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On my iPod touch, holding it eventually gets you to a flaky voice control system. I also have the option of setting up a11y functions on triple click.

Once I got used to it, the home button is okay, but it can register anywhere from 0-2 clicks for any given press. That is the bigger issue: I never truly know where I'll end up even if I do know how it should work.
It's a nice way to put people in prison.
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The tax is not paid by amazon it's paid by the people who purchase goods from Amazon. The people who purchase goods from Amazon have been exploiting the fact that it's unprofitable for the state to enforce the law on them. The sales tax law has been very clear that people who buy goods out of state must pay CA sales tax on them.

Amazon's position is that they do not wish to burden their business with collecting state sales tax on behalf of their customers. It's obvious interference with interstate commerce on part of the California gov't which is why the state has resorted to tenuous links to in state commerce such as having an affiliate in state.

The blogger should be more upset with her fellow Californians who use Amazon to skirt CA tax law. CA changed the laws because it's much more profitable to enforce against Amazon than thousands of tax evading citizens.

If the blogger wants to use Amazon all they need to do is incorporate in a state with tax laws that are conducive to Amazon's affiliate program. An S-corp or LLC should be fairly revenue neutral for them.
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Cloudant (YC S08) Releases In-Database, Distributed Search
Amazon is seeking customer feedback on the AWS Management Console
People always say this, but it's not true in practice. Any of these terms that are meaningful can easily be defined in a simple phrase. "Singleton" is an object with only one instance. "Observer" is code that gets called when something changes. (Actually, I think most people who haven't been influenced by GoF say "publish/subscribe" or "handle an event".) Moreover, this is a problem in search of a solution. I don't see programmers having difficulty communicating with each other because of a lack of standard technical vocabulary. If there isn't a term for something, you just make one and say what you mean by it. That's what we've always done and it's what programmers not under the influence of "design patterns" always still do.

No, design patterns come with considerably greater baggage than that. They invariably come with template code and a lot of language about when and how to apply the pattern. They're not trying to be a glossary, but a cookbook. Basically, the failed OO mantra of "reuse" took refuge at the meta level where it's impossible to disprove.
I broadcast into the clear and receive the circles I want, except for that one time when I may have something just for a particular person. Not sure I'd want to be receiving just a selected broadcast from someone 100% of the time.
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Well, crystal radios are electrically passive but usually the power was low and thus you couldn't produce enough "volume". So people interestingly built pneumatic amplifiers (the principles are equivalent to electric amplifiers, I have studied some pneumatic devices and sometimes they are modeled with electrical circuits for convenience) using gas lamps, which were more abundant than batteries or mains at the time.

This source of the article claims they will produce milliwatt power and the power of crystal radios circuits is measured in nanowatts. This is 1000 or 1 000 000 times more.

They apparently do this by using multiple frequency ranges, while a cristal radio includes a adjustable electronic filter to frequencies, cutting the ones off above a particular, well cutoff frequency, you also don't want other signals of the same range in radios because you will create noise in your headphones.

This is the basic principle, I'm sure there are some technical errors somewhere, but I'm still a student :-).
Always because some of the people on my circles don't really care for the things I say work-related. But then I thought I'm only showing my work-related stuff to a circle of coders and the whole world is missing it.

I believe I wanted Google+ to fix this problem for me, I was expecting a place where I could do my private life (with circles) and improve my professional life (public but without annoying some cirles of the private life).

In the end, I just feel lost not knowing how to use that pretty thing...
> ... or what level of destruction the back button will perform

This is true especially when the app provides the button.

> In iOS, the developer is free to label the back button or to disable it entirely to remove ambiguity.

You can do what you like with Back in Android, including disable it.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/12/back-and-othe...

> I would say that this is far more powerful

Even if Android restricted what you could do, it would be an apples-to-oranges comparison since an app-specific back button has no concept of 'take me to the activity that spawned me'. But in light of what I've shown it is hardly less powerful.
Thanks for posting this. This is a really important information when setting up a new host to run VMs.
You might want to add "Technology/Industry" like Web Companies(FB,Twitter), App Companies(Built on Top of FB, Twitter), Mobile Companies, Networking (Cisco, Juniper), DB/related (Oracle), OS(Apple, MSFT).

I "get" the feeling that programmers in Web technologies get paid less than people in hardware/appliance companies like Cisco, Juniper, NetApp etc.

Edit:
Just noticed the Industry Option :)
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/device-captures-ambient-ene... - I find the source much more interesting :-)
4.2 on a newly started project. 4.1 on updates to an existing app. 3.1 for updates on an older app that still builds against a legacy sdk.
Oh, I hate capacitive buttons too as do all right-thinking people, but I still vastly prefer the capacitive back button (on my Dell Venue Pro - not recommended, btw) over none at all. I don't really hit the buttons by accident myself, but this does seem to be a problem for new users (as I've discovered on the occasions where I lent my phone to someone who needed to make a call).
Another tip for the manual-scanners out there to make that for-loop a little bit faster:

for(int i = 0, len = text.length(); i < len; i++) {
// do something
}

avoids the method call to length() in the comparison expression every time. I imagine a lot of you know this, just from time to time I run into someone that balks at what you can do inside of the old-school for headers and how flexible it can be to help make your life inside the loop a hair bit easier. (e.g. init your variable that you want to pull out)

As for this article, was excellent. I was surprised at how robust of a test suite it was; fortunately it looks like you only need to get concerned with really robust/complex search algorithms if you are working with large chunks of text and brute-force is surprisingly fast in most shorter cases.

Chalk one up for raw, unsexy CPU power ;)
Post cyberpunk?
Sheesh, I live in Austin, TX and according to that, my salary adjusted for San Francisco nearly doubles.
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Hotmail bans common passwords and introduces hacking alert system
Why Not To Do a Startup .. because You Will Fail.
Use WolframAlpha instead: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24176%2C000+in+manhatt...

More accurate and they give a lot more details to the data.

*Note: I specifically stated 'Manhattan' in that query
Is there a particular reason why your personal code is closed source.
Derivative of a data structure? I never heard of that before, though I'm familiar with derivatives in calculus. How do you calculate the derivative of a data structure? I'm guessing that you start by eliminating values that are constant with respect to some variable, but I'm not sure how you'd reduce the rest. How common is it to have values in a data structure that are non-linearly related to a variable?
It is very possible and was what I was going to do originally. However, I was worried that there would be thousands of subreddits to scrape, so I decided to just go with the top ones in terms of size. There are also a few that are included because they're interesting to me.

In the future I will either have a subreddit suggestion form or a way to only see the subreddits you're subscribed to. I really just wanted to get it out there and see if there was any interest before I put more effort into it.
I couldn't agree more. In my personal circle of friends (college kids), I know maybe 2 or 3 people who regularly use these applications. Geosocial information has immense potential, but I don't think the current generation of LSBN has found the right approach yet.
The real problem with the iPhone home button is that it requires a metric ton of force to register the depression.
I have three personas: my professional, my personal and my social. Some people see more than one of my personas depending on context - if I'm out with a bunch of friends and run into a VC, I quickly switch into my professional persona.

Separate websites for each social context makes my life easier. LinkedIn is professional. Facebook is social (well, before my contacts got mixed up). Dating websites are personal.

Google+ doesn't provide a strong visual indicator to help me switch contexts. I'm not absolutely certain that I haven't mixed up one of my business contacts with my personal ones. Add to that the chance that something gets sent out publicly by mistake and there is absolutely no chance I'll use G+ for anything beyond Twitter with pictures.
Nice Anathem reference :)

The problem with your analogy is that the debris from the spaceship, etc. would still be visible to an observer after the fact. A better analogy would be this:

The aliens point a camera at our entire civilization. Ignoring the fact that this cloak works on the order of monumentally smaller scales than civilizations and the time it takes to put an ice chunk in a star, we use the cloak while we put an ice chunk in a star. The aliens would see our civilization jump from a state with no ice chunk in a star to one with an ice chunk in a star. Assuming that their measuring devices are up to the task, they would still be able to find all the spaceship debris, etc.
>nope, still no flying cars

No, but we do have this wonderful piece of awesome: http://www.gizmag.com/hoverbike/18813/
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I have a "Shitlist" circle that I post demotivational quotes to on a regular basis. The rest of the time I post publicly. Just so no one gets the wrong idea, most of the people on my shitlist requested to be there.
Charles Stross is definitely an author to read if you're looking for interesting predictions that have a good chance of coming true.
I group my applications roughly around similar functionality (language learning apps on one screen, games on another, utilities on another, etc.). When I use the home button to return to the SpringBoard, I usually want to open an application from the screen I launched from, not an application from the first page (which are in all likelihood accessible from the task switcher anyway). So Apple's way works for me.
If you're using this sort of approach, check out www.gitalytics.com, a site I made to automate this sort of search when I was doing it.
my answer to this in the past has been:

google identity = work (buzz, profile, gmail, twitter)
facebook identity = social

i think most people will continue to use existing social networks. we'll post appropriate content to our audience, and the audience at each network has a different tone. this is natural, i think.
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The user named "X-Istence" here on Hacker News said it best[1]

"Because the user that is receiving the item is tax dodging Amazon should be punished?"

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2761847
>Good thing it's a one-off that I think they generated for me

Is that really a good thing? If they can't store it properly, what are the chances of them generating it properly?
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To some extend I agree - but if it wasn't for this benchmark AND the follow-up, my SSL cipher list would definitively not be the first (or second, or third) item I'd check in case of mysterious web server slowness ... Now it is.

I've learned something from this and thus find it useful.
There is a plugin which can switch windows with the alt key in the activities view.
Don't sell yourself short. But I agree, how many people are really having to make a choice between the two opportunities?
There's no distinction between "tasks" and "views" in Android. Everything is just an activity. When you press back it takes you to the previous activity you were on. When you launch an application you're really just launching the default activity for a given package. The home screen is itself an activity.

This also allows you to launch in the middle of an application, to a specific screen, etc. It's better to think about activities as URLs. The back button on Android behaves the same as the back button on your browser.
Very true, but in the process I've learned a lot about SSL and nginx.
You miss my point in disabling the back button. The user still needs to test it every time to see what it does and where it goes, if it works at all. That's bad UI.

As for going back to the previous app, as I argue below, the back button is crippled there too because you need to be in the root view controller of whatever stack you're in for it to do that, and you need to remember which app sent you there, which is not indicated in the UI.

In iOS you can get back to the previous app from anywhere in the navigation stack with a double-tap gesture. An additional tap, to be sure, but all ambiguity from the constant and ever-present back button is removed.
The Mote in God's Eye was a great read.
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The two serve a different purpose. No one thinks a Harvard MBA gives you an edge for bootstrapping your startup in your garage, and no one believes doing Techstars will help you run the division of a large corporation.

A better decision algorithm would be:

1) figure out what you want to do in the future
2) pick acoordingly

If you want my take on MBA vs. entrepreneurship, I blogged here (http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/08/12/the-cheapest-mba-pro...). Guess what: for entrepreneurs, taking the entrepreneurial route is better.
I'm curious what these apps are that don't support the back button. The back stack is an integral part of the Silverlight framework on the phone - unless your app is XNA-based you would have to go out of your way not to support it.

btw, IMDB can't support the search button because it's actually not exposed to third-party developers. Use of the search button for in-app search is actually scrapped in Mango because people found it confusing - the built-in apps that support search now have their own on-screen search buttons.
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I wish I could post something publicly, but not push it to every circle, only a few. That way, it's "on my record", but not bothering everyone I know.
Why are we talking about MBAs on a hacker news site? Off topic.
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How many home screens do you have? I don't use many apps so mine is kept to one screen so I can get anywhere in just a few taps. I just get annoyed everytime I overclick onto the search screen. It's hard to believe Apple doesn't allow its users to disable it.
An update to a popular submission a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1449117
I agree with you but I always thought circles would be amazing for my personal life since my work-related stuff should be public (at least most of it).
What Netflix isn't saying: a fresh look on price changes
No, I'm aware they're Linux problems. It just seems the mind-share is on KVM these days so I generally consider Linux Host Virtualization == KVM.

You're absolutely correct though. It's not really KVM's fault. It's the Linux iscsi, software RAID, and volume management capabilities that are so lacking.

It just happens that that makes using KVM much less appealing.

I want:

1. Reliable Snapshots and Replication
2. Simple Volume Management
3. Human readable device names
4. Consistency of volumes/devices between reboots
5. An "uncorruptable" FS backing the guests
6. Reliable Virtualization

OpenSolaris is the only platform I know addresses these concerns. Linux doesn't come close despite it feeling like it's virtualization options are more mature.

FreeBSD may be a good fit with VirtualBox, but VBox on OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana was unstable for me at least. I'd like to give FreeBSD a try sometime.

On libvirt, that's about what I expected. I guess I just wanted to complain about it in general. ;-)

sudo xm new /my/config/file
sudo xm start my_guest
sudo xm shutdown my_guest
sudo xm delete my_guest

What's going through my head: "I need a tool that I haven't seen a decent one page explanation on to wrap that why?" :-)
And Amazon really won't really feel any pain. Only Californians are being hurt by this in terms of lost jobs, lost income, and lost income tax revenue.
Don't think I've ever experienced buffering with a modern connection on any of the services I've reviewed (MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody, Grooveshark, etc). It's really just a cost saving mechanism for them more than an anti-buffering agent for us.
Interesting comparison - but in reality, you can usually get the school to let you defer admission for a year. That will let you play things out a little so you can make the decision with more information.
Actually, this is a serious consideration. Location greatly affects pay, as cost of living changes. For example, it's substantially more expensive to live in Silicon Valley than it is to live in Cocoa Beach, FL or Seattle, WA
I updated the blog post with other ideas as well.
But how does Google+ help accomplish that goal? It's a closed platform just like every other has been; for that you need federation APIs (like those of Appleseed & StatusNet) to enable cross-server communication.
Netflix alienates thousands by raising prices
Judging from today state of the art AI - creativity would be automated much earlier than dumb physical jobs.

We already have pattern matching and theorem proving software, I think that throwing sheer computing power at hard problem where strict criteria for correctnes are defined would be cheaper than human problem solver.

On the other hand mechanical and interfacing side of robot revolution seems to lag after AI research. Teaching robot to run is hard problem, brain has many layers of hardware for doing this, and it's easier to make new human, than it is to make new robot.

All in all I predict the exact opposite - unskilled workers will have jobs, creativity in many cases would be automated.
It ignores apps and goes back through your history in the home screens, hence the randomness you mention
Ironic that BTRFS is sponsored by Oracle then!
Is there a canonical list anywhere of products, or at least product categories, for which good label arbitrage opportunities exist on Ebay and elsewhere? I'll pay $0.99 for filet mignon in a McDonald's wrapper any day.
So you still have a major disappointment ahead when your online personas (all of which are public btw) will clash with undesired consequences. At least in G+ you are controlling your privacy, not just luck/obscurity which you currently seem to rely on.
I'm an Rdio user and I've been trying Spotify today. I'm not thrilled with their music library. There are a bunch of bands that I love that Rdio doesn't have (Arcade Fire, Shins, Ramones, Pink Floyd, older Flogging Molly, newer Eisley, etc.). There are only a few albums that I really want that Rdio doesn't have, by contrast.

I feel like Spotify's UI is just a gray iTunes, whereas Rdio's UI is more in line with how I think about music. The search function in Spotify is really poor compared to Rdio.

Rdio blows away Spotify in terms of the discovery and social aspects. I really like the ability to follow people that have the same tastes as I do. I've found a bunch of new bands that way. With Spotify, you have to find friends on Facebook and Twitter. And no offense to my friends, but I think their taste in music sucks.

I'm sticking with Rdio.
Rhapsody used to be quite similar to spotify. Their desktop app let you play free music. But lately they've fallen behind and their player UI hasn't changed much for like 5 years. They don't have a Mac app. But if you use windows, Rhapsody comes close to Spotify in terms of features.
I wonder if programmers are going to overwork themselves at some point.

Judged by programming OUTSIDE of work time. Not having free time to do this is not an excuse.

gf/bf/wife/husband/son/daughter/parents/dog/cat/friends/life will have to understand that you need time for your craft.

I currently have time to do programming in my spare time, but I worry that in a few years my time won't be as free.
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One trick Apple clearly miss here (IMO) is not having the "Home" screen centered. On iOS devices, page 1 is always at the far left.

i.e.

Screen 1 -> Screen 2 --> Screen 3 ---> Screen 4 ----> Screen 5

On a lot of Android launchers, you can have page one centered.

i.e.

Screen a <--> Screen b <-> Screen 1 <-> Screen x <--> Screen y

What's the benefit? I can get to my two most used screens both within 1 swipe. In fact the most swipes I need to access any of my five screens (from the Home) is 2, on iOS as above it's 4 (for the same number of screens). You could argue that some people use "Search" so much it negates this, but I think search should be accessed in a slightly different way to how Apple have it programmed in now anyway.
np. enjoy.
I'm in the same boat. I post work stuff to my "Techno-Geeks" circle. Then when I look at the stream for this circle, I see all my geeky friends' cat pictures that they're posting to "Public" or their "Friends" circle. I'd love to have a group feature that works the way circles work, so I'd only see relevant posts when I go to the group-circle, and other people could post to it as well.
But you still took the job?
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Have you been able to calculate the value of a like and a fan?
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Will this make its way upstream into the open-source BigCouch?
Even in the startup community TechStars isn't that well known. TechStars, YC, etc. are well known among a certain clique within the startup community, but it's all too easy to forget that most tech startup founders will never have heard of them.
When you graduate from a Techstars program you'll be an expert in Techstars and not much else although you'll probably have a good idea if this startup thing is something you'd like to do.

I cannot say the same thing for a person attending a two-year program, being exposed to both intensive and non-intensive graduate-level studies and acquiring knowledge through study and experience that an incubator cannot.

I'd recommend an incubator like Techstars to a [well-rounded] person with an undergraduate degree looking for a great start in this particular industry, but never in lieu of a Harvard MBA. Wouldn't even consider it.
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