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Thanks.
I clicked the link thinking it was the other project Harmony: http://harmony.apache.org/
I think he got the date wrong. He couldn't have found it until the video chat feature was live.
" Yes, believe it or not, the slim-and-beautiful Wi-Fi iPad 2 costs $10 less to make than the plastic-shelled, fat-bodied Wi-Fi TouchPad."

The odd thing is that iSuppli has the enclosure etc. at $35 for the iPad 2 and $30 for the TouchPad. I have a really hard time putting any faith in that number, since it's not like components where you just look up the price. Did iSuppli really figure out how much it would cost to make a custom machined aluminum case?
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I don't care about inefficiencies as much - everything is a trade-off, after all. Critical points of failure, though, bother me.
As promised, Google has shut down our Google+ Account
Anyone know how well LED bulbs handle cold (below water freezing) temperatures?
You've gotta check out the troll comment by emmarose on that page... highly recommended.
In the mobile graph, I wonder why ios and iphone are separate lines.
Odd to think it will be called Facebook Vibes when the chat isn't called Facebook Peep. Probably just a codename, and it will end up being called Facebook Music.
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If it is any good, I suspect Phillips or Slyvania to buy them out....hopefully they will not shelve the product, but actually market it.
Every grocery store has a "produce section," "cereal aisle," and "checkout line."
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I'm sure that wasn't the original intent. But given that they have failed generally at commercializing their innovations, patent lawsuits are a good backup strategy and probably gives Microsoft's patent lawyers a good justification for their continued existance.
Woah. Does anyone have more information about this? I wish the article said which ISPs. All of them?
Plenty of MSR stuff has ended up in the hands of other groups and ended up in shipped projects. Just look at Wikipedia: their C# research (Polyphonic C# became Cw became Joins Concurrency), F#, Seadragon, Accelerator (pretty cool, BTW), freaking ClearType... the list isn't exactly short. Surface aside, they haven't produced commercialized products, but that's not the point.

Come on. This stuff is easy. Why the content-free troll?
Yes - check out www.liquidspace.com . Not sure if they have coverage in Amsterdam yet, however.
One of the things Microsoft has done well is to pick the right pricing plan and the right industry. By making it a per unit fee on Smartphones you make it easy for manufacturers to pass the cost on to the consumer who then subsidizes it through a contract with their provider.

The $5 per unit HTC pays Microsoft is only $.20 a month when passed directly on to the consumer and spread out over 2 years.
Why and how Google+'s interface is kicking ass
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This all seems so familiar...

In a completely unrelated note, apparently Myspace sold last week for around $35 million.
Heard that Facebook are integrating Spotify. Maybe that will be 'Vibes'?

Some more speculation here:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-said-to-l...
I wonder if Microsoft has employees working on
trivial things they can patent

I'll tell you how it works in all these big companies that are growing their portfolio:

(1) all engineers are encouraged to look for things to patent, while being actively discouraged to taint themselves by looking at other patents

(2) when an engineer thinks he has something patentable, he sends the description in his own words to a patent attorney that also knows engineering -- it's his job to translate the engineer's description into legalese.

(3) the internal patents office of the company examines the proposal, looking for prior art and declares it good to go, or sends it back to the drawing board.

(4) profit -- after a proposal is good to go, the engineer gets money, even though that patent request hasn't been approved yet by USPTO.

Now, the monetary reward isn't that high usually - it amounts to something like 1 or 2 salaries where I live, or something like that - but if you keep churning proposals, you can basically double your monthly revenue.
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Congrats to Turntable on the success thus far. It's definitely a fun product with a lot of potential for where they can take it. Let's hope that there aren't legal troubles down the road.
Q-Tips are another one, IIRC.

Or, of course, Spam (but Hormel has been enlightened on the topic so it hasn't been a legal issue AFAIK).
Apple aligned itself with Nokia and Microsoft (both of which are on the WPx platform) in this purchase. I guess they both see a common enemy in Android.
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Legal question: could MS use patent law to get an injunction against the continued distribution of cyanogenmod?
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I have yet to see a "the app store" that is fair, and I have a rather hard time imagining one even existing in the real world. As long as they have exclusion policies, I want as many different "app stores" competing with each other as possible.
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Twitter is a good place to start. Once you find one or two people in your area via blogs (or anything really), follow them on Twitter. Odds are they will interact with other devs in the area. Branch out from there.
I believe I saw a YC company at a recent demo day that does stuff like this. Check out: http://venuetastic.com/
At 60 you will be able to cope with new technologies almost just as easily as a 15 year old. The reason being you have had some interaction with technology over the years, so you have something to refer to. The 70 year old of today probably did not get to ever play with a computer.
Thanks! Looks interesting. However, it looks like it's only an iPhone app? There's no web-version of that, right?
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I imagine it's because iPads also fall under the category of iOS.
I've always wondered why newer ATMs like to retain the card until after the transaction. I've left my card in an ATM two or three times while in a rush on account of that.
From the second paragraph of the article:

"The deal, almost three years in the making, was announced early Thursday, and includes participation by AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon."
Guess ill have to take some Googlers with me ;)
It undeniably hurts HTC's profits though. Sucks for those that have to pay this Microsoft tax. And it also does hurt Google in the sense that this cost is being passed to Google's customers rather than Google taking this burden.
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so like IRC + shoutcast?

something about the way turntable presents things makes it a lot more fun.

edit: for perspective, think of it as farmville for music/dj nerds. my dj friends are loving turntable for the 'test out a playlist on a group' factor.
...or lumping hackers and crackers together as "all hackers."
Virtual Assistant has become every body’s cup of tea as it has become easy and you can get a virtual assistant at an affordable price. It’s just like buying a robot that does everything for you all you need to do is direct him through emails. It has become a trend and it is no longer for rich and famous any average earning person can hire a virtual assistant.
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Infographic: Twitter, Lazyweb Expose the Limits of Google
Looks close to the sort of thing I'm looking for. It's great for restaurants and bars and that sort of thing, but it seems that there are no office conference rooms and that sort of thing. I'm sure companies have extra capacity that they may be willing to rent out. Also, as of today, there are no venues in the city I'm looking for (Amsterdam) yet, but I'll keep it bookmarked as I look for other cities and for events / venues that require a more informal bar / restaurant type thing rather than for a conference room space.
FWIW, Torque is pretty constraining. I find it awkward to use because of the reliance on its own scripting system.

I miss the Kanji game engine. It was bought by Gogii and then never re-released for developer licensing.
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Wow. Thanks. I clearly read that too fast. I like this article better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738776
I also use Name.com and love them (still in the process of switching domains over as they expire from GoDaddy). Very useable interface with no up selling and excellent customer service. They have a small office in Denver which is convenient for me since I'm in school just down the road. Overall I'm 100% happy with them.
Its not really fair to adjust for factors such as not taking time off to have kids. There are a number of biological reasons why it makes sense for women to be more involved in the early stages of rearing children than men (for example - only women can breastfeed).

For career focused women it is a very big problem that many career paths don't allow an easy way to take time off (or even just slow down a little bit) for children and then come back to reasonable opportunities.
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Show HN: Easy and smart image editing automation on server side [for Windows]
Great stuff - can we render them one per page?
They are a little small to grok.
Coding Javascript, the human way (with Underscore.js)
There is no "copyright-less world," but pot sure is fun, isn't it?
Kind of a cute idea, although if I'm seeing this trail correctly, you wouldn't be starting at the edge of the Facebook parking lot--you cross a hill, then cut through an elementary school, walk a few blocks to Junipero Serra and start up the trail there. Also, the trail itself is not very wooded--more like grassy.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Facebook+Offices,+South+Califo...
It's not a great link I know, but it's breaking news rather than an analysis of the impact of the Twitter campaign.

For those outside the UK, this week there's been a sustained campaign to get advertisers to pull their ads from the News of the World over a phone hacking scandal (they accessed the voicemail's of a murdered child, and dead soldiers for example).
I think iOS shows something slightly different about the employer's motivation, since they're deliberately including iPad by saying iOS vs narrowly referring to iPhone.

Do you think charting them separately and also together would be better? Or just consolidate them and lose the subtle difference?
* but you shouldn't design with that in mind (unless you're somehow aiming a product at them, in which case good luck with that sir). Put a 7 year old on a computer and he'll figure out how to find a restaurant in 10 minutes.*

To a point, maybe. Could that 7 year old figure out how to install lynx and find a restaurant at a blank console by reading man pages? Probably not.

Try to remember your first time using a computer. My early years were spent using a C64 to play games off of floppy drives, and I still remember the explicit steps: LOAD "*",8,1. I have no idea what that did, and treated it like a black box. Do not stray off the beaten path, for here be dragons.
Didn't it take months of license negotiations for Google to offer the ability to store and stream music you already own to your own device? Turntable seems a fair bit more ambitious than that.
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Not much to see here. I found this article was a fascinating insight into her character and philosophy: http://www.michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm The article details her fascination and admiration for a particularly vile and notorious serial killer.
“Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all.”

That's how Mufasa pitched Simba.
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Marco is definitely not French. Listen to a talk or podcast with him and that will be immediately apparent. ;-)
Philips went a much simple way. They just painted the bulb enclosure yellow, and it works really well. The color gets very close to that of incandescent. The only issue is its price. It is very hard to bring oneself to pay $49 for a light bulb. Economics or not.

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F# is probably your only valid point though I'm not sure I'd call yet another functional programming language an innovation.

Seadragon is Zooming technology that is, at best, a decent demo at this point (and probably designed to be patented). For people who don't know what we're talking about: http://zoom.it

Accelerator I'd never even heard of which is probably because it was introduced in 2006 and no finished product has ever come of it.

Cleartype came out of the Microsoft e-books team which wasn't part of Microsoft Research to the best of my knowledge

So giving you F# that makes two products: Surface and F# for $9 billion dollars per year. So either your argument is those two products cost the majority of that money to maintain or I go back to my original point. Microsoft Research's primary function at the company is to patent things
Apple needs to sit back down. People have been getting way to carried with trademark suits over the years.
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From the looks of it the article he's talking about is such total garbage I'm surprised he even took the time to debunk it. Seriously "the size of things we discover in the solar system is getting smaller, therefore science is hitting a wall" is an argument a second-grader could see through. And this guy (Kedrosky) has some kind of influence on scientific investment?
This is a rubbish article. It confuses "theft" with "infringement". Mostly, it calls the action of infringement an "offense", but at one point it calls it an "infraction", The article fails to say who decides if an "offense" or "infraction" occurs. Usually, conviction of a crime requires some kind of judicial activity, but other sources report that mere accusation of infringement is what counts as an "infraction".

This whole scheme is most un-American. No presumption of innocence is made, no judicial review occurs, and there is no procedure in place to redress mistakes. The RIAA is a known un-American organization, seeking to undermine basic constitutional rights like Freedom of Speech, Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, due process of law, and presumption of innocence. I call upon the ISPs in question to stop performing un-American actions, and diassociate themselves from the nearly-fascist RIAA and MPAA.
I’m submitting this because I have been using Google+ with that same smile on my face. The interaction design is just so incredibly well done.

Here is one tiny example: How do you add someone as a friend (or rather to one of your circles) when you encounter them commenting somewhere?

Here is what you do in Facebook: You click on their name which takes you to their profile page and then you click the friend request button next to their name. A pop up opens where you have to click once again to send them the friend request. If you want to put them on a list before sending them the request you have to click another two times. That’s five clicks and one page reload.

Here is what you do in Google+: As soon as you hover over the name a tooltip with a larger profile photo and that person’s current company or university appears (to help you make sure that you’ve got the right person). You can still go to their profile if you want to but there is also a big add button right there in the tooltip. As soon as you hover over that add button (you don’t even have to click it) a list of your circles with checkboxes appears and you can check or uncheck however many you want. (This interface also allows you to remove someone from your circles or to put them in a different or in an additional circle, it’s really powerful.) That’s one click and no page reload.

Also, since it’s all happening around the profile name (the tooltip appears right next to it, the list of your circles replaces the big add button on the tooltip) everything is really close to each other. It’s an interface that respects Fitt’s law. When you use Facebook you have to mouse all over the place to get things done, when you use Google+ you only need minimal mouse movement.

You really have to use it to experience the difference (and to get the smile on your face). Facebook feels clunky and slow, Google+ feels fluid and fast.

It’s astonishing, really. Gmail, for example, is certainly solid work but it’s nothing like Google+. Google+ is a whole different level.

Edit: Arrrg, I’m partially wrong. Facebook actually also has a tooltip. It shows up after a second or so (vs half a second at Google+). So that removes two steps and the reload. There is still this huge request pop up and it’s four clicks and no page reload.
I would imagine the S3 purchase has the nice side effect of offsetting some of the costs per phone and gaining HTC their own licensing property. I also see the S3 purchase as helping them in the whole customized ARM game. Cell phones are massive chunks of patents and HTC knows the space well.
Sign me up. I can invest $10 MM today and also do all development. 3% equity vested over 4 years should be fine.
Actually, I am currently haven't the same struggle with question #3. My partner and I started an LLC and then later developed a product. Do we start a new business for this product? If so, do we dissolve the first business? Should the LLC start a new business? Use a DBA for the product? There are so many questions that aren't easy to research because of their specificity. It would be great for some experienced business hackers to weigh in.
Slick. As an interviewee I do my best to stand up and walk around during an interview; anything to get the brain and charisma going and the jitters forgotten is good for developing a rapport.
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I think they should just be clumped together. There's no distinction between Android phones and tablets, so there shouldn't be for ios. Also, the development skills for the the two are largely the same.
TL;DR: no, he did not kill a pig or a goat this time.
"He pointed out Apple’s headquarters, then Hewlett-Packard and a number of other big tech companies, the individual explained. Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all."

I know he has to sweet talk employees to join his company, but I can't see this ever happening. Right now Facebook has a valuation of about 80 billion, and a userbase of about 750 million. Assuming he can get the userbase to 1 billion, and assuming he could pass Apple (~200 billion evaluation), that would be $200 per user, when the service is free. I know they get money through advertising and other ways, but that seems kind of high.
Here are larger graphs if you want to dive deeper.

Languages: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218608...

Frameworks: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218611...

Data: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218609...

Mobile: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218612...

Additionally, a few people have noted some terms that I need to merge. I'll try to update the graphs within a few hours.
Yes, my default privacy on Facebook is "Friends; except: Work".
I know Authorize.Net was ruled out, but couldn't you just use the Authorize.net CIM to avoid storing credit card data? We've been using Authorize.Net and the CIM and it's been great - and they are professional.
I just want to say thanks for posting your experiences. Everyone here is ragging on you for "too small sample size" and "u did it wrong" but I appreciate that you came forward and shared.

For the people who scoff at a $50 ad budget, that just tells me they've never done this with their own money. It's easy to brag about campaign size when you're spending out of someone else's wallet.
I've just replaced 3 outdoor 50w halogens with 3w "warm white" bulbs and 6 indoor similar with 4.5w bulbs. Total cost was about $220. Definitely less bright than the halogens, but these are areas that we leave on all night outside or for about 6 hours inside. They're expensive, but I calculate that the outside ones will pay themselves off in about 6 months and the inside bulbs 20 months. This excludes replacing the halogens, which happened relatively often. We still have many other down-lighters indoors, but they're not on very often and need to be dimmed, so I'll wait until the cost drops.
Perhaps this was something that was left on the cutting room floor of "The Social Network". Very Hollywood to me.
Would be great to see the language/framework also expressed as percentages of total posts over a period. Clearly there's a growth trend in job postings, would be nice to see the relative change in demand for each language/framework.
I disagree. Her writing style seemed to appeal to a lot of people even before she wrote about her crazy ideas.

I hate Ayn Rand because her ideology is unrealistic and dangerous. It leads many to the delusion that moochers are the poor and the communist, while leaving them blind to the moochers in capitalism (like Enron, or everyone who ever dealt with Mortgage Backed Securities).
The system works but is not really true that humans can not hear it, especially teenagers can hear and it's really annoying and can be painful, have existed for years about gadgets that make this sound and can be very annoying, I remember that even came into use in places where they did not want teenagers partying in the night and were legally prohibited such use
Newer/better ones will force you to take your card back before dispensing cash, which I think it's an elegant solution. Keeping your card in the first place is, I suspect, a security thing.
More easily read graphs (slightly ordered the categories in terms of popularity and removed small results)

Language: http://i.imgur.com/vDeE3.jpg

Framework: http://i.imgur.com/NDOMa.jpg

Data: http://i.imgur.com/Mio0j.jpg

Smarty phone: http://i.imgur.com/uUjHG.jpg
Those are not for imports. In the case of computers, since we do not produce them, the taxes are much higher. Pretty much all eletronics cost between 2 to 3x as much as they would in the US.