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This is not an in-depth look at all, unless you consider someone making wild conclusions about a press release, and showing 3d-models "in-depth".

Going on about the real battery life, when the machine may not even exist yet just screams amateur hour.
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As a startup, we are brainstorming creative marketing ideas that will cost us as little as possible. What are some of the MOST creative ideas other startups/marketers have done for little or no cost that generated the most results? Please share :)
I am saying that it can generally be considered normal and human to react to words. Which ones you react to and how is a whole different topic and will vary a lot depending on the person, context etc.

Your point is nothing but spinning a figure of speech out of context and exaggerating it ad absurdum and neither add anything to the discussion at hand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
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I wonder how this affects platforms such as YouView and Google TV?

I assume Google TV can make do without Flash but how dependent is YouView?
Ask HN: Syncing data with a central service across WEB
Scenario:
I'm building a WEB service that provides service to various clients. In the next step I would like to integrate my service with clients' existing data, making it necessary to synchronize data bidirectionally (both ends can create or update data).

Since I am very proficient in CouchDB (Lotus Domino) architectural model, my first thought was to use CouchDB pull replication to pump the data back and forth.

I'd like to know, what is the obvious solution/alternative to my proposed approach. Message queues? Polling the central service, while maintaining local cache?

Requirements:

>Installation considerations and ease of use are primary concerns,

>The proposed method should be tolerant to connectivity issues enabling the clients to work offline,

>Data volumes are going to be low (10's of megabytes per day, max),

>latencies are not an issue, 15 minutes is entirely acceptable.
You really do not know what a figure of speech is and take "makes me cringe" all literal just for the hell of it hm?
Yay for the mention of the Pomodoro Method, it is quite effective and has gotten me through college.

Your reasoning however for learning to be interrupted in our life, is something I am not necesarily sure about. Are humans just simply bad at long stretches of focus? I am not sure but i am and thats why I use the pomodoro.
Now I want one too ...
Working in the Industry for over 10 years I can give you numerous examples where newspapers will risk sacrificing revenue to cover the news. I've seen the largest customer at a newspaper (a bank) in the news for months because their president embezzled funds.

It's why advertising departments and newsrooms are separated at a newspaper.

The truth is that running someone's print campaign and running their website is no different...
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Yes, but wow: "The change you requested was rejected"

I didn't ask for a change, I clicked on a game's name.

Case study 'Spaceport': When generic messages go bad.
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Surely that's what makes it a valid analogy? Countries that have their own currencies have an escape route from debt in the form of devaluation, which makes them unlike small businesses. Countries that use a shared currency (or issue debt denominated in another country's currency) don't have that escape route, which makes them much more similar to small businesses.

OTOH it's hard to take an article seriously when it contains the phrase "way more than they ever should of". Perhaps the copy editor was having a bad day.
From the research we have done places say to backorder on the three biggest sites and you only get charged when one of them gets it so you don't lose anything by doing it on all three but it gives you the biggest chances. The sites are namejet, snapnames and pool
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This could mean a lot of potential opportunity for start-ups. If Google is shedding products because they don't fit with their core mission or business requirements, those might be some great areas to get into for different/smaller companies.

In the end, they will probably focus on general purpose products with super large user bases (docs, maps, email, android, social network, offers, payments etc). Around those, will still be a big ecosystem for other companies.

I'm curious if products like SketchUp, Picnik, Desktop and Orkut will also be sunset soon.
your right, and i would love to get out to europe as well!
It have got much better. The latest stable version should be pretty much resilient.
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This one time on an article that was written specifically for the HN audience, I asked a question related to the article, knowing that the author might read it and answer.

I got an answer alright: it's in my ebook
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They can't exactly be honest say "we used Rails and didn't build this right so we need someone who knows what they're doing to fix it for us, oh and we're VC funded and offer generous 0.25% equity vested over 4 years"
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> And. No. I can't have backups of that data because having
> a backup would be the same as not really deleting it.
> Think of retroactively altering the backups of the days
> where the data still existed shudder.

I think this is very interesting technical problem. Can anyone shed some light on
currently available solutions and approaches?
There have been a few online slide type presentations on HN recently and I usually find them frustrating because even when the subject is interesting (which is the case most of the time), the slides make you feel like there is so much information missing.

Although you say that there is a lot of content missing, I thought your slides conveyed a lot of useful information and actually made me feel like I got what your presentation was about. Well done!
I've personally found that I do not enjoy working from home. I think he hits the nail on the head with the "Crippling Depression" part. As a software engineer, I do my best work alone, in my head, but I need real-life interaction with my team for my work to feel meaningful.
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Recently I have been thinking a lot about Dependency Injection. It has clear benefits - like in testing - but there is also something that resonated with my preferences on a different level. It has been puzzling me for some time until I identified it - DI let's you code with less digressions: http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2011/10/concentration-and-fl...
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A lot of what our governments do is based on theories and in this case they obviously decided to step in to protect their citizens. Just the same way, you cannot prove the opposite.

De facto you can decide to trust the government you were voting for or against - and me being from Euroland, I rather trust that they don't fuck up too big for important decisions like that. I know this is different in the USA.

But, the point isn't so much whether it was all right or wrong, the more important (and frustrating) point is that WHAT they did wasn't done very diligently because at the end of the day, bailout billions were passed out practically for free and nothing changed.

The question whether it was right or wrong to intervene is more a philosophical question and how much it has compromised the very foundations of our value system and economy: free market and capitalism.
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While I agree with some of the comments about usability, I'm pretty impressed with how far CSS has come.
Just like moving out of your parents house, working from home is a big step towards autonomy. Less externally imposed structures and rules, and people to keep you (un)focused means you need to create your own system that works for your personality, goals and context. Definitely something to get used to.

Monthly/weekly/daily goals across some main areas of work (planning, production, strategy, promotion, etc) has been a super big help for me.

The biggest help for me is to have very specific overall goals to achieve. Being laser-focused on those makes a big difference towards making the small decisions that take you forward and keep you focused.
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As someone pointed out in the comments, this identity is analogous to reducing 16/64 to 1/4 by cancelling out the 6's.
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Hover effects aren't awful for usability at all. It is about using this in the appropriate context.

They add two distinct advantages:
1) Ease of accessing additional information. Instead of having a click based event a rollout is 100x easier to accomplish and can reduce clutter on a page. This is accomplished by being clear with labels, such as a "More Info" or "Rollover for details". It is surprising to find out out how many users won't click.

2) Whimsy. The emotional impact these have is wonderful, and to discount it is to ignore the delight of this new medium.

As for the touchscreen issue, these would be handled in a click state. This is how hover menus are handled in iOS for example.
The TiVo Premiere uses Flash for their UI, and a TiVo will last many years beyond this end of life. The article wasn't clear if it included this use of Flash, or if it is just for TV's using Flash in browsers?
You can learn from some of the experts in the field:

http://ai-class.com - Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun

http://ml-class.com - Andrew Ng

I signed up 4 weeks into Andrew's class. Both of these are excellent.

Btw, the technique in the article is a classification problem, right? :-)
Agreed. It's a major dick move. And it's not quite the same as a salary cut, as option prices and amounts were set before the outcome was known. They could well have been worth zero. As long as the employees are doing their jobs, they've earned the equity, no matter how inflated it may seem to the CEO.

But... he could just fire them. Which is a problem in itself.

This is why I have a major problem with typical employee stock options. It is just flat out not worth as much to employees as it is to investors and founders. Employees are basically put in the position of having to trust that their management (and their management's acquisition overlords) will do what they said they'd do. Between the employers and the tax man, employee equity can be a real bitch.

Translated into english, most stock option agreements say, "We'll give you XXX options per month (after you pay us for them, of course). IF we feel like it - we can always fire you and owe nothing more, as you know. Taxes are your problem (good luck!). Oh yeah, and you don't get shit for a year."

Ever try to improve the situation up front? Oh, the howling and moaning you'll witness from the company and their lawyers. ("That's highly irregular! Nobody does that! It's a standard vesting period! Why are you so greedy! You could just walk away with stock!")
Ask HN: Someone else made a "Pro" version of my app. What can I do about it?
Subject pretty much says it all. I have a successful free ad-supported application and yesterday I saw someone had published a paid application using my app name and just appending "Pro" to it. I also own <appname>.com, but the name is a bit generic and I don't have any trademarks related to it.

The app is basically a poor rip-off, so I don't think they're going to get any of my users. However, since the "Appname" vs "Appname Pro" is pretty common on the App Store I fear a lot of users might end up buying their app thinking that it's an ad-free version of my app.

The app developers have like 20 apps named "<something> Jokes" and from their blog (they have all their apps and submissions listed) I can see they've submitted a lot of apps ripping off other's names. They even got the nerve to submit an app named "FaceBook for iPad". I think this proves that this is not just an unfortunate coincidence and they won't be willing to remove the app if I ask them directly.

Has any of you dealt with this situation before? Since I'm not in the US, getting some proper legal advice regarding US law with these issues is going to be very difficult, so any advice is very appreciated.
> And consumers generally should have the right to delete their data at any time, especially the data they post on the Internet themselves

I'm all for that, but where does it leave community collaborated work when one author wishes to delete their contribution totally?

i.e. wikipedia

One way around this might be to disassociate contributions form the public, to anonymise those contributions. But then... how do you stop spammers and trolls?

If a person has made a contribution under a perpetual licence, then that licence should trump. But if that were the case then everyone would just sidestep this law such that all user contributions were under a for-commercial, shared-forever licence.

Does the law win? Yes.

How would it apply to collaborative works in which data contributed is clearly identified as coming from an author who wants to delete their data? Unknown.
C'mon, apart from the glass surface you are describing a paper or a book. The iPad is hardly a strange format.
They kind of hint at it in the article, but sounds like automatic feature detection really helped here. That's really the future (or present): learning algos discovering better features automatically, significantly cutting down the labor involved in feature engineering. Pretty neat.

Here's a video talking about current research into this at Stanford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk&feature=youtu...
Although he's not listed as an author, I find it interesting that Andrew Ng has been using "malignant or benign tumor" as an example of a machine learning classification problem at http://www.ml-class.org
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Probably doesn't change much immediately but it's pretty clear that everyone will be moving away from Flash, including Adobe. Guess even big companies like Adobe can pivot.
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Fair enough. I can see your point.
Speaking as a Ruby user, I think nil and the entire behaviour around truthyness and falseness are wrong. I should be able to create my own nil objects, and I especially would love to be able to create false objects that carry more information.

For example (and there are code smells in this, but it gets the idea across):

if account = Account.create(params[:account])
...
else
complainAbout account.errors
end

Truthiness should not be reserved for whether an object exists, it could also be used for whether it is valid, complete, or anything else.

My particular example might not be a great one, but I think framework and library developers ought to be able to work a consistent use for truthiness and falseness into their creations, e.g. a true object has been saved, a true object is valid, a true object is complete, a true object represents the current state of the world instead of the past or future or a wrong state, and so forth.
I have been doing this for almost 3 years now and I surely agree that work from home is at the same time the best and worst in the world.

Its very nice because, as you said, you control everything.
However it is also very bad because you do not have enough contact with other humans.

And I'm not saying this because there no one to chit-chat, but because there is no one to talk about work. As a developer, getting input from others, even if they tell you that what you are doing sucks or does not worth it, is very important because a) In case they say bad things it can help you improve it and b) If they are wrong, it reassures you of what you are doing, giving you confidence. When you do not have anyone to share work with, you can get stuck for hours even if you are writing the best code of your life.

Regarding interruptions I think I learned how to deal with them. I try not to fight myself so if I want to go watch some series or do some other stuff, I just do it. When I need to deliver something my brain naturally does not make me want do other stuff than work so I gave up trying to control this. Instead I use the energy that I get from not fighting my body in work when I really need to do it.
also how much a "regional" crisis affects an internet business?
I would argue it is a breach of the initial options agreement (at least in spirit). Those shares were negotiated under a set of conditions- the stock was very risky, and as a result worth very little. Now that everything has turned out well, you can't go back and say, "Wait, I didn't think it would be worth this much - give it back.". Pincus wouldn't be going back after a failed venture and forking over huge amounts of cash to compensate for worthless stock, now, would he?

The option price and amount was set previously, and should be honored as long as the employee is performing their duties reasonably.

This is greed in it's simplest form.
There's an indian company selling biopsy helper robots. it robots simplify the process and enable technicians to take the biopsy instead of doctors, and the whole process is faster.

see : http://www.perfinthealthcare.com/Procedure_Videos.html

Looking at the videos , it seems that the whole process can be done by robot, But maybe patients and other stakeholders feel this way is safer/more economical.
You could block such things in a user stylesheet.

Animation is not the reason flash was [used] bad[ly].
Ditto, last year I worked from home for a few weeks a couple of times and it made my pre-existing depression measurably worse. As much as I like to work in my own head, it's going to be a long time before I could ever actually work alone again.
So why do employees accept stock grants without a clause stating "If you choose to fire me without cause, (x% of) my unvested shares shall vest immediately"?
Next week I was going to begin building my first TV app for Samsung's Smart TV - using Flash. Given the timelines I'll probably still go this route but do wonder what this announcement means for Samsung and LG's TV plans.
This does not address the issue of feature detection, but it's interesting nonetheless, inasmuch as well-trained human doctors are quite bad at probability, with the specific case of breast cancer diagnoses. The first 1/8th or so of Eliezer's layman's Bayes document:

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
Re trademarks: This isn't really a big deal. Mozilla strictly enforces the trademark for Firefox.

Google does it to enforce a minimum standard of quality. You're free to make an offbrand Android phone with your own apps and link it to the Amazon appstore or whatever.
I say if you post anonymously you should get no privacy protection and removal measures are to be decided by the data host. I'd be happy to go with that.

On the other hand, use your real name, and you get the privacy protections.
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Listed as a gotcha, but it only occurs on an old version of Ruby (1.8). Nowadays, it'll work like so:

Array("foo\nbar") # => ["foo\nbar"]
Downvoters: I was trying to point out that inflection and delivery can be more effective than swear words.
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If you share via email, and you check the "Also email x person/s not yet using Google+", it will email those people your post with an invite to join as well. I actually don't mind this because it lets me share my thoughts with people that have no interest in G+ without having to do it twice.
I've worked from home on and off for the last 10 years. The best bit for me is definitely the freedom and watching your kids grow up.

I'm currently working on the sofa, dog curled up by my feet, watching TV :) Most days I take a bath at 2pm. Rock n roll!

(Funny sketch about working from home. Don't click if you get easily offended http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk )
I do recommend changing your diet a bit. As fezzl pointed out, most Americans/westerners are hardwired to eat more calories than needed. I eat Indian vegetarian food and, ironically, I calculated my caloric intake to be 1500-1700 yesterday. I had to eat a few things once I realized it was far too low.

I usually force myself to block off an hour or two every day for exercise because I was raised with it and if I do not, then I feel strange, then grumpy, then downright erratic. My suggestion: Try to find something that is fun, not boring. I play soccer at an intense level, which is much more fun than running around a track or treadmill.

Also, (and this is arguably one of the most important things) remember how little it takes to workout really well. Your body burns calories much better when it lacks oxygen. Instead of running on the elliptical for an hour, go out to a park after work for 15 minutes and do nothing but sprints. You'll get a workout that is over 10 x better and it takes less time.
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