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No matter how much I wish they would...
How do you differentiate yourself from other popular news apps like pulse, flipboard etc...?
This is useless when every cab driver that picks you up will just claim the machine is broken. This is not even just me complaining. I believe the market is going to be difficult to break due to cabbie habits.
Instagram Filters as Photoshop Actions
I'm sure there is a chance I am missing some bits here, but I setup a 3.0.18 / Ubuntu 11.10 / Apache 2.2 server and to compare against 2.6.39 Apache 2.2 server and in all tests they are basically identical.
From the Wikipedia article on Dryococelus australis [1]

"The ultimate goal is to produce a large population for re-introduction to Lord Howe Island if the project to eradicate the invasive rats is successful."

I wonder what the 347 residents of Lord Howe Island think about this? It's an amazing story and all, but I sure wouldn't want a bunch of these insects introduced into my neighborhood.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis
I don't understand: is this article slamming Sony and Samsung for their price and then saying that Apple is basically priced the same? Am I missing something here or is this just a biased editorial with no substance?
To be fair, your "floating around idea" example has been "floating around" for quite some time.

You destroy the value of the article by bringing up a topic people fight wars over.

And I don't agree that thinking about anything is ever a waste of time, even if it is in fact a stupid idea. A waste of time is vegging out in front of a TV.
Dropbox's Greatest Threat Is Not Apple
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Nulogy.com (http://www.nulogy.com), is revolutionizing the co-packing world by developing SaaS applications for our packaged world. We are looking for professional software testers who are passionate about delivering quality software that helps meet, and exceed, our customers needs.

Nulogy.com is a Ruby on Rails software development shop. We have embraced Agile software methodologies and believe in the idea of being a little better tomorrow than we are today. And we are looking for people who are passionate about quality to help us build up our QA team. We are looking for a QA Lead and for software testers.

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This relates quite closely to the idea of thinking "fast" and "slow" as proposed by Daniel Kahneman. Here is an interview from the other night: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12185

The basic idea is that our brains have two methods of thinking, first on intuition, like when we are driving a car. Natural reactions based on intuition are very powerful, but the flip side is that they are often wrong and we won't realize we are making a mistake. That takes going into the second mode of thought, thinking "slow". It is important to realize when to step back from the intuition of fast thinking to the rationality of slow thinking.
Show HN: LIME - Lisp Implementation with Moderate Effort
Social Coding in GitHub: Transparency and Collaboration in Open Software
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Ticket Evolution (ticketevolution.com) is the engineering backbone of the open ticket market. We build tools and an API that helps ticket brokers buy and sell event tickets from each other and to customers. Chances are if you bought a ticket online, it was from a website that uses our system.

Our systems use Ruby on Rails, Postgres and Redis (with Resque) for queueing, JavaScript and BackBone.js. We also have a lot of interesting challenges, such as scaling out an API that provides ticket inventory throughout the internet, guaranteeing orders are always processed correctly, and building responsive web-based applications.

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Yeah, I just tried to search a flight to a European country and it said "unavailable". So it's not accessible from the US to the outside either.
The majority of the code is in the front end... so even if you go with a different backend, you have to learn to love JavaScript when doing a project like this ;-)

JS used to really irritate me, but I've grown to appreciate it quite a bit after learning its idioms and getting more practice.
What I can't comprehend is how any VC's are still dumb enough to invest old-school ICQ/AIM clones. They never go anywhere or make any money. When we're living in a world where I can spin up a NodeJS chat server in an afternoon there really is no pot of gold here.
Yes, we should remain subservient to an abusive, quickly antiquating industry and it's politically subversive methods.

Or, we can accept that while piracy is wrong, it's not the boogeyman that these luddites have made it out to be, and it's certainly not worth the vicious punishments doled out by Governments.

Do the creators of these wonderful cultural works deserve to be paid? Absolutely. And you'll notice that the same pirates are more than willing to crowdfund through Kickstater or directly a la Louis CK.

But as long as the organizations controlling the legal rights to these cultural works continue to actively subvert our democracy, you won't find sympathy from me or many others.

I consider it civil disobedience. YMMV.
A better fit for this use case is probably the paper "Encoded Bitmap Indexing for Data Warehouses" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.44.7...) by Ming-chuan Wu and Alejandro P. Buchmann. The data is structure similar to bloom filters, but it's not lossy, and not compressed, so random access is O(1).
It's a sensible move, but they haven't actually launched it yet as far as I can tell.
To GMT or not to GMT
I'm using FireFox 10.0.2 on Windows 7 and nothing loads in the lightbox when I click a video link...just white and empty. The video works fine in Chrome though.
Also: Australia's efforts against the cane toad, invasive fish species all over the world introduced by humans for "sport", Florida's efforts against the Burmese python (which has become the dominant predator - even swallowing local adult alligators).
Typography for Lawyers (and anybody)
Don't worry, Salesforce has big pockets. I think they will be fine. Great product.
Using streak in a shared gmail account is pretty popular and works great.
Strongly disagree. It may not be perfect, but it certainly is more pleasant than the native view on HN.
There's a somewhat similar effect in other segmented markets. (I hope segmented is the right word here.)

In areas with rent control, the bits of the property market that are less restricted tend to be pricier, because they have to absorb all the excess demand.
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You are using words like "blatantly", "profiteering" and lump all of HN together, saying that all of HN supports MU and its bosses and that you don't understand this at all.

This smells all too much of a biased statement without any depth in order to influence the public opinion of MU negatively. But I'll bite anyway.

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The thing is that you are missing the point completely:

Copyright infringement on MU was apparently only committed by third parties (aka The Internet), as is done on sites like YouTube, every other file sharing site, video, audio and similar sites.

Yet you don't see the Google bosses in jail and their houses raided and assets frozen do you? They are blatantly profiteering off of copyright infringing materials on YouTube as well, you know.

The DMCA regulates what these services have to do to protect copyrights and them selves. MU apparently did just that.

One other point I will make here is that studies have shown that pirating on the internet has no negative effect on the profits of the copyright holders. Explain to me why pirates are being hunted like the worst offenders anyway.

Now, do you still not understand why some people here seem to have a different stance on this topic than you?
Tangental: reservation of judgement can be taken too far, becoming extreme relativism/pacifism/social signalling.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/
Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
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Sounds awesome, but doesn't work :(.
Airlines getting into banking? I understand that they've been facing cash-flow problems for years. But this seems like way too much diversification. Why would an airline expect to do well in the banking market, when banks are already struggling? Shifting focus from your core competency (running airplanes) to a struggling industry where you lack expertise or a competitive advantage (banking) makes little sense to me.

I've never understood all the gloom and doom surrounding the airline industry, anyway. There is still ample demand for air travel. Especially considering the lack of viable alternatives in the US, I can't imagine we'll reach a point any time soon when air travel isn't commercially viable.
Yammer isn't a ICQ/AIM clone, if anything it's a Facebook clone for businesses.
Think More than Think Different
I think this is a pretty simple but important little piece of advice. I am certainly guilty of speaking before thinking a lot of times.
In the day of 140 characters, blogs and a steady stream of self-anointed 'expert' bloggers and media pundits, you don't get too many examples of the eloquent thinker.
I'm glad I came across this post, as it applies to my actions, in professional and certainly in private life. Thanks again Jason!
It looks like this move has instilled some confidence. ZNGA stock is up 6.8% today.
So long as there's something there to eat cats. Introducing one invasive species to cure another can lead to unpredictable ordeals.
In many cases a round of this size is like a 'private IPO' and provides some liquidity for founders or even early employees. This quote suggest that may be the case here:

<quote>The new funding “is like an IPO without the headaches,” he said, adding that the start-up can now “stay private for quite some time.”</quote>
Great list Matt, thanks for sharing.

One test I now use is this: Is the core feature, without any additions, enough to cater to a big market? I've noticed that some of the best startups solve one really important problem and are able to ride that for a long time. Examples include Google, Dropbox, Facebook, and now Stripe.

If no one gets really excited when you show them the most basic version of your idea, then padding it with more features is probably not going to help.
That's an interesting point that I hadn't really considered, thanks. That said, Microsoft is an American company and perhaps they should make their own hardware if they really want to compete in the US phone market....
Bosch Coffee Nightmare, Recalls Over 1.7 Million Tassimo Machines
That's an interesting point. The image needs a shift in perspective. Even as superscripts the robots wouldn't be thinking the same thing, but they're in a space of seeking love. Perhaps a bit of flexibility will lead to a positive outcome.
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AFAIK they didn't do anything illegal, and it wasn't their job to care - it was their job to comply with takedown notices, which it seems like they did.

However, the real reason HN cares about MegaUpload is fear that heavy-handed law enforcement can destroy tech companies. Many of us are here because we have or are interested in having tech companies.
Super cheap, less than 15 monthly for micro teams less than 4 maybe.

Then scale a lot for larger groups/companies. Something like the atlassian pricing tiers?

There is a large government market to hit also.
AT&T Caps Unlimited Data Plans
I don't believe I said anything like that. I said that invoking "inherent moral rights" to defend a very artificial compromise like copyright is a losing game.

I outright said, "I'm not arguing against copyright." I definitely think copyright is a kludge, no two ways about it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't serve a purpose. I think copyright is a good and necessary compromise, where we temporarily give up some of our natural rights in order to improve society in the long run. But I think some people place it on far too high a pedestal. Violating copyright — even my copyright — does not necessarily make you a bad, selfish person any more than my insistence that I am entitled to this weird privilege called "copyright" makes me a bad, selfish person.
Wow - great insight. We appreciate the thoughts. Were you "leasing" domains names without the option to buy or was it more like a financing deal?
Sysadmins Don't Dictate EOL Dates
Use a bouncer like znc (or this) and you don't have to get emails, it'll just be there when you get back
I am not sure that I understand your mention of housing costs. Doesn't core inflation exclude housing costs as well?
Doesn't matter. Google signed off on it, Google supports it. Don't try to let Google dodge the bullet.

When presented with a portfolio of patents, Google behaved not like it has spent years telling everyone they should behave, but instead exactly like they have long since fought against.
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Solving EOL Issues in Git Forever
>I meant that just to underscore the point that (from my observations) PG doesn't care if you have been a long standing community member at HN.

I agree with your point. A man who has written such a collection of essays cannot be a hypocrate. PG is one of the few authors that have provided insight into my own self.

But that has consequences for him: I hold him to the highest of moral standards and expect him to adhere to them. I think he will not fail to meet them.
Partnering with Goliath: A Tale of Two Announcements // John O'Farrell
There are always big predators at top of the biological food-energy chain. They are few in numbers. Anyways, I believe populations of cats and rats will fluctuate. Increase in cats will cause decrease in rats and then subsequent decrease in cats. Like phase difference between sine and cosine wave graphs.

I believe introducing some small wild cat population would be a right thing to do, tho I would like to hear opinions of experts.

Edit: I don't think cats are invasive in the way rats are
For those of you like me who are completely unfamiliar with node, in addition to the instructions on the README, you must also run `npm install` in the subway directory.
I love this expression!!
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There's a principle in philosophical interpretation that we can learn from here: the principle of charity[1].

The basic idea is simple:

1) Assume the other person is rational.

2) Give the other person's arguments their best possible interpretation. Wherever possible give them the benefit of the doubt.

Only after you do that should you try to evaluate the person's argument.

The best short version of this principle I've ever heard came from a good friend: "The principle of charity just says, 'Don't be an asshole.'"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Spotify is Microsoft. Rdio is Apple.
It's a moot question, because by my logic, 90% of what's diagnosed as "clinical depression" is actually a correct reaction to living in an atomized, alienating society driven by pharmaceuticals marketers and authoritarians who demand that everyone wear a happy face (and who attack anyone who dares to claim that we're not all meant to wear a happy face).

See, this is why I'd never visit a shrink. But there's always some sanctimonious jackass who thinks he's so happy, everyone who isn't as happy as he is should be doped in the interest of the public good. It's hard to express the absolute loathing I have for your assumptions about my experiences with depression, or your drippingly patronizing tone, other than to compare it with my feeling for other kinds of teetotalers and those authoritarians who profess to know what's in everyone else's best interest. Luckily most of them are powerless and cowardly, and can't get their hands on me or my loved ones to lobotomize.

I love my loved ones the way they are, depressed or otherwise. Since you didn't answer my question, this is the end of our conversation. Thanks and goodnight.
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What about jumping off a building with a parachute or because it's on fire?

I think real life contains many situations where the most rational situation isn't always clear.
I'm particularly interested to see how the airlines react to the re-emergence of ITA and its new airline platform. For years, airlines have essentially had one choice in reservation systems: Sabre. Sure, there are other systems, but none of them offer the functional breadth that Sabre provides -- including ITA, of course. But where it may get interesting is that, according to a colleague who works at Sabre, many of their customers are growing increasingly frustrated with large numbers of unaddressed bugs, lagging system response time, and overall system instability. Some airlines may decide they've had enough and jump to ITA, and even if ITA isn't successful at wooing away some of Sabre's customers, hopefully the new platform will at least spur Sabre enough to improve its aging product offering.
I believe the brain is too complex to compare to either an operating system or a CPU. We can perhaps analogize both of those artificial entities to individual functions that a human brain may perform, but they would not be comprehensive of its abilities. As just one additional ability, there's also a memory storage (both short-term and long-term) mechanism existent in the brain, perhaps akin to temporary and permanent memory in a computer. Artificial neural networks mimic the properties of biological neurons. And then there's the concept of intelligence and actually thinking and understanding (which is really much more complicated than mere processing as in terms of a CPU); while machines' abilities are more along the lines of imitation/simulation.
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SE Podcast 31 Goodbye Jeff
A very solid list of the intellectual side. The other equally important side is the emotional.

I would at least add: #8 Expected Long-term Passion

I have tons of startup ideas. I think my current list is around 50 and those are just the ones that I write down because they're nagging at me. Just about any of them could be successful to some extent. Most of them would make it over this list.

The thing that would prevent me from work on 98% of them is my own self-awareness. I know that I couldn't sustain my motivation to work on them over the long-term.

Any sufficiently ambitious startup idea is going to be a 3+ year commitment to fully execute on. That means you have to be deeply and genuinely be interested in the problem enough to sustain your for years. That's a very high bar that very few ideas make it over.
Oh, is this their feature-for-feature ripoff of Steam? :-D
The screenshots looks really beautiful. Unfortunately the demo link seems to be down at the moment
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