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Isobar Create 32 NFC Hackathon  APPNATION III, Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2011
Are you a developer, entrepreneur or startup looking to create the next generation of mobile interactive technologies? This event might be remembered as the tipping point – the pivotal two days – when Near Field Communication (NFC) technology became more than a promise.<p>And you might be remembered as somebody who made it happen.<p>You’re invited to the Isobar Create 32 NFC Hackathon @ APPNATION III: http://appnationconference.com/appnation3/hackathon.php<p>Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will let us make transactions, exchange digital content, and connect electronic devices like never before. Your phone will be your credit card, boarding pass, hotel room key, coupons at the supermarket. You’ll buy only the 3 minutes you need on the parking meter.<p>It’s an amazing future that can continue to emerge. Or it can bust through the door now, screaming your name for all eternity.<p>The sleep-deprived, caffeinated, hero-making details.<p>Who: This is an open invitation to mobile software developers, entrepreneurs and start-ups to be the first to explore the possibilities of NFC like never before.<p>What: Today, the NFC thought-scape is dominated by mobile payments. Isobar Create 32 @ APPNATION III will be Silicon Valley’s first hackathon of its kind to explore the NFC chip inside next generation mobile devices to find greater uses for this exciting new technology. Unlike other hackathons, applications can be programmed on any NFC-enabled smartphone platform you choose (Google Nexus S, Nokia N9, Samsung Galaxy, Blackberry, etc.).<p>When: 32 hours around the clock: Wednesday, November 30 at 8:00am – Thursday, December 1 at 4:00pm. At the end, you’ll hand your apps over to an all-star cast of judges – consisting of some of the most notable innovators, venture capitalists and influencers in the tech community – to judge the top three projects.<p>Where: At APPNATION III, San Francisco Design Center, 635 8th Street, San Francisco.<p>Why: This is your opportunity to showcase your innovations in front of the massive APPNATION audience (3,000+) of leading investors, partners, buyers and more. Winners will receive various prizes, cash, some good PR, and the opportunity to launch their app and/or business on one of technology’s biggest stages.<p>How: Isobar Create 32 is part of APPNATION III that draws thousands of developers, carriers, product/service providers, buyers and investors each year. Register now for Isobar Create 32 (it’s FREE!): http://appnationconference.com/appnation3/hackathon.php, and you’ll receive a complimentary Expo/Keynote pass for APPNATION III. (Note: All registered hackers must work on an application project during the 32-hour event.)<p>Want more complete info? Visit http://appnationconference.com/appnation3/hackathon.php and follow us @IsobarCreate. We look forward to seeing you there!
You might be right. I am tempted to make it 99 cents... however, I don't want to disappoint the people who just bought it. Feels a bit unfair to me... maybe in a few weeks.
Atzip uses an animated smiley slider (since June 2011)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atzip/id423929361?mt=8
How does this differ from a Google Plus page? I am trying hard but I cannot see it.
I won't comment on the ethics behind recreational drug use - to each his own. What fascinates me more is that a) This stuff is so out there in the open (all you need to do is download an 18mb TOR client)
b) The security infrastructure
c) The sociological implications. How is a dealer who sells online different from someone who sells on the streets?
One-time Secret: Share passwords etc with URIs that work only once
Yeah, I can't understand the widespread ignorance of/indifference to micro either. It's like people either think it's less important (because of the name) or that it only applies to people running manufacturing or retail businesses. Macroeconomics is seriously incomplete, so when it fails to predict the future well people dismiss economics as a whole, not realizing how fantastically useful and illuminating micro is. Admittedly micro suffers from not having a good theory of oligopoly, but I venture to suggest that that's a bit like the 3-body problem.

For philosophical types, I recommend 'New Ideas from Dead Economists' by Todd Buckholz. If you just want to get going with the math, I like the Barrons Business Review book on Economics by Peter Eisen. You should be able to find either of these used for a few bucks.
I like the app, but I've a couple of feature requests already... the biggest one is: my meetups often consists of more than one person.
"If you are working with a database, I would hope that you do not allow your expectations to be set by the marketing department. If you don't do your due diligence then you deserve to be bitten."

That's the real definition of "hard to use": you have to research everything yourself and send the product through QA just to use it.

There's a very high value in products where you don't have to do a lot of research on the implementation quality and caveats. If you start using it, and it appears to work for your needs, you won't be bitten too badly later. In my opinion, PostgreSQL is an example of such a product.

Of course there is always some opportunity to do the wrong thing. It's a question of degree.

Following your advice would essentially mean "only big companies can ever release anything" because you'd need a team of full-time people to sit around doing research and QA for libc and the kernel and everything else you depend on.
Are you saying Testling uses jsdom? Because it doesn't, it actually runs in real browsers.
Mercury Editor: HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor for Rails
You can’t legally run OS X under VM, unless the host is OS X on Apple’s hardware as well (and I think even that is only for server edition).
We were trolled. And we fell for it. I hope we learned something in the process.
Sure. I believe engineers are one of the major forces that improve society. There is a tendency from the business side to assign credit for this work to the person who provided the money (and in this case guidance) for the project. This annoys me but to a lesser extend because the money/environment really is an important part of the process.

In this case, Gladwell is basically crediting Jobs as being part of an engineering tradition that I highly respect without (afaict) Jobs actually possessing the key qualities of that tradition. Doing so makes Jobs look better at the expense of diluting the term, which strikes me as disrespectful to the hackers' accomplishments.

Edit: This is a response to (paraphrased) "Why are you so emotional about this?"
Tony Schwartz: Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By
FF7 with Flash 10 is ok, unfortunately I tend to use Chrom
[video]Power, Programmability, and Granularity: Challenges of ExaScale Computing
Lethal Commission - The Movie
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But by closure I usually refer to the definition of some Lisp books:

>> a closure is a collection of closed-over variables retained by a function.

I don't really dig deep for what the constructs would produce in memory, but they should be some lambda expression.
Introducing Pages for Google+
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I'm drawing a line between "cryptographic hash functions" and "password hash constructions". One is a "function", the other a "construction".

Password hash constructions do more than simply run the hash function multiple times.

We are, obviously, saying much the same thing.

Again: the key point here is, don't DIY this part of your application.
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The point is that a corporation can relocate activities on paper to the Bahamas to avoid taxation. A US citizen can live and work in another country and try to avoid tax that way, but few people are actually going to do that. All of the places someone might actually want to live have higher tax rates than the US.
Looks fantastic! Balances education, accomplishments and ease of use perfectly. Well done.
It can't be cheap/effective enough to provide power at western service levels, but it can within developing world budgets be cheap/effective enough to provide useful levels of power.

The key point here is just a restatement of Christiansen's "Innovator's Dillemma": a new product incapable of meeting the needs of most users of an incumbent product, but capable of meeting the needs of some other related market.
Loving this. It's very inviting.

One small thing - I think the badge map would be more informative and interesting if it had some sort of labels.
I don't think the product's purpose is as relevant as how the product is actually used. If we want to take it to another extreme, I have an iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as well as a Wii, Playstation and Xbox. Guess which three are used to play games every day and which have not been used for anything in over a year.

I don't really understand the piracy analogy.
>(If I had a dollar for every time the 'emailaddress+foo@gmail.com' failed to validate....)

That's not always accidental.
Google+ Launches Branded Pages
Their claims reminded me of Jim Starkey's history with the CAP theorem: http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/cap-and-leases...
Google+ for brand pages launches.
Masters In Startup Awesomeness
My top 10 Internet TV shows
This is cool and I'd love to see it working commercially but the MIT Media Lab demonstrated a nearly identical idea back in the late 1980's. Their digital version was inspired by talking busts at Disney's Haunted Mansion that used film projectors to achieve the same effect back in the 1960's.
If you need all that code to talk to the database I suspect you are in effect using your database as the integration layer. Ouch.
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Pepsi's google+ id is: 111883881632877146615

I can't imagine them putting that in a subway ad.
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Modern Cucumber and Rails: No More Training Wheels
It has nothing todo with accommodation strain, it's an "exposure" problem. If you are looking at a bright screen in an otherwise dark room, your pupils will adapt to the average flux hitting your retina. But if most of your field of view is dark, with a bright screen in the middle, this will cause an uncomfortably high flux from that part of your field. With a more even lighting so that the brightness of the screen is close to the average illumination, this doesn't happen.
They'll just use something like http://pepsi.com/+ as a redirect, or use http://gplus.to/.
Also, I don't know what split is like, but it is ridiculously easy to buy a Kindle in the UK (and I'm going to extrapolate that to Europe). Or if that doesn't float your boat, then just pick up a Sony or Kobo eReader - all you need to do is walk into the any major electronics retailer.

Given that this market exists, and is being actively courted by every player in this field, B&N will NEED to sort out global distribution somehow, otherwise they will get crushed. Unless of course they believe a good run in the American market alone will give them enough momentum to launch in Europe whenever they see fit... and that's probably not going to happen.
Moore's law is the wrong analogy.

Computer chips become better every year because they get smaller, use less materials.

We could make solar cells thinner, but we can't appreciably reduce the area that they take up. The solar cells need some backing material, brackets to hold them, infrastructure to move the electricity away, security mechanisms so that people can't steal them, and other forms of material that can't be rapidly dematerialized.
Hardly the same thing but you can get a little out of Engadget's hands-on videos...

Kindle Fire: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fire-impres...

Nook Tablet: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/07/barnes-and-nobles-nook-ta...
All the government needs to know is what information is being requested, and who is requesting it.
Russia Warned Israel, US against Attacking Iran
This is stupid. They make two core assumptions that are most likely false given what we currently know about the universe: first that the fundamental laws of physics are not uniform throughout our corner of the universe, and the second one is that life has been demonstrated to exist exclusively on earth and nowhere else. Both of these are cordially presented as facts, when our current understanding of physics and chemistry suggests these are not true. Indeed, this whole thing is little more than an attempt to declare a geocentric model of the universe as scientific. I smell a creationist plot.
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"They've had the time to work with it" doesn't register. Amazon has been a software company from its inception and has had a substantial team of talented devs working on the kindle and kindle fire projects. B&N has never been a software company, it's a functionality they've bolted on to their company lately, and we have yet to see how good that team actually is.
They were also conscripted into wars with dizzying American casualties, had parents and siblings who died of polio, lived under continuous threat of nuclear annihilation, and had to call someone up on the phone to place a stock market order. Oh, and that whole internet thing.

Suggest looking forward, not back. What do we do next?
Cost Leadership Strategy: Four Valuable Techniques For Lower Costs
Kindle Fire is based on 2.3 (it's in the wikipedia entry even).
This is a particularly poorly sourced article. Most of the story was pieced together from multiple throwaway accounts here. There's nothing by way of verification at all.
Funny how the things that don't matter were given seven whole sections.

But the one thing that will determine whether either of them succeeds or fails, the intangibles, was given only lip service at the end.
Moore's law is all about improvements in the fab process which drives down not only design rules but also defect rates to mean that putting more devices on a single wafer is more cost effective.

As you reduce the process costs then there is no reason that the cost of solar panels doesn't approach coated window glass.
A covenant not to sue does not preclude you (as far as I know) from posing the question to the Dept. of Labor (or whatever commission of same handles this particular area).

Be careful, though, of below-the-table blowback. Assess the risks and your interest before continuing.
I'd love to find something that could be worn as a necklace (even in the shower). My partner had a fitbit that died when it ended up going through the laundry.
You can use a name that doesn't appear on your government issued ID?
At the time, I really liked the idea of couch doc versions, but considering that go away after compaction I was sad about that it didn't give me versioning for free.

I think it just came down to preference, MongoDB has a nice way of doing quieres, without having to use views, also its a bit faster, although I've seen people speed up couch by using protocol buffers etc. Now that I havent been following couch for a while the fragmentation in between couch versions, doesn't help when evaluating if I should try it again.
You mean just like the natural pattern of storms and snow melt that the areas you build hydro in already have?

Hydro here have carefully regulated flows to reduce the natural variation in the river so that for example an optimal flow is created for the various salmon runs.
I just think when you're learning how to use lists and hash tables, you're learning how to abstract, decompose, solve problems, which is the 'science' part... when you're learning about pointers, also, but the emphasis is more learning about the 'computer' part .

If you want to do 'computer science' or engineering, eventually you have to learn both.

But for a beginner, who might end up just casually coding as part of another discipline, or wants to understand computers as part of a liberal arts education and never goes past the first language, I think the higher level abstractions are a better place to start. (And the languages are a little gentler)
Exactly, its not a hoax, someone is trying to discredit him. I've been using mongo in production for close to a year now, he's spot on on his claims!
Of course it's for US residents only - and needless to say that people who can solve this problem well stand to make a lot more money than 50k if they found a startup specializing in this type of data recovery.
Here is a comprehensive list of open mesh/protocol links http://openmesh.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/a-list-of-open-sour...
From piecing together the history I think it's clear that the real magic came from Ritchie. I doubt that Pike and Thompson in particular were ever in touch with the rest of the world.

Things like variable declarations matching the look of how variables are used ('inside out' parsing) are not simple and are responsible for the certain something that makes C work. And Unix was never beautiful, it was always a huge hack.
I meant to upvote, and fat-fingered downvoted you, and greyed your post. Hope someone can correct my mistake (I fixed your karma on another post). Thanks for the clarification.
Designing for startups
So the basic point is that in any economy, a given dollar supports a multiple of one dollar in income. The US GDP is roughly $13 trillion dollars, which is roughly equivalent to the total national income (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#Income_a...), but there are a lot fewer than $13 trillion dollars in circulation.

Now, when you buy something with a post-tax dollar, that money will get taxed again, but that is not double taxation. That dollar is counting towards income again when you spend it.

So say in the first example, the buyer made $200k in salary and capital gains, on which he paid 25% in taxes and was left with $150k. He then bought the property from the seller with that $150k, and the seller paid tax on the $50k of capital gains. Say this all happened in the same tax year. So the buyer reported $200k of income, and the seller reported $50k of income. That contributes $250k to the GDP. And taxes were paid on that $250k. No income was taxed twice.

Now compare this to a corporation. Say it makes $1m in profits after expenses. It is taxed 30% on these profits, leaving $800k. It then distributes this $700k via a dividend to its shareholders, who are taxed another 15%, leaving $595k. This example does not involve $1m + $700k of income. Only $1m of income is added to GDP. But that same income is taxed twice: once as corporate taxes and again as capital gains.
When searching for online airline tickets, which are you preferred sites?
> but the reporting has a breathless tone

Well, yes and no. Apologies for reducing your logic to the absurd, but if Iran dropped a nuclear bomb on NYC tomorrow then lot's of people would die, basically exactly what you would expect to happen if that bomb was dropped there. Does that mean everyone who treats it as a big deal (in sarcastic terms: "with a breathless tone") is making a big deal out of nothing?

Yes, with the details that there will be a flood, and that x% of HDDs are made there, and that the flood will shut down production for X months, then prices rising are exactly what you would expect. The reason for it being newsworthy and to some unexpected is that we didn't know the flood would happen, and even after they did plenty of people had no idea, having never had need to think about it, that it happened where so many HDDS are made. Hence why being told that, and therefore what it means, is unexpected.
Apple is a significant player in the market today, but they have a glass ceiling. Yes the iPhone has a lead on the mobile market today, but when they lose that lead what then? Apple's OS has never been a gaming platform, apple's ability to create a viable gaming network is clearly limited...

As a PC gamer, you mention it's dying, but yet the e-Sports scene seems to be the next professional sports arena. As for consoles, they're nowhere near their peak. PS4, Xbox 720, Wii-U... what we're witnessing is a divide between casual gaming and ACTUAL gaming.

Casuals will always be the majority, but to think they'll ride in on mobile horses with iPads is a bit naive. Why? Casual gamers are just that, casual. They have little loyalty to games/studios/platforms, and demand low prices because gaming is insignificant to them.

The day that a mobile platform offers the dexterity and practicality a controller or keyboard/mouse offers, then it can be safely said that the 'writing is on the wall'. But as long as there are 1.6 million dollar tournaments for BF3, grandparents bowling on the Wii, and more than 2x the viewers for eSports tournaments than those that tune in for the NFL draft, the power of Apple has limits.
Nope. Not enough info on NuoDB.

NuoDB doesn't have a centralized transaction controller. It doesn't have a centralized anything. And it isn't "like" anything else -- all new. It's a distributed database without distributed transactions.

In a nutshell, it isn't based on pages or disks but distributed objects. Each distributed object, called an atom, can exist in as many places as necessary. Each atom instance knows of the other instances and replicates changes. Transaction nodes do SQL and are diskless. Archive nodes listen to replication and store serialized atoms on disk, S3, or some other KV store. If a transaction node needs an atom, it gets it from another transaction node or, at last resort, from an archive node that fetches the atom from disk, S3, or wherever.
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Admittedly, I went about it in a ham-handed manner (I blame the Monday), but my core point is this: Klout is doing nothing differently evil with your data, than any other social network. No laws are being broken because [Klout says] no PII is being sold willy-nilly.

There's a comment over on the post that nails exactly what I'm trying to say, and in a much better way: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-soc...
You can have a sneakpeek at G+ Pages' creation by deleting the overlaying elements with your inspection tools at

https://plus.google.com/pages/create

Looks promising, it integrates with Google Places
While funny, couldn't you do that with jargon from any industry? Like Things Real People Don't Say About User Experience: "This operating system's use of Fitts's Law means I am more productive!" Or Things Real People Don't Say About Their Health: "I must be in the readaptation stage as I realize I am only breathing due to this machine!"
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20%? Over 60% of our electricity is consumed when the sun shines. Currently we get less then 1% of our power from solar. Storage will not matter for a very long time.
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Google has jumped the shark. Though it will take a while to sort out, they are bound for one of two destinations: The next MS (IBM, etc.), or death.

When you stop supporting and responding to your most technical users, you divorce yourself from that edge.

And when you ignore and blow off user issues and complaints, you divorce yourself from broader good will.

The Panda exercise was an improvement. Plus was appealing in concept but is failing in execution. (We don't need another Facebook -- especially not the Big Brother aspect.) The rest of recent developments have mostly sucked (where products are not simply languishing).

Google Apps remains somewhat interesting, but it's becoming apparent that you only count if you're the Feds, GM, or similar.