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With WinMo 7 all apps must be coded in Silverlight, and there is no native development. This might be okay if they weren't using IE7 as the basis for the WinMo 7 browser.
Greek bonds are about to mature and there is no money. Without some deal, which wasn't forthcoming because of the fallout in German elections, then Greece would have to default.

If this is not reported in the rating then the Agency has no credibility.
> When you blow up a balloon, the volume of rubber remains the same, but the area gets larger-- because it expands into open space.

Well, actually you're considering the air there - so it doesn't work. Ignore the air and think about how the balloon skin moves through the medium.

In fact the balloon can be considered as not expanding into open air; simply more air is inside it than before - equally a little less air is outside it than there was before (ignoring pressure differences for the moment). Imagine if the skin was perfectly flat and was stretched. The air "moves" around it but is irrelevant to the expansion (and thinning) of the skin. The example only demonstrates how an object can have a larger area without changing volume.

Same principle - but in the balloon it is easier to demonstrate relative movement.

Im only basing this on my own experience but anyone I've ever given the proper explanation too has gone "oh yeh, I see" (or something the that effect).
Words don't dictate reality.

And words sure don't represent reality.

The expanding universe theory is an attempt to visualize what is going on, not to actually describe what is really going on.

Language is a simplification of reality. They create linear narratives (expanding from something smaller to something bigger)

But just as time probably isn't what we think it is, these narratives aren't anything but descriptors of experienced phenomena.

Just as when Dawkins talks about the selfish gene. He isn't saying that they are really selfish (they don't have agency) he say they behave as if they are selfish.

There is absolutely nothing that dictates that we need to be able to express in language what is going on, case in point quantum physics where we have non locality.

The expanding universe theory makes sense because the metaphors used to describe it take our perspective into consideration.

But in reality there isn't necessarily any expansion taking place. In physical reality yes, but that is not all of reality.
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Yes I suppose I should have said a "consumer software company" to be more clear. There's a world of difference between enterprise/support software and consumer oriented SmartPhone platforms. Still I'm sure HP could have managed it in-house but they're working on a 4-5 year deficit of time compared to Apple and Google. $1B to catch-up overnight is not a bad deal at all. Either way they probably would have needed to pull in outside resources. I can't imagine the OpenView guys writing a SmartPhone media player or e-mail application.
Dude, this is one of the coolest job postings I've seen on HN for a while.

Not so much what the job involves (which is pretty cool in itself) but that you're reaching out to the HN community to hopefully bring some people like yourself onto your project. You were obviously passionate about Divvyshot, glad to see it's followed through with FB.
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Why do you think that Flash running the same Ecmascript code would be an order of magnitude faster?

Flash may (currently) have more capabilities than browsers, but when matched point for point (e.g. video vs video, SVG vs vectors, Canvas vs procedural bitmap generation) I've not seen any evidence of spectacular performance differences, despite browser code running in a secure sandbox. And when there is it's rarely something fundamental, like you'd see comparing HTML5 or Flash video against a simple video playback system, just bugs and/or unoptimized code.
I find it somewhat ironic that Robert Peston is criticising the ratings agencies for playing a very similar role to the one he played in the Northern Rock fiasco.
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England originally, and now in Poland, which has done nothing but utterly confuse my English ;-)
Teenagers commit suicide more often than avarage people. And it is clear why: world looks so new and this is really hard to take huge responsibility, find your place and etc. And HS is a cruel place. Prolly 99.9999% of teenagers had a suicidal thoughts in HS.
I think it's more because air bubbles are squeezed out as the glacier moves, making it clearer than fridge ice which usually contains many air bubbles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(glacial)
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But guy had already returned the phone - so for what purpose was the search in any case - and why not just call him in - it's not like he posted his own face on his own blog or anything? Apple could be perceived as going too far to protect an average design here.
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Is it better than android as well?
It's good but I'm not sure on the pricing. (Incidentally why is this "hidden" at the bottom of the front page?)

I'm comparing it to Google Checkout as it's what I currently use to take payments. How does it compare?

The first thing is that I don't know how you're taking money from the clients or prompting them to pay. Do they pay via PayPal or Google Checkout or do they have options? "get paid online through PayPal" would suggest they do.

If so, how do you make money? What's your secret to getting such a low price? I think I'm paying Google several hundred each month to process my payments (PayPal would be the same) so are there hidden charges?

Is there an API? It's nice (and crucial for me being able to scale) not having to process all my clients manually.

Please correct me if I've completely gone off the plot but this is my stream of consciousness. I do like the front page!
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I thought it would be some article about the difference between cash and accrual accounting, and how temporary differences in these numbers can cause (short-term, but potentially fatal) problems.
(this is a bit tongue in cheek but..)

Is there any more powerful and feared financial reporter in the UK than Robert Preston?

The guy - who's essential task is to report on the comings and goings of financial institutions so the rest of us can understand - materially contributed to public panic during the banking crisis of last year.

At the time his doom and gloom reporting on national television caused many uninitiated people (in the UK) to panic about the state of the economy; when a more rational response would have been better.

Peston may claim he is only reporting the facts; but his treatment of Northern Rock may well have helped push things over the edge.

Perhaps I am being over zealous in giving Peston some of the blame. Who knows.

[In all seriousness, though, Peston has a history of disliking almost all financial institutions for some reason - and as a result the BBC reporting of the banking crisis was both skewed and problematic. I know quite a few people who misconstrued things from the tone and delivery of information and as a result panicked like crazy.

He may have the makings of a point here; but I always take his opinions with a pinch of salt :) ]
Every comment on this thread so far (20+) has said that this story is not noteworthy in some fashion or another -- and it has a lot of upvotes and is the top ten.

??
What about an Xbox 360?

According to this page it is $99 a year to be able to distribute Xbox Live Community games:

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/XboxLIVECommunityGames
Hey. API is in development yes.
Yes well Paypal will take their 3.4% off you, we are literally just storing your invoices and connecting your clients with Paypal. We don't take any payments from your client - it goes direct through to Paypal. Feel free to contact me if you want to talk more about it.
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Tim, your blog has been great to read. I was just inspired to apply for a position at Google. 3 actually. Crosses fingers!
That's not really fair. He says that Google employees know a lot of "secret" information about Google, much more than e.g. Sun employees knew about Sun.

It's still light on content (it's an announcement, not an article, so this may be somewhat expected).
The problem is, by serving a warrant and confiscating all his computers and related devices, they've bypassed his ability to protect sources not just in this case, but in all other cases, as well. That's the rationale for making the legal path subpoenas rather than search warrants with journalists.
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You can't really serve all but images in SSL as unfortunately browsers complain about this. We tried it but people constantly ask us why they get alerts (IE) and there is a "caveat" to the lock in Firefox. Sad but true.
My theory: a 4chan group is starting to experiment with manipulating HN through reddit.
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Agreed. It is, however, quite possible for a rating agency to influence the value of various things inadvertently or on purpose.
Hopefully it becomes a widely adopted standard before we start inching backwards towards the good ol' days when sites were optimized to the browser.

Web apps can be neat and useful, but do we really need a 250-300MB run-time for a thin client?

Maybe I'm just getting old.
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As does most of the world.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I can still recall the shock when the first Windows compatible iPods where released. Ever since then many, many decisions have been made to favour the portable devices over the Mac platform.
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I'm a native English speaker and that was the first thing that came to mind. If I saw this link anywhere other than an Ask HN post, I would automatically pass on clicking it.
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He was certainly rather negative about RBS, HBOS and Northern Rock - but didn't they rather deserve it?

I would rather think the management of Northern Rock caused the run - Peston was just doing his job by reporting it. This might not have been the traditional British way of dealing with these kinds of things but personally I'd rather know that have it all covered up.
This guy is either crap at explaining, or hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.
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Combinations is also in +3.0. Otherwise a valid concern. (Been burned by that one myself.)

I can't find the source, but there might be some confusion between map/filter/reduce and itertools. Guido does not like map/filter/reduce and wants to get rid of them.

Itertools is a huge part of Python 3.0. Everything is an iterator in the language. And the docs underwent a major rewrite with the 3.0 release. It is not going to be deprecated.
:) sorry to disappoint! sounds like a good idea for an article.
You might want to look at Garnet and Amulet, which used a number of neat techniques with prototype-style objects to build user interfaces. There's a good summary of their work at:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/amuletappframe.pdf

On the FP side of things, I'd _very_ highly recommend "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," by Abelson and Sussman.
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EDIT: Sorry, that was bending the rules. I wasn't trying to be snarky. My point is that I think you are pulling my leg. If so, well done.
While true, the lines do seem to blur a fair bit at times, court-jester style...
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I had MANY moments in my adolescence when I almost went the same route (willingly or unwillingly).

Hell - I was so frustrated and numbed by everything going on around me that the only emotion I had left in me was rush in the vicinity of death.

My deathwish got me into extreme sports. Doing extreme sports acted as a catalyst for my soul. I got fit, I stabilized emotionally hell I even regained capacity for empathy and love. I literally went to hell and back... Whats my point? If I lost my life during my "walkabout" - nobody would have lost all that much. And no amount of laws and evaluations and whatnot could change that.

I'm not arguing that we shouldn't try to help people. I'd just like to point out that not all lives could (or even should) be saved.
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They are not going to be selling Macs in ten years.

I don't think so. From their second quarter report for this year:

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He's already worked for Facebook :)
I think Google is in a much more big brother relationship with it's users than Apple is. Apple restricts it's HW and what can run on it, but it does not keep track of it's Users.

IMO, Apple is really much more Disneyland where everything is expensive, looks nice, and is under their control. Also working as a vendor at Disneyland really sucks and involves a lot of rules which can change at any time. But, Disneyland only has the power to kick you out not hand out details of your private life.

PS: I used to develop for Mac OS 8 and while it sucked for a completely different set of reasons it still sucked. I don't think Apple really understands how important developers are because they tend be the first mover and don't have to work to get them.
Wow - a new low on HN. Here we have a never-been-married 19yo who just gave four paragraphs of advice to someone asking for marriage advice.

The fact that you think you should be offering such advice just shows either (a) a complete lack of social skills, (b) a self-belief that is completely whacko, and/or (c) a complete disregard for what life experience brings to the table.

I'd normally have led this with, "No offense..." but since you are 19 and are offering marital advice, you probably should get upset; maybe it will eventually lead to to you objectively look back and say to yourself, "WTF was I thinking responding to that guy? I'm 19 years old and have never been married."
Large pension funds have Terms & Conditions which state what classes of debt/asset each fund is allowed to hold.

These are often defined relative to the Rating Agency score. So when the rating changes (down), they are obliged to sell their holdings and not buy any further debt.
This is Yujin Chung, the grad student at Wharton who helped Ben with some of the research. One thought I had (which I will blog about) is the context supporting Ben's three reasons is large founder equity stake (which is generally many times larger than a professional CEO stake). More specifically, on "moral authority," it's not just having the guts to change a company's direction, but having the actual shareholder and board control to force such strategic decision.
TL;DR: There are lots of interesting thing to say about Google but I'm not allowed to talk about them.

Edit - can someone explain why I'm being downvoted?
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That's like trying to imagine what being dead "is like" for materialist atheists. If you don't believe in an afterlife, then your consciousness simply ceases. There is no experience of being dead.
This might help you locate it :)
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The general reasoning for why the variation is so big isn't that hard.

Set asks you to look for cards that sit at the edges of the bell curve. Most combinations will be "mostly similar" or "mostly different" but not entirely one way or the other.

When you start with a 12-card no-set combination, that means that your first 12 cards were already of a low "quality" and sit in the middle of the curve; the 3 cards added can't push the distribution to an extreme by themselves.

Edit: to think of it another way, inverse the problem; Of the usable 12-card combinations, any number of cards could be added and they'd still have at least one set. Hence you're filtering most good 15-card sets when you do the opposite.
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http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Sure that's not the whole deal, but still.
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I would also suggest some kind of discount for non-profit organisations - they can be a good way to get your name spread around too.
If reason and sound research leads them to a conclusion that does influence I say all the better.

It was the concern you described that led them to do nothing from 2004-2007.
Reading The Big Short by Michael Lewis was illuminating.

Essentially, the ratings agencies have done pretty well over the years on corporate and government bonds. There is a lot of quality historical data, and a relatively small number of institutions involved.

Their models broke down when it came to mortgages and how thousands (millions?) of loans hang together. But that doesn't mean their models of corporate/government debt don't still hold up.
I think he let his bias speak alongside the facts; the reporting at the time (especially on TV) was a little misleading.
Agreed. Still, as the parent of a 15-yr-old boy, I have firsthand experience with teachers behaving incredibly cruelly and unprofessionally. In these instances, combined with the normal pressures of high school, it is no wonder that a student on the receiving end of that behavior would choose such a drastic path.
So, if the universe is getting larger, like a balloon, where is it going?

In a way, it's like all of the light waves are shrinking locally, and only the ones traveling the distance between galaxies are staying the same. (Which is not what's really happening either.)
If you find yourself in one of them there's no reason you have to let them know you're thinking subversive thoughts.
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When the balloon expands, its two dimensional surface are increases because the balloon is expanding into the 3rd dimension. Why can't a universe of n dimensions simply expand into the n+1 dimension?

Or, put in a better way - the universe humans can perceive is expanding, without expanding into anything else we can perceive.
Accusation is hard, lets go insinuating! Hey look, the author of that article used to work for Gawker!
Less talk, just ship it!
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The really interesting thing about set is that it has a very mathematical interpretation. You can think of sets as points in affine 4-space over Z_3. There is actually a very interesting paper on the whole thing:

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~maclagan/papers/set.pdf
I find it difficult to believe that these agencies operate independently from politics. Borrowing of recent years would seem to confirm some of this. Agencies seem to form part of the political landscape. In this case the agency is used as a means to apply political pressure: both on Germany to form an unpopular deal and Greece to accept terms.

To me this looks to be part of political pressure applied by Washington on the IMF, Greece and the Eurozone. I'm sure the politicians want to act but any measure is going to be unpopular with one electorate or another. It's a political play for the consumption of the European electorate.
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If any given model of the universe involves n dimensions, why can't we simply have it expand into the n+1 dimension? When you inflate a balloon, it's 2d area is increasing by the balloon expanding into the 3rd dimension.

In any model of the universe as a brane of n dimension, its expansion can be modeled as expansion in the n+1 dimension. Perhaps "universe" is a paradoxical word that cannot have a meaning? It's hard to imagine a world of infinite dimension.
What I got was: make sure you can convince clients you have the power to break and restore the internet.
Is there any chance you may build , apps that bring more value? Wallpapers are probably good to pay the bills,but in the long run, this is Android market pollution, don't you think?
I'm an entrepreneur and a college dropout. One reason I'm an entrepreneur is that, lacking a formal education and degree, I had fewer options within big tech companies. While I'm completely happy with my own career trajectory, I advise young folks to finish their degree so that they have more options.

I really think the article and the general sentiment of romanticizing the drop out entrepreneur does a disservice to young people.
Yeah, but they've gotten really good at copying that from Apple (HP Envy, HP Slate) so it might not be a problem.