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The focus is primarily on data manipulation / preparation / cleaning / processing tools, data algorithms, visualization, and practical analysis case studies. The platform where you use them is a separate matter-- I will have some material on distributed computing tools, however.
I agree that it lies more in how you express yourself than in the instrument itself. Indeed, the more you must think about the instrument, the worse it fulfills its purpose.

But you miss how beautiful and fluid pencil and paper really are!

Many centuries of civilization have innovated and iterated on the pencil/paper combination. For visual and tactile possibilities, pencil and paper vastly outstrip a mere board of buttons (keyboard). You get tactile feedback, varying thickness and darkness, and you can crease and rotate the paper as you shape your design. Future interaction will resemble pencil and paper, not a keyboard or iPad!
Should Honda be obliged to support installing custom engine control software? Overwriting the radio firmware? Reprogramming the odometer?

Should GE obligated to support installing new firmware on your dishwasher?

There's a long history of integrated devices. It may be the case that consumers know the difference between hardware and software. It's also the case, though, that they often do not care, and don't want to see with the difference.
You purchase this app, then the next day somebody else announces the same feature as a third-party app for free.

It's not Apple's concern whether people feel ripped off over third-party apps. They'll let you do all kinds of crazy things, like keep old versions on the store and still charge for them even after a new version comes out, or totally nerf a new version while allowing no way for people to downgrade.
>> 100km -> 1h of driving on the highway (limit is 120km/h or 130km/h, remove urban part on start and finish and you're at 100km/h average).

I find that to be a bit of a pointless observation. The speed limit that's on the sign on the highway is already a pretty decent indicator of how far you'll get in an hour, whether you're using metric or imperial.
I'm not sure how being a "clean-room implementation" of the protocol helps if part of the functionality requires a non-clean-room copy of Apple's key.

I mean, unless the app is doing a brute-force crack of the key on first run. Which it most likely isn't.
Does it really work that way? I thought you could be held liable for damages (including punitive), not hypothetical what-if scenarios. If I steal your laptop and use it to sell an app, then later I'm caught, I'll go to jail for theft, and you'll get your laptop back, but you won't get any ownership of the app I developed.
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Yeah, that's kind of useless if you are a hobby developer releasing a free product.
Sounds good. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have a book like this coming out. I'm very interested in using it as a text for an instrumental analysis class I'm putting together. Thanks so much!
I believe that it has been ruled that technically you can decrypt the satellite TV legally. Provided that you do it 100% independently and do not attempt to sell plans, kits, etc. or otherwise profit from your ability to decrypt the signal.

Purchasing equipment that significantly enhances your ability to decrypt the signal (eg: a pre-programmed or altered smart card) is where you run into issues.
This function will obviously be in the next release, and it's slightly harder for Apple to sell forced upgrades if there is a well designed, intuitive, independent product that maintains backwards compatibility. Therefore the rational MBA type business decision is to leverage the monopoly access to application installation that Apple maintains, and use it to destroy products that threaten even an iota of revenue, no matter what the collateral damage will be.
I'm not sure what attitude you are referring to. You may be reading a bit too much into this.

I was simply trying to draw some perspective - "really pathetic" is a bit of an overstatement for not linking to Chrome on a browser recommendation page, and we all make plenty of oversights each and every day, so shitting on others for them is bound to undermine your karma.
Aw, that sucks. We're still fixing glitches in the system, but uploading actually should work.

What kind of error are you seeing?
> Future interaction will resemble pencil and paper, not a keyboard or iPad!

Probably not. At least one generation of children has already grown up without proper penmanship training, and for them, the experience of handwriting at any length ranges from awkward to excruciating.
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+1 for the Teensy (a lot of newer Arduinos can also act as a HID)

The MakeyMakey would work but is overkill because it's designed for sensing capacitance rather than a key press.

Actually, if you have any modicum of skill at soldering you can easily use an old keyboard. I turned a GuitarHero guitar I found at Goodwill into a Frets on Fire controller that way.
"Apple should be stopped from creating an artificial barrier towards people selling apps to consumers without Apple's approval. "

Here's how the free market really works:

(1) Apple makes a device at great capital investment and because of this

(2) Apple gets to decides how that device works, what it works with, which apps it can run, where users can get those from etc. Then

(3) consumers can assign whatever weight they want to the constraints Apple has built into the device and then they buy the device or not.

(4) developers can assign whatever weight they want to the ornerousness of the terms Apple has set vs the size of the potential market and then determine if they want to develop for that platform or not.

As it turns out in the case of iOS the devices have been very popular with users and developers. If Apple's terms were too ornerous and draconian we might expect that no one would be developing for iOS or no one would be buying the iphone.

This is again how the free market works.

"There's no reason they couldn't separate the store APIs from the App Store itself, allowing the creation of third-party stores and direct sales. "

There's also no reason they couldn't give all their money to sponsor poor children in developing countries.

There's reasons they shouldn't do either of these seemingly noble things though.
I'm 41 and the old fart argument is bullshit.

People are people and they are all different. I don't cling to old technology. I love learning new things. I have written C modules for every major scripting language, modules for every major web server, can automate GDB and Windbg alike and have seen so many problems, I often can solve them with a walk buy and a mic drop. I am more productive now than ever, and I started coding when I was 10. Was sysop of a chat BBS when the Challenger blew up. Ran slackware in the early nineties, stood in line for Windows 95. This isn't just an alpha geek rant -- the point is that if you really love what you do, you only get better. My workflow is so automated from years of the craft, people that see it are in utter disbelief. I have so much quality code in the kitty that I can produce faster than anyone I have ever worked with. The bottom line is that if you produce results, you are of value.
I prefer to code in C and ruby, but have no problem switching to .Net, Java, python, node, or whatever. The right tool for the job, and I can make that call better than most because I've learned it's not always about technology, it's about the passion the team has to get the job done. As the levels of abstraction in modern technologies get further and further removed, the more you want people like me on the team. Your business might just depend on it.
Where's the World of Warcraft Open Source Edition?

ummm, here maybe? - http://www.arcemu.org/about.php
What I don't get is when I search for any product then select to filter by "Amazon Prime" I am still seeing results for items that are not Prime Eligible. Now you can't tell me that Amazon doesn't know whether or not they are fulfilling a certain product. I mean if they are able to display the Prime logo on the products page why can't they filter for only Prime Eligible items?
It's using SpiderMonkey right now. Using nacl as sandbox is a neat idea though.
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Count this as a vote for more languages.
You've got that right. Look at all that changed in 15 years in terms of what it took to garner $43,000 in revenue compared to doing the same now. An independent developer can, in less than the time it took Dr Koop to hit that number, hit the same number with 1/1000th (if not 1/10,000th) of the capital outlay (their $8 million in money), and nary a Microsoft product in sight. Between fifteen years of open source, competition for infrastructure and platform as a service, multiple revenue channels available to individuals and several orders of magnitude more eyeballs and attention spent on the internet, we can all party like it's 1997.
DC is under 9,500/square mile which is ~1/3 those high density areas. So, sorry but building height is important when your comparing areas with 4 vs 40 floor building AND a balanced mix of commercial and residential space. However, NY City also has a lot of 3 and 4 story buildings and central park is huge. Still the difference is mostly a question of the density of office space vs housing as NY includes a lot more of the surrounding area than DC.
You're right it is absurd -- to think it's generosity. Whilst most development stacks these days are free in-beer-and-use for life - Microsoft gives you unlimited access to try out all their wares hoping you get hooked on as much of it as possible so when the 3 year is up, you're up for the lump some of your IT development infrastructure. It's a lot harder to move off a platform once you're hooked on it so by doing this Microsoft expects a life-long re-occurring income as your infrastructure upgrades and grows.

This 3 year "absurd generosity" is nothing more than a classic bait and switch Marketing strategy - although it does have the pleasant side-effect of not immediately obvious, and is sometimes mistaken for generosity.
There was a time before iPods, iPhones and iPads.

Way back then, Apple hardware was considered expensive by comparison to the alternatives.

Apple is now producing products that many more people can afford.

This is what I meant when I say Apple's prices are decreasing. The cost to the consumer to own an Apple "computer"[1] has come down.

1. I consider all three: iPod, iPhone and iPad to be "computers". Deliberately crippled, to limit functionality, perhaps. But still posessing the basic elements of a computer.
I go redirected to this link www.scribd.com/jobs/botrace_upload_bot

which then displays: Oops! Something went wrong.
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Meant to upvote you and then fat-fingered the down-arrow -- sorry
I remember two issues:

1. Skyhook didn't just want their stuff preinstalled, they wanted Google Maps taken out.

2. Google felt that the way Skyhook reported their location data (mixing WiFi/cell tower calculations and GPS data, IIRC) would have polluted their location database if they had tried to use it (the way they use the data gathered via Google Maps). Since getting that data is one of their few direct, tangible benefits from releasing Google Apps on an Android phone, it isn't terribly surprising that they'd be protective of it.
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I think I figured that out when I went from NeXTSTEP to trying to use MFC.

I wound up using Delphi.
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It is funny now but back then content was scarce. The internet had really just been introduced to the mainstream, 1994 is when I started to see normal people get into it. The ability to publish something instantly now worldwide was a wave still rolling with excitement. Growth opportunities were immense. We were all mad.
Where banks, which don't exactly have a sterling reputation, and cellular providers, which are viewed with even more scorn than the Toronto Maple Leafs, work together on something you know it's going to suck. That's why nobody wants it.
For people that havn't studied algorithms much, where is a good start on game playing algorithms? Pointers to papers, or names of data structures to look up? Perhaps http://erikdemaine.org/papers/AlgGameTheory_GONC3/paper.pdf ?
Gold is what it is. It's a commodity. It's pretty much moved with the CPI except in the last few years. You can make money if you can correctly speculate short term trends, long term it tends to be an inflation hedge at best.
On the game rules page:
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The game starts off with Apples Bananas and Oranges, but ends with Apples, Bananas and Melons.

Robots are a wise choice for safety's sake when dealing with quantum fruit.
> I think you'll only find this is the case with government-granted monopoly.

That's demonstrably wrong; e.g., once Microsoft had a monopoly on the browser market (somewhere around IE5-IE6), they stopped innovating, whereas before that point (IE2-IE5) they made great efforts to innovate.

> But how can you argue this about Apple? They're incredible innovators, they deliver great products that consumers love and the prices of those products generally fall over time.

That's true. Despite what many people in this thread feel, Apple does not have a monopoly in any market: Macs are ~15% of all PCs. iphones aren't event 30% of the phone smartphone market.

What Apple did manage to do is dominate the lucrative parts of most markets -- but that doesn't make them a monopoly more than it makes Louis Vutton a monopoly on lucrative handbags.
I remember CommerceOne being worth $20 billion, and having a gazillion dollar burn rate (they lost $3.7 billion over 10 years from 1994 to 2004). There was a famous story at the time that the CEO wouldn't take Bill Gates' call because CommerceOne was the future and Microsoft was the past.

Internet Capital Group was another similarly insane story, once worth $60 billion.

VA Linux IPO'd at a valuation of $7 billion if I recall, and had a roughly 700% pop on its IPO price.

Nortel and Lucent were worth $200 some odd billion, around the time Cisco punched up to $600 billion. And those are in 12 year old dollar terms; Cisco's valuation would be $900+ billion in today's dollar.

Infoseek was once worth $27 billion.

There was a great story in The Industry Standard or Wired about CritalPath, a messaging startup that planned to solve the holy grail of messaging. It intro'd with their team laughing about how a few pennies spent on a postcard had secured hundreds of thousands in new business, and that their biggest problem was dying of indigestion from growing too fast. Chuckles all around apparently. The company was worth $4 or $5 billion at the peak, and ended up bleeding out.

Masayoshi Son claimed that Softbank would end up owning something like 1/3 of the entire Internet eventually. He said he was building a thousand year empire. Softbank of course owned something like 25% of Yahoo when it was worth $100 billion, Softbank supposedly owned 15% or some odd chunk of all Web traffic, and Masayoshi was worth $70+ billion, just behind Gates.

Broadcast.com was purchased for $5.7 billion at a time when it had a mere $22 million in sales or so (and matching losses).

Yahoo paid $3.6 billion for Geocities. In that quarter, Geocities lost $8.4 million on sales of $7.5 million.

Viant, Scient, Razorfish, MarchFirst - billion dollar web development shops and consultants.

There are so many stories to choose from. Pud chronicled it well with Fucked Company.
I'm hope this is just a pretty slide deck for public consumption, not really for "investors". e.g. that slide with visitors and uniques screams vanity metrics to me...
Yeah the game evolved quite a bit. Heck if a independent developer has a bit of a following and puts out an insanely great product, he can make more than double that revenue over night.
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They should beat Facebook by doing the opposite of Google+. Give me a place I can go and hide from people, where my private things aren't shared, where my bookmarks and personal information is secure.

Let Facebook do their thing and like the dozens of ghost towns before them they will peak and bust in time. People will always want search, they will always want privacy, and they will always want a reliable, neutral email address.

People don't care who they use to get publicity, to air their dirty laundry, to garner fawning praise and gather gossip. They do care deeply about who they trust with their guilty pleasures and darkest secrets, though.
Might I suggest Go? It's already sandboxable, demonstrated by the "Try Go" box right on the front page of golang.org.
One big thing people don't ever talk about is how much more expensive it was to get a site running back then. I was hitched to one of Utah's brightest dot-coms in 1998, and building a basic web portal was a LOT of work.

Consider our building blocks: Oracle or MySQL and Java with servlets.

Everything else was written in house, because the open source alternatives were all currently being written in-house elsewhere (or were too immature to use). It took phenomenal amounts of work to get the most basic sites working.

To make matters worse, horizontal scaling barely existed at the data tier, so the only answer was stupidly-expensive Sun boxes with even more-stupidly expensive Oracle licenses.

For hardware, you had little choice but to buy boxes and drop them in your ISP's kind-of-datacenter. Boxes purchased up-front, please.

We had about 15 engineers accomplishing about the same amount of work as the two engineers at my current company. The difference in productivity astounds me every time I think about it.

Now, all that said, companies were still stupid with their money. We had as many product managers as engineers at one point, because everybody knows it's as hard to think up new features as it is to build them (I'm a product manager now and understand the real work involved in good product management, and I still think it was stupid). We made multi-million dollar deals that failed to work out that a leaner company would never have touched.

When I look at the current environment versus back then, I see some very interesting differences: first, the productivity enhancement means value can be created for far less money. As a result, many, many more companies are getting a piece of the action. That is potentially good for investors because it broadens their portfolios. That is probably good for entrepreneurs.

The other problem is there are very few perceived mega-winners. This means that investors aren't getting many large returns and, when somebody smells "jackpot", there is a frenzy. That is good for successful entrepreneurs.

But I'm not sure I would call it a bubble.
Glad I didn't think that when I bought AAPL at $14 in 2001.
In computing CAFE numbers, the inverse of mpg is used in the average. They are also weighted by sales, so both your points are specious.
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Check out context.io, it solves most if not allIMAP problems when building on top of email.

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OMG!!! Imagine the amount of phishing that can be done with a .html TLD... hey access paypal.com.fantastic.promotion.html this would be horrible...
I actually asked myself this question several times until I recently found an answer.

They want to compete with what's app and bbm. Facebook messenger is the SMS application of people who have internet on their phone. It's actually brilliant when you think about it!
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Here's another radical idea, build apps that don't rely on reverse engineering a proprietary protocol from the company that runs the store you want to sell your shit in.
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You're absolutely right that indie developers need to do more than complain if they want Apple to take them seriously. Nevertheless, Apple has formidable tools at their disposal to fight back: ejecting ringleaders, interfering with coordinated action involving their app store (e.g. staggering suspended sales so they didn't all happen on a strike day), ranking penalties and so on.
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This!

My Android phone (HTC Desire) recently broke and I got a old iPhone 3G. One feature (among a lot of others) I really missed was being able to combine a contact with his facebook account. This feature could really make my next purchase be an android phone and not something else.
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Without patents, drug research and development would have to be nationalized. The costs are enormous and drug prices drop 90% in the US after patent expiration. I would rather have new drugs and high prices for a few years than no new drugs at all or nationalized drug r&d.

I think the HN community's approach is wrong: patent abolishment isn't optimal, heavy patent reform is. Patent terms should be regulated and adapted in each industry like the Fed Funds Rate, not like the 10 commandments. Software is definitely an example of where they should be abolished, though.
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Friends uploading all of their photos to Facebook,

Pros:
-Pictures of their girlfriends naked

Cons:
-A complete lack of relevance and editorial purview.

Every photo a user uploads to Facebook sends a message about who that person is. Out of about 300 photos I take on my iPhone, 1 makes it to Facebook. I have a few friends that upload lots of crap. For the most part, those friends had their feeds blocked by me fairly quick. These are not interchangeable events.

Facebook's biggest threat is a loss of meaning through noise, not users using an alternative app to capture their media.

As for Facebook Messenger, I'll be damned if I let Facebook permanently record every last one of my private message for eternity.
As far as ebooks go, in traditional book publishing usually the shop takes about half the price and the printing and distribution takes around another quarter, leaving a quarter of the sale price for the publisher and author to split between them, so there should be a significant price drop in ebooks when compared to the dead tree version.
First, gas in the U.S. has been ridiculously cheap for decades. Housing, healthcare, and education costs are utterly teabagged, but gas is cheap, even now at $4. People who whine about gas prices are either (a) typical Boomer Republicans throwing their sense of entitlement around-- you know, the assholes who thought it was okay to go to war over "price gouging" in oil but clapped their fat hands together when their house prices octupled in one generation and young families got robbed (by them)-- or (b) people who live too ungodly far from where they work and are paying far more in lost time than in gas. Commuting (although less so by subway and not at all by bike) is corrosive and it has nothing to do with fuel costs.

Because gas is so cheap, people don't usually think in terms of, "how much gas will I use to get there?" Instead, it's "How far can I drive until I have to fill up?" That's a question that's easier to answer with a miles-per-gallon number.

Still, I agree that it would be better to see the inverse posted. Maybe people would think twice about driving those enormities. Probably not, but one can hope.