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I think Google is smart enough to identify the www and without. Because it is now smart enough to identify bad grammar and spelling.

On the other hand, I think I disagree with the buying a new domain to target an exact match. That will just give signal to Google that it's a new domain and it was unnaturally optimized.
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Umm...I was expecting more. I really was.
This is incredible in terms of helping push the technology envelope further, but I'm afraid it's just going to be used in the short term by Android handset OEMs as another selling point to tout in the spec wars. I wish that they would focus on the end-to-end user experience more, rather than putting their own brand of lipstick on Android and trying to win a pointless spec arms race.
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A very large network that will remain unnamed thought the same thing. They numbered all internal systems (20k+ devices) inside 50.0.0.0/8.

The DoD handed the block back to IANA in 1998, and in 2010 it was allocated for use.
"Github, Slideshare, Tumblr are fantastic, but don’t give them your link juice. Put your content on your own domain. "

Love this. There's no reason you can't host the write-up for your github projects / gems on your own domain, and make a much prettier and more intuitive documentation for your code than what you can do with markdown and no pictures. As an example, look how nice VowsJS (http://vowsjs.org/) does this. It makes me excited to clone their module and use it in my project. More people should be doing this!
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From how many days have I been procrastinating doing exactly this :(. Now here it's already here! congrats :)
Those are excellent questions. The best way for us to address them is to update more of the copy on the site. The biggest thing we help with is validation, but we also help create winning teams, early hires, etc.

The number 100 is intended to be large enough to make the investment truly diverse, large enough to attract a wide variety of talent and experience in each class, but small enough to be filled relatively easily. There is also no harm in applying multiple times or in scrapping a project and joining someone else's or submitting another idea. From the standpoint of the investor, it's an investment in people, and the specifics of the structure address the realities of risk aversion, talent acquisition, etc.
That's the sane reaction people like you and me might have, but it does, quite unfortunately, not match reality at all.

Google is heavily advertising Android over iDevices as having Flash support. Users know this and expect Flash to work. It works, sortof, on the default browser. It didn't work for the longest time on Opera and Firefox Mobile. Opera now supports it somewhat reasonably (presumable due to a truly herculean effort of their developers to figure out the real API without any meaningful Adobe support), and Firefox Mobile barely in some of the latest Nightlies. Especially due the latter adding support (for a non-open standard!), I think it's a clear illustration that the feature is considered a must have if you want to have significant user penetration on Android.

Consider also how much effort Google is putting into helping Adobe make Flash more secure. Think about why they bother.

The problem is that Flash websites are out there. The investment has been thrown into the black hole. People who payed for these sites are going to sit on them for a while. And there's quite some sites that only work on Flash.

It only takes one of those that you want to visit, such as a restaurant or whatever, without non-Flash fallback, to see how annoying it is not to have Flash. You can't visit the site, period.

So you must support it until all those sites are rooted out. And Adobe now even officially doesn't give a shit.
Are you a designer? Care to suggest some specific improvements?
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They probably gave it a good shot, but couldn't get it anywhere near lean enough. Flash turns laptops into battery-powered space heaters; on a mobile device it's just a non-starter.

Flash is just a dying tech. Were someone to seamlessly roll its functionality into an easy to use package, I'm sure you'd see it die out for games as well, which is the only remaining use-case there isn't a ready replacement for.
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It sure is a shame that they never did this before Steve died.

Would have been a nice going away present.

:(
Handmade knives are for people with more money than sense. If you actually USE knives in the field, then you know that the best knives are made by people who came up with brilliant designs and techniques and used them to start small companies that combine the best of both worlds, like Busse and RAT. A knife from a small, semi-automated company will cost half of what this guy charges and last ten times as long because it's built on genius and not an irrational attachment to handmade items. You can watch Joel whinge on about his life story and then pay five hundred dollars for a kitchen knife, or can spend half the money on a Scrap Yard Scrapper you could literally pound through three of these knives stacked together, assuming you had a sledgehammer.
I think you're missing his bigger insight, that is, building a social graph is a fundamentally asocial act. And that extends to creating taxonomies, even if they are localized to my concept of socializing. Nobody goes to a party to create a taxonomy.

Being social is all about disorganization, spontaneity, creativity, breaking out of all the stupid taxonomies that we impose on other people and have imposed on us. Trying to organize socialization to the extent that a "social graph" can be created is a profoundly sociopathic act. To push this task on users so that they do all the shoeboxing and tagging and linking, all in the name of "fun," requires some coercive force. It is no surprise that many Facebook users say that they don't really enjoy using it, but they have to. Part of that was the site's smart choice to maintain real names, so that you are always fretting about your online appearance. It's not a "perfectly synced representation of reality," but it is presented as such, almost like your own personal Wikipedia page, and by the laws of social anxiety you are compelled to check up on it! Shoebox, tag, link...

The line about Facebook rarely producing creative or original material really hit home for me. 4chan and SA are creative because they are fundamentally disorganized, and this freedom produces real moments of brilliance (and plenty more of profound stupidity). Facebook and its ilk are like corporate jobs disguised as consumer web products. You are constantly being shuffled from box to box, task to task, and the blinders have to be tightened ever so constantly to keep you from realizing why what you are doing really never will be "fun" in the way that a raucous party is fun.

About those blinders: those are in a big way the "privacy options" that every social network touts. Maciej points out, and I think that it's a salient point, that if everybody was able to see the whole social graph, it would dissolve. That alone should suggest that the social graph is an unnatural concept. Yet there is somebody, the owner of the social network, that can indeed see the entire graph, and there is a whole level of misdirection that they must apply to make this seem completely normal.

Again, maciej said most of this better than I could, so I'm glad he did.
For some people that's the right choice, for others it's not. By that logic, someone should also ignore YC, etc. It's a choice every founder has.... different strokes, etc.
I encourage you to try out the 6.828 course material, especially the labs. It's one of the best OS courses. I had taken UCLA's CS 235 which is based on similar content [1]. Learned a lot from that.

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Metered mail costs significantly less than stamped mail. A quick check with the USPS suggests a price of $0.237 per piece. That makes $0.45 per piece pretty reasonable for a fully automated service, assuming a human never needs to touch individual pieces of mail.
That's sort of a strange thing to say considering that iOS and app store sandboxing are doing more to innovate in the security department than any other consumer device manufacturer.
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They give a quick order of magnitude on their front page without signing up: https://sendwrite.com/ mentions "as low as $1.99 per card in a pack of 20".
>Beyond that, what's the point of contributing all this content to Yelp?

This Quora post lists a few reasons: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-incentives-to-write-review.... (Some reasons include using it as a food journal, narcissism, reward/punish for good/bad service, and getting invited to Yelp Elite parties.)
This makes me a little sad. For all that people complain about Flash, and any problems the Flash Player runtime has, it's really a fun environment to code for. I like AS3, I like the Flash API, and I greatly enjoyed writing Flex back when that was most of my job.

I don't have nearly as much fun writing HTML/JS as I did writing AS3. I liked the (optional) strict typing. I liked writing for a single target and knowing it would just work. I liked having the power to say, "Render this thing in just this spot," and having it do what I wanted rather than spending hours fiddling CSS.

So as much as the decline of Flash is generally heralded as a good thing (and I agree that Adobe really never managed to fulfill their promises/goals with Flash on mobile devices), I'm still going to miss it when it's gone.

Edit: Just want to note that I'm speaking from the perspective of writing large, complex webapps in AS3/Flex, not just websites. Use the right tool for the job, etc etc.
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One of the nicer things about Flash is that it's easy to block en masse, which cuts out on so many visually distracting animated things.

One of my worries with HTML5 is that we won't have a good heuristic for preventing animation and video.

As it is, YouTube occasionally serves me up their HTML5 video player, and it's a significantly worse experience than the Flash one, for the simple reason that it autoplays, whereas FlashBlock will stop Flash autoplay. I can't tell you how many times I've been listening to a video, wondering why it sounds so awful, and then figuring out there's another video autoplaying in a background tab.

So we (or at least I) will need some way of killing / freezing HTML5 canvas, video etc. elements until the user assents to their animation.
Personally, I'd like to just upload a PDF of the appropriate size for your card stock, and use my own formatting tools to produce that PDF.

(This looks awesome, by the way.)
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This is really cutting it close to violating the Google Webmaster Guidelines for quality and originality on each page.
Take the most popular person in high school and get him to design social software. It would suck. Bad.

What you've just described is Facebook, except that the "most popular person in high school" got cut out of the loop by the nerd smart enough to realize that the idea was good enough to be worth stealing.

And you're right. It does suck, in a million ways, reflecting our society at large rather well, overall. But it's also the most successful social network to date.

But in my opinion, at least, the main idea that the yacht club twins brought to the mix was actually the primary reason that it grew so easily: Facebook was, initially, at least, a social network for students at elite schools, let the rest of the University-of-CrappyPartySchool rabble diddle themselves on Myspace. Without that, I don't know that it ever would have taken off the way it did...
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This looks awesome; I've wanted a service for sending mail for a while. Cards seem like a nice place to start; hopefully they'll expand to a few other form factors in the future.

Personally, I'd love to see this for a couple of data-related use cases: mailing either USB disks or CDs based on an uploaded image.
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Yelp does not have a powerful network effect like Facebook, its main distribution mechanism was SEO via Google search. Unlike Google+/Facebook, in this case Google is in an excellent position to compete, if they smartly integrate a mix of user-written and Zagat reviews into Android and iPhone maps (it will take a better product manager than Marissa Mayer though- so the outcome is highly internal politics dependent)
I never thought I'd say this, but thanks, Apple.
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> Beyond that, what's the point of contributing all this content to Yelp?

What's the point of writing a long comment on Hacker News? ;)
I'm not understanding what the complaint in that is, exactly. Is it that the Sprint/cellular side of the usage is limited while the wifi usage is not?
The content should be high quality. This is why I mentioned the story of eHow and what a terrible thing it is, and why Patrick said "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create content in a fashion that scales while simultaneously ensuring that the user experience of consuming your content remains good"

He specifically told us not to create crap content.
I'm going to guess because you installed from the live media. The full install media lets you pick what sorts of things you want to be installed as I recall.

If having to do `yum groupinstall "Development Tools"` yourself is your biggest complaint, I'd say Fedora is doing pretty damn well.
Excellent point on determining a "sweet spot" and waking up at the same time everyday.

It's a lot of work to get on a normal sleeping pattern but it can be done. I slept inconsistently for 15 years and, after ~1 year of reprogramming the habit, have been able to get consistently good sleep. The productivity boost has been phenomenal since then and it has been absolutely worthwhile.

My most important habits are:

1) Sleep when tired at night - sounds obvious but you'd be shocked at how often we fight it. Don't nap. Just get to the evening and sleep early if you need to.

2) Wake up and get out of bed at the same time everyday - get your body in a pattern. This is critical. If you consider staying in bed once you wake up, you will fall asleep and train yourself to roll around in the morning. If you force yourself up and start moving, you'll be wide awake in a few minutes. One week of this the habit will begin to form. Avoid alcohol and late nights to get this habit rolling.

3) Do the same thing every night before you sleep -condition your body to expect sleep. Reading fiction for 15 minutes has been a good tool for me (avoid tasks like checking email that keep your mind active, the whole point is to ease into sleep!)

Be wary of polyphasic sleep! I tried this and the first week resulted in massive sleep deprivation that took a heavy toll on productivity (serious IQ and attention span dip. zombies are stupid) and ended with a massive crash and hibernate period.

You're right to think about sleep. If you can get this down, you'll be much more productive. You might also need to lessen your big load of responsibilities or get help from someone else if the time demands are too high.

Best of luck. I'm rooting for you.
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My argument is that:
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2. I do this openly (my handle and blog name are the same, I never made this a secret) but I suspect some others just have a login to HN that does not reflect to their blog and as such post articles 'anonymously'

So what do you think, are blog writers allowed to post their own articles (at least the ones they think are relevant to HN) or should I stop doing so?
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A Chrome/FF extension to disable autoplay seems trivial.
Not by default in arch linux, debian, ubuntu, etc. Requires an extra module.
Given that AMD has essentially lost their way as far as being competitive with Intel, I don't view the releases of new mobile products as being pointless processions in an ongoing spec war, but more as a necessity to ramp performance to a point that disruption of the desktop/server space becomes possible. ARM in your phone, tablet, desktop & powering the "cloud" isn't so far fetched. Right now I see ARM & OpenCL/CUDA as much bigger threats to Intel than AMD is.
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The problem is that once banks get big enough, they will get bailed out when they fail due to all the vested interest by affluent parties that they shouldn't fail.

So the only way to get in a situation where it is an option to never bail them out? It is to keep the sizes small.
The Kinect is a very cool input device, but it has a lot of the same problems as “pictures behind glass” touchscreens: in particular, it doesn't provide anything like the experience of manipulating real objects: texture, resistance, weight, &c.
Even though I sympathize with the problems having "bank" in a name, "Simple" is just too general to be useful.
Not to mention Phonegap, which is now an Adobe product thanks to their recent acquisition of Nitobi.
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Is it really silly? Gmail doesn't have version numbers. Facebook doesn't have version numbers. Hacker News doesn't have version numbers. Twitter doesn't have version numbers. They may refer to "the new version" or "the new, beta version" but not by number.

On the dev side, you might refer to a particular code snapshot with a "version number" that might as well be 3.2 or r304 or "2011-08-3 12:03:47" or d1b119d8f117b16fcfa58b2be60df87a6c45ac58. Considering the nightmares caused by conservative IT groups enforcing version X of software Y for years, eliminating version numbers from the public for something as critical as a browser seems like a good move to me on security alone. For other things the formal major.minor.release-revision can still make sense. Personally I miss the "even minor version represents stable, odd unstable" pattern that's increasingly fallen out of use.
I don't think for a second that Adobe's decision was motivated by the open nature of HTML5 itself. If anything being open is a downside for Adobe in their current market position.

I don't think the "poor technical choices" of their product are explained by its proprietary nature (MP3, H264 are example of the contrary) but they are for sure the reason they're moving away from it.
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Probably needless to say but this only works as long as you don't care about the person in front of you. If your expectations of a dating life consist of "getting lucky" with random hot strangers this is a good strategy because there is an endless supply of random hot strangers available. Of course, women adore confidence above many other traits; so the good news is you can train for it, but I think it's foolish to forget that this is a fundamentally empty experience.

I also believe if there is something most people have too much of, it's confidence and a disproportional sense of superiority. We waste a lot of effort trying to seem exceptional instead of trying to become more exceptional.

Nothing illustrates this as well as people who consider themselves hot. Dealing with people who think they're hot is a grating experience, even later on during the relationship. Is it really a good idea to work on making yourself more accessible to them?
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