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UPS is 'efficient'... So efficient they learned not to waste time on actual deliveries when they could just claim that the recipient wasn't home without ever having to stop the truck.
I do think that a proper engineer would use weight measurements (grams) in most cases (with the exception of liquids) rather than less accurate volume measurements.
So you've set it up to fail entirely. With all that's happened to Duke Nukem: Forever. I don't think all of those years should be "held against it"; and we should enjoy it for what it will be.
Color.com

revenue: 0

expenses: $100k/mo (who knows, but let's err on high side)

cash: $41m

dead in: 34 years

nothing at all wrong with their raise. nothing at all.
It looks like Color has a difficult chicken-and-egg problem.
I don't know how the hell they did it, but it worked for Palm. I was watching 'born rich' recently and one of the celebutantes says, referring to a handbag, 'it has room for my palm pilot, or paper, if you are still into that'.
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Akshay, great use of LP. Did you consider other functions for adsorption besides a max vote? It would be interesting to see a distribution of possible communities based on seeded community labels from your current results.

Also, thanks for releasing your code. I'm currently working with the Junto package http://code.google.com/p/junto/ but I'll give your map reduce implementation a try for the added benefit of running LP on larger datasets.
Maybe you could back up this claim with some information about yourself? Your HN profile doesn't link to your blog (which I found by googling what I guessed was your name), and your blog's prominently featured 'about' page is the Wordpress template. All I know about you is that you have opinions, express them well, and make up card games.
If we're talking about the article, I don't think they were implying anything about technical difficulty (it doesn't even use the word 'hard'), but more about importance (the significance of the consequences).
edit: removed typo.
Only because you mentioned it... badges are "virtual goods", which is to say that badges are digital artifacts with a visual representation. A marketplace for badges is basically Zynga's entire business model.
Isn't the gram a measure of mass? A gram of flour is a gram of flour at sea level, at 10,000 ft, and on a space station.
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In this case, the court gave them exactly what they asked for:

"As a result of the actions and benefits described above, Lime Group and Gorton are liable for LW’s inducement of infringement. See Capitol Records, Inc., 218 F. Supp. 2d at 284-85; Blum v. Kline, 1988 WL 52916, *2 (S.D.N.Y. May 17, 1988) (finding that president of defendant corporation could be found liable for infringement because he “owns all of [the corporation’s] shares and is responsible for [its] daily activities.”)."

(full summary judgement here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/31272055/Arista-Records-Summary-Ju...)
There is no sense in my mind that a cook is not an engineer of the kitchen.

Engineering is just using quantities, directions, and properties to effect a result.
Hard to tell exactly what the purpose is from the limited amount of information provided. I agree that it seems a little weak if it's just a fake girlfriend to impress your friends. Might just be some personal stimulation to add a bit of flavour to life? Bit like http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/

Anyone know more about it?
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If enough of us "nerds" get pissed of by the actions of Twitter, can't we ourselves provide the initial momentum for an open alternative, with HN having 80k daily uniques and all? Does it have to have better features? (although that will help)
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Fortunately it works the other way too, c.f. Battlefield Earth
Yup... it's also the best science experiment.
Interesting that these guys go heavily against the idea that you should release something early and iterate on it. Do people agree that it's good to front load all this tech or should they have been getting the photo app right and say used GPS for a first version?
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"Our data is so accurate that we know where you are," said Nguyen.

That totally didn't creep me out at all.
You know what they say right.

If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.
I think the "MS tech demo" that you were referring to is Photosynth: http://photosynth.net/
What incentive is there to create great Playbook Native apps when you can just make 1 web app that "will work" in a "browser" for Playbook?

Developers who really care about the platform will create native apps, and ones who merely want Playbook users to be able to run their app will go with some cross platform thing. (The web, Android, etc).
I think the "MS tech demo" that you are referring to is Photosynth:
http://photosynth.net/
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I've read this article multiple times now and I'm having a hard time reconciling it with reality.

The app "intelligently identifies nearby smartphones, whether at a local park or at a concert, using advanced proximity algorithms".

OK, I'm listening...go on...

"Lots of people are trying to create location-based services and using GPS ... The problem with GPS is that it doesn't work."

GPS doesn't work, really? Is there more context to this quote? Maybe CEO Bill Nguyen means that GPS doesn't always work. Like, in a huge city with signals bouncing off buildings everywhere.

OK, in that case, there's always cell-tower triangulation and/or Wi-Fi positioning. Maybe that's what he meant?

The article goes on:

"Color does things differently by collecting these various data points from the phone's sensors and then looking for proximity by looking for identical inaccuracies."

This is where my eyes start to glaze over. You don't get magic quantitative inaccuracy values from sensors, sorry. Unless you have some sort of magic real-time control experiments - you don't have that information. Am I missing something here?

Even if you can guage inaccuracies in arbitrary sensor data, how does this possibly correlate to a 3-dimensional position in space and time without GPS?

I understand and appreciate the premise and value of the app here - no-effort photo albums based on proximity, and a social graph prioritized by real-life interaction - but this article triggers my B.S. sensors in a big way.
Did anyone here try startupgods.com?
Remember the domain name locating service, startupgods.com, from a month back? Did anyone give him a shot? What did he come up with? Just curious.
Seeing how they marketed LED TV, it might be possible they put a camera at the back of it, and mixed the images. Here is the transparent TV :)
Oooooooh! I get it now. According to this death-clock, my larger than small but smaller than medium company that is making very good money is a lifestyle company, like 37signals is. Actually, that's true! But do me a favor, don't tell anyone that. Please don't tell my hard-working and talented employees, for whom I am very grateful. Please don't tell my friends and siblings or my vendors. Let's just keep this between you and I. Thanks!
From my May 2010 post on Diaspora* and Facebook - "Billion dollar companies that are paying any kind of attention don’t sit quietly and let themselves be dismantled." http://erehweb.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/why-diaspora-is-grea...
I hope it adds collaps and expand :P
The LP algorithm which I have used [ http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v76/i3/e036106 ] is different from Label Propagation algorithms used for Semi Supervised learning. The algorithms implemented in Junto are Semi Supervised algorithms (generally used with Bi-Partite graphs) while the label propagation algorithm which I have used is used for unsupervised community detection in networks.

If you dont have access to a Hadoop cluster, I have some multiprocessor code, which is slightly faster, if you have enough RAM (32 Gb for twitter dataset). drop me mail if you need it.
I don't understand how the public benefits from having the true weaknesses of companies hidden. If the Fed were truly acting in the public's best interests, it would want you to have as accurate view as possible.

Of course, the theory is that somehow this would undermine confidence in banks. But the opposite is actually the case. Banks would have to maintain reserves and lend wisely in order to get your deposits. Especially if you could actually lose your money.

Instead, everything is covered up until the government can no longer hide how bad it is. But don't worry, you're insured, right? Yes. But it turns out you're insured by you the taxpayer, so you're even more screwed now than you would have been if you had incentive to use your judgement and the clarity to see what was going on.

Smokescreen government at its worst. And all because banks tend to collapse when bad government creates massive instability in the economy to begin with.
http://colour.com/
Attempted to test it, but it crashed after I clicked "Skip" on the tutorial. I am able to see a white screen with the cursor for about 2 seconds before it closes. Using an Evo 4G running Cyanogenmod 7 RC2 (2.3).
Oh, that was easy to find once I got going.

What's harder to find is _any_ publication that she had while at Brown. Just those non-academic conference talks she had listed on the page she removed from her site.

In fact, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abrown.edu+%2... yields nothing

I don't think your comment adds anything to the discussion.
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You are spot on. I am a huge math nerd and I love to bake. Chocolate chip cookies are delicious.

After college I thought briefly about starting a cookie business. I have a notebook full of detailed cookie experiments. I changed quantities, ingredients, mixing technique, and baking temp/time trying to make the best cookies. My housemates tested the experiment results. Luckily, they were more than pleased most of the time.

Baking is all about chemistry and reactions. The delicious part is just a fantastic side effect.
Using printf to debug when you could use a good debugger is...well, I wouldn't say stupid, just highly unproductive.

The problem is there are a lot of problems that aren't debugger friendly, especially if you are new to a particular domain. The kernel, timing-related problems, remote systems, production systems (you have intelligent logging, right?), etc., all have extremely valid reasons for using printf debugging.
The only situation where I'll upvote or downvote based on "agreement" or "disagreement" is statements of fact--and even then, inane statements of fact that don't contribute to the discussion, I don't upvote.
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No need to get upset, mon. I'm sure they just feel similarly.

I dislike this: Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

To me that says people cannot choose what to do with their own minds. Like the atheists-in-foxholes saying, it denies a freedom that I cherish and denigrates a goal that I aspire to.

This is all very much a sidelight. We're just messing around on the internet, right? No hard feelings.
> If the argument for scheme is that it's already installed and set up by the admin, then the same thing can be said about JDK.

It's not, and I'd like to understand where you got such a thing from.
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Arch is an amazing distro and every one of my experiences with the community have so far been positive. Kind of a bummer to see people dumping on it in the mailing lists and LWN.
Hi TREYisRAD,

Apologize for that. Please let me know your email and I will come to you with the proper build.

Mine is jose.vigil ad roamtouch dot com.

Thanks.
printf debugging is too simple and intuitive to justify an entire blog post. ;)
Okay, so these "sensors" come down to a lot of things. The compass, the accelerometer, the camera, the microphone, bluetooth, wifi. And the tech here is both about location as well as proximity. And actually, looking in my phone settings, it appears that Color uses GPS too. It's on in the location services part of settings on the iPhone.

I think the big takeaway is that it doesn't rely on it and it uses all of these signals to provide a far more accurate sense of location and accuracy. And I have to say, I'm not sure what about using more data points to get a more accurate reading would set off B.S. sensors.
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It has patent troll written all over it. Right now it seems like they don't have much more than an idea for a product and an idea for a business plan. Even if their photo-sharing thing doesn't work, it's inevitable that others will be looking to build social networks from cell phone data.
For me the most insightful parts were the quotes about progress in developing countries.

> The reason this (entrepreneurship in developing countries)
> doesn’t result in wealth is entrepreneurship is rarely an
> individual event now, if it ever was. You need social
> infrastructure; corporate, legal and financial systems.

I read this as saying that the whole system needs to change for development to really happen. Unfortunately, a number of rich and powerful vested interests, want to and are able to preserve the status quo quite successfully.
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Looks like it's not actively backlit? Way cooler than it has any right to be, at least in the daytime. Brightness is automatically directly proportional to the light coming from behind! Wonder what they have planned for night.
Not HN material imo.
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I think he means a monopoly over the output of any given artist, under the traditional system where artists sign restrictive multi-album contracts.
Hi pero,

We infact we implemented Padkite to be controlled with a single finger but we left it aside cause multitouch gave more power. The problem was that the selection gestures where not that good with single finger cause you need to coordinate. What did work very well was the navigation experience and basic stuff.

Do you think we should include an optional single finger model on the settings?. It works like this: Drag, lift finger to select below and do a gesture with same finger. All in one hand.

What do you think?. Let me know man, I am intrigued.
Well that's mildly disappointing. I guess he'll have to declare bankruptcy.

I still think the judgement should be payable in mass emails of pictures of $20 bills.
Reasonable theory, but Sequoia doesn't need a superbowl ad, they're Sequoia.
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what would you say are the 3 most polish level features of instapaper? not the crazy features, but the little things that matter.
Forrst has been a source of inspiration for my work ever since I started using it. Honestly some of the designs I see there are so polished and refined that it makes me (a developer trying to improve on my design skills) feel downright design-dumb sometimes.

Congrats Kyle!
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I wish there was a OStatus implementation to a Jaiku-like service (see for instance http://qaiku.com )

The threaded microblogging model supports far deeper interaction than the way Twitter works.
It is not up to twitter to be able to "ignore China". China has blocked twitter and give sina weibo a head start and has hundreds of millions of users already.

It is the opposite, China has blocked out and ignored twitter.
Thx, I did notice. Testing out with twitter login :-)
Because "green" and "eco" has an audience. But I'm guessing your question was rhetorical.
Some badges/achievements work for me and some don't. For instance, I'm addicted to Team Fortress 2 achievements, but I couldn't care less for them on Foursquare or Stack Overflow.

I think context is important. It makes sense to me in a real game, but not so much for a website like Stack Overflow.
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I've heard someone joke that "real world" software uses just two data structures: arrays and hash tables.

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Hi zachrose,

Very interesting conversation, waited years for having them. Its good to see smart guys around.

Gestures are old, Palm graffiti did a lot already but was a different approach, they worked alone, not for the service of other gestures like ours. We are bringing in new gestures and overcoming the imagery gesture paradigm. First the selection gestures that we are "inventing" product of the offset pointer and the two button areas. And second type the graffiti type, which are a set of three to six gestures that the user will learn if he wants.

The novelty of what we are doing (quite a lot in terms of interaction) is that our graffiti type (we call it our GestureKit, in fact is a brand) works in conjunction and coordination with the selection gestures. It is an ongoing process of doing three movements, drag-select-gesture which makes it very fast and productive. The user could skip the latter but once the selection gesture finger is lifted up and the content selected is very handy to do a last touch down and make a gesture to command, for example the "S" for search on Google. It could be whatever really.

Try it and tell me what you think please. These are not just command line gesture, they belong to an interactive system that all parts together make things much faster. The users know already to do that by other means, we are offering to do it faster.

Thanks lot.
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Supposedly a lot of the bugs are for somewhat older iOS versions, so I wasn't seeing them. I figured the "buggy POS" stuff was overhyped, which it seems to not be.

However, I think most of the people who know about Color are hackers and startup junkies, who all seem to have a negative inclination towards using it. So it still wouldn't surprise me if the bad reviews were overwhelming from that crowd.
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Worth noting that many Silicon Valley nouveau-rich seem to derive great satisfaction from their activities as angel investors.

It seems to me this is similar to those in the article who "satisfactions of philanthropy", with the added bonus of having people who listen to your advice.
UX is about defining the problem that needs to be solved (the why), defining the types of people who need it to be solved (the who), and defining the way in which it should be solved to be relevant to those people (the how).

To me that defines "entrepreneurs", not "user experience designers". If this user experience designer is really doing all of that, then they should turn their why/who/how combination into a formal business plan and just get the funding required to hire an engineer to build out their vision, rather than whining about why they and their ilk are not getting hired by startups.

(edit: reading jt2190's post again, I realize that my comment actually ended up going in the same direction and is therefore largely redundant, but I figure it doesn't hurt to leave the different wording)
Watched it on Hulu. Great documentary. I love how one of his prime subjects sued him after the primary shooting was complete.
I don't get this at all. What is the incentive for anyone to use this? Everything in the interview is focused on the business model, with an assumption that millions of people are going to start providing them with data. On the other hand, I don't understand the attraction of any of the existing "location check-in" brands, so my ignorance is probably meaningless. I've always been very involved and interested in technology, but the last few years of the growth of "social" products has left me baffled and alienated. Is this what getting old is? Is my response to Foursquare and Color fundamentally the same as the response of Old Fogeys to Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry?
Yup. This is what I want at my desk.

Now I just need to find a great window with a view :)
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It's clear what twitter is: it's a website, it's a SMS service for phones, messaging, service, etc.

There is plenty of vertical development that can be done by third parties, no need to focus on creating your own client.

In programming, twitter is like the IE mini-browser control you can drop into a window and create your own 'custom' browser. Clients like that aren't needed. Instead use the data in a new way, or provide a new data stream by tracking something in real life.
Well... This is quite cool for 1 person, but how about if a family would live in that kind of apartment? You're watching TV and suddenly your kid has to go to the bathroom..
Yes, it seems obvious to any of us. Its how you and I would design it. But add in some product managers, a separate non-communicating design team, and top it off with 3 layers of ineffective management on top of that and these simple kinds of thing quickly either get overlooked, or purposely designated not to function that way.
Do we really need any further evidence of the desperation and general incompetence of the entertainment industry.

Never have I seen an entire industry act so horribly wrong to technological advances as the music industry in the face of Internet.
tl;dr anyone? Arch is the only distro I use but never heard of this before.
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