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I've seen some that hate movies or TV but I've never seen anyone who doesn't like music or wants ti create it, even on a superficial level.

Angry Birds is an outlier. Their success had as much to do with quiet advertising than any blog could do.

At the end of the day, everyone wants to create – even it is something different with an usual set of apps.

Some believe that iOS is only meant to consume. I don't believe that. Apple has essentially released iWork and GarageBand in subsequent iPad releases.
I relaunched my "site with hardly any features"
I previously launched this product to see if anyone would like it. The site got more hits than I expected so I decided to make some updates and relaunch. Here is my previous Hacker News post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334424
I was baffled that the below got 25 upvotes where it's pretty clear (barring vote ring or anything insidious) almost nobody bothered to look at the Course links on the university page (1 times out, 1 404's, 1 has only German language content, but looks interesting

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468210
Influence has to be earned
Possibly, but then it feels like you are betting your brand awareness against Godaddy's. That's a tough battle to fight. And there's nothing stopping them from implementing something similar.
On a related note, I just started the "Programming Collective Intelligence" book and I'm in process of writing it's code on Ruby. In case anyone wants to contribute: https://github.com/herval/ruby_intelligence
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There are a couple of things at work here.

1) Some people choose to spend their time on learning and improving their brains, instead of their outward appearances. Over time, this makes them smarter than those who don't.

2) In most societies, good-looking people often have it easier; as a result, if you're not good-looking, you have to work harder. Which, in turn, makes you smarter over time.
I previously launched this product to see if anyone would like it. The site got more hits than I expected so I decided to make some updates and relaunch. Here is my previous Hacker News post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334424
If you're going to obfuscate reversibly, it is much better practice to use strong obfuscation and log (irreversibly) any time the raw data is accessed so there is an audit trail.
Only if the dividends are going to return 10-100x over the lifetime of the investment.
I was one of the people who was vocal about this being a serious gaffe when the post went up.

This is the absolutely the best response conceivable. Bravo!
This is my first application and I wanted to get some feedback from fellow hacker news readers. The application is not feature complete but I wanted to know if this might be useful to someone before I add any more functionality. I and my wife use this for tracking our todos and habits daily. Please let me know what you guys think of this. I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks.
And most of the rest of the world doesn't have a right to bear arms.
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All that has happened is the following: the Congresscritters have decided that an overt, named, Internet censorship bill may not work.

Now look for SOPA to appear as a part of some defense spending bill, or the debt ceiling bill, or something like that.

Anyone else remember the land shark from the SNL of old? Yeah, SOPA/PIPA are the land sharks. They'll keep trying.
Agreed 110%. given that up and down arrows scroll up and down, having left/right arrow keys ties to history fwd/back would make a heck of a lot more sense.
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I wonder if a JS redirect would work too to some central page that any number of people can use (maybe a 302 redirect would be better.) It can display the desired page in an iFrame. I don't know what could be on that central page, but it could get a ton of traffic if done right. Donations, petitions, forum, guest book, chat, politicians contact details.. etc. Perhaps it can be displayed as the requested url somehow.. is that possible?

The other thing it could do is redirect back to the source site every x visitors, so one could set the ratio: 1/3 visitors gets the redirect. Search bots don't get the redirect.

It'd also make a good point for media coverage, providing some metrics on the effect of the blackout.. so long as people use it.

"xx,xxx internets were censored in the last yy seconds/minutes/hours from zz domains"
I addressed the "it's just a free market" rebuttal in a previous post: http://appcubby.com/blog/app-store-pricing/

Short answer: it's not a free market. The design of the App Store and Apple's policies surrounding it have significantly shaped the market.
Great guide but I want to highlight the employer's responsibility for home-working employees (self-employed would cover this themselves) as your first employee, Hannah, falls into this category.

The employer is still responsible in providing suitable office equipments for the home-worker, i.e. office chairs, desks, lighting and computers. If the home-worker is using their personally-owned equipment for work, the employer is still liable in ensuring the equipment is fit for purpose and get it test/certified for electrical items.

It is up to the employer to ensure the home office is at the same health and safety and data protection standards as they would in the office and yes a H&S risk assessment will have to be carried out.

You may also have to purchase public liability insurance if they receive business visitors into their homes as well.

I'm not trying to put a downer to home-working (I do some myself) but few SMEs realise the true implications of offering home-working until they get a letter from the lawyers demanding compensation for their employees' injury from tripping on some cable they placed themselves in their home office whilst working.
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Does "transition" mean you have to apply if you were on TinyProj or are you automatically in?
That works well for long-lived hosts, but it doesn't solve the VM problem, since you need to get the fingerprints into DNS in the first place.
I read that piece. The article made it sound like a super place to work...did kinda read like an ad.
Nice set-up, but does it work with proper quotation and international chars like them umläuts? What about correct hyphenation? Is it supported? Does all that work in conjunction with the clipboard of Mac OS X?

A: it does not and that is why Emacs does not rule.

I like the tools (Emacs, Jekyll, Org-Mode), but they are useless for literary works.
Looks neat. No storage costs? Is there a catch on some size limits somewhere? I looked through the API docs but didn't see any.

Point storage with radius queries are nice and all, but I'd love to find a cloud storage provider that stored polygons and took polygons as queries, and had pay only for what you use.
impose rate limits on IP, class C IP's, detect non-Javascript bots excluding search engines, block most major web hosts/cloud hosts (very doubtful a legit user is from Amazon Cloud IP).

As someone who bypassed paying fees for APIs by just scraping, I think you do have a legit concern. But don't be concerned about regular users scraping it, be concerned about potential buyers scraping it. Regular users scraping it can't do much damage.
Thanks for the comments. I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - we're working to alleviate all of these issues. We do lots of user testing and have surfaced many of these problems on our own. Additionally, we make an effort to simplify a lot of concepts and ease users into them instead of explaining them immediately. We've noticed lots of users actually struggle when deciding what IDE or text editor to download. The REPL makes it easier for them. We'd love to hear more of your comments - shoot me an email at contact (at) codecademy (dot) com.
Ahem, “case-sensitive”?
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I don't use Android. Did Google stop this?

Maybe the answer s Amazon's solution in which they demo it on the web. All I can say is that what iOS is doing is not the correct solution. Even though Omnifocus is the best to-do app, no one is going to spend $20 just to understand that.
Also a reminder of Dieter Rams's principles[0], notably regarding usefulness, understandability and honesty.

[0] http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/dieterrams/gooddesign
Dividend paying investments can still be sold, so the dividends themselves don't have to return 10x.
just realized a "great" add-on business idea for you. let people search, register the domains yourself in the background. sell them. you'd go to hell, so that's something to consider though.

i wonder if amazon predicts their supply chain based on search results.
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I think a better formulation of the same concept is the following: Web is the new lowest common denominator.

The lowest common denominator used to be the shell. The one thing you can always depend on being there, and with well-understood standards.

Obviously people realized the benefits of more sophisticated graphical UIs, but without one standard UI framework across platforms, you couldn't have a replacement for the general purpose shell.

Web technology now provides that standard UI framework, and is programmable/extensible by a vast number of devs without learning some platform-specific or esoteric UI framework. Its a bonus that it also runs on devices that don't have shell access.
Better yet, fetch the page in the background, get the microformat info[1] which will contain link to author’s vcard[2] and show something like this instead:

[Pierre Far]

Google+ is just a platform — who cares for “plus.google.com” if it’s not about Google+.

[1] http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http...

[2] http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http...
One thing a lack of anonymity forces you to do is to present your entire feelings about a story, instead of the one point that you feel is missing or needs correction. When people present points in isolation, it's easy to get the wrong impression about how they feel.

I didn't comment in the thread under discussion, but if I felt there was one point that needed to be added to the original story, it was the one made by many posters, roughly, "This smells like glurge, and when people are mourning for an inspiring little girl, it's common sense not to take what they say about her at face value." Of course that wouldn't reflect my whole reaction as a human being.

And that's the difference between reacting as a non-anonymous human being, where you are careful to present your whole feelings about a topic, and reacting as a member of a message board, where you're like to dismiss most of what you think and feel as commonplace and not worth mentioning.

Like any problem in communication, it's a problem of readers as well as writers. Reading a message from "asdf1234" or "prgrmrd00d4u" (not real names AFAIK) and reading it as representative of a human being's feelings doesn't make any sense, but it's irresistible for a lot of people. If the nerds on Slashdot and HN can't resist parsing comments that way, I think it's time to give up and accept that as human beings we can only see each other as whole human beings and not merely as contributors to a conversation. So the burden of solving this communication problem is on the writers to act like whole human beings.

The primary psychological resistance -- and believe me, I do rebel against being "human" on a discussion board with every bit of my being -- comes from the fact that most of us would prefer to sound more like scientists than like politicians. Scientists say, "Here is my tiny marginal contribution." Politicians say, "This is who I am." Geeks roll their eyes when a politician answering a question about tax policy in a debate spends all of his allotted time talking about how much he loves his children and then caps it off with half a sentence stating his position on the issue. We hate that and don't want to be like that. We want to hear how he differs from his opponents. We don't want to hear everything he has in common with everyone else. We want the diff.

Our humanity is what we have in common, exactly what is excluded when we present ourselves as a diff. If you read the original discussion and read every comment as a diff, then you don't see comments by inhuman people. You see whole human beings whose common humanity was redacted by the diff filter running between their brains and their keyboards.

Maybe the need to relax that diff filter a little bit so we all sound like human beings needs to be part of a FAQ somewhere....
Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia To Go Completely Dark on Wednesday (for SOPA)
In a way, I think that Harvard (and probably Standford, MIT, etc.) have done this all along. It's just getting publicity now.

I am class of '08 at Harvard and actually took this course (taught be a different professor--excellent when I took it). There were a handful of Boston and Cambridge locals who sat in and took the course with me. No one ever said a word to them. When I took a course on the history of Hollywood Cinema--where we watched 2 movies a week on the big screen--there were probably 30 or so locals who sat in on the lectures. No one ever said anything to them.

So Harvard has been a part of the community for some time now .. it's just more public now that you can disseminate lectures on iTunes and the internet instead of actually sitting in the lecture hall.
I’ve also raised a bunch of cash from some of the people I respect most in the industry. This includes: Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hseih, Zach Nelson, Andrew Anker, Chris Dixon, Saul Klein, Josh Kopelman, Jeff Jordan and Matt Cohler, all investing as individuals. Also investing are a handful of seed funds including the CrunchFund, Greylock Discovery Fund, Accel’s Seed Fund, Menlo Ventures Talent Fund, Lerer Ventures, SV Angels and Ooga Labs.

Is the coverage of any startup funded by these folks off the table? Seems like objectivity will be questioned from the start.
(Wrong parent - this was intended to land in the other thread.)

I didn't understand it that way :).

Well, the thing is that I see your approach as equally "structured" as Padrino. If I want to use Vesper Plugins, I have to use Vesper. So your approach - in my eyes - is not "more unstructured", its more "a different kind of structure". As far as I can see it, you don't put a lot of weight into controller/routing-things, but have more emphasis on plugins, which Padrino mostly lacks.

But the fact that you didn't use Padrino and implemented your own structure on top of Sinatra shows that Padrino didn't fit your bill - so my curiosity just springs from the that fact. I always see this as a chance to find new needs and insprirations that Padrino can support and use. So, rant away :).

Aside from the asset-handling problem, bundler can easily support loading plugins from git(hub), as long as they are gems. Why didn't you just settle for that? Then, the only problem that remains is asset handling. There, I am quite in favor of not polluting the main project, but I also don't want to add a asset compilation toolchain just for that :/.
Personally I think its a horrible plan, but I want to get feed back from people who are more experience them me.

I think we should rebuild with an experience architect leading the way, but it doesn't seem that the company sees that a reasonable.
Not ridiculous at all, in context. It's all about marginal costs.

If owning something would require you to rent a room that you might otherwise not have to rent, its marginal cost could be hundreds of dollars per month.

There are portable coffeemakers for backpackers, but there's no such thing as lightweight portable coffee beans, and buying coffee beans in one-cup units on an as-needed basis is pretty expensive, in time if nothing else.

As for whether traveling constantly and renting all your stuff is "inefficient": Well, sure. But to be alive is to be inefficient. Dead people are maximally efficient. But they also aren't having any fun.

There's no prize for having lots of leftover money when you're dead. As they say, you can't take it with you.
It's not spam:

a) IDS does searches as you type and displays the availability immediately. Yes, it displays affilate links, but you can find an available domain and register somewhere else if you like.

b) pilom isn't affiliated with the site
Seems to love Gecko just fine as well - except it doesn't render anything correctly :-)

Ah the days when the web was standardized.. were.. really, really short.
A return when she changes her mind. The biggest risk is that the company will fail, not that it will be a big success and she'll turn down obscene amounts of money.
> How do you get around this and make it impossible for them to access your data?

The same way everyone else does: encrypt the data using a secret known only to the customer, isolate internal systems that have access to the decrypted data so that no one person can ever access that data on their own authority, and ensure that whatever procedure does permit access with the requisite authority creates a robust audit trail. If security really matters, the whole system and its logs should be regularly audited by an independent party, too.

You have to have some sort of trust, because obviously if everyone in the company is crooked then nothing but encrypting everything client-side using auditable code is bulletproof. But you can certainly engineer systems so that access requires multiple people's consent and gets securely logged, which would eliminate casual snooping and provide robust evidence for legal action in the event of collective abuse.
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Remember Marconi. He wanted to do wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic. Maxwell's equations predicted that radio waves traveled in straight lines. Hertz's experiments had proved the point. Marconi's radio waves were not going to bend round the curvature of the earth.

Marconi went ahead anyway. This wasn't stupid. He already knew that radio propagation wasn't strictly line of sight. Nevertheless, radio waves don't follow the curvature of the earth well enough to get messages across the Atlantic. He was gambling that the laws of physics could be circumvented.

He won! Not for the reason that he gambled on, but by dumb luck. His radio waves headed off into space and bounced back from the ionosphere.

If I were clever I would know the moral of this story. It is either "Sometimes you can circumvent the laws of physics." or its "Watch out for the Marconi trap. He won the 1909 Nobel prize by trying to circumvent the laws of physics and succeeding. And what we have learned in the past hundred years is that people have been throwing their money away trying to repeat this ever since, with no success, so don't go fooling yourself and throw your money away too."
But doesn't that bring us back to the issue of who would buy those investments off the original investors if there is never going to be a liquidation event?
It doesn't really matter if you put someone through extensive interviews and then hire them, or if you use a third party who can't afford to lose its reputation, it all comes back to trust, which is why David's post is so on-point.
I don't understand this trend of leaving RSS icons/buttons out on technical blogs. Yes, I know http://pandodaily.com/feed/ is there, but don't make it an ordeal to subscribe to you.
There's a problem with box 2. If the IOException is thrown in the stream's constructor (FileNotFoundException) then there will be a NullPointerException if we try to call close!

InputStream in = null;
try
{
in = new FileInputStream(new File("test.txt"));
//do stuff with in
}
catch(IOException ie)
{
//SOPs
}
finally
{
try
{
if(in != null)
{
in.close();
}
}
catch(IOException ioe)
{
//can't do anything about it
}
}

This merely proves your point! :-)
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Fails on my iPad. To be specific the first part of the page renders but nothing more ...
Org-mode always seems cool but I have never really gotten around to trying it out. What I find myself needing lately is a universal input system that lets me send it data from emacs, web, email, and mobile, as well as easy review and categorization and all that jazz. Ideally I'd be able to take that and directly reference it in an emacs buffer while I write a blog post or something.

Any ideas?
Despite concerns about compatibility, usability, and future accessibility, this project is ridiculously awesome simply because it pushes the boundary of what's possible in the browser. Bold strokes like this are what move technology forward.
> Not many, because it's hard and risky and - drum roll - difficult to replicate!

I don't think so. IMO, companies do not focus on their image and consumer experience because most CEOs are not entrepreneurs, and lack vision. They have risen to the top not only because of their performance, but mostly because they have been very good at office politics. Think about companies who have a strong personality instead: don't you realize they are run - have been run - by entrepreneurs (Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, etc.)? OTOH, for CEOs who do not own their company, focus is most exclusively either on their company's stockholders or their company's board of directors.

> Hell, they don't even handle their own storage, Amazon does.

It's called "outsourcing". The most successful fashion companies do not own any factories (Nike, etc.).

EDIT: Actually, it has just occurred to me that some companies which have a strong personality without having an entrepreneur as their CEO are companies which do not own their assets, that is companies whose main product is marketing.
This is a borderline straw-man argument. Size (length) is one of the few things that you must be very aware of and control when programming C. You cannot "malloc" without knowing the length to malloc. You cannot create an array on the stack without knowing its size. In each case, you may not use the full memory allocated, but at least you can set an upper bound on the memory that you own. Thus, however you created or ingested the string to copy (and the memory to copy it to), you will have an upper bound on how much memory it is safe to copy.
Is this still happening now that SOPA has been benched?
We've gotten a lot of great feedback about the copy on our website, and we know it definitely has room for improvement. It's in the works. :)

In the meantime, there are a few examples in our other blog posts that you could take a look at. Also feel free to email us directly (team at cloudmine dot me) if you have any specific questions and I'd be glad to explain our offerings in more detail.
I highly recommend you check out all the exercise for the Stanford course: http://see.stanford.edu/see/materials/icspmcs106a/assignment... (the ones at the bottom, not the top). The reason the class was so much fun was because we got to make Breakout, Hangman, Yahtzee, and ended by creating a simple version of Facebook.
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