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MaxwellKennerly above provided references to prior art.

You disputed said references by claiming that other products copied Apple.

I pointed out that just because it was Apple who made these features popular, leading to other products copying them, doesn't mean that the features could not have been independently invented prior to Apple. I refer you to the original comment for the prior-art examples.
Mmmm. As I recall, DejaNews decided to reskin and become "Deja", along with making their service much stupider and more user hostile.

Then, they died.

I think there was a SaveDeja campaign for a while before Google finally bought the archive.

I was not thrilled with what Google did with the archive after that--hugely disappointing, actually--but first the stupid and then the dying happened before Google touched anything.
HN has a flag link for comments, but you have to follow the link link first in order to see it.
Not terribly hard to find out -- the bike generates its own power, and is run outside. A few bikes with GPS and call-home device (powered by the bike) would draw traces to their destinations pretty quickly.
How so? I've never used a news reader or USENET for that matter; what am I missing? How is it different than an ordinary email client's threading?
Mandrill (inbound and outbound transactional e-mail on MailChimp's delivery platform), or Sendgrid.
30 tabs? get a bigger monitor, also try using multiple Chrome windows. They dont all have to be in the same window.
The UI is pretty obviously Twitter Bootstrap. While not necessarily a bad thing, it gives off the appearance of being vaporware.

Agreed with everyone else, I'm not sure what research you did on the pricing, but this is way off from what a typical club/promoter can afford.

$49/month is as high as I'd go for a base plan, and scale accordingly for "enterprise"
I've now stopped accumulating stuff. Except books—but books are different. Books are more like a fluid than individual objects. It's not especially inconvenient to own several thousand books, whereas if you owned several thousand random possessions you'd be a local celebrity. But except for books, I now actively avoid stuff.

I don't know... I own on the order of thousands of books (don't have an exact number, can't be bothered to count / catalog them all), and it can be fairly inconvenient, depending on the circumstances. In my own case, I own more books than can comfortably fit in my apartment, which means one of the biggest motivations I have to rent a bigger apartment, or buy a house, is to suit my books. And since my books have long since overflowed the amount of shelf space I have available, they wind up stacked up around the place, which gives my place a cluttered feel.

Moving is also a bitch with all these books. Books can be friggin' heavy.

That said, I still mostly agree with pg that books are different from random "stuff." I treasure my books (well, ok, maybe not that copy of "OLE DB Programming in C++") and figure having too many books is far less severe a sin than, say, a crack cocaine addiction.
(I work at Factual)

We got some flak for our previous ML post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424240) for not being meaty enough, so we tried to add more details and interesting examples to this post. I'd love to know what people think, and if there are any pieces of the Factual pipeline that HNers would like to learn more about.
Has anyone used Aldiko ebook reader on android? It uses the right edge of the mobile's screen to change its brightness. With your thumb, trace the right edge towards the top and brightness increases, down and it decreases. I wonder if something similar could be used for zooming. You don't need two fingers to zoom!
How the Rise of Per-User Software Licensing Changes... Everything
It did work once I tried Firefox. Pretty cool. Although, having to change my settings every time I went in (keys, mouse invert, mouse sensitivity) got old fast.

Clicking into one of the text boxes (mouse sensitivity) and hitting backspace caused the browser to go back in my history. :(
I have a feeling that the Iraqi situation (the US flying in pallets of cash to pay off Iraqis in support of an occupation aimed at outsider political objectives) is different from the Libyan one (not occupied at all).
Chrome style tabs in Windows explorer [Productivity Boost]
it's very common for the US to export scrap metal back to China (or any number of manufacturing countries)-- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/business/china-s-need-for-...
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Using the Silica wireless hacking tool sold by penetration-testing software provider Immunity for $2,500 a year, I had no trouble capturing a handshake established between a Netgear WGR617 wireless router and my MacBook Pro.
Can this handle large binary files? That's been my main problem with storing backups of my servers in git, and it's one of the strong-ish points of git-annex.

There seems to be nothing inherently limiting in Git's repository design. Interested parties can look into bup, for example, which stores large binary files in git's packfile format. https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
I don't think tabs with tab recovery is always equivalent to a bookmark list. Personally, I have 30-40 tabs open. This is because I have several projects I work on, any of which I may research in 10 or more tabs. When I switch between projects, I don't want to have to close all the tabs and reopen them. I don't care if they are swapped out of memory, but the access should remain easy. Having to manually bookmark these to come back to them isn't easy.
One thing probably worth keeping in mind is that you can keep everything in much saner terms for CPU by doing something like [1]. This is how most implementations of RSA handle large exponents also. It can make it very much more efficient compared to handling some 2k bit numbers for multiplication in intermediate steps.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation
About the settings, yeah, we should store them using IndexedDB for later runs. Haven't gotten around to that yet.

I've seen the "go back" bug myself a few times. Not sure yet what causes it, I think I saw it with the middle mouse button on Linux primarily.
If anyone is interested, the follow-up post is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4444833 . In response to the feedback, we tried to make a follow-up deeper and more concrete.
That's just at the moment, though. It increases all the time.
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I generally don't set up RAID on any of my machines because there really is no need. A quick google search though returns tons of stuff on the archwiki, which goes through preparation and installation/execution. This isn't only the case with RAID. As awayand said, the documentation is golden.
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Why Do California State Employees Need $423K Worth Of iPads?
Sorry, you misunderstood. Not for me by myself but for the whole Series Seed syndicate. I only put in $25K but I generally helped put together ~300K for the company.
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I own more books than can comfortably fit in my apartment, which means one of the biggest motivations I have to rent a bigger apartment

I know the feeling, but a friend showed me the Container Store's "Elfa" shelving, which is pretty easy to install and provides seven to eight individual shelves in a particular space.

You can see a picture of my setup midway down this page: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/january-2012-links...
> I am surprised that the risk to kidnappers is considered higher than the risk to bank robbers. Can anyone explain this?

Kidnapping, if you're holding out for ransom, is like playing a game of hot potato but you have to wait for your opponent's go-ahead before you can toss it.

Kidnapping (if you're looking for a random) is about aquiring something you don't want and nobody wants you to have so that you can make a risky deal that exposes you. You run the risk of being set up, and even if the deal is done successfully I'd imagine you'd run the risk of revenge, especially with any target worth a large value.
"We are don't have any plans on closing or sucking in the future."

Gold.
Absolutely. It's still pretty expensive to take a 257-bit power of a 1024-bit number with modular exponentiation, though.
Since each of the advertisers is paying such an enormous amount of money, without which the Olympics would not exist, the sponsors effectively own the Olympics.

People keep saying this, but I'm not sure the numbers back it up.

The really top-tier sponsors were reportedly paying on the order of £100M for their access, and there were only a handful of them.

The cost of the London 2012 Olympics is reportedly around £10B, depending on exactly what you count.

You need a lot of sponsors to make a significant dent at that rate.
It's from an HN member who's been here for a while. Plus, it is very tangentially related to the linked article. This combination is apparently what makes it okay.

But otherwise, I agree with you. Without more context, the comment you are referring really just is spam.
There's an option to specify a background color that will be mixed in with the image to replace the opacity.
The link for "Sorry your cool web app is probably not going to make money" is:
http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/webapp-is-not-g...
A couple of naive questions about the design of the security system:

1. Why is it possible to do the password tests remotely? Why would the key on the router be allowed to be transmitted? Even a 6 character password should be safe if you don't allow multiple tries.

2. Why isn't the handshake protocol encrypted?
You're absolutely right on all counts. But also realize that while, 4 years ago HN was more diverse in many ways, it still was overrun with "startup hipsters", though they weren't called that.

You saw people denigrating others startups as "lifestyle businesses" and me suggesting that one might pursue product market fit before VC money was laughed at.

Back then the Word of PG was the Word of God, and you could be shot down with a misrepresentaiton of a PG quote. (Did you know PG opposed customer development? I bet he didn't!)

For awhile I though HN was going to become a cult of personality for PG.
"Bike Thief"
Because I want to search wikipedia using natural language.
This is the same leak that claimed to have "CIA records", which actually turned out to be from http://ciaservices.com/ instead of the government agency. There's a lot of hype surrounding this that seems to be total bullshit. The "1 million records/accounts" includes a lot of trivial, non-sensitive information, and the targets are mostly low-value to begin with. Seems like someone just ran a bunch of SQL injection attacks on random vulnerable websites and is trying to pass it off as grandiose political activism.
Ask HN: Anybody using only OmniAuth for authentication?
Is this a good idea? Assuming you are targeting a global mass market audience, how do you pick which strategies to use? Or do you just use all on the list? Has anyone created a best practice login UI for such a use case?
US patent business is really sad. Looks patents are given without doing enough investigation. I remember turmeric and neem get patented by some university of US, where India is using these herb from ancient time. Is it really given to protect someone's innovation?
Plugs from founders seems to me completely in line with what HN is all about. Heck, the whole site is in part a plug for YC. This is a total non problem.
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Are there any 'real' sources to the Zynga story?
I think we can be pedantic about it, but also realize, the people doing the questioning often times aren't the ones with whom we will be working. When a non-tech person asks me about HTML5, I have the urge to say, "oh sure, I used a header tag and a nav tag just yesterday". But because I am a good communicator, I look past the W3C spec to what they're really asking. Are you designing an interactive application that runs in a web browser leveraging new technologies only recently supported by Microsoft?
It's not that difficult to read the claims. Apple's patent covers distinguishing between pinch-to-zoom and scroll gestures based on whether one or two figures are touching. Prior art on pinch-to-zoom seems to show scrollbars for scrolling instead of single-finger-to-drag.

The simple workaround to apple's patent: allow two-finger drag. One or Two fingers close together (or moving in parallelt) is a drag. Two or more fingers far apart is a zoom. As long as there's no line of code that goes "if one finger down then it's a drag else if two fingers down it's a zoom" then the code doesn't infringe the apple patent. Easy peasy.
Hubot for Business. Aimed at users who rely on a variety of services such as analytics, business intelligence, CRM, e-commerce, and more. It's a virtual assistant/gopher that stands ready to do your bidding.
One should change passwords on an irregular basis (a regular basis is weaker protection than an irregular basis). This is just an additional layer of security, not a perfection. If the password has ever been compromised, a password change policy removes the key from bad hands. Discovered passwords are not always immediately used; in many situations, they are stored for later use, perhaps even sold/traded.
You're very welcome. I need to update this now but I try to be even more specific (and provide links to advice) here: http://ye.gg/angel
$4B is the yearly revenue for HBO (or at least it was), while the $15 per usenet user is monthly.
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As someone who's owned a night club before, I probably wouldn't pay $400/mo for this. That said, it is really hard to get an idea of what this product is all about from the website. Maybe it has that kind of value, I just can't tell.
The WebGl demo video is impressive though. Not just the execution, but the fact that this isnt made specificlly for webgl.

Its c++ code compiled to Javascript. This seems to suggest PS2/Wii era games can easily be ported to fully native fully crosplatform html5 applications.

I do wonder about security. The videocard drivers are not hardened against abuse: yet they live completely outside of any sandbox. And WebGL is just passing these OpenGL commandos unfiltered to the drivers.

Good news for Intel, with their open driver stack. And bad news for NVidea and ATI with their messy legacy drivers and firmware full of unchecked liscenced closed-source 3rd party code.
Let me tell you: if you were the one doing the design of a motion sensing system, I can bet it wouldn't be "easy".

This sentence makes no sense. The patent in question is not on a single technical implementation of pinch-to-zoom; it is on pinch-to-zoom in general. It does not merely protect the (easy) engineering needed to detect two fingers pinching, it protects the idea of "two fingers pinching = zoom". This is an obvious idea, and should not be protected by patents.
I like simple. I like this idea. But I have long switched from a full on wallet to a money clip that also holds some cards. It has one clip-like thing that holds my folded cash and one pocket thing to slide a stack of cards into. It reduced the material a great deal yet still offers a small amount of protection against wear-n-tear on the cards.

Though I've owned several different ones over the years, they are something similar to this: http://www.amazon.com/Unknown-Leather-Money-Clip-Wallet/dp/B...
I'm not interested in second-tier startups, and I disagree with your premise that those things equate to second-tier startups. It all depends when you get involved. And FWIW I'm no longer interested in board seats though I think they are completely misunderstood by first-time entrepreneurs and it is good to have an active investor (hence party rounds suck). As for valuations, the key is ownership %. You can get there a number of ways (put more money in, advising relationship, etc.), but if you are super early you can also get there with a low valuation (and I'd argue it makes sense since the risk is much higher).
Yes; I don't see why not. I haven't stress-tested this enough to tell for certain though.
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There's an old series of back-and-forth blog posts by Rico Mariani and Raymond Chen that shows a story along these lines for C++ vs C#. It's not C vs Java, but it's a fairly comparable comparison since the languages have similar run-time characteristics.

What makes it particularly interesting is that while the program in question is small, it's much more "real-world" than what you see in most language shootout benchmarks. And successive iterations of both the C# and C++ versions are documented, so you can get a feel for performance in terms of both CPU time and developer time.

The other thing that makes it particularly interesting is that the C++ version was trailing behind the C# from the beginning when it was slower by an order of magnitude up until it finally nosed ahead of the C# version following its 6th iteration. The C# version, by contrast, only went through two - a first cut which the C++ one didn't even match until its 5th version, and a single round of optimization.

Even then it's somewhat debatable that C++ won out. The final thing that let the C++ version win was the lag the CLR needed to bootstrap itself and JIT the code; actual time spent processing was the same. Meaning that for the purposes of someone who's thinking about performance for programs will be running for longer than 0.1s it's debatable whether the C++ version really won in the end after all.

A good entry point to the series is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2005/05/19/420158.aspx

Of course that's not to say that the opposite is true and managed languages are fundamentally superior. There are cases where a managed language will always be slower. (e.g., Code that frequently accesses arrays in a way that prevents the JIT compiler from optimizing away bounds checks. And startup time, of course.) And a program written in a managed language should always be a memory hog compared to a (well-written, non-leaky) program written in an unmanaged language. But I am inclined to say that the idea that languages like C and C++ are inescapably faster than languages like Java and C# is more an article of faith than anything else.
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Pretty sure this is one that sparked the issue http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4443320
It's still hard to predict how well these efforts will work, but I've rarely seen a domain more ripe for reform than undergraduate education.

If there's a riper one, it would be K-12 education. That's the really big prize, measured both by how much room there is for improvement and the forces arrayed against you. But if you're feeling heroic here's the place to go: http://imaginek12.com.
No, you would think an editor would notice that kind of thing.
I did. It took about 30 seconds, from downloading the ebook from Amazon, converting it in Calibre, and pushing it to my Nook.

Removing DRM is acceptable for certain personal uses, including, for example, making purchased media usable on your personal hardware.
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Cool stuff. My problem is, I don't really have more wall space for shelves. The two remaining walls that would make good candidates for shelving, I use for hanging whiteboards. :-)

That said, I could get rid of some of these books... especially older tech books that aren't relevant, either because they're plain out of date, or because I've made a conscious decision to move away from that technology, or both. For example, I have a lot of older books on various Microsoft / Windows technologies like COM, DCOM, ADO, OLE, etc. Frankly, it's very unlikely I'll ever use that stuff again.
Ask HN: Good way to display internal metrics?
HN,
I'm looking to display our real-time metrics on the walls at my startup.

Any recommendations for TVs/wall mounts/monitors/projectors?

I'd rather trust a community rec than burn time comparison shopping.

The idea is inspired by the Square dashboards.
http://jackdorsey.posterous.com/wow-square-has-already-processed-over-2000000

Thanks!
The Chromium package in Ubuntu is several major versions behind, and I would definitely not suggest using it. Debian has up-to-date versions in sid. Firefox on Ubuntu gets timely (within a couple days of upstream) updates, and the official Chrome PPA (from Google, installed when you use their .deb package) is kept up to date.

Edited for correctness, thanks xfs.
Correct, UI is based on Bootstrap. I understand the vaporware comment, but our clients are not developers or designers so a large amount of them do not even know what twitter bootstrap, they just want something that is simple and easy to use. I we were making a metrics dashboard for startups I would agree completely.

In terms of pricing so far it has been well recieved. We do need to work on how to transmit that promoters can use a free account and upgrade to premium features if they will in fact manage the event (controlling door, managing sub promoters, reservations etc.) then $50 does not seem to bother them because they are saving tons of time and effort on their event.

$400 a month is for anyone going over 8 managed event. usually better established promotion company or venue.
The feedback has been positive here as well.

We did not just go out and build. We worked hand in hand with different nightlife companies in the US & Europe.

Hope that helps explain a bit more. But there is more work and validation to be done.
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For fifteen years, I've been at a point in my belongings that I can pack and move out of a place in hours. Why hang onto all this stuff? Why spend on all these things we don't need? Why not be flexible?

At this point everything I own fits into my car. Everything. I've moved from city to city while telecommuting because I could and in fact, on average I move to a new city every two years if not quicker. Stuff just glues you into place and most of it is rubbish anyway, it won't make you feel any more fulfilled or complete.

I'd rather have experiences.
FYI Android has automatic updates for apps (you can enable it individually or globally).
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If you want to know what it's using memory for, hit about:memory.

This is also a useful way to start looking at a suspected leak: visit a page and hit about:memory to see what it's using, then close the tab and check about:memory again to see whether it's freeing everything.
I have observed the same in my colleague's macbook as well. It could be some of the add-on causing this.

But surely, I need to dig down further to find the cause.
Thanks for the feedback.

We are working on an explainer video that would help transmit the value of the product and also som videos to replace the images in the feature section.

It noticed it is hard to understand the true value from the current website. And we hope to fixe that over the next couple of days.

Thanks.
Would love for someone to do a long form sting. Install gps on 10 bikes and follow them as they get stolen and passed around.
If the price of bikes hadn't gone through the roof within the last 20 years there wouldn't be so much incentive to steal them. As it is you can hardly buy a new bike for less than $800 at most shops.

Even if I could attach a weatherproofed Macbook to a pole with a U-lock, it would still be really unwise to do so. This is a pitiful commentary on our society and law enforcement
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