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Why can't Amazon bundle MP3 playback with their iOS Kindle app?
Funny video about voice recognition or why we do not have it in TaskPoint yet
I wish Philip and Lance the best of luck. Making this work is a very ambitious goal and we'll all learn a lot from it. And hopefully, get a bunch of new and shiny toys.
I think I saw this on Quora the other day.
One other way might be to use phpjs.org, albeit a less complete version of it.
That was brilliant. I left the client up at home and could queue stuff up while at school. When I got home I had a bunch of new music to listen to. Great idea!
The second quote is quite relevant, coming back to India can easily mark you as someone who didn't make it which carries a lot of stigma.
There were/are 2 judges on the CFTC panel, which deals with commodity and futures trading.

Wendy Gramm (wife of Phil Gramm) approved a judge with the understanding he would never rule in a complainant's favor.

Source? The other judge: http://www.scribd.com/doc/39746954/Judge-Painter-Notice-and-...
PHPJS emulates PHP but can't run PHP scripts :)
This started of as a Google Summer of code project last year but is very active http://code.redbrain.co.uk/cgit.cgi/gcc-dev/log/?h=python-de...

What I find quite interesting is that they are going for full compatibility with Python and not some Pythonic language of somewhat restricted dynamism like rpython, shed-skin, unpython or wirbel, well to an extent cython too.
So they will require quite an elaborate runtime library.
It will be good if they support optional type annotations like unpython, in the interest of runtime efficiency. The good thing is that unpython programs continue to be valid python code even with those annotations. And if they bake in true tail recursion that would be awesome, not very unrealistic, given that gcc supports tail call optimization for a number of scenarios.
Salt water tends to corrode things or the salt builds up and clogs things (See the issues Japan is having putting salt water into their reactors).

Also, depending on the materials used, I believe it also creates chlorine gas as a byproduct.
Thanks.
Well, I guess that will be up to the people handing out invites - it will be up to the community to decide 'who gets in', but the fundamental requirements would be that they are founders or co-founders of a Startup that is less than 3 years old and is actively committed to building a business. Thoughts welcome.
A better use for this technology in the west would probably be inside of a powerplant, because generating power from hydrogen is probably cheaper in a large scale power plant than using a fuel cell.

My guess it's pretty hard to deploy new technologies inside of powerplants. It takes years of testing, larger sums of money, and very long sales cycles.

So it makes more sense to develop a grid-less version for the developing world, that would serve both as a commercial product and as a proof of concept for the technology, and would take much less time and money to deploy.
These robots seem to be using external sensors (cameras mounted in the room, not just on the robot's body).

Of course, the achievement of the research group is impressive, but for those excited about the possibilities to use such robots right now: it's still a long way till relying just on internal sensors and using such robots in arbitrary environment.
I know that in Belgium there is a law where storage which can be used to play pirated media has a surcharge that is used to compensate authors for the possible loss of income because of the potential pirating.

Maybe this is a European directive and enforced in all of those countries, and they need to figure out how they're going to approach this law.
I hope Apple will repeat the same event at a venue in Asia Pacific to cater for the other half of the world. Maybe at Sydney, Shanghai, HongKong or Singapore.
As far as I can recall, most data cables arn't shielded. Audio cables usually are, however, to stop hum/etc. when travelling over long distances.

To be more specific, if you have wire it will act like an antenna. It's usually a fairly poor antenna for most types of EM that you would find, however there are some things, ie. 50hz hum from mains power and its harmonics, that are powerful enough to induce a nontrivial amount of interference for analog applications.

Most digital signals either don't care (because the interference is too weak), or don't care (because they are using twisted pairs and the signal cancels out overall) and hence they are usually unsheilded.

Nuclear radiation can't, in normal circumstance, induce a signal into a wire.
What lesson are you trying to teach them?
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"You may not establish and/or operate links to this website without the prior written consent of Ryanair. Such consent may be withdrawn at any time at Ryanair’s own discretion."

I wonder if Google have got written consent to link to Ryanair from their search results...
It doesn't effect radio communications. It does very nasty things to electronics though. Mostly because it can provide energy directly to the inside of, say, a transistor or the inside of a dram cell causing things to malfunction. It can also do interesting things to the silicon lattice itself, which is what typically causes complete failure of electronic devices in a high radiation environment.
One more reason to use Twitter!
Got to say, i'm aware of Stu and followed one of his earlier startups, projectbubble, he did really well with it and developed it by listening to the users. I expect Fowndr to be successful as well.
3rd place gets you, what 10% of the people who search for it?
Ryanair have such a well known airline brand that it's unlikely they are relying on organic search results.
That they should think through the consequences of their terms and conditions.
http://www.roytov.com/articles/zuckerberg.htm
I like to say "LoseThos memory management will fragment in theory, but not in practice."

How about, "Reboot before each application."

It's the old Russian space pencil verses NASA space pen.

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I wouldn't call it an MVP - more what 37Signals call "half a product, not a half-assed product"
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"Oops, Adobe Flash Player is required to upload files"

Bye.
Ian Lance Taylor is the creator and maintainer of gccgo the Go front-end for gcc.

http://golang.org/doc/gccgo_install.html

He also has an interesting blog:

http://www.airs.com/blog/
It is interesting, but only because of the people on it. It's sort of like the Ask HN section here but slightly broader audience and scope.

The site itself has some impressive features but also some bewildering layout issues. One problem is - how much bigger can the site get before the quality of the participants is diluted too much?
Why do companies even have this clause in their T&C? What's the benefit?
Now you have me thinking whether a severed finger would continue to work on a capacitive screen. A fine way to start the morning!
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I don't ever upload any data onto these cloud file services that I don't encrypt locally first. It's inevitable imo that someone will eventually get into the servers at Dropbox, Amazon, or whatever. I think it's really naive to upload confidential data without making sure it's securely encrypted first.
That link appear to show GCC activity for other projects too. For instance, clicking on 'ian' gives you the details of a gccgo checkin.

http://code.redbrain.co.uk/cgit.cgi/gcc-dev/commit/?h=python...
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If a carbon atom represented one bit of binary data...
I am not a big fan of more government involvement in just about anything, but I can see a role for government here. They are in the best position to establish identity, have little profit incentive, and have ample experience with comparable trust processes like issuing passports and bank notes.

Yes, it will be done less efficiently and with less innovation than the market. That trade off would be worth it.
That is a fair point. I would guess it it 10% more of the clicks than 11th place though
I had the distinct privilege of being home-educated, and never darkening the door of a government run primary school. My parent's resolve in doing this was largely influenced by Mr. Gatto. There is hope.
Thanks, I had missed that in the comments.
Node.js neither. It merely passes the request to PHP-FPM. Neat hack but I fail to take it seriously. I don't see the benefit. Maybe I missed something.
I have built something similar, coming at the problem from a different direction. I wanted a Unix-style shell, but piping objects instead of strings. For example, to sum x^2 from the command line, x = 0-9:

bash$ osh gen 10 ^ f 'x: x**2' ^ red + $

^ is the pipe symbol, red means "reduce", $ means output, and f means apply the given function.

The same capabilities are available as a Python library:

from osh.api import *
osh(gen(10), f(lambda x: x**2), red(lambda x, y: x + y), out())

or

from osh.api import *
osh(gen(10), f(lambda x: x**2), red('+'), out())

Osh can also run results on multiple hosts at once, in parallel, combining the results in various ways; and integrates database access, piping tuples to and from sql commands.

http://geophile.com/osh
This, of course, made me think of Cory Doctorow's "For The Win" (http://craphound.com/ftw/). I'm sure it has been going on for quite a while.

Interesting book, I found myself equally good at seeing both sides of the story which is always nice.
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Depends what the first 2 results are.

fwiw they are 2nd on duckduckgo for grandparents search, and the first airline.
In this case Node.js acts as the webserver as Nginx or Apache would.
indeed!

(I've also got $dddddd instead of #dddddd. Still valid, assuming there was a variable called dddddd).

Because it was a web language html entities, colors and tags were all valid code (and just returned strings).
It's all well and good having people invite people they know, but isn't the hardest part of starting out the problem of not knowing people? Are people starting out not your target group? If so, will active founders who are running their business really share that much interesting chatter rather than just links a la HN?

Also if like-minded people invite like-minded people isn't there a massive groupthink effect?
I would guess they would use this clause in a trial if someone links to their site with something the dont like, ie: "ryanair kill my dog"
Is "photosynthesis"[1] the correct term? Seems to me that "photolysis"[2] would be closer (although readers would get the gist of the former more quickly).

<\pedantry>

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodissociation
Too many lawyers who want to look useful.

I actually remember my boss telling me to put bullshit clauses in contract drafts so that those people have something to chew at and refrain from messing with the actual matter of the contract.
Yeah HN is definitely a great community. It's not a bunch of people being snobby and rude like you would find with traditional forums. I've only been a member of HN for about a week, but I'm addicted because of the positive attitudes that the majority of the members have.

By the way, I'm also loving RoR. I went through some training on it a couple of years ago, but I was already set on PHP and didn't take it seriously. Now that I'm actually learning RoR I can't believe I wasted my time with PHP all of these years. I'm not going to say I hate PHP, but RoR makes things so much easier in comparison.
That can be quite a number, depending on how many actually search for it.
I would imagine that founders already in the network would want to encourage young, new and ambitious founders by inviting them in to the network. There they would be able to share their startup with the community and learn a lot in the process.
Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution that uses the Enlightenment desktop in place of the usual desktop environment. Check it out
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Not sure haven't read that work of his. Right now I'm finishing off Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich which looks at how professions are a continuation of the learned helplessness that schooling helps to instill.
In my mind there is no question that they'll be doing de-duplication here. You don't need to rely on a header key, you just take something like a sha1 hash and the size. Services like dropbox do this - even making it so you don't have to upload non-unique files. I have always assumed that all of the non-encrypted remote backup solutions that live on s3 or elsewhere do this too. It's just too easy for a massive storage space savings to not do it.
"We would like to introduce you to our mascot -- Wendell, The Flying Air Quality Pig. Wendell will appear periodically on this website to help explain some things about air quality. We could have paid for a professional spokesman, but Wendell works pretty cheap, just a few bytes here and there."
You can get a dedicated server in this budget. Try http://blz.in or rackspace.com or wait for other hackers to suggest any.
I would err on the side of vigilance first like Forrst did.

It's easier to let it be more open then to try to close it up.
Awesome. I'll park my (encrypted) backups of docs there.
This is true, I have known few engineers who were really good but being treated differently by their employers once they know they are close to their 6 year limit on H1, meaning they cannot move anywhere, people who were single took their chances and people who had family and other commitments couldn't. Its really hard to be in their shoes. Not many are willing speak outside but this is the reality.
Ask HN: Hardware hacker to real product 
Hi all,

Primarily a software hacker, on the occasional self gifted day off I enjoy a bit of electronics hacking too.

I have read a lot about starting a software company on Hacker News, but not so much about a hardware one. I have frequently wondered where one would even begin if I wanted to take my weekend Arduino project, and turn it into a commercial gadget.

I have been thinking about this more and more since two of my most recent zany gadgets have my friends and family (and random people in the electronics store) buzzing and telling me it's a great idea

Arduino parts are made for prototyping, so 1st step is designing a purpose made circuit to cut down on cost and weight .. but I'm just a hacker with a working prototype and an idea!

So, there must be some hardware entrepreneurs out there, I'm ready and listening!

I'm based in London - FYI
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Not only that, he is also the developer of the gold linker (and binutils maintainer from 1996 to 1999):
https://lwn.net/Articles/274859/
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It misses the most important step: submit a pull request to the project maintainer, so that you don't end up maintaining every project yourself for which you ever fixed a bug.
No, I still don't understand. Are you looking for advice on where to advertise for new users of your site? Are you looking for advice on sites complementary to yours that you can direct your users to? Or something else?

You say your users aren't geeks. OK. But what are they?
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"I already read The Underground History of American Education. Is it worth reading Weapons of Mass Instruction too?"

No. Weapons of Mass Instruction is basically just excerpts from Underground History. I think there are a few new things, but mostly what happened is that the publisher for Underground History backed out once they read the book, which left Gatto allowed to self publish it himself but unable to find another publishing deal. So Weapons of Mass instruction was basically just him going out and repackaging Underground History and publishing the best of it.
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If Google obeyed their T&Cs to the letter and didn’t list them at all that’d hurt them.
stu, i got it when trying to click through the HN link.

8:07am: tried it again because i saw your response and it worked. the upside: nice tight 3 min window to check your apache logs?
I don't think India is bad in terms of entrepreneurs environment , in opposite India is ideal place for startup , technology is yet to reach grass root , is starting to flow like in US. Broadband penetration is doubling every year.

Yeah we have social problems , corruption etc. Where does these don't exist.I would bet my money on India to be great for entrepreneurs for new business in coming years.
Any possible benefits of doing this with node.js rather than just the normal nginx setup? Maybe if you're just running a simple node.js app but need to include one single-file php script? I guess that would be useful.

Interesting concept. I like projects like this.

It's also refreshing to see an article on HN mentioning PHP without it being something negative.
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MP3.com once got in a ton of hot water for a version of that. They had an integrated ripping system that if they already had the content it just checked the "hash" of the TOC and granted you access to the music. In this way you could borrow a stack of cds and very quickly have access to all of your friends music.

I'm not sure if having to upload your music before it's de-duplicated makes a legal difference, but I bet it came into play. I have long thought of the possibility of hacking up the dropbox binary to fake hashes of known music I didn't have and get access instantly

Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner." Before damage was awarded, MP3.com settled with plaintiff, UMG Recordings, for $53.4 million, in exchange for the latter's permission to use its entire music collection.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MP3.com#My.MP...
Yes, instead of getting support hell for monkeypatching, we get support hell for using forked versions of the libs.

Consider me skeptical that there will be any real improvement from this.

(I am not claiming forks are bad, only that it solves a different problem than support hell)
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Might be the load. Had about a thousand visitations in 20 minutes.
Micropayments to remove a small watermark?

Some people would never pay, so making the watermark huge and ugly wouldn't be a good idea as you would lose a large amount of new users coming to you through WoM from pleased, existing users.

… but a small yet visible watermark, removed for $1?

I'm not sure about the possible ROI, but it's a thought.
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Honest question -- what's the real utility of a founder network like this above, say, actively participating on HN regularly?

Forrst is so useful because it's specialized. I don't see that (yet) here.
A lot of non-tech people don't type any URL, they just type "Ryanair" in Google and click on the first link.
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> Think about Net Neutrality. Facebook doesn't just want it, it depends on it to keep its costs down and its site fast.

When they are really profitable, they can afford to pay some extra cost to make sure that facebook is well reachable everywhere, while the rest of the Internet is slow. (Exaggerated, yes).

So maybe they have some motivation to enforce net neutrality now, but will they stall have it in five years?
Ugh, the last thing we need is to turn open source people into Windows Weenies.

Honestly, I like ASP.NET. If you're selective about what features you use, you're working with a language that's like Java, but a lot nicer, and a much better standard library. If you spent a few years coding web apps in say PHP or Ruby and you understand how real frameworks work and what's good about 'shared nothing', you'll do OK.

However, like all Microsoft products, ASP.NET is full of traps. Things that you might think would be good because they came from a giant company, but that will just screw you up and waste your time.

One of the most dangerous things that comes in Visual Studio is a phony web server that starts when you hit the F5 button when you start a web app. The phony web server is enough like IIS that you might think that your app will work on IIS when it's done, but in reality, it probably won't quite work -- and it can sometimes take days or weeks to fill the gap from "almost works" to "really works"

I try to tell people that they should just install IIS (easy) and figure out how to make the app run on real IIS from the very beginning because somebody's going to have to do that work sooner or later.
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Possibly because Apple would then demand the option for iOS users to buy MP3s from Amazon through the app, and take 30% of those sales?
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In a recent article about html5 audio there was a lot of talk about how safari intentionally didn't support automatic audio playback (vs. say chrome and chrome lite). I'm guessing that this would mean you'd have to click a button each time the song changed in your playlist - this would probably suck enough that it explains why they didn't launch with mobile safari support.
"... I'd still take the position that a hairdresser could be a Startup (as well as a startup). ..."

I doubt it. Calling a hairdresser a Startup, is about as convincing as saying Detroit innovates in transport with efficient engine technology.

The key difference, despite its past, Detroit can create new innovative hi-tech products if requried. [0] I dare say it would be harder for hairdressers around the world to do so in a business that is not technology based.

[0] Sebastian Blanco, "Detroit 2011: Li-Ion motors says hello to first Wave sales, promises Inizio by mid-summer"
http://green.autoblog.com/2011/01/11/li-ion-motors-wave-sale...
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