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The best part about a dynamic friend list: instead of friend requesting a cute girl on Facebook, you need to take lots of photos of her and be near her location all the time.
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A Neal Stephenson short story relevant to this exchange:

http://www.vanemden.com/books/neals/jipi.html
"... and even uses the phone’s microphone to ‘listen’ to the ambient surroundings ..."

Yeah, I definitely want an app that is listening to what I say all of the time. Great idea.

The automatic Social Graph based on proximity is a good idea. But doesn't it make you best friends with all of your neightbors (at home and work) and other random people you just happen to walk by or meet every day?

And why would I want to see pics of a restaurant that some friend sits in?
iPad is unreadable outdoors in daytime. glass surface acting as a mirror and display not being transflective. also it is way overpowered to display text. so it's battery is depleted after 12 hours instead of a few months.

i'd love a transflective ipad with image-persistence on powerdown. notionink seems to offer this i think?
Tell HN: Please consider making an app for the less saturated markets.
Hi fellow hackers,

If you are pondering what to work on your next startup, please consider making an app for the less saturated markets. PG recommend them it. See;-

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

ps: please dun make anything todo list tool.
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i know, right? NDAs have such clear, big fonts and it says "YOUR CHOICE" at the top. awesome comment dude.
This is very impressive, but it removes some of the unique personality of individual blogs. As a reader, is there any way to disable it systemwide?
Yarg, I clearly don't have good version control. That's a wicked old (crappy) translation.

"History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy."

Fixing! (Thanks)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/marx/183...
Or perhaps "!user" to get user's attention? Like "hey you!" Plus !user has actual (yet conveniently uncommon) precedent from UUCP mail routing: host1!host2!host3!user

And who enjoys people "talking at" them?
Why do you think they accepted you?
Because many people prefer reading on an eBook reader over a tablet:

- Cheaper ($149 or $249 compared to $499)

- Easier to read (eInk is a lot easier on the eye when reading for long periods than a backlit display)

- Not confusing (Granted, an iPad is pretty easy to figure out, but for an average consumer a device that does one thing is generally easier to grasp)

- Better battery life (Nook claims 10 days, iPad claims 10 hours)

The two technologies may converge in the future, but for now, the dedicated eBook Reader still has its place.
Thanks. Admittedly, I reused this from a talk I gave at Angel Bootcamp in Boston. http://alexisohanian.com/video-of-my-talk-at-angel-boot-camp...
I would think 'not user'
good to see RH being profitable. They put a lot back into the open-source technologies that are the foundation of their business, much more than many other modern tech companies, ahem facebook, amazon whose contributions are relatively small compared to their huge profits
You've probably got a low-quality LCD with a bad color calibration, then, or else just a really bad contrast ratio or lots of glare. That color scheme doesn't seem to me to have any colors that would clash, even to colorblind and partially-colorblind people. Sure, it's a relatively low-contrast color scheme, but I think it would be generally harder to read if the contrast were really high. You shouldn't use much in the way of full-intensity colors when you have a black background.
After trying hard to understand their idea, I think you just delivered the best explanation. They even mentioned the possibility to integrate "coupons" in their system!
The secret is in the bunnyhopping ;)
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Unlike most the kids wearing those Che shirts, I'm aware of the irony, honest. It makes my trips to the bank a lot of fun, though. "My company's name? Oh, Das Kapital Capital." (with accent on Das Kapital, of course)
Your adage reminds me of a catchy coinage that's stuck with me in the years since I first read it: the "suck/ask separation". See:

http://www.slate.com/id/2131597/&#taosuck
This thing's fuckin creepy. it uses the camera and mic to get my location as well. The tech sounds rad, but for privacy i wouldn't touch this thing with a 10 ft pole.
Namesake thread: Using Peter Pham's color.com app right now
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It should already be listed in the Kindle if you search, since it's on Amazon.
Agreed. This should have been either an online only magazine, a physical magazine with online articles, or a tablet app with online articles for browsing on PCs.

The problem is that the worst experience is front and center- an on screen emulation of something that's designed to be in print. To make things worse, it's not compatible with tablets.
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It's getting hammered on the App store with negative feedback. I see a 2 star average. People are complaining about connectivity issues.
I'm about halfway through The Emporer's New Mind.

For those not familiar with the book, (other than wikipedia'n it), Robert Penrose attempts to show why what happens in our brains is not algorithmic at all (and, therefore, strong AI is a dumb idea).

It's beautifully written, however, when I see examples such as this log, or the fact that we have an entire industry devoted to the idea that the brain is algorithmic (psychology), I kinda start to think that his thesis is wrong.
> I wonder how important is a domain name for a mobile type app?

Very important, given the crowded state of the App Store and the unorganized state of the Android Market.

This app will be spread among friends. If you want to install it, goto Color.com. Easy.
I enjoyed reading this. Not so far from the endless project management meetings I attend.
Could you give an example of something useful one could do with ack's --output feature?

The manual's a little light on the details.

All it says is:

--output=expr
Output the evaluation of expr for each line

What expression are they talking about? A regular expression? If so, how is that different from a normal grep?
Guy L. Steele is a person who talked in the site linked at the top of this page.

'Writing' and 'syllable' had their senses defined by Guy L. Steele in his talk, as did 'senses' and 'defined' and 'speaker'.

As I now think on this, I note that the post in which you note errors could change 'action' to 'act', change 'let alone' to 'much less', and change 'only words' to 'no words but those'. The definition for 'realize' is in need of a new definition, since 'aware' is not yet a word with a definition.

In truth, trying this mode of speech is bracing, and fun.
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So what happens if it's a complete flop, if it never takes off at all?
(ie specific, and measurably attainable in the short term ...

It's great self-hack. If I can just get rolling, I can (often, not always) keep moving and get stuff done.

It's the "Wow, I have a gigantic task here; it's so huge that a few minutes just $(anything_but_the_task) won't matter" thing that ruins the party.
Asking as a CS major who first learned C, then C++, and didn't touch LISP and Prolog until the upper divs, how difficult is it to learn a functional language as your first programming one? Wouldn't it be trippy? When I first learned that Berkeley students had to learn Scheme first, it made me think of them as hardcore... though I may be overestimating its difficulty.
Ask HN: Verifying the accuracy and validity of credit card numbers
Hi everyone, I am looking for a web service where I can verify the credit card entered by my clients and some associated details such as Expiry date, Address Verification Service (AVS) and Card Verification Value (CVV). I have no payment processing requirements, in other term I am not looking for the payment gateways or services such as Paypal, Chargify, Cheddargetter etc. Actually I have no clue how things work behind the scene. Is it possible to verify some of these fields algorithmically? Will appreciate your input.
"As I see it, a software engineer who hasn't worked through SICP with Scheme, a basic editor and command line, is like a surgeon who has never dissected a frog and faints at the sight of blood." -- Priceless !!! Great comment, Stephen.
I use vi mode in my shell all the time, and love it. It only took a day or so to get used to it. But then again, I am a die-hard vim user.

What I'd really like, though, would be a vim mode for the shell, not just a vi mode. Then I could use some of vim's more advanced features, which would make the mode even more useful.
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You have to wonder what form of authentication was used at Comodo's Registration Authority server that enabled it be breached. Maybe an RSA SecureID token :-) (see http://steve.grc.com/2011/03/19/reverse-engineering-rsas-sta...). Seriously, I'd have thought the admin account on an RA server would require multiple approvals, on-site access or something. I guess we'll have to wait for the details to come out. Something like this is bound to eventually happen when you have so many trusted root SSL certs in play.
Indeed. It is of course entirely possible to prevent all crime by locking everyone up in solitary confinement at birth. This would save not just ONE child, but all of them, from rape or attempted rape etc., so surely this must be worth it?
I am not so sure.

It seems that we share by sending links not by saying the name out loud.
Totally. Thats definitely one aspect the product can help with :)

Do look at the 2.5 minute video. It give a quick, and probably entertaining intro to what the product does.
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Hmm. Seems to be meta procrastination.
So you take pictures of others at their free time and publish them without consent to the world and call it social? I call it paparazzi. Isn't paparazzi one of the most admired and respected profession? :-)
I'll read this article later
I think he is talking about appearing on other peoples' photos on Color
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That will always be a problem with trusting some 3rd party for certificates, as soon as the number of trusted parties increase these things can become more frequent.
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hanlin quotes their battery life in page-turns, makes more sense than days. something like 5000, and battery is Nokia BL-5C, replacable anywhere for a few shekels

weight too, i still cant get over how heavy an iPad feels, after using a 200 gram ereader
The problem is that you can never be sure where a 'hack attack' came from. Sure, the directly used IPs are from Iran, but it is very well possible they were simply used as proxy. Most of the world already regards Iran as evil, so they are a good scapegoat. Obviously it's possible they are really behind it, but you can't be sure enough to start a war.
It is impossible to verify the validity of any information on a credit card without charging it. (You can verify whether a credit card number is well-formed and matches the card type fairly trivially -- Google [luhn credit card validation].)

The inability to do verification without charging is by design, since "Yes, that information is valid" is a security risk. Suspicious behavior with charges is easier to track, and processors will use any whiff of "Hmm, those transactions don't smell right" as a reason to shut down your account.

Your mental model of what you're needing might need some work. All of the following things could potentially make the card "invalid":

1) The credit card does not exist, and your client is lying to you.

2) The card's details were mistyped.

3) The credit card does exist, but your client has stolen it, and the transaction is unauthorized.

4) The credit card does exist, and the transaction is authorized, but some factor about the transaction will trip a fraud alert at the issuing bank, and it will be denied anyhow.

5) The credit card does exist, and the transaction is authorized, and the bank doesn't have any particular issue with it, but the client does not have sufficient credit to cover it.

6) The credit card does exist, and the transaction is authorized, and the bank doesn't have any particular issue with it, and the client has sufficient credit, but a person with authority over the card has restricted it from being used at services like yours. (Not uncommon on corporate/government cards, depending on your merchant classification.)

7) The credit card does exist, and the transaction is authorized, and the bank doesn't have any particular issue with it, and the client has sufficient credit, and the card is not restricted from being used to buy your services, but at the instant you try to actually charge the card, one or more services between you and the bank is not functional.

8) A card was fine when you got the information (with regards to your transaction) but hits any of the above when you actually try to charge it. This is absurdly common for SaaS businesses, due primarily to card expiration and secondarily to patterns of customer behavior with regards to changing CCs.
Pushing ink stained scraps of dead trees is not as sexy as being in high tech like Apple.

Venting about eReaders, the ones I've tried out are all so slow and clunky. Unless you don't need a tablet, like ever, you're better off spending the $250 on eBooks to read on your computer or tablet.
Zach's idea is on point. If you are looking for a committed community, the best way is to get them committed from the start. The best will survive the test, and this will result to a richer community.

Quality precedes quantity
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Let me put it this way: if Iran has deniably disabled US nuclear capability in the same way that Israel deniably disabled Iranian nuclear capability, the spectrum of options considered by the US government would certainly not end with "send them a strongly worded letter, since we're not totally convinced they did it."

I mean, another country in the neighborhood went for strategic ambiguity for many years. It worked very well right until it didn't.
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Perhaps the author was bored enough to go through and transcribe the whole chat log manually?

I don't see any other way the double-capitalization of "WHat" would slip into a chatbot's output.
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Having lived in the same house all my life (21 years of it), it definitely is my home.

That said, it's not the place I feel most attached to. I'm currently flat-hunting in a different city, and I don't think I'll particularly miss living in Oxford, as much as I like it as a place.

I've spent time, from a couple of days up to a few weeks, in so many countries (17 if my latest count is correct), and I don't ever actually remember a time when I was at all homesick, or even missed being home.

And indeed, the places I feel most attached to are ones where I haven't spent more than a couple of weeks. A small town near Copenhagen, downtown LA, a tiny town in the south of France... I actually miss being in those places when I'm at home, and if I didn't have a job then I'd move to one of them in a heartbeat. Until then, I'll just keep counting down the days until work will take me there next...
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I am pretty sure that fiction writers are going to have a blast one day (or already are having) sampling material from chat bots.

I can't find a reference on-line, but this reminds me of my earliest exposure to an implementation of Eliza. It was written in BASIC in some 8-bit magazine back in the 80s. The article mentioned the history of chatbots and one bit was about a program named, I think, RACTOR, that was some kind of Markov chainer that was used to write fiction novels.
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Weird how the quality of conversation gets discussed repeatedly. And it's also strange to see a conversion of that length without typos (I couldn't see any..) or annoying emoticons.
The random topic changes almost make it seem more real. Would be interestig to see it in real time (are the reply delays realistic?).
Great idea.
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That's not a fair comparison. Facebook's mafia guys are mostly early-stage employees. Early-stage employees tend to be more entrepreneurial and are also more tight-knit, which is how the mafia sentiment is able to sustain itself.

Plenty of Googlers are entrepreneurial enough to leave and do startups, but they aren't considered mafia because they were never part of an early core group that bonded. And those that are entrepreneurial enough to leave aren't as high-profile entrepreneurial as early-stage employees would be.
Nice! I hope it gets some traction. I'll be looking for a freelance nodejs dev soon and will definitely posting there.
Yeah, just wait for something that passes Touring test with 100%.
I just tried the app and definitely didn't like it, it mandatory requires you to give away your location information otherwise you cannot use the app. That's not the way to go guys :S specially with the recent discussions about internet privacy...
The GPL is clearly designed to be hostile to a certain type of software deployment strategy.

But not because that software is being sold, or because it is profitable, or corporate, or big-business, or commercial or any of those things. It is hostile because it is "proprietary" and that (in the FSF's opinion) tilts the power balance too far towards the vendor, allowing all sorts of abuses.

Where I think you are getting confused is that some of those abuses are highly profitable and so those are the most visible successes to you.

But people like to sum this complicated area up as the GPL being "anti-business" or not "business-friendly", which is highly misleading. You'll note that quite a lot of non-software businesses are quite happy to use GPL code since a) they are not in the business of selling proprietary code and b) proprietary code gives too much power to the vendor. There's plenty of room for businesses to supply GPL software to these companies.
The great thing about procrastination is that the reward comes now. Don't take that away from me.
So here's the short version of how I got my hustle. My life used to suck in the sense that I wasn't living the life I wanted. I wasn't good at lying to myself, I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't figure out what it was. After months and months of soul searching, I finally figured out what was truly important to me. I realigned my life in this new direction and all that pent up energy caused things to just take off.

If you try to hustle through a wall, it feels like you're standing still, but once you try hustling around or over it, things start to move. I'd say identifying your wall is the hard part, but getting around it ain't no picnic either. That being said, nothing compares to running free on the other side.
Thanks Patio, very clear explanation. Is it possible to make a very small transaction as a process to verify the card? (similar to Paypal which deposits $0.01 or similar small amount in your account or card and later ask you to verify that amount). I think my problem lies in category 8, I am more worried about card expiration and credit limits.
Sounds like a perfect match for Facebook then.
I'm in the same situation. I also don't want to peghole myself as a small company start-up guy. I'd like the experience of working in a large corporate, and also to surround myself in smarter people and learn and teach a tonne.
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A dedicated eReader has less pressure to keep upgrading the components. The current kindle doesn't need much improvement; the CPU is adequate, RAM is adequate, flash storage is adequate. The screen could use a little bit of improvement in contrast, # of gray shades, and refresh speed.

The point being, it's pretty close to stabilizing, at which point Amazon can just keep dropping the price as components get cheaper. Then Amazon can sell more and more of them, and sell more and more Amazon ebooks. If the Kindle's cost falls enough, Amazon can give them away.

By contrast, general-purpose tablets are going to be under constant pressure to keep upgrading the components, with faster CPUs, more RAM, better color screens, new wireless tech, better GPUs, more storage, so that users can use the latest software and run the latest apps. That'll help keep the prices relatively high.

If you think of dedicated eReaders, or at least the Kindle, as being like a simple 4-function calculator, it might be clearer. Calculators like that used to be expensive way back when. Now they're cheap enough to give away free with magazine subscriptions. There's little point in upgrading the hardware, so they just get cheaper and cheaper.
A Perl expression. You could use this for sed-like activities:

# Print included files.
ack --output '$1' '#include <(.*)>'

You could presumably do much trickier things as well, since the --output argument can contain any Perl expression.