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Shutdown? Startup!
With a few hundred thousand people about to be out of a job temporarily, it would be a great time to inspire them to create startups. I'm a federal contractor myself, and never felt like I had the time to really try it for myself, but suddenly I'm about to have a lot of time on my hands.

I'm looking for some help with this effort, so if you can, drop me a line at john.titus@gmail.com
Going from 1-2 deployments a day to 10 without downtime - Awesome stuff!
His column is barely readable nowadays. He picks all the stories and "small" snippets that try to position android and google as a failure. No explanation. No argument. Nothing at all.

And since there are no comments, he totally paints a one-sided story.
It's important to note that minimalist != disregarding aesthetics for functionality. Minimalism is an aesthetic. I would argue that Apple's designs set the industry standard for minimalism.
Looks really nice for the non-technically-inclined!

I'll probably be sticking to github or dropbox for my free static sites though. Does this provide any sort of versioning or live editing?

Also, very minor, the FAQ mentions "You can upload .html, .css, .js files." but should probably include any image restrictions.
Seconded. ChromeOS will join iPad as a computer "my mom can use".

ChromeOS's main disadvantage is that it is not available. This should be fixed this year.

iPad's main disadvantage is that it requires a traditional desktop to manage. You can bet Apple is looking to fix this.
Have you ever noticed that you never have a problem playing ads, but yet the video following the ad doesn't work half the time? That's one thing that's irked me about youtube for a while.
It could be YouTube, or it could be your ISP "shaping" the traffic. You can use Glasnost (http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php) to test the latter.
Fixed this bug. Thx!
Which Software you use for making Game sprites?
Hipmunk might be in trouble.
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I find it very hard to believe that China is ahead of India, even if it's a few percentage points, especially given that there are enough people in India for whom English is essentially a first language or a parallel first language.
Perhaps the question then becomes: how do we make a large community function like a small one?

One idea: for every new "comment" on a story (that isn't a response) create a new instance of the story on the news feed. Example: I comment on this story, and you reply.

[Newer online forums are worse at conversation]
"I grew up on message boards. In fact, my ..."
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Rinse/repeat for every new comment on the story. It would lead to more instances of the same story on the news feed, but would also lead to more in-depth comments. Of course, it would be very easy to organize (and hide) long lists of comments.
Here's an idea:

Take your primary hard drive out of your machine when crossing borders and put some vanilla install of whateveer on the machine. Fedex the primary drive to your destination or keep all your shit in the cloud.

Some years ago I did a design spec for what is now the atrix -- I wrote a paper and tried to get some google eng contacts to work with me on the idea that all machiens are jsut a KVM for your data - and that our primary data device would be both our phones and datasets in the cloud...

Sadly, I couldnt convince them this was true then - but i is clear now.

So it would be great to have a /home/ on your mobile that you can sync to your machine when they are close. If the machine dissapears, no big deal.

Here is how I would model that today:

You carry three devices - laptop, mobile and a USB stick and cloud storage.

Under normal operating circumstance, you work on your laptop as you would any other time.

The mobile has some 32GB of storage -- this is a clean install backup of all your installed apps.

The USB has a BASE install of your OS and whatever apps you can fit -- in a live USB install.

All your personal data is in the cloud, such that if you lose any of the three devices - none of your data goes with it.

Swap the HDD of the laptop when travelling to a clean install drive with no data - do not sync till you get to the destination.

Should you lose your laptop, you can use the USB to run a live session on any machine you can boot to it from.
Several points come to mind. The first is that people repeat how they have been treated. The second is that men are usually much stronger than women - if it has come to physical fighting you know who is going to come out ahead. The third is that a quick glance at actual statistics shows that women are the victims of violence far more often than they are perpetrators. (This is, admittedly, most because of point #1.)
I honestly can't see Apple doing speech recognition. It's good, but it's only 99% good, and Apple are known for being perfectionists.

I'm not sure about mapping, it also doesn't seem like an Apple product to me, but I can't really articulate why.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

- Robert M. Hutchins

That said I don't think you can look at India with a western "orderly" "everything must make sense" mindset. There is definitely some progress made and it is slow but overall the direction is right. If you look at the scale of the problems India has gotten herself into - population, scarce natural resources, education, corruption - generations have had nothing but apathy towards. But the newer generations are not like that - with increased Internet penetration (my home town, a rural area has 2Mbps always on broadband at cheap prices!), loosening grip of social/religious dogmas and greater interest in public affairs things stand a fair chance towards betterment.

To give you a few examples - when I was a kid (20 years ago) the maid that worked for my mom kept having kids year after year. My mom never thought of it until one day I suddenly yelled at her (overlooking the 5 kids of the maid in our backyard) that she had a duty to educate the maid about availability of contraceptives. Back then that was a radical thing for me to talk about such things at my age with my mom. Turned out our maid did not know that these things existed - a year later my mom had her operated at her will of course and the yearly flow of kids stopped!

There is certainly more social activism than there was 20 years ago and it is well organized and communicated thanks to improved communication tools - I know of 3 court cases where justice was done due to public activism - a well known politico's son almost got away with murder before public forced a retrial and got the guy back in jail.

There is also a crusade against corruption - this time with better results and more public support than ever before. The Govt. was forced to agree with the demands of a long time anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Hazare-wins-anti-co... .

Cell phones have made lives better for a lot of poor people - my brother was telling me his paper boy has a BlackBerry and the fruit vendor had a Symbian phone!

Point being that it's a huge problem that has so far been dealt with apathy but that is changing fast. As more and more the older gen gets out, as more and more new educated people take matters in their control, it is bound to change more for the better.

There are no silver bullets in this - it's an ongoing thing that requires continued public involvement. There is no dearth of talented and well meaning people in India that cannot tackle these issues. It's only for lack of interest that it is languishing - as long as that is on the rise I have my hopes!
I'm sure there is a market for this, but it's not me or my demographic. Technical hurdles aside, I tend to trend away from most "live" events. I like the idea of live breaking news. For most things, however I'd rather have them on demand. This is one of the reasons why my wife and I recently canceled cable for Hulu, Netflix and other on demand services.

I don't see myself structuring my day around "Wheezy Live On Youtube"
Ridiculously small is a relative thing; compare with the hundreds of millions of Mandarin and Spanish speakers or even the 130 million Japanese speakers and you're talking about a much smaller market to target.

Moreover the wealth and cultural influence of these countries is a function of their willingness to interact beyond their linguistic sphere of influence.
The lesson here is to really be careful about whats coming down the pipe hardware wise. Especially if you're building your own hardware that will take a while to get to market.

So ask yourself: will NFC, cheap tablets, front facing cameras or lots of mobile processing power change what you're trying to build? Don't build for the current landscape.
Genious!

Does anyone know if there are similar equipment for PCs?
I want to hook up a laptop to some electronics equipment for data logging.

Arduino boards are pretty slick but they need some wrapping to work smoothly, i want to have more recommendations.

For clarification, i want the I/O API to be targeted for a program running on the PC. I don't want to write a wrapper in the microcontroller myself and then transfer it over serial port to PC. I want the microcontroller block to be transparent. PC<--->Microcontroller<--->I/O
Review my startup: signnow.com - I tried to make esignatures extremely simple
Seriously, who's ever going to want a GUI?
Today feels like Google (attempt of) squashing YCombinator startups day.

First they're doing Youtube Live -> Justin.tv etc.

Then better flight search -> Hipmunk
Far more disturbing, I notice the stunning absence of flaming redheads with fantastic fros.

"it still bothers me that a private investment firm asks people to submit a video"

Oh give me a break... Does it also disturb you that companies generally demand in-person interviews before making a hiring decision?
This might affects uStream. It won't affect Justin.tv.

Youtube is only allowing "approved partners" stream video - like NBC, CBS, ABC. For now, it's not some guy live streaming his world of warcraft campaign.
Yes and no. I was in freelance photography before switching to programming (weird, huh?). I thought repeatedly: I can't just give up photography, that'd make me a pussy. I should aspire to do what I love.

Then I dumped professional photography and became a programmer, and I am freer, better paid and happier than I would be otherwise. Quitting one thing let me find another that is better.

I guess, the real difference is that someone (Mike Rowe) tells you want to do: don't quit, it's better. But if you don't know what's better, then you don't know if you are quitting the wrong path to pursue a right path, or what. Decisions you make in absence of a judge are always uncertain. And who has the authority to judge me?
The way to hack in a charger against the "this charger not supported" has been known a while.

I'm talking about the data connection on the iPod/iPhone docking connector. You can't access the dock API unless you're an approved Apple "Made for iPod" vendor and purchase special chips from Apple that handshake between your docking peripheral and the device.

Hacking power is one thing, but it's useless unless you can move data in and out of the device. Using the headphone jack to move data with FSK is clever but slow and not very robust.
Chrome has a very robust security model that includes, among other things, auto-updating and a verified boot (version numbers cannot go backwards). For example, if a device is detected as being hacked, an update will be initialized and then a reboot. And if a device is stolen, it's basically useless since ALL user data stored on the device is encrypted (and can be remote-wiped anyways). Here's everything:

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/s...
Zynga, Facebook spark 51% jump in value of top Web startups
For me, I am not motivated by money but rather motivated by the things I can continue to create with larger sums of it. I am a creator, inventor by nature... I've done it all my life.

Having the money to sort out the pithy details of day-to-day life like food, shelter, etc. and simultaneously funding my insane garage projects I embark upon constantly is a nice-to-have but not an expectation.

Really, in the end, I just want to build a legion of robotic minions.
TED talk about "Open Science" debate TEDxWaterloo
I'm sort of surprised this went through since their advantage in search mixed with the power ITA has within their field leads to very powerful mix that could put competitors at a serious disadvantage. Maybe the DoJ saw something I did not to make it less of a problem, but even as a google fan it's... ungh. I don't like this going through.
Evolution in action.
Any popular legit streamer on Justin.tv could easily become a partner. They will also likely open it up more at some point.
Agreed, he's an underrated genius. You can see it when he talks, he deserved every penny of that $50m bonus he got. I'll be buying many as well.
We're building something called The Spark Foundry over at Sparkmuse that I think addresses #1. The basic premise is this:

1. A person enters their idea and commits to it.

2. That person can then spread the word via Twitter, Facebook, etc to get others to commit.

3. There are multiple levels of commitment, the user can commit to try a solution out, pre-register for a beta, answer a survey, or buy it. Each commitment puts their email on a list.

4. Founders at Sparkmuse can see how popular ideas become. The more commitments one has, the more validated it becomes. They can choose to build a solution for the given wish and then have access to a large mailing list of potential users (we don't give them the emails).

5. Thus, user has an incentive to spread the word on their idea as it can create an opportunity an entrepreneur wouldn't want to pass up.

We'll be releasing our first stab at this to the public in the next week. The premise is essentially a "Kickstarter for social capital." Right now it's on demo inside of Sparkmuse. If you'd like to check it out, please drop me a line. We're always looking for more people to join our mission.
I'm imagining a company where each product group hires the designer group...
That could very well be true in some abstract sense; but who among us honestly needs the robustness and/or scalability of Twitter, really?
> Ah, but how are people going to _find_ this information in the first place? Links don't just grow out of a vacuum. Someone searched for it _then_ curated it.

No. In the first place someone created that content, then shared the link.
Hipmunk are a customer of ITA. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1912477

In the Google announcement, they say that ITA’s existing contracts will be honored & have extended contracts through to 2016

This deal was announced a long time ago. Hipmunk will have already planned for this situation
The Warren Buffet quote is wonderful, but there's no issue here.

Add an update to your article saying, "After publication, Facebook saw my results and wanted to do a case-study on my startup. Here it is: link."
We started http://www.joystickers.com in 2010. We're based in Logan Square.

Would love to get a meetup together soon.
The DOJ's conditions also seem to tie their hands a bit as far as what changes they can make with ITA's software, I realize.
It could also be viewed as epic validation that the ideas are gold. I most certainly believe Hipmunk can compete against Google; the team is completely awesome and they're far more nimble and agile. Although Google does have an unbeatable vision of Maps I'd imagine...there's no real reason you shouldn't be able to get bus times and airplane times in the same place. And perhaps if you could then pay for the bus and the plane using your Android NFC...

Oh jeez. I love the future.
And even mathematical textbooks require lots of work to understand.
Private Eye for your computer
Private Eye for your computer
"We are still young, we are still eager to make mistakes."

"It is not the string of wrongs past, but the wrongs to come that I must look forward to."

Sorry, don't remember the sources.
Show HN: Please review my football game: deeproute.com
My experience working in both LA and SV backs up the price differential you raised. I've worked on some really interesting projects in LA though.
No versioning or live editing. Of course you can always reupload individual files or a new zip and it will replace whatever was there.
For the moment there are no image restrictions.
I can't help myself http://cheks.in/eRFqrz
What I'm thinking of is much simpler than that.
Who does Jeff Huber, SVP of Commerce and Local, report to?
Heh, yeah, I get that. Oddly enough on hulu the video generally plays fine, but sometimes the ads pause to buffer...
>Tip. When someone adds a ":-P" to a comment, that indicates teasing. The people for whom the system "works" are those with power and influence. You are not one of them, and therefore it doesn't work for you.

Sorry for my defective humor detector. Cheers!
>Pandora's not a charity.

No, they're not. They provide a service for a price. In this case that price includes personal data. I don't want to pay that price. I would like to know that I'm paying that price so I can make an informed decision on if I want to continue using paying for the service.

>actual harm

It depends of in you count an unknown intrusion of your privacy to harm your privacy.
Wow you guys are all missing the point. It's not even just about the look of the apps, but it's also the animations, features, etc. The iPhone apps are much more fluid and often sometimes more feature rich and less buggy than their Android counterparts. Take Facebook, for example: the iPhone was the first to get Facebook check-ins, YouTube videos automatically open in the YouTube app without being prompted (a major annoyance for me with Android) and it supports Facebook Chat.

This is just one of many examples as to why iPhone apps are more polished than Android. It's not just because they're more pretty.
M-x org-mode and just start typing. Hyperlinks are clickable. Add a check lists.

- [ ] Read Hacker News; C-c C-c when complete

- [ ] Write blog

* More readable links

[[http://news.ycombinator.com][Hacker News]]

* Level I

* * Level II -- There are two asterisks with no space.

- [x] Write lesson one.
Any plans to bring the retroid into mass production? I'd buy one!
within N years you'll be able to pick an android phone out of the trash. I suspect N < 5. That makes projects like this really awesome.
I want an app where I can update my profile picture on all networks, without having to individual update it on Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, etc.
Also, my users seem to dislike the color scheme a great deal. I know often people link to a particular website with color schemes. If you would be so kind as to choose a color scheme you think would work better using that site, great.

It was built initially awhile ago, so it is dated, but I've been trying to upgrade it. It's an American Football General Manager game, so the things people often most care about is the game engine. That gets a ton more time on it, and design and color scheme gets the least.

I'm trying to change that since we end up having a core audience of football geeks, but no traction with average people who find the game too complex, and not very appealing.

Thank you.
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Remember, folks, this is a joke. Please don't use any of these in real code ;)
I just want to be happy, man. If I wake up in the morning and hate what I'm about to do then I'll feel miserable. I don't think money can really undo that feeling. I may be unhappy for not having money to do the things I want to do but at least I won't be miserable.
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Don't get me wrong; I love the optimism and determination and endurance by the young people in India I saw. But they're running out of time.

Investment in emerging markets is drying up (and will be for the foreseeable future), as developed countries are starting to hike interest rates to fight inflation. Oil and food prices are skyrocketing. So one side is jobs growth slows. On the other side is cost of living goes up. Same conditions around the world, but when you are living in India, that really hurts. And when jobs start to go to other countries with better skilled labors (better English fluency, better city infrastructure) such as philippines and malaysia and vietnam, watch out.
The scale of poverty is huge. With 1.2 billion, the number of poor and destitute will always be high. This is unfortunate but true.

I go to India a lot and do see people locking themselves in from reality. BUT, there are many more who do make an effort to improve the lives of the poor.

Anywho, India is India and will always be India. So if you don't like it, don't go there. If you live there and don't like it, leave. Otherwise, take it all in!
"Android has more market share than iOS"

Where are they? I read this statement all the time, but I barely know anyone who has an android phone. Not a scientific measurement, but still ...

"Android emerging as the clear winner of mobile and iOS being reserved for the trendy/artistic/quality crowd"

I really disagree with this statement. First, you can't generalize iOS buyers like this, but more importantly, how do you define winner? Market share? Phones with Android installed on them? How many of these Android users are buying apps?

As a developer, the only measurement I care about is how many of potential buyers of my app are there. Android might have more installed OSes, but iOS has more app buyers.

That's the real reason you see companies focused on iPhone app development and not Android app development.
Actually, most of the techniques presented there do have some use cases in real code.

Calculating factorials is not among them, though.
I'm the author of this post and by no means I expected this to be on the top of HN today. It was a surprise. I din't do any good editing on this, since it was my personal blog and I had sent to Michael Arrington, who wanted to edit/publish it. For some reason, he backed out at the last moment and it din't make it to TC. Welcome to the world of citizen journalism.

Sorry about the typos/errors. I'm looking into this now :)
Yeah, and this is exactly how I know that the problem isn't on my end. The commercials work great!
I tried it up. It doesn't work went well services dept.

Maybe this is my voice doesn't give me a couple of words wrong in all 50 states. Did welcome center for dental bar kansas city missouri.

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I tried it out. It doesn't work quite as well as the article suggests.

Maybe it's just my voice, but it gets at least a couple of words wrong in almost every statement. "It", "welcome", and "thoughts", for example, are consistently misheard.
I see you are a fast learner as to what sort of comments are appreciated here. You two comments are like the before and after photos for a fad diet plan. Thanks for clarifying, and welcome to HN!
Zynga’s Players Are Fed Up & Leaving The Games / Could The End Be Near?
All development boards will have a USB interface which generally comes up as a serial port. You can then just fire bytes back and forth in whatever way you please.

For a comparison of different boards, see: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use...
Hopefully they'll be able to apply this to Google Voice. The voicemail transcriptions are almost always hilariously wrong.