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Didn't we already cover this? It is revisionist fiction, built around the notion that Intel was so outclassed by ARM, when really Intel was just short-sighted about how important smartphones would become.

The first Atom processors actually had extremely competitive power characteristics. The only supporting chipset, however, was a) a power pig, because Intel just didn't bother despite it being a much easier task than making a processor (I have a little file server running a dual-core Atom, the processor being air cooled while the chipset has a fan. As a humorous aside, altogether that micro-PC uses about the same power as my new i7 Mac Mini under standard loads), b) completely built for traditional PC uses. Do you need IDE on your smartphone, for instance? How about an A20 line?

The "glut of inventory" notion is not realistic. It doesn't work that way.

Intel had no intentions in the smartphone industry at the time. If they did, not only would they have actually made a decent chipset (they happen to be the most advanced chipmaker in the world, with the world's best fabs), they would have made a prototype (which is what all manufacturers do when they try to enter a market - a proof of concept). There were absolutely none until later Atom variants.

People forget it now, but it was initiatives like One Laptop Per Child that initiated the netbook craze -- that program talking about ultra-inexpensive laptops, leading to a lot of people saying "You know...I too would like an inexpensive laptop that I could just bang around and leave in the car and..." (Slashdot was full of people trying to repurpose such devices), and with that an industry was born.
Another useful trick to remember if you're using Putty and you ever accidentally hit Ctrl-S and find that you've frozen the terminal.

Just type Ctrl-Q and you will unfreeze the connection.

Credit due to: http://raamdev.com/2007/recovering-from-ctrls-in-putty/
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So...a PR company?
Mice given the choice of Place A or another chamber after the treatment chose the other chamber.
You can set an iPhone to auto wipe after 10 wrong tries. Probably a prudent safeguard.
We have TalkTalk at home (although as soon as fibre optic comes in this area we are moving) and I have to admit: I had no idea this was happening. I'm a pretty 'technical' user and I haven't noticed any problems as such.
Oh, it's worse than that. Every house which uses Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) has to have Huawei equipment installed on the premises.

http://huaweihg612hacking.wordpress.com/about/

BT own the monopoly on the copper infrastructure and they are the only company providing high speed ADSL. If you want 80Mbps broadband, you have no choice but to use the Huawei modem.

The device is reasonably hackable (and, in fairness, complies with its open source obligations http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/technicaIndex.do?metho...) - but there's no real way of knowing what secrets the silicon holds.

So, the UK has sold off the line equipment, monitoring filters, and mobile infrastructure to one company. What could possibly go wrong?
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North Korea 41 IPs. Realy ?
I'm curious as well. Seems like good exposure.
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Most android phones have the option to require the user to log into the google account paired with the phone after X failed attempts.
Do books and radio that children have ready access to have hardcore and/or illegal pornography.

Schools purchase from book catalogues that are "censored" in this sense and [legal] FTA radio is equally censored. So why shouldn't we allow people to get their internet equally censored.

Parental supervision includes using commercial services that censor hardcore pornography.
Interesting, but then again I get alerted after 3 failed attempts, and I'm pretty sure it locks down after ~10+.

An automated version that does combination locks seems like the proper market.
Great idea! I personally haven't had any experience with the cloud images so far but now that I looked at them I really like your idea. +1
This is not news to anyone (in tech) over 40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_flow_control
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Good point. I imagine you could make a pretty penny by hijacking credit card detail entry forms.

To evade detection you can even have the hijacking code only included on pages that actually collect credit card info.
You can switch to using a more complex password on iOS for extra security. On Android pattern unlock would be the obvious solution.

Also 20 hours should give you enough time to track down a device using Find My iPhone (or similar service) before they can unlock it and shut tracking down.
Being on HN I expected this to be something about storing and analysing everything the wifi picks up or something along that line. This is pretty disappointing with that expectation.
There should at least be some burden to notify you that your account has been compromised; that is, you should be notified if you are a 'person of interest.'
You can also set a proper password on the iPhone (and presumably Android). You should probably have one of these safeguards set up if your phone has unfettered access to your email, social networks, contacts etc.
iPhone also starts increasing the next allowed retry time after a certain number of incorrect guesses.
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If Google's CDN is unavailable it falls back to a local copy we host. Inline with this example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257923/how-to-load-local...
But under the same token we should be stopping Facebook or Google from routing our internet traffic as "they're going to be working for the US Government". Indeed there's more evidence that FB and Google are maliciously colluding than there is for Huawei having done anything wrong here.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be vigilent just that this story has a measure of "Starbucks could be poisoning monarchists to further the aims of USA".
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I personally haven't had significant performance regressions. I tend to disable only the modules that I am sure are not going to be necessary.

Also, Tinycore linux might be great but I would like to use Ubuntu for convenience and keep my existing additional scripts and provisioning profiles compatible.

I'll have a look at Tinycore Linux though, thanks for mentioning.
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They're not needed. The government can just declare him an enemy combatant and stick him in Guantanamo. (see: Jose Padilla.)

Or, drop a drone bomb on him. (see: Anwar al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, Abd al-Rahman, and Jude Mohammed.)
They're also demanding private SSL keys: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-...

In that case they can easily sniff passwords as they are used.
Though you have to be nested really deeply to do ~~~~~~~~~~~. - unlike some other escaping schemes, it only requires one extra tilde for every layer of nesting rather than doubling each time.
I was impressed by video of Macaw, but it not released yet and I need it under Linux. OMG
I use the app from these guys (http://phonelocatorpro.com/) and set mine to wipe after ten tries.
Can you explain why the headline is miseading? The UK is at least as bad as the US because GCHQ and NSA have a special relationship, there's no plot here to make America look good.
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The grammar in this email exchange is atrocious.
I don't think it works that differently. If you're happy where you are, that's fine, but working in the same position forever is not my idea of a software development career unless you receive steadily more pay for doing the same work.
More information about the food in question:
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You're right, we should go with US manufactured silicon. They are far more trustworthy.
> "Russia has never extradited anyone, and will not extradite," said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

While part of me feels that this is good news, the other part - cynical from all the word games I've heard from my own government recently - suspects they could definitely send him back without calling it "extradition." Still, I am cautiously optimistic.
The truth is, there is no inconvenient tasks. The only way to remove inconvenience is to enjoy the things that you do. The only way to do that is to be completely present in the here and now - concentrate on setting one foot in front of the other on the way to the convenience store. Notice the miracles all around you - the plants; the other people; the raindrops; etc.

You don't need anyone to teach you this, you already know. All you need to do is pay attention.

You'll get unhappy if you think of your trip to the grocery store as an unpleasant thing you need to "get over with" so you can do... what exactly? Laze on the couch? Is that your perfect day? All tasks become pleasant when you put your full attention into them. The suffering only occurs when you wish you were doing something else.

I sometimes think what I'd do if I were a billionaire. I'd buy a huge yacht and fill it with models. And lots of property everywhere. But then maybe I'd spend all my time managing my yacht, my properties, and my portfolio. Hold on, that doesn't sound like fun at all. Maybe I'd hire managers for the yacht and the properties... then I'd spend all my time managing the managers. Doesn't sound like fun either.

Maybe I'd sit on a beach and do nothing. But then I could do that right now. Ta.
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I use Ubuntu for convenience and because that's the distro that I am the most familiar with. I know that Ubuntu is a Debian derivative but I tend to use Ubuntu because of the wide range of community resources.
You can do that with Android, too. It's actually right there in the list with the PIN and pattern locks. I think it has been there at least since Gingerbread, maybe earlier.
That's interesting way to warn users of the err in their ways. I recommend the CDN route for anyone who is standing up a web application for performance more than anything. With a CDN the page load time on my site went from 1.5 second to under .5 seconds. You also get the added benefit of someone not injection code into your website.
As long as you host the JavaScript yourself this shouldn't be a problem. Why would it? Iframes suck.
I would be interested to see how jhc [1] compare to ghc.
I am not sure Repa could be easily compiled with jhc thought.

[1]: http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/
Nice to see INMOS mentioned. Loved learning to program on those little transputers.
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People use it because they think they need the scalability. The reality is that almost nobody that use EC2 have the ability to scale up or down that quickly, and even fewer needs it:

Most sites have a fairly stable base load, and most dedicated providers these day can provision in less than 24 hours, so you at most need the ability to handle short spikes or growth over hours rather than days.

And EC2 is expensive enough that you can handle huge variations by buying extra dedicated capacity to cope. But the (far) cheaper option still is to handle your base load on a cheaper provider, and build your system to be able to scale using EC2 or another cloud provider to handle spikes.

WIth more and more providers providing "hybrid" services with colocation, dedicated, dedicated vms (single vm per physical server), and cloud servers all (or most) on offer from one location, this gets even easier - you can sometimes even get virtual private lans across dedicated and cloud servers without having to mess with your own vpn or pay for the bandwidth
Can someone please shed some light on how different is this from something like OpenX [1] ?

[1] (http://www.openx.com/publisher/open-source-ad-server)
Cool and congrats. Great idea you guys have. But if this evolves into a more advanced working system, please remember this plead and respect people's privacy. I'd rather be exposed to violent crime than being watched everywhere.
Thanks for this note. It's valid. Not sure I agree in being unethical. For me the opportunity that arise from disclosing vs keeping secrets makes it worthwhile.
There are 25$/hr developers in US as well. And 'real' developers charge per day :-)
Skills.

Most developers are not full-stack aware - nor should they be. Having a pack of generalists drive a product is sure to reduce momentum.

Better that the contract is "here's a platform you can deploy to" than "here's some CPU time, break it and you get to keep both pieces"
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Do we think that services like Mint are handing over all our financial data to the government (making it easy for them to have a picture of your entire finances)?

If so, are there any viable, offline alternatives?
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And what about the difference in blockyness with the other filters? Is that because of the lapped transform thingy?
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2 or 4 GB seems quite low in terms of capacity, even if the bandwidth is excellent, and especially for the mentioned HPC applications, where you'd usually expect about that amount of memory per core. Does anyone know if DRAM just takes up too much space, or is it realistic to expect commercial devices to have something like 32GB of this type of memory in-package?
This strikes me as a very thin story with a lot of filler added. A red flag for me with the article is that the headline uses the word "tell" while quotes from anonymous sources use the word "request". There's nothing wrong with the government asking for access to a user account if they have a legitimate (ie. named) court order.

This is the most important story for this country since 9/11. Third rate journalism won't be part of the solution.
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My point is that it doesn't help to advance a case by stating things that are not true - it just undermines the argument.
Thanks, I'm looking forward to further enhance the UI for IOS7 in the next versions !
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Might be worth throwing a party in SF, when they finally go out of business.

On the other hand, a lot of people have already cashed out and made bank on the scumminess, so who knows.
So why should it be the responsibility of some guy who's bandwidth is getting stolen to be nice about notifying the guy who's stealing it - why didn't the site owner feel any obligation to send the .js hosting site owner an email asking if it was OK first?
Is it raining on the parade to remark that there are services that do this right now? Sterling Cleaners, for example, in the Washington, DC, area has been around for ages.
Great idea except that you just enabled anyone to delete all your data without your permission.
Not every monospaced font is intended for programming. I like the default old-style numerals in that one, though :-)
For lots of algorithms, fairly naive Haskell can get very close in performance (within 10%) of pretty decent C or C++.

For example[1] shows that for very advanced algorithms (such as BLAS), Haskell can be very performant - with the optimisation being reusable and transparent to the programmer.

[1] - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
>Also 20 hours should give you enough time to track down a device using Find My iPhone (or similar service) before they can unlock it and shut tracking down.

Couldn't you just put this whole operation in a faraday cage to bypass that?
That's a warranty issue ;)
> There is an implicit assumption that they are a democratic society where a decision was taken with the consent of everyone. You have no way of knowing that. For all you know, they could very well be a cult with some old fogey launching attack troops at the evil invaders whilst the young struggle mightily against the oppressive regime.

Or they could be communists. Or anarchists. Or whatever. We have only slight evidence to make any sort of judgement, that evidence being that every time a non-islander has gone near them, the visitor has been repelled or avoided. If that says anything to you besides 'go away' then you're projecting your own opinions onto them.

> That is rather patronizing. You have no way of knowing if they are interested in that. No one knows if they like blueberry pie unless they actually try blueberry pie.

I'm sorry that you chose to interpret it that way; that's not what I intended. The point I was trying to make was that I couldn't imagine these people engaging in any activities unrelated to their current way of life. The reason I make this statement is that they've had thousands and thousands of years to do so and yet apparently haven't. And yes, by your earlier argument, maybe they have a secret underground facility or perhaps they're the prisoners of some other advanced agent but I'm inclined to prefer the simplest explanation which is that they are a basic tribal society with no interest in the world outside their borders. The evidence, scant though it is, suggests nothing more than that without speculation on our part. It's not patronising to suggest that they don't think like others of us do.

Recall that the original post I replied to posed the question of whether or not it was unethical to withhold modern learning from them, and my point (which still stands) is that invading the home land of a group of people who are all shouting "we don't want blueberry pie" to give them blueberry pie because we think it's delicious but dammit, they haven't tasted it yet so how do they know? would be unethical, not the other way around.

If they want to meet us, and partake in the exciting wonders of the modern age - the rest of humanity is a boat ride away. All they need to do is develop oars. Or at least stop shooing away visitors.
You should probably read more of what these theorists call mathematical philosophy (I recommend reading a couple of numbers of Erkenntnis, edited by Leitgeb, and perhaps taking this course) before passing such a harsh judgement.

As a sidenote, the kind of foundationalism about mathematics that you seem to endorse is not the only option in the philosophy of mathematics -- although this issue is largely orthogonal to the prospects of mathematical philosophy.
The nesting can be taken care of:

typedef struct list {
int value;
struct list *next;
} list;

#define cons(head, tail) ((list[]){{.value = head, .next = tail}})

list *xs = cons(0, cons(1, cons(2, NULL)));

It isn't very useful though. Lifetime issues mean that such lists can't be mixed with dynamically allocated structure, returned from functions, etc.
Maybe. Distant future (e.g. when my grandchildren are grandparents) maybe this will be a base for lots of things. Currently though, with "Soylent" on my mind, I'd suggest the answer is no. People enjoy eating meals. People enjoy cooking meals. Food, with its variety of textures and flavors, is a big part of the social fabric of the entire planet. If the suggestion is that these food replacements allow us to forego preparation, have a quick nutrient infusion, and then get back to some activity ... again, not in the near future. I hope humanity continues to take time away from the rush of life and enjoy meals.

OT: Sometimes, article headlines cause me mental anguish. Perhaps it's a deficiency that is my own, but often I find my reading the headline repeatedly while I wait for the content and I can't figure out what the author/editor meant. I get a couple sentences into the article and it hits me. In this case, I wanted an adjective after 'Tokyo,' but it turns out I needed to render it like this:

"Is the Future of Food [located] in Tokyo?"
This must be why mosh's escape sequence never worked for me (ctrl-^ or ctrl-^.)
Astroturfing from 25 fake twitter accounts is ethical, is it?

Who do you work for? What companies have employed you? If you think everything you do is above board, I'm sure you won't mind naming some companies that have benefitted from your ethical marketing services.
I got into Renderman in the late nineties thanks to Larry Gritz's Renderman compliant renderer BMRT, which was free for non-commercial use. I believe it was used for a number of Hollywood productions alongside PRMan, since it could raytrace and do global illumination.

At that time I was working in a supermarket and running a 16meg p166. Quite a distance from the world of high end graphics!

I created models in a beta version of Rhino I got from a Computer Arts coverdisk, which I exported in Renderman's text based RIB format. I would then hand edit these files to add shaders I had written. Back then I was convinced that shaders were the future, and that they would eventually make their way into games.

I ended up using it to create artwork for some early mobile games I released back in 2003. (http://richardjdare.com/blog/games/) - I would love to get back into hacking on Renderman again...
And that has been the default on all Android phones I've used so far.
You're being facetious, but the UK and the USA are in some of the tightest relationships of any countries ever. The Anglosphere runs deep with the "Five Eyes".

The UK absolutely and fundamentally should trust the US over China -- after all, the UK and the USA have no-holds-barred sharing of intelligence and spying, while the UK and China have literally no pact at all and are adversarial in that regard.

USA equipment would be orders of magnitude more safe for the British people, as by forming a pact with the US, the US has responsibility to the British government for the intelligence gathered (and vice versa on the mass amounts they collect on us through GCHQ!)

But to pretend that the US is guilty and the UK innocent is absolutely, egregious biased and false. They dragnet over 200 fiber interconnects and literally copy all internet traffic for analysis. They are not our victims, they are our brothers in arms. Don't forget that!
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Isn't that a sociopath? I think I read that psychopaths can't really live in society and go undetected, they can't control themselves.
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All it would have to do with my phone is swipe up which didn't seem to be programmed into it's actions.
Well... chinese firm Huawei also made my cellphone

should I stop using it and start using US-made or North Korea-made phone instead? ...nah, it's not that much better over there.
Then freaking sell your computer and all other first world stuff and help them if that really worries you that much.
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