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Right, so... I still don't understand exactly what you mean.

On an iPad, Apple does not allow Amazon to sell things directly in the Kindle app -- because it's an "in app purchase", and Apple wants their 30%.

Google does allow this currently. The Kindle app on Nexus, downloaded from the Play store, embeds a complete store within it that does not use Play to do purchases. It uses the standard Amazon "one click" purchase mechanism.

The question is: is this changing so Amazon can no longer sell directly within the Kindle application when downloaded from the Play store?

[Edit]: I am not talking about the sideloaded Amazon App store in this case. The straight up kindle app from the Play store.
The beauty of FOSS is you can take your criticism and turn it into action by contributing to make it better!
Just got off from a Singapore → Taipei Scoot flight today; sat in the quiet zone. Compared with the other flight where a family placed their loud baby right behind me, this is pure bliss.

I’ll happily pay up to $500 for guaranteed silence.

ps. Active noise cancellation might work; however you’re usually not allowed to use electronic devices during takeoff or landing. Speaking from my experience, babies don’t really cry when the plane is coasting, they’re triggered by jitters.

Belated material — Malaysia Airlines bans babies from first class outright [1].

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2009386/Child-free...
When did the US start to care about international law? We tend to use it as an excuse for military action abroad, but we routinely ignore international law, treaties, agreements, etc. when it suits us.
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"Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the United States systematically spied on other states and institutions."

So you mean, the very purpose for which the NSA exists?
You'll see defective safety systems and poor safety culture a lot more often in unregulated, for-profit businesses than in union- or government-regulated businesses. I don't think you'd need a scientific study to verify this claim. I mean, the whole point of regulation is usually to improve safety.
"A few highly skilled and specialized people that design, maintain, and improve the automated systems.

"A large amount of unskilled workers, who are nothing more than 'replaceable units', that get told what to do by those systems."

That is a pretty effective description of any post-industrial-revolution economy.
"Umm, so this is a concrete breach of international law. When do we see US officials being arrested and tried?"

For the same reason James Clapper is not being prosecuted for perjury, obstruction of Congress, and making false statements -- all of which are illegal under US law (which carries far more weight in this country).
I wonder why children cry at all. Isn't that evolutionary stupid to cry so loud so much?

My only idea is that children cries is a side-effect of their brain development.
Sort of random note, it is kind of creepy to ride your bike around the base housing at Moffett. Kind of expect zombies or something to come shuffling out.

The preservation efforts are really vital. I was amazed at how much data is "trapped" in media that is slowly decaying over time at NASA. Definitely worth saving.
Seems we will be NSA slaves
Yes, I got it. The US can not be trusted under any circumstances and treaties are meaningless.

Call me naive but I expected better, I'd be just as surprised if the Swiss were caught bugging the Geneva assembly or if the Belgians were caught bugging the EU Headquarters. Note the 'caught'.

Who knows, they might even do it. But for now we only have proof about the US and the UN mission in New York and if you can't see why that's a bad thing (even if it was to be expected by all but the naive people in the world) then I can't help that. Trust is fragile.

It's like cheating on your wife: you can do it, plenty of people do. But don't get found out or there will be consequences that you might not be willing to pay.
Netflix originals (programs produced or at least financed by Netflix) such as House of Cards and the new season of Arrested Development are a very likely a peek into the future.

Edit: Also the recent success of HBO and AMC in producing high quality big budget shows such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad or Game Of Thrones.
"Finally, automated trucks will provably do the right thing, all the time,..."

[[Citation Needed]]
I can't be absolutly certain, of course, but given the quality of the work itself I can tell that the people who did it aren't amatures. I also know the probability an accomplished, professional designer claiming non-payment when payment was made is virtually zero.

Indeed, having worked in related fields for the better part of two decades, I cannot think of a single example where a designer attempted to shake down a client with a bogus claim of non-payment. But I can think of an astonishingly depressing number of cases where clients wanting something for nothing decided that stiffing their vendors was an easy and acceptable way to increase their own margins.

All other considerations aside, if the client didn't pay, the work isn't theirs. By law. Full stop. And if the client was stupid enough to host their site with a vendor they're shafting, the the vendor is well within their rights to limit access to that site in the fashion they did.
Prisoner death matches. And you become a prisoner from future thought crimes. And you fight to the death vs jungle animals in Antarctica. Streamed by Google (gl)Ass - the rectal implant that turns you into a networked device.
Incidentally, I'm a desktop Linux user for more than 10 years. I don't mind having to do annoying things once or twice to set things up.

I do mind having to do them each and every time I pick up the computer, especially when I have bought it believing that I won't have to.
I'd suggest finding a list of countries that haven't bugged the UN headquarters. It is probably shorter.
What fact? The fact that out of hundreds of services, they shut down 12? Even 37signals shut down some of their products and they have very few. Also, this list features google maps api v2 and v1, come on, this is ridiculous. I also see plenty of stuff no one used or that were replaced by services that everyone enjoy (google video by youtube).
Crying is, by its very nature and purpose, difficult to tolerate and ignore. Even for loving parents, taking a baby on a flight can be incredibly tiring and trying. What's wrong with offering passengers the chance to be a few rows away from the noise?
If the child is in a group of other humans, the louder it cries the more likely it is to be noticed. The more annoying the cry is to other people, the more likely it is to get help.

Humans always lived in groups, so being loud and annoying has huge evolutionary advantages over being quiet.
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(By "common problems" I assume you mean "common codegolf problems" and not "common issues programmers encounter using it" -- if you do mean the latter let me know.)

The best compilation of code-golfing problems I've seen is Anarchy Golf [1]. Pick almost any problem you want, implement it in rhoScript naively, and you'll get a much shorter solution. (Except those problems which use things not currently present, anything like, say, floating point numbers.)

If you look at some of the examples I have compared to the programs others have written, you'll get a brief sense. My eight-queens is 17 bytes, the shortest on Anarchy Golf [2] is 42. A solution to the 196 algorithm problem [3] in rhoScript takes 16 bytes compared to 24. But that's just cherrypicking problems I found interesting. I haven't yet done a real random sample to see how well it does.

Note, however, that the programs you write in rhoScript don't yet format the output to conform correctly, so they may require a few more bytes for that.

[1] http://golf.shinh.org/
[2] http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?N+Queens
[3] http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?196+algorithm
The Internet is integral to tablets and mobiles, so not sure how it is being cannibalized. I see "computing" moving into areas such as packaging - i.e. walk down the cereal isle in your store and boxes call out to you as you walk by advertising their contents. Cheap, flexible screens with integrated CPU/GPU/flash will be pennies in 20 years.

Edit to add an "entertainment" part: we'll have new grammy/emmy/oscar categories for "Most Creative Use of Integrated Packaging" and "viral" packaging will be all the rage.
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From what I know, the crying is due to the change in pressure that affects babies inner ears during takeoff and landing.
I'm doing sort of like a sad quiet rage cry with a dash of laughter in it reading your response.
They mostly cry without any reason watsoever.

Even today children crying gets them shaken violently in some cultres. I can't imagine pre-historic humans to be more well-tempered and tolerant than today. It doesn't make sense.
Only when google asks us to trust them to provide a service.
This is the first time I've seen dynamic typing arising from simple systems as opposed to making the implementation more complex.

Beautiful!
What? Really? This is the main conclusion you draw from this article?

Society isn't intolerant of children, society sees that there is a market for increased comfort in airlines, and that "peace and quiet" is an integral part of comfort.

They aren't charging more for children to fly.
Why do they cry on a bus or on a street even?
I've given some thought to anonymity on reddit and I've come to the conclusion it is all but unobtainable. Every now and then you see it happen, posting similarities or offhand comments are tied between accounts exposing what happened to so-in-so in the myriad of subreddit dramas. I change my account every so often, mostly because I tend to come across as a dick. Still I gain karma fairly steadily yet I prefer being blunt on reddit and that's not the person I wan't friends and family interacting with online, so I change it from time to time to keep my visibility low. So while I may not be 'strong' anonymous it still serves a purpose for me and allows me to engage in discussion whereas on other sites such as G+ or FB I completely abstain from conversation for fear of offending someone. At the end of the day that is useful even if I know full well those with the inclination could easily discern who I am.
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A great example of this (IMHO) is the networkmanager bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668899

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125693

I gave up on calibre largely due to the irratation caused by this bug. Sure the UI is not great but I could deal with the UI. I keep networkmanager installed on my laptop to keep some oddball VPN profiles available. 80% of the time I have NM disabled, pidgin and a host of other apps have no problem with NM being disabled.
Almost definitely some form of VR: we are reaching the point (both hardware and software) where we can have compact, cheap eye mounted imagery.
Things seem better now. I remember bricking the original beta google chromebook that google gave out for testing because of following murky instructions.
Not without going through court and that's the whole point.
I suspect contact lenses screens will become the "next big thing" as it's technology is further developed. Imagine it's computing capability came from your smart phone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_contact_lens

Stretching a bit too far; but if you could get earphone implants, then you have a entertainment system wherever you are.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are asking for in your question. Entertainment content has remained largely unchanged in the past 2000 years, and still consists mostly of dramas and comedies - whether it's a performance in a theater or the latest episode of HIMYM on netflix. If you are asking about the medium through which we will consume it the question becomes much harder to answer. Probably still some device with a screen, but it might be attachable to our wrist or foldable, or integrated in our glasses... who knows.
You aren't. I really like it but the disconnect between old style apps and the new style is jarring. The new apps and interface would be great on a tablet but feels clunky on my old laptop with a bad track pad. Also searching has been compartmentalized so to do some searches you need to type Win+w and know why you search is blank. Of course Win+r is still there so in practice its pretty easy to avoid.
I moved to London 3 years ago and I'm still lonely, I've not really made a friend here.
A drip about dripping.. so wet in here.
There is nothing wrong with this.
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But requiring a master password certainly does inconvenience the user.
Android isn't the most popular smartphone platform. It's the most popular phone platform.
One particular thing I've noticed while playing video games is that it's very easy to lose track of where you "are" in the scene. Despite a relatively simple building layout, I notice that my mind doesn't "map" out the scene like it would if I was actually walking through the building.

This causes a huge break in immersion, where I've been walking around a town/building in a game for 30 minutes and have no idea where I am or how I really got there.

I think that VR is going to be the nail in the coffin for this problem. Awhile ago I tried a VR demo on one of those omni-directional platforms where you literally walk in the direction you want to go, and I noticed that my mind was internally mapping out the scene. As a result, the simulation was -much- more immersive, and I was quite content with just walking around the game world that was set up.

If this tech becomes widespread, I can see it opening up video game niches that have previously been untouched. Simulators for stuff ranging from exploring complex ruins to talking a walk in a forest, to showing home buyers what houses are like without having to drive out to them.
> it is certainly true that a person posts more carefully if his real name is attached to the result

It's pretty easy to agree on this. What's up for debate is what carefully implies.

And there's no shortage of people who will still post stupid inane comments under their real name, so you've still got to rank them somehow.
LED or similar Shirts/Clothing.

Imagine having to buy one shirt that doesn't get dirty (ie similar to never-wet, it just will repel everything). And then you can buy packs of designs for $5, or make and sell your own. It will totally change the fashion industry. You can have a wardrobe of one shirt, one pair of shorts, a pair of pants, a v-neck for when you're feeling different, etc.

The whole clothing item would be a screen basically, instead of only a small area. That way you could literally design every small facet.
Good managers should ask simple questions? True or not?
What does Love mean in a picture
I would like to show you a picture of love that really describes what exactly does LOVE mean...
Part of the reason compilers don't do really thorough analysis and optimization is that it makes the compiles take a long time.

But we can make that not matter if we rethink the relationship between the compiler and the programmer. What if you got the first version of your binary very quickly, but then you could let the compiler run arbitrarily long, and watch it continue to produce better and better versions?

What if the compiler could compile not just source code, but diffs of source code? It could apply your one-line change without redoing its exhaustive analysis of all the things that you couldn't have effected.

Compilers try hard to avoid whole-program analysis, but I think that's misguided. Spend the cycles, they're getting cheaper all the time. If you can update your analysis incrementally as the programmer works, you're golden.
I think this is great to encourage math based education and to give kids something to aspire to. I know a lot of kids who did "math camp" who also credit that as giving them an impulse to learn more.

But I think the same problem that elite colleges face also exists here: If your school's graduates are the cream of the crop of your society / field, is it because your education caused them to be or is it because you selected the cream of the crop to begin with?

So, I'd like to hijack this thread to focus your attention on another tangentially related problem: Teaching people who don't self-identify as "math kids". I think these are the low hanging fruit that, if improved, would improve society as a whole.

What I often see with people who say "I can't do math" is a shaky understanding of true basics. Kids will cross-multiply an equation to simplify it but they won't know why they're doing it or why it works. Then, they'll pass tests because they can do the basic algorithm. Now they think they know it and their teachers think they know it, and they move on to a different subject. Conceptually, the new stuff piles on top of the old stuff and so they have no hope of understanding what is going on, OR they further the "see question type x, apply algorithm y" mentality until it collapses.

So, I'd love to see a "learn math the hard way" where people can iteratively learn the fundamentals of arithmetic, algebra, and basic proofs. What I love about that series is that it's iterative to a fault. Every section is tens of experiments with a very simple concept. What if I use it this way? What if I stick in a string? What if I spell it wrong?

It teaches concepts at a slow enough pace that anyone can catch a conceptual leap that'd otherwise be undecipherable and confusing to beginners. It teaches that experimental mindset. It can get boring if you already know that part, but you can skip it if you like.

The part that I don't know what to do about is when you fast forward 10 years and you try to correct faulty education, and people balk at you for teaching them "easy stuff they already know" and not the more complicated topic that they're currently concerned with.
It gets quite tiring to blast high volume music or white noise for long periods. (And the noise-cancelling is utterly useless for screams.)
Perfect Forward Secrecy comes to iOS
I’d go with OTR for this and the website supposedly answers this. While I don’t fully understand their answer, they seem to be saying that OTR is an add-on rather than an integral part of the protocol and hence Goldbug is to be preferred over OTR.

However, there are various reasons why transport and encryption should be different things (among others: I can use the same OTR keys etc. over ICQ/XMPP/MSN and possibly even Skype). Is there an added benefit of Goldbug over OTR, such as obscuration against network-wide attackers (à la Bitmessage)? Or is their ‘decentralised’ approach the only thing going for them? – which I also get by running my own XMPP server.
Thanks for the suggestions! The only problem I have with Scandinavian TV is that it's -so dark-. Most of those are semi-horror or crime shows, and that's far from a bad thing but it's hard to watch a lot of it in one sitting :D

And Norwegian Ninja sounds amazing.
Two other Danger/KIN things they did which made them less attractive to future partners, which probably didn't help the Surface RT et. al.:

They tried to ignore Danger's contractual obligations to deliver more phone models to T-Mobile (hardly surprising from Microsoft). T-Mobile was sufficiently insistent they had to reverse course for a while, hampered by people lost or pushed out in the acquisition, and develop one more model using the original technology stack.

They suffered a catastrophic data loss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_data_loss_2009 and I'm sure it didn't help that Ballmer denied it; per Wikipedia "Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer disputed whether there had ever been a data loss, instead describing it as an outage. Ballmer said, 'It is not clear there was data loss'. However, he said the incident was 'not good' for Microsoft."

Those sorts of comments echo the concern that he was not the right CEO for a company doing services.

(And of course they canned the original technology stack, Java on top of a BSD, with Oracle providing the back end fault tolerant storage they didn't spend enough money on to adequately back up.)

Getting back to your original question: maybe it's not so strange, KIN and Surface RT each represent a process so terribly broken it went all the way to the market and warehouses of unsaleable product after losing around a billion tangible dollars (much more in lost credibility and market, above kabdib estimates 40 billion for the RT). Ballmer undoubtedly claimed the KIN was a unique failure that he wasn't going to let happen again, and the Surface RT became the final straw when it showed he didn't have a handle on this.
Exactly. Taking a baby onto an airplane is equivalent to torturing it... And, as a consequence, everyone around it.
As tired as I am of screaming babies on planes, this seems silly. For one thing a crying baby can reach WAY farther than 4 measly rows.

But mostly I get the impression that jerks like me did enough grumbling, and this is a way for the airline to seem like they give a crap, which of course they do not.
Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers
They cry when they need something from their keeper, like a diaper changed, some comfort, whatever. Perfectly understandable.

What is 10x more infuriating is a six year old screaming at the top of its lungs, with the parents either ignoring or smiling happily.
They are expected to do it (bug), but not be found out.
I read it as intentionally ambiguous.
> Lets be honest here, If Marissa was not "adorable" and "sexy", this video and discussion would never have appeared on Hacker News.

I believe that is exactly my point.
They are most likely referring to allies of the U.S, who may not expect being targeted by the NSA.
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It doesn't say spying on other countries is against international law, it says spying on the UN is. The Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations[1] says "UN premises shall be inviolable, and UN property shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation etc."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Privileges_a...
I'd argue most people would be right in not wanting to pay $0.99 for most apps. Most (the vast majority) turn out to be incomprehensibly bad, and I truly feel bad for paying for some.

IMO what we really need is a short, free (optional) trial period for many apps. You really really need to get past the "but what if it's shit?" perfectly-rational reflex when someone sees a non-free app.
It's safe to say that "bugging our allies" probably isn't in the NSA mission statement.
Porn will still be here. Even more interactive and personalized. The rift in relationships will be of the Oculus kind. :)
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The US really could stand to learn a few things from Henry L. Stimson, who held many important political positions related to foreign policy during the first half of the 20th century. Here are two choice quotes:

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him;
and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to
distrust him and show your distrust."

and

"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."

The US Government doesn't act with trust and goodwill towards anyone and therefor should not be surprised that no one else shows us trust and goodwill back.

Given this news, it would be most fitting if the UN decided to move its headquarters elsewhere. My vote is for Berlin.
>>hard numbers that you've basically made up.

Here are quick overviews of the facts I claimed in the GP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sudan

http://www.oxfam.org/en/emergencies/sudan-southsudan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_con...

But you knew that.

So it is easy to claim different standards as a factor of thousands. But you knew that, too.
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