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The problem isn't with that goalpost. It's with this new one I'm busy building over here. And when you get to it the problem will really turn out to be another goalpost way down the field from where we are now...
> My productivity in web-dev would absolutely sky-rocket.

I'm not sure about this. Context switching is not a good idea. Imagine that you are in the middle of your project and a new IM message appear in your first monitor.
For businesses, this is a good question. H.264 licensing can be relatively inexpensive (free for moderate use, cheaper than MP3 or AAC for high-volume use). So most businesses are probably better off using H.264 than Theora.

Firefox is another story; they aren't charging, and according to the article, would be responsible for the licensing costs for every one of their (hundreds of millions of?) users.
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Nobody is forced to work for any wage, thus the "slave" analogy doesn't apply. If not enough people are willing to do a job for $5/hr, then the employer will have to either pay a higher wage or reassess whether he needs the work done at all.
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Try http://searchyc.com btw, if you can't find stuff on google :)
Re: #4 My 2 cents: I come from a Java web background, so I may be a bit biased.

I like to think of the view functions as controlling state in an app and deciding what do show on a page (handing input or sticking stuff in the request). Something in between the presentation logic (in templates) or "business logic".

I think the django docs suggest that business (or domain) logic should go in the model (in an extra method) if it pertains to a particular instance of the model - or row in the db. Class level logic should go in a Manager for the model - like doing special queries, for example.

As an aside, I think that this approach makes my code pretty easy to test, I can whip up a test case that uses data in fixtures without having to worry about the view. Using something like the command_extensions makes it pretty easy to prototype model/manager code in the python shell against real data in my dev env. This is probably my favorite thing about working with python/django over java.
You are right. But the ARM ecosystem is different from the x86 one. Apple is doing something closer to system integration than CPU design, they almost certainly couldn't afford to do that and keep up with the Joneses (Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM).

The screens and drives are also from third parties.
By what process do you come to the conclusion that not everyone deserves a chance at food and shelter?
The problem is that some short urls are prefixes of others. You could fix this by creating a shortner where the links were always 6 chars long and never shorter or longer (giving you almost 20 billion URLs anyway)
So your objection here actually has nothing to do with HMAC at all, but with doing password hashing without iterations?
If you want to proceed quickly from Hello World to a complex application, I suggest looking at Eclipse RCP, which uses SWT. Whether it is suitable will depend on what kind of app you want to build. Here's a list (with screenshots) of open-source apps that use Eclipse RCP:

http://www.eclipse.org/community/rcpos.php
They refer to the 3G model as the "Wi-Fi + 3G Model", so I believe that line item indicates that only the 3G version has GPS.
On a tangentially related note, before Feedburner (acquired by Google in 2007 for ~$100 million), the folks behind Feedburner had a startup very similar to femtoo.com. It was called SpyOnIt.com and was launched in 1999 and purchased by a competitor, I think in 2004. One of these folks (Dick Costello) is now the COO at Twitter.

I don't like to be a pessimist, but seriously, don't hang your hopes on cutting some kind of deal with Google on this. Both monitoring websites for changes and scraping content from sites are ideas as old as the web. There must be dozens if not hundreds of tools and websites in this space and while some will do it better than others, it is just not that hard of a technology to duplicate. It is possible, although unlikely, that you've come up with something remarkable and new on the technology front, but I think it is more likely you simply have a nice implementation of a solution to a problem many people have solved before.

On the bright side, I think you have better chance of succeeding on this without Google than with them. Your post reads like you're trying to sell a technology; that the algorithm is the selling point. Presumably your deal with Google would be on that basis. Don't do it like that. Instead, focus on using this technology as a tool to solve someone's specific business problem, the more specific the better (you can always expand the scope later). The fact that someone technically savvy could use Google Reader or Yahoo Pipes to hobble together equivalent functionality doesn't matter to the people who will be your customers. They are looking for a turnkey solution to their specific problem, and you're going to hand it to them at a reasonable price. The technology you've implemented is only the foundation. Find a specific business problem you can solve with it, that's where your money will come from. (Not to sound like a broken record, but reading up on "Customer Development" may help you on this front.)

[Edit: Fixed typo]
It would be great if all minimum wage did was 'prevent exploitation.' But the simple fact is: minimum wage cuts jobs.
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Thanks for the link and quote, appreciate the help. From my searching it sounds like the FCC operates off complaints mostly, so maybe low risk if I did it. But I should be able work around this problem. I'm basically just exposing a GPIO to a RJ-45 connector, so I can access some custom hardware.
Tell HN: Experiences with yahoo web hosting.
I as thrilled to see that yahoo offered unlimited web hosting to Indian small businesses for just s. 3k that is around $60 per year.

I immediately bought it hoping it will be nice. Unfortunatly my university has a proxy server and I cant use FTP. Yahoo gives the same old geocities web admin panel that sucks like anything. That does not even go near Cpanel.

Secondly it supports only PHP4 and they do not plan to upgrade it at all.

The biggest surprise was that I wanted to buy 4 parked domains. Their customer service has no clue about what is a parked domain she only knew about subdomains. She was rude not to reply to my mails demanding a better tech. person on line.

I had to buy the parked domains from some other service provider :(

No wonder yahoo cant hold candle to Google.
Interesting direction: run Java directly on top of hypervisors.
I'm always curious why people think having multiple displays is so super awesome.

1) It ruins your neck. The ergo people at Yahoo really dislike giving people dual monitors let alone 6.

2) You can only look at so many of these screens at once, probably too at the distance he is sitting. Why not just use virtual desktops at that point because it doesn't cause neck trauma.
Why is cost-plus contracting less expensive than the government doing it in-house, except in the cases where it's a very rare one-off thing that's not worth developing in-house expertise for? If the government is bearing all risk, and the only oversight is government oversight (no market discipline), there's no real advantages to the private sector.
Is this basically the same idea as Lamport's logical timestamps?
'Denalism' by Michael Specter actually discusses the anti-vaccine movement and a bit about autism. I felt he did a good job. The fact is that there is no evidence supporting the conclusion (cue "correlation is not causation"). Also, diagnosis for specific problems would help patients and families get much better aid from insurers and schools. Sadly, we allow those who can provide no actual evidence influence the discussion (glad to see you didn't)

I agree with pragmatic, we need to look at real causes and remember that outside of clean water, vaccinations are the best thing for public health.
It's not the reviewers, it's the fact that there is a paper trail between the malware author and the malware.
I feel that there seems to be a, albeit perhaps weak, correlation between hackers/geeks and some kinds of physical activity. Mostly I'm thinking of running and mountain climbing.

While of course I'm biased and base my observations upon the plural of anecdote, I still find this observation to hold true.

I could of course hazard some kind of guess to why, but more interestingly, I think, would be if there was any kind of non-anecdotal data covering this.

Has anyone heard/read about any evidence for or against this?
Your argument hasn't convinced me. I think it's only a matter of time before a traditional university dedicates itself to a 'respectable' online component, de-stigmatizing online education and opening bachelor's degrees to the masses. The University of Phoenix might not be the overall winner, but the online business model probably will be. It's just too efficient to lose.

The only major hurdle I see is to convince middle-class young adults that they can still get drunk and hang out with new people while taking the online courses.
I do try to limit my add-ons as they often cause problems but I'm now trying out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550 Compact Menu 2.

Tiny Menu, your link, disables the shortcut keys according to one review. Thanks though.
Varnish's Memory Model
Squirrelfish wasn't anywhere near ready when they started.

The button arrangement is likely something they don't have control over. If you're going to release an open-source phone platform, you're not going to sign up many OEMs to use it if you dictate the details of where the buttons go. For better or worse, that's the kind of thing that the marketing people at the OEMs want to f*#& with.
Can you give a running example of atleast one application built using this ? I tried creating something for a long time but couldn't do much.
The true risk isn't to the children who haven't had the vaccines, it's to the immunocompromised that are quite literally being murdered because of some parents ignorance. It isn't the 16-65 age bracket that's being affected here, the immunodeficient can typically be any child under 16, any senior over 65, pregnant women, people with existing infections (even as simple as a cold) and those with HIV/AIDS.

In my honest opinion, and this one is quite a rare one for me, this is a subject where the UK health services should take a page out of the US' book. MMR vaccines should be mandatory for attending school. This would place these parents in a serious catch 22, as home-education in the UK is exceptionally harder to do than in the US (as in it's virtually unheard of). It will place these parents in a position where they have a choice inoculation, segregation (no admission to public schools until immunisation) or prison (in the UK parents are fully responsible for placing their child into an educational institute and ensuring they attend, if they don't they can face jail time).
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the only application I can see is wall street traders, even they don't need more then 2-4.
In that article, a programmer still had to input tests, I believe.

So you could end up with fully-test driven development (requirements oriented?).

I kind of doubt genetic programming is a way to fully automated development.

Someone will always have to describe what it is that the computer should do.
Wow. That was amazing, thanks for the link.

Note that you can see (supposedly) how his feet land as he runs at 3:11
They talk about the moon appearing larger near the horizon, but they say astronomers and psychologists don't agree on how to explain it. First of all, if a camera is capable of recording the difference, what do psychologists have to do with it? And second, isn't it just refraction through the atmosphere? Light's coming in at a steeper angle and passing through more of the atmosphere than it is when the moon is higher in the sky. I've never heard any other theory.
IM is pretty much for working in teams. If it's on a different LCD it would be easier to ignore too.
I don't know... I'm a scientist and I think it might be getting to be a little much too.

RE 1) We space vaccines out not "just to be safe", but to actually be safe. You don't want to use a cocktail of things that has been adequately tested. Also, you space them out so they can be more effective. Let's say that your body has X immune capacity to absorb the benefit from a vaccine. You don't want to throw 20 things at it. About 3 at a time is as much as you want to do.

RE 3) Honestly, the only vaccine that I've questioned is the Chicken pox vaccine. My son got it, but when I was growing up getting the Chicken pox was just part of being a kid. I understand the rationale: if you don't get it until you're older it's pretty bad, there is the economic cost of a parent needing to be home, etc... but polio it isn't. (I know, you don't want your kid to be the 1% that has a severe case... like I said, my kid still got it).
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-faq.htm

His suggestion is to ramp up to giving everyone $25,000 per year living costs from the government, with the understanding that people will not just "do nothing" anymore than people "do nothing" with their free time now, but still keep a capitalist system so people who want to earn more can earn more, and ... more details in the FAQ linked above.
I do plan to provide default set of apps, which one can click to install. This is just off the oven and I could not wait to share.

You can have a look at the following walk-through, to have an overview of the app..

http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/01/build-apps-online-ove...
No mention of Sunacle hardware and software?
People tend to believe the opposite when you say things like that, though.

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I love this idea. They vet people for seriousness/intent. They check references. This seems so much more likely to generate a bona fide partnership (or at least a shot at one) than networking events or stuff like StartupWeekend, where you can get bogged down in bad-fit discussions fairly quickly (note: I still think StartupWeekend is awesome, mind you!)
I know this is a technological forum, and that the article proposes that technology will make universities obsolete, but the universities, and in fact all schools are great homogenizers. I reject the notion that people need to become socialized and need to network within a school-like system. This didn't happen two hundred years ago, arguably our nation's hey-day.

When we are all Ramblin' Wrecks or Fighting Illini, sure we're easier to market to, and so business people can make their money, but we're also easier to govern, and let's face it, we're too easy to govern right now. Senators are, with few exceptions, elected for life, and most head to D.C. as paupers and leave as kings. We need more individualism and that is why I reject the premise of two of Lipton's arguments: networking and socialization.
The big difference between developers and auto workers is that a developer or two can start up their own company and build something new for little more than the cost of rent, food, and electricity.

Auto workers need a plant, a supply chain, engineers and designers, etc., etc.
This is outstanding. Just added it to the original post.

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I'm an academic, so it is mostly black-and-white and some data visualization.
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My complaint is about using a fast PRF where they should be using a slow PRF, yes.
The lack of a camera was a seriously incompetent move by apple, especially considering that they've placed one in the Nano, which has none of the potentials for use like the iPad.

I'm sorry, but this is 2010, I've rarely seen a cell phone without a camera since 2000. Apple has even pioneered placing them in devices that have no need as a gimmick. So someone at Apple HQ was having serious brain farts when they decided to let the iPad go to production without even a single camera in it.

The iPad requires a self-portrait camera for video chat and the ever popular self-pic, but it also needs a camera for taking pictures and recording the environ.
Sounds quite laudable, but I always wonder about the unintended consequences of things like this. Saving millions of lives, particularly in poorer regions, seems like an unpredictable situation at best.
do you feel any concern about injecting these ingredients into your or your child's blood stream?

Formaldehyde,
Beta-Propiolactone,
Neomycin Sulfate,
Polymyxin B,
Potassium Chloride,
Sodium Taurodeoxycholate,
Thimerosal

I am not making a case for linking vaccines to autism, nor for the idea that vaccines are not often crucial factors in preventing disease spread or pandemic. However, I would say blanket statements that vaccines are simply "safe" ...end of story, seems too simplistic and potentially dangerous.
That's not a "simple fact."

Minimum wage also transfers money to low-wage workers, who tend to spend every cent they're given, which acts as an economic boost for the area, and creates job.

All the research I've seen shows that there are two conflicting effects, and even well-educated experts, who have spent long periods of time studying it, have a very hard time determining if the effect is net positive, negative, or neutral.
Perhaps: "Try often, but try thoroughly."
Of course, I could of have don all of my Chemistry lab work via an online course! I suppose for Liberal Arts classes it may be viable, but not of the sciences.
Reading this outpouring of sentiment about how awesome a person Dan was makes me sad, mostly because I wonder whether he knew how people felt about him when he was alive.

Receiving heartfelt appreciation from someone you know or love is phenomenally uplifting.

"If you admire somebody, you should go head and tell em' / People never get the flowers, while they can still smell em'." - Kanye

I'm going to go call some loved ones now and tell them how important they are to me.
I’ve always felt the same way about iTunes. Listening to music, sometimes, is a very social thing. I often find myself tweeting the song I’m listening to, or the lyrics I just heard. iTunes supports none of this.

The iPod (line) – same thing. This is where Zune has done some innovating. In realizing that music is social, they’ve created features that let you temporarily share songs and see what others are listening to.

There’s no technical reasons why Apple would need to leave these features out. Traditionally Apple hasn't fully grasped the power of the open web, much less social.

But things are starting to change. Their acquisition of Lala is a huge deal. I can’t remember them ever acquiring a website — and a VERY social website on top of that. I’m ready for Apple to take these to the next level by injecting social into their products. They should start with the iPod audio player interfaces (iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad). Let us Tweet, Facebook, Copy a Link, Share With A Friend.
"High moons and low moons make the same sized spot. ... Foreground objects trick your brain into thinking the moon is bigger than it really is."

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/20jun_moonillusion.h...
They're developed by/for developers, not designers.
I know that I will probably get down voted for voicing opinion against majority but I will go with it anyway. There are evidence that vaccination is not safe, contains mercury and has negative long term side effects. Also there are long lasting debates on whether the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the harm. I have looked at both sides of the argument and based on what I have read and concluded that I would not vaccinate myself or my kids(see my reasoning below).
Government cares only of the short term effect and keeping society from outbreaks of deceases where they are less concerned of long term effect that will be hard to link to any past vaccinations anyways. Even the fact the insurance companies do not cover vaccination due to possibility of severe side effects poses a question why?
The long trim effect of vaccine is not well studied yet. If you look at both sides of the argument, the major question is what side has more benefit for fighting. Pharmaceuticals make tons of money on vaccination and have tons of money to promote it including usage of science as well government policies. So looking at both sides where none have concrete scientifically proof on long term effect of vaccines, what side would you take thinking on benefits that each side might have in the argument as well as possessing knowledge of possible danger of vaccine including the fact that vaccine do not work 100% as well. So the ultimate question, would you put substance containing mercury in your body knowing that it will have side effect for sure what might be mild or severe in long term against some low chance possibility of getting diseases that your body will fight anyway and that having vaccinated might not even protect you against. Here is some more info for consideration: http://www.relfe.com/vaccine.html
Former auto workers must now accept low skill pay.

Or try to get a job at the industry unionization is least likely to kill: the government. You don't need to be a highly trained specialist to be a DMV clerk or supervise the Berkeley toolshed.

In related news, the portion of unionized workers working in the public sector exceeded 50% this month...
> What does know and manage the costs mean?

That means if your supplier starts trying to screw you with higher pricing, you switch to another one. It's about options, not literal control.

> Switching to Intel was a huge success for Apple

Is your left brain not talking to your right brain or something?
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and 640K ought to be enough for anybody. Seriously, if you want to move things like working on a big chalkboard or with papers spread out on a big desk to the computerized version, it makes sense to have space to work.
When someone gets sick they don't just die, they are sick and requiring assistance from others for sometimes long periods of time. This might make the potential productivity of these places higher. I guess the new problem is finding them something productive to do.
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Perhaps, but I think people dislike Apple now (and probably in the future) because of their insistence on a locked-down and controlled experience regardless of what users and third-party developers want.
Good insights in this article, though Apple might argue that they see a social dimension in a pad that can be held on one's lap and shared between people who are physically present (it's unclear if the display is easily viewable off-axis, but I've heard no complaints about it).

I agree with electromagnetic that the lack of a webcam is a mistake. Perhaps a later version will allow for multitasking so you can chit-chat via skype or Goggle Voice while surfing or using apps, but it's a shortcoming in the first version. Of course, I expect that part of the reason for the 2 month delay between announcement and availability is to gather feedback of the kind we're discussing here.
I still think that for most office uses, a mouse is better than a touch screen. If I'm spending a lot of time entering data, a all-in-one touch screen device is miles behind a monitor at eye level several feet away, a good tactile keyboard flat on my desk, and a mouse a few inches away. Maybe I'm constrained by what I already know, but I can't picture a touch device being better.