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I have a Kindle and a Nexus 7. Both are nice devices, but serve very different purposes. You can certainly read on the Nexus 7, but it's an LCD screen: eye strain. Also, there are continuous distractions, and sites like this one are just a few taps away.

Taken all together, this means the Kindle is way better for just reading - you can really lose yourself in the book, something that I can't do at all with a regular tablet.
No they're not. My site is still up.
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I personally loved using my graphing calculator especially in classes where it was not required. Statistics and accounting, for example, were classes were we were expected to memorize formulas that I found to be difficult to learn. Come test day, though, I had programmed those formulas into a note on my TI 86.

The teachers always gave their reasons why they were forcing us to memorize these equations that in the real world we would have written down (or use software to solve for us), but I never bought into it. And they never forced me to erase my calculator's memory before the exam.
I'm going to have a hard time with this when the school district mandates that my son use a calculator that has an "Equals" key.

We've always been an HP family. RPN all the way. I literally am unable to use a TI calculator (well, they may well have Enter keys now -- I know the newer HP calcs have Equals keys of a sort, which you can ignore). My son will not be using a scientific calculator as broken as the TI ones.

You think I'm joking. I'm not. (I'll probably have to relent and let him use a TI, but I'm going to show him RPN first...)
What happened to the app shown in the linked Science without borders talk? That looks more useful to me, if only because it fits with the typical science paper writing workflow. How did the document editor migrate to this 2D editor?
Battery life is actually my #1 complaint with smartphones by far.
This guy's Facebook tactics haven't been valid for over 4 years and they certainly won't work to the same degree on the App Store.

This particular tactic worked on Facebook because ratings of spaminness and blocking happened on a per-app basis. You could take a spammy app, reskin it 1,000 ways, and release them in to the wild seperately. If a user blocked "Diwali gifts" app they still get messages from "Christmas gifts" app. It's essentially a hack to workaround the way Facebook's app ecosystem was designed at the time.

He has two really important points, whether he knows it or not -

* There is a powerful long-tail search of apps in the App Store

* Users will be more likely to click and download an app that is more targeted at their search intent

Both of these are really hard to leverage with a single app right now in the App Store. Apple WILL shut you down if you create 10,000 shallow copies of your app, so that isn't an option.
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Amazing. I just signed up my music project, and while I'm really glad to see you've made the path for artists to get on the service easy, I'm curious what sort of gatekeeping / curation will help maintain the signal-to-noise ratio. Ideally, you have something somewhere in between the hard-to-crack-unless-you're–with-a-major label of Pandora and the total free-for-all of some past services like Amie Street, but that's a notoriously difficult line to walk.
Completion scripts from bash are far too much of a kludge to extract information from.

Most tools are written in C, and the standard way to parse options in C is with getopt(3) or getopt_long(3). I actually looked into searching the compiled binary for the getopt_long structure, but that wasn't so easy. Since these functions have information on all the possible options, it would be nice if there was a standard way to get them to spit out the option list.*

See my reply to your comment in another thread. It would be a killer app to have better autocomplete support, but I can't offer assurance that it's feasible.

* I had another idea: you could use ELF tricks (LD_PRELOAD) to load a different version of getopt/getopt_long that would spit out the specifications.
A big thank-you to the HN mods for not rewriting this posts headline to match the article's. Although "UK asked N.Y. Times to destroy Snowden material" matches the main focus of the article, the part involve TrueCrypt is what makes it applicable to the HN audience.

So a big round of applause for not clobbering this article's rewritten headline - you're all called out far too often for doing negative work and deserve acknowledgement for doing good;-)
I think the author's point was more that there is value in an educational tool that encourages kids to hack on it in an unsupervised, unstructured way. Of course there are better interfaces than TI. But the replacement educational tools (iPads in particular) don't really have that same freedom to hack (or at least the barrier to entry is much higher).
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Then again we are talking about a device called a 'programmable calculator', you can't really compare it to an iPad.

It's funny how the barrier of entry to programming is higher now in some cases, but lower in others.

In the old days computers booted to BASIC. C compilers etc cost hundreds of dollars. Today's devices don't boot into BASIC but you can get a ton of programming environments and tools for nothing other than the cost of a download or copying a disk. Even to work with Apple devices you're only looking at $99/year (not counting $1,000 for the necessary Mac)

Maybe Apple should make some sort of student license where you can work with 1-5 devices but you can't publish on the store?
It's great that musicfellas is supporting the pay-what-you-want model.
It's not so great that they pretty much lifted the slider from the album pages on http://www.loudr.fm

(according to their blog post 3 days ago at http://blog.musicfellas.com/post/59478848137/generosity, musicfellas implemented PWYW "a few weeks back" - Loudr has had its current slider design since we launched in February of this year).

Although on the plus side, it means that our slider is cool enough to copy! (Ours even allows artists to bundle multiple albums together, to reward their fans for paying more).
I really like Microsoft's TouchDevelop suite, a Microsoft Research project that tries to bring programming into a touch-friendly IDE. It's not insanely powerful, but then again neither is a TI calculator. I know Android has some IDEs for various languages, I haven't heard of Apple allowing for a scripting language to be both written and run on the device. I think doing that would allow for some of these fears to be mitigated.
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There's no question that YC has benefited greatly from PG's "propaganda" - and vice-versa. (That is, the success and growth of YC has given PG a lot more tangible stuff to write about, as opposed to 'thought experiments'.)

I'm far from an insider so I can't speak to whether a person or team should go for YC funding or not. Or whether the system is biased against people with Indian accents (your comment is the first I've heard of that, actually).

Clearly, a team with potential success ahead of them ought to consider their options carefully and see whether applying to YC is right for them. And, if they get in, whether doing the program is the most valuable use of their next few months. A founding team needs to look beyond the hype and headlines and determine what the best deal is - but that's hardly YC's fault if they present themselves in the best possible light.
That's a really good question. My impression is that Gabriel Weinberg and team are building something on the side of privacy and users. I don't know with any certainty what Mr. Weinberg would do in such a face-off, but at this moment in time, I personally feel more comfortable with DDG than Google. My feelings are simply mine and based upon what I've observed so far with DDG and Google. Google just won't close shop - DDG might close shop. I trust DDG more.
> The axis should start at 0 degrees, not 53.

If its showing relative magnitude of change, 53 degrees is better than 0. Whether how much farther this is from other "hot" years than they are from each other is a key point is at least debatable.

For any purpose for which a zero is needed (which doesn't include showing magnitude of change), for temperature 0 degrees F (which presumably this is -- a real problem with this is that it just specifies degrees, which is ambiguous) is just as arbitrary and inappropriate as 53 degrees F; if you are doing a visualization for which it is important to show a meaningful zero, you'd actually want absolute zero (0K). But for most things related to climate change, there's no reason for "zero" as the baseline.

There's certainly purposes for which a meaningful baseline other than 0K or 53F would be appropriate -- what that baseline would be depends on the purpose.
There was some controversy [1] [2] about Nokia decrypting SSL connections for their accelerated browser. Not familiar with their platform, or whether you could remove them, but Nokia proxy certificates are certainly being trusted by default.

If you're this paranoid, build one of those laser cut Arduino GSM phones instead[3]. You could add your own discreet baseband kill switch.

[1] https://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/nokia-https-mitm/

[2] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/sjs/how-the-nokia-browser...

[3] http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/
Contacting congressfolks is useless. I don't know where you guys get this idea that it actually works, but if you simply look at incentives (not expectations of how it's supposed to be) government officials have absolutely no incentives to change their policies even if a large enough group of people demands it. Whenever something is inconvenient to a government, this group of people can simply be ignored, because nothing else would follow. No uprisings, no media coverage, and, most importantly, no reduction in financing (taxation) - nothing. The people in government know this very well, but, of course, they are interested in perpetuating this myth, because it adds legitimacy to them.
> I can't imagine commercial aircraft would use a neural net. What happened if one crashed? They would analyze the data and ask questions like, Q: "What happened?" A: "I don't know" Q: "Can we fix it so it doesn't happen again?" A: "I don't know".

We already do. The pilot and co-pilot(s). Though I get what you're saying, I just find it humorous that we would worry about it in such manner.

AI neural nets aren't quite there yet. But we attribute that great unknown to vague catch-all "human error" all the time. I suspect one day we will simply attribute AI screw ups to "computer error" or something like that.
Fitting into your pocket and being good for more than momentary use are, I find, at odds.

However, something the size of a Kindle can fit just about anywhere else. Backpack, table, car dash, lap, in your hand, etc... so that is the size of tablet I intend to get, based on my experience with the Kindles.
My fellow Hungarian Paul Erdos had so strong accent that his speeches are subtitled on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my0L2icGooU

And he was successful in the USA. (Edward Teller was similar they say.)

But it is different than it is for most people:
1. They were so good that they could not ignore them.
2. Science is different than business.

So for the rest of us it is extremely important to learn English well. I am sometimes almost fustrated that I cannot express myself in a sophisticated way in english.:( And I know that it never will be perfect. A Hungarian writer Sandor Marai only wrote in Hungarian despite speaking fluently in several languages (English, German, French and who knows in what other languages), and living as an emigrant in at least half of his life. (He emigrated from communism at the half of his life) He said he cannot 'write' (as a writer) in other languages (by his extremely high standards).
Nokia has been claiming month+ standby times for a long time. There has been plenty of disappointed people when in reality the battery life is <1 week.

http://developer.nokia.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1255
In high school my friends and I decided that once we understood the concept of, say, the Pythagorean Theorem, making us solve it over and over again was busywork. So we made programs to solve things, and then an application called AMATH to collect all those programs.

At one point the teachers caught wind of this app everyone was using, and made everyone start showing their work. So I reprogrammed my modules to show their work, line by line. I soon forgot about all of this and went into an unrelated area of study at university; I think I only ever took one college-level comp sci class. Today I make my living in mobile apps.
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That sucks. While I was a student, I just got the cheapest prepaid SIM card for my old Nexus One and paid the $10/mo for unlimited texting. Wifi blanketing campus, my house, and my favourite bar meant I rarely missed data. I certainly wouldn't go with Verizon if that was the case.
My wife would love this, a stylish feature phone. She just wants text and calling, but all the phones out there like this are crappers. 38 days battery life is pretty awesome too.
I had the displeasure of meeting this MD earlier this month. She was one of the most offensive people I've ever met. Treated the employee she had with her like shit. Was a total bitch. I knew nothing about her, the accelerator, or this story when meeting her, and I still knew instantly that I never wanted to talk to the women again.

How did the founders of companies in her accelerator not see the same thing I did in our first meeting?
For $50 more you can get a Nexus 4. Wow!
For me, knowing they are unsanctioned keeps the memories of reading calvin and hobbes completely pure: this isn't them as they were intended to be, but bastardized facsimiles for the purpose commercial gain. It's somewhat poignant; there were many a C&H comic concerning the evils of advertising and marketing - to see subject to it as well completes the message quit succinctly.
Everyone has a sustainable comfort level. For most (single) people, that level is well above poverty, but well below a typical Silicon Valley programmer income. It's what you end up spending on ordinary monthly bills, food, and other routine needs and wants, including minor impulse purchases.

For me, when I lived in Santa Clara, this ran me about $2500, including medical premium and certain somewhat expensive tastes (and rarely cooking anything myself). It's where I typically ended up without thinking about it. (If I did watch myself a little more, I could pretty easily stay under $2000.)

I'm in a cheaper area now, but bought and partially renovated a decent sized house on half an acre in a semi-urban area, so the number has actually gone up a bit rather than down, but at the same time, some of the difference is effectively increasing my basis in a valuable asset.

If my income doubled, I'd get more work done on my house, but my routine expenses would otherwise remain largely unchanged. My savings would grow a lot faster. I would not have materially less money-related stress, because my needs are already more than met, not because my spending increased to compensate.
I recently experienced a really good reason to have a dumbphone.

I was in the process of getting mugged. Someone was pointing a gun at me and telling me to give up my things. My hand was in my pocket, and I wanted to dial 911, but I couldn't, because all the smartphones nowadays have touch screen buttons.
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The purist thing doesn't tell us much. You could equally as easy interpret things as, I didn't tell it to output music on another speaker, I only told it to stop outputting music on the headphones. Different people have different ideas of what the correct behavior should be.
While I agree that most graphing calculators are overpriced and too limited in functionality, I disagree that students should only be given problems that can be nicely worked out on pencil and paper.

There were occasional problems I was given in my high-school calculus class where the goal was to find the area under a curve of a function that was difficult or impossible to integrate by hand. The calculator does it numerically so we were forced to recognize which types of problems could be solved exactly and which could not. Intersections of curves can also easily be solved with a graphing calculator.

Other things like systems of linear equations, probability distributions, statistics, combinatorics, and rapid data entry and processing can also be done really easily on a graphing calculator. These are all tedious to do by hand, and all make an appearance in upper level high-school math classes.

Part of taking a math class should be learning tools to solve your problems efficiently, and exact solutions are often not the most efficient way to do that. Things like Excel, Python, and Maple are all nice but they assume access to a computer and would require significant disruption to lecture flow. With a graphing calculator it's easy for students to do these things themselves (at their desks) without having to give them each a portable computer (which causes other problems with keeping the students attentive) and teach them a programming language.
Seems to be working with the GCHQ/Scotland Yard claiming to be decoding a TryeCrypt volume, likely with cooperation from the USA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-usa-security-sn...
Not being able to edit out that "market place" typo is going to bug me forever.
Android has this baked in, too. How can I determine whether this is actually a patent which requires a license? I wish I could file an issue for Nokia somewhere so they can comment.
TrueCrypt doesn't use RSA or any asymmetric cryptography.
So he thinks his Pop is on top of the stack?
Everything is difficult if you don't care enough. If you truly cared about writing your own software and taking a more active role in parenting, you would figure out a way to do it.

edit- I practice what I preach and am currently bootstrapping my own startup. I was able to move to Germany though where I don't have to pay an exorbitant amount for health care for me, my wife, or my daughter (who has a medical condition and would probably have bankrupted us had we stayed in the US). I readily admit that doing this type of thing in the US is infinitely harder because of health care.
But you can turn it really off. The moment you turn a phone on the whole world knows anyway. Or just the NSA if the fishnet order is still valid - the one with the metadata of all calls in the US.
What I don't understand is why anyone would bother physically transporting such files at all. Why not just encrypt them, upload them to a server and have Poitras download them?

Put them on a tor hidden server if there is concern about someone finding the box directly, and bring the box down once the download is complete.
I actually love grep. I'm not sure why, but it's taken such a hold in my brain that I intuitively associate searching for something specific with the word "grep."

I agree with man. It makes sense technically because of "manual"...except that "man" is its own word. Every time I type man, I feel like I'm typing the gender, and it's weird.

cp bothers me because they shortened a four-letter word, the same with ls and list. Despite the original terminal constraints, they couldn't spare two characters?
Meh. It looked good, until I saw the review that said the charging plug is proprietary. I am currently boycotting phones that do not include USB. A barrel connector for the wall-wart is fine, but it better be able to charge over USB too.
Part of US Astronaut training is to live with a Russian family (I don't think it is a Cosmonauts' family) and participate in immersive Russian language training.

This is before they train on how to fly the Soyuz, and the Astronauts do serve as flight engineers on actual Soyuz missions to the ISS. There is a reason NASA does this.
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Except EXMO actually describes to some degree what the site/app actually does.
Now I just have to wait for my contract to expire or have them buy it out..
Could someone explain what's the idea behind Nokias longstanding strategy of flooding the market constantly with new models with very minor differences? Nokia 301 is almost identical with this new 515, and was released only 6 months ago. They seem to be releasing ten dumb/feature phones per year. I honestly don't feel like that approach results good quality end products.

edit: Also what's with the aggressive market segmentation? Why aren't the models globally available?
Almost all of my books are on paper. I don't mind the space they're taking (six or so bookshelves throughout the house), and I'm past the stage of my life where I moved every other year, so there's no real incentive to get rid of them. They look good, are easy to take care of, and every so often I'll find myself with a few hours of free time and enjoy reading -- or rereading -- them. They are not clutter.

If my kids share my interests, they'll be happy I kept them (discovering my dad's stash of 1970s _Scientific American_ was a high point of my youth), and if not, they'll get rid of them when I'm gone. No worries.

Most of my books are non-fiction. I read a lot of fiction, but tend to use the library for that, except for a few authors I know I'll want to read more than once.

I've got nothing against ebooks (provided they have no DRM) but I guess I just don't need them.
Possibly there are two TrueCrypt volumes, one of which was accessed and one of which was not (yet).

Or... can you encrypt another volume inside of a TrueCrypt-encrypted volume?
Salaries are pretty low compared to the US. 50-75k euros for developers is pretty common (even in Scandinavia).

On the other hand living costs in berlin are much lower compared to other cities in europe (even compared to other cities in germany).

However, I cannot confirm the minimum wages required by a job under blue card. AFAIR, the blue card covers a broad spectrum of jobs and the wage listed above probably take diverse industries into account.
In almost all cases like this, your absolute best choice is to simply give them what they want and gtfo of there. If they see you playing with something in your pocket, it could escalate things very quickly
> It's interesting to hear so many people still use these kinds of phones.

Why?

I do exactly two things with my mobile phone: SMS and calls. I primarily have it around for emergencies and, due to the nature of my work, I only have access to it for a few hours per day (that is, when I'm not at work).

When I'm home I use my desktop computer and I often use my iPad for "portable computing".

How would a smartphone serve me better than my LG VX9900?
The remote kernel sees the connection fine. It accepts it, receives the data, the client closes its end. What might not happen is, in a very resource strained condition, is for the remote application to get the data. There's no relation between you doing a connect() and the remote doing an accept() in TCP, it's handled asynchronously by the kernel. (Traditionally the backlog argument to listen() controlled this behavior, but that backlog argument is by and large ignored on modern operating systems)

The caveat here is that you close() the socket when you're done. close() does not, by default, wait until the remote end also closed its end. In the scenario described above, the remote end would eventually signal an error, but if you shoved the data into the remote kernel buffers, close and forget about that connection, your app will never see that error.
I don't want to have to think when I read a book. The author has to lead me through and follow a path. The auther has to make sure I get a decent introduction and he should make every sentence count.

This is nice to play. And maybe even has it's applications such as documentation where quick browsing helps. But if I had to read a thesis/book like this I'd be a very unhappy person.