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Excellent points. Also, in many environments, the standards about how different contributions are valued [and hence how ability is assessed] have been defined primarily by those with certain kinds of privilege -- one more reason to question biases about ability!
Came here to post that quote. Anyone who's done android dev should know the two issues are pretty much separate. I mean, following his logic iOS devs would still be hard pressed to develop iPad and iPhone apps because the iOS source isn't available.

Is this the kind of journalism Ars and Wired need to do to get access to Apple exclusives or something?
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In some sense, yes. Mathematics is the science of how to solve problems without thinking. Progress in mathematics means elimination of thought needed.

But actually inventing that time saving machinery is different from applying it.
So should I not upvote this submission, because it's not about startups?

More seriously, I've taken to voting mostly for those things that are specific to the hacker/entrepreneur audience, and which I think contain valuable material. There are a few exceptions, but I apply the test: Should this be interesting to non-hackers/founders? If so, don't upvote, and consider flagging.

But it's too late. If only more people would take the pledge, but they won't. It's nearly time to move on - it's been an interesting two-and-a-bit years.
I tend to think of "creativity" as something like the physical attribute of "quickness" which is really disguised strength. If you have a solid intellectual background, good work ethic, and drive, then you've laid the basis for creativity. Doesn't mean it will actually manifest itself, but you've increased the likelihood.
first bid is in at $5,000... reserve is met.. it will sell for whatever the bids come in at and I'll be happy with it.
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For those who would like to start on page one, here's a link http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_15/b42230412...
for those thinking about shaping communities, this is a key takeaway: "What we have to do is create structures that invite people to give what they can, when they can give it." good advice for all of us!
Glad you realized that! :-)
This review is pretty fluffy, what is the best android phone right now?
But how many Facebook/Google/whatever engineers can a new startup afford to hire?

Not every programmer is a rock star ninja. Most are mediocre. Some are pretty bad but know the theory and can play the resume game, pass the whiteboard test, etc. There are plenty of books and lots of advice that will teach you how to fake your way through a resume, cover letter, and interviews.

Worked at Google/Facebook/Twitter? Great. Odds are I can't afford to hire you. You're not the target of open-source filtering :)
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Thank you for not calling it a "startup." I like the site!
Github, the future of book publishing?
So you are arguing that the part of the money was wasted?

By that order of thinking, its always better to send monies to the native population than to transfer even one Westerner to the area since the cost of their ticket would have been better spent on actual resources.... right?

No!

This is not a humanitarian mission---its a vacation in disguise.

The man clearly wanted to kill elephants. Why he wanted it is of no consequence. It's better to allow him to exorcise this bloodlust when there is a positive benefit to humanity than it to either fester or be released via investment into illegal poaching.
I guess I've rarely had situations where I had to manually execute most of that machinery. I agree the rote machinery is quite useful to apply, but the question for me usually is what to apply and how. Applying it is a job for computers.

For example, it's quite important for me to know when I might need to compute an integral, and what I'd do with it. But when it comes to banging out the symbolic manipulations, remembering tables of what integrates to what, recalling integration strategies for common kinds of integrals, etc., Mathematica is more skilled than I am, so I defer to its expertise, and haven't tried to keep any of that stuff in my head since high school.
They have also received criticism for the large number of loan defaults, and lobbying to change how the loan default statistics are calculated to make their numbers look better (at least according to Frontline). Same program also mentioned private for-profit schools account for a quarter of all student aid in the country, a disproportionally high number since they are not a quarter of our schools.
Y'know, it's funny. For no good reason I've failed to give D any consideration. I guess I've had it in my head that it wasn't as small or speedy as C/C++, but I'm pretty sure that's unfounded prejudice talking. I think I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Wow, crazy timing. I caught up last night with a friend with an Angelpad startup that asked me what my criticisms of lean were and this essay explains the gist of it.

What we're really talking about is taste. All the main product development methodologies skirt around the issue, whether it's lean, ux, agile, or etc. You can gather feedback and iterate through product ideas all you want, but it's up to you whether you have good ideas or if you're just a monkey throwing poop on the wall to see what sticks.
Almost content free. What's this doing on the front page?
They would likely go for the Apache license, which, while much longer, provides precise rules for Patents.
To be fair, that paragraph isn't explicitly attributed to the iOS developer, and may in fact be speculation from the article's author -- possibly added as a way to link to the other Honeycomb articles.

The linked article talks about how modders are unable to tweak the Xoom without Honeycomb source. It sounds like the author is confusing modding Honeycomb with developing apps for it.
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

-- Larry Wall

Task automation encompasses all three virtues:

Laziness - "I don't want to do this task every (other) day"

Impatience - "I don't want to spend time doing this task"

Hubris - "Of course this will work on the first try"
So, does that mean i live "longer" if I stay in a city that has less gravity? With the right kind of advertising, it looks like India's real estate could go through the roof.
In this case, even the dumb chinese-dup phone can't save me much!

What is one to do in this Big-Brother world? Can we entirely avoid it?
Seeing as how every YouTube video I've tried to play in a Windows Phone has worked, I fail to see what the issue is at all.

Clearly details are missing.
This directly contradicts your earier statement about Maps, Market, Gmail :) If you feed me bad input I will come to incorrect conclusions...
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391744

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391735
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This is my first attempt at a jquery plugin so I need all the feedback I can get. Will submit to the jquery plugin repo once its a bit further along

Would like to add more features and documentation just wanted to see if there is any interest or if I could enlist some help
It would definitely be handy for technical books but I can't see this being widely adopted because most technical books aren't free.

Fixing errors and sending a pull request via an interface we all already know would be much easier than tracking down author contact info. Having said that this might be more readable as a wiki.
Next, DittoKey could sell special keys that warn you by mail when they are being copied via DittoKey.
I think a big part of the difference between launch/early apps is the state of the emulators. Apple's emulator runs quite fast due to using a lot of native desktop code, and is in many ways suitable for testing at least a 1.0 version [1]. Android's emulator is a full virtualized stack and runs significantly slower than the target platform, making it hard to get a real idea of how well your program is running.

Hence, while you could be pretty confident releasing a day one iPad app, many android devs would balk at the same situation with Honeycomb. A lot of devs may be waiting for a different tablet than the Xoom as well, while Apple devs obviously could all buy theirs on day one.

The Xoom and 3.0.0 honeycomb both feel a bit rushed, there is probably a good argument for calling it a preview out here in reality. I don't think that's an indictment of the platform over all, though.

[1] Not an active iOS dev, but that's how I remember it.
Not to mention that research scientists and engineers often have advanced degrees which required a lot of application.

I bet you'd hire a programmer without a degree who can do the work before you'd hire a civil engineer who learned how to build stuff off the Internet. :)
The way in which Android is open differs from many other open projects.

The source to Android is made public at or around the time the final version ships but until that point only select partners have access to the software. It's this approach that Google are going to strengthen - essentially if you don't obey their rules you won't be a select partner and you won't get early access to the new releases.

What this means is that if you don't obey Google's rules you'll be getting the software two or three months later than your competitors (and without all the support they will be getting), likely receiving it around the time they're actually bringing products to market. That's a pretty big competitive disadvantage if you're aiming to compete at anything close to the top end of the market.

So basically while you can use Android as you wish, if you don't obey Google's rules then you won't be able to do so in a way that allows you to be competitive.

The cynic in me says that this is getting mighty close to being open in name only.
There are a whole lot of charlatans in the field. Certifications and credentials are often a good tip-off.
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A big part of physics is the art of approximation. It's almost never possible to have a perfectly 'exact' description of a situation.

For instance, in introductory physics we have students work a number of problems involving objects falling under the influence of gravity. Air resistance is rarely considered, and if were to be considered, approximations of some sort would be required, since there's no complete theory of turbulence.

Everything that involves a complex computer simulation, say molecular dynamics or fluid flow, involves approximations.

Even when you look at the simplest calculations involving elementary particles, all of these are intellectually justified by the renormalization concept that assumes that, at some very small length scale, the laws of physics that we know will break down -- but we know that QED, QCD and such are very good approximations.

The first virtue of an approximation is that it captures the qualitative character of a problem, after that, it's a matter of adding an increasing number of decimal places of quantitative accuracy.

More sophisticated models of radiation transport exist (these are critical to the development of H-bombs, etc.) and an obvious follow-up to this paper would be to use a better radiation transport code to validate the result.
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you're absolutely right! it was a weekend project of sorts, so we didn't have time to add everything we wanted to see
I'm skeptical of his perspective that there's something uniquely creative about founders that doesn't apply to everybody. Programs that make resources available, provide support networks, and teach skills all increase entrepreneurship (microloans are a great example). Totally agreed that there's an art to entrepreneurship, but the same can be said about programming, journalism, politics, or any other kind of profession.
This is my first attempt at a jquery plugin so I need all the feedback I can get. Will submit to the jquery plugin repo once its a bit further along

Would like to add more features and documentation just wanted to see if there is any interest or if I could enlist some help
You only need rote manipulation to help your conceptual understanding, and maybe learn some algorithms.
Come on, BBC.

It looks like a giant potato in space.

Really? A giant potato?

Scientists say the data gathered by the super-sleek space probe

Ooh, super-sleek! But is it shiny?

(other than that, very interesting article.)
While I'm happy to hear this promising news, this article could really use more beef. Anyone have some good references or additional information on this topic?
They all allow it - just they don't all make it a simple control panel process. Either email support, or do a search and it can be taken care of on all registrars.
The product I just described doesn't exist, and Weebly is better already? I used the word Dreamweaver, but also mentioned that it would probably be a bad name for it for obvious reasons.

What Weebly wouldn't have is tight Photoshop to Dreamweaver (again, you can go ahead and imagine another Adobe product in place of Dreamweaver) integration, making what I described much more appealing on a device where you expect a fluid experience.
can't call a weekend project a startup!
As someone who's been working with Android from the beginning, I have to say: About Time.

This is a required step if Google wants the platform to be taken seriously. The only way to keep fragmentation out is to exert a fair amount of control over the OEMs and Carriers who wish to differentiate (or Fragment) Android for their own purposes.

It's going to be a fine balancing act for Rubin. If he pushes the carriers/oems too far, they'll walk. If he doesn't push them hard enough, the platform will disintegrate Java ME style.

Google is using the only leverage they have (early access and the google apps) to make the platform one worth developing for. I, as someone who makes his living doing it right now, am all for this move.
The key conclusion, with error estimates:

We performed 10^4 Monte Carlo iterations, which easily ensures the convergence of the result. The thermal acceleration estimate yielded by the simulation for an instant 26 years after launch, with a 95% probability, is

a(t=26) = (5.8 ± 1.3) × 10^−10 ms^-2.

... These results account for between 44% and 96% of the
reported value

a = (8.74 ± 1.33) × 10^−10 ms^-2

(which, we recall, was obtained under the hypothesis of a constant acceleration) — thus giving a strong indication of
the preponderant contribution of thermal eﬀects to the
Pioneer anomaly.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5222
Very nice design.

One request: keyboard shortcuts.

If you'd like people to play a bunch (and I imagine you would), this would be a nice touch.
There's your problem right there. If I can't upload my photos and compare them to others and be judged, then I have no use for the service.

There are solutions to this problem, but censuring, controlling or impeding user contributions is not one of them.
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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

- Admiral Grace Hopper
And don't forget to perform a diff too, it helps me lots before or after backups.
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Rust developer here.

In Rust, the semicolon is the expression sequencing operator (like in ML), not a statement terminator. "a;b" means "evaluate a, throw away the result, and return the result of evaluating b". So the semicolon is more than just boilerplate.

I guess we could do some sort of automatic semicolon insertion like JavaScript, but I'm not sure that the benefits outweigh the complexity.
I would suggest a job in sales. That way you can learn the selling process and work in multiple industries.

Either way, you need to get your shit together. IMHO, paying bills for wife and kid > entrepreneurial dream.
Steve makes good points, but I can't agree with his conclusion. I believe that there are many other ways than education to encourage artists. Opportunity and necessity, for example, will by themselves lead to a great increase in the number of entreprenartists, without any changes in education methods.

My full thoughts here: http://swombat.com/2011/3/31/entrepreneurship-art
Well, inside a function, you can have as much imperative code as you like, with mutable local variables and what-not, the function overall is still pure as long as it does not cause side-effects.

Eg, functional code could looks something like this:

foo a b = if a < b then quux (map bar a) else b

while a pure imperative function could look something like this:

int foo (string a, int b) { // since a is passed by value, mutating it below will not modify the original
if (a < b) {
for (int idx=0; idx<a.length; ++idx) {
a[idx] = bar(a[idx]);
}
return quux(a);
} else {
return b;
}
}

Obviously this example is contrived and dumb, but both do the same thing and, besides the syntax difference, the first is written in a functional style, the second in an imperative style, but both are still pure (as long as bar and quux are also pure).

So you can mix functional and imperative without making functions impure.
There's a few background issues here to acknowledge:

* The honeycomb emulator is pretty much unusable for development. It's beyond slow, meaning that any sort of practical development is going to need a physical device. Compare this to the iPad emulator, which is snappy and very usable for development without needing an actual iPad.

* The xoom has been out for a month, but it wasn't until last Sunday that you could buy a wifi-only version and avoid paying the Verizon tax. Several people (myself included) eagerly bought xooms on Sunday in order to start developing.

* The app situation is grim, but it isn't as grim as the article leads you to believe. Android apps are already built with resizable layouts due to the device fragmentation everybody talks about. As such, most phone apps scale reasonably well even if they haven't been updated for tablets. This is a far better situation than the 2x scaling of iPhone apps on the iPad.

So, while there are reasons that honeycomb development has been stalled up until this point, those reasons are quickly disappearing, making it a great time to start developing.
i was lucky enough to get my honeycomb app featured (DrawFree) and have been considered on the the few honeycomb specific apps -- i don't believe this is true. the market just doesn't offer a way to find honeycomb optimized apps.

also, android's method of scaling apps is far more usable than the way the ipad does it. visual quality doesn't suffer (mostly), just some minor usability issues with things being far too small.
.. or 960x1440!
That can lead to a lot of inefficiency and friction, and people ditching their jobs for the jobs they'd like to do.

How do I know? At my current company, the IT department currently has no formal boss. So a few ambitious people decided they'd rather not do the boring programming work, and take advantage of the void. But they don't feel like being called to task. The current climate is far from ideal, and there's a lot of backstabbing going on, and if you feel responsible (for maintaining the invisible legacy systems for example), you lose to the ambitious guys.

On the plus side, I'm learning a lot about social dynamics :) . I've given up on advancing here, but the experience will be useful.
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I like the snide remarks from Public Citizen when they are pursuing CDA stuff. http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2011/02/javelin-marketing-...

I love how he says in his letter "even assuming that your letter is sufficiently original to be copyrightable, and that you register the copyright, the posting of your letter will be fair use and hence not actionable"
It doesn't use the medium's full potential, but Oregon Trail is actually moderately successful imo at imparting basic knowledge about: 1) the existence of this episode in history; 2) some of the geographical information and landmarks along the way; and 3) a few basic pieces of information about period travel.

There's a lot more that could be done, and it's not clear it imparts only accurate information, but for me at least, it's where I learned that "fording a river" was a thing that existed; that Chimney Rock is a landmark; that there was a period in history when wagon trains were regularly heading out west along this lengthy route; etc.
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For reference, other takes on this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391675

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391424

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391051

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390999

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390721

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390430
Those of you who might write this off because of a negative image of reddit in general: these tightly-focused subreddits can be a gold mine of quality content.

The trick is to subscribe just to the subreddits that match your interests. If you'd like a searchable list of them, this appears to be a good resource: http://www.subreddits.org/search.html
Would segmenting HN like reddit work?
Not sham degrees, exactly. They require the absolute minimum level of educational achievement necessary to edge over the fuzzy line between a diploma mill and legitimate education. Students go to UoP to get a piece of paper that helps their career and that they would generally be incapable of acquiring at a real university, while in exchange UoP is there to milk the students for every federally-guaranteed loan they can qualify for.
Because he hasn't got a clue as to what a keylogger actually is?
Everything’s impossible until somebody does it.

- Bruce Wayne

http://startupquote.com/post/4234103411
Ask HN: Should we agree that this account will submit all Who is Hiring posts?
I will use this account to submit

Who is Hiring (Month YYYY)?
Who is Hiring Remote Workers (Month YYYY)?
Who is Hiring Interns (Month YYYY)?

posts on the 1st of each month at the start of the business day in the United States.

This could put an end to our peers competing to put forward Who Is Hiring threads by submitting them increasingly prematurely.

edit1: This idea seem to be well received, so expect the posts tomorrow morning around 9 AM Eastern time.

edit2: I will write a script to automate these posts and run it on my server for the foreseeable future.

edit3: I will send the script as well as the password for the 'whoishiring' account to several prominent HN users (tptacek, patio11, edw519 and pg/nickb) for safekeeping.
Well, there's only one device, and no real person can afford it or would buy it with all the bugs. Motorola is hit or miss. The Xoom is a miss. The only people I've seen with a Xoom either work for Motorola or work for a tech review site. Otherwise, they simply don't exist. There's no market yet.

In June, when the real hardware manufacturers start cranking these things out, I think we'll see an increase in apps. I'm looking forward to what Asus and Samsung bring to the table.

But to be honest, I'm sick of "apps" -- just make your little toy a website, please. Then I can use it on any device without any effort on your part. (Yeah, then there's no "app store", but who cares? All the app store is is someone that takes 30% of your money and lets idiotic users post comments like "Not enough space on my device for this! Negative eighty stars!" all over your app's page. Why would you want that?)
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