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You're forgetting past history and the present times. It's not just Bill. IBM and Xerox before Bill Gates was worse. Apple now is far worse than Microsoft was in the "golden days".

Microsoft stole ideas, improved on them, and made them accessible to the public for far cheaper than anybody else. It wasn't just anti-competitive practices that put them at the front.

Apple stole ideas that others have done, improved on them, and made them accessible for a price HIGHER than everyone else because of marketing. It isn't just their anti-competitive practices that have put them at the front.

If you are going to make a claim to history and "you had to be there", then remember ALL of history and don't be condescending and assuming it was someone young that voted you down.
Mobile apps that are really online-only could do a lot better job though. The biggest examples would be to queue and store data to be posted and also to handle larger caches of downloaded info.

If ¥ou look at Instagram, it does not store much in the way of old photos in your feed, your old likes, or even older photos of your own profile. It's probably done in to part to simplify the experience, so you know the comments/like-count on photos are up-to-date, and it also keeps the app's footprint smaller. The percentage of time you are not connected and want to use Instagram is small, but it would be nice as disk space increases, to have more functionality available.

Apple's shared photostream is a good example of a similar use case (photos) where data is permanently cached and available offline ( to a degree) and you can still interact and 'post' to it where it'll wait and perform the action when network connectivity returns.
We'd definitely like to do that soon. That's one of the really nice things about Graphite and it makes it easy to share in emails, chat rooms, etc. For the moment we're focused on the other parts of the API and building out the clustering part of it.
I'd like to echo this, specifically focusing on AJAX. It's not enough to be offline-friendly if your requests don't themselves retry or work well when internet is spotty. A problem I've often encountered in online-only scenarios is when AJAX calls fail. How do you ultimately retry them? At a certain point, you need the same infrastructure you'd be building for an offline app to cache and queue requests, as well as present sensible non-success responses. So, just as mobile first solved problems for both tablets and focusing a design, offline first can solve problems with error messages, caching to speed up online responses and AJAX retries.
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Octave is indeed awesome. I completed my Machine Learning course at Coursera thanks to it. :) Always take what the vocal minority says with a grain of salt.
All email from one Scramble address to another is encrypted+signed.

We'll add compatibility with existing PGP soon!
Author here: I thought it got better after the list, not worse. <shrug>

Anyway, the claims aren't sourced because they're obvious. Only someone looking for conflict is going to ask for the claim that our country is loosing access to quality education.

And if you can't make the jump on your own that this leads to more uneducated people, well, then my powers to assist you have reached their limit.
Why do I have to register in order to read the API docs? So annoying..
> Truth be told, if you start doing this in an equitable fashion with the goal of "punishing" bad banking behavior, you'll target a lot of lower-middle-class mortgage brokers from the 2008 mortgage crisis who knowingly committed fraud, which seems like an undesirable result.

I think it a very desirable result. When it came time to break up the mafia, the prosecutors didn't say "we can't get the dons right off the bet, oh well let's not bother". Getting the triggermen is both a good in itself and a strategy to both starve the organization of foot soldiers and to work up the hierarchy.

No one seems to have any compunctions about putting outright lower class street drug dealers in prison.

Specicially with respect to HSBC, there were several avenues available for criminal prosecution of individuals both low level (i.e. the actual tellers and bank branch officials who recieved the ilicit funds) and high level. Irene Dorner, President HSBC Bank USA, for example signed the 2010 consent decree with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency[1] and could have been held in contempt of court for refusing to carry out the agreed changes. Also conspiracy and RICO don't require every member of the corrupt organization to be aware of all the details of the criminal acts imputed to the entire conspiracy.

The Justice Department had no problem securing a prison sentence for money laundering against Vladimir Kats[2] as well as lower level employees of Liberty Reserve, but I bet he didn't go to Oxford. Can't a women that looks and sounds like Dame Judi Dench in prison, that would be uncivilized!

[1]http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2010/nr-occ-...
[2]http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/liberty-r...
You could use iCloud to remotely wipe your phone if that happens.
"My blog post was heavily covered in Boing Boing, Slashdot, Salon, etc. at the time."

Ugly boasting.
What are the issues about KitKat you're talking about?
Just signed up less than 12 hours ago. Cool.
What if those people are still benefiting from other people's sins? If the current British don't want to pay maybe they can dispose of the ill-gotten gains i.e the country estates paid for by black slaves, the textile fortunes paid for by exploited Indian cotton farmers, the Kohinoor diamond in the Crown jewels etc.
Would you buy it again if you had to do it over again? I'm on the fence, having an aging Galaxy Nexus.
1) You move where the cost of travelling to your job doesn't outweight the savings from lower rent.

2) There is more than public transit such as van pools, bicycles, motorcycles, and trains.

3) There are several way to produce energy to heat a house (electricity, natural gas, wood burning stove).
You (a) don't have a Chrome extension that verifies anything right now, (b) are currently publishing the pure- browser- JS version of your application, and (c) envision a future in which a small number of "power users" can "safely" use the system while the majority of users, who you correctly note will not install your extension, will be at the mercy of attackers or, for that matter, your own server.

You're essentially asking to be the next Lavabit. You've added a verification component that probably won't work even for the verifiers. But that doesn't even matter, because the majority of your users won't even be doing that verification.
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Instead of trying to quantify your technical debt, the first step should be to determine who your technical spenders are.

I work in a company with a toxic environment where nepotism allows for projects to absolutely derail entire projects and teams for months on end. Ideas hit the fan like loose stool and suddenly everyone is sent scrambling to accomplish a thing that has barely any focus other than it's a pet project.

If you can locate your spenders, then you can determine the best way to control or excise them from the technical budget.
I really liked Everpix as a "fire and forget" method for backing up my photos. It's a shame they're shutting down.

As an alternative I'll probably switch to Dropbox, who have been improving their 'photo upload' features, one of which is the ability to automatically upload from iPhoto (similar to how Everpix did it).

One of my favourite features in Everpix was the "1 year ago today" emails they sent, which picked a few random photos from a year ago and dropped them in my inbox. That was a really nice touch.
considering the rudeness that came to replace it, probably bad.

Sure, being direct might help communication, but most people who think they're "just" being direct end up miscommunicating their point and be rude.
Given you got a dedicated box with that many processors in it, how would you go about slicing them up for use?
> Also, you need to use your Citizen Number (basically a Social Security Number) to register for ANY service in Korea, even common websites.

Since 2011, websites cannot ask or store resident registration numbers (that's the official name) for non-financial purposes. Sadly, it happened after a major incident which exposed RRNs of more than 70% of Koreans. [1] It is a common estimate that every Korean person have his/her RRN hacked at least twice due to frequent incidents.

The Korean government endorses i-PIN nowadays, which is basically... uh... redundant aliases to the unique RRN. This is obviously stupid, you can hack i-PIN instead of RRN and you have the same credential. Well, at least i-PIN is random. (RRN had very low entropy, and even shallow information about the target may limit possible RRNs to only hundreds.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number#O... for the 2011 incident.
Isn't that why the name "Data Science" was invented?
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Can anyone shed light on why the battery cannot be replaced like back in the day with (smart)phones? This is a real deal breaker for me, especially with the very limited battery life you would at least expect that it would be easily replaceable. I don't mind carrying an extra battery pack with me. At all.
Precisely which vetted, client side, JS crypto library would you prefer the authors use to satisfy your concerns? I haven't looked at the code, and only recently started paying attention to the JS-Crypto space. I'm aware of implementations where scrypt was compiled to target the asm.js subset, however, this doesn't really mean the resulting JS running on platform x, in browser y is as secure as the resulting binary on the platform/OS it was targeted for.

Scramble has not been widely vetted, so don't rely on it to protect you just yet.

The authors put the above line as part of the very first bit of marketing you encounter. Until the JS has full (vetted, industry standard) crypto functions designed to be secure for the each target platform, vetting this kind of crypto is going to be hard. The addition of a cryptographically sound PRNG is a big move in the right direction. That said, I believe the authors got it right with what is currently available: Inform the user in such a way that there is no confusion, open source the code so others can participate in vetting, get some attention to the project so others are motivated to participate in vetting, and continue to improve as problems are discovered. That's really the best you can do, IMHO. In security, the author of a library needs to be correct 100% of the time while an attacker needs to be correct only once.
@GrinningFool totally miscommunication, sorry if we cam off wrong. We don’t mean to dismiss the offline metaphors we know from desktop apps, in fact we desperately need to transform them over to predominant app design, especially on mobile.
Apart from a large portion of posted articles not being specifically about programming, there are many great posters here who are non-programmers such as tokenadult. Discussions and articles are not limited to programming. Moreover, the spirit of HN seems to be discuss what the community deems worthy (upvoting) with a few restrictions.
I doubt it. Bram saw Bittorrent get hugely successful but didn't see corresponding financial returns. He probably attributes that to being open source and trying to avoid it happening again.
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He said he's saddened by people using statistics "almost" correctly to prove what was already "gut feel". I can't quite tell whether his real concern is what you thought he was saying (i.e., wasted effort), or whether it's the "almost" (but not quite correctly) part, i.e., that researchers use statistics to wrongly prove the gut feel. If it's the latter, then I think a big part of the problem is that people don't understand statistics well enough, not that they intentionally misuse it.
I think people who want onboard removal storage are in the minority. Not to say its not important (I myself would love a microSD slot on the Nexus 5), I just don't think that many people are not going to buy a phone over it.

Anyway, I'd much prefer simplified file sharing/connectivity between my Android phone and my Macbook Air. I already have all my music, data, etc on the Mac in Dropbox, I just need an easier way for my phone to get to it (adhoc wifi?).
This is also a PGP application that most people can benefit from immediately (compared to using Hotmail), and one that can be used by even the most targeted users if their environment is set up correctly once the extension is out.
Road wind. At 40+ mph, a car with open windows is noisy and uncomfortable.
You should quit whining and do some market research. Identify your competition and determine what they are charging.
Good luck.
Anecdote: after finding a small scorpion on the bathroom wall in the Honduran jungle, I had a huge compulsion to tear everything apart to make sure there's no nest. The only thing that calmed me down was access to offline, text-only Wikipedia on my Nokia n800. It was 2 a.m., slept like a baby when I found out this species was harmless. To this day, I never travel without it. (Edit: Wikipedia, not the n800 ;)
> "A lot of apps are rightly useless without normal connectivity, like checking the weather, or sending e-mails, or Facebook, or shopping on Amazon."

They aren't fully functional without fast connectivity, but they aren't useless. It is shocking how many ways apps break when offline.

- If I'm offline I should still be able to view the last weather report I got. Many apps simply refuse to work and throw up an unhelpful "you're offline" screen instead.

- If I'm offline I should still be able to type out a reply to emails. In fact, I should be able to queue it for sending, and my device should intelligently take care of it at the next connection opportunity.

- Similarly, if I'm offline I should still be able to view emails that I have seen recently.

There are a lot of ways people can interact with apps while experiencing no/poor connectivity. I believe the essay is simply saying that some basic affordances should be built into your apps - that features which don't strictly require a network connection shouldn't fail in ugly ways when the network is down. It is atrocious how many mobile apps have only one reaction to a loss of connectivity: completely shut off all access to everything.
If iphone is a part of your product it might be a good idea to make your website work well on mobile safari on iphone.
Why are CD images still so popular?

My last few computers have only included CD drives for the purpose of booting installers that are inconvenient to put on USB. USB drives, on the other hand, are quite universal.
afaik, the story has always been about being able to make the phone thinner.
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You shouldn't need to register to view them. There's a link under the Register button:

http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/developers/api
Would you mind carrying a portable battery about the same size as the phone that can recharge the phone via USB? (this is my solution)
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This makes no sense. If it's under a Creative Commons license and they've encouraged people to use it, I don't see what the problem is. Much of the data was provided to them for free anyway.
No, whether or not an app is using the APIs does not affect the battery. As this article states, and for my experience building fitly.io, the M7 is detecting at all times. The APIs only access the activity logs.
"Nexus" phones that shipped with 4.0 ICS or later do not have a microSD slot and only use internal storage.

This was a design decision by the Android team, in response to users on the Nexus One (Android 2.x) getting confused about having 2 GB free on their SD card and not being able to install DRMed apps because their 512 MB of internal storage was full.
We have over a quarter-century of offline-ONLY desktop applications to draw on.

and

though unsurprisingly a quick google search for UI design patterns doesn't show anything except the latest web ui patterns.

. . . seem to contradict each other. Sure, offline (or at least intermittently connected) apps have been around a long time, but as you so rightly (unsurprisingly) found, that kind of thinking (patterns) has been surpassed by more trendy ideas.

Part of it can be blamed on the SDK and API designers; they implicitly tell us "your app will be online all the time". Part of it (as you pointed out), is due to general ignorance of history. I think a large part of this is that large swathes of new programmers (only in it for the money?) have jumped on the apps bandwagon on phones (online by default), offline be damned. That, as the authors argue, should be fixed.
I think the rise of the BJP has made it clear that the non-dominant communities are expected to know their place.
Ah yes, I see! You can actually configure that via the options tab (the sprocket to the left of the console tab).

Soon, we will show you the colors as they were authored by default. I can't seem to track down the bug, but I know the inspector folks have it on their radar.
I tend to leave my phone on my desk. And that goes for both at home and at work. (I don't use 2-factor authentication, so I'm not terribly worried.) All that means is someone has to walk up to my desk, knock on my phone, and steal my passwords.

Hmm, I'm not thinking so. I think I'll stick with entering a password!
This actually was my everyday experience back in the nineties with Pine on Debian 2.x

I liked that.
You say that because you want it to be true, not because you have any real confidence that it is true.
Yours is a very sad comment.

The author gives a good example here, if you choose to read it:

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.ht...

Basically, Claude Shannon was able to create his information theory because he could use things like calculus, probability, stochastic processes and graph theory to aid his thought process. He needed those tools to be able to think things that would have been unthinkable without them.
Pretty sure it's more to do with most people likely not ever needing more than 16/32GB over the lifetime of their phone, meaning adding a microSD slot would be simply a waste of time, effort and space.
This is pretty clever, but is this much better than the existing Bluetooth proximity unlock utilities?

The iPhone app that this pairs with costs $3.99 by the way.

If you use Mac OS, Proximity is similar to BlueProximity, there are probably other solutions that don't require an iOS app and accomplish the same thing without the magical novelty, all the same, I think it's neat and if the app weren't $4 I would try it out.
No one in the launch group was able to see what others were charging until today. Now I'm booked.

Not whining, just giving a perspective.
Responding to you and everyone else using weather as an example:

NO, I don't EVER want cached weather data! In fact, it drives me nuts that when I look up the weather on my iPhone to see what the current temperature is outside, I have no idea if it's accurate or 20 degrees wrong, because it just assumes that cached data from 1am is good enough, until it happens to get a connection again. For people who live in places where the temperature can vary 40 degrees in a day, this is really important.

[Edit: why is this being downvoted? Is it not clear that I'm talking about current weather conditions, as opposed to 3-days-out? And that having my phone present stale data as current data can be harmful? Many people use their weather app for current conditions, not forecasts.]
This is already being done at various levels. Rocket motors, parts, satellites etc are built by various private companies all over the world. Many space agencies provide launch and telemetry services. And, now we've exciting new space-companies like SpaceX, VirginGalactic, Icarus Interstellar etc.

More info:

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_non-governmental...

By the way, ISRO has Antrix:

http://www.antrix.gov.in/
But doesn't this approach if implemented the best we can , at least blocks dragnet surveillance ? isn't that valuable ?
Just tried it out - works as advertised!

Doesn't work if you have it in screensaver mode and locked - you need to have the login screen up. Still very neat.
This is both genius and obvious.
For starters it's the lag which at this point seems to be so nested into the core that unless vital components get rewritten from scratch, will not fade away anytime soon. Every reiteration of Android sees a new stab at taking the lag and overall unresponsiveness away, but all they do is adding work-arounds or surface optimizations.
I think his point was that people seem to "prove" common sense statistically all of the time - but when doing so make a lot of thoughtless assumptions about representativeness, significance, definitions, etc. stemming from the unspoken assumption of a particular outcome being inevitable.

Or maybe I'm projecting?
As someone who had 10,000+ photos in the service and was recommending Everpix to everyone I'm pretty sad. Really was set and forget software, used it regularly to dig out photos and share with others. Super sad that it's going away, hopefully I can find another service which is half as good
It's likely referring to a MEMS gyroscope used for optical image stabilisation. A MEMS camera doesn't exist, it was rumoured to be a MEMS motor was used as part of the focusing system.
Thanks, that's the part I haven't heard of before - good explanation of the issue. So if someone wanted to reimplement the client, they would have to reimplement a different one for every single site.

Depending on the difficulty of working around the issue though, I wonder if it's a business opportunity: offer a web proxy which is transparent for all purposes, apart from the activex part - it would replace them with something that's either pretending to run the verification itself, or provides some replacement script. If you ran the company outside of Korea that took subscription money to bypass a number of the most popular services' auth, it would be hard to shut down. (but it would become a cat and mouse game of updating the algorithm until one side got bored...)

Unfortunately this would have to be written in some interesting way that guarantees the passwords / tokens / sessions are never captured by this system, otherwise noone would use it. But that's a technical problem - should be doable in some way.
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Upgrading from Google v2 API? Free yourself and upgrade to OpenStreetMap
It's how launches usually go: you start with a minimum viable product and add requested features with subsequent iterations.
Lots of things that are widely referenced aren't actually backed by truth.
I just added a static image fallback instead of the brown background I had before. Keeps more in line with the intended look.
I think you underestimate how much delight it gives people. Search on Twitter and behold how many people are blown away by this 'magic.'

Not to mention I wouldn't be surprised if they extended their app to work with other devices.
Easily the worst thing about the iPad and the iPad Mini is the huge air gap between the LCD and the cover glass, which reduces clarity and makes glare much worse. The big plate of glass in front of the LCD is something I appreciate for say the iPad my daughter plays with, but for something I actually have to look at give me a fused display any day.
This looks like the exact feature-set we need at my company; we're in the middle of moving to Redshift but I'll be keeping an eye on Influx.

I know it's early days but I didn't see any information about cluster management - how does one setup an Influx cluster, can it be resized, what kind of hardware does it prefer?