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iOS SDK and iOS development platform history
Excellent landing page design, but judging by the YT video there's a lot to be done before they can match it with the actual product.
yes, as in the webpage the first image shows:

"Alex is at: climbing west center (home calendar"

I think the problem should be solved earlier, not at the end location but much earlier: I don't want to find out that a person is unavailable when I'm there.
how does the detection work? Can't be GPS. Wifi? Bluetooth?
Nuclear bombs aren't very radioactive until they go critical, and at that point you've got bigger things to worry about.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Tickling_...
Discovery of a Vulnerability in Windows Command Scripts
> Included in the basses oeuvres was a management role over other social pariahs, from whom the executioner could levy a tax, suggesting that he was a sort of sovereign of the underworld.

I am so ready for this video game.
It's hard to grasp what's really happening over there over paragraphs and few photos, but this video delivers the atmosphere in a very effective manner.
"The Tsar Bomba's fireball, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) in diameter, was prevented from touching the ground by the shock wave, but nearly reached the 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) altitude of the deploying Tu-95 bomber."

I'd love to hear the pilot's thoughts on this. From what I can guess, he couldn't have traveled very far away by the time the explosion occurred. At the very least, he must have felt tremendous turbulence.

I wonder if the scientists knew how close the explosion would be to the aircraft.
You're assuming quite a lot about how such event would develop. Keep in mind that a sufficiently smart AI wouldn't have to infect stuff, it could just ask. Think about IQ 200 sociopath that has Internet plugged into its head. It would be extremely difficult to outsmart it.

> it will be smart enough to understand that it's pointless.

Pointless for humans, not for an AI. You're projecting a lot of human values and thinking on AI. See my comment [0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387771
Could you talk about the advantage(s) you perceive of a "common ground between all package managers"? After using npm a bit I think scripting hooks in a package manager that can call other package managers enables many good things.
Especially when you read things like "The device's alignment was checked over by eye and hand."
When I hear "energy dispersed at the edges", I think "lost" (or effectively absorbed), not "reflected back the way it came". I can't think of any obvious mechanism that would lead to significant coherent reflection of sound waves off the upper atmosphere. Similarly, I think a lot of the sound intensity would be absorbed by material on the ground rather than reflected back up. I vote for predominantly 1/r^2 behavior.

[As a physics prof, I probably ought to be doing some sort of calculation to justify that, but I don't have the time. I'm sure it's been analyzed formally somewhere already. Just off the cuff, though, the speed of sound is lower at low temperature, so refraction of a sound wave in the upper atmosphere will tend to bend it outward, away from the Earth. I'm thus imagining that loud sounds may tend to locally push the atmosphere out from the planet a little bit, and I expect that coming back to equilibrium will be a lossy process that doesn't preserve the shape of the wave.]
LEARN TO DISRUPT: Today’s connected environment presents an
It's so much easier to poke about inside a web app.
I work 60 hours a week because I was fortunate enough to be born with aptitudes that cause employers to want to pay me a lot of money for those hours. If my employers were fighting to keep me under 30 hours so they wouldn't have to pay benefits, and to pay $7.50 for each incremental hour, with zero upward mobility, my incentive to work those hours would vanish.

Moreover, you shouldn't get credit for genetics. That's not a product of your exercise of free will.
I find it weird that most of them aren't wearing shirts at all.
Right, but hiding and jumping from behind a wall with a "black device" in your hand might get some cops nervous.
We're working on use cases like collectible card app where user can swipe cards between two. Social games for kids and classroom as well.
Most of the radioactivity danger from nuclear weapons and reactors relates to the byproducts of the fission process, rather than to the original fissile material.
Why would I sign up my information? Seriously. Why?
It is enough to think about the part of the sound wave, a ring, that travels horizontally to see that it bends with the curvature of the earth. The front of the wave will at every point "shoot" some of the energy horizontally forward, and horizontal is at every point tangential to the earth surface.
What happens to the sound energy going upwards, well, energy can't disappear. And certainly not into the nothing between the air molecules in thin air. The wavefront going vertically up will eventually push some air molecules away from earth without them hitting any other molecules further out. And then gravity will pull them back. That is in fact a kind of reflection.
The speed of sound changes with density, so the wavefront will not move perfectly spherically. That and the gravity induced ripples on the top of the atmosphere will distort and dissipate the energy around the earth in a somewhat complicated pattern. I think. I'm not a physicist.
Love this. Opens up a lot of very native interactions.
Eg. snipping a document to the larger tablet.
Meet the ShellShock – a new critical vulnerability in the server software
Is anarchy more dangerous than corporatism?
If you read the articles, you would see that it was about it affected their perceptions, and not necessarily their opinions. And there are three surveys there.
Europe is a “slacker with low expectations” dixit Peter Thiel
The point still stands.

I have written algorithms for autonomous programs like this. Pretty much advanced IFTTT, automatically analyzing the situation and reacting.

The program is not aware of any values other than those it is programmed. Obviously, it will not regard or reflect upon its actions and the effects thereof outside of optimizing the profit from trading.
True, but is the real solution to remove the latency in the first place and just run it on your local machine without a network connection? (Like ordinary desktop software that we have at the moment.....; seems the terminal approach to software is attempting to fix a problem that has already been fixed - just run it locally)
That video is an old one, a lot of progress has been made. These are not empty promises! ;)
Indeed. It's a nice proof of concept and immediately gets me thinking how I'd do it. However the Evernote demo makes it look like a solution waiting for a problem. I imagine there is a compelling use case - will be interested to see it when it appears.
This articles suggests only 20% of PayPal will be sold, although I doubt that number is anywhere near final. It's just like EMC spinning off VMware. EMC held on to 80% of VMware [and still does?]. It lets them capitalize much more effectively on the faster growing subsidiary. Even today VMware trades at double the PE ratio that EMC does.
This is a well known issue with all languages that use IEEE 754 double-precision floating point numbers (which is basically all modern languages, including JavaScript). It's also why financial sites do not use types double or float.
Yeah right. Especially one with a backend.
For those that have not read it, the Richard Rhodes book is one of the finest pieces of science/engineering writing I have read:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp...
That looks really interesting, and lightweight! Have you used it? Any comments on it? I only ask because I have a rather old CVS tree to migrate; I have used SVN but by the looks of things this is even more lightweight. Comments on it would be welcome.
No it is not. The IT sector is one of the highest paid in the world, and there are so much possibilities to choose from, that no agreement between Google, Apple, Microsoft or any other can keep the salaries low, which they are not.

When going the union way your give some of your freedom. You don't have freedom to negotiate everything yourself on your own terms based on your own needs, knowledge and value. No one knows better than you what your needs are.
These would still have a massive trust issue in most parts of the "Western World". Certainly doable under the umbrella of buying an established western (banking) brand but Asian brands will have a hard time communicating trust, reliability and security.
I'm in the midst of it. Quite long but the background stuff is one of the best overviews of 20th century physics you can read anywhere.
The Falcon Heavy total thrust is supposed to be 3.9 million lbf, according to Wikipedia. However it will have a larger specific impulse than a Saturn V (282 sec vs 263 sec).
Anyone can make an open source game like this. I'd rather see a successful one.

Besides, what possibilities? I'm a huge proponent of open source but there's more or less nothing else that you would be able to do if it were. In an MMO, you abide by the rules of the central server, no matter how open its source is.
Not sure what you mean. I don't think this is opt in.
Streaming Replication with PostgreSQL 9.3 on Amazon EC2
I've used ZooKeeper not only as a service registry but also as a fairly small message queue - I wanted to be sure that my message will be delivered at least once, and thanks to Kazoo's (Python ZK library) LockingQueue recipe I was able to get what I want really easily with all the benefits from ZK's clustering nature.
You're right, I stand corrected.

I was under the impression that Servo would end up being the web browser engine powering newer versions of Firefox (or any other flagship Mozilla browsers to be) and from my more extensive reading after reading your comment, I appear to be mistaken.

The underlying point I was making though (if it still stands) is that the good folks at Mozilla are not exactly sitting on their collective ass, they are in fact trying really hard (and the bleeding edge way) to make the web better.
Since when does the US care about treaty obligations?
As far as we know, history can only be written the once. No rewrites.
D'oh. Anyone know of a mirror of this? Site is down.
As long as you have massive amounts of money you'll always be relevant.
I clicked through all of the examples, and I would never use any of these components. They are very plain, they don't provide much functionality, and the functionality they provide is lackluster ( unappealing ).

As others here have stated, I also couldn't tell if some of the examples are even working or not; they are that bad.

If you are looking for a fine set of interworking components that provide a refined look and feel along with nice examples of the options provided; then you'll probably want to look at one of the other 30 or so UI widget sets.
The whitewashing of places like Hong Kong and Singapore among the globalist set is shameful.
Meanwhile average mobility in the US continues to be worse than mobility in other countries.

What's the best study you can find that demonstrates this? I haven't seen any that don't appear to succumb to the flaws I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, such as measuring relative mobility instead of absolute mobility.
It probably depends on your project. For a smaller app you can probably start using it without any disadvantages, but I see that some larger apps have problems with it, especially during slow compilation times and bad xcode 6 support. Check this out:

http://swiftopinions.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/swift-1-0-some...
The Fun-House Mirror Earths
Thanx for your reply!

You know, it is very hard here to form an opinion on these things (Netherlands), we never ever see anything Putin says, we just have conflicting messages in and outside of the news (like http://www.elsevier.nl/Cultuur--Televisie/achtergrond/2014/9...), the article is about how our news organizations manipulated Putins words. We also hear 30 min after a plane is shot down that the Russians did it. And we hear Assad fired chemical weapons (he didn't but that is given much less attention to.)

Assad has been calling the rebels terrorists all along (http://www.globalresearch.ca/bashar-al-assad-interview-the-f...) but we were supporting them? But now we don't anymore... What are we supposed to think of all this! It drives me crazy.

Makes me not just want to call Putin a bad guy, I simply don't know and can't trust the news.

So I highly appreciate your insights in these matters.
7 Lessons Learned Doing Customer Development in Public
This really needs a better brochure site. The actual purpose of the service is hidden at the bottom left:

"EveryoneAPI is a simple data service that provides business developers with the easiest and most comprehensive way to access telephone data on the web."

Even then it's pretty obscure. Are we talking worldwide? US only? What's the data source?
We are lobbying President Obama to direct Indian regime to create separate states for SC/ST/Dalit/Untouchable/Muslim/Sikh/Christian/Parsi/Buddhist/Jain communities as per 2nd Round Table Conference Resolution.

http://wh.gov/ii5bo
Right, now think if the server was opensource and there would be multiple servers with their own rules.
No terms and conditions, no privacy policy, no about us, no way of knowing whether these details were lawfully obtained.

After some digging, looks like it's by these guys: https://www.telephonyresearch.com/

Also looks to be a spin off of their other product: https://www.opencnam.com/
Yup, free markets love monopolies. Government regulation is necessary, but it should be aimed at stimulating competition, not protecting vested interests. Of course, in the real world corporations have shown themselves to be rather gifted at regulation capture, so we often see governments providing regulations that harm consumers in the name of protecting producers.
The site talks about "telephone data" yet the picture example (https://www.everyoneapi.com/static/img/bruce.png) has a status (presume relationship) of "single", what else are they using apart from "telephone data"?
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Why Recurring Revenue Matters (a Visual Explanation)
I'm really split on this. The gamer in me thinks this looks like great fun, but I just can't see myself running round the streets of London shooting people with my phone, mostly because its likely to result in either ridicule, or stepping into traffic.
Thanks for the insight. When I read the title, for some reason, I thought the fur on the Ferret was used to do the cleaning.
>> A problem-oriented-language is a language tailored to a particular application. To avoid that uniquely clumsy term, I'll usually substitute application language as synonymous.

Is this equivalent to today's idea of Domain Specific Langauges?
If the server software was opensource you could host one yourself and decide the rules, make custom game modes (capture the flag for example) and make the game work the exact way you'd like. For example, I could imagine this being very fun for disabled people in wheelchairs, but the default gameplay should probably be changed.
So you want me to take pictures of me on my laptop? OK fine
B10N1C is a small hackable implant for your arm
New Ghost(Pro) Plans and Pricing
So, the society you just described would be rightfully described as having high social mobility.

But it would just be economic Brownian motion. Social mobility isn't (I hope!) valued because it shows that a society produces random outcomes, but rather that it enables people to achieve to the limit of their talents.
Catching up late, hope you still see this....

Anyway, I get the impression that you don't understand the problem being discussed. It has nothing to do with leaving stuff back at the motherland. The problem is that the US is placing onerous rules on foreign banks that do business with US citizens regardless of where those US citizens actually live. Those rules are so onerous that many banks are deciding that it's easier to just refuse to do business with any US citizen.

To take the example of retiring to Costa Rica, you say you'd commit to that location. Presumably that implies putting your money in a bank account in Costa Rica. The problem here is that a Costa Rican bank is likely to refuse to open an account for you because of these rules.

You can still be affected by this even if you are completely disentangled from the US in every way aside from not having explicitly renounced your citizenship. You could, I believe, be affected by this even if you never touched US soil, for example if you were born and raised in a country that allows dual citizenship and inherited US citizenship from an American parent. Of course, in that scenario, it's much more reasonable to renounce your US citizenship.
We're still dealing with the increased militarization of our cops in America stemming from 9/11. Here, if you're an adult and are running around in a city like that and pretending to shoot another person, there's the distinct possibility that a. people are going to report suspicious behavior and b. cops are going to come and tase you, maybe beat you up a bit too (especially if you're not white, unfortunately).
Increase Prices of Your SaaS App and Keep Your Customers
There were amazing (and deadly) alternatives to a-bomb. Most interesting was Bat bomb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
Then this is the most massive breach of privacy laws I have ever seen presented to me.
Credit Card Data Breach at ACME Markets Stores in PA, NJ, DE, and MD
I like how you answer without making any sense.

> taxing you to death for subpar services? Hello, Comcast and AT&T!

you don't have to use their services. Hello, competition ? Well, if you don't have competition where you live, too bad, but then that's probably because of excessive regulation. But if you are in a free country, at least you are free to move around. That's not given in countries with STRONG governments -blink-. Ask North Koreans or even Chinese what they think.

> brainwashing your kids? Disney or Activision would never do that!

You can perfectly live without watching Disney movies or playing Activision games. Living without going to school ? Good luck with that until a gov official knocks on your door.

> can put you into deadly situations? Well, corporations would never do that. No one died in Dow Chemical's (now Monsanto) huge chemical spill in Bhopal. Also, both corporations and governments get rather bad PR when they kill people.

yeah, I'm sure corporations have millions of people's bloods on their hands. World War I ? States. World War II? States. And it's certainly not corporations who killed the dozens of Russians in the Gulags or who killed massively the Chinese during the "Cultural revolution".

Seriously, go grab a book to educate yourself.
Do You Care About Your Work
I am not sure how you could think I was talking about ads.

Look at the image - it is clearly not ads. Look at the words I wrote - I talk about pollution of search results and offer the solution of putting these things into ads.
Jailed founder of NinjaVideo pirate site tells her story
Understanding ShellShock Attack Vectors
Definitely sounds like it will be easier to have another service handle it so I can focus on my main goals. What's the advantage of having a static ip for your email delivery?
The existing marketplace solution for that is prepaid credit cards, essentially gift certs that can be redeemed by being run as a credit card. Teens use them to shop online, or at least my kids do.

There is also limited liability with prepaid CCs, no matter what happens you can't be out more than the value of the CC, but you can get into considerable financial trouble with paypal WRT overdrafts and overdraft fees and bounced check fees ... its just not worth it unless you're well disciplined.
That document is about the Republic of China (Taiwan), not about Hong Kong or the People's Republic of China.
I can think of valid reasons to want to know the percentile change between a person and their parents, irrespective of the absolute value difference, and reasons to be interested in the different-but-related measure of absolute change in income/quality of life.

Sure, but when comparing nation A to nation B, it's generally more interesting to look at either the absolute dollar difference or some relative quality-of-life measure (you could call the latter "class", I guess). Folks moving around within a tightly distributed income distribution don't really gain or lose much of either, relative to someone in a society with larger disparities.
ah, as german, searching always for people here, i can say. we form good computer scientists, but most of them unfortunately cannot work as software developers.
Add a cron job to that (to manage timed deletions), and you got a very sweet setup! :-)
I guest, they are using GPS + Gyroscope
Maybe one can increase the accuracy by modulating the flash light and apply bandpass filter on the other end.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion
Manage absences in your team
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It helps to understand how it actually works. The s in its does not point towards possession, it is simply part of the word "its".

My, His, Hers, Ours, Yours, Theirs, Its.

Not Me's, He's, She's, Us's, Your's, Their's, It's.

English is an easy language. Most languages use a lot more words than all that to convey all that. English speakers don't have to deal with the singular second person, with a separate objective noun for you/he/she, with neutrals (heck, barely at all with the feminine), and so on.

So make an effort. Get its right :)
> I am sure we will soon see hundreds of well-dressed, athletic people running around with their smartphone in camera position

You mean they don't do that already?
@hawleyal yes, and I understand that. I'm working in industrial automation, but Bostrom talks about "superintelligent paper-clip maker which works out that it could create more paper clips by extracting carbon atoms from human bodies".
Your algorithm is not super intelligent is it? It's just a dumb program executing operations according to some predefined constraints. It may brake the financial system if you don't set any rules to prevent that, but it will not suddenly decide to start trading in gold if you designed it to trade on forex. If it suddenly decided that Forex is a better option to make money, then we could consider it intelligent and start worrying about it. We would really have to worry if it decided that the best way to become the richest person on the planet is to kill everyone on it. But that would require super intelligence.

My problem with this whole example given by Bostrom is that if the algorithm was so intelligent as to know how to go from manufacturing paper clips out of supplied resources to deciding how to get more of the necessary resources by killing humans, it could probably figure out that this is pointless.

I fully understand that this paper clip example is just oversimplification, but I would expect more from people spending entire lives thinking about that stuff.

It's nothing but a fear-porn designed to get more funding.