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If you start looking at projects significantly larger than that I'd argue that you should be leveraging service-oriented architecture and breaking the complexity up into manageable chunks that can be completed by smaller teams.
Excellent, thanks! :D
http://mobilito.net/, the free website I launched this week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3419941), could help you to promote the app: show users how their website looks awful/unusable on mobiles currently.
Ask/Propose HN: What to Do with Just Acquired Local Business Directory?
Hi guys I just acquired a friend's local business listings website

http://www.queensmetro.com/

It's a local website for Queens, New York. However, I am a California kid who has only been to NY once and as far as I know never been to Queens. My friend has been developing this space for a little over a year but he will be moving to Asia and I helped him out by acquiring it.

I would like some opinions on how this site can be pivoted towards a broader audience since it basically functions like a local Yelp site. And if anyone from New York area specially Queens would give some good inputs on the potential of this website it would be much appreciated.

Personally, I would like to meet a hacker from Queens area who would like to co-develop this site further for a mass appeal. I know it has potentials and my friend obviously worked hard on it. It just need a little bit more elbow grease. Please contact me if you're interested.

Thanks for reading!
I think they can and should, but I think the IPv6 Day comparison is a bad one. It was a pretty small portion of users with broken IPv6 configurations/networks who were expected to be significantly inconvenienced, not the entire userbase.
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For those who missed the joke, sixth paragraph:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/colum...
Props to Comcast and NOT to Congress if they pass either of these.

http://www.securityweek.com/dnssecs-time-here-sopa-presents-...
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Good stuff, I particularly like #6. As marketer, knowing some programming has come in handy when working with technical folks who occasionally come down with a case of tunnel vision.

I would also add:

- Agency Management - Whether its calling your agency on BS or knowing how to use firebug to quickly diagnose a site problem, it definitely has saved me. (Recently I called a disgruntled web designer out about not using font-face and he has been much easier to get along with since)

- A focused approach - Since I have started to learn programming I noticed that I apply programming principles to (rather mundane) tasks that take up a lot of time but often go overlooked. For example, when programming and creating variable names I make them as specific as possible, so if someone else was working on my code they would know exactly what it is. A simple concept to most people on HN but its something often overlooked by non-programmers. Open up an excel file from marketing person and you will often be left scratching your head.

As for tools for learning to code, recently I have seen lots of places talk about codecademy, but most leave out CodeSchool.com. Definitely recommended - it's been a been a huge help for me and gotten me to the point where I am ready to take it to the next level (hopefully @ Hungry Academy).
Ok, I'll answer:

Sweden: The president travels by motorcade with posh limos and armed agents, guns hidden but ready.

3rd world regime: The leader travels around in an SUV with machine-gun wielding guards.

Why do both leaders need to travel accompanied by such a display of force? The pageantry of such displays intimidate rivals.

The mistake those in the thread disagreeing with me are making is to assume that just b/c governments are less often observed to blatantly harass their own citizens, they are more civilized than the small time crooks whose lack of power occasionally necessitates messier tactics.

National boundaries should be thrown out the window. Obama has ordered the death of thousands during his regime and his minions have carried out the orders with precision. The rest of us (citizens) are equivalent to distant relatives sitting at the dinner table with Tony Soprano exchanging smalltalk, complicit and abetting every single action and willfully ignorant of all the (mostly brown skinned) people being exterminated.
... unless you have a very specialized use cases. The linalg guys are great, but they write for the generalized case. They have to.

And so, generations of game developers write matrix multiplication code. With quite nice performance results.

It'd be nice to see if some of that performance intensive code would benefit from being written in fortran. Anybody up for porting box2d as a small test case? ;)
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over a year cool and thanks for the response! Mr Cerney on here too? aint spoken to him in ages :)

Yup yet I remember when ppl were complaining how PS2/Xbox games x10 game budgets and all hell was breaking loose with the industry doomed. These days iphone/android have technical constraints on par if not more so xbox/ps2 thus making a highly polished game on a phone hell of alot cheaper than AAA console title but still not something you can do in your basement.

Guess my question is what type of game would you start out with? AAA level phone game with 80H+ of gameplay and 10 levels will cost a lot to develop and no one will play past the first level, or pay more than $5 for - IMHO ofcourse :)
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I've got to say, that's a cunning business model. Give away the addicting product. Sell the (temporary) antidote.
Here's a source to back up your "little consequence" use of pyrrhic...

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At risk of putting words into your mouth, what you're saying here is "some software is open source and that's ok". I couldn't agree more - I've even made a few small contributions to open source projects myself. But the way I read the parent post, it seemed to be saying (the equivalent of) "all software should be open source", which is something quite different and which I disagree with quite strongly.
I'd be surprised if you could easily go from an Mobile Safari (or another iPhone browser) to the Google+ app when you click on a Google+ post. The way that works on Android is via Intents and, AFAIK, iOS doesn't have anything like that.
As far as I am aware; those are not Verizon's DNS servers but rather Level 3's anycast DNS servers. They are geographically located around the world and using anycast you go to whichever one happens to be closest to you.

For most of America you end up in Dallas, TX, for the UK you end up in London, and for The Netherlands I was ending up in Amsterdam.

I don't have access to more machines to do traceroutes to see what the last hops are, but you can easily check this for yourself with a traceroute and seeing what network it ends up at.

Also, I was under the impression that their DNS servers technically require payment before use (as a commercial entity when handing out over DHCP) and are technically only for Level 3 customers. Everyone and their mother has started using them because they are easy to remember.

Here is some more backstory of how the DNS server was originally set up:

http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/famous-dns-server/
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Heh, the new to activism hive mind is strong here.
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Erlang is about all HN could talk about in a post-SOPA world without risking shutdown.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to read "threaten personal or state violence on" in "should not be tolerated."

He's entitled to say his opinion, but he can't prevent me from saying he's a bigot.
I've been trying to add the shared circle but it keeps telling me that people could not be loaded and fails. Has anyone else had that issue and been able to resolve it?
That's only true if you illustrate the harm to people who aren't already aware of it. I contend that almost everyone who visits HN is already aware of said harm. Thus blacking out HN will have limited impact.
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I've never read the book. I'm debating on whether to bother or not considering Orson Scott Card is a bigoted douchecopter.
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Yes. But teachers are not allowed to post these videos to youtube (or any other public website right?) claiming fair use.
the point isnt, necessarily, to block sites the congressmen use; the point is to get enough people angry so that they call their respective congressman
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Sure, they could and most likely will. However, in my experience - most freelancers don't get hired via LinkedIn. linkedIn, it seems to me is mostly used by big companies.

With this platform, new and upcoming freelancers have a way to show what their clients are saying. Of course, linkedin has an endorsement feature but it's mostly noise. The platform is basically a professional profile but with enough info and past experiences of the clients which I think gives enough info to a potential client to at least reach out to someone. We are still refining the idea and about how this could be even more useful, but the key thing we want to focus on is how we can reduce clutter and provide enough info to someone looking to hire a freelancer. Hope that makes sense.
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Just wanted to say great job. Browsed through your github. It's hard to believe you're only 16. Keep up the good work.
I'm surprised that more people here aren't focusing on that line of the post. It was the most interesting line to me, and even more interesting is that your reaction was a mirror opposite of mine.

There is not a lot of money to be made anymore by taking competently focused, competently-exposed sunset pictures of the Eiffel Tower.

Great tools lower the barrier of entry for achieving technical competence in capturing an ever-widening variety of beautiful subjects. So for someone who expects to turn their ability to do that into a professional photography career, fine, "there is not a lot of money to be made in doing that."

But there is a shitload of money to be made taking pictures, even when a 100 megapixel camera and .96 lux 50mm prime lens can be had for the same price as a pack of cigarettes, because professional photographers tend not to get paid to walk around tourist destinations snapping pretty shit all year.
Kind of a bad comparison - BBM messenger being down WAS a big news story, twitter & google apps aren't down all day multiple times a year and while I'm not sure about the reliability of siri or dropbox I'm pretty sure neither of them being offline would be a "huge news story", unless your idea of a huge news story is one that's covered by betabeat
Thanks for your feedback. What we are trying to do is give someone an idea about a particular freelancer, how they work, what was past experiences like and then the potential client can see their portfolio. It's basically a profile and they will have all the info needed to hire someone. The key focus is positive experience of their clients.
If HN goes dark it accomplishes nothing. If anything should be done, we should promote and post hacker news in an effort to increase awareness. Closing HN which is a source of real factual and crowd sourced news is like cutting off vaccines durin an epicemic...
I want that world! Or more precisely, I want to take that chance, due to a mixture of:

* I think it likely that we'll still get quality works produced;

* I think we have plenty of quality books, films, music and TV series already (more than one can consume in a lifetime), so the opportunity cost of not getting more isn't so high, and

* it's much more important to me not to impede the free dissemination of information.
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Phoget is soon to be released. It will let you and your friends to upload photos the shared albums to simplify collecting photos after a party or event.
I think you are putting too much faith in the ability of facebook-like services to do useful things like the organization and communication that happened in the arab spring protests.

It's entirely possible this was a one time event. I wouldn't trust these services (especially facebook) not to cooperate fully with whoever is in power for censorship/identification purposes. If they don't cooperate they'll just be blocked anyway.

Surely the newness of this type of communication created these one-to-many communication freedoms, but I doubt it's accurate that these freedoms were/are anything but temporary.

That's not even counting the disagreement over how much of the communication was actually done on american social platforms vs existing text message infrastructure.

I agree that Moglen at least gets close to a absolutist position on this kind of thing (and Stallman is a good example of a similar position) but I don't accept that the positives of any contribution to Arab Spring style protests outweigh the negatives of literally informing on yourself and your friends to a private commercial surveillance network (which is indeed the literal truth even if I used Moglen's inflammatory language).
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There are different types of awareness though. Having your homepage actually shut down for a day is completely different than understanding something at the intellectual level.
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I agree that a Facebook blackout would generate annoyance.

And there's a valid point-of-view from which that annoyance makes sense.

Facebook altogether is hosting the content of myself and my friends - laid out using Facebook's software but still our stuff. We may all like the idea of going black that day but only if we ask.

It's as if a web host decided all of the sites it hosted would go black for a given day as a political protest. It wouldn't wash well.

Sure you can say that since people don't pay for Facebook, they can't complain. Whatever the merits of that argument, it certainly isn't how everyone would see things, especially the less Internet-savvy. Given this, it wouldn't seem like a way to convince people.
I wonder how Facebook would react if people tried sending fake complaints about other, higher-profile pages?
The point isn't to educate HN users about why SOPA sucks, it's to throw a roadblock in front of people and say "rather than spending the usual 10 minutes reading posts, pick up your phone and call your representative and complain"

It's about forcing people to get off their lazy butts and make a phone call. And as much as we complain, I bet 99% of people here haven't made that call yet.
No. The whole point of going dark is to raise public awareness and to get politicians to take this issue seriously. Unlike the general population, we don't need a wake up call.
I really doubt he is afraid of homosexuals.
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> Mobile phones that do not track you,

> that governments can not track.

The pragmatist in me wants to call that a pipe dream. Phones that work on the cell system that don't track you are an oxymoron. It would require a ground up reimplementation of phones. The best case I can see is burner sim cards for smartphones with all the data encrypted and some non-skype popular voip platform. Even if someone built all this you'd still be tracked while you used the phone.

You could start talking about mesh networks or public free wifi to improve some of those problems but any technically realistic solution relies on government supporting things they inherently dislike and popular support for "terrorist helping" technology (which the public doesn't care about until a local power group starts using surveillance to kill/torture a lot of them)
Youtube has private ("unlisted") videos. I don't see why teachers couldn't use this so they can show it in class and give links to their students to view at home.
Ask HN: What are some good real user survey tools?
I'm looking for a survey tool that allows me to post questions (visual and text) to a large real human audience. I can think of Amazon mechanical turk, but are there some services specially oriented towards getting UI feedbacks? Where upon paying a service charge, they get my survey across 100 real people and produce a report?

Thanks in advance.
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If they're anything like Google, multiple employees have probably already read this and a few have probably already started the escalation process.
I grew up in Greensboro, NC and ran into OSC and his family members a good bit. I'm glad to see that the movie is finally potentially happening after several false starts. I remember in high school (99?) seeing a section of a script/screenplay that one of his nephews had somehow procured and him talking about his uncle being excited about it.
That is, until someone shares Erlang: the Movie [1], then it is game over.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78
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In what way? I don't see how the two equate. Utilities are natural monopolies with strict regulations. They can't shut down because you couldn't just buy your power from someone else. That's not the case at all for Google.

Google has every right to suspend offering their service at anytime. The only way the government could force them to stay open would be to buy a controlling interest in the company like they did with the banks.
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Nothing like a blackout will get visitors to sit up and take notice.

Blackout for justice.
I don't see how. The meat of SOPA is sections 102 and 103. Section 102 only applies to foreign sites so is not applicable.

Section 103 applies to any site, foreign or domestic, that is a site "dedicated to the theft of US property". What it means to be "dedicated to the theft of US property" is defined in 103(a)(1), and can be found here at loc.gov: http://tinyurl.com/3lvuqc4

(I used tinyurl.com because the real URL ends in a colon, and HN seems to have trouble with that).

It certainly doesn't appear on first reading that HN would fall under this. The worst it appears this would do to HN is cause some hassle if content owners filed false notifications that HN had to waste time replying to. However, 103(b)(6) makes knowingly misrepresenting that a site is "dedicated to the theft of US property" in such a notice subject the filer to liability for damages and attorney's fees.

I haven't been through the whole bill, so maybe there is some other section that would put HN at risk?

edit: changed link to higher up in the bill. The link to the specific section was only good for 30 minutes.
I'm for shutting it down.... but...

I suspect there is a strong correlation between IE users and people who don't know about SOPA... So maybe HN should "Shutdown" the IE user agent...?
OpenDNS does NXDOMAIN fuckery, so there's really no point switching to them from comcast's default DNS servers.

Edit: Downvotes or not, they still fuck with NXDOMAIN. Check for yourself.
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Yeah, I was wondering where that came from. The quote was there, and the author seemed to just roll with it.

I used to work for a company that did high-demand image hosting. Filtering porn was a big deal at the time. It was considered to be of such low accuracy as to be useless. I can't imagine how one comes to the conclusion that a sexually exploited child can be located in an image by a machine.
It would be great if you could subscribe to a circle and have it auto-update (keep adding/removing people).
Where does the data for building shapes come from? Both Google Maps and the OP's website incorporate it.

What is the format? Can I download the raw data in bulk (preferably for free) for a data mining project?
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I voted yes, but both options have similar outcomes. The front page will be full of stories about sites that have gone dark. The impact on HN will be the same, but attention will be driven to other blackouts.
That's really compelling to me as a Mormon. I'll have to go back and read them and look for the parallels.
hugo and nebula winner. was a great book. Apparently Heinlein was pretty crazy too... but stranger in a strange land is a good book.

You, of course, need to work within your own set of ethics. This story is iconic sci fi. Even if you don't like it, it's a classic.
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I did quite like Ender's Shadow.

The rest of the Shadow books weren't as bad as Children of the Mind, but they did seems to just follow a formula.
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The same way you test that a pointer is intialized to a valid value. You don't.
Probably focus on something simple with very addictive gameplay.
The aiua? Do you think so? I thought they were just a science fiction way of talking about the soul. Mormons do believe in souls, I'll grant, but they hardly own the concept.
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The main thing I take away from this is that he is not a professional photographer. Of course an amateur can afford to give away photos for free! However, I'm not sure he even realizes that what he says doesn't make any sense for a professional photographer trying to earn his livelihood.
I'm not following SOAP very much, so this would bring some more attention to it for me (I'm not American).

I think it would be important that any blackout actually includes a call to action though, not just a message saying the site is offline for today - it should make it easy to actually do something (email, phone call, whatever) to protest against it.