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I think the guys at Nokia design will be very happy with that comment. Fortunately most of them are still employed with Nokia and working on exciting stuff.

I feel bad for most of the MeeGo devs though. Most of them were laid off or quit in frustration over having their baby flushed down the toilet. Quite a large number of them ended up with Intel to keep working on MeeGo, just to see Intel drop the effort as well. Must be incredibly frustrating.

Disclaimer: I work as a software engineer at Nokia in Australia.
Launch and iterate is why i think they delayed on this. prioritization is difficult (especially for such a large project) and I'm sure that many other things were prioritized over this feature. Now whether or not that prioritization was correct is debatable, but im pretty sure every software project in the world "thought they would have more time". That's just Hofstadter's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadters_law).
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There is a very important distinction between the Nazi Germany example and Facebook selling your data.

In the Nazi Germany example, it was a government entity that was using the information. In that case no amount of privacy controls will protect you - if the information is available they can use the law to retrieve it. Even if Jews didn't have their religion listed on their passport, a government can retrieve that information in other ways (not least compulsory questioning).

In Facebook's case they are selling information to other companies. If the government wants they information they can legislate to get it from anywhere at all (including active surveillance), and so the fact you have shared it on Facebook merely minimises friction for them.
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Why not just use a normal camera and focus it right the first time?
A vice tax on fatty foods makes no sense if (1) you are trying to improve the health of the populace, and (2) you know about the health benefits of ketogenic diets[1]. If those are Denmark's goals, then they should instead be taxing sugary foods. Otherwise, I am forced to conclude that Denmark is either (a) dumb, or (b) purposefully decreasing their citizens' health.

[1]http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com/
Passionate and knowledgable users would be good for early users. However, betas and paying customers don't mix well. People seem to miss that Google Apps is really meant for enterprise, government and education. So, the driving factor behind decisions for Apps users isn't the hackers and power users who use it for their own domain, but people like NYU, the City of Des Moines and Virgin America. It makes perfect sense to open it up for them last. It is just there happens to be a large vocal group of people who use Google Apps for their own personal use.
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i like the site. i would prefer a more passive indicator, that indicates my status in a less strident tone.
I wrote this years ago to get it out of my system, and after Infogami went to the big web host in the sky I ported it and my other nonsense to Google Sites. The slightly updated version of the same article is now here:

http://www.yacoset.com/Home/signs-that-you-re-a-bad-programm...
Good has a meaning, but it is a meaning that is highly context sensitive.

When talking about "Good cars" for instance, what makes a good car for a mother of 5 is likely different from what makes a good car for a single person who is very worried about the environment and both of those are different from a "Good car" for drag racing.
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NVidia's Kal-El SoC implements this approach, although it uses Cortex A9 for both the Big Dog and Little Dog cores. The Little Dog is produced using low-leakage transistors, which is where their obtain their power savings (at the cost of clock speed). In the Kal-El design, the Little Dog communicates with the Big Dogs through a shared L2 cache.
The OP may be being ironic/sarcastic to a certain degree but I'm always wary of these types of articles.

"You are a bad programmer". How would it make you feel to hear that? Probably not open to further suggestions on how to improve.

While I agree that as programmers we should always strive to be getting better, these types of put-downs and belitting don't foster a culture of communication and trust.

Personally, I'm most receptive to hearing that I could improve when it's coming from someone I trust and respect. If a random person or poster on the Internet sent me this article and rubbed it in my face, I'd probably write them off as a major a-hole. And, I might miss out on a great opportunity to learn.

It reminds me of this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322696 - I read it and at the time thought it was great. But, sadly, not much has changed and this post is sad evidence of that fact.
The other companies sell their labels for $20+ and most have yearly service attachments. Their labels are also either bland or unattractive. Our labels are attractive and we offer them in many colors. We also have free replacements for life whereas the other companies will charge you for replacement labels.
People didn't sign up for Friendster, Myspace, or Facebook based on an invite. Social networks take up a lot of their own space and with Facebook for personal, Twitter for media/marketing/information/distribution, and Salesforce taking the attention on the social enterprise construct over smaller options like Yammer, etc.

Search for the most part is a tool. E-mail is a tool. Office productivity applications are mainly tools. Personalized and direct.

The social experience is different - you dont use Facebook because its useful itself, you use it because you get facility out of the fact others use it. Inclusion matters.

This is a different problem entirely. Google always approaches a space from a technology angle. Its the difference between "this code solves the problem" and "this code contributes to a full vision."

Receiving and acting on an invite attempts to give access special meaning, as if the getting an invite is all you need to make the pain go away.

The truth is while early adopters and media will jump on in with excitement, the vast majority of people who use Facebook will continue to use Facebook.

The reason they didn't take off exponentially in my eyes isn't based on release date as much as it is a technology/culture mismatch when taking the product to market. This is an internal gestalt in Google most likely, and externally manifests as a branding problem.
Cool... and a fun code to crack for the average person.
> I love when people ask "what does your IQ score measure". The only thing it can possibly measure is your ability to perform an IQ test.

This is a completely random statement. You could just as easily say that an analog scale doesn't measure weight, it measures how much a spring compresses when an object is placed on top of it. Since the spring is different every time, even the same scale is not going to be the same every day.

Measuring something and what it correlates with is exactly the same thing, and the distinction you are making is absurd pedantry.

I don't really have any strong opinion about your actual stances.
Let's hope there's a way to switch existing Plus profiles over (retaining posts and circles, etc.). I know, probably not going to happen, which means I won't be able to use my Apps account.
And our labels are available online for only $4.99 for a sheet of 5 different sizes.
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If you use an Android phone then you're streaming map data off of Google's servers. The Maps app does cache stuff but there's only so much room.

Also other stuff like traffic conditions...
How many other people here have avoided taking an IQ test there entire life thus far?
Physically, you're stuck at f/2 in the sense that that is the actual f-stop of the lens. The information exists to let you choose the focus and the depth of field of the desired display image after capturing the light field. This simplifies the capturing process, but allows for more complex post processing that is not possible with a normal camera.
I was under the impression that they wanted to transition to Windows Phone or Android. Anything to help them become/stay competitive in the mobile space.
We're aware of this, and as @genieyclo said, Google Apps for Education is currently the easiest way for a whole bunch of students to get going. We've been successful using Apps for Education with all of our pilot Khan Academy schools so far.

That being said, we're thinking about becoming our own identity provider as well, primarily for this reason.

Just one of those things that's on the list and has to be weighed against everything else -- the majority of our users are doing just fine w/ Google/Facebook.
I think you need two lenses to get enough info for 3d. DXG has a cheapy if you just wanted to mess around. http://www.dxgusa.com/products/dxg-3d.html
Late YC application question.
If you apply late for YC w2012 and dont get accepted can you apply again with the same idea for YC summer 2012? or would it be dismissed because it was already looked at?
I'd pay for something that made it easier for me to remotely manage my parent's life (documents, bills, schedules, appointments, insurance, money, etc.). English isn't their first language so I end up being the go to for a lot of things.
Use location-awareness apps to set it to a ringtone when you're in the house. If you're on Android, I've had good results with [Locale](https://market.android.com/details?id=com.twofortyfouram.loc...). If you're on iOS or something else I have no idea.
#5 definitely!!! I think the ladies working in startups will definitely appreciate it! Startup schwag rarely fit me properly :( and most of them are just a logo slapped onto a T-shirt. Would be great for team morale! Plus, nice swag like rovio's angry birds plush toys, t-shirts etc are selling like hotcakes http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/SF2011/2011/09/12/angry-birds-... there's definitely market validation for that idea! I definitely believe in investing in gd schwag and who knows that might even become a source of income for a bootstrapping startup :)
Actually yes it does. the Aperture size is relative to the spread of light that falls on the sensor/film/recording space. As the F number is the focal legnth, it matters how big the sensor is to define that focal legnth.

Read up on it here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture
I agree, this form factor seems really hard to hold. Why not go with a more traditional Point and Shoot form factor?

If they put a touch sensitive screen on the back you could even re-focus on the fly!
That is correct. I also couple it with a VOIP service but cordless phones can be used with only cell phone if you want that. I'm using Uniden but I know AT+T and Panasonic also have cordless sets that offer this "cell link" feature as well. The key is just ensuring you've got compatible versions of Bluetooth. If you're on a fairly recent cellphone, it's almost a given it will have Bluetooth.
I believe the idea here is that the coherency logic allows the A7 to be presented to the OS as simply another core that happens to run slower and consume less power. This means that the OS is in control - the transition to low-power mode is handled by the OS scheduling processes on the little dogs while putting the big dogs into power saving states.
You need a Mac to use it. Meh.
I don't like Thomas Friedman either. But, that is a good quote that I think Milton would agree with. He doesn't say that invention is a necessary condition for prosperity. He said it is a necessary condition for prosperity GROWTH.
Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclpQ1pI0xQ&feature=playe...

Very cool video of Adobe tool for playing focus and deriving 3D info from an image.
Super, great to see it's on your radar. Thank you very much for all your hard work.
I would say this is actually the reason why it doesn't make any sense for Google Apps to support Google+.

As you say, the core use case for Google Apps is for an enterprise, university, or some other kind of organization to give accounts to users that are managed on their behalf. In essence, all of the accounts are owned by the organization, not the user. Now, what happens when the organization revokes your account, because you graduate? The idea that that is possible is absurd.

(In case anyone reading doesn't see what I mean yet, imagine if Facebook locked you out of your account when your University cancelled your e-mail address after graduation, instead of just letting you associate a new one; your Google Apps account isn't just an account associated with an address at a domain, it is an account that is equivalent to an address at a domain.)
Yeah, I have the same concern. "Americans themselves would start lending to small businesses" and " Starbucks customers would be able to donate money to the effort when they bought their coffee." don't really agree with each other. Donating isn't lending.

On the other hand, lending isn't a sure thing. We might be talking about people getting their $0 back from their $1 investment if the borrower defaults.
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I recall them saying that pseudonyms would be allowed later on, I think this is just "later on".
There is nothing in Android to prevent you from making great apps either. And regarding the default design ... there are themes everyone can use in their app and it will look good enough. But like in iOS, the standard look quickly becomes ugly if EVERY single app uses it (blue bar at the top with some buttons left and right, a list in the center and some tabs with icons below that, everything in the same color) :/

There are even design guidelines for android and very good examples from google how to do stuff. But some people are just bad at designing or maybe just bad at using examples and reading the documentation to find out what is possible ....
1. Clever. You can probably build it yourself with some google voice hack. My computer (via googlevoice chrome plugin) tells me when someone has called or texted already, which is pretty useful in itself because there are often times when I've left my phone somewhere but I'm on my computer.

2. http://www.groupon.com/now, https://livingsocial.com/instant. I don't know if they are in Pittsburgh yet but will be soon, and maybe google will join the fray now that offers is there.

3. In Chicago (also flyover country) we have http://Peapod.com

4. http://www.getpeek.com/ was an attempt. A failed attempt as far as I know, though it did get a lot of press 3 years ago.

5. I can always tell by looking at them. You should add a sliding clean/dirty thing on your dishwasher.
You need a receiver in the phone that can phase track, which costs 50x as much as the simple GPS chip they fit.

So, $0.50 instead of $0.01? :)
I guess I can't log-in and add a link to its new home, eh?
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or "lender" in the context of this article.
I don't think this is true. Most of the cheap GPS chips I see on sparkfun can track 60 satellites at once, and you're not going to be seeing that many at one time anyway.
So you'd pay for a service that gave you a restaurant discount? How would this be priced so that there's a net savings?
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I'd find this useful if it would update my IM status rather than adding a postscript to outgoing emails.
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The Marquis making several low bows accepted the honor which his majesty conferred upon him and immediately the same day married the princess.
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Given a real world problem, algorithms or the mathematics behind it do not provide insight on their own. The only value knowledge of the algorithms provide is a general understanding of the ways in which you can approach a problem. If you can do the mathematics, you can look at how the way you structure your question influences the results you are seeing.

The process of exploratory data analysis is best done in (imho) the style of a Lakatos research programme.

- prepare and clean the data

- explore using many fast methods and charts, come up with some working hypotheses about the data that are important to your client

- select method(s) to test those hypotheses

- perform the analyses

- determine what your results mean in terms of your research goal.

- alter your list of working hypotheses

- repeat [possibly collecting more data]

Obviously the only hard part about this is step five. And unfortunately this is the step that isn't t really taught in my experience. A simple case: Let's say you had a linear regression and you ran it once with 2 variables, got some parameter estimates (a,b) , and ran it again with 3 parameters and got some more parameter estimates (a1,b1,c). If b != b1, what does this mean? If you are using a custom link function (e.g. cloglog or logit), how should you interpret this now? This is where having a deep understanding of the mathematics behind the techniques starts to pay off. And this is the simplest example of a basic regression.
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As someone with consumer electronics experience and a 94-year-old grandmother, I actually think #4 is brilliant. She will never understand how to maneuver to email on her iPad, and the abstract 'reply' and 'send' symbols we all take for granted are hieroglyphics to her. There's definitely a market for an always on, single screen email device a toddler could use. Perhaps the stylus isn't dead yet!

I don't know the first thing about marketing to senior citizens and their caretakers, but I know I spent hours searching for "senior citizen email app.."
Yes, but hopefully KA will get its spaced repetition ( http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition ) efforts going at some point, while most users are still there.
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I'm a control freak. I hate to have people manipulating my images. This is a cute toy, but it eliminates a bit of what makes taking photos fun for me.
The same design pressure (to make the simple stuff easier) is at work in both cases. Much like, say, Bottle and Flask looking very similar.

The "basically unusable" is probably a little harsh, but I've never really understood the motivation behind some of SQLAlchemy's design decisions. eg. separating one class/table definition into interacting table, model and mapping classes makes no sense at least 99% of the time - that seems like something which should be hidden internally (but accessible if you really need it).
This still misses the issue by making a distinction between "real names" and pseudonyms in the first place. Fine you might now be able to go by a pseudonym, but are you still required to sign up with a Google Approved real name?
Will Lennart Poettering's Google+ be unbanned? [http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....] Will they keep auto banning names they don't like?
They seem to continue to fail to get it. :(
Super interested, but had to sign up for the 'let me know when it's for Windows' option.
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Since you can focus at arbitrary points in the photo after the fact it should not be a huge stretch to make software that allows you to change the depth of field. Macro photographers already deal with this by using focus stacking.
I understand that this is an important ruling, but do they really need a pat on the back for figuring out how the internet works?
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Airbnb applied late too but they got in. They might have been an exception though. Here's the video where Brian talks about his story. Truly inspiring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOytubycHOg
Can't wait for the next Startup School at Stanford :)
I am by no means a font fanboy, but it's evident to me that Roboto's guidelines clearly differ in the preferred dimensions and curving from Helvetica.

Moreover, it appears (at least on my monitor) to be a much more readable font.
because there might be more than one type of right
Note that it does have the shutter button on top, so that should help the user orient it correctly.

Also I don't think a big screen is that necessary on a camera like this, it's uses seem pretty minimal, it's essentially only used as a viewfinder as any other adjustments to the image—focus included—are done in software.
This is promising, but I guess I should wait and see what Google actually rolls out before I go and start adding content again.
It also assumes those fellow programmers are also good programmers.

Can a mediocre programmer tell the difference between mediocre code and good code?

To the original point, the happiness of the client and other developers is a good indicator, but not the only.
Let's not change the topic of debate. The topic of debate never was whether Apple can produce software. It was whether Apple can achieve the same goals or even better by building instead of acquiring Dropbox mostly because they have money. I believe the answer is no.
I'm sure you could apply again but the hope would probably be that you are further along in your path towards executing the startup idea.
A fair point, and thanks for the link - I hadn't heard of that 'law' before.
Seems to me you could take the pictures, poke at them later yourself to get the right focus and depth of field, then save that as a regular JPEG for distribution.
I wish people would stop doing these silly "IANAL" disclaimers in online (anonymous, no less) discussions.

Are you really afraid somebody's gonna go off and ruin their life because they based the legality of their business on a HN comment? And then turn around and sue Mr. 'redthrowaway'?

If so, ponder this statement: IAAL, go jump off a bridge.

(both statements just add to the noise and contribute nothing)
Regarding the swag idea, I was thinking of a service that would deliver swag to users of a site.

eg. When you become King of Mayor of whatever on foursquare you get an actual shirt type thing, or an iron on badge, etc.
It would be funnier if it wasn't so true.
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I get the point you are trying to make, but I think these circumstances are different. Your point is valid if you are talking only about consumer users. However, any enterprise App account is going to be run by a (generally speaking) technically literate administrator who decides what features to enable for their App users.

As long as Plus is sold as 'beta' or whatever, there is no real risk to opening it up to App accounts - regardless of whether they are personal users or enterprise users - because it's a conscious opt-in process being made by technically literate administrators.

And as many of others have already said, there is a big downside to treating your App administrators as second class citizens who can't make their own decisions - you lose the very people who have an appetite to try new things (why else did they move to Apps instead of using MS Office or whatever), and who are generally drinking the Google Kool-Aid. It's probably not the best analogy, but I think it's like Apple releasing the iphone 5 and saying 'Anyone who bought a previous iphone within 30 days of when it was released is not allowed to buy the new iphone 5'.
Pulse comes close to what Flipboard tries to do
Man, hate to rip on MG Seigler again, but he made this argument (repeatedly) last year with respect to Android phones. I don't understand it.

More models with newer and better technology, coming out more often is a positive. Period. Yes, it might make purchasing one phone amongst many more difficult, but that's not up to the manufacturers. They're competing, after all. If you walk out of the store satisfied with your purchase, that's all you can ask for. The fact that there is soon "the next best thing" has no bearing on the price you agreed to pay for a product you're satisfied with.

The Apple way is one model, this is another. I'm glad both exist.
Saw this one awhile back.
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