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Audio read by Asimov himself: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/113545/The_Last_Question.mp3
In my experience the money doesn't just come! If only...
However, do skip some of the more difficult/theoretical exercises, if you feel they are over your head. As usual, doing half of the exercises probably provides 80% of the benefits. As an example of a question you may want to skip: the proof question 1.13 asks you to give requires some mathematical background knowledge concerning how to go about proving something. Don't let those questions demotivate you if you lack that knowledge.
I used to live in a noisy apartment -- due to the fact that my cat loved to knock things over at night, causing loud noises.

The solution was earplugs.
Fantastic!
I plan on using it.

Who is using it and for what?
most people are just going to find that phone too big.

Which is why you can get smaller android phones as well. With iPhones they come in one size, and if it isn't the perfect size for you, the you either have to learn to live with it or not get an iPhone. With Android you can chose smaller than iPhone, same size as iPhone or larger than iPhone depending on personal preference.
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The `nuke' name for the build tool is so cool!
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I'm the exact same type of person as you, and I've done alright so far. I learnt some HTML/CSS, but I'd hardly call that code. It's very easy, and I formed my business around that. I then outsourced all work to other coders, and sold the business for mid 5 figures ($xx,xxx).

I think it is important to know what good code does look like, or be well acquainted with someone who knows that (to protect you).

I outsource everything, I hire freelance developers for all work. This can be extremely bumpy, but a fun journey, none the less. There are thousands of freelance programmers in business. You know why? Because of people like you and me :)
Thus, Foxconn gives us half an iPhone for free?
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I do, but it's not fixed. Just a goal - "I want to achieve this using that, but not the precise details".
This is a question I'm very interested to hear an answer to. I've started dabbling with Objective-C and I don't like it much; it would be very sweet if I could write apps for the i{Pad,Phone,*} in a Lisp-like like language.
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A lot of people take that kind of 'marriage' as one big stinking ball of hypocrisy and generally don't like it.
As others said: do the exercises. In response to your question about which sections to pay special attention to: the metacircular evaluator. As a slightly burned-out hacker, I often think of how much fun that was when I must motivate myself to write another line of code.
"I think its so cool when two people who have been married for 15 years decide to celebrate with second marriage ceremony to launch them into the next 15."

You just have another ;)
I'm missing your point. Physics is also a subset of what you need to know to be a mechanic.
That which climate "scientists" set up and run the Real Climate site is significant.
Strongly disagree. You should be able to do exercise 1.13. Knowing how to prove something is very valuable. I remember spending several hours trying to do exercise 1.13 and when I finally got it I had learned a great deal about proving, induction (altough I didn't know its name) and manipulation of exponentials.

The exercises that are hard for you are exactly the exercises that you'll learn a lot from.
Wow, I never realized to link the computer concept with the finance aspect.
Cleaning financial tick data can be very tricky, because it depends very much on how you want to use the data for. If you're not careful any models you build on the cleaned data can fall apart in real world usage because they fail to take into account the abnormalities in market data.
Good stuff!

We actually are a service provider in the sense that our income is split approximately equally between projects and recurring support/maintenance, so this can definitely help us frame cash flow in terms of our recurring revenue. I try to budget exclusively from that and not count on project revenue since it so volatile and difficult to predict.
In Canada at least, you can get a degree in Software Engineering which is aims to teach you the skills you'll need to develop software (not just programming though).
While I do agree that a [video] tag would've been nice, I'll also recommend you get FlashBlock for whatever browser you're using.

(Sorry for blatant OT)
It's creepy because some people think she's physically attractive? I don't follow.
It depends on the technical complexity of your ideas, if it's just going to be a mod of an off-the-shelf CMS or something similar then you'll probably be fine.

The greater the technical complexity the more risky it is because there are far fewer outsourcing providers with the skills to achieve what you want.

(There are some exceptions to this: for example there are plenty of iphone app development agencies that are capable of taking on large complex projects)
I'm not sure what's the point of this posting. Having a degree is just one data point. Usually people that make a big deal about success without a degree are those successful people that don't have one.
" However, with a pure RSA ciphersuite, an attacker can record traffic, crack (or steal) your private key at will and decrypt the traffic retrospectively, so consider your needs."

Can somebody please explain what this means. Sounds bad!
Keeping the Sidekick name wasn't an option unless they continued to partner with T-Mobile, the owner of that trademark. Their first action WRT to T-Mobile was to cancel all future Sidekick development, only to be forced by Danger's contract to develop one more phone. After that show of bad faith it's hard to imagine fruitful future collaboration and any possibility of that was probably lost when they put the Sidekick backend on life support (while no doubt getting paid for the old level of service) and then screwed it up so badly.

Your general point is well made, but when the project became nothing more than a check box for a turf obsessed manager it's hard to see how it could succeed in any market. Steve Ballmer presumably have cared about its success, but that hardly matters when he allows the people below them to play these games without fear of retribution.
Not sure if I really like my snapshots appearing on the homepage without the ability to remove them/make it private.
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I disagree with _every_ response so far, which boil down to either a) hire a coder or b) learn to code.

Most businesses that get programmed up are bad. Nobody cares about them and they fail. That's okay if you are a solo hacker because the loss is minimal compared to the learning you get. From your situation, it's a terrible deal (you either sank lots of time or money to get there).

I recommend you dive into customer development (start by reading Steve Blank's 4 Steps book). You can get through all of discovery and part of validation without writing a single line of code (that takes you through "steps" 1 & 2 - most startups never get to step 3, which is profitably scaling the customer base).

Odds are good that your ideas are bad ("bad" as in "grounded in something good, but currently severely flawed"). You can discover many of those holes for free, by talking to your future customers and industry experts.

The best part is that you'll get to the point (without any code) of having a business you can say with some confidence will generate money if it can just get built. And you'll have the evidence (from future customers) in hand to prove it. That makes recruiting great hackers (or raising seed money and hiring them) so much easier.
It's creepy because they don't resist the urge to comment on it.
I can't imagine that Apple didn't run these tests long before the external-antenna design was even selected. Maybe the cool climate of Silicon Valley or the fake-3GS case the real-world test units were encased in (as in the phone found in the bar) masked the issue. Strange.
Very cool. Reading your "about" page, I think Brighten Labs and I had the same idea - make a free cashflow app to bring attention to other stuff we're doing. I made a similar web-app for almost the same purpose: http://cashflow.zetabee.com/ (demo at: http://cashflow.zetabee.com/demo)

Type stuff up in an Excel-sheet like format and instantly see how it affects your future cash. I'd been using an Excel version of this CashFlow till earlier this year when I made it a web-app. The web-version enabled me to plan when to quit my job, when to start my side-biz, how much to spend on shopping/luxuries once I quit my job etc. If you are disciplined, you can definitely use a CashFlow tool to manage your personal finances a lot better than just following words of advice like "give up that $5/day Starbucks habit."

The real reason a CashFlow app is better for personal finances is because your salary is not the same every month. 26 paychecks / 12 months => 10 out of 12 months you make LESS than your average monthly salary. Also expenses like auto insurance could occur once every 6 months, garbage bills could be thrice a year, and water bill once every 45 days. Like the predator cycles that Magicicada tries to avoid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicicada ) if all of your big bills end up hitting you in the same month / pay period, you will be short on cash even if your spending hasn't changed. Or you may spend 10% extra in that month because the prior months you didn't feel a crunch and thought maybe you're doing well financially, so next month you can award yourself the iPad 3G.

For people who don't live on a fixed salary, a CashFlow tool can still be very helpful because you just put in your best-guess estimate of your monthly/weekly earnings instead of a fixed 2-week paycheck. Even if you have ample savings and never have to worry about spending $5k here or there, you can still use a cash forecasting tool to meet your future savings/investment goals.
Video doesn't load. I wish those people where using some other well tested video platform.
I'd like to see the twitter archive available on something like AWS. There's lots of cool data mining you could do with it.
I can understand your conclusion and sentiment. It is also a trap one can easily fall into during meditation, and can lead to both the extremes of anti-materialism and pure hedonism, as can be seen also in Buddhist (and other) cultures.

This is exactly why the Buddha and later teachers emphasize on taking the middle road. In the end, meditation is observing things as they are, and theoretically you could do this while being an anti-materialist or a hedonist. However, people usually become anti-materialists because they want to block out a large collection of 'distractions', such as pleasanties. They would always be practicing half: such distractions are also part of reality. Hedonists on the other hand, easily become attached to their wealth, making progress in meditation hard as well. So teachers always advise to take a balanced approach to meditation: do not become an ascete, do not indulge too much in wealth, do not be lazy, also avoid zealotry. The mind, and world as it is in the moment provides all the necessary circumstances to learn to understand the mind.

Then there is a practical dimension as well: a starving person is probably not able to meditate, a very wealthy person is probably not very willing to meditate. My personal interpretation of Buddhist ethics is, that it is aimed to create the circumstances for as many people as possible to reach enlightenment, and is not an absolute ethic system.
Tesco (third largest grocery retailer) have an API which offers that data.
To be clear, it's my gut feeling - based on the personal experiences, that most web-based startups are not using the MS platform for a variety of reasons, pricing being one of them. The "vs" example above would simply be ".NET vs non-.NET" If you think .NET-oriented web-based startups have a > 50% share of that market, I'd really be curious as to any evidence (even anecdotal) for that belief.

"startup C#" - 818 jobs
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=startup+C%23&l=

"startup php" - 1373 jobs
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=startup+php&l=

However:
"php" has 17236
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=php&l=

"C#" has 41446
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=c%23&l=

C# has a much higher number of job postings, but far fewer with the word "startup" in the post.

Yes, totally unscientific, but it seems to indicate what I'm seeing in the real world. Looking at my own network, which includes a variety of .net, php, ruby, python and java folks, the overwhelming number of people involved in bootstrapping, freelancing or startup endeavours are not using .NET.

Again, I point to websitespark, bizspark, and MS' own efforts in helping PHP operate smoothly on their own platform. 10 years ago PHP was laughed at by most MS people I know. Today, it still is by many of the same people, but Microsoft as a company must see enough demand for it that they spend time with some of the PHP development team making sure that PHP runs smoothly on Windows. MS now provides a one-click installer for PHP on top of that.

Yes, certainly, all this is simply anecdotal, and I've absolutely no way of knowing for certain how many 'startups' use .net vs not using it. When people still refer to facebook as a 'startup' perhaps the term has lost all meaning whatsoever, and anyone who's opened a company in the past 15 years is now running a 'startup'. But again, I fall back to my own experiences in and around my network. People * I know* using .NET are generally doing so in larger corporate environments (where it's much easier to afford all the tooling which makes .NET fun/easy to develop with) People I know in smaller orgs, smallbiz startup mode, or freelancing are generally not using .NET, primarily because of price.

The pricing is part of the motivation behind websitespark and bizspark programs of the past couple years. If MS themselves weren't seeing a defection in the smallbiz/startup scene away from the MS platform, I doubt we'd have seen these programs come in to existence in the first place. We certainly didn't see them 12 years ago.

This belief was also largely reinforced by casual 'in the hallway' conversations with attendees at the recent CodeStock event in Knoxville. While language-agnostic in theory, it's still largely an MS-oriented event, based on both attendees' background and session topics around 50% of the topics were .net-oriented)
Maybe it would be less creepy if there were more young women interested in statistics, machine learning etc. and who commented in a similar fan-girlish manner on male lecturers. But then again ...
You never hear women described as creepy for saying "he's cute" or something similar.
Nielsen Bookscan collect that data but you have to licence it, alternatively you could get the data from amazon.
It has even some application in electronic music. This is certainly an unusual way to produce sounds, very experimental.

Here is a video, sounds generated by Chua's Chaotic Oscillator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGQi9GCWRY0

Another article "Chua's Oscillator in Musical Applications" with sound clips and oscilloscope images:
http://jamesnsears.com/archive/ecechua.htm

Chua's Oscillator as a syntheziser, a mysterious silver box with one knob:
http://1010.co.uk/org/shop.html#sec-1.2.4

I think this is very cool!
Speed of eating 'key to obesity'
Making every millisecond count. JVM performance tuning in the real-world (video)
If you're not a doctor, would you start a hospital?
I'd assume they wouldn't release that data because of privacy implications, how someone rates you is private to the person rating you.

But even a profile dump would be interesting, you could for example build a movie recommendation system based on it. As would aggregate statistics of which section of your profile raises the most interest, etc. (actually I'm guessing they might consider the later if someone asked them).
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/

Does this for the four biggest supermarkets in the uk.
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Y'know, if you really think that's inevitable, you could <i>try</i> living in the Third World for a while and see how well that works out for you.
"people of Indian descent ... have a rather more flexible view of reality"?

That is sugar-coating a pretty strong generalization. Perhaps if it were said straight it would be much more obviously ridiculous.

Best regards from India.

edit: I realize that this response is snarky. I am just astonished that people can say something like this in a public forum like HN. It is no better than saying "Chinese people can't drive".

If we're going to have a reasonable discussion about outsourcing and sort out what's what, can we please be careful not to say things like "Americans are fat and promiscuous" and "Indians are liars, idiots or both", regardless of whatever opinions we may hold privately?
With looming death tax, is there an alternative for Gates http://www.nodeathtax.org/deathtax
nah, what are those stupid apis for anyways? always done this kind of stuff with wireshark and handmade POSTs/GETs ...
what a fucking whiner
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If apple would give more legitimate options of marketing apps in the AppStore devs would not stoop so low. There is no tracking, no in-store ads, nothing you can do besides playing the popularity game.
Generally a good experience, needs adding to. Here's some feedback/thoughts:

1) The text boxes on the sign up page are massive and take up the whole line (same with the login).
2) Sign up process isn't that "smooth", how about an automatic log in instead of asking me to check my inbox? (I have my e-mail open and it made me sigh...)
3) The sign up e-mail has a massive wall of text on how to use the application. While it's good explaining, I feel that in the e-mail is the wrong place. Making it a webpage will allow you to more comfortably use bullet points and numbers and just easier to digest/find. Or perhaps an interactive thing and point to page elements?
4) You put a $ sign in amount field and I took this as an opportunity to change to £ which didn't work as expected. What about putting it as "Amount ($)" or removing it entirely.
5) Sensible default of "1" on the recurring once enabled?
6) Data entry is a problem.
7) Missed setting a transaction to "recurring every" and had to delete and re-add to set it.
8) Bug! Added a recurring transaction as 15 but set the type to expense, went to edit it and change it back to income. This only changed the first transaction and further recurring transactions were left unchanged. Clicking on the refresh button and it's now still showing all the items as expenses again.
9) You could drop the "type" entirely and get the user to enter -15 for expense and just 15 for an income!
10) Editing the recurring transactions and I hit edit and I don't realise the form above me has changed -- perhaps some sort of visual cue? Or perhaps, click the fields and they become editable?
11) No back button (browser's button uses stale data) to the page I was on before. Resorted to clicking the "Dashboard".
12) Bug! Still entering data, missed the "Amount" field and it has reset my type to "Expense". Strange that it doesn't reset the type when I miss "recurring every" value.

Sweet! I'm finished! Problem: I would quite like to have more financial projections but currently the problem is entering the data; you'd need ways to easily add it (e.g. various import functions or an API. The way I see things:

cost of adding data + cost of the app (what you would charge) < cost of doing this myself (e.g. investing time to graph the projections using my own database (saving on data entry time!))

Grouping would also be a good feature to have e.g. I would want to project transactions for separate things.

Controlling how far in the future I can see the forecase, although I realise this is probably just a proof of concept app.
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Education system should ideally create employers and not employees.
apple will respond. they just need some time to take action. for mr nugyen it will end like for the last bunch of chinese guys who got all their apps thrown out, their licenses revoked and no money paid out.
We use Bluga's thumbnail service, with which we've been very happy. Does this service have any advantages over Bluga?
Wondering why Govt is not offering software development services for small businesses?
you could befriend some hipster a-bloggers that would cover your apps. (though I hate those bloggers)
why is this story so hyped? I thought it was pretty lame.
I'd like to believe this, and have no real trouble doing so, but I've just spent the last several hours on activities that require me to be a complete sceptic, so here are some thoughts:

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The researchers have found a statistical link. What they haven't yet done is design a controlled experiment whose outcome is predicted by this apparent correlation and then done the experiment.

A UK nutrition expert says that problems in signalling systems which tell the body when to stop eating may be partly responsible. [emphasis mine]

He said deliberately slowing down at mealtimes might impact on weight. [emphasis mine]

Australian researchers ... said that a mechanism that helps make us fat today may, until relatively recently, have been an evolutionary advantage, helping us grab more food when resources were scarce. [What mechanism? No mechanism has been proposed.]

Dr Jason Halford ... said: "What the Japanese research shows is that individual differences in eating behaviour underlie over-consumption of food and are linked to obesity." [No, it showed there is a statistical link. Perhaps people who tend to be overweight have a drive to eat quickly.]

"Other research has found evidence of this in childhood, suggesting that it could be inherited or learned at a very early age." [What other evidence? No hint of references given, so we can't find out for ourselves.]

... there was no evidence yet that trying to slow down mealtimes for children would have an impact on future obesity rates. [So the one piece of experimental procedure that might really confirm this either hasn't been done, or doesn't support the conclusion.]

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Having said all that, when I lost weight recently I worked hard on eating more slowly, and I do feel that it helped me feel less hungry on my 1600 kCal/day "diet". My own experience would support the claims, but that's just anecdote.

It's not science, and neither is what the article reports. It's typical media.
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