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Agree on the $9 cheap WiFi module, but it seems not to be FCC certified and that has a strong impact on pricing.

I love the command prompt as well, but there are several hundred million users who don't even know what that is.

I start to see two camps on Windows8. Some who love the surface usage idea, tech people who can easily adapt and the other camp having a real challenge with the new UI. The majority of users are the second part and I think it will be a long hard battle for MS to convince that group. At least they tried something new.

using the exits as one criteria to judge the overall startup accelerator program and labeling it as a failing attempt is premature.

Even in the article Gilani says "takes years for companies to get traction and get an exit".

I think the success of these programs will depend on who the accelerator program is, type, region and other factors, but for sure it is too early to draw conclusions.

strong pointers without back up info

When is a good time to get started?

When my daughter was 4.5 years old she started piano playing based on a specific early children education. Now 3 years later she is doing really well and still enjoys it a lot. It sounds early, but if the education is done right I believe there is nothing wrong exposing them early on.

For learning how to code (a little) I am not sure when it is a good starting point. It seems to me at 4th grade they have enough comprehension to learn some basic coding skills. For a parent finding the right balance for the child of having fun, learning and accomplishing something is probably the crucial part.

Would be interesting to know what the wonder solution is!

"bad groups is that coming into office hours, they've already decided what they're going to do"

If someone has this kind of set in mind and not listening to the context what the other end has to say meritocracy is at best the outcome.

there is one real Disney Resort in construction (Shanghai) and with $3.7Billion a massive undertaking, not all gloom and doom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Disney_Resort

Great article. I do have one question about foresight.

Someone who runs an organization and writes the past events up also often gets the sense what will happen. Should you communicate this to the investors as well despite it might be not turn out that way?

What makes you think that one of the biggest telecom conglomerate with backing of the German government will disappear?

I think it is good that this deal did not go through, good for the consumers. Because T-Mobile as well as AT&T have to stay creative to keep customers happy and prices down. In general I think there is to much concentration of power into single large cooperations anyway.

Great chart and SF downtown has a denser deep blue color; always suspected that is a more risky place for pedestrian.

Reading through the 13 pages program reveals what the Chinese government is focusing on. Somehow I find this interesting as we see the leaderless 99% protests around the world and the Chinese government promising to do the same on a regulatory level.

http://db.tt/U6lJnbk Thank you.

not sure if I can share this observation. I did like the point system as it took out the noise level and I was able to get the good feed in an instance, now is it search and read over and over again like the internet.

The names of the client lobby list is speaking volume http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/billsum.php?id=124645

Dale Carlson's article in the The National Law Journal makes some good points http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202513148515&...

indeed a sad day

For the tl;dr here are the countries: 1. Switzerland 2. Singapore 3. Sweden 4. Finland 5. The United States 6. Germany 7. The Netherlands 8. Denmark 9. Japan 10. The United Kingdom

Since 93 satellites measure precisely the ocean level and the level typically went up by 1.7mm per year. In the last 2 years it is going down by 2mm. From reading the different article and explanations my conclusion is that at this point scientist do not really understand what is going on. There are too many variables and not enough data collections to draw a better conclusion.

25 times over subscribed not even half way through that tells me this product offering was missing. Sometimes good ideas don’t need to be so complicated.

This demo looks at a first glance convincing, but it is a one way data stream. The point of using existing infrastructure to fill the room with high speed data reminds me of all the R&D and attempts made by infrared LEDs. The line of sight (LoS) problem and interference by sunlight turned even simple applications like wireless speaker systems to complicated technologies. The supposedly simple ICs with an AGC (auto-gain-control) turned to complicated over 110dB solutions with all kind of stability problems. Extracting the datastream from multipoint sources without data corruption, the increased power demand for longer distance communication out of mobile devices were all application problems, which did not allow to get that solution of the ground. Dr. Haas lab solution looks great, but for me considering the idea form a practical implementation point of view using visible light via LEDs is a far distance.

A good written article about all the facets of the lighting industry including some cost analysis. Two things I found missing. One is the LEP (Light Emitting Plasma), which is a also a very promising lighting technology, but not often covered in the media. Another point I think crucial for LED is the possible control capability compared to fluorescent technology. With smart detection and bi or tri-level light output settings for LED light solutions at the current 100lm/W show savings at e.g parking is up to 60% alone.

The time stamp from the webpage is "May 17, 2011 20:07"!

But if it is outdated a PIC-AVR-ARM update would be interesting. Personally I used all three, but prefer nowadays PIC because of the wide-ranging PIC24&dsPIC and Microchips great stacks offering.

Excellent article and here is a link to an open source Dual N-Back game, have fun. http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

every time someone posts this I add my 2 cents and say the same, please bring back the karma most useful.

I agree with several statements here that the HN lost some information level since the removal of the karma. One more voice here would like to see some statements from PG and how the change affected the community. If there is a donation button to get the karma back I would contribute.

"The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort."

and I would add the important part to learn from each iteration step.

One more person really missing the karma numbers.

My algorithm was to read the first several high rated karma comments than the article if interesting. I usually got the picture from the peoples perspective quickly and it also eliminated lot of the repetition and noise.

Too bad, my hope and wish is that the karma on comments is coming back.

if you can't convince someone for equity you can try 99designs.com. I had good success with it and a fair price tag.

It starts to sicken me to see all these nuclear energy supporters telling us how safe and limited the effect this accident has. I just don’t see it this way. The situation is getting worse and the long term effects are not all that clear for the region and Japan overall.

It just amazes me to see TV shows showing us the Tschernobyl aftermath with this deep impact to the people and region. Some reports state that 4000 were killed while others state 200’000. Hard to extrapolate what the real facts are and what Fukushima really could mean to Japan.

>(this is why I always dislike this idea of using a project to learn an language... it never works out)

How than do you learn a language?