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I think this is just a kinda microcosm for why Windows is successful in general. Because they have a sales force and support that markets to and is geared around companies. Their developer ecosystem is heavily geared towards corporate systems as well.

It's surprising that a smart HN blogger can't put himself into somebody else's shoes for a second. When you're a manager and your boss tells you to go install some kiosks, chances are good that you're going to go out there and get some proposals. You're gonna pick whichever one of them best represents themselves, has a price that you want and seems like they'll be there when you need their support. You're probably not going to go with whoever is the most "cool" or "bleeding edge." You're almost definitely not going to try to put together an open source solution yourself just to save a few thousand bucks on OS licenses.

It's just as simple as that. Windows kiosks are in use because there are a lot of people out there selling Windows Kiosk solutions. If at some point another system manages to get a decent marketshare and has sales people out there writing proposals - then you'll start to see more of those.
So sad, but so true.
I am living in the big ball of mud, and the bit about the shanty towns is exactly what I see every day.
;-;
I think the same. If I miss one I have to start over.
BharatRatna... Sachin and/or Dyan Chand? 
29th August (Dyan Chand birthday) is celebrated as National Sports Day (India)...
Dyan Chand award is the highest award for lifetime achievement in sports bestowed in his name...

1928 Amsterdam Olympics - 14 goals in 5 games : won gold : tagged DC as 'The Hockey Wizard'
1932 Los Angeles Olympics - beat USA 24 - 1 ( 8 goals by DC ) : won gold again
1936 Berlin Olympics - beat German 8 - 1 : won gold again - Hat trick !
(a mesmerized Hitler offered him German citizenship and a promotion to the rank of a Colonel)

The number of goals Dhyan Chand scored in his international career is more than 400 is the answer. Interestingly, this figure does not account for the goals he scored overall in his glorious career spanning over 20 years. That number would roughly be touching 1000. Equally brilliant as 99.94, if not better.

“He scores goals like runs in cricket,” remarked Bradman when the geniuses of their respective games came face to face in Adelaide in 1935.

The magician's admirers are spread across the globe. More recently, a hockey stadium in UK was named after Dhyan Chand as a tribute to the legendary player.
I have a PC in my living room, a wireless keyboard+mouse, high DPI, and no regrets.
Only revolutionary or disruptive?
Cointagion is the first site I seen that shows how simple it would to buy digital goods with bitcoins. How could this work with physical goods? Would you just have to "tie" a shipping address to a bitcoin transaction?
The Relite mention at the end looks very worthwhile. We were just about to begin a large rewrite of analysis code from R to CUDA; Relite has the potential to save the effort of rewriting our existing code.
In many cases that will do, but there will be problem with continuously changing objects, such as ads, escalators and clocks that will be blurred, at least unless a quite sophisticated algorithm is used.
I am wondering if there is any connection between this project and Tokyo Nobody by Masataka Nakano

http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Nobody-Masataka-Nakano/dp/489815...
I looked at it pretty heavily about 6 months ago (version 0.6.3 I think), so things have certainly changed some, but my thoughts were:

- It's nice that it comes with pretty much all the grunt work done, out of the box (asset packaging, live reload, deployment bundles, even the database!)

- It reminds me of early Rails, as it is still in a bit of a "hacky" phase. The level of commenting in the code is very low, there's TODO's everywhere, lots of things are shoved into the global namespace, etc. This is a sharp contrast with Angular or Ember, which have codebases I'd be proud to have my name on.

- The template binding is done in a simple-yet-effective way, which works without being too complicated but if your data isn't just a simple key/value map you'll need to learn a bit about it.

- Perhaps due to the simple binding, it's possible to use legacy code (e.g., jQuery plugins) in a lot of places where it would be tricky with Angular/Ember.

- It's very opinionated and you certainly wouldn't want to stray from the "happy path" of what's included in the stack (e.g., mongodb.) This was pretty much a deal killer for my app, though every case is different.
Which platforms are you targeting?
How did that work in 1998? Wasn't the phone number in question being used to connect to the internet?
Are people who instead hold USD, EUR, or CNY unbiased when writing about those currencies or BTC?

I would agree authors should disclose their participation, but I think disinterest/divestment on such matters is an unrealistic goal. Any stake or non-stake implies some personal preferences, and some personal stake is practically a prerequisite for motivating enough attention to understand and explain.

(Or as VC John Doerr has said: "No conflict, no interest".)
If it were just the industry standard failure rate then we should have seen a similar pattern of bad reviews for the other recent console launches. I don't know if that happened or not, but I think you're making it a bit too easy just blaming it on the standard failure rate.
A guy named Jony Hudson has gotten R to kind of compile to JS using emscripten.

See http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-in-the-browser-td4667985.htm...

But the JS blob ends up being like ~15mb!
I was unpleasantly surprised to see your post deliberately undoing the GP's attempt to obfuscate his number. Is your goal to bully GP into supporting privacy?

It doesn't matter the technical details of whether the number is easier to search, it's the intent I find disturbing about this.
>Google really was the first search engine that was any bloody good at all.

This is not even vaguely true. Google's algorithm was a bit better, their page was cleaner, and they weren't trying to push you into other services or wall you into any weirdness.

If google had pulled the shit they pull now back then, I never would have switched to it. I switched to google because they convinced me that their simple, honest strategy was based on some sort of a company value rather than just a strategy of leaving profit on the table until they could drive all competition out of business and ask for your firstborn. Corporate values? That's what I get for believing in science fiction.
If you really want freedom, use CyanogenMod, or better, Replicant. Google's been enviously eyeing Apple's walled garden for a while now.
If you're looking for an alternative thats much more versatile and less opinionated I would recommend Sails.js http://sailsjs.org/ which is basically Rails for JS based on Express.
Sure it is. I've walked through many of those parts of London at times where they've been pretty much deserted.
I always thought the SVN branching model of copying directories with history was kind of interesting. Too bad that it didn't work out too well in practice.
We are still a good five or six years away from the point where Google would have to worry about alienating the users whose data they sell

I imagine MySpace were saying something similar for a couple of years as Facebook started really taking off, and Yahoo probably thought no new search engines were a threat a year or two before Google arrived.

The Internet is a funny place. A lot of Internet users move in herds, which means a disruptive newcomer can grow very fast if the whole viral networking effect kicks in, but usually when that happens one or more established players must fall to create the space.
How does mercurial do in that situation? I know it uses a binary diff algorithm under the hood, but are there other showstoppers for storing giant files in mercurial?
There is nothing magical about being the customer. Paying money doesn't stop anyone from creating a multi sided market that makes you the product. As anyone who subscribed to a magazine, purchased season tickets to a cultural organization, or seen an ad on an Xbox can attest.

Also, you created an account an hour after this article was posted just to type a banal cliche that we've all had to endure endlessly?
Ah, wonderful! So if I understand this correctly, this doesn't give C/Fortran access to Java-native primitive arrays; but instead, it's specific to NIO byte buffers (and then the matrix libraries have to build on top of that). But that should be fine for doing R replacements, at least in theory.

(Personally, when programming Java I find it more convenient to use primitive arrays as opposed to matrix libraries, but that might be dependent on the operations I tend to do: lots of increment/decrements and only occasional linear algebra. I guess this isn't exactly relevant to the R replacement question.)
I've had a heck of a time getting Valgrind working on a mac (especially since Mavericks), hardly finding any resources about it. Is there an alternative, or do you have any advice on getting it to work?
Cool then continue to click "no". Your personal preferences have nothing to do with google's intention.

If someone steals your phone and it's logged into all your personal accounts and you don't contact your mobile provider to shut the sim-card off then yes you are screwed. Also I would suggest cancelling your credit cards if someone steals your wallet.
Yes. Go ahead with that. Author is the same.
But I highly suggest to follow the book, since it talk to the point and saves a lot of time.
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Still don't have decent ways to get gigabytes of assets onto the phone. Some PC games are getting into the 40 GB range (which is one of the design points for Xbox One).

You could argue that many of those assets could be served via streaming, or would be a quarter the size on a phone-like screen (... until you want to show it in 1080P via an adapter or something). Or that the game industry doesn't give a damn about asset size because it hasn't had to, on PCs.
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Google asking me for cellphone number only because I've enabled 2-factor authentication so it does it for every new browser/device.

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Regarding chats, I think it's in cookies, so when you change browsers - the whole QA thing repeats.

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Google of course wants to know about you more than your mama and spouse combined, but at least some of that pestering experience is due to the fact that Google is prone to employing lousy programmers as much as any other corp.

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No one is forced to use Google's free services and be put up with begging for personal information so that implies the freedom to switch to any other provider away from Google.
Not an option if the rest of code base is likely different from the original cloned from. For me, this very often has been the case i.e. small changes in like may be 20 files scattered all over the code base just to get my copy run in a specific way debugging an issue.
Reach out if you're still looking, I'd be happy to help out.
"Google has positioned Gmail as a gateway drug to a world where everything runs according to Google."

This is precisely the point – software becomes simpler and more powerful when it is integrated. See: Apple.
Hmm, that's kind of odd. I'd have thought international flights would be credit card only, but domestic would accept cash since its all the same country/currency.
Go and make a rational case to voters and tell me how that works out. Rational people already know. I suspect this is to convince the irrational.
> That a bad plan comes from a famous person doesn't make it any less of a bad plan.

But I didn't say that the plan was a good one (or a bad one), just that this action and similar ones do seem to be in accord with that top-down plan rather than the result of independent action by lower-level people.
404: http://zhen.org/blog/go-vs-java-decoding-billions-of-integer...
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The semantics of Java need not restrict what other languages on the JVM do, though it may make the generated byte code a little larger from the inclusion of f2d and d2f instructions.
Thanks for that. The London photos made me think of empty mini-mall photos taken in LA by Cathy Opie. Here's an example:

http://arttattler.com/Images/NorthAmerica/NewYork/Guggenheim...

They were shot in black and white, and when shown in a gallery context, they are very large (4 feet wide or so).

She used a similar technique -- show up early in the morning (like 4am) and be patient. She had do it late enough to be after the clubgoers, junkies, and criminals were asleep, but before regular people were awake.

You can google "cathy opie mini mall series" -- she's better known for her earlier, transgressive lesbian/body images.
creating a another driver for Meteor is really big task. Need a lot of time and commitment.
For now think Meteor as the easy way(may be the best) to build apps ontop of the MongoDB.
1. It is more a philosophical disagreement than a problem, and whatever the semantics you want, the JVM does not limit you. The disagreement revolves around the Java compiler and language semantics, not the JVM.

2. The math in FastR, if I understand the presentation correctly, is performed by FORTRAN libraries anyway. Using battle tested FORTRAN libraries for matrix computations is common practice in C, Java, Julia, Matlab and most other environments. They basically all share the same underlying matrix math code.
I just tested it and had a huge problem with accuracy. It may be good enough for search, where you're speaking only a few words, but trying to actually dictate a document, I wouldn't find this useful.
Gorgeous, but they look more like early morning shots than abandoned city shots. Give me broad daylight or with all the lights off and it'll really feel atmospheric. The extreme saturation also doesn't contribute to a feeling of desertion.

Also, abandoned London is spotless.
This has always bothered me, both on Amazon and the iTunes app store. No lie, when I published my first app, one of the comments was "I'd rate this zero stars if I could." and my first thought was actually "wait, why can't you?"

Overall, I think YouTube was on the ball by switching to a "Thumbs up, Thumbs down" rating system. "Out of five star" rating systems are always sabotaged by the fact that most people think in absolutes: Either something is the bee's knees or it's fried shit on a biscuit. Given that most people vote this way, up/down vote systems are better at giving an honest impression of how people feel about something.
Preparing for a marathon I always did my saturday long run starting very early in them morning (like 5am or 6am, once I even started at 4am because I had a company event I needed to be at early) and it was definitely...awesome. Especially running along the Thames in Central London during sunrise: there were entire 10/15 minutes stretches without people and even cars.
Why did you need to map .jpg to ASP ISAPI filter? Why not just call someimage.asp and set the mime type and use BinaryWrite?

BTW, great conversion technique. Certainly something to do nowadays too, if you can get them to load an image or click a link. I wonder, do average people load images in emails or click the links "if this email does not render correctly"?
Famous Xbox 360 problem (RROD) was not on arrival. So probably they mentioned this 4-5% statistics for some period of time, not for DOA.
It's not exclusive to the rich/advantaged. IMHO the biggest opposition to unrestricted immigration in richer countries comes from workers, because "they're taking our jobs". Just look at the H1B mess in the US for an example (where a lot of company managers/owners want to bring in more foreigners, not fewer).

EDIT: Maybe I misinterpreted, your post reads like "the rich are preventing free movement". I want to point out that anyone who has a well-paid job is "advantaged", not just rich people.
I am happy Google is pushing lots of annoying questions to remind everyone there is no reason to be logged in to Google to view Youtube videos.
As an app developer, I sympathize, but if you've got a reasonably complex app that requires 8 permissions, that's 255 permutations of code paths that you need to test (that you don't need to test right now) to make sure your app performs correctly. And that's not a reasonable request to make of an app developer.

Not really; this depends on how the OS developer implements denying various permissions. For example, your app already has to handle empty address books, location services reporting valid, fixed locations, and SMS messages not arriving; it also can't assume network and messaging services are available, even in the absence of permission problems.

But I absolutely would still want guaranteed permissions: If my app needs Internet to make money, then I don't want someone to be able to use it if they're blocking Internet for the app

How do you currently handle limited, filtered, or no Internet access for reasons other than lack of permission grants? Why can't you handle permission-based Internet blocking in the same way?
Loved the part regarding sooo much to type. I learned svn in probably in my first job and after a while, commands just came natural to me both linux command line or toroise svn via GUI. But git which i only learned a couple years back still haunts me in the sense of writing a long command with several parameters to achieve some thing where i have to understand each param and its application in my given scenario. Just a week back, i spent like 30 min getting code base back to the state of some one doing an equivalent of svn update and i was like... Why did we ditch svn?
Whilst I agree with your last point (the cause for the spread between MtGox and other markets), I think it's unlikely it's driving the overall price.

It seems like the huge spike in Bitcoin trading in China (Btcchina just become the biggest exchange by trading volume) and the usual story of speculation is probably more likely.
I only noticed one password hint that exactly matched the password -- I'd have thought that would be disallowed. Plenty of hints that were the password plus one character, reversed, etc.
Here is what winners do before leaving home
I didn't say they understood it correctly. The way I see it is that they read it and decided to act on it by making Google+ their core platform and giving it the killer app that it had been lacking - youtube. Opening up their platform for others might come later. Or maybe they forgot about it. Who knows?
Java also gives native libraries direct access to primitive arrays, but that requires pinning them in place for the duration of the call (i.e. not letting the GC move them) so it incurs some performance penalty.

Direct byte buffers are very common in high-performance Java code. Reading/writing from/to those buffers can be made just as fast as plain Java arrays.
I thought pair programming was so both of you were working on one task?
Maybe the interface is TOO easy, because I dont have enough information to be interested in signing up.
Ah, that would make a bit more sense.
Nice work! And to prove they are not phony, time for a game of 'I Spy'! ISWMLE:
a cyclist
a trash collector
possibly a policeman
several lit car tail lights

Advances?
There are also other possible reasons for negative reviews. For many people who used only Xbox before just look of interface of PS could be a shock.
I had to catch an early flight and found myself walking around Dubrovnik at 4am. Seeing the wide stone streets, polished by the feet of thousands who were now completely absent, was surreal. I highly recommend waking up extra early in a normally busy city and taking a stroll; you end up seeing and appreciating completely new things.
As an awareness programme, it's working marvellously.
I've also been doing this. I have a pretty beefy windows machine that I have configured to launch into big picture mode on boot with an Xbox 360 controller and the experience is about 85% there. It is kind of a pain in the ass having a controller, a keyboard, and a trackball in my living room in addition to the TV remote stuff.

It's also annoying to have a full desktop PC in the living room. When game streaming lands in Steam I'll be able to move that entire box into my office and then just have a simple front end Steam Machine handling driving the TV. People keep posting pics of the streaming UI but they haven't turned it on yet.

For my "front end" machines I am using 2 Ubuntu laptops with background auto updating turned on, steam in big picture mode on boot, and either an Xbox controller or a Logitech 710. I am thinking those will hold me over until Valve starts publishing the case CAD files and I'll be able to build my own proper machine.
They don't store well as compressed binary diffs, and they can cause high memory consumption during various operations. If you absolutely must store large binary files then there's a large files extension.
I wonder if a five star rating system could secretly count only the 2 and 4 star reviews without telling anyone, sort of filter out anyone passionate enough to try to game things...
Finding a home sucks... +1?
I always assumed because they were so smart, they were excellent coders.

They don't have to be excellent coders. They need to be excellent thinkers. They've found two very innovative solutions to problems which ended up being very successful (PageRank and AdWords).

However, would they have been successful at all if they weren't able to create the initial prototypes and get Google to the stage where they were able to get excellent coders involved?

I don't consider myself an amazing coder either, even though I want to be, but I'm often finding simpler solutions to problems people are struggling with, or recognize struggles before people realize their could be a simple solution.
The algorithm was better, but it wasn't revolutionary. The main point was it specifically ignored the page titles and meta tags that got all the keyword stuffing at the time.

The biggest advantage Google had was their listings were all search results, whereas most competitors had paid listings included in the results, but at the top of course.
That's a feature; not a bug. The quality of these "enterprise applications" isn't as important as that: a) they came in under budget, b) (mostly) don't break, and c) when they do break they can be supported by existing support staff without investing anything more than what is effectively petty cash in training or additional resources.
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Call verification alone is pretty vulnerable. For a social network login, it might be OK. For access to all your information (which is what Google is heading towards, and is already for some people) it's not great. If someone steals your phone number, it's game over. (AFAIK if you verify via phone you can bypass 2FA, right?)
You can start to watch what the interface at least will be by running the linux client with -steamos, it'll autostart in big picture mode with a few cosmetic differences right now (Mostly with settings).
Show me the game list. IMO the make or break for SteamOS.

I have a steam account on a mac which has a pretty close parity with linux as to the game list. If that is all, not that interested. New games only for the steamOS will take some time to build a catalog. Similar to the new generation of consoles, from what I have seen it's going to be next fall before there are enough interesting titles to tempt me to get one. If Valve can bring a decent chunk of the last few years of windows games to SteamOS, I would be quite interested in a unit.

The other thing not talked about with SteamOS, PS4 or Xbone is cheat protection on multiplayer games. Huge problem with PC gaming. Small problem with Xbox 360 and a minor problem with PS3. What does SteamOS bring to the table to help prevent this? Or is it purely on the game studio to combat cheating?