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There is so much wrong here. What the startup world thinks of your product matters naught compared to what your target market/s think.

This guy, to me, just unintentionally summed up all that is wrong with certain, vocal, sections of the startup community.
I like this, entertaining and helps a bit with creativity. In an effort to close the loop, and because I'm bored tonight, I built a quick and dirty script to pull a random name from this site and check the domain availability of it.

http://projects.restlesssoul.net/brand-name-domain-search/

If nothing else, it's amazing how few useable domain names are left on the .com TLD
With a CS degree and a bunch of work I could show off, I don't really consider anything I do a risk. Even if I completely utterly fail at growing my own business, I'm still better off than so many who could be fired at any time and have a much tougher job search than I expect. My mother's sending out resumes every day and never hearing back while recruiters are calling me, and any other competent developer with a resume on the net, all the time.
I think the article sufficiently demonstrates the relevance, interpreting this as a rare glimpse of the habitual censorship used to misinform the people of NK.
I don't know that end users would end up noticing.

I certainly haven't (with the exception of trying to use a G1 after a Froyo device). When I got the Froyo to Gingerbread upgrade on my G2 there were many improvements, but nothing I noticed that affected third-party apps. Even many of my favorite apps that use Honeycomb features (e.g. Plume, Kindle, Google Music, Firefox, etc.) seamlessly support older devices.

Google has been pretty good about putting out compatibility libraries for major new APIs (e.g. Fragments) and there's a lot of support for checking the presence or absence of various features / APIs / etc. These days, there's even support in the Android Market for having different versions of the same app for different OS versions.

Supporting a range of OS versions is certainly work, but I'm not sure how much more work it is beyond supporting a wide variety of form factors, different hardware features, etc. In any case, the good developers seem to be able to handle it.
Musk is in a unique position of responsibility. If he fails, and particularly if he does so in a spectacular fashion, public sentiment may turn and go in the other direction, saying that such big projects really should be done by governments, because they are the only entities powerful enough to make grand goals happen. I am not against him or SpaceX or settling Mars, but it is quite irresponsible for him to say that he will put 10,000 people on Mars in only 10 to 20 years. Anyone with two neurons to rub together should be alarmed at such a statement, and should think twice about getting into a rocket built by him. Put 10 people on the moon, and have them survive for a year. Then, and only then, make some cautious, speculative statements about Mars. A space entrepreneur grounded in reality is more likely to succeed, but if he fails, said grounding will give those who follow a greater likelihood of success, rather than having their opportunity snatched away by a government riding on a new-found wave of public fear.
this is wonderfully ironic.
What if, hypothetically, a majority of shareholders wanted a publicly traded company to do it?
Do you think it would happen then?
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Then I recommend Gearman (http://gearman.org/). I think this is just part of the puzzle, but you can definitely build around it. You can tweak it, and get every performance bit you want.

Nodejs (http://nodejs.org/) can definitely help you as well. It is also another part of the puzzle not an out of the box solution for BaaS.

If you are looking for a out of the box solution, I don't really know any open source BaaS so far. You can build your own, but you will still have to install and manage your stack on your own.

At the time when we started, we were also looking for something we could use. We couldn't find anything so we built our own. We started to improve it and make it better. And that is why we are now making it a start-up.

We have definitely thought about open sourcing it, but I don't think we are ready for that yet.

I would really appreciate if you would test our service. No strings attached. We are still in beta, and still validating the idea. Your feedback would be of great help. Additionally you might get ideas for building your own.

If you are interested just check it out in http://iknode.com and register in http://iknode.com/register.php
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Programmers having shitty bosses. Rant it out.
It's time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5
hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor.
We almost have sympathy for those poor DHS employees and australian
billionaires who had their bank accounts looted by the lulz

Wow. Apologies for venting, but this is fucking ludicrous. I am a middle-class mid-20s programmer who purchased a Stratfor subscription because their material is incredibly well-researched and about a million times more enlightening than your average CNN article. And now I have to cancel my credit card and deal with fraud services. Thanks a ton, Anonymous.

Congratulations, you've exposed the personal details of the rich bankers and military analysts that recognized Stratfor as the intelligent news service it is. And in the process, you've managed to completely alienate the rest of the Stratfor community, members of the "99%", who care enough about understanding global politics that they were willing to give up a portion of their hard-earned paychecks to become better-informed. Something tells me it won't be worth it.

I just can't understand it. These guys are either agent provocateurs, or complete morons.
I'd rather like to see the target slow down.
A world in which the state mandates that your work day begins before the sun rises...

Where do I sign up??

sarcasm off
I wasn't even aware of the concept of a "startup" or what was going on in Silicon Valley when I started making most of my apps. I didn't have any books or strategies. I just made things I was interested in and thought other people would want to use, and some of those things stuck.

I make stuff and if I can get a couple active users, I'll never shut it down. Nothing happened overnight -- W3Counter has around 52000 users but that's after 7 years. I'm still hosting website guestbooks people created with one of my sites in 1996. I don't make much money from that site, but 15 years of accumulated inbound links and authority mean it'll always have traffic and PR I can leverage for kickstarting other sites.
Hhaha, spin off of fmylife
I have to agree with you. If any film needs a special edition, it's this, not Star Wars or E.T.

Honestly? I may even be up for a 3d conversion... If anyone's able to do them well?
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Funny thing, that.

The implementation came first. From what I understood, Microsoft looked at Netscape's implementation, wrote a spec from that and implemented it - so when time came to standardize it, Microsoft had a readily available spec (having written one after reverse engineering Netscape's implementation). Since Javascript has lots of little quirks, Microsoft didn't quite get everything right and so when the final spec was published, Netscape's implementation was actually in violation of it in a couple of places.

I guess that's funny depending on who you are.
In a different location Mark does talk about the x-axis - the x-axis is "Time and Money"

http://smartfaststartup.com/2011/06/08/real-secret-to-startu...

Which make the loops palatable.
Ask HN: Any patent debunking sites still around since BountyQuest?
Based on the recent chaos in the world of software patents, I've been trying to find out more about what happened to the old BountyQuest site. The gist was that it offered monetary rewards to people who would discover prior art potentially usable in court to have a patent revoked. The latest piece of info I found about the site's demise was the following: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/bountyquest_1003.html

I'm wondering, has anything similar ever been attempted since then? It seems like a pretty straightforward idea: you pay people to look up info on a certain patent, you reward the valuable answers (evaluating these results is all but simple, and likely why the venture failed in the end, but that's another point altogether).

Has it really not been done ever since?

Thanks!
"The icon will be visible when the plugin can act on the current page"

Does the plugin send every new domain or url back to your server? Would you say there are any privacy or bandwith issues?

note: the current info window on my browser is only about 4 characters wide when the icon is pressed.
I'd be blaming the company more than those releasing it. If these guys can how are you to know if someone hasn't come across the db silently? At least this way there is some warning.
Did you actually look at the supported devices list on htcdev.com? Or any of the other recent coverage like this:

http://lifehacker.com/5871759/htcs-official-bootloader-tool-...

Ironically, that article references an XDA report that the official unlock tool works on the Thunderbolt (shortly before HTC announced it).
Thank you as well! At times beauty is indeed an important part of the user experience.

If you wish, to help spread the message you can share the essay with your followers on Twitter. That will be massively appreciated!
[citation needed]

Honestly curious - this could impact my diet if true.
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The reason people are surprised by the loud fan is because their fans are NOT loud. My Macbook fan very rarely turns on and when it does, it's not any louder than any other laptop of comparable size.

If someone came to me and said "My new Macbook Pro fan is really loud" I would assume something is wrong too, because I've never thought of mine as really loud.
#5 is what makes the Drafthouse for me.

Every time I sit down to see a Drafthouse movie, and I see the montage of that month's events, I inevitably find myself saying, "I want to come for that!" at least a few times.

This month's for the Austin area Drafthouses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQNmmoEirc

If I just want to watch movies, I can sit at home and Netflix my brains out. The Drafthouse makes movies events again, and that's what gets me excited and wanting to come to the theater.

I'm a little fanboyish for the Drafthouse, I must admit. It was one of the things I was most looking forward to coming to regularly when I moved to Texas.
While I'm a big HTC fan, I do feel the need to point out that Sony Ericsson, in addition to their admirable position on ICS updates, also officially supports bootloader unlocking: http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/

Hopefully their customer and developer friendly policies will survive their absorption into Sony proper (though there are, sadly, too many reasons to be pessimistic on that front).
Not so bright, and not so big-ass screen. We're actually using those screens as flashlights nowadays. Flashlights.
It depends what you are doing with it. Sometimes it isn't bad, but anytime I kick in the discrete graphics card everyone in the room looks at me.

It picks up when I drive my external monitor. Also, I did find out that a rouge process was taking about 40% CPU consistently, and it quieted down after that.
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If the person/people who did this just wanted to expose security flaws, releasing a DB filled with innocent people's personal information is really over the top.
Traitors to America? What the hell does that even mean in this context?

Are all anti-capitalists traitors to America?
I'm a fan of Stratfor (I read it to get a handle on international news - they provide a background/context to enable me to understand what's going on, unlike traditional news), and I don't agree with this type of activity, but calling someone a traitor is a serious allegation, especially when these people are merely criminals and are not committing treason, which is what traitors do. Given that I don't understand the point of posting account details with password hashes, and CC#s - what are they trying to achieve?
You're kidding, right? The people releasing it are presumably the ones who stole it in the first place. In a bank robbery, do you blame the manufacturer of the safe that was cracked? Or home invasions on the alarm system that failed to catch the thieves? No, the perpetrators of the crime are at fault.

Even if I agreed with you on who was at fault here (which I clearly don't), do you think any significant number of victims of this leak will honestly blame Stratfor more than they blame the hackers behind the attack? If not, the point I made above still stands: Anonymous has alienated anyone who has ever paid for a Stratfor membership. Which is quite a diverse, and likely intelligent, group of people.
Rather than a trick I see it as reputation, they've earned by creating cool products. But yeah one has to doubt even the best brands, not all products are perfect.
I used to go to the cinema all the time. Unfortunately, as my local cinema no longer has a projectionist and no staff are apparently watching the movie people talk, they text.. some even get up and run around. I don't bother going much now.

I was watching the Harry Potter part 8 movie and teens came with their dad. They talked on and off for the first half of the film. Their dad did nothing. It wasn't until I turned around in my seat and told them to shut up that they actually did.

Flash back about 10 years. Maybe a bit more. There was a projectionist. There was often a staff member sitting by the entrance of the movie. Some kids would mess around. The staff would wait to see if it settled down for a minute or so then a flash light would come on and out would go the talkers.

I forget what film it was but there were 4 major distractions where staff had to come in and order people out. As we left staff members apologised and handed out vouchers because they knew the screening had been ruined.

I don't mind people gasping or saying "Oh no he didn't!" during scary films. There have always been idiots at the cinema. They have only started ruining films of late because cinemas have lost the will to deal with these people.
My own personal reaction is that $50 to see a movie is not "not bad" unless it's spread out across quite a few people as you mention, then of course collect each person's share, say have 30 people over, charge $5 each, that's $150, $100 profit after expenses, plus the proceeds from popcorn sales. This could be a nice home business, OK, I'm convinced.
If you're laptop fan is loud then I assume either

1. you are doing some computationally heavy task or
2. your fan may be faulty

Simple as that.
Sure, but good luck finding a company who cares more about letting you express your "fuck you's" than they do about money, and good luck to them in building to scale with money only from advertisers who don't mind being next to MG's middle finger.
Hey I'm not complaining at all. I'm perfectly happy watching at home on disks I borrowed for free from the library, or traded with my neighbors with large collections.

They can raise the price all they want for their empty theatres, I'll never complain.
Many people discussed the iPhone 3GS issues when upgraded to iOS 4 - when iOS 4 was NEW. You don't hear about it now, because the 3GS is 2 hardware versions older than the newest 4S and we're at iOS 5. If you don't hear it, I would venture complaining about 3GS phones just isn't interesting anymore, the performance issues have been accepted.

As far as the responses he received to the fan noise - fan noise like he described isn't normal. If the fan is running loud it's because the machine is hot and needs both fans running at high RPM. Something must be causing that because loud fans just aren't part of an Apple product(unless you're talking about a Power Mac G4 with the mirrored driver doors - those were LOUD - like airplane loud - but I digress).

I would characterize that response as normal. Since the machine shouldn't do that - my first question as well would be what are you doing on the machine? When it was pointed out that it was a Google spreadsheet in Safari I would go look at the CPU usage for Safari and see if it's pinned. If it is - it's a software issue. If it's not, it's a hardware issue.

There's no blame to be placed here without that key piece of data - this is standard troubleshooting. Is this blaming the user? No - it's understanding Apple's reputation for building solid products and the experiences of their users that this scenario is not normal, which is leading them to question what is different about the situation.

Overall it really seems like this was a viewpoint in search of a story, rather than an actual insight into something deeper about Apple's products.
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One would hope that a doctor on call would monitor their pager/cell phone to ensure they have service.

I know when I was on pager rotation, I was very aware of when I lost service, and governed my location accordingly.

Actually, I'm not on Internet Operations Pager Duty anymore, and I can _still_ tell you that the Old Spaghetti Factory in Redwood City results in my iPhone losing Data - I get very nervous while I'm there.

Net-Net - the doctor argument doesn't hold water, there are a ton of other reasons why you might lose service beyond a theater jamming - and you need to be aware of all of them and take appropriate measures.
I have had bad experience with 1&1 and will not recommend them. Use them at your own risk.
A tried notes in HS and college but it they never seemed useful -- after all the content is in the book, and most books have a great index/table of content so I can find whatever piece of info I want.

My notes, on the other hand don't. And I may have gotten the details wrong or omitted that piece of info.
TL;DR:

- author has a new MBP, comes from PC background

- MBP experiences unusually loud fan noises

- other mac users tell him there's something wrong with his computer, or maybe it's something he's doing

- author gets oddly defensive and interprets these suggestions as meaning that it is "his fault" and that mac users have all been brainwashed to say that

If that summary makes you say, "huh?", well that was pretty much my reaction as well. Dude, when people say it's "your fault" the fans are loud, they don't mean it's because you're a bad person and god hates you and wants your fans to be loud, it means you are perhaps running some very CPU intensive process or something.
Can anybody tell me how to transfer domains + DNS to Gandi without downtime?

I'm pretty sure the right way to go about it is to move DNS first, but it seems Gandi does not support this (unlike Namecheap).

My DNS is hosted with the current registrar which, shall we say, is not terribly pleased with people leaving. So I would not put it past them to cut off my DNS service.
I agree with you. 3D movies are dark. Darker still are regular movies where the 3D lens was left on because the theatre owners all like to save a few bucks by not hiring a projectionist who knows how to swap out and calibrate the normal lenses. Often surround sound isn't even working and is just turned off with sound coming through the three speakers in the front, or sometimes only the center speaker is working. Often a speaker will be blown and be crackling. It's not uncommon to have 30 minutes of advertisements and previews at the beginning.

This is what I get for $12-$15 at an upscale cinema. When I complain I am told there are no refunds. I walked away from this. The simple fact is my theatre at home is vastly superior to even the best cinemas in the country right now, because those cinemas are all absolutely horrible experiences sold at rip off prices and incredibly inconvenient.

This industry is dead. It is completely unrepentant of its sins of horrible customer experience. They are not selling a quality product, nor are they selling at a reasonable price.

There are better options and many of us have taken them. Too bad. I also liked drive in theatres, but they are also obsolete and as long gone as movie theatres will be in a few years.
> no one criticizing iPhone 3GS’s horrible sluggishness since iOS 4.0

> Many people discussed the iPhone 3GS issues when upgraded to iOS 4 - when iOS 4 was NEW

Also it may be that it was because actually that was the iPhone 3G that was grinding, not the 3GS, which was (and still is, with iOS 5) perfectly snappy (at least in my experience, which is admittedly just as anecdotal as the author's)
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My information was released without warning. They dumped everything days ago. They could have informed Stratfor about the vulnerability, or even waited to give people a chance to cancel their cards.

Stratfor probably is to blame for lax security. But the hackers are as much to blame for violating my privacy.

I think Dan's point about alienating the wrong people by picking the wrong battles is the most important. Treating innocent people as 'collateral damage' is dehumanizing.

Edit for zobzu:
They posted everything days ago.

My post contains none of the implied strawmen you assume. I believe we're on the same side, so I'm not sure why you are flaming me. You didn't address anything I said in my post.

Please review the guidelines so we can keep the discussion civil and useful: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was being facetious -- I do think a service like this could be built, but I am working on something else. Sorry if it came off offensive (I'm not out to lunch).

Really I meant to point out how the pattern of web apps connected via REST API to desktop folders/files is interesting and will enable a lot of data management schemes that were previously much harder or obscure.
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