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I don't know where our disconnect is here, sorry. I'm not saying anything remotely negative about A/B. I'm saying that despite business owners understanding the potential, other things get in the way (other projects, time constraints, etc). For many people, their website isn't their primary means of revenue and their designers' and copywriters' time is best spent on the part of the business where shareholders have proven results of their effectiveness and value-add.
Sounds like you're just getting started. Time to focus on execution.

1. You have "sign in with Twitter" but not "sign in with Facebook". That's an obvious feature if you're focused on viral growth.

2. It's okay to do nonscalable things at the start. Convince a dozen of your friends to post on socialatte every day, by any means necessary. Then listen to their feedback and implement their suggestions.

3. When someone declines to sign in via twitter, they go to a 404 page. Fix that.

4. Drop that donate and sponsors junk. It's taking up real estate, looks crappy, and you're never going to make a noticeable amount of money before you get big anyway.

5. Let me sign in with an email and password.

6. Build an iOS app. It makes a lot of sense to post a picture of coffee from your phone. More sense than a website.

7. Find a cofounder. The biggest problem at this stage is that you are likely to give up before putting enough effort into it. A cofounder will keep you working.

Keep working - you have only just begun.
Interesting. I blog a lot and find that my stream of conscious is not only from my head, but also from the internet. I find it a useful writing tool - just like a library. I do agree at some point you need to step away, come back and edit <to simplify>. At that point, I need to disconnect. Building content, connection good. Editing, connection bad.
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I guess it depends on how the cars were programmed to learn. Is perceiving a threat something that would be in the scope of the car's programming? Would the developers have accounted for the possibility of cataloging and identifying not only firearms but also the usage of those firearms. How much damage would a car suffer from a firearm compared to a pothole at 50 mph?

It would be much easier and more likely for the developers to account for hazards that affect the functionality of the car. Sensors that monitor brakes, shocks, tire pressure etc. The car could then learn to adapt to certain road types and avoid others altogether. If the cars were given AI that would concern itself with minimizing damage they would be more likely to avoid towns with the worst road care.
>why not use an iPad for the interface?

Well, i was trying to get at what benefits you thought the iPad gave you (other than ease of setup, and being a great content consumption device).

(While I don't know exactly what you do) you would probably still need a remote server, but Linux would give you a much more mature development platform, with many IDEs including the light table that you mentioned you missed.. with this and a proper shell you would be able to at least do some proper work with no data connection. And still keep the battery life courtesy of ARM.
I'll be blunt about this - the term dyslexia exists to absolve incompetent teachers and schools of responsibility. All the available evidence points to the fact that dyslexics have simply been incompetently taught and never gained a coherent sense of how language works. By labelling the student as dyslexic we perpetuate the lie that the reading difficulty has come from within the individual, rather than from the failings of the adults around them.

It is very likely that your friend is absolutely no different from anyone else, but for the fact that they had a poor early experience of reading. A failed education system has found it more convenient to convince your friend that they have a neurological disorder, rather than admit to their culpability. Your friend should not have needed any clinical diagnosis to access proper teaching; We should be thoroughly ashamed of the continuing systematic failures that create such a situation.
Could anyone create a torrent for this? Dropbox has killed the link.
Not to be melodramatic, but as someone still in a day job this whole patent mess seriously does discourage me from taking the leap and risking everything to try to invent something meaningful only to get hit with a patent troll lawsuit just as we start to find our feet.
This will raise the bar for the users as well unfortunately and I hope they will evaluate throughly.

A sample scenario:

I am on the move and I am looking for an app, I search with a keyword x, but I can only see ONE app at a time so:

1- I can't quickly compare the first search results and pick one in particular

2- If I want to see all the search results I have to swipe as many times as the number of the search results themselves

3-Finally I have to remember what I liked best then swipe all the way back to it

How can this be convenient for me, especially if I am in a hurry?
You spent $150 to learn the most valuable copywriting lesson to be learned. That the headline is the most important part of an advertisement. The job of the headline is to get people to keep reading. Your headline proved to be bad. Its ok, now go back, redo it and test the results.

Advertising on reddit is a bit of a puzzle. The community does not respond to very informercial sounding messages. They do respond to personal, first person point of view stuff.

You should try a variation of the following.

Reddit: Help me get in touch with your landlords. I want to talk to them about something that might benefit you.

Help! I might have a way to help your landlord (and thus, you) but I have no way of getting in touch with him/her.

Guys, this is my startup. It aims to help your landlord do some things better, and thus make your life easier. Help me spread the word.

And so on.
What is the worldview that will support your (education) revolution?
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"The internet is facing a serious problem. It doesn't have enough cats"

Love those guys :) Shout out to Devon and co @ BBCat!
"... Perhaps someone felt that it inappropriate to call the author out by name, and didn't feel that referring to them by a completely appropriate gender pronoun was in any way offensive. ..."

I understand the line of reasoning, however the tone of the comments about the article are negative and not up to standard. [1] It is not a question of gender but how to discuss, acknowledge & discuss an authors work in a civil manner.

[1] cf https://twitter.com/hmason/status/248262821924720640
"Am I indeed obliged not to deceive them?"

From the perspective of being a decent human being, the answer to this question is pretty much always "yes".
It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
It's not just Facebook that has an unusually bad reputation among the technology crowd -- companies like Facebook, Apple, Google, etc. are widely respected outside of the industry bubble. I remember hearing two ordinary guys talking about Wall Street bankers in Logan Airport, and contrasting their ill-gotten gains with Bill Gates and how he fairly earned his money by "building a better mousetrap."

(Also, your point about entertainment and its production is an interesting one -- the people who built and maintain Facebook can be, in this way, rightly compared to the Beatles, the Baroque composers, and Valmiki).
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>I've tried applying at three places.

I hope that's not since March. Pardon my bluntness, what else are you doing to find work? It sounds like you need to just get a job, not necessarily your dream job. You can always work somewhere and leave after 6 months. Have you talked to any recruiters? Have you been to any networking events or joined any professional groups? What other resources have you used to get work? If you're looking for really fast cash, I agree with the other comments, you should sell something or borrow some money from friends or family to make due. There are always services like TaskRabbit or MechanicalTurk and freelance coding websites. And if you're really hard-up, though I'm loathe to suggest it, you can always use a credit card for some quick cash.

Also, care to post a resume?
Came expecting news that the app store would not launch in iOS 6. Title is definitely more provocative than it needed to be.
If I were Google, I would release the whole suite of ecosystem apps wherever I can get them to run, including iOS, and all the significant Android-derived OSs: Kindle Fire, OPhone (OMS), and Aliyun.

Android doesn't need the crutch of app exclusivity.
How did Kaspersky get the hash?
I browse the same way. And this new layout is a welcome change for me. Finally I don't have to drill down every app I'm interested in to see screen shots and comments.
Since they have not posted anything about it yet, this might again be an accidental release of the branch.

I wonder how many of these accidental deploys they have on a regular basis which we don't notice.
Thank you for the advice :) It is deeply appreciated. As you guessed, I am just starting out. I felt out what I thought might be a good idea and trying to allow it to grow into its own. Actually a few people have already stated that they would like facebook login so I may need to rework my account model. I don't really have many users right now so this might be a good time to pivot.

As far as donations and sponsors, I agree with you on the donations but confused how I will be able to generate revenue at the start. I currently am a freelancer and funding would allow me to work on this full time but, again, this may be too early in the idea to think about so you may be right on both of those fronts.

I am currently looking into Appcelerator's Titanium for the mobile app at least for a prototype. As for co-founder, my brother has a stake in the idea and is a bit of a designer/illustrator and has presented quite a few good ideas that we coalesced into what the site is currently.

As for scalabilities sake, we were going to look at Node.js as a technology as we may have a lot of realtime features on the website but, again, I didn't want to work that far ahead as I knew there would be some pivoting of my strategy.

Thank you very much for your insight :)
Hey Brett! Nice post. I had a BLAST mentoring at PennApps - these kids could teach everybody a lot about enthusiasm and hard work. It's always inspiring when you have so many great minds in one place.

Look for my post about it as well, coming soon..
No it's still broken (posting three hours after your comment) and fixing the 404 on apple link won't fix it.

My ISP requires me to login through a browser to give me access. I am sure majority are on always on connection but there might be a good number for this kind of setup too. What about airport token logins? Didn't expected this in an Apple device.
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This is awesome! The qwebirc client everyone seems to use is seriously lacking in features. I will definitely try to contribute!
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This poor soul has been grinding this axe for years. He's simply blaming others for his own failures. The prose is magnified by his clearly high intellect but it's easy to see through it. You need only take a look at the mess that was housesystem (his attempt at a campus social network among other things) to get an idea of why it didn't take off like facebook. Or if that's not enough, how about his payments startup facecash. No evil Zuckerberg character to blame there.. It was just a very poorly designed and executed project. Facebook won because it was better and Mark was right not to hire this guy. The sad thing is he (Greenspan) is clearly hyper intelligent, and if he'd only focus that intellect on figuring out where his work could improve instead of laying his problems at his more successful classmate's feet...
The code is probably running out of file descriptors either because they are exhaused prior to Go's gc reaping the open ones or because they are being held open by default Keep-Alive.

Boost the fd count in /etc/security/limits.conf past 1024 or whatever the default is on the OS. Or if that isn't an option, then modify the Go http server code so that it closes each web connection after the request is processed.
Original Issue Forum Post - Time: 05:56 PM

First Negative Forum Post - Response Time: 06:00 PM (same day) : "I think this is the worst iOS release to date.
And Steve would've never allowed this."

Due of the Internet archive, these forum posts may well be our greatest legacy.
If you view the details of at least half of the apps in your search results up to the one you eventually buy, this change means it takes less effort to find the app you want to buy, and you get more information in the process.

If I buy the sixth app in the search results and only care to review two of the earlier ones, the old method was 5 touches before the one I'm buying is in front of my face, while the new method is 5 swipes, and with the new method I get more information about the three I previously rejected based on icon/name alone.

I'm pretty sure my own experience is that the item I am looking for is usually in the top 3 results, and I pretty much always review the top 3 results, so this feels like it will make it significantly easier for me to get to the apps I want to buy.

I'll have to try it out to know, though. One thing I lose here if the 3rd app is the one I want is the confidence that the one I really want isn't somewhere in 4-10. It will take some usage to know if the new design is better for me or not.
That's a common occurrence for myself and many of the designers I work with. Regarding content, we are at the client's mercy, and unfortunately I find their sense of urgency is often nearly non-existent.
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There's a facebook in my github.
This is how it's supposed to work.

(accountant)
Title: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran [1]

_____________

[1] There's no doubt that the US has developed cyberweapons, cyberweapons have been used under Obama, or that flame is one of such a class of weapons. The attribution of flame is sort of a moot point re: "It was reported in the nytimes that this is indeed a cyberweapons". Viz:

"Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed..."
"The United States government...acknowledged developing cyberweapons"...and now
"another cyberweapon called Flame that was recently discovered to have attacked" etc. per NYT.
Why hasn't Google jumped on this? If I search for "todo app" in Google, I get mostly blogs (SEO experts) and one app that apparently was the first to ask for the name Todo.

Shouldn't Google trigger a special view like they do when you search for "CITY_NAME weather" or "MOVIE_TITLE showtimes"?
I was surprised when I saw it too... not even a blog post about it?

It looks nice though.
I had a similar, but separate issue - after upgrading to iOS 6, my wifi was disabled and wouldn't turn back on. Tried messing with settings, airplane mode, resetting network settings and restoring, but nothing worked. Doesn't look like I'm the only one either: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19620439#19620439

Fortunately the Apple Store replaced it. Free too.
definitely seems that way, some of it doesn't work. The repository filters are not implemented.
Why is MakerWare closed source? It seems to go against everything Makerbot claimed they stand for. Did Makerbot outsource development?
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I know many people out there are quite familiar with digital signage and this site may be familiar to some of you, but when I came across it earlier today I knew I had to share it with HN. It's all open-source software(free), super easy to use, and fully customizable. HN let me know what you think and what other digital signage software do you prefer.

Enjoy!
I think this experiment does more to show the ineffectiveness of surveys than it does to imply that the subjects are fools.
A certain amount of training beforehand doesn't hurt either. I'd been meditating for quite a while, and I'm no expert but I had a level of trust about what I could handle in terms of experience.

After the first couple of hours of my trip I introduced a lot of metal music and horror films to see exactly where it would go. There was nothing pleasant about that experience but I felt together enough to still observe it without being lost in it. However I couldn't consider deeply enough how horrifying it would be if you didn't have some sort of anchor inside of the experience.
What about machines with multiple Gmail users? Counting on user data when the user is logged out seems like a major problem right off the bat. (But how is a hacker going to clear your cookies remotely?)
Linode does offer basic two-factor authentication, which was one of the things I mentioned. You have the ability to set up IP address whitelists. If you try to log in from an address not on the whitelist, you get an email to confirm you are who you say you are. If I know the attack correctly, the hacker reset (or otherwise gained) the password via the support console and used that to log in. With two-factor, he could get the right password but would still need access to the email account as well. Unless you've majorly fucked up, there is no way anyone besides you is getting root.

You sign no SLA with Linode. They make no guarantees. That leaves it up to you to make sure you're secure, and fortunately they give you the tools needed to make this a reality.
Generally I agree with this philosophy except that in this case Aaron had been executing on this idea, and had a lot of it up and running. If the narrative is accurate he has cause to be bitter. Had he not done anything with this great idea he felt he had I would be more sympathetic to the 'ideas are worth nothing' theme.
Those were just examples. I'm just pointing out that it's a problem with imagination, not ability.
Check your dashboard/News Feed. Also featuring a new design right now.
I don't know if you've ever played the 1980s-90s Spectrum/Amiga Dizzy series, but exploring this squirted pretty much the same wonderful cocktail of neurotransmitters as exploring Spellbound Dizzy did when I was a small boy.
Everyone has a phone, for most definitions of everyone. Skype works on every major smartphone platform (and several minor platforms). What would I use my phone for if not for holding a conversation?
Absolutely agree. The current registration and voting process many states have in place today totally discourages people from voting. I recall trying to vote in this year's primary elections and had to go through so many loops just to make a few check marks that I questioned my own sanity and finally voted to not vote. The technology is there to fix this issue and make voting a click away. I just wish our government would make this a higher priority. We can do better.
My resume/CV/linkedin includes a prominent "note to recruiters" link which makes it clear what kind of a fit I'd be and vice versa. (eg I'm the kind of person who is far better at being employee #6 than #60,001) It mentions other things as well (eg getting a copy in Word format) and most importantly it says to give the company name and explains why.

It is very apparent from the recruiter emails that come in which ones have actually even bothered to read the note. The vast majority haven't which is a good indication they aren't diligent with their clients either. The rest often thank me for having it, or make other statements and are obviously showing signs of competence so I respond back to them.

Since I run my own mailserver I then add the bad recruiters to a block list so email from their domain is rejected at the SMTP level. The reason for blocking the domain not the individual is that recruiters are in the recruitment business - if they can't hire good people for their own business in a field they specialise in, why should they be trusted for IT?
Funny timing, I just got jslint turned back on in our build today! (well, jsHint now due to the 'for(var i=0...' failing even with -vars enabled, but I digress...).

Another dev and I spent literally the entire day fixing issues - and we had jslint running on every checkin until a few months ago!

But, it was worth it. It feels great to know that those bugs won't happen again without a failing build :)
Anyone else having trouble connecting to corporate networks with a self-signed certificate?
Apple is missing because they're usually on both sides of everything as a media provider
1) Have a long title with keywords in it: "Super Task: The todo organizer time management for agile"
2) Pick good keywords. Repeat them in your description copy.
3) Get everyone you know to give you a 5-star review when you launch.

That's about it. There's not much more you can do.
Thank you for sharing your story. Even though it is hard for me to relate (never had a father figure around) the way you described you dad is so inspiring. You are lucky to have been raised by such an incredible father.
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/search/ is the direct link. Will be interesting to do some compression tests with these files - I think Wikimedia could save quite a bit of bandwidth by using LZMA or similar.
So you agree with Dr. Hall? Or there is some other effect that's missing in the article?
Although Plan 9 has its problems and I am not advocating that it should become mainstream, it has achieved a few things and one of those things is to have demonstrated (by example) that most of the stuff in the OP can be tossed and replaced with simpler things. Plan 9 has seen enough general use (e.g., as the daily environment of a largish group at Bell Labs) over the last 20 years for use to confidently say that much.

There is a program (called IIRC vt100) on Plan 9 that is used to talk to TTYs and serial ports, but it is rarely used, and it is the only part of Plan 9 that incorporates TTY-related concepts. Nor are signals a part of Plan 9, having been replaced by something called notes, which are conceptually different and simpler in concept and implementation.

I remember delving into the documentation of the stty command on Linux a few times in the 1990s. How I wish I could have those hours back (so I could do something more fun or more productive with them).
Where are Facebook likes displayed? I can't seem them in the either version of the AppStore (Web, inside iTunes, from iPad).
Could someone really destroy the whole Internet?
Kripp has 2500 viewers right now streaming google docs while he does math to optimize his hero.

Another big factor for twitch viewership is that you can view it while not paying much attention and doing other stuff like reading HN. I have his stream on mute currently, and have it muted for hours sometimes. Gaming takes a lot more dedicated attention than having a stream on.
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I do agree that people here scoff at things because they don't like it personally, I do think multi-bazillion dollar companies can easily be wrong sometimes. Take Buzz, Ping and the Kin for example, all three were winded down.
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Good take on surveys and leading questions
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