_2008_5.pdf is the report itself, if you are interested in such things.

Interestingly, you'll find certain artists much more passionate about retaining their recording rights than others. Cliff Richard was one of the major proponents for the EU extension, whereas Noel Gallagher is on the record as not really caring at all[1]. It's not a coincidence that the former wrote virtually none of his songs, and the latter will own much more lucrative publishing rights (which have the standard life+70 clause) in addition to recording rights.

[1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/15/copyright-extens...
> Be prepared, when reminiscing about the good times, to be reminded of some equally bad times.

And the enormous quantity of time spent doing nothing memorable, good or bad.
You can use google / fb ads but it will be too much expensive
That doesn't help, because at the end of the day we are running on a specific os and machine. And given that machine, there exists a file of size X which it is not possible to compress because of the pigeon hole principle.
This is standard operating procedure on the internet: everyone who wears a suit is a parasitcal criminal.

Back in reality, most banks have paid back their TARP funds, as did AIG, generating a hefty return over 3 years to the Treasury. You know what bailout is still significantly in the red? The auto industry. But we hear little about that because those guys don't work on Wall Street.
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The guy started his company with money from the government and then is sued into bankruptcy by private citizens and this is somehow the government killing his company.

Your whole premise was based on someone wanting Amazon.com, they accidentally type Amazon.cm and somehow you're entitled to revenue. Here's a hint: those error messages are useful. It is not for you to take them away.

Seems to me things worked out about right here.
He can sell his experience to companies looking to implement those standards? Companies get a solution to the coordination problem of creating standards in the first place?
I don't think the guy writing this really knows what he's talking about.
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I like this because it deals with the very real complexity of actually innovating in any area involving lots of regulation and governments.

Needs a little tightening up, though.
Actually it is the popular AMD 64-bit architecture that extended the original x86 Intel architecture. Intel begrudgingly had to implement AMD's extensions because AMD was first to market with it.

This is also the reason why it is called AMD64. Intel for its 64-bit lineup had bet on it's Itanium lineup of processors which included a completely new 64-bit instruction set which was not backwards compatible with Intel's 32-bit x86 instruction set.

AMD when releasing the spec called it AMD64 (FreeBSD, Debian, *BSD), and the name stuck for certain projects, other names are x86_64 (Apple), x64 (Sun/Oracle, Microsoft). There are a variety of ways to refer to the instruction set, but what is sure is that AMD was the first to market with it, so saying AMD64 is code name for the popular Intel 64-bit architecture is not entirely correct. Intel 64 is a code name for AMD64, AMD's 64 bit extensions to Intel's 32-bit x86 architecture.
What does it do?
Assuming it solves a problem, hunt for people with that problem (e.g. on stack exchange / forums / Google) then comment saying you can resolve their issue & here's the link. Put in a full disclosure note so that folk know you're the developer - just to keep things polite & fully above board.
Very interesting, I'll definitiely look into more of these podcasts, but I don't agree with Rob on one thing - that downloadable desktop software is going away. Sure, web apps are easier to deliver and support, and there are many cases where it's a completely sufficient solution, but there are also cases where it just won't work. Filesystem access, OS integration, performance, reliability and a lot of other, smaller things makes writing a complex software really hard using web technologies, especially from the user experience perspective. The biggest issue in my opinion however is that web apps relies completely on internet connection, both to work with and to access your data. Nowadays the network infrastructure is rather stable, but it surely isn't as reliable as having the software and data locally (and making backups of course). We already have a lot of web based IDEs, graphic editors, office suites and so on, yet I don't know a single person who uses them for serious stuff.
There are cheaper options? And more viral?
This start-up brought little to no value to anyone and is complaining their business model failed because of legislation. Mind-boggling.
I look to how successful Valve was in getting games for the Mac made. That success rate is mixed:

* All the valve games were ported.
* A bunch of casual games get ported.
* Civilization V
* Um, some of the GTA catalog, IIRC.

Frankly, it was kind of a desert. I can't imagine the Linux gaming will pick up unless the GabeN had "bet the farm" on Linux versus Windows 8. Which I don't see happening. He might hate Windows 8, but Steam games play nicely on it, TTVM.
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> Early on, we had asked them to reward our innovation with a patent, effectively establishing a moat around our business that we hoped would deter competitors.

There must be prior art in the form of people hosting 'nearly URLs' or 'typo URLs' with many ads.