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It is still the same, you can't even have other carrier rates near UPS rates.
I hope so!

The cash-back is just one more way we're trying to be different from everybody else in this space.
While [1] may be true, many people never upgrade their iOS.

My stats are such that 8% of my users are using < iOS 4.3, and of that 8% slice almost 3/4 (or 6% of my total users) _could_ update to something newer, but they're happily running old iOSes.

If I were to cut them off, would that magically make them upgrade? I don't think so. They'd just be bummed that their apps stopped working.
I'm in a similar boat; never received an invite, but looking forward to trying it out… any chance at getting into the beta? You have my word this will be the last such request.
We're getting some love (and some tough questions), we'd love to have you weigh in!

http://pandodaily.com/2012/09/18/yourtrove-aims-to-crack-soc...

http://bub.blicio.us/yourtrove-becomes-your-social-search-en...

http://searchengineland.com/introducing-trove-facebook-socia...
You assume that people with traditional software engineering backgrounds need no training to move into web development, which is not what I've observed. In fact, I have personally seen several who either weren't willing or weren't able to acquire the new skills required at all.

How many C++ programmers grok CSS? How many Java programmers understand prototypes? How many enterprise developers are used to shipping code at least weekly? No CS degree I've seen has covered analytics, or even effective logging at scale. As much as CS-oriented coders look down their nose at web devs there are skills involved. If engineers can adapt there are huge payoffs sitting on the table, but they have to actually do so. There aren't very many who have, not nearly enough to meet demand, and so prices rise and companies swap from teaching web development on the job to teaching CS on the job.
Right, but which part of the dev/design process is it taking over? Do you guys see divshot taking over production ready front end development the way Balsamiq (and the likes, arguably) took over pen & paper?

Given the predecessors to divshot in the WYSIWYG world, expect many developers and designers to be extremely open minded, yet very skeptical.
Things the iPhone 5 Still Can’t Do
This applies to different types of design/designers.

If you're looking for graphic design, then find a designer whose graphic design you love. If you're looking for a UI design, then find a UI designer whose UI you love.
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After thoroughly reading patent 1, I must conclude that this patent is invalid as are all of the others as they're obvious applications of the first (some are even described within the first, in totality).

There was merit in the concept of file deduplication, especially in distributed file systems, as I'm unsure if this existed as prior art since I can't find any reasonable literature before 2000. I'm pretty sure someone had created a file deduplication script in UNIX at least 20-30 years prior, but I can't find references to that work, so I'll assume none exists and give this patent the benefit of the doubt. Though the 'uniq' command in UNIX could be trivially used to implement this if you consider the use of MD for file uniqueness checks, so even that credibility is questionable. For example, fill a file with contents such as:

<md hash> <filename>\n

For all files in the filesystem, then uniq on the first N characters where N is the length of the md hash, and use -d to display duplicates, then remove those files. This can also be used as the mechanism for "attaching a substantially unique id to a file" as well as half of the claims in the first patent, which to me makes a strong argument that it was obvious.

However, everything else about it describes an obvious application and implementation of a hash table using a "substantially unique" hashing method, which could easily be described by MD5 which was published in 1992. For that reason, at least half of the claims in this patent are covered by prior art, and so the patent is, IMO, far too broad to be considered valid.
Press release: http://news.priorsmart.com/personalweb-technologies-v-racksp...

Complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/106190890/PersonalWeb-Technologies...
Another: http://www.foundersfund.com/termsheet
I'm not sure if this is a worthy distinction, but I think you're conflating a visual designer with a UX designer. Ideally one individual would be both, but I imagine those are harder to come by.
> a URL shortening service, i.e as far away from a real business as you can get,

Please define 'real business'. What does a company need to have to be a 'real' business? Users? Revenue? Profits? A product that at least some people are willing to pay money for?

I agree that bit.ly is a very simple concept, but I take issue with the disdain in your post - even URL shortening stops being straightforward once you expand from n = 1 to n = 10,000,000. And bit.ly does a lot more than 'just' that.

This reminds me of McCain's 'real America'. You may not like {NoVa, these kinds of startups} and you may think that they don't capture the 'true' spirit of {Virginia, business}, but at the end of the day, their {votes, dollars} count just as much as 'real' {America, business}.

You may not think Hilary's qualified to talk about the details of Yahoo's particular advertising model, but don't extend that into what's bordering on an ad-hominem attack against a very legitimate startup, as well as a key figure at said startup.
iOS 4.x doesn't have iCloud.
Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 6
Slapping an "explicit" modifier on all your constructors eliminates what the author is complaining about.
I've noticed you make comments like this every time salaries are mentioned around here, with usually the same reception. You seem to honestly believe what you're saying, and you seem to be genuine when you say that you've observed lots of low salaries in your portion of the industry.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dsolomon

But you'd benefit from knowing that it's not like that, pretty much anywhere else in the developed world. Real developers really are making six figure salaries writing code for a living, working 40 hour weeks, no tricks. More important to you, specifically: You could be making six figures as a software developer. You just need to step out of your niche and go find a job for a public sector company.

Given your comment history, I doubt you'll believe me, or any of the others here replying to you, or the dozens of people who have replied to you over the years. But it's true. We look forward to seeing you out here some day.
http://dev.sincerely.com/ is another.
Linking Entities to Wikipedia is awesome. I love the idea of Online Sentiment Towards Congressional Bills but it's too bad they didn't show their results.
In SF Bay area, my experience in the last year or so has been that salary comp is pretty much the same between start-ups and big companies, the only exception being super-early-stage startups (i.e. pre-series A) where they really don't have the money yet. The difference is that at bigco, they add bonus and equity grant that have real value, while at startup, they add some % of equity with unknown value. Companies like Amazon and Netflix are also different because they adjust the base salary up to compensate for their different equity award policies.
Yeah, it's not massive, but a few grand is nothing to sneeze at either. We're just trying to think differently, and act differently, from everybody else in the space.

And you're right, the real value lies in being offered a larger salary.
Yahoo  returning $3 billion of the proceeds to shareholders
The Future Of Robotics
Making the copy constructor and operator= private (see boost::noncopyable to take care some of that boilerplate) takes care of some of the other hidden costs.

I do agree that C++ is a complex and hodgepodge language, but I am not sure there are acceptable alternatives yet. It would be great if JVM had native support for value types, i.e., a way to use manual memory management, bypass bounds checks, or call native code without incurring serialization costs.

Yes, I am aware that C# does this (and I like C# and F# a great deal as languages), but a) I am not deploying Windows in production b) Mono is not yet a viable high performance server side platform (it does look promising for desktop and mobile application or for simpler ASP.NET webapps).

C is a beautiful and simple language (one I have strong affinity for) but manually implementing vtables is a bit painful (see a large pure C project for an example of that), nor is there any support for type-safe generic programming (which is an issue I have with Go as well -- even though I fully understand their reasons for omitting generics).
Do you know the URL for that website that is tracking failed KS projects?
My understanding of the post is that the diagrams for exceptions are literally the same (not just close), only with the arrows reversed.
I've considered using source control on my IPAs just in case I want to roll-back an app. It's happened a few times, like when developers break compatibility, or when they introduce ads and/or IAP, or sometimes I just don't like an update.
How is that not the "worst argument in the world"?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441734

tl;dr: The worst argument in the world is "X is Y, therefore, X must be a typical case of Y". Here, "The DBC policy is discrimination, therefore you should associate with it all the bad things you usually associate with discrimination, irrespective of whether they apply here."

Stripped of its misdirection, your question/argument is, "Isn't that bad for the same reason that 'we don't hire blacks' is bad?" No, it's not. There is a sense in which this kind of discrimination is bad, but there's also a sense in which its good (i.e. disrupting the self-reinforcing cycle of certain demographics dominating the programming field and making those outside of it feel out of place).

There are great arguments about which effect is stronger and/or worse, but they aren't helped by saying "That is discrimination."

Disclaimer: I was in the Spring (first) cohort of DBC, though don't have as glowing a review of the program as everyone else seems to.
AT&T to launch Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung Galaxy Note II on October 21st
BGR has confirmed with a trusted source that AT&T’s (T) upcoming flagship smartphones for the holidays — besides that flagship smartphone, of course — will be launching on October 21st.
You're simply closing your ears and exclaiming "special relativity" which only applies locally (if you want an appeal to authority, I talked about this with a former physicist who worked with Stephen Hawking).

If you come up with a mathematical "proof" and I can use its conclusion to prove that 1 + 1 = 3, then I have shown your proof to be incorrect via contradiction, no matter how hard you continue to argue for it.

Special Relativity does not only apply locally. It applies to any system where information can be transmitted between two points that are in inertial frames.

The universe expanding at faster than the speed of light is neither here nor there, since you cannot use the expanding universe to transmit information between two points in at FTL speeds. On the other hand, you CAN use an FTL drive to transmit information between two points in inertial frames at FTL speeds.

QM spooky action at a distance does not let you transmit information between two points at FTL speeds.

This is all you need to do to show that any FTL scheme violates Special Relativity: Information transmitted between two points in inertial frames at FTL speeds. If you can do that, you've either disproven causality, or you've disproven Special Relativity.
Blinkx Builds the World's Largest Video Search Index
Conservative exploitation of the Horatio Alger myth. From what I gather, Romney is saying there are those that want a handout and there are those that want to work for it. And he assumes that only the latter are republican and worth his time. I disagree. There is a big difference between finding a way to not pay taxes and not making enough to pay taxes.
With modern optimizing compilers and CPU architectures, you can't really predict the cost of code merely by looking at it anyways. Not in any language.

Will that function call be inlined? Does it have side-effects? Are the arguments constant, so that it might even be evaluated at compile-time? Can it be hoisted out of a loop? Do its pointer args alias, preventing many of these operations? Is it big enough to blow the cache, or will it all fit in L1 and benefit from really fast memory accesses? Can branch-prediction operate effectively on its loops, or does it have an unpredictable pattern that will flush the pipeline many times?

I've heard that the best way to get your program to run fast is to get it into a compiler benchmark suite, so that compiler-writers account for it when writing optimizations. Failing that, it's all about profiling so you can measure the actual cost rather than relying on what you think you know about the programming language.
The days when you can reason about performance by looking at function signatures are, in my opinion, long gone.

I can count on one hand the number of times that I thought that changing the function signature of a few methods was going to impact whole application performance. Every time, it was in a low-level function that was called all over the place. Or, more to the point, I dug into function signatures when evidence pointed me there.

I can't even begin to list all of the other problems I worry about that actually do impact whole application performance on a regular basis.
Marissa Mayer: "The Yahoo! board and management have met, reviewed the strategy with regard to the proceeds, and are pleased to announce that we will be returning $3 billion of the proceeds to shareholders in addition to the 'down payment' of $646 million made over the past few months. This yields a substantial return for investors while retaining a meaningful amount of capital within the company to invest in future growth."
> Imagine if Android’s Gmail app made you click the trash to save something. We would certainly see complaining blog posts and snarky tweets all over the place. So why does Instapaper get a free pass?

I’m not sure that we would. There are some great designers working on Android apps, but I don’t get the feeling that the UIs get the same critical eye, especially because there is less consistency throughout Android.

Marco should probably have the Archive box and the trash icon in the main list view instead of the trash icon that does both. However, I get the feeling that he doesn’t care as much about the polish of Instapaper as some people do. Last year I sent him an email with a list of adjustments to bring Instapaper in line with how iOS apps should behave (e.g. table view cells should fade out with the back-navigation transition instead of after it), but months later, most of the issues aren’t fixed. It’s the little things that really show polish and he doesn’t seem to be responsive to fixing the little things.
8099420: Accessing Data in a Data Processing System. That sounds more like a joke. Does it really pretend to have invented the IDs?
Welcome to the ugly, ugly truth about startups. Employees have so little equity compensation it's almost hilarious - and yet founders will hand out 0.1% offers and expect you to take huge haircuts for the privilege of owning a tiny sliver of a 7-8 figure exit (potential exit, actually).

Having seen the stock and bonus structure at Amazon and Google, I can confidently say that your expected outcomes are considerably higher at a top-tier tech company than at your average startup.

Sometimes I wonder where all of this "take a haircut for equity" advice is coming from for employees. It's patently terrible given the amount of equity that most deals involve.
Bankofamerica.com is Down
[How to] Install Linux on Android?
Database Unit Testing for SQL Server
Workable HR- Making Hiring workable
Cool animated doodle in CSS
>Back in May, Yahoo pledged to distribute most of the Alibaba windfall to its shareholders. But after making that promise Yahoo hired longtime Google Inc. executive Marissa Mayer to its CEO. Last month, Yahoo revealed Mayer is considering holding on to the money.

If Yahoo! was in my portfolio, I would be furious if they distributed that money to me in the form of a dividend.

Well maybe not furious. I'd take it, then immediately sell all my stock on the signal that they are too inept to see that that money would be much better spent on transformative changes and acquisitions in order to turn the company around.
How To Die With No Regrets
Introducing Gith - GitHub WebHooks For Node
Usually, people who ask for a fax are capable of receiving one.
Last time I knew, examiners were graded on the number of patents granted, not rejected. Removing perverse incentives would help a lot.
One of the ideas in my ideas file is a service that provides an API for sending letters. You simply send a PDF/DOC/etc along with address information, your API key, postage type, etc, and then the letter is printed (by myself) and posted.

Possible uses of the service would be automatic sending of invoices or mailing out payment reminders or contracts that need to be signed, etc.

There are a few companies that provide similar services but I haven't found one that does it in a particularly nice way. They often require using SOAP and don't have modules for common frameworks and SDKs for common languages.

Would any of you use this or are letters completely dead to young companies?
Carwoo http://carwoo.com does something similar where the buyer submits what kind of car they're looking for, and local dealerships will submit bids, after which you can send them a counteroffer. The last time I used it was 2 years ago so wouldn't know if they've changed features since then.
>if it counts as non-fiction

Barely, but I still think it's a great read. Along the same lines but less fiction is the art of non conformity, since it talks about a similar subject, without going too off-the-rails crazy.
Life after Twitter: StockTwits builds out its own ecosystem
I'm not sure if I understand your criticism. The article seemed to be commenting about the placement of ads (which she believes to be optimized by analytics), not about the economics of ads or how they are processed behind-the-scenes. I come from a data understanding background, and the cool thing I liked about this article was the following statement:

"...experiences like this are great reminders that data only takes us so far, and creativity and clear thinking are always required to find the best solutions..."

This might be very basic knowledge for everyone, but many researchers in machine learning & data mining community do not think like this. They believe that data tells the entire story.
I don’t think that would magically make them upgrade either, although they might be willing to do so since the only thing we can do is not upgrade our apps to support them.

Obviously this will vary from app to app, but I’m surprised that you have such a high number of users with an older version of iOS. Is that across all of your apps/games?
And 7 pages! 7 pages written about 33 words from an unknown source of unverified validity about a subject that is controversial and itself unverified. Brought to you by one of the worlds largest scientific museum and research center.
Am I the only one looking for a link to the website actually doing that?

As a company how do you subscribe to such a feed? As a developer how do you create a profile, update a resume, checkout the companies?
> it would be incredible if the command bar could be integrated into my chrome omnibar...

That's pretty unlikely, though Firefox probably provides deep-enough hooks to do so.
http://carwoo.com/ ?
This idea is very similar to Instagram, but with following tweaks :
1) It is an instagram like application where you can take protographs using smartphone.
2) This will have a web interface.
3) This also accepts camara photos over the web like Flickr or picasa.
4) Users can order photo prints at a very economocal price.
5) Users have an option of selling their photos as stockphotos(have a checkbox while just before uploading photo asking "Do you want to enable this photo to be sold as stockphoto")?

Do you pay for this service?
Wifi on flights has had the exact opposite effect on my productivity while flying. I used to be able to churn out interesting new things because I had no choice but to focus on them. Now I'm too weak to not be distracted by email, Twitter and HN to pass the time.
They could be a hero by placing them in the public domain. Licensing them for even a nominal fee would be extortion. $1 for something that should be $0 is an infinity too large, besides it would still require you to get that license.

If someone were to charge me 'right of way' tomorrow to leave my house and the cost would only be $1 I wouldn't pay up, I'd shove them out of the way. There is not 'right' price for extortion.
Don't worry, we're working on it - we should have our results up by this weekend. We're planning on doing something like http://www.albertwavering.com/projects/commoncrawl/bill.html to show our results, but I would love to hear suggestions.
I'm not quite catching your point. If a coder is able to do 25x as much in the same time, I am willing to pay him substantially more - I get things done sooner and/or need fewer other coders. Most times, I won't be willing to pay him all of the 25x more (even with perfect information), because there is more risk putting all my eggs in the one basket. In some circumstances, where time is especially critical, I may be willing to pay more than the 25x - Mythical Man-Month and all that.

That they might be more valuable on other projects may be relevant to what I need to pay to retain them, but isn't relevant to what I am willing to pay.
23% still is
Golden Record: Data Visualization for Extraterrestrials (1977)
"share w/ /dev/null"
Has that number changed much over time? The iPhone 3 hasn't been for sale for over 2 years at this point, so I'm curious if you're seeing the number go down at all.
Looks good, I may use this- but hope its not gonna be pricey.
I was thinking along the same lines after just reading the headline. Have the dealership come to you and compete on price. I would guess that dealerships would rather not work this way. But they may see it as a good way to get buyers in the door. I would want to know there wouldn't be any bait-and-switch trickery going on.

Here is an interesting take on the use of Game Theory with the technique you describe:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/04/26/the-best-way-to...

AND

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41819

Perhaps this idea can be packaged into an app.
Is the "Facebook infection" code open source? There is no link to the code.
International is where this could really shine, print out at the location closest to where the letter needs delivering & avoid international prices
Turning 8-Bit Sprites into Printable 3D Models
> Is anyone actually arguing at this point that our current patent regime is accomplishing this end?

All through history patents have always hindered innovation and progress, and there is plenty of research to back this up:

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...

I think it should be obvious by now for anyone that we are well past the point where the system is fixable, the only solution is to abolish it or it will again become captured by trolls, oligopolies and lawyers and used to crush anyone doing anything innovative and useful.
Oh, well, this won't be the first time I have suggested something that's already been done. :)