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I agree, at that age any observation is purely conjectural. In my case, with less than four months of age my daughter would have a fit for nearly anything including us just trying to move or acomodate her position to get more confortable.

At that age they are just passively interacting with the world, so it would really make no difference it they stare at the TV, a mobile toy or the parents interacting with each other. Whichever is most colorful or resambles a face is more likely to attract attention. It's only after three months or so that you can say that the baby can somewhat interact with anything.
Or an unsuspecting quant's source code repository. Compile, push to production, whoops! Crashed the stock market again...
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"As a result, using something like this could get a teacher fired."

This is not a concern in modern private schools. In addition to the Saas apps they use that display grades, homework (e.g. which book or worksheet and which problems), etc. they have blogs incorporated in them. In addition, teachers frequently send emails. Texting would be just another form of electronic distribution. There is not reason to focus on it specifically as a way that a teacher could get fired. They now have a myriad of ways to say something stupid, but that is the way things are.
There's a popular metaphor in economics, of a rising tide that lifts all boats. Expansion of the money supply is a force that both causes and allows the tide to rise.

If it's expanding fast enough to cause a reasonable level of inflation, then it causes the tide to rise by encouraging economic productivity: If money only loses value by being stuffed under a mattress, then there's an incentive to use it by investing or spending it instead. This spurs job growth, velocity, and generally increases the GDP and ultimately helps everyone to become more wealthy.

Even without that, though, the money supply needs to expand apace of economic expansion, otherwise you end up with deflation: If an increasing number of people are competing for a static quantity of currency, so the value of the currency keeps going up due to simple supply and demand. That creates a strong disincentive to participate in the economy. Why would you spend any more money than you absolutely have to in the present, if you know that the money will keep becoming more valuable for as long as you're willing to patiently wait?

BTC, by eschewing a central authority with the power to (hopefully intelligently) control the money supply in response to economic realities, and choosing to use an fixed, artificially-selected growth curve instead, has almost certainly doomed itself. It can only work if the expansion of the BTC economy closely mirrors the expansion of the BTC money supply. If its popularity rises faster than the money supply grows, the result is economic gridlock due to deflation. And on the other side of things, if BTC adoption now falls very far behind that set curve, then it's going to run into an inflationary meltdown not entirely unlike the sort that many of its fans naively believe can only be caused by a government.

TL;DR: Just because a bad driver might cause a wreck does not imply that cars would be better without steering wheels.
So for the parents who are already struggling to keep their own phone(or perhaps unable to afford one) they now have to purchase one for their child(ren)?

It would seem we're into some kind of transition phase where digital education for K-12 will have to be completely furnished by school districts or this is another class divide. Many can't afford phones or laptops for their children. Where will the responsibility lie for this?
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My wife is an Elementary-grade teacher. While it wouldn't really work for her (her students don't have phones - yet), I can easily see the use case for others. However - you really need to think about this issue: the reason teachers aren't texting students (or shouldn't be texting students) isn't simply because they don't want to share their personal numbers. They're not texting students because they're not supposed to have that kind of direct access/contact with students outside of school. You might be offering it already- but you might want to think about some auditing tool. Or - make sure you keep all the records of all texts sent. As long as you make it clear to the teachers, I think you'll be fine.
No offense, but hasn't this been reposted many times?

Reddit even had this about 10 months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ektaw/after_the...
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You can use an AT&T iPad sim and get a $25/month data-only plan. This is what I do with my 3GS when I visit the US, otherwise the costs are extortionate.
Don't tell anyone though. I'd like it to still work the next time I'm in the US...
... because the iPad doesn't run iOS?
I don't know the numbers, but I know, annecdotally, three people who were:

* Originally picked up on posession of marijuana (in small amounts; under "whatever" grams)

* Put on probation for said offense

* Subsequently violated probation and ended up in jail for 30 days

None of these people did anything violent. Two were picked up during a traffic stop; one speeding, the other at a DUI checkpoint (he was sober). The other was approached by someone at a bar and asked if he wanted to go outside and "toke up".

So I guess my message is, it doesn't really matter to me the number of arrests versus the number of people in jail because the whole system seems predisposed to funnel people in ot the jail and prison system regardless. Even if you get arrested for a small amount, it costs you a bunch of money and you end up on a very short leash. For what? Who is being protected here?

I haven't used marijuana since my early twenties (I'm 34 now), but I really have a hard time feeling at all concerned about those who do with respect to my own safety. I do feel very concerned about the waste of energy and output of those individuals who get roped in to this mess.
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I am wondring if there could be a platform that can make people to involve in a real startup. Actually, some of people like to contribute a part of labor for trading exsperience, and for free. The point is how to collect those labor efficiently
Value is whatever people decide.

Gold or dollar are not supported by anything but people's desire to have them. Well, gold is also limited, at least on this planet.

Bitcoins have more value to me than gold. It's digital (no need to store a brick of gold in a safe), it's almost anonymous (very hard to track to a real person), transactions are free, it's limited in quantity (like gold).
Grateful for this. This will help protect my friends and family who have no idea what they are doing or what information gets sent over the wire/air.
A purely factual correction: the U.S. Government does tell the people (if the IMF count as people) how much gold they have in reserve, http://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/ir/IRProcessWeb/data/usa/...
Microsoft supports OEMs having the flexibility to decide who manages security certificates and how to allow customers to import and manage those certificates, and manage secure boot. We believe it is important to support this flexibility to the OEMs and to allow our customers to decide how they want to manage their systems.

source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the...
>Android's growth hasn't been at the expense of Apple, it's just coming out of the general growth in the market

Many people who have purchased Androids, would have purchased iPhones were Androids not available.
Not for signed in users: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-sec...

To help you better identify the signed in user organic
search visits, we created the token “(not provided)”
within Organic Search Traffic Keyword reporting. You
will continue to see referrals without any change; only
the queries for signed in user visits will be affected.
Note that “cpc” paid search data is not affected.

This will make it much more difficult to measure organic search marketing efforts, but for Google, this should encourage more investment in paid marketing campaigns to measure keyword effectiveness.
This is still my #1 problem with the TouchPad:

http://forums.hpwebos.com/t5/HP-TouchPad-Software-Hardware/A...

Otherwise it's great.
The name-changes the parent post were referring to were bad puns. "Restricted Boot" is not a bad pun. It's just descriptive of what they fear it may be.
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This is still a wide-open frontier for tech. I'd like to see more energy put into designing devices for helping less-than-perfectly-perfect humans
Just to clarify what this means to web masters - expect to see a decline in some of your highest volume keywords, and a jump in keyword reports for "(not provided)" (i.e. search traffic remains the same, but a greater portion of visits is grouped in "keyword unknown" or similar)
I believe the problem like the weight and volume of such a facility that installed on a ship, and the realibility
Ask HN: Should I try to patent my new game concept before deploying?
Pretty much like the title says. I'm not a fan of tech patents for basic concepts that people come up with over and over again (like, one-click buying for example). Nor do I want to be a patent troll in my old age. The issue here actually has nothing to do with the technology or the code involved, it has to do with the rules of the game, and the math behind those rules.

Just to clarify, this is a gambling game for my Bitcoin casino. It's similar in many ways to a casual game, but different in the sense that the rules and math needed to be calibrated VERY precisely to achieve the desired adjustable payback ratios. Typically it's easier to file for a patent for this type of game as a set of rules than it is as a piece of software, and that's what I'd probably do. On the other hand, filing is in the $10k range as everyone knows. On the other-other hand, it's not that I'm worried about seeing this game pop up as a freebie on flash game aggregators... I'm worried about someone like Bally deciding they like it enough to make a real-world slot out of it and then running their own development track so I never see a dime in royalties.

The game is amazing, it's polished, I've been working on it for months and it's ready to ship tonight. I've already been advised by patent lawyers (who I can't really afford) that I might get some leeway in the US for being the first to release, but that in Europe everything about it will be basically un-patentable if I put it online without filing somewhere (oddly, filing in the States seems to be enough).

I run a Bitcoin casino, https://strikesapphire.com ...and I'm more interested in pushing out original games than anything else... but the fact is we're not making a whole lotta money at the moment given the state of the Bitcoin economy, and what I'd really like is to land some nice game licensing contracts on the side. But it's a catch-22, because to show what I've got I have to release more and more new games (4 more in the pipeline) and at some point I think I need to get OUT of this "ship it" mentality and start thinking about whether I should bother putting new ideas out there that other casinos / land casinos / game manufacturers are likely to steal if they gain the popularity I'd like them to.
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From the FAQ:

How much does it cost?

We want ClassParrot to always remain useful to you at the free level. The first 500 credits (messages) are free. Every month we'll add another 200 free credits to your account.

You can also get more by inviting your peers to use ClassParrot. We'll give you 200 credits for each person you invite who starts using ClassParrot. We'll also start them off with an extra 200 credits when they accept your invitation.

If you need unlimited credits, our unlimited plan for teachers is:
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Dropbox also has the ability to take the path of becoming a platform more easily than something like AirBnB. I'm bringing this up because Steve Yegge's recent post on Amazon vs. Google struck a chord in me.

I could see Dropbox becoming a large file sharing network with great access controls. The amount of data that's produced every day needs a place to be stored and accessed, even if only a fraction of it is worth sharing. It's definitely a problem that many organizations and groups have, and there are few good solutions out there.
Not that up with US stuff, but didn't GS get money from the government during the AIG bailout? If so, doesn't that give every one in the US complaining rights?
The standard requires that "int" be able to represent from -32767 to +32767. Unless "byte" is redefined to contain a different number of bits, this means that sizeof(int) >= 2. Similarly, long has a range that requires at least 32 bits.
tried soocial.com? everyme looks like soocial, with some smart features.
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Is a random HN comment a reliable source?
Why is GoDaddy traffic being blocked by HN?
Getting an error 324. We have our own internal traffic monitoring. What gives?
Why not simply compare the price of an unlocked iPhone to an unlocked Android? iPhone 4S costs $649-849, simple.
Not true, at least on OS X:

http://www.slideshare.net/rentzsch/dynamic-overriding

https://github.com/rentzsch/mach_star

I don't know if this is how Dropbox works, but it seems likely.
Dropbox is YC backed. It is probably the greatest thing to come out of YC (from a monetary standpoint).
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Well put.

More and more papers these days rely on loose correlation to point to conclusions (not saying the linked one is because I didn't actually read the paper, just the link).

I'm sure it's a similar scenario all around, but at least in Brazil, universities are very, very production-driven, so any paper out is better than some good papers out, which leads to a rather poor quality overall.
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I don't think that watching TV is categorically bad, i.e. the content and the amount is important. I think when pediatricians make this recommendation they mean "a totally attentive parent vs. regular TV programming", which, of course is not always the case. Watching an educational program, e.g. Barney or Sesame Street, etc. may be much better than sitting in a room with an inattentive (e.g. reading the paper) parent (or worse one who's on edge).

For me, TV refers to the device itself, not to programming. My son only watches content from Netflix and PBS Kids (the latter does have brief sponsor messages).
Been amazing watching the entire process, from YC hopeful to Forbes cover. Way to go Drew.
@wingspan, @readdit, @tdurden done!
Dwolla pulled out? When exactly?
To be confused with:

#include <stdio.h>

void foo(int (*x)[5]) {
printf("%p\n", *x);
printf("%p\n", *x+1);
printf("%p\n", x);
printf("%p\n", x+1);
}

int main(void) {
int x[5];
foo(&x);

return 0;
}
Very nice. Back in the day my company made a similar product for the Palm OS called "Today". Good luck with it!

One feature request: can you also use the "nickname" field when looking for matches? I call my wife "J" so I added that as her nickname in "Address Book.app" but TouchBase still can't manage to match it up.
Huh? How? I googled it, and it seems to be something about freelance work?
Agreed - I'm not saying they'd stop you (you're basically doing their marketing job!), just pointing out that it could be a closed up loophole. For example, the more people that are bidding that, the higher dropbox has to pay for their own ad buys... i.e. if everyone is doing this, they either stop doing the ads themselves (unlikely, as they can't monitor) or stop the practice so they can control their trademark searches (for optimization, etc)

Anyway, not saying what you did was bad - I think it is really cool!
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Reddit used to be big on karma parties, so when Dropbox first increased the limit from 5GB to 10GB I figured I would try a Dropbox party. I posted my referral link and encouraged others to do the same. A couple hours later I had maxed out my referrals. Since then I've seen others try, and at first they were well received but now they get downvoted pretty quickly.

Anyway, I guess my point is to try and see if other sites you visit will allow threads to share Dropbox invites. It is spam but since the referrals benefit both the invitee and inviter evenly some forums may allow it.

edit: I see there are some comments in thread already doing just that.
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This is a profoundly inaccurate definition of money.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Money

Regards,
TDL
It takes real balls and vision to turn down that much money.
The thing is, without having the confidence to be able to turn down millions, it's unlikely one will ever be able to build a product worth millions. Those in it for the quick buck usually will fold under the slightest bit of trouble.
Well there's TV networks like PBS and I think Qubo that have limited advertising. Also, why stop at banning advertising to children when even a large percentage of adults have impressionable minds :).
I totally agree that developers should not assume that per-pixel content is visible at these pixel pitches.

However, I strongly disagree that the target market should be these individuals, even if they are the typical/average consumer. Sure, there's some cost involved in making the screen this size, but that's no reason to make these people look at pixelated screens.

At this resolution, a tiny, tiny fraction of the population (if that) will feel that the resolution is too low. Don't aim for 50% of the market to feel that the pixel pitch is clearer than they can see and the rest accept it as typical, aim to have 99% of your market rave about the beautiful graphics.
>"Finally, most advertising is obnoxious and has no place in my home. Why expose our infant to it? He'll have the rest of his life to be accosted by ads."

Advertising for products used by children has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Juliet Schor's book Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture documents the change and the strategies used.

It is one of the most influential books about raising children I read.

[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684870568/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...]
Ahhh. POF isn't American. It's Canadian.
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Oh I think scratching an itch is an important piece in figuring out if it's really your passion. But, it just doesn't necessarily mean that all itches will be interesting until you try them.
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I love dropbox (use it daily, but only the free version). To be honest I think this decision will probably be looked on as a mistake.

Personally, I'm moving to iCloud soon. The reason for this is that it will enable syncing of the notoriously closed Apps and music that come with Apple.

The non-apple crowd will not see this benefit, but once Google or Facebook decide they want to be in the cloud storage game too, Dropbox is going to find themselves squeezed between players that can pour money into this space. Dropbox is already not competitive on price, that much is certain. It's only a matter of time before their primary attribute (seamless usability) is duplicated enough to erode their base.

They should really look to sell, not try to build an empire. The numbers and/or culture with Apple might not have been right, but this should really be their primary goal.

If it isn't, I hate to say that the very best they could hope for is to be a niche player in a space that will be a commodity in 2-5 years.
So many comments seem to gloss over the fact that kids are very different and what works for you is cool and all, but not necessarily going to work for others.

Going with no TV is noble, good for you. But going from heavy use to no use is not necessarily the reason your child is doing so good. There is a balance is that balance is unique to each child.
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Oh wow, did I miss a major feature here. You're saying that currently on HN top comments go to the top of the page?

I thought things were ordered by datetime according to the top node of the thread?
Definitely not a viral campaign. I know this guy personally and he is a clever little beaver.
> Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Or hate anyone who repeats this meme.
Noticed that the Kin Two/m was left out, which has an 8 MP camera. :)
You pay people to perform small tasks: in this case, join Dropbox.
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This should be must-reading for everyone. Truly, turn the pestilential things off! TV is like crack for people who don't want to do drugs.
Q1 profits: $2.7 billion

Q2 profits: $1.0 billion

Q3 profits: -$.5 billion

Unless they lose $3.2 billion in the 4th quarter, they will still be plenty profitable.
Unless I'm missing something this doesn't apply if you enter a search in the browser's search bar, only if you visit google.com

Of course you can manually change the search bar settings in most browsers to use encrypted.google.com.
The one and only difference between personality and gimmick is that a gimmick either is or feels cheap.

You only know that something is a gimmick because it doesn't work on you. If it did, you would call it "personality". When you discover a gimmick in a product, you usually feel "cheated" because you realize that this product was not designed with you in mind but was designed for an audience whose abilities to tell a gimmick are less than yours. This leads to realization that acquiring said product will not add any marketing edge to your persona (you won't be able to impress people who matter to you with the product).
I wonder if this is at all due to duckduckgo, and some of the issues they have championed (and generated news around).