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Now that I came back to HN for my morning fix and made it through the form:

1. Seems to only have trance-y stuff, not the general electronic dance music (e.g. search for popular non-trance artists: Pendulum, Prodigy, or Aphex Twin). The only problem with that is the expectation from the description.

2. On my browsers (Safari, FF3), the sets search edit box isn't clickable / won't take focus. I can only search tracks and artists.

3. How does this help me? Is it just a nicer interface than Amazon's? I frequent sites like http://dnb-sets.de to listen to music. I suppose this is a compelling argument for pandora to take mixed sets into their playlist?

Now, I've closed it because I don't see a reason to use it. This is a major problem because I figure I'm probably the best consumer you can imagine for this. I love this music. I listen to it online for literally hours nearly every day. I'm very hungry to find new stuff to listen to, have it available to listen to again (I had physical media storage problems back when raves were big), and I'm happy to pay ridiculous sums for the service (e.g. i'd pay $10 just to know the name of the D&B song from 1-2 years ago with certain fight club samples#, and if I couldn't quickly find a mix with it online, maybe $25 for an mp3 of it).

If the site had a much broader range of music, and at least 100x more of it, I might use it. Even then, you'd need a compelling reason for me to stick around on your site (e.g. making it easy for me to find tracks I don't know what they are and buy them... or sucking in zillions of mixes and indexing them continuously in a way more convenient than others do).

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# example sample, Tyler Durden: "You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you." This isn't the more common tune you'll find in your quick search. Like I said, I'm serious, I want this tune.
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That's exactly what we were thinking when we added 'chat' to PMOG. It's a well developed standard and, given a suitable simple interface, most people won't even know theyre on an IRC server. Plus, it's realtime, lightweight, hackable, etc, etc.
Just publish how big the thumb was:

In one case this was done as a result of a lawsuit (U-Mich). Translating the "thumb" into GPA, we get:

+1.0 on GPA if black, +0.2 if legacy, +0.5 if from michigan. (I.e., a non-legacy with a 3.8 GPA is treated the same as a legacy with a 3.6 GPA, all else held equal).

For comparison, "national" levels of personal achievement get you +0.25 on GPA.

http://www.umich.edu/~mrev/archives/1999/summer/chart.htm

We could absolutely use some Japanese levels of transparency.
I call strawman.

The government confiscates citizens money at the point of a gun, and at least some of it goes to frivolous spending, and that's nothing but waste - and that's Ayn Rands premise which you said nothing to counter.
O2 have always had a very good network. I'd imagine that unless you're using a really awful phone, call quality is similar on the prehistoric Nokia 3210 or the latest state of the art iPhone.
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Some people say double-blind reviews make things better since reviewers aren't (theoretically) influenced by the identity of the authors, and authors can't tailor their paper to suit the reviewers (or try to get back at them later for negative reviews).

How about completely open reviewing, like in some of the BiomedCentral medical journals (e.g., http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmed)?

If done properly, all the cards are on the table. A paper cannot (should not) be rejected or accepted without legitimate reasons. Reviewers and authors can be made to account (through tarnished reputation and risk of embarrassment, at least) for their actions.
I replaced my ancient mobile with the latest LG Cookie last week. It's just a £100 pay as you go model, not really a smartphone, but it has a touch-screen and turning it on its side when writing a message reveals an on-screen QWERTY keypad. But it's almost unusable. I don't have fat fingers and I do about 90wpm on a PC keyboard, but these on-screen keypads are terrible for hitting the wrong letter. It's actually quicker to drop to T9 texting mode on the number buttons. Perhaps the iPhone's better, I've never seen one "in the flesh", but I can't imagine how they'd make a touchscreen QWERTY keypad work.

I had a play with the G1 in the phone shop just out of interest (the disappointment on the shop assistant's face when I said I didn't really want a £35 contract but just wanted the pay as you go phone was quite shocking). It was most impressive and the keyboard was very quick to type on. Hopefully, since I'm under the impression that Android is freely available for manufacturers to use on their phones, we'll start to see some budget manufacturers (Huawei?) using Google's OS at some point in the next couple of years to give users a decent experience without spending loads of money on putting together a proprietary OS.
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The quality of peer review varies with the journal. For instance, Journal of Computational Physics tends to give out helpful reviews. From JCP, I usually get back a list of helpful suggestions and weak spots in the paper. Even the incorrect suggestions/criticisms tend to reveal ambiguity in my writing more than anything else.

PRL, not so much. In my experience, at least one referee doesn't even finish reading the paper. It's not just me, this happened to a friend of mine last week:

Referee: "The authors do not demonstrate that their equations apply to any physical example."

Response: "See page 3 paragraph 4."
As far as growth is concerned, fashion seems like a great idea. As for actual value of the interior decorating, have you ever looked at hiring an interior decorator?
No, I use AT&T just fine. But my son has an iphone and it doesn't have nearly as good reception as my old Razr. I can make and receive calls standing next to him when he can't. An since I need my phone to be a phone first, I'm waiting.
I think Marx's "The Capital" explains better the current economical situation.

But meanwhile, in Fantasyland ...
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The iPhone is definitely the best keyboard I've tried on a smartphone yet, but perhaps others take some practice to get used to.
This disdain for fields without rigor reminds me of the general attitude towards people using excel macros or vb. I understand it's fun & I used to feel the same way. But at some point you just have to stop playing with your tools & get some real work done.
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"If your phone is on multiple carriers that collectively serve four times as many customers, it only needs to be some amount greater than 25% as appealing to get the same market share."

If you measure "appeal" by market share, then this is a tautology. If you measure appeal by some other method, it's almost certainly false.
Am I the only one thriving in this environment or something?

Some nights I play Bioshock. Some nights I work on my (hopefully innovative) Haskell project. Some nights I watch a movie and some nights I write for my blog. Sometimes at work I listen to music and sometimes I just buckle down and code. I've been fighting with distraction lately, but with some success.

I like my life much better now than 20 years ago, when I was in (very easy) school, had tons of free time, and hardly anything to do with it but read books and play video games because even my local library had hardly any resources that would teach me how to do anything. (Oh, if only I had found a primer on writing assembler for my computer...)

I will say, though, that getting off the marketing treadmill is very important. I just canceled my cable in favor of an electronic video approach with a special emphasis on not getting advertised at anymore (in particular I just had a son, and I want him to grow up in an environment not shared with whatever multi-billion dollar company buys its way into my house), and while I don't run adblock in my browser, NoScript comes close enough for practical purposes. I now pay only minimal attention to things like gaming news, because it's way better to find out something cool came out a year ago ($15) then to anxiously await something coming out in six months ($60). The only reason I pay any attention at all is my taste for games that are only on the shelves for a week (thanks, Atlus).

But with that proviso, what we have here is an abundance of wealth, and I for one prefer the problems of wealth to the problems of poverty. If you have a problem, deal with it. No, seriously, deal with it, whatever it takes. Because it's not likely to get much better, barring total social collapse. Even the recession/depression at most will slow down the production of new distractions.
A compiled computer program is certainly a rigorous description of something, God knows what, certainly not the programmer.

This is just funny:

"I think computer science has a tremendous amount to offer the fields of logic and mathematics. Specifically, I think that requiring all formulas to be executable by a finite, deterministic system (a computer program) could lead to a great increase in the level of rigor of these fields, would make it easier for students to learn existing results, would make it easier for practitioners to develop new results, and might possibly suggest whole new approaches...*

Also he keeps refering to computers as finite. I can only assume he means in a physical sense that there are a non-infinite amount of atoms making up his CPU.

I suppose I should critic his argument seriously but it's just too far away from any actual reality.
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I've had mine for about two months, and the keyboard feel hasn't changed. I haven't noticed that it takes a lot of effort, but I tend to press buttons much harder than necessary anyway, since my proprioception is poor. By the same token, I'm fairly abusive of hardware, and I was really worried that the G1 would come apart quickly, but it's held up very well, aside from the occasional ominous creaking sound.

One thing I really like about the G1 keyboard is that there's a definite "break" when the key is pressed, so if I'm paying attention, I can tell when the key goes down. The physical feedback helps a lot for me.
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I am an Apple diehard, so the odds of me getting involved with this are poor. Still, it's nice to see Palm showing signs of life, and giving Apple a little competition. The fact that the iPhone still doesn't have cut-and-paste, two years after launch, says to me that they need a little nudge.

Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, from 2006, on the iPhone: "We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in." And yet, they did. Heh!

cite: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20081218/palm-new-ness-a-...
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1. Rs 7000 crores is missing from Satyam

2. CEO Ramalinga Raju has admitted that he committed fraud

And yet Satyam interim CEO Ram Mynampati has not filed any police case against either Ramalinga Raju or Satyam Auditors.

Mr Ram Mynampati seems to be a co-conspirator to this fraud.
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I think there's a big problem with this. Where it'd be useful is at large organizations, which generally create multiple subnets to structure their network. This would mean that you need to put this client in the router, or force the organization to have an always on box for each subnet with the client.
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This is excellent news indeed. I wonder if there can be a claim of eminent domain (or similar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain ) that would allow a government to protect a group deploying this defense from legal claims. It's interesting to me if the concept can be applied to a distributed network.
In this case it was really the adopters though. mIRC for instance was as usable as AIM.
I have a 1st generation iPhone in the US on AT&T and reception and clarity are as good as they eve were on HTC, Blackberry, or Treo.

It's possible this is a 3G issue as all of the above ere 2G phones. But given the author's demonstrated propensity for writing things he's only heard about third hand, we might want to brand this entire line of criticism [citation needed].
The most obvious way to monetise facebook is to me some kind of job advertising platform. They have all this data on people, like whether they're students, where and studying what, etc. Companies looking to recruit could buy job ad placements based on those criteria. (e.g. show this job to final-year CompSci BSc students at Cambridge and Oxford) The more specific and popular, the more expensive.

I suppose it's possible that they've explored it but there isn't a market for this. I guess with the job market right now might not be the best time for that kind of feature - on the other hand there are probably lots of users who would use it.
He said that it is about to kick Apple into the "deathbin of history." I think that's pretty much the same thing as saying it will "dethrone" the iPhone.

I take everything that Scoble says with a grain of salt; he is overexcited and hyperbolic about everything. However, I think that he is right that this is device is special; It seems to be the first "iPhone-killer" which has actually surpassed Apple in some areas, rather than being an inferior ripoff like the others.
I would try not to look at 'luck' as some random, mystical force that just happens to favor some people. Instead:

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca

Could be interpreted in this situation that he was in the right place, with the right idea, at the right time.
> I haven't looked at the client portion of SLIME in a while, but wouldn't there be some changes needed to deal with languages where statements and expression are different from each other?

Yeah, probably.
Sure, and I agree with that - but that's not the point that Scoble appears to be making...
Scipy - it can be used like matlab, but it's python.

At the very least, make sure your solution can easily and efficiently work with linear algebra, a plotting tool, and some basic statistics functions.
In summary:

- Become better at advertising

- Sell completely unrelated crap (water, gear, hardware, phone), because they've got a good brand and advertising platform

- Charge users and developers, "somehow" (great advise, thank you!)

- Sell their data (anonymously, though)

- Advertise more (pretty contrary to the claim that they have a brilliant, under-utilized advertising platform)

- Be something else (corporate intranet, dev. payment platform, eBay, Skype, Second Life (WTF?!), Online bank, cloud storage, Tor network, physical loyalty card)

Basically: There is no Facebook business model, besides the one they already figured out (advertising) and can't make work, and the one about selling their data, that users had a strong antipathy of (beacon).

Becoming a corporate intranet is a little viable, but it doesn't really leverage the Facebook network. A corporate intranet doesn't need the network effect that is really the cores of Facebook. They have Active Directory.
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> Also he keeps refering to computers as finite. I can only
> assume he means in a physical sense that there are a
> non-infinite amount of atoms making up his CPU.

No, this is meant as 'having a finite number of states' (dictated by finite memory, finite number of registers and so on) - as opposed to, for example, a Turing Machine [which has an infinite number of states].
AboutUs /is/ profitable - big difference between that and "potentially"
I think it foolish to take a job without first sorting out both a written job description and an agreed salary. The idea that we shouldn't only strengthens this ridiculous idea that somehow employees owe the business a favour for working there. Part of the reason that programmers don't get paid more is because geeks are typically poorer negotiators than other professions. So even if an individual is strong, they don't have as much room to move because unless their skills are particular management will know that the trick of getting good geeks has more to do with getting them to the offer stage first than paying a rate that would be competitive in a liquid market.

Employees are business units in and of themselves, have opportunity cost considerations as well even if they're comfortable in their current state of life. Just imagine the conversation with your kids at a future time, "Guys - sorry we can't send you to the school we wanted to, but I hope it warms your heart to know that I had a really good time working at blah consulting when I was in my prime." Having money allows you to support family, pursue hobbies and create business opportunities of your own in the future.

I've been thinking about a new way of negotiating recently: one-bid job offers. In this situation both parties would to the terms and a mediator. Both guarantee a deposit of - say - five thousand dollars to the third party and agree that if the negotiation does not conclude in a hire but they end up negotiating further then the negotiator will keep the $10k.

To resolve the salary, the prospective employee writes down the figure below which they would not accept the role in an envelope. The prospective employer writes down the figure above which they would not choose to hire the person. Then the trusted third-party opens both envelopes in front of them.

If the amounts are compatible, then the salary is the midpoint of the amounts. If the amounts are incompatible then both parties walk away with the amounts undeclared. Has anyone heard of this being done in practice? I think this guarantees that both parties would always get a good deal, and neither would feel diddled.
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Now you understand how people will use the site: they will look at it, not instantly understand why it's worth giving personal information to, leave, and tell their friends it's not worthwhile.

If you want to track interaction, just give everyone a cookie (or Flash cookie, nearly nobody clears those) and watch behavior by that.
Tell me about it! I live in Norway and I have no clue on how to approach this problem. My provisions on my few, simple apps is at about 2 000$ in six weeks. So I was just wondering.. Apple can't claim my proceeds for themselves because I haven't yet set up my tax and bank forms can they?
If you're trying to do 1-finger typing, no wonder you found the G1 inconvenient. Use the G1 keyboard with two thumbs, holding the device with both hands. (I can't even figure out how you would use it with two fingers.)
That's at least a valid argument. I just don't think it's a good idea to base opinions on government programs on any work of fiction. Many treat Atlas the way the religious right treats the Bible.
Who said I haven't tried it? Interesting that multiple people here made that assumption.
He's always defended his involvement as being a necessary compromise. An unusual stance for an Objectivist, but an Objectivist nonetheless.
> Oh, if only I had found a primer on writing assembler for
> my computer...

This is a regret of my childhood. So much time, and if only I'd had a good mentor for programming or music I'd have moved much further forward by now (and probably missed the angry young man stage as well).

Startup idea: simple mentoring site that aims to connect mentors in any topic with students in any topic. Can be free or commercial, can be regional or local, it's expected that both the student and mentor will need to pass some sort of test to be accepted. Students and mentors are reviewed.
There's some truth to that I'm sure, but it couldn't get to #2.
Are they imagined features when you can watch a video of them? Why would you think I've never tried an iPhone? I actually wanted to buy one before I did.

Seems like kind of a silly comment to have 25 points. I wonder if it were about Microsoft instead...
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This is interesting. They claim they cannot unleash their cleaning program at large - because it would change the infected machines in an unsolicited way. The infected machines are used as a tool for criminal actions - isn't it an obligation of anyone, capable of doing that, to stop them? Maybe they could gather evidence from spam blockers and only clean the computers that were reported as spam tools?
But there is so much more to do than consume media. The world needs more people who can, or rather, will (there are plenty who can, few who do) solve problems from the local to the global. They don't disappear when we disappear into our games, movies, music, and books.

Indulging in these things every once in a while is fine, but the cultural status quo is to let it consume all our time barring work and family responsibilities.
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