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Show HN: gotypecast.com - be interviewed by anyone
I wanted to share & get advice on a web app I've been building - goTypecast.com allows people to be interviewed by groups of people. I think it could be useful for experts who want to answer questions on their specialist topic.

An interesting use case might be a lecturer that wants to answer questions from their students on the topic of their last lecture. I could also see this being useful for bloggers that want to answer questions from their readers on their specialist subject.

I'd really, really appreciate any feedback & advice.
Also as SWE, but for a specific position, as opposed to general pool new hire that gets assigned after starting
Oh, man, that is just the best recommendation ever. I've ordered it. Thanks!
This is true in spirit but this attitude is not right.India gets attacked because we do not pay attention to security.
Average Indian or and even police man stay careless until tragedy happens.
Post tragedy people talk about it and then slip back into the same trap.
This should change so we should not keep talking about the spirit alone. Mindset needs a change.
Speaking from personal experience, I think the positives of this outweigh the negatives. I've had many customer-interactive part-time jobs in my life, and I think that it can be great fun when adults have their children do the interacting. So long as the store is not too busy, and the parents provide intervention when it is necessary (as in this particular story), I think that most people will not be inconvenienced significantly.

More importantly, I think that forcing your kids to do these types of interactions from a young age is very instrumental in their growth and development. While I am not well-versed in childhood development, I think that I rarely (if ever) was encouraged to do these sorts of things on my own when I was young, and that (possibly due in part to this) I had to break an irrational phobia of these types of social interactions at around the age of 18.

I was literally afraid to ask for help in a store, or to call a business for almost any reason. Mentally preparing for phone calls with strangers, even something as innocuous as finding out store hours, could leave me shaking.

Fortunately, I've managed to overcome this anxiety. I can't know for certain whether more of these types of interaction at a young age would have prevented this problem, but I think that it is reasonable to believe that it could have. The slight inconvenience is a small price to pay for this sort of developmental skill-building.

That's not to say that some people don't need to reign in their kids now and then, just that an appropriate amount of interaction is healthy and really not very annoying at all to others.
Got more strange JavaScript related Problems today. Just rebooted my mac and everything works fine now. Yes, rebooting isn't actually just a windows cure!
Clickable: http://gotypecast.com/

Also, here's an example of a Typecast: http://gotypecast.com/casts/1
An interesting corollary that we have observed is that after using such softwares for many years, organizations start believing that there support workflows (and hence the tools they use) have to be complex. Anything simple will just not do :)
This annoys me because it is scaring off people from developing for smart phones. This patent is so vague that even if I did know every patent ever made then I would not even associate it with what patent he is claiming he has violated.

Bring back Lulzsec for a day, get them to hack their systems and delete all their patents.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had a patent for people communicating over the internet and we are all about to be sued.
Sarah Jessica Parker y su familia en la revista Vogue
There's also XenServer that's free as in beer and speech. But the freedom in speech is mostly theoretical, because it's so hard to build.
Even Mathematica was based largely on Macsyma.
Pastafarian wins right to wear sieve on licence photo
5 Year Old Girl works with Dad to create video game
I would be interested to know the architecture of the application/s to make it seamlessly work for all those phones.

Suggestions?
That's a great little app. I'm sure lots of podcasters etc would be interested in a scalable way of interacting with subscribers. Maybe try to pitch it to someone making money from ebooks/podcasts?
Using Spaced Repetition Software to Master Vim
The holding was that you can't transfer just the right to sue. But my understanding is that you can transfer rights less than full ownership (but more than the bare right to sue), and it'll still be enough to confer standing.
Non-standard action? It's standardized by RFC 4436!
RubyConf tickets just went on sale
Yeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for.

I certainly don't want to make a crusade out of it, but it just felt a little misplaced to me.
Your book stinks. Standing by while people are taken advantage of and robbed should not be praiseworthy in anyone's book.

> Essentially on discovering I had the power to stop this illegal act without causing any harm, I felt morally obliged to do it.

This guy is a real human and a good man. You sound like a robot, legality is black and white and you don't even bring morality into question.

His entire comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/io76r/i_received...
What someone needs to do is get a business process patent on "Patent Trolling".
Red Hat's been working on it for years and they're still years behind VMware. I don't think they could go any faster.
>I seriously doubt Google is dumb enough to store user passwords in plaintext...

And who said they'd need to store anything? The only need access to them once in order to defeat any kind of local encryption scheme based on your Google account password.
If I were a gambling man, and I am, I'd bet on Google being better to their devs than Twitter. Why? Past performance. They are a much larger community that has a LOT of goodwill in the developer community. Considering 90+% of their income is still ads, why would they throw that down the drain for something that barely affects their bottom line?
He confessed to kissing the 4 year old on the lips, both before and during the prosecution. So: kind of a silly "if".
For the most part. I've personally switched to PenguiNet (a combined SSH/SCP client), but it's commercial software.
Facebook is an exception due to its huge scale, i was thinking of the medium size social apps space. Surely scaling problems are hard, but maybe not fundamentally new to the web? It would be interesting to hear some unconventional solutions employed in the facebook scale.
Moral of the story: Scott Nesin should be in charge of all Enterprise Development Projects from here on out. :)
The sentencing memo says that after the mother saw the incident, he confessed to it. During the trial, he also confessed to it.
Cute Quotes from Songs
The Search for Speedier Javascript Scenarios
Right, but that gender-neutral he only works we're talking about a "generic" or hypothetical someone. You cannot use in (say) Facebook or Google+ for a text referring to a female friend.

In English, some people still use they/their in this case. In Portuguese (and I think Spanish and other major Latin languages) you can't do that.
Well I just think that website design is great
Crime Scene Clean Up
duplicate? : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2757234
Back of an Envelope Node.js Framework - Discuss
For arbitrary messages:

sub escape {
my $arg = shift;
$arg =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_])/\\$1/g;
return $arg;
}
Google Api is not public yet. Just curious, how are they getting their data? Screen scraping maybe?
Windows only?

Sure. Putty is for Windows to allow a user to connect to a real computer, running a unix-y operating system.

Except you see a place for Putty in Linux (I guess) and by extension Solaris, HP-UX and etc.

I don't see the point - those already _have_ terminal emulation. It's baked in.

Can you educate me?
Hahahaha. It's a masterpiece! Very funny.
Which is kind of sad.
I have never got the automatic switching to work, but I only switch for games, so I'm not all that sad about it.
Thanks, that's a great idea
Red Hat needs to get RHEV 3.0 out the door first.
I really like this idea and it looks like they're getting cool artists. My problem with this is that it creates unnecessary trash but I suppose the same can be said for any band shwag. Anyone saying that this is too expensive to sell should see those books that Mt Eerie was selling for like 200$. I think they're probably sold out. Anyway, my point is that with a captive audience, something a bit more expensive and off the wall like this could work. Bands sell tshirts and vinyl for 20$ all the time. 8$ extra for something completely novel? Sure.
IBM has got that covered: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
First time I saw it. Thanks for linking to the previous comments though.
Dear SEOs and Developers: YOU BOTH SUCK
why m i not surprised IBM came up with that
Indeed.. this is a case where hackers can do some real good and make the world a better place
MIT researchers are printing solar cells on sheets of paper
I didn't give up much because I didn't have a great deal, but I voluntarily put myself in a place very low (homeless) in the belief that it would be a better place, and have come back from it to be who I am today.

I'm not the only one.

When I put a summary of my story on HN a while ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1201162 ) I received a few emails from individuals who had done similar things but felt that they couldn't talk about it and thanking me for doing so.

So yeah, there are others who have put themselves low just to start from there.
I find this endlessly interesting. Thanks for the overview.
Why? What they're selling is not just the novelty, but the scarcity of an object. Treating these like talking greeting cards is like treating art as paper and ink.
Lean UX: Great User Experience at Startup Speed
Works great on my computer. Some apps (looking at you, Twitter and Sparrow) don't take the switch very well and the UI stops updating until you restart them.
if i was you,i'd honorably ask mr.snodgrass to eat shit and die!
For the web, you want MP4 (h.264), OGG (Theora) and WebM to be able to play in all browsers using Flash as a fallback (Flash will use the MP4 file).

If the computer viewing the Powerpoint presentation has Quicktime installed, an MP4 (or MOV) can be embedded in the PPT.

Acrobat can also embed MP4 files within a PDF, and seems to use Flash to play it back.

So, using an MP4 h.264 will get you a number of browsers, Flash, PDF files (assuming Acrobat is used to view them - I suspect Foxit and other 3rd-party readers won't do this), with the caveat that the person viewing the file may need to have both Quicktime and Flash installed. OGG and WebM will get you the rest of the browsers (see http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html for more info).
The Importance of Balance In the Startup Community
It involves a computer -- and the examiners employed by the PTO just don't have the time or training to properly understand computer patents. That's the only explanation.

That's the only explanation? Doubtful.

I know someone at the patent office, an examiner who handles tech patents. When I asked about certain patents she explained that you need to look at the complete patent application and the specific behavior or items in the claim. Titles are often very broad for convenience. Also, patent applications tend to start broad and go narrow, with the overly broad requests (usually) denied.

If examiners can't figure out whether something is patentable, they err on the side of good faith on the part of the applicant, and leave the question to the courts.

Where did you get this information from?

As it was explained to me if a patent is not clear or what is being claimed not readily understood by the examiner then it gets sent back for revision. There does not appear to be any "good faith" involved.

Some patent holders like to claim that one of their narrowly defined patents applies to much broader behavior, and then threaten people with legal action. In this case it is quite possible for a non-tech judge to decide that a patent applies to things it really shouldn't.

I don't doubt there are bullshit patents or that some patent examiners aren't as educated as they should be, but I also don't see any reason to think the examiners are just so harried and untrained that they just shrug their shoulders and assume everything is legit.

There are two problems with the current patent system. One is that patents are granted where they shouldn't be. The other is that legitimate patents on specific, narrow, precise items or behavior are later used to extort money from people because untrained lawyers and judges will decide that a very narrow patent should, incorrectly, apply to more broader cases.
Sam Stephenson on Pow, CoffeeScript, and the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
Somebody needs to watch Boondock Saints...
When is the whole series coming out on netflix? I can't stand these cliffhangers.
Nice. They beat Haliburton by a full year. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...
TechTalksTO Aug 13, 2011 - 1 day technical conference in Toronto
* Mathias Meyer (@roidrage) – Author of the NoSql Handbook
* Timothy Fitz (@timothyfitz) – CTO at canv.as, master of Continuous Deployment
* Aaron Quint (@aq) – Creator of sammy.js and CTO of Paperless Post
* Ben Vinegar (@bentlegen) – Front-End engineer at Disqus
* Rick Olson (@technoweenie) – GitHub Alchemist and Rails core committer
* Aaron Peterson (@metaxis) – Technical Evangelist at OpsCode, the creators of Chef
Google+: Like not love
We are so helpless in that, security needs a ramp up but how do you pay attention to the security in a city with population > 12M
Open source packages used to push crapware
This is sad. There is more to life than 140 character bursts, even if your job revolves around the platform. The idea of wasting 18-20 hours a day (as in the article) revolts me. I'd rather read a novel (or try to write one!). Or learn a programming language. Or go hiking. Or SOMETHING.
"I wonder if there's any way to avoid this if you happen to be an employee # < threshold."

That is, and continues to be, an excellent question. At Google some of the low employee number folks were actively trying to break this bias. (for them its a question of being able to scale their time, if nothing gets done until they engage in it, they become a limit to scaling. And while there will always be people who bask in the 'I'm so important the company stops when I do' limelight, I felt that in general those folks were in the minority.) It was the overall bias in the otherwise weak senior management (remember Google is very engineering driven) against ideas from people who weren't already 'well known.'

Prior to Google I was with a company called Network Appliance and they had an excellent program where every 6 months or so the senior engineers got together and talked about various ideas (some evolutionary, some revolutionary, and some very off beat ones).

It was later that I recognized that for a certain size and larger, you needed some sort of event like that so that folks could talk face to face, without the 'distractions' of the day to day fire drills, which created the constituencies which could champion ideas from any source. It also gave the folks who had to allocate resources (the managers) some notion that the idea had been surfaced in a place where, had it been untenable for some reason, those reasons would have come out and been discussed and weighed.

I knew it worked at NetApp when I participated, and I missed it when I was at Google, but more importantly I came to understand how important it was to have a company have a healthy way of having technical conversations internally when you were bigger than a single office in terms of your engineering staff. Without it, the ability for a manager to filter 'good' ideas from 'bad' ideas is limited to their own experience and I can completely understand how they might unconsciously (or consciously) use tenure of an employee as a crutch. At Sun we called it 'checkin approval by uid' (which was to say that some folks just wrote good code and so the gate keeper for a release would be much more likely to take their change than the same change from an unknown contributor.)
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That's been implemented in a number of places. If you want that, you don't want it to be returned "randomly". You should use one of the existing software packages that do this rather than jamming it into this site. I think there may also be some services online, but personally I'd suggest local software for this. With the way that sort of learning works, it isn't even necessarily that big a deal to keep two learning stores in sync, because even if you learn a lot on Computer A but then switch to spending a few hours with Cell Phone B, you take advantage of the review, and just tell the cell phone program "yes, I solidly know that" until you catch back up. Manual syncing is almost a feature, not a bug.
* Mathias Meyer (@roidrage) – Author of the NoSql Handbook
* Timothy Fitz (@timothyfitz) – CTO at canv.as, master of Continuous Deployment
* Aaron Quint (@aq) – Creator of sammy.js and CTO of Paperless Post
* Ben Vinegar (@bentlegen) – Front-End engineer at Disqus
* Rick Olson (@technoweenie) – GitHub Alchemist and Rails core committer
* Aaron Peterson (@metaxis) – Technical Evangelist at OpsCode, the creators of Chef
Most likely it's just a J2ME MIDlet, but I have no idea.
Board Members: Rocket Fuel or Rocks?
Show HN: Service to tweet Google+ updates
It looks like they will go the messy route in German. (More likely they already have. I’m not even sure whether they were ever using gender appropriate language in the first place.)

Here is how that looks: „Fügen Sie hier eine kleine Beschreibung über sich ein, damit andere wissen, dass sie die/den richtige/n Name erwischt haben.“ (“Put a little about yourself here so people know they've found the correct Name.”)

See those slashes at the end? They just write both and separate the two variants with slashes. An ugly and common solution, I’m not aware of any better solutions in German, though.
Can someone explain the use-cases for this to me?
إصابة 20 أسيرا بالتسمم في سجن النقب الصحراوي - فلسطين المسلمة
...not to mention macsyma
Amazing to read something so close to home. I too was going 3 or 4 times per week at the height. For me it's been longer than 18 months, and this reminds me that it's high time I get back out there.
She fun , bollywood news , fashion: India commissions FAC INS Koswari
Due to the resemblance of your "generic mp3 players" to the iPod Nanos, I'm gonna assume you got a threatening cease and desist letter from Apple.
What's New in JustCode for Q2 2011
Schema Creator
Bomb Blasts in Mumbai[Bombay]
3 blasts reported in Mumbai, the financial capital of India.
Slightly off-topic but most Home Depot's on the first saturday of each month hold a free kids workshop. They provide everything necessary to build something (spice rack, shelves etc). My son and I have attended many and their great.
India's injectable vasectomy
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
It's the Politics, stupid
It’s difficult to not get lost in the numbers in the debate over how to fix our budget deficit and increase the debt ceiling. Just how much should the government cut in future spending? Obama has recently been pushing hard for over $4 trillion. Several members of Congress believe $2 trillion is probably more realistic. Besides spending cuts, how much (if any) revenues should be raised from tax hikes? Earlier this year, Republicans published a report stating that an 85% / 15% split between spending cuts and tax hikes was the average for successful fiscal consolidation. Currently on the table? An 83% / 17% split - which doesn’t seem too far off. America’s tax take hasn’t been this low in decades. Even Ronald Reagan raised taxes when the time came.

In about 3 weeks, if the debt ceiling has not been raised, the U.S. WILL go into default and the government WILL stop making a lot of its traditional payments (beware: pensioners, soldiers, government suppliers). Jobs will be lost and a fragile economy will find it on the brink of another meltdown. Unemployment recently rose from 9.1% to 9.2%, and more job losses would be tough to swallow. And the saddest part about this situation is that there is really no economic reason for this to happen. America’s current indebtedness IS affordable. Even through the recent recovery, investors have been more than willing to lend to the federal government. The problems with the budget deficit and debt ceiling are simply political. Republicans have held hostage an increase in the debt ceiling through uncharacteristically obstinate negotiating tactics. The GOP has snubbed any mention of tax hikes. They have even shot down the simple elimination of tax loopholes. The unwillingness of a few in Congress could have a ghastly disproportionate effect on the world’s financial health.
Some applications will cause a clean OSX install to switch to the discrete graphics card, even while you are running on battery. For me the tipping point was Chrome - as soon as you hit a site with flash, the discrete graphics is enabled, and doesn't get disabled until you kill Chrome entirely (there was a bug about this that was WONTFIX at one point, not sure what happened).

Your choices at that point are either disable flash, live with having your batter life cut in half, or install GfxCardStatus to enforce a saner policy.

Edit: Here is the bug I mentioned: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=43706
Console2 is a nice replacement of cmd.exe for cygwin/mysysgit like sessions. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
Fast iteration has nothing to do with adding superfluous features.

PuTTY was done—there was nothing more to add (or rather, remove), so development was stopped (or rather, paused).
this is disturbing.. mumbai people are one of the most peaceful people on this planet and they dont deserve this
I wonder how people like you expect kids to learn how to socialise appropriately if they must be kept out of the way all the time.
What? How is copy/pasting hard in PuTTY?

Edit: After reviewing other comments, it appears people weren't aware that PuTTY has X11-style copy/pasting. It helps to read the docs, folks:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...
J2ME Polish (http://www.enough.de/products/j2me-polish/) was a popular cross-phone toolkit when I was spelunking in J2ME dev a long time ago ..
Being fairly new to the Ruby community, is this conference worth the ticket price?
Beforemario (showcases toys and games from Nintendo before the NES)
haha yikes, yeah my bad, not expecting..