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Started using their free application and bought the full version for $0,5 on a promotion :)
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you assume Android isn't trying to compete on features as well. Guess what, it is, and competing in various form factors and price.

No offense, but unless this device blows the doors off in reviews (in battery life and usability) this thing is DOA. The Pro version might have better luck with the enterprise, but no reasonable person is going to buy an RT tablet that can't run desktop apps and lacks the ecosystem that Apple has.
At that speed, it could easily cut through the rather delicate construct that is an airliner's wing, especially close to tip as it did.
A person should be called by the name they give you. What did Curie call herself?
If you talk to some backbench MPs (usually opposition and/or minority parties) you will find that they (claim to) struggle to get the (partisan) speaker to allot time for them to speak, particularly in high-profile debates and sessions.
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> I don't see a reason you can't.

I've worked on campaigns professionally from 2002-2010 and I've run local and state races, including my own for borough council and school board.

Why can't we change the way campaigns are run?

Campaigns would be the easy part to change, but even then it depends what you want to change. Are you talking about new technology? The Romney campaign is doing a decent job of utilizing technology in how they're collecting voter contact results from phones and doors, organizing volunteers and managing fundraisers. Obama did an excellent job as well in 2008, especially compared to the CF that was the McCain campaign.

If you want to make changes to the way fundraising works and the influence of money in politics, it will need to be incremental. That isn't something you can just cut off overnight for several reasons, the two biggest being that (A) nothing happens overnight in Congress, and (B) Members of Congress would essentially be shutting down their means of securing re-election.

Why can't we change the way people vote?

For the same reason a PA court placed an injunction on that state's Voter ID law: you can't deprive an otherwise qualified individual of his or her constitutional right to vote.

You want to have internet voting? You better have a plan to give everyone in the country high speed internet access and be prepared for the unrelenting torrent of lawsuits when the server goes down.

I'd personally like to see internet voting someday, but you really need to have massive redundancy systems in place and plenty of checks to prevent fraud. What happens if the server is down all day? What about peak traffic? What if the database gets wiped 30 minutes before the end of voting? Anyone who knows about how government contracts are structured knows that would be an IBM and/or Diebold contract in the hundreds of billions. And it still wouldn't work.

> I believe mass media dominate campaigns because of the sheer amount of money thrown into them.

This statement makes it look like you think one is correlated to the other, which I'm not inclined to agree with. Because there's a lot of money in politics, that somehow means mass media "dominates" campaigns, whatever that means?

I'm not sure what your alternative would be aside from information directly from the campaigns themselves (which is almost guaranteed to be skewed, if not incorrect).
Occam's razor? What about any common sense? Note that within minutes from the catastrophe there was already the government camp claiming that this was clearly an accident with no fault on either side and the president camp speculating that this was an assassination. The fact that investigation after that was kind of a bad joke didn't help to silence the second camp.
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They made only one attempt and were on about 30 meters when the series of failures (engines, electrical power, deck computer, steering, etc.) were recorded by black box devices. The airplane broke into thousands of pieces over the swamp near the Smolensk airport.
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Agreed. Most the crashes are consequences of pilot reaction to an unusual event. In short, pilot error. Occam's razor people. Learn it, use it.
There's a page linked from the above link:

http://planetsave.com/2011/01/26/iron-seeding-of-ocean-may-p...

Which says

"...while iron seeding does indeed promote algal blooms, not all alga are equal — some forms can be poisonous to other lifeforms. One such form of plankton — a species of diatom by the name of Pseudo-nitzschia — happens also to be strongly associated with a wide-ranging neurotoxin called domoic acid (DA). The toxin may be a metabolic by-product or perhaps an adaptation (survival strategy) of this planktonic life form."

"Given the proposed use of iron fertilization strategies to reduce atmospheric CO2 and ocean acidification, the authors caution: “…consideration of the potentially serious ecosystem impacts associated with DA is prudent."
The simulation also didn't agree with facts, without proposing anything regarding why it the plane might end up where it was found.

Pity the facts, right?
Maybe I should work on a side project which is a user-maintained directory of side projects...
Audio recording of their final minutes is available on YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjzMwAFrmc ) and is in line with the official version (for instance, pilots start swearing and screaming a couple of seconds before the end, right after the controller says something about height and a second approach)
I've always thought a dedicated team of coders, managed and directed well, would be much better for government/educational IT than going with giant corrupt companies. I do hope this goes well.!
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Errr, no - while that's what you see in the directory tree, that's not how it's done internally.
SVN has a data model where multiple paths in the repo tree can point to the same underlying file object, so a branch requires no file copies, just updating what the directory tree looks like. Even that is done in a very efficient way.
It might not quite be 40 bytes, but it is negligibly small.

This technique is in fact extremely similar to how Git works.
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Because "accident" is how you call such disasters? Also, people in the industry knew the less-than-sterling reputation of governmental transport service.

EDIT: I should clarify that "accident" is a specific class of event in aircraft accident investigation, together with "incident". It's literally "aviation terminology" stuff.
How much experience with GIS and mapping do you have to make a statement like that? OpenStreetMap is still not good enough to satisfy many of our clients, nor does it meet the expectations of government regulators. With GIS layers and geocoding there's value in paying for quality tools, data and support. Apple found out the hard way.
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Well, for us "Asana + Facebook chat + Email + Dropbox + Google Docs" works right now. Although, I know that we don't have "a process of a dream", in fact.
I liked this talk about distributed team in Treehouse - http://vimeo.com/47271938 - of course, it's about rather a big company but has interesting points for anyone, I guess (I also liked 4-day workweek idea).
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I was a math major in college, with a focus on pure math. I did a year or grad school (math PhD program) and left to work on Wall Street (and worked for a couple startups, and Google, in that mix). In all, I spent 6 years as a mix of quant, trader, software engineer, startup entrepreneur, data scientist.

The software engineering career is in somewhat of a mess right now. It comes down to the "bozo bit" problem. Being a software engineer (even with 10+ years of experience, because there are a lot of engineers who only do low-end work and don't learn much) is not enough to clear the bozo bit, and you won't be able to prove that you're good unless you have a major success, and it's hard to have that kind of success without people already trusting you with the autonomy to do something genuinely excellent.

It's not enough to write code, because LoC is a cost and source code is rarely actually read at the large scale. At least for backend developers, the only work-related (as opposed to political) way to establish that you're worth anything as a engineer is to have an architectural success, but it's very hard to have architectural successes unless you've established yourself as an "architect" to begin with. So there's a permission paradox: you can't do it until you've proven you can, and you can't prove you can do it until you've done it. Hence, the vicious politics that characterize software "architecture" in most companies.

Functional programming is one way to put yourself head-and-shoulders above the FactoryFactory hoipolloi. The problem is that most business people don't understand it. They just think Haskell's a weird language "that no one uses". Elite programmers get that you're elite if you know these languages, but most companies are run by people of mediocre engineering ability (and that's often just fine, from a business standpoint).

It is true that functional programming is superior to FactoryFactory business bullshit, but not well-enough known. Good luck making that case to someone who's been managing Java projects for 10 years. What is better known is that mathematics is hard. It's a barrier to entry. I doubt more than 5% of professional programmers could derive linear regression.

So I see the data science path (and yes, it takes a long time to learn all the components, including statistics, machine learning, and distributed systems) as a mechanism through which a genuinely competent software engineer can say, "I'm good at math, and I can code; therefore, I deserve the most interesting work your company can afford to fund." It's a way to keep getting the best work and avoid falling into that FactoryFactory hoipolloi who stop advancing at 25 and are unemployed by 40.
The overreaction of pilots couldn't make 100 tons of steel to break into pieces 30 meters over the ground.
He knew about this.

Check pg announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998376, almost 2 years ago.
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Actually, I think today's procedure is that a pilot is retired after two ejections because of the induced trauma.
They are exactly the same but there's a few people using the org instead.
Good point - I suppose I hadn't considered it like that.
I tend to happily commit to my feature branch on SVN and then make sure that the log message is good when I merge to trunk.

Incidentally you can edit previous log messages in SVN, it's just that most servers have it disabled, for traceability.
She studied on the underground university not because she was female but because Poland was under Russian occupation; see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University
There is an extra competition factor: App Store. I don't think anybody can compete with Apple in some sectors like games and interactive books. I haven't seen anything similar to the iPad offerings even in the Android store.
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Alleged 'terrorists'. The extradition treaty means we never got to see the evidence.
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This article is a load of hogwash. "The heart of the pro-Western Polish leadership"? This is silly on so many levels.

I hope this kind of conspiracy theory raving will not make it onto the HN frontpage too often.

As to the crash, it was a CFIT (controlled flight into terrain). There are cockpit recordings right until the moment the plane hit the tree and then the ground. No explosions.
Great option. I was waiting for such an option.

Another problem I have is that I keep scanning the front page list of references to see if a new article popped in somewhere in the list between the last time I checked.

This is inefficient. My impression is that providing a list of references sorted by the time they reached the threshold would do the trick. Though, this would require a significant amount of work to produce. Being able to precompute the sorted list and share it with many users would allow to cache it.

So I raise the question if it is not preferable to propose predefined threshold values. How much difference would it make to have a threshold at 55 and 54 anyway.

Let say you propose a treshold at 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100 for example, the pages could be precomputed and cached.

A script on the browser side could keep track of the last references seen and show older articles in gray for instance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Curie_Sk%C5%82odowsk...
Yeah, I agree in general. I thought that because I looked and initially just saw a block of links, which I habitually glossed over, and had to stop and actually read to see that it comprised the main navigation of the site. It's something I feel a small set of icons would alleviate.
Interesting that there's no mention of Office in the screenshot. I had assumed that at that price the inclusion of it would be the differentiator over the iPad since the Surface RT app ecosystem is minimal right now.

Personally, I'd have a very hard time recommending this as a purchase. I'm much more bullish on Surface Pro as its legacy support can mitigate any Win8 App Store holes.
The skill is already there, as evidenced by the large numbers of developers flocking tech hubs such as the iHub in Nairobi.
What is needed is first is angel investors to help projects become startups. It's hard to build a startup on an empty stomach.
Next is successful role models for those in Universities and colleges to emulate.
Thanks gibybo - Our motivation for region issues is mostly due to being Australia based and constantly hitting issues with finding content (Our TV networks have a pretty bad rep, to the point where we're often one of the top pirating nations for shows - e.g. http://delimiter.com.au/2012/05/22/australia-top-game-of-thr...). giby.tv looks very cool by the way.

It's indeed quiet a hard problem to solve - and I think it's going to be one of the biggest issues going forward for exactly the reasons you mention. Another one on top of that (another fun one: different punctuation in names, inc. in the year and region suffixes).

There are a bunch of data sources we tap into / plan on tapping into the near future that we hope will help solve these issues even more.

(The two of us developers work on music stuff which face very similar issues - the annoyance of dealing with album, track and artist names across services is a constant frustration).
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So basically we're going to see pundits compare it to the iPad's price using the keyboard-less price, then compare the actual devices while using the keyboard even though it costs an extra hundo. Awesome.
She was technically Polish, but she didn't owe much to Poland. Especially not her successes in science. That's what I mean. For me it's ethically wrong to boast about Maria Skłodowska-Curie as a Polish scientist. And it's not just "not respecting" ! It's likely that she wouldn't achieve anything if she chose to stay in Poland. She was denied higher education !
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That's a nice note on the dev perspective. If they were smart, they'd have something similar to Google I/O and give tons away to potential developers.
Only a tiny part of the dead plankton will make it to the bottom, most falls apart in the top layers and the CO2 will stay in circulation. The effect is tiny, thus it takes a long time to naturally have an influence.
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There are over 600 MPs, that's always going to be an issue.

It's worth noting that the chamber of the house isn't the only way to influence proceedings. Recent years have seen a return to prominence of many of the select committees comprised of backbench MPs selected independently of the party whips.

The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee was front and centre during the phone hacking scandal and any bill put before parliament will have gone in front of a committee before it gets there.
> it's how you continue to iterate and make beautiful, successful apps.

I think it's great that they officially support "release early and often"!
> I hope this kind of conspiracy theory raving will not make it onto the HN frontpage too often.

Yep, it's very off topic. Conspiracy theory debates are about the last thing you want on a site like this.
Apologies, I was being slightly sarcastic, they were indeed only alleged criminals . The bankers were proven bankers, which isn't usually a crime (though at times perhaps should be), and also hadn't been found guilty in a court of law.

Edit: Apologies to bankers everywhere and their supporters, sarcasm turned off for the rest of the day.
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This is a pretty neat usage of a service that only makes sense because of the scaling ability of the underlying platform. I expect to see many more things of this kind.
Pricing like an iPad, fewer apps than Android tablets, and no way to run legacy Windows applications. It's hard to see what the selling point is here.
I can't see the highlight on the dropdown when trying to change where I'm from - it flickers very fast and then just looks like white on white. (Chrome 21/linux/crappy ATI card, could easily be their drivers).
They already did that for Windows Phone, nearly every mobile dev i know got a free Nokia Lumia or similar at certain conferences (Droidcon Berlin was an odd choice tho).

It didn't seem to have helped that much.
ok for me too now (was offline the last 30m). maybe it was something else, but other sites seemed ok. anyway, thanks for the report.
> There are over 600 MPs, that's always going to be an issue.

I think their complaint isn't that they were struggling due to shear numbers, but due to the partisan speaker and deference to party leaders.
The metro DC region is one of the most educated areas of the country. This is the reason why the area leans more blue than red.
Any reason for not releasing an MVP with frequent follow-on releases instead of a big-bang release? I ask because I suffer from the problem of not releasing often enough. Saw matching symptoms in your post that made me wonder what your reasons were.
That key bit of information puts the article in a completely different light. Without this information it is not unreasonable to interpret it as an anti-science stance from the Republicans. Ars Technica's reporting is usually excellent, but this is a serious omission.
For any noticable effects on temperature it is way too small. Similar experiments have been conducted by Scientists near Antarctica in the past (including international protest after it became known), resulting in big algae patches visible on satellite images (see the slides in [1] for examples).

[1] I'm referring to the slides here:
http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/institut/studium/lehre/lehr...
It's still pretty hard to start a business in Africa, period.
Lack of acess to capital, quite represive legal and tax environment, lack of cheap and skilled labour (that translates into expensive skilled labour), infrastructure that is very far from being sufficient (even if it's getting better) and potential constumer that remain quite poor.

So a scene of technology companies is pretty far fetched.

Don't let the growth rates fool you. Most of it is still related to oil, mining, construction and public works.
$100 cheaper than an iPad.
Hm. We had rather quiet lectures in our Russian university and our parliament (or Duma as it is called here) is a complete crap.
Except it's not 100 tons of steel. It's a very delicate structure of tons of parts, and the part that got damaged wasn't the most resilient (nor did it account for 100 tons of steel). Breaking into pieces happened when the whole plane hit the ground in the worst possible (for airliner) way - upside down. At over 180 km/h.
The BBC reported that in a recent meeting between Obama and Cameron this was discussed. This suggests that US interest in extraditing him had cooled and that they wouldn't be too upset with this outcome.
And descending below minimum permitted and decision altitudes was also caused by explosives? Flagged
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Right at the bottom: "Pre-loaded with Windows RT, Microsoft Office 2013 RT...". I'm not sure it will be enough to set it apart from the competition, though.
A plane crash caused by pilot error is the definition of an accident. Not intentional, unexpected, and uncontrolled. The scale or tragedy of the accident doesn't remove the fact that it's an accident.

accident:

[1] An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.

[2] A crash involving road or other vehicles, typically one that causes serious damage or injury.
iPad 2 can be bought from $399, and the $499+ iPads have a Retina display, this is only 1366x768.
Even with PC sales on the decline, there are still going to be tens of millions of people with a Windows 8 computer and the "Store" tile staring them in the face every time they turn it on.
Wow, it doesn't have 3G standard! If it came with 3G I think this pricing would be acceptable. As it is, good luck MS!
Well, I would argue a large number of young white professionals have moved in to and are gentrifying many parts of DC.
By the way, Einstein as a absent-minded scientist is a misconception and a product of FBI propaganda. He lived in the era of McCarthy. There were hotels with signs "Dogs and Jews not allowed". Einstein's file in FBI was over 800 pages, they were trying so hard to find an excuse to bust him. Einstein was active in politics and even believed it is his duty as a famous person to promote humanitarian ideas like racial equality. He was painted as a reclusive, harmless nerd by FBI in an attempt to reduce his influence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_political_v...
Nope we didn't, as I said in the post, it was one of the things we decided up front to use ArangoDB.

It is developed locally and we wanted to try if it scales up and assists us, or if we should go the "traditional" Postgres way that everybody else goes.
It's $100 cheaper.
$100 more expensive than an iPad 2.
If they can make a safer, more secure and less verbose C/C++, without giving up on what makes C/C++ a good choice for some projects (low-level control and performance), I'm sure some people will switch (I know I will). It's just that no one succeeded in this before.

It's just too easy to shoot yourself in the foot with the current C/C++. Combined with developers overestimating themselves and a lack of static checking by compilers, this results in all kinds of hard-to-debug and hard-to-find issues. A language that guarantees no dangling NULL pointers, no buffer overflows and safe concurrency/parallelism is a great promise, at least.

Hopefully it gains enough critical mass. We'll see where this goes...
Looks really interesting. As a freelancer/writer I sometimes don't know how much to charge and I've never found it easy to manage my cashflow.

Looking forward to receiving an invite to the beta :)
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