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I find this interesting because I have never done a Google search that led me to a Mahalo site. I don't even recall seeing them come up in a search result for anything honestly.

Having heard about Mahalo through Podcasts and such, I have been to the site a few times to find some things, but usually ended up back at Google.

However, now learning of the How-To style videos coming to the site in droves, I'm definitely interested again.

So, this bad press and their bad fortune may lead to new visitors, such as myself. Probably not in the waves that Google brought, but it's "press" none-the-less.
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Mostly I see people expressing sympathy for a guy who had a really bad day (and a newsworthy one.) And if you think mahalo is polluting the written history of the human race, then boy do I ever have some spam to show you. Mahalo may not be the best, but it certainly isn't the worst.
Ah, sorry, reading comprehension fail.

Why didn't the platform exist pre-Justin.tv?

1) Bandwidth prices were much higher in 2007, and have plummeted in the past few years, making the economics more attractive.

2) There were no good, stable streaming servers commercially available. Flash streaming in FMS 2 was a joke (it would fail constantly) in 2007. Fast forward a little while and you had Red5, FMS 3, and Wowza all with video streaming to a Flash client.

3) Video advertising market grew significantly starting around 2007, providing a monetization model.

Hope that explains it!
Brilliant news! Good idea to get some friendly eyes on the pre-release package, too.
I'd love to learn more about your past endeavor and would love few pointers on developing firefox extension. I haven't really developed on firefox before. You can email me at kuldeepkapade /at/ gmail
If you don't find the product interesting I'll refund all your money!
I'm not sure how SEO contributes to a better index

Alright, by analogy: you understand how a properly functioning economy has positive effects for participants in the stock market, right? Economic growth means investors win. Do you understand that a properly functioning stock market also helps the broader economy, even if we assume that each participant in the market is just trying to manipulate the market into serving their own selfish interests? The market converges on more efficient allocation of capital than other sorts of non-market capital allocation schemes we have tried.

Google's tremendous expertise with algorithms is one reason why the experience of searching the Internet generally does not suck. The input people create to rank on Google is another reason. Good, descriptive titles are the single easiest on-page way to influence rankings on leaf pages -- they're also the single easiest way for an engine to tell what a page is about without linking signals. Thus, the practice of putting titles on pages improves the index. What's the first thing your SEO consultant is going to do? Look at your title tags. Systemwide, this converges on an Internet where most pages that people actually end up seeing have good, descriptive titles.
Why should we be forced NOT to use a technology that provides superior response and productivity than what was traditionally possible?

On many websites heavy (ab)use of JavaScript/AJAX has the opposite effect. It makes them less responsive and lowers productivity compared to what it could be if those sites were mostly static. Instead of waiting for one HTTP request to complete, we're waiting for fifty or a hundred and fifty. Instead of waiting for optimized browser code to render HTML, we're waiting for a tangled mess of inefficient and hastily written scripts to do its magic.
No, I live there currently, and if this represents massive improvement what was here 15 years ago, a refugee camp? :P
Just a guy who knows a lot about startups and entrepreneurship but is sometimes too blunt and on the face. People who know this nature of his, have grown immune to his antics and direct remarks and keep in touch because of his genuine wit.
Who else would be crazy yet believable enough to fool the world he was actually testing the iPad before launch. That's Jason for you.
"What’s really interesting to me is that I remember when Mahalo first launched, Jason told me numerous times he didn’t care about Google because he was going to build loyal users who would just come directly to Mahalo"

Really?
Is Groupon's revenue sustainable? I thought companies were complaining that they lost money by participating, which would indicate to me that it's not sustainable business.

I'm highly skeptical of Zynga because I haven't seen any evidence that they can innovate at all. I suspect people will tire of grind games, and I wonder if Zynga will be able to adapt. Maybe that's just my wishful thinking, that my family will abandon its addiction...
- My trusty old Bialetti
- MacBook + OSX
- alfred (app launcher and more)
- iTerm
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- git + github
- ssh
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- GMail
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- Google Talk
- Google Chrome
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Safe and clean compared to what? Newark?
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Right perhaps I can still do $100 a month with that with some promotion... so I'd keep it rather than sell for $500.
But I'd totally sell it for $1600 eheh
Not trying to be the show stopper here, but this is illegal right? I mean especially news sites like Reuters do create a fuss when this is done.
Is that (legal drama) only in commercial projects or otherwise too?
Does the Internet make for more engaged citizens?
I'll just leave this here. http://dukechronicle.com/article/morrison-column-distorts-du...

I'd even say it's cleaner than almost all of San Francisco and SF's worst parts (eg, the Mission, Bayview, Hunter's Points) are more violent than Durham's worst parts.

Every urban environment of any size is going to have its problems but there is a definite reality distortion field surrounding how violent and dirty people think Durham is.
Maybe some guys who already had interviews with PG, could tell more questions?
Tell HN: Google Maps know where I'm at when tethered to my phone (in Chrome)
This seems like some sort of magic to me.<p>I'm tethered to my iPhone 3GS (I have dev account, using SOCKS proxy) and I pull up google maps in chrome.<p>I click the "My Location" button, and it pinpoints me 20 ft from my house, which I just moved in to today (hence the tethering)<p>If I was on my phone this would make sense... but I'm on a laptop using a 3G connection from a phone and receiving no other information from the phone.
It took me a couple tries to parse the headline. Usually, 'C compiler' means 'a compiler that compiles C (to something else)', whereas here it means 'a compiler that compiles to C (from something else)', in this case Scheme.

Chicken compiles Scheme to efficient C that is then compiled to machine code by your machine's existing C compiler.
premature optimization alert
A few friends with small businesses have had great experiences with New Resource Bank.
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I wonder if they are releasing too fast with the iPad - with a mobile phone an annual release cycle makes sense as that market changes so fast and they are subsidised for a lot of people.

However the iPad is pretty billed as the future computer replacement. I don't think a new version every year will sell as well.
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The amount of importance placed on this concept of The Web is strange. It's like a religion.

Any developer working on any application has to make decisions and trade-offs about platforms, user experience, accessibility, and a hundred other things. If something else is more important than making the back button work or having pretty urls, then who cares? Focus on what improves your app the most, not adhering to tradition. It breaks the web? Get real, it doesn't break anything. It just has other priorities. The only reasonable barometers for whether something works are user adoption and satisfaction.
Great pictures of other lobopodians too!

We have a sculpture of Hallucigenia in our living room, a survivor of a Burning Man art exhibit :-)
Well, if Mojang do what they did with Minecraft it'll be out as an early alpha and then they'll develop it from there.

It would be interesting to see how that method works now that they have a million interested users on day one.
Why Google isn't punishing itself of scrapping reviews?
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Could you really have provided these answers back when you were at the interview stage of getting funding? These all seem accurate in hindsight, but the kind of things you never would have known up front...

Edit: This isn't meant to be critical; I'm just curious how you would have answered back in a 2k7 interview?
Borderline stuff may actually be worse than blatant crap, because the borderline stuff is harder to classify as crap.
Ask HN: Tools to make some online lectures tutorials
I plan to build a portal where I we can give away any kind of material to help college students learn basics of embedded systems and robotics.

We are funded by government and have significant amount of funds, we have access to some of the best faculty members.

We are planning to do following

1. Let the faculty give lectures in front of a class and we record it.

2. Let the faculty use screen-casting along with PPT and Tablet.

Can you guys suggest the kind of software we can look at for building course content?

We came across a large number of screen-casting software such as Jing and MS expressions studio. We also liked Microsoft LCD. But none of these tools seem to be very refined.
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One more site that does google's "Page Speed" test and presents the result as its own? Do you think your firefox+firebug+pagespeed backend will be able to handle heavy load?
Looks like http://www.webpagetest.org and http://siteloadtest.com are the only honest tests out there
Ask HN: Expected Groupon Traffic Volume
Hello Folks,

Hopefully someone can help me out here. I've been reading HN for a while and never really submitted anything or asked any questions but I seem to be in need of some advice.

I'm a volunteer webmaster for a small non-profit. I've setup the website with Drupal on a small Linode instance. We really have a very small amount of traffic ( 80 - 150 visits per day ) to the website. Some people come through looking at who we are, our history, and specifically, people use it to register for events and classes.

We've been looking to boost attendance to our classes and have ended up somehow being featured on a popular local deals website ( groupon, living social, tippr, etc. ) I'd be less cryptic but since I wasn't involved in the deal making process I really have absolutely no idea how much I'm allowed to say about the upcoming deal.

I'm a professional rails developer and a Drupal novice. I chose Drupal because other board members wanted to edit content and I didn't want to build out a CMS. In hindsight, I really should have gone with Rails. There's something to be said for just doing what you know rather than going with something that is "better" for the job - especially when you don't have a whole lot of time to devote to learning a new technology.

My questions are these:

1) I have no idea how much traffic people generally get from deals like these. Can someone enlighten me?

2) Do any of you php/drupal folks know what I can reliably run off of a small Linode with the increase in site traffic because of this featured deal.

3) I'm considering replacing the entire website with rails site with essentially 3 pages: An about page, A class description / what to expect page, and a registration page. This would be a super focused site and I'm wondering how much success people have had ( especially with respect to local/social deals ) with a 3 page setup like this.
Awesome story :)
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The name reminds me of those singing Ricola commercials ;) I do have to agree with one of the other posters that a direct copy of Facebook's overall look and color scheme may not be in your best interest. I doubt they would care so much, but I would think you'd want to establish your own brand that could still be complimentary to Facebook.
And part 2: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/22/the-beauty-of-typ...
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Really, I'd say this is really accurate. Any further questions grew organically from answers to the questions in this video.

For us, they made a big point of knowing that our market really existed, even though no company was targeting it yet. In fact, our lack of solid evidence of the market is the main reason for our rejection (W11). However, maybe this was only such a large focus because it was our biggest weakness, and other interviews focus on other things.

Keep in mind that the interview is only 15 minutes, so there don't need to be many questions...
> It's more like Wolfenstein 3D, without the enemies, the objects, the guns, or the wall textures.

It reminds me of the maze screensaver from Windows 95, without the wall textures or the objects.

If they added enemies, objects, and guns, they'd have Faceball 2000, an FPS for the Game Boy that supported deathmatch mode (wasn't called that then, of course).
I alreaady know about clojure and I quite like it.
I glanced over the J for C table of contents to find out where J keeps anything like product and sum types, but I found no promising headlines. Is that just J's way of saying "if it's not a matrix, don't use J", or am I missing something fundamental here?
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It's also the sum of details (wrt to the setting as a whole. Just to pick one):

The single menubar on top means also: You have infinite space on the top. If you scroll your mouse, because you want to click on a menu item, you can "virtually" scroll beyond the screen, yet still be on the menu bar. When I first read about this, and the reasoning, I found this quite surprising.
it is awesome that people differ. Everyone has advantages and disadvantages but people aren't equal. Some people will have lots of advantages with minimal disadvantages, and yet others will have the opposite. I don't understand why people like to deny this.
Even a $5/paper fee is too costly. On an average day I probably read 5 papers and browse another 5 papers. That means my research habit would cost $17,250. And that is too expensive for just casual reading.
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Thank you, no, really really thank you. Just got a call this morning for a negotiation round with a big pharma corporation. I would have not read this article yesterday, I would have been falling flat. So, I gave a bit, but definitely not as much as I would have if I had not read this article. Again, thank you!
He's made a comfortable life as a professional sycophant. Better to swallow some pride occasionally than derail the gravy train.
It is because of the slightly less socialist government we have here. If we can manage to trim some more of the huge government bureaucratic fat we can expect even more economic health. Germany will always be reasonably socialist, and probably for Germany (considering the culture, total state addicts here, even rich families get child support benefits, you can't change that overnight) a reasonable amount of socialism will be optimal, compared to English speaking countries, but I am sure we have a way to go as far as turning down the socialism dial, and turning up the free market dial.
But it's not the same, is it? With a library, you have to wait until the book is in stock, which it won't be if their copy/copies are all on loan to other people. Whatever you consider their attitude to be, the bottom line is that they are still paying the people who make the books for those books, and the more people are going to benefit from the books, the more the people behind the books are going to get paid. The economic incentive to produce the book in the first place is still there, it's just a different guy settling the bill.

With digital files, that isn't the case. The technology doesn't have just a simple, quantitative effect, such as halving the money going to those who make the books for each copy. The change is qualitative, undermining the entire economic model that physical books allowed.
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So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore.

I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web.

Enjoy :)
Are they really deciding function by form?

I honestly can't tell how the plant/animal moves from a static picture, and even if its an animal, it could be a stationary animal. IE. Coral, sponge, things of that nature.
I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each.

So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore.

I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web.

Enjoy :)
I wouldn't say Usain Bolt is talented because he's the faster runner. Majority reason why he is so fast is because of the amount distance he can cover with his leg stretch over his opponents due to his height; not his talented ability to quickly move one foot in front of another (just like ever professional runner has)
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I didn't know Adam Osborne worked at Apple
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Now if only they could get them to do an extensive online interview...
Europe in general (perhaps with the exception of the UK) is much less saturated with Made in China goods than the rest of the world, perhaps due to more stringent adherence to standards and quality, or perhaps as a result of its trade laws that still somewhat protect European-made goods.

Germany has benefited greatly from the expansion of the European internal market, and has always had, and still does have, a very good name. Everything from cars to electronics, down to appliances and kitchenware, Made in Germany still speaks volume on the continent.

Despite the somewhat higher prices of German goods (and they are actually kept quite low due to various work-sharing labour arrangements), weighing things on a quality-price scale, they still come out better value than a lot of alternatives. So it's really no surprise that the country is running such a huge trade surplus against the rest of the continent.
Like most people I would've thought:

http://imgur.com/ZImS6

How do you hold it?? :)

You can, of course, get your little finger under it move the phone body up so it's easy to swipe with your thumb however that's a lot of hand movement and you need to look at what you are doing.

If you are holding the phone whilst walking you generally hold it as in the image above which is much more secure it would be nice to be able to answer it without having to shuffle the phone with your pinky.

To be honest even moving the thumb horizontally to me doesn't feel like the most natural way to move your thumb. Instead consider moving your thumb from the top left arcing across (i.e. from a 12 o'clock position to almost 3 o'clock) of course you'd need to consider lefties but it feels a lot more natural...
Germany is an export oriented economic powerhouse far longer than China. Chine is looking to become Germany, not the other way around.
> The major releases support things like unicode, networking, packaging, threading, cbindings.

But every implementation does it differently.

> No one is kept up late at night in a quandry over the choice between cython, jython and unladen swallow!

And that's because Unladen Swallow is mostly dead, most libraries are written for CPython first, and if you happen to choose Jython you can always pick a library from the vast pool of Java libraries.
With Common Lisp it used to be that every library supported a different subsection of the implementation x operating systems matrix.

> I don't know your point about character encoding or file system access?

Read the standard on pathnames. Versioned filesystems are a blast from the past.

> Here's a link to a web client btw http://weitz.de/drakma/ Weitzware rocks

First time I used it I had problems convincing it to use the right character encoding when downloading pages. The second time I tried it wouldn't compile on SBCL on Mac OS X.

> I guess my basic thesis is that Common Lisp doesn't suck.

It doesn't, I never said it did.
Don't forget you can mix table and CSS based layouts
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Nobody is idly "celebrating" any actor. What people celebrate are people who entertain them. Scientists are not entertaining. Fundamentally, it's a selfish activity.
Oh come on guys! I thought HN is better then saying 'If you don't like it then don't use it'.
Do you really think that this has any value? I don't want to be harsh but since when is this constructive criticism?

If you don't like this post please say WHY you don't like it and give some feedback HOW it would be better.

And now some Feedback to this website. I think it's fair to mention that Developers have to pay 30% of their earnings and getting nearly nothing for it. I mean I'm thanking Google that they are hosting the Android Market but taking 30% for just hosting something isn't fair anyway. They should lower the rate or give some more support to developers.

I really welcome criticism to any platform cause you can grow with it BUT without it you don't know what you are doing wrong, right?

To be honest I'm mostly an iOS developer but I developed already a Android App and successfully put into the Android Market for free.