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Web Application Development Canada
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Carbon Cost of a Google Search
Vehicle Wraps and Car wraps
Infinite Wraps vehicle graphics specializes in providing high impact visual solutions in the form of car wraps.
In revision control systems, the "Who changed this line last and when?" is called "blame", so in fact, you are looking for "blame". :)
The issues that government agencies have with drugs are (1) blackmail potential and (2) risk behavior.

To maintain a drug habit, one usually needs a relationship with a dealer, and drug dealers (in addition to being criminals) are generally pretty awful people. So, if you're a regular illegal drug user, there's someone out there who is (a) committing a serious crime, (b) probably of bad moral character, and (c) knows that you've done something illegal. Although it's extremely unlikely that a drug dealer is going to blackmail his clients into revealing state secrets, putting oneself into such a position is taken as a sign of bad judgment.

The second issue with drug use (as pertains to the psychedelics, most of which are not illegal, e.g. salvia) is the risk attitude it shows. Drug use is taken as an indicator for how a person handles low-frequency risks with very high loss potential. Since no one who hasn't used psychedelics can understand their subjective effects and risks, a person who takes a mind-altering drug is undertaking at least an epistemic risk of blowing out his mind. There's obviously a valid philosophical debate regarding how the risks of drug use compare to those of other pleasurable activities (sex, skydiving) and, frankly, I don't think psychedelic drug use is worse, from a cost/benefit perspective, than a host of "normal", socially acceptable human behaviors. However, the psychological risk inherent in drug use is taken by government agencies to be fairly singular: people who die in skydiving accidents don't present a risk of revealing state secrets or creating image problems for government agencies.
Almost always, as the comments let me decide whether I should bother reading the actual link at all.
I'm not sure, I think the Pre and the new Palm OS has a lot going for it. HTML/JS-based apps are possibly a weakness, but I couldn't say without looking further at how they integrate. As for "late to the party" - no. The "mobile phones as first class devices" party is only just getting started. Good luck, Palm.
I find irony in "your a genius."
Yeah, it seems more a 'home device'... but they have to call it something ;) I like the idea. Roll on Android devices!
A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 5: constraints
Am I looking at the right video? That kid did not look amazing.
So a deregulation failing proved libertarianism right?

Libertarianism is like prayer. If it works, the religion is right. If it doesn't, you did something wrong and it's right.
Zimbabwe belongs to the top African countries in terms of [...] education

Zimbabwe does not seem to be listed in the recent TIMSS data. http://nces.ed.gov/timss/table07_3.asp Where are you getting your information from?

This TIMSS page shows 1992 reading-score data for 14-year-olds for Nigeria (401), Zimbabwe (372), and Botawana (330):

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d96/d96t402.asp
Obama's big idea: Digital health records
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22blac...

Heh.
Web app that costs:

212,000 employees
"$75 billion to $100 billion over the ten years they think the hospitals would need to implement program. "
Do I make any sense?

Yes, I like your suggestion personally. It's not terribly difficult to copy/paste links. However, when it's clear the link is non-spammy, it would be more convenient to make it clickable, and it would probably help the site owner somewhat to see where the referrers are coming from.
Any time you're surprised at how often people read the comments, go read a few YouTube comments.

I like that I can be wrong or disagreeable here without getting called names. And that folks who know way more than me will show up and say stuff on the topics I'm curious about.
Gamasutra - Postmortem: Mommy's Best Games' Weapon of Choice
I think I have WADD
There has to be something to the "too little too late" shortcoming. Does Palm actually have enough money to market this thing? Blackberry seemed to dump a LOT of money into advertising for the Storm. If that's what is needed to actually gain consumer's attention, then Palm could be in trouble. I'm not sure if word of mouth will actually be strong enough.

I also didn't realize that this phone was attached to Sprint. I just don't see this device having the initial appeal that the iPhone had. That appeal was enough to get a large amount of people to convert to AT&T.

I hope for the sake of competition that Palm manages to avoid bankruptcy and that the device does well. I just don't see it happening. It might end up doing good enough on Sprint but I don't see the numbers of people flocking to this that was there for the iPhone.

One of the major advantages to the iPhone was that even though it was announced just two years ago, it was the first phone device to provide a legitimate web browsing experience, a quality touch screen interface, and a usable audio/video player. Two years later, you can't bank on those three things as a competitive advantage. Where is the next killer feature that the iPhone is missing? The answer isn't a physical keyboard.
Al-Qaeda and similar groups went there after the invasion. I define terrorists as a group of people who deliberately target civilians in order to instill terror in their peers.
> It's not terribly difficult to copy/paste links.

Unless you're using an iPhone or iPod touch, in which case it's pretty much impossible.
I wonder if releasing on Sprint is an advantage. Sprint customers have been stuck with terrible phones for the last couple of years.

As long as the pricepoint is reasonable (and the hype isn't unfounded), the Pre should do really well with Sprint customers. Right now they don't really have a modern smartphone available.

As a sidenote: I think we can see why Sprint delayed releasing an Android phone:
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/10/24/sprint-android...
People like virtual reality to be a recreation of their reality, without all the messy bits.
New York HN Meetup on Saturday, Jan. 17th. 
On the mailing list we agreed to have another meetup on Saturday, Jan. 17th somewhere in Manhattan. Post your venue ideas as comments, and/or vote up what looks good.

Also, if you haven't already then join the mailing list, nyyc@googlegroups.com. It's very low traffic.
My suggestion is Republic in Union Square. It's kind of cliche, but for our purposes I think it would be good (large tables, cheap, conducive to talking, etc.). The website is thinknoodles.com.

Right in front of the entrance to the old Luna Park bar (now a construction site in the north end of union sq.) there is a statue. How about we meet at the statue at 7pm. That way it will be super easy to find everyone.
How will China deal with the US adjustment?
Moreover, if you change the UI, people might notice changes that aren't even there. For example, we recently added an upload speed indicator ( http://woobius-dev.posterous.com/connection-information ), and as a result people have commented that the application feels faster.

Conversely, when we allowed people to interact with the data that was already loaded without waiting for it to refresh (via a clever sync mechanism), the first impression was that it was slower, because people things appeared to change unexpectedly while they were using the app. We had to add loading spinners back in so that the user would be aware that the application is still doing something, in order for people to actually feel that it was faster.

So, don't make just any UI change just for the heck of it - UI changes need to be as carefully considered as under-the-hood changes.
Palm Mojo uses Dojo? View the source
Right now, UI is only a fiction made up for the user by the programmers. Usually, it is an accurate fiction, but there is certainly no guarantee. There are only a few currents in UI that connect users directly to what's actually happening. CRUD interfaces are one of these. Unfortunately, they kinda fit their name. Morphic is another one of these, and I think it does quite a bit better than CRUD. There's also the grandaddy: the command line.

A suspension/steering system/drivetrain can interface a driver with a whole lot of complicated machinery. Why can't we do this with UIs?

Maybe you need physical analogues?

Reactable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc
Please do pivot tables
Horror Stories: Ensure You Have Access To Resources In An Earn-Out
From the Wikipedia page on Zim: "Zimbabwe has an adult literacy rate of approximately 90% which is amongst the highest in the world."

Bob Mugabe may have his faults, but he also took Zimbabwe really far.
I might use this if I felt like you were going to last, but I'm having trouble seeing the longevity in this type of idea as the market you are targeting is exceedingly small. Consider selling the software + license, with premium fees for support and source code. This type of algorithm is definitely something I would pay good money to own, but as a service, it doesn't make much sense.
Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability
> First, note that if it weren't for regulators deciding on the amount of reserve capital Citibank was required to hold, the market would probably have demanded that it hold much more.

This was your original point. Let's stay on track.

Your claim that regulators decide how big Citibank's reserves should be is false. They set a minimum, not a maximum.

You then tried to draw an analogy between speeding and regulation, one that, as I have explained, is totally inappropriate.

You then claimed that "most people take the fact that a firm is regulated to mean that it's totally safe", which is a massive exaggeration. If that were true, bank bonds would be considered as safe as government bonds and bank runs would never happen. All other regulated industries would be exactly the same. Also, you are confusing reserve requirements with broader regulation as a whole.

You then claim that banks raising their reserves would be "competing against the government for their definition of soundness", despite the fact that no government has ever claimed any 'definition of soundness'. This appears to be something that you have invented.

You then give an argument as to why other forms of regulation encourage banks to hold lower reserves. This contradicts your original point, which was that if reserve requirements were abolished then the market would force banks to raise reserves. What you have demonstrated is that the market, bail-outs and broader regulation would actually force reserves to even lower levels in the absence of reserve requirements. You have changed your argument from one about reserve requirements to one about broader regulation, and bail-outs such as TARP.
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Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA for rich, real-time collaboration
Over the course of the last year or so I’ve been spending all of my spare time (and increasingly more and more of my working day!) on building a RIA in Silverlight for rich, real-time collaboration over a range of resources:

http://www.colaab.com

Allowing you to comment and annotate documents, images and videos.

Inspirations include David Heinemeier Hansson’s talk at Startup School 08 (http://bit.ly/490Tkt) and 37 Signals in general. My dream is to combine their approach to monetization (build a service people want, charge a price for it, make profit) with a dedication to a richer user experience that is enabled by UI technologies like Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX etc.

The company and product has been bootstrapped up to this point, with contract work paying the bills up until now (and for a while yet I would think!). In terms of revenue, we’re operating a subscription based / freemium model.

Everything is hosted on Amazon Web Services (EC2 / S3) so hopefully that will enable us to scale up as demand increases!

I’m based in Edinburgh, Scotland and believe the time has never been better for small teams of motivated individuals to build truly innovative and user friendly software, which with the distribution and viral nature of the web, have a chance of being adopted by a global audience.

I appreciate that a full-screen Silverlight 2 application isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re interested I’ve setup an invite code:

HACKERNEWS

Which will give the first 100 people to use it a free "Starter" account (worth $24 a month) for a year.

Thanks,

Bob

--
Bob Thomson
storm ideas
http://blog.stormideas.com
http://colaab.com
twitter: movingforwards
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars/ProgBarHa...

This is a great paper on how Progress Bars affect our model of the computation. It looks at how our natural model of time is non-linear and how this can be used to make us feel that that system is faster.
Palm recently got a $100m investment by private equity firm Elevation so they should be able to stay buoyant for now. Internet buzz will help, and presumably Sprint are going to be doing a lot of advertising for them and push the phone heavily.

I don't think they are competing with the iPhone as much as they are RIM, the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the US.

There are lots of innovations in there: good multitasking support, a proper application dock, and sync and communicate via multiple services being the obvious ones. But it benefits from looking like a good all-round phone when every other one out there has glaring flaws.
I don't work in the game industry. I'm just a lifelong player who has talked from time to time with game developers. So don't take this as gospel, but here's my take on long-term prospects.

"AAA" games, the real earthshakers like Halo and World of Warcraft, can only be made by large teams with multi-million-dollar budgets. Inescapable truth. Success in conventional game development has come to depend more and more on a corporate lifestyle: no loose cannons, no lone geniuses. Game developers have to master their C and C++ and perfect their 3D optimizations; game designers have to be very lucky, very hardworking, and very low-paid. (The design side is much harder to break into.)

Games from established studios have to be guaranteed moneymakers, mostly appealing to 15-to-35-year-old males, which is why we see lots and lots of online gunplay and me-too rhythm and karaoke games. The sudden upswing in rhythm and karaoke games points out the increasing mainstreaming of video games, though, which brings me to point 2:

Independent development. The internet has made it extremely easy to write a simple game in Flash or something and get it plastered all over the internet. You go viral with a decent business model, you can cash in, and quite a few games have already been optioned for downloadable console ports after an online success. Especially for casual games -- pick-up-and-go entertainment, usually in the puzzle category -- this can be a great road to recognition, and it's the only one available to the reclusive-genius solo programmer.

Solo development with internet distribution is also the only way to release game types that just aren't that popular these days. I've been playing a game named The Spirit Engine 2 [ http://thespiritengine.com/ ] lately; if you look at the screenshots, you can see that it's not the kind of game that would fly on the mass market.

In fact, my advice to anyone who wants to "make games" is just to make games. Don't go work for a game company. You'll do more work for less pay than you would in any other programming job, and you probably won't even scratch your game-creation itch -- you think you'll be slaving away on Doom 7, but it's far more likely that you'll be fixing graphics buffer glitches in Horsez [ http://www.amazon.com/Horsez-Nintendo-DS/dp/B000GJ0J1K ].
That's what the U.S. Military says. I think you should check a better source.

This discussion isn't appropriate for this forum; feel free to email me if you want to discuss this further.
What timr wrote above perfectly put something into words, that I've been trying to explain to myself for years.

And just like that, quitting a cubicle job to work manual labor while coding at night is no longer even a tiny bit bit scary.
I wonder about that, he got a lot of publicity and could probably start raising money to pay his bids. This is not a billion dollar FCC auction this is 1.8 million for 22,000 acres of land which he might be able to pay for. If nothing else he can probably resell some of these to the same drilling groups once there are less of these auctions to bid on.
The gist of the conclusion (from my super brief skimming) seemed to be that users hate long pauses as you get close to the end of a progress bar, and are much more tolerant of them in the beginning. If possible, you should optimize the progress bar to get possibly slow and sticky stuff over with at the beginning, and move smoothly and quickly as you reach the conclusion.
My comment was more of a late night joke based on how NextWave kept lots of spectrum from serving the public good (and earned a lot of money) doing a similar thing. Oh, and I love Tarsnap!
$15k Open Source Contest to make Government more Transparent
haha, actually made me laugh. funniest HN comment I've read in a while.
I'm in, but will not be freezing my ass off standing outside as it's supposed to be in the single digits with the wind chill http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w2=wc&...
There is another problem, you can't really go to the comments /after/ going to the article, but you can go to the article after the comments.

Unless you add a toolbar option like reddit has.
>Most libertarians are aware that the Government meddles
>heavily in the economy, and everything bad about the economy
>that's blamed on capitalism wasn't a fair test b/c it wasn't
>actually laissez faire capitalism that was tested.

Isn't that what the defenders of communism say about the USSR and China? (Stalinim and Maoism respectively, rather than pure Communism as Marx et al. intended)

The point being that 'pure' libertarianism is possibly just as realistic as pure communism, or perhaps even democracy (either in the sense of 'pure' (i.e. direct) democracy at a national level, or even, with representative systems, that the majority of the population is well informed regarding issues at hand and actively participates in the democratic process).
Here's something more interesting than the actual article - try to find the links in the text. They have no obvious distinguishing feature.

How many can you find?

What lessons can you learn about your site? Actually, maybe you'll get more traffic if you have a "hunt the link" page.
I wonder if such an outcome is avoidable if you have a better work-life balance. I like coding too, but I definitely have a line between my job and everything else.
Good catch. How about this instead, my cell is 607-351-2671 so people can call me when they get there if they can't find us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_r...

Because definitions and data collection methods vary across countries, literacy estimates should be used with caution.
Web 2.0rhea hack mistaken for end of universe
Like the product concept, but the presentation is definitely not Apple-esque. Long way to go aesthetically.