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He's switching networks from Verizon to AT&T, which is what Straight Talk uses to provide service.

Most people and surveys find that Verizon works better for them but that's not always the case.
This is extremely important information, and every parent should read the wall of text, but I have a few quibbles.

* It mentions but sort of underplays the importance of finding a good neighborhood/school.

* It underplays the role of parents in the pre-school years where parents are the child's primary social world.

* It underplays the role of teaching children how to successfully achieve peace and happiness in the home-- though I agree this may be tangential to the child's later success in life. It is key to parental happiness, though.

* It emphasizes that peers teach kids their attitudes. But adults teach kids much of their skills and strategies. Peers with skills may model and communicate those strategies better, but those peers can be hard to find.
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The main idea is that you can share the photos that you like the most with all of your friends, when your friends get in their profiles they are going to be able to vote each one of the photos and see some cool statistics like shared photos, voted photos, your best photo, etc.

We think that a demo is a great idea, we are going to prepare it and upload it in the next few days so everybody can feel more comfortable.

Thank you very much for your time and the feedback.
Wire transfer and CHIPs both go through the NY Fed system. The banks send requests and money is drawn from or credited to the individual bank's account at the fed.

Here are the specs: http://www.frbservices.org/campaigns/remittance/files/fedwir...
(I did read the whole article from top to bottom.)

When space exploration and colonization of planets and moons will costs trillions of dollars over decades (the international space station alone costs $150 billion, costs $650 million every shuttle launch) how can a country invest so much into something that will be fruitless for the nation?

Now I'm with him in terms of desire. I don't "like" any ONE country to own mars or the moon in the same I way a lot of early Americans, African Nations, Indians, etc... didn't "like" being owned by the British Empire. But we have to be realistic, when the people of a colony (on the moon or mars) use taxpayer funded space ships, equipment, support, fuel to reach and colonize that planet or moon and depend on their home country for constant sustenance. Claiming independence is ridiculous and just not going to happen. I wouldn't blame them for desiring independence, but that's just not possible given the expensive nature of interplanetary exploration. The only way to have an independent Mars is to hope for privatized space exploration. Not like NASA + SpaceX but a completely private space program. From funding to execution, from creation to exploration to maintenance.
There are glasses involved, but from the looks of a video posted on Hip Hop Gamer Show the picture isn't blurry without the glasses. He's freaking out in the vid playing COD in 3D... hilarious.
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This is just stupid. Who copies text from one terminal to another. You are missing the entire point of the command-line and piping. This is clearly a novice who just wants easy access to X11 because he does not know how to use the command-line tools properly.

I manage remote FreeBSD servers with just Terminal. It is perfectly fine. And I never copy and paste text in terminal windows.
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Just me, or an issue with the styling?

http://i.imgur.com/pEzve.png
No, it's not the case. Buying through the carrier is the main paradigm in place, but plenty of even "normal" retailers [1] offer unlocked phones, as well as places like eBay, and Google (e.g. Google sells the Galaxy Nexus unlocked, directly).

[1] http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Mobile-Cell-Phones/Unlocked-Mobi...
How was that quote again?

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
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Ask HN: List of OS X apps compatible with ML's notification center
Hello there.

Is there a list of apps that work with Mountain Lion's notification center?

If not, let's make a list.

I'll start with the obvious ones:
Mail.app
Calendar.app
Safari
App Store
Messages
Facetime
Reminders
Game Center
Twitter (for Mac?)

Please feel free to add 3rd party apps to the list.
I'm not sure what the problem is here, especially given this is a consumer OS targeted at the masses but still its underpinnings means it can scale out to the niche when required.

And this is exactly the case with X11, it doesn't exist on OS X 10.8 by default but luckily the OS tells me Apple have an open source version ready for me to download when I need it.

This seems like the best of both worlds, an average computer user isn't bogged down by niche software shipped with their computer and the developer can easily hop onto MacForge and extend the functionality of their computer. Heck you can even compile things since it's just BSD/Mach underneath.
I have a X11.app in /Applications/Utilities. When launched, it shows a dialog:

An application has requested access to X11.
Would you like to install X11 now?

X11 is no longer included with OS X. Apple continues to support
the development of X11 on OS X with the open source community.
Clicking “Continue” will take you to an Apple Knowledge Base Article
which provides information about installing X11.

[ Cancel ] [ Continue ]

So, I think that "and giving me this when I search their knowledge base for answers" is a bit dishonest. At least on my system, searching wasn't necessary. Apple pointed me there.
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As a PL guy, I can say: both. Despite both calling themselves "systems programming languages", they serve completely different niches. Go is for web-services/web-apps development; Rust is for truer systems software (if they keep GC optional it could even be used for kernel development).
He wants HN karma.
" Domestic bank transfers are pretty much free for all private people and almost everyone pays all their invoices electronically via their online bank."

In the US, domestic bank transfers cost money (for example, Bank of America charges 3 dollars for ACH and 25 for sending wires; most banks charge 15 for receiving a wire), which explains to a great extent why cheques are still used.

"What's more, credit and debit cards are accepted almost universally" -- credit card fees are onerous

"I think you can get a cashier’s cheque if you really need to" -- did that on Friday. 8 bucks.
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I used to sign checks as Nickname Lastname, rather than my given name. I eventually had one bounce due to "signature not as drawn". I do have very legible handwriting though.
My parents didn't do anything like that and I was as academically successful as your kids.

What you're doing probably helps their happiness, though.

My mom graduated young though, and I gave myself pressure to prove I was smarter than her. Not sire if that's a point in the "nurture" column or the "peer competitive pressure" column.
Neat story, but did it need to be 5 freaking pages long? I read the first 3.
Also, consulting a lawyer for specific work is different from hiring an iOS programmer. You get specific help that you cannot get otherwise and the law firm is on the hook for the services provided. iOS programmers are dime a dozen. Assuming this guy is the best of the lot, I still don't see him giving the kind of concrete guarantees a law firm would provide with their service. Lastly, the value-add from a law firm consultation is different (and much more concrete) than a top-notch iOS programmer, assuming he is one.
So, now Microsoft and Apple are buying patents and they're the bad guys for doing so?

Microsoft and Apple use patents to bring forth lengthy and costly lawsuits in an attempt to hurt their competitors. I'd say that's a lot worse than the act of buying up a company for patents in and of itself.

Google has enough money to survive this so called "patent war", but most of this could easily be avoided if Google just invented and patented their own stuff instead of trying to copy and use other people's ideas an inventions without paying a reasonable fee to use them. It's not like Google couldn't afford to license Java and various patents from Apple, Microsoft, Kodak, Nortel, etc...

You don't have "enough money" if you give it away to anyone with their hands out.

As a software developer, I disagree that I should have to pay to "license" an idea that I had, that someone else just happened to come up with before me. Or that it is expected that I should try to patent as many of my "ideas" as possible so I can attempt to milk other people for money down the line.
I completely disagree with the Grandparent post overall but the advantage of major blowup is that you have a clear clean end and can try something else. If you get stuck in something you don't yet see as successful but it hasn't completely failed you might keep trying when the company can never achieve your aims.

With outside investors you may be contractually stuck in all sorts of ways too.
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I believe that in the original write-up of this story, which spanned several pages, the author mentioned that he didn't even bother to endorse the check he'd deposited.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

Sort of. I've never done this myself.
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The U.S. has surprisingly expensive phone, data and texting costs.

Just from this thread, for the same U$ 10/month you say is "cheap" from T-mobile to get 200 mb:

Vietnam - 2.5 GB (500 mb for U$ 2)

China - 300 mb data PLUS 90 mins phone

UK - "unlimited" data and text (Giffgaff), 1 gb (Tesco) or 500 mb (Vodafone)

Uruguay - 384 mb (Antel)

Australia - 600 mb (Soul/TPG)
My personal situation is much the same as yours and it works well for me, too. I question how well, however, it would work for someone who is more into creating media with their mobile phone than I am, or someone who wants to share data from their personal network with friends / family.
It's a law or rule somewhere, that if you do electronic transfers between Euro countries (i.e. a good portion of the EU, and thus certainly within one Euro country) it has to be free. So checks don't offer that advantage here in Euro-Europe.
There is also http://thefoundation.io/, free forums carry far too much noise and arm chair experts imo. I've also heard good things about micropreneur academy and looks like startupplays.com/ might be trying to get something going.
"The most important men in town would come to fawn on me!

They would ask me to advise them,

Like a Solomon the Wise.

"If you please, Reb Tevye..."

"Pardon me, Reb Tevye..."

Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes!

And it won't make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong.

When you're rich, they think you really know!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Were_a_Rich_Man_%28song%2...
> a Western country aligned to UK first and US second

I'm glad we agree. That was my point when I earlier wrote: "And in either case we will not be falling on the China side." My subtler point is although this will happen, it will not be in our greater interest. As evidenced by this pacific cable project cancellation.

> And nobody in Australia really cares about these fringe issues. In Melbourne our most liberal city we've had protests about Assange, Manning as well as some related to Occupy Movement. Guess what. Nobody turned up.

That's not a good thing. Nor does it have anything to do with economic partnerships or infrastructure investments. I did say it was off topic.
Thank you. I imagine such a position would be very competitive.

I'd definitely be interested in hearing more about your application process, how prepared you felt you were based on coursework, and of course what the job was actually like.
I can't help but share the headline in The New Yorker's Fake News & Political Satire section: "Mars Rover Should Not Get So Much Attention, Say Higgs-Boson Scientists."[1]

Humor aside, this is a sign that we're living in interesting times: two major human achievements occurring within a few weeks of each other. All I can say is, wow. I love it.

--

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08...
It's quite simple actually. If your business is not dependent of consultancy, i.e. it's not your primary source of income, you'd do yourself a disservice by not TRYING to charge a significant amount: you never know who might be willing to pay it. In particular, an amount that would be at least the lower bound of what you expect your app to generate in terms of income on an hourly basis.

After all, you're not dependent of those consultancy funds, but if you find someone who's willing to pay the requested amount, it's win-win. You're basically put in a unique situation where you're able to experiment with that and you might end up with a few interesting contacts as well by doing so.
I'm the site owner; never seen that before. Which browser/OS are you on?
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That's just factually inaccurate.
Am i understanding this right: this is a kick in the butt for services like NewRelic?

Does this always need to run on the same server as the Application? Or is it possible to run it on a different server and push the data to it?

disclaimer: i have no experience with statsd/graphite etc.
I'm sure the early explorers' bankrollers and later colonizing powers thought along similar lines. And yet the Americas are neither French nor English or Spanish nor Portuguese properties.
"The biggest reason it costs $150 and not $25 is that your locality makes it illegal to advertise as a locksmith, and illegal to possess locksmithing tools, without certification."

I'd say the number of shady "locksmiths" in the phonebook that only know how to drill and replace locks should alter that assumption somewhat.
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Options:
1) Charge more (or at least make it not free) for your product, making advertising viable forever.
2) Focus primarily on search engines, making organic growth sustainable.
Personal theory: The hardware used has to be low powered, and be able to withstand physical and radiological abuse. Such a system probably will not post the fastest clock cycles, what with power consumption being proportional to frequency^2 and all.

I'm also going to guess that most of the available RAM will be used for redundancy.
Bank of America has Safepass: http://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/index.cfm?template=lear...
That's a photo of the ground with the rover's shadow projected onto it by some backlighting, suggesting that the specific camera that took that photo is facing away from the sun and down towards the ground. Because there's no sky present in that shot, the exposure is set so that the ground is bright and the shadow is darker.

Meanwhile, if you look at the other photos with the horizon present (e.g. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=RLA_39750... ), the ground is dark because in order to capture the details in the bright sky, the exposure has to be adjusted so that less total light is captured (usually by using a faster shutter speed). Otherwise, you'd blow out the sky and get no details there.

It looks like the dynamic range of these cameras is limited, so keep that in mind when looking at any photos that come out of them. Something that's bright in one shot might be extremely dark in another, depending on its relative brightness compared to other parts of the scene. Take a look at the last few rear camera shots with the sun in them:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0

The sun causes all the sky detail from the previous rear camera shots to appear black, since its overwhelming brightness requires the exposure to be extremely brief.

Anyway, I hope that gives you a better idea of what to expect from these cameras and how to interpret the photos.
How appropriate that a space agency will be using SUN workstations =)
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There's a big difference between Rockstar's purchase of Nortel's patents and Google's purchase of Motorola's patents.

Rockstar is an NPE (non-practising entity, aka patent troll). If Google were to assert its Motorola patents, they can be hit with counter-suits. Rockstar as an NPE cannot, and thus can be much more aggressive with enforcement. It's whole raison d'etre is to pursue patent claims, so of course it's going to be.
Trying to get a handle on what one gives up with the ST plan. Here's what I've got: no domestic or int'l roaming, no visual voicemail, hard data cap at 2GB/30days, and no streaming services (Spotify, Pandora) over 3G. That cover it? Thanks.
Perhaps it's time we stopped to referring to paper books as real books, then? I know this is just a headline designed to get attention, but thinking that ebooks aren't real books in some way (witness all the handwringing they bring out about the feel of paper etc.) is one (of the many things) that's killing publishers.
> Sinking 2 billion into something that yields no direct monetary profit, that's a bold move for any country.

Correct that there is no direct return on investment. However, some experts have claimed for every dollar spent on the Apollo program, we got $10 back in public benefit. It's really difficult to measure this stuff accurately, but the point to take away is that there is quite a lot to gained in technology, PR, and cash by doing inspiring & challenging science.
Statsd accepts data over UDP, so you can run it on whichever server you like, and the logging is asynchronous and takes a few microseconds (last time I counted). I haven't had a chance to use it in production extensively, but I tested it a bit and liked it very much.
Neither Rockstar nor Intellectual Ventures have no product. They are the ones holding the patents, not Microsoft nor Apple. Rockstar and IV are the trolls referred to in the title. The title is accurate.
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Curious about the part where you put foreign non-AT&T sim cards in and it works, without jail breaking?
C will still be king.
> But he said, "Since you deposited the check
> 'thinking there was no chance it would cash,
> and without even endorsing it' -- you didn't
> commit fraud."

But he did deposit the check with the thought that it would cash. He wouldn't have done it otherwise, since it wouldn't have been funny.
Not sure about all
Speaking of anguish, simply leaving a non-supported version of X11 installed on future releases of the OS wouldn't be a terribly good idea either. X is a pretty big dependency. If the entire Mac user body moves to XQuartz, it's best for that to happen quickly.

Apple has a well established history of quickly (some might say ruthlessly) depreciating and moving OS components and APIs forward. The upside of this is that developers don't have to experience the anguish associated with supporting several versions of sub-system for long. OS upgrades for the Mac are cheap and easy, so users tend to run closer to the front line. This is especially true for developers.

The downside is that you're frequently caught off guard. The change from Apple X11 to XQuartz is, definitively, a yak shaving exercise. Bleh.

The approach isn't without trade-offs. In other words, I try not to don my rose colored glasses prematurely, but I've spent enough time on all the major platforms to recognize that there are many advantages to the approach Apple uses here.
Ok, since everybody is posting .. here goes my GoPro on the air.
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That's what it looks like. I'm not sure I really care much for it, other than the fact that it no longer appears to use the Graphite URL api. Personally, I'd rather have graphite-web running and then use an alternative frontend like Descartes[1] or Graphiti[2].

Still, it's pretty good that there is an alternative frontend, if nothing else but to expand the graphite ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/obfuscurity/descartes
[2] https://github.com/paperlesspost/graphiti
At this point, I feel that there's enough momentum and a big enough backer behind Go that I have very little doubt that it will still be a going concern in 5 years.

Rust is more questionable, after all they haven't reached 1.0 yet. But I'm cheering for them -- IMO, they're the more interesting language and I like the choices they made.
I guess there's nobody left at Apple who believed in the spirit of this advertisement:

http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/articles/unixad.jpg

Now that the Apple no longer needs to be saved by dorks, the dorks are being thrown overboard.
So:
- It doesn't need to run on the same server as the application, and you can have any number of apps reporting to it. The only limitation here is that apps communicate with Pup in UDP.

- Our goal with pup was to make it super-easy to see app metrics. It is therefore much narrower in scope than services like New Relic or projects like Graphite. It's open-source, though, and you can take it anywhere you want.

- We ourselves operate a service that can consume data from Pup and other sources, and provides metrics + events aggregation and correlation, fancy graphing, alerting, etc.. You can check-it out at http://datadoghq.com
Paid up-front for a nice Android phone just over a year ago and shopped around and found a £10 a month deal -- 250 talk minutes (which I never use), unlimited texts and unlimited data (I can also tether it to my laptop in areas with no wifi). Never looked back. Before I had to sit out a 2-year contract with Virgin that never worked either at home or work. Ghastly.

Couldn't be happier with prepaid and my 'droid.
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Knowingly using a forged bill is illegal.
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That certainly does not justify the installer removing X11 from a perfectly working Mac.
This seems to be basically a collector that sends data to Datalog (a NON open-source service that costs $15/host/month). I recommend setting up Grahite+statsd (it's truly amazing and open-source realtime metrics setup).
I wonder if Apple risks losing its technical (i.e. programmer) users. If OS X stops feeling like a UNIX-like OS to technical users, and they move away, OS X may receive less attention from developers. And that won't be good for the platform.
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Somewhat off-topic, but what value is there in using statsd rather than talking to carbon, the graphite backend, directly? Statsd receives metrics over udp; carbon-cache can receive them over tcp, udp, or amqp. Statsd aggregates metrics and flushed them a set intervals; if you want this, carbon-aggregator can do it.

http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.10/carbon-daemons.htm...
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Ask HN: Are they any e-mail feedback services out there?
I'm looking for a service / API that can trigger an e-mail upon a completed transaction that will allow our customers to rate the service on a per transaction basis and then collate and report on the results.

There are loads of survey type offerings, but they're all a bit heavy. I'm looking for something where the end user has to do nothing other click a link within the email to rate their experience.

With all the complex offerings out there this seems so simple, but I've not found anything.

Thanks!