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[shamed] That's what I get for posting hungry. Anyway, yes, this is a call for ideas, and solutions.

I've corrected the misspelling (with a link) on the site and added clarification.
If they put a 3G chipset in there it'd be the iPhone without a microphone. What's the point of that?
I had this piggybacking idea too, it is pretty obvious
Actually, the Secretary of State for Justice has the power to grant a royal pardon, and notably exercised it just the other day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_of_Michael_Shields#R...
Growth pains. Last couple of days were especially difficult because we're in the process of upgrading our hardware and optimizing architecture. But everything is going to be much, much faster in a matter of days.
IMO, this breaks down due to the App Store's volatility. To compete, one generally (there are exceptions) has to lower prices to silly levels. That's fine and dandy when you're selling a couple hundred copies a day, but as soon as you fall off the chart in your category, you fall into the pit of selling 0-5 copies a day. At that point, not having a subscription model becomes unsustainable. There are 75k+ (and growing) apps on the store and a very small percentage of them actually get noticed. When they do, they often fall back into obscurity quickly. Very few apps maintain a solid rank for a year. You can't bank on getting sustained sales forever because you take the risk of having to foot the bill for the server yourself when the sales stop, VPS or not. Anyway, the feature is optional and the app works great without it. Apple recently added a listing that shows apps pulling in the most revenue. I think their hope is it will help alleviate this "race to the bottom" pricing. Time and market will tell.

As for push, there are two bits: client<-->server interaction and opening a socket connection to shoot data to APNS to send the notifications themselves. It was pretty fun to get together and really the hardest parts dealt more with business rules than integrating with Apple's service. I would personally have preferred APIs to hook into the phone's calendar app, but push is useful for IM apps and the like, in lieu of background processes.
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In the comments they were trying to figure out (before they realised the hoax) why would anyone possibly want this feature.

You realise that anything that applies to facebook faxes applies to fax in general. What they come up with is that some non tech people don't email. But how many of these have fax machines? Who uses faxe machines and why.
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I should mention the cost of our app is $0.99. It would cap out at about $2.99. I don't think asking for a dollar a year is unreasonable given the cost of the app.
How, the interesting thing about the Hofstadter video is that he says more or less what I say in above post ... "I'd like to see serious scientists taking these ideas seriously".

"The Singularity" is an incredibly power, scary and difficult understand scenario. There may be a number of people really gung-ho about the possibility but since it's a possibility that promises to end the human race as we know it, there should be many more people thinking about it. But there aren't. The Singularity may not even be possible but it is past the level of being debunked like a flying saucer - there are very plausible argument for it. Not necessarily unavoidable but plausible. The most important thing to remember is that no every amazing technology has to continue exponential growth for this to happen. The technologies that continue growing can make up for others that don't. Especially if Biology or artificial intelligence as such somehow didn't progress for ten years, nano-technology and information technology will such incredible tools that they would force further biological and AI advances unimaginable today.

So, this is important...
Surely startup founders have more direct feedback. They're talking to the actual customers.

You don't pay someone unless they've made something you want.
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Let me guess, you are a UK native MBA holder under 28?

Not for nothing, but valuing an MBA higher than, say, a math Ph.D. is a bit insulting to some. MBAs are just taking jobs from other MBAs, really.

Edit: braino
I can go to lite.facebook.com only if I'm not logged in. If I go to lite.FB.C and try to log in, it just redirects me to normal facebook.com.
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It can break down with any service. If you suddenly find yourself not really getting enough sales any more to justify continuing, if you have a subscription cost you can sit back and let things play out with your current users.

Otherwise your footing a monthly payment with no return. Also depends on what type of deal your running, people might be more than happy to pay a subscription given that they know the plug won't be randomly pulled on the service depending on future sales.
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You guessed right. Context switching is expensive, and the default stack size default is in the megabyte range. So if you want to have 10K connections open, it takes about 10GB memory. You can of course shrink the stack size, but you have to measure your programs stack usage before doing that and it is quite cumbersome.

With an event driven architecture you only have to hold the session information per connection in memory which can be as low as 4K, therefore you are able to maintain (depending on the complexity of the protocoll) n*100K connections.

The only drawback that you have to write and think your whole program event driven; you write callbacks for each io and timer operation and the control flow won't be clear if you read the program.
Ask HN: How did you land your original contract jobs?
How did you guys land your first few contract positions? My resume is pretty excellent, so I think I have a good shot at some positions on dice and the likes, but I am curious as to how you guys broke into the world of contracting?
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It does, but from reading the code, it looks like it's closer to to twisted's getPage functionality. That's OK for things like Friendfeed's realtime API where you do long polls that return chunks of data and then process the data online and loop.

It's not OK for things like twitter's realtime APIs that provide infinite streams of data.

However, even in the case of friendfeed's API, I process the data incrementally. It's not uncommon for users of my service to receive data via xmpp before the http request has even completed.

I also use this technique for twitter's non-realtime APIs -- I use a pull-based SAX parser (that comes with twisted) to incrementally process the stream and collect and pre-sort the interesting parts. Then one of the callbacks I attach to the completion of the request (note one of: I have several that are reusable components) delivers the pre-sorted, pre-filtered results out via xmpp. I did this to reduce memory used in my daemon. It really helped.

So while it has one, it doesn't appear to be full-featured enough to work in my applications. And this is the sort of cause of confusion here. Twisted has a great network stack and a ton of really awesome protocol implementations sitting on the shelf (my apps mix http client and servers, xmpp, couchdb, dns, finger, etc...). What it doesn't have is a decent web framework.

One of the twisted guys, however, said it should be possible to transplant the web framework part of tornado onto twisted, so that would be great for the rest of us.
No. The only themes I ever install are the ones that make it look like a native app, as it should.
Ask HN: Financial Forecast for Inventory Based Product
Hi I'm trying to do some basic financial forecasting for a business that has inventory. We occur the cost of materials in one month. Should i record that into the cogs in one month or have it related to sales and spread out with the rest of the cogs?
OK, for anyone who hasn't seen it before, this is what "second system effect" looks like just before it gets really ugly.
Ask YC: Are all VCs wannabe frat boys?
Bonus points: caption that sucker
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I had an idea at one point that the current sites go about it the wrong way. They charge money to talk to the people, encouraging the catalog effect. My idea was that you charge a reasonable fee to join, and then the system makes some guesses (not any of the "compatibility stuff", but provide a list of reasonably close matches so you'll have at least one thing in common) and provides you the list. You can't see anything except their username and initials at first. You then have "correspondence levels," basically, after x exchanges it reveals a little more about the profile (say, list of hobbies), and so on. So you don't really know much about them at first, and it's after having to communicate that you can see what their profile.

As for the group outings one, I just had an idea about that, too. Most people have difficulties finding people they click with, and getting that initial conversation going. I think a 6 person semi-speed date would be a way to alleviate that. Essentially, 3 guys, 3 girls (or however their preferences lean, match it so there's 3 and 3) and they rotate through. Each guy would get 15-20 minutes with each girl. And during the "date", they have two coaches, one being a guy, and the other a girl. It's encouraged for the coaches to interrupt and pull someone aside to give them a brief bit of advice, etc.
That photo badly needs photoshopping. The caption needs to be "Individuality"
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this coaching stuff sounds a little bit awkward for me :) isn't dating a little bit more an intimate kind of activity?
Thanks. It's quite a surprise to actually have this happen.

And it was more of a surprise when my mobile phone rang and a Scottish man said "Hello John. It's Gordon Brown."
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The preponderance of corporate pain lurking throughout the lifespan of an ERP suite is unequivocal. To wit: ERP projects have only a 7 percent chance of coming in on time, most certainly will cost more than estimated, and very likely will deliver very unsatisfying results.

In addition, today's enterprise has a little better than a 50 percent chance that users will want to and actually use the application. Poor application design just adds to the turmoil. In sum, "ERP success" has become a very subjective metric.

There must be some sort of perverse incentive working here. 7 percent?! How much will it cots? How much do I need to quote to close this deal? How long will it take? How long do I need to quote to close this deal?
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Where are the african & hispanic americans? Females? Do these groups of people not innovate & or get into the innovation investment world in Silicon Valley?
The downtime issues Disqus has had in the last few days can be attributed to maintenance being done to the database. It's been an unfortunate combination of load and unexpected problems arising while upgrading our servers.

Summed up it is growth pains, but fortunately pains that we know how to address immediately. I am hoping that after this week most of our maintenance bumps will be smoothed out. Much apologies for the performance hiccups.

We have a service status page here which is updated frequently: http://status.disqus.com/
Are you taking the piss, or are you just being PC?
We know that Gordon Brown has no personal moral responsibility for the prosecution of Alan Turing but has nevertheless apologized to Turing, a person who no longer exists. But now everyone feels better and at no cost to themselves. This is a great bargain whereby one can score brownie points to promote one’s moral stature. The urge to prepare a list (it'll be a long one) of suitable future recipients of our moral largesse.will be irresistible.
It's a tad more symbolic than that since there are still many gays still being ostracized and systemically punished. I suspect the larger point is that discriminatory action is not right.
Oops that is what I get for commenting while in crunch mode at work. hangs head in shame
See also the Cal Tech vs MIT rivalry. That's very hacker-oriented.
IANAA, but would suggest this depends on the purpose of the Financial Forecasting.

If you're trying to run a cashflow projection, you probably need to record cogs in the month the cost is incurred.

If you're trying to determine margins, it may be better to records cogs when they're actually sold - just be sure to factor in any loan costs that may be associated (and ignore 'opportunity costs' from purchasing early, because you may as well pull figures out of thin air).

If the forecasting impacts on Tax, then that probably throws another spanner into the works, which I can't really help with.

Edit - you may also want to post the question over at Chuwe.com - hits their audience nicely.
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I don't think that's fair.

If I were starting my own small company, my first hires would be people from my personal network that I've worked with before and trust/like.

And it's completely conceivable that your personal network could be limited to white males without you being racist (especially if you are ~50 now, and went to HS/College/Work back in the 70s/80s). As a few trivial examples, consider that you were sent to a private unisex secondary school which was mostly white. And then in college you joined a frat that was incidentally mostly white (like many are). And then you work for McKinsey/Goldman/etc as your first job for which, especially back then, was mostly white.

Through no fault of your, most of your connections happen to be white males. And I don't see anything wrong with that (FWIW, I'm not a white male, and I'm probably a minority in my own social group).
Netflix is also on the XBox360. But that might not be relevant to you (not a gamer,bluray player cheaper,etc).
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> I agree that it's all perception, and that even with wildcard SSL at $500/year (what the cost has traditionally been), it's worth it to protect your customers' data.

I suppose that depends on the data. $500 keeps one of my servers running for 6 months. For a bank the security is very useful. For a site like HN where the only sensitive data is the password, it isn't so much.
I like the overall design changes, but the experience is notably slower. The site longer uses ajaxy tabs for navigation; now each tab is a separate page to load.
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Evolution theory is an (old) theory. Here is some newer one:

http://www.evolution-is-degeneration.com/index.asp?PaginaID=...
The moral boundary is that most users would assume that this information would not be public because they themselves cannot see other peoples' information through the web ui.

I don't write much info to facebook because I haven't taken the time to understand their security and application model. I can't figure out what the knobs do, or who can see what.
now I've got to weigh the utility of seeing all my past events (which is actually pretty cool) against the creepiness that friends can see the same info.

These would be juicy queries:

* which events for which I was not invited to, but that many other friends of mine were?

* when a friend declines events that I attend, which event did they accept/attend instead (bonus points for events that I throw)?

As mentioned elsewhere, this might result in some hurt feelings. Also, it would be creepy to the muggles to know that such magic back-doors exist.
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I love the fact that the feature (of faxing photos) actually works. Telling sign of true geeks.
Me, too! What a coincidence.
Basically - The big Funds drive volume, and therefore stock price.

They're looking for a return on investment, through either Dividends (small) or Equity Growth (potentially massive). When they buy a Share, they want to know it's going to be worth more to them in the future.

Since no company is going to pay dividends at 30% of the share price, but the market can move that much fast (up 50% in Australia since the March 09 bottom), Funds care about Equity Growth.

And they know that growth is driven by volume. When they buy today, they don't care what the fundamentals, profitability etc tells them - they just want to know will there be more Volume in the future?

Did we mention these are the same companies that drive the actual Volume?

Cuban calls it a Ponzi scheme. It can certainly turn into a circle-jerk, where every Fund drives Volume by buying because they expect every other Fund to drive Prices up by driving Volume by buying.

But they forget that the Fundamentals can destroy a company. And a company that doesn't exist, doesn't trade anymore.
There are a few great Java and C# programmers, quite a number who are good and a great majority who are mediocre or bad.

In my experience, those who hack scala/clojure/lisp/ocaml/f#/haskell/lua etc. in their spare time trend towards the great/good end of the spectrum.

To answer your question more directly: Yes. I'll nearly always hire you over someone who wishes simply "to further my J2EE experience".
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I completely mixed you up mentally with someone in Austin I was talking to earlier today :-) I can't really make out your perspective that distributors and middle people are the enemy. I've never held it against someone if I watched their film and wasn't into it.
When can we have the one that goes haywire and punches me in the face? :)
It hasn't actually "blown" it away (like a fan would).

It changed the air pressure or temperature such that the water in the air is no longer visible.

I remember standing outside once, literally watching clouds vanish.

They would move, and when they reached some line in the air they would vanish (it looked like they were evaporating).

The vanish-line was also moving, in the same direction as the clouds, but slower.
I remember this Mark Cuban quote from another entry, it really made me think (emphasis mine):

> The stock market is probably the worst investment vehicle out there. If you won’t put your money in the bank, NEVER put your money in something where you don’t have an information advantage. Why invest your money in something because a broker told you to? If the broker had a clue, he/she wouldn’t be a broker, they would be on a beach somewhere.

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/05/13/success-motivation/
Anything Financial can benefit from Pacioli's treatise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli) :)!

If you modeling using a spreadsheet or by pulling records off a database or an old and ancient ledger the method is the same:

- When you Purchase

debit stock, credit Creditor

- When you Pay

debit Creditor, credit Bank

- When you Sell

credit stock, debit customer +
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and purchase price)

- When you receive the money (if you selling on credit)

credit debtor, debit bank

When I started in coding normal accounting methods seemed long and convoluted! However, as the years went by I discovered that this is the easier way to visualize the flow of financial transcactions and it automatically caters for time.

We should call any db based on this as a Pacioli's Datastructure:)

As a bonus, the method includes a test. The sum of all the above transcactions === 0;
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shows various comments already scattered through these HN items:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816329

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815840

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815593

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815501

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814443

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813313
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While I'm not comfortable with the idea myself (I'm a big fan of attribution), it certainly looks attractive.
It's easy to figure out what is happening here: early risers wake up with the alarm clock. This means they're probably running some sleep debt.

I think late risers listen to their body and get more sleep. This leads them to be more alert, because they're not running a deficit. They might need 1/2 hour more sleep, and get it (when needed).
A friend already worked there and wanted to work with me, so he recommended me when they were looking for people.
You are being downvoted because despite your claim, your question is obviously not serious.
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If you don't want people to see that you have declined an FB event, you should 'remove yourself from it' (I forget the exact terminology) rather than declining it.

Perhaps the fact that these are distinct actions is a problem with the FB event RSVP interface.
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I'm working for a company, developing a social network/ marketing / etc website. I'm wondering if a distributed computing solution would be worthwhile. We're expecting to have a fair amount of images and video on the website. I wanted to originally program everything in Lisp. But time is of the essence. We have Php programmers, I personally have experience with Python.What do you recommend? Real server or Cloud?