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I recently got back into chess, and I wanted to play chess with a strong engine on my chromebook, but all of the clients were slow, didn't work offline, required java, flash, etc... so I started a side project for an HTML5 chrome app that would run offline.

Ultimately I want to make it into a fully featured freechess.org client. Is that the right call? Or should I use node to create my own chess server? What do you use to play chess online?
I hope you didn't formally drop out. Dropouts hurt a school's USNWR ranking, so they will almost always let students take 'temporary' leaves of absence. If the startup fails you'll be able to go back without penalty.
All due respect, you need to find a way to self-motivate fast, or your future projects are destined to fail, if what you say is true.
Ask HN: Looking for quote on technology being used for revolution and porn
Hi,
I'm looking for a quote I read years ago that, paraphrased, said something along the lines of: You know your service is successful when it's being used by freedom fighters and pornographers.<p>Realise it might be a bit vague, but I think it was a fairly well known quote and I figured if anyone knew the source it would likely be someone at HackerNews.<p>Cheers.
If she's getting paid by the hour, every time she takes time off for a job interview costs her over $30. In a state with 15% unemployment, she'd have to roll the dice multiple times, and the likelihood of finding a higher-paying job isn't great; the likelihood of finding a higher-paying job in only a few shots is very low.
Liberty for some, I'd say. Just to give an example: Lots of the founding fathers were happily owning slaves.
At least you'll get paid 'something' in the apple eco-system.

http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/i-think-your-app-should...
Ok so people purchased this product and were using it. Apple then bought the company, and made the product (which until today worked perfectly fine on current hardware) an exclusive on their new hardware, requiring significant cost of upgrading, and then they dismantled the old product and prevented their legitimate owners from using them any more, all in order to force the customers to do an expensive hardware upgrade if they wanted to keep using their product.

It's pretty amazing that this sort of thuggish strongarm tactic is a legal business practice. It's comparable to car manufacturers using OnStar to disable the brakes on 2011 models as soon as the 2012 ones come out.
There's a terrific paper by Christopher Jencks in Ethics called "Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational opportunity to Be Equal?"

http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~sweaver/educationalequality2.pdf

His point is that equal opportunity is not as easy to define in education as you might first believe. It's worth reading before claiming to know the answer, in my opinion.
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I somewhat agree with Microsoft, but if, and only if, they provide another easy way to run commands and see all other applications...
Either way, I think Windows 7 is too different from Windows 98 to ever go mainstream. People just want a better looking Windows 98.

EDIT: Meant Windows 8, not 7
I suspect that most advice like this DOES depend on personality type, but with enough different people offering their insights, presumably the majority of personality types are covered, if one chooses to read enough motivational literature.

My motivation is progress, most of the time. If I'm not making progress, I'll often switch to some easier task that I know I can get done quickly to get my brain in the right space and make 'getting into the zone' a downhill process.

Sometimes, switching back to whatever task was slowing me down is like going back uphill again, but I often find that I'll usually abandon the easy task because, while doing that, the harder task has been mentally solved (once you stop thinking about a problem, yadda yadda).

Of course, where I generally suffer is in getting all the easy tasks done. Solving a problem is fun. Writing a login page isn't, generally speaking. Making a 'reset your password' form isn't. So all those things often get left by the wayside, and I end up with an awesome project that is completely unsellable because the last 10% goes untouched while I work on something else.
http://www.dailytech.com/Italy+Convicts+Three+Google+Execs+f...
It wasn't even the first .Net MVC implementation, Castle Monorail has been around since late 2005.. 3 or 4 years before the first version of ASP.Net MVC.

But it takes the Microsoft stamp to get a lot of these people excited.
The flaw with your argument is that by not stopping it here it'll snowball and affect more systems, more countries etc. This should be stopped now, otherwise France will be next then Germany than US and all of a sudden we'll all move to China.
Get them to do it themselves in person / by email / whatever.
That's exactly what I did :)
I think the way we talk and reason about tech has jumped the shark.

* JavaScript is a nifty little language.
* V8 is a nifty little VM.
* Node is a nifty little project.
* Isn't it lovely that Ryan Dahl had an idea and like, actually did it! He doesn't write ranty blog posts (often), he writes code for people!
* There are worse things to rant about. Things that come to mind are the GFC, the US Govt. Bailout, indications it didn't work, education, unemployment. Lots worse things than Node JS.

P.S. If you ever deployed a Rails app to production then, well my friend, the joke really is on you!
Plus, using JavaScript on both the server and the client made writing multi-purpose code very straightforward.

You really don't want to mix server-side and client-side code. Although I use the same library (mootools) on both the server and client, I keep the code separate. The only exception has been a class that I wrote to dynamically generate PDFs. That has been useful both in the browser and on the server.
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I just signed up for a free account and already made 6 private git repos. Nice.

I must say that I wish there was a middle road between bitbucket and github pricing: I like to pay enough money to to be fair. I will eventually have about 20 small repos, most of which I won't use very often. Solo developer.

It would not cost much at all to support a user such as myself, so if the cost were about $5/month that would be better than free. That said, it is so easy to move git hosting back to one of my EC2s, that if they decide to not provide this service in the future it is only a small hassle.
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No... but you can probably find it in audio-form on the freakanomics podcast, if that would go down easier.
Hey Josh, I wonder if your opinion is any different that Scott didn't mean it that way now that part two of the interview has come out at http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/founder-stories-heiferman-f... and he states clearly that he doesn't trust those who don't allow themselves to be tracked and monitored by Facebook? Seems pretty nefarious to me and not so easy to find it an innocuous comment. People do change, perhaps he has changed since you knew him.
If the scope of it is as described I can't see how anyone s would think its a good idea, even if they support the general principle behind defamation laws and assume the internet works the same way as any other form of publishing. Unless they happened to be a public figure constantly in the press for consorting with prostitutes etcetera, of course.

If its scope is as described in the Wikipedia article it's akin to forcing newspapers to follow up every front page Berlusconi expose with a front page statement from Berlusconi that it didn't happen. Would the Italian public stand for that?
Xcode 4 really reminds me of OpenDoc, just for dev tools.
Used Ticketive for a bit, looks like it could be a solid competitor for Rapportive/GMail itself, especially if third-party developers start contributing functionality.
Software piracy isn't new, yet software publishers have managed to survive. I don't think the existence of piracy is sufficient reason to embrace allowing hardware to be ruled by fiat.
For many iPhone 4 early adopters who can't live without Siri but want the experience, this means either 1) waiting until mid-November and doing a "free" upgrade via ATT's 20-month allowance or 2) waiting 6 months and finally jumping ship to Verizon once the current contract expires.

Disappointed this is an "exclusive" app, but I want to live in a Star Trek world, too.

Might as well go all-in and give ATT the bird on the way out, even if just on principle.
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Jason, this is one of your best articles of all time. The solution to corrupt capitalism isn't socialism, it's uncorrupted capitalism.

I've long believed that the best way to change something is to adapt it as your own and change it from the inside out.
I've read both books. Ehrenreich clearly had an agenda. I think Shepard gave an honest effort.

He makes the point that knowing he could quit at any time (and carrying an emergency credit card, never used) would be a disincentive to working hard. If he did not have a safety net, he would probably work harder. Instead, he takes many hard day-labor jobs.

In less than 10 months, he moves from a homeless shelter in a town where he knows no one to an apartment with one roommate. He goes from $25 to owning his own truck and savings of almost $5000.
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Why not?

As always, this is a huge "it depends". Take game development for example, it's very common for huge overlap between client code and server code, both often written in the same language for this reason.
Kickstarter needs to crowd-source the legal defense :P
Considering how much he knew about science (he wrote tons of non fiction science books) if there are scientific inaccuracies in his stories it was by deliberate choice to further the story, and not out of ignorance.
Awesome, thanks for all your feedback and help with Ticketive.

Let us know if there is anything you would like to see as far as apps go for MailSlayer.
This thought: Further, I think it’s reasonable to assume a correlation between private use & public use kills the whole article. No, it isn't a reasonable assumption. If you look at my Facebook without being a friend of mine, you get a picture of me. Five years of use and that is the only public thing I have published. And I am just another dude no one cares about. I am sure billionaire CEOs and board members who have actual reporters, normal everyday gossiphounds and even crazies caring about their personal lives have even more incentive to be private. Google+'s promise isn't that is a combination of Facebook and Twitter, it is a social network where it does what you want it to. And if Google management wants their sharing to be private, that is good. I suspect a large number of their users have a similar outlook.
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"Artists" would get a lot more respect from society if they didn't display such (deliberate?) ignorance of the basic conventions that make society function in the first place.

Those wanting the crash-course could start with the very real difference between actual human rights and artificial privileges. They could continue their educations by developing some appreciation for the (very substantial differences) between tangible and intangible goods. And they could demonstrate their commitment to civil society by NOT supporting the development of law in ways that would - inevitably - lead to an astonishingly omniscient police state.

And that's not something that any artist worth the name would be okay with.
The video is a mix of two different videos, one from 1987, and one from 1997. The CyberDog / OpenDoc stuff in the second half is obviously not from the 80's as those projects were created in 1996-1997.
Maybe they have actual work to do and can not procrastinate on Twitter or G+ like the rest of us.
Checking accounts used to be a cash cow for BofA back when they could milk them for overdraft fees, but that's no longer as easy. They are also hurting from all of the mortgage pain they've been dealing with lately. They are desperate for revenue.

Additionally, this isn't the whole of it, they've raised/instituted monthly fees for checking/savings accounts that don't meet certain minimum balance/deposit requirements. I have accounts with them that I got for free years ago that I haven't used in well over a year, they want to charge me nearly $400 a year for the privilege of keeping those accounts.

Meanwhile, the account I use now is at a local credit union. They don't charge me crazy fees, they don't treat me like crap, and they don't look likely to be going out of business in the next few years because of crazy financial decisions.
If they can save me from having to re-invent the wheel when it comes to writing a gmail plugin/browser extension (especially threads and events), then this is potentially very exciting.
I love that MSFT is building a UI in response to actual data, but something about these posts and the resulting UI seems cold and methodical.

Maybe it's just the writing style that's throwing me but the leap forward in a consumer facing OS that iOS delivered felt like a more organic process.

Reminds me of that quote from Jobs : "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

As a result I wonder how much of Apple's process was reactionary from data / focus groups vs. from Steve / Ives "gut"
Sprint is also getting the iPhone 4S, so people could jump ship to Sprint ...
Not entirely true. Both iOS and Android have a way to remove applications from your phone. That's useful against rogue applications, the latest of which is HTC's Android giving away your personal data. You want a safe and unregulated market but you can't have it both ways, specially if you are computer illiterate.
Ask HN: Please review my side project i.crowdfunded.it
http://i.crowdfunded.it

Basically it's like a kickstarter for stuff. Right now i am just using Amazon.

How It Works

1. Search

2. Put stuff in cart

3. Crowdfund it

4. People pitch in

5. Item is shipped once fund is complete
I attended a rural K-12 school, where one teacher taught 3 grades in the same classroom. Sometimes, while the teacher worked with one grade, students of the second grade would help the students of the third with their class work. The "gifted" program was that occasionally you were allowed to grab advanced homework out of a closet.

I can't really say that this has held me back later in life.
The problem with catering to the market that wants a better looking Windows 98 is there is no growth potential. Sure Microsoft would still make a lot of money, like they have with Windows 7, but the the entire PC market has weak growth forecasts so they cannot rely on x% growth in PCs to grow their sales.
well damnit
> if I use it to find a nearby ATM, and switch over to the Google Maps app, and go back to the BoA app - it forces me to start all over

They fixed this is the latest release. It now will keep you logged in as long as the app hasn't been kicked out of memory (which is not up to them). On a 3GS that might be sooner than you'd like, but has been working for me on my 4.
I don't think that is Apple's marketing strategy at all. Apple products are no longer about exclusivity, people buy them because they are good. They've marketed the 'Just works' and it has reached the ears of many generations.

My father bought an Ipad 2 the other day, no real reason apart from they 'are good for browsing email'.

If you notice Apple's design timeline they keep the same design for a number of iterations on a product. If they were still about the exclusivity marketing game they would be releasing new colours and names and designs every year.
I will get Mike (Our CTO) and you in contact about the API! :)
The great AI promise, huh? "True conversational AI is about 10-20 years away" :)
Agreed. "The-Dip" is a great read on this topic. His basic premise is great in the sense that it's not about quitting or sticking into something for sake of stubbornness.

It's all about knowing what It'll take to quit before hand, see if it's worth starting, and improve the odds of making it past the dip.
the best feature of win7's start menu (desktop search) is still there in the win8 start screen, but I have to admit that accessing it with any frequency starts to feel a bit too alt-tabby
What a load of crap...
you just wasted 2gb of address space not of DRAM...
You'll "waste" exactly up to the amount of stack each thread uses, rounded up to PAGE_SIZE which is usually 4kb

Let me guess, a nodejs fan?
I understand this may sound inappropriate by some of you.

I'm italian, I live in the US, and I'm deeply updated on the political and cultural changes that we're witnessing in Italy.
The proposed law we're talking about is basically against any kind of interception (mostly phone calls) legally used by police and public prosecutors to arrest criminals and mafia members. This is scaring the italian government simply because the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been brought in trial thanks to some interceptions (the sex scandals, lately).

Apart compromising thousands of trials by helping lots of criminals to not be arrested and uncovered, this law also includes a specific paragraph stating that any kind of publication publicly distributed referring to an individual (like on a newspaper, blog or wikipedia) can be deleted upon the request of the offended part without proving that his motivations are true.
Let's say that a Wikipedia article states that Berlusconi has been accused for something, he can, thanks to this law, ask the removal of the information even if they're true and he's wrong. This clearly threatens the freedom of press in Italy, and this is why what Wikipedia is doing, if put in the current italian political context, can be not only justified but also approved.
My ipad is 3g. I understand the connectivity issues. Sorry for not mention that.
It isn't just voice recognition. It's also natural language processing. Apple just leapfrogged Google.
Been following the issue regarding this law for a while now. The relevant twitter hashtag seems to be #NoLeggeBavaglio (Italian for '[Say] No to the gag law") for those that wish to find out more.
This is but one blog (in Italian) on this topic and the campaign to try and keep paragraph 29 from sticking around: http://www.valigiablu.it/doc/540/comma-ammazza-blog-un-post-...
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The Street Performer Protocol definitely predates the patent, although I don't know if it directly addresses the claims of the patent:

http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.html
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It might however prevent or deter contributors living in Italy from contributing. And those are, quite obviously, the vast majority of the people contributing to the localized wikipedia.

You seem to suggest that a geolocation-based "blocking" of Wikipedia would have been more effective, but that would mean this appeal wouldn't have reached any of you - including myself, an Italian student in an exchange period abroad.

Besides, I can't really see wikipedia doing geolocation-based blocking of anything. It's just not coherent with the project of a global, free, libre, neutral, universal corpus of knowledge.
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Oh, I most certainly read it. Your identity is still fully at your own disposal, even if someone has abused some parts of it.
I don't know about you guys but what I took out of that article is that Microsoft is secretly/stealthily tracking its users? How do they know if someone is using the start bar "11 percent less than before"? Not only that, it goes on to even say:

Instead of navigating through the nested menus within Start, or even searching for apps and documents through the live search function, users began to pin apps to the Start menu or the taskbar for even quicker access. Microsoft data found that most users (above 40 percent) didn't pin a single app to the Start menu, with steadily declining numbers pinning 1 (20 percent), 2 (15 percent), and so on.

It doesn't say anywhere in the article that it was a focus/user group and it sounds like it was generalized to refer to every Windows user so how did they collate all of those data? Shouldn't someone be raising some privacy concerns?

Disclaimer: I've not used Windows since XP. I'm a *nix user.
$180 for the basic course is kind of a let down.
Nothing embarrasing here. I'm sure it's just that Google's management are very private people who wouldn't like their personal information exposed and spread about to third parties.
Think about the value of the aggregated data that comes when everyone (in every country) chooses to use Siri (in the US) as a primary input device. Privacy concerns, anyone?
Oh and note that according to this bright law proposal even the blog ran by the 14 years old should remove/change the content within 48 hours. It's hard to get more lame than that. Also note that this is happening at the same time that in Italy Berlusconi is unlikely to get elected again, so he is exploiting the last months of being the prime minister to ruin a bit more our country.
Xcode4, Quicksilver, BBedit, Terminal, Finder, Versions (svn) or MacHg (hg)

Then...
iCal, Adium, Chrome, Dropbox

I don't use Launchpad, though I can't honestly say I've given it a fair chance. I can't live without Quicksilver, this may have something to do with it.

I do my work on my main display (27"), and have Adium/Mail/Chrome on my smaller second display, to keep a nice separation between work and meta-work

Things I always do on a new Mac for development:
1) Reduce the key repeat delay, increase the key repeat speed (way too slow in Terminal by default, imo)
2) Dock hiding automatically
3) Install all apps listed above
4) Give the machine a clever host name
From the article: "The Obama administration was claiming the accord was a "national security" secret."

Could our government be any more disappointing?
Windows has opt-in telemetry data. Many of their product do too. So there is some bias to those that opt-in, but I've heard that they still get tens of millions of user data.
I just wished that somebody patented the patent trolling business method, and used that against all the patent trolls...
If you pass off "integration" as some kind of unimportant side issue you just don't get why Apple has been successful and why your white box PC is not the future.
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What is key in patents are claims. I don't see that this patent passes the new pencil and paper test for process patentatibility.

(see http://www.ims-expertservices.com/blog/2011/the-new-pencil-a...).

I think they are just trying to scare people away with basically nothing.
Short-sighted.

His rant is about Apple releasing new software but no (relatively)new hardware. Dude, software is innovation, and Siri is a big one, even if you don't realize it.
I'm really hoping David Drummond will use G+ to tell us all about the lawsuits his staff is in the process of deposing. That's sure to happen.
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I think it's safe to say that typical Ruby deployments (as I qualified) are not using JRuby, especially not those on Heroku. Thus, even if the process spawns threads, they will be limited to one core at a time.

Whether JRuby's threads are actually running on multiple cores simultaneously depends on what mode Heroku is running the JVM in.
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Has it been mentioned if Siri would be open for Devs?

If not are there alternatives to Siri that app developers can use that behaves the same but open for hacking?
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