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Well said.

Sometimes a new tool will come along that truly is a huge improvement on previous tools. But, when those previous tools are "classics", it's pretty rare that the "new" tool is truly that much of an improvement.

There's a reason that these things (bash, sed, awk, perl, SQL, Unix/Linux, etc) are still popular and still going. It's because they're time tested, they're well known, and they work.
Yeah, suddenly border-image rendering changed in Chrome between versions and Firefox got the short end of the stick. Sorry!
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That's why we made admin_view https://github.com/renderedtext/admin_view
Good point. Forgive the dirty websockets check. We're going to do this better.
> Sometimes people of very average intelligence but great social skills do really well.

Social skills are a form of intelligence that are arguably important in the real world, where it is difficult to succeed without having a good team. I would argue that the Darwinian way it is now taught (the grade school system) is not the best. There are so many things people know intuitively, that I have to be conscious of.
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Back in 1997, Laura Garton and al. presented their thoughts and ideas on social network and how we work in clusters (or circles).
It's fascinating that ICBC is so bad. In Saskatchewan, we've got SGI (another government car insurance monopoly), but their prices are quite good, and they run it such that they don't really make a profit (if there's a surplus, they write cheques back to people).

From what I can tell from other peoples' comments throughout this thread, SaskTel seems to be in a similar boat. The population and economy of Sask. doesn't really support, imho, a business case for the level of service SaskTel provides, but the government provides it anyway. I've been extremely happy with my SaskTel service for years, and now that they've moved to GSM, things just keep getting better.
Do you have a source for the statistic? I'd like to see it.
The service itself looks awesome, but let me just say that the landing page is fantastic - just the right balance between humor and information to keep me reading to find out details as they occurred to me, gave me an option to sign up right at the top, but then kept explaining more without making me click to another page to do it.

I am truly in awe of that landing page.
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Appreciate the advice!
I have cell service with Bell Aliant (eastern Canada) and my data is horrible!

My phone a Samsung Galaxy SII on Bell's HSPA+ network which from what I understand can be anywhere from 21Mbps to 42Mbps but my phone is only capable of a max of 21Mbps. I don't expect to get 21Mbps or even 15Mbps but most days it's 0.3 or 1Mbps maybe 5Mbps to 9Mbps on a good day. Outright lies or incompetence or both to say such a thing and not have anywhere near what they promise.

Bell's excuse is the network is busy with other users but I test it at all hours of the day and each day and weekend but it's never consistent. They advertise "HSPA+ 21Mbps" but make excuse after excuse once you're a customer that you'll never ever see that.

I complained to the CRTC Donna Shewfelt Client Services wrote back to me gave me a case number 'CRTC Case ID: 548491' but then "The telecommunications industry has established an independent consumer agency, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS)"

and

"Given the concerns you have raised, we believe this complaint is more properly within the scope of the CCTS and have forwarded your complaint to them."

That was September 22 of this year (2011) and not one reply since then from any of them.
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Because all you ever hear about Jobs is that he was a dominating bully. She shows that people did stand up to him (at least when the facts were on their side).
You can also setup an APN Proxy using the iPhone Configuration Utility.
I sure would like to know what the project is about, and I don't own a facebook account. There's no about page, at least without signing in with fb.
Thanks! I didn't recognize her. Added that info to the article.
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I'm a sysadmin who does development on the side.

When I start writing something, I think about how big I expect it to be. If it's expected to be 50 lines or less, then it's bash for general scripts, and awk for text filtering. If it's expected to be more than 50 lines, I go with Perl. That goes regardless of platform (as it's already available on every *nix platform I use, and Strawberry or ActiveState makes Perl easy to add on Windows).
Running the samples gives this currently -
"A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator."
Wanted to report this since being on the front page is precious and maybe you want to restart your server so that you dont lose the eyeballs.
Culture Hacking
Show HN: Re-designed landing page for a startup
It's wonderful that you have "give us feedback" as one of the initial tasks in the first team created. It's less wonderful that there is no obvious way to give you that feedback. Five minutes in and already I'm falling behind on shipping!

On a different note: I actually need to recruit people I don't previously know to my team. Would it be possible to add a landing page for a team that signs up the person and then auto-ads them to that team. This would have a hard-to-guess URL, so I would have confidence that only people I recruited (or their friends) would show up.

Finally, I just need to ask, are you fans of http://www.mspaintadventures.com ?
This is very interesting. While I do not claim to know everything the skin rejuvenation cannot be a standalone way of reversing aging and lasting longer, Renal failure, heart attacks, cancer, Alzheimers. these are things we cannot treat simply by "yes we made your skin look young so now your kidneys can synthesize electrolytes and you wont die" to me, this seems like human ego and vanity yes modern medicine can make you look younger than you are (William Shatner) but I have been in the medical field for 5 years and through ICU, VA Hospitals and cancer wards I have found absolutely no evidence that would say rejuvinate the skin, fix the organ failure that no matter how hard we try will still happen with old age, your immune system will eventually quit your body will eventually just stop. regardless of how young you look.
Screencast: http://vimeo.com/31586105
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Thanks. :) There are definitely tons of places it needs to be improved, but we appreciate the kind words!
Oh, awesome. Thanks!
Looks like http://www.super-marmite.com/ by @shingara
Hm, maybe it's the border-image. For me, specifying `background-color: transparent;` to `#home article` fixes things right up, at least in firebug.
I'd like for this service to take off. People spend much more on eating out than on hotels, so an AirBnb for meals makes a lot of sense.

Just pick one area of London and market the hell out of it. Make sure there is a variety of food styles available every night.
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The f-word, although it still sounds slightly silly to my ears, actually makes sense because it's a euphemism. It's a contraction of "the word beginning with F" and when you say "the f-word" you are not saying "fuck" but simply referring to it, even though in practice everyone still knows what you mean.

My confusion with f&ck is that you're still saying fuck. There's absolutely no difference between fuck and f!ck except for the 25% difference in the symbols committed to the page.

This implies that it is the particular combination of geometric forms that is offensive or shocking, rather than the sentiment they represent, and I don't believe that this is what people actually think. However there is no other conclusion that I can see, other than widespread cognitive dissonance.

I don't mean to and sound superior or arrogant, although I accept that I probably do. I only bring it up because I sincerely want to understand better.

The other thing I have noticed about this phenomenon is that it is not restricted to conservative or particularly public arenas, or even to ones with a general expectation of professionalism like this one. I have recently seen it in discussions between activist types about recent episodes of police brutality: "The UC Davis police are utter c*nts." This was in a context where people routinely discuss civil disobedience and disregard for authority, certainly not somewhere anybody would be offended by such language, and not somewhere you would expect people to be reinforcing taboos around speech and self-expression.
Perhaps even more relevant (I'm looking at you, SOPA) 4 years ago.
Add more login options. Currently I have FB and G+ in my /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.2 -- a little detox. I'm writing this comment because I know that from developer's perspective the FB-login-only may seem a good thing (I've been there), but it puts many people off, for many reasons. I know this is only a prototype etc., but for later.
Yes, that's exactly what Lorem Ipsum is intended for.

While I can imagine there being some usecases in which you'd want to actually test the readability of some design and maybe provide some text that a user can actually read, in most cases you don't and you use Lorem Ipsum to keep the client from reading the text.

One thing you definitely don't want to do, during the design phase, is putting text there that is almost but not quite a finished version of what is actually going to be there. Because that way you guarantee that the client will be reading the text and (even involuntarily) come up with all sorts of things that are slightly wrong about the text and could be improved, which is all very useful (maybe), but not if you're looking for feedback on the design, which is when you use Lorem Ipsum filler.

That said, there may be a few use cases where this "meaningful but unrelated" filler is appropriate, but it's most definitely not "better" than Lorem Ipsum. Nor is "Lorem Ipsum is lame" a valid criticism in these use cases.
Yeah, it looks very similar to super-marmite - I'd not seen that before.

I guess the key is just getting critical mass in an area, since it's effectively just a marketplace. Super-marmite seems to be very Paris-focussed at the moment.

There's also housebites.com, but it's a bit more upmarket and focussed on takeaway/delivery.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm using Omniauth, so it's really simple to add different login options.

I'll put it on my list for next weekend!
What would help a lot is to provide some detail on if/how this toolkit could be used with web frameworks like Django.

It would be awesome to be able to keep using Django models and expose them through Muntjac-based templates.

Could this be feasible? If yes, would be great to see some examples. If no, why?
this is incredibly slow.

but on the bright side it got me to check on the original vaadin, which i found very interesting.
That's the plan - I'm going to try to start in North/Central London. Islington, Camden & Shoreditch (home to the infamous Silicon Roundabout).

Short of actually flyering local homes, does anyone have any ideas for cheap & effective local advertising? I've got some Facebook ads running, but targetting more locally than just "London" doesn't return many people.
It should not take 20 seconds to launch a barebones calculator, and another 5 to respond to clicking on a number.
That screencast is unwatchable! Why are there two people talking at the same time???
One might define a meritocracy as one in which the coolness signalling aspect of money is no different from the resource gathering aspect. You also raise the interesting point about the granularity of money: if IBM makes more money than the Lisper for her Lisp, does that make IBM cooler? It could.
Beautifully done. This is exactly the type of treatment I'd love to see in those GA flows. Thanks for pointing it out
Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?
Hi fellow HN readers!

tl;dr: what about setting up a community blog about technical topics?

Sometimes I want to share my experience/knowledge on some subjects, but I don't want to maintain a blog which I'll update only a few time per year. So I was thinking that if some of you are like me we could setup a blog where each of us could share his thoughts on whatever he want as long it remains topics that may interest HN readers. Moreover if the quality of the posts is great we may have more visibility (what's the point of writing if nobody read it?) than if each of us as his own blog lost in some dark corner of the Internet.

Want to tell everybody why (vim|emacs) is awesome? Want to show us your nifty new demo in (HTML5|CSS3|WebGL)? Want explain some IOCCC entries? Want to talk about internals of the Linux kernel? Rails advanced topics? Python metaclasses? Lexing and parsing? Node? Something else? It's ok, c'mon guys I'm pretty sure we can do something together! We just have to use Hyde/Jekyll and setup a repo on Github. It'll allow us to submit new articles (via pullrequest, and discuss them before publishing them), and to fix already published articles (by submitting an issue/pullrequest).

What do you think about it? Would you be interested in a such project? Another questions? Just drop a comment!
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I find that many people I admire were culture hackers: Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela. But I think the future is with the culture hackers who aren’t famous yet – and those who may never be famous.
That's a lot of text above the fold. Of the 7 minutes, I bet 5 is spent reading that landing page.
I test drove it a few days ago. I really liked the UI (with keyboard shortcuts!) but found that it really didn't add value since we already use Pivotal Tracker. PT already has a notion of the story you are working on along with tasks for each story that you can quickly create and check off as you complete them.

The group chat feature feels pretty simplistic and isn't even in the same ballpark as Campfire or HipChat.

It's a promising design and feature set but still needs a lot of work to justify the high price.
I'm for it :D. I've tried maintaining a blog a couple times but never end up writing enough, and as you said therefore no one reads the few things I do manage to write up :P.
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I recognised his trademark passionate speech (02:43) about using technology to improve education. Laden with superlatives, it's just like every Apple product launch since the iPod.

I think having Dan'l Lewin[1] and his strong ties with academia had a lot to do with this.

[1]: He doesn't have a wiki (for shame), but here's his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-l-lewin/7/953/852.
To my cranky old self, the overbearing similarity between this product (aimed at productivity) and services like Twitter and Facebook (aimed at fun), combined with the overly cheery, flippant color scheme, make it difficult for me to take my work in &! seriously and actually get things done.
Have you tried one of the small guys struggling to compete against the big 3? Mobilicity, Wind or Public Mobile. I am with Mobilicity and pay $35 for unlimited everything (one of the amzing early plans they had.. you can still get he same for $40 or so) and that includes data, global text messaging and North American long distance.A couple of caveats are that plans are metro-area limited so if you go out of any of their zones (Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary...) you are roaming at about 25 cents per minute and if you need fast data forget it (highest I get is about 3Mbit/s). Some changes are coming though so all of us with the little carriers are kinda unsure what's going to happen - Mobilicity's CEO was just fired, CRTC declared that the small guys have to bid for the same LTE spectrum along with the big 3 (which is what the main Wind investor in the article above is complaining about).
Out of curiosity, what kind of rig are you running on?

On my four year old desktop it started in about 3 seconds and clicks on buttons do have a noticeable lag, but it's probably 1/3 to 1/2 a second.
Sounds like a lot like Wicket (component based web ui). And honestly, I don't like this idea for the web. Web UI is not desktop UI. Make make both of them equivalent, one requires adding a special layer that converts API calls to HTML rendering, which can make things unnecessarily slow (as it was slow in Wicket, and it's also slow in Muntjac).
Please change your RSS feed http -> header -> content-type from 'text/html' to 'text/xml'.
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Keyboard shortcuts are awesome[1], though they do tend to interfere with keyboard-based browsers. Right now I use Conkeror, which is Emacs-inspired Mozilla-based browser, and encountered some problems with webpage and browser shortcuts interfering witch each other. Sometimes it's annoying (Twitter, SMBC), sometimes it renders the webpage keyboard shortcuts unusable (&!) [2].

I know that people using keyboard browsers are probably the 0.005% of users and thus not worth optimizing Internet for; however as the keyboard shortcuts become more and more popular among webpages, it might be interesting to talk about how to make them well. Should everyone design their own shortcuts, or are there operations so common across webpages, that it would be better to have universal keyboard shortcuts configured browser-side?

[1] - I got addicted to keyboard shortcuts in GMail, they're great! :).

[2] - fortunately, all of this is (AFAIK) solvable by writing a major mode for given webpage.
Good idea!
I'd be interested in such a blog for the very reasons you mention.
And I'd be sure to learn a lot in the process.
I just switched to a High-CPU EC2 instance. I hope it helps. Otherwise:

$ easy_install muntjac

$ muntjac

to run the demos locally.
I doubt Google expected people to flock to Chrome quite as much as they did. If you get that momentum you'd be a fool to squander it.
I had a similar experience. Took around 5 seconds to launch, and around 10 seconds to get the result of me clicking 5 * 6. Much too slow.

- Chrome, i7, 4GB RAM
> Out of curiosity, what kind of rig are you running on?

Quad-core i7 ThinkPad. I'm using Chrome (16), that might be relevant.
I'm just not in love with google's new UI.
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Badass! I wanted to do something like this in Austin, Texas but haven't had the time just yet.
I only visited your site because you forgot to say what it does. I'm still not that sure what it does, or how, or why.

Fixing that would be a big step forwards. You want to always be communicating about your service, and in a clear way, and focusing on why I should care rather than on why you're awesome.
Thanks for the insights! I appreciate it.
One issue is that the session gets unpickled/pickled with each request. When each of the samples has been run the pickled session files are ~2Mb.
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My guess is that it's this photo, presumably from the same shoot. It looks like the harmonicas are in their cases at the nearest corner of his desk.

http://www.linkagree.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/about_st...
I don't know much about Django sadly. I can tell you that the ApplicationServlet is just a WSGI app and can be stacked accordingly.
I was just talking about doing this with friends every friday, we all love to cook and show off - it makes me spend a week investigating food preparation to impress. I've been in cities before where groups of friends have an open night once a week for a $5 tip. Works really well, especially once you get traction and a random group of friends show up every time. Great concept, good luck!
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First make it possible, then make it fast, then make it beautiful.

This is awesome -- don't let the haters say otherwise.
Apple themselves acknowledge that they use location information gleaned from iphones to build a location database.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Loca...
There was the company that sold the US a system to find hidden messages in Al Jazera videos - I think that got a few people a trip to the orange suited holiday camp before everybody discovered it was a con
Thanks. I'm new to HN and didn't realise what this would do to my traffic. It is currently on EC2, but I had it working on GAE. Perhaps that would have helped with the scaling.
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Wohooo!
6GB is a few dozen youtube videos, thats pretty far from even "basically"
Thanks. I'm not sure how it compares to Vaadin in terms of speed, but it does run on PyPy (and IronPython), which might help.
My advice would be to show more content before you make people sign in with Facebook. Since I don't like connecting things to my Facebook profile I clicked out of the site, when otherwise I might have been interested and spent more time exploring.
Cool! Thanks! ...and you're right: we actually did design it from day one to be a very enjoyable and fast keyboard experience.
Yep, and then, if I recall (and without looking), it removes the background on Chrome entirely (leaving it transparent and grey and unreadable instead of white in the center).

I messed with it for a couple hours to get Chrome and Firefox to render the same and eventually gave up and moved on to more important things, but it's on my list to investigate.
Great to see this old NeXT stuff.

I still have my NeXTStation Turbo Color, and shockingly, it still runs! Other than my current iMac, it's easily my favorite computer ever. To be using a NeXT in the early 1990s truly was like being 15 years ahead of what everyone else had.
Good point and cool idea about the custom invite URL.

I've seen mspaintadventures.com and was entertained... why? :)
> It is interesting how long it has taken for forensics (even just some small aspects) to be approached in a scientific way

I know someone who contracts out to forensics labs and police depts. The situation is basically a mess. "Experts" are selling "expertise" to people who are not familiar with the domain. So it just comes down to convincing the prosecutor, attorney, judge, a member of a jury, that you are an "expert". That can be done by clever sales techniques: look professional, know how to use lots of buzz words, and stuff like that.

Then the more a certain "expert" is invited to testify or to examine evidence they accrue "credibility" regardless if they ended up making shit up on the spot or not. This "expert" has been invited by appear at 10 trials, so they must be good. Or "look he worked with 3 police departments, he must be good".

The fundamental problem is those who are not experts in a domain need to find expert, so that opens a possibility for "clever salesmanship" therefore my friend's business...
Ask HN: How on earth does Posterous make money?
Their FAQ says this:

It's Free
Yes, we're free. There are no hidden fees for storage or bandwidth, and no forced advertisements on your Posterous Spaces. We never collect your credit card information or ask for any trial periods.

In short - there are no hidden costs, no strings attached, and no reason not to start posting today!

So how do they make money? They have been around for a long time, and they are still hiring.

Is there something genius happening behind the scenes that allows them to continue growing off of cash flows? They don't seem to be constantly raising money, although they did raise $10.1M over 4 rounds, but could their burn be so low that they can do that every time they run out of money?

The reason I am asking is because they host both my personal and company blog. I am concerned they might just lock-up shop one day, because they run out of money, or they are selling my info someway because there is no such thing as a free lunch.

So where are they getting their lunch money, aside from investors? What am I missing?