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> broadcasting the mundane minutiae of everyday existence to all your "friends".

Broadcasting it is one thing, recording it all is quite another.
"Imagine if you could just resume your browsing session on your laptop or desktop from your phone."

But you can. It's called Firefox sync ;-)
And it has instant sync of tabs.
I'd be interested to see what value this adds compared to the documentation and existing (free) blog posts on it's use. IMHO Backbone's docs are super friendly and if you're really wondering what's going on under the covers the source code is relatively easy to jump into and understand (assuming you're a javascript programmer not a jQuery hacker)
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I still pose the question "why?" In social media, the reason you created your account is to socialize. I don't understand why in the context of developing and managing a business, one needs an anonymous profile.
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So you built it and then surveyed?
No question, the technology is more impressive than the product. Most people don't need more than the camera in an iPhone 4S.

I think this lightfield tech might have a lot more applications for video, where focus can be troublesome due to movement.
Imagine if you could just resume your browsing session on your laptop or desktop from your phone.

Firefox on Android can sync your tabs with your desktop browser (and vice-versa).

I think the default Android browser on Android 3.0 and above can do this too (it certainly syncs bookmarks fine)
I'm right with you on this one. I personally think the old 'don't be evil' motto is looking very tatty these days. That was always going to happen, I guess, but sometimes I find it very hard to find a difference between activities of companies Google used to speak out against, and modern Google.

Google used to be the thing when it was a bare bones, super fast and accurate search engine. Nowadays trying to find an organic search result is getting very early-yahoo like. Just take an objective look at the search results for an even mildly-popular term and you'll find it buried under layers of ads and Google verticals like YouTube and others.

I'm envious of some of my friends who just skipped the entire social networking thing. They are gloriously offline if you try and find them. I got into social networking while working at a social networking startup, and now I don't really get much value from it anymore. But all my 'stuff' is out there, so closing the accounts now is somewhat superfluous and pointless. I think Twitter is about the only thing to use - you get to communicate but you really do get to control how much people get to know about you.

As for the comments about needing to be 'out there' as an entrepreneur - I've spent a token amount of SEO effort to get myself on front page search engine results - if people want to find me, they will. But the endless linked-in requests from people you've spoken too once via email - it's all getting very tedious.
I made the exact same switch from a 3G to an Atrix. I dislike my Atrix quite a bit, and Android in general is not what I had hoped it would be. I wonder if you are having the same experience. Some of it could really be hardware related (my friends say they can't hear me when I hold the phone with my shoulder up to my ear!)

My friends love their 4S's. I hope making the switch back to apple will make me love my smartphone again.
Here's a cached version since the Wordpress database has gone south: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:melanie...

Just as true here as elsewhere: if you're not a customer, you're probably the product. Being someone else's content can suck.
You're a fool if you think you can remain anonymous today. Google products or not. Real name or not.
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I know lots of people who could get a ton of use out of this. VC's, local startup facilitators, generally people who are probably getting a ton of emails from people who they don't know. I think this could be really useful for these people. Hell, even middle managers at large corps who are buried in mail.

Basically, if you're not getting a ton of email, you don't need this.
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That case was in US though.
Because you don't want your opinions and tastes unrelated to your business to be associate with your business.
As somebear has said, the N9 is being heavily promoted in Australia at the moment. On my way to university every morning, I see about 2 or 3 bilboards or bus paintjobs advertising the N9.

The ad is just a white background, a big blue Nokia logo, a stack of different-coloured N9s, and the text "beautifully simple."

It's pretty obvious they're trying to break the perception (here, at least) of Nokia only offering cheap phones.

I currently own an N900, so (a) I know what it's like being on an unsupported and unpopular platform (it sucks hard), and (b) I would buy an N9 in a heartbeat if Nokia had decided to stick with Meego.

I'm a Linux user and use no Microsoft online services, so Windows Phones aren't attractive for me at all. By dropping Meego/Maemo (hacker types) and moving to WP, Nokia is dumping its last remaining fanbase. It's starting from zero, on an OS that's also starting from zero.

My next phone will almost certainly be the Galaxy Nexus.

WP will probably earn itself a small niche in the no-man's-land of smartphones between iOS' simplicity and Android's customisability and personalisation (WRT phone choice), but lacking the universality of both. I can't see it achieving wider adoption. Nokia will claim a slice of this small niche, but that's all it will have.

WP can't survive on off-the-side interest from HTC and Samsung. Microsoft needs Nokia for WP to survive, so I fully expect Microsoft to purchase Nokia within the next five years.

I think Nokia would've been able to survive on its own had it gone with Android (earning a smaller slice of the Android pie, but still much larger overall). I think most technical-oriented people recognise that Nokia's expertise is in hardware - a quality that the Android ecosystem is still lacking. Samsung is getting there, but the N9's build quality is generations ahead of any of the Galaxy phones.

Nokia would always be my first choice in choosing an Android phone. It's a real pity.

I think there's a strong point to be made that Elop's biases towards Microsoft have impacted Nokia for the worse.
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What I'd personally like to see is a way for multiple logins to work. Switching between my apps account and my gmail account is horrific. Myself and many others have taken to opening an incognito mode/privacy browsing session whenever we need to access them. Integration, a way to sync mailboxes (that doesn't use pop), or at least better cookie management so I can log out of one then log into the other is what I really want.
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For what the future holds, we need look no further than the über-Netizens of the world, the South Koreans. If you want to get on Cyworld (30% of the population, 90% of the 20somethings according to Crunchbase), you send in a copy of your national ID card, your home address, phone, etc. and wait to be approved for an account, after which you may post on the site.

I still think there is a hugely underserved market in the social space, comprised of people like me, who don't want an extension of their real life identity to follow them around online. Hacker News is full of people I don't know, but interactions with all these people I don't know are plenty effective at pulling me back into the site.
Well I'm with you, but would just like to add the intention should not necessarily be full employment but full production.

We talk about jobs as the most important things, but in reality it is maximising production that is the most important thing. If every farm maximised production, then food becomes more plentiful. If every factory maxmises production, then goods become more plentiful.

The fascination with GDP (as a monetary figure) and Jobs, to me, is looking at the wrong metrics.

There is plenty of capital around. A lot more would come out from the shadows if it found productive uses. But trying to force capital out by lowering the price you can get on it (ie,lowering interest rates) is a bizarre way of going about things.

The key has to be on increasing productivity. This includes not wasting human and monetary capital on pointless schemes (ie, make work schemes and losing investments). The rest will fall into place once this is done.
I think I understand where this guy is coming from. But I also sorta understand his definition of the word "useful".

Yes looking up reviews, finding directions, connecting with people are all cool, time-saving things... but in and of themselves they are not useful. You're not creating anything or enjoying anything. You're just doing small chores in order to get about your daily life.

So I guess a smartphone is useful in that they sort of speed up your existence and make your routine more manageable.. but they are not made for creating or even meaningfully consuming content.
This misses the point that the land still costs about the same it's just that the cost is swallowed by the government, not the factory-owner. That is, the government assumes the opportunity cost of not selling to some other individual. It's basically saying that China's competitive because they have a nice system of government subsidies. It would be the same as if the government gave each company the face-value of the land.

This might explain why individual businesses have an easy time getting up and running, but it can't alone explain China's success, except on the more complicated level of how subsidies are good, which isn't really addressed.
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I agree about the Backbone.js docs being quite awesome. I think they get a bad wrap myself. But I've also found that some folks like the option of watching screencasts to learn about certain topics as well.

I kind of fall into both categories. I really like reading the docs (and more importantly, the code itself) as well as watching someone demonstrate certain topics. I guess I'm weird like that. :)
I agree they messed up here, but Bloomberg in general is amazing. The terminal is invincible, the news network is the best on television (have you seen their interview with pg or their feature on Elon Musk?), their revenues are insanely great. On what evidence are you basing this "leak info" rumor?
Sweet! I find it amusing that products are starting to come onto the market that initially support Mac and not Windows...how the tables turn :)
I have the same experience. Even if the TV seems to be tuned to an "ads-only" channel, or some sporting event that holds utterly no interest to me, it captures my attention repeatedly.

It's like the visual equivalent of a mosquito buzzing by my ear; not at all desirable, but extremely difficult to tune out.
The decision that never made sense to me was going all-in on WP7 instead of diversifying across MeeGo, WP7 and Android.

When push comes to shove, getting Nokia to treat WP7 as a first-tier platform would have bought Microsoft just as big a win as Nokia going all-in. I'd argue it might even have been a bigger win because Nokia would look much less like a rudderless ship about to crash. Maybe Elop didn't negotiate hard enough, maybe he didn't have the vision, or maybe he was too influenced by his time at Microsoft. We'll probably never know.
Are they just not advertising it in the UK though? It doesn't show up on the Australian site either, but I was pretty sure Apple was the one company that didn't do regional hardware variants.
Because an entrepreneur should also have the ability to be an activist.
I'm afraid I'm spitting into the wind here, but..

Let's say there is a right way and a wrong way to do pseudonyms (empirical evidence: YouTube, HN).

You think Google would haphazardly enable them as JWZ proposes without making damn sure they had the best chances of it turning out the right way rather than the wrong way?

Larry Page thinks without Google+, Google is doomed in 10 years (I believe he said that in an interview recently). I think JWZ is vastly oversimplifying the careful testing that Vic and co. are putting into this. If you believed the company's livelihood depended on it, wouldn't you?
My quibble isnt with the word "taught", but rather with the overall wording conveyed in the title. As it is now, it seems to suggest that they've uncovered a hidden API where you can add custom grammars to Siri. A more accurate title would be, "RTM can sync with your iphone calendar". It really has little to do with Siri itself. Any calendar task will be synced, not just ones created by Siri.
Leverage is a returns multiplier. You might make 5-10% return on Real Estate, but add borrowing and you can increase the returns dramatically. As long as the returns are better than the cost of the borrowed money, everyone wins. If it doesn't, he loses because leverage works both ways. Leverage is vitally important in making money, whether it is through getting other people to work for you, or getting other peoples money to work for you. Any serious entrepreneur should have a deep understanding of the uses of leverage.

The problem is that artificial manipulation of the price of money (interest rates) gives a false signal for people to invest in an asset class, like real estate, because it artificially inflates returns. Real Estate investing contains many risks (the largest is lack of liquidity), so it doesn't make sense to invest large sums for a small return.
They are onto something. Usually great stories start with a narrow, pin-point of a problem that many people have.

http://blog.getsmokesignal.com also shows laser focus, sparse and reflective pieces.

Their simple refocus on sender is refreshing and quite cunning.

Keep up the good work.
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No doubt. In fact, this is exactly what happened to me today. I'm supposed to have great ideas, but when trying to implement them, told that I need to focus on paying the bills. I don't know how people manage this long-term.
I found some of Khan's orgo videos helpful review material. In fact, the doctorate-level professor I had didn't do a much better job (if at all better) of explaining the material the first time around.
This piece is the opposite of speculation free. Every single sentence is an opinion and speculation.
This has nothing to do with tools running on a server. The "compiler as a service" phrase they were using apparently misled people into thinking it had something to do with "software as a service", which is why they aren't using it anymore. It's about allowing external programs to plug into the compiler pipeline and reuse its syntactic and semantic analysis capabilities.
Funny enough; it's sitting next to me right now. I started reading the book right before my new job but stopped because of moving and stuff. I was going to pick it back up today.

I've got the new version. You can definitely tell what's updated and what's not but that doesn't detract from the message.

As it says in the book, read with something to mark it with. I regretted not writing down or bookmarking the marxisms as I was reading; I'm going to have to go through and copy them down to refer to faster.
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I ditched my smartphone for a (very)dumbphone a few months ago. The only thing I miss is the flashlight function.
How do you possibly get well-reasoned from this? He makes a bunch of assumptions followed by a deduction based on those assumptions. I can make any assumption I want then deduce a final statement from it - that does not make it well-reasoned.

Oh yeah, I forgot this was HN where infamy weighs higher than substantive posts. Just because someone is usually reliable doesn't mean you take their word without question.
I have a love/hate relationship with my smartphone, but I'm still amazed at some of the things I can do with it. Adding to your list:

When my car's GPS took me miles down a road that was washed out on a trip hundreds of miles from my home, Google Navigation on my smartphone suggested a different route that got me safely to my destination.

It's a flexible and reliable alarm and kitchen timer.

I can read novels comfortably in bed on my smartphone (none of my several laptops are very ergonomic for this purpose).

I can map my bike rides and get stats on min/max/average speed, elevation, etc. (all the while using it as a music player).

It lets me easily maintain multiple shopping lists.

I can tune my guitar with it.

It functions as a real flashlight (my phone has a very bright LED).

My smartphone is no replacement for a computer, but it's better at these tasks than any computer I own.
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> If you compare the quality of a point and shoot digital camera vs a smart phone

My rule of thumb is that the best camera is the one you have with you. Seeing as I always have my iPhone with me, it's been the camera I go to most. I don't even know where my digital point and shoot is anymore.
You are correct - I did not mean to say the article was off-topic however speculative it was.
I taught Siri to scan Hacker News for sensational titles/link-bait and bury the stories, but she saw her name, got a little excited and told me it was worth reading.
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#5 already exists, my dishwasher has an LED on the front that does just this.
what corners are cut, software development is about prioritization and scheduling, a balance of features vs support. This release tries does a very good job of both. You're not going to make everyone happy, at the same time not all problems are easily solved. What you call cutting corners could just be, they haven't figured out a great way to solve the problem. Android supports just about all possible hardware configurations from low end to high end. iOS supports pretty much 1 hardware configuration that they define (realistically Apple cuts out features out of older phones). Like Nokia if google doesn't address big things, then some one will pick up the slack, so be it. As the parent comment was pointing out, people are willing to pay for the luxury of animations, or polish. For most people just getting calls, text, email and mobile web, at affordable prices is all we really want. Without actually knowing what Google's budget or legal/development/marketing etc costs are, I think theres really no way to assume how they prioritize things. One less animation, or a smoother scroll no one is suffering and for google to offer all that they do at basically free of cost is amazing.
1 - Sal Khan was at one point on the OCW Board. The possibility of OCW borrowing/partnering/licensing KA's dashboard, interface, knowledge map, and the like is not outside the realm of possibility BUT...

2 - ...it won't happen anytime soon because the funding/grants KA received from Gates Foundation and Google Grants is primarily for internationalization of the app and translation of the videos.

3 - I'd welcome OCW improving their interface, so if any MIT CS students are reading this, you all might want to volunteer time to improve the OCW app.
As mentioned in the link, there are two presentations you can view.

Interesting demo during BUILD: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-816T

You can skip to 35:40ish

Cool presentation from MSR:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/?id=152281

You can skip to around 5:00
Here's two other sets of lectures that I'm really enjoying:

1) CMU graduate-level machine learning class: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml

2) Mathematicalmonk's machine learning lectures: http://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk?blend=7&ob=...
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> You can be pseudonymous to google but known to your friends, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

That's all good in theory but it's basically impossible in practice. You have to specifically get someones username in meatspace to be able to start following them on twitter; that probably works for your close friends but not at all for acquaintances. There are a couple of dozen people on Google+ and Facebook that follow me and vice versa that I have some interaction with that I never would have just gone up to and said "Send me your google+ username" in real life.

It just doesn't scale well at all; you have to memorize the mapping from username to actual name for your entire social graph. I have no desire to learn two names for each person, one actual name and one that looks like "0x12".

If I have an old friend named Pete Smith that I haven't interacted with in a while that is among the 200 people I am following on twitter, it's impossible for me to go look at his recent tweets or at-tweet to him something awesome that reminds me of old times, because I have no idea what his username is. His name is Pete Smith, that's what I always called him and that's what everyone calls him, why is he using a new name that potentially doesn't even map to something that people would identify as a name. There was a time where I knew my friend's username on a forum was some insane misspelling of Obsolete Oaf, and it was just literally impossible for me to type it because it was something like Obs0le7e 0af. I even knew my friends username was (in one sense) and I still didn't know it well enough to type it in to search.

There is enormous value to me in having people's names online be discoverable and searchable by the name that I actually know them by. Google+, Facebook and LinkedIn provide enormous value to me, tumblr and twitter provide almost none, and I don't think that is a coincidence.

Your experiences may differ, twitter and tumblr are both obviously very popular. I'm really not saying that you are wrong if you want to use those services, I do think you are wrong to act like a company is evil because it is providing a service that isn't what you want to use.
I don't know the exact details, but you'll notice that there are only 6 companies being profiled in the show. Ten companies went through the NY program in that cycle. My understanding is that each team was given the option of participating in the show, along with appropriate caveats. I doubt anyone from TechStars pressured them to participate, although the folks from BloombergTV may have. In theory, TechStars founders are supposed to be smart people: they surely knew the risks to perception and weighted it against the rewards of exposure.

EDIT: Melanie says I'm wrong. Color me surprised.
Can't search this.
Well, like I said, it's good to have choices. I carry around a point and shoot all the time. There's always one in the car. There's also one in my laptop bag. I routinely have a DSLR near me 90% of the time... then again, I'm a bit of a photography nut. That might explain it :)

I guess I'm an "audiophile" when it comes to photos.

I also have a hard time dealing with 192kbps mp3s. That damn cymbal compression sound is like nails on a chalk board.
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i think its rather simplicistic to assume you just can practise (however dedicated and thoughtful) a skill for 10k hours and then have mastered it. Rather, people who have mastered a skill tend to have mastered the skill of practising before they mastered whatever skill they were practising.

TL;DR don't focus your study only on a particular subject - practise practising, you will make better use of your time.