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These figures are a red herring, I'd like to know how the iPhone-equivalent models from Samsung/others are selling. The 3GS is available on upfront $0, but the plan cost is higher, which means it's not competitive to the much cheaper, albeit less-featured/powered models from other vendors. In essence this is apple replicating their 90%+ marketshare in computers over USD$1000.

As an app developer I'm more interested in how this top end pans out. I want the consumers who are willing to buy apps, and I want there to be lots of them on one kind of platform so I don't have to do the heavy lifting in making the game consistent across all handsets. I'm not making angry-birds clones that could run on minecraft redstone, so a basic level of GPU+CPU capability is needed.

Samsung's business model promotes the further fragmentation of Android, and I think this will be a bad thing for consumers(read: developers). We'll be back to the days of nokia making a different phone for every conceivable type of person there is, with only nokia or huge studios with the capability to make the umpteen variations required to make the game feel at least comparable across each handset.

If there are 80% of the market using android devices that are underpowered the only winner will be flashlight apps.
> 16 bit COM programs won't run on my 64 bit system

Have you tried DOSBox?
I still have "flag" links.
Hnframe: Hacker News Chrome extension
Hi all. Just thought i'd share a Google Chrome extension I made which I find useful.

hnframe shows linked stories above comments so that you can read user opinions and contribute to the discussion more easily.

I find that I often check out comments before reading a story, which meant opening the link in another tab and switching between comments and story.

Hope you like it. My first extension so comments and feedback very welcome :)

Hope you like it.

Links:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/piljoaojcpdgofeefpocmliomdmijpln

Youtube demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLcgmJ9tzXQ
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I do that as well.

Because games are the only reason I'd want to run Windows.
Aw damn.
I think a more pertinent example would be Portugal, which decriminalised all drugs in 2001. Glenn Greenwald of the Cato Institute said

"Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success."

A couple of links for those interested in learning more:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...

and

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100047485/po...
BTW, if you want to buy the kindle version, buy it from O'Reilly instead of Amazon: 5 formats and no-DRM: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780735611313.do ($1.83 more though).
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this is interesting...
> The idea is to extend the useful life of the patent by delaying the application's completion as much as possible.

That hasn't worked for around 20 years - the "if issued term" clock starts ticking the day that you apply.

This is a huge problem for drug companies because their applications take a long time to issue.
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It still amazes me to see how SO became a resource to put in your CV (either as a developer or as a development tools maker).
Hmmm, I've always said if I quit programming I'd probably go into Civil Engineering. Perhaps it's time to look for some magazines next time I go to the library. I'll read just about anything, for precisely the same reason Andy crashed the conference - gaining new knowledge is fun!
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AFAIK, there are government regulations about nuclear experiments they would trigger if there was a big audience, so they showed the machine to 1-2 people at a time as a workaround.
While demand might be very high, the particular scenario you describe is not going to happen. Eben addresses the funding issue in this interview: http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=281 The trustees will be putting up the money for the initial run themselves. One of the trustees is Pete Lomas, managing director of Norcott Technologies.
At an investment of $650k just for the simulator, and assuming you'd like to make that back in a year -- which is kind of a long cycle for video game content that gets stale quickly -- the operator would have to charge about $300/hr for access. This assumes they could sell 6 hours a day for 365 days, which is so overly optimistic it's laughable. At $600/hr, you might see the light at the end of the tunnel at a year, but who is going to pay that kind of rate outside of the DoD?
There would be an explicit green light about your boot being "safe".
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Ones that come to mind that are on Github:

* https://metacpan.org/ || https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web

* http://www.github-meets-cpan.com/ || https://github.com/plu/github-meets-cpan

* http://lmctfy.org/ || https://github.com/nuba/Let-Me-CPAN-That-For-You

* http://www.stargit.net || https://github.com/franckcuny/StarGit

* http://sunaba.plackperl.org/ || https://github.com/miyagawa/Sunaba

* http://explorer.metacpan.org/ || https://github.com/tokuhirom/MetaCPANExplorer

* http://frepan.org/ || https://github.com/tokuhirom/frepan

* bootylicious || https://github.com/vti/bootylicious

* showmetheshell || https://github.com/vti/showmetheshell

* showmethedesktop || https://github.com/vti/showmethedesktop
No. It's a free energy scam. It will go away and in a couple years another scam will bubble up against all odds and make it into mainstream media. Call it zero-point quantum energy, call it magnetism, cold fusion, free energy by any other name.

Research the people, not the techno babble. If they don't submit to independent scientific scrutiny and approach ignorant investors individually, well there you go.
I wonder what Spolsky and Atwood will have to say about this.
So in both cases the government could install whatever they want. In both cases an uninformed user would be none the wiser. In both cases a very informed user would know that government hijacking was a possibility.

The only difference seems to be that some users would know that they were using secure boot, but not realise that the government could bypass it. I'm not sure that's a massive win for the government.
I wonder if they can do this without getting in trouble with smartphone patents.
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My point is that if I owned the parser, I would ignore what the function returns and send the message to the previous receiver when multiple message inocations are indented in parallel. Here's an example using functions that both return a value and have a side-effect:

['foo', ['bar']]
.pop()
.pop()

Would return 'foo' if I owned the parser, while:

['foo', ['bar']]
.pop()
.pop()

...would return 'bar'. You can infer from his what happens to the niial array in terms of side effects. My suggestion is that "chaining" method calls is a syntax issue and not a function issue, and that writing functions tonreturn a certain thing just to cater to how you like to write programs is hacking around a missing language feature.

pop() is a great example. Why shouldn't pop return the receiver? The first example makes sense, you ought to be able to chain calls to pop(). Then again, why shouldn't pop() return what it pops? You ought to be able to pop something and use it, just like the second example.

Baking chaining into what functions return forces the function author to choose On behalf of the function user. I do not blame people for doing this in a language lacking thenproper syntax, but given how much people do this, it seems worth considering for people writing new langauges or new syntaxes for existing languages.
a) I don't know why "real-world problems in web applications and operations" aren't also "engineering problems." b) I think you've just described about 99% of software developers. Few are doing meaty "algorithm" work. Most are just gluing things together.
I've decided today that I need to start playing with Arduino for precisely this reason. Before I switched from EE to CS, I took one of the first EE courses where we used a breadboard, a controller which we had to program and actually made some type of device (can't recall now what it was). I can picture my engineering notebook full of detailed notes, complete with the numbered pages and initialed corners after filling in a page. It was a lot of work, but tons of fun and so cool to see it working at the end.

I can only imagine how much easier it will be today than in 1994. Oh the gadgets I will build... Good thing my birthday is here and Christmas is coming soon!
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Comparing executable byte counts with source code or English character counts is ridiculous.
> In 2009, Elsevier made a profit of 1.1 billion dollars on revenue of 3.2 billion dollars.

...

> the American Chemical Society made a profit of 40 million dollars on
> revnues [SIC] of 340 million dollars.

Please pardon my ignorance on the topic, but there's something at work
here that I simply don't grasp; Why does it cost so much to produce a
journal? (i.e. revenue minus profit?)

I'm a bit nervous to ask the above question here since it would potentially
lead to yet another useless political debate on whether or not "top
execs" are worth what they're paid. If we could skip that part of the
discussion, it would be appreciated. I'm mostly interested in what the
real costs are, not whether or not they are justified.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get worse...

Groupon is just a slow-motion train wreck (which everyone still seems to want to get a ride on, oddly).
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Why does the author insist on using 'we' as if he were an author of the study? I found that very confusing...

(I'd find it more acceptable if a physical experiment were being discussed, but this seems to be a theoretical result.)

Oh, here's the arxiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0199
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"I have no idea what that would actually feel like, or if that's what happened/is possible"

You can experience ego death relatively safely using various techniques, which science has shown is the same as a near death experience. This is covers most of the experience of dying, minus the last part.
As someone who had close interaction with Palantir through many rounds of their interview process, I can say that they do radiate a cult-likeness. The two most important points seemed to be: you need to be brilliant (not a huge surprise) and that you needed to fit in. (the later still seems very strange and contrarian to the rest of their vision)
I think that "second-order lambda-calculus" usually refers to system F, which doesn't even have dependent types.

What I'm getting at is that there are plenty of parts of GHC's flavor of Haskell that you can't depend on type inference for. You have to give type signatures for polymorphic recursion, for instance.
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Personally, I no longer think "is this true?" when reading about stuff like this. I know that the odds are in favor of this being another fake technology. What I do think about is whether there is any mechanism for real inventions to become acknowledged in this kind of environment. Would Nikola Tesla be considered a fake these days? Did he have good documentation for his devices? How did his public demonstrations go?
I was a physics major in college and got into programming a couple years ago.

In my experience, of the hard sciences, CS is by far the most amenable to self-study. CS isn't easier, whatever that might mean, but CS is amazingly inviting: if you've got a computer and a textbook budget, you can learn some really neat stuff. So don't despair; get studying!
I've been using this:

https://github.com/creationix/step

While I wouldn't quite call it pretty, it keeps things at the same indentation level, and I can still use closures to maintain the illusion of a single "thread".
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lol r u kidding me? Its a scam, its obvious.
These articles about the Groupon IPO all seem to have the same feel, reporting some chicanery that doesn't definitively suggest that the stock is a turd, but do suggest that the financeers behind this business are treating the entire thing as an exercise in cashing out quickly.

I strongly suspect that investment bankers are playing Pump'n'Dump Bingo with Groupon, which is a little like Buzzword Bingo: Each player throws $10,000 in the pot and gets a bingo card. The squares have random stock promotion events on them, like "restates earnings," "cancels road show" or "Cxx resigns." The first person who gets five in a row collects the pot.

Right now, the players are checking their cards for "Low float."
so beautiful.
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Hacking the USA Education loan System to Save IT
Yesterday I posted in a thread a way to save the Educational loan program in the USA...

Since than the idea has expanded to fixing Social Security and Medicare to save 50% in reducing the Federal budget by 50%.

So let me explain the premise and how it works for the education loan side.

Education loans for college is 25% of the Federal budget. rich people do it smart by investing $21,000 at the birth year in a $100,000 life insurance annuity that matures at 18 years.

So instead of allowing the US to invest in a bad way invest smart and pay for college with the investment value of future dollars at a future time instead of current dollars.

We have 20 million births in the USA per year. Estimated additional costs of education loan phase out over 20 years is the 20 million times $21,000. Say about $2billion. But, the savings of that budget item is approximately 95%. In other words reducing budget at Federal level in the Trillion dollar range once the phase out of education loans has been completed.

And each year you adjust that $21,000 lump sum put into annuities at birth year by the rate of inflation. So instead of a Trillion dollars we instead have a cost of $4billion.

As aside note the Social Security and Medicare phase out to happen over 20 years costs more as you have to buy annuities past the birth year to phase out that system in 20 years..costs at %100billion per year but once again saving in the trillion dollar range at the Federal budget level and at the same time giving a tax break to business the working class as they nolonger are paying social security taxes and medicare taxes and we can reduce the Fed corp tax rate as we only need 50% budget of what we spend now at the Federal level.

If you care about the USA and live in the USA and happen to have a G+ account vote up my G+ post on my profile..

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114301140286672625486/posts?hl=en

Or if not vote up here.

Or if yo thik you can do better than a 50% reduction in Federal budget by hacking the broken system post it here in this thread.
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Considering that PeepCode sells their videos 9$ each and has cheaper options if you purchase a plan I find 14$ a bit steep for a video from someone I don't know as well.
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I think it gets taken away if you flag too often?

I had my turn off after I flagged too much and hasn't come back yet after a few months.
Another thing I always notice on these "responsive" sites is some huge picture that gets downloaded even if you are on a tiny screen. Here it is 25*(224x224px) + one bigger header image. That's quite good actually - I saw a site where I would get (as in download and render resized) a 2Mpix picture in the header even if I resized the tab to some 200px in width.
Odd, I don't hear any audio on the video; is it just me?
Honestly, the sites I find most usable on my iPad and iPhone are normal desktop sites that don't interfere with pinch-zoom and double-tap. That's how the device and browser were designed to work.

Sites that try to deliver an "optimized experience" are usually crippled at best. At worst they are completely broken. The really fancy ones like OnSwipe crash Mobile Safari after a couple of page views.
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I'm kinda always falling for free energy stories because they appeal to my hopes. Rationally, I know it doesn't work and my brain keeps telling me it's a scam. In my gut, however, I dream of a world where free energy reigns and we don't have to burn fossil fuel en masse just to keep society afloat.

However, lately I wondered: Would free energy really be a good thing? If there's limitless energy for everybody, wouldnt it be even easier for a lunatic - or a government run by lunatics - to run amok. Economically and Ecologically, it would be terrific. But I wonder if we, as a species, are already adolescent enough to be given such power.
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Same question...

And are you willing to work remotely or do you want to work with someone in the same location?
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It is a risk buying from someone that you don't know. At one point, no one knew who PeepCode was either. Geoffrey grew his brand and became well known.

As for the price - PeeCode sells all their recent videos at $12 each, for ~1hr of content. So, $14 seemed reasonable to me (also based on the price I've paid at Tekpub, DestroyAllSoftware and other screencasting sites) considering the length of the content that I've produced.

But, you may be right. Maybe I should drop it since I am an unknown person in the screencasting world.
Initially Tesla would be viewed with skepticism. But his work with AC was reproducible. His anti-gravity experiments are not accepted.

An interesting contemporary thread currently is the inflationary expansion of the universe that was reported a couple of years back
(http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/334907/title/Cosm...). It was a remarkably unsettling find, yet seems to be confirmed other teams. If it's not true we will learn something truly fundamental (like h-bar isn't really constant or something).
There is no audio; I had nothing to say.
Google's advantage was cultural: They went into it looking for an algorithmic solution where Yahoo was dead set in a belief on curated results and Altavista and others were dead set in changing user behavior. Indeed, Altavista results were for a long time very much better than Google's for power users that understood how to use their operators.

This is not something you just change, and it was a very real benefit for Google (but perhaps one that was difficult to see).

So I'd argue that the answer wasn't bureaucratic and slow, but "our competitors are set in their ways".

No matter how nimble you are, if you've stared yourself blind on your own perceived solution of a problem, you might be unable to react to the challenge of some little startup coming in and solving the problem in a different way. You might even have tied yourself down with partners etc. in ways that makes changing your model incredibly much harder even if you do realize.
From the article: "At some Los Angeles elementary schools, teachers have drastically cut time for science because of pressure to focus on reading and math."

If they are that sorry in teaching reading and math, so that it is taking them that long to teach those subjects, it's time to get new teachers in those Los Angeles elementary schools. Teaching reading to beginning pupils is a solved problem. It's even a solved problem in countries that present unusual challenges to elementary teachers by requiring that elementary reading instruction be provided in a language that the elementary pupils do not speak at home. (My wife grew up in one such country, where the sole language of school instruction was the home language of no more than 10 percent of the population in her generation. Singapore, a country with FOUR official languages and English as the primary language of school instruction, had a majority of pupils in my generation who spoke none of the official languages, and certainly not English, at home but still did a great job of teaching pupils reading and math in that generation.)

What is described in the interesting submitted article is evidence that improving United States education by replacing some teachers in current classrooms with new teachers

http://edpro.stanford.edu/hanushek/admin/pages/files/uploads...

is a viable strategy for improving United States education.
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I've written about how to use callbacks in this context: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=704
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However HN gets new visitors all the time, something old could be new to me, and something old to me could be new to you.
For those as confused as I was, the code is silently swallowed if you have JavaScript turned off.
We're getting into 'what-if' territory.
Thanks for all the comments on my blog post. I particularly welcome them on Hacker News, a solid community with a sense of which members have clout as well as a scoring system for tracking the value of individual's contributions. I think social metrics like Hacker News karma are useful; I just object to the blatantly tacky marketing aspect of Klout.

After my blog post got some exposure Klout revived my month old support request and removed the Klout page about me. I don't know if they changed their policy in general or if I'm a special case. Already feeling regret; I really needed some new Axe hair gel.
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Do you have any reference to companies doing so?

If anything, that could serve as a good qualitative metric for filtering out eventual employers/clients.
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This sounds like the kind of thing that some MBA came up with;

Suit: "And in the Terms of Service, add some note so that we can use their personal info for marketing."

Cubicle-ee: "That's a little sleezy and sounds like it may backfire.."

Suit: "Nonsense, nobody reads the ToS and everybody is data mining people's personal info these days, they can't get mad at us without getting mad at everyone else too. Look at Google."