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I feel that the author has a point, but only to a certain extent. There are also plenty of companies that focus on a great user experience and top not support. To provide some counter examples to the companies listed in the article, companies like 37signals or GitHub and many blossoming mobile game developers are executing on this very well, in my opinion.
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1. Did you enable the 'Share Location' option in your browser? It should have appeared on pageload.

2. The 'More Options' should allow you to change the city/area.

Also, could you let me know which browser and OS you're using?

EDIT: corrected typo.
I think the key is for _everyone_ to work at home. If you have an office, and some people work there and others don't, eventually the people in the office will find it easier to work with the people nearby, and will marginalize the people who aren't.
I completely agree. I was thinking about this some days ago, with regards to writing a Lisp-like macro system in a new language, and this idea of graphically manipulating ASTs came to mind.
Getting a few thousand people to line up in a country of 1.3 billion doesn't seem all that impressive to me, actually.
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I am a late bloomer when it comes to finding sites like HN. I think HN is a pretty good source. Other than having to filter and it being a little hard to find the useful articles, I think this is a great place to stay up to date on the happenings.

Are there other sources like this? In light of a few HN is dying articles, what are some other sites people are going to?
Neat! I was looking for something very much like this!!

Two feature requests:

1) Discrete values: I want to track things say on a scale of 1 to 5, or 1 to 10. It shouldn't be too hard to implement this without cluttering the UI; you can have a check box that says

[x] on a scale of ___

and use the icon of the log as a rating slider.

2) I would like push notifications / alerts prompting me to enter things. E.g. Insulin every 3 hours, or mood every 5 hours.

I would totally pay 5$ for an app that does these 2 things reliably.

[edit: wow dude, this app is buggy :) 2 minutes and I already found one bug: +/- doesnt show up unless you first switch to keyboard and then back to +/-!! Hire a programmer / tester to fix these things and concentrate on the product, it's a better use of your time!]
That logic works both ways, though. If you cut soda to kill carbs, couldn't someone say, "Ahh, but you also cut calories! So it could have been that and not the carbs that did it!"

This is is what we call a non-argument. There is insufficient data to make a call either way. The author mentions this, but as I pointed out in other comments on this thread his agenda was clearly to push one hypothesis.

I still don't think that's the case. Ditching soda was one of the first things I did, and I only saw a bit of weight loss. It didn't really start until I started exercising. Which is far more plausible than some sort of miracle diet.
Great app.

What else have you tried to get more traction? I'm in the same boat. I've got a couple of apps that I can't seem to get to take off.

Please let us know if this helps or not.
Yes, backtracking is similar to depth-first search, except backtracking stop going down a branch as soon as you realize it's not going to work. Depth-first search on the other hand normally visits all the nodes in the graph. Applied to the puzzle, depth-first search would try every possible combination of tiles and check each one to see if it works or not, which would be very inefficient.

Your peg-jumping puzzle would be harder to solve efficiently with backtracking, because it's not obvious until the end that you're on the wrong path. If you're interested in the mathematics of peg-jumping puzzles, see "Winning Ways for your mathematical plays, Vol 2", by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy, which discusses the mathematics of the plus-shaped peg-jumping puzzle in detail.
I think the real news here is there is a growing middle-class of consumers in China that can also afford $400 luxury devices.

I'm more worried about their (less regulated) growing car purchases but it's still something to consider as we compete for resources (and jobs).
Looks as close to an iPhone as possible, as with most other Meizu products:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/15/meizu-m9-christens-site-l...

Combine the fact that these are probably being sold exclusively through those 2 first party stores, it being a holiday, and that there's a thriving resale market (people buying the maximum number of phones they can, then turning them around on the internet), I'm not surprised.

Edit: People even line up for bags of all the extra overstock junk they throw in bags at Apple's stores in japan:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/01/apple-lovers-in-japan-camp-ou...

Not comparable, IMHO.
An alternative would be a traditional flatbed scanner.

While not ideal for catching up on a backlog of unscanned documents, it isn't bad for scanning current documents. They can be bought for anywhere between $30-70.

As another thing to consider for non sensitive documents (things like course notes or the like) would be do find a copy machine on campus that can scan multiple pages in a row. The ones at my school have the option to email pdfs to you rather than print. It might be a good (free) way to scan many documents at once if you can find one.
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Agreed. Two stores, 60 people at 6AM at each? Compare to the lines at every Apple store for a major launch (300+ for the iPhone 4 at the local store), or for any video game console launch at nearly every retailer that sells them in the entire US (usually 30-100 in front of every BestBuy/Walmart/etc.). No comparison.
I've found similar methods that work; if something can be made a routine, then the automaticity often takes over and provides the kick in the pants necessary to get started.
Unless you're going to resell it for a profit, which is quite common in China.
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Neat idea... 2 things:

1) When I change location In more options while I already have search results for manhattan (Im assuming thats default) it fails to load/is stuck in a loop.

2) The twitter bar on the right side is too far down on the side and elongates your page. I dont believe this is intentional though because it doesnt look good. (screenshot: http://pexelu.com/Untitled.png)
Hi,

As per suggestion , now you need not to login to view the problem. You will ask for credential only when you want to submit solution to the problem.

PS : In the mean time <a href="http://www.fameoflight.com/Mathalon/admin/>Mathalon Admin</a> is running now.

Mathalon Admin: Interface to add problem to the website.

Thanks
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I agree that JavaScript may not be the optimal solution (our kids will hate us for making it the language of the web).

But why LLVM? Why not something more standard like CIL or Java bytecode? I would personally love to see CIL in all browsers. It compresses much better than LLVM bytecode...
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I agree.

Cloudkick did very well with a freenium model -- it let sysadmins try out our service on their personal machines -- and it led to many using it inside their businesses later.

Those kinds of conversions and upsells are the perfect reason for a B2B application to have a freenium model. It wasn't about getting users for investors, we just looked at it more like a loss-leader and part of our user acquisition costs -- just like the costs of buying Google Ads, etc.
Agreed. It's particularly evident here:

http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/Images/Micrographia.jpg

Understanding that `fs' was mostly a typographical device for adding more flair to a line certainly makes the German deprecation of the `ß' in favor of `ss' more palatable.
Google's current incentives align with those content sites more than the searcher. Those sites provide a lot of revenue for Google. Until Google starts losing searchers as a result of those sites (unlikely, because my mom is unlikely to care that eHow is massively gaming things), those sites are going to stick around.
Would be neat for users to opt in and to be able to share certain data sets to a public API for developers to be able to play with.
I do like the story about U with its round curves being too hard to chisel

I find this hard to believe when I see other characters that have have tighter curves having been chiseled in stone. Is it true that there are no/few curves in chiseled letters in classic works? The only ones I've seen are in modern buildings, as in PVLIC LIBRARY.
startups will be forced to pay for marketing to gain the upper hand

This is only the case if you can't otherwise differentiate your product.
It's not a long f, it's a long ſ
'Reverse Engineering the 6502' videos online
The videos of the talk Michael Steil gave at 27C3 are now online on YouTube. The talk is split into 6 segments.
Clickable links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW9AWBFH1sA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBE4KHKzhKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBo7O_blVo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_15RtVbqGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9DYmlprCKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZOUuqc4pk8
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I remember being surprised to find a room designated for women to pump breastmilk. But then, there were a lot of women on that campus.

I believe that, in California, companies of a certain size need to provide a room for this independent of how many women the company employs.

From http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=14389 :

Cal. Labor Code § 1030 et seq. (2001) provides that employers need to allow a break and provide a room for a mother who desires to express milk in private.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=9466431...
Installed, I'll use it to track my journey on slow-carb diet.
Depends on your market, for a user focused web app that is novel enough to go viral yes. A B2B web app though might be the best solution to a problem but struggle because the businesses which would benefit the most have never heard of it.
The problem with 'social' search is that it reduces the universe of documents to what is known to the members on the platform. There is already data that is not crawled by most of the search engines, which itself is a problem. This only makes it worse.
There are also sunglasses that filter out IR only, we wear them in the laser labs in school all the time.
I wonder if it's already too late though. There are too many free webapps/mobile apps released. When the investment dollar dries up this year and the global economy crashes and all those startups can't raise the next round (and can't eat ramen/live with 5 roommates anymore), they would have a very hard time start charging for software.
Don't know if you can put 37 signals in there now, while they have free offerings they seem to do there best to make them only visible to those actively looking.
I think it makes more sense for "log in" - there's even a site explaining why: http://loginisnotaverb.com/

Basically, only "log in" makes sense as a verb (because could you say you "logined"?). Although as a noun, it's okay.
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But that is different than saying the prioritization of this as a "problem" is or is not affected by AdSense revenue. What we, as a bunch of highly technical people, see as a problem, Google's ranking decisions sees as, at best neutral and at worst, a positive.

It may not affect ranking (and I do believe that), but I would certainly be willing to bet it affects them (and similar sites than aren't AdSense-based) not being de-ranked.
The problem with "saturation" is not because things are free. It's only a problem when your product doesn't solve any problem. If your product does solve a real problem, and solves really well, you'll get the users.

If you just make something cool that doesn't really do anything people need, well then, don't blame it on market saturation.

There are types of apps that you can only reap the fruit of when there are lots of users. These apps can't succeed if they require you to pay before using it. Facebook is useless if you don't have friends on it. A blog is useless if people had to pay before reading it. Stackoverflow is useless without its huge community. Youtube is useless if uploading and watching videos wasn't free. Google would've been pretty useless if you had to pay before seeing the results.
Agreed on all points with the exception that Guber actually gets it more or less right on that one. Apple products do have a huge emotional appeal to it. The price for which is weirdly, both the cause and effect at the same time. Most people who buy Apple will continue to buy Apple (they are already buying products that are not cheap by any means, so cheaper Android phones won't do much to dampen that enthusiasm).

Fact is that most people won't line up to buy Android and certainly not as many as Apple fans. Does that mean Android won't sell - hell, no. It will only sell more.

Most of the complaints about Android from Apple fans seem to be on the lines of - "hey it is imperfect and a lesser phone but why does it still sell?" For the Android fan club it seems to be a case of itching to see Apple in trouble.

People seem to forget a very basic fact: it is just a phone :)
Why Dropbox is so popular
Nice!

Also: "simpleqrcode" app on android market allows you to encode your contact info into a QR code directly.
Seen it before, was very interested, but have no iDevice to use it on or I'd be tracking everything. Free? Extremely impressive for a free app.
He is lucky the bank did not serve him with a lawsuit for "hacking".
Why? Don't get me wrong -- thanks for making it free! I'd really be interested in hearing the about the process that made you decide to go free. Would you be willing to share this?
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Fair enough, they do seem to hide any free offerings. They seem to fit well into the "building a fantastic product, charging for it, and offering great support" group.
Here's another possibility: Sketch [1] (by the makers of Fontcase), which seems simple enough also. Incidentally, they also have an iPad app, called SketchPad [2].

For open source, there's an app I've tried a few times called Drawberry [3], which looks something like Pixelmator, but is for vector drawing.

[1] http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/overview/
[2] http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketchpad
[3] http://raphaelbost.free.fr/DrawBerry.html
San Luis Obispo, CA

iFixit.com is hiring Software Developers, Designers and a Marketing Director.

http://www.ifixit.com/info/jobs

I'm a software developer there and love it. Mainly a LAMP shop, but really awesome people and incredibly flexible. Kyle (our CEO) is very approachable, and we are a bootstrapped 30 person startup. If you're interested in having a huge impact on the world of repair and gadgets, come check us out.
Potential for what?

It is only possible to measure fitness for a specific task. Often a trait that would help in one situation will hinder in another.
vitovito is completely stoned...

flipboard complexity is less about the app itself and more about the web/backend/engine that drives it and prepares content for it

4-8k can get your into the prototype space but odds are for fit and finish you'll need to spend 20k or so..
Rather than having one intuitive factor (personal irresponsibility) which explains several highly correlated outputs (obesity, low income, low education)

"Intuitive" seems like a weasel-word there. How do you define "personal irresponsibility"? How do you measure it? It's practically a mystical concept in comparison to the well-defined, measurable factors that Taubes is concerned with.

That Taubes meticulously restricts himself to subjects that he's studied in depth (in this case, obesity and the associated literature) is a sign of intellectual honesty. I admire his refusal to go off on ideological tangents.
I don’t get it. Seems awfully petty. It just a blogger and what he did is not in any way wrong. I could understand you if he had made any statement to the effect that everyone should do it like him but he absolutely did not.
Loving your comments guys, thanks!
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And why do we care? Yes, a lot of yuppies go out and buy iPhone 4s so that they can be cool. They'll never install more than 3 applications, will pay out their ass for texting and will be perfectly happy flashing their iPhone to their friends. Meanwhile, 4 more Android phones are activated without any excitement, where the respective user also probably never installs a wide range of apps and pays the carrier's exhuberant SMS fee.

Is Gruber suggesting, or am I supposed to buy the notion that the emotional appeal of a product is some sort of important measurement? Who's activating more phones, who's making the revenue.

I'll never stand in line for an Android phone, I won't even stay up late to press "Buy" on when the purchase link goes live for the HTC Thunderbolt. It will still be there and will ship at the same time if I order it at 8am.
This actually happened to me. I have an old Hotmail account I rarely used and hadn't checked in 2-4 months. When I signed on last week all of my emails had been deleted. I was pissed but assumed it was some sort of policy in place.
My current employer has asked me to forget about "SQL Injection `problems`" and told me to focus on the deadline. sigh
The date range is one of Google greatest features. Its not perfect but it is great. I would like to see past 2 years added to the list. Sometimes 1 year is not enough and it is to time consuming to type a custom date range. But it is wonderful at filtering out 5 year old content. This is a feature I use every time I am looking for code samples on the Internet.
It's certainly true that dietary studies suffer from problems of underreporting. So it is possible that the the results of most recent studies (summarized well in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research_related_to_low...) all suffer from a reporting bias that leads people consuming low-fat diets to more significantly underreport their consumption than those on low-carb diets.

However, that in itself would be a significant finding. If the level of reporting compliance varies widely between different diets, it may also mean that compliance with the diet itself varies. I'd personally be interested in evidence on this point.

Also interestingly, studies using animal models of obesity tend to back up the findings using the (admittedly flawed) studies using human reporting. Taubes' most recent book goes into some detail about findings using rat obesity models (such as experiments involving ovary removal and experiments involving Zucker rats, which are genetically prone to obesity).

One very interesting result from those studies is that rats prone to obesity (for whatever reason) will often die of starvation while retaining some subcutaneous fat. Obese-prone rats also very clearly exhibit sedentary behavior when the food supply is low, and more active behavior when the food supply is high. They also have more fat when given identical amounts of food as lean-prone rats.

In short, while we cannot be certain about the recent experimental results, because of reporting bias, it's hard to believe that the experiments all have no validity, and that animal models of obesity are flawed. Additionally, if there was significant reporting bias, it would likely be the result of compliance problems, which would be extremely relevant to the discussion at hand.

It's one thing believe that the jury is still out on some of this; it's quite another to stick to preexisting beliefs on the grounds that virtually all recent studies have some flaw or other.
We launched WikiPanda, what we believe to be the best Wikipedia browser for the Windows Phone:

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I suspect it's largely a carry-over from the excitement of camping out for movies or game releases of yesteryear, which was 10% impatience and 90% friends & palatable excitement.
Is testing his/her IQ+EQ a reliable measure?

No.
what exactly are you trying to do different from other event based sites, say that Facebook and MySpace don't provide ?
Ha! Yeah, Emacs isn't sexy enough for the "cool" kids. Hahaha.

Personally, I don't even notice all of those stupid adjectives any more. They are totally content-free.
I thought most digital cameras and webcams have IR filters.
You're not honestly comparing Sun hardware with Dell, right? You really think that Dell+Linux was competition for Sun?

Sun was selling to a particular customer that demanded rock solid stability.

If Linux had never happened, Dell servers wouldn't have made a dent in Sun's marketshare. Don't count out Windows either. They both ate away at the BOTTOM of the market for a while.

But neither of those have anything to do with a sales model.

If your hardware lists for $1M+ per box, you don't sell that with a webpage. You sell it after many many visits with the customerto be sure that this is really what they need and that they will be able to use it.

Go look for a price for the CRS-1/8 on Cisco's webpage and tell me if you see it. Same for Juniper.

The appearance of a price on a webpage is a clear indication that you will never speak to anyone at that company who understands your business or requirements.....EVER.
I remember hearing about this app ages ago and spent a few hours searching for it last month. I couldn't remember the name and wound up buying some knockoff. I would have paid $5 if it had shown up in my searches. Thanks for making it free, but thanks even more for reminding me of the name!
Maybe explain what the site does on the first landing page — took me half-a-dozen click to make sense of it. A big “Find fun things to do near you” would be fine. I'm not sure why ‘Circles‘ are a problem, for instance, or whether you improve from them.

Same problem with location — I didn't know where I was located, but it seemed to be Manhattan; when I tried to change that, I hit the wheel of death.

To face testing, chicken-and-egg, you might want to filter your service to an area with enough density to make sense (but I'm not sure about the most obvious places where you'll find thematic competition).

No cancel button on the “Post a message if anyone want to join you”.

Biggest issue that I see so far: how do you improve things from Meetup?
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Summarized: Dropbox was a KISS product.
Worth noting is the competing application and web platform http://www.daytum.com/. This one was built by the same guy who has been doing the annual Felton Reports for the last 4 years (http://feltron.com/).
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No, after you get above 145 (top 98% or 3 SD) the accuracy decreases quickly, instead they give you a different test which takes quite awhile to administer. Just ask problem solving, thought, and logic questions; it's easier, cheaper, and you get you see how they think.

WARNING, in some jurisdictions IQ testing is of questionable legality within a job setting and can be considered discriminatory (I know, stupid. They now say you can't discriminate between candidates based on intelligence.)
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> Some stuff is never written because people know it would be deleted.

Or simply, knowing that it is likely to be deleted puts you off from contributing at all. I know that is one of the main reasons I have almost completely stopped contributing to Wikipedia.
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