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Ask HN: Doing a switch from Flash CMS to SAAS. Not sure how to do it right.
Initially we were a Flash CMS. And basically were selling flash templates with quite a powerful CMS attached.

Flash is almost dead these days and we have developed an HTML solution and don't really want to sell it as templates anymore, but rather do a SAAS with monthly subscribtion (which is 90% ready as well).

Here's our website: motocms.com

We have a really hard time deciding what should we do now. Start a new site with HTML SAAS and a totally new brand? Or perhaps do a switch on our current site from selling templates to a monthly website building service? Or offer it as an alternative to paying $220 for a template?

And besides, how to promote it (besides SEO & PPC) and which business model to choose?

If you look at wix.com - they basically buy all ads they can get their hands on and convert people into free sites. Then send them emails to convert into paid customers. We can't afford to buy that much ads to compete.

Any thoughts/ideas are highly welcome. Thanks.
Worse. Ask in Reddit /r/onions.
Good workflow, nice simple start with chess types and the serialization/deserialization thereof. Enjoyable watch.
Managing the Legal Process in an Early Stage Startup
Yeah but quite often people are thrown off balance when encountering other native speakers of a shared, large language group (but speaking a different accent or dialect) for the first time. That's all I'm saying.
For a better watching experience, here is is on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/29865018
CP will always exist. Especially if you group everybody under 18 into that category (a 17 year old is not a child, a six year old is) -- a 16 year old can't take nude pictures of herself without becoming one.

That Freenet is currently filled with it is a good thing -- it indicates how much pressure society puts on the people who are into this stuff and that no other group, such as the KKK, gun rights activists, astronomers, has that much reason to fear going public with what they right.

And any such group will quickly fill freenet up with other content, as it will be much bigger than the child abuse rings.
Same here, they are getting money for a game that has been released already and that many of us play every day... Sometimes I wonder if people think before funding a project on Kickstarter, it is getting ridiculous.
The Misconception about Money and Motivation
Opportunity knocks but once, so don't miss it
Not a typical Apple fan, but the Apple TV is an excellent device. It fulfills its role brilliantly, uses very little power, and is very inexpensive. It should be their most successful product.
Russian Carrier On Apple’s High iPhone Pricing: “They’re In Dictatorship Mode”
Staying competitive means moving to the cloud
Let's face reality - we have a power crisis and political sops to greedy states only exacerbate this. We were supposed to have several nuclear reactors functional and giving power to regional grids by 2012.

Thanks to the 'green' brigade who live in a dreamland where India survives only on Solar and Wind, there are several "public-interest" court petitions stalling construction on one pretext or another. Local politicians were only too happy to buy media attention and make things worse. To get around this, we are forced to import higher and higher quantities of coal and oil. Yes..that is SO much 'greener'.

In fact several coal power plants are not even running due to coal shortage. This year has been especially terrible due to high temperatures and a bad monsoon leading to more power consumption.

It's a complete mess. And I don't have any optimism that things will improve. We will continue stumbling along to the next crisis..that is if this one gets solved.
Oh it's an interesting story, but (like you were saying) the title was a bit misleading. That's all.
NeonMob: buy, trade, and sell digital collectibles with your friends. 
buy, trade, and sell digital collectibles with your friends.
Yup, that's true.

Maybe binary content propagates differently. Text that meets certain criteria is replicated indiscriminately, but binary content is only replicated when a user votes on it.

Edit: you could apply game theory to this problem. Model the network as a graph and write an agent-based modeling rule set for... say... CP-propagators and non-CP-propagators. Run iterative simulations of different propagation rule sets and weightings/parameters. Now introduce bad actors in the form of, say, government agents trying to suppress political discourse. The difference is that average-joe will cooperate in pushing out CP but will "defect" in a game with the other kind of bad-actor. You're looking for rule-sets and parameters where the CP gets pushed to the margins of the network or excluded but where the other kind of bad-actor is also excluded.
Lava Launches E-Tab Z7H Tablet at Price Rs. 5499/-
I tend to listen to anything with no lyrics, or at least things I can't understand like foreign music. Otherwise it is distracting.
JanRain Engage is down?
They are usually reliable, but right now I get a Service Unavailable (503) timeout: all listeners busy
Because of this:

Any arguments specified on the command line are given
to utility upon each invocation, followed by some
number of the arguments read from the standard input
of xargs. The utility is repeatedly executed
until standard input is exhausted.

In other words, if the argument list is too long, xargs will chunk the input and call the program repeatedly. This means that on very large projects, 'wc -l' will be called several times on subsets of the files, and you will get an incorrect total listed at the bottom.

putting a 'cat' in between fixes that. 'cat a b; cat c d' is equivalent to 'cat a b c d', so the chunking doesn't matter. And wc -l can just read from stdin without worrying about how many files there are.
I am so fascinated by the idea that these people exist. I would love to read an interview with one of them.
Codebender - coding for Arduino in the cloud
You could add some data for Pittsburgh from this link:
http://alphalab.org/companies/browse-by-cycle
I tried Hulu Plus for exactly 5 minutes, then I realized that the shows that I wanted to watch didn't have their previous seasons available or even episodes from earlier in a season. What is the rationalle behind that?! If I'm a new viewer to a show, why would I pay if I can't watch a series or at least a season from the beginning? So it was back to piracy for me.
My favorite book on UX has been "Designing the Obvious" by Robert Hoekman, Jr. http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Obvious-Approach-Application...

Might be a little dated but it was really influential a few years back
Ah, another service that I would happily pay for, but cannot for being Canadian.

PIRACY IT IS!
On the how-manyth Republique, I think he means. "France" has been reconstituted (forgive the pun) since then.
We use Pipedrive at Mixergy book more interviewees. Even though it's meant for managing sales funnels, I think it's helpful for any process where you have lots of prospects and a process for getting as many of them as possible to convert.
xmonad was written in Haskell because it needed to be small, fast, but safer than C.
To be fair they had qualifiers like "on the TV"
I still don't understand this craving for more RAM. Does Android need that much RAM for a single game? Does iOS? Does Xbox360? The games for OUYA will not be more powerful than that. And don't expect to keep the 1st gen of OUYA for 7 years, if you really care about gaming on OUYA. OUYA is more like a smartphone - something you buy once every 1-2 years, with much improved graphics performance.

ARM graphics performance improves 2x every 12 months, so 4x after 2 years. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Tegra 4 brings that much improvement alone over Tegra 3, since Tegra 3 was a pretty small chip compared to competition, even at 40nm (therefore weaker), and Tegra 4 is rumored to have 64 cores (5.3x more than Tegra 3). I would much rather like it to come with Tegra 4 or some other 2013-ready CPU/GPU than more RAM.
Researchers Develop Body Extender Suit
I don't think NIH applies to projects like this. It's not like they're writing an HTTP server.
On the other hand, projects like this come in handy when someone inevitably brings up the tired old line of "are there any _real_ projects written in Haskell?".
I'd say it's still not very pragmatic, he admits the existence of the games is a good thing, however it's at the end where he recommends that people don't recommend the games in support of Linux that he kind of reverts to previous philosophy.
"so they can't be sold and will stop working at some point, most likely within 5-10 years."

This is incorrect, it would be more correct to say that they could stop working at some point.

It's entirely possible (and has been done before) for the company to patch out the DRM before turning servers off or going defunct.

The internet is also full of no-cd cracks that generally circumvent this kind of always-on protection (at the expense of breaking multiplayer) without circumventing serial code or other protections.
Except AirPlay requires an existing WiFi network and uses the existing infrastructure.

Miracast still uses WiFi radios but works end-to-end, forming some sort of ad-hoc network.
Coming up with ways your customer is right isn't necessarily offensive, so long as he isn't lying. Being biased in the way that you're paid to isn't necessarily evil, though it's arguably more questionable, but this is how advertising, law, consumer advocacy and other entire industries work.

Accentuate the positives, believe the same truths your customers believe.

If you're a journalist, whose job it is to report the truth and nothing more, lying of any sort is arguably the gravest offense you can commit (short of rape, murder, etc.)
I think we tend to quickly forget the motivations of creating these, because they are 100 years old. They appear to have commercial links-- so 'interesting' would probably have been a more important quality than honesty or in depth thought on the matter. For example, i don't believe anyone giving proper consideration in 1900 would believe we would be under the sea 'fishing' for seagulls.. it was just an interesting idea that would be possible.

If this were CNN today on a 2100 prediction HN would be all over it calling it populist/sensationalist/lazy etc.

I'm surprised they didn't guess 'wireless' a little more (the classroom) since radio was being invented at the time (even wireless headphones were almost technically possible with a crystal radio).
Cinnamon has just made it into Fedora as well. For those not following, Cinnamon is a "traditional" (ie. GNOME 2- / Windows 95- / NextStep-like) desktop based on GNOME 3's and Gtk3's underlying technologies.
My opinion is that the Super Nintendo absolutely killed it for the best console RPGs ever made. Along with this comes, what I consider to be, Square's opus: Final Fantasy III (6 in Japan). I am definitely not alone in this sentiment. It could just be an age gap but, for those who have played both, I've only come across a couple people who would take VII over III.
Probably because it's really hard/time and resource consuming/tricky to do what ReactOS is doing. By allowing Steam to Linux, they open a new and easy market for developers distributing games through Steam, where developing ReactOS would only allow their Windows users to move to an Open-Source OS.

Porting to Linux makes business sense, investing in ReactOS not so much (at least for Valve).
Piracy on Android and iOS - an Interview with Madfinger Games
Have you seen Windows 8?
Why would they do that? Steam's goal isn't to make you install a whole new OS and target it for game development, it's to let you game as easily as possible.

Not to mention Valve can't alter any games themselves, the developers would have to do it.
I suspect even that signal is not trustworthy. Given that its not 100%, what fraction of the 900+ million Facebook users are actually users? Twitter seemed to be totally plagued with that at one point anyway.

What's the grey area look like? What's the chance of falsely identifying a real user as a fake one?

Rhetorical question. Not sure FB could even answer them accurately.
I guess because Linux is a better OS than ReactOS and already have an established user base as well as being proven in other markets.

If they want to make porting games easier they should focus on providing abstractions for the differences between distributions and provide some DirectX -> OpenGL compatibility layer (help the Wine Project).
Putting the Olympics in the Cloud
It's even less likely to come to Europe, so … unfortunately you're right.
edX looks promising.
You know what? I wonder the same and also why the ReactOS team doesn't pitch Windows-related enterprises for investments.
NASA’s Curiosity will land on Mars, narrated by Shatner or Wheaton
It's just a suspicion, as stated. The reason for this though is that Firefox has (or had) the exact same behavior in older versions I've used prior to switching to Conkeror.
This is awesome. Nice and approachable - well explained. I'd love if you also threw in some vim commands along the way.
Im getting on http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://janrain.com/
I wonder what happens if your game uses SVG for its art.
I don't understand how someone can advocate freedom and also advocate any license at all. The act of licensing at all seems absolutely contrary to the idea of freedom.

As soon as someone stands up and tells me how I can or cannot use something, freedom is gone, no?
Why do airplanes crash?
Kim Dotcom Dismissed As Fraudster By Twitter and Facebook
Stallman is being consistent with his previous statements yet surprises me by being quite pragmatic about the issue.

He has a valid point. You have more freedom if you run proprietary software on free OS than when you run proprietary software on proprietary OS. As a bonus point presence of Steam on Linux will probably bring fixes to free software graphics and sound components.
And a ton of free time, apparently.
Microsoft buys large-screen maker Perceptive Pixel
Analysis of Android Ecosystem
Yep - stretching as far as they can to mislead without outright lying. I'm pretty certain if you didn't know that the game was already out on iOS/Android you would come away with the impression that this was some sort of exclusive deal with Ouya.
I would guess because they are already happy using Windows, if you want to move away from Windows you would be better moving to Mac/Linux/BSD rather than a half baked clone of Windows.
You can look at Jules Verne, who did also write about means of travel. And the most important visible innovations from that time are usually related to transportation. So I believe collectively transportation was the technology which captured imagination at that time.

Atop of this, it is really hard to sell postcards in which the bastard offspring of looms rule the world.
Yeah...but you could also do through any number of various mobile-device-hookups to the TV already. And the distinction between phone and console device is pretty arbitrary...
Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash
Reproduced sporadically on http://app.flashissue.com (Facebook login) comes and goes, I guess they are working on it now...
I have the first generation Apple TV and - for me - it's a great device. (Although sync'ing content to the device is a pain, which is why the newer generations stream content from your computer.)

The problem with the Apple TV is that it's not intuitively easy to understand what it does or why you would want one.

For example, when someone sees my Apple TV for the first time, they always asked "how much does it cost per month?" and they are always amazed at the amount of content that can be viewed, purchased, rented, etc. (I always explain it as "iTunes for your TV", but I feel like that's a disservice to the device.)

Apple TV is great if you have kids since you can easily view videos (like PBS's "Word Girl", "Curious George"), look at family pictures or watch family movies.
Yes, but enumerators are (in most cases) implemented with Fibers. So you're going to get hit with at least some performance degradation.
FB all-time low (21.86)
No :) their website is up, I know, I meant their Engage service, see my other comment
How long do you wait before realizing that the system did not get your request? If you want to own some FB stock, and your request is not acknowledged, the obvious thing to do is send another request.
I think a better way to look at is that if you are currently buying all your shows on iTunes, Hulu+ could save you quite a bit of money if you are willing to watch some ads. Like you get The Daily Show on Hulu+, which would normally run you about $15-20 a month if you were buying it.

It complements NetFlix well in that regard too.

Comparing it to piracy seems silly.
Explanation please, Twitter
Just to be clear, this announcement is for FF3, in the Japanese series.

Also, to clarify, Chrono Trigger was Square's opus :)
Glad to hear it; thanks for circling back. what_ever, were you able to have better luck later?
Broadcasters weren't giving them the rights to the shows they still want to sell on DVD or VOD.
Why you should go to ICFP 2012
"View-as-you-go"? Isn't that just iTunes?
I subscribed to Hulu and was paying monthly fees. Its no different to watching crappy TV. Got fed up with commercials in between. No Thanks Hulu.
Come back when they replace WebKit with something written in Haskell. I could write a "browser" in about 50 lines of C if I wanted.
I was talking purely on the hardware, as I'm not familiar with the phone enough to comment on the software. But from that perspective, you definitely are right, a lot of "modern" OS features in for the default iOS and Android shells are in that phone.
Flight pioneer Santos-Dumont circa 1900 in Paris
A Coursera course on Human-Computer Interaction?

https://www.coursera.org/course/hci
I thought this would be about rewriting the core HTML renderer or JS engine in Haskell. As it stands now, is this not just the "chrome" around WebKit?
Then a greater understanding of FP is possible through understanding of CT.
Yeah this seems like a baseless claim to me. I work on these kinds of applications and we always assume that an order is eligible to execute from when it's sent until the exchange confirms it has been canceled/deleted. This is pretty standard and it's surprising that a big bank would have such an obvious hole in their risk system, and disappointing that they would then fail to take responsibility for their own mistake.
Who speaks for the users?

(Or could it be that there aren't any users?)
Sorry, you are right.

(And yes, the Wahanegi was much more interesting, which I guess was why the number stuck in my head)
After looking at that site I find it hard to tell if they are receiving the password they entered in the email or a randomly generated password on account creation. If the password is a generated, typically "temporary" password, there is no real indication of it being stored in plain text then.
I expect this is largely due to the prevalence of decent-enough quality digital pianos. A school or church no longer needs to deal with a second-hand honky-tonk that needs maintenance and tuning (not to mention several people to move) - they can get a passable digital for a few hundred bucks.

The only market for real pianos these days is with serious professionals, concert venues, and people who use them as furniture.
Object Oriented Sass using the Placeholder Syntax
The moon is relatively (very) close (238,900 miles vs depending on where they are in their respective orbits, mars can be anywhere from 36 million miles to over 250 million miles away from earth), there are good relay satellites for moon and sun never comes in between to disturb incoming signal.
More design pattern inspiration: http://littlebigdetails.com/
http://mobile-patterns.com/

Also, Smashing Mag has occasional great articles on design patterns and ux.
Zeus - HTML Editor for Windows
I found the explanation on Ghostery's own site a bit clearer/more informative in terms of what data they actually collect, and what they do with it for profit:

http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016020665
The latest Zeus beta includes additional support for HTML coding:

http://www.zeusedit.com/html.html

The following You Tube video shows off some of these Zeus HTML features:

http://youtu.be/VHnGFINukbk

NOTE: Zeus is a non-WYSIWYG HTML editor, is shareware, runs natively on the Windows and can run on Linux using Wine.

Jussi Jumppanen

Author: Zeus Editor
The Danger of Lowered Expectations | Strong Opinions
Seattle Startups: Personify selected as one of first seven at Fledge
Secret Codes and Features in Samsung Galaxy S3
> Their outages are becoming more and more random

… or more loudly reported. Very few of the reported outages affect people who follow Amazon's guidelines for reliability - even the last one had most of the impact on cheapskates who didn't pay for redundancy.
I'm sure you would feel extremely guilty

Lots of people have no sense of guilt whatsoever. It's not a good thing, but with an enabling community saying "it's not your fault" it's awfully easy for people to pretend there was nothing they could do.
I have to say, I generally dislike video coding tutorials.

First, it's difficult to google/copy-paste. Second, it just goes against the way I learn new programming languages - I generally read it, then try it, then experiment with it in some other ways, list few pages back/forth, experiment more, fail, then continue. Usually copypasting/rewriting chunks of code. "What happens when I do THAT? Oh, it fails miserably. Why? Oh, that's why."

I can easily reread some parts. I can easily skim back/forth. While with the video, I don't want to hear the person more than twice, usually. The voice becomes annoying for the third time you hear it.

I feel that videos work great for demonstrating a language. I can never actually learn any language from a video tutorial.

(If you will bring the analogy of lecture - yes, this is partly true, but good lectures should be somehow interactive. The lecturer asks students, they can ask the lecturer back.)
Cinnamon is, as far as I know, a fork of Gnome. I have it installed - prefer it to unity so far.
In reading a recent Hacker News post "The year 2000 illustrated in 1900" (links to http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/30/france-in-the-year-...) I was reminded of the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont, a flight pioneer who lived in Paris around 1900.

He was the only person to ever have lived the dream of personal unrestricted urban flight -- he'd fly his personal dirigible balloon all around Paris to visit friends, stop at restaurants and cafes. He was the real-life inspiration for much of what you see illustrated at http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/30/france-in-the-year-....

Here's a book I've been meaning to read about him: http://www.amazon.com/Wings-Madness-Alberto-Santos-Dumont-In....
Show HN: A django-app for AB Testing