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My Motorola Razr, released in 2004, had volume rockers on the side, which I used to turn my ring volume up or down. I highly doubt it was the only example of that sort of behavior.

Apple changed a lot of things with the iPhone, but let's not get into revisionist history.
One issue is that a lot of these developers and small businesses fail to change their account type from Premium to Business. Doing so does not change any fees or features, it simply attaches a business name to the account instead of an individual's name, but it also changes the help UI and gives you access to the business support phone line. When there's an issue with a business account, PayPal actually calls you, in my experience. And when I call their phone line, a human being answered right away.
In the lead-up to this iPhone release, I noticed an odd thing: many people around me who had stayed out of the smartphone game until now were making solid plans to buy into this release of the iPhone.

I've checked in with friends - even friends from abroad - and the story is the same. Lots of people seem to be trading in their 4+-year-old flip phone for an iPhone. I'm not sure why.
I wasn't :)
You need to educate yourself about the HP Way before saying something like that.

Hewlett and Packard explicitly wanted their company to serve as a springboard for local talent.
Apple has plenty interest in nobbling the Amazon Kindle, though. If that move would deliver value for shareholders, they'd be remiss to not use the patent aggressively over its lifetime.

Maybe the attempt to patent this is just to draw out prior art, submitted by objectors, that could then be turned against Lodsys even if it torpedoes their own application.
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But it is also possible Apple attacks it competition , possible after Lodsys, something it has been well know for recently.
Probably because all the 3GS people coming off their AT&T contracts want a shiny new iPhone 4. And for good reason - it's still by far the best-looking smartphone out there...
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It was certainly true of the CS course I did in the 80s - as part of the second year (of four) Data Structures and Algorithms course we spent a lot of time looking at memory allocation and garbage collection. This was a compulsory course - even those folks doing joint degrees had to do it.

I'd be amazed if a CS course didn't cover this kind of stuff.
Interesting - I wonder if that's a trend at large. Cook did make a point of noting the market for Apple as mobile phones _as a whole_ instead of just smart phones. This may be something they clearly had in mind.
I think that's part of the allure of larger screens. Most of the 4-4.5" Android phones don't even match the resolution of the iPhone 4's display at this point. Things are just physically larger and easier to see and tap.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_morphic03a... << ctrl+f 'she went to siggraph', there's a lot to this sort of thing which is super interesting
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If you look at it this way, then you would need to have a timeout element associated with each entry. In neuroscience, long term memories are formed by neural genesis in hippocampal region - meaning new synapses form upon reinforcement learning. These connections decay over time, which means you slowly start "forgetting" things. If the timout is a small value and there is no stimulus to increase it, we will quickly forget leading to short term memory.
It's amazing how many of us had the same emotion, about not wanting to let down or disappoint Steve Jobs. Much of what you said is echoed in my own post, about being at Apple when Steve came back, and him shutting down our project (and feeling no anger, but sadness and disappointment). This isn't linkbait, just nice to know someone else felt the same way: http://geoffclapp.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-steve-jobs-story.h...
I read that story as well, in the context of a review of the failed launch of the mobile.me service. The full reference: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/05/07/...

It would be a huge challenge to work in that environment, but also hugely rewarding when you find success. Or hugely crushing when you find failure.

But I really appreciate Jobs's sentiment here: you're an Apple VP, which means you can marshall resources to solve problems. If you can't fulfill the title, someone else will.

Do, or do not. There is no try.
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The xdg framework is quite astounding. http://www.mozart-oz.org/mogul/doc/debusmann/xdk/ with a paper here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113... It uses oz's advanced constraint spaces over different input types of lexicons for a sentence. It then verifies if that sentence grammar is valid or not. Or you can feed it a number of words and it will construct different valid sentences. It is surprisingly accurate and quick. Good to build language learning programs. give it a try
This is the kind of thinking which, taken to its logical conclusion, compels people who exist on a certain brain-disorder spectrum to build a cabin in the woods and live there.

Every business has dependencies and suppliers. This includes the magical Google. Did you ever notice how many copyright notices appear at the bottom of every Google Maps page? Did you ever wonder why those are there? It's because Google licenses data and technology from third parties to make their Maps product happen. How does the data get there? That's right, through an API.

An API is just another kind of supplier. Every business can be disrupted by its suppliers, and that's true for APIs as well.

As a thought experiment, to test how sensible this rant is, replace the word "API" with the following other kinds of suppliers: hosting provider, internet service provider, payment processor, employees. All have the potential to disrupt your business. What matters is what your contingency plan is.
sp332: If you are still reading, thanks again for the link.

I haven't delved deeply, but I believe the paper is aimed at exploring whether graphene's photocurrent mechanism is in fact thermoelectric in nature. If you look at Eq 1 in the arxiv paper, you will see that they start by calculating the Seebeck coefficient from first principles. (My original comment above turns out to be exactly the issue.)

The reason that this is interesting: The authors are saying that there is an interesting Seebeck effect as a consequence of graphene's material properties, especially its odd density of states.

To the point you raised: The electron population does absorb photons. But rather than transporting across the pn junction due to the increased energy of the absorbed photon, it collides with other electrons and then these electrons form a population with an elevated temperature among themselves. The electrons do not couple with the lattice, so they don't transfer energy to the lattice all that quickly. Hot electrons from the high-temperature ensemble then have a probability of making it across the pn junction.

Like I said above, I haven't fully digested the paper (and I doubt I will, it's not in my critical path), but that was my quick take. Any other readers, please correct me at will.
The protocol is something we designed and based on several google technologies:

1. Bottom layer is p2p connection established by libjingle, this can be udp, tcp or relay through google.

2. We use PseudoTcp implementation in libjingle to provide reliable connection.

3. On top of that is SSL connection.

4. protobuf is used for structured data and framing.

5. Graphics is encoded using VP8.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/...

(copied here since groups.google sometimes requires login)
A car is basically the implementation of a large series of APIs
Quality analysis by the CCC. I'm glad we have such an organization in Germany.
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IMHO it is...
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Selenium 1.x does, but 2.x talks straight to the web browser via WebDriver. That may not be a technically accurate description of what's going on, but to the developer that's what it looks like. No Java server to start up.
There's no asterisks in startups.
So much win. I am really thankful that the CCC has such a strong standing in Germany. I am looking forward to the news tomorrow :)
And he didn't even have to use sudo!
This is great advice that applies to life as much as to work.

Just changing the last three words of the last paragraph gives:

"All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess. It’s best to spend zero time on what you could have done and all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares, just LIVE YOUR LIFE."
Right, because no one's character ever evolves after the age of 20.
As you say, they've all got limitations.

The difference will be if they're straight-forward with their customers and let them know of policies long enough before they're implemented so that they could plausibly leave the service if they disagreed. The problems with Paypal in the linked article were their refusal to discuss, especially beforehand.

Paypal, like EBay, (go figure) is an early entrant whose ubiquity has made them think they're successful on merit, and whose sheer size has kept competition away to re-enforce that image to themselves. As soon as a capable competitor steps up customers will flee these user-hostile companies.
I wonder how they were able to make sure that it's the german government behind this.
I've read the whole analysis but nothing really hinted at it.

Binaries not signed + no knowledge of how the infection is done + server in the USA which they said they didn't penetrate to look what's behind it.

I'm not doubting them, it would just be very interesting.
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I find the ipad2 to be a marginal upgrade. I've got both, and really, the biggest difference is that the 2 is white. Safari is a bit snappier, but it's not 2x faster. It's got a camera, but, eh, I can't say I get much use out of it.

(I wasn't planning on getting the 2, but I won a coding contest. So, not looking a prize in the mouth and all that)
Naive question. Can the cycle structure of two groups be used to optimize comparison, just as the Poles used in WWII to catalog all the possible rotor configurations of an Enigma machine?
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I'm sure you're right that prices are pretty low overall, vs the high rates of overage fees, but I wanted to point out that the same people who can't tell bits from bits per second and dollars from cents probably aren't using "an order of magnitude" in the full scientific sense, but rather in the "a whole lot more" sense.

I'd be interested in what an independent investigation would reveal.
Except that throughout the years, the manufacture of cars has become commoditized, and there are many more engine manufacturers than there were, so it's virtually impossible for a single manufacturer to corner the market on engines. Additionally, since the parts can all be fabricated by a multitude of vendors, there's no risk to the car company of a single point of failure.
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OK, so your argument isn't about APIs, it's about single points of failure. Great. Manage that problem.
Apple does provide this in Activity Monitor. Click the "Network" tab and you'll see "Data received:" and "Data sent:". It tally's since the last reboot.

It would be nice to have a history feature though. Plus, there's no easy way to ask "How much bandwidth do I have left this payment period before Comcast starts billing me for going over my monthly limit?"

You'd have to tally total bandwidth, and then associate it with an internet connection. You could track internet connections via DNS/public-IP info, and possibly MAC address for WAPs. If you're a laptop user jumping from WAP-to-WAP, it would be nice to know when you're online at home, or in a Starbucks, and differentiate total bandwidth used for each.
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There’s a huge difference between “everything I write” and “everything I write on that blog”, but I agree. The readers here have shown some interest in what I write, and for that reason alone I continue to submit it for your judgement. Hopefully my writing will inspire someone to make something cool, or change their teaching style, or design a better programming language. Besides, this is the best platform on which I can promote the work I’ve been doing lately, and I have nothing else to promote: most of the things I find online that are worthy of posting on HN are things that I found via HN. What else can I do but continue to throw links into the void and quietly ask that someone care?
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Interesting viewpoint, Jeff...

Google licenses the data, but has the resources to acquire the data, and the company that owns it. If you go to the vendor and try to license the data, the cost is now so high that a startup without funding will be unlikely to afford it.

With the exception of "employees", you are correct.

Each is a single point of failure that should be considered, each with its own set of criteria. If there is a sufficient supply of vendors, then the single point of failure (or sourcing in this case) does not pose a threat to your "business".

In the event where the payment processor keeps your customers credit card information, for example, you risk losing your customers when you have to go back to your customers to re-acquire the data should the provider cease to exist, or their policies prevent them from being used. This can be mitigated by using gateways that don't hold the data (like PayPal) as an exclusive processor, and managing that data yourself.

Risk mitigation should be applied to every aspect of your business that has a reasonable risk of becoming a choke point for operations.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I prefer to give the designers at least a chance to impress me ;)
Sounds like a permission escalation attack vector to me!
Ugh, singularityhub.

Willow Garage does, in fact, have a blog. And they did, in fact, post about this four days ago: http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2011/10/04/jsk-and-tum-teac...

Did singularityhub mention the original source? No, of course not.
But Newtonian mechanics doesn't apply 100% of the time, right? It applies most of the time, from your perspective, because most of the sizes, distances and speeds you deal with are very large, short, and slow compared to their relevant universal constants. But there's a very long tail of very small, far, fast things that do concern you, and there, rarely, your "100%" approximation falls down.

You say that the "macroscopic" universe is fairly deterministic, meaning things that are about the same size as your brain. But is that an observation about the universe, or about your brain?
When I first got my 3G [coming from a Razr], I remember being confused how to mute it--that I couldn't find the setting for mute. When I found the button for silence, I was struck for a few minutes that no one had thought of this before.

Just preordered my 4S to replace it. I admit I was a bit disappointed--I prefer the rounded back so I'd hoped for a case redesign. Even at this much of an upgrade [I don't have video, haven't been able to upgrade iOS in six months], I don't expect the "magic phone" feeling I had with the 3G. Far fewer people had smartphones at that time (May 09). Always startled me when my phone would create a stir. Now I get more of "wait, how old is your phone anyway?"
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"I mean, they are almost sketchy when it comes to talking about "when bad things happen"; example: when chargebacks happen (and they do happen: I get one every couple days), can I easily (as in: no human interaction) tie it to an individual payment?"

Said sketchiness ensued when I presented Stripe with a simple chargeback scenario, one which could result in disaster for a small startup.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058166
Is graph isomorphism known to be in P or not in P? The article seems to suggest that it is known not to be in P, but I haven't heard anything about this.
Oh but the SX70 is much more fun to use. Creating an object like that, with the picture slowly appearing is much more magical...
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Google licenses the data for the same reason you do -- because creating the kind of business they want to create is prohibitively expensive to do otherwise.

Google has resource constraints too. They can't pour billions of dollars into their Maps product (or any other product) just because it's cool. There has to be a reasonable return. And just because they're operating at a different scale as you doesn't change the fundamentals.
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Also it's unlikely that the extra complexity and the risks that poses is outweighed by the espoused benefits.

This seems like the type of untrusted software plugin that results in having some horrible overlooked exploit that compromises your entire system. All so you could increase your security by some tiny margin.
Willow Garage isn't the original source. They made the platform, but the developers of the "common sense" system, the owners of this robot, and the people who actually made the video, are from the University of Tokyo JSK Lab and Technische Universität München. If you read the link you posted, you would see that Willow Garage properly credits them as the original source.

Edit: Also, the fourth word in TFA is a link to Willow Garage. Your entire post is wrong.
Graph isomorphism is one of the two big problems which are not known to be in P and also not known to be NP-complete. (Integer factorization is the other.)
He also offered to sell Apple to Commodore, in the fall of 1976. $100,000 for the Apple II and the two founders, plus $36,000 salaries for Steve and Woz.

Not that the deal had much of a hope in hell. Apparently Woz's father strongly opposed the deal because he felt his son should get more than 50%, and Commodore pulled out before the two founders ever had an agreement to sell.
It seems as though there are exactly two reasons to get a patent.

To troll people with, and to protect yourself from the first.

It's about time we just did away with the entire system.
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Bingo, I'm a 3GS owner myself. I know lots of geeks with Android phones, but to be honest, I just can't given an arse about "rooting" my phone or all this other stuff which reeks too much like the windows days of removing crapware on a Compaq or something. I've seen the amount of work my friends have invested in getting their phones working, and I have to be blunt here: I don't give a rats. I just want to use a phone that works and has good battery life. I don't need to run Apache on my phone or any of that nonsense.

Every 3GS owner, and a few 4 owners as well, that I know is upgrading to a 4s and not an android phone. Anecdotal I know but the 4 didn't thrill me much to upgrade to and most Android phones don't have the battery life of the iPhones. I spend enough time twiddling things on computers at work, I don't need to do that with my phone too.
...the truth lies somewhere between.

This is a dangerous fallacy exploited by entities like giant ISPs and the MPAA to push debate toward their desired outcomes. If everyone believes that "the truth lies somewhere between," then all an extreme actor needs to do is argue for extreme position A against the status quo B, and public opinion (and political discourse) automatically shifts to (A+B)/2 every time the extreme actor raises the issue. In reality, the truth may be exactly B, but because of a well-intentioned but fallacious desire to compromise, opinion and policy are skewed away from the truth.

The classic example of this fallacy is this: "Some say the sun rises in the east. Some say it rises in the west. The truth must lie somewhere between."

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...I don't think it illustrates the point you intended it to...
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It's about risk mitigation as it pertains to the use of third party APIs. I believe there are too many startups basing their businesses on the APIs of others.

Had I simply written about risk mitigation, it would have been up to the reader to apply it to the use of API's, which clearly startups are not doing.

With respect to the use of those APIs as a core business function, the viability of their continued use is only as secure as the CEO of the company that offers them is honest.

If history is any measure, that's not very secure.
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It's the job of the XML parser to answer the question "is this properly formed XML?" -- so you have indeed made something that "works" in completely the wrong way, by not working correctly.
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Bundle "mikewest/vimroom"
Is this meant to be taken as advice or something? Because it's useless advice. He could have at least said something like, "Be prepared for the day when all your assumptions about how to proceed are upended and you are left with nothing. Be mentally prepared to be broadsided by fate. Be operationally prepared to rebuild from scratch. Be prepared to get a carton of Tums and make the tough decision that gives you a bloody ulcer."
Bandwidth caps can be seen as discriminating against higher-volume types of traffic, like high definition video (which directly competes with cable TV). If you limit the amount of HD video people can watch online in a given month, they are pushed toward your cable TV product.

For what it's worth, Comcast is already extorting (or at least trying to extort) Netflix for payments.
there was a big public discussion about the government trojaner in germany. they government also has to report how often it is used. so you can be sure thats the work of some government part.
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You raise some valid points–although, I wonder if Stripe would provide volume discounts if one asked, perhaps just not saying they do upfront at this point in their young company.

About how they handle chargebacks, I honestly can't comment on that part since I haven't had to deal with that. However, re: mediation, based solely on my past experiences with their excellent support team, I do believe they have the developers' interests at heart too and would work with that accordingly. Again, I haven't dealt with it personally though, so I can't guarantee that and comment reliably on how they truly would act in such a situation.

Edit: their TOS does mention that they may help you with mediation, but also reserve the right to charge a fee for it.