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After ten seconds on the website, and reading 1-4 on your banner, I'm not sure what you do or how to buy it.

I think I can track sales leads and data over multiple platforms (salesforce, gmail, etc).

I also don't understand why I'd need an assistant after I loaded calendar events into gmail. I already get reminders.

I'm not trying to be a wise guy, just giving you my experiences without filter.
Great article! It's a damn shame it's going to be another decade before we can actually use any of these properties and expect them to work...
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One of the big differences I see here is that billshare doesn't handle the money! WePay actually handles accepting the payment, and distributing the funds. You can then get a check, or better in many cases, spend it using a WePay debit card!
Effectively there was one a few weeks back leading up to Thanksgiving; these announcements may just be the tail end of those deals being finished up and having all of the legal stuff sorted out.
It optimizes for passing on of genes, which usually involves babies.
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Hg's branching isn't weak anymore. The functionality of git and hg have converged to the point now that it's more a matter of a decision around inteface and community feel instead of features.

This post nicely lays out the options current users of mercurial have: http://stevelosh.com/blog/entry/2009/8/30/a-guide-to-branchi...

I commonly use all of bookmarks, named branches, and anonymous branches to do in-place switching of my filesystem depending on what I'm working on.

I also gave a presentation on Mercurial last month that goes into much more detail on mercurial pros/cons: http://www.slideshare.net/tednaleid/mercurial-dvcs-presentat...
Haha.. true. What else can we expect from Techcrunch?
Like Word, it probably isn’t the best tool for something book length. It’s really designed for letters and short reports. It can be done; I know brave souls who have written theses with Open Office. I just wouldn’t personally give up the stability and neatness of working with plain-text source.
When doing work for others, I still think drawing up something in Photoshop is faster.

However when doing work for myself, I don't need to draw a mockup to show myself, I can simply picture what I want in my head. So I've tended to go straight to HTML for my own stuff, and go into Photoshop only to produce some graphical element. This way I also skip the painful part of transferring the pixel perfect photoshop design into rendered HTML/CSS.
10 seconds into the site, if I don't know what it's about, I leave.
The Anycast routing can be quite difficult to setup and maintain.

Anycast's not particularly difficult to setup and maintain.
The federal government should fund everything through inflation
Funding everything through inflation gives every US dollar-using person in the world an incentive to get the feds to operate efficiently.
Good idea? Bad idea? Think that government officials will just issue all the money they can, convert it into a foreign currency and run?
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EDIT: Just saw the video! I think you should delete 90% of the text you have. Make the video demo the focus. And go from there. Way you have it right now, I almost didn't see the video even after spending a minute or two on the site!

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1. Great play on salesforce no-software mantra! As someone who has had a few people intern for sales in past months, I was immediately taken in by "no sales rep headache" pitch. Resonates well, at least with me! Now, can you meet my expectations?

2. From there on, unfortunately, your pitch goes downhill. Too much text. I'd start from scratch. Use your no-sales-rep pitch to grab attention. Then have 4-5 bullet points, each explaining a problem your app fixes. And later in the page, the finer details for the people still unsure/have questions about your app.
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looks like my predictions are aligned with "new tips on Apple tablet" from NY Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/2010-the-year-of-th...
It's an application, not a patent.
Portable music was achieved with the Sony Walkman. The iPod is still innovative.
I was really referring to the ease of making figures in the right format, as the poster made a particular point about including figures.

When I used to use MikTeX on Windows (8 years ago now) saving figures to .eps or .pdf from most applications was possible but a bit tricky. It often involved printing to file with the right postscript driver [1], then fiddling with bounding boxes and running through epstopdf. Most Unix graphics applications produce postscript and/or pdf pretty easily. I think osx with its Qwartz stuff will too.

[1] e.g. Apple Color LW 12/660 PS with "optimized for portability" turned on.
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The scheduling assistant sends out personalized emails to meeting colleagues reminding them to make your meetings - something like:

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Like I said, it has a lot less features :)

All it really does is expense tracking - you can post bills, and find out who owes who how much. There are also some semi-vanity features like stats on where the group is spending its money.

I think billshare is good enough when you know the people in the group and can trust them to repay you when necessary. Otherwise WePay is probably the way to go.
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Yep, they are, to all the tenants in AWS datacenters.

My apartment however currently only can talk to Time Warner which talks to Level 3 and then, finally Amazon. I believe what the parent meant was that UltraDNS is colo'd with end-user ISPs like Time Warner, Verizon, etc.
Your analogy does not make sense to me. The professor clearly wanted his students to become not just better at hacking together solutions, but presenting readable, consistent code. This is a noble goal, and you're correct it has little to do with computing. It has to do with communicating to other people what you have done.
this is useful - thanks. we're using a tiny 256 meg instance for our static files (images, etc).
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I've linked WePay to my checking account (50 cents per transaction) so settling with my roommates takes less than a minute, once a month, and the convenience of not having to lick an envelope and remember to mail it is worth the extra 6 cents (as opposed to paying for a stamp).

For my needs, this is the best tool out there.
Its indeed a great book. It covers a lot depth which is unseen in other Rails books. But it hasn't kept up with the speed of Rails development. I really hope Obie revises the text and releases another version soon.
84MB download for a dia show of cc eye-catching but nevertheless offtopic images. Wow! Sometimes I really wish people would stick to that dull bullet points style of presentation -- in at least half of their slides.
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Because a baby with a father who lost an eye hunting and was able to regenerate it would have a better chance of living long enough to reproduce.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding parts of this, I am laying in bed right now going through my daily wind-down and slowly falling into "sleep mode".

It sounds like one of your gripes is that the post about Copenhagen showed up on reddit, then immediately showed up here. This is not a valid complain, I'm sorry.

Reddit and HN are completely different types of communities. To complain that a story appeared on reddit, then appeared here completely disregards the fact that many people that read HN no longer visit reddit.

As far as the story you were whining about (and yes, you were whining), it absolutely is relevant to the HN community (at least from what I'm seen in the last 1.5 years or so here). HN seems to be comprised mostly of people who have a very strong interest in sciences of all kinds. This is why psychology, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and computer science articles make the front page and that is why HN is seeing such a strong uptick in usership.

Your comment was originally downmodded because it was contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion regardless of how many people responded to you (I'm talking about the one stating that the copenhagen story had already appeared on reddit).

I guess to summarize: you were downmodded because your comment, which contributed nothing to the discussion, pointed out something that most people found completely irrelevant.

What you saw was the moderation system working perfectly.
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The value of an individual to the evolution of a species doesn't stop when they have their offspring. Long lifespans or intelligence may allow the formation of culture and society, which improves the chances of survival of the group as it works together. Even individuals that have already had offspring still have value to the group in that they may allow the group to operate more effectively as a unit, increasing the likelihood that it (and thus the species) will thrive.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that 'evolution' doesn't care about the individual... it 'cares' about the species. We think of 'evolving' in terms of mutations to individuals that get passed on via reproduction, but it's just as valid to look at 'mutations' in group behavior that make any given group more fit for survival. These mutations aren't passed on via genes... they are passed on as cultural norms within the group, with the aid of both intelligence and sufficient lifespans that allow offspring to learn from their parents.

Groups with better cultural norms will enjoy more success than other groups. These other groups will either adapt the ideas, or they will be at a disadvantage and eventually lose out. Either way, the species will have 'evolved' in such a way as to improve it's chances of survival, even though no physical improvement was made and handed to offspring via genes.

With this in mind, it's almost as if we are evolving more rapidly than ever. The sweeping changes to human culture (and technology, which is another vector to improve fitness of a group) over the last few centuries (new forms of government/economies/law/freedoms) has been extremely beneficial to the survival of the human species.
Regarding computer science as a discipline, please read:

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690798
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Your point is interesting, and made me think about the way people primarily look for classical music - by composer.

If this whole scheme is to be based on some notion of "creator," then the the way this would be organized seems to be pretty dependent on some standard definition of creation, and maybe even of art.

Seems like it could get pretty hairy.
Right, a lot of DNS attacks rely on the attacker replying to a request faster than the actual DNS server and there's no one closer to the end user than ISPs.
I'll cover initial impression first, and then go from there into specific things I notice.

First impression: way too much pimping, way too little describing. The front page seems more focussed on who uses it and how awesome they think it is than on what it is. I have a vague idea from your bulleted list, but no idea what differentiates this from all the other CRM systems. The companies you list might, but that is of no use to me. I'm not about to waste my time and contact them to tell me what you should have told me. The video might tell me, but I'm not compelled to watch the video. That combined with the odd and elongated layout would have the average customer uninterested in learning any more about the product.

Specific things:
* Please, please remove the scrolling images part of the way down. They are distracting and get annoying after more than a few seconds.
* Your page goes on below the fold on a 1024x768 monitor, and you have marketing content below that fold. This is very bad. I would honestly take the box of specific features and shove that near the top. In fact, that and a 2-3 sentence description of what the product does is all I could imagine being necessary on the front page. The client list and press hits could either sit at the bottom, or go on another page.
* The page flow is very odd. I'm having a hard time figuring out where my eyes ought to be going. There is that weird block of white space right below the press icons, and on either side of that irritated scrolling thing, which make it hard for me to keep track of where I am on the page. I get the sense that you could solve the page flow problem the need for scrolling at the same time, just by taking advantage of the space you haven't used yet.

I should add the disclaimer that I am not a professional designer, and so some of the things that bother me might be considered good practice by people in the know.

Hope this helps.
From the description, these are still the full headsets you get with the other editions, you just don't get the SDK. You might not have that much trouble hacking it. Once it's in your hands, you can start sniffing the USB traffic. They say it doesn't require a driver, so it's probably a USB HID device which is even better and easier to work with.

You might still get pretty far even without the SDK. Once it arrives, you could post here on Hackernews for some help. I have a bit of experience reverse-engineering USB devices, but I'm sure there are others here that could help even more.
Oh come on. What about Sun "The network is the computer" Microsystems? What about Java, originally designed for a settop box, as described, way before 1995? Although I tend to credit Sun with the idea, the concept was in the air. There's even a book (fiction) about it, "The first 20 million is the hardest".

I guess Sun can't buy ad space in Wired anymore... Oracle can.

BTW one page: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_oracle/all/1
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For the year 2010, I plan to:
1. Learn Clojure and CLisp.
2. Learn Erlang
3. Learn to play the violin
4. Start exercising seriously again.
5. Take up photography
6. Become a better friend, brother, uncle, son and cousin.(despite the AS diagnosis)
7. try to find inner peace and purpose.
Before WvDial, dialup on Linux sucked so hard. I cringed when I read WvDial in the title because it brought back memories of what it replaced. I didn't realize how long it's been...I always think of myself as having used Linux for "about ten years", but I've been thinking of myself that way for at least five years.

I'm surprised to learn that people are still using modem emulation on cell phones, though...it's been about five years since I've seen a phone that could do that (though only a couple of years since I got a phone that could be tethered via USB or Bluetooth).
What about people like me who don't consume caffeine? Does it suggest that we're missing out on something? Or is it just for those that do anyway to get the most benefit?
Investment banks seem to have two parts, one part is concerned with making trades to benefit the bank itself. The other part is a broker that helps clients with what they need.

I don't think the same bank should be allowed to do both. At the very least there should be a firewall between the departments.
put aside the fact that "a better way to live" is likely be highly subjective

Maybe not for them. Since they are so connected via the network, there maybe a higher level of consensus.

They wouldn't have needed the marine to show them how to blind the clearing machines, they would have already known.

Not really. Why would it have been obvious to them that the things on top are what the operator uses to see anything? Even if they had technology as or more advanced, there is no reason to believe it would follow the same paradigm as anything we think of.

Overall, I think the idea that they don't feel the kind separation from the planet that we do is the most plausible reason.
I believe the radio on modern cell phones is a separate computer, spoken to via a serial line, with ATDT codes.

Cue that joke about Space Shuttle parameters being decided by a Roman Chariot.
Perhaps you could clarify your definition of inflation. As I have not read "The Economist Numbers Guide", I can't say in what context they meant by comparing the inflation rate to an annual compound interest rate.

We need not necessarily be suspicious of the Fed, however, in devaluing fiat currency. It might be easier to think this if you think of interest rates and inflation differently. Interest rates set by the Fed, like the federal funds rate or the discount rate, and inflation are actually negatively correlated. That is, the lower the interest rate, the higher the rate of inflation that will ensue as the monetary supply expands and more goods/services are produced. This is the rationale behind our low interest rate during the recent recession. The interest rate is more of a price on the available credit. A low interest rate makes borrowing more attractive, and thus investing into a new project (rather than borrowing on consumer credit for mere consumption like jewelry or a mortgage for a house that you can't afford) will increase. Instead of thinking of interest and inflation solely as finance charges, think of them as prices of credit/investing and controlling supply/demand of goods in the macroeconomy.

So making the comparison between the Fed and JP Morgan or any private bank in terms of interest rate charging and inflation is misleading. Private, publicly traded banks have the sole goal of high returns to their shareholders. It may help to understand the calculation of the inflation rate as an interest charge, but the intention of the inflation target and the federal funds rates is markedly different than that of private banks. The Federal Reserve is trying to balance inflation with national economic growth and security, and it is a fine line to walk.

And in response to Rothschild, while monetary policy is a powerful tool to regulate the economy, we also have the mechanism of fiscal policy, i.e. government spending in infrastructure and national programs. Fiscal policy is more of a clunker in terms of being slower, since it requires political will of a heterogeneous group of thinkers, but it does present an alternative to pure monetary policy. (When I say monetary policy, I mean anything a central bank does to regulate the amount of currency circulating outside the reserves).
Since the Na’vi have had the ability to download information and share it in a massive network for long periods of time (evolutionary timescales), they should be way ahead of us in terms of technological development.

The information they have access to appears to be someone's entire mind/memories/thoughts/whatever... This would be a HUGE amount of completely unsorted data. Sifting through all of this to find usable information would be very difficult.

The comparison to writing and the internet is false. In both cases, data is (to some degree) indexed. Want to build a robot? Search for "how to build a robot" and you have a good place to get started.

In fact, they only time they show anyone making direct use of the link (as opposed to a spiritual use) is when they ride animals, which is a link with a single animal.
Absolutely. Comparing the evolution of ideas to the evolution of genes is like comparing a programmable chip to a hardwired circuit. I remember reading about this in The Science of the Discworld, a hilarious yet informative book where the authors described these concepts in terms of "memes" (a word coined by Dawkins, I think, to refer to the mental analog of genes) and "extelligence" (knowledge that lives outside you head, like Wikipedia).

Even though we haven't evolved the ability to regrow eyes automatically, we've evolved enough intelligence to approach the level of civilization where, by playing with our own biology, we can make eyes regrow. How's that for a hack!
Wow, this is exactly how not to design.

Separating layout and content is a mistake. Content should be inextricably linked to how it is presented. This is what design means; it means taking content and displaying it in an understandable and pleasing way. Every piece of content desires to be presented differently.

This is exactly why CSS is such a horrible pile crap. It trains designers to separate content from presentation, and it's not designed for page layout. CSS is designed for forcing content into little boxes.

As long as people design for the web by separating content from presentation, we're never going to evolve into something better.

Just look at the end result of this article. It's a boring, lifeless "design" as a container for any type of content. It goes completely counter the very soul of Zeldman's quotation.
The problem with mocking something up in XML/HTML is that you're particularly limited because you're forced to think in boxes. Photoshop doesn't put that restraint on you.
I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with.
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how about something like this?
http://screencast.com/t/OGU2NWE0YT
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I would second this recommendation. Learning enough LaTeX to typeset a whole book effectively will take some doing, but the effort is well worth it.

Apart from dragoncity's recommendations, these are also good places to start:

[edit: rather than clog this thread with a ton of links, I've decided to put them all in to a separate page which you can view here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/159346/ ]
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There should be a firewall between the departments.

There is.

Ostensibly.
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