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Ah I missed your post, very interesting.

Honestly I don't think the space is crowded at all. When researching the space I found that the competition is entirely disappointing. There's a host of services that do a lot more and you pay for it. I don't need an enterprise solution that costs $100 a month, I just need to know if my site is up.

And then you have a bunch of unprofessional and confusing small ones. That are after the exact same customers but are doing a very poor job at it. The only real serious competition that we found is Pingdom. Which I've used personally for my sites and I've always hated that they make me refill SMS and that they couldn't call my phone. I often simply ignore texts for hours or sleep through them. Though in my research I found I'm pretty alone in wanting a website up monitor to call me and not just text.
I've heard this is to mitigate risk of registration overloads. I don't think Apple has tried at-home activation since the original launch.
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Anyone know where I'll be able to get a iPhone 4 without contract in the US?
If you compare Byrne's version side-by-side with another (as Tufte does in Envisioning Information) then I think you'll agree that it's much easier to follow.
Truth is a good thing, agreed. But I'd say that philosophy is an ineffective way at arriving at truth, however. Science, logic and mathematics are much better at it.

Philosophy also suffers from some crippling flaws that Wittgenstein pointed out.
wow, sickest PR team ever.
Thanks, we added a link to sign up in the "Plan and Price" section.

Also added a link specific to Hacker News visitors which takes you to the 'sign up w/o a credit card' page.
I've been using 4.0 on my 3G since the initial betas were released. I was hoping the GM version would address the performance issues, but no luck - I've had it installed on my phone since it was released around WWDC, so I don't think this is a Spotlight issue. Glad the iPhone 4 is coming tomorrow; the 3G really is almost unusable for me at this point (Google Maps especially).
Judging from IRC and perlmonks.org there are tons of newbies trying to do real work. I gather the growth of CPAN and core contributors indicate growing growth.

I am genuinely curious where you got your ideas about on perl usage?

Regardless of growth or decline in any of Perl, Python, and Ruby, my opinion is they're so equivalent it's barely worth discussing them separately. Pick the one that has the libraries and frameworks you need. It so happens that http://search.cpan.org is the easiest way to check up on libraries for any of the languages.

Perl6, if they ever pull off a fast and stable release, is another matter. It's likely to be a game changer. I actually quite dislike this perl5i thing and the declarex syntax changing modules in general because they needlessly fragment the language.
$2.5 / user * 1.1m users / developer = $2,750,000/developer

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Muscles are for show as well as function sir ;)
I generally agree with you, but your post seems misplaced -- the article isn't about losing weight or building muscle. Instead, it's simply about getting out of your chair and maintaining a minimal level of fitness. It is geared toward sedentary people who aren't motivated to exercise, not people who want to lose weight!
>> The reason they pushed for it? Basically, private banks were printing too many banknotes and causing bouts of inflation.

Good to know we don't have to worry about that anymore...

IANAEconomist, but I think what the banks were doing then couldn't really be considered free-market either, since they were engaging in a type of fraud by telling people they're notes were backed by so much real gold, when that wasn't the case at all.

But then how regulating that sort of fraud fits in with free market vs regulation might be getting a little deeper into the issue than I really want to go right know so take that with a grain of salt :)
Whether or not it's a good idea to incorporate some kind of cardio depends on what you want to achieve - fat loss? strength gains? larger muscles? better performance on the soccer field? aesthetic improvement? all round fitness?

Being fit means different things to different people. Personally if I can't run 10k in under 50 minutes I don't think I'm fit enough (but that's not my only threshold for fitness), but other people will have their own idea of what they consider to be fit.
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Free shipping? Is that cause you got in the order before they were backordered?
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It's amazing that they didn't mention android once in the article. Seems like an important thing to leave out of a review of a product in a competitive space.
Can I buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract?

No. iPhone requires a two-year AT&T wireless service contract.

via http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
I agree that they're good complements.

I still find it bizarre that so many YC companies are in San Francisco, despite YC being down here in the South Bay.
He didn't waste innocent bystanders during the particular play session(s) the blog post was documenting. True.

But that's irrelevant and distinct from the notion of whether he will be more likely to do it at some future point in life, or do other related actions which result from a lack of empathy for other human beings, or a lack of understanding of negative consequences, or the permanance of harm in the real world.

I hear a lot of black-vs-white arguments in debates around this issue, but the problem is that it's not about black or white states or actions. Yes, having a 4 year old play GTA will not instantly turn him into a monster. And a kid can become a monster without ever playing GTA. Neither of those data points disproves a range of other possible negative effects that have shades of gray impact in the real world.
I am not so sure, since you apparently can not activate the phone early.
I am guessing the profit is nothing to brag about, otherwise I am sure they would have...
The idea is that there is "unauthorized access" to Facebook's computers, that is, the user accessed Facebook's systems in some way that Facebook didn't like. Facebook wants absolute jurisdiction over who and what can see information stored on their servers and they want the civil justice system to enforce this will on their behalf after-the-fact.

Under Facebook's claims, people could get arrested for something as small as using a browser or operating system that Facebook didn't like. If this idea is accepted, then Facebook can pretty much say anything and if you violate that thing and then access Facebook, Facebook would seek criminal penalties for your violation. For instance, if Facebook says "no person that doesn't own a pair of Nikes can access Facebook, under our new Nike sponsorship deal", and someone who doesn't own Nikes still accesses Facebook, Facebook would consider this "unauthorized access" and get mad. Or, if Facebook decides it doesn't like born in Florida, and they write "No one born in Florida may access Facebook", and you still access Facebook after being born in Florida, Facebook will try to get the police to come and arrest you.

Open Graph API is not unauthorized access because Facebook allows people to use it.
> the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market right now

If they are only releasing one phone per year it certainly needs to be. I'm guessing it still will be by the time people can actually buy them but for how much longer after that?
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Please, somebody, create a facebook competitor! Don't wait for Diaspora; I don't think their idea will work for the average user. This market desperately needs competition!
That's cool. I agree there are a lot of junky ones, and absurdly expensive ones, but I did find quit a few "modern" ones like what you've implemented, basically at the same price point, same features etc. I wish I had kept the list, because they're hard to find through Google... since there are so many results in this category.

Do you plan on running SEM campaigns to promote this? I'm really curious if your CPA can get low enough to come out ahead for an offering in this price range. The CPC doesn't seem cheap since the higher end guys charge a pretty penny in this space. I guess it all depends on your gross per customer, which you won't know until customers start to sign up AND then terminate after X months.

Are you running the whole thing out of Heroku? Do you think that you're putting the availability of your service at risk by doing so? (e.g. are you just measuring whether or not Heroku can see their website?)
(pure speculation:) It may be possible to install Mail.app without iOS 4.
It's not just you. Requiring copyright assignment is a powerful way to put the brakes on community involvement by itself, but couple that with a policy of "nothing gets applied until the BDFL personally approves it" and things can get frustrating. I've had bugs with perfectly viable patches linger in the issue tracker for 3-4 months before getting applied. In some cases the original author of the library even personally approved the patch, but it still had to wait for the thumbs up.

Hopefully this will improve with the creation of the Clojure/core group. Having every commit need to be approved by a single person is absolutely unsustainable in the long run, and we're definitely already at to the point where it's causing issues.

That said, it certainly doesn't stop me from using Clojure every day; it just makes me prefer decentralization (using 3rd-party libraries rather than contrib, for example) where possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-up_(exercise)

I didn't do a study myself, I just heard it multiple times and assumed that it was true. I have also experienced lower back pain in school when we did sit ups, but of course that doesn't mean that it will do long-term damage.

> Situps can be dangerous due to high compressive lumbar load[1] and may be replaced with the crunch in exercise programs[2].
No matter. It is still a good number to play with on their P&L statement. All they need to do is soundly (or incrementally) adjust their outgoing numbers then the profit will definitely increase.
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Different URLs, different times, different terms.

The clause in question currently says:

You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.

So Facebook can give permission, and clearly have given permission via some interfaces.

If Power could have done everything they wanted to do via the official developer APIs, no doubt the case would be different.

Power continued even after Facebook asked them to stop (and further tried to block Power's IPs) -- so at least some of the access occurred when permission, if any, was clearly not given.

But is that a crime? Or a contractual violation or tort?
I'm not sure what you mean by equivalent but would all 3 exist if they didn't have significant differences? Would they have gone off in search of the Holy Grail with Perl 6 if Perl didn't have a few nasty issues that needed to be cleaned up. I'm one of those guys who has used Perl for over 10 years. It was wilting and I'm glad to see some new life being breathed back into it.
Sure, cycling is more efficient kcal/km wise, but at least the speed that I and most people I know cycle is more intensive than walking kcal/second.

The sit ups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-up_(exercise)
I don't know if the same applies to hanging sit ups, but this Wikipedia article says:

> Situps can be dangerous due to high compressive lumbar load[1] and may be replaced with the crunch in exercise programs[2].
"working out at a fixed % of AT will make sure you cross over into anaerobic everytime. That is true."

No, that's completely false. It doesn't even make sense.
SBIR is mainly grants to get innovative small businesses going (which is why large businesses are not involved). It's also mostly military, as far as I know. I think SBIR is a great program, but it's not really meant for funding basic research.

But yes, something similarly structured but aimed at basic research might be a good idea.

Greater transparency also couldn't hurt. We could simply demand that universities itemize overhead. Then the PI is responsible for rejecting unneeded items (e.g. university computer lab fee if the PI has his own computer) and the NSF is responsible for rejecting items which are >10% above market.
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Software services companies in India grow very fast since many are they're tapping into the offshore outsourcing (or offshoring) trends.

It appears that they've been able to sustain it for the past 20 years or so. I agree it's not sustainable indefinitely.
You can get iPhone without contract for the full price in any Apple store, I did it couple months back for iPhone 3GS. It's still locked to AT&T though (i.e. you don't sign 2-year contract, but it still doesn't accept non-AT&T SIM cards).

But apparently you can get unlocked one (for the full price of course) in Canada. If you live close to border, this could be a very viable option. Canada is probably going to get new iPhone by the end of the summer.

In any case you might need microSIM cutter: http://www.cutmysim.com/ or be very precise when wielding your box cutter.
Out of curiosity, what are your objections?
Also, it probably doesn't help that calls to non-US mobile phones come with ridiculously high per-minute rates. (Often 10-15 times as much.)
So... Canada then.
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Although it looked like a terrible decision, it's worth pointing out that that sort of thing happens all the time. Freekick, players in the box, someone falls over and ref gives freekick to the defenders regardless of what happened. Similar disallowed goal put England out against Portugal a few years ago.

That said, many a time I've wondered about the 'neutrality' of the refs in top level football. A few years ago there was a match-fixing scandal with Italian football teams (also affecting European games, not just domestic ones). It does happen.
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I just bought this for Erin, and it arrived today. It is indeed impressive looking. I didn't realize it was going to come in a box set.
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Currently the service is running entirely on Heroku. We plan to run the monitor itself in slave mode on completely separate virtual machines with a couple different hosts. Depending on the userbase. Once that system is finished if Heroku or EC2 for that matter went entirely down the interface would no longer be available but the alerts would still fire. I don't see the point of checking it from various regions around the world. When you are a company like Amazon this makes sense but for small companies and consultants I just can't see the use case.

We do have logic in place to ensure that it doesn't think everything is down if it loses it's http connection.

I plan on experimenting with Search Engine Marketing but that really is a hard game to play at this price range. I have a lot of ideas and rough plans marketing wise but for this type of product it will definitely be an uphill battle. I don't have any experience in marketing but have read a lot and am excited to try it out first hand.

Long term we hope to succeed by being better and cheaper than the alternatives. If you have happy customers using your product they recommend others to it. But it will take a long time to build that customer base that is recommending us to others.
I just ride my bicycle to work. That is, until yesterday when I ran over (I shit you not) a deer. Now I'm licking my wounds. My bike blog link is in my profile if you even care. I won't clutter this thread with link spam.

From the sounds of it, lots of hackers enjoy biking to work. It beats paying for a gym membership, it gets them the dose of sun-induced vitamin d, and it's a practice in efficiency that hackers often admire. There are very few ways to turn energy into transportation more efficiently than a bicycle.
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"Apple is fighting with both hands tied behind their back by limiting availability to one carrier in the US, though."

And winning.
Well, I've never gotten through a whole day without draining mine completely, even with 4G/WiFi/GPS usually off.

I'm not sure which revision I have (got it at Google IO)
Coffee contains caffeine (unless you get decaf), which is a stimulant. Stimulants increase your metabolism and therefore enhance weight loss.

This all assumes pure coffee, no sugar or other additives. Other than this, I agree with everything else you said :) I decided to nitpick your statement because caffeine is actually a useful dietary aid in losing weight, and can even reduce appetite in addition to increasing basal metabolic rate!
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Facebook only works because everyone is on the same site.

A competitor would never gain enough traction to reach critical mass (defined as when the average person has an account on both) without some help from facebook in the form of a stupid business decision. Or if they managed to think of some killer feature.

But simply a copy will never work.

And BTW, the main reason you hate facebook is because they are big. So adding a competitor will not help you - eventually they will get big too, and you will hate them as well.
There have been commercial windows tablet computers out for years now. From a number of different manufacturers. I think their problem was that they went with the stylus interface instead of fingers. That and they don't have that 'reality distortion/influence field' of Apple to make everyone believe that whatever new computing paradigm they introduce is the way of the future.
I don't have Tufte's example in front of me, but I really don't find it any easier to follow.

Compare, side by site

http://sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/bookI/images...

and the drab

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/propI1....
Sorry buddy, this ain't Reddit.
>fairly high percentage of them generated very low quality random numbers

How do you judge the quality of a series of random numbers?
I friend if mine lives under the hill and he solved this problem by installing phone signal booster. He mounted device to the ceiling of the living room and patched antenna to the roof. Since then he has quite good signal in his house. Ironically, neighbors' phones piggyback on it too.
Ah ... I was wondering how much the contract was monthly, mostly so I could figure out how much it actually costs over two years. At $55, the total cost is $1520. Somehow, I don't think that quite as many people would pay that much for it if they had to up-front.
Potential treatments you didn't list in order of decreasing plausibility: amitriptyline, nortriptyline, magnesium (OTC), coenzyme Q-10 (OTC), zonisamide, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, pregabalin, feverfew (OTC), bupropion, verapamil, valproate, memantine. Many of these are bread-and-butter drugs for internists, GPs, and family doctors -- no neurologist needed.

For doctors, a headache specialist at an teaching hospital can be a good choice. They tend to be knowledgeable and persistent.
> I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to learn how to program without the internet[.]

Personally, the hard part was getting good documentation, though my parents' 286 came with a manual on GW-BASIC, which was included. I also managed to procure some BASIC documentation at a garage sale.

Basically impossible to learn computer science, though, except by trial and error. I just did things ad hoc. Experience teaches you how not to do things, but slowly.
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> I'm not sure what you mean by equivalent ...

It means that for basic stuff they are pretty much the same. Variables & data structures (scalars, arrays, mappings), creating and calling functions, creating and instantiating classes, looping, if/then/else, talking to the network, talking to the OS, talking to the db, etc. This basic stuff is in all these languages; the only real differences are in the syntax (and that's not even very different).

For many programming tasks, you're just doing these basics over and over again. Any language will work, so you may as well pick one that's got it where it counts -- modules, since that will make the most difference in how much extra code you have to write. And Perl wins that competition with the CPAN.

> Would they have gone off in search of the Holy Grail with Perl 6 ...

Thing is, it's not a Holy Grail. It's just the next revision of Perl. Take a look at some example Perl 6 code online; they've cleaned things up, fixed some boo-boos, and upon seeing it I expect you'll matter-of-factly say, "oh, yeah, still looks like Perl :)".
New iPhone has new quite ingenious antenna design - parts of the external steel frame are used as antenna, so there is a good change it will work better than the old iPhone.
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You run a bunch of Diehard tests on them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests
This is probably the worse of the calls seen during this world cup. I still feel that this year is worse than usual, I'm wondering if those vuvuzelas are affecting the refs. Yellow cards seem to be flying out of the refs pockets too. Let not mention the few questionable red cards.

Yesterday someone posted a cool post about how the game is meant to scale down or up to whatever level of play (pro amateur...) I think it's required to accept these imperfection in the name of a simple game.

As for the conspiracy. I'd prefer to believe that the ref was incompetent ;p