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It also doesn't work out for anyone working at tech startups that aren't funded by the VCs behind PandoDaily. That is the reason this is a Bad Thing, not "the reader is being poorly informed".
Congrats to Eric and team! This looks great! Epaper is a huge plus for outdoor use.
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"It's an adage in UX that when you see an interface that asks the user to customize the layout, it means the designers gave up trying to find the right solution themselves."

It's always depends on the app. If you have a tool where you primarily have heavy users e.g. a programmer's IDE - then customization makes sense. But in the case of Google+ I don't see the point either - it just adds extra complexity.
I hope Citrix will keep Podio as is, and integrate them well (just like HipChat).
Great work on the web emulator!

So--and forgive my ignorance here--is there actually a spec up for things like hardware interrupts, IDTs, trap vectors, whatever?

This all seems of limited utility until we know how the machine is actually structured.
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Bridging the gap between your code hosting and your application hosting.

And using the great deploy keys system to keep it secure.
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I dunno how the modern stuff works, but you don't need to get much simpler or open or easy to work with than the original LEGO Mindstorms. My introduction to programming was BASIC -> PERL -> JavaScript, all on the family PC, and then C on on the Hitachi 8-bit processor in the LEGO RCX. LEGO was very good about providing resources and documentation for working with the Mindstorms hardware, and enough simple tools were built around that that a 10-year-old could get set up to, e.g., run a FORTH environment on the RCX using a PC as a terminal in half an afternoon for free. And then you get to build your own six-legged robot...

I credit this exposure to 8-bit low-level programming at a young age for my easy experience in computer architecture and operating systems classes later on.
I don't see the link between your first two lines and the third. How are they "tapping into" your phone? You do realise that your phone has a phone number?
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Taken from the README: "It's a bit ridiculous at the time as there aren't any permissions at the time". I understand that Meteor is hot cake, but we've given up as programmers, right?
Whats with all the weird antisemitic stuff on your test blog?
> every Meteor app already has an API :) Your Meteor client can connect to any other Meteor server by calling Meteor.connect()

What about a non-Meteor client connecting to a Meteor server? Does that client have to understand DDP, or is that what you mean by "we could map DDP to REST" - there's no support for non-DDP clients now, but it's planned?

The latency compensation and Meteor.call() interface sound great, but what I understood by the GP's question about an API was "how can other clients besides mine talk to my app?".
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We've just launched our new, three-headed API (part of which is an
open WebSocket server) and we'd like to thank this community for the
all the help, feedback and inspiration. Ducksboard launched as a Show
HN and countless hours that should've been dedicated to developing the
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yay!)

For the next 24 hours we're giving away free, full-featured plans to
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These plans will always be free, but we can't promise we won't try to
upsell you along the way, or add juicy new features and put them in
paid-only plans :)

If you're curious about the API, the docs are at
http://dev.ducksboard.com/ and there's a short blog post about it at
http://blog.ducksboard.com/2012/04/introducing-the-ducksboard-api/

Thanks, HN!
One of the cool things about the website is the ease of forking snippets.

When the Word of Notch gave information on how input would work, previous code written using alternative schemes broke.

The snake game, http://0x10co.de/cdbk1, was one of these programs. However, it wasn't too long before people started hacking on it and started forking the code. Here's a version at the bottom of the fork tree:

http://0x10co.de/hbcdo

One draw back is that the newer versions don't show up on the top programs page (since people find out about the original first, and the fixes later) and give the illusion that website doesn't work properly.
Another higher level and more useful use of the ?: operator is to set const values

const int bytesPerPixel = haveAlphaChannel() ? 4 : 3;

This is useful for optimizating compilers - the more values in a function you can make const the better it can do. And is especially useful for parallel code like OMP/TBB
Well, the main point of that article seems to be that once someone has been overweight for an extended period of time, it becomes really hard to get to and stay at a lower weight.

So, yes, it suggests that an increase in physical activity isn't an "easy" solution. However, I don't think it affects the point the article is making. People don't wake up to find themselves obese one day. It takes some time and effort to get there. And I would argue one of the biggest impacts on gaining weight is a lack of physical activity.

Not to mention that from my experience, avoiding physical activity has a self-enforcing effect. The more you avoid moving around, the more you want to avoid moving around.
Really cool to show off some of Meteors stuff, but...

Within 10 seconds my page was flooded with links directing me to conspiracy websites about 9/11 and people of the Jewish faith.

We've got some class-acts here on HN
I found a Nexus phone, and a Droid Razor phone the past few months. Didn't even try to see if I could use it with T-Mobile. I was just glad I got a couple of free Androids with different screen resolutions to test my app.
I am a part of that audience and it's not anti-Facebook, but anti-(intrusively-social), which includes G+. Perhaps even at a higher spot than Facebook.
We're doing everything ourselves now, and it's taking more time every week. We'll see how things evolve, but since we're only two devs, we might have to do something about that at some point.
Xvideos feeds up 4.4 billion page views per month (10 times than NYT)
Rebuilding the source packages should be easy enough, just loop over the .dsc urls and run dget -x; sudo mk-build-deps -i; debuild; sudo debi. pbuilder and sbuild also work for cross-builds, but I didn't get the hang of cross-building entire package graphs.
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>Still pretty pointless though, since substitution ciphers are child's play to break. //

It's an interesting result that probably hasn't been considered by most people.

Also, child's play is big business.
Two things that keep us from going on Android today:

- We've been porting/optimizing for the last 5 months, we'd like to code a few features :)

- Android fragmentation is scary
"this is nothing short of revolutionary."

Oh FFS, this is not revolutionary. It is an attempt to wrap things in a friendlier package, while at the same time making something horribly insecure as a default install. Ruby on Rails did that a long time ago.

Better examples of revolutionary:

Manned Flight:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

In computers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#First_general-purpose_...

Or even in programming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)

Try not to throw words like "revolutionary" around.
For me, the problem with G+ is that you can't fine-tune the signal:noise ratio enough.

In a nutshell, Facebook is a network of people I know first IRL, so getting pictures of their dinner last night or latest cat's antics and other useless stuff I can sort of live with, it goes with the territory.

But G+ is more like Twitter with longer posts - I follow a a lot of people I don't know IRL, but only because of a shared interest, and I'm only interested in their posts on that interest, not the other noise.

Whereas pointless posts on Twitter are only 140 characters, don't take up much screen real estate, and are easy to skim and/or skip, that's less the case with G+. I really want a way in G+ to filter out posts by those people that don't have anything to do with the shared interest.

For example, if I create a "Functional Programming" circle and subscribe to a bunch of Haskell, Ocaml, ML, Lisp, and Scheme programmers that I don't know IRL, I'm really not interested in their vacation photos and whatnot. But currently there's no way to filter their vacation photo posts from their posts on functional programming.

An effective 90% solution would be to simply add hash tag filtering to circles, so I can instruct my Functional Programming circle to only accept posts with #functional, #functionalprogramming, #haskell, #ocaml, #ml, #lisp, #scheme, and block anything else without at least one of those hash tags in it.

Not quite perfect, and G+'ers would have to develop the habbit of using hashtags more than they currently do, but it's functional and flexible enough and provides the tools necessary for the community to solve this problem themselves.

This is my biggest G+ pain point, and while I have nothing negative to say about the redesign (it's nice), as long as it doesn't solve this one problem, it will do nothing to get me using G+ more (I check in about 2 or 3 times a week currently).
That's an irresponsible thing to say. Tsunamis can be caused by a variety of different phenomena. Certainly direct vertical displacement of the sea floor is the most direct way, but underwater landslides especially on the flanks of seamounts are capable of creating massive tsunamis as well. And the latter can come about due to any variety of shaking.
Someone from the HN community (or wherever else this has been put up) is flooding the blog with it.

I'd doubt this guy built the site to showoff Meteor AND his own agenda of hate, but you never know...
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We're doing it completely internally, no rebranding. At least for the current, base offering: compute, object storage, images, block storage. (there may be some rebranded or joined services from other companies in the future, CDN part is kind of doing that with Akamai)
Nice as a demo, but javascript-based/one-page/rich-client apps seem quite the overkill for a blog. Does meteor have any provisions for more static pages, or would that conflict with the pub-sub architecture?
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Isn't a large problem with ISP's the last mile, fiber or cable, which is very expensive? This is purely wireless? I have a 15Mb cable connection for $50 month (after taxes). FIOS is $30 more. Will he partner with these physical carriers or purely go wireless?
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'Flashback' Prompts Apple to Develop Second Antimalware Tool. Ever
I don't have an iphone or android and don't really plan on it. Obviously I can talk to it via bluetooth with my laptop or whatever, but does this thing need to be in constant proximity to a device; ie is it basically just a dumb terminal?
Build a site that doesn't have security, then start an egg-timer to see who wants to troll it first.

Sorry. :'(
This is a really neat demo! That said, wouldn't this be extraordinarily inaccessible to users employing screen-reading software? They'd "hear" a jumble of characters.
To paraphrase something Neil DeGrasse Tyson said to Richard Dawkins: If you want to change someone's opinion about something, you need to be sensitive to the state of mind of the person you're trying to convince.

Bashing and negativity is not the way to do it.

You'll get much farther showing a PHP person something more interesting (whether it be Rails, Django, or whatever) and highlighting all the cool things about it. Because that person will not be on the defensive, his/her mind will be way more likely to have that 'Wow, that's so cool I should try it' moment.
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no one has no wide screen
Can I ask where you seeing are the best response from? We launched yesterday and we're only two people too.
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Is there anywhere you used {{{ in handlebars? This could be a real problem if people start inserting javascript.
HP deploys 6200 MacBook Air running Windows XP. Issues arise.
This looks really cool but I'm so very confused about it being a kickstarter. Is this basically operating as a store front or are you still in the fund raising stage?
I agree, and a friend of mine actually had a working Chrome extension to support filtering by tags (implemented as hashtags, but transparently, so if you had the plugin it rendered the tags in a prettier way.)

Unfortunately his only takeaway from the experience was that designing extensions for chrome was really hard, and stuff kept breaking. He eventually gave up, IIRC.
No, you nailed it. My personal hate agenda would be targeted at traffic in DC.
Slow down. You're strawmaning really badly here. Neither did I say that the correlation was "exclusive" to Apple owners. I said (read carefully this time) that the perception that Google has been doing things worthy of heavy criticism ("turned evil", etc...) is unique to the community of technical Apple users (and that this community heavily overlaps the one here). Outside that echo chamber, even in highly technical communities, it doesn't exist. So I argue that it's a social artifact, not a reflection of Google's behavior.
I got it for one account, not for another one. Must be kind of progressive.
I graduated in 2010 with a ECE degree and learned all of this. Essentially all of that material is covered in CMU's 15-213 "Introduction to Computer Systems", which is taken by a huge proportion of the undergrad CS & ECE program.

It looks like book from the course, which covers all of that material, is pretty widely used, too:
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/adoptions.html

However, my first job out of college was doing low-level optimization at a cellular silicon provider, but now I work on the web since it seems like most hardware companies are bigger and have more suburban locations (neither of which is my preference), and if you're working hardware you can't work remotely. Hardware companies also aren't necessarily the best software organizations.
Actually unless you're doing something very tightly connected to one single service, there's a number of libraries you can use which will give you a nice abstraction.

There was also some reverse-proxy which "normalises" your requests for a given provider presented on Fossdem this year, but I can't recall the name.
Even though one can't reliably predict how to take down facebook, it's great to see google keep trying to lash at it.

Historically, no tech company stays in the #1 spot for more than a decade. That doesn't mean Facebook won't be around in 10 years, but it does show how volatile the tech market can be.

XBox was viewed as a joke but they kept at it with their cash machine, and now they're successful.

Dreamcast was awesome but they didn't have the cash to keep at it and had to throw in the towel.

If google keeps at it, they'll sink or swim, but you have to be persistent to try to take that share.

Personally, I think google hires at a far more talented tech pool. They're doing things like VR glasses and automatic parking cars while facebook makes a big deal about integrating with Skype. So the talent is there. The money is there. The marketing is there.

We'll see how this plays out. I'm excited to see the outcome.
It'll serve static media, if that's what you're asking.

Otherwise, it's only about 15 lines of Javascript and a couple of Mustache templates. Perhaps you and I have different ideas of 'overkill'.
Its funny that the people who use the world liberal mean something completly diffrent of what it meant 100 years ago. They call themselfs libertarians now. FDP and simular parties often use state power to help spezial intresst groupes, witch means that they help businesses but they do not help the economy.
good luck. this site exists to enable the business practices of "tech" entrepreneurs and investors. gossip and fluff, as you call them, are necessary to hype the various start-ups or the skills and personalities of the teams involved. you need to smile all the time and ignore the little voice in the back of your head that says "we do not need another way to share photos."
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I still think SocketStream is the next big thing. The 0.3 release is moving along well and I have had fantastic success with it. The features touted by Meteor seem to already exist in SocketStream (template choice, server/client push/pull, DB choice) besides the "no server code part". It also works very well on Windows of course.
Clickable:

https://app.ducksboard.com/signup/hn/

http://dev.ducksboard.com/

http://blog.ducksboard.com/2012/04/introducing-the-ducksboar...
Good point. I just de-triplestached the site and redeployed.
I think it depends on perspective. If you are working for a tech startup, it's The Reason. If you a reader, it's not. I figure there are a lot more readers than there are startup employees.
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Funny Idea.
Would have been nice though to have little Mictosite with an optimized viewer for this story. :-)
Expect a flood of competitions as US tries to spur public inventions
I think it's important to note the OP's beef is apparently with TechCrunch EU, not with the "US" version of TechCrunch we all know and love/loathe.

As far as I know, eu.techcrunch.com is magnitudes smaller than techcrunch.com.

EDIT: Looks like they folded eu.techcrunch.com into the main site at some point (after writing about eNovella, before writing about Jottify?).

eNovella post on TechCrunch: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/enovella-gives-aspiring-...

Jottify post on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/07/techcrunch-tv-three-startup...

Other reasons that could explain the low referral traffic: the eNovella post was very brief (and, again, on the European site at the time) while the Jottify mention was literally only one sentence in a brief post that also included 2 other startups.

EDIT2: Just noticed the author of the TechCrunch post on eNovella, Milo Yiannopoulos, is now the Editor-in-Chief of the OP site, "The Kernel" (and author of the 'editor's pick' article at the top of the right sidebar).

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's a hatchet job on his former employer. Either way, I think it should merit a disclosure in the OP's article, no?

http://www.kernelmag.com/editorial-staff/
I guess I didn't phrase my question clearly. Perhaps I should ask how does the value of a user on a Facebook app differ (qualitatively and quantitatively) from a mobile app user?
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I'm not affiliated with the Meteor dev team, but as I understand it, we're only a couple weeks away from having data security.

Other than that, Meteor looks like about the most awesome thing I've seen since Django, so I wanted to play with it.

Yes though, I have to concede that this demo is effectively useless in any meaningful sense of the word as, best case scenario is that users add anti-semitic remarks, and worst case is somewhere between inserting malicious JS and deleting all the posts.
Texas Instruments was selling the eZ430-Chronos for $25 the other day, it sold out. http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos , http://tideals.com/

It doesn't have bluetooth so this watch has an upper hand, but the chronos has a data transceiver for firmware upgrade, communication with health monitors and interfacing to the PC through an included RF dongle, along with xyz accelerometers , pressure for altimeter and temperature sensor. It's completely programmable with a provided IDE or msp430-gcc if you feel so inclined.

One of the models has 433MHz frequency which can, for instance, allow you to interface with many remote controlled devices (garage door).

On the link above and on youtube you can find a ton of videos with demonstrations.

I managed to scoop one for me and posted the daily deal on HN a few days ago, but it didn't gather much interest :)
This link makes some sense of it: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/03/why-dojs-potential-l...

It isn't the agency model that is the problem, it is how the Apple et al. coerced/enabled the publishers to price-fix and then allowed/enabled the publishers to impose that price fixing on Amazon. I still don't exactly understand why Apple and Google are being sued and not the publishers.

[edit] It is Apple and five publishers according to the WSJ: "Three of the publishers have agreed to settle, according to court documents. Those are Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Under the settlement, those publishers will terminate any agreement they have with Apple regarding electronic books." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444460457733... [/edit]

Money quote:

Along comes Apple and the iPad. Steve Jobs talked the publishers into the agency model - publishers set their own prices and they get 70% of the proceeds.

[...]

Publishers then turned around and imposed that agency deal on Amazon, which is the subject of the DOJ investigation [the agency model, not Amazon - gvb]. The end result: There really is more competition in the e-book world, but prices are higher than they likely would be if Amazon and others were able to discount as they saw fit.
Relevant? GoToMeeting is #2 in enterprise online meeting software, right after Webex.
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According to their blog, it runs C programs (written with an SDK they'll release) on a built-in ARM Cortex-M3, so it seems to be more than a dumb terminal: http://www.getpebble.com/blog/2012/04/10/pebble-sdk/
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Hah.

This does underscore the importance of them baking security into this framework properly, but I wouldn't let it detract from my overall excitement over Meteor itself
With some pull requests, I've encountered the "probably should have emailed the list" and the "here's the style guide" in a single pull request.

As a maintainer, however, I'm far more lenient in these things. If someone takes the time to fix a bug or add a neat new feature in something I maintain, I'm greatful for it, and I'm not going to get anal about the pull request. If there's something about it I find needs changing, I'll accept the pull request and fix it myself (with a few exceptions), and inform the contributor of the changes I've made, why I made them.

I'd rather not make pull requests be an exercise in frustration for the contributor[1]. Usually, you want more people to help with your project, and frustrating your contributors isn't a good way to encourage that.

[1] I say this as someone who, with one pull request, spent several hours over a few days trying to get a 15-line change accepted (about 10 of which were comment lines), with lots of debate over the most of the requested changes being anal things like "add a space after the comma, remove a space after the =". I was damn near the end of my rope and ready to just say "fuck it, if you don't want my fix, don't take it, I'll just maintain my own fork."