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But what country could have produced "Airplane!", or "O Brother Where Art Thou?"

You could say that something like "Seinfeld" (and "Curb Your Enthusiasm") is more the product of a very unusual subculture (in fact, this is the basis for much of the humor, how poorly new yorkers fit in the rest of US culture), but keep in mind Seinfeld had the highest ratings of any sitcom in US history, so the appeal is obviously very broad.
Ask HN: Is Node.js just for fun?
I am playing with Node.js and loving it, its simple to use and works great. However while searching for real applications that use it, it seemed as if they are almost zero, atleast relatively to the amount of coverge it gets. Can you supply some contradicting examples?
They certainly use Mike Pall's expert skill as a Lua programmer and implementer of LuaJIT ;-)

But they are Lua programs measured on both the Lua interpreter and LuaJIT.

(Programs that rely on the LuaJIT only FFI library and won't work with the Lua interpreter are shown separately.)
A development lab, not an incubator, but they don't plan on growing the team beyond ten people for at least a year. What do you all make of this?

My initial reaction is that they have assembled a team of people to work on crazy ideas to see if any of them catch on and then ideas that catch on will be spun off into separate companies. Sounds like a good match for Kevin's product ADD, but I feel like this could quickly spin into Digg again where people are spread too thin working on products with no future.
I'm no expert, but I don't think this is true. I've witnessed a few payment systems being implemented, and just having this data pass through your system you need to adhere to some compliance rules (which are softer vs. actually storing the data though).
App Store Rejection as positive feedback
Is this really a startup or more of a side project? Do you plan to expand to other sites/blogs, sort of like the business book summary market?
Please let us know if someone pays for that :D
What exactly is your startup offering? Is someone going to paraphrase each article submission-by-submission? Personally, if I was told that Jacques Mattheij had an interesting blog post, I would rather read what he wrote rather than what someone else interpreted it as.
"Going platinum on piracy" based on bad numbers
Fixed typo, thanks.

The initial concept will focus on HN articles because I read a lot of articles here and it's a great audience for feedback. Once I make sure the summaries are good, I'll expand to more news sources and build out the site.
They guys that did Skype was 8020studio.com probably on of the best design agencies in the world if you ask me.
I've noticed traditional job listing for a senior dev often include mentorship and guidance for other devs on a project. For companies with a traditional (non-remote) team, perhaps a significant part of the senior dev extra value is thought to be from a "walking the halls" interactions.
As a member of a Russian family I have done this many a time. Maybe its just my parents though.
My Singaporean roommate complains about this very thing. He thinks it's a politeness thing, as in, Americans will say "Let's do this again sometime," to sound polite, even when they have no intention of doing so.
Curious how the summarization works - are you using something open-source or customized?
On the off-chance that you haven't seen it yet, the ZeroMQ guide got a lot better a while ago:

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all

It's surprisingly well-written, and I wish it had existed when I first tried to learn ZeroMQ.
I'd assume it's at least partly to deal with fraud.
I already dislike URL shorteners, there's no way I'm going to give my credit card info to one.
Perhaps that concern is eliminated with good test programs? As an extreme example, if I wanted to compare how different languages do array slicing it's meaningless to force python to implement array slicing without the [:] operator. But then this whole test program is meaningless anyway.

You're right that there's a lot of nuance here, and perhaps there's no better solution. It's not even clear to me if there's a meaningful question to be answered. "This ocean's warmer than that one? What part? In summer or winter? Did you measure near a blue whale's fart?"
I had a funny feeling this would be downvoted.
themeforest: no, no, no!!

I've made the mistake of using those for some clients sites on a budget. Like 7 of them, so a good sample.

Can you believe on average the bugs in those themes actually made us waste more time than building our own?

WPMU Dev themes also have a low quality level (one didn't even validate...).

I don't know about woothemes or elegantthemes, they might have a good quality and support but there are too much of them around and looking exactly like a site I've already seen is a bad thing in my book.
But that doesn't mean it's just because of Zed's "star power" - I've recommended it to several people, but only because it's a good book.
And I hope this actually reinforces the point I made. If it looks to me like this did not take place, it is because I obviously don't understand the forces and constraints upon the solution. Perhaps I don't fully understand the problem they are trying to solve.

If they did an excellent job, then they knew something that is not obvious from looking at the design competition, which is why I suggest that being involved in the full process is so important.
The videos of the mechanical bird in flight are beautiful.
Why would they block .nr (Nauru) domains? Does a lot of spam/scams originate there?
$100 is way too high, I think. Two sides of the coin:

-

Sell it for $100:

1) X number of people will buy it, but it probably won't be that many.

-

Sell it for $0.99:

1) Many people will buy it

2) Many people will know your name & become interested in your work and future work

3) You'll gather a much bigger following, transfer this to Twitter, Facebook, etc.

4) When your next ebook comes out, all the people who liked this one will buy the next one in addition to new people, meaning second e-book sales will be much higher (if this one is successful)

5) Lots of sales = possibility of speaking engagements, further validating you in your field.

6) You might make less money (I'm guessing you'd make more this way), but you make so much more in other benefits.

The benefits for not selling at $99 just seem too high to me. I'd rather have 10,000 people read my book at $0.99 than 100 people read my book at $99. I'd even rather 5,000 people read it at $0.99 (making half the money), because that means you have 5,000 more people interested in what you do for your next ebook.

Good luck!
How about if it was an ebook that had information on how a business can save $3000 a year in a certain area. Is that ebook okay to be priced at $2000?

Books shouldn't just be valued based on how much they cost to produce, but of the value of information inside and how much that information is worth to the target audience.
I plan to expand this beyond HN but, at first, I want to focus on HN since I'm part of this community and it's a great place to get feedback. It's my first attempt at an MVP and I want to make sure I get things right before building out the entire site.
Why would you possibly want centralized currency for something so much superior? I can't fathom your angle.
Great quote from Rose-
“People talk about pivoting all the time now, but if something isn’t working after four months, we’ll just shoot it in the head and start again,”

This "Small Team + Many Ideas" format is very exciting, and I look forward to seeing its agile manner against the traditional format.
Ask HN: Does having a dog in the office help productivity?
I work in the pet industry, we sometimes bring our dogs to work, it always seem like we get more done on those days. Does anyone else have similar experiences?
Marketer's security blunder means headaches for TiVo, Chase users
It pins the buttons bar; if it isn't pinned, it disappears when you move the mouse outside it.
#data2con [live stream]
If you've been a programmer for a long time, then you're not in the book's target audience. It's aimed at raw beginners, and for them it's damn near perfect.
Daniel Burka leaving Tiny Speck to reunite with Kevin Rose
I've used the android API 2x. I think it's quite rough to get Titanium installed, it's easy to misconfigure, and it's not a huge pile of time saved over just writing the logic twice. Just give up if you think you have to instruct a 3rd party on how to configure android + titanium on mac. It's a beast.

It feels like there isn't anyone there on the forums. I'm sure as hell not going to pay 2k+ a year to experiment further when the documentation is shoddy (it rarely explains what things do, I had to read source to get doc on the video player).

And the dashboard project doohicky is stupid as hell. Just make some command line tools already, or really really commit to a GUI that works well and supports things like rename. I shouldn't have 4 projects named the same thing because I didn't open an XML file myself and edit it.

If I really need crossplatform whatsits, I'm thinking flashbuilder or that ilk at this point. Titanium did not impress.
There's a difference between reading it and accepting it. More and more people are moving away from JSLint because of the Cry Wolf syndrome - real errors hidden in a sea of warnings based only on the "opinion" that they tend to be harmful coding style.

https://github.com/jshint/jshint/
RAM seems relatively constrained to me -- at least, running a multiprocess server without a few GB or RAM is hard to do (and memory seems to be the most expensive part of servers). And when it goes wrong (you reach whatever your limit is) then things tend to fail in less than ideal ways. Tools around memory usage are also quite poor, so while performance gets optimized memory seldom does. And a culture of cavalier memory usage doesn't help either -- too many people are borrowing memory to get performance, compounded in the case of an application that is typically an aggregation of many people's work.

The amount of code involved in systems is also continuing to go up, so that the amount of memory you use before you've done anything (but when you've loaded up all the code) is getting constantly higher. In the world of static/compiled languages this might not be as notable as there's a clear sense of "code" and "data" -- Python has no such distinction, so if you don't share anything then you don't share anything.

WRT speed-vs-latency -- definitely related, but most benchmarking seems to specifically remove latency from the benchmark and instead test throughput. E.g., tests frequently throw away the slowest run, even though abnormally slow runs exist in real programs and can have an effect. (Of course they aren't predictable and might be affected by other things on the system -- which is a kind of bias to not optimize things that are hard to measure). But latency is mostly just simplicity of implementation, so no, I wouldn't expect parallelizing to help.
Or perhaps human? I hear virtual assistants will do that kind of thing.
What "particular problem"?
Worst-case scenario: you'll need to install a browser extension to :s/bit.ly/j.mp/g
Think of it as a TLDR version of an article with just the bare facts. If you find it interesting then you can go on to read the entire article.

I agree, there are times when you want to read the full article but think of all the other times you try to skim through a page and hit the back button after 30 seconds.
Google's rules to being a great boss
Why does somebody saying "I wouldn't use this." have to provide an alternative? If such a statement is backed by reasons I find it interesting to read. They're saving me trouble trying it out, just like any other review.
Thanks for your thoughts we'll definitely work to add more value, but for now it will tell you how many tweets per day the tweep has and tell you whether they are following you back.
> if they lose, they force higher bids from others, meaning that others are going to have to outlay a lot more cash just to get into a position where they can sue Google from, so that once they do, they are doing so from a weaker position

On the other hand, it could also mean that the eventual winner has more incentive to seek higher licensing fees, and to sue those who won't buy licenses, in order to make up for the higher amount they paid to get the patents.
Yes they're aware. Fees are already capped. I'm not collecting CC data.
What do you mean by problems? There was some censorship, but I have been using bit.ly successfully for years with no trouble whatsoever. The country's institutions (such as libyan spider llc) were all doing just fine until Western powers decided to intervene.
I would, but:

a) there's nothing that solves either of these problems

b) they aren't new problems and have been around forever

c) technically, they wouldn't be very difficult to implement (they aren't technical solutions to these problems).

I've talked to multiple people offline about both ideas, so I'm very certain that they are good and will work. I've been working on the one for about 5 months now, so this isn't "just an idea". I'd just rather not broadcast them to HN when I'm months away from launching either one.
Ask HN: Webapp metrics - What do you use and what do you want?
I have used both mixpanel and kissmetrics before and i must say they are great services. I feel they both focus on different things and there would be room for one more app in this market to bridge the two together. What do you guys think is lacking that is necessary.
I used to teach an introduction to programming class, for people who've never programmed before, don't know what a string is, and are still having trouble wrapping their heads around the concept of even having a precise syntax, let alone figuring out what it does, or learning to translate their thoughts into programs. You've probably forgotten what that was like; I sure did, until I saw a classroom full of students struggling in the same ways, with textbooks that failed to help them out.

The parts you found boring are some of the most important parts, since they let someone figure out this "programming" thing and build up an understanding of the very basics.
Have you thought about the authors IP rights? For example, if they have a CC no-derivs license on their blog, wouldn't you be violating it?
How is this a startup? not all project are startup thia seems more like a [side] project
There are an increasing class of mobile application that don't need native support at all - they just want to have platform-conforming UI. jQuery mobile, JQTouch, and Sencha Touch are examples of these platforms that require only HTML + JavaScript.
I understand how you think it is OK. And it may actually be OK. However what matters is not what you or I think, it is what some judge might think about a site that makes it easier for people to gamble money against each other. And a lawyer can let you know whether there are any likely landmines there.
ShrekVille? Zynga Adds DreamWorks Animation Chief Jeffrey Katzenberg To Board
Please don't portray your girlfriend's dad's attitude as the attitude of the entire German population! No offense, but the way you're talking paints a very negative picture of some 80 million people. I realize this is obvious to everyone reading this, but it still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Wouldn't you be able to create an image tag dynamically and then use that? I'm not sure if you can get a callback when the image is loaded though.
I don't know why more people don't consider this option. It's an excellent method of price discrimination (and quite widely used by traditional retailers).
Most of Central Europe is Slavic.

I'll bet it's the same in Russia and many other Slavic countries.
What are you using for the summaries? Is it algorithmic or human? Perhaps mturk or similar?
That script you make is copyrighted, if they take it without paying you for it (if that is the deal), then they just broke the law.
So who wants Windows Phone Updates, like right now?
The article's not "based on" on a false premise despite the typo. Tribble claims data from 4 million unique web visitors, not sites, but none the less, who is the guy and why does he not show up in Google?
I'm having writers read and shorten the articles. They're taking it down to the bare facts with no personal editorial.
The Nissan Leaf does not have battery cooling. Only the volatile type of Lithium batteries and NiMH batteries require cooling the first for life expectancy and safety and the latter because they are tremendously inefficient and give off large amounts of heat.
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and I would add that the content distributor problem is also a good one to solve (with your solution). May even be more profitable... a lot of people want to sell stuff, not link.
The Decline of Facebook As A Social Network
I agree that IP belongs in a category of its own. Real property ownership lasts effectively forever. Intellectual property, in the form of patents, are temporary monopolies under the current system. So there are already distinctions.

It is indeed difficult to decide what is truly "innovative" or "new". The patent system defines the criteria for issuing a patent as novel, non-obvious, and useful. These are very broad standards, and were much more applicable to physical invention than information technology invention.

In my opinion, the patent system needs an update for the 21st Century. Those involved in developing software and information based technologies need to collaborate on a set of rules that set a high bar for issuing a patent, and a set of guidelines that streamline the application process for the U.S. Patent Office. The issues involved are usually highly technical, and rather than have a bunch of software engineer working in the patent office, it would make sense to force the applicant to prove via the application process that the product deserves protection.

Personally, I think that pure software should be copyrighted, not patented. If there are hardware and software components, that is the only time that a patent should be considered. Ditto with genetics. You should not be able to patent the information for a gene. It may be reasonable to patent the tools used to discover genes, assuming they are not straight derivatives of naturally occurring enzymes.
Sonos-s5
Did you know some about this topic? Really I was listen some but never tray it, after I read this great articles I really want buy this model, the sonos-s5 is very interesting but really need your help, can some tell me your experience?
SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech Site
I saw the leading photo (no supporting text) on a disreputable image board last week. OP was asking what it was, everyone else was getting their minds blown. I went right to Google, typed "mobius gear" and found out.

The image did spur a few mental gusts but seeing it here a few days after seeing it there... mind blown.
A interesting conundrum. His book is 'worth' nearly $0 if he's an unpublished author. His strategy is weak because he's trying to hit a home run at his first at bat while learning the game. His understanding of the economics involved is very weak because not only does he not know how to price his book he states "You have to have a good editor and some good, knowledgeable friends who are willing to severely criticize your work." So he doesn't recognize (or perhaps he does but hasn't internalized it) the value that is brought to the book by the editor (who quite reasonably might want a cut, just like the back up band gets paid if they help you do an album :-)

I suspect he may end up bitter and disillusioned if he is not careful.

A 'healthy' way to work this would be to write the equivalent of articles on the areas that he is a subject matter expert in, that are short 1500 - 2500 words. Something that can help him develop his writing voice and let him seek out and evaluate the effectiveness of various authors. Self publish these for free or a modest sum (like $0.99). The goal of this stage is to build up an understanding of what it will take to actually write your books.

Next once he has some experience and a good set of tools take take the top 10 articles he self published and organize them with a greater structure and updated to the current standards as a 'composition' book. This, if he has any audience at all, he can sell for $3 - $5. Surprisingly to some, but people will buy his articles again when they are put into this format. (magazines do this all the time they sell 'best of' books from magazine articles). He will also pick up new readers by word of mouth with other folks.

Not guaranteed of course, he may find that his writing is not well received. But the whole "I'm writing my first {e-}book, I wonder what I should charge for it?" question is backwards, the real question is "What is a book I write worth to the public?"
Design for the Novice
You're right. I'll just double check with a couple of lawyer friends.
I can confirm this has worked wonderfully on my AT&T Samsung Focus. I really hope this is Microsoft's first step towards a full route-around of AT&T.
I'm glad books aren't priced like that - I would not be able to afford half the books I read :(

I think there's also a lot to be said in regards to how much value a reader has, too. As in, if there are more readers, will it make me, the author, more "rich" in other ways too (popularity, Twitter followers, etc.) so that when the next ebook comes along I already have thousands of people interested in buying my book that didn't exist before. A low price tag increases readers, which I think have huge individual values in themselves.

Now, if the book is extremely niche ... almost ridiculously so ... then a $3000 book probably would be okay, but in general I think this isn't going to happen too often.
Side note: Several people have been saying KR is a non-technical founder, but you should know that he actually studied computer science.
Simpler:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Homemade High Resolution 3D Printer (50 micron) video
For politics with some humor injected, I like to keep up with the Majority Report (majority.fm), and the Stephanie Miller Show (stephaniemiller.com).

I also regularly keep up with the Slate Political and Pop Culture "Gabfest" podcasts, although they can be a bit dry and elitist at times.

For pure entertainment, I like Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and The Moth is also great if you like shows like "This American Life" but can't always commit to a whole hour.
Being somewhat late to the party, can you provide the link to this read?
I use Libyan Spider for Locate.ly. Their site has been having some issues the last couple of weeks, but I was able to re-register it last week without a problem.
Combine this with http://pagekite.net/ (my project) and it can be visible to the wider Internet, not just your local LAN. :-)
Yeah, that was a let down.

Anyone know of a similar platform, free or lower fixed cost, to start your own iPad magazine-like publication?
Or: "Small Team + Big Ideas," no? Since the article says, "A year from now, he expects the company won’t have launched 20 small, cool ideas, but it will have developed four-to-six big, audacious ones."
Do you have any more evidence for Google being pro-patent than them applying for patents?

They've just bid a billion dollars for a patent portfolio, which they claim is a necessary defensive move. If you accept that, then applying for patents is a valid defensive strategy too.
This is neat.

Honestly, in addition, I'd like to see something like Rack for C. The "gateway interfaces" for C are too implementation-specific (CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, web server extensions/modules, etc). It would be something more abstract that would run on-top of a web server interface.

void application_main(web_request *request, web_response *response)
{
char body[1024];

snprintf(body, sizeof(body), "Hello, %s", request->param("username"));

response->status(200);
response->header("Content-Type", "text/html");
response->write(body);
response->end();
}