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This is frustrating, you shouldn't build something unless you have a vision for it. When you have a vision (hopefully stemming from a personal pain point) then build a minimum version.

Users don't know what they want, and blatantly asking them gets you no where. You need something that they can play with and you can make decisions empirically.
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Until wireless earbuds show up, this is my solution.
Wow.. quote of the day!!
"Happiness is not external. Happiness is a perception. Happiness is within. It's up to you. You either choose to be happy or not. Yes, that simple."
The NoteSlate "concept" / "hoax" / "vapourware" was neat idea.

See also Papyri tablet:
(http://papyritablet.wordpress.com/category/vision/) (I have no idea if this is similarly vapour)

I'd really like something that

* had Cornell note styles built in

* could do handwriting recognition

* could build indexes

* had a clear focus on one thing; not trying to be anything other than note taking device.

* has ability to interact with other devices and software

* has ability for hackers to tinker.
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BBC inches closer to 3D audio broadcast
- It's all one product, but consists of smaller projects or modules. It's all running a big website and a few sister sites that pull in things from the master site.

- The LOC includes all refactoring. Basically we had a big spike a few years ago as we rearchitectured, and have gone up and down in LOC over the last few years as we refactor away code, simplify, and add new features.

- We're spending more and more of our time on bug fixing and maintenance now. Our systems have gotten more and more complex with business rules and we're now struggling to balance the demand for "new" with keeping things working properly.

- Perhaps including config doesn't make sense if looking at developer ratio. It was easy to get the "all in" number, but easy enough to remove it too for an apples-to-apples comparison.

- No, not every developers knows every part of the system. We will lose 600kloc of knowledge (or more) if someone leaves.

Thanks for your thoughtful questions!
cool, just turned it into a bookmarklet http://paywall-killer.blogspot.com/
Given 50k, I would just build Simplenote [1]. Works perfectly with Notational Velocity [2].

Except maybe with better Android support? Kind of a crowded market you're getting into...

[1]: http://simplenoteapp.com/downloads/
[2]: http://notational.net/
"Science, it's a girl thing!" says EU Commission
Right. The experiment does nothing to confirm the conjecture. A neat trick would be, say, to figure out how to line up the statholiths (sp?) in zero g and see what happens relative to a plant whose statholiths are randomly arranged.

Note that ultimately we would like to come up with ways to convince human bodies that they're in a gravitational field, so this is not entirely academic.
Exactly. He's not doing anything that isn't done regularly by any executive branch that actually believes the laws they're trying to pass are necessary.

He's saying:

1) They want to find a way to make ACTA work. Because of that, even if the EU Parliament does not agree with its current form, it makes sense for the Commission to move forward with the ECJ, because if the ECJ says its incompatible with EU law, it will need to be changed regardless if it is to be passed, and it makes no sense for them to negotiate a solution with parliament only to find out after that that the ECJ would strike down the whole thing on fundamental questions afterwards.

2) They'll try to find a solution that addresses whatever reasons MEP's give for voting it down (assuming they do). Trying to reach a compromise is hardly an evil fascist dictator method, but standard operating practice. At least it is in Europe, where we're used to having governments that actually cooperate to pass things.
Except this works for buried seeds and seeds germinated in the dark.
I checked my settings and already hid my facebook.com email. My non-facebook address was sill visible. Anyone else not have the problem from this HN article link? I keep up on my privacy settings.
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> It is a "workaround" for the fact that a federal EU is currently entirely unpalatable to the electorate in most European countries

I'm sure in every EU country, most voters would prefer it if the unelected commission couldn't overrule the elected parliament.
Why only almost?
Facebook seeing downtime again?
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But the kids have to get hit someday. Better done by you in controlled environment.
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Don't count on the universe. First find a new job, and then quit.
> I have seen no indication that he's done anything illegal or held the parliament in contempt

He's said he will ignore the decisons arrived at by the democratically elected representatives of the people. That seems a pretty clear indication to me.
I haven't done much steganalysis so don't know what difference it will make for an attacker searching over large numbers of images, but it's at least useful if you're more worried of attackers who already suspect there is a hidden message.
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A judge? Over $1,500 or so? Possibly across state lines? Not gonna happen.
This is ridiculous. I thought this was going to be a satirical post about tech people wasting money.

I don't know you, and I have no idea whether your idea will succeed or not. That being said, this is a crowded space, and your product doesn't sound capital intensive. Why don't you be smart and hold off on the loan and work on this project whenever you get a chance. If you have any tangible evidence that this thing will grow, then go for grants/loans and see what happens.
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Can it be used without purchasing it like in the RC versions?
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I really love the way, i can test coljuresnippets.

Its really amazing and a really good expirience in debugging!
I really appreciate hearing about the very paced/zen schedule you seem to keep. I'm a firm believer that productivity is an easily exhaustible resource and you can't simply extract more of it per week with additional desk hours. You can have all the money and time in the world, but true freedom is the ability to bask in every small moment of the day, revel in the experience and reflect on life as it happens. Don't wait for the big payoff.
This tutorial guides you step by step through a bar chart with dynamic updates (the link is to part 2, which deals with the updating):

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/tutorial/bar-2.html
Please review Zurker.in (beta)
This site is gaining in popularity just like Pinterest. Here's the invitation link-

http://www.zurker.in/i-29371-ohhlpiiglq

And thanks in advance.
Most of my desktop/server computer failures or abnormal behavior are due to power supplies not working properly, even when protected by a decent UPS.
Actually, it does both - capturing consumer surplus for buyers who pay more than the average and eliminating deadweight loss for buyers who pay less than the average.

[Technical note: By "average" I really mean the optimal price if the producer is only allowed to set a single price point. But let's not quibble.]
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Nothings changed regarding to evaluation "Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.".
A conversation with Bill Gates on the future of education
I use my phone to take audio notes, and transcribe them in emails to myself (with the audio attached) if I find them worthwhile. I wish Android automatically uploaded audio to G+ as it does video and images, but, such is life.

I just find typing notes on my phone completely annoying.
I wouldn't, I'd buy a new car and a trip to Bermuda.

That is to say: I seriously don't see any need for new note-taking software. If I want to take a note, I'll write it on paper. Or use one of MacOS's stickies. Or email it to myself. There are many other options, but those are the ones I actually use. If I wanted specialized note-taking software, I would have downloaded one of any number of free options ages ago.
Do you have any evidence of that? It's my understanding that both parties are in Hollywood's pocket. I feel like the odds are roughly 50-50 either way, which is why I picked a party at random for my example.
I've reverted back to Vim (not really ST2's fault, just that it doesn't run in a terminal and I've gotten addicted to split-panes in iTerm), but ST2's a solid editor. Definitely worth your $60.

PS: If it got even a basic terminal...

EDIT2: ST2 does have split panes, I just can't run a terminal in them.
Updating from within sublime text, I get a 500 Internal Server Error in the release note window (being served up by a pretty old version of nginx). Still able to update though.
I too had this, but it now looks up
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An absolutely joyful piece of software. I love it so much, I bought it right away. Plus, where else can you experience such a pleasant multiplatform situation? Great Job!
Great news!, this is turning out to be one of the best text editors for Windows, Mac and Linux. Congratulations!.
but the title says "YC S12"

and her linkedin says "Y Combinator: W2011"

.. but ye, the screenshots say eligible..
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Who voted for the EU President? (Nobody: He was installed by Heads of Industry from the member states..)

>Besides, the EU is not a 'state'.

Yup, and therein lies the problem.
The $50k loan will fund full-time development. I have been working part time on this project for some time now. At some point you need to transition.
I'd be really interested to hear about how well this model works for them. I know that I, for one, am a paying customer because being able to use it for a month or so for free really got me hooked.
I don't think you meant "people" there. Maybe "labor"?
Pretty cool, but I wonder if the author realizes that you can steganographically encode data in any format including HTML and even JS itself.

Bonus points if you can split the steganographic data into multiple domains, where building the original message requires finding and assembling the pieces in the canvas, HTML and JS sections.

Also, I believe there may be blurring techniques you can use to smooth out the dense randomness that is a signature of encryption.
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We crashed their site I think.
Joyful is the right word. I love that I can work across windows / linux / mac with the same awesome editor and it looks / behaves almost identically.
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"How I Launched Hipmunk in an Industry I Initially Knew Nothing About"
> Next election they lose, and the new government can't change the commissioner, where's democracy now?

This is standard practice in all civil service jobs, as well as the judicial branch.

You can't just remove a judge, or a bureaucrat because his party is out of office. Doing so, ensures that there is continuity and stability between governments.
It probably violates the contract that the OTA has with Marriott. Hotel chains typically offer a best rate guarantee that states that you cannot find a lower rate anywhere else - and if you do, they'll match it and provide an additional benefit (free night, $50 amex).

OTA's eat into margins of the hotels because they get a good size c omission from the bookings - no hotel chain would negotiate a contract that let an OTA undercut them.
Not just compilation (which is apple-to-oranges since python is bytecode-compiled and then interpreted/JIT compiled), but also execution speed, which means that you need less hardware to do the same job. That's definitely worth something in some cases.
Yes, but if you appreciate the work of the author you should buy a license after you try the editor.
If you've been working for some time, why are you asking questions about whether it should be online or not? Surely you've figured out the basics of how it'll work and how it'll be different from every other note-taking medium long ago.
I was an active user of Notepad++, but ever since I started using Sublime text, I never turned back to NP++ (or any other editors). Totally love the Sublime experience.
dude. You cant develop a paid note taking software. There are thousands of free options.

If you do this you should find others ways of making money.
I hated OneNote when I first saw it, then I started to use it and found that it had a lot of potential, particularly on a tablet pc (in 2005!).

I suffered with corruptions of the notes files, which were also VERY large, and then I changed to a standard laptop and found that it lost all of its charm without a pen.

I'd love to see what happens with it on the new Win8 tablets; hopefully it will get some metro/arm love.

All my notes live in dropbox-synced plain text files now.
I don't need a lot of features, I need access and flexibility.

There is a lot of great software out there already that I will not use because it doesn't have a command line or textual representation I can use trivially from vim or command line. I want to be able to put a note in my code and have it end up on my main lists, or barring that, cord a command, and put the note in a window and have it end up everywhere I look at notes.

Include rich auto populated metadata on the note (tags, date, host, etc) that can be used for query/sorting purposes.

Make synchronization (distributed ala git or centralized) automatic and transparent.

Have an api - I will be making my own utilities around this, help me with it.

Lay off the bells and whistles. They get in the way. Do note taking well. Don't include a calendar, I have one. Your api will allow me and others to join the two. Don't tie into facebook and twitter (or if you do, make it light, optional, and have no other features rely on it). Do allow me to share notes over any medium. Do allow me to have multiple "notepads" but make moving notes between them trivial.

I would pay for the above feature set. Double if it is done well and stays out of my way. I don't want software like this to be an app, i want it to be a functionality I can incorporate into my life. I don't want another fancy UI, I don't want to context switch to jot down a note for later -- context switching that behavior kills the point of jotting it down to begin with.
I really despise the name ZeroMQ for this reason. First time you hear it "Is it an MQ and Zero is just a fun clever name" or "Is it not an MQ"? People seem to go with the latter. Then what is it? Why define itself by what it isn't?</rant>
> there's great value with legacy systems in not getting rid of the people who have been working on them for the last 20 years, and know all the idiosyncrasies and foibles.

As someone who unfortunately has been in touch with CA-7 and who comes from a strong Unix/Linux background I can tell you I wouldn't want to touch that thing with a 30ft pole and on top of that these batches are usually extremely complicated in terms of dependencies and a ton of history and lessons-learned go into building those chains and the whole system is so complex yet so critical, we have 1 or 2 guys doing graveyard shifts for nothing but watching CA7 do its thing because if anything fails it could also shut down vital parts of the bank. (e.g. because literally some plain text files didn't get copied from A to B, in 2012...)

So not only is there possible great value in NOT getting rid of people who basically grew up with the system and know it inside out but when you do get rid of them it should be more than crystal clear to even the most disconnected manager that this is some really serious stuff you are outsourcing and just blindly trusting the friendly sales guy's promises is not going to cut it... it is almost like outsourcing a custom in-house software to an off-shore "expert" and hoping they can just instantly pick things up where your people left it off.

Now it is time to really take a very close look at those SLAs that the project team just wanted approved and signed asap....
It is true that this market is crowded. Yet is ripe for innovation.

The 3D graphic industry for years was dominated by a few encumbents and a bunch of little guys (3DSMax vs Maya and then Cinema3D, Lightwave, etc). Typically an artist would commit to using one and use it long term. Until one day a program called ZBrush revolutionzied the industry. And anyone and everyone in the industry added it to their workflow.
I suppose you know that you split the layout of ST just like you can split the pane in iTerm2 ... You can even have the same file open twice in a side by side view.
Tested this on linux and a windowsmachine.

On Windows, is there a way to quit, without deleting the process?
- Lighttable get started in the background. Is there a shortcut for shutting down lighttable?
Any movement will fracture as it expands to include more people. Is fracturing across subideological lines better than fracturing across geopolitical lines?
As a stab in the dark, I'd say that it's Intel's chips that perform more stably while overclocked, all else equal, because Intel comfortably holds the performance crown, and is thus very conservative in their binning.

Right now, Intel's fastest desktop chip is an i7 990X, which is $1,029 on Newegg. AMD's is an FX-8150, at $199.

Intel prices pretty fairly against AMD on the price/performance curve where AMD has a competitor, eg, the Core i5 3550 at $209 generally outperforms AMD's fastest chip. Pricing then soars off into the sky.

Which is to say, if AMD bumps the speed of their CPUs, they'll release a faster product, compete better against Intel (until Intel reacts), and make more money. If Intel bumps its speeds, they're competing against nobody but themselves, so they usually don't bother.

Therefore, you usually see Intel quite conservatively binning their chips, and they have a lot of headroom. It's not unusual to have an AMD chip that can't go 200mhz faster on air cooling, and to have an Intel chip that can go well in excess of 1ghz faster. So all else equal, bumping Intel chips is less likely to be an issue.

Now, there are some other factors at play here. Firstly, hardcore overclockers pretty much only buy Intel chips. Also, people that are serious often turn up the speed until right before the moment at which the chip starts getting SuperPI errors (i.e. errors at nearly maximum load).

But my totally uninformed gut feeling is that the majority of overclocks aren't done that seriously (if they are, it could actually reverse this analysis).

If we assume that, turning the knob up on an Intel chip without sophistication is much less likely to end badly. The crashes in their paper are not very frequent on average (months between), which isn't necessarily bad enough to revert to old CPU speeds even if the user knows that's what is going on.
Bulk load a directory of node.js modules
Oh. I assumed you started with RoR since that's what you mentioned in the post. How would you compare development between RoR and Tornado?
Not sure about the whole concept, loan, ect. but I think the market research is a good start. "As Steve Jobs said, "It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want."" Unfortunately you are not inventing a whole new market category. Decades of market research has shown that consumers have a good general idea of what they want and they don't tend to pay for things that they don't want.
Flounder can be used as verb to mean to thrash around like a fish (e.g. struggling) - so either could work in context.
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/flounder.html
This is one of the best programming editors I've ever used. I like the idea of using same editor (and interface) on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Coal is not pure carbon.
I seriously don't see any need for new note-taking software.

My notes (on paper) are almost never just text, they're a haphazard mix of text, mathematical notation and ad hoc diagrams/graphs/flowcharts etc. If someone could design note taking software that worked for this style of note taking, I'd happily hand over my money.
Now that it's official, I hope that the documentation gets the attention it needs. Congrats!
I am a totally young naive inexperienced entrepreneur, but this post screamed at me for a few reasons.

What are you going to spend the money on right now? Why do you need $50k to put up a HN post and ask some questions?

Why do you think I won't out-do you on your concept, or your execution, or anything else you do? You're wordy and talk about "relentless" and "passion". Emotions don't get you anywhere, they just help motivate you..

I do love that your idea has evoked this much emotion from people (including me), therefore that is what I find most interesting about your post. I mean you applied for a loan and seemingly have 0% of an idea about a product/direction, and I don't even see a need for $50k (yet).

I think it's like a car crash in a sense though, the attention your getting. As long as you are aware of the attention ("bad news coverage is good for spreading your name"?"), then I say work with it.. But good luck, all in all. I don't care for your software, it's just sounds like another app that will never really be interesting/useful for me.
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vimwiki + git + github = best note taking solution ever
Ask HN: Please review my first app for iOS: iDeas for Writing
Hi everyone,

I've just released a productivity iOS app that is a writing workshop with creative triggers and writing exercises.
I've tried as much as I could for the app is out of bugs although, of course, you never know ^^ If you find any bug I'd be grateful if you tell me

But I'm specially interested in:

- The look of the UI. We've tried to do it nice for the users. What do you think?

- Do you find the creative triggers inspiring? (or creative? :p)

- We've add a lot of writing exercises in the workshop section of the app. We think these exercises are useful for take the most of the creative triggers and both together may be the strong point of the app. Am I wrong?

- We did our best, but we are spanish and our english might not be very good sometimes. If you realize something is wrong or misspelled, you can let us know and we’ll fix it.

We've already planed several improvements for the next update, such as:

- Adjust the age in the trigger of characters (the average is too high)

- Enable the change of the language inside the app (for now it's avalaible in english and spanish)

And we want to add more exercises and word combinations for the triggers in the future.
If you want to suggest anything else for us to change it, just let us know ;)

Here's the link to itunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideas-for-writing/id529876147?mt=8

And here you have some promo codes:

J3YM4J4EPKJT

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Thank's a lot. I really apreciate your feedback.

Tomeu Masco
Right, but that's only for files. My extra panes tend to have REPLs, curls, docs, etc. more often than other files.