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I think everyone here is missing the point of moot's comment. I read this as commentary on anonymity and honest discussion.

Ignore YouTube and 4chan's /b/ board for the moment. If you look at some of the communities at reddit, for instance, there are subjects that are discussed thorougly which would never see the light of day if their authors had to appear before their friends with their full name and picture. Some of these discussions have shed light on parts of humanity and human nature that I would have never known about if it wasn't for anonymous internet forums. For instance interviews with psychopaths and murderers, mean stories about ex-girlfriends and boyfriends, candid and unpainted interviews with sex workers etc etc etc. In general, the stuff that doesn't come up in polite conversation and everyone pretends not to be associated with. Some of these discussions have changed my views on both political issues and more mundane things. All because someone is suddenly allowed to broadcast forbidden stories to a large crowd. And people are allowed to comment on it without fear of being judged or socially persecuted.

The difference in the style of comments on Facebook and reddit perfectly exemplify what happens with civil discussion when people are allowed to be anonymous, and the huge difference in behavior and mindset that this causes in Western society. It is a pretty big deal.
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Several valid points already made here:

1. Phase 1 is for safety
2. 30 is a small number

But the big issue here is the reason HIV and even the common cold is hard to treat -- high turnover and high rates of mutation.

So, even if you have Ab's and/or helper T cells (cell that remember an infection) against one or more strains of HIV, the presentation of the strain that an individual may pick up later on in life may be different and thus might not mount an immune response. Also of interest -- Helper T-cell sare the primary target of HIV.

In order to really determine if or not this vaccine is effective, we will have to observe the responses in people who have been given the vaccine and then contracted HIV later in life. While this is promising and will add another barrier against HIV, its unlikely to eradicate the virus.
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Somewhat agree, but more due to my frustration in general with RIM products. Their user interface was completely abhorrent. If there is at least one thing that the iPhone ushered in, it was to demonstrate that the ability to use it without some arcane "click on the wonky button with 9 dots, then go to settings, obscure word that has nothing to do with fonts, pixel depth or some other odd entry" path will likely succeed.

I cannot stand using my blackberry to do anything substantial as it just seems to want to discourage me from using it. I can't imagine how these devices appear to a non-techie.
I think you should check out PyPy. It has a JIT which significantly improves performance for many use cases.
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There's a difference between turning the company around and buying enough runway to do it in.

RIM's profits are down, due to the fact that they aren't selling as many devices as they used to. This means they don't need as many people to make and support the devices, as well as that they don't have as much money to keep paying them to do things that aren't needed.

Layoffs are always a touchy subject, and the corporate adage is usually that they have to challenge the remaining employees to "do more with less". The unspoken side of that is that they honestly don't have as much to do as they did before, and so in reality, they're doing the same with the same, proportionally.
"First of all, fit is kind and much easier to understanding." - Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.

"Second, how often are you putting together complex colour profiles?" - What would be considered a complex color profile? I have a closet with clothes of various colors, and I need to choose which shirt to wear with which pants/shorts/whatever. And I guess which shoes. So I know that not all reds are the same, and not all oranges are the same, and some reds go with some oranges. Problem is I don't know which is which; That's why I was asking about a color matrix.

Then there's patterns, which are even more dangerous, because it seems that most mixes of colors don't go at all with most other mixes of colors. I don't understand how people decide that certain ones "match" and others don't. If there's no color matrix to show what works and what doesn't, how can you even know?
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Kudos for having the decency to not lead with the image on page 2!
> delicious of 2004 cant survive in today's web

For those that haven't got around to using Delicious, can you summarize why?
Thanks for the info. Perhaps it will soon be time to upgrade on my Ubuntu netbook (roughly the same RAM/CPU specs).
If he titled the article "I got screwed by a guy named Ted", it might have been suggestive of something different.
Very good point dr_ -- it really wasn't Palo Alto, per se, it was entirely about the technical/personnel issues -- I like your title suggestion :D :D
Mostly it's the people, and only to some degree the technology that impacts the quality of discussions/comments. I.E., 13 year olds on Youtube or XBox vs. working professionals on a site like Quora or Hackernews.

I like how Quora mixes real names and anonymity to try to get the best of both worlds. Google Knol I think supported this, too, but it's a ghost town.

Anon advantages (think Reddit):
* people are more honest, about negative reactions at least
* humor works (doesn't really work on facebook)
* more comfortable to discuss sensitive or embarrassing issues

Real name advantages (think Quora, Google+, some twitterers):
* more constructive dialog
* you can know more about the background of a person contributing - their experience, qualifications, or conflicts of interest
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This is worth considering, but it depends on who's calling, what industry you, they, and the candidate are in, etc.

If you answer the question "what was their title?" with "they mostly did X and Y, they were incredible", I doubt that's going to cost them the job (assuming they'd put something like X and Y on their resume). Or at least, I wouldn't want to work at any place where the Levenshtein distance between the title on my resume and the title quoted by my supervisor was a critical part of the hiring decision.

For example, Yahoo lets technical employees choose their own titles, with a default of "Technical Yahoo". My ex-coworkers who chose alternative titles don't seem to have been handicapped in their subsequent careers.
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Insurance would not be quite as clear-cut, but I suppose it would be a sensible option. Companies would point to herd immunity (linked in the comments above) to avoid paying for vaccination for 30% or so of the population. I'm sure they have ways to put people into that 30%, and knowing them, they will try to cheat their customers of every penny they can.
I wonder if RIM will have a fire sale too now...
This is what sparked my interest in F# originally, and I love it. For the first time ever I'm willing to write async code regularly in C#. I can't wait for something like this to make its way to python (for twisted) or JavaScript (for node).
This would presumably make a great party game for YC meetups. You deal out a card with the logo on it and then everyone in the circle has to describe what they think the company or product is.

I'm trying to figure out what "TweetBump" is. The obvious answer is: It's Twitter, plus Bump. You wander around a party bumping phones with folks, and every time you do that both of you automatically Tweet "I bumped into [X] at [Awesome Location Y]".

(No obvious business model, though. ;)

(And I'm not a Bump user, so I wouldn't exactly be surprised to learn that the app has already supported this for years. ;)
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A case study on why you should use HTTPS for all sites you have an account on.

So you want to know how to steal someone’s facebook identity. How to impersonate the poor victim. How to post embarrassing status updates, pictures in his/her name. Naughty, aren’t we? Let’s view this as a tech challenge instead, forget the nasty things we could do with it. This howto touches basic online security issues and some networking internals. Prepare for the journey, fasten your seatbelts
Check out http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ... and http://www.quora.com/about/app/ for some more specific information.
Non-ttf compress very well (svg is practically plain text).

But serving font-face has other issues with even modern browsers - content flash, delayed loading, some need proper mime-types, etc. etc.
What boggles my mind is how excited about RIM products their CEO is in public announcements. He did it with the Playbook but even worse he's done in every time in the past, most notably, with the Torch. He EXPECTED 1 million + sales opening weekend. Really? Launching on a single carrier (AT&T) sharing with iPhone and Android devices? And then he was DISAPPOINTED that they only sold 100,000 units opening weekend. Which, actually, I think he was lucky to get.
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He didn't misrepresent anything. They were actually working there, just only for one day.
Maybe Allan should skip version 2 completely and just release the new one as TextMate 3.
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True true, I wouldn't say sidetracked, my rails is decent enough, I was just in a very confused state. I think you make a perfectly valid point about Palo Alto - Davis/my support network is here for the current venture, but I wouldn't be opposed to heading back out there. Congrats on heading out there and making the jump :)
Like this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053523
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So, not to belittle anyone's privacy concerns, but isn't there a very simple way to make sure that most of these types of auto-share applications don't publish stuff to your stream - by never authorizing the app in the first place?
Could somebody please explain this recent trend of "make your blog posts as skinny as possible"? Does this have something to do with iPhones? Is this the web-design equivalent of bumping the font size on a paper to make it look longer than it actually is?

Is there a reason people do this? It's incredibly annoying.
I'm not trying to get you to use Flask or anything. But I definitely find it interesting that you have "read through the documentation or researched extensively" but were unable to find `add_url_rule`.

Either way, I'm glad we have selection and choice. At least we both like python! Peace
Good calls all around -- team is really what's important.
I don't see why they are surprised...Hipmunk's main appeal to users is the slick UI...without it, they might as well use Orbitz
I strongly recommend against implementing your own WS layer and instead, let http://pusherapp.com/ do the heavy lifting — they are amazing.

At BuzzData, we have dozens of resque workers sending messages into Pusher and we've moved beyond using it for messages and notifications to using it for UI functionality like our file upload progress widget.
> Just where you could share ideas, ask question and mark progress of your startup in mile-stones and all.

But does it actually offer that, or is it just a generic forum UX? Frankly, I think the latter market is pretty well covered by cheaper, full featured and easy to host (PHP) alternatives. There's no point in going after that.

I think what SO (and possibly Quora, I'm not there yet) has shown is that you can succeed and displace well-established competitors if your software is custom tailored to the domain at hand.

So, what differentiates your engine-for-the-entrepreneurial-community from any other engine? What specific features does it have just to solve that problem?
Personally, I find that the quality of Youtube comments varies with the content of the video. Some users post videos that always lead to excellent discussion. I think the quality of Youtube comments reflects the quality of the content, more than anything else.

Why else would Facebook comments be so bad and sterile? Facebook's content consists mainly of more narcissistic fluff than even a beauty magazine could contain.
I really to believe the answer to RIM's troubles begins with Jon Rubinstein:

http://martin.drashkov.com/2011/09/how-to-save-rim.html
Google and Apple? Are you sure about this?
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This is a side project I made with the help of JQuery Mobile and PhoneGap.

Design (1 week)
Actual coding was about (2 weeks)
Release to apple roller-coaster ride (1 week)
Content came from my business partner.

I was so worried Apple would reject the application because it's 90% javascript, but to my surprise it passed with flying colors!

I ended up rewriting the app a few times because jquery mobile was so slow. I wrote it again using Zepto but it wasn't any faster. Turns out the web view in iOS uses an older version of the mobile safari, and as a result a slower javascript engine. Apparently this will be corrected in the next version of iOS.

After trying it on a few other devices I realized the root cause of the slowness was my 3G iphone and not jquery mobile. A hard reboot of the device made the app run smoothly.

You can check it out at this link.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/astro-dating-2012/id467097635?ls=1&mt=8

or

http://defyent.com/#astro-dating
Some usability studies have claimed that narrow columns are easier to read.

Personally I kind of like it, although it makes me feel sad for my wide-screen monitors.
When the RIM-9x0 devices were 'discontinued' it freed up traffic on the existing Mobitex network. Low traffic = increased reliability.

Can you think of any large bodies that may still use RIM-950 devices on Mobitex in cases of wide scale network congestion as happened following 9/11? How about "military, police, firefighters and ambulance services"1 Can't rule on Office of the President.

I can see something similar happen with PlayBook; a niche market procures the remaining 300,000 unsold devices and the once toted "iPad killer" moves into relative extinction.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobitex
Heh. I once worked in sales / technical support / geekery for a smallish computer/networking var. Since I was the only sales person other than the owner I was given my choice of titles. I chose "Vice President of Intergalactic Sales and Extra-Terrestrial Support". It barely fit on the business card.

It did win us some occasional business though.
You're right. Maybe this time it'll stick? :D
Did you migrate your Delicious account to AVOS previous to the move?
Great content, and I love the length — I get overwhelmed when I see a half hour or hour long tech video. I literally have to schedule time for those... 7 minutes is the perfect depth into most topics.
I think you meant https://github.com/kemayo/sublime-text-2-clipboard-history
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a) I wasn't bashing someone else, I didn't even put the person's name or any real indicator as to who it is, nor did I send it to them

b) I completely agree
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I don't see any issues with C-level executive titles as long as EGO doesn't come with it. I'd prefer Chief Nerd Wrangler myself but more often than not (at least in my case) it would only fair so well when mingling with certain styles of companies.

To each their own really, it'll operate differently in different contexts. In the context of the article I would say it would be fair that none of them have titles to begin with, including the new hire.

Forego them temporarily & operate in a bit more 'round table' style if feasible. If the titles are a burden and getting in front of the work to be done, it's not the work that is about to be thrown out the window :)
Does the whole "onto usb stick" really mean much these days? I'd hope you could get a software stack onto 8 (16, 32, ...) GB of storage.

Also, that article is quite light on details (as has already been stated)
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I don't agree with the claim that only Samsung is the one copying in this dispute. There is definitely traits of derivative designs from Samsung. So for laymen like us, it would appear that Samsung is on the wrong, but there may be a whole host of actual hardware infringements Apple might actually be engaged. No one other than selective few in the industry will know how much copying and infringement of patents have been going on. But if you were to ask me, both sides are probably both guilty.
And this is why we can't have nice things :)

It's impossible to know with 100% accuracy if a great idea will be possible or not. This is one of the reasons why I like the Lean Startup stuff so much, where you can be honest (with yourself, at least) about doing just enough to prove if something is possible/marketable/whatever before investing years and millions into it.
Exactly -- this is ehy an "A team" with a "B idea" often succeeds over a shit team that f's up a great idea.

Glad things are moving forward for you Josh. Take your licks.. learn your lessons and remember them for the future
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Here, imitation is the most efficient way to create market share.

Samsung started as a lower end brand. Now in the world of electronics, they've become a substitute for higher end brands. The difference between Samsung and Apple is that the latter creates the market. Samsung goes where the market is and carves its own share.
We had multiple products and were pivoting to a new product. I don't have an MBA and got initial seed money because of a product I coded myself, and then additional funds based on the success we had with that initial seed funding.
- Startup founders almost by definition have unreasonable ambition -- a level of interest that exceeds their actual capacity.

- The best people to work with on a project are very dedicated to their commitments and are placed in positions where their dedication is a priority.

- People unfailingly place a higher priority on commitments that are existing, concrete, regular, place-oriented and are reinforced by the most social pressure from people they know well and interact with the most. (1)

So this is just what happens, I think.

I've totally seen this before, both been the person that had to say "no" (many, many times), "I guess I can try helping you out for an hour a day" (never enough) and "I guess I can help" (when a friend's technical co-founder was swamped for months at their day job - again, it's hard to replace a full-time commitment).

I really think that this was a good person to get with, they honestly wanted to do this, and they thought they could swing it if they made the commitment. But again, that's their ambition talking. Their dedication was stuck at their existing job. I can't imagine the stress this caused both of you and I hope you both move on wiser and more motivated from this.

1. This is why seemingly every company wants people to work on-site.
So you're happy with their work but don't know if they have enough work?

The way of testing that is by starting to give them more work until you get a) push-back from them over and over again, b) they start missing deadlines, and c) the quality of the work drops. When you get all three you know you are getting max output.

Secondly, have a rewards program. Just like you would not be in business if your business was not in the business of making money, they would not be working, not for you at least, if it weren't for the paycheck. Having a rewards program based on your objectives will closely align all parties' goals.

Finally, did you not perform their job at any stage? Do you really have no clue about how much effort it takes to complete each aspect of their job? If yes, go by those estimates to figure out what it takes.
I don't see why it is surprising. Credit should go to the Hipmunk team, but it isn't like it isn't impossible or even difficult relative to other platforms to make a good looking app on Android. You can argue about how the tools are worse, user expectations are lower, developer community is less design focused or their taste is worse, but I am not surprised a quality team made a quality app.

Android is an important platform, and I am only surprised (and upset) if you make a shit app. If a company can't get it together to make a good Android app, maybe they just aren't a good company.
True. It would be interesting to see what the success rate of reported cures, etc in the media is.

I like hearing about scientific progress like this, but worry that it will be another "promising advancement" that we never hear about again, like a new cure for cancer or tax cuts for the middle class.
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I cannot begin to express how much this made me think. In preparation for my own launch coming up, I'm looking at it and wondering why I've spent so much time of Minimum Viable Product when the personality just won't cut it. The guys at Hipmunk posted something to this affect a while ago, but it didn't have the weight of this.

But how does one launch a product with a personality? As a developer, not a designer, I'm at a loss...
> Have a look back at some of their really gauche imitation of Motorola's stuff years ago.

I remember looking at some of their clamshells, wondering, "Can they really do that?"
I see three contributing factors here.

- Startup founders almost by definition have unreasonable ambition – a level of interest, motivation and excitement that exceeds their actual capacity.

- The best people to work with on a project are very dedicated to their commitments and are placed in positions where their dedication is a priority.

- People naturally place a higher priority on commitments that are existing, concrete, regular, place-oriented and are reinforced by the most social pressure from people they know well and interact with most frequently. (1)

So, you get this.

I've totally seen this before, not only having to be the one to say "no" (many, many times) and "I guess I can try working on it for an hour a day" (never enough) but even "wow, sorry, let me try to help" (when a friend's technical co-founder was swamped for months at their day job - again, it's hard to replace an expert or a full-time commitment).

I really think that this was a good person to get with, they honestly wanted to do this, and they thought they could swing it if they made the commitment. But again, that's their ambition talking. Their dedication was stuck at their existing job. I can't imagine the stress this caused both of you and I hope you both move on wiser and more motivated from this.

1. This is why every company wants people on-site, of course.
It misses one huge disadvantage: lack of pixel-level control. There is no way to have really sharp and nice edges on TTF icons, they look all smudgy and just not up to good designer's standards, especially at small sizes.