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From the same department: UX Myth

It doesn't annoy users when you require JS just to correctly display a static page with no fireworks. (big white box takes >50% of height on FF)
You've just earned your Voice of Reason badge.
For some applications (like Spotify) that is simply not an option.
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With stashboard, you can define all the services and statuses that are relevant to your product... it makes no assumptions. For us, it's Calls API, Account Dashboard, etc. But you can make them whatever is relevant to your customers.
Apple reveals iPhone geolocation data collection policy
Full text of Apple's response is here: http://markey.house.gov/docs/applemarkeybarton7-12-10.pdf
Absolutely. Even though she has worked hard to study and understand the rules, Dr. Grandin has explicitly given up on the idea of ever being in a romantic relationship, as it's just too much work for her.
it should be showing the actual address of the venue on the map, - not the users. i'll look into it. i fixed the other problem where user pins appeared on top of each other.
Ferris Club: Fight Club meets Ferris Bueller
And yet if someone records me in a public space, I wouldn't have a legal-leg to stand on if I tried to get them jailed / fined / whatever for doing so. Funny.
I definitely would order this if they come out with support for WebOS.
Why you should add random strangers to your Twitter feed
How about wives?
http://wakemate.com/tour/

which is still on their site..Is nothing like the final shipping product

http://blog.wakemate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wristban...

I would say its a multiple of degrees less 'designed' or 'professional' ...

I still want my pre-order as long as it will ship working with android.

p.s. You need to use your current iteration on your homepage photo; cause the one you have on there now and your current iteration have very very low correlation imho.
Yes but Camping was already a community project (quite a while) before _why disappeared.
I'm not saying that ideas have no value whatsoever, because clearly a bad idea properly executed can still be a bad idea.

What I am saying though is that there are few ideas that can be not executed and/or executed poorly and still render a success.

Of course success is variable, as you point out with regards to the Nobel Prize here. Assume somebody does execute a strategy to effectively monetize the superconductor described. As you point out that's a game changer on levels that will make the Nobel Prize seem rather small.
I wrote the software used at https://loom.cc. That is a site which allows anyone to create and issue new types of digital assets. Typically the issuer will write a contract pledging to redeem the digital asset for a specific quantity of physical assets or services. Owners of the digital asset may spend it freely on the server, similar to how they spend cash in the physical world.

One thing I like about Loom is that an asset type has a single issuer. This means that an issuer can store some physical assets in a vault, create a digital asset type redeemable for those physical assets, and issue the digital asset type in a strictly limited quantity.

Then there's no question what a digital asset type is good for, because even if no exchangers or merchants accept the asset type, at least the issuer is contractually obligated to deliver the assets in storage or the promised services.

I wish Mr. Nakamoto (the author of Bitcoin) could devise a way for a digital currency to have a single issuer, but still trade in the wild like Bitcoin does now without a central server. However, that may be a logical contradiction and thus fanciful thinking.

So the best I've been able to come up with is Loom, which does indeed depend on a central server. But I would like to see many Loom servers with trading networks between them. That might be a way to realize the benefits of central servers while avoiding much of their risk.

(invite 42215c198e22c724d7cfd7887bda2a57)

P.S. Various source code references here:

https://loom.cc/view/eae93b14a717a7f43e6354bade2a199ca2e3bef...
The Ellerdale Project
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> I guess if you view winning a Nobel Prize as a failure, then yes, you've refuted my example. I doubt more than a tiny fraction of people would consider that a failure, however.

The point is that a Nobel prize, like VC funding, is not a biz success. It's an "attaboy" with some money attached. And for the VC funding, they expect biz success later.
Yeah, that doesn't sound so smart - you just end up giving a dangerous man tools to be even more dangerous.
The Problem with Electric Cars: “Electricity Is Not Sexy.”
How will I find out about a meeting in my area if one occurs? Although it's spammy, you should probably just email everyone when such a thing is created (with some rate limit) and then give a very big one step opt out button.
Thanks for the reply! Glad you guys are more prescient than I. Very excited to get in bed with your product.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
There's no way you folks got the joke if my reply got voted down that quickly. You guys obviously need to watch blazing saddles again. :-)
My country (Uruguay) has some retarded laws that means that even if you purchase a valid copy of a software program from the US it's not a "legal" copy (my father found out the hard way that the Norton license he had bought in the US was not "legal").

And no, there are no legal ways to buy several programs - meanwhile piracy is unofficially tolerated by the government (there are shops that sell pirated versions of games and other software - not MS stuff or other companies with local presence). I do have every Microsoft program I use legally for instance (as they are available locally).

There are also several other grievances (think DVD region selection and all that) which strongly discourage purchasing software.

I tend to believe that I wouldn't have any illegal program if I lived in the US.

Edit: fittingly, I've had a (legal) copy of a game I purchased for a friend just detained at customs (used to be you could make small purchases without it winding up at customs, but it isn't so anymore). So some very nice paperwork and fees coming up - just for trying to be legal.

I'm not sure if Steam is legal here, but I wouldn't bet for it (it's probably a gray area and it should be OK)
Same tips, so you can signup too! We will eventually grab that domain name too (take right now).
The problem with all cyber-currencies is that they can be used for money laundering, so the feds will shut them down. I know, you're saying, "it uses crypto so you can't track it and it's decentralized so you can't shut it down." This is true, however, if you want to spend your bitcoins you need to convert them into some recognizable currency, which means you need a bank to do so, which can and will be shut down by the feds.

See the case of E-Gold for a similar comparison. E-Gold was doing something very similar: letting people transfer money anonymously and untraceably, but backing it with real gold in a vault so that it had some legitimate worth. The feds shut them down.

Crypto currency sounds great, but unfortunately it always breaks down where the rubber meets the road, or where the crypto currency gets converted into real currency. These places are easy to shut down by any government.
Farmville. Seriously though something like an open source Flattr without the 10% rake would be nice (micropayments)
Hi HN

This idea came about after my own experience (as PG would suggest). Basically it is a weekly newsletter with great tips (one coming Thursday) + a Reminder system for her birthday, anniversary and valentine's day. Very keen to get your comments.

Two for free deal, let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Jonathan
Is this a real site, or a, I missing the URL somewhere?
I (and many other HN readers, I'm sure) have had this idea plenty of times. If you wake up in one of those bad regions, you really are so much less productive. I'm glad someone is building this. Once it looks like the kinks are out, I'm ordering one for sure.
I pirate all TV shows and films becase:

- I prefer storing on my HDD than in DVDs

- Living in the UK, it's the only way to get the TV shows I want to watch without waiting ages and ages after their air

- It lets me watch the beginning on shows/films I wouldn't otherwise bother trying, then decide if I want to keep watching them.

If I find a film that I actually enjoy and watch to the end, I do then buy it on DVD - but rarely watch the DVD, having already got the pirated copy. (I find now days I rarely watch films, more TV shows). I do have a TV license (in the UK) even though I only really watch TV shows that are ripped/downloaded.

Games - despite working in the games industry, I very rarely buy games (maybe a couple of titles a year), but I don't ever pirate them.

Software - I'm always happy to grab an illegal copy if a.) I want to see if I like it and there's no free trial available or b.) I want to learn what the software does, but won't use it after a couple of days.

For example I pirated Adobe Photoshop when I first got it and just messaged around with it. Once I started needing to use it for my job (not that I use it that often, or am any good with it) I bought a license.

With small software that doesn't have any real backing, even if I end up not using it much, I tend to pay for it if I like it, just to support the developer. (Examples: XChat, an IRC client, or UberTweet, a twitter application for the Blackberry).

I've just actually looked through all the installed programs on this computer, all legal.

Music, pretty much same as above - will download illegally first to see if I like it, if I want it in my regular collection then I buy it on iTunes (exception: if iTunes doesn't have it, or if it's only available in the US store which I can't use, I'll just keep the illegal version - except if I particularly want to support the artist in which case I buy/rip the CD)

So yeah, I answered "yes" to the poll, but (with the exception of TV shows) I keep it in moderation.
There is something about this response that makes me burst out laughing.

Presumably it's the fact that no hacker project ever dies; it just enters a state where the new features are not ready yet.

Even the Difference Engine didn't die; it just took about 130 years from one revision to the next.

But, seriously, good luck!
About time!

I do wonder how this will affect CoolIris though which I really liked but will have a hard time justifying using now.
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Hah! WebOS is dead.
The first and most major hurdle is to convince people who are used to and still have the option of pretty much the exact same service for free that they should pay anything at all, and that needs to be very low. Letting people choose their price and giving them the little gold badge taps into their emotional response at a very low cost, so stick with it.

Beyond that, the Gold features that cost money to implement should require a minimum donation to make them sustainable, and the page that takes the donations should have a 'make this donation recurring' checkbox.
Will do...just getting everything set up...
Does anyone know why Google is so reticent about feedback from the interviews? It seems like it's a policy.
Don't most people just have an unlimited data plan?
I pay all mac software and use mainly linux as main operating system. For microsoft and big corporation such as adobe, I don't care about downloading illegal stuff. However, for small companies, I'm happy to pay for it if it's a good software.
(Disclaimer: I wrote that email)

Oh, don't worry. I know what every single byte in Camping does:

$ git-rank-contributors -v | head -n 5
_why <why@whytheluckystiff.net>: 11384 lines of diff
Magnus Holm <judofyr@gmail.com>: 10122 lines of diff
Jonas Pfenniger <zimbatm@oree.ch>: 1829 lines of diff
Manfred Stienstra <manfred@gmail.com>: 168 lines of diff
Sean Busbey <sean.busbey@gmail.com>: 116 lines of diff

Besides, there's plenty of other (techarch, Bluebie, DaveEveritt, zuk and busbey are the first who come to my mind) who post frequently on the mailing list and know plenty about Camping.
I agree, on all fronts.

"Ideas don't matter, only execution does" is just a pet peeve. It's as obviously false as the notion some people have that their (totally obvious) idea is really valuable.

I like Derek Sivers formulation: ideas are a multiplier on execution. With a really amazing idea (like the formula for the first high-Tc superconductors) even run-of-the-mill execution yields big returns.
Not active for my Google yet, but looking at the article, it seems to be a set of changes they really had to make to keep up with Bing. Bing's UI for image searches is really hands down much better than Google's current way of doing it. I gave up on Bing text searches a while back, but always pull it up for images.
Even if Bing's marketshare never takes off, I look forward to a game of leapfrog between the two. We as end-users will benefit from that.
My guess is that the money should not come from the users nor the ads

Then where could the money possibly come from? Twitter struggled with this in the beginning, and one idea they tossed around was charging outside companies for analytics. It doesn't sound like you have enough traffic for that. You may have a site that is just not monetizable.
Hmmm... This domain name seems to be rooted in a mindset that the man has to be the one to "do stuff" to keep the girlfriend happy.... eg, that she's the prize, and if you don't supplicate to her as she demands, she will no longer favor you with her graces. I'm not sure perpetuating that mindset is a good idea.

How about "BeAHappyCoupleTogether.com" (or something) where there's no overt bias towards suggesting who is the more important member of the relationship?

Really, there's just as much onus on her to make you happy, as vice versa.
Xbox 360 developer on how achievements system was developed and how it works
Oh dear, take it as sine that I haven't had my coffee yet.
How to Write the best Resume
Resume is a powerful marketing tool to drive an interview. The objective is to communicate what makes you stand out as a job candidate. Your resume must be concise, appealing, and informative.

i came across useful article about " how to write the best resume"
http://topuniversity.clicknsmart.com/2010/05/how-to-write-a-good-resume/

good luck for jobseekers
I don't agree that people react to good dancing. They react more to physical attractiveness, confidence, image, and drink buying. Think of Napoleon dynamite at the end of the movie. He's an amazing dancer but he would likely get a lot of WTFs in a club situation.
I can't imagine there being anyone on HN who reads this poll and thinks "well I am always downloading software/films/etc illegally, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a pirate, so I'll vote no!"

It's not comparable to the abortion idea, because being called a "baby murderer" is pretty offensive, whereas being called a "software pirate" really isn't ever going to offend anyone who does download illegaly (many of which would most likely already refer to themselves as pirates).
I created a small website which I hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.net because of their flexible pricing. I put 15$ in my account and got 14$ after the deduction of $1 as their fees or something.

It's been over 3 months now and I still have $2 in my NFS account while the site has made me over $280 in Google Adsense and $30 in Amazon commissions.

I can't think of any other web host for a simple static HTML pages site.
thanks! can't update the comment now. good plugin btw.
Anyone doing timings in Linux at the cycle level might be interested in the PAPI library: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/
not a lot of folks would want people videotaping everything they did at work and putting it on YouTube

It comes down to reasonable expectation of privacy. If anyone is doing work in a public place, it doesn't matter if they are police officers or trash collectors, they don't have any expectation of privacy.

The 1984 comparisons are bogus. 1984 was about total surveillance as one of many tools of a totalitarian regime. The cameras in 1984 weren't just out in public, they were in everyone's homes.

If you want to do anything privately, do it in a reasonably private place. Problem solved.
Disagree. I use a widescreen monitor; although it can swivel from portrait to landscape (which is very cool), I rarely use this, because having it horizontal lets me view 2 pages at once. Of course, this is predicated on the assumption that the lawyers you address are trying to reach other lawyers, rather than a general audience.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm working on it so I do read a lot of dense text. When studying a complex subject, it's important to me to be able to jump back several paragraphs - perhaps because I didn't fully understand something, or to reconnect with a dangling open clause, or whatever. So I prefer to have about the same amount of text on display as I would with a textbook or reference work - otherwise I am doing a lot of paging back and forth with the mouse or keyboard. This gets old fast - indeed, I find that I much prefer sitting in the library with books for studying the fundamentals, and then using the computer for specific targeted inquiries, such as the most current regulation or a recently published opinion.

I find the same thing with web pages. So I reduced the text in your (very interesting) notebook articles twice, in order to be be able to see more of it at once. At the 20 point size you suggest I can't see more than about 150 words at once, and I feel like I'm looking at a Powerpoint slide. I look forward to seeing your e-book, but hope you'll also make it available in a more conventional layout for reactionary paginators like myself.
Yeah I'll add email notifications as an opt in
sleep is for the weak.
upload your notes from the pyclass, and tell us every code trick as you go along!
> Function calls are way expensive, because you're resetting like 4 registers and screwing over the instruction cache.

Function calls don't screw over the instruction cache.

Executing code at lots of different addresses screws over the instruction cache.
Indeed, it is extremely hard. Advertisements seem like the only way to get money from this kind of sites, but pay very little.
Good luck with your 'card' and thanks for your comment.
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Implicature
Wiretapping laws only apply to places and scenarios where one could have a reasonable assumption of privacy. As long as you're not driving through my bedroom, you're all right with me.
From ambulatorybird's comment on the "conversational rules" thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532317
"I could have learned this baseline material in less than two years of study."

Really? In my experience, its really difficult to say how long it would have taken you to learn something in a different fashion after you've already learnt it.

For example, take algebra. I remember really struggling with algebra. For the longest time, I just could not wrap my head around the fact that a letter could represent any number. Looking back, of course, algebra seems terribly simple. Yeah, with the benefit of hindsight, I can say that algebra is simple and it could be learnt in two weeks. However, I certainly would not have said so before I learnt algebra or during my learning. How much of this (possibly unconscious) revisionism is going in the mind of the author?

That said, I never really did agree with the stereotypical "College is there to make you a well rounded individual," view. That sort of thing may have been true in the 18th Century, when those who went to college were largely independently wealthy and could afford to bother with classes unrelated to any trade or skill. I, on the other hand, am not independently wealthy. Every class I take that doesn't contribute to my professional skill level is a waste of my money and (more importantly) my time. Unlike a landed aristocrat, I value both. I wish colleges would too.
The Myth of Originality
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> Gird your loins, boys, for the influx of disillusioned redditors!

Perhaps this is being downvoted because people don't know what "gird your loins" means. I didn't know before googling.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061211104553AA...

"What does gird your loins mean?"

"If you say that somebody is GIRDING their LOINS or GIRDING UP their LOINS, you mean that they are preparing to do something difficult or dangerous. Example : Both sides in the argument were girding their loins."

Indeed, we should gird up our loins.
Last time I checked there was no way of getting those images working outside of Virtual PC.
Sure, but the only unbiased scientific study is the Consumer Reports one.
No way this is real time, not even close. There's a frame rate counter visible in a couple of the videos (see http://vimeo.com/7455632, for example), and it's going at about 3-4 fps for the lowest detail models, which only have somewhere around 1000 points. The highest detail ones have millions, and probably took hours if not days to render.
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Actually, there has been some discussion[1] about how the Pirate Partys platform would affect the GPL. But as most people involved have some understanding of the issues, you get less of the "x is theft", "x can't survive because of y", etc.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
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I am amazed at the amount of trivial mac apps that sell for $20+. OMG, bold font pro and spellcheck+ are on special offer! Culture shock for a Linux user.
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I've finally launched a site that helps me check out Hacker News, as an adaptation to changes in the way I use Hacker News.

http://hackerbra.in

This site helps me get a quick view of current and historic Home, Ask and Best pages.

Its specialty lies in:

1) the ability to open up only top comments for any item, inline without page reload.

2) the ability to see a user profile without requiring page reload.
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Is Robotic Surgery Cheaper?
The problem I have with valuing A/B testing over the visionary is that A/B testing is a tool, not a purpose. The lean startup movement is everywhere and I keep seeing newbies coming onto the scene, reading a few articles and going "I don't really have an idea or a passion, but I'm going to A/B test my way to $1M business all by myself. But wait... how do I start?"

It takes vision to decide what business to start and passion to follow it through and creativity to figure out what to try next. A/B tests -are- useful and they do have a prominent place in a business but please let's not pretend that's all it takes to build and grow a successful business. Look around at the founders of both VC backed and bootstrapped successful businesses and the common threads are much more about passion and persistence than the ability to A/B test.