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"toyshop rain" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtxvpS5AYHQ (but youtube video content seems to be down at the moment, at least here in Australia anyway)

BTW: The article (10 parts!) deals with other fluid effects besides surfaces, the first few paragraphs even distinguish between them and gases.
Sounds very unlikely. If it was that they would've have announced it by now. Or the headline would be 'Google gets joint licensing(and right to sue) for Motorola patents for $6 billion'.
You're suggesting Joyent should have finished porting DTrace, ZFS, and Zones to FreeBSD, and then port KVM to FreeBSD, instead of just porting KVM to Illumos?
I actually won't reach this comment without searching. I was going to read the whole thing later.
The vision behind this (I think) is to make math accessible to common man by taking away the abstract nature of teaching and understanding math theorems.

Human brain responds to associations that explain things using something you can relate to or easily visualize. The archaic nature of math doesn't lend itself to do that unfortunately. The variable 'x' is just a made up concept with no grounding in realism. Data visualization on the other hand triggers human brain to make association, therefore making it easier to understand math.

Math is of no use unless put in practice...
> I think crux of our disagreement is about the involvement of government in peoples lives.

The involvement of government in particular does not concern me.

My concern is the involvement of any powerful group.

If all you seek is a reduction of the state, you leave a void waiting to be filled by corporatocracy.

The argument of left vs. right, authoritarian vs. libertarianism is a red herring, what really matters is the distribution of power. Given that money is approximately power and that the government is more accountable to me than an individual, I have no qualms about the higher tax rate.
My first two demos (Waveride and Armitage by Straylight if you search on Pouet) used a 3-array water surface simulation, cycling through them like you mentioned. The first used an implementation on the CPU with a 128x128 grid, the second did 5 separate 128x128 surfaces on the GPU (render to texture). The second ran all 5 about 10x faster than running a single one on the CPU, and that was with effectively no optimization on the GPU side. With some tweaking, I would've been able to do 10000^2 grids cheaply; the biggest bottleneck was that I moved the textures to and from the GPU for each frame, which I could eliminate with some use of vertex shaders and abuses therein.

Anyway, saying that GPGPU is overkill here is pretty silly -- sure, you can do some water surface simulation on the CPU, but you hit the wall very, very quickly if you're doing anything but that.
Some of these principles are only applicable to print typography. Also, please don't use fancy dashes or quotation marks as this can cause all kinds of i18n issues when the text is copied or transformed.
Totally disagree.

A mess is definitely a technical debt. It's going to take time and money to clean it up. You can put it off more, but it's going to make everything cost more money and take more time than it should. Or you can clean it up now and save that time and money.

Debt is one way that companies get ahead when they are first starting out. Just like borrowing money, you can borrow time from the future as well. Instead of making an immaculate product, you make something that gets the job done and fix or rewrite it later.

And just like money debt, if you don't pay off your technical debt, it will be a real pain. And the longer you wait, the more expensive it is.

Seriously, the analogy is crazy good.
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Thanks for the ODesk tip -- I'll check into it.

And I agree that the best way to win is to be the best. :-)
If it's your webapp, you check the User-Agent-header (which still contains the browser version) and then, if they have the problematic version, tell the user to make sure that they have the latest version of Firefox installed (which they can still check in the about box).

If it's somebody else's webapp, you still tell the user to check the about box to make sure it's the latest version of Firefox.

For you as a web author and supporter, this process makes sure that you only have to test with one version of Firefox any more: The latest (minus the few percent of <= 3.6 installs still around before the fast release cycle went into effect)
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How do you explain the success of Pixar, the company that Steve bought and eventually made him a billionaire?
Ask HN: How do you gain traction for an education startup?
I am currently working on a startup (http://nvrforget.com). I have gained some (~150) users who would like to get into the beta, but that is a measly amount compared to other startups. How would you suggest gaining traction for this? I don't have a problem with having a small user base except that I need to gain funding somehow and that is not going to happen when I only have so few people.

This seems to be a problem inherent with education startups and I wanted to ask the best in startups to make sure I was leveraging all the possible options.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
At the risk of saying something heretical on HN, I wish we'd all stop the mindless MBA bashing. For every clueless MBA "idea guy" leaping headfirst into the tech world and flailing around like an idiot, there are plenty of newly minted MBAs entering the field and doing just fine for the companies that hire them. The old stereotype is largely a relic of the late-90s Dotcom Bubble, and I submit that it's not as representative as it once was.

There are plenty of folks out there who benefit from the business training and fundamentals an MBA curriculum provides. Obviously there are just as many people who don't need MBAs, or who succeeded without the degree. That's cool. Different strokes for different folks. Let's stop thinking in such Manichean terms about the degree.
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Do a social network scam page, try to get 1000 Users in 14 days paying 2dollar to you (for any stupid premium service).
Great article by Steve Blank, but the title is misleading. A better title would be "The downside of not having a Plan B".
I was starting to wonder what his next billion dollar business is going to be.
I used to think the whole false confession issue was bunk. I could not imagine confessing to a crime I did not commit for the obvious reason that there was simply no upside. However, this changed when someone I knew told me the story of how he found himself in a situation where he almost confessed to a crime. Here's the story

My friend, Bill, was in charge of construction projects at a real estate development. One night, he gets a phone call at 3 in the morning to let him know that one of the homes under construction is on fire. He jumps out of bed, grabs his camera and rushes out to scene of the fire. Once he gets there, he starts taking pictures in order to get a jump start on the insurance paperwork. Unfortunately, the firemen trying to put out the fire start to get suspicious. From their perspective, here's a strange guy taking pictures of burning homes at 3 in the morning (it's a development so there were no other occupied homes in the vicinity). They get to thinking maybe he is a pyromaniac who is now collecting trophy photos of his handiwork. They call the cops, Bill gets arrested and ends up in the interrogation room. Now, Bill is a pretty tough guy. Remember, he worked his way up in the construction business to become a manager so he is not a weakling by any means. However, after a couple hours of being grilled by the cops, he said he was just about ready to confess just to make it stop. They didn't beat him or anything, just the relentless application of all manner of psychological techniques (badgering, cajoling, threats of long sentences, good-bad cop, etc) completely wore him out. He was only saved when his boss found out that he had been arrested and called the station to back up his story.

From that time on, I realized that under the right circumstances, it is possible for a mentally stable, reasonable person to confess to a crime they did not commit.

More importantly, I realized that because I can't imagine something happening, does not mean it can not happen.
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I like how everyone is addressing the core problem. However, to give a more superficial answer, have you checked out http://www.causerific.com? Some of the causes on there might be right what you're looking for, and could potentially employ you as well.
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I think the way the courts work is that only the patent owner can sue for infringement.

And recent events tend to show that Moto Mobility would not have been able to continue to sell smartphones if they had sold their patents to Google.
I thought it was awful. Part of the signup process apparently involves automatically making me follow boards from people I don't know, with no obvious way opt out, making it impossible for me to find the content I signed up to see (my wife's postings).
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"It was a little more like being barefoot than regular shoes but was way more like being in shoes than being barefooted."

I'm a big fan of VFFS (vibram five finger shoes) and I can attest that you can feel terrain changes through vibrams, this also means that you will watch where you step to avoid the occasional large rock, etc which can be extremely uncomfortable.

Barefoot shoes provide much of the positives highlighted in this article while dramatically reducing your exposure to the perils of walking barefoot, I'd recommend the author give them another chance.
From marketing point of view it's not a wise move. Consider how much press announcing 'Firefox X is here' they lose. And each of these announcements can potentially attract new users.

I think Chrome's fast growth can in part be attributed to by the constant stream of news like 'Chrome 1,2,3,... released' which helped Google to build recognition.
I find the name and the portrayal of women pretty offensive. At least replace one set of lips with some male six pack abs, so that you can then insinuate that both men and women are whores.

Regardless, it certainly screams to me "web page set up by some dude in his early 20s who thinks he's really smart, and hasn't really dealt with many women in his life" rather than "I want to give this guy $80 to come up with a domain for me"
I, for one, welcome our new handset overlords...
At first this made absolutely no sense to me. Totally random borderline crazy, reasonable for defense but a huge risk. Why would Google buy a low margin phone builder thats struggling to make money, its just not reasonable unless they dont want to make money on phones.

Google isnt about the sky its about the floor. Yeah Google does all sort of crazy crap with self driving cars and wind energy but the real focus has always been raising the base. Look at Chrome and Android raising our expectations for speed, usability, security and cost. Google doesnt want Moto to build the Android iPhone, Google wants an Android Razr. The Android Razr would be a rugged dirt cheap smartphone. A new base level 'free' phone that out classes any feature phone. Its in Google's best interest to get a smartphone into the hands of every single person on the planet. How many Google searches can you do on a free AT&T Samsung Rugby® II, probably not that many. Its not a bad move and if executed well this could mark a huge push for the internet and personal communication devices.
Why does the student council need to ok anything when you got freedom of assembly? Is it because you want to have the event at one of their facilities?
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It's cheaper to buy off the Dollar menu than to buy out-of-season, expensive fresh produce (like raspberries, red peppers, etc.)

It's much, much cheaper to buy rice, beans, corn, potatoes, and pasta and supplement with cheap proteins (eggs, chicken) and cheap fresh fruits and veggies (melons, bananas, apples, cabbage, carrots; see the list starting on page 34 of http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB71/EIB71.pdf ) Page 36 of the same report shows how an adult on a 2000 calorie diet can meet their recommended fruit and veggie intake for about $2 per day, with a pretty good variety (including some expensive options like strawberries.) This is more or less how I eat, and I'm just above the poverty line.
My first thoughts:

+ nice website

+ app in the screenshot looks nice

? does it show up in the menubar or...? (maybe add a couple of screenshots)

- I can't try before I buy (yes, I've read the 30days/money back but it's still a barrier for most people)
I was under the understanding that their old phones were top of the line, e.g. the first Motorola Droid.
Very clean site design, and UI looks gorgeous. Awesome job!

May want to think about putting the qualifier inside the call to action:

Buy now for $9
(try risk-free for 30 days)

Then below the CTA put "If you're not absolutely happy..."

Alleviate their worries as in-context as possible.

Congrats on shipping! Baller.
I am not knowledgeable of your situation, but I am curious about your set up, the intentions you had when you were storing things and other factors in MongoDB not storing your data. Also, I am curious how long ago this was...what version of MongoDB you were using and if you were checking getLastError after the write (assuming you wanted that behavior).

I am not denying your experience, just curious about the whole picture.
Original source: http://mashable.com/2011/07/19/tech-companies-infographic/
Could you be more specific? It's there, it works, it's in shipping illumos-based products (from Joyent and others) and it's supported by those who ship it or stand it up. In that regard, it's like any other aspect of the system...
I was wondering about what editing power meant. It's now clear you were not talking about Word. That's what I get for not having coffee in the morning. I apologize.

Oh... And thanks for the darkroom mode tip.
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FreeBSD has already had ZFS and DTrace for years. They have Jails which would have benefited from Solaris' stronger Zones/Containers.

There are already a lot of BSD users. Where are the Illumos users? Are you suggesting that all BSD users go to SmartOS? I used HP-UX and AIX for many years...the one off UNIX systems just end up recreating each other due to fragmentation. They are not the way forward. The smaller mind share/usage of OpenSolaris/Illumos isn't helping. Wouldn't contribution to a BSD have strengthened the community?
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"Google didn't take IP seriously, bidding silly numbers (such as pi billion dollars) for the Nortel patents."

Why does everyone keep rehashing this statement that was asinine the first time? How do the specific digits of their bids say anything about Google's stance towards IP? Pi billion is over 141 million more serious of a bid than the 3 billion that I guess would have made everyone more comfortable.
Given that so many books have been written about Apple and Steve Jobs with nothing but tea leaves for sources I'm interested to see where this goes.

It is stated that Jobs cooperated with the author, but requested no control over the content (bravo). You can bet he had something to say about the previous title and cover [1] though.

[1] http://www.redmondpie.com/isteve-the-book-of-jobs-official-b...
Just because people don’t share your opinion doesn’t mean that they are purposefully lying. It’s a quite common fallacy, really.
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I'm really looking forward to this book, so much so that I just preordered it (which I normally don't do for books).

Walter Isaacson is a great biographer. His Einstein and Benjamin Franklin biographies are amazing, definitely worth a read.

Since this is Isaacson's first biography of a living person, I'm really looking forward to reading the result. I guess it'll cover a lot of things we didn't know about Jobs and go even more in depth than his previous biographies have.

A lot of both positive and negative things can be said about Jobs, but no one can dispute that he is an interesting character with an astonishing record. November 21 can't come soon enough.
Which ones do not apply? It seemed like they all applied to the web to me.
It appears that you are creating a spaced repetition app that works for memorizing poems and passages where order matters as opposed to the usual model that works for memorizing a set of facts in random order. That's a good idea. If it works, I'll use it.

I think you should stop calling it an education-based startup because that sounds like something teachers would buy. You need to be clear on your homepage etc. that you have an improved tool for power memorizers, get in their communities and open it up as soon as possible for feedback. Offhand I can think of:
-Self-improvement hacker communities like 4HWW forums, Steve Pavlina forums, etc.
-Memorization forums
-Homeschool forums
-Secondary ed/college student forums

But you need to open it to users soon. People don't tell their friends to use something that doesn't exist yet.
"If it's your webapp, you check the User-Agent-header"

Thats fine if your communication is only via your website. Consider if you have to send an email bulletin and explain this. Or write it up in a technical support answer.

"If it's somebody else's webapp, you still tell the user to check the about box to make sure it's the latest version of Firefox."

Sometimes there are problems in the latest version.
We've built LazyMeter to help with procrastination. We think the main cause of procrastination is an overhwelming to-do list, and therefore a lack of focus. When people know what they're doing, and have a goal for the day that they're working towards, they get a lot more done. I left Microsoft to build LazyMeter because I was a procrastinator and I thought I was lazy; I've learned that I was wrong - I was just overwhelmed. The idea that people are inherently lazy is absolutely wrong. www.lazymeter.com
>If it was that they would've have announced it by now.

A reason for them not to announce it is fear of drawing the attention of anti-trust regulators.
So this was why he took a sick leave? tongue-in-cheek
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While you can certainly throw some money behind a favorable legislation, I don't think it's as easy as making out a check to Washington DC and have your words be law. Politics are still a complicated, slow and cumbersome process.
Not really. He forgot to consider the other set of companies making money from Android: Arms merchants like Qualcomm,TI and NVIDIA. For example, NVIDIA is pretty thrilled with all the Tegra 2 design wins they got from Android manufacturers.
A sequential version number gives a [probably misleading] indication of maturity.

A chronological version number gives an indication of currency.

Hiding the version number doesn't seem helpful.
In my own personal experience this list seems kind of dubious. I've never said any of those things and I'm not a successful entrepreneur.

Must be something more to it than a list of Bad Words (tm).
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Actually, IIRC, there ARE no minority shareholders with voting interest. ALL of it is locked up within the triumvirate (Page, Brin, Schmidt).

Whether this gives them any more leeway isn't clear to me, but Google is quite non-standard as far as corporate structure.
http://imaginek12.com

They have connections to schools.
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Common sense for gestures detection in iOS programming is to use UIGestureRecognizer class. Gestures you can detect are: tap, pinch, rotation, swipe, pan and long press. To define gesture recognizer you’ll have to use one of UIGestureRecognizer subclasses...
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Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? [UX]
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This is one of my favorite articles on typography. A few of my highlights:
1. Use one space after the period.
2. Indent to start a new paragraph (no need to have a blank line and indent).
3. Use smart quotes!
I am puzzled by this "Don't be evil" bullshit.

How would be "killing HTC Sense" not evil? How is Google not evil in requiring real names for G+ and banning people with pseudonyms? How is shutting down APIs (like translation) which developers have grown to depend on not evil? How is monetizing their search monopoly to undercut the business of other companies not evil? Or shaping with their mystical page rank the fates of a whole economy?

And on the other side:
What is Microsoft particularly doing today that they are seen as "evil"?

I have a ton of respect for Google, but companies are neither persons which act moral nor are they nations for which you pledge allegiance. You get no real life karma points for defending them delusionally in Internet flamewars.
Sometimes emotion can be a logical response to events. If you feel disgust at the actions of a murderer or thief, there is nothing logically 'cloudy' about that--it's a justified reaction. You allege that simply stating a numerical figure that represents the sum of the Fed's loans over a 3 year period is 'designed to provoke populist rage'. My point is that if just printing this number leads to strong emotional responses, it's worth considering if those responses are justified. So you see, I'm not actually bringing my own emotions into the discussion, just countering your assertion that reporting the sum amount of the Fed's activities is somehow 'designed' to create anger. So it seems you're the one getting emotional here and taking your ball and going home. I'm just stating my thoughts. But anyway, c'est la vie... thanks for the discussion.
It's hard to say without knowing how your product works, but here's what I can say having worked in for-profit education for over 10 years (including Sylvan Learnin Center, Kaplan, Grockit, The College Network, and Veritas Prep). In for-profit education, there are two parts of your marketing angle. The first is convincing people that they need to pay for prep, and the second is convincing them that you are better than the competition. Your first challenge is to convince me that it is worth my time and money to train myself to memorize things faster. Is there a short presentation (~5 min) that you could put up on YouTube that just scratches the surface of your product, but at the same time actually gives some benefit to potential users? Kaplan uses this technique by giving a short 10 question challenge, and then having an expert teacher explain shortcuts for each. The takeaway is that if you can learn this much in 30 minutes, imagine what $1500 and 3 months can do. Maybe you can adapt that sort of approach. If you were giving people a taste of the product, you'll be able to convince them that they want more.
yeah I've been saying this since the oracle deal. 8 billion looks small now for what Sun was. They would also own Java and other important tech that they could have used a lot more than what Motorola offers them. I wonder if they even tried to buy Sun.