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Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'
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"with no cache" is a bit of a misleading statement, considering the entirety of their data set is stored in RAM. Turns out you don't really need memcached if you don't read anything from disk.
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I'm not so sure that's true. You also need to account for the fact that as technology get's more universal, more people use it. So the same amount of "core geeks" could be using technology, but the ratio of "core geeks" to ordinary users is decreasing.
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Strong correlation between income inequality within nations [1] and a number of measures that measure 'wellbeing of society' (life expectancy, education, crime, health, trust and aggregate measures). Plotting these measures against the GDP per person (richness of nation) shows weak or no correlation.

Bottom line: More unequal societies have more social problems.

[1] ratio between wealth of top 20% and wealth of bottom 20%.

EDIT: economic problems -> social problems in bottom line
Italian banks are terrible. Lots of fees, they don't pay interest at all, and the hours are ridiculous. Most stores are open from something like 8:30/9 - 12:30, then 15:30 to 19:30. With banks it's along the lines of 8:00 - 13:00, 15:00-16:00 or something odd like that. Ours raised the interest rates on us the day before we were supposed to sign the paperwork for our mortgage.
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For (small) business with not enough transactions, accepting debit cards is an expense

Here in Ireland it's not uncommon for shops to insist on cash only for amounts less than €10 (except in some extrenuation circumstances (like the ATM in their shop being broken)).

Credit card acceptance is very very low.

That has definitly not been my experience. Perhaps you are thinking of chip-and-pin credit cards. Here in Ireland (& IME UK), credit cards are accepted in many, many point of sales/retailers. But they might only accept chip and pin credit cards, which I believe are uncommon the USA.
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From the comments:

"The short answer is that the third-party provider must make small modifications to take advantage of LightningJS. This is done by adding the bootstrap Javascript and ensuring that the code uses window.parent for manipulation of the original document."

That's kinda a big asterisks to add. That said, deferring JS safely is really hard. It's not a bad thing for more people to be working on.
In the Netherlands very few stores accept credit cards, most accept just the dutch "PIN" and "Maestro" (=EMV). Not many people in the Netherlands have a credit card.

Vice-versa however, I was able to pay at WalMarts in the US with my Dutch debit card with no issues (once I hit the right button, it's confusing).
Apparently a chunk of engineering went to Intel, another to AMD.
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I wish they had Amazon Prime in Hawaii, although I guess I have more pressing concerns to complain about.
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Is there anyway to separate stories based on technical competency? I love Hacker News, but can't stand having to skim over 50+% of the stories because they are beyond my comprehension- to get to the 40% of stories that I can actually learn from/understand.
Wouldn't this be an issue with the client (browser I assume) used in the testing (firefox/chrome/etc), as the referer header is sent by the client not the server?
Normally I would never post a youtube link, but this sketch from the UK comedy show Mitchell and Webb sums up my opinion on this perfectly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NfWIaYed8

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Have you played these games? Everything you do on your farm/plot/area is a click on a tile. You're essentially trying to click on as many tiles in as little time as possible for your own sanity: there's no "select all".
Sure, but I think that's accounted for when you see the absolute number of engineering/cs graduates drop.

Also, I would expect that being immersed in technology would at least stimulate curiosity in how it works, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.
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OK, the reason I doubted it is because it is very easy for anyone to open an account in a neighbouring country and profit from the better arrangements there. I know people living in Germany who haven't bothered to open a local account, because their Dutch account works just fine.
Stellarium is very good. The difference is that StarWalk uses accelerometers and GPS to provide augmented reality - you hold the iPhone / iPad up and point it at a constellation and the display shows what you're looking at.

Stellarium (at least, when I was using it) does not do this.
"...	Its not a straight-up acquisition. It is 'seller financed'. ...within a week that will give us 45 days to finalize the deal."

You have not made it clear if you really need the money? Independence is good #5 ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html I also see potential founder fights #17 ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html and ...

"... Shielding your optimism is nowhere more important than with deals. If your startup is doing a deal, just assume it's not going to happen. The VCs who say they're going to invest in you aren't. The company that says they're going to buy you isn't. The big customer who wants to use your system in their whole company won't. Then if things work out you can be pleasantly surprised. ..."

Good luck #7 "Dont get your hopes up" ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html
His Careers 2.0 CV includes this:

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Everyone's made mistakes, but I don't know whether I would like to put them on my CV.
most probably he didn't get to write the whole thing in one go
i know exactly what you mean, annoying news sites, which break an article of 10 photos into 10 pages..
You're going to uni, but your father keeps tabs on your account? I don't know whether it's you or him, but really, you should both be able to trust you to take good financial care of yourself. It's an ability everyone needs and that you can't learn early enough.
Ouch. Are they implying the other WP7 phones are just cheap fakes? The other OEM's must not be too happy about this today. Why do I get the feeling the other OEM's were just "used" to help WP7 survive for another year until the "real" WP7 manufacturer arrives?
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Excellent BBC documentary about "the other" cipher at Bletchley Park: Lorenz (my personal favourite and precursor of modern cryptography).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_cipher
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They used Redis. Which I would say is pretty similar to memcached.
Saves them asking you in the interview!
I wonder how the Apple "Slide to Unlock" patent will affect the Windows Phone slide up unlock action.

I'd argue that the Windows action is easier and a nicer interaction. If you haven't used it, you don't have to actively stretch a slide from one side of the device to the other. A 'flick' up the screen is enough to unlock the device. Though I wonder if patent law will see a difference between a 'flick' and a 'swipe'?
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Given the date picked (5th of November) I wonder whether it's more about Fox News, or more about that it's 5th of November and they feeling something must be done then that will be worth remembering.
Even in areas where the peak coincides with a peak in sunlight that helps very little since the reliability of sunshine is much lower than the required reliability for power, so you still cannot close power plants and need to keep the fixed costs. You can optimize your systems for a lower average output in those areas, especially in areas with lots of air conditioning where the peak load is expected to drop with lower sunshine, but we are talking percentage points, nothing drastic. Just look at the cost structure of an energy company, there is lots of staff driving around in vans, etc, the cost of fuel is only a small part.
I suspect it's the other way around. MSFT bet the company on WP7, clearly has spent oodles of time and effort on it, but all of the launch devices were snoozefests - some were outright, lazy ripoffs of the OEMs' existing Android phones.

There was nothing unique, compelling, or, well, anything about these phones. Most were even exceptionally crappy with the exception of the Samsung. It's clear that none of the OEMs were willing to invest the resources to design and build a piece of hardware that was compelling.

I don't blame Microsoft for shopping around for an "official" manufacturer after that little debacle.

And I say: Finally! One of the weaknesses of Android has always been this clearly demarcated line between hardware and software, as necessitated by its licensing terms and mission statement. iPhones don't suffer from the effects of this - the software plays closely with the hardware, and it shows. With beautiful industrial design (honestly, I'm a fan of this new phone) and tight hardware-software integration, Microsoft can stand a real chance. I say, about time.
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I had decided to break this up into parts, because it will allow me to think about what I will write more carefully. At the same time, I had wanted to publish what I prepared in my mind, while it was still fresh.

Thank you for your feedback. I will be following this up with part 2 tomorrow.

No, this is not for ad impressions. I have zero ads on my blog. There's a reason I quit the world of advertising after a year at an advertising agency.
Yahoo does this on their homepage. Gets me all the time.
Wow. Part of me wants this to suck, just so there are only iPhone and Android to worry about ever developing for, but this actually looks good enough to consider.

I looked at WP through BizSpark a little, and it looks easier to develop for than iOS or Android, at least for corporate apps. It's possible RIM will lose out in the "corporate owned/managed" market to WP, especially if they can build in equivalent or better security and management tools.

If I were MS/Nokia, I'd heavily subsidize this in ways other than just reducing the retail price; maybe even go for a $799 retail MSRP but heavily discount through the carriers or through channels to $0-400. You want the price to make it seem premium (or at least as good as a high-end Android or iPhone 4S), but they're the new entrant, so using price to promote the product might be a win. Maybe something like "$400 credit for any smartphone trade-in" at retail. Or, bundle "we pay your phone bill for 3 months" or something.
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>I'm lucky enough to live in an English-speaking country, but I'm sure that if I lived in a country that typically sees long delays before localization, I'd find a way to get it early. Even if that meant learning English and engaging in piracy.

Add to this that the translations are often very badly broken - my eyes and ears bleed when I play French versions of games. I actually prefer to get the english version through Steam, and I am sure a sizeable fraction of players would agree.

The only successful localization ive seen to date is stracraft2 - so good that I didnt even bother redownloading the english version from Blizzard. Admittedly i havent even been checking out most localized versions for a while - so it may have been improving lately without me noticing.
I'm pretty sure the accelerometer has to be monitored continuously, with our without Siri. After all, how do you think geo-fenced reminders work? The mostly-low-powered accelerometer can wake up power-hungry location services to see if you've left your geofence. There's no reason to have the GPS running all the time (and your battery life would suffer significantly from that).
Typical. The one day I chose to ignore HN in order to make a dent in my mountain of work and this article gets posted.

For what it's worth, I agree wholeheartedly with the majority of the article. Recruiters who focus on start-ups are wasting their own time as well as the start-up's time. Yes there are a huge number of start-ups hiring and yes some will engage recruiters but the vast majority don't have the budget.

I would happily wager a months salary on the fact that 99.9% of recruiters don't understand how a tech start-up works and even if they make the effort to learn, every start-up is different with their own individual challenges and quirks and it requires an immense amount of time and effort to truly understand what these companies need. No recruiter will invest that level of time. Instead they will throw a few CV's at the role and hope something sticks.

I'm giving a talk at Hacker News London tomorrow night and the topic is 'Recruiting for start-ups'. It's a brief talk on how to improve your chances of finding the right people for your start-up and how to keep them. At no point do I even attempt to suggest they engage a recruiter, in fact I strongly encourage them not to.
This phone looks ugly compared to their leaked prototypes.
the games actually need to be translated to the local language.

Uh. No.

Also, most games are not translated at all.
Diamondhead, I agree re:Jessie - partially. Though I am a fan of black and white, I think Walt is simply not so cut and dry. It is my opinion that Walt's character is sympathetic to Jessie from the very beginning. Even towards the middle of season 3, when Walt finds himself needing to protect himself from Jessie, he still has more than just protection in mind. He really does care for Jessie. What else would explain him not deciding to outright have him murdered? Saul, after all, does mention the possibility of having to explore "other options." At that suggestion, Walt scoffs at Saul and instead proceeds to offer Jessie the partnership. Granted, I question some of the altruistic tendencies in Walt - though mostly he is out for himself and his family.
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The 800 basically looks like N9 with Windows Phone OS on it. Hope the OS has met its match in this hardware. The pictures sure look stunning.
The ultimate issue here is that demand for recruiters (in London at least) far outweighs the talent pool so companies choose to hire decent sales people and mould them into recruiters. Due to the sales culture involved, monetary incentives are the only thing decent recruiters are interested in. If you find a talented and successful recruiter I can guarantee they are earning close to six figures a year (some earn a lot more than £100k) and should they put their own CV on the market they would have dozens of companies throwing ridiculous money at them to get them to come work for them.
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With enough commands in its library, Siri will not only be indistinguishable from real AI, it will be intelligent (please see also the behaviorist view of AI, Descartes' language test and the Turing Test).
Here: see for yourself. http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/

The 710 looks ok but the 800 is pretty nice imo.
I might get downvoted for this sarcasm, but:

That thing looks like a lazy ripoff of the Nokia N9.
But oh well. They're both beautiful :-)

Disclaimer: I used to work for Nokia.
Why does the perspective of the drawing grid appear to get wider as it gets further away?

edit, to answer my own question: it doesn't get wider, it just doesn't shrink into the distance either. It still feels odd not having perspective.
This is not the first time hypothes.is has been mentioned here, but the previous posts have not got much traction:

1. zoowar, 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3137702

2. Maro, 4 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3139484

3. johanjessen, 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143949

This is a start-up idea, hosted at Kickstarter, which is in pre-beta and with an impressive array of advisers. If you think it is important to fight politically, commercially, and religiously motivated attacks on the spread of inconvenient ideas is a bad thing, then I think you should find this endeavour important and support it.

You can reserve usernames now on their homepage at http://www.hypothes.is/

I linked in the OP to John Baez's post, who links to the Read-Write Web summary at

- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hypothesis_a_peer-revie...
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>CL's generic functions are not a superset of message passing

I would say they are. Generic functions can dispatch on a single object if they want to.

As far as doesNotUnderstand, most OO languages don't support it anyway. Further, while I can't find it just now, I seem to recall MOP or CLOS itself providing doesNotUnderstand functionality. You could also either provide a doesNotUnderstand specialization on T, or set up a single handler for it.

If you insist on similar semantics to Smalltalk/Ruby/JS(?) then it wouldn't be hard to use MOP to create a new kind of method dispatch that simply turned the call for a failed specialization lookup into a does-not-understand call as a last step instead of signaling error.
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This is exactly what's killing the recruitment industry. More and more companies are realising the value of having a decent inhouse recruitment team. Personally I believe it's a positive movement.

If you look at some of the most attractive companies such as Google & Facebook, they all have their own internal recruitment team and they rarely engage outside recruiters simply because their own team is immensley talented.

On that note, if anyone wants to capitalise on pg's insight and wants to hire a talented recruiter, I am really keen to shift to in-house recruitment!
Wow there's gonna be Nokia Windows Phones for 60 euros
Bluetooth drains the battery too quicky. An app running in the background with gps pings would be better.
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Apple's marketshare for computers priced over $1000 is >90%, meanwhile the largest personal computer manufacturer in the world is looking to exit the business. I think this is a harbinger for what iOS and Android will become.

There is definitely some maturing required to occur on the Android side and I think this is represented by the continuing hesitation of pay app developers on the platform. The article didn't shed light on the revenue figures but rather concentrated on downloads only, which as per your experience can be misleading. Additionally the split between paid/unpaid and the average revenue on paid apps would be the meat necessary to attract developers. I feel this may be a long-running issue for Android as one of its primary attractions for users is the low acquisition cost, thus it's marketed to a consumer who is less likely to spend. (Seconded by the high piracy rates on Android.) This creates a cyclical issue, the android app store quality becomes diluted by lack of signature apps, so consumers become less likely to purchase apps from a store where they are accustomed to receiving poorer quality applications. So developers don't consider Android the first-platform of choice, thus perpetuating the cycle. For consumers buying become a risk exercise, thus pushing more favour to the ease of piracy, and developers to ultimately consider the platform secondary.

Actual Android penetration is also difficult to gauge, while iOS has predictable hardware, retail and pricing. Android-based phones have received significant sales promotion offers (e.g. 2 for 1 is quite common), the models available fit across a price and technical spectrum from top notch to crappy-phone-that-can't-do-much. I believe this leads to why app downloads are lower per device. (When the randomness of consumers should yield a similar app-download figure, perhaps even slightly skewed towards Android due to the larger amount of test and free software available.) Instead we see Android lagging despite having significantly more devices in the wild. (This doesn't build confidence for quality developers to make Android a priority destination.)

On the other hand Google's priority is to ensure ubiquity (whether good or bad phones), such that their ad revenue based services don't miss the smartphone revolution. Their strategy for this is effective, it's reminiscent of windows vs mac os. In the end iOS isn't Android's problem - Apple's iOS strategy will always be selling less units than Android, but as we've seen in computer manufacturers it may not be about how many you sell, but rather how profitable it is to sell at all.

Side note:
Unfortunately for everyone, this means there will always be Android/iOS flame wars in the same way we've come to expect Windows/Mac OS/Linux flame threads. The plus side is that innovation will be continuous for both platforms.
In nature the N9 is easily the best looking and feeling phone I've seen, including all iPhone models. It's not obvious from the pictures whether the case changed in any way from the N9 to the 800, but at least it doesn't look like anything major.