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Really? Tiny Adsense ads in the "instructions" area to fool us??
I know it's illegal in New York City, where I am. Not sure if it's a local law or not, but my guess is it's illegal in most places but rarely enforced.
No, but saying "hey, your girlfriend does this, my girlfriend does this, too! It's probably because they are both women!" is insulting if there is no reason whatsoever to believe that there really is something genetic behind the behaviour. I have seen the reverse of this too, when a friend visited and told me that I had a big LCD, just like her boyfriend, and that it was typical for males to buy large screens for their computers.
Sadly, every single TV news channel in India is loud, abrasive, grating on the senses and reach Fox News levels of jingoism.
Sorry, but your post shows complete ignorance of Germany's economy and economics in general. Germany's services make up 72%+ of its GDP, while manufacturing makes up 27%. Its services sector is growing, while its manufacturing sector is decreasing. That's a fact of every developed economy. A quick scan of Germany's Wikipedia entry and any other developed economy's will show you that.

Deregulation has happened across every economy -- aside from North Korea and Cuba -- since the 1980s (e.g. with telecom, airlines, utilities, etc). The result of deregulation has spawned record growth in emerging economies, as well as massive growth with the newly liberalized sectors in developed economies (e.g., transportation, energy, communications).

HN has a lot of smart people, but sometimes the lack of any economic wisdom combined with a holier-than-thou attitude among some posters can be a little depressing.
I agree, but I'm not asking for superhero rulers either. Even Medvedev with his limited powers has done tangible good to the country (I can see it most clearly from small business perspective). If Putin gets back to full power in 2012, Russia is pretty much doomed.

With such high oil prices Russia could survive for a long time, slowly rotting away just like Italy is described in the article. Although, since Russia has already much lower quality of life, and since bringing the president or even a member of parliament to court is completely unthinkable here, we would rot down much faster.
Here's another quote from the page:

"In particular, it does not require e-mailers to get permission before they send marketing messages"

Can you point to a single case where someone did what AirBNB did and got a conviction?

Also, violating craigslist TOS is debatable, pretending to be females is not on it's face immoral.
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"Racism" is a somewhat vague term for which I believe the current usage is primarily born out of the American civil rights movement. Europeans on the other hand have been comfortable with labeling various national characteristics for centuries -- various national characteristics that are undoubtedly true. These come in negative, positive, and contested categories. For instance, the British are known for their "stiff upper lip," Germans (traditionally, not contemporarily) for their warlike sentiment, etc.

In America we have the sense that these things are mutable, and this is partially true, but it is unreasonable to expect people to change overnight, and it is especially unreasonable to expect that some external force (e.g. purely economic forces) will produce the massive changes that might be perceived as necessary for a society to adapt to modernity as the Economist writers perceive as necessary and laudable.

In any case, I think it is unacceptable to focus only on the negative aspects of a people. "Blacks are, well, blacks" would generally be racist since virtually no one would use that in a positive sense. Italians often self-perceive that their resistance to the way things are done in a capitalist world is based on some inner nobility -- and although I generally disagree, I think there is still a grain of truth there. Besides, Italians are among the most openly racist peoples in Europe -- people from Northern Italy are even comfortable calling Southern Italy part of Africa (not meant in a positive sense!).
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I have a few early access codes to a network out of Singapore. They are called MyCube. Their big selling point is that you get the money from the ads on your page, not them.

To sign up:

1. Go to http://beta.mycube.com

2. Enter mctrevorg as the activation code

3. Fill out the form

4. Confirm in your email

5. You're now a super-early adopter!
"Before writing any production code, we'd write our unit tests."
With XCode? Somehow I have my doubts.
There is a clear difference between "go big or go home" and "pump it & dump it". I am astonished people don't seem to see the difference.
I like the concept but, can we replace a huge propeller with three or four inline and directionable small propellers for better stability?
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"If you don't have an iPhone, you don't have an iPhone", (neener, neener, neener).
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I haven't noticed my karma decreasing when I've been inactive, but then I tend not to be inactive for long periods of time.

By inactive, do you mean not visiting the site, not commenting, not voting on comments/articles, or some combination of those? I ask because it's possible that there's some combination of things which triggers it, if that is indeed what is happening.
When I went to the page, I thought that was Gary Bettman.
I would love to see a facebook account deletion phishing site where it lured users into entering their login credentials and clicking a few submits and deleting their account.
He mentions they're using Eclipse. The store is written with Java/WebObjects.
null not as an act, but as the absence of act :) (the analogy is lacking, I know).
Actually ou probably saw the very first Google ad on TV. It was a very cute ad for search. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU for the ad.
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@Cherian_Abraham,
So what's wrong with it? All those assets are accountable. Not stashed away in an anonymous bank in Switzerland.
I am more interested to know how much cut did ruling party president and prime minister got in 2G scam and Commonwealth Games scam.
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You can't delete your account on HN btw. You can get banned, but your posts and profile remain.
If you read Apple's motion, they are actually quite upfront about it:

"A determination that the Developers are not permitted to use Apple’s licensed products and services will significantly diminish the value of Apple’s license rights, impair its relationships with the Developers, and lead to loss of significant revenue from all developers. In fact, the mere allegation of the same significantly threatens to diminish Apple’s rights and those relationships. Moreover, Apple’s rights will not be adequately protected by the current defendants in this case, because Lodsys has chosen to assert these claims against Developers who are individuals or small entities with far fewer resources than Apple and who lack the technical information, ability, and incentive to adequately protect Apple’s rights under its license agreement."
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With that sentence construction, he must be a Perl programmer.
So you're saying that one of the spectacularly failed Windows powered tablets from yesteryear would succeed today, because the "timing is right"?

No. Those products were terrible, horrible, awful products, that's why they failed.

The timing for tablets is evidently perfect now, and yet not all tablets are succeeding in the market. Because they suck.
Completely separate market. Twilio is targeted at business applications--sending and receiving SMS via an API. It's not meant so you can text your friend, it's meant so you can enable SMS in your app. The pricing has fallen quite a bit, it was 3 cents per message when SMS functionality was introduced in Feb 2010.
Interesting idea. Maybe I'll try it. I fear, though, that it'll just end with me lying in bed for an extra twenty minutes every day, not wanting to get up and face the cold shower.

Some say that willpower is like a muscle, and that the more you use it the more you develop it. On the other hand, maybe willpower is more like... a muscle, and if you use it too much on any given day then it just gets worn out. Will a cold shower before breakfast be followed by donuts for lunch?
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Wouldn't be easier to have a more formal process for saving the source code? Like how real engineers maintain schematics and blueprints?

As an alternative, DARPA could prescribe that all the executables they commission come with embedded source.
Landing page (I have no Windows phone):

The price is in US$ only - you may want to consider adding other currencies, perhaps even with a GeoIP lookup.

Blatant typo in "full fearuted trial".

Phone image looks like it was scaled up from a lower resolution, better find a high-res image.

I find the image browsing controls (dots at the bottom) a bit awkward and non-obvious.

You may want to consider removing the AT&T and Samsung marks, that spells legal trouble if the wrong person looks at your page, especially since you're not acknowledging them.
I will take the man at his challenge, become a multi-trillionaire, and start building a domed city in the Gobi and a floating base in the North Atlantic.
So this is all well and good if you work with a team like this. But I have two questions:

(a) How do you find out, before going to work somewhere, whether they actually work like this? Are there questions you can ask? Word of mouth? ... ?

(b) If you don't work somewhere like this, how do you start putting professional processes in place? Assuming in particular that you have never actually worked somewhere like this, so you can't speak from experience, only from instinct about what seems to be a good way of working.
No need to shit on the guy.

TFA boils down to: "I was emailed a proprietary format for an application that doesn't exist on my platform. I was able to find and install a third-party utility to convert it to something usable."

An astonishing tale of Linux superiority it's not, but I wouldn't say they jumped through hoops or spent hours researching anything here.

> [..] we managed to do something that is
> absolutely trivial for everybody else [...]

Where everybody else means anyone with a copy of Microsoft Access. Take it for what it is: guy's excited that he was able to use free tools to perform a task 1) that he thought would be much harder, and 2) potentially faster than his colleagues with the official tool. So what his conclusion's a bit of a leap?
Surprisingly not: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Ques...

http://www.geeksofpune.in/drupal/files/8058778-ext34talk.pdf

ext2,3 used an indirect-block tree structure. Ext4 uses an extents system which is nicer, but still not (AFAIK, I've only skimmed this part) a B tree.
The problem with Windows home sharing isn't that it's hard to do. But that it's not a good idea. I don't want content to rely upon my laptop downstairs not being in hibernate.

The cloud or syncing are the way to share content. Not by sharing actual live content on laptops.
I agree. It appears that turn by turn navigation (via Bing Maps) is also coming in the Mango update and if so, it would be a really big differentiator (only Android has it thus far) for their platform. Not a peep during their event.

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John Gruber recently critiqued the Windows 8 preview video that was uploaded to youtube.

It looked like a high school project. I doubt Apple would ever preview their OS with such a poorly produced video.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
Good question - though I don't think it's a problem of broken process, but an absence of processes like you listed above. That's when these types of "solutions" are devised/used.
UPDATE:

We have been so far approached by four companies that do WordPress installs for a living. This sums it up: "I do wordpress web dev and it is annoying to setup so many sites over and over. This could be very helpful."

While I got some good feedback that we're going to act on, most of the comments were saying that hosts have built in things for this, so there isn't a need, or something similar. While for the most part these comments were there to help, some were not and they were missing the point... and we are aware of the other options for installing WordPress.

SetupBOT can be used for any web application that gets installed on servers, not just WordPress. WordPress was just an example, because it's free. I made a mistake with my choice in post title and perhaps missed out on some opportunity because of that.

As for WordPress, some people are manually installing it, which is why there is a manual install option on the WordPress site, and it's a pain. Also, companies specialize in installing WordPress bundled with themes and plugins, which SetupBOT can handle, and they are telling us that it is a pain for them too.

Thank you to the community for helping us connect with companies in that market. We'll investigate if that is the right option for us.

Of course, my ideal would be to sell to larger companies, like WordPress itself, or other companies that sell software that gets installed on servers, for instance support software Kyako.com.
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You essentially need to cram a lot of mass into a very small space, which is equivalent to cramming a lot of energy into a very small space.

So, theoretically, you can get a bunch of very, very large lasers, focus them all upon a very small point, and if you pump enough energy into the system you wind up with a black hole.
I think it's fair to say that "Objective assessments" don't have a high level of confidence either. Economies have their ups and downs, and Italy still has some very profitable sectors and a diversified economy. Hopefully Silvio will be out before disaster comes, and indeed the Italians have to correct course before they become the new Greece.
Sounds a lot like Kneipp's idea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneipp - was pretty popular in Germany when I grew up).

Having been forced to take a week of cold showers due to a malfunctioning heater I can't say it made me any stronger. It just made me feel pissed off and not properly clean.
I'd actually take a Shingle over VSS. At least a shingle can't crash and corrupt all your revision metadata.
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Shiny! I really like that, with how to round-robin load-balancing is structured, I could add some code to receive info for new servers as they spin up and just push the data to the end of the list. Makes for awesome scaling. :)
It's getting easier in Canada at least; an exchange just started up at http://www.cavirtex.com -- With email Interac transfers, you can get funds in and out within an hour or two.

The site's still in beta, though, but the devs hang out (and are responsive!) in the Canadian bitcoin irc channel, #bitcoin-cad on freenode.
The problem for Microsoft is that they continue to serve two masters: consumer users and corporate users. Corporate IT shops, especially within certain industries, can be exceptionally wary of anything that moves data outside their walls. Consumers are in general not nearly so picky. Corporations are MS's biggest customers and for years have had considerable influence on product direction. It's just not in Microsoft's DNA to ruffle the corporate customer feathers too much (whereas I get the sense Google and Apple almost take pleasure in it).

The biggest issue for MS isn't just that iCloud might be an embarrassment. It's a full on attack on the Windows monopoly. Apple telegraphed this in the WWDC presentation when they showed the stats on the numbers of people who don't own a personal computer (either Mac or Windows) in different countries around the world. The combination of iCloud + iPad means that the iPad can be a standalone device. This could potentially be huge in markets like China. How many SharePoint licenses does MS have to sell to make up for ceding a significant portion of the untapped Chinese PC market to the iPad?
Just what crept up my mind when I read the article. But then I realized: If American culture allows this kind of insight publicized, what boon that is to freedom of thought and freedom of expression!

All around us we see civilians cuffed and murdered for their opinions (for example, in countries with dictatorial regimes), but apparently this is not the 'status quo' in the USA.
Ideas are easy. Execution, not so much.
Two years ago, I created a balloon distribution business that was earning me upwards of $300 per day every day, but last November, I got into a terrible accident that has disabled me temporarily and I have not been able to do the work. I tried outsourcing and franchising but that was simply not working out.

Being bed-ridden, I had my laptop and the Internet to keep me from losing my sanity. So I began thinking of business ideas that I could do from my computer to help me earn some money and keep me busy.

Coming up with the ideas was easy and soon I had a list that included:

- Buying and selling items on Craigslist
- Opening up an online bookstore
- Starting a "Lunch Time Specials" website
- Teaching

And finally,

- Writing an eBook about my balloon business and selling it on the Internet.

Now, under normal circumstances, I would have never thought about selling an idea that was making me so much money but the situation I was in was anything but normal.

So I decided to write an 18 page report detailing everything I knew about the balloon distribution business. I had someone setup a nice website that was linked to my paypal account and I placed ads on Google, Yahoo, and Facebook to attract customers. I spent $100 to advertise on each site and after my $300 was used up, I had received only 11 orders. Not only that but Google suspended my account for violating their terms of service.

Since then, I have tried various free marketing methods and done much better than paid advertisement but I feel like the amount of time I spend marketing the business simply does not justify the returns.

So I guess the point I am trying to make is that even a six figure a year idea is worthless if you cannot execute it properly.

Thanks
-Samir
He does say: "Perfect hash tables always win, hands down."

A perfect hash table does have O(1) look-ups in the worst case.
Of course, the country has to be free from any corporation control. It has to be not that interesting in term of ressources.

Of all the small countries, this leaves, well, ahem... Iceland.
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If something in PHP triggers an error, there is very little to recover from. It's either a developer error or an unrecoverable problem (a file expected to exist was not found, network is down, etc). In any of my projects, I've never needed to recover from PHP ErrorException.
That's a little to generic. You can still be sued for infringing on a patent in your software and Apple won't care at all. The reason Apple cares here is that developers are being sued for using Apple's APIs and developers have no choice but to use those.

If Apple doesn't succeed in the courtroom, I can't imagine them having any choice but to lay down a significant amount of money to either get a license that covers the app developers or to buy Lodsys outright.
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You can always reply to a comment by clicking "link" above the comment, then replying. (At least, that works for me when I don't see a "reply" link below a comment.)
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> attitude that seems to imply that if you cannot code the requested changes yourself, don't even bother asking.

I think that's fair actually. The internals list is not for wish-lists; if it was it would be flooded and no useful work could be done there. The problem is that there are coded patches for some of these features (like short array syntax) but they're still not being included.
While I like the look of the customized QR Codes, they make it harder for the scanners to read them. A lot harder. Most of the ones I've seen couldn't be read at all. The one pictured there, I had to get it perfectly lined up and filling the screen before my phone read it.

On the other hand, I generate normal QR Codes to scan all the time and I can hold my phone off-center and far away and they scan instantly.

Is the extra prettiness really worth the extra hassle for the (potential) customer?

Edit: After reading the comment by hamiltonchan, I decided to try scanning the link again. It appears that from some angles, my phone WILL scan it instantly. There's just 1 angle that makes it tough for some reason. (From down and to the right.) I just happened to hit that angle first. I tried quite a few more times and that's the only angle that lags, and it has never been as hard as the the first time again.
I would be that guy who says "Who on a non-Mac platform would bother using this?" but then six months down the line we'll find out that Apple has some secret plan to port it and appeal to Windows-using iPhone/iPad owners and boy my face would be red.
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What aspects of psychology does Stack Overflow take advantage of?
Jason Shen said that voluntarily taking cold showers increased his discipline. Can you imagine a different experience if you chose cold showers instead of being forced to take them?

I don't feel like I've properly had a shower unless the shower has raised my core temperature, but I'm going to give this a try. The easiest life hacks are ones that don't require a time commitment and only minor changes in routine.
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It seems like exports of lucrative sectors are still strong in Italy. Of course, as in most europe, taxation is heavy. The main factor hindering growth seems to be high wages.
For me it goes like this:

-I don't like the fact that my services are so scattered out among different companies.

-I start moving stuff to 1 service.

-I get intensely excited about the integration.

-I get paranoid about Mogul Company X having all my data.

-I move parts of it away.

-Repeat.

[slight exaggeration]
Personally, I'm a fan of exactly one way to do one thing.
How much of Microsoft's difficulty integrating things into Windows is a result of the anti-trust lawsuit they went through?...Or do people think it was long enough ago that the culture has moved on?

There are some things where this is almost certainly the case, like antivirus. For some other things, some of it has to do with selling an OS and not the whole package.

But I do think the cloud is one area where they'd love to have tighter integration -- but will DropBox, Amazon, and Google protest if they do? That's something that Apple doesn't have to worry about at all -- they can tell these other companies to shove it -- we don't have a monopoly.

Update: And we see the next step of their integration with XBox Live built into Windows -- http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-reveals-xbox-live-will-be...
I agree. He should remove the picture of that Darth Vader token immediately, it's clearly a very important Apple trade secret.