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Circle Of Lies
Building my first startup - Day #2
We should run a betting pool for this. I'd bet at even money than more than 90% of online signups fail to complete the course. Give me decent odds and I'll bump that up to 95%
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS : what are these terms?
Help the world and make your next startup's business model "pay us to find prior art to invalidate patent X, and open source our results"
A lot of people might like the idea of living on Mars when there is absolutely no risk of that actually happening. But
really there is not much point in living on Mars for extended periods of time, there's very little that humans could do that machines couldn't do as well and a lot cheaper. Combine that pointlessness with what would in practice be an an isolated, risky and uncomfortable life, and I suspect that the pool shrinks down dramatically.
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Upon graduating college and entering the workforce, I was debilitated by awful wrist pain. It was so bad, I could barely shift my car on the way home.

Over a decade later, my wrists hardly ever bother me. Physical therapy taught me to regularly stretch my wrists, and how to strengthen them. I began pursuing other activities which further strengthened my wrists (rock climbing is particularly great, so long as you avoid overdoing it and injuring yourself worse).

My basic advice to people now is:

1) Follow the Pomodoro technique, or whatever it takes to force yourself to get up, stretch, and move around for at least five minutes per hour. We all sort of hear that and nod, but think about how many times you've gotten really deep into a problem and sat there, twisted like a pretzel as you try to solve it, for hours on end. You have to condition yourself to take real, meaningful breaks.

2) Sit up straight, dammit. In every photo we ever see of new startups, how many people are sitting with good posture? None of them.

3) Get a keyboard with light-touch Cherry key switches. I'm partial to the Kinesis ergo line, but there are others.

4) Get active. Straighten your spine and go for a walk around the block a few times per day. Take up yoga, climbing, martial arts, or weight lifting. Focus on improving posture, flexibility, and balanced strength. Find some hobby that will get you away from the computer.
Study: 1 Hour of TV shortens your life by 22 minutes
I wonder if not using mouse helps against the syndrome? I'm coding only on notebooks + touchpad for last 10 years, and never had a problem.

Though reading stories from people with syndrome makes me worrying :)
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Not only should it tie into the existing account management API's, but I can't figure out why they're offering their own push notification API when Android has one built in!!
Looks like some normal stability updates...oh wait, what's this?

Resolve an issue in which an admin user account could be missing after upgrading to OS X Lion.

Yikes. Let me double-check my backups before this upgrade...
Can 32,000 Data Points Yield The Perfect Book Recommendation?
This whole thing made me realize I'm going to run for President, btw. I think I finally realized what my views are. I'm a gun-owning conservative social anarchist libertarian that believes in improving Medicare. I think it's a unique platform. I also own an online casino. Look for me in 2016 =)
It's per-app user accounts that people can integrate with just a few lines of code.
This is for iOS apps. Doesn't the App Store already require you to be over 13 to purchase/download the app in the first place, making the purchaser responsible for filtering the kid's content?
Why restrict yourself to traditional distros? The biggest advantage of Linux that its supporters have been explaining for a while is that because it is open source, it can be modified to suit your needs and build whatever cool product you want with it.

Google did just that with Android. Therefore it is a perfectly valid example for this article to claim rightfully that Linux is winning.
one which springs to mind is nethack, but the game has quite a different nature (much less open-ended).
Why must you persist in trolling Microsoft articles on HN? I don't get the discontinuity between your comments regarding WP7 and WebOS.

They both came late to the game, were largely lacking and underpowered. WebOS devices have shown similarly dismal sales to WP7 devices. Something doesn't have to fly off the shelves to be a shame.

Your first gripes accurately describe the iPhone, by the way, and it hardly ended up being a market failure, especially after it matured a year or so.

PS: And WebOS is no PalmOS, IMHO. PalmOS was the definition of simple and elegant.
Somewhat off topic:

This page has a beautiful javascript effect if you scroll. The index follows the page smoothly and highlights the displayed section. Does anyone know if this is a public library/function?
S&P downgrades Google on Motorola deal plans
I doubt they're a $20/yr customer, somehow. You can't host a site the size and popularity of Wikileaks off a single Micro EC2 instance.

Amazon is reasonably hard to DoS, and Wikileaks would've been charged for all the bandwidth incurred from one. Amazon would likely profit off such an attack, really.
We've heard from a lot of people who weren't happy with C2DM. We think our push API is easier to set up and use. It's also compatible with pre-2.2 Android and with Android devices that don't have an attached Google account. You can also can send push notifications to both iOS and Android with one API call. That said, if C2DM works for you there's nothing wrong with using it directly.
>commercials seem louder but are actually not (because they are not allowed to) //

The UK Advertising Standards Authority recently took action saying they had proven that TV ads were being amplified above general volume levels - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1251583/ITV-fin... (not the best source but good enough here).

US Congress voted in the CALM Act, http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2010/12/20/obama-signs-tv-comme... to curb excessively loud TV ads.
Good questions... We are open sourcing the entire runtime we use, and contributing to open source. We have created an open source runtime project for use by any compiler, including gcc, and we will be using it ourselves (or we already do).

TBB is the most widely used abstraction (not OS threads like pthreads) for C++ parallelism (several developer surveys confirm this). OpenMP is used by less developers in the U.S. surveys, but OpenMP and TBB don't really compete for developers because TBB is very C++, and OpenMP is not. TBB was contributed to open source in 2007 by Intel, and is a very active project - with lots of users and ports virtually everywhere. Users include well known names like Dreamworks, Adobe, Autodesk, and EA in their key applications. It's new enough (5 years) that many people have not yet heard of it... but it has a very substantial user base.

I'm biased a bit - but I wrote the book about TBB after learning of the project and loving it, not because I was on the project.

We believe in "library first" then (when you know what you are doing) put it in the language.

TBB was the library. Cilk Plus is the language equivalent.

ArBB (Array Building Block) is the library.
It needs to bake still from what I see. It's worth a look - but it is new and rougher... despite the RapidMind experience with product. These things take time. I'd suggest it lives as a library for at least 5 years before we get too excited about trying to learn from it and change a language.

Cilk's been at this since the mid-90s. TBB was our strongest way to say "we believe in Cilk and we want the experience in product"... so we added 5 years of that to Cilk's experience, and I think we are very ready to show the results and argue we can be ready for standarizing.
Complete Comparison of the 5 Major Social Networks [infographic]
When I used a mouse, I found my right wrist hurt more than the left. But I can't say that moving to a laptop with a trackpad is 10x better.
It depends on the selector and the browser. Something like $(".myclass") is worth caching on IE7 because it requires a pass through the entire document; there's no `querySelectorAll` or `getElementsByClassName`.

I wouldn't start by caching selectors all over the place unless you profile and see that it's slow. Doing a lot of selecting in a `scroll` or `mousemove` handler would be a bad idea though: http://ejohn.org/blog/learning-from-twitter/
"Winter is Coming" - Will Your Startup Survive?
Then find a way to get their attention.

Or run ads for your app.

Or come up with some crazy viral marketing scheme.

Or build another app and double your chances of success.
Look at rbanffy's comment history and you'll see that he trolls Microsoft articles for some odd reason. It's not really worth engaging in discussions with him.

I'm not sure of his goals in participating in such discussions about Microsoft or WP7 as he never really adds anything beyond a personal rant or few.
Considering we can detect radio sources more than 10 billion light years away, I suspect ours can probably be spotted a few tens of thousands away.
Glass

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/1962-glass-could-be-Cornings-a...
The website is exceedingly poor--sorting by distance doesn't work, bits of template text are not even filled in and it's obvious the information is generic. The website is the opposite of "love and passion for helping seniors".
Without the license specified, the author still retains the copyright.

Just one minor correction: The author holds the copyright regardless of whether the code is released under a license (open source or proprietary) or not. The fact that he is the copyright holder is what gives him the right to release the code under any license (and change the license later, should he wish to do so).
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Any reading that Land footballing giants Barcelona and True Madrid act against one other, in any rivalry, that correct is referred to breathlessly as "el Clasico." The opening text of this scintillating matcup during the 2011-12 Nation campaign comes in today's SuperCopa matchup at the Bernabeu in Madrid.
I learned the same. I was quite disappointed later to find that, while all the sewage here goes through treatment, it does not get directly pumped back into the water pipes, but instead gets pumped back into the rivers. Although pragmatically speaking that makes more sense, since surface water is surface water, and completely separating these systems avoids any risk of contamination.
This. It should be pointed out that we already have 'wrist support' built in. It's called tendons and ligaments. Center a workout around heavy deadlifts twice per week, and these support structures are guaranteed to strengthen, along with the rest of the body.
All I'm saying is that by any complexity metric you want to pick (lines of code, whatever) Android and "Linux" are far, far more alike than different. The layer you are picking as "way more important" only seems more important to you because it's the layer you live in.

The rest of the software is really important too (where would you be without the networking stack or video codecs, for example?) and to those people (and there are lot of us!) bringing up software on Android is more or less the same as doing it on desktop linux.
RyanGWU82 makes a good point though. People only whined about the "evercookie" method of tracking because of the potential for abuse (across multiple Web properties). Why on Earth would you care if someblog.com knows for sure that you've been to their site five times? I don't think the problem here is that you can be tracked using multiple methods that were not originally intended for use in tracking. I think the problem is that people always had a false sense of privacy (i.e., there was ignorance about what can and cannot be used to track your client).

You're accessing a remote server. There will always be a way for sites to track your visits. There is a necessity for those sites to track your visits. Don't care about their necessity to track you? Stop going to those sites.
It depends on your definition of active.

As an open source project, it's definitely active.

Is it as active as the actual Solaris codebase? No. But it has also significantly less developers working on it.
I believe it was J. Michael Straczynski who once pointed out that even Shakespeare's work probably only achieves a 50% approval rating.

There's nothing wrong with having taste, and having some things that appeal to you and some that do not.

Of course, when people gather to honor things you dislike it is polite to quietly walk away. It is generally rude to interfere with their fun, unless innocent kittens are being injured or there's some other extenuating circumstance.
I think Parse user management is aimed at a different use case. The AccountManager is a more heavyweight library that is useful for many complicated things. For example, if you are Facebook or Foursquare and you're implementing your own api for third parties to use and you want third party apps to be able to use your service's account, definitely use the AccountManager. Whereas the ParseUser is designed to be the simplest way to add your own user accounts to your application. They're both useful; use the right tool for the job.
A story of another Android development team axed by Google
I think it's a great 'out of the box' topic to research.

Initially, I thought it was a couple of students who had pulled this off which lead me to, "Wow, what an awesome curriculum". However, the fact that it was a couple of scientists in research doesn't surprise me. It's still very clever and innovative.

On a side note: I'm very certain, having worked for my local school district's special education program during the summer times, that there exists many disabled students who rely on weak technologies as their way of broadcasting a message. (They cannot simply just walk into the classroom and 'text'.)

For instance, I was astonished when I saw this poor girl, in a push wheelchair, swaying back and forth a little bit, using a head button* to decide on a letter/word/picture/phrase sitting in a 5 x 10 table scrolling the x, then the y to a final destination. 2 minutes later, she said "Good Mrning". I can almost guarantee that a nice bit of software to detect a few twitches and movements is far more welcome to them.

*Head Button: Imagine the chair in the picture below with an over-sized arcade button taped to the chair's headrest. The display she used looked worse than an old Gateway of mine.

http://imgur.com/2cQ7h
Microsoft Out from Kaspersky Q2 2011 Top Vulnerabilities
No Sugar for Parasitic Inheritance
You should look into jquery waypoints --> http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/

I use it on my blog to change how social buttons behave once you scroll past a certain point.
That article doesn't seem to indicate fragmentation to me. It seems to indicate transition challenges as developers post 7.1 apps for devices that are still on 7.0.

It's been presumed, at least amongst those in the WP7 world, that all 7.0 devices would see the 7.1 upgrade, and I believe Microsoft even indicated such, but I can't find the proper link to cite.

I imagine iPhone/Android/WP phone owners will all experience similar OS upgrade lifespans.

Anyway, my issue with your submission is that you chose to editorialize something falsely.
I just skimmed through carpal tunnel papers on pubmed, and found a surprising large amount of papers stating, that there is no correlation between keyboard use and the syndrome.
It looks self promotional because saying you're the author would have sufficed.

If you can't recognize how this lacks tact, nothing I can say will help.
"We" is Team Parse ;-) Right now we have four people, HN usernames csmajorfive, jamesjyu, tikhon, and lacker (me). If you ever have any questions or feedback on Parse, feel free to contact us at feedback@parse.com directly.
Yes, and that guy (Vitaly Borker of DecorMyEyes.com) has now pled guilty to two federal counts of sending threatening communications, one federal count of mail fraud and one federal count of wire fraud.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/business/13borker.html

Do not try this at home!
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The low barrier to entry for development is going to be important too. The development tools are free and run on low-end hardware and you don't have to pay a fee to distribute apps outside the app store.

Make no mistake, this is why Apple and Microsoft are afraid of Android and it makes their selfish bullying that much more reprehensible. Apple is never going to make an $80 phone.
It absolutely sucks.

Managing multiple versions of Ruby and all the gems is very easy manually.

RVM is a buggy collection of extremely fragile and dangerous scripts.
Every other week something goes wrong with RVM. Nothing convenient about that.
Goodbye Borders, and why I think they closed down.
The article doesn't mention minority report anywhere. This is most definitely "editorialising in the link title" and should be changed to reflect only the title of the article it's referencing (alternatively, the OP could have blogged about it, discussed similarity to precognition in Minority Report, and then linked to their article).
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Show HN: Colorstache releases Evernote API calls using Node.js
$80 in Kenya, with probably market-rate voice and data (ie, reasonably cheap) will never see the light in the USA.

Newegg sells it for $140. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875606...

I'd be surprised if it's not available even cheaper through other channels, you can certainly buy it cheaper here in Australia on ebay.

(I bought the successor to the Ideos, the Huawei Sonic, for $188AU last week. My previous smartphone was an iPhone 3GS, and the Sonic compares very favourably to it - even before you consider price.)
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disagree. Saying I was the author AND I wrote programming articles was important to display my history of writing 'hacker news'. I can't see how you think it was self-promotion knowing this.

Speaking of self-promotion, did you really take 6 different shirts to a headshot shoot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandofsky/page5/)? And you call yourself a Boston-man! Haha, good luck to you in the future.
Is lifetime earning to cost a useful metric, though? There are costs outside of college that won't scale with that ratio. Extreme example: a 1000:1 ratio isn't much good if your lifetime earning is $1000, and a 2:1 ratio could mean you come out ahead by a few million dollars.
Windows Taken Off Top List of Malware Vulnerability Concerns
Scala Creator Odersky on Java 7: Higher-Level Parallelism
Google: S&P Downgrades It, Too
I suspect the trick is to get people to think about it as "recycled water" (or whatever name gets them to accept it) while also intellectually realizing that it's treated wastewater, so when someone blogs about it, people just shrug and say "Oh, yeah, doesn't everybody know that?" I'm not sure if that's possible, but that's probably the only way it would work.

For example, the idea of passing it through an underground aquifer lets people think "yeah, I know it came from a sewer treatment plant, but now it's different". You're not trying to hide anything, you're just trying to get them to view it differently.
.bash_profile? How hard is that?

ruby==ruby 1.8.7
ruby9==ruby 1.9.2
jruby== jruby 1.6
jruby5==jruby 1.5

Yeah, real tough.
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Great advice. I can attest to the wrist strengthen and stretching as well.
I understand where this* is coming from, but I personally still wouldn't do business with them after this. Yes, these customers did lots of things wrong. But a provider that was more committed to customer service would have tried to be constructive in the way that they handled things anyway.

Even if you want to fire this customer, "No soup for you!" is not the right way to do it.
What do you use for testing (frameworks, etc) your node projects?
I think all governments are suckers when it comes to technology they don't understand. There will always be someone who does and can scoop up their/our cash.
Have you tried to auto-resume a bunch of Safari tabs/windows? All the pages reload, which on my computer is anything but instant.
Why do we care about a $120 difference in the cost of the handset when you are going to sped at least $1600 on a contract over the 2 years you are required to sign it for?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why anyone cares about the prices of phones (unless they're outrageously high i.e. the original iPhone's $500).
EDIT oddly, they are priced $176-249 here in Australia.

That was at launch 18 months ago, $99AU now. http://dicksmith.com.au/product/E7324/vodafone-huawei-ideos-... (that's with a 12 month statutory warranty, change of mind policy, etc.)
Why not Colemak instead? Colemac is both more similar to QWERTY than Dvorak (so a lot of keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Z/X/C/V still works and also easier to learn) and more efficient.
It would be great if there was a way to bypass or disable CommandQ temporarily.

Like an option in the menu, or something else (not sure what) for people like me who have the menu bar icon disabled.
FYI, I added a demo section to the blog post with links to an Instagram demo.
My local standard (non-specialist) grocery store sells whole pigs heads, chopped at the neck. Feet are even more popular. I think you might be overestimating how squimish the general population is/would be of such things.
Opportunity in Rejection
Installing 1.9.2 from source if it is in fact not in the repos is far better then using RVM.

Using RVM anywhere is suboptimal, but using it in production is lunacy.
I use Android for my day to day use on a HTC Desire as my phone and on my Asus eeepad Tranformer but i also really like Meego and Maemo on my N900 and netbook too. WP7 and iOS look kind of interesting but iTunes and Zune are complete rubbish so i'll stick with phones i don't need additional software to use.
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Why Free Will and Success Go Hand-in-Hand
I've found setting my mouse sensitivity (pointer speed) to maximum helps reduce wrist movement. It takes just a little getting use to, but once you adjust to the increased speed your wrist moves very little. This is especially good for large displays (I have a triple monitor setup).
"We were able to anticipate many features and tasks that would have been been expensive (time-wise) to implement later."

So your opinion, so far, is that it is easier to modify the application, after it's launched, in Rails than it is in Node?
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Since you were wondering about Microsoft's strategy for tablets/netbooks(especially ARM based ones), I was asking if you had seen the demo videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I&hd=1

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/microsofts-windows-8-demo-fro...
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But it should really be in Preferences...
Congrats to TK and the team at ToutApp.com! Keep up the good work guys!
Incase anyone was wondering, it seems like this was one reason _why chose to leave:

http://www.rubyinside.com/nokogiri-ruby-html-parser-and-xml-...

(_why wrote Hpricot. Imagine how that post must've felt from his perspective.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774170
Ah, nice. Good luck with the launch!
A lot of this is outdated.
I recently had a new suit tailored and was surpised/amused to learn that my right arm is 1/4" longer than my left (this hasn't been the case when I've been measured in the past). My guess is that I was out of alignment from my habit of sitting slightly diagonal to my desk and reaching for my mouse with my right hand for much of the day.

I'm already much more of a keyboard guy than a "mouser" (as I'm sure most HNer's are) -- but I'm switching to a standing desk next week and correcting my bad habits. I'm to young for this!...