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Lol. The CIA has been asking that for years.

In all seriousness, they probably didn't know they were doing it. If I were you I'd call a trademark/patent lawyer yesterday and see if you can register, given that you can show prior use. Coca-Cola is notorious as one of the absolute most-vicious companies on the planet when it comes to both registering and protecting their marks; there's a high probability they already registered Like-o-Meter, and will attack you as soon as they hear about yours.

This boost, on the whole, may not be a good thing; find a lawyer who's willing to assume an offensive posture if you want to hold onto your app. And good luck =)
I think this article expresses my doubts pretty well. Other than everyone being excited about a cool new technology, I don't understand why anyone would create their startup using node unless they have massive amounts of server calls per user or they already have a very large user base. With a more mature framework like django/apache you can build sites so much faster and pain free. Am I missing anything?
So far it's mostly been client side stuff such as AJAX implementation or custom JQuery plugins. I am going to try black box testing next. This allows me to focus on the code that requires specific domain knowledge.
The 1000 limit is for those that have not provided their identification to the exchange. If you provide your id, you can raise the limits substantially. Understandable, any company that transfers large amounts of money have to abide by KYC laws (know your customer).
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Maybe so, but every new technology comes with side effects. I'm sure the number of paper cuts sky rocketed when books became popular. People's ability to remember things probably also decreased because you don't need to rely on memory so much when you can write things down. And I'm sure someone from the previous generation was loudly protesting all this new fangled writing.
"Don't start startups that touch record label music"
"Except for the record labels, which are effectively a rogue state with nuclear weapons. There is nothing we or anyone else can do to protect you from them, except warn you not to start startups that touch label music."--Paul Graham

Anyone have any reasons or stories to support/negate this?
I enjoy tipping. There is a vast difference between decent service and excellent service. Given the choice between paying more for my food and having no control over the tip vs. having the ability to tip proportional to my opinion of the service, I'll take the latter.
I can't speak for anyone else but personally I downvoted you for:

a) Telling people not to upvote something, and

b) Justifying that in terms of something I'd never heard of (what's this about lulzsec's claim?)

Most of the time when an article shows up on HN there's a bunch of comments criticising the article for being, in some way, incomplete or wrong. But generally they don't directly tell people not to upvote the article. If you wanna criticise the article just say "One important factor which this article doesn't mention is that LulzSec said the other day that [blah blah details for the uninitiated]"
Wow. It's the sort of rubbish that I'd expect to see on The Register. ZDNet is the National Enquirer of the IT and computing blogosphere I suppose.
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2627051
I thought that was profit.
There have been numerous threads on the forum with titles like "MT GOX RIPPED ME OFF!!11" but every time the problem was dealt with quickly and pleasantly by MagicTux. He's very well respected in the Bitcoin community and I'm sure the MtGox team will do whatever they can to fix whatever went wrong. Clearly they're reached a new level of scale these last few weeks, so perhaps the latency of response has slowed.

Have you tried contacting them on the Bitcoin forum or IRC? Or perhaps send another email.

You can see his recent posts here and get a feel for the situation: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2134;sa=...
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They never had food poisoning. But it is only because they never did The film, which is produced by Judd Apatow.
While I'm glad to see Emokit getting attention, this repo should no longer be used. As I mentioned in http://daeken.com/emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-compu... , the new repo is https://github.com/qdot/emokit/ as I've handed maintainership over to qdot.

Edit: Repo in the parent was previously pointing to my original, unmaintained library. This comment no longer makes sense :)
To clarify ansy's post, the only iPhone that was released with iOS 4.0 installed by default is the iPhone 4.0. The only way to perform an OS upgrade with the iPhone is to do a device sync. If iOS 3.0 has been mostly eliminated, that means that the iPhone 4 must command at least 50% of the iPhone market -- probably much more. Given the amount of iPhone 3GSs that I regularly see, this seems a little far-fetched to me. Thus, someone's information is wrong somewhere.
I suspect Reg has a portrait hidden in a closet someplace that is not fairing as well. :)
Thanks Mike! I appreciate the input :)
After using Google Music on my Android, and the rest of Android's excellent syncing capabilities, I don't think I could ever use an iPhone in its current state simply because syncing with iTunes is an absolute burden.

To elaborate, I heard a really cool song at my friends house the other day and wanted to listen to it on the road home (long trip). So I start up LogMeIn on my Nexus S, remote into my pc and quickly download the album. Once the album finished downloading, Google Music picked it up and started to upload it to its own service. In less than 5 minutes, and over 250 miles away from my home PC, I had this particular album on my phone ready to be played on my car stereo. That to me is absolutely incredible, and I think it really highlights where Apple is starting to fumble with the iPhone in comparison to some of Android's features.
But hey, the fact that it's still true is news.

Not as big news as "Facebook expected to IPO at $300 million" or "Facebook expected to IPO at $30 million" or "Facebook declares bankruptcy" or "Facebook closes down social networking site and will IPO as steel manufacturer", but news nonetheless.

Personally I'm rooting against it purely on the basis that the few facebook employees I've met have been annoying twats and I don't want them to become rich. But I admit there's a bigger picture here.
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I found some articles but they assumed that I have some background in the area. Can I get a starters guide quickly? I want to use it for news article recommendations.
True to your word :).

I'm open sourcing it specifically so that it stays around. I have two goals with this: to provide a better photo sharing option for those who want to own their photos and to build a viable business around it.

Once it's done and open sourced the first goal will be met. Then I want to focus on providing the service in a hosted model similar to wordpress.com. It will be free to use but there will be premium services you can pay for.

Open sourcing it also fosters competition. If someone else wants to build an Instagram clone that ties directly to your S3 bucket then they can easily do it using the language bindings provided by OpenPhoto or opt to use the OpenPhoto API as a proxy.

All your photos in your bucket regardless of the service you use.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.
I'm interested in your opinions about my football simulation http://deeproute.com

Constructive feedback, and design sense concerning the signup, and learning of how to play is the biggest challenge.

We have 400 consistent users, but most signups don't login more than once or twice, so learning the game is our biggest challenge.

Can you help?
Are you running Dropbox? Make a new folder and share it with box@ourdoings.com
Sad, or a good buying opportunity? I bought some GOOG the other day because, damn, P/E of 15? I'll take that!

GOOG can't expand its userbase much more (since it's already, to first approximation, everyone on the planet), but it can certainly find new ways to give 'em stuff they're willing to pay for.
Apple will batch small transactions below a certain threshold and within a certain window. I believe this is an effort to counteract transaction fees.
Ease of use? You forgot the part where you had to remote desktop into your home PC to download the music. iPhone users have had a functional music store on their phone since 2007.
From the beginning Groupon has been about Yield Management, most of the business who use Groupon are doing so because they've got excess capacity which they're not using rather than to grow their business.

Even Agrawal (who wrote this series of anti-groupon articles) refers to Groupon as a yield management play.

Extending this to be more dynamic isn't a radical shift, but rather an obvious one. And their partnership with Livenation to compete against ScoreBig is a clear sign they're moving in that direction.

Competitor LivingSocial has already launched a real-time yield management offering called LivingSocial Instant.
I tend to think inherent in your reply is an idea that I only see with older developers: that we should actually understand the whole stack. Newer developers are content to let more and more of the development ecosystem be someone else's problem.

So, I empathize strongly, but I think the issue isn't that we need to use prothetics as much as the conventional wisdom is that "that's devops problem."
Will the redesign include a spell check/editor review loop for their story submissions? I doubt it. Until their content is clean - I care not for the graphic designer they hire.
What the hell is happening to rails?
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Try to be careful with this.
I think one of the reasons why Khan Academy is so great is because people know you are creating the videos. We know what to expect before watching a video. I think there is also a sense of a personal connection, people feel comfortable with you.

Of course I hope for the best, and expanding seems reasonable at this time.
Wow. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

If you bothered to actually look through some of the thread, it's actually a pretty nice read. A good chunk of upcoming features and design decisions were revealed, they took note of a number of feature requests, and some nice personal questions were answered as well, putting a nice human face on some of the invisible hands working on one of the world's largest online office suites.
Is there a better offering on the market for someone (such as your dad), who only wants a phone? Surely there must be...
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Not true. The default behavior is to sync purchased apps, music, and books from the device back to the computer.
Probably the most important note to come out of this AMA: Offline Google Docs is coming back later this summer. Offline apps in general is really going to put a nice jump-start in the newly produced line of Chromebooks.
I have a hard time believing the intrinsic value of anything is zero.

A bitcoin is list of signed transactions that is encoded within a chain of blocks verified by a proof of work. A list of transactions is only considered a valid bitcoin if it is accepted by the largest existing block chain.

So a bitcoin must follow certain rules if it is to be considered to be valid, and this means it has certain intrinsic properties. For instance: if you have the private key that signed the last transaction for the bitcoin, you can extend the bitcoin with a new transaction, and that bitcoin will still be considered valid.

So I'd argue that being able to cryptographically transfer a bitcoin is an intrinsic property of the bitcoin, and therefore something that gives a bitcoin intrinsic value (assuming you think this property is useful).
Perhaps the Genius Bar will upgrade/update your phone for you? I know they do similar things for non-techsavvy customers on OSX.
But we are not talking about harmful stuff are we? The whole question here is about making good stuff. If we have deemed it good to make, how can it then be bad to have more use of it? That seems a rather insurmountable puzzle, which an overlooked nuance seems unlikely to cover.

(A common answer might be: the bad effect is that it harms producers' ability to make money and survive. But this is circular: it only harms them because they are using a system that means they will be harmed.)

(A more sophisticated response would be to give the example of betting tips: there is info that is not really nonrival. But there we are not valuing the info as itself, but as it works as part of a system of rules of a game. That is not really like the info in question.)

It is reasonable to be cautious about practical matters, but these corporate interests have turned it into the grossest FUD. Ignore them and be forward-thinking.
Sounds like someone had a bad interviewing experience with Google...
Price didn't matter to him, so he picked the phone that he liked the most, the same way you might buy a rolex because you like it, not because it offers better features than a $10 watch.
It gives you a pop-up warning though?

It's entirely non-obvious from a UI perspective that you need to right-click on the device and choose 'transfer purchases' though.

I had thought this was incompetence on Apple's part (specifically the iTunes team) but perhaps it was a semi-deliberate broken offering to prepare people for iCloud?
What's that do?
> Does anyone believe that the promotion that Apple offers on average is worth two cents?

Ask some of the developers[1] of popular apps how much more money they make when the App Store features their app in front-page promotional material. It's a lot.

[1] I believe Marco Arment mentioned this in a Build & Analyse episode a few weeks ago, re: Instapaper.
It's what C# uses too. Seems to work well.
Well I have a job lined up, I just have a month or two where I have no income until it starts. I have skills to offer so all I really need is someone to go I WANT A WEBSITE THAT DOES X and me to quote it, make it and charge them. Bam. I understand the processes involved in getting something from an idea to a reality, but I'm not hugely keen on sites like freelancer that just seem kind of scammy.

I'm sure if there's any startup people on HN that want a prototype whipped up quickly I can do that sort of thing, too.
It is similar to Google pushing its own services like Maps and Music results in Search. Also, Amazon may think that users looking for physical goods will stop and get enticed to its now impressive collection of digital stores.
Article is quite refreshing, given booming Node.js popularity.

This is what I thinking when reading all the discussions about Node.js (mainly here, at HN).

Disclaimer: I don't program in JS, and I won't touch it without six feet pole (read: code generator from some higher-level strongly-typed language).
You're right, Gridless is not really the best name for this boilerplate, but I'm not good in choosing names :(

The problem with grid systems is that they include classnames and ids which should be unique to each project. You can still use grids, but please don't use span-x classes, customize the classnames and ids to suit to your project. And doing that isn't impossible or extremely hard, there are a lot of tools out there for that: Sass/Compass, LESS, Blueprint's compress.rb script etc.
I think in this case "for hipsters" means "with less bestiality".
Then what does it become? That's an even bigger risk than volatility, isn't it? That the whole thing will just devolve to a giant market gambling pool?
Zed Shaw also has a nifty blog post about explicitly hacking Ragel to model a state machine - iirc it has to do with an anti-griefing messaging system. Worth googling.
I'd like to see how the recorded numbers vary depending on the location of the accelerometer. Loose phone in pocket vs phone strapped tightly to the head vs phone strapped tightly to the board. That'd be some interesting science.

With a phone in a pants pocket, are you sure you're not just looking at the spike when the phone, loose in the pocket, hits the edge of the pocket?

The longer-term gee factors, which are what I assume you're really interested in (ie the acceleration during a turn) should still be accurate, but I'm not yet convinced that the shock data is meaningful.
Interesting. There is nested gambling in this story. The first is actually gambling in the casino, and then the gambling on the value of the currency being used.
For some reason I feel the need to get that printed on a t-shirt.
I don't think it's too outrageous a scenario in response to a claim that Groupon is interesting because it's "become the fastest growing company by revenue in history". The point is that becoming the fastest-growing company by revenue in history is not an independent accomplishment, because all it takes to do that is a large amount of money and a willingness to burn it. It is a measure of their ability to attract funding that can support spending, but not an independent measure of success, since, given sufficient funding, you can always buy revenue, e.g. by selling $100 bills for $50. To show that Groupon is more interesting than the money-burning scenario requires some metric other than revenue or revenue growth.
I wonder if somebody went back in time to the early 00s and told the kids from something awful that their photoshop Fridays would eventually inspire a business with a 3 million startup investment, what they would say.
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Very good advice
Honestly, modeling state with polymorphism can be really elegant and powerful. There are a few decisions to make (for instance, do States explicitly make transitions happen, or do they return the next state?)

But in general, anywhere you see a lot of conditionals, you probably want to consider a polymorphic approach. Especially if you have more than one function with parallel logic trees.
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Well, it seems the HN bump is enough to bring down reddit...

I kid, but it's sad that reddit is still so unreliable. It had a pretty good run lately. I wonder how they're coming with the transition off Amazon EBS.
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I am very interested, can you shoot me an email - ricky.agrawal@vkcsubway.com -- I need a redesign of the site in my email address + about 10 other pages (that are the same but just different color schemes)

Major emphasis on HTML5 and all the latest buzzwords :)
Amazon MP3.
It was a bad example. Amazon MP3 Store downloads straight to the phone.
My.MP3.com: vaporized by the RIAA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com#My.MP3.com

MP3Tunes: being sued http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/27/robertson_predicts_c...

Amazon Cloud Drive: being threatened http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/a...

Google Music: being threatened, may pay for a license they may not need

Apple iTunes Match: you have to pay again to sync music you already bought; presumably the money goes to labels

Spotify: still hasn't launched in US http://allthingsd.com/20110610/spotify-signs-universal-music...
Ho!

At my age of 39 I solve tasks that in my 20's I can't even dream approaching. I attribute it to much higher-level languages I use today (mostly Haskell) and, of course, to experience in various fields.
Very well written article summarizing some discussions that are apparently common in the erlang community.
I'd love it if Amazon offered me a discount on kindle versions of hard books I've already bought from Amazon. I'd like to clear out the thousands of pounds of books I have and just keep the digital versions.

I'd even promise that the books go to the recyclers, not on the used market.
I've been saying this about Erlang and Node for awhile, and I don't know anybody who knows both Erlang and JS that takes Node seriously.
Sure, it's the reverse of goroutines, which allow you to do easy asynchronous programming using synchronous code.
Well that's fraud on an entirely different level from what this article suggests, but that's still crummy.

Which clone was it?
OK- but what about this childlike behavior from Jim Dalrymple to the author of the ZDNet article?

Phone in my hand, a gentleman named Jim Dalrymple turned to me and says
loudly, “Hey, what phone is that?”

I respond, It’s an Android, Samsung-

Before I finish he shouts at me, “Sucks for you!” Laughing, he turns, and then walks away as I’m saying to the men looking embarrassed in his stead

Seriously? And people wonder why conferences are huge sausagefests.
They haven't been good at that, historically.

Partly, they are cursed by success: a new business would have to be stunningly lucrative to be more than a rounding error of their current business, it is so incredibly successful. According to the Innovator's Dilemma, they would have to spin out an autonomous unit that could get excited about small wins and shape itself to them.

But google doesn't do that - they have all these fun little 'entrepreneurial' projects, but none of them mean anything to google organizationally, because they don't, and virtually can't, impact the bottom line. They're just PR.
Unfortunately many of us really are are quite small. There are far too many people out there who are all too happy to enjoy the work of others without feeling any obligation to compensate them for it. I like the Netflix subscription model but a $9 a month subscription isn't going to fund an Avatar or Toy Story 3.
I guess that they currently already earn something like hundread thousand dollars a month, based on the current volume and their trade charges.
Alternatively, as you get better and deal with complex issues and have more sophisticated thoughts, you realize that SO can't answer the majority of your problems.

That's what I've learned about SO: it's fine for popcorn questions, but for the in-depth knowledge and discussions... meh.
I have never met a person that enjoyed syncing, independent of the device they used. I’m also not at all surprised.

iPhones are perfectly functional phones without any syncing. If you don’t want to listen to your music or if you are content with only buying music in the Store there really is no need to sync. I guess the other big ticket item are photos but I have met very few people that keep their photo collection on their phone. The camera roll is all they need. (Also: A single sync is enough to bring both photos and music to the device, no need for additional syncs in the future.)

Contacts, emails, notes, calendar and all that stuff already work wirelessly, for example with a Google account.

This is how people used to use phones, why should that change with the iPhone?

All this once again demonstrates is that something like iCloud is long overdue to make all those rare use cases easier where sync would be nice if it weren’t so hard to use.