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Target market: Everyone who enjoys wasting time on the interweb.

Why? Games become more fun if you manage to get yourself (emotionally and time-wise) involved.

I'm aware that "addicted" has negative connotations; like a "drug addict".
I only clicked around the game for a few minutes, but I have two general ideas: (partially borrowed from the Zynga Handbook of Doom, but you did ask for addictive...)

* Don't have players start with zero coins; give us enough to start off and do something fun or cool (i.e. book one flight, get to a new city), and then lead players into the game's job mechanic.

* It's a terribly silly (and transparent) game mechanic, but I love games with Achivements / Medals / Awards. Either make them all available from the start or (a la many iPhone games) only "assign" three achivements at a time, each with a certain "star" value; get enough stars and you "level up", which comes with a hefty coin bonus. This way, once players have figured out the game's mechanics, they'll continue playing for achivements (and you can use achivements to encourage experimentation with other game features).
Substantial improvement. Now can you make one that shows r/funny minus all of the cat posts?
If we keep telling women that they need a "women's hack day", a such and such women's event, etc, all we are doing is creating a bigger gender disparity.

I start to think of these events as pure PR stunts, rather than Linkedin et al. tackling any underlying gender issues.
How some of the famous logos came from other logos (Creativity)
This is good news. We'll have cheaper prices all around! And with that article on Google having their own hardware manufactured, it may end up better than we think.
Why not just use their API instead of scraping?

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
Two books which helped me to understand people and to organise my own thoughts:

Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: A Beginner's Guide
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Applying-Psychology-Everyday-Life-Be...

A Whole New Mind - Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whole-New-Mind-Right-brainers-Future...
Rising Cost of Healthcare Around the World
Find a way to tie in some element of strategy. Think about how Empire Builder works with regards to transporting goods or something alone those lines. I'm just not really seeing the point in playing, other than it has unique feel, but no point. Give me something to go after to win....conquer....
Wouldn't essentially everything be illegal to resell if this was approved?

Couldn't Ford prevent people from selling their used cars because it contains a Ford logo, electronics, and software all of which Ford owns the copyrights to?
So many actions these days can violate copyright law. I really don't bother trying to figure out what may or may not do that.

And I can only think of the absurdness of getting copyright "permission" for each holder for an iPhone, or for any device that has firmware on it.

BTW: Can an attorney possibly answer this: Where is the proof of copy on an Audio CD?
are people really looking to this as a reason why php sucks? i thought the point of the post was to mock the "bug" reporter and his clueless sense of entitlement.
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http://www.vixu.com (my startup) is based on open source Clojure/ClojureScript CMS (and soon webshop) software. See https://github.com/fmw/vix for the code (planning some refactoring over the summer before the first official release). Also doing search related stuff in Clojure (see https://github.com/fmw/alida for demo code I wrote for my EuroClojure presentation).

Clojure brought the fun back to software development for me and made me a better developer in general. It is also a very pragmatic choice, with the expressiveness of Lisp and plenty of reusable Java code being available.
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Specifically, Amazon was early to the party on cloud computing because Amazons usage trends vary so widely, their off-peak hours would leave them with thousands of idle servers.

Google has plenty of horsepower to spare, sure, but their usage pattern is much more planned for and expected, so launching a cloud required carving out resources for it, while Amazon just had to make use of excess resources it couldn't find a better use for.
Netscape, in addition to <blink>, added <font>, <basefont>, changing the text color via an attribute of the <body> tag, attributes to change numbering style for <ol>, the height and width attributes of <img>, the background attribute of <body>, <center>, a bunch of attributes to <hr>, <ilayer>, <keygen>, <layer>, <multicol>, <nolayer>, <server>, <spacer>, <nobr>, <noembed>, <wbr>. <big>, <small>, <sub>, <sup>. I'm not sure if this is an exhaustive list.
Why bother when a compressed PNG is even smaller and has far broader support with less shim nonsense?
This doesn't consider the use case of needing to have multiple versions of the same package installed for testing. Sure, it would be nice to be able to have a second machine provisioned to do testing on.

And, as a extension of that, if you are using virtualenv+pip for testing, it makes sense for the deployment to use that too, as that means that the testing environment is closer to the deployment environment.
I made sure to be nice to reddit. The scrapper is set to crawl reddit once every 12 hours for new "top monthly iamas".

Very good suggestion for nested threads. A good example of a reply to a question is on the westboro-baptist-church thread. I think it's possible to implement this suggestion. Will fool around with it on localhost and see what I come up with.
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Note on Knowledge and Competition
They had a pretty neat fulfillment network before AWS.

Amazon is pretty unique in that they make a lot of their internals available as products, but even before that, the infrastructure was still impressive. What other online store do you use? :)
User comments, but going by users rather than threads. That way you could get a profile where someone posts, or turn it around and see what prolific posters existed in a given subreddit.

The thing is it wouldn't sweep everything. Instead a user would only get scraped if a request was made to my app, and I had a tool that would go through a request queue (storing to my own DB) in a metered way so that reddit only experienced a handful of requests from me per minute.

Nonetheless it still breaks robots.txt and if I could dig it up admins have said in the past that don't want automated/batched requests hitting their site.
Even if that were not the case, and even if it were actually true that the majority of today's Muslims were in support of such adventures (let alone willing to die in the numbers that European crusaders did) ... Muslim countries are flat out too poor to dedicate the same percentage of GDP that European countries did to the Crusade. The ones which are less poor are making all their money by working with the West anyway.
You are selling an ML variant for someone looking for a lisp variant. Good luck with that!
I think we need something or someone to chase around the world.
edit not Carmen Sandiego
Should be interesting to see how Dust 514 factors into the MMO vs. FPS landscape then.
If they have a full content RSS feed, then this use should be okay. But I hope it survives their scrutiny since this is vastly more readable then the native view.
OK, so, if you look at what has set google apart you see three different things. Hardcore CS savvy is one of them, which led to pagerank. Then you have solid software engineering talent which led to the implementation of pagerank through map reduce and sharding. And combined with that you have revolutionarily different data centers. To google a data center is a single unit at many levels (application level, servicing level, manufacturing).

Google manufactures what are arguably single data center sized computers, and makes the software to run on it. This sort of vertical integration is a huge advantage to google, because it gives them a huge quality/price/performance benefit, allowing them to leverage CPU cycle more effectively, more efficiently, and more inexpensively than their competition. Can you come up with an example of a company that scales the same way that google does to the same degree?
Google should minify their 404 page
Meh, the "YAGNI" citation by @dhh is pretty weak IMO. YAGNI is a guideline, a heuristic, not an absolute inviolable law of nature. And that's what experience buys you as a developer: the wisdom and insight to anticipate things that are likely to be needed, and places where code should be structured a certain way now, to accommodate future changes.

What we need is a new acronym (well, maybe somebody has probably already coined it, but whatever) YPNGTNI: You're Probably Not Going To Need It.
We're scraping flight confirmation emails from several airlines, but getting all of the major ones working is challenging. If you've got a flight, it may be with one of the airlines we don't support in production yet. The easiest work-around is to put the trip in Google Calendar; they have a proper API. It sucks that you have to do that much, though. We're working on it. If you have the time, and you're willing to share details over email, we'd love to hear from you at support@cueup.com.

Ultimately, we'd like to make a simple open API for various types of events. How cool would it be if (for example) airline companies attached a machine-readable version of your itinerary to the confirmation emails, the same way they send out HTML and text versions? Then you could integrate that with any tools you like. It would be like the "semantic web", except without all the hand-waving and overly-verbose XML stuff. This would be easy to do -- the budget would be peanuts to them -- but in order to get something like that happening, we need to convince those companies that there's a demand for it, that someone would actually use that machine-readable information if they provide it. Our automated email scraping is an attempt to break the chicken-and-egg dilemma, and hasten the spread of open machine-readable data for things that are currently just auto-generated text, by providing a compelling use for it.
Thanks a lot for those suggestions!

That looks fantastic. I actually tried to get a designer on board to help with the front-end, but unfortunately he wasn't able to help out. So I did the best I could. :)

I will definitely implement these font changes. :)
any plans to go mobile?
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You seem to be very insistent on not getting what I'm saying. Here's my last try:

If the community and/or SE's owners are interested in serving the public, then they should engage with people where they are. Some of those people are on SE; most aren't. That's especially true for people who have gotten fed up with SE and left.

It's not my job to fix SE's brokenness. Nor is it that of the blogger whose article is linked at the top. Making SE better is the job of SE's owners and moderators. So if somebody should be putting forth extra effort here, it isn't the people who have never used or have given up on Stack Exchange. And even if it somehow should be those people, it won't be, no matter how much you suggest otherwise.

Personally, there's no way I'm going to go put my ideas in front of the SE community. From my experience there and the behavior of SE reps in this article, I have no reason to believe anybody will do anything but argue until I leave. I'm a little sad to think that SE's on the slow road to doom, but I've got better things to do then to try to sweep back that particular tide with my very modest broom.
I'm going to take a few seconds here to be a pedant and disentangle the structure of an argument from its contents.

Strictly speaking, a fallacy is a defect in the structure of an argument, i.e. in the logic that connects a premise to a conclusion. What you and the parent have identified is simply a false premise ("Things at least seem to organize themselves somewhat better than they 'ought' to"[1]). A false premise may result in the wrong conclusion, but an argument can be wrong without being fallacious.

This distinction isn't so much relevant here, but it comes in handy when you want to pinpoint sources of disagreement in a discussion. Lobbing the f-word around (even when deserved) just makes people defensive.

1. Of course the argument used to derive this premise might be fallacious, but that argument isn't given.
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Hackers Exploit Unpatched Windows XML vulnerability
I browse to tons of pages on my phone every day that presumably use JQuery and work fine. We're not in the WAP days anymore.
Also, the hover effect is very distracting.
They've got Ganeti, but I don't know exactly what they use it for.
Not sure why you need to criticize it. All the companies just did a great job, innovated, evolved, succeeded, that's great :)

I think you cannot deny that Amazon had "less to work with" when they started then Google has today. In terms of experience.
Go is the new Esperanto: Slightly nicer, slightly more regular but it's not clear what problem it solves.
"class PostComment" that already sounds wrong if you think about it.
Give enough coins to do --almost-- three things so players are immediately encouraged to earn a few more coins to do the next thing.
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How does this compare with the existing, tested and awesome framework Ramaze? Have you tried it? More info: http://ramaze.net/
And they probably should have launched GMail before Hotmail, Search before Altavista, and Adwords before Overture ;-)
SSH Gateway Shenanigans
Sorry, it's just horribly wrong:
"The "senior developer", whom is the stake holder's right hand man, said this:"

"Who", not "whom". There's no reason to use "whom" at all any more unless you really know when you should. "Who" is acceptable at all times.

The code seems fine though... ;)
Facebook Growth May Be Leveling Off, comScore Study Finds
Can you elaborate on that? What do you see as missing?
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This is great! Thanks for making it :)
Of course there are lots of other search engines that use pagerank. Sharding is of course nothing new. Map-reduce is a smart way to increase throughput of a cluster, but it's not unique (after all there is a popular open-source Hadoop project). I'll give you the data center advances though :)
TF2, including the Heavy character, was released long before this guy joined Valve. I doubt he was the inspiration for Heavy.
If you want your complaints to reach people who can actually do something about them you'll go where those people are. If you don't really care, that's fine. Keep posting your complaints on blogs and in comments on sites other than the one you're complaining about.

I'm glad this guy's complaints got some attention by staff and volunteers at SE, but that's only because it got to the front page of HN. How many others are out there that will never be found? Post them in the right place and people will read them.
Actively remove all references to the concept of saving money on staple foods. In the USA, conspicuously trying to save money on staple foods is a signifier of poverty. Almost nobody is proud of it. Many people try to actively hide the fact that they're doing it.

Promote the ability to grow some kind of food that's unusual enough to tell your friends about. If, for example, I were able to harvest fresh heirloom tomatoes in Maine in January and feed them to my dinner guests, that would be both good for my ego and good for your marketing. A more realistic example, perhaps, is the fad for backyard chickens: Raising chickens is fun because, every time you serve someone an omelet or a quiche, you get to start a conversation about the chickens. And the eggs make great gifts. Play up the odd and potentially fashionable.

Is there something particularly tasty that your system is uniquely good at growing? Is there something particularly hard to grow that your system makes easier?

Are the plants fun to look at? Would you show the garden to your friends?

Can kids run it? Perhaps it's an educational experience. Pitch it to school groups, community centers, local parks, science museums, children's museums, et cetera.

Can one start small and grow into a full system? "Feed your whole family on a 20-by-20-foot lot" is actually not such a great sales pitch. You ask for too much commitment. I've tried hobbies before. Most of them don't last and I end up selling the starter kit on Craigslist three years later. Worse, if you convince me that replacing 100% of my grocery bill is the victory condition, when I only manage to replace 37% of my grocery bill I will feel like a failure, which is just perverse. What you want, instead, is for me to successfully grow four plants, swell with pride, and tell all my friends that gardening is awesome.

So a better pitch IMHO would be "try this thing on a small garden and enjoy the nice fresh [insert delicious thing here]; then, if you like it, you can expand it bit by bit, until you wake up one year and find that your 20-by-20 foot garden is producing more food than your family of four can eat in a year, with almost no effort and at a cost of pennies a day."

Congratulations on being smart and realistic enough to try and find your market before you invest any more time or money. Good luck!

EDIT: Ooh, here's a fun one: Take a hint from the local county fair and gamify this. Build a social network. Turn it into a competition to see who can grow the most pounds of food in a given area, or something. It's like Farmville with real farms.
One thing I've found is that, if your target audience is everyone, your target audience is really no one.
http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery is where we get that statistic from
Where I live (Santa Cruz, CA) it doesn't know about a local highway that is virtually stationary every afternoon/evening.

Have you considered partnering with someone like Waze to get anonymised actual trips, which will be far more accurate than pure traffic data (or they could be merged).
Yeah, but did they have their own server hardware, data centers, programming languages, CDNs, web frameworks, kernel developers, operating systems, invented new protocols and hosted all kinds of stuff on the internet for billions of users? ;)

But of course, i probably use Amazon for 80% of my online shopping needs, they rock!
If experience of India and Pakistan have to show anything, developing Nuclear Weapons is not a big deal, except when there are systematic attack against your infrastructure and scientists by foreign powers. Heck, I would wager that any decently educated engineers and physicist with government backing can build a nuclear bomb. The domain knowledge is not very exotic, either.
If it becomes illegal, I doubt the US government will have the money to enforce it, and neither will copyright holders.

So don't worry.
Show HN: SVG Visualization of Twitter data using D3 (Chrome Experiment)
I don't believe scope insensitivity is a major factor in class action awards.

Believe me, class action plaintiff attorneys are not falling victim to any psychological quirk that makes them underestimate what the size of the verdict should be. They get paid based on the size of the verdict and are therefore fully adept at imagining every reason why the verdict should be very large. They make these arguments quite clear to the court, and as you say it's frequently by attempting to couch the verdict in terms of benefit per member of the class.

The real reason for small awards is that most of these large cases end in settlements, not verdicts. And plaintiffs have an incentive to settle for much less than the full value of their claim. This is because there is risk (usually quite a lot) in taking a case to trial, so you must discount your expected verdict by the risk you will lose at trial and get nothing.

In addition, it's very hard to prove damage in class actions. You need to show that all members of the class (or at least large groups) suffered very similar damage. If damages vary by individual, then individual proof is required (this makes sense, part of a case is proving your damages) and you will lose your right to proceed as a class action. If that happens, it's basically like coming away with no money, so plaintiff lawyers can't always claim every dollar that might be on the table. They stick to the claims that they can apply on a class-wide (or close) basis.

Ultimately settlements are about taking a sure deal for less money rather than taking a risk to try to get the full amount you believe you are entitled to. That's the way settlements work, and that's often a good deal for the class.
"Doctors agreed that even a near miss by a cannonball — without contact — could shatter bones, blind people, or even kill them."

How can a near miss of a cannonball shatter bones etc? Something to do with air pressure?
Good point, we added it to the copy.
The chinese are heavily invested in some kind of technology independence. The chip mentioned in this piece is most likely the nationalized homebrew CPU the Godson/Dragon/Loongson:

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

I guess they've gotten to the point where they want to push this CPU onto their school children with their Red Flag Linux distro.

I suspect there's more to the story other than "herp derp nvidia is stupidz!!" Open sourcing their drivers may open them to liablity or patent issues and/or give AMD a nice look into the nvidia internals. For all the grief AMD gets at least they opened their specs and allowed a community driver. The problem is that the OSS advocates want their cake and to eat it too. They don't want to develop all the hard 3D stuff, potentially get in patent issues, empower the competition, etc but expect NVIDIA to do this for them.

3D is a patent minefield. All the more reason to encourage patent reform.
> "vast vast majority"

seems wrong - http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

"The following pie chart and table is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period ending on the data collection date noted below."
Waiting for a market to mature before entering isn't the end of the world. As far as "cornering" a market goes, Wikipedia's example is perfect: "Large companies, such as Wal-Mart or Microsoft, are considered to have cornered their markets." Sure, those companies have a substantial base, but that doesn't mean their isn't plenty of room for competitors who can do very well (Target & Apple).

Google has enough resources to enter a market like this and have some instant credibility. We've seen it with Gmail, Google Maps, and many of their other services.
Can't wait for Startup Festival. Last year's event was awesome and I'm sure this year will be even better!

I am the Founder of UserEvents (www.userevents.com) and we specialize in event stream processing and correlation.

Rather than just selling technology, we take our amazing capabilities to market in the form of business applications, like CxEngage that enables a real-time feedback channel across all customer touch-points allowing brands to engage “in the moment” before a lackluster customer experience impacts retention, loyalty, and revenue.

Look forward to sharing our story, learning and having a ton of fun while in Montreal!
I don't think they're compatible at all. I think those who think they are simply display evidence of our ability to maintain cognitive dissonance; religion and science are not compatible. The only people who think they are, are religious people who can't leg go of their faith, so they rationalize.

Science is anti-faith, religion is anti-evidence, how anyone thinks them compatible is beyond me. Faith is not a virtue in science, it's just bad thinking.