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No one actually uses „Klammeraffe“ in German. It’s just „at“ (English pronunciation – most of the time). I wonder how widespread the use of those alternative names for “at” is in other languages he lists.

In German „Klammeraffe“ is this weird, unwieldy nickname that used to be somewhat fashionable a long time ago (mid-nineties maybe, whenever many people where first confronted with email addresses). I remember it being used back then whenever people were explaining the internet in media (TV, radio, books), though I don’t think it ever got widely used outside that context.
I suppose Heartbreak Bug would be an awfully appropriate name for one.
As I understand it, detrimental reliance is really hard to pull off for job offers; there's a presumption that employers can withdraw job offers.
"arroba" is definitely the common word in Spanish & Portuguese.
The website makes it look like the Time Cube of hypertext. http://www.timecube.com/
Well, swift does a lot of type inference it's true but it doesn't appear to be more to be more strongly typed than ObjC (I could be wrong because I have only skimmed the ebook). A lot of ObjC code simply returns an id when it could return a tighter type. They seem semantically equivalent to me.

Typically a language's efficiency comes from its ability to restrict ambiguity. E.g. a scoped sequence of expressions without gotos allows the compiler to eliminate variables, reorder statements, unroll loops etc because it can see 100% of the uses of a variable by examining that scope. On the other extreme a language like BASIC is harder to optimize in such a fashion because the program counter could be set into the middle of the loop, and because all variables are global, they have to survive the scope.

I am genuinely interested if their are features in swift that aren't also in ObjC.

A language can be equivalent to another and still be easier to program in because the cognitive load on the programmer is lower so good code can be written more quickly. Swift seems to be an interesting attempt at doing that. But that's orthogonal to the question of compiled efficiency.
In Norwegian the official name is "krøllalfa", meaning "curly alpha". Hip in the 90s, but I don't think I've heard anyone call it that in years. I was actually surprised when I learned that "at" was the proper English name and usage. I had always assumed it was a symbol that had been co-opted into network addresses because it was accessible from the keyboard and kinda looked like an a.

One advantage of the international variants is that they're not ambiguous, whereas in English you might have to explicitly specify "the at symbol" when speaking.

As a side note: A long time ago, before the internet and international shopping, I mainly thought of $ as the variable character in BASIC.
how much do you pay for the use of that gateway? how much do you pay for the use of their data storage? their bandwidth?
Looks like a bizarre mix of JavaScript and C to me.

But then, hey... Objective-C syntax just offends me right-out ;-P
Does this build of chameleon still rock fakesmc? FakeSMC is unambiguously illegal - it violates Apple copyright.
I do find it curious that his list of "pretty standard machine-learning methods" included Logistic Regression, K-means and....deep neural nets?

The next sentence is much more curious to me: "the point is that they’re widely available in high-quality open source packages" because I have yet to find a proper well documented well maintained non-toy open source deep neural network implementation.
>and a little blog of the highest weights just shot out to the right

Offensive Lineman and Defensive Tackles.
Well I'd argue that T-Mobile is clearly the 'preferred' brand in the market. Just kind of doubt it would make sense to brand it that way when T-Mo Intl only owns 15 or 20% of it. Who knows - maybe they come up with a new brand even (like EE for T-Mobile/Orange in the UK)
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It's not quite "this could kill people" but rather "this could be used to kill someone." But there are a lot of things that one person could use against another person to kill them, ethically, what does adding this thing to the list change?

If you discovered / disclosed a particular way the unit could malfunction and kill someone it seems like that's put in a different class; in that case you're a hero saving lives. But if you report on a technique someone could use to cause the device to malfunction, it's treated completely differently.

I think a related and important message is that pacemaker "malfunctions" should be treated as possibly suspicious.
I'm wondering how America went so awry with gun violence. Israel and Switzerland have high rates of firearm possession, but a fraction of the violence. Better training (military)? Less inequality? More homogenous cultures?
Thanks for the info- perhaps they mean that 28% of probable concussions from CC are unreported? This seems reasonable.
Interesting that none of the methods in either short list are inherently probabilistic.
I expect that any savvy lawyer would be happy to take this pro bono. Think of how much free publicity they'd get for their practice.
Don't quote me on this but this seemed to be the consensus in the spring pad shutdown thread right here on HN. How is this any different? Well, Apple doesn't sell nearly as many phones as Samsung but they are probably an anomaly as they have high margins and are sitting on a huge pile of cash. They can afford to tough it out. I see your point now actually. I doubt if Apple ever needs to be in "first place". They are doing perfectly well where they are and I guess holding a fourth to fifth of all app phones is a pretty good spot when the bill of materials is less than $200 and the sale price is $600.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829901
Objective-C is open source, but without Foundation et al it's pretty useless. As tied as Swift is to Cocoa, it's almost certainly going to be in the same boat.

Put another way, how well does Objective-C do outside of Apple development?
I'd guess the demographic that cares about this does not go on YouTube enough to make it more effective.
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If you watch the keynote, some bold, sort of specifc claims are made. There is some big disparity going on between what is being said in the WWDC and what this person what found. They are claiming over 100x speedups and this person is seeing it be 10x slower.
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Microsoft says ditching Kinect allows "10 per cent additional GPU performance".
10% of users on these sites are actual crooks. 40% are wannabe crooks who heard about it on the news and thinking carding is both easy and will make them millions. The other 50% are people working for security companies, banks, retailers, law enforcement etc. pretending to be crooks so they blend in.

Krebs gets invited in, vouched for, and shown new forums by that last group.
What kind of monster writes i += 1?
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Yes, precision is important so that people don't bend terms in their favor. But a court ruling that the summaries take precedent over the actual legal terms won't happen if it's made clear that they are summaries, and if the summaries are accurate to the legal terms they're summarizing. So your fear of summary misinterpretation is unwarranted. You're overlooking the huge benefit of term summaries for both websites and users.
I believe they were saying "at the rate".
"But I think expecting the people who are automated out of jobs to go and create entirely new categories of job on there own is being extremely over optimistic."

To be clear, I (most emphatically) do not mean "Ths ese people should just go create new jobs - lazy bums, jeeze!" People looking for ways to help others, in order to get ahead, is an important part of how we find new jobs - but until they're found most people will be failing and we don't want them suffering to be sure.
I flipping love Trello and think this Boards App Store is fantastic. As far as board ideas, how about a Business Model Canvas, MVP, and some kind of a branstorming/comparing/sorting board, you know, for the "Ideas" board? Keep it up!
I'd like to believe he's being truthful, but I'm guessing he's just pretending to care, to get public support to get his plans through the FCC and DOJ.

It's just conjecture, but I'm almost certain he won't do anything to improve internet in the US.
Same origin as the Spanish and Portuguese arroba[1], the Arabic ar-rubʿ (الربع). It's a unit of weight[2], "the fourth part (of a quintal), the term defined the load that a donkey or mule could carry."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Names_in_other_language...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroba
"In the real world I'd be sued"

Well, maybe, in the real world, if anyone even noticed, you might get sued. It would be baseless, but you wouldn't have the resources for a court battle, so you'd just tuck your tail and run.

The lesson here is that institutions can be pointlessly authoritative assholes. Between the offended IT schmucks who were churning out their own, awful app, and the administrative types who are seeking to cover their own asses, legally speaking, it really couldn't work out any other way.

Oh, and since they can just kick you out of school, with no meaningful recourse, you're really getting a lesson in what it's like to be the little innovator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
More likely that they slowly decommission the CDMA network as both networks move towards being 100% LTE.
Anyone who uses a pacemaker will need to have it checked at least a couple of times a year anyway.
Confidence interval means that is expected conversion rate of A is 0.5 and for B is 0.4, what is the actual spread. In other words, say, for 95% of the time does the conversion rate fall in the 0.3-0.5 range or 0.35-0.45 range. More data you collect , narrower this range will be. Confidence bounds for individual conversion rates can be calculated from the formula since they follow beta distribution. What Evan is saying that the confidence bound for the difference in conversion rates would need to be calculated through repeated simulations and taking (say) 5 percentile and 95 percentile of the values that come.

For example, given you know probabilities for A and B (say 0.5 and 0.4) and that number of trials has been 100, you can simply run thousands of simulations, know what the conversion rates come out to be in respective simulations and aggregate the difference in conversion rates at the end of each simulation. That would be a confidence bound.
They would say it when reading out their email address, exactly where I would normally say 'at'.
If a pacemaker can be remotely exploited, it can probably be remotely patched as well. Once you have remote root, anything is possible.
Indeed, that security console would probably handsomely repay a thief for getting those keys cut from the photo.
> I'm saying that as a loyal T-Mobile customer, but it's readily apparent that when I visit my parents in my small home town, or drive a few hours east to the beach towns near me, or really go anywhere much outside a major city, my service is poor or non-existent, and my Verizon-customer friends' service is fine.

Yeah, I think more testimonials are on your side here, so I don't doubt that T-Mobile subscribers face this issue, but it's strange to me, because I had exactly the opposite experience in reliability. Moving from Sprint to T-Mobile improved my reliability considerably.

Sprint would claim I had full bars, but downloads would stall out, webpages would just die half loaded. This was near their headquarters in Kansas City. T-Mobile's network has never crowded me off line, and has worked for me fairly consistently on the east coast.

Neither seemed to work very reliably in the long rural gaps between Kansas City and other metropolitan areas at the time. (Though I hear Sprint has I-70 covered fairly well now.)

I think part of my experience is driven by the fact on the spectrum of "voice user" to "web user," I'm really far to the right, probably outside of the mainstream. Could be T-Mobile's investments in data have come at the expense of their voice reliability? I'm not sure...

I guess if the main issue is T-Mobile's lack of coverage, then on net, things will improve after a merger. If the main concern is Sprint over-selling their network so that it becomes congested and unusable around 6 PM, then a merger is mostly just going to make things worse. It will be better in the short term, but as Sprint takes on subscribers, unless they change their strategy, they'll still overbook the lines.
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I don't feel like this is incredibly sexist, but then again I'm male.

I don't think this objectifies or belittles women.. though I can see how it's inappropriate in a professional environment. (And will be alienating to a female audience - though honestly the same points might be brought up about men).

I would ask tumblr which parts are offensive and why, but I don't feel like getting death threats this week.
Among others, people who have learned to take JSLint a little too seriously [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/971312/why-avoid-incremen...
Isn't a key part of copyright lawsuits damages? Let's say, for example, that the school did sue him for copyright infringement. Then let's say they win the lawsuit. It is in fact copyright. Now what? I believe he'd have to take it down and then pay damages. What, exactly, would the financial damages to a public institution be? Hell, even if it was a private school what type of damages could you possibly argue for this type of app?

Now he is selling the app so profiting off of someone else's copyrighted work is pretty much a no go. But what if he gave it away for free? What the result of a copyright lawsuit be exactly?
Just as long as they keep the unlimited free overseas texting and data, and not raise the prices!
That article would be more credible if it didn't give two examples of dual-core tablets (Dell and Motorola) that shipped "in volume" that actually flopped. Which raises the question of just what kind of volume they were shipping in - probably orders of magnitude lower than the kind of volume the iPad 2 ships in.
Evan, does this formula account for multiple comparisons (if you have multiple goals and multiple variations)? I guess it would suffer from the same problems that if you have 100 variations and 10 goals, some of them are bound to produce a significant result, just by random chance. Isn't it? In classical testing, you can fix it by making your calculated alpha smaller than the real alpha, so you need much more data if there are multiple comparisons. What happens in Bayesian case?

Edit: I did some Googling and found this http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/mu...
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I am probably in my inbox less than 1 hour a day...

I hate email and avoid it as much as possible so that is not a source of distraction for me.

Today I have 2 1080p 22in monitors, 1 1900x1200 27in monitor, and 1 1440x900 19in monitor

the 19in monitor i use to display various monitoring tools and automation outputs.

the 27in is my primary work area
one of the 22in I use for Media (spotify) and reference/docs so I can reference and/or update documentation while I work on a project
The 2nd 22in is simple overflow, a post can drag things when needed. It is used less often i could probably get by with out it but it is nice to have when i need it
Ask HN: Anyone else getting "Activation Error" on iOS 8?
I got iOS 8 for my iPod Touch 5th Gen to test apps on, but every time I plug it into my computer I get an "Activation Error" and I have to do a hard reboot.

Is anyone else experiencing this as well?
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> get a lawyer

Because this is the world we should want to live in? Where you must pay a member of the protection racket to mediate publishing knowledge of someone else's extreme wrongdoing?

That is terrible advice. Its road ends with TORified disclosures of weaponized automated exploits, because as pure info sec has shown, that's the only way the message ever gets across when you give people the insulation to not listen.

Publicly demonstrating these exploits to an amicable media is the best idea I've heard yet, as they have straightforward real-world effects that can be easily illustrated. If certain manufacturers choose to send goons after you rather than fix their buggy products, then the community-accepted custom for them can change to psuedonymous press releases accompanied by a video with a (mock) live human subject.
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What do you expect them to do? Even assuming they were 100% concerned with security and did everything right and there was still a bug that allowed a pacemaker to be compromised. Do you expect them to cut open a person and replace the buggy pacemaker?

I don't pretend to be an expert in this area but getting medical equipment approved is a huge undertaking and I don't know what the ramifications of changing anything would be. Say they take your 0day and fix it. Then they have to go through the entire re-certification process again and after however many months or years, NEW patients get the fixed pacemaker. But what about all the old patients?

While I sympathize, the only realistic approach here is to make the consequences for killing someone via a 0day for the "lulz" so drastic that it would certainly legally bleed over into the disclosure. I realize this is the approach we do tend to take here in the US.
Doesn't matter, CNN et al will rebroadcast once it's gone viral.
So, what you're saying is that since it's open source.... I should publish a version myself and see if the school is ballsy enough to try to bluff a random company in a random part of the USA?
"I envy my colleagues that get to play with snails and monkeys while coding in Objective-C!"
It's probably easier to crash than root.
Not all of them though.

http://theloveofsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/t...

Been looking for a Sebastian Janikowski draft picture but couldn't find one.
The part of me who played too much Star Control II hopes this means that if we've found a TZO out there, we might find TZO crystals on Pluto someday :)
$1 billion is only about 3% of the deal price. It's not that high considering the regulatory risk.
From the abstract of the paper: "The expected amplitude of the dust polarization power spectrum remains uncertain by about a factor of three. The lower end of the prediction leaves room for a primordial contribution, but at the higher end the dust in combination with the standard CMB lensing signal could account for the BICEP2 observations, without requiring the existence of primordial gravitational waves."

Two things to note. First, they aren't saying that is is wrong, only that it could be wrong. Second, the source of this doubt appears to come from a single professor at Princeton.
Why do people care about "gun-related homicides" so much? Homicide is bad regardless of how it's done, I wonder how the US stands in overall homicides versus other countries.
I don't understand why there is such a debate here. I would absolutely disclose the 0-day if the manufacturer was unresponsive (given sufficient warning, of course). Moreover, if anyone died, I wouldn't feel the least bit guilty about that - the guilt rests firmly on the manufacturer and the individuals who choose to use the exploit.

After all, black-market exploits will come, and people will die, whether you disclose the vulnerability or not. At least with disclosure, the innocent have a chance to protect themselves.

You must weigh the lives lost to silence against the lives lost to disclosure. We practice disclosure in all other areas of computer security because we have seen the cost of silence too many times. There is no reason it should be different here.

Disclosure saves lives.
And?

I have a workstation +_ tablet now, but I use to have a laptop, and I had a dock with 3 monitors that run off that laptop.

I commonly deploy 2 monitors with a dock to laptop users.
Dating in Korea:

"Hey, really enjoyed talking to you! Can I have your email address?"

"Sure, it's john sea snail hotmail dot com."

"Oh. Great."
What about the special snowflake projects of google, mozilla, or sun? Apples language development is no less valid than google developing Go, or mozilla developing rust. This just shows your inherent bias.

I've been amazed recently how many open-source projects that we rolled into our linux product were Apple sourced: LLVM, Clang, libdispatch, webkit, OpenCL, zeroConf. Can't think of anything google has done for me recently.

And if there is anyone who will knock-this out of the park, its Chris Lattner. LLVM, Clang, and openCL is all him. He has done more for compiler tech than anyone in 30 years.
Well then what is it? Please elaborate.
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> Your line of reasoning is an instance of a common strain of intellectual laziness: "I don't agree with you, therefore your motives and intentions must be bad or self-serving."

That's not really intellectual laziness. If two people disagree on an issue that's not purely subjective, then the disagreement must ultimately stem from at least one of three things: (1) the parties are working from different facts; (2) the parties are working toward different goals with different motives and intentions; (3) at least one of the parties' reasoning is flawed. When appellate judges so clearly spend a lot of time gathering information and thinking through their reasoning, it makes (2) seem relatively more likely.
This won't help your Sprint service get faster.

Sprint is already sitting on tons of unused spectrum, and a larger subscriber base than T-Mobile. Nothing stops Sprint from fixing their own service. They just choose not to. And they choose to not fix their network, all across the nation in lots of areas.

My fear is that Sprint's lack of care and lack of effort, will bleed into T-Mobile's network, and we'll be down to just two functional service providers in the US.
For whatever it's worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
I'm mostly stuck thinking about this in terms of tanks and spellcasters thanks to PA:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/01/18
You mean an API than you can actually read and understand? How dare them take your 1970s 80-char display away from you!
I put your code on npm: https://www.npmjs.org/package/quicksort.swift

Edit: ...and then swiftly unpublished. It is unclear to me the legal issues involved in forking and publishing unlicensed gists.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4007674/whats-the-default...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Hom...
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T-Mobile already does something similar in the US with their MetroPCS network. They've started to open the old MetroPCS network up to T-Mobile users and vice versa by broadcasting multiple MNC (mobile network codes) from the same antennas. If a phone call comes through, it'll hand off to T-Mobile's GSM network or the old MetroPCS CDMA network.

I think Orange and T-Mobile do something similar in the UK with their shared EE network and Verizon with their LTE in Rural America partners in the Great Plains/Maine/etc.
...what you’re watching on the news, may be skewing your view.

This seems like an understatement.
Michael Hastings and Barnaby Jack were not the same person. They weren't in the same industry; they weren't even from the same hemisphere. To my knowledge, there were zero connections between the two.

The death of Barnaby Jack (who was to present at Defcon) was tragic, but not suspicious.