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AdWords is rarely going to be worth it for a <$5 app. As for the blog, if you have to "suck it up" to do it, I wouldn't do it. I think it has a slim chance of success if it doesn't interest you and your heart isn't in it.

Two thoughts:

1. Run a targeted e-mail/direct-message campaign
Can you creatively find some e-mail addresses/other accounts of potential customers in the target market? You can check blogs, forums, Twitter, etc. Draft up a well-written (and designed, if e-mail) pitch and send it to them directly and you may have more success getting those first customers who will help you spread the word. I think it's all about getting it in front of some customers.

2. Create a pretty infographic with some interesting information about the space you're app is in. They may be close to cliche, but I think they're still all the rage now, and bloggers and more traditional media sources may run your infographic with a small pitch about your app (+ your logo's in the image).
Anyone have an opinion on if Spine is the best for this as apposed to something like Backbone?
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It depends on why you want the information removed. If it's because you don't want it publicly available then fine, but you may not want Google to store that information at all. In that case opting out is giving them even more information about you; as you'll be potentially linking your IP, Google cookie and account to your SSID when you complete the opt-out.
Megatron supports SOPA
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This is SO OFFENSIVE!!! She gives such great, clear technical answers -- they can detect child porn by a combination of reverse image search analysis and manual checks, but they can't visually tell whether a movie or song is licensed to play. Makes sense. "I'm sure we have the technology, we have the brainpower," responds some congrasshole. What fucking idiots these people are. They don't have a right to dictate terms to people smarter than them.

After watching this incredibly infuriating thing, I hope they pass it. I hope it passes, and the economy of the US tanks, and it eats itself. Fuck these people, and fuck everyone who voted for them.

If you're the only person in the room who has technical expertise, Submit your comments in writing.
They may want to look at how collectd handles updates to RRD files.

http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Inside_the_RRDtool_plugin

http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.s...
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Am I the only one that finds it odd that Spine doesn't do this with their own site?
Pick a topic that you have some interest in since you may end spending a great deal of time on it and find the major mailing lists and forums.

Write down the common questions, how tos, and explanations - think about if you can provide a solution.
Now they have been called pansies.
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I don't think he is joking. "The word of the law" can be kept separate from the intent of the law. I would prefer to see them as copywriters rather than as policy makers.
"It's time to try something."
"It's time to move."

Not if it means breaking the Internet.
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12:19PM central time - The chairman, Rep. Smith, was asking whether this bill would impact our ability to implement DNSSEC. He seemed legitimately concerned that it could weaken security on the internet.

I have no idea whether there's any basis for concern, but I'm sure we have some DNSSEC experts here on HN. Comments?
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His response to her explanation about how they don't have the technology was "Google does have the technology". These people are all idiots.
A lot of hate there Matt. I suspect your definition of software architect is different than theirs.
I misread this and thought this was a private Steve Jobs recruiting app.
This reminds me of Neil deGrasse Tyson's excellent rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gKXlaEExY
This is really funny, since Justin Bieber claimed recently that his career would never have existed if this law had been applied to him. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/justin-biebe...
DNSSEC is a bad idea that will damage the Internet. I think it's irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
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Certainly the argument abot the bar system is true. The supreme irony I find is how right wing and anti union some lawyers are.
> The politicians who fund our schools demand results so they can get elected/re-elected.

You write "demand results" like it's a bad thing.

It isn't. If we're not getting "results", why bother?

Of course, which results we're talking about matter. I'll pay for some results but not others.

> The numbers they need can only be obtained through standardized, modular testing.

Not true.

We tried the alternative, namely "trust the teachers". We got crap results.

That said, a kid who can read a crappy standardized test is better off than a kid who can't. I mention that because we have hundreds of thousands of kids who can't read.

If you can't measure it, how do you know whether you're doing it?
Hire all the whiz kids to monitor this stuff! I'm sure college grads want to be paid to repeatedly search for "free [latest hollywood blockbuster here]". Too bad none of them actually clicked on those youtube results to see that it was just spammers posting 2 minute clips. Much easier to claim you can sit there and watch the entire movie on youtube right now!
>Writing a CRUD app with business logic sounds more complicated.

Nope, I've done tons of both. (Advanced reusable front-end JavaScript and CRUD apps)

A JavaScript widget framework is harder and requires more intellect, sophistication, and aptitude by far.
That's Google issue to sort out-- to incentivize the service. The opt-in solution is still technically feasible, in the sense that it is as easy to implement as the opt-out solution.
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There are so many parallels in this to Atlas Shrugged, it almost makes me think Ayn Rand wasn't a sociopath. Who cares how? Just do it! Let the techies submit their "explanations" in writing and we'll duly ignore them. Godforfuckingbid they actually get a word in edgewise on television.

The woman from Google was brilliantly concise, and her explanations made absolutely perfect sense. They were countered with "horse is out of the barn" type popularisms, volkish garbage from ignorant senators to their totally illiterate constituency.

So much for the last pocket of growth in the American economy; it's gonna be shut down, destroyed. Smarties need to think countermeasures, and let these idiots root around in their own shite for a few years learning that they shouldn't deign to dictate what their betters have the "brainpower" to solve if they themselves can't figure out how.
So instead of framing it in terms of "promoting known-legit" sites, what about "demote known-sketchy" sites?

Does that help your concerns about effects on unknowns, startups, etc? All the non-sketchy results should still be organically ranked, right?
Yes, he is indeed correct, SOPA/PIPA are direct threats to the DNSSEC implementation. See http://www.circleid.com/pdf/PROTECT-IP-Technical-Whitepaper-...
A little clarification, based on Danish conditions but I assume it’s similar in other countries: You can’t just overdraw indefinitely, you have an authorized overdraft limit. For some people the limit may be zero so they’re not allowed to overdraw.

If you overdraw beyond this limit, you will pay a higher penalty rate and possibly also other fees. People with good credit can often negotiate a much lower rate than 12%.
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I had no idea StackOverflow was using Microsoft SQL Server. I guess its just a learned response but i've always come to expect some large networking site to always be using a non-MS based solution.

I havent had a chance to watch the video, but i hope to later on. What is interesting, even with just the link is that for a website like StackOverflow that MS SQL is a viable solution.

We have been using SQL Server in our own company for our projects and i was really starting to get annoyed with it. I found it to be heavy on resources, slow to respond and lets not forget cost. I just completed a project that i have been working on for the last 4 months, and the majority of the work was within SQL server. One thing i learned was that its actually quite a powerful beast.

When used correctly and in the right way SQL is a very capable SQL solution. I'm glad that we decided to stick to SQL Server. There is a lot i learned about SQL Server in the last 4 months that i had no idea it was capable of.
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Maybe something like freelance job board or freelance board
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I have some APIs I have to call that take up to 5 seconds to return and resist caching (hotel availability, for instance). Would those delays become even more jarring with an approach like this?
if you read the link you provided, you'd find mentioning of increased leukemia and thyroid cancer in humans and animals as result of such "therapeutic" exposure. And it is understandable because the ionizing radiation like sledgehammer hits varios accidental pieces of the internal cellular machinery. It is normal to see some repair machinery being activated in response, it is also normal that some pieces are just broken so that results in the cancer and other mutations.

Btw, the "ionizing radiation" is a very wide range of frequencies and their effect on the living matter is different (and such aggregate measure as dose/Sv takes only overall absorbed energy into account which provides only very general classification of the potential effects)
Good discussion here: http://forrst.com/posts/Backbone_js_Spine_or_other-LZy
Don't forget interfacing with third-party systems like banks and insurance providers! :)
Sure, certainly ;) I'll just leave these here: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#examples

... but really, if you're building a large JS app, it doesn't matter particularly which library you pick -- the main benefit is simply to get your state out of the DOM and into rich, reusable models that make it easier to reason about and manipulate.
it's a good one. thanks for sharing
"Think of the children" is the politician's version of buying IBM. Nobody ever lost an election because they thought of the children.
Firstly, there is a lot less security in renting. I can be evicted with a months notice. While I'm young that's part of the trade off but when I have a family I wouldn't appreciate that level of control over my life being in the hands of my landlord.

The second reason is the fact that when I fully own a house I will feel more financially secure. I won't have to worry about making rent payments for the next X years of my life and I'll feel better prepared for unforeseen circumstances. I might be able to achieve the same security by investing my money in other areas; but I much prefer investing in something tangible.
Interesting position, care to elaborate how DNSSEC is damaging the internet?
I recently used several of the techniques described, but I carefully chose when and where to implement them. For example, when a user "deletes" an item, rather than removing anything from the DOM before the request, I hide the appropriate elements, send the request, and if successful, remove DOM elements. The advantage of this approach is that the UI feels snappy, but it is easy to fall back if something goes wrong. Being optimistic that things will "just work" is alright in a fairly controlled environment, but when mobile is introduced, a mix of optimism with a soft fallback is a good approach.
Confirmed. :)
Facebook, Twitter, etc. also have to build something that their users want to use and this follows the same paradigm. Google could build something to make every advertiser happy but if it pissed off all of their users it would kill their business. They have to solve this problem on both sides -- they have to build something users want to use and they have to build something advertisers will pay for. Both halves of it have to answer the Why Now
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think that's because discussing constitutionality isn't a winning strategy. Constitutionality hasn't been a primary concern in the legislative process for a while, especially when internet commerce is involved.
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I'm pretty sure the internet itself favors an ad-supported distribution model. In a fee-based model, in order to make a profit, you have to limit viewing to those who pay. In an ad-based model, you make more money by getting as many people to view the content as possible. The Internet is very good at spreading content to a lot of people. It is not so good at limiting content to a select group of people.
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Yeah you make some excellent points but I'd say forget that for a moment and think of the countless books and articles and blog posts out there that are spewing the same information over and over. I see a ton of professional, established web design firms still designing sites like its 1997.

My takeaway from this was to really just remember that the rules have their place but it's a mistake to follow them just because they've become accepted. The web has changed so much in the past 3 years alone that we need to reevaluate the rules and each time we design a site ask ourselves if we're doing this because it's the rule or because it makes sense in terms of design and usability.

I'm still seeing a ton of people preach about using the keyword meta tag and preaching about divitis and semantic markup. Those ideas are all well and good but things are different now. I know those aren't exactly design related issues but the point is that some people are being fed outdated info.

There are a lot more opportunities to break the rules And actually be rewarded these days. So you're content is more like a section than an article. Okay, well that's debatable. Too many divs? Well it could be or maybe there's no other way and it's not hurting future modifications or rendering or load times. So be it.

The point is that we can't be blindly following these rules. Obviously we really need to know and understand the rules first. But once you know the rules you can then break them when it makes sense. I read the post such that the author was basically saying "think about if the rule you're about to implement makes sense. If you found another way that works do it. We're all pros and we can handle it". Amateurs should stick to the rules until they get their bearings but the rest of us should remember that it's not 1997 anymore and sometimes those rules don't apply to the situation.

I'm not disagreeing with you, just had a different take on the message in the post.
YouTube does have automated copyright detection though
what are people using on the backend for apps like this? I was just starting an app with approach like this (both for these reasons and to harmonize across web and mobile clients) and I was planning on using RoR given its first class support for JSON and maturity. Thoughts?
I would pay if I could see a sample of what I was getting, i.e., the finished polished first episode.
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Great points. Also, schools and colleges can't keep up with the changing technologies. One of my friends just graduated from a 4-year accredited design school and they just started teaching CSS 3 years ago. He said he wasted a lot of money and would've been better to just get a two-year degree and do the rest of the stuff on his own.

He said he learned more in his first 8 months out of college, than he did in the the 4 years it took him to earn his degree.
Hell, you don't even need Torx (although they help). I upped my MBP to 8 GB RAM last week, using an ordinary (albeit miniscule) flathead screwdriver. It did take me about 4 tries to get the DIMMs seated correctly, though.
The goal of a country is to continue improving the quality of life of its citizens. Grouping working and consuming in that is totally bogus. Working (theoretically) produces things which should, all in all, improve the quality of life. Consuming is totally different and an essentially broken way to promote growth.
I think the big innovation highlighted in the video is that he used historical data on frequency of certain topics, the dollar value assigned to those topics, and his personal performance on certain categories to figure out which categories were most important to study. I know that I am bad at fashion and 19th century French literature but what relative fraction should I spend on one over the other? His code gave him a number and that's the ratio he studied them. So you're right, at that point it's not much different from flipping through a giant study manual, other than the manual telling you should should really look at pages 3, 11, 21, 47, 96, ... because that's what the solution to the nonlinear optimization problem said would give you the best chance at winning against simulated opponents.
Yes, yes it does affect them. Much like losing a drive in a raid5 array, the time to rebuild (re-upload a new backup) is a critical period of time where you don't have any redundancy. Any failure during this period means losing all your data.

Livedrive really threw Backify under the bus, and Backify really proved that a single level of redundancy isn't enough. Blame to go all around, although I feel bad for Backify.
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Yes, but that is different than spidering and blocking every site in the search results that hosts copyrighted content.
Isn't that sort of true of any Kickstarter project? There's an inherent leap of faith in supporting anyone's efforts. I suppose I never say it in the pitch, and perhaps I should, but all of the money would be spent on production - writing, actors, location permits, etc. I assumed that was a given but perhaps I should go back and edit it. Would you be concerned I was going to run off with the money based on what I've filmed and or written?
These hearings are nothing more than democracy theater, and I'm a bit surprised that otherwise smart people, namely most of those posting on HN, actually believe differently. The government has already shown, many times, its willingness and ability to shut down sites, unilaterally, by simply telling ICANN to redirect where a domain points. SOPA is merely a formalization of that power. I surmise that the best way to let a congressman know that you are serious about this issue is to put a bullet in the head of the congressman sitting next to him. If you aren't willing to go that far to protect your freedom, then you are just as full of hot air as the OWS crowd. I don't expect upvotes on this comment, but I am certain that all of the downvotes will come from cowards, the uniformed, idealists, or agents of the government. DNS is broken, and needs either extreme violence to protect its existing fragility, or an awesome technical improvement that will pry the government's grubby fingers off of it for good. Take your pick as to the best route, but wishing for logic and common sense at these hearings is pointless.

EDIT: I should point out the following, for those who think that there really is no need to worry. "Risk of Jail for Ordinary Users: It becomes a felony with a potential 5 year sentence to stream a copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, even if you are a totally noncommercial user, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook." - http://americancensorship.org A felony is a felony is a felony. Once you are guilty of one, your life changes significantly. It all comes down to which law you are willing to break. Just a couple of decades ago, murder and treason were pretty much the only serious crimes. Now, manipulate certain bits in a particular way, and it's treated as almost the same thing. Think about how much we've already lost through our passivity, and how much more we have to lose.
Maybe he meant that if you hooked up all the meth addicts in his state to a 24/7 feed of pirated movies, clockwork orange style, they'd be able to detect the pirated ones using their special paranoid powers of perception.
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I did a bit of work towards this last year: the user experience is really nice, comparable to Silverlight or Flex. Only both Silverlight and Flex have a much nicer development experience at the cost of a plugin.
That seems pretty inconsistent with how most companies and founders talk about their business. Amazon started with Bezos wanting to build the biggest e-commerce platform in the world. Apple wanted to put a computer on every desk. Larry Page at Google when he was doing his first round of financing told John Doerr that he thought search was a $10 billion revenue business. These guys may not have realized what that would entail exactly but once they had the earliest inkling of product-market fit they committed to it.

You don't get big by thinking small. World changing tech companies tend to have a big vision from the beginning. Manufacturing, mining, or other industries may be different. But you rarely see tech companies that touch 100 million lives without wanting to do that from the beginning.
"ever tried updating apps when you have multiple iTunes accounts? It's a nightmare."

I have 2 iTunes accounts, one for free apps and one for paid apps (it seemed like a good idea at the time to not expose credit card info unnecessarily). In iTunes I have to log in separately to update my paid and free apps, it's a nuisance but hardly the stuff of nightmares.
This caught me off guard too. He starts with a reasonable question, gets a reasonable answer, then comes up with this "we have the technology" noise?

What's the point of getting an expert opinion if you're just going to completely disregard it?
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As this is back on the first page of ask hn, I thought I'd point out that tinyproj seems to be alive again. I got an email on Saturday with 2 projects in it. Glad to see it goIng again.
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Oddly, I liked it, but that's probably due to my bias for coding with a dark background.

I highly recommend installing one of the many instapaper/readability extensions -- god knows with my ever-aging eyes I'm hitting that '~' key more and more often.
I think removing the hard drive itself requires a small Torx.
My mental state aside - why do you think the network TV shows didn't work?
Let me break it down..

Android SDK:
-Intel improved the x86 emulation on Mac and Windows by a factor of 10.
Android NDK:
-Intel patched stuff to optimize and support x86 android devices

Android Market:
-Android Market now runs on x86 platforms

Obviously all that is x86 Intel tablets running android..not smartphones. That would be the atom chip series.

I took a look at device trees in Android 4 source.. no device trees for Intel x86 smartphones.

And remember there was an admission by Intel several weeks ago that they will not be in smartphones, chip wise. That dovetails with their work on both MeeGo and Android as Intel is pushing their atom series at tablets not smartphones.
Sweet.

How do you actually use it? I'm staring at a blank canvas.
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Some of the best cohort visualizations I have seen from a mobile analytics platform provider. Thanks for the info, nice job.