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Show HN: 2 guys -- Learned to code in 3 months and built this
4 months ago sucked. Our technical co-founder quit after 6 months and we still had no product.

My co-founder and I had been 'working' on our startup for 8 months. I say 'working' because as the "business people" - there wasn't a whole lot we could do except philosophize. We had gotten really awesome intros to some of the top VCs and entrepreneurs, but had nothing to show.

And now we felt stranded. Had we wasted 8 months of our lives? Identity crisis? Check.

So we did what any rational person would do - we ran to the mountains. Literally. In Boone, NC - we talked about why we started Knowit, what we believed. We talked about how we had taught ourselves so much on our own time, but couldn't save or share what we were learning. We didn't get any real and tangible credit for it.

And then it hit us - we are saying that anyone can teach themselves anything. That's the web. We simply had to give it a shot -- we owed it that. So we taught ourselves to code, for free, from the web. In many ways apropos.

We starting building and 3 months later we have a real product with over 375 users who have added over 3000 items.

We built Knowit to make it really easy to save and share your thoughts on the things you read, watch, and listen to. We want to help people build an online portfolio of what they know and what they're learning. We are excited about helping people take the things they are already doing - and make them count.

Check it out at http://knowitapp.com/ and example portfolios at http://knowitapp.com/jeff and http://knowitapp.com/nash - Things are still very early - and we have a ton of really cool ideas. What do you all think?? Are we doing this right?

If you want to check it out in more detail - we set up an invite backdoor for HN.
http://knowitapp.com/invite/hn

What we learned from all this:
- You can learn almost anything on the web from free resources. (and everything w/i 10yrs)

- It's easier than you think - the hardest step is the first one.

- If you are not technical - start learning - you will never regret it.

- Save and share your journey and teach the rest of us how you got so awesome.
Yeah, that was the first point. You can see a lot more variety of comparisons in the main page. The categories are a bit odd at times, but it's a good stab at being representative.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO images- Free Download
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You make it sound so sinister, but this is how progress is made. As an example, OS X is so good now because Apple had the courage of their convictions to make breaks with the past. I don't think it makes sense to expect an IDE released this year to support Windows XP.

They changed the UI chrome because that's what they always do. You make these people sound like Gargamel for Christ's sake. They're just trying to make software.
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why don't they give an official torrent..? the file size is very big and direct download for slower connections is not feasible.
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This is something by people in educational economics. While I think the author has a great point that we're looking to get workers who can get the job done, that isn't necessarily how businesses hire. The benefits from education don't just come in the form of increased human capital. Basically, you get bonus points for having the degree regardless of what it means to your human capital (there's a term for it that I can't come up with right now).

I believe it's called signaling.
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/5...
Could this be extended to a need for startups or meetups that focus entirely on internet-based education?

Something akin to a formal book club with paid/volunteer instruction. I'm thinking about events like, "MyAwesomeEduStartup sponsors instructor [someone]'s coverage of [some MIT xCourse]."

It would definitely be cool as a community service or meetup event. I think it would be hard to get people to pay for this just yet, but maybe in the near future.
Giant Insect Thought to Be Extinct Found on Island
Clicks and bricks
Scrambled Egg News. Heh.
I think it's talkin about this:

"This behavior is by design in MFC and CRT for Visual Studio vNext. The minimum supported operating systems are Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista. Windows XP is not a supported operating system for the release (design-time or run-time)."

source: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/... taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7702463/what-is-special-a...
That's /your/ experience of depression, and not everyone goes through it the same way or can normalize to it. Some people do feel things during an episode, ranging from sadness to worthlessness to guilt, and may find their mind so clouded reflecting on their life just isn't a possibility.

You're not describing depression, you're describing your experience of depression. It's important to keep that in perspective lest other's understanding of the illness be skewed.
How is that debt denominated in non-national-currency? In shares of stock?
Sounds like echoes of the Gnome Shell critisicm... trying to be both tablet and desktop at once leads to neither side being very good.
> they should clearly separate tablet and desktop interfaces... like what Canonical is planning to do with their "Ubuntu for Android"

What? The whole point of Unity is to have a single interface. Canonical is making the exact same mistake as Microsoft.
pg has a great essay on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html.

A quick summary is that yes, people probably do choose not to do certain kinds of work when taxes are too high, but not in the way that Bill O'Reilly tends to advertise it - it's unlikely that someone is going to quit a high-paying job because their marginal tax rate went up a point. However, if you're undertaking an endeavor with a 5% chance of success, and a 30x tax-free payout in case of success (relative to a safe option), your expected payout is 1.5x with no taxes; 1.35x with a 10% tax rate; and 0.9x with a 40% tax rate. Whether or not you'd take the risk in the first two cases varies from person to person, but in the latter scenario, most people wouldn't bother; you'd have better expectancy at a roulette table.
> Same goes for Windows Phone 7, it is failing because people don't like it.

Really? How do you know this? Have you gone door to door asking people?

You couldn't be wronger. In fact, it is ahead of Android.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/wp7-ahead-of-android-and-...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Phone-Leads-in-Custom...

Windows phones have some of the best ratings on carrier websites and Amazon.

There is indeed a Microsoft stigma, and MS is failing at shaking it. When have you seen a commercial for the HTC Titan on TV? It's all iPhones and Android out there except for an inkling of ads for the Nokia 710 (which IS selling well btw, and is the third best selling device on their network).

It is also failing because of carrier stores and salesmen, who seem to be steering people away from Windows Phones to Android LTE devices.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386538,00.asp
agreed, when I get time (ha), I'm going to build my 2d platformer, "escape from corporate America"
Relating stability and non-breaking facilities with WordPress is an extremely poor comparison, in my opinion.
I'm Philippe, CEO of Beagle. We are more focused on tasks than items. We think that requiring student emails improves security and quality of service, and that college students have more obvious uses for a service like this service than the general population, at least for now.
Most of what of what I thought at first glance were videos were just pngs. When I found the video at the bottom (right above "Windows 8 Consumer Preview for developers and IT pros" heading) and hit play it wouldn't run for me in Firefox or Chrome on XP, and the video player didn't appear at all in IE. I couldn't figure out how to watch the video.
The wording is confusing and I had to do a double take and then click on the help to figure out what its' really wanting to let me know.

"Allow Gmail to open all email links" is terrible wording. It would seem to the average user that gmail wants to open up all the links in their email.

mailto: is getting less common (due to spambots) and personally I can't remember the last time I clicked on one of those (that wasn't a web page from 2002).

This will cause a lot of confusion and some tech support calls from family/friends.

Wouldn't it make more sense to say "Do you want to use Chrome as your default email client" or something?
At least one prominent American, Thomas Paine (of the American revolution) advocated a guaranteed minimum income for everyone in his pamphlet Agrarian Justice, which was a real fascinating read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice

The US Social Security administration keeps a full text of the pamphlet online:

http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
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There are two type of people:

Those who are self-motiviated, and those who aren't. Or rather, there's a continuum. Most people aren't that self-motivated so they mostly do nothing.

Those who are, will continue to contribute to society regardless if they got paid or not.
I absolutely don't expect the new VS IDE to run on XP but I certainly expect to be able to compile my program to an executable which can run on 50% of all PC's of the world.
The ZuneHD released September 2009, pronounced dead October 2011. Then there is the aforementioned Kin. WP7 devices will be shortly. No WP7 device is capable of running WP8(or at least that is the rumor.)
When will Android reach one billion users?
Currying vs partial function application
>Microsoft is trying to win the few who want a tablet interface at the expense of the vast majority who want a PC, mouse-oriented interface for their...PC's and laptops.

Interesting, I thought the wisdom here was that the post-PC era is upon us and PC are going to die? In that case MS is definitely going the right way.
Overview of French gov. taking ALL THE COPYRIGHTS
I think the point is more that having some sort of time constraint perhaps helps force you to come up with more realistic solutions.

For example the number of startups with VC investment who seem to have spent 50%+ of their time creating a new NoSQL DB or something.
Reading comprehension needed:

Me: "Executables made with Visual Studio 2010 run on Windows XP SP3."

You: post the link to the article titled "Executables built with Visual C++ 2010 do not run on Windows XP prior to SP2"

Note the SP numbers and the word "prior" please. Anyway, I know what I write since I have to support Windows 2000 for the projects I'm involved and I have to use Visual Studio 2008 for that. Do you compile any native executables for Windows platforms?
Google TV is still a flop
I agree that it isn't the best comparison but I wanted to give an example of a product making upgrades/migration really easy.
Probably a result of the iPhone camera's rolling shutter, combined with a very brief flash of light. You get similar craziness when you try to take pictures of objects moving at high speed, like airplane propellors:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/08/blades-128...
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I want to fail at life...
Chromium Notes (Google Chrome Developer's Blog)
> The "collective management organisations" set up to manage this will be paying royalties to authors, something they wouldn't get if their books were made public domain.

To me it looks like the incentives are not really in place for that.

1) If the authors are already present, registered, in touch, etc... they're already getting paid.

2) If the authors "can't be found", the big bureaucracy gets to keep the cash.

Italy has a 'collective management organization, the SIAE, and the thing is pretty much pure evil.
It's all well and good to "break with the past" so long as what you end up with is an improvement.

When the entire world is using your OS, the onus is on you to either make upgrades people will be happy to use (and then happy enough to pay for), or continue to support the last "proper" release you made that literally half your customers still use.
How opensource is it if you have to agree to a TOS and give them your email to view any documentation about it.
their users don't hold on to old versions.

Tell that to my G5 Mac Pro. :(
The ZuneHD released September 2009, pronounced dead October 2011.

I don't know what you mean by that exactly- have all the ZuneHD devices out there stopped working? No. Is the Zune desktop software still being updated? Yes.

And 'Zune' wasn't killed, it was integrated into Windows Phone. MS are just responding to the market in that regard- no-one wants to carry around a dedicated media player any more- they use their smartphone.

Kin was a giant mess, yes. But MS practically killed it before launch, and it has next to no advertising- I very much doubt it affected the average consumer's perception of Microsoft, because they probably never heard about it.
This seems like a really nifty idea. I'm one of the laziest people around so I'll try it out since it's on my campus. I really like the website too, but it's a little ambiguous. I wish it was a bit more explicit on the service.

Also, I can imagine location services being useful when tied with Beagle. For instance, say I'm at my room working on a project with some people and the deadline is in a few hours. We're really craving food from a place on campus that's far but doesn't deliver. I can attach the location where my task would need to get done (the restaurant/store), and someone with Beagle location services on would be notified that there's a task nearby when they go close to that store. So if someone was already there buying something, they could grab something else and help someone out.
He's right actually if the code is written sensibly. Well it should really be (N-1)! but close enough. Think about it in terms of 3 balls. I check ball1 against ball2 and ball3 then move to ball2. It gains me nothing to re-check ball2 against ball1 so I just check it against ball3. When I reach ball3, I have already checked everything and I'm done.

The loop should look like this:

for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
for (j = i + 1; j < n; ++j)
I recommend this in-depth analysis (in French, published on Feb 19): http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/oeuvres-orphelines... (Creative Commons license, with attribution).
It's hard to come up with a scientific, fool-proof study to prove his point. And honestly, that's not his job, and not the purpose of the article anyway.

Positing a theory based on anecdotes is important because it forces us to re-analyze our lives and our values. It makes us ask the tough questions, and come up with our own conclusions
Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
The point of Ubuntu for Android is it's Android when its on your 3"-4" phone and it's Ubuntu when you dock it and move to a larger screen. You can't expect a desktop interface to easily switch between a smartphone and a 20" screen with a keyboard and mouse.

Ubuntu for Android is not Ubuntu for tablets.
I've been playing GTAIII on my Transformer Prime using a wireless PlayStation DualShock3 controller for a week or so now. The Trans'Prime and the controller connected via Bluetooth just fine with no work from me. I could do the same with my Galaxy Nexus, though from what I can tell, it requires some messing about with root access and a "Sixaxis Controller" app. (I'm happy Asus spared me that minor annoyance with the Trans'Prime.) On his Youtube channel Christian Cantrell plays GTAIII on his Galaxy Nexus using a keyboard. Smartphones as game consoles need not be a few years off, they are already here for the geeks with a little spare time, they just haven't be polished up and made dirt simple for the masses.
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"They can break compatibility every time, for all I care."

that's why apple won't find much traction in the business world. backwards compatibility is very important. You want to write software once, not have to continually update to migrate it to the latest OS
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Hands on with Windows 8 CP: Battery life test shows up to 13% improvement
But if you don't want to upgrade you are out of luck on Apple. this was at least true the last time I had a mac. It was a G5 iMac with OS X 10.3. If you didn't upgrade hardly any hardware worked correctly , but everything after OS X 10.4 just didn't really work on this. I was pretty dissapointed and left the Mac world after this experience.
I've tried playing some games with an iPad2 + Airplay. There was almost always a lag that made playing from (i.e. looking at) the television screen feel very off. Still it worked to let other people watch the game as I played it by looking at the iPad. Maybe your experience was different?
I did not see the "SP3" there when I replied, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. And I'm going to ignore your personal attacks and insults.

Regardless, "No, executables made with Visual Studio 2010 run on Windows XP SP3. They don't run on Windows 2000" and "No, executables made with Visual Studio 2010 run on Windows XP SP3. They don't run on Windows XP SP2" are entirely different statements.
I used to do a lot of work with collections of digital images taken outdoors under all sorts of conditions, not entirely unlike what I suspect the raw Google Streetview data is like.

Pictures with that particular image artifact that weren't a message from the gods. They were an annoyance. A constant annoyance.
Will this eventually run on Android, or will it always support Darwin exclusively?
Dear Michael Dell, regarding your product: Why are you still putting the price as a first argument? Do you really think you can compete against Chinese companies? You frienemy Steve Jobs proved you there is an other path paved with bricks of quality, value, ...
Study: Video games depict religion as violent and problematic
And it's a growing problem. For now i guess the only protection is clear Cache and Cookies. And then load it with opt-out cookies.
yes, that's not really going to work for something that needs good latency like a physics engine.
As Spolsky so brilliantly puts it [1], the MSDN Magazine Camp has overturned the Raymond Chen Camp in its insistence that API stability and backwards compatibility are passe.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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Share with HN: Google, explain yourself
As far as I understand you can't do partial match or wildcard searches in GMail, and it is fine, it is what it is, but it is frustrating that Google neither explains this feature/limitation, nor there is any official explanation or justification for it or any plans for future is announced. While if you do a google search you see many people are facing this issue.
Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
We've just posted this on the easydns blog, we think this is a very troubling development. State of Maryland went straight to Verisign to seize a .com domain operated outside the US via non-US registrar.
not more than 2 years ago we've heard of the 'post-pc' buzzword, people haven't got rid of pcs yet and now we have a 'post-post-pc' era? really?! btw which web are we now in, since web 2.0 is passe?
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>The ZuneHD released September 2009, pronounced dead October 2011.

So they had a product that was made and sold for two years. At the end of its life they stopped making them and started making the replacement. How long did the iPod Mini last? (hint: less than two years)

>or at least that is the rumor.

Let's save that discussion for when it becomes fact. Even if it's true, Windows Phone 7 has had many significant updates. Every mobile device has its support dropped within years of its release.

If anything, Microsoft has a history of holding on to old things for far too long. The rest of the industry changes far more rapidly and far more drastically.
Total recall: Japanese robot finds lost things
The most frustrating thing for me was the complete lack of any real communication from Microsoft. For awhile, even their status dashboard was down. I only found out about it after I got a PagerDuty alert and had to search Twitter (other people complaining about it) to confirm.

We have an Azure CDN backed by a Compute Instance, and zero official notice from Microsoft about this still. I've learned more about the problem from news articles than the company that provides the service. Fortunately we haven't finished migrating the rest of the site to Azure. No emails from them, nothing. Not even a tweet on their official @WindowsAzure account. Frustrating.
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20GB needed for install, ouch.
It is ancient. Someone who is still using XP has a computer that's more than five years old and has never upgraded.

For most new app development, these users are not a very appealing target market -- if they don't buy computers nor upgrades, do they buy software either?

But I'm sure there are business cases where it makes sense to target such users (even GeoWorks and OS/2 are still around, after all, so there's someone interested in software that runs on 486 boxes).
I'm intrigued by the 0.8 GB difference between the x64 and the x86 build. It's even more interesting given that this difference must be caused solely by different machine code, which, by its nature, shouldn't pose a big challenge for compression algorithms. Assuming that 32 extra bits per pointer and a different instruction set aren't enough to generate such such an increase in size, I'm wondering what might be the reason. Extra binaries and portability-related code for for 32-bit compatibility? Any ideas?
James Murdoch "gives up" leadership of News Corp
They could at least have sent the page you're trying to load so that it's ready to render immediately (instead of having to retrieve it from the server after the "container" has loaded).
That's N*(N+1)/2 steps, or order N^2. Best to visualize as the number of entries on the upper triangle of an NxN matrix.
I remember everybody obsessively upgrading their hardware just so that the fps counter in CS never went below 99.
Nice looking site! When you say "business people" do you mean "interaction designer"? Orrrr did you also have no experience in UI?

Congratulations!
Keep reading the same paragraph:
> "I know, I know, you can turn off the asset pipeline and it got better since it was first released. But shouldn't that be the other way around? Shouldn't fun new ideas risking the stability of an app or making migration harder, be off by default and turned on only by people wanting to experiment? "
The latest Latitudes are good, but I was thinking about the Precision line - those things are awesome...
I have it running in VirtualBox, so far so good.
I'm going to let this stand, even though it's costing me Karma.
It can work on the desktop, which still exists. Native apps don't need Microsoft's permission to run or to bring up the desktop.
How much time I'll be able to use this version? Does it expire?
Clickers!

http://knowitapp.com/

http://knowitapp.com/jeff

http://knowitapp.com/nash

http://knowitapp.com/invite/hn
To any AppEngine developers who might see this:

Please, please roll out SSL on custom domains already. It's been just around the corner for years!