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Review my startup, nuninu.com
Hi all!

We just created a website and we badly needed your honest feedback. Nuninu.com is a freelancing website which focus mainly on photo editing. It provide two basic services:

1) For the photographers:
It provides a high-quality photo-editing service without having to pay upfront. The photos will be edited, post processed or retouched without any obligation, you will only pay when you are happy with the edited version of your photo. Your pictures may be edited by a lot of editors, this means you will have more options in choosing the best version of your photo.

2) For the editors:

It will give you the opportunity to harness your skills in editing/retouching photos by taking any project or all of the projects available, and will get paid if the photographers choose your version. You control how much you are charging for your service.

http://nuninu.com
I have spent more than 30 minutes of my time giving you suggestions for your service and outlining challenges that lie ahead.

If the about.me and appeal remarks seemed hostile, it was because I didn't know that I was talking to one of the creators. (Like I've said before, HN need to highlight that somehow.)

If that's not positive, I honestly don't know what is. And to give you some honest advice (I know how you hate that, though), your attitude to feedback isn't going to help you succeed. Quite the contrary.

Helping people is a little like being a parent; to your children, you're a parent first, and a friend second. You may have to make some unpopular decisions, but they're in the best interest of the person.
Most programmers I know get the "I just discovered a silver bullet, damn I'm awesome" nonsense schooled out of them somewhere between entering college to a few years after, but apparently HBGary is an entire organization built on the exception.
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Ironically, it is the ambiguity that is causing so many problems in the first place. It is ambiguity over where they plan to extract revenue that is causing 3rd party devs to choose Twitter-based business models that later threaten Twitter's new revenue model. It is ambiguity in their rules/TOS that is getting 3rd party devs banned (see: Twitdroyd). Etc.

At this point, Twitter needs to realize that the ambiguity isn't helping their PR, its the reason they have a PR problem in the first place.

EDIT: Minor grammatical correction.
GNOME Shell is the window manager (and some would argue a little bit more) for GNOME3. The GNOME wiki is a good place to start. A mostly up-to-date design overview is available at
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A technical overview can be found at Owen Taylor's blog
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It's old, from when the shell was just being planned, but all the major architectural decisions are there.
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The fact that middle-click-to-open-in-new-tab doesn't work anymore in the Twitter web client makes identi.ca at least less crappy to my tastes.
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Snap analysis: Japan may have hours to prevent nuclear meltdown
It sounds like the strict building codes served them well for residential housing and commercial spaces. However, it looks like the engineering standards for their nuclear reactors could stand to be a little more strict (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42025882/ns/world_news-asiapacif...). Perhaps the news article is overly sensational, but I can't help but wonder, "Why are we even talking about the possibility of a meltdown in 2011?" Shouldn't loss of reactor cooling capability result in an automatic reactor shutdown? Wasn't the lesson of the Three Mile Island accident that you should build your reactor so that the default thing that happens when you lose power (and therefore lose cooling capability) is that the control rods drop via gravity and stop the reaction? Any nuclear engineers out there care to comment on the design of Japan's reactors?
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I blame it on the fact that the buttons are where your thumb rests. :) I wonder how long that will last before they are moved.
I would read that in knowledge that a Japanese company producing cell phone camera gaskets where any two in a batch of 1,000 were defective would report "the manufacturing process is out of control" and the $10 an hour operator would have scrammed production until the engineers investigated and fixed the machinery.

If you knew nothing of Japanese engineering culture, would today's unceasing, relentless drumbeat of lack-of-catastrophe worry you?
Here's some important things to think about:

First, socialism is defined as worker or public control of the means of production and distribution. This has been interpreted in both libertarian and authoritarian ways.

Second, if socialism is worker control, then it is fully compatible with free markets. Mondragon and Semco are both worker democracies, and operate successfully in the global market.

If socialism is public control, this does not equal totalitarianism. Social democracy is a form of democratic public control of resources.

I understand people's reasoning for preferring capitalism (ownership defined by contract) or socialism (ownership defined by use), and I respect that, but I would love to be able to have political discussions about these issues which take into account the complexity and diversity of these two very broad terms.
Please don't spread misinformation about this. The reactors stopped automatically, but you still have to cool them. They ran out of diesel, so they're getting mobile power units in to cool the rest.

They're not morons.
Are you sure it didn't just cause them to shrink to unrecognisable size through its ultimate suckitude?
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What's terrifying about this is that this company somehow scored a contract with the FBI.

How many other HBGary Federals are there out there?
So, basically, MSNBC did a crappy job of writing their article -- it should have explicitly stated that a shutdown happened...
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> Situation is somewhat ambiguous, understandable given the confusion and circumstances.

In fact, I am amazed how well-understood the situation is considering the circumstances. We're less than 24 hours after one of the five strongest earthquakes on human record, half a world, a language, and a culture away - that we know as much as we do about the situation is a marvel in itself.
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I doubt HBGary reads HN. And if he does, it's only for reconnaissance missions.
Reading a book is a large investment of time. You have to give me something to make me think it's worthwhile. This narrative of violence doesn't make any sense to me. Should we use violence to enforce contract law? Should we use nuclear power, and if so should we use violence to raise taxes to manage nuclear power plants? Should we use violence to prevent child labor?

I'm still trying to find some core libertarian values that I can understand and is consistent. I'm not motivated to spend hours reading a book without that.
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It's lame that this is on HN. Basically it's just finger pointing and laughing at someone for being stupid on the internet (in a private mail, it seems).
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Ask HN: Getting featured by Apple
I have an iOS app that I feel has great potential and I'm wondering what it would take to get featured by Apple. After reading about Rovio and Angry Birds, it seems to me that having a publisher who has a relationship with Apple is one way. And I'm sure that they pick things at their whim as well. But, looking at the picks each week, it is clear that there is a lot of branded stuff that gets featured, and apps from well known companies. And not a lot of apps from indie developers. Is there anyone here who has been featured on Apple and could give me some insight as to how this works?
It doesn't say they came up with the name first.
I can tell your team has put a lot of time into this. It's interesting and possibly very valuable. My feedback below:

1. Orange County is NOT Los Angeles! :-) If you're trying to not clutter up the map with too many dots then maybe pick state first, then zoom in and present regions/counties within the state. I was almost disinterested in it until I figured out the regions within the region!

2. If I click the dot twice, make the div disappear or reappear. I had to click on a different dot to get to the one I really wanted again (e.g. click Los Angeles, then click San Diego, then try to click Los Angeles again)

3. The div with the tweets in them is somewhat strange when hidden. Too much is showing or something. Maybe it's just the ugly arrow to expand???

4. The floating tip helper is distracting. Can't you must make a static info bar or something? I dunno, maybe just me.

5. The region ul - where you give extra regions - make it a little prettier. Everything else looks so polished, and then that list looks not so polished. Make it look nice like the "Happy Hour, Specials, Live Music...."

6. I'm wondering if the UI would be more "natural" if you had a static div along top with the logo/region/info bar and facebook and add venue buttons. Then, on left, just have the categories and the pop-out div for tweets. This would allow you to reduce the width of the main div quite a bit and might end up with just as much (or more) map space. But specifically, I think this would be more visually appealing to the eye. Surround the entire map a border of some sort that's blackish in color like your main div. It will feel more like an app then. TO ME!

Hope this helps. Congrats! A good idea and a lot of work. Very promising.

p.s. - All my input from web app on chrome browser.
Show HN: A startup business idea to help japan
Well, sure. But we don't usually get dramatic video illustrating just how well engineered they are.

I tried to think of an incident where a skyscraper was significantly damaged in an earthquake, but I couldn't off the top of my head. All I remember was how well Taipei 101 stood up to the earthquake that occurred while it was being built[1].

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Taipei_101#St...
While I'd love to have an in-between sized Apple device personally, I agree with that line of thinking. I can picture what facing that would be like as an iOS developer - it would be a pain.
Everything about it is mindboggling; if you're going to put effort into building something in a place as inhospitable as the kernel, a portscanner? Who's going to pay for that?
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Sorta like earthquakes in the SF bay area. Humans aren't rational. Considering relatively few people actually get earthquake insurance in California, I'm sure theres some level of the cognotive dissonance by many of those who agree with the main thrust of your point.
Apparently there are people I insulted that still use that terminology. It really makes you sound, umm, managerial and pointy haired when you use those.
In the meanwhile, I'm glad we have invested in conventional safety systems for legacy reactors.
I dream of sending 200 million rocket ships to Mars.

I find it hilariously stupid that they're risking their strong presence in China to go exclusive with MSFT. Why didn't they just go MSFT heavy and keep heavy on Symbian in china?
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Yeah, but every news agency is.

The BBC had a "live feed" of a huge blazing fire, and the caption was "Government declares Nuclear Emergency".

The fire was at a natural gas storage tank...

I don't know if these news agencies like stoking mass panic, but you need to be a little sceptical about reporting in the media about "contentious" issues like nuclear power.

Here's the IAEA post about the current issue:

http://www.iaea.org/press/?p=1133

It's standard procedure in these situations to evacuate a 3km radius from the plant, just in case. If the situation gets slightly more... interesting (as in, they need to vent some steam), they evacuate 10km.

TL;DR: Let's wait and see what happens before declaring that Japan is about to be annihilated by nuclear fallout.

Edit: here's the current status of each reactor:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031207-e....
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031212-e....
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031213-e....
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031214-e....

I.e., all shut down. Need cooling. Pressure being vented in the Daiichi reactor.
Congrats guys! Was awesome watching you build it.
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Its hard to understand the magnitude of this situation.
Wouldn't it go down by r^2 if the earthquake is flat, and by r^3 if it's not?
By rights it should be, but it's demonstrably not. Sadly the industry is plagued with a critical mass of people (though I question whether they are actually still members of our species) who don't object to being told how they may use their tools.
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> There is, for what it's worth, very little reason why the best scanner need be written in C.

What about all the packet manipulation code? Bit twiddling tends to be difficult in other languages.
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What kind of things are wrong with nmap (I've never used it). Fundamentally flawed, poorly implemented, neglected project, documentation, etc?
Testing for exploits usually requires you to actually try an exploit.

Edit: just to be clear, this is for black box testing.
I keep seeing all this talk of learning lisp but not a whole lot of rationale. Why should we learn lisp?

What will it replace? Why will it replace? etc...
Bit twiddling is much easier in other languages than in C. And virtually every mainstream language has a pcap binding for the packet reading and injection (although a good straight-socket scanner could still give nmap a run for its money).
or it could be 5x better and have superior marketing ; )
That doesn't really apply here. Any decent nuclear reactor will shut itself down when things get hairy. The reactors in question all shut down, very nice and orderly. The remaining issue here is dealing with the decay heat from the fission products in the fuel. That is what's overtaxing the cooling system right now.
"We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way.”
What utter bullshit. As though any user has ever been confused by a multitude of interfaces for something that consists of: a name and a couple lines of text.
Great feedback, I like some of these ideas thanks codeslush!
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> IAANRO (I Am A Nuclear Reactor Operator

WDYJUAULAAATIEIATDTPOTAESYKIWNBUA? - Why did you just use an unnecessarily long abbreviatory acronym and then immediately expand it and thus defeat the purpose of the abbreviation, especially since you know it will never be used again?
Nmap isn't fundamentally flawed. It's ambitious and sprawling in ways that detract from its basic purpose. It wants to be a general-purpose network surveying tool, but is constrained to the UX of a port scanner.

Someone else should write the best possible port scanner and free nmap up to be the giant network profiling system it clearly wants to be.
Why is wanting to compete with nmap a terrifying attribute of an FBI contractor? Technology within the FBI pretty much begins and ends with EnCase.
That's a gutsy thing to say. Not everyone has the potential like you and me, both who were born in the US. Not everyone can use their best learning, changing, adapting, and adjusting to get out of the place they were born into. Not everyone who tries can be wealthy in ten years.
I was super surprised at how well SASS let me move quickly with coding 3pics.me! The lighten, darken and mix functions make getting appropriate hex codes pain free.

Wonderful!
One who immediately springs to mind is Dennis Montgomery. Here is a link that is NSFW: http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-man-who-conned-the-penta...

In all of these cases one of the main problems seems to be that non-technical people have too much decision making power in technical areas. (I'm not going to address this huge problem here.)

I've lost count of the number of times I've been in a meeting listening to someone talk about something like the "Linear Feedback Shift Register" mentioned in the article.

Unfortunately, technology seems like magic (or snake oil) to people who don't know anything about it...
They are pretty big in japan. I've noticed a big increase in the past year or so; a lot of places that previously offered their own free service now have a for-pay Fon access point. (in the Kobe area, anyway)
I didn't have any problems with page loading, but I did notice that he linked to the https version of the page, which could have affected load time.
Greg and Aaron, two of the guys involved with HBGary, are incredibly smart and capable. They were very well respected in the industry for their intelligence, products, and services.

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How well would you stand up in the court of public opinion if several years of the internal email messages for your startup were leaked?

I'm very concerned about the rise of the cybersecurity/infosec complex ala the military-industrial complex, but one of the reasons for my concern is that they have very bright, very motivated people working for them who know how to play the D.C. political games.
Frankly? I had to get a new job.

What did I learn from the decision and actions that led to me being fired?

Weigh your politics and actions very carefully in the work place, especially when climbing management. Just because you are absolutely, factually, empirically correct, won't mean you'll win a struggle or a single person will even support you.
As I said on Slashdot: I bet the MBAs who were trained to control didn't help. Nor does "shareholder value". Any idea on how to finally fix all this?
Sure, I appreciate that you guys hacked this together under extremely tight conditions and I don't mean to be a dick about it. It's just that this is something which has the potential to be really bad, and depending on your framework you can usually fix this with a simple `debug = false` or similar.
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But then, "native prototypes should never be extended unless it is for the sake of compatibility with newer JavaScript features."
Why are third parties important in the Twitter ecosystem?
There are so many relief organizations. I often wonder which ones are the most effective and most efficient. I also wonder which one's would be most effective in Japan at this time.

I Googled and got a list.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20473235,00.html

People like to help but I think we could all do more if we understood the problem better. Often donated money isn't used for the current disaster but is used for another one.
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While the FBI isn't known for being on the technical bleeding edge, and used to bleed a lot for technical screwups, the RCFL's - Regional Computer Forensics Labs - are very much out there on the leading edge of computer forensics technology.

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There are some amazing technical innovations in EnCase and the products built on it. Unfortunately, the company has management issues that result in some very poor decisions in many areas, including deployment of software development resources.
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When a government minister reports that the cooling system is offline and the pressure is 2.1x design norms, I don't think that's a cultural thing comparable to a 2-in-1000 bad gasket production shutdown. But maybe it is.

These guys seem pretty matter-of-fact:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.htm...

For example:
"Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System was used to inject water into the reactor to cool it. Today at 4:50AM, water injection by Make-up Water Condensate System begun. Subsequently, at 5:32AM, the temperature of the suppression chamber exceeded 100 degrees. As the reactor pressure suppression function was lost, at 5:32AM, it was
determined that a specific incident stipulated in article 15, clause 1 has occurred."

This sounds like a mechanical regulatory reporting issue.

Other text like:

"We have decided to implement measures to reduce the pressure of the reactor containment vessel for those units that cannot confirm certain level of water injection by the Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System, in order to fully secure safety."

I'm just wondering how to interpret this. For example, when they say "reactor containment vessel" do they mean the "reactor vessel" or the "containment building" in en.wikipedia.org terminology?

Why couldn't they "confirm certain level of water injection" in some units? Is it that the plant design didn't include the necessary sensors, or that they were damaged?
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Take a look at Rare's game list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rare_games

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Blast Corps was hugely fun. Golden Eye... Banjo-Kazooie. Perfect Dark. Now recently Viva Pinata.
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I believe that was pulled from Ryan's email:

"... developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no." ... "If you are an existing developer of client apps, you can continue to serve your user base"
What sort of LRSRs are you looking for? And what language? I put together a LFSR generator as a test demo for a bit vector I homebrewed a while ago -

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