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Incorrect. You must request and obtain the extended permission 'email' in order to retrieve the user's email address from Facebook.
Does anyone here remember catalog stores? That may not be the right name, I've only been in one once, and it has to have been over 15 years.

You'd go in the store and look at the merchandise, all of it in glass cases. You'd use a little golf pencil to mark the order sheet they gave you at the door for what you wanted.

When you were done shopping, you'd give your form to the guy at the register. They'd ring you up and someone in the back of the store would collect all the stuff you just bought from the warehouse racks and bring it out for you.

I was amazed something like that existed in the 90s. I have a hard time envisioning that we'd see something like that again. I mean that's how grocery stores worked once, but the market changed with self-service.

I'll occasionally "window shop" at stores, but I only do that if I know the prices are really different. If it's a $10 difference and I'm already in the store, why wait for someone to ship it to me, even if it arrives later that day?
I want an API for my living space. Temperature, how much power my devices consume, light levels, etc. Correlate this with my utility bills for power, gas, water, and the like.

Everything can have a microprocessor in it now. What's taking so long?
UCLA Engineers Develop World’s Fastest Camera [video]
What's the story with that David Mark guy? Based on the parent to that post (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/QVlJ0bz...) he seems to be mentally ill or something - there's about three pages of stream-of-consciousness ranting.

Or maybe I just haven't been on usenet news for a while...
A lot of the same arguments were made about the wii when it first came out (specs are crap, no good games, controllers are unconventional so games have to be recoded for them), it still did quite well.

Though even if everything else fails I'll still enjoy it as a $99 media streamer.
This blog seemed rather negative about the system, but I'm still excited to see how OUYA turns out. I know that I can hook up a box to a tv, and program for it. Most programmers know that. However, it's the idea that you're programming for a standalone console that just makes me want to code.
The correct way to say it would be there is a 2:1 ratio of content to advertising. By saying 50% of the programming is advertising you are including advertising in what you consider programming, making the statement false. This is still just nitpicking at the details, your original point is still valid.
This is a crap of a post if I ever see one. It's easy to see the huge amount of bias in the lines. I need to say before writing further that I am not interested in the OUYA stuff, but I'm curious to see how it does, and there's probably some kind of market for it.

"1. android game list not compatible" :
There are several apps on Android which enable games working with touchscreen only to be translated to physical controls by simulating touch pressure at precise points on the screen. Of course, this wouldnt work for Angry birds of game such as that, but there are a number of games for which this approach will work.

"2. The Android Game Library is Extremely Lackluster" :
Yeah, maybe. But apparently there's some significant profit happening from a bunch of game creators, if not they would have stopped making games for Android a long time ago.

"3. Indies Will Not Fill the Void" :
Why not? We have seen Braid on Ubuntu store even though it's a tiny portion of the market for games. There will be support from Indies. Porting something to the OUYA will be something fairly easy since the hardware is standard and the environment is already one people are familiar with. Cost of porting will be very low, I believe.

"4. The Userbase Problem" :
They already solved this partly by :
- adopting Android and therefore benefiting from Android market games
- ensuring ports would be easy to make with standard hardware and environment, as my previous point.
- and it seems, at least from Kickstarter, that there is some strong market interest for it, at least for a niche market.

"5. Some Things Just Don't Scale" :
Author focuses on online capabilities, but just like on other consoles, you dont need online to enjoy great single player games like Limbo or Braid.

"6. Games are Moving Away From the TV" :
Yeah, so what? There will still be always a market for TV-games. It's not like everyone is going to stop playing games on a big screen. There will be a market for it. Noone is ever considering that the games' market will be 100% mobile in the years to come. It may be decreasing because of the old business model as well, and the lack of innovation on home-based consoles.

"7. Android Specs Move too Fast" :
Yeah, and so do hardware specs for PCs, yet games usually support a wide range of hardware capabilities, to be able to run in different resolutions and different processors, while still remaining playable. I don't see the big deal there. And nothing prevents them for updating the OUYA every 2 years or something while still keeping game compatibility, something impossible with current consoles.

I can't believe someone claiming to be a developper in the game industry wrote that post. Seriously.
Much of Europe has similar effective tax rates as the US. The difference is the US tax rate is taken out in a lot of separate taxes at the SS, Medicare, Income tax (federal) + State income tax, sales tax, property taxes + local sales taxes, property taxes. Plus Debt and a wide range of fines and fees. Where Europe has no EU wide taxes and it's all taken out at the 'state' and local level.

PS: Per person the US government spends as much on healthcare as many countries with 'national' healthcare so we are paying for it even if we don't have universal healthcare.
Personal Opinion: I'm going to call Comcast tomorrow and demand they do the same thing. I can't stand Comedy Central or anything Viacom has ever done. TV is for morons.
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I'm not sure the two conflict. Twitter integration doesn't offer any kind of twitter browsing experience, only posting from other apps. I use the iOS integration for some posting, but consume and post most of my stuff through Tweetbot on iPad and iPhone.
Mobile games are garbage. They, at best, are pay-for flash games, and at worst, are a small fraction of a game designed to push you into paying money to unlock features which are a near unfeasible grind to unlock normally (if it's even possible).

The only way they shine is Draw Something/Words With Friends-style turn-based multiplayer, and even then they still suffer from the issues I noted above.

I have far more fun playing Pokemon on an emulator on my phone than I've had with any mobile game to date.
I have to agree. The Tweetbot alpha is more enjoyable than Twitter's stalled adaptation of Tweetie.
A website relying on a single service to serve as a sole identity provider seems replete with risks. That sounds remarkably similar to Microsoft's Passport, an idea that was a non-starter for everyone except Microsoft.
Too bad I cancelled my order years ago...
I don't think "I don't like Facebook" is limited to dev-centric populations. I know people who have nothing to do with software development who refuse to get Facebook accounts. And then there are the folks who use Facebook but refuse the install any apps (about half of my Facebook friends fall into this category). You need to offer something other than Facebook auth if you care about having the broadest reach possible. This Mozilla persona thing has a pretty intuitive workflow for signing up with any email address.
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If we were going by the original definitions of first world, second world third world. China would be a second world country since it was aligned with Russia and not the US.
Multiple per week for me. Often under such taxing conditions as 'posting a tweet' or 'clicking an image.' I really drive these apps too hard ;)
> Not sure if I want to know why you need ammunition at 1 am...

Zombies. That's the real mistake we're making with shifting all our purchases to Amazon and their just-in-time delivery. There will be nothing to loot when the zombie outbreak happens.
I don't really have an opinion on the underlying dispute, but, to me, this sounds unprecedented in a good way. Viacom expects to generate meaningful additional pressure on DirecTV using the people who watch the episodes online already plus the inevitable "DirecTV refugees". That's a marker of the growing significance of watching TV online. I'd say that's a positive development overall.
>If you ask for the permission Facebook will give you the users email address.

us3r-1D@facebook.com - that's helpful :)
Given the willingness of the US government to run huge deficits, I don't see how fighting waste in completely different areas of government would enable the country to go war.

Never mind that we're taking about saving millions, while the last two wars each cost trillions. Or 100,000 Census Bureau websites as discussed in the article.
If your kids like Pokémon, they’ll go nuts for Nukotoys (with video)
The tax argument comes up in every discussion like this. It's a nice advantage, but I seriously doubt their sales are very different in areas they charge tax and those where they don't.

I have to pay Amazon sales tax because they have a distribution center near me. I remember a few years ago I noticed that they were charging me tax when they didn't used to, but it never figured into my buying.

The truth is Amazon's prices are generally better anyway, so they still hold an advantage. Shipping was always a bigger problem for me. I would keep lists of things to get and then when I decided I wanted really wanted something I'd order enough to qualify for the $50 or $100 order free shipping.

Now I've had Amazon Prime for a few years, and it's fantastic. I don't have to pay extra for two day shipping, and overnight is just $5 or so. Two day is almost always fast enough. Since Amazon has made everything so easy (and I don't have to worry about shipping or waiting too long) I buy more than enough for Prime to pay for its self.
Not sure I can go into too much detail, but I guess I can say the publisher made a sum in the low/mid 5-digits.
Sadly what it does and does not preview seems to be pretty random. For me with Lion it will preview Rakefiles and .txt files for example, but not .js files.
As a student, my classmates and I use Facebook groups to organize activities. If, for example, the stage manager announces via Facebook that there will be rehearsal at a specific time, or that you should bring $5 for the director's gift, it'd be pretty stupid for all 35 cast members to reply "k" and nobody does this. But the message needs to reach all of them, and the SM has no idea who's been informed, so instead he gives himself carpel-tunnel texting everyone individually (because there is a social expectation that you acknowledge texts.)

A stage manager is in serious trouble if half the cast didn't know to show up, so he'll do it the hard way if he has to. But for large, informal social groups, people who don't use Facebook as actively simply fall through the cracks. I'm part of a roughly 30-member group that gets together to watch hilariously awful movies. We organize on Facebook, and people who don't happen to see our posts get left behind and forget about it. If the host of a movie night could easily see who already knows about it, he can contact the others by phone or in person, increasing engagement with the group while respecting those who silently declined.

Being able to see who you've already reached makes Facebook a pretty massive convenience in cases where it previously had no advantage, increasing engagement with both Facebook itself and the real-world entities represented by Facebook groups. I'd call it a win-win.

>If the other person knows you saw their message, then there's the potential for them to perceive your lack of response as rude or a show of obvious disagreement.

This goes both ways. Yes, it does eliminate ambiguity - you saw the message and chose not to respond; there wasn't a technical glitch. But where the person you're talking to would previously have escalated to a more invasive form of communication like a phone call, he now knows there's nothing wrong with Facebook; you're just not interested.
OUYA is a startup. A startup's job is to explore new markets at a high risk.

Maybe that is too abstract, I'll reword it. A startup's job is to overcome challenges and create the non-obvious.

Each of those 'reasons' are just challenges that OUYA will have to overcome to succeed. The reasons do not make OUYA a bad idea, but rather a hard idea.
Not to mention for #1 there are some games that already support controllers through the gamepad support in Android 4.0. If the Ouya supports that they may very well work 'out of the box'.

As a developer I'm happy to see someone trying to tap into the market in new ways, and I can't fathom why there's so much hate generated towards the product.
If you're interested in HTML->PDF without the hoop jumping have a look at princeXML. It's incredibly good.
You get fat?

I rarely go to the movies because I can watch netflix on my couch (and save $20-$30). Movie attendance still grows because of economic growth, but in relative numbers it's falling (down 4% in the US/2011).
I worked for a successful Fortune 50 company whose products you use every day. I worked out of an office in NYC, and flew to the west coast every two weeks to attend a staff meeting that lasted about 2.5 hours. I literally earned enough frequent travel points that I didnt pay for a vacation from 2003-2009.

If you work for a company like Microsoft or IBM or Bank of America, you work in a bureaucracy at least as dysfunctional and Byzantine as an average US state. The Federal government is a whole other beast unto itself, but there are probably companies as screwy as they are too.

The fact that the private entity purges some folks doesn't make them better.
In 5 minutes I could probably compile a list of 20 failed startups that tried to do something similar. In 10 seconds I can show you 5 sites that did it right. This space is full, there is no room for your startup and unless you pivot into a product that actually solves a pain, you will fail.

Take a close look at Reddit. They own this space.

Also, what you describe above is essentially a social network. How are you any different than say... Facebook? I can share my links, photos, quotes, etc.. there. 800,000,000 users a month login. Everyone I know is on it. Why would I bother with devvox?
Actually, most of the images were swiped from girls' Facebook and Photobucket accounts without their permission. These were definitely not meant to be spread around for wanking material.
I really, really like Persona. It's federated and it gives the identity provider a vast amount of control over the security protecting accounts.

Want to use SSH keys for auth? Okay. You can do that.
Exactly the same as my sentiment.

Why are all these gaming tech "pundits" jumping on the internet hate bandwagon. It stifles innovation and is regressive. There's no telling if this will be a success because that's entirely up to the developers/community/designers that may or may not lead it.

I donated because I want to see that consoles by definition not need to be the latest and greatest (I have my PC for that and most people will have extensive "fanboy" wars over the next console put out by either Sony or MS).
Not only that but I support the idea that Android could be THE entry level to game development. It could be an amazing learning tool for beginners, everywhere.

I'm starting to hate using HN... Anyone found good alternatives?
Ouya - just how disruptive is it?
Show HN: TumbleOn, the best tumblr photo app. We made this (3 of us, in Austin).
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This post is so bad, I have a paragraph response to each one and I'm too damn lazy to type them. The only one worthy of discussion is the first one. It seems like this publicity could be an easy way to help solve this problem if they do it right.
Nobody even built a memristor until 2008. I think you're remembering wrongly.
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Not so web-scale after all (at least not the way the whitehouse has configured it.)

I bet it's probably on the default setting where it starts dropping writes if it becomes overwhelmed.
Maybe for electronics but for clothes I don't mind driving to the store. Trying stuff on till I find what works. Asking knowledgeable staff for suggestions/opinions.

I think I've had one positive result from buying clothes online.
I hate to add another "this is why HN is going down the tube" post so I'm going to try and be very constructive here.

There are naysayers for every idea. For new ideas there are more of them than when the ideas are established.

Every new product sucks. All of them. Some suck less. But the good ones improve with time.

I do not want to be part of a community that rallies against people trying to do great things with passion and change the status quo.

To me as a gamer and a guy who learned to do basic HTML as a pre-teen because he loved games and learned to hack at games with others far more experience than me this seems like an absolutely brilliant idea. If I were 13 again, I would be figuring out how to build games for OUYA if for nothing else than to be cool among my group of friends.

This comment comes from the gut and is not as analytical as some of my others but this post does not belong here.

OUYA team, I salute you. I don't care about the shortcomings of your initial product, I think your idea is sound and it seems there are thousands of people who seem to agree.
One other benefit is it lowers the friction to signup.
It's hard to explain, but it's not much a "service" - the current implementation is just a "shim", since no browser supports it natively. Client-wise, it's just a JavaScript API. In the future, your browser will store your keys, not Mozilla.

But even with the current implementation it is possible to validate the assertion in your server without contacting browserid.org, but AFAIK nobody did it yet.

(I tried to find a reference for that, but they took it down from their Wiki. It used to say "You may choose to validate assertions on your own server": https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/How-to-Use-Browser... - the verification code is still online, though)
I admit, the Lisp one at the end made me laugh.

For most other languages the focus seems to be mainly on letters (typing out keywords/identifiers), so in that sense there is little evidence that one language would be easier to write than another.

Additionally, I imagine that some of the code is auto-completed by an IDE, which this analysis fails to account for.
Given all the failed government projects, I feel like that people say, "As long as you can't prove it wasn't my fault" (as opposed to "my project") they won't get fired. After all nobody got fired from Big Government for following the rules... (Sarcasm intended)
Recruit Cal Ripken, Not Reggie Jackson, To Your Startup
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Service Merchandise and BEST, right? I never figured out why they both went out of business. They should have been able to offer a huge inventory with hardly any overhead.
What's the first blacked-out character on the front of the 50?

Image: http://i.imgur.com/9yZo5.jpg

The sequence is: ?FIDI

Edit: Oh, presumably it's a "B" for Bifid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifid_cipher), and it reads top-down, left-to-right.
Biggest lesson from the days where I was the only technical person in our company:

Get a monitoring system in place that you trust. Then get a second, completely independent one in place that you trust. Then also get on-machine monitoring (monit, et al) that tries to fix things if they go bad.

In retrospect, that should have happened a lot earlier. Once we had redundant monitoring systems and a firm belief that if something was down that I'd be notified about it, the world became much more chilled out. If I didn't have an SMS, the services were up and running.
Greets!

I spoke to you guys over email and need to touch base with you.

can you email me at ss@teecom.com

I'd like to talk to you about integration, BlueJeans, competition, etc...
Christina Binkley in the WSJ had a great column on this topic titled "To Dress Well, a Woman Should Shop Like a Man": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870440570457606...
it seems to work in chrome. you have to select the appropriate input and the code and then click compile.
Could a crowd sourced ethical investment fund work?
We have this in the UK still. A major one [Index] went out of business a few years ago (8?) but Argos still run this way. Indeed Tesco now have a version of this [for consumer electronics+household goods] in some of their largest stores.
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I'd be interested in seeing which keys I press most when I'm programming in APL.
That link is to a very high level, non-technical overview, which is not a good link for HN.

Try these links, which go into much more detail, answering the "why bother" questions.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/BrowserID/Why_BrowserID

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7899984443/privacy-and-brow...

http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works

Note that BrowserID was the old working name for the project.
That doesn't remove the transaction cost at all. It still requires you to actively decide to click.
Yes - I had a friend go on study abroad in London, and Prime shipping there meant free next-day delivery and cheap same-day delivery.
You may not enjoy them, but it's dismissive and incorrect to label the entire set as 'garbage'.

Offhand, here are some mobile games that I have played that are in no way garbage:

* Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery
* Waking Mars
* Shadowgun
* Infinity Blade/Infinity Blade II
* Hero Academy
* Magic 2013: Duel of the Planeswalkers
* Aralon
* Great Little War Game
* Space Invaders Infinity Gene
* Shadow Era

Pokemon is an amazing game and one of the most popular ever made, so saying you've had more fun with it than another game isn't saying much at all.
By the way, seen on another article on the subject :

"So what is Ouya, you ask? Ouya is a game console built on the Android operating system. Its creators pitched it as a platform for independent developers, and it clearly has big potential. In just 24 hours, 20,000 people bought an Ouya console — a product they had never heard of before yesterday. By way of comparison, Microsoft sold 326,000 Xbox 360 consoles in its first week after many millions of marketing dollars."

I think this clearly shows there is a market for it, just like there is a market for old-style Adventure Games a la DoubleFine.
SXSW 2011 social media startup darling Hashable is already done