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Adding an opcode cache speeds things up, but can expose segfaulting bugs in PHP modules that write to errant pointers and corrupt the cache. One of the features I like in xcache is readonly cache protection, which helps prevent these kind of problems.
I think it's pretty obvious why the little guy story is more popular but i think both stories are pretty much the same.

Numbers aside, putting a significant fine on a company that's breaking the law is no different than a fine on an individual. It's meant to make an example out of them to discourage similar behavior in the future... no?
I disagree. The title makes it sound as if this is an issue that will apply to all Blackberry users, not just those of a service provider in a specific country on the other side of the world

If an update of "system software" from Dell for Windows installations included Dell spyware, would you title the article "Windows update bursting with spyware" or "Dell software update bursting with spyware"?
I have no problem with the stated problem. I have an issue with taking that problem, dismissing the common solution (input validation) and then presenting an overly-complex "solution."
> The company will pay $300,000 in penalties and costs to the state. It has also agreed to stop publishing anonymous reviews on Web sites in the voices of satisfied customers and to identify any content created by employees, the statement said.

Emphasis mine. I would think that agreeing to stop the behavior that landed them in court would be implied. It would be mildly interesting to me to find out if this kind of clause is added because it needs to be added.
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If it's registered as a bank in Luxembourg, it is a bank it the whole EU. Just like an organisation registered as a bank in Iowa would be considered a bank in Nevada as well.
I think the point he is making is that if someone were to check the only information available, "millions of colors" on apple's website, is false.

EDIT: and as a side quest, he is trying to get them to admit that their pro product doesn't have pro specs.
It would be impossible to fine each individual the price of a few albums. They have to grab headlines with a huge figure and hope that it scares enough people away. It's a battle for headlines, they're not actually expecting to see that money.
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LG Ke850 Prada Black phone up and running, and once you do there's no other cell phone you would want by your side on the runway. a 3-inch touchscreen to put you in the middle of the action. Very slight with its 12mm profile.
5 rules for businesses using Twitter
There are different qualities of jewels and brains. But there are no brains which are not totally awesome.
This sounds much like the way we were using MySQL when I worked on a large consumer site. We both sharded and replicated to scale out. And, we used MemCached to bridge the replication lag. For better or worse, all writes auto-committed independently. What strategies should Keyspace users employ to counteract similar replication delay issues?

I presume Keyspace would offer much better performance because it doesn't have to worry about 95% of the stuff a SQL db does. Drizzle seems like it falls somewhere in the middle of the solution in the above paragraph and Keyspace. Is that a fair assessment?

One thing I wanted (among many) with our solution was the ability to specify async disk forcing (an oxymoron?). I'm willing to allow a database to return control to me before writing if it thinks it will be able to write something to disk within N seconds. The increase in performance for most non-transactional systems (meaning that a few seconds of data loss occurring once a year wouldn't hurt too badly) would more than make up for the risk. Terracotta, Gigaspaces, etc. are interesting to me because they facilitate async persistence.
Twitter’s Financial Forecast Shows First Revenue In Q3, 1 billion users in 2013
Surprising hardware spec choice given the the market penetration Apple has in the design profession.
This reminds me of the wonderful article http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch (Caring for your Introvert) and the whole discussion of "what is normal, exactly?".
[...] They offered to give me a full refund of my purchase. I suppose this would be fine, if I could go to another Apple retail store and purchase a portable machine of this size that had an 8bit screen. [...]

Here's where I stopped reading. I, too, would like a pony.
Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing
See johns' earlier comment on why it's insecure and kludgy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=706329
But here are the numbers they were targeting for the end of 2013:
1 billion users, $1.54 billion in revenue, 5,200 employees
and $111 million in net earnings.

wow these guys are smoking crack if they think they need 5,200 employees, and yeah I know its probably just an extrapolation, but you don't extrapolate data for employees unless you have a type of business that has a relationship between employees and revenue.
Bill Gates says Project Natal will bring gesture controls to Windows 7
Is this overly-complex? Yes.

Are there things any ASP.NET app should be doing before using evasion techniques to avoid XSS? Sure. For what it's worth, the best practice is output filtering, not simple input validation.

Does this make the MSDN article "crazy"? Of course not. This is another layer of defense, and it's not a totally inappropriate one for an internal app, even if I'd never recommend it to a client.

Stop picking on the VB.NET developers. They have different problems than you do.
The adverse social effects of NS victims could be mitigated by cranial trauma in four ways:

* Temporary cessation of harmful behavior due to incapacitation

* Operant conditioning

* Permanent reduction in the sophistication and scope of harmful behavior the individual may engage in due to reduction in mental capacity via physical damage to the brain

* Permanent cessation of harmful behavior due to termination of life processes
Why should I care?

The article presents the fact that most of our food supply contains some genetically modified plants. The article mentions that some people "feel" this is a bad thing.

I appear to have missed the point. Was there a point?
Alternate headline choice: Man with ability to research decides not to and is disappointed in purchase but offered full refund
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yeah i was a bit confused too. a more obvious mention of the tapefailure history would have triggered a mental connection.
So by this standard, HN should applaud prosecutions and searches under the new blasphemy laws in Ireland, because breaking the law is no different, no matter the law?
I just saw one on Hacker News.
He mentions a couple of times about dithering, saying it is "blending nearby colors". I have heard notebook displays also use temporal dithering where they quickly change the color of single pixel and your eye merges it into an intermediate value. (strictly speaking, blending nearby colors could refer to nearby in time, but I think he was refering to spatially nearby)
You are citing sample code in an MSDN article to defend an argument that the ASP.NET stack is insecure and kludgy (even if you don't realize it, because you haven't really read the comment thread).
You didn't read the article. He would be glad to upgrade to the 15" MacBook but Apple will not tell him if it's a true 8-bit display.

He's simply wants the TRUE specs on the machine.
They already invented the web.
bsdiff was written by a HN regular, and I can't think of a better person to provide insight on this. (Hint.)
Those interested in the concept of neurodiversity might want to check out Create Your Own Economy (http://www.amazon.com/Create-Your-Own-Economy-Prosperity/dp/...). The title is slightly misleading in that that book is more about the autism spectrum, neurodiversity, and a bit about how it might impact the way business are run and how they define their audience (I am guessing the last part will be of special interest to this community).
nice. very relevant to the startup community and hacking in general.
Laptop security while crossing borders
Ebay lost sight years ago...first with greedy fees, commisions and other pricey features. If they had followed the route necessary to maintain an honest and even keeled market for both sellers and buyers they would be enourmous. It happens so often that corportate greed and shortsightedness does them in. Ebay is no different. Also, Amazon.com is on its way to the same corporate debacle hurting both buyers and sellers with higher fees and controlling the shipping charges. WE NEED A TRUE FREE INTERNET MARKET...
Well I was 15, working in a pizza shop. The owner was grousing about all that tax money spent and they couldn't get the g*d-damned door open... typical government project...

Can you imagine the guts it takes to strap yourself down on top of that much liquid fuel? Trust me guys, it's all lined up, should work fine..

But the real question for HN is: Was all that IBM 360 software at mission control GPL or BSD?
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Technology also made it easier to kill and enact violence more quickly and on a larger scale.
Or, taxes don't change enough to move the needle on health insurance affordability.

We further deregulate the insurance market, and the private insurers of last resort in several locales move to more profitable markets.

Meanwhile, the insurers in the states with the greatest consumer protections move to the venues with the least consumer protections, producing a net decline in health care quality for the entire country. With barriers to interstate insurance removed, the industry is also free to concentrate itself through M&A.

While that's happening, the adverse selection problem with health insurance continues to fester, as our "free market", in enabling "the pursuit of happiness" for everyone, especially 20-something bachelors, cons the whole consumer market into believing they can free-ride into their 40s (or their first child) and then get reasonable insurance, while draining the entire risk pool of all the low-risk patients.

Those same 20-something bachelors show up in emergency rooms, bankrupting themselves over broken bones --- but no problem, by the time they're old enough to care about their credit rating, the only people who will care about this health event are the hospitals and doctors, who will raise rates on everyone else to cover.

At the same time, nothing is done to address the fundamental problem that even in the most consumer-friendly venues, tens of thousands of totally normal families are unable to obtain private insurance coverage at any rate because of preexisting condition coverage.

I'm totally sold.
Command and Conquer 4 requires always-on internet
> It's easy to share state. I am not yet sold on the idea that all shared state is evil (since I think there are problems that are easier to deal with when using shared memory)

There absolutely are problems that are easier to deal with using shared memory. Clojure takes a middle ground here, and recognizes that shared state is sometimes necessary, but is often overused, mainly because the language makes it easier to make something mutable than immutable.

Just as you mention about Erlang, "With a process, you have to think about where you draw the 'error boundaries'", in Clojure you can paraphrase that as 'With refs, you have to think about where you use shared state'.

To create a local, immutable variable, you would write

(let [x 42] ...)

If you wanted to make that mutable, it would be

(let [x (ref 42)]...)

You have to explicitly say the variable is mutable. This change in defaults alone goes a long way in making Clojure a more correct and loosely coupled language.
I purchased my first mac last year ( a white macbook, right before the new unibody models came out).

The screen on the thing is a piece of dung. Gradients look terrible.

My acer travelmate from the days of the dinosaurs even has a better screen.

I enjoyed reading about this guys little quest and it's one of the reasons I prefer to keep my distance from Apple.
Good, personal story by Matt about the struggles he's had keeping a very successful site up and running.

Well worth the read if you love the independent web and strive, like I know I do, to replicate his success some day.
I like them to do 1 step further and use the free heated water for warm water needs.
Agreed.

They don't owe you anything beyond a refund.
If you were considering doing this, you might as well just DHL your encrypted laptop to your location. Business travelers already ship critical stuff instead of carrying it.
coolest thing i've ever seen.
Yes, but you can still complain about things they don't offer. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Without engaging conspiracy theories, I think the most interesting part is here:

The small size in combination with Google Chrome's silent update means we can update as often as necessary to keep users safe.

[An extra tidbit- courgette is a 'summer squash'. Silly Google...]
Yeah, and they don't want to tell him. So...

He can either A) do a google search (which indicates that yes, the 15" does have 8-bit color) or B) Give up on Apple and get a different brand/OS
Interesting. The Apple MacBook Pro website makes no distinction between the models as to the color support. They all say "millions of colors", and as someone who doesn't deal with colors for a living I would expect them to have identical support.
Of course not, but what other options do I have for encouraging reciprocity without requiring it?
All brains are awesome. But not all people are any more awesome than average.

99% of people are not in the top percentile.

I think the point is that people with autistic spectrum "disorders" are often, in many ways, far more totally awesome than average.
I saw Ev's version of this document for Odeo when I worked there and I think it's fair to say that this isn't documentation of their plan, rather it's the same sort of "what if" calculation you or I do when we play with mortgage or compound interest retirement calculators.
Technically, it's not a new compression algorithm. It's just a more efficient update scheme which uses a better suited binary diffing algorithm.
I personally found an order-of-magnitude increase in the compression ratio for their executables to be more interesting than that.
Governments trying to reel in 'ocean sprawl'
I'm not sure about this - if false advertising (millions of colors) caused him to sell his old laptop with a better screen, then he's still worse off, as a result of Apple's actions.

Then again, I think the whole MBP line has had 6 bit displays for their whole history, so I'm not sure why he's complaining now.
These headlines will typically turn into a cheercamp and I was just pointing that out. I probably worded it poorly but let's not applaud or boo at all.
Does this generalize to a moving "fixed offset" in the compressor? i.e. can't it be done without the disassembler? (Assuming they're parsing x86?)

x86 is variable length, so this isn't trivial, but surely it is possible. I guess I don't like the "assembler" step because, hmm, SSE7 might not look like x86.

Also, if you were willing to have the loader to do the work, it sounds like you could do a -fPIC sort of thing, and load most code as a DLL.

Very cool that they got it working, though.
It's great to see people getting nailed for biased posts -- but I suspect that people posting misinformation for emotionally satisfying reasons actually cause more harm.

If the AG is serious about prosecuting harmful behavior, rather than evil capitalists, he ought to go after anyone who would rather forward an email than fact-check, or who argues for a viewpoint because of feel-good emotions ("All decent, NPR-listening, upper-middle-class white folks like me know this is right") rather than facts.
It implements the unmarshalling of incoming AJAX requests on the backend. The application developer takes over from there.

There is GWT code running on both the server and the client. That was what I meant in my comment.
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This is awesome, but I for one have had enough Zed Shaw to last for a while.
You forgot the critical part right after:
Maybe Chrome OS will change all that, but Linux-based netbooks are usually running some wonky, kiosk-oriented installation, making them nigh-on unusable.

I got an HP Mini 1000 a few months ago with XP preinstalled and only because the HP Mini that came preinstalled with Linux had a crippled distro on it with no command line. What the heck is Linux with no command line? It was some "user friendly" version that was to me unusable. And the price difference: the hardware for the XP version was marginally better than the linux version, so it was negligible. So, if I could spend a little more on the slightly better version and end up reinstalling Linux anyway, it's not worth getting Linux preinstalled.
Universal portable laptop stand
No Eliss? Fantastic game.
Sincerely out of ignorance, are there (or have there ever been) any free market health care systems which have been considered widely successful (by the public, not the providing companies)?
Tipjoy: are they still around?
What's the inside scoop on Tipjoy (YC'08)? They haven't Tweeted in 3 weeks (since they spammed their userbase). Their payment system isn't cooperating (users can't pay in and are getting long delays in payouts). And I've heard from a few folks that now, they aren't even responding to emails. Are they moving in with Madoff, or what? If they're done, it's OK. But, there's a proper way to fail and a way not to fail.
Help me understand the business model of GM crops:
Does Monsanto create GM crops that are seedless? I think this is evil since it gives too much power to one corporation and removes the farmer's prerogative. On the other hand, how will Monsanto make money after the first crop cycle?
It'd be cool to put each state's marker up. Here's Oregon's - looks pretty easy:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Same here. I've been using the RC for months as my primary OS. Build 7000 had a few stability problems for me, but I think those were driver related issues. The latest RC has been rock solid for me.

The multiple monitor support has been flawless for me, even with out of the box drivers. Throwing windows around between 3 monitors with "Start+Shift+(left/right)" really speeds up my productivity when programming.

Integrated desktop search is a huge win: fast and accurate. The new taskbar is a big improvement in managing multiple windows, especially when you have 3-4 powershell or cmd windows open. Mouseover the taskbar icon, and you see previews of all your open windows.

The UI is also very responsive and snappy. Bootup times are in th 20 second range for me. That's on a dual core, 10,000rpm HDD with 4GB ram. The only upgrade I made to my hardware when I installed Win7 was a faster HDD and I replaced my 8 year old pci video card that I used for the 3rd monitor.

All in all a big win, and if you're a BizSpark member, you can get unlimited licenses for your startup for $100, paid after 3 years.
Alternate comment: How's about commenting on the actual substance and not whining about the headline?

Sure, he's asking for a pony in some ways, but they're making pro machines with displays that don't do what they say or anything "pro" for that matter.
Do they really think that this will allow DRM that will take more than two days to crack?

The only way they can truly use this to effectively DRM the game is if all game logic was handled server-side (as in an MMOG), which for a popular game like Command and Conquer would require a gargantuan and costly server farm.
I think this is the best description of free-beer versus free-speech I've ever read. Thank you.
I agree that the continuation example is weak.
It is also generally accepted in the seaside community that continuations are becoming less useful now that ajax like solutions are widespread.
In fact, continuations are more of an add-on in the upcoming Seaside 2.9.
But even without continuations, Seaside is very different and useful for building web applications.
I don't know how "ultimate" this guide is if it doesn't include any information about Acer who is devoting much of its effort towards netbook technology. Not to mention Samsung, who are also releasing solid products and have the background in mobile technology to pull something off successfully.

Also, the author's comments in the article come off extremely defensive as people are pointing out his shortcomings. He seems to have completely missed his own point and is resorting to snide remarks.
If the documents can reasonably be classified as trade secrets, the aggrieved party may be able to seek damages from the "informant" and an injunction against the continued publishing of them by the "press."

Of course, once the cat is out of the bag there's no putting it back in, so there's really not much benefit beyond punishing the party who stole them in the first place.
Yes, surely the incentives are different. I don't at all believe that the public-bureaucrat incentives are better.

My wife is manager of budget & reimbursement at a hospital, which means that her primary task is working with Medicare and Medicaid officials. I don't think that a day goes by that she's not telling me about some inefficiency in the process. It might be the (literally) reams of paperwork they're required to produce, or unnecessary tests that are necessitated by Medicare rules, or the attitude she gets from the public employees she must talk to. But any time you hear that Medicare is more efficient, remember that because Medicare/Medicaid nearly comprise a monopsony, it's able to push many of its administrative chores onto the healthcare providers.
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Why?

Our intention, with the AGPL, versus the GPL is to close the SaaS loophole, so if you base a service on top of a modified Keyspace, you have to publicize your changes. But you can use it, sell it, distribute it, etc. just as you can with the GPL license.

Also, you can license Keyspace under different terms, ie. under a non-open license, at a reasonable price.
This is a "crazy" article, even more so if the audience is for VB developers. Using the assumption that VB developers are "business" programmers, the solution presented in the article adds more code than necessary, and the more code, the more room for error. If this code were to propagate into the world, at some point, when a user requests to be able to bookmark a page, the whole thing would need to be ripped out and the person who believes in this solution would try to re-engineer this solution to try to play well with bookmarks.

The simple solution of validating input and generating the right output, like parameter binding instead of string concatenation to prevent sql injection attacks, should be sufficient, and compliant to other www features. The article basically could've been a page shorter.
Indeed. A 6 bit display in 2009 is inexcusible; I had to check the date of the article because I wasn't sure it had been written this millenium
I believe that's what his alternate headline was doing. Saves you from also having to read the post unless you liked the constant whining and childish ranting from the blogger.
Take a look at the infection rates for HSV-1. 80%–90% of the general public affected doesn't mean it's not a disease.
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I don't think this is about DRM, it's about content protection; they want to do "interesting" (read $) things with achievements, but can't trust clients to do offline attestation.

(I say this only because we've worked on content protection systems for other game titles from other publishers where protecting achievements was the goal, not preventing unauthorized copies. I don't really know what CC4 is really trying to do.)

Still, titles like this should require warning stickers. "Will not play on airline flights."