skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have to agree with that. The initial posts in my circles are about how they love G+.
I find dokuwiki to be a great wiki - does not need a database if you don't want one. Stores data as text files and images, so easy to look at source data. The access system is nice, can set up access groups. With the right template you can make it into a nice little CMS. Have used it at work and Staff seem to be able to get a handle of it pretty easily.
I would say "party". It's one more user to add to your user base. One more user who (if your app doesn't suck) will end up showing it to someone who doesn't want to bother with the immense fuss of pirating and will just purchase it.
Nothing wrong with documentation. I would do it just not the only thing I want to be doing. Do you know a good road map to make substantial contributions?
To the first, from the article:

As the metal blades spin, centrifugal force kicks up the air and throws it up and outwards, much like an impeller, creating a cooling effect.

I had to read that part twice too, but it sounds like the air cushion is only there initially, but gets sucked out when the fan spins. (That said, if it leaves a vacuum, that doesn't sound great for conductivity either...)
We should be paying more attention to effort per interaction.
It's not the point that the chance is low. The point is that there is any chance at all. No government should be allowed to seize domains. Ever.
Hehe... yes that's what I'm thinking too.
Yep; same here. I'm 33 now, and I'm unreasonably proud to say that I still have essentially every file I ever created, going back to hundreds of Bank Street Writer and KoalaPaint files created on my Commodore 64 in the mid-1980s.
that was my point: At the moment the Game Center account doesn't have to be the account used for purchase. The reason for that is account sharing within the same household.
>But an app isn't an everyday purchase either.

Not for you, not for me; can you say that for everyone?

Data plans are irrelevant. I could well point out car insurance in the ancestor analogy.

EDIT: Allow me to clarify. A phone is a decision made once. The data plan, the price of the phone, these are all taken into account at the time the purchasing decision is made. Applications are a long chain of decisions which are each approached individually.
> I don't know how fast your internet is, but I can get an hour-long TV show in 720p in <10 minutes from torrents, and I'm paying $45/month for internet (in America).

For a 2 megabit encoding that would effective DL speeds of 12 megabit, which is impressive. I've never gotten that consistently in the US. I pay $70/month from Comcast and if I start torrenting it doesn't sustain that, I'm not sure if it's throttled or what, or maybe the connection is saturated because I'm in an apartment in mountain view no doubt full of geeks.

> Are they? 2 TB hard drives are now $70 a pop, and who says you have to save everything like a pack rat anyway?

Normals don't buy HDs. The point is this shit can still fill up your HD really quick, which is just a hassle for non-geeks. That is why streaming is such a win for most people.

> They've never been for me. There have always been plenty of seeds, and there has always been a high quality version that has been easy to find (usually because it has the most seeds & snatches).

If you're not searching for the most popular or recent stuff then the quality degrades though. You need to have a variety of torrent trackers in your pocket. You have to have an intuitive filter to avoid the bullshit, and still sometimes you will get shitty encodings or something that's fucked up some way.

Seriously this is a geek hobby. Not necessarily computer geek, it's accessible enough for anyone to geek out on, but it's not a superior user experience to Netflix. The fact that you like the end result better doesn't make this any less true.
And a company called ThriXXX built a rudimentary sex game that allows players to rub women’s body parts with a creepy disembodied hand.

I was going to ask what the market for this was... but when I compared it to some of the other stuff in that genre that already exists, I guess it isn't that much of a stretch.
Here's a simple reason why: can you get the visas needed to move yourself anywhere else and can you find the resources you need in that country?

There are lots of places I would consider over the US, but in many countries to come in and start a business it will take showing that you can properly capitalize the business and provide for yourself until the business reaches profitability. You may be in tens of thousands in moving costs and legal fees before you even get yourself started in order to set up shop in a new place.

And, if your target audience is in the US, you may run into consumer perception or other problems if you are based elsewhere.
SyQuest!

Now get off my lawn.
I've had some difficulty with HTML5 audio and can't wait to see Pandora's implementation!
Don't forget to include athletes in the list so everyone can see how retarded BMI is.
Generally speaking, one brand of cola can serve as a drop-in replacement for another (notwithstanding vendor contracts and so on). Coke and Pepsi products aren't particularly subject to positive network externalities - it's not as if you can only mix a given brand of rum with Coke and not Pepsi.
You can try logging in using email: test@partsie.com and password: partsietest
I'm an independent web software developer. I work for various clients on an hourly or per-project basis. The highest rate I charge is 50% higher than the lowest rate I charge. If I had an agent that could keep me busy with the higher rate jobs--increasing my average hourly rate and giving me more hours to work because I'd spend less time chasing down gigs--I'd be more than happy to pay him/her 10%.
Citrix Buys Cloud.com for More Than $200 Million; Redpoint Is on a Roll
insane expensive, anyone has another source?
I got two words for you, sugar...
Zip disk.
Ah, right. I use Linode's panel, but I could use some one-click Google Apps DNS records, thanks.
NASA's smartphone-powered satellite
I'm doing well with the IKEA Markus, which is also reasonably priced. http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/70178863
CERN pushes storage limits as it probes secrets of universe
As you already have the link to one site spreading your pirated app, I'd contact them and ask them to remove the link. Sure, this won't stop the pirates (or other folks sharing the file on other platforms), but it's worth a try.

Of cause, it would be interesting to see how many people are using the pirated version of your app, if it can be achieved with little effort.
> I disagree. First of all, all the torrents of recent shows are very, very fast. Much faster than any streaming service in fact. Getting well over a meg per second is a common case.

You can't beat the streaming latency though. You click play and 5 seconds later you are watching. As long as you have the minimum internet connection quality then streaming wins on UX.
I signed up because I feel this has the potential to be much better than Facebook. I am much happier with the privacy controls, and I feel like I am confident in knowing who can see what about me. I didn't always have this feeling when I used Facebook.

So, not everyone is meerly "checking it out". I am at least one user who will gladly move over from Facebook as soon as more people adopt G+.
Since Firefox does not support MP3 or AAC, and IE/Safari do not support OGG they would have to do it in Flash unless they are transcoding server side or only supporting certain browsers.
anyone remembers nokia?

what killed them? patent fights, or crappy software?
As Apple the hardware company continues to invest in their software ecosystem and begins to count on non-hardware revenue the threat from Google increases. I believe that Apple has proven that they are playing the long game while enjoying successes of the short game. Given what apple has done with just iTunes alone shows they are easily looking out 10 years and beyond.

I don't think it's fear. In the battle of who's ecosystem a consumer will select for their desktop/laptop/mobile/web/music/video experience, snagging these patents could serve as a very nice speed-bump for Google. Every consumer who buys an iPhone or iPad over an Android device, is one more consumer that is more likely to commit to Apples ecosystem of software and services over Google's.
That's just as sensationalist.

Most people agree that there is a balance between the rights of individuals to do what they want, and the rights of the government to stop them if society benefits. For example, almost everyone agrees that the police shouldn't have unlimited power to search anyone they want. But almost no one argues that they should have no power to search people - just that a balance needs to be struck.
How To Stand Out from other Startup Job Applicants
Great article.

Your boss won't always explicitly tell you to take time to experiment. I've gone to my boss many times and essentially asked for time to experiment. If you have a good boss, he'll be right there with you. Don't be afraid to ask.
All I need is a Volkswriter emulator and I can re-read those senior public and early high school essays again. :)
Newest iOS 5 beta adds gestures, may replace buttons
In that vein, if you're aching for ways to distinguish yourself, I think there are few opportunities better than what you've got: right now, you're the most-loved recruiter on HN, and you're a (relative) expert on something most hackers are interested in, but not enough to become experts in. You could leverage that quite a bit with a series of blog posts on hiring negotiation, how to find a job using weird technology stack X (If I could find anyone to pay me to work remotely with clojure...wow), etc.

As a comparison, I'm sure Gabe Levine got the option for a lot of new business after the "Fuck You. Pay Me" presentation. He suddenly became the lawyer that freelancers...liked. http://mylawyergabe.com/ Among HN users, sunchild is a "lawyer I know knows about software"...and there are worse positions in which to be.

All I'm saying is that I suspect it's worth quite a bit to be trusted by hackers as a recruiter who knows his stuff and won't screw them over.
Not sure if it's out of fear or just good business sense. When they entered the cell phone market they had nearly zero phone related patents. This opened them up to litigation and licensing issues around basic phone functionality where they have no leverage because they have no patents to cross license.

After getting a taste of what it takes to play in the cell phone market they know they have to have cell phone related patents for leverage when setting up cross licensing deals.
Dev support from Apple has always been horrible for me, been a paid member since 2007 and free member since at least 2005. Last time I called I was screamed at and I assumed cursed at in whatever language the rep spoke. Then he spat off some phone number and told me to get a refund and not to use their service. Never really got help in previous calls either.

Hardware/Software support has always been great and friendly. I can easily tell them what all I have done to diagnosis a hardware issue and they won't make me go through all the hoops. Repairs always take less than a week for the most part to ship off and back, since the nearest Apple store is ~200 miles away.
Not the point. None of these solutions are easy or obvious to the casual consumer. Companies (and governments) should make legal distribution easy for consumers worldwide if they want to reduce illegal downloading.
Maybe some people just want to test your app. I heard of plenty of people who download a pirated copy first, to see if it's worth buying. You could release a test version of the app, so these people don't need to download it illegally. Otherwise, people who pirate software wouldn't buy it otherwise also. So, consider this as an indirect PR for your awesome app.
You are also shoring up the banks balance sheets, remember. As others have said, money invested isn't dead - it is actively lent to others.

Money spent on Stella, kebabs and fags doesn't really count.
Don't forget about the Iomega Zip Drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
Google+: How Paranoid Are You About Privacy?
Yes. Working on the same problem space for a long time can get boring, and a fresh face willing to take it on makes it worth the time investing in code reviews and mentoring to provide continuity for users. Professionally at least, I would happily pair program with an intern for 6 months nonstop to bump the bus number on all my responsibilities.

[edit]

Whats your geo? We're looking for interns...
Be born in England.
Sounds a bit abrasive to do this: "You ask, “Are you bored?” Even if you don’t have a gut feeling, it’s a good question to randomly ask your team. When I ask, I look you straight in the eyes and if you can’t stare me in the face and answer, I’m going to keep digging until you look me in the eye."
Can you please elaborate on the ice cream vending prior to the show of the movie?

An actual human solicits ice cream orders between the previews and the start of the movie?
I don't really see the breaktrought here. As far as I can see (I'm not an expert), they managed to keep the phase undisturbed.

Metamaterials as such aren't exactly new, but certainly very interesting. Wikipedia is very informative on this topic (with a long list of applications):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial

More about the cloaking (which there is already some success with):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial_cloaking

And yeah, the article doesn't seem very professional:
> A metamaterial is an artificial material that is engineered to have properties that can’t be found in nature.

Wikipedia:
> Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature.
Rage! Hunt 'em down. Consequences will never be the same...
On just about any project basic bug fixes would be good. You know the easy noncritical stuff that tends to get overlooked. Fix up the slapdash UIs open source apps tend to have. Tests, beat on a library's interface in a way that someone too close to the code base might not think of. Depending on the app, data import\export might be a good place to start. It rather depends on one's area of interest.
Axiom: Boring work can never compete with Hacker News.

Axiom: Hacker News can never compete with interesting work.

Theorem: The interestingness of my work is inversely related to my Hacker News participation.

Supporting data: Today I'm regression testing. I'll be here all day, folks.

Idea: Employers, monitor your logs for Hacker News. Occasional spikes probably indicate boring, but necessary tasks. Chronic use probably means your devs are bored. Bored devs probably means you better take a deep hard look at everything else.
I think another key point is that boredom is inevitable, at least at any company bigger than a startup.

Software engineering is about solving problems. You get hired, and solve problems. Time passes and you get better at solving these problems, so they give you harder problems in the same domain space. Eventually you get so good at solving these problems in this domain space that you become The Guy. "Oh you have a question about the FooWidget manager tool? Ask Joe, he's the FooWidget guy." By definition, being The Guy has mean you've reached a local maxima of productivity in the company.

It also means you're bored. It's not a case of possibly being bored, or eventually becoming bored. Once you are are no longer a problem solver, that means you're bored.

I've been a lead engineer at two different companies thus far in my career, and every time I end up wailing the same things to management. "You have to let me get Joe off FooWidgets. He's been working on it for nearly years and all you make him do are stupid enhancements nobody actually uses." But then who will maintain FooWidgets? "Hire someone. You could hire a college kid for the level enhancements you guys want. Or let me assign it to someone else on my team. But do something, because he is going to get bored and quit and we'll have to do this anyway, only Joe won't even be here to help transition." Will we be able to make enhancements to FooWidgets as fast if someone else works on it? "Not at first, but within a month--" Bzzt, wrong answer, Joe's still on FooWidgets. And sure enough, within six months, Joe takes another position and we're hosed.

So while Rands had some good heuristics for detecting boredom, you typically don't even need to ask them directly or look for behavior changes. Are they solving problems? If not, they're bored, and you have a ticking clock to do something about that engineer before he leaves.
If You REALLY Want Something, It Will Happen. With a LOT of Work
spend a few hours reading around reddit.com/r/seo In the last few days I have learnt a lot.
Already said but great article, I am in this exact situation right now.
A related story:

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2008/06/bugged-life.html
Make the app forever free and provide in-app transactions for some premium content/functionality.

Perhaps paid-for import/sync of bookmarks with some other movie bookmarking service -- with something comparable to MyAnimeList [0]. Or ability to exchange movie bookmarks and comments with friends over FB or G+; if you make it go through your central server, you can collect some fees for such service.

They say you can't beat free (`pirated'), but `pirates' can't beat your free version either.

Compete on quality.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanimelist
Java Secret: Using an enum to build a State machine
Interesting remark from the author in a reply to one of the comments: "Most server-side Mozilla projects are moving to a Python-based eco-system."[1]

[1] http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/firefox-sync-pyth...
My friends are loving google+ actually. Last night we maxed out a "hangout" and it was a pretty incredible experience
I have the same one, although in a respectable black :-P. Bought second hand from the returns counter. Been using it for more than a year now and I like it. I'm also experimenting with standing while working now, so the chair will see less use.
you're the most-loved recruiter on HN

Aw shucks.

But seriously, there have been some excellent suggestions for future blog posts that will be relevant to the people here on HN and I fully intend on writing some decent content over the next week or two so stay tuned.
A few questions for dyslexics:

1) Is it consistent? Do you have have trouble with the same letters/letter pairings? Or do different words tend to have different effects?

2) Normal readers tend to read the "word" and not the individual letters. Do/Can dyslexics do the same? As an example, if for instance dyslexics commonly were to transpose the "o" and "u" combination "ou" to "uo" I'm wondering if dyslexics read the jumbled "yuo" immediately as "you" or, does dyslexia prevent you from even recognizing the pattern and you have to laboriously read "y" "u" "o", transpose "o" and "u" and recognize "you".

The reason I ask is because I'm curious if such a typeface might actually be hurtful to dyslexic readers. While the typeface is easier to read for dyslexics I wonder if using such a type face for initial reading education would have a side effect. When the reader switches to non dyslexic type faces, %99.99 the rest of all digital type, they will have diminished capacity for reading those texts (more so than having learned to cope with the frequent errors of those type faces)?

In other words, might the best solution to be educating dyslexics by recognizing they may see different or multiple letter patterns for certain words and simply train them to recognize each possible version of those letter patterns?

IE. Here's a vocabulary sheet for Johny, a non dyslexic child:

"mouse" - a small four legged mammal.
"house" - a building you live in.

The same vocabulary sheet for Mikey, a dyslexic child.

"mouse", "muose" - a small four legged mammal.
"house", "huose" - a building you live in.

Granted I'm very ignorant of this disorder and I may be over simplifying it. But my ultimate question and I don't mean it to sound cold or callous, but might it be better to focus efforts on teaching dyslexics to deal with it?
It would be easier to register floppydump.org and have users upload their disk contents in a zip.
Seduction & The Pitch
I think one of my favorite approaches is reaching out to the individuals pirating the software. Post a comment on the page explaining that you are the developer of the program. Explain why you made the application and that, if people download and enjoy it, you would appreciate them supporting future development by purchasing the application through the AppStore.

You really can't stop people from pirating your application, but you might be able to convert a few would-be pirates just by reaching out to them with your story. It's easy to steal a piece of software from a nameless entity, but it's much harder when there is a human element involved.

Going into "legal mode" rarely solves these problems because it just puts people on the defensive (and this is coming from a lawyer).
Give an example. I must admit I am at a loss for words. What should I feel guilty for, and to whose benefit?

Everybody faces prejudice. For example I face prejudice because I work with computers. I don't think that warrants inflicting a huge guilt trip on the rest of the world.
Do you feel it warrants the full price tag? I've been looking into them however just unsure if I really want to spend almost $1k on a chair.
Chrome also has a GPU-accelerated 2D canvas, but you have to enable it in the about:flags page.
Celebrate! People like your app enough to pirate it.

Because the alternative was that they wouldn't like it enough. There is no 'wanted it but didn't pirate it' option for bored, unethical hackers.
You do, But as me and my lady do, She uses my iTunes account on her phone to purchase apps, But I think she uses her own account for gamecenter.
I would suggest get a free app account limitation for 10 videos or so. This way you would get more users too and also some good exposure too as many would download you app being free. :)
Free user Conversion is your App magic ;) IMO, app is awesome ;)

Also check this, there might be an udpate on iOS5 and you might be lucky.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/12/jailbreak-detectio...
Why Geeks Don’t Believe in Copywriting
Oh, and you might be able to tell if the device is jailbroken, but that has no relation on whether the person paid for your app or not. Don't confuse that.
Yeah but the fan is the heatsink... vs. a heatsink with a fan on top.

So like current tech = chip -> heatsink -> fan
whereas this = chip -> magic spinning heatsink
Future Cloud computing Security paradigm:
The near future promises to turn a new paradigm of information technologies from rather futuristic visions into potential realities.
Apple introduced an API to check if the device is jailbroken, but after 6 months removed it without any explanation.

However you can still make some check, like to check if the path /private/var/lib/apt/ exists or not. Since many package managers for cracked apps are apt-based, you should be able to get most of jailbroken devices.

Sadly (afaik), no way to understand if your app on a device has been cracked or purchased.
I actually got rid of a bunch of 3.5" floppies I had in the back room of my house this weekend. Despite feeling pretty silly about it, I still took the time to make sure to actually tear them up rather than just dump them in the trash. Who knows what 1.44MB of data could do from my 1997 MS Money file.
I believe Apple's plan is to bring down Android by making their devices better than Android devices. Kinda crazy, I know.
Download Wordpress and try making a plugin. Play around with it and see what good programmers have done. You can try this for other software too (pick your language). It's one way of working with great programmers.