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also yumi - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ - mentioned in the comments
(iOS) This has been a question asked of me many times and my main answers are:

1) The other OSs are fragmented. If you develop a phenomenal app on one, it may not function the same on the others.

2) Your customers are self-selected as having a higher discretionary income than the other OSs, thus resulting in you making more money.

3) iPad
I agree, but that would probably be rare, especially across threads. The culture here for a while (HN in its "prime") was that if something merited a downvote, then it merited a comment articulating the dissent. We didn't have too many trolls (a few, but not many), so most of the time it was better to stimulate the discussion by posting your explicit disagreements.

In fact, it was common to upvote people who presented an interesting opinion even if you disagreed with it.

Now it's common to see someone downvoted into the gray without a single response. In short, if somebody has to ask "why the downvotes?" we're doing it wrong. (Presumably trolls know why they are getting downvoted.)
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I can't speak for everyone but most people should or hopefully do split testing (A/B testing) to figure out what is the best conversion rate for their landing page. It's the only best way to know what is optimal (or most optimal).
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We us twilio for call tracking - any one know how much a local phone number cost if you buy in bulk outside of twilio? We're at 50 cents a number since we're over 1k, but still pretty expensive...
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I can't say anything about that but I would bet my money on gnaffle's point.
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Come on, this is not even a real law, and the data are really shaky to justify the title of this post. 5% significance threshold means that Luxembourg or Austria satisfy the criteroa. So what? The EU is a large political organization, not a NYSE index. The real trouble for greece is not the fake accession data (Italy had similarly manipulated data), but the squandering of public money that followed.

I get it, geeks love to play with empirical laws, but this paper is at best interesting trivia. I could go on analyzing what could really prevent the disaster forever ...
You can't use commercial focal planes in space. Rad hardened space hardware development moves slower than consumer.
Am I understanding this correctly that you're saying there is no equipment today that can take pictures at a better resolution than 1 pixel = 0.6 meter? Because even Google Earth does better than that, so I must be misunderstanding you.

Related: what am I misunderstanding when people talk about "satellites had a resolution of about 2 to 3 feet" and I think it's nonsense? How can a 'resolution' be '2 to 3 feet' - isn't resolution always something per something else - amount of detail you can represent onto another display surface? What part is implied here that I'm missing?
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This is pretty old isn't it?
Good and short overview, though.
India has almost 10 times the population:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+india+%2F...
Is software freedom defined differently on phones vs tablets?

Why does Android 3.x not being for phones make any difference at all to this conversation?
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My business partner and I have developed this app over the last year and a half and while we use it everyday ourselves, we only have a few users actively using it. We've gotten a lot of great reviews on various sites but ultimately need to put more time and money into it for it to become what it needs to be. Unfortunately we have very little of either to devote to this project.

This is why I'm coming to you guys. We are looking for either someone to partner up with who can help us promote it and possibly even expand it or just looking to sell it outright for a very low cost.

Some small specs - It's a RoR app hosted on Heroku. We've had over 80 or so signups in the last year but only a few active paying users.

I can be contacted directly at tim@argyllstudios.com
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I know that this was discussed over and over again, but I'd like to gather some thoughts on this if possible:

How do you fellow mortals (i.e. the sad people like me, corporate drone looking for extra income vs. people actually working on cool stuff) gain some extra cash?

I'm not talking about 'Do you have great iOS/Android application ideas for me to steal' or 'How can I build a blog to get rich', I'm seriously just talking about some extra bucks for the savings account.

What I tried:

- elance: What a rip-off. Lead literally nowhere, but I've to admit that I gave up right after checking it for 30mins or so. Mostly because if

- vworker: Ouch. Now trying to squeeze something out there is not a good idea if you're trying to keep your sanity and dignity. So far each and every project seems to be flooded by people from all over the world and the few projects that screamed 'I'm made for you' where closed to private bids _after I quickly finished the project and while I was typing a "I've got what you need, this is what I did" bid - or the employer went with a _more expensive_ alternative, probably because I cannot ramp up any ratings there.

Now I'm at a loss right now, trying to look into the recently discussed tinyproj (let's see what Saturday brings in terms of opportunities), but it seems that competition online is a disaster.

So - do you earn some extra money in the evenings/on weekends? Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing so far?
I am sure India has improved a lot! But India has lot of other problems,

1. India has a family centric society , where welfare of the family gets priority than the welfare of the nation, which is one of the factor for rampant corruption (IMO).

2. The infrastructure is poor.

3. The divide between rich and poor is high! (income inequality)

4. The Public sector is very slow to respond to the growing needs of infrastructure! They have no clue at all!

5. There is still caste system in rural India, where they don't respect fellow country men as a human being.

6. The politics is only for the rich and heirs of powerful politicians (the parliament is filled with sons and daughters of old politicians read:family business)

India has a long way to go!
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>> No, The Tea Party is the loose aggregation.

I think you should have stopped using the first party plural there. Some of them are loony; and they are in part the creation of some older, tireder, Republic faction.

But I guess they do all share vaguely Republican values, and the belief that both major parties (not just the Democrats) have been taxing too much.

My issue is that they are attacking taxing, not spending. It's spending that's the problem, as total revenue (tax) will eventually have to match total spending. And the Republicans can be cynical bastards who spend like crazy, then force the Democrats to raise taxes (later down the track) for fear of the debt becoming unsustainable.

But I guess "Spent Enough Already" doesn't have the same ring, or historical kitsch.
So it's basically quantity over quality?
After years of reading Stallman haters and lovers I'm sorry to say that he is almost always right

I frequently disagree with RMS' positions. Not because they're logically inconsistent, but because they're based on premises I don't accept. I think a lot of people are the same way; we can recognize an argument that "if you accept X, then Y", and say "OK, but I don't accept X".

In this case I think he's reaching the same conclusion I would, but via a different route (albeit one with some of the same stops along the way). So in this case I'd agree with his conclusion.
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Because the title is "Android phones...", and also the majority of Android devices being sold are phones. You definitely have the option to get a non-Honeycomb Android phone right now.

Afaik Honeycomb was never meant for phones, either.
How could expenses not have a power law component to their distribution? Sometimes you're buying an expensive thing, and sometimes a cheap thing, and you don't buy something between $999 and $200 dollars nine times as often as you buy something between $199 and $100.
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A mid level court in Pakistan ordered the IT ministry in Pakistan to ban all web sites that are propagating religious hatred.

An interesting point to note here is that the Judge excludes Search Engines from this list.

It has been directed to the authorities to file a compliance report to the court by October 6 2011.

The prime reason why some legal groups, most important to mention Mr. Azhar Siddique the lawyer in favor of putting bans, want social networking site Facebook banned due to the presence of rant/hate speech in the site.

However, it is likely some other legal groups might challenge this decision in higher courts which could delay the implementation of the current orders.
This is not correct, you don't understand how the gpl works, or how linking works wrt license compliance, nor do you understand the kernels approach to GPL compliance and linking.

The real problem is that I could point you to source.google.com and you could download the kernel and other gpl components from honeycomb right this second, but kernel.org and the osuosl site is recovering from a nasty hack. When those machines are back up, I invite you to go get the code you seem to be interested in.
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OK, thanks for clarification. I didn't know about this special exception.
Here's where I lost respect for Michael Arrington:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/02/back-i-am/

<snip>
When my time was up to leave, I asked Potts if I could stay another week. He said something about being fully booked, but I offered to pay more than his usual rate and said I’d plug Surfboard House on TechCrunch (consider that a disclosure). He had (and still has) no idea what TechCrunch is, but the dollars did the trick. Schedules were juggled, I stayed.
</snip>

Apparently he thinks it's OK to use his blog to push other peoples' travel plans around. Not just OK, but something to brag about. What a douche move.
Homebrew does not use sudo, installs everything to /usr/local (which keeps major OS X updates from destroying your dev environment), and it's much easier to edit and contribute recipes back to the main project (for me, anyway).
This argument is getting really tired and I'm very disappointed to see it at the top of this thread. It's a lot like star wars fanatics claiming that people who have no interest in star wars have not considered the intricacies of canon with regards to who shot first, Han or Greedo, or the finer points in the psychological narrative of the prototypical journey Luke Skywalker finds himself on. It's worse, even, because at least star wars fans generally understand that their obsession is fictitious.

If you completely reject the foundation of superstition that underlies all religion by nature, what mullions they adorn their respective windows with becomes less and less interesting at the same time. This does not make you a dirty unwashed peasant not fit to breathe the same air as the fine milliners who have clothed the emperors noble brow; it just makes you someone who is aware that the emperor has no clothes.

Enjoy your delusions.
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In terms of nominal GDP they are still far behind (India 10th place, Japan 3rd), but they score well at PPP due to low costs of living.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
What surprises me is that you want to earn some extra cash while you are already have a (i guess) fulltime job. What impact would the extra money have on your life?
Google Earth uses both aerial and satellite images.
Homebrew will use libraries that are already present on your system, instead of keeping a separate copy of everything.

The downside may be decreased stability, but the reduced compilation times make up for that, to me (and haven't had a problem yet).
That's a really good idea. I wonder if there are some impediments to doing this that aren't obvious, e.g., maybe paperwork can't be automated b/c of bribery at customs. It's interesting that there isn't a trading floor for cargo rates, either (or, it least, I'm not aware of one).

Automating an old-style industry could be a great business.
I believe most of the high res photography in Google Maps and Google Earth is taken using planes, not satellites.
Homebrew has far better dependency management then Macports. I fine that using Macports you have to download and compile the kitchen sink every time you want a moderately complex package.
There is something that I'm missing. World Bank says that India GDP is $1.377 trillion, Wikipedia too.

But there is this "PPP" thing, which turns India GDP to $4 trillion. Which one is more relevant in this case?
terrible headline. my dictionary says:

to topple: verb
[ no obj. ] overbalance or become unsteady and fall slowly
[ with obj. ] cause to fall in such a way

india rising does not cause japan to fall, in any way.

also, there's a certain triumphalism in such headlines that is, i contend, unworthy of a confident nation and of HN.

last but not least, the measure used is highly flawed, given that the headline seems to aim at india's rising "standing" in world affairs. when you do that, the actual exchange rate counts, not PPP. and there, the picture looks a little different.

just to be clear: none of which is to detract from india's great progress in the last 10 or 20 years, or from its talented population. it's just that this article/headline strikes me as cheap.
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with Visa on board, this definitely does give this a sense of being big. But only time and marketing/economics will tell with the whole NFC enabled devices etc etc
I agree with most of your points, but I don't think #1 (family-centric society) is the problem, or even a direct driver of corruption. If you were referring to nepotism, then I think that exists all over the world. An overall corrupt climate just makes it easier to practice nepotism.
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Reading my submission again it was too money centric, let me rephrase it:

I'm looking for side projects that help me grow, learn - and get me away from my day job....
These projects should be payed, because otherwise I feel really bad about the time spent (I'm an oss guy here and contribute there as well. Not the same thing).

Talking money again: Yes, I have a day-job. The extra money would go into the 'pay off my wedding and put some cash aside to explore the country you moved to' fond, regulated by my wife and me.
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You weaken his rhetoric; he writes like its crit-bit all the way for all purposes.

And since there is not a queue of people complaining that Python's dict is not iterable in order, I'd say he's wrong. Random access in a dict is the most common use-case by a very long chalk.
Ah, here we go. Don't really have the space here to unpack the metaphysics behind this, but I'd start by pointing out that there's a difference between pursuing causality on one plane of experience, and demanding dogmatically that every aspect of reality will always and must always submit to the reductionist program.

I humbly suggest to you there are other philosophical points of view that don't necessarily involve Zeus worship. You can reject dogmatic reductionism without any religious cant whatsoever -- the Enlightenment and modernity are replete with thinkers that do so. Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, heck even Descartes himself to some degree. Contemporaries like Husserl, Bergson, Whitehead and Hans Jonas all have a robust view of Science and the power of Baconian observation, but also reject dogmatic reductionism. In particular I'd point to Whitehead's famous essay on the history of Science in _Science and the Modern World_, and Jonas' essay "Is God a Mathematician?" as good examples of purely philosophical rejections of reductionism that don't entail any religious dogma whatsoever.
What I really didn't understand is why they even decided to switch to NoSQL in the first place. I mean Urban Airship seems like the perfect example of data is completely relational and schema-driven.
It's very difficult to not have the opportunity to become a millionaire. For example I could have bought a lottery ticket and won the lottery. But I didn't. Likewise, Google hasn't published the Honeycomb source yet.

Also, it is strictly logic, you can follow everything from a false statement (false => anything). So, if Google had released the source for Honeycomb I could have been a millionaire is a strictly true statement.
The thing to do in these situations is to comment right on the blog and explain the reasons your post was "vague." Perhaps the blogger (Case) didn't know? Perhaps he can correct his post?

Failing that, you can then call out "hack bloggers who run off on rants before they check facts (blah blah blah)" in a post of your own if you want war, or chalk it up to a bad day for Mr. Case if you want peace.
While I respect your opinion (everyone is entitled to have one), I hope you realize that it's not hard to come up with other examples of technology that is not 'open' in any way, yet could be used for malicious or undesirable purposes, right?

I mean, I love open-source and everything, but I honestly don't give a sh_t whether the 'firmware' of the plane I'm flying, the playback device and amplifier pumping out my tunes, the microwave oven that heats my lasagna, the ECU controlling my cars engine or the software in my satnav system is 'open' and 'free'. All of those could have potential privacy or safety implications. For probably around 99.9% of all people using cell-phones, the exact same reasoning holds for how they think about them, and how they would prefer it to just work well and have more functionality, instead of carrying this (to them) abstract notion of being 'open'. If 'closed' means they get a better product (which is very often the case), then closed is better for them.

Also, you are fooling yourself if you honestly believe that 'open' is a guarantee for 'safe', 'secure' or 'thrustworthy'. Open-source software has exploits and security holes just like proprietary software. Maybe less, but let's not pretend 'open' is equivalent to 'safe'. You can never be 100% sure the source code you are looking at is actually exactly the same as what is running on this piece of hardware you bought anyway, even though the manufacturer says so.

I kind of agree with what spokengent said. FOSS has many advantages, but RMS is really taking things too far, as he has always done, pretending FOSS only has advantages and no downsides, and proprietary software is always bad and evil. He doesn't seem to understand there are many devices and applications that are simply incompatible with the FOSS way of doing things, for various reasons that have nothing to do with privacy, freedom or security.

RMS is a FOSS absolutist, advocating FOSS like it's a religion, not a way of doing things that works really well for many things, but maybe not so well for others.

Whether FOSS works well for cell-phones is up for debate, personally I don't really believe in it, and the way the Android ecosystem is developing and the strange sem-open development model behind is, is only confirming this, at least for now.
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The PPP figure is irrelevant in this case. Purchasing Power Parity GDP figures adjusts the GDP to the cost of living. It has most contextual value when comparing the GDP per capita. PPP GDP per Capita is effectively a metric of the mean wealth relative to cost of living in the country.

To compare total GDP figures on a PPP basis for two countries, and when one country has 10x as many people doesn't really make sense.

What this comparison says is:

(Total GDP of Japan/Cost of Living in Japan) < (Total GDP of India/Cost of Living in India).

The Japanese economy is still 3x bigger (in terms of total GDP), and has 10x higher PPP GDP per capita, or about 30x the GDP per capita.
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Agreed.

The one point I would add about the Startup Alley is that during the schedule of the conference, there isn't enough time left for people to to browse the alley. There needs to be another few hours in the schedule just for browsing, checking out sponsors, etc. Less is more

(P.S: I'm using Trello now!)
by far the largest - joins and subqueries actually optimize correctly on Postgresql. In mysql, if you say (pseduosql) "select a_few_rows_from (select many_many_rows from some_table) where <some criterion>", mysql scans "many rows" no matter what. Postgresql can figure out the big picture.
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This is a pretty good overall introduction to Git, but I find myself always turning to this as a reference:

http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
India to finally (hopefully) "topple" war-troublled Iraq as the world's 128th country in terms of income per capita by purchasing power parity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...)

Or Mongolia for the 133rd position, depends upon who's list you look at.

Don't forget the huge income inequality.
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When someone says a satellite or aerial image has a resolution of 2-3 feet, they mean each pixel in the image represents 2-3 feet on the ground.