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The logic is mind blowing. That's similar to what I imagine to be programming of nanodevices in the future.
thanks! would you mind sending a pull request to https://github.com/azer/boxcars/blob/master/boxcars/boxcars.... ?
Echelon is the name of a multi-country spy listening network that we here in NZ are part of. It includes the US.

"Safe" is the last thing I feel my data would be.
I think there's a lesson here in comparing apple ipod to iphone strategy. How come no one managed to beat apple's ipod and samsung beat the iphone.

I have a couple of ideas (price tag on the iphone was too high, market size is bigger and attracts more competitors, technology is more difficult because it deals with both hardware and software, etc), but no definitive answer. That's something that will be discussed in business schools for a long time.
That's like saying if Bentley produces as many models as Toyota it too will be as profitable.
How the Huffington Post handles 70 million comments
Indeed. I live in Montreal, and many people rent apartments their entire lives. It's culturally acceptable.
The service seems counter intuitive. You advertise "The safe way to manage your company’s Twitter accounts." yet using the service would mean giving access to a third party. We all know that security is hard and you're creating online password manager - if it will be popular, it will gain unwanted attention.

Sure, you are using an access token and not a password for the accounts, but that's not explicitly said anywhere. I suggest you improve the trustworthiness of Echelon on the landing page.
Have they factored in how much Samsung spends on advertising? It's far more than Apple spends...
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I'm having a good laugh over this headline for a very simple reason.

A few years back when the iPhone was selling more than all Android devices combined, people were quick to say that Android would never be able to compete since it's 'too geeky'.

Awhile later when Android took off a bit and all of the Android devices together sold more than the iPhone, people were quick to say how it's just one supplier (Apple) vs many suppliers producing Android phones.

Bit later, Samsung is doing really well with their Galaxy range, and suddenly Samsung alone is selling more devices than Apple. People then say how Samsung sells tons of different devices while Apple only sells one.

Again, a bit later, a quarter arrives where a single Samsung device (I believe it was the S3?) outsold the iPhone. People were then very quick to point out how profits are important, and Apple makes more profits than anybody making Android.

Well, look at the news now. Samsung now overtakes Apple in profits as well. I'm sure we'll have some new goalposts shortly that we can wait for.

These issues (profitability, marketshare, etc) are not ends to themselves - they are only symptoms or indicators of the real market forces behind them. The real issue is that Google/Android are out competing Apple in features, price and 'freedom'. 'Freedom' in this case being a nebulous concept that translates on-the-ground into something like 'able to load up porn apps on your phone if you want to'.
>So, why that "find a job that you love" is utter bullshit then?

Those things are not related. So what if you get paid less than the value you add? That doesn't mean that suddenly its not a job that you love.

>Nowadays, though, the potential is enormous given the cost of automation and reproduction of creative work is ever decreasing.

I'd argue the opposite actually. Because its so trivial to make a copy of something. Income based off of royalties can be sustainable for a very small minority. And this has always been the case.

>Of course, Forbes doesn't want you to realize that.

Why not? Large corporations - music producers, book publishers, movie producers, pharma companies, manufacturers, etc all run on the assumption that they will find enough people with passive income on their brains...
I've written a plugin that actually does this. I haven't had time to write the documentation yet, but our Dynatable plugin [1] has been in use for almost 2 years now.

It's an alternative to the Datatables plugin. All its logic works on the set of data in JSON, so it first translates an html table into JSON, then vice versa.

The cool thing about this process is, you can write your own translate step to easily work with e.g. JSON from an Ajax request. And you can write your own render step to work with e.g. a styled list instead of a table.

By default, the translate step translates an html table to a JSON object, naming the attributes by the table column headings (underscore format by default, but can be hyphenated, snake-case, or lower-case too).

[1] http://os.alfajango.com/dynatable

EDIT: If anyone is interested, the part of the plugin that essentially does the "table to JSON" part is the getFromTable function here: https://github.com/JangoSteve/jquery-dynatable/blob/master/j...

Other useful things this function does is, determines whether the data is a string, number, boolean, or date (or other user-defined type) to do proper column sorting logic, and much more.

EDIT 2: Also, I can't speak for the author of the table-to-json plugin, but for dynatable, it's useful to have data-override values for the cells for cases like when you have a date in "Jan 1, 2013" format, which is meaningless when doing filter or sorting operations on the JSON; i.e. you could use the data-override to populate the proper date format so JS knows how to process it.
The landing page mentions that you don't have to share passwords, which is what makes it inherently securer than...well...sharing passwords. Agreed that perhaps it could be clearer that by using access tokens, access can be revoked at any time via Twitter directly which removes the risk (compared to people stealing passwords).
I am just thinking here - has anyone really seen any child abuse images outside of Torspace?

Torspace is a wild west and anything goes there, but I haven't really seen any child abuse on normal web...
Yes I noticed this name collision too. At least we didn't call it ECHELON :)
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This isn't /g/.
Saying that paedophiles often only speak to other offenders suggests that paedophilia is a crime. It could be better to make a distinction between people of certain sexual orientation and people who commit certain crimes, unless you believe that these two groups of people intersect completely.

I have not encountered any evidence that a certain treatment or social surrounds can change a person's sexual orientation, so avoiding unacceptable thoughts may be impossible for these people. Avoiding unacceptable behaviors is certainly achievable, though.
Show HN: FastBrowz [bigkittylabs]- Reddit, Hacker News browsing for the lazy
All, We are reddit/hacker new addicts like you and ended up creating these plugins that let you go through comments (which is the best part) when you're in a hurry.
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I dunno about others, but I am a slow reader, and this will probably take me about 20 minutes to finish reading. I have a general rule on sites like HN and Reddit, if it takes more than 10 minutes to read something I will probably not going to read it (unless it's extremely interesting, important or relevant to present time based on comments).

I spend about an hour on HN a day, in small bouts. Most of the time I will skim over titles to see if there is anything interesting, if there is and its a long read (like this one) I will save it to "Pocket" to read it later. I will probably get around to reading this few weeks or even a month from now.

I suspect, very few people will read it on the spot, which is why even interesting submissions like this doesn't get a lot of discussions.
OK, WiDi as in Intel Wireless Display, not Wifi Direct. I've played a WiDi "stream" in VLC - it will fall back to plain old RTSP in some cases.

Intel have a GPL WiDi archive, but I haven't taken a look yet.
Matlab is just another tool for your toolbox. Part of programming is choosing the right tool. I found Matlab extremely useful in college for graphing my lab work. Haven't had much use for it since. Did run across OpenTLD AKA predator. It's is a sweet CV app that is primarily written in matlab.
https://github.com/zk00006/OpenTLD
Maybe Apple doesn't want to go there (yet). Louis Vuitton doesn't necessary miss out on the mass market for bags. If they decided to do mass market bags tomorrow, it would be very painful and the market would be very confused. Samsung, on the other hand, is just a mid-quality brand, they can safely hit the low end without confusing consumers.

Apple is run pretty decently; I'm sure they'll take advantage of opportunities as they see them. It might make sense for them to focus on high-end phones and invest in other non-phone products then to regain the "most profit on phones" crown.
All, We are reddit/hacker new addicts like you and ended up creating these plugins that let you go through comments (which is the best part) when you're in a hurry.
We would love to hear your feedback. Let us know if you want the plugin enable browsing for other sites.

- BKL
Oh, I must not have read the instructions thoroughly enough - I thought the solution was looking for an answer, not for the identities. My bad.

I'm guessing the same principle should apply though, I'll comment an update if I don't fall asleep from having been up all night. Thanks for pointing that out, though.
If you compare the markets exactly then the real differentiator is simply that Google open-sourced Android into the phone business, but not into the music player business. I'm not sure if 'Google did it' is the real answer to your question or not, but it's interesting to note that competing on level ground with open source is extremely difficult - especially when that open source is backed by very heavy funding.
I've been slowly coming to thus realization every time I read about another gotcha with MongoDB or any of other upstarts who are running into problems Oracle solved 15 years ago. I'm surprised Oracle isn't leveraging BerkeleyDB more to combat the NoSQL upstarts. It's languished since the acquisition even though it had a big headstart.
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Private prisons are a really small part of this as far as I can tell. They e.g. don't touch at all upon the size of police forces and judicial systems, in most places those would have significantly downsized if they'd followed the sharp decrease in crime over the last couple of decades or so.

You might want to check out Arrest Proof Yourself (http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...): it presents a thesis that what I've taken to calling the police-judicial complex needs a steady diet of the "clueless" to keep all those people employed. What this topic discusses would just seem to be extending that.
There was nothing like Android for music players. Samsung is not a software platform company in any way.
It's very easy to write crappy code in python. And that's why I love it - it doesn't try to protect the programmer from themselves, instead it lets you do what you want (for better or worse). Compared to languages like java...
The thing is I could throw a bunch of Haskell at you but in the end it wouldn't really mean anything.

It is odd that you seem to be assuming I’ve never written anything in Haskell and that the concerns I’ve expressed are based on a sceptical reading of one article. I’m quite sure I’ve never written anything to that effect here.

I make no claim to special expertise or authority. Indeed, I’m almost entirely self-taught, so it’s certainly possible that I have completely missed some key point. However, I’ve been following Haskell’s development for years and written enough small/medium projects in it to have formed my own opinions. My experience has been that for mostly pure code where it’s a natural fit, Haskell has a lot to like, but for more interactive systems, it often does become rather awkward for exactly the reasons we’ve been discussing. (Edit: There’s a good example of this in the article: the chat room using WebSockets.)

In the real world, people do sometimes just dump half of their program into IO to be done with it. In the real world, you do wind up repeating essentially the same logic multiple times to cope with monadic and non-monadic cases (or the authors of libraries you use did, but sometimes you are that author) and at times you do need things like explicit lifts. In the real world, sometimes you do want to be in the same monad twice. In the real world, there are awkward corner cases in the language, and you do wind up relying on GHC extensions to help clean them up. In the real world, people do write elegant code like the popular not-quicksort example despite its dubious performance characteristics.

None of this takes away from the power and usefulness of Haskell’s type system, or neat ideas like STM if concurrency is relevant to your application. But this isn’t some kind of either/or world, where having some good points automatically means a language can’t have any bad ones.
Assuming they are measuring profit correctly, then they would bother subtracting expenses from revenue. It is unclear if they count Samsung's component business in the profit calculations, including the components that Samsung sells to Apple for making iPhones.
Mobile operators. Android was early on able to get a toe in the door by targeting carriers that didn't have the iPhone. That gave Android critical mass.

No such opening existed in the mp3 market.
Déjà vu, it's Windows all over again.
> But what you've identified isn't really a problem with MATLAB, is it?

Yes, it is. Everybody that knows what they are doing moves away from MATLAB as fast as they can. That's MATLAB's fault.

Except for teaching, mind you. The entire problem is that MATLAB is a great teaching tool, and a completely worthless tool for anything else. Guess what, lots of people stick with what they learn at school.
It wasn't meant as a fully maintained fork. Look at it as a set of patches on top of the stdlib.

As for the license, it does matter since with the GPL you'd be stuck and it turns out that there's some debate with the LGPL as well (IANAL).
2013: Warning child abuse is illegal.

2015: Warning Tor/VPNs are illegal.

2020: Warning extremist left-wing sites are illegal.
Apple still has huge profit margins, and so far made the mistake (IMO) of holding on to those margins instead of trading them down a bit to increase market share. They've done a lot of damage to themselves with this strategy but they still have a lot of room to maneuver.
Apple extracts far more profit from an iPhone than they ever did with an iPod, leaving them vulnerable for an attack from the bottom of the market (Samsung churned out low-end models before they took on Apple straight on with Galaxy S).

And there are another group of players in the phone market, the operators, the more you push them around the more interest they have in establishing alternatives to your products.
As someone who wrote a lot of Python code ans who is learning Go while implementing a somewhat important application, i can tell you Go is a good replacement for Python if it fits the problem better (mine was concurrence).

Go is pleasant, but there are Go problems an Python problems (and C problems, Lisp problems, and so on)
Given that Apple has completely saturated the high-end phone market in China, it makes sense that their market share isn't growing anymore. China has a lot of poor farmers upgrading their feature phones to Huawei's.

Trust me, the China markets for cheap Android phones and iPhones are completely disjoint. The biggest competitor iPhone has in the high end market seems to be...weirdly enough, the Galaxy Note.
I find this "us versus them" and corporate worshipping a bit troubling. I use an Android phone (S3) now, I used to use iPhone, but I didn't really like the direction they were heading. So I chose the phone OS ecosystem I liked.

One thing that annoys me more than Apple fanboys are Android fanboys.
It would have made much more sense if you put a bit more effort into trying to interpret what I said and didn't assume I think animal-eating was invented 200 years ago...

People certainly have a different emotional reaction from watching an animal die, this reaction being almost completely unknown those days, than from buying a hamburger in the supermarket, which doesn't provoke any emotion whatsoever. Do I have to convince you very much that emotions play a big role in the so called "morality" and especially being able to act on it?

Obviously there are historical examples that there were people a very long time ago already that were concerned about the sad fate of the killed animals, for example Native Americans used to "thank" the animals they killed for providing food and ask them for forgiveness, Buddhist say "might you be reborn as a buddha" before eating meat etc., you will see this aspect of human life very carefully regulated by most religions, indicating it was a problem that concerned people from a very long time ago.

For another, more general example, try to convince someone of sacrificing a very, very minor modern convenience of theirs for some greater good. I often have to go to terrible pains to explain that I am perfectly fine with my current phone and I don't want to waste it to just get a new toy, and I am far from being any kind of ecology freak. When I buy crips and coke at a grocery 50m from my flat and don't want a plastic bag, the seller assures me that it's for free so I don't have to worry :) The people who actually use any more substantial effort to not deprive too much resources are very often gravely ridiculed, because most of society seems to view resources as unlimited.
But what do these annotations mean? Are they things that Jobs said that weren't in the prepared remarks? Are they some kind of ironic commentary by Ashton Kutcher? Are they explanatory annotations?
I've long thought there was a market for a product like this, but I figured it would be hard to get people to use it if they have to ditch their preferred twitter clients to post (if that assumption is correct).
The irony is that now microsoft has the same problem. It is incapable to get even a little percent on tablet marketshare and the phone marketshare, in which with nokia and the lumia it is pushing literally Billions of investments, the marketshare is still really really low.
Personally, I like the strict schedule, because it forces me to be disciplined. Otherwise I may be lazy :-)

I only take one class at a time, though.
>What do testing and studies show about this?

I don't know if it was designed by focus group or not, but a lot of work went into flat design. It helps to start with understanding the reasoning behind Microsoft's Metro design language [1][2], which is one of the originators of the flat trend.

In a nutshell, it's aimed primarily at touchscreen devices, but the principles that make it work there also happen to work on most other screens - remove all "chrome" (unnecessary shadows, 3D elements, etc) and focus on the content (strong typography, media, organized with whitespace).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_%28design_language%29

[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/tutorials/windows-ph...
What makes a difficult sudoku problem difficult?

Is it possible that a brilliant, experienced solver would find the right "tricks" to solve the puzzle? Or is the sudoku such that it can be only solved by some flavor of exhaustive search on the space of potential solutions?
To use a car analogy, Apple is a premium car maker, similar to how Lexus is viewed in the USA. They make mid to high end products, at higher than average prices, with much less product variation. Lexus isn't selling trucks, for example.

Compare this to say GM, which makes a very wide range of products in multiple market segments Lexus doesn't attempt to even exist it, and frequently at the same to much lower prices in the market segments that they have in common.

So, with Apple, you basically have 3 device sizes to choose from, with or without WAN modems, at 4 incremental price points, all with fairly similar specs that tend towards the higher end.

Samsung and other Android phone makers have tens to hundreds of devices that range the gamut from tiny to huge. Want a 6" phone/tablet with a stylus? Android has it. Want a head unit that goes in your car and runs Android? Sure.

And with more choices * on average lower price points = more market penetration.

I'd on a per-car, Lexus makes more than GM, and in the same way, on a per-device basis, Apple makes more than Samsung.
Places where iPhone 5s are more expensive are generally places where Android phones are also more expensive (just a lower base). It generally means your country has high import tariffs or taxes, not that Apple is intent on screwing your market (they are pretty good about pricing in non-US markets, I've done the math for China and it works out given a 20% tax).
On a side note, in the case you mentioned, it would probably be more intuitive to pass in "A.T" instead of "A", rather than using the "axis" keword.
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I am with you up to the moment you talk about people in the third world, where I completely don't understand what you are up to, care to explain?
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