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You can't be physically stopped from jailbreaking your iwhatever either. Apple would probably like to prevent that from happening but they haven't spent nearly as much effort in the system design as say Sony did with the PS3 or BluRay towards making it difficult.

You have three choices: Buy Apple and color within the lines. Buy Apple and jailbreak, lose stability in favor of features. Buy Android.

Frankly I find it difficult to muster much outrage over Jobs' tyrannical jihad against openness (or whatever) when there are so many available alternatives. Many people are quite content with a walled garden approach; castigating Apple for taking their money seems backwards.
I like that last line. Excellent and true!
from 2004, but I found it to be a pretty good + thorough read. I'm sure things have changed, but the base logic is good.
That could likely explain why it's so hard to find the type of girl you're describing. :)
Yeah, but that's only because of willful acquisition and maintenance of a monopoly on awesome.
By spamming HN?
The flip side is, what choice do we really have? We can either try to improve ourselves with measurements that our brains may subconsciously game, or we just give up on improving ourselves.

My personal approach is to try to raise the bar past what a placebo can give me. Which is tough, because placebos can be pretty robust! It probably means I'm going to miss out on smaller-but-still-real improvements, but at least I have a chance to score the bigger ones. I don't know what else to do. Blinding yourself on which wine you are drinking is sort of possible, but a lot of interesting self-improvements can't be blinded even in principle; are you going to blind yourself to whether or not you're exercising?

I'm often more interested in cognitive improvements, but it's really hard to come up with a cognitive measure that is objective and doesn't naturally rise over time as I practice it daily. Waiting for those things to stabilize can be a problem too; it can be months or even years.
Startup Costs
I know that creating a business plan is common, but i'm not going to do that, instead just a business deck that outlines what we are doing, how we are doing it etc...i want to include some kinds of break-even analysis but i cant find any good resources to help me estimate what our startup costs are going to be.

Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Eric
It is an urban myth. A lot of your body's cells are around for much longer than 7 years, and they do not recycle all of their constituent atoms.
Two things:

a) oil != gasoline
http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm

b) Demand destruction doesn't preclude $500/bbl crude, it just means that when oil hits $500 there won't be nearly as many products that are dependent on it.
Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life
All the technical justification you need can be had from Adobe's other half, which only 3 days ago shipped their first Photoshop for Mac which doesn't use Mac OS Classic GUI APIs. Adobe's delay in switching to the more modern APIs is the reason why they couldn't ship a 64-bit Photoshop for Mac until now.

As Jobs has explained, they've been burned before.
Actually, it isn't a new behavior. Look at the history of Nintendo and the Atari 2600. Bad apps reflect on Apple, just as bad games reflected on Atari.
firmly laid to rest in peas

Ha! The doubled b in bbl is likely an outmoded typographical convention - as in book citation p437, and also pp495-500. I like such archaisms but agree it's a bit confusing and inconsistent with other conventions - eg we don't talk of $5 bbn to mean five billions.
Many teachers, from what I understand, are employed as some type of specialists, and no longer teach.
FTC expected to block Google's AdMob buy
I'm not anti-progress, but it seems like you should make significant changes after you have a large market share.

They're already the Linux distro with the greatest desktop market share. What more do you want them to wait for?
Anyone can get 50K visitors in a month. Hell, I got 50K visits to a blog of mine, over 24 hours, for posting about renaming { and } to openstache/closestache.

The bigger problem is keeping people's attention after the initial spike.
College has become an extension of high school and less of a place where people go to learn.
I've only got one question for apple: What's next?
Mike Arrington to be Working out of Seattle on TechCrunch
>They're restricting me from using my platform portable pure C code, which is their choice.

Couldn't you just use managed C++?
What if his name is Scotty, and rather than zapping you, he merely stored you in his transporter buffer and delayed beaming you to your destination for a moment?

What if he didn't delay at all? Did he kill you just by letting your atoms get ripped apart and reassembled elsewhere?

Or is this whole continuity-of-self thing a sham?
The big numbers will be the ongoing revenue stream of apps and content delivered via those million devices. I think everyone will be surprised at the average monthly spend through the app store/content stores.
It's sometimes worse than this article describes and it's not just in LA.

I grew up in a small town in NH (population ~5k people). I have a close friend whose sister was in a "special attention" program (let's call her Jane). Jane was in a program for kids who were "slower" than the other kids. They
didn't have any physical learning disabilities, just poorer grades.

The time came for the yearly standardized tests (called the CATs in NH). On the day of the tests Jane's class was taken out on a special 'field trip'; they all went bowling. In the morning the kids lined up for class and Jane and her friends gloated to the other suckers who had to stay behind, "We get to go bowling and you have to stay here and take tests."

The result? The school's scores were a little bit higher that year.
Stories about Dubai and Detroit are fascinating to me, because they are a kind of "fall of civilization" bizarre..
What Every Developer Should Know About URLs
Second Life Users File Class Action Lawsuit Over Virtual Land
A few bits of perspective on this:

LA is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country. There's been some decline, but a few years ago a small, poorly-built house in an undesirable part of the metro area would typically run around $400K.

LAUSD covers an enormous area. Teachers don't get much say in their assignments, so might be commuting 1.5 hours each way.

At least some (possibly all) of LAUSD runs on a year-round calendar. Teachers don't get the same summer break as they would in many other districts. Most of their off-cycle time is spent doing professional development. Saying they only work 36 weeks a year is disingenuous.
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People investing in futures do this every day, and some of them are most certainly credible. Southwest Airlines, e.g., seems to be pretty good at saving a buck with aviation gas futures (though that is a step removed from crude oil).
The way "sophisticated investor" is used bothers me.

In most places where it's currently used, I want "sophisticated investor" to mean people who are fully responsible for their money. If they invest it and quintuple it, cool for them (and they can keep it). If they invest it and lose it, sucks for them (and we don't bail them out).

Using this definition, if "sophisticated investors" lose their life savings to Bernie Madoff, sucks for them. They would still have a civil claim against him in court for lying, but they shouldn't get a government bailout.

I also want to be able to sign some government-support-waiver, and be able to invest my money however I want. Even if my net worth isn't $2 million and my salary is less than $500k/year.
How often do you find yourself looking at the same boring pages ?
"Digital highway"? Someone should tell CNN that it's not the 90's anymore.
Try http://www.globfreelance.com, i am a programmer and made $700 right after posting my portfolio in there
They got a dataentry project posted , easy job, why don't you create a profil in there and make money? Time is money you know.The site is new, but they got lesser restrictions, just don'tpost your email or url, cause they don't like it.My girlfriend made $70 this weekend for an article project
Graphic Tees Redefined
Since more people are working from home these days, casual wear – the graphic tee specifically – has become an American staple wardrobe item. The tees around today are so versatile, diverse and intense that I decided to scour the web for the best graphic designs and share them with you. These designs range from simple, classic, and clean to intricately complex forms of self-expression. Let us know your thoughts on your favorites.
Ask HN: iPhone developers, how long would it take you to build this.
Hi, I would like to hire an iPhone developer to build a special kind of music-player.

Besides doing the obvious music playing, I would like to have custom rhythm bars, (Those things that bounce up and down, while music is playing.) with icon-like images that hop up and down.

Other core features would be to have an simple equalizer and being able to download music from iTunes. And some links that open up the internal web-browser.

Please make an estimate how long it would take you to build something like that. And please rate your level of experience. (You can do all that by mail, if you do not want this to be public.)

I have so far only one offer, but I do not want to put the estimated hours inside here to avoid influencing your opinion.

I am aware that you can give only very rough estimates.. but would be still very happy to know your opinion. I do not care much if your estimate is off by 20 hours. I would just like to get a feeling for the dimension of that work. 30h, 60h, 100h perhaps even 200h..?

In case you would like to make an real offer, you will find my email in my profile-page. Please be warned that I will take some days to answer as I am currently working on something different.

But I will answer. I promise.

Thank you.
The bubble was created by simple instruments: home mortgages.

It would have been better if women weren't forcing their husbands to buy houses they couldn't afford, government wasn't encouraging lenders to make bad loans, and realtors weren't adding fuel to the fire. I don't see a way to prevent all of that, since all of those things are still happening.

The only reason the bubble burst was because of investment banks and other speculators eventually figuring out the problem and putting a stop to it.
An ergonomic mouse.
Which has the higher bound -- the amount of oil we can pump out of the ground in a given day, or the demand for that oil given that we have 1 billion new members of the middle class over the last 25 years alone?

What about the next billion?
rss feed please. feel free to contact me if you need a basic php one.
What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
> Trial-error of beliefs cannot be based on factual experience, since they can't exist (eg. is there a God? Does the Heaven exist?).

Yes, and it is foolish to hold beliefs that cannot be tested or validated in some way. Believing in that for which there is not or cannot be evidence is ignorant.
A new AppleTV that uses iPhone OS and lets you buy apps from your TV screen as well.

Just my thought/hope.
Does moral action depend on reasoning?
Everyone on Twitter should do a #TypoTuesday and not correct typos before hitting Send.
A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right
And if anybody is interested in what PCI DSS actually means check this out!

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_...
Betting on the Blind Side
It's pretty easy to design content that will bring a bunch of hits via HN or Digg or Reddit.

OK, so now you've got traffic to pages about stuff you don't really care about. What's the point?
So folks Don't resent these processes? You've never heard anyone complain about them? Explain.
Good point, and thanks for the warning, I really appreciated it, and I'll keep it in mind.

Those that would use this against me though will find that over time I've changed, bit by bit, and I'm confident enough about these things now that I dare to commit them to writing as a permanent reminder to myself and to others that personal improvement never ends.

And for every person that intends to abuse this there will hopefully be more than one that will either benefit from it indirectly because they can avoid some pitfall elsewhere or because they will know better what my weaknesses are when dealing with me in a positive way.

Life is risk.
girls, guys, pets, anyone,etc.. Maybe the use of the word always shouldn't have been there, but if you're in a relationship with someone they expect attention from you. I think it's fair to say: If you're dating someone they expect a good amount of attention from you. If you're not giving them a good amount of attention then it isn't really a relationship.
I Feel bad, I'm not in that million. And in my country not going to available soon.
Maybe he meant the HN minimalistic design which is awesome. I wish every site was more like HN (more information & less content).
From the Ars link: "Conceptually, it's as bad as adding a button for the audio volume control to the title bar of every single window!"

Granted, it's different with per-application volume control, but still funny.
You can't take that statement at face value. Part of the point of prayer is to focus your mind and block out irrelevant thoughts and stimuli. (Is it not?) I'd like to see how brain activity of people praying compares to those in meditation.
Agree, Magic mouse is really nice. Still too flat.
Well I haven't found anything to disprove it. And from the perpective of the post it's doesn't take anything away even if it's 10 instead of 7
As a complete aside, I can explain the 7 years of bad luck.

Back in the 1500's and up, when mirrors were smoothed silver on glass, they were only for royalty. And as per royalty, there were servants. The "bad luck" was actually punishment of 7 years of indentured servitude to pay for a broken mirror.

Oh what the things you learn by being in the SCA.
The unfortunate part is that I didn't even know it made that error until I posted and re-read my comment from my laptop. The Nexus One's text boxes seem to have issues with a lot of text...when the page is big enough to scroll and the text is also big enough to scroll, it's hard to scroll the text without moving the page. So everything after the second paragraph basically happened off-screen with no visual feedback.
" ... the regions of their brains involved in skeptical thinking and vigilance appear to shut down."

Believers not being skeptical is a bit redundant.
The reason these words are abused is because they work -- rather than admonishing that they "should no longer be used, ever, in any context except derisive mocking," it seems a bit more productive to recognize that there are times and places when customers are more receptive to (and even prefer) being told something is "powerful" than that it "processes 6,253,427 requests daily." (A lot of sites have front-page hype backed up with buried numbers and figures for those who really want to know, anyway.) Being a savvy consumer means knowing what words to dig deeper on, but let's face it, all consumers aren't savvy -- and most of them don't need to be.
That doesn't really say much about Amazon. Those same 1 million people may not have bought any more on the Kindle App than iBooks. We won't know unless Amazon releases the number of books bought from the iPad.
more importantly, imho, why would potential users use this?
As you were everyone - "...sources say..."
Ambigrams
And you believe that!!!
iPhoneOS on Macs?
Joking aside, the "magic mouse" is my favorite piece of apple hardware so far. It's just awesome. Best 70 bucks I have given to apple.
Funny, I think I've actually been quite successful, possibly much more than what I ever deserved, but I always wonder what the road behind me would have looked like if not for these things and I'm ok with making mistakes as long as I learn something from them.

This is just one attempt of many at analyzing and learning from past issues.

Think of it as a single step in a 70 year project of self improvement.
If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can.

Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor. Early reports seem to indicate not yet.
Good stuff. Don't make the text bold, but bump of the font size a pixel or two. Increase the margin between the list items, and make the smaller meta data a color like #777. Good stuff!
I like that! Put more stuff in the title bar of the app.

Except, in Netbook Edition when you expand an application you no longer see its title bar.
It reads as if Stevie Nicks had been part of Pink Floyd. Wonder how Prof. Edmundson grades such paragraphs.

It should be said that it was a lot easier to graduate from college with little or no debt in those days. Private college tuition for the 1973-1974 school year was probably under $3000. One could often find work in the summer (not coding interships, but manual labor) that would bring in $1200 or $1500.
I agree with your conclusion, but it is industry specific. I'd argue that in the tech industry, LA vs. Seattle is basically a wash in terms of career ceiling. Silicon Valley on the other hand...
I would look at this from an even higher, more abstract level than budgets. It's a bit of a chicken or egg problem, but I went to what are considered some of the best public schools in NYC growing up, and I can tell you they aren't great. From a quick look they have all the right check boxes: experienced teachers (close look: old, tired, angry teachers), great math, science and humanities programs (rigid, standardized test based curriculum), etc. etc.

The education I got was by all means "good," but it was VERY herd mentality, and it as very much about standardizing a body of knowledge and culture NOT about promoting active discourse etc.

Yet, I still ended up alright, whereas, considering how "good" a high school I went to, many of the kids did not.

The difference was the home, the neighborhood and the culture we went home to at night. Now I know all of this is circular, and a bit of the chicken egg issue, but there is really nothing you can do for people when the household they go back to doesn't support their education. Conversely, even a horrible school can't ruin a good education provided by your family and community. You can give them all the help in the world, but no matter how many free college workshops you have, if education isn't explicitly a goal among their friends, family and community they'll realize pretty quickly that it wont be useful in their lives and will disengage.

So I'm all for education reform, I think it should be a constant in our society. Education ALWAYS needs improving. But we need to be a little more careful with understanding what exactly an education system can and cannot provide.

The problems that are in this article can't really be fixed with a better education system, they are symptomatic of far bigger cultural issues that need addressing.
Steve Jobs: mystery patent pool to attack Ogg Theora
Microsoft Arc all the way. Looks great paired with a Macbook Pro.
The Flash on Nexus One video is pretty impressive.

If this is the true user experience when it gets released to consumers, that would be awesome.
Ask HN:APIs for banks/financial institutions?
Investment sites like Covestor, Cake Financial or financial sites like Mint, Wesabe, Buxfer often have a 'import' feature where you can import your portfolio/account data from several institutions.

How would I go about getting at some of these APIs? Do I have to go through a 3rd party provider like Yodlee?
Seriously? It just feels uncomfortable with my limited testing. What makes it your favorite?
You know that 100 years ago people were panicked about peak coal. And "experts" (mostly environmentalists who have an agenda against industrial society) have predicted peak oil every ten years for the last 60.
Clearly the author is not very familiar with the vocabulary of the hipster subculture. There are people who can argue for hours whether some band is still 'authentic' or not.
Wishlist:

- Pixel Qi or similar screen (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/the-pixel-qi-display/ ). 1024x768 (instead of x600) would be nice.

- Thrifty CPU/chipset (e.g. 1GHz ARM, etc.), for day-long battery.

- Video out (e.g. mini-DP, for presentations, etc.)

- Easy to install your own OS. Seems there's already Linux underneath WebOS; if HP is not selling hardware at a loss, it might as well profit from unsupported (software wise) customers ...
The accounts been around for 18 days and 4 out of 5 submissions have been for the same website: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AmberShah
That's not scheduled until next year.
They're not even comparable as e-readers--backlit iPad is not easy on the eyes.

The kindle has room to improve on usability but it's far more practical.
I imagine whatever they do next will have to do with fixing their users' biggest problem at the moment: AT&T's horrendous network service. An interesting (possibly related?) observation is that Apple has saved up about ~$40B in cash.
Apple does not have a big selection yet. And let's not forget there are other means to get books on iPad. I have Stanza, Classics, Eucalyptus and Kindle on my iPhone…
Nice site, I sent the link to some of my friends in the medical sciences. Hope it takes off.
About 2.5 years ago, my boyfriend and I had an idea and wanted to do a startup. I had zero coding experience, but I really, really wanted to be involved in a startup. So I taught myself how to code and then built the entire front end of the project.

That project failed, but soon later we founded a new startup that is on its way to ramen profitability. (We learned A LOT from the first experience). We both code essentially equal amounts, and share all the stress, while of course supporting each other at the same time. Neither of us has ever been happier doing anything.
'Smart dust' aims to monitor everything
This is somewhat misleading - a successful vulnerability scan isn't enough to say whether Spreedly is PCI DSS compliant.

Vulnerability scanning is just one component of PCI compliance - others include an audit of your architecture, security training, risk assessment, and much more.

That said, we passed the Level 1 PCI audit, which is the highest level. The lower levels may have somewhat relaxed requirements.

edit: I should also mention that we compete with Spreedly