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I thought Sawstop and such were only expensive because tool manufacturers weren't interested in producing them in bulk. (?)

If so, the jury probably balked at the business rationale: "We don't want to spend $10 million on a saftey feature that will raise the price of our saws by $50, because nobody will buy them."

It's still a bad precedent, but it makes more sense.
I don't see how this is more notable than dwm, but that's wikipedia for you...
I wonder how firing's like under such a system. Do they do performance reviews once every two weeks, or something like that?
good point. but that is an argument for a tablet, not necessarily the IPad. I suspect the launch of the IPad will get a lot of manufactures to focus on tablets of various form factors and as soon as I can get one i can put Linux on, with plenty of ports, at an affordable price, I'll buy one.

(I'll never pay any money to Apple or develop on their ecosystem. They act too sucm bag-gy for my liking - just a personal preference)
What's "assist"? Telling someone how to modify a semi-automatic gun to be fully-automatic? (Apparently not.)

Every article about this situation is very low on details, so I am not sure that the programmers didn't do something obviously illegal. In that case, the fact that they were programmers is irrelevant, and shouldn't be mentioned. (The article should be "Some people that worked for Madoff helped him commit crimes" instead of "Programmers randomly indicted for t3h c0dez.")
For me it's the same but the software I use is for Unix. By the way, most of the software you use is available on OS X and Linux as well. All of it that I can see, but I'm not familiar with Pencil, Widcomm BT, or FBReader.

I guess if the software you use works well with a touch screen then that's fine. I far prefer my iPhone to any Windows Mobile device I've owned. You can't just shoehorn a desktop UI into a touch-screen device without a keyboard or mouse without the experience being subpar.

I have not used a good tablet PC, maybe I should try one out but none have been that compelling to me. I'll probably get an iPad eventually, to develop for it if nothing else. It's too much like my iPhone and not enough like my notebook for me to jump at the 1st revision of a 1st gen product. In a year or two I'll get one when the kinks are worked out and the feature set has been fleshed out.

edit: While the exo pc and tc1100 look pretty nice I don't imagine many developers tailor anything for them. That will be the biggest strength of the iPad (at first anyway).
It's potentially huge, because of the potential for sub-nyquist signal reconstruction. Imagine if the only extant photo of a historical event was a shitty jpeg or comparatively low-resolution picture. Compressed sensing yields techniques for reconstructing a higher quality version of the image than the original hardware or codec was capable of recording.

It's frustrating to me as I work a lot with audio and video but the math is much harder than anything else I've encountered in DSP. I feel stupid every time I dig into it.
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I think SXSW was a mess this year - but it was still a worthwhile conference to be at.

Was advertising everywhere and totally in your face? Yes. Were there a million people trying to get into the parties? Yes. Did all the panels totally suck? Yes (this is something the author totally failed to mention BTW.)

The benefit to going to SXSW is to see / meet people in your space. The most important part is just being there, and getting awesome introductions. The noise is totally outrageous. I don't think anyone launching a product (including us) would be able to make huge waves unless you already had nice little buzz going.

SXSW is amazing because everyone from SF, LA, NYC, Austin, and a million other places come together expecting to meet people.

One last thing - Nick posted this comment: I am part of the mid-to-high-profile blogger/media crowd; I'm entitled, but I know how shitty I sound saying that I'm entitled. We're the crowd who demands VIP access.

Dude you are so lame it hurts. All these parties were the same. Do you really need to get drunk and have awkward social media conversations at 3 AM? Do I really want to watch an overweight blogger try to ride a mechanical bull? Sure the parties are fun (for a moment) but like btilly said, its all about what your looking for. If I am looking for a party I would much rather go to music (hot girls,) you go to interactive to get a feel for the people in the digital space and what they are trying to do. But yes... last year was a little cooler.
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Why the hell does it keep loading one script a second from xxx.olark.com? And then subsequently crashes the browser.
we love it so far.. great job Chad
I agree that it's a mistake that Wikipedia is deleting these articles, free software is probably taking the brunt of it because there are no print magazines for software (or very few compared to professions that existed before).

Overall, the deletionism hasn't seemed to slow the growth of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%2...

Although I would like to see more recent stats on their deletion rate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Deleting
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I'm fairly sure it's still legal, at least in Utah. I know people who do it on a semi-regular basis.
When I moved to Georgia, I was surprised by how many dialysis clinics there are. Like, half the strip malls in my current town have one.

Obesity is the main risk factor for adult-onset diabetes; diabetes and high blood pressure are the main risk factors for chronic kidney disease, and when your kidneys finally fail (whether it's under the strain of sweet tea and biscuits & gravy, or Pepsi and Big Macs), you need dialysis.

It's getting so bad now that we're seeing adult-onset diabetes, the diet-inflicted kind, appearing in kids -- not to be confused with juvenile-onset diabetes, the kind that's normally genetic.
"This solves a real, pressing need for many sites: maintaining user engagement after they're off your website. The number of people who register and never come back is depressing -- many of them might be enticed to come back, if you only had a way of getting in touch. "

Ok I am probably missing something here, but if people won't give you their email (which is what I assume you meant by "if you only had a way of getting in touch.") why would they give you their notifio id (or whatever it takes to push notifications to their cell phone)? How is email not a "permission marketing channel" but notifo is? (genuine questions, not snark)
Windows 7 supports multitouch, so running it on an tablet computer is not outlandish as it seems.
> There is no debate

Well, I guess you automatically "win" whatever discussion you are having when you open with those four words. I presume the logical next step is for us to switch into Monty Python skit mode:

"There is no debate."

"Yes there is."

"No there isn't."

"Yes there is."

"No there isn't."

"Well the RIAA is debating you, so yes there is."

"No they aren't. They can't simply make a rhetorical point conflating two different things and call that a debate. They have to make something that I agree is a valid debating point."

"No they don't."

"Yes they do..."
I am curious about the answer to Jeff Lindsay's comment. Why do we need another app in this space when there is a powerful free open-source framework for doing this (http://notify.io)?
I think this happens every 90 days, the last one was 41 days ago
What's stopping someone malicious from entering my username in a random account on a random site? I see I can block it, but what if I actually want to use the site with my real account?

Seems like you should use a random token, or something slightly more secure.

Alternatively, make it even easier for users by using the email address they used to sign up for the service, like Gravatar for notifications. The user usually has to verify the email address anyway.

edit: ah, I see that it asks for confirmation
because once you start using email, you no longer need notifo?
pm view in big corp is his ass. Period.

Anything that might risk his name apearing on anything that stands out, be it a minor note from legal or a note in the rolled back launchs in the sysadm journal and he sticks with windows forms.
If there ever was a comment that justified the 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' proverb then this is it.

Congratulations, it looks like you've had a tough deck to play with and you're making the most of it.
To be fair everything that DOPi makes is nastily cheap Chinese garbage. I would want to sue for punitive damages if they were using ANY of the letters in my brand, let alone iPOD spelled backwards.
It's Olark doing cross-domain polling via script tags.

Get a better browser.
Sounds a little like Microsoft's "Dallas":

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsAzure/dallas/
I'm thinking of it more as a supplement for email, not a replacement. It has advantages for the business -- the immediacy of a phone notification as compared to email (which is becoming less and less immediate, particularly as it moves from desktops to web clients), the fact it is not yet done to death, and the fact that it is structurally guaranteed to be opt-in only means deliverability should rock as compared to email.
I'm not suggesting that at all - you should always buy whatever is best for you regardless of politics. (Loyalty is for suckers.)

However I hope there is a total blood shed and all out patent war. I don't personally agree to the current method in which patents are used. It's a system desperately needing an overhaul. (Which is simply not going to happen.)
Three periods is better in terms of the visual signal. But two are enough to make the signal clear. I guess it's a question of where you want to stopp counting.
This exactly describes my graduate school experience in a certain mathematics department.
Jeff contacted me after I launched. We are in the middle of a conversation about this, but we both had to go to dinner (he with a group, and I hadn't eaten all day).

His concerns are valid, but we are both wanting to finish our discussion (it is/was quite open).

However, the canonical answer to "why do we need another X in this space" is "why did google need to be another search engine?" It may be that we are fulfilling different demands, and we both agree that competition is better for everyone involved.
Gecko links directly with liboggplay to restrict themselves to exclusively WAV and vorbis+theora in ogg containers. Every other app out there uses a standard media handling library: ffmpeg (esp. if bundling), GStreamer, QuickTime, DirectShow, or some combination of them.

This was made explicit when us proles discovered that Mozilla has had a GStreamer <video> implementation for two years, for use in their mobile port so that they have a hope of playing video in real time:

> My exclusive focus for this GStreamer integration has been to make it work with Fennec. Not enabling it in Firefox on platforms where GStreamer has been ported to, is as far as I know a political decision. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540#c105

Architecting against plugins is not new in the free software community. RMS purposefully designed GCC so that you couldn't interface with its internal representations to make it impossible to have independent language frontends, optimizers, or target backends. That led directly to ECGS, a complete fork of GCC away from the FSF's control after they let it languish and refused patches — the FSF lost and eventually blessed it as the 'real' GCC. Its closed architecture is the primary motive behind LLVM's ascendancy.
Yea this whole talk really didn't help my perception of these products' developers at all.
Not that similar, I think appnotify falls under the class of APSN infrastructure service provider which brings to mind,
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Please see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203422

The name difference is innocuous. The main reason for "notifo" was that the .com was available, honestly.
I think your blog was one of the most memorable things I came across on HN.
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Notifo has a shipping product which does notifications on a phone. notify.io has describes telephone clients as something which may possible be available eventually.

Existing is a fairly useful feature.
Not done for, we just become undefined.
So to what do you attribute minor fluctuations every other day of the year? Talk about confirmation bias.
> Get a better browser.

Yeah, it was very sneaky of Mozilla to force Firefox 3.6 on 3.0 users. It seems to be hanging and crashing left and right. Switching to something else though is not an option for a variety of reasons.
How long did it take you to get the app approved for the AppStore listing? Just curious what the length of an average release cycle is like.
in addition, notify.io has iphone support through Prowl (a non-free app, which I have used for a long time), but notifo has a native iphone client with tight integration for notifo's own infrastructure.
> This change was accompanied by a switch to single-stream recycling - that is, all recyclable materials can be deposited in one bin and sorted later. From what I've seen, this change has significantly increased recycling.

If the two changes (signage and single bin) happened at the same time, why the claim that signage was significant (and the omission of the single bin omission)?

> Could you give some examples of goods that don't make sense to recycle currently?

Sorry - I stopped tracking these things when I figured out that folks didn't care about the economics. I'm reasonably sure that they still exist because people are still people.
I also think it's a leap to say television caused this. If they really wanted to prove causation, they could have tested it back to back in different regions. Instead, they settled on the answer they appeared to be looking for all along, that it's just TV.
Why should it matter? People in normal workplaces can screw around for months before they get fired. Physical workplaces are good for identifying the workers who do nothing, but not the workers who do nothing useful.
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But demand -- in the long run -- is directly related to reliability/consistency. I think that this model can work, but it will take time before institutions integrate the data into mission-critical applications. I see this idea as a means of small, niche data-providers to start their own firms and perhaps start to provide the data independently of Data Marketplace.
> Telling someone how to modify a semi-automatic gun to be fully-automatic?

Almost all such "instructions" don't actually work. (It's a near-perfect form of consumer fraud because you can't complain to the FTC or police when the instructions don't work.)

Note that you can also tell people how to make poison, explosives, overthrow a govt, speed, rob a bank, and so on. (The conviction in the "hit man manual" case appears to have been an exception.)
I started notify.io with Jeff and you're misunderstanding what notify.io is. We have clients not just for the iPhone, but also for the Mac, Windows, Ubuntu and Android. You should check it out before describing it as "telephone clients".
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Back in our Viaweb days this was my quick test for whether a competitor was worth taking seriously.
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Fair point. In fact, why own the client at all? Be the middleman, and sent to twitter, facebook, hot social network of 2011, etc, instead of messing with clients. Lowers adoption barriers considerably.
Check out notify.io (open source and has support for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Android)
From my personal experience, being self-employed definitely makes you feel more productive. No more wasting time on obviously useless or invented tasks just to justify your presence in the office. Also, being a designer, I don't have to look for a creativity switch anymore that should function from 9 to 5. Sorry, my mom made me really creative and productive from 10pm on.
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Really? When I click on get started it only offers to download a mac client.
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Here's how I came to my apparently mistaken impression that you do not have shipping clients for phones and thus bear no resemblance to this product:

1) I went to notify.io and looked for a list of supported platforms, and saw prominent notices that your problem is described as "Get desktop notifications from web applications" and that the quickstart suggestions presume use of a Mac client.

2) I looked at every top-level navigation element for a list of supported platforms, and failed to find it.

3) I dug around a bit for the development blog via Google, and found a roadmap post from January, which included: "Outlets repesent the other major feature of Notify.io. They’re ways you can get a notification. ... Currently supported Outlets besides Desktop Notifier are Email, Jabber IM, and Webhooks. Outlets to look forward to are SMS, Twitter, IRC, and perhaps telephone."

Now, as one OSS developer to another, let me say this as gently as I possibly can: if you want people to think of you when someone says "mobile notifications", you should probably note somewhere fairly conspicuous that you actually support mobile notifications.
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Did that actually bear out in which companies went on to be successful? It's an appealing notion, but I question it every time I run across a successful company that can't get it right.
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I think the argument over losing them is moot. At my library, we're looking into loaning netbooks because we can buy 3 netbooks for the price of a single laptop (and then double the loan period to 8 hours and let them leave the building), but how many people actually lose them? I think it's a justification for being cheap. That is reasonable for libraries loaning out tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, but appalling to me for any developer. Or perhaps I'm just out of touch?

The iPad, on the other hand, is cheap. It's portable. It covers all the bases (music, email, internet, photos, and the app store). When I was talking with my mechanic, his exact words were, "so you wouldn't need a computer anymore." Exactly. Suddenly, anyone, including you, can experience the best of mobile technology (and arguably consumer technology) for only $499. And then splurge on a decent laptop like a Macbook for "real work". If you actually need any better, you should be relatively rich, so buy a MBP. Heck, keep using your Kindle too. a laptop, Kindle, and iPad is still pretty light.
And the result is that a lot of experts go and make their own wikis, because they can't merge their content into Wikipedia. Which kind of defeats the whole centralisation advantage of Wikipedia.
If I'm reading this right, they're accused of writing programs whose goal was to give disinformation to auditors including the SEC. That would make their being programmers relevant.
> As I understand it, the Fed would control the amount of inflation by setting the interest rates directly.

Except that you can't control the amount of inflation by setting "the" interest rate. You can try to affect inflation with interest rates, but you can't control it.

Inflation is too much currency chasing too few goods. Interest rates paid by banks aren't the only currency supply drivers. Velocity matters, and so does govt spending, among other things.
Yeah uh, I should finish up the android notify.io app and put it up in the app store. There's a semi-functional android alpha at http://github.com/newhouseb/Noid for anyone interested in getting involved.
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I would be more convinced if he had shown how he was being unoriginal rather than original.
Very nice! I would love to mess with that if/when you're ready to release source.
> but it is the case that extremely poor people with no savings barely feel [inflation], while rich people will see some of their money (money in checking accounts, savings accounts, etc) lose its value.

Poor people's wages don't necessarily increase as fast as the cost of things that they buy. If their wages fall behind, they lose.

BTW - "rich people" don't keep an appreciable fraction of their money in checking and savings. They keep their "cash equivalents" in things that have higher yields during times of inflation. (I think that TPS bond funds already exist, providing both liquidity and the inflation-protection of TPS bonds.)

Money market interest rates were fairly high during the last time of significant US inflation.
Honestly, I do sympathize with you. There have been many times during my career when I felt there were clear benefits to using a new/less widely used technology. At one time that meant using C instead of COBOL. Unfortunately, my arguments have rarely survived the "what if you get hit by a bus" counter-argument. If you develop something using a whiz-bang technology, and then suddenly you are not there (you get a great job offer based on what you have created), who is going to support/maintain your creation while "they" find another wizard? The ancients solved the problem by laming their smiths.
It gets quieter because of the transmission loss plan. Historical reasons, basically.

Since analog connections lose power with distance, there was defined an acceptable maximum loss for each segment in the network. If a line came in too hot, a "pad" was added to dissipate some power at the receiving end. If it was too low, the circuit was out of spec and had to be re-engineered.

At the other end of the telephone switch, an amplifier was added to jack up all the outgoing signals to the proper amplitude for the transmission network.

All this amplification and loss was necessary to make sure that all telephone calls had about the same volume. The network didn't all switch over to digital switching and transmission in one day (in fact there are some analog interoffice circuits still in use to this day in Alaska), so we retained some vestiges of the loss plan.

It's pretty likely that your PBX system connected to the network over analog lines anyway. :)