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Show HN: Eight - A social magic 8 ball
Hi Everyone, (I know this is a repost, but I had some dns issues with my last submission)

I created this as a small project last weekend (started on _whyday) just to flex some ruby muscle, learn some stuff about sinatra, oauth and the twitter api and also get into the spirit of the day.

So what it does is use your twitter followers and random people on twitter to answer your questions (bearing in mind that the syntax has to result in a yes or no question). So In effect they may or may-not know anything about you, so you just vote yes or no (kinda like facemash or hot-or-not but for questions). The user is then presented with a general yes or no, and then they can choose to see a more detailed tally.

I hope some of you peeps have some fun with it :) and as always any feedback would be appreciated.

URL: eightapp.safetyscissors.co
Alternative Link: eightapp.heroku.com
Here's an exposition on the math: http://hippomath.blogspot.com/2011/06/pendulum-waves-mathema...
Focus your product and your market. Take a read of everything Steve Blank has written about re-segmented markets.

What is your competitor weak in? Who are they ignoring? If they have millions in funding, in all likelihood they are targeting a large market, and probably ignoring many under-served ones.

Focus your product on a specific part of the market, both in features and how you market it. This also has the bonus that you may even be able to charge more for it (because it is specialised).

One of my products once faced a much more high-profile competitor, but we concentrated on enterprise (of what was thought to be a 'consumer'/mass-market app) and suspect we made even more profit than the competitor, who eventually changed what they were doing to copy us.
Have you tried renice'ing the Fireworks process while it's running on Wine? I got Counter-Strike playable at about 30fps that way on a fairly weak machine (Core 2 Duo w/ 2GB RAM). Not bad, really.
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Someone has to be CEO and for the long term is Tim Cook really the best person for the job ?

Yes. It has nothing to do with his ability to critique a product design. Jobs was sui generis.
It's funny how all of you armchair board members are second-guessing Steve Jobs.
What Makes Steve Jobs So Great?
This laptop only misgiving is the fact it does not have an SSD. However, it is competitively priced in comparison to its competition and with a sleek sexy design this is a very interesting entry into the market.

I think Google should invest in this thing. Include an SSD, and leverage the unique UI elements for Chrome OS. In this case, it wouldn't be just for gaming. Instead it would be a powerful and compelling alternative to the iPad for the end-user browse/email/word process crowd. If it's also a killer platform for MMOs and casual games, then it would have a powerful draw for college students.
Yep, Java is wordy.

FWIW, I put together a little utility class to somewhat more shortly initialize a hash/map/dictionary in Java a while back. It's not much, but Java and .NET rule the enterprise, and you play the hand you're dealt sometimes. Hope this helps.

http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.03.html

Share and enjoy, I guess.
What's even more amazing is that they are second-guessing the very man they imply is impossible to replace.
It's still a bit amazing to think back on that period, where you could get 50% gains in a year. I remember dropping a big chunk of my savings as a teenager to buy a 700 coppermine, 4 years later they were sitting on roads even if they still worked perfectly.
Someone from a 3-letter government agency needs to put a stop to this. If the only way you can avoid this fee is to use more long distance than you normally would, that seems beyond bad business. It's very likely criminal. As an aside, I'm 30 and I've lived on my own for more than 10 years. I've never had a landline and have no plans to get one.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resigna...

TMZ got a recent photo of him, take a look.

I'm not a doctor but he doesn't look good.
Ask HN: Error loading RubyGems plugin 
So I have been trying to remove and reinstall RoR. Reason for that is, something bothered me the first time I installed it last week but I was just trying to learn it and wanted to remove it as soon as I got the book; Railsspace.

And now I am stuck with this:

$ gem install bundler
Error loading RubyGems plugin "/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/open_gem-1.4.2/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb": Could not find launchy (~> 0.3.5) amongst [abstract-1.0.0, actionmailer-3.0.10, actionpack-3.0.10, activemodel-3.0.10, activerecord-3.0.10, activeresource-3.0.10, activesupport-3.0.10, addressable-2.2.6, arel-2.2.1, builder-3.0.0, bundler-1.0.18, capistrano-2.8.0, capistrano-ext-1.2.1, colored-1.2, configuration-1.3.1, erubis-2.7.0, git_remote_branch-0.3.0, heroku-2.5.2, highline-1.6.2, i18n-0.6.0, launchy-2.0.5, mail-2.3.0, mime-types-1.16, mysql-2.8.1, net-scp-1.0.4, net-sftp-2.0.5, net-ssh-2.2.1, net-ssh-gateway-1.1.0, open_gem-1.4.2, polyglot-0.3.2, powder-0.1.6, rack-1.3.2, rack-mount-0.8.2, rack-test-0.6.1, railties-3.0.10, rake-0.9.2, rdoc-3.9.4, rest-client-1.6.7, rubygems-update-1.8.10, sqlite3-1.3.4, term-ansicolor-1.0.6, thor-0.14.6, treetop-1.4.10, tzinfo-0.3.29] (Gem::LoadError)
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.

How to solve this? Been googling and figuring it out for the last 4 hours!
He recognize good design but he does not have great design taste to make the tough calls. That only comes with experience of designing, building products. Steve has the design experience so does Ive. When presented with competing
designs, he has to have great design vision to chose the one that would be the most successful. Being and editor is not easy.
10 most iconic moments of Steve Jobs' career
Interesting conclusion. This is not like the Flash situation. Both JDK's are acceptable on a technical level. The Sun one is just a bit faster and more polished. In other words: this doesn't really affect the kind of end-users that would be affected by a missing installer for Flash. Oracle is just creating a nuisance for system administrators and developers in a market that Linux is already dominating: servers. These users know how to install the Oracle packages outside of the package system and understand the licensing issue.

The problem here is not GNU/Linux, but Oracle playing politics (again). The result is that they will continue to alienate developers, while their cash cow won't suffer in the short term (hackers aren't responsible for the majority of their business, business-type decision makers are). The decision to focus on an open alternative instead of working around Oracle's antics is what makes GNU/Linux what it is. GNU/Linux isn't just a practical piece of software, but also an idea. That being said, focussing developer time on the OpenJDK seems like a pragmatic move from a practical point of view as well, because licensing reasons are not something you can just ignore when convenient (without exposing your users to a possible lawsuit from Oracle).
"In terms of productivity, it can be 10-15x."

Any sources on this? Or is it primarily based on your own experience?
It's pretty rare for people in their twenties, but more common amongst older generations.

Usually you're forced to get a landline if you want DSL. I've never seen a cable company force a landline on you. You can also get around the landline restriction from the phone company if you get a fiber connection though that's not offered in all areas.
Precisely. How do you see Jony Ive be the tough negotiator for example?
Honest feedback follows:

I'm not sure if this site is going to make it in its current state.

I feel that your focus is on the Technologist (not sure why it's capitalized throughout the site?) and not the person who needs help.

To this point:

1. The intro video is mainly about setting up an account as a technologist, and not how to use it when you're in need of help

2. There's just a zipcode search box. Non-technologist who have problems cannot often explain or understand their problem, which is why walking into Best Buy with your computer and dumping it on some kid, saying, "fix this," is so appealing. Having to find the "right" person with no pointers is gonna be hard (or a crapshoot at best.)

3. No physical mid-point. Where do you meet, do you invite a stranger over (I guess the same could be said for calling a plumber to fix a toliet...) or do you meet at their place, a coffee shop, etc. I guess a little blurb on best practices to meet up with the technologist would help.

I feel as a non-techie a fair amount of hand-holding should happen, so they feel as comfortable as walking into a large chain and asking, "So, my computer is broke. Can you fix it?"

And finally what about Craigslist. Is there any compelling reason why I should not go there? (As a person looking for help... as they break down to a city-wide area, which often is good enough)
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You're right, I've corrected my post. But I still stand by my general point :)
Naming Tim Cook as CEO makes a lot of sense. Obviously, it made the most sense to Jobs himself. People like to think that Apple's design alone is the only reason the company's grown so large. It's easy to forget that without the operational work of Cook, Apple could not even have built the products they did. In that regard it makes more sense for Cook to be CEO because he can insure that the company remains as profitable as it is, while also enabling new devices to be realized. With great designs and weak organizational leadership, Apple cannot thrive as it has.
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Tim Cook has been playing a certain role to date. He has been in charge of execution and organization. Does this mean that he doesn't have taste? Does the fact that he is not a genius public speaker mean that he doesn't have great taste?

It's possible that he does, and possible that he doesn't, but it's entirely possible that Cook has talents that simply weren't being tapped in his old job. I suspect that following up on the vision of Jobs and the design group actually takes a lot more of this magical "taste" than is immediately obvious. There are a huge number of decisions that need to be made even in the later stages of the process.

It seems like we're assuming that because he was a COO, Cook doesn't have the talents that it takes to be a CEO. How can we possibly know that? The only evidence given is that he's a COO now, and doesn't have the showmanship that Jobs does.
Yep. It didn't seem to fit the context upon first read, but I think you are right. Thanks!
I say when you're starting, do as much as you would like to do. If you feel yourself gravitating towards one project more. Then focus on that more (meaning, be able to drop a project that doesn't interest you any more. Don't feel obligated to follow through with it.)

At the beginning I feel it's more important to figure out what you like and what's working more for you. (Kinda like dating.)

However once you figure that out. It's time to buckle down and go for the win. It's much harder to execute than to talk about. But I'm sure you can do it.
I think this is good sign that your idea is worth pursuing. Try to see why you wanted to do that and what is your unique strength, which can be if nothing else, eagerness to succeed.
Good luck.

P.S. How did you get 1000s of karma points :) I can't seem to get much.
I think one of the factors working against the QR code is it does not have a recognizable uniform function. The code can contain an text or data in any number of formats which isn't apparent to the naked eye. The text might be a URL, or it might be a poem, or it could be a vCard.

This causes consumer confusion. It's almost like we need standard contextual decorations around the QR codes to hint at the contents. Like how http, www, and underlining tell people a string of text is a web URL.

Or maybe just new, incompatible subsets of QR codes that have an unmistakable appearance and purpose. Sometimes connectors both physical and virtual are designed on purpose to be incompatible even though technically it's all just hollow tubes or copper wires.

I would maybe liken QR codes to SGML. We need something more like HTML. Limited but with a standard interpretation that everyone can understand.
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People with children should ignore your advice. 1/4 mile from where I live is another city with horrible schools. People living there will need to send their children to private schools, at about $20k/yr. Where I live, the public schools are top notch. I know several families that moved here and bought a house (there is very little rental available, and it's expensive). A family with 4 children will save about $80k/yr living here. That changes the equation quite a lot.
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I like your points so I will compliment the mechanical fish ;)

To bring it back to the OP's point with your perspective, we should then not attempt to make the designers famous but rather highlight the importance, fun and satisfaction that is their craft.

We all appreciate what the designers make, but we don't spend much time exalting the designers. I don't think the OP necessarily wants all of them famous, just like we don't sit around talking about various primary care physicians. We do tell our kids that they can grow up to be those doctors though. I'm of the opinion that the next generation of parents could be telling their kids that they can build anything they want when they grow up. Something that legos drove home to me, but I consider myself lucky enough to be in a family that encouraged such thinking and could provide the tools for me to explore it.
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If it is a brand-new startup, it's not worth worrying about them because you are both still so far from reaching a point where everyday users know either of you exist.

It's easy to read HN and TechCrunch everyday and become disheartened when closely related products launch, but the reality is that nobody outside Silicon Valley cares until one of their friends tells them about it.
A startup should be treated like any other business. Almost every business imaginable has competition, and most manage to survive.

Building a product that appeals to 100% of a "target market" is impossible. Carve your niche, target a particular type of person, and start small.

Competition in your space is a really good thing: 1) as others have said, it validates your ideas viability, and 2) you don't need to spend so much time educating people about a new market and why they need your product.
Approach Investor without BP but you are building what he said he wants to see?
I was just watching some interview of an investor. I was shocked to hear when he described the idea he would invest in is very similar if not exact thing to what we are developing. In the interview he said send him the business plan, if we are working on the idea he described. We do not have a business plan yet, and will probably not do a very good job at writing one.<p>I don't want to miss the opportunity and want to approach him as soon as possible to give him a demo. Just wondering how can I go about it without being dismissed right away for not having a business plan. He already spoke about what he would invest in, do you think a business plan is still needed?
I see him being a tough negotiator simply because that's part of most designers experiences. Especially when you are starting out, people wanting you to work for free, or less money or they don't want to pay. You have the confidence of saying no and sticking to it. see:

http://vimeo.com/22053820
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Similar to what people said don't worry the competitor validates your b-model and focus on your product not your competitor

In addition, remember to treat your competitors as frenemies. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/12/27/why-you-should...
There's much more to learn about your space than you probably think and they've already been in the trenches and might have gone through some pain points you can skip.

Location: If they're national, I'd focus on being local. Look at the way Yelp did things in taking on Zagat, Citysearch, etc by focusing on a core market to build that strong loyal set of powerusers that on average were way more engaged (# of reviews per reviewer).

Lastly, I'd consider trying to figure out the competitors cost model. A lot of times many startups that are well funded get that larger funding round because they're looking to scale which means they're spending extra on marketing or sales. Some startups as such are focused on ramping up a sales team. If that's the case, you'll lose playing the game the way they're playing it (ie: groupon vs a local copycat clone since it might work locally but u'll never scale). Try to figure out different methods to do this, price model, sales model, marketing model (guerilla marketing vs traditional marketing), or whatever that will make you more unique and more cost-effective.
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I wouldn't use the term "controversial" to describe your post. Instead, I'd say you made a pointless, unnecessary, partisan attempt to drag emotional baggage into the thread. You've been on Hacker News for over a year; you should know better than to engage in such douchebaggery.
I dropped my landline for the first time in my life 3 months ago. Apparently you need one to order xDSL, but not to keep xDSL (since my DSL still works).

I haven't actually placed a call on my landline in about 5 years, so I figured there's no reason to keep it.
did not know about that.
I'm so happy I posted here my question
The 99 $us per year, and the Mac can be prohibitive for lots of people.
Wish you luck with your projects.
Also, I think when you are building a startup, it is best to largely ignore tech news sites anyway. You can drive yourself crazy reading about others successes and competing products. It helps you keep your product stay original and not easily become distracted when a new feature idea presents itself that makes you go in a totally different direction before your first idea has had a chance to succeed.
Exactly. It's also helpful when you can reference an established player in your space and talk about why your product might be better for them, rather than attempt to both explain WHY they need your product and then WHAT your product does.
I'm in for fun, and because I like learning about computers.
Extra income is never a bad thing though.

I own a Mac and an iPod Touch
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You know what?
I've thinking about it. For the reasons you just explained.
Ask HN: Which hacker/entrepreneur's favorite books would you like to know?
I run a site which lists the books of famous people. I would just like to know from the hn crowd, which famous hacker/entrepreneur's favorite books would you like to know.
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I guess what they really mean is that nobody could replace Jobs except they themselves. That is the only logical conclusion I can think of, at least.
The thesis that software is merely one component of many is certainly true. The idea that we have too many software engineers however, seems false to me. Also the idea that everyone needs to orient their career to serve a larger societal good sounds like a prescription of goal oriented blindness. There are plenty of inventions made for amusement that lead to larger societal good. If someone feels passionate about aligning their life and career with larger overall goals, that's great. However if someone working at Zygna is passionate about games, perhaps they have an insight you don't and their contribution will make a bigger difference to the world you think. Wadhwa's claim that Andresson's portolio is 'unoriginal' seems irrelevant. Facebook is Friendster 3.0? From my point of view Facebook works, and friendster didn't. Isn't there value in building something that actually works?
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I'm Canadian, I get DSL through a dry loop (phone line, with no actual phone service). I was under the impression dry loops were available everywhere, maybe not though.

As to the popularity, I know very few people young enough to have had a cell phone in high school who now have a landline. I know very few people outside of that group who don't.
I can't think of a worse application for Groupon than yoga. It's a long-term, continuous process. You want a reliable teacher and a relaxing, focused experience you can count on. Having the studio jam-packed with new faces isn't the way to accomplish that.

That said, if they're charging $130 per month, I wouldn't do it without a Groupon, either. That's a fortune for some group exercise.
The title is misleading. I don't see this changing anything for e.g. Gentoo.
awesome! at 60 seconds my theory is confirmed! thanks
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My own experience. Haskell's just fantastic that way. The type system, the libraries, and the tools really make you productive.
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I actually remember Windows ME as a better OS than Ubuntu 11.04. It's bad and not ready for primetime and it will take years before it's ready.

The last 6 months I was first forced to switch from Gnome2 to Unity because of Ubuntu 11.04 and that made me ditch Ubuntu. I had heard so many bad things about Gnome3 so I stayed away from ArchLinux and moved to Sabayon which still had Gnome2. One month ago Sabayon did an update to Gnome3 and after testing it for some time I decided to try Xfce (after the Torvalds post). I have spent so many hours tweaking and finding the source behind bugs that it nearly makes me cry.

There are so many small glitches and the only reason I stick with Linux on desktop is because it's free and it brings me freedom. That's the reason behind acceptance of all the glitches and mediocre user experience.