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"Though Zipcar didn’t really incorporate reducing carbon emissions into its core idea, Chase says it’s a by-product that can’t be taken away."

I think it is crucial that startups realize that they cannot predict all the vectors their product will impact. However, that being said it is important that they recognize the markets that they have impacted and capitalize on it. Congrats Chase (and Zipcar)!
I think it will be dual A5, like the iPad: they have to keep up with (and actually, they surpass) the competition - HTC and LG have already announced dual core.

Perhaps they'll also try to bump up the resolution to 720p, and add HDMI out. A reason not to is so they don't cannibalize iPad sales - but that's short-sighted, and historically not Apple's style.

We may also see the rumored cut-down, retail-for-$200 iPhone - my addition is that it will have a similar form-factor as the current nano.
It's a F*CKING thermal mass the same way that Twitter is a weekend project.

Weekend projects come and go with hardly a whimper. The hard part comes when you want to turn that weekend project into something people will actually use (or in this case, pay for). Creating a compelling brand, crafting a marketing message that resonates, designing the product so that it "feels" good to use, engineering something durable and long lasting, scaling to meet demand et al? These things require a heck of a lot more than a class in thermodynamics.

Regardless, the market has spoken and 300+ people saw enough value in this thermal mass to support it.
Another recommendation for Linode. I run four apps (two of which were on the front page of HN and saw the subsequent traffic spike) on my 768 linode and have had no problems handling the traffic.
She gave a fantastic talk at Startup Bootcamp in 2009. Definitely worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks4B82CJkpo
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The OP sounds like a karma-whore posting this thread too early.

It's not April 1st even in Australia. And it's not even March 31st in some places as of this posting. This doesn't help those who are really looking forward to this thread.

I'm flagging this thread.

P.S: It is the same guy who posted last month's hiring threads pre-maturely.
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Just clicking and swapping the idea isn't terribly interesting. Instead of seeing their ideas, I'd like to know what other people think of my idea.

I want to make a sticky note, and let other people comment on it, maybe by letting them post smaller sticky notes beside it, or underneath it. Then I'd like to come back tomorrow and see everyone else's notes splattered all over the page.
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Jacques is such a nice fellow. If it were me, I'd just make a post with pics of cats and watch it being submitted to HN.
For Node code, not really. For browser code, usually not really, but for high traffic sites or widely used libraries every character counts.
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AT&T has been fairly generous with upgrade amnesty, allowing iPhone upgrades while under contract (which resets your two-year timer, of course).

IIRC, they allowed anyone to upgrade to a 3GS and cut off ~6 months for an iPhone 4, in addition to special iPhone 4 pricing for those under longer remaining contracts.

But yes, I imagine Apple has lost some leverage here now that AT&T is no longer exclusive.
Having this data since the start of the web would have been amazing.

I hope mobile sites get added in the future. Since that landscape is changing even faster right now, the trends would be interesting.
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It's not a huge restriction since GAE will happily spin up dozens of instances without any intervention if your load requires it. Getting multiple concurrent requests into each instance will make things like local memory caching somewhat more useful though.
"if it becomes available" I would pursue my passion. In the meantime, I would stick with what I have - rather than risk something I do not.
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Can we please decide on what the definition of engagement is? For social apps on facebook it is daily users / monthly users. Here it means "more users using the service". Let's not confuse vanity metrics with relative metrics.
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Pretty much everyone here has talked about stuff that could be wrong with you, and it is possible, but I want to offer an alternative explanation: you aren't being challenged enough. I was in school for two years and experienced a lot of the same stuff you did (I'm 21 now, I dropped out):

1) Was smart enough to glide through classes for my whole life, college not an exception

2) Started off having a lot of fun but got over the drinking and partying phase faster than my classmates, definitely felt lack of connection with my classmates

3) Thought a lot about whether or not I was actually depressed, especially because of the lack of connection w/ classmates. Tried a lot of stuff (diet, exercise, shrink etc.) Nothing quite seemed to do the trick (though the exercise helps a ton with daily stress but will not fix depression).

Although I obviously can't recommend it to everyone, I dropped out and started working. Now I had been freelancing and doing internships since I was about 15 so I had a solid shot at an entry level position at a startup. I can't tell you how much happier it made me.

You may not be able to just drop out, but I bet if you find an internship or something that involves you in the "real world" in a way that's somewhat meaningful to you (ie: not getting coffee) you'll get a lot more satisfaction out of life.

Remember you're young, you're not exactly supposed to have it all figured out yet. Even old people don't have life figured out yet, no one ever does. You also sound pretty introverted, and self reflective. This is a really great trait, but it can be crippling if you don't know how to manage it. You'll learn to know yourself and catch yourself repeating patterns.

It doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with you to me, but again I'm just a dog on the internet. My contact info is in my profile, feel free to email me if you'd like to chat sometime.
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On modern Solaris systems, isn't /bin a symlink to /usr/bin anyway? Kind of shoots down the old reasoning that /bin has the absolute minimum to get a broken system fixed, and /usr/bin has everything else.
Wow that's a lot of steps to rank 11 things, just doing your example. I C-w'd before the end. Seems like there'd be a better algorithm than like 121 head-to-head matches.
I understand that use case, I just don't see why it makes sense to share /usr rather than sharing /.
And a New Yorker profile of John Coster-Mullen the author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_...
I can also vouch for this Linode recommendation.
How many pages/resources can you serve statically or from a CDN?
The definition of engagement should depend on the application.

Measuring engagement as daily users / monthly users may make sense for Facebook. However, for a company like WePay, engagement should be measured as the number of users who are actually taking action that involves a monetary transaction, because that is what makes the company money (and this is the engagement metric that the article states WePay is using).
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I could tell you bet then you might start poaching my clients. ;)
Wow this is awesome - a perfect complement to my collection of coffee toys. I just bought an Aeropress last week, and now this. I'm really excited for this product!
Uh no they didn't, this guy has said this is what he was told on a phone call. Samsung has not released a public statement saying this is what they actually do.

Without confirmation from anyone else that has a Samsung laptop (have just checked my brother's bought 2 months ago and found nothing) this really should be taken with a grain of salt.
At some point electromagnetism was a "low level" theory, but now you've taken advantage of all that basic research by typing that comment up in a computer and publishing it for the world to see. The practical application of this sort of stuff is rarely obvious, and sometimes decades out, but it's certainly there.
So in the past few days we've seen three sites that have very similar meta-ideas. http://captainobvio.us/ was posted recently, I've been working on http://cluedb.com/ and now this one. There are also much-older ideas like http://halfbakery.com/ and http://fmylife.com etc. They all have various sets of snippet posting, user rating, commenting, etc. I wonder if this is an emerging trend?
I think the idea is quite brilliant - being an avid coffee drinker - many a time I wished my coffee was still warm while travelling on public transit.
Looking at current sales of Android smartphones, I think there would be a lot of people buying android tablets.

A lot of people just want a cheap tablet and Android is going to step up and fill the void. These would have slower hardware and older software but most people won't worry much over it (looking aback t PC vs Mac era).
It's worth noting that you can run Rails on Dreamhost. Don't really remember the details (I'm a Python guy, and it's been a while since I used Dreamhost) but it's probably searchable and if not, I'm sure customer service can help you. Dreamhost may not be the right choice for a heavy-load web application, but it is probably an excellent place to get your feet wet.
Either a) you are suggesting that, if you thought experiment fails, it is acceptable for me to publish "Critique of Pure Reason" word for word except replace every string of "Immanuel Kant" with my own name, or b) you are trying to compare apples and oranges, plagiarism applies to written words; your thought experiment doesn't hold water.

Ideas are not property, however the expression of them is (which is the very basis of copyright law as it applies to written works). If you assert in print that "that there are synthetic judgments such as the connection of cause and effect (e.g., "... Every effect has a cause.") where no analysis of the subject will produce the predicate," then went on reason that statements such as those found in Geometry and Newtonian physics are synthetic judgments. Using the classical example of 7 + 5 = 12. No amount of analysis will find 12 in either 7 or 5... So you present the aforementioned idea and the reasoning behind it (both of which are atributed to kant btw): do you think that if I came along and reworded my reasoning behind the idea but drew the exact same conclusions, that I am absolved from giving credit to the original source? Or perhaps you are claiming that because I reworded your idea it became my idea? Something as unique of an idea as Synthetic Judgment, which in it of itself is the creation of the author, what then?

Anyone who has ever written a philosophy paper (myself included) has invariably had to cite (give credit) to some long dead source. Even were the source alive typically a citation is the accepted manner in which to give credit to the original author. I'm not sure what aspect of this situation somehow allows this author to be absolved of having to give credit where credit is due; Common Knowldge? Certainly not. The author wrote an article on the same subject matter and used the same analysis.
Strangely, it turns out that there are groups in Somalia who will demand that you pay them in order to continue to exist, and the penalties for not paying this -- what shall we call it? Oh, yeah -- tax is even worse than not paying taxes here. The US has far less government/crime* for its GDP than Somalia.

* "government" being what large criminal enterprises are called, basically.
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I'm not sure we're at that point yet but it will happen eventually. Once the iPhone gets a multi-core processor, much faster GPU, and 4G what else is really left for a yearly update? I doubt we'll see an octo-core iPhone 6 with 4 cameras, 2K display and 5G radios in 2013. The possible delay for the iPhone 5 seems more about re-aligning the product release schedule. It doesn't really matter when the iPhone is released. Most people only buy a new phone with they are eligible for a subsidized upgrade. The iPad, and iPod Touch, are the items that need a big back-to-school/x-mas production push. It must be difficult (or at least expensive) for Apple to release the iPhone mid-year and 2 months later gear up for the iPad/iPod rush. I think we'll probably see the iPad 2 get an extended shelf life too. The rumors of an iPad release in September were probably correct they just got the year wrong -- it'll be 2012. The last piece of this is they may move to more frequent, but minor, OS updates. This has already started to happen with 4.x where each release brought some significant features. Perhaps all the bundled apps will be updated through the App Store instead of OS updates as part of this.
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I don't see why you can't just work on your idea while in college. Would be far better than dropping out while there's nothing to show for it.
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You should try doing modern renditions of the Yahoo Games card games. They are all getting really long in the tooth now, and are completely inaccessible (for disabled people), as they are Java applets. It would be nice to see someone put together a nice site with classic card games, like Pinochle, Hearts, and Bridge. There are many older players out there that would even pay monthly for such a service, for example OKbridge ($100/yr) users. Let me know if you do, my grandmother and her group of players would be happy to try it out! :)
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Thanks. Is it just me, or are there lots of artifacts in the color version that aren't present in the black & white one?
AOL has owned Engadget for six years. I doubt they're leaving because things got "corporate" all of a sudden.
I agree, but I think an important aspect is that ISS has a lot of political appeal to it as well. There's something nice about having all these countries working together and plugging into each others' modules:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Pre...
Unless you could unfold the phone.
I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T still did it to band-aid hemorrhaging to Verizon.
What's the feature left of Debussy? About half-way between Debussy and the left of the image? Looks a little different to the other craters. Maybe more recent, and struck at more of an angle?
"What’s my point? It’s that we don’t take crap from anyone, internally or externally." --- I wonder if it had anything to do with Arrington and TechCrunch.
"The statements that Samsung installs keylogger on R525 and R540 laptop computers are false.

"After investigating into this matter, it was found that the software installed was in fact Vipre, not the commerical keylogger called StarLogger. The confusion arose because Microsoft's Live Application multi-language support folder, 'SL' folder, was mistaken for StarLogger

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Yuck, no.
This is the same thing I've found, in Brisbane.

People apply for jobs without skills, without hobbies involving development, without experience and without even looking at the website.

I simply don't understand it... Are they hoping to get employed to twiddle their thumbs? Do they think they can pick it up on the fly?
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I am in a similar situation (20 years old, semi-dropping out to start a company.) Here's my advice/what I'm doing:

1) Don't drop out entirely. Being a part time student allows you to still access most of the university resources. Many of these can be very valuable.

2) Don't drop out to work on your project. Start planning what you're doing, begin to work on it, show it to people, and then drop out once it looks promising.

It's tempting to drop out right away, but if you have no plan, no skills, and no money, it's a recipe for disaster. It's also expensive; paying the rent and food is no fun and occupies my mind too often.
Let me get this straight... you think you're going to regulate the behavior of a crackhead by changing his tax rate?
One area that raise my interest is with the File API. I wonder if with the 'file' support it will be possible to get Lucene deployed onto GAE.
Engagement should be a relative metric: so in this case, maybe, the % of users who sign up that make a transaction in a time period. Otherwise it's not really meaningful without other data (ad spend, total users, etc). This is "total engaged users" not "engagement".
The demoscene notwithstanding, anybody counting bytes like this will probably be putting their OS in flash/ROM, not on a hard drive.
The File API mapping to the Blobstore really simplifies blob support. The Blob datatype in Datastore has the 1M limit. It was kind of cumbersome to use both the Blobstore and Datastore API to store large objects.

BTW, the Java+Play!+GAE+Objectify really makes webapp development fun and fast.
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Really? Confirmation from a 1-800 support monkey? We're really grasping at straws here.
I think something you have to take into account is that a lot of people are simply buying these android smartphones because they either can't afford the iPhone or their carrier doesn't sell it.

Also regarding the price of Android tablets, none of them seem to be able to challenge Apple's $499 price point. I'd love to be proven wrong but it seems like for whatever reason—likely their ability to get extremely cheap components—Apple will be ahead for a while yet.
As someone who has been in a similar situation, think honestly about why you are disenchanted. Is it because you are taking required classes that don't interest you at the moment and the homework/projects seem like tedious busy work? Is it because you think your degree will be a piece of paper leading to a 9-to-5 in a cubicle, if you're lucky? Or is it because you're driven to work on a project that you hack away day and night on, and class seems like an annoyance that gets in the way?

If it's the latter, and you have a promising opportunity to roll into right away, then there's reason to think hard about your options. Otherwise I'd highly recommend you stick it out and get the degree.
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I've been thinking lately about the topic of using ad networks vs. managing ads on your own on a website that you've built.

There are obvious benefits to both, but I'm curious to hear from others about their experiences with ads.
So why did they keep taking orders? Shut down their website if they don't want orders. Or don't make a deal for $45 in the first place.
Space program yes - ISS no

I'm an astronomer and I think the LHC is a better bet than the ISS. The ISS does no astronomy work and just diverts funds from science (especially by demanding the shuttle stays) the microgravity / materials science is compromised by having people on board which means a high level of vibration from people and life support. The bio research is just spending N days in space which are less than were set by the soviets decades ago

The 'science' it does do is mostly school science project stuff
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Space program yes - ISS no

I'm an astronomer and I think the LHC is a better bet than the ISS. The ISS does no astronomy work and just diverts funds from science 9especially by demanding the shuttle stays) the microgravity / materials science is compromised by having people on board which means a high level of vibration from people and life support .

The 'science' it does do is mostly school science project stuff
Using Java+Play!+GAE+Twig for Sparkmuse and Im very happy with the stack overall. The new Blobstore API will help with handling image uploads which is something Play! On GAE fails at horribly (GAEs fault mostly).
Hi, I'm the author of the guide.

Thanks for your feedback. You made some great points about real time systems, I'll try to rework that section.

> Do not expect me to blindly follow your standards just because you said so.

This reminds me of school : ). The difference here however is that I don't expect anybody to do anything, and participation is entirely voluntary.

In this case I didn't explain my choice of style because most people in the JS community would consent with it, and there has been lots of discussion about this in the past.

> In the deployment part

That's still a work in progress. I didn't choose nohup because I feel screen is conceptually slightly simpler. However, a real deployment section is coming in the future.

> I'd also generally be interested in knowing how you'd avoid spaghetti callback hell from the approach used in node.js, but that doesn't seem to be part of the guide. This is a work in progress, and I am not holding this against the author.

That will be the subject of a guide by itself as well.
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Spore? Black & White? Meh. 'Creatures' creator working on new alife game? Nice.
They had about half as many people when I worked there and it was fairly full-on.
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I must be missing something, but how is EventEmitter helping you get rid of the nested code in your examples? It looks like changing all the anonymous callbacks to named functions, and then using the function names as the callbacks is what made the code more readable. EventEmitter wasn't necessary to do that, right?