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meebo.com just nagged me to link my account for the first time. It showed me a new interface in hoping it would lurk me in. It has to be a coordinated effort.
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I think that TM probably made a big mistake by offering a free upgrade to 2.0. Especially given the apparent ambition of the rewrite.

Assuming it has some nice new stuff, I, for one, would gladly fork over more money for a 2.0 release.
Most OO examples talk about commonly known external objects; yet programmers need to invent classes for objects too, because they are inventing and classifying an unclassified world. So they create Drivers, Managers etc; I agree with Travis to certain degree, but on the abstract object creation sometimes objects are identified by behavior rather than data; especially data manipulating objects; queue managers, drives ...

I sometimes think human language is not enough for programmers, and there must be an easier way to create non-existing objects; maybe similar to German language word creation.
It sounds so very desperate and sad...
BB Edit's multi-file search is awesome, and can also be used to search large (1 GB+) files as well.
Dude. Putting any kind of weaponry payload on a civilian aircraft (RC or otherwise) is highly, highly illegal in the US. I'm sure it's illegal practically everywhere else that's sane for the exact same reasons.

It's not just "remote hunting" that's banned. It's the attachment of any weapon to an aerial or moving platform that's banned. A slingshot on a paper plane would qualify by a literal interpretation of the laws as written.
Copy Websites.

Copy Layouts.

Copy Pallets/Colors.

Copy Design.

Copy Grids.

Copy Styles.

Copy Spacing.

Copy Typography.

Slowly learn to replace "copy" with "get inspirations from".
I think Spotify would have been in a great position to argue with this, since they're the closest to being a worldwide provider for music services.

Google Music and Rdio aren't available outside of the US/Canada.
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Over here in London, many Brazilian nationals live or work in the city,with cheap Brazilian escorts offering city dwellers their services.
It goes both ways. The distinction might be efficiency of profit per capital and time invested. Something like patio11's bingo card maker, which makes money out of almost nowhere compared to its cost, works well only if small. But that type of set-it-and-forget-it business doesn't scale to the likes of Groupon or Dropbox or Spotify or Airbnb.
The idea of going to Silicon Valley and try to get technical talent to move to Austin is a little silly. SV already has an ongoing fierce battle for technical talent between local companies... besides, I do believe Austin and Texas in general has plenty of techies with the required skills and experience!
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I use Facebook to administer our business page on there. We have 70K+ users, and we get a lot of spam that is not automatically filtered out. I'm on there a lot cleaning things up.

Otherwise, I don't really add any content to Facebook much considering how often I log in. Most of my friends (professionals in their mid to late 30s) have more or less stopped using it, except for women with small children.
I've always just used Coda since I got a Mac 5 years ago. I haven't had any problems, so I haven't been compelled to switch. However, I keep hearing people talking about Textmate and Sublime. Why should I switch (I've been holding out for Coda 2, but I'm starting to lose hope)?
If Ford, Vodafone, BP and UBS continued to file losses, then, no, they wouldn't be companies either. In fact, UBS probably won't be at the current rate they are barreling towards ruin.

Number one rule of business: make a profit, any profit.
Google is promoting schema.org, but why are they not supporting it?
Oh, I see. You sound like an APLer. We have similar tastes, but many good programmers disagree, so I doubt that long variable names are a predictor of program badness. Not every long name is FactoryManagerFactoryManagerFactory.

Consider a language like K, in which variables usually have one-letter names. The real code-size win for K is not that. It's that the language is so powerful that complex things can be expressed in remarkably compact strings of operators and operands. (Short variable names, I'd argue, are an epiphenomenon. It's because the programs are so small that you don't need anything longer, and longer names would drown out the logical structure of the program and make it harder to read.) Token count is a good metric here. Both line count and byte count come out artificially low, but token count can't.
What corresponds to interactions that aren't decomposable as pairwise interactions? Race conditions? Resource utilization? Real bugs (and the nastier ones), but probably a minority. So factorial with a relatively small constant in front of it.

But obviously the real answer is to write a program that will correctly verify all other programs.
But there's a huge geek-fitness movement, so the best of both worlds for women.
Bezos was around for the CueCat scanner. He will not drop the price to zero. He knows that would be giving free hardware to anyone who can find out how to jailbreak a device.
Just from what I gathered over the years: not that many HN people arround :(

(or are there?)
I hate to say it, but it seems like the author of the article had a bone to pick with ex-employers. I'd certainly never hire him, with all the names he named and specifics he published.

The embedded/industrial space is plagued with these security issues.
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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets is a language with the sole purpose of describing the formatting or looks of any document being written in markup languages.
worth mentioning, google analytics does this too. and it's probably on more websites than facebook like buttons. also, you don't need to opt in to anything to activate google's version, at least with facebook you have to have an account. with google all you have to do is visit these sites with cookies switched on, something pretty much everyone does without thinking.
I started using BB Edit way back in the day, and at the time the price was pretty reasonable, like $50 or so. I asked another developer once why he preferred TextMate to BB Edit and he said that BB Edit was too expensive. I went to look and to my shock the price had gone up to over $100. I think Bare Bones pretty effectively locked out a whole group of younger programmers, despite offering the free TextWrangler edition.
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The America Invents Act is Better for Small Business
The America Invents Act distinctly improves U.S. patent law for small businesses by eliminating some trouble spots, and bringing more certainty, simplicity and economy to the patent process, all of which allow greater patent participation by small businesses.
Mathematically, yes, but since he's rendering an actual bitmap, “high-resolution“ is appropriate.
I trialled TextMate v1 but didn't like it enough to pay for unmaintained software. I would consider buying v2 iff it has some sort of release schedule and commitment to maintenance.
While I agree with the post I think it's an error to assume the Innovators and Early Adopters will be programmers or even tech people.

There are Innovators and Early Adopters in every market and part of the job while wearing your Marketing hat is figuring out exactly who those Innovators and Early Adopters are and what they want. It's different for every market and every product.

I am an Early Adopter in some markets (Things I'm passionate about) and a Laggard in others (Televisions). It's an error to assume that all Early Adopters for all products share the same traits and background (Programming). Someone marketing a new TV to me is wasting their time, I'm not an Early Adopter of TVs. A better target for them might be the 20 something that plays a lot of video games - that person doesn't have to be a tech person just keenly understand the unique attributes of the TV that make it special to them and thereby an Early Adopter of that TV.
I don't think it's possible to figure out if it's stored, as facebook would have to own up to it, and why would they. This data gives them massive power, why wouldn't they store it? If I were them I would.
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No business with any sense is going to rely on Gmail for their internal business communications

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/customers/ says you are wrong.

And I don't think that's a bad thing - Facebook is a problem, not Google. Don't tar every company with the same brush.
I should buy a robot, and then get it hired in my place. Then the robot can make me a bunch of money!
That's your prerogative, of course, but more and more businesses are outsourcing their internal email to an outside service. Sometimes that's the commercial version of Gmail and sometimes it's a competitor.

Regardless, that seems like a move toward central control rather than toward anything I'd describe as a distributed service.
Tumblr raises $85 million as growth continues
I believe it's first come first served.
Also, once a package name is created, it seems to be bound to a Google account and can't be renamed nor transferred.
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Show HN: Pytroj - Infect .pyc files
What? TextMate has great file finding functionality, but the find in project is certainly a weak point… It grinds to a hault on HDDs with large projects. It's alright with an SSD, but I wouldn't say it any better than using vim's Ack plugin.
Give your Facebook profile the Pirate look.
An OpenID solution finally succeeds and people are still upset.
Learnin Web Development - Working on side projects
I want to learn web development and started with Play Framework and worked on one idea, then I came up with another idea and started to work with that using python and GAE.
Result : None of them completed and no interest to work on them. The ideas doesn't fascinate me anymore
Learning curve : 0
Confidence : down, seems like I can not do it

I tend to get many ideas at a time and I often start working on them as side projects for some time and then after some days I lose interest and dont ever complete them, this happened with two of those ideas and because of this I never learn anything

I get fascinated about web technologies and what people do with that but I cant do it myself, I am NOT organized.

I would like some help from the people out there how they do side projects with their regular jobs

Thank you
Microsoft addresses Windows 8 secure boot issue
You make sense, but the concept itself seems so fuzzy and hard to nail down that I marvel at how it ever arose, given that there already exists an unambiguous and ubiquitous way to distill the logical structure of code free of textual artifacts.
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I wish everyone would stop repeating this. Like most things it is much more subtle than that.

Google Analytics is widespread, but unlike Facebook it gives you the tools to protect your privacy if you so choose. That is an important difference and is worth noting.
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This doesn't look like good UI code to me.

It replaces a mutable counter (that could potentially be changed anywhere in the program) by a definition of the counter that describes all possible changes it can have during its lifetime:

counter = accumD 0 $ ((+1) <$ eup) `union` (subtract 1 <$ edown)

So, we have a counter that has an initial value of one. Over time, 1 can be added and 1 can be subtracted, namely when repsectively an eup or edown event occurs.

Being able to capture all possible 'state mutations' of a value in one assignment is good.

It seems to use too many advanced FP concepts that have nothing to do with the task at hand.

Which is a bit ironic, since the widgets are created in the IO monad with the 'do'-notation, which simulates imperative programming in Haskell :). A user interface should be designed with a WYSIWYG interface (Glade, Qt Designer) anyway, but that's besides the point.
Hi all.First things first;I'm a girl,totally dumb in hacking,technologies etc.Few days ago my FB page was fully COVERED with adverts that I was checed on the net few hours ago(like: french connection,michael korrs).The shocking thing was,it wasn't just the webpage of MK on my FB but the items what I've just checked as well.Blimey.Its scary,I hate it and its getting worse day by day.I have internet explorer browser(ok I also have Chrome,but I ve never used).My question is: how can I stop these adverts?can anyone explain to me step by step(yes I'm a dumb lol)what to do?Thank u so much:-)
Google didn't make money, but Google almost went under before they managed to leech off of an idea from Overture and start making money with PPC.

It is a fallacy to say that because just because Google did not make money right away that it is acceptable for any business to flounder along for years with no identifiable monetization in sight. Amazon didn't make money right away either, but just because Google and Amazon started making money doesn't mean that every internet startup will become Google or Amazon. Twitter should have been making money for some time now; it's absolutely ludicrous that they aren't.

If Tumblr is really getting 10 billion page views, what are they waiting for? I don't understand where the money comes from to throw into these projects that have no track record of profitability.

To put it another way, would investors pour $85 million of new investment into Burger King tomorrow? How about Sears? These are companies with massive revenue and decades of profit and investors would be hard pressed to just hand them millions - when companies like Burger King get money, it's with terms, i.e., loans to build new locations.

Juxtaposed against handing Tumblr $85 million just so they can afford to keep their servers going is incredibly silly.
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I have trouble understanding why this graph would freak google out.

The more time I spend on google sites the less time I'm spending on sites I reached through google ads.
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One of the principal investors in Spotify is... Facebook.

There is nothing like having free money thanks to the billions of Golman Sachs, we will see how much they recoup.
fair enough, I didn't intend to be repeating an untrue mantra. could you explain how I would opt out? I know they provide privacy controls to opt out of web search history, but analytics on a clean browser will assign me a unique id, it will then use that id to track me on every page I go to, without even being logged in to any google services at all. that sounds like being opted in without my consent to me. maybe I'm wrong and I missed it, how would I protect my privacy in this (very widespread) case?
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I find it interesting that he prefixed the information with "unfortunately." Evidently, he doesn't think it's a good idea either.
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Awesome! My sympathies regarding Deutsche Bahn!
The ultimate goal ought to be to teach students Computational thinking. How it is taught - mathematics, programming or otherwise - is irrelevant.
Food and shelter are more than hobbies, and capitalism doesn't make those available to me unless my labor is in demand. Automation is continually raising the bar on how strong, agile, or smart you must be in order to find a niche. We need to redesign the economy to be more humane towards the growing number who can't, before they revolt (since we've ignored all the more noble reasons to do so).
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Well the employees certainly aren't working for free. So yes, everyone is getting paid and fed on 85+ million in venture investment.
Why I'm launching a (paid) newsletter about daily tech news.
Hi all,

Today I'm launching a daily tech newsletter. Basically I'm doing this because I want to stay up to date with the tech scene, but I can't afford to surf all the blogs (incl. HN) multiple minutes/hours per day. That's why I created www.hackingfresh.com - a daily tech newsletter.

The idea is that you sign up for a daily newsletter, which arrives around 6pm GMT+1, and get up to 20 interesting stories with a little comment by me (describing the story). If you're interested you can dive in, if not, you just skip the story and read the interesting ones. This service costs you 0.50 $ a day, not one penny more (See Edit 2, newsletter is now FREE!)

I kinda got the idea also by Gary Vaynerchuk (http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/166652911) who names this the "DJ Business" and Peter Cooper, who was looking for a daily podcast with the most interesting stories of the day (still searching for the exact tweet).

If you have any questions, email me (email in profile) or ask here directly.

Edit: As requested a sample email I put together for today: http://hackingfresh.com/?page_id=19. Like I said, not much content from my side, I just get the most interesting and most compelling stories into one easy digestible format.

Edit 2: Newsletter is now FREE and will officially start tomorrow (will be startup-ad-supported!).
Out of curiosity, can you describe what sort of 'deep wisdom' you think isn't/cannot be passed along? It's a rare thing to be deeply moved by what someone is saying (at least in my experience), but I don't think the times I've truly been moved by information being imparted on myself is exclusive to the realm of 'real life.' There are wonderful movies, books, even conversations I've had that have had profound impacts on me as a person. I am not sure if perhaps you think this isn't possible or we are thinking about fundamentally different experiences?

I actually thought about this point when I wrote my response, that perhaps it may be limited to the past hundred or two hundred years. However, I am not sure if that's the case or not, I don't know enough history/sociology to make any sort of qualified statement on the subject. The pace at which technological change is happening has certainly increased since the industrial revolution, and I presume that has been a major driver of cultural change as well.

I am still not really sure what you mean by learning form clueless peers. It isn't as if all the elders in a society disappeared - most children still go to school, have parents, get jobs, are exposed to role model figures. In fact what do you think of most western countries where population is actually getting older and there is a lack of young people?
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http://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/open/

This link is on spotify's help page and enables the open sign up without facebook, the nag screens post there-of, I do not know, I don't use paid or will-attempt-to-make-me-pay services, and to boot, Grooveshark is still free without an account
I once made a site that only allowed sign in via Twitter. That was a huge mistake. Do not segment potential users by login mechanism, more often than not you will raise the barrier of entry from potential to not.
Netflix Challenges Cable with New Content.Amazon Challenges Netflix with Old.
The links on reddit are old (as clarified here: http://www.ml-class.org/course/qna/view?id=8)

There is a work around to do this (am not sure how ethical this is). Since it works am sharing the same.

1. Disable Flash in your browser (preferably use FF)
2. View video in HTML 5 mode (ex. http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/html5embed?videoid=1)
3. Right click on the video frame and select "Show only this frame"
4. Right click on the frame and select "Download with DownThemAll" ...

Required: DownThemAll FF addon ....
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Lots of Smalltalk lately in HackerNews :)
my bad, still forces facebook log in, even enable you to sign up for facebook on spotify's website, dumb move, another player on the Blue F wall
One of the big advantages of agile is to reduce scope.
Traditionally the incentive is think of everything at the beginning because no changes will be allowed during the project. The result is overproduction of features. Agile methods try to focus on the features that are more important reducing the size of the project.
> My advice to anybody here who's currently building one of the four dozen photo tweeting services/Facebook cookie cleaners/thing-that-fixes-the-css-on-hackernews's that get submitted here every day: Stop.

Hi. I rather enjoy making little css-mess-withers and other things that may not be quite as profitable as this. We all have things we enjoy doing, and I'm going to keep doing the things i enjoy doing.

So thanks for the unsolicited advice, but I think I'll survive without it.
> there is no reason to not own your own collection

There are reasons. The-all-you-can-eat model certainly makes much more music available, which is better for discovering new music. Also, if you regularly listen to a lot of new/different music, Spotify/Rdio/etc would be cheaper than iTunes/Amazon mp3.

Personally, I'm in a kind of "stuck" position where I'm trying to decide whether I should continue to buy music from Amazon, or should switch to an all-you-can-eat streaming service.
Tumblr is a really interesting case, since their page views grow exponentially (since everything gets reblogged on Tumblr).

Consider: a post gets reblogged by a users and seen by their b followers, who reblog to their c followers etc. Thus, the average post has:

a + b^a + c^b + ...

total views. Set a += 1. Then

b += b, c += c * b ...

How many new page views will Tumblr get? Hundreds? Thousands?

What happens once Tumblr decides to advertise, even with AdSense? What if they use these $85m to build a data team and target ads? Because that's what they're doing with part of the money. [0]

I'm not a fan of funding companies solely on potential, but Tumblr could be big.

[0] http://tumblr.theresumator.com/apply/Ro2TZk/Data-Engineering...
I noticed this a day or two ago when I tried to sign up at the recommendation of a coworker. I decided against it when I realized you had to use your Facebook account to login. I'm going to check out rdio instead.
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So because someone, at some indeterminate point in the future will create something that doesn't yet exist, none of this matters now?

While ultimately true in the long run, in the long run, we ultimately all die, too.

There you have it. "Doomsday" is really a matter of perspective.
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"Free with Prime membership" seems the vector for controlling access to "free" stuff from Amazon. Arguably not "free" in all terms, but akin to "free phone" with cellular service.