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I'm using Zencoder on a new project, and I've been deeply impressed at both the ease of getting started, and the quality of the tech support. Their API builder lets me fill out a form, and it automatically displays the HTTP headers and the necesary JSON.

There's a certain value to simplicity.
It's an addon
Microsoft’s OneVision shows off the future of facial recognition
AirBnB - http://www.airbnb.com/

This looks like an interesting option for finding a place to crash while sorting out long term living arrangements.
I disagree. He has made a lot of money in a 99-cent market populated by those particular readers. There's nothing to say that there isn't a 99-cent harlequin romance market, a 99-cent pulp sci-fi market, a 99-cent hard sci-fi market, a 99-cent cookbook ma-- you get the idea. Sure, there will be a lot of overlap in readers, but I don't think one or two people will flood all of those markets anytime soon.
I think pair programming can be very effective even if both participants are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. In fact, the Chris/Steve example sounds more like traditional division of labor than pair programming. If memory serves me in classic Pair Programming the two partners work concurrently at the same workstation, not sequentially.
I think it's very creative. It really got my attention and made me curious.

I agree with SethBroomer concerning 'itsworthit." I was looking for a bigger payoff than the well done layout and curious quotes.

I was looking for a big point to be made at the end. "How is dayri.me a brand new way?" Is the question I left with.
Going through an exact same experience with launching a mobile product in time for SXSW.

And likewise I'm not the one that's in the frontlines coding, I'm merely facilitating. Even then when day in and day out all you see are Basecamp threads, Google Docs, mockups, copy, rejection emails, unanswered phone calls, crashes after crashes after crashes... it wears. Wears like a too tight body suit; turns out doubt attacks like a python would.

I take solace in the relinquished wisdom of men of higher caliber, fighting tougher battles, and understanding more of life:

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill
I'm not sure if your links are out of date or what, but the MacBook Pro you linked to is $2,548 with AppleCare, not $2,768. It also has a 750GB drive, not a 500GB drive.

The listed HP with 4GB of memory (down from the standard 6), a 750GB drive upgrade, Windows 7 Pro and a $199 warranty costs $1702 according to the supplied link.

That means a difference of $846 at the end of the day. $150 of that difference is simply the higher cost of AppleCare vs. HP extended warranty.

Even then, if you consider the life-span of this machine to be on the order of three to four years, which is not unreasonable, then that's a premium of about $16 to $22 a month amortized over that time-frame.
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There is work to give the user more control over this that unfortunately didn't make it into Firefox 4 [1], but ultimately it's a battle that can't be won; on the desktop, apps can modify other apps. I suspect that this will happen to Chrome too.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596343
This is kind of a silly title.

Of course Microsoft is working on the XBox 360 successor.

In other news Sony is working on a PlayStation 3 successor and Nintendo is working on the Wii's successor.

They just may not be announced for a couple of years.
congrats, I love theses guys and the service is super useful. Can't wait to see what they do next
A whole new genre of music concrete[1] has just been born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te
Steve's are a dime a dozen, however a good Steve is priceless. A lot of big decisions are made by the Steve's and if they are the wrong ones being made it turns into a nightmare for the Chris'.

I'm usually only willing be my own Chris and not someone elses unless I know the Steve involved and respect his work.
Does CoffeeScript include an optimizer/minifier? Google's "Closure" Compiler for JavaScript is able to inline functions and perform other interesting optimizations.
The Earth is about 12% the luminosity from Voyager's perspective now as it was in 1990; that camera might still be able to image it, at least on its own.

But a bigger problem might be the Earth getting lost in the Sun. When the image was taken in 1990, the Earth was something like 1.4 degrees from the Sun at most, and that was close enough for the nearby Sun to cause the imaging artifact that shows up as the apparent sunbeam the pale blue dot is suspended in; at the same time, NASA said they couldn't image Mercury because it was too close to the Sun, when Mercury was about one half degree away from the Sun at most. The Earth is now about one half degree away from the Sun at most, at Voyager's current distance (assuming my back-of-the-envelope math is correct for all of the above).
There's almost certainly a spectrum here. I'd say I'm somewhere in between Steve and Both.

Someone should make a politicalcompass.org type test that plots your Steveiness and Chrisiness.
What's even more amazing is that HP can produce a machine like that while paying a very heavy Microsoft tax to include Windows. Apple can bundle it in pretty much at no cost to themselves.
Hacker Dojo does not. In fact, we have BYOB Happy Hours every Friday at 6pm. Come on by, I'll give anybody a tour!
I'm used to Firefox 3.6 on Win7. There are a few reasons why it's my go-to browser when I'm using Windows:

1) Plug-ins like Firebug, web dev toolbar, greasemonkey, and resizeable textarea

2) Tabs are well-placed and readable, and you can simply double-click next to tabs to open a new tab

3) A proper status bar that's always visible

4) A full menu bar

5) No Adobe Flash built-in

I've installed Firefox 4 RC. The colors are loud. Tabs are on top, tab text is illegible, and double-clicking next to tabs doesn't create a new tab (it simply resizes the browser window). The status bar and the menu bar are gone. I couldn't even find Firebug and Greasemonkey.

Luckily, a few of these unfortunate decisions can be reversed. Apparently, you can turn on an "add-on bar" to show the controls for Firebug and Greasemonkey. You can also opt for a top menu bar, which has the added benefit that it re-enables the "double-click to create new tab" behavior.

IMHO, the new UI sucks balls. If Mozilla wanted to copy Chrome/Safari's UI, they've succeeded.

EDIT: After viewing some of my websites in Firefox 4, I must say that CSS3 and text rendering is a lot better than in FF 3.6. From what I can tell, it's on par with Chrome. I just wish it didn't have its UI as well.
Automattic Launches Jetpack, Gives WordPress.org Users WordPress.com Perks
Maybe the parent is willing but will every undergrad with only a passing interest in running or developing open source software be willing?
China Switches To Homegrown CPUs For Supercomputers
Funny Motivational Joke (MUST READ =] ) 
So I was on my Facebook, and I stumbled on something extremely funny, so I thought I ought to share it with my favorite community.

This guy posted a motivational quote on his feed, he wrote "Success is when you fail over and over again"

One dude commented on the feed "dude, that's called a loser".

I just thought it was really funny =) I guess lesson of the day is that it's okay to fail, but it's essential to learn from your mistakes? Just a food for thought. -KG
There's also exceptions (financial hardship), special arrangements made on a case by case basis

http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25447/JoinTheDojo
Right click on a UI button and disable tabs on top + enable the menu bar. Firefox isn't Chrome -- it doesn't force you into its workflow or mode of thought.
sounds like that belongs on failbook.com
Wow, sorry to hear that, sounds like a story you'll carry with you. Who was Chris and who was Steve, or were you both a mix?
Ditch Apache for Nginx, Lighttpd, Cherokee, etc.
If that's what the upvote arrow is for then I may have been using it wrongly; I often upvote comments that I disagree with, if they add something to the discussion.

(I'm with you on not simply commenting "I agree", which is what I assume the gpp said. It would be good to add something to the discussion as well)
Understanding the secret life of message boards
Hacker Dojo has a happy hour with mojitos every Friday around 6pm. Come by and say hi!
Works fine for me on Chrome 9 in Snow Leopard. What problems are you seeing?
PG wrote an influential article "The Plan For Spam" some years ago (early 2000s because it was old when I entered industry) describing spam filtering using a naive Bayesean filter, a technique which was not totally unknown but which was subsequently widely adopted. It works pretty well, especially since you can chain it with other things like (probably the biggest one) IP based reputation. One popular implementation, PoPFile, was by fellow HNer John Graham-Cumming. For years I had an unfortunate hash collision and thought they were the same people.

Spam researcher hat off.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2278339
haha totally
I'm fed up with Gmail lately. Priority Inbox is a mess. And lots of mail keeps going to 'Spam', which before I moved was hidden. Most 'Spam' is from my support ticket software. I mark it 'Not spam', and it still goes there. Perhaps it's time for someone to release a simple online mail service..
Honestly, I'm not clear what your point is. Are you saying:

1) Racists should put up signs that say, "Coloreds need not apply?" Because that will save you time from applying there (if you were Black).

or

2) They should put up a sign that says, "If you haven't worn sunscreen in the past decade, you need not apply?" That way they effectively screen out Black people w/o having to seem racist.

or

3) They shouldn't say anthing, and presumably waste your time applying? (This seems to clearly not be what you're saying, but I through it in there for completeness).

Have I missed an alternative?

In any case, regarding discrimination cases, there are plenty that are actually won by employees. While you'd like to think racists and sexists are smart enough to at least keep their mouth shut, enough of them apparently aren't so.

I haven't seen a lot of race based discrimination in the tech industry (what I have is usually against Asian/Indians), but I've seen a LOT of sex discrimination. I've even written an affidavit on behalf of a woman, based on discussions I had during annual review with her manager.

So yes, it is hard to prove. And if they were smart, nearly impossible. But still doesn't mean the laws should be off the books or ignored.
Great! I joined as well. Into_Now has a feature where you can choose to post what you're watching to Facebook. This might be a good feature for you site and help connect people. Good luck!
The Dojo is a little bit more expensive so that we can improve the space for coworkers -- stuff like buying spare monitors, desks, chairs, heating & cooling, etc.

There's no overhead -- 100% of the member's cash goes into rent & improving the space. We have bi-weekly meetings where members can see how their money gets used.
I'm most interested in the comments about the effect of lowering the price to 99c. Personally the price point and ease of purchase is key for me; I'll pay up to the cost of a cup of coffee for something if I think it will entertain me for a few minutes.

As soon as the price point is over a cup of coffee I need to think for a little bit if I care enough to buy something, and most of the time I don't think it's worth the mental effort of deciding if I want something enough at that point.

(As an interesting side note, indie PC games can cost two cups of coffee before I need to think about their purchase. That's just the valuation I fell into without planning.)
This is a lot harder than just paying $4.99 for Xcode, but I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt GNUstep's developer tools to Cocoa development.
Node Deployment Recipes
Forum shopping in defamation cases to avoid anti-SLAPP statutes
For a drop-dead simple consumer experience, you're overly positioned for the tech market. Your average consumer doesn't care that it's social- they care that their 3GS can actually record video and put it on their facebook wall. You should be communicating that better on your site, in your name, and in your PR....

There are going to be a million social applications launching at SXSW. You have a head start, so I hope you're buying downloads to get ranked in the store and capitalize on your momentum. What premium features do you guys have in the works?
Free Xcode 4 Screencasts
I'm using sound manager on http://hackernewsradio.com as well. Right now I am just forcing flash. I had too many problems with html5 audio.

I really wanted speex encoded audio but that is not an option. If I remember correctly Opera handled streaming speex/ogg like a champ. Firefox may have worked... I can't remember. Everything else sucked.
I went to the Dojo for a few events when I went to school in the Bay Area. It sold me as a welcoming community and a safe space for exploring new ideas. I'm considering relocating to the Bay just so that I'll have access to the TechShop and HackerDojo communities.

Something that would normally take months takes only a few weeks when you are surrounded by people who are working towards the same goal cheering you on.
New indie film site hopes to "replicate the film festival experience"
Breakout Apps of SXSW 2011.
That sounds more like a problem with academia than Apple. Just sayin'.
Our startup is http://redditgifts.com - we are hoping to inspire people to be kind and think about the giving before the receiving. We hope to expand our project to other charitable (if even between 2 people) avenues. In our first year of operation we have proven that this works, can scale and can provide revenue as well as good will!
It's not just the initial download, but the multi-GB updates that are shipped out every few months. I swear I've downloaded 100GB of XCode related material in the last two years.
I switched to chrome after trying to use Minefield for about a month. Minefield was ugly - I just couldn't get it to look perfect. Chrome has all the extensions I need now. Firefox doesn't have anything special in my opinion. Chrome is faster and light weight. I just wish it had a tab preview like Firefox's "Tab Scope" and a proper title in the titlebar.
How to Deploy a Rails app to EC2 in less than an hour using Rubber
Solar panels have only been practical out to missions to Mars or the asteroid belt at farthest. For any more distant mission, nuclear power has been the only feasible power source, in the form of RTGs at least. Spaceborne nuclear reactors have long been contemplated for providing much higher levels of power.
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education (video)
First (Raw) Screenshots of SaberBlast.com
3 of mashable's SXSW breakout companies are Dogpatchers
Technically, your operating system's security model allows this. There's little Firefox could do to prevent it.

This is a historical accident; only toy and mobile OSes have any sort of application-level access control.
Considering the "circumvention" is inserting an SD card and turning it on, I doubt that would trigger the DMCA. The only question is whether the image that you burn to the card contains copyrighted B&N software, which I don't believe it does; it just installs additional software that grants root access.

Installing the Android Market, Gmail, and other non-opensource Google apps is probably not legal, but Google has shown a deliberate lack of interest in preventing that.
do all the browsers that support the meta tag support consuming http headers for this "switch"?
would love to get feedback on this :)
I'm on the Cleveland bus. To say that this has been an amazing experience wouldn't do it justice. I have learned more in the last two days than I have in a long long time. Constraints do indeed breed creativity.
The under-appreciation of the misunderstood: Amazon and Google
When the software costs only a few bucks more than the DVD you could burn it on and warez it from a friend, and a fraction of the price of the USB stick it would fit on, you know you're being cheap.
Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor
38, "Crhis", Vista and Linux
Plus until recently you couldn't use a gift card in Canada to purchase anything in the AppStore. Or an American paypal balance, or a canadaian checking account through a verified American paypal account.
iMacros for Firefox is still way more powerful than iMacros for Chrome. Same is true for many other "low level" extensions such as Firebug.
What a bunch of marshmallow-loving 4-year-olds know about winning at life
Didn't Paul Graham actually describe something more involved than a naive Bayesean filter?
>Report mis-categorized email from the 'Reply' dropdown menu.
At least as I read http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html, it is an ontology for disagreements.

Seiji's comment is not phrased as a disagreement, but rather a statement about how people will perceive your views. When the way people perceive a statement is important, predictions about how the statement will be perceived is as or more important than the truth of falsity of the statement.

In terms of your hierarchy; I don't think that the take-home message from your hierarchy should be 'only ever say things that could be classified as DH6'. Discourse from authority or lack thereof has no place in scholarly correspondence of any form; everything should be based on the evidence available. However, non-experts often don't have the background or patience to evaluate claims about a certain field well enough to distinguish good reasoning from crank reasoning.

Arguments from authority are therefore sometimes necessary to convince people on things they aren't experts in, and an argument against this authority can be an appropriate response (e.g. arguments like 'this person is saying things at odds with what 99.9% of scientists in the relevant field say, and are making claims that are outside their area of expertise', or 'this person has a serious conflict of interest in saying that').

The YouTube video doesn't work for me with either gnash or Adobe SWF player (YouTube normally works, I don't know why this one doesn't - maybe geographic restrictions) so I can't respond to the content of the video. The title is certainly an appeal to authority - "PG says this".
you have neglected to take into consideration the cost of running a hosted DNS. Costs for DNS service for any large traffic site is an important consideration.
If you install KatMouse (http://ehiti.de/katmouse/) it boosts Windows' scrolling functionality so you can scroll background windows without giving them the focus or bringing them to the front. (Like Mac OS X supports). Not a fight, just a must-have accessory.
Okay, I'll bite. "Amish Bread Syndrome"? The Googles do nothing.
Thanks for the tip, it does help. I've since edited my comment.
Consumer marketing is hard, the people are flighty.
I get the impression everybody is preaching to the choir here for the most part.
True. It's similar to the advice I've heard to read fiction right before bed instead of non-fiction to ease your mind into rest.
> If Mozilla wanted to copy Chrome/Safari's UI, they've succeeded

They haven't succeeded because they still see the need for both a search box and an address box and the tabs don't close right under where the last close button was (my biggest gripes).
Just as a side note that nicely illustrates how politics may interfere with this, when I got my first Apple II (a II+) it was actually a clone (http://orbita.starmedia.com/~cobit2/propagandas/exato_ago85....). At that time, importing computers to Brazil was prohibited. If I wanted to travel abroad, law mandated strict limits on how much money I could carry and buying an Apple II directly would be impossible. There were alternatives, smugglers that could bring almost anything you wanted, but then it would be a crime...
Show HN: Basic Feature
Being a dev and covering support means I see a lot of feature requests. A lot of them are totally valid requests written by nice people. On the other hand, there's also a lot that fall somewhere between silly and insane, and often hilarious. It happens often enough that I want to curate a list of the funnier stories, and so the idea for this site was born.

http://basicfeature.com/

Of course, the site is nothing without content. If you're a programmer you've probably got a few good ones, so consider this a call for submissions. I'm only looking for dev-related stuff, not design; clientsfromhell.net is already doing a great job in that department. Any feedback about the idea is welcome!
Microsoft Sells 10 Million Kinects and Breaks Record
http://www.armchair.com/recipe/bake002.html
Why do they even need to compile on your system? They should be shipping binaries for 99.99999% of the users out there and an easy way to recompile for that last gentoo holdout ^W^WHPC system.
Settings > Labels > Show in label list > show if unread
Planned 72-84 hour dev weeks? I don't want to throw stones here because everyone has ended up in an impossible situation at some point, but I'd still prefer to hear some owning up to it being a management failure. If for no other reason than to not give the impression to up and coming CEO/CTO/Dev Managers that crunching to that degree is a normal part of software development.

Not a dis, just an observation.
I turned this on and a ton of my auto archived mail started showing up in my inbox. Seems cool though but I immediately turned it off.
Here are a few more suggestions from a comment in the post:

1) Wake up at the same time every morning.
2) Eat light in the evening, but have a small, low carb/sugar snack before bed.
3) Eat breakfast every day.
4) Drink caffeine before short (less than 25 minute) naps.
5) Ensure your bedroom is as dark as possible at night, and as light as possible when you wake up.
6) Sleep in the cold.
7) Stay away from bright light sources before bed (TVs, computers, bright house lights).

source: http://disq.us/1dlnu0
It's been said many times that there is no such thing as an original idea, that everything created in the world is a derivative of or inspired by something else. For the most part I think this is true but it also depends on how you define originality. If you're a purist, which is sounds like you are, then originality is extremely hard to achieve. I mean, the very essence of inspiration means being inspired by the idea, words or work of someone or something else. I think a better way thing to strive for is creating something useful, something that brings people joy and/or improves their lives. In the end, if you're work is derivative of something else, who cares, as long as it's not plagarism and you've made meaningful changes or improvements that differentiates your product from the inspiration - then originality starts to not matter so much. Don't start by trying to reinvent the wheel - maybe start out by trying to make it better or more useful for a particular group of people.

Good luck!
Ogg/Vorbis works just fine in Safari on my Macs. That's because Safari as far as I can tell is neutral when it comes to audio--it plays whatever you have Quicktime support for and I have installed Ogg/Vorbis.
The Googles lead me to Amish Friendship Bread, which requires a starter that you have to get from someone else. Thus, without the starter you can't compile your bread from sources. At least, that's the best I can come up with in three minutes. :)
It sounds interesting, but what amazed me most is soundcloud working on iPhone.
Well no, you can't look at it that way. The fact that Chrome is no longer significantly better is hardly a reason to get excited about FF4 :)
Really found this article inspiring. I wrote a small commentary on it in my journal.

http://www.melissaannmartin.com/the-human-skills/