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For us who love taking coffee, having an espresso or coffee machine seems to be one of our dreams. The only obstacle to reach this dream is the espresso or coffee machine price. We have to spend more than $50 to get the machine. Since it is not a primer need, then we often feel that the coffee machine is too expensive and it will be one of the purchasing we regret. We can find so many cheap espresso or coffee machines, but they are served in poor quality. Unlike Mr Coffee Espresso Maker, they are the machine that requires replacement after several months’ usage.
I would like to say that while you probably should have known some things going into this

I have been a CTO at 3 companies and a VP at a few others. I am astonished at the amount of companies now hiring CTO's that do not come from the technical ranks or worse yet calling the wrong job the CTO. The CTO position is about being the chief technologist, the CIO or the VP of technology is a more appropriate title for the tasks that where outlined above. That being said, given your candor I an assuming that you where elevated into this position, forgive me if I am wrong on that, but as such it will be a learning process.

The first CTO position is the hardest and if you did not come from development or a technical position, then you are going to be at a deficit given the fact that you are in charge of the technical vision of the company. You have to decide Open Source or Oracle, .Net or Java or Ruby do we start our own social branch on our site or do we use Facebook, build or buy, etc. etc. These are the responsibilities of a CTO and a good grounding in how the stuff is built helps in formulating those decisions. My advice, if you are not technical, would be to find a strong developer in your team whose opinion you can trust and consult him on these type of decisions.
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That works just fine today. Type the name into your address bar and it will either go right there, or google it for you.

Technology has made this move by ICANN obsolete. However the big problem is if you're a large company you HAVE to protect your trademark, so you'll have to register these other domains anyway - meaning it's just a pure money grab from ICANN.
This is not exactly an apples to apples comparison. [hq4x](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx) is meant to magnify by a factor of 4. The comparison images use it for 16x magnification. Would be interesting to run this algorithm after magnifying it with hqx.
No, I knew that... That's why I said 'suffer from diabetes'. I meant it literally.

What I meant was that their site claims to solve something, but not how or what. It looks like snake oil right now.
Being diabetic is a very high maintanence, and to really control it you have to go above and beyond what the doctors tell you to do.

By collecting and then analysing things like insulin doses and blood sugars, one can indentify patterns and hopefully correct anything that is not as it should be.

Collecting and analysing information is tedious, and that is where I imagine they want to help (see also www.sugarstats.com). I think that if they can make both the collection and analysis easier and hopefully more fun, then it will make it a lot easier for people who are trying to better control their diabetes.

To answer your first point, it is not that understanding or treatment is lacking, just that the more data and patterns you have, the better you can apply the treatments, ultimately improving your prospects.
This is pretty awesome and I think you're right. If we had to pick one I really wish it wasn't javascript :) But having just one would be very powerful.
Sorry but this is a real issue, whether DDG solves it or not.

At least to me.
Ask HN: a serious question...
Why do people who don't know what they're doing keep trying to develop facebook killers?

I don't mean any project with a team, but people who don't know the basics of the framework they're using.

I'm serious. I keep seeing it, and there must be something behind this.
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Using the correct terminology makes the point uninteresting. People want to believe that we are all capable of genius, but we are not.
We'll do our best peterb.

So much in this disease is a question of behavior – measure enough, note changes, learn, adapt, adjust, measure, estimate. Rinse and repeat.

Testing is vital.

Behavior and a willingness/ability to learn/adapt is vital.

25% of us are clinically depressed. Lugging this thing around in the back of your mind, all the time, is taxing.

Through the years the therapy for diabetes mellitus type 1 has become more and more data driven. You work with algorithms and calculate what you do. You replace the sensor/reaction function of your busted pancreas (this is type 1 here, not t2) by calculating and measuring.

I've been diabetic myself since 27 years and have suffered from most crap you can think of. Including three years of diabetic burnout.

We will do our best to help.

Thanks for your comment!

OT: Just realized today, that my son is now as old as I was as I was diagnosed. Immense respect for what you have to deal with peterb.
...with html, css, sql, a deployment solution, and some handfuls of js.
You're thinking of Mono.Simd. I've toyed with it a bit, and it seemed pretty fast, but I haven't yet had the chance to write something "real-world" with it.

Miguel de Icaza wrote an article with some preliminary benchmarks when they announced the release a few years back: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Nov-03.html
Sorry about the anti-climatic question, but I'm genuinely curious: What's the main application of this research, other than prettifying old video games?
IANAL, but I am an Australian who recently walked his Irish girlfriend through the immigration/residency process.

1) As educated white people, you'll be fine. Specifically, your wife will want to apply for a student visa once she's accepted into a PhD program. My understanding is that it's basically a rubber stamp if you're on "Assessment level 1" - which you get automatically by being from the USA. The family all get to live and work in Australia on that visa (only once she's started studying) and you can work full-time if she's postgraduate (see here: http://www.immi.gov.au/students/_pdf/permission-to-work-stud...)

There's a lot more information here: http://www.immi.gov.au/students/

Once she's finished, you'll need to switch to another visa to become a permanent resident, probably this one: http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/885...

2) I'm not sure where you heard that, but to my knowledge PhDs here are the same as elsewhere. Becoming a lecturer generally requires a PhD, which is a degree attained through high-level research under an advisor, requiring a masters or honours degree.

You may be thinking of masters by research/masters by coursework, which have the distinctions you're talking about (although with masters by research you still have an advisor). There are also graduate certificates and diplomas, which are basically the short-course equivalent of masters degrees. You can read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Qualifications_Frame...

3) Our three main general job sites are monster.com.au, seek.com.au, and mycareer.com.au - they suffer from (I imagine) the same problems big job sites would in other countries, which is to say they're full of recruiters and have a low SNR.

If you're looking for something in tech, you're often better contacting the source directly. Most Australian tech companies have a standing we're-hiring-just-send-us-a-resume policy. For example:

http://www.atlassian.com/about/careers/

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/jobs/

http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/au/home.aspx

Alternatively, if you're looking for startup work there's a quite active mailing list called Silicon Beach: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia

And a specific silicon-beach-jobs list (set up only recently): http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-jobs

Hope that helps!
People will disagree with me, but I don't think blogging will ever replace fully-researched journalism.

Twitter and blogs can easily break new news. "Osama Has Been Killed", for example. And that's absolutely important and helpful. But for analysis, I just can't see a blog or 140-characters competing with a full team on The New Yorker or The Economist. The "what does this mean", "how will this affect things", etc will not be answered as well by always-on designed to be fast and instant news sources.

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There are ways for major broadcasters to keep up with real-time. But I don't know of the perfect way. I do, however, believe it's not the CNN-approach of consistently reading tweets on their shows.
Hey, it's the new pr0j3kt m4yh3m! I suspect it will be as successful as the last one.
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Thanks! Important to know!

We won't sell snake oil nor camel milk ;)
That's often a good approach, but sometimes the overhead of marshaling data between the layers can kill you. For instance, Google warns people about assuming the apps written using the Android NDK will be faster, partly because of JNI overhead.
It's not an issue just because you want to believe it is.

Media outlets always filtered stuff for you but now the algorithms are 'filtering' results according to your interaction to find what's relevant to you, so you have a 'vote' here.

You also can dig through any initial results (click the news vertical to find more news for example) you couldn't do that with the media of yore.
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I run a web BBS, and we had to deal with my competitor spamming imageboards. It didn't do him much good (because he's finally gone), but he gained infamy because of the incident, thus ruining his real life and causing him much debt.
Probably for the same reasons people who can't carry a tune try to become the next Lady Gaga and people who can't act try to become the next Dustin Hoffman.

I think that people with mediocre talent have a tendency to look at someone else in the same talent genre and think "I can do that, it looks easy".
the best time to start a company is always two years ago, and the next best time is now. So now it is.

And two years ago, it seems. She launched (though didn't technically 'start') Hunch two years ago, almost to the day :-)
Look, by being here you should understand one basic thing: What big companies do doesn't matter in terms of what society wants done. Successful companies ride the wave of society, not dictate. Dictators don't last. Any AT&T interference wouldn't have mattered. It's like saying IBM could have stopped personal computing.
I would like to use it as default, but I tryed it and it's very very slow... takes me 5 secs to get a search back. in Google I take 0.035s

So I will stay information sided for a while
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But probably more than 80% of the users do want that.

edit: speaking of bubbles :D
When you scroll horizontally, you're indicating that you want to see more photos, so naturally the text should disappear. When you scroll vertically again, you're indicating that you want to move to the next post, so naturally the text should appear again. You're free to scroll horizontally or vertically at any time, and the result is pretty consistent if you do. What you call "forcing the user" I call "making educated guesses about the user's intentions".
Incognito mode isn't just disabled history recording. It does not use any of your cookies from main session, and it deletes the cookies when it is closed. It also isolates your extensions from running incognito unless you elect for them to be.
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You can get "clean" or "default" results from google by using http://www.scroogle.org/
Whoosh

Someone is stuck in Reddit water.

This reply may seem clever and proper from the point of view of someone living in a Reddit culture, but it is rude and pointless in a Hacker News culture.

We do not place high stock in pointless pedantry or mundane memes. We focus on intelligent, meaningful discussion that centers around important points in submissions. Picking a tangential (and historical) analogy to attack does not further the discussion in any way. This entire thread is a massive waste of space.
This is exactly what I need. Thank you!
So, you advise looking ahead to the next quarter only, while torpedoing the chances of the next generation? What is it all for then?
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. As Kruger and Dunning conclude, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others" (p. 1127). (from wikipedia)
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I haven't jail broken in a while because I don't have a need for tethering. If I go on a trip where I need it I will JB. And if Apple ever does this I will JB it too. If they somehow prevent JB'ing I will switch to another device.
Do you think those programmers would suddenly become "performance conscious" if they switched to c++? What I'm saying is that I don't see the point in referring to them as "c# coders" they could be using any language just as badly.
Do you have a not-awful one to propose? I would be interested in it.
So, your argument is that it's bullshit because it's true?
Here's a paper experimenting with some ways of doing that: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~amsmith/papers/voxel-pcg.pdf
Spreading FUD about tracking search terms etc didn't seem to help DDG last time. I doubt this will have any effect either.

DDG: If you want to grow, don't keep attacking the big search engines with FUD that only a miniscule % of people care about.
Yes but unlike simple password, it doesn't give away the length, and your numeric password can be as long as you'd like.
~1M a year!? That poor CEO...
Interestingly, my uncle, who is an aerobatics pilot, is OK with this, but as the experience gets more immersive has real trouble. The thing is (according to him) that aerobatics teaches you to pay attention only to your eyes, and to discard information from your sense of balance. As a result in, for example, an IMAX cinema, he will literally throw himself to the ground, because his eyes are telling him he is accelerating violently. Others are unaffected because they mix information from their inner-ears, which are telling them that they are standing still.

I just get motion sick with the contradiction.
You make .aero part of your trademark e.g. crazyclown.aero. As long as crazyclown.com is not another airline, you should be fine.
"Personalization is just a different term for relevant results"

Fine. It's not a "filter bubble", it's "excessive personalization", and it's still bad.

Arguing about what it's called doesn't do a thing to change whether or not it exists, or whether or not it's a real problem.
it's doable, but not terribly easy, at least as of last report. see retty http://pasky.or.cz/dev/retty/ or screenify http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00421.html.
From the search engine revenue perspective, how much can be the loss in case they provide a preference option to show "generic results" (like "safe search option off") - with an easy to switch ui between the two?
Maybe that's true, but I'm working on a Windows Phone 7 app right now that struggling to hit its performance targets. The major culprit? Silverlight's data-binding. Microsoft shipped the framework without shipping high performance controls necessary to meet the certification requirements of their app store (ListBox, I'm looking at you), so while our code might return the results of the list in <20ms, it takes another 800-1500ms for the results to be rendered. It's frustrating.
I understand that. I'm just saying that the original post drags in the concept of transcendental numbers, a key aspect of real number theory, and attempts to mash it into the real world where it doesn't fit.

Recall what I said here: "In the real world, you always run into limits on how finely you can measure things before you run into quandaries about number theory."

In other words, when you measure entities and processes in the real world, it is unlikely that you'll ever have to think about the nature of the continuum, or transcendental numbers, or even for that matter precise integers.

For example, back in the '80s when I was using an Apple II computer to collect measurements from a microwave dish, it was obvious that we should measure amplitudes to four decimal places (or whatever, I forgot), and not concern ourselves with the impossible task of counting a precise integer number of energy quanta at each frequency.

Certainly when you're measuring energies in a particle accelerator you'll have different standards, but you will still always come face to face with the economics of "good enough" and even Heisenberg's hard limits on observability in principle.

So to reiterate: the constraints of the real physical world will always bind you long before you ever have to care about the vagaries of number theory.

Nevertheless, the abstract theory of real numbers is definitely useful even in the physical sciences, because that theory transcends all physical constraints and therefore imposes no a priori limits on observations. So it is not wise to fetter your mathematics with the chains of physical constraints.
Search queries have different purposes. Personalization based on my preferences and past search works wonders for known-item seeking and for re-finding.

But for exploratory search and exhaustive search personalization works as an echo chamber (or filter bubble if you will) .

Then there is the problem of change and inertia. People change, their preferences vary in time. Personalization has an inertia that causes the recommendation engine to always be behind the actual preferences. It's more visible the better the recommendation engine.

I'm not saying personalization is problematic. There are problems with using it all the time and stealthily, without a clear possibility to turn it off.

It's not FUD, but a challenge to overcome.
Yes, after all the primary job of a search engine is to fight the user's own biases, and who wants a product that's pleasing to use anyhow?
Because any webapp of any complexity can be developed in a weekend by a true hacker.
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I don't know much C#, but it seems to me there are so many ways of writing "numeric" code in C++. Using the STL algorithms is one, using C-style looks on POD arrays another, and using an expression template math library like blitz yet another. You can't really say that any one of them, except possibly the expression template method, is uniquely C++.
Upvoted. Best explanation ever. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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Simple. The prestige of being bestowed to have developed a Facebook killer overwhelms any developer's fancy of a cutting edge application. It ain't pretty hard to admit that Facebook is by far, one of the biggest, most widely accepted, and successful web application there is right now.

And not to mention the accompanying monetary rewards that go with it.
At a guess, it might make CSI-style "zoom in, enhance" manipulations of images and videos more plausible.
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I can easily imagine a consumer navigation device showing me ever-more precise maps as I enter a geohash code. This would be very valuable for orienting myself. I don't just have to arrive there; I want to see where the place is!
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You have a terribly flawed idea of how exchanges work and what they are; your logic doesn't flow at all. But I can't really correct that in an HN post.
There's also mintty which I think it's putty without the network and serial code.

I use it to copy/paste with the mouse. You can also set "UTF-8" in the options if you need.
Question 2, being on the more humorous side, isn't completely logically consistent.

2a)You open the door and put the elephant in the fridge, and close the door. It appears that you made some assumption about either the smallness of the fridge or the largeness of the elephant. Also theoretically tests if you went for a simple solution or try to overcomplicate things.

2b)You open the door, take out the elephant, put in the giraffe, and shut the door. In theory, this tests you ability to track the state of a problem and your previous actions. The part that pisses me off, is you usually lose points for not taking the elephant out first. If I have a theoretical fridge that's big enough to hold an elephant, why can't it be big enough to hold a giraffe at the same time?

2c) This one is easy after you've been given the answer to number 2b. Obviously the giraffe is missing, since he's still locked in the fridge.

2d)Just swim across, all the alligators are at the jungle meeting from 2c.
So as a stakeholder in a non-profit, I'd want the non-profit to be as efficient with money as possible... yet I'd want a a CEO that burns through way more money than he needs? Please explain.
The latter; in the block chain you can see a single address that holds over 400K BTC.
Someone the other day was commenting on the whole 'everyone wants to be a geek now' thing and wondering what to call true geeks now.

I told him not to worry and that another word would soon be coined to make fun of the true geeks, as always happens. People just can't resist tormenting people who are different.

I am a little surprised that it hasn't happened yet... But then, maybe I'm too old and not hip with the new slang.

As for Best Buy suing everyone for using the words Geek or Squad (and every-so-graciously allowing high schoolers to continue calling their teams 'geek squads' (that's sarcasm)) it's obviously ridiculous. I understand protecting your brand, but when you name your brand so generically, you automatically lose a bit of it. Just deal with it.
Does hitting the logout button pop the filter bubble?
AFAIK bitcoin does not have an API per se.
As for the opportunuties, it will disrupt the online payments space pretty darstically. Anything that wasn't possible because of payment processor's charge, will now be viable. Micropayments done right using bitcoins can be huge.
This is a problem where technology is actually a very huge obstacle, probably a huger one than marketing. How are you gonna get all that data? It's not structured on the web so you can't easily crawl it. You have to rely on people uploading it to you, but why would they do that when you don't have a huge user-base yet? Think about the friction a restaurant has to overcome: they have to hire someone to create XML files (don't expect regular owners to know how to do this)... then they have to regularly update it...