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Nokia’s Booklet 3G (Netbook) Comes With 12 Hour Battery Life?
Nokia will start selling its first netbook in US, which will run on Windows 7 from Oct 22nd (Windows 7 roll out date). The netbook dubbed Booklet 3G is priced at $299 with a two year contract with AT&T which will provide the network connectivity and it will cost $.....
Thanks Ed, surprising I never came across that quote before but it helps put an argument I've been trying to work through together better.
It's obscure but:
A subject within a system can't possibly have knowledge of all states within the same system, only an external perspective can see the true state of all things.

It's related to self perception, and maybe the limits of what we can understand about our universe.
Appswell crowdsources iPhone app ideas for $1K prizes + 10% of proceeds
The day I got my 15" MacBook Pro it was obvious the hard drive is what was limiting the performance. I have done a lot of experimenting with RAM disks since I have it maxed out at 4GB.

For example, intense BitTorrent downloading (and uploading) on a RAM disk frees my hard disk from the constant reads and writes so I can have high speed downloads (and verification of d/led data) and still do disk intensive activities in other applications.

I can't wait for the day where my mass storage can have that kind of speed! (and it looks like it's closer than ever now)
In the context of fiction, a good friend of mine (Eli) and myself both greatly enjoy rpg elements of breaking game systems in novel ways. There's a rush of levity when the whole thing comes apart. Maybe it's more rules lawyering than breaking per say, but identifying the essential flaws of a system is just as honest as recognizing it's strengths.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time": Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes
Umm... Cookies from different sites are already separate. A cookie is set for a particular domain and your browser only allows servers in that domain to read it. You don't have to worry about some random site reading a cookie set by your bank's website.

What may be of concern are the tracking and analytics cookies. Let's say you visit a site that displays ads served up by a third party. The ad firm sets a cookie with a unique identifier. Later on you visit some other site that displays an ad from the same ad firm. The ad firm is able to read the cookie they set earlier. Now you're being tracked (not personally, but as a unique web user) and ads can be tailored to your browsing habits.
It's not just "youth" that feel that way - I know I do - but I'm old and irrelevant now that I'm 30.
You may try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action
Ouch! :)
#1: The rows are being traversed by index, but the indexes are changes during the execution of the loop as some rows are deleted. The loop ends up skipping any row that immediately follows a deleted row.
Swagapalooza is one of those edge cases. You're more a catalyst than a sales guy, since the whole thing had to come together -- it couldn't be built.

And you clearly can sell. Selling your way into Godin's program is not trivial.
I think he was referring to this: http://xkcd.com/125/
Reminds me of:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001283.html
Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right
Ok, so what idiom should I use instead? I can't think of anything.

Is this the market-economics version of political correctness?
I'm 43, and a "digital native", too. And I question this "understand deeply" thing. I would not claim to understand the Internet deeply, and I'm only a professional user since 1992, or so.
I just bought an SSD and I

jizzed

in

my pants.
I've found that many folks are very uncomfortable with the idea that there are no hard and fixed rules. Their must be an order, because their belief dictates it. I suppose I'm biased by a fascination in freedom, and infinite system complexity.

Sometimes we sink up and share a moment with others. This is true engagement. At other times we do our best to dissect the essence of something, whether it's code or a philosophical problem from each of our own perspectives.

When we discover an opening or opportunity, and share our perception with others we unlock value.
Actually internships are quite eye-opening stuff when done at the right place. So i'd say the internship website was a brilliant idea.
The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"
Why the downvote? What's wrong with the idea of giving consumers a choice on how 'green' they want to be? [Don't get me started on the whole 'green' bullshit.]
I noticed the R packages for various functions in the text can be found here http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn//Rfun.html .

Their names are pretty catchy; I'll admit I want to use 'gradient boosting' and 'Lasso and elastic-net regularized generalized linear models'.
I learned everything I know from Anand:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631
Chilling and Warming Effects
Looks like a great idea for the beach!

This kind of low-power application is GREAT for solar panels. I'm sick of people trying to put them on everything (like electric cars... do you know how impractical it would be to put them on a Tesla based on their current efficiency and cost?)
May I also recommend a related book, also a free PDF:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
"Information theory, inference, and learning algorithms" by David Mackay. This book is not a pure machine learning book but it is a very fun read.
MongoHQ provides MongoDB as a service
I have discussed this heavily with my board and co-founders, but I'm still not sure what to do.

Start with some fresh blood on your board.
It is easiest to convince others of the value of your product or service when they profit from your creation. Saving folks time and effort with efficiency is a driving force behind entrepreneurship.

As we pair down our own necessities we discover the core of our needs, and this discovery can help us share great value with others. Inspiring others has been a driving concern of mine, but I realized this only after quieting down the buzz of my own selfish needs.

Wonderful shared experiences and memories have become much more valuable to me.
Let's Be Friends (How I use Twitter for business.)
More Nokia Booklet 3G specs emerge at Nokia World 09
Does Exercise Boost Immunity?
New in Gmail Labs: "Got the wrong Bob?" and "Don't forget Bob"
I've been using the Web for 14 years and I do it from time to time too! Once you're in the search box anyway, it's more hassle to correct yourself than just search for the domain you wanted :)
You can easily disable third-party cookies in the options of your browser.
[Trourist] Diminishing Less
If the data is valid, I think the article establishes rather well that people who call themselves "lucky" are indeed measurably different from people who call themselves "unlucky." The latter group blew the photo-counting test, for instance.

It is at that point where I would inject your perspective. What other measurable differences are there? Are "lucky" people wealthier? Healthier? Laid more? Etc.

Then there's the matter of training people for greater "luck." I agree, the article is sketchy here, and I'm not sure of a reliable way to measure an increase in "luck" (unless we assume that the "unlucky" can be expected to flunk the photo count indefinitely).

In essence, I think the article is 1/3 of the way there. True, "lucky" people differ from "unlucky" people. So let's figure out if they differ in ways that we care about, and if we can make "unlucky" people become "lucky." Then we'll have something.
When I was at Britannica in the late 90s our #1 search term was "yahoo.com" and #2 was "sex".
You won't need to do that to screw up his life. The lawsuit is calling for $100k in damages minimum. If he's as poor as most of us here, that'll mess him up for a while.
I wonder if this service is only available to US companies?
If my foreign company registers a trademark in my own country then finds a website that was registered 9years ago will the US court force them to hand over the .com domain?
Video Camera That Records At The Speed Of Thought
Michael Dell: Netbooks go sour after 36 hours
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/Potter.html

I haven't read it, but this comparison has convinced me of its worth.
Congratulations - you win! I was thinking about this cartoon as I wrote the question.
Internet Addiction (Apparently) Made this Man Homeless
I suppose he meant a media streaming server.
Ask HN: Should I go to Startup School?
I'm a cofounder of a bootstrapped startup with an unreleased product (although we are testing with a few users). So I have no issues about whether to start a startup.

I'm undecided because of cost issues. I live abroad so a plane ticket will run ~$1K. I would need to spend on food, transport, etc. If I stay a week, costs will total ~$1.5K to 2K.

Although I will meet many people and perhaps have meetings with 5 to 10 potential customers, will it be worth the expense? I'm not as concerned about time because I will make use of it by meeting fellow techies and potential customers.

EDIT: I will also be meeting bloggers from GigaOm, VentureBeat, etc.
Web 2.0 Paper Routes
Win or lose, every buffalo is slaughtered and its meat sold
In other, somewhat related, news - has anyone noticed there are 256GB usb sticks around (namely, Kingston has one)? Sure, they are expensive - but come on, 256GB! I wonder what are read/write speeds of those monsters. I have 16GB stick and it takes a mini eternity to copy stuff onto it.
from msdn for SQL Server, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998577.aspx in reference to Figure 14.2. Now the query shown is a poorly written query, but the article claims that with a foreign key, the query optimizer can optimize (read: correct) the query. I can see the scenario happening with some auto generated queries...

Foreign keys in production offer safety, safety, safety. If incoming data were ALWAYS clean (3rd party data feeds) or that a DBA never had to make an ad hoc update to production to satisfy something ultra business critical, then perhaps Foreign keys are just for development, but until then, I root safety.
I saw this story/fluff and didn't even think it was worthy of bbc, but they have been grasping at straws lately!

It amounts to: "OMG! Tim speekz!"
Martin Fowler describes four kinds of "technical debt"
Not worth it!

Learn on the job and network for free (or very little money). Such 'orchestrated' startup events tend to be populated with consultants, accountants and lawyers who want your business.

Good luck.
Ask HN: Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite?
I have a few invitations left that will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.
Ask RethinkDB: Benefits on spinning platter drives?
I understand that RethinkDB's main focus is on SSDs, but have you made any performance tests using old-school spinning hard drives? I like the ideas of your append-only approach, but SSDs are not a viable option for smaller companies that don't own their servers.
"Diving debt into reckless/prudent and deliberate/inadvertent implies a quadrant, and I've only discussed three cells. So is there such a thing as prudent-inadvertent debt? Although such a thing sounds odd, I believe that it is - and it's not just common but inevitable for teams that are excellent designers."

The concept of prudent-inadvertent debt was new to me but immediately made sense.
Hook me up obie@hashrocket.com (thanks)
Check out sammy.js. Its basically a web framework on top of jquery with a plugin architecture, etc. Seems pretty neat.
Google Voice Invites
Are there any internet personalities controlled by groups of people via voting?
And is there a site where such personalities can be created and controlled?

It would be interesting to see how the mind of such a personality works by examining the cause of each action in terms of proposals, discussion, and voting.
There is a HN Google Group set up for this if you dont get enough replies here:D

http://groups.google.com/group/hn-google-wave-invite-pool?ln...

Spreadsheet of emails here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ar8He-EcPg54dDVvRjZp...
You would implement those rules in code anyway as ideally data consistency rules in the database such as foreign keys or check constraints should be a "last line of defence".

Besides architectural reasons, the practical reason behind that is that it is very hard to figure out what went wrong based on a database error you get when you violate a constraint. It is a lot easier to detect things like that in code and not allow them to propagate into the database in the first place.

Note that I'm definitely not saying that database constraints are not important, I think they are very important and I use them whenever I can, all I'm saying is database constraints in themselves are not really enough.
What good is broadband access without some kind of computer? Do Finns have a "right" to computers too?

If some Finn chooses to live in a remote area of the country, must he be provided with broadband? By whom? How? Or else what (the provider is forced out of business and won't be providing access to anyone)?

(I haven't read the law in question. Perhaps it answers these questions.)

Why stop with broadband? Providing it will make Internet-geeks "applaud." What other so-called "rights" can we invent which are incumbent upon the action of others? A right to instruments [culture is good]? Musicians might applaud. A right to sports equipment [fitness is good]? Athletes. Etc. Tell me, what's the difference?
Invite. Yes Please.

kyle.bolton @ gmail
Hi, can you invite me also. mike.t.lee@gmail.com
Thanks
The drive probably only has 32GB on it... and dies by the time you transfer that much data on to it :\
So called "positive rights" like that are bad.

If you want broadband and don't want to pay for it, you are basically saying that your neighbors should work as slaves to provide it. In that if they don't, they are violating your right.

Rights should only be negative, i.e. things you have the right for other people not to do to you. Basically protection of your property rights including your own body. No theft, murder, stealing, rape, fraud etc.

Not only do I personally believe positive rights are wrong, they cannot logically be upheld without breaking the negative rights.
How To Do A Seasonal Promotion For Your App
FYI: To support the Scala community, ZeroTurnaround offers a a free licensed version of the Scala version of Java Rebel with the Lift (Scala-based web framework) installer.

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/scala-license/
If you're interested in a comprehensive review and understanding why the early drives had some problems, visit the extensive review by Anand Lal Shimpi over at AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531. I liked their site before this review, but the detail and writing made me add their name to my 'weekly visit' list.
'Hack Idol' to find top UK cyberwarriors
Making Linux more Real-time
The Bootstrapper's Guide to Launching New Products
How does a fundamentally shy person succeed in business? Most people don't percieve me as shy, but I started out being introverted. I get along pretty well with people at work, and I'm fine in one-on-one situations. But I don't say much at team meetings, and still have no clue how to give effective speeches/presentations. Still can't be in group situations professionally without feeling attacks of paralyzing gut-level fear. What do you think I can do about it?

As the reply attempt to explain that's introversion. All the introverts I know, me included, have no more trouble (probably less in fact) with giving presentations, public speaking, any kind of large audience.

Also we tend to get along much better then "fine" and "OK" with people at work and other places. It's simply that all of these activities are mentally draining, whereas being alone is energizing. That's introversion.

However, low self-esteem, in fact any kind of self-esteem level is independent of shyness. There's plenty of people that are anything but shy, who are also clearly in a very bad place self-esteem wise.

And if you're in bad place emotionally and/or psychologically you should not take on entrepreneurship.
Super rich get wealthier in China
Given that the supernatural doesn't exist, if the training teaches a similarly useful change in behaviour, they should get a similar increase in luck as defined by Prof. Wiseman in the article.
Equilibrium price. The retail price is lower than the market value, which is why it's not available anywhere else. The other stores have chosen their price based on the demand and their available supply.
shoot me an email then to join the team--cmoses@mit.edu

always looking for developers and innovators.

-Chris
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Three examples of how to do a seasonal promotion for your software or web app, using my Halloween activities as a case study. (Suffice it to say they have already bought me a whole lot of candy.)

Short version: mini-site focused on the holiday, PPC campaign for seasonal keywords, work your email list. There are also some thoughts for seasonal premiums you can offer to heighten the perceived value and urgency without costing you anything at the margin. (That is a veeeeery nice feature to have in a marketing strategy.)
These articles are ridiculous.

1. Bought too much house
2. Bought motorcycle
3. Had FOUR kids
4. Bought loads of presents at christmas
5. Wife wants to stop working

Yet they live in a VERY cheap part of the country. If they had been better with their money they wouldn't be in such a terrible position. I'm not going to argue that losing 50% of your pay doesn't suck - because it does; yet whining about it while also bitching that your wife must now gasp work is lame.
Is Health as a Human Right?
Just say the price went up due to unexpectedly high demand. It's hardly "gouging" you if the only way people can keep it in stock is to raise the price.
Quick summary for you: IE6 no, IE7 yes, IE8 yes.
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I should stop being stubborn and try this--I've been holding out that Sun would just add this to the JVM itself, but that seems fairly unlikely:

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4910812

Ironically, the IBM JVM has the best support for hot code replacement--you can add methods without restarting, IIRC.
Calacanis Waits To Be Sued — But Angels Say They Won’t Oblige
Yeah, I read the thread about these guys and it reminded me of this other post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881224

So there's a wave out there, it's just a matter of figuring out how to catch it (even if it's "free and open," as in the above case).
I came here to say this, but you stated it much more eloquently than I could have; thanks.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881307
If by "whine" you refer to a very high pitched noise (akin to a TV tube) then I'll take a non-switched one every day.

I have two such mosquito-infested powerbricks here, emitting a constant high-pitched noise each, and it's royally annoying. The charger for my DECT phone emits it when the handset is not sitting on it and one of my two BenQ screens (ironically both the exact same model!) emits it when turned off.

This may be an avoidable production bug but when it strikes it's plain out horrible. I had to ban that DECT-charger from the living room because the sound would drive us nuts...

(And yes I should have returned both items as defective but on the phone I was too lazy and on the screen the noise only started after it was about 2 yrs old)
Here's a case of Valve coordinating with the FBI, attempting to do what I described: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/13/the-job-is-a-lie-va.... As for why extradition is not used, the lure is far quicker and much cheaper. The hacker you mention is a perfect example. "The order to extradite McKinnon was approved by the U.K. government in July 2006, but his legal team continued to challenge the order, holding up his transfer." [1] That's over three years ago. That's just when the approval went through mind you. He was indicted in the US in 2002.

Also, I'm fairly certain you are incorrect about security clearances (at least for Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret). Even dual citizens have to shred their extra passport and renounce their additional citizenship. The FBI website mentions that for Top Secret, citizenship is verified through investigation: "For a Top Secret security clearance, the background investigation includes additional record checks which can verify citizenship...." [2] If you're working at an intelligence agency like the CIA, Top Secret is pretty much required.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/173397/uks_high_court_rejects...

[2] http://www.fbi.gov/clearance/securityclearance.htm
Virtual Crowdsurfing
The use of the term "right" is misleading, but I'll chalk it up to politics as usual. This is really just an infrastructure project dressed up to look like a humanitarian bill. It makes a better comparison to the American interstate highway system, or perhaps to a library system, than to a right to trained legal representation.
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> Twitter started as podcast delivery service.

no it didn't. Odeo did, which Obvious bought back from investors (and later sold). Twitter was a product of Obvious when they realized Odeo wasn't going anywhere they wanted to be.

I know it's semantics and technicalities, but it's a striking statement of how little the article's author really fact checked- which brings into question the rest of it.
Perhaps a good time to note the number of concepts that made the crossover from science fiction to science reality?
No other implementation of Common Lisp has this bidirectional ability.

Doesn't Clojure?
Let me play devil's advocate for the difference between this and your other examples. The difference is that internet is infrastructure. It allows other systems to exist, and allows the government to require citizens to interact with it online. Thus it is most like a postal system, rather than instruments, or sports equipment.

Having said that, I agree with you, and taking into account my above thoughts, I still think it is out of place as I like the positive-negative rights theory.
"[...] he said, adding that his wife does not want to be married to a pilot with so little earning power"

God, what's up with those people!
what idiom should I use

Others are replying, but I don't know that there's any idiom needed. Raising the price to whatever people willingly pay is just being a merchant.

Is this the market-economics version of political correctness?

I don't think it is. Political correctness applies when people feel they can't plainly say something that's true. In this case, using "price gouging" adds nothing to the statement that prices are high except a sense of outrage, and my response was merely that I think the outrage is misplaced.
I think is important it's made a legal right so companies or other agents can't take your connection away easily, like the 'Three Strikes Law' is trying to do in France.

Second, it means that service providers are forced to provide somekind of access to all areas. Usually in urban areas this means a broadband and in extreme rural areas somekind of mobile or wireless access.

Third, there is some confusion in TC comments, but this doesn't mean that the connection will be free, just that it has to be available to almost every residence.

Anyway this doesn't change things much in Finland. I think we already have broadband almost everywhere, this just ensures that the situation won't change in the future.
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The answer is no; it decreases it.

My personal experiences match the findings of these studies. My diet and supplement use is much better during heavy training and exercise periods, so I'm hoping that that will offset it.