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1. Mentioned nothing about battery life or performance. I'll admit performance is possibly a geeky request but for a mobile device going up against the battery-life king, that is annoying.

2. Moto should have started with the WiFi only version first, seen if people were interested and moved up from there... but entering the market at $800 with no appreciable "big win" over the comparable iPad (that is cheaper)?

Why would you do that.
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Rubini.us is looking like it's starting to gain a really solid community behind it. I'm looking forward to switching to it in the near future (probably if/when Heroku starts supporting it)

This article is making me wish could make CoffeeScript run within the Rubinius VM, and have access to the same objects and libraries of my Rails app.

Wish I had time to build that. Maybe someone smarter than me with some free cycles could take this project on :-)
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+1 brudgers, the original article has a lot more detail.
Sure, but it does put somewhat of a cap on the amount of reference material you need to import. And a fairly low cap in the tens of GB: Wikipedia/Wiktionary/WordNet/Freebase/J!Archive is probably enough.

Beyond that, you want software/heuristics. You might find far more data helpful to initially create that software, but once it's created, the reference material to have at hand can come from a small set of sources.
You can program a computer to wait until it has high confidence before buzzing in, but would you trust a human to wait to buzz in until he has already chosen his answer? In many situations, a contestant will buzz in knowing they're likely to be able to determine the answer in the five seconds they're given after being called upon. You'd be trading one player's perceived advantage for another.
And airlines that are peanut allergy aware - or whatever you'd call it.
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If you want the same algorithm to work everywhere, you can't write the library in C. It will have to be written in some intermediate language with generators for all common scripting languages. The closest thing I know of that's widely used is the generators for proto buffers. We need something like proto buffers for algorithms.

Ben Laurie has started on this: http://www.links.org/?p=864
I'm curious to see how Flash will effect batter life when the Honeycomb version is released.
Yeah, I guess depends on how you look at it. May be iPad 2 is going to be a modest update and Xoom coming in a month later with Flash, SD Card, LTE and all wrinkles ironed out would have still been equally interesting because of the unique features over the iPad 2.
That chart is already inflation adjusted. See on the bottom where it says "2007 Dollars".
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Engadget and Walt Mossberg got around 8 hrs battery life which is quite acceptable.
Are you serious? Beacon is gone. When the privacy stuff was hitting the fan, they designed/engineered a totally new privacy console in a week.

They ignore bad press and privacy concerns in order to move the project forward in major ways. Like adding News Feeds, or allowing entirely classes of API interaction (Beacon). They don't do it for little features like breakup notifications.
Part of it has to do with the fact that countries in the east have high brain drain problem. Those who are smarter end up in some college/univ. in the West. If you are in the US, look at the some of the best CS colleges and the number of foreign students studying CS - quite diverse and lots of students from East.
I typically live by the rule of not using a non-com TLD unless you actually own the com-TLD

It can lead to a bad situation, what if a existing site on the com domain closes and someone puts a porn site or worse on the com with your prefix ?
I had a chance to experiment with a display model tonight, after a week of testing Honeycomb programs with the emulator.

It's definitely a slick piece of hardware, and it's very fast. Video looks good. Without a Google account or a network connection, I could only test a few applications. The first-party Google apps looked great. The third-party apps looked promising but immature, though I expect them to improve rapidly. The glass seemed to hold a few more fingerprints than the iPad, or perhaps they're just more noticable against the dark holographic theme of the desktop.

As consumer, I'd be drooling over the hardware but holding off for a month or two. As a developer, I'm buying one tomorrow—this is a sweet machine to hack for, and I can live with a few rough edges.
Link to a Kickstarter project for a Vivian Maier documentary: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/800508197/finding-vivian...

It has already reached its goal, but figured I'd share anyhow.
> Unless I've totally missed it, there's certainly no hipmunk for medicine,

note to self: build a startup that's HipMunk for medicine
"Is the Xoom a real competitor to the iPad? Absolutely. In fact, it outclasses the iPad in many ways. Still, the end user experience isn't nearly where it needs to be, and until Google paints its tablet strategy and software picture more clearly, we'd suggest a wait-and-see approach. Honeycomb and the Xoom are spectacular -- unfortunately they're a spectacular work in progress."

Given their closing words, and the high price of the Xoom, I think they wouldn't have as strong words as you
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Reminds me of this, I guess you read it already:

http://ejohn.org/blog/learning-from-twitter/
A/B testing is one of those things that, as an engineer, for me it's very tempting to just write it myself. I've tried a couple of solutions:

- Split Test Accelerator may actually have been written by a monkey who was accidentally taught PHP, judging from the code.

- Google Web Optimizer seems to have been written as an afterthought, judging from the simple nature of the tools you get. When I last used it, it was actually just Javascript which you include, that on loading it simply does a search and replace of elements. Sure, it gets the job done, but as a somewhat savvy user, that approach doesn't leave me feeling confident in it.

I don't know what mechanism Optimizely uses to execute tests but it seems similar to the Google way -- which I admit is the only way I could think to do remotely hosted A/B testing like this. Optimizely looks a little better in that they host the assets you might want to test.

I welcome anyone who wants to build a solution that doesn't seem like it's bolted on.
So if its 2am and you're holding a tray full of appetizers, show up any way? (Next best thing, after all.)
I was thinking of C++.
C is very simple to make reusable libraries for - C++ is a nightmare.
Even 10years after we pretty much agreed what langauge features we could use it's still a pain to reuse any significant sized library.
Good article - I noticed that my comments from HN were quoted a few times in there... might have been good to put a bit of attribution, or at least highlight them so it's obvious they are HN quotes. Some parts show the quote marks, but others don't. Specifically the two deals mentioned (the lowball and the bait-and-switch at closing) were ones I posted about in the original HN post.
I got this one through Charles Schwab Bank. I'm not sure if they're still offering it, but they definitely still offer a debit card that reimburses 100% of all ATM fees.
The complete inability to spot irony ?
Hackers stole $63,000 from a Kansas car dealership
Am I the only one here thinking: Why did she buy 12 candy bars?
Does anyone have any insight into what point (size/complication of the deal) you transition from getting representation from a lawyer versus lawyer + investment bank. I could imagine a good M&A lawyer would be enough representation to navigate a less complicated deal but when is an investment bank necessary?
C isn't outdated. The fact that nothing has fully replaced it is a testament to its continued practicality.

As for the impossible-to-use-safely functions, use only string manipulation functions that have an n in their name.

Finally, compared to the size of most standard libraries, I wouldn't say the cruft that exists is "substantial." Everything the libc package installs in /lib is less than 3MB on ARM, and that includes crypto, math, networking, and a bunch of other code. The cruft makes up a rather small fraction of that.
I think it's interesting that the idea of deleting an account on a web service is "incomprehensible" (a bit out of context, but still relevant). It's kind of funny how reliant we've become on a few companies and services.
People make decisions based on principle, and the information they have at the time. The shopper probably didn't anticipate that it would take 15 minutes to correct her purchase. She probably didn't have a good feel for what the price difference would be. She knew she was paying more than she should, so she said something. I don't think I would act any differently.
I think the name is "Careers 2.0" as in, this is the new version of how you manage your career. Before, you searched for jobs on job boards, sending out your resume, etc. Now, the employers come to you. Careers 2.0.
Well, it's easy with MacRumors since Apple is hot. And that's what we write about. :)
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I just submitted it as a question here:

http://www.quora.com/I-accidentally-changed-my-Facebook-acco...
> What I can't understand are the politicians promising to fight tooth and nail to roll back the very minor reforms just enacted, and all of the people who enthusiastically just voted them into office last election, based on that platform.

It's the Republican Party. They serve a certain set of masters. This set of masters is not the everyday Joe. This should be old news. Unfortunately it is not. And yes some folks vote for them that probably should not, but we have a sort of Bell Curve of intelligence and education out there -- though everyone's vote counts exactly the same -- combined with a variety of different levels of empathy for others, combined with a propaganda-rich media environment. This is what happens under those conditions. Ideally, we want to change these underlying conditions.
From what I understand the NT kernel was rock solid, if a little picky about hardware. The problem was that graphics performance suffered due to the strict isolation of the drivers from the kernel. MS relaxed those restrictions in later versions of their OS (either NT4 or Windows 2000), gaining better graphics performance at the cost of kernel stability.
Looks like they've updated the post:

"UPDATE 2/23/2011: See the latest test user documentation."
Considering, it's optional, the browser lets you load it on demand, and I rarely ever have to use Flash, ever, nowadays... I'm guessing not much.
there is a project on formalization of the human "common sense" with (partly) open source database. take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
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Or Smalltalk maybe?
I have always wondered this. Even algorithms common discussed in computer science books are not there in C or C++ standard library. (PS: This discussion is not about negatives of C++). I once emailed Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup about this; more precisely non-existence of even simple tree algorithms from C++ standard library. He just pointed me to implementation of some sorted list using red/black tree "internally".
"Battery life is about 18-20 hours on one charge"
Coupon clipping is also a fairly common activity, particularly among stay-at-home moms, and it typically translates into an hourly wage of $6 ~ $8. (This is why coupons are so effective at price discrimination -- if $6 ~ $8 an hour is an insult to your intelligence, you will happily pay full price for your chocolate pudding snack.)
I've done well by myself too, but two points do not make a trend. It's clear from looking at the numbers that most people are not doing better over time. Furthermore, I'm well aware that I'm probably one slip (e.g. a major health problem, a corporate cutback) away from a significant decline, but that's more or less out of my control, so I try not to worry about it.
It's worked pretty well for Jeopardy too.
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I'm going to throw in the suggestion that she look into Scentsy. http://seasonofscents.scentsy.us . Genuinely booming opportunity. Direct sales, yes. Actually pays, yes. If she works her existing contacts, she will be in business immediately. When my wife signed up I was pretty pessimistic but she has come to consistently out-earn me and this summer she took us to an all expense paid trip to Hawaii. Basically, all of the direct-sales companies have the same offer: work from home, income, incentives. Most of them, IMHO, don't deliver. Scentsy really has for us.
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I'm having a lot of fun with this MSP430 microprocessor that cost $4.30, delivered to Australia(!). Great way to teach/refresh some skills in simple assembly or C.

Here's the original HN article where it was mentioned:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202737
Well, hold on. It's certainly in the top 10 reasons of why I spend money, probably not in the top 10 reasons of why I try to save it though.
Personally I am pleased to see more of an effort being made of late with advancing health care technology.
It's a fact - doctors are using the iPad. I see more and more of them in the hospital. I'm not certain whether this will lead to widespread adoption or is just a novelty. In our hospital you can use the iPad to first log into the hospitals Windows based network, then log into HMS, which only works with Internet Explorer. Given how tedious a process this is, and to perform order entry using this technique, to me doesn't seem like its going to last long. I'm thinking a 11" MBA would come in more handy.

In the office, tablets should be used to review patient data, but the physician should probably not be entering any data - such as writing up the progress note or billing - while in the exam room. This takes away from the physician patient relationship. So to review data, tablets can be helpful, but are not exactly revolutionary. Real changes in how healthcare is delivered will be determined by how data is collected and how it is interpreted (like the Crimson Initiative).

Still, considering that EMR systems like AllScripts are charging over $600 a month PER physician (and that's at a "special" discounted rate for a few years), it's nice to see companies like DrChrono taking a stab at it, to see if they can offer something better, or equally compelling, for a cheaper price. A lot of existing EMR systems are bloated with features that most physicians will never use, and don't even really fully understand.
"A lot of times people have trouble translating percentages into real numbers. She had also been wronged by being charged 5% more than she should have.

However if she had thought this decision out in the terms that we just have, I doubt she still gets that refund."

Hindsight is always 20 20. Still once you here someone say they have to get a manager involved you know it's going to take at least a few minutes.
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There's actually a TV show on "Extreme Couponing" http://press.discovery.com/us/tlc/programs/extreme-couponing...

Coupons are wonderful advertising as they can attract customers that may not otherwise even entertain purchasing a product or service, but have a processing cost on both the buyer and seller's end.

The point isn't the money, the point is keeping that customer in the future.
At least she didn't pay with a check!
Flash Block and AdBlock go a long way.
Because they were on sale, obviously.
I know at least a few of you thought it... what would happen if people were tricked into clicking that link and button. Kind of an a-hole thing to do.

However, it does make me wonder how fast they might find a fix for it if it were to happen to enough people to make it a priority. Or even, how many people it would take to make it a priority.
>Anyway, personally, I almost always read books cover to cover. If it isn't a 'good' enough book to do that, I stop reading it and move on to a less shitty book.

You seem to be doing something different than most of the people here. No wonder you feel like yelling as well.
Interesting. Found this article which explains the paralation model.

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.08/08.07/Paralat...
Comparisons between Japan, China, India, and Eastern Europe all seem spurious to me. The standard of living, educational opportunities, native language, cultural heritage, etc are all different.

Of course then there's always the people who don't consider Japan to be "the east"... which always makes me laugh.

I would consider anyone who's doing categorizations based on "east" and "west" to be a tad intellectually dishonest.
Doesn't work in FF 3.6?

Looking at the actual Google page, the fonts don't load.
When seeking funding, having a co-founder or team looks much better to an investor than a sole founder. If you take a look at YC, I believe Dropbox is the only (or one of the few) with just one founder. Having more than one demonstrates that there is less risk through complementing abilities and checks/balances. Also, it can get kinda lonely...
An interactive map of income distribution by NYC neighborhood:

http://envisioningdevelopment.net/map
They definitely did not say that.

"Work in progress"
I worked on an EMR app for a while and DrChrono feels very childish. HIPAA compliance seems like a back seat at this point instead of first priority.

Maybe a dr would pay $99, but the first HIPAA lawsuit they are going to spend $99,000+ defending all due to software.

I also have to admit that DrChrono reminds me of Dr Mario Nintendo game..
Irony isn't the same thing as snark. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you might actually not understand the difference between the situation with Nokia and the situation with Salesforce.

If you were just trying to be funny, then my apologies.
CrunchGear said 18-20 which really sounds like a typo. Or they think the locked state counts.
Why we need a Box.net desktop application?
I worked in a theme park and we had a discount coupon so the customer could buy 2 meals with a 50% discount for the second meal.

Only in August, after 2.5 busy months one customer complained and spent maybe half a day arguing with the cashier, then with his	manager, then with food supervisor, and finally with guest relations people. He got his 1(!!!) cent back. It was an error in the POS system that manages all the cash registers. However, he also saved many pennies for future guests, also hopefully the park reviewed the POS logic for other items and thus could have fixed similar errors and saved even more money for the customers.

So sometimes someone's wasted day is a benefit for many other people.
Can you explain in more detail what you were looking for?

> I once emailed Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup about this; more precisely non-existence of even simple tree algorithms from C++ standard library. He just pointed me to implementation of some sorted list using red/black tree "internally".

What tree algorithms did you need to use?

Also, I suspect "some sorted list" was std::set or std::map.
If you want to have some fun, think back to the last time you bought a ticket from ticketmaster, especially if you bought on the phone. Look at your card statements for that month and the next, look for random $1 charges. Ticketmaster used to be notorious for randomly charging customers credit cards based on some ridiculous scripts you never actually listened to. If you'd call the number associated with the charge and enter in the charge ID, it would automatically refund it.. They knew they were defrauding people, and they knew the stakes were too low for anything to happen as long as they refunded it.
there are not many optimized apps available yet

True, but I'd expect unoptimized Android apps to work reasonably well. Android's "fragmentation" is an advantage here: developers have known from day one that they have to support arbitrary resolutions, so apps should scale to a tablet much better than how the iPad pixel-doubles iPhone apps.
I guess the opposite principle is the when people don't submit their rebates for big ticket items. On a per hour basis, they would be making a killing. By failing to do the rebate, that opportunity cost is painful.
Kudos to Optimizely for continued progress. It's great to see A/B testing get steadily broader adoption and it's great to see them riding the wave while helping it along!
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Comfy depends on your version of comfy. I'd want to make at least $100K, myself, but I'm softer than some.

Depending on where you'll be working in Manhattan, you may want to also consider Hoboken, New Jersey. It's a walkable city and for the same amount of rent, the commute on the PATH train is often much shorter than the equivalent subway commute from the boroughs. The PATH train's a fair bit nicer, too.

Don't live anywhere that feels sketchy in order to save on rent. Not because it's unsafe - NYC is pretty safe these days - but because it's another source of stress when you're adjusting, especially if you're moving with a partner who doesn't have a job yet. New city + iffy-feeling neighborhood + no job = hard on a relationship.

Wherever you live, you're likely to pay more money for less space and less amenities than you had before. My advice: immediately start taking advantage of services like Fresh Direct and your local wash-and-fold. Dragging laundry to the laundromat and shopping in tiny, crowded supermarkets can bring a lot of new arrivals down. Especially, again, if these tasks are being done by a partner with no job yet.
"Not too bad."

If I notice it, then by definition it is too bad.
I think this is the most ironic thing I've seen in the past year.
In related news, a man died unhappy and alone today. Before he died, and looking back, he remembered the time a girl had asked him to drive her home. After some extremely advanced math he had given her a cab fare and stayed at work

But fortunately he had fully optimized his earning potential.