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Second to Fourth Digit Ratio: A Predictor of Adult Penile Length
That would be the downfall of Amazon. They're simply competing with Apple.
Forgive me for I am a student of HtDP and not SICP, but when this author was attending MIT wasn't 6.001 still in place? The Scheme REPL, which I imagine was introduced to students of 6.001, encourages an iterative approach to problem solving.

Perhaps this author didn't learn about iteration from MIT, but implying that MIT is entirely ignorant of this seems unfair.

edit: formatting
I will probably go to the bookstore and read it one afternoon
Yeah. Though actually living north (say, in SF) and being social south is even worse. The last northbound train leaves Palo Alto at 11pm (every day but Sunday, when it's 9:30).
At Bump we cycled through various options: etherpad based self-organizing lunches, burrito factions, followed by 4 or 5 different catering options. Zero Cater was the winner hands down.

We've been using them for a couple of months now.

They have great variety. We had a controversial lunch at the beginning (some people loved it, some people hated it), but overall the quality has been great, the food yummy, and they've been responsive about customizing the menus to our needs.

If you want to eat ZeroCater, but not work there, you should come work with us!

http://bu.mp/openings
Possibly, but they are actually being directly passed to me from another organization's pipeline. So they are already paying customers and my services become an add-on to their bill rather then a separate bill.

Regardless, I have to prepare for the chance that every last one becomes a paying customer. Not optimistically, but pessimistically :).
With G+, I make a conscious decision about privacy every time I post something. Every post I decide where it goes. G+ keeps it front and center. Facebook has it 4 clicks hidden away and then doesn't make it obvious you can include lists when it says "These People: Specific People".

I have never used lists on Facebook when posting (I have used them for messaging though... which I found annoying due to the limit to the number of people in a list).

Circles, on the other had, I use with every post I make.
These are all web-based marketing . What about regular marketing?
It's incredibly easy to use and solves a whole bunch of problems easily and quickly. I don't really give a crap what the 'professional' way is.
Unfortunately I gave this talk as an exclusive favor to the 500 Startup companies. I may decide to mod it a bit for public consumption - but there was a lot of "inside stuff" that I'm not comfortable sharing publicly. As we iterate, I'll be sure to share more and more.

P.S. I blog at http://www.maplebutter.com
I'm going to suggest indoor* wall climbing as a hobby. Lots of nerds like it because its actually very analytic. Doing a particular climb often requires analyzing where the hand/foot holds are and figuring out the best way to use them. If you've ever done any work in AI, you run into problems where you its hard to tell if you have a bug in your code or if your learning algorithm isn't very good. Its the same with climbing: is my method bad or am I just doing it wrong?

Edit: one other benefit, if you find a wall you can just go during its open hours and meet people after you get there. In my experience, people will see you struggle with something and swing by to give you a quick tip ("try putting your feet a bit higher", "try using your left hand over here", etc...)

*Indoor because its less intimidating and the walls often have custom made climbs for various skill levels.
Dedicated bitcoin hardware miner based on the “Open Graphics OGD1 dev board” 
These guys http://asicminer.net/?p=32 seems serious about disrupting the bitcoin market and make a profit out of it. I've heard in the past about the OGD1 device, does this seem real ? i'm interested in investing a respectable sum of money on their products.
Google plus opens up in 25 mins?
GooglePlusTweet says
"Sorry for the wait, about a 25 minute delay on #googleplus invites". Is this legit?
In terms of programming language difficulty, 'hard' and PITA are the same thing.

The real 'difficulty' in programming comes from learning the domain that you are working in well enough to express it to the idiot computer.

That said, I find expressing myself easier in languages that are less of a PITA.
What is No Deposit Home Loans for First Time Buyers? 
Who doesn’t want to have his own home? Even if Australia, every citizen dreams of owning one but how does one take the first step if it seems hard? Most first time homebuyers find it difficult to afford especially with the present economic crisis that affects even first world countries. Hence, there are many who end up renting a home which, in the long run, is actually more expensive.
http://asicminer.net/?p=32
What are the fixed costs for SMS? Aren't they using infrastructure that was setup for the voice network? Can you really call the cost of setting up a new cell tower a 'fixed cost' of SMS (i.e. doesn't it also carry data and voice)?
Actually, in your link above, iPhone 4 prices start from $859. $719 is the price of the 3GS.

I don't know how it is in Australia, but the contract price discrepancy between Android phones and iPhones is well known in England. For example, O2 sells the Galaxy S2 for free with a 24 month £42 plan, while the 16GB iPhone 4 is free on a 24 month £67 plan.

http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/pay_monthly/init/Samsung/G...
http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/pay_monthly/init/Apple/iPh...
Almost no one uses Ogg, not a very glaring omission in my opinion. Amazon sells MP3s. Apple sells AACs. No one with any market share sells Ogg files.
Could be that they are not using the correct language, If they have some domain specific language on top of common lisp for example, they will have much better code with less work, i think
Unfortunately, not many -- yet. But we've got lots of customers who aren't going anywhere for a long time. I think prostitution is the only other industry that isn't really affected by depressions and the like.

You should really check it out, it's a sexy language. If you know java you'll feel right at home. I've been using it for almost five years and really love it. To me, the syntactic sugar they throw in for common little things are what really make it so nice. It's not overly verbose, enhancements on types can be amazingly powerful if you have no control over over an API, and the ability to use and pass blocks (similar to closures) are something that I hate being without when I am forced to go play in java-land.
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But what are the fixed costs of SMS? It's traveling over a network that was initially built to carry voice traffic, and is currently expanding to carry data traffic. How much of the network was built specifically for SMS? It really seems like it was something shoehorned into existing infrastructure. I have a hard time coming up with the fixed costs of SMS (at the carrier level; You could always add the cost of phone makers to build in support, but that's not the carrier's job).
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Wave wasn't really designed to be a social experience. During the keynote, they talked about what Email would be like if it were designed using today's technology, rather than evolving from snail mail. What they came up with was a lot of very impressive technology. They gave this technology to the developers in beta to see what they could do with it. While Wave was scrapped, bits and pieces of it live on everywhere from Docs and Calendar to Google +.
100 requests per minute, #Googleplus is in high demand
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Can you point to the product page at Dell, and give an idea of the price?
Ask HN: How to describe Google Circles to not-so-smart people?
Every time I try to explain what a google circle is, people (for some reason) go out of their way to defend facebook. Is that because they depend so much on it? How do I explain people how circles are NOT facebook groups?

Edit 1: Changed title to add 'Google'
I honestly love startups which do more business/process innovation than cool technical stuff with no actual utility. There exist hungry workers and slack kitchen capacity at restaurants in every major metropolitan area, every single day. There exist catering companies but they all have to maintain their own kitchens for sourcing.

Connecting the kitchens and the workers leads to eliminating expensive waste. Yay. Predictable incremental revenue streams for restaurants on weekdays are amazing from their perspective. After having customers and data, a couple iterations down the line I think they can probably offer something as compelling to the food customer -- e.g., fixed pricing, which could make this very competitive with business catering. That is almost certainly a 9 figure a year business in NYC alone.

[Edit: Someday, I want to hear the story of the early days of this company. I'm having visions of the MVP involving 0 lines of code, one cell phone, one inbox, and a whole lot of hustling. "Hiya skeptical restaurant manager, I'm calling to place $1,800 worth of food orders for next Thursday. Also, I want to do it twice a week for the next six months. Do I have your attention? Great, here's what we're going to do..." Repeat a couple of times while becoming the Official Food Logistics guy for the YC mafia, and suddenly you have side of the two-sided market bootstrapped from zero to "You are their favorite person ever", plus you've got a very good understanding of what sucks about ordering food for a large number of people. Then you start coding.]
Talking about this? http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-usa-closes-data...

Looks like that's no longer an option.
Can you point to the product page and give an idea of the price?
Or possibly he wasn't being so pedantically literal.
I think Google Circles would finally kill LiveJournal.
Ability to friend people without them friend you back is probably why LiveJournal is still alive (in spite lack of new technical features in LiveJournal).
True, but people tend to get a little irritated when the price is jacked up by what amounts to a government-sanctioned cartel. "Voting with your money" has little to no effect.
It's not hard, but it's something no-sql databases aren't terribly good at, making it a differentiator for MongoDB. In SQL everything ends up being an exercise in joins, in No-SQL everything ends up being an exercise in map-reduce. The ability to create indexes, like you can easily do in SQL databases, is a handy feature when you have relational or quasi-relational data.
If you wrote a book about a topic you were deeply passionate about, how would you promote it?
While this was true - all the of major US carriers are moving to SMS-IP solutions as they move to 4g.
Looks like the site might be down--here's a repost of most of the content on Make Magazine's blog:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/dna-is-now-diy-open...
Best Advice: Stop listening to people selling advice. Stop buying their books.

Instead, go do it. Stop fucking talking about it. Just do it.
As a developer, what's relevant to me is the addressable platform.

Here the comparison is between a bunch of android phones with a mind boggling matrix of hardware and OS versions... to just one of the iOS devices.

Having ported an app between the iPhone/iPod and the iPad, and having done the transition to "retina" resolution, the fragmentation in the iOS universe is about as much as I'm willing to take.

Is there a single hardware & OS combination for android that is comparable to the size of the iPhone & iPod touch, iOS 4.x installed base?

I really don't know, and have no idea where I'd go to find out.

The thought of trying to support an android port of my apps, with the seemingly lower return on investment that the android application stores seems to give doesn't seem profitable.
I agree with what you said, but: remember when the Facebook "Wall" was just a graffiti wall, a big text box that any of your friends could edit?
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I take it you don't travel much. You need to go to very small, very poor and extremely remote villages before you find no internet connections or people who are aware of computers. I have found a grand total of one, ever. I've visited unpowered, tribal villages of people who had no obvious access to western goods (no modern synthetic clothes, limited plastic, only a couple of steel items) but still knew what a computer programmer was when I told them my occupation. The world is remarkably modern and globalised now so try to update your previous century's vision of it.
I don't know about modesty, but it's correct that I was limiting myself to subjects that I know about. We have a shortage of truly great software designers and coders. So I think it's important that we shore up our methods for passing on knowledge and experience in these areas. If we treat it like somebody else's job, or academia's job, then we won't see the improvements that we want to see in conference quality, applicants for our job openings and so on.
some invitation to me please?
4 clicks vs 1 click. That's the difference between sharing with a list and sharing with a circle. You know what takes less clicks? Changing my monitor's resolution. Assigning my iMac a static IP instead of using DHCP. Changing my sound output to go over HDMI instead of using local speakers. Those are semi complicated things that your average user doesn't do. It shouldn't be that hard.
true, but they are worth a read and some of them I hadn't seen before.
Yes. You can drag users into circles.
Just three months ago Dropbox was the darling of the tech world. Now they're putting out fires every other day. Just goes to show you how tightly you have to control your image — and how quickly things can slide out of control.
PetFlow gets $10 million
F*ck the process, embrace the team
No desire to revisit the era of Flash site intros.
Twitter was a great way to create/mine public content. The problem is that most of us prefer to express ourselves in more than 140 characte
Unfortunately I can't, since I wasn't the one that wrote up the PO for it. I just asked how much the equipment cost I had to install out of curiosity.
If I search for "2011 movies", that sounds great.

If I search for "digital camera", it might help a bit but if I were looking for the opinions of my photographer friends, I'd just ask them.

If I search for "us air strikes in libya" it might help but I would expect an algorithm to be able to find me some decent news articles without too much help from my friends. Besides, I don't want to live in my friends' 'filter bubble'.

If I search for "AT91SAM9G20 datasheet", I doubt anyone in my immediate social graph has even seen what I'm looking for, let alone +1'd it.
DXR: a smart code browser using instrumented compilers for static analysis
The only differences between conference sessions and workshops are a) length and b) number of people in the room. How you use an hour in front of a room of people is up to you. Conference sessions don't have to be limited to bullets on a slide or purely declarative knowledge.
I agree, I find Google+. I don't see my non-Geek friends asking for invites to Google+, if anything they would be like "what's Google+?". Half the people I invited don't even use Google+ after the first day, but they are still religiously visiting FB.
Just like what happened to Digg.
Reddit is like an enormous spotlight. They have so much traffic, but it's focused on just 25 spots on the front page each day. As a result, whatever gets on the front page receives a truly astonishing burst of traffic. And this effect only increases as Reddit grows — for even as their size has doubled and quadrupled over the years, all that traffic is still focused on the same 25 spots.

It's true that you can make your own subreddits, and of course you can keep loading more pages, but the cutoff rate is pretty severe. A few non-default subreddits (like /r/Frugal) do have sizable power since they're well targeted, essentially functioning like mini-reddits.

HN is similar, but since they go out of they way to stay obscure, any increase in traffic is practically accidental.
The original statement makes sense if they are not using a DVCS (I know that at least a couple years ago they were mostly a Perforce shop). If they are now using a DVCS then they probably have repos for different code stages plus all the local repos.
I just ordered a 32GB, 2x4-core, 4x600GB velociraptor machine for $5000. Add the fibre channel and extra RAM and I bet it cost $7-9000 per box.
IIRC our R610's (96GB, 12 Cores @ 3GHz) were around $7K a piece.

256GB/32 Core/1.8GHz R910s are around $22K last I looked. This stuff really is stupid cheap in comparison to renting.

You'd need to talk to a Sales person to get that kind of pricing, but the general rule is to discount MSRP by at least 30% when you're working with a major vendor.
See also http://dxr.mozilla.org/clang/, http://dxr.mozilla.org/clang/clang/include/clang/AST/Recursi..., and http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/2011/07/dxr-alpha-2-releas... for some more information and a demo. DXR does a bunch of static analysis to provide an explorable, informative view of source code, with special emphasis on dealing with C and C++ macros.
Would Mono [Touch/Droid] be of any help in this scenario?
I've wondered why I never see a gosu reference when comparing jvm languages. I was quite pleasantly surprised when I checked it out.. Looking forward to having a play in the near future.
My assumption is that this is a strategic move against Apple and ipod/iphone doesn't support ogg, so it doesn't come into play. Just a guess.
More than targeted sharing, what I like about Google Circles is that I can filter my news feed/stream by a circle.

Is there similar functionality for facebook lists? I can't find how to do so...

Thanks!
??? You think nobody would complain if their phone bill went up?!
Oracle Virtual Desktops Opened to iPad Access
Top 10 dot-com flops
They are called hipsters not nerds :)
OGD isn't a good idea for graphics and it isn't a good idea for Bitcoin mining either; they even admit that it's too expensive. I haven't seen anything that looks credible on that site.
The jQuery team is well aware of this issue.
US Army's multi-billion-dollar computer does not work
regarding the advertising, i see their ads all the time. I asked them about it. They use retargeter to show ads to previous customers and visitors. Part of how they get the word out to existing customers about new products. Must be decent ROI if they keep doing it.

Their cloud stack is waaaay younger than AWS, but it seems like they are bit by bit adding more things. tough to catch up to amazon
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Fortunately, primers are relatively cheap, typically under $0.30/base, so for two 20bp primers, you may end up paying as much for shipping as for the synthesis itself.

These days, it's also pretty rare that you won't know the complete genome of the species you're working with, and there are free web tools that can help you design unique primers.
Microsoft Pays University $250,000 To Adopt Office 365
I share this sentiment completely. This makes helping people learn something really hard, because mistakes are an important part of learning, and most people would rather make the mistakes themselves than have you steer them around it.

As a computer programmer, and particularly a hacker, I can't help but try and optimize everything. Every inefficiency or middleman causes an internal ticking, something that must be addressed before it causes further annoyance and costs people more money and time.

Regarding inefficiencies; most people tend to not notice them. Non-programmers look a a system and see something that either works or doesn't. As a programmer I see a system of variables that need to be tuned, or a process with discrete stages and actors, specific inputs and outputs.

Another pet peeve which is more specific to me and my experience designing user interfaces and user interactions is the assumptions that people make, often knowingly, before they even start a project. When building a UI for a touchscreen application, programmers and designers that have come from a more traditional software background will automatically map check-boxes to boolean inputs, and radio buttons to pick-one inputs, all while making the assumption there isn't a better way of getting input from the user. They won't consider sliding buttons (like those used on iphone and android phones) as a better alternative to a checkbox, or a selection list in place of a set of radio buttons. It is just as important to identify the reason for your assumptions as it is to identify the assumptions themselves. Often I find situations where assumptions are rendered invalid because people try and use them outside of the specific context in which they are created.

Never be afraid to question the status quo, especially when the only reason it remains so is because no one questions it.
Interesting. Does anyone remember what happened to Pets.com? View my post on the Top 10 dot-com flops.
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Most intensive development is a bother in Windows. When I started learning ruby on rails I had to go through cygwin(a command line simulation program) to be able to follow along with the tutorials. There are lots of bugs, and since Macs are based on BSD, same as Linux, it is supposed to be easier to develop on them.
G+ invite open again
So.... the paranoid part of me thinks this sounds like:

"Upload all of your mp3/aac files for free with any paid cloud drive plan... until we start charging for the 'mp3/aac files don't count towards your quota' option, which is $9.99/mo."
House Panel Proposes Killing the James Webb Space Telescope
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Who won today: Twitter, Facebook or Google?
I won't speak for them... but I can guarantee there are countless stories like this... along with "OMG WHY ISN'T MY FOOD HERE WHEN I ORDERED IT!!!!" and "THIS FOOD IS SO AWFUL ZOMG ZEROCATER I'M COMING FOR YOUR HEAD!!!"

Hustle + code = greatness.
Ask HN: Any theories on why cities like Miami are devoid of programmers?
I live in Miami and I find it almost impossible to find real tech people. I was just wondering if anyone had a theory on why certain cities have so many coders and techies while others are barren.
My anecdotal experience would suggest otherwise...
Just a got a free copy from the MIT enterprise forum. Looks like a nice book.
Just call me an asshole, man. No need to hide behind the meaningless "hipster" label.
I think it had to do with the fact that the CLR actually had multiple language support early on and it took Java some time to get there (with Scala and Clojure).
They're handling it considerably better than Digg. They've been phenomenally responsive on the issues, and you can actually see them learning from each of these iterations.

The language change here is fantastic - it's easy to understand and isn't overly broad.
I had fun, talked to Mark Bao, a beautiful woman and a 7 foot dude from SF.
Thanks Gladys!