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The Palm Pre runs on 2 major US networks. 2. And just about no-where else in the world.

I can go to Optus, Telstra, Vodaphone, Virgin, 3 - and get a subsidised phone (even free upfront). Or I can even go to http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/buy/ and buy one - and put in whatever random sim card I like.

While googling for this comment I found that palm are looking at releasing a gsm phone soon - that might change things - but for now - the iPhone has a major advantage in carriers - it's called GSM.
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sounds like guided navigation, faceted search and relational database stuff.
Yourself

I am not expert but I think links are about 80%, or if your domain name its the search term you are ok.
> Think about it this way: if you're in business, then it's likely that the most important process you have is your "order to cash" process wherein an order is received and, eventually, turned into cash. Who owns that process in your business? How was it created? When is it reviewed? Did someone build a model for it that can be simulated to test various scenarios?

We don't need to simulate this in many cases. We can just try different things and measure the results. This beats analysis and simulation.
Try "1 acre in square feet"

As they say, garbage in, garbage out.
Ok. That brings it back down to selling about 1 hotdog every 2 minutes, given 312 8-hour workdays per year. That's still quite a lot of hotdogs.
I'm not sure what you're getting at but it's Tarski not Tarsky.
The solution to this is

# apt-get install dnscache-run

, with the fringe benefit of not having to worry about whether your ISP has remembered to patch the BIND vulnerability de jour.
If you don't get it, then perhaps it's not a good service for you. There's no law saying any website should be universally useful or popular.
At what level. Try SEOmoz.org, either use them or see their listings of SEOs.

Also if you're not bothered about ethics, only about performance then you're pretty much guaranteed that a search on "seo consultant" will return the best seo consultants. Depending on your target region you may want to check a different SE, Google for UK, Baidu for China, Yandex for Russia, etc.; in some areas there's a reasonably split or indeed to test the SEOs effectiveness then crossmatch on 2 or 3 SE.

As dcnstrct says it's about onsite and offsite optimisations. On site is a technical process largely, off-site is a vast art as broad really as marketing in general.
I recommend watching Carmack's QuakeCon '09 keynote here: http://www.quakeunity.com/file=2919

It's 2 hours long, but he has a lot of interesting stuff to say about selling id Software to ZeniMax, Armadillo Aerospace, the Tesla Roadster, the future of games, and even the possibility of a Commander Keen game for iPhone. (The most interesting stuff is in the Q&A section at the end).
I really can't believe they called it 'complicated'.
As much as I consider BMI to be generally useless, since weight is a numerator, that's a huge range. For a 5' tall person, that's 102-128 pounds. For someone 6'4" tall, that's 164-205 pounds.

A target window of 26-41 pounds doesn't seem terribly unreasonable, so long as one doesn't blindly assume that merely being within the range is healthy.

I'd certainly prefer a body fat target, if it's supported by the research. (Perhaps a BFI? I'm certainly curious as to which denominator is the most representative of biological function, if not health).
I do SEO. Mostly for startups / small businesses, with a few special projects for larger companies. Your exact needs are a little unclear -- ping me if you'd like to add some detail, and I'll see what I can recommend.
Is this:

"In fact that Thomas Jefferson was a touch pissed when he penned the Declaration of Independence because the Royal Mail printed advertisements on the letters that were returned to him undeliverable, and he thought that was a little shystery."

true?
The day the blogging stopped
On Tuesday, 1,370 candidates in Japan's upcoming national election stopped blogging, and twittering. With the official 12-day campaigning window now underway, online communication is off-limits.
I used to live in SF's Financial District, and have also lived in NYC, and I must say I much prefer SF weather. The weather is boring (no seasons), but at least it doesn't every get freezing or disgustingly hot like NYC. Plus, if you ever want warmer weather, just drive out of the city or take the BART to Berkeley and you're there.

The weather is probably the thing I like most about SF, compared to NYC. Otherwise, SF is pretty boring, and I much prefer NYC (except for the likelihood that NYC will be a target of another major terrorist attack, at some point).
Ask HN: What do you think of e-cigarettes?
Hi,

As usual, I am looking for new ways to hack my brain. This time I'm looking at nicotine.

But not the tobacco; the vaporizing, pure kind -- ecigarette. It seems to be much more safer and doesn't fuck with lungs, which is why I'm even considering it.

I never smoked anything in my life so it's like not I'm trying to drop my habits. I just want new highs.

I'd be glad for any advice such as: THIS IS GOING TO KILL YOU.

Thanks.
You look good for the offsite viral elements!
I don't see how you can seriously argue this. You have 10 submissions to Hacker News, and all 10 of them are to your own website.
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> I wish someone would make optional typing for Lua...

I've wondered about this, as well. Adding it would probably greatly increase the size of the language/compiler, though (which goes against its major strength of being easily embeddable), and its not clear to me how it would fit with the underlying VM's design[1]. Just having a runtime-checked type system is quite a bit simpler, until programs get to a certain size.

I like inferred statically typed languages, but I think it may work better to leave Lua as-is, and instead focus on making an equally clean-but-pragmatic ML-styled language. H-M type inference, Haskell-style typeclasses, and pattern matching in the core language, but with the same tastefully minimalistic design that Lua has. Lua is (IMHO) an excellent scripting language, but it's still stateful/imperative by default. While OCaml and SML aren't purely functional, their design encourages going that way more than Lua's does, and it changes the semantics of the language considerably. (FWIW, I'm studying Prolog, unification, type systems, etc., and would love to work on such after I get a few more immediate projects finished...)

[1]: http://luaforge.net/docman/view.php/83/98/ANoFrillsIntroToLu...
What if the economy is a shitstorm? I'm not talking about right now, either; I'm talking about an Argentina-style, complete meltdown. What then? Can it become implausible to do well?
Do you, guys, notice how many bright minds work on this problem, right now?

And what if there is no single solution? Internet made information a commodity and there is no shortage of informations, so the basic law of economy learns us that if there is greater supply than demand, then the price goes down.

Obviously, not all informations are created equal and some, like niche financial comments (eg, Financial Times on China) are unique, thus worth paying for. Otherwise, what is the point of paying for informations about Michael Jackson's death?

Might be we are all beating the dead horse; few generations grew up surrounded by the newspapers and convinced that they provide real insights about the world but it turns out that the actual delivered value is less significant than we thought.

There is a lot of valuable content created by people who don't get paid. Actually, I hardly recall when I read a groundbreaking insights from the newspaper; blogs seem to serve the community pretty well.

It seems to me to be very similar to programming, actually. A lot of awesome code gets written by voluntarees, without any financial backing; the open source serves, though, as an awesome gateway for providing support or convincing the world that you are a worth hiring programmer.

To put it more broadly, because the information alone has no inherent value, to make it financially viable, it has to generate sales directly or indirectly, by building brand for example. And because people have a lot of good will and are creative, there will be also a lot of non-profit content always.

Just few random chaotic notes before going to sleep.
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How does nicotine help your brain? Relaxation?
Puts into dots how much more people india and china have.
Depends on how much. A lot of it produces a minor buzz. A bit (like one cigarette) relaxes you, calms your nerves. This effect is still present at a higher dose, but generally overshadowed.
Based on a four day visit rolleyes

Almost every time I visit a new place I want to move there, then I hang out for a few days and miss either New York or Sydney and realize that I'm perfectly content with my home(s).
Ask HN: Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop)
It's been impossible for me to find a job, as per this thread: [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754426]. ctb9 and I started emailing, and he encouraged me to work on a project, so I pursued one of my ideas and made a Hype Machine/Pandora tool for the newest songs in Hip Hop. It took me a week to build this prototype.

It is built in Flash/ActionScript, PHP, and MySQL. I use PHP to parse blogs and then download files, which took some engineering. It uses item-based collaborative-filtering techniques for music recommendation. Music storage is on Amazon S3.

I hope you like it.
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Meh, you can't get California style Mexican food but you can definitely get some great tacos.
If you have a hotdog stand in that area paying other people to keep it open 14 hours a day 7 days a week is probably a good idea.

Assuming 312 * 8 vs 360 * 14, even 2 people at 80k still dropps the number of hot dogs per hour you need to sell.
It's a specialty publishing company. Every month they do small book-sized magazine on topics of general interest (rather than news in particular); most of the articles are weak and shallow but are good conversation pieces. Each issue also includes a condensed version of a recently popular book.

They use the magazine subscription to advertise other things, particularly lotteries, but also to sell books, ranging from dictionaries to wildlife photography to DIY guides etc. The books are sometimes extremely good - of course for every book you like/are interested in, they offer you another 9 that you probably couldn't care less about.

Like another poster, I am nostalgic about them - I grew up outside the US, and found the magazine/books fascinating. By the age of about 15 or so I'd already grown out of them, but they were great for the 10-15 reading level, unless you like communism of course (in joke).
This is awesome. Currently background for a (hopefully regular) cooking session.

1) Don't make it autoplay - "Press play to get started" is much, much, much better

2) Ask me for artists I like and make recommendations

3) Ask me for friends that are also on hiphopgoblin and let me see (and play!) their likes/dislikes

4) Make the player pop out and keep the music playing when I open top 50 somehow (new window?)

5) Can I get some visual feedback when I thumbs up something?

Absolutely love the low barrier to entry!
I use www.seoguys.com.au

(1) They guarantee results.
(2) Only take a 5% commission till results are achieved, and maintained for a period of time.
(3) Have a list of clients you can contact, to see if they are really legit.
(4) Only use Google approved methods, so you never need to worry about getting "busted" and losing your rankings.
Um, "acre square feet" returns for me:
1 acre (square foot) = 375.965264 m^4

Is that wrong? It's an acre, about 4000 m^2 multiplied by a square foot (in SI) which is about (30cm)^2 or 0.09 m^2. That gives you c. 360 m^4 ??? Your point?
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And to reduce it even further -- there are two stands - not just 1. So it's 1 hotdog every 4 minutes for each stand.

That's only about 120 hotdogs a day per stand. That starts to sound kind-of reasonable - esp if you can make some extra profit selling a coke as well.
The weird, unregulated and unknown chemicals in the nicotine packets will kill you.

You'll also be the kooky spaz smoking the electronic cigarette, killing your chances to have normal interpersonal relationships with other human beings.

If you want to look stupid and do something socially alienating and dangerous at the same time, why not take a more tried-and-true approach, like rollerblading or riding one of those strap-in mountain skateboard things? At least that would be sort of fun...
You're totally right. Guiding people in the choice between even just the various computing options is a major task. This is just a big, big nut to try to crack..

To anyone attempting it, I'd suggest again starting in a very tightly focused domain. My pick would be cameras -- the classic "whattheheckdoIwanttobuyIhavenoideawhatthesenumbersmean" product.
Yeah, I think SF has more dangerous places then I've ever been to in NYC. In fact, though I've travelled quite a lot around the US and around the world, I'd say that I've never felt more threatened than I was in parts of SF.

SF is kind of weird in that it has these micro-neighborhoods, where you could go from a quite nice, posh neighborhood to a junky hangout in the space of a block. In NYC the transition from neighborhood to neighborhood is much more gradual, so you've got more of a warning.

And Market St in SF is just insane. I have never seen so many homeless people in my life. It's like a homeless army. It's really quite sad.

I heard that at one point there was an actual proposal being considered by the SF government to round up all their homeless people and send them to Treasure Island.
This is awesome. Love it. Added a link to my precious bookmarks toolbar space.

Is it best voted of all listeners, or does it remember my preferences? It implies the latter, but wasn't sure.

Suggestion: find a way to detect excessive auto-tune use and auto downvote those songs :)
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This is going to kill you:

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/2...
I think it's generally agreed that addiction is the opposite of hacking your brain. Unless by hack, you mean like with an ax.
i asked the MIT Electronics Research Society http://mitERS.mit.edu if anyone used octopart and what they thought. here are the responses so far (sent to public list not just me personally):

"It's a great idea, it's useful, but it's a work in progress and not yet a replacement for searching distributor websites." -henry

"If you know what you're looking for and Octopart has incorporated it, you'll find it in seconds flat, and it's fantastic. Unfortunately, it seems spotty in terms of catalog completeness, and it is not as comfortable as browsing/guided search on, say, DigiKey or Mouser, so it gave me mixed results." -darwin
You have to build a trustworthy, independent brand.

To be honest, really freakin' good graphic design goes a long way.
I wouldn't say that's the obvious conclusion, if only because it assumes that income is highly enough correlated with work effort.

It doesn't strike me that such a correlation, which I do believe exists, is obviously within 20%, for example.

Moreover, I would consider the situation of working at or very near capacity and yet still not producing to be a plausible, if not likely, source of feelings of futility.
That your personal experience is not the "normal", it is YOUR experience. Extrapolating from your preferences to "normal" is a common fallacy with hackers and you are making it right there.

Usability testing should trump hunches. I polled my room mates (small poll, but still 4 > 1), none of us have a music library small enough to fit on an iPhone and none of us want all of our music/videos/photos on our mobile device for a variety of reasons. Drag and drop in iTunes is preferable for us.

And I have an iPhone, I've had it wiped out by iTunes. I'd rather have drag and drop like a normal file system from Explorer.
Large systems tend to push you towards tradeoffs other people wouldn't make. Scalability over efficiency. Bisection bandwidth is the most scarce resource in a large cluster so I imagine protocol buffers have had much more attention paid to saving bytes than to encoding/decoding speed. Latency critical stuff probably doesn't use python anyhow.
Seriously, this is awesome. I love it.

1) Autoplay in my dictionary is fine, it saves me time to figure out what to do next.
2) and 3) +1
4) -1

Question: are you planning to monetize it? if so, how? what about copyright?
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Another thing I really liked is I dont need to register and it will remember my preferences, I am not sure how, though.
Seobook.com is also excellent. There's so much misinformation & snake oil out there you really need to be careful.
Took me a bit of time to realize it's just one gigantic Flash app, I kept trying to highlight the song name but couldn't. But I love love that I can squeeze the Safari browser window to just 377 pixels wide and have everything scale and still usable. Love it.
Good observation on the irony of my own writing. :-)
I should have added abstract writing in general to technical/scientific.

In general, Present Simple tense is used when referring to abstract concepts, which is rarer in real life than in this forum. (A lot of people here are abstract thinkers.) Most news pieces and conversations refer to actual events and do not use as much Present Simple.
It sucks. It produces almost no smoke, the cartridges that they claim "contain as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes" last for 2 hours of intermittent puffs, the thing decides to start "cleaning" itself regularly after about a day, and the battery runs out way too fast.

It's a good idea, I think, whose time has not come yet.

* Disclaimer: I bought 2 different kinds. Smoking Everywhere and Smoke Free. Smoke Free was better in that it was actually the size of a cigarette and produced more "smoke" (vapor), but they both sucked so bad I was back to exclusively real cigarettes within 4 days.
I was coming off Market and heading towards California one day when I happened to look at a homeless guy. I mean it was just an innocent glance -- like anybody does all the time.

His eyes got big and round and he walked over to me and started screaming, at the top of his lungs. Every sort of paranoid delusion and profanity you could imagine: he yelled it right in my face.

I, of course, totally ignored him at this point. Lord knows what he would have done if I had confronted him.

He followed me all the way home -- about a half-mile. Screaming the entire time. I was very thankful to live in a secure apartment building!

Sadly, this same thing happened to me a few months later with a different guy.

SF is a beautiful city, but it has a lot of issues.
Better yet, make it revenue-neutral, perhaps by paying money to those found not guilty.

After all, even if revenue gets split up, there's still a moral hazard.
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China Telecom and CNC do this as well, but funny when you mis-typed domain like google.com] then it hijack to a ASP.NET SQL error page. I guess someone can even SQL inject their database if you manipulate the HOST header manually.

Anyway I have my private DNS server, blacklisted ISP's IP's and tunnel DNS queries through IPv6 to avoid GFW's DNS spoofing.
On its face, it seems odd to pay so much for true turn-by-turn navigation on the iPhone when there's a built-in mapping application, but I still often throw my TomTom GPS in my bag when I'm travelling to an unfamiliar city. I'll have to think long and hard about whether to shell out for this.

Incidentally, TomTom's IQ Routes (which replaces the drive-time estimates used in most map databases with actual values collected from customers' GPS units) makes a huge difference in the accuracy of routing estimates, especially in big cities around rush hour.
More on Wired:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/tjx-hacker-charged-...
If he can't find culture in NYC, he's not going to find it in SF.
"by local standards" and yet the article mentions twice the unemployed domestic staff and nannies who don't even have a job never mind $80000 of disposable income a year.

We have friends (a lot less affluent) who whilst far richer than us complain about their poverty, or at least the (non-working) wife does. I always say I'll start worrying when they ditch the second car. Ditto for this woman.
I get that it's experimental, but it's better when experimental things don't totally suck- with only three real search links it's useless. The whole interface feels like someone discovered rounded corners, spent two weeks coming up with amazing color schemes, and decided that they might as well throw in some search results while they're at it.

After a post pointing out all the massive issues with Google search I thought this would be really awesome, but it seems more like a portfolio piece. Which is really too bad, because I'd love to use a search engine that's as beautifully designed as it is, you know, useful for searching.
There is, in fact, good Mexican food in NYC--at the Red Hook ball fields on weekends in the summer.

http://nycfoodguy.com/2009/05/06/redhookballfieldsintroducti...

http://events.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/dining/reviews/23unde.h...
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Dziuba is my favorite. I wish uncov were back up.

Still, it seems like a simple case of electronic fraud, if they're rewriting packets. If they're only doing this for customers querying their own DNS servers, let users vote with their wallets, I say.
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I honestly think many of those homeless people are suffering from quite serious mental illness. They are not on the streets by choice.
Heh, did that exact thing riding by a neighbor I never talk to - beeped when I meant to signal left. But on a Beemer :-)
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I started smoking in November of last year because nicotine is very interesting to me, and I planned to get an e-cig shortly thereafter. Well, the e-cig never happened, and after smoking for about 6 months, all the effects of nicotine that I enjoyed were gone. I smoked because I had to, not because I enjoyed it anymore. I've now nearly quit, but in retrospect, what a terrible, terrible decision to start in the first place.

Don't do it, you'll regret it.
I'm going to infer that 30 people dislike TechCrunch so intensely that they're willing to vote for any negative remark, because otherwise, I can't find any insight in your comment.

There are many possible intelligent criticisms to be directed toward TechCrunch, but "always about Twitter" has never been at the top of my list.
Two years? Has it really been that long? I'm old :( and in need of moving on to new memes - any suggestions guys?
Are you sure about that? Journals don't (in general) publish negative results. The result of the pressure to publish is not that negative results get published; it's that the scientist has an incentive to create positive results. Not necessarily through data falsification, but through choosing experiments very likely to generate "results", which, unfortunately, also implies that the information content of such experiments is necessarily lower than it could be if the scientist had more freedom to perform an experiment that had a higher likelihood of failure.
Are you using Pandora to grab music recs? The recs are surprisingly good!