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This is extremely clever. Well done!

Your friend needs to explain what the goal of this game is up front! As soon as I saw the video I got the mechanic immediately--but had no idea what sort of scoring system was involved. Normal tetris scoring doesn't seem to apply, because you can't clear lines. It looks to me like this is a co-op game, which was not immediately clear. If I'm correct, you want to last as many bricks/as long a time as possible.

You need to state very clearly that it's co-op and the goal is to stay alive for as many blocks as possible.
Thanks for the post, I read this in the Techstars book as well. I can't be reminded enough however to get a version 1.0 out there - this is especially timely for my startup, because we are about to begin beta testing, and it is EXTREMELY tempting to add "one more thing" before the beta.
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perfectly fair, i admit i've done some flight "hacking" myself.
The reason i bring it up is because it is well know that airlines prices their flights between city pairs, not based on the legs. For instance a flight, between jfk and lax through chicago could cost more than the sum of those two same exact flights. This would be an opportunity to build your own ticket.
I admit there are significant downsides with delays and reroutings, but if google presented the information to the public it would add transparency to a very opaque system and it may lead to a change throughout the industry in the way tickets are priced.
After all google's mission statement is to organize the worlds information
Why was Microsoft in such a hurry as to release a preview of an OS before the ecosystem was capable of handling it?

Explain how putting this out with substandard hardware does anything to bolster confidence from either users or developers? Why not wait until an Arm chassis was ready?
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Congratulations. I hope this is wildly successful. I have a different condition which significantly impacts the gut (cystic fibrosis). On the one hand, I got a lot of good info from people I met online and from one online community in particular which helped me figure out how to get myself well. On the other hand, the online CF community has been rather unwelcoming of me. I wish you continued good reviews and warm welcomes wherever you go.
Since everybody seems so enthusiastic about it, I thought I would also leave my not so enthusiastic opinion for the sake of broad feedback.

If i should be honest I didn't like it so much. It felt too cluttered, the interface has way too many visual elements for my brain to process in efficient time. It's also missing more obvious visual indicators such as color or shapes. The list look all the same, they don't even have different icons identifying them, only the the name. That will do it but it's not the ultimate visual indicator.

As a person that barely uses the mouse, I don't find this so practical, it's click after click after click, but I guess that problem affects almost every web application out there.

I might be too focused simple/minimal things, this tries to lay information in a rather complex data structure, which in practice it means a lot of mental exercise before you get the info. I believe many like it, not me, give me a search box and a list of results every day.
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I've never heard of a situation like yours where so many family members are affected. If I may ask, is the aunt you refer to your Dad's sister or your Mom's?

As for me, diagnosed with Crohn's in 1987 (when I was seventeen). Symptoms currently under control, thankfully!
Thanks for building this, and good luck with the launch! My wife just got diagnosed with UC and the other web resources on line (mainly forums) have been good but obviously lack any kind of consistency and ability to quickly scan treatments, etc like your site can.
Except that Stasis has no support for on-the-fly creation of items from your Ruby code, no distinction between filters for content and for layouts, no support for non-filesystem data sources, no dependency tracking, and no metadata per item, among other things.

It may be more simple, but it is nowhere near as powerful.
Too bad XP users will still be stuck with IE8 ;)
there's been talk. I'm not sure what the ChromeOS plugin is working of off. But I can tell you from first hand experience that it is primitive and no way ready to replace the silverlight version currently employed on win/mac.
Of course not. That's the original purpose of copyright: to limit copying. We're just now finding that out again. Copyright is more important than Human rights, now that copyright is "intellectual property".
Been there, done that! I do it less often these days, but I can't count the number of times I went to bed in the wee hours of them morning because I was trying to finish that last chapter, and then another, and then another...
Hipmunk.com says depart/return and Iflyswa.com says departing/returning. Your claim is 0/2 so far.
Very slick UI, the use cases are virtually endless.

How about email integration where you can forward emails to different lists? Is there an API that we can integrate with Mailgun?

Use case I had in mind is for a sales funnel (or any funnel) where I can bcc the list corresponding with the stage in the funnel as I am corresponding with a lead and have the email move through the lists accordingly.
If you keep listening, you'll learn a (former) insider's view on who's off the project, that the team is dispersed, etc.

Probably an idiosyncratic take, but combined with the inattention of MS to Silverlight, seems to make sense.

Yes, I had second thoughts about the quote I used. But the article is well-informed (in addition to being profane, appealing to emotion, and to the writer's, let's say, having been around the block once or twice with...web frameworks).
What Patrick said. In the U.S., there has to be at least minimal originality to be able to claim copyright. The White Pages don't count (sayeth the Supreme Court of the U.S.). Neither do exact photographic reproductions of paintings (sayeth another federal court).

Even now, 25 years after Pam Samuelson's [1] seminal article [2], it's still unclear whether computer-generated works can be subject to copyright protection.

[1] http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/

[2] http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/47UPittLRev11...
> Am I missing something here?

I believe so: the importance of open data.

This finding is a perfect example of the fascinating insights you can get when you combine big, seemingly disparate datasets.

I'm not sure where you would go to get an equivalent dataset for "restaurant reservations".

In the sense that it uses readily-available crime data to make inferences about possibly correlated phenomena, this analysis is another iteration on Adrian Holovaty's original mashup:

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicagocrime.org-tribute/
WinForms or (from my experience) most went asp.net long ago.

When we evaluated Silverlight, we were hoping for a richer web experience, not a replacement for winforms, which we never used.
California also requires all cars have both front and back plates.
I disagree. Curiosity about how the game is played made the video more interesting than if he just explained the rules up front.
And yet so far no one has.
I think it's a case of voting with his wallet.

Then again, I don't know anything about him. For all I know his wife has a crazy, vengeful ex, and his daughter has a stalker.
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Great.

I'd suggest arranging the categories in a rough data flow, so webserver would be near the "outside" (top?), wsqi inside that, frameworks inside that.

wsgi might become part of a larger cgi-ish category: app container? app connector? You'd include fcgi and the various php equivalents in there; maybe subcategories.

Debatable: firewalls? Virtual environments like virtualenv and whatever the other guys use.
I would spend a good chunk of time trying out many different ad networks. My traffic is very different, as I mostly have apps on social networks, but I could sometimes find that an ad network performed 2x-10x compared to another one. For example in my case AdSense paid 10x better than Cubics / LifeStreet even though those were geared at social networks.

Not knowing this I wasted thousands of dollars before that I could have had by simply slapping in a different network's ad unit. For my current app I am planning on spending several evenings applying to every ad network I can find and split testing them against each other to make sure I won't lose such easy money this time.

You could also try direct ad sales by simply reaching out to people over email. I only have one data point on this, but I once noticed someone advertising with Reddit self-serve ads that was selling a product very suitable for my audience. I emailed him, he PayPaled me and soon his ads were live on my site as well.
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I hope she'd like the chipmunk, too!
I second that - Wave came to mind. I find the product to be absolutely brilliant and flexible. Always wanted to build something like this myself - will be interesting to see how many people 'get it'.
Eh? What do you mean?

Disclaimer: MS Employee. I did not write the new UI.
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Windows 8 has been ported to ARM, so it doesn't even need to be x86.
This is pretty good. And even better its free. How are you going to pay for this? Premium accounts or something?
Sure it's not IRC per se, but it is persistent chat based on topic, much like IRC.
This is the difficulty for the company I work for. We make a range of desktop applications including launchers, productivity apps, media apps, games, etc.

Because all of these apps are based on a game engine, we get the complex and hard to test bugs that games get (texture cache corruption, null pointers in the scene tree, etc.). There's much more serialization and pressure than with pure games (but still not as much as with enterprise applications) because we're dealing with transactions with 3rd party services, or because a screw up could corrupt a user's whole music collection, or because users don't expect their music player to crash every 4 hours.

The game engine adds a huge amount of extra variability to our applications; we have to not only watch out for obscure bugs in our custom script code (which the engine silently tries/fails to execute anyway), but also in the (C/C++ based) game engine it is driving. The upside to using an engine with a simple scripting language is the shorter development times to get things off the ground and the high-performance/shiny visuals, but I feel it costs us much more down the line in terms of stability and extensibility.
Because unless Microsoft shows what they can do with their OS - OEMs will not have a clue to build new hardware capable of complementing the software. Different ball game where tight secrecy doesn't really work - OEMs needs access to what MSFT is doing, developers need it and there are a crazy number of both of them and they need ample time and clear cut communication from Microsoft in order to make and bake their plans.

Besides no one is explaining why is demoing a preview OS bad? Because it is out of style? It's not like Microsoft is pushing the preview down the throats of average Joes and Janes.

I actually like Microsoft's no surprises approach. It bolsters the confidence of their OEM and Developer demographic. That's how they have been doing it since long time. You would have to be too unrealistic a Microsoft Developer to say "oh that Samsung tablet had a fan. I am just going to ignore Windows 8" - it doesn't make any sense, it's a developer unit and for that it is pretty nice - you can develop and debug on it!
Honestly haven't used Lion myself but this seems to be a consensus view.

Don't sing its praises until you've tried it. Knocking my opinion based on your derivation of "consensus" is pretty dishonest.

Launchpad/Mission Control are simply poor implementations of some sort of iOS-type experience that simply make no sense. Full screen mode on most apps is worse than Snow Leopard, the odd movement into a new screen as a sort-of context switch is plain odd. Restoring windows on Preview/Quicktime leads to you simply having a mess of windows appear as soon as you open the apps.

It is a half-way house between Mac OS X of old and iOS, and it shows. I don't often agree with Gizmodo, but their review seems most like my views on it. I wouldn't have spent the $30 if I didn't want to like it.
Thought it might be fun to have an open board for this thread.. https://trello.com/board/hacker-news-board/4e70123412dcf45f5... I hope this works for sharing.
A lot of people prefer their own projects to their day job because it's their code. My day job is C# and WPF but love working with JS and HTML. Don't get me wrong JS can be terrible, but my guess is Sass and Coffee will both work with the new Win8 stuff.
That's a quote from the video.
I've got the 32bit version and trying to get it to run in VB. It's installing right now...
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You're talking about volume, not price. Increased volume should, if a market is performing "properly", accompany new information. If there's new information, there's a reason to trade. The examples you cited seem like evidence of the stock market's predictive value - for instance, increased volume in Citi stock was a piece of evidence that something about the security was expected to change.

Moreover, it's not true to say that stat-arb guys don't care about future earnings growth - they just use statistical methods to project it. To use a simplified example, a stat-arb guy might automatically buy shares in some small-cap automotive supplier if Ford rapidly increases in price. If the increase in Ford stock represents positive fundamental information about the auto industry, they've applied that information to the price of the supplier faster than a human would have and they'd make a profit. If, on the other hand, it represents concern about some scandal involving the Ford CEO, they've contributed to the noise and lost money.
Ask HN: A user group devoted to Erlang on low-power, low-cost platforms?
Erlang excels at distributed processing. Embedded Erlang runs on Gumstix and Beagle Board.

Inexpensive, low-power, physically minimal platforms like the Plug series, Gumstix, Beagle Board, and the promised Raspberry Pi are becoming ever more available and ever more powerful.

Is there sufficient interest in the possibilities to sustain a user group?
Wow what a relief to see they are dogfooding. This is built on GWT and the performance is kick ass.
Mountain <-> molehill.

Really.
Two collaboration suggestions:

Sage: http://sagemath.org/

http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/tiddly/tiddlymath.html
(related example: http://deferentialgeometry.org/)
Wait, wait... "texture cache corruption", and "null pointers in the scene tree"?

Edit: It's both scary and awesome that you rigged a game engine to manage a music library a-la iTunes. Are you profitable?
That exact passage stood out to me for the precise opposite reason: For every Gruber-esque writer on Apple's side, there are hundreds of MacRumors, InfiniteLoops, etc., that predict, usually badly, future Apple visages. Good, cogent writing is the exception, not the rule, no matter the subject.
It's a developer unit! Compare it if you like to the Mac Pro Apple released to get developers started on OS X86 - they used CPUs in that were never used in the actual released version of Mac Pro.

Its job is to let developers use the functionality of the OS, and develop/debug right on the device. It's not there to run coolest or use specific SOC. For Metro Apps it won't matter what SOC you are running underneath. And I am sure ARM brethren of Samsung tablets will come out sooner or later for porting Win32 apps.
It's foolish to claim that bing has only claimed a small market share due to homophonic issues. Don't think for a second that the Bing brand wasn't overthought on every level. I can guarantee that they considered the Chinese localization before launch. Bing has enough problems gaining market share in markets where Bing has a vaguely positive sound to it.

For bona fides, I worked on many projects where we developed localized Chinese names for new and existing global brands. We charged through the nose for this. The numbers you are looking for end in six zeros. This was a couple years ago when China was even more of a black box than it is now and there was a sense of herd panic about getting in. License to print money. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Yes, you should worry about the transliteration, but if you are a western based company and want to move into the chinese market, you have much much much bigger concerns, namely getting shut out by any given joint venture partner that you shack up with, with onerous "technology sharing" terms which results in your company getting pillaged and left on the side of the (market) road. Or watch as your market is crowded out by a home grown tech-alike (supported by the chinese government).

And this stuff is way overthought most of the time. Coke isn't exactly a positive association on any level (drug, sounds like a bit like slang for other unmentionables, coal). I could go on all day spewing this but ultimately, as weird as some names are, as much as brand consultants like to BS clients with this rubbish, it is a much richer set of factors that determine brand & business success in the market.
That's really cool. A unique twist on the concept, kind of like a battle. Anything similar for iOS?
The level of uninformed fear surrounding this topic doesn't bode well for driverless cars. Computers trading stocks can't even kill people.
From my understanding, they said existing production code will continue to work on Windows 8. But, if you want the new Metro look and feel for your application, then you need to do these minor changes.
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As someone who's used FogBugz and Kiln for some time, and has just played around with Trello, I'd say this:

FogBugz definitely suffers from what you describe. Despite what Fog Creek might say about it being easy, it feels clunky and indirect. And slow -- it's 2011, yet everything that manipulates the case table (arguably the most important part of the app) seems to require a full page refresh. It definitely suffers from the "you must mold your brain into our mindset to use" mentality. Furthermore, it's languishing -- most of the updates release to the On Demand version in the past year feel like small tweaks, many related to Kiln. Where's the leadership?

Kiln, on the other hand, is excellent. No problems whatsoever. Does what it's supposed to and does it well. No friction.

Now, Trello. I've only used it for a few hours, but already I look forward to using it for as many projects as I can. Simply amazing and simple and intuitive, all at the same time. It has negative friction -- practically invites me to put everything I have on it. I don't know what Fog Creek's doing in regards to product design, but it's working.

(And granted, most of those FogBugz problems could simply be because of a hefty anchor of legacy code. Maybe FC has simply moved on entirely)
It's a really clever concept... and simple too.
Though, it's hard to figure out what the goal is, if it's coop or battle or other?
It's really interesting to see what people are doing with it.
Congrats anyway, impressive concept, love it.
Buy me an Android phone, and I'll buy the game.
This looks incredibly cool. I love these "new take on an old concept" games that actually introduce a new gameplay dynamic, rather than simply reskinning. Pass on my congratulations to your friend.
Ask HN: Disappointed that scoutmob never got covered by HN
I've been working towards an idea for a local deal site where users don't pay anything to get the deal instead they directly pay to the merchant. My idea further involved charging the first X merchants only a low flat fee and then at a later point start charging a low % from every transaction. This % would be based on how many deals actually got used at the business.

I wrote about this idea in two earlier HN posts:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2966649
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978078

Today was our first time going to local Washington DC area to spread the word about our venture. This being our first venture, we now realize that what we did today we should have done a month ago. Anyways, we went from business to business searching for an owner or manager however, at most locations we only founds staff that could only give us a business card. Luckily, we went to one place where the owner was there and told us that what we are doing is already being offered by Scoutmob. It is really bad from our side that we did not know anything about Scoutmob, even though now we know that it was been out for almost 2 years and has secured up to 1.5M in funding. We don't know how much they are charging to the merchant but what we know is that they let users 'get' the deal for free. They pay the merchant directly. Furthermore, this user told gave us the reality of the situation that we don't have services that other deal sites offer. For example, writing great summaries, organizing free events (to create user base), etc. etc. We don't have any of this since we have no funding.

I'll be writing a detailed post about our experiences but I'm really disappointed in myself for being a every day visitor to HN and not knowing about Scoutmob. It was only been covered once on HN with one point post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813331

When we thought our idea was not taken we were skeptical whether it would work but now seeing it in action we realize that it is doable and marketable.

We've hit a roadblock and are at a point where we are thinking of changing our business model or completely switching the domain.

Would you continue on?
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The school district is the Fremont Unified School District, and they are about to launch it.
Link to press release, since I don't have a better link to give you guys.
http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/cms/lib/CA01000848/Centricity/Domain/8/iFUSD-Press_ReleaseNEWMEDIA_final.pdf

Full disclosure: I'm involved with the making of the app. Just wanted to share.
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In reverse: I read a story once about a Japanese businesswoman who wanted to open a business in America. She was inspired by Bridgestone (the tire company), named after the founder Shojiro Ishibashi (ishi = stone, bashi = bridge).

Her name was Kawakami; translating this into English she decided to name her company Up River.
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