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Looks like a good candidate for a re-startup like I was mentioning in the knockoff thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2954987

Spend a week working on a prototype and go tell the press you're going to pick up what Aardvark dropped. I presume the founders are busy earning out working on Google+ so they might even applaud it.
I looked through your list of submissions [1] and from the titles alone I saw nothing unusual to warrant them being flagged to [dead] save for the sole fact that many of them could be duplicates to other submissions. Repetition/duplication of submissions causes a division of discussion, and hence, it really annoys a lot of people [2].

The only self-promoting thing you've done is submit a single link to your own blog, garron.me, but many folks on HN do that regularly. Though many consider self-promotion of a personal blog to be spammy and unwanted, occasionally, some blog posts actually turn out to be worthwhile topics for HN. If you submit links to your own blog or writings, you can expect some backlash if your content isn't interesting to the readers of HN. Paul Graham (pg) the owner/admin of HN doesn't typically submit his own essays to HN, but of course, others find his new essays, submit his essays to HN and the submissions receive a warm welcome here. It seems most people do not want HN to turn into an RSS feed of every person trying to promote their own work/blog, and if even PG doesn't submit his own stuff, others should (mostly) follow his example.

If you want to see your "invisible" submissions, go to your HN profile (click your username), and enable the "show dead" option. Once you have "show dead" enabled, look at the "/newest" page and you'll get a much better idea of the massive volume of "invisible" [dead] submissions that really exist on HN, including your own.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=g-garron

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041
A useful reply for you has been inexplicably killed by someone. Here it is, reproduced for those without showdead on:

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"The iPad is the wrong tool for creating that stuff. But it is awesome for consumption."

Exactly, OP's point is that most R&D by large co's these days is focused on building consumption devices similar to the iPad. About 10 years ago, most R&D was around enterprises/PC's, and that benefited both producers & consumers of content.

No one is arguing that one particular model is right - it was simply an observation of where R&D is focused these days, and what that means for producers of content.
RabbitMQ (or any AMQP broker) sounds like it would do the job, since it sounds like you need to send very little data (a URL) to the background worker. I believe that there are some good AMQP/Rabbit gems for Ruby, but I'm a little dated on that. The basic premise is that a broker (RabbitMQ-Server, etc.) holds onto a queue of messages, that are distributed to N subscribers when they ask for them. The more subscribers you have to the broker, the more jobs can happen at the same time.

However, RabbitMQ might be too much overhead for what you want to do. With Ruby, specifically, I've had a good deal of experience with Resque, which uses Redis (key-value store) as a queueing system, much like RabbitMQ. It's easy to set up, and gets the job done just as well.
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e.g. recently I was on a page with un-hotlinked images and I just wanted to yell at the designers "WHY U NO hot-link images???"
You see no place for the 15c? Just because the graphing 50g is in the same price range? Solely based on "testing situations"?

Kinda sad, actually. I have an original 15c and still use it regularly. For me, a calculator is about assisting me in the calculations I need, not in walking me completely through them. A single line LCD display has proven completely adequate for situations where I need to take logs, calculate n^x, etc.

Why must a calculator do everything for you? I remember a time when numerical integration, matrix multiplication, and derivatives were done by hand. Additionally, we weren't allowed calculators in tests.

Pardon the rant, but it is comments like the statement above that make me appreciate having studied under people like David Huffman (of Huffman Coding) and instilled in me the ability and desire to derive things from first principles.
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Oh, and others have stated, the ergonomics and keyboard quality of the 15c are unparalleled in many calculators (especially non-HP calcs).
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I say this too often.. The amount of time it takes you to question to fill out a form vs. the amount of time to actually fill out the form...

Just fill it out. Worst comes to worst.. something comes out of it.
>But this would have guaranteed a second great depression and the vast majority of the world would have been negatively affected in a very bad way.

But we are in a recession as deep as the Great Depression! And there are obvious undeserving winners (Wall Street) and losers (everyone who worked hard, paid their bills on time, invested conservatively, and saved money).
Agreed, it stinks. But I think the real responsibility here lies with the SFPD officers, who deliberately conveyed the false impression that everyone in the group were police. I don't know if there's a law on the books against a police officer representing another person as a police officer, but if not, there damned well should be.
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> how can one be 26 and retired anyway

26 years of experience on the force != 26 years old

... unless he was holding a badge out of the womb.
This is amazing. You've hit the nail on the head. Google would be much more successful if it focused on being Google and didn't try to be Apple+Fecaebook+X companies all in one.
The debate of more vs. less transparency is not trivial. Regulatory and competitive considerations make this difficult. Sometimes it is simply human nature to be secretive - particularly when it comes to bad news.

The article focuses on transparency between management and employees. Transparency with customers and with the public is at least equally interesting.

A company can benefit from transparency. Heroku, for example, are transparent with their downtime (e.g. status.heroku.com). Another example is the case of AirBnB and the EJ debacle. Once AirBnB openly acknowledged that safety/security is a concern for landlords it adapted by rolling out an improved product (guarantees, safety features, etc).

Both of these are great examples of transparency at the core impacting the product and how it is marketed. These products are more valuable and more competitive because of transparency. Certainly this adds to revenues and likely the bottom line as well.

AirBnB could have adopted this approach earlier. So, the lack of transparency can be missed opportunity.
If you speak on HN and have an expectation to avoid down-voting, it is your job to back up your claims. It's not practical to Google claims for every comment.
It's not clear but it looks like they're also counting people who just signed up for the trial version.
Maybe give them your lean canvas and 30 second pitch.
I love that they (like Gnome 3) are doing something awesome with the Linux desktop, but I had to go back to Gnome 2 after a day because focus-follows-mouse is missing and/or broken.

(Thanks to the disconnected menu bar business, they seem to be stuck in the same "focus-follows-mouse is impossible" and "multi-monitor sucks forever" hole that OS X fell into. I use both, which makes Unity doubly unusable for me.)
I don't see this as Bill Gates predicting the advent of the iPad, but what I do find interesting, and hadn't realized before is that the 'post-pc' environment had apparently been discussed previously, and as Steve Jobs says, the PC platform (he means mac and windows) is resilient.

Once again, with the iPad there is so much talk about the 'post-pc', is this just another fad?
I am fairly certain its because the PIN unlocks the specific box your package is in. They most likely have only one scanning kiosk and multiple lock boxes.
A follow up: How about "Tap the Monster"?

"Tap" is a easier vocabulary that more Chinese (who are not good in English) understands, comparing to "Smash".
With Gnome 3 also going the same route, my main fear is that Gnome 2 is going to wither and die (ie. gradually become incompatible), and I'll be thrust back onto the "learn the quirks of another desktop environment" treadmill again.
Why would they need a warrant if they are given permission to enter and search the premises?
I'd rather put my faith in carefully engineered, not randomly evolved solutions.
We've gotten some great responses from users that use Momentomail for exactly this kind of thing. One user also sends their "thanks for the great meeting" followup messages before their meetings even happen, and another send a series of emails at stages before the completion date of a project, "just a reminder, the paperwork for xyz project needs to be filed in 5 days", "...in 3 days", "...today", but she schedules these all months in advance.

Email is such a great scaffolding for all kinds of wonderful services, but because it's old, nobody seems to see it as the modern social app that it really is.
This comment reminded me to check Gruber. Sure enough: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/02/iphone-5

Translation from Gruber-speak:

> Nice reporting by Peter Jamison at SF Weekly

Let's think positive things about people.

> Cook’s first crisis at the helm?

Let's think of this as a management challenge for post-Jobs Apple. (and not as Apple breaking the law)

> UPDATE: SF police now confirm they were involved.

The police were there so obviously nothing illegal happened! Move along, nothing to see...

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Can't wait to read Gruber's full editorial if this story blows up. :)

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>In short, I don't know how many normal people are going to use this service

I think many of their customers will use it simply for the anonymizing aspect. It just because significantly easier to order things online without people finding out.
Well, I was thinking of more when I'm talking over my whiteboard with a co-worker, or something like that. Also, M & M are not light on the footprint... I don't especially enjoy leaving them open.
His predictions were more revolutionary for their time than those ones... i think the equivalent would something like:

- Teletransportation (of inert matter)
- Spacecrafts that can travel at the speed of light
- Nano machines that can create copies of itselfts and able to construct anything.
If you put this behind, say a REST API vs using MongoDB directly, the clients could use long polling.

If you look at Twitter's Kestrel, it was implemented with a similar mechanism, albeit leveraging some capabilities that were intrinsic to memcached.

I built a little queuing prototype using long polling and it works very well. If you build it using an async server, you can run many clients while only using a few threads.

There's still the question of how to block and/or wake on an enqueue event to MongoDB vs. polling. The best approach may be to implement queueing using your REST API, leveraging all of the advantages of the async server and use MongoDB for a backing store or journal. This is similar to how Kestrel does it.

My prototype was very responsive, although I only got about 500 messages per second of throughput on my MBA.
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>Realize that linode is probably paying less than $4/megabit @ 95th percentile - but the vast majority of that is likely downloaded, so they have an asymmetric allocation that they are trying to utilize with this "unlimited inbound" offer.

At the he.net fremont 1 location, at least, you can buy a full 1000Mbps pipe and run it flat out for $700/month, if you get in on the special. (The old standard price was $1000 for the same thing.) At least at that location, you are paying a lot less than $4 per megabit. (from what I've seen, paying on the 95th percentile usually doesn't make sense, as you get radically lower prices if you buy by the gigabit.)

From what I've seen of other locations around silicon valley, $0.70 per megabit is a pretty low price, but $4 per megabit? if you are buying more than a gigabit, that's a relatively high price. (I mean, you can reasonably pay that much, but you are approaching 'premium' pricing, something that a large IT shop is much more likely to do than a VPS provider.)
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Inconveniencing a receptionist is a non-issue for big employers, since most of them already have a designated shipping and receiving department. For instance, at NVIDIA, I can have a package delivered directly to my desk, the same way that, for instance, hardware parts and development boards are delivered to me from an India location.
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We recently started a service for mechanics/docs/vets. The site is done and all, but now comes the hard part of gaining traction, what is the best way for us to get mechanics and doctors and such to sign up to our site. I am thinking if we can somehow get a list or contact some sort of large publications that cater to these professions, it might work.

So far we have: done a facebook campaign (got likes, barely and signups to our free service), tried yellowpages cold calling (no go), tried twitter (no go), tried emailing bloggers and webmasters of sites in the field (no go), got some small time news press (barely any go). For example, how would a online tutor company recruit these tutors to sign up and scale? any ideas?

We launched a 3 weeks ago, so I am sure we have some other avenues, and we know there is a market for our service because our competitor is doing very well.
You overestimate the value of a TOY that can only display one line at a time of a four-level stack and obscure programming lanugage. This is not an attempt by HP to create something useful to people. It is an art piece, one that happens to be convenient to make, it's basically a 12C with different printing and programming. And it's $99. $99 is a ridiculous price for a TI-83, and beyond ridiculous for a 15C.
Considering that billions of dollars worth of revenue are at stake here, and that Apple is likely a major target for industrial espionage, I have no problem with the government getting involved. Apple is a major contributor to both the local and national economy, and the government should help to protect their common interests.
I'm liking (not "loving") my rooted Nook Color with CM7 nightlies. It was, above all, a cheap tablet, and given the limitations of the price it works rather well.

However for the reasons you outlined in your comment, it's not a great e-reader. The Nook is better as a sort of cheap web browser for looking up recipes in the kitchen, looking at Google Maps, and web browsing when my wife is using the main computer.
Not to mention this:

> resolution 800*600(4:3)

Yeah, I think I'll pass. This is the problem with all of those off label Android tablets (and the cheaper brand name ones too, looking at you Viewsonic & Acer) they have runoff parts from production of knockoff phones so they frequently have serious issues, they can be completely unusable depending on how much or how little slack the community picks up, and without exception the screens are absolutely atrocious.

I just picked up an Acer Iconia A100 for $300 and it has the shittiest TFT screen I have seen on a tablet, ever. It's going right back to the store because of it. A tablet comes together. It's not a good screen, a good OS, a good CPU, a good GPU, etc... It's all of those things executed well and working harmoniously.

If it's not, it might as well be a paperweight. If you like screwing around constantly to get things working, inconsistent features and completely random manufacturer support, then grab an off label tablet or a cheap non-Google sanctioned tablet. You want a device that can do more than read e-books, browse the web poorly and play Angry Birds at 75% framerate if you're lucky, then consider waiting a month or two and saving up the money for something that you won't grow to hate.
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If the Ubuntu team is committed to making Ubuntu more confusing to use and introducing new bugs and breaking existing features and ignoring old bugs, it is better to jump over to a platform that issue heading in a better direction.
It is sad that no major dev team is working on building a usable powerful system. It is a necessary consequence o the mainstreamization of computing, though. Every year power users are a smaller fraction of the user base and therefore more relatively expensive to support.
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On the other hand, Purolator will happily redirect your package to the nearest Purolator depot out in the boondocks. Out by the airport or in a distant industrial park in my case... it's almost like they want you to waste your time.
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shorbaji 23 minutes ago | link | parent [dead] | on: Ridiculously Transparent

The debate of more vs. less transparency is not trivial. Regulatory and competitive considerations make this difficult. Sometimes it is simply human nature to be secretive - particularly when it comes to bad news.

The article focuses on transparency between management and employees. Transparency with customers and with the public is at least equally interesting.

A company can benefit from transparency. Heroku, for example, are transparent with their downtime (e.g. status.heroku.com). Another example is the case of AirBnB and the EJ debacle. Once AirBnB openly acknowledged that safety/security is a concern for landlords it adapted by rolling out an improved product (guarantees, safety features, etc).

Both of these are great examples of transparency at the core impacting the product and how it is marketed. These products are more valuable and more competitive because of transparency. Certainly this adds to revenues and likely the bottom line as well.

AirBnB could have adopted this approach earlier. So, the lack of transparency can be missed opportunity.
?? you must be trolling. i don't recall the section in the legal code where we waive rights for local employers
I still have my HP-41CX, which in my opinion is the greatest calculator that HP or anyone else this side of Calculator Jesus has ever made. Still works perfectly. I doubt it will ever be surpassed.

I think it's great that the 15C is being re-issued. It's another reminder (sorely needed these days) that there was a time when HP made truly great products.

Smart move by HP.
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Now that you mention it, the HP-48GX is another calculator that found a niche: land surveying. It's so popular in that particular line of work that you can barely get your hands on a used one on eBay. There are still third-party cards for COGO and data collection that surveyors and some civil engineering professionals rely on. I still have my HP-48GX from college along with the manual and it's a standard tool of the trade:

http://www.johann-sandra.com/surveying/hp48gx-hp-48gx-48.htm
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Another Startup shot down - Aardvark this time - Shame
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This link http://www6.megafilehd.com/files/p.php?id7532-Picture58.JPEG WARNING: It is a virus/trojan/whatever. Some of my friends were infected yesterday by this. It keeps sending the same link through chat messages from the infected person's account, once the person downloads, extracts the zip and runs the jpeg file. I suspect some click jacking, but I haven't tried it out so far. I am wondering how this works, any idea?
Its just that I put the (small) effort in to figuring out how to make it work without joins.

Care to elaborate?
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If you speak on HN and have an expectation to avoid down-voting, it is your job to back up your claims. It's not practical to Google claims for every comment.

I'd like to see a citation for that.