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Also the hat and mustache of the kart driver.

There's a pretty good talk on S3 under the hood from last year's re:Invent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXehLy7IiPM

Wouldn't have taken too much effort to confirm or deny the story.

The poster's SO profile is here: http://serverfault.com/users/251721/bleemboy

That lists twitter and github accounts. The github account lists the website of: http://www.thenetworksolution.it/

Which is an Italian provider of web design and hosting services. There is a phone number on the page.

Seems to be common experience from a number of different octopus keepers: https://www.tonmo.com/threads/midnight-tank-escapes-fact-or-...

Sadly, although this would seem to be a bonus for the environment, I don't think it is. A lot of people have been tempted into buying diesels based on the claimed fuel consumption and emission figures. I was one of them. However, unless you are regularly making long journeys these figures are a false economy. I moved closer to my work and ended up making a lot of short trips in my car. The result? The engine's Exhaust Gas Recycling (EGR) unit clogged up after several months which cost a fortune to replace (and of course the environmental impact of more of these units being manufactured). The garage's suggested fix for this was to make a weekly superfluous trip up and down the motorway in 4th gear to burn off clogged particulates (thus wasting fuel that was supposed to be saved). Other 'fixes' I found on the internet were to apply a kit to bypass the EGR entirely (thus re-emitting the particles that were supposed to be cleaned up).

My fix? Sell the car and go back to a guzzly petrol model.

There is just no upside to this kind of response. Surely for any tech company that has reached a certain size, the only workable approach is to recruit an appropriately sized security team and politely welcome and respond to each and every security report received, triage them as quickly as possible and fix the ones that are found to be real vulnerabilities. Even if you aren't happy with the motives or the methods they employ, they are potentially finding flaws in your products for you.

There are command line tools available to help the transition from 'hack' one liner to a more maintainable / supportable solution. For instance drake (https://github.com/Factual/drake) a 'Make for data' which does dependency checking would allow for sensible restarts of the pipeline.

The O'Reilly Data Science at the Command Line book (linked elsewhere in the comments) has a good deal to say on the subject: turning one liners into extensible shell scripts, using drake, using Gnu Parallel.

According to Wikipedia her kid is less than 1 year old. It's tricky to involve them in your interests at that age :) I can just about get my 5 year old interested, but my 2 year old is more keen on pressing the off button on my laptop.

Even better - make your own content and distribute it freely without any DRM. Surely that would be a more constructive approach - and more fun!

It's hard to appreciate unless you get to hold one in your hand and play with it. The phones are exceptionally well made - not just robust but well crafted. The sound reproduction from the external speakers is pretty amazing too - I'd quite happily listen to music playing on it.

Disclosure: I work for Vertu.

This is an excellent method for lighting milk powder sprinkled through a sieve from, e.g. the top of a spiral staircase. Makes an impressive fireball.

This is a great feature but is older than GMail. Lotus Notes mail for instance allowed the same mail to appear in different views, including an "all documents" view that had, as you might expect, everything in it. This advance was rather let down by the rest of the Notes client interface however: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm

I did a fair amount of real world Lua a few years ago. This issue did start to bother me after my codebase grew. It is fairly easy to work around, mainly due to the very powerful metaprogramming facilities in Lua. See http://lua-users.org/wiki/DetectingUndefinedVariables. I ended up adding a few lines of code to my own common library module which disallowed globals unless specifically declared with my own "declare" function.

I'm hooked

(t>>2|t>>6)*(t>>5|t>>7)

I will always try and see the 2D version of any film, but here in the UK at the moment the 2D versions don't show at as many screens or times as the 3D one.

I think if I was unaware of the technology behind this then even if you had come up to me and patiently explained it I would probably not have changed my behaviour. Until it is explained in the mainstream press or until a wide scale "fuss" is made then I suspect most people would do the same. My guess would be that anyone who is told there is a problem and they can fix it by subscribing to a VPN service would assume they were being scammed.

I think your average internet user would feel this was primarily Facebook's (and other sites) problem to fix first. A distant second might be that there was a problem with their browser. It would barely register that they should change their behaviour or pay for a service they've not heard of before.

The money is not the only factor that can make it a wash. The practicalities of where suitable day care is located and the hours they operate mean that for many people returning to work just isn't an option, even if you can afford it. My wife worked freelance in TV before having our daughter. The unsociable hours alone meant that it was going to be unlikely she could return to work, despite being desperate to work again. Add the fact that no local childcare is able to offer 5 days a week without a year or more's notice. Then add the fact that her salary would pay only about 50% of the childcare costs. Add the fact that my own work + commute means I'd never be able to drop off or pick up my daughter in time. It doesn't add up. Maybe we need to move country :)

Purely anecdotal but when on site at Nokia and Sony Ericsson >5 years ago it seemed that nearly everyone used the wired headset so I started too. More recently I don't see that as much.

HN front page shows this item as having one comment. When I click on the comments link, I don't see any comments, but the logged in user changes from myself to somebear! I can click on their username and see their settings. After one comment was posted, when I came back here it showed me as not logged in, though I appear logged in on other pages. When I hit refresh on this comments page, it seems to have gone back to normal.

tl;dr Canonical have a H.264 license agreement, but that doesn't mean Ubuntu users are covered by it. You're only covered if you buy some hardware that comes with Ubuntu AND the hardware manufacturer explicitly tells you that they have licensed H.264 (and possibly other codecs) from Canonical.

When I clicked on the image search link you gave above, amongst the images of pop stars I got this gem: http://pic.yupoo.com/ifrency/12778789e82f/ts51s6si.jpg

This bears a striking resemblance to the HN posting on antiobjects: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=981738

(representing a pac-man game by having ghosts detect a "smell" of pac-man that diffuses through the maze)

Except that these particular bunnies are culled from parks in Stockholm - probably not the sort of place that game hunters would like to go, nor somewhere that people using the parks would like to come across hunters doing their thing.

Apparently not... http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2005/05/yeah_sure_consi.html

But is the video link to the iPhone encrypted or not?

Are you sure the ZX81 he was using didn't have a 16Kb ram pack attached? Most people I know (me included) had one, since it was hard to do anything without it.

There have been trials of placebos against placebos. That's how it has been established that more placebos are more effective than fewer and also how the shape and colour of the tablets relates to their effectiveness. If you want some references on this, look up Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. It's a good read, btw.

Some Nokia devices have a TV out facility that lets you see the screen output on an attached TV. Coupled with a Bluetooth keyboard you have the beginnings (I know it isn't perfect) of an acceptable input and output arrangement. Then take a text editor and something like Python for Series 60 and voila - a mobile development device. I've already got Putty (SSH) running on my phone, so I can do server side development via that.

Did I imagine it, or was there a website posted here a while ago that tracked these kind of predictions against reality? I had a quick google for it but couldn't find it.

As I understand it, and I am not a kernel expert, the existing real time patches reduced latency to improve the soft real time responsiveness of the system, but were still priority based. The Ericsson patch appears to be closer to the idea of hard real time, i.e. that scheduled events have a fixed deadline that must be met.