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I love posterous too, I think they have really made it easy for people like me to post who are having interesting contents in their emails but never get time to update their blogs. Now I can just forward the email I am done. Later on when I can visit through my posts.
In the UK, Cancer Research commissioned an ARG competition. Proposals were taken and the winner got £1k to develop their ARG.

The person behind the idea runs a small ARG consultancy, http://www.sixtostart.com/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2007/oct/02/b...
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See this passage on BETA stages by 37signals:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch15_Better_Not_Beta.php
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I think it's way more creepy than that.
On the other hand, Foxit's font rendering isn't nearly as good at small sizes (at least on Windows)
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Haven't we seen this election before?
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I think "beta" gets a bad rap nowadays because everyone uses it. I mean, GMail has been in "beta" since it launched!

Beta doesn't mean your code is bad, it just means you're not at "version 1.0". There is nothing wrong with launching your app in beta for a few months.
This article is a bunch of bunk. Given the current speed advantage of the GPU over the CPU, the more likely scenario is that the GPU will become more generalized ie: NVIDIA CUDA.

The article is right we are returning to an earlier paradigm but it isn't the CPU. It's having to have a knowledge of your hardware's capabilities and how to program it for good performance.
Contrastingly, if you subscribe to a blog, you get pushed a notification whenever that blog is updated

Err. No. You have a RSS client which regularly pull. It's exactly the same thing. Either the guy has no idea what he is talking about, or he is really bad at making examples.

In a Gnip world, every website would have a feed – whenever content changes – the index gets pinged.

Right. So it was probably just a bad examaple, even though I have my doubts. Still doesn't google more or less have this feature trough it's webmaster tools?
The most interesting thing about this link is the fact that some random dude had the kosmo.com URL all along. Why didnt Kozmo (the company) buy it up?
It doesn't matter how long they stay in office, as long as they don't do counterproductive things to stay in office. Most corporations have a "One share, one vote" policy, so people tend to have a long tenure if they're good at what they do. If corporations switched to the democratic "One man, one vote" policy, you'd expect that, prior to any election, they'd just redistribute some money from their big institutions to lots of individual investors.
Being in beta can mean so many things. One good way to use it is define a stage where you're looking for testers prior to launch. Some set ups need to be tested by a number of testers larger than "a handful of friends". They will suggest usability improvements, suggest features, spot typos, break things you didn't think could be broken, etc.

Not to mention that if you impress your beta testers, you'll have them acting like your marketing force at launch.

In the end, a well-run beta can do wonders to the quality of the launched software. So please don't go poo-pooing beta testing. Yes it's an abused term but it's still a good thing for those that know how to do it.
Higher interest rates = less credit & financing = fewer startups
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It was (predatory) pricing policies like this that led Knuth and the entire editorial board of the "Journal of Algorithms" to resign en masse, and start a new journal with the ACM.

For those interested, the statement from the board can be found at http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~hal/s.pdf, and Knuth's (long, fascinating) letter to his colleagues can be found at http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf
I like this comment left on his blog:

"I respectfully disagree with your entire thesis. No one is saying we should stifle a "false opinion." No one is saying that we won't allow people to publish posts or blogs as they do today, on any topic they chose. The premise is that we should be able to easily identify credible news. Yes, credibility has subjective aspects but there are objective components as well - and those are the ones we can easily address using the websites you deem so useless. Objective fact checking, citation of sources, transparency - these are things we can and should measure. By merely introducing a 'scorecard' or a 'track record' for a news source, I don't think we've crossed the line to "global totalitarianism."

I will defend your right to have an opinion, but I think you will find I am not alone in thinking that it is you, Duncan, who may have lost the plot."
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I consider the ACM just as bad. Their membership pricing is restrictive for casual users and their conferences are worse.

I also consider their restrictions on who is able to become a member insulting (though they don't apply to me). Wait, so a physicist who's taken up programming in the last year isn't supposed to be able to read papers on computation?
You are right, sorry for taking it too seriously.
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Agreed. Duncan, however, is effectively calling my startup bullshit. I'm glad the commenters on his site (and here) disagree with him.
I should have added that this sort of thing is why PLoS is so important.

http://plos.org/
Yes, and the FreeBSD bootloader, and no doubt several other things I'm not aware of.
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I've been reading Edge for about a year now. There are so many geniuses that release articles on Edge that it's unbelievable...there's never a dull article. Edge is _the real deal_ when it comes to intellectual stimulation.
Already annoyed by it and all it took was some random clicking around: http://is.gd/2EPh

Apparently the "right" answer to this language-agnostic question is one that provides a single Ruby (surprise) alternative. Since when do opinions have correct answers?

I would love to see great things from Stack Overflow, but I would be surprised if it turns out to provide better answers than can be found by googling and reading mailing list archives -- or at least better answers that are consistently marked as such (or not marked at all, depending on the situation). Introducing voting doesn't magically mean the "good" stuff floats to the top.

Edit: Oh, and people are already "trolling for reputation" as evidenced by a single question having 10 of the same exact answer. I thought this is what voting was going to "solve?" sigh
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Feeling slightly ashamed that I haven't heard of him earlier, I have a question to the HN crowd: How did you hear of him before?

It's a shame to hear of someone people respect this much post-mortem. I wonder if you can infer a body of work that's important today and published recently from a group of similar-minded people like HN.
Ugh... I know it's a site for programmers, but would it have broken the budget to hire a designer? I can't tell what anything is at first glance and it all looks jumbled to me.
While I don't quite disagree with this article, I think a lot of people have raised that handwriting is a useful skill in a lot of places that require a low-tech solution to communication.

While it is technically possible to get by without it there are a lot of places which currently don't have an easily implementable high-tech solution (such as leaving a note on the fridge for your flat mate).

It sounds to me like the author's child could be dyslexic or dyspraxic (I'm dyslexic) and could use some extra help. The extra help I got in school helped me mostly with the mechanics of writing, spelling and grammar rather than thinking issues. But, that was what I needed.

I think maybe she should be complaining more about her son's teacher's attitude than some emphasis on writing at school.
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Let us know what industry to short, next time he starts a venture.
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Had exactly the same response.
I don't know what's worse, the quality of the article or the fact that people are still writing articles about PHP-based SQL injection in web apps. This topic has been covered sufficiently and anyone who fails to escape input should be put to death.
I was amused by the contrast between (on the one hand) Joel's long list of instructions and "how-to" hints in his blog post, and (on the other hand) the seeming absence of instructions/guidance on the site itself. (The guidance is actually there if you dig around far enough, but it sure doesn't look that way to a casual user.)

I also find it interesting that you apparently need 15 reputation points before you can upvote, which means you have to successfully answer one or more questions. In practice, this means that a drive-by/first-time user can't use their expertise to choose the best answer among the existing set, but have to chime in with a (most likely redundant) answer first, which seems counter-productive.
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Have already contacted Federated Media, but no response yet. We get over 200K pageviews a month at the moment (just launched), so it should grow.

Are there ad networks who we can start working with at this stage? Of course, Google Adsense is our fall back.
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Furthermore, where else do content creators pay for the privilege of publishing their work (over $1000 usually per paper), then have those outrageous rates for visitors to access that work?
Right. I should have said "my respect for him as a developer or architect" or something like that.
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If I remember correctly there was a great deal of hope that Palm would turn-around when it acquired Be. They royally messed up the next-gen OS that they created using the BeOS/BeIA properties they acquired in a move that reminded me of Apple's Copeland fiasco.

It's been all downhill since.
One is dealing with his own money while the other is not.
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I don't know why some users are saying the design is not good. I found it to be pretty neat and clutter less. It doesn't come in the way.
some dude on NPR (an interviewee, not an NPR employee) said that they should have gotten into agriculture or energy.
does anyone actually use napster anymore?
Some languages allow an unambiguous mix of infix and prefix.

OCaml & Haskell: 5 + 7 or (+) 5 7

Most non-alphanumeric operators are infix unless in parens.

Haskell: map (\ x -> x + 1) [1, 2, 3]
or (\ x -> x + 1) `map` [1, 2, 3]

Two-argument, alphanumerically named functions can be made infix with `backticks`.
Initialy I didn't like the fact that it's not a real disscussion, but after reading through Joel's arguments I couldn't agree more.

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Sure, my search results for answers to programming questions have turned up dubious results from time to time, but usually my answer is on the first page. Occasionally I'll have to refine my query and find the answer on my second attempt. With that in mind, I'm not sure how much better this new site is going to be.
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You can hunt deer on foot, you know. I've never done this myself, but as long as you keep your attention on one and pursue it, you can exhaust it. Then you sit on it until it stops breathing (or cut its throat with your flint knife or whatever).

It's also not that long ago that many if not most human societies required their males (at least) to be very physically fit and those that weren't were killed by the fitter males of other human societies. Why do you think there was a baby boom after WW2? The "fittest" (and the luckiest) survived and passed on their genes. It's ironic that the baby boomers are the first generation that were largely sedentary (e.g. driving everywhere, working in offices, etc).
Actually he fulfilled his most important purpose perfectly.

What he was brought in for to begin with was because the three of us working on the project semi-long-term had finally all agreed (or, the other guys finally agreed with me--but I was just the UX guy, what did I know?) that we had chosen the wrong web platform in the beginning by selecting some enterprisey Java thing that none of us had used before and that now was the time to correct our mistake and port the web portion to RoR, which two of us knew pretty well. The idea of a port made the business founder nervous, and she wanted someone to tell her it was ok.

So in a conference call, architecture guy hedged and spoke in generalities and tentatively endorsed the developer consensus, which was the best he could have done if he'd been the greatest hacker on earth, since business founder was being silly about protecting the idea and wouldn't tell him what exactly we were doing or let him look at the code base.

It wasn't until after the important decision was made that he signed an NDA and produced the bad code. So I wasn't impressed with architecture guy, but (without knowing how much we paid him) I'd say he did little lasting harm and at the critical point he did nothing in the appropriate way to allow business founder to trust her developers' decision.
"From the release, the proposed acquisition includes Napster’s approximately 700,000 digital entertainment subscribers..."
I'm pretty sure it's damn near impossible to do complicated mathematics without a pen and pad.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110

I [Thad Starner] get much more down than anybody writing on pen and paper, because you can write, at maximum, about 25 words per minute. I can type 70. So I am much more complete in my notes. I also type LaTeX math notation. So that means if you have something highly technical, you will get book-quality-formatted notes out of me.
The technology for this sort of recognition integrated with advertising is shoddy at best.

At this year's InfoComm there was quite a number of systems demoing this type of technology - but it could basically only identify one person who was not moving and directly facing the camera.
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where else do content creators pay for the privilege of publishing their work

Do they really? I've never heard of this...
The intuition of the man is baffling.
I had that problem until I bought cs3. Cs2 isn't for intel macs; it uses Rosetta which is why it's slow.
They're called "page charges", they are absolutely real, and yeah, they're often like $100 to $150 per article page, plus extras. Here's the price quote for the Journal of Dairy Science (which just won the Google lottery and is being rewarded with a link):

http://jds.fass.org/misc/ifora.shtml
I think the design is OK.
I reviewed your app and also many of the other apps that people mentioned in the comments.

http://blog.blakeperdue.com/2008/09/15/app-reviews-task-mana...
His blog post is nice, he answers thoroughly to most comments there, but this guy seems to be just a lightning rod. There are still no answers why their software is bloated, overpriced, and over-overpriced abroad, why Bridge is such an incredibly annoying and useless (and obligatory) piece of crap, why Reader's performance is even worse than just reasonably bad, why inconsistency in GUI between apps, why silent Opera installation, etc etc etc.
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I don't find it terrible, but I think the question text on the main page could be larger than the Votes/Answers information. I mean, isn't the question more important the number of votes or answers? I'm not scanning the home page for the question with the most votes or answers.
They did:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-beta-de...
Sure seems to be quite a lot of microsoft/windows/.net there right now.
The first part of your statement is true. The face-recognition field suffers from major perceptions issues. Detecting age and gender for demographic-based advertising is possibly feasible.. beyond that.. I have my doubts. Especially at Dunkin' Donuts price point.

The second part is probably also true, but if you think that's true industry wide, feel free to drop by our offices in Pittsburgh (www.pittpatt.com). I've got something to show you :) Hopefully when we get done with the current website rewrite, I'll be able to just link to cool stuff instead of making vague promises.
That's an opinion that I share. Squidoo really does have a skeevy feel to it. And after a year of reading Seth's blog, I had to unsubscribe because his writing had the same skeevy feel. I want to get users because I've got the best product out there, not because I'm marketing myself the best.
The question is not if I CAN. Yes, I surely can hunt deer in that manner, but it's not very clever. And our advantage is that we are clever, not that we are physically superior.

If this endurance approach were really an effective hunting mechanism, then why are there no animals doing this? There is no need to have a huge expensive brain if all you need is just lithe enduring figures and an efficient gait.

And I once went antelope 'hunting'. You know what happens when they see you? The run, really quickly and they completely disappear from sight. You have no frickin idea where they are anymore.

Only in really huge savannas that are completely flat and with very low grass can you keep your eye on one animal and just follow it.

This whole idea of endurance hunting does not sit well with me.

The influence of the second world war on genetic culling, in my opinion, was pretty minimal. The second world war was really not survival of the fittest, it was survival of the luckiest. First of all, the physically fittest were most likely to die, because they were fighting in the front. And even among those fighting, how fit you are hardly had an influence on your death. Bombs and guns and falling buildings are not affected by muscle size.

And your other statement about unfit males being killed by other males is just plain old dumb. Where did you read that nonsense? Humans are dominant because of social structure and tool handling, and not because of physical strength. Any human society that selected for physical fitness would decay very quickly.
Artificial betas for marketing purposes have become extremely annoying.
Federated won't touch you unless you have 1m US uniques. And the nature of your site is such that I don't think Adsense will do it for you.
This just goes to show - if you build a strong brand name for a period of time, the amount of money you can milk from that name is really really large. Look at netscape. It has changed, but people know and recognize the brand, and they keep going back.
I've seen this image before. One missing divestiture of note is the Bell Labs/Lucent spin-off from AT&T in 1996.
I know it's bad to say this here, but I'm not really that eager to see rich Internet apps. It adds a layer of abstraction that doesn't need to be there, and I think development suffers when you're doing an Internet app rather than a desktop one.

I think the better solution is making desktop apps that emulate Internet apps. It's faster for the end user and it takes less effort for the developer. I think MobileMe is a perfect example of that. Make a powerful Internet app - but when you're not USING the Internet, just make sure it syncs with whatever app you're USING for your stuff.
So I work at a face recognition start-up.... and the answer to your question is "Yes, but your mileage may vary". Face recognition algorithms in the wild vary in quality by absurd margins. I know our stuff can do a pretty good job of it (because I've done it, internally).

There are websites that are trying to do it. There is a need, however, for local applications that do it (so people aren't uploading all their photos to the web). The real problem is the actual business-case for creating such a product, especially from our perspective. We don't want to make a full-fledged photo application. So how about a plugin? Would people buy it? Should we give it away? Do photo-sharing applications provide a good way for us interface our metadata? etc. etc.

I'm pretty sure if you gave our program a bunch of images, and we gave you an xml file with all the identities, you wouldn't be impressed. So we need a way of interacting with your photosharing application. And photo-sharing applications as "platforms" for plugins don't exactly inspire confidence.
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I always feel like there's an anti-Tumblr vibe on HN, and I've never understood why. And I seem to recall Marco (one of the lead designers of Tumblr) - making a jab at Paul Graham at some point - though I might be making that latter bit up, since Marco jabs at a lot of people, which is why his blog is such a fun read.

Is there some enmity between the two sets of developers? Is it a Boston-versus-NY thing?
I've seen sites listed on FM that have far less than 1M uniques. Given that we get thousands of uniques a day, it seems like we've graduated from Adsense, but not enough for FM? Dilemma...
Usually the duplicate answers happen in unison. If it's an easy question, there are usually around 5 answers posted simultaneously. If this happens, you're usually supposed to delete your answer if you see a better one, but as you can imagine there are different criteria used to determine which answer is better. Ultimately this is solved by the voting and answer selection by the asker.
I found him because I was looking for an author who wrote postmodern, like Pynchon does, but an author with less of the bullshit that I've always felt Pynchon surrounds himself with.