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Kelly Johnson's 14 rules of management are great, especially the unwritten one:

Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall before they break either your heart or a more exposed part of your anatomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Johnson#Kelly_Johnson....
It's targeted at Beginners (Developers and Artists) who want to start getting into creating electronic stuff. And it's great for that target audience (including me ;) ).
Can’t play, won’t play
Maybe on one of these?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
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Indonesia to shut down BlackBerry service
Researcher Develops Password Hacking Software for Wi-Fi Networks Using AWS
the particles are generated on the fly from the video source
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"There is no difference (in this context) between a digital and non-digital market."

There is a huge difference between a digital and non-digital market. In a digital market - one company can control (or curate) everything that occurs. This kind of control has only been made possible by digital technology.

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"If you wanted to go sell products in Costco, or Walmart, you would have to play by their rules."

Costco or Walmart purchase products which they later resell. The AppStore provides an economic space where people can sell direct to the consumer. There's a distinction.

If I produce a product that can be sold in Costco or Walmart - and I don't like their policies, I can take my product and sell it elsewhere.

If I produce a product for sale via the AppStore, and I don't like their policies I have to redevelop my product to sell it via a different marketplace.

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"If you, as a developer, or user, don't like those rules, then thankfully we have superb open source operating systems, such as Linux, and OpenBSD that give you almost 100% freedom to build, sell, and use the applications of your choice."

We're talking about the emerging IP-marketplaces, which are currently only viable for a handful of commercially operated platforms. The problem isn't that commerce is allowed to take place - it's that the rules of commerce can be artificially influenced by a corporation.

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"In fact, if you have a jail-broken IOS device, then you can even purchase apps for those devices from places other than Apple's curated store."

This isn't a desirable scenario for many users, and isn't an economically viable market for many developers.

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"The Droid, RIM, and WP7 platforms also provide varying degrees of freedom."

The problem is, there are no safeguards in place to stop these other platform vendors from artificially influencing the economic sub-markets associated with their own platforms.

A situation could quite easily develop where platform vendors unanimously agree to progress in a direction that inhibits developer (and/or user) freedoms. What happens then?

There is definitely a barrier to entry to the platform vendor market - because a huge amount of capital is needed get a business into a position where it can compete with the larger players.

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"If, in fact, Apple had a defacto monopoly, then their behavior might come under some form of legislative oversight - but, they certainly don't have a Monopoly on the mobile computing platform, and we really don't need some external body providing regulatory oversight as to what/how Apple should approve applications landing in the store."

I think we need a body regulating the behaviour of all emerging curated IP-marketplaces. Digital commerce is very open to abuse - measures need to be put in place now while the stakes are relatively low.
It feels like the motion picture people have always known this effect. See this video for instance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA
Does it matter that the objects don't change right in front of your eyes? In the silencing videos, if you look at the objects instead of at the white dot, you do see them moving and changing.
Hey that's cool! I imagine that you probably caught yourself, a time or two, actually trying to read and understand what the "invention" is. As I just did.
This is in the same spirit as videos converted to ASCII, but with a particle system.
Somewhat off-topic, but I've had fleeting contact with a former doctoral student of Wiles', Brian Conrad (math professor at Stanford now), and holy fuck is that guy intelligent.
I give you credit for "A Star Trek Pad inspired media aggregator for the iPad". In fact, in all honesty, I feel the pretty much the same about linkbait. I tried to think of a good name, but after like.. 10s in which I didn't come up with a good name, I quoted the body.

In retrospective I had three reasons for that:

* I wanted people to see the page (obviously)

* I think most of the intersection HN readers/iPad users would like it

* Non-iPad users tend to have trouble with all iPad/iPhone related content on HN, so the title actually is not the most controversial topic. The technology/vendor is.

Anyway, as I stated, I give you credit for the suggested title. I didn't come up with a good one quick enough and just gave up.

If I could, I would rename to your suggestion now.

Also, I learned something. I did not know the acronym LCARS for real. I saw all Star Trek series multiple times (except the original series). I own TNG the collectors edition. And I did not know the acronym. I only googled it, because you referenced that the target audience probably knows about it. Shame on me. Had I known, finding a more accurate title would have been easier.
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Couldn't you synchronize the beginning states of the game on all computers (including their pseudo-random number generator states), and then the only data you'd need to pass around is user input (keypresses, mouse movements, and the exact times--at least down to the frame--at which they occurred)? Given the initial state, the PRNG data, and the user input, games are completely deterministic, aren't they?

It seems that could pose a security risk to extremely savvy users (as the game state includes things they shouldn't be able to see, like the opponent's units in Starcraft, and one might be able to make a program to inspect the state of the running game client), but I can imagine encryption and obfuscation dealing with that sort of problem with very little overhead.
Questioning and adjusting our goals
I agree with you. It's the coolest thing ever to control physical things from my computer via programs that I write. The possibilities are endless. :)
Notably, this is one use of Map/Reduce; it's a general processing pattern.
StackOverflow clone, created entirely with Redis and jQuery
Reddit tried to do this when it first started, but failed because of load issues.
Really impressive! Good job
The assertion is true for all landscape orientation monitors, which has almost always been the case in this context. You're really clutching at straws with this pedantry (IMHO).
It has to be a real subpoena, signed by a judge, not just a 'request'. This information must then be used as part of an official criminal investigation. So far, there are no criminal indictments, only backroom spycraft and intimidation.
I am not a good or a professional C++ programmer by any means, but still I find these quite basic. I think you will encounter them in the first 5 items or so of Meyers.
I highly recommend it. I waited and had my gf buy me one for christmas because I was afraid it would be a gadget I'd never ennd up using, and I get more upset about wasting money than I do about wasting presents.

I had her get me the inventor's kit from sparkfun since it seems to come with a decent # of starter parts, and has a collection of projects you can do with them. I haven't been able to stop playing with my Arduino and I'm alredy ordering more parts and X10 controllers and such, and I only got through the 4th project before I started doing my own thing like having it communicate with the computer.
Ask HN: How much is each Mailchimp "grant"?
I'm referring to the new integration fund.
Anyone heard any good stuff from this: http://advogato.org/trust-metric.html ? That stuff is ancient and I can't find any working examples outside of papers.
Yeah, also, Microsoft is shutting down MSN and you need to forward this e-mail to keep it alive. Also, they're counting how many users they have and are giving out $1000 to random people, so forward this to make sure you're counted. By the way, I'm the head of the bank of Nigeria and I need to transfer funds out immediately. As a reward for helping me, you can get half the money. But first we'll need a $100 deposit to make sure you're for real.

Come on people, grow a brain already. I'm glad that even Huffington Post agrees that this is a dumb unfounded rumour.
I guess this is one of those "in theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice, they are not" kind of things. I don't know of any triple-A game engine that works that way, and it's not for a lack of smart people working on it. I'm sure that could work for a sufficiently simple game engine, however.
I would love to read about that if you have a link. Weighting by affiliation is the way to go.
I suspect it's not that easy or the previous owner could have restructured the business and its debt instead of declaring bankruptcy. Truth is there is no money left in sex/pornography.
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Maybe your observation holds true for the majority, but in my case my PhD taught me how to be self-reliant, work autonomously, plan ahead and cope with a high workload. Now that I've switched to industry, I've found these qualities are serving me extremely well.

However, I've tried motivating some former colleagues to make the switch and they just won't so maybe you have a point. But I would refrain from stereotyping.
This is one of the most insightful comments I've read on this forum.
I usally get head pain from this sort of things, because I almost understand what it says but I not quite.
I concur with your points. These are some of the problems I had, too, coming from a python background. To add to your list: the # operator confuses a lot of people as can be seen on the mailing list (although its semantics are well-defined actually). Nevertheless there are also convincing reasons for these decisions. Have a look at e.g. http://lua-users.org/wiki/LocalByDefault. And the use of "end" certainly helps with anonymous functions.

Purely looking at the language resp. the consistency of the design I would even say that Lua is more beautiful than Python even though Lua has its share of warts. Note that this does not say anything about which language is easier to use in practice (which is Python imho).

But that aside, I think it is important to mention that comparing Lua and Python is a bit like comparing apples to oranges as they pursue different philosophies. Lua gives you just as much as you need but no more. This is the reason why it is so flexible and suited for embedding. Python, on the other hand, is a full blown general purpose programming language with a huge community/ecosystem.
Reminds me of Mark V Shaney.

"I spent an interesting evening recently with a grain of salt."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney
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Off-topic: I played flute for 7 years, stopped when I was 17, and I had no idea they were this cheap! We always had to rent or borrow one because we couldn't afford to buy one at home, but with these prices, I might just buy one and pick it up again. After 8 years I won't remember how to play it, but for $100 I'm willing to risk trying to get "it" back on my own.

Thanks for renewing my interest in an old friend of mine
I think you would need to be very good a C to replicated something like that.
Do you like this app idea?
Hi!
We're going to pivoting our startup service in something different. We want to create an app that let you "Have fun with your friends, everywhere you go!".
The app will let you and your friends play and having fun with fun facts, jokes, fast parlor games, funny challenges (shot a photo with a waitress), and so on.

An app works that way:
- Open the app
- Search the nearby venue where you're in (integration with Foursquare) and click on it
- You click "Challange-In" to start play on that venue
-You start playing that proposed games, or tell to your friends funny jokes, or try to do challenges, show a Demotivational image, or see together a funny spot
-For each jokes (about 5 for each challange-in) you earn point to reach the top.
-The last step is a slot machine where you can win (more earned point means more chances to win) a cool badge or a free beer (if you're in a pub). You can win discount or free stuffs, depending into the kind of venues you're in.

The app is free.
In every venue you Challenge-In, load different challenges, and you can win virtual or real prizes.

The idea is similar to SCVNGR but not to play alone, this app is to play with your friends!
Then you have a "medal showcase" of the "Frank's company" or the "Luke's company".
In each venue, where people have challenged-in, there will be ranking of the company with more points earned. The company with more points, becomes the King of the Venue.
If your company is the first to Challenge-In into the venue, becomes the Little Lord of the Venue.

Will you use this app? Do you like it?
What do you think are the problems, the bottlenecks and what cannot works?
I wish I could upvote this more than once.

I have been screaming for a long time, that the housing boom and subsequent bust were directly caused by government action.

Thomas Sowell wrote a very interesting and insightful book on the subject ...
http://www.amazon.com/Housing-Boom-Bust-Thomas-Sowell/dp/046...
I have to agree. I am also mainly a Python programmer who had dabbled a bit in Ruby, but in the above examples, Ruby is definitely nicer.

I mentioned some of the reasons I stuck with Python here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941594

Where _language_ is concerned, I think Ruby is every bit as nice as Python if not nicer.
I did not read the paper, but what does more accurate mean in this case ? Likelihood of some unseen data ? Seems pretty hard to define or measure to me, if the goal is shear amusement.
I can understand where he is coming from, but I wonder if he's ever experienced the other end of the spectrum, where everything is a quick hack, leaving you with methods that are 1000 lines long, in a class which is 10000 lines long. Oh man how I miss the days of 10 nested if statements! Code is so much easier to read!

And is he really bashing inheritance? Really?

Patterns: oh no a common way to approach a problem! But I want to come up with my own hack! That's real job security.

I don't find it hard to use inheritance, interfaces, patterns, etc. I do see a problem with using some of these tools when they are not needed, but honestly, I've seen the world where they are not used, and I'd rather overuse patterns etc.
The most elaborate game
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I guess the submission has been flagged massively. 31 upvotes in 3h and it is leaving the frontpage. There are submissions on the frontpage with a third of upvotes in the same time.
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Reputation is factional:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/uberfac...

Apparently this is expensive to compute, but there must be some way to make it work.
Web Design from Scratch
I think Fairlights recent demos deserve mentioning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ2iQQvofCE&hd=1 Ceasefire (all fall down..) by CNCD vs Fairlight, presented at Assembly 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_hlhVqg_8&hd=1 CNCD vs Fairlight: Agenda Circling Forth, presented at Breakpoint 2010
I guess. It would be a pretty stupid move of Google to sue any other company over this, because they would lose a lot of respect from development community.
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I saw people posting links to this article, which appears to be from an Onion-like fake news site - http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27321/facebook-will-end...
I have a service, that brings me around $1300/month from which $700 is spent on App Engine hosting. It needs a rewrite, but profit do not justify it.

If you expect a similar situation - do the relevant premature optimization, so you can spend extra profit for bootstrapping :)
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The more unbelievable the rumor is the faster it spreads.
Why is that a startup? You are just doing an app.. a free app without a business model. Anyway, it's not something I would use but I see people using it.
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Thanks for the mention - we're watching the Ion with interest. It's pretty obvious that the Ion design is inspired by the DIY book scanner builders out there (DIYBookScanner, BKRPR).

I hope they do a good job of it. Honestly, I'll be shocked if they meet their claimed $149 price point and have quality beyond webcam-capture. If they do, it will be an awesome device, so I hope they do. Also, right now, they claim 7 seconds for two pages, which is a damned eternity.

If anyone has any pet projects that they need motivation or advice to do, we've got a really active community of book scanners, hackers, and builders developing new technology daily. If it involves a camera and a book, we've probably tried it and the locals are quite friendly.
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Thanks for all of your work on this stuff dan!
the more features they add to facebook, the more noise it seems to generate, and the more the signal gets lost. the problem is the noise is put there by facebook to try and keep people glued to the site, because the more updates you need to chew through before you get to the interesting content the more time you spend on the site, and the more time you spend on the site, the more dollars they can get for advertising. anyway the only way to get rid of all the noise is to use third party filtering, my weapon of choice is FB Purity its a browser extension available for all the major browsers it gives you options to filter out the noiser functions and components of Facebook, and also gives you a word or phrase filter, so you can specify the textual content that you wish to hide from the steram. Its a great add-on, highly recommended for people that want to tame their noisy news feeds: You can get it here: http://www.fbpurity.com
the times when it gets out of my way to let me think about the problem and then everything else seems clearer.

There are two different ways languages accomplish this.

Smalltalk and Lisp accomplish this through odd-looking minimal syntaxes. The code may not look like anything familiar (outside of longish intention-revealing names) but there are so few syntactic rules to process that a smart person should be able to master them in a few days or weeks at most. (Despite the lack of familiar operator precedence for arithmetic operations.)

Python and Ruby accomplish this by having moderate amounts of syntax. (Ruby has about 3X more syntax than Python, but you can ignore much of Ruby syntax for general purpose programming and leave it in the "sysadmin toolshed.") However, the moderate amounts of syntax are designed to closely resemble pseudocode your professor used to scrawl on the chalkboard. Hence, the language can stay out of the way while you focus on the problem domain.

On the other end of the spectrum are languages that expose everything. C, C++, and Assembly are like this. Everything is available in raw form or as powerful and arcane tools. The beginner might be a little lost, but the rewards to the virtuoso are tremendous.

This is an oversimplification, of course. Python and Ruby also give the power-programmer access to powerful, arcane, and easily-abused tools. It's also quite possible to write very clean pseudocode-resembling code in C or C++. (See the Taligent coding standards.) The difference is really only in design-focus of the languages. (Smalltalk as another example. Smalltalk was designed to be simple to the complete novice -- as in a grade school aged kid. This is why it's minimalist, yet manages to look odd to the hard-core Unix geek.)
It may not be able to compete with traditional instruments but you could fill a shop with exciting designs like the multi-pipe trumpet and quickly cover the cost of the machine.
Why does RMS's bio have anything to this discussion? I am talking about the rights of users to be independent from the programmers who write the code they use, not the beliefs of someone who happens to agree with me on some subjects (and disagree on others)

I think your, to use some of the language you so cleverly brought up, sad misunderstanding of the dynamics at play pretty much demonstrates you don't enjoy a solid grasp of what is involved here and the consequences of licenses like the GPL.
I had heard that slippery banana peels were invented as a family friendly alternative to slipping on dog faeces in early comedy sketches. Certainly, someone slipping on one of those seems both more likely to actually happen and more humorous when it does, but Wikipedia doesn't mention this theory which makes me think it's not true.
Things We Learned From The 1985 Steve Jobs Interview
There is no age limitation for education. You can do Bachelors when you are in 50s... so doing MS in your 20s is fine.
From what I have seen, at my college, most people are in the range of 23-35 doing their MS (I am 23, myself), so you would be comparably young @ 25.
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It's just a trade-off. You get cleaner-looking code, which is much trickier to copy off a random web page. The latter might seem trivial, but it's not so simple. In an environment with ubiquitous browsers, many programmers start as copy-pasters. (Just as many of us of earlier generations started out in BASIC.)

I'm not saying this is bad. It just is.
It's amazing but it makes my eyes hurt.
It reminds me of an old B/W "Опера" TV set.
there arent that many sites where you can find free music.. and btw use Grooveshark..

maybe they should work together..
OneNote is a good piece of software, IMO. I keep majority of my notes there (but I started using it long before I ever saw Emacs or heard about Org Mode). I was thinking about migration, but some of my notes consist of drawings and images pasted between text - I have no idea how to move something like that to Org Mode, or make such notes there in the future.
Delete your list of startup ideas, they are holding you back
Niklas Zennström on competing with larger companies
Marketing re-energised the web after the period of downtime after the dot-com crash (O'Reilly and Web 2.0), I'm sure it could similarly re-energise Perl.

EDIT: If Web 2.0 wasn't a well crafted marketing campaign I don't know what is.
who is max klein and what has he done?