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its very good news inthe world
Nearly every good ad campaign, and many successful brand names are somehow controversial. I think the name is just brilliant. :)
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Virgin Media testing 1.5Gbps Internet for lucky Londonites
I guess the obvious question not asked is whether Google set the "real name" bar artificially high in order to slowly work out where the edges of the issue are. It might simply have been more efficient to wear down a draconian rule than to build up from none.
One-Time Pad Encryption Dates Back to Telegraph Codebook
Are Great People Really Overrated?
Tell Zynga that copying competitors doesn't work. Please wait until after their IPO though, to soften the blow.
Show HN: Non-Anonymous Chat on IPhone
Let me know if you have any questions and, as always, any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Hacker News vs TechCrunch (my site is now on the front page of both)
If you actually get +1000 and more people actually visit your site and enjoy your service you will be probably getting some more pluses.
May 7, 2009...
Or, you know, voting.
The only reason is for their power.People have some tolerance for corporate greed, but little to none for blatant corporate power grabs. They are literally killing it right before our eyes for lack of understanding. People won't use the system if they insist they get to know everything about you solely for their benefit. No matter how they spin it, it's just not gonna fly. Watch.
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My apologies, I mistakenly thought my correct use of the 'oid' suffix would allow me to bypass the normal aversion to such things.
I'm curious to see how far they can and will push this. Apple is growing rapidly and for good reasons. This action is pure exploitation as far as I can tell, but they get away with it. Will this slow their growth? I doubt it. Will EU anti-trust step in? Probably not, because Apple's market share is tiny.

So they'll make a few hundred million bucks with this. Ten times more and they will face anti-trust issues. If I was CEO, I wouldn't consider a few percent extra revenue worth the karma damage. But greed can blind even the smartest people.

Anyway, I strongly believe different layers of "the stack" should not interfere with other layers and that companies should accept that they deliver commodities. Telco's should charge by the gigabyte and bandwidth, Apple should charge for their hardware, software and whatever it costs to maintain App Store infrastructure.

Otherwise, what's next? Should Amazon pay AT&T 40% of their internet revenue or risk getting blocked?
Doesn't work for me. I see Einstein both with glasses and without (Monroe only becomes apparent if I'm 3 feet away sans glasses). However, text becomes blurry with glasses off.
I originally showed HN my website http://chatoften.com and got some great feedback. I've moved the application to the IPhone. If any of you have an Iphone please tell me what you think of the experience.

This is an app that lets you chat with another authenticated facebook user. You'll both see each other's faces and names.

Thanks.
It still helps with social proof. Everyone can see the number on the site.
But how did you come up with the sampling words?
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>>and have just blown a lot of funding with no results to show off during the next round of funding

On the contrary, now we can stop wasting man hours on incorrect theorems and start looking for the right ones. This is really interesting because it means that the universe is much different than we imagined.
I don't think an outcome that would lead to less funding for this kind of physics would be necessarily bad.
Here's info about the "OR1200 OpenRISC" processor. It's been spec'd in Verilog and runs on a simulator, FPGA, and ASIC.

http://opencores.org/or1k/OR1200_OpenRISC_Processor
Wow, CEO of the year for you sir.

If things would be as easy as that, flip to Android and compete with the rest... to the bottom. How would you differentiate yourself vs HTC, Motorola, etc?

What if the Chinese android handsets comes up with cheap mobile phones similar to BB hardware interface (the golden keyboard, you know that BB users love BB because of the keyboard).

Switching to Android makes RIM an average company like everybody else.
I remember reading this a few years back. The effect is actually really easy to recreate in photoshop from two photos. Our college magazine at the time was running an issue on the incoming student union committee so I knocked up a "double-image" for each position and wrote a short piece about the paper. People loved it.
Here are a couple.

* Browsermob
* Pingdom (tools.pingdom.com)
* blitz.io
* http://loadimpact.com/

HTH
While "keeps a close eye on" is certainly an accurate description of what he does, "makes accurate and/or well-founded predictions" is not, and that's more important. Someone who wanted to be well-informed about mobile would do far better by reading Horace Dediu, for example.
Article about samwer clone strategy
It is in German but still great.
Surely building the tower is going to offset a non-insignificant amount of it's CO2 'savings' vs Fossils?
hah, that was my thought exactly
This puts the Native vs. HTML5 debate in an interesting light. If Amazon releases a Kindle web app, Apple has no say.
Yes, and one of my few wishes for chrome would be something like Firefox' (hidden) "open new windows as background tabs" preference, then using the 'v' key would become an order of magnitude more productive. That's my usual response for TL;DR blog posts. Browse through the whole list with your vi-keys, pick the ones that don't fit (or lose too much essential formatting) for other tabs, skim through the rest within the reader.

As opposed to gmail, I could probably switch to something else if it had a half-way decent mobile version. Reeder isn't that essential to me.
RIM in particular continues to have strong financial numbers. But the outlook is bad as the trends are showing decline rather than growth.

The innovator's dilemma really takes a toll on company's who main source of revenue is being disrupted and at the same time have to report to shareholders.
I'm near sighted, have glasses - and the image looks the same with and without.
Yes, makes for good linkbait too.
Luckily Apple has included a nicely organized touchpad settings page with videos of all of the gestures (just like Snow Leopard had). If someone wants to learn the gestures and finds that they aren't simply intuitive (which I personally believe they are), they can simply watch the videos and see how to do them.
Another option I find myself using more and more often is Newsblur.
But knowing how to program and knowing all the trendy algorithms are two completely different things, - I should know.
Will Meetings Use Microsoft Avatar Kinect? (Do we want them to?)
Doesn't Monroe with no first name mean James Monroe? Because of this I was really trying hard to see the president, all the more confused because I am nearsighted.
I think the general public would stab their local IBM Global Services consultant in the eye with a pen if they thought it would help their beloved Angry Birds in the patent dispute.
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IBM in the 80s? Maybe they did not regain their status as "the computer company," but they certainly carried out quite a turn around.
FWIW, your kill_lotus function is equivalent to:

pgrep notes | xargs kill -9
Reader is also great for managing podcasts via "Listen" (Google's Android Podcast app). Nice because they show up with the rest of my RSS feeds.
What makes you think that all 2000 are engineers? RIM consists of many departments (IT, Sales, Marketing, R&D). They also have stuff like SAP for their ERP systems. That thing needs a team of developers that don't necessary develop "mobile" software.

From my knowledge, there are competing software/apps within the internal RIM ecosystems itself so these people that got laid off could potentially be the result of internal wars.

For example: software A that was built using the old RIM ecosystems (from the OS, the API, the toolkit, etc) and old mobile paradigms/concepts competes against software B that was built based on the latest web 2.0 + mobile crazed. Perhaps it's time for software A to die. Some companies might just shift these engineers to software B's team while other decided to shut down the whole team (sometime it's not easy to integrate new team members, especially if software B was a result of acquisition).
Motor vehicle accidents kill the young (rarely); cancer and cardiovascular disease kill the old (frequently). Oddly enough, people regard a 4 year old killed by/in a car as a worse outcome than that same 4 year old growing up to be an 89 year old killed by cancer or heart disease.
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Thus, without patent protection, the incentives
to innovate in the field of software are significantly
reduced.

... Right ...
Twitter Sidesteps Its Own Rules on Lists Feature
I've abandoned the native app and just use the web version of reader bookmarked onto my home screen. Its works great and saves precious space on my Nexus One.
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Yes. I found this post with it.
That's because a true theory of gravity is still missing. On one hand, we have an approximate high-scale view due to relativity, on the other hand quantum theory says there should be some particles called gravitons that are the carriers of this force.

Both these views should become approximations of the real theory of gravity, if and when it's created.
Yes, but via Reeder. I gave up on using Google Reader directly.
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Does that include Google Reader clients? I have used the web interface maybe twice in two years, but I use Reeder on my phone & Mac every day.
i used bloglines for a long time until they started having problems with feeds not consistently updating. i was comfortable with their interface, so i just duplicated it (http://den.im/ - http://i.imgur.com/0e8jc.png) and created all of the code underneath to fetch feeds.

i added twitter oauth support so that twitter streams look and update just like rss feeds (but with posting/replying support). i added voting so that there could be a frontpage full of popular stories, and a mobile version that looks decent on android/iphone.

but by then google reader had taken off and my few beta users had switched to that, so now i'm the only one still using it and the voting is useless. i'd probably just abandon it for something else but i haven't seen anything that integrates rss feeds, twitter, package tracking, and has a decent mobile interface. so for now it just remains a side project.
It could also be or become a ranking/search quality signal in aggregate.

Google may also show aggregate +1's in their search results in the future (so social proof right in the search results):

>>And even if none of your friends are baristas or caffeine addicts, we may still show you how many people across the web have +1’d your local coffee shop.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/1s-right-recommendati...

>>For instance, your +1 could appear as part of an anonymous aggregated count of the people who have also +1’d the same thing

http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?hl=en&#...
I store my blogroll on Google Reader, and sync it to NetNewsWire on my Mac and Reeder on iOS. It often makes me wish Twitter tracked read/unread information across devices.

Never use the web interface though.
This is the heart of the problem: if I open a grocery, I pay the landlord a fixed rent, not a cut in my sales. That's because rent is generally seen as a commodity. Apple doesn't want to accept that their App Store infrastructure is a commodity (it's not cool to be a commodity), so they come up with this revenue sharing system. They see themselves as a publisher.

That's nice if you're a small developer, because the alternative is paying a high fixed fee.
So what would that fee be?
There's 50.000 iOs developers [0] and the app store generates about a billion in revenue (off the top of my hat). That means we're paying Apple about $300 million.
That means the fixed price should be $6.000 per year for Apple to earn the same amount (there's probably no sustainable fixed-price point).

Obviously, if they did that, Android would become infinitely more attractive, since they could offer a much cheaper service (no expensive in-house review team).

So here's the dilemma for Apple:
1 - continue with their publisher business model (percentage), maximize for profit at the cost of karma and long term risk of anti-trust lawsuits

2 - dramatically reduce cost (less or more efficient quality control), introduce a fixed fee that developers can still afford ($500?) or subsidize the whole operation more.

3 - keep the current system, but don't force developers to pay you. Sort of an honor system / convenience. That seems to work well for DRM free iTunes music.

[0] http://bit.ly/pyNwCj
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Microsoft like to use FUD, not action. Probably because most small developers are poor. They did it against Linux OS and indirectly, the Linux vendors: http://news.cnet.com/Ballmer-repeats-threats-against-Linux/2...

Personal opinion: They did it to squeeze Linux out of the desktop market.
Yes. I have it open 100% of the time.
Nokia has been a company since 1865, so it might take more than this to stop them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia
And keep in mind, iOS was released with the capability and intent to run web apps.

It supported, and still supports, installable web apps that can run online or off.

Amazon can, as Google Voice did, make an installable HTML5 app that is free to browse and one-click buy books through Amazon's system.

Curiously, Amazon has the "Amazon Shopping" app and the "Amazon Price Check" app, showing they don't mind a proliferation of Amazon branded apps for slightly different tasks. Reading and shopping are more different than product browsing w/ search and product price lookup w/ search, so why not have an Kindle Reader and a Kindle Shop app?

There's no particular reason they couldn't offer a "Kindle Shop" HTML5 app, to have its icon right next to the Kindle Reader app. The book will get delivered to the reader anyway.
This actually annoys me, if I mark a new podcast read in reader it never downloads and queues on the phone if it hasn't already polled and seen the new item. I end up marking them unread over and over until I check to see if my phone has actually downloaded them.
Do you remember the flopped 'Green Dam' software[1] that was to be mandatory pre-installed on every PC sold in China? They're trying it again with this monitoring software.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
> I will use it if I happen to be in front of a device where I cannot install anything and only have access to a web browser.

Really? Usually in situations like that I either pull out my phone and use Reeder for iOS or visit the websites directly. Google Reeder's web client might as well not exist, it's just so bad. I'm actually kind of surprised there isn't a Google Reader web app replacement that is popular or well known. I would be interested in a "Reeder in the browser" solution like that occasionally.
Many companies tend to focus on eliminating false positives at the expense of having too many false negatives.

Ok...

Today, here are the things that I look for in a candidate:

1) Did he ever build anything? A Github account (or any other public code) is a plus.
2) Can he communicate? I want to see a blog and/or a Twitter account.
3) Does he live in the past? A good LinkedIn profile is worth 1000 resumes.

Which is going to produce a huge amount of false negatives. #1 throws out skilled developers who prefer to do other things outside of work, #2 throws out introverts who are perfectly capable of communicating, and #3 throws out developers who would rather develop than hyper-optimize their social network.
I would love to try out den.im. I will appreciate if you share an invitation with me. (email address is in profile details)
This forum is growing. The discussion quality is bound to decrease. It's mathematically mandatory.

Happened to every online community I've seen in the last decade.
There are plenty of employers that only have a single sys-admin on staff.
Its amazing when you get in rural environments how directions like "left after the old Benson house" (never mind Benson has been dead for 40 years) or "first house on the left in the 52 housing" (52 was the year the houses were built.

// never mind the "Easter Egg housing" and how they got their name - cheap*$$ government and their "bright" paints
Oh, the dreaded Black Hole Denialist. It's not a new phenomenon.

Too bad only a few forums allow you to ignore certain members.
I think Atom N570 needs a chipset, too (maybe it's a single chip now, but still.)
Just gave up Reader after using for a couple of years. I found I could get the same benefit following the same people/blogs/publications in Twitter and using Instapaper for stuff I wanted to read later. For me, it's one less thing to keep up with.
Yes, but I'm in the process of moving off google-hosted things, so I'll need to figure out a new topology for this...
The Difference between Best Practices and Common Sense
Please heed this warning. I didn't get an eye exam til my last semester in college.

Turns out, I've always needed glasses - and the reason studying was such a pain was because I was really straining my eyes. I always wondered how some people could study all day while I'd max out at 3-4 hours.

I got glasses and my last semester grades were quite good - please get your vision checked!
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Is this real? Because connecting to the wifi network is exactly as simple in Windows as it is on Mac. I have no idea why McDonalds went crazy insane in their instructions.
I just use rockmelt as my browser and have all the news websites I care about on my edge. That way its all there when I want to see it and can see whenever anything is updated.
I try to tackle most of my project by just jumping in. It's definitely the best way to learn. I don't let any decision take more than a few minutes unless it's really essential to the project then I would do maybe 10 minutes of cursory research. The goal is to not get bogged down with detail for me because I will if I don't watch myself.

As for design, for a tech guy, I think I'm pretty good, but one really nice thing I'm noticing is that web design seems to be getting simpler. Or at the very least, you don't get points taken away for being sparse. (Usability is different tho, I'll definitely take points away for that.)

One great example is stackoverflow. It represents a design I would have never made. I would have called it ugly. But I really like it for some reason. :)
Then you should get a copy of the full brief and read it, as you'll probably get a good laugh from more of it, like where they say software patents encourage the adoption of standards on the web and net.
I use Reeder for Mac, which is an app for Google Reader. it uses Google Reader, but I don't use its web interface.
Before I click this, I thought it was about using tetris as example implementation project for agile development methodology. Turns out it was just a metaphor.
I think what your talking about is App.net from Mixed Media Labs:

http://app.net/
Hey, then I can also put a link for http://jetsli.de here ;)

The next version will contain the possibility to include any rss feed and rank them to your personal needs. At the moment the first ten of your searches are used to boost articles if your are logged in.
> MIT and DoJ are just supposed to -assume- that he has nothing but perfectly angelic intentions with $1.5 millions dollars of an asset that he secretly obtained?

Yes. That's known as "innocent until proven guilty".
Hey, I was working on something similar as a side project. I was even using a similar name for it.

The approach is different though. Well, FAQ it, I think I'll keep on working on it.
Feel that. Well, nice work and even better marketing.
Have you checked the wingspan (6 feet) and the weight (17 ounces; IIRC, that is about a pound)?

Exaggerating: this thing almost floats in air. I think you can forget about adding any load to it, or about deploying it in rain or wind.

It is a great technological accomplishment, but I think it needs quite some improvements before it will be of practical use.
Riight.. And your uber-safe automatic car is able to react if I, the stupid pedestrian (or worse, because I'm faster, biker) cross a road without looking.

No matter how fast you react, if you go at reasonable speeds and I'm the idiot, you're going to hit me (kill is optional). I think that's what your parent poster was trying to say (because that way it is a sensible argument). Whatever you implement in vehicle safety: If I'm able to throw myself in front of the thing in the last moment, hopefully because I'm a moron and not intentionally, then no technology on earth can avoid the accident.

Unless... You want to add mandatory robot bikes and robot shoes...
Do you use the Hot / Sparks feature at all?

I also use fever, but that particular aspect of it doesn't seem to work for me -- so I just use it as a regular rss reader.
I'd like to know the final karma balance between the grandparent and the parent comments.

One more reason I wish hn still displayed points.
Would you purchase hardware with your own money to use at work?
Perhaps the mandate should be for those found guilty of reckless driving, aggressive driving, DUIs, vehicular homicide, etc. You get the privilege of driving until you are seen unfit to drive.
Feel free to believe whatever you want; I long ago learned not to argue with fanatics on the internet.
So by the same logic, Porsche and Ferrari should stop making gasoline powered cars with 4wheels in a race to the bottom with kia/hyundai - and switch to 6 wheel cars powered by waterwheels?
That's what courts do.
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> Given the reality that software source code is human readable, and object code can be reverse engineered[...]

It's now abundantly clear that this argument was put before someone who is not familiar with the difficulty inherent in divining the intent of original source code, much less source that has been reverse engineered off the opcodes.
>Can you name a case where Microsoft has tried to screw some fairly small developer by using a patent lawsuit?

Why does it have to be a "fairly small developer"? Microsoft has a legacy of a lot of broad patents owing to the fact that they've been rolling in billions for decades (and hence can stomach having a lot of people filing trivial patents). With that they try to either run competitors out of business, FUD users into avoiding alternatives, or outright demand some extortion fees (see every Android maker and Microsoft's current patent shakedown).

"Obvious infrginements" is loaded and has little meaning given the incredibly broad patents allowed by the patent system.

>would we be better off without patents altogether, or are we grumbling about minor annoyances compared to what we'd be dealing with without patents (e.g. lots of obfuscation)?

We would be far better off without software patents. There is absolutely no doubt about that. I neither encourages innovation (it more likely discourages innovation), and it only helps to entrench the most successful.
So you can keep the old scrolling direction from SL?

:-)
I believe its because there was a TED talk about the Smart Bird posted a few days ago [1]. So now all the US media talks about it.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_JcKSHUtQ&feature=chann...
Going to actual websites to consume news is like taking the subway to work instead of a private limo. Who wants to sift through 55 share buttons to find the content.