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Unfortunately, that method of detecting piracy doesn't work anymore. I (and a few others that I work with on an app) were hoping to be able to check Info.plist to detect if an app is pirated or not (for analytics; the app is open source anyway). All reports show it as legit now, even though the app has been cracked and in the wild for a bit by now.
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Can't you do this under Settings -> Phone -> Call Forwarding?
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are you using it over https? There seems to be a problem with that. I switched back to plain http and it's working OK there.
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And now back to coding.. is only 1:38am! Thanks.
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http://browsershots.org/ FTW.

Obviously won't work for dynamic apps, but it would have caught this one.
A tangent from normal HN news, but fascinating for the dedication from those involved and the awesome thoroughness of the data compiled.
No, they're ukp0.24, or 24p. Your comment is like saying that you've added your 0.02c. Two cents is $0.02.

In case it is the souce of your confusion, UKP is "UK pounds sterling" and "p" is "pence". There are 100p in 1 UKP.
Surrogate keys are very common in real-world relational databases. If an order has a CUSTOMER_ID which was generated mechanically, appears in exactly one tuple of the CUSTOMERS relation, and has no other assigned meaning, isn't it just a pointer to that tuple?
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The horizontal scroll doesn't work in Firefox 3/win :-(
This quote by Linus applies:

But that's like saying that you know that you're going to build a car with four wheels and headlights - it's true, but the real bitch is in the
details.
Funny, I was just watching a colleague play this at work the other day.

He'd written an app to play the game for him - takes a screen shot, scans the bitmap, figures out the pieces, then determines an optimum set of moves.
Did it really just say they want to do it in Rails? Never heard of anyone proving the safety of a Rails app.

For that matter, not sure what language they should write it in. Maybe Standard ML?

All I know is that Rails is awesome for building a lot of cool stuff very quickly - but there are better solutions for building a single thing that is indestructible.
Ye gods - a demonstration of recursion!
Nice idea and well executed. Quite a bit of fun. Maybe integrated an option to "show related videos in the other channel search"?

I would recommend using the HQ videos though for better audio (they do have higher bitrate if I recall correctly).
edit: You just did? Newly loaded videos are HQ now, nice.
As far as I can tell from direct personal observations there is very little correlation between academic success and success in business/industry.
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Is this actually physically correct? I was under the impression that "width of an electron" isn't something we have a good value for, if it's a meaningful quantity at all...
http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/
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Yes it is still the land of Free white christian political conformists.
Don't tar Linus' acerbic pragmatism with KK's technobabble idealism.
But, why is it that when he flies around planet in the opposite direction it spins, he's able to make time flows backwards on earth?

I wonder if we can use this theory with some general relativity to explain it..
I've never really understood the anti-scribd sentiment around HN. I've never had trouble opening/reading them. Is there something I'm missing?
The Developer Channel version of Chrome is updated (while it is running, without a restart) every week or so, from previous Chromium builds. You might not even notice it happen.
Yes, and as for developers, they're developing for a market (i.e. Apple isn't supplying materials, just opportunity). It's sort of like how Detroit was developing for the petroleum market. The idea there, though, is that in developing for a market, you should have general domain abilities that can span markets. In other words, if you're an Apple developer, you depend on the Apple market to sell your product, but you should be able to take your development ability and develop for Windows or Linux should the Apple market collapse.

Obviously, it's not guaranteed that you'll be that smart. Detroit should have been smart enough to take their expertise in developing for the petroleum market and transfer it to success in the alternative energy market. But it's still not as bad as having a key component of your product be supplied by a monopoly (just ask your local jeweler).
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$1Million for a next-gen filesystem? The programmer wages for the testing phase will cost 10 times that.
Their value they offer is the UI software but they're determined to get their money from marking up hardware. Presumably they have figured out people are more willing to pay the same premium when it's a smaller portion of the total price (even when it means they have to replace an entire computer to do it). In the same vein, they charged cloners too little to cover the development costs of MacOS, which is why losing desktop hardware market share to the cloners (who were more efficient hardware producers) almost killed them instead of freeing them from the 10% ghetto.
Ah ok that makes sense :-)

The general market standard seems to be to use GBP for pounds and GBX (sometimes GBp) for pence, so the ukp threw me
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i'd say "much" is exaggerated.
More like "in a few places where they couldn't rip off MIT/BSD licensed code". It's a shame that Apples success i based on a lot open source code but they give so little back to the community.
I've been using the nightlies on Linux the last few weeks and have had very few problems. Much more stable than Firefox right now due to a packaging error by Arch.
It's not perfect yet, i have to edit the code templates for every site i build, i'll probably have to write a simpler templating system before i can release it. The cool thing is it's almost a quine - I can make the factory generate it's own code :). I think the plan is to offer a basic free version and a paid version that will allow deeper customisation. At the moment it only supports mysql but thanks to Yii making mssql/oracle/postgres work shouldn't be hard. I'll be working on this this week, I'll let HN know how it progresses
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Hans Reiser made a couple for no wages ... I guess that muddies the waters when considering the baseline for me.
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I saw that page and went 'really'??

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15911579/Derivation-of-Fundamental...

From that article, the ratio Rp to Re is about 83. But the more I look, the more answers I find. Scienceworld has 0.80+ fm for the proton, is silent on the electron. Comparing the following two (Physics Factbook), they could be about equal. "The electron is a point-like particle-that is, a particle with no measurable dimensions, at least within the limitations of present-day instrumentation. "

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/DannyDonohue.shtml

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/YelenaMeskina.shtml

Doesn't nullify the point that atoms are empty space - but comparing radii is risky business.
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Of course not, the real problem is that hardware makers generally don't do good software. By good software I mean useful and elegant, there's a reason there's products like PC-decrapifier out there.
From my own personal experience of having a degree from a prestigious university, my main source of risk aversion when it comes to startups is opportunity cost. Job offers of +100k a year for a 25 year old are really tempting when you've just spent the last 25 years wondering if you have enough money in your checking account to afford a double cheeseburger.

There's also a lot of pressure from society, family, etc, to go out and "get a real job" once you've graduated, because that's how most people define success. School is a major investment of time and money, and graduating from a prestigious school sets high expectations for that investment.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that it's a good idea to give in to these pressures/temptations. I'm just saying that they exist, and perhaps more so for people who graduate from prestigious schools.
That which works well beats that which looks good.

Take quantum for example: When Dirac was asked, "What’s the answer to the measurement problem?" his response was, Quantum mechanics is a provisional theory.
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Do you know of any / which ones are you visiting?
This does not work in Firefox.
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Is anyone counting how many times this has been submitted only subsequently to be killed? Perhaps it should just be left as one of those HN anomolies.

By the guidelines

> ... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

it doesn't qualify to be here. On the other hand lots of people seem to like it. It keeps getting submitted, it keeps getting up-mud.

Leave it be. It'll die eventually.
It moves too quickly for my tired eyes to read anything.
Used to be less confusing before since it was presented in chronological order. Think I'm going to be sticking with the "Live Feed" option for now.
It's refreshing to see someone disagreeing with the notion that piracy is universally good for a game/program etc. because it does convert into some sales.

And with hard stats too.

I wouldn't call it proof either way but it is a nice counter point to previous posts I've seen.

Im not surprised to be honest; if the game can be completed in a reasonably short amount of time I guess there is no real reason for the pirate to pay. He/She is not paying for more game but for what they just completed - I dont think many people put much monetary value on their past :D
They applied for a trademark recently though; I imagine that is what sparked (oh dear :() this off.
The pirates have the right idea? Seriously?
If you do not agree with a piece of someone else's work, don't buy it, fine. But disagreement does not give you the right to steal it.
Yes, you right. Never thought about it
Twitter and how to go beyond 140-char limit
I will keep using Chromium (and manual updates if necessary) until Google releases an official beta. I do not why but I trust more in the developers in Chromiun that in Google itself.
Who says RSS is dead ?
I have seen three at least.
Ask HN: Programming languages and audio/sound
Hello,

I am not a programmer perse' but have done a lot of base MIDI and Max/msp stuff.

But...

I am curious what baseline language(s) would be the best for somebody like myself to begin learning if I wanted to write apps from the ground up, say plug ins or hypothetically write my own custom sound engine for video games ( max and csound not included)... and maybe even write my own audio codec.

I would also like peoples opinion on what they would suggest as starting language(s) to learn for web audio. (lets say I wanted to write a player like VLC , or at least hack it)

Ok ... that's all.
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There's lots of different software involved here. They said "the election management components are built with Ruby on Rails".

I don't want to get into an argument about the security of the Rails framework specifically - as an active developer I know there have been several issues - but I doubt anyone can guarantee that anything will be indestructible forever.

If you felt strongly about it and wanted to rewrite that portion of their codebase in another language and framework, I'm sure they would accept your code contribution.
Any word on when Chrome will support password managers? It's less than useful to me until then...
Perhaps but I think it's a great start.
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You click the message and it gives you details, including "view on twitter". The one I checked was 20 hours old but seemed to be part of a genuine stream unless they went to the trouble of creating a back-catalogue of tweets in order to astro-tweet (!).
Documentaries such as "Recount" and "Hacking Democracy" have made me sick to my stomach - and for a while now I've been questioning the fundamentals of the 'Democracy' that we have been shoving down other countries' throats all these years.

I for one am thrilled to hear about something like this. I think it is long overdue and it has a number of benefits:

1) will save taxpayers money in the long term

2) will create a platform that many developers can review and audit, thus helping improve security and preventing fraud

3) will create a de-facto standard for how we vote, and hopefully over time become used by more and more counties

4) will provide a better level of technology so even poorer counties can (hopefully) upgrade to a high tech and more accurate voting system
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There are a bunch of sites that offer some kind of functionality like this. Some well known apps (like Tweetie 2) let you do it as well.
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>> oh, my bad. its rails, it fails to scales!

UGH
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I had the same board as in the article, but it seems to be fixed now.
Statistically illiterate article full of wishful thinking. Let me count the ways.

1. Most important: it is highly likely that elite university graduates are enriched over background frequency among tech startups, and furthermore that the degree of enrichment increases with financial success. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, VMWare, etc. were all founded by people admitted/affiliated with Stanford or Harvard.

At least one person quoted gets the statistical fallacy here of this, but Wadhwa quotes it without understanding how it demolishes his argument:

> He notes that IITs only graduate 5,000 of India's 176,000 engineers every year, and that based on the number of companies started by its graduates, they were five times more likely than others to start tech companies.

2. Elite university grads are elite because they are the best in the world at hard science. Obviously they are more likely to understand stuff like restriction enzymes, operating systems, and machine learning than your average Directional University grad.

3. I HIGHLY doubt that UW is producing more "blue chip CEOs and university professors" than Stanford and MIT. UW-Madison does have a very good biology PhD program but this claim just does not pass the smell test.

4. Note also that "blue chip" is considered a compliment in certain parts of the article ("blue chip university professor"). This is a common self-contradictory refrain I've heard among critics of elitism. "Oh yeah? Well it doesn't matter if I didn't get into your fancy school, because I work at Google now." In other words, they're not attacking the idea of elitism or the validity of a name as a signaling mechanism. They're contesting the much more limited point of whether undergrad pedigree alone is the signal. Of course it is not and this is a straw man.

5. Lastly, I guarantee that someone has recently asked Wadhwa to name "his school". It is Harvard, as he is a fellow at Harvard. Was he an undergrad, grad, or faculty there? Then he's a Harvard man. Obviously he recognizes that "elite colleges" are marks of quality or he wouldn't include it as the first thing in his bio.
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I guess this was a reference to Hans Reiser killing his wife. Do you really think domestic violence is a laughing matter?
Ariel Waldman has a project called spacehack (http://spacehack.org/). I'm unsure of the frequency of updates nor quality.
You're right. The electron is a point particle. It has no size (though, interestingly, it has angular momentum - i.e. it spins on itself. Go figure).

I guess the page is intended to render the distance between the proton and the electron rather than the size relationship between the two.

On the other hand, even that is somewhat dubious. Electrons aren't located in a single place, they can be anywhere within a certain area, according to their probability density function - including right in the middle of the proton, though the probability of that is low.
Is it really that ridiculous? I'm not a lawyer, but I can see both sides to this.

The whole purpose of a trademark is to protect your brand from anything that could be construed as "confusingly similar". Spark and Sparc sound the same and are nearly identical in spelling, and they are both involved in the tech industry.

Whomever made the decision to send a C&D wasn't completely out of line in their reasoning. (Especially since it does not cost a whole lot to send a C&D. It will cost a lot more to take it to court, which I expect will be a factor in SparkFun's decision making process.)

That said, saying the two similar names are in the "tech industry" may not be sufficient justification for the trademark dispute any longer. The industry has so much breadth nowadays and there are so many businesses involved, as long as SparkFun can prove that there is enough differentiation between what they do and what Sparc does they can probably get around it (with some legal tapdancing).

This would probably not be an issue if SparkFun sold handmade chocolate candies :-)
Ask HN: Can you fix this?
Can we fix this plastic mayhem?

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I believe empirical proof is needed for the claim that elite university grads are more risk averse.

If you are an elite grad, you likely have (1) a wealthier family and (2) enough job offers over the course of your life that your "baseline" is extremely comfortable. Hence you have some margin to take risks.

On the other hand, one could also say that the type of person who is likely to become wealthy might be more prudent and less of a risk taker than a daredevil.

I guess one needs to drill down into "risk aversion".
er so it's a pastebin. wow. Underwhelmed. I thought it was going to be some interesting ascii->utf8 hack or something.
Looks like it's using Keychain, reading passwords I saved in Safari too.
Something like http://en.logilogi.org/ is a better solutions for this.
Especially when you value quality.
Heh - I'm working on building such a monster now. :)

Until mine is ready, you can try mvnrepository.com. The reason that I'm building my own is because mvnrepository.com is often down, slow, and is not very easy to use. But it's there until I'm finished with mine!
I'm not using Keychain, though, but 1Password...
Seriously. I have used/seen the exact same functionality from other services for at least a year, and they give you a shorter url to boot. What's new about this? Sparseness?
Bill Gates didn't graduate. He dropped out. Different mentality entirely.
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Stripes is a great framework that promotes the "convention over configuration" mentality, and is quite minimalistic. But it doesn't support any specific ORM out-of-the-box, and doesn't have scripts to autogenerate a lot of stuff, so I'm not sure I'd call it "Rails-like." But it's been one of my favorite Java web frameworks to use.
Gravity versus electromagnetism ...
The item about the size of the atom reminded me of something that helped me visualise the difference in the size of the forces of gravity and electromagnetism.

It is often said that gravity is an incredibly weak force. But how weak?

Consider ...

Suppose you fall from a tall building. It takes ages to accelerate up to even a moderate speed, and yet you stop effectively in an instant. It's gravity that's making you fall, but electromagnetism that makes you stop.

It's visualisations like that that help me keep otherwise apparently random facts straight.

Hope you find that interesting, enlightening, or otherwise diverting.