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It's not about me being happy, but no, I'd rather have an answer to my question. Adding a (perceived) tone of desperation doesn't do it either, unless you mean to editorialize the title.

What's wrong with »Google Issue asking for an API for Scholar«?
Only so long as the market doesn't crash.
I believe you can cash out faster than that, if you go through an identity verification procedure, but I don't know the details. Send the MtGox administrators an inquiry.

You are now at the point of having no need to work, ever again, as long as you don't squander your wealth. Your first priority is to enjoy life - do whatever you enjoy most, without regard for whether it pays. If you'd rather have your current job than have an equal amount of free time, keep it. On the other hand, you can fit a lot of hobbies and socializing into the time a day job would have taken. Whatever you do, don't sit idle, that's less fun than you'd think.

You can probably find a way to found a startup in spite of your visa status; talk to a lawyer, you can afford it. Depending on what skills you have, there are a lot of nonprofits that would love to have you - and one great thing about volunteering is that, unlike working for money, it doesn't have to come with obligations or time commitments if you don't want them. Visiting the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (singinst.org) would probably be a great use of your time.
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I was meant to be demanding, stressing that it's been requested by 230 people over 3 years. I m sorry if you find it harsh
I fully appreciate this, and the 3 applications u have listed are the same as the one's I currently have open.

I stay with Linux as my laptop is fully supported (i.e all devices work seamlessly across almost every distribution I've tried) and I generally find it faster and I guess I also like the lack of a price tag I as a student experience with Linux.
Ask HN: Please review my app 'Earthquakes Monitor' for Windows Phone
Ask HN: Please review my app 'Earthquakes Monitor' for Windows Phone

Hi ,
I am a long time reader of HackerNews and this is my fist time posting a Ask HN!
Earthquakes Monitor is a Windows Phone app that is designed to provide quakes information in near real time by using Toast Notifications & Live Tiles.

App landing page : http://plusapps.eu/Earthquakes-Monitor.html

Any feedback on the application and the landing page would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
George.
I share your skepticism. You see, I have been thinking a lot a bout democracy, decentralization and recent Iceland politics.

My conclusion is that the smaller you go, the more democratic olitics are. Period.

I share my criticism of the political globalisation, just to be laughed of afterward, but I still believe that the smaller, the most democratic, as is explified in a great way by Iceland.
It's still really, really hard to obtain bitcoins.

I'd drop at least one "really"; you just need a decent AMD GPU. The relatively wimpy one in my iMac can generate 0.1 BTC/day, which at current exchange rates is a few dollars. It would be easy to do 5x better than that with a PC tower, without going nuts with a dedicated mining rig.
Everything I really want in the cloud, I have in the cloud - music (Rdio), podcasts (Instacast), books (Kindle), text files (Dropbox/apps). I am hopeful that Apple can simplify cloud services for appmakers. I've found many of the Dropbox syncing apps (ie text editors) fairly wonky - requiring an explicit sync confirmation or mostly just allowing me to push a file to a Dropbox. I hope that they enable/encourage a more seamless "autosave" experience to be standard.
95% of the time if I put a location in my message it's most likely a location that I and the receiver are familiar with, so such a standardized name is not too desirable.
But of course it's just me.
I can definitely see, a lot of couples using that all the time (beware cheating girlfriends!).

Does it work backwards? So that if somebody uses it too and sends me a message using that can I look up the place on the map? That would be a big plus.

But yea, now that I thought of it. In very big cities where people move around a lot in a fairly constrained area that is very nice. If you can add more features and market that better I can see some people using it. Not quiet revolutionary, but nice.
Of course provided that this landmark database is really really, really good.
Even the most incompetent bureaucrat doesn't actively want to do a bad job. And I'm pretty sure that it doesn't say "we exist to provide jobs, with healthcare as a side effect" anywhere in the NHS charter.

Gov't IT projects suck because the RFP process is the most waterfall thing in existence, meaning the project is doomed from the start. And it goes downhill from there, with absurd amounts of politics and turf-protecting on all sides.
It doesn't surprise me that this is the first occasion you've heard about it :)

But all of the complexity is hidden. The API is standardised, so management apps and other services will always work, irrespective of who your domain registrar/TelHosting provider is.

I'm sure the majority of registrants have no idea they're publishing DNS records, or even what DNS is - and they don't need to know. The best technologies are the ones you don't necessarily see.

Non-technical people see a very simple and cost-effective way of establishing a simple online presence. For $10-$20 it's all-in - there's no web hosting or any technical expertise required. Small businesses love this. As such GoDaddy doesn't carry .tel, because it can't up-sell any of its other big-margin crap. But lots of YP publishers around the world are becoming .tel resellers :-)

I see it as a hugely disruptive technology with a good chance of success, but it seems more appealing to non-geeks than it does geeks at the moment. Once it gains popularity then geeks will start to catch on and realise all the cool stuff that's suddenly possible.
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> whenever I'm searching for something on Android's Marketplace, I tend to look at paid apps first whenever I have a specific need and know what I want, even though I'm a cheap bastard.

I do the same in the Apple App Store. I rarely ever browse through free apps.

Prior to the App Store, I also very rarely bought any software. Since iPhones and iPads and all that stuff came out, I'm buying a good 1-3 apps per month on average, every single month. I'm kind of amazed at that.
I was quite surprised to find that the NHS uses password-less logins for its "Flexible Worker Portal":

https://erecruitment.nhsponline.nhs.uk/Portal/LoginForm.aspx

So all you need is the DoB, email address and postcode of someone, and you can view their private information. Genius.
BTCbuy also does newegg cards too: http://www.btcbuy.info
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How long does it take the data to reach us?
This seems to be the problem with relying solely on the private sector space exploration. With shuttles there is opportunity for revenue, with revenue come investors, with investors we can make progress. However, where is the revenue opportunity from either of these probes? Without a body that can be truly altruistic about projects and the benefit they'll provide, certain projects may never have/or my never again, become a reality.

This kind of news makes me truly excited about the future. We have concrete knowledge about so little in this universe, the future is ripe with possibility if we can just show a little foresight.
In that case, why not ban any candidates who had a beer in the last two weeks as well? I wouldn't want someone to turn up drunk at work either.
You heard well: South Corea 16.6 Mbit/s, USA 4.6 Mbit/s.

Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/11/12/real-connection-speeds-f... - Raw data source: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
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This works in many markets. Look at clothing labels for instance. Take a fairly plain shirt or something, put a tiny logo on it, double the price. It works.

My personal example is that I have several music recordings downloadable for free from my website. No one ever listens to them as far as I know. At least I've never randomly received feedback from my music website. I got a record label to carry a track once, sold as MP3 for a low price, and all of a sudden the track hits some top-10s, etc. People pay more attention when you attach a price tag.

In all honesty, I actually think this would be a good approach for open-source software funding: open the source, but package it up nicely and sell binaries. I suspect that people would buy, even if someone else comes along with their own binary; include a trademark clause perhaps to stop them from naming it the same thing.
I'm not sure how a data point this specific is then interesting for this subject. Three people, having been born as Danish citizens, went on to become original creators of three most popular languages today, two of whom did so in generally fairly uncapitalistic environments, now live in the U.S. This is not a small problem for Europe.
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An anonymous anecdote about an anonymous product is the best HN can offer today?
So, did the guy investigate why the sales went up? (other than a vague "people think it's higher quality"... my hunger is not quite satisfied by that)
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I think people are picking and choosing what time perspective to use (not necessarily you, but I've heard this sort of thing before).

We can look at job situations 5 years ago and say they were unnecessary, although at the time it wasn't judged to be.

Then we look at now and say the unemployed currently are dead weight. If we weren't good judges of the situation 5 years ago, why are we any better (collectively) now?
Article based on http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/06/apple-enters-fray-ag... already submitted by Florian as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640134
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I think there's more at play here than just the old 'higher price = higher quality' thing.

When I see '$9.99' I think 'bargain bin software'. That's because every computer retailer has an entire rack of really crappy software and each one of them is $9.99.

Oddly enough, $10 doesn't have the same stigma. It's probably the lack of marketing BS.

Also, people expect a product to be priced according to value. If it's underpriced, they're going to assume it's less useful than they require and may not even waste time on a trial.
The man who screwed an entire country
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Have a link or reference?
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Hallo telenovela movie fans the opportunity this time I will discuss events in the film of soap opera titled La Reina del sur capitulo 66 as previous episodes of the conflict that is very unfortunate if you miss.
Momentum is conserved in the system (total momentum of probe and planet is always the same). Momentum = mass x velocity, so yes, the planet will slow down, but it's a ridiculously small amount. Think of shooting airgun pellets at a tank barelling down on you to slow it down, but even less effective.
OK, now that we're already discussing this topic. I just read this quote from Wikipedia:

"""If one accumulates matter at nuclear density (the density of the nucleus of an atom, about 1018 kg/m3; neutron stars also reach this density), such an accumulation would fall within its own Schwarzschild radius at about 3 solar masses and thus would be a stellar black hole."""

I take that to mean that if I wanted to create a black hole of something with less mass than 3 suns, I would have to compress it beyond the density of an atom nucleus? Is this - even in theory - possible to do? Wouldn't you need some kind of "magic wand" (to stick with the articles authors choice of words?)
It might not even be true.
After having SICP as my first programming course it always bothered me that Python was so limiting when it came to stack recursion. In the case presented in this article tail recursion was clearly a powerful tool for maintaining abstraction barriers; I'm curious, how do people handle cases like that in Python?
The news (especially the headlines) are somewhat is misleading on this story. The constitution if Iceland is not being "user generated". It is being written by a council of elected representatives.

The process is broadcast and updated realtime online and there there is a discussion/comments system where the council members are active. But this isn't "crowd-sourcing" in the way Wikipedia is.
Hmmm. Although increasing the price in his view increased the perceived quality of the products and sales in the consumers eyers, I'm wondering whether the pretty common tactic of showing a higher price and OTO'ing at his lower price would result in a a larger revenue? Like writing the price is 19.99 but for this week only you can get it for 9.99.
They strongly emphasize that "usually" you cannot focus on price and quality at the same time, in business school. When analyzing different aspects of a business, you usually sacrifice one for the other. Not positioning your product to be the cheapest alternative is also emphasized, because to the majority of people, it does give the illusion of a subpar product.

The actual price doesn't matter - it's all about how it's positioned relative to your competitors. Very smart companies will price low with a completely different pricing model, that makes customers feel like they're getting a better price, not because it's cheap, but because of the unique way their own business is structured.
I realized this morning that Jimmy should have stopped at the first little endian.
If so, that would go against Facebook's web-first mantra, not having an iPad app and all. I'm not sure why they would skip and build a Mac app, and I'm not sure why they would build a Mac app instead of a Windows app. Hopefully they're doing an HTML5 desktop app. Facebook in canvas or Facebook in raphaeljs would be killer.
the word cloud appears 43 times on that page ... Larry Ellisons rant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOEFXaWHpp) is more apt then ever.
I tell ya, my programming language don't get no respect at all.
I was telling my coworker about the library I was writing in my 10% time,
and he asked if it was used for steering a turtle! No respect at all...

Our meetups don't get a lot of traffic either. Last time only one guy
showed up, and he was in the wrong room! Turned out he was looking
for the cooler, more hip meetup across the hall-- it was for Ada! No
respect at all...

I told my boss he should give me a raise, that developers for my
language were in big demand. He said from who, Fischer-Price?

I tell him no, that Facebook was looking for guys like me, and he said
that would only be happening if they're looking for a guy to rewrite
existing code into a language used more widely and was more corporate
friendly-- like EmacsLisp!
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/apple-kindle-netflix-in-app...
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Yes, because I'm not an Obama fan, and the last thing I want to do is help him get elected. It's not that I want to go out of my way to cause trouble, but I do have my preferences.

It just doesn't feel right to me, and I can easily find a replacement.
Speed of light, baby! IIRC, on the order of 4 hours from Pluto. 16 hours (one-way) out to Voyager 1 where it is now.
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Seems like this just is echoing Gruber from earlier this week:

"But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you run on devices. Apple is as committed to native apps — on the desktop, tablet, and handheld — as it has ever been."

http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted
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I'm crashing it with his permission :D
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Microsoft has a marketing problem, they have a lot of cloud services like Skydrive, Live Mesh etc. but are not able to grab the attention of consumers or media like Jobs is able to, on stage.

However, Windows 8 seems to be coming with a ton of integrated cloud features so I don't know about the humiliation part.I just don't see that their marketshare is affected more than 1% specifically due to the cloud services in Lion.
I initially sold my app for $39.95. Trying this trick about 4 years ago, I doubled the price to $79.95. Sales went down. Way down. I backed it off to a 50% increase - $59.95 and sales came back up. The volume was lower than at $39.95, but the revenues were higher.

I also sell site licenses for the product at $995, and I bumped that up 50% to $1495. The sales cycle is typically longer, so I let that price stand for a few months. There were no sales. Dropping it back down to $995, sales resumed as they were before.

Bottom line: There is no magic formula. You need to test the price elasticity to maximize your revenues.
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or
Learning Javascript by Shelly Powers?
Wow! Just had a look at their designs and they are pretty amazing! Maybe Facebook are making a desktop app after all?
Yes, they feel invisible because they weren't made because the guy had an accident because he shows up to work high and operates heavy machinery and gets hospitalized and the company's insurance rates go up.
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Are you trying to convince HN users to vote on (or »star«) the issue or are you trying to convince Google with this post? In any way, you should then include the point you want to stress in the title, or at least the comment you made right after. After all, if you're not saying it, you're not really stressing it.

But since I assume you'd rather inform HN users to support the feature wish, might I propose »3 year old Google Issue asking for an API for Scholar« or something along that line?.
No, one couldn't, or at least not from the situation presented here.

Look, there are two situations in the example in the OP:

- 1. User has 'regular' Windows PC with Office. User downloads file from website, double-clicks file, is on his merry way.

- 2. User has Linux PC and an ideological axe to grind so doesn't want to use anything else. User needs to hunt internet for software, turns out not be be so easy, spends hours and finds intense satisfaction in accomplishing something that is considered trivial by other people. User then proceeds to write blog post proclaiming, totally and utterly non sequitur, superiority of Linux because he managed to accomplish said trivial task.

The only 'limitation' here is a self-imposed one - the guy refuses to use anything but Linux to convert his data on. That's like saying 'I ran a marathon with a rope of 30 cm tied between my ankles'. Impressive (in a certain way), sure - but why? Why not just run the more efficient way like everybody else, with no rope?

If you're going to defend your OS by cherry-picking tasks that are somehow easier or more elegantly done by it, go ahead - the internet is full of them, but hey what do I care, everybody is free to do whatever they want in this regard. But this 'example' doesn't make any sense and confirms the general notion that Linux is for people who like technology for technology's sake and revel in finding convoluted, over-engineered solutions to the most menial tasks. And in that sense, it affects us normal people who just want to get stuff done too, because it causes a negative image for Linux, rather than what I'm sure the author thought would be a positive one; hindering its uptake in contexts where it is superior or appropriate.

I'm not saying this guy single-handedly destroyed Linux, I'm just really desperate with seeing this toxic single-mindedness still being so pervasive, after all those years.
Whatever we find out has to reduce to what we know now in the conditions we've already looked at. That contrains what we will discover in the future.
Last year I upped the price of my B2B app from $399 to $699 (to coincide with a major new release). The end result is my revenue remained fairly stable, but I stopped getting Indian customers. This is a good thing because they required much more tech support than their US or European counterparts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

"astronomical units per day: 173"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit#Examples

"94 AU: Termination shock between Solar winds/Interstellar winds/Interstellar medium"

I think astronomers would prefer data move back and forth faster, but they're used to waiting that long and more for things to happen.
You mean GNU/Linux.
Wolfram Alpha excels in that type of questions:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+pluto+%2F+ligh...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+voyager+1+%2F+...

P.S.
You are correct.
It's revolutionary because:

- Sharing you location is a very basic need in communication (don't think Google Latitude on smart phones, think 90.7% of mobile phone calls including the question "where are you?", globally, everywhere)

- Landmarks is a concept that has evolved to solve this; Well known places that can be used to communicate location. And they fit the text based communication perfectly.

- Traditional maps, which can be seen as a competitor, lacks in a few major areas:

→ How do you send a map? SMS is the global standard of communication, you can't SMS a map

→ More than half of the people in the world can't read maps. At all. These people still understand the local landmarks.

→ Good maps are not available everywhere, and will not be anytime soon as traditional maps are expensive to make

So revolutionary in quite a different way than BBM or iMessages.

(edit: formatting)
.. in fact, almost the entire land area of the planet is in the NH. Except Australia (mostly uninhabited) and Antarctica (nearly completely uninhabited).
Thanks for the link. The hypothetical human spirit is the same mindset that drives the likes of this chap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes or the early (American) settlers. So barring an extinction level event there is better than even odds that Humanity will overcome the Gravity well of the sun en-mass to colonize another Solar system.
As someone who flies just recreationally, this is a huge deal. While losing your GPS in the car is a nuisance, losing it in the airplane can be dangerous. More and more airports have only GPS approaches published, which means that a pilot (or crew) can be flying in to land in minimal visibility conditions and in certain cases not be able to even seen the runway until 200 feet off the ground.

Loss of GPS signal in these cases is downright dangerous.
I don't know that anything Apple is doing is that revolutionary, the difference is that Apple and Jobs are phenomenal at presenting the idea so that people actually get it.

I'm sure there are a lot of Microsoft execs right now that are saying "we already do that with product X" and pretty pissed off that they were never able to sell product X over 5 years the way Apple did in an hour.

The bottom line is that Apple knows how to sell products to consumers, and Microsoft doesn't. Microsoft and Google both suffer from the same disease, they try to sell a product, not address a need. They might be the same thing in the end, and Microsoft might have even gotten there first, but Apple really gets marketing.
tail recursion is a particular case of tail call, and I think it's actually the easiest one to do without, by using a looping construct instead of a recursive function. It's often not as beautiful I agree, but this is how you can handle cases where non proper tail recursive calls make your stack explode.