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WiFi and calls work simultaneously, it's only 2G/3G data that's affected.

It seems that a bunch of bloggers received pre-release Verizon iPhones for review. It's probably because expectations have already been set for the iPhone 4 and Apple doesn't need to worry about reviews negatively affecting initial sales.

It's not often that you see two reviews for essentially identical products from the same source. This was a pretty smart move by Apple.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/verizon-iphone-review/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/technology/personaltech/03...

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/02/verizon-iphone/

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/02/verizon-iphone-review/

mqton Demystifying Amazon Prime

You don't need to be present when UPS/FedEx delivers if you've signed a release and authorize them to leave packages at your doorstep though this is not true for all types of shipments. If you live in a bad neighborhood or if the shipper specifically requests a signature then they won't leave it at your door.

mqton Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

Is mark.ww.com taken?

mark.ww.com CNAME mark.nirv.net

thanks

mqton NPR's 404 Page

TAL is actually produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_american_life

mqton Mapping Out Your Web Startup

previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=634494

mqton World of Goo Pay-What-You-Want Sale Results

The core team is two guys, but they hired/contracted additional people to help with QA/porting:

    - Allan Blomquist (Wii port)
    - Paul Hubans (QA and Production associate)
    - Maks Verver (Linux port)

http://goofans.com/world-of-goo/about-2d-boy

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/world-of-goo/credits

mqton Python vs Clojure

It's "charcoal black" from the emacs color theme package.

http://gnuemacscolorthemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/charco...

mqton Common Bash Pitfalls

You need to use single quotes. !, $, `, \ are expanded inside of double quotes.

mqton IPhone Dev Team releases 3.0 Jailbreak and more.

    curl -s -L http://phobos.apple.com/version | grep Restore | grep '_3.'

Note the beginning of the filename:

    iPhone1,1_ = 2G

    iPhone1,2_ = 3G

    iPhone2,1_ = 3G S

mqton Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser

No, they can't register their own TLD. That's what domain names are for.

You can use your own domain since Unite listens on port 8840.

mqton Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser

If you have UPnP enabled, all traffic is direct. Otherwise, it's proxied through Opera's servers.

http://unite.opera.com/support/#tech_location

mqton Non-google sites send cookie requests through google search

No, Google is directing your browser to prefetch the linked site by inserting

    <link rel="prefetch" href="http://example.com">

for links they think you'll visit.

http://tr.ashcan.org/2008/12/keeping-tabs-on-googles-confide...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching

mqton Non-google sites send cookie requests through google search

This isn't news. Google will add a link tag and prefetch directive to links that it's confident you'll click on. There's a greasemonkey script that will identify prefetched resources:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38841

mqton Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages

The URL isn't parsed correctly. Add a period to the end of the link or search for "O3b" on Wikipedia.

We don't know what the latency will be until they launch but, theoretically, since they're launching the satellites into Middle Earth Orbit, the signal only has to travel half as far as the current satellites up in Geostationary Orbit. Google is also offering Google Apps and perhaps the caching servers we've heard in recent news to the local ISPs.

mqton Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages

It looks like O3b (funded by Google, HSBC, and John Malone) is actually building a new satellite Internet infrastructure. They're launching satellites into Middle Earth Orbit instead of Geostationary Earth Orbit to cut the latency in half. The maximum download speed will apparently be 10Gbps. I think the idea is that they'll use this infrastructure as a backbone for ISPs in remote regions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks,_Ltd.

http://gigaom.com/2008/09/09/google-invests-in-satellite-bas...

mqton That Buzzing Sound

I think the Hacker News Guidelines provides the best answer to your question:

    On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than
    hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be:
    anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mqton Hello World Executable Sizes in 18 Languages

lispm, from reddit:

    There are different strategies to create CL applications.  
    
    - save an executable image. This will mostly dump the Lisp system and
    when you start it up, you have mostly everything back. The size
    of the dumped image depends on the size of your Lisp system. SBCL
    is already large and does not have any special features to make
    it smaller. CLISP for example writes much smaller images than
    SBCL. Clozure CL is also smaller. Here also is important with how
    much debug information the original Lisp image was created. The
    saved image typically will include all that. Corman CL on Windows
    compresses the Lisp data to save space. 
    
    - deliver an application. That's for example what LispWorks and
    Allegro CL can do. They allow functionality and
    information (debug info, documentation strings, arglists, source
    locations, symbols, caches, ...) to be removed (for example by
    treeshaking, or by removing whole functionality groups). The size
    of the generated application will depend on what you leave out
    and which delivery level you are choosing. Stuff that might not
    be needed: compiler, debugger, disassembler, editor, inspector,
    REPL, ...
    
    - deliver a static application. I don't know which currently
    maintained CL implementation does that. There were several Common
    Lisp implementations that generate 'small' and static C code from
    Lisp. CLICC, Ibuki's CONS, WCL, Lisp-to-C, ThinLisp were in that
    league. They were used for application delivery, where the
    application might be really small and does not have any large
    runtime or development environment.
    
    There are also some other options. Probably ABCL could generate a
    JAR file that could be started with an installed JVM. Often Lisp
    compilers can compile code to native code compiled files (fasls)
    and even can append several fasls into one. Then one does need
    only to ship the fasl file, given that the user has the a Lisp
    installed that can load the fasl.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7swzs/hello_wor...

mqton Dean Kamen's 'LED Nation'

Dean Kamen is awesome. He has an amphibious vehicle and replica of Stonehenge on his island!

http://www.longislandlighthouses.com/ndpics.htm

http://flickr.com/photos/timoreilly/2892279349/

http://flickr.com/photos/timoreilly/2893125074/

http://flickr.com/photos/timoreilly/2892284045/

mqton The case of the 500-mile email

"Have you run tcpdump or strace?"

If you're curious about where to start debugging, this blog post gives a good rundown:

http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2008/12/sysadmin-advent-day-1....

mqton The case of the 500-mile email

units isn't a shell function; it's a program that's a standard part of Unix. You can install GNU Units on Linux.

It even lets you define your own units in units.dat. Pretty cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_(Unix)

mqton Python 3000 is ready

What’s New In Python 3.0:

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

mqton dear; (char)lotte--

http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1990/westley.hint:

    Some ANSI compilers will not accept '1s' as a short integer - for
    these compilers replace the '1s' with '1'.

mqton Google is beta testing letting users change the look of their gmail

The Gmail Labs features are available for Google Apps accounts. The domain administrator can enable them in the "Domain settings."

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

mqton Hackers' Screenshots

Previous screenshot thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74605

mqton Hackers' Screenshots

http://monaco.nirv.net/~tran/screenshots/20080807/montage.pn...

Those are my six workspaces merged into one image. I use Linux+ion3 and emacs.

mqton Why Arc is bad for exploratory programming

What's the status of Arc?

Interest on arclanguage.org seems to be fading.

mqton A cellphone with no flips, no folds - just a very low price

There are two versions of the F3; the 850/1900 MHz variant works with any GSM carrier in the US (AT&T/T-Mobile/etc).

I bought one for $40. The calls sound clear, the battery lasts for 5+ days, and you can run over it in a car without breaking it.

mqton Inside Jeopardy: An interview with former writer/researcher Carlo Panno

This is a multi-part interview by Ken Jennings, winner of 74 consecutive games on Jeopardy!.

Part 2: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=776

Part 3: http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=777

mqton What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

"Movies and TV shows have Finnish subtitles instead of dubbing. One college student says she became a fast reader as a child because she was hooked on the 1990s show 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'"

Interesting. I remember when I began using IRC at the age of 10. The rate that I read at increased considerably within several months. It's unfortunate that many kids today watch TV without subtitles and SMS each other unintelligibly. If they're on the internet, they're probably looking at pictures of cats on Digg.

How the hell are kids supposed to learn how to read these days?