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Tried it in OS X, and the web server crashed on first request. I'll try it later on linux. Either way, it's an interesting prototyping tool.
I believe that the phone doesn't have support for the frequencies on which AT&T's GSM network runs, but it does have support for T-Mobile's GSM network. So for now, T-Mobile looks like the only carrier in the US that this will be going to (with Verizon and Sprint both running CDMA and not being able to carry it).
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What a f*&%ing stupid title. Not only does the article contain nothing but examples of ridiculously overpaid CEO's, but does anyone actually even think their pay is in sync?
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/08/01/my-adwords-are-turned-of...

Here's the short version of my recent experience:

Half of my business comes from AdWords and I'm pretty happy with it. Actually, you could go substantially farther than that: I'm literally a case study for it, recommend it any chance I get, and despite what I'm about to tell you continue to recommend it.

One day, for no reason I could be certain of, AdWords just stopped serving my ads. Google's automated diagnostic said that you had no credit card on file for my account. That was contrary to reality, as you had already successfully billed me for $300 that week and about $12k total.

I respect that you would rather I use the self-help automated diagnostic, FAQ, and whatnot. But either the diagnostic was broken or your data was, and the FAQ didn't address "What to do if our diagnostic tells you untrue things". So I tried to contact support.

After digging through about 5 separate redirects to get to "contact an AdWords representative", I wrote up a detailed bug report (or as detailed as the 512 character limit would accept) and sent it in. As for what I got back, you can read the above blog post, but it was non-responsive and appears to be computer generated for me.

In the wake of the above blog post and further attempts to use the "scalable communication methods", I was contacted by an AdWords representative. This is now several days after I had first contacted Google. She successfully summarized my issue (which proves that she was not a computer -- an oddly comforting notion to me by this point) and said she would escalate it to a specialist to investigate.

That was a month ago. I still haven't heard back.

On the plus side, the symptom which was of most immediate concern to me (my sales dropping by half because my AdWords ads were not showing) recovered before I missed my entire busy season, and things are more or less normal for me now.
Matt, thanks for the explanation and acknowledging the fact that it is not a perfect (or even a good) system.

Lets say I was in the OP's position and I have legitimate reasons to believe that Google is at fault here and they banned my account by mistake - but after weeks of trying they didn't get back to me (I only received automated e-mail, which are vague at explaining what going on). Assuming that scenario, my best option to get someone noticed is to make a blog post and submit it on HN and/or e-mail you about it or hope that you will notice it here?

Surely, there are better way to handle this?

This is not the only case, there are literally 1000s of such stories for many years all over the blogoshphere and forums.
On the other hand, the Google employee who has answered here is Matt Cutts. I doubt many lesser-known employees at Google have the luxury of replying outside of official company forums and sites in such a manner.

From personal experience, finding an Apple employee who can even find out what is going on with an iPhone app waiting for review for months can be difficult if not impossible without connections inside the company. However, if you have a development-related question or a bug report you want looked at, there's plenty of Apple employees on Twitter that would be happy to answer such as Chris Espinosa (a manager on the Xcode team and Apple employee #8, @cdespinosa) and Michael Jurewitz (developer tools evangelist, @jurewitz).
We are working hard on it. We need more people to help us. Feel free to join.
"When Newt says ..."

Then I reply (especially with apocryphal stories): [citation needed]
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Looking back at my life, when was I the happiest? It certainly wasn't when I got the paycheck or got a new job with better pay, or bought a new car, or bought second laptop.

I remember my happiest memories to be in school, surrounded by careless, daring, funny, and oft-swearing people. In classes, but not only in them.

I remember I was happy when I was running track and cross-country. A bunch of guys and girls running on the side of the road on a sunny day at a decent pace: chasing cars and talking. We didn't give two shits about money or things, these things seemed to have fatten us, make us less free. Even shirts were too much!

Yes, social situations around physical activities were peaks of my happiness.
Is it only me or does this thing look ridiculous? Is it a parody?
Gosh, I hate slideshows.
> The mega laptop is a dead evolutionary path, because it does its two priorities badly. It's not a good portable, and it's not a good desktop because you have fixed eye position and no configuration opportunity.

While this is true, there are more uses for a laptop than mere usage on the road.

I use my laptop as a portable office. I go someplace, unpack and start working. I always have a desk and a power plug. I always plug in an external mouse (I hate touchpads). I have no problem carrying around my current 17" laptop.

Netbooks or other small laptops would be terrible for me. I have a lot of problems with the screen size in pixels as it is. I really don't want less screen estate, or a smaller keyboard, for that matter. (Rather, I'd like a numeric keypad added.)

But maybe I am a niche: people strong enough to carry around a large laptop and wanting a portable office more than a train-/plane-computer.
"I would consider a person happy if his mind is calm, devoid of regrets of the past and anxieties of the future."

Then you've mistaken tranquility or equanimity for happiness.
What about the countless other people who can't cause a big PR fuss and therefore don't attract your attention? I'm not saying they're all innocent of ToS breaches, but neither are they all guilty, and Matt doesn't scale to look at each of these situations.

The Google search results are constantly being updated with new data and new algos because Google knows that to keep the SERPs relevant, they have to keep questioning their approach and improving on it. Why isn't the same healthy self-criticism of the AdSense termination process being portrayed in public? Every week we hear the same exact story, and it's now a regular feature in the headlines.
It seems to me that the way you deal with having too many users to economically support is to have a support route with a high barrier to entry. That's not to say that the route should be hidden; but, for example, it could cost money, which is refundable in the case where there's a genuine grievance.
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I don't agree that costs throughout the system need to rise. If people want (or need) a higher level of support, they should be able to pay for it, preferably on a pay as you go model with refunds for genuine grievances.
I have used 'project wonderful' as an advertiser to great success. It's extremely transparent. http://www.projectwonderful.com/

It's really big with the webcomics people
Perhaps by "other cases" you're alluding to accounts like this one, of using intentional hookworm infection to treat allergies. If not, you may find it interesting:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
Speaking as an advertiser, I would love nothing more than to have 10,000 economically pinched nerds see a banner ad for my service, as I target the price sensitive consumer.

My strategy with advertising is more to say "hey, look at me, I exist" Once you know I exist, the price differences between my competitors and I give you enough reason to research me a bit more, and perhaps give me a try. So personally, I care more about cost per impression than cost per click.

Heh. this is the second time I've suggested 'project wonderful' - but as an advertiser it meets my needs exactly, except that it seems to be more popular with the webcomic set than the 'nerd news' set.
I don't understand the "within his right" response that was made in a few comments here. Everyone is within his right to behave like an asshole; it isn't against the law. You see people like diego behaving the way they do, and other devs supporting this behavior, and you reach your own conclusion.
Sure, thats true. The article should really be titled "the absolute number of shares you get is irrelevant without more information" but that doesn't look snazzy.
According to stereotype, the causality flows the other way, and having more money is likely to get you a girlfriend or wife. I suspect the stereotype is somewhat wrong and that more money leads to more free time, which leads to more friends and fun activities, which leads to a girlfriend or wife.
there are other ad networks. uh, look at my other comments.

Personally, I think you are right that 'cost per click' and 'cost per impression' are both easy to game. The auction model, I think, might mean the beginning of a better way. Essentially, advertisers bid on what they are willing to pay per day. (now, personally, I think project wonderful's implementation is slightly flawed, but it is moving in the correct direction.)
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When you find an article on a site via digg you are supposed to check out the rest of the site?

That literally did not occur to me till I read your sentence.

I've certainly never done so, I've never even thought to do so. I've sometimes clicked a link inside the story text, but not often.
Given the hundreds of millions of users, tens of millions of webmasters, and many advertisers and publishers that Google interacts with, it would be difficult to have one-on-one conversations with all of them even if everyone at Google did nothing but try to provide that support.

Not saying it is easy or free to get there, but the same arguments can mostly be said for Microsoft and they seem to be doing pretty OK.

I've had excellent support from them, 24/7, on the phone, including weekends, where I've been assigned one person and one person only to fix some critical issues which had to be dealt with before monday 7am.

I have nothing but praise for the Microsoft support team. However just trying to find non-automated support for my google-services seems impossible.

I do realize Microsoft and google has different business models and don't mean to come off hostile, but Google upping their customer-service standards a little bit wouldn't hurt.
There are actually 3 HTC Android devices on sale Dream, Magic and Hero. Check ebay. Not sure what the deal is with your carriers though. But I'll be eagerly checking out the N900 as well.
They don't charge because a good number of people won't pay that $20/year. And if those friends/colleagues/family don't pay and aren't on the site, it becomes less valuable for you. And then suddenly you won't pay the $20. :)
Ask HN: Should I graduate early?
I'm currently a Junior CS major in my 5th semester, but due to AP and one heavy semester, I'm currently 11 credits ahead. I still have a few Mickey Mouse courses, so I could potentially knock those out during the Summer/Wintermester and keep my Spring/Fall for the meaty courses.

Doing that, I could shave off a full semester and not have to take more than 16 hours in a semester. The question is, should I do it? My school is already paid for, so I have no real financial incentive for graduating early, besides the possibility of landing a salaried job easier and sooner.

The true downside to graduating early, besides having to take more hours a semester, is I have two low grades that I'd like to replace (a C and a D). I could potentially add those on and take even more hours, but the reason I did so poorly in those courses was from taking too many hours.

So, I put it up to, HN. Is there any real benefit to getting my bachelors in 3 1/2 years instead of 4, or should I just take it easy and enjoy my time in college?
I've been hearing many cries of 'Google is the only game in town' and it's simply not true. As an advertiser, I love project wonderful, and I wish more advertisers would use project wonderful.

Personally, I think the auction model project wonderful uses works fairly well

http://www.projectwonderful.com/abouttheinfiniteauction.php

it's not perfect, nothing ever is, but I think it meets my needs (and resists fraud) better than either the cost per click or cost per impression model.
You can't really expect anyone that is distributing software free of charge to get a laywer to understand the (L)GPL. As I see it, everyone is on the same side here, donating free time to create software that is offered free of charge. I don't see how that warrants rudeness.
Samsung have already done an Android phone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_I7500
This is the only time I've seen anyone in this thread ask what the process was. I voted you up for that. Did the offending proccess really warrant the kind of intervention that RimuHosting is being criticized of?
How does that follow? The existance of cars doesn't discourage runners or cyclists.
just my $0.02, but personally I really, really like having my name attached to my comments. In fact, if I could get it to say "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@prgmr.com> that would be even better. (but I know most people wouldn't like that)

So -1 anything that would obscure my name more than a handle with a link to my profile does.
Emphasis on your last sentence. There really isn't much room to advance commercially after Rybka. It is scary how good its evaluation function is compared to other engines. Even if some other engine manages to beat its strength, it will not mean much practically to a paying human(even a GM).

That said, what interesting developments are you seeing in chess engines? I know that Rybka is aggressively pruning its search tree (its pos/s is an order of magnitude less than say Fritz), but question is how?
The N810 does, too, and it's the one big thing I miss since giving my tablet away. The landscape keyboard is also great (especially with the LCARS sounds), but for better or worse I've adapted to my new device.
I hope I never sit next to you on an aeroplane.
Contrary to the popular trend, they aren't using a WebKit-based browser - site claims that the phone comes with a Mozilla powered browser engine.

If this phone does take off, I wonder if it could distill WebKit's mobile monopoly (disregarding RIM's rather fair efforts with their in-house browser for having a marginal market share, and Opera is a bit of a different story)...
Which is exactly the kind of story that gets perpetuated over and over again, with different $brand's substituted. It doesn't even make sense: what criterion is used to seperate 'enterprise' from 'consumer'? They can't possibly test every drive (too expensive) and if they watch production parameters and decide based on those, chances are that most consumer drives are 'enterprise' as well. I find stories like these extremely implausible.
Lousy title. These are features, not tweaks. I was hoping that this was a list of utilities or Terminal commands.
Are these differences statistically significant (according to the data) ?
I don't mean to be sexist, but having a wife gives you more free time, not less.

You have the workload of a house divided into two instead of one. Even if your wife works it still ends up on the plus side.

It's not like you can code 24/7, you have to have some downtime. No reason not to spend that time with someone else.
The particular book where I read this is:

http://www.amazon.com/Expect-Toddler-Years-Arlene-Eisenberg/...

I went back and checked and unfortunately the book itself simply says "studies support the following general conclusions..." and don't give references (not exactly a scientific publication!).

Note that it's not in any way suggesting preventing children from learning to read if they want to and show an active interest, nor from stimulating them with an environment rich in reading-relevant material (games with letters, numbers etc.). It is simply saying that sitting them down and giving them lessons in how to read or anything else they are not developmentally ready for is probably going to be counterproductive.
Will you remove some of the obvious fake outliers from the data set? eg. Line 338 on the .csv file is a 99 year old female self-employed, pre-high schooler with 10+ kids working 140 hours per week and earning $1M per year. Sounds a little suspect to me...

Not to mention the 22 year old student who completed the questionaire 4 times and has 70 years of experience, works negative hours and earns $100M.

Or the divorced 407 year old female with 700 years of experience and 8 kids.
I think there is some terminology confusion. The image is not a "photo" - it is not a recording of emitted light. Hence the colors used to display the image for us have nothing to do with the color (reflected wavelengths) of the molecules.
Fascinating - do you know if it's possible/feasible to do this if you're doing projects and contract work? Any ideas on what kind of view is taken of offering some long term support/warranty/guarantee and taking your earnings over two years? Any articles or insight would be very much appreciated.
Hope is luggage doesn't get "lost" on the way back to US ;)
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Poor brainwashed babies who now fear flowers...
Off-topic, but still: In the US you seriously need some thorough regulation to make this bullshit go away.

You are acting like this is how a normal market is supposed to work. To help you gain some perspective I welcome you, and your standard GSM phone, to any country anywhere in Europe to see how mobile phones, networks and service-providers are really supposed to work in a competitive market.
Well, I pretty much partied my way through my final year of university and had one of the better years of my life (note that 'partied' is a term relative-to-self, and that my version of partying is much, much tamer than many people's). I was making $300/week v my first full-time salary of $750/week, but the difference would have been worth it.

Whether you stick around or not, I'd recommend treating it as a bonus 6 months in your life. Any projects you want to have a crack at? Any experience you want to achieve (walk the Great Wall, skydive nude)?

Do it when you can, not when you have to make them fit into full-time work, significant relationships etc.
I'm not talking about laws, I'm talking about reasonableness.

As a simple example, if you insult someone, they are "within their rights" to get mad at you. You may disagree with them getting mad, but the fact that they got mad was not unreasonable.
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hm. I regret not leaving high school earlier (I passed one of the 'equivalancy' tests in my Jr. year.) But at the time I was living with my parents and, well, highschool is not fun. I would have been better off with another year working full time during the .com boom.

If I were in your position, if my living expenses were taken care of I'd kick back and take it easy with regard to the classes, and if I felt ambitious, I'd build a free webapp. Hosting is so cheap these days, there is no real need to worry about making money off it if your food and rent is covered, and the job market is a little bit difficult right now, so being able to say "I wrote well-known site X while in college" would help a lot.
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Digg is only for posting ugly comments and offending others so that's why you actually don't have to click or even read something on Digg. ;-)
That's not going to last long, considering that they bought Trolltech and will be switching Maemo from GTK to QT.
This is a good point. Even if China succeeds in this restriction, the rise in prices outside China will cause all sorts of effects undoing it; new deposits will be located, old deposits exploited, and you can be sure that if the price difference gets too large, there will be lots of smuggling of the raw metals out - having built a large lawless economy, officials will find it difficult to suppress exportation of small volumes of extremely valuable metal. Consider the cited example of ore at 21 million USD a ton. How many cargo containers is that? 1? 2? How much of a % increase would it take to make it worth smuggling? Not much...
I can understand that there is a category of travellers that would need something like this, but what I don't see is the money.

I.e, rebooking a flight is an emotionally taxing activity. It's like being in the supermarket and deciding if you should switch to the other line or stay in your line. It's a very small decision and the difference in time lost or gained is tiny, but emotionally, it's a pretty big decision. Rebooking a flight is also an emotionally expensive decision, and if I would ever trust flightcaster, it has to really be completely accurate all of the time. I would kick myself if I rebooked and something went wrong.

SO! We were talking about the money - the business is like a drill down list, and in each step, you have a smaller number:

Travellers > Travellers who care about being on time > Travellers who are internet saavy > Travellers who have heard of your app > Travellers who want your app > Travellers who will pay for your app.

With that depth in the list, you better be charging a pretty penny for this or, and this would be my personal preference, leave the consumer market and sell it to businesses as a B2B solution.

Selling to consumers is going to be futile - you may make money for 2-3 people to pay their bills, but you will not make money to justify an external investment.
Google makes billions even in a slow economy so it should be able to afford customer service for at least its paying customers.

There are tens of millions of Indians out there eager for such a job. This is a better opportunity for them than "outsourcing SEO services" where they mess up the Google index by low quality and high quantity "link building".
I think nobody can really say if it is safe or not. Animals are sensitive to magnetism - they can "see" where the north is. So it is not like magnetism doesn't have effect on us. And saying that it is just like Earth's magnetic field is downright wrong - that field doesn't have a MHz frequency and it is nowhere near that strong.
Besides with sufficiently high powered magnetic field everything becomes magnetic http://www.hfml.ru.nl/froglev.html

I think I'll stick to the cables for some time
Hmm... You seem to have ignored the first half of the sentence your responded to. The part that says "Google is really bad at customer service".

So no, to repeat: It was poorly communicated, but it's good for business, both for them and for their advertisers.
Reading that, and the other article on grades, suddenly something clicked: what if the reason that getting rid of tracking (separate classes for high & low achievers) in schools hurts the upper end of students is because when they are competing against all the poor & mediocre students they no longer need to try very hard, and so they lose practice in self-discipline?
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The military would love something like this for UAV operators.