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I think you can try out forum as service. We've been servicing our clients for 2 years and had faced need of this. Well integrated under custom domain, white labeled and customized forums are something that I won't mind paying for.
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Right but why not use the local schools who have better resources and roots here?
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Its not just potential - all the major Haskell web frameworks can handle more concurrent requests than node.js and scale to multi-core.
http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/03/preliminary-warp-cross-...

I don't think node.js is good enough because you have to deal with the issue being discussed here. In Haskell, as you said, you just write normal code with no worries about mutable state messing with your thread.
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It's impossible to have your bases covered as a new player in the OS business. That's the point of software patents. They protect the incumbents from the threat of competition.
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How do you ensure that? Recall that the person who uploads the photo controls how widely it is shared, and that you can be tagged in a photo even if you're not subscribed to Facebook.
you'd expect the data access layer to deal with all the database errors and return something useful

There you nailed the problem. It's a constant headache, especially since library authors have different ideas about the format and semantics of "something useful".

Before you know it you have re-invented your own half-baked exception-framework, to normalize/wrap/re-throw those ErrBacks. And then a week later you notice that rollback/retry and event cascades need a whole new level of treatment.

There's a reason why mature event-frameworks such as Twisted have never quite taken over the mainstream. It's sad to see node burn all its powder on a niche programming-style that just doesn't fly for the majority of applications.
The most followed people on Google+ only get 100 or so comments per post... it's clearly not all too popular.
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It's always the same story. The UI isn't good enough. And then when iOS users actually use an Android device, they find out that the UI has actually been rather decent since Gingerbread as the OS looks fairly svelte and most major app developers have managed to make their apps not suck. The back button, Activities, Intents are all things that non-Android users are nearly always completely ignorant of and how they affect usability of the device.

Besides the title is a bit of flamebait. Who are we talking about when we say "it doesn't matter"? Investors, developers, users? They all have different considerations and different reasons for preferring various platforms with various outlooks.

edit: Just like with navigation concerns, please actually try some apps. I am the first to admit that Android apps have lagged behind iOS apps in terms of beauty, but there are several that are now so good, I prefer them in terms of appearance. The stigma has stuck around for longer than I've found it to be true. As for stuttering issues, JIT, more ram and Gingerbread have made these largely non existent. (If only they didn't ship Launcher2, the community launchers are a much better experience. Go Launcher EX and stock Gingerbread is absolutely as fast as iOS, even while streaming from SubSonic, etc)
Clickable links:

http://newsblur.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869550

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597962
Why is it moot? It's a simple logo and you can use it right away. Naming and branding has been a huge headache and/or cost on almost every project I've worked on. Picking something off the shelf that lets you get back to the more important work of building your product is a godsend. It's not for every project, but for smaller projects it's perfect.
Let me add this (possibly unpopular on HN?) opinion: I have never, ever seen an open-source project that begins to compare, purely in user experience, to a closed-source/commercial project.

Not saying it can't happen, but the forces that push commercial dev and open source dev don't seem to be the same at all.
ExpanDrive (www.expandrive.com) is the best solution for mapping an FTP/SFTP share to a local drive. What makes it useful for commuting is that it handles going offline, drifting in and out of connectivity, laptop sleep/wake seamlessly and flawlessly. My experience is based on the Windows version.
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Please ignore the front page for now. It was some crazy test we did for some purpose. Did you sing-in and check it?
More likely, if AWS fails to fetch a page it will fallback on the browser to do the work. So the user will still get to the page they want, and your site will be blamed for being "slow" due to blocking AWS caching.
It isn't all about CS.
How to create an on-line survey with Google Docs
You can create an on-line surveys in less than 10 minutes using FREELY available Google Docs. With few exceptions Google Docs leverages many on-line survey alternatives and smoothly integrates into custom applications (including mobile) providing real-time data collection. This article shows the step by step process (screen-cast) and explains the different type of questions their usage and some pitfall to avoid. The resulting survey form is embedded at end so that you can actually try it and see how data is collected.
Should have said brand-able, sorry. But my point still remains, names are extremely important and $250 is relatively nothing. Fix a script for someone and you'll get that much.
It's supposed to be an online version of Grimlock from Transformers. He's part of a clan or robots that all talk in third person and have broken English.

That being said, I thought it was a thoughtful read with good points, and absolutely hilarious. I've spread it to 5 of my start-up friends who would get the Transformers reference already.

People love personality in products, like the MailChimp helping you along when creating your email newsletter, or w00ts hilarious product descriptions. Wufoo even does this by having a t-rex be the log in button and a title tag that says "RARRR!"

Apparently people really enjoy T-Rex's
I'd like to see two or three different price points. Some of the names and logos are much higher quality than others. Seems that $250 is too high for some folks and too low ("a steal") for others. I'd suggest something like $100 for a minimally-branded name (like Sporous.com or oveza.com), $250 for a standard name and brand, and $500+ for the really good stuff. Also +1 on the idea of upselling business cards, letterhead design, etc.
Bluntly: this argument happened over a decade ago. We lost. The domain market is run with all the incentives set for people to hoard domains and sell them dearly on the proposition that they will to the owner eventually be worth 5+ figures.

All you're doing here on HN is --- whether you realize it or not --- brainwashing nerds into believing the market works in ways that it does not.

In the real world, this is an extraordinarily generous offering that absolutely hits a sweet spot in reducing pain for new startups. Every one of the entrepreneurs on this site have gone through days, weeks, sometimes months of pain trying to brand a new product. I have products I haven't started working on yet solely because I can't figure out a name I don't hate.

Please stop conning nerds into thinking the world works the way you want it to.
The EGU journals work this way. Official reviewers are assigned, but third parties can comment. An example submission

http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/5/1749/2011/tcd-5-1749...
I agree with you, but the reason stated in the article by an anonymous source is reputation.
I'll hold off until they implement a cloud in Javascript.
Why are we entertaining the idea that there's an argument to be had about domain squatting?

I wish we had enacted policies against squatting back in the '90s. But Internet governance did very much the opposite thing. This argument ended a long time ago. Why piss in the wind about it? In the post-domain-squatting world, this is a great offering.
Are Klout and Peerindex just the equivalent of a store loyalty card?
I let you in on a secret: In many research institutions the people that "do" peer-review don't do the review, they delegate the reviews to their underlings who are not in a position to refuse.
Web Designers should all be using this idea by now: Font Icons.
While I agree with your general assessment I disagree with your conclusion.

See, Oracle is not (and never was) a technology company. They are a huge marketing and sales organisation that happens to dabble in technology products.

The carnage of Sun top engineers after the takeover should tell us something.

That said, I think it's a dumb, childish and immature move.

2 Minutes of LOL and gufaw! As a believer in kharma (in the metaphorical sense) I think that will come back and bite.Messrs. Hurd and Ellison.
When intercepting a regular HTTP session Silk is no more of a MITM attack than any ISP out there. I trust Amazon more than I trust AT&T or Verizon.

What disturbs me is that Amazon Silk will terminate SSL on their end by default.* This is the break from the past that's worrisome.

* Source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...
i agree that you're probably a right. a lawyer probably couldn't get away with it like i've been able to do.

my naive hope is that by being open like this i'll encourage others to do the same - if everybody was open about the struggles they faced as human beings, i think we'd all be struggling a lot less than we are.
Hrm. Touché.
Fully white label? As in... an API you can use?

In which case, Disqus.

Or just comments on things?

In which case, Disqus.

Also, if you're doing forums as SaaS you really need to think about the kind of anti-spam, moderation and admin tools that you're going to provide.

I don't know if you've ever seen the admin section of vBulletin, but there's a reason why vBulletin is so widely used and it's not to do with the front-end.
Elop's statements about current products have been really stupid, and that has really hurt sales. Why announce two platforms 'dead' when there's clear path forward for both of them, and now we have seen major updates and announcements for them?
Hopefully the Android browser continues to become more and more like Chrome, since development on the two is starting to converge: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-August/01...

[edit: typo]
Hmm, this submission and some other comments around the web call the article "Stanford & Cornell Fight to Win Bid for Engineering Campus in Manhattan", but it's now been changed to not mention Manhattan. From what I can tell, none of the proposed sites are in Manhattan.
The guy who created this has great cred, but geez, this is gimmicky as hell! Hardly something to be taken seriously in the large enterprise datacenter.
Someone I know recently got hired this way. Patni had him on an L-1 visa and he was working at a Fortune 500 wealth management company (WMC) with HQ in Richmond, VA. He got an H-1B visa for himself, moved out of Patni, worked with a body shopper for 3 months and then had his boss at the WMC file an H-1B on his behalf. His old Patni bosses kicked up a row and tried to stop him from getting hired. In his case, the anti-poaching agreement was between Patni and the WMC; but the WMC management were firm in hiring him. For most people, I would assume that not to be the case.
What's really interesting is this applies to closed source solutions with a terrible user experience. PhotoShop is awful, but still better than the Gimp.
Is it just me or this article is built on the fact that "cloud" has a very vague definition?

If I try to anchor the information in the article onto the real world, I got this: the combination of a magic usb key and a compatible switch gives us a fully automated installation system, complete with PXE boot-over-network and remote OS/software installation and configuring.

But I'm only guessing, because this article lacks technical details, don't you think?
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Yes, unfortunately, it is almost more important to reject the bad papers. The good papers will be published regardless of the reviewer. It takes more work when I get a bad paper, especially when it comes from someone famous, because I have to make a convincing case for rejection. I've even gotten the same paper multiple times from different journals (after rejection an resubmission). It's hard work to prevent flawed science from being published.
Why are you doing 'crazy tests' on your live front page? You should have a staging site for that.
Two things I'd add---learning design never stops. And the vast majority will be after formal training. Spend time looking at everything and ask why it works or why it doesn't work. Continue for life :) The second thing is harder---hang on to as much naivete as you can. Doing something that everyone else knows is impossible because you didn't know leads to all kinds of possibilities; not the least of which is that for you at that time it was possible. Again, try and do that for life.
I did, and I maintain that the idea is good, and parts of the design are really well-realized, but it still needs some attention.
Try reading it like it is a caveman speaking.
The arXiv and wikipedia are not the only alternatives to paid, publisher controlled journals. There are a growing number of open access journals which have the same quality standards as any publisher controlled journals. Additionally many publishers have gotten into the habit of mass producing really poor quality journals to include in packages that libraries are forced to purchase to get other big name titles. All of the quality of a journal comes from the academics who almost always but the editing, peer review and writing in for free (or technically university time). The only real service publishers ever offered was the ability to create print journals, but that is not longer necessary (or even desirable).
This is the kind of pricing philosophy that plagues HN (and I'll admit, I'm guilty of it as often as not).

The value of a product is usually not cost of labor + cost of materials, it's the value it brings to the buyer. $106.99 won't get me the same value, because I have to spend long frustrating hours trying to find a decent available domain name, then a few more hours going back and forth with a designer for a logo I may or may not like. Not having to do that is easily worth $143.01.

I agree that the domain system is horribly broken, but these guys are closer to a solution than to a problem.
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I also think there's space in the market for a strong forum engine service, while labelled. Something that's search engine friendly and maybe something to help people replace their php forums with.
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Sure, but it's going to be a long time since we have all modern browsers. At the moment people want modern functionality, so tools like jQuery are invaluable.

At the same time I think jQuery sees this divide as well, which is why Sizzle has been separated.
yawn The same arguments haven been repeated for years.

But let's talk briefly about "The Present". Considering the bulk of major new iOS features that Android had long before, (multitasking, drop-down notifications, cloud sync etc), the Android "Present" is always a few steps ahead and some of us like it that way. This isn't something iOS fans seemingly have a very hard time understanding.

I can't wait until iOS gets voice actions/input and navigation. We won't hear the end of how incredibly new and innovative iOS is.
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Is it really enjoyable? You are begging the question. Things or people may have a distinct personality, but I don't enjoy bad personalities, even if I remember them.
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Apologies, I'll pass on your feedback to the site's designer. Ir's in need of an overhaul anyway.
This is the exception, rather than the rule. Also, remember that the question isn't "is there a open-access journal with a healthy enough impact factor/prestige?" (as if there was a threshold), it's "will I have take a noticeable hit in impact factor/prestige to publish open access?" It's hard to ask young researchers to do that latter.
We were expecting some traffic from a source, tried targeting them with that those tests.
I'd say juvenile would be a more appropriate word.

Given Google's recent behaviour with the Nortel auction (bidding pi etc), which could also be seen as a bit childish, perhaps this is Microsoft simply responding in kind. It is bizarre though.
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Well, I don't know, I'm a Trent Reznor fan so I like the music.
"However, with a subscription model, the quality must remain high to keep subscribers."

This is not how the economics of academic journals currently work. It is very standard for large academic publisher to produce a large quantity of really poor journals. These journals are then bundled into packages with the bigger name one and academic libraries are essentially forced to purchase the package (because pricing for the quality titles along doesn't make sense).
In the early nineties, I gradually grew my caffeine habit to the point where I was drinking about 4 pots of coffee a day. At this point, my body had developed such a habit that it was strictly a maintenance drug and I had no problem falling asleep at the end of my day.

During one trip, I realized that this habit was detrimental (and unsustainable), so I quit cold-turkey. For forty days, I woke up and after thirty minutes without caffeine, I would develop a severe headache. But for the last 15 years, I've managed to avoid falling back into the caffeine habit. If I skip coffee completely, I barely notice, though I limit myself (to a four-cup pot) and stop drinking caffeine before noon.

I don't find that I'm less creative ... when I get into "the zone" it just doesn't matter.
There's an interesting dynamic at play with things like this. When you first build one of these "earn money in your sleep" SaaS products, it really doesn't make you all that much money. After a few months of being launched and signing customers, it's not at all uncommon to be bringing in something like $50/month.

At that point, it's tough to keep motivated to tweak, market, A/B Test and otherwise keep moving forward. Especially when you look at your consulting rate, or make the dreaded calculation to see how much your effective hourly rate has been for this f'ng side project.

But here's the thing. After a while, that $50/month starts looking more like $500/month. Then $1,000/month. Then $2,000/month. Sure, that's still, what? Two days worth of consulting revenue? Even then it's a bit hard to stay particularly excited. Consulting will pretty much always blow the doors off of what you can make on a side project.

But the thing with consulting is that as soon as you stop consulting, people stop sending you money. Products don't work like that. Want to take a month off and go backpacking through Honduras? Cool. Your product will pay you $2,000 to do that. Want to take a leap and try to build that shoot-for-the-moon startup idea you've always had kicking around? Go for it. Your product will take care of the rent for you.

Even better, products that charge by the month have a way of making you more money every month. Until attrition really kicks in, you're going to be signing more customers than you lose. Even if you only sign a few per month, that's revenue that just keeps piling on top of itself. So now, a couple years after that trip to Honduras and that woefully failed startup, check it out: you're bringing in $5,000 or even $10,000 every month on that silly little product. You really don't need to work anymore if you don't want to. Wow!

So yeah, products are actually pretty cool. They just don't seem like it at first. Stick with it though. It gets good.
Why would they assume local connect would work when AWS times out or notices it was never able to fetch a page?

I think it will only be available via a buried setting that most users will never touch.

Fire seems to discourage any kind of advanced user, it's the king of "no"

Bluetooth? No
HDMI? No
Camera? No
Microphone? No
micro/SD slot? No
GPS? No
3G? No
Android Market? No (only amazon's market)

It also brings yet another browser to worry about for website compatibility and will require simulation to test.
Downmodded for what I thought was a pretty factual comment posted under my own name. It appears that hackernews is becoming reddit.

So in response:

> b) Creative Commons, which has a staff of lawyers, including very prominent and respected Lawrance Lessig

As I understand it, Larry's position on this is controversial. There is no legal instrument in US copyright law to allow for public domain dedication, and specific parts of US copyright law essentially forbid it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_Sta...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_th...

Larry Rosen (whom I hope you admit is no slouch when it comes to licensing) has this to say:

http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj16.htm

"Just as there is nothing in the law that permits a person to dump personal property in the public highway, there is nothing that permits the dumping of intellectual property into the public domain — except as happens in due course when any applicable copyrights expire. Until those copyrights expire, there is no mechanism in the law by which an owner of software can simply elect to place it in the public domain."

If you look carefully at the Creative Commons' CC0 license, and its associated documentation, you see that Creative Commons is fully aware that they're being... optimistic. See:

http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ

Some quotes:

"Dedicating works to the public domain is difficult if not impossible for those wanting to contribute their works for public use before applicable copyright or database protection terms expire. Few if any jurisdictions have a process for doing so easily and reliably. Laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction as to what rights are automatically granted and how and when they expire or may be voluntarily relinquished. More challenging yet, many legal systems effectively prohibit any attempt by these owners to surrender rights automatically conferred by law, particularly moral rights, even when the author wishing to do so is well informed and resolute about doing so and contributing their work to the public domain."

and:

"CC0 helps solve this problem by giving creators a way to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law." [note the couching st the end]

and my personal favorite couching:

"While we can't be certain that all copyright and related rights will indeed be surrendered everywhere, we are confident that CC0 lets you sever the legal ties between you and your work to the greatest extent legally permissible."

> 2. re: "obviousness". There's nothing "obvious" about IEEE's greed. The stated goal of IEEE is http://www.ieee.org/about/index.html:

I didn't say it was good, or even moral. But to anyone who publishes papers with IEEE, or indeed most any other publisher, it is indeed obvious.
Not bad as a shallow overview.
Ah, my mistake