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guidelines. The app store has guidelines, not rules. The decision for approval is completely up to Apple. They can approve some dirty porn scam and feature it if they want. Or they can disapprove an app that meets all of their guidelines if it pleases them.
Inofficially CBOR was designed as a protocol base for CoRE-related protocols. CoRE stands for Constrained RESTful Environments and is an alternative for HTTP in restricted environments like micro controllers. See also https://ietf.org/wg/core/charter/
I know it's just an example, but: if you're doing HTTP in WordPress, please use WP HTTP rather than Guzzle. It has compatibility with many more hosts (since it uses sockets as well as cURL), plus it's already built-in.
It's not even close to "the opposite". If the kid had sent the email without Tor, they'd be instantly able to prove it was him.

With Tor, it could only be a suspicion. Not proof.
The site for the project is a bit sparse on details bit can be found here http://www.superawesomemicroproject.com/
No, you are not.

In fact, this excellent column [1] states this viewpoint (and some reasons behind the problem) better than I ever could.

[1] www.thebaffler.com/past/all_linkedin_with_nowhere_to_go
thanks - but I don't think it is the case anymore. There are indie,big publishers, funded startups that are doing great stuff (some have based their business model on my previous reports!!).
As I've said, when the iPad was released nobody thought that the iPad could be useful for education and that there will be iPads in a lot of schools...
Young, talented and smart? Meeting in Israel to hack
So this implies that there are people who want to work in the hellhole that is the pergium mine on Janus VI (dodging protective homicidal hortas) simply because they want to show their mastery at mining?

Even in the 24th century there's going to be jobs that very few people want to do. Yet are necessary. How do they persuade people to do them?
What the... I find this highly amusing, as copyright holders have previously argued that high quality copies are also damaging.

It's a moral rights [1] issue. While moral rights are essentially unheard of in the US (outside of the Visual Artists Rights Act), they play an important role in continental Europe with its much different theory of copyright.

You may recall, for example, that Michael Ende sued to have the movie version of the Neverending Story pulled (while he lost, the judgement saw its share of criticism) and that the French courts sided with the estate of John Huston in not allowing the colorized version of Asphalt Jungle to be shown in France. Both were about the right of the author to the integrity of their work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
If OSX were coasting on a worldwide monopoly, where simply executing competently yielded hundreds of millions of automatic sales, you would actually have a point.

Microsoft is not a startup. They were on top of the world, and they've only been going down.

As to "fasted growing mobile OS", it's easy to achieve that when you have low single digit marketshare. For anyone else who read that and were surprised, note that Microsoft went from 2 to 4% marketshare. Android went from 75 to 81 (3x more absolute market growth, but from a relative perspective, no Android couldn't grow from 75% to 150%). It is the sort of skewed and misrepresented statistics that make the whole debate so odd.
Some motherboards have programmable/adjustable VRMs. I wonder if the settings can be changed to mitigate the threat.
Which bank do you have?
Would love to get your thoughts about Israel Tech Challenge. Would you apply?
An s too many: http://perl-tutorial.org/
It wasn't a hack us contest, just a bug bounty that applied to a limited number of domains (not including whatever site the dropbox password went to). That's what I remember, anyway.
Good point. What happened to those official Apple hardware clone makers when their cheaper Macs started doing good?
better yet, use SPIR and OpenCL.

HSA is polluting the GPGPU space, along with CUDA. we need less proprietary crap, and more open standards.
Perl is definitely a cool language. I've used it for 15 years. However, I feel like it made a wrong turn somewhere and Ruby and Python both passed it. I've done a a little Ruby and some Python. They've never grabbed me like Perl, but practically speaking I don't think there are enough reasons to choose the 3rd most popular scripting language. (Btw, I've listened to the CPAN argument for 10 years. It's not enough)
I don't disagree that one should warn others of shady businesses… but it shouldn't be the first thing you do to try to get your money back!
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> I moved from Perl to Python 3 years ago

But Perl-like ambiguity still seeps into your English. Was that Python 3, or 3 years ago?
I have been a longtime PHP avoider myself, but I just recently installed Wordpress for the first time and I admit to being impressed by a few things.

One is the fact that because of the implementation of PHP, where I assume a totally new process is created for every web request, a PHP app can actually edit itself and emerge different for the next incoming request.

Because of this, Wordpress has amazing features where non technical users can install plugins and even edit the source code of Wordpress, in Wordpress... This would not be as easily done in any of the various reputable languages I'm aware of... at least not in the standard implementations of those languages.
Indeed, the Brazilian military had openly declared the Saab Gripen as their favorite after months of technical studies and tests.

On the other hand, the NSA spying on Brazil's president and on some large companies (sign of a commercial use of NSA's resources, not just defense as is otherwise claimed) may have contributed to the souring of some relations used to lobby for Boeing, therefore weakening it's position and enabling Saab to break the deadlock.
France is strange. I've got articles in NYT but never in french major medias. Recently, I've got more exposure in the US App Store than in the french app store... Perhaps I don't know the right person (or big medias are not interested in apps for kids ?) - or I just need a french PR
I'm not familiar with Montessori and the search results regarding what it is are confusing. Is it a company that produces educational products that haven't been "digitized" or a theory/method?
I wonder how the patch was vetted. And what it costs- more CPU time? Slower decryption by what factor? Or does it just defeat the current technique, requiring new measurements to pin down THIS code's characteristic sounds.
hahaha. Perl is 2 years older than me.
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I shell languages I do this a lot.

if "x$VARIABLE" == "x"

because it handles the cases where $VARIABLE is undefined or multiple words without vomiting all over the place.
Very similar to my line of thinking this morning.
Ask HN: do you sign unlimited liability clauses (patent trolls)?
Lots of large companies still try to make consultants sign unlimited (in time and amount) liability clauses, which is particularly concerning when you consider patent trolls.

There's practically zero defense against patent trolls and zero cost to them to sue your client, and zero cost to your client to make you pay. Even 20 years after the fact in the case of these unlimited clauses.

Any tips on how to handle these situations?
They abandoned that a while ago. Facebook now runs on HHVM, which is a JIT-compiler implementation of PHP.
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Do other markets not buy from the Play Store? Or rather, if they don't, how would you sell your app to them anyway? It is nonsense to develop a for-profit app tailored to people who can't buy it.
Nice this is awesome I dabbled in iOS dev one summer but my simple apps looked horrible. If you can find something that targets children the parents will buy. When I worked in a restaurant you wont believe how many parents would just give the kid an iPad/iPhone so they would calm down, worked immediately.

Kudos for making an app that actually has the kids learning instead of some trippy cartoon to watch.

2.99 is a good price to pay for a decent app any more and I probably would look for something else, the days of .99 across the board are long gone.
Just a fun anecdote to throw in:

I never bought through Coinbase, but I did sell some coins there recently for like $7k. They deposited the $7k in my bank account twice, and then a few days later took the extra $7k back.

So although ultimately it all worked out fine, they do seem to be ridiculously reckless in their dealings with thousands of dollars. I can't imagine my bank doing something like that. Made me very wary of dealing with Coinbase in the future.
Félicitations! Funny we almost have the same username here :)
I have been asked to become reviewing editor for moodle related books repeatedly. Every time I have to back out after reading couple of chapters. Their books are practically worthless. When i communicated this to one of their team, I never received a reply. So it seems they are aware of their low quality content.
Don't existing theft recovery programs already do this?

I can't find the link right now but I remember a couple of triumphant "nerd recovers macbook pro" stories where they show photos taken of the thief using their macbook - presumably using this very trick to take a photo without turning on the indicator light.
Just read the rights dialog instead of clicking "ok" and deny that right. Problem solved!
That's exactly what I was trying to say.
I am from Myanmar, which is pretty lagging in telecommunication area behind other countries. Only recently, people can buy the handset with very cheap price. Of course, mobile phone OS ratio of Android and iOS is like 10:1. Thanks to Huawei, anyway. I recently made an app and I am quite amazed that majority android version is 4+ and very little number of 2.3 .Thus, we aim to make more quality android app for the local.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
Now there is a lot of discussions on how this approach can be translated to touch devices because moving things in the real world is something important in the approach. But most of Montessori people thinks that it is just another tool that can be useful (I think that too - it is just another tool) and there are certified Montessori teachers (I'm not) that are doing apps, and a lot of teachers told me that they love my apps
That means not owning a cell phone. Maybe not using a phone at all. Even possessing a land line or using pay phones might not work.

You also need to use cash. But possibly only make withdrawals directly from a human bank teller, and not an ATM. You'll still show up on bank cameras though. Maybe check cashing and pawn shops is the way to go. Just having a bank account could be problematic, because oft he transaction register.

Using paper cash, you'll still have to consider serial numbers on bills as clues in the long run. Like it or not, the paths of exchange that bills follow can be traced to a degree, using the same imaging software that post offices use on mail, and banks use on paper checks. It's not as reliable for the smaller bills, but for larger denominations, they tend to take short paths exiting the bank (mostly via ATM) and then immediately returning to the bank through business deposits.

So even if you float through space, absorbing all light like a black hole, your gravity will still influence the light-emitting bodies around you.
Looks quite neat :).
> 1) No I am not "abdicating" my responsibilities as a parent.

Then be responsible and setup some filter at home yourself. Problem solved. Now leave the rest of the world alone.
Can you explain a bit more?

Are you saying this will not overwrite some of the blocks?
I love a lot of the principles behind VPRI and STEPS. But it strikes me as a very futuristic ideal, not something we're close to being able to use concretely and productively today.

And I get the irony! The exact same thing is true of my post. But I think I'm not trying to shoot as high as you are.

If we can find a way to make the VPRI/STEPS vision a reality, I'm all for it. I think what I'm proposing is a less ambitious interim step.
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I answered a comment re threading, not different multi process implementations.

(All the popular scripting languages have bad threading support and try to do everything with multiple processes, afaik. It should be possible to add good support, but I guess it isn't really worth it?)
That last is actually something of a real concern.

Farmers use manure (non-composted, hence, unsterilized) for fertilizer, but new regulations in the US require many months (I think as many as nine) between manure application and harvesting for food crops. For most crops this is sufficiently long that it makes manure untenable as a fertilizer.

There are alternatives, exclusive of chemical fertilizers, including compost (which is sterilized by the heat). However these have higher costs, which is what it all comes down to.
HSA is a standard like many other in the industry.

OpenCL cannot offer what CUDA does in terms of tooling.
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Maybe this is a programmer who likes to spell things out for future readers. It's easier to convey meaning with return foo == null ? true : false;
Do you mean that the system will try to compress whatever gigabytes of random data?
Linkbait. The article says outright that the President had to decide on a new head of NSA before the report came out; that means he wasn't 'ignoring his NSA review group' because it hadn't said anything yet.

I don't defend the President in this NSA debacle; but I tire of threadbare attempts to run down a person to score points.
>note how it doesnt say designed in America.

Ha! I hadn't thought about that untill your post. What the hell is this 'designed in California' thing? Boy, Apple really does try hard to look cool. Someone probably said "why not 'designed in Silicon Valley'?" and he/she was fired for not knowing that it was too bourgeois.
I like the concept because it is only a means to a conversation. The only issue I can see is people abusing the friends aspect. Is there a way to qualify their friends to make sure they know what they are talking about and can be trusted?
Yup, for example: https://github.com/koajs/koa/blob/master/lib/application.js#...
What is considered harder about Android / easier about iOS? I haven't ever used objective C but didn't hear very good stuff about it from people that have used it. I know Java. Simple enough, fairly boring language.
Seems like bad/lazy parenting, but hey.. good for our industry.
Ever tried talking a non-techie friend/relative through the process putting a port-forward on a NAT router? Not fun at all.
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Interestingly, when mothers learn the gender of their child, they talk to their daughters in the womb more than they talk to their sons.

There was another study published recently that suggested that male and female babies might get subtly different breast milk.

Basically it's extremely difficult to separate what's genes and what's environment/culture. Because a baby is treated differently, fed differently and spoken to differently, based on gender, their entire lives (and before, depending on your definition of life).
How much do you wish you could hear the sound of it?
I got the impression that the hack was more of an intricate skimmer that exploited the POS system's network - basically intercepting credit card track data and PIN numbers between the POS terminals and the processor.
This is often the case. When implementing something complex, a train of thought may require writing code then reducing it down to a degenerate form once certain conditions are confirmed/discovered; often the degenerate form is left as a placeholder in case something need be added back in ... alas, the final cleanup stage may not arrive and some oddities may be left behind to confuse future maintainers. Cleverness can, from some angles, look stupid.

Or maybe it's just stupid.

Sometimes you just can't tell the difference.
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Shoot him in the face.

Otherwise, there's no incentive for anyone to do the right thing.

Many things need to be kept secrets.

(And yes, I know this will infuriate many of you who will busily downvote. Enjoy your imaginary internet points and other salves for your damaged self-esteem and personal instability.)
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Restricting certain (legal, normal, non-violent, even educational) materials because some people think that maybe they might possibly lead to undesirable behaviour, is to my mind a clear overstepping of government power.

Like you I am currently on a work network so I can't really do any research, but I'm certain there will be plenty of claims of the positive effects of pornography (I have heard it said that pornography reduces sexual violence by providing a healthy outlet), and even more so other sex-related (and non-sex-related) material which is caught in these filters. For a sect of the government to force this unilaterally, without any kind of democratic process, is a real problem in my eyes.
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I've never liked Target for its intrusive tracking of customer spending[1] through their branded credit cards and other loyalty card schemes, because those never add any value for me. (I grew up shopping at the third Target store in the whole country, my sister used to work at Target, and we live a short walk from a Super Target, but the company's emphasis on gathering data over genuine customer service[2] turns me off.) Because Target is the closest brick and mortar store to our house for many kinds of items, we still buy things there. I usually try to pay in cash. I'll have to check our credit-card records [sigh] and see what's going on in our accounts.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

[2] Personal anecdote alert: Target once had an in-house captive brand (not a Target brand, but a brand available in no other store) of "oven bakeware" that didn't even meet the Uniform Commercial Code warranty of merchantability, as it would shatter if you used it in an oven to bake something. We found that out just before a meal when we were all hungry. The local store gave us all kinds of run-around about simply refunding our money for the defective product. That was ill-timed for Target, as one of my wife's students had just given us a gift certificate for Sam's Club, and we discovered that the much-maligned Sam's Club is better about returns and about customer service in general than Target. We have shifted THOUSANDS of dollars a year from Target, my home-town store I grew up with, to Sam's, the store everyone is inclined to decry, in the years since then. When a store sells a defective product and doesn't make that right, I don't give it a lot of second chances. (My sister's former job at Target was to be a buyer, and she thought that if a Target buyer screws up and purchases a bad product, Target should make that right, period.)

By contrast, I recently bought what was labeled as an "Epson ink-jet printer cartridge" through a third-party seller on Amazon, and when the product arrived it was labeled "Not an OEM product," and plainly wasn't identical to an actual Epson printer cartridge. I contacted Amazon about the purchase, and an Amazon representative said my money would be refunded and I didn't have to return the product. That is the way to use big data to build a better customer experience--Amazon could verify how the product was labeled on its site, and perhaps had another customer complain to verify that I wasn't making this up. Amazon consistently treats me like my user experience is more important that Amazon's next-quarter bottom line, and that builds immense customer loyalty for me.
It was far more than just shipping IE. MS also did things like use their sales agreements with PC manufacturers to block Netscape from being preinstalled on new computers. Back in the days of dial up, this was a very big deal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of things Microsoft did to prevent Netscape from being able to compete.

Do some reading on it. Microsoft absolutely engaged in a pattern of predatory behavior that was only possible due to their dominant market position.

The way Microsoft tended to act with blatant impunity toward their competitors is a lot of why they were so hated in the 90s.
Presidents have wide discretion in military matters where Congress has not legislated to the contrary. In this case, Congress has now legislated to the contrary. That leaves the President without discretion, no matter what authority the facility was originally opened under.
I remember reading about one of the robber barons in the gilded age - a Rockefeller or similar - and it was along the lines of (forgive any misquoting):

"People always commented that although he was a ruthless businessman, how kind and considerate he was in his private life. But isn't that the same as most sportsmen? They are determined to win when competing in their sport, but once off the field are not expected to be the same."
That's the beauty of it - anyone who insists on opting in to this filter for their family will effectively cut themselves off from most of the internet.

Meanwhile their kid will get a Pay as you go SIM and "borrow" their parents credit card for five minutes to disable the content filter (just does a 1 pound charge and reverses it for most companies, so chances are they'd not notice) and get access to whatever they want.
Good. Anything to make people who aren't breaking the rules (proxies for "doing stupid stuff") pay less.
I'm sure they are doing good, but I was a lot less enthusiastic about Heifer International after hearing their responses on a This American Life show about the best way to help people through charity:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/23/214875696/cash-cow...
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Your interest rings a bit hollow when you define a very narrow attack surface for the bounty, and dismiss architectural criticism beyond it.
Getting an education isn't just a matter of cost. You need free time to take the classes, a quiet place to study, a family that supports you, and often, a teacher that motivates you to be your best. That's why I don't think MOOCs will change anything. They're great for people who are already educated, and have the resources to teach themselves. The rural poor in developing nations have bigger things to worry about.
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Just a note, the president cannot pardon someone who has not been convicted yet I believe.
> I answered a comment re threading, not different multi process implementations.

I'd argue single process multiple threads, vs multiple process single thread, vs not blocking, are different solutions to the same problem:

how do I take advantage of multiple cores?

Saying other solutions don't apply, despite solving the problem, is a bit arbitrary.
wow. You're an unbelievable ass and, obviously, immature/inexperienced to boot.
I hate when people do that because it's not needed at all. The quoting already fixes everything.

if [[ "$VARIABLE" == "" ]]

or even better

if [ -z "$VARIABLE" ]

will handle undefined, empty and multiple words just fine.
I'd say UPnP but that's a whole new can of worms (a much bigger one at that).
There is no rebellion or invasion in progress, and even if there were, the rationale of Ex Parte Milligan casts grave doubt on the ability to use that as an excuse except in the areas of the country directly affected.