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The Future Uses section certainly has a joke-y tone, but if it's an April Fool's Day joke, then NASCAR has given them a huge amount of leeway.

Usage of NASCAR trademarks, hosting videos, and even linking to the video on their homepage.

I'm more inclined to believe that it's real. But I've fallen for more Google April Fool's jokes then I'd care to admit.
Your comment doesn't make a lot of sense...
Did she forget Vietnam?
Isn't this a 3d object and not straight HTML? Therefore I would think it can't be used on basically any website.
Do you find that's a problem with CLOS or Clojure multimethods? Because I never noticed much of what you seem to be talking about.
Yes, we are working on instilling a feature similar to that of a negotiation room! Thank you for validating that need.
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ah the beauty of the "open" web. I bet it works on Chrome - and nothing else.
Regarding your original title of: "Our Business Model Repel's Our Customers... Tips?"

How much of your business model relies on people converting from your website? If it is a substantial number: As part of your audience (a developer) I can divulge my first impression of your site. It is that I have no idea what your website does, and I won't give you my e-mail address to find out.

Some solutions: 1) Explain with both sufficient and few words what it is your website does. Use pictures if you need to. 2) Allow me to explore your website risk-free, or in other terms, without requiring any information of me. 3) Try further to persuade me to try your product through marketing ploys such as free things, empty promises, etc.
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Guys,

I see that weather prediction in countries like India or China is not upto US standards. I see lot of businesses(insurance, sports, power industry) etc can use weather information in their decisions.

I am thinking of starting a weather prediction company. Can you tell me what it takes to start predicting? How long will one take to understand and implement basics of prediction? What technological/financial resources does one need?

Thanks
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For the same reasons DVD's come out 6 months late in Europe and cost twice as much. For no better reason than its possible to do so. As soon as its not, it won't.

VOIP for the win.
Thanks! Oddly, I'd probably prefer your job in an open office to some of the arrangements I've seen where people have offices--at least you have direct indications that you're making a direct impact to the company and customers, whereas sometimes developer jobs are so far removed from the end customer that they might as well not even be there.
A quick look at the rise and fall of phone manufacturers
Ask HN: How to locate target audience 
I have just started my own startup and with that a blog. I have written quite a few posts, despite doing some SEO its too early for me to expect my page to show up on the first page of search results. My question is simple where do i locate my target audience and submit link urls so that i get few of them. Since i write tutorials and audience wont be able to find it, the sole purpose is lost. Hence the above concern, these are my early days and i could look to no other place than HN.Suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
This is probably one of the coolest projects. The people working on this project are doing and figuring out some amazing things.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html
Really liked this one since we all try to multitask all the time(and fail context switching)
You're right on. I lost count of how many times clients ask me for Apple quality design without the intention of paying me for the time to come up with a polished design.
It's worth pointing out that this is actually possible with X.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Pointer_X
Great, he's talking sense about Google & Facebook, and nonsense about SOPA.
Let it be known that I thought this post was hilarious, and so I upvoted it.
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We're focused on helping startups get their technical needs figured out. The project will be managed by JoinAStartup and multiple devs will be working on various pieces of it.

It is also a way for devs to be able to play a part in startup ideas that they really love and get to help shape the project.
Curiosity. Just this minute I started working on a "Scroll Wheel Detector" javascript because I wondered what % of people use scrollwheels to scroll.
God I'm dumb. Thanks.
"The app did not function as advertised."

Intentionally vague such that Apple or whatever company implementing similar language can cut off access to something when PR goes bad.
I'd agree that there might be some legal hassles - luckily Startup Weekend provides some legal resources so hopefully we might be able to get some more answers there.

Just thinking out of the box: should earning shares always be exact? What if people earned opportunities to win shares, as opposed to the shares themselves? Would having a smaller chance to win a really big amount of shares be more motivating potentially than only earning a few?
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Ask HN: Do you use Facebook as your primary e-mail service?
Do you currently use facebook as your primary e-mail service provider, or would you use it in the future if they improve their messaging app? Why or why not ?

Thanks
Yes. So it goes -- that's why they are side businesses. Another thought: sometimes dependency on Google is a good thing.
The MIT project sounds awesome and I love the visualization. I was underwhelmed by the offshoot company called Bluefin Labs. For such awesome research at MIT, it seems like Bluefin is basically Twitter trending for TV shows.
Franken's stance on SOPA was idiotic, but what he's saying here doesn't seem unreasonable.

My concern here is that I don't trust the guy when it comes to issues technical, which I don't think he understands at all (from prior experience). I guess "ringing the bell" is one thing, but I'm pretty concerned as to whatever legislation might come from this.
The more I think about it, the less likely this is to be real. Normal day to day driving is actually incredibly easy. But racing requires intense and constant concentration and quick reactions.
No the article said they do exist but rarely are available.
Is this USA based only?
http://textiplication.com/2009/07/13/hackers-and-hacking-in-...

has many of the recommendations I'd make. I especially recommend Cryptonomicon if you want some pseudocode. I'll add a few newer books:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series)

However, have you considered some free nonfiction? http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html The Hacker Crackdown
http://hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelTAZ Temporary Autonomous Zones

You might also like scifi short stories: http://www.flurb.net/
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Foursquare cut off the app's API access. The app literally didn't work when it was removed.
So the language acquisition stuff could be an n=1 just-so story, but meanwhile:

Deb Roy and Phil Decamp just invented a way to efficiently browse days of multiple video streams - on paper, if you want:

http://video.fastcompany.com/plugins/player.swf?v=2014e22b27...

Their work on "time worms" is astounding; unfortunately, the video ends before zooming out to the next step: multitrack timeworms with hundreds of cameras; broadband recordings of ALL THE CHANNELS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4ce4mexrU&t=11m56s

We can put off the hard problem of CV-driven video search; we can solve the much easier problem of "leverage people's brains to recognize patterns". Visualizations are the new algorithm.
Jesse Thorn on why how you dress matters:

When you dress, you are making a statement; not a fashion statement, but a statement of identity. If you put on a jacket and tie, for example, you are signifying to others that you take the occasion seriously, whatever that occasion may be. If someone looks at you and interprets how you dress, they are not being superficial. They are reading the message that you wrote. [...] Can one earn respect in other ways? Certainly, and one should. But that’s no reason to open a conversation with someone by saying, without words, “this is not important to me.”

http://putthison.com/post/665640307/why-this-matters
Here's the TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word...
Most likely it was just doing an unindexed search over the whole thing. This works, but requires a significant amount of resources - both CPU time and IOPS - for people with large amounts of email. It's also slow unless you have only a small amount of email or it's all in memory already. So it's not really feasible for a free, shared service that offers multiple gigabytes of storage space.
Unfortunately, no option exists to turn it on by default for all searches.
I don't trust any online service provider completely, so I have always been prepared for everything I have ever typed into a computer to be made public. That said, I trust fb much less than most email providers as far as keeping things private goes.

So no, I don't use fb as my primary email provider, and there is really nothing fb could do to change that.
Sounds good - just wanted to make sure someone asked. Now go out there and kick some ass. :)
> .. where Angry Birds & Plants vs Zombies is a crucial part of the experience ..

Also any person who has a paid library of apps with Apple or Google/Amazon would effectively be discarding that library if they switched to BlackBerry, and only be able to replace a small subset of it (at far greater cost). This means that BB has to offer not only an equivalent experience, but a far better one to get existing iOS/Android users to switch.

Getting the dwindling number of non-smartphone users to switch means fighting perceptions (many articles where the debate is how doomed they are), devices (Android variety, Apple "quality"), data service costs and convincing those users to "rebel".
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My BB had a trackball which worked spectacularly well. The replacement Android has a trackpad that is virtually useless for any fidelity and I gave up even trying to use it. Then again multi-touch is a usable alternative most of the time.
"If you don't want your search results shared with other Google sites -- if you don't want some kind of superprofile being created for you based on everything you search, every site you surf, and every video you watch on YouTube -- you will have to find a search engine that's comparable to Google. Not easy."

Any alternative to google or youtube could also do this.

I imagine an ideal scenario for him would include limiting google's querying share, youtube's video genres/types, and then legally forcing space for other competitors.

If we allow the law to slap down Internet giants for fear of monopolization, (which has been shown to be often temporary in this industry) then we've given an inch. They'll use it as a precedent to take the whole field.
This will be a great tool for paragliders. I will post this on paraglidingforums
Thanks for the link.
Who had stopped the Boomers when they looted the later generations with their oversized entitlement? The later generations are just trying to get things back to order. There ain't no free lunch.
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Here's his dribbble; you can see his professional work there:
http://dribbble.com/maxvoltar
It was fun about 8 years ago. It has since grown tiresome.
> ... a better development language than Java. C, Go, or just leverage Apple's Objective-C developer network ...

Where does this myth come from that you can only write Android programs in Java? There is a Native Dev Kit (Google [Android NDK]) that provides a gcc cross compiler so you can write your app in any language gcc can compile. It is quite possible to write an app without a single line of Java.

Heck there is even a company that lets you take your existing Objective C iOS app and compile it on Android (they have also implemented a lot of the iOS APIs). See http://www.apportable.com

It is true that Android does have a lot of Java libraries, and especially for regular user interface type stuff you really would want to use that (eg ActionBar, the resources system, fragments). But if you want a framebuffer and OpenGL then ignore that.
Ask HN: What does [dead] mean and few more 
I have a hacker friend, who tried posting stuff on hacker news, it would show to him as posted but would not appear for others to see.(He would send me a link with item it, which i wont be able to open) After some time it would have [dead] marked befor it. Also his username appears in green.

So why do we see the following three things:
1.he posted a message and shared link with me http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782888 he was able to see it, but i was not.

2. Why/How does [dead] appear before a post?

3. Why do few of the users have their usernames in green?

I like my friend are new over here, hence the question.

Thanks!
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Although this happens to be for April Fool's, the funny thing is Stanford already did this with their Pikes Peak Audi TTS race car http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/february1/shelley-pikes-p...
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The biggest problem I see with startups searching for designers is that many fundamentally misunderstand what design is all about. They see the job of folk with design/UX skills as simply making there product pretty. A nice logo, some good icons, etc.

Design/UX, like development, is a far deeper domain than that. Design/UX, like development, will significantly affect the business/product. Far too often I see recruitment for roles that are exploiting only a small subset of a good designers skill set - and those are naturally going to be hard positions to fill.

There are strong parallels to the issues non-technical founders have recruiting developers - when what they really need is a technical co-founder / CTO type role.
It's a good point. Even a great programmer can have trouble when moving in to a new language and work flow, and needs to ask for help. Or, some people new to programming could be extremely good in the future, but just need a little help to get going.
Would be nice to have a race of self driving cars only. With no human life at stake, the races could get pretty crazy!
http://www.reddit.com is setting a new standard.
Why would one disable Time Machine logal backups?
What is the license for ruhoh?

I know it is none of my business but if you are looking for opinions I would kindly say "please do not use "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - BY-NC-SA 3.0)." I wanted to use jeklybootstrap for my fledgling one man consulting shop but I could not because of the license....

EDIT/UPDATE:

I just saw this at the bottom of the ruhoh page:

"All my work is Unlicensed, Open and Free."

Its a little confusing seeing that the jb license says otherwise...
HN tie-in: Reed Morse, "lead engineer" for GMail Tap, is one of the founders of Punchd, a 500 Startups company which was acquired by Google last year.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166030
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Sorry, I was talking about two completely independent things in the same comment.

1) About the negative points for the downvoter
2) The concept of "fan-boy downvotes".
I don't understand why this gist has been created

Alas, so someone else can take credit for it with plausible deniability.
> But racing requires intense and constant concentration and quick reactions

Which is exactly what computer are great at. What they are terrible at is dealing with incomplete information.

A computer would actually make a great race car driver.
That scene in the video, of the driver looking very confused asking "So... you don't need me?". Got me thinking, that was probably the same scene when some record label executives heard about the internets for the first time.
"If you want a free e-mail service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free e-mail service."

Senator Franken: I've developed my own free e-mail service (AOL). Exporting from Google is WAY easier.
Yes, OOP is not clearly defined: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/oop.html
Still, surely everyone in the company should understand the overall company strategy and business model. If he points out there's a flaw in the business model, someone should be able to tell him why he's wrong or elevate it to the next level all the way to the CEO, who puts it straight once and for all or says holy shiza you're right it's time to pivot.
Good idea, destruction of evidence is surely the right answer here. Particularly when that evidence is recoverable.
Don't see why not. We were thinking of using the microphone so you could tap anywhere near/on the phone...
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"Users of This App Around Me" won't need to use Foursquare.
Great, thanks. Have they thought about hiring themselves to make the site friendlier to mobile browsers? If you know them, could you tell them please? I already did, but i guess coming from you the signal would be stronger. I had a hard time browsing on my phone.
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I'm not sure what I did but while messing with the settings at one point the top slider was bouncing back and forth like a pendulum. Chrome 17
Well as per my guess [dead] if submission has been killed by the editors. They're mostly spam and duplicates as per the FAQ.
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No, dude, that's just democracy.
Yeah sorry, actually I updated JB license to Unlicense shortly after I launched it. You are right, it was only because I didn't realize that Creative Commons prohibited commercial use that I chose it in the first place.

Jekyll Bootstrap, Ruhoh are completely 100% Unlicensed, or MIT or whatever is the most permissive license available.

I want you to use my work to benefit as much as you can Douglas, I'll even email you personally, waiving all rights for your own records. Just shoot me over your email.

I love Open Source and I don't want to restrict any body in any way. Thanks for pointing out this confusion!
Yeah, in terms of gaining users I think that learning a little bit of basic markdown formatting is very worthwhile. It only takes a few minutes to learn the important stuff (headings, bullets, code formatting, hyperlinks), and the knowledge will continue to pay off on future open source projects. (I am a recent convert from plaintext readme files, and am happy with the decision.)

Visually, having a decent README sets the project apart, and makes it look more "put together." Anecdotally, I can say that when I'm looking for a library to solve a particular problem, I'm probably going to stick around and read more about the repo that has beautiful markdown documentation, all else being equal. Maybe I'm just vain, though... :)
NASCAR would never go for it. NASCAR is all about the drivers (characters).
For reference, this is very similar to the animation OS X Mail.app uses to expand hidden quoted text.
That's nice.

In the mean time, tomorrow is the 1st of the month, remember to pay rent, utility bills, and credit card bills.

The "someone who is a dick is probably not someone I'd want to work with anyways" thought is correct, but it is a thought that practically no one out there in the real world actually enjoys. One has to realize that the current state of the software industry affords us the luxury of choosing our jobs out of many opportunities, instead of simply taking whatever we can get. We are extraordinary outliers in this respect, and it remains to be seen how long we can make this last.

The majority of people in this country (and abroad!) do not have such luxuries - I'm all for regulation here, because it seems like this is not something that will regulate itself.

[edit] Side thought: what's wrong with people? You see something you don't like on Facebook, you talk to that person like a reasonable human being. This passive aggressiveness pisses me right the hell off. We've become a society of cowards and snitches, so afraid of confrontation that we will hide behind a 3rd party whenever anything that displeases us happens.
It was created by the Tokyo office, so was launched on time for them. :)
...seriously? They happen once a year.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the ones with money have always made the rules.
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You seem to have found a weird comparison that I didn't intend in my comment. The point I was trying to make is that the man-made thing, water bottles, is better suited to our evolved hands than the natural thing, free-flowing water. Similarly, there is no reason why any food we made ourselves is likely to be worse for our evolved body than any food that was around when the digestive system evolved. That idea, that "paleo" foods are inherently better for us, feels right, but is ultimately fallacious. (I mean, some might turn out to actually be ideal, but it isn't deductively true in the way that many advocates want it to be.)
Looks like every little 4 man team of engineers at Google is making their own April Fools joke. I like it :)
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He basically said that if you're a little awkward, you have no business wearing a polo. Even when it's perfectly acceptable to. Even expected.

Are you doing business? Wear at least business-casual! I believe it shows disrespect if you don't. As if this meeting isn't important enough to you to change out of your every day t-shirt.
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It's a two-part joke:

1) The video talks about forking code, pair-programming with spooning, and knifing (pull requests): fork, spoon, and knife. I just wondered if they have a chopsticks version, for people who prefer using chopsticks.

2) Then I realized there is already a context that involves pairing and chopsticks: Chopsticks is a common piano duet. Of course, it doesn't have to be played by two people...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q_0N79afqU

(The video begins with the version you typically hear kids playing, but then, well, you have to watch!)
I find this Universal Blog API ( http://ruhoh.com/universal-blog-api/ ) quite interesting. And some file names like '20012-10-10-my-draft.md' seem to point to the year 20012? :)
Why would anyone be surprised that Franken would espouse a completely mainstream and widespread liberal position?
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