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heroku used to be a ruby paas. calling it a ruby paas or primary ruby paas is not fair as now it supports node.js, clojure, java and python along with ruby.
The main reason I'd be happy getting a Wi-Fi tablet is that 3G smartphone based hotspots are becoming ubiquitous. I'd imagine they'll be tuning for that usage as well as couch surfing on home broadband, possibly even intelligently moving more work to the cloud when it detects a slower connection.
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Food prices vary greatly by region. Of the two cost calculators I referenced, one identifies Houston groceries as costing 45% less than Manhattan, and the other has a long list of representative food prices, many of which are around twice as much in NYC. This roughly matches my personal experience comparing Bay Area grocery prices to those in the Austin, TX region.

Same goes for cars — though less so for new cars, even there, when you check prices at a site like Edmunds, there are regional adjustments. For used cars, the same model/year/mileage combinations go for much less in Texas than California. And that's before transfer taxes and registration.
Very nice!

What does the 'font stack' property do?
It will come sooner or later. Point your smartphone at any person in the street and know who he or she is in a second. The technology is too trivial to stop it.

More important would be to now begin thinking about regulations to limit abuse of that technology.

But most likely governments will wait (again) until the system has been abused by big business before limiting regulations are enacted.
> Seriously can you please answer me, why someone who is so smart to have a Dr. degree or other title would be willing to work for free, or even pay for it??

I think this video will answer that question for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

I don't have an answer to the rest of your questions but I think that video will answer your first question pretty well.
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I play games, I buy games.

I looked at this Web site and didn't have a clue what it was all about.

Either I'm irredemably dim, or their front page could do with some work.
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Indeed, payments/currency/money seems to be one of the holdout areas yet to experience a major global disruption by the internet. That doesn't mean the "great new thing" necessarily has to be bitcoin, obviously. But it could be. It also could be that computer security theory and practice first has to be improved for it to be feasible so it'd still be some years away.
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Even if it's bigger over the wire, they might still save on total rendering time and/or battery life.

They seem to be suggesting that these optimisations are intelligent and vary with circumstances, so they don't have to work every time as long as they can predict when the right time to turn them on is.
His advice about checking email (or any distraction, ahem, Hacker News, Reddit, Facebook) in bursts is spot on. You'll see your productivity go up and your focus will improve.

As an entrepreneur, my ability to hire and motivate great staff is a big concern. Branson is right about it being essential to a successful business. I'd like to see specific, practical advice on selecting and retaining stellar employees.
No, of course not. Window compositing is a huge usability feature. It made me switch from xmonad to Gnome 3, because it just feels so much faster and responsive. Also, live miniatures are almost necessary (at least for me) while dealing with 5 terminal windows and another 6 emacs frames. And you lose nothing (well, ok, you do, in some cases it can be slower, take few more resources and so on, but that's the case with only some apps, not general). Making compositing and using accelerated video HW the norm is a step forward, not an unhealthy trend.
I have to agree with you. Our company briefly contemplated freemium, but have opted against it. It's still early in the freemium era and I already see a backlash in the reviews and within myself as I play games.

So yeah, while it is currently king, I don't think it's one whose rule will last forever. And if you've committed and positioned yourself to survive on freemium alone, you'll find yourself in a world of hurt.
It's here: http://linkpot.net/friendly/
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Searching for an easy-to-use video editor in Windows Vista for long? ShowBiz is the fully-functioned program you want. Learn to use it on Vista.
If I worked for YC and got to name the funding cycle I'd call it Winter 2011/12; both Winter 2011 and Winter 2012 are ambiguous imo. But I don't.
To be honest, the first thing I thought after playing with this for a bit is "hmm, I should show this to my religious friends".
The entire field of physics seems to work this way and if anything, it's been thriving.

You're right, it must never be able to work in practice and must just be the realm of socialist paradise.
nokia has been continuously losing market share in both their high end and low end products. if microsoft is in a better position, it could be accretive for microsoft to buy nokia to support microsoft's flailing mobile division.

stephen elop's only hope is for nokia's vertu sales to remain high.
News at eleven, "Horatio Alger myth continues to appeal to fairness bias", "Middle class continue to toil under the mindset that they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

Raw numbers collected over decades of research disprove this handily. While working hard is a factor, there are other phenomena which will just as easily impair upwards social mobility. There's a reason they call it "poverty trap"

For an introduction, take a gander at Gladwell's books.
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Game jams and conferences are good places. Ludum Dare is an online game jam/challenge while 360iDev has a great in-person game jam.
> "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" is bullshit.

No, it's fact.

> There are plenty of things you and I don't want anyone to know.

What good does that do us though?

> I don't want the world to know when I'm on vacation.

But they can easily. A webcam watching the street could make it easy to tell whose lights are on a timer, or not on at all. Google not needed.

> I don't want every girl I meet to know that I collect comic books. The idea that I shouldn't be doing any of those things is completely absurd.

No, it's perfectly reasonable. After all it's the only way you'll get what you want.

And if you find a girl who doesn't know you collect comics she'll be disappointed when she figures it out. Wear it on your sleeve and be happy. Ditto porn, whatever.

> It was hardly 10 years ago that the message was - never meet anyone you first met online.

That's what FOX and CNN were telling you to panic about, yes. Do you really live your life in so much fear? Never physically meeting people you met online because they might be serial killers?

> In the same fashion, would you like everyone to know what parking spot your teenage daughter parked in, in the back of a mall parking lot Friday night?

Think of the threat vectors. There are a lot of pretty girls out there so this one specific girl isn't going to be sought by online creeps around the world. Everyone knowing doesn't change anything, except perhaps to let me keep an eye out for her.

If anyone hurts her it'd be a random attacker who spotted her in the mall or a friend/family who had stalked her. The first wouldn't care where her car was - she'd lead them to it. The second would recognize the car.

> Or where your kids go to daycare?

Oh yes. Because your crotch-fruit are so special that perverts would see them online and have to have them, specifically. Again, the only threat to your children specifically is from your family, and they know which daycare you use.

> Perhaps the parallel increase in information access by law enforcement has made us feel safer.

Hah! Those snoops are the problem. Technology is making us safer by letting us finally know what our 'servants' are really up to.
I recently installed Windows 7 on a machine after using Gnome 3, so I could give it to my parents. This was the first Windows I'd installed since XP, and Windows 7 is downright primitive by comparison. Gnome 3 supports my workflow very well -- one terminal fullscreened, running screen, one workspace for browsers, and one for mail.

I'm not sure what the complaints are about it, and to me it's preposterous to say that Windows 7 is an improvement.
Ask HN: Pricing/revenue model for personal finance app
Hi guys!
I'm the founder of CashBase (http://www.cashbasehq.com/), a personal finance suite of apps (web, iOS, Android).
We're a small team and doing this sort of on the side.
Growing with 3500-4000 new users per month, now a little over 26k.

CashBase has been free from the start and we now have a product worth paying for - so we're looking for the best revenue model.

Our best option goes like this:
1. User signs up for free and can use the entire app with no feature limitations until they hit 100 transactions (expenses...) - which adds up to roughly 3 months of usage.
2. At that point, they are allowed to view the data, reports, export it etc. We ask them to subscribe for $X/mo or $Y/yr, to continue using the app (adding transactions).

The price point we're considering is $29/yr ($2.4/mo) - one yearly payment, 60-day money back guarantee.

===

How does this sound?
Could you think of a better model?
Do you think the price is right, or too high, or too low?

Thank you in advance. Any feedback is hugely appreciated.
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Clickable: http://www.cashbasehq.com/
I use: http://www.flightradar24.com/

I just noticed it has some helicopter flights from Aberdeen to the rigs in the North Sea - very cool!
So, what’s with Linux and margins? I thought they had solved that by now but nope, the margins are still all over the place, inconsistent and visually distracting.

I feel this is even more apparent now that they dialed up the margins even more.
Actually, I think I saw those first on iOS.

I see every car has a steering wheel. There is nothing wrong with interfaces that appear consistent across manufacturers.
How about people who don't like activities where talking and getting to know other people is a core part?
Google implement AB testing don't they. They'll probably be back tomorrow - don't worry.
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Well, my point wasn't actually to say that normal-crazy creationist christians who believe in intelligent design not aided by evolution are frothing at the mouth insane as you seem to be implying the original point was; I hold that to be self-evident. It was actually to point out that no divine influence is necessary to posit normal well understood evolution, and this is a nice illustration thereof, and less-crazy non creationist christians aren't really that much better than those they look down their nose at for lacking theological sophistication.

Very kind of you to step in and validate my point by making with the looking down your nose at the creationists, though.
Anyway, this moves support for web apps into the standard plumbing of the GUI. It's a good thing.
Similarly, the stable marriage problem provides a mathematical basis for encouraging hackers to put themselves out there and take initiative in seeking out potential mates as the Gale-Shapley algorithm proves that the end result is optimal for the suitors, i.e. those that take action.
I really like this idea. It has a major strength as a boycott -- it just involves me refusing to do work which I would not have been paid to do anyway. It was never going to be possible to convince people to boycott submitting papers to top journals, as that would damage their career and standing.

I also think journals as they currently stand serve an important purpose, of quality control. They are not perfect, but I have nightmares where the future of publication is just arXiv, or worse a wikipedia-style "the research anyone can edit". I'm not saying these don't have an important place, but I also want a way for the best papers to get exposure, and I think our current system is about the best way of doing that.
Has Google released any numbers regarding how many active users they have now that Google+ is open to the public? I now that pretty early in the beta they were saying something like 20 million.
One of the coolest things I've seen on the internet recently! Show this to Richard Dawkins!

Please do continue with work on this site, I'd love to see the underlying algorithms etc. I would like to make a small donation, if you let me know how.
How would Samsung fight on price here? Amazon is using the Fire as a loss leader. They very likely lose money on every sale. But they make it up on extra Amazon conversions. What would Samsung make up their losses on?
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You know, everything you see on most GUIs (Gnome is not Linux-only, you know) is themable. If you feel inclined to help the designers make a prettier interface, you can easily find information on how to actually help.
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Writing research paper is a complicated and rather lengthy process when many aspects should be accounted. Research papers are usually a result report of practical research or scientific experiments.
Isn't that sort of the point? If you use node, you never know if the state of the world is going to change in ways unrelated to the callback you are about to pass, because you expect the world to change between now and the invocation of the callback.
I've been noticing this everywhere in the past few weeks, and am finally relieved to know what it is. I have a soft spot for pixel art...
Satellites: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead
Callback spaghetti is a sign that you're doing something wrong.

The first example from this page shows a request handler initialising a database connection and then executing a query. That's terrible separation!

Callbacks "spaghetti" actually does a great job of highlighting when you're not abstracting enough, any more than about 5 indents and you should be seriously considering refactoring your approach.

Thus

app.get('/price', function(req, res) {
db.openConnection('host', 12345, function(err, conn) {
conn.query('select * from products where id=?', [req.param('product')], function(err, results) {
conn.close();
res.send(results[0]);
});
});
});

becomes something like

app.get('/price', function(req, res) {
products.fetchOne(function(err, product) {
res.render('product', { product: product });
});
});

Also, as other posts on this page mentioned, try{}catch{} is not how errors are handled in Node.JS, plenty of async operations will gain a fresh stack, and cannot be caught in this way.
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Oracle Calls Out Autonomy CEO
Nah, thank you. I think I will rather just continue buying my OS.

I’m not really willing to invest more time than just trying it out from time to time nor do I understand why I should be.
This is what I was thinking, surely privacy becomes an issue if all of your data is going through what is essentially a 3rd party. Maybe secure connections bypass EC2?
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Near-total transparency is inevitable. The tech is already as cheap as candy and getting undetectably small.

Total anonymity of speech though, is likewise inevitable. Data is the only thing small enough to slip unseen in a transparent society.
I can confirm this. It's also very easy to switch old apps to 2.7.
"..Android WebKit, the most disappointing mobile browser right now..."

Android is great but this line is unfortunately SO true. It's especially noticable on a tablet.

I tried Dolphin instead and it's awesome. One feature I particularly like is that you can change the User-Agent header between Desktop/Ipad/Android. Now I don't have to rely on websites to determine what content I get, I can decide for myself thank-you-very-much. This should be a standard feature in all browsers.
Marked down by -4? Are you people anti chinese or something? All I said was very nice.
His response about the leveling off of Google+ users after the initial hype seems a bit like a dodge. I suspect there has been quite a decline in new users, although I also imagine this doesn't bother the Google+ team as much as you'd think.

20 million users is a large enough test base to start rolling out and field testing new features. Not just new to Google+, but new feature concepts. It gives you an accurate real world response, while remaining small enough that a misstep won't make front page headlines like when Facebook changes their privacy rules. And we know Google doesn't want the FTC in their business again.

They have enough data on you to do social networking better than Facebook, but there's risk in doing it TOO well TOO soon. One day though, you won't add friends or make circles. Google will infer your entire social and activity sphere from who you call and email, what you say, what you search, where you go, and how you shop. The data is getting denser, and Google is tapped into every stream.
Yes yes yes yes yes.

(I know me-too comments are generally frowned on, and quite right too, but we have a senior Googler reading this thread and comment scores are invisible now...)
I applied this logic.. ! My Original paper is with IEEE copyright.
But I made that Paper public on my blog with IEEE copyright.

http://dndcaptcha.blogspot.com/2010/04/textareaid.html

If a person wants to buy a paper he can buy from IEEE, but a person just want to refer the paper with all details he can freely do so from my Blog website.

I don't know whether its a right approach or not?
But I didn't wanted my research to just sit in some Publishers Library.

If we publish more work in public , we get more people involve in to those research work. :)
I am not a gamedev but I am currently building what some would consider to be a large game[1]. It has been amazing to work in as it streamlines the development process massively. I have only spent about 20 hours with it so far and if I had chosen another engine I would not have progressed this fast.

You should take another look at Unity when v3.5 launches - they have made some advancements and fixes that are targeted for larger projects[2]. I can't wait for a better gui system and native lod support!

As for the negatives, so far I have only found the documentation to be lacking on some fronts (specifically regarding the terrain engine).

[1] http://trailsgame.com/

[2] http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Unite-11-Unity-35-De...
"We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com)."

So they are MITM'ing HTTPS connections.

"Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site. Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would still exist."

So they aren't MITM'ing HTTPS connections.

What the hell? Which is it?
There should be an algorithm that automatically searches and matches XKCD strips to posts...
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Paul Allen has published some of his recent estimates here:

https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/EwpnUpTk...

I can't comment on his methodology, but at least he clearly explains how he came to his conclusion.
This is an extremely childish and petty move.What possible good/profit/value can come out of behaving in such an immature way just to show up an ex-supplier?
Sad...
I may be wrong, but I'd guess an ip address that regularly shows up in the webserver logs of this site which also shows up on one of your honeypot bittorrent files would have a much stronger case (either for normal "you should settle for $X,000 or we'll take you to court" standover letters, or an actual court case) than any randomly chosen bittorrenting ip address...
From the statement:

> Mr. Lynch then accused of Oracle of being ‘inaccurate’. Either Mr. Lynch has a very poor memory or he’s lying.

Wow, things are really getting dirty between Oracle, HP, and Autonomy. Wonder will this affect HP's embattled share price further?
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Just because the idea isn't new doesn't mean it shouldn't be scrutinized for reasons. It is entirely possible that class based societies existed for other reasons then what we assume. In this case our assumption turned out to be correct.

Now, how do are you going to convince koreans that sleeping under a fan isn't going to kill them?
No, the IETF is to blame for TCP and HTTP.
Never work for free. It increases the exploitation of less experienced developers, it drives salaries down. It's actually illegal in most states not to pay you at least the minimum wage.

If you really can't find any jobs (which I find very hard to believe), write some useful app. It's usually more than enough to show during the interview. In fact, when we interviewed developers, we strongly preferred the ones with personal projects.
Yeah, I was always cautious of recommending startups to friends but I let my guard down with divvyshot. I had several pissed off friends who were trusting a service that new for the first time ("never again"), so now I very rarely recommend startups--and if i do the "but don't trust them" caveat is longer than the pitch itself. This is where apps that revolve around smaller, fluid, and less personal data have an advantage i think (like Instapaper). And these photo sites are like "hey we're so nice, we're letting you export your photos before we shut down." Newsflash, I already have the fucking photos thanks. How about you come over to my house and upload all the photos to another random site on my shitty wifi.
[Note: I am the author of the original article, so I have a horse in this race.]

I agree that the journal system provides a valuable filter. My beef is not with journal, but with locking up publicly funded research. Open-access journals are an unequivocal good.

But I am not convinced that all journals filter on the right things. I like the approach of PLoS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/), which assesses papers purely on the quality of the science, and ignores subjective notions of "impact" or "importance". The result is that everything they publish is good -- as reliable as articles published in any other journal -- but it includes articles that would never get into, say, Science or Nature due to the self-consciously super-selective approach those journals take.

Anyway, that's a side-issue. The real issue is that, whatever selection criteria a journal uses, it should make the resulting papers freely available to the citizens who funded them.