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I think it is a great idea. Your homepage looks a bit bland, but your description of the content in the above post is quite good.

Not sure how you will monetize and I would encourage you to NOT monetize (for a while). Instead, perhaps you can create a tool that will just be really useful. It seems useful enough anyway
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It's got to be java. The garbage collection hiccups and bad performance and all over android phones. I can feel it when I use them. I can feel it when I develop for them. It's like in the old days, 200 mhz computers trying to run java, it was so slow back then. And now cell phones are slow, and performance matters. It's ridiculous that you need a 1ghz processor to get get good performance on a phone, but thats java for you. We had fluid apps running on 200 mhz computers, but they were written languages without memory management. It's no wonder why iPhone apps written in objective-c run so smoothly.
Besides being a great library, its an excellent example of well written PHP code.
So this person was using a new operating system he didn't understand, which is great, but doing that on a co-located server where it's hard to do anything when something screws up is not a good idea.

He was compiling all kinds of custom stuff for what he called a "simple LAMP server." He should have just needed to install Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which are all in the package manager. I would not be surprised if his update woes were due to his crazy setup.
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I believe its origins lie in the fact that spaces get converted to + in the URL.

I always found it weird when I saw others using plus instead of spaces in their search queries. I always used double quotes to mark phrases to search for exactly.
Let's see... I started with C++ on the Commodore Amiga - so I just used the AmigaOS API. Then I remember the shock when coming to Windows with MFC. After that, I sincerely don't remember, I guess it was mostly MFC (different iterations, but always horrible) and some OWL (Borland) when I did Windows development - but I did more Web development at the time.

After that I discovered Qt, and it was great fun - the GUI part of my first entrepreneurial attempt (www.quillia.com) I programmed in Qt.

What did I miss?
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hellofax uses dropbox api? That's sweet - but I can't figure out exactly how they use it?
I second that notion, creative talent of this magnitude needs to be recognized more often!
Well, they haven't released their information deletion app, Google-, yet.
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Some questions come to mind:

How many startups in Silicon Valley actually STARTED UP in Silicon Valley, versus moved there after they got some traction?

What is the success RATIO in Silicon Valley, USA versus Unknown, USA? IOW, in SV there may be more absolute success stories, but relatively-speaking is it higher?

I don't think anyone has the numbers to prove this, but I'd love to see them if they do. All posts of this type seem to drop back to anecdotal evidence.
That's from back in February, so even if it were true it says nothing about how much power Ive has post Jobs, and there's little reason to believe it's true, since it was heavily denied by even its claimed sources when other publications talked to them subsequently.
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http://blog.hellofax.com/uncategorized/receive-faxes-in-drop...
"Most postal mail is spam, mixed with a few important messages."

It's too bad we can't apply baysean algos to spam snail mail. (yes, I know sender pays and all that).
That's sad, as Google's "smart" broad interpretation of keywords makes it worse and worse for very technical queries.

Quite often I have to prefix every term with +. Quote-based syntax doubles annoyance of this pointless task.
You haven't seen the four tongue-in-cheek posts about it over the last three days?
BlackHawkNetwork says 'Acquisition of Carpool' on their website at
http://www.blackhawknetwork.com/

I hope they knew what they were buying..
Some. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
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For the uninformed, these are two separate issues.

The first is that apps are laggy or jittery during scrolling or animations. This is partially due to poor coding from developers, but the main reason for its existence was the lack of hardware acceleration on Android devices. This changed with 3.0 on tablets, and now 4.0 on everything. Developers still have to opt-in with a one-line XML file change, due to compatibility issues. So in essence this has been solved across the board.

The second is what a lot of users are now referring to (and was largely masked by the presence of the former problem). And it's that there's a much larger drag distance required to "initiate" user interaction on Android than iOS. When I pick up a friend's iPhone, it seems like if a hair on my finger even grazes the screen the UI immediately (and appropriately) reacts. On every Android device that I've ever used, it takes approximately 0.5 to 1.0 centimeters before the UI will begin to react and scroll. This is what people mean when they say that it feels like you're "pulling" the UI on Android, while iOS has 1:1 natural interaction.

Is it annoying? Yes. But after moderate use I stop noticing it, until I happen to touch an iOS device again. Now that Ice Cream Sandwich has taken care of every other fault with the platform I had, this is really the last item on my list of complaints, having used Android devices for years on a near-daily basis. I don't know if it's a problem with the hardware of the screen sensors themselves or with the levels of abstraction to Java-land, but this should be their top priority for what I can only assume they'll call Jelly Bean.
It's not that, it's just that we as a community are keenly afraid of HN's comments section turning into reddit's. Reddit's threads are often clever and sometimes hilarious, but that crap has choked off most everything else. That's not what this forum is about. If we don't remain hyper-vigilant, it will creep in while we aren't looking. Comments that consist solely of a joke will almost always be voted down here.
Something similar from a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw

Unless I missed it, the microsoft HoloDesk does not provide tactile feedback like the one in the outube video. Still cool though.
I think that's a very apt comparison. It's hard to overestimate how deeply personal Cars and Cars 2 are to John, but it's also hard to overstate how tricky they were to pull off.

Sure, you can criticize Cars 2 for having a story that didn't hit the bullseye. Totally fair, by Pixar's own "story, story, story" standards. But don't think the Pixar Brain Trust didn't do so first (as mentioned in the article, things had indeed gone wrong) or that they didn't do heroic acts to make things work. Ultimately it's an artistic process within a movie studio and you sometimes have to put things into production and trust that you can work out the problems. Pixar will bend everything out of shape to delay that point but it still happens. It's the fact that Pixar had done so well rescuing movies from a burning story that makes the rest of us forget that sometimes.

Still, where Cars and Cars 2 started from and how well the stories they had were executed — I think those things are hard to criticize. These movies are love letters to the automotive culture that came of age as John did, and they are both put on the screen with a huge amount of artistry, character, cleverness and humor.
This is a solution looking for a problem.

I know my Google Analytics aren't 100% correct, but I don't think people are spoofing them. The differences lie more in people who click through faster than GA can load (which can be easily possible on those still on 56k), or have "privacy blockers" in their ad block to remove GA altogether.
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Great tutorial on how to use Storyboards in iOS 5
I agree with you but wonder if the article was like that from Daniel Kahneman himself or the journalist. Having dealt with the later I really understand how good at bending what you said they are.

Also, if Daniel was a pop scientist, would he be given nobel prize in his field? Yes, Obama comes to mind, but still.
"Command" key (forget what it's actually called), start typing very much like Spotlight and Windows Desktop Search. IMHO way better than a ton of shiny buttons that I may or may not need.
The seamless transfer of sphere from sheet of paper to cup was pretty cool.
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Interesting point. There were some rumors that surfaced last week that Ive only met Forestall in the presence of Tim Cook, and did not talk to him otherwise. Not very probable, but still too bad if that is so.
Re: your comment around destroying agencies, I disagree inasmuch as believing the forward thinking agencies are/will actually spawn their own IP divisions, and thus feed into the startup scene in the future.
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I use quotes for exact phrases, when I see my results returning a lot of things out of the order of what I'm looking for.

I use (or used to use) + to strictly require a single word in my results, when I notice for some odd reason my results seemed to have skipped that word entirely. Conversely, and it appears this still works, I use - to strip out words that are clogging up my results.
So true. The hardest part is taking away features from your own product. We need to learn to let go of non-crucial features. built. launch fast. iterate faster.
Highly entertaining (and insightful), thanks.
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Kind of makes you wonder why "Microsoft Research" isn't just "Microsoft".
I enjoyed reading Ars Technica's take on this a while back, entitled "All this has happened before: NVIDIA 3.0, ARM, and the fate of x86"

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/02/nvidia-30-and-t...

Predictions of x86's imminent demise are, well, wrong. But so too, prediciting arm's destruction at the hands of intel... not likely.

There's lots of market for both companies. They have different origins, different goals, and different areas of expertise.
I have been playing with OCROpus - http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
Well yeah there is that! I generally find political discussion on immigration wholly distasteful, and often parading itself as xenophobic/racist propaganda.

The whole immigration issue boils down to "we got here first! nah nah ne nah nah!"
I think going back on the promise he made in 2008 is more an indication about the entrenched power in the U.S. and the difficulty of making such a proclamation without knowing exactly what it would entail. For him to go back on this now would be a major blow to credibility. I doubt very much that he would announce this only to backtrack in a couple of months.
It sounds all very intriguing from a technical point of view, but how much less would it cost than putting up a whole new satellite into orbit?
Seems to hit it right on the nose. I write JavaScript for a living and can say that each of these skills is fundamental to my success. Good read.
So are planets. Which means water is going to be fairly plentiful, relative to the amount of planetary mass we have.
Anecdotally, NumPy (Python) has some traction. Similarly they don't consider SQL libraries. And I'm sure there are statistical analysis libraries for Java. According to the bar chart below R is mentioned by 45%, SQL by 32%, Python by 25%, Java by 24%. This seems a more reasonable comparison to me than the graphs earlier (higher up) in the post.

https://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/_/rsrc/1318535062...
Indeed,

Also, I know from considerable experience that the plus operator had a distinct meaning from the quotes operator so this change definitely implies that Google queries will be less fine-grained no matter what quotes means now.

Yes, Google is worse and worse for anything technical.

Alternatives anyone?
I think it works that way now. Can you find a search where e.g. "selection" returns results for "select" instead?
This is a specific document use of reactive programming, a paradigm where values are automatically updated when their dependencies change. Flapjax has offered reactive javascript for a long time now: http://www.flapjax-lang.org/

I think Flapjax didn't gain much traction largely because the website is ugly. Of course the the other reason is that regular event binding tends to be a good enough solution.

Some of the new client-side javascript solutions like knockout.js also offer reactive capabilities.
Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com?
I mean, Reddit came out of Y Combinator...
What are the best books available on the subject of predicting human behavior, if you don't mind me asking? Advanced or technical are fine, scientific journals would be over my comprehension, I'm afraid.
While we're on the subject, does anyone know how to search with date/period restrictions without using 'Advanced Search'? "foo date:3" (last three months) doesn't work anymore.
Good point! I wonder how much of Mathematica's functionality can be bundled into stand-alone CDF documents (playable by the CDF Player).

Wolfram|Alpha has an API that can be called using JavaScript (for a fee), so some mixed solution is also worth considering.
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I've assumed quotes meant one or more words were wanted in that order, not as keywords ("to be or not to be" = I don't mean a lot of documents including all those words, but rather that exact phrase) whereas + meant that particular word or phrase had to be in the page (melting abs +plastic = I'm not concerned with placement, but the term "plastic" has to be explicitly mentioned on the page, not related from another page, as I'm wanting to melt ABS plastic as opposed to reshape my abdominals). I considered + as the opposite of -, which is usually the easier way to narrow something down (melting abs -muscle -workout). Oh well..
Every bit of consolidation in the market - and there's going to be a lot more consolidation - drops Groupon's customer acquisition cost, as less companies compete for the same inventory.

In the meantime they've built up an incredible amount of in-house traffic-buying expertise. In their unprofitable push to get huge, Groupon bought every type of ad unit available. I wish I had a sliver of the data available to their ad buyers.
I wouldn't try to make any comment on the overall value of his research, and I am sure his academic writing is much more rigorous. But I really think these "universal secrets of the mind" books, written for a general audience, go too far in clouding original and critical thought by presenting such a slick, skewed narrative. They're sold as guides to better thinking but wind up inducing the opposite. It feels dishonest.
I have used +"a phrase" and gotten a different result from just "a phrase" combined with other words on a number of occasions. It was part of my search strategy for complex information.

This just dumbmifies Google search a little more...
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Totally off topic but there is a bug in the PHP code example:

echo "<script src=\"http://example.com/analytics.js?ts=$ts&r=$r&ds=$ts\&...;

should be:

echo "<script src=\"http://example.com/analytics.js?ts=$ts&r=$r&ds=$ds\&...;
I doubt every ramen profitable startup founder is aware of this distinction, so it's still probably a point worth making.
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A valid point, but I think you're getting stuck on the semantics of what he's saying and missing the point he's trying to make: you shouldn't stay stuck on one idea once it's clear it won't go anywhere, even if you're "ramen sustainable". Of course, everyone has a different idea of when an endeavor should be abandoned, don't they?
What do you mean by "SQL Libraries"? Do these interface with SQL to perform analysis?
And I believe that this was how it used to operator.
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I'm having the opposite reaction. I find myself fighting against iOS most of the time. The browser zooms to odd proportion on most pages, and I really miss the double-tap to zoom for one-handed browsing. Reading a notification, and having no direct path back to where you came from (answering a txt message, for instance) feels really clunky. The lack of widgets feels outdated and dogmatic, rather than useful. Being able to put a contact on my home screen, click once to open ways to communicate and a second time to email/txt/call/facebook is amazingly useful to me, because I generally contact only a few people on a regular basis.

And if you expand to include the ecosystem, it's not even close. The iCloud web apps are pathetic compared to Google's offerings.

I could go on. And this isn't just bashing, I'm growing to like a lot about iOS, but I think these Android vs iOS stories are mostly link bait. They're a lot more similar than most people will admit, and both have plusses and minuses.

EDIT: Ok click to zoom is kinda there, but I like the way it works on Android better. That's just a preference, so I'll strike that from my list of objections.
"I've heard countless tales of people going into science after being inspired by the astronauts on their moonwalks"

Similar, I remember reading somewhere (no reference on this though) that many went into the law after watching "LA Law" in the 80's.

"it will attract a wide variety of people (maybe even minorities and women) into careers that create value for our economy"

On a societal level that is fine. But on an individual level maybe not as much. Any person evaluating risk has to focus on the down side not just the upside of whatever decision they make. If they are making the decision for the wrong reason that could be a problem for them. Where the "wrong reason" is thinking it is a way to get rich or extending college dorm life.
DuckDuckGo, (http://duckduckgo.com/) especially with the !bang syntax.

Not an alternative, but BlindSearch (http://blindsearch.fejus.com/) is interesting.
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Two apps I use almost daily that use the API:

- https://agilebits.com/onepassword/android

- http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_pro_android/
There was an intent on pg's part to set a different forum culture. See the original announcement of this site's founding

http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

and discussion of that here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189

See

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

for the welcome message to new participants on HN and

http://news.ycombinator.com/news

for the Hacker News guidelines.

See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1049720

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196751

for some comments by pg on the history of this site.
Bureaucratic authority, no. Influence to the point of defacto authority, yes.
I have always found that double quotes were good enough to specify inclusion and I did always use '-' to specify omission.
Thinking about that, I do now get your use case.

Can Google try and make + a double operator? We know that G+ only allows you to have your real names on your profiles and the '+' for G+ is to specify a person. Maybe Google will treat the '+' as a G+ only if it has a relevant profile to show and otherwise leave it like it is?
i am so glad to be reminded of this. Now i just need to implement a filter for assetic at some point.

Assetic still relies on opti{png,jpeg} which i'm sure works pretty well, but also requires one to call out to an external program.
I guess we'll all find out on Monday.
If you want something more fine-grained, blekko claims to filter results by category. e.g. "select /programming" https://blekko.com/ws/select+/programming will return results for "select" in the "programming" category.
I came to Hacker News to get away from Reddit. I'm not even a programmer, I just got sick of the deviation to the norm. Also, what would really be the point. It would be akin to having a slashdot or digg subreddit.

There's no harm in creating a Hacker News subbreddit. I just don't think it would be too popular.
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Sometimes you have to engage the visitor before showing a sign-up/buy button. Otherwise they expect something free, see a price, and just leave.

My conversions dropped (something like 30%-50%) when I placed the buy button above the folder vs. at the very bottom of the page.

http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper

It's perfectly reasonable to me now, but before I would have never guessed that "below the fold" was better than "above the fold" in some circumstances, considering the first one is the golden rule of conversions.

"Don't assume, and try different and contrasting things" should really be that rule.
This article reminded me of my undergrad econ classes. I understand that it was just undergrad and we were learning a basic tool set. But it seriously scares me when I remember how my classmates and I (some of whom are on Wall St) took class after class that drilled supply/demand graphs premised on rational, utility maximizing populations into our heads. Whether the theories in this article are oversimplified or not, they do provide an important counterweight against anyone who thinks that they can reliably predict people's decisionmaking. I hope econ textbooks are evolving to reflect the growing marriage between econ and neuropsych.
Whats\With\All\The\Backslashes? Am I only one seeing that in the examples?
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Is there an operator for "must occur"? Embarrassingly, I've always thought + was used for that (and quotes for exact phrases).

It seems like recently Google has started to return more results which don't include some of my search terms. It gets really frustrating when trying to track down error messages.
>Our thinking is constantly biased by our formative experiences and our environment.

And current mood. I have no numbers on this but i am pretty sure that people with chronic pain tend to have more negative thoughts than the average person.

edit: space
Yes, but the same comparison could be made with last year's Android and iOS4. For smoothness of UI, even the original iPhone was smooth.
Wow, so could that plain text file be a JavaScript file in my public Dropbox folder?
Looks great, but...I clicked on "examples" and expected examples of output in addition to code examples...Please add these if you have time.
Finally, Dropbox lets apps request access to only a single folder. Now you can try out an app without worrying that you're giving access to your private data.

Many people were asking about this feature on Hacker News just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3136098