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Truly ironic. http://calacanis.com/2004/12/28/rss-abuse-whats-fair-use-and...

Disclosure: I used to work for Skweezer. What a difference six years makes.

TLDR: Jason didn't like our mobile optimizing proxy because we were "stealing" his content. He banned us from all his Weblogs Inc. properties.
> A cameraphone replaces every feature of a P&S

Really?

> Not yet, anyway. Wait until the apps catch up. Major apps like Photoshop, Skype, TextMate, Lightroom, Visual Studio, anything corporate.

Also wait until people get used to the interface. Being able to code on an iPad is more than just having Emacs/Vim/etc running on it (which will never happen for the iPad so long as Apple is the only one making 'Pad' devices). You have to be able reliably type for more then just a few emails and web comments.
There seem to be Google ads on the page, if there are then it definitely is commercial use.
Apart from being part of a commercial company (related to Mahalo), the article is also being used to sell AdSense ads on the very article, which seems pretty clearly commercial use.
I use a drop of milk for my delicious omelette. Maybe it's the same effect. Add a bit of rosemary and curry and it tastes even better.
The iPhone and its application ecosystem is the product of multiple A/B tests and basically a Darwinian evolution process. I don't have the impression that being a closed system is source of impediment. Objectively, a closed system has some benefits too.

This is an opportunity for alternative solutions. I'm very curious to see how JooJoo will do. Its specifications are very attractive too. I hope they'll open it to have a disruptive offer and not just another "me too" copy product. This might give a very interesting A/B test.
Especially the kind made out of cheese-tasting chemicals.
Godwin! You win the thread :-)
My sub-$400 netbook (an EeePC 1005PE) gets around 10 hours (with bluetooth off, the screen turned down, a customized kernel from the Arch User Repository, and setting SuperHE to the full-optimization setting - but wifi on, which is probably a big drain on the battery), so it's certainly doable. Just takes a fair amount of optimization; before all of that, it was getting around 6 without really trying.
You can use miracle fruit (or miracle berry) to make sour/bitter things taste sweet. It binds to your tastebuds for about half an hour, during which sour things will taste quite sweet. You could suck on a lemon and it will feel like sweet lemonade. It's a good way to cut down on sugar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit
The trick is called advance planning.

Similar to the "whole bunch of meals" I remember a fellow grad student who would cook a large dish every Sunday, then parcel it out into meal sized portions which he would then freeze. He always had meals from multiple weeks in there, so he could microwave chili, lasagna, stew, etc, whatever he felt like.

He did this with a normal sized freezer, but it was a well organized one.

Personally I'm fond of pancakes. I always cook more than I need, put the excess in the fridge, then microwave one when I want a pancake. See http://www.recipefiles.org/view_user.php?user=ben_tilly for some of the pancake recipes I make. Particularly with the buttermilk, I find that the pan gets hot in the same time it takes me to make the batter, and cooking from scratch tastes a lot better.

You'll also find there something called "Daddy's chicken". I do that as a marinade in the fridge. Many marinades are surprisingly fast to cook. You just prepare them, let them sit in the fridge, then the next day pop them into an oven and come back when they are done. Sure, it takes 40 minutes to an hour of cooking time. But that is wall time, not your time.
Ask HN: Startup idea feedback, please
An Ad.ly for video blogs:

A self-service platform for advertisers to sponsor vloggers on a per episode(s) basis.

The endorsement is a short creative (written by the advertiser) which the vlogger will say in the beginning of the the episode.

An advertiser could choose which vloggers to pitch their ad too and then submit a bid to a particular vlogger. The vlogger then approves or denies the request. Once the vlogger records the episode with the endorsement, the sponsor can verify.

In the textual info of the video or as an annotation in the video itself, a link to the ad campaign will be present.

An estimated price per episode can be determined by the publisher's average views per video (maybe most recent videos to be fair), frequency of episodes and Twitter stats.

Advertisers can target their campaigns by user engagement(#comments, replies, rating), audience type, and subject topics (Keywords + advertisers can watch a video themselves to determine appropriateness).

*YouTube was the assumed distribution platform for ease of explanation
It's not just business and law in the US. When I was a CS student in college (not very long ago), during the summer students had to make a choice to go do low-paying internships for brand-name companies like MS, Google, and Amazon or take real summer jobs that would pay better but not look as good on a resume. Poorer students with more debt would take the short-term better paying jobs while students whose parents were footing the bills would take the internships that would give them better future prospects.
"Haul Vloggers" welcomed.
The computer industry is gigantic. It's nearly impossible to talk about its entirety in broad strokes. Even if you don't work in the technology industry lots of people carry laptops around for various reasons. It's a little presumptuous to think their needs are always so easy to meet. So right off the bat we need to exclude most computers used for business or most professional users in general. We also need to exclude hardcore geeks and power users. My guess is that leaves you with about half the market for laptop computers. Basically the people who are buying net books today. That's the market where the iPad is going to have the most impact. I think Apple hasn't been oblivious to the rise of net books in the computer market. They see the potential market for something less than a full blown computer, smaller and lighter, better battery life, more fun to use and most importantly more task oriented instead of a general purpose device. For those people the iPad is going to be fantastic. For the first 50%, the geeks/professionals, the iPad might have some appeal as an accessory but it's not going to change much. So going back to the original premise that the world wide computer industry is gigantic the iPad, and other tablets modeled closely after it, are a fragmentation of this massive industry into more logical segments. We're long overdue to recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all. The needs of the geeky power user are massively different than the needs of a person who wants to read an e-book or webpage on their couch. They'll happily co-exist together.
Ask HN: What can I do to improve my website?
I am the co-owner of http://www.novapress.net, a site that sells test preparation products developed by my business partner. We recently made a major change to our website (switching from Drupal to Wordpress, which should make our lives easier, since we want the site to be as 'hands-off' as possible). Since the transition, site traffic has decreased noticeably; I think the main reason is that we changed our site structure, and the new site navigation is not reflected in our Google listing.

I believe that our website has great potential to be a profitable medium for selling our test prep products. What actionable advice do you have for how we could increase directed traffic to the site, increase conversion, and generally make the site more profitable?
It seems like isBlank() would mean null or empty or all whitespace?
If you like a thicker broth, go for it. My preference is to consider that first round of veggies as flavor enhancers.

When I cook thicker soups I blend, e.g. with butternut squash soup, I always blend the sauteed onions and garlic, as well as a portion of the squash.
Well, I think I'm going to advocate tacos. The best thing about tacos is: they are easy to make and can be filled with just about anything.

Take one or two hours off the weekend you can cook nice meals for the rest of the week. Cook some meat wit tomato sauce, fry little potato squares with some olive oil, grill some chicken steaks. Also grab a can of beans, some cheese (mozzarella or oaxaca for better results) and of course good tortillas.

That's it. You can have an infinite variety of tacos for each day of the week.

Dude, this thread made me hungry.
Why I think iPad is going to revolutionize the market
Life (and Death) in the Fast Lane?
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The contact email is also

armin.ronacher+dontbelieveanythingontheinternet@active-4.com

So.
Facebook, via email.
What are you talking about? I interned at Microsoft for a summer 3 years ago and was compensated almost 20k... Low paying my ass.
Maybe people get fired if it goes into debt?
Then I should amend it to say that it stops all companies that rely on US infrastructure from shirking their financial obligations.

If you were a foreign investor you'll read the tax code and weigh the pros and cons. If you don't like the terms invest somewhere else, you'll find a lot of developed countries have had this on the books. If you make a profit in the US expect to get taxed on that profit. Small companies do it, big multinationals should too.
Think of how revolutionary the internet is. The post office is the old version of the internet.
If you call grainy JPGs reading.
Yeah, in my experience it's always been the opposite: internships from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Intel are about the highest-paying summer jobs (~$30-50/hr) any college student is likely to find, versus "normal" summer jobs that pay more like ~$15/hr at best. When I decided to do a $5k-stipend research internship instead of working somewhere like that, it was turning down a good deal of money.
mine gets around 5 or 6 but with just the standard UNR kernel. I generally plug in most of the time but I sort of want to try all the kernel optimizations... sounds like they made quite a difference for you.
Early acquisition seems like a natural extension of the "minimum viable product" strategy.
:%s/Emacs/Vim/g

Although I'd also point out that even if it did run Emacs, I'm not sure how fun it would be to use Emacs' key combos with a software keyboard.

The company that comes up with a way to have the screen close to my face and the keyboard in my lap will win my vote. That is one reason that, while I use my netbook for hours on end to surf and read, I rarely use it for coding/writing. I like the freedom of having my (obnoxiously clicky) keyboard and screen in different physical locations.
The absolute best couscous recipe is the one from Jamie Oliver. Basically throw in some shallots, garlic, spices and a tablespoon of red wine vinegar. It is mind-bogglingly good.

http://www.lovelyrecipes.com/recipe.php?recipeid=3460 - the recipe
is there a catch? I feel like i genuninely do not find the things i find in google.

wonder if its just the way I'm used to knowing how to search. is seldom dont find exactly what i'm looking for google. seems like it would be more a waste of time to change my workflow... hmm....
It is hard to beat a Gruyere and thinly sliced ham combination :-P
I'm a geek living alone and working long hours. I like to eat healthy. I treat cooking the same way I treat website optimisation... iterate till I get it right, and I blog about my cooking experiences (at least the ones that work) at http://food.bluesmoon.info/

The food's good enough that I can invite people over for dinner every now and then. Some of it takes time, but my stirfrys and salads are all under 10 minutes preparation time.

I went from being 20Kg overweight to 8Kg overweight.
Thoroughly enjoyed the print edition, great to see you offering it for free online.
Always insightful to have you weigh in on the Grellas - cheers.

As for this...

> this in turn elicited an interesting and lively thread here at HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806563).

There's a lot of ignorance in that thread. People seem completely unable to imagine the other side of the table in situations they haven't been in. I did an unpaid internship for the state government at one point for a couple months and learned quite a bit how government works, made some friends, and got to meet some interesting people.

Later, I had an unpaid intern come in and work for 3 hours twice a week with me. It evolved into me sitting, working hands on and training him for 2 and a half hours of that time, teaching him all sorts of things, and he'd make some reports during the week about that and some writeups, which I used as the basis of some marketing literature.

But if I'm going to be totally honest - it was a fun experience, a good time, he's a great guy, but it was a bad business decision. I'd have produced a lot more in the 6-10 hours per week on my own or working with one of my paid staff or contractors than I did with him. He got a heck of a lot of it. Me? I mean, it was good fun, I learned some things, I don't regret it at all, but in the end the time cost on my side was more than it was worth.

An unpaid internship can absolutely be worth a heck of a lot - I mean, many of us wind up paying thousands for some college courses of dubious value. Getting to spend hands-on time with someone talented, seeing how they do things - that can be a tremendous amount of value if you're in the right organization working with the right person or people.

Personally, I probably won't take an unpaid intern again, but there's a lot of people I'd work for free for in some capacity to learn from.
I use a rice cooker that you stick in the microwave.

This one, to be specific:
http://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Aids-Microwave-Rice-Cooker/dp/B00...

13 minutes works for spaghetti in my microwave.
I'm one of those people.

My desktop is actually less powerful than my laptop (excluding the graphics card). I can do everything the desktop does with it, plus I can carry it with me in far-away countries.
"While it clearly isn't considered offensive in the US, it's still a pretty rude gesture."

Who says? I live in the US, I'm not Indian, and I find it quite offensive when people put their feet up on tables pointing towards me.
camelCase was invented by english speakers with absolutely no clue about case-less languages.
Or be ashamed that they were right. That's why I don't have any opinions, so nobody can prove me wrong :P
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Of course, for javascript style, crockford's articles are fairly good:
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The Quixotic task of Don Justo: to build a cathedral by himself
An Entirely Other Day: Making the Future (Response to Doctorow)
Windows XP comes with at least VBScript and JScript ready-to-use for scripting.
Why can't we have both? Especially in an industry where we actually create products, and thus wealth, rather than extracting or shuffling it around.

Sure, there are many other possibly "better" ways to touch peoples' lives, but I'd much rather do something I love doing that also helps people than hate what I do. We can't be completely selfless.
oh god, don't hack food... it's not worth the saved time. Just learn to cook, good food is cheap. I make dinner for friends all the time 5 courses and the cost per person is 5€ if I want. Preparing good pasta never takes an hour, a simple rice dish is fast, you can cook nearly everything with very little preparation time, it's just a matter of training. So don't hack food hack your food preparation skills. It's like buying something like this http://www.stimrx.com/instead of finding a a better way to exercise. If you learn to cook well, you will be able to do it without concentrating on it, so it's not lost time.
Now imagine how long you are going to eat.. 60 years for every day? What would you do with every other kind of work you have to do for that amount of time?
How long did you need to learn driving? Or to learn to programm?

And don't believe anybody who tells you with some kind of powder and some nutrients you will be perfectly healthy, if the research into nutrition has shown anything it's that the system is pretty complex and the only safe bet is a mixed traditional diet.
One Step Back from the Epiphany
There is a difference, though: cameras were added to phones which everybody needed anyway. The iPad is an extra 500$ investment.

Also, I have been waiting for years for phone cameras to become good enough, but last month finally gave up and bought a real digicam again.

Still hope that eventually phone cams could become good enough, but not holding my breath atm.
I wanted to tell you that I used Nova materials to study for the GMAT and absolutely loved them. I remember Nova's concern for teaching fundamental math and verbal stuff where most other companies were preoccupied with superficial strategies and one-trick pony tactics.

That stuff has its place in test prep, but there's a strong case for balance between theory and strategy. I really appreciated your materials for that.
No Conflict? No Interest.
ICAI is not slow in progress: Government
"I hope to find a good cofounder someday to compliment my skills and strengths, but until then I keep moving forward."

I've been doing the same, but chatting with PG today uncovered the disquieting possibility that making progress on my own project is making it harder to sync up with potential cofounders. I've met several good people in the last few months, sometimes with very similar ideas. It seems easier to keep pushing on what I'm doing rather than to return to an empty page..

I'm not sure what the answer is. Waiting to find a co-founder seems like a leap into the unknown.
You could always integrate mixpanel or something similar.

Or tweak the log format output from your webserver so that you can shove it into any of many analytics programs.
One thing I'm noticing is that what I believe to be a read more button is mostly hidden to me. http://imgur.com/rkaHx.png
Fear not. Dropbox has revenues.
Is there really a need for segment cleaning as Rosenblum lays it out?

They clean segments to reduce fragmentation and allow for decent-sized extents to write new data into. Since your writes don't need to be long and contiguous, do you really need to empty the live data out of segments?

You DO need to identify which snapshots are stale, and consequently mark certain blocks as free. But I see no need for compaction.
First those brothers start working on their Facebook in 2002, get nothing done for 2 years. Go up to Zuckerberg, and say, "hey, you wanna code this thing for us that's like a Myspace but for like colleges and stuff?" He agrees, but then is like "wait, why am I working for these clowns? I'm gonna make my own Facbeook". The brothers then claim the code was really meant for them and later win millions just for knowing Zuckerberg.

Now, you claim that because Mark talked about Facebook with you and (gasp) went to your website to look at it, that you somehow deserve credit for Facebook even though, as you admit, your own website didn't have any traction. So if you ever discuss ideas with someone, and they go on to turn that idea into a success, you will then claim credit for their execution.
I also was unaware that the camera had died...

Maybe the very lowest end cameras have been replaced by the lowest end phones but as far as I can tell, higher-end cameras are doing as well as ever.
The id function in Java has no side effects...

public <T> T id(T t) {
return t;
}

That's an id function. It works fine with nulls.

Where did anyone say that java.util.Objects was providing an id function anyway?
http://www.dollaradaybook.com/kitchen or Costco food.
I think he undersells the iPad by comparing it to a cameraphone.

Due to the fact that good lenses and flash require a certain amount of space, and no amount of technology is going to change that any time soon, cameraphones will NEVER be as good at ANY kind of pictures as even the cheapest point-and-shoots. These are phones FIRST. The camera is just another bullet point in the feature list.

A multi-touch tablet with an OS and a bunch of applications designed from the ground up exclusively for a touch-based interface isn't a second class citizen here. The primary purpose of the iPad is for using applications. It is, in some ways, better than a laptop for certain tasks. It comes back from sleep quicker, is more portable, sips the battery slower, and touch interfaces work better for many applications.

In fact, when I think all of this is over, it might be a boon for desktops. While it's cute to hack code in the kitchen or at Starbucks, let's face it, you aren't getting as much work done when you're stuck on that tiny screen, using that cramped keyboard, fiddling around with that touchpad. Laptops will continue to be very important, but it might end up being cheaper and work out better for many people just to buy something like a mac mini and a tablet device.

In the end, can't we all just agree that we have different needs and that each of us is entitled to have the devices that we choose and afford?
Spot on. I agree despite the moderation which seems a bit slanted in this matter - do me too, I've got the Karma.
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Problem is though that I doubt there would be much chatter that far out for a method like this to be overly useful. Chatter is usually the result of advertising with movies so being able to use it to predict things like what kind of advertising spend to use would be hard.

Even without practical information it is still a good demonstration of the type of information that can be extracted from twitter that would have been very hard previously online.
I'm going to assume the design ect. isn't causing the problem, so I have some suggestions in the order of what I would do:

1. Posting on HN

2. Email all your favorite bloggers

3. Email TechCrunch (you may get lucky with a ten second email)

4. Go onto the correct types of forum and advertise (possibly Second Life forums?)

Now, if you are just interested in getting some traffic, you can:

1. Ask your friends to post the link on their social media sites

2. Pay some myspace dudes with tens of thousands of friends $50 bucks to message all of their friends a note you have written (including the link of course)

3. Go onto Second Life and pay advertisers to advertise for you

4. Eh, Google Adsense

Well, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
I, too, believe that most technology internships are a total scam. The usual phrase from a small company is that they want a 'rock star' ( insert your synonym here ) intern. I'm fairly certain that any 'rock star' intern can replace many hours of labor spent by an FTE.

To put it in some perspective, and this is all personal point of view, I believe that a company in three to four months of a full time internship should be able to teach a computer science student ruby, rails to a working knowledge extent, the why's and how's of why rails is the way it is (the ups and downs of MVC, convention over configuration, etc), limited database knowledge, and some basic UI/UX considerations.

Deeper knowledge into any of those (especially databases with CAP and the whole sql/nosql argument) would be valuable if there were any time remaining. And, obviously, the previous paragraph can be replaced by the equivalents in your specific niche.

EDIT: spelling