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Where is it recorded when the OS kernel loses access to persistent storage?
Companies almost have to own patents these day; for defensive reasons if nothing else.
This is one of the reasons I hate Google. I love to see normal people like me go make a startup and become successful. Escaping their corporate bonds. With companies like Google around who can use ad income to supplement dabbling in all sorts of things they can really weaken that option. And what's Google going to do with this? Add a couple percent on their revenue sheets? Great.
I also think Google should've developed their own IDE. They should control things like this. Heck, they should've bought Sun when they had the chance knowing they are committed to Android. Maybe they still can if Oracle loses the trial with Google and finds out they can't make any real money on Java.

But it might be best for Google to focus on the future. They might want to focus on building tools for something like NativeClient or Dart, and focus more and more on those in Android.

Also, looking forward to the hardware-accelerated and improved version of the emulator, hopefully coming out in the same time with ICS this fall. Because if developing for Honeycomb's 1280x800 resolution was slow, I don't want to know how slow it would be developing for future 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 resolutions in the upcoming Kal-El tablets.

They should also work with Eclipse or something, and make an IDE for ARM-based machines. The emulator would probably work even faster directly on ARM. It might be a year or 2 before we see quad core Cortex A15 machines or machines with Nvidia's ARM-based Project Denver, but we'll get there, so they should make development tools for ARM, too.

They should focus on bringing serious productivity tools to Android, like IDE's and such, so people could really use an ARM Transformer like clamshell as their main computer in the future.
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I wish I could -- for some reason my "flagging" ability was taken away a few months back.
You may want to leave it as an option. As I understand it, Europeans can travel freely within the EU much like Americans can travel freely between states; if an American is going to Austria, is it trivial to land in Slovakia and drive/take a train across the border? (I really don't know; haven't traveled internationally since I was a wee lad.)
Maybe Orbitz works better in US, but I just tried it with a small selection of English towns and it basically failed spectacularly. flightm8 on the other hand would happily tell me the nearest airport to Leatherhead and Whitby.
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That was, unfortunately, quite predictable.

What I don't understand is that at least someone at apple HQ should be familiar with the Streisand effect.

Pulling this app was the worst thing they could have done from a PR standpoint.
Looks like a really well done and practical intro to sed - nice examples, nicely explained, and good depth. The PDF looks nice, too.
I like it and I didn't find the interface at all confusing. For about 10 seconds I wondered what to do but picked it up

Like it overall, good project to say you have not completed it.

I'm always in a state of whether something is worth doing when someone as big as Google goes into the same sector but I think you are far enough along to make it a useful application.

I presume you monetize the application from airline referrals?
I'm interested, except I recently bought his _Introduction to Linear Algebra_ (to go with his opencourseware). I'll probably eavesdrop and do the exercises in that one instead.
I find it extremely hard to believe that you have 6-8 hours of sleep a night.
Wow, tough crowd. It was a joke. No more bad jokes on HN. Got it.
That's a nice metaphor, but no, we aren't saying that you are doing a job, and actually you don't know how do to it and you have someone else doing that for you. The plumber metaphor is flawed.

I can tell you, because it happen every day. It happens to me every day. And if you don't believe me, just read around the comments from people, here and on the article page, that do exactly that.

By the way, there are also comments of people saying that designer must think a bit over what's technically possible, to innovate. Figures. ;)

The problem however isn't in agreeing or not, but in not being so sure that your point of view is the right one.

And I'm talking with a straight face, yes. :)
I always had that opinion about that feature too. It's present in quite a few languages. I think people like to point out that they can do things that you can't in other languages and end up going ridiculous paths. As if the real power of a programming language could be inferred from it's syntax.

Don't get me wrong, I like coffee script and I find the tool linked on this thread quite useful, but come on... rewriting all the 'ifs' as 'unless' jut because you can looks pointless and silly to me. Just my opinion.
Ask HN: What will the hot Win8 Mobile Apps be?
Let's talk about the coming app market for Windows 8 Touch. What are the demographics of the early customers? Will we see a predictable patterns of App sales based on iPhone and Android?

I'd like to know which application categories are big enough for a single developer, writing their first application, to have a chance at significant sales.
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That background makes the text very hard to read (at least for my eyes). Literally had to copy-and-paste the text into a text editor...
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That's Google's problem. If Microsoft can give people exactly enough information about the problem that, for example, their knowledge base site can give them some options, I don't see why that's a bad thing.
Rewriting the spec for a feature takes a lot less time than rewriting the code.
The thing that I'm excited about is HTML History support! :-D pushState here I come!
It puts the lotion on its global temporary table or it gets the hose again
That's really the same, trivial pursuit pies are merely a progress bar, each slice is of equal value.
http://uuner.doslash.org/forfun/sedtris.sed

done before, this dude just copies shit then sells it to fools.
I don't mean power tablets in terms of functionality, but rather in terms of raw computing power. Your Android tablet has nice features but it's still an efficient ARM processor which would be completely destroyed in any benchmark by a decent laptop. The question is, would you buy a power-hungry hex core tablet if one were available, rather than an ARM tablet or a powerful laptop? More pertinently, would enough people buy one to make it a viable market?
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Ask HN: Help me find or build this simple mobile photo app
I want a really simple mobile app, to take pictures and upload them to my server. I don't need any additional features.

Is there any existing app I can use to do this? I don't mind using any app, as long as it can upload the photos to my server.

Or as a mobile newbie, how can I learn to build this quickly?

I would like it to work on both iOS and Android. Is PhoneGap a good option?
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Whatever the outcome would be, that is enough to stop people from using this piece of open source software to provide safer updates.
I think he is confusing ignorance for stupidity. It's difficult to find good, sensible information about file systems. And I'm only talking about selection for using a file system. If I wanted to develop one, where would I go to learn?
I do think that people can have a real passion for programming, have a life, and be able to work in a professional environment. They probably already have a job, or will get one very soon. All the points you listed are totally valid though, and I totally agree with your last point.
Certain states in the USA only require rear plates; I think Texas at least was one of them, they may have changed it.
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And this is one of many reasons I love that almost all my software is installed through a secure package manager.
I search for Heathrow to SFO, click "Get Prices" for the British Airways flight - and it redirects me to http://localhost/error.html
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I don't actually walk, since a treadmill takes up too much space, but I do shallow side squats and similar exercises while working. I'm a bit hyperactive and found this helps me stay focused better. What you need to do to type easily while doing this is have your desk so that it supports your forearms solidly so your body's movement (and there always is some movement of your shoulders and upper arms when you move your legs) is not transmitted to your hands. I am not an especially fast typist though and someone who is may have a bit more trouble, or may be slowed somewhat.
Any language is unreadable if you are unfamiliar with it, or languages that share syntax with it. As someone with more of a ruby/python background, I find CoffeeScript incredibly readable. I imagine someone who has only ever learned lisp would find both syntaxes wretched.

I do think, however, that many of the ruby-ish syntax tweaks are more expressive once you get used to them. That is, I learned C-like syntaxes before I learned ruby and I still find I'm able to parse ruby-like code much faster than c-like code. There is more to learn in terms of symbols, constructions, but once you know them, they communicate more information faster.
The current "mainline" one is simply the same as utorrent, with a different name.
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The title is a bit sensationalist in my opinion... A slip of 0.3% month over month could be due to a lot of different factors. I'm sure Google is keeping its eye on Bing, but it doesn't seem like a reason to panic. Am I off the mark with this?
Wait, so, is that comment sarcastic? It has no smileys...
Just out of curiosity, how does one returns nothing in coffeescript?
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Nah, I still have to disconnect my external speaker in 10.7.1.
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However, you can design things implemented in HTML/CSS without actually knowing anything about HTML/CSS. ;)
I developed a bad back from sitting all day and was always worried an injury would be round the corner. However, I've been following the tips found in this ebook www.weakbackbuilder.com and I've now got a much stronger back and don't really feel the need to work standing up.

Also I've converted to using a kneeling chair which also really helps, I def. suggest a kneeling chair if you spend hours coding.
Very stupid of me that I didn't notice this.
But I never noticed it until I saw the Canonical font. Maybe that's why it looks proportional?
Seems people are rushing to use Virtual Machine software to test drive. However most of them don't have the correct hal.dll support...
No rebuttal here! Thanks very much for the clarification.

If you're getting praise for the UI, go for it. I think my biggest issue is the relatively narrow nature of the design. The cards, the columns, etc. Example: http://cl.ly/1i01452a3l0V1X3K3N1f -- line breaks like that are difficult on the eyeballs.

Little things, like using color-coded labels for organization sound good on paper, but are very tedious in practice. Lots of calendars use this with good intentions, but you'll find yourself asking, "is that a grey, or taupe task?"

Walking the user through the on-boarding process would help immensely in describing the product. Right now, there's a bit of information overload with everything being visible on the screen. It'd be neat to see an approach where you're presented with nothing, and are told to "create a list. Great! Now add yourself to this list. Wonderful! Lists are used for X, Y, Z"

I do apologize for being so gruff in my original comment. If you're getting great feedback on Trello, there's obviously something there. Good luck with it!
Hawthorne effect.
The amount of money generated for universities by patents on CS/engineering research is quite small, though. The total for all fields in 2009 (according to an unfortunately paywalled report: http://chronicle.com/article/Table-Licensing-Revenue-and/125...) was $1.8 billion, of which the vast majority went to a handful of schools for blockbuster biotech patents (e.g., NYU has been pulling in $100m+ annually from the Remicade patents). I would be surprised if UW non-bio patents are bringing in more than low-single-digit millions, i.e. not much compared to what they get in corporate donations, not to mention NSF and DARPA grants, and even the state subsidy and tuition.

The former Dean of Georgia Tech's CS dept quotes John Hurt from the NSF as claiming: "Of 3,200 universities, perhaps six have made significant amounts of money from their intellectual property rights." I don't think there have been any blockbuster university (non-bio) tech patents since the Akamai (MIT) / PageRank (Stanford) pair ten years ago.
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Nah, you just need to learn some languages without C-style syntax.
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SaaS is the software as a service application which is used in the form of the software to carry out certain functions over the internet, this service needs to be installed into the computers so that
Sales have been declining- they haven't stopped.

There are still a ton of companies out there that use office. Creating a Windows Tablet could well cause sales of Office to increase.
What Trello accomplishes could also be accomplished in Campfire without needing to keep a browser window open. There's also Yammer, to some degree.

Obviously Trello's approach is different, but my point was there are other apps that have simpler approaches to the same problem.
Ask HN: Why doesn't an app allow rating menu items 
Why doesn't any app allow users/foodies to be able to rate a particular dish from a restaurant?

Also, is there any app that allows the user to search for a particular dish through their database of menus?

I've came across http://allmenus.com but they don't tell a user who has the best pasta based on other users ratings.
If the results Google gave me were not relevant to what I needed (and that includes linking to third parties over their own excellent properties) then I would use bing, or find something else which accommodates to my needs better. However, this is currently not the case. I can quickly search the local weather without going to any random site, do quick maths or conversions without effort, search journals and books without second thought etc...
You get the emails so you can do "Customer Development". You email them back and schedule an interview to learn more about your customers.

It isn't something where you say yes/no based on the number of signups.
There is an option too in the right-click menu for sharing a folder. They may just have missed it. But the same button on the web based interface is clear enough, I suppose.
This is a bit of a broadside against two really positive trends.

-The Atkins diet has some serious flaws (in short: not enough vegetables, not enough warning against harmful fats/oils/processing) but deserves real credit for the ongoing movement away from processed carbohydrates. He exposed the fallacy of associating dietary fat with body fat. He probably had more right than the 80's and 90's health establishment (that food pyramid was an abomination).

-The modern white-collar workplace is an absolutely bizarre environment for a species that's been without anything resembling a "building" for something like %99 of its history, let alone artificial light, computing metaphors or office chairs - experimentation with ergonomics and the whole enterprise of spending our waking hours indoors should be encouraged, not treated dismissively.
The author completely missed the boat when it came to testing. You can just plug-in your real Android handset and run/debug applications as you're developing them. Pressing build immediately sends it over the wire, and in seconds you can see how the app runs on a working phone.

I also found it pretty humorous about the statements related to how much you have to download for Android development, when the 3gb monstrosity that is Xcode exists. It does have the advantage of not needing to get anything other than Xcode, whereas with Android you need to fetch three separate things.

Nitpicky issue, but you seemed to use the word "though" and its variations way too often, often multiple times in the same sentence, or right after one another.

Whole-hearted agreement on the Eclipse bloat. Really wish a better open-source IDE would come into existence. I love vim as much as the next guy, but for whole-stack integrated development like Java you really can't beat the speed of coding that an IDE can give you. I've been dabbling in writing a lean, Chrome-like IDE, but I haven't been able to devote nearly enough time to flesh it out into a real project.
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Not anymore it seems.
We should all do a start-up project and change the world
As stated above, courgette doesn't provide safer updates, just smaller ones. It's just a really smart executable binary diff. Signing the update is an orthogonal issue.
Crohn's is a bit odd genetically. While having a parent with Crohn's increases your chances by 2-3x's, having a sibling with Crohn's increases your chances 20-30x's. So, it's not surprising that your wife and her sister as well as your dad and his sister have it. There's a strong correlation in siblings. There are so many genes associated with Crohn's, though, it's hard to pin it down.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's seven years ago at the age of 28 and both of my siblings have started to develop similar symptoms over the past couple of years.
The security concerns about WebGL are not "whitewash".

John Carmack: "I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security."

http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/81732190949486592
> but I could very well have programmed an algorithm to just monitor the prices and do market orders instead, which you definitely wouldn't see.

yes, but then you run the danger of your order not getting to the exchange in time and buying at the very bottom after everyone else has been filled.

We nixed this idea as being too risky:(
Has anyone had an issue on Virtual Box where you're only able to click on certain icons? For example, I can launch the control panel or desktop with a single click but when I try the IE tile it just moves and nothing happens. I can go to the desktop and launch IE without issue. Not sure what to try….

[Win7 x64 host running VB 4.1 attempting Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)]
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I've been programming in ruby last 3-4 years most of my time. Despite of that (or may be just because of that) I still find JS code more clear and elegant for reading/writing (under condition it is well written, i.e. w/o "bad parts"), although it is way more verbose, has camel-case convention which I really dislike etc...
Then maybe Steve Jobs should use his salary to make his products affordable to third world countries to do some real good than serving the riches of the world, and maybe Larry Ellison should have honored Sun Microsystem's policies of not suing anybody who uses Java APIs.
Yeah I do; I've tried manually enabling that in the settings or leaving it at automatic, along with various different memory sizes, core/cpu counts, SCSI vs IDE hard drive, also tried Windows 7 x64 as a base, and both 2008 and 2008 R2, all to no avail. VirtualBox it is then...

Thanks anyway!
Wow! Impressive first two weeks. It seems to me that you're doing a lot right here. I like how you sum up your business ("We let nonprofits setup a good-looking, donation-enabled website in about 1-2 minutes."), and if I were a website-less non-profit, I would be very interested.

I clicked over to your site, and your design blew me away. You really build authority with it, but also keep things fun, lighthearted, and modern.

A couple suggestions:

- You might want to test telling people they don't pay you fees after the first X they receive in monthly donations (around $1333, right? maybe make that an even $1000) as opposed to the maximum they pay you in fees. My marketing copywriting intuition tells me that may be clearer / more compelling than people having to do the math themselves. It also gives them a more tangible goal to shoot for and story to tell themselves. ("I'm sure we can get over $X a month, and the service is basically free after that!")

- Possibly test a more prominent mention of Facebook / Twitter integration on the front page (to the point that you don't have to click or mouseover to see it). I have a feeling that these features are pretty important to non-profits, especially ones who aren't savvy enough to have a good web presence yet. I'm not sure - again, probably I would just test it out.
Try IntelliJ community edition. It fully supports Android development with the exception of a visual layout tool and it's 100x better than Eclipse, IMO. In fact, after working with IntelliJ and then going back to XCode it's amazing how little help XCode gives you with managing your code. Admittedly tooling Java is much easier than C/Obj-C/C++ but after using an IDE with really good refactoring tools I really, really miss them in XCode.
I wonder if they considered at all the effects of lying down?

When I work from home, I love being able to take lie flat on the floor for a bit and rest my back AND legs for a short period.
And make my and million's of other live's much better. It takes a mammoth to disrupt such a consolidated (and crappy) industry.
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Thanks for being honest about your experiences. It's refreshing to hear some real metrics, even if they aren't the most compelling stats for a launch. Excited to hear more updates in the coming months.
I think the free version of intellij has android support.
I prefer to dress as if I may be presented with an opportunity to take a nap, in which case I will want to be very comfortable.
Seriously though, I will likely wear shorts and a tee-shirt.
Thanks for the comments. You're right that I didn't mention about testing on a device, I will update the post. The reason I talked about the emulator was because most people will only have one, maybe two, devices. They will need to use the emulator to test different screen sizes and memory configurations.

I wasn't complaining about the size of the Android download. It did come across that way so I have removed that line from the post. Thanks for pointing that out.

Regarding my use of 'though'. Sorry. I tend to use that a lot in speech too so it comes across in my writing. I will try to watch that from now on :)
One should note that Dropbox also transfer your files without the cloud if you happens to have those devices within the same private network.

Also, as much as I think, having some Java programs running at the background is the best idea. I have already got a Java background service running (Crashplan) and it holds up to 500MB after running a longer time. I have yet to receive an invite (msg me if you've got one!), however a native client/background service/daemon would always be welcomed.
I prefer HTC Sense. It's why I waited for a HTC phone to come out on Verizon rather than jump on the original Droid.