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Of the munitions? I hear JSOWs and especially JDAMs are popular recently.

As far as BIS info, it's not something I've followed closely, but we're talking things like every plane, tank, and infantryman now (soon?) has gps and information on the location of all friendly forces is automatically shared so you cut down friendly fire.

Apparently caf has more info on milspec GPS than I do, I thought that it required the same main band as civilian, and just used additional military bands to increase precision, but apparently it can function fully independently (not really surprising when you think about it). At least that gives you a little info on some of the troubles of failure of military GPS, as unlikely as that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Stand-Off_Weapon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition
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In fact, this is exactly what HP did.
It's the responsibility of the receiver to ignore signals transmitted at appropriate power levels, yes.

The receiver is not required to be overengineered to cope with transmissions vastly more powerful than expected - that's why limits on broadcast power exist in the first place.
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I was in NYC during that time period, and very few people (approaching zero) at the hot startups were from hedge funds.

You maybe had a DBA or sysadmin from a failed investment bank.

In fact, it seemed like a non-trivial number of startup engineers and product people in NYC were people who were sick of living in Silicon Valley.

Maybe it prevented certain smart people from going into hedge funds in the first place, but I wouldn't be so sure. Firms like 2 Sigma and Jane Street were still hiring, and actually had more startup-like attitudes towards workspace and technology than many of the startups.
Yes, but a 401k has an annual contribution limit of 16.5K while an IRA allows only 5.5K in annual contributions.

Ideally, having both accounts would give you 23K of tax-advantaged savings.
Why not keep a non-mac-store copy on their website until it goes through?
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This is what Palm was trying to achieve with WebOS.
I actually clicked this expecting the article to be parodying the Friedman Unit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_%28unit%29) only to find utter sincerity!
We've (BakedCode) applied for this year's YC and we've provided a working BETA for our first product that's pretty close to being ready to launch. Hopefully we'll be lucky enough to be accepted!
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Nokia should ally with Facebook to make the Facebook phone. That is the only thing I can think of that would put them back in the game.

The downside is that MS probably has the inside track on that with Windows Phone 7/8.
Apache License 2 is among the most 'liberal' in allowing reuse, inside other open source or proprietary products.

As long as you're the copyright holder, you can always relicense the work however you'd like, and in multiple ways simultaneously. Practically, you can't revoke a previously-offered license for a prior version – people who retain and distribute that version under the previous license can continue to do so. But you can offer your own proprietary products based on your same codebase, or let others do so with your permission.

If you start accepting outside contributions – which is usually something you want to do, and a sign of a healthy project – your ability to relicense could become more complicated, because then you're mixing others' copyrighted work in, and they were probably assuming it'd stay under the license in effect when they contributed. (If the governing license is Apache2, then they were already giving very broad permission to reuse in other works, so even if you can't 'relicense' it should be OK to keep integrating their Apache-licensed contributions into all sorts of other things.)

A competitor could also use your Apache2-licensed code in their own proprietary offerings. Their extensions/improvements would be under whatever license they prefer.

If that's a major fear, you want to look into 'Copyleft' licenses, of which the GPL is the major example. They make use conditional on derivatives staying free-licensed. That reassures some contributors, but can also prevent some adoption you'd like to see.
Anyone know why they're skimping on the RAM?

Does the ipad need some super-special expensive DIMMs?
Is it about power consumption?

A 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM costs a measly $40 bucks. I don't think the ipad target audience would care if apple added that to the MSRP.
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Same here. Looks nice, but why would I even investigate further or try it out, if you're not strongly selling me on how you're different.

It's a crowded market. For me, you need to tell me on the homepage how you're different.

"Never do another status report" is aimed at people doing status reports. That's not me :)

"Organizing your team" does sound interesting to me, that's what I want.

"SharedStatus is an online tool for helping you collaborate with your team members, assign tasks to people, keep projects focused and up to date and provide on demand status reports that can be presented to your management team or clients." -> that's bad writing. Let's start at the beginning: "SharedStatus is an online tool", yes we know, "for helping you collaborate with your team members", passive voice not good. Replace that entire sentence with "Collaborate with your team". You're saying the same. And now that it's shorter, you may realize that you're not saying much. "Keep projects focused and up to date and ", right, this sentence is really starting to ramble ("and and and"). Etc.

So my first step would be to really rewrite the sales pages and focus on why I would try you out. You have to convince me you're not just another basecamp. And explain me how and why. Lots of writing :)

Good luck!
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If you're going to quote Douglas Adams, then the Total Perspective Vortex seems even more apt:

"And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex--just to show her.

And into one end, he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other, he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain, but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
I wasn't using a linear scale; I was in fact rather pointing out that one shouldn't, and even if one did one could hardly conclude China was more advanced.

Now we're getting a bit off-topic, so I'm going to close with the idea that women in China could still be considered largely submissive if the ratio is a third instead of a half if one were to really press the viewpoint asking "In what ways could gender equality improve?" but that's a bit of devil's advocacy I'm ready to let fall silent. ;)
Well it isn't discrimination anymore. I didn't read that part; I accept their conclusions. They have three conclusions: girls like people, boys like things; females are under-represented in the high end of the ability distribution; and women want to start families when they should shoot for tenure track.

Now I dont by any of it, except that discrimination is gone. I think that a lot of it is educational issues. There is a huge amount of incompetence in math education. Elementary teachers that cant do arithmetic. (My older daughter took classes with them at UCLA and my GF taught them at Ohio State.) The daughter took a calculus class from a teacher that couldnt even pronounce the terms. "Derogatives" indeed. Possible role models that disparage math. Maybe boys persevere through this because of natural ability and interest but we could do better by all kids.

I also wonder if the engineering/physical sciences math track is doing a disservice to a lot of students. I never used calculus except to teach it to my kids. But there is lots of interesting and useful math out there that a lot of kids dont get to. Even calculus is interesting if bypass the rote.
It won't do them any good if they don't have people in house who "get it". Look what happened with the Kin after they acquired Danger.

Edit: another thing, the top dogs in this space (Google and the staggeringly efficient Apple) have a lot of cash and are much more focused. So if they were to go all in in any market segment their money is likely to go a lot further than it would at Microsoft.
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TL;DR you should just start using git and begin the process of learning. Pushing code to a project isn't really how github works, so just find a project you think you can help and just fork, mod and push. Hence: the beauty of git: you own the repo!
I think she originally adopted it when she was dancing (which is pretty common), and is pretty security conscious (paranoid) in general, so she kept using it.
Another option is to go to the hard college and then blow off the classes. It's pretty hard to fail out of an elite college (except for MIT), because that adversely affects their U.S. News rankings and makes them less of an elite college.

IMHO, you learn more by taking harder classes and floundering in them than you do by taking easy classes and acing them. Set the amount of time you're willing to spend on academics, and if you can't do everything that's expected of you, just don't do it.
We use MongoDB on ww.interstateapp.com but only really because Interstate started out as a small fun project and not something we expected to take that seriously (so it didn't matter too much if MongoDB was a perfect fit or not - it turns out that it suits the app quite well). If your app is the type of application that would benefit from the advantages of having a NoSQL style setup (not all do) then go for it but I can't see MySQL being phased out (in terms of usage by devs, etc) anytime soon...

Also, if you don't know whether your app could benefit from using MongoDB it's kind of a general rule of thumb (from what I've seen) to just go with a traditional MySQL setup for now.
I agree that it sounds like burnout to me. I went through this almost a year ago in my day job. My solution was to take a month off without pay. I barely touched a computer over the whole month. I spent most of the time painting my house, and visiting family. Overall, I think it helped.
Ask HN: Someone has just released a VERY similar app, but has never seen ours?
Me and a friend have been working on a web app idea for a few months now. We live in NJ. We have been keeping written and online notes on the ideas and plan. Recently, someone with far more experience and funding has released an uncannily similar application, but they are based in California and have never seen us or seen our idea (because it hasn't been developed yet.

This puts us in a very bad position to release our own idea because we are about 6 months behind and our funding is far lower. What should we do other than giving up and finding a new idea

Edit: The reason we have been working on the idea for a few months is because we were analyzing every aspect of the business to see what we can do better. We do have a few key things we can do better.
The reason we haven't started building yet is because we did not know how to code. We started going to Hacker news and learning to code. We simply don't have the knowledge or the money to start yet. In 6 months we will.
I had the opportunity to learn a little bit about fingerprints during a programming gig. The part he's missing here is that what he thinks is a smudge can sometimes still be used as part of a print. Partials aren't just from TV dramas, they get used all of the time in real cases. Also one thing most people don't know about is that prints can be "massaged" by law enforcement in what is essentially a photoshop-like process, so if a human technician can make a fairly good guess about what the print should look like, they still might be able to find a match.
You shouldn't start using something just because others do. NoSQL databases are tools, and it makes sense to employ them when they actually are the right tool for the job. Does MySQL and relational databases in general satisfy your requirements for a given project? If yes, you don't need NoSQL.

Some projects will require NoSQL. Others will require both NoSQL and relational databases (a great combo). It's all about what problem you are trying to solve.
true. good point!
I'm a licensed (technically "certificated") private pilot and this is article is bullocks.

Aviation, both general and commercial, relies increasingly on GPS integrated avionics to navigate the rigidly defined airspace that instrument rated pilots refer to as "the system."

GPS has become so prevalent that the decades old method of navigation using VOR (VHF omnidirectional frequency) radials is going the way of that which came before it, ADF ("Automatic" Direction Finder).

Even the smelly old 1965 Piper Cherokee I fly sometimes has a Garmin GPS unit in it. The guy that taught me to fly has a 1947 Cessna 140 with a GPS unit. It's become ubiquitous in general aviation and is a de-facto requirement in commercial aviation.

GPS isn't going anywhere because it's too crucial to one of the major facets of the national transportation system.
If there is no boot taking place, then how come an iPad takes around half a minute to turn on if it's been powered off, and not left in sleep mode?
If they become any less profitable, their investors have the right to boil them alive and eat them with lemon and drawn butter.
Like Google, with Android...
Riot On! is quite an entertaining documentary. About a Finnish mobile startup with incompetent founders + tons of investor money to burn (and burn they did!). T
See, that's the problem. You ought to sell pickaxes, not give them away. :)
Many. Ames uses Windows, RHEL, and OSX. The choice is up to the user and division they are in.
He's also provided my all-time favorite quote about how to think productively about the environment: "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
Android is not the native API, at least the Java API is not. What magic capabilities are there on these devices that are forever beyond the reach of JavaScript? Does Cocoa expose all possibilities of the phone to the developer (I don't think so...)?
OK I see it now. It looks like everything in that adjacent band had previously been designated space-to-earth.

I suppose it would be reasonable for an engineer to assume a receiver is not going to end up within a few KM of a 15 KW transmitter at those frequencies.
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don't suppose you want to show us their app?
Agreed, this timeout degrades user experience greatly.
I disagree. I think it's impressive that they were able to get such a large part of our YC class hooked on using their product, especially since everyone is super busy working on their own startup.
Like you said in your post, I have done the opposite myself and I started out a designer creating pixel based isometric-style web designs and slowly converted in to a developer. I'd say it's more than possible for someone to become a designer after being a developer (my co-dev who is a designer is slowly learning PHP and knows HTML/CSS fluently).
Your customers have time- and attention-deficit disorder. Deal with it.
Good thing they went with iOS instead.
It should work OK for them, as long as the new release leapfrogs whatever came out during that time.
I think handsets makers had pretty aggressive schedule while Apple was making iPhone. It took Apple two and a half years to get the first gen iPhone ready—eternity in mobile phone makers timeframe–but look at the result. Apple somehow can predict the future (or are they just making it?) well in Advance and prepare accordingly.
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Good luck to them, but contrast HP with Nokia. Unless they execute extremely well on the OS, store, dev tools, and price they will be releasing a memo like this eventually http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195520
$10 so my beautiful ($250) vacuum cleaner can look down to it.

In all seriousness, they would have to pay me $50/day (minimum) to carry such a heavy, ugly, thick and totally uninspiring gadget around. What has become of a company which bought Compaq just a few years ago? (or,wait, was it the other way around?)
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Maybe no users complain, but as a developer I often think, god damn, why is there so few RAM in there. And no iOS doesn't do memory managment seamlessy, the responsiveness comes from developers working hard to constantly cache/unchache everything that might take up a few megs.
Perhaps you can explain why the FCC is granting this license/waiver even in the face of vehement opposition from a broad collection of GPS manufacturers and aviation groups?

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/report...
Facebook implementing new picture viewer?
I notice that Facebook has changed the way you can view pictures. They now popup in a way lightbox works.

Anyone else notice this change? Or seen a press release about this?
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FTC asked to investigate kids and in-app purchases
I don't understand why the link expires in the first place. Does not seem like evidence of good design.
You should always assume that someone else is building whatever you've come up with. Ideas are always less original than you thought. It sounds like this is an opportunity, rather than a bad thing. Here's why:

1. Someone with more funding than you is a competitor. This should serve as some validation for your idea, because someone else spent money to build it.

2. Now you have someone to compare yourselves to. If you want to win, you need to solve whatever problem you're looking to solve better than they have.

3. This should be a wakeup call that you need to get your asses in gear and ship something!

What have you been doing for 6 months that you haven't even started developing the app? Are you really that committed to the idea? If so, this should be your encouragement to get started. If not, move on.
You have been "working" on an idea for several months?

I don't want to sound rude, but have you ever heard the saying "ideas are worth nothing" ?

On the subject of giving up, depends how worthy your project is. If you're a good competitor, you can still beat them or sell your company a few years later. Otherwise, you can still... pivot: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/06/pivot-dont-jump...
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I blame Qualcomm.

Eudora was amazing.
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What's the point, though, at any price point? It's vapor ware, looks like a thick and heavy Samsung Galaxy tab rip-off and it doesn't even run Android. Maybe hospitals can make use of it if it's dish-washer proof but other than that it's a liability, not a product.
Isn't this essentially what Chatterous tried?
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> Reversion to the mean. Any system that combines skill and luck will revert to the mean over time. This means that an extreme outcome, good or bad, will be followed by an outcome that has an expected value closer to the mean.

So if I toss a coin 10 times and it comes up heads, the next toss is more likely to come up tails? I smell a rat.
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It's almost certainly about power consumption; Apple absolutely loves being able to tout huge battery life compared to the competition, and one way they do that i s by being tighter on things like RAM usage.

It's also worth pointing out that the RAM lives in a Package-on-Package configuration right on the CPU die. They're not exactly buying mass market SO-DIMMs and sticking them in a bog-standard bus, so the cost per MB is probably higher.
If I have the choice, I'd definitely prefer Android tablets over iPads. By choice I mean similar price and performance.

I don't really care for apps, I only need a good browser, video and skype functionality.

I have considered the Galaxy Tab, but as reviews said the browser sucks I passed (plus, it was very expensive).

Looking forward to Honeycomb lot...
The iPhone makes complete sense. The standard 2-year phone contract keeps the (non-fanatic) customers happier... their 2 year contract would only mean skipping one product release without paying the $200 premium.

The iPad... might see faster than 1-year cycles because there is no contract, per-se (of course the competitors keep screwing that part up, so maybe not).
Reminds me of a patent granted to Google a few years ago.

News article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14808-instant-auctions...

Patent: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...
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The processor and the ram are stacked on the same chip. So they're kinda limited as to what they can put in there. I doubt that you could fit a SO-DIMM of any stripe inside an ipad case, nor would you want the power problems.

There was a teardown of the chip assembly done back when the ipad came out that has some good details: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1
For those who tried the beta and didn't like the lack of features (like me), it's now WAY better. I thought the beta was just a pretty face to gmail with limited features: only single account, can't access labels, etc, etc.

But now I took the leap and spent the $10 and I'm loving every second of it, especially the amazing integration with gmail shortcuts. Pretty much every shortcut works instantly and reliability, without the lag and wonkiness of the web interface.

After turning on gmail shortcuts, I've found it to be one of the most keyboard friendly apps I've ever used. And the beautiful UI is still there animating all your actions. Makes me feel like an email ninja.
I have read through these pages. Undoubtedly many of the things he states, particularly with respect to how long nuclear energy could supply us, are correct but only under the assumption that we don't continue to increase our usage of energy. It's hard to see how that assumption holds in a world that is continually growing its economies. Exponential functions grow very fast. (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY)

You may then counter that a decoupling of economic growth from its material and energy underpinnings is possible. This has yet to be effectively proven. We have only seen partial decoupling so far. For more information on this see the writings of Tim Jackson in his book Prosperity without Growth.

I also urge you to download this spreadsheet (from the BP website) showing the growth in usage of fossil fuels (http://tinyurl.com/2yhx7d). We may find alternatives to these but if we do, we will have to bring the alternatives online at roughly the same level to supply our societies with the energy they now require to function. This is no easy feat. It's good know, quantitatively, just what's required.
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