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Although it isn't my intention, I do understand that this might come across as rude, but how is this different from the last few times it has been posted here on hackernews?

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=nodebeginne...

6 months ago, 4 months ago... It may be a good book, but it isn't new, or as far as I know, changed significantly enough to warrant being listed on the front page.
In Poland it's always after tax.
Moreover we almost never mention yearly pay, always a monthly one.
There are a lot of people who would like a full-fledged relational database that scales up to large clusters. Just because you're not one of them doesn't mean they don't exist, or that they're "completely missing the point."
Is there an api? I would love to make a textexpander snippit for this.
Thanks. We think it's important to be profitable so the service can be stable and long-lasting.
Mike Kus' fingerprints are all over the visuals. Really exceptional work on the design.
How a Thermostat Built by Former Apple Guys Will Make Green Cool
I think you're seeing a bug. Do you have time to send an email to help@teamtreehouse.com with a screenshot? Thanks so much.
Google Launches Google+ Pages for Brands
Ryan,

I think that may be your biggest sell in this community. I didn't realize that at ALL when I checked out your site. I actually left thinking "eh, I'll just stick to openclassroom/courseware"... Knowing this really adds a whole new world of appeal. Incorporate that somehow!!
Byron Reese, of Demand Media fame, is up to something
Never underestimate the speed of a ten foot container filled with 2 terabyte harddrive

No. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck filled with harddrives. Always underestimate the speed of said truck.

Networking is easy when latency doesn't matter. Unfortunately, it does.
How would that work? The URL only works once, so even if they crawled every possibility, the intended recipient would never get it, and would alert the sender.
I've had two friends get overnighted new kindles to replaces ones that they broke.

Amazon's customer service is, quite frankly, better than almost any brick and mortar store's customer service. And I don't even have to leave my home.

It's an interesting play on B&N's part, and I don't really see how it can play out well for them. They've more or less acknowledged that the future of almost all of their wares is digital. Can the expense of running brick and mortar stores for customer service possibly be worth the added cost to the customer? Seems doubtful.
Very neat concept. I like thinking about these new classes of sites/utilities - like one I made called http://shoutkey.com/ - which deal with useful temporary data instead of storing loads of data forever and ever.

I'm interested to know what data store you are using (just curious)?
Brazilian ISPs Hit with Large-Scale DNS Attack
That is a great video. Before watching it I didn't understand QR codes at all.

As a consumer, I've never used a QR code in my life. If companies reward users for using QR codes with discounts, as the video suggests, I would use it.

Also, now I understand why a business would want to use QR codes. They help the businesses to track the effectiveness of advertising.
Knew this would come up. It actually changes the colour temperature, so that it more closely matches that of artificial light once the sun has gone down.
It does take some getting used to, but theres no way i'd ever go back now. Turning my screen back to its 'normal' colour temperature of 6500K at night looks positively radioactive.

Set it to slow transition, then you really don't notice it. (FWIW i use 3700K at night). This along with the rear-based lighting from the article is so much better to look at.
Sorry that the title does match the page's title, but I wanted to indicate why the website is of interest.
The Newton happened after Jobs left Apple.
Welcome to the club, I'm also from Europe and make few percents more and I'm 31.
In order for this to work, the key would have to be generated client-side and the secret encrypted client side. And you're still trusting that the site doesn't send the key when you submit the form.

While I think that this is a good idea, I hink that this would unfortunately result in URLs that would be much too long to be user-friendly - especially if we are talking about sending information to non-technical people.
Water evaporates, concentrating contaminates. Its much more important to have water safe to begin with.
There are a bunch of reasons; one of the primary ones is that it's awesome to work for a winner, and it's awesome to work on stuff that is part of the common culture (telling your mom that you can't talk about work but that she should check out the front page of the [i]Times[/i] next week is quite a rush). The downside is that you get a lot of the shouting and stomping around behavior copied from Jobs that trickles down -- after all, you get ahead by aping the Big Boss, right? Here's hoping that with Cook in charge the culture starts to mellow out a little.
Ultima Underworld as a Memory Palace (mnemonic technique)
I'm often wanting something like this, and have often thought "I should build this" - congrats/thanks for actually building it!
But after filing a missing persons report with the police, it seems that the police would be able to quickly find out if they were in an area hospital and contact the next of kin/emergency contact, this should take less than 3 days.
> Moore's Law is actually quite ubiquitous.

Well, s-curves (sigmoid curves) certainly are common, but Moore's law - so far - is not a sigmoid AFAIK.
I'm just theorizing. But let's say the site gets compromised for a few days/weeks and they don't find out.
Some of the speed cameras are put within a few feet of a speed limit sign, so you don't have time to adjust reasonably to the new speed and they'll ticket you anyway.
Keep in mind that Buzz is still officially alive through January 15, 2012, and that its "death" was only announced three weeks ago.

Google+ already seems to be much more popular than Buzz. I'm sure it will last quite a long time.
Battlefield 3 Analyzed Like MythBusters
Brazil ISP servers under Massive DNS poisoning attacks
That is pretty damn cool, but I think for a serious "alternate Internet" to succeed, OSI layers 1 & 2 should not matter. An application installed by a regular user needs to be able to do most of the heavy lifting with most generic off-the-shelf hardware to get a really decentralized open alternative to take off like wildfire.
Sabes cuanto tiempo te queda de vida...
MTV Introduces Global Beats To U.S. Audiences
Revolutionary User Interfaces
"I think the problem is that students should be taught to think, not to pass tests."

OK. How do you propose to determine whether a student has been taught to think? Whatever your answer is, that's your test. Maybe it's questions like "build me a catapult with these materials and tell me how efficient it is" or "explain how so many Latin words came to be part of the English language and give examples". Answering those would demonstrate thinking ability. But that would still be a test.

Tests are important. If they are made well, teaching with the test in mind is fine.

Whether we're testing and teaching the right things is another question. But "students shouldn't be taught to pass tests" sounds to me like "buildings shouldn't be built using blueprints." How can you know whether you've succeeded if you have no stated goal or way to measure results?
Really? UK police disagree with you. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1 CCTVs don't prevent or help solve crimes, and there is an explicit (not even secret!) plan to implement a national CCTV database.
Please don't use this for passwords. Security is very hard to get right.

Do they do a secure delete of the contents of the webpages? Who knows.

Do they have strong physical protection around the server? Who knows.

Do they run up to date software so the machine can't get taken over? Who knows.

Can you even trust them not to log all your passwords? Who knows.

This is an interesting service for some things, but I would never use it for sending passwords (or anything equally sensitive) back and forth.

Even if you let me "encrypt" the information before uploading it with a password, if this encryption is done in javascript sent by the server then as soon as the server is taken over you can't trust the encryption.
Android/Arduino talk from Android Developer Conference
I said as much -- there is some truth to it.

However, there are thousands/millions of people that are "tweakers". That isn't Jobs' only talent or even his most salient characteristic. (The title of the article is "Steve Job's real genius".)

Did any of the tweakers mentioned in the article start 3 companies and make billions doing it?

I think it is backlash for giving Jobs all the credit for everything, which is a mistake. I agree he didn't "invent" the iPhone, as Obama claimed. He led its development. But it's an equal mistake to say that all he did was tweak things, which the article claims explicitly.
What language does it use? Seems pretty easy to create a library for this if it has an HTTP API and HTML parser (or even regex).
really? Mean, does it allow to create new page?
Sqlninja 0.2.6 is now available
None that I know of. But if you find one, I advise you to bear in mind that in the United States, barter transactions are generally taxable:

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
Same with the extensions, for example: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejnkaeblpdcamcioii...

I don't understand why.
MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology)
Phishing the password from one user and recovering the salt shouldn't be useful in the first place. The parent example was only meant to show how difficult it is to recover a salt even with multiple examples of its use, not to give a real life example of password hash use. (Which was my point)

That said, I don't know how you would obtain a list of hashed passwords without also getting the associated list of salts (wouldn't they be in the same database?), so it is kind of a moot point. The different salts are intended to prevent against the ability to have a single rainbow table to crack every password in the database.

Instead, you need a table for each salt, which means that you basically have to brute force the entire database. This still doesn't really help if you are using something fast like MD5, as brute force solution will be possible with that algorithm. Which is why you want something reasonably slow.
There is no difference between storing plaintext on the server and storing encrypted text on the server if encryption key is (was) known to the server.
Thanks, rajpaul, for the positive feedback!
The iPhone wasn't merely a "tweak" on existing cell phones, or even the Palm Pilot.

What's your standard? Name a few products. The Walkman? If the Walkman qualifies as an innovation, then surely the iPhone does.

Calling the Macintosh a tweak on the Xerox Alto I think is also hardly fair. If that is true, then all products ever released have been tweaks, which makes the distinction meaningless.
It's absolutely a win. now the development of the non-core parts of "core" can occur much faster with less dependency upon a much larger project's release schedule and other constraints.
Can I ask, are you $25/mo. with the option to 'drop out' at any time, and I get to keep video's I've downloaded?

Also, my opinion is $25/mo. is reasonable for access to your videos. Congrats on your launch!
I would use bcrypt but it's not available as a encryption option for the realms in Apache Tomcat.
One possibility would be to write an own realm but it's not that easy. Plus additional work is needed to update existing hashes, currently I therefore use salted MD5-hashes.
Does that mean each "pages" name will be unique in the global namespace? Currently with "real names" they aren't unique which is one down-side compared to Twitter (although it has upsides as well).
Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.
Interesting case of abuse: Send anonymous death threats as secrets. Would be hard to prove the message ever existed without server logs. Also, botnet c&c messages. WikiLeaks leaks! Damn, this is a useful tool.

Also, unfortunate for anyone trying to share the secret over the internet: if a repressive regime is sniffing traffic and looking for these URIs and grabs the contents first they can still discover the messages of dissidents before they get passed on.
I don't have an example handy, but some of the internal blogs were testing out a new set of templates for Blogger that were very slick looking.
Can you tell what manipulations are needed exactly to make it work?
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Apple is the modern poster child for both the best and the worst aspects of monarchy--a great king can accomplish far more than a great president/prime minister ever can, but the succession plan is to roll some dice and hope....
Yes. The only thing that would be better is if these issue didn't exist to begin with.
Amazon's only return unopened items unless faulty policy is something that is customer unfriendly compared to a typical big box store. And as far as I know, you have to go to a shipping office to ship the return back. Can you just print a label and wait for the post man to come pick it up for no cost?
I was referring more to the marketing aspects of the term (and proposing their solution as a counterpart to "NoSQL"), than the concept itself. There are a lot of people who think that "NoSQL" is all about magic scaling sauce, and this isn't really helping.
Google wants to become the WWW itself. Is this good?
[video] The effect of iPad on a baby
In what respect are they not "search engine friendly"? Being human-readable or slugged doesn't necessarily make URLs more search engine friendly, nor does it necessarily improve their rank:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-u...
Agreed, the page feels very undone. No real content besides the image, which is really calling out for more information if you click on it.
would love one additional field that enables a user to specify the number of minutes, hours, or days until the url auto-expires (perhaps that's two fields).
Check it Out
I thought I remembered a story about Jobs not allowing the Newton to be shipped until it actually fit in his coat pocket? Was that someone else?
It will be very interesting to see how, say, a given restaurant's Google Plus page appears in search results compared to its Yelp and/or Facebook equivalents. If Google highlights the + page in search results with rich page information (eg daily specials, updates, etc.), Yelp and Facebook have a problem.
Aiming for a month
I mean I suppose it depends on your definition of "substantially the same form" and "proven."

I'd argue that the Zen Jukebox did not prove that HDD MP3 players could be successful, and that Treos and other smartphones, though proven successful, were not substantially in the same form as an iPhone, and that previous tablets were proven failures and also not substantially in the same form as iPad's.

I think the iPad is really the best example of Jobs' talent being used in a capacity that wasn't just tweaking. Stylus input and finger input are just completely different ways to approach the user interface. An iPad isn't a tweak of previous failed Windows tablets, it's throwing out the basic premise of the machine ("a tablet is just like your computer but in the palm of your hand") and starting from scratch ("what is the purpose of a tablet?").
Looks like the gold plan allows you to download all of the videos.
News of the World placed hacking lawyers under surveillance
See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000037.html
We chose it because people generally have good feelings towards Treehouses. Also, they're a place of wonder and fun. Finally, there wasn't anything already established with that name.
This is one of the few changes to a Google product that I can think of which was clearly made because someone in marketing wanted it, not because an engineer or designer wanted it.
I've been watching math lectures at between 1.5 and 2x because the teacher... talks... so... slowly, but I hadn't thought about speeding up TV. Too bad Netflix doesn't have that option.
As a consumer, I hate QR codes. They totally obfuscate what is going to happen -- Many times there is little to no information about where a QR code will send me.

As an iPhone user, I also need to download an app to read the QR codes, and suddenly I now have another choice to make -- which app is the best quality and least spammy of the ones listed.

As a designer, I also think they are quite ugly -- Try putting one of these into your beautifully designed billboard/magazine and it looks pretty terrible.

The business side of me appreciates the metrics that come from this, but I think QR is a stopgap technology until RFID readers become mainstream.
But it works. And users will never know the difference.

Sure they will, when your app starts to crash, or become unreasonably slow due to something hacked together without a second thought as to how well it would work.
PottyMouth
I didn't have such a flawless experience. I was first baffled because I didn't understand what kind of website that is. I thought, well doesn't matter, it looks nice, let's try iOS. Then I watched that intro video that promised a first look at Objective C. I clicked "Lets go" and ended up at an XCode tutorial. Huh? So I clicked the breadcrumb navigation, and thought "App Life Cycle" sounds interesting. I clicked that. I started watching the video, but after 30 seconds the video suddenly stopped. Underneath it says the video takes 7 minutes. Well, obviously somethings wrong. I looked around, and saw something about signing up and unlocking badges, and I thought, hmm, I just want to watch the rest of this video, I don't want to bother unlocking any badges, so I gave up, went back to hacker news, and wrote this rant.
37signals used to store passwords in plaintext.

http://blog.jgc.org/2009/05/can-you-trust-37signals-with-you...
I wouldn't use this for passwords, but overall I like the idea, I was thinking along the same lines. I will use this for sure.

Thanks for making it.
As C2 puts it, "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."

http://c2.com/xp/DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.htm...
Interestingly, the leading bot language this year seem to be Java, while last years winner, Lisp, isn't among the current top 100 entries any more.
Amazon goes 'Public Library' (for prime customers)
I apologize; I may have used a wrong term. I should have said, "intellectuals who write opinions for dubious reasons," not creative writers.
I did click on "learn web design" and was taken to a video with no description. I turned it off after a few seconds of pleasantries (eg. "Don't worry if you're totally new to web design"). I really think you guys should consider putting a course outline up front so users can know the scope of what they're getting into in a few seconds of skimming text instead of having to watch the whole first video. I don't even know how long that first video was, it didn't have a 'play bar' at the bottom. There's a big difference between a 30 second intro and an hour long 'first lecture'.
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I signed up for G+ when it launched. I haven't been on it in months. And yet I am sure I am one of those 40M members cited by Google. That 40M figure is garbage. 40M may have tried G+; but a very small percentage are hooked to it or like it. G+ won't tell us what percentage that is but it's a pretty solid bet when a company refuses to share engagement metrics, it is because they don't look good.
Original design gangsta
I've Got a Headache: The Problem With Too Many Choices
Entering "+pepsi" into my copy of Chrome, or into the Google Search page itself, just does a standard Google search for Pepsi. I'm in the UK. Is this US-only functionality?
Thanks for the response. A service like yours seems like it would be really useful. I'm not sure it helps my case right now though - I have content already created and formatted in Microsoft Word.
Agreed. I appreciated G+ because it was different, not made for brands, and purposely excluded brands.

Whatever they have to do to push new streams of ad rev though...
Droid RAZR Review
A failed consumer product category, yes. But tablets have been in routine use in business for many years, and have been a profitable niche product. Jobs correctly surmised that the tweaks he'd made to the PDA to make the iPhone a big success could translate in a larger form factor to make a successful consumer tablet. But tablets were already a familiar product to millions of people when the iPad hit the market.
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There is an important side effect of this mentality: you are stuck with a weak foundation. Not only technically but also in front of the eyes of the consumers.

When you ship a product users build expectations about it. They use in different ways that the ones you might have expected. If during further development you understand that a feature is not desirable anymore (e.g for technical problems with some other super awesome feature) pulling support may backfire.

This was evident in each Facebook redesign, or in the new version of Final Cut Pro.

Therefore, I think that there is definitely a sweet spot and that this spot isn't "ship it as soon as it works".
Is It Low T: All You Need To Know
Wow, this is wonderful! There are so few iTunes alternatives for Mac. Are you planning on open sourcing this? I would love to help develop it.
If making money in your business isn’t EASY, you ain’t doing it right…
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Show HN: My Open-Source replacement for Reflector.
Sup, HN?

I'm a Mono developer coming from being a Windows developer. One of the things I used every day was Reflector, and since then I've relied on the interface MonoDevelop provides, which isn't all that great all things considered.

So I wrote my own: Mirror.

I've gotten it almost where I want it, but its hit the point where I dont have enough expertise in the world of .NET (and frankly, Comp Sci) to be able to continue much more.

Here's an example of what it looks like, running: http://i.imgur.com/DaTah.png

What I dont have implemented:

- Attributes on anything. They simply dont exist in Cecil's concept of the world.
- Getter's and Setter's on Properties.
- Class Decompilation
- Being Nice (tm)
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I think is is really neat.
That's right, and think about what that makes you, the consumer. Hint - you're the thing being sold to Google's customers.
Agree, very surprised to see this come out of Orlando. Very impressed as well.

Can't wait to get started.
It can be good business to hoard and then, after hoarding drives up scarcity, re-sell at a higher price (the ticket-scalper business model).
I'm not really sure what the actual return policy is, but both of my friends had had the kindles for a while before they broke them. They then contacted Amazon to see what their options were and got replacements for free.

I just returned an unopened item. I just printed the label, put it back in the original shipping box and left it on the porch for the mail carrier to pick up.
4.5B out of 17.4B is 25.8% of total revenue. What business are you in that 25% of revenue is not essential?

For others who haven't seen the numbers, here is their latest 8K
http://idc.api.edgar-online.com/efx_dll/edgarpro.dll?FetchFi...

Three Months Ended September 30, Revenue

Windows & Windows Live Division $ 4,868
Server and Tools 4,250
Online Services Division 625
Microsoft Business Division 5,622
Entertainment and Devices Division 1,963
Unallocated and other 44

Consolidated $ 17,372
Founder Re-org: Possible Outcomes
I don't like this because it only works if you enable remote loading of images on your own account, which feels like huge collateral damage to me. A ton of email you receive will attempt to use this technique against you, so I've always disabled that.