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He said he used the Notes app built into his iPhone.
Kind of like how "a headache" is a grossly simplistic term, given how many varieties and underlying causes we know of today, but we still need that anchor point long before discussing the prescription of aspirin vs. tumor surgery.
"The downside to Google Voice has always been that it’s not actually a phone. When you dial someone with the Voice app, it dials your contact, then dials your real phone, and connects you together – you can’t just dial right out on a computer or non-phone smart device like an iPod touch and use a headset."

On a computer it can "dial" GChat, so you don't need a "real phone." I don't own a landline or a cellphone so I would know.

But I never knew you could make calls from apps. I have an iPod Touch 4, so this is going to be awesome. Now my friends might actually think I'm normal.
It just depends what you're looking for and what you mean when you say "tech commnunity". Most of the big guys have either a major presence or a remote office here, and even more have work-from-homers. Even with Ericsson gone, IBM dwindling and Nortel out of business (but Ciena & Genband are doing great and picked up quite a bit of Nortel real estate in RTP), they've been replaced by Cisco, eXtreme Networks, NetApp, EMC, RedHat, SAS, etc. Heroku, Google, Salesforce, Zend, and a whole bunch more have smaller presences and you regularly run into people working either for startups or smaller tech companies as remote staff. Yes, it's indisputable that the culture is 180 degrees from SV, but if you're past the post-uni honeymoon period and are raising a family, I think most would be hard pressed to quantify SV as preferable to RTP using most measures. Public schools are far better (and there are very good private schools for the so-inclined), everyone is more relaxed, we have four seasons, real estate is affordable (my very nice 4300sqft house in a neighborhood of similar homes was under $500k), and the populace is very well educated (Chapel Hill supposedly has the highest PhD population per capita in the country). It's just that the people living here generally are here because their priorities are different than technology professionals in LA/SF/SV/NY.

And besides all the actual tech companies, there are great tech opportunities in banking if you go to Charlotte, in biotech (all the big pharmas and a lot of the smaller/startups are in and around RTP), and pure science. Just like the Bay Area has Stanford & Berkeley, we have Duke, UNC, and NCSU -- similarly high quality educations, just with a different focus.

In any case, I'm not trying to convince anyone you're wrong, but there are multiple angles to every story and RTP is definitely a good option for a lot of people. Two of my best friends in my neighborhood are relos from California (one from the LA area and one who worked for Heroku in SF), actually.
This is good news and because I don't make calls frequently, I'm selling the iPhone and iPad for the next Verizon iPad mini with month-to-month data. Just tired of paying $90/mo for voice minutes that are mostly forfeited anyways. VOIP and telephony apps all the way!
That's awesome. Congrats to making the money, and raising the issue correctly - as well as not going off of the ethical deep end.
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That's awesome.

Also sounds like you should maybe try to move to a different country, if you can!
As the article stated, it's difficult to overcome the "grandma factor" -- once something becomes so pervasive as to be near-universal, even among persons unlikely to be clued in, its cool factor is diminished if not completely obliterated.

Some groups actively crave differentiation, and teenagers seeking to assert their independence are prominent among them. It can be difficult to express and explore in the way teenagers seek when you know all your grandparents, great grandparents, uncles, aunts, great uncles, great aunts, cousins, second cousins, etc. will be reading, as they surely will when you post on Facebook.
> Karp wrote that all of her friends are using Instagram and Snapchat,

Well...Instagram is owned by facebook so there's that...
I think this can be done as “a preview mode” in Python too.
Parallella is an incredible project that I'm rooting for passionately. I am really looking forward to contributing to it, but we're more commercially oriented. Parallella is an Arduino/RP kind of project, and I have a feeling I will learn things from it. I, personally, still have a lot to learn in this space. Actually it feels kind of like a boundless area for learning. I really believe this is the next phase of computation, and that programming for non-Turing machines is the step that will prepare us for spintronics and quantum. I can't imagine Windows for Spintronics, I just can't. Our current software platforms, especially OSes, are going to have to change, and we want to start now. But the path is unclear- the full potential of reconfigurable computing has not yet been realized. That's why I find it exciting.
Personally, this sounds like what people said when cars first appeared in the US:

"Responsible parents would tell their children,
'Go outside, and play in the streets. All day.'

"And then the automobile happened. And then
automobiles began killing thousands of children,
every year. - New York Times, Nov 23, 1924 [1]

Perhaps it would make sense to license drone operators just like other pilots, and certify drone equipment for safe use?

[1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...
As of only fairly recently, and it can still be a problem for the Facebook brand even if the same conglomerate owns both units.
The Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 is out. It starts at ~1100 and has a 13" 3200x1800 screen. Early reviews say they improved every aspect of the original Yoga. It weighs a hair over 3 lbs, has a Haswell processor, up to 8GB ram, and gets about 6 hours of battery life. The battery life isn't stellar for a Haswell ultrabook, but the absolutely amazing screen uses more power than a lower-res one would.

As another option, the Thinkpad T440s just launched. It has an option for a 1080p IPS, weighs about 3.5 lbs, and has a hot-swappable battery.

Lenovo also has really good Linux support.
"2007" Yes, Derek wrote the article in 2007 but the facts are still correct.

"then he revise him opinion about the ruby/rails" : Derek didn't revise his opinion (at least I am not aware of that). But I know this. The creators of Rails read the article [1] by Derek. Since, Derek is a popular person on the Internet and he has a lot of followers, his article on his failure to switch to Rails can really make a lot of people stay away from Rails. And this is bad news for the the creators and promoters of Rails. So, the obvious strategy, for the creators of Rails, was to convert Derek into a Rails user to reduce the damage on popularity of Rails caused by Derek's article. So, he was invited to RailsConf. When Derek is invited at RailsConf, do you expect him to talk against Rails at the conf? So, you get the point! Derek can get invited to RailsConf and talk a bit of good things about Rails (and he tried to learn Rails, once more, later), but that doesn't change the original experience he had with Rails when he tried to switch from PHP to Rails. * I don't dislike Rails. I just made an attempt to present the the facts in response to your comment *

"Some language are better than others" : Some language are better than others depending on what you are building.

"PHP suffers for some serious design" : True. So, does any other language. There is no perfect language available on this Earth.

"The are A LOT of articles on the internet" : True. There are many articles that point out problems - Some of them list problems in PHP, some list problems in Rails, some list problems in Python and so on.

"Is so easy to start with php that even a non programming guy will succeed!" : Yes, That is why Derek, without a background in CS, could buy a book on PHP and create first CDBaby site. There are many other examples available on Internet.

"The same for java/ruby/python/go" : I don't deny, because I am not here to talk against any language. If a language works for you, that's great.

"But when you have to use your brain, when you have to do some stuff that are than CRUD then is complicated." : If it is not easy to get started, then you will never reach a point when you will need to use your brain.

"And is so fuckin' easy to screw up in php" : If you don't know how to handle something you can screw up easily with anything. Programming is a skill one acquires over time. It takes time because you learn to avoid the ways that make you screw up. You can screw up easily with any language if you don't know how to use the language.

"facebook is using php not because is cool, but because of legacy code" : Where is the link to source to prove your claim? Facebook has enough money to replace all PHP codes, but instead of replacing PHP they have invested money to improve PHP (HipHop is one example).

[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
Didn't Zuck say recently that the actual numbers weren't concerning, and that they're aware they are past the "cool" stage and instead want to move on to become the social fabric of the Internet, much like a utility.
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Isn't the reward for voting getting the government you want? That's why the ideologues do it and it seems to be working for them.
> utilitarianism

I personally draw the line that cuts out as much utilitarianism as possible.

> I became less sure of this monolithic approach to public policy.

I've been a voluntaryist for several years now, so I'm quite on the same page as you. :-) I really was just trying to be fair to Sam Harris. (I both strongly agree and disagree with many of the things he claims.)

> I guess my point is that I find that Mr. Harris's essay, while aimed at allowing us to see why religious beliefs are so hard to dislodge, kind of illuminates an opposite idea: that perhaps in our crusade to rid the world of "irrational" behavior, we risk compromising something fundamental to the human experience. The problem is agreeing on where we draw the line.

Absolutely. Although, I do view recreational wood burning as a different kind of "irrational" than claiming things based on revealed knowledge. The former can be a reasoned judgment about one's preferences, while the latter is necessarily logically flawed.

I believe both types of "irrational" are impossible to eradicate. I share your hesitation with the notion that we might even want to eliminate "irrationality" in the first place.
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Not if you think of facebook like a company & facebook.com & instagram.com as services of the company with many more like it on the way.
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Precis of a new detail the last HN post in 2010. They will be seeking suggestions from all over the world for a Library of Ltility http://blog.longnow.org/02011/04/25/the-library-of-utility/
Seems to me as if it might be fun to come up with some arguments for what might constitute an optimally efficient booklist.

"It would be a very selective library. It would not contain the world’s great literature, or varied accounts of history, or deep knowledge of ethnic wonders, or speculations about the future. It has no records of past news, no children’s books, no tomes on philosophy. It contains only seeds. Seeds of utilitarian know-how. How to recreate the infrastructure and technology of civilization so far

"It is an interesting thought exercise to ask yourself what information you might want if you had to truly start over.

"And in our forthcoming Salon space at Fort Mason Center, we’ll house approximately 3,500 volumes in a floor-to-ceiling library featuring carefully selected books that could be used to help restart civilization. We are not trying to be apocalyptic or at all predictive, but the conversation that is inspired by this exercise seems to be endless and valuable.

"We will collaboratively curate this corpus with Long Now’s members and the public. We understand that by definition we ourselves will have a western-centric viewpoint of what might be collected, but as the project gets going we plan to seek submissions that represent views from as many cultural viewpoints as possible."
If you are going to recommend the Macbook Air, you should probably talk about what makes it a great web development machine instead of making one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read.

For example, the Macbook Air has excellent build quality, a great keyboard, decent (but not stellar) color reproduction, and an operating system that is well supported by pretty much any tool that a web developer or designer would ever need.

There are plenty of ugly tools that are capable of making pretty much every artificial thing on the planet that's considered beautiful.
I take issue with that statement, I think this is very representative of HN.
For many disorders, the extent to which they apply on an axis is also, when it comes down to it, defined relative to whether it causes trouble for one's job or not. This is written explicitly into many of the diagnostic criteria, so that the same objective behaviors would be a disorder for a person with one job, where they pose a serious problem to their ability to carry on that occupation, but not for another person with another job, where the behavior is no threat to their livelihood.

But this begs the question [1] of whether it's the person or the job that's "at fault" or "abnormal". That's where some of the criticism originates: one allegation is that perfectly normal people are being diagnosed as mentally ill and told they need treatment, when they are maladapted to a job that in fact most humans are maladapted to. In other words, they are within the normal range of human behavior, but treated as mentally ill because their job expects abnormal human behavior.

[1] In the precise meaning of the term.
Should the title be updated to reflect that this is 2+ months old? After all, the fix was put in place in a couple of hours. This isn't a current bug, but rather, an excellent post-mortem, but the title suggests present tense.
Please before raging at me look at what I said. Flying in a dense area is dangerous. Flying in a rural area (or if you want, open field somewhere remote) is fine. So you took the wrong direction. My comment is not foolish at all.

We just need to ban in the city. Even 100 ft is dangerous.

This is not foolish. And importing the argument "ban driving" is certainly foolish because we do have regulations on driving. You can't drive above certain speed and can only drive if you have a permit (if you get caught without a license you get into trouble). You can only drive in a specific designated area called roads.

In essence, if you want to fly within the city like central park. Okay. But it needs to be regulated. Why? Anyone can build a monster copter flying and the next thing is either this copter cut someone's head off or a crash. It is like 3D printing a gun. Without regulation we don't really know who is responsible for what. So a permit seems reasonable. A little law enforcing the consequence, classifying the accident is crucial.

Do you want me to pull out news or video showing people's head got cut off flying copter? If you do that in an open field the danger can be minimized (more space to run away), but in a dense metro area (think about 42th street) is harder. So No.

Read my comment carefully before you make your comment (part of it on ban flying copter in the city).
Yeah this seems pretty worthless without separating responses by location. Living in the city you're going to walk a ton without even thinking about it, and most suburbs/rural areas are set up to make walking anywhere an 18-24 year-old would want to go difficult, if not impossible.
Thanks! Definitely makes sense with his emphasis on simplicity.

Tip - I also use Notes and I change the default account to gmail so I can recover accidental deletions.
All these live demo applications (like http://livecoding.io/) are interesting and may be useful for teaching the basics of a language, but I don't see them being used at anything bigger than small demos.

A real innovation would be finding a practical use for this type of technology (or a spin of it) in large-scale projects.
There were apps to do this a long time ago, at least 3 years ago I remember texting and voice calling with the first iPod touch with retina screen with a VoIP app. I forget the specific app name though, and the mic wasn't that great. I remember calling someone and they said that they couldn't really hear me, but they guessed what I had called them about anyway because of the specific time. Google's apps might be more convenient than the app I used and/or cheaper, but they weren't the first.
Aren't Instagram and Snapchat completely different products? Of course, these compete on the 'share of time' of the users, in which case everything teens do is competing with Facebook.
I've found openwrt to be quite superior, especially config and packet management.
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Off topic, but I wanted to clear up a misunderstanding you seem to have. An ELF binary contains machine code. "Shell code", in the sense that I think you're using it, is specific machine code that spawns a Unix shell process, as used in exploits. (Its other meaning is code that is interpreted by a shell, but I don't think you meant that.)
Meta-comment: read this one thread replacing "flying a drone/RC" with "shooting a gun" and see similarity to current debate.
I basically agree, but live programming is not live coding. Live coding is about programming while the program is actively running (we can argue if performance is involved in live coding or not). Live programming, on the other hand, is about creating a live feedback loop between the programmer and artifact being programmed with the aim of making development easier.

Scalability will take some time to achieve, but I think we will get there with some hard work.
It's worse than that; a DDoS can also overwhelm the networking infrastructure, affecting other machines on the same switches, or in the same facility (depending on the magnitude of the attack, and the capacity of the networking).

Null routing does a good job of mitigating impact to other servers, but obviously causes problems. If there's enough capacity, filtering at the border would probably work. I think most of the attacks these days are DNS reflection (because it's easy and effective), so if the border routers could be configured to drop incoming udp from port 53 to the IP under attack, that would get you most of the way there (just make sure the server under attack doesn't need to get port 53 replies from the internet). That sounds simple, but it has three big problems: a) You need a lot of spare input bandwidth. b) You need to be able to filter on border routers. c) You need to be able to safely change the filters on the border routers.
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I assumed you meant that people here would be interested primarily in problems related to themselves. It would have sufficed to say "People here are interested in elegantly solving problems."
> we do have regulations on driving

You don't want regulations on RC aircraft, you want to ban them. But you know nothing about them. I have a small RC helicopter, I could run it into a baby's face at full power and it'd barely tickle.

You've gotten your ideas from media sensationalism of extreme incidents. I could just as easily use your arguments to say "ban bicycles" because someone fell off one and died, or ran into a little old lady and killed her. That's actually far more common than anyone being injured by RC aircraft.
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Facebooks is priced at 240X Price to Earnings. If they start losing users or even stop growing its hard to imagine how that PE ratio continues to makes any sense. Even with an increase in mobile revenue its still less then desktop revenue and users are certainly flocking to mobile too which is a double wammy. So facebook has to transition to making more money per user if its user base stops growing. Otherwise you're going to have people really questioning the price of the stock which could end up effecting the whole industry.
>> It's silly to make blanket statements like "FPGAs have become as capable, or more, than GPUs."

Umm, you took "at a ridiculously higher level of efficiency" out of my quote in order to call it silly? C'mon man.

If you've ever diligently crunched numbers on FPGA versus GPU monthly electricity costs at scale, I don't think you'd be capable of saying power efficiency is a strawman. If the idealistic efficient-resource-usage aspect is not convincing enough for you, we are talking millions and millions of dollars here (actually more). Look at Amazon GPU numbers and get back to me. We have detailed breakdowns of price comparisons that have been worked out in depth using the same algorithm. This is nothing like swapping out lightbulbs, that's an actual absurd and uninformed statement that can be verified and quantified as such.

And I do mention both IP blocks (even in quotes as you do) and how SoC's CPU-PL communication is much faster from being same-chip-integrated, hours before you did, so I'm not sure what you mean.

I'm also not getting why you use hard IP blocks as an argument that FPGAs are getting less flexible. They are helping to advance FPGA accessibility and flexibility a ton. Why do you think they're there? The development time savings are huge and the testing and optimization is by nature better.

The 7000 series has pretty heavy options, you can get a lot PL all your own on them. We've been specifically talking about an ARM+PL SoC, are you trying to say that an FPGA like a Virtex or Kintex is somehow not a "blank slate"? You want no standardization of any kind? The lack of that is a huge problem, and it's getting solutions.
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The write up is from yesterday about a bug fixed a while back, as per responsible disclosure.
Talk to your kids, if you have any. I bet they wouldn't have any problem giving up computers. All they use them for is homework.

Or that's my kids' opinion. Very weird.
> begs the question

Bad English translations of Latin translations of Greek translations give us hard to read phrases ;-) If we are going to use terms like ad hominem what is wrong with petitio principii? Sorry, that's a bit of a tangent....

> whether it's the person or the job that's "at fault" or "abnormal".

Yeah, see shift work sleep disorder.....
> I'm surprised that it took this long to discover this.

Because the system is complex, and security is hard.
I have downloaded C64 software I have legally to run on Frodo.....
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Ian Hacking had a great review of the DSM-5 in the LRB earlier this year: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n15/ian-hacking/lost-in-the-forest
Have an open-source, terminal-based Halloween.
Out of curiosity, how much time did you spend on this?
Evolution is not the only thing they have been diluting. They have been removing hispanics, racism, and hip-hop from the history curriculum for years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/texas-education-boa...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?_r=...
Most responsible disclosure is normally posted about sooner though. I think what the OP meant is that waiting 2 months later, and then giving the post this title, makes it seem as though it was a more recent bug