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People are allowed to have an opinion about the product that is more subtle than use/don't use. You should never reduce any criticism to a binary proposition. JWZ presented a really good example with cell phones. Back in 80s "if you don't like how phone companies behave, don't buy a cell phone" might have seemed a reasonable response but today it (rightfully) sounds crazy.
The construction industry having a sexism problem isn't a reason for another industry to stop striving to be better.

> Like probably no one would start a movement to get more guys in a predominant women profession? frankly who cares?

That kind of wrong-headed, "Why are there no MOWO awards?!!" reasoning doesn't help either. The situations that the different genders find themselves in with regards to employment aren't really comparable.
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I agree it is complicated and busy, on the other hand I hate having to refresh a CAPTCHA 20 time to find one I can do.

My two concerns would be it seem to load pretty slow for me (5-10 seconds). And what do people without a mouse do? I know there aren't a lot of people with this problem but any organization that has to comply with ADA or section 508 are going to care about it.
NYU runs a start up incubator: http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators
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Not to be pedantic, but there are some of us who don't use Twitter but still want to follow tweets (e.g. in Google Reader). It's possible to get an RSS feed of tweets through the Twitter API: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_n...

That's not really a solution, however. Kind of a drag that Twitter pulled RSS links down off of user pages..
Or you bet wrong about the load they deal with.

They may also have higher availability requirements than most companies and need 2X (more?) the infrastructure to protect against a data collection failure.

They may be counting nodes used periodically, e.g. a large Hadoop map-reduce run.

Edit: don't get me wrong -- 200 servers is a lot. :)
I've been looking, and to a point, coding what I actually want from twitter along these lines, but I really don't think that type of client will ever exist for general consumption. Heck, finding a twitter client that actually goes back a day and grabs all the tweets since your last look is pretty hard (even some that claim they will don't. Twitter's crackdown on clients pretty much ended a good chunk of the innovation.
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Google is getting worst everyday... Google have already started to return whatever results they think is right even if it doesn't contain any of your keywords and now this?
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a combination of hardware and software. cheap hardware used in some lots require software recalibration on the driver.

if this does not happen to your phone you are in the happy minority of nexus one users.

to the rest of us, while using the touch screen for extended periods of time (shorted if using both fingers and/or charging) it will start to behave erradicaly. Touching one area will register a touch somewhere else. This is also affected by the pressure. the harder you press the less likely to see the bug. It will get worse and affect larger areas until you turn the screen off and on again (lock, unlock and it's back to perfect condition)

worth to mention, this does not happens with some mods. but i haven't rooted my phone as i use it mostly for development and like to test against the stock image.
This may be true if the available virtual servers fit your configuration needs. If they don't individually provide enough IO bandwidth, storage space, RAM, CPU time, etc and you have to add a second virtual server to make up for the lacking attribute the ratio could change from 10:1 to 20:1, making dedicated servers an even better option.

The more custom your configuration the better bare metal is.
With PostageApp, we've been shopping around for a better processor. Our current one has a frighteningly bad API, and won't let us accept anything in USD, as you've mentioned.

Really makes me wonder if there's anything we can do up here. All of the Canadian startups that need to use a payment processor are suffering because of this.
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In terms of perceived value? Definitely. See all the flack Apple received for not supporting Siri on the iPhone 4. Now imagine if they hadn't released iOS 4 and multitasking on the 3GS.
Some other plausible explanations:

Gun control is often motivated by racism; as our society has become more tolerant, racism has lessened, and so has gun control.

It's become obvious that gun control doesn't work. The cities and states with the toughest gun control laws have the worst crime. One might expect that, short-term (e.g., cities with bad crime would enact gun control laws) but over decades, if cities like Chicago, New York City, and Washington DC where handgun ownership is effectively impossible haven't see giant decreases in crime as a result of their gun bans .. the only reasonable conclusion is that the ban isn't working, and is either totally ineffective or is causing only bad side effects.

Over the past 20 years, concealed carry of handguns has become politically and socially uncontroversial - "shall-issue" concealed carry permits (which work like drivers' licenses - if you are of age, pass a test and undergo instruction, and don't have a criminal history, you're good) are now the law in approximately 40 of 50 states, and we haven't seen the streets run red with blood. Ordinary people are legally carrying guns when they want to and we haven't fallen into some Mad Max world of road warfare. Because people now, themselves, own and carry a handgun - or know someone normal and sane who does - the overinflated scare stories of the gun ban lobby have been revealed as the products of fevered (or racist) imagination and hence rejected.
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by making all shredders to contain secret mini scanner

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exactly. and for them both this discussion and the long term support is irrelevant.
Thanks yes true creators well be fine. Its the content publishers and packagers that will feel the pressure as consumers find ways around them to the source.
If the shredded documents are of the same type as those in the picture, this isn't much of a challenge.

I was hoping to see some sort of ridiculous challenge to piece together documents that were destroyed by a high end unit that was specifically designed for sensitive documents. They basically spit out sawdust.
If you bought it when it came out, no. If you bought it near the end of the lifecycle, sure.

Supporting phones 24 months after selling them does hold some merit, as that's the upgrade cycle the consumer is contractually incentivized to meet.
You should write this up and post it somewhere. It sounds like something I'd like to read the details of.
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And those are just the obvious ones. Ontario's bus industry is a regulated near-duopoly of routes. In order to start a new bus route you have to prove that it won't have a negative economic impact on the current operators of that line. It's regulated by the Ontario Highway Transport Board. Same as it was in the 1950s... Just one of many less visible examples.
I thought interview invites were to be given out on october the 31st. Am I wrong?
"stylish and smooth"

he doesn't understand design.
I wish this kind of thing never appeared on HN. This kind of thing, involving gender/harassment/PC-ness always tends to devolve into flamefests and pedantry, and nothing tangible comes of it. Demonization, stereotypes, extreme generalizations, cherry picking, etc. Over and over and over again.

My take: there are bad people in the world, yes. And we have no control over them. Sometimes bad things happen. And we have no control over that. Knowledge, education, maturity are not equally distributed, and not all people share the same behavior or values as we'd like. News at 11. Let's move on. Please. :)
I wouldn't doubt it. But they also don't publish any figures so its difficult to confirm. I work for one of their competitors and we most likely have the same availability requirements... anyways, just curious. Here's where we're at, as a comparison http://bit.ly/qLrKOt

edit: looks like they did publish some figures :)
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/mixpanel-billion-datapoints...
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Don't wanna be the devil's advocate, but wasn't this around? I remember seeing this back in February, or a business offering very like it (can't remember if it was branded "for teams"). What am I missing?
Software is written to an OS, and can't be run by prior OSes. So you'll miss out on some apps.
You really have to admire these guys. They've managed to make money and give away everything they've designed at the same time. This is the critical mass I want OSHW to achieve, and we're seeing it happen more and more. I know a few folks who are getting ready to release OSHW versions of their hardware products soon and this just shows them that it can be done -- and their business can still stay afloat.
"Why would I want my social network profile attached to and controlled by my school or work?"

The better question is why would you want your email address controlled by one company? Those of who decided we want something portable that doesn't end in "@gmail.com" now have access to Google Plus.
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I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, but you wouldn't say 'improve' if you'd ever seen my wife swearing at her phone.

My own app FemCal, runs pretty well on 3.1.3 on a 2G, but I think almost everything is a struggle for iOS 4 on the 3G.

In particular, the new Facebook app appears to be unusable on the 3G nowadays.
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Unusually it turned around. Anyway, there's nothing new on this thread after the infamous ones the past month.
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apple has the pr money to create status gadgets and use the profit to attack alll kinds of efforts in reverse direction, to show the users that their gadget is not superior but defected by design because it takes their freedom to install what they want..

if we lived in an apple dominated space even the web browser risks being banned and i m sure some of the end users you mention would applaud it.

people like rms are there to wake us from short sighted dreams.
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I'm new to the Dev world and I have experienced some interesting stuff. We work in a Scrum Agile environment and everyone is pretty cool and good at their job. One thing I do not understand is why some people talk so much.. We have a QA person and that is all she does. I mean she does work stuff and gets stuff done too. It just seems she gossips alot and never stops! I mean I hear her over the wall and it always starts out as a spec or error question, then it evolves to a gossip session. I did not think in development people had this kind of time to waste. I can see why it would happen in a sales or market environment but not IT. Does any one else deal with this type of stuff at work.? What do you do to handle it? Do you approach the person about it? I just think this type of activity spreads discord and problems. OMg she is doing right now! LOL
There is a difference between the effort of photocopying individual documents and sending them along one by one, and getting them automatically synced to my competitors.

Just because an employee can copy out all files does not make it acceptable for software to re-share out confidential data without so much as sending a notification to the owner. There's no such thing as perfect security, but raising the bar and making malicious behavior more difficult is not a bad thing, especially when it improves the UX.
Replied to this post a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120510. Continue to slug it out with the Goliath that is Pearson. To their credit, they are engaging us in the conversation. Figured I'd submit our latest thoughts to get feedback. Thanks.
Merriam-Webster disagrees:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/startup
1: the act or an instance of setting in operation or motion
2: a fledgling business enterprise

Fledgling also lacks any connotation of scaling.

Perhaps the VC/angel community has adopted "startup" to imply design for rapid scaling, but the broader community uses startup to mean "new business."
they don't want a million dollar solution. Among other goals, they want to know what a solution can a 3rd party get at this market and technology state on a budget of $50K scale. Ie. how sound the DoD shredding practices is.
"To play the game, you put currency into the machine. You then pull the knob and wait for the result. When the result is presented, you are rewarded with a cacophony of exciting sounds, attention-grabbing images, and some form of currency. Often times, this winning helps you progress towards a larger goal. You also have the opportunity with each play to win a rare prize of significantly higher value than the value of the currency you contributed to play the game."

A while back when I was working on a roguelike (i.e. dungeon crawl RPG) I stumbled onto the same realization: assured incremental improvement + random chance for something awesome = addictive gameplay.

This is how almost every RPG works at its core: every battle ends with a little guaranteed experience and gold plus a small random chance of an awesome loot drop.
I think most nerds don't use RSS, but it would be interesting to see a poll.
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Engineering is always about making the right compromises. Why does it have to be 100% dedicated or 100% cloud? What most people don't realize is that it really is a continuum.

For example, why not run the disk performance sensitive DB server on a dedicated machine, while fronting the whole arrangement with proxies and app-servers hosted in the cloud? Ok, so there are latency considerations to be made, but you can see that mixed architectures can make sense.

I think what's stopping people from considering this is that there haven't been good cross-provider network virtualization solutions available. But if you could create your own network topology and your own layer 2 broadcast domains, no matter where your machines are located, things are starting to look up.

There are a number of network virtualization providers out there now, which you might want to look at to see what's possible. Disclaimer: I work for vCider ( http://vcider.com ), which provides solutions for on-demand virtualized networks, which can span providers and data centers.
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Proof that it is myopia: Those cell phones everyone loves, that are bringing the future? They depend on the cloud, the other darling herald of the future. What drives the cloud?

x86.
hum... you may want to check your facts.

the desktop dock and car dock was discontinued what? 4 months after the launch?

HTC only resumed selling 1.5yrs later. During that period the car dock was selling for $200 used on ebay. I have no idea if HTC still sells those now, but wouldn't be surprised if not.

As for "new accessories" i bet most of them will use the near field thingy and be useless for the nexus one.
That's right, sorry I missed your point. I edited the post accordingly, thanks a lot for your input!

Note however that I did not pretend to have an exhaustive search, just a "brute" one to find a solution. I changed "enumerating all the candidate" to "enumerating the candidate" to remove some confusion.
I meant the total cost, I was including domain registration. Apps for your domain is free for businesses and individuals under a certain threshold.
No, it was amended for that purpose. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution afterwards, not at the time of enactment. Plenary power is retained by the states in some areas - the ones where it has not already been delegated to Congress. Art. 1 s.8 certainly does give Congress the plenary power over interstate commerce, copyright, and a number of other things...not least 'post roads,' which are arguably equivalent to 'communications infrastructure.'

There are limits on Federalism, but it is far from the unconstitutional imposition you seem to think it is.
This type of hyperbole is exactly what I'd expect from a David Adewumi creation. Adewumi is a chronic over-seller and under-deliverer. He has screwed over countless of his peers at Penn State, where he managed to spend more than three years without actually having completed two consecutive semesters successfully. I expect One School to bust as all of his past initiatives have due to his inability to lead, execute, and (most importantly) work with his team.
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those are examples of people making (or being sold on) poor choices and/or not having all information necessary to make an informed choice.

the cloud is not for everyone. physical servers aren't for everyone, either. stories like these don't automatically imply that using the cloud is a bad idea for everyone.
As of creating simple web apps, etc. I said before, last months I can love the idea one day, but I can lose interest on another day. I've also asked some advice on how to stay interested. I think the loss of interest after starting something is one of my biggest problems, yeah :/

Not sure I can money at all...

Alright, thanks for your advice anyway.
Nice comment, this is almost exactly how World of Warcraft works as well. There's always some awesomely epic item that rarely drops from even the easiest of raid bosses
Love the ripple graph features. In fact, with access to the Twitter API you could make something similar- has anyone?
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As someone who's just had their app approved this very day, Apple don't force their EULA on you.

There's a box where you can paste in your own EULA during the upload process.
There remains a viable third candidate -- the Cornell / Technion proposal

Together Cornell and Technion have put together a solid proposal. Cornell has an excellent existing Medical School model, with research components being located at the upstate campus and applied components being located in the City campus. This split model has not only served them extremely well, but it has allowed for them to allocate space and resources in a very efficient manner.

Technion, on the other hand, is likely one of the brightest stars internationally in developing applied technologies for markets

http://www1.technion.ac.il/en

As a Cornell graduate myself, who actually did my graduate thesis on Roosevelt Island, proposing distributed infrastructural solutions for waste management and sewage treatment, the potential of Roosevelt Island is exceptional.

Even the Van Alen Institute, after their success with the Governors Island competition sponsored a Roosevelt Island competition that proposed some excellent solutions for public use of the Island. That suggests that Roosevelt Island will most likely be awarded this round to either Standford or Cornell, since the process has been developing for some time.

For more information about Cornell's bid, you can see the presentation itself:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/?videoID=1751
7min video

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-cornell-technion-nyc-e...
6 pages of proposals.

EDIT - More info here: http://www.cornell.edu/nyc/

I saw Cornell Dean of Computing and Information Sciences Dan Huttenlocher present the proposal at Zimride in SF a couple of months ago, and it was clear that by partnering with Technion, their proposal may even be considered to have the lead over Standford, because not only does Cornell have the NY State political support, and with the existing Medical Campus, it has on the ground proof of it's bi-campus capabilities. Also the Israel/NY power connection is certainly something that can't be discounted with the Technion partnership. Whereas Standford has only the promise of $ 2.5B, and the - fingers crossed - hope that their unique entrepreneurial culture can cross the country and flourish in a completely contrary East Coast culture. Perhaps this can be seen as a classic East Coast Power, vs. West Coast Money battle.

In the end I think NYC will award both the Jay Street location and the Roosevelt Island locations, with NYU coming out a clear winner, and Cornell/Technion and Standford going to the wire for the win on the Island, with my money on Cornell/Technion for the last minute win.

ps. interestingly enough, Roosevelt Island, previously named Blackwell and then Welfare Island, was home to one of America's most notorious mental institute for the criminally insane -- though back in the days, they did like to incarcerate the poor and destitute and perfectly sane Germans (who were considered the lowest and most despised immigrants of the time)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island
> The point is, however, that the German elite is totally hell-bent on staying a net exporting country forever.

That goal doesn't imply that it's reasonable for them to simply "give away" the value of that surplus, let alone for them to give away in excess of that surplus for any period of time. The latter is important because some of the bailout proposals have germany giving up multiple years of export surplus.

In addition, some of the proposals seem to be both giving up on Greek debts owed to Germany (and/or German banks) and taking on debts owed to others.

Note that the surplus does give Germany some power, so it isn't just bits on a disk.

> So long as Germany and Greece both accept the game, their will never be any problem of insolvency.

Another problem is that admiting to that game is (for Germany) admitting to being a sucker. While Germany may, in fact, be a sucker, admitting it is a very different thing.
I guess "crossgrade" means installing another equivalent version of Windows. Installing anything other would most probably be an "upgrade".
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> The mainstream interpretation most certain is that copyright is to protect creators, not distributors.

That is certainly the idealized, simplified narrative that most everyone will have been taught these days, but in terms of how copyright actually came about, way back when, it is largely a case of post-hoc rationalization. Hence the link: majority opinion doesn't change reality, only its perception.
>hired by a committee from the general public

Actually, randomly selecting people from a state or province, similar to a lottery draw, may be a better idea. The key is to make sure it is a large variety of people.
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The disk problem is always something I've always been fighting with when it comes to virtual private servers. I've never had to do so much optimizations with dedicated servers as I had to do with VPSs.
Ron Wyden seems to be the leading legislator for tech freedom, but I admit to being a poor scorekeeper in this area - I like law more than politics, so I don't pay enough attention to individual congresspersons.
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Stores are filled with Froyo Tablets & Phones. Not like a year ago. But still lots.