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I don't use Exchange so I am not sure how good it is comparatively, but the HTC software in Canada (on Rogers) has Exchange support. That code has been taken and made available through back-channels to other android OS users.
you might want to pivot your focus from development into designing and marketing the site better.

to put it bluntly, its ugly, and i'm unsure i would have given it a second glance if i stumbled across it, instead of looking it over and seeing its good because its your project.
I think the downvotes may have something to do with the fact that you gave a bunch of information that make it very easy for others to download the book as well. Effectively you have probably cost the author a bunch of potential sales.
there's definitely something to be said for using tight design/build/deploy/feedback loops.

lets you make sure you're doing what your users want, instead of what you think they want. build and improve with their feedback in mind.
I wonder where standard Python's SimpleHttp server stands in there. I don't code Python much, but to me it seems that all these guys sit on top of Python's asyncore package, no?
I think Tornado is awesome since the applications you write can be read by normal people.

While Twisted is powerful (and as the poster said, in the same magnitude of performance), it has a tough learning curve.

Even if Tornado isn't successful, I think it just pushed the bar on how an async web framework can be written. I look forward to seeing other frameworks evolve as a response (I'm looking at you sinatra!).
I went there literally ready to punch in the CC#.

But $21?! I might as well pay the extra $9 and have a nice physical artifact to show for it.
I was having a little fun at others' expense. I never said it wasn't a hoax, but the science is there, but it isn't 'here' in the sense that it's usable today. I got upvoted talking about photosynthesis with no mention of photovoltaics in an article about a PV cell.

Chlorophyll is currently being developed as a low cost dye in solar cells (the dye is the photoelectric material sandwiched in the middle that produces the electricity). Melanin itself is currently of interest due to it enabling the standard dyes (silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, etc) to capture electrons they shouldn't be able to, it somehow takes low-energy light (even infra-red) and kicks it up a notch for the standard dye to capture.

Melanin in itself has a few amazing properties. It's apparently photoelectric right through from IR to Gamma rays, and also alpha, beta and neutrons produce the same effect in it. The IR and UV effects are the best features, making it an efficiency booster in existing solar panels by one means or another. The fact that it can potentially produce electricity through radiation has a whole other interesting factor to it, it creates the potential for a direct radiation->electricity just as solar cells have provided for solar energy (coal, oil and natural gas are just dead plants and animals that harvested solar energy a million years ago, wind is the thermal effect from solar, hydroelectric comes from rivers that came from rain that came from a heated ocean, etc). The two raw power sources we have are solar and nuclear (I suppose technically tidal and geothermal are raw sources too, but neither are developed enough), skipping the middle-men, so to speak, in the process is likely to be crucial in our future.

Melanin photovoltaic cells could enable the direct harvesting of radiation to produce electricity from many sources. Either stray radiation in a nuclear reactor (basically as radiation shielding that makes you money), or as an alternative to RTG's, but currently its greatest use in this field could be harvesting energy from nuclear waste, both the thermal products and the ionizing radiation. It's also of interest for space, as ionizing radiation there is immense, the sun emits vast amounts of x-rays constantly, we're just buried under our planets radiation shields.

The science is there for melanin as I said, but it'll likely take a lot of R&D before a melanin-based cell is on the store front, and it likely won't appear on its own to the general public as the uses of melanin-based cells are likely to be found where civilians are not (IE radioactive places or space).
Then again, silicon is an atomic crystal, while hair's structure is defined on the cellular level, which makes doping silicon much more practical than doping hair. This is on top of the problem that solids without an atomic lattice of some form tend to have trouble allowing any kind of electron movement at all, regardless of what chemicals you add to it (there are quite a few exceptions, like chlorophyll, but even those tend to be well-defined at the molecular level).

Also, as the author mentions, hair soaked in salt water becomes conductive, not semiconductive - current running through it is simply passed on by the salt water - but this conductivity has nothing to do with the hair and everything to do with the water.
How is this any more appropriate for Hacker News than President Obama's speech to schoolchildren (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810399)? It seems to me that both are a national leader saying basically common things.
I'm off several minds on this:

1) if you make remarks online you always have to remember that you are speaking 'in public' and that anybody that wants to know more about you probably can and will.

2) that the timing of the disclosure was less than elegant to put it mildly, he already said 'no', that should have been enough (it was for me).

3) that the same thing happening on reddit several days ago apparently is what drove Khafra to wonder just like I did if this might be a cultural thing. If someone makes a point out of continuously harping on a very controversial opinion then that will make people curious about you. Still, point (2) holds strong and that should not have been done. I don't know if Khafra can still remove the post but if I were him I would do so.
I remember when this used to be a blog about programming (you can debate the value), but the last several posts have been mostly about blogging and marketing.
I'm not for one to jump on the OS wars bandwagon, but i think what you're trying to say is: The mark of good equipment is how much it gets out of your way to let you do what you intend to do.

You can take a Pulitzer-winning photo on a point&shoot, but you will have to trick it into behaving how you intend it to behave. Ditto for music instruments, race cars, bikes, or really anything that can be seen as a tool. The "professional" grade of these tools are the ones that usually get out of your way most, be it by giving you more knobs to tweak or less hurdles to jump over.

Since the operating system and the computer are /my/ tools, I want them to get out of my way. My macbook and OS X do that. FreeBSD did that for me before that.
Tornado has its own C wrapper around epoll ( http://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/9e24ae162d024e4049b8... ), but falls back to select() if the wrapper can't be compiled.
Drew McCormack has already posted a follow-up that goes into greater detail, including a limited benchmark comparison to OpenMP.

http://www.macresearch.org/cocoa-scientists-xxxi-all-aboard-...
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> GP: It's a crime this isn't on the Kindle.

> I wouldn't consider buying this without a Kindle option.

I completely don't grok how you could use delivery mechanism as the sole criteria for passing up on knowledge. It's a book for crying out loud, not some giant machine that takes up half a room.

EDIT: bad assumption, consider the above more a reply to GP than parent. That said I am always bemused by disdain for physical books. If you worry about bulk you can always read it then resell it or give it away. For books deemed worthy, the knowledge gained is well worth the sticker price even if you don't end up keeping it.
Your body can regulate how efficiently it stores what you are putting into it. If you restrict your diet too much, your body will think that food is scarce, and it will store more.

For example, several years ago I wanted to lose weight so I was trying to eat as little as possible and skipping breakfast. My weight stayed mostly constant. Then I decided to start eating breakfast and lost about 10 pounds very quickly. (I know you might think that by skipping breakfast I was eating a bigger lunch, or something like that, but it wasn't the case. I was in college on a very regular schedule, eating the same thing for lunch from the same food truck every day).

I realize this is just one person's anecdotal evidence, but from what I understand this is very common among people who skip breakfast in trying to restrict their caloric intake.

This is why experts recommend eating many small but healthy meals throughout the day, and never skipping out on breakfast.
If I produce a buggy whip, put it on a store shelf, and demand $75,000 for it, you are entitled not to pay for it. You are not entitled to take it.

If I produce a Feist album, put it on a store shelf, and demand $15 for it, you are entitled --- in fact, advised --- not to pay for it. But you are also not entitled to copy it.

I do not understand what is so hard to understand about this situation. The music labels suck. A lot of artists suck. When something sucks, you don't do business with it. You get no other rights and privileges. They can charge $15 or $75,000. They can give you FLAC files or .EXEs that play music by hijacking the scheduler loop in your kernel. Your options: (1) agree to their terms, or (2) stay away from them.
Three years into opening my business I'm at the point where, if I wanted, I could go full-time with it and not worry too much about my ability to put food on the table and a roof over my head. I suppose if I wanted to I could apply to a seed-fund, although candidly speaking taking other people's money is not something I see doing in my future unless it is in return for providing them goods or services.

My suggestion for you and any other person who wants to work on nights and weekends: above all else, ship something fast. Most people throw in the towel because they can't get into the positive feedback loop, it seems like it will take forever until they can get there, then ork gets busy and the baby gets sick and... and then they've forgotten about it.

Nothing replaces paying customers for giving ongoing motivation, feedback as to how to make your application better (via asking directly and reading the data about how they actually use it), and giving money to fund buying the things that you can't produce yourself (like, in your case, managed hosting).

Incidentally: although I'm definitely on the quick side of the bell curve, I took money for a product which was written (including the website to sell it and everything) in eight days. There is nothing wrong with taking six months to write something, but if you could have broken that into Phase 1: 1 month and Phase 2: 5 months you'd have money coming in, a website collecting links, customers giving suggestions, and MUCH less risk of building something no one wanted.
Actually, if you read the article, they mention using two probes made of the same metal to eliminate any current generated by the differences in redox potential between them.
In my opinion, MBAs are a commodity almost. PhDs may well be unique and irreplaceable (although not all). Note that Google founders were in a PhD track, not MBA.
well, here's my thoughts:

i can't upload an image. at all. i tried a lot of files, changed filenames, etc., but i'm not going to debug it for you. i'm using chrome.

it has a simple ui, which is nice, but it could be cleaned up a bit and made a bit more shiny to help it stand out in the huge sea of image hosts.

if you're not doing something new/interesting/special with it, you're going to wallow in obscurity.
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What on earth is this person's point?

Are artists entitled to compensation for creating art? Of course not.

Are consumers entitled to access to any given artist's art? Of course not.

Where does that leave us? Same needle, same thread.
I have no evidence of malice and am quite a fan of Palm and their new device.

However, this is something to watch. If I were working at Palm, I would consider it part of my job to protect certain apps such as the music player as it clearly has potential to be a vector into additional revenue.
Always be careful when talking about something that you only have one day's exposure to. I was pretty slow my first day of writing Django/Python too, but I stuck with it.

6 months later I was quite fast, and could compare apples-apples the things that Django doesn't quite do as quickly or elegantly as our home-rolled ASP.NET framework (which, to be fair, has been in development a lot longer than Django.)

So yes, having given both sides a decent shot, I went back to ASP.NET. As I said above, your mileage may vary. But until you've put in the time to build something big with .NET and get fully up to speed, you'll never know if you're right.
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I think the words 'having killed him' are a little strong here, I would not go further than to say 'driven him to suicide'.

I know the end effect is the same but it is not as though some government official put a bullet through his head.

What they were doing was exceedingly cruel and misguided though.
There is more knowledge available in front of me at the moment than I can ever digest. I have several months of music which I haven't heard yet and never will hear. I've got a gigabyte in text of unread literature. There are a hundred million blogs and papers that I've wanted to read but haven't found time for yet, and I want to reread all the things I have read.

Coders At Work barely appeals to me. If I could easily get it, I would think about it, since there's no risk to Kindle purchases. On the other hand: In my room right now I have a total of five books, which have been carefully selected as the only books I felt were worth bringing with me, so that when I move out I don't need to worry about having lost a thing. Coders At Work doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside those five books, and it will not have a place in my room unless it's digitized and e-paper'd.
there is one implementation of twisted.web... twisted.web2 is merged, and what is not in twisted.web and is in twisted.web2 will not be used or will be merged in the future, there is no mess, you should just use twisted.web.
I like HaveMyShift. I had a similar idea a few months ago when my wife was trying to find someone to cover her shift at work because she was ill. It took hours of calling and texting to find someone who was available and it occurred to me that it would be a great idea for a webapp. I just never thought it through to the point of how to monetize it.

Now they've got me thinking about it again :-)
Personally I’d like to see NASA morph into an agency that supports the private sector somewhat in the vein of the FCC. Because there’s another problem out there that no one’s really talking about and that’s the fact that private investors are working with very little oversight right now. Not a big concern for people yet but the first time a private space craft explodes on national TV it will be (unless we prevent that from happening up front)

NASA has no money but they have a lot of experience and the backing of the Government. The private industry has a lot of money but no experience or backing.
So have NASA provide regulations and act as an agent for collaboration between private firms while private industry takes on the expense of actually launching manned space missions.
"need N number of developers, and N number of people to work on marketing and promotion. I also need N amount of dollars for hardware and office space in a downtown location."

Are you sure about all of these expenses from day one? The reason startup accelerators like yCombinator are thriving now with small investments is that SaaS, cloud computing and open source have made it much cheaper to start a company, especially for web companies.

You can get a cluster of cloud servers for $100/mo. You can hire the best developers from across the US and around the world to work remotely, eliminating the need for a costly office space. You can advertise with PPC and CPA for pennies per eyeball, so you can quickly scale up or down marketing when you need to.

You should be able to get version 1 or a beta of your product completed in a few months, for a few grand. Then you have something to take to angels and VC's to get $300k. That way, if the company tanks, you're not on the hook for a business loan.
Tried it out. Seems like a solid start, but noticed some things that bugged me.

Your main div is not actually centered for me, your logo could use some work (anti aliasing the circle portion), and you could maybe make us of gzip. Also, 11 br tags are not a good way of positioning your footer.
Ask HN: Estimating market sizes
When somebody mentions "X is a $Y million market", where are these numbers coming from? For example, in an article recently linked on HN:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/11/techstars-first-class-of-boston-startups-launched-at-microsoft-hosted-gala/

"Baby monitors are a $350 million market in the US"

Is this a wild-assed guess, or are these sorts of things tracked and tabulated somewhere? When looking to start a new business, where do hackers look to discover the size of their target markets?
s/replay/reply/ too late to edit. sorry.
Huh, its kind of cool, but it definitely seems like vaporware to me. I can't find any prices for it anywhere, but I did find a few mentions of it being released "Q3 2008".
It's under "Products" but there is no place to buy it or see a price. That's what I want to do.
He was not the only individual to misunderstand the intent of the post. "Perhaps I was misunderstood" goes a lot further than flaming.

That said, yes. Palm will have private APIs and privilege its own developers first. Consider the internal app team the alpha API users. This isn't a bad thing! As a customer, I'm more than willing to let the internal developers and people willing to hack into the internal APIs to find the problems with the API first, so that something sub-optimal doesn't become set in stone too early.

Public APIs have a way of sticking around, and I like to see companies get it right. Further, Palm's clearly communicating its stance.

I'm not seeing why it's a bad thing.
If Palm knows this specific API is already deprecated or is pending a major overhaul or consolidation into another API they would want to warn developers not to use it. If they want to make sure end users are getting apps that actually work properly after future OS updates they should reject apps that use these private APIs. I respect that developers and freedom and whatnot but as an end user I don't want to be stuck with some perpetually broken unusable mess after every OS update to facilitate it. (see Linux on the desktop as a good example of why this isn't end user friendly. apt-get dist-upgrade -- opps no more 3D acceleration, vmware doesn't work, can't even build from source because libblahblah is something something blah libtool make -o something or another)
Motorola Unveils Details of its Android Platform Play, Shows Cliq Phone
Or you can save a dollar and get the hardback from Amazon. O'Reilly is having the same issue setting prices for their eBooks against Amazon[1].

[1] http://getsatisfaction.com/oreilly/topics/amazon_hardcopy_is...
Comment from Allison Randal, Chief Architect of the Parrot project:

LLVM provides a set of tools that look promising for allowing us to quickly develop a JIT, taking advantage of the platforms they already support. (Note that LLVM currently has limited support for Windows, so it's not quite there on all our target platforms.) The plan is to develop a rapid prototype of an LLVM-based JIT, to see if it might work as the primary Parrot JIT, or perhaps as one of several JIT strategies.

So it looks more like the Parrot team is going to try out LLVM and see if it meets their needs. Their current JIT seems to be unstable and they want to evaluate alternatives.

The list of good jit/great jit characteristics on this page: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/JITRewrite is especially interesting. For example, the ability to "output generated machine code to an executable or object file" is really great. As I understand it, it is the Mono JIT's -aot option that allows the Unity team to deploy .NET games on the iPhone.
Why are these (whatever they are - no way to tell from the content-free site) of any more interest than Mindstorms or Vex?
And where does the money paid to the author of (say) a textbook come from? Why is the finished textbook valuable to the publisher?
I just don't see the point of putting humans in space unless we're going to use them to build something permanent.

Asteroid surveying would be an awesome goal for NASA, something where the unit cost is low, it can serve as testbeds for automation, propulsion, and science, and we may very well hit the jackpot and find rocks with high rare earth contents.
Short urls would make this much more desirable.
The economists at the Fed set the rules of the game (too big to fail, lender of last resort, Greenspan put) that rewarded increasing levels of irresponsibility over the last two decades. Firms have one directive: make money. The Fed has the directive of setting the rules so that financial firms make money from being productive, rather than living off the taxpayer. The Fed failed at this.
You can buy reports at http://www.marketresearch.com/ or you can cobble the data together from free sources, such as the US gov't sites:

http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html,
http://www.bls.gov/data/,
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
My manager at Google probably had about 15 direct reports while I was there. But he also had 4 or 5 dev leads working for him. I tended to think of him as my second-level manager, although in hind-sight, that was probably a mistake, since I don't think he saw it that way.
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Yer preachin' to the choir dude. But if you look at the starting salaries for MBAs, JDs, and Math PhD's (from top programs), the market signal clearly suggests that lawyers and MBAs are more valuable than PhDs.

Personally, I suspect this reflects cartel building and market coercion (lawyers), as well as the reality that finance people can earn large salaries without actually producing any wealth.

So personally, I do think that math/sci/engineering folks are often far more valuable than the MBA/JD folks, but I can't get behind any "shortage" argument until their pay reflects this.
It sounds like you're advocating musicians being salaried employees of record labels.
These things remind me of cylon raiders on wheels, but cool nonetheless.
Only problem I have is if I try to upload a huge image (12344 x 3565) it just kind of dies after trying for a while with no errors/etc...
She seems to be saying that copyrights are somehow extracting money from people in exchange for art they don't want and therefore we should do away with it. This isn't happening. That's why it's a strawman.
"Instead, share a Dropbox folder with box@ourdoings.com giving it a unique folder name like unlisted-3v5vhkab"

What's this about? Human uuid generation?
UK issues apology for gay codebreaker's treatment
No, it's really a tree structure. In fact lisp code is much like the abstract syntax tree that you get when you parse other languages.
It seems boring. What will it do, roll against a wall, then roll back?
I think someone needs a therapist.
I believe that Microsoft's Managed C++ uses the caret to indicate a "handle", or managed pointer.