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There actually IS a subreddit, of sorts, for some of these kinds of posts. /r/startup(s) - I can't quite recall if it was singular or plural.

It's a pretty barren subreddit, however. I never noticed a whole lot of new material going through there, so I stopped checking it.

Also, completely makes sense to do this outside of something like a Reddit, which already has an established community and sense of policy. Doing his own project, his stated reasons aside, gives PG the ability to set whatever tone he thinks is appropriate for the direction of the site. While that may not have been his original intention, I'm sure it's come in handy for him more than once.

Plus, it's fun to build new things from scratch and see if they "stick"
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>Do some fancy satellites have proximity sensors and self-destruct mechanisms.

If the opposition had just spent $XXXBn on a reusable space shuttle to retrieve satellites and you were a paranoid cold war enemy wouldn't you?
I think the tech/startup industry has a large affect on a lot of people's thinking, especially at a young (high-schoolish) age. The startup ideas pushed by pg, and the success that people like Zuckerburg and Jobs have had, have shown that success doesn't have to mean wearing suit. This influence will grow as technology grows deeper ingrained in our lives.

Take myself. I went to an elite (Canadian) boarding school, where the idea of success was largely seen to be Wall Street/Business/Politics.

About 60-80& of my grad class went to get their Commerce/Business undergrads. I easily could have too.

I was not a nerd, more of an all-rounder. I was captain of my hockey, soccer and rugby teams. I acted in plays, went to debate competitions, took the hardest math/sciences courses I could. Kids like me, especially kids like me from my school, usually went to a prestigious university and eventually ended up in managements/business/politics.

I chose what is probably the nerdiest/least prestigious university in Canada. Why? Paul Graham, and cause they have the best engineering program in the country. Seriously. I know that sounds like some corny hero worship shit, but his essays almost single-handedly convinced me that I needed to "Stay Upwind", get a technical degree, and start my own company.

The infatuation with entrepreneurs inspires like the Apolo program probably did 50 years ago. It's good for the community.
I can't help but boggle at the suggestion that in this day and age there are programming environments where doing this is less work than running a real profiler. I mean, come on, profilers that can't handle recursion or that can't show higher than function level granularity?
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I've heard that, "you know a deal is fair when neither party is happy". Which is to day, I have no idea.

Maybe 1/2 average rev from latest sales trend period x 12 months. I commend you on trying to be fair, b/c most deals don't happen that way.
No, you're incredibly wrong.. The question hasn't been tabled - people who were having it were told they'd be murdered to the last if they didn't give in.

That's slightly different than "Nah, let's drop this pesky independence thing."

As far as recapturing the mainland, they're waiting for the mainlanders to throw off their illegal and oppressive government and welcome them back - if not as leaders, then as brothers.
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My sister (Eva) needed to use Hellofax a few days ago after I asked her to sign something digitally. She didn't know how, but when she got your automated "Let me know if you need any help" email, she wrote back with some questions. You (assuming you're Joseph) helped her figure out how to use it, and then she called me and was absolutely GLOWING about how cool it was to email back and forth with you, get help, and have a fun conversation. She also loved the "Stay Faxy" line you used somewhere.

Just wanted to say thanks, awesome job, and I think you converted her into a Hellofax customer for life.
And here's the list of supported HTML tags and CSS elements: http://tinyurl.com/KindleFormat8 (Amazon's urls are very long and ugly, so I used url shortener).
I use R as my primary data-analysis tool for almost all of my work, with occasional recourse to SAS for certain specialized models (e.g., PROC GLIMMIX for generalized mixed models).

My only complaint is the awful default IDE, which can be mitigated to a large extent by scripting elsewhere and source()ing the script, and some odd edge behaviors including the mystifying row names of dataframes, the difficulty of dropping unused factor levels from aggregated or sliced data (another dataframe issue), and the perhaps unnecessary obscurity of some of the plotting functions (although holding R responsible for the lattice library is unfair).

All that said, for a free tool, it's extraordinary, and the authors of the base language and the many packages that I use have my gratitude.
Since SPDY multiplexes multiple streams to the same socket, and commonly-used static content will be cached in the server's memory anyway, I don't see much practical difference between what SPDY's X-Associated-Content and what you're proposing.
I think "schools are places that give people of a certain age something to do without giving them the option of leaving" is a perfectly valid sentiment and a good description of why more 10 - 14 year olds would perform less crime.

Calling them prisons implies the entire population of students would commit said crimes.
I think it's more that when the NYT talks about the new "Job's designed iPad", Ive kicks the cat.
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Their "Living Pictures" messaging doesn't resonate with me - letting viewers set the focus themselves strikes me as an interesting tech display the first two times, and then nobody will bother. Especially if there's a massive download associated with that ability.

However, letting the photographer set the focus post-facto, "print" that image into a jpeg, and finally share that jpeg in the standard fashion ... that seems like the real benefit ("take a picture super fast, and get it right later!").

Lytro alludes to this benefit, but they talk about "getting it right later" in the context of the end audience interacting with the Living Picture (TM) ... which I think is a gimmick that the audience will tire of. But the original photographer will love it for the generation of final product (once the resolution issue is solved), by moving the fiddly "get the focus etc right" effort from "in the moment, time-sensitive" to "post-production, leisurely".
The keys it produces are big enough for this application. PBKDF2 can produce output keys of arbitrary size, which is why PBKDF1 got deprecated, but it's not always necessary.
However, taking those concepts and doing a jungle theme with monkeys and vines will be a stretch if you lack the experience as there's no step-by-step to get the right proportions for those shapes.

That's the great thing about cartoony illustrations -- the right proportions don't matter. If you're really worried about it, just trace a photograph and go from there.
The most expensive part of the whole process is getting stuff into orbit. The main reason satellites have to be super-reliable is that even getting such levels of reliability is cheaper than sending up a replacement.
Default IDE? Do you mean the R interpreter REPL? If you are looking for a nice IDE for R, I would suggest RStudio: http://rstudio.org/
I have a HTC Droid Incredible and I don't see the second UI lag issue whatsoever. I just tested by dragging around on the home screen, the lock screen, the SMS message list, and my Dolphin HD web browser. I have to move my finger maybe 1-2 milimeters for it to start responding, but nowhere near .5 to 1 cm.
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No, that would be too simple. They plan to have WP7 on high-end smartphones, Symbian in low-end, and Linux in even lower end and experimental devices.
Because they want to give competitors an opening~
I think comparing to an iPhone 4 would have the same result.
Double-tap to zoom has been there since day one.
I like it. Are there books that go step-by-step like this and cover a much wider range of things.
I'm hoping someone will tell me why it's a security problem, but yeah, for a whole slew of apps, I'd like eliminate server logic or at least make it simple to swap out backends.
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Ask HN: Do you know of a good personalized concert listing service?
I'm imagining something like pandora where I can enter in an artist and a zip code and it will recommend nearby concerts. What do people use for this now?
This really leads me to believe that the market is ripe for a "technical" search engine, which can do sophisticated queries of semi-structured data.

I could see such an engine having both a human readable output and a json output, suitable for chaining into some other analysis pipeline.
Double-tap for zoom is there all the time but maybe the sites you visit don't zoom correctly because the container goes all the way from left to right (I think this site has such a zooming problem).

And the iCloud web apps are awesome. Don't know where the problem is. They behave like real OS apps. I like that.
Is it really necessary to expect a front end developer to have complete knowledge of manipulating the DOM without jQuery (or one of the other libraries)? I'm definitely capable of reminding myself of it, since that is what I learned when I first started learning javascript, I just do not see any benefit to it. I write quite a bit of javascript for my job on a daily basis, and am never without something like jQuery.
Since satellites aren't designed with that sort of ablation effect in mind, I think hugh3's point that it would fall apart as various connecting bits burned through early would be much more likely.
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I would hardly label what USPS offers as tracking.

There's a cost disparity because there's a features and performance disparity between Postal Service tracking, and FedEx/UPS tracking. Better tracking, better reporting, better user experience.
Yes, about 2 weeks after Galaxy Nexus is launched I believe, so sometime in December.
I'd love to see something like this that handled local bands, with information, press, reviews all consolidated.

Yelp for local music, maybe.
Nice - nothing but respect for Ooyala.

You're right - it's possible we got thousands of attempts to spoof traffic that we automatically dumped for being malformed. Like you, we also got a ton of weird data mangling and bad responses which we just ignored. Most were bad implementations or issues with the phones themselves, but some could've been spoofing attempts.

It's also possible that smaller attempts to spoof traffic went by absolutely undetected by both us and our clients. Like you, it'd take a pretty significant spoofing attempt for us to notice. That said, what's the point of an insignificant spoofing attempt?
You're right, Blackhawk manages many of the operations related to gift cards.

On the other point, however, I can guarantee that Cardpool is about get a whole lot BIGGER, and won't be shutting down or changing directions anytime soon ;).
It cuts both ways.
There are designers who build things that can't be made - and especially things that can't be mass produced cheaply and easily.

But there are also people with 20years of manufacturing experience who don't what that we can do more things cheaply and easily with 5-axis CNC mills and hot-wire cutters than you can with a casting.
>Is it annoying? Yes. But after moderate use I stop noticing it

As someone who uses both devices, I really only notice this when I'm so board that dragging around a menu seems like a good way to kill time or plain old stoned. Its really surprised me how much I've seen this as a criticism of the android in the past few weeks. In the past I had always just written them off as being different, not necessarily better or worse, like a design decision to make sure that "Yes menu, it is in fact time for us to scroll" because there are many cases where the user won't have a steady finger but don't mean to activate scrolling.

But, if the menu feel is even being brought up as a valid comparison point, it is good news all around. Splitting these hairs is proof that both platforms have finally made it to the point of meeting most user's wants.
sorry, it looked so awesome and I noticed the kind requirement to use it for flask-only projects after rolled the new sphinx design out. I promise to use a different theme and is something I'm working on now.
Not even close to being the same thing. Google does search. That's what they are known for. Advertising is how they monetize search (which incidentally came long after they launched their search engine). Only us geeks with an axe to grind would associate Google with advertising before search. Would you call a site like Daring Fireball a site that specializes in thoughtful essays on technology? Or a site that tries to sell the customer's eyeballs to sponsors and advertisers?
It may be related to the +1 stuff, or they may need to clear the way so it can be used for a new purpose.
Ask HN: Reports on adding Game Mechanics to websites
Anyone know any good case studies or reports detailing the benefits (or lack there of) for content websites that add game mechanics (badges, rankings etc)?
We just migrated a large production database for an existing website to MongoDB. I am currently writing an article to share the lessons learned, in the mean time I would be happy to answer your questions!
I'll start the ball rolling with an easy one...

How did it go?

Can you talk through some of the changes you had to make, both from a library perspective, as well as any architectural changes that were required?
it's all depending on use cases.. that is why I don't think an API should be secured through SSL from day one.. here is an example how SSL can be unnecessary, if i am processing billions of ad request daily with a response time of less than few milliseconds, and operates in a secured environment, why would i need to add a layer of SSL on all the requests..

Use cases drive requirements, not buzz words drive requirements, and that's my whole point
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The XZ-1 has an optional electronic viewfinder as well.
Though it's still a young project, you might be interested in Unhosted: http://unhosted.org/

It's an OSS project that kind of aims at doing that kind of stuff. (if I'm not mistaking your post)
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Can anyone explain how pattern matching causes complexity?
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Google still interprets your words to an extent. The standby test search I use, [["everything wrong" crossfade]], still mutates [[everything]] into [[everything's]].
> because it was in HP and Lexmark printers

And game console. PS1, PS2 and N64, IIRC, were MIPS boxes.
"So in essence this has been solved across the board."

Which is why ICS Galaxy Nexus demo units were reported to still be laggy?
As I pointed out in my post, the longer you use Android the further off your perception becomes. To get an accurate measurement I had to play with my Nexus S and an iPhone side-by-side, doing identical movements, and had a ruler and zoomed camera pointed at them both. After removing my mental bias from having become conditioned to that "pull" latency, the difference was pretty obvious.

I was also in the same boat about believing it was just a few millimeters, until I actually went ahead and measured it. My mind was thinking a millimeter was larger than it actually is.
> Comparing last year's Android with this year's iOS?

You could make that comparison using any iOS and any iPhone combination apart from iPhone 3G + iOS 4. It's not new to the 4S, although the 4S probably pulls even further ahead, this issue has been a recurring theme in Android phone reviews ever since the first Android phone was released.
Overall, it went well, bumpy at first because we had to learn about Mongo's performance characteristics. Having a full-size database to work with made it a bit easier to identify friction points early on.

To make the most of it, we bit the bullet rewrote the whole application. You can't join results from two collections in MongoDB so we had to denormalize quite a lot.
Some lag is necessary in order to simply and reliably implement long-press actions, to distinguish them from drags. It's a bit like Windows ignoring small drags to help people make double-clicks on icons.
It's funny because in natural language, double quotation marks mean anything but the exact, literal sense of the word. Sometimes they are used to convey the exact opposite of the word between quotes: Yes, Robert Ford, you were so "brave" when you shot Jesse James.
And so would comparing to an iPhone 3GS.
Neither does Bing (at least so far).
Hmm, you'd still have to ensure that your selector has higher specificity, right? That itself can be hard unless you're okay with adding !important to everything. I was thinking that inherit: none would somehow address this, but the rules would probably be pretty complicated.
Seriously, I was wondering today whether I should ask HN what you think about these google smart inflection and alleged misspelling detection.

I am so tired of this. I do mistakes (after all errare humanum est), but I do it rarely, yet I am enforced to use quotes practically all the time (I am doing it since many months at least, don't remember exact moment, but I think in 2010 there wasn't automatic I-know-better, but only suggestions, correct me if I'm wrong, please). It's such a PITA. Is there maybe some secret search switch that can be used (and turned on in Chrome by default hopefully) to allow me avoiding typing quotation marks (") more than many hundreds times a day. And I still unconsciously always write without them for the first time, and, surprisingly, sometimes get correct results when the terms are ultimately known by everyone.

Before Google only suggested what I am possibly searching for. Why it is so sure now (i.e. this year) to make my original queries second-class citizens? Unbelievable and abominable poise.
Really? Performance is awful for me.
Aw man, awesome stuff. Searching, revisions... those things are really helpful.

I'm still hoping that POST notifications / webhooks will be introduced soon. That will definitely make the web a better place.
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oauth authorization looks for that - oauth authorization - in the page.

oauth "authorization" looks for oauth, with "authorization" nearby, in the page.

So you will get more hits for the latter.
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Oh I definitely agree. To be at the point where this is the last real criticism of the OS that I've come to know and use is excellent.

And take it for what it's worth, but the instant reaction of iOS devices isn't necessarily for everyone. My father for example thinks that it's much too sensitive. He'll accidentally graze the screen when hovering his finger over something while reading or trying to get to a UI element, and all of a sudden the app starts scrolling, making him feel lost and frustrated.
The number of search results figures shown by google are not at all accurate.
Steve once gave a talk on programmers knowing marketing:

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"Google in its official documentation claims to have a faster browser in 4.0 with an updated V8 JavaScript engine. The new engine shows a 35-550% performance improvement on different devices and tests according to Google."

It will be interesting to see how fast its new V8 engine is in the Sunspider test. Also, it's too bad it doesn't have WebGL, but maybe we'll get it once Chrome arrives to Android, which might be in the version that will show up at Google I/O. It would be perfect timing, too, considering Google I/O is also a Chrome event. Perhaps they are waiting for more powerful GPU's like the one in Kal-El to showcase WebGL on a tablet or smartphone.
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Honestly, I didn't see much that doesn't still apply to writing JavaScript today. However, I think overall code organization and re-usability is something that today's JS devs need to think more about. It's too easy to whip together a bunch of "cowboy code" with so many plug-ins and libraries available.
"No competitors, no market."

Let's see: Start with Xerox with their first good machine, about 1962. Due to the difficulty of making that technology work and their patents, they had no 'competition' and no good 'substitutes' except, say, carbon paper. "Market"? It was HUGE.

I know someone who had a heart attack and got a stent installed in an artery. Blood wants to clot at the stent, So there's a drug Plavix that helps a lot, really, is essential. Plavix goes for about $7 a day, and there is NO 'competition' or substitute except a clot and death.

Here's the recipe: (1) Find a problem where a much better solution will be very valuable. (2) Do some original R&D to get a much better solution difficult to duplicate or equal. (3) Market the solution with high margins and carry the money to the bank. Difficult to duplicate or equal? One protection is a patent but there can be others, say, some IT software locked up in a server farm. Is such software possible? Actually, yes. Exhibit A: Xerox. Exhibit B: Plavix.

Done.
Can you elaborate a bit more on the scope of the rewrite? I'm assuming you didn't have much front end work to re-do, mainly middle to back end code?

Did you have anything you could re-use, such as your high level business logic classes, or (and this is meant non-judgmentally) was your code too deeply wrapped around the existing data store, or the idea of the data store as a RDBMS, to make any of it reusable?

Was your logic primarily in Stored Procedures, or (and again i'm assuming here, this time that yours is a .NET environment since you called it 'SQL Server') did you make heavy use of LINQ to handle those kinds of things?

Can you talk about those performance issues, and how you handled them? (For my third assumption, i'll go with Indexes)

Looking forward to reading the in depth article. Thanks for fielding these questions
yes.. but for less adopted or emerging platforms, you have to be more conscious of the source of the library, and should look at the source to verify its functionalities
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I'm guessing w/in a few months Google launches a G+ integration with search that lets you reference your contacts in search queries using the + operator.
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