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Thanks for the feedback!

I don't think of Caterpi as something to manage translators; it's more of a platform for translators. This is an important distinction to make, since traditionally, translation agencies frown upon direct communication between translators and their clients.

I haven't really thought about having the crowd compete to win a translation contest. It seems like it could be viable for long/costly translations, where each competitor would submit a small portion of the translated text.

If you're looking for more information, I'd check out mygengo's blog. It turns out the majority of their translations are for short snippets of text (such as emails). I do think that translation is a big market, and that it's only going to get bigger -- so it's definitely worth researching.
OmniGraffle Pro rocks for wireframing - I use it all the time.

Be sure to add some web-specific stuff to your Stencil library - I use the ones here, and judging from the labels in the mockups in the video, so does that guy:

http://konigi.com/tools/omnigraffle-wireframe-stencils

In addition, learn how to effectively use grouping and layers, especially shared layers - this is functionality that's easily missed if you just open OmniGraffle and start screwing around with it, but it's so useful. Should you have a subscription, lynda.com added a decent OmniGraffle tutorial not so long ago.
It seems like everyone but me hates the HTC micro-trackballs. I admit I've only spent a few minutes using one, but it seemed harmless at worst, and actually struck me as a very nice input device. Maybe I just have fond memories of my first laptop, an early Powerbook.
This is such a non-problem, a case of over thinking on author's part.
I would tend to think they are. Bloggers have to worry about much smaller scale of income/loss than a newspaper as big as new york times. Higher percentage also helps.
Speaking of Fibionacci, I was browsing through my old Data Structures and Algorithms lecture notes the other day for nostalgia and discovered that Fibionacci(n) can be computed in O(log N) time, at least in theory. I have completely forgotten about that fact.
In a way though it was a smart move for McDonald's because of the brand segmentation. It's like honda is more economy versus Acura is a more expensive brand though they are owned by the same company. Another example of this is toyota versus lexus.
I can see that viewpoint, although it does sort of play into the old stereotypes of VCs. Ditch a proven revenue stream and give the product away for free? Sure, we'll make it up on volume!
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Statistically, suicide notes are very rare--their absence is something to be expected, not suspicious of.
any element can prevent the default action at any time. flash, or not flash, it's like two lines of javascript.
I can relate completely.

After a decade and a bit hammering away at projects, and probably tens of thousands of great ideas in my head that never happened... I now, regardless of other work, pick one task for the day that I intend to complete. Usually work related, sometimes related to an ongoing project at work, sometimes a personal goal at work, sometimes something completely different - but I set it, and finish it, at almost all costs.

It doesn't have to be big... but you end the day with a sense of completion that you set out to do something, and did it... and at the end of the week, you did 7 things. This becomes natural, and feeds on itself, making you feel better and better and less stressed out about not completing things. As time goes on, I notice I am just naturally getting better and better at picking what those goals are until they become mostly strategic and to my benefit.
lol here I was contemplating EC2 vs AppEngine vs dedicated servers...
For simple stuff that I once might've done in MS Paint I've already switched almost exclusively to using http://www.canvaspaint.org/, both because it's really quick, and because File->Save saves to a URL, so you don't even have the extra uploading step before sharing your quick sketch/diagram.

I agree that Aviary's tools, being much more full-featured, are pushing what can be reasonably done on the web currently without it being painful for the user. But I think the model is a pretty good one, and a matter of time plus perhaps optimization: something as responsive as canvaspaint.org that was more like a modern image editor would be a winner.
MobileSafari provides the entire touch sequence to javascript, which means that same sequence can easily be passed to flash.

It isn't that difficult to do a reasonable mapping from touch sequences to mouse sequences.
Isn't the LC isomorphic with Turing Completeness? Therefore LC IS comp sci...

That's quite an impact.
This excellent piece by Sagan, Feynman, et al. also addresses these questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
This is a shame. There was once a time when the NYTimes was seen as a paragon of journalistic excellence. The same could be said for the Wall St. Journal. Heck, there was once a time when the Tuesday Science section was something to look forward to.
True, I guess there is a lot of dragging in Safari webapps...
Is there a petition to End the NY Times? You know, to put it out of its misery.

I think the only subscribers left are ones that just see it as a duty to keep their subscription as a "donation" of sorts, for fear of it vanishing. It looks to just represent a mental crutch.
I just ditched my iPhone 3G today in favor of a Droid, and I love pretty much everything she mentioned here. I already use most of Google's services (GMail in particular, but the calendar is nice too) so it's a much better fit for me.

That, and I love the multitasking, and that the notifications are (in my opinion) much more useful since I can see that I have new emails or texts without having to actually unlock the phone.

I'm also very impressed with the navigation feature. The interface on it pretty much destroys that of every other GPS I've used, whether it was a stand-alone device or an iPhone app. Quick to load, extremely accurate, and surprisingly quick to notice and reroute if you don't take a turn.

I know a lot of people like the iPhone, and it's still a nice device, but I think this is a much better choice for me; I'm a heavy Google user (and have more loyalty to Google than I do to Apple) and I wanted fewer limitations.
You're probably thinking of a psychiatrist. My dad is a psychotherapist and has an MCSW.
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A lot of people on the P side of the P/J continuum can probably relate to this problem.
I up voted you because I think that way, but there is often more utility in finishing a project than it might look like 90% of the way there. I find projects that are almost completed tend to get stuck on the same goal. But, with a "finished" project I can go back and add a new piece without the overhead of finishing my previous idea. Basically, when the project already does X you can build Y, but when the project can't do X it's hard to think of or about Y.
When I worked in Hawaii, it was a wild day indeed when we changed out of the usual uniform of gym shorts, t-shirt (or no shirt), and flip-flops (only when outdoors, barefoot inside).
I used to think that .. Until I turned '30 and realized I'd given more than 1/2 of my life to a career that I now find rather unfulfilling financially, intellectually, and personally.
So how is it that the N1 remains pleasing? Just because it doesn't have a "slide to unlock" caption? Gotta say, that one really doesn't worry me much. And I often hand my phone to people who don't have an iPhone and appreciate that I never have to explain to them what to do.
You know what I was doing when I was seven? Catching salamanders. Maybe your 7 year old daughter should be doing something other than watching youtube videos about creating website mockups. I'm all for involving your kids, and that is awesome, but it is a Saturday night, and it's rapidly becoming spring. Take your daughter out and do something fun with her.
I thought modern minis have real gpus? Must research.
Ask HN: Is my web app idea worth the effort?
I am building a web app that provides a graphical rich web interface to the functions of the statistical programming language R.

Here is my elevator pitch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YYndEVNc0

I know this wont appeal to programmers/hackers. Thats not the goal. The target user is Joe Data Analyst who doesn't program but needs to analysis and he cannot/is slow to use the command line - we all know people like this.

What do you think? Are there enough of these light weight data analysts out there (who will pay for the service) to make it worth my while?

Thanks.
I wasn't discussing whether or not the post was funny. I don't care if it was funny.

I was reacting to what I think is an occasional problem with HN. In a nutshell, some people here take "serious" so far that it turns into "puritanically self-righteously lacking in any sense or awareness of humor or irony." That can lead to really bizzare misfires of communication.

Case in point is the reaction to a recent comment by Jrockway's on the anti-IRS nutcase: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1135693 (again, please don't feel the need to say whether you find his comment funny or in poor taste or whatever).
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You think the iPhone unlock button is "annoying" and call it a sacrifice? The only reaction I can have to that is to think you're neurotic.
If this was Digg, I would have expected 23 comments thanking you for opening their eyes and highlighting this amazing feature in Firefox.

Then I remembered I was on HN and everything went better than expected.
Um, that just means that you can't distribute something under a modified form of the AGPL, and still call the license the AGPL...
So basically reverse everything you see there and now you have everything that exists now. Way to be close-minded, some-Newsweek-egghead-writer.
All he really needs is a can of PBR and a terrible "ironic" mustache and he could be on LATFH.com
There's an FSF FAQ on this:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

It seems they're mostly trying to avoid a license-dilution problem, where there'd be 50 incompatible versions of the GPL floating around confusing everyone.
Things only Wikipedia can teach you and which you would otherwise never learn because the topic isn’t otherwise interesting enough for you to buy any books:

Elements 108 to 112 were created by the German Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research between 1982 and 1996 and named (in order Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium and Copernicium) between 1997 and now.

The Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research seems to have gotten lazy after that because the next five elements (113 to 116 and 118) were created by the Russian Joint Institute for Nuclear Research between 2000 and 2006. They are all not yet named.

I guess we gonna get a few elements named after Russian scientists, cities or states next. And I’m pretty astonished that it can seemingly take 14 years to name a freaking element. Copernicium seems an innocent enough name.
Maybe the problem is that "relationships more complicated than linear sensitivity to single variables" are hard to study scientifically, and Western medicine is supposed to be founded on science.
Only if you ignore the cost of multiplication or the size of the numbers involved. The length of the answer is proportional to N, so you end up with N log N time with the typical exponentiating algorithm, and there's no way you'll beat linear time. The regular old additive for loop takes N^2 time, though.
Dress 250 years old and you'll probably look like a tool unless you take up EVERY attribute that was fashionable in that period. Are you going to wear a periwig? Sneakers don't go well with a tricorn hat.

For example, there's a young CS student at my school who wears a long brown leather coat and a pirate-ish hat. The two problems are: Who over the age of 8 dresses up like a pirate? and he's bald-faced, sneaker-wearing, and has a t-shirt under the coat.
Forget PayPal, what about the 5 grand that "vanished into the Brazilian banking system"? That seems like the kind of line-item that merits explanation.
What's unscientific about seeing beauty in the way reality actually works as described by science? They seem entirely orthogonal to me. Beauty is a subjective human trait -- i.e., a property of wetware running in the meat computers of bipedal apes. So it's silly to expect subjective judgments about beauty to be held up to a rationalistic/scientific standard.
How did this woman not go to jail or a mental ward before this happened?
Google isn't forcing anyone to use their services on the Android. Unlike the iPhone, the app API exposes all the device functionality used by the Google-made apps, so any other company could easily build a competing ecosystem for the Android. What's more, Google doesn't even control the Android OS itself; it's completely open source.
Contemporary GPL is a terrible name. Things are only contemporary for a limited time (by definition). What do you do after the Internet is obsoleted? Rename the new version The New Contemporary GPL?
Showing the world that facilitated communication is bogus
If anyone's wondering, the Y combinator gets mentioned on page 14, though only in passing.

Didn't seem to mention fixed points in the section on representing proofs in lambda calculus, though. It can easily be observed that the type of Y is (P -> P) -> P, that is, a proposition implying itself implies itself. Since the first part is obviously a tautology, this reduces to a proof of "for all P, P is true". Hooray, anything is possible! This is closely related to Löb's theorem, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and all those other fun things.

The net result is that there is a fundamental equivalence between true theorems that cannot be proven (cf. Gödel) and correct programs that cannot be shown to halt (cf. Turing).
You'll look like a tool with a cane unless you: a) genuinely have a limp, b) are wearing some sort of impeccable reproduction of Victorian men's wear (and not some silly steampunk crap), or c) are over 50.
> Didn't say she was from the company.

Didn't say you did.

> Google is building a device to [ultimately] lock us into their services and devices (or make their services available solely via their devices)?

By providing an unlocked phone that doesn't require you to use their services? I can see being afraid of Google because they have access to so much of your information, but lock-in seems to be the province of companies like Apple and Microsoft.
I remember Joe Peacock of Mentally Incontinent fame lambasting this manifesto: http://blog.joethepeacock.com/2009/03/cult-of-done-can-kiss-...
In what way? How would you solve the problems?
Aha, you think it's EASY don't you! Oh yes, anyone can be Nirvana if they grow their hair long huh?

Don't be silly. If you honestly think that the same amount of time expenditure that goes into creating a video game goes into creating an album, you're insane. Look at how many albums are released every year compared to albums. Do you think this is because people don't want to make games?
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It would be awesome if you could stop by Vancouver, there are a lot of startups here!
Agreed, although I'd say that Google controls Android -- maybe not completely, but pretty thoroughly.
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I think he said "Contemplorary" which is where the LOLs come from.
Personally, I love the way xmlhttprequest handles asynchrony.

Every process/function that deals with i/o,db,etc should provide at least two events onReady and onError (drop the 'callback' and 'errback' aberrations) and leave JS as pure as it is right now.

Other events may be used like onProgress, onLoad, etc.
A closed-form solution exists, so if you pretend that arithmetic is free, it's O(1)!

Bignum multiplication is significantly slower than bignum addition; if memory serves me it ends up coming out that you're essentially stuck with O(n^2) no matter what you do.

Fun fact: The naive, unmemoized recursive Fibonacci function has time complexity of precisely O(fib(n)). Scary!
Does it involve small planes by any chance? <g>
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Gee, kind of like money. So let's all ignore money.

Uh no. Money is nothing like fashion. If you put in 10 grand in your savings account, you have money in the bank, no matter what anybody thinks you have. On the other hand, if my nice brown coat from last year is now "unfashionable" because the editor of Vogue said that brown is out and pink is in, that only has power on people who believe it.

Fashion is just a social construct. Like other social constructs it has its uses (I certainly don't advise turning up at a job interview in the Lapland national dress, or a bikini), but let's not give it more importance that it is due. Especially here.
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Actually, I am an INTJ.
Oh that's right. This is better as a one-sided topic...
And the 5K paypal took doesn't matter? Title should be something like 10K lost by X.org in one conference. (Unless the 5K to the banking system is something like horrible fees or something).
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Does Joe Data analyst exist? and if so, is he able to gather enough data, and conceptualize what he is actually looking for?
I put this in the realm of wolframalpha, where most people (even hackers & programmers) can't word a query well enough to get the data they want back.

From my experience non-programmers aren't able to manage large enough volumes of data to require data analysis. At the company I used to work for, there were people in IT who's job was specifically to build and run reports at the request of retail managers. The problem would not be resolved if you could just give the retail managers a data analysis tool, as they didn't know how to get the data out of the databases.
In some ways, is this the market that pipes or dapper.net are trying to do?
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1) baby steps

2) read "talent is overrated" to understand why IQ is useless compared to being able to work hard for a long time
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i probably would have thrown away the book too just to mess with the FBI, though now I know better.

wow, the FBI's analysis doesn't inspire much confidence, considering how easy it is to make meaningless, after-the-fact connections--"you misspelled penicillin with an A and your mother's maiden name has an A in it".
... and never ever act upon that desire.
In that case you can use webworker-like computational threads, avoiding global data locking, etc.
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Sounds like he sent them a nasty letter. They stopped.
Except that it would require re-thinking all those zillions of Flash apps.
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I can't say I care for his proposed license. I recommend instead considering the WTFPL: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

The author of the WTFPL was the Debian Project Leader for a while and his site has a tribute to goatse. Make of that what you will...
Ah phi, the most irrational number.
Coffee is one thing, but in my experience the food at Starbucks is worse than McDonalds.
Messages later in the thread say that it was money wired to two Brazilians that they were sponsoring to fly to the conference with the travel scholarships, that never got to the intended recipients. Unfortunately, money wires frequently have problems like that. The security is basically entirely at the receiving point, which is supposed to not hand over the wired cash to anyone except the person it was wired to, and is supposed to properly check IDs and such. But if someone else gets it, either because of lax checking, fake documentation, or unscrupulous employees at the bank, it's basically gone; unlike with credit cards and such, you can't chargeback a wire transfer (which is why 419 and Craigslist scammers ask for money to be sent that way).
and if you actually looked at all of those calendar applications, you'd see that none of them are actually new calendar systems. they're all widgets and things that just display the data in the calendars already on the phone. even if they created a new system calendar, it still has to sync to an account, which i already stated is limited to a google or exchange account.

otherwise, it would be creating a calendar that only that application can manipulate, which would not work with all of those other widgets and things that tie into the phone's data.
It should be noted that this isn't a movie showing "the right way to do wireframes," it's from a talk about how there is no "right way to do wireframes," there's only the appropriate way to do wireframes at the appropriate level of fidelity for your task/project/client.

There are several "right way to do wireframes" videos on YouTube from that talk, each illustrating how a different professionals did wireframes for the same project using different processes and techniques.

Experimenting with different design techniques, processes and critiquing methods is one of the goals of my ongoing design workshops: http://vi.to/workshop/ (if you're in Austin, TX, you should come out!)
Most definitely not in my case. She was a "very" expensive acupuncturist, her entire life was devoted to the practice, as was her father and mothers. She also gave me a few (horrible tasting) medicines as well.

I literally couldn't move my legs for "3" months. Oh, I wish I could have. Having your excrement taken away from your bed by friends isn't my idea of fun. Anytime I tried to move my legs, I would scream out in pain.

My dad works at the local hospital in radiology, so I got VIP CAT and MRI. It was a very bad injury, and one of the best back surgeons in the state of California told me I wasn't going to walk normally again.

What did I do after I got better? I started practicing Qi Gong / Tai Qi / Gung Fu, 6 days a week. Color me sold on the ways of the east.
Nice as a continued fraction:

phi = 1 + 1/(1+1/(1+1/(1+...)))
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People should stop inventing their own vanity licenses; there are enough popular, legally-sound options available for any reasonable licensing schema.

If you want to ensure everybody who receives your code can modify it, use the GPL or LGPL.

If you want to disclaim your rights to the extent allowed by law, use the BSD 3-clause or X11 (aka MIT) licenses. These are one step above the public domain, and are legal even in jurisdictions which do not recognize the public domain.

Do not use: some license a non-lawyer thought up in a fit of pique after mis-reading somebody else's license. This applies to the author's TPL, the infamous WTFPL, and similar poorly-considered licenses.
"Maybe Santa doesn't need help doing Santa's job!"

You are assuming a lot here buddy. Save your preaching for Sunday school.
FTA: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."

This is clearly in reference to the LICENSE DOCUMENT and not the LICENSE ITSELF.

Forgive the shouting, but this situation seems childish anyway.
Oh, I'm sorry, I was under the impression that there existed O(N log N) multiplication algorithms, but apparently that's just conjectured. Right now the best seems to be O(N log(N) 2^(log*(N))) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fürers_algorithm ), which is slightly better than O(N log N log log N). Okay then.

Also, the closed form solution would still be O(log N), since I don't think anybody yet considers exponentiation to be free :-)