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Why do you think that a larger screen is objectivly better? It's all about personal preference. I despise those phones with large screens.
I'm sure they will. This is a trial store, and I bet they will see it become very successful. We know Google is a data-loving company that tests things quietly, sees what works and what doesn't, and move forward with promising projects.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Google stores rocking Motorola phones, tablets, etc popping up over the next few years. They're in no rush, I'm sure: retail and customer service is not their strong point and they're making plenty of money without the stores right now. But the time will come.
Or just make it so banal on your resume no one will care to check.

"Tamed tigers for a circus" becomes "Shoveled cat poop".
What are the quality on those?

I've been sitting in a Steelcase Think for a few months now and, for a $700+ chair, it feels cheap. It is crazy configurable and seems to be doing all the right things, but here are some of the problems with it:

One of the chairs arrived broken. I understand that shipping is stressful but if a chair breaks during the stresses of shipping, I cannot imagine the rigors of thousands of hours of work is good for it.

It looks metallic and even has a metallic name, but it is mostly plastic.

The lumbar .. bar never stays up. It will also get caught between the horizontal "wires" that make up the back of the chair. These two annoyances means that no one uses the lumbar support.

And, lastly, it just feels like a cheap knockoff of a "real chair". I have been attributing this as a manufacturer-wide problem with Steelcase and just assumed that the Think chair would be symbolic of the rest of their line. That's why I'm surprised to hear a comment that suggests a Leap over an Aeron. Did they just suck with the ultra-configurable Leap and actually make better chairs in general?
This is just another example of Apple suffering from its own actions. It was all excited about how H.264 was a FRAND standard, ignoring it's own previous statements about how such standards could lead to dominant players abusing other parties. But it had a market lead and a business model that fitted with the status quo so it was full speed ahead. And now the shoe is on the other foot.

From Apple's previous statement on this matter:
"While the current draft patent policy does state a “preference” for royalty-free standards, the ready availability of a RAND option presents too easy an alternative for owners of intellectual property who may seek to use the standardization process to control access to fundamental Web standards. A mandatory royalty-free requirement for all adopted standards will avoid this result."
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why doesnt HN recognise newlines?

It treats single newlines as the same paragraph and double newlines as a new one. Alternatively, if you want to post code, you can indent it by four spaces. Like this:

par(mfrow = c(3,2))
dat <- read.table("data.txt", sep="\t", header = TRUE)
for(let in c("A","B","C","D","E","F"))
plot(density(dat[,let]), main = let)
Perfect timing after Apple's keynote ;) I am a Nexus S user and I most admit that it is the most useful thing that I had in my pockets in all my life. I like everything of and in it, apart the battery life. Even when pulling it from the pocket I know by the grip where is bottom and where is top. I never thought I would use a phone for web - I think I surf more on the phone than on the PC since I have this thing. The curved display is great - I accidentally dropped my phone several times and it has not a trace. In comparison I know 5 people around me that had to replace their broken iPhone displays.

Slightly off-topic: If I buy a new Android phone, do I have to buy all the app again or are they migrated?
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Probably not missing anything, the front page is text only (+button) currently. And yes, there's definitely room to improve it..

I actually never even thought of the shared office targeting before. It seems I should, it does sound like an opportunity for the concept.
Free with a contract. The 3rd World can't afford contracts. 95% of people in India and Africa are on "Pay as you go"

5% market share is not mainstream in mind. I guess I was referring to huge market share...
I don't quite understand the reason for thinking BSD sockets are horrible?
It's not really mainstream if you charge $60-$70 per month. There are Android phones that are free with $10-$15 contracts.
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Well said. The author also seems to not understand that in developing markets such as China and India, no contract && very low monthly bills are the norm. No way to subsidize in that space.
Some of the people who contacted the police, like Jason Scott, did know Mark Pilgrim. And were probably concerned that a drastic and dramatic action with no explanation was a prelude to something like a suicide attempt. Even if it was just a small chance, I can see why they wouldn't want to risk inaction.
The number pad doesn't work for me but the keyboard numbers do. I started to debug but was scared off by seeing all the gwt-* class names. ;-)

WinXP Chrome 16.something (dev channel)
That's my point - this way with the 3GS as the entry level model it's clearly a cheaper phone, leaving the iPhone 4 users happy that they've still got the cache that goes with their more expensive version.
This is silly, but I find it to be more on-topic and fun than a lot of other items that I see on HN. It's really educational to see how people look at the problem.
Speaking as someone who has used both extensively, anyone who says they prefer Samsung's Super AMOLED to Apple's Retina has been paid to say that. Seriously, there is no comparison. Retina is brighter and crisper, and in bright sunlight both are bad.

The only edge AMOLED has is in battery life.
Germany uses Keynesian ideas as well for example it launched a Konjukturpaket[1] in 2009. Germany was just not hit as hard and recovered faster, there is nothing particularly unusual about that.

[1]: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjunkturpaket_II
But mount -o bind is not very useful when only root can use it and when it doesn't include proper union mounts.

Same problem applies to one of Plan 9's key design features: private namespaces.
Lots of money has already left the stock market. When the market is down, it is a great opportunity to invest, therefore, the money could be going back into the stock market.
I don't think analytics is counting unique visitors. I think it's unique visitor within the past 24 hours. So it could be the same people visiting once per day. But don't quote me on that. You should be able to see the returning visitors stats, see how that adds up.

Time spent really depends on the type of site. 1 minute is not that sticky though in my opinion if you're creating content and trying to get people to stay on site.

Perhaps your best route would be to open a dialogue with the current users and see what they do and don't like about the site. What they would like to see more of rather than just blindly guessing and adding features.
Regards the Nano, why would people rather walk than be seen in the 'world's cheapest car?' Given the funds and the availability I'd grab one in a moment---a mountain bike in a snow storm makes a very convincing argument that there must be a better way! Is this a cultural thing---if so move the market to where such hangups don't exist would be my suggestion...
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I fail to believe that markets serve the common good when the price of gold (a barely useful metal that on its own can't feed a single child) soares and also that the economic output of europe relies on greece. That's what the market would suggest. I'm not saying kill the markets, i just like rational markets. PSI invested in greek bonds (for 10 years now), for their own reasons, let them take the hit.
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Why not? All that would happen would be that some other previously small bank would get more business.

Remember, nobody is too big or has been around too long to be allowed to fail. Assyria fell, so can Goldman Sax.
And this is so sad.

By the way, Plan 9 doesn't have sockets, it has /net: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip with the dial API built on top: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/dial

This means that for example, Plan 9 applications that do networking are not tied to a specific network stack, you can mount multiple network stacks concurrently, you can have 'virtual' network stacks (for example running in user space and proxying to a remote host, or doing other neat tricks), and the apps don't need to care.

Also when Ipv6 was added to the Plan 9 stack, no application code had to be modified, because the API nicely abstracts network addresses.
I have never met a programmer who couldn't write C++. Python is definitely a good place to start as you can quickly code up something cool.
I suspect what is happening is one of two things:

1) Apple are pushing down into the mid-market before moving further down into the low end.

2) Alternatively at the moment Apple aren't happy that they can create an iPhone that they want to put their name to and make money on at the price point you talk about.

Based on the way we see them behave with the Mac where Apple simply don't complete at the very low end, I suspect it's the later. This is a company who make money selling hardware - all the music and apps pull in a comparatively small amount and apparently really only run at break even.

If they can't sell a phone at that price and make money then they'll happily leave that market to others.
Interns welcome too.
Also, I've never really understood why a removable battery is necessary. By the time my battery died in a phone, it's always been time to upgrade anyway, so I never replaced it. Also, if you need extra power during the day, an extra battery seems like it would be pretty annoying, because you have to power off the phone to replace it. I'd rather have an external battery pack to recharge the battery, so I can keep using the phone.
This is an interesting idea: why not use FizzBuzz to show off your understanding of different paradigms?

Someone who barely scrapes out an imperative-style FizzBuzz might not be ideal. On the other hand, someone who can write FizzBuzz in functional and OOP would be better.

Even better would be someone who writes FizzBuzz with a poor order of growth, then explains why the order of growth sucks. That would demonstrate an understanding of algorithmic complexity.

I wonder if anyone looks for this when hiring.
The apps are attached to your Google account, not the phone, so no you don't have to buy them again.
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Correct. It is $35 for only to the students after government's subsidy.
> Unix says "Everything is a file... except sockets, windows, etc."

Unix said that, but in fact meant "everything has a unique descriptor associated (an integer)".

Directory is not a file, it's a set of files and other directories. Unix doesn't even tries to camouflage this simple observation and returns EISDIR.
We took a lot of inspiration from this video over at Zazu (http://getzazu.com), it's great to see this video being acknowledged by the HN community!
Apple has no one to blame by themselves. Instead of focusing so much on lawsuits, they should've focused on launching the new iPhone on time, and also on launching a real successor to the iPhone 4.

This is like US starting a nuclear war with China because "they stole their jobs", and then when China sends some nukes back, they realize that maybe they shouldn't have done that. Plus, it ends up destroying its own economy financing a huge war, too, and focuses more and more on the war instead of economical growth.
very cool idea. the logistics around setting up the shipment from founder to owner must be a big pain on your end! but overall i love the idea and will check it out. do you guys offer your services in canada as well?
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Well put. The US carrier subsidy is 350-400. That means a 3GS is still $350-400, so it is still not competitive with $150 unsubsidized android phones. With the 20% tax in china, why would I pay $500 for a 3GS when I can buy a 4S for around $750, or a low end android for $200.
How do you do video chat on the SGII though? I'm guessing you need some software like Skype, etc., which means your friend also has to have installed, you need to be friends with them, and so on. On the iPhone, FaceTime is built right into the phone app—just call your friend and press "Video Chat". No need to worry about setting up an account or downloading anything else. The only thing you need to coordinate with your friend is to make sure they have an iPhone.
> The Indian government put out a tender for the tablet to be developed, and plans to sell 100,000 units of Aakash

My comment a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600780

Same thing. 'unveiling' a tablet for a price is nothing until a tablet is actually sold for that price on the market. This times two in a place like India, which is plans-heavy and implementation-light. This really doesn't mean much.
Overwrite core WordPress files first. Run WordPress Exploit Scanner to root out anything in the database, and WordPress File Monitor as a tripwire going forward.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor/

That's what I did when I had this same issue happen to me on my WP installs (yeah, the same hole infected other sites on the server). These plugins showed me what files on my server had be changed and where the offending code was.

How old is your WP install? The hole could actually be in a plugin you are using. That was the case with me.

Also, TimThumb.php was recently in the news as having a security hole in it.

For good measure, here is the Hardening Wordpress article from WP: http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
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If people save more and spend less, the prices go down, the companies make less money and unemployment figures go up. I don't quite see how this would solve the problem.
It is only going to be fun if you can watch it from afar.

Those of us who live in Europe see no point in antagonizing somebody who isn't a pain in the ass.
> screen size ... makes people go "wow" when they are in the cell phone store.

Then makes them go "crap" when they're trying to walk and text with one thumb.
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They do sell it without a contract, for $375, so roughly the same price as a Nexus S.
Online/Mobile/Facebook ordering platforms for restaurants?
I'm trying to find a platform for online/mobile/ Facebook ordering for restaurants, but haven't found any standouts yet... any recommendations?
I just discovered that those resources were down. Is there any mirror of dive into python available? A good friend wants to learn python and that was a terrific resource.

I wish Mark all the best. I know what is to loose a good friend. Still what he created was beautiful and those resources are too good to vanish.
Again? The 'Indian Government' makes an announcement like this every three to six months. There is really really weird politics surrounding this vs the OLPC project in India. Start believing in these releases when you have consumers purchasing them, and/or deployments greater than 100.
Thanks for the confirmation!

I will wait for the new Nexus to arrive in Europe, will read the tests and then check if I can get it subsidised if I switch to another provider ;)

The thing is, the new Nexus has to be really much better than Nexus S - I am so happy with it, that I kind of got attached to this thing.
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In the presentation, they said Siri's "beta" because it's only available in a subset of iPhone's markets, not because they consider it low-quality.
There are other problems with symlinks too: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks

Every command that operates on files needs an extra flag to tell it whatever it should follow symlinks, or operate on the target, or on the symlink itself, etc.
The author is right. Those senior managers need to ask themselves why they used a competing service instead of their own.
For those rare cases, you can override the definitions on Latitude web site.
Let me buy a nice large star chart on quality paper with fulfillment via Amazon.

Yes customization is good, but just the star chart itself would be a cool present for a kid.
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It's tough being anonymous and set yourself apart from copycats. Actually the best attack some agency can do against anonymous is keep spamming "anonymous" videos to the point where there is so much noise that their message is tuned out.

The thing is, if there really is no leadership, how does anyone even tell if someone is "really" in Anonymous? Or if some video is "really" from them? Can even members of Anonymous tell? Otherwise it's like github and forking, except of idealistic concerns.
>This is just another example of Apple suffering from it's own actions. It was all excited about how H.264 was a FRAND standard, ignoring it's own previous statements about how such standards could lead to dominant players abusing other parties.

If Samsung has granted a license(either with royalties or royalty-free) to everyone else besides Apple, they aren't following the FRAND standard. If they have, and this is a result of negotiations falling apart(which is highly unlikely, considering that these are "essential to the reliable functioning of telecom networks and devices", and the iPhone 1 presumably infringes on these), then Samsung has a case.

Otherwise, Samsung may be violating agreements that they have with the standards agencies. This will be pretty interesting how it plays out.
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"German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court."

You mean German politicians are constrained by Democracy. This article portays it as if it was a bad thing.
I agree but it does show the ridiculousness of starting a movement without first having a list of grievances. In a void people will look for and assign whatever list of demands is available.
Because it didnt find anything, while there were positive useful suggestions, and sightings of malware by actually visiting the site. What value is a link to a service that doesn't work?
The problem on Android is the unknowns.

You don't know whether your hardware vendor will supply updates. Or whether your carrier and vendor will get in some spat over who knows what. And then when you buy the latest greatest you have to be sure you're picking the popular phone that actually gets apps tested against it, etc, etc, etc. And then what particular carrier installs the least crapware, etc. Does it have the right chip that will have acceleration in the future? Does the battery last 2 hours or 20? How many extra batteries should I buy for my particular Android phone?

Does my iPhone have the right external buttons to make the apps I want to use most productive, etc? Should I get a phone with or without a physical keyboard?

Apple's value prop is primarily that their providing a known commodity, you know the apps are going to work, it's almost impossible to choose the 'wrong' iPhone, and Apple doesn't get into silly spats with carriers about updates. You can definitely put together an Android experience that's on par with Apple but you're rolling the dice unless you wait 6 months to buy the hardware. And then there's the issue of going to the multitude of stores to find out which one has the phone for the cheapest.
It's pretty rare on the user end that a forced upgrade necessitates a new machine... It's like they're running a web app on your phone.
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The one I use (happily): http://www.splitmybill.ie/
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Permutation tests! Easy to use and easy to explain.

The two examples have the same mean and median, but differ substantially in their min/max/standard deviation/median absolute deviation. Pick your spread, they differ. I got this by poking around in iPython.

Find the standard deviation of A. Reshuffle A and B together, taking half of the resulting list, calculate the standard deviation, record it and repeat that a thousand times. See that you basically never get a standard deviation as large as you did for A alone, so they meaningfully differ.

Repeat on each of the data sets, and you see that D and E are plausibly similar to A whereas C and F are not. Repeat for B to see if we're being fucked with, and lo and behold it all seems to work out, though D is a little iffy.

I used numpy and ten lines of glue code. Happy to post if there is interest.
It's mitigated in that you can't hard link a directory (except in recent MacOS). So I suppose you would always know the real cwd of your shell, for instance.
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I made this one: http://i.crowdfunded.it
A star chart of the Star Wars "Universe" would be the best thing ever.
(and I know there would be licensing issues)

Also, what about EVE Online players, would it be cool to offer them some kind of print out?

(Think of any other persistent games, or imaginary universes).

Think of things people are passionate about.
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For me, I think having an editor in front of me gets my mind "in the mode". Heck, I can break a period of procrastination just by firing one up.

I never enjoy writing anything on a whiteboard, be it code or some kind of drawing for a meeting. I'm also plagued by lousy handwriting, and I don't draw particularly well.

One interview scenario that I did not mind, and was editor-free, was one where I was shown Powerpoint slides of code. I was asked to fix what I saw, or determine if anything was really wrong at all.
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Some slides you may have missed from the recent iPhone 4S reveal:

iPhone 4S vs download speeds:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/10/04/speeds.jpg

and

iPhone 4S camera response speeds:

http://www.thewwwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/iphone-...

Apple is all about the specs when it thinks it can win, and when it cant (like the 4G downloads or the classic Altivec bake-offs with Photoshop) it's not beneath cooking up ridiculously misleading nonsense to use for spec-whoring.
What you're really saying is that the total cost of owning the device is more than just the purchase price. I agree -- so how would an iPhone nano help?
Where should investors be putting their money? The stock market is extremely volatile, and it is no higher than it was years ago. T-bonds are paying historically low interest. Even real estate looks really risky. Meanwhile, startups have been doing relatively well. Startups like AirBNB, Groupon, and Dropbox have all grown really fast.
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Also, no mention of the number of available apps. Samsung has more app stores, and far fewer apps.
As I understand it, all the US carriers (with the exception of T-Mobile) charge the same per month whether you bought a phone subsidized or not, so it doesn't make too much sense to buy an unsubsidized phone, because you won't be saving anything per month.
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I am excited about nexus prime or I may even consider samsung galaxy note. With ice cream on horizon, the diversity of choices amaze .