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In the UK we said, "We don't need manufacturing, we have our scientists and R&D".

Then when our Universities and our R&D started to decline, we said "We don't need our Universities and R&D, we have our Service Economy".

Then when our Service Economy went offshore, we said "We dont need all our Service Economy, we have our Financial Services Economy".

Everything outside London is a wasteland. The average wage is subsistence living, if you make one at all. But the Alphas live in a magical city, where cocaine and girls are all easily affordable on multi-million pound salaries.

The UK once ruled the world. The US couldn't be following us down to ruin better if we'd given them a map.
The only problem is, that shoes that try to target different pronation types actually cause more injuries.

(http://www.sportsci.org/jour/0103/mw.htm#_Toc535425250 cites some studies beginning with "Wearers of expensive running shoes that were promoted as correcting pronation or providing more cushioning experienced a greater prevalence of these running-related injuries than wearers of less expensive shoes [...]")
Well they elect the government, so yes they are.
Definitely lots of great links there!

Out of everything I've seen I think the RepRap has the best overall toolchain for creating models and controlling the machine.

One of the reasons I thought the machine in the OP looked so good was because it's software is obviously pretty good too...

CloudFab looks great! It's a little disappointing I can't use it in Canada!
I put together a google spreadsheet of the EC2 instance pricing. US East / West only, so far.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtNTMtkGNKnfdGJoajF...

$10/mo for 1 year reserved is pretty amazing.
remember Farmtowm? (yeah, they copied Harvest Moon, but they were the first to bring it to Facebook... before Zynga released FarmVILLE 2 months later)
That's the one-time fee. You still have to pay $0.007 per hour.
The "social" games space is ripe for revolution. There's no fun there, nothing virtuous in what they consider gameplay. You don't even play with your friends, so much as exploit them for personal gain.

It's a very cynical view of how to spend time with people. When the leading social games company is led by a guy like Pincus, what more can you expect?
It's OSS. If they do that, fork it. Every project, ever, has that exact same risk. Or am I missing something.
I heard the CEO speak at Startup School last year, and he claimed that he wanted Zynga to be an internet treasure--something with lasting value. Sounded good to me.

His high minded spiel then seems contrarian to the report here, and I'm tempted to believe the report. Makes me less inclined to see what else he has to say.

If it's true, I'm guessing eventually, he'll lose developer and gamer mindshare in that people won't want to work for Zynga. Then, would it be on its way to an internet treasure?
A lot of games put a lot of work into reducing their size below the 20MB threshold. The big games out there are probably over 20MB, but a lot of games are able to get below 20MB as long as they use compressed resources.
It's built into Android 2.2. Additionally, if you can think of a way of exposing the ability to wifi tether, without requiring root that doesn't fundamentally compromise the security of the underlying Linux system... well I think there would be a lot of Linux gurus who would be quite intrigued.
There are plenty of feed readers in the store and they do fine.

The key word is simply. If you're providing additional functionality to allow people to better use or manage web content (the way any halfway decent RSS feed reader does) then that's fine.
I think DF was right in its analysis: These changes are likely coming straight from Jobs. Perhaps it was Apple Legal dictating the rules and it just didn't seem "human" enough. Perhaps Jobs wanted to unify the left and right hand to know what both were doing. Maybe they're scared of the Probe.

Apple is showing here that it is one of the biggest small companies around. The wording in the App store review guidelines reads like something out of an up-and-coming Webapp startup run by a 20-something ne'er-do-well.

It's clear that Apple wants to get back to its "Designed by Apple in California" jeans and mock-turtleneck 'tude. The draconian rules and BS were antithetical to that. Hey, maybe the gyrating silhouettes will make their comeback to replace disembodied hands in their commercials.
The fact remains, for all this openness you have vanishingly small amount of control over your own device. If you don't want Verizon's market and if you certainly don't want it "prominently displayed" you may end up being out of luck.
Yes, I've asked Apple to fast-track the review of my app several times (for good, although selfish, reasons), and 50% of the time they've obliged! They are actually quite friendly.
To me this sounds like Zynga just took an idea that was already out there, improved upon it, and executed the marketing/business side of things better than their competitors.

The blatant art rip-off is evil, but the methodology of "taking something proven, and making it better" is not.

Apple does this all the time, and I don't fault them for it.

For the HN crowd who "can't find an idea for a startup", maybe this is a really good method of finding one. Look at what's successful out there, and emulate to make it better.
Definitely agree with going from $10 to $100. I bought a pair of Grado SR60 headphones a few years ago for ~$65, and they were by far the best headphones I have ever owned. I heard things on CDs that I never noticed before.
Android isn't really much more open for carriers and manufacturers than other operating systems. The source for Windows Mobile is available to manufacturers to tinker with, for example.

The whole point is none of this openness translates to anything meaningful to the end user. Those people who pick Android because it's "open" are really getting nothing for it.
Larry Wall once said that language designers have huge egos, perhaps hackers do too. Perhaps it's the guts and ego that shouts out "I don't care" cause I have bigger things to think about or for that matter hack about. Hacking is always the numero uno priority hence procrastination in my humble opinion will always be a feature amongst hackers and not a bug :)

Nonetheless I do vouch for the Pomodoro technique, specially the one written by Staffan. When cries of things to do can no longer be ignored, it's time to wind up that clock!
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I've created a simple Google Chrome extension today called "Hacker News Collapse" that collapses comment trees on Hacker News, like the way it works on Reddit. While I created it to satisfy my own needs, I figured other people might find it useful as well so that's why I post it here.

On the comments page it appends a [-] button to the right of each comment header. Click on that to collapse the comment and all its children. Click again to reveal them again.

Chrome Extensions Galley: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bbkfcamiocfccgmcjngdljolljhifdph

BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/drjokepu/hncollapse
Well put. I agree with what you are saying. It's the subset of boomers that elected Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush Jr, that have really screwed us all. Clinton would have never been elected if it hadn't been for Ross Perot. Essentially, we've had 30 years of "conservatism" and it's completely failed everyone but the top 1%. I use conservatism in air quotes because it's really anything but.
The 20MB size limit over cell networks has been published for a long time. It used to be 10MB and they raised it last year, so nothing new on that one.
I don't know what being a female has to do with your post. Good tips for a founder of any gender though.
Really, the #1 reason to use MongoDB (if you're me, anyway) is to save development time associated with making your relational schema start small and change as your new app progresses. I feel a smug sense of joy every time I add a field somewhere, or delete another, or create some kind of nested document. It's taken me a while to really understand how many compromises I used to make because changing schemas is a pain in the ass.

Simplified queries, though, are a knock against mongo. Joins are great and I would like to do joins on my Mongo documents, but I end up having to replicate a lot of that in code. Sure it's nice that a document can be more complex and you don't spend a lot of time moving things into tables that are really part of the same record. It's nice because it's not forced, though, not because keeping data in different tables is always the wrong way to do things.
It's related to early brain research which discovered some left right specialization. Medically it's been mostly debunked, but for some reason "Pseudo Science" people really latched on to the term.

PS: By “debunked” it was discovered that the brain has more plasticity in how and where specific tasks where preformed that initially assumed. Also the high level understanding of what doing “Math” or “Poetry” has little connection to how the brain actually does this stuff. EX: Some people can count time accurately why reading other people can’t. The most probable explanation as you grow up the brain chooses how to approach high level problems in a fairly arbitrary fashion.
However, this may simply mean that fewer people should be going to college, not that the university system has a deep flaw. If, for example, 100k psych majors are graduating only to work in social services or some slightly related field, should these people be going to college at all? Are these skills necessary for the workforce? It's important to recognize that just because we wish it were so, 50,000 psych and history majors won't suddenly switch to the hard sciences. Now, it's possible that university is instead a luxury -- if they have the money to pay for it, it's an extremely appealing situation. However, many if not most do not have the money to pay for it. In summary, I'm not sure this is a problem with universities, but with students. How do we persuade people not to go to college?

P.S. When the author states that universities are weak and "ripe for takeover" he then uses STEM funding being too spread out as an argument. This is stupid because if we did consolidate STEM funding like he suggests, it would probably go to mostly the 50-100 best universities in the country. This would only solidify those schools' power and work against his entire argument.
>That's a very valid complaint imo, except for the 'sucky', was that present in the original?

While 'sucky' isn't up to HN's style standards, and a more reasoned response is always preferable, I personally don't think the prohibition Apple put in place was sufficiently reasonable to merit a reasonable response.
> We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, “I’ll know it when I see it”. And we think that you will also know it when you cross it.

The proper quote, from Justice Potter Stevens, was:

> I shall not today attempt further to deﬁne the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

How do I know? Because by wild coincidence, I quote it on the first page of a free book I wrote (http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/).
Traditionally one then invades Poland - but this may not be an option for Greece.
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The maintainer of Magit is an asshole.
Text rendering on OS X is resolution-independent. Even Win7 doesn't have (much) trouble scaling up to my 1920x1200 15.4" laptop screen, and that's about 200 DPI. And OS X definitely has better scaling.
I get the feeling that if the dev tool / framework you are using doesn't exactly act like the native framework they will reject your app. Particularly if your app draws its own UI without using the native widgets.
a. WISPr is publicly documented. You can read about how it works in the document. As for user creds, I would suspect that maybe the ATT client is using a form of EAP-SIM over WISPr but thats just my guess. It could also be something much simpler that doesn't even bother to verify "credentials" in the normal sense. Whatever is going on - its built in "under the hood".

b. The author of the article is speculating when worrying about buffer overflows and javascript execution. I doubt most wispr parsers even use traditional XML parsers. Besides, its much easier to spoof an AP or execute a man-in-the-middle attack than anything else.

c. The magic whitelist as you call it, is publicly documented and is called "Captive Networks". You can read about it in the iOS documentation. But I suppose its more fun to try to bash without any knowledge.
Whaaa? VLC developers spent time making an iOS app when a much more open and free platform was available? Interesting. I hope Android sees the same love!

Oh come on, it wasn't even a dig on iOS, give me a break with the downmods, jeez. I was just surprised at their choice considering all thats happened with them in the past with AOL and what not. I was just genuinely surprised to see an OSS project with a history of being burned by corporations choose an iOS device as their first mobile target. But hey, I mentioned Android. Flame away HN, flame away.
Well, I've spent the last six months learning the shitiest language and libraries with the most backwards arse tools. What a total waste of my time.

Can't decide whether I'm furious at this loss of time and destruction of my competitive advantage, or deliriously happy at the thought of being able to use proper tools like Resharper and IDEA.

I suppose the fact is I still have a competitive advantage. I have one client purely because they tried middleware and it ran like ass, so they wanted a native app.

Time to get Java installed on the iPhone. I'd prefer Monotouch, but the editors on OSX suck compared to Resharper.
Yep, that's sort of the point - the advice is the same no matter your gender. I put that in the title because my theory about why more women don't apply is because they feel like they won't get in, and in general I have found (gross gender generalization coming) that women take rejection worse than men.
I think he's very clear. The ironic point he is trying to make is that people are citing "openness" as their reason for purchasing Android phones when it has no benefit for them at all.
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On SafeConnect, it caches the MAC Address as exempted for a period of time. When SafeConnect pops up, I fire up my Chrome shortcut that makes my user agent "Wii". After I send a single request and it redirects me to 'unl.edu', I close the browser, and reopen Chrome with my normal shortcut (so back to normal UA).

I have to do it once every few days. I could craft a wget/curl request to run every few hours I suppose so I wouldn't have to close out of Chrome and reopen it, but what can I say, I'm lazy.
plus http://www.mibz.com/21876-one-and-only-pagani-zonda-hh-owner... !
I would definitely go with the report. I have lost count of the number of software companies that I have encountered that win marketshare with similar ethics to that being reported here about Zynga. They talk up sunshine and value in public but then go Ballmer on their employees.
Fulfillment is relatively cheap and you benefit from significant postage discounts. There's no reason you should be shipping products yourself.
You post raises a very important question: What is the purpose of universities?

In my mind, the original goal of expanding knowledge for its sake alone is the rightful place of "higher education" and in and of itself means that these institutions will be expensive to attend and therefore not for everyone.

The secondary purpose though of equipping a modern workforce is something that more and more, universities have chosen to assume. You fricken need a post-secondary degree to be a secretary these days. This is where the problem is.

Current institutions should be forced to accept their role as either the former or the latter. As a society we should place less emphasis on the need for the accreditations that stem from the former as well.
I think http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz is a smaller and better quiz
I think you'd need a pretty large sample set before you came to any reasonable conclusion.

I've been running ~10 nodes for AdGrok for the last 3 months, and we've already had one node fail (in that it wouldn't respond to any ec2 cli command to shut down or even terminate).

That hardware failure rate is about what I'd expect if it was our own colo and our own machines. Stuff always breaks.
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I think the beef some of us have with Google is that they seem to have left their balls at the door. However much Google is or isn't living up to "don't be evil" these days, I suspect most of us can agree that we'd rather have their rules than Verizon's or AT&T's. Why aren't they being stronger? They've had the only really credible alternative to the iPhone for a long time now -- why aren't they using that fact to make the carriers play ball?

Nerds love to rag on Apple for their controlling ways, but seem to forget how completely locked down -- and utterly, horribly, greedily tacky -- the mobile universe was before the iPhone. Apple, through, I don't know, sheer force of will, cracked a huge hole in the status quo. Google could have landed a deathblow if they'd just stuck to their guns. Oh well.

jrockway, I hope you're right, and this is the beginning. I fear that the best window of opportunity is already past. Sensible regulation would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath. Irony of ironies, perhaps it will be Microsoft that comes in and forms the second leg.
Now that Apple has relaxed its iPhone restrictions, give Lua another look!
Google made an aesthetic change to the sponsored ads back in July to better match the new look and feel they pushed back in may. Nothing to do with Google instant at all.

What's funny is if people are only noticing this now, then the ads are obviously totally ineffective.
The deep flaw is that too many people go to college for impractical degrees.
No. Because it doesn't work that way. See comments above.
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Out-of-order design sounds good. Does anyone know if the large cache affects the power savings that are the main benefit of ARM?
He did, in reply to my question about whether it would ever happen. Now that it finally has, I'll be migrating over to EC2 shortly :-)
I'm an ICIE- sadist. Go figure.

I'm also a dom who enjoys pain, both ways. But yeah, these personality tests are worth near 0$ (they're funny, and my time is not free).
Also, the 20MB limit applies to everything in iTunes, not just the app store. If you purchase a video in iTunes that is larger than 20MB, it will refuse to download it on cellular connections.
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I guess he changed his mind when Epic showed him the Unreal Engine 3 running on an iPhone. He was so impressed by it that he presented it as the only third party app on their iPod press conference, that says a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2H8hmi8yrQ
I second that it's a good useful post, but misses the point of why women aren't female Y-Combinator founders. If you aren't ready for a life of rejection, then it doesn't have anything to do with Y-Combinator, but don't be an entrepreneur!
I've read both magazines and agree that there is not much depth to their coverage (or most business magazines for that matter). My background is in math/business, so I do enjoy the logistics and finance aspects. The interesting challenge seems to be the initial market research/product development. Finding the right thing to sell and then putting together that thing seems to be the toughest part (someone correct me if I'm wrong because I have no experience in this).

The web in general is flooded with stores selling the same dropshipped products, so to stand out I believe someone has to take the path you did and have something unique produced, otherwise you're just competing with Amazon and the like.

I remember reading an article in Business 2.0 about "micro-multinationals" [1] and the thought has always been in the back of my mind to try creating a completely distributed company, with ecommerce being the initial distribution channel. Work and grad school kept me too occupied to give it much thought, but reading about things like this always reminds of the article.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
Maybe a week or two at the most (I hope) - looking at the slides alone strips ALL of the context off of the talk, and results in serious confusion.

I wish he hadn't posted the slides; instead waiting for the video.
I wasn't referring to pay as evidence society doesn't want to pay for art, culture, education, etc. The low pay is one consequence of this fact. There is definitely an oversupply of teachers in the humanities and sciences. But it is true that funding levels per student are decreasing and that there is increasing pressure to 'streamline' the process. This is a buzz word for cutting out the unimportant stuff like art, music, etc. It's bad for society in the long run.
Not really, you can bundle music in your app and call it however you like. If you are playing music from the music that you loaded from itunes then yes they want you to use that framework.
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Kind of funny that this had to be asked, considering that VLC's original purpose was streaming videos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#History
If university are a source of education, knowledge, research and innovation and not a factory for making cars, why should they be managed in the same way?

If people were like a car, you could push the accelerator to make them move quickly, but there is no accelerator to push to achieve the goals of universities.
Anyone can contribute to Django right now; just like anyone can contribute to Rails.

Only a group of core maintainers can merge those contributions into a core, shipping release. So how does the DVCS make that core think, work or release any differently?
American academic system should ideally create employers and not employees
I need a book that can store an unlimited quantity of marginal notes, can play embedded video and audio, shows dynamically updated graphs of everything in the universe, a video chat room, a whale and a vase of petunias.

I think that's all in HTML5 already, except for the petunias. Who do I e-mail at WHATWG for that?

And when is my Kindle going to run HTML5 chatroulette anyway?
I've been using the high-cpu medium instances (c1.medium) for our rails nodes, just to avoid the slothy m1.small CPU. It seems like these are tailor-made for running either haproxy or your web tier!
Yeah, such a fucking jerk!
An important Caveat is Section 1 and 10.1: The Human Interface Guidelines. This is large document that describes in general the "look and feel" of apps that run on the iPhone. If you make something that doesn't fit with their long-term vision, or irks them in some other way, it is extremely easy for them to say "You are violating the Human Interface Guidelines," and leave it at that. This has prevented me from delivering innovative UI experiences on iOS, stifling creativity, and again, frustrating developers with wasted research and development time.
Liberal Arts is a luxury that many cultures cannot afford. When you're just starting out or trying to survive as a culture, you need engineers, hard-core scientists and business people. Take China and Israel for example. The upper class can go for Liberal Arts at any time, but the culture as a whole will lean strongly to hard science until they're established enough to enjoy that luxury. Times are bad now (but getting better) and soft majors are not wanted, but when times are good again, they'll be more jobs for the softies to fill.