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How to convert DVD to Samsung Galaxy Note i9220
So, is there a way to watch DVDs movies on this Android phone with a massive big display? There surely is. As long as we have a DVD ripper software, we are able to convert any DVD movie we fall in love with into a compatible video file so that we can watch it on Galaxy Note whenever we want to. DVDFab DVD Ripper is just what we need to achieve that goal.
I'm sure they'll know a lot more about how well the Android-branded Kit Kats are selling (which is probably a better indicator of the success of the campaign anyway).
The main issue is that the bootloader of the Kindle devices isn't particularly easy to unlock (at least, I couldn't figure it out), so even if you do get the kernel built, it would be hard to actually install it on the device itself.
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I don't think anyone but a loon or a pedant would object to a comment, in a thread about geology

Wait a minute, you didn't say anything about 'a thread about geology.' In fact, I was the person who brought that into the conversation. Discussions and misapprehensions about the age of the earth seem more likely to crop up in conversations about religion or general science or ancient history.

You've got a nerve critiquing me for being a pedant when you're retroactively redefining the terms of your argument like that.
> Most slaves turn a profit, while most prisons require funding.

Not even relevant in private prisons, many of which put their prisoners to work and provide third-world wages to their inmates. And the funding comes from the government.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks US Marines, asks 'bros' to fight on its side
Hehe that was funny! Thanks.
I don't know much about emacs, but that would be a good way to train yourself to use vim :)
maps.google.com does this exactly with a few extra clicks:

Click "Get directions" button, click the "Add Destination" link, fill in A, B, and C then click the "Did you mean a different..."
Sorry, but requiring a social network account to play this is simply ridiculous. Provide alternative options if you want this to catch on.
Actually, Google might not need permission for the trademark, if the trademark only covers candy.
I think there are a lot of people who claim to not be influenced by advertising but actually are. Just because you’re not clicking on ads doesn’t mean they’re not succeeding at influencing your behavior:

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2009/is-the-ad-biz-thr...
You know what I like about the new Gmail compose? Nothing.
If anybody is after similar s3 functionality within python, I wrote a small python wrapper around boto a while back that does similar parallel/multipart upload to s3, and a bunch of other AWS stuff: https://github.com/djrobstep/motorboto
Of Irreverence and Irrelevance: A Yahoo Redesign
Here're some, random, examples off a Google SERP...

From an acclaimed Apple-enthusiast: http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/themes

Ever seen the window controls for a full-screen iTunes 10? http://zapp0.staticworld.net/reviews/graphics/products/uploa...

More: http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/how-apples-contextual-menus...

May Jobs rest in peace, but iOS 5 didn't just materialize in a single day, and Jobs presented it, undoubtedly as the next-best sliced bread, at WWDC.

More importantly, though, I love that you read 1 paragraph and then blew your top ("belligerent" -- really?) over a comment. It's really tiring to hear about how "if only Jobs were here" or "Jobs would never let this happen!" pg should know better, and so, I won't hold his hand.
Krapfen!
Cool to see this on HN. I was a software architect on the project and helped design a good chunk of the system :-)
> Actually, as a matter of fact, it isn't my problem.

> The problem is obviously slave owners, who will rationalize their behavior as they continue to oppress you

I'm glad we're on the same page here.
Yup. I was not aware that some phone numbers were more equal than others when it comes to SMS service.
Building Web Apps: Using the right tool for the job
Great feedback, will do!
It's the chain button next to the printer button just to the left of the map. It's... right there. What would you prefer they do to make it easier for you?

[EDIT] Oh, looks like I don't have the new version yet. Oops. Thanks for the correction.
Having two control keys is really useful because then you can alternate hands. My layout looks like this:

[super] - [left meta] - [left control] - [space] - [right control] - [right meta]

Having control and meta right next to each other also makes C-M-* combinations easier to reach.
Figuring out how to deal with the 750ms ping latency was a pain at first. Held our breath when the ViaSat Satellite launched. The rockets that were launched right before that mission didn't meet with much success.
If you want to teach professionally in a formal school setting you are going to need a degree and the appropriate teaching credentials.

There is a lot you can do to start spreading knowledge today. Start with presenting at your local user group. There is always a need for high quality screencasts.
But there are so many more apple apps!

apple pie, apple fritters, apple juice, apple cider, apple jacks, apple crisp, apple cake, apple butter, apple muffins, apple brown betty, apple turnovers, apple strudel, apple tart, baked apples, apple sauce, caramel apples, apple dumplings, apple chutney, apple crumble, ...

also with KitKat, thanks to fragmentation if you aren't careful you can be stuck with a real mess on your hands.
I have no idea who downvoted this comment, but it is very true. The cost of a book is the cost of making and marketing it. Paper is really cheap. Obviously it is more expensive than bits, but not significantly.
I think your definition of nobody is very narrow. Wp8 is the second best seller platform in Latinamerica.
Oh come on... leave this kind of stupid things for reddit or slashdot.
Nerds,  Are there any free "secure" email services left out there?  -Aidan Black
Nerds,
Are there any free "secure" email-services left out there?

-Aidan Black
blackandtroy
black@blackandtroy.com
If the only way humans could learn was through directly physical stimuli, we'd be scratching dirt and running down antelope still.
I disagree. There have been lots of low-level safety violations, and it's easy to find examples of chronic mismanagement. By 'spotty' I mean lots of small flaws, a few big ones here and there. Certainly, it has a good low ratio of deaths per megawatt of power generated, but such metrics are not the whole story.

I'm very pro-nuclear, but don't think there's an mileage in blowing off safety concerns.
Here's the thing about HelloRun ... I suck at HelloRun.
Looks like there's a (power gated!) hardware random number generator, too. It uses ring oscillators, so it's not going to pump out hundreds of megabytes per second like RdRand, but it's enough to at least throw a few kilobits of randomish data into Linux's random device at boot time before turning off to save power.
It works just fine for me in chrome on my six-year-old laptop. What browser are you using?
"Kindle X" has meant both hardware and service for quite a while now. I own a few Kindle books, and have rented dozens from my library, but do not yet own a Kindle device.
Politicians won't dare entertain the idea of defunding them.

They might if they had to put up with the same crap the plebes do. But the TSA has figured out how to keep all the powerful people from having to undergo the same indignities that normal people do - they let them opt out of almost all of it for a background check and about $100.

http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-precheck

Which, I'd like to point out is ridiculous if you believe that the TSA is about actual security. They've just created a whole class of passenger that get to bypass almost all of the 'security.' Background checks don't prevent people from being conned into carrying explosives in their baggage.
Yearn for privacy? “Headphones are the new cubicle,” he said.
I find it very hard to have sympathy for someone who says "For better or worse, email takes up a large part of my work life." and then chooses to use a free, ad-supported email service.

If this is such a crucial tool for you, then you should be willing to pay a reasonable price for something you're happy with instead of just complaining about it online.
Yes, but look how they do it. The music never skips a beat and certainly never cuts to straight silence, and Runner taps his feet for an appropriate number of beats so he launches himself at the right time. It's still a shock to lose, but it's not a bucket of cold water to the face like this.
I had similar problems with WebGL on Firefox (Ubuntu) that went away when I upgraded to 23.
I think you misread pg's point. He didn't say jobs produced perfect consistency.

Pg said that forcing consistency tends to result in bad design decisions. Maybe jobs could do it, page can't.

To disprove that point, you'd need to show an example of forced consistency across apple platforms that degraded usability. Showing inconsistency isn't responding to the argument.
I'm always curious why people remap the caps lock to be control. For me, extending my pinky to the caps lock makes the second key press hard. Like quitting emacs would be harder for me. I should make command the meta key though. That seems super beneficial
No, it is not. The new maps does not have a print button:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/vLT6DzwLd...
Prisoners beget _revenue_ for the prison system. It is of no consequence that prisoners' labor fails to produce anything marketable that outshines their value to the prison system of only being, existing in a cage, and causing revenue to pour in.
I'm not op, but I used chrome on a fully upgraded 2011 13 inch MacBook air. New maps was so slow it was unusable. I used chrome.
Props for using Redis. I've been hacking on a project that uses Redis only and it's been an enjoyable experience.

I have to agree with mean anonymous comment guys that the interface could use some work, though. Too much whitespace, and I personally don't care for the grey background.
Thank you for this no-nonsense layout of the situation. =) Can you elaborate more on how this FOSS Github-er was picked up by Amazon? It sounds like a story that many here would like to replicate!
AFAIK it only does NaCl besides their Web Player.
Almost none of those are good ideas. Walking alone is an exception; it's very easy for one momentary lapse to cause death or permanent damage in any of the others.

One of mother's best friends died riding in the back of a pickup truck; car accidents are common, but all that happened in her case was that the road had a pothole, she fell, and happened to hit her head too hard and in the wrong spot.

My girlfriend in college fell on her bike while she was going down a hill and passed over some gravel. Her helmet was destroyed. All she needed was stiches, but if she hadn't been wearing a helmet, she probably would have gotten a concussion.

These are just anecdotes, but the point is that taking a small cost (riding safely in cars; wearing helmets on bikes) is far worth it, because the cost is small, and the benefit in the unlikely case is huge.

It's not illegal where I live to not wear seatbelts in the backseat of a car, but I do anyway. I also use condoms when I have sex, and I wash my hands after going to the bathroom.

There's a big difference between systematically overestimating small risks, and blithely allowing black swans to shit all over your life. I hope you never allow your child to do most of those things, and I hope you never do most of them yourself. The world isn't as scary as the TSA wants us to think, but it can still ruin your life in a heartbeat.
"Forensics for Prosecutors" mentions backdoor in TrueCrypt (page 15) [pdf]
I wasn't aware that was the only option. I wonder if there are any nations out there which are able to conduct investigations in accordance with the law, but without tipping off those being investigated?
1) Somebody already told you this, only iDevices hold the value, everything else would value peanuts after a couple of months.
2) This happens with Apple too.
3) I don't have that problem, did you check that? Maybe is a problem in your end.
4) My 1 years old LG android 2.3 got stuck with that version for good. On the other hand, WP8 doesn't even have a year.

I had been used 4 platform (ios, android, BB and WP7 & 8) And my Lumia 920 is my all time favorite smartphone and it is a pleasure to develop for it in comparison with Android and iOS. So I guess is a matter of taste
Scientists show how antibiotics enable pathogenic gut infections
Bit.Trip Runner was not this difficult. And it's hard to make out the difference between an open space and a closed one. I tried it about 30 times and then gave up.
>/root/languagegame/languagegame/db.py

Running the web-page under root sounds dangerous.
Semicolon at end of python's statements
A graphical example of a Cartesian join - http://web.utk.edu/sas/OnlineTutor/1.2/en/60477/m71/m71_3.ht....
Amazon doesn't use $PAGER? [0]

[0]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Environment_Vari...
Is your distraction his problem though?
It will be interesting to see how the new design of iOS 7 goes with this in mind.
There's ads on youtube? I wouldn't know, I'm using adblock
>A success of honesty and humanity

That may be just a bit much.

I liked the rest of it though, it is fun.
Based on what? The only example we have of human intelligence is human intelligence, and we're still more or less at thinking-this-makes-neurons-here-light-up knowledge of how it all works.
I am not a developer but am learning programming. I picked up vim and have slowly build memory muscle for it for at least basic commands. I have never use Emacs. It seems to be quite popular. Is it worth learning? Is there a decisive answer to Emacs vs vim?
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The problem with both of those plans is that they involve attacking humans, in crowded places where heavily armed forces will rapidly respond and probably kill you as an attacker.

Terrorism now is focused more on systems disruption. Buy a $300 bomb, go to any one of bazillions of miles of pipeline, blow it up, cost the USG/Shell Corporation millions. Buy a cheaper bomb, go to any power substation, blow it up, cost the economy however much it loses and as a bonus, cost the government a bit of legitimacy as its denied the opportunity to provide services to its citizens.

If you truly are that confident, I'll put some money on the table at good odds (for me, since you're almost certain of winning). But if you're not truly 100% confident and can still be convinced, I recommend reading Brave New War, by John Robb. It's a fantastic overview of the tactics, strategies, and organization of modern (post Iraq occupation) terrorists. It comes very highly reviewed from higher-ups in the MEND insurgency.
I'm a fan of this TED Talk: 5 Dangerous Things to Let Your Kids Do He explains some ways to help kids learn to be safe around dangerous things. http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_...
Explain to me why this is a bad idea
This could be optimized. Catheters. Feeding tubes. Keep everybody naked and shaved. Daily sponge baths.
Though really, all this says is that even under a renewables scheme, we're not going to be able to provide power at the level some have come to expect for the population we've now got (7 billion) or are projected to have (10 billion).

This is best viewed as an engineering problem; those are much easier to solve than social problems.
If the software you write controls a pacemaker, I would want you to be able to pass the fundamentals of engineering exam. If you're writing routines for SolidWorks, or AutoCAD, I would want you to be able to pass the fundamentals of engineering exam. If your program will be used by Civil Engineers to figure out the composition of soil that needs to be placed under a brick pathway that students like me will use every day, I would want you to be able to pass the fundamentals of engineering exam.

If you're going to be the next Mark Zuckerburg, I give negative fucks about whether you have an engineering degree. Go take a speech communication course.
That's nice, but I really want this at brick and mortar stores. I want the great, curated experience of shopping at my local independent stores, but I also want the convenience of having an ebook version. Record companies already give away MP3 download codes along with records and I find it bizarre that publishers haven't followed along with a similar idea.
As mentioned in the HN guidelines, please don't sign your posts. To answer your question, the message you were supposed to receive from the shutdown of Lavabit and should have received from the compromise of Hushmail is that web hosted email isn't "secure", period.
I wrote a web programming book three years ago (moderately successful, made back its advance, and got me the career change I was looking for) using a philosophy that has a very similar approach to this. My approach is:

1. All code examples must lead to a working program, or can be easily integrated into a working program. Preferably the program has trivial functionality. Conceptual material must relate back to a working example.

2. Avoid applying excessive cognitive load to the readers. Human short term memory has a capacity of 7±2 items. Your material must be pitched at a level where there is a maximum of five concepts in play at any one time (five being the maximum "guaranteed" short term memory for a healthy adult). This is much easier to acheive with goal 1 as it the approach guides the writer as to which item needs to be explained next.

From that perspective, unix man pages drive me nuts. Learning to read man pages is one of the core skills that needs to be developed in order to become an effective user of unix like systems.
I keep mine in a txt file on an IronKey. Something like a secure note in Lastpass would probably work too.
Apple TV likely on its way for a September 10 launch
Who exactly are "mormal" people?
On your personal advantage — most high speed train designs are pressure sealed nowadays, so there's even less than on conventional trains.
I wonder how does it detect the chipset being used.
I usually never post rumors, but this is coming from Om Malik.
Coase's book The Nature of the Firm, which I read for some reason for pleasure while I was in grad school for a completely unrelated subject, stands out to me as one of the most elegant, lucidly-thought and well-presented books I've ever encountered. I'm not particularly a fan of the market-worshiping policy aims in service of which Coase's work was (ab?)used, but he's well worth reading as an exemplar for anyone whose job is to turn mental constructs into plain text.
Companies live and die by sales. The top earners in most companies are commission sales people. The reason for this is really simple, the sales department drives revenue. Every other department from engineering to accounting are expenses.
I suspect not.

"Secure" email is not zero-cost, and all the obvious monetization opportunities for free email provision inevitably preclude security. If you're not paying for the storage and bandwidth - work out who is, and how they're covering those costs.

(I'm in the middle of a project to replace my use of Gmail for something like $60 in hardware and under $20/month ongoing - with the bandwidth costs of my home internet connection ignored and replacement/upgrade of the RaspberryPi and it's USB drive storage ignored. Some details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319119 )
Syrian group hacks U.S. Marine Corps website
I think the only thing "new" here is aws-cli hitting version 1.0.0. It's been the recommended aws command line tool for quite a while now. I've personally used it for the last 6 months.
Even in the hot San Francisco market, however, RocketSpace appears to be making a 20 percent premium to current office rental prices, based on its 580 desks, leased by some 130 companies. Mr. Logan, who leases space inside two buildings near the old Pacific Stock Exchange, charges $700 to $800 a month for a “desk,” or table space.

Yet another example of "sell shovels, don't dig for gold".
The console app / bugchecker python script on this page:
http://bugchecker.net/console

needs the BUGCHECKER_API_URL = 'http://localhost/api.php' changed to 'http://bugchecker.net/api.php' to work.
Kaprekar_Constant
If you have a helicopter and a burning desire to visit all 478 KFC locations in California, give this to your pilot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22934979/CA_KFC_LK.jpg. I used the 2D Euclidean distance between each location and the Lin-Kernighan heuristic [1], so scaling it out to the entire U.S. wouldn't be hard if the data was available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin%E2%80%93Kernighan_heuristi...
What does the creepy looking mannequin have to do with the article?
how shortsighted are artists, musicians and producers, who are not thinking of reaching out to fans through interactive digital experiences

That's nice if you have a good marketing budget but most indie musicians, especially electronic ones, can't easily afford a video, never mind an interactive experience. It is possible and I have some interest in that aspect of things since my approach is heavily sequencer-based, but the more work goes into the music (as opposed to using canned loops) the fewer resources are available for other things.
Nymi by Bionym
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Iterm2 will let you swap option and command. I also cheat and use Keyboard Maestro to UN-swap Cmd-Tab and Cmd-` so that application switching and window switching still works.
For most things, I think 20 years would be too long, as most evil deeds would be irreversible faits accomplis at that point.
Solar panels mean a dependence on China

If you're referring to rare-earth production, my understanding is that this is more a matter of where mining operations are considered viable and acceptable (largely on a basis of environmental impacts). The elements themselves are relatively abundant in the Earth's crust, they're simply not concentrated as other minerals have traditionally been (though we've done a rather good job of ensuring that concentrated ores no longer exist).

Materials dependence is also different from fuels dependence. In the latter case, short-term interruptions can have massive disruption effects on whole economies. Look at what possible military action in Syria is doing to current oil prices, let alone the disruptions of the 1974 and 1979 oil embargoes. Were material flows interrupted, what would be disrupted would be additional energy systems development, but existing systems would continue to function fine (modulo maintenance and retirement).

the endlessness of renewables may be technically true, but often not at all in practice.

There's a fair bit of truth to that. Many renewables technologies are dependent on specific and limited materials, or on complex technology stacks: PVs also require an extensive chip-fabrication infrastructure. Once it's established and producing it's pretty efficient, but having to build it from scratch would be a challenge.

You're touching on issues that many who are looking at future paths (generally: "collapse", "transition", or some combination / variant of these and other options) with cold, clear vision see.

My point is that whatever challenges renewables offer, they're out only hope, so if it turns out that they do have profound limitations, we'd best start getting used to that idea. If this means going back to animal power and firewood -- well, we have a rough idea of what sort of population can be supported on that technological stack. And I don't paint renewables as necessarily being sufficient for present-day (or even technologically advanced) lifestyles, though I suspect they might be able to offer that.
Out of Sync: Why eating at the wrong times is tied to negative effects