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Show HN: EasyTweet.me , integrate Twitter into apps without OAuth
Domo: The one Launch presentation you must watch (video)
I like Engadget’s review better: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/motorola-xoom-review/

Summary: Apple’s March 2 announcement better be good.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in splitting a BundleHunt?
I'm interested in getting the Pictos Icon set from the current BundleHunt deal, but don't have any current use for almost anything else in the bundle. Does anyone else have their eye on something else in the bundle? If so, perhaps we could split up a BundleHunt. Comment with ideas or contact via my email in my HN profile.
While I didn't know many of those things, I'm not inclined to believe you without (reliable) sources.
A month or so ago, Scott Adams of Dilbert fame came up with the idea, CloneMyVacation.com. My domain addiction made me buy the domain on the spot. If you think she is serious about doing something and think the idea is good, email me. Here is the post: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/next_big_thing/
On-demand product demos and evaluation: Useful for startups at YCombinator?
We released a new widget for our product that runs directly within a company's website, and allows their prospective customers to request a fully functional server image directly from the site.

It's a great sales tool, especially for complex applications that normally require large install files, database setup, complex configuration etc. and are therefore difficult to share with a prospective customer (think IBM or Oracle products).

To show our widget I took out 2 minutes to create a basic demo. Feel free to request a machine on this test site so you get an idea of exactly what we do:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16347737/yComb.html

(I have only set up an Alfresco ECM demo with the sample above, but essentially any windows/linux app would work here).

My question: Would this be useful for the startup you work for -- why or why not?
A tool to test CSS transition easing (Opera 11, FF4, Webkit)
Tekpub's Second Open House
Lisp Style and Efficiency
Show HN: Portrit.com - Finding the best photos between your friends.
A Lite Introduction to Markov Chains and Nonsense
Portrit started as a Facebook photo viewer. As my co-founder and I worked, we realized that people have way too many photos and most are not that interesting to look at. We wanted a way to find our friend’s best photos quickly, so we created what we are showing today.

Portrit is all about filtering you and your friend’s photos. This happens through a method of nomination. You look through your friend’s photos and nominate one that you think is above the rest. We have 10 categories that we call “trophies”, including Hot, WTF, LOL, and Fail. Once nominated, the photo goes into the active stream where you can see all you and your friend’s nominations. At this point it’s up to your social graph to determine what photo is the Hottest, funniest, etc. This is done through a simple voting system similar to HN, Digg, or Reddit. At the end of a 24 hour period (11PM PST), whoever has the highest votes in that category wins the trophy and the losers are cleared out for the next day. The trophy is added to the user’s profile so their friends can easily find the best photos.

For the non-facebook people, see screenshots in our chrome app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hbbhgkmmpcjnmijojo...

We would love any feedback!

Quick technical info for those that are inclined:
* Standard backend: Django/Apache/Nginx/Memcached
* frontend is a single page with dynamic views.
* Around 90% of the code base is on the frontend. We love JavaScript!
* Using Node.js for notifications/real-time content updates.
Way to go Dan and Pete! Didn't get a chance to play around with it, but the cross-browser testing and interactive modes sound like really useful features even outside of the context of A-B testing.
The original article? I totally agree. It's insanely condescending, projects its own image of adulthood onto everyone, and is borderline sexist...
Are you only trying to detect US addresses, or anywhere in the world?

For US addresses, a quick check for known zip codes or state names/abbreviations might be a good place to start if you're looking to roll your own.
Good point. All this article tells me is that many priviledged women who live in New York City and write for prestigious publications are having trouble finding men who meet their exacting standards.
Cool we can nuke facebook accounts! Quick lets get people to click there!

Sarcasm aside..doesn't this sound like an MS adventure?
Also relevant http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/pages/interactive#/?sta...
I think Steve says it best:

> My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.

I think this applies to co-founders too.
The Mac OS X port will not be ready in time for JDK 7. It's more of a JDK 8 timeframe project. In the meantime, you can build it yourself; the only feature difference from bsd-port is i386/x86-64 universal binary support.
think of them as apostrophes
Much easier than using Google Web Optimizer. Cross Browser Testing is a huge add-on and going to save a bunch of time.
That was a great event, and that discussion sparked quite a bit of debate between my two friends and me over dinner afterwards. (Actually, you can see the three of us sitting in the front-right-most seats in the photo!)

In my opinion, the notion of "radical innovation" depends on one's point of view: one could argue that, although the spectacular innovation during the space race, e.g, like landing a man on the moon, was indeed remarkable, it was, for all practical intents and purposes, little more than a political publicity stunt to the average individual, i.e., it did not have a profound effect on a personal level.

In contrast, the developments of the past 20 years -- internet, cell phone, facebook -- have profoundly changed individuals around the planet.

I don't think the question should be whether a thing is more or less innovative than another thing, but rather what effect the thing has had on a group of people on an individual level.
Why You Have to Throw Out Your Work
Apps for corporate use go thru different qualification. Does this app fall under those rules?
Develop for Chrome First
Discussions on the future of R
This looks a bit like AdBrite's now-defunct Spottt, but brought to iPhone applications.

I'm a little skeptical, because over the past couple of years tons of advertising networks have tried to make in-app ads for other applications work, and they've all failed. Conversion rates have always been abysmally poor, to the point where it's not worth crapping up the user experience with an advertising banner. There's been tons of blog posts on this from a variety of sources.

Because conversion rates for most applications ads are so poor, companies like Flurry and Tapjoy focus on incentivized installs, where the user gets a bit of virtual currency in exchange for downloading the advertised app. (Disclaimer: I own a chunk of Flurry.) Those actually work really well, but that's because the user's been bribed.

Betaworks is full of sharp people, so I'm wondering what I'm missing - it's not like them to release a product that flies in the face of a couple years of market data.

Perhaps they'll move towards very small, hand-curated sets of thematically-linked applications, and distinctive ad units that don't look like anything else on the market - something like The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/). That's the only online model I can currently think of that hasn't been tried in the mobile app space.
Look into places to rent in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island (closer to the bridge, the better). Most people commute into Manhattan from the boroughs as rent in Manhattan is pretty high compared to what you can get with a 30-45m commute from the boroughs

I'd say 75K+ should be comfortable for two people
It's always bugged me that many programming languages instead of using matching opening and closing quotes surround strings in pairs of closing quotes! )I guess most fonts that programmer's use render these as a sort of neutral vertical quote, so that strings don't look so silly.)
My 1st experiment with Feedback Army
> According to this chart, most income groups have barely grown richer since 1979.

It's worth pointing out that the primary way most professions get more buying power is by prices coming down, not wages going up.

This "barely grown richer" is just flat-out wrong. Everyone in countries with remotely decent governance are much better than people 33 years ago were. Much better. That needs to be acknowledged before any handwringing starts.
And ocaml, where you need them for polymorphism.
Has become? From the beginning, Watson's purpose has been to advertise IBM's computers.
Motorola Xoom Surprises
The 90's Zelda game you never heard of
good idea. i've been using 'flag' for that now, but your idea is better because it more precisely signals why one is flagging something. makes distinction from reasons like obscene, duplicate, etc.
Maybe app users experience this. I use a Mac Mini for development/test as an alternate platform.

I have to reboot the dang thing every day or two. The development tools hang and screw up. The network drops and needs to be unplugged/plugged back in or rebooted. The debugger totally fails to breakpoint and only a reboot will fix it.

I alternate between banging my head on the wall, and white-hot fury at the thing. Fortunately I only occasionally have to verify the code still runs there, and don't have to live in that environment.
Zero cosplay
Of course Code Geass Zero cosplay is so cool and you will realize vivid Zero cosplay look with nicely offered Zero costume here by Miccostumes, which is experienced in offering wide range of costumes and relevant items made in China.
Any discussion like this always conveniently forgets:

1. Japanese programmers wrote a huge proportion of cutting edge video games in the 80s, 90s, and 00s.

2. China (and Japan, and Korea, and India...) has a massive domestic consumer and b2b internet, written and scaled by domestic talent. It's much bigger than the US internet.

3. You better believe Koreans and Japanese write a WHOLE LOT of firmware. When was the last time your TV or BluRay player or Toyota ECU crashed? China is clearly playing catch up here - Chinese electronics crash all the time lol.

Of course then there's always the people who don't consider Japan to be "the east"... which always makes me laugh.
Yahoo reboots IM servers daily. Easier than bothering to find all the horrible leaks.

Its a business decision. Not worth getting emotionally involved, just weight cost of fixing vs cost of rebooting.
"properly understood" is the whole point. That's the hard problem they are trying to solve.
The photos are amazing, in the style of Robert Frank, WeeGee, and some of Annie Leibovitz's work.

The story is also compelling -- about Maier's life, work, death in obscurity, and the fortuitous circumstances of discovery by John Maloof, who has now made this his life's work.

However, the OP should link to the primary source:

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/
Cucumber Performance
Nice. It looks like the syntax is inspired by Javascript and Ruby.

A previous blog post on the Rubinius blog mentioned that they'll be talking about a Language Toolkit sometime soon.
Finally the Personal submarine, the EGO, with one year warranty.
Search optimization: No, this team focused on making IBM Watson optimized to answer in 3 seconds or less. We can accept a slower response, so we can skip this.

That makes me laugh. I'd guess that search optimization effort has a power law response here. 3 seconds is extraordinary, 1 minute is tricky, 10 minutes is possible after some solid effort, 3 days-heat death of universe is what you get without optimization.

Not saying you actually ignore it. It's built into those libraries they casually throw around. Just thought the wording was funny.
Ascii (and keyboards) only have a single key for ' and ". They are used as both apostrophes, and quotation marks. Typing in code using proper opening and closing quotation marks would be tedious. Editors could choose to apply some smarts and display strings wrapped in quotes using "curly quotes", but that complicates copy-and-paste and so on.

Given the entry situation, the only sane thing to do is use a font that makes both ' and " vertical bars.
I would like my $0.37 refund, please.
I'm not certain, but I'd bet Watson was explicitly not allowed to use something like J!Archive as training data. For one, the questions used in the Jeopardy games it played were drawn randomly from previous questions. More importantly, though, learning a stilted, domain specific language model to play Jeopardy isn't anywhere near as challenging, impressive, or worth pursuing than generating something that includes Jeopardy as a subset of its capacity.

Now Watson was tuned on Jeopardy questions. I'm sure the learning processes were adjusted in light of mistakes made on the Jeopardy corpus, but interpolation is far less big a deal than a full language model.
How is this Hacker news?
And there's pretty little surprise that it worked! IBM's been here before (Deep Blue).
Feels like it was rushed out - LTE upgrade needs that you send the hardware back to Motorola, the OS seems a bit buggy and there are not many optimized apps available yet.

On the other hand the hardware is great, the OS is mostly there and apps will most likely be there before long. The iPad's existence for a year and the looming 2nd gen makes situation worrying for Motorola - if it wasn't for the iPad, these would've been the points that would be ignored.
Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics
The discussion on stackexchange focused more on whether programmers in the east, generally speaking, are of sufficient quality. Living in China and going to a local university learning chinese, I've feel that a lot of the symptoms described in the discussion are more of a result of education systems.

A lot of my Chinese friends have expressed the need to get a good job, thus there is pressure for them to be in a major that 'guarantees' that: computer science/engineering is seen as desirable in that light. Having attended one of the computer science classes, I've seen two striking things:

1) Only a small percent of the people in this major are have an actual interest in the topic. The rest hope to get some administrative job in a big company and that this degree will be their ticket in.

2) There is a mechanical sense to the way projects and assignments are done. The philosophy seems to be: if I follow the steps that the teacher gave then I am able to solve this problem. There isn't an emphasis on analysis or synthesis. I attribute this to the emphasis on rote learning.

These two things make it easier to see why the symptoms described in the discussion occur. In addition, I noticed that the level of education is quite behind my own college experience. They were learning things in their third-year first semester that I learned in my first-year second semester.

As a side note, I don't go to one of the top tier universities; I was told that my university is a second or third tier university, so I suspect that this is the reality for most Chinese computer science students.
They could at least have sent a Breakup Notification. It only there were an app for that ...
Sorry, still disagree. Software gets into healthcare one of two ways: a.) pre-packaged from big vendors or b.) contracted custom code. It doesn't get in from Apple's App Store, no matter how much we wish it did.

The Gov't will be the first one to bear culpability if they push too hard on this.

Riiight.
The article mentions a complaint by a competitor, but there was also a thread about Overstock here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4252178.htm.
With eth changing to em and mile long IPv6 addresses it's going to be a strange world.
Amazing fan-made trailer for imaginary E.T. sequel
Btw, here's a list of current features I forgot to link to in the post: https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy/blob/master/doc/features.m...
Amazon's Prime Streaming Will Disrupt Netflix, Here's How
Don't underestimate the limitations of the fixed income, or the spare time of the elderly. The year I worked at Rite Aid was not the best of my life.
Thanks for posting this. I run Feedback Army and one of the most rewarding things about running it is hearing (or reading) stories like yours. Glad it's working for you. It's a service that definitely came out of this community (I developed it after reading an HN post asking if such a service existed).
It doesn't have to be travel related if that area is in a slump. She is likely experienced and talented in things relating to helping people, customer service, and marketing. So that opens many more doors for her. Good luck!
How I Implemented Layers in CamanJS - Faking pixel layers with the HTML Canvas
Wow, didn't know that term existed. That is exactly what has happened here.
How to Become a Cynic [2008]
cool. re-create Brad Pitts latest jaunt or Celine Dion's affluent retreat. or Tony Danza's staycation. :)
Joel Spolsky : Quora is a social conversation
Part 2: http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-become-cynic-...
I agree with you, but $0.37 ins't going to be the difference between losing your house and not. And if it is there are lots of things you can do in 15 minutes that will earn you a lot more than that.

You could save $300 or more on car insurance. (I'm sorry I just had to)
> I'm sure to this lady her time is worth much more than $1.48 per hour

Sometimes, it's the principle. During my wife's last pregnancy, our insurance company would overcharge us by $20 for every single pre-natal checkup; we debated the merits of calling in (every time), sometimes spending up to an hour getting through the phone tree to the person who could correct the error, and we decided that even if we theoretically value our time at more than $20/hour, we'd rather not let our insurance company slowly squeeze money out of us that they weren't entitled to.
If they had waited for an optimized Flash implementation and spent more time fixing the OS bugs, they would have been beaten to market by the iPad 2 by a couple of months - most likely a death sentence at that point. Rushing it out is the smartest option, even if it means bizarre stuff like having a non-functional microSD slot.
One stark difference between programmers in the east and west is that in the east, people tend to stay in one company much longer. I think that effectively limit their development. Those who are in the west tend to be much more well rounded.
Computer that fits on a pen tip
A friend of mine in the industry points out (referring to the original Mother Jones article) that he and his wife have a net worth at least 100 times greater than it was when they first married. Accumulation of wealth comes about just by working steadily (as they both have) while growing older. In his words, "We have 100x the net worth of our younger selves (because the starting number was so low). Is that horrible inequality or the desirable progression of life?"
Please tell me that you don't actually believe this and were just speaking for effect, as it isn't even remotely close to the truth.

The iPad was a revolution in exactly the same way the iPod was a revolution. It had a more accessible UI and made trade-offs to be a bit slicker than what was out there, but they were the right trade-offs which were needed to take it to mass appeal. It's a good product, and it will revolutionize tablet use, but not because it's a massive technical improvement.
Funny I noticed both (1) AND (2) to be prevalent at all 2-4 "western" (German, British) unis I observed. And my suspicion was that (2) was a direct result of (1).

Obviously these issues won't exist in UK Cambridge, MIT, Stanford. Also not in Masters degrees at most unis. But I wouldn't call it a Chinese thing at all. Happens the world over based on my anecdotal evidence.
correct, I believe that was the obvious point he was trying to make.

The political correctness that is a problem is that you can't say 'white/boring' without offending someone like the person you responded to.
Wikileaks Opens Online Store, Looks For Revenue Stream
There hasn't been any confirmation from Apple regarding SaaS and similar though has there? Do you see Netflix/Hulu/Pandora and others sticking around? I really don't. If their cut is effectively nil, they end up spending money to have users from iOS devices, that just isn't smart business.
the questions used in the Jeopardy games it played were drawn randomly from previous questions

I've not heard that, and if true, it would have given Jennings and Rutter, both excellent crammers, a knowledge advantage.

Further, human contestants absolutely review the J!Archive before competing, so why wouldn't Watson?

We don't yet know for sure Jeopardy is only one subset of all the impressive things Watson can do. Notably, in the 'Ask Reddit' answers, the Watson team says: "At this point, all Watson can do is play Jeopardy and provide responses in the Jeopardy format."

So it seems like they're trying to claim the accolades for solving a bigger problem, when in fact they've only done well on a very constrained problem.
Open Library - an open, editable library catalog
>our insurance company would overcharge us by $20 for every single pre-natal checkup

I think I would do the same in your situation because it's multiple occurrences.
Thanks for the advice. I'm not judging myself, I'm judging the system—the NSR manual is stern in its warnings not to deviate from the program. But perhaps a meditation system more flexible than NSR is worth giving a try.
Let's hope you get busted for missing the whole point of facebook and are quickly removed.

Honestly, how gutless can you be? Quite the charades you got going there, congrats! If that's what interests you...
Yes and no. If the companies in question are privately held then to a certain extent the risk is only with investors brave (or foolish) enough to back them. However, what do you think would happen to the tech industry, and potentially the wider world economy, if a big name company suddenly went up in smoke, public or otherwise?

Now, please pause for a moment and consider: it doesn't have to be Microsoft or Apple or Oracle. Some of the crazy valuations are putting much less robust companies within an order of magnitude. If one of them goes, it's going to be big news and stock prices right across hi-tech industry could race to the bottom scarily fast as we've seen before.

If you are, for example, Zynga, then the kind of disaster that could lead to catastrophic failure seems awfully difficult for you to anticipate or control. Likewise all kinds of new companies being built on Twitter and so on, keeping in mind that Twitter (as far as I know) doesn't actually make any money itself yet and could easily be displaced by the next new shiny thing tomorrow.

I'm not saying it's going to happen at all, never mind tomorrow, but there is definitely a house of cards building up here, and of such things, market bubbles are made.
I attended Texas Tech as a grad student who had to take a number of undergrad courses. Except for a few really good undergrads, almost everything you said about the Chinese students is true of students in the US. Tech could probably be classified as a 3rd or 2nd tier university here. Unfortunately, to be a manager, you have to find a job first.
I know nothing about photography and I fully expected to be underwhelmed by this link, but damn are those some awesome, compelling photos. This woman had a natural talent.
There are many companies 70-100% dependent on a single outside entity; defense contractors.
Monetary value of time probably isn't even on the top ten list of "reasons why humans do things". This isn't news. Not everything - in fact, not anything - can be reduced to money.