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someone need to speak-up. comcast does the same...they advertise as unlimited speed...u know how much speed u get...how come internet speed be unlimited :-)
its all about fooling consumers and collecting money by bad marketing campaigns....atleast comcast maintains monopoly so nothing could be done to them until we have some good competitors who deliver what they claim...then we will have good and genuine marketing campaigns...in Telecom, most companies boasts the same....some day the justice will be given to 'Unlimited' word and it will find its true meaning again...I'm hopeful...
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I believe that your metaphor above is correct in getting at some features of the startup world, namely:

1) Many founders are attracted by glory rather than logic.

2) Large companies receive research information from startup successes and failures.

But I don't agree with the gladiator metaphor at all because it implies a degree of deviousness and collusion that isn't present in the startup sphere, and is disingenuous to imply.

Take your example of the king offering $0.5M for the finder of a treasure. Here you imply that his goal of offering the prize is to "give villagers a fake hope" and "inspire the poor".

What if the treasure in reality was just worth $0.6M to him? Then the king might conclude a) if someone had the treasure, he'd be happy to pay $0.5, but b) suppose the cost of finding the treasure via hire at $1M, then it is not worth hiring people to dig it up.

Thus, the king may not decide to hire people to dig this, while happily posting a prize. He doesn't need to have ulterior motives to do this.

Now let's take the economics further. Suppose some people are efficient and other people are not efficient diggers (they're good bakers), and there is no way to observe this beforehand. Then if he hires people to dig, the king will lose money because he's at half efficiency with half bakers and half diggers. If he posts a prize, the efficient diggers will self sort into digging, and the bakers will produce real good.

Our data points are few, and really just 1) and 2), so we can't know for sure companies are being evil (and I don't believe they are). It's a classic case of an underdetermined system.
I think low-end Lenovo's (especially older models they did right after acquisition of IBM thinkpad division), are not as refine and of the same quality as their Thinkpads T-Series...

I bought an R series Lenovo for my sister, a few years ago thinking that the only difference would be added size and weight... boy was I wrong!

But now I have a newer Lenovo L512, and they redeemed themselves...
Never a hassle for the user you say ?
I feel old remembering this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenslok
Interesting article. Reminds me a lot of Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom".
This a great piece of code but the author does one thing that has gets my goat.

A lot of these cutting edge HTML5/WebGL demos are put on a separate page from the thing explaining it. One of the reasons we have this technology is so we can put this stuff right there on the the page, seamlessly available to the user.

Sometimes it makes sense for performance or aesthetic reasons to have it separate, but certainly in many cases including this one it doesn't.

Keep a separate demo page sure, so people can link directly to your demo. But have it right there in your blog post as well, personally I think it adds to the wow factor!
Hacker News double standard:

* A company like Zynga who runs a completely legal business and employ thousands of people with good wages and benefits by copying game concepts is generally considered evil.

* A torrent tracker or file locker that makes a handful of employees rich by ripping off thousands of artists, musicians and filmmakers and serving spammy aggressive popup ads shut down and are considered martyrs.

Somebody care to explain?
I'll just point out that artificial light screws with your sleep cycle. Light will depress melatonin production, LEDs are especially effective at this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/health/05light.html?pagewa...
And, more surprisingly, the same for is true RIM, except the last quarter. Nokia is the big looser.
How exactly do you know they can't afford it?
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It works well if you don't have artificial light.

And I mean none. No light bulbs, no TV, no LEDs on devices, no computer screen.

Also, cut caffeine out of your life. Reserve it for special circumstances. Because even a small amount of caffeine can linger for a long time, keeping you from falling asleep easily.
Does anyone else suspect that this shut down was not as "voluntary" as stated? Now is the moment in history where people need to speak up for the protection of their rights on the internet, and before the culmination of these struggles has even begun, btjunkie is throwing in the towel? Do they know something we don't?
So incredibly sad.... Anyone know who started the site or how to get in touch with them? I would love a crack at their code base....
Solving the 'immortality problem' isn't like grinding in an RPG. You don't slowly increase the maximum lifespan at regular intervals.

Immortality would probably involve solving various different, discrete problems. When I said 'almost there' I meant in solving one of these issues.
The cost to make it happen is developer time (money). The benefit to making it happen is... appeasing a few geeks? They haven't lost many users because of this, and they probably never will; I doubt their value from doing this will ever justify the expense.

Not to imply they shouldn't do it, merely that they have little motivation to do so, aside from it being a good thing they should do.
I'd guess that whatever blogging software that was used here (WordPress?) doesn't make it easy to insert arbitrary JavaScript. Too easy to create a security loophole, especially on a third-party hosted blog site.
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There should be a place in any startup for a business founder. You need to have people who come from different backgrounds and experiences to make sure your product can appeal to and be used by everyone. Not to mention a business founder will probably know a bit more about how to actually make a business, marketing, sales, accounting, raising capital, etc.
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The demo is very CPU intensive to the point that the fan on my MBP comes on shortly after starting it. If I'd stumbled onto it with my wife's BlackBerry it probably would have caught on fire. I think he chose correctly in leaving the script off of the blog page.
Also check out Boardflip. A Flipboard style interaction implemented in JS (experimental).

http://joecritchley.com/demos/boardflip/
> it already has those powers anyway.

It didn't take Megaupload down without a trial, without due process. They took them down as part of a 2 year long investigation. While it's possible that they timed the takedown with SOPA, I would err on the side of coincidence. This wasn't an operation entirely within the US. They had the coordination of law enforcement in other counties. This isn't something where they just had a late-night idea that they decided to act on.
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Ask HN: Anyone gained traction on HN *without* any of their friends upvoting?
1.-well i think you're right in something, you can always improve your coding skills with some dedication as you say..i also code, know technical things cuz im an engineer, but without a really technical cofounder that lives from programming, is hard to know how to develop the product or from where to start..btw im not first time entrepreneur.
2.-its something like location based app magazine.
3.yes i have spoken with my cofounder, he was a little bit busy by the time, know the problem is that i lack of a ios developer for the iphone app.
Has anyone submitted their project on HN, and without any friends' help, reached front page?

My hope is at least on HN, if your project is cool, it will get traction without asking friends to upvote your entry (which happens a lot most of the times). Am I too idealistic?

Please share your story if you used to be a nobody and just posted your project/startup on hacker news, and it got significant traction just because people thought the project was cool, without any social factors involved. I think a lot of people on HN wonder about this too, and it needs to be demystified. Thanks!
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A pulsejet based on the Tesla valve?

So, like that prototype Bruce Simpson was talking about ten years ago?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UX5eNg...
Because making people into addicts for profit by using inoriginal ideas is bad and enabling people to share for free is good?
Easy. With video you're less likely to lose focus and drift off task. This is of no small importance when you get your material on a computer, with endless distractions at hand.

I haven't watched many Khan videos, but I did complete the Stanford ML-class that used a Khan-inspired format of short videos. To make an HN-friendly analogy, the use of video is like the various "lifehacker" tricks people use to get themselves to focus on written material they encounter online. Some people like Instapaper; I like the Readability bookmarklet and Chrome's Full Screen view with the text bumped up to +2 or +3 zoom. Sometimes I even (gasp) print things out to carry with me for when I have no Internet access.

Of course, some things are better as text. But video has its uses.
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The flaw in your logic is that you're treating a group of people as if they are a single person with a singular set of ideas, views and motivations.
It's great that you're contrasting Khan to ALEKS. I'm not drinking the Khan kool-aid; my kid just started using ALEKS in the last month and I agree it's terrific. It's really puzzled me why Khan is getting all this attention when ALEKS has been around so much longer (and seems to be better in many respects -- just lacking instructional video). It would actually be terrific to have some kind of integration between ALEKS and Khan -- to be able to see a video lecture on a particular topic would be quite useful for the student.
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I'm thinking that the idea of jail time instead of just an un-payable debt (after a long civil suit) could be a deciding factor.
"the point is that on the whole it works"

How do you know that?
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This is in no way rigorous, but hopefully the analogy helps.

Imagine you want to encode something like y = 2 * sin(2 * x) + .1 * sin(10 * x) to save space.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sin%28x%29+%2B+.1*sin%2...

That is composed of two different sine waves added together - one low frequency, large amplitude and one high frequency low amplitude. That can be encoded two different ways - lossy or lossless.

A lossy encoder gets rid of unimportant data and keeps a "close enough" representation of the original. In this example, .1 * sin(10 * t) is a minor component of the overall signal (plot them separately if you need to compare the difference) so the encoder chooses to delete it and only save 2 * sin(2 * t). In a real world sound, this would be like throwing away noise that is so high pitched we can't hear it, or is so quiet we can't detect it. A real encoder has to decide what the "small enough it can be deleted" threshold is, and it's rarely black and white.

A lossless encoder looks at that signal and thinks "there has got to be a more efficient way to store that data". They are both sine functions, so that doesn't need to be repeated twice. "x" is completely unnecessary, because it knows the sine functions are dependent on some variable. So, it could write out something like "sin (2,2) (.1,10)". All of the original data is still there, if whoever receives the data (the decoder) knows how to interpret it.
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That's not really true. It's not challenging to find CS courses online, and the year I spent in a CS graduate program (through Colorado State), the cost per course unit for CS was the same as any humanities course.
So, as asked earlier in this thread, how do you know it works?
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The thing that really got me thinking about sleep as a precious resource was being diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea. I was getting to the point where I was sleeping for 14 hours and waking up exhausted.

I often wonder about sleep apnea, I need a lot of sleep and have limited energy, nothing drastic but still noticeable compared to others. But I tend to think I don't have it, since in the morning I usually remember having long dreams - and sleep apnea is supposed to interrupt your sleep frequently. Were you able to observe new patterns in your sleep once you started using a CPAP machine?
Well, analysts aren't exactly new. Do a search for business analyst and you'll see lots of jobs posted at hundreds of companies. The difference is that mobile game companies deal with extraordinary amounts of data so they actually need people who not only have statistics knowledge, but programming knowledge as well. So I don't think its creepy (obviously), I just think this industry is so new that a) people are unfamiliar with the role and b) the business model is (apparently) controversial and in constant flux.

I came from a web company. I was a data analyst there too. But I really wanted to work in the mobile industry and figure out how to deliver insights on a completely new platform also at massive scale as well.
I'm inclined to agree. Since the differentiator is expected drive, one can reasonably conclude that autodidactic is more likely to have it. It is what got them this far. While many graduates also fit that description, it is difficult to filter them from those who graduated only due to social pressures and income dreams.

For the theoretical programmers out there, you may recall that the future is independent of the past, given the present. I'm not certain it is worth hiring anyone based on their history. I would look to what they can offer today, and try to discern from that where they are headed in the future. It takes more effort this way, but you get what you give.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we'd love to have your brain figure out how much of an effect this collusion could have had on engineer salaries or how to make sure this doesnt happen again.
As was the shutdown of Napster, and the shutdown of other trackers like SuprNova (as someone else mentioned). I'm actually surprised that some sites have made it this long. It's not like the MAFIAA hasn't taken down sites in the past. But the last few years seem to have been somewhat quiet on that front. Seems like they were spending their time getting the FBI and Congress to fight their battles for them; the government just moves at a slower pace.
It's definitely a good start, but IMO the quality of the filters are not on par with those of Instagram.

A better JS filter library I found is CarmanJS. Check out their demos at http://camanjs.com/examples/presets
You probably shouldn't rely on imgur for posterity… Put it on a server that you control.
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C & C++ usually. Again any new york head hunter can answer all your questions.
Interesting for sure. Practical, nope.

I despise Doctorow though. Not sure why, but I can't help but really dislike the guy.

Edit: Put my finger on it finally. It's the ceaseless shilling on boing boing when he as new work coming out.

Don't get me wrong, his work with the EFF and CC is hugely important and appreciated, but the outright lack of subtlety when it comes to promoting his own gravitas on BB gets to me.
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It doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to add a "render" button.
One to try, if you can, is a team, each with their own office, but also a large "war room" where folks can rotate in and out of during their projects. During "crunch mode" everyone involved is in the war room, but they still had a private office to retreat to when needed.

This was my favorite, and this company made software for government forms, each family of forms had their own schedule, so what groups were pressured changed during the year.
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awesome piece of hacking! great job
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Sorry buddy, no conspiracies here. If your project is interesting (or generates some form of controversy) then you can certainly gain some traction. If not, then prepare to get ignored.
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This is outrageous, I can't believe that Zuckerburg did not try any other action after the window closed to prevent paying so much tax.
I have worked in mobile e-commerce analytics but on the engineering side. It seemed like the analysts we had usually had a business background but I was always too busy to ask them how they got into it.
I seriously feel there should be a way in HN to save / bookmark comments that we like. Currently we can only save the main story thread.
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This has nothing to do with either getting started with ux or ux in general.

This is about a small subset of methodology excisting within the meta term ux.
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At first I was really excited about this, I've spent the last couple days thinking about how I would architect a similar setup. Integration of monitoring, trending, and logging. Good graphing without rrdtool. Looks good. Digging deeper I see issues.

The free version is single server (monitors itself) and doesn't have alerting. Monitoring without alerting has its uses, but that's not what I'm looking for. Also, single server isn't what I want. There appears to be a planned payed version that supports multiple servers and alerting (check the page source for a link).

In a previous HN discussion of Amon (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313991) it was mentioned that the install script had errors. Looking at the install script was the first thing I did. It's kind of insane. It's the kind of thing it might be OK to do on your own servers, but asking others to run it is really dangerous.

The installer starts off by running "type dpkg &> /dev/null". If that exits cleanly is downloads a Debian version of the installer and executes it. If type doesn't exit cleanly it does the same check from rpm and runs the rpm version of the installer. dpkg is available in the standard Fedora repository. rpm is available in the standard Debian repositories. /etc/debian_version and /etc/redhat-release might be a better check.

The installer goes on to download binaries on MongoDB and install them in /usr/local/mongodb. It puts the mongo client in /usr/bin. Does "apt-get install mongodb" not work? It consistently does "tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz > /dev/null". tar -v is verbose, why direct verbose output to /dev/null? The init scripts are the client and server, written in python. It works but that's odd, I want my executables in bin or sbin.

There seems to be a general lack of systems understanding, which is not what I want from a system monitoring tool.

If you are looking for server to accept and store application logs, check out logstash (http://logstash.net/). It will accept pretty much any non-binary input on any protocol, convert it to JSON, and output it to pretty much any storage system using any protocol. E.g., input AMPQ -> output Redis, or input syslog -> output MongoDB. In includes graphing and searching of your logs if you use the default output storage.
Torrent trackers or file lockers that make a handful of employees rich? Haha. Good one! Oh you're funny oh wait no you don't actually understand the economics of this at all do you
Sounds more like the ex-Zynga poster on reddit is an anti-social person who likes finding ways to categorize people into groups he can disparage on.
lessons learned:

1., There is no such thing as a loss leader. If it doesn't make money, cut it. Apple TV is considered a hobby - but it is profitable. Yes, there is a grey area, but at Apple it is very small.

2., Your company runs on money, not market share. This has to be the focus. How can you guarantee the constant influx of enough money? Satisfied customers pay more, pay more often. The quick buck loses you money long-term.

3., Focus. You can't manage hundreds of products. you confuse your customer. Do a few things and do them extremely well. Makes it also easier to market, analyze, etc.
It's not a matter of good and evil, it's a matter of due process.
I'm concerned Zynga will work out who he is and decide to retaliate a) out of spite and b) to re-affirm a culture of fear to keep other ex-employee's quiet.

He mentioned he quit in August (I wonder how many engineers quit in August? Single digits?) and uses curious language quirks like "[they gave] nay fucks". As a Brit he sounds potentially British to me.

I know people in Zynga's management - they'll relish the opportunity to fuck this guy for contravening some part of his NDA. I'm sure Dani is pissed.

If you are going to 'whistleblow', people, be careful.
> Isn't this the point of any business?

No, you get to decide what the point of the business you work for is. No one else does, you do. There's no rule that says the point of any/every businesses is to get people to part with as much money as possible.
I've lost the reference, but I understand that performing musicians find they need more sleep than than most people, with 9-10 hours a night being entirely normal.

This suggests that sleep has less to do with recovery from physical exertion, and more to do with the ability to sustain intense mental focus for extended periods - especially when that focus is being used to create and perfect something that demands comprehension of a complex whole.
Not to mention that the NY Times (the publisher of this article) probably collects a lot of information about their on-line readers. They know what articles you've read, what ads you've clicked on, what comments you've left on their site, where you live (based on your IP address and/or your billing address), approximately what your income is (based on your ZIP code), and that you found this article through Hacker News. And if you're a paid subscriber, they know your real name.
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1k is impressive as a coding feat, but I'm not sure of the practical application of this - i.e., I'm less impressed with 1k of code when my CPU meter gets into the red zone - and stays there.

My tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory is that the Canvas element was spec'ed into HTML5 by CPU fan manufacturers.
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