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Flash is disabled on all of our machines due to the history of serious stability issues and vulnerabilities. (most of the time we also avoid enabling scripts from other domains, and don't even try if there are more than a couple or it isn't obvious which is for what)
I wouldn't have watched the videos if I hadn't been able to stream or download to another player.

Both videos played smoothly streamed into VLC with the Open Network command. The Jobs video clearly had older codecs, the audio was very marginal. The aspect ratio had to be forced to 16:9 to look right. For some reason VLC recogonized it as 4:3.

It was generally well produced and easy to follow. The bit about MS investing 150 million in non-voting stock probably should have mentioned the deal including a few other things too - avoiding litigation over the unauthorized copied QuickTime code that had been put in Video For Windows, Apple getting continued Office for Mac updates, MS getting Apple to keep I.E. as the default browser for the minimum term of the investment (3 years)

The Facebook video sounded much better and played fine without forcing modes although it displayed as 16:9 inside of 4:3 (black letterbox area seem to be part of video). For 120 meg and 220 meg, h.264 could have delivered great quality at well above the 320*240 or so those are. Even phone displays can handle/show much more detail, but the videos didn't look bad.

I don't mean to be overly critical, just trying to provide detailed feedback. I enjoyed watching both videos. Thank you.

Now I see why some say a 250 meg data plan is way too limiting. The Jobs video alone would nearly eat it up.
Old codecs cost everyone.
Wow, I've never noticed this until just now. The base domain go.com doesn't look respectable or trustworthy at all, either.
We completely agree. We are currently discussing the best way to do this
Interesting higher level questions arise from this -

Is it because we've built so many tools around text that text seems so powerful, or is it because text is powerful that we've built all these tools?

Knowledge is of the mind+brain+body+environs. Text is just data. Just as machine code is "just data" if you don't have a processor that "understands" it. Remember - it took 20 years to decipher the hieroglyphics on the rosetta stone. Also, good luck with storing images in plain text.

Moral of the story - don't get too attached to anything :)

If you can't and are paranoid about losing your digital stuff, maybe DSpace will help - http://www.dspace.org/
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This isn't a problem for digital downloads.
That's just the topic that people are most likely to be defensive about here. It's probably a natural instinct for groups to test and provoke each other by the things which are most distinctive to them.
Well if you are going to jump out of Java then Scala should be a consideration as well. Even the Groovy creator commented that had Scala existed he would probably not have created Groovy. Wit Scala you can still use JAX-RS.

http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2009/05/13/building-go-test-i...
what buttons/links are you talking about exactly?

Nothing sets up an HTML5 database, but it does ask use geolocation if your browser supports it
Is it just me, or are most of the apps inaccessible?
I am very much a value investor too. I find a lot of the value investing techniques attempts to predict the probable price evolution of a stock and make a projection on its business performance. All these projections are based on the historical data and the assumption that it will continue to make money. But often the past did not equal the future, and most companies cannot continue to make the same 20% growth year on year.

Plus it also can't evaluate its management and internal business decisions such as M/A. And with the large cap these hedge funds are holding these days, they are quite capable of manipulating the stock prices for their gain.

What's also important is to understand the risk appetite of each individuals and have an investing plan? i.e. a value investor with a large risk appetite might be looking at citibank, make some assessment on its valuation and take a 5 yr plan on it with definite exit and cut loss prices.
My ping times from my server to Facebook's graph servers went from 40ms at my expensive ThePlanet servers to 2ms at Linode Fresno. I'm really, really happy with Linode, though the prices for bandwidth, disk and ram are ridiculously high. Best option is probably something like 10tb from ThePlanet for bulk assets and Linode for the front end.
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I think they're having DNS problems right now.
c⃠ Works in FF 3.6.
Given the companies involved, they're likely hedging their bets. I'd put it that it's only been 15 years to them.
The cost of entities is static.

The cost of professional services is the issue. The government lards on more and more stuff you have to do, and the penalties for mis-steps in international tax are huge. That is where the costs come in.
"The website “http://desksnear.me” is requesting 1 MB of disk space to store “html5 test db” as a database on your disk."

WORKPLACES, SIGN IN and Search By city or address all use novel UI elements of thinly recessed semi-transparent ovaloids, or let's call them extreme rounded rectangles. One is a text field and others are buttons.
The Art of Unix Programming also has a section on why text trumps binary formats almost every time.
one thing, it did take me a second to figure out where i could upload a picture.

i kept naturally thinking it would be someone in the workplace edit page. Maybe a link from that page would be nice.
You should expect abuse, but I think the OP is taking issue with the fact that HNers are the ones who are being abusive.

To those who would be abusive, all I have to say is to remember that everyone begins somewhere. There was a time when you yourself was very mediocre at coding. And if your work had been completely trashed, how likely would you have been to pursue a career in programming?
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Over the past few months the O'Reilly ebook deal of the day at $10 (although they seem to be testing the water for selling at over $10 at the moment unfortunately) has lead to quite a few acquisitions on my part. Additionally you can register your paper books and "upgrade" to an ebook for $5 on those. All this made a Kindle 3 logical as it brought a vast number of $10 ebooks into parity with their $30 to $40 paper cousins. My points of warning would be as follows - this is specific as the O'Reilly books are not DRMed. You get them in mobi, pdf, apk, daisy and epub. That said, the smaller Kindle I have is almost completely useless for PDFs, don't even think about it, not sure about the big Kindle though. I've had success converting webpages to .mobi plus all the public domain stuff in txt works just fine.

http://twitter.com/Oreillymedia has the deals but http://twitter.com/timoreilly retweets them and is vastly more interesting to follow.
Wow, I am super impressed with the graphical designs of these sites. How did you guys get such a polished look in such a short time. Amazing.
Personally I don't see much value in it, but it looks awesome and I guess if you add more features it might be useful to give clients updates.

Best part - the automatic demo account, great job on that. That is by far the easiest way to understand how something is going work and I wish all apps had that feature.
On a related note, a video game journalist gets Yakuza bosses to play and review Sega's "Yakuza 3":

http://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html
Or he could be a night owl, or live in a timezone that doesn't match prime upvoting hours.
Yeah, they are. We moved our app to our own domain for the time being.
Serious question:

How many people didn't see this coming?

Using an app gives it additional info about you, and nothing prevents it from passing that along to outside sources. And now we find out that all of the top 10 applications are doing just that? Surprise, surprise.

Anyone who thinks Facebook is anything other than a machine that turns your information into cash for Facebook is kidding themselves.
Hmmmm...

On the drive back home after attending startup school I was thinking about what advice I had heard/read before and what I had not.

I came to the conclusion that it didn't matter...

I realized, there's a huge difference between attending the concert of your favorite band, compared to watching that same concert on DVD.

That's why I was driving home feeling so much more informed attending Startup School this year, rather than watching it via Justin.tv like I did last year.
Glad to hear you liked it, especially the demo account. We wanted to try making the discovery part very easy with it.
Everybody else has given the feedback I would. But I can't help but re-give the praise, amazing achievement for 48 hours.
The site from " Do we no longer support our members?"
This is the site that the original post was talking about. It appears to be popular and getting a healthy bit of traffic :)
> Acunote is still better.

To be fair, I suspect Acunote may be just a little bit older than 48 hours old. ;) Splendid Bacon looks pretty awesome considering.
Then you should give credit where credit is due:
to Debian, not Ubuntu.

I didn't mean to say Ubuntu, actually. I just meant that Linux is a great place for developers because the tools are there (and fantastic). That said, making (say) my Ruby Unix utilities available to my typical audience (my boss... very much on Windows XP) just doesn't work. Instead my workflow goes something like... 1. code a nifty tool to process data, 2. realize that my boss probably doesn't know what a commandline is, and 3. shoot him an e-mail saying "send me your data files, and I'll have my program analyze them". There's a disconnect there that seems hard to break if we don't get a useful/clean UI system going. And not many developers are willing to add UI sugar to their solid open-source libraries.

If your app is so dependent on GTK+ as to be
unportable to other platforms, you're doing it wrong.

I guarantee the typical Mac or Windows user is not going to install my GTK app on their computer, whether it's portable or not. Mac users will loathe the new interface and icons, while Windows users will not like the manual upgrades or quasi-FHS-compliant config file locations.

If instead you're suggesting I recode my GTK app in Cocoa and .NET, I can't use my beloved Linux tools for that, so in that case, I'd stick to coding on non-Linux platforms.
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Looks like a fairly comprehensive tool for translating articles from other Wikipedias into a target language. Includes tools for discovering source material, as well as something called the "Collaborative Translation Framework" for crowdsourcing translations of individual sentences.

Looks nifty. Small Wikipedias will love this.
If the people putting the time/money into producing the content don't make it available to you, then that's their choice. They're still putting a value on it, so if you obtain the content without providing them that value, then it's stealing. The book you mention is a perfect example. I can't get it either. So I just don't pay for it and spend my money somewhere else instead. Your "steal" should just be steal (no quotes). It's black or white.

Now I don't think it's some huge deal, I'm just saying it's still stealing, either way you look at it.
I really like your comment, and appreciate that someone with real world experience is giving an inside look into dealing with Facebook.

I doubt any viable organization would act any differently about bad press. Are you trying to say in your third point that Facebook takes it to an extreme beyond other companies you've worked with? Could you expand on your thought?

Why was Gambit the weakest of the three payment companies? From your perspective, is it possible that the FB dev scuttlebutt was conspiracy theory, or are you reasonably sure they used Gambit as their sacrificial lamb?

Thanks for your insight.
outside of a few very well defined cases where you always need a certain piece of information to move further or where you need to notify someone that some particular action was taken (for example, when someone signs up with me, and I want to confirm that I got the signup and ask for a public key) are canned responses better than no response?

right now, my system sends an auto-response when you email the support@prgmr.com address. I'm not sure at all that this is the right thing to do... it clutters up the requesters mailbox and really conveys no info other than "the ticket system got your email" which, I think, can be assumed.
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Played around with it for a bit. Are you considering any to do list functions?
Is this how it works?

I have a web app that keeps inventory of your physical book collection (not really). My users would like to use their iPhone as a bar-code scanner to add new books to their inventory. I don't want to create a native application so I decide to integrate with your app. My user installs your native app and then comes to my site to add a book and clicks a scan link. That scan link calls your native app to use the camera on the device to scan the bar-code, decode the image and send me back an ISBN.

I'm not sure I would have taken the time to figure out that's how it works without seeing this on HN.

"Go where your html form can’t."

That makes sense to you and me now, but meant nothing to me when I first entered your website.
... says NYT linkbait.
Yes. Next question.

Long answer: People are locked into their App Store purchases, and are familiar with the device. See also Blackberry users who love their devices.

This is a mindshare thing. Apple doesn't depend on being on top - they depend on making their cut of the market lucrative, which they wildly succeed at.
Economic interdependence is what drives the niceness here. Anyone who seriously cares about startups or hacking and wants to benefit from this crowd is likely to follow the guidelines as best they can.

But people lacking the same incentives will probably unknowingly slide into some form of bad behavior even if they've been active on the site for years - it will just happen naturally, because their economic equation is "amuse myself" with no mitigating factors. But most of the time it probably doesn't cause overt vandalism, just poor commenting hygiene.
I wouldn't write off google china quite yet? They still have a huge office here churning out tons of code, making interesting things, kicking ass with android stuff..
Well, in Australia the pickup version was always called the 'Hilux'. I know of a plumber with a 1982 model with 300,000kms on it and it's still going strong.

The 'wagon' version was also called the '4Runner' in Austraila, but,because of used Japanese imports, you're more likely to see a 'surf' than a 4Runner.

I find it very odd that manufacturers seem to always choose a different model name in the USA, despite worldwide success with the original model name. Golf-Rabbit-Golf springs to mind.
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Man, i'm already using it. I love the simplicity
hmm… I watched in Safari 5 (with clicktoflash installed) and saw the videos in raw HTML5 format.
Firstly: I think you've done a great job for 48 hours. That's an awesome inspiration.

Secondly: what is the purpose of the random characters (e.g. %, 2) on the front page and elsewhere? I found the characters on the front page to be somewhat unbalanced, especially the comma. Once I tried the demo, I thought they might be indicating keyboard shortcuts, but nothing happened (firefox 3.0, crunchbang linux). I'm not sure if they're not working, or if I just don't understand the joke or something, but that was my biggest issue. It seemed a bit unprofessional -- not that it is (seriously, 48 hours? awesome!), but that's what I saw.

I hope this helps you, and thanks for sharing this with us!
Sorry about it being slow. Working on getting more resources on the box.
Wholeheartedly agreed. Edited to make this clearer.
I'm very happy with my ARP Networks VPS. Their prices are very competitive, but it's definitely not a "managed" solution. They support just about any Linux distro as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Once your VM is spun up, you just log in and go. Support seems to be email only, but I've never had a second of downtime in the 9 months or so I've been there.

My only gripe is that web-based management of the VPS is almost non-existent. Basically power on/off and reboot are all you get. I'd like to see bandwidth, disk I/O, CPU utilization, and so on. They have a text-based management interface with a few more options, including VNC console over SSH. I suppose the end result is that you basically get a low-end colo server experience at a VPS price. (Which is fine if you're like me and that's what you want.)

I also want to tip my hat to Liquid Web's cloud offering, Storm. (I'm biased because I helped build it.) Their prices are certainly not on the low end but the support team beats the snot out of any other hosting provider, period.
I am really loving TechZing so far. I have been trying to work through the backlog after I found it a few weeks ago.

It's not always about startups and entrepreneurship, but I like it a lot more than other podcasts that are constantly rehashing the same "top N ways to do X with your startup" content. I would say its more about bootstrapping, which is more interesting to me anyways.
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Multiple versions of a library are certainly possible with C, but are generally avoided on Debian where possible. Where that isn't possible -- for instance, for libraries which completely changed their API like gtk1.4 -> gtk2, they simply create completely separate packages for the two versions.

With gems, this isn't quite so easy, as there's no way to distinguish between a minor bugfix and a huge API-breaking change without either guessing based on the version number or having a human read the changelog. Even then, there's no guarantee that dependent packages will depend on distinct sets of versions.
Overwhelmed with traffic?

Would really like to see this. :-) If it has an API I'd love to tie something like this to http://tldrd.com to auto-generate summaries of various texts.
What? We usually get some good submissions from throw-away accounts with 0 prior karma, like people seeking out advice on how to deal with cofounders etc. Or people are long time readers and what to create an account to show us the project.

The debate forum for ideas like this is at "Feature Request" link at bottom of page.
That's exactly how it works, if you have any ideas on how to repackage the sell I'm all ears! It sounds like this is my new priority :)
Maybe not right now. Lot of people, us included, want manage their todos in Things or similar todo app.

However, we need to think this through.
I have a half-API in there, but I certainly want to build it out a little more. I planned on having it done by the time the competition was over but then I decided to do crap like "sleep" and "eat". :P
The apps reviewed by the Journal were sending Facebook ID numbers to at least 25 advertising and data firms, several of which build profiles of Internet users by tracking their online activities.

This doesn't surprise me at all, it was just a matter of time before ad networks and retargeters, et al, caught up to include Facebook. FB's "social plugins" and the cookies they leave laying around give these companies an incredibly reliable way of identifying unique users and mapping their profiles. Which is very valuable to them.

One of the larger sites I run was recently approached by an ad network to drop a pixel upon user registration that would pair a user's email address with an identifier for unique tagging within their ad network. I declined for ethical reasons, but it was interesting nonetheless to see that this pairing is so valuable to ad networks, that they would pay for it separate from any display services.
Thank you! We're humbled by the very positive response.
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How do you find it if you do have a vanity URL?
It looks like you might be using libots -> libots.sourceforge.net

I'm watching this thread with interest because I've been doing some work on building a good summarization engine for a few months now, and it is getting pretty close to ready for prime-time -> summarity.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com

There's an interesting history there. I'm not sure why they haven't changed to just use their own domains, given how much of a failure the go.com portal concept was.
I'm so old-fashioned as to play Super Nintendo RPGs!

I've played all the famous and popular ones like Final Fantasy 3 & 6, Chrono Trigger, and Breath of Fire, etc, so for the past few years I've been discovering all the little-known hidden treasures, which there seems to be an endless supply of.

An English patch was just released for Lennus 2, which, along with its predecessor Paladin's Quest, pretty much take the cake for originality, creativity, and world design in an SNES RPG. So I'd have to strongly recommend both of those. I have to warn you that Paladin's Quest's graphics are not everyone's cup of tea, and some people hate the game. But Lennus 2 is a lot more polished. ("Paladin's Quest" is the official English release name for Lennus 1, but Lennus 2 never had an official US release, only the recent fan translation, which I hear is really good.)

I'd like to check out Master of Magic, but it looks like it's PC-only, and I use a Mac. : (
Seconded, this is an excellent summary. I've tried many on this list (mainly use LyX), but a few I hadn't come across.
Glad you like it!

I'm sorry to hear that the site doesn't render properly on Firefox 3.0. We are using @font-face and the Pictos icon set for the icons, and only newer browsers support it.

Here's what it actually looks like: http://skitch.com/jcxplorer/d5hdh/splendid-bacon
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I'd love an Android-style notification bar for OS X - one where an incoming IM or whatever rolls the menu bar up, displaying the message briefly, then rolls back down to the standard menu bar.
View source on your profile page and search for profile.php?id=

Right after that will be your id.

(There are other ways as well, but this is a pretty easy way)
1. No, I'm just saying Facebook reacts very strongly to bad press. Maybe more or less strongly than other companies, but they don't typically take swift action on the platform (e.g., putting a 50-person company out of business overnight) unless there's a bad press story lurking somewhere.

That's their MO.

2. I know some of the parties involved, and Gambit wasn't doing anything differently than the other offer providers in this regard.

Even if they were being more aggressive, say, why not ban them until they cleaned up their act vs. banning them forever?

And why ban any developer who decided to use them, even if they were only serving up compliant ads?

Facebook was going so far as to send out C&Ds to developers using Gambit at one point.
I think tptacek is asking for real world use cases along the lines of:

[Problem] <-Your Solution-> [Better* Outcome]

*cheaper, easier, more reliable