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I agree with what you said about the next Facebook or Google.
I should have specified metaphorically speaking or the same
league based on user numbers. Thank you so much for your comment.
I doubt that Twitter just told Google "Sorry, we don't want to do business with you." Most likely either Google wanted a better deal and couldn't get one, or Twitter raised their rates. Which is kind of what the Twitter rep is saying when they state that they continue to work with lots of other companies of various sizes.
Monopoly in itself is not a problem. The problem is when a monopoly uses its position for anti-competitive practices.
I agree with chc's response to your comment. What you've basically done is setup a survey with a sample size of one (yourself), and mistakenly assumed that you're representative of every other person on Earth.
No source, I seem to recall reading his salary is pretty high given his ratings, but I couldn't point to it.

I don't it's speculative to say networks will lose money on some product to build audience. Stuff like the NFL, Letterman?, that sort of thing.

Even if he's making them money directly, he's not untouchable if he gets blamed for hurting a major political priority.

They probably wouldn't be so clumsy as to just fire him -- but his next negotiation could get a lot harder, and he'd be a lot more exposed to "business decisions" should his ratings stumble. And his people could find it a lot hard to move on and up with other projects.
>considering that many of us look to 37signals as essentially the poster boy of leading behaviors

Hopefully you guys learn from your mistake.
> So while the quoted sentence is still true, I think anyone using this service misses out on masses of experienced developers who simply didn't publish their code on GH, for various reasons.

To be fair, those are developers that most companies would be missing out on anyway.
For a simple prototype, you shouldn't need more than a few thousand, and you should be able to cajole a decent freelancer in building you something for that amount.

If you can't afford that amount, then either learn to code yourself, or pick a different idea that is actually within your reach.

If the MVP for your idea would cost $100k to build, and you don't have $100k, pick a different idea.

There are so many ideas out there, you need to pick ideas you can actually implement with the means at your disposal.
For C and C++, the sublime text plugin 'sublime clang' ( https://github.com/quarnster/SublimeClang ) , does exactly this, as well as check code for errors as you type. I only started using it a couple of days ago, and I already can't imagine being without it.
Twitter does in fact implement rel=nofollow to external links on their site but this does not mean content (especially profiles) can not be indexed. Mentioning Twitter’s use of rel=nofollow is a definite red herring.
Goodbye old friend https://github.com/gaving/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/plugin/s...
You are a liar.

I just checked both his op-ed and blog posts and there are several comments of several 100 words.
Did I say "remember"? I meant "remove". My fingers just do their own thing sometimes.
>> you've got dinosaurs born decades before the internet was conceived trying to make critical policy decisions around it.

But weren't the people who conceived the internet born decades before the internet was conceived?

As someone born before the internet was conceived, I find that comment particularly offensive.

Edit: Now get off my lawn!
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Also don't forget about comm(1), which can do an equijoin and set difference on whole line records.
"This content is unavailable from your location"

Oh, sweet irony...
> So why don't we ignore the copyright trolls?

Because they're modifying our copyright laws.
Apologists? I thought the term was fanboy - at least that's how an Apple "apologist" would be labeled here.

The level of trust on Google that some people have is really astonishing. I think the problem is, for all their "do no evil" mantra, as they need the feel to keep growing (in other areas, as search is already theirs), I can't believe they will always choose the "do no evil" path.

What I think is a big problem is, how much Google will be able to do before its public perception starts to change?
Agreed, this is a really great plugin. I love how I can see which mode (normal/insert/etc) I'm in by the statusbar color change. The color change is strong enough that I can see it in my peripheral vision, and don't ever have to take my eyes off of the code.

I'm so used to pathogen now that I almost forgot how much a mess installing vim plugins used to be. Really seems like there's been a plugin renaissance in the last couple of years.
Really disappointed to hear this news. The SimpleGeo Context API gas been a really great resource for geographic data that isn't otherwise easily/affordably available, like neighborhood boundaries.
Anyone know of any sites using SimpleGeo for their location infrastructure?
"to claim otherwise is as ridiculous as claiming your dentist has no right to see your dental records, or your bank shouldn't know how much money is in your account."

The issue is not that they looked at things, the issue is that they chose to tell the world about it.
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I second this opinion. Since you are seeing a lot of friction in finishing up a sale, you should make sure that closing one results in maximum benefit.
Regarding pricing, I don't think a single price is such a good idea for the same reason that enterprise software sales men give different quotes to different clients - it takes a lot of time and effort to close deals and different clients see different level of value in your product.
zillow distributes free kml files for the neighborhood boundaries.

Edit: here is the link http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm
You are right. We wanted to launch fast, that's why we couldn't include all resources we wanted. They are very high on our list of "next to be added" :) Thanks for taking the time and checking it out!
Great start -- interesting to watch it go vs the twitter stream. (If you restrict to < 8 word tweets)
I believe that jab was aimed at organizations with no ability to adapt, not at people.
> So in the long term, it may be a better move strategically not to have any legislation, for or against Internet freedoms. It should be entirely outside the purview of the government either way.

Really? My takeaway from that was that non-enumerated freedoms get completely ignored...
ArsTechnica tends to classify itself as a professional blog. While it certainly reports the news, they have for a long time freely intermixed opinion, reviews, and political commentary with the news, though they generally go out of their way to make certain that it is easily distinguished from the facts.

This was an excellent news piece with some editorializing both presenting facts that occurred along with the opinion of one of Ars' editors. I found it a highly interesting piece from an outstandin organization.
OnLive creates virtual Windows desktop on your iPad
How about this. An iPad app that gives you access to a virtual Windows desktop running on a distant server that has software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint? Yes its possible, thanks to the new OnLive Desktop app for the iPad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_warrior
hey which customer uploaded the file? oh, you don't know? then shut the up, as you don't know anything about anyone.
Both of your examples are extremely interesting! Tell me: Did they start with 100s of people?
Here are my two cents:

The website:

- Do you refer a lot of people there? If so why, not include a brochure or more detailed information? People like to obtain as much info as possible before contacting a company. Perhaps include a package that a concierge could present to the GM.

- Call to actions: The video is good, but why is your CTA buried below the fold? In my opinion your logo is a little massive. Perhaps a small redesign could help improve your visitors conversions. Also, since you are an "online tool" I would really focus on the design side of things (yes, we live in a superficial world ;).

Paid promotion:

- Have you considered doing paid search? Do you have a budget for it? If so, let me know (my email address is my username at gmail.com)

- I would be more than happy to volunteer couple hours to help answer any questions you might have or help you set up a Adwords and Adcenter account. About me: I work full time in paid search at a digital agency.

Other marketing opportunities:

- As mentioned from others, I would also highly recommend going to trade fairs.

- Do you offer a free trial? What is the main barrier to entry you are seeing? Is it because your product is "unproven"? Perhaps getting more "smaller" hotels has its advantages (VS going after large chains) given that large chains may be reluctant to "take a risk" - if you know what I mean.

- Have you considered Las Vegas hotels? They have been know to innovate with new technologies - such as Klout and so on... perhaps there are some opportunities there.

- Have you tried having a Concierge Committee? Basically have a bunch of prospective users use your product for free - in exchange they give you two things: Feedback and you can say X hotels are already using your product.

Good luck with everything!
Niel DeGrasse Tyson? I don't know his position on SOPA, but I'd imagine he's against it. John Hodgman? He's a writer for Wired, been on Diggnation, Attack of the Show, and TED, and works with Jonathon Coulton. He's got a ton of 'net-cred and is frequently on TDS.
Sony Open in Hawaii live stream.
Uh, the SPDY spec is excellent (and is IETF standards-track). The WebM "spec" might be something of a joke, but the fastest decoder right now is a third-party, independent implementation.

NaCl and Pepper are well documented (NaCl extremely so), it's just that other browser vendors (namely Mozilla) don't like Pepper's chrome-centric design and don't agree that NaCl is a good choice for the web. Dart is still being designed last I heard, but it's in a pretty similar spot; just because no one else will touch it doesn't mean there's not a decent spec for what is finished.
Designing a Clean Website Part 4: The Secondary Page
This week we’re going to finish up our series on how to develop a clean website by laying out a secondary page.We’re going to include a secondary navigation bar along the top of our design, as well as include all of our text for the section on one page. This will eliminate the unnecessary loading of other pages when all that’s changing is the text. It will allow the visitor to browse your site quicker and be less work for you to develop.
I was going to today lol, thanks for saving me the trouble (i'm a noob when it comes to javascript.)

Thanks goes to Everyone who made one btw. - End Edit
Why not? IntelliJ can do exactly that for Java code -- right-click on a variable and choose "dataflow to here". Even in large projects, it's practically instantaneous. Of course, in Java you don't need that much information for autocompletion since you can just look at the static types.

The same kind of global dataflow analysis would have to be approximate in a dynamic language, but I'd still expect it to be better than nothing.
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Yeah, I've looked at those a while ago and it seemed that few cities, particularly NYC, the data was some what low quality. It was either really lacking in certain areas or the neighborhood boundaries were far off from what people who actually live in the city consider to be the boundaries.

Although perhaps they've gotten better, I'll give them a look.
Foursquare takes its 1.5 billion check-ins to the web with ‘Explore’
Hellduino: Sending Hellschreiber from an Arduino
Individual tweets will be indexed, but google has no idea who's sharing what. That's the issue at hand. Google's changes to Search will promote links that your social connections have shared. If googlebot is ignoring links in tweets, at Twitter's request, then Twitter has taken themselves out of the Search plus Your World game.

Again, the issue is not that googlebot doesn't index tweets. The issue is that it doesn't index any of the links in those tweets. Thus Google has no way of displaying "@Someone tweeted this" in their Search plus Your World results.
Like many, my Github repos don't get the love they deserve. Many projects lay abandoned waiting for the day I have the time to finish them.

It seems this system can be easily gamed by putting more commits into your github repos, even if it's not original code, original ideas or even runnable code.
Are you serious? They merely stated that one of their MILLIONS of customers uploaded a picture of a cat. There was zero identifying information there. How can you call that an issue?

Really: What is it here that makes you so upset? Would you be concerned if your dentist told you, "I filled a cavity last year"?
Missed those numbers, didn't see them for some reason (blaming it on coffee, at the moment.)

As for art school, they obviously set you up with snarkiness. :-)
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I have to +1 this, I tend to use every piece that Tim Pope produces for their goodness, but Vundle truly rocks for exactly what you mentioned.
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This guy completely misread MG Siegler. MG's point is rel=nofollow has nothing to do with the twitter profile pages that google is refusing to include in their people & places feature. Nothing to do with outbound links.

This enitre debate over rel=nofollow is a red herring.
Can't Afford Minecraft? Just Pirate It
Would interest me much more if you open sourced it, are you already decided on not doing so?

edit: I see you do actually have it at https://github.com/mattspitz/yepthatswhatshesaid - is it up to date? Thanks for sharing!
This is pretty cool but I have a feeling this might not be a great idea in the hands of hypochondriacs. Nonetheless as a Trekk{ie,er} I want one now ;p

Is anyone working on non medical tricoder type devices? It would be cool to have a gadget for my phone that gives me temperature, pressure, humidity and other things like that. It could potentially predict bad weather for climbers etc.
A low-level imperative language with s-expression syntax would be one heck of an esoteric language.
Looking for advice on finding your own way
What was suppose to be a normal year clearly is going to be anything but. I returned from Christmas vacation to find myself smack dab in the middle of a surprise merger. So I have begun contemplating my fate, as it were, and my future in the IT field. I have worked in the IT field for over 15 years now. I have been a web designer, web developer, a programmer, and a systems administrator. Despite all this I find myself coming back to a central issue. My livelihood is always in someone else's hands. And I find myself wondering if (and how) I could strike out on my own and be my own man so to speak. My question is what should I be reading and or looking at before contemplating such a move? I am not saying that I am going to jump ship today. I will probably continue to work here until this reaches whatever conclusion (good or bad) it is headed towards. I am really just tired of putting my future and the things that are important to me in the hands other parties. I want to know if I can find a way to work independently of that. Any suggestions on reading materials, articles, or personal experiences would be welcomed. I am sure this has probably been asked before so forgive me if I am breaking etiquette or something. The worry, fear, anxiety, anger and lack of sleep are getting to me.
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I love that every site now submitted to HN uses twitter bootstrap. It's an awesome CSS framework, give it a try if you havn't already!
These tools have been bacon saving on more than one occasion. When it's time to marry your shell hacking output to Oracle I recommend checking out external tables.
He has a relatively new account, he makes unfounded accusations and terribly stereotypical FUD about Google, is rude to people who write him replies in comments and then edits his comments mocking the "Hacker News community" because they disagreed and he wasn't able to explain his stance. The karma was a shot across the bow.
0 results for ".NET"?

You should really put at least 5 or 10 results for the top 25 web technologies before posting this to Hacker News. Squandered marketing opportunity.

Also I notice you use Amazon.com affiliate code, udemy affiliate URL, and such. So perhaps your early emphasis is only on learning resources that PAY you to be listed? You should be more up front about that. This is just a specialized affiliate link site.
I really love SimpleGeos logos, but I have never grokked what problem they really solve for the user, but I totally get what urban airship solves. I've done a couple of app project with geo data but I don't see any benefit of having that part as a separate service.

This is such fantastic logo and identity design work: http://softfacade.com/simplegeo.html
> edit, apparently downvoting is the same as disagreeing here too. sigh. guess this teaches me to share my honest thoughts and to continue chasing integers.

Sad, isn't it? Some people even seem to think that up/down votes are primarily for rating opinions. Pretty awful idea, if you ask me. I think HN very much needs some kind of discussion on this, and preferably an official policy discouraging it.

Still, it's worth pointing out (from the Guidelines):

> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Tools for recursive adaptive grammars
I don't want to play down the clip as it was humorous, but the actual sopa content was from :17 - :35. Out of a 6 minute clip, I was thinking that there would be more.
$1M in 2 weeks of pitching. Step by step instructions.
New molecule could help cool planet
Jon Stewart's brother is Lawrence (Larry) Leibowitz, COO of the New York Stock Exchange. He used to be an executive VP at UBS.

Jon will never go against the money.
The true story of BLOBs.
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Sustainable Advantages For Start-Ups
This Chrome add on to "Invite All" of your friends could be useful, however, facebook is blocking me from inviting everyone. Advice welcome!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofcnbnhefnmjancehe...
The fact that not only will Apple not delete the account, but also not do so much as flag it as potentially fraudulent blows me away.

What positive purpose could that possibly serve?
Not sure I understand the headline chosen for the HN submission. "at last"? Jon Stewart is a comedian, it's a disappointing reflection of news, media, and political informedness that we're desperate for Stewart to cover an important political issue.
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An interesting side-effect is that they have enough users to make it worthwhile to start their own app store, as explained by Koushik Dutta, the guy behind Clockwork Recovery (a custom ROM used as a trampoline to installing and upgrading Cyanogen) and active contributor to Cyanogen: https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/ViJ665K3...
I would like to point the basic misunderstanding what MVP means.

MVP does not means cheap.

MVP means "Minimum Viable Product". It is very hard to make viable part on cheap using only contractors. You might end up with "Minimum Crappy Product".

Building of MVP requires a lot of interaction with early adopters and evangelists and that is where contractors really cannot help you. Unfortunately, they require the exact guidance.

Some might say that MVP for some SocialNetwork ver. 245 might be cheap to make - but I think MVP in that space if does not have something very unique it needs to have very very nice interface which you cannot get for couple of thousand dollars.
Does your startup need a designer co‑founder?
EMI Sues Irish Gov't For Not Passing SOPA-Like Censorship Law
It's a nice thought, but considering the several SOPA-related posts on the front page every day, I really doubt HN needs to go dark to inform its users.

Maybe first take a poll titled "Do you know what SOPA is?"
I suppose it was a misunderstanding. I took this

>knowing that my codebase has half a dozen classes that expose a .hide member. I hesitate even to ctrl+click on it in this editor, because I know it'll either do nothing or take me to the wrong definition.

to mean you were relying on your IDE to tell you which .hide() method you were calling.

As others have pointed out elsewhere, I think giving that functionality to ST2 would push it too far into the realm of IDE.
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Definitely understandable. To me, "Oh Hai" comes across as unprofessional, not laid back (which is what I assume you're going for.) The "Hi; I'm Tim." seems to work a lot better in that regard.
What exactly is Node.js specific about this?
This is awesome! What I'd like to see added next, I think, is gcc - I'd like to bootstrap from there to a package manager to installing all the other tools I'm used to having in a command line environment. Vim, bash and javac are nice, but I can't use it to work on my existing projects unless I can compile their dependencies.
> ... if only there was a big database of copyrighted works.

Essentially all works are copyrighted under U.S. law, except those made by the U.S. Government, those whose copyright has expired (OLD stuff), other-media representations of a public domain work (e.g., a photograph of the Mona Lisa), and those explicitly placed into the public domain by the author.
True, but what is centremost still depends on the data you just threw away. So this is pretty lame and meaningless.
This fight is going to spill over to Facebook too -- Google has been trying to get Facebook to open up for a while.
Google might have the hardware manufactured by other companies, but I think Google ends up as the producer of each Nexus device.

They completely design the software experience, they at least co-design the hardware, they sell the devices, and they are the one's supporting and updating them.
We use it at reddit/redditgifts. Really bummed.
Yeah, we'll add .NET as well. We focused on launching fast and didn't think about that :)

No we want a balance of free and paid resources, because sometimes the free resources aren't necessarily the best ones. Udemy and amazon were included because they were the easiest to include with respectable content. The user should decide whether he/she will pick the paid or free resource to learn from, not we.
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Crowded space.. lots of players with FitBit and all these gadgets. Funny thing is they're all targeting a very tiny % of the population..
Of course it seems minor to you, that doesn't mean that it's not a real thing. You have to be mature enough to realize that your perspective isn't the only valid one.

Turn it around for a moment. Imagine you work in a mostly female industry. There's something that you, as a man, care about, that your women co-workers don't (I don't know, scheduling you to be on-call during the World Cup finals). What do you do?

Option 1: Say nothing, suffer in silence, and feel like they don't know or care.

Option 2: Say something to try to improve the situation, and have people accuse you of getting your boxers in a bunch over something minor.