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Professors have always complained about teaching undergrads getting in the way of doing research. At most research universities (which tend to draw more famous professors), a professor's major source of financial support is from grants to do research.

That said, having the proposal shot down by one professor seems to show a lack of entrepreneurial spirit. Surely the faculty in his department had a range of interests, and even if the most natural choice turned him down, there ought to have been others close enough to his interests to make working with them worthwhile.
Apple and Google are excellent examples of how the market is closed. They can lose billions of dollars and still turn a profit. They can enter any market they want, even completely closed ones.

If it's dreamland, why are there small desktop linux competitors? You confuse engineering effort with business effort. You can't launch a smartphone OS business, but you can launch a desktop OS business. The only reasons that this is the case are patents.
It's not Google criticizing Sony, it's Andrew Hintz posting on his Google+ page.
Definitely agree on the uselessness of suggested contacts. It's suggesting 495 people for me, none of whom I know personally. Some are "internet personalities". A few are friends-of-friends who I've never met. The vast majority are people I've never heard of.
Sure, it would be ideal to have a webcam mounted right on top of Pike's peak, but I think that's not required. I'm sure somewhere like the Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs has a sufficiently awesome view of the Rocky Mountains, though. :)
Meet people, lend, rent, sell and buy in your apartment complex community.
Resident.ly : Meet people, lend, rent, sell and buy in your apartment complex community. Residently help you meet the person next door without being creepy.
What a great idea! It'd be cool if there were some way to create color coded mice/pointers so people could point to places on the page, or find some way for users to highlight some parts. I love it!
"Does this fit me" has been a dream of mine for awhile. Imagine a world where everybody's clothes fit. Where clothing can be spontaneously gifted, and you'll be sure it fits like a glove.

I think he sells himself short here. Women aren't the only people that have to hunt for a fit. I'm a tall, lanky guy. Most medium shirts are too short, and my shoulders swim in a large. Like any good scientist, I've trialled and erred my way to brands that fit (thank you American Apparel medium 50/50s), but this discovery process is a pain in the ass. Here's the upside, browse through clothes online, and everything fits, see how it looks on someone with your shape.

There are some big challenges of course. A brand's sizing will vary from design to design. I bought a pair of Nike 11s that fit, after trying another Nike 11 that didn't. Then, how consistent is the sizing after manufacturing, after washing?

Sigh, somebody start this, and I'd love to help.
I have two Dell PowerEdges in my living room and they make a sound not unlike an airplane revving up for takeoff.
This is really nifty, though it's a little slow redirecting on my end (in SF). :) Great job!
DHCP allows the computer to send a computer name to the DHCP server, the server can then dynamically set DNS entries based on the computer name.

DHCP is also allowed to send back a new hostname (the reason why on Mac's sometimes depending on the network you are connected to a different hostname is shown on the command line). What is most likely happening here is that your DHCP server is sending you a new hostname because it is not letting your Mac use its old lease for one reason or another.
GoDaddy Gets NoDaddy.com gripe site shut down
Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
How is Zynga supposedly worth over 20 times what PopCap is being bought for? I must be massively underestimating how much people spend on in-game items in * Ville\* Wars. Or really overestimating how many copies of PvZ have been sold (I've bought it twice). And PopCap's revenue model isn't even almost wholly dependent on another companies success.
This is a good read, but, and it's a big one, it's written by Rob Enderle. Given his performance for SCOg in the Linux suits of the last few years, one has to question his integrity and veracity. Oracle could easily have bought him off with the same "collateral" strategy Enderle himself describes. Which would be a fascinating infinite regression.
10% of the Internet? Sorry, but I don't buy it.
The question isn't whether you hold the copyright, it's if that somebody does.
I feel like an entitled brat saying this, but fuck it, I'm moving to DVD-by-mail and ~torrents (or that old news service we're not supposed to mention).

Hopefully, we see more studios learning the lean business principles many of us have adopted in order to bootstrap.

Content costs should be reduced over time given current technological abilities, and there should be significant opportunity for up-and-coming talents to get on the screen with significant viewing audiences.
Mad respect for Pandora, been an avid One user for years, this is great.
I don't think they're doing that. They mention they've replaced the frontend - which makes a lot of sense, considering they want to turn it into a social media website - but makes no notes of actually dropping Flash. Plus there's no iPad compatibility mention, so... I'm guessing they still use Flash for playback.
Exactly. For it to be any less secure, they'd have to be logging your plaintext credentials. And if you're that paranoid, there's the additional passphrase.
Wow, nice move, guys!

One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay very neutral amongst all the Linux vendors. Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory. That's allowed him to focus on Linux without having a Corporate Overlord, benign though it may be.
A business can be in decline well before the stock price reflects that. Also, the stock market isn't a reasonable reflection of how stable a business will be into the future. If this was the case, then stock market crashes would be pure fiction.
"Bragging" might be a bit hard; I'd say they're happy/honored to give back to an awesome community.
How does Google know what other accounts might be yours?
Exactly - The entire MySQL ecosystem remains at your disposal when using MemSql.
Love the idea as well, even commented on the blog (something I rarely do these days). My partner and I might be interested in hacking on it too. Now if we can get tansey to do our ML~
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Considering the fact that it's fairly obvious that the monkey's took the photos themselves, everyone should quit fighting and marvel in the notion that a fucking monkey took a picture of itself. Next step, put it up under creative commons and call it a day.
Voice control with MacRuby in this week's Codebrawl
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That's a very good point - it also reminds me of this article about how true guerilla warfare works (or ought to work): http://exiledonline.com/wn-38-ira-vs-al-qaeda-i-was-wrong/
A better alternative is sharedtalk.com, you can also do voice chat there. I use that a lot, but in general the pattern is just to use this type of site as an introduction at which point you exchange Skype or facebook user names and then switch to that for the long term language exchange.

The real competition for this new site in my opinon, is therefore not any of these exchange sites, but Skype since the call quality is so much better than any flash based solution can achieve. They need to offer something special in order to retain long term users and not just be a site used to introduce language learners.
I think this article is inaccurate and overhyped. First of all, I run a similar company that does this in Nevada. We are the "Registered Agent" for thousands of companies. All it means is that we are the address the state can send their "Annual Report" paperwork to and a process server can deliver and have legal docs signed for. The Registered Agent must have an address in the state and be available during business hours. These aren't "shell" companies - every company in NV from Amazon to Zappos has to have an agent.
They weren't, because they were Windows 95 installation floppies.
I'm so impressed! It'd be nice if there was support for IRC commands since it seems to be omnipresent in chat applications. :)
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/technology/netflix_starz_con...

"Netflix has another year or two on most of these contracts, and then the game completely changes," says Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities.

Pachter predicts Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion in 2012.
I haven't implemented it on any high-profile sites, but the few blogs I've turned it on for have seen anywhere between a 95-100% drop in their commentspam count, and the sites seem faster, but we haven't measured, and the traffic generally hasn't been high enough to serve as a real test.

Still, it's worth signing up for a free account if you have any sort of self-hosted site or blog.
Heroku is nice so we are nice?
One of my favorite features from way back involved running a local X Server and a number of remote X clients tunneling over ssh. I close the lid, pick up the laptop and go for lunch. Come back and open the lid and wifi is reconnected immediately and the remote X clients and SSH shells are still alive and active.

And that was 6 years ago on a PPC iBook.
No feedback at all?
The font is rendered via HTML5's canvas, incidentally.
There is also a skills shortage in programmers. If people like this can get work then imagine if you actually knew about programming. Remember that next time your thinking about your unsatisfying job or at pay review time.
You don't necessarily need to write log entries in the order they are committed, nor do you need to store all of the entries in a single log, you could shard the log writing too - as long as you maintained, somewhere, the order information. So yes, you would still need to lock and sort out the order somewhere, but you already have to if you're ACID any way.
"I think we're fully within our rights to complain."

Wait, what? You were violating their terms of service and you're complaining because they're raising the price you will have to pay to keep violating their terms of service? It's not like they're even threatening to cut you off.

I'm pissed they're raising my plan, but certainly you must have known you were getting away with something.
New Android Market for Phones
congrats to Jamie and team!
So, not using the same actual SQL syntax? Just the binary protocol?
There are three phases here:

1st phase is networking discovery. During this phase, the Mac is sending ARP who-has requests, which are "anyone out there" requests, not, "hey, I'm using this" requests.

2nd phase is the assumption. If the DHCP client in iOS is able to verify the Ethernet and IP address of the DHCP server match it's suspected network profile, and it has a valid DHCP lease record for that network, it assigns that IP to the interface and begins using it, at which point any potential ARP poisoning would occur.

3rd phase is DHCP negotiation. The first actual DHCP request goes out at 00.0140s, which is after the initial ARP network profiling, but before the interface actually comes up, so these actions could be considered asynchronous. Once the DHCP negotiation completes, any incorrect assumptions are abandoned and the DHCP issued IP would be used.

There appears to be a window of 1.0s where the device is using an assumed IP address. During this time, traffic transmitted on the network would "poison" the ARP cache, but IP conflicts are not an end of the world scenario in networking terms. Once the proper DHCP resolution occurs, the ARP table would be updated and the conflict resolved.
This is why I like Techdirt. It's what TechCrunch tries (and fails) to be: A rowdy tech blog that makes a good point without going too deep into hyperbole. I'm curious to see what the monkey has to say about all this. When will The Onion pick the story up?
Interesting point. Since Redbox is $1 a movie and the "1 movie at a time" Netflix plan is a minimum of about $.80 per movie, it really does make the two pricing plans pretty equal. The Netflix cost per disc goes up if you don't watch and return them as soon as possible.

On top of that, Redbox would let you get four movies on a Friday night to watch Friday & Saturday while Netflix would require you to watch movies during the work week (to keep the price per disc equal, at least).
Best business application is you know you're going to get a ton of buzz in a very short period of time. Get people in a chat and get them excited, keep those customers at a much higher rate.
I think fine-tuning levels of intimacy and deciding which contexts different people should be included and excluded in is something that everyone does a little bit and some people spend much of their waking lives obsessing over. It will feel natural to invest time and effort into managing their Circles in Google. You can think of it as something to do with your hands while you think about your social relationships, or as a ceremonial way to mark changes in your social graph.
How is this differentiated from any of the myriad plugins that already do this same sort of thing?
"Anyone can invent a security system that he himself cannot break." - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law....

Any CAPTCHA scheme that can be solved by enumeration of all possible answers is a failure, because there are cost effective ways to hit a CAPTCHA over and over again, with cheap humans, and build the enumeration table. This is where the "pick the image with a cute thing" in it scheme falls down. In this case, once the enumeration of description -> image(s) is determined, you lose.

Any scheme that involves humans some how creating tags or labeling images or writing text will generally be enumerable as well, because they can trivially out-manpower you.

Also, many CAPTCHA schemes use a model of spammer in which the spammer isn't permitted to be clever. If there is a pattern, in the real world the spammer is "allowed" to exploit it. There are 2^64 different ways to add two 32-bit numbers to each other, but that doesn't mean that you can beat a spammer just by asking the user to do a simple addition, because when I say "enumerate" I mean it more in the computer science sense, not the literal sense. They can and will create something that parses the problem and does it, so for instance for my stupid "add two random 32-bit numbers" example the CAPTCHA is actually easier for a computer than a human.

CAPTCHAs are hard and getting steadily harder... at least, if you require them to work. Security theater is easy.
I'm not sure how the streaming catalogs compare (and how they're trending relative to each other) but switching streaming over to Amazon Prime come September is certainly an option I'll look at. I buy a lot on Amazon and, while I've never felt that Prime was quite worth it, it becomes almost a no-brainer for me to switch from Netflix to Prime if I can get faster shipping with no minimum in addition to streaming for ~ the same amount of money as on Netflix.

(And probably switch to the limited DVD plan.)
My Jambox is the most impressive piece of tech I've purchased this year. Smaller than I thought it would be, but plenty loud. If it was $99 instead of $199, I could see it taking a small chunk out of the iphone/ipod docking system market.
I'll fess up, I totally don't understand the crown-wearing horse in the rain.
Exactly what I was thinking. They'd be a good market for this kind of thing.
Rudimentary GooglePlus API
The real product is just a JS plugin. : ) Check out http://www.envolve.com
I'm honestly glad to see the reactions here that being bored is not (necessarily) your fault.

What I mean is that job ads tend to look for "self-motivated" people and it's easy to conclude that if you're bored, you're just clearly not self-motivated enough.

However, there are many things that a company and management can do (or not do) that contribute to a decrease in motivation. Or even the appearance of resentment since keeping you bored (or worse, not realizing you are) shows the lack of interest in what you're doing, and where you're going.
Do we need another fractional Lisp that reuses Python/Ruby/IO syntax?

Just give me the power of Lisp and more in a new and interesting way and we'll discuss implementation performance later.

Oh look, operator precedence. Yet another thing prefix notation eliminates me from having to memorize or otherwise puzzle out.

Why do we have to keep doing this over...and over...and over...

Make an LLVM Lisp with S and M expressions and concurrency primitives and you have an interested customer, otherwise, I'll keep hacking in Clojure.

I love seeing new things but I don't understand why people keep making these kinds of languages over and over, we've been doing it since Perl, Python, and Ruby came out.
Avoid treating all contractors as thieves (illustration of Deming concept)
FCC Rules Tackle 'Phone Cramming' Fees
"not very comfortable for them to talk to strangers face to face (online)" - this may be true of certain people but there are large numbers who will do based on my experience of using a text and voice language exchange site called sharedtalk.com. There are always many people there, particularly seems to be Spanish (especially from Colombia for whatever reason) and Portuguese (almost all from Brazil) speakers wanted to exchange with English speakers. Although the text chat is most popular there, the users are often very willing to exchange Skype names to use voice or video chat.

"how do you motivate strangers to actually teach each other languages while keeping their attention span long enough, say, 5 minutes." - In my experience, you do not actively teach each other the language, more just chat in the different languages and correct and explain the mistakes your partner makes in your native language. Thus, boredom after 5 minutes is not a problem, provided you get along, especially with all the different cultural differences to talk about.
European VCs ‘Not Entrepreneur Friendly’ Says Founder
Down-thread of this comment, people have already discussed numerous issues with the assumption that DHCP leases are stable when not in use (such as that servers often choose to allocate out of an artificially small pool of addresses, and ping old addresses to determine if they are in use before simply reclaiming and reassigning them).
Once again using HTML5 as code for Javascript.
Somehow I like that people do that, makes my job more misterious.
Google is basically a massive brain - the know everything about the internet.

I'm sure they have lot's of methods of figuring out who's who on the Internet. They know a huge amount about you (well they try to anyway).

Besides, they've got my LinkedIn A/c, Facebook A/c, Twitter A/c all linked to my G+ Profile now because I told them.
If you have two completely rigid objects, then as soon as they touch on two points, those two points define an axis. Rotate the objects on this axis until they touch at a third point. Now they are fixed relative to each other, and you can't move them to touch at more points. If you slide the objects on each other, as soon as they touch at a "new" point, one of the other three will be slightly further away, and won't touch any more. Unless you use a flexible material, or somehow make a perfectly flat surface, they will only touch at three points.
I can only hope these instances get more and more ridiculous, with higher profile people, until something finally gives.
You suggestion to avoid upselling is to buy an iPad, and their app for it?
I'd lose the cartoon tiger mascot right away.

No one is going to read any of the paragraphs of text on your homepage. Especially the one at the very top. You want bulleted lists, quick bits of text you can read in seconds. Your "Summary of Benefits/Features" section at the bottom does this... do text like that + thumbnail pictures for each.
Absolutely! Throw us up on launch day so you can get instant feedback on your product.
The article mentions 'manifest destiny' but 'eminent domain' would be the more apropriate analogy. Facebook is its own country, in many ways.
Link to actual code for his GAE app. http://code.google.com/p/emlynoreganappengine/source/browse/...
Thats one of the biggest complaints we get on http://console.fm, everyone loves the service though!!! Envolve is fantastic!!!
Arduino + RC boat = True
> Actually this is a very good idea.

This is a stupid idea.

Most people buy phones in wireless providers' stores, get them provisioned there, and then leave with a functioning phone.

The idea of a bare phone that you can do whatever you want with would be appealing to a vanishingly small portion of the phone buying population. Everyone else would ask to see the iPhone, a Blackberry, or one of them Windows phones, because having to do do an OS install on a cell phone before you can use it would be a hasslicious waste of time for most people.
So Heroku now owns Ruby.

Not that I think this will lead anywhere particularly bad.
Using this as I add in this comment - talking about hackathons with somepeople in the news.ycombinator.com channel, and looks like I might have found a much more interesting way to spend my weekend!

Sites with strong identities (like HN) have a lot to gain with something like envolve. We get a bit more freeform discussion that's still organized.

The only two concerns I have are 1.) will we lose historical discussions since they're played out in an external system? and 2.) Flamewars - they're bad enough when there's some forced wait-time between replies. Bringing in real-time chat could make it much, much worse :)

Awesome job to the envolve guys!
In the link you provided to the OP's website, right after quoting the FB email, he writes:

We obviously did not “pre fill” any fields without any user action.
I Gave Away My Web Identity. All I Got Was a T-Shirt.
good to hear.
> Axiom: Boring work can never compete with Hacker News.

> Axiom: Hacker News can never compete with interesting work.

I disagree[1] with your second axiom. HN, in limited quantities[2], counts as professional development, I would say. That means that limited HN usage is necessary, which certainly helps it "compete".

If I were interviewing someone for a programming job, and I learned that they never read HN or SO or Proggit or /. or anything like that, then I would have some serious reservations about them.

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[1] Okay, being a mathematician, I know that an axiom simply is; one doesn't agree or disagree with it. But this does mean that your theorem has limited applications.

[2] HN in large quantities, on the other hand ....
I've always dreamed of a world with more things like the Linux Foundation. I'd love to see a Ruby foundation or something like that
If Cater's argument is correct, then surely Cater should also remove the photos because Cater also doesn't own the copyright.