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nice work, and inspirational. There was another one, a while ago, two guys built an iPhone app from scratch, and launched it successfully. No prior programming experience, mobile or otherwise. I can't remember the app name right now :(
Has anyone tried it already ? I'm at work and I have to wait till I'm back home before I can try it.
It made it to television, too, fove minutes ago, in the BBC News.
Touch/tablet devices are going to be a big part of the future, if not the biggest, and these new UI's are designed for our interaction with those devices. That's all cool.

However, "working" on a tablet or touch device is simply not going to happen. Sure you can type an email or something similar but loads of people who do their day to day "work" on computers will not be able to be productive on such UI's.

E.g. programmers, video editors, architects, designers, writers, editors, etc, will be annoyed by the obtrusive land grab of screen real-estate and clunky metaphors. When you do "precision work" you require a totally different approach, aka the traditional desktop.
How to win a cloud race...
Hacking RFID with NodeJS
Seriously, no more debugging with console.log()
This is what I did to move the big blue ugly cable running across the entrance hallway. Wife loves the change :)

Granted, I'm playing content off the same box.
Haha, this is a good point. I guess the difference is that we'd be living in converted shipping containers instead of cabins in the woods.
More than the css theme-ing (which is suboptimal IMNSHO), I think it the reification of lists that is interesting. You're not manipulating a caret in a stream of characters, you're pointing at ~objects.
Tax rate on the rich used to be 94%
Torchlight is a highly overrated Diablo 1 clone. The game has barely any story. The side quest system literally repeats "Kill the monster on level 5" "Kill the monster on level 10" "Kill the monster on level 15" etc.

The game has some okay graphics and the loot system is decent. If you enjoy looting corpses for a slightly upgraded item over and over in a noxiously repetitive manner then I say go for it.

Five people in my office bough the game. I played it on very hard and beat it. I was the only person to reach the end despite everyone else playing on normal difficulty.

I beat the game out of spite. I never felt so angry at a game before but my sheer hatred of it drove me to finish.

I guarantee most positive reviews come from people who did not finish the game. It's just not fun after the first 10, 20, 30, 40, infinite floors in the same dungeon.
Can you explain what your problem is? Azure will automatically restart instances that are dead afaik (unless you are saying that the automatic restarting was broken as well?).
Should We Build a Trustworthiness Tester for Fun?
Too Much Theory, Part 2 by Dr. Cliff Click | Azul Systems: Blogs
Point in case: See Google Wave. Wave was, in most every way better than email (To some level of debate) except for the fact that it wasn't email, and refused to have any sort of cooperation with email.
Why Techcrunch lost their Mojo and How Web Properties Can Avoid the Same Fate
Acquired? Acqhired? Term doesn't mean much lately. I guess we needed a sexier way to say "I got a job"... Or are situations like this really more like an acquisition? Did any investors recoup their investment?
He has no points at all.

The entire article is either hate-based linkbait, or came out of his own misunderstandings of Windows 8, Metro, and the Desktop mode/app.

If you want Desktop mode, then select it and use it as default on bootup. It’s not going anywhere. Otherwise, use Metro.

You can't (or wouldn't want to) run VS.NET and build applications, create Office Documents, edit video, etc, in Metro and/or with the touch-interface on a tablet.

That's because Metro is for average CONSUMERS doing average tasks (email, youtube, twitter, games, etc), it's not for PRODUCERS.

We will still have the desktop and keyboard in 10 years because it's the most productive way for us to use the computer. And there is money in it. For everyone.

And the author is completely out-of-line to assume that the Metro UI/style has not been constantly tested for the last 2 years to fit the consumers' expectations, needs, and to solve their pain points.
IndexTank users - Searchify releases IndexTank migration tool
That looks nice. I have to ask: Clojure on the JVM is fast: can a PyPy runtime really compete after Hotspot has a chance to optimize?
Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed System
They finally pushed something out via Twitter, about an hour ago: http://twitter.com/#!/WindowsAzure/status/174954154362548224
Thanks!

The setup gave me one, too.
I'll save both, just in case.
System performance analysis - the USE method
Not to forget: they all have day jobs. People have been worrying for ages about how Raspberry Pi will deal with the demand and get out of a process of making batches, having them sell out instantly and then using that capital to build the next batch. Eben talks about why the RS and Farnell partnership is a big deal and will help to solve that problem in this video interview:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/28/2347222/raspberr...
"You are not depressed. Do not hijack this word. depression is the debilitating clinical illness with potentially life-threatening implications"

Oh thank God! Thank you doctor for un-diagnosing me! And all online without meeting me in person. Thank you so much. Please go help the others, tell them they're not depressed too.

Look, plain and simple. I'm describing all of this from my point of view. I'm not going to spend 5 paragraphs being politically correct or adding, In my personal opinion in front of all my sentences. FOR ME: It hurts, but I know it'll be over, so I take the time to take advantage of it, and I've grown to like it. I see happiness as a dream, a pleasant one that I enjoy waking up from every now and then. You should have just called me condescending. lol I would have just agreed and moved on.
Formulários e Questionários no Email Marketing
Easy - it's the cheapest channel that gets you in front of the right demographic. How would else you get in front of thousands of SXSW attendees for free?
Press is an awesome way to kick off the viral loop.
Future of Ice Cream Looking For New Bankruptcy Loan
Your concern is valid. You do want to invest in companies you understand, but you don't have to be an expert. (It helps, especially if you're looking for what Peter Lynch calls an edge.) I approach things from the other direction: I wrote my own stock screener that analyzes financial reports and suggests companies which might be dramatically undervalued at their current prices. If a few minutes of research on my own reveal that I don't understand the business or that the numbers are obviously skewed by something which jumps out (the company increased its free cash dramatically by taking out hundreds of millions of dollars of short term financing and that skews the return on invested cash numbers), then I look further.

If I don't understand the company or the industry, or if it's a coinflip either way of being undervalued, I move on.

As a concrete example, I have a pretty good idea of what Apple makes and where it can sell and where it might go in the future, but I don't believe it can keep up the 30% returns on invested cash rate for the next ten years. I don't buy it.

Maybe I'm wrong in that case, but my backtests work even with eyeballing numbers.
Real-time chat(or multiplayer game) without server-side code: msec asynchronous updates, one stack of technology - pure Java (shots at fancydata dot com)
I would like to see a copyright that expired quickly, but had unlimited renewals for ever increasing fees.

This would allow the top % of copyright works that remain profitable to be held by their creators, while the vast majority of work would quickly pass into the public domain. Plus, the larger fees on ridiculously long copyrights (Mickey Mouse) would help pay for the officials who oversee the whole thing.
TLDR: "Under normal circumstances, the ground crew disposes of the sewage after the plane lands." Sometimes it leaks though, and the story gave an example of a time when it hit someone on the ground. :|
Raman amps are pretty cool but tricky. For one thing, the power required is pretty high. +1W dBm isn't uncommon for certain Raman amps. At those power levels, you need to be careful you dont cause burns to personel when they are working on the equipment.

The power to run the lasers is usually carried on conductors that are part of the cable itself. The voltages are somewhere in the several kilovolt range so laying submarine cable is also kinda like laying a high-volage transmission line across the ocean.
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So what you want is freedom from people expressing their opinions on their personal blogs because you're paying a lot of money for this Internet, and damnit, you should get to enjoy it?
That depends on who you consider their competitors. WoW worldwide is about 50% of the MMORPG market. It will be interesting to see how SWTOR fares in that space. Almost up to 2M subs already,

However if you consider the larger online gaming market I would consider WoW's main competitors the likes of Zynga. Farmville alone has 28.4M monthly active users.
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That's not a problem in this case since they own the copyright.
Yuck. The parenthesis are much easier to read than the boxes with lots of padding. Only useful for beginning programmers. Anyone using lisp-based languages will quickly be able to read parens easier.

(Plus some IDEs have coloring based on matching parens and depth, like Racket's IDE, which keeps the same lisp code structure but adds subtle visual enhancements.)
Many if not most of the "business-to-business" software companies that try to adopt this mindset will find themselves losing money as a result. The "enterprise" sales process is intensely aggravating, yes, but it affords software vendors opportunities to discriminate on price, get direct feedback from customers, offer advance features, and qualify their customers so they can focus sales resources on budgeted projects.

There are also pretty obvious economic reasons why companies with 5-figure customer LTVs might avoid credit card billing. There are services that work well with metered billing, but many others in which customers will demand flat licensing.

I can also absolutely see why Github would would to keep a pretty tight handle on who's trialing what is in effect a packaged-up version of one of the most important software sites on the Internet. We're a FI customer. Incidentally, on the scale of "enterprisey" sales processes, they were an absolute dream to work with.
It's unclear how big a deal this outage was, as I can never make heads or tails of what's really behind an article in the The Register.

That said, I run an app on Heroku and noticed that outage - Pingdom sent me a bunch of emails, which I saw after a day spent outside. The first thing I do when I get a Pingdom failure notice is check status.heroku.com, and sure enough they had an issue and were working on fixing it. I wasn't particularly expecting there to be mention of it on HN because, first, it wasn't an enormous outage, second, it was on the weekend, and third Heroku always does such a great job of posting about issues.

I don't know if they did so, but I'd expect Intercom.io and other affected sites to post information letting people know that the site is down and why. I haven't tried it yet but Heroku allows you to specify a custom error page to be served [1], which you could update on the fly to let people know what's going on. For other outages I have let users know via Twitter and Facebook, though obviously there's no substitute for a nice up-to-date static error page.

[1] http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom_error_pages
Pro-tip: Scan the article quickly, if there's nothing new in it for you, close it and move on, don't waste time lamenting the fact in a comment. That's how to win at Internets. ;)
Actually, the people who currently get stuff outside the bounds of copyright law ("pirates") are the ones who currently spend the most money on it. http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/study-pirates-buy-... The COO of EMI knows that pirates are their best customers. http://www.cnet.com.au/will-former-google-exec-help-save-the... People do business with each other because they feel like it, not because they are legally obligated to. People give money to Kickstarter projects in return for very small rewards, or even nothing at all. e.g. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scot... I think Louis C.K.'s statement about piracy, while not especially insightful, has exactly the right idea:

Please bear in mind that I am not a company or a corporation. I’m just some guy. I paid for the production and posting of this video with my own money. I would like to be able to post more material to the fans in this way, which makes it cheaper for the buyer and more pleasant for me. So, please help me keep this being a good idea. I can’t stop you from torrenting; all I can do is politely ask you to pay your five little dollars, enjoy the video, and let other people find it in the same way.

Sincerely,
Louis C.K.
Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme (video)
Neither. Linus has a problem, I demonstrate that Microsoft has already solved it.
I think in a big rhythmic cycle, that may be true. I have friends that are fund managers that say, now, the market is completely and totally efficient, and that people making money are just "lucky" - both are interesting and somewhat valid! If 10,000 funds trade, there will be some profitable one (even though there were SO few in 2008). It's an interesting study, even if you aren't a trader
I'm less concerned with speed on this platform. I think it'd be excellent even if only suitable for small scripts that need to start up fast.
Either your reading comprehension is terrible, or your selective quoting is intentional and your motives ethically ambiguous. The full quote you are referring to is this:
"She swears by her Zune, and having used both it and the iPod, the Zune is far and away a better device on every front. Having said that, the iPhone's interface is just that much better - and has the benefit of in-depth integration with third party devices."

Within that quote, I say that the Zune is better than the iPod, and the iPhone better than the Zune. I illustrated this very simply just two lines before that one. There is no contradiction at all. By asking which is it, you are intimating a dichotomy where a trichotomy was actually in play.

I'll restate more clearly, and in greater detail: For playing music from my library, I believe the Zune is a superior device when compared to the iPod, however having come to own an iPhone, I prefer the iPhone to the Zune - with respect to playing music from my library.
I'm not sure I would consider WoW (a game with a monthly subscription and a 20+ GB client) to be a direct competitor with Farmville (a free-to-play game with a browser-based client). I suspect that they appeal to very different audiences.
Normal people hate hierarchies. I've spent a lot of time trying to teach non-programmers to us them in their work flow. There is no question that they are useful, but people resist them fiercely. Many developers have a hard time dealing with this and are as resistent to acknowledging this limitation, or feature, of human behavior as most people are to using said concepts.

In a lot of ways this is understandable. You don't see many directly manipulate hierarchies in nature. People can deal with piles, and one or two dimensional arrays, and even arrays of piles. And they can deal with sorting and stashing.

More importantly, they can deal with ask and tell.

I've played with various stack based interfaces and while they are interesting, I haven't found any that I really like, much less that seem generally extensible.

I dont have any great ideas here, sometimes I think the answer is to let the user dig holes in the desktop and bury what they aren't working on in little treasure caches; this essentially describes most users' desktops anyway. how you would go about generalizing this to, say, a CAD system interface is another question...
PG made a good point that YC is focused on the good founders on the margin of being great. A few guys who go to school with me here at Berkeley are focused on the flip side of that. People who are starting something smaller, and need just a bit of a push. They call is Agora House, where founder live in a the House, after serious vetting. Check it : https://www.facebook.com/AgoraHouse
A lot of this depends on the type of product and market that you're in. For software that costs up to a couple hundred bucks a month, all of these points make perfect sense.

Products that are more expensive tend to also be more involved. A lot of times, the sales team needs to understand how the customer is going to use the product and help them get it up and running. HubSpot is probably a good example of this. From my understanding, the way they nailed their retention problem back in the day was to go through extensive training / onboarding with each customer.

Simply leaving customers to their own devices on a complicated product is quite often horrible for conversions, which is a wasted opportunity for the vendor and inconveniences a potentially customer that might have otherwise been perfectly happy with the product after learning how it works.
My current setup makes me pretty happy in terms of having a speedy blog: Octopress + S3 + Cloudflare.

Octopress will generate static HTML and use Disqus for comments: http://octopress.org/

S3 added the ability to serve an index.html file a while ago: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/02/website_amazon_s...

Cloudflare will be your DNS host and CDN in one: http://www.cloudflare.com/ (they also have a lot of other fun features)

I tried Amazon's Cloudfront too, but they aren't as great with hosting static files. (especially index.html data in subfolders seem to error out for me).

We also use Octopress to run a german-language podcast (http://blog.binaergewitter.de/). Adding the iTunes feed and flatter support wasn't all thaaat hard. Although I still think the liquid template system is kinda weird.
(Our "Octopod" fork is here: https://github.com/Binaergewitter/binaergewitter.github.com/... , not 100% reusable though)
-1? For real? "A whole bunch" is not a credible statement of fact.
I would think twice before showcasing the fact that you dont have any tests for your (formerly) commercial code
A very plausible reason. In Poland, martial law led to baby boom.
Ask HN: Site internationalization resources?
Are there any good resources about site internationalization? Specifically for China? This includes UX, design, code, marketing, and any other considerations that come with internationalization.

Thanks!
Making Google Analytics even speedier (bye bye Flash, welcome SVG)
Anybody know what opensource tools they used for game making? I'd be interested in helping out but would want to see what they are using first.

Or perhaps its dojo-to-dojo?
Having found Exec in the AppStore, I noticed that they have 11 other apps for specific restaurants ... is Exec a pivot from another idea?
Not having a demo or problem statement is tough probably? And you might find some great stuff using your lure like you are doing.

But I can't help feel you might have more fun and possibly better effectiveness if go the trite "scratch your own itch" route, or at least focus on demographics you are in or closely related to. You like tshirts? Call tshirt companies and focus on their problems. If you're calling on plumbing companies, great if that's what you're into. But you probably have at least a couple hobby areas you are much more interested in than plumbing. If you like puzzles, calling on game making/puzzle companies with something like "I love the games you are developing!" because you actually like their stuff is likely going to raise your response rates too.

Yeah, Adwords/Facebook/LinkedIn can work. Wasn't too niche. I targeted a pretty wide group, and the survey just asked "What's your biggest problem. A/B/C/D/other" and "How much of a hassel is that problem? Big, medium, small". You want a lot of "big" answers to one of those problems.
[off topic]

Wave was too complicated and did not integrate into everyone's existing mail clients.

I had a professor that tried to use if for class lecture notes. That only lasted a couple weeks.

A lunch group at work used it successfully for deciding where to go, until it was shut down last month.
NSA builds Android phone for top secret calls
Direct link to the video:

http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/movies/rota...
"For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer."

http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince08.htm
What took the longest for me wasn't the sending of the emails, but the research that went into finding who to email.
This would be the same deal if I was cold calling. And I'm not sure how to automate this, you just have to slog through it. You can only call or email as many people as you can find after all. So that's the bottle neck.

So if the time investment is a wash, then it's really a question of what converts better, not based on bulk. I have a feeling calls will...but I don't have the personal data to prove it yet.

It's interesting you had bad experience with calls though. Were you selling something? Maybe that's the difference.
In other words, they went from having a full method to having a param to a broader method and then BACK to having a full method.

You may know this but I wanted to note that this was not a "revert" as such in case less informed third parties thought this was capricious API design at its worst.

Today's #all is rather different to yesterday's #find_all in that the former supports chaining and is lazy evaluated, whereas the latter used to immediately hit the DB and required criteria to be included all in the one call.
As this terrific article says in many different ways: the TSA is a fundamentally flawed institution. It's an example of something that anybody who has spent too much on consultants will recognize: if you have money, there are people who will gladly say they will solve a problem, even if the problem doesn't make sense and there is no solution. It's like that old demotivator image says about consulting "if you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem" (http://www.despair.com/consulting.html)

Don't get me wrong, the agency can be full of the most wonderful and talented dedicated intelligent people imaginable. I kind of doubt it, but it doesn't make a difference. If the paradigm of the agency is seriously broken, it'll never do anything but prolong the problem. If anything, it'll make the problem of terrorism worse (for many reasons too involved to go into here.)

After 9-11 we overreacted and created a monster. We've created a system where the general public is the "enemy". Is the system so broken that even after this is obvious to 90% of the public we still can't get rid of the TSA? </rant>

I know when I go on like this about the TSA that I sound like somebody running around with their hair on fire, but dammit, out of the dozen or so major intrusions on my privacy and life by the security state and corporate system over the last 20 years, the TSA is like a poster child for what's went wrong. Good intentions, a real (but very small) threat, bipartisan support, a mission to support air travel safety (something everybody is for). The problem is although it's great at getting votes, it's just not worth the trade-off. And it's such a political football that nobody can touch it. We're giving up too much for way too little in return. And it looks from here like the change is going to be permanent, no matter what we say or do about it.