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Wasn't HP working on memresistors that were going to be way faster than traditional memory, but they've pushed it back a year or two so their partners could adjust their biz models? Were they waiting for DDR4 maybe?
The use of the glottal stop for the /t/ in "Manhattan" is how New York City natives born throughout the 20th century generally pronounced it, other than possibly elite class speakers. And you're correct that such glottalization occurs in other contexts in many regional US accents. The suggestion that this might be a result of recent British English influence is absurd.
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Philippine Internet lawyer says, law is over-reaching that it is worst than SOPA/PIPA. The law also makes cybersex illegal. It also increases the penalty of libel in the Philippines, among others. The selling and use of Wireshark, Nmap are potentially illegal in the Philippines.
I wonder if there'll be agreement on 'irony'. In British English, the ironic happening must necessarily be unintentional. It doesn't have to be unknown, just go against the intentions of the act (eg: an anticrime bill that the beat police know will raise crime)

In contrast, Americans often use 'irony' in an intentional manner. Selecting an ironic t-shirt to wear. Or the phrase that clued me into this: "The photographer has arranged the model's foot ironically".
To anyone who is not a parent reading this, please note that not everyone's experience of parenthood is blissful. The first few years of fatherhood were, for me, the unhappiest of my life.

Don't get me wrong - I've always loved my kids, but the physical and emotional demands they put on you, and the relentlessness of those demands, are impossible to understand from the outside. My youngest was almost two before she slept through a full night, and the constant exhaustion had a profound effect on my relationship with my wife, on our sex life, on my health, on my whole outlook on life.

Children are not experiments, they are actual really real people who will live in your house with you for 18 years or more. You will love them, yes, and hopefully they'll love you, but if you think love circumvents everyday practical difficulties then you've never experienced it.

New parents - please PLEASE don't only listen to stories of how amazing parenthood is, or you may get the shock of your life (as I did)

(FWIW my youngest is 4 now, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been - but who knows what teenage years will bring)
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Until you hit 500 RPM dead quiet, above that it makes a swooshing noise, but that quickly gets drowned out by the wind :)

Yes, Eggbeater (the proper term is a Darrieus rotor) are theoretically more quiet, and even more efficient.

Unfortunately those designs suffers from an incurable tendency to vibrate to pieces. There are so many modes of resonance that they don't live long.

Cap Chat in Canada has or had a fantastic machine of that type, but it was shut down after a minimal amount of operation because the safety of the machine could not be guaranteed, even in moderate winds. Google for Cap Chat Eole for more information.

I went there to visit the machine because I considered a VAT (vertical axis turbine) but decided against it because of this tendency to spray windmill bits & pieces.

There are a few more of them near the Canadian Rockies but those are also mothballed.

I still believe this to be one of the most beautiful designs.
There's a good semi-serious rant by comedian Brian Limond on the reverse (though I have a feeling that there are plenty of other rants on this topic):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGPgCVJUsI

I would claim not to mind it, but when I think for a minute I realise that the spelling of various words like "fibre" annoy me, as well as the mm/dd/yy format (and "November 15th" instead of "November the 15th"), and describing football/sports teams as "it" instead of "they" (i.e. "Real Madrid is on an amazing run of form" vs "Real Madrid are on an amazing run of form").
I will open source the data one of these days, promise.
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There is one way to back up to both iCloud and your computer. First, set up automatic iCloud backup. Then, whenever you plug in your iOS device, right-click on its name in the iTunes sidebar and hit 'backup'. It will do a one-time backup to your computer.

It's not perfect, but it works really well for me. Daily automated backups to the cloud + backups on my computer whenever I update the OS or upgrade devices.
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> Also: TV is harder than you think. Think "legacy network with some interesting regulation thrown in" (e.g., handling emergency broadcast signals, batshit insane limits on use of bandwidth) and that's for starters.

Well fuck that. Just do it all over the internet. The ideal system would be one where you don't purchase channel subscriptions, but individual shows. Then you can watch the shows you've purchased as many times as you want, on any devices you own. Of course, you will get "live" broadcasts in the form of being able to play it live when it normally airs for the first time on TV.

This is exactly what Apple's vision is, and I hope they find a way to make it happen, but I'm not very optimistic.
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Anyone who trades with them?

To make an honest attempt at addressing the problem, you'd need an international treaty. And -- not unlike Kyoto -- unless it included penalties up to and including automatic tariffs to collect those penalties, it would be pointless.
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There's also the distinct English dialects spoken in the various former colonies. These tend to more closely follow the original English and so, by way of analogy with a certain international institution, people talk about Commonwealth English.

It's interesting how the entire shape of Australian English was set by the early settlers -- you can still distinct dialects of Strine spoken in different parts of the country. Or the way that the vowel-lotto that New Zealanders play with "Unglush" has a lot to do with the heavy settlement of NZ by Scots.

I guess eventually we'll all speak the same English. It'll give the French something even bigger to hate. Manifique.
Of course, you are right. You can't force anyone to do anything.

And yet, remarkably, international cooperation on many issues still exists. Practicality come down to being diplomatic and being compromising.

You are right - it is difficult many groups of people (e.g. Dominionist Christians that think the rapture will happen in their lifetime) to even understand the need for policies of long-term sustainability.
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I started a public list on kippt to save all the interesting links related to Android development I come across during the day. If you are an Android developer you should check this out!
Or how about a small propulsion system with a tether that can be carried to LEO with a weather balloon and then propelled further if needed. You'd just need like a 100 mile long wire cable to use with it. I'm sure that's doable, right? :)
IMO, it would take as much time to Google Rapportive and find out what it is as it took me to write and submit this comment.
Still, you are unfairly singling out China. From the article you linked:

"It was the first known successful satellite intercept test since 1985, when the United States conducted a similar anti-satellite missile test"

"In February 2008 the US launched its own strike to destroy a malfunctioning US satellite, which demonstrated to the world that it also had the capability to strike in space"
The app has many shortcoming sure. But criticizing an icon is getting petty. Icons are abstractions of items, not the item. So, while it could be used as representative of the problems of the map in an editorial way, it's not really a problem.
I agree that based on the CTA you're expecting to go directly into the app, but to be fair that's the bottom CTA (I never saw it as it was below the fold of my screen).

Instead of taking the negative route, you could just tweet about it and ask for early access...
Is there a running demo of DrEdit? Edit there's one on the chrome appstore
Bashing Apples map app has jumped the shark.
Why do we need more than one language?
This article addresses the question of why we have so many programming languages, and we don't have a single one.
On my desktop (with chrome) searching google via HTTPS I get search results that first redirect to a HTTP page on Google then does a client redirect to the search result. This produces referer information to the search result.

It seems this step is not being taken on iOS, it could be google who singling out iOS6 and not doing the redirect to the HTTP page.
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I remember hearing about the growing orbital debris problem awhile back and thinking, Well, we've covered the surface area of the earth with a whole ton of stuff, but when you fly in an airplane and look out, most of the surface still looks almost completely untouched. Now the "surface area" of the orbit is way bigger than the earth's surface area, and we don't have nearly as much stuff up there yet, either. So shouldn't it be a long time before we start having problems like this?

I suppose the big issue is that most of that stuff is moving. If everything on the surface of the earth was constantly trying to circumscribe it, we'd have a lot more stuff colliding than we already do...
This doesn't make sense, because the UI design of the iPhone WAS tested. They did a ton of research into their solutions. They did exactly the type of testing I'm advocating.
I love this because the founder gets compensated the same way users do.
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What you haven't yet told us is: what's the lifetime value of a customer of your service?

Your stats above show an acquisition cost of $4.75 per user. That feels a little high, but you also have to consider the "landing page vs real product" problem. You may have gotten a higher conversion rate if you had a real product launched. You also don't have any experience yet advertising your product, so we can assume that the user acquisition cost will go down because of that as well.

So considering all that: what's the lifetime value of a customer? $10 or $100? If it's closer to $100, then even an acquisition cost of $5 would be great, but if you end up spending $5 to get a $10 user then either a) your idea isn't that compelling, or b) your marketing is suboptimal (edit: or c-- your product or industry demands that type of return, which probably isn't the case here).

So while I don't have "the answer" for you, you should start thinking about lifetime value of a customer and what you expect your user acquisition cost to become 6 months after launch. Weigh those two against each other and you'll have a good idea of whether this is worth pursuing or not. Best of luck!
Some interesting tidbits from wikipedia [1]:

Construction began in 1987 but was halted in 1992 [...] resumed in 2008 [to be completed this year].

The unfinished building was not surpassed in height by any new hotel until the 2009 completion of the spire atop the Rose Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
Thanks for sharing!

I'm curious about your experience running your own early stage startup and raising kids at the same time. (I was also inspired after meeting with Joel to start blogging!)

When did you start YouSites, was it before or after having kids? What was the reason behind that decision?
As an entrepreneur and a new parent, what experiences have been most rewarding, and what would you have done differently?
I disagree with the idea that proof of those concepts translates perfectly across all situations. You have to test something before you know if it works or not.
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Raising kids can definitely fit the definition of "experiment." Their status as real live people isn't mutually exclusive with that.

And yes, infants/toddlers are a serious PITA.
Looks interesting. Is there a limit on document size?
The travel site associated with this photo creeps me out...
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The biggest difference is there's no extension to install (not a big deal to most). Also, we're focused on non-designers being able to get their thoughts/likes across easy to designers.

That said, as a designer myself the Scratchpad process is largely based on an existing process I've employed for a while to get things going to show other's in a simple manner what i'm thinking and get early buy in to be able to move forward faster and on my own terms.
There isn't one right now but I may put one in depending on usage patterns.
I'm well aware of qualitative research, but he doesn't even have that. And, while I agree that you can translate and interpret the major themes, all you have done at that point is recognize that you have a similar problem and have formed a hypothesis that needs to be tested. You cannot assume that your method of fixing the identified problem will actually work until it is tested.
I too believed I would be signing up for a service that was already launched and thought twice when I realized I was being deceived.
Also:

Bit - Not at all uncommon in the US

Sell-by date - Also common in the US. It has different connotations than "expiration date", which is why a lot of grocery stores have started using it. Sometimes packages will even have separate "sell by" and "expiration" (also "use or freeze by") dates.

Metrosexual, Gastropub - These are not Britishisms. They're just recent words that happen to have originated in Britain. That's not at all the same thing. Britishism implies that the word is (or at least was) stereotypically British.
Curious - are you following the Hacker, Hustler, Designer model?
I have acquired many of these by means of exchanging email with British customers. It's nothing worth getting anyone's knickers in a twist about, I rather fancy some of the phrases. Cheers.
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I'm glad to see someone trying this. I very (very) casually explored this same idea recently by just browsing the search features of Instagram and Flickr. The results weren't very promising so I concluded it probably wasn't worth investing further effort in the API. Looking at the Huntington Beach results for this morning on the swellphone website, I don't see a lot that would interest surfers:

http://swellphone.com/spot/surf-spot/usa/california/huntingt...

And I would expect that to be one of the more popular spots.

When I was in school at UCSD years ago, I found scraping NOAA buoy data and loosely correlating it with personal experience was a good enough predictor as to whether it was worth the walk down to Blacks. But this is what surfline.com does at scale.

Incidentally, anyone know what happened to the site surfshot.com? I believe their model was just to send a couple photographers down the San Diego coast each morning and post pictures. Site has been around for years and worked well enough, I thought, but it hasn't updated since July.
Is this some kind of well known model? What are the others?
Looks good! Started with ZF2 a couple of weeks back and hacked this to ease with prototyping:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580784

Have a look there if there is something you could use! :)
Looking forward to part #2!
Wow. So it's mostly unfinished inside?
In fairness, I don't imagine private space companies would be careful about their debris unless someone else made them.
On your iPad, click your name in the upper right, and make sure there is an email on your profile. Then when you try to login and fail, you can email yourself a new password.
I disagree that real-world innovation isn't tested, iterated on, and improved. Look at flight and the Wright Brothers. They didn't just run numbers and present ideas. They built prototypes and tested their assumptions. That's what Bret needs to do. He needs to build, test, iterate, and improve upon his ideas.
Kinda unrelated but, thats a nice customised boostrap, did you do that yourself or use something pre-made?
I like the iPad but I have never owned a tablet. However, if I had one laying around I think I'd make use of it for lots of online reading if nothing more.

There's a dev I know in Houston who has been charging lawyer rates for years to train corporate teams in iOS development. Perhaps some of those gigs are triggered by a C-level guy getting excited by the Star Trek wow factor and wanting the IT department to build lots of dashboard UIs for his shiny new tablet, but I really do think there are lots of such dashboard use cases for employees at all levels of an organization and a tablet makes more sense for many of these employees to use for a lot of their job functions.
The maps app is a disaster, sure, but this is just petty. Come on.
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I've been reading about space junk for a while, if we are in fact 'past the tipping point' (as opposed to journalistic hyperbole) then you should be planning how your App will work in a post-GPS world. Seriously. While certain bands of orbit are currently more crowded than others, as the Chinese satellite attack [1] demonstrated, the debris from collisions will be wide and multiband. Further once it reaches that point the density is predicted to prevent additional satellites from reaching useful orbit trying to get through it (so more replacement Geo-sync satellites). Perhaps it will be the 21st century's equivalent of land mines in terms of resource denial to unintended victims.

Would make a great conference topic too, given SpaceX has a launch vehicle that can get your idea to pretty much all of the orbital bands for $150M, what might you do with a couple of tons of payload which would mitigate this problem, and how can we compensate it? What if the US/China/USSRS/EU funded a 'bounty' that for every ton of junk de-orbited the person who de-orbited it would get $1M.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mis...
It's amazing how many people have a problem with the idea of testing a solution. I'm simply saying that assumptions need to be challenged and assertions need data to back them up. I'm not saying any of this ideas are inherently wrong, I'm saying they're unproven.

If you down-vote simply because I believe a person should offer proof when they make a claim, you're falling victim to your own biases.
Is Google down right now?
If I'm not mistaken, they've sort of tweaked the definition of "interception" too. The game plan is to capture everything and then it's 'intercepted' when they actually listen and analyze it.
Referrer data still seems to be sent when I go to http://www.whatismyreferer.com/ from the SSL version of Google on my desktop.

In fact, I did the exact same thing but with the User-Agent set to iOS 6. No referrer data.

This is a problem on Google's side.
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This is funny, but I think that apple maps is just fine. I like the new maps app and don't understand the huge deal people are making this into.
I use mind maps for mapping out venture ideas because once you are finished, it is very easy to visualize what areas of the idea still need to be planned/hashed out.

However, I never thought about using it for programming. I would like to complement you on that idea. After reading your article, I completely understand how powerful of a tool this can be.

One of the biggest reasons I haven't completely jumped on mindmaps is because I used Evernote extensively for organization. However, it does not do as well for this kind of application, especially where visualization is important. I currently sort all sites, services, and articles in a tag tree in Evernote. To integrate it with this system, I will probably add note links to the maps under the relevant nodes.
"Unlike in the UK, there is no anti-ginger prejudice in the US, she says - Americans think of warm, comforting things like gingerbread."

As someone who grew up in America (with not ginger, but slightly reddish hair) I find this to very untrue. There's even a whole South Park episode* making fun of gingers, and there's few things more American than that. Maybe it's a relatively new thing, but I doubt many young Americans think of warm ginger bread.

* http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e11-ginger-...
The icon is rendered in a quarter of a square inch. Making it abstract and not directly representative is for legibility and visual reasons. Anyone navigating based off the icon for a navigation app deserves to drive into an overpass piling, because they would undoubtedly endanger others if they were on the road.
Would be nice to have a demo example thing. I have had problems with bad formatting results for these things before and don't want to sign up if I am not sure it will work. Even something like the samples at http://htmltolatex.sourceforge.net/ would be nice
Precisely. The maps icon has basically taken the on-ramp for the highway and abstracted it away for simplicity. Because there actually is an on ramp that you turn left onto after the overpass this icon is accurate.

If they had included the amount of detail shown in the second accurate picture on the link it would look completely cluttered and amateur.
The great pacific garbage patch is rather overhyped. From what you hear and the way some people describe it you'd think it would be like a sargasso sea of garbage, but it's actually just an increased concentration of small bits of plastic just under the surface of the ocean. If you were looking right at the water in the densest part of the garbage patch you probably wouldn't even be able to tell that the water was unusual.

For example, here's a typical picture illustrating the garbage patch: http://myecoaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/great-paci... However, it's a fraud, it's actually a picture from Manila harbor. The fact that this isn't the deep ocean should be blatantly obvious by the fact that there is a person in a canoe in it, and canoes are not well known trans-pacific transportation vessels.

I'm not saying that the various oceanic gyre garbage patches aren't a problem, but they certainly will not form a legacy for humanity, as they are pretty much invisible.
You are right, but I'm not going to let the facts get in the way of a perfectly good rant!

I'm not sure what word I should have used, but my fundamental point was that as long as decision-makers, be they corporations, individuals, or government entities, are allowed to make decisions without considering the cost of the mess they make (because they don't have to pay for it), then we are burdening those who will have to clean up the mess and don't even have a voice in our Democratic process.
Support for Persona in HN would be awesome...
I really wanted to like Limmy's show, I really did, but after 3 episodes I found I'd barely laughed, and even then only at Deedee's overanalysis of what the hardest item in his kitchen was.
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Well, the low-end N7 has a $152 bill of materials and has some fairly high-end hardware, so putting in slightly lower-end hardware (dual core chip, 1,024 x 600 display etc) can get the tablet close to $99.

The other thing to note is that Google can probably afford to lose a bit of money on these, since it'll only take a few months (say, q2 '13) for them to really drop to $99. Seems like having the only $99 this holiday season is worth a couple of hundred millions (think of it as a huge advertising campaign).
I agree this is just a question of improper grammar. However , it's fast becoming an Americanism. I think it's probably more common without the "n't" (or even just "n'") at this point.

> Kind of like something I see on HN quite often, "kind've".

Ew