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Bombshell: WWIII Starts Sept. 25th Says Former State Dept. Veteran
Show HN: Our last product, favmonster
If folk found this interesting I'd recommend they get hold of a copy of "Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?" by Susan M. Weinschenk. It's not the most academic of books and a quick read (about 150 pages or so) - but it gives a bunch of high-level pointers to stuff that you can google around and dig into if you like.
With a responsive design I don't have to write three separate apps for mobile, tablet, and desktop. Instead I adapt the CSS to fit each device. It reduces repetition and keeps everything clean.
if windows 8 has even half the success of windows 7 it will automatically become a big player in the tablet market considering all those convertible laptops that are showing up. pricing will matter but getting an i7 processor and SSD in tablet form does cost a lot and if they are to be compared to Apple's products I believe they should be compared to MacBook's rather than iPads. Talking about Windows 8 x86.
See my sibling reply (which I began before you posted) for why I don't believe this is necessarily the case.
Ads on download pages are far worse, and usually served by Google ads. http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Disguised_Ads
$20m is the price you would expect. Rule of thumb is 3 years earnings + a little extra for goodwill/brand name/human capital.
One issue with server side solutions in general is caching becomes really hard or ineffective.

With the client side solutions, like responsive CSS, you're serving one cached, distributed, minified set of data to every client.
Tracking down unused variables with Pyflakes and git bisect
Now that is a splash page
Importantly, for long-time contributing members of the site, Slashdot gives you a checkbox to turn off ads entirely. (You have to re-check it every so often.)
A new camera to see deeper into the dark of the Universe
it is useful - I do read a lot of text on my phone - books / and web.

its one of those features you don't advertise though. I mean I wouldn't buy a device just for this but small things like this make people miss them when using another phone / platform. I guess its not the big stuff that build the brand loyalty but these subtle details.
Sounds like her grandfather needs a nice heavy mouse. She could disassemble a modern mouse and add lead weights to the inside until the weight and balance were right.
I think that most of diamonds sold Russia are mined in Russia (Yakutia probably).

Still they are expensive and luxur-ish. I guess Russian jewelers are just riding the world-wide hype wave, not interested in disrupting or "harming" the market.
I think this kind of technology is already being placed inside cars themselves. And the QR code is probably harder to scan while moving than recognising the speed limit plate itself.
> based merely on price and specs

Beyond the price and capabilities, what else should the consumer consider?
It's a donation, and you get a "prize" for donating a certain amount.
Me too please. Thanks!
Yeah - I've read that. EXCELLENT book. You can get it here... http://www.amazon.com/Neuro-Web-Design-Makes-Click/dp/032160... (No I didn't put an Amazon affiliate code at the end) ;)
I have a whole (Google) Drive of ideas, each with a hook, strategy, and business plan. Some of them, I have seen startups to independently try. I will post a bunch as individual sub-comments, see if anybody wants to make a startup of them. If somebody does, I will be happy to share most of the rest of details, in exchange for free accounts, recognition, etc.

Ok, I posted about 10% of what I have (most here, one was stray on its own thread). But it started to look like HN spam even to myself, so I stopped. But yes, there is more. And there are some with a lot more dots connected. Contact me if you are ever stuck for ideas. :-)
Hey, we have just opened our closed beta for favmonster, a kind of social sharing/bookmarking site.
All kinds of feedback are welcome, we just want to create a very useful product.

Thanks!
Ask HN:  Can someone please create this:  Family Medical History
It's so ridiculous when you visit a doctor and they ask about your family history. I don't know all the ailments my extended family has and I don't even have that much family.<p>I recently found out that some of my family members have thyroid issues, which explains some symptoms I've been going through.<p>There should be a private network where family members can input all their ailments (anonymously if they want), and then you can see what you're at risk for.<p>For those family members who have already passed away (or don't use computers), other family members can input what they know they had.<p>This would be a huge preventative measure. What do you guys think?
Oh I like this. It's great to see so many things taking off thanks to Bootstrap. Yay for a less ugly web!
I don't. I hope they carry on providing a broad set of different kinds of content for the whole population.

As soon as stuff starts getting ditched the tyranny of the majority means that you're not going to end up with documentaries and arts programming :-)
> Special Relativity applies ANY TIME that you transmit information from one point A in an inertial frame to another point B in an inertial frame.

Not true. It also implies uniformity of space-time in all inertial frames and the space between them. Since the theoretical purpose of the warp drive is to create a non-uniformity by definition SR does not apply.
How to Excel at IDE Design
Google and other ads are specifically designed to look like search results and exploit the fact that older people cannot see contrast of the background as well as younger people.

The contrast on the background is much lower than the federal 508 standard for contrast and I think has changed to over the years to a lighter shade as Google "optimizes" it.

http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png

One is an ad and one is a search result, is there much difference? Given the average quality of monitors, I think those are designed to fool even otherwise sharp eyes.
These price points jive fairly well with Steve Ballmer’s comments in an interview with The Seattle Times last week, which suggests that between $300 and $800 is the “sweet spot” for the bulk of the PC market.

Instead of starting as a status symbol and accessory and growing into a full-use device, Surface seems to be coming in as straight PC replacements, and it's being priced appropriately. The keyboard dock is shown as an accessory, but as a necessary accessory - ads seem to show Surface docked as often as solo, and it's the best bridge to people who believe they'll never give up their laptop. When viewed this way, it's like shrinking the laptop to remove the keyboard, leaving just screen and processing guts. (I work with someone who likes to complain about how he believes tablets are useless)

The $600 model says it comes with Office 2013 preloaded -- is that full office or just the demo? Remember that Office 2010 retailed for more than $400.
Why? You don't like making free money?
Time to bring up the COME FROM statement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COME_FROM
Meh. The community gets what it deserves based on what it votes for.
Does this include Ohloh as well? That's a pretty nice code analysis site, which was acquired by SF back in 2009:

http://meta.ohloh.net/2009/05/sourceforge_acquires_ohloh/
Graphite soaked in water may be a room temperature superconductor
They've done this with their in-market shoes where they go for $200-$300 a pair depending on the makeup.

I'd say that $200 is approximately the right markup compared to the regular price of an Air Force considering what's required for individual customization. I do note that the price of a shoe may be high to begin with.

That being said, they've stepped it up beyond your example and gone with "Bespoke" options for their shoes. $800 a pair.
Making it JSON - XML to JSON API
Sweet! Found an old longform article I had lost the link to and couldn't google back either. Thanks!
The purpose is to capture as much capital in early sales as possible. Caps would defeat this purpose.
Here's some 100% unmodified output from a page I threw together in about a minute just to post here:

https://gist.github.com/3743829
layout should be responsive also to amount of content, especialy on websites focused on user generated content
I'm glad you agree that a few profit-driven CEOs shouldn't hold more sway over policy than hundreds of hard-working researchers.
Startup guide - how to help your sales people do a better job
Because MS is not a premium product. Once Unix was a premium product, MS had DOS. Now Apple is a premium product and MS has Windows.

MS has made billions on cheap computing, Apple has made them on expensive, premium products.

The problem is that now MS is trying to sell budget devices, at the most expensive price. That won't work.
LtU?
Agree. I also use the iPad in landscape and this app is definitely a big step back.

So much wasted/unused space.
I think it's fairly likely that their new acquisitions will be used to drive traffic to their job hunting sites. The more active members of SF and FC are pretty much ripe targets for recruiting messages driving them to job hunts.

Given the sad state of the economy, the more active of them will make for a good pool of hiring candidates.

*there was a complete thought in there, but it derailed on the word economy.
Wasn't a rebuttal against GitHub acquiring SourceForge but against "the projects with life and activity would have left SF sometime ago".
full office apparently.
This is so cool! But maybe I'm not really unbiased, because I'm part of the team too... But this is so cool!
Black Duck Software acquired Ohloh from Geeknet. http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2010-10-05
Ideas are vectors traversing an N-dimensional product space
http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2012/09/DECam_fornax_mosa...

http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2012/09/DECam_NGC13651.jp...

http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2012/09/DECAM_47Tuc.jpg

more pics: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/dark-energy-survey...
I think it's awesome, but better to do it through the doctors office than through patients, since most people aren't going to bother thinking about it until they're sick.

I guess there are privacy concerns and stuff, but seriously. It blows my mind that I have to answer the same questions every time I go to a doctor. In the 21st century, why on earth isn't all this stuff on file somewhere for any doctor in the world to access?
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Capabilities != specs.

But as an example, why not consider easy of use?
Most consumers neither understand nor care about the spec sheet. Reasons that make sense to an engineer are alien to most of the market.

They typical consumer asks for more gigahertz either as a status symbol or because something is slowing down their existing machine to the point that routine interactions are painful.
Movie and TV Show Pirates Hid Topsite Server Inside ISP Network
Sure you can at the carrier level, it's called unicast reverse path forwarding. Any incoming packets from a network with a source IP not being advertised via BGP by that network would be spoofed.
No, it is not. He can use the account for personal email but that does not make the account itself personal. If you use an account provided by a third-party for personal emails then you cannot expect that email to remain private. It is subject to whims of the third-party and applicable laws.

Although in terms of FOIA, as I understand it, one can expect unrelated emails of the request to not be released. But if one writes a small sentence relating to the subject of the FOIA request in an otherwise personal email, then it is subject to that request.
"This whole mess" is not hacker news though, so neither is new information about it, just as new information about Mitt Romney's tax returns, Obama's former pastor or Ron Paul's nose hair would likely not be suitable for this site.
Take into account the large start-up culture employers - Google, Apple, FB, Yahoo to name a few. And Standford as a thinktank. Funding bank: VCs and angels. These are hubs where talent revolve around and from which money flows. In the absence of established hubs, thinktanks, and VC pool, there will be little neck-neck competition with SV/SF. Which is to say it is better to have diverse startup cultures in the US, some small, some monoliths, each different and unique.
Does anybody here still use SourceForge to host their projects? Back in its days it was the place for open source software, but these days I shudder when software I want to use is hosted there. I think it failed to evolve and become what is now github. Or maybe they target an other market?
It's the difference between empirical research and phenomenology and one of the things that makes Psychology a) a bit woolly compared to other sciences and b) a lot more interesting.
Hey! No offense meant. Its just true that a lot of programmers are not CS-trained. So not the target demographic of Lisp.
JetBlue to roll out in-flight Wi-Fi in Q1 2013, will launch free of charge
Totally agree. If they are desktop replacements then they aren't iPads.
It's ironic. This is exactly the behavior that the system seems to want to avoid, but inevitably incentivizes.

So shame on him? I don't know. Major props for being honest.

One could argue you were subconsciously influenced toward posting a shaming comment because of the karma incentive.

Of course, you may just be joking as well.

It's certainly funny either way.
I would love to get access to this!
Right, that's the "Tablet + Laptop Replacement" market. And I agree, I think MS would be expected to keep that, because it's still not reasonably possible for anyone but the most casual consumer to replace their desktop software with a tablet yet.

But the notable price in the linked article is the $600 for the Tegra 3 box, which obviously won't run much of the desktop software. Asus is already selling a 7" Tegra 3 laptop (the Nexus 7) at 1/3 that price. Is a 10" partially-desktop-incompatible (!) tablet really worth three times the price of a broadly equivalent Android device already in the market?
Was going to post this, since it goes into more detail about each app, and limits itself to apps that follow the Holo guidelines, rather than just 'beautiful' ones (for those that want a more 'consistent' experience). I'm now subscribed to both.
There's also Get It Now, and a ton of others moving into the delivery space
This is an excellent point — that Ruby embodies the syntactic insight that most functions that take any functional argument take only one functional argument.

Frankly this turned me off from Ruby when Matz presented it at LL2 in 2002. My reaction was “this is an ugly hack that won't work with more than one funarg, by someone who doesn't really understand functional programming”. [I was coming from years of hardcore programming in Smalltalk and Common Lisp.] It was only years later that I realized this special case was so overwhelmingly the common case that it was reasonable to give it a nice syntax, and that there's a (big) place for programming that isn't in a “functional” style, but still makes liberally use of funargs. (Most Smalltalk and Lisp that I've seen occupies this middle ground too.)

It reminds me of my first reaction to Python: “Meaningful indentation is a terrible idea!” Only a year or two later when I was writing Lisp pseudocode in a notebook [late '90's — no parenthesis highlighting or syntax-directed editor on my analog notepad] did I realize that what I was sketching used whitespace as shorthand, and was practically Python as it stood.

That Ruby blocks have a weird scope, and that the syntax for creating and invoking closures outside of the block syntax is so cluttered, are unfortunate and seem mostly independent of having a compact notation for single-funarg function calls. Except that if, like Lisp and Smalltalk, all use of closures used the same syntax, this syntax would probably have become more polished.
3 design questions developers should answer about planned app workload
I'd love to get an invite as well. Thanks
It'd be nice if they at least removed some of the restrictions iPlayer (DRM, country).
Obviously for Microsoft including a $400 copy of their own software doesn't actually cost $400, unless one hundred percent of the people who get the surface would buy Office 2010 if it wasn't included.
a bit buggy on the key listeners, very evident they are listening to a key up event and replacing the text value so i cant use the left and right arrow keys <- -> to move on the text field
CareZone https://carezone.com/ Jonathan Swartz's post-Sun company?
This license fee is paid to the BBC and used to support their programming regardless of whether or not you consume their content

And "programming" means more than just TV. It covers the radio, web stuff, etc. etc.

(there used to be a radio licence in the UK too in years gone past - abolished in 1971).

As ever wikipedia has the gory details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...
For those in the DC area, the Scala DC meetup group is holding meetups to watch these lectures and discuss the material over the next few weeks.

http://www.meetup.com/dc-scala
Porting To Google Voice And Dropping My Cellular Provider
I'm wondering if it will comeback into vogue after Sheldon highlighted it in "The Big Bang Theory":

Penny meant if he *were* a purple leprechaun.
Penny forgot (pause) to use the subjunctive.
Large service providers do not disallow ICMP at the network level. TCP/IP relies on ICMP for a number of purposes other than PING (ICMP ECHO), and a network would be broken without it.
I got to say it looks very promising. Nice trailer!
Honestly, I found most interesting about that was the Hello Kitty Handbags. Just one of those, wow it's a smaller world than you might think.
I just _knew_ that RIM acquisition would be a bad thing for us Tungle fans.
> pricing will matter but getting an i7 processor and SSD in tablet form does cost a lot

These prices are for a Tegra 3 and an Atom. One assumes that if you want an i7 it'll be a little more :)
You're doing a really great job with this and I hope it encourages people to write from the heart. One thing I'd suggest (if it hasn't already) is adding a padding at the bottom of the pages so that the last comment isn't butting up against the bottom of the browser. I like being able to scroll past the content enough so that it is 100-200px above the page end.
If you email me (check my profile for address) the domain, i'll have a poke around if you want, but it was probably an automated system that grabbed it, and if it doesn't generate enough traffic to pay for it's renewal, it'll get dropped next expiry.
The $126 Billion Forbes Cover
1-800-Sustainable
Allow people to SMS/text (or IM) fish name and get information on whether it is sustainable.

Parse multiple names/synonyms. Provide bit.ly links for full information for those with smart phones.

Use geolocation to differentiate between fish names.

Could be paid by a grant from a nature oriented foundation, add-on service or charge eco-concious users by using premium instead of 1800 numbers.
Lambda the Ultimate: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool
If these are the kinds of problems that interest you, we're hiring at LiveLoop (http://getliveloop.com). We put real-time collaboration inside Microsoft Office, which is used by over 100 million people every day.
Six Widespread False Beliefs About Social Media
No 'exit' without 'funding'?
>Because MS is not a premium product.
>MS has made billions on cheap computing, Apple has made them on expensive, premium products.

True but quite misleading because you're comparing software with hardware. A lot of OEMs especially Sony have had laptops costing north of $2000 that sell quite well. MS probably makes the same amount on them, but Sony gets a premium on models like the SZ series and Z series. One of my friends dropped $2400 on this laptop a year ago.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HN07CVHIrfM/TmibCh6iDyI/AAAAAAAAAP...
Are you sure about that?

The article specifically states that on Windows 7 the attacker obtains the privileges of the current user.

Microsoft's advisory agrees:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2757760

"The vulnerability may corrupt memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user within Internet Explorer."

What's more, most people run with administrator privileges on Windows 7/Vista/XP because that's the default.
Regarding your microwave idea, check out what these Penn students built: http://www.geekosystem.com/microwave-youtube-hack/
Ha, the rationality thing is so true - just finished reading 23 things they don't tell you about the free market - it covers just this.
Only a sales rep bragging to me on the phone.

He could have been lying but considering how uptight Akamai is about everything I doubt he made it up.
How do you make sure you support all the possible devices that will request a page from your server? If you divide between desktop and mobile, what do you serve a tablet? If you make a tablet layout, what do you do if it changes orientation? Once you added the tablet, what do you serve a web-enabled TV? A handheld console? A high-resolution display?

Responsive is about responding to container characteristics, instead of relying on the assumption that a certain known device has certain characteristics. Even with responsive, the rabbit hole goes waaay down, but at least you're avoiding the ghetto effect of "supporting" a set list of circumstances.
FirstLesson.com - product reviews for language learning websites.

Do a screencast of language learning website (first lesson for each). Allows people to see for themselves which of the sites better fit their needs.

Make money from affiliate joining fees for the reviewed sites.
But then you get into the business conundrums - would you rather sell 10k impressions at .40 cpc or 20k impressions at .20 cpc?
What's mind blowing is that when you break this down, it's more or less achievable, minus regulation snafus regarding launching projectiles in a populated area.
I would contend that not being CS-trained doesn't eliminate them from the pool of people who could benefit from knowing Lisp and similar languages. As a programmer, unless you just want to be outclassed in a few years, you have to stay on top of developments in the industry and the history of the industry. Knowing the languages that modern languages pull their tricks from is one such way. And it doesn't take a CS degree to do that with many of the resources being put out these days.
As someone already pointed out, these types of CPM offer NO value to the customer. Does it help Yahoo in the short term? Probably. Long term? Probably not.