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"Autocorrelation is essentially the convolution of a function with the same function reversed in time."

Source: http://documents.wolfram.com/applications/signals/Mathematic...

EDIT: This means that autocorrelation can be calculated using a Fourier transform, so essentially you'd be using it anyway.
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I booted up Ubuntu just now. I support the JWZ quote. Ubuntu is the best Linux has ever been, but there's no competition in any way with OS X, and I'd probably choose Windows 7 over it if it didn't instantly support all my drivers.

This is attracting a lot of downvotes, but I'll restate what I said in more certain phrasing: If your operating system doesn't support my drivers without my having to do work, then you have failed to make your operating system easy to use. Say what you will about Windows, and I'll say a lot, it has never failed to give me audio/video, which Ubuntu has failed to give me every time I've used it.
hey George. Good luck.

You've done great job with the Greek OpenCoffee so far.
What is OS X86?
Well, since my comment on nytimes.com apparently got moderated out of existence, I retrieved it from my clipboard history. Here it is. (And maybe someone can help me figure out why this would get ditched by the moderator.) Keep in mind this was written for NYT audience, not HN audience.

The problem with online backup is not the lack of existing services. I've tried a few and they each more or less get the job done, with Dropbox and ZumoDrive being exceptional.

The problem is lack of bandwidth in the US. I have a "high speed" internet connection and pay for the "turbo boost" package. Despite the cute marketing terms and the hefty bill, what it boils down to is grossly asymmetrical bandwidth that's piss-poor on the upstream side. At best, I can push 200MB an hour. At that rate it takes about 500 hours to upload 100GB, which is not even that much data in these days of massive photo files, HD movies, etc. I gave up in frustration and went back to external drives.

While other countries, most notably Japan, work to provide fiber connections to the majority of their citizens, we're still partying like it's 1999 here in the US. As a web developer and heavy internet user, I feel strongly that the bandwidth issue is more than just a PITA; it's hurting our economy.

Don't think for a second that Google doesn't know how terrible the user experience is with online backup. They've been buying dark fiber on and off for years. But until that fiber gets to the curb, my guess is that they'd rather not deal with the support issues that would arise from a large-scale consumer-focused online storage system.
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Serious answer. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

Ok look, I'm really not trying to make a nut-case argument, but cost of information allows aggregation of badness as well as goodness. Google is an extreme example but the level of information in the hands of a malicious government or other self-interested entity should not be relegated to 'could never happen here'.

I've little problem the the current Google, but 10-30 years from now will other forces in the world have access? But the issue is less google than the massive changes tech is making to the world.
What about the other way around? I have been using linux for years now but recently I bought a new macbookpro. I am amazed by the way OSX handles battery life and suspend/resume but everything else doesn't even compare to gnome/compiz; gnome is so much more customizable!
Was anyone in a similar situation? What did you do? Shift to OSX?
Eh ? Not sure what you meant there, but if you and your employer do have a contract that says "all work that you produce while working here is owned by your employer", my understanding would be that updates to those modules, when written for your employers are actually owned by them, no ? (well, within software licensing terms)
That and the gradients, the look of the graphite buttons, the folders, the log-out button where Spotlight ought to be (there's no launcher bar equivalent that could be themed to look like Spotlight?), the spacing on the dock, the theming on the dock, the glowy ball, the spacing of the scroll bar on the Finder, the unnecessary Finder chrome (for people who don't know, all side and bottom chrome on OS X Leopard is 1px unless otherwise specified, and I don't understand why some developers are stupid enough to re-add the chrome Apple did away with)...

It's not worth it to go on. It irritates me so much that people would make an attempt like this in the first place. Every small detail irks me.
Can't you run Gnome/KDE on OS X?
I'm not exactly sure on the application of censorship in this case, and I am strongly against censorship, but saying "this site is banned because: ..." seems better to me than putting people in gaol/jail retrospectively for say accidentally stumbling into a site (say on terrorism during research unaware it could be criminal) or something.
Except for the fact that all the theme files of OS X are modifiable and hackable to your heart's desire. The fact that no large theming community exists for OS X is that Aqua is a very, very satisfying theme.
What makes this different from any other theme? Why submit this one to Hacker News? Because attempts to dupe OS X have been around for a decade now; the existence of this one isn't newsworthy unless it's a nonshitty theme, but that's not the case.
Nice. The part I always struggle with is the Photoshop part. Creating nice, repeatable background images is always hard. This has a nice explanation of it.
there are already questions in our (im from germany) government to extend this censorship to 'killing games' and such. great fun. I guess it becomes time to throw rocks again.
Probably, but how does that help? Those are desktop environments, what I want is a tiling window manager.
' ... so the question restated is "Why can't AT&T and other providers get it?"'

Some do. I'm quite happy with T-mobile. No interference (so far) about the G1 tethering app (Proxoid). Really good customer service.

"I do agree with what you say about AT&T's sins being 'forgiven' by offering the iPhone, but that is a function of a market monopoly. "

The weird thing is, I don't think I've heard any iPhone users express any misgivings about using AT&T. The interest in the phone is overwhelming. Yet users have a choice: pick a different phone.

AT&T has a "phone I really REALLY have the hots for" monopoly, not a smartphone monopoly. People shouldn't support a questionable service provider and then gripe about how they behave just because the available market choices are not quite as they would prefer.
I get that argument a lot here, and I've written lengthy counterarguments before, but that's not at all the case. Look at the features that Facebook introduced to the Internet. They introduced the public feed in the first place, they introduced status updates, peopletagging, granular privacy settings, friend metadata, a whole slew of features I'm certain I missed or am hesitant to credit Facebook. Without Facebook, you don't have Flickr's photo privacy, you don't have FriendFeed, you don't even have Twitter.

The idea that Facebook thinks it has to "beat" Twitter is ludicrous.
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Yeah, that's the better way to go and might be what they did. Wish I could find that paper now.

But I still thought it was a nice example to illustrate frequencies and periodicity in a non-wave example.
I'd have thought you could install the window manager along with everything else.
Why? Data centers provide a small number of jobs and use enormous amounts of electricity. They gave Apple $46m to get 50 jobs that pay $50k a year. Do the math, Apple got essentially free labor for the next 18 years.
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All of this is great, and very informative, but it will make Mac software developers and critics -- guys like John Gruber -- laugh and laugh.

The problem with this analysis is that it embodies the Java Desktop Fallacy -- the idea that the primary problem with getting your application to work on every hardware platform is getting the code to compile and the libraries to load. Sun once thought like this. They built a cross-platform set of libraries and released them to the world. They were dutifully ported to every hardware platform. They still work. But Java desktop applications sank into the swamp and died, because the average Java application didn't act quite like a Mac app, or quite like a Windows app. It looked and acted like a crappy compromise, built by someone who was jack of all trades and master of none.

The problem with getting your app to work with or without a multitouch screen, or a built-in accelerometer, or a hardware keyboard, is that an app designed for a multitouch screen is a completely different beast. Making the iPhone's photo album software work on a device without the iPhone screen would require a complete redesign of the app -- you don't have pinch-to-expand, you might not have the same smooth scrolling when the user waves their fingers across the screen. But maybe you can mitigate those missing features by designing some shortcuts for the handy hardware keyboard. But -- oops -- some phones don't have that keyboard, so now you need to design one app for multitouch, one app for single-touch but no keyboard, one app for single-touch with a keyboard...

If you have the time and the budget you can just design eight separate apps for eight separate combinations of hardware and sell them all. And if you're lucky, and Android is that good, you might not need eight times as many coders to pull that off. But you might still need 8x the design budget, and/or 8x the QA budget. If you're not careful you'll need 8x the marketing budget. So there's an inevitable pressure to try the typical strategy: design one app, with one name, aimed at the lowest common denominator of hardware. Or design an app that runs great on the hardware used by one-eighth of the market, but looks kind of crappy to the other seven-eighths of the market. And the Windows Mobile folks have seen the result of that approach: At any moment, a team of Apple developers can come along and wipe the floor with your reputation.
This is why I use Tor. If I ever imagine my comment being read in a courtroom and 12 random people not all loving it, I turn on Tor, use a nickname other than "jrockway", and post it that way.

Yes, the government has shown up at my door because of forum comments from my IP address. I learned the hard way.

(Oh, and you know how Slashdot's FAQ says they don't log your IP? That is a lie.)
Facebook degrades quite gracefully, actually. I'm surprised their site looks as good as it does on IE 6.
need to start from scratch with a micro kernel which supported a sandboxed OS written in an interpreted language

Didn't Microsoft already do this with Singularity?

Granted, actually building such a system would be horribly expensive and probably take the better part of a decade, but it's still possible

I don't think it would be so horribly expensive. The Lisp machine software was written by a team of 8 or so. The effort for an OS is probably commensurate with BeOS. That's expensive, but not horribly so. Retarget a C compiler for your VM bytecodes, or better yet, just have everything run in an NaCl sandbox. Instead of bytecodes, have your virtual ISA be pseudo x86 or ARM instructions. Then port a lot of GNU code over.
Apple's ad responding to this philosophy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZRcYS88BwQ
Not if Michael Arrington has his way.
The article makes those guys' cause sound waaay more legitimate than it really is. If their homepage and articles are to be believed, it seems like their real cause is to stop exploit publication so that only the "real" hackers will know how to breach machines. They're basically children that are whining because someone took away their favorite toy. Paying them any attention does us a disservice.

Also, the analogy is faulty. Trying to stop exploit publication so that we won't need to buy security products is like trying to stop us from knowing about germs so we won't need to buy antibiotics.
OS X on arbitrary non-Apple x86 hardware.
I'm genuinely intrigued: what kind of rough steps are there in a six month plan to upgrade to IE7? Is it mostly testing existing internal applications for compatibility?
Actually, that's really not true. At Harvard, for example, more than a 1/3rd of the students are international, only about 1/3rd come from PE / VC / IB, students come from almost 300 different undergrad schools, and there are people in every class who are first generation immigrants, first in their family to go to college, etc.
"The final freedom is the freedom to vote with your feet"

Very well put. Or, one day, with your boat, or your starship ..
OS X works only on a limited set of hardware. I can't install it on any netbook. I can't even legally run it on any new laptop under $1000. The vast majority of people who install linux have 0 problems on thousands of different kinds of computers from a decade old to new netbooks to supercomputers.

Moreover, OS X also has numerous problems with peripherals. I bought a camera, standard usb camera sold by the millions, and there are no OS X drivers for it. I spent hours scouring the web and installing various programs into this location and that location. Supposedly those drivers support some cameras, maybe even mine. But no, to this day I cannot use skype video on my Mac Mini. On my Ubuntu partition, it works with 0 configuration. Plug it in and I'm done.

Another example: a shared printer. In Ubuntu jaunty, there's a brilliant dialog that automatically finds and sets up a shared printer with a few clicks. My friend Jeremy tried to set up the same printer with his Macbook Pro, and he asked me, we poked around, couldn't find it. We got a cryptic error message that said something about 'could not find bla...'. We tried for a few hours searching online to no avail. Today, he goes upstairs to physically plug in the printer directly every time he wants to print.

He tells me that for most Mac problems you have to spend a few hours searching online and you might find some blog post where someone mentions a trick. No, OS X is where Linux was 10 years ago when I was using Debian. Worse, because Debian always had apt-get, so I had lots of good free software at my fingertips. Ubuntu is far ahead in terms of being painless, and it improves every 6 months...
You must have really weird software. OS X, Linux (and BSD), and Windows all suck in different ways. One way that they all don't suck is out-of-the-box hardware support, all three OSes support most common hardware just fine. I run Debian Unstable and I don't think I've ever explicitly installed a driver, everything is in the default install. (I think Intel is mostly to thank for this situation on Linux; Intel has written great wireless and video drivers, so if you have Intel hardware, everything is likely to work really well.)

So if hardware is not a problem, it comes down to the software. Everyone uses the same web browser on all three platforms, so it's not that. Linux has better terminal editors and support for programming. (I ditched OS X after never getting emacs to work right.) Nautilus and Finder are about the same, although I do not like to use a GUI for managing files. Linux lets me choose, OS X forces its opinion on me. (I also don't like manually arranging windows; OS X forces me to do that anyway. It doesn't even have working "maximize".)

Anyway, I spend maybe an hour every two weeks caring for and feeding Debian, and that means all my software is always up to date. On my OS X machine, I spend less than that, but every piece of software I have is outdated since it is too annoying to manually update everything.

YMMV, but Ubuntu is probably a fine OS for 90% of computer users (especially with OO.org 3).
Do you ever actually use your computer, or do you just stare at the spacing between icons?
After getting jumped and getting my jaw broken in the fight, I lived off KFC mashed potatoes with extra gravy, tomato soup, beer and banana milkshakes.

I ended up losing about 20 lbs off my already skinny frame even with chugging as many weight gainer shakes as I could stomach per day.
He wants OS X native apps to be managed with a tiling window manager. Not possible, although this would be a large usability improvement for many users. (It's ugly though, so my bet is that this will never happen. Get a Linux box and start thinking for yourself.)
If a novice took over the layout of your favorite publication, offline or off, you'd probably notice.

Having a desktop environment where things "look right" is, to me, the same as working in a room that is clean and tidy.
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The U.S. also does not allow dual-citizenship. I have met many that violate this rule but that could catch up with them someday.
Without (yet) looking at the remaining text, "mindestens" causes me hesitation. "At least" or "at a minimum" does not seem to proscribe additional filtering, e.g. of IP addresses as opposed to DNS lookups.

Perhaps the use here has a colloquial or legal definition I'm not understanding. But to me, this language sounds like the proverbial slippery slope.

So, will providers work to restrict adherence to the minimum, or will they of themselves or in response to additional pressure go further? Or will the law go further by expanding the scope of this clause?

I have no sympathy for the original crimes involved. I also have little trust in legislated censorship and in the control and mission of the same remaining undistorted. I also am uncertain whether it is an effective or appropriate means of addressing the situation.

If only an approved government agency can research the situation, will the public be adequately informed? Democracy rests upon (relatively) equal access to information. What does legislation like this do to that basis?
My wife and I joke that we collect passports and citizenships. So far we have UK, FR and US.

I don't have US citizenship, as my wife has that one (I have a Green Card). But if I wasn't married to a citizen, and had no passport at all, I would probably become a citizen.

It sounds like you must still be a Russian citizen too - ask them for a passport.
> a big advantage for Apple.

I'm more interested in something that's free and open because I'd rather see a big advantage for consumers, not for Apple:-)

Ok, so Apple's approach does have its strengths, but phones are not one-size-fits-all devices.

I'm happy to have Apple with their share of the market, turning out cool products that push the envelope. That makes things better for everyone. I would be a lot less happy if they owned the market. I think they'd be 'worse' monopolists than Microsoft.
Thanks for the info. As far as I can tell it's because the length of the page gets reduced while the content is loading, removing the vertical scroll bar. Then when the content loads the scroll bar is needed again - so the page jumps to where it was again.

I will try and fix this in the next redesign - perhaps fade out the content and overlay a loading bar while the content is being fetched rather than completely nuking it.

Thanks.
This is a sad day for Internet.

People like me, who were old enough in the late 90s to discover this new medium and explore our fantasies, whether porn, or so many free games, and so many other free stuff, like filling those forms that get you no where, talking to some person miles away, reading ancient books, dude it was fun.

We knew this day would come however, when our subconscious dream of having an outlet with no rules, an anarchistic environment where one has complete freedom to say whatever they wish, free from the knowledge that anyone is looking over their shoulder, that anyone knows who they are, that anyone cares about what they say or see. This is the place where rich and poor are alike, treated alike, a place in which one can travel from phsycis to china, from cars to conversing about business.

Child pornography is abhorrent and despicable, but so is bestiality, some think porn in general is too, some think films with violence should be banned, games with violence, etcetera.

When my children will grow to my age perhaps they will never have known of a different internet, yet I will be glad to tell them the tale of a place where no one ruled and everyone was free, free from the knowledge that anyone is watching them, that anyone knows them, that there were any consequences to their actions. I will tell them that in that period, the stale and static internet that they now have, was blossoming, dynamic and advancing at incomprehensible speed. I will tell them that this place was the land of freedom, where man and women where able to escape the propaganda of their countries and find out the truth, where men from tyrannical states were able to get out the news of what is happening inside.

I will tell them that this was the land of freedom and like every other freedom land it fell to those who distrust us, to those who believe that we are incompetent, weak, unable to look after ourselves, unable to know what to think, what is right and wrong.

When a democratic country opts in to censor this place, it is a sad day for freedom itself. Has Germany forgotten where only 60 years ago their censorship and propaganda took them? Think of the children! - they cry. And I am, I want my children to have an outlet which is governed by no one, I want my children to have a place where no one knows who they are so that they may feel entirely free to say whatever they wish with no exception whatever, because words are what makes us think and no one has been harmed in the past 20 years from people being able to say whatever they wish.

It is abhorrent that a democratic country opts in for censorship and I think that if the time has not come to say enough, the kettle is boiling to the near limit.
S3 is neat and can do thee job, but it's just not a consumer service.
If I may ask, how is it less polished? I'm posting with Chrome for Linux right now (and I used Chromium before, which is identical) and it looks beautiful.

Excepting of course external plugin type issues (printing and Flash don't work yet), the browser runs super-fast, never crashes, and looks great. Some of the configuration options aren't complete, but those are minor issues (oh and I see they have added many of them).
Also the microwaves can be converted into electricity more efficiently than sunlight can.
for the jury duty thing, you can just respond to the little form citing that you don't speak english and they'll let you off the hook. That's what my dad does...granted his English is not the best in the world and its probably valid for him, but I don't see how that wouldn't work for someone else, especially if you are a new citizen with no prior record of going to jury duty.
Earlier discussion on this event:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=698744
"posted within the last 8 or 9 hours, some with instructions on how to hack ImageShack"

WHAT?
Also Boeing which doesn't sell software but has more programmers and software engineers than most companies that do.
You're selling a service that backs up Gmail and Hotmail? I suspect very few people even realize this is possible, or even if they do, are concerned enough to pay for backups.
I was in a same boat as you are, and I think it comes down to being whether you feel grateful to this country or not.

In my experience, living in former Soviet Union was hell. It was, still is, and always will be a shithole, with about 95% of population idiot racist alcoholics.

So for me, when faced with an opportunity to get an American passport, I was more than happy to do that. I feel that voting, paying taxes and doing jury duty is the least I can do to give back to the greatest country in the world, that gave me an opportunity to make the life for me and my family permanently better.

Of course, that's my opinion and you should do whatever you feel like.