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Hey! I definitely think what you are trying to do is useful - the idea to "compare positions across various aspects" seems like a worthy goal. I dont think that your current UI facilitates this. I think that you should clearly state what the app is for (which in my view is to compare various positions) and work around that.
Firefox 4 on Linux also has terrible sound.
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I agree with you, and the use of any graph actually detracts from the point. It would have been better if the author had offered the data points (sans graph) and provided a transition paragraph to explain a thesis of "does the cost drop enough to give it away".
You might want to talk to me then (Look at the user name on the github repo. ;) ).
The DMG/CGB CPU needs to be emulated with clock-cycle accuracy though, so dynarec would be very difficult.

P.S.: Here's another game - http://www.grantgalitz.org/SuperMarioLand2/
A Hacker News user created some cool tech and opened it up. How is this not something interesting to hackers? Not to mention that the rules say that you should simply flag articles you don't believe belong, not complain about it.
Actually if the iPod, iPhone and iPad stories have taught us anything it's that Apple is visionary (whether or not you, personally, agree with that vision or not is immaterial; the market has generally decided in their favour).

Everyone else is just copying last year's Apple product with a shotgun approach with no idea of why they're in the market (other than Apple is in it), what their vision for their product and company is or what consumers actually want.

There are also countless examples to prove that just because you take a working formula and add stuff to it, it isn't by definition any better. In fact, it can be worse.
Ask HN: Startup scene in Washington D.C/Northern VA. Does it exist?
I'm a lifelong resident of the greater DC area and one would assume that the area would have a thriving startup scene. Anyone know of anything going on there?
There's no nobility in poverty anymore.
I agree with one theme of the article. It is a good idea for Microsoft to encourage its developers (and other employees) to write WP7 apps. Pizza parties etc. are also good.

However, the article is misleading when it talks about "rule changes".

>>"We tend to have strict moonlighting rules," he said of the company."But we’ve changed those rules so developers can do this in their spare time"

>>MICROSOFT’S new rules fit into the broader rethinking of how large companies manage research.

For most of the past decade, Microsoft had fairly liberal moonlighting rules. You could start your own business and work on it as long as you didn't see a conflict of interest with your work at Microsoft.

In the 90s, manager approval was required for moonlighting. For most or all of the 00s, you didn't even need to inform your manager about moonlighting (unless you saw a potential conflict of interests)

These rules aren't new (and have nothing to with WP7). In fact, many of the people I know used these liberal moonlighting rules to write iPhone apps in 2008. Some of them are still at Microsoft and some of them quit Microsoft after their iOS business did well.
In my experience Compass has been painfully slow to compile. (Haven't tried out Stylus yet.)
Ubuntu has a GC issue for the canvas as far as I know of. Bitch to the Mozilla people to fix it. On Windows 7 and Mac OS X, it seems to work fine.
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haha, nice! yes the great Louis C.K. routine. "You're sitting in chair. But it's thousands of feet in the air and hurtling along at hundreds of miles an hour but you're perfectly safe. Yet we complain about the taste of the coffee not being just right." to summarize.
iPhone is web scale. That and MongoDB.
It wasn't a theory, it was just a passing thought. In any case, I wasn't positing a "flamewar"; rather, wondering if there might be some strategic value in pushing a different language that exists in the same sort of space as Python than the one that Google is pushing.
You missed the "actually" and the "on your computer".
Benjamin Pierce considered troll.
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Ah, my apologies -- thought that the OP was the original creator.

So, in effect what you do is take your code from `GameBoyCore.prototype.executeIteration' and roll that into your dynarec'd function on a per-instruction basis. The simpler you can make it, the better for performance; you have the benefit of knowing how long each instruction will take to execute at dynarec-time, so you can do some fun optimizations there.

Dynarec'ing cycle-accurate code is hard, but it's a lot of fun and damn efficient if you get it right.
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> I don't think that your current UI facilitates this

I completely agree and this is the thing that I am spending time trying to work properly at the moment. The tabular view that you get at the moment is more for demonstration purposes. The intention is to allow a more 'at-a-glance' view of each job, as close to side-by-side as is possible, and to allow the user to filter through the jobs.

I have a few ideas for this as I think that is what will make the difference between the tool being useful or not, but thus far they are mainly implemented in static HTML with dummy data, or only on paper.

Thanks a lot for your feedback :)
Those guys ARE social proof! How can he disclaim the value of social proof and cite those guys in the same breath?
Clojure isn't unusual in how it handles nil and false. Scheme, Ruby and Lua all use the same system, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.

I actually prefer this system in dynamically typed languages, as it seems to get the right balance between simplicity and practicality.

A system that just uses explicit true and false values would result in more redundancy in conditionals, e.g.

(if (not (nil? x)) ...)

Compared to:

(if x ...)

On the other hand, a boolean system that's any more complex tends to be hard to remember. For instance, I could never remember whether a blank string was considered true or false in Python, and I certainly can't remember all of the Javascript edge conditions relating to booleans.
If you want to read on about how to go about building one of these, check out my friend Imran Nazar's very detailed jsgb article series:

http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript

Also, the source code:

https://github.com/Two9A/jsGB
> licensed versions of articles published by real books, magazines, and newspapers

That makes it sound like Find Articles is quite likely to have a lot of duplicate content, one of the things that Google's update was meant to penalize:

> This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.
What I don't like about this is the following:

Amazon Prime isn't available everywhere.

What about the International markets? Or is this just a US thing?
For public domain content, Project Gutenberg has become my first stop. When they started, they were just txt and html files, but now they're re now serving up editions for all the major eReaders.
They may be better at influencing running a company or they may not, but their value is in their network as much as their checkbook. Angellist is at least a fair bit its own network - and the "social proof" end of it is WHY it works.
I'm reminded of the only time Twitter ever spent money on marketing (SXSW 2007)[1]. They negotiated with the festival to put flat panel screens in the hallways. They paid $11,000 for this and set up the TVs themselves.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-process-involved-in-launchi...
"To translate the English term for computing resources that can be accessed on demand on the Internet, a group of French experts had spent 18 months coming up with "informatique en nuage," which literally means "computing in cloud.""

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125544523318682497.html

...

"About 18 months ago, Bénédicte Madinier, head of language development at Mr. North's General Delegation, was on holiday when she read a magazine piece about cloud computing. "I realized it was pretty important," she says. The 59-year-old quickly sent a request that the expression be sped through France's translation and definition system."
I initially misread this as VCs and was going to blather about how VCs follow the herd like everyone else.

But YC is entirely a different kettle of fish. Anyone who can get in based on deal and team merits before there is any social proof obviously is defining that more than followinng it.
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The governmental analysis around 1997-99 concluded that nuclear fusion power woulnd't be cheaper than 4c/kwt (i.e. than coal based electricity) and thus it wouldn't make an economical sense (thus that close to 0 investment in that research - only LLNL's NIF which is deep in petty managerial fights (and laser driven approach isn't really the one what will get it) and Sandia which finally got back to the experiments at the level they left in 99 (though now they use different target which allows for a lot of new articles on plasma behavior (deja vu of Tokamaks, one can spend whole life looking at and describing patterns of flowing water under the bridge), yet that type of target is much worse for the fusion than the type used 10 years ago) .

It is easy to imagine an outcome of the battlefield maneuverability analysis by a Rome DOD bureaucrat of horse driven chariot vs. hot air balloon and the resulting decision on the development of the balloon technology.
Possibly Scheme, where #f and '() are the only non-true values, and these are equivalent to false and nil in Ruby. I'm not sure if there are any earlier examples of this.
Oh, there's a TON going on here in DC. In fact, Kojo Namdi just had a great panel discussing the current startup climate here in DC. If you have time you can read the transcript here:

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-02-22/small-business...

If you don't, here's a few links to get you started:

http://proudlymadeindc.com/

http://hackernewsdc.org/

http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lean-Startup-Circle/

And follow these users on twitter:

@kevindewalt

@corbett3000

@mmayernick

@skeevis

While I'm at it, who else is good to follow around DC? Any DC people here on HN have any recommendations?
It's not an ultimate blow. They're two different platforms.

It is an ultimate blow for all of the other book readers (Nook, Sony's readers). Amazon is in iPod territory here: their readers are better and cheaper than the competition and likely to remain so, at least for the short-term (next 2-3 years).
Ask HN: Can someone explain the Yuri/Conway-YC Deal?
I understand that startups are being offered lots of money, but they said it was on really good terms. Can anyone explain the terms?
I'm really, really surprised how much I like it. It's like unlocking a secret level that people only know about in Japan.
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This is why I like to read Calacanis and Ferris, it's a lot like reading the editorial section of the paper. (What's a newspaper?) You may love 'em or hate 'em but at least you know where you stand.
Without criticism of this particular project or site intended, I am surprised at the number of these emulation sites running commercial ROMs popping up without action being taken by Nintendo et al. Someone's going to have an example made out of them.

grantg, if you're just trying to show off an emulator but aren't ready to be the example, may I suggest finding a free Gameboy game to show off instead? I know there are actually-free games for many other consoles, I presume there are for the gameboy as well.
And I just switched to LastPass. Great. At least it's unlikely that I was logged in the time in between, but what else can they have missed?

I also feel a little discomfort knowing that LastPass didn't disclose the vulnerability to their users and customers.
This is all being bookmarked and added on twitter
I posted this as a comment on the blog post, though I would share it here.

This is awesome that you wrote a post on this, it is an important building block to proper node.js coding. I know I had trouble with it.

There is another way to handle asynchronous iteration, while similar to what you have done, gives a bit more flexibility and is abstracted out so you can use it anywhere.

https://gist.github.com/b5af7369ec9939ab7d94

This is using code from a script of mine as an example, but it should be pretty easy to see the pattern.

Here is your above serialized example with the above function I just showed you:

https://gist.github.com/26bda51358610667f9f3

---

On a side note, I wanted to say that people hell bent on turning node.js into another language should just use that language. There is nothing wrong with the way node.js handles asynchronous code, and really keeping everything asynchronous instead of building in stuff to fake synchronous code is bad for node.js and the whole ecosystem. It promotes bad habits and bad code. If you can't handle callbacks or events, then maybe you should go back to using whatever you are more comfortable with, or write your own abstractions.
Thanks, I'll check this out in addition to stackless.
apparently it's $150k per startup in a convertible note with no dividend and no cap... sweet deal for any entrepreneur....
I just found this part strange...

At a high load (50+ requests/sec), we saw database timeouts tens of times per minute, and often more (every request in a 10-60 sec period would fail).

That's not a terribly high load by any modern standard, you can easily service that on one or two fairly commodity machines these days.

Assuming the point of GAE is scalability, this issue didn't make any sense to me. One would assume that Google would simply load balance requests out to replicated instances of your app and that those apps would in turn access Google's vaunted super scalable data services. Thousands of requests a second shouldn't even phase it.

I've noticed that response times can be highly variable, but so far (we're pre-launch) I haven't noticed anything just simply not getting returned or the kinds of slowness he's describing. Without more detail, something else must be going on here.
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There was (and still is) an obvious need for fast transportation.

There is no real need to live on Mars.

To understand that try to understand first why Antarctica is still not inhabited.
I like the "automatically generate information from URL" aspect of your app a lot. If users have to input stuff into fields, they will be less likely to use the app, so I think that feature is really key. Good job, and good luck!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433676

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2128170

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439043

I think it's pretty widely accepted (especially here on HN) that what Mahalo is doing doesn't benefit anyone except themselves.
there are a bunch of venture funds there as well, Novak Biddle, NEA, Valhalla, Arpex (new), and others....
Additional interesting fact, unison is written in ocaml. Very cool to see interesting systemsy software written in a functional programming language. I'm very excited to peruse it later.
All the iPad clones, while they might be half decent, fail to excite. As in they bring nothing surprising to the table. Give us something like, I dunno, Kinect-powered interaction, seamless 2nd-monitor functionality for Windows/Linux, holographic projection, 3D television, built-in offline/syncing wikipedia, free internet plan, velcro wall-mounting kit, an FM transmitter, spectral analysis, hook it up to specs-mounted camera and let me Sky+/TiVo my day, something game-changing, anything, just not another USB port.
This is what I'm most concerned about. The OP claims that 50/sec was breaking things...which doesn't sound quite right to me. Any ideas?
Samsung is releasing a model of the Galaxy in that vein. No phone, just a media consumption device.
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Microsoft's own reality show: "Career Factor: real people, real stories"
Actually, it seems to me that this post means we're missing something. Photoshop isn't doing every thing it could be for web designers.

Any time I've used Photoshop or another image app, I've been frustrated by the need to save my layered image, and then manually also export the final image into place to see it in the design. There should be something in place for that.

Of course, I could write a script that uses imagemajick or something, I suppose... If I did much design work. Actually, I'm already thinking about it now, even though I rarely do design. Could be a fun project.
"You don't fly in the balloon your soldiers do."

Strangely, I wasn't suggesting the Montgolfier brothers were going to take Gibraltar single-handedly.

There is a huge difference between climbing a wall with seige ladders where once you get a few men across everyone else can follow, and 2-3 men floating in a wooden basket and trying to land (!) in a fortress.

Granted reconnaissance may have been useful, but if after 4 years of seige you haven't worked out your enemy through espoinage and being shot at, a balloon is not going to help.
For a house, I haven't found anything better. I value my time, and not having to fiddle with it pays off. Plus it's pretty flexible.
Redbox/Bluebox
Being an entrepreneur, it's an amazing task to accomplish, fun and failure is hand by hand. I'm new to this site and by no means technical, but my business mind and communication skills are top notch, especially when it comes to adding creativity or designing schemes to target consumers and opening new doors for all markets of business. So, with all the great minds who share here, how about we join forces as a community and accomplish something fairly simple. Let’s start with REDBOX, the movie rentals, currently with over 26,000 locations. What can we add to their pre-existing big red box to create a community revenue stream? Think out loud people, even if it’s stupid as hell. My initial thoughts would be to add a small blue box that dispenses unique items, possibly 3-D glasses for movies or a coupon dispenser for stores within a particular radius. The consumer is in motion spending money, what can we put inside that blue box? Remember, consider the stores that allows the big red box, our offerings must be unique and can’t clash to strongly with high profit items sold inside the stores.
Disposable 3-D glasses

Coupons (Bar-code Scan-able promotions, Macy’s??)

Subway/Metro passes for major cities (convenience)

Movie reviews from Youtube Links (sponsored by?? Coca-cola) maybe it’s a blue video box??

Maybe each blue box caters to its specific demographics??

Maybe it’s not a box, possibly a video screen similar to GAS-TV, maybe we can rent a space on each giant REDBOX and sell bulk ad’s to massive locations complimenting in-store items?? (SNICKERS FOR YOUR MOVIE??)

Think about impulse buying, the entire success of convenient stores...

26,000 REDBOXES ….HOW CAN WE PARNTER PEOPLE??
CSS Drop-Shadows without Images
Drop-shadows are easy enough to create using pseudo-elements. It’s a nice and robust way to progressively enhance a design.
read Yokum's blog (http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2011/01/31/what-are-the-...)
Python, Django and GAE.
While you can construct ugly-looking scenarios, ugly conditionals comes up way less often that you would think in languages that have a strict requirement for booleans in if statements. Usually they also have pattern matching; extensive use of "if" in a pattern matching language is a code smell.

Your example is also sort of a degenerate case for Lisp syntax. (Hey, it can't all be upside with no downside.) In languages that actually have a syntax it is, again, not something that is anywhere near as bad as you might think. I generally only notice when I actually want to have 0 be the false case and there is something to be said for putting the == 0 there anyhow; someone once said explicit is better than implicit.
What is tail recursion?
I think this is exactly right. Have a document store and a (separate?) index store.
Something like this makes sense for JSONP, where you can't use HTTP status codes because the handler for the JSONP response doesn't get called at all if the status code is anything other than 200. In this case embedding a "status" field in the response is necessary to communicate errors.
Outstanding list. I'd add ground loop geothermal. Plus a second sink in the kitchen if you're into cooking.
I think you're exactly right. I had the same reaction the first time I read about them, then I saw their product again recently and there was no doubt anymore that this is going to be the future of gaming.

True, they may not be there yet, but they most likely will.
I'm not sure what Gabriel's aspirations are for raising venture capital in the future, but abstracting this out...

I'm wondering whether a VC would have concerns about investing in a startup that had already made such a public commitment.
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Whelp. Too bad, since it looked like a pretty cool service.
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Caching maps is actually incredibly difficult. I just took a weekend trip to Death Valley (no cell coverage) and wanted to do this on my Android Evo.

Google Maps doesn't cache more than a few tiles so it's totally useless. There are a number of apps in the Market that will download maps locally - one downloads Google Map tiles illegally (with mixed success) and the rest I couldn't get to work.

Do you have any advice or experience you can share?
Maybe, but this quote talks about punishing sites copying content from other websites, which is not what they are doing. Most newspaper sites will have the same versions of AP or Reuters articles as well, but this new algorithm didn't affect them. I believe that many older newspaper articles on their site are not republished anywhere else on the Web.
Gutter journalism!
Amazon has a lot of latitude in setting the price of a Kindle. That is because the device is essentially only useful when purchasing content from Amazon. They should lower the price if it would increase demand for their content.

If it weren't for the fact that many users wouldn't use a FREE Kindle, they probably should give Kindles away. Buy 10 eBooks and get a Kindle free would be a good strategy.
No, they weren't. I've been watching for a while and they've been hidden from Quantcast for months.
Since they're partnered with "Starz Play", Netflix gets a quite a few new pretty quickly.

BTW, most Amazon streaming titles are something you'd find on VHS in your mom's basement. I just checked and the first movie they tempted me with was "Contact" from _1997_.
Since their model is subscription based, they don't have an incentive to stop supporting older games.
@dctechevents is good too. if you hate twitter: http://www.dctechevents.com/
I'm rooting for competitors, but I have a hard time picturing many of them coming near Apple's quality in either hardware or software.

Apple has a vast amount of experience in creating consumer software and interfaces, and even with Google's help, Samsung, Motorola and HTC will have a hard time matching that in the near future.

Motorola, for instance, I lost much trust in due to the endless stream of problems I've had with my Droid 2 phone. Many of these problems are said to be present in the original Droid, too (the most current issue? The camera's focus is stuck at about 1 foot). What Motorola seems to lack is Apple's high standards.
And Richard Hamming's follow up in 1980:
http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/Hamming.unreasonable.html