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Ask HN: Week after I launched Google releases same product. What should I do?
Hi,

I made this: http://wwwizer.com and today Google announced the same thing.

A little bit of history.

Two years ago it started as just a simple redirect. Point your naked (www-less) domain to my IP (174.129.25.170) and every request for any url without "www." in front gets redirected to the same URL but with www in front.
Really 4 lines of nginx config.

It is quite handy if you host website on Google App Engine or on Google Sites because if you are using your own domain it doesn't work without www subdomain.
www.example.com works, example.com - doesn't. You need to make CNAME to ghs.google.com for your domain to work but you can't do this with naked (or root, or apex) domain.

It got popular (at least in my terms). 4100 websites are using it. 350000+ redirects a day.

So two months ago I decided to "expand" and maybe get some, you know, profit.

SSL for the Cloud. New product. Yay!
You get dedicated IP, SSL certificate, point your domain to this IP and it proxies your app (or any URL of your choice actually).
App Engine did not have SSL support at the moment, a lot of people were complaining but it looked like there were no progress on this matter.

And today comes this "Announcing SSL for Custom Domains" http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/d7fb200cbe9d2010?pli=1

So what do you think I should do now?
It's covered in water and carbon dioxide frost.
The up/down voting system is indeed crude -- but it's both simple and relatively well understood (and popular).

Also, what you characterize as "drive by voting", I think of as being "lightweight feedback". Sure, we could make things a wee bit harder so a (much) smaller fraction of people would vote with with more deliberation, but I'm not sure that actually improves things.
Do it. Don't miss an opportunity.
A couple of years ago, the only ads I would ever see on gmail in my haskell-cafe folder were for Jane Street Capital.

But they don't use Haskell. The ad basically asked if they could talk me down to OCaml. It came up for discussion on the list, and as I recall they preferred OCaml so they could write speedy code without getting hung up on lazy evaluation and its sometimes-difficult-to-predict execution time.

I still haven't looked at OCaml, although I had some exposure to SML in college. I'm looking at Scala these days (The type inference isn't even Hindley-Milner! Scandal!).
>I'd submit that it's less like caching than it is rooting for your favorite sport team.

Does anyone know how political views correlate with how much one likes sports?
The Worlds Population could fit in Texas?
Yes, there is some utility in teaching the general population a skill but I don't believe that coding is the skill.

Don't get me wrong, it would make the jobs of those in technology a bit easier. But I think that there are better uses of resources.
What's he marketing exactly? It's a Tel-Aviv University demo at ASTC.
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This would have to be over a magnetic surface - like maglev trains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev (which apparently are not technically trains).
Very nicely done, also enjoyed playing with the various versions you came across along the way. Have to say I'm quite impressed at the performance too. The machine I'm on right now only has Firefox 3.6 on it with its older, slower JS engine and yet your demo runs beautifully. Again, very nice.

Couple suggestions... having drawing while dragging apply a differing effect. Also using click to turn on and off the draw (with a separate clear button somewhere else)
Richard Kosh wrote a book on it. I think it is a very good set of guidelines.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-80-20-Way-Succeed/dp/18578833...

While I have modled my life after the advice in the book; I have found it was a great 'starter.' Ultimately, 80/20 living is about reduction - less is more - it is just that you focus in the high impact / high value stuff.. and since your values change - so do the things you will spend time reducing.

Additionally, I have had several life coaches now - each which shared many of their own tricks that I have found great value in. So I use those also.

However, if you look at my 'life.org' org-mode file - you will find that I still structure my life around the Pareto principle.
psychologists categorize people as nerds, jocks, freaks, red-necks, Christians. Then the psychologists are stuck in the models they created for those people and irrational. They're mostly stupid chicks or homos and think "well I totally understand"

God says...
C:\TEXT\QUIX.TXT

thario should wake up, that he might go out with
him and question him as to his success. Everything fell out as he wished;
Lothario awoke, and the two at once left the house, and Anselmo asked
what he was anxious to know, and Lothario in answer told him that he had
not thought it advisable to declare himself entirely the first time, and
therefore had only extolled the charms of Camilla, telling her that all
the city spoke of nothing else but her beauty and wit, for this seemed to
him an excellent wa
Completely irrelevant. It's a theory explaining how Type II superconductors work, published five years ago, in a Chinese journal that has an impact factor of 0.512 (Nature scores 30.98, for comparison.)
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I think that's a bit of a facile assumption. Sure, Enterprise is huge for Microsoft. But so is the consumer space. The vast majority of new computers sold are still Windows boxen, and at $250 a pop home users are still a massive market for Microsoft. Sure, many or their choices since the NT integration with XP have been driven by Enterprise needs, but not at the expense of home users.

I'm far more ready to believe that they simply messed up than that they are willing to make huge usability and design sacrifices just to appease IT managers.

Also, remember that we are probably the least important people to Microsoft. I'd say less than half of us run Windows on our personal machines. Our design sensibilities don't matter to them; they're designing for our mothers and technophobic friends. In a word (3), the facebook crowd. We use keyboard shortcuts, they consider having to right-click to be a burden and a skill that needs to be learned. We compare the relative benefits of various anti-malware tools, they renew their subscription of Norton that came with their computer three years ago. We lament the general craptitude of cmd.exe, they would be scared if they ever saw it. We talk about the inferiority of snap-to-grid fonts versus anti-aliasing, and they wouldn't know what kerning was if it bit them in the ass.

Windows is not designed for the tech and design crowd, so while we might think of the ribbon as a design travesty, the people it's designed for are the ones who have three toolbars strewn across the top of ie6.
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Yes, in the same sense that I "know" that every nontrivial piece of software I've written likely infringes on many patents that should never have been granted.
One thing to remember is that Facebook's e-mail is an outright flop -- I have never once corresponded with an @facebook.com address -- whereas tons of teens use Gmail on a routine basis. Every Gmail user is now (more or less) a Google+ user. Google could probably use that to drive a lot of Google+ adoption.
'Sesame Street' on YouTube resumes after hacking
not sure if I can share this observation. I did like the point system as it took out the noise level and I was able to get the good feed in an instance, now is it search and read over and over again like the internet.
> Who missed these red flags? Nobody I know in the valley.

I'm sure Average Joe America drank the proverbial Cool Aid with respect to Groupon. We must remember that the vast majority of America doesn't care to do critical analysis of yet another hot internet startup; they're going to believe what's fed to them.

Average America is not the Valley. It's good that non Hacker News / Quora media resources are publicly criticizing Groupon now. I was terribly worried that the uninformed Mom and Pop investors would get caught up in the Groupon Ponzi scheme when they would IPO. For now, it seems that the likelihood and magnitude of this happening are much lower now.
Imagine the disincentive with regard to R&D if a company had no protection from a competitor simply taking their idea once they came to market.

Yes, allowing any random developer to create a spreadsheet or first person shooter or social networking app would obviously bring innovation to a crashing halt.
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
Don't enlarge the problem, embiggen it.

Some thoughts are dark, some are light. You might come to hate your love of darkness and say, "I'm sick!" Evolution is a dark thought. You probably obsess on it. Prisoner's delima is pure evil to obsess on. Zero sum will turn you into a grotesque gargoyle.

God says...
C:\TEXT\Brief\AUGUST.TXT

onted object. And whence does that
present itself, but out of the memory itself? for even when we
recognise it, on being reminded by another, it is thence it comes. For
we do not believe it as something new, but, upon recollection, allow
what was named to be right. But were it utterly blotted out of the
mind, we should not remember it, even when reminded. For we have not
as yet utterly forgotten that, which we remember ourselves to have
forgotten. What then we have utterly forgotten, though los
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The footer in web design has evolved drastically over the past few years. Whereas previously, the footer just served to terminate the website and include a plain, boring link to the privacy policy.
Eh. Solids are an inherently quantum phenomenon.
Funny, I was imagining almost this exact same scenario the other day. I thought it would be a good way to see how well the interviewers collaborate. I suppose it depends on how honest everyone is about what's going on.
I still vote up comments that are greyed out (indicating a negative score) if I think they don't deserve to be downvoted.
What the hell is wrong with you two? I thought the first thing every student did was check if there were answers in the back.

Just think of how much harder you made college for yourself.

Edit: to be serious, the solutions at the back (which I look forward to flipping to after every other exercise, kind of like a rat getting a food pellet in an experiment) are interesting in their own right. He plants little clues in there, to hint at what was important or why he asked the question.
On Siri, by Ed Wrenbeck, its former lead iPhone developer
> If I understand correctly, you seem to be saying that corporations should be afforded all of the same rights as individual citizens.

Not really.

Since corporations, like families, partnerships, and groups of friends, are aggregations of people, I don't think that your distinction makes sense.

How can me plus someone else have fewer free speech rights than either of us by ourselves?

However, even if you insist on treating corporations differently than "individual citizens", that doesn't justify treating the NYT differently than my little corporation.

> means that they are now better able to lobby for legislation that benefits them to the detriment of their young/upstart competitors (as someone posting on a board related to startups, I'm surprised that this doesn't concern you too).

I reject that approach because it can't work.

Large corps will never be signficantly constrained. However, small corps can be. It's unclear why you think that tilting the playing field like that is a good thing.

Note that the real solution is to keep govt passing ot favors. Of course, that's a futile hope so long as "reformers" think that they can get the right result by tweaking the rules. I keep hoping that they'll catch on.

And then there's the small problem that the real damage is done not by for-profit corps, but by "interest groups", such as AARP.

I'm not saying that AARP shouldn't be allowed to rant to its members and tell congress "what its members think", but .....
Dear god, they misspelled "Moustache" 15 times on this website!

Crazy Americans
It's not well understood, as evidenced by the continuing arguments about how upvoting "should" mean informative but "does" mean agree.
I've had very similar experiences -- especially with the operators.

I'm also nervous about the "DLL Hell" the article mentioned. I want to be able to build my programs for the next 10 years without having to worry about dependencies going away.

I believe this is because cabal doesn't generate a manifest of the exact versions your library/application depends on (unlike Ruby's bundler's Gemfile.lock file).

Hopefully this gets resolved soon.
Somewhat tangential, but there is a relatively influential theory in evolutionary biology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellian_intelligence) which states that high intelligence in primates and specifically humans arose as a direct consequence of living in large groups where reproductive fitness was strongly linked to social status. Living in such groups necessitated political maneuvering and caused an "arms race" of increasingly sophisticated tactics used by the group members to gain status. This theory also claims that living in such groups had a far bigger impact on the development of intelligence than toolmaking did and resulted in each of us possessing a theory of mind and being capable of introspection.

What I thought was interesting is that if political decision-making is performed by an area in the brain that is completely separate from, for example, problem-solving, then this fact doesn't play very well with the above theory.
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All technology should be a means to an end. Anything else is either art of intellectual masturbation.

I suspect most claims of how new technology makes people who 'live tech' more productive are mostly placebo effect, and in part naturally self-servingly so, after all, who wants to believe their job/industry/life is not all that important/relevant to the real world?
... after the community called out all the Google execs (including Eric) who weren't eating their own dogfood? Sounds like poor planning in terms of product marketing.

http://mashable.com/2011/10/04/google-needs-to-use-google-pl...

Still, I wish I had 43 million users on my web product...
Launch and compete.
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Well, I would think one should avoid using a famous quotation outright.

My passwords tend to be based off nonsense sentences. Personalized nonsense I can remember, but nonsense nonetheless.
2. I can't get over the fact that the forward button actually goes backwards in your list and the back button actually goes forwards.

I wonder if this has to do with the displayed sort order. I don't know which one you mean when you say "back" and "forward", but the button with the arrow pointing to the left on the message/thread view screen on my Android 2.3.6 nexus S gmail app goes to the message further toward the top of the list, and the button with the arrow pointing to the right goes to the message further down the list. This is as I expect.
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Almost certainly because they're not native English speakers.
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Much of business consists of selling product before paying vendors. Have you heard of "Net 30/60/90" terms?

The advertising is to acquire customers. But then it can obviously promote deals to existing customers for essentially no cost. This is also the reason it wasn't crazy to consider the mailing list an asset and account for it accordingly. Progress is only made when someone pushes.
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Try this: http://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-...
I'm a teenager in a public high school, and I have not seen a single person use Google+. This is not because Google+ is age limited, or because Google+ is inferior, but because nobody uses Google+. Already, most people I know (including non "techies"), use Facebook primarily for chat. The rest of the Facebook features are just "extra", and used occasionally. Unless Google can pull something revolutionary out of their hat (or Facebook has a major blunder) in regards to chat, they aren't going to be able to pull the teenage community over.

Note that this is from my personal experiences, and has a high probability of being completely wrong when you look at a broader population.
>They're licensing their own intellectual property, which happens to be used in Google's products.

The only one claiming that is Microsoft. Until the issue has been decided in court, we can't know that Google has infringed on any of Microsoft's intellectual property. According to the article, none of the claims have yet been contested in court. Therefore, we don't know for sure that Microsoft's technology is being infringed upon by Google.
Do teenagers still say "like" and "totally"?

Come to think of it, is teenage slang far slower-moving than I had always thought? When not being deliberately driven by Ninja Turtles or Clueless, that is?
This update was desperately needed. But you may have chance still. It seems you may have a head start on google as they are just now entering a limited test. Unlike most products i believe this is a "just has to work" solution. since people are already familiar with you in this area, leverage your contacts (people who currently use you) and get them to adopt your new service or recommend you to other web professionals. Once in place, i doubt they would switch to google if your product does what theirs does. Grab all the clients you can before google rolls out widespread. and of course be price competitive.
Are most of those names for simple concepts / design patterns / types?

I'm finding more and more that the hardest part of haskell is understanding the syntax and the terminology.
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No one buys an LCD randomly to keep in their pocket.

Straw-man. A phone maker buys an LCD to make a phone. Or an AMOLED display to build a more desirable phone.

Marketable doesn't mean "marketable to end-users". It means marketable to anyone, including other businesses.
Norvig's talk at Startup School '08 went into more details on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjJTgXujno

They do use SIFT (or at least a variant thereof) for finding and describing interest points, but by itself, there is no geometric matching in SIFT. There are various competing approaches on how do it, although in many cases, you can get very good results even without it. (It's very slow to do geometric matching so people often skip that step, or only apply it to the best matches.)

Landmark detection is a recent "hot topic" in computer vision, and given a large enough dataset, it essentially works now for the most part.
Feel free to correct me then. I have YET to work anywhere in any industry (financial primarily) that stated we had to have specific hardware up and running as part of an SLA.

It's an "SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT" not a "SERVER LEVEL AGREEMENT".
> All you need a chunk of type 2 superconductor, a strong magnet, and some liquid nitrogen.

This isn't entirely accurate. A "chunk of type 2 superconductor" would just show the Meissner Effect, which is different than "flux pinning". The Meissner Effect is how superconductors essentially repel magnetic fields, resulting in levitation; it wouldn't necessarily pin the levitating body in-place such that it could follow some track for example.

Flux pinning occurs when some magnetic fields penetrate the superconductor in discrete "tubes" through the imperfections (along the grains) of the superconductor. In order for flux pinning to happen, you must have an extremely thin superconductor (in the case of the video, it's actually a sapphire crystal wafer with a 1-micron thick coating of superconductor ceramic material).

EDIT: Technically, you could also get flux pinning if you were to supercool the superconductor (i.e. make it a superconductor) while it's in the magnetic field of the magnet.
Ask HN: What are best resources for a Java developer to learn web programming?
I spent the first 7 years of my career as a Java developer, but I haven't seriously coded for almost a decade. I have an idea for a web product that I'd like to develop, and I'd like to get a beta version put together to feedback from prospective customers before I think about quitting my job to pursue it.<p>To that end, I need to get a handle on the various technologies used in web development (i.e. I need to do more than just learn JavaScript).<p>What are some good resources for getting started?
Exactly my reaction. Even reading only the headline, "The Missed Red Flags of Groupon", my first reaction was "who missed them?"

From the owners taking 90% of the investors money for themselves, the fact their advertising costs almost match their sales, the fact that they make $270 million Q1'11 and still managed to lose $140 million... it all smells.

Groupon is a Ponzi scheme, and all the so-called smart investors and underwriters are just hoping to cash out before the pyramid collapses. There is nobody who seriously things this is a real long term sustainable business is there? Can't be.
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It's too verbose, it relies on DI to be testable, it has a weird type system (Integer vs int), the generic support is superficial, it lacks lambdas, releases are slow, it lacks a good web framework (yes, I've used play), some of it's behavior (checked exceptions, package-directory matching) are failed experiments.

Essentially, it hasn't evolved the way it probably should have. I am no fan of Microsoft, but, if you're going to have a general-purpose class-based static language using C-like syntax, C# is now as far ahead of Java as mutants are ahead of humans.

Also, there's a stigma attached to Java: code is over-architected, slow and eats memory like crazy. My experience certainly leads me to believe that this is true, though it seems to say a lot more about Java developers than Java itself.
I think naming the device "Quantum Levitation" is marketing. Why can't the student call it what it is?
But what would be the point?

Curiosity?