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.NET bleh. HTML5 is the future, cross platform. JavaScript will be made into a robust language in the coming years, with classes, etc.

The crappy DOM will probably change for the better, HTML5 apps will run as local apps and tap into the native APIs of the system.

Client = HTML5 + JS , yes we dont need .NET here, where .NET/C/C# and others will be used, will be in the backend, frontend/client can be perfectly made with HTML5 + JS.

The only exception is perhaps games and apps such as Photoshop, but 90% of enterprise stuff that is simply thin clients speaking to a big backend database+etc can be perfectly made with HTML5.

HTML5 is here to stay, .NET will be the exception. (Games/Heavy backend/3D apps/Photoshop) sort of things... nothing more.

Or who knows, maybe in the future with WebGL and what not even some more complicated games can be made just with HTML5.
I usually will create a new branch based on the TODO list item I am working on. Then I will checkout that branch and work on the new feature. When it is done I will merge it back into master and write a commit about what I changed. Then I push it to the master branch on origin. There are only two of us working on our project right now so we don't branch on Github. However, a large team should probably push to a new branch on the origin and then merge it there.
1 put = 100 shares
Thats the livestream fro a danish broadcaster that has a helicopter in the area. The link is elsewhere in this thread.
> It will need enough horsepower to run "classic mode" with all of the baggage that brings.

Microsoft managed to squeeze Windows 7 (albeit crippled) onto netbooks; I'm hoping they'd see the use case you're describing and make Windows 8 tablet-friendly (which at least now looks touch-friendly).

(Microsoft demoed Windows 7 on ARM, and AFAIK ARM chips aren't that powerful―there's hope yet.)
Agreed! If you've tried it before note that it also includes images from the page now.
Ctrl+Z,X,C,V,R,Y,B,I,E, etc. work in Word, Excel, any web browser--actually, any windows application that uses standard controls.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xnerdr

It appears his old username is/was.
As an entrepreneur in India
The problem with using a property like height to demonstrate easing functions is that negative height is undefined, so the back/bounce/elastic functions don't really demo very well. It makes more sense to use position to demonstrate the curves that overshoot like that.
Thanks for the reminder - super-duper appreciated :)
This is a great idea, and I can well imagine using it.

But the Google Maps integration seems a bit shaky at present -- the overlay generally fails to refresh when I scroll the map (FF 4.0.1 on Mac).
I was thinking about writing an ebook, with code examples, that taught how to build HTML5 WYSIWYG editor in HTML5/JS/jQuery.

It would include a full working website with database as a starter kit.

I wonder if something like this could be profitable...
Ask HN: Share your interview / hiring practices?
What does your interview process look like? How do you decide if someone is the right fit?

We do a phone interview to cover the basics, a tech screen + tech interview and a "do at home" coding exercise. This combination ends up cutting out more than 90% of the people we talk to, but bad seeds are still making it through. In the future, we're going to change our process to have an "in-office" coding exercise, but I would like to be considerate of people's time.

How do you assess the people that apply with you in order to improve the chances of hiring well?
I wouldn't take that as changing the odds of correctness. Collatz stated the conjecture but made no progress towards a solution.
I had been using this a few months ago, but I kept running into formatting issues when the article arrived on the kindle. Particularly with advertisements. I don't necessarily need ads removed (but that's nice), but often an ad would be completely mangled. Not only was it unintelligible, it would also be several times larger/more obtrusive than the original. But, it sounds like maybe they've fixed some of those issues.

I'll have to do a comparison tonight - if either Klip.me has improved or the readability send-to-kindle does a better job I will be very happy.
>Could have brought some DLP vendor in to find it and roll out rapid database level encryption without changing application code.

Wait... if Sony fully encrypt the database, they need a way to ask the database to be decrypted from their program.

But if the hackers use SQL injection, they would be attacking the database through a SQL call that, by necessity, must decrypt the database.

Wouldn't some sort of full database encryption only protect from someone getting a DB dump? Or am I misunderstanding?
> Their experience as a corporate employee was also the most important source of career learning for a third of all entrepreneurs, the survey said.

I think this might partly be that entrepreneurs solve a problem, and a difficulty is knowing about the problem. A way to know about a problem is to experience it: you know what it is, and why it matters. You feel it.

Mark Zuckerberg experienced the problem he was solving.
Every fact you learn about these guys is more audacious and awesome than the last. Not just a rocket, one carrying a life size dummy. Not land, sea on a floating platform they made themselves. Boat? Nope. Giant hand-made submarine. It's the kind of mad, mad, science I dreamed of as a kid.

The story seems like it should end with "they don't always drink beer, but when they do..."
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Challengein: The "Angry Birds of the board games"
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Whenever a business grows by hiring more and more people it won't scale well and be massively profitable.. People are expensive. They are always going to have razor thin margins.
Apple paying music labels $100M-$150M for iCloud
Very nice. How much data does it handle before it starts getting sluggish?
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The Billion-Dollar Startup Club: Then and Now
what happened to searchyn?

is it the same creators just different url and design?
My apologies, I missed the other link.
The dynamics of how penguins huddle
I think this will be useful for a lot of developers of iPhone/Adroid apps. Many don't have the know how (or time) to develop, run and maintain backend systems and it pushes the development cost way way up for clients and complicates our own applications.

We just integrated a purpose built CMS with a bunch of iPhone apps for a client and it was not a lot of fun so I'll give your product a try for sure.

As for feedback - the one thing with the UI is that having three different types of save buttons is a bit confusing at first but I'm not sure if there is a more efficient way to do it. Also, a big win would be if you added an etag along with the JSON with the location of the images to download. I do like very much that collections can be attached to multiple applications.

If your are ever in the Bay Area come by our weekly iPhone Meetup Monday nights in SF. (search iPhone in sf on meetup.com - our logo bleeds six colors...) or shoot me an email (profile)
They have native 2d support coming soon, and publish-to-Flash. It was all announced in Feb so it hopefully doesn't take much longer.
Any details about this? I am intrigued.
"As an experiment, I’ve attached a script to my website to generate some Bitcoins using the spare cycles you have available while visiting this website".

CPU 100% on both cores, fans started up. Some feedback on your experiment: I didn't like it.
The Practicing Mind "Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life" by Thomas Sterner

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0977657205
"If it was not of value, it would not be profitable and hence, would not exist."

Thievery, blackmail, extortion, etc. are all profitable, and yet, I would argue not of value. So is legally tricking people into paying for services they do not want. This is a terrible sentiment that can be used to justify any number of shady dealings. But it's also housed in an incoherent paragraph where the author briefly argues both sides, so I have no idea whether he actually agrees with the above statement or not.
I work with several Russian folks. As they tell it, if you open a business in Russia, you end up paying bribes or "protection money" to mafia and government officials, just to keep your doors open.

As it turns out, we have this in the US also.
Liftoff!

First attempt the auto-sequence didn't start properly, but on a retry they've achieved liftoff. The screams from the mission control feed gave me goosebumps.
A company like this may deliver better education than traditional colleges and universities. However, it won't matter. It won't have the reputation, that matters more than anything else, which has been cultivated by elite schools for hundreds of years. Even if the University of Phoenix Online delivered a great service it would still give degrees from the University of Phoenix.
One of my best friends became my co-founder, and even though he lives in Canada and I in Florida, we interact as if we're a cubicle away. It really helps break up the insanity.
I think there is a book out there by Mr. Greenspan.
here are some relevant links
http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/02/who-founded-facebook-aaron...

http://www.allfacebook.com/aaron-greenspan-facebook-2009-05

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/the-end-of-the...
The issue of "copy-on-write" ..still here, in addition to the potential SQL Injection vulnerabilities in the sample code.
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Alves looked in top form here particularly the Department of hitting he hit his right leg again and again in Howard left pin
The Biggest Red Flag In The Groupon IPO Isn't The Sea Of Red Ink
I'm too dependent on the rest of the integration with XCode to venture back into emacs land again but I'm looking forward to a rev of XCode that includes this.
We wanted to build a crowdfunding alternative that could be self-hosted and flexible, so we're building http://ignitiondeck.com. It's a WordPress plugin and if it does well, we'll probably bring it to other platforms.
Yes, that was exciting. Parachutes seems to have failed though the payload looks fine. Anyway, great achievement, congratulations!
Skype protocol cracked - what happens next?
There has been successful liftoff and supersonic flight at 16.36 local time.

Congratulations to copenhagen suborbitals.
Every Entrepreneur Needs These Relationship Skills
This is great. Being situated in The Netherlands, 90% of the phone-related web apps don't work here. I was just thinking yesterday that Twilio for Europe might be a great startup idea.

Twilio sounds great, and some of the mashups are very interesting, but it all doesn't work here. VOIP providers here seem to have ok prices, but horrible UI/UX to manage everything.
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Can you defeat Lodsys for $1?
Can you defeat Lodsys for $1?

Lodsys is alleging infringement against some developers because they don’t have a license to use the Lodsys patent.

Apple has a license to use the Lodsys patent.

Solution: Sell your app to Apple.

Imagine you sold ownership of your app to Apple in return for $1 plus a percentage of sales. What could that look like?

Apple already controls the platform and distribution, so some might claim Apple already had ownership-like control, but now Apple has both the Lodsys permission, as well as a contract saying that they own the app. At that point it would seem that the "infringement" ceases, because everything is properly licensed.
Apple structured the sales contract so that the developer still has access to modify the software, and each party nets the same revenue on a sale as a standard Apple app agreement.

All developers really want is their share of the revenue split for their hard work and ingenuity. They have already “outsourced” most of the business aspects of running an app business to Apple--they don’t own the platform or distribution. Maybe they shouldn't own the legal headache either.
ZmForth: an ANS Forth implementation for the Z-machine
> I don't understand what this "fret" is about.

My perception is that they are worried that their existing knowledge (in .NET or any other MS dev tech) will not allow them to create applications for this new touch interface. Instead, they will be forced to use a new technology if they want to create an app for the new Windows 8 interface.
I added the 200 bytes/page to my ecommerce site in about 5 minutes.
Why Groupon's Business is Falling Apart in Boston
Yeah, that's unfortunate. Looking at the feed now, it seems that the capsule has 'landed' intact in the sea. It remains to be seen exactly what condition it is in when recovered.
Thanks for submitting this - it was awesome!
Very good points. There are near-infinite ways to store your wealth, from cash, to real estate to art to Pez dispensers. Bitcoin might be another.

Inflation in and of itself is not harmful. Unexpected inflation and lack of accounting for it can be.
I thought that calling patent infringement based on a patent you applied for is illegal. I thought you have to have been awarded the actual patent.

My understanding of patent laws is near non-existant, though. I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.
Possibly paranoid cynicism, but I'm not sure I'd want to be too close to an amateur rocket test flight in a helicopter...
At least in Windows-land, I really don't see the point in a touch OS. I've played with Lenovo X-series tablets, and I love the older ones (Wacom-based) and can't stand the touch ones.

But I love being able to run Photoshop and draw in my lap, so I'm kinda biased.
Smartwatch running Android - i'mWatch
Sure.

To be honest, I'm not really guaranteeing the date. Calling bubble dates is virtually impossible by their very nature. But that we're in one, yes I would be willing to stand by that. I actually hope something like BitCoin succeeds at some point, but I don't see it being BitCoin.
It seems kind of odd that Microsoft would be all in with Azure and then drop the .Net framework.
If you do and you have a reasonable affiliate program on it, I run a 7000+ subscriber strong JavaScript newsletter and would be all over this ;-) (Same goes for any good JS related products, to be honest.)
The example they gave ($description = strip_tags($_POST['description']);) would trigger copy-on-write, unless I'm mistaken.

And the SQL example isn't meant to be copy/pasted: it's a demonstration of a fairly common anti-pattern that has nothing to do with SQL escaping. Adding escaping there would just confuse the point.
The second pirate pad is the most interesting (to me).

"2a. Suggestions on how to proceed
I know that there is an urge to "run and gun" this, perhaps go on a mad defacing spree, or start dropping anonymous based UI icons into the site's buttons, guy fakes banners, etc. We must resist this urge.
I think there is a tremendous opportunity if we get even 3 moderately popular anti-green sites. Let's look at sites A,B, and C.
What we should consider, is the ability to plant stories inside A, link to them from B, and then plant stories in B, and link to A and B's stories from C - the site with the most traffic.
The stories should be posted, if possible, two days ago, or yesterday, assuming a blog-like ability to set times and dates when you post.
Anyway, do what suits, thiswas just a thought. We may not have the luxury of time, in which case raw vandalization may do it - just put green party banners on the home page, and "anonymous" in text at the copyright on the bottom - that is just so they don't blame the green party for the exploit."

Interesting. It seems to indicate that perhaps some of Anonymous' actors have matured, or at least were able to use the petty vandalism phase of the group as a learning process.

I can't help but feel like with Anonymous talking about planting fake news, the whole government/HBGary thing about planting fake news, etc. that in the near future there may be some (albeit minor) crisis on the internet about finding news you can trust. Until the internet figures out how to route around the damage, of course.
There is something universally awesome about watching people be rewarded for their dedication and audacity. A huge congrats to the ones behind this! (despite a mixed result)
Original: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_pays_music_bigs_...
Agreed. These people are absolutely an inspiration and should be on every television station there is; hopefully kids will idolize them.
That's one way to use up their big pile of cash.
Apple pays music bigs $100M+ for iCloud
Currently reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - an OK book - and keeping Starting Strength by my side as a reference.

Starting Strength is a great introduction to weightlifting and getting stronger, I highly recommend it.
"A Google cloud service could now be in the offing as soon as September, said sources familiar with the talks."

Wait, what? Different than Google Music?
I will concur. Aside from a memory hog, VS2010 performance has been ok on my dev box which has an NVidia Quadro card in it. However, there are still some quirks in the environment that I attribute to WPF bugs. I have frequent redraw issues even after applying SP1. I also noticed that my installation has a whole lot of trouble with datasets and pulling up the designer file. TFS 2010 issues have been the most frustrating thus far though. They are better with SP1, but still exist.
$150 mil is 0.25% (1/4 of 1%) of Apple's cash & cash equivalents. They have so much cash it's absurd -- sometimes I wonder why Apple doesn't just buy all the major music labels (they could easily do it).

[Edit] This was a joke! Jeez.
Journals of the American Economic Association will drop double blind peer review
Is there a mathematics generation gap?
But, a good part of the point of .Net was that the managed code was in MSIL and being compiled to X86 down the line rather than by the developer, so the argument that ARM support requires a move from .Net really doesn't hold water.

I'm hoping there's more to this than meets the eye, but... Here's a test case for you. VB6 apps are supposed to be going out of support relatively soon, but there's a lot of them still out in the wild. The understanding had been to redevelop them in .Net, but based on this exactly what should the authors commit their investment to? Frankly if this doesn't get cleared up soon, for me the answer would be 'anything but Microsoft's stack' - it's just too unpredictable.
Marketing. They need more inventory IMO. Many of my favorite destinations are sorely lacking in AirBnB rentals.
Isn't most of Twilio's technology open source already?

http://www.openvbx.org
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There's always the exception of Amazon, but Amazon has built infrastructure instead of letting insiders cash-out early.
I know many people that would buy something like this. It sounds like it would be a great into to the basics of the main web technologies.

You mention a database - client side local storage or server side? If server side, what server side language were you planning on using, out of curiosity?
I thought the same thing. I read that as $0-100k in first month. Still the feat is impressive nonetheless.
Alternatively, you could SQL inject their databases yourself and personally delete your information.
Under the hood, Groupon is declining in Boston
Got it. Thank you for the explanation.
Indeed, all my tweeps from Syria have gone silent. Phone lines seem to be down too. Calling Syria gives me "all circuits are busy" message. This is not a good sign.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, No property or person is being harmed with spam. Time is wasted, yes. But no crime is being committed in the normal sense of the word. To compare spam to thievery, blackmail and extortion (where their is a removal of property of threats to a person) is not a very good analogy and I think taking things a bit too far. It's closer to aggresively handing out flyers on the street and possibly a case of harrassment.
Yes, the same Chandoo.. :)
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Does the IRS need more options to fight identity theft?
^^^ pretty much. Full featured applications are and have been being built with what is basically 10 year old web technology.

Simultaneously, users are coming to the realization that full featured isn't what they need. Thanks to the drastically lower cost of distributing software over the web, instead of monolithic, multi-purpose software from giant companies, small shops are building single-purpose applications that target niche markets. User experience is better, and costs are lower. Consumers and the economy as a whole wins.

If I had built my career on client-based Windows development, I'd be getting out of that burning building as fast as possible.
What exactly is a spam blog? Is it the same with arbitrage? How does it know what content to display (as the author says it should be automated)?
At least once. You seem to have found the attack vector. ;)
I agree that it probably won't make a difference. But good experiments remove as many of those probablys as possible.
Um, don't even semi-modern compilers optimize things well enough that most of those aren't particularly relevant already?
The source is here https://github.com/plivo/plivo

It looks like Twilio's lowest layer isn't completely open source. OpenVBX still requires a Twilio account.
It must work, because I'd wager that there are more spam blogs/sites than good blogs/sites. God help you if you try to find legitimate information on health or insurance.
I would start with removing Resharper first. While I understand why people like having it around, I've seen it degrading performance of otherwise perfectly capable setup on the same solution which flies on a similar setup without Resharper.
Assuming 0% growth in revenue, Apple could make a $150 million dollar payment to each of the big four labels, every single month and still be adding $10 billion to their cash horde every single quarter.

This advance is utterly insignificant compared to the size of their pile of cash.
Having the same algorithm implemented in several other languages helps, too. It enables you to look at the implementation in the language you're most comfortable with, then look at one of the other implementations and think "Oh, so that's how that's done in this language."
Here is an idea for a weekend project: an open source Crazy Egg.
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Yeah but it all ties into the Twilio service, so there is definitely space for a fork or for something like Plivo.
Google to dump support for Microsoft's IE7
And while Groupon argues it will be sustainable once it hits a certain threshold, its business is actually decaying in older markets like Boston -

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/03/groupons-business-is-deca...
Found this video of one of the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys giving a talk at TEDxCopenhagen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua9oGxNNGd0
Wouldn't pass regulation.
I'm not an expert either, but one thing to keep in mind is that they're not calling patent infringement just yet, they're just subtly pointing out it might be.
Apple trying to buy any large content company would kick up the vertical integration concerns from the FCC that NBC/Comcast should have.

Buying multiple content companies would be right out.
The significance of LinkedIn's Apply button that no one is talking about yet
Ask YC: How does YC rate of acceptance correlate to specific timeliness?
In the y-combinator application it's stated that there's an advantage to early applicants. While logical on a general level I wonder if the numbers bare out much in the way of earliness on a finer gradient in terms of trends on a narrower scope, for example how people who submit applications the same day the applications open vs say a week after. The micro view on this would be rather interesting.
Complete vaporware and fiction. They don't have photos of anything that's real and not a mockup.