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Good stuff Team Convore!

That being said, I think Convore will face serious competition from Twitter in the very near future.

@ev will be launching Twitter Events very shortly which is the most charming and best implemented part of Convore.

Full disclosure: I am biased because my gig, @SecretSocial, will be better than Convore... http://secretsocial.com
Divided Attention Disorder? Log off and read a book
So, naked advertising now qualifies for HN front page?
Max == as much as the iPad (which ever model is out when this actually ships). I think most will agree the TouchPad will be out when the iPad 2 is, and based on rumors the hardware should be comparable. It then becomes a question of which OS/apps you prefer but that's not enough that one device should be priced much more than the other.
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Thats a really good point. I keep hearing it from pg but its hard not to look for a pattern.
"In the mid-1970s, a man sought a ticket that ended in 48. He found a ticket, bought it, and won the lottery. When asked why he was so intent on finding that number, he replied, 'I dreamed of the number seven for seven nights. And seven times seven is 48.'"

Something tells me this guy did well by not taking math in grade school too seriously.
HP to take on with Apple with webOS-based TouchPad, Pre 3
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Why no love for Apple Mail? The only thing Apple Mail needed was the ability to have the preview pane on the right, which was made possible by this developer who created WideMail: http://widemailplugin.com/. No affiliation, and his site design is terrible, but the plugin works to a tee. I would share a screenshot, but it's a bit too much work to blur out and black out any sensitive information, which would pretty much result in the entire image being blurred out. But here's a basic screenshot I grabbed from the web: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1517499/widemail-thumb.jpg
I think a large push of the whole webOS platform was to make it much easier to optimize web pages for mobile devices, and I think this phone would be more than adequate for this. An intuitive interface makes it even better.

Also, this screen is larger than the blackberry curve's, and just smaller than the bold 2's.
http://www.lingq.com has the option to either pay (it's pretty cheap), or swap (You give lessons in your native language to earn points, and spend those points on lessons). I haven't used it yet (I'm still too much of a beginner) but I hear people are quite good there. After your 15min conversation they'll send you a report of suggestions/corrections you can make.

Some free options, none of which I've used, are:
http://chatonic.com/
http://www.italki.com/
http://www.babelyou.com/
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/,
http://www.sharedtalk.com/
http://www.lenguajero.com/ (Spanish)
http://vraiment.info/parlezfrancais/index.html (French)
Not clear how they convinced him to retweet that.
When I click that link I get this message from Google:

Edit - actually it hijacks blog.twitter.com completely for me ...

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This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop.

This traffic may have been sent by malicious software, a browser plug-in, or a script that sends automated requests. If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. Learn more

Sometimes you may see this page if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use, or sending requests very quickly.

IP address: 200.62.70.163
Time: 2011-02-09T21:11:17Z
URL: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/02/superbowl.html
Outstanding. I will give this a go ASAP.

PS: I'm the author of this article. Had a great time thinking about all the fun systems I've played with over the years and researching their history.
that's actually a higher learning institution. but, to answer the larger question: given the target audience, I'd say it's complimentary.
Nick, the lack of a consolidated design ethic is difficult to overlook. The essential layout of the site is fine, however there are a few things you should take a look at:

- The fonts are inconsistent, especially look at fixing your sizing.

- The image resizing you've employed is ruining the quality of the posts. Try filling your pages with real images (like you use on the launch page) and you'll see how it feels.

- The voting buttons aren't working at all for me - can you smooth those guys out?

There is nothing wrong with the minimalist route (like HN for example), but you have to be consistent if you choose that direction.

Best of luck with the site.
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Looking for feedback on the user experience and friendliness.
Exploitations of people's failure to understand statistics are a lot older than email.

Even in my grandmother's time there would be somebody who would offer to predict the gender of your unborn child - "if I am wrong, I'll give you your money back!".
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HP announces WebOS FUD for PCs
I'm not sure I understand the point of webOS. If Android is maturing quickly and free-as-in-speech, why wouldn't HP simply adopt that?

I can understand Apple carving out their own proprietary path, because of their legions of fans and widely accepted interface design patterns. I can also understand Microsoft putting Windows 7 on tablets (because people want to run MS applications that already exist). But why would I want webOS? Are they trying to be like Apple and blaze an entirely new trail?

It seems like it would have been smarter for HP to go with Android. The cost surely would have been cheaper and the product would have had a greater chance at gaining acceptance.
I had a cousin who worked construction (and consequently didn't really have fingerprints).

He also got arrested a lot (like most of my family) and they took to taking palm prints when they booked him.

They would grow back if he went awhile without doing work though; it was definitely a temporary solution.
I'm not sure how we want to define "OS feature", but Spotlight is amazing.
it wasn't that successful before the acquisition
Asana is Google Wave done right
* Bottom up driven.
* Value with 1 user, no catch 22.
* Focused target section for now.
* Expandable use cases, by users, developers
* Awesome todo list and a visualizer.

Seems awesome.
I think that they'll announce the pricing about when the iPad 2 buzz has died down a bit after that has been announced. That'll let them set the price low enough, if Apple has any more surprises in that area (people expected the iPad to be a lot more expensive).

When will they announce the new iPad, btw?
Great idea but should be wysiwyg.
Having just scanned the rest of this thread. My future plans:

* max out the company pension scheme in terms of contributions.

* continue to max out the UK tax free savings & investment schemes. It's only £10k ish a year but it starts adding up pretty quick.

* Currently almost half my cash savings are not in the UK, as interest rates here now are poor. I am considering an additional offshore savings account in an interesting APAC country. Maybe Singapore, as many rich people in APAC do their banking there.

* property - I expect I will look into forming a Ltd company as a holding company, where any income is heavily re-invested. This will probably be seeded with a small inheritance, or my cash savings if I don't burn through them when I get my business off the ground

* Yes, I will be investing in myself. One month in to 2011, progress is slow, but I will have a spare time business running by the end of the year.
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Everything illustrates your point, methinks :)
I think my situation is pretty different from the one in the other thread. My team and I have put 3-4 months of actual code in our last project. Last project we got a working (albeit slightly buggy)prototype working of a pretty technical (hard) project.

When it came time for the stretch run to add polish and really get the project stable, we lost focus and motivation.

Unfortunate really, but I want to avoid the situation in the future
My favorite is X11's select-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste feature. It bewilders me that this isn't standard on all platforms. It only takes two simple clicks to copy and paste, yet some people find it unintuitive (or even downright hate it). I think it's a huge time-saver.
That scam is an old one going back at the least to newspapers in the early 1900s. Specifically, sports prediction services did it in classified ads (and continue to do so in some places). I think most con-artist scams haven't really changed, just adopted new mediums and new technologies.
HP's Rival to the iPad
The lost 'Rosies' of computing
I am a great fan of movies and as an aspiring entrepreneur, I have been trying to find the best movies about startups. I couldn't find a list of such movies, so I decided to make one myself. Do check it out and tell me if I've missed anything.
The "reverse search" use case is basically a categorical analyzer similar to how some fraud-detection mechanisms work at credit agencies.

There's probably a killer app somewhere that could use this feature.
You should probably have, somewhere on the homepage, a quick snippit of what the site actually is/does.

"Take your Group Project or Classroom to the Next Level" doesn't really explain anything, its more of a sales pitch.

Something like "EnterTheGroup (ETG) is an ______ that enables you to _____ faster than ever before."
The site looks great guys, can't wait until I can order my cards and wrapping paper from chirply.
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Presumably because HP wants to control their own fate. They've seen what happened to their PC division in the race-to-the-bottom Windows world, why would they want to sign up to do that all over again with the same razor thin margins and anemic profits that every Android hardware vendor other than HTC is experiencing?

WebOS gives them a real differentiator and a chance to build an ecosystem they can grow and control, rather than just half-assing it with Android re-skin #17.
I bet they're waiting for the iPad 2, and will price it to be competitive with whatever Apple announces.
If they went with Android, what would distinguish their tablet from the 120 other tablets demoed at CES?

Besides, the Honeycomb demo (imo) did not look nearly as nice as the TouchPad demo.
Boiler Room - one of my favorite movies ever. It will change you.
I thought it was an interesting advertising technique, at least, and ties in well with interests that many visitors here might have.
How much have you spent storing and moving them and their associated loads?

For younger people just starting to build a library I think the value proposition is definitely in favor of eReaders. They don't have to buy or move book cases, they can carry their entire library in one hand, you can re-download all your books in the event of a catastrophe (imagine trying to find and repurchase all of your books if they were destroyed in a fire) -- I could go on.

I'm under 30 and already have 3-4 bookshelves full. And that's after throwing away half of them. At this rate my Kindle will save me a bundle of money and pain.

The vendor lock-in is an annoying issue to some, but it's not an game-stopper for many people.

So, yeah, more expensive than the nominal value of some bookcases but there's much more to consider than that.
It may be a good idea to let the user know that if they click the links.
Internet explorer to die in September 2011
Execution is nothing without Potential
Twitter dating just in time for Valentine's day
Tweet answers to questions and get matched. Simple, quick, and fun.
Good concept but app games are being designed specifically for OS phone systems and the handheld controller is becoming obsolete (see: Microsoft Kinetic). Games are being formatted with the touchscreen UI in mind so this may be a tough sell in the longrun.
You're making a lot of assumptions:

1. Those type checks will be too slow
2. The compiler will choose to follow declarations for untrusted code
3. The declarations will lead to bugs on some inputs
4. Those bugs will be exploitable
5. Somehow those exploits will be worse than what's currently the case with C

99% of C exploits are string/buffer overflows. Bounds checking is not expensive, especially when your arrays carry around their size information. You can enable it in many current C compilers. W^X is an attempt to put something resembling bounds checking into the hardware.

I honestly don't understand the people that argue bounds checking is too slow. How many times do you have to make the same mistake to realize that what you're doing is wrong? It's just idiotic.
Even when you fail one could argue that it's not all bad - at least you would feel in control of your life. What about when both success and failure are externalized? I think that kind of helplessness would be a much worse feeling.
The point is to control your own destiny. HP has been stuck behind MS for the past 20 years. They couldn't innovate on hardware w/o MS.

This would just trade one devil for another devil. Even though Android is open source, development happens in isolation. Even with HoneyComb Google only gave Moto access. So Samsung, LG, HTC, Accer -- no Honeycomb for you yet. Moto gets special treatment.

If you're HP do you want to get in bed with a company who may decide that Motorola or Dell or Lenovo is the "preferred" partner? Do you want to have to throttle your development (or develop on an old version of Android) to introduce your latest HW innovation.

HP can finally own the full stack... ala Apple. And honestly, I think HP looks at what Apple has done and thinks, "We can do a lot of what they do. Maybe without the style -- but enough to put us beyond all of the Android clones".
Jason,
I respect you, you've accomplished a lot and I can only hope to achieve as much success.

That being said, come on. You confessed and it's out of some altruistic epiphany?

Mahalo isn't competing for mindshare, it's competing for SEO share and you got beat. If you are switching to a high quality content producer, let the quality of your content speak for itself. Compete for consumer's mindshare as a destination for quality content. You've picked some battles I still respect like fighting against angels charging to be pitched. However, you don't have the same moral high ground on this one. You have no legitimacy as a crusader against content farms. Period. Stop it.

Create some awesome content and share it with us. Sites like this THRIVE on the high quality content. Or re-work your business model and SEO and compete again for that long tail xylophone playing monkies. Either way, stop treating us like idiots and be honest with us.
Seems like a useful idea. I have no iPhone though.
Thanks, Justin. Design is a challenging area for me. I'll try and massage the consistency into something more appealing in the coming days.
The vote button trouble is concerning. What browser are you using?
Hm, link seems to result in a hung request right now. How's engineering.foursquare.com doing? ;)
Not yet. Right now we're still in "minimum viable product" mode, and additionally file uploads start to be cost prohibitive on a free product like ours. That said, we're not opposed to adding this in the future, it's just a matter of when the time is right and how we can best integrate it.
Wow, I'm bachelor dude and I don't care for stuff like this and even I want to order from them. If this is how I feel, I can't even imagine what... this is going to be HUGE.
I turned 30 this year, so it's time for me to start re-evaluating this question myself.

Currently, I plow all my money back in to my company; I mean, at the moment I seem to be in a slow spot at the moment, but we doubled from 2009 through 2010, so while it's high risk, perhaps, it's likely I'm going to get better returns than I'd get from other investments without putting as much effort into being an investor as I put into being a business guy and sysadmin.

When I was young, this was certainly the right thing to do; When I make business decisions, I think as much about the long-term effect on my reputation as I do about the more short-term consequences for the business. (I'm the only shareholder, so there's no conflict of interest here. Either way, I'm "increasing shareholder value" as it were.) And in part because of that, I'm worth more as a worker than I otherwise would be.

The only real question now is "what point should I start becoming conservative?" if ever? I mean, I think I need to focus on getting myself more of a nest egg to cover unforeseen events, but I don't really have a lot of desire to 'retire idle'

Looking at my grandparents, the happiest of them seem to have an attitude of "I'll work till I drop" - I mean, they have assets that help, but they still work. One of my grandfathers, who is pushing 80 at this point, owns some small apartment complexes out in Illinois. He mows the lawns himself; I've even seen him do plumbing and even roofing himself.

To me, that's what I want out of retirement. Still work, but do so on my own terms. I mean, I don't know if I want that work to be maintaining old buildings, but you know, something combining my skills and my capital.

When it comes down to it, I guess that's what I have now. It would be nice to make a little more money than I'm making now, though.
This is really neat! I just heard about this on Twitter and can't wait to get these cards out to the family next holiday season.
I hope it can be worked in, thanks for the reply
It looks handy, but upon realizing that it doesn't actually do very much (beyond simple text editing), I discovered http://kodingen.com (has a Chrome app, but really it just sends you to their website). It looks pretty amazing and fully featured so far.
The 'tin foil hat' madness isn't really in suspecting that there are people out there trying to control your mind. It's in believing that wearing a tin foil hat is going to stop them.
Nah, even with the preview pane, it's still a world away in terms of presenting a beautiful, uncluttered interface, and just overall feel (stuff like supporting gmail shortcuts, synching reliably and effortlessly with gmail, understanding gmail's notion of "archive", just the right amount of preview in messages, &c).

Apple Mail was also, in my experience, really flaky. Sparrow has been pretty darn solid since a couple of betas ago.
Unfortunately, I don't think clips like this are very helpful for answering such a question...

I find myself hoping that he has or is writing an autobiography or a book where he opens himself up to others. He's a very private person when he's not representing Apple and I really hope we'll get to hear from him and see how he's envisioned his life and work.
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Does it kick in at the beginning or end of the YC program?
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/628/
Sourceforge.net got a redesign after the hack
Meanwhile, the FCC's enforcement chief just put out a press release decrying cell/GPS jammers saying they "create safety risks".

http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0209...
I used to use LetterBox (does the same thing) but I still much prefer Sparrow — it's light, more modern, prettier, under more noticeably-active development… to list just a few reasons.
My bad. I must have been confusing the SBCL time for the GCC time.
Will add that. Should I add Wall Street too?
> "Forget the technical hurdle, what about the constitutional one?"

We haven't had much luck with that one lately.

I don't think the "Why" is quite so transparently dystopian. They don't want to turn off the entire internet. It's just another attempted end-run around the judicial process, to make it easier to further political and economic goals. e.g. filtering WikiLeaks or BitTorrent.

The idea that they would need this to disconnect critical infrastructure to protect it from cyberattack is laughable. Any critical infrastructure that could still operate independent from the internet should not have a connection to the internet, and if it did should certainly have it's own disconnect capability.

The only reason to put disconnect capability on the ISP or backbone carrier is to do it against the will of the target facility. If they wanted to protect things like the Hoover Dam [1] they'd just issue/enforce some government regs. [2]

[1] The Dam Authority has already taken issue with being a talking point in this debate. Pointing out that, no, they are not foolish enough to have dam controls connected to the internet.

[2] I'm pretty sure these already exist, as regards air-gaps for critical infrastructure and security requirements for networks that do have a connection to the public internet. There may not be a unified national service to flip connection-kill-switches, but that would be resolved with a government network project, not a new law. The government already has legal authority over infrastructure.
The assumption is that the early-retiring worker has also paid in to the pool while accumulating the wealth.
I was never a fan of using webmail full time, GMail included. IMAP is as 'cloud' as I'll ever need for email.
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The intent of the "founding fathers" isn't really applicable anymore.
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While I don't think it is technically impossible, I don't think it is as quick and easy to deploy and support as CALEA. For example...

- ISPs would have to be able to characterize all their connections and subnets as being part of the critical infrastructure and of which parts of the critical infrastructure those users or networks were members.
- This entails insane tracking and management - literally thousands of smaller CIP organizations might be served by one ISP - they have to know in real time what IPs/ranges/etc, and on what ports, those organizations are operating
- Central management or the ability to engage the 'kill switch' implies that there is some means of remotely (read: outside the ISP control) engage the kill switch and remove those organizations from the network

All of those points (and many more I can include later) make this vastly different from CALEA, where a warrant compels ISP personnel to engage collection on an IP or target of interest and to turn over that capture to the authorities. That puts the control in the hands of the ISP - the kill switch would put the controls of ISP assets in the hands of the government.
You could also try a reasonably cheap solution, create a vWorker accout and hire someone from there:

www.vworker.com

You could find someone that will do the job for 3 - 400$, don't go with the pay for hour model, you will be more satisfied (financially) paying for deliverables which mean you will pay only of the developer has done his job.

Hope this will help.
Sure Enough, HP’s webOS Is Headed to PCs
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If I were these hypothetical guerillas, I wouldn't have one site, I'd have hundreds. Good luck DDOSing 600 independent sites at once, even if you're the government. I'm pretty sure killing the ISPs is simple by comparison.
It's worth noting in this context that Nokia has reinvented itself before; for instance, the company started in 1865 as a pulp mill and paper manufacturer. They've pivoted a few times in the years since.
So ~$300?
If you do it right, it may not feel like you're making a biased statement or sales pitch, but rather conveying your product's orientation and/or what made you create SharedStatus in the first place. Presumably it was because you thought other proj mgmt apps haven't gotten it quite right yet. THAT's the piece I was looking for...