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Why not? CES saw over 100 tablet launches, most of them Android based. Every big company should make their own Android spin. Even Disney has one:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/17/disney-to-sell-android-ph...

HTC, Foxconn, and Samsung will build it with your logo on the back; Google will provide the OS updates; and you just need to provide the value add like integration with a popular service whether that's Facebook, MTV, or Disney. Even Barnes and Noble was able to make a nice Android device with its own App Store.

Such a venture could easily pay for itself like Google's Chrome and Android projects did. It's a tough call. No matter what Facebook is reliant on Google and Apple for its mobile future. Then again the easiest path for Facebook (i.e. Android) also ties them even more closely to Google's whims.
You're right, all of North and South America aside from specific areas of the US are missing.
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Khao Lak, Thailand for another ~12 hours, then boring Palo Alto or San Francisco. :)
Slightly confused

Jessica's article is excellent but I don't see the relevance of her article to women

The comments that she makes Save money, Learn about start-ups, etc... are just as valid for women as for men

Is this (dearth of women) really the right question to be asking or should it be about the relative lack of start-ups (/students starting start-ups) and how the education system (in it's widest sense) should react?

Sorry Jessica - excellent article - but I'm not sure it got to the point
Yeah, "Great Lakes" is a region, but Canada isn't?! Lame. And there should be "Canada West" and "Canada East".
New Zealand.

Sometimes we get lumped in with Australia. Sometimes the region is called Oceania or Australasia (the origin of both these terms baffles me). I checked "other".
awesome...im looking fwd to it.
ok... i had run the script as root and was trying to run as a normal user, thats why the error....fixed now
I co-managed a SF/LA test prep company up until recently, so if you any questions specific to test prep, hit me up.

And a reaction... I'll be interested to see how well you're able to retain your better tutors. Tutoring clientele grows firstly by word of mouth, and if you're a good tutor, you'll inevitably get referrals. Yet from where I'm sitting there's not a great way to funnel these referrals through TutorSpree (we had a decent way of managing it in our SAT prep world). There's also nothing preventing a tutor from leaving TutorSpree after, say, a few first lessons with an initial cadre of clients. So all those $5 rings of the register are lost.

This, I think, is a distinguishing feature from Airbnb, as Airbnb efficiently connects a seller with a pool of distant buyers. The service itself gets primary credit for the connections rather than the individual venue or venue owners due to the nature of individual travel. Tutoring is a little different. A tutor produces one happy client, and that client serves as a connector (rather than Tutorspree) to a new pool of students.

Nevertheless, the level of support and the quality of the systems you provide to your tutors will play a role in overall retention (client acquisition and payment processing are certainly a start).
Yeah, reviews and ratings should be indicative of quality. The best and largest tutoring market imho is middle / highschool students and is mostly satisfied by college students.
Anyone else thinking about all the ways the gaming controls can be used on non-game applications?

I'm pretty sure you'd be able to code efficiently on the Pandora, given some custom key-bindings.
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You forgot Poland, also.
HN News lacks two features that are predominant in social network site: follow people and like postings. I would not call HN News social networking. I'm hoping HN News can add like/favorite feature so that I can bookmarked posts/discussion right within HN News.
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AdWords prices are set in an auction. The amount Google does or does not pay their customer service reps will not change their revenue from AdWords.

You could be right about their cut from AdSense, I don't know anywhere near as much about this product
I agree. Since when was Great Lakes a region? Most people call it the Midwest.
Hahaha, awesome, Australia made the list :D (seems odd, but I'll take it ;)
Student... Oddly enough, I can get by comfortably on 20k USD a year. It's not even an uncomfortable stretch.
I really believe this as a result of the engineering culture issue at Google. "There is a solution to the problem of naughty ads, so move on to the next problem."

As a product manager, I can think of many ways to improve this process for the people who pay for the Googleplex and, at the same time, decrease the support burden, but those kinds of things are not "fun" engineering tasks, and when engineers get to choose their projects, you better make your project fun.

As I'm laying the foundation for my company (with the one engineer I've got working for me) while playing CTO and Product Manager, I'm spending a lot of time thinking about culture and how to build a company that can attract great talent while still getting the really annoying things done that come with polishing a product (something that I don't think Google or Facebook do very well at all). Suggestions welcome. :)
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>> HTML, SQL, C, Java, Objective-C, Prolog, Common Lisp, CLOS, J, Scheme, Ocaml, Haskell, Agda, Oz, Reversible programming, Quantum algorithms to name a few.

You miss out the rising stars of programming languages: Erlang and Clojure.
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The more accurate name (that we use sometimes) would be "Google Developer Products", but that just doesn't slip off the tongue as nicely.

When I started at Google, all of our APIs were true APIs, and my title was "API support engineer." Then we started developing these not-quite-API tools and platforms, and my titled changed to "Developer Programs Engineer". Also doesn't quite slip off the tongue. I do miss those simple days when we only had APIs... Alas!
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In the UK I think it is about 20k per month
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Sure.

malloc'ed item could be the same as malloc_gc'd, but with its reference count artificially bumped up by 1. free() would decrement the count and the item will be picked up by the GC later on. If there's a provision for an immediate disposal of unreferenced items, then we are back to the standard malloc/free behaviour in case when malloc and malloc_gc items are not mixed.
Their solution involves hooking a perl script into mail delivery for sendmail and postfix.

Now, I have nothing against that method in general, but if you need to send so many emails that it's useful to use the Amazon service, then forking, starting up perl and then running that script for every email you are sending might not be a viable option performance-wise.

On the other hand: If you are using amazon's service for sending mail, then with some likelyhood you are also running EC2 where wasting a couple of CPU cycles is beneficial for Amazon :-)
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A C macro can't directly -- nor indirectly -- refer to itself; even through other macro. You can't do loops, you can't do recursion.

(a nonsensical example, as I can't think of a proper one right now)

#define PRINTFOO PRINTBAR

#define PRINTBAR PRINTFOO

PRINTFOO

The ANSI C standard says a macro, while it is being expanded by the preprocessor, ``is painted blue'' (is no subject to further expansion).

I'm not sure, but probably it follows the C macros are not Turing-complete.

EDIT:
on the other hand, a LISP macro system is a Turing-complete programming language that's geared towards manipulating lists of symbols and values (which, incidentally, is LISP program).
wouldn't upvoting a story be considered the same as liking a post. Then go to your profile and view saved, then you can view posts you liked. Also comments in your profile you can view discussions you participated in.
Not quite 80 KLOC and not a commercial success (but featured by Apple as App of the Week)

https://github.com/6wunderkinder/wunderlist

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Did they know about your blogging side project before deciding on the pivot? Did you talk about the concept at work?
Sure, legal minimum is 5 weeks of vacations. Big companies usually offer a bit more (1 to 3 weeks) among other benefits.
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It's a history of attitudes towards laughter in some Western cultures, specifically Europe and the United States.

Histories of other cultures would interesting too.

But I can't see it as a "western view" any more than a history of wood carving in Japanese culture would be an "Eastern historical view".
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That's funny: usually when I'm about to make a phone call I almost automatically get out of my chair/sofa and start walking around. For some reason having a phone conversation works better for me when walking around. Perhaps it's due to the same theory.
the company doesn't make any money from those.
Ticked other, Auckland New Zealand.
Hot mails losing customers. Ie is losing Customers. Bing isn't profitable.

Ten years ago, sure. Bit now? Really? Microsoft?
Mini USB has about the same robustness as big USB. It is micro USB that is much more robust, which is one of the reasons it was chosen for the European phone charger standard.
Perchance the jitter occurs because we are moving quite fast through a fine voxel grid which is the underlying representation of the world in a simulator inside someones computer. Measure the actual distance between the endpoints of a line drawn on a pixel display as the line is repeatedly redrawn in new positions, and the results will be noisy. Perhaps our creators simply didn't care enough to implement anti-aliasing?
Yep Other and NZ here too.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad opened my eyes to some commercial realities of the world. I realised the career I was training for wasn't going to give me the life I wanted, so I began focusing more time learning about money, investements, business etc.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a book I've never been able to get more than 1/3 of the way through, but its 'Circle of Control' framework made me a much happier and more content person.

I enjoyed Dale Carnegie, but took some of the lessons on board a little too much, which got me into trouble in some social situations where I didn't have awareness (eg, using mirroring or copying techniques to build rapport, and later discovering I was standing next to my girlfriend and flirting with other women!).
~$75k, but I'm in Sweden so there's plenty of money going directly from my employer to the government to cover pensions etc. It's really hard to compare salaries between countries. I suppose I also pay a lot more taxes on those $75k than you guys.
WTF is "other Europe"? Malta? Israel?
a) Not particularly. I notice this affects people differently, however. I love working next to live music and if I don't' I can ignore it with headphones. My father, on the other hand, can't handle the distraction and is driven nuts by that sort of shit.

b) I try to change it up. It's easy to do in the localities I frequent. I'm sure it's harder for other people. I feel like I could do it anywhere I could get a 3g connection.

c) I like to frequent places that are very student and musician friendly, and am lucky to live in places with local businesses which embrace that sort of thing. In general these people are pretty tolerant of heavy laptop/internet usage.

Living in a big student town can cause problems for seating in coffee shops. Finals week or mid-quarter midterm dates are times when it's particularly impossible to find a place to get some work done. This has led to some contention with patrons who want space to just read the paper or talk with a friend. One coffee shop I attend has chosen to designate special space for the more casual patron to ensure they have a spot (see: http://daviswiki.org/Mishkas_Cafe).
Interesting question(s) to ask if you want to cut to the meat of someone's core. The first is "What is your story?" and when they naturally stare at you like "Huh?" - you answer your own question (prime the pump). Tell them who you are and where you want to go. Reveal some insecurity but confidence. And then you pause and wait confidently for the other person to start talking, with a bit of who they are. Done with honesty, you can cut the smalltalk bullcrap and start talking about what matters in life.

The other question: "When were you last lucky?"

Remember success comes from connecting and helping people. Not from not listening
correct, not Turing-complete
i don't quite get the europe categories. define "eastern europe". and "other europe"? what about "central europe" where i live?
Wow, surprising to see someone from South Africa. Not too many coders here. I am close to you at Durban right now. Originally from India. Here for onsite work. :)
The more I think about it, the more certain I become that immutable constants (a good idea, IMO) are the furthest CSS could safely go down the rabbit hole before the entire enterprise would consume itself in spaghetti-code madness.

Not that plenty about CSS doesn't beg for better abstractions, but turning it into a programming language is kind of a terrifying prospect. I've see too much of what enthusiastic amateurs can inflict with JavaScript.
More importantly, what does it do that's worth having to remember how I make a unicode ƒ?
Our company charges $250k. Per CPU.

Yes, I didn't believe it either.

And this is just one of the many line items.

According to VC, some of our bigger customers didn't take us seriously until we charged the money they were used to paying.
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I'd like to see a poll on which country people work in.
Clojure much bigger then Scala and F#.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&...
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It looks like it lets you use jQuery-style selectors to get at elements on a page.
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the colonies maybe? or if you can't decide if you're eastern or western europe?
ALT + f on a mac, not too hard. but I agree
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missing option: I can't remember :)

most places i simply state that i don't have one/still waiting for it.
exceptions being government buildings and tax forms at work
Other suggestions for where do you work polls:

* Where do you work (temporally)?

* Where do you work (spiritually)?

* Where do you work (existentially)?

...and my personal favorite:

* Where do you work (programmatically)?
If all you wanted was to use jQuery-style selectors then this file is only ~3kb compared to jQuery which is like ~180kb (uncompressed).
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You gotta start somewhere. High education is probably a decent signal of quality, and thus a good, cheap way to verify quality early on. They could then increase the size of the tutor pool after they have enough highly rating, vouched for tutors to guarantee a quality experience.
I did much the same, also, Google says you were at Wadham College, right next door to me!
It's nice how Facebook keeps validating the decision to opt out of Facebook.
Funny, I had this idea back in 2006 when I discovered web development. This was before AJAX, I was pretty proud of having invented dynamic checking myself. Hopefully the site still works -- it was one of my first attempts at PHP

http://thetutorbase.com (used to be dailytutor.com)

I abandoned that project because although tutors were easy to get, the marketing to students didn't scale well, and a paywall didn't work well (you could pay with paypal for up to 3 tutors' names).

I thought up a better business plan, involving an online tutoring service, but at the time no one would invest into anything. Similar idea, I'd say ... that's how I know that raising money and doing joint ventures is about relationships!

PS: Paul Graham where were you in 2006! :)
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The other thing that sometimes irks me is the social lubricating that "How are you?", "Good, how are you?" entails. I know people really don't care usually but I do care how someone is - are they happy in the present moment, are they present, what is interesting in their life...

I've managed to auto-pilot myself responding and have optimized at times to "Good, yourself?". It's almost as bad as Chuck Palahniuk's saying that people only ask about our weekend so they can tell us about their weekend. I think it is a necessary bare minimum for small talk though. And, I've gone into the dark side, I've started talking about the weather. It makes me wonder - at the canned responses - we all give out - how much of conversation can be on auto-pilot. I'm fascinated with conversational dynamics as I loathe to be the person who gets the group into a reverse tizzy, all pauses and nervous drink fondling. I think a lot of awkward conversations are auto-pilot as well. And the thing, for me, that distinguishes true, great conversations is their back-and-forth and seeming lack of cruise control. And I do find I can get a reasonable proxy for intelligent discussion that I can't get everyday through chatting (via IM) my good friends who are far away or HN. I do believe everyone has a few signature stories - if I get one out of a new acquaintance - I feel I've done my best - to be social.

A friend from a foreign country noted that we say "Thank you" so much in America it seems to lose its true value. Do we really need to say "Thank you" if a server refills our water glass? It seems to lessen the value of two words when someone does an unexpected favor.

"Thank you" for reading this.:)
the just didn't want to show that stuff to early. The will realeas the plans and in the meantime you can ask MWeston (he is the hardware designer of the team) he will help you if you have questions.
Wow, this might seem arrogant to say -- but I haven't seen this site in a long time, and I have to say I am pretty impressed ... by my past self, considering that this was my first website made with PHP ... I didn't know much back then. All the ajax was done with iframes. Try signing up as "Greg" (the username's taken).

It even had cool security protection (even by today's standards) like this:

http://www.thetutorbase.com/startover.php?err_desc=You+did+n...!

Okay self-gratification moment is done :)
re: Nietzsche...

An early Western practitioner of "walking meditation" perhaps?

We yogis from Berkeley prefer lotus posture with gaze turned toward spiritual eye ;)

Good to have you aboard, Nick. Hope you enjoy an addiction to HN as much as I do.
Australia has the same thing. 'Unlimited' = full speed up to X gigs each month, after that you get dial-up speed only until the start of the next month.

Most plans are advertised by GB/month though.
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Sorry to break it to you, sport, but nobody cares about your "ideas" if you don't execute.
1. CACM is more of a magazine than a journal or conference proceeding.

2. You aren't paying for all the externalities associated with your choices, so I wouldn't be so sure you are truly paying for your 100 odd pages. Maybe you could look into a KindleDX or something similar for your mobile reading pleasure?
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True, but who cares if you smartphone has 1.2ghz? Its not open and you want get costum optimized stuff like an the pandora.

Its not all about the numbers.
This doesn't explain the continuous existence of comedy and farce from Aristophanes to "la commedia del'arte". I stand unconvinced.
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I was at some YC parties with some girls who really seemed like groupies (from a distance, I didn't actually talk to them).
Lol people, I don't know. I didn't make this and I've never seen it before today. I'm doing the same research here that you guys could be doing.
If you work in a lake you'd probably appreciate this option.
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I have a theory that part of the reason why HN tends to distract people from work is that it's a substitute for hearing "Good job! Keep up the good work!"

Work life can be so unrewarding at times, so it's easy to use your HN karma score as a surrogate.
Couldn't you just use Sizzle directly?
Maybe we should ask in stuff. What can you buy for one year's income (after taxes) in your region: A new laptop, a used car, a new car, a 1-room flat, a 3-room flat, a little house, or a big house with a swimming pool?

Also, household income is easier. Without a wife I'd pay higher taxes.
but I did execute. The website is there, and I signed up 100 tutors and got a bunch of students. I got those 100 tutors in a week without any expenses. Even after I abandoned it, the tutors kept signing up for a while afterward. That showed traction on the tutor side.

I couldn't convince anyone to invest into it because I only asked family and friends.

how do you figure?
> They pass it on to you. In the form of more AdSense earnings

I think I'll hold my end of the discussion until you find your account suddenly terminated without recourse or some site suddenly stops serving ads because some competitor pulled a fast one on you or your earnings drop 70% without any explanation whatsoever. Adsense is like paypal, if it is a big part of your income you'll get bitten sooner or later.

For your sake I hope that it's later.
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