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What the article says: Google wants to invest in wind farms.

Article title: "Google wants to control wind energy".

HN submission title: "Google now wants to control the wind".

Presumably the next step is: "Google now wants to be God". I have no idea what comes after that.
This article is not about fonts.
While using the back button is a neat trick, it looks kinda awkward...

Couldn't you have a toolbar or similar on top instead (or in addition to the back button thing, thus getting rid of the even more annoying popup)?

The idea is interesting, nevertheless, but the user experience could use some love.

(And no, I'm not going to use it. DDG is my default search engine, and the !bang searches there cover all my needs)
[question] Legal steps to hire a remote dev
What's the legal framework for a US company (Delaware LLC) to hire a full-time remote developer (e.g. India, Sri Lanka)?

We don't need a one-shot collaboration (see elance.com, odesk.com) but a long-term remote developer. We don't know, legally speaking. how to proceed and which are the needed steps.
Thank you
Yes. Same way Microsoft uses Akamai every so often. Who cares anymore?
The Euro: From Logo to Letter [2002]
You're much too focused on allowing people to 'use google as usual' and I dislike having to hit the back button to access other engines. I also dislike that I get that popup notice telling me about hitting the back button long before I get any other results. If you want to see how a search engine aggregator is done, take a look at torrents.to.

Legal disclaimer, I don't condone downloading illegal torrents. I just think torrents.to is a well done search engine aggregator.

Also, it needs a lot of styling work. I hit that page and immediately distrusted it because of its antiquated design and styling.

Otherwise I like the idea, and if you improve the UX and IU I might use it.
They're changing their on-page logo. I don't think they could get away with major logo changes, let alone doodles, off their pages. When you type in www.google.com, you realize you're on Google. Their blue-red-yellow-green logo is their recognized one.
Contradictory advice:

* Move to San Diego
* The suburbs are doomed, especially those E.T., California-style suburbs

Conclusion: Move to San Diego because it's doomed.
As I understand it, it's just a student project. It'll probably go commercial at some point, but not until the guy leaves uni.
I do too, but the dots in the message bar should be a single color - they change the shape of the letters a little and make it hard for me to read.
I've been assuming something like Manna by Marshall Brain http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Wow. I never knew about the "!" feature. Awesome.
Exactly. The decline of travel agents overlaps closely with the rise of Yoga studios. Mid-skill retail entrepreneurs will find a way to keep busy.

The article has some interesting sections, but whenever someone gets too dystopian about the working class ala "Fight Club" without also talking about quality of life metrics they lose credibility. Think about how cheap things have gotten. An iPod touch is basically mini-computer, game console, portable TV, GPS, Walkman, digital camera, and more for ~$200. How much would all of that cost someone in a time that was better for the middle class? It is a complex calculation, but I'm much more optimistic than the author.
Please change the horrible broken-monitor-look background. I'm sure it's all artistic and stuff, but it's also extremely annoying. Thanks!
DIY iPad iPhone Connector Clip
Much higher that win98. I wonder if my 12yr old daughters machine is the last win98 machine on the internet?
Frankenstein Functions
Fixing your startup means fixing your process
More like 4x-6x depending on what kind of goods you consume regularly. Source: personal estimate from last year.
Hmm you sure they are pulling in series? Depends on the design on the plug but I imagine it works the same way as any other multi-socket (pulling it in parallel), why would they set it up to work in series (that would be a big design flaw). One imagines that once this made it to the engineering level (this is just design, right) this would be sorted out.

If we're talking 'light' consumers, say below a 100W or so you might get away with it but if a 'heavy' consumer would be plugged in as the last element in a series of 'light' ones you'd be concentrating an awful lot of energy in to a small spot.

Think about what is likely to have these sorts of plugs; Laptops, for example, usually pull under 2A. Which means you could have 10 plugged in before it starts to be a problem, and even pulling 20A to your socket (which is a common rating for mains sockets) still leaves plenty of leeway.

I'm not sure what my iPhone or radio alarm clock is rated for (am at work atm) but I can't imagine they add up to more than 1A draw.

As I mentioned, the problem on mains networks overloading comes, usually, from a faulty trip switch. If it is doing its job the most that you can do is trip it (and maybe fry some equipment that isn't earthed/fused properly). Stocking up a plug is pretty safe; again, as mentioned, it is easy (and more common) to overload the whole circuit via a number of plugs :)

EDIT: meh, it's impossible, anyway, for it to be set up in series, otherwise you wouldn't be able to pull power correctly.

with 5 plugs 'ganged' up
Uh, there are three plugs in the design?

But this is a reasonable concern (the heat issue). In practice it is not too much of a worry, if a device is demanding 2KW this plug is clearly unsuitable (for a number of reasons).
This kind of thing is always frustrating but personally I nearly always use the time constraint on my Google searches. This usually fixes the problem.
Unfortunately, IBM has sold out to Oracle. Why is that not surprising?
I run dev marketing for wp7. Shoot me an email and lets see if we can't get you on the list. brwatson@microsoft
And the nether regions of those pins are insulated so that if a plug is halfway into a socket and something bridges the pins, it can't make contact.

That's not really true, you can still get electrocuted if you put you finger on both bolts.

And that plug is massive. Luckily you can use any sticklike thing to allow continental plugs to be inserted (which incidentally I'm doing right now -- hello from Edinburgh)
Jamendo already has this:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/albums?license_class=cc_standard&#...
The market is fairly saturated with sites like this, not only from the big players like Google and Facebook, but also from a lot of niche players like flavors.me, hi.im and even a product that I worked on called chi.mp.

Given that there are a lot of players I'm trying to figure out what your differentiator is. With favors.me it's all about making a beautiful profile, with chi.mp it's about getting your own second level .mp domain, for hi.im it's the fact that they made it for RailsRumble. So what is your differentiator?

Regarding the feedback tab on the side, it's ok and it's fairly common, so I think you're ok there. If you really want to get feedback though you're going to have to be more proactive - most people only use the feedback tab if something is broken and they need/want you to fix it.
LinkedIn Signal: A Case Study for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort
Does Google see the driverless car as a lucrative "fourth screen"?
I agree with you, the greatest part about Java and it's ecosystem is that it somewhat minimizes the impact terrible developers can have. That's why it's such a superstar in the corporate world where you rarely get to pick and choose.
It should be optional, because there will be questions the span a few releases, and the number of tags on a question is limited to 5.
Summary: "I don't agree that users deserve freedom, but if someone takes away my freedom, then its wrong."

I'd love to hear his reasoning for disagreeing with RMS's ideal of user freedom.
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photon_off, I went and looked for submissions from you and the last one appears to have been 7 days ago. Am I missing something?
> Hmm you sure they are pulling in series?

The contacts are in series:

live->socket1->socket2->socket3->socket4->socket5->load
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neut<-socket1<-socket2<-socket3<-socket4<-socket5<-load

So the current for the last load passes through all the intermediary sockets. It does not pass through their wiring but it does pass from pin-to-pin. It would have to and no engineering trick will get you around that when you're piggybacking stuff.

> Think about what is likely to have these sorts of plugs; Laptops, for example, usually pull under 2A. Which means you could have 10 plugged in before it starts to be a problem, and even pulling 20A to your socket (which is a common rating for mains sockets) still leaves plenty of leeway.

Until someone plugs their hairdryer or fryer in to the last one, which is possible because it is still valid socket.
No offense, but I think it sounds like the name of a bad game.

Perhaps drop the 'y'...?
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure what your revenue model is...?

You might want to consider changing the wording on the site. It makes it seem like your landing pages will remove facebook/linkedin/twitter from the search engine results ("instead they will see your ProfilePin page").

Finally, I would SEO the hell out the John Q Sample page (or pick an easier name that you can SEO). I search John Q Sample and your page is no where to be found. Does not speak well to your credibility.
A quick hands on with Windows Phone 7
I still like the service, and I think they're getting a bit of a bad rap - they have a business to build, and this is the best way forward for them. Did anyone really think that such a great service would be so cheap forever?

But yeah, had I stuck with them at the beginning, I'd be madly coding to get rid of them now, as I can't justify the cost at this point in my business.

I bet in the long run, this will be seen as a good and bold move for Chargify, though.
Why does anything need to be run the TCK? Why does anything need to use the name Java? Isn't this more of a people problem then a licence problem? Am I really to believe that if someone doesn't have access to Oracle's magical testing kit then it's impossible to make something that runs java source code? Isn't it more just a corporate perception problem? Who cares?
Scala now ahead of Java 6 -server in Language Shootout
USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' (Feb 2010)
Q&A with Yottaa's CEO & Co-Founder Coach Wei
I removed it. I'm going to try reposting later.

Edit: re-post is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783632
14) Something smarter than us is going to emerge

Thank you, algorithms and cloud computing.

Really? I respected Coupland before I read that. I thought blithely throwing around buzzwords was beneath him.
Ask HN: Has anybody experience with uTest?
We want to test more frequently in our developing process in scenarios as real as possible.
Tried usertesting.com. Although they have been fast in getting results to us, we had two issues:
a) testers were not very experienced. And they should not be to represent our target group. But the testers we had just rushed through everything. It didnt't feel like real users.
b) They didn't follow the requirements. We needed testers who not only have normal Internet, but also a TV set. Not too hard a requirement, but all but one failed.
So we are now considering to give uTest a go.
Anybody having experience with them? Any other testing site you can recommend?
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Ask HN: Who has used .Net Micro Framework, opinions?
The aspects I'm most interested are:

* debugging from Visual Studio

* performance

* porting/adapting to custom hardware

* ease of use for a "desktop" C# developer, caveats etc
At the moment NELL thinks that the First Amendment is a musical instrument, the Second Amendment is a 'hobby,' and is completely unwilling to admit to any knowledge of the fifth amendment at all.

You can insert your own joke here— but I actually think those are some fascinating insights about the internet.
John Q Sample is a common generic name, maybe I should pick something more unique.

No revenue model yet, just doing this for fun. Maybe I can sell yourname.com domains through an affiliate program.
These profile pictures are taking over BBM
i think the biggest problem is that due to the financial crisis many companies were forced to cut staff...and since many people were afraid to lose their jobs they started working harder for the same pay.

so now the same jobs that were done by 4 people are now done by 1 person.
Tux!
Many dogs rehabilitated in Vick dogfighting case
Jeff Crouse (creator of Unlogo) here. I can guarantee you that is not the goal. I have been working on open source, hacktivist projects for over 5 years. Please see my website: http://www.jeffcrouse.info
A question though: Is this a logo I am recognizing or just a black bat ; which if filled with black and projected at this angle can rarely be anything else than the Batman logo?
If no one has read or heard of "The Brand Gap" I would recommend it. There is a part of the book that covers this and another example of a good logo is the MTV logo.
The only hiccup I ever had with T-Mobile customer service was when one of there support people absolutely refused to transfer me to Hotspot technical support (I was at a Starbucks at the time, trying to fix an issue with my account). They refused to transfer me because I was using my cell-phone for the call, and they couldn't "help me with my issue" unless I called back from a phone other than the one on my account.

I repeatedly told this person that my account issue had absolutely nothing to do with my phone, or my phone service. It was a separate service, which I used with my laptop, and was just an account login issue. She absolutely would not transfer me unless I called back from another phone. I insisted she check with her supervisor. She did so, and came back with the same answer. I asked to talk to her supervisor. Should refused. I finally hung up on this person in frustration.

I re-dialed support immediately, getting a different person, and (after going through the whole account verification spiel) asked to be transferred to hotspot support to resolve an account issue. They immediately transferred me and they quickly resolved my problem.

One incident is an anomaly, and should not be used to judge the service as a whole. I say this in their praise, because I have been with T-Mobile for about 10 years, and this was the only support issue I had with them, ever.
Yes -- Julian's project is great, and was definitely an inspiration to me. It is mentioned in the video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/816924031/unlogo-the-cor...
Newton, Moonlighting as an Alchemist
I think part of it is that they've allowed it to change and evolve which is unusual for companies.

I remember working with Shell. They have three volumes of rules on how you can treat the pectern (the Shell logo). No colour changes, proportion changes, definite rules about handling it on different backgrounds, about it's use if different contexts, about use with text... On and on.

Ironically if DC had been like that they'd actually have a far weaker brand.
The ease of pairing JRuby with custom Scala/Java and the vast array of Java libraries is amazing. While in the past polyglot either involved SOA or complex integration using C-based glue code and lots of wrappers, this stuff just snaps together like lego bricks. Fantastic. I recently wrote a JRuby project built ontop of two Java libraries and it couldn't have been any easier. Require the jar and you can just start creating and interacting with the classes inside.

I would like to see a way to more quickly build and maintain Java/Scala code for existing JRuby projects. It's a big deal to have to learn the entire Java package and build workflow if you just want to write a single class to accelerate a section of Ruby code.
Two weeks into school, and the students are already selling apps they made
Ah yes, I had forgotten about Netflix, very good point!
Twitter Events Now a Priority; Is the Hashtag Dead?
UWA students accused of plagiarism
While the statement certainly seems at first almost trivially true, I think there are cases to be made that the second part is not.

For instance: a non-trivial amount of people after leaving college have a significant 'draw-down' in the amount of people they talk to or (you could say) have a connectedness to. Facebook is still there, they still have 300 friends, but the number of people with whom they have meaningful interactions slims and may (for some) continue to slim for the rest of their lives.

I imagine the elderly (in the US) today, especially, are far less connected, even taking in to account those which have skype,etc.
Hmm.... yes, I see what you mean. But it comes back to the same issue; which is that if you are overloading it to the degree that it passes the rated value then the trip switch is the failsafe. The socket is at just as much risk.

You wouldn't (in the UK anyway) be able to sell these if they were rated less than the socket.
Ad hominem is not fallacious when the person is what you're discussing (e.g. "I think X is a political hack and damaging to the country"), but otherwise it would be (e.g. the boy in "the boy who cried wolf" lied every time he said there was a wolf. Except the last time. The village committed a logical fallacy in assuming that because he was a liar that everything he said was a lie.).
It's not ad hominem to bring up his record of support for one mobile OS during a discussion of another mobile OS. If someone said "keep in mind mg siegler is a socialist!" that would be ad hominem.
Passwordless authentication via user-unique URLs
I found that article. It was less informative than I thought. I've uploaded a scan of the relevant section here:
http://imgur.com/ac2VS.png

The text, in case that link dies:

"No one wants to be a slouch, but it turns out that might just be what's best for your back if you're bound to a desk all day. That's right: Although you've been admonished all your life to "sit up straight," the healthiest posture seems to be considerably more laid-back - 135 degrees back, in fact. When researchers in Scotland and Canada scanned the backs of 22 healthy men and women as they assumed three sitting postures - sitting straight at a 90-degree angle, hunching forward, and leaning back 135 degrees - they were surprised to find that the spine was actually least stressed in the laid-back position. The worst? Sitting ramrod-straight created the most disc movement and strain on the spine.

"Sitting unsupported puts more pressure and stress on your lumbar spine than standing," says Scott L Blumenthal, M.D., a spine surgeon at the Texas Back Institute. Relieve the pressure by sitting in a chair with good lumbar support, so it's easy to maintain the natural curvature in your lower back."

Source: March 2009 issue of Bicycle Magazine. I think this is covered by fair-use.
And if I were Apple, that is exactly the connotation that I would want to eliminate. As much as the fans want to think of Apple products as elite, Apple just wants to sell as many products as possible, and to make their name ubiquitous. Witness the $99 Apple TV.

By the way, I noticed the iPad is already at my local Target stores.
I don't disagree with anything you said.

I'm just saying the sky isn't falling for the average developer that is using the JVM. We'll all be using XYZ technology, which hasn't been invented yet, in 3-5 years anyway.

Google is the one with the short term vested interest in distributing a VM that runs Java.
Which represents progress, are you really missing out on anything using the internet and being shown all the best deals available and all the information a travel agent would have provided.

Employment for the sake of employment isn't the answer, all throughout history people have done things in the most efficient ways available to then, just for most of history this involved a sizable labor force.
There's a big difference between syndicating with VCs and syndicating with Angels.

With VCs, everything Fred writes holds true -- they will crowd out future rounds and create other unbalanced dynamics.

With Angels, however, they are used to being minority position holders and will encourage the introduction of later stage VCs, should your company require it.

That's one distinction that I think is worth pointing out.

The other is that my experience with my investors (Sequoia and Greylock and Minor) is that each of them would have preferred to be the only investor in the deal if they could have. I'm quite happy with the balance I ended up with, but it could have been a very different outcome.
I didn't even realize Android had a logo. I mean, I read this and other tech sites all the time, and I'm sure I've seen it a hundred times. I know there has to be one. But I couldn't for the life of me tell you what it is.

Is that a logo fail or a me fail?
Since Windows 95, I've always looked at is as a flag. Even the Windows Logo screensaver had it waving like a flag.

I can honestly say, I've never looked at the logo and thought "Hey! That's a window." But that's just me.

I did a google image search for 'Tux' - I think it demonstrates the versatility of having a living character as a logo. You can put him in lots of different situations and it's still clear that he's the 'Linux Penguin'.
The middle class will be gone if we continue to raise taxes in the US and have social programs that we just can't afford.

It will equal everyone out in a sense and we will be left with the really rich and the rest.
Way to miss the point. His whole argument is that computers and internet-enabled self-service have taken over the majority of the menial labor that travel agents used to do. A travel agent, in case you've never seen one, is someone working in a retail-location shop, behind a counter where they help people plan trips by showing them glossy brochures of hotels, finding the cheapest fares for people, or assemble packages of hotel stays, flights and restaurant visits. Pretty much all of which has been taken over by computers, replacing hundreds of thousands of jobs with tens of thousands of jobs, a large number of which in high-tech with (relatively) high wages. Lots of manual labor by people who aren't very capable are replaced with a few highly capable (or at least highly specialized) people. That's his point, and it's happening in the travel industry, in mail distribution, in manufacturing - everywhere.

(to be clear, I'm all in favor of this - it's progress. It's going to suck being of median intelligence in 20 years though; relatively, someone of median intelligence is going to be worse off as compared to 50 years ago. Of course in absolute terms they're going to have a major advantage, so I don't feel bad for anyone.)
Do US plugs actually spark? I thought that was something you just saw in movies.
http://www.vistawallpaper.org/vista-wallpapers/windows-glass...
What would be another motivation? Certainly not money or fame.
How the Windows logo has evolved:

http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20090515-evolvingPr...

Ironically from a good article on mozilla.com, talking about how they're evolving the Firefox icon:

http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/05/14/evolving-a-produc...

Of the examples they give Windows is notable as being the logo which has undergone the most significant changes (while still remaining recognisable).
Opera runs well on Windows 2000
Nice! It's great to see the entrepreneurial virus run across the earth to every country like this. Chandoo is a nice business and I am sure you can adapt it to the new tools that emerge after Excel. Won't there always be a need for some sort of tabulator like Excel? Do Google docs accept most of the same formulas and charting logic from the most advanced worksheets?