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Maybe it's dour Scot thing - but if I got an email like that I would think they were taking the p*ss.
Have you tried it with Firefox pre 4.0? Doesn't seem to work on 3.6.13.

I can select the section of code but not actually edit it. It's just plain, unadorned text in a regular div.

But pressing Execute does nothing anyway, apart from a page refresh.
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If I don't see a price, I assume I'll have to endure some pushy sales guy whose job is to pocket most of the consumer surplus by charging almost enough to make us walk, so I'm only going to call as a last resort if none of the competitors work out. I also expect to hear a price many times higher than $500, simply to cover his commission draw for however many hours it takes to land a sale.
I'm more a fan of simply walking away if I can't afford/don't want to pay the asking price.
2002, hmm? That's a lot of harm done.
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No way... I should have kept FlixPulse alive for a bit longer. Oh well, execution and all that...
Translation: We were unable to implement the same subset and now tell everyone it isn't useful in the 'real world'.

Sounds better than "It was too hard for us. Sorry."
There is a limited free version, at least. If you just want to enjoy it for the novelty factor and not make it your full time/work terminal, it should be adequate.
This is about not annoying your users. If you wanted to tell your users to use NoScript, it'd be far easier to just not have the ads in the first place ;)
I wouldn't bet on it. How many people on HN would recommend investing in MSFT? Close to none. And yet Microsoft is still unrivaled cash machine of tech world.
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I have a small project with the potential to grow. We are a disparate team in different time-zones and with different outside commitments, and we're trying to pick a distributed source-code versioning system to use. To some extent we don't much care, but it would be nice to see an even-handed comparison between our two main contenders - Mercurial and git.

References welcome, and thanks in advance.
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How ... convenient.

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There's http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/, but I don't see it pushing to multiple desktops.
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From what I can figure out the sentiment analysis engine, looks through the people you're following on twitter and sees what movies they've talked about, and compares that against movie ratings and possibly overall number of tweets, to recommend you a movie ? Anyone else have any other insights.
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience."

Posting an apparently controversial rant to HN when you don't have the capacity to handle the traffic... considered harmful.
"Any laptop that doesn't have a separate middle-click button (hint: made by a fruit company laptops) likely provides some multi-touch method for middle-clicking."

Middle click is good because it is consistent with the open-in-new tab, however there really should be an option for devices without middle click. It's not just Apple devices. Neither my Toshiba or Acer laptops have middle click.
When clicking on the free download button IT SHOULD NOT take you to a page that essentially says "Dumbass you should have registered first!"

If you need to register then make it part of the download page. Now lets be honest here, I am very reluctant to give my details for a free download which might turn out to be a POS (or worse a trojan) and give my details to someone who is going to spam me. Not to mention another login to maintain.

I'm not saying that your software is a POS or that you are going to spam me but I don't know that :)

I couldn't find the price (but then I didn't register). Being coy about the price makes me think that it is overpriced.

The front page is not really selling the product, it doesn't explain the problem it is trying to solve, it doesn't make clear who the target audience is (school/college/company IT departments).

Make the blog part of the site itself so the the branding and navigation does not change.
Ask HN: Does HN have an API and if not what's the etiquette for scraping?
I haven't seen any mention of an API and I want my new resume app, aimed a tech types, to have some very basic HN integration. I want to offer the option for the user to supply their HN username and have their karma appear on the resume generated by my app. This along with how long they have been a HN member. I'd like it to be an up to date figure and so ideally would like to scrape it every time a request for the resume is made. Would this be acceptable or is it bad form? If it's bad form what would be a polite number of times to scrape?

I guess this question could open a more general discussion on the etiquette of screen scraping. So feel free to answer in general terms too.
On the other hand, if sharing didn't count towards both parties' quotas, then you could just create an army of sockpuppets, each of whom shares their 2GB folders with you. I understand that the Dropbox people don't want to make it that easy.
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I think the best UIs are generally full of the "invisible unless it's missing stuff".

Thats the subtle stuff that is often hard to get right.
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Would we really be saying that for a lawyer who defended the Catholic church in the sex abuse scandal? No, b/c anyone with _any_ integrity would likely walk away from that...or anyone with any political smarts.

Very poor example... The right for everyone to have a proper defense in criminal trials is a cornerstone of the legal system, and I'm really surprised anyone would argue against it.
No, you need systems in place to make sure you don't commit copyright infringement. But if you do commit copyright infringement, there are solutions other than opening up your code, such as buying a license from the guy you copied from or removing the infringing code.
I think it simply matches tweets with movie titles. For example in my timeline somebody is saying "What's I'm getting from @t's TRON tweets is that I should skip the movie and instead play the game and read the graphic novel.", which fflick translates (wrongly) to the movie "play the game".
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From recent examples (Apple AppStore, Sony, Nintendo), products are usually pulled from the market rather than re-licensed, so your argument doesn't hold.
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I like it, and I wonder how it works? I mean how can it be so fast? Do you think they have access to the Firehose? My results were pretty instants, and I think it would have taken longer to get all the tweets of all the people I follow from Twitter.
Instruments is capable of so many amazing things and yet it seems like practically nobody knows about it.
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Using the example from the article. This could go very wrong. I imagine something along those lines:

"Puking after drinking bad coffee - at Starbucks with my friend.

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Hacker News has an unofficial API at http://api.ihackernews.com/ , and as far as I know, it is running with PG's permission and under certain limits.

I've worked with the API and it does a fantastic job. For what you're looking for , I think this API call will do the job:

http://api.ihackernews.com/profile/{userID}
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Nice review of gamma issues, particularly I hadn't realised the problems with Safari (oops). But doesn't mention the problems with IE8 and opacity (eg http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2010/05/20/ie8_still_fa/).
Facebook bans you from doing this: "You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser)."

Must be nice to make the rules.
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It seems they implemented a gradual increase of daily quota to protect themselves against spammer abuse.

Here's the link to the document describing the system:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...
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I agree, I mainly state it like that as a foil to the commonly heard idea that these sites are giving us something for free. They're not; they're giving us a service in exchange for what we give to them.

Now and then I see someone complain about a free service, Google for instance, and receive a response such as "Well you're entitled to all your money back". This is stated as if the customer has no right to complain, because the service is 'free'. As you noted, that it is not the case. It's more of a symbiotic relationship.

Thought Facebook is clearly free to do as they wish, I personally feel that using my messages to friends to promote products for Facebook's profit is something other than what I expected when I signed up.
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I've seen that, but like you said, it doesn't push to multiple computers.
I understand your point, however the role of the Solicitor General has a specific function that leads one to wonder - "The office also determines which cases it will bring to the Supreme Court for review" This is a very dangerous role for someone who has engrained themselves in such a controversial topic. Not to mentioned (according to the article) hasn't been able to argue a consistent punishment for such crimes. I would imagine in the same token anyone else involved in another highly controversial law topic should receive the same scrutiny. Where Obama is heavily criticized is the fact that the general populous has a lynching out for big corporate media companies that are trying to fill their pockets with more money by simply "suing the shit" out of anyone that dares cross their path.
You get a daily quota of 2000 messages if you're an EC2 customer. That's pretty competitive, and nicely within the limit of what I'm sending at this stage of my startup. Sold, well played once again Amazon.
Unfortunately Murch's main argument is just wrong wrong.

What he doesn't seem to realize is that your state of focus (accommodation) is just about identical for objects at 10 feet away, 20 feet away, etc., out to infinity. So if your eyes converge on a screen 80 feet away, and try to focus on an object 40 feet away, that's absolutely fine, because the state of focus for 40 and 80 feet away are virtually the same anyway. Your visual system can't tell the difference. This is an experimentally demonstrated fact.

That is to say, your state of focus varies only for objects less than about ten feet away. Focus on a salt shaker three feet away, and yes, the distant horizon will be out of focus. But focus on a tree about 20 feet away, and the distant horizon will be in perfect focus.

For an object to be in focus, the distance from the lens to the film (or in this case, the retina), dr, the distance from the lens to the object, do, and the lens's optical power must obey the lensmaker's equation, (1/di) + (1/do) = P. In the human eye, do = 0.017 m, and P is adjustable. Plot P vs. do, and you'll see the P quickly asymptotes as you move beyond around 3 m.

There are perceptual issues with 3D, but this isn't one of them, at least in cinemas where the screen is far away.
If it works like they say, this is a godsend. Email is a royal pain and the pricing of SES is well below market rate. Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com/) is similar and is $1.50 per thousand, compared to $.10 per thousand from Amazon.
I wonder how well their mailing reputation is for high deliverability with this new service.. I've heard that mailing from EC2 was almost pointless due to its low reputation score
I halfway agree. It would depend on the company, for me.

If I ordered from a stuffy corporate mega-giant like Amazon, I'd be slightly annoyed. If I ordered from somewhere serious, like ordering $2k+ computer parts I'd think they were clowns and wonder if I made a mistake.

However, if I ordered from Woot.com, I'd know it was just their brand of humor and appreciate it.

CDBaby strikes me as the corporate type, so I'd be slightly annoyed, I think.
I suppose this will hurt the competition, sites like sendgrid and mailchimp.
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Agreed that things like forms in django really steps in when more customization is needed. You with have it useful for you or you need to completely throw the whole stack away. In rails you can have them separated and just use a bit of the magic (well rails used to have the magical prototype + script.aculo.us, but they managed to rip that away)
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I've never heard that put so elegantly before. I just quoted you on my Facebook. I've never used AdBlock and I never have, but I've always wondered how many people actually use it because the people who do use it would have you believe it's the majority of people on the net (from our demographic, at least).
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Sendgrid & other such senders will be shaking in their shoes now. Personally, as soon as I have more time, I'll switch to the amazon service. Also, any new app I make will use Amazons service by default.

Sending email out is quite important for growth, and such services really help businesses.

What impresses me about amazon is that they are not looking at what the competition is charging or trying to charge high based off the fact that there are not too many such services, but are simply providing the service at a reasonable price.
I haven't been managing our email messaging, but this seems considerably cheaper than Sendgrid which charges something exorbitant (I mean, its like $80 a month, but they're f*cking emails).

Does anyone have a perspective on whether their service is just as good?
If a website doesn't want me reading their content for free, they should put it behind a paywall.
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Yes, that's really silly. The first step in the funnel should be easy - putting a roadblock right at the start is not very clever.
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When Webvan died I literally had to buy a car for the first time. It was like I'd been part of an advanced civilization that collapsed. Seriously, they should've tried charging higher prices before they gave up.
Hmm, logical next step for someone with a few years of experience - it's very difficult to say. What has your experience been in ? The points you mention are very generic so it's quite hard to respond :). However the general logical next step for a software engineer is to become a better software engineer and to learn to work in teams more effectively. Perhaps take up end to end ownership of larger systems.
Actually, they won't. Very few people take the initiative to send email. It's one of the highest friction things you can build in.
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Oh, I see! This is a real problem. Maybe the app could provide a neat user interface for framing a request, then send it as a text message to the call center, which then sends the answer back to the app.

I know this sounds contrived, but it seems to me the only way to not cannibalize the call centre is to not duplicate its functionality. The only thing left after taking the actual functionality away is the presentation, i.e. the user interface. So you can choose to use the call centre with the traditional interface (speaking on the phone) or the new app interface (that helps frame the question and later delivers the result).
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Not a chance in hell, unless Apple are opening a bank and manage to switch everyone to it.

Visa, Mastercard... these are more like trade associations for the banks. They are effectively owned and operated by the banks, and the only reason Mastercard exists is to ensure Visa do not have a monopoly and vice versa.

Discovery, Amex... these have their place, but they are members clubs, which is to say that they have little to no penetration within the marketspace that is banking customers.

Apple are simply doing the equivalent of a PayPal using a mobile. They aren't replacing the existing payment systems, they are becoming one more intermediary in the chain. The actual billing is likely to be done by the mobile subscription service... AT&T and the like rather than Apple. All phones are getting this, not just Apple mobile devices.

This stuff also isn't new, in Japan near-field payments have existed for a long time and are taken for granted in many types of services (vending machines for example). It's just that finally this is moving westwards (eastwards if your perspective is different).

[edit]I notice the down votes, but this isn't spam or trolling it's just a different opinion. It's not even an uneducated opinion as my ex-girlfriend worked for Visa for 6 years and my current girl lived in Japan for 8 years and used near field payments there.

Downvoting just because you disagree isn't going to change the argument that Apple are inserting themselves into the payments process only superficially and that contrary to the parent post they aren't, and couldn't, move into replacing the credit card companies as the card companies are the banks.
I think you're confused to what "systems" programming entails. User-space packaging with a bunch of scripts is not systems programming. OS installers is not systems programming.

To give you an example of what is systems programming, I have helped developed operating systems kernels, virtual machine monitors, and distributed networked systems. All of these things would be considered systems programming.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming for more information.
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Th best way to improve user experience is to first understand who is your user! I am surprised to see how Apple has ruined(no offense to Steve Jobs) the whole concept about a startup figuring out its customers. Fine agreed, that an Apple Ipod is meant for 4 to "time you die" years of person, but in reality for a startup to grow has to stay focussed because it simply brings in mediocrity which leads to mediocre user experience and finally lowers the barriers to entry.
So its always great to focus small, satisfy early adoptors appetite and then roll out big. At the end of the day, it is going to be the early adoptors who are going to decide your product's future to a great extent!
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> Start sending email in minutes through Amazon SES using the AWS software development kits for Java and .NET

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the java ecosphere in terms of libraries and resources is unparalled.
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The pricing is! Step one, click http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ on the page, step two click pricing at the side: http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

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Mailchimp appears to be offering unique emails from $5 per thousand! They appear to have significant discounts for emailing lists, but even at $12903 for 24.8 million emails, that's still $.52 per thousand.

http://www.mailchimp.com/pricing

Data transfer rates still apply for Amazon, but still... am I missing something?
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This is excellent. I recently moved a production website to EC2 at the last minute due to contractual disagreements with a hosting vendor. My next step was to sign up on SendGrid and configure postfix to use that for emails, SES will be better integrated into the AWS ecosystem.

As a lot of you may know, emailing out from EC2 is mostly impossible as all ISPs bounce them back
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I'm not so sure Sendgrid, Postmark, and other email senders should be shaking in their boots.

There's plenty of other businesses that leverage AWS technology and resell it for a higher price. I bet they add AWS as an option as a value added reseller.

If you have an existing email host integrated throughout your site, it might make more sense to just stick with them.

It will force them to lower their prices though.