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Reading your post, it stuck me that being able to follow someone else's RSS feed would actually be very useful. I imagine a scenario where someone provides a "linux-news" channel which is basically a meta-RSS feed filled with interesting Linux articles from around the web. There could even be a "hacker-news" channel where popular stories on HN are listed.

After digging around the site, there are a couple of things I noticed: no channel search (not really necessary yet) and the design of the "channels" themselves is not very appealing. I'm imagining a more Twitter-esque design with some kind of box around each entry in a channel with the metadata displayed (retweets and that kind of thing) in a minimal fashion near the border of each.

I'd focus on building, first and foremost, a beautiful RSS reader that emphasizes content and then afterwards add a minimal "social features" framework. Don't worry about features, just do a couple things and do them right.
Definitely the people who dream them up. The lawyers know that they'll make piles of money either way.
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well, maybe. But you can pull this trick once only.

If this is what is going to happen, the next President or Prime Minister who will want to do something similar will have to promise he will follow through, or he/she will be made fun of.
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This is an interesting point that has been brought up several times. Often times I hear from developers that they think their app is good but there are just too few people that know about it. By paying for install you are essentially trying to capture that "word of mouth" marketing and hopefully send your app on an upward spin of sales.

That being said I can see the concern. My question for other app developers is whether they make money on current mobile advertising platforms such as adMob, Quattro, Google etc? It seems to me that if you get 5 downloads for a $50 dollar campaign that it would be more worth your while to spend that $50 dollars on a campaign that guarantees downloads and puts your app into users hands.
One of my original motivations behind the idea for adsReloaded was all the stories behind the terrible conversion rate for iPhone advertising so I am very interested in developer feedback on this particular point.
17 hours is a calculated number.

If you're trying to make sure you're sleepy enough to fall asleep 9 hours before you have to go to work, and you look at the half-life of caffeine: 4.9 hours on average (with a huge personal variance).

If you want to be "uncaffinated" when you fall asleep (which is hopefully <=8 hours before you get up, and a good 10 hours before you leave for work), you get less than 2 half-lifes, aka you get to drop your blood caffeine level to only 25% of what you had when you stop drinking it. Remember, caffeine not only causes you to stay awake, it causes your sleep to be less deep than it otherwise would.

Additionally: Effective use of caffeine means never drinking it in the morning (the only thing caffeine helps with in the morning is treating caffeine addiction. It's an antagonist of adenosine receptors, meaning it makes it so this chemical, which doesn't show up in your brain till late in the day, can't make you sleepy).

If you find caffeine helping you at all in the morning, you need to dial back your caffeine usage. It only starts becoming effective near 5-6 hours after waking up, and it's effectiveness skyrockets as the day goes on. So basically it takes less and less to keep you up the longer you stay awake (and has almost no effect to keep you up before a few hours awake, so morning coffee is somewhat silly).

If you are trying to get the adrenaline surge you can get when: 1. Not a caffiene addict, and 2. an occasionaly drinker of strong coffee, just do a few jumping jacks (like 4-9). It will do the same thing to your heart and you'll have caffeine as an effective tool around noontime which can be used to keep you awake the rest of the day at work, yet not interfere with your sleep.
Gracefully back-pedaled.

As he admits, he put himself in a lose-lose situation, and when that happens, there's not much one can do besides back-pedal. As gracefully as possible.
It's an interesting idea. It appears that laws accumulate (that is, there is less friction to adopting new laws than there is to repealing old ones). Given this, having a mandate from the people, so to say, might make it easier to argue a repeal.
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I don't think Apple is planning on fixing it, as that would require a massive recall. Take it back and wait for iPhone 5.
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Apple and AT&T hit with first iPhone 4 class action lawsuit
ah no its not..

Often the case is the hiring manager or firm not being upfront and the potential programmer running from the interview process due to that dishonest behavior

we tend to like upfront honesty and transparency because most of us are realists
I've used Nokia for a long time and I can't remember a phone that didn't have SOME annoyance. My e72 has several.

I'm looking forward to MeeGo, a true Linux mobile computer. Neither Android nor the iPhone cut it for me so far. The iphone is great fun, but too locked up and hyped, I hate hype and fashion. I don't like Android because I think that it's just one more piece in Google's plan for world data domination. Still, they are both compelling pieces of tech.

Ultimately, Apple, Nokia and Google are all corporations. Feeling attachment for them is a mistake.
Though I've never been an apple fan with the exception of early ipods, I am VERY surprised to see them flaunt their arrogance so publicly.

Strangely, it seems many of their minions are still promoting the iPhone 4 as a great device. I was on a plane the other day when a guy who had an ipad and iphone 4 calmly explained to the passenger next to him that all he had to do was hold his palm away from the phone, and things were fine. He RAVED about how great it was! It was his 3rd iPhone, he loves Apple.

If you've never owned an Apple product, or only had an iPod, and went out and bought the iPhone 4, would you become a fan? Particularly when Android is just gearing up with some really interesting devices?

Is the iPhone 4 Apple's Vista?
And the 'plaintiffs' will get a coupon for $2 at the Apple Store, or some similar negligible benefit.
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<em> I have an N97</em>

I feel so sorry for you. A few years ago I really wanted one but the people that already had them told me not to do it to myself.
I don't think this is the right link.
Yes. Sometimes both the comment and the author line too, other times just the author line is tiny and the comment text regular size.
For reading technical PDFs, the DX (still $489, sadly) is really the best choice. I'm currently in the process of reading a few different technical PDFs, and they all look great and are perfectly legible. I haven't had any trouble with equations or images either. Unfortunately, the thing really is pricey, and if it gets damaged there doesn't appear to be any repair program for it.
He still arrogantly refuses to admit any kind of possibility of being wrong on the overall topic, though.

> I still believe this, but I should never have said so. Some opinions are best kept to yourself.

I'll admit that it's better than nothing, but the tone didn't seem very apologetic to me. He does concede a few points, and I admire him for that, but things like the screenshots really rubbed me the wrong way.
Extend the idea of "lemon laws" to hiring. Every new hire has a 3 month try-out period (as a contractor?) where they will be fired if it doesn't work out. If you make this point forcefully during the interview, some low-quality applicants will seek safety elsewhere rather than risk losing their job, while high quality applicants won't be deterred.
> Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :)

You didn't mention some things from your link like, The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.

What's natural about captivity?
I really should start including the tags, shouldn't I?
I know this is a somewhat controversial topic (HN notability) but I think this particular article falls easily within intellectually stimulating (no pun intended :)). Also it is high brow enough not to count as gutter reading (in my mind anyway).
Anna Kournikova at different points in her career was ranked 8th in singles and 1st in doubles worldwide. She also continues to have a very successful career modeling. It's hard to call her a failure in any aspect of her career.
Yeah, the title should have said "Serena Software". I thought the same thing too, but in reference to some upcoming cell phone ads or something.
The price tag seems high. As previously mentioned it might be because of, low inventory volumes, new tech., etc.. What baffles me is that this technology was developed with OLPC in mind. How can you hope to sell a 100$ laptop (original price target) if a 10" screen with the same technology is 275$?

OLPC didn't have insane production volumes to begin with yet shipped for 150$ which is less than this screen. Moreover, it was specifically designed to be able to use existing LCD manufacturing technology which should keep the production cost low.

I predict that this price is inflated for early adopters since they will probably be selling all their inventory anyways. They are hopping to have an extremely high profit margin to recoup original investments.
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It's trivial (but evil) for an organization like a school to set up a proxy for https, since they are in a position to install the necessary root certificates in browsers (classic MITM attack). Devices are already on the market to make this easy to deploy (shudder).
IIRC it was closer to 25-30% in the first month for single-issue purchases. I'd estimate overall increased sales about 15% over the long haul - certainly worth the initial up front dev time to add it.
Ask HN: How to get the first 10 users?
After doing a small launch last night for adsreloaded.com I received a few hits but no sign-ups. You often hear on HN that you need to focus on the first 10 users... then maybe you can reach for the first 100 etc. So my question is whats the best way to get those first 10 users? (Or even better the first 10 power users).

In my particular case I would like to target iPhone developers first to get a few on board before I start hitting the gas on attracting regular users so its an odd situation, but any general advice on getting users is appreciated.

Do people find discounts, direct email, a paid search campaign, or something else entirely the most beneficial for early stage signups?
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Arguing about what art is has got to be one of the biggest wastes of time there is. I think enough "artists" have created "art" in the medium of human waste to settle the lower limit once and for all.
Aye. It's like he's trying to make the point that videogames are only useful for telling horror stories. It's like people who think that Comic Books are only capable of telling stories about Underoo-clad flying head-bashers. It's a medium. Like many mediums, there may be one genre that is heavily represented, but this has nothing to do with the ultimate potential of the medium itself.

It's the same sort of short sightedness that would declare "talkies" (slang for movies with sound) as only being useful for musicals.
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So, did you get one?
My earlier refutation of Roger Ebert:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389149

Maybe this is all just a subtle linkbait (unintentional?) for the Chicago Sun Times? (We'll see if game companies start advertising there.)
Some criticism:

You should have a language tag for your channels or feeds and make sure you only put english ones on the front page. Right now 2 of them are non-english.

You should put up a demo video or slides or something. Your front page is not compelling enough right now for me to register.

The news items in your channels don't have preview pics. With the space-liberal layout of your site, this is very lacking, it was my first thought as I scrolled down. OR use compressed headlines, and use favicons. But put up some pics, it looks very boring this way with text only.

As one of the commenters here pointed out, the default channels are so general as to be useless. You'll need to think of some interesting subjects. Right now you probably should concentrate on early adopters like us, so create some interesting channels like Python or Django or whatever is hip these days.

I'd consider rethinking the layout (I'm looking at /tech right now). It looks like a generic blog, but it should look like a CHANNEL, so make it look like one! Get rid of the noise on the right side (Sources, Subscribers), use the space for a layout that's not boring and makes me want to use the site.

I should be able to create a channel without signing in. It could be the hook for later signup.

Best of luck!
I wonder if he would agree that a single instance of a video game having been played could be art. A specific playthrough. Therefore not open-ended.

EDIT: I'm thinking about famous games of Go that are now considered (by some) to be works of art. And I'm making the tenuous jump to video games, where the final 'work' of art is a collaboration between the player(s) and the designers of the game.
Although Gilt isn't really a well-known name around here, they do a great job of handling massive traffic at a single time (Noon EST).
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Second example of funky italics I've seen today. You want to use asterisks :)

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I too feel bad for Symbian. I did my first mobile dev on my Nokia N70 phone which I still have (bought my HTC Desire a week ago).

I can only see 2 reasons here...

1.) Too much fragmentation. Fragmentation in android is nothing compared to slaughtering in symbian phones.

2.) No unified app store for developers. And that's probably due to #1

And #1 and #2 made it pretty easy for others to compete after apple showed the way.

All the above is not true for India though. Nokia seems to very popular even today. HTC is almost non-existent. And the BlackBerry only with the executives at corps. Palm is unheard of. iMate was once popular among the rich and classy and it's almost dead.

Nokia, Samsung and Sony can still happily sell their non-Android phones here and people would grab it happily.

Whatever, the nokia label would take a while to fade here in India until Android phones or iphones become goat-nut cheap.
We've been having a slew of low cost manufacturers of phones with high-end features (touch screen, accelerometers etc) with products almost half the price of a nokia low-end smart phone. And still a lot prefer Nokia.

IMHO I would surely credit Nokia and Symbian for making some of the first easy to use devices. My mom who's been using a Sony phone for the past 6 months still can't figure it out quickly like she did the Nokia 1100 (!!) a few years ago. And I loved my N70 (S60 2nd edition FP3) when I first bought it. But again I have similar experience as Rick mentioned in the blog post - poor Memory and processor. And when I had 100 songs, the music player took ages to open. Like around 10 seconds.

I'm forced to mention that HTC, which has released the most number of Android phones has a clear website. Clean, simple to navigate and use and no conflicting pages offering different info on the same topic like Nokia's site. Takes only a 2 clicks max to reach the support page of my phone on the HTC site. The same would take a minimum of half a dozen clicks on Nokia's site even after going thru google.

P.S: Offtopic - just check out http://www.imate.com/ for some fun. I have on idea why iMate has been busy making a phone that meets U.S Military Standards? :P (or am i wrong and every phone in the US has to meet U.S Military standard?)

EDIT: Wikipedia says i-mate is now defunct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mate
Gracefully back-pedaled but who's decision was it to place a bunch of gory screenshots in the post? Not only distracting but really added a sinister feel to his words.
May I ask; how old are you now? (your past recall seems pretty damn good if you can remember back so far)

As it stands I'd say 7/8 seems young; well, for men (it might be reasonable for women).

My work is in computer forensics and we often have children's computers to examine. In my limited observation sexual interest develops around 10/11 in boys and 8/9 in girls (this is based on searches for porn or sexy pics so in no way conclusive).

> The primary psychological goal of porno seems to be for the viewer to imagine one of the actors as themselves, and/or the other actor(s) as those the viewer knows or sees.

As you can imagine (given the above job) we also see a lot of porn. And I would say you are right. POV pornography is extremely popular - probably the most common type of porn people watch.
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Reducing debt through inflation is by no means special to the united states and indeed a major option missed in the article.
You must've missed out Larva Labs's article on it. They develop for both Android and iOS.

http://larvalabs.com/blog/android/android-market-payouts-tot...
This is excellent to see. After so many years of labour adding red tape on top of red tape, interfering more and more into our lives down to the very last detail.

Refreshing to see this happening.
In my mind this sort of lawsuit highlights almost everything that is wrong, counterproductive or idiotic about our society/modern mentality.

:(
I wonder how this two pronged approach will work. My gut feeling is that Google will completely lose interest in the 2.x branch and any handheld makers who doesn't want to play along with Googles minimum spec games will be left out in the cold. In three years time there will probably be no Android 2.x development from Google worth speaking of. Perhaps this is Symbian's chance to get back in the game. The interesting thing to see is if hardware makers are willing to go along with this, given how reluctant they are going from 1.x->2.x
Also, laws accumulate because the public demands government action on certain crimes, and they believe stronger laws are what's going to stop these crimes, so the laws escalate.

Since we cannot stop 100% of the crimes, usually laws only get tougher with time.
Without having seen it, or even good pictures of it, I would assume the color mode would still have full resolution, but that colors would appear "wrong" but not neccessarily less detailed.
Sorry I did not mean to imply US is the only one, just a normally hot topic.
Have you tried identifying the users elsewhere and reaching about by tweet / e-mail?
I'm steadily more and more impressed with the new government (which I was see sawing over). I hope this is not simply a publicity stunt and is really a genuine move - because that would be really cool.

(as it is I think the coalition has weathered the new budget really well considering it was always going to piss of, well, everyone :))
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My hunch is they can feel or see stagnation on the horizon, and are trying to mix things up a bit. Sort of the same as drinking the blood of young virgins (hot new startups) so that the old witch (Amazon) can reclaim some of her youth. I think the chances of success are a bit better than the blood route though!
I have definitely noticed the time I spend programming has decreased dramatically since I returned to gaming (Steam is to blame here). While I do regret that I don't have as much time as I'd like to work on programming, I know that (for me, at least) my interests move in cycles, so in a few months I'll probably move away from gaming and back to hacking in my free time.

If you are just looking for a competitive hobby, I'd suggest rock climbing. You can do it by yourself as a personal challenge, or you can join a team and do it competitively. Either way its a lot more healthy than sitting in front of a screen playing games.
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This is the scariest article I've ever read.
The most relevant part of that episode to this discussion being that the universal translator still left the language on the planet unintelligible because they spoke in metaphor & with allusions to their planet's version of the Gilgamesh epic.

Thus "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
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I think this is a great move on their part. My company uses oDesk. We have a large pool of contractors through them for human judgements, but also outsource some non-critical development to oDesk contractors.
I am more impressed by the Swiss system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Direct_democracy
The lawyers taking the cases and the people dreaming up the suits are most likely one and the same. They then go and recruit clients.
So, when Rome was just a shell of its former self, where was the best place to be? One could use the answer to that as an analogy to answer the question of where we should go if our society is failing. (Western industrialized society.)
I thought insanely great was more of a Douglas Adams thing? Well, he really liked Macs too.
I think chalking it up to "wasn't meant to be" isn't doing justice to some of the other more important take-aways.

I submitted my site for review to Hacker News, and they basically told me the idea was great, but the site wasn’t usable. In my infinite wisdom, I trudged ahead.

Now, there's a valuable lesson: don't ask for advice, if you're not willing to take it. Or, put another way: be humble enough to admit that other people's opinions count, especially where customers are concerned.

After unsuccessfully marketing my product for a few months and trying to get people to seed reviews, I gave up on the original and started on my redesign. The redesign was going to be grand! A huge ajaxy call to action form field in the middle of the screen just begging to be used, a karma system for people who seed reviews, special status for moderators, and incentives to invite your friends

And here's another lesson: start with a minimum viable product. Your first interation was minimal, but not viable. Instead of going for a "grand" redesign with all kinds of new features, you could have tackled your most pressing obstacle (the usability issue) and added on the new features afterwards.

When I secured a real job, I found it became much harder to balance work, the fiance, side projects, and free time. I made the choice to sit on Should I Get the Book until the winter when I would have a bit more free time to work on it. Bad choice.

Lesson #3: there's no time like the present. Sure, you'll have more time, someday. Do it now, and then you can use the additional time someday to do more.

Maybe I didn’t try hard enough.

It sounds like you put effort in, at least at first, but didn't take the good advice given to you. You know the old saw: work smarter, not harder.

Maybe I didn’t put enough money into it.

I don't think that would have helped.

Or maybe I didn’t sacrifice enough.

Only in terms of sacrificing a little pride towards humility, I think.

In any event: best of luck in your next venture.
I'm an iPhone 4 owner and I don't think I've experienced this problem, am I in a minority here? The phone is an incredible piece of tech. Don't punish people for innovation or we will all be walking around with worse devices.