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In defense of other platforms, apps can't read your text messages, email, etc. Sure, there are ways to do it using private APIs, etc, but if you get caught, you get removed. Android is wide open, and knowing that it's trivial for someone to write an app which reads my email/SMS is scary.

That said, the iOS SDK certainly lets a developer read my address book without informing me. You'd think Apple would put something up, like a permissions screen or at least something to let me know this is happening.
At the very least, it will serve as a case study on the merit of mentoring.
Tom - I saw you speak at the London HN meetup last week and your work was very inspirational. I've always been a business guy in the tech industry but never actually coded anything (i've reversed engineered some php in joomla, but nothing crazy). I'm in the process of putting together an app for my squash group so people can add their matches and view standings. I did the Python tutorials from Google as well and have spent some time learning django.

Also, StackOverflow has also been extremely helpful, especially given that I'm such a noob at this. For example, one of my questions was so basic about the ORM that after I found out the solution I felt like such an idiot. [1]

That being said...if you want a business and/or hacker buddy to bounce ideas off let me know. My contact info is in my user listing.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4907479/how-do-i-do-multi...
Is that $99 per item purchased, or just $99 to be part of a 'buy back' club? If the latter, for people who buy a lot, it might almost not be a horrible program.
Same here. It worked with Opera 11.01, so it seems to be a browser specific bug.
The odd thing, the hardest thing to comprehend, is how our reality continues to exist. The ground state of the universe is a vacuum. Void of matter and shielded from radiation is the quantum foam of field fluctuations and virtual particles that exist on the scale of Planck lengths.

The probable reality is not that the universe came from nothing, but that the universe is nothing. In a flat universe (which is what we believe we are) the symmetries of the universe cancel each other out such that, accounting for the mass and energy, the universe is a state where 0 = 0.
As your first sentence indicates, in this scenario you have specific, attainable goals. Just getting to that point goes a long way towards beating procrastination.
Now of course people seem to trust Rovio. But if another app asked me for permission to use SMS, could it surreptitiously engage SMS billing where carriers support it?
Awesome! Let's get in touch, I love playing squash too :)
Not really. Android is sometimes used on tablets that can't send SMSs, or you could be out of range or even in airplane mode.

Just return the same error code you would if there was a physical problem and continue.
OffloadApp sets a new high for task management apps. Amazingly beautiful startup
I'd like to see this plotted on two dimensions, where the horizontal axis is the year, starting when radio emissions began, and the vertical axis is the number of non-sol star systems that are within the bubble at that time. Binary or trinary systems would count as 1 system, not 2 or 3. This function would obviously be monotonically nondereasing.

I wonder if wolfram alpha could rise to the challenge.
Poll: What was your favorite class in elementary school?
I'm interested in learning what classes people enjoyed as kids and how that played a role in where they ended up today. Feel free to choose more than one class.
Social Studies (History)
Music (Orchestra, Band, or Choir)
Another language
Didn't have one
I can remember this feeling after playing Katamari Damacy... I'd drive down the highway and imagine how great it'd be to pull off the road and roll over that string of highway markers.
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Thanks for the feedback, Hackernews!
Save The Money: Groupon’s Super Bowl Ads May Spark Faux Outrage
No, and you're absolutely right, too. The human radiosphere might technically be 200 light years across, but that doesn't mean a meaningful amount of data could be extracted from it. Yes, we are putting out a steady hum of energy, but it's hardly announcing our presence. Were it not for high energy radar systems deployed on Earth, we could not even detect a civilization down here from any point in our own solar system, much less decipher any of the data being transferred. And as our civilization matures, the amount of energy radiated into space is actually shrinking.

That said, 200 light years is an enormous size. Everything that is large enough to take up more than one pixel on the map of our galaxy if freaking huge! People may disagree about the factual relevance of the radio bubble, but it's still immensely cool that we managed to project something this big out there into the world. Looking at this beautiful image of the Milky Way and seeing the unstable little flicker centered on our humble home, I can't help but wonder how many other radiospheres are out there and when they might finally overlap with ours (if they haven't already).
Thanks for the links; I just updated the spreadsheet.
Why Social Capital Is The Coming Decade’s Most Important Buzzword
> Truth and decency > etiquette.

Etiquette is an implementation of decency so that inequality is basically "truth > 0".

One can be truthful and decent without being a jerk. In fact, the most effective truthful and decent people are the "not jerks".

FWIW, I've found that folks who try to justify being jerks with "I'm just telling the truth" typically aren't that truthful. They're just passive-agressive mean, which makes them worse than straight-up jerks.
Hi! I just signed up, and I thought I'd go see who was about to help a potential me - and it signed me up as needing help without any sort of confirmation! Now I'm in an embarrassing situation where I need to explain to my poor buddy that I don't actually want his help, I was just poking around :( Perhaps you should add some sort of confirmation to the "need help" thing :)

ETA: some sort of "undo" button (i.e. no longer needing help) would be nice :)
I keep some cash for small purchases and tend to use it for local/small retailers/restaurants. I know how much it costs the store when I use plastic.

I also like that my 'balance' visibly goes down when I use cash.

However, I also don't spend often enough that I need to go to an ATM more than perhaps once or twice a month.
Christopher McDougall, in his book "Born to Run" and in various talks, tells us that humans maintain their endurance until a surprising age. A 49 year old has the endurance of an 18 year old.
To put the blue dot in perspective, its unimaginably beyond the scope of our current technology to travel that far. Pluto by comparison is 13 light-HOURS away and it takes about 10 years to get there. At that rate, it would take approximately 150000 YEARS to reach the same distance to reach the perimeter of that blue bubble. And blue bubble is almost insignificant in relation to our galaxy, which is one of about 100 billion galaxies!
Good to know I'm not the only one making this website.

http://www.makethatthing.com/

(shameless self promotion, I know, but I wish Dave the best of luck with his site)
Well, that's part of the beauty of this. I can't guarantee the service wouldn't be shut down but you're in the same boat with any other provider you go with.

The essence of this service is that even if I went AWOL you'd still have your photos and meta data in an easily accessible form (your S3 account and a SQL dump of the meta data).

I'd love to open source the "front end" code so you could port it simply by running it on your own server. The actual photos would never have to be migrated since....tada - you own it and it's not bound to the service I'm offering to provide.
The flip side of that is that Open Source scales up for developer hours and creativity, limited only by the size of the program's audience. As the audience grows, so also the programming resources and ideas for improvements.

Closed source development does not scale - it is limited to the available work hours and imagination of the owners.
Um no... the application would not just receive the same error code unless Google specifically set it up just for that permission, and that strategy wouldn't work for any other permissions. Think about it, the manifest specifies that the application will have access to whatever it asks for... the application would just crash when the VM/kernel denies it access to other applications data or some system permission because the user is given the ability to override it. Not having an active connection to receive an SMS is a completely unrelated and irrelevant point.

I find it really super awesome that this is downvoted. Yes, an application that expects a permission to be available, randomly not being able to access is sure to not cause problems. Not just -1 too, we really have to ram this post into the ground, no reply, just watched my karma drop like 10 points. I expected better. Keep it coming guys, teach me my lesson without actually replying!
Ahh sorry - you're absolutely right, there should be some kind of confirmation first. I'll add that to v2 :)
Yea, a Mozy for photos is a decent way of looking at it.

I haven't even got to thinking of how the site would look but I presume it'd be theme-able and let you provide your own CSS if you wanted.

I really don't want to dictate anything about your photos. I want to provide the utility of uploading/resizing etc.

I do this for myself and after 6 years and a few thousand photos I realize how valuable it is. I also know that the chances that my kids will be able to see their photos is orders of magnitude higher than if I were uploading them to Facebook.

Just want to spread the love :).
Those born deaf and not taught sign language will invent their own sign language. There are no human cultures without language.

Spoken (or signed) language is natural for humans, and developed as a form of telepathy. I can get a thought that's in my head into your head over a great distance transmitted over noisy media in a short time with a few words. But the thought in my head isn't in the form of an extremely ambiguous language like English or ASL or whatever I happened to learn as a child. It's the other way around: the thoughts come first.

Check out The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker for a nice overview on the scientific understanding around this.
Agreed, the only thing cash has going for it the privacy/freedom it provides from being tracked.
I hope cash is never obsolete. Here in Vancouver, Canada there seem to be more retailers hanging out "cash only" signs everyday - independent convenience stores, produce vendors at the public market, restaurants large and small. If I were wealthy I would only use cash, if for no other reason than to negotiate prices on large purchases.
It's been well documented that our attention operates in a spotlight sort of way. We can handle immediate tasks better one at a time. Of course, our brain is always working and new tasks and ideas start to form on the fringe and we being the impulsive humans we are would rather work on something new and different. This is purely because the variety of tasks is more exhilarating than the productivity and accomplishment of even one task.

Multitasking should just be finishing one task well enough and having the long-term focus to know what task should be tackled upon next.
I have to say that most of us who are taking the time to read this are probably procrastinating in the first place. Therefore it would have been better to publish this article on a weekday when people are most susceptible to procrastinating online. After all, those are the people this article is targeted for.
I guess Bruno's basic point is: V8 is client-side. That's where Google's thrust is; that's what they're concentrating on. But SSJS has some unique issues, which aren't necessarily issues on the client side.

So it's a natural question to ask if Yahoo, as a company, are thinking of investing millions of dollars (in terms of manpower) on node.js .

Jason's response seemed more like "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it". Which is perfectly reasonable (and the norm) in startup-world; but large, established companies with their BCPs and contingency-planning and long product lifecycles don't usually think that way.

IMHO, if Yahoo is planning on going all-out for SSJS, they should develop some in-house expertise on V8 so that they can fork it for internal use and not have to wait on Google.
http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4457042/ This video with Rich Hickey(Creator of clojure) is the closest to a functional programming methodology you will find.

Software engineering and programming are simply problem solving with an abstract tool set.
Mac has gotten harder to use, Windows easier
...but still not "most" places in the East Bay. (And though it may be a statistical anomaly, for homicides in 2011 so far SF is running even with Oakland, and San Jose almost as many.)

Edit: Corrected; at first I wrote that SF and SJ each had more than Oakland, but the actual numbers seem to be SF-11, O-11, SJ-10... if the rate continues, each will have a much worse year than last year.
SmartGit 2 - great git client for OSX/Win/Linux (non-free)
Statistician Cracks Secret Code Behind Lottery Tickets
I do not think I'm entitled to more that you are willing to give for free. However, I'm entitled to suspect your software may include malware, spyware and/or adware and thus choose not to use it.

It has nothing to do with releasing the source per-se. It has everything to do with the fact that experience shows that there are only two goals for producing software: money or reputation. And free software without sources rarely fits the latter.

I'm not saying that's your case, but I'm saying this is my default stance.
It's too bad we can't bury this obnoxious and poorly written article. Don't bother with it.
I am using a Gmail address that is registered with a "+" filter, i.e. `firstnamelastname+hackerbuddy@gmail.com`, and I think it breaks Gravatar. I'm getting a broken image.
The research that has been done in this area seems to indicate that while you might believe you work better under pressure, that may not actually be the case. Rather, you only work under pressure when faced with a task for which you have little internal motivation to complete:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/200808/in-sea...
This is definitely the case and was actually something I was going to plan on addressing in my initial comment about procrastination before deciding that I could put it off. :)

While I did not make it clear, the formula presented within the essay remains applicable whether or not someone is motivated by eustress, except that the formula changes slightly:

expectancy x value
motivation = ----------------------- + eustress
impulsiveness x delay

Using this formula, an incredibly low-value task (in my case, school assignments) can still have an acceptable (or greater than) outcome when complimented by a high level of eustress. (In my case, this is often in the form of an impending deadline.)

Other than school, however, I have been working with a friend, attempting to launch my first startup. This is an incredibly high-value task for me, which leads to greater motivation despite a lack of solid deadlines. In this case, I procrastinate very little.

That's not, of course, to say that every task related to launching is high-value. In those instances, you are correct, aggressive goal-setting is absolutely necessary. I'd add, though, that it's not simply an attempt to "keep this sort of thing up," but rather a simple acknowledgement of how I function.
Erlang has a very simple runtime model - processes basically don't have a stack across invocations (message receives) or a dynamic environment, the only concurrency is in mailboxes, and despite claims of being "soft real-time" there's actually not a lot you can do to influence scheduling policy.

Gambit supports pre-emptive multitasking for green threads, with continuations, exceptions, dynamic-wind, and (optionally inheritable) dynamic environments.

Gambit provides mailboxes, but also locks and condition-variables (with a much richer API than most implementations; usually CVs wake either one or all threads, Gambit has functions for both).

Gambit also has a pretty good story for controlling thread scheduling and task deadlines (see SRFI-21: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-21/srfi-21.html).

The manual describes these things pretty well:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/doc/gambit-c.html#Thread...
Диета
Диетите са създадени поради различни причини. Освен за отслабване, диетите често се използват и за подобряване на здравето.
Depending on who it is and what for, yes.. I've done it before, too.
Oh, that went public? I've been using it on the jailbreak side for ages :)

All devices back to the iPhone 3G at least have a hardware JPEG codec.
Sure, there's no fundamental difference between a "premium" SMS and normal one. Except maybe the shorter phone number.
Using the NStED database of stars I find that there are 11,384 cataloged stars within a 200 light year bubble. I thought that it would probably follow an r^3 function but it appears that it follows something closer to an r^2 function - perhaps that is explained by the flatness of the galaxy or just noise? For example, within 20 light years there are only 77.

Stars by Distance:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3924269/plot_10956.jpg

NStED:
http://nsted.ipac.caltech.edu/
Ditto. I clicked 'Help a fellow hacker' thinking it would lead to a page about that process, or with a list of people needing my skill set, but now it sounds like I might be contacted by someone who took the time to write me a personalized request that I'm not (yet) ready for.

I just signed up to get a feel for the site for now.

I also recommend skill set options in product management, project management and community relations.
I'm gonna bite.

So the observation that different drugs show different addictive potential (e.g., heroine versus cocaine) is in fact irrelevant because "addiction doesn't really have anything to do with the molecule in question"?
Pretty useful. Just keep in that mind that loading up 4+ fonts via @font-face could easily 500kb more load to the initial request.

Also, this service would be a lot better if it managed to package + download the font kits for you.
Yes, that will break Gravatar since its algorithm uses the hash of the entire address to find your image.
Why does that quote give you more respect for Joyent?
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It's not bad, however it doesn't include my contributions to open source projects just the repositories that are in-fact mine. If I was reviewing someone else's resume I'd want to see those things.
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So, to be on the safe side don't vote for This Week in Startups on it. Intelligent comments are fine, voting up not allowed (they track IPs like everyone else, so last time i think a dozen folks might have voted for me and rung the spammers bell over at HN HQ).

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There is also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set
Maybe you could use the best of both approaches by presenting the most popular/important/broad tags (e.g. PHP, usability, CPC) as a suggested list while allowing users to add their own, more specific or less popular tags (e.g. drupal, memcached, adsense, appengine).
Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010
A real boost in the life of a start-up, really enjoyed the program in Paris
You've made my day.

Finally making presentations won't suck so bad. Or at least I hope it won't.
Your site appears to have flatlined under the load.

Title: Database Error
Body: Error establishing a database connection
Design is about communication, but it does not exclude ornamentation. Design can be ornamental (if the purpose of the resume is to highlight some design skill), however it should not reduce the readability of data as this one does.
Having just read "The visual display of quantitative information" I have this to say to the designer of the resume: remove non-data ink. Increase data density and readability. Especially readability.
The help page says email adresses are swapped. It would be nice to see some kind of blind, double confirmation process, where both sides get to briefly interact first before that is done.

Sometimes, you just want to get to know someone else first before you give out an email address.
Can you tell us more about the cochlear implant? I've never met someone who has one (that I know of).
It's automated debugging.
A detail: I miss titles below the icons representing various skills. I really hate to have to mouseover just to check what a cup of coffee means. I know it looks cooler without text, but usability suffers.
> What possible reason is there for doing this?!

You might try reading the first sentence of the article.
This reminds me of the opening scene of “Contact” (1997), the movie adaptation of Carl Sagan’s novel by Robert Zemeckis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGyq7d62oPQ
Age of Empires Online: Beta Open
It appears that Age of Empires has moved into the wide open world of internet gaming. The game is still under development, and even though there is no specific release date announced their is currently an active beta. However this isn’t the usual beta, you must first fill out a form then hope you get chosen to partake in the beta.
There are other permission granularity problems on Android, too. I wrote a streaming media player and want to listen for when the phone rings or goes off hook so I can pause. In order to this I need to access a permission that lets me read IMEI, carrier info, phone number, etc.

That's too much info, and it makes my app look skeezy to be requesting access to that when all I want to do is not have music playing down the speaker while the user is on a call.
Flagrant breach of copyright by TeacherSoft
Well, you might have heard the story about how C creator Ken Thompson was asked to take a mandatory language test at Google before being able to check-in code :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_ou...
And email "privacy" is cheap, if you know how to do it.

There recently was an article about setting up Firesheep provention on AWS http://www.stratumsecurity.com/blog/2010/12/03/shearing-fire...

That, of course, has the user set up a remote OpenVPN, with a free tier Amazon AWS. Average costs for bandwidth are around $0.50 per month. A domain name is what, around 9$ or so per year. I can get an ipv6 address/AAAA record and a /48 from he.net for free. And with appropriate know-how, I can set up qmail (and it's apt-able).

And that's as private as AWS is, which I think as long as you arent doing anything to garner attention (think piracy) you'll be fine, all on $1.25/month for a VPN and Email server
A sequence of lines consecutively traced by 500 individuals