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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook Accessories. What a spread.
I don't think you understand. MS is criticizing Chrome for temporarily dropping support for XP (re-introduced in v11). IE9+ doesn't support XP at all.

That's what you call doublespeak.
Would it be a fair guess that CloudFoundry will support Redis Cluster too when it is released?
Long-time lurker here.
I really would appreciate that as I'd rather check a couple of new stories while at the same time glancing over the current top-stories.
Reducing this by one click (I know, I'm lazy) would be great!
Six hours a day, six days a week, for six years? Golf can take it's toll on the wrists, forearms, shoulders, lower back, and knees. I predict he'll give up due to overuse injuries long before he reaches 10,000 hours.
The logical follow up question is: assuming swombat isn't part of a secret cabal, how does he avoid setting it off in the future?

You probably can't answer that, but I know I like tweeting about my HN posts and inviting folks over to HN to participate. If that's a bad thing, we need to know that and not do it anymore.

EDIT: Is there is a prohibition against tweeting submissions?

EDIT2: Happy to abide by whatever rules there are, but without knowing them I can see where it could get very frustrating for a lot of folks. A couple of my submissions I was sure were being flagged, but now I'm guessing it's because I shared the link with folks. That's an extremely non-intuitive system response.
A good parallel to typing is playing classical piano, where the hands are lifted, and a straight line can be projected through the wrist to the elbow.

Resting the wrist or elbow on some sort of extension is what causes the strain. The trick is building the strength to hold up your hands and arms (maybe take up piano ;) ) without becoming tense in your shoulders and back. All of this follows from having a good posture.
I would personally love this. Even though I am by most measures a techie (I get paid to write software), I find deployment / configuration to be very different from development and generally a whole bucket of hurt that I don't want to get involved in. Have some projects that I simply never wrote because I knew they'd need server setup that I didn't want to do. Now if only there were support for something besides rails...
It went poorly.
Unscrupulous? The terms are so outrageous (owning 80% for late penalty) that I can't imagine this would hold, especially when it's in the form of informal emails.

I see a lot of unscrupulous business people trying to abuse the one developer who can actually make things happen.
If taking the market away from ARM were that easy, Intel would have done it already.
I'm on the AppScale team (http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu) and it's been open source for several years now.
Looks pretty good. A while back I purchased a license for ImpactJS and that is a bit more polished than this.
Now that's something a hacker would love. I am going to give it a shot. Lot of interesting scenarios to think of: Calling home number if office is not answered, Not uploading to skydrive if the pictures are taken at a specific location (home etc)
Jeez, did anyone read the article? It said that bitorrent users commonly only use TOR to access the trackers, then use a NON-TOR connection to the peer.

The researchers then recorded the user's IP address from the non-TOR traffic. Nothing magically going on here.
... or really smart for not accepting his $2,000 back and diluting the partnership.
This reminds me of a blog I read a few years ago called "Scratch to Scratch". The point of the exercise was to go from being an ultrabeginner golfer to a par golfer in a year of serious practice and training.

Here's the about page from his blog: http://breakparblueprint.com/blog/about-2/

That is apparently, his new blog migrated from the original, found here: http://scratchtoscratch.wordpress.com/

The big thing was the time and effort investment: over 70,000 practice balls, and 2,000 hours in a year (that's close to a full-time job).

He actually ended up writing a book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Hack-Golfers-Challenge-Break/dp/...
There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
Thanks for the thread to OP and thanks to you for answering - I was just asking myself the exact same question (Google to the rescue - this thread came up).

Good thinking to start experimenting with karma-related features.

It makes me re-think my own hn-visiting-process and at the same time I keep reflecting about how I currently comb through threads. Thanks pg!
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Yes, major props to everyone at SHDH and South Bay Game Jam for all the feedback. We're still working on improving the systems, especially the documentation and livecoding libraries. Thanks for your feedback we'll be making more tutorials and demos and releasing them on the blog and the forums.
Left a comment there, might as well leave it here too.

An interesting debate (minus the personal attack stuff). But I think the problem is that both sides are trying to warp and narrow the playing field to suit themselves. The truth is there are plenty of projects that will never need all the machinery of SproutCore. And there are plenty of projects that start out too small and then struggle to grow more complex. Choosing your tools is hard. It should be hard and it should be taken seriously. Neither side should be trying to convince people that it’s an easy decision.

- "This is why you should always just start with SproutCore".
- "This is why you should just start small and integrate micro-frameworks as needed".

Both bogus arguments really.

I’m also quite sure that neither side really wants to disparage the other side. They just want to make sure their own side isn’t being disparaged or misrepresented. This is what most internet arguments are made of unfortunately :)

What would be more awesome IMO is if we started talking about when it’s a good idea to take either approach. Let’s hear some use cases. And let’s stop using Twitter as an example. There is only 1 Twitter and their requirements are not going to be representative of the web dev community at large.
If tweeting about your posts and getting them exposure is a bad thing, this is no forum for entrepreneurs.
Ask HN: Business bank account for a Delaware Corp
I can't be the first person who has had to deal with this. :)

My business partner and I have a Delaware registered corporation. It is an internet based business that provides tools for fundraising. We are making money, and it's currently sitting in a Paypal account. We need to setup a bank account to get it out and to get a merchant account. Where and how do we do it?

a) I am in California. I can register as a foreign entity in California and pay the $800 / year filing fee + any business income taxes and then go through HSBC (which seems to have really good virtual banking rates.) California, however, doesn't seem that friendly to corporations and since I have no use for actually doing business in California, this seems like a high price to pay on a margin business.

b) My business partner lives in NYC. We could register there as a foreign entity and pay the $125 / year filing fee + applicable foreign entity fees and annual taxes. Then go through HSBC as well. This seems at least a little more reasonable.

c) ? I don't know. What are the other options? What have other people done? Anyone know of banks in Delaware that would deal with us?

Also, if we are registered as a foreign entity in California and we make money online, can California tax that income even if it's from all over the world?

This seems like such a simple thing, but it's very clearly not. I would love any input or advice the HN community has to offer.

Thanks so much,
Jeremy
I posted this on their comments: "Please, Microsoft, don't try to confuse people by hijacking the word "native". An HTML 5 application does not run on a magical HTML 5 CPU, even in IE9 and IE10. Being single platform may allow you to develop IE faster but it is not an advantage for the user."
Slexy, I didn't know about this. Because 5 days ago, I was too sick to do anything but lie on the sofa and moan, and Thomas was taking care of me while holding down the business all by himself. It's unfortunate that Dustin assumed that not hearing from Thomas in just a few days meant that Thomas was angry, ignoring him, or whatever.

But nevertheless, Emile's not only open source, it's MIT-licensed. Dustin can do whatever he wants with it, any time!
I managed to craigslist this desk and love it. Finding the accessories, on the other hand, has been harder.
yeah, that was the actual intent of Chrome as far as I understand it and it has worked.

Look at Firefox 4, you can't say it wasn't influenced by Chrome. And the fact that Microsoft is now trying to move faster with IE10 already being announced is probably also largely influenced by Chrome's fast paced development.

We now have a better faster web. We just need it to be standardized a little more (Come on Microsoft, please add WebGL support)
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The last bundle was fantastic. My wife & I are still playing World of Goo, Osmos, and Braid. We're both busy people so these are exactly (and only) the kinds of games we enjoy.
If you read through the eMails, it's hard to dispute Zuck pulled a fast one.

So it looks like Ceglia has a good claim on 50% of Zucks share of Facebook:

""By virtue of his 50% ownership interest in the General Partnership, Cegliais entitled to receive 50% of the total equity interest in Facebook, Inc. received by, and promisedto Zuckerberg, including, but not limited to, stock, stock options and restricted stock units.""
Lawyers rarely take cases unless they're positive they'll win outright or negotiate a good percentage of any settlement. I'd say, the chances are good some of the claims are accurate against Zuckerburg.
I am in no way defending either party. And, while that contract was made by two naive, business-savvy-lacking individuals about a site that neither had any idea how big it would become - it was clearly a lame contract. But an agreed to, signed and funded contract none-the-less.
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This isn't a forum for entrepreneurs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868
passing something through should be much cheaper than actually building something or adding value unless you're bilking people.

The amount someone gets paid for doing something depends on how much value they capture, not how much they add. In most cases where all parties contract freely, you can't capture more than you add, but anyway

_Value added and paid are often wildly out of whack_

"Bilked" is a moral judgement. If you're saying you think insurance is unjustly fair then since that's a fact about you not about insurance, sure it can be true. But it's like "profiteering", a moral/political statement, with no economic content.
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I entirely agree with you, excepting for your comment about shoes. In most circumstances, the best way to avoid foot problems is not to "buy better footware/orthotics" but rather to strengthen your feet.

If you are skeptical, look into the "minimalist" running movement. There is quite a bit of research which suggests that the human foot is itself a better support system than any external aid. The problem is that, living as most people do, their foot muscles have atrophied.

I stand barefoot on hardwood all day long.
Question, what does the orange dot mean? and why are some users green now?
Sad. I've told numerous people that this was the best online community of entrepreneurs bar none. I guess we need a new one.
> Why do you say that? I can't think of many that don't lend itself to that. Programming? Math? Chess? Plumbing? Carpentry? Tax accountant? Table tennis? Nurse?

Golf probably has the advantage that it is easier to measure or judge someone's performance than some of the things you mentioned. While practice certainly helps with all of them, I would think that it would be quite hard to objectively evaluate the skill of a mathematician or a plumber in comparison.
From the original engineering article on the twitter site, it seems they switched from a database backend (MySQL) to using Lucene and also heavily customized it. Maybe it was just a lesser hassle to interact with Lucene using Java. Would love to hear reasons directly from them.
I agree, but I think the point of Tom originally linking it was to show that Dustin had integrated a micro-framework (from you), and couldn't get a response from you (even to say the stuff you mention above) and eventually closed the ticket.

It's not my own commentary, though. I was just clarifying to Amy why the argument that seemed entirely unrelated was at least tangentially related. Personally, I would have just modified it and went on my way :D
UX Evolutions: The Future of the Camera
Yeah, ImpactJS looks really nice. The main difference is that PixieEngine doesn't require any download or dev environment set up, so it's easy to get started. Additionally all of our libraries are open source and available on github. We hope that this ease of getting started and open collaboration will more rapidly lead to higher quality platform.
I think green users are those that has been recently created.
HTML5 has become a marketing term, it's not so surprising that Microsoft needs to differentiate themselves with their late jump on that bandwagon.
what do you guys think is better for long term health, an exercise ball chair or a standing desk?
Tweeting about your posts is fine. I do that myself. But you didn't link to your post (http://swombat.com/2011/4/12/bushido) but rather to the HN story about your post.
This is probably why he is claiming 50% of Zuckerberg's shares. Those have been diluted, but he has obviously maintained a huge portion of the company.
Good for you - sadly I don't have that kind of self-control. I played through Braid in one sitting - be it 10pm through to about 7am in the morning. Once I started I couldn't put it down; it was probably the best gaming experience I've ever had. Similar result the next weekend with Goo.
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I'd love to see a comprehensive study of male/female wages within specific industries, because I think that would be much more informative on the relative biases specific to industries, but this link isn't it. Instead, this is an opinion piece that does not take its sources seriously, and instead uncritically hand-waves away what is quite possibly a legitimate concern.
just played with it.. really amazing...cheap too.
I'm not fond of all these attention grabbing hotshots. Gladwell's theory is completely bogus.

A guy in UK tried to do that for Marathon and aimed to become an olympian. He did a lot of media and called his upcoming documentary "The Road to Beijing". He didn't make it, and wasn't even close (from what I remember it was 2:40 or 2:45). Then he went to Ethiopia and picked a protege. His protege was fast but didn't win a thing.

He is now a motivational speaker. I guess blatant self promotion always works. He used to be the running joke in UK runner's forums but he is the one laughing now.
Vivek went to American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Deans Institute. I am not really sure what kind of response he was expecting other than the one presented to him.

Ask HN, is it really an unbiased article when you take their responses, and not for example, students or recent graduates ?
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This is a testament to how skilled lawyering can make a difference.

Original complaint: Cast primarily as a claim against Facebook seeking a court declaration and judgment that Ceglia was the 80% owner of FB. Claim founded on a breach of contract. In essence, a claim by an independent contractor that, for breach of a $1K contract, he is entitled to claim half of what a young kid promised to give him forever after relating to the subject matter of that contract. Result: an inherently flaky claim that can readily be ridiculed as opportunistic and defeated on a variety of legal grounds.

Amended complaint: Cast as a series of claims against Mark Zuckerberg only (the sole claim against FB as a company is a technical one that seeks to bind it concerning any judgment declaring that Ceglia has a 50% stake in anything granted or promised to Mr. Zuckerberg). Claim founded on the idea of a general partnership as an association of two or more persons to carry on business as co-owners for profit, with the theme being that one partner misappropriated for his own use and profit assets belonging to the partnership and must now account to the wronged partner for 50% of those assets, both as originally constituted and as enhanced over time. Result: a claim that may or may not be valid, depending on how the evidence eventually plays out, but which is potentially credible if the evidence of a true partnership sticks.

In switching the claim from one primarily against FB as a company to one against Mr. Zuckerberg alone, DLA Piper has put it on much firmer ground and has created possible winning chances for its client. How it will likely play out will no longer be determined by one knock-out punch from FB but, instead, in the trenches, with hand-to-hand fighting over every piece of evidence and every fine legal point. That is a decidedly bad turn for Mr. Zuckerberg.

The case remains problematic at several levels, not the least of which may be statutes of limitations grounds on the new theories (New York lawyers can assess this).

Before we cheer too loudly for Mr. Ceglia, I would note that I have seen many, many situations over the years in which a less-than-attractive "money guy" does indeed exploit founders at the formative stage and the contract here appears to fit within that mode - in essence, a lifetime claim against a founder concerning the subject matter of an engagement in exchange for a token money contribution. Whatever one may think of Mr. Zuckerberg, this is utterly repulsive and will serve as a drag on Mr. Ceglia's case throughout.
Unrelated to the OP, but related to this: I get that it's real life, and people forget that all the time on the internet. You should start feeling better soon. Forealz. I demand it. CFS sounds terrible and we're all rooting for you to figure out a real solution despite shitty doctor luck. Many <3z.
Voting on HN is, and always has been, used to express approval or disapproval.
To me there's a sort of a Bayesian logic working against any hypothetical "adult novice puts in 10,000 hours of work and becomes a pro" story, which is that anyone who has the willpower and passion to put in that much work probably has already. If you are so excited about a sport/instrument/game/hobby that you're willing to put 10,000 hours into it starting from scratch, why weren't you working on it before?

I recently mentioned reading an amazing music theory book and someone asked me if it had lots of prerequisites or if he could understand it. My response was "It doesn't really require previous theory knowledge, but if you weren't excited enough about music theory to have acquired that other knowledge already, I doubt this book is going to be that interesting to you."
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Funny, most of the few women I see in Tech ARE minority women...
Even if he'd given back the $2k, he'd still have a case if he was coerced with false information, wouldn't he?
Thanks; I just checked it out and while it has some nice features, it doesn't do all that much to compact my already-dense JS. Additionally, the added complexity it introduces to the development process negates some of its charm, as does the extra cognitive load of playing human backtracking parser whenever I have to think about what function applications require parens and which don't. (This is all IMO, so while I think I've accurately portrayed CoffeeScript, YMMV, so people should check it for themselves.)
I have these at work and home. They work well, but I wish they were built a little more solidly.

What can you say, though? Ikea.
Poll: Standing Desk or Exercise Ball Chair
After reading this article http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/most-dangerous-thing-youll-do-all-day I am determined to change my workplace setup. It looks like the 2 most popular options on HN are standing desk or exercise ball chair. What would you recommend and why?
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I don't think that really plays much in to it. I don't think many people are sizing up the quality of the software then making a value judgement - as everyone will conclude that even $10 or $20 is very cheap for the value you receive.

I think it's more the points child comment makes above, along with:

a- Linux users want to support the philosophy behind these humble sales (pay-what-you-want, independent studio, DRM-free).

b- Total supposition: Many linux users come across this from sources like HN or their friends as "check out the way these are being sold", whereas many windows users it's more "check out how cheap these games are".
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Sports training usually shows diminishing returns. In particular, if you overtrain you plateau or get worse.
At first, that was what I thought the flaw would be -- providing a file that has a hash that collides with another file, gets you that file.

But it seems to me you would need to know the exact contents of the file in question to get that to happen, making the point moot. Perhaps I'm wrong on that.
I really like it. It actually makes me participate more. It's always interesting though to see how many points someone got that commented on your comment, so perhaps after a certain "sleep" period we could be able to see the score?
I lol'd.

Headline is stating something completely different from the study.

Even within the study.. how about a study of wage gaps by industry rather than within the universe of "22-30 year old urban workers"? Maybe there are more male fry cooks and more female advertising execs in that age group?

When feminist groups talk about a wage gap, they talk about different pay levels for the same job, and as far as I'm aware that still exists.
I would have liked to see more citations and numbers, but what specifically did you think was hand-wavy?