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Forgot one other big issue that no one seems aware of: Appcelerator tracks your development with their tools. Titanium Developer transmits analytics data every time you create/import/edit/delete/compile/test/install/distribute a Titanium project on your system.

To see the specific calls, just download titanium_developer and grep for Titanium.Analytics.featureEvent. If you do use Titanium and want to disable this, you should build a new version of Developer after adding the following line to tiapp.xml:

<analytics>false</analytics>

One last note: I don't make these points just to be mean-spirited. Appcelerator clearly has some talented programmers and great technology. But silent tracking isn't okay, and clearly someone at top needs to help them focus the talent they have.
Note that such "free licensing" for patents generally includes the stipulation that you waive your license if you engage in any patent suit against the patent-holding company - for example, the Red Hat promise includes the words:

"Our Promise does not extend to any party who institutes patent litigation against Red Hat..."

The whole point is to free up your patent collection so anyone can use it, without devaluing it as ammunition to defend yourself from other patent claims.
I like the simplicity of this blog, not to mention the quality of this guide. I will definitely be taking a look at including some of these into my workflow. Thanks for this.
Personally i thonk this is great, healthcare has a lot of complex factora weighing in on the success of a startup due to regulation, the market, technology (legacy amd otherwise) as well as the fact that the ultimate customer is the patient.

I think this space merits some specific focus as its not quite the same to lump consumer internet startups and healthcare startups together. Their barriers to entry/success are different planets.
I agree. There's a visceral reaction to bite-sized stories where the upvote overstates usefulness. It either takes conscious dedication to keep that from taking over a site like this, or some technical mechanism that I haven't seen invented. In the meantime, I applaud anyone taking on the former.
Outstanding advice that is mostly applicable to the business world as well.
Actually, God has told us how many tweets they're hosting, and tweets are mercifully short. As of about a month ago, Twitter says it gets about 140 million tweets per day. Assuming the maximum length of 140 characters, this means they're storing about 18 GB per day. At Amazon S3 rates (which are considerably higher than what Twitter pays if they have a working brain anywhere in their corporate structure), that means that their storage costs increase by about $1/day. After five years of storage at that rate, their monthly storage costs (again, at S3 rates) would be around $2000. If they're making less than $2000 per month with that wealth of data, nickel-and-diming developers is a drastically misguided underreaction.

I'm not pretending this is all it takes to run Twitter, but I'd be surprised if storing a few TB a year is a major cost center. (Serving up so many concurrent users seems like a much bigger and more expensive problem — that's an average of 1600 tweets per second, to say nothing of readers, and I suspect tweet rates are very lumpy.)
If you're interested in a FOSS application for procedural graphics, take a look at Povray:
http://povray.org/

It has no (built-in) UI. Its file format is a domain-specific scripting language. :-D
I think it looks interesting and should promote some interesting discussions if it reaches the front page.
Actually, God has told us how many tweets they're hosting, and tweets are mercifully short. As of about a month ago, Twitter says it gets about 140 million tweets per day. Assuming the maximum length of 140 characters, this means they're storing about 18 GB per day. At Amazon S3 rates (which are considerably higher than what Twitter pays if they have a working brain anywhere in their corporate structure), that means that their storage costs increase by about $1/day. After five years of storage at that rate, their monthly storage costs (again, at S3 rates) would be around $2000. If they're making less than $2000 per month with that wealth of data, nickel-and-diming developers is a drastically misguided underreaction.
I never said the home would be the primary charge point, you wouldn't charge like this at home, but at a charge station.

I'm implying that these are the specs necessary for an electric car to truly be taken seriously as a replacement for a gas vehicle.

Furthermore, charging at a higher voltage, say even 720 volts (about twice the current roadster's voltage) gets you down to 500 amps to charge a Tesla in 10 minutes, which is manageable for cables. Charge stations could have a reserve/buffered system they can charge from that way they wouldn't be hitting the grid all at once if 5-6 cars show up. You could do a similar thing at your house (basically a large UPS)

The battery swap thing is a pipe dream, IMO.
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For most project it is not about clicks but about conversion and that is greatly depends from the product that you are selling. Facebook is more "fun" than "money spending" community. Google unrelated CPC keywords give 8X fold better conversion than Facebook targeted ads from each click for me. Would be more useful to have specific information on your numbers beside clicks.
There isn't any malice in my post. But I inferred rhetoric and emotion in yours by the number of expletives / euphemisms. I can't possibly construe your post (or this reply) in any fashion that isn't snarky, at the very least. I urge you to read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You definitely imply (both in your original post, and in this one) that every Prius owner is buying a new Prius every few years. That is a logical fallacy, in a variety of ways -- both that it is fact, and that it is necessarily bad. Even if that is the case, then that means there is bound to be a very good supply of cheap Prius cars available for the secondary market. Hooray.

The true fact of the matter is that producing cars (or trucks) is bad for the environment. A Prius may be bad in different ways than a Ford, but tearing up the Earth to produce an easier means of transport isn't eco-friendly.
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> Although society tends to view blacks less favorably in general so tradeoff here is still not a no-brainer.

I'm not so sure about that. Granted, where I live there are really really few black people, but I observed they are generally very successful with women no matter whether they're bald or hairy. And I overheard women talk about the advantages and the cuteness of black guys. Heck, a girl friend of mine even kept going on and on about wanting to have "chocolate-colored babies". So, yes, I'd probably choose being black over being hairy if that were possible.
I can only talk from personal experience- I've never seen a founder that's been completely happy with outsourced UX/ UI. In the end, it's really tied to the type of site that you're developing. If the design is integral to the experience (like a music or design site for example), then don't outsource. If the design is purely tied to the data and the way the data is arranged for consumption, then maybe.
I may be the only one who likes this. I've recently been looking for an old commodore 64 for nostalgic reasons, there is no practical reason to own one unless you're a demo purest. But I'm also in the market for an HD media player and the specs look up to the task. I can get my retro gaming and media fix in one package and decommission my xbox1.

Sure the price will be inflated but I can imagine leaving this sprawled out on my lounge floor provided there are some decent retro usb/wireless joysticks to go with it.
I have minimal experience with libevent and much more with libev, but I do think that libev is very, very well-engineered. The author is on steroids, you can really notice it just by reading the documentation. The documentation and the code indicate that he knows what he's doing and is very serious about performance. There are also no obvious design flaws in libev that would result in limitations. Want fork? No problem, but be aware of clearly documented issues A B and C. Want threads? No problems, it even documents how, as well as potential issues. Want signals? No problem, and again potential issues are clearly documented.
What about facebook, reddit, twitter, etc? One of my favorite subreddits /r/listentothis is mostly links to youtube videos of copyrighted music. Reddit is definitely profiting from this, so is facebook (I used to share youtube links to music videos on my facebook page all the time.)

Obviously, the purpose of the website this guy was running was pretty specific, but according to what you posted, facebook would be liable as well.
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From the FAQ:

"10. What is Commodore OS?
Our new Commodore operating system, will be a unique Commodore and AMIGA centric Linux distribution, that will grow over time into something far greater. Commodore OS will not be your run of the mill Linux distribution."

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_FAQ.aspx#Q10

Judging from the website's fondness for the long deprecated bgcolor tag and animated GIF's, my confidence them producing such an OS is not particularly high at this moment.
This is a great point, and likely you'll win a UDRP because the registrant will ignore the request (if they're guilty). However, filing a UDRP costs about $1,300.

Entrepreneurs should always register the domain name BEFORE you register for your company.
Thanks for posting that link, definitely much more informative than the original post. I'm not sure if it was quite as shocking to everyone else but I had previously written off facebook ads. I'll definitely be giving this a try.

And great timing too, I posted a question that this answers about an hour ago. ("How do I improve marketing without being a domain expert?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408842)
This reminded me to put some more work into my lunch app (jQuery Mobile + Yelp API + Google Maps API) I've worked on a little bit for the same reason. Thanks :)
You may be interested in this, http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/nudejs/. It might help prevent users from uploading porn. Found it through this HN post, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2401083
Let's see... the main difference between a $100,000 salesperson and myself is that I don't enjoy selling things.
I didn't mean in terms of attractiveness to females. They seem to do fine there -- that I agree.

I just meant in terms of everything else, like the research showing that an identical resume with just different names (one black and one white sounding) the white sounding name will get many more call backs.

So, yes, I'd probably choose being black over being hairy if that were possible.

Maybe I missed you stating you were hairy and bald before... it's an odd combination, but not uncommon. I'd love to know why evolutionarily this is so common.
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Funny, thats the same argument ("feels like a ripoff") that stops me buying Apple hardware.
Sony pocket reader would be near perfect if they added amazon's side buttons, and a one/two tap method to get to a fully expanded out table of contents like iBooks. Being able to use it while charging from the computer would be nice too.
See my comments elsewhere in this discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409001

I'm not directly selling for either of my campaigns (although FB has incidentally netted me a few sales for my job board; that's incidental rather than intentional), so you could be right about people being hesitant to spend money.

Although for CoderStack I do get plenty of people applying for jobs after clicking on an ad, so it's not all fun.

I think a lot of it is about being careful about how you're tuning your ads, it's easy to make an ad that people will click on that misleads the clicker as to what your website will contain.

But if you start with an ad that's very specific about what you're delivering and then tweak the other aspects (image, demographic targeting) then you can probably get a healthy conversion rate.

(all my ads are clear about what you'll get if you click through)
Was he the originator of the streams, though? If not, the $90K made is not relevant because he was not the originator of the copy. If I understand correctly, weren't these links? Even if they were embeds, ala YouTube, I don't see the infringement he did.
The Scala philosophy of actors just being a demonstration has been somewhat lost when you look at the literature, where Actors are presented as a solid solution.

STM doesn't really exist in Scala except as an experiment, so you cannot use it in Scala unless you're prepared to seek out the experimental library.

Yes, yes, I know it's planned for inclusion and code is being tested, but that's not the same as shipping today in the base library. I agree that Scala is all about flexibility "a scalable language" etc, but in practice we're talking about comparing a future Scala feature with today's Clojure.

I don't see how you can say that Clojure 'won't let you' use actors. It would seem to me just as easy to implement an actors library in Clojure as to implement STM in Scala. Rich Hickey has even suggested himself that Actors may show up for use in distributed systems in a future Clojure.

My point is that this is a reasonable comparison between the current versions of the languages that most people are likely to encounter. If a journeyman programmer has a concurrency problem to solve in each of the languages today, they'll be guided towards the STM system in Clojure, and the Actors library in Scala.

The original article which compares the two is actually quite insightful in exposing difficulties with using Actors. Given that the solution was taken from a prominent book on Scala and not contrived by the author, it's hardly a strawman. Why did the authors of the O'Reilly book pick actors if they're a bad choice?

If they're doing it wrong, it would be useful to explain why, than to just shoot the comparison down by saying Scala can do anything once the appropriate library has been written.
I think that the takeaway from that post, for me, was that IF you absolutely can't have another registrar, it's probably worthwhile to purchase your domain in long, multi-year chunks, and be prepared to have thrown that money away if they ever take it out from under you.

Obviously, this doesn't speak to whether or not it's 'safe', but Letterly has illustrated that, at least presently, the 'point of failure' is at the registrar. Other (not-expired) .ly domains seem to be resolving just fine, which is the point of DNS of course, and it's safe to say that if they hadn't already been up for renewal, they'd likely be safe until they were.

As it stands, I don't even know if there are any registrars selling .ly domains, or if it's simply their registrar that's having issues.
I'd be more interested in having a 100-mile range and an onboard gas-powered generator to give me effectively-unlimited range when I'm road-tripping and damn-near-free trips when I'm commuting.
As a user of HN for pragmatic (read: non-timewasting) reasons, here's what I want to see on HN in this order:

1) Useful plugins, technologies, tools, or resources for development.
2) New Platforms (hardware, app store, device) or policy (privacy) changes.
3) Inspiring projects, stories, or news.
4) Cool science, physics, math, or other explanations and stories.

TBH - most popular HN stories cause knee-jerk reactions but have little content.

Maybe a specific 'work' filter would prioritize links into these categories?
I'm not sure I follow. Are you claiming that unless one is well versed in css and html5, one is incapable of creating a decent linux distribution?

debian.org gives the lie to such a notion, methinks.

I suppose you might counter that the good old Amiga was a feast of multimedia technologies, and that somehow the modern equivalent is a pretty web page. Again, I'll disagree with you; creating a media-centric OS is a pretty far cry from making a pretty web page.

Heck, a slick-looking commodoreusa.net page might turn off potential customers who'd otherwise be drawn in by the nostalgia stirred by the "ancient" look and feel. That was certainly my reaction.
I can't agree with you.

On gossip: This is confirmed by the subject of the article. It's fact. It's happening.

On inside baseball: Google is a sleeping giant. A shakeup in their product management group could have very interesting implications for startup people and software developers. For one, it could mean acquisition binging. Or, it could mean that Google could start competing in all new businesses.

I'd say it's worth knowing about.
>> So, yes, I'd probably choose being black over being hairy if that were possible.

> Maybe I missed you stating you were hairy and bald before...

No, I meant I am neither. But if I could choose one trait, I'd probably opt for black instead of full-head-haired. Probably. It'd be a close one.

> it's an odd combination, but not uncommon. I'd love to know why evolutionarily this is so common.

I believe the reason for general body hairiness, baldness and susceptibility to prostate cancer may be a mutation to the Dihydrotestosterone receptors. Or maybe there is just more of the hormone to begin with, I forget.
I'm not saying that they are going to create a great OS, but those that know web design and those that build operating systems are often a disjoint set.
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There's really not enough data to give you great advice.

Is he a developer? Are you a developer? Is he really slow or is he just giving bad estimates on how long things take? Are you shifting specs which causes delays?

You're making character judgments of him and obviously you're biased and we have to take your word for it. You point out some anecdotes on his apparent laziness but you could do the same with anybody.

I think one think you can do is recognize that you and this person may not have the same mindset on how to work. That's not saying he's wrong or that you're right. It's saying that there's a disconnect that should be resolved.

Personally, I agree with nostrademons. Working those kind of hours can happen for crunch time but it's not a long term strategy for a company, even a startup. You'll burn out quickly and everyone will hate each other.

Work hard but take time off and don't neglect the rest of life otherwise you'll end up hating it. Leave time to refresh your batteries.
Wow. If those aren't too expensive, I'd love to get one. What a fantastic desktop machine. This kind of seems like a late April fool's joke, however.
Sure, but you will have to either self fund or find investors that share your vision. A lot of family businesses work like that, they grow to the extent they need to to support the family and then stop once they have reach a level of desired comfort.
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I think storage is not just the tweets. It's also the meta data, especially the ReTweets. Considering that content dies down pretty quickly after they're posted, I would imagine that caching is extremely important. Caching infrastructure would require a lot of memory, for which they would have to pay for RAM, which costs a lot more.
There is a (possibly apocryphal) story that, when ST:TNG was to begin filming, Stewart was being encouraged to use a wig "because baldness would have been cured by the 25th century"; his response was that baldness shouldn't be a social stigma in the 25th century.

I couldn't quickly verify the story, but, as someone whose gradual pattern baldness can be most gently described as "hilarious", I appreciate it even if it's not true.

I also think -- and I'm about to be a lot crude here -- that male baldness is a little like breast size for women. Sure, guys will notice average-to-larger sized breasts, but there's a lot more to how attractive they think a woman is: posture, attitude, a smile, for example. Is baldness a disadvantage? Sure. Does it, by itself, make you unattractive? Nah.
By any means I'll stand on a point that using pure XMPP from a JS point of view is a total over utilization. XMPP is perfect when you're able to make it fit your needs and (more important) you are able to hide it's extreme complexity from your user.
You leave out (B) and (C) of that paragraph:

(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by
electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1
or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more
copyrighted works, which have a total retail value
of more than $1,000; or

(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for
commercial distribution, by making it available on
a computer network accessible to members of the
public, if such person knew or should have known
that the work was intended for commercial
distribution.

Not the "or".
After reading the article, I checked my own IDS logs and saw the same drop to zero after March 11.
Not if the transaction is made via usb or CD in the mail.

Edit: and by transaction I mean a "wallet" is loaded up with bitcoins and then handed off to someone else.
Commodore USA have been promising this stuff for ages and nothing has materialised. It looks like vapourware to me.
1) I would actually love to know what you think would be a good metric for 'do I know them personally'. I believe this would be a big deal for us. We attempted to sort of do this in an earlier iteration by getting your latest @mentions and counting how many times the user @mentioned you and what the mentions were. However the problem was either an extra API call per a person to get the last 200 (the limit by Twitter) or make 1 call and only look through 50. We decided either way wouldn't be worth it.

2) We actually do show if they follow you back, but I guess we need to make it more clear.

3) We also have a recent tweets/day as well as recent tweets. Again I guess we need to figure out how to emphasize this better.

4) This is actually good, how would you go about doing this?

5) Very smart idea, we will start tracking this in our DB. I think.
I'm not sure if it was quite as shocking to everyone else

That's definitely what I heard from a lot of people when I gave a talk at ProductCamp on this topic. Hence the blog post.
> until end users pony up for the service, then they're the product.

Exactly. It should come as no surprise when any free site that accumulates a massive amount of data turns around and starts selling that data -- even if users feel like their privacy is being violated.

Twitter really has nothing to sell but data. Same for Facebook and others. They can sell that data indirectly (by allowing targeted advertising) or directly (by selling massive blocks of data for $0.30 an hour), but nobody should be surprised when it happens; it's all that they have to sell.
> The nearly direct access to the hardware was what made the C64 so cool. This new C64 has none of that, unfortunately.

Every PC has near-direct access to the hardware. There's nothing stopping you from writing your own BIOS, bootloader, kernel, or anything else -- it's easier than it ever was before. Many people (including myself) really do this, and enjoy it.
Good calls! I think we are going to try to clean up a bit tonight and implement some of those suggestions. And for sure. The Twitter Rate limit (350 calls/hr/person) is something always on our mind.