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Nonsense. Google makes 97% of their revenue from search advertising, they can't make any money elsewhere and they even say so themselves. Everything else they do is to keep up appearances that they are a market leader, which is very far from reality.

Android is a junky iOS-knockoff operating system they pawn off for free because it can't be sold. This comapany can't produce a single product worth paying for other than search ads, and even that is going down the tube. Sure, maybe their shareholders have been fooled, but the paying consumer hasn't. Whether they admit it not, Google is in severe trouble if search advertising decreases even a few percent.

Everyone seems to have a crush on Google, but they are going to get fucked pretty badly long term unless they find some alternative, major, multi-billion dollar sources of revenue of which they've found zero so far. Self-driving cars maybe?
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i'm kind of sick of NYT co-opting a lot of things that the whole experimental media community is doing, and not contributing back code, nor even citing sources.
i've heard of em
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matz> put it alongside kanji?

Just FYI, this refers to the simpler hiragana characters sometimes put next to kanji characters (for people who don't read kanji very well). This is also often a source of confusion for people who see the <ruby> HTML5 tag and think that it's for the Ruby language.
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Git has apparently grown right alongside hackernews.
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=hacker+news&...
1. I'll be dead.

2. Government and corporate surveillance of the individual will be so common place that it will seem weird that people in the past went through most of their lives unobserved.

3. Corruption in American government will be beyond rampant, and no one will even bother to complain about it anymore. It will be almost like Indian society where individuals have to pay bribes for any government contact, except the bribery will still only be available to corporations and individuals rich enough to operate as corporations.

4. Access to health care/health insurance (they amount to the same thing here) will be worse than it is now, and we will still crow that ours is the best healthcare system in the world.

5. The reported unemployment numbers will be at or above 20%.

6. Public schools will have deteriorated so badly that only the poorest of families will educate their kids there. That group will however be more than 50% of kids.

7. The car culture will have disappeared. Most of us will use public transportation, which will cost about what it costs now to operate a car.

8. 2050 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop.
I'd say a combination of Facebook chat, Google voice, and the announcement of Apple's new exclusive free-texting club. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage
Browsing roulette -- I like it. Startup idea? (Actually, jokes aside, a randomized split screen browsing service where you have some background on who you browse with sounds kind of interesting. It would be like a two-way human stumble upon)
Second, I find my self searching the thread for the work 'seeking', but that never gets them all
I don't think he said anything about the equality of the sexes. In the 1960's it was still widely understood to use the term "men" to refer to human beings in general in this kind of context. In 1964 there were certainly many women in the workforce, albeit not in the same kinds of roles men had.
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Well, a lot of coding comes down to data structures and algorithms, and I feel that Scala has the best out-of-the-box collections library experience of any language I've used. This makes it easy for me to choose an appropriate data structure and write my code as a series of transformations on it. I also like to think in terms of objects and Scala has the best fusion of OO and functional that I've ever seen. Finally, for most problems I like having a type system to help catch errors and to help shape the design process, and I like the IDE and tooling support that comes with it.

That said, I've never written a line of F# and have written very little Haskell and Clojure. Clojure also seems like a fine language to get things done if it is more your cup of tea. If I were to pick a Lisp for development, Clojure would definitely be it.
Rasmus Andersson wrote a good tutorial on how to set up node.js on EC2 as well. Think it was posted here on HN.

http://rsms.me/2011/03/23/ec2-wep-app-template.html
They attend school.
"Hot gf" is trolling a lot of these time series.
Bumblebee did show some improvement but even if I use bumblebee-disablecard the powertop program still reports 18.7Wh drain of battery. In windows it is about 12-13. Difference of about an hour.

Will try ironhide.
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Alternatively: http://utilu.com/IECollection/

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I found the site jarring in general. The bright yellow hurt my eyes, and the babyshit brown type seemed out of place given that it was used only in the intro and first headline, and didn't fit in with the other colours there. The yellow was the biggest pain for me, however.
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On top of the ridiculous sales tax bill have you seen the Babysitter bill? http://www.theunion.com/ARTICLE/20110830/BREAKINGNEWS/110839... It is a bill being considered that says that if you hire a babysitter, you've got to provide breaks every 2 hours (which means you've got to hire another babysitter), plus pay for workman's compensation and keep track of taxes.
I just started watching this the other day. I'm really enjoying it.
Google is beginning to do things that I think are going to kick current market-research strategies off their feet. They have most of our lives being fed through their systems; they know what's going on in the world better than anyone.
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If two incredibly talented Indians can't find a way to outsource their development to India, I doubt any small team can. I've also had good luck with finding top programming talent in Germany. Great job, guys!
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"I just bought a new point and shoot camera for about two hundred bucks. It can shoot 1080p video. The same revolution that happened in music is about to happen in movies and TV."

But the music revolution - low-cost converters and mics, powerful laptops and inexpensive software - lets me record a good-quality pop track in my living room, minus live drums. Can you do set construction, lighting and shooting cheaply in yours? Or does the movie revolution require way more CGI than the music revolution required reverbs?
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If by "they" you mean the W3C then yes I agree. :)

The reason I wrote the post was because people see the `.data()` API in jQuery, which existed before HTML5, and think it has something to do with `data-` attributes. Indeed, we made it import them, but there isn't a good reason to keep them "in sync" -- and many reasons not to do that.

I think all of behavior has been documented for some time, it's just spread across two or three different pages at http://api.jquery.com. Also, the blog post is emphasized to draw the attention of people who are trying to misuse it to manipulate HTML5 `data-` attributes.
"An alternate perspective: Google App Engine is still a fine platform even with the new price increases."

This depends a lot on what you're doing. GAE is now pretty terrible if you're using it for high-bandwidth applications (say, a data proxy or similar). Especially when you compare it to other providers for whom bandwidth prices have been dropping (AWS, Linode, etc now offer incoming bandwidth totally free and the rates on outgoing are very low as well). If you're using it as a number-crunching backend with relatively small in/out datasets, the new prices aren't too bad at all.
Im just impressed that the guy who wrote the article is called "Mike Evangelist" and is the Chief Marketing Officer. It makes me wonder if he changed his name for the job like an actor. Or if it was just destiny to have this position...and if so, what about all his parents and grandparents? Were they in sales, marketing or religion?
I think Google just doesn't really get how unique GAE was. It was a fantastic platform for small apps, and inevitable some percentage of these would grow to big, paying apps.

Also (sorry for the armchair quarterbacking here, can't resist..) it was exactly what Google can do better than anyone - best server infrastructure + Guido Van Rossums - while stuff like Google+ is exactly what Google haven't a clue how to do.
Those products bolster search advertising... That's the point. Android produces a ton of search revenue. So does Chrome.

> Android is a junk iOS-knockoff operating system they pawn off for free because it can't be sold.

It's the most popular smartphone OS... Is Linux free as well because it can't be sold? Your blind hatred of Google is bizarre.
I agree that it's a stupid bill, but don't be so sensational. The bill only applies to babysitters over 18, which are typically professional care givers (i.e., nannies).
For the most part I think the works the way someone would expect and want. So if you don't think about it too much, it'll probably do that right thing for you.
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Depends on how important social skills are to the position. An annoying person probably shouldn't be making initial contact with potential clients. On the other hand, if they are part of a team of smart annoying people whose job is to sit in the dark and write code, why not?
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I took the liberty of rewriting this in slightly more idiomatic English:

http://pastebin.com/tHDPJsUt

It is tricky: Japanese chat logs don't have all that much context to go on, and you have to make a judgment call as to what sort of "voice" they'd be speaking with. I gave them fairly informal young American programmer personalities but with just as much reason I could rewrite this to loko like it was two frat boys.

Disclaimer: I don't exactly go all-out for accuracy when translating to procrastinate about going to sleep.
But that's different. He's waiting until retirement. I'm not planning to wait that long - that's just silly. I'm saying 2 years of delayed gratification at most.
Yeah, that's exactly the scenario we were expecting: HTML markup would specify some data that would be used to initialize jQuery's data object.
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Interesting post, but I'm not a fan of these multi-part blog posts, I rarely end up seeing the 'Part II' post that I really wanted to read about in the first place.

Why not just write the whole story in one post?
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I wish people like cnn would do more research, or ask an encryption expert.

I could produce a dozen encryption systems which are fatally flawed, yet impossible to hack given only a page or so of encrypted text.

The challenge comes when people

A) Know the algorithm.

B) Have Gigabytes of encrypted text.

Because there is no way you will ever keep your algorithm secret once you release the software, and people will encrypt lots of text.

I am sure under these circumstances, their encryption will fall very quickly, unless the underlying basis is one of the existing good encryption systems (which I doubt).

EDIT: Found the following hilarious clip of text:

"We make you a deal: We will reveal our algorithm the same time when Google reveals theirs. Does the fact that Google does not reveal their search algorithm make their algorithm questionable?"

The very idea that google not sharing their search algorithms, and these people not sharing their encryption algorithm, are the same thing, shows either these people fundamentally misunderstand encryption, or are frauds. Or both.
Yes, you can record sound from the built-in microphone. The app I have seems to record 3gpp @ 8kHz, 12.8 kbit. No idea if you can record with a higher sampling rate. I haven't used it before, but the recording sounds way better than a typical phone call.
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By "I can forward it anything", do you mean that you want to be able to train the app on new vendors? That would be awesome, but (1) hard to do right if that ordinary (read: Not HN reading) users could create their own filters or (2) impose difficult privacy problems if users forwarded their purchases to humans for parsing.

With respect to beta testing, according to http://blog.onereceipt.com/post/9256372304/hello-world, posted one week ago, they're going to start sending out invites to people who registered their interest 'within the next few weeks.'

If you want an early invite, they'll give you a referral email after you register.

> Invite at least 3 friends using the link below. The more friends you invite, the sooner you'll get access!
I could hardly believe that the author of the book designed that blog.. I mean, who would like to buy a book about design with such an ugly look and feel and 1990 taste. Ironically, even the white spaces are wrong :-/ IMO, it's way better to keep things simple and avoid ugly graphics and colors if you're not good enough to use them correctly.
Robotic cars will make it even easier to live in cities. Cabs will actually go robotic and be the preferred use of cars because they will actually get much cheaper than owning one.

In fact cabs are already cheaper than owning a car where parking space is very expensive, but robotic cabs will reach a whole new level of cheapness.

Cars and engines are going to get a lot smaller when you don't need to accommodate a driver or the need to speed. Think rickshaw size with a top speed of 35 mph.

Mopeds get 120 mpg. That's like 4 cents a mile. Door to door for a dollar a trip will be a reality and make mass transit AND the traditional automobile industry increasingly irrelevant.
The most interesting part to me was that they are designers who considered the programming to be the most important part. As a programmer, I find the design to be the most important part.

The perspectives are very interesting.

From a programming standpoint, I can pound out the code to just about anything, but when it comes time to create the awesome graphics for the game, well, that's where I either have to cut corners or pay a lot of money.

I liked the cliff-hanger he left us with too. Day 4: Disaster! And that it was Apple's fault ...

But what happened? Did the glitch get fixed? Did sales pick back up? Where's his Twitter feed so I can see when the next post comes out?
I agree. All I as trying to say it's not that intuitive.
As an outsider to the Java world, I don't really distinguish between JVM and the Java infrastructure.

Also, I didn't know that .jobs was a top level domain.
Maybe you would call the framework "Reef". That would have been pretty cool.
Maybe to get people to subscribe to their blog or follow them with an RSS feed :)
Doesn't work on an iPad.
The bit about the Moto acquisition is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDl5hb0XbfY#t=58m25s

...it was very interesting to hear from Schmidt that the patent legislation currently pending in Congress will actually improve the Patent Office's ability to invalidate overly broad patents that have already been issued. I wasn't aware of that, but I imagine that this could significantly improve the patent litigation environment.
Thanks Scott. It's a very long story about how we got FIPLAB to the stage it is at today. There is so much advice we want to give and it would just be information overload if we tried to fit it into one post.

I'll write up Part 2 over the weekend, which is going to be a lot more interesting, covering how we got mainstream media coverage for our 2nd app (London Cycle: Maps & Routes), including a large front page banner feature on the iTunes App Store itself.

The really good stuff is still to come, but we had to start at the beginning to add context to everything else.
Developer aversion to learning new tools is astounding sometimes. Background workers and message queues have to be the most reinvented wheel of all time. 99% of the time, something free and great will already do what you want, and they've thought of things you haven't. Why not redirect some of this energy into using a tool like Celery[1]? Surely it's simpler to learn a tool than it is to build a new one from scratch?

* What happens when job's crash, fail, or get stuck?

* What about when the machines running the workers die or are isolated from the network?

* What happens if the backing store dies?

* How do you start, stop, restart, grow, and shrink your worker pool?

[1] http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/introduction.ht...
Hell yes, 'Reef' would have totally kicked ass
> Do you really believe that the skillset that qualifies one to design the Apple II similarily qualifies one to design iPads and iPhones?

Yes. Why do you think it doesn't?
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Environmental concerns aside for a moment, a half-hour or more in a self-driving car is actually more productive/convenient than many city-dweller's commutes - most people could essentially begin their workday in the bubble of a car with a 4G connection and VPN.
I'm not sure what part of that screenshot is supposed to be unreadable?
Suggestion to improve the article: Give a visual example of each mixin. Otherwise, thanks for the article!
from the github wiki:

Rough VM size estimates:

IE7: 13GB
IE8: 8.4GB
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Currently, the script will leave the compressed RAR files in place, which means you're looking at something like 45 freaking GB if you don't prune them manually (in ~/.ievms/vhd/). This wasn't a big deal for me on my company workstation, but kinda sucks on my Macbook Air, so I'll be adding a cleanup option shortly. You probably don't need to keep the compressed files around anyway since we take a snapshot like you mentioned.
"It's as expressive as Ruby, but runs much faster and is easier to refactor."
In my mind, the problem is not so much the extreme pricing difference, but the change in what's being measured, so not only is there a price increase, but it's nearly impossible to figure out how to compare the old vs. new schemes vs. competitors.

The huge price jump is a serious problem, but the weird metrics switch makes it feel like such a bait and switch. I'm going to be highly surprised if this isn't challenged in court.
Just like Patent Trolling, Apple seems to have taken the "OK If we do it" approach to Impersonating An Officer.
I saw that -- but although beggars can't be choosers, as a rule I don't spam my friends with invitations to try products I haven't been able to try yet myself.
Reading the title, I almost thought 37signals moved into Fortune's 500.
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Nothing worth doing is easy - inspirational stories like your's always seem to involve near crash-and-burn dips (whether that part of the story actually gets told, or not).

Here's to not giving up - keep up the great work guys!
It's a lot more iOS like. No more app drawer, instead all your applications are icons on the homescreens or in folders on the homescreen. Also there's an iOS like dock at the bottom where you can put up to 5 icons.

I can't really comment on how they get the better performance cause it's closed source. All the ports for the various devices are using the drivers from CyanogenMod I believe so it just has to be better tuning.
Is there a way to make this work with KVM, or is this using something special from the virtualbox distrubution to convert the .vhds?
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Self-funding is pretty much the default for consulting companies, because all you're doing initially is collecting an hourly that you theoretically could have collected working for some other consulting company or going to work for someone FT.

Consulting is also a common way of bootstrapping a company (see Joel on Software for his history of starting Fog Creek this way), because you use consulting revenue to keep the company afloat while working on an actual product in any time you have left over. The goal is to grow the product to where you can build a revenue base from it and wean the company off of consulting revenues.
Yeah I think that's a healthy attitude.
Most of the biggest cities have been losing population over the 20th century. The population of Manhattan peaked around 1920, for example, and a lot of other metropolitan inner-cities peaked in population around the 1950s (such as Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, etc.) That trend has only started turning around very recently, and only in some places.
* The number of messages we pass into the queue are very minimal, the dangers of the queue backing up are very low.

* We are a Ruby/JavaScript/Python shop, so a library like Celery is not an optimal solution.

* MongoDB is a core part of our infrastructure if it dies and is unavailable, we have bigger fish to fry.

* Every piece of architecture in a stack is conceptual and maintenance overhead. I am certainly not averse to learning new technologies, but for the time being using MongoDB for this makes sense.

I should underscore that most of the actual queue implementation is simply taking advantage of the behaviour of capped collections in MongoDB. Karait is a convenient API on top of this.
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