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Ask HN: what obstacles does your startup face?
Any obstacles you're having trouble with and how can you overcome them? What do you need?
great idea... i am gonaaa buy loads of stuffs from here. BTW, what's the business model out here?
When you select (copy) the URL it silently adds 'http:// to it. You will see only when you paste it. I'm not sure I really like the concept of silently putting stuff in my selection buffer. I'm going to disable this.
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Well, it gives you more accomplishments to demonstrate to your seniors.

"my team wrote x KLOC of code and implemented k features...blah blah blah"
users are stupid, they've probably got capslock on, or they're trying to log in via the address bar or some other totally random nonsense behaviour.
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Government employees' work by law is in the public domain:

"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise." (17 U.S.C. § 105)

"A 'work of the United States Government' is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties." (17 U.S.C. § 101)

...although I disagree that the pressure to give away copyright is weak. At least in the life sciences, the prestige you get from a publication in, say, Nature or Science is far more valuable than the work alone.
I installed Sublime Text 2 and achieved the same outcome. Additionally I get more than 2 software updates per year.
Pshaw.

We had one computer. And one program that ran on it. And we liked it that way.

(OK, but we had a gazillion VMs so we could all run our one program on our one computer, except that we could never schedule any CPU time).
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Marketing! Still trying to drum up some traffic... just a side project though :)
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You just delete your clone of the git repo and remove the oneliner from your .bash_profile
OP here. I was going to write just this, I didn't do it until now because I was on my phone and I wanted a real keyboard to answer. So thanks for doing it for me.

As a side note, I'll add that "person A"s are people I know IRL and this troll (let's call it what it is) aimed at them, not HN audience ;-).
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Firstly, nobody refers to either any Elder Scrolls game or the series as "scrolls", it just doesn't happen. Secondly, the Elder Scrolls part of the name tends to be subordinate to whatever the name of the current game is. These both make it extremely, extremely unlikely that anyone would ever seriously confuse Scrolls as being a Bethesda game within the Elder Scrolls series. Thirdly, the games are nothing alike: Elder Scrolls games are first person single player RPGs, it's similar to Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption, and Grand Theft Auto, except in a medieval fantasy setting; Scrolls is a multiplayer trading card game with "tactical" elements, it's similar to Magic: The Gathering, Culdcept Saga, or Yu-Gi-Oh, nobody could possibly confuse the two even if they only managed to see 10 milliseconds of game play.

The only people who could conceivably be confused into accidentally buying Scrolls when they meant to buy Skyrim would either have so little idea of what Skyrim was or so little grasp on reality that they would be equally likely to buy Halo or a bag of M&Ms.

This lawsuit is like if Blizzard were to sue the company that makes "Raft Wars" because it was infringing on the "Warcraft" trademark.
I'm wondering about if and how soon we'll need to scale post-launch.
You vastly overestimate what someone has to spend to be using a Mac.

Around 2 years ago, I bought a used, slightly beat-up, but perfectly functional MacBook for about US$400. I bought it as a backup, but it'd make a perfectly serviceable primary machine, too.

There are currently some closer to $350 on ebay under "buy it now", and you might be able to get lucky and pick one up even cheaper with normal bidding. There are also Intel iMacs up for under $350.
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The thought that occurs to me is that the adoption graph has a lot less to say about the suckage of supporting IE6, and a lot more about the suckage of being a Microsoft user.

Users of other browsers are on systems and/or workplaces which allow them to upgrade their browsers within reasonable time as new versions come out.

The MS-dedicated shops (and yes, I'm aware that most are large hidebound organizations, enterprises, and/or government entities) are stuck in their own labyrinths of fragile, massively interdependent, legacy systems.

This suggests to me that the modern vs. legacy browser war may actually be a proxy for ossified vs. agile organizations. There's still a great deal of power in the ossified side, but it will be interesting to see how comparative advantage plays out over the next 5-10 years (assuming the zombie apocalypse doesn't strike first).
Turing machine is a tape + some functions that modify this tape.

If you connect screen to the tape so it shows part of the content of the tape in some manner - do this mean that Turing machine can print on the screen, or not?

Bad analogy:

I can write, but I don't have pen and paper bundled from my birth. I understand being able to print to screen as being able to put information in a form that allows screen to show it.

Otherways no programming language can print to screen, because programming languages are software, and screen is hardware.
Is there any reason why publications can't be publicly available before they are reviewed? The journals could still play the same role, highlighting the most significant publications. I'm not an academic so I'm not familiar with the feedback process between a journal and a paper's author. Is there any reason that any refinements couldn't take place in public. A version of github focused on academic papers would seem like a good model.
Maybe that says more about the hobbyist nature of programming in the West than anything else.

Westerners, who may have started programming out of personal interest, may simply spend more time after work building up social communities to solve problems they have at work.

In Japan programming may simply be viewed more as "a salary job" they could qualify for, filled with lots of uninspired folks who just want to grind through their shift and get the hell out of there at the end of the day.

At least that's how my friends who've worked in both Japanese and Western companies describe the situation.
You're way off the mark. While it annoys me that computers are constantly modeled as Turing Machines when it's much more appropriate that they be modeled as LBAs (Linear Bounded Automata) it does not have a huge bearing on computational feasibility in practice. While LBAs vs. TMs do have entirely different definitions and notions of what is and what is not undecidable (for instance, the halting problem is decidable for computers since they're LBAs. It's just impractical.) this only really becomes a theoretical difference.

Suggesting that an x86 PC is limited to the level of computational complexity of regular grammars is just wrong. LBAs are capable of context sensitive grammars and are much more capable than a FSM and absolutely can compute more.

In real life, computers can be modeled as turning machines without much issue. Memory is generally Big Enough(tm) that problems undecidable on TMs are terribly infeasible to attempt even though theoretically they are actually decidable.

And as long as the problem has a small enough state space, the computational expressiveness is the same. In practice, this occurs often enough that people still call computers turing machines even though they aren't.
I don't buy the language barrier argument. So what if there's little documentation in japanese, I don't see why these developers couldn't just learn the languages and frameworks by reading the documentation in english. Unless they don't speak english, and in that case, I'd say it's their own fault. I may come off as being arrogant now, but let's be honest here, english is the lingua franca of our profession and any self-respecting developer will have at least a basic grasp of the language. You really don't need to speak a language perfectly to be able to read the documentation and learn some new technology. Also, english is quite easy to learn compared to other languages (much simpler grammar than most of the other languages I know or know about) and with all the US/Brittish shows, sitcoms and movies around you almost cannot help but to practice it regularly. Unless they synchronize them in your country, in which case you're out of luck there, but still...

Btw, if anyone is wondering, I am not a native english speaker. But I did learn how to program by reading the books and documentation that were available in english. If I had waited for somebody to translate these to my language, I probably wouldn't know a thing about programming to this day.
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It may be that from a media point of view they're not pushing the 4S (if it exists) as new.

You hype the new phone with the big price tag, you mention in passing the cheaper low end model.
NoSQL seems to me to be a scene as much driven by hype as logic. (For better or worse, practitioners using and programming NoSQL systems tend to have little understanding of the 30+ years of relevant RDBMS academic literature, and 20+ years of distributed RDBMS academic literature.)

Given that, NoSQL adoption often appears driven by success stories. But Cassandra seems to have the opposite: numerous failure stories. Facebook, Digg, Reddit and a number of others have all tried Cassandra in production, and have either had serious complaints or moved off to either SQL or other solutions like HBase.

Of course, these failure stories are anecdotes, and numerous unrelated factors (like bad interactions between Cassandra and Amazon's EC2) could be at fault. But I'm not sure it matters.

Has anyone on HN had a really good experience with Cassandra? (This may be the wrong thread to ask for obvious reasons.)
I think on balance it's bad.

Naming an enterprise for the founder/founders helps wire in more of the critical DNA, but in a way which doesn't tie you to a specific product or service. It's tricky to do this with a more generic name. This gives both an anchoring identity and flexibility to grow. It tends to imply a long-term view by the founders as well: why attach your name to something for which you've got an explicit exit strategy?

By way of counter-examples, "IBM" (International Business Machines) turns out to be a really good, generic, but still applicable and adaptable, name. "Apple" has worked fairly well. "Xerox" is tied to a specific duplication method. "Polaroid" grew and died with a specific photographic process (though "Land" doesn't seem to have helped much in this case).

From recent tech memory, "VA Research" (later "VA Linux") was named for its cofounders.
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It's not lying though. It is true that "There's [there has] never been a better time to buy an iPhone 4". It's not saying "There will never be a better time..." which would be indefensible.

It may not be the best time to buy an iPhone given that a version greater than 4 will be released, but if you specifically want version 4, then now is a good a time as any time in the past.
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When a paper fits into one of the categories arXiv accepts, that's more or less what happens (modulo the cranks who claim to prove Riemann's hypothesis every now and then, but that's a whole different topic :)

The difficulty is that some publishers don't allow you to make pdfs of the final versions of papers freely available. Of course, you can always publish draft versions, which is not entirely a bad thing.
Dammit, I want everything in there !
Congratulations btw.
Every company building a rating ranking engine needs to understand Bayesian estimation. The IMDB Top 250 page has an explanation of how they rank at the bottom of the page: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top which shows you a lot of the methodology without all the math.
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Does Allan have a pricing mistake for Marco to fix? I haven't heard anywhere that it is a real impediment to TM2. Even in the list message from Allan, he mentions that maybe it was a mistake, but money wasn't his primary motivation.

If Allan is smart he'll look at the Sophiestication blow up regarding CoverSutra 2.5 being a paid upgrade. I think that would be about the worst thing that could happen to his motivation to work on TextMate. Marco should buy another license if he wants, and I, and many other developers will most likely follow suite of our own free will.

I just can't trust Marco's analysis when it feels like he doesn't seem to give any consideration to the fallout. In the last Build and Analyze he also didn't know Allan's employment situation, and many other things that don't seem to vibe with what I know of the situation as someone who has used TextMate since it was first released. Granted I know he was being a bit flippant at this point, but he brought up how there are holidays before Christmas that could further delay things, but since Thanksgiving is firmly a US holiday and Allan is a Dane living in Denmark, it's fairly safe to say that Nov. 24 and that entire week are just going to be another week for Allan.
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So, yet another Linux distribution (why do they keep calling it an OS is beyond me) backed up by Intel... Why?

Why do they think they need a new OS for "Html5 apps" and not make evolve MeeGo, except for political reasons?

Why do they think they need to restrict the APIs, like in MeeGo (and it took them quite some time) for desktop or for Html5 applications; why not just check the requirements at the publishing stage on their appstore?

I might be missing something obvious...
This ain't no feel-good charity here.

If you're taking the hardline "business is business" angle, then he should be held to his earlier promise as a business.
Cool! One suggestion - make it more like Uncrate: http://uncrate.com/

So, add:

- Tags

- Categories

- Filtering (most popular, saved, etc)

- Saving

- Blog style (so people can direct link, or just provide direct link)

- Similar items (via categories or tags)
Once a day, 3 items per update (provided I can find good enough stuff each day).
wouldn't give you access to my gmail, but the forward seems useful. I already use google docs to index all my documents. I open the attachment in docs, save it and gets indexed. Just wondering in this case whats the benefit to using your service ?
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I am now near ten years of daily vim usage, maybe I am not like the others but I still do not use hjkl to move around. I do not think hjkl should be in a first place of an introduction to Vim for coders. Instead, I would explain about / ? * # > < and :s, which are the basic for editing code.
Don't diss the user. If they are entering things in the wrong place or you are not telling them about the CapsLock situation then it is your web page that is at fault.

There are a whole host of possible reasons why a particular web site is hitting problems with logins - but I am resisting suggesting anything as this is not the correct forum for such things.
I don't the beta(1,1) is a good prior. There is not an equal probability between 0 and 100 that a store has that percentage of good reviews. I think the the article should recompute the beta parameters using mle over all amazon stores.
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Or less likely, depending on the spots in question. For example you might take inordinate amounts of attention to detail in form factor and aesthetic appeal as emblematic of a fundamentally superficial approach to product development, and that it is emblematic that that will always win out over say actually better performing computers with actually better hardware.

Like in this instance, and you'd be right, too.
Definitely some good advice. Although I probably won't make it like a blog, I do agree that each item should be linkable. That's something I wish I'd done before submitting it. Hindsight! But those are all features I think I should incorporate as soon as possible.
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I loathe giving this any more attention but I feel it is important to say that this is in no way a proof.

It’s very easy to look for supposed marks of manipulation and very easy to find many of them – even if nothing was actually manipulated. There are just too many weird artifacts and optical effects, not all of them are marks of manipulation.

What you linked to isn’t a smoking gun in any way. It’s utterly unconvincing.
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Please kind sir, I yearn for a resurgence of interest in the Denshi Block system .. please add it to your catalog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakken_EX-System

Denshi blocks are a fabulous way to learn electronics and they belong in your catalog.
Ask HN: What kind of number of visitors might I expect for my blog
Hey all,

I have started a blog recently and I wanted to know what kind of number of visitors would be a good target to try and reach. I targeting the beginner/medium level of software security testers with most my articles.

I also did one article on corporate spying.

I have had around 200 visitors to my blog with a spike last week (50 and 65 per day after posting on the link HN). I would like to have a solid base of visitors, this is of course not realistic at this moment, it will take time to build a reputation and get know around the interwebz.

The actual questions are thus:

1. What number of visitors is realistic (lets say within 48 after posting an article
2. At what point (number of subscriptions, number of visitors) can you speak about a known blog
3. How would you quantify what people think about the quality of a blog, I was thinking about backtracks, good vs bad comments ...

Thx a lot for your insights
...and the ability to prioritize issues, burn down, and a standup report would be nice. This is definitely in the right direction.
Good posting, I'd missed that one.

It seems like a whole family of ideas have been evolving around the personal cloud. I've been thinking about it for a long time, but many of the necessary parts didn't exist until recently. Not sure if it's ready even now, but it's sure a space I'm watching closely.
Ballot boxes can also be lost or forgotten ... this actually happens.

Paper ballots are also usually scanned, and not counted manually, which raises the question if the scanners can be hacked. And where does the scanned result go? Disregarding electronic voting, there is already some sort of electronic system in place that deals with scanning the ballots and collecting the results, but all the focus seems to be on hacking electronic voting, not the existing voting infrastructure.
I certainly will do so. A blog would be a smart thing to add right now.
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Dropbox's situation seems extremely precarious. Most users have less than 2 GB of data. That's not lock-in, that's a few minutes of moving. I have about 15.000 high-resolution tagged photos on flickr - that's lock-in.

Simplicity and transparency (from where I'm standing) seem like the things that helped Dropbox proliferate - no fuss, just a directory that syncs, but it also means they have no way to monetize their service (they haven't made a dime from me yet) and they provide no added value.

Now, consider my case. I don't even have to remove the Dropbox client. The folder is already mirrored on my computer, when I install the next version of Ubuntu I have to explicitly add the PPA and install the proprietary Nautilus extension. If I don't do that, I can just drag the folder to another service. At some point it's easier to quit than to continue using it, which is why I predict Dropbox is fucked once Google provides the same transparent syncing with added value of its services.
Depends, if I look at my local job listings where there's one ruby listing for every 10 python ones I'd say different but I'll admit that that ratio is abnormally high but indicates that the same trend governs most places bar Chicago. However, if I look at HN submissions, it's almost the other way around. Given that I've worked in three countries in the last 5 years and noticed the same trend in all of them, I am starting to think that Ruby developers are simply more evangelist.
Ask HN: Would you trade your attention for others'?
Let's say there would be a site where you can ask questions (like StackOverflow or Quora) and the site would ping experts on your field by IM, Facebook Chat, whatever so that you would be in a real-time chat seconds afterwards.

If using that site required you to grant it permissions to also ping you (and thus disturb you by demanding your attention) - would you subscribe to it?
While I totally appreciate the generosity of Macro, I totally condemn Macro's speaking for the entire buyer community as in "We will not hold you to it" & "Please let us give you more money".

For Allan, money sure is good but reputation is still better.
I've worked in Japan for 5 years at one of the major companies, and I think there's a bit more to it than the facts mentioned in the article. At my company we were developing embedded software, yet only a very small subset of the people working there were educated programmers, and only a very small subset of those people were actually good, productive programmers. And of those good, productive programmers, quite a lot of them were forced to do tedious repetitive tasks by the higher-ups.

I think the reason this happens is because people are rewarded differently. For example, if there's a crunch session and you manage to solve your bit of the problem with a fancy algorithm that means you get to go home early, while all the others work the 'less smart' way and spend overtime in the company, then the company will look favorably on those who worked longer, not those who worked in less time.

Since the culture expects you to work overtime anyway some people will believe that there's no point in working smart but less, since you'll only be working smart but the equal amount of hours anyway if you want to be respected. I've seen plenty of my colleagues following this routine and I've seen some foreigners fall for this trap too. It's a kind of culture that does not reward change.

As for me, I couldn't care less about how people perceived me so I just went on designing things the 'right' way (and going home in time for dinner). It worked out very well for me, but I doubt that a Japanese person could pull it off as easily, since they have to worry about their reputation a lot more than foreigners.
Ach, believe what you want. If you want to actually get a proper idea of why the UK's not leading the world in processors watch 'Micro Men' for a précis. They shot themselves in the foot, nothing to do with people not valuing or nurturing them. That's where the ARM comes from and it's taken this long to recover from their personal rivalry.

Or you can keep claiming that only in the US do you have people who want to be entrepreneurs. But you sound like a prat as the UK is known for it's innovation fostering.