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I rooted the Nook Color and it is terrific. Great use as a ebook reader and general tablet. It seems to strike a very good balance between a pure ebook reader like the kindle and the iPad. We have kindle, nook color and the iPad at home. The iPad is useless for holding and reading more than 20 mins. My wife can't pick it up for more than 5 mins. The Nook Color is lighter than the iPad but more functional (browser, apps, zoom in/out) than the kindle. Downsides are -- rooted it is still android 2.1. Moving to 2.2 or 2.3 is not easy (I believe moving to 2.2 required turning off the heat sensor!!). Honeycomb kinda runs in a debug mode (ie., very slow). If the community can create a painless way to move this to android 2.3 it will be a great win.

As to the economics, B&N owns the retail distribution of this product. So a big win over other android tablets is that it doesn't need to tack in another 30-40% markup for retail stores. Apple makes at least 30% on the iPad and the iPad is bigger with much higher BOM costs. So at $250 it is very likely that Nook color is making a decent profit for B&N. B&N has a winner on this one, they own the distribution and don't have to pay for the software development (at least the majority of it).
Don't be trite. Receiving is completely different from sending. "You" doesn't include the other guy, in my dictionary.

It may raise the amount that can be sent over the network in toto, assuming that data demand is the same in all directions. Which it almost never is.

So what they've done is, they allow the data uplink to occur simultaneously with the downlink.

A valid claim is, the latency of data is improved - you don't have to wait/schedule your sends around the receive traffic. Which can matter quite a bit in the bulk of cases e.g. downloading http while jabbing buttons/sending commands up to the server.
Again, please answer this: why does the Square app need to know the plaintext number? That is what makes it different from a USB card reader that operates as a keyboard. One is designed to accept payments, and the other is designed to steal numbers. We're comparing apples and oranges here.

The path from the Square device to Square's servers should be completely untouchable to any app. That's what VeriFone is saying. Simply because there are alternative black-market products that encourage crime (and cost money, by the way), there shouldn't be a free product that simply hands you card numbers if asked nicely.
Anyone want to wager on the next three Turing Award winners?

My nominations:

Peter Shor

Maurice Herlihy

Richard Stallman

Mario Szegedy

Bill Dally
Plus, the salaries of her two friends who she makes "way more" than? A difference of $15K and $6K.
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The problem is that GitHub has no way to point the original project to the official project. The new organization project will still say "forked from" the original person's project.
It would seem with nic.ly offline most of the time, that registrations aren't possible. However, Thomas mentioned that there does seem to be periodic activity between the primary and secondaries, so in theory Libyan Spider could connect and push to nic.ly.

Seems like someone, or several someones, are managing this pretty well. I think we're ok, but there is a risk it'll go away if they shut it down.
Thanks for the info, I just wondered about power usage to understand the practicalities of the technology. I understand the other benefits, like the fact it looks awesome and none of your friend's houses can do it!
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I also considered experimenting with this in college. I never ended up doing it, though.
That probably falls into the parental life choice category
I agree. I think the recent advent of programmers.stackexchange has just caused stackoverflow to get that much more segmented and broken apart.
My username is, AFAIK, unique. Being able to recognize the same person can be extremely useful if you build things on different places.

I think the trick is detaching it from your real life. If you are using the same username, don't list your address or add your IRL friends.
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$15K or $6K per year is a big deal in the first few years of your working life. It becomes much less important a metric later in life. Especially so when you look at all factors involved in a particular job: bureaucracy, a^ole boss, jerky workmates, long hours, too much water cooler gossip, hurry-up and wait, short notice deadlines, etc. Many of my friends would gladly take a pay cut to "own their life" and work from home, for example.
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I don't give a shit anymore about this stupid piece of crap that Microsoft calls a Browser and throws out a release for every 3 years, just in time to not let it fade out completely but annoy web developers for more years to come.

I can relate to this feeling.
I'm kind of surprised Square didn't include some kind of hardware encryption, but then again, it would probably make the readers a lot more expensive to manufacture.

One of the amazing things about plastic cards is that they were never designed in the 1960s with security or the internet in mind. The card itself (with its Primary Account Number) is an inherently insecure medium. PCI DSS tries to make up for this by layering rule after rule on how you can treat PAN data, but as most professionals in the space know, a system is only as secure as its weakest link. There's really nothing PCI or any other standard can do. By focusing on cards, Square has opened itself up to all of the problems associated with them.

Starting from scratch is the best way, and pretty much the only way, to create a secure payment network in today's environment.
My understanding is that people don't read--so I would actually be surprised if that was @patio11's solution. :)
I was surprised by the last scene in the video. In most countries no police officer on duty would tolerate being verbally and physically assaulted. Is he afraid (the woman being a party official), or is there another reason (e.g. cultural differences - with angry woman hitting man during conversation).

I'd love to see a documentary based on this underground material.
To be honest, we haven't given that any thought. We are open to suggestions, though.
That's how free markets work. Unfortunately, this law doesn't allow for the consumer to chose what's best for himself.
Or, what he is saying is that the "advanced" things you notice pale in comparison to the real value of content.
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> and there really isn't a point to do this as long as there are other readers out there that allow you to read the data in plain text.

This is the rub. If we had that attitude to everything in computing, the world would be a much worse place.

Think about what you're saying, and grant me a paraphrasing: devices exist to circumvent traditional card security, so implementing card security is unnecessary. How exactly do you get from A to B, there? Software exists to root iOS; does that mean Apple should give up and stop trying to defend their platform's security?

I strongly disagree with any strategy that says "well, the vector's already been exploited, so why bother doing anything about it in our product? It's cheaper if we don't!"
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Nothing is stopping him from having a revelation that he's totally wrong a few years down the road and pop out a kid. I doubt he thinks that far ahead though. Probably just likes knocking up random women.
I think Apple sees the iPad as their netbook. It fills a similar role for the user - cafe, bed, train, casual use - and note how they don't have a notebook with a screen smaller than 11". Compared to a netbook, the iPad is upmarket in style, branding and price.

As far as touchscreen tablets though, as pioneers of the market they didn't have anyone else to position themselves against, besides Archos.
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> It seems their problem with Square is that it allows you to get the credit card number in plaintext if you use their hardware. Of course, this is nothing new: you can buy a cardreader that acts as a USB keyboard for $20

The point is that Square is marketed as a (presumably secure) payment device. i.e. two strangers (merchant and customer) establish trust so that the customer feels comfortable making a payment with the merchant's device.

In the case of a standalone card reader, you can skim your own cards all day, but strangers aren't going to give you their card to skim without a fraudulent premise.

Square's device provides a non-fraudulent premise, which is why the security flaw is a problem.
It's a matter of cost vs. benefit. Designing an iPhone peripheral that has built-in crypto is extremely expensive (or any embedded system with strong crypto for that matter), especially if the information you're trying to protect is printed on the other side of the friggin card. The fact is, as a consumer, you can't know if the device that's going to read your card is legit. This is true even if you're looking at a state of the art IBM POS system or a tiny plastic widget with a coil of wire attached to a headphone jack.
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Chat bots are a lot of fun. Google App Engine handles incoming instant messages just like other web requests, so developing a chat bot for App Engine is quite similar to developing any other webapp.

For more info on App Engine's XMPP integration:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp/overview.h...

And my shameless self-plug:

http://social-butterfly.appspot.com/
No, the fix is really easy: you drop the magnetic strip and only use chipped credit card (or similar). And this is what all the CC have been moving to already.
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Some people don't know what they're going to say until they say it. If such people could send and receive at the same time, they would be getting more information per unit time.
What has worked for me, is to downplay importance of money in those situations. Actively give off the vibe that it is not meaningful in the grand scheme of things and point out how both parties are fortunate.

On the flipside, I focus by questioning on what effort the person had to expend to achieve a great salary and what other benefits they feel they get with their line of work. Concluding with a 'very cool' or something similar.

In both cases, you end up downplaying the sums of money, and focus instead on meaning in context. Changing the perception that there is a dividing factor amongst parties and shifting to a meaning of solidarity is powerful in these situations or conflict resolution.
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What responsibility? Man up and be responsible for yourself. If you don't trust companies with your data just don't deal with them. Or use your anti-cookie extensions! You get ZERO sympathy from me.

I understand you feel companies have a hostile behavior towards your privacy. But you're part of a minority. If people really cared that much about cookies, the market would have responded accordingly and there wouldn't be any need for this kind of regulation at all. Why impose your obsession with privacy to the rest of us?
> I don't think that kind of difference matters in the eyes of those who created the directive.

Note: what matters is the difference in the eyes of those who interpret the directive. In this sense, the actual verbiage (and not authorial intent) is paramount.
To some extent the sleep deprivation is a weeding process/learning experience in and of itself. Being able to perform under stress/lack of sleep is a good quality in a doctor.
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We can wrap this up tidily by observing that the "coffee house experience" probably does cost some reasonable markdown from $6/cup. The coffee itself, though, is a good we have been trained to pay an exorbitant markup for.
The problem with this is that everyone is on the regular sleep 8 hours per-night schedule and you wouldn't be able to do this if you were working a regular job.
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Sleep rocks! I am in the 2.5% that sleep 8 hours or more. I am much more productive during the day as a result. I am alert, my brain spins faster and I can take on more challenges. My friend is a superstar scientist/M.D. and he sleeps 9 or more hours a day.

The "executives" who sleep < 7 hours need to fine a hour more. If I was a board member, I'd insist my C-level team sleep 8 hours!
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I always figured if you're awake instead of asleep, you're actually consuming more calories and thus need more food.
I find it interesting that their device takes a maximum of 2 hours to run through all of the combinations. I lockpicked a Master lock just two days ago (I had forgotten the combo), and by hand it took around 30 min. Master uses certain rules when they create the lock combinations that allow one to reduce the range of possible combos down to a flat 100. Source: http://aaronjasso.com/features/lock9.php
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My guess is that they're thinking each station now only needs to use one channel instead of two.
Are you serious?

The victim in this scenario is handing their credit card to the attacker. That's game over. It doesn't matter whether the attacker has a Square, a VeriFone device, or a piece of paper for writing down the card number. If you hand your credit card to someone malicious, they can figure out how to do bad things with it.

I'm a big fan of Square, but it's important to remember that their solution doesn't remove the traditional risks of credit card usage. But then, there isn't yet a widely-deployed, field-tested alternative, at least in the US. The advent of NFC payments may put reasonable crypto in the POS flow, but I'm sure it's matter of time before side-channel attacks are discovered in the burgeoning NFC solutions.

Security is hard. But VeriFone isn't talking about security. They're using security as an anti-competitive stalking horse, and that's a disgusting way to do business.
Long-polling, in app designs based from the start on long-polling, is a fine thing (or at least, I'll stipulate that).

Connections that you hold open while forking off and waiting for a process that will take many seconds to complete is just bad UX. There are better ways to do it.

You'll excuse me if after arguing with my response to your one-sentence "noob question: how do I make PDF generation asynchronous from an evented Ruby webserver" I am not chomping at the bit to get into a long architecture debate with you. I meant it: good luck with your design. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Richard Stallman

hmmm, i think Turing Awards are more biased towards theoretical contributions to CS (even for systems people). Although Stallman has made great contributions to the field of computing, he isn't an academic CS researcher, so he might not be in the running :/
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Doesn't work as well when your username is firstname_lastname.
a couple years old, but still the best guide to seo: http://powazek.com/posts/2090

"The problem with SEO is that the good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work"
One of my co-founders once said, "My biggest fear is that we're barely successful enough not to quick/change course." It's REALLY hard to change course when you have (some) happy users.
At first, I thought you meant this a bit differently. In late 1995/early '96, I had some friends who were Windows 3.11 users, quite happy with it, had a huge collection of games and other software for it. No, I didn't understand this happiness either.

They started complaining about feeling forced to move to Windows 95 because the anti-virus software wasn't getting Windows 3.11 updates. but new Windows 3.11-specific viruses kept appearing. In these folks' eyes, malware was giving Windows 3.11 users a massive, unwanted push into buying and using Windows 95, providing Microsoft with job security.
How about battery life? If you could throw in a arm chip in there and have the webOS parts always on then you could get great battery life. Essentially this would work very similar to nvidia's optimus technology where machines ship with a low power intel gpu alongwith an nvidia gpu. When you do real 3d work the nvidia gpu kicks in, otherwise youre running off the intel chip. Key thing is how seamless the transition between webos and windows is.
If you're going to be forking off processes to do work for you, I think it's a bad idea to hide the implicit state by using EventMachine to try to manage the pipe I/O and the process state. The reason for that is, sidecar processes screw up, backlog, crash, and eventually start consuming resources you want to track. You end up reinventing the same wheel the Github people did with Resque. Better to reify all those processes from the start with a real queue.

I only make this pedantic comment because EventMachine makes it really easy to start down the path of "just event the process management and I/O", and it seems like you're almost always better off not doing that.
I've had an iPad1, now have a rooted Nook Color, and on Friday (or Saturday) will be getting an iPad2.

The Nook Color is great in all ways except one: video. No Netflix client available or forthcoming, no streaming from NAS a la Air Video Server, and no VNC. No good hardware-assisted video players either, especially not for free.

Otherwise it's a great deal for $250 and works very well as a Kindle reader, web browser, e-mail client, etc., and as a good way to dip your toes into the Android tablet market.
"Fair" is a four-letter word. Very little in life is "fair", and hiring is probably one of the less "fair" arenas around. It may feel good to talk about how "unfair" certain things seem, but in the end it's ultimately unproductive and while you're bellyaching about "fair", someone else is just going to get shit done and leave you in the dirt. "Fair" is a fairly useless concept in the real world, and it's only going to muddy the waters if it gets brought up.

That said, it's almost certainly a bad idea to discriminate against the unemployed as a hiring policy. Since corporate loyalty went out the window, and the economy is currently in the toilet, the correlation between "applicant employment status" and "applicant competence" is quite low. Good people get laid off all the time, and if your company refuses to hire them ON THAT BASIS ALONE then you're almost certainly making a non-optimal decision. Hell, depending on your scruples the qualified currently-unemployed applicant might be a great find because you have more leverage when it comes to salary negotiation. Whether they are unemployed or moving on from their current job, skilled applicants are skilled applicants and it's stupid to refuse to consider them based on an antiquated notion that someone's employment status strongly reflects their worth. Give their application the same 30 second screening you'd give Joe Employed, and give them the same coding test or exercises, and if they stand out then they stand out. What do you have to lose?
It's fast; I'm running the 1.1ghz overclock, but it was decent even without it. The processor was probably underclocked for battery life, not because it was 'binned' as flaky at the normal clock.

To get the $200 deal, you don't "go" pick one up. At least when I bought mine, it was only available in their ebay store using a coupon. Shipping was free.
I almost stopped reading after the first sentence: Radio traffic can flow in only one direction at a time on a specific frequency. Right...

To be fair, the article improved after that.
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The recently launched dm1z seems to come pretty close to being a non sucky < $500 computer.
The point is not to prevent this law in EU but promote it in the US as well, we have to level the fields but in the same time move towards better privacy.
Great post. However, I have a question to ask - say, you're passionate about painting. Given the number of people in this world who can actually paint well are so few, your odds of succeeding are pretty good. But what if you're passionate about say, blogging? Given that everyone in this world and his mom has a blog today, what are your chances of even getting noticed? Could that be a reason why some people don't care about what they are passionate about and instead choose to pick "hot ideas" or "unsolved problems"?
Same here. I love my Nook Color. I bought it specifically to root it. I own a Kindle which I would much rather read long-form fiction on. The Kindle is terrible for reading academic pdfs and programming books. That is at least 50% of my use for the Nook, the other 50% being general android apps and web browsing. I haven't even opened a book on it yet.
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If that's all there is, it proves the point.
Something I observed from reading the comments here:

A lot of us can function on much fewer hours of sleep regularly and don't believe it adversely affects our performance (It does affect mine though). Does anyone think there may be some selection going on here?

What I mean is, perhaps it's true that HN's distribution is more skewed toward the side of people who need less sleep (and hence has more productive hours in the day) and are willing to sleep less in order to get things done. Maybe we don't really represent the general population.

Just a warning in case anyone takes our testimonials too seriously.
It will probably turn out well for Amazon, but it's failed strategy for B&N to pursue. In those loss leader situations it's usually the biggest guy that survives, which doesn't bode well for B&N. Amazon is plenty diversified to outlast B&N and then capitalize on the empty competitive landscape once they've knocked the other booksellers out.
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I made a conscious decision to use my real name online. I do hope that I am never harassed IRL due to my opinions online or provoke the wrath of someone like Anonymous, however...
the file name for the image is along those lines too:

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