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But would the customer who wants to pay wth BitC using NFC technology accept that he must wait for some confirmations before he can take his merchandize home? And would merchants, especially large stores that go to substantive effort to streamline checkout processes, accept a payment protocol that by design adds a one hour delay (IIRC, people seem to regard six confirmations as definitive proof of payment, and the work factor is adjusted to give one confirmation per ten minutes on average) to every checkout? Even requiring just one confirmation would mean that a supermarket cashier could only process about four or five customers per hour if you want to keep the process sequential.
That's a weird reasoning of them. If the app-secret is ever sent over the network directly (either HTTP or HTTPS) there are plenty of ways to intercept it without having to dig into executables. I quickly skimmed over the OAuth code and that seems to be the case. But maybe they support digest-based authentication as well.
Copyright trolls are almost wholly absent from Silicon Valley. They tend to be in Hollywood. Patents and copyrights are totally different things.
There are also economies of scale in stuff like cleaning. And some people want quality control.
It's wasn't clear at the time (pre-2003) that it was going to end up as a catastrophe. Furthermore the Economist always mentions now that they supported the invasion -- they've never sought to hide the fact.
It is not wrong to wonder about this stuff, but i don't think knowing it will help you.
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I doubt the + thing is "happy-safe bubble wrap" - more likely they are deprecating the previous functionality in preparation for more Google+ integration into search.
Indeed. In the ultimate attainment "objective" journalism is nothing more than performance art. There's nothing wrong with journalism having a perspective, so long as people are aware of it.

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That's pretty cool that Jobs was willing to meet with Page, particularly given how miffed he was about android.

One area where I hope Google doesn't follow Apple is in engineering culture. For instance, isn't it true that most of the engineers who worked on the original iphone literally never even saw one until it was unveiled to the public? Whether or not the "bottom up" opportunities for engineers to influence products at Google is as effective as a top down culture under the likes of Jobs and Ives is debatable, but it sure seems like working at Google is a lot more fun! (disclosure: I worked at Google, am basing my impressions on what it's like to work at Apple on anecdotes and only a couple of direct accounts from engineers who have worked there).
At some point soon I'm adding a 'follow other users public lists' feature, hence the nickname.

And yeah, you have to login just after you register, perhaps I should change that. You only have to do it once, though.
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It's also amusing/scary how many U.S. 'conservatives' consider The Economist to be some sort of lefty-pinko rag.
Would this thing tasted any success if it was launched in 2004?
unnecessary. transactions don't have to be bitcoin transactions. two people with accounts with mtgox can have instant transfers for instance.
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Mainframes continue to be used to this day. Minis were squeezed out. PCs will likely continue to be used.

Eras don't end with a switch flipping. Things fade out. PCs have started their fade as we move to mobile. We still have little idea what mobile will evolve into, but there is no question it and not PCs is what is evolving.
A few days. I must admit, I was resistant from the start.
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"For instance, isn't it true that most of the engineers who worked on the original iphone literally never even saw one until it was unveiled to the public?"

For the core team, my understanding is "no". The core team was very small, though (<50 software engineers).
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Here's what Steve Job's verbal answer to this is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY#t=07m33s till 9:20
an accompanying video http://vimeo.com/6625412
Hard to say, since the advice from Jobs was seemingly also to keep the number of employees down. It's been the reverse on Page's watch, with mad headcount growth.
Wow is there really an Internet Impersonation Law? We do really live in the future! Some sick sci-fi...
I usually start with the funny letter to the editor. (Usually the last letter printed.)
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> Its a bit sad but the obituary is often the best article in the economist.

That's not sad. That's actually the case for newspapers in general.
AFAIK, he's against to AT&T split. Can anybody share some info on that?
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At the NSA reading our e-mail.
equinox put it very well - My interpretation of things: Since Nokia is now (or starting next week) a Windows 7 outfit, we're no longer investing resources in this. So, we'll make it open source and hope that the community will sustain it. This is sad.
Since I use Mac, I've been forced to upgrade sometimes. Like going from my Powerbook (G4 chip) to a Macbook Pro in 2007 (for the intel chip).

Last week, I finally broke down and brought a Macbook Air. It wasn't for the i7 chip, or the SSD (which by the way, I will NEVER go back to spinning drives again); it was the mobility. The Air is the lightness most powerful machine I've ever had. Amazing machine.

My scratched up, stained, and dented MBP sits in a bookcase. On top of my old Powerbook.
Net-net, probably not much. The fires represent biomass, and at best, with the oldest living trees, represent carbon sequestered 10,000 years ago. By comparison, most petroleum deposits were formed from biomass several millions of years ago. And that is the problem with fossil-fuel based carbon release: we've returned, in a matter of decades, carbon that was removed from the biosphere over millions of years.

The mean age of carbon released by forest fires is probably far lower than the 10,000 year maximum. Tree lifecycles typically range in the 100s of years, shrubs in the decades, and grasslands are perennial.

Too: following a burn, many areas see a greatly accelerated growth of flora, driven by many characteristics: minerals and nutrients liberated by the burn, greater incident sunlight, and less competition from old-growth plants.

Of course in the case of ag land clearing, much of this goes out the window.
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> extreme difficulty installing

Today's Octave installs do not need more than click-click-ok-done or apt-get install octave.

> for which the open source clone Octave is a bad joke

I think you're not giving Octave enough credit, considering that they have only a few part-time developers, and that nobody does sponsor them, they have accomplished a respectable amount of functionality over the last 20 years, it is extermely unfair calling them a "bad joke".

Of course with those limited resources they are not able to match the output of Mathworks, but what they can do as of yet is usually more than universities teach, and _still_ many departments are kind of married to Matlab, only mention Matlab to students, give only matlab examples, matlab labs, matlab exercises, etc. Also very respectable people like Gilbert Strang, who gave the MIT basic Linear Algebra and Computational Science and Engineering classes, seem to have enough vested interests in Mathworks to not even mention Octave to students briefly as something they can download and work at home. Octave is extremely powerful and capable for what you pay for it, and deserves at least a mention.

It is probably not different at other universities and other departments. Several professors I had to deal with were similar, either not even aware that open source packages like Octave, Scilab, Maxima, Scipy exist at all, or extremely faithfully married to companies behind proprietary packages like Matlab/Maple/Mathematica.
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I did mean the AppStore, thanks for califying!
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I don't do it out of some "hacker ideal" - I do it because it's cost-effective, and because I get a lot of pleasure out of building my own rigs. It just so happens that that ends up leaving me with machines that are patched together, well-worn, and well-loved.
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If you like explanations like these, maybe you'll like the live explanation of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform that I wrote a few years back: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/bwt.html

I keep meaning to put it on the back of a better library so that it doesn't hang up the page if you type a too-long string.
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Thanks a lot, its very useful information. I wish I had this kind of information when I graduated.
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It sounds like Cells or the Trellis.
I'm seeing a lot of posts on HN supportive of Bitcoin, and honestly, I just don't get it. Someone explain.

1) I don't see that Bitcoin can escape any boom-bust cycle. I don't. Arguably the dollar can't either, but I think that's part of my point: that's with people _trying_ to regulate it. Bitcoin ultimately has a finite economy, which means that it's only stable if it is constantly deflationary (unless the population size stays the same I guess? I'm not going to make _that_ assumption) and _that_ motivates hoarding, which locks down currency.

You can _maybe_ construct some differential equation where the amount of hoarding is balanced out by the amount of 'cashing out' as people give up hoarding to spend freely, but that's a _heck_ of a wild guess to base a currency on. And anything _less than that perfection_ will inevitably result in boom-bust: freeze until you sell your dough, therefore simultaneous motivation to sell, therefore flooding of market, therefore crash. Which tangentially brings up:

2) In the above example, Bitcoin is (like any other currency) a surrogate of value for the things you can _do_ with it, which tells us that value lies outside of currency altogether and that currency is just a measuring stick. And therefore...

3) Bitcoin is essentially _still_ a fiat currency, but without the benefits of, you know, a significant support base. Sorry, you can go into almost any bank in the world and exchange an American dollar for local coin. I'd rather just _abolish money_ than supplant it with even _more_ imaginary money.

Sure, some counterculture activity subsists on Bitcoin. Sure, it's a neat thought experiment. But I can't see it becoming practical (read: successful).
I absolutely hate that.

Google needs to introduce a www.google.com/adv interface that doesn't respond, "I think you meant salt water, Dave," when you query for [sat water].
pricing is here:

http://business.comcast.com/SMB/services/Internet/plans
Someone mentioned that Google has recruited some Yahoo! guys who screwed that up. (I think it's relevant to mention here)
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BTW: In his answer 2 questions later, he presages iCloud ("NFS") and Apple Stores ("distribution") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY&t=13m10s
(13:10-21:00)

(And also demonstrates his reality distortion field, which his questioner heroically overcomes.)
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'just buy more stock'? Doesn't have much to say on the topic of keeping only the highest-quality products.
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Right. People tend to forget that bitcoin is just the base layer, the first step. Like the kernel would be to an OS. Its goal is to support sending value from A to B reliably. All kinds of functionality needed to run a full-fledged economy can be built on-top without affecting the core system too much. For example using Open Transactions.
1) Swype - It's just much less awkward to type with Swype because you don't have to shift the phone from its natural position -- holding it with one hand and interacting with it with the index finger of your other hand. Also, much easier to type one handed by Swyping with your right thumb, which is useful when you're, say, carrying something in your other hand. Plus, even over a year later, it's still fun to wave your finger around the screen and make words. YMMV.

2) In my opinion, the home screen shortcuts to individual contacts is way better than Siri. Tapping is faster than talking. Plus, I can see if they're online and IM them if they are. I even have one click video chat with Google Talk Video Chat natively supported. Here's a screenshot of what I mean http://twitpic.com/73xo6d

3) My Galaxy S2 can run for almost 40 hours on a charge with light usage, and probably around 24 hours of heavy usage, so battery life is not an issue as it was on the original Galaxy. I like being able to see my calendar at a glance or the weather forecast without talking to my phone, or toggle on a wifi hotspot in one tap. YMMV.

4) It seems minor, but makes using the browser a much better experience. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

5) Has nothing to do with Siri. It's a Chrome extension that works with your phone. I just click a button in my browser, and it sends a notification to my phone with a link to whatever page I have open. Really nifty for grabbing an address before heading out the door, and sending stuff to read later on the train.
I think the wind down of Google Labs and several small Google products, APIs, etc is definitely reflective of that advice. Very cool to know where they might have gotten the inspiration to do that.
It might be like when Google sent a plea to the public requesting not to use Google as a verb fearing the genericizing and potential loss of its trademark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb)
Any decision that a company makes is an attempt to improve itself.

According to the article, Jobs recommended to Page that Google focus on five services - I'm curious as to which services HN thinks are core to Google's growth and success? Off the top of my head: Search, Android, Chrome, Plus and YouTube.
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Cool, I hope so. An account I heard described the engineers having had access only to test boards, but perhaps that was earlier on before physical prototypes were made.
It's the part where you ignore the negative feedback from Wall Street and newspapers. This type of change takes time and during the process, outsiders and even insiders will be unlikely to agree with you. Let the results do the talking. Part of good leadership.

The 'just buy more stock' was probably part joke and part personal gain. If you truly believe this is going to be good for the company, then you would believe the stock price will rise in the long term. Why not show your confidence to the insiders and make a buck out of it.
In Android you could use the universal search widget and start typing, but it's just not the same. I don't regret giving up my Blackberry, but having the physical keyboard there definitely made a lot of interaction flows better (RIP Blackberry Bold 9000).
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Key problem with Chromebook = no client side caching... This coupled with the nature of internet connections in America today (unreliable enough to lead to a momentary lack of being able to type into a cloud doc once a day for a moment) makes these products untenable for most users....
I know this likely doesn't apply to the average Joe, but I'm sure that I will have ICS running on my Galaxy S2 within a month or so, once the custom ROMs start getting stable.
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$200 - with decentish netbooks that can do all that and more at ~$250-270, chromebooks will never fly until they can hit $200.
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You'd need to append #t=13m10s instead of ?t=13m10s (I have no idea why they did it this way).

So this is the URL you want: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY#t=13m10s. It doesn't work with the HTML5 version of YouTube though. Is it technically not possible?
More or less it has remain the same.
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I'd like to add that the crawl devteam is really friendly and receptive to patches. Development is very active and I find it tremendously good practice to read a codebase that's been developing for the past 14 years.

Just today the team took a patch of mine to simplify poisoning!
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My problem with patent-overload is that it's turned into a protection scheme. Big company approaches me and my little company and says,

"We think we have some patent issues".

And I say, "Really? Unlikely, we wrote everything from scratch."

And they reply, "How much money did you make last year?"

And I ask, "What's the got to do with anything?"

And they say, "do you know how much it will cost you to defend against our claims? So you can license for this sum now or pay 100 times that to your lawyers."

Guess what I do?

It's the same with patent trolls. Although they usually wait until you have a product to go after.
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Create an account for them, send them the wallet.dat, let them log in and transfer to their own account whenever they want? Or just change password, if that's possible.
AFAIK, he's never married. He lost his interest in soccer too after sometime. So he's steep geek with some interest to country music.
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I haven't had a chance to look into exactly how authentication works, but if going to the page would require that the user regrant access each time (and if the page would indicate the app name as well), this difference could be nullified.
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Did you try my URL? Both forms work for most browsers, but only my variant (with "?...&") works for some - including my browser.

Yeah, they're misusing the spec. If they wanted to be clever, and use "#" to index the video instead of the page, they should have omitted the "t=", to look like "#13m10s". At least that would make sense. But oh no, they had to bastardize it into some hideous hybrid chimera of crossed specs.</grump>

BTW: it was a real question - did my variant work for your browser?
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> in fact Octave developers openly say that

This is not true. They strive for Matlab language compatibility, but none of them refers to Octave as a "Matlab clone", nor are they working on cloning Matlab, nor was the project started to become a matlab clone. It is like calling Linux a "Unix clone".
Weak analysis. The first point doesn't make sense. The email list is definitely not public. No, it's not a monopoly but it does have monopoly-like qualities (consumers go where deals are, businesses go where consumers are). Third, coupon shoppers do not dictate where the deals originate. Is the fastest growing business in the history of the world, one grossing $430 million/quarter (mind that this is the lower number), worth $11b? Apparently, yes. And I suspect it will both raise that number as well as pop at the opening.
The Android devs mentioned this themselves in the very first comment on the bug about turning on GPU acceleration[1]. But the internet decided that GPU acceleration was the silver bullet, and now it's been turned on they're surprised that it's not.

And this is somehow further evidence of Google's incompetence (and/or lack of taste) rather than just the obvious result of a bunch of engineering tradeoffs that, if you look at Android marketshare and Google's resultant influence on the future of the web, seem to have worked out quite well for them.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914#c1
Not that obvious if you add C++ to the list on the right.
Haha, some dude thought he was talking about set theory.
I still remember when the original iPhone came out without support for native 3rd party software development, and Steve Jobs said with a perfectly straight face that the web is our SDK. Faced with the capabilities offered by native first party software at the time, it didn't fly then, (and that was on a phone, not a laptop), and I just don't see things having progressed enough in the four years since then for it to fly now. Maybe if they try again in another four years, when the state-of-the-art of web software and service creation and usage will have advanced a bit more, they'd encounter more enthusiastic support for this product. Hopefully, they haven't nixed the whole project by that point.