skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android and Maemo/Meego doesn't really compare. Android has Linux kernel, but most of its userland is very specialized custom software. Maemo on the other hand is based on Debian and has all the usual stuff what you'd except from Linux system; bash, X, apt etc.

edit: Also, Maemo is much older than Android as a project/product.
Nokia wants control over the roadmap of its software platform. They certainly don't want to do anything that might risk them being put into a position of being a commodity hardware manufacturer.

You can argue how big of a risk that is if they adopted Android, but that's probably the thinking behind avoiding it. Personally I think it's a smart move for them, if they can execute well.

Even when Symbian was a consortium, they didn't want Symbian to do doing a lot of things (the UI team was one of the first to get the axe when a first round of cuts occurred). There would also be political battles about whether Symbian should be implementing other aspects of the platform.
How much did you pay to have this app created?

Also, by $10K in signups, does that mean seven or so signups for a $1.5K course?
Thanks for posting this! This is something I've been wondering myself.

I'm particularly curious because I recently started a mobile contracting company for iPhone and Android applications, as well as websites. We've only been doing fixed price contracts so far, but we've been wanting to try our hand at writing our own applications too. We're just about done with our first three applications (in the process of getting one into the App Store, and two more are ETA to be done by the end of the week).

In case you're wondering what normal costs are for mobile application contracting: For simple apps, a fixed price would be in the $500 to $2000 range; something moderately complicated - say, an interface to a social network - would be in the $4000-6000 range; after that it usually goes on a case by case basis depending on what the customer wants.

(By the way, completely shameless plug: we're going to be done with our currently running contracts soon... so if anyone happens to be interested, contact info is in my profile. We build websites, Android, iPhone, and iPad apps, mostly.)
It has nothing to do with enjoyment in the moment. It has everything to do with validating their self-image/social identity.
Beacon Push: Websockets and Comet in the cloud
did not know that... so k code is executable within q? is k4 significantly different from k3?
Actually, my employer petitioned for a different visa for me, and 4 months later I was happily ensconced in LV. I've worked in many countries and bureaucracy is the same everywhere - bureaucratic.
When you're a startup, that's pretty much one and the same.

The overall principles are that team members should be close to one another, and that you should focus very intensively on making sure you have the right team. In cities with a lower density of technical people than the valley, it's very difficult to have both a critical mass of highly-skilled people and have those people all colocated together. You occasional see successful startups like 37signals or Flickr that have smart people, but do so by having them work remotely. And you see lots of startups that attempt to get lots of local people, but sacrifice team quality as a result. You don't tend to hear much from those. But it's when you combine smart people with critical mass that you get something like Google.
Did the UK not have pre-order for delivery? I had my iPhone 4 a day earlier than they were released in the store, and I never had to wait in any line or even leave the house.
Introducing Squeenote - Presentations done live with HTML5
Whenever I read stories like this, I always look in awe at the white-beards in my building who were around back in the days when computers were machines instead of abstractions.

The Story of Mel -- A Real Programmer comes to mind:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
(a) 1 (Puppy Pals), (b) free, (c) excluding a tweet or two, this is the first public mention of it (d) $10 over 2.5 months from ads
Please explain why I should care about your wishlist.
Jeri Ellsworth also appears to wear reasonably fashionable garb - http://www.downloads.reactivemicro.com/Public/Users/Henry_Co... looks almost high-fashion (couture) and http://www.techlifemashup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/jer... doesn't look unfashionable.
Google's Rich Snippets usage is growing
They still get mocked for "pick the Apple III up and drop it on a soft surface to reseat the chips", I don't think "duct tape" is going to swing it as a solution for them to suggest.
So what would you suggest? Pouting loudly?

This problem seems over-emphasized. I can get my phone to do it if I hold it in a funny way (and I am a righty but usually lefthand my phone). I'm not trying to make excuses for Apple here, I'm trying to say that this problem's press coverage makes it seem worse than it actually seems to be in the real world.
Your logic is spot-on. It seems like so many young intelligent people would question the opportunity cost of all that time lost versus the gain of having the iPhone a few days early?
"You’d ignore this [information about schools and previous jobs], and go straight to the cover letter? Really? ... Really?"

Yes, really. That's the point. Merely being incredulous doesn't form a coherent argument against it. My angle on this is a little personal, which would probably automatically strip my it of any validity, but let me explain why. Perhaps it would make a compelling case to someone.

I'm originally from Bulgaria and graduated high school there. For obvious political reasons I hadn't traveled at all and I wanted to study in the US. I got into private and public schools, but the difference in the standard of living at the time was such that even with substantial financial aid I could only afford to go to a state school. Still, I'd get to see the US (New York in particular) and the draw of the adventure was enough to get me to go.

After school, like most international students, I took advantage of a program that is essentially an extended internship (OPT). There were hard time constraints, so I needed to find a job quickly. I ended up working at a consulting firm you never would have heard of doing mostly Java with a bit of Rails. It was a great place to work and I learned a lot. If the respect and trust of the people you work with counts for something, I'm fairly confident I got good.

None of this is something I could convey in a resume. Worse, Mr. Olsen would dismiss me outright because I have gone to a state school (because I was poor) and done Java (because I couldn't afford to sift through the market). Feel free to attribute this to cognitive dissonance, but I find his views arrogant, ineffective, and lacking a human approach. His argument is a pernicious over-simplification of a complex, human problem.
a) 2 apps

b) all free

c) zero

d) negligible (< $100)
you go to monster.com
Anyone know any studies on what makes people do this? How come a product (especially a particularly stupid one that's not much different than its analogues) gets so demanded before it comes out?
His "praise publicly" item has a dark side to it though: it can hurt the morale of all the other employees who were not praised, and yet felt they were doing great work too. Multiply this effect by the number of people you have, and how frequently this happens, and the ratio of praised to non-praised.

Giving praise in private, one-on-one between a boss and his report, or between two peers, can yield some of the same benefit, but with less of the downside, compared to doing so in public or in a company-wide setting.
I'd expect they use the data in aggregate to figure out what sizes of clothing to stock where to keep latency and transportation lower.

It doesn't seem that much of their variable cost would get shaved off by already having one's measurements, which makes me think this wouldn't help them with a lowest-price strategy. Maybe a higher-end market focus.

But as other have already said: body size data can be expected to expire often. I'm an edge case, but my weight has oscillated between 195 and 165 a few times in the last year.
Oh, I thought it was the iPad. Misremembered. At any rate, Apple really did wait to release their implementation. They didn't have inferior multitasking for years. They could have stuck in a very poor implementation to begin with (the OS has always supported it), but they did indeed wait on it.
I worry about the conditions apparently needed to reproduce this (and the fact that I still can't reproduce it). Even Ars' explanation includes "consciously" holding the phone in a different way than you naturally would and licking your hands before doing so...
The situation seems to point to the lack of the "intelligent" component.
Money Changes Everything, But What If It Doesn't Let You Change Enough?
Launched in 1977 - wow.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2)
Props to Men's Wearhouse for being one of the few companies around that treats my personal information with respect without me even asking.
Actually, yeah: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonko/4731332788/
Yes, indeed, good advice. Far more applicable than most of the advice from 37s IMHO.
Maybe the high school comment was not needed but making it easy to migrate to your service is always a good idea. This is when WordPress started to get real traction. Movable Type did something that pissed off a large number of their users (Moving previously free features into their paid plans if I remember) and WordPress wrote a dead simple migration tool. They then followed by writing a ton of tools to migrate from blogging software. Postures says[1] they are going to release one migration tool a day for the next 15 days... It's a good strategy.

[1] http://posterous.com/switch
> but this is the kind of line-waiting that literally makes no sense at all to me

This is a cultural thing :) put a couple of us brits together and we will form a queue. And we will do it with minimal fuss and lots of solidarity.

We are damned good at it - and very proud of that.

(my "best queue" was 8 hours for a Leeds Festival ticket :))
I thought the whole story about how Apple was holding up the release of the white models was a littly fishy.

Theory: Apple realized they may have a serious problem at some point after the launch (black?) model was flowing to retail channels, but before they released the white model. So they're hurrying to address it before white ships, at least.

This does smell like a recall.
I make it about $6000 to run an extra large high CPU (8 virtual core) EC2 instance 24/7 for a year, and you won't need a large capital outlay. Would this work for you?

Alternatively with a $2000 up-front payment Amazon will give you the same thing for $4000 total.
TDBs were one of our (many) standard resources for finding prior art when I worked in IP.
I recently began developing for the N900. First I did the basic cannon Qt tutorial on PC. Installed the Maemo SDK and recompiled my code in the cross-compile environment (which is basically a chroot+qemu or something) and throwed the binary on my phone. Worked without a hitch. Same source code, with no special considerations for mobile devices, and it just works.

Of course creating packages is bit more involved, but current Maemo uses standard Debian packages, so its not really anything special.
More so simply dress up something incredibly simple (with a brand name and implied value) and chuck an exhorbitant price tag on it.
With my last client, we found that the proper encoding of a video to h.264 would work equally well as a Flash streaming file, iPhone/iPod/iPad video link, Android video link, and <video> tag source (in browsers that support h.264 - use OGG for Firefox).

Realistically, given the different resolution, something like 480x360 (4:3) for mobile devices and 720x480 for browsers is fine for standard definition video.
> Fine Victorian era gowns are in

Sweet. I've always wanted an excuse to wear one.
hey - this is Bill from wepay. If your friend would be interested in joining us give me a shout. bill at wepay dot com
What exactly is 'bad' about xxx?
iRecall: it's like recalls by other companies but ours is shiny and you'll love it! ;)
Intel's Haskell Concurrent Collections: on scaling to 32 and 48 cores
I wonder if they're doing AMD GPUs too?

That should be easier, given the specs for those are freely available.
Reading through the comments there's a lot of defending 37signals. I think the poster is absolutely right though.

There was an interview with Marissa Meyer on The Charlie Rose show where they talked about recruiting talent for Google and Marissa was asked what her experience was. Since it's Google they had obviously tried to do all sorts of predictions on how well a new employee would turn out based on cover letters, interviews, resumes, etc. What she said was interesting. The only predictor of how well a new employee would do his job was his resume. Nothing else gave a statistically significant prediction.

So Marissa and I think the poster is right and Fried is wrong :-)
Okay, well then I guess I'm 'weird'. I studied computer science in school, so I can deal with that =)
So that sounds like the Gollum case. Impatiences for the preciouses. :P
Ugh. Can you try with a lighter compression level? There is a command line switch for that, and it should also show the memory requirements for each compression level.

I'm insisting because PAQ is a really incredible collection of compressors. Far more intelligence in it than in the LZ* bunch.
Yes.

You should probably own your own personal computer as well.

That'll require electricity, so you might want to get that installed ASAP.

Is this serious?
I read the article. A one-sentence mention is not exactly promoting the hell out of something.
Also consider the enormous financial incentive to not force porn to .xxx. The US moves everything to .xxx? The Canadians rake in the money.
I don't think the distinction between engineer and programmer is incredibly meaningful unless we're discussing

1. People with professional qualifications (I mean licensed engineers, ie Canada/UK)

2. You're comparing 'engineers' against blub Java coders

(In which case I'd agree, they're not engineers)
Excuse me, the attitude is not needed.

If you have a helpful suggestion for my situation, I'd be happy to hear it. Do you feel that I should be supplying my own computer? Should the company pay for my internet?
Sure thing, I'll let him know.
I reserved one at the store in hopes of being able to get it earlier and more reliably than those having it shipped.

The extra inconvenience must be worth something, right?

Nope, most people who got them shipped received them in the comfort of their home / office a day early.
I don't exactly have high efficiency standards for retail employees at the mall. What I saw was shocking even by those standards. What was most offensive was that not a single employee in the store, and I mean not a single one, was sensitive to the impatience of the customers. Looking at the body language of the people around me, I think the mood varied from "grumpy" to "murderous," but the employees were calm, happy, and unhurried. Just from a psychological point of view, that seemed unnatural and offensive. Or sociopathic. When someone who's been waiting forever, during lunchtime (hence probably on their lunch hour,) marches determinedly up to a sales guy and tells him precisely what he want to buy, and the sales guy, instead of immediately getting the guy what he wants, starts demoing the product for him, and the guy says, "Uh huh, uh huh, yeah, I've got one already," in a pissed-off tone of voice, at that point the sales guy should, you know, give up and just sell the guy what he wants. To keep stalling and trying to make chit-chat, maybe start demoing a slightly different product, and to do all this calmly and slowly and beatifically, is offensive. Or sociopathic. Take your pick. A whole store full of guys acting like that, I don't know. I just don't know. Maybe it's the culture of the individual store, but I can't imagine it happening anywhere other than an Apple store.
Do you literally mean "daily" (as in, say, every 1-3 working days)?

How are the b-school types measuring success? (Are they measuring at all???)
Disagree. Criticize in private, praise in public. If other people have really been busting their ass and aren't getting the recognition they deserve, maybe it's just because you're not paying attention. And if their feelings are hurt because they didn't get recognition but it's because they didn't really contribute that much, maybe it's best they move on.
> A. Do you need someone on call 24/7 (i.e. is the difference between 97% and 100% uptime significant in your business)
Yes
> B. Can somebody else be your out-of-ours support person?
No.

The issue is not that I mind being on call when things are broken. The issue is that they want me to pay my own way in order to be on call. It's insulting.
This is really amazing given the age of the Voyager craft and the massive distances they have to beam instructions across. I'd imagine that all of the engineering staff would be on pins and needles for hours while they waited for what has to be the galaxy's largest (in terms of distance crossed) SYN-ACK :p
The founders say it like rhyming with preposterous.
You've talked to your colleagues I assume?
kewwl!!!
seems pretty accurate.
I wonder, is it still possible to get involved with the Voyager craft, i.e. secure employment at JPL and get into that team? Voyager 1 & 2 are hands-down the most incredible machines/computers we have ever made, IMHO.
this is true, although most people won't get taller, they'll get wider, and most rentals have adjustable waists, and coats won't change size that much.

a neat alternative would be, imo, to have them keep your old measurements, but store them online where you can see/edit/update. old ones prompt for re-measurements
Published two apps. One is quite broad in its potential user base. I spent a reasonable amount of time using Twitter, forums, talking to bloggers, answering emails etc.

I also vary the price a lot and VERY REGULARLY, although only since it's slipped from the charts. Varying from £.59 to £2.99. You might be surprised at the effect this has... The higher price tends not to affect the number of sales too much so I try to keep this as high as possible.

The second app is a little more niche. The only advertising (after an initial flurry of tweets) has been via links on my website (just for promoting my freelance work) and the website of the content owner.

So...
A) 2
B) both paid
C) see above
D) £2500 - £4000 per month
The element frequency counting example (in the grey box) is pretty ambiguous. Are you just supposed to ignore the numbers and instead count the frequencies of the strings? Or is the first element of each sublist to be the addend? I.e. should it be the number added to the total count of string elements?

Either way, Clojure looks pretty good. If the first case, then it's

(frequencies (flatten (map second l)))

If the second interpretation, then this works:

(apply merge-with + (map (comp (partial apply hash-map) reverse) l))
They're not, really. Not on the HFT landscape, anyway. It's tempting to say they're being slept on, but the cream rises to the top VERY fast in HFT--there have been multiple instances of products brought to market and the company being purchased outright by the first would-be customer (although this is much, much more frequent on the networking and hardware sides).

I think the analysis and borderline-accusation of what is termed "insincere quoting" by the exchanges is... laughable. It doesn't speak well to the authors' knowledge of their industry. I've had an exchange disconnect my session for sending 1000+ orders per second by myself, and I would have been quite happy to execute any of them (or else they wouldn't have been sent). To be honest, I'm surprised 5000 is the biggest number they could find. I would have guess an order of magnitude higher.

What happened on 5/6 was that the NYSE finally learned that they aren't the boss in the equities markets anymore. Trying to slow down trading without regard for the other routing destinations was nothing but quaint.

You know those videos you see of suburban shoppers at 6:00a on Black Friday, rushing through the doors to get one of the three available Xbox 360s or whatever? The NYSE was the hapless security guard whose watch was slow telling everyone the store wasn't open yet.
I use Posterous for one of my blogs. They lack a standard API so I cannot post from Ecto or MarsEdit. This is one of the reasons why I'd be hesitant to switch.
SproutCore Touch has native support for complex HTML5 apps and takes advantage of hardware-accelerated graphics. Try touch.sproutcore.com and touch.sproutcore.com/hedwig on an iPad.
Do you happen to smell extremely bad? Maybe it's you?
Thanks, that's a great suggestion. I always get tripped up with the 'container' versus the underlying codec.

Edit: thinking about this further, what container did you use that works on everything? Mp4?
If Disney can create Fastpass, Apple can create something similar. But then they won't end up in the newspapers and on tv.
Posterous and ambition: A lesson for startups?
Send BP a funny nastygram while donating to the cleanup
Exactly! Whose definition? How do they enforce it country to country? They are idiots.
That's interesting, I haven't done the math for all the different VPS providers / EC2, but yea that is what I am looking for just a beefy box to do some transcoding.
#1 You can't really regulate it
#2 Whose definition of porn is going to be used?
#3 How are you going to enforce anything?

Those add up to it being stupid idea.
this seems to happen even in engineering-focused start-ups. in the past i have actually sat down with the business folks and talked about how the lack of focus is affecting product quality which directly affects revenue. not to mention what it does to moral when you feel like what you are working on today will most likely just be thrown out tomorrow for some new agenda. there was a lot resistance at first but i was very clear that i just wanted to open this up for discussion since my main concern was for the overall success of the company. it did not happen over night but it did happen, the goal was to find a middle ground where we all committed to a long-term strategy to rech our goals and engineering would try and stay open-minded to changes that would get us closer to those long-term goals.
There's no shame in defaulting on your debt because you tried to create a new economically productive company and failed. That's what bankruptcy is best used for. It's not like leasing a BMW.
All I am saying is that Bing could improve their marketing by rephrasing certain things.
Since when is asking a company to fix a product that isn't working on day one "pouting"?

The way people are holding the phones in the demo videos is not exotic or weird. So, yeah, that can sound a bit like an excuse. It sounds even more like blaming the people who are seeing the problem. Maybe their hands just aren't good enough, right?

If an piece of electronics needs a case that insulates a part from contact to the user, then leaving that off is incomplete packaging. Simple as that. If the issue is coming from a bad batch of phones or design flaw that is leading to the failure or under-performance of some mechanism designed to deal with that contact to the user, then those hit by this deserve their choice of a new phone that isn't from that batch or, at the very least, a free case.

The first Android phone I had would reboot every few minutes while being used, I tried the full reinstall that the technician recommended, but when I walked back in and said it hadn't worked, he didn't blame me. He handed me a new phone (no problems since). No one expects perfection in new hardware rollouts, but it is right to expect proper customer service. Since you asked me, I would suggest Apple fix it in software if that is possible, and/or start handing out free cases like candy.
The re-roll idea is brilliant.