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They named windows before most people knew what a windowing UI was. They're trying to come into an already mature market, they won't be able to create much awareness with a generic brand.

Think how it will be referred to on broadcast news which loves quoting what people are saying on social networking sites as it's cheap to produce (and is how most people will first hear of it).

"we've been getting lots of reports in via Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook and Social"

"there have been outpourings of grief on the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and Social"

They might call it "Microsoft Social" but that's a bit long.
I don't think Google Plus is much better in that regard. Facebook and Twitter are the better brands at two syllables and not having any association outside of social networking.
We went off the gold standard in 1914. There was a minor depression in 1920, but the government did nothing and it resolved itself. In 1929, the government decided to abandon that policy and took action, and by 1933 the use of gold as money in the USA was forbidden by executive order.

When you criminalize the wealth of the country, it is hard to blame people's use of that wealth for the problem. By 1933 it was literally a crime for money (in the form of gold) to circulate, and much of it was sent overseas to hide it.
Is Hurd licensed under GPLv3? There is a reason why Linux isn't.
An update of the Google algorithm earlier this year. It changed, in some cases quite radically, the search results.
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> It’s not easy to make a lot of money in web design.

Agreed. Companies like http://www.cssilize.com/ are difficult to compete. They charge as low as $39 and have instant PMS.

On the other hand, there will be huge demand for mobile app themes.
Changes that Google made, designed to reduce the number of "low quality links" in search results, such as those to content farms. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-qua...

Rather than being an algorithm change, it seems to be a process that Google runs only occasionally, which labels entire sites (rather than individual pages) as low quality. Sites with that label are penalized in search results.

It affected many sites, including those that aren't content farms (mine included,) in what many webmasters believe is collateral damage.
Weren't all of those just obvious in 1990? Seriously, I don't think this is the benefit of hindsight speaking.
2 questions about our conference (Capital On Stage)
Hi guys,

We're organizing a conference that has investors present themselves to startups (instead of the other way around), because we feel investors shouldn't hide themselves behind their back-to-1998 websites or in the back of the room. We should get to know and understand them better.

The program consists of 3 great speakers, 20 investor presentations and more neat stuff. We already have a bunch of high quality startups and investors attending.

2 questions:

1) What would you absolutely like to know from these investors?

2) How could we attract even more and better startups & investors?

Thanks!

Sander

PS. The conference can be found at http://www.capitalonstage.com and will be held on the 14th of September (2011) in Amsterdam
Most of the team was unfamiliar with Lisp starting out, so that was an extra challenge to it -- only Elliott was an expert, and only one other person had actually used Common Lisp as far as I recall. I had some prior exposure to Clojure (although not recent), Python (what I usually use for many of my personal projects), and Haskell. Trying to use an unfamiliar language for a fairly serious project in a group setting like this was something of an experiment in itself.

This lead to a lot of the sorts of problems that you face when you're just learning a new environment. As such, most of the code is probably not idiomatic Lisp, although we picked up enough to get something written fairly quickly. A lot of the places where things like macros or functional programming could have been used to simplify things were missed due to lack of familiarity with the way things are done in Lisp. Looking back on my input code for example, there's an enormous amount of repetition that I could probably factor out -- and that would have been quite handy around week 8 or 9 of the project, since I needed to extend the controls. One feature that we found quite handy though were multimethods.

We didn't have too many problems with performance once the game was running, although we were running mostly on fairly decent machines. Starting things up with the load and compile was rather slow though.
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I've found many of the claims of collateral damage to be from sites that I don't honestly feel were adding much value to our lives, even if they weren't strictly content farms.

I'd be interested to hear your specific story?
Developers are people. So yeah, some of them are that dishonest. Especially when desperate and in need of work.
Plus, I know enough job openings myself to refer people directly. I certainly wouldn't send my friend's name to a recruiter that I don't even know!
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The title explains it. How would you monetize your knowledge of the last five years by building software?
i think they could have waited longer - i hadn't heard of the leaks, so i doubt they're very widespread (i mean, if i haven't, and i read places like hn, i'm sure my parents have no clue...).

also, this makes lamo look even worse. turning in some poor kid like that.
My site that was penalized is The Online Slang Dictionary. http://onlineslangdictionary.com/ It's the oldest slang dictionary on the web and had the only freely accessible slang thesaurus on the web until about a month ago. In contrast to other slang dictionaries, The Online Slang Dictionary is only for legitimate slang words.

I've never used any black-hat or even slightly questionable SEO techniques or means to publicize the site. It started being penalized April 11, which is the launch date of what (IIRC) is being called "Panda 2.0". I've made many changes in hopes of fixing whatever it is that's causing Google to decide that the site is low quality, but haven't seen any improvement in ranking since then. A (now outdated) list of those changes is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664346 .
I disagree with you strongly, but I think you made a good attempt at an argument and I think it is wrong you were downvoted, so you have my meager upvote.

I think your argument is disproven by walmart. Walmart doesn't chase "the super rich" they actually chase the bottom end of the market. They make good money by doing their darndest to make prices as low as possible, both to increase volume (and marketshare) but also to cater to the market that doesn't have a lot of disposable income.

I don't see the problem here as a lack of "equality", in fact, the super rich are taxed more than the poor. If things were equal they'd all pay the same dollar amount (not even the same percentage, the same amount in absolute terms.) That would be more moral as well.

The reasons those with less money have trouble affording things is that they have been impoverished by government. Presume you're at the lower tax bracket and paying %15 to the IRS. You're paying another %15 to Social Security (though only half is reported on your check, you have to earn the other half as well or you wouldn't have your job.) You're paying- what %4 to medicare? %3 for unemployment insurance, say %5 in state income taxes (just picking a low number since some states don't have it and it varies.) That's %42 of your income right off the bat.

Now if you're just scraping by, that means you're spending all of the remaining %58! All of that is taxed at rates from %8 (city sales tax) to %30 (cable, phone, an flights) to as much as %40 (gasoline).

If we take the lowest figure there, %8, then that means of every $100 that person makes, government takes %50. It is worse fro people in the middle and lower middle incomes. Their state and federal income taxes are higher.

That's why people have trouble making ends meet.
I will bet my entire lifetime wealth that that isn't what humans do except in an extremely abstract sense.
a few more gotcha's:

* when storing a UTC timestamp and you need to get a datetime object back in order to add dates or do some calcualtions, make sure you use datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(), eg.

>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1310727758.472)
datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 15, 11, 2, 38, 472000)

* python timestamps are longs and represent time in seconds. in Javascript it is the number of milliseconds since epoch, so you need to divide/multiple by 1000 depending on which way you are going. for eg.

> new Date().valueOf()
1310728084389

>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1310728084389)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: year is out of range
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1310728084389 / 1000)
datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 15, 11, 8, 4)

* always set your server to UTC, always use the utc* functions (eg. utctimetuple, utcfromtimestamp, utctime etc.), store as a long, and when passing back to the client send the current UTC timestamp as well rather than relying on the client system clock, which is frequently wrong. You can also use:

http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json?tz=UTC

or implement something similar. I resorted to always outputting the current UTC time into a javascript variable and using that to calibrate the local computer time (again, never trusting client time)

* never use time.time() to get a timestamp back because it will munge the value and re-add tz info

* in Javascript, to go from your server-provided UTC timestamp to a local date object that you can then work with, use:

> new Date(1310728084 * 1000).toUTCString()
"Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:08:04 GMT"

* If you are providing an API or a feed, please include a UTC timestamp in the output - parsing all the different date formats and timestamp info and attempting to work out when something happen (such as when a post was published) is a real pain in the ass. store the timezone in a sep field called 'utc_offset' or similar
Isn't it true that Google doesn't actually tell advertisers what % of the per click advertising revenue they are paid?

Its amazing that after all these years we have learnt to accept this black box and trust Google is somehow paying advertisers a constant percentage.

It's likely Google wanted a bit more revenue for this quarter so decided to pay advertisers slightly less of the cut. Wouldn't surprise me if this becomes more commonplace in the future as Google keeps being tempted to improve their profits.
I see a big parallel with the predictions for advances in neuroscience with all the predictions that were made prior to the sequencing of the human genome (the author touches on this a bit too). Lots of smart scientists really believed that once the human genome was sequenced, we would have the keys to the biological kingdom. What has actually happened is that we have discovered that the complexity of the system is probably an order of magnitude more complex than previously thought. Knowing the sequence of a gene turns out to be important, but a pretty minor factor in explaining its function. Plus we are learning that all sorts of simple rules we thought were true aren't always the case.

I suspect a similar thing is playing out in neuroscience. As we peel back the layers of the onion, ever more complexity will be revealed. The things Ray Kurzweil predicts may well come true. He is a brilliant guy. But the timetable is very optimistic.

The march of biological progress is very slow, in part because all the experimentation involves living things that grow, die, get contaminated, run away, don't show up for appointments, get high, etc... Lots of people from other scientific disciplines, especially engineering related ones underestimate just how long even the simplest biological experiments can take.
I have spent around half my career focussing on C++, my current job is half C++ (generally just maintaining old programs, or writing new ones that use old libraries) and half higher level languages (generally preferred over C++).

I think the number of applications where C++ is an appropriate choice for a new project is a lot less now than it was 10 years ago.

Generally a higher level language (Java, C#, Python etc) should be looked at first in most cases, but I am sure C++ will have its niche for a while yet. Like games for example.

Cross platform could indeed be one of those niches, but just being native isn't that big a deal. Python and Java to give a couple of examples are just as compelling options in most cases.
Nope. Massive mystery. :)

Every time I see such titles on HN, I worry a little. We should down-vote such links; I have seen way too many sites become infested with trolls and link-baits, and such titles hitting front page is just what gets them excited.

No offence to the poster. But maybe we should all summarize things objectively.
Add up enough 'soft AI' and eventually you'll have 'hard(ish) AI'
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Why don't we all chip in and improve Revitaderm? This will save you a lot of aggravation. So, it's exciting. Maybe you could use the idea to be put in perspective. We've tossed out what I gather is a decent solution.
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The problem with that is that it would make consumers concerned about reporting merchants who were actually fraudulent.

In addition, many (most) merchants make it difficult to cancel so consumers don't even attempt.

Merchants brought this to themselves.
I like Slide 251: 'solve it at the application layer' :)

I'm part of a team responsible for cloud-based video editing software. We use multi-master replication (perhaps also known as optimistic replication) with our own tools throughout, but it does require careful design - keep as much data as immutable as possible, every piece of data that might be updated by different machines at the same time should have its own row, GUIDs on each row.

Each machine can generate its own local IDs, which look a lot like a timestamp with some unique stuff on the end. Each row gets a GUID and a 'version' ID column, and we only update relayed database updates if the incoming version is newer. This is largely last-timestamp-wins for the case of conflicts (rare because of design decisions), but there is some Lamport timestamp behaviour in there too for updating a existing row.

The main downside is still that all machines need to handle every write, but with batching up incoming processing into larger transactions, we've had no problems with quite a number of database updates on a dozen commodity machines. Obviously filtering into different shards would be an easy solution.

I'm looking forward to seeing what other people are doing with multi-master replication.
Well, I'm not the hive mind, but I've seen gold marketed very aggressively in America -- to conservatives. My National Review subscription has been full of gold ads for some time. Same with conservative talk radio.

This makes sense to me -- conservatives in America seem far more alarmed about the size of the debt and its impact on the dollar than liberals.

My guess is the level of gold hype in America varies dramatically from region to region.
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No there isn't a similarity to svn revnos. Rev 125 of a branch in a repo isn't a specific commit it is a specific depth in the tree. In your example you couldn't talk about a singular Rev 125 unless there really was one Rev 125. These numbers wouldn't be like Hg's revnos they would be stable across clones.
And yet fascinatingly enough, people still write Assembler code. (Especially with the popularity of JITs these days, a decent number of programmers know Assembler). And if perhaps you do not solve problems that C++ is designed to solve. That's find. Don't say that C++ is useless for that reason.
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Actually there is no reason not to use Objective C, since gcc can compile that too.
> The first is that most people with an unsophisticated financial perspective (eg: hair dressers) are not aware of gold

Nah. Most people have an unsophisticated financial perspective, including loads of smart people. I have had many, many quite smart people I know (who aren't in finance) tell me about how they're buying gold or silver at the moment. Why?

"It's safe and it has real value. You can't eat dollar bills [sic]"

These people know what gold is, and have ultra simplistic views on why they should buy it, as well as the means.
Several people have advised against QuickBooks. What has been your experience? Did you try any of other apps?
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It absolutely was not "a bunch of chatter about his depression". It was much more. As small sample from the excellent piece by Glen Greenwald at Salon (1):

MANNING: uhm, trying to keep a low profile for now though, just a warning

LAMO: I'm a journalist and a minister. You can pick either, and treat this as a confession or an interview (never to be published) & enjoy a modicum of legal protection.

It is clear from this passage that Lamo promised legal protection of a journalist-source or priest-penitent relationship. And it shows Poulsen's claim that the withheld chat logs were only insignificant ramblings related to Manning's mental state was simply not true.

(1) http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
You are not hive mind, but you are a voice. Thank you for your response.
This is timely -- the question, "Are Graphs the Primary Data Structure in Nature?" came up on Quora a few days ago (http://www.quora.com/Are-graphs-the-primary-data-structure-f...).
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It looks as though Microsoft feels pressure to rush and start "leaking" their social presence to counter Google.
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Here's a timeous post via Bob Walsh:
http://47hats.com/2011/07/outsourcing-101-for-startup-founde...

It does a good job of breaking out approaches for different skills, considering timezones etc.

One idea:
"Hire one or two people from Philippines for $3/h to help you hire someone. Ask them to post your job on the different websites I cited above and to filter the good from the bad based on the criteria you give them.

I found my own Ruby on Rails developer this way and we have been working together two months and I can't be happier. It costed me $20 to get two people look for a developer for me."
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They never promise or make it transparent, although in an earnings call in Q1 2007 they basically said they only keep 25% (they generated $1.2B and paid out $916m).

I have noticed that this year my AdSense revenue has fallen even though click-thru rate and impressions have been constant. I assumed it was lower spend on the advertising side, but a bigger Google cut may make sense.
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What do you consider those languages to be?
"The pace was intense, and I loved it. Finally, someone was challenging me - keeping me in over my head - encouraging and expecting me to pull myself up, quickly. I was learning so fast, it had the adrenaline of sports or a video game. A two-way game of catch, he tossed every fact back at me and made me prove I got it."

That's precisely the fundamentals of France classes préparatoires (or casually prépa): iterate swiftly and efficiently on knowledge by challenging yourself to the upper limit... and above: there are quite a bunch of things I never ever thought I would be able to grasp, let alone master, yet I did, and more.

In our three-hour lesson that morning, he taught me a full semester of Berklee's harmony courses.

The first year's Mathematics course started with a single day during which we re-learned everything we though we knew about Mathematics that we learnt during the last three years. Yes, we covered three years worth in one day. It was an eye opener about the field of Mathematics as a whole. Physics course took another yet similar in goal approach.

The second year began with a full week Math course during which we re-learned everything we learned during that first year. This gave us a perspective of how far we've come but also at how challenging the coming year would be. I actually failed that second year the first time, although barely so I retried, with success.

It's extremely sad that this system is unpopular because it's perceived as elitist and inegalitarian, as well as an archaic Napoleonian process. People want education to cater for the poor folk that has a hard time keeping up with the basics (which is a worthwhile goal) but are dismissive to those that can easily keep up and more. In hindsight I could have actually failed before reaching la prépa out of boredom.
Next year is the centenary of Alan Turing's birth. It would be extremely cool if they issued £100 bills with him on them for the occasion. Of course, this is not likely to ever happen.
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I think the first one might be true. I'm seeing ads on almost every video now.
read the book "Java Head First" from OReilly http://www.amazon.de/Head-First-Java-Bert-Bates/dp/059600920...
absolutely brilliant and funny at the same time!

why java? because you have to learn the basics.
So better learn the pain-in-the-ass-way as your program basics, then you will understand why ruby is better ;)
because if you learn ruby first, you dont know why it is better than other program languages.
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Toby will be uploading the talk to Vimeo when he weekly upload limit gets reset.

We talked a bit about how race conditions are a part of life with multi-master replication, and the ways to best avoid it.

When you know your data, you know what you can get away with.