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For now, all phones will handle E911 even without a SIM card.

Eventually, when VOIP is the standard, E911 will transition.
Yup! We've made the Name/Adrs field editable so you can temporarily change to grandma's name/adrs, zap her mail away & reset to yours. Next version will have multiple stored adrs support. thx & will make that more prominent.
It is natural that Mr. Nobody is not going to get funded at this level without the slightest credential. After all, it's like marketing yourself: you have to make people believe you can deliver something of value, and track record is essential. My original comment was rather considering the current high profile developpers who are attached to publishers by contract. They may decide, following this example, to start some projects using the same model with their reputations. Then, you'd have to wonder how publishers would react once they realise they are not (as much) needed anymore.
cos SMS is more profitable for the carrier when billed as a special service. The carriers have no real incentive to push "texting" onto data networks.
Mobile Firefox includes vendor prefixes, and has from the beginning. All the new Web API stuff will be prefixed where appropriate. That's exactly what standard operating procedure calls for (whether right or wrong) and what mobile WebKit has mostly done (and we're really talking Apple here, at least for the first year or two and a bunch of major CSS spec drafts).

In other words, you didn't actually say what actions may or may not have been wrong.
So can the original author go through the list of edits and then either accept or reject them?

That would be anwesome feature. Then you've literally created a peer review system. Well at least the basic building blocks.

I for one would find this very useful.
> Depending on what you mean by "educators," I might prefer
> that Khan Academy (and a bajillion different competing
> providers) offer up content by actual domain experts
> rather than content by "educators."

Don't worry. I chose the term "educator" over "teacher" or "expert" for that very reason: namely that neither having a degree in Education nor a PhD in physics makes you a particularly suitable physics educator. KA needs people who can do for biology, neuroscience, history, and so on what Khan can do for college physics and maths.

I suspect that they're going to be PhDs and practitioners as opposed to K-12 schoolteachers -- but I really don't give a damn about credentials. There are fantastic high school teachers out there. There are PhDs and masters in their respective fields who are ridiculously bad educators, especially at the level of teaching that KA provides.
Nice project, but why is it GPL licensed? This makes its usage quite restrictive and impossible to use in a closed source product.
Totally agree.
If you mind expanding on why, I'd love hearing your opinion.

Remember for example when Sylvio Berlusconi made a mediocre joke about Obama's tan how the correctness cannibals went frantic. Funny thing that the racist card was pulled by the people who actually had a taboo with skin colors.
You should only be creating custom solutions if this (blogging for instance) is your primary business

Even more specifically, only if existing tools do not meet or cannot be adapted to your needs!
It's a very valid and reasonable stance to be against all forms of copyright, patents or similar forms of "intellectual property". In my opinion, they are among the worst mistakes in the history of mankind.
CC are pioneers & we have a lot of respect for them. We'd be delighted if we grew to a 10th of their user base. But i can assure you that we came up w the mobile junk mail zapper idea entirely on our own. edit: clarification.
Scare quotes are tricky :-) But they indicate something "does not signify its literal or conventional meaning" and while Notch mentioned it and they might be talking, I didn't see an "offer" per se, hence my quotes (but admittedly I was thinking of "offer" from a contractual point of view at the time).
I haven't yet seen bot that could answer question about specific setting that you are in when talking to it. for example if i ask bot to repeat what i ask it just before this. it can't tell. because bots like cleverbot operates by crowdsourcing answers and than parroting it randomly.
Also when i ask it same question multiple times I get different answers. Maybe bots should store procedures in their database and not just crowdsourced answers. and keep context of current session. or something.

They maybe passed the turing test But that just convinced me that Turing test really means nothing.
You can't really determine anything for sure with turing test but only probability. (many humans acts or are stupid, if machine is stupid some may decide that machine is like human)

What i would like to see more instead of machine passing turing test is building machine species that could survive in nature, if it can survive autonomously like some kind of animal than this machine species could be said to be intelligent.
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I am not sure I understood this post correctly: is it the phrase "a sexy married woman" that is a crime against humanity?
On one hand, awwwww. On the other hand, this makes me feel terrible. I've been learning to code for about a year, I have a job which involves plenty of coding, I have a PhD, and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't build and deploy a web app right now. Very well done to her!
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I agree, but I flagged for the headline.
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Sure. Devaluation is a whole lot of pain and a political suicide, though
Hey,

I would love to talk with you further regarding a position. I've sent you an email.

Talk to you soon.

Best,
Shahed
I have a bad feeling too...but for different reasons. I fear society just doesn't give a damn anymore. I fear all our warnings will steadily fall on deaf ears and we will eventually become ostracized into oblivion. I fear humanity will embrace a system which pushes profits before people, ego over empathy, and lust above love. I fear elitists will eliminate innovation and erase the integrity of the internet and information. I fear for our future, but I have some hope in knowing their future fears us. Game on.
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This is an awesome setup :) And at $30/month prepaid for 5GB with no contract is pretty nice as well. Only 100 minutes, but who needs minutes when you can do this.
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Coming into the thread, I had the idea of an inexpensive laptop being something like my old Dell D420 running Ubuntu, but the $1000 mark is what I would personally call expensive -- talk about having the completely wrong idea!

Anyway, which type of laptop are you looking for? 17" gaming monster? 12" ultraportable? The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 handles Linux just fine, but I'm not sure whether that's what you're looking for.
The web site repels me as a GNU/Linux user. It seems to be designed only for people who own iProducts and own a license to adobe photoshop.
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But, you build (and support) for the market that exists today, in addition to preparing for the market that's coming tomorrow. I think Kayak is saying that they believe Blackberry is neither.
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/wpw/Experience

Where do developers disappear after 8 years? And then pop back up after 12.
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Education credentials (especially college degrees) represent the ability to apply yourself towards, and accomplish, a stated goal over the course of multiple years.
A couple thoughts here. First - I think most people know by now that Blackberry is going through a bit of a down swing. It's clearly the underdog - so what Kayak is doing here isn't particularly brave or leading edge.

On the flip side - they just signaled a huge opportunity for any entrepreneur who wants to write a travel comparison app - you no longer have Kayak as the competition.
Hmm Russians Americans and Brits with 2 out of 3 using state of the art equipment. Looking for oil under the cover of science?
Whilst you are correct holding the app developers accountable, It's a bit naive to defend apple like this.

The world is certainly 'not' always ideal, and as a phone owner when I download apps, I would like to be able to defend my privacy at the OS level
Great Chris. Any suggestions and additions to the Resource Directory section also welcomed. :)
Yup! That's the magic of open graph.

I am an engineer on facebook's ads team.
Going it yourself you still have the chicken-and-egg situation of getting known and making products. What it allows you to do though is start small and lay progressively larger eggs. ;)
>In my eyes, your take on things is very far from the live-and-let-live stance that you appear to want to adopt.

That's because I want to kill. I want to throw away copyright, I want those musicians that sign up to work with greedy suits--not to cast aspersion on your (former?) line of work which seems to be good-faith and productive--to have to find other ways to express themselves, I want the systems that were _once_ our best effort at promoting artistic expression to die.

I want these things dead because after they're dead the absurd but somehow sometimes true accusations of "selling out" won't have any weight.

I _actually don't care_ that people will lose jobs because copyright is dead.

>I think one bad side-effect of the internet is that it has removed people so far from the means of production that they are incapable of appreciating the work that goes into what appears in front of them.

I think this is the most insightful sentence of your post. It attacks the central barrier to removing copyright with a few swift words.

Thus I think it important to describe the manner in which I find that it misses the mark. The Internet is bringing people into contact with the arts of gardening, cooking, woodworking, electronics as never before.

Absurdly the disconnect between production of food and appreciation for food has grown _so large_ that food production is looked at as an art--that is, just another mode of human expression!

And I couldn't be happier about that. Appreciation of art is the act of appreciating the work that goes into it.

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The problem, of course, is that our economic woes _far_ overshadow our cultural ones. You speak from the side of "There is no free lunch," and we may well be on a course where that is alarmingly and devastatingly true. If the Euro collapses, if America can't afford to keep its carrier fleet's Pax Americana running, it may turn out that the debate over copyright was not important at all.
Ah, Google flight search though has shown me that you can innovate in flight search. http://google.com/flights (don't forget to click on the little graph icon next to the "return date"
I still have the standard Dialer in my application menu that I can use for such cases.
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...'nekojima', Japanese for 'cat island'.

Off topic but interesting. Guess "Iwo Jima" follows suit. I learn something new here every day.
Another vote for Stripe coming to UK :)
All in a day's work.
I am not easily impressed. We wouldn't have any need for driverless cars in the first place, if we just had well designed designed cities. Furthermore, Siri and Watson are just symbol shifting applications which work for iOS and SUSE Linux. They are not much more impressive then similar symbol shifting applications that we available a few decades ago.

I don't believe that the von neumann architecture, of which all the applications you mentioned are a part, is ever going to yield anything more then applications with sophisticated symbol shuffling systems which are actually totally stupid behind the scenes. At least before the AI winter, we had impressive AI hardware, including the Lisp machines.

Now just because we have done a pretty poor job doesn't mean things have to continue to be this way in the future. DARPA is currently working to develop memristors, which may become the future of AI. Sadly, DARPA isn't getting nearly enough funding.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/are-memristors-the-future...

To be realistic, Ray Kurzweil's conviction that there will be strong AI in his lifetime is just wishful thinking. Feel free to prove me wrong.
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Cause and effect switched?

Lots of work probably won't make a failing startup succeed (you are probably going in the wrong direction or wasting time on the wrong things). However, a rapidly growing startup requires a lot of time, when it takes off, simply to scale business (hires, offices, VCs, server maintenance etc).
Can the companies that settled ask for their money back?
I've been using Asana for the past few days. It doesn't look bad, works well in terms of assigning tasks, and putting dates/deadlines on specific tasks. (i.e. Work on task X today with email reminders). I like it and it's free for unto 30 users on one project.

Clickable: https://asana.com/
This is a test post to see if HN auto-downvotes old threads.

Edit: Huh. Well, someone downvoted that post ridiculously fast I guess.
I think this is the key part of git's workflow that improves on older simple versioning systems. the fork and merge model is really needed in other spaces too.

I wonder if it would be possible to turn design files into something textual to leverage git's builtin merge capabilities?
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Nah, it is a soft-capped 250k per month. That would accommodate I think every month but maybe two in my history, and I assume they'd just ignore the overage for those two, based on conversations I had with them. (If I start routinely exceeding 250k I'll just step up to the next plan level. Money is not a limiting reagent for me at the moment, well, not below the level of "average price of a wedding.")
I had a great experience with system76. I got a 15" pangolin with a 1600x? screen, it was a special offer for a while. My only complaint, and the only consistent complaint I saw on the system76 forums, was really poor battery life.
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These things aren't symmetric. Check out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/17/tanya-go...
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McDonald's won't take my gold flakes, and anyway I don't think a 3-year-old big mac will be edible...
Did they advertise this long before they launched on KickStarter? How did people find out so quickly otherwise?

I launched a kickstarter campaign myself and I'm doing terribly. I look around and see all sorts of weird campaigns getting funded and can't help but think: What am I doing wrong? People in real life tell me they like my product, yet on kickstarter it's going no where. So I guess it's safe to assume, they either lied to me and my product is undesirable, no one knows about my campaign despite me trying to get featured on design blogs, or I'm so repulsively ugly in my video that I drive people away.
Yep, Sulfur Island. (http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E7%A1%AB%E9%BB%84%E5%B3%B6)
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I don't think it's accurate at all. Browser vendors aren't 'extending the standard with their own baked goodies', but are merely prefixing those CSS properties that aren't yet finalized, but are part of the standardization process. There's no parallel with IE6 at all, in my opinion.
I know that it doesn't matter much, but as 19yo kid, it's the first mini-van/SUV/whatever, that I have I want it feelings towards to.
This thinking is exactly what Moneyball was all about in Baseball. Football looking at the wrong things.

For instance, 225# reps, vertical leap, reach, etc (all NFL combine measurements). Great, you are measuring and ranking, but are you doing anything meaningful? Are you actually looking at the right things? Probably not.

If they were, Wes Welker, Tom Brady, Victor Cruz (all in the past superbowl) would have been first round picks, probably top 10. Not undrafted, or late round picks. And JeMarcus Russell and Ryan Leaf wouldn't have been drafted #1 and #2 overall (all the physical tools but not the mental - flame outs).

The point is that we as people tend to think we know what to measure and track, but we likely don't. Frankly, we are probably making it up on the fly and we convince ourselves and others that these are good measures, and until someone figures out the next best thing, they actually are. But, as I said, they are probably not the best, or maybe even good, in the infinite wisdom sense.

But, think about it this way. Both football and programming have ways we can actually see if someone can do what they say that can do: literally, look at the film. Look at game day film on a player. Look at github or other places for programmers. And, just like with football players, give them REAL scenarios that test their ability to think through a problem, in real time. Do the same with a programmer. Put these two together and you get rid of the people who can't think (Russell and Leaf) and you get rid of the "physical specimens" that can't play (Most any Oakland WR drafted under Davis).

I personally think this is a much better way that weeds out the most people. Refine your questions and technique and you can spot the people who can and can't perform pretty quickly. If you are unsure, give them a simulated game (programming problem at home) to see what they can do.
Same. I've been jumping between C, C++ and python for god knows how long, and I still can't make something as awesome as she did. Kudos to her.
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FYI when I installed heroku-toolbelt into "Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS", the declared prerequisites were not enough to get things working.

IIRC (and am interpreting my shell history right), I also needed to install 'libopenssl-ruby' and 'ruby-full' by name.
If you're not familiar, it's definitely worth checking out WebWorks (https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/). Even though it is advertised to work on BB5+ it's only really worth considering at 6+.

Also, definitely worth a look is bbUI.js (https://github.com/blackberry/bbUI.js/). It's still very much beta, but RIM are doing a lot of the UI hardwork for you; without it you end up with a white screen and have craft the UI yourself. It's a bit like jQTouch for BlackBerry.
Ah is that what it is. It makes no sense in other parts of the world.
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I'm writing this to report the serious troubles we have regarding accessing Internet in Iran at the moment. Since Thursday Iranian government has shutted down the https protocol which has caused almost all google services (gmail, and google.com itself) to become inaccessible. Almost all websites that reply on Google APIs (like wolfram alpha) won't work. Accessing to any website that replies on https (just imaging how many websites use this protocol, from Arch Wiki to bank websites). Also accessing many proxies is also impossible.
There are almost no official reports on this and with many websites and my email accounts restricted I can just confirm this based on my own and friends experience. I have just found one report here:

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The reason for this horrible shutdown is that the Iranian regime celebrates 1979 Islamic revolution tomorrow.

I just wanted to let you guys know about this. If you have any solution regarding bypassing this restriction please help!
No one proposes to use sheets of paper as a currency, let alone as an investment.

Treasury bonds have exchange value, not because they are paper, but because people will accept them, for the right they reliably represent; because the government is good for that debt. Gold, too, has exchange value NOT because of its chemical composition - only because people will accept it, and they accept it because they believe they will be able to trade it in the same way. If it loses half its value due to a bubble popping or the global supply increasing over time, it's no better than a currency which lost half its value due to government policy. There is always something around of value, and if the post-apocalyptic situation is bad enough then gold will be worth only a little at best, if you can even find someone selling whatever you need.

Land is an example of something which can produce, as is stock in a company which sells things that are always in demand. This was the contrast being made against the block of gold, not paper
I appreciate your reply. As far as the Pepper API my understanding is that it was an extension to NPAPI to improve it, not an attempt at creating an incompatible API. I can't find any source on why Mozilla decided to not use it. From the Pepper wikipedia page it looks like some of the goal of Pepper would be very useful to every browser.
Too bad that clearance in underground parking spaces means you'll be trapped inside...
Why wouldn't it? This thing will have torque that makes most gas cars look like go karts, and have adaptive AWD to boot.
And like he states in the video:

8. If the game does blow up in their faces, there will be video evidence of it for all the backers to enjoy.
I did have a look, but didn't see anything out of ordinary there.

Surely the team must be great to be doing so well, and best of luck and kudos to them! But what exactly am I supposed to be seeing on that overview page? Which part triggered your "A class" detector?
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I would think it depends entirely on the subject matter of the text conversation. It's probably possible today to make a chat bot that can converse about (nothing other than) the weather.
Tesla is trying to make a car company not an electric car company.

The electric part is just the new bit, every car will have electric in the future. You can clearly see them innovating with the touch screen display, luggage space, performance etc.
I used to be a happy t-mobile customer thanks to UMA...cell coverage couldn't make it to my house, since it was only 1 bar in my front yard and I live in a block house with a metal roof, but thanks to UMA it didn't matter. Eventually I got tired of having a crappy blackberry phone, which was all they had that supported UMA at the time, so I switched to Verizon which actually does get reception in my house, just barely.
> To be realistic, Ray Kurzweil's conviction that there will be strong AI in his lifetime is just wishful thinking. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Well that's what the bet is about.
I used to use Tor with firefox before but with my internet connection it was very slow.
I wonder if it's the Radio Shack problem. Why make only a little money selling electronics components when you can make a lot more money with the same resources selling cell phones? See also adventure games based on new IP vs. FPSes based on Star Wars IP.