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Speaking as someone who is using SOA at a startup...

I think there's a lot of value in it, but I also think SOA is overkill for a lot of projects. Plus, given the amount of pivoting that goes on with projects at the beginning, you might wind up implementing a SOA in a totally wrong way. It just seems like a lot of extra overhead. Plus, in many cases you can gradually migrate your project later to a SOA, depending on where the bottlenecks are.
> The more the iPhone succeeds, the less leverage the carriers have, Mr. Kuittinen explained. All they have is bandwidth.

I look forward to the day when mobile carriers are nothing but dumb pipes. Maybe then they'll focus on providing the most bandwidth and best coverage, instead of crap apps that no one cares about.
Is using a queue for calling Node.js the better/proper thing to do here? I thought this was the exact use case of Thrift.

Thanks for the post, I wish more companies would describe their stack at least in a high-level way, so we can know what is working "in production".
What I find interesting here is that while I could get behind research published by an established firm with known directors, researchers, etc., it's much more difficult to know what to do with this "Anon" report because for all I know it could be a scheme itself (same as you described, accumulate a short position before releasing false negative information). "Anon", by definition, has no identity, although I suppose the site "AnonAnalytics" will form a brand and reputation over time that may prove meaningful.
It's too large for me. The only way I can reach the top of the screen is to hold it on the side rather than with the corner of the phone in my palm. This makes me worried I will drop it.

I thought the Nexus S size was perfect, but the Galaxy S II is tolerable.

I find the phonearena.com size comparison tool really handy.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-GALAXY-Nexus_id5595...
The proposed solution sounds incredibly easy to game - as a moving company, I could create a bunch of fake, one-off profiles with complaints about one of my competitors and destroy their Yelp reputation. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible for an algorithm to detect the difference between a bunch of angry one-time posters and a coordinated reputation attack.

This is why I've gone off sites like Yelp for recommendations, and instead stick to places like Foursquare which rely much more heavily on the behaviour of the people that I know. Seeing that several of my friends have been somewhere more than once is a much stronger recommendation signal than a bunch of strangers giving something five stars.
I completely disagree. I think it means they're opposed to unlimited immigration.

The US currently takes in well over a million immigrants legally into the country every year. Are you "opposed" to immigration generally if you don't think it should be two million a year? If you think it should be two million a year, does that mean someone who thinks it should be four million can say you're opposed to immigration?

I'm in favor of a fairly high level of immigration, though I think our current system is completely broken (and seems to make it hard for the people we'd most want here to stay). But I absolutely support some controls on the sheer number and rate of entry, and I really don't agree that this makes me opposed to immigration in the general sense.
tldr version:

"The carriers are tired of Apple calling all the shots[...]"

IMO, with Apple's momentum right now it will take A LOT to eat into their market, maybe that's why they are betting on Microsoft.
>It's not an unreasonable thing to do on the kernel's part to just drop Safari's 400MB from the physical memory and use it for disk caching Final Cut Pro.

The problem with this line of reasoning is that a large amount of cache will often not give you much more benefit than a small amount. Indeed, that's the nature of caching: you get most of the benefit from the first bit of cache, but the level of added benefit drops dramatically with more cache.

What if using 400MB of cache for FCP only gave 5% of a net performance advantage over using 40MB of cache? Would it still be worth it to take away that extra 360MB from Safari?

And there's the issue of human psychology: people deal much more easily with a little slowdown spread evenly than with a full-on stop for a short amount of time (even if the full-on stop scenario gives you greater average performance). I'd prefer Aperture run 5% more slowly than it might otherwise, if that meant I never saw a beachball when running Safari.
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The hiding of reviews has made Yelp virtually useless. I like the identity verification idea. I implemented the Equifax version and it's very simple to code. I believe it cost us in the neighborhood of $1/verification. That may outweigh the value of a verified Yelp user though, but I have no idea of the Yelp economics.
Thank you for sharing this -- I think while some may quibble about the merits of the headline, what excites me is that slowly the next chapter of comic books/sequential art/manga is coming to life. I've been researching "visual novels" which are a genre of games in Japan which aren't animated, but use anime characters and game design that's very much "choose your own adventure".

By the way if anyone is interested in the possibilities one may want to look at the CD-ROM era at two titles: Spaceship Warlock and Just Grandma and Me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Warlock

video of Just Grandma and Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uyxPeY3qY
Try Apex Launcher. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anddoes.la...

It seems to be based on the standard launcher, but allows you to customize a lot of things, including the search widget.
A mild tangent here.

There's a school of thought that insider trading can be a good thing, because insiders with knowledge can profit by making large stock trades to bring a company's stock price in line with reality, and revealing to the world that they (an informed insider) think that the stock is overpriced (or underpriced). Any prospective investors can then use this information to make informed decisions about the purchase or sale of the stock.

So, as you reference altruism - altruism is nice, but - in the absence of fraud - profit is a really nice incentive.

(The main economic reason insider trading is illegal is that, in reality, this creates some horrible conflict-of-interest breach-of-fiduciary-duty scenarios. The main reason people want it to be illegal seems to be a sense that the stock market is a game and that everyone should be playing by the same "rules" so that they can't make a profit unless someone else can use a profit. Not that this encourages efficient markets in and of itself...)
> Surely Yelp can pick up on a continuous, consistent pattern of negative reviews.

But a continuous, consistent pattern of one-shot negative reviews is also not particularly difficult for a competing business (or anyone with a grudge) to reproduce.

This is a hard problem, and I don't think the credit check-style identity verification questions suggested in the post are going to solve it. For one thing, I think an overwhelming number of people would find it creepy. They're trying to tell people about a bad moving company, not get a car loan.

Putting more of your "valuable" online identity at stake seems likely to help. I hate to say it, but "Log in using your Facebook account" suddenly gives Yelp a lot more data to exploit to decide just how much trust they should put in your reviews.
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Not only is it prettier, but it is also more functional, helping you navigate the world.

I think this is the first time I've seen a text adventure illustrated like this (although perhaps it is not the first), and to me it makes the game more noteworthy than the 'boss mode' which I've seen many games have.

While it isn't a game, the boss mode reminded me of Facebook in a spreadsheet: http://hardlywork.in/
> I never wasted time writing HN comments when I only had 4 hours to get my work done.

Sounds like you never were doing more than 4 hours work.
And then there is Google's insistance of showing their interfaces in the languages that happen to be your outward-facing IP address. Sigh.

(For search, hitting up https solves this, but G+ keeps switching languages on me.)
I went to a well respected magnet school for high school, so we had a lot of HS freshmen that were previously home-schooled. Then I majored in Physics in college, so we had a lot of college freshmen that were previously home-schooled.

I came to the conclusion that while there is a strong correlation between home-schooled kids and poor socialization, it's almost certainly not as causal as most people assume. All the "really weird kids" that were homeschooled had equally weird parents, so there is a good likelyhood they would have had issues even being in public school.

That being said, it did seem clear (and obvious in retrospect) that what homeschooling does is allow the parents to have a much larger influence on their kids up to an older age. The typical late-elementry aged kid will have picked up a lot of behavior and habits from their peers, wheras the homeschooled kid of similar age will have done so to a much lesser extent. However, that influence seems to expire aproximately 4-8 weeks after the kid leaves the homeschool environment so I don't think it's a big deal in the long-term
Simply: because the carriers want to be able to play phone manufacturers against each other like the good old days. Android alone hasn't given them as much ammo against Apple as they'd like and Android itself may be facing consolidation.

There's a real chance that consumer acceptance of the incredible range of Android phones is predicated on their belief that the Android brand makes those phones largely comparable, if not compatible.

So if manufacturers go a more Amazon-ish route with Android in retaliation for Google's buying Motorola, it's entirely possible that consumers may not be willing to follow the smaller outfits. And that would mean a further concentration of sales under the handful of manufacturers that do have some individual pull with consumers (say, HTC and Samsung). Which would only exacerbate the carriers' problem of not-enough-phone-manufacturers-at-each-others-throats.
It will be more than enough for most people who just want to share something easily and quickly.
Probably not as well. Sprint has a crapload of MVNOs.
It's says right on the Play page:

This Galaxy Nexus is an unlocked GSM phone that will operate on more than 200 GSM providers worldwide, including AT&T and T-Mobile in the US.

Even if you don't know what a Pentaband phone is, that's pretty straightforward.
Yelp has been routinely hiding bad reviews and fixing good reviews to the top. It is a total scam and a total extortion scheme for local businesses.
My public services don’t have 100 dependencies and that’s on purpose. Relying on magic distribution fairies for all your libraries is a IMHO a false sense of security, YMMV.

How do you make sure that whenever one of your dependencies gets updated that your daemons get restarted?

And what do you do if you need a package that isn’t part of your distribution?
Google also uploaded videos on Youtube about Drive and Go Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SjRH3SImlM

Update: Also Google Drive SDK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ee3R3tfdd4
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That's one of the best tips I've learned in a while. Thanks a bunch.
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How much technological leadership do mobile carriers have to throw around, really? They're not exactly writing must-have apps or creating meaningful services. Their salespeople are Best Buy-style hucksters at best. The bottom line is they've fought the iPhone tooth and nail and it's still dominating U.S. sales.
You need a valid, fully qualified, unique credit history for each new account. How is that easy to game? Are you assuming that the moving company will get all their employees to to signup to Yelp and certify their credit history against fake sock puppet accounts? They maybe able to do it for a few accounts but pretty soon they would run out of real people to use up... in the mean time real reviews will be submitted by an endless pool of real people with valid credit history.

It will be quite easy to tell which reviews are real and which are not. At the very least it will make the company look questionable because 50% of reviews will be 5 star and 50% will be one star. The main issue is we need to get valid reviews out of the filter so that Yelp users can more easily make their mind up.

As it stands a lot of real reviews are hidden and a lot of fake reviews are exposed. Simply by exposing real reviews you level the playing field.
I don't follow? What is the meaning of "investment vs users"? Surely "# users" as a metric only makes sense within a specific business model that ultimately resolves down to a figure of "profit/user", which reinforces my point that discussing revenue, users and investment without the final part of the equation - expenses & profit - is an incomplete discussion. With any equation you can come up with huge numbers for any of the terms but if you don't reveal all the terms you cannot determine the profit - what is the value of the discussion in that case?

EDIT: On HackerNews, a place for entrepreneurs and consequently the presumably financially literate, I'm being downvoted for pointing out that terms are missing from the profit & loss equation being presented, with nobody stepping up to explain why there's something wrong with my criticism?
Not a bad suggestion. Seeing it build with discrete modules instead of a circuit board make it seem like it wouldn't be that hard.
There are a ton of MVNOs that sell via AT&T and T-Mobile at superior pricing (and no contract), here's a good thread that covers most of their pricing and features:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455014
If space is your primary consideration, your other free choices are: Microsoft=25GB, Apple=5GB, and Dropbox=2GB.
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Build yourself a rocket ship,

Blast off on an ego trip.

Can this really be the end?

Back to work you go again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
Yes, but I was disappointed that he didn't at least change the password so that future FTP connections from the bots were refused.
I think getting user feedback early is critically important, but most of the things you mention learning sound like things that would have been caught by what we used to call testing.
> The more the iPhone succeeds, the less leverage the carriers have, Mr. Kuittinen explained. All they have is bandwidth.

So what's the concern here? Carriers aren't idiots - is carrier commoditization necessarily a bad thing?
You can indeed reclaim the space with, for example, Nova Launcher. My home screen has 5 rows, as a result, and no spacing issues or anything.
The (Hypothetical) Sony Dream Tablet
"A balance between security and privacy online must be struck..."
Oh, undoubtedly. Even online, the vast majority of people don’t know or understand internet subcultures nearly as well as general issues of sexuality. It’s unrealistic to expect otherwise.

I take more good-natured flak from my friends for identifying as a furry than for being bisexual. This without even associating with roleplay, pornography, fursuiting, conventions, Otherkin, or any of the “sub-subcultures” that get attention for their peculiarities. I just think anthropomorphic animal characters are pretty swell.
You are incorrect. They support GSM, since their 4g rollouts. The HTC thunderbolt was the first phone on verizon whose gsm features were supported. That being said, I copied the list from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless_...), a line wrapped on TracFone Wireless's MVNO explanation and it included those by mistake. Sorry for the misinformation.
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Google Drive goes live
never heard of horizon charts before, and found it amazing.

http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/horizon/
US schools have a much broader social role than schools in Europe, and therefor tend to form a social universe of their own.

In Europe virtually all activities that are not directly related to being in a classroom happen outside the school, and so kids are more likely to have multiple social circles.

Or in other words: going to school in Europa resembles going to work as an adult much more than in the US.
> How much technological leadership do mobile carriers have to throw around, really?

Little to none, what they have is control of the airwaves and lobbying power.

Even the underlying tech generally isn't theirs, the network hardware is built by NEC, Nokia or other such manufacturers.
Considering how bad the current google docs OCR is I don't think dropbox has anything to worry about. It seems to perform as well as the stock version of tesseract in tests that I've run.
Building systems of engagement for the social customer
It would be interesting to see a crowd-sourced recommendation site based only on positive recommendations. Something like a Net Promoter score to tell me where is good. i.e. you can only leave feedback for a place if you would actually recommend it to someone.

Every business can have bad days, and a negative review can put a prospective customer off even if actually 99% of the time that's a good business.

This isn't really a comparative recommendation site like yelp, the scenario would be something like a user saying what they want to do (like eat burgers on friday) then people would only recommend place to go. Kind of like Quora for places.

Eventually you could build a decent picture of business that are recommended multiple times to start making suggestions beyond the crowd sourced suggestions.
Introducing the Google Drive SDK
France has been working 4 days a week basically. All the fundamentals in France seem the same as Germany except the working hours, yet Germany is doing economically much better.

Switzerland has school 4 days a week. Its students are doing better in various subjects than schools in the rest of the world, but not better than Northern Europe which has much heavier school schedules.

The point is, the number of days you work just doesn't matter.
Because it's a developer phone. If the developers are all using the highest end devices they can't test how their app works on an average device, performance wise.
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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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> is carrier commoditization necessarily a bad thing?

Depends on the POV you're considering.

From the POV of the carriers it's a very, very bad thing as it's going to eat into their money and their control. For some manufacturers it's not a good thing as they build handsets for carriers who may not want handsets built specifically for them once they're "nothing but dumb pipes".

For pretty much everybody else, it'll be a great day.
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I wish I had your ability to do multiple conscious tasks at once. I find that when I'm playing with my newborn child I miss certain interaction cues unless I'm fully engaged with him. I've certainly tried to do what you said as I used to think it was easy to think and play, but I often found myself distracted and ending up doing an injustice to both.

Since I work remotely most of the time, I also try not to separate "work" and "personal" time. However, in order to stay productive, more often than not I need to sit in a separate room because being productive (mainly for pushing out deliverables) requires me to be sitting away from my child.
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Google Drive has launched
Out of curiosity, how much does that come to per year?

Looking at Amazon's EC2 pricing(http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/), unless I'm missing something, keeping 7 reserved instances costs about $1000 per year. Even for a small startup, that's a tiny amount of money.

And even if you're using S3 and other services, that's still in the hundreds of dollars per year per service. Again, that won't break the bank, by any stretch of imagination, especially since the cost of maintaining your own equipment would be easily as much, possibly more.
Google Drive Announcement
Glad you liked it! Yes the spatial thing in the illustrated version is deliberate. It is possibly unique - we certainly haven't seen it before; but then, we haven't played text adventures since we had 286s.

(Never played Myst neither; didn't have CDROM drives either...)
If 'g' is single-story, how is 'a' not?
Many enterprise programmers have to deal with lots of other programmers, who they may not talk to, who are of vastly varying skills. They might literally need to protect their code from someone else's misuse, so it can be fixed later if needed without far-reaching complications.

Which sounds a lot like an open source project, except that those involved may not be interested in what they're doing. I'd argue that makes them more dangerous, so a greater level of encapsulation may be warranted.
Google Drive is real: here’s what it means
Question based identity verification can be very painless.

For you, but not the vendor. See PayPal.

Question based identity verification processes are already used and supplied under the hood by agencies such as TransUnion, Equifax & Experian.

And that leads to friction. Yelp got it's massive user base from frictionless technology.

I don't like Yelp's business practices just as much as the next person, but this is a human interaction issue that isn't solved by a simple algorithm, nor is it solved purely by (mind you, costly) human being based committees.
What is secret about something written about publicly?
It looks like the author of the article was using Wireshark to intercept network traffic. In the article there is a screenshot of a window with the title "follow TCP stream" and a headline "Stream content", exactly like in Wireshark.

I have used the same trick sometimes when nobody could remember the FTP credentials, but they were stored in the FTP program and a connection to the FTP server was still possible. Sometimes the guy with access to the admin panel is just not available, so a possible solution is to use Wireshark to retrieve the password, which is usually transmitted without encryption.
I tend to like this site: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/introtof.html
I'm not sure how this is advertising. The user still sees the same exact link which is the name of a book, they just go to a site that delivers better on the intent of the click which is to read reviews and purchase the book. Often times, clicking out to a publisher site yields a poor site experience, no user reviews, and a more expensive price than Amazon provides not to mention they rock customer service.

I for one have no problem with what they're doing to the publishing industry, especially after the e-book pricing fiasco. Lower prices and better service for all.
My secondary/high school had 300-400 kids per year, about 1500 over the 4 years it covered. Though my previous two schools to that were much smaller, I think it's generally common here for junior schools to be smaller than senior schools. And I think you're right, smaller schools probably have less of a chance of large distinct social groups forming.

Perhaps there is a tipping point though, where these groups form, I certainly didn't experience such well defined and distinct groups as these kinds of stories portray. The other difference I suppose was school uniform, though I feel like that's unlikely to have made a significant difference.
I only use Yelp to see whats nearby.
Introducing Google Drive, the newest member of Google Apps