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I don't like articles like this for one reason and one reason only: it's not empirical. It's a long list of vacuous do this do that statements. What I look for when reading articles about start ups is "At start up X we did Y and it caused Z". Those kinds of relationships are helpful to me and help relate to what I'm doing. If you related it to your success at cloudomatic or a previous start up and had concrete results to relate it to I'd be more interested.

I understand these posts may be helpful to others as idea generation material, and obviously the up votes are a sign of that - but for me it's the equivalent of answering a complicated calculus question with a one line answer. Show your work.
Right; but the people who are interested in One Thing or Nothing just say "I don't think I'd want to be immortal; it would get too boring."
This sounds like a place that would not be fun to live or work in. Part of the vibrancy of cities and countries is that there is history and, yes, inefficiency.
Try this 10 Must Have Inspirational, Motivational, Business & Startup Books for WebGeeks http://webgeekph.com/resources/10-must-have-inspirational-mo...
http://linuxwacom.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux...

Judging by the sourceforge git repo, there's been linux support for a while, though I haven't used it yet. I don't know whether the driver offers applications a way to get absolute touch coordinates, but that shouldn't be hard to do either. It also looks like it should be pretty easy to add support for more gestures.

When I get some more spare time, I plan to work on this quite a bit to see if the Bamboo sensor is capable of recognizing gestures as reliably as Apple's touchpads. Certainly, Wacom's drivers aren't very good at it, but I don't know how much of that is due to the inadequacy of the hardware.
What are the problems with setjmp/longjmp? (a honest question; I've drafted a proof-of-concept implementation of C coroutines yesterday, just to see how long it will take me to get it working -- http://gist.github.com/491302).
There are really only a couple of uses for trivia questions in technical interviews: verifying someone's resume (i.e. if you claim to be skilled in some area, trivia questions should be, well, trivial) and as a jumping-off point for a discussion to see how you think.

I have always found hiring managers who use this, tend to me developer come manager and tend to have a superiority complex. I have never liked trivia questions because the interviewer generally tries to find some obscure item, that is unknown to 90% of people just getting work done and the only reason they know it is that they goggled "really hard tech trivia that will make me feel superior when all the applicants don't know it"
Sometimes people who are utterly, utterly clueless about how the other half lives need a wakeup call.
What looks awesome about this isn't quite that they've simply taken the TI-83+ game and brought it to your iPhone but that they've instead tweaked the game to take advantage of the iPhone's features. Adding a traditionally popular game to the social gaming / location based gaming sphere is a really cool idea.
Belkin is commodity hardware already. I would put Belkin along with Rosewill in the same bucket, only Rosewill products are half the price and much higher quality.
It's the proper product name, to go along with the Magic Mouse
Yes. http://lsst.org/lsst/science/scientist_dark_matter
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I wrote a system that was basically Terracotta, (automagic distributing of java programs across a network) before Terracotta it existed.

Basically, I had a bet with a friend that it was impossible to at runtime distribute across multiple machines a program that was designed to run on a single machine.

At the time, I was living at home and not working, so I spent a ton of time reading up on the java classloader, how to instrument classes at runtime, dynamically rewriting calls to the "thread" class and mashalling them over the wire to another vm that was running, and executing it on their.

I didn't get very far, because after thinking about if it could become a product, I realized just how many performance issues there were going to be. Years later when I ran into the terracotta engineers and they were telling me the route they went, I was nodding my head realizing they were running into the same issues I did, and still struggling to overcome some of them.

They have quite a nice product now, but they didn't exactly blow up so I don't have too many regrets about not productizing it.

All in all, I learned a lot about java, virtual machines, threading, and how to teach myself new skills.
The problem is that if the interface learns and adjusts to you, it prevents you from learning the interface...
We use fossil to mean old regarding water too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_water
You can get 3rd party tools to configure this if you want. Use something like BetterTouchTool if you want to configure a gesture to fire up GMail. Right now I have a 3-finger swipe up for copy, and 3-finger swipe down for paste. I also have a 4-finger gesture for switching between tabs in google chrome.

However, I think there's probably a limit on how many gestures you can keep in your head, it's a lot easier remembering keyboard shortcuts than gestures. I can probably only keep track of five different gestures per app, but I'm sure I can probably recall at least 20 different keyboard combos when I use a tool like emacs.
Oh boy...

Depending on how much you want something, and your personality, the following and more may readily discourage you:

* Fear of rejection

* Fear of seeming out of place

* Fear of general embarassment

* Fear of disappointment or being underwhelmed upon conquering fear of embarassment and/or ignoring embarassment produced

* Fear that "it won't be worth it"

/a male
I'll second your recommendation of themeforest. I needed a template for my portfolio site (http://aaronbrethorst.com/) a couple months back, and found a pretty decent one for $22 (twicet: http://themeforest.net/item/twicet-business-portfolio-templa...)

I found the HTML and CSS to be pretty gruesome (no grids, px-specified font sizes, etc.), but for my requirements (looks good, can be plugged into a Rails app with minimal trouble, has a template page with a sidebar) it was more than sufficient.

I ended up redesigning my site's semantic structure last month (moving it onto Blueprint CSS), which necessitated re-writing all of the CSS, but it was still worth it as the theme gave me a solid look and feel to mimic.
True (I sort of had the feeling that this is why the Great Machine in Babylon 5 required an operator.)

But when you start to think like a post-Singularity sentient, you start to realize that their ethical system would be much "pickier" than ours. They would see leaving any of their own (whether biological or AI-based) in the "limited" reality as a punishment equal in scope to the suffering child of Omelas—that is to say, one they could not possibly stand for.
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Only after my three year post-doc, a family member nutritionist literally looked at my eyes and said I was Vitamin D deficient.

How does that work?
Thanks, I'm aiming for something a little more specific to my site though.
On an tangential note, it's a shame that Google don't offer a service like BOSS (though BOSS could be enhanced by offering revenue sharing, as an alternative to charging per query).

It seems the Google search APIs have actually gone backwards over the last few years.
The writer states himself that the results of "site:" don't mean anything: "Of course this says nothing about how much they appear in the rankings." So what's the point of this article?
A better version of the test, and straight from the source:

http://labs.moto.com/robot_touchscreen_analysis/
Your website isn’t going to look 100% the same in all browsers on all operating systems.

I don't know where this one comes from, a good designer knows about style resets to reset browsers to a common ground. As well with the JavaScript toolkits like Dojo and jQuery, there are a lot of off the shelf widgets that look exactly the same in all of the major browsers. I don't agree with this suggestion and think that you should actually be looking for a designer who can provide the same look across browsers.
Yeah I wasn't expecting that much from SU, but I think I can do better.

Good point that I need to give more thought to marketing however!
Anybody else clicked this thinking it would be an artificial intelligence module that exhibited musical creativity?
Seconded. I actually considered making a clone of this game for the iPhone. It appears that there are actually lots of other people who thought they could do this, and needless to say, they were all denied.

Here's one of them, called Dope Wars, which was rejected and is now on the Cydia marketplace.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/04/14/dope-wars-for-ipho...
I've dealt with this during every job search. The simple solution that's helped me is to simply go to as many interviews as I can. You'll always be nervous on the first interview. I don't know any way around that. But I've found it hard to not be nervous after having been to 3-5 interviews in 2 weeks.

Apply to jobs above and below your current qualifications simply for the practice of interviewing. That way when you interview for a job you're excited about you'll have been in the same situation several times and can focus on the questions asked instead of being nervous.

Good luck.
Here's the previous discussion on Paul Tyma's presentation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1546711
If a wakeup call drives a clueless person further into their clueless position, it's the last thing they need. What they need is a persuasive argument with an escape route where they can concede while losing minimal status.

It's difficult to see it from the other side. When we see a status attack favoring a position we agree with, it feels like a righteous smiting of the enemy. But it doesn't have the effect we intuitively think it does.
The new App Tab feature is downright brilliant.

Link: http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/firefox4beta/appTabs-480.mp4
Cool technology--which I'm not letting anywhere near any production server I have control over.

One of the important things rebooting does when updating a kernel is verify that the updated system still boots. If a kernel change turns out to be incompatible with something in your configuration, you really really really want to find that out right away, under controlled circumstances, in a scheduled maintenance window.

You do not want to find it out six months down the road, when you've had an unexpected outage from a power failure or other hardware problem, and can't get your system back up, and have no idea how long its actually been broken (and so no hint as to what broke).
Awesome...I can't wait to see it.
Exactly. Honestly though, laws are the bandaids trying to patch up a poorly designed society. Nevertheless, the point was that technology can (and will) eliminate the need for bureaucracy.

This kind of world is hard for most to imagine without borrowing from hollywood fantasies of either chaos or some dystopia which are more sensational and indulge in the viewer's sense of fear of the unknown (the future).
> My point was that it's entertainment. I know it's a video game, but essentially it's no different from any other entertainment. I mean we don't have World Cup or Superbowl Stories on HN, why have the release of Starcraft? I'm sure there are people here who keep up with sports.

Sure its entertainment - entertainment created by an large group of developers/hackers/programmers; for me, thats a major delineation from other sports and entertainment.

The discussion can turn towards the high technical aptitude needed to create games (which, IMHO, is one of the areas of development pushing the bounds of computing...AI, physics, the shit-ton of math involved, balancing...etc etc.), but thats a different topic.
redrobot5050,

The first 30 slides or so are explicitly about the 25% performance gap between NIO and IO on a modern system -- I think it's fair to say the article was as much about performance as it was scalability.

I think he even addresses the misconception that NIO is perceived as "faster" simply because it's more "Scalable" -- the "myths" slide that he keeps going back to and crossing elements off of as he proves them wrong.
So they're basically saying "We support this device as long as you don't mess around with the way we've configured it. If you do, you're on your own." Seems like a reasonable position to me. They can only support a known configuration.
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Here's my recent philosophy - if you have the time to worry about mailing lists and slow reveal, testimonials and launch date hooha then you're doing something wrong, because in the time you spent noodling around on these things - hyping up internally that which does not yet exist and thus setting yourself up for a harder fall later - you could have launched the thing already and started validating the business model...
They mean something, i.e. that they "are in their index in some form." I've been blacklisted before, and when you're blacklisted, you don't show up in site: queries.

That said, I wanted to acknowledge that this isn't ranking data. However, perhaps as a result of this post, I'll be able to get some and re-post those results.
I don't know the scale of "many" here, but in the thousands, I think Paul's presentation makes the case for threads given the near free cost of having idle threads sitting around and activating/deactivating them as long as they aren't contending for something.

A few folks have mentioned that the cost of context switching and state-restore using NIO is more expensive than this especially on a multi-cored machine which I thought was interesting.

Again, I don't know how helpful that is to you, because your "many" could have meant 10s of thousands of connections, in which case threads wouldn't be the answer.

Unless you wanted to get fancy with a hybrid approach ;)
It won't happen in this console generation, and it probably won't happen in the next, but I'm guessing that by the time the Playstation 5 (or whatever) rolls around it won't have a disc slot at all. Game publishers have no interest in producing, transporting and selling a physical disc if they don't have to, and once consumers get used to the idea of downloading huge games to their hard drive they probably won't be that keen on having a physical disc either.
And Apple's going to approve it for distribution? This is the company that rejected a dictionary for 'adult content.'
Source is my personal doctor told me to cut back cause it was bad for me.

But also from personal experience, when I drink a lot of cups per day for several days, my shall remain nameless parts start feeling odd. Doesn't really start till you're in your 30s and later though.
Yes. Shutting down every app, the OS kernel, and firmware, and restarting them for anything beyond a major OS upgrade is a reminder that Windows remains a desktop class OS.
Not to say it's not cool, but saying "Look how much cooler linux is because of ksplice" is kind of silly considering determina was doing this years ago for Windows.
Some do. Ok, most do.

I spent 6 years working for BBC News and I didn't see that happen there. But it's a non-corporate news provider.
Reading the conclusion, they say discoverability of the sidebar is a factor. Well, I've seen some iphone/ipad apps that by default, show all the toolbars and buttons for a few seconds before hiding them (like showing and hiding the dock in OS X); and some even give a little automated "nudge" imitating an aborted swipe motion to show that there are other screens you can swipe to).
This story needs context. Unless we know why the user quit using DynDNS, there's no real way to determine whether an appeal like this effective or even appropriate.

For example, I used to use DynDNS all the time because I was running a small personal site off my home broadband connection. Then, thanks to an improvement in fortunes, I was able to afford a hosting service and a "real" DNS. So I switched. If DynDNS sent me an e-mail like this, it wouldn't really matter, because I've already got everything set up, and I'm not really looking to change.
For me, marginally (and fully) interesting has always been about 2-finger scroll, vertical and horizontal.

I actually find the other gestures to be a tremendous annoyance when activated accidentally.

I'm looking through Wacom's docs now, but a subjective report on the usability of this feature (if it exists) would be appreciated, as well.
I don't know... we really made use of the PC speaker before sound cards were the norm. Remember the nice PC speaker sounds of the combat in the original Battle Chess? The only question is how much raw sound data you are allowed to store in your chip.
Google Group is at:

http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news
Amazon Recommendations Get Social with Facebook
Amazon is now integrating Facebook's graph to serve recommendations based on your profile information as well as gift recommendations for your friends. This is interesting news for those looking into the social recommendation space in general as the two 800 ton gorillas of ecommerce and social networking join forces.
Yahoo's goal with BOSS is to fragment the search market; Google is so far ahead that Yahoo knows they can't compete head-on.

Google doesn't want the search market to be fragmented; they want to dominate the market. I think that's why Google doesn't have a good search API offering.
Sometimes, offensive comments need to be called out as offensive. Had the person been talking about, say, post-Katrina New Orleans as an "incubator for innovation" they'd be downmodded to oblivion.
Using CSS frameworks is much worse than using px for fonts (unless you care about really old versions of IE). Any CSS framework will litter your markup with purely presentational classes.
You might have confused "geographic" with "geologic". The use of GIS for meteorology is probably just a little younger than GIS itself.
I can't help but feel arguments about how high degrees of automation will lead to mass unemployment are almost reframed Luddite fallacy arguments. I mean compare the amount of automation now to 250 years ago, and we don't have mass unemployment.

I was wrong to say Chinese consumers, but it's not to say there aren't things American could produce. I mean Chinese use Google/Facebook/Youtube/Starcraft.

I mean in manufacturing, if you look in Chinese factory often their machines will have been made by Japanese and German companies.
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Ahhhh, downvoted you on accident, mate. Good observation.
I hope that WikiLeaks doesn't editorialize their content (I know Julian Assange has talked about 'getting PR for leakers' as a motive, which is concerning).

Wasn't it wikileaks which added the somewhat dubious "interpretation" captions etc to the video which they chose to call "collateral murder"?
I didn't reread this piece when I posted the link, so I can't say whether it talks about how "electronic goods" superstimulate, but the general point of the LW discussions includes novels and manga. For example, in one of the other essays, EY wrote "It's bad enough comparing yourself to Isaac Newton without comparing yourself to Kimball Kinnison."
This is a good article and I love Arc90, but I find the act that I can't watch the demo video of their iPad usability solution on my iPad humorous.
Probably a lot of these "legacy systems" are an inherent result of trying to govern a large number of people with competing interests, perhaps analogous to the cultural difference between a 10k person company and a 3 person startup.

Even if you could start from a clean slate, you'd need to do that again periodically to avoid creating more "legacy systems".
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I have concerns with moving the address bar all the way down to the top of the keyboard: depending on the viewing angle, your fingers might cover your line of sight to the address bar, and you might accidentally touch the address bar while typing, causing you to change the cursor point or select text and overwrite the current text. How about we split the difference down the middle...and move the address bar to the middle?
I don't see anything in that price range that's BlueTooth. Am I missing something?

(My own needs are for, in effect, a wireless "docking" station for OSX laptops. One's non-Intel, so the 10.6.3 requirement of the Apple product rules it out)
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I use 'ad block', 'noscript' (not allow google analytics) and 'cs lite' (block cookies). Also 'better privacy' to clear my flash files.
I really doubt that many consciously ask whether something fits "the party line". They mostly introduce bias subconsciously in their decisions about what is and isn't "news".

Politician A accidentally says something stupid and it's ignored. Politician B accidentally says something stupid and it's "Politician B's Latest Gaffe" on the front page.

(Why yes, I do have a specific Politican B in mind, but shan't mention any names to avoid off-topic discussions.)

Anyway, it's odd that you would think that being a "non-corporate news provider" would insulate the BBC from bias. What about the natural groupthink which tends to accumulate in organizations insulated from real-world concerns?
How do you backup your websites?
I am looking to improve my company's website backup architecture to gain some comfort in knowing that my files/databases, etc. are safe in the event of hard drive failures, datacenter fires, etc.

I am a developer and I know I can develop a fairly decent system from scratch but I'd much not rather re-invent the wheel on a problem that every single one of us who rely on servers has had to solve.

So, what do you guys use for backup solutions? Custom or another company's product?