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I get the feeling that somewhere in Cupertino, a room full of Apple engineers are giggling.
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I partly agree with your points, except the last. I doubt any researcher is ever discouraged by the fearmongering you describe.
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Maybe I understood your question wrong. What I thought you meant is "how can QS be so high, even though Google cannot parse the landing page because it is just images". So I assumed there must be some other factor besides landing page text which affects the QS, such as how long the user spent on the page.
Searching just friends should be useful, but I don't understand the requirement to give access to my twitter account. In fact, I ended up not trying it.
Threats aren't possible in the scenario. Unless you refer to threatening not to give valuable information (cure for cancer) - but we're calling that a bribe here.
The free inbound transfer is obviously a reaction to Microsoft's pricing. Windows Azure has free inbound transfer during off-peak hours until June 30 (see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/faq/#pricing).
I expect some branding issues.
But it only has Wi-Fi connectivity. That means unless you are in a hotspot with blazing fast Wi-Fi, the tablet can seem terribly slow.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the average Wi-Fi is much faster than 3G or Wimax. Unless the reviewer is suggesting that someone would want to plug a tablet into a wired LAN.
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I showed it to a few friends and I'm glad the ramp-up is at the pace it's at. It makes it friendlier for folks who aren't naturally analytical thinkers, I think.

That is to say, the ramp-up pace is good because analytical thinkers will blaze through the levels quickly enough that they don't get bored, and non-analytical thinkers won't feel like it's too hard too soon. Maximum audience retention.
I would actually consider buying one if it could run a proper OS (e.g. proper Windows or proper Linux). I have been looking for a device for ages I could use for reading e-books in bed before sleep (notebooks are too "heavyweight" for that and I think that the Kindle and other e-book reader hardware are way too underpowered and painful to use).

This one looks like it has just the right dimensions and a responsive iPhone-like touchscreen would make it really easy to use for reading.
Is there some sort of mathematics applicable to the level generation? For some reason, something about the game vaguely reminds me of hypercubes... though I'm not particularly familiar with hypercubes.
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But how does one developer get 1011 apps through into the app store in the first place?
Also in IE7 (maybe IE7 onwards)
I'm certain for Ryanair and EasyJet, everything they do is calculated to extract maximum value from the customer. Call centers included.
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Same things were said about the iPhone...
Thanks. Checking it out presently.
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Watching streaming HD video doesn't go that well with a slow internet connection through Wifi, I guess that's what the author is aiming for.
Cute.

I know it's a joke, but the inductive step fails for n = 2. Each of the two groups of 1 horses being the same colour does not imply that all the horses are the same colour.

:)
Acted normal for me.

But could be, it wouldn't be the first flash game to forget to free objects.
hehe, nice hack!

You can use this technique to by pass the middle people in other ways too. For example with agency job ads, it is sometimes possible to find the company from the phrasing or combinations of technologies listed along with the location of the company. So then you can apply directly to the company, rather than going through the agency.

You can put these unique terms in things like google alerts, and then you get an email each time a ycombinator clone springs up!

Many times I have seen terms and conditions on websites and other software ripped off of other ones... and sometimes they even forget to change the company names, and even the product name! Quite funny really.

Maybe copyright infringement is a better term than plagiarized though?

I'm not sure talking about the term plagiarism with regards to business or ycombinator is all that useful. Surely ycombinator drew inspiration from other things without crediting them? The three months, and $5000 figure seems eerily similar to another program run by a company that starts with G, for example.

Micro finance was around along time before ycombinator started. So were incubators that helped startups. Investing is a very old idea.

I'm not sure if plagiarism makes sense in a medium where no credits are given at all. Where if you give credit to some other companies, they might get angry at you... and maybe bring down the law on your head. In this way academia is permitted to be more honest and free with ideas.

It's always nice to have an idea, but it's really good if people copy it. Firstly it's flattering, and secondly the idea has much more potential to spread if other people take it up... growing the market for the dominant player.

Borrowing ideas and claiming them as your own is rife in business. I'm not sure business would work if they had to credit their competitors every time they advertised, or published something.

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This is similar to the following question:

Is there a positive integer that does not have an accurate semantic definition in english of less than 100 characters? (i.e. "The first number", "The first prime", "The third perfect square", etc.)

Proof that there is no such number:

Suppose there were. Construct a list of all the numbers that don't have an accurate english semantic definition in less than 100 characters. The first of these can be accurately defined as "The first number that does not have an accurate english semantic definition in less than 100 characters", a contradiction. :-P
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Here's another reseller of such cabinets: http://www.acoustiproducts.com

But I second what jsz0 said, the pricing is normally prohibitive for personal use. Their cheapest offering (the orion) starts at around 650 USD - and that generally seems to be about the starting range for these things.

That money is better spent on a Mac Mini, or if you need more extensibility from your server then have a look at your local "silent pc dealer" - various levels of noise reduction can be had, from dampened cases to completely passively cooled systems.

Personally I can recommend the stupendously awesome products from http://www.hfx.at/. Reasonably priced, absolutely stellar build quality - and no fans (heatpipes for everything).
If you are into puzzle games I really recommend Braid ( http://braid-game.com/ ) - it's a game where you manipulate time to solve puzzles. There's an surprising end ;)
In some shells (such as tcsh) it is a built-in command like "if" or "cd".
His reply:

"Anon-I chose an expensive private school because it wasn't that expensive for me. Typically it's $3000/course but they knocked it down to about $1000/course for me because of my destitution. Public school wouldn't have been any cheaper. Another good question might be: why didn't you just try to get your school paid for like most grad students? My answer: I tried this. I applied to 6 history phd programs and 4 MFA writing programs and got denied from all of them. And I'm glad I got denied. I'm better off in Liberal Studies, which keeps me from becoming "specialized" in something, which I wish to avoid like the plague."
You could have tiles forget the scent/roads forget the traffic. With each simulation step, decrease it until it's gone after however long you want it to be remembered. Then, ghosts would have to be somewhat near pacman, and cars are only influenced by what goes on around them, not what happened a while ago.

Of course, simulating the actual view of a driver, i.e., excluding things behind the vehicle etc., takes a lot more work.
Wouldnt it be possible to do the same through an iPod or iPod Touch? Given that the joojoo has no keyboard or apps, there isnt much of an advantage except for the screen dimensions.
Indeed, Amazon bandwidth prices are quite right compared to most of their competitors.

And by the way, Softlayer has permanently free inbound traffic for all their servers, including cloudlayer ones.
Maybe it was cancelled because someone else actually had the guts to explain how it was deceitful.
I can't help but see the pacman problem as a relational database ;-)

SELECT location FROM tiles ORDER BY scent DESC LIMIT 1

(then apply algorithm to move to that location)

Replace the DB with a matrix of parallel processing elements as tiles and there you go?
are you joking? they are a european jewish thing (from poland, according to wikipedia).

they only seem to be commercially popular in the usa/canada/uk, but you should be able to find them in any jewish deli/bakery in mainland europe.
A similar experience here. Submitted the ticket and received email notification of a reply 3 minutes later. Migrating 12GB looks like it's going to take about 90 minutes.

Can't fault them so far.
Orbital stations need to move 'sideways' very fast to avoid falling back to earth - the ISS, for example, moves at about 27,000 km/h. You need a huge rocket to get into orbit, quite unlike the Virgin Galactic plane.
I am not so sure, what would be unethical about cloning, say, etherpad?
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yeah, i wondered about that (in bash it's /bin/echo, fwiw - i looked).
Not exactly. Sure, non-expiring giftcards are good (I think they are allowed to expire after five years in Denmark, which makes sense, since that is the amount of time companies are required to keep detailed bookkeeping records), but that won't keep people from forgetting they have them, or just never getting around to use them. And it doesn't mean companies can't make it difficult to check the balance.
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Maciej Ceglowski, who is posting in this thread but evidently too modest to blow his own trumpet, wrote what seems like the definitive response to Paul Graham On Painting back in 2005: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm .
That about sums it up. I love Linux, but Android works for me: it's open source, which is what I care about. I don't really need to try and run 'the gimp' on my phone.

Also, Nokia just seems a bit confused. Maemo? Symbian? Open source? Yes? No? Besides the iPhone, Android seems to be the only thing out there with a fairly clear "mandate" and direction.
This would probably cause a lot of trouble for evidence being admissible if it was required for court. Using it would almost certainly cause lots of head scratching and WTF moments.

To be perfectly honest WDE is not a wide spread as people think - and probably 80% of the time it does crop up keys are usually willingly given up.

In a corporate scenario situations where you need to find the WDE key usually occur after someone shut the machine down anyway... ;)

(also: Health and Safety would have a fit: you'd almost certainly need to be a qualified electrician for them to let you do it..)

All in all: waste of time and money
Being capable doesn't mean being motivated, perhaps? Life isn't made of absolutes.
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Well, origin and source of popularity are two different things. While most yeast-free methods of baking can be traced to Jewish roots, the bagel in it's current, cream-cheese dressed form was made popular (and for most intents "invented") in the US, in much the same way as the minced beef introduced to Hamburg in the 19th century by Russian sailors bears little similarity to the food that made McDonalds successful.
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That is a truly spectacular drawing. Astonishing.
JooJoo runs a custom OS created by Fusion Garage, which means it’s unlikely to have the cool apps from independent developers that made the iPhone a hit or juiced the PC ecosystem.

How custom is it if it runs Flash? Gnash is not powerful enough to recompile across platforms and play video off of Hulu. And I don't think they have the binary-translation technology to convert the flash-player binary, or even flash swf/flv files, to their own binary format (if they did, they wouldn't be in the gadget manufacturing business; they would be entitled to double digits in Adobe's shares/market-share.)

So, Wired, what Linux or Windows Mobile based OS is JooJoo really running? You couldn't get your hands on the device just long enough to find out? Tried about:config or similar tricks? How about finger-printing the hell out of it with nmap until you arrive at a ballpark?
But a larger screen is (potentially) well worth having. I find my iphone is a little on the small side for serious web browsing - its good for the occasional wikipedia hunt, but its not particularly pleasant to read large amounts of text on.
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(See his other submissions and the lack of content in each).
But the way they are composed, and where and when they apply, is most likely not!
Yeah the stock photo is probably a bit too market-y, will work on replacing with solid content.

This is a good candidate for a/b testing.
You aren't wrong, I think the same. I obviously think it is a huge step, and am definitely not saying I could do any better, but I'm more excited for (at the moment) SpaceX to do bigger things to actually get us into a "space age", not just suborbital hops.
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They are probably just running a browser directly on the framebuffer (no X) on a Linux kernel. It seems a lot can pass for a "custom OS" these days. "Custom app launcher" seems more appropriate.
Maemo 5 seems great. Nokia though really seems to lack a coherent strategy and should have taken Maemo-based phones to market much earlier.
They've publicly stated it's "unix-based" or some such nonsense, so it's linux.
It is perfectly possible to do safe work on live wiring, although health and safety regulations generally require that this is done only as a last resort. It does occur quite regularly, though, and as long as it's done properly the risk is minimal.

Considering government usually has an exemption clause to health and safety anyway, I don't think the FBI are going to be worrying about it that much.
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I'm pretty sure that's just nonsense. They tried to say something about it only having Wi-Fi and then just lost the plot.

Also these days you can bridge from 3G to Wifi via external devices which makes this slightly less of an issue.
good lord, there's hot wires just hanging out all over the place

No there's not. There's one hot (exposed) plug which is only exposed while you plug it into the power strip. There's another hot plug which is only exposed when you unplug it from the wall and isn't exposed anymore when you plug it into the UPS.

For someone who works with electronics for a living and just stormed a building with the SWAT team, I can't imagine that this is an unbelievable amount of risk. Get some rubber gloves and you're good.

(I'll also note that opening an original Macintosh was about 100x more dangerous.)
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> Also, when I go abroad, I am definitely not enabling data roaming.

I think this is an important point, which is freqently forgotten. So many apps that would be useful in a foreign country are useless because they require internet access. When I went to Bulgaria last year I would have loved to have a translator app for my iphone, but every single one available required internet access, which there's no way I'm paying for at £3/MB!
seems to me that, if this makes any sense, the interesting question is: why can't you have both?

given that selection for "great art" is over a large number of people, why can't you find someone that is gifted in both areas?

perhaps one somehow counteracts the other (for example, you are praised for "mechanical skills" and so never learn "abstract thinking")?

or perhaps the market values the combination of "poor mechanical skills" with "great abstract skills" because it places the latter in strong relief?

or perhaps you do get people who are both (gerhard richter is the best example i can think of), but that's not enough to meet demand? (or meet fashion?)

or perhaps the numbers just don't work out - the population is just large enough for one or the other, but not both?

or, finally, perhaps the whole basis of the post is, in fact, false?
Well I've got a G1 which is very similar in this respect to the iPhone (although the touchscreen is a bit less responsive and the config is slower) and in my experience it's quite a painful experience to read books on it. The screen is very small and generally it isn't as much fun as reading a dead tree book. Also, it can't read Microsoft Reader .lit files (which is a very common e-book format) so I would prefer something Windows based.
It would be more accurate to say "warmest since instrumental records began" (160 years ago).

Otherwise you're just playing into the hands of the dinosaur deniers who seem to have found a new branch of science to attack.
Huh? /bin/echo is an executable, all shells should invoke that binary when given a path to it. In bash, echo is a builtin (it appears in the SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS section of the man page between disown and enable).

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bash$ /bin/echo --help # the executable
Usage: /bin/echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
or: /bin/echo LONG-OPTION
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
(and a bunch of other GNU help text)
i guess free inbound is cool if you're using S3 as just a huge backup dump for all of your stuff, but it would seem that running any sort of web app that serves as a public customer interface wouldn't benefit much at all from free inbound
freebsd can also run flash pretty well too, so it might be bsd based too... I haven't tried hulu on my system yet, but most flash sites work pretty well so I'd be surprised if hulu doesn't work.
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ah, ok. that makes sense. i just did "which echo" without thinking enough....
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If I make a post on HN, or make a comment I then have to keep checking the comments/submissions page if I want to see if there are any replies.

Hitting refresh on a page seems terribly...1990s. I'm used to sites emailing me when someone replies to something I've written.

How do you manage this?

Edit: It seems that people don't care that much about conversations on HN - which ties in with what I'd expect the system to produce. Notifications seem to be a necessary part of a conversational forum - along with threads.
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In retrospect, I shouldn't have expected good writing from an "OMG we have to be the first to preview this gadget" article, even from Wired.
The regular expression example makes no sense for me. A regexp is a very specialized way of express what a pattern must match, opossed to a java code that express how to perform the matching.

You don't regexp's compact syntax. That's fine. You would have a point if you say that its more readable, let's say:

1: EXACT <a>(3)
3: PLUS(15)
4: ANYOF[ab](0)
15: OPEN1(17)
17: EXACT <cd>(19)
19: CURLY {0,1}(23)
21: EXACT 
(0)
23: CLOSE1(25)
25: END(0)

than

/a[ab]+(cds?)/

but it's much easier to introduce a bug in 20 lines of Java code that deals with an ad-hoc parsing than in a regexp, specially if you have to change the pattern.
JooJoo is an interesting gadget only if you buy into the premise of a completely web-oriented lifestyle. That means using just the internet and what it offers. There’s no way to save documents locally or access .pdf files or create documents and presentations locally.

I'm getting bored of this and speculation by journalists that this device won't sell for the going price. Does anybody remember how many units of the first Kindle sold? It really feels as though the "journalistic" opinions about this device have more to do with siding with Arrington than actually talking about the merits of this accomplishment.
Almost anything by Rives. All of his TED talks are supremely entertaining, and YouTube has further inspiring vids of him: http://www.ted.com/speakers/rives.html

I've been finding http://www.mixergy.com to have fantastic startup-topic interviews; best of all, they offer audio-only and full transcript versions in addition to video.

http://fora.tv is often what I turn to if I'm just in the mood to have speeches playing in the background.
'on record' is a pretty useless measure.

It's a way to make a story more sensational than it is. You see it in tabloid newspapers often:

Headline: "Man eats biggest fish ever recorded!!!"

Small print: 'records on biggest fish eaten by humans have been kept for the last 6 weeks'.

Is it just me that is extremely uneasy about taking a few years of data, out of the bajillion years the earth has been about, and drawing any conclusions from it?
Try "type echo".

If "which" is not a builtin (which it isn't in bash, but is in zsh) then it can't tell you about builtins!
If you'd like to explore this subject in a structured way, then there's a large library of philosophical writings on the subject :). I think Hilary Putnam's essay on "Brains in a vat"[1] may be a nice starting point, from which can explore both earlier and later work.

[1] http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/putnam05.htm
I don't need to answer in real time, so, in my opinion, checking from time to time is better.
That doesn't make your statement any less false. It might suit your metaphor for that to be the case, but facts are stubborn things dude. Pretty good rendering here http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/drawinggal15lg.jpg

What about this one? Look like someone making mistakes in introductory drawing class to you? http://www.art-wallpaper.com/4056/C%C3%A9zanne+Paul/Sketch+a...

How about this? Beginner rendering perhaps? http://amica.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/AMICO~1~1~3...

The problem is you can't quite bring yourself to admit that you picked a really bad example. You wanted someone who's technical deficiencies were made up for by their conceptual skill, and you chose someone who could draft their ass off and also had an incredible ability to choose fantastic things to produce.
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