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This looks cool and very well put together. It's obvious you've paid lots of attention to detail. At our company, and I suspect many others, there is lots of collaboration between the design side and the implementation of the design (these roles are exclusive). For our purposes, we don't really need pixel-perfect designs, as we just like to get a rough idea implemented, then iterate on it. How do you use this tool in your workflow? Also, how do you use the CSS feature? I would never copy/paste generated CSS into code, but I guess it gives you something to start with?
I'm calling it.... This is the beginning of the end for YouTube (LOL)... Probably not, but it is proof that they are willing to do what many people consider "evil" to please their stockholders.
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Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with...

You want to "fix" the problem?...

My own approach is always...

This is pretty common failure avoidance technique.

But it lacks ambition.

Imagine a father or a mother with a newborn infant, "Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with...changing nappies" so I just won't bother. The kid cries "You want to "fix" the problem?..." The kid cries. "My own approach is always to fit the solution to the problem in such a way that the optimal outcome (i.e. reduction of abuses in the short and long-term) is achieved." The kid cries.

Is that being a responsible Adult? The kid might ask. I dunno. Not my kid. Anyway, who gives a shit about the kid? The kid is kind of fucking annoying.

Maybe that's just the world we live in.

But the difference between an Adult and a Child, is that the Adult doesn't have the luxury of being the Child.

Somebody has to clean up the Shit.

Maybe the kid has a point?

Good writing should be convincing, certainly, but it should be convincing because you got the right answers, not because you did a good job of arguing.

http://paulgraham.com/essay.html

In other words, the point of thinking is to solve, not to display thought.

Same as for the Harvard students.
Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=39m25s
Why would you need 1mb session data? Or 200K for that matter?
You didn't try very hard!:-)
Yes, support for Transmission is planned as well as an iPad version.
that's just ~12 queries/sec..not that huge a deal..
Yes, Drizzle and MariaDB are two MySQL forks that are gaining good momentum. Let hope another OpenOffice -> LibreOffice move can be done again.
In spite of components having different energy densities, all of the components produce some waste heat, so it all has to be dissipated by the cooling system one way or another. In a large datacenter, even the low energy density components (combined across thousands of machines) generate a tremendous amount of heat.

Also, it would seem fairly straightforward to design optimized versions of components such as cables to make them better suited for oil, as well as a simple filtration / purity monitoring system.
It's going to be okay for me. I would never work in a place with a ridiculous rating system (and culture) like Microsoft's. If you have a team with five brilliant performers, the manager has to pick one each for the ratings 1 through 5? Perfect idiocy.
i thought it was all music at first until after a few clicks, so perhaps an icon next to each link to discern music from articles from interviews?

for some of them (the reddit ones for example) they're already using a 3rd party player (youtube), so with a little extra scraping of the content you can grab the necessary info and embed the content yourself in lieu of your own player

also +1 the previous comment about duplicates

i like the concept as i enjoy finding new hip hop music but there's way too many places i have to visit to find them.

edit: grammar
> target="_blank";>
Why the semi-colon?

Apart from that, grats on your first project!
I really like those ideas. I definitely want to get rid of dupes somehow, but as you said it definitely will take some work. Thanks!
I've noticed this, too. The arguments are more recently drawing around how the UX harms users...but wouldn't this be true of any HTML5 app? Does PhoneGap have some voodoo magic abilities to ruin the UX beyond what any HTML5 app is capable of? Otherwise, are you saying HTML5 apps are bad? PhoneGap is a wrapper that provides native-API to HTML5 apps. It doesn't automatically add horrible UI or whatever people think it does.

Crap PhoneGap apps and crap native apps are no different from each other.
I saw a couple of music scrapers/crawlers on HN today, so I thought I would share mine!
As mentioned in the comments see MariaDB (http://mariadb.org/), an open source fork of MySQL from before the Oracle acquisition. Like Hudson, MySQL will live on.
Its not fun for anyone when you have A team of developers with their dummy's out the pram because you wont open any to any routes on the dmz firewall so they can use some new sexy message queue when any one of the well behaved, well proven, stable alternatives would offer the same advantages.

This sounds exactly like the type of infighting caused by having the developers not responsible for their app in production and having the ops team not responsible for meeting the needs of the app. Right or wrong, if this happens enough the developers will eventually get their own budget and go to Heroku.
Ohh those mean cars with their dangerous levers! Risking my live every single day, tearing apart my hyper self preservation illusions so carefully developed over the years, also bees, their are evil.

Lets restrict and regulate other people's abilities so i can sleep at night knowing that there is not a single chance anything happens to me that i didn't approve before hand and if that super smart computer that drives 100% better that humans 100% of the time ever fails, i can just sue their asses and feel instantly better with my self.

btw, no skating on the side walk, you might touch me.
Heh, Isolation Mode, indicated by a North Korean flag
From the image, I'm guessing it won't be an online service, but a native app.
The Flyout Tool is pretty novel. It's one UI quirk that bugs me in a lot of apps that support layering.
This is also important for index-heavy applications, llds for instance treats cache lines as registers and heavily optimizes for cache friendly operations:

https://github.com/johnj/llds
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The only problem with NoSQL is what happens when one day _you_need_to_relate_data?
No, it's not hard at all. If you follow this simple mantra -

I like people who are nice, and I don't like people who aren't.

... then it cuts through the political, racial, religious, sexual orientation, and other divisive issues that tend to fog people's vision of humanity.
Earlier discussion of a different article on the arrest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464057
Thanks, still have some validation work to do as you can see!
This is freakin awesome. How much will it cost? When will it be available?
Well, it seems tingsrätten and hovrätten did not agree with that statement.
What you describe are not faults they are tradeoffs. Perhaps instead of having 14' ceilings and sub-floors and AC a datacenter would have 6' ceilings and no AC.

Whether the technology makes sense depends on the overall cost effectiveness. Google putting a data center near a river and using the river water in a complex water cooling system, or routing used non-potable water to provide cooling are both systems that are used today and likely have at least as many challenging aspects, yet are in use today b/c they lower overall costs.
I see the same thing the GP does, Chrome 21.0.1180.82 on Lion.

I re-created the test by shrinking the browser window on the Y axis and then pressing the button with the page mostly scrolled down.
How do you define "nice"? Personally things not being racist fall into that, things like race do not.

So... no, following that mantra doesn't change anything from what I said.
This looks great, very well done. I build these kinds of tools for my own company, and while we take a different approach, this is really impressive. I will check it out!
OT: why does this site render so poorly on mobile? You can't even properly scroll.
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> Enterface is an app for creating polished, production ready, pixel-perfect, multi-page, multi-state mockups of user interfaces.

I like what you've done.

But I wonder if mockups really need to be polished, production ready, pixel-perfect etc.
Let's hope someone forks it and teaches Oracle a lesson.
Because it happens. Typically in places where it shouldn't (e.g. bad programming) but sometimes it does (e.g. enormously complex active system state.)

The point is that there are solutions offering equivalent speed without that barrier, so why select a technology that has limitations?
Having a greater number of independent perspectives that lack objectivity is like having a greater number of clocks that are all set to different times. The advantage is illusory -- there's still only one correct time, and now there's an even lesser chance that you're looking at the clock that tells it.
The most relevant one I saw and read was the Networking one. I think a lot of people I meet (or see at networking events) need to read that.
We use PhoneGap and thought it would fit well for us since our app is a touch based board game. We don't really use native widgets. It's all customized graphics for the game board and menu screen.

I probably wouldn't use PhoneGap for an actual application that needed the native widgets look and feel, but for something like we are aiming for, I think it fits perfectly. We wanted to target as many platforms as possible.
How do I sign-up for updates?
Can I beta test it?
When Can I buy it?
That's true for other laptop and other distro as well. It seems that every release has its own quirks. At some point I even forced to learn to create a (buggy) kernel module to enable brightness control.
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Very nice, I was thinking of this in the shower (of course) today. Is there any way to see my contributions to other projects? This is honestly a feature I would pay for.
No, he should be treated.
He's suggesting improvements. You meanwhile are not constructive. If you prefer other systems over Linux, nobody forces you to use it.
MariaDB is already a fork of MySQL, and many developers from MySQL now developing MariaDB.
Given the context, I'd be inclined to start wondering whether his son actually had CF at all.
NASA's previous administrator championed a lunar base as a prerequisite for a manned Mars mission -- if only to prove that we could send a crew up for an extended period of time without resupply. I never understood this reasoning. We have plenty of ways to engineer and simulate these conditions on Earth (like the MARS-500, recently completed -- tl;dr, it's not fun, but they didn't dismember and eat one another).

The only reason to stop en route to your destination is to refuel. This allows a larger spacecraft to be launched with a smaller rocket (of course you need more rockets to launch the fuel).

http://www.nss.org/articles/depots.html
Four known forks so far (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Forks)
Second that. Enterface looks great, amd I'm sure many are disappointed to get to the bottom and find no download or sign up for updates link.
Arresting the founders of TPB is just silly, only the user's are the criminals.
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I second separating the music from articles/interviews/misc
Worked with Sri earlier this year, vouch he's really good!
My mistake, it's actually 2 weeks ("mid-September" is the target date). Still close. It's still an alpha, but there are huge changes, and most importantly, syntax becomes "slushy" after 0.4 (not frozen, but massive changes have a high bar to clear).
It seems Oracle is on a trend to kill everything open source they've acquired from Sun. Java seems to be the only one left, and it would've happened already if they won the trial with Google, but I'm sure they'll do something equally dumb in the future to kill finally Java, too.
> Offshore is, most of the times, about getting the same quality of work at cheaper cost.

I have yet to experience that joy.

Rather, offshore means lots of unnecessary documentation, train someone to do my job (promoting me to "lead"), watch them get it wrong, try to coach them onto the correct path, high turnover (so I have to train and coach again in a few months), do a complete rewrite at the 11th hour, then be blamed by the bean counters that I sabotaged the effort somehow.

No doubt the same thing happens in house. But with in house, if we find a good egg, we get to keep them, get some ROI back from the learning curve.
What makes you believe that the author of the parent post mentioned the "offshore" characteristic unnecessarily?

When interpreting the story, isn't it important that readers understand that the programmer who added the call to sleep was far removed from both the help desk and the end user of the software and was also unreachable at the time the call was discovered and thus that the author, who worked at the help desk, had to presume that the call was left in the code mistakenly? It's only later in the story that readers (and the author) learn about the ticket-submitter's unusual preferences for satisfying the end user. And it's only then that another possibility dawns upon readers: that, perhaps, the "offshore programmer" knew more about making the stakeholders look good than initially given credit for.

If the author of the parent post is not allowed to reveal that the programmer was working "offshore," how does the story get told at all?
I bet you get that question a lot, but I just read http://lesswrong.com/lw/e25/bayes_for_schizophrenics_reasoni... and was wondering if it was possible for a schizophrenic to tell whether he is hallucinating. Also, would be really nice to hear your thoughts on that article. Thanks!
I found it to be pretty solid and fast when I last used it, which was right after Borland Open-Sourced it. It was forked from Interbase.
So they only facilitate breaking the law, they don't get their own hands dirty. If it were the Mafia, it would be called laundering.
That was added since the article was posted. There were no sources listed last night.
Are startup founders entrepreneurs or poker players?
Successful outsourcing stories are few and far between; stories of failures are a dime a dozen. The reason is exactly as you say: companies are not judged on the quality they deliver.

In fact, the same problem has plagued the IT industry since forever. Almost no company successfully competes on quality, because the customer chooses the cheapest offer in the majority of cases.

And here is the crux: define the quality of a delivered software project and put a number on how much higher quality would have saved the customer. Nigh impossible.

The only solution seems to be going into a specialty niche where high quality is required, so any incumbent competitor will fail, unless they deserve to win, because they deliver your level of quality.
+1 for Cambodia for doing the right thing and not looking the other way.
They where however, sentenced for assisting in copyright infringement. The problem however, is that usually you need a crime to be an accessory to, to be sentenced. No copyright infringement sentence has linked to the judging of the TPB founders.
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I don't think that we disagree. I'm not talking about the valuation of the well established companies like spotify, netflix, match.com or even instagram and evernote which I use as examples in the post. These are not the problem, like Amazon was not in the dot-com bubble. I'm talking about the numerous "1 website - 1 app" paradigms that seem to proliferate based on VC backing with ridiculous amounts of money. And from my (very short) experience I've seen how that works and defines the start-ups objectives.

The companies I admire most now, used to be start-ups, however the term tends (for me at least) to get synonymous with something that's easy, temporary and quick money.

Maybe I should write another post talking about the good parts of working in start-ups. The parts that attracted me in the first place. So I can balance my opinion and not generalise so much.

I'll get some corporate experience soon (hopefully) and then I'll be in position to make a small comparison from a totally subjective point of view. After all, who knows, I may miss the start-up environment :)
Isn't MariaDB the fork by Monty, the original developer of MySQL who sold it to Sun in the first place, setting off multiple rounds of cashing out?
this is great. i esp wish someone encouraged me to make an effort and "Day 22 - Learn how to small talk".

growing up i hated small talk and this translated very well into hobbies involving staying home and hacking things, and later doing that at work.

it wasn't until much later that i realized how important it is to make real human connections and be able to interact with strangers. This seems to be harder to get right the older one gets.
"Lightbulb image by Svengraph. No affiliation with me or this project."

Surprising at least, why are you using branding that doesn't belong to you?

Is this a concept? A series of interesting mockups of a mockup app, or are these shots of a working prototype?

I get out of this presentation with more questions than answers about this app, and no way to find out more, or be notified.
Third that.
You can't see all repos for which you have commit access. (e.g. if you are in an organization, you have to query the organization to get the fact that you are a contributor)

Go to https://api.github.com/users/your_user_here/repos to see what repos are accessible.

NOW: it is possible to iterate through all of the repos in Github and build it up, but that's far too much legwork and would need to be run continually.
It's almost perfect on my machine. (Same as yours.)
It seems that the primary purpose of this tool is to add interactivity to designs. I don't think it replaces the need for mocking before you design for purposes of rapid evolution — I think paper still wins in this area.
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Landing people on Mars is most likely feasible with out major breakthroughs in science and technology.
In contrast strong AI might be around the corner - or a million years away. Its much less predictable.
> You are not supposed to use a wi-fi, even if it's open (that is, unlocked), unless you have specifically see it advertised as freely available to the public (i.e in an airport, a cafe, etc).

Many service providers that depend on open WiFi hubs would vigorously disagree. There are a great number of places where open, unsecured WiFi hubs are intended to be accessed by the public, and there are an equal number of client programs that connect up to an open hub and alert the user that a service has been located -- all automatically. Reference:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2193989_connect-wifi-wireless.html

Also, those WiFi hubs that serve as a portal to a paid service often use an open, unsecured hub as a gateway. In this case, the user is meant to log on automatically and then open a browser to complete the authentication process. If people believed they weren't allowed to log onto an open hub, this system would collapse.

> Being in a cafe that offers free public wifi doesn't give you an excuse to bypass the law and connect to any open nearby Wifi signal you can get ...

As shown above, this is simply wrong. Some hubs require a password, some do not. Of the latter, some hope you will log on to begin an authentication process, some hope you will log on just to drum up business.

I visited a town in Alaska this summer that had a McDonald's with an open hub -- no password. I asked about it, and the proprietor said it was open to attract people to his business, and he didn't care that some people used it without buying anything, especially because the lurkers needed to gather around his place of business (to get adequate signal strength), making it look popular and attracting paying customers.
After I read this article (which I see is submitted by the founder of this interesting blog, now a blog with many guest articles), I went to the reading list page on the blog site. There are many VERY GOOD books about mathematics listed there,

http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/

but the subtopic with the most disappointing recommendations was actually the subtopic on statistics. Two of my favorite online articles on statistics education

http://statland.org/MAAFIXED.PDF

and

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz

both point to better books on statistics and the key issues in the discipline.
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I use SoundManager 2 for music playback on my site. It's flexible, it works well, and it has good cross-browser compatibility.

http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
Hey guys, thanks for all the feedback. Right now Enterface is just a concept, hence no call to action. I would love to have it developed, if only for my own use! I'll need my own icon, too...
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An upvote would do :-)
This is a nice tool but I don't get the obsession with github. Surely resumes should be about what you worked on and how it went rather than where you host it? People use other public repositories a lot, like Google Code. In addition many really good programmers may not be able or willing to work on open source code. I do like the Stack Overflow careers profile though, which allows you to add links to open source work on a few services. Though I get the irony that that site is heavily biased towards people that are active on Stack Overflow.
Linkbait indeed. The move toward "open core," shitty as it may be, has been transparently ongoing for some time now.
Thanks for that, it is like you read my mind :)
What short-sighted thinking. This is why you don't see much innovation from the big companies usually. This is like Apple thinking they shouldn't release the iPad because it would cannibalize their Mac sales. Instead of being an also-ran in flash, Hynix/HP could be the leaders in memristors. But it seems you won't see them thinking like that.

Oh well, I guess Samsung will take the lead in that market, too, then, since I think they were the other main company working on memristors.
Yeah, Maria is the fork that people should switch to. Also, it's created by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original developer of MySQL.
I would love it if people started including an "apply with Github" link on their job sites where they usually have an "apply with LinkedIn" link now.
Here's the video you were referencing, circa late 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
Evernote has 1 million users paying for the service http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/19/evernote-by-the-numbers-34m...
Heres another anti-pattern: big buttons with only the text being clickable
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Nothing involving rocketry is trivially easy implement. To my knowledge building a centrifuge to produce artificial gravity has never been attempted, it would take years of work and tens or hundreds of million dollars to design, prototype, test, and man rate any such a system.
This looks very promising. What a shame to get on hacker news and not have a way to capture users. Just embed an email capture right now on that page. Maybe add a discount promotion for early adopters or beta users. Overall looks great, just hope it's not some vaporwear at the end of the day
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Please make this obvious from the page itself. Don't call it an app if it's a concept, maybe use "could" instead of "can", etc.

I get that you may not have anticipated the amount of interest when making this, of course. It looks really cool, great idea!