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Demystifying the VC term sheet: Pay-to-play provisions
Not so. The article states that 431 out of the 617 non-multitasking apps have explicitly disabled multitasking. Perhaps they have no use for multitasking and would prefer to reset the application state each time the app has launched.
Who cares? Why do most applications need to multi-task? What interesting discussion is there to be had about this topic?
Ergonomics is about a lot more than the keyboard, though. A laptop forces your arms/wrists and/or head/neck into ergonomically unsound positions, so unless there are laptops out there that transform into ergo hardware, I agree with the gp that laptops completely disregard ergonomics.
But it's certainly easier to guess right now. If I called and they were at lunch I would try again after the next hour clicks by, for example. And, in my experience, guessing at a 9-5 day has nearly always worked out for me, with just a few exceptions where I've learned of their slightly odd hours (and in my personal experience, all the people with odd hours are due to those people/companies, not the country they are in).
Your mistake is thinking the article is about the computer algorithm. It's about the journey.
Heh, if anything, yeah, this site'd be it, but I've managed to cut back on it, too.
There's a forum[1] that got started last night for reading Infinite Jest at a leisurely pace (75 pgs/wk) over the summer and discussing it weekly starting Juneish by anons in /lit/ on 4chan, if you're at all interested.

[1]: http://www.litinfinitejest.org/forums/
1) This article has nothing to do with Market Share. What they measured was the share of ad impressions for a single ad network (InMobi).

2) This article doesn't even get the OS name right, still referring to it as "iPhone OS" instead of iOS.

3) This doesn't support your argument in response, since it's only measuring iPhone devices, and not other iOS devices like iPod Touch and iPad.
Nope, we have one, I just never watch it, except for bicycle racing once in a rare while.
No it is made out of consent of the ruled.

The moment they loose consent they become the oppressors.
If you want to be safe, run a VPN on the phone and route all your traffic, tethered or not, through that.
I don't think I said that "nothing is impossible" just that I, personally, don't like the word "impossible".

Sure, some things are indeed impossible, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prove them otherwise.
It is the classic case of what happens when you apply the old rules (stuff like Schengen) to completely new areas where they don't apply at all.
Courtesy of the Metafilter thread (http://www.metafilter.com/103302/meaningful-adjacencies), a longer article:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663780/at-911-memorial-name-pla...

And a website to explore the names and some of the stories and links between them:

http://names.911memorial.org/
How much do they need to make? If they made an average of $1/user, would that make them profitable? Having more people download your software, or having additional vendors ship it on netbooks, etc., shouldn't increase your costs by much.
i completely agree. i didn't mean that it would in any way be wrong, i am just really interested in how they did it, and wanted to look at the source.

yet another example of a need for a sarcasm punctuation mark.
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I don't typically go to a specific page to test my connectivity. I go straight to whatever task I set out to do, then if that doesn't work, I do the following:

1. Fire up Terminal

2. Check loopback

$ ping localhost

3. Identify default gateway

$ netstat -nr | grep '^default'

4. Ping whatever gateway I find

$ ping 172.20.1.254

5. Try a known good IP address

$ ping 4.2.2.2

6. Check to see if the resolver is working (get root servers)

$ dig

7. Check to see if I can resolve specific hostnames (try a known good one first)

$ dig google.com

8. Check the specific hostname I'm trying to reach (but failed)

$ dig bradlanders.com

9. Try a name server other than the one I'm using

$ dig @4.2.2.2 bradlanders.com

10. Test IP routing to the destination IP

$ mtr 69.163.164.23

10. Assuming each of these passes, you can safely say the target service is down

Each successive step is taken only if the preceding fails.
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Same here, the second a connection time-out occurs I would either ping to 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4
My personal site is simple enough that there aren't any database-requiring features I actually want on it, and benefits of Jekyll include:

- Just feels nice. I actually enjoy playing with it.
- Cheap, I have it on AWS CF (a CDN) and it costs $0.10/month for
a few thousand pageviews
- Fast, with such few page views even wordpress would be fast enough
for me, but I like that it's REALLY fast

The price benefit isn't really a consideration for me, I still have the server I used to run it on (in fact I don't have a unix machine at home, so I edit the site on my server), but it is nice that it can be hosted on a really good CDN (which a database-driven website couldn't be.)
The FBI, as an institution, can't feel shame or embarassment. But individuals employed by the FBI can feel shame. Don't they? Are all FBI agents who do this kind of un-american activity sociopaths, or do some of them feel ashamed at underminging a free society?

But the upper levels of authority at the FBI, they must all be pervets who like to snoop on people. Shame on them for doing this un-american, unnatural voyeurism.
No problem. I also use Shopkick. They have some nice exclusive coupons once in a while, but not too often.
CTs always win?
Of course, this could have been a case of the source saying "they said it was hard" and the writer mangling that into "they said it couldn't be done". But still.

I think it is more likely they said "It isn't a well-defined problem."
Never used Elastic Search, but it's not too hard to use Nutch + Solr for static sites. Nutch to spider your (truly static) site, and Solr to store and serve search requests.
There is a good discussion in the comments about how mongodb uses compound indexes.

http://openmymind.net/2011/5/9/Making-our-MongoDB-Code-Run-F...
The second means using a service that the provider charges for, but you're not paying for. The law is never going to protect the second one.

Unless we get strong wireless net neutrality.
Tethering isn't a service though. The service is the data transfer. Tethering is a feature of the phone (which you own, especially if out of contract).

Here's a metaphor: Imagine if the water company charged you per gallon for water you used, but then added an additional charge for having a shower. Since you own plumbing fixtures to which the shower connects, and pay for every gallon, we would consider it unfair for the water company to charge extra for an "authorized" shower.

As far as theft of service, what on earth have you stolen? You pay for the data you transfer. Tethering is simply an "unauthorized" (by the vendor) use of that data.
Sounds about right to me. I would think for things like games targeted to kids resume-state would actually not be a desirable feature.
After all this, so-called aesthetic considerations make it impossible to find a name you are looking for.
Joel wrote this piece to combat the 'fluffy' idea that entrepreneurship is something you can accomplish if you just concentrate really, really hard.

What do you think: Is a lot of the writing on Entrepreneurship too focused on 'visualizing success' and not enough on how to get down and dirty and make a business?
My weakness is food. I'll eat anything that's in front of me or in the fridge. I'll just mindlessly snack on it until I'm uncomfortably full.

I live right across the road from a store and yet if there is no food in the house I won't feel inclined to go and buy more unless it's time for a meal. Then I buy exactly enough stuff to make one meal only with no difficulty restraining myself.

Result: I exercise a form of will power I do have and achieve my goal rather than failing to exercise a form of willpower I don't have.

Am I just fooling myself? Yeah. Maybe this guy is too. But if the outcome is positive then that seems smart to me.
You sir, have been upvoted.

I hate the "agree" posts, but since no one else can see how upvoted I can only dream you've been, I decided this comment was worth the -4.
I liked the transparency. That's actually why I signed up and started using LastPass after the 'incident.' I figured a company that would react the way that they demonstrates a lot of integrity. People expect great products, so it is very difficult to give somebody a product that exceeds expectations. Service, however, is rarely expected to be great. It's far easier to exceed expectations in that area. So when I see great service (which I think LastPass provided), I'm a fan.
Angry birds isn't actually running in the background (it's multitasking enabled). It is not wasting CPU cycles or RAM. It's basically recalling its session state from when you closed it, to make it look like it was running in the background. There are only certain instances when iOS has things running in the background, and these are only allowed through public API calls.
I wrote a non-root tethering app, so I might have a bit of tunnel vision.

First, any good tethering app should be immune to a simple TTL check. The most likely culprits are instead application traffic patterns. The following immediately come to mind:

- Browser user agents

- Automatic status checks under both OS X and Windows

- Application behavior:

* Netflix and Hulu on Android isn't supposed to happen.

* Browsers like Chrome are very aggressive and can open dozens of simultaneous TCP connections. DNS prefetching can also generate dozens of requests over UDP in a very short time window.
Note: TetherMe (native tethering on jailbroken iPhones) sends all tethered data through the same APN as mobile data by default so users won't fall foul of the APN detection method mentioned here.

Of course that wouldn't stop AT&T & Co sniffing browser strings of high data users, but that's a more complicated system to implement.
I always find it interesting that one of the first arguments used against a gold standard is that people who argue for it are idiots -- something economists in the US magically discovered when, contrary to previous agreements, we moved off the gold standard in 1968.

The argument for gold (or a fixed peg to a basket of commodities, also suggested by intelligent economists) is not for the commodities themselves, but against a centralized banking authority that cannot be trusted not to spend into a huge deficit and then print money. The fact that the dollar post-Bretton Woods II is the de facto world currency amplifies all of these problems -- meaning that other national banks (e.g. Korea, Japan and China) have to put massive amounts of their money into dollars.

This also means that any devaluation in the dollar will have catastrophic impact on their economies -- basically meaning that many other governments (and, of course, individuals) are subject to the whim of the Fed and Executive Branch of the US Government.

There is no very obvious solution to this given the substantial inertia in the system and the fact that not everyone plays nicely with each other. For example, even if it were certain that an alternative currency like BitCoin were entirely legal, this wouldn't prevent the powers that be finding some excuse to shut it down.
"attention-whoring", "troll", "naive", etc. Why are you getting so offensive about this article?

I agree that this metric has little value. Quality of apps, average sales per app and exclusives are all more important. However, this is still a metric used by marketing and I believe some consumers do care about "the biggest app store". I think Apple has used app numbers in various commercials.

This article doesn't conclude which app store is better (and actually says smaller is better for sales). It is simply stating that based on the current trends, Android will have more apps.
Are such stats (readily) available? As the inventory in the app store ages, I hope Apple applies adjustments to its rankings to identify "zombie" apps, those that perhaps had their day but have grown long in the tooth.

I'm not suggesting that an app isn't a good if it hasn't been updated in a while—I still love IA Writer despite it not having been updated in nine months(?)—but increasing app counts make for a looming merchandising nightmare, and Apple (and other app store runners, such as Google, who will have more apps on its hands come 9:02am on August 19th, 2011 according to a market research firm) is going to need to incorporate more signals in its app ranking, selection, and automated merchandising systems.
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Of the 7,840,000 shares being offered, 3,012,196 are from existing holders, and the balance (4,827,804) are issued. Therefore, post-IPO, LinkedIn will have 94,498,627 + 4,827,804 = 99,326,431 shares outstanding.

At a median price of $33 per share, that gives LinkedIn an implied valuation of $3,277,772,223, which isn't as high as I'd expected, given Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and Twitter's recent valuations
Today there are over 100 million consumers using linux, 99% of them on android. All other linux distros are rounding errors.
Previous-gen Apple iPad, iPhone 3GS often outsell new Android devices
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Those batteries are impressive. I did some Googling and found:

http://www.batterymart.com/p-ls33600-ba-d-size-lithium-cell....

61 Watt-hours. That little battery could power a 60W light bulb for an hour!

(I'm currently working on a bluetooth -> IR bridge. I was worred about battery life from a coin cell, but now I'm not anymore. I will get one of these in half-AA size and keep the thing powered for the next decade :)
Don't you think those people are cheap enough that they're probably not going to download your app at all if they can't refund it? Isn't that little bit of exposure better than nothing? Maybe if they end up really liking your app, they'll keep it. Can you know how many people who keep your app tried it in the first place because of the refund window?

I can understand your frustration from seeing a lot of refunded apps, but as a user, it can be frustrating to have to pay for every app that I try, without being able to really see if it's up to my standards or solves my problem. Which is why I much preferred the 24 hour window, esp. for apps that you can't really test drive well in 15 minutes.
Looks like a good book. I'm looking forward to going through it and seeing how it goes.
Speaking as an iOS developer who has switched to Android (because of client contract demand), Android lacks the Wow app. The app like the visual AR translation app (which despite its flaws). Or The Elements iPad app.

Android lacks exclusive, luxury-type apps. It, for lack of a better phrase, lacks snobs.

Snobs mean more for a market and the developers that pursue them, than sheer numbers.
I would be interesting to use multiple random parties to check each other. For example, have 3 independent nodes index the same site and verify that no one has tampered with the data.
It's possible that the problem was originally stated in such a way that there was no solution. Perhaps the original statement of the problem was that each name must be adjacent to every name in its cluster, and readable. But the cluster of 658 people at Cantor Fitzgerald probably makes that impossible - how do you have 658 names all readable and adjacent to each other (in two dimensions)?

Perhaps they really answered "as the problem is stated, it can't be done, without compromises."

Then again, I tend to give computer scientists and statisticians the benefit of the doubt (and not so much the writer).
I wonder where they got the device? In Wired's account, the FBI demanded back from a fellow who found one on his car:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device...
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Do you have any plans to monetise this ever, and/or might you ever release the source so people can run it locally themselves?

I have a small enough amount of content on my Jekyll site that I don't want a search function right now, but if I ever were to want one, the missing feature I would like is the ability to add pages not from an RSS feed, as in standard non-blog pages such as /index.html and /about.html (or whatever). Obviously I could work around by adding them into an RSS feed... but that's a tiny bit messy.

edit: Assuming I'm right in thinking that one of, if not the, most suited system for Tapir is Jekyll, you could perhaps mention it on the actual Tapir site so that search engines can pick it up. (Not that I'm in any way an SEO expert, but in my experience with niche areas like this, very little or no attention to SEO can still get you ranking highly for something like "jekyll search").
If this interests you, and/or if you need to properly handle these kind of things in your code, it's good to keep up with the ZoneInfo/TZ Database and the associated mailing lists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/tz-link.htm

Luckily for most people the ZoneInfo DB is part of the OS and gets updated with your system updates, but if you care about time in your app, you need to be aware of these.

Governments dictatorial and democratic alike love to screw with the engineers of the world by changing this stuff around all the damn time.
Are you only looking at "take a tour" pages?

I really enjoy concept video. For example the ones at soluto.com, dropbox.com and evernote.com really explain well "difficult to understand" concepts.
I suppose its as simple as their demands not being met. "We want it back." "Nope, I already took it apart and posted it to teh intarwebs." "Well then."
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The share price will drift downward for years (which happens to most IPO's)

Do you have data to support that? IPOs are highly volatile, but would surprise me if most IPOs drift downward for years.
So you're going to try and run V8 on a Series 40 class processor? This is just getting silly.
I think Internet is close.

The issue is definition of work.Stackoverflow is internet or work?
The issue that I have with the term 'dishonest minority' is that it isn't accurate in the groups that he is attempting to describe. I love his underlying concepts, but inclusion of all rule-breakers as 'dishonest' is problematic.

The issue isn't whether lying is wrong or right. The issue is whether breaking a man-made rule is always wrong or right. "Dishonest" is not as accurate as "insubordinate" when including all murderers who break the law in with someone who blocks traffic to protest civil rights injustice. They are both breaking the rules, but is the second person actually 'dishonest' or rather, non-compliant?

The overall issue is that it's pretty clear the term 'dishonest minority' was chosen for the shock value, not accuracy. In a technical book that seems so promising, using a carnival barker tactic to raise interest seems to belittle the underlying content.
Didn't see this before I posted my comment.

Don't you need to add the new shares being issued?
It really should be configurable by the developer - sometimes a week might make sense, sometimes no redemption might be appropriate.
The religious war between pirates and copyright will always continue.
Civil liberties, tracking and Moore's Law: Is this the end of privacy?
No, not impossible, just difficult. Because there are so many people being memorialized. I believe this is intentional.
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Hurray! Schengen for the internet. Because I just can't get enough of it as a tourist with an Indian passport.
"fascinating challenge" != "publishable"

It's possible that any academic asked might have concluded that there wasn't a general publishable result to be had from this work and therefore that it wasn't worth doing. Just because something is interesting doesn't necessarily mean it is of any interest from a research perspective.

[NB I left academic research in CS for pretty much these reasons - I like interesting stuff].
good luck with that. I'm back to contributing w debian after three consecutive releases of ubuntu breaking up keyboard shortcuts.

if I wanted to use imposed shortcuts I'd be using a mac or windows
A cloud? More like a black hole
Indeed. It's a good idea to even put a "if anything looks weird, exit(0)" in the app. You can easily get a system service into a state where you can't recover.
Thanks for the info, Bram.
I'll be sure to hit you up if/when I have any questions.
Not at first.

At first she was pissed at me for getting us into such a predicament so I left her to hang out in golden gate park while I went out to scrounge for food, money and a job.

Once I had proven to her that I'd eventually get us off the streets, she quickly bored of smoking weed on hippie hill and got a gig as a waitress at Lori's Diner which is how we got into the hotel.
They're not cheap, either. They cost us $25 EACH plus a $10 Hazmat shipping fee.
If the FBI didn't want anyone tampering with the unit, they would have potted it in heavy epoxy or welded the case shut. Maybe even put a light-sensitive thermal charge inside.

More likely they were worried about the screws vibrating themselves off while stuck to the underside of a car - thus the threadlocker glue everywhere.
Do you have any recommendations for something simple?
Ah, ok. I didn't see that you were the OP. Makes sense now.
The word "dishonest" comes with a baggage of connotations. Most people aren't going to read the book and they'll misunderstand the purpose.

To give an example : as much as I think that "The Selfish Gene" is an awesome title, I feel like I have to defend the choice of words whenever I recommend the book. It doesn't really convey the meaning correctly. It means the right thing if you've read the book; otherwise it's misleading.

That's what I think will happen with the term "dishonest minority".
I'm not sure I understand. The software center is just an example of one of the user-friendly features of Ubuntu. I could name a lot of others such as the Unity desktop, OSD, application and system indicators. Licenses applied to open software are usually one of a handful of well-known licenses such as GPL, Apache, MIT, etc. What do you mean "quite a lot of cost free software"? Cost-free as in "free as in beer"? If you want only GPL then there is the GNU operating system. I totally don't understand your 3rd point. An open-source repository is a walled garden? It's about as open as open can get.
> The (slightly) more interesting legal question might be whether AT&T could ask a prosecutor to bring criminal charges. My uninformed guess is they could, based on something like "theft of services." If I charged $20 a month for you to come fill up a one-gallon bucket any time you wanted from my well, and instead of a bucket you filled up a tanker truck, it would be theft plain and simple, because you'd knowingly be taking something from me without my permission.

What I don't understand is how they decide how much to charge for tethering, especially for the capped data plans. Presumably, whether you download 2GB of data straight to your phone vs. 2GB of data through your phone to your laptop doesn't affect their ability to provide network service, so why should they care? In that case, they're simply charging more because some people will pay it. I understand that, but it still rubs me the wrong way.
I did the teardown, and I'm a regular hacker news reader. I'll answer any questions for the next hour or so.
If the trackee removed this from his own car and attached it to some other car, would he be violating some law?