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Online Notarization now Legal
This is a great example of a disruptive technology startup. SignNow has created NotaryNow and helped lead the charge to get the online notarization bill passed in Virginia, which came into effect on July 1st so now people can notarize documents from anywhere in just minutes.
Oh really?

http://inagorillacostume.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Amaz...

http://pictures.mastermarf.com/blog/2009/090113-fedex-expres...
> And yes for the liberals, this is going to profile people on all of the politically incorrect data points, race, color, sex, orientation, drug use, etc.

This program isn't profiling people, it's profiling crimes.

> "The new program used by LAPD and police in the Northern California city of Santa Cruz is more timely and precise, proponents said. Built on the same model for predicting aftershocks following an earthquake, the software promises to show officers what might be coming based on simple, constantly calibrated data — location, time and type of crime."

Location, time, and type of crime. Multivariate regression, not neural networks.
Looks great. I always wanted a single place to look for my next motorcycle. What did you use for your tech stack?
Hey Hacker News! We're really excited about our KickStarer launch. We both dig Y Combinator and would love your feedback. Cheers!
From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
As it is inDev, "embed options" is incomplete. It will eventually have image links, iframe options, short links, and etc.

As for the approval process, I manually go through and verify it's correct.

Finally, I will look into the submission validation errors.

Thanks!
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I'd guess both of them combined generate less revenue (or profit, for that matter) than just then 11-inch MacBook Air :D
Kuato aims to teach kids programming through games
Diesel stores pretty well, if you can keep water out of it, otherwise it's prone to algae formation. Big standby generation sites will filter their diesel to remove water, either continuously or periodically.
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From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
I added an example in the textbox. I hope that helps.
Sure, but there's an important difference between "giving away one product to sell others" and "using a monopoly position in one market to eliminate competition in another", namely, that the latter is illegal but the former is not. Grey areas? Sure, lots, whence so may lawyers. But IE and IIS were clearly (to regulators, not me) not mere loss-leaders, but prongs of a coordinated response to a perceived threat to Microsoft's PC hegemony.

Besides, Android device manufacturers effectively "pay" Google for Android in search traffic (or reduced revenue share from search traffic).
You're right. My estimate is off by a bit over an order of magnitude for the f-22. they cost just under 50,000 an hour to operate (http://hatch.senate.gov/public/_files/USAFResponse.pdf)
you could certainly operate more than 10 of them for 9 billion.

I think a B-2 will come close to that though. 1 billion in todays dollars and 130,000 an hour for operational costs. -it's not actually 2000 a minute, there's a bunch of work before and after each flight.
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Also surprising was that standard thinkpads survived more military tests than those all-enclosed 'toughbook' designs.
Indeed, 1 google developer is going to be north of $100K/year, and if you're going to trust them to run a project, even a zombie one, probably significantly higher. Even worse is the loss of their expert advice and productivity on projects that actually deserve it.
How Software as a Service Companies can Better Onboard Users
He probably eats a charge back from the customer meaning he makes nothing if found out.
I'm going to ask for some data. All I'm seeing is more libraries porting to Python 3. I'm certainly not seeing anybody port to Python 3 and then take it back and stick to 2.

If people can't eventually move on to Python 3, then Python is dead because there is no way for it ever to be improved
I'm well aware, the bit about him being unable to buy land in New Zealand because he couldn't pass the "good character" test is my favorite.

My point was that the only comments I've ever seen on the web were mostly siding with Dotcom. Unless of course your point is that Hollywood is trying to win the sort of people who don't post to online discussions, in which case you have a point.
> It's not corruption if he didn't personally benefited from it.

I expect the Obama/Biden election campaign got contributions from MPAA companies. Shutting down Megaupload was payback.
Oh, the computers look very nice, but they're a direct response to what Apple puts out.

The Thin+Light machine is yet another Ultrabook that competes with the Macbook Air, keeping in mind that the Macbook Air was introduced in 2008 and the Ultrabook initiative started in 2011.

The All-in-One desktop is clearly a response to the iMac, right down to the Magic Trackpad.

I don't understand the stigma of pointing out these "inspirations".

However, I do admire the simplicity of Vizio's product line. If it were Dell, the laptop would be called something like the "Inspiron 14z Ultrabook™".
it looks nice and not expensive but i did not understand the "demo" part, where are they?
also what are the main differeces with other similar services? i rember seeing one some time ago that so a lot similar, something like app.net but i am not sure, but another example is limelightapp.com

good job anyway it looks really nice!

Oh one last thing, will the bar be always stick to the top of my page? that's something i would prefer not to be on my app's page. Users do not know i use your service and i think it might be confusing. I can understand if it might stay there with the free plan but with the paid ones it must go away IMHO. that said, Good Luck. ;)
I googled it, and come up with a much more recent story about Obama raising a record $15 million at a Hollywood fundraiser.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-george-clooney-f...

So while the MPAA may have been posturing about being angry, the reality is they are going to continue to flood money into the Obama/Biden campaign.
It most certainly is called corruption by the people of the US....

Im as an American am both ticked at Biden, and happy that this sort of thing is coming to light due to the Dotcom political thriller.
It is mocking all of the startups with splash pages trying to promote their prelaunch product with absolutely nothing to show about the product or even a description of what it actually is.
You mean people that buy blocks of tickets not for personal use and then resell them? We call them travel agencies.
Doesn't craigslist get upset with scrapers?
Middletown, not right on the coast but close! I was actually driving through Rumson/Fair Haven when the thought popped into my head.
Shame... There are some old Charlie Rose interviews on Google Video (about Kubrick and Apple) that I wanted to download in a few days (tech crunch doesn't load for me right now so I don't know if Google video is shut down for good, or is in the process of getting shut down and videos are still up).
Sheesh, somehow I at least that that would hold in QM.
Amazingly I use iGoogle every single day, many times per day. It collects my news and junk, hosts my frequent bookmarks, etc. Losing it is gonna suck -- hard. I simply don't have a replacement I like as much.

Have they finished moving the video from Google video over to youtube? If not why not? They've had years to do so.
To me the intentional lack of capitalization always seemed a little bit pretentious. It's not a big deal and I'm probably just feeling old-fashioned, but I still wonder if it's just a passing fad.
I apologize for my abrasiveness. I meant only to disagree. Much of your reasoning was excellent and though I did not acknowledge it, I especially agree with the point that many in the executive branch would feel that an instruction from the VP is to be obeyed. I felt that this point was so strong, that it required rebuttal in the specific case of an Attorney receiving instruction.
Apple Faces Yet Another Chinese Copyright Lawsuit
"Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be."

- Garry Kasparov

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...
They mean low-power 64 bit processor.
I think MIPS had embedded 64 bit CPU designs like forever (used in playstation and laser printers).

BTW: Tilera based on MIPS ISA.

I think Tilera is a great solution for IO-bounded applications (i.e. web servers, like in Facebook case), while Xeon Phi is great for CPU-bounded HPC applications.
This appears to be a link to your dashboard, not to the public-facing project page.
You're right, it's not directly about money. But it is to reinforce their closed platform and ecosystem.

If a great application can be used instantly off the internet, with no download, no install, no hassles, no App Store, (the way software should be) then the consumer has no particular reason to buy an Apple device over one of their competitors.

By preventing developers from building quality web applications, Apple helps maintain the need for developers to build for their native platform, which means consumers need to buy Apple devices to use those applications.
Never quite understood the draw of headlines like this: "Human With Tool Outperforms Human Without Tool"

Yep. That's what humans do. Now, if you really want to catch my attention, give me a headline like this: "Humans Without Tool Completely Fail To Freak Out When New Tool Appears".
A bit disappointed about them killing igoogle. I used to use as a great SEO tactic to increase people's page rank. Even if the site was brand new, you get put a link on a person's igoogle page and like clockwork within 24-48 hours they'd be in the SERPS, usually within the first three pages.

I don't do much SEO any more so I'm wondering how effective it really is now.
As much as I love the mockup, in the end I probably agree.

Microsoft's core branding strength in the consumer market is its "genericness". Look at the new homepage - very standard US families using MS products. While Apple's aesthetic appeals to millions and millions, to some it comes off as elitist and/or flashy. As unusual as it seems to say this, MS may be doing well by pushing their bland mostly-business-but-you-can-go-on-facebook-on-it-too branding - many americans could assimilate the mockup's intended message and react negatively. People want cheap crap that doesn't make them think too hard.

Microsoft's current branding is unexciting (read: safe, reassuring) for very specific reasons.
Yikes. You're right. The effects of late nights (developing). :-/
Sure, but there seems to be a difference between divesting of a conglomerate's lowest performing business units, lavishing on the highest-performing ones, and putting the rest on notice, and applying a similar system to a small team. The latter reminds me less of Welch than of Glengarry Glen Ross: "First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."

For anyone who hasn't seen the movie: it doesn't end well.

With respect to employees, the point of a "forcing function" has less to do with motivation than with finding some way to make change possible in a crumbling organization of fiefdoms whose managers insist that, nevertheless, "all my children are above average." If I recall correctly, Welch even points out that "C" players often go on to be "B" or even "A" players in other organizations, which doesn't change the fact that everyone can't be doing everything right when the overall organization is underperforming, so there are either weak spots, or no alternatives to immediate liquidation.

Finally, I'm quite confident Welch would agree that "blindly applying a vague principle you read in some book, then sticking with it for years because 'it worked for $MEGACORP'" is a stupid idea, regardless of who wrote the damn book!
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To be honest I was talking just about iPhone development which is the main mobile device to code for atm.

And yes, while you have to have responsive app (iPhone, Ipad, vertical/horizontal), you pretty much have the framework (cocoa) do all the heavy lifting for you, you don't have to worry about you content being viewed in a different device or other OS.

The Android on the other hand I got to agree with you, but Android itself is the Internet Explorer for mobile apps. I'd hate code for an android device as well :P
Scratch that, it looks like you're doing it client side but the SOP isn't letting requests through
Heh. np. i realized i sounded harsh so i deleted it.
I'm happy to see both parties in this situation acting with a great deal of professionalism. It feels good to be a part of this community.
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My portfolio looks different when I'm logged in vs. when I open up the URL in incognito window. That's ok (HN does it too) but you should give me some way of previewing the guest-view. E.g. https://kickfolio.com/chirag?preview or something.

Bug: When I'm logged in, https://kickfolio.com/chirag/tip-of-my-tongue and https://kickfolio.com/chirag/ktype show "We're sorry, but something went wrong."

Also, is there any way for someone to claim their own app? I test added 'Angry Birds' to my portfolio and it worked. What if someone else adds my app?
Perhaps "the minute" was a bit much in trying to prove my point.

First, I think comedians are a little different then other types of artists who have a little more latitude in their work. I'm speaking specifically about the buzz that surrounds this particular artist right now who is very funny. And what I'm saying is that if he stops being funny, in general or not as funny, the goodwill that he built up won't matter in terms of bringing a significant number of people to his shows.

And if he becomes funny again people will want to attend his shows regardless of something like what he is doing. I don't believe the fact that (this type of) goodwill would make a big difference in how quickly the audience returns.

And in any case the reason any artists matters at all is because they provide entertainment that people like. That is their product. The "good will" part isn't what got them to where they are today and won't keep them there if they fail to deliver.

The old Howard Stern (haven't listened to him since he was on non satellite was quite the asshole in many cases. Despite that he had a big following even from people who thought he was a dick. Because he provided entertainment that people like they overlooked undesirable things about him.
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-video-cont...

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Google Video content moving to YouTube
Later this summer, all remaining hosted video on Google Video will be moved to YouTube. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re moving the remaining hosted content to YouTube as private videos. Google Video users can rest assured that you won’t be losing any of your content as it will be fully available on YouTube, and you can choose to make those videos public on YouTube if you’d like.

If you would prefer to migrate, delete or download your content yourself, you can do so by visiting the Google Video status page prior to August 20, 2012
"Get a great looking, reponsive website with zero effort." typo found
How are they planning to police scalping?
Because it used to work and Apple broke it (possibly on purpose) and refuses to fix it. That's not the same as it never working in the first place.
I love the name they picked.
"Open your mind to Kuato"
The reference might not be quite obscure enough once the remake comes out though.
There was previous discussion on this the other day... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185684

I think it depends on the inputs. If the algorithm looks at statistics blindly, ie. does not take into account race, then it would be more accurately called "crime profiling". So, unless people were to feel that crime should be more acceptable in some circumstances than others (i.e. a crime prone area should be allowed some low level crime because that's what people know), it should be a non-issue. I think the question is more about how the police on the ground respond, do they inject race into the the practical aspect?

It would seem that that should not change just because police are being dispatched by an automated system --what I mean, is I don't think this system should or will make beat cops more or less biased against a given ethnicity, per se. but in effect a neighborhood will get more attention and long-run, should end up in a better place, given that results show a significant improvement.

In the end, time will tell.
64-bit benchmarks are more fair, since Go's 32-bit x86 target hasn't received much attention (it's irrelevant to most users).

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Most of the performance difference is because Go's GC isn't very good, which is something that they're working on.
You are just jealous of our plan :)
Apparently, after failing to present any valuable innovation since the original Wii, Nintendo has a death wish.
(i.e. They invite the fate of Sony, which received a very painful blow from Anonymous for chasing GeoHotz, the PS3 hacker.)
They recently sent a cease and desist letter to some company which was scrapping them for apartment rentals.
I hadn't even heard of "google talk chatback"[1]. Isn't this essentially a the free version of Olark?

I'm simply surprised that Olark is so widespread, and yet I'd never come across this Google product which is older and extremely similar.

[1] -http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-talk-chatback....
That would actually have the added benefit of avoiding profiling.
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The GC may not be up to snuff.
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=3805302
I just cross-posted this to a subreddit I started recently, /r/Orwellian. It's still small at 76 readers, but I figured there might be interest here. I'm hoping for it to be a non-partisan place to share/discuss the myriad of government abuses coming to light.
Nexus S 4G Welcomed Back into Android Open Source Project
Of course there was never any question that any new penetration testing I would do with them would be under NDA. What worried me is that the disclosure may not be made public if I was under a NDA that prevented me from publishing it. I didn't want to have any professional or ethical conflicts.
I think this is insightful. Starcraft is a game of making split second decisions based on extremely limited information. In fact, getting information is often expensive, so what you have to do is try different attacks (experiments) to penetrate the defences (market). I played Starcraft 1 more then I'd care to admit and even won some minor tournaments. Starcraft 2 I played at masters level which is roughly equivalent to 2000 elo in chess (Read: huge difference to the pros). The skills learned from Starcraft and Poker are definitely highly applicable to building Shopify.
I'd be interested to understand why you would classify web servers as generally I/O bound, rather than CPU (or memory) bound.
I enjoy the concept and the snappiness of the app previws. But, to me, the layout's use of subtlepatterns.com seems a bit gratuitous.
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Although I've never tried it myself I've read that gtk supports static linking, iirc you have to build gtk with --disable-modules.

Also, Go has gtk bindings, how does that work?
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I liked it a lot, except for the "promise made, promise kept" by-line.
People don't care what hacker/nerd types think because of things like this comment. Insisting on a pedantic interpretation of a comment, whose meaning should be obvious, suggests an inability to tolerate even minor variances from a desired ideal. This is typical of the engineer's mindset -- everything which doesn't conform to an archetype or classification system is flawed or contradictory.

I'm reading these comments because occasionaly I find something interesting. I would never conclude that something either has or lacks value based on the sentiments expressed by HN commenters, which was the point of my response.
You can take away that Michael Jackson's record company is very efficient at directing calls, reaching Michael in 5 minutes. And, Michael Jackson negotiates his own payment for appearances, apparently.
In that perspective the Megaupload shutdown seems like a pretty good way to make amends right after the SOPA fiasco.
wow some awesome advice from the founder of Teevox :D! Looks like I'll be pushing v2 this weekend >_<!

As for the OwlDen blog, we're launching our fashion ecommerce product in private to beta users this Friday.
They do have a rather loyal following and I've used it off and on since 2006 (when it was first free with no ads) and still think it has some advantages over other browsers. I also think their Opera Mini for mobile is the best mobile browser out there (it was the #1 mobile browser in 2011).

They have decent developer tools and have been early adopters of a lot of the HTML5 and CSS3 specs. I'm pretty sure they were first to make it possible to use HTML5 video and audio.

It just bums me out they can't seem to get more market share.
Thanks for the feedback! I've just spotted your error in the logs so will work to fix it today.

Preview view is a good idea - will see about how we can implement it.

We're planning on adding a dispute resolution process for apps. One of the use cases we've identified is that a business might want to feature an app as a marketing tool, while the freelancer who made it might want it as a portfolio tool. Automatic verification doesn't seem possible, so we're currently building a manual dispute resolution process.
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Could you give us a link to what the good people at 37signals have to say?
What the fuck does this comment have to do with Gabriel's post? Who's voting this comment to the top of the thread?
The demo's are an optional extra. You can check out a demo here: http://www.edwarddowling.com/victorian-opera

or here: http://kickfolio.com/examples/modest

Just click play twice and away you go!

(Tech is from the great guys at Pieceable).

The bar is only there if you are logged in, so users won't see it.
God's not very good. He gets too creative. He can always Jedi mind trick you into mistakes, though.

God says...
soap_opera do_it ehh_a_wise_guy humility you_should_be_so_lucky
God_smack bad_ol_puddytat repent humility little_buddy
the Bam well_I_never nope bye what_would_Jesus_do my_bad

God says...
chill come_and_get_me bassackward absolutely spending far_out_man
Isn't_that_special you're_wonderful

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was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto
them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall
recover of this disease.

1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them,
Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire
of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD,
Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but
shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them,
Why are ye now turned back? 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a
man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that
sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because
there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of
Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from
that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Thanks! I'll fix it now and push it later today.