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Microsoft sold 10 Million Kinects -- unseats iPhone/iPad records
http://nyti.ms/hwtzFV

The company announced that it had sold more than 10 million Kinect game controllers worldwide since the device became available (8 million in the first 60 days), generating over $1.5 billion in sales. The company also said it sold more than 10 million games designed specifically for the Kinect controller.

And it's not just for gaming -- check out Oliver Kreylos's 3D mapping video implementation ( http://bit.ly/g7NFqw ) and other developments ( http://nyti.ms/ijJQH )

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Picplz Adds Photo Collections And Borders
PG:There's No Tech Bubble, Steve Jobs Is A Dictator
Does the PCI security standards mention data communication encryption? If so, would this apply to the communication of data from the reader device to the software on the phone?
I don't consider exposing myself to ads to be a payment. It's more like getting some sand in one's eye, or being stuck in a queue. It's an irritant, a distraction, an annoyance. I loathe animated Flash ads, and that disgust infects my perceptions of brands associated with them. I have never bought anything via a display ad link, ever. To be frank, I almost believe I'm doing the advertisers (in contrast to the content providers) a favour by not letting their ads into my consciousness.
Well, my 'city' is not shown, but I think the answer is almost certainly yes since I doubt 10 people here have github accounts. It would be nice to be proved wrong about that.
Safer than large U.S. or larger European mainstream registrars.
Also covered on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/03/10/picplz-collections/

And, TheNextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/10/picplz-now-with-photo-...
I expect to burn some karma for this, but there's another extant pocket of optimization driven development: banner ads. If there is such a thing as a "good" banner ad, I'm referring to those (unobtrusive, non-autoexpanding, subtle animations resulting from interaction [no seizure-inducing manic blinking]). Good banner ads use almost no bandwidth (15k-40k) and go easy on the user's processor. They are built for big companies who care about their reputation and trafficked by platforms that respect the user.

I don't get to build as many of them as I once did, but they're incredibly fun little puzzles to solve. Cramming largish photographs, animation, copy (including fonts, which usually result in the bulk of filesize), and animation into such a tiny package is no small feat, and requires a lot of time (the productivity tradeoff Jacques referred to) and tons of little optimization tricks you need to spend a few years collecting and perfecting, like:

* becoming a vector artist. Sometimes its necessary to have a partially transparent image, which means 32 bit PNGs, which are super expensive. Flash allows you to create vector masks (vector illustrations are incredibly size efficient), which means you can use a PNG-8 or JPG and mask out the areas that need to be transparent. Which means getting really good, and fast, at tracing outlines. The next level being

* learning how to do photo-realistic illustrations. In the old days of 12k for a banner, I did a lot of car banners, which meant a lot of car illustrations that needed to look exactly like the photos. Even then, you'd have to reuse your assets a lot, in creative ways, in order to make the filesize. (Like using a tire illustration for the windshield [by scaling and masking]).

* writing really tight code. In the early days, our basic animation engines were a few KB, but you could rewrite your own using only the chunks of code you needed, and save a few K. My newest library is about 800 bytes and is powerful enough to use on most of my banners.

* learning that people really aren't as detail oriented as you might think, and blurs, rotations, tints, and speed are usually all the tools you need to make a convincing animation
One of the cool things about PhonoSDK is that you can talk to ANY SIP endpoint directly from your web browser. This allows you to actually by-pass Tropo if you wanted to (not sure why you would want to though :)

BTW, You can also attach your Phono app to Voxeo Evolution's IVR hosting platform the same way you connect it to Tropo with an app id!
As an experiment, I thought I'd block FoxNews from my results to see if it would stop coming up in my "google news" aggregator.

Sadly, it does not. Would have been neat though.
NOrth VirginiA.
The comment you refer to isn't that surprising. I have a friend who was hired into a software development job a large corp, barely knowing how to program. She admitted as such during the interview, and again when she was given work. Her manager's reply was "that's OK, you'll learn."

Most of her work entailed struggling to understand a bit of code and making trivial changes to it. She would confide to me over dinner that she would have no idea how to write a program from scratch, but she could generally figure out what others had done and cut & paste until she got something to work. They paid her a ton of money (after her contract agency's cut, she got $45/hour. A lot for someone who made $25k max in previous jobs) for about 6 months until the contract ran out. At no time did she attempt to deceive them about her ability, and neither she nor I could understand how she got the job in the first place, but the money was just too good to pass up!
Beauty of the graph at 13'50" - It is good to believe in children/people and do sthg about it as Khan does.
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"What's my name? Fuck you, that's my name. You know why, mister? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight; I drove an $80,000 BMW. That's my name."
Beyond Facebook, SecondMarket Opens Its Doors to Thousands
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I suspect you didn't see personality-fit being of top importance only because the survey didn't offer that as a topline item. At least, not that I can remember or can see in the results.

I've seen a lot of cofounder relationships dissolve because of personality-fit alone. Both parties were at the top of their game and highly accomplished individuals. But together, they were awful. Everything from lack of trust to lack of shared vision hurt their rapport. They all eventually fizzled away.

I definitely should have listed it as #1 in my answer. Whether people realize it or not, personality-fit is very, very important. dystopia brings up a great reason for this. It's very possible you & your cofounder will need to pivot significantly. If the biz person can't do so well (ie. skills are not aligned, interest is not there, can't handle this "failure", etc), then this isn't the right cofounder for you.
Without digging into whether you're right or wrong about this, there is a common pathology that happens where someone decides to leave, secures a strong offer, informs their manager, receives a counteroffer, and accepts the counteroffer instead of leaving. Many such counteroffers aren't really good-faith counteroffers (even if the company thinks they are); they are effectively "options" for the company to have you leave on their terms instead of yours.
The fakepath thing is a Chrome thing it seems. Dunno why it is like that.

I thought about extra random numbers, but security through obscurity just never rang true to me.

Thanks for the feedback though! Hoping to get a little more traction and go from there.
Agreed -- Jobs believes we all want to write with our fingers or type on sheets of glass with no haptic feedback.

R u b b i s h.

If that were true, handwriting apps would not be as wildly successful as they have been in the app store -- and accompanied with reviews slamming the missing stylus. If iPad had Newton's last iteration of handwriting recognition (or [gasp] some improvement thereupon from the past ~10 years), it would become a notably more alluring productivity tool and less of an overpriced eReader/game toy.
One of my professor's is working on an almost identical idea with his research team. A parallel ML implementation. They call it "Manticore"

http://manticore.cs.uchicago.edu/
Not at all, feel free to use it for commercial uses. I'm removing that from the terms.
There's more to writing code than writing it fast.
I for one am looking forward to typing a technical question and then not getting hundreds of hits from those sites that want to charge money for the answer.

(And to head off the obvious karma steal at the pass - Because sometimes the answer isn't in stackoverflow yet. Duh)
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Totally, I would love it add that. I actually have all PA data already.
I knew of these guys back when they were TransFS. I have nothing but good things to say about them. Other than they brought to market the idea faster than I could. grrr
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Not quite - Symbian was a British company that Nokia bought.

It was originally the OS on the excellent Psion PDAs before they gave up on the hardware business and split the OS off as Symbian.
My 2c as an ACN alumni... the author's conclusion could as such be extended to the entire consulting industry. There are three reasons this does not hold though:

- consultants are bound by strict NDAs

- the client hires me because of my experience in the field (which includes competitors) and needs to live with the fact that I'll carry that experience with me

- if the client didn't want me to carry my experience with me from their project, he'd need to pay me for the rest of my days for just doing nothing
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What Y Combinator companies will have presence at SXSWi?
Hmmm. Is it attempting to geolocate me? If so, it keeps saying I'm in Minneapolis when I'm actually in New York. My first instinct was then to type my location in, but it took me a second since I expected the search box to be so much more prominent (I guess since my typical weather checking approach is: 1. Go to weather.com 2. Type in search box smack in the middle of the page)

Seems very cool, though. I would definitely use it.
The linked tutorial says:

>>> Some people will argue that these are in fact "unique types" as opposed to "linear types", the difference being subtle (a unique type enforces that only ONE pointer exists at any given time, a linear type enforces that the amount of pointers is stable). However, you will often see unique types been called linear types in the litterature, and if P. Wadler can do it, so can I ! <<<
I've not had the chance to try it, but I like the idea of turning it around:

"Sure, but first _you_ give _me_ a detailed histogram of salaries for your employees [in similar positions/rank]"

I suspect you won't get that histogram, and they'll be offended you asked. Maybe they'll understand why you don't want to share your salary.
Great suggestion, you can use the article API already to do this (providing the URL of the post and the 'tag' parameter), but maybe you are thinking of analyzing other types of content? Or perhaps the ability to POST your own text data instead of just the URL?
I'm always looking for part-timers to help with web development projects on the side. My gigs vary widely, so shoot me an email at ben@benradler.com with a portfolio or resume and we'll talk (:
Personally, I really liked it. The only thing I didn't was how the pictures are cut at the bottom when you "dance", looks a bit weird to me.
I'd be happy to talk about the visual-based statistical classification technology in a follow-up blog post if there's interest.
Besides tptacek's reply, see also Yossi Kreinin's C++ FQA (Frequently Questioned Answers):

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/faq.html

Subjectively I don't feel HN as particularly anti-C++, it's more that people are younger and started programming in languages like Python and Ruby so they don't have a pro-C++ bias. If anything I feel that many people on HN are anti-Java. Personally I'm thankful for Java's existence because it managed to replace C++ in a lot of places.
Hmm... just glancing at the most-watched & most-forked totals, Boulder is ahead of both Atlanta and Houston -- for what it's worth (not much).

Besides startups the other replier mentioned, there's also a lot of bigger software-centric & tech companies here for a city this size. (IBM, Su--Oracle, Rally, Vexcel (now Microsoft), Rational (now IBM), Google...)
You can afford not to limit users to 500 because no-one cares about gaming your system. Spammers are where the traffic is, so Google can't do that. But 500 sites are more than sufficient for me..
So if they lose their lease at their current spot - youd be far less likely to work there?
one man's crappy site is another man's precious precious wikipedia (see: all the disagreements that have already come up here over what to block).

Personally I prefer knowing that those sites are in the index, but don't show up unless I purposefully widen my search to include them (or they appear so low in rankings that it achieves the same effect).
Every time I had problems with okc it was due to broken transparent caching on wireless, cellular, or satellite networks.
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Can someone tell me how this isn't a doomed effort to impose a universal ontology on the web?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)

Such an effort is doomed because in the actual "real world", there isn't agreement on what exact "real world objects" exist and so we can't simply create a single hierarchy of the world's data akin to the Dewy-Decimal system for organizing books.

"Yuri the unicorn" is actually a good example. If such a unicorn "exists", he is likely a character in cartoon or comic book. If he's popular, information about him might meaningful and important. Who provides it? The copyright holder? Wikipedia? Whoever registers the URL first? (and don't even start on the question of "does he really exist?")

The web has struggled-with and provided a half-way solution to these problems with the combination search-engine and leaving the decision up to the user. But an effort to create a single authoritative hierarchy of "real world things" will fail and what's a "link to a real-world thing" if it's not authoritative aside from a needless layer of indirection?

Edit: The web's "half-way solution" is actually really good and amazing all considered and the "semantic" efforts to go "forward" from this in many ways seem to be steps backward.
I'm sure he had done that at some point.

He also liked to show off his many other amazing 'mind hacks' such as memorizing everyone's name within the first few minutes of the first day of class. There were almost 100 students in his class and after he said he was done 'doing his thing' he would ask the students to change seats and never sit in the same seat twice for the first week to test him.
Duh... for the pages I tried, it always gives me the "No article at this URL".

I'd like to have some kind of boilerplate removal that works well for forum content (e.g. phpBB and related), and boilerpipe (the library that I tried) gives relatively mixed results.

Does anyone know an existing solution for this?
Boulder has a ton of developers, and really active communities in Ruby, Python and startups. Coffee shops and restaurants downtown at lunch time are a lot like ones in SOMA in SF: there's several tables' worth of nerds sitting around talking software or startups.
Google hires more people per week than left google to join facebook, ever. So I don't think slow decisions are that big of a problem at Google, and seeing their recent moves I think they're pretty determined at staying the agile company easy to be when you're small..
Huh. sounds like a strong counterexample to what I was saying. Interesting.
The $10,000 isn't for the day you do the work, its for all of the other days that made you capable of doing it.
This first iteration doesn't geolocate ... it's on the top of the list for the next release, though!
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I think it'll be very interesting to see people distributing and replicating CouchApps. This could allow us to potentially skip completely the AppStore and have our own CouchAppStore.
This is a great point and something that has been debated extensively over here. I've got a blog post coming to explain our reasoning.

(edit)

Here's my fresh blog post: http://savagethoughts.com/post/3772138359/whats-in-a-name
Agreed. The current confidence you speak of is smoke and mirrors, the arrogance hits a brick wall and turns to depression.

In regards to math through programming, I always wondered how well it would work to have a supervised lab that students could use to write up a program verified as their own. Then, allow the student to use this in coursework. The geeks currently do it behind the scenes with their TI calculators anyway. Of course, increasing complexity of coursework would require them to revisit or rewrite their programs.
As someone who has been down this route, IMO taking the lead, being good-humoured and having sex with a shitload of women is _entirely_ mutually exclusive with not respecting them. It's exactly this kind of thinking that a) makes women feel ashamed about their sexuality (thus making it harder for everyone involved to get laid, especially women) and b) casts the 'seduction community' in an overwhelmingly negative light.

And paying for it is bad for your soul dude.
If you choose not to fund us, not that I'm a pessimist, will you provide any feedback?
Once in a while I find Chromes rendering engine slow down trying to render multiple OKC pages at once. Similar to trying to view TechCrunch only not nearly as bad.
You could let users enter their a city and fetch the data locally via javascript. That way, the usage counts against their IP's API limit, not yours.

Edit: To be more clear, this would only work for showing the data to the user that requests it, not sending it back to the server for other users to see.
There is(!)

As someone who's right in the middle of Mining the Social Web, this almost seems too coincidental to be true.
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When the earth received very first man, it had to welcome so many diseases. With the passage of time on the one hand population was in progress and on the other hand diseases were in the progress.
Cheers Maxer. Good clean useful thoughts I hope :)
Show HN: Arithmetic game for 5-6 year olds
Redis as a recommendation engine
J.K. Rowling once said, "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all. In which case, you fail by default."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkREt4ZB-ck#t=9m11s
We have a separate API for non-article pages (It's called the Follow API). It's not well documented yet, but you can get an idea for it from this demo: http://www.diffbot.com/mobilizer which will turn any webpage into a mobile version. Try putting in http://techcrunch.com or your forum thread page.
Wow, very entertaining promotional video. I wasn't expecting to enjoy sitting through a promo video, but this was very nice. Good job!
For now we are aiming at a use case where developers would embed Couchbase in their app and sell it in the App Store. I kinda doubt Apple would approve for sale (free?) a generic CouchApp player. But still there is lots to gain from being able to sell your CouchApps in the App Store.
Exactly. For instance, if a user is typing in a blog post, right now the flow would be:

1) User submits post

2) I create a page for their post

3) I call your API to analyze the page

4) I update the page with the auto-tags

5) I redirect the user to the post

This is kind of slow. I could do it with AJAX calls too, but it's still an awkward flow. A better flow would be:

1) User submits post.

2) I pass the text of the post to your service.

3) You analyze the text and send me back the tags.

4) I add the tags into the post and create the URL.

5) I redirect the user to the URL.

This is a much more natural flow.

There are other solutions in this space, like Zemanta, but they generally suck. If I enter a term like "social network" into Zemanta it will tell me Google Buzz is a tag... which is ridiculous.
Actually, I think Jetbrains RubyMine is a great IDE for Ruby and Rails apps too, so it's not just for Java. I love the Git integration because I haven't found a good Git GUI for Ubuntu.
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Linda Evangelista is a bad example. She -had- to get out of bed to make money. If she was sick, out of town or otherwise engaged, she couldn't generate revenue. Everything was dependent upon her physically showing up somewhere to do something. Smart people figure out a way to stay in bed and still make the $10k.
Is tpope asleep?
Here's a photo of all of his belongings:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bouldair/5122960153/
>Nokia has always "gotten" the phone side

True, but my current phone N900 is weaker in terms of a phone. It is a hacker's delight with a real terminal, apt-get etc but the phone experience I never really enjoyed much. My earlier phone N95 was better than this.
Yes, except then you're relying on data coming from untrusted users. How long do you think it would take before someone figures out a way to put themselves at the top of the list? ;)

Edit: OK. Assuming you're only looking at data locally, you'll probably run into API limits. Users are only allowed to make 60 requests to the API per minute. My guess is you need more than that to generate these statistics.
I was hoping this would be about a controversial museum exhibit featuring archaic programming languages.
The future, for a little while anyway
My company's 3rd most followed and 3rd most repos in DC! (and I'm 2nd in gists and 6th in repos)

But it's DC so it doesn't count.
A pretty useful collection. I've seen all these sorting algorithms depicted diagramatically previously, but having these all as a collection where you can change the data set and speed of rendering is pretty nice.

Would be a useful teaching aid IMO, as it quite poignantly demonstrates just how slow some of the 'intuitive' (for new programmers) sorting algorithms can be.
That doesn't sound like the answer the founder of OKCupid posted here: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/21323/why-would-okcu...
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Maybe the way they detect you went back to the search result depends on the modern browser functionality.
Are the results for "New York, NY" not mapped to "New York City"? Otherwise I'd be on at least two of those lists. I've never actually tried searching by networks in their api, only by language+filters.

Otherwise, looks nifty.
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The powers that be are only interested in self preservation and nothing else. If you can modify your ideas so that it highlights that point then they will be interested in it.

ITs usually not worth the effort though. Start saving up and quit.
Would this make google's job on removing content aggregator slightly harder?
This is the site you're looking for: http://support.github.com/
Can worry, work, and divorce be healthy?
So what if he can't create wonderful works of art or technology? Does that mean he's either a high school janitor or -if replaced by a robot- should just be a homeless?

What if he hadn't become a janitor in the first place? What if he had spent all of his youth learning about anything that really makes him tick?

I know - lots of "what if's" but that's exactly what I thought when I was a kid, we would get these kind of answers.

Hope some day we can.
That violates the Apple developer ToS. See what happened to Scratch on the iPad.
Nitpicking about the shave? Seriously? He doesn't look unkempt, he looks relaxed and like he's enjoying his life.