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NFC is considered to be inherently secure since two physical devices must be brought together in such a short range.

As always, range is a function of broadcast power and receiver sensitivity. Because of that, I expect some hacker will be able to read these things from 10 meters away in no time. Actualy, Google gives me over 250.000 hits on "rfid long range reader" and over 50.000 on "NFC long range reader", so I guess one can already buy such readers.
Do you have a reference to Feynman's problem solving algorithm? I've never heard of it.

One counter example is Feynman's Rule: "If the sign is wrong, change it." There is a long story behind that, about Feynman heading off to present a big paper, asking a grad student to "check the equations", grad student calls with terrible news that there is an incorrect sign in the middle section, Feynman says "I feel it is right." and delivers the paper, and grad student finds a correcting error a few pages (and a few days) further on. Basically, if you understand the physics, you know the final sign, and (after the first time) there is no real need to verify every sign in every equation along the way. That story is really far from "a miracle occurs" and the answer is written down.

Feynman also was extremely interested in how he came up with breakthroughs, almost obsessed about it, and did some meta-research about creativity. He told one story about a solution to a superfluidity problem he came up with while walking down the street. It was apparently bubbling up in his subconscious, and suddenly he stops in his tracks. He raises his hands like holding an imaginary picture frame, and makes a motion with one hand: "If I just tap it here - Yes! The answer fell into place." It drove him nuts that he could not ever do that again. He said many times after that he held his hands up, tapped the problem he was working on, and ... nothing.
Anyone else getting sick of the hyperbole "ever?" That said, Convore looks pretty sweet.
I don't think that's what he meant. Even simple things like "We're going to Disney World tomorrow" could be dangerous in the wrong hands, especially if the trip wasn't publicized beforehand.
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Yeah I found the jquery solution works best. Th href is for the crawler and for your website you override the onclick.

good one @hybrid11
Cheat Sheet for writing a letter:

-UBB is anti-competitive

-Bandwidth restrictions harm the adoption of modern technology in Canada

-Bandwidth is not a limited resource, therefore charging by total use is incorrect

-Bell doesn't charge for bandwidth use on its own IPTV solution.

-Most ISPs aren't "resellers" but simply using the last mile connections to consumers.

-The growing rate of internet use means that 25gb in a month will not be considered "a heavy user" for long.

And feel free to embellish as you see fit. But please avoid hyperbolic arguments like "This is a matter of free speech" or "Internet is a human right." We need serious well reasoned arguments, not knee jerk marching slogans.
Finally another smartphone with a small form factor. I postponed getting one myself because of the large sizes until the Sony Ericsson X10 mini was launched, and it's the perfect size for me.
This morning, my normally SFW "Tech News" folder in Google Reader was full of full-on explicit pornography - apparently at some point the feed URL was redirected to their Fleshbot site. Are we being encouraged to "sample" some of the other Gawker properties?
Nokia could create a fairly vanilla Android phone with Ubuntu style LTS (long-term support) for upcoming Android releases. Buying one of these Nokiandroids, you could be sure to be able to run Android 5.0 in 2014 before the support dies out. Nokia was synonymous with quality ten years ago and while nowadays anyone can order a truckload of tegra2's and whip up a new Android model out of them, the end-user quality sucks because your new phone will be outdated sooner than you can google the Android version roadmap page. Nokia could show that they deliver what people want and still ride a different wave than the Q1/2011 trendweasels.
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Hi All-

I am currently involved in my own startup project, but had what I think is a great idea for an app. I was wondering how I might best go about finding a decent developer at a fair price. Are there any sites out there that cater to mobile freelancers? Personal Recs? Reader's who might give a poor startup founder an HN discount? What should I expect re: hourly rate? I took a look in the history, but most of the posts regarding this stuff are fairly old and I assume this stuff is fairly fluid.
I think it's about content: Google has transformed the webs' spam gardens by promoting crap sites.

Because Google pushed low substance sites high in their search results, this created a vicious cycle where sites were rewarded for creating mass volumes of inane 'content', which has now become a huge percentage of the web

Google isn't just an observer to the system, search results impact the ecosystem as a whole. A complicated environment is something that is challenging to test and to predict, although that is what Google internally is geared for.

Personally I'm also annoyed by Google's Adsense policies that emphasize inane content: (They without warning blocked me for a post of a painting that included a nude figure).
I'd have phrased it the other way: the only two exceptions that I know of that can access the market are the Galaxy and Xoom. One of which isn't available and the other is almost a poster child for the uncertain upgrade path problem.

No-name Chinese tablets aren't a surprise, but the fact that they get casually included when people talk about ecosystem devices and sales is part of the problem.
If you account for the requirement to reliably maintain per-user state, native apps pull into the lead. In most cases, they can store state on the device with no extra work from the user, whereas web sites require tedious signup to remember even the most trivial personal settings.

Also, don't discount the joy many consumers get from shopping and owning things.
I am really proud to be a part of the winners.(Mathieu from Psykosoft) I wasn't expecting this at all!

There are some amazing talent amongst the other start-ups, there is no losers in this kind of event.

Everybody learnt (including myself) so much during the mentoring sessions that it is already what i would consider winning.

I am sure some guys there (i am thinking of Bipsly for instance) have a huge potential and will do great but eventually don't have a very mature product yet.

The constant i see in the 'winning' (i should say 'selected') start-ups is that they have a finished product and already quite a bit of traction, therefore qualify more in a logical investor mind to a 'funding'.
So it would be fairer to say the ones that "didn't win" just "didn't get selected for a funding" which happen all the time ;-)
Can you explain what you mean by Google Voice integration? I'm a user of both GV and Gmail and I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing, like being able to see my GV texts/voicemails right inside Gmail or something?
The equation for weight is not going to be valid in the case of redirects as there will be multiple round trips. Additionally, in my opinion weight would equate to position, and time would equate to velocity, and thus be derivative.
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This looks great, but apparently no Priority Inbox integration yet:

http://getsatisfaction.com/sparrow/topics/gmail_priority_inb...

I love the increased signal-to-noise that Priority Inbox provides, and I'd miss it in a client that just shows my regular inbox.
you dont have to install dropbox locally to use this, it will load your files through the dropbox api from wherever you are.
That's true, I hadn't considered that. You could also group them in some interesting ways like that.

The thing is, I wouldn't want to move pictures like that though. They'd actually be tables to move like that, so the user could move the tables around, and then make selections within those tables.

You're always making some choice with an American Football game. A lot of ordered data is what it comes down to.
yep. same troll
Seven patents. Seven. The most intellectually dishonest thing Oracle (and Mueller) are doing is pretending that the seven patents involved are somehow evidence that Android ecosystem is reasonably the property of Oracle. Even if the patents are ruled valid, they still represent a tiny fraction of the IP involved.
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What are your plans for monetization? Advertising to such a targeted audience could be very lucrative, and I'm sure lots of startups would be interested in advertising here! Currently, all we have is "organic" advertisement through interesting submissions and comments. What kind of revenue could one expect from 90K unique visitors and 1M page views on weekdays with an audience like HN's?
Seems like you page was not loading properly? (Chrome)
reddit apparently did a billion pageviews last month. I'd rather HN not turn into reddit.

While there are still some intellectual safe havens on reddit, the majority of the site is now dick jokes and pun threads. Not that reddit doesn't still contribute informative comments, just that the signal-to-noise ratio has definitely shifted over the years.

HN, by contrast, tends to be intellectual by default, with the odd tasteful joke or pun thrown in for good measure where appropriate.

I really like this place, and I'd hate for it to become ruined by an excess of new users.

(and yes, I know you were just making a TSN joke)
A reason could be that it would slow down searches too much. Firstly, all your searches would have to hit a server storing your blacklist. Secondly, it makes caching results of popular queries neigh impossible. Finally, some people will build blacklists so large and convoluted that the top hit on some of their searches would only be on Google's page 20.
doesnt mozilla work on something similar ?
http://ace.ajax.org/

it was previously called Bespin and is now part of a cloud based IDE as it seems. Interesting.
Out of the major mobile operating systems, from a developers point of view, I find WebOS to be the most straightforward to develop for and as a result really enjoy writing code for it. This looks like a neat little device and I hope that the platform succeeds!
The place I work for makes medical software for administration type stuff at family practices etc. We can't even host our -own- apps, because of privacy concerns. We have to make it, and deploy it on their servers in a local environment.

Joe might have 3k in savings at the bank, and someone could hack in and take it. Okay, that's a bugger.

But if that hacker can hack in to Joe's medical files, and see he has Herpes, then he's going to be mad as a cow.

Yep, the opportunities are MASSIVE - especially here in New Zealand - the hardest will be getting people to trust you imo.
The Veer (credit-card sized phone) is interesting. I resisted getting a smart phone for a long time because they were all so damn big.

I owned a Palm Pre for a about a year, though, and the overall ownership experience was so disappointing that I'm not sure I will try Palm again. That thing was really slow, and was buggy for the first 6 months I owned it.
While I also agree that Google's search results have gotten better, I just feel (this is very subjective of course) that they should be far better today than they currently are. I don't think they're leaps and bounds better and I think they should be.

I'm not one to constantly point to yesteryear and claim they were better but I do look at where they are today and think they should be further along than they are.

I guess when I look at certain segments of technology in 2000, some other companies have stayed more focused on their primary goal and have made phenomenal achievements since then. For example, OS X wasn't released to consumers until 2001 and the iPod didn't exist. Yet look where we are today. I have an iPhone in my pocket with incredible computing power, a very good refined interface, and a fantastic OS. Apple has stayed very focused on OS and consumer device design and pushed the field forward very far, with everyone else scrambling to catch up. This is their main business, and while they have other side projects (like the AppleTV) they stay focused on their main thing which is making great devices for consumers.

While Google, whose primary business was search+, now operates in many different business segments. Their focus has widened greatly and now they have email, payment processing, online document editing, 2 operating systems, automated cars, and the list goes on and on. Now, I have great love for many of these products and services so I do not suggest that it was a bad idea for them to do them, but I think it is apparent that search has suffered as a consequence.

Had Google stayed more focused on search instead of all these side businesses, search could be far more developed than it currently is today. I think they got complacent while being on top and tried to find other places to allocate their resources. Which, from a business perspective, I understand, but from a search perspective it seems tragic.

Therein lies my disappointment with Google, not that they haven't been innovating or improving search, they have. But they have spent so much time and resources on other things that search is not as far along as it should be.

+ Certainly it could be argued that their primary business is and always has been advertising and search is just one of the many vehicles for pushing said advertising, but the word Google is now synonymous with search and, marketing speak aside, I consider it their primary focus.
This doesn't agree with my understanding of the tax code as reported on IRS.gov. For example:

http://www.irs.gov/retirement/article/0,,id=202510,00.html:

"The maximum contribution that can be made to a traditional or Roth IRA is the smaller of $5,000 or the amount of your taxable compensation for 2011. This limit can be split between a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA but the combined limit is $5,000.The maximum deductible contribution to a traditional IRA and the maximum contribution to a Roth IRA may be reduced depending on your modified adjusted gross income."

Also, this table seems to agree:

http://www.irs.gov/retirement/participant/article/0,,id=2025...

This is for 2011, but my recollection is that 2010 had identical wording.
> Do you have a reference to Feynman's problem solving algorithm? I've never heard of it.

Hmmm, just googling for it associates the algorithm with Feynman. You know, I'm not sure if I actually read it in a Feynman book or if it's random trash I read on the internet. Wikiquotes attributes it to "a fellow physicist".
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Failure also works well at company scales. When many hedge funds failed in 2008, some great people were released into the wild. As a result, NYC is now the #2 internet startup city.

The most limited, precious resource in the world is people and their time. So admitting failure and moving on is the best thing, continued death marches are the worst thing.
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy, nothing makes me quite as excited as "Planned availability this summer." What terrible marketing.
I have to say, i've tried Postbox and Sparrow (and all the rest) and none really seem to fit my use -- power user plus, wants labels, clean views but also keyboard magic and speed.

i would love to know what does that.
Google risks becoming jack of all trades master of none
Who said it was a reason to not develop? No-one's making that argument.

I'm arguing in favor of being realistic.
And part of that includes admitting that there are causes for concern. And because of them, you might invest efforts into an app only to find yourself in 2012 facing the most-popular android devices shipping with only a carrier- or manufacturer-specific markets installed by default, each with their own hoops.

And, no, even that situation won't be a blanket argument against developing for Android.
But it also won't mean fragmentation was something that is a non-issue so long as you have a good coder.
Only takes one patent. I don't know the details, so maybe its some corner that can easily just be cut off. But the quantity of patents brought is generally not evidence of anything, except how long the trial might take.
From what I have seen, it's a phone, not just a 'device'. Which is going to mean contracts and lock-in. Why couldn't this have been a small handheld 'device' - wifi-only (ala ipod touch) and priced low enough to flood the market with these? There's loads of verticals a device like this could likely dominate - good OS to build on, small form factor - throw in a low cost and let 1000 vertical apps bloom. But they chose yet again to chase the 'phone' market. sigh.
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No, that's incorrect. Yes, the US is one of the few governments that will tax you for income earned outside of the united states or while living aboard as a US citizen, but if you renounce your citizenship, you're off the hook for taxes. You need to file a tax return and declare income, but you don't pay taxes.
I have to think that ultimately going with this price point will end up boosting their sales tenfold.

In a way, though, they just hacked the "debut at one price, then cut for a spike" model: They simply floated the idea of debuting at price A, and launched at price B. Which is pretty ingenious, as it essentially has the same Groupon-esque value psychology of the original model, but doesn't have the inverse effect on early adopters. Everyone's happy.
Sparrow does labels, clean views and has Gmail keyboard shortcuts (if you enable them) and is super fast. Been a beta user for months now...
Using that math, I've already 'earned' many millions in my lifetime, even though I've only been out of college for a couple years.

And that number gets even more exaggerated if I choose to base the calculation off a month where I got a bonus.

My point stands; it's fabricated revenue.
Investing is one of those things that can take a lot of additional time for rapidly diminishing returns. You could spend 40 hours a week trying to pick stocks and come out under the performance of a good index fund that you can set and forget. Even if I could do slightly better, my time has value associated with it. I'd liken it to real estate. Go ahead and buy the house you plan to live in, but once you own multiple properties you become a landlord. Whatever other profession you have quickly becomes secondary.

So for me it's a basic auto-deduction 401k split equally into five low fee index and mutual funds. They rebalance annually. It's a dead simple dollar cost averaging approach that does well enough and I don't have to think about it.

Oh and FYI, both my parents are/were bankers. One is investment licensed, and I've worked as a banker in the past. So even with training in this area I choose the simple approach.
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There is a difference between value and price.
Anarchy is lack of a government. As you acknowledge, parts of Somalia are dominated by lawless warlords. They are the government.

You also seem unaware of Somaliland (one of the countries Somalia split into), which is closer to a republic (not a fully representative one) than a "warlord dominated" state. The Mujahadeen region (before they were conquered) was also rather far from a warlord dominated state (they were an Islamist theocracy).
That's a great idea, because you already know the story, so you can sort of figure out the words you don't know due to your knowledge of the story.
I don't recall him lying about anything. He seemed pretty open about it. Said what he found and where he found it. Shady would be, "I found Oracle code in Android, but won't disclose where".

He laid the cards on the table, gave his interpretation, and let the community weigh in. While not nearly as damaging as he thought, I can't really ask for much more.
What a refreshing and extensive analysis, based on research and hard numbers. You might not agree with John McCarthy, but at least he brings up clear, verifiable points of discussion. It's too bad that strident alarmism will always out-shout the more reasoned approaches to what is, fundamentally, a very important problem.
Ya, this is definitely true. I can't attest to children being that beaten badly in India, but when I taught at an elementary school in the Himalayas beating the students was common place. The first day I walked into a classroom I was given a bamboo stick by the child in charge of the class.

First I tried not resorting to the stick, then I would scare the students with the stick (by swinging at them and missing or stopping just short or their body), but eventually they learned I wouldn't actually hit them.
The class would occasionally get so bad that the child in charge of the class would go around and hit his own classmates.

Unfortunately they responded to the abuse and would quiet down.

I think it's all the culture. It goes back to how the parents discipline the kids and how primary school teachers discipline the students.

I don't believe in corporal punishment in any school, I think this problem can be solved in
> my dream is language software developed by Nintendo. Fun and intuitive.

Like "My Japanese Coach"?
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You could cause even more of a hassle then by building an RFID zapper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID_Zapper). A powerful one that fits inside a suitcase could be set off in an airport concourse, frying a large number of people's chips without them ever knowing (or any damage to the passport itself occurring).

Do it on a busy travel day and suddenly the authorities have to deal with a ton of broken passports. Either they arrest everyone, or they let everyone through.

Of course, you probably couldn't get a suitcase-sized RFID zapper through security, but you could show up, set it off a few times, and then leave without arousing TOO much suspicion.
Their website is very slow responding, so maybe something isn't loaded, but I can't seem to find a trial download. The movie is nice, however for productivity software, unless I can try it for a day or two I'll never purchase.
To my knowledge, it's ONLY the U.S. that finger-prints foreigners

Japan and the USA, I'm pretty sure.

And this system would only catch nationals of the country in question being fingerprinted upon re-entering that country.
>Your time horizon is too short.

Didn't John Keynes say:

"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again."

Though apparently, he was talking about inflation in this case... but the point is, the nature of risk is such that while it works out on average, you still end up with an individual outcome at a fixed point in time which may vary a lot from the expected payoff. Not that I do completely agree with tastybites, but I see the logic.
I was involved in a few of AOL's teen (which is what we called 13-year-olds back then) message boards in the mid-'90s, and the level of discourse on some of those was excellent. The Teen Religion & Faith board remains to this day my mental model of an ideal online community. The conversation was great and the community was adept at either reforming or spitting out bad users (and that was despite the fact that we tried as hard as we could to keep the forum under the radar of the AOL moderators).