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So offshore projects require the Waterfall methodology to succeed? What if requirements change? The design has to change and of course the code. I think you are exactly right, but the nature of development makes offshoring problematic. I have not yet seen good software products created over seas. Usually they need lots of work in-house (rewritten). In my experience the cost savings of offshore development is really creative accounting
MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec
I'm surprised about the MPAA's threat with respect to Google's ISP shutting them down. Isn't half the problem with net neutrality that Google is their own ISP and that they have deals to work with other ISPs? If not, why are they in the middle of the proposal to the FCC? I highly doubt you could disconnect Google from the internet worldwide.
Nah, in this age of plenty that's about right.
Bloomberg: RIM PlayBook to run Android apps, but Dalvik's not the way
"means jack"

Actually it doesn't mean jack. that's my money they'd be using, and from a quick scan of those websites, i'm happy for them to disappear.

For some reason, many people seem to have decided that all data is important and there's an almost fetishistic devotion to saving everything that can be saved. Not all information needs to be preserved for all time.
It does not mean 'jack', it means money that comes from license fee payers would be spent, I am not justifying their removal, but it's overly simplistic to reduce it to a mere discussion of storage costs, the BBC has a responsibility to maintain and support their offerings, it's not rocket science to see that doing that will cost money. Nice that someone has archived that data, I truly appreciate that, moving forward though I think it would be more useful to look at where money is spent and discuss that real issue, not get sidelined with quips and digs at a truly unique organisation that has long set standards in media of all varieties.

As far as losing valuable data, well okay, they maybe blanked a few copies of Doctor Who here and there, but it was not considered valuable at the time, and as always cost was a factor then as it is now, it's easy to pass judgement with hindsight.
Could you elaborate on that please ? Personally I fail to see in what this choice is better, maybe I missed something.
In this context it's worth noting that writing a memoizing decorator in Python is ridiculously easy:

class memoized(object):
def __init__(self, func):
self.func = func
self.cache = {}
def __call__(self, *args):
try:
return self.cache[args]
except KeyError:
value = self.func(*args)
self.cache[args] = value
return value
Don't worry about Qt, The KDE Free Qt Foundation is here since 1998
Microsoft Appoints Satya Nadella as President of Server and Tools Business
Yes, I'd say that, if anything, Nokia has had entirely too much change. So much that you're never quite sure where they're headed. Symbian, Meego, Qt, now this...

Also, from some other article:

> Mr. Elop said “Nokia expects 2011 and 2012 to be transition years”.

It's going to take them a while to really get this strategy under way. Two years is an eternity in this market.
>I don't have to choose between supporting the government in buying a new fire truck and letting my house burn down, do I?

I don't see how this choice is analogous. Anon has yet to threaten my interests, at least to any degree that would concern me. However, they have been a thorn in the side of those who have threatened my interest to a greater degree. This kind of battle is part of a healthy society.

I think democracy is rooted in the ability for a group of citizens to bring significant and disruptive challenges to institutionalized powers. Democracy is a social agreement in which all remains well as long as fairness more or less prevails. Currently, Anon seems a reasonable check.

Also, IMO crime is not something that shouldn't happen. It is just something that should carry risk and consequence. At times, crime should be committed. The protesters in Egypt are committing a crime. In some real ways, economic for one, their actions are disruptive and hurtful. But, they had to weigh the consequences and come to a decision.
Ask HN: I just replied to a comment and it does not show
I submitted a post a few hours back asking for user feedback and I received some. when I tried to respond to a user, my reply did not show up.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2205199

I am wondering why?
With some companies I'd get that level of detail, but it wouldn't be timely. E.g. the page not mentioning that the package had been put on the van until a few hours after the package had been delivered.

Then there's that knowing the package has been loaded on a van doesn't tell you anything helpful. Once I had a package that was loaded on a van three days in a row.

Maybe it's a question of market segments. FedEx does operate over here, but I imagine they're more expensive than the delivery companies commonly used by UK shopping sites. If I tell you that ParcelForce and CityLink are commonly referred to as ParcelFarce and ShittyLink, that should give you a clue as to the quality of their service.
In memoriam: Microsoft’s previous strategic mobile partners
1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
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See previous discussion on how this is different from simple memoization:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477207
Exactly. When cities are facing potential budget shortfalls, they say things like "If we don't get a tax increase, we're going to have to slash the fire and police departments." They highlight the most important areas (which should of course not be the first items on the chopping block) instead of the actual marginal areas, in order to scare people.
I agree that BBC should have done something to preserve the content in some form, not necessarily as easily accessible and readable. Heck, they could've packed it up and put it out as a torrent which they would seed themselves and it would've been better than just dumping it.

I upvoted you because I agree about the content, so I can only speculate about downvotes. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably because you either missed or ignored the point you replied to, which is that the reporting was, indeed, terrible.
> From where should a justice system derive its just powers?

One possibility is where a plurality of constituents agree either on a course of action, or believe an individual is qualified to act in their best interest. Obviously, this system has flaws (what happens when an elected person behaves selfishly?), but I'd argue it's more fair, in general, than a self-selected group executing their own agenda. We can't vote Anon out of power if we happen to stop believing their actions are just.

> Why is mob justice any worse than a justice system that allows people to be held indefinitely with out charge?

It's not, but are you insinuating that it's okay to subvert an unjust justice system using any means necessary? Or any means that work? Or am I reading into this? I don't think the US justice system is so broken that it needs to be fixed by extralegal means, but maybe I'm naive.

> Would altering or abolishing a system that allows people to be held indefinitely with out charge be a good thing?

Altering that system would be a great thing! Abolishing it, I believe, would not. If you're suggesting anarchy as a viable replacement, I'm honestly curious if you can point to any examples of large-scale anarchy that worked well? Again, I might be reading too much into your question, and you might have meant simply replacing it with another system that is not anarchy.

Thanks for your reply.
Excellent analysis: Nokia has effectively announced that they have no focus and plan to spend three quarters losing money in the hops that in 2012 or 2013 WP7 is going to be a big hit for them.

It's a shame Elop doesn't take a page out of Jobs' book instead of Ballmer's. Rather than announce a strategic blah blah direction blah blah partnership blah blah, he could have called a press conference, walked on stage, and showed them a Nokia running WP7, announced a date you could buy them, and invited the heads of the world's biggest carriers on stage to announce cut-rate deals and plans for them.

p.s. I meant to write "hope," and not "hops," however considering what we make out of hops and the kind of decisions we make after drinking too much of it, I'm leaving it uncorrected.
if you develop for Palm WebOS, you're relying on company whose main business is selling printer ink.

Yes, I would not develop for WebOS at this point.

if you develop for Android, you're relying on company whose main business is selling ads

Yes but you are helping them to sell ads.

if you develop for iOS, you're relying on company whose main business is selling audiovisual content and portable players for it

Yes, but you are adding value to their main product.

then Microsoft IS the only company that you can rely on, since it's primary business is selling software?

I don't think so. In markets where Microsoft does not have a monopoly it has been quite willing to change directions irregardless of its impact on developers. For example Silverlight. In markets where they do have a monopoly well they have a monopoly. You can make money serving that monopoly with consulting but you can't do much with independent products.
Big O Notation for the Interview
Netflix like startup in spain
GOP Infighting Is a Positive Development
While The New York Times is gloating over "turmoil" in the GOP House "ranks," internal disagreements over spending and other issues are a healthy development and should lead to more disciplined and aggressive action.

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama presented himself as a remade fiscal hawk, promising to freeze discretionary spending for five years. Conservatives immediately called him out on his disingenuousness. After greatly escalating baseline spending the past two years, his freeze pledge, especially when coupled with his gross inattention to the looming entitlement crisis, would just lock us onto our inexorable path to national bankruptcy.
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The way I see it Microsoft brings a lot to the table that only a few could: A fresh new OS in WP7, cloud computing infrastructure, it's own gaming ecosystem in XBox platform and its UX integration with the phone OS etc among other things. So I don't see that choosing WP7 (over Android?) is such a bad deal for Nokia. It wasn't a very long time ago that Android ecosystem wasn't very appealing to the mobile developers as iOS ecosystem was. So I would give this partnership some benefit of doubt and time to deliver on the promise.
Oh no, it sure doesn't. Sadly.
Why is this on the front page? Come on. Anyone who thinks this deal isn't good for both parties is kidding themselves. After years of trying to create their own operating system Nokia have finally admitted they need to invest in an ecosystem. If they were to take on Android they'd be late to an already full party.

With WP7 there's no one seriously pushing it, Dell, LG both aren't famous for their phones. HTC owes most of what they have to Android. Nokia and Microsoft working together is a partnership not to be written off. It's a point of difference for Nokia, and Microsoft isn't going to be out of this game, they'll invest and invest and they will be a major player, you watch.

A lot of ridiculous statements have been made by bloggers of late when discussing smartphones, but I don't think I've heard any as silly as this:
"And to those whose Nokia/Windows smartphones will give them the mobile variation on the MS 'BSOD' while calling 911, my condolences to you too."
Actually WP7 is a better choice than what is obvious. WP7 will bring Office and Exchange to Nokia phones and hence bring it even closer to business users.
Oh man. Nokia goes from "the foremost phone maker" in the world to "by far the foremost WP7 phone maker".

What were they thinking?

To the extent people vote with their feet, don't they seem to prefer Symbian (even having never heard of it) over Windows phones?
ah what have you been smoking?

Nokia kept both MeeGO, Qt, and Symbian groups..
Ask HN - Any American startups hiring Australians on the E-3 visa?
I'm an aussie software engineer looking to make a move to the US. Are there any startups here that would sponsor me (or any other aussies :)) coming out on the Australia-US E-3 visa?

http://www.visabureau.com/america/e3-visa.aspx

My main skills are in C# .NET (windows and linux/mono) and Javascript. Although I am currently teaching myself ruby on rails and loving it. This is my stack overflow profile so that you can get a general gist of my abilities.

http://stackoverflow.com/users/42707/alex

Any startups interested in more details can contact me on rupurt at gmail dot com
Actually he's probably being downvoted because he's taken a simplistic view to what is a complicated issue, and he's being pretty free with my tax pounds :)
John Forbes Nash, Jr - Kornar Experiments
1. Doesn't matter; you'll find startups using Ruby/Rails, Python/Djano, Python/Pylons (or whatever it's called now), Groovy/Grails, Java/(Wicket|Tapestry|Play|Struts|JSF), Scala/Lift, COBOL/COGS[1], and probably a smattering doing RPG/400, PL/I, and/or MVS assembler.

2. Pretty much any of the combinations of a "convention over configuration" framework and a dynamic language. RoR, Grails, Django, whichever one you decide you like best and learn well enough to execute well with.

All of that said, my choice was (is) Groovy and Grails. Groovy is a nice modern language with dynamic typing, closures, etc. but it runs on the JVM so it can easily leverage the huge wealth of available Java libraries. And Grails is a very Rails like CoC framework that is very productive. I've been using Groovy/Grails for the past year and couldn't be happier with the choice. YMMV, HTH, IANAL, WTFBBQ, ETC.

[1]: Not really. http://www.coboloncogs.org
Also, it seems to reference the .torrent file, not an actual video file.

Since when did that matter to the MPAA/RIAA?
How can this benefit Microsoft and not Nokia? If it sells a bunch of WP7 Nokia devices, then surely Nokia are making money out of it as well.
> Not all information needs to be preserved for all time.

I disagree, and strongly. Future historians will probably disagree with you too. Even the most inane TV shows can prove to be extremely valuable when trying to decipher the culture of various countries 300 or 3000 years in the past. Imagine reading a trashy romance novel from 1000 BC. You'd learn a lot about the people who lived in that time.

You might counter this by saying that with all the information out there now, we only need to keep the "good stuff". But who decides what's good, right now? How do you know that what you decide is good will always be seen as good? Your personal opinions on the content disappearing are totally irrelevant when perhaps millions of people have seen it or have been affected by it.

All information that is created should be saved, especially since we're able to. Imagine the ancient Romans deciding to burn a bunch of books because it cost too much to hire guards for the library. Ouch.
Ask HN: I just replied to a comment and it does not show
I submitted a post a few hours back asking for user feedback and I received some. when I tried to respond to a user, my reply did not show up.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2205199

I am wondering why?
How much money does Paypal funnel through Ireland and yet again this offering is not available here. Neither is the Website Payments Pro solution ;-(
If you read jacquesm's blog post, he mentions the Nokia 2110.

That thing was an F-in' beast. I had friends in high school who wanted their parents to buy them new phones try to destroy Nokia 2110's (or maybe it was one of the later Nokia bricks) and just fail. You wash it? No problem. You throw it down the stairs? No problem. You run it over with a car, no problem.

With my Android phone, which frequently and bafflingly fails to function (randomly changes ring tones, stops receiving incoming calls, battery life drops under 10 minutes) I look back fondly on the days of the indestructible Nokia 2110.

It's been a while since I bought a Nokia phone, but if they put out an ad that said: "Remember this?", followed by someone running a 2110 over with a car and making a call, "Well check this out!", followed by someone running a Nokia WP7 phone over with a car and checking their e-mail, I would buy the shit out of that phone.

Anyways, not really insightful, just the brand impression that Nokia has on this consumer.
I'm reading the first query and maybe it's just early but why isn't that subquery just a join? It seems to be acting that way.
A Gym Where It Costs You to Skip a Workout
So if Nokia decides to abandon Qt, the KDE foundation may release Qt under BSD license instead of LGPL? Does that comfort anyone?
I can't believe this passes for reporting. Did anyone contact the BBC for their estimate of the amount they'll save and how?

Also, just because the info isn't public does not mean the BBC doesn't have it stored in their own digital archives.
Old guys also rant about how being old is not actually a disadvantage.
SE, Samsung, Motorola, HTC are all heavily invested in Android and are miles ahead of Nokia. They can chose to run an outside lane in that race, or they can lead up Windows Phone 7. All people with WP7 devices are just token efforts, Dell, LG aren't major players like the aforementioned companies are, HTC owe everything they have to Android. Nokia can take WP7 and become the market leader, with Microsoft investing heavily and Nokia providing world class hardware they can provide a point of differentiation as opposed to becoming one of the crowd.
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I worked in that space for seven years. To put it plainly, we were paid to create ideas by entities and individuals who wanted a certain frame or perspective to emerge or persist in the wild.
The Letdown
Ok really thick comment. If the mass market is being stolen by Android... why didn't Nokia start using Android?

It would seem the logical idea; if the platform is burning rather than trying to stand on a piece of planking that has a history of falling in the ocean.. why not dowse yourself in petrol and fling yourself into the inferno.

I mean; if the argument is that Android is eating up the market Nokia wants... then why not have the easiest slice?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/

Politics is a perfect storm of signaling where real-world consequences are almost completely divorced from argumentation. It's the opposite of hacking and startups, where assumptions and opinions are tested in the real world constantly, and feedback is quick and unambiguous.
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Bernays' Ideas on #Propaganda Continue to Haunt Americans http://t.co/WQMdWUM #teaparty #censorship #Progressives #tcot #tpp #infowars #cspj
Here's a 2560x1600 screenshot for you to review since you only see 1280x800: http://d.pr/WxxM

There's a lot of things wrong with this landing page so take what I have to say as best as you can without getting offended. Just want to be objective.

I can't stand the design. It's horrible. There are so many things wrong with it that listing things that are okay would probably be a shorter list.

There is no strong objective on this page. I have to spend time scanning around to try and figure out what it is you do and even then, the message isn't concise. I hate that I have to click "more" to read the rest. Perhaps this works well on a 1280x800 but it shouldn't be so on my screen. I also don't like that all the info is so spread out.

I also dislike the fact that when I click on one of the play buttons, it SLOWLY loads up what looks like powerpoint version web 0.5 and that I have to wait for stuff to crawl across the screen to be able to read it. I read extremely fast. Not having all the text there ready to go is annoying.

I'm sure I could continue to list a few more things but I hope this helps.
Well yeah, we're working on it though the plan is to make it SaaS.

The basic algorithms are very simple; you could implement yourself. Getting great performance is a different matter.
`cute_profile`: Profile your Python code on the fly
Typical conversion rate is 1-2%. That's at least 40,000 paying customers. At $10/mo (that's the maximum revenue per subscriber) that's $400,000 a month, or $4.8M a year. The key here is they are a growing, revenue-generating company.
I can't think of many times when Microsoft has "come up from behind place and crushed the competition" when the competition was less than ten times smaller than they were.

Perhaps enterprise adoption of .Net over Java is once such example. Can you think of others?

I'd probably put Microsoft and Nokia at even odds in the phone market, but I really don't expect them to pass Android with something non open-source.
The power of good enough
Where was the success? If Nokias application development strategies were such a success they would not be doing this.
Most of their work is commissioned, that is, some(one/group/thing) comes to them and ask for their opinion, or they sell topical reports once in a while.

Most think tanks have a bias, and have their "findings" used as justifications.
i understand generally what you're talking about, but could you elaborate or provide an example? i've always been kind of curious, myself
I really like the bottom toolbar as a design element. It drives home the point that this is a full-featured web application. I also like that you have a narrated video.

Suggestions:
-Decrease(or remove) the outer blur/glow on the Rela Logo. It's very distracting in my peripheral vision when trying to read the rest page.

-Instead of having each box title be "Rela...", make them more descriptive so that a band manager/artist would want to read.For example, instead of "Relay" put "Track Merchandise", instead of 'Relate" put "Manage Tours", instead of "Rely" put "Track Soundscans".

-Get rid of "Relational",and "Relax".

-The video is very complicated to me. Maybe have 1 overview video where you gloss over most of the features and focus only on the critical ones... maybe using a fictional band as an example? Then have your more detailed video as a tutorial.

-Consider a beta test group(with non-techie musicians/managers) to help refine the software workflow.

Overall, I think the front-page has information overload and over-relies on the "Rela..." concept. You obviously know the market(serious musicians). If you can make the landing page less cluttered and streamline the software workflow a little, you have a good chance of having a winner.
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ccache. Come on guys, this is basic tooling.
More than offshoring (as outsourcing) I think I would be smarter to hire remotely. At that point doesn't really matter where you hire as long as you hire smart people who you'd hire even if they were local. In this way you can get top developers at a lower rate.
We don't have the ability to preserve all information for all time. Storage media decays, formats obsolete, storage imposes cost, space and time considerations that are non-zero and non-trivial.

If these sites were a special instance of our culture, then fine. But they're not. We don't need every single episode of Eastenders archived for all time to understand culture. A good sample is way better.

These are different times to the classical era. We have a glut of information, most of which, once archived, will never be looked at again, and will only cost money until finally abandoned.