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I was thinking the same thing.

The real interesting part is that the AppleTV would surely be an ARM platform and Valve are exclusively an Intel platform. Given the price point it could easily be both.

I agree that being compatible with whatever hardware Valve is making would be pretty awesome.
Well, donations to Disapora were never really marketed as "Pay $x, get this thing Y in return," while a lot of Kickstarter products do exactly this.
Apparently it's exactly like SGI InPerson, without the 3D model sharing and 15 years later :) Actually it looks pretty neat and it's great that we finally have all features from my Indy on modern systems :)
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i assume the service is a social page annotation embeddable script they they allow others to embed. this is a kid of demo.
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A couple of weeks ago, my friends and I built a word game during a hackathon and got a great reception from people who played it. Previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3750068
My friends have cleaned up a lot of the UI and the code, and have published it under a new name. It uses now.js in the backend, and is all html5/js. Let me know what you think!

The game works well on mobile devices too. iPad has the best experience :)
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I posted some stuff above, but I am not sure how accessible it is for someone without a Machine Learning/NLP background. Maybe the Hinton Google talk is not too bad.

Here is another Google Talk (not really a recent development, though):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7704388615049492068...

He is claiming that is missing for computers to understand humans is common sense in the form of a big ontology (database of relations between entities). I don't really agree that this is right approach, but might be interesting for you nonetheless.
Yeah... About that...
http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
My school's class selection system sucked. So I built a new one.

Done in Python / Django.
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Thanks for writing OrientDB! - I tried it, but I was pressed for time, so I needed something that more or less worked instantly for my requirements - which in the end was elasticsearch.

TL;

I researched MongoDB and OrientDB for a side-project with a bit heavy data structure (10M+ docs, 800+ fields on two to three levels). MongoDB was blazingly fast, but it segfaulted somewhere in the process (also index creation needs extra time and isn't really ad-hoc). OrientDB wasn't as fast and a little harder to do the initial setup but the inserting speed was ok - for a while (500k docs or so) and then it degraded. I also looked at CouchDB, but I somehow missed the ad-hoc query infrastructure.

My current solution, which works nice for the moment is elasticsearch; it's fast - and it's possible to get a prototype from 0 to 10M docs in about 50 minutes - or less, if you load balance the bulk inserts on a cluster - which is so easy to setup it's scary - and then let a full copy of the data settle on each machine in the background.

Disclaimer - since this is a side project, I did only minimal research on each of the technologies (call it 5 minute test) and ES clearly won the first round over both MongoDB and OrientDB.
You are thinking in terms of positive outcomes, although a failure is much more likely.

When you join a startup for a typical early stage employee equity (2% or less), never put any monetary value for shares. It's likely worth is 0 and even in the case of a small acquisition, the amount you earn doesn't change your life in a big way (I was an employee in a founding team of a startup that was acqui-hired by Google) - you can earn similar amounts in a more straight-forward way as a hardworking consultant. All the other positive acquisition outcomes are such outliers that it doesn't make sense to estimate their likelihood.

That said, you can learn a lot about running a startup by joining one, and it's a good chance to build a good network of people. Raising angel money, getting advisors etc. will be easier if you already are known in your local startup scene.

Also, although I encourage people to start their own companies, it's much harder than you think. It's more fulfilling than being an employee, but it's hard. I'm currently running a "failed" bootstrapped startup, that we had to changed in to a consulting house and planning what to do next.
wave is a good tool, though they do complain about scripts, which can pretty much be ignored now days. Run in on HN and it will give you an idea of what it does http://wave.webaim.org/ http://www.webnauts.net/check.html also has some tools but their browser emulation is dated. That being said the automated tools are good for double checking your work but nothing will replace the need for downloading a reader like JAWS and going through your site. If you look at my other post in this story it gives some development type links. As for colorblind, I don't know, I am color blind so I get our free on that one, my sites are already accessible to the colorblind. The big offense on that one is always make sure you back up color coding with some other type of system such as a number or icon system.
I like how it runs 'C:/DOS/BBS/GOOGLE/google.com'

:) .COM was (on of?) DOS executable file extension(s) - before .EXE...
Remember that the processors also tried sterilization via gamma radiation to prevent E. coli and botulism and other nasties. That was met with just as much resistance due to image-vs-science. The meat wouldn't be any more radioactive than the food coming out of your microwave, but just saying "radiation" did it in.
was just about to post this.

Source maps are coming to coffeescript and will solve this. this article doesn't mention them.
Would be interesting to see high scalability post for this month from them.
Nope. With "the way we express our ideas online" I was actually trying to mean writing and blogging. Should I reword?
One thing I found from my experience as a team lead (and which is somewhat touched on in this article), is that sometimes, because team members never get a whiff of all of the deflected things that never reached them, the more critical will sometimes get the opinion that you're doing nothing at all other than acting as a pipe.

I vividly recall one incident where I passed along an urgent UAT issue to a self-styled "hot shot" developer, who responded (with cc's) that he was entirely too busy, and that "if I had two hands I could do it myself".. since I was "obviously not busy as I hadn't had many commits lately". Meanwhile, I was two hours into a client call negotiating turning functionality requests into deadline shifts, was simultaneously trying to triage a production issue to see if it was our problem or the client's problem, and had 50+ emails from developers and clients just from that day still un-responded to.. yeah, silent evidence is a bitch.

I do have to agree, however, that moving back to development released a lot of stress for me. It's far less stressful thinking about whether or not I can get something done as opposed to wondering whether 15 other people are going to be able to get something done..
$ puts "US military developing #{Faker::Company.catch_phrase}"
Lifehacker is a great example:

- click search, it drops down a search bar without reloading the page. Fast, nice.

- actually do the search - updates in place.

- on the sidebar, no reload for switching between "most popular" and "latest"

- ok lets read an article. Ah, selecting one loads the article into the pane, so I dont lose my place in the search on the side - lovely.

- Commenting: done in line, has inline font selection, I can include a picture or URL. Very nice experience.

- Oh, and 2 of my friends read lifehacker according to their Facebook plugin. Interesting - I didnt know they read that, I must mention it to them.
Spring is in the air--it's resignation time. The abysmal enslavement of family life never appealed to me. For that reason I never got married and never had kids. (I have a cat though.) Worked for a decade supporting other people's research--tremendous error. A new non-technical VP was hired (he is an ABD in math, I have a Ph.D. in math--a source of tension between us). A year ago the non-technical VP hired a smug, platitudinous non-technical director, whom he installed over two directors. I was one of them. Since directors could not report to directors, our titles and job descriptions were downgraded. I abruptly resigned. During the exit interview, the head of HR wanted to know why I was leaving. I reminded her that she was cc'd on the restructuring memo, which stated that my title had changed from director to Zweiter Beauftragter für Administrative Fragen, that the position no longer reflected my education, interests and ability and that I had been immobilized under an incontinent rhinoceros. I jumped to what I thought was a research position...but I won't describe the often mutually undermining responsibilities the position actually entails. It's still superior to the Bolshevist ITIL-addled regime I left, though the article inspires aspiration to something greater...
Existing advertising solutions are, but it's a business that most good developers/designers/product people don't want to touch, so it continues to be shitty. I've been following Adzerk for a little while and wish my workplace could try them out, but I don't get to make those decisions. Still, I've long thought writing a non-shitty ad server is sort-of noble and interesting, so I'm hoping they continue to be successful.

Advertising is a mess and most of it is terrible and the problematic mindsets that have made it that way are pervasive... but what I see there is a ton of hard problems and it will be smart, entrepreneurial people that attack those problems.

Also: money
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That was my inspiration for this site.
I'd imagine this was to combat making guns readily available that would bypass metal detectors. Just because there weren't any planed at the time, forsight may have been enough to avoid that situation? /speculation
Can you put a direct link to your site on your blog?
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Any advice for a guy with a risk-adverse wife and not enough money in the bank to go the startup route, but who does secretly want to get fired? Also, the company I work at is quite nice, it's just the job I'm doing isn't what I love. But I don't know if I like large corporate life very well and I do know that I like small company environment. Startup environment maybe (difference between small vs. startup is urgency and energy).

My current manager convinced me, last time I asked, to stay through current project completion. He gave me a raise and promised raving reviews. He also says I should definitely stay in the company. So I have an easy career path. I just don't know that I want it. Actually, I'm pretty sure I don't want it, but I won't know that until I try the other way, I just don't have the money in the bank to afford the other way.

Sorry about personal sidetracking. Great post, and certainly made me think about my situation again. At the very least, the mindset of "Fire Me, I Beg You" can be a great bargaining tool.
Limited in several ways: total bandwidth, independence, number of routes, and latency.

Australia is a long way from anywhere. It's closest technical neighbor is NZ, but by several measures, that's tiny. Among the benefits AU has is that it's relatively close to India and the Philippines, both of which share a fair bit of language and culture (Commonwealth / US protectorate).
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I am a schemaless believer.

BUT (big BUT) have you ever tried to program to a schema that has a XML blob? It's really difficult and painfully slow on the app side. The ops guys like it, because it's easy for them to maintain.
I don't have a friend. I was that person just 6 months ago. I cannot agree more with MDCore about taking time to rest and decompress. That said, one of the ways you fully rest is having a plan. In my case I was fortunate enough to have a job lined up as soon as I quit. But it's not necessary. Focus on the plan. The plan could be "figure out what to do." The plan could be "do a start up." Whatever it is, plan to rest for a few months. If future employers ask about the gap, just say you were doing a start up, and use the start up to sharpen your skills. Everyone gets the bubble is going on, and everyone you would want to work for will understand.

The startup shouldn't be stressful. It shouldn't be about making money. It should be something that you enjoy and that lets you return to yourself.

I am in a much, much better place now, and a big reason for that was rest. I cannot emphasize it enough. It's much, much more important that you rest for a few months than worry about what's next. Give yourself permission to do so.

(Related post, it took 5 months just to write about my experience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3704261)
well, actually it runs 'C:\DOS\BBS\GOOGLE\google.com'. I forgot how DOS uses backslash instead of forward slash in paths...
Looks like you can get <unicode>.tk domain names, anyone want 🏩.tk? https://img.skitch.com/20120413-b67rwn29c4aydc73jyt3jfwsnk.j...
Seems like they've had this idea for a while, between their previous PS3 integration and their take on supporting televisions via Steamworks:

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/thebigpicture.php
Okay, so we've discovered the problem. You had a situation, where an attorney told you that you had no remedy at law for some privacy breach, and you've turned that into "any new law that eliminates privacy protections doesn't do anything because I already don't have any privacy". I don't think that was a good life lesson to have learned.

ECPA says service providers can access data "as may be necessarily incident to the rendition of the service or to the protection of the rights or property of the provider of that service;". This is an narrow exception intended to make it legal for a sysadmin, doing legitimate work, to tail a mail queue or something like that.

CISPA grabs that exception with both hands and does a goatse.cx on it. I think there's a big big difference between allowing providers access to data necessary for providing the service, and eliminating ALL civil and criminal liability for giving your data to, well, just about anyone, for just about any reason.

Again, CISPA is intended to legalize the wholesale sharing of your online activities FROM Google/Facebook/Verizon/etc. TO the MPAA/RIAA/Media Defender/government/etc., based on any tangible connection to the integrity of any online service (spamming? too many comments on HN? That's a-sharin'!) or any sort of copyright/trademark/trade secret infringement claim. That simply isn't legal today.
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> I think you're turning this too corporate too soon.

That may or may not be, only time will tell. The important thing is to be up front about it, though. There are advantages and disadvantages to companies in something like this: often they can move faster than someone working part time, and they're probably going to be friendlier to those who need support for their own commercial endeavors (anyone remember the famous "fuck you" slide from DHH?).

There are certainly downsides too (I'm not really interested in GPL code if I can help it), but it's theirs to decide. The only thing I want is for them to be up front about what's what.
Having developed and released something under the GPL a long time ago, I am not anti-GPL, but that doesn't mean I'm not wary of it.

> Obviously you want to release only code that will help you code less in the future

No, I want to release code other people might find useful.

> ie: let others maintain feature X for FREE for us

This sounds naive. Virtually nobody writes a library then abandons it when other people start helping out.

> don't give them what MATTERS

"What matters" is highly subjective and different to different people. What matters to Twitter is the userbase and user experience. So they open-source their database stuff, Bootstrap, and a plethora of other things. And why not?

It's not hypocritical. The GPL was critical to the fight against closed OSes and the closed tools that made writing software essentially limited and pay-to-program.

My view of open-source and programming in general is that there are many things that programming can help you do. More often than not, these are the same things. The more programmers can help each other to spend more time writing things that are great, the better off we all are.

The GPL fights proprietary software, but for things that are not products on their own, but are designed to be a component of or integrated into other products, it can also fight other programmers as well. I use GPL software, but I don't use GPL libraries or frameworks. (The LGPL is less selfish - the whole software ecosystem doesn't need to open for it to play its part, but the library damn well stay open.)
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This is so true. Once got a 10k raise, and while it definitely made me less unhappy, it still didn't mask the fact that my boss was a moron and I was never going to get what I wanted out of the job.

Problem is that I cared for far too long...I don't know any other way.
You might prefer Ghostery + Adblock instead. That'll remove what you dislike without breaking the web.
I'm here to assume you are being sarcastic!
he.net deserves a mention too. rumor has that it is bit less sucky than sixxs.
This is just ridiculous nonsense.

Everyone who actually uses a Mac knows that the App Store is completely optional and can be deleted. So I fail to see how Apple could force Steam to hand over ANY money.
We were running running MongoDB atop EC2 instances. We chose to back MongoDB with EBS because that was the only reasonable way to get base backups (via snapshots) of the database. Although 10gen recommends using replica sets for backup, we also wanted a way to durably backup our database since there was so much important data in it (user accounts, billing, and so on).

On the other hand, we run PostgreSQL straight on top of a RAID of ephemeral drives, which has had good throughput compared to EBS so far. The reason we're able to do this is because PostgreSQL provides a mechanism for doing base backups safely without having to snapshot the disk[1]. Therefore, we just do an S3 base backup of our entire data (which uploads at 65 MB/s from within EC2) fairly infrequently, while doing WAL shipping very frequently.

[1]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html
Actually, they were reacting to a patented design and the announced intention to manufacture such weapons:

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/10/05/what-happened-...
"the only reason for the outcry is an emotional reaction to what it looks like before it's mixed with the ground beef."

Not true. The reason for a lot of people is the expectation that food is minimally processed. When I buy I steak, I have an expectation that it is literally a cut out of a cow.

This expectation is far larger in Europe than in the US, however it's the same expectation.

I buy a meat product, I am getting a natural thing. The only reason it wasn't an issue before is no one knew. There was no proper labeling.

So simply label things as they are with all the processed parts. Then you will know if there is a real issue with the public.

The refusal to label things is because there will be an outrage, and if people want to refuse to eat pink slime out of their own concerns, that is there choice.

I don't get the minimization of this. You act like this isn't a reasonable choice, it is.

You can choose a different direction, but there should be explicit labeling so we all have that choice.
CoffeeScript is not a language. It's a compiler to make JavaScript look like Ruby. Just like the superfluous idea of "semicolons are optional because of a design error", it's personal style.

Be sure not to whine, though, when the abstraction leaks and your code breaks.
You don't have to sue someone for every papercut offense they give. However, overall, if that person deals a million papercuts with no legal cover then someone may win a class action suit against them, or the government (EU at least in cases of privacy) will intervene and shut them down.
I've stared to dive in to Clojure over the last week, and I have been looking at how to implement an async WebSocket server.

It seems the Clojure way is to use something like Aleph (https://github.com/ztellman/aleph, http://blip.tv/clojure/zach-tellman-aleph-a-framework-for-as...), which is a library that implements channels like Go; however, Go's channels are first-class constructs built into the language.
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Thanks for all the feedback, guys. I take it all to heart and it's all appreciated. Hopefully you'll like what's to come!
Before cigarette companies didn't say smoking was bad for your health, and more people smoked.

Once it was labeled and clear, less people smoked.

Clearly labeling allows people the information to make choices, which is why labeling is such an issue of contention with corporations who profit off additions that customers might avoid.
That's what many hoped when they announced their previous Mac Gaming push. But nothing much has come of that.

It was likely behind Steam being ported to the Mac, so it wasn't nothing. But that move hasn't borne nearly as much fruit as one might have hoped.

And the continued existence of the performance gap between OSX and win7 via bootcamp is not a good thing. Apple needs to take a much more proactive position on correcting that. Maybe the problem is with drivers, maybe it's missing frameworks, maybe it's third party developers starting with directx and not following through with an OpenGL port. Whatever it is, they ought to put more effort into correcting it.
One of the big ones I can think of is that the web is becoming a system of platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Google etc. are all platforms, when I build web application it is almost guaranteed that my app will be a JavaScript based UI that couples those platforms services into a work flow with my own platform in some novel way. The way we build apps is changing they are becoming UI's that front end the cloud where the cloud is an assortment of services that provide data and content from different sources. JavaScript is a key enabler in the new web as a platform.
At first it looked like this was going to be one of those silly slideshows with no real meat, but each item is a more detailed article. An example of the "chunking" of information it discusses. Ironically the front page introducing the article doesn't do anywhere near justice to the content that follows.
I agree that people have a right to know what is going into their food, and that the way this has sort of hidden (in a half-assed way) from the public is wrong.

But I disagree that that's why people are upset about it. If McDonald's had a note on their ads that said "made of 5% dog meat", people would be just as angry.

Actually, euthanized animals from shelters are often rendered down to turn into gelatin and other basic chemical components that then find their way into cosmetics and food products. This is, of course, a good thing by any measure other than "ick" factor (the alternative is raising and killing more animals, after all) so I do not long for the outrage that will eventually come when people find out they've probably eaten dog gelatin.