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There's also a nice list by Google itself that mentions some, but not all, of the features: http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Too bad. There are no pictures. It's just a press release.

Since the press release is on the Kobo books website, I'd expect something to entice me other than a page full of text, especially since they state that the device is available for pre-order today.

$199 is a steep enough price for me to want some more details before I pre-order. Hell, they didn't even put hyperlinks in the press release.

Here's a direct link to the Kobo Vox:

http://www.kobobooks.com/kobovox
I'd really like to see a comparison/analysis between iOS 4.3 and iOS 5. I noticed an immediate, dramatic improvement in subjective quality and focus speed on my iPhone 4. I initially thought that this came down to some kind of auto-sharpening but Lori Grunin, one of the more discriminating camera critics, seems to pin a lot of the iPhone's quality on the AF - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20122150-1/the-iphone-4s....
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Just stop posting these articles
Which chip? ADI's SHARC has that and it's far from "really silly"
Sorry, I wasn't clear - when I said that Apple's future in 10-20 years isn't assured, I didn't mean that they won't remain a hugely profitable company. What I meant was, right now, if you look at the last 10 years of Apple history, it's like a list of miracle product after miracle product.

Today's Apple is not just a successful technology company. They are, imho, the leading consumer technology company in the world - no one else comes close, not Sony, not Samsung, not Google or Microsoft (and part of the reason is that you can line them up with both hardware manufacturers and software companies). Over the last 10 years, Apple introduced 3 products, each of which basically created or dominated an industry: the iPod (dominated the mp3 player industry), the iPhone (created the modern smart phone industry), the iPad (in the process of creating the tablet industry, and so far dominating it).

Had Steve Jobs lived another decade, I fully expect that we would have seen another 2 or 3 such genre-defining products in that period. Did he leave enough of his mind behind that those will happen even though he passed away? When you look at Apple in 10 years, will they look as awesome as they do today? That's what's at risk, not Apple's survival.
I still think a webservice-based version of these contests would be much more fun. The idea would be to only give the simulator a URL of where your AI is hosted. There would be an expected set of endpoints for the simulator to call and would invoke your service when it was your turn. Perhaps the AI could call services on the simulator as well.

So, instead of having to write your AI in the simulator's language you could choose whatever you want. Another advantage is that you could run your own database to store and query information so that your AI could become more intelligent.

I've been looking for a new side project. Perhaps I've found it.
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I wonder how well this type of screen would work with a stylus as a note taking device.
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Call me cynical, but they can't keep claiming Jobs designed all their future products forever.
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I paired down the last comment just to make it informative for other readers who might have a similar problem, so perhaps this doesn't all apply to your case.

Lawyers in your family provide good legal advice, but make sure to seek third-party advice from lawyers who have worked in your industry for 10+ years. They will be more aware of precedents, what your chances are, etc.
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I'm not suggesting he fixated on his own death - in fact, the article states exactly the opposite. What I'm saying is, there were more important Apple things for him to think about than the iPhone 5, and given that one of Steve Jobs' defining characteristics was, as far as I know, his ability to focus on the right thing, I doubt he was worrying himself about the iPhone 5.
That's the part I don't get: Foxconn is the world's biggest manufacturer of electronic components. They count Amazon, Dell, Motorola, HP, Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple among their clients.

Yet only Apple gets the notice.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Clients
If everyone knows the secret it is not a secret anymore and the information becomes useless. If too many people are trading using the same algorithm the profit will be squeezed out and the data will be about worthless.

Find a Hedge Fund manager somewhere and get some money to put into the strategy. Of course you may find then that the simple act of investing larger sums will destroy your edge as your trades start having more significant market impact.
The title is a bit sensationalist.

The last reported instance of this happening in the linked forum thread is August 25th, 2011. Does iOS 5 suffer from the same problem? If so, I'd expect there to be new posts in the thread.
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Laughing, I am one of the younger X'ers. I was born in '77.

>I got more of a "we live in a fucked up world, what are we going to do about it, or at least let's throw one fuck of a party" vibe, not a "we live in a fucked up world... oh well, fuck it" vibe.

I've always attributed the former to the 60s movement and the latter to Generation X.

>I have mixed feelings about the changes in the music scene in the early 90's. If you're at all referring to the emergence of grunge and "alternative", then I hope it never awakens again.

I hate the labels of grunge and such. It was about when good music dominated the consciousness and overcame 80s pop music (the lousy kind) and hair band rock. There are some bands who were considered metal and their legacy continues to survive, such as Metallica. I am glad to be rid of the Motley Crues of the world.
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This was breaking news... in November, 2010.
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So, can we please separate facts from fiction? The Forbes article states that TTAGG's back-end downloads all photos that users post on their Twitter accounts and then tries to recognize whether the users are wearing what they claimed to have purchased in their Tweets. Is this really the case? How can you tell apart a pair of American Eagle jeans from a pair of Levi's?
Rails 3.x will maintain 1.8.7 support.

Rails 4 will drop Ruby 1.8 for good.

Check out how quickly 1.9.2 has been adopted in production Rails apps:
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People like to say that Apple will be fine in the post-Job era, while simultaneously paying him credit as one of the most amazing CEOs in history. But I find this an interesting bit of cognitive dissonance.

Either Steve was the key to Apple's top-notch products and meteoric rise, in which case Apple has lost their magic; or he wasn't, in which case Apple will be fine. It really can't be both ways.
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Of course I could. I could do a lot of other things that wouldn't be as effective, too.

When you use something for free that requires money to produce and maintain, of course every damn aspect of your life and buying habits is going to be cross-correlated, as long as this is legal and profitable in aggregate. (Often it isn't profitable. People dramatically overestimate how interesting and/or valuable they are.)

Seriously, you've been handed something for free and I don't look like Santa Claus. What'd you expect?
I am not an epidemiologist, so I cannot answer your question directly. However, I do know that most vaccines are not 100% protection. The goal is to reach herd immunity. This is also the reason why the recent anti-vax movement is so dangerous. Even if your kid gets vaccinated, if the rest of his/her classmates do not there is still a risk of him/her catching the disease in question.
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Needs disruption, Yes. More disruption to come---YES.
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By definition getting to the same results without co-founders requires a much higher level of ability

I don't think this is a compelling argument--investors don't care about your ability, they care about your company's results. If this is true, then co-founders are indeed a better bet.

Every screening mechanism is imperfect. Once everyone starts requiring co-founders, then there's a lot of value as an angel to being willing to consider single founders. But that doesn't mean investors who avoid single founders are wrong to worry.
> And I've found SQLAlchemy to be basically unusable unless you use the new 'declarative base' stuff, which looks suspiciously similar to... Django's ORM :)

I can relieve your suspicions as I never looked at Django's ORM at all when designing declarative. It's merely poking normal SQLAlchemy attributes, all of which existed before Django was ever released, onto a class. I can assure you active-record style class mapping is not an idea Django invented.
You tell your boss something along the lines of "I've never worked with Perl before, and I don't think I'm going to be able to complete the project with the time we've budgeted, since it can take some time getting up to speed with a new language." Then you present options iike using a language you're comfortable in, or lengthening the time that's available for the project.

Often part of a technical job, particularly a technical job with any interesting work or responsibility, is educating your boss about the true costs associated with a decision so that they can make good decisions. If they want you to do it in Perl, that's fine, they're paying for the time and you've informed them why it will cost more than they thought. It's a good idea to follow up with an email restating this so that there's a written record you can point to later when the project falls through.

Honestly, I had expected that you'd refused a project that was unethical or illegal, not that you'd just decided you weren't interested in the stack they wanted you to use. If you told me that story during an interview, I certainly wouldn't hire you. It shows a level of inflexibility as a developer that makes me seriously question if the reason you refused the work is because you're not capable of picking up another language.
Thanks for getting back, this shoves some reality into the ideas I had about relying on natural sales mostly in my upcoming app.
If a sufficient amount of money starts using a product like this, what's to stop me gaming it?

Step 1: I go long on Nike

Step 2: I use my ten thousand twitter sock puppets to tweet about how they just bought an awesome new pair of Nike shoes

Step 3: I watch as all the TTAGG users plunge money into Nike.

Step 4: Profit!
Why not interpolate the responses from GPS+GLONASS and come down to 10-20cm granularity?
Explain the risks as clearly as you can, and if your boss finds the risk acceptable, proceed. As long as you are communicating, it will be a project failure, not a personal failure. Don't be combative about it, make sure everyone fails and learns together :)

Good: clearly tracking the risks as the project progresses.

Better: pushing yourself to learn Perl and mitigate the risks to the best of your ability.

Best: spend some OT implementing it in Java and show her why it is better (or show yourself why it is not).
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Cool! Maybe email me too? kragen@canonical.org.
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From the code:

// Editing the css on this line is a cheap and dirty way to 'solve' the problem without really thining about it

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Yes. What's your point?
Pretty sure they got that after google. For years, wunderground was the best of a bunch of terrible web sites. They're still about 40% ads by pixel though, and have a hugely cluttered UI. I'll use them as a second step (Google's "detailed forecast" link) after typing "weather" into the chrome address bar. But broadly, they still suck compared to Google.
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Everything you said is true, however:

The best camera is the one you have with you.

I, for one, don't carry my DSLR with me everywhere, but I almost always have my phone. I'd like to know that I'll be able to get something when that one-in-a-million shot presents itself.

For me, I take my DSLR out when it's my intent to do photography. When I'm doing something where I think something might present itself (e.g., on my bike), I carry a compact camera if I've got room and won't endanger the camera too much. But I'll almost always have a phone with me.
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Phase 3 is basically the definitive clinical trial. Phase 4 is essentially keeping track of what happens after your drug comes onto market. Once all of the results are in, that paper will likely become the definitive paper on this particular drug (again, it's a bit weird that they did this prelim analysis without a clearly stated reason). So Phase 3 is the real deal in terms of winning approval to market the drug.

Regarding efficacy, it is definitely low compared to many modern vaccines which are in the 90+ range. But my understanding is that this is much higher than previous malaria vaccines. If the numbers are really true, then they could possibly save hundreds of thousands of lives per year despite the relatively low efficacy. And it should be a first foothold in terms of making immunologic progress against Plasmodium.
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Stdin/out is used to transfer information from/to the simulator, so any language is possible. The list of languages they support is here: http://aichallenge.org/starter_packages.php

You can also ask the contest organizers to add a compiler/interpreter if anything is missing.
that starts to get to the core of our technology, so we're not really comfortable discussing it. That being said, in your example there are ways to derive the associated brand based on information alongside or attached to the photo.
ICS does look much nicer, can't wait till CyanogenMod offers this (if they do).

There's no "phone must have at least 2 core CPU" requirement somewhere is there?
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Good lord, what a waste of your time and money and emotional energy when you could be working on your startup.

How much time and energy have you put into this already? That's a sunk cost - it's gone, not matter what you do, but I wouldn't do a minute more. Tell the lawyers you've decided not to bother and get back to work.

I'm sure you have a solid case, and that every fiber of your being is crying out for justice. You might even win. But even if you do, what you're going to get out of this lawsuit is almost certainly going to be less than the opportunity cost of pursuing it.
But if you look at the games, some teams create new ants at a faster rate than others, regardless of food consumption. The red ants seem to have an edge on reproduction than others, right from the very beginning of the game.
So, wait, it's possible for me to actually download inefficient apps on my iPhone? Onoes! Seriously, why is "iOS" in the title? Boo.
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If you leave out that bit, then you're correct, they were claiming they taught Siri to add events. But that bit is important.
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> In Ioke:

square = method(x, x * x)
(1..10) map(x, square(x)) sum println

> Ioke has 4 words that are all significant: map square sum println. They are used once and only once.

Sorry to be that guy, but `square` is clearly used twice above. Why not `(1..10) map(x, x*x) sum println`? (I don't have Ioke on this computer, so I can't easily check if this works.) Or are you assuming that `square` would probably have been defined somewhere already?
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I use python.
I feel python is well designed, PHP is fun. Although it’s perfectly possible to write good code in PHP, it’s much easier to write great code in Python.

Some comparisons:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsPhp

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-learning-to-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1507999
Your point is valid, but what seems reasonable & pragmatic to a developer can seem creepy & invasive to a user.
That's very true, especially because the book is a type of sales bible for convincing people to buy things they shouldn't otherwise buy! But if you focus on the broad strokes and try to remain true to yourself, then you'll hopefully avoid insincerity altogether. Wouldn't it be great if somebody wrote a modern-day take on "How to win friends and influence people"? - less sales-y and more relevant to social issues that young people struggle with today?
i can promise you that it wouldn't be a profitable endeavor for you, but we welcome you to give it a try^^
Oh bother. Anyone else had this problem with their Nokia N9?
How in the name of J.R. Dobbs and Richard Linklater can you be a member of Generation X and not appreciate the quest for slack?
Oh, I don't know. In developed countries at least, condom use is sometimes hampered by the fact that putting one on "breaks the mood", so shaving valuable seconds off the process would seem to be helpful there.

I have no idea if it will work for African subsistence farmers, but I can certainly see it increasing condom use among horny American college students.
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Just last week, I pulled that book off my shelf to help me draft a response to my boss regarding a disagreement. The result was that we had a pleasant discussion and came to an understanding that avoided any negative feelings (and the lack of motivation that comes with them) in the workplace. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is definitely worth a read (and worth keeping around for reference).
In 1995 I worked for a GPS developer, Avcan Avionics, and we built software that would allow tundra devices in the Arctic to travel between a supply depot and remote mines in 100% whiteout conditions, navigating only by a path that had been loaded into GPS. Our variant of this process was called "Differential GPS" - basically leaving a base station in single location for 24+ Hours where it would eliminate the S/A error which was presumably random.

We successfully navigated a car down a twisting road, about 10' wide, without looking out the window, so it was a useful mechanism. It became less important, of course, once the US Government removed the S/A error from the GPS signal and the commercial use of GPS took off.
I was a little confused by the chap who'd addressed his gripe to Steve Jobs[1] (what kind of echo-chamber do I live in? Are there really customers oblivious to his passing?), and then I saw the dates of the posts!

FWIW, in my personal experience, I've rarely seen anything solved on the Apple discussion boards unless it's an extremely trivial issue. For e.g. I (and evidently many other people) have been struggling with getting with iTunes Home Sharing to work between a PC and an iPad, and the boards are filled with people asking around, and all 'solutions' have basically involved "have you tried turning it off and on again?" (which is a crapshoot).

But then again, the Nokia discussion boards are pretty much the same , so... shrug.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/message/15392300#15392300
Except that in many cases, your clients are going to ask of you the equivalent of "write this tomorrow, in a language you don't know." In fact, I reckon freelancing is even worse in this regard, as you have no recourse--at least at a full-time job, it is likely you may have another higher-level manager to whom you can plead your case.

Telling a client "no, I can't do that" isn't going to work, because they will find someone who will, for less money.
Or make it so that the user has to wink at the camera to unlock it ;)
Location based reminders are a feature in iOS 5 across all phones. My vanilla 4 can do it, so presumably my old (and iOS 5 supported) 3GS can too.

Siri itself is the only (big?) iOS 5 feature that is hardware locked to the 4S.
Before: Siri doesn't send tasks to RTM.

After: Siri sends tasks to RTM.

Seems pretty reasonable to me. Is your quibble with the word "taught"? That seems pretty minor.
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To detect manually, check

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now that the spec has been released and (somewhat) settled, I wonder if Kobo will support epub3.
To generalize what Colin wrote -- this is a method I learned doing business in Japan. You can never, ever say no to anything; the other person would lose too much face. However, saying, "Yes, and..." and then pointing out possible issues that would arise (like Colin's 3rd paragraph) can often cause the decision maker to change the original request, or even decide it was a bad idea on their own.

Of course, sometimes, you end up doing the work anyway, but the 'disclaimer' in your "Yes, and..." give you a position in which to work where your boss implicitly buys into those limitations -- this is also a better thing.

"Yes, and... {limitations}" instead of a no is always a better answer to a superior. Most of mine have seen the light after discussions like this when something was a bad fit or bad idea.

On the other hand, sometimes I ended up having to do the undesirable. Take pride in what you do, no matter how undesirable, and you will find yourself building excitement for your work. You may discover you learn some cool stuff along the way, too.

Best of luck!
This seems like a true hacker's version of the Tron lightcycle game!
I think it's unfortunate but I can understand it's appeal and why people like it. Anyone can turn a crap photo into an appealing image with the application of a filter. Who wouldn't love that? It's like MSG for photography.

It doesn't bother me nearly as much as poorly done High Dynamic Range images. . .
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See also this previous thread from 212 (!) days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349826

There are two things worth pointing out:

1) This competition has previously been sponsored by Google but isn't run by them. It's hosted by the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club.

2) Some people have been working on bots for this challenge for months now, so they are likely to have a bit of a head start.
If people are working at FoxConn voluntarily (i.e, they choose to go to work there because they believe their lives are better that way), who cares?

If people are being forced to work there by the government, then U.S. and European governments need to decide if they're willing to allow trade with a government that uses slave labor. (I highly doubt people are being forced to work there, though.)
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We're not peddling a stock market predictor, it's an information tool to give you an idea of how companies you're interested in are performing in real-time to help you make long-term decisions. We're not doing high frequency algo trading.