skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That's not Google doing 'everything it can to hamstring' — That's Motorola shipping a product based on an OS that's obviously not ready. Motorola's fault."

Google controls Android 3.0 completely. They very intentionally did not make a source release. Google entered the relationship with Motorola and it damn well had control over who was going to ship a 3.0 device. They knew what they were doing. They HAD to beat the iPad 2 release date at all costs.

So now all we have is a buggy as hell 3.0 OS with no source release and we're still waiting for them to fix stuff. I hope the early release to beat the iPad furthered some other business goal because it didn't further Android as a great Tablet OS.

The flaws I've seen in the device are clear OS and Software issues. So unless your point of view is that it's up to other people to fix Google's fuckups... eh...
"A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." H.Kravis
Ah, well, that makes a big difference. I've read people joking about it online by comparing it to West Point, but what you're describing sounds a lot more like Langley or Quantico.
So how long until we see legislation that a) makes open AP owners liable / accomplices in crimes committed on open APs b) requires open APs authenticate and log all user activity c) outright bans open APs?
I love Scott and this is great. The title is incorrect though - Scott is only running one part of Windows Azure ( the linked article makes it clearer)
It is things like this, why I love capitalism.

Not getting into a political debate, but which other economic system known to man, could allow a system to be created that is more efficient than better capitalized rivals (read FedEx, UPS, DHL) and all packages delivered by people that are illiterate.

I think it is easy to underestimate the logistical challenges of delivering food to 175,000 people all over a city when you have never tried it.

As someone that has worked with a friend try to coordinate lunch orders for just 100 - 200 clients (including buying enough ingredients so there isn't waste, to collecting all orders in time, to delivering lunches on time), let me assure this is no easy feat.

The most ironic thing though is that I think that if you were to plot a graph between the number of customers you have and how easy it is, I think you would see that it initially starts a in dip (i.e. delivering and serving lunch for 1 - 10 people is relatively easy, but as you go up to say 500 people complexity blows up and efficiency - on every scale - plummets) and then after you reach some local maxima (when you are able to afford more people and better systems from the revenues) efficiency starts to pick up again and the graph goes up and to the right.

God bless the free market - wherever it is!
Here is the installation document for Honeycomb. http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-...
It clearly talks about using the Xoom for testing purposes. So, Google released Honeycomb as a finished product, used Xoom as the reference device and you are telling us that somehow Motorola shipped a product while google was looking the other way. The software is clearly a huge part of the problem (blocke mentioned some). Things which were working fine in Froyo/Gingerbread suddenly did not work on Honeycomb anymore - Flash not working until a month after release, the entire back/home/menu interface was broken. Market place not working, no apps optimized for tablet, no SD card support etc. etc.

To their credit Google recognized they messed up and are exerting more control but there is no question they share a lot of the blame on the software side here.

Motorola on the other hand messed up with pricing and the late introduction of the wifi only model but I suppose they felt confident after a good showing in CES and good reveiws.
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There is a wifi only model but that was introduced towards the end of the quarter. Agreed on the extremely expensive wifi/3G model.
Wayland can be network-transparent (eventually), so that's not relevant.

In general, I don't see any connection between Wayland and DRM.
Thinking about next steps after the Amazon outage
Re: expensive products. Micros charges about $3000 for a terminal, we're charging $1500 for the first one ($999 for our app + $500 iPad) and $500 (per iPad) apiece after. Not to mention the iPod is really just as good for servers taking orders.

Big features? Price, wireless connectivity, commodity hardware. I can't lie and pretend we're as rock solid as Micros, and I'd like to charge a fair price. $999 is low in my opinion, but not that low.

Thank you for your feedback!
Excellent post.

Before we had our children, I imagined purchasing meta-insurance -- insurance that my children would be insurable.

I've thought that should exist as well. It's similar to the concept of "health status insurance": http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9986. Both ideas are fundamentally about restoring the actual meaning of the word "insurance", to provide protection against expensive and unlikely outcomes, not to cover minor and foreseeable expenses.
Having grown up in Asia before moving to the West, I've always wondered why we accept such shoddy excuses for lunch around here. You've got limp, cold sandwiches, or reheated leftovers in tupperwares.

Or you spend a pretty dime on some nice, real food by eating out.

Where I grew up, lunchboxes are small, but elaborate - food is neatly compartmentalized like in the article, and just about every place has a steamer to heat it up without the use of microwaves (aka the dessicator).
True but if your MAC just happened to match a MAC the litigating attorney had on file due to the exploits which ChuckMcM is referring, it would be much more difficult to claim innocence as you can do with a shared IP.

MAC spoofing would only be relevant if you were regularly using random spoofed MACs on your own network.
I've been having a ton of issues with Apple myself. I've had account issues where I keep getting denied access to many downloads in the dev center despite having paid the $99.

Their support has been atrocious, it generally takes 2-3 weeks for a response. When I do get a response they ask for a screenshot despite the fact I've given them the error message verbatim, with error code.

I had to buy x-code4 through the app store because this issue is going on 3 months- still waiting on a refund.

This isn't meant to be an apple bashing post. I'm pissed about these issues, but I don't think it's because Apple doesn't care. I think it's because they are trying to cope with enormous amounts of support tickets and are probably having trouble hiring qualified people to address them. I'm guessing that Google is experiencing a similar problem x10. There's a market demand to get these products out asap, but the infrastructure just isn't ready yet.
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Yup. I've actually used this, to work around certain cable modems that only allow the mac address they were set up from.
As an entrepreneur reading your post, I couldn't sympathize more with your situation. Startups are hard, startups are not for everyone and as Arrington would say, you are not a pirate until you start a company.

However, I would change your attitude a little bit. In your post you seem to focus on your sacrifices and being jealous of other successes. Well, when I see that Color and other startups raise a ton of money, I get SUPER excited! Why? Because if they can do it, I can do it too!
As far as sacrifices go, realize that you are still better than 90% of the entire world. Being grateful for things that we have is a force multiplier. I am grateful for what I have and having the opportunity to build a company in Silicon Valley is a life long dream come true. Dreams are bigger than sacrifices. If you believe in yourself, you believe in your product, your customers will believe in you and your investors will too.

Good luck. And enjoy the journey, in the end life is just a game (whether you are a doctor, investment banker or entrepreneur, we all have finite amount of time on this planet).
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I think there's a large difference between prohibiting the disclosure of information, and requiring it.
The LRSTAR binaries are up now with sample projects at http://HighperWare.com
The quality of WebP is interesting. After reviewing the sample images (http://code.google.com/speed/webp/gallery.html) provided by Google I prefer some of the images in WebP and some in jpeg.
Does anyone else think it's ironic that a company called "Design Within Reach" sells tiffins for $85, which even in America could be had for $20. (And in India, perhaps $10-15)
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You're absolutely correct – unfortunately, living in Buffalo means there's a dearth of local talent and bootstrapping means we really don't have the means.

To be honest I took out more custom UI than ended up making it in because the people we tested with who were new to iOS really took quickly to the standard components and had a harder time with custom stuff. That being said, I'm hardly a real designer, so there's a distinct possibility my custom UI was just, well, not too good. :P

Thanks for your feedback. I'm familiar with your work and you saying this automatically means I'm probably going to dedicate the next week or so combing over my UI and trying to make it better.
Yes, but motorola doesn't own any retail stores unlike Apple. So they don't have visibility into sales until a couple of months. Unless you are looking at a very high return rate, it is a good proxy for sales.
23andMe already does this: https://www.23andme.com/ancestry/relfinder/. Quite well, actually.
Sony explains the difference between Encryption and Hashing
If Xoom had shipped six months earlier, it could have been a killer product. Sure, the OS would have been beta quality at best, but the hardware was killer compared to iPad 1.

However, compared to iPad 2, it has no significant hardware advantage. Maybe the screen aspect ratio for some people. It has no price advantage. The OS is still beta quality. For all but the small number of people who want a tablet without the restrictions of the Apple Store and who aren't willing to jailbreak an iPad 2, there is simply no reason to buy a Xoom.

Unless Motorola are idiots, they HAD to have predicted that there would be an iPad 2 and that it would be announced about a year after iPad 1. So unless the plan was for the Xoom to come out long before that and the schedule slipped, I don't understand what their plan was.
Thanks for the link. I had never actually read about this and did not know that the term "health status insurance" had been coined. It is depressing that so many regard US healthcare as a market failure when the reality is that regulation has done so much to hurt people.
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I find your point about the information asymmetry between insurance companies and consumers extremely insightful. Here is another possible consequence.

Insurers might choose to protect themselves from this asymmetry by only offering very general medical insurance. Rather than insurance for specific conditions, such as cancer or nursing homes or anything that one might find out that one had a predisposition for, they would only offer insurance for "lack of health", or some similarly-broad language.

If they did that, lots of people would buy that insurance, because everyone has a legitimate risk of being unhealthy at some time, so you wouldn't get the situation where people with a genetic predisposition for a disease made up a disproportionate number of the people buying insurance for that disease.

That would also have great effects on the availability of good health insurance, because then insurers would have an incentive to cover a large number of conditions. (I know that this would probably not give large number of people good insurance. The insurance industry just sucks.)
>By way of a similar example, most people think Daring Fireball is biased. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with Gruber's investments, just his passion. Some people avoid his writing because of his bias, some embrace it, and some--like me--try to include it in a portfolio of things I read.

The difference between TechCrunch and Daring Fireball is that Gruber presents Daring Fireball as his personal blog. It's not presented as a news source. Gruber is more of a pundit than a journalist, and he wears his biases on his sleeves, showing them to everyone. He's using the soapbox that DF gives him to push his views.

TC, on the other hand, is presenting itself as a news site. The people on it, unless they are offering commentary, are supposed to be Journalists. Their reporting should strive to not be biased, which includes reporting any potential conflicts of interest(i.e. investing) in a company within the coverage of the company. A reader should think that the coverage on the site is noteworthy because it is news, and should not have to question the author's intentions or reasons for featuring it.

Otherwise, it's just advertisement at best. At worst, it's just self enrichment by the author. I should note that I'm fine with with this, if the site presents themselves as such. If you're going to be biased, announce it to the universe. Don't hide behind being a "journalist" as your reason for not disclosing anything.
I can't even imagine what combination of misconceptions about net neutrality and personal genomics led you to make such a comparison.

Strong words - try just asking and I'll answer :). Here is where the comparison comes from.. The same way that net neutrality aims to prevent carriers from promoting one hosts content over another, this decision aims to potentially prevent advising on drug response from one pharma company vs. another. Not that this is already happening, but policies should be as forward looking as possible.

The proposed regulations would require you to get the permission of a doctor (or other clinician) before you can have your DNA sequenced, and the data would be available only through the doctor.

Did you read my original parent post ? if not read it now - the last paragraph. I am not in favor of the govt having a doctor grant permission, but for FDA to make a universally trusted mutation screen through which all DTC companies operate. FDA makes not money, no monopoly and DTC companies have a way to get new findings added to the mutation screen through proper channels (published papers)
You're right, we probably need to reshoot the video (it was made under rushed conditions with a version that didn't end up being our final apps, thanks to the vagaries of the App Review process), and I also want to shoot ones that delve into specifics.

I'm scared to shoot one showing "action", considering how hard it was just to get the first one done, but we'll have to see what we can do efficiently that looks nice. It's key, I think, because really by far the magical part of the product is how easily devices running Ambur can link together and share data easily.

Thanks a lot for your feedback, it's truly appreciated and taken under careful consideration.
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This is incorrect info, the actual compound is here:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/video-inside-bin-lad...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&#...
That's exactly what this could be the precedent to prevent. The mistaken pornographer case showed that an IP is not necessarily evidence enough for a warrant, esp. a no-knock warrant. It will quite possibly lead to requiring more evidence than just an IP in the future.
I'm guessing Motorola had the hardware ready, they've got an investment hanging over it which they need to recoup some of, and perhaps Google offered to cover some of their costs. Who knows.

Motorola also got some good exposure and definitely some experience in channels that will be critical in the future.
Only about 5 years late.

"Altavista name means 'high view' and, has been launched on internet in 1995 at Digital Equipment Corporation Research lab in Palo Alto, California."

Five years later, who's moving into the top slot for search?
Array is an appropriate datastructure for this algorithm. String is not.

var dest = 'apple'.split('');
var j = dest.length;
var start = new Date();
while (j < 100000) {
var offs = j - 5;
for (var i = offs; i < offs + 10; ++i)
dest[j++] = dest[i];
}
dest = dest.join('');

=> 7-10ms in the latest Chrome.
Which images in particular are you referring to? I can't spot any difference between most of them.
My submission:

Given that our genetic code, in DNA, is in every cell of our bodies and is spread all over everywhere we go and everything we touch, it is nearly public information.

Any attempt to limit my own access to my own code, or to prevent me performing an independent analysis of my own code (the recipe of me!) should be carefully considered. This DNA info will completely revolutionize medicine. You must protect the future: make it easy for a person to access their own DNA!

I understand that there may be fears that malicious or erroneous analyses will be performed by quacks and snake-oil-salesmen, and that individual people will be better served by accurate information.

The software industry, however, has demonstrated repeatedly that the most qualified and competent work is often done by those without a multi-billion-dollar empire. The startup, like Microsoft, Apple, or Google each was once, should NOT be too restrained. And the academic or hobby project, like Linux, should not be prohibited: such "amateurs" have shown repeatedly that they can collaboratively deliver superb quality.

Accurate information about our DNA will be important enough that the public WILL educate itself. We should encourage competition amongst those who want to build the future! Do not limit access to DNA!
Fascinating article and videos. Thanks for sharing.

Chaotic yet organized systems like this fascinate me.
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"Almost no one uses it including .Net developers"

Sources? I know of 3 startups (mine included) which visit HN that are based on Azure. I am also familiar with many other larger companies which are using Azure.

This seems to be the only sort of public exposure on companies using Azure. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/evidence/

The perception that the platform isn't being used is usually because those companies don't care to advertise their infrastructures. They sort of have more important things to do than write a blog entry on how much they love Azure.
As a programmer it's easier to insert a bug with floats than with integers, because IEEE 754 has various subtle stumbling blocks.

For example, remember to think about NaN and that x != x, if x is NaN. And did you know, that there are actually two kinds of NaN? Or did you know, that 1.0/0.0 == +infinity?
Not all search warrants are no-knock warrants.
Does anyone know what exactly the price difference would be if companies actually bothered to build in the US instead of China? I know it would depend on what was being produced, but what is the real savings of making shoes and clothes abroad? American Apparel pays at least $10-12 per hour (not great, but better than pennies) and there are certainly many Americans who were making that and were laid off.

They won't be founding startups, but I'm sure many would love to learn the skills to work in a factory if it was even an option here anymore.

What do companies save by outsourcing to countries where they don't pay taxes, health care, benefits, vacation, and price per hour is dirt cheap? I heard 20% somewhere a while back. If an iPad cost 20% more would it still sell? Or a pair of Nike shoes? While it has been victim of some about of fraud, Product(RED) got people to pay a bit extra for something they would have bought anyway knowing that money was going to a good cause.

The middle class is under attack, but the bottom is really struggling and things are only going to get worse. Some people depend on being a cashier. If we can stabilize the bottom workers we can rebuild from there.
If you say so.

I also stayed at a place on the beach in Montezuma, have you been there? That place was $1.50 a night. I wouldn't call it nice, but many of the people going there aren't looking for fancy digs at night.

> a good deal for 10 days for the house in the pictures

20 people x $500 is $10,000 for 10 days (9 nights?), or $1000 a day for the place. That's pretty expensive for CR, I can't say I've even heard of any place that charges that much. Of course there is the housekeeping and meals as well.

Does this place have 20 private bedrooms or is there room sharing for the $500.
At the moment, it looks like the trend is towards fragmentation in mobile platforms. A lot of companies are jumping on the mobile bandwagon, and they're not all adopting Android. I don't know if this trend will continue, but even with the current level of fragmentation, developing web apps seems very attractive.

Already, developing the same app for the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and Android tablets is an expensive prospect. Appcelerator helps, but it's not a perfect solution, in part because it doesn't and probably never will support every platform.

With HTML/CSS/JS, on the other hand, you get cross-platform compatibility for free. "But," you say, "not all mobile devices have good support for web technologies!" This is true, but I think we can expect that to change. Support for the web should constantly improve across all platforms over time.

Since I prefer to invest in the technological long-run, I'll put my money on web apps except when native-only features are required. That way, instead of trying to port my app to an ever-increasing number of platforms, an ever-increasing number of platforms will--of their own accord--come to support my app.
UI fail - slow.
I used the Java decNumber class (linked off Mike's web site) and the Java 2D API. Once the 3D API came out it seemed like the visualization code at least should use that. Converting to/from decimals to floats was unnecessarily painful at the time.
Huh, fascinating, my involvement in the restaurant business has been limited to mostly waiting and somewhat being aware of what was going on in the back end with processors, but I've only worked at one restaurant so my experience was limited. I had no idea they were gouging that much, we're actually looking into using iDynamo ( http://www.magtek.com/v2/products/secure-card-reader-authent... ) in our app, which would make it dirt easy to just pick the best payment processor and run with it. I'll have to drop you a line when we're done with that, probably in the next four weeks.

Thanks for your feedback, and the information about publications, it's been hard for me to figure out what publications exist and which ones exactly matter.
Good luck to you guys! I've known Paul a couple years and even helped him catch some bugs in Skribit back in the day. The article was very interesting as a friend and I are just starting to design and develop on an app idea that started out--like many do-- as a very small humble idea but with a lot of dreaming has evolved into an interesting solution. Good luck on Notifo, and with any luck maybe we'll cross paths somewhere.
Congrats to the Duostack guys! I was lucky enough to co-work with them while they were in Pittsburgh working on their previous startup (we were both in the Alphalab incubator). They have a lot of experience and I know will be very successful with this venture.
They're different verbs with different implications, I think Forbes is being pretty clear. Xoom may have shipped 250,000, but only 125k were actually sold. The other half are sitting on the shelves somewhere, which means inventory is high--a bad sign, which usually leads to price-cuts to clear space.
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