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The bandwidth argument is pretty weak, any halfway competent polling will not use significant amounts of data even if done fairly frequently. But a lot of operators pay license fees to the manufacturers of the network equipment based on the channel element usage. And to a first approximation the CE usage will be the same for a phone sends a single packet every 15 seconds as for one downloading at full speed.
About the function which is called automatically, it's a common pattern in javascript. It's used to create a new namespace/modules as block are defined per function instead of {}.

And, you are right that we're not assigning the return value of $.getJSON. Basically, once $.getJSON has finished with the request, it will call a function with the result. This result is set to the variable passed to defer. It's a bit of a brain teaser but that's the whole point of the await/defer thingy. Instead of using a callback to retrieve the result as an argument, you just write a variable after defer and you receive it.
Thanks! Good point, I'll add it to my profile.
I would love to learn how the device learns the server has a message for it. I tried to find information on it, but I obviously don't know what to search for.
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2. Gamify learning core subjects: specially maths and physics to start.
3. Allow the community to make lessons and have voting systems for quality.

As someone who is itching to start an e-learning startup, what would be some ways to implement this?

For the user-created lessons, maybe have an IDE-like enviroment with a domain-specific "programming language" that enables non-coders to easily create educational modules and upload them. Think SCUMM but for the e-learning domain.

Thoughts, anyone?
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Opera Mini is extremely aggressive in its "optimization", which is lossy, quite specific to the web, creates a sub-par user experience, and is utterly inapplicable to the kind of data NTT is complaining about.

At best, you could wrap the protocols in zlib, but if that actually helped, I'd say NTT's network is already hanging by a thread (and indeed it appears to be). Streaming a five minute video can account for hours, if not days, of polling by email, social media, and other 24/7 background-running clients
To be fair, authors publishing with Elsevier retain many rights, including the right to publish post-review personal version of his paper on his personal and institutional web-site for dissemination of scholarly work (non-commercial purposes).

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/rights

So whoever is calling for boycott of Elseview, should also inform authors -- especially grad students who can't afford boycotting journals -- about these facts. Use your rights and make the knowledge free.
11. Build an Etsy for Intellectual property

Sounds really intriguing. What would it look like?
a technique that's been in use by print advertising since the beginning of print advertising

Making a web page look like a print ad is not a concept that I think 37signals would make any claim of ownership on, even if they were the first to do it (which I doubt, but don't know). I do know that people have been putting random stock photos of reasonable attractive people on web pages for a long time, for no apparent reason other than it must make the page seem more "friendly" to the average user.

By the way have your shirt pressed for your next photo. Just a suggestion.
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>"It is frankly scary that a company can get $1M+ in funding and not realise they cannot just rip other peoples work..."

And more to come. This is an inevitably when your business model revolves around getting as many start ups money as you can in the hopes that some hit it big. It's inherent when you don't (and can't) vet all the people and ideas; you'll eventually end up with "people of poor moral character" in your system.

And there's no excuse for it. I wonder how it will be dealt with. I bet everyone involved was anti-PIPA.
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> Explaining why the methodology used by the "press freedom index" is solid instead of making ad-hominem attacks would go a lot further in winning people over.

Why, do you find its methodology hard to understand?

I'll keep that in mind when evaluating the merit of your comments elsewhere in this thread ... "does not actually understand the methodology used in the article".

Talk about quality of discussion, indeed!
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Nope. I'm saying that when you become part of a mob, you aren't reporting a story -- you are part of it.

I got stuck in the middle of a performance of my local "occupy" movement's protest theater when walking home from work. The local police force in my city had orders to avoid provocation and violence with the protestors, and they followed those orders.

But the protestors with assistance with professional agitators from labor groups like the CWA weren't happy about that. They tried to pull a policeman off of his horse. They ran into the street during rush hour with tents. (i was nearly run down by a swerving bus.)

The first amendment doesn't give you the right to riot. It doesn't give you a right to seize public parks for your private use. Creating mayhem to attract TV cameras isn't free speech -- it's anarchy.
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Craigslist isn't really used in Australia, but thanks for the suggestion.
That sounds pretty much like what most mobile wallet look like they're going to offer, and I can't really imagine how it would work (or what the real advantage would be) for non-mobile ones - such as the hassle of deciding in advance which card you're using for which transaction.

BTW, from what I've read of Bank Simple, this isn't what their model is. From their FAQ - "Can I use Simple with my current bank? No. Through your relationship with Simple, your money is held in an FDIC-insured account at one of our bank partners."
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> forced to shape your data to your queries

This doesn't seem like an advantage to me at all. I'd like the system to be able to evolve regarding the sorts of queries that it answers to, and relational systems seem to be very good in this regard.
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I hate doing the right click dance to open links and I can imagine so do many HNers. The links on reddit open in a new tab which is a time saver.
>"Shit happens and hopefully this doesn't damage curebits business long term"

Why this? Having their business affected is precisely what needs to happen to demonstrate that doing this is unacceptable.
It's less magical than it sounds, but a lot of work goes into it. Depending on the system, hardware can partially wake at fixed intervals to check for incoming traffic, and fully wake to process that traffic.

Notably, most of the stack can stay asleep almost all the time, and wake up only when actual traffic is coming in.

Application-level polling can eat up the power savings as the whole hardware stack must wake up and process an application-level transaction taking anywhere from several tens of milliseconds to several full seconds. Compared to the "napping" state, this eats huge amounts of power.
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Except that I've tried, really tried, to find something of value in his writings, and while it's well-written and possibly entertaining in a schadenfreude or car-crash way, it adds nothing of worth to my life.

Maybe it's me, but after years of clicking on the links, reading carefully, trying to find anything vaguely relevant to me, and then rueing the wasted time, I'm giving up.

Please, if you think I'm wrong, point me at stuff you think is worth reading, not just as a way of spending time, but as a way of profiting from that time. At least the study of geometry gives problem-solving and analytical skills in return for the time spent.
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I'm sure, that because of TeX and stuff, it's popular among lots of people to publish their free (or non-free) e-books as PDFs. Still, because of small screen reading devices, it would be great if they could publish an epub also. Or source. Or anything convertible to epub/mobi.
> Effectively we're browbeating companies into giving the sort of apology we want to see, regardless of what they believe they did was wrong. That's sort of messed up, when you think about it.

That's a real good point. I hadn't considered that. We all say "actions speak louder than words," and the ugly truth is, apologies based on a public outting probably wouldn't have happened otherwise.
ahem why not push for $G sooner NTT? Solves most of those problems :)
We did very fine, thank you, before Nolan's "Dark Knight" or Cameron's "Avatar" hit the screens, and I'm saying this as a movie freak. In fact, I'd say that the only difference between Melies' movies (which he did as an independent producer back in the day) and "Avatar" is only a technological one, not an artistic one.
NTT DoCoMo are used to owning the whole end-to-end stack. They are one of the few, if not the only, operator that very thoroughly specifies both the network side and the terminal side of their network. They have a large R&D department that is very competent and actively engaged in standardization and development of new technologies. For instance, they were one of the drivers behind LTE from the very start.

For them, it must be hard to no longer own the terminals on their network fully. I suppose they had to start offering Android terminals since their own smartphones were not competitive compared to the Iphone and Android.

But without any control of the terminals' behavior it's very hard to tune and operate a cellular network. It's not so easy to increase capacity, since there's only so much spectrum available for use and the modern wireless technologies can't get much more efficient. Especially in crowded locations like downtown Tokyo the base stations are already about as close as you can have them. It's not something you can just throw money at to solve.

So it's a tough problem. From the handset makers' and app developers' side it's easier to not restrict data usage since they are not the ones paying the price.
thanks, that's helpful advice. where are you hosting it? what are the hosting costs?
But what is a perfect market? What if misleading the consumers brings in the most money? If it was possible to somehow find out and compare the environmental impact of manufacturing things we can buy, I'm sure our decisions of what to buy would be very different. Similarly, if the movie posters had the actor/millions printed on them, then the "market" would be better informed to say enough is enough. Maybe.
If Google supported C2DM without requiring users log in with a Google account, there would be far fewer apps having to fall back to their own (perhaps chatty or buggy, but definitely redundant) push mechanism.

Not saying this is what happened in DoCoMo's case, but in our experience there are a great percentage of users that do not or cannot use C2DM, and this necessitates a separate connection for each app. There should be a way for the network provider to subsidize a default C2DM connection as it is in their interest.

My guess here is that the software in question is using standard VoIP signaling protocols and not C2DM at all.
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My browser is configured so a middle-click opens in a new tab. You might consider tailoring your browser to your requirements.
I admit with regards to bandwidth I'm often in the minority. Certainly battery life is a huge issue with any kind of polling. Personally, I think it's really important to minimise bandwidth as much as possibly, because you don't necessarily know how your user is paying for it. It would not be unknown for some (foolish?) users to be paying $10+ per megabyte in certain countries/carriers. In the case I mentioned, we were talking about a fairly hefty XML file (which I neglected to mention).
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> competent polling

In practice, that's basically an oxymoron. Any sort of application-level polling is problematic, and even where necessary, developers almost always take a naïve and highly sub-optimal approach.
For all it worth, right now most anti-satellite weapons are limited to low earth orbit (useful for knocking out satellites looking at stuff you don't want). Most communications satellites will be a much higher altitude.

While there is no fundamental reason why governments couldn't create ASAT weapons to reach higher altitudes, the costs go on significantly. Previous (like cold war era) attempts at high altitude weapons pretty much just strapped a big nuke to a full out launch vehicle. For reference, the weapon used by the US in their ASAT kill in 2006 was made using a modified ballistic defense missile (the SM-3). Your Aegis equipped warships can carry a -lot- of them.

Anyhow, it'd be far easier for governments to attempt to regulate the receivers and transmitters than to shoot down the satellite. Also, it would be easier for them to deny launch privileges than wait till after they launch. They might not own space, but they own their airspace.
To me the problem of estimation is fairly straightforward. Mike Cohn's work in AEAP is thorough and worthwhile and probably still the best resource for solving the problem of estimation with any regularity.

http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Estimating-Planning-Mike-Cohn/dp...

But the simple version of the problem, in my experience, is related to the 80/20 rule. No matter how many times a developer goes through the process of estimation -> development -> slippage, whether on a big scope or small, we will inevitably estimate the very next project as if only the clean 80% exists and the 20% will magically disappear this time.

Let's back up. In my experience the 80/20 rule (or Pareto Principle) applied to software estimation means that you will spend 80% of your time writing 20% of your features. Usually this has to do with various technical blocks, edge cases, framework incompatibilities -- the list goes on and varies wildly from one feature or application to the next.

You will spend 20% of your time working on 80% of the feature(s). This is the stuff you have done before: basic CRUD, ORM-fu, REST actions -- these are the clean, easily understood software tasks that you see right in front of you as the happy yellow brick road to feature completion.

And no matter how many times we wash-rinse-and-repeat this cycle, the next time a PM or colleague asks us "how long this will take," we will stare at that beautiful, pristine part of the path that we understand and know and have done before, and conveniently elide the fact that our development process has never been that clean and there is a nasty 20% (what? my code won't connect to the staging server because of some weird certificate problem? what do you mean my gems are incompatible? I can't get 'make' to build this gcc lib!! IE is doing what?? Why do our servers treat HTTP basic auth in such a non-standard way?) just waiting to jump out, muss your hair, laugh in your face and dance like a hyperactive monkey all over your keyboard.
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The majority of carriers already compress data on-the-fly, to the point where it wouldn't be unknown for application developers to resort to tricks such as base-64 encoding and zipping images up to avoid automatic compression.

There are pros and cons to this approach: some people (me!) appreciate the compression carriers provide, because it saves my bandwidth allowance. But if you had unlimited bandwidth and a fast 3G connection, perhaps you would feel differently.
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My advice is make it something fun to do every now and then rather than a job.

If you don't feel like blogging then absolutely don't. (Forcing it results in crap articles)

Don't go setting any schedule or minimum number of posts per month or anything, that will just make it feel like a chore.

I would try and let the focus develop over time, it will probably mirror the way your general interests in life focus over time. And don't worry if you write a post every now and then that doesn't rigidly fit that focus.

Don't push for it. My employer gives me 8 hours per day to do productive stuff, and my family demands a chunk of my free time. In fact I don't put blogging in that same category as "things I have to do". For me it is an alternative to drinking or watching tv. A chance to wind down, unload some thoughts etc.

Ahh I see you use reading and writing articles and conference papers as alternatives. I think if doing those things were part of my life I wouldn't feel like blogging nearly as much.
Why blog if you already have an audience for the same thing through other channels? How would you feel about giving up those other channels, and putting all that content on your blog instead? (I am not suggesting that, but the question might make you think about whether blogging is for you, or whether you could maybe divide the content up into the different channels). Actually, blogging is a lot less formal. When I was a student I had to write papers on the same topics I now blog about, but all the formality made it a drag, finding references, worrying about unwittingly plagiarizing something, making sure it is of "academic quality" (i.e. only facts, no opinions) just really messed up my flow, and made it a total drag. Blogs can be quite liberating from that.
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We only talk, what we walk, don't we?;-)
Column-stores are a big part of the technology described in Google's Dremel paper (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html); they used a column-oriented format to build a system to support interactive queries to big datasets.
> If cops somewhere else are cracking the heads of reporters (vs. participants), I'm not aware of it.

Cracking the heads of participants is perfectly fine then? Classy.
I'm a member of a very good mastermind and it is invaluable. There are 100 people in it, which makes it an incredible resource, but hard to keep up at times. Small ones might be hard to find the right people, and if this gets traction, a lot of people would want into it, meaning lots of small master mind groups.

Tricky to organize, but with the right people in it, I would be interested as well.

I have lots of ideas on how to make this into a startup and to organize this. Even have the domain mentormatcher.com for it. No time right now though.
"printed in B&W"

I haven't read a printed newspaper in years. Having said that, it's true that a good logo should still be recognizable without color. The new logo passes that test.
The producer of this music is a risk taker. Maybe if his stand is, if he can't beat the piracy, then he will go on a trend. He allowed people to download the music not necessarily for the money but also for the study purposes. Maybe if he is able to establish what age listens to certain music genre, then he will target to produce more music of that kind because he knows many people will listen to it.

I just hope that he will gain more money through the advertisements so that his effort will be reciprocated.
you cant call NTT a laggard in that regard, they had the first 3G network in production and are apparently working on LTE from the beginning.
I don't think you're the only one that's realizing this. I'm seeing more and more posts where people complain that startups aren't solving "real" problems.

Perhaps investors look at FB, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, and think that these 4 statistical anomalies are examples to follow, and thus fund companies with similar ideas?

On the other hand, I have a hard time believing that the "real problems" aren't being addressed by anyone.
If you are having problems finding a Rails developer, then why not pick up the best developer you can find regardless of the platform that developer knows.

If you absolutely must use Rails, then a good developer could probably pick up Ruby and Rails quite fast. Your progress may not be as fast as you like at the beginning, but that might be a small price to pay for getting the right person.
Only a small example regarding Nolan/Batman. Bank robbery scene had more than 700kW lights running... that's almost a megawatt in electricity generators ON LOCATION (natural location, not set within a studio). Cost of running those lights and electricity alone for a few days of shooting (sans people and everything else) equals to the amount of an indie movie.
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As an aside- you're seeing lots of storm on demand ads because you've been put on a remarketing 'list'
See http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/remarketing.html
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I'm definitely in agreement with you about DRM. It feels like punishment for those of us who actually bought the music or move.
I have no problem in general with the lossless compression of text or the transparent re-compression of images on websites, especially since most people are utterly clueless about how much bandwidth they waste on poorly-packed PNGs, obscenely-high-"quality" JPEGs, and even posting bizarrely high-resolution images and depending on img tag parameters to display it reasonably.

Opera Mini is far more invasive, however. What actually gets transmitted to your device is not even HTML, and the JavaScript support is severely limited. It's not just "compression" in the sense we usually understand it, it significantly alters the nature of the data being transmitted.
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A market for IP isn't terrible. But there, volume isn't high enough and transaction costs (ip lawyers in a room talking, are too high) The rest I'm not so sure about.

A few are a ways out and even then are hard sells (even w/ holodecks, how would you sell them? Home, arcades? Who's the market and how much money do they have? Hardly a slam dunk) I'm thinking the 3do times 100 for holodeck development/productization.

Yardsale isn't bad, but Craigslist is pretty close as is (my gf goes crazy when she sees yard sale signs (instant, location based discovery) but she checks craigslist too.

A bunch--I'm not sure what they mean. Even the education one is much harder than it might seem, at least as a business. Im really rooting for codecademy and the like, but they've got a tough road as its hard to get most people interested in educating themselves, and even moreso to get them to pay.

How about starting with a market with money and a problem and working backwards?
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I actually kind of don't get it, MegaUpload made some pretty good money from showing ads, didn't it? This guy says he doesn't expect to make much from the ads. As long as he has songs people actually want...
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