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Not much in here as of right now , so if you looking as to what can be done immediately there isn't much of anything. It is cool that this is being worked on in public. Honestly I don't know why this is a fresh project instead of just an official fork of Bukkit.
I speculated on reasons for leaving, I was not talking about his character as a person.
>c) very, very richly valued by the market right now.

Yeah. I think, in fact, it's overvalued by the market right now. Many people are bidding for ad words as if the google adword is what brought you the customer.

The thing is, at least in my case, this simply isn't true. Nobody buys a VPS on the first click; if someone clicks through a google ad for my company, yeah, google should get some credit, but most of the credit should go to the blog the customer saw a month ago.

That's the thing; because the adwords are the first hits and are super convenient for the customer, they pick up a lot of people that would have clicked on the organic result.

Now, this is okay if they are taking a very small cut, but the way many people use google adwords? the price is bid up to a very large cut of the profit you are going to earn from that customer. I mean, yeah, sure, if google really is bringing me brand new customers that had never heard of me; people I would not otherwise have a chance with, yeah, I can see paying 90% of the profit. But if google is bringing me customers that were very likely to come to me anyhow? eh, I'm not going to want to pay google nearly that much.

I think this is also why facebook is so highly valued; people believe that facebook has enough tracking data to see that blog that my customer read last week that actually caused the customer to sign up through the adword this week. And maybe they do... but it's a dang difficult problem, and I haven't seen facebook make much progress. Even then, they are going to have a hard time integrating the people that heard of me because of the checkout-line advertisements I bought in Mountain View Safeways.

(because of this, my advertising dollars go into cost per impression advertising, rather than cost per click.)
I don't mind having no call centers to call as long as the service works better and the network is smart. Currently, you are having to use a phone to verbally tell the telco where the problems are on the network they run, which is insane.
> So, just to clear up any confusion, are you really recommending that it is preferable for Chinese citizens to drown in the Yangtze? Or is it only preferable for people who became Chinese citizens through some form of magical means, possibly involving a wizard?

No, I'm not. I'm saying that it'd be preferable for _me_ to drown in the Yangtze if I were to become a Chinese citizen via magical means.

Are you really reading my comment(s) incorrectly or are you trying to push me between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place by asking antagonizing questions and hoping I respond inappropriately to them?
FWIW, I just got an invite and I signed up in December 2010.
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The way I see it, what went wrong with Digg was the amount of influence "superstar" users had on the stories that make the front page. The fact that they kept and displayed the "ranking" of users just shows how this culture of superstardom is ingrained within Digg mechanics itself. It may not have effected the traffic or growth at the time, but it did affect the quality of stories highlighted. Digg knew its system was being gamed and I think that is what pushed them to make the changes they did on v4 (apart from the money), where publishers were given priority over individually submitted stories.
it most indefinitely is because the original Chinese post he sourced (Solidot) didn't mention crack down on netcafes "for youth" at all. original text sounded more like they went around and hunted down all the "illegal" blacklisted sites that were peddling illegal materials, spreading political rumors and being anti-communist/party leaders/party systems. sounds like a normal day for left leaning anything in China.
"That free tier? That is outright illegal and its sole purpose is to eradicate all competition."

No - the purpose is to increase people willing to pay for installations in a given neighborhood so they can go ahead and roll out service to more people.
I'm sure big Canadian telcos are now forced to do something in the next 12-24 months, otherwise they will lose time, and then money very soon.
did you just compare a game with a 15$ subscription and 40$ expansion packs for major updates and lvl bumps to a 10 dollar app? do you realize how asinine that is and how dumb you sound?

if i want to get to current content in WoW i would of had to get Vanilla(50$ at release) + burning crusade (40$ at release) + wrath of the lich king(40$ at release) + cataclysm(40$ at release) PLUS every month im paying 15$ on subscription

if i just buy vanila i would be limited to 1-60 content, not allowed full access to any of the later continents and cities, skills, talents, cant pvp properly, not allowed in arena, cant do any endgame, and am generally wasting my time. how is that at all conducive to what you are saying? for any real application that does work or major game that requires constant updates you cant expect support and update for 10$ that's completely unfeasible.

you sound like someone who never played world of warcraft in his life, and it baffles me how you came up with such a nonsensical rebuttal
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Me and all my friends are using this beautiful and fun product. A night out doesn't exist without Popset. No Popset set means there wasn't a party. Can't wait to see where this product is going next.
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>Folders are non-intuitive if they aren't learned

This is the second time you've used the word intuitive. I'm not sure if you don't understand what it means or if you just misspoke twice.

Something is intuitive if it doesn't need to be taught/learned.
Yes, because they also have access to data associated with your Google account and collected across the web through AdSense and Analytics.

However, having potentially millions of people with gigabit connections creates a whole new world for darknets so I think it's a net gain.
I agree that it is in MVP mode now. Practically unusable in my case because joint accounts are not yet allowed, but I immediately jumped on the invite I was waiting on for two years. As Cushman noted, the name says it all – Simple.

The interface is gorgeous and intuitive and unlike anything you find at any other bank. It won't ever be for everybody, but I believe it will be the very best option for many that need only the simplest and smartest of banking options.

I recently needed to write a check for several thousand dollars to an individual for a service provided. This would have been impossible if Simple was my only bank, because they do not issue paper checkbooks. I either could have withdrawn cash each day over a week-long period ($500 daily max) or arranged to set them up to be paid electronically. But I don't think we are to a point yet where paying a local, small-business owner with an electronic transfer for a service is feasible. Can you imagine if someone you were expecting immediate payment from for a service you just provided said "I can't write you a check, but give me your email address or bank routing number and account number, and I will be sure to have that transferred to you, which may take two to five days." No way. Maybe someday.

I have found one bank that encompasses basically all the features Simple has promised from the beginning. Believe it or not, it is State Farm Bank. The interface is clunky compared to Simple, but they deliver on the product: iPhone app with photo check deposit, bill pay and transfers. Real-time account balance. Balance reflecting future planned deposits and payments. Through the website you can send money to anyone through PayPal or direct to their bank accounts, deposit checks by scanning and transfer in and out of your own external bank accounts. Reimbursement for all ATM fees. You get paper checks. I've never had any fees issued or any reason to contact support for anything. I have been extremely happy, but would like to see all of this combined with the technology and interface of Simple.
What are you talking about? Noone? There's a TON out in the App Store.. there's even 1 with the exact same brand name.
Again you are missing the point.

The question you are asking is the wrong question to ask. The question is whether they understand the concept of directories in this context.

I.e. is it there intellectual transcendence from one paradigm to another without learning how the metaphor is expreseed in this new context.

It's much much much different than you think out there :)
You only need one:

https://www.google.com/search?q=nsa+whistleblower+william+bi...
Think about services like OnLive (who even offers Windows in the cloud). We have these today, but if we had fiber everywhere, we likely wouldn't have the dvd drive in the Xbox 360. We certainly wouldn't need BluRay.
There are certain advantages to working for yourself, regardless of the nature of the work.

Absolutely. But I think the big success stories have obscured the fact that for the average dev those advantages will come at a very high material cost.
but sounds like there were relationship issues as well. I wouldn't imagine his cut and run solely on "I cant program enough" -- He had to be either under performing or frustrated with the others' lack of leadership/performance/flexibility/ability to listen/you-name-it

That's personal, and you have no basis for it.
On the other hand, Windows on ARM is an extension of the Windows franchise in the same way that WP7 with it's app store is. In a sense it is like talking about the iPad when discussion the Mac App store...or would be if iOS applications ran on the Mac.

Metro is a future of Windows, just as Server Console mode is (though admittedly on a potentially different scale).
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That may be technically true, but in practice some language features require more overhead than others.

If a language requires a feature where making it "fast" is so difficult that nobody can implement a fast version of it, then I think it's fair to say that language is slower than the alternatives.

Knowing that language X can, in theory, be faster than language Y does me no good at all if there are no implementations of language X that are actually faster than Y.
And ads/analytics/+1 buttons on pretty much every website ever.
Westside. Comcast isn't an option because I run my own servers, need a static ip, and don't need their silly games. And note that Comcast speed is an "up to" and shared thing. A friend is with them in Palo Alto and gets numbers like yours during the day, and then in the evening it drops to around a Mbit or two as the entire neighbourhood watches Netflix.

I'm using Cruzio. The spend bump was because they partnered with Sonic and also use ADSL 2+ instead of only the old crusty ADSL. Cruzio also will not pull any of the stunts Comcast et al do ("traffic shaping" to favour their own products, quotas etc).
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Of course on all of their plans they limit your speed. The top speed at over $200 is only 300/65Mbps

Edit: and that is only for the connect, not the TV service. And the router they give you isn't very good and same goes for the 'cable/tv box' which sucks up more power than my PC and likes to die once a week forcing me or my wife to physically unplug and re-plug it if we want to watch Tv. It would be a far stretch to say Fios is good, it is only better than the alternatives in my area.
I'm surprised that most carriers don't embrace wifi-based calling the way T-mobile and Ruckus have.
Not a lie, but definitely a misrepresentation of their true offerings.

Claiming support for a language on your front page does not mean "in private beta". It means you actually support that language.
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AppFog is the parent company. PHP Fog and AppFog are the two PaaS products that AppFog the company make and sell.
Show HN: InstaWifi, an app that uses NFC and QR codes to connect and share wifi
Interesting double entendre considering what kind of video a lot of people stream....
for instance:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/performance.php?test=c...

needless to say that all benchmarks will be very biased, as idiomatic code is not necessarily the most optimized one.
Over 85% of w3schools.com users have a screen bigger than 1024x768. Most people have never been to w3schools.
Why has this guy been down-voted?
This has happened to me in the past, complain about lack of customer support from google, get down-voted with no responses.
I've run into this so often; I'm glad I'm not the only one. I often have to revert to modifying the URL just to get to their main page (change blog.company.com to company.com) after finding no possible way to link to the home page.
"Amazon has found that every 100 ms of latency costs them 1% in sales."

"Google has found that an extra 500 ms in search page generation time made traffic drop by 20%."

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/09/23/latency-costs-sales-and-...

I don't think Google plans to bring this level of high-speed internet to everyone in the US, but they're certainly trying to spur the competition on.

If people use the internet more, Google makes more money.
I am well aware what it means. And you need to learn what folders are on a computer and what it means to put something into them.

In other words it's not intuitive. People don't understand it in one context just because they understand it in another.

Or let me put it another way.

Nothing is intuitive, you have to learn it which renders the word in this context useless.
Right on. I think Parse was being tongue-in-cheek, to show you how far you could get with their API in a short amount of time. But the tutorial is one of the more comprehensive how-to-build-something-cool ones I've seen for mobile app dev.
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Thanks, hadn't seen the other thread.

They have tough competition but who else is able (or even capable) of offering such a compellingly unified and cutting edge platform? If they can crack the content to go with the platform, they've won imho. Worst case: the incumbents are forced to up their game dramatically.
re 1: The more people on the Internet, the more potential google customers, and eyeballs on their ads.
I'm paying around $100/mo for 50mbits, and it seems to fluctuate between 30 and 60 realistically. That's for just bare internet service and nothing else. I'd switch to Google in a heartbeat, provided they have atleast basic support.
This even may reduce the long-term success of iCloud and the platform lock-in it could bring for Apple.

Apple is never going to have the kind of platform dominance that would make iCloud really compelling. At least the other vendors realize that they need to operate in a polyglot world.

As much as I like my MBA and iPad I refuse to lock my essential data into a system I can only really access with hardware from a single vendor.
I'd have to disagree, considering that GHC maintains similar speeds to Mono and JVM languages. The question was about functional languages being slower, but he didn't specify slower than what. If the unspecified alternative is imperative languages, then there are plenty of imperative languages that are slower in that graph and will likely never be as fast as Haskell. Granted, functional languages are never going to be as fast as low-level languages like C, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily slow either.
You can go all the way into the terabit range with single fibre, which is also around the same ballpark as what you need for full holographic video.
Making iphone apps used to be good a few years ago when the store first opened. Not so much now. Earning $0.70 per sale is just not enough. And that's if your app can even be found. It's even worse with Android. With mobile overtaking PCs, it's a slightly depressing thought about the direction the software industry has taken.
One bit of trouble (of many) is that there's tremendous pressure to act happy even if you're not. People rarely react well when you act the way you feel, if you're feeling like that. People often take it personally. They get upset at you for not being happy. They think they've done something to make you unhappy. They feel at fault, even though they're not. It's easier to put up an act than just be yourself.

I think a lot of this comes down to a very poor understanding of mental illness in the general population. Nobody has a problem if you can't play frisbee with your friends because you broke your legs. But if you don't want to play frisbee with your friends because you brain is sick, their frame of mind is completely different. They're not thinking of it as a disease, with your mental state being just as much of an uncontrollable symptom as the inability to run is out of the control of the person with the broken leg.

We need to better educate people on this stuff. I'm sure that discussions like this help, as long as they don't go off the rails into misinformation.
people have been using this argument for years, just wondering has there ever been any example(citation) where this has been an issue yet ?
Blaming the passive voice is a long tradition of almost everyone who doesn't read Language Log.

You can write weaselly, evasive cop-outs without using the passive, and you can write sentences that use the passive while still putting the blame squarely where it lies.
Right here: http://blog.appfog.com/if-paas-is-expensive-and-slow-why-not...
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I think legal problems … I guess. Not sure. But it also seems like they want to do quite a few things differently, though I'm not sure whether that's good idea.
https://www.google.com/search?q=william+binney
It's comparable to the price of the usual "Triple Play" Internet+cable+phone service offers from cable companies and telcos.
Stop doing that.
I have localized some of my WP7 apps using gengo.com .
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Yup. Ryan did a great job on the timeago lib. We have ever discussed about the pull request but finally find that we changed lots of the logic about how to deal with the relative timestamp. So we started a new one to give an optional choice.
When did spam like this become acceptable on HN?

It's great that its motivating people to be healthy, but there are literally dozens of superior, multi-platform options already out there, like Endomondo, MiCoach, RunKeeper, and Nike Fuel. Most of these apps already do everything this app claims to do, and they provide integration with third party software and hardware. Zombies, Run! is also a good option for people looking for a irreverent take on fitness running.

So what makes this app different from all those other apps so as to justify a place on the front page?
http://google.com/search?q=nsa+whistleblower+william+binney
Cross-browser add-ons are a reality with Trigger.io (Zemanta example)
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Are those ads going to pay for the $1,000 of equipment that Google gives you?
Well of course, it's all in what one believes to be the way Apple is going in regards to the Mac platform. In the context of the original article, that way was toward a walled garden in which the wall was moving and growing higher from a developer's perspective in order to effectively bring more applications in house.

I don't see Microsoft going that way because they give a shit about software developers.
Yep, their wording now doesn't bother me much, but I find a lack of clear explanation after the fact particularly irksome (what was affected, where, why).
That's the first I've heard that Gates didn't say the 640k quote. Thank you for the correction.
It depends on the application itself. For pages which user will only stay for few minutes, no much more efficiency gained. But for realtime apps which user will keep the page open for hours/days, it will improve a lot. And for apps which have more read than write, it will also improve a lot.
BTW, I'm not sure whether I catch you about the "extra code". It's a replacement with less than 1KB difference in size.
I think this won't catch on because it's not more convenient or a really great deal (compared to listening to youtube videos of songs)
> In a world where malware is increasingly a problem

I don't see that as the case. There is malware out there in torrent land, sure. But if you acquire software from reputable sources (like a paid app store, referral from a friend, heard about it on a forum like HN, package repository), malware just isn't a concern.

If you put malware on an app store, the world will notice, its rating will tank, and people will stop downloading it. Reputation is the sandbox.
I would really extend this to the following qualities that people in the field of building products should try, to the best of their abilities, to be good at. They might not become the best at each one, but enough to become potent and in the very least better than they were before trying:

-Understand technology. What it takes to build, scale, maintain and fix things. What are the affordances and benefits of one approach over the other.

-Understand design. Not just pretty pixels (in fact that is the least important part, IMHO). But the WHY. How it affects people, what the goals are, why the current system is broken or why it does not exist.

- Understand Marketing. How do you convince others that your product (idea or finished) is THE one they should vouch for. Why should they invest time and money into it. How can you make them believe that you know what you are doing and better than any bad experiences they have had with products of that kind. Selling/Marketing is not evil. It is a necessary (evil). Many humble and smart people fail to understand that.

I totally understand it is very hard for one person to be great or even good at all three. But hey most don't even try, so you are already better then them the first day you try.
So it looks like they know which shows you watch (the same way Netflix does).

Other departments of google don't know which websites you go to, "except with your consent." There can be a lot of mischief hidden in those 4 words.
> subverting purity and laziness

That's an interesting choice of words. Quite obviously no useful program can be totally pure (otherwise it'd do nothing but heat the machine). And Simon Peyton Jones is on record saying that he's not sure if he'd carry the laziness torch quite so far if he had to do it all over again. Neither is to say that these aren't powerful or useful techniques, but rather that in Haskell they're chosen as defaults -- impure and/or strict code are the outliers that require justification, not the other way around. So given that, in what way is using ByteStrings (safe or unsafe) subversion? Far from it -- use the tool that makes sense.

With most functional languages, the usual technique to writing fast code is to first write it to be correct, and then transform it to be fast. And that's exactly what unsafe ByteStrings are: optimizations. There's nothing wrong with optimized code, and I see no problem with the technique. The only relation it bears to the OP is that it's an explicit unboxing. Perhaps the compiler should automatically do that unboxing, but that's easier said than done.
Huh?

Many people use Comcast/Verizon-provided email services. Most people use them for their home voicemail too. And they can absolutely see your surfing habits if they want to -- excluding encrypted communications, of course.
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