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Confirmed on my MyTouch (worst phone name evar - though very happy with the beast).

App works fantastic in practice in my tests, though
choked on one case tonight. Had kids in car, drove by movie theater -- no showtimes/reader board visible outside (theater is in the mall).

Tried to get showtimes by 'reading' AMC theater logo on side of building ("daddy, why are you taking a picture of that building?"). No go. Google maps and gps to the rescue.
Free software. (but only if you confuse the two meanings of free)
I tend to agree with you. I'm personally still waiting for my intelligent compiler that fixes mistakes automatically. I mean, you would think if it can tell you that your semicolon is missing that it would at least be able to fix it without interrupting you, right?... :)
i know Andrew reads this site, so let me tell you, the whole required registration thing is a real deal breaker for me...and I bet it's the same way for other people.

+ the whole registration form makes me feel like you are also registering me for itunes, which I have no intention of doing.

So I didn't even bother watching the interview, like I usually do, and just read the transcript
Is it that crazy? Aren't most C compilers self-hosting too?
What exactly did you work on? Not to be rude, but there was nothing original about the crunchpad except for the estimated price.
"If you look at the blogosphere, there’s wide support for Mike. No one believes Chandra’s story nor does it sound very plausible"

I don't really see any evidence to support this statement. At best it's 50/50 and at worst Mr. Arrington's reputation is possibly tipping it in FG's favor. Personally I think it's pretty obvious that a blogger/business man had little or nothing to do with the actual nuts & bolts development of the product. Entirely possible his money was involved but we don't know yet.

"If I were @arrington I’d be breathing a big sigh of relief. A $500 tablet is NOT what he envisioned."

He started at $300, then it was $400. Now it's $500. It doesn't seem while he was involved pricing was working out exactly as he had envisioned. Perhaps this disparity alone explains the true situation. FG doesn't seem to be equipped to puke out millions of CrunchPads selling for a tiny margin. They can however sell a product with a higher margin to a smaller tablet loving audience. It's a much more realistic business model for FG. Once you hit $400 another $100 really doesn't really matter that much. As Apple said the iPod Touch and iPhone took off at $199. That's the price point a mainstream audience will pay. Arrington's business model for the CrunchPad was probably a little too pie-in-the-sky for FG.
Interesting that there is no mention of Slicehost. I wonder if Slicehost will exist in the longterm or will it's customers get folded into the Rackspace Server offering.

Coincidently, I'm in the process of searching for a host and am close to selecting Slicehost.
Emphasize low cost then. That's a great selling point. But it's not reasonable to say SLAs are hollow. It detracts from your offering.
I think I met that guy too. I wonder when it's gonna be out?
Could you give us a sample ingredient list/menu for a typical day?
Well anyway, we've had one of the servers hosted with these guys with 300+ days uptime (until we rebooted for a kernel upgrade). Our experience so for with them has been positive and I would recommend them anytime for hosting.
That's very clever. :)

Here's another unique online game, called Ouverture Facile: http://www.ouverture-facile.com/start/index.html

It's a riddle/puzzle/problem solving game of sorts.
The future of databases is RAM clouds and SSD
So, he doesn't like Java for some valid, well discussed reasons and one very wrong reason (memory management is for novices). Waste of time.
Zoozoo is also the name of Vodaphone's India mascot, and has proved very popular. Not sure how that affects this, buts its not a terrible name, IMO.
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&ei=NrMdS6-xGo3u7AP3...
Computer Vision, for one, is making massive advances.

I just spent three weeks (class project) implementing a new algorithm to find the minimum cut of a directed planar graph in O(nlgn) time. The algorithm is actually quite elegant:

http://www-cvpr.iai.uni-bonn.de/pub/pub/schmidt_et_al_cvpr09...

This came out of a Ph.D. thesis written in 2008, and was applied to some computer vision problems in the paper I linked above. This isn't a minor speedup or optimization... it yields asymptotically faster results.

My vision professor is fairly young, and recently did his own Ph.D. work on Shape From Shading. This is the problem of recovering 3D shape from a single image (no stereo or video). His solution used Loopy Belief Propagation and some clever probability priors to achieve solutions that were orders of magnitude better than previous work. In fact, his solution is so good that rendering the resulting 3D estimate is identical (to the naked eye) to the original (although the actual underlying shape varies, since there are multiple shapes that can all appear the same given the lightning conditions and viewing angles).

There is also a ton of interesting progress in the last two decades making functional languages practical in terms of speed (and hence useful). My advisor did his Ph.D. in this area.

The entirety of CS is not evidenced by the current state of operating systems. In fact, I'd argue that OS research at this point has less to do with computation than it does with human-computer interaction, which seems like it requires more research about humans than computers.
The thing would be vastly more powerful than an Apple II. The Apple II wasn't a "real computer?" Maybe we need to clarification on definitions?

My point: what's most salient for how useful a processor or any piece of hardware, is to what purpose that hardware is going to be put. If the thing is just for browsing then it probably has enough. Whether just browsing fits a lot of people's use of the web is another matter. (If it's just an adjunct to another machine, why not have it map the user's Downloads directory?)
Also check out the reddit thread that inspired this post - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/abiax/can_someone...

Some very eloquent responses in there. I was moved.
Not really. FICO dings you for having more than 2 installment loans, or more than 4 revolving accounts. Plus you get dinged for having more than 2 "outside" inquiries in a year. More points disappear from your FICO for having a balance, or for having revolving accounts that have been opened in the previous year. Having a dozen accounts opened in a year (if even possible) triggers a high abuse potential and can even get existing accounts closed in a pre-emptive strike.
Most likely good third party app support. A tablet that is only a web browser is a bit boring. People really like convergence. An Apple tablet that is a media player, browser, and runs games and apps is something special. No one has actually tried producing a tablet with native third party apps that fit the screen perfectly and are designed to interact with a multi-touch input system. Additionally if they have these rumored agreements in place with publishers they're going to be able to offer a much more visually appealing experience. As usual with Apple it's not any one thing it's just a bunch of small things that all come together in a nice package.
Manual memory management, in most circumstances, is a waste of time. I really don't enjoy it, but it did teach me that a resource like memory, is finite.

I think in today's world, most people that learn programming in college, don't really get in depth with C, and in most cases start with Java (and end with Java). That is why I think the concept of memory management can easily be pushed aside (although, not always).
'The prospect of the U.S. government becoming directly involved in commercial journalism ought to be chilling for anyone who cares about freedom of speech.'

Well said!
Ask HN: Beginning Photography
Do any of you have any suggestions on books, web sites, or other resources for starting out in photography?

I need a hobby that doesn't involve staring at PHP code and stimulates the left side of my brain, and I think photography is something I'll enjoy. Being a tech nerd, I'd like to delve into as much as I can about the art and science of photography, from camera settings to post-processing. This hobby seems to be frequently found among tech geeks, so I'm hoping to find some great resources that aim to help the technical/hacker mindset.
Your statement "However, the idea that loans are obviously a negative thing have no basis in math or economics" seems a little odd, in that he is putatively trying to live without debt.

Mathematically speaking, the sum of the amount of money he will have left after x years is greater if he has no loans, which have interest attached to them.
Roll-out for Richard Branson's spaceliner
Arrington is a lawyer, I find it unbelivable that there are no legal documents.
> MS Bob

There is nothing new about straightjacketing computing into an "everyday household objects" metaphor. As in, "the desktop," for instance. It is a very old idea which simply refuses to die.

And here is what the late Erik Naggum had to say about "user friendliness," the ancient disease which gave us MS BOB:

"the clumsiness of people who have to engage their brain at every step is unbearably painful to watch, at least to me, and that's what the novice-friendly software makes people do, because there's no elegance in them, it's just a mass of features to be learned by rote."

(http://tinyurl.com/ya86frv)

"The Novice has been the focus of an alarming amount of attention in the computer field. It is not just that the preferred user is unskilled, it is that the whole field in its application rewards novices and punishes experts. What you learn today will be useless a few years hence, so why bother to study and know /anything/ well?"

(http://tinyurl.com/yjfpbyq)
Not really, the US Govt gets the seignorage instead of the Federal Reserve getting it.
All it needs is OCR and a cross-language dictionary built in. There's no need for data roaming to make this sort of thing.
Actually, if you read the post, it's clear that he doesn't, unless he stripped all that out for the purpose of simplicity when explaining. But that's my whole point: doing this the right way is hardly more complicated.
As long as I have you on the line, do you have any nuggets of wisdom for front end development? I was very impressed that the core gameplay appeared to be just Javascript, AJAX, and lots and lots of bubblegum.
Good contracts keep people honest. That's why they exist. When there's money on the table no one can be trusted.
I loved the post, could you recommend other sites about the minimalist lifestyle?.
Fortunately, this is visible without a pay wall--otherwise I wouldn't have read it!
Thanks for pointing out those toys. I just ordered a set for my nieces and nephew. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Zometool-ZS005-1-Creator/dp/B00001W0DS...
Maybe the lesson to take away from this article and the comments here on HN is that there are several paths from A to B..

Some founders are notoriously obsessive and others are much calmer and methodical...

Some might argue that if you could only spend 10 hours a week vs spending 80 and have a successful startup then the obsessive method must be flawed.. But one could also argue that history's greatest figures seem to favor the obsessive.. Einstein, Gandhi, & Beethoven are just a few examples which spring to mind.. All of them brilliant, all of them obsessed. More recent figures would be Steve Jobs, Kubrick, & Philip Glass.

I am obsessed with the project I'm working on. It's just the way I work best. It is not something I strive for just so I can be more like my role models.. As far as I'm concerned I don't have a choice.
But Arrington's competitors beat him to this. And the competition are full computers running Windows 7, not just glorified web browsers.
This is old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679045
The Art of Reusable Systems
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>not incremental bug-stomping by plodders

but no true Scotsman would do such a thing!
Using Web Standards to create Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web
Who said lawyers can't be stupid?
Exploiting Memoization
Punch-Drunk Love for those of you that don't get the reference.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/
Google: If you do something you don't want anyone to know maybe you shouldn't...
Note the title was cut off because of the hacker news 80 character limit.
Irreducible Complexity or mutantdidit
"I've heard claims that Behe's idea of irreducible complexity has been refuted. Does anyone know more about this?"<p>You'll hear that alot, but in reality, you can neither affirm nor disaffirm by a hypothesis as easily as citing one or two examples. I feel that IC is one of the foundational principles underlying ID. I see it as 'unrefutable', since refuting one example doesn't rule out other examples. Further, I don't feel that Miller has come close to refuting it. I just discussed it here (beauLeeman):
http://onlineathens.com/stories/120709/let_532782940.shtml#mdw-comments
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Yes, there is an objective justification for working 80 hour weeks: You get more stuff done.

You say you do your work in <5 hours a week. Why so much? Why not make it 2? How about half an hour a week?

I'm not being snide or a jerk. The idea that almost any smart person can achieve their goals while working tiny fractions of their available time is lunacy. It's great that you are talented enough and your goals are modest enough that this is possible for you, but it's not the norm.

It's not about working hard. Not everyone hates working tons of hours. What it is about is focusing on a problem. When Einstein was developing Special Relativity, he wasn't thinking about it 5 hours a week.

I get why people are so inspired by the "you can get more done in less time" credo, but the problem is that it's a happy lie. At least, if you're going to promote this, be careful to explain that you need to adjust your expectations. It's completely worthwhile to say "if you're talented, you can achieve above average financial success and still have lots of free time and a balanced life". It's not fair to say "even though you only got 1300 on your SAT, you too have a good shot at a 20 million dollar buyout on 5 hours a week of work as long as you use Mechanical Turk".

Neither the evidence of history nor logic supports working fewer hours as a viable life strategy for over-achievers.
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I guess it doesn't occur to the author that one typically introduces new electronic devices at a higher price so that early adopters buy them at high margins to cover R&D? At least that is how Apple does it, right?

If they have a $500 tablet now, and are first to market... they can probably have a $300, and then $200 tablet sooner than anyone.
Evolution has its pitfalls. There are things that evolution cannot create because there is no chain of gradual improvements that would lead to them. A great example of that is the wheel; no living organism feature wheels of any type no matter how useful they are. The human heart would be a lot more efficient than it is if it was "implemented" as a circular pump. I think a combination of "Evolution" "Intelligent design" in AI research would be a more ideal path.
Get yourself a copy of Four Steps to the Epiphany.
Reminds me more of Adventure for the Atari 2600, but done with multiple TV sets at once (-;
Rabbits and warrens (RabbitMQ)
Wow - easy way to get your competitors kicked out of the AppStore!
I agree, but you definitely wouldn't want to keep jumping from bad project to bad project. The end goal should be to take that very useful experience and turn it into a very successful project.
I agree. For that price (or a bit more), I can get a netbook that actually acts like computer. If I have to carry something that isn't going to fit in my pocket, I'd rather it be more practical.
No, I didn't mean that at all. Loans exist for a reason. If he wants to be ultra-frugal, that's fine, but it's not necessary. Do you really believe taking a loan out for something as important as school is that terrible?
It's now clear that there is no such thing as 'climate science' - the climate is too complex for us to model in any meaningful way.
My guess is that after the ensuing anguish is over, and news companies have figured out how to charge for some of their content, this editorial would still have been outside the paywall.
Maybe 10 years of new isn't enough to root out the real design advantages of web in comparison to print. Maybe over the 800 years of print design we learned a few things.

The web of today is exciting, but it's also useful and powerful.

Overestimating the future is a depressing business.
If you're just interested in finding a hobby (and not 100% set on photography), check out this post I submitted a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862139.
Did they still want their custom OS instead of port of the Chrome OS? It seems that they should think again.
Love your wife and your children. Help out a friend. Clear your elderly neighbor's driveway in the winter. Sure, the effect is tiny, but you've got to start somewhere.
I chuckle at people who scoff at the price and in the next breath say Apple will own the tablet market. If Apple makes a tablet it will almost certainly be the most expensive product in its category. It will be killer, but priced accordingly. They charge $179 for a WiFi router for goodness sake--there is no way they're coming to market with a 12" tablet for $200.
Exactly our point. He's going to great lengths to avoid any debt, which in this society is a bit masochistic. A little debt for your future isn't going to kill you.
This article contains some very useful advice, and I wish it were posted earlier (Stanford's application is due tomorrow, and many shortly thereafter).

I'm interested in graduate school because I'm considering a Ph.D. but I want to make sure research is actually rewarding. A Master's program seems like an excellent stepping stone, because a Master's degree looks great even if it turns out research is not for me.
This will get ugly, source uses inflammatory title.
How tomatoes are carnivorous and can trap insects for food
...and RoR to become the new J2EE.

hey, certification-backed trolls! Time to get new certs! =)
No, the flawed data sets and 'tricks' were reused for many papers. There was a tight circle of scientist who published most of the global warming nonsense.
"Who's the big winner here tonight? Mikey! Mikey's the big winnerrr!" -- I tried to find the clip from Swingers, but Youtube has eradicated it :(
The last time I heard this much pissing and moaning about a product's name, it was aimed at another Asian tech company who came up with the ridiculous name "Wii."
> You can consider the Smalltalk image as a single program, with branching, mutating clones, which has been running continuously, modulo suspending (image save) since sometime in the 1970s.

You could sort of say the same thing about C, except that the "image" is a *nix partition.
FWIW, Linode pro-rates billing to the day, crediting unused funds back to your account, which is usually flexible enough when you only want a VPS for a few days.
Rather than doing binary translations, though, wouldn't it be easier to just establish a primitive in the smalltalk VM that constructs, as an atomic operation, a graph of interrelated object references, then hands out the IDs to be populated with data?
From that description, KVM over IP doesn't sound free to me -- it looks like 149€ to set up and 19€ a month. Furthermore, even if what you say is true, what is the benefit of going with a provider who nickel and dimes you over something as simple as out-of-band console?

$dayjob has 24x7 free out-of-band console access, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a VPS provider that doesn't. The only way these dedicated providers keep margin as they do is by shanking you on little things like KVM over IP ($220 to set it up?).

You are wayyyyy better off sharing the cost of a colo'd 1U with others to offset your cost, in almost every case.
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I seem to recall hearing a lot of people say the same thing when the Revolution became the "Wii."
True, but without a data connection you're limited to the client's processing power. With analysis on the server, you can use algorithms that require more code, more CPU, or more memory, as well as much larger datasets.
You know what, Rupert?

Go for it.

Don't bother writing about it and talking about it.

Do it.

Put up your pay wall and see who pays.

Until then. . . .
What are you looking to study?
oh, no, if genetics reveal differences in humans, then that will make it harder for the rich people to combine many races into each workplace, each neighborhood, each city and each nation. Diversity is how the rich people divide the population, and if the population cannot be divided, then the population will unite against the rich.

Remember, Kids--Diversity is strength....(for the rich)
I have a very narrow range for the amount I can work. The number of hours per week varies, but there's a floating X for which working less than 0.9X (for more than a couple weeks) will make me bored and crazy, and working more than 1.1X will make be stressed and sick. I have a very narrow range. I can't work I-banker hours, but I can't not work either.
"From the beginning, newspapers have prospered for one reason: the trust that comes from representing their readers' interests and giving them the news that's important to them"

I'm not sure that's how it works anymore. Who trusts the media these days? According to Sacred Heart University's polling in 2007 19% of Americans implicitly trusted the mainstream media. Down 8% since 2003. More alarming is that 87% felt the mainstream media was trying to manipulate them. Polls and statistics may not actually prove anything but again let me ask: Who trusts the media these days? Do you know anyone who feels that way? Maybe the extreme ideologues who are simply looking for some rah-rah cheer leading action and don't actually care about truth or facts.

The point of delivering news that's important to readers is much more valid but still very flawed. You get much better results aggregating together content from different sources or, better yet, discovering content from people you have a personal relationship with. Friends, family, co-workers. That all becomes very difficult behind a pay-wall. In this era there are less mainstream sensibilities about news. Everyone has a different weird mix of news they want to see. If you're going for a personalized delivery system you absolutely need social networks, crowd sourcing, and free access so people can discover new topics of interest.

As for quality... He's assuming people can appreciate quality when compared to stories about music stars kissing each other or golf players crashing into tree's with their luxury SUVs. I don't believe for a second that quality matters to the vast majority of the mainstream news audience. The average news paper is written to be consumed by people who struggled through junior high school English class.
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