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Thanks for building Akayame bambax. Pretty neat.

A few comments:

1) Please add one or more licenses so developers can include Akayame in their projects with confidence. A couple of examples:

http://jquery.org/license/

https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/LICENSE

2) The footer and menu are below the fold in my browsers in the Converter and Editor views so I need to scroll to see the menu and "Yet Another Markdown Editor" text.

3) The footer could do with improved styling : text overlaps the border, bullets and links use default styles. Minor quibbles but improvements would improve the professionalism of the site. Image here:

http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/2011006_Akayame_footer.j...

4) Landing page does not convey to the visitors what the site is about (and"Yet Another Markdown Editor" is below the fold).

5) Adding a page or two with keyword rich text explaining the project ("jQuery powered online Markdown editor") and background ("inspired by other Showdown online Markdown editor projects") could help with search engines listings.

6) Have you considered hosting the code on Github for increased exposure and link juice?
Any program that manipulates or traverses file trees is affected, and a few more, in an OS that is built around the concept of hierarchical file systems, this is quite a few.
I'm ok with slow to react, it would be really handy to have a page sized E-ink viewer that text programs could push content to.

I wouldn't use an ebook reader enough to make it worth the expense, but without having to include memory, buttons, or much of anything beyond a USB connection and screen, it might be within my price range.
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France refers to it as the "Right of Reply", and as far as I can tell it requires no legal judgment to occur first. The "LCEN" ("Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique", law on confidence in the digital economy) extends this to online communications. Anyone designated in online communication can send a reply within 3 months and force the publication of their reply in the same location as the original designation.
Dirk's answer on that page is what I believe to be the prevailing viewpoint. Why switch? R is very productive and more than suitable for data exploration. If you need to you can always write pieces of your research tool chain in C++ and integrate it quite easily with RCpp. Many of the R packages do just this. I find R to be very enjoyable, if not a bit eccentric at times. The combination of R, RStudio, and Vim make it a very productive environment for data exploration and modelling.

That being said, all of my production code is typically implemented in C++. However, knowing that I can always integrate with R from C++ if I need to (for example, if I'm too lazy to implement an available algorithm in some R package). If I did do this it would merely be a stop gap until a suitable C++ implementation could be deployed.
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Oh look. And old operating system idealist is agreeing with a newbie that everything's not the perfect way they want it.

I don't care.

Learn to use what you have or get something else and stop fucking complaining. The End.
Programmers do it on paper in pseudo-code and Jackson Structured Programming charts while coders convert that into a program? (The programmer and coder might be the same person.)
Chrome OS has a far more rapid development cycle vs. Windows and OSX (feature/performance releases come with weeks instead of months/years); and the updates themselves require next to zero thought. Worst case scenario: even if you never shut it off and ignore the update blip, you'll run out of battery eventually (at which point you're updated when you plug it back in).
I've done something similar except with an API instead of a language. I thought it was a good idea, and liked that aspect of the interview.
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German banks are - by a large margin - not the most exposed to Greece. French banks for example are much more exposed to Greek dept. If Greece fails, this will hit German banks, but other banks much more, it might be especially hard for countries with a smaller GDP and a higher bailout/GDP ratio.

As a German taxpayer I don't care whom I bail out.

Funny thing: People talk about Germany, instead of Greece. Sure, bailing out German banks will cost some money, a state breakdown in Greece will cost Greek people much more.
ah ok, sorry. i thought hacker news doesn't allow a link to be published twice. at least in the past it wasn't possible.
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I don't know how anyone could reasonably anticipate an iPhone with a larger screen. From what I can tell, the resolution of the OS is effectively fixed and layout is done with pixels. A larger screen would mean lower DPI if the same resolution were to be maintained. That be rolling back on all the retina display hype.
I'm not sure how useful a test that would be, but I'd love it. Sounds like fun -- but if they haven't actually written the interpreter for it, I might look down on them a little.
Is there anything like alterslash.org for HN in an RSS feed? A link to the article plus the top 5 comments or so would be great to pull in an RSS reader for on-the-go reading.
disability is nice, sept the butt fucking every month.

God says...
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it, made it do. If it was dull, it was at least hung true.
A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is
interesting to remember how much of this food for fire is still
concealed in the bowels of the earth. In previous years I had often
gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood
had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots. They are almost
indestructible. Stumps thirty or forty years old, at least, will
still be sound at the core, though the sapwood ha
But Germany was/is in a very different situation. We are absorbing since twenty years a formerly communist econom - the GDR. Germany had little choice than invest a lot of money to do so. If you look at current policies, they are much about getting the debt problem under control.
There is always somewhere else to move to, unless US labour becomes cheap compared to ALL other countries. The solution is not to make all other countries expensive, or make US labour cheap (through currency depreciation or what not).

I believe the best way out is through technological innovation, increase export in high-end products to reduce trade deficit. Although that would require patience and long-term thinking, which is going to be very difficult in current political climate.
OS X design is still a horrible mess, a monolithic BSD kernel bolted on top of a monstruous Mach 'micro'-kernel. Not to mention things like the new XML-based init system, property list files, hacks around 'extended attributes' (or whatever they call them) and many other aberrations.
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Yeah in 10 years time when inflation will make $35 look like pennies and moore's law will make this device feasible to sell at $35.
you lost me on chiropractic
but got me right back on the next line :)

overall golden advice that rings true with my decades of experience
The MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer) also known as the Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph, was created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips (William Phillips) to model the national economic processes of the United Kingdom, while Phillips was a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), The MONIAC was an analogue computer which used fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy. The MONIAC name may have been suggested by an association of money and ENIAC, an early electronic digital computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer

Pratchett refers to an equivalent called "The Glooper" in his book "Making Money."

A video of a simulation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPtW40w1no

Video of one of the few operational machines in action is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOhYROKeu4

A discussion as to why this sort of modelling is wrong can be found here:

http://www.capital-flow-analysis.com/investment-tutorial/les...

You can find out a lot more if you google for "moniac" or for "hydraulic economy model" or similar.
i sometimes feel guilty because I consciously spend ~1 hr of my workday working on whatever I want to learn about on my employers dime. These crazy side projects almost always pay off for that employer or the next one 6 to 24 months down the road.

Yet I feel guilty about this. Am I the only one that 1) does this and 2) feels guilty about it?
I am not at all trying to minimize Turkey's real problems. But many of the Eastern European EU states also have some of the same or similar problems (particularly Romania and Bulgaria). In their cases much of the reason given for admitting them to the EU was that membership would bring them closer to European norms. (Indeed, this is an incentive held out by those in Europe who favor Turkish EU membership.)

My point is that all these problems would be easier to ignore or fix if Turkey had 10 million people. At 70 million, they'd have such a strong voice in EU institutions that they'd be as likely to change the EU as vice versa.
I'm amazed that this isn't a solved problem: an event aggregator.
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The problem is, if a judge doesn't do his homework his rulings get overturned.

(In fact, as pmh said, he could overturn his own ruling to the extent he could rule differently when the case is brought before him again.)
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I didn't feel like Windows 95 and 2000 were failures. In fact, Windows 2000 was one of their best releases.
Got a startup? Tell a story. (inspired by msuster and techstars)
my apologies, seem to have missed that in my initial read.

I still think there were no breakout features this time round though. Siri being '4S' only is a bit of a cheek - and everything else felt firmly incremental. Even iOS 5 doesn't excite me much except for the notification system (though that is much appreciated).

Apple are experts in taking a feature their competitors technically have, but few customers use - and taking it 'mainstream' - nothing along those lines this time.

It seems to me that their next breakthrough in that regard is likely to be the NFC stuff, presumably to arrive with iPhone 5.
See? If you didn't know who he was or read his Apple-related articles previous to the release, you'd think the guy was no moron.

Admit nothing.
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Regardless of the awkwardness of this, it's still incredibly fascinating to see. It's kind of like Google Wave meets FaceTime meets Siri and an Exahertz of AI.
1.) Reading the position paper should help you with that. It cites some prior literature. In particular the DeWitt paper should be a good jumping off point on citeseer or the like. For that matter, reading DeWitt's papers should cover a great deal of academia's exploration of novel database architectures.

2.) It's a position paper. It's not attempting to assert a novel invention from day one, it's staking a claim about the design space (and further that you should fund us to do research in this space).

3.) The project is ongoing, you can see some preliminary results on their wiki. Most notable are some details on very low latency RPC and very rapid recovery. The recovery work rediscovers the same essential prescription as bigtable but does so via a second sharding scheme, which I believe is novel. Whether it's better is open to debate.
You also have an expected outcome with Greece: Either it will default or not. I think your point sound clever but is not.

Either the cat is dead or it isn't. Or was it Greece?
What is strange about that? ISPs sold you service with a certain usage model in mind( light usage, web browsing and email.) As soon as a different heavier usage model they hadn't planed for became popular(streaming video) they had to react. They reacted in the way that provided them the most profit. Certainly understandable if somewhat disappointing.

It is like everyone with a gym membership started showing up at the same time.
haha thanks, but definitely trolling. This is perhaps the most inelegant solution in the world. But it does the job in this case. Output is 10.6014, 4.44403, 5.71353, 9.46718, 10.6471, 5.12933, for columns A to F, respectively
My favourite resource on the topic is "Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager".
http://benhorowitz.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/good-product-...

It's a training document that Ben Horowitz wrote when he was at Netscape. More here: http://bhorowitz.com/2010/05/14/why-startups-should-train-th...
Sorry if I seem cranky, but I'm damn tired of people doing drive by criticisms of "ALREADY BEEN DONE BRO" on hackernews, particularly when they clearly haven't even read the primary sources.

Novelty or originality are not the only requirements for noteworthiness. A great deal gets done confirming prior experience or making relatively modest and obvious evolutionary extensions of previously well known work.
Sorry for the off-topic, but you’ve seen that HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED is one of the error codes 2011 builds of Windows 8 spit out? http://cl.ly/3z3t360U203B2g303i3Y
Microsoft to buy Yahoo this time?
What probably happened there is that your editor helpfully broke the hardlink for you. Some editors do that by default...
I've always had good results with pngout
Good point.

Off topic: Do people really write games for iOS fully in Objective-C? Why not just stick to C++ for everything except the graphics (which would use the regular C OpenGLES API) and the bare minimum of Obj-C to interface with iOS (main game loop, etc)? You get a better language (IMO) and much easier portability.
Kind of fluffy. I always worry about descriptions of roles that seem more about selling the role than about the stuff the role owns; you worry about aspirants getting the words "product manager" on their b-card and then not doing anything, like what happened with "architects".

Product managers own most, often all, of:

* Customer outreach: The PM is ostensibly the one with routine scheduled calls to all the clients to collect feedback.

* Feature/function/benefit: the PM usually co-owns the roadmap with engineering, and the split is usually that the PM mostly owns the ordering of things on the roadmap, engineering owns the time estimates, PM describes the feature and the business benefits it solves --- both to customers and, when the job is done right, to engineering.

* Pricing and packaging (in a startup, the PM is probably going to own pricing; in a mature company, nobody is going to trust the PM to own the most important business decision about the product).

* Competitive analysis: the PM is who you blame if you get blindsided by a customer dropping your product for a competing offering.

In mature companies the PM role often ends here and is picked up on the other side by Marcom, who is in turn going to outsource the copywriting and design of white papers and sales material and websites. In a startup, you'd expect the PM is going to own the marcom stuff too.

For a startup, most of what Joel writes on Joel on Software, especially the earlier posts, is a record of the job of a small company product manager.
sounds like 640mb is more than anyone would ever need! -- Bill Gates
There are other alternatives as well, like the one MMT'ers do where money is created when a government spend (and destroyed by taxes). This while bank lending is a zero sum game since it creates a corresponding net negative on the other side of the transaction.
If it only had to display a new letter at a time (while you type) I bet it could made to respond quickly enough. Then again, I don't know, is it required by the technology that the screen refresh every time a change is made? That would kill it.
Schiller said it was beta because more language and services support was coming. I'm surprised that Siri doesn't already provide turn-by-turn activation nor can be used for launching apps or changing settings.
Yup, I mention that explicitly. Future work :)
> Did any of my statements ring as aggressive?

Yes. You come off as someone trying to be insulting.
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Germany bailed out a bankrupt state in the 90s (the GDR).
I like R but some problems really run into performance problems with R. In particular snowballing memory if not possible to convert data to enum/factors, and predictions with lots of Date data really skyrocket memory use.

I like to play in the kaggle.com competitions, and I'm thinking of switching over more stuff I do there from R to waffles, which is a toolset and a c++ lib. It's speedy, and rather user friendly. http://waffles.sourceforge.net/
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I don't think breakout features are really that necessary, though. There's tremendous value in incremental improvements. The 3GS was "only" an incremental improvement over the 3G, but the net result was a vastly better device. The iPhone 4's only breakout features were the screen (which is pretty impressive, but not ultimately all that consequential) and the new look. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking a great product and just making it greater. In fact, it seems to me that a lot of other companies miss that part and instead try too hard to come up with new stuff that will amaze people, which results in a worse product overall.
Thanks! I've been doing some scraping projects lately and really like it a lot. There's a pretty steep learning curve, but it gets easier and easier as you go along, I think.

1. Caching pages is definitely a great idea while debugging. Especially if the data source has a request limit :)

2. I've never heard of Nokogiri, but it looks like BeautifulSoup for Ruby. I've found that Python has worked for everything I need so far, but thanks for the reference.

3. I suck so bad at regex, but using it more will help me climb that mountain.

4. One tip I've used is writing out the "INSERT INTO TABLE..." statements along with the scraped results. I definitely use CSV (and Google Refine) for general clean up and spot checking.

5. You should write a 'Data Scraping One-liners Explained' ebook :)
More like a minimally viable blogpost.
Yeah, the only difference being that every company besides Adobe is choosing this as the new web standard -- instead of doing what they should do, which is writing browsers compatible with ECMA-4/5 standards, and making either AS3 or JS2 built in with a genuine screen graph so animations don't have to be tied to this absurd 1994-era DOM for the next decade or longer. Short of that, they should allow any and all plugins necessary to run what users want to run, and stop their campaign of demonizing Flash. I realize Apple's made millions off breakout games that people downloaded because they were blocked from playing the free versions in Safari, and I don't blame them for being Machiavellian about it, but I also don't see a reason to feed the beast by pretending everything's hunky-dory with the ramshackle decaying non-cross-platform crap they've left developers to work with in the webkit/HTML5 stack.
Calling Windows 95 an "abysmal failure" might be a bit too harsh.
I've been working as a PM for the last 4 months and taken Pragmatic Marketing training as well.

I think the 'mini-CEO' analogy is an extremely flawed one that discounts a large portion of a CEO's job and marginalizes the real and very significant differences between even those parts that are similar. This is particularly the case CEO's of medium to large companies.

This isn't as true for CEO's of start-ups, but that is because the CEO will possibly be fulfilling the PM role as well, not so much that the PM role is like the CEO role.

However, I do agree with looking at it as an entrepreneurial role.
I'd love to see a post from someone(s) about "What, exactly, is a great Product Manager?". I've worked with good, bad and ugly but never a great one. Either that or I wouldn't recognize a great one out of my own ignorance.
Good point about syntax highlights. But I'm thinking large display, and large text (sit back and code), so maybe color syntax highlighting could be replaced by subtle stroke width--grades of boldness.
I think in this case they're using it to explicitly call out that the RAM being used is volatile. If you first mentioned this theory to someone they'd probably assume you're talking about using NVRAM since it would survive a power failure.
Has anyone used this? Experiences?
For mefeedia (in 2005)

y1q1: 10K
y1q2: 20K
y1q3: 30K
y1q4: 40K

Growth was prety linear.
It sounds like you're disagreeing with the post and say "success needs to be a mix" but that's the point of the article.

Don't miss that:

a) They've been working on the product since 2004 and it's best in class as a result of an insane amount of product development.

b) Every single lead they've generated has come through their "freemium" model, they've never spent a nickel on marketing.

c) Only recently have they learned that a best-in-class product isn't enough to get investors excited without talking about the market.

Matt wrote an incredible post here about the blood, sweat, and tears that went into building a market leading product:

http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/1215873671/bootstrapping-stor...
They break the natural semantics of a hierarchical tree-like filesystem, and turn it into a messy half-assed graph.

What you mean to say here is that it was a DAG and now it's a directed graph.
Note, this is from a database literature perspective. The server doesn't need a complex storage management layer like most RDBMs. If the read/write latency is low enough, all it needs is object framing, and clients can pick their own more complex data models atop this.
There's power yoga. I prefer Vinyasa, but the classes I've been to and the DVDs I've watched all have had some mysticism to them (for certain definitions of mysticism). That doesn't bother me, though. I enjoy the meditative aspects of it. I just ignore it when it starts to get a little too out there.
Companies have been postponing IPOs due to crappy market conditions for several months now. Did Sarbanes-Oxley have something to do with it? Yes. Is it the exclusive problem? Obviously not.
My rough heuristic for a free service is: get 100 new users a day and activate them, you're getting started. get 1000 new users a day and activate them, you're doing pretty good. And get 20% month over month growth and you're doing great.
If you need to handle signals immediately, you can always put the signalfd reader into it's own thread.
Actually, I think Apple could ride out a 6 month product delay quite easily. It would seem that the 4S was delayed 3 or 4 months (part shortage resulting from the earthquake in Japan?) from the normal summer release with no ill effects. Releasing it in December would have been bad, sure, but that has more to do with Christmas than the length of the delay.