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Zed, I'm a robot, so I'm impervious to jokes, especially deadpan sarcastic ones without proper metadata :-)

And I agree with your serious statement. Yay, happy!
He also has a really good TED talk - http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code....

He talks about how people's moral standards and decisions are influenced by the environment they are put in.
In case you've heard of a "corporate hit job" but never knew what one looked like; rest easy. It looks like this.
Apple has released iOS 4.3
From radioactive decay of plutonium. According to Wikipedia, its power cell is expected to last until at least 2025.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Power
Knuth invented the literate programming methodology and the literate programming tool WEB to write TeX. It is a mistake to say Knuth could ignore all the rules in writing TeX because he was a genius. He could ignore the standard methodology because he had a much better one---literate programming.

Knuth attributes his ability to single-handedly write huge bug-free computer programs like TeX, Metafont, the Stanford GraphBase, and the MMIX simulator to literate programming. In his FAQ, he answers the question "What is your favorite programming language?" with CWEB, the literate programming tool that is the descendent of WEB (and was also written using literate programming).

Knuth has been pushing literate programming for a very long time. He wrote a book on the subject ("Literate Programming"), and a book that was full of examples of literate programs (The Stanford GraphBase), as well as his books containing the literate programs for TeX, Metafont, CWEB, and the MMIX simulator. Still most programmers or computer scientists I talk to about it have never heard of literate programming. Given that he's probably the most famous and respected computer scientist in the world, it's quite astonishing. This web-post is another example of ignoring what Knuth himself says about why he can program so well.
Ahahahaha no.

Even if that's true, I, for one, despise the idea of any kind of audio autoplay for the web, be that flash or html5. If that breaks web games -- tough luck.

I might be OK with some kind of whitelist, though -- same way it works e.g. for large off-line storage. But I like my games and audio editing software native anyway, thankyouverymuch.
> but managed to lead to an acquisition and most NeXT people took control position at Apple.

I like to joke that, in reality, Apple was acquired by NeXT for minus 400 million.
Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine
Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants
They almost certainly aren't selling it below cost. Rooting them has been common for months, and even if they can't stop it completely they could easily put up speedbumps like not unconditionally booting off the SD card. I'd expect they make a small profit even if you root it and never buy any books from them, and they're hoping that most rooters will. Which may be a good bet; I got mine a week ago and will be picking up some books shortly for an upcoming trip.
VMWare View Lets iPad Users Access Corporate Desktops
Java 4-ever Trailer - Pretty funny
Very cute.

By the way, I've seen several "programmers dating services" with a purpose of finding mutual mentors
I totally agreed with the headline, but the evidence in the article doesn't really support it. You might as well say that water is more important than sleep, because you die if you go more than about 3 days without water. The length of time your body can go without something has little relation to how your body acts when deprived of small amounts of that thing, or how it acts when faced with short-term, quickly corrected deficiencies.

Heck, breathing is more important than all those things. Go without it for 4 minutes and you're dead. However, many people recommend controlling and slowing your breathing as a way to relax. Is that breathing deprivation?
IMO -

"you end up getting a lot of people who're in it for the lifestyle to be cool, as opposed to here where people are into programming because they truly love it"

You know the wrong designers, or the right programmers, or both. I know many designers who love what they do - and to be honest, it's probably just harder to love what you do when you make less for it.

"here where people are into programming because they truly love it"

You're on HN - these people OPT IN to talking about programming because they love it. You're not seeing all the people that do it but don't love it. The OP was looking for the HN of design - the place where designers OPT IN because they love it.

As for the "hostility," I imagine you can find hostility and contempt in the top ranks of any discipline. But certainly not from everyone - I know a number of excellent, passionate designers who are the opposite of hostile. The most hostility I've ever seen from the design community is around the issue of spec work, and I understand it - if your wage-earning craft was being devalued, you would likely be hostile towards the culprits as well.
While TeX is great, the language is really get long in the tooth.

Had amazing fun this morning, trying to put a \begin{verbose}...\end{verbose} section inside another command, getting the most insane error messages. In the end I just gave up, and wrote things a different way.
8 hours of battery life
Could applications such as PhoneGap be used to fill the void regarding audio on mobile devices? It's a shame that as the profits of app stores continue to rise, there is less motivation to promote and expand open standards.
I don't think I understand you.

What do you think about the other questions I asked?
It seems obvious that Apple's interests don't coincide with fully functional cross platform mobile apps. Getting people to build with objective C and native code helps lock in and ensures that any sales go through their payment platform. If you don't think Apple has been moving in this way (anti-cross platform dev tools, requiring sales to use the iTunes payments) you simply haven't been paying honest attention.
Max - we might need some help soon, too. Shoot me a note if you are interested.
About a year ago I set up a series of about 10 filters that essentially do the same function. This is definitely a useful Lab for people who don't want to spend 30 minutes setting up their own custom system.
Question: Does youtube work o.k. over it? flash? Generally want to know if there are any problems with streaming video or audio.
I think of the Macbook air as the competitor to most netbooks only in form factor/physical keyboard functionality but definitely not in price. Most users are using the iPads casually but the adoption in corporate IT environments and in other "professional" settings is compelling (FAA just approved the use of iPads for pilots to replace paper charts/logs) and many hospitals are using iPads.
I'm not sure about CRM specifically, but certainly various serious companies are aware of the EU data protection rules and take specific steps to comply. For example, I've been looking at off-site back-up for one of my companies recently, and while talking to Mozy they confirmed unambiguously and with specific details that any data from my company (in the UK) that was backed up using their service would be held in various protected ways in specific data centres within the protected area.

If you're in a business like that, where people are trusting you with that kind of sensitive information, I think you expect that serious customers are going to ask and they're going to need straight answers. I would agree that this is a barrier to entry for start-ups, but I think if you're trying to enter that kind of market but you aren't in a position to provide that level of service, you're already dead anyway.
Show HN: My weekend project, language immersion with Twitter
I had this kind of relationship with a designer / photographer I worked on a side project with a couple of years back. He'd have no idea how to implement something if it required more than just hacking on already-existing code, but he had a great eye for detail and was excellent at not letting something sit unfinished. So I would talk out with him the various features we could add, then we'd agree on what to pursue, I'd get it up and running and he'd clean up parts, file bugs and be a good partner for getting the full widget out the door. At my day job I'm usually the one re-architecting something-or-other on the back end when I know I should be doing more mundane things more of the time.
How we found a name for our startup
I think that #4 is extremely important and rarely mentioned. It's much easier to go to bed earlier guilt-free, and to fall asleep once you're there, knowing that you have accounted for ideas-in-progress, you have acknowledged loose ends and unfinished tasks that need to be completed on the following day(s), and that you'll be able to pick up where you left off.
On the other hand, how passionate was pg about viaweb?
I'd say the "higher end game apps" are PDK apps, often because they're just porting existing iOS code. They have no need for the HTML UI.

With OS 2.x there are now options for hybrid apps as well - native code, but HTML UI. And the option to do backend work as node.js based services.

Essentially they've got a great mixed model depending on what you want to build.

All HTML/JS in the app.
Or abstract backend services but still code in js (node.js).
Or ditch all that and write a native code app with its own custom UI.
Or write a native code plugin with HTML UI.
Launch, as in end of product, it's "finished", it's in the wild, you're on your own we will now work on IE 10?

Or launch like the rest of the software development world now operates and push out updates on a regular basis, with new features and better standards support, leading to something that actually has a chance of competing with the browsers the rest of us love to use?

'Cause I think it was around 2000 that people started realizing that monolithic development and release cycles lead to failed products. Software needs to be, and can be, updated constantly, or it falls behind. If this launch is like all other IE launches, it will be a day we will all look back on with disappointment. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Microsoft actually become a modern development house, but I have huge doubts that it could ever happen.
>Also, there's a problem with the 3g network component that prevents the nook from sleeping unless it's in airplane mode.

You are running Android on the Nook 3G with the black and white (eink) screen?
Steve and Chris where friends.

They had the one thing friends have, shared history.

So in the semi words of Wolfram.

"You have to run the program before you can know how it will evolve"

That does not mean that it wouldn't be good with a dating service but it's not going to bring Steves and Chris together IMHO.
My single-VPS-hosted app spends a lot of time waiting on DB queries, which themselves spend a lot of time waiting on disk I/O.

I've therefore found that adding RAM and doing nothing with it so it can be used as disk cache (or, for Postgres, allocating some of it as shared_buffers) is the best non-non-blocking solution.

(I'd originally allocated almost all RAM to running up to 16 or so Passenger instances. Once more than 3 or 4 of these were serving requests, everything ground to a halt waiting on the DB. Now I'm down to about 4 instances, with the rest of the RAM for cache, and they cope fine with the same load).
I don't want to host every WordPress blog in the world -- too much trouble. :) Also not how the internet should work. This gives you the best of decentralized and centralized. Many of the third-party hosts are doing crazy-nice stuff already with scaling and failover, they just don't market it in a Heroku-manner because their standard pricing works so well. (The launch partners for Jetpack have close to 2B in revenue collectively.)
awesome, then i just create the createst magazine ever and make it language header dependend.

oh, googlebot does not use language headers? well an seo could have told you that........
Is the Square reader a security hole?  Yes and no.  (But mostly no.)
See also: http://twiteye.com/

That one is more scrolly, and searches for a bit more than just 'app' ideas.
We're trying to remove all the barriers you used to have to hosting WP yourself, from ease of upgrading to the cool social features on WP.com that are in or coming to Jetpack.
I wonder if any studies have been done on the relationship between sleep and deliberate practice.

I find that I need a pretty consistent 8 hours of sleep a night for normal operation. However, I've found that when I'm doing something challenging (say, a startup or a new project at work, or learning a new programming framework), this spikes upwards fast. I need about 9.5 hours when doing something moderately challenging, and up to 11 hours if it's a problem that requires my absolute full attention.

I remember reading somewhere a hypothesis that sleep exists so that your mind can convert short term working memory into long-term memory. Naturally, you would need more of this if your short-term working memory is more filled up with complicated stuff. But this goes at odds with the cultural practices at Caltech or MIT or med school - if it's true, you should structure the curriculum so that students work very hard during the day, but then have enough time to go home and sleep it off before learning the next day's lesson. I wonder if there's any research on this.

I find I also dream very vividly when working on a hard problem, but this could just be correlation, as REM cycles increase in frequency toward the end of the night, and if the night is extended, there ought to be more of them.
Great! And thanks for including blekko!
Why link to TechCrunch, why not link to the original source, as requested in the guidelines? Look, here is a submission to the actual Google blog post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305782
Something I'd be very interested to see are the ideas that multiple people are asking for.

And then the next thing I would want is a fast way to throw up an ad for the app in question, just to see how many clicks it gets.
Git Dumb HTTP Transport to be turned off in 90 days
Opting into a lifestyle does not mean that they opt in to the work, it's that they opt in to the culture that surrounds the work. It's like a music fan, but one who professes to be a musician because he likes the concept of music. There's a ton of designers who hate the work, but design because it's "cool." If a programmer's only in it for the money, he doesn't go home and sit on a forum talking about the profession.

Because of this, most of the places where people care about the abstract excellence of work in itself have vetting requirements, where the newcomer has to prove themselves before entering, not in participating on the forum.
I think that's the issue many folks have. You coast up the salary band at a big corporate or public sector employer and get accustomed to a $100k gig coordinating paperclip management or something. At big companies especially, it's easy to turn into an specialist on the processes within the company instead of whatever your job title is.

Meanwhile, your marketable skills have eroded to the point that you no longer fit where you feel you should.
Secret Fears of the Super-Rich
I swear half of the web is just re-implementing stuff like IRC and finger and ytalk that have been around for nearly a quarter century.

Wish I had realized this 10 years ago.
Malcolm Gladwell Touches on the Role Social Media Played in Egypt Video
Does it have to be? There are only 133 Medical Schools in the U.S. and there is a marked shortage of doctors in some areas, most notably general family doctors.

The only area that learning how to deal with sleep deprivation would be a benefit is surgery and critical care areas (ICUs). But then again, if you could schedule things better and get more doctors in, maybe these doctors don't have to learn how to function on 5 hours of sleep.

I think you're right to the extent that the current medical service system requires doctors to learn to sleep less and less while functioning on an acceptable level (note that I didn't say satisfactory or even exceptional). But I think that's begging the question. Shouldn't we be able to change the current system and allow doctors to focus on building skills/knowledge, not the ability to function without sleep.

tl;dr: sleep deprivation is not a necessary part of being a doctor if we change the system, so saying that doctors must learn how to deal with sleep deprivation is a circular argument.
While not a game changing feature for most people here (since most people have their own filters that do this), it's a great feature for the non-techies using GMail.

GMail does a great job of keeping everyone happy. An example is how they added "Folders" (edit: it's called 'move to', but it's basically folders) for people who didn't understand labels, without ruining labels.
Hey,

Sure. It depends on which kinds of projects you usually get though (most of the time we develop WordPress sites). We try to keep the questionnaires as short as possible, while gathering all the info we need.

For the Project Planner we ask things such as (In parenthesis how this helps us):

- What do you need a website for? (The GOAL)

- Do you need dynamic content? How often? (CMS or not?)

- What action(s) should the user perform when visiting your site? (Which CMS? Are there plugins for this?)

- How many sections will your website have? (How many screens we'll need to design)

- What's your budget? (Is the client a fit?)

As for the client worksheet:

- In which market does your business operate? (Helps with research)

- What sets you apart from the competition? Please provide competitor URLs. (What can we focus in to make it stand out)

- Briefly describe the need you seek to solve. (What we'll focus on)

- Color preferences (We also suggest using colourlovers.com to send us a palette if they want to. Otherwise we pick the colors)

- List two or three sites that you like, either how they look or the way they work (Usually they'll like a certain format or UX)

---

LMK if you have any other questions.
Hope this helps!
> The bigger battles for privacy still need to be fought.

They do, but you have to start somewhere, and at least this is a step in the right direction.

My personal view is that a privacy backlash is building. For the past decade or so, we have lived under an unwelcome combination of commercial interests who now have the technology to conduct mass surveillance and government interests whose politics is governed by fear, which in turn drives the surveillance state. I think it's becoming increasingly obvious that the cost/benefit in both cases doesn't justify the price we're paying, and it's starting to be the common guy or girl in the street who is asking questions and not just the privacy advocates and civil liberties campaigners.

As debates like this one start to hit mainstream media like the BBC, the political winds will shift, helped by the fact that many of the over-reactionary post-9/11 government administrations have now been shown the door so the political resistance is lower. As long as those of us who care can keep building the momentum, and the global picture remains more one of hope as dubious governments are falling than one of fear after a string of terrorist attacks, I think we'll start to build a more reasonable regulatory framework for protecting privacy when it's important to do so, without unduly disrupting useful innovations.
Not to be too snarky, but your profile shows you've been a member for less than a year -- complaining about the "new kids" is rather ironic.
I agree, it reminded me of the Woot! acquisition letter (which appears to no longer be up), but is largely excerpted here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100630/15230910030.shtml

It does sort of make you wonder what the reasoning is behind the stilted and formal marketing speak that is everywhere. How can that possibly be effective? Is it all just CYA and writing in such a way that nobody could possibly take offense to it?
Has anyone else interpreted this title + link like this:

Jetpack to the WP.com Cloud: Jet pack me!
To be clear I think that being unemployed, in of itself, isn't sufficient reason to bring lawsuit. But, as stated in the video, if unemployed status is a suitable proxy for a protected group then its a problem. So it has to live in some context.

People can use whatever metric they want for hiring, IMO. But when the metric is used as a means to get around other laws then its a problem (for example, a bank saying, "We won't hire people that listen to Lil Wayne"). I thought that's what the crux of the argument was about from the video.
Actually, Nintendo dropped that strategy with the most recent console generation (Wii) and look to be doing the same thing with the 3DS (their new portable). Wii hardware was sold at a profit from day 1. They were the underdog compared to Sony and Microsoft, who can subsidize their console businesses with money from their more profitable core businesses.

http://www.infendo.com/nintendo-3ds-wont-be-sold-at-a-loss-s...

The tradeoff they made was using significantly cheaper, lower-performance hardware, skipping HD and leaning on the uniqueness of the motion control tech to move units. It proved to be brilliant, and while Sony and Microsoft's console business struggled for years, Nintendo's been raking in the profits.

Unfortunately, the Nooks have tried to compete on hardware features and don't have any disruptive technology equivalent to the motion controls. The Kindle is the simplest, cheapest ebook reader out there, so if their competitors want to do a loss-leader strategy, they'll need a bigger subsidy than Amazon.
In an ideal world, yes. However, in the real world, most high paying advertising campaigns are retargeting based, thus requiring cross domain tracking. Excluding such tracking limits you to lower paying campaigns and remnant backfill. Most publishers are simply forced to accept such policies otherwise their earnings would reduce significantly.
I hear people whine about their VPS hosting costs at the same time as enjoying $100 of booze and cheese at the bar.
On a side note, if you are looking to develop a bot using a standard HTTP service hosted anywhere using any language (not just Python and Java) with a better domain name (@bot.im as compared to @appspot.com), you could try http://www.imified.com/

The good thing about appengine though is that everything is so well integrated that you don't really have to look to piecing together the parts.
Students use Crowd Intelligence w/ Support Vector Machine for SMS Spam filtering
I have a Kindle and have considered a Nook because they're color, and travel guides absolutely suck and are pretty much worthless in low-res black and white (maps, for example, on a Kindle are unreadable and too tiny to even give vaguely useful details). Since I have an ebook reader because I travel full-time and can't keep more than a couple of physical books on hand at any given time, it's sort of annoying that I have to buy physical travel guides, and then give them away when I meet someone heading to where I've just visited.

I wonder how good the Frommer's and Lonely Planet guides are on Nook...
As a highschool student, I can tell you that the problem isn't limited to just the top universities; most of my friends and I get around 6 hours of sleep a night, and it's definitely not enough. Some nights I've gotten as little as 2 or 3 hours, but I disagree that this is the best way to learn material, because I don't remember a) any of the material I was studying or b) anything I may have learned in class the next day.
I didn't even notice they added "folders". But yeah... not going to use this.
The NYC Python meetup is terrific. Tons of smart people there. There's a huge crossover with the Django meetup. NYC Ruby is good too. You should consider the Web Performance meetup if you want to know about web architecture.

There are fundamentals courses at General Assembly, and it's a good environment.
The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)