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- On the first slide, the second person isn't the first person. I noticed the hair and something between its legs (below the "Always on the run!). Nitpick? :p

- On the third slide, what is an IP camera?

- On the 4th slide, "We talk of IP camera, well how many of store owners around us are willing to spend Rs. 8000+ for an IP camera? "... you can make it shorter "How many store owners are willing to spend Rs. 8000+ for an IP camera?

- 4th: Isn't there a better solution (question mark missing)

- 5th: Remove "When such great milestones have been already achieved, why do we re-invent the wheel ?". It's unnecessary. And your product is about integrating these milestones, right? If it's new, how come we re-inventing it?

- 5th: Remove the purple cellphone. There's already a better cellphone icon with the envelope;

- 5th: There are small white dots on the guy left arm;

- 6th: VERY IMPORTANT. If you ignore everything that I say, please don't ignore this. REMOVE "Besides, with SpaceLock's modularity, you can always plug-in a better camera or updated software as we develop it further." Here's the problem with this phrase. You're saying that your product might not be good enough. You're selling something (security with common infrastructure), and at the same you're saying: if it doesn't work, you can always make it better! Oh, er... customers want assurance that what they're buying will solve their problem, not that it might not, and they can "upgrade it".

- 7th: "You can use your webcam for a really great purpose.". What great purpose? This is the solution explanation slide... and this phrase is too vague.

Overall, I read all the slides and still don't quite get what the thing is all about :) Ok, webcams on cubicles? How does Spacelock helps me manage all these exactly? Some screenshots, maybe a demo website, or a link to an YouTube video showing someone using the app..

Edit: I know what an IP camera is, I just am not sure someone reading the slides will :)
I re-read Dune on my Sony reader and it was what I wanted. I agree, though, the problem is with any kind of books that have diagrams, code listings, two column formats don't render nicely on it.

What I worry about the iRex is that things will be scaled down by a third which I won't like, either.

The Plastic Logic reader isn't coming out until 2010, btw. :( I think someone else will come along in that time.
Paypal could use one.
+1 for newspapers having good APIs and using some of the great APIs available out there.

BTW, would love to get in touch to ask some hackerish questions about your paper. Do you do technology stuff there? If you don't mind, drop me one line and i'll respond (didn't see your address in your profile). My e-mail is shafqat at newscred dot com.
Guess it's time to add a regex block feature to gaim. (block .*Coho)?
In even shorter than the article: when interviewing for a job and you are given advice for free, the advice describes how it is to work there.
What faults?

I ask because I swear A/B and multivariatate tests have been around my head a lot lately, and when I finished reading the article, the first thing I thought was: Why not just deploy to 1% of the users and see if it works?

Then I thought about how hard would be to manage multiple versions of the same software, specially data, amongst different user. Certain features presented to the 1% might be incompatible with the other 99%. But that's a technical problem. Very hard to solve, but manageable. Then I imagined somekind of framework that would make communication between different versions of the data floating around easier, with "how to transform" data from-and-to version 1.1 and 1.2 easily.

Anyway, I am really curious, because it sounds like a good solution :)
I made a website for a tiny open source project of mine, that addressed image segmentation and 3D visualization of meshes.

I added a link to that web page: "Hire me". And I got hired at a very nice research institute for an intership. Later I became group leader there.

Bottom line: have something to show, and don't be shy about it.
make. wired. scientific american. popular science. popular mechanics. national geographic. smithsonian. 2600.
Doesn't not having an a lot of identities give you an identity of someone who doesn't have a lot of identities? Are you not looking down on those who think they have the Truth by saying I have the Truth and the Truth is that identities don't matter?
I find people in that group the most most smug and intolerant of all. If I think that vi is better than emacs, and you say the opposite we can discuss it. I can agree with you belief that there is a better editor. If I say editors don't matter and they are all the same, I am saying I have a higher truth. This attitude was debunked in PGs essay "Revenge of the Nerds." PG has formally adopted the role of Pointy Haired Boss!
I did a bit of wheel reinventing today, for one of my personal Canonical Black Holes Of Developer Time examples, too: I wrote a shopping cart.

I really, really did not want to do this -- that is why I've been using somebody else's shopping cart for the last two years. But there were two outstanding usage niggles with their cart, and my intuition from previous A/B testing is that these two niggles were going to cost me a few thousand dollars this year.

So I specced out a pretty minimal replacement -- take open source library A, write a very little connecting code, hook into shopping cart service backend B, get done in 2 hours. Of course it ended up taking 8.5, and I've still got one bug from myself, one bug Javascript bug in Firefox 3, and one apparent bug in either the shopping cart service or Google Checkout itself.

Bah.

But, on the plus side, the new cart looks great, provides for a much better user experience, and is bugs-in-your-teeth fast compared to the old one. After I get the code a little cleaner I'll write up the design rationale and how I went about building it -- maybe somebody can save themselves an hour or three that way. Because just because we have to reinvent the wheel doesn't mean we have to reinvent the spoke, too.
Can we please stop with the one-liners article summaries? Pretty please?... I've read the thing, summaries just waste screen space and my time...

What happened anyway in the last week that this is becoming so popular?
> "Unbeknownst to me, and surely with some sort of anarchic motive, these lawless, long-haired, multi-pierced, tattooed, incredibly charming and smart hacker hooligans built a piece of software on Tripod that had nothing to do with offering practical advice to anyone. Instead, this software gave individuals the power to publish their own "personal homepages.""

this is why developers should seek to get paid for their work as well as receive shares.
It is hardly impressive because the hard work was already done by someone else :/
Unfortunately these are by no means the modern web APIs as we know and very limited in uses due to their nature. A RESTful API to the imdb online database would be hugely popular.
No, I was apologizing for an offensive post I made awhile back.
Not your best effort. You seem to be arguing against having core beliefs. Yet having read your essays I would find it extremely hard to believe that you practice what you preach.
The desperation of some entrepreneurs is actually quite scary (especially now), and when it's mixed with transparent access to the gatekeepers and power players — it seems only a matter of time before an wantra/entrepreneur takes rejection and/or failure out on someone else.
@inerte: Wow this is even better ! It took me some time to really understand but I can't stop appreciating 6th point and the Edit. Well, I'm surely gonna re-plan my slideshow with all these valuable inputs. I find it really tough to get the PoV of a user - a common person.

We just talked over things and tried thinking deeper, but no deeper than you did. Thanks for your suggestions, will surely go forward with this way of thinking. Thanks, I love HN :)
Well, he did a right thing at the moment. His instinctive decision was completely understandable, and fortunately he read the situation correctly: The guy was obviously nuts, but not murderously nuts.

It could, however, have been different. The guy could have killed him. Crazy people should not be underestimated. Or the guy could have kneecapped him or dislocated his shoulder, sent him into PT or even surgery. Even losing a tooth wouldn't be worthwhile over a TED badge, for all the reasons which Davidson now understands in retrospect.

And there is something you can do about these things: instincts can be trained. You can rehearse situations, mentally or (better yet) physically, with actors standing in for muggers. And you can helpfully tell others so that they can rehearse and prepare, as Davidson has done. Thanks to him, I have a whole new retinue of tips I might follow:

Don't wear my conference badge outside the conference.

Don't store stuff that I can't afford to lose with my conference badge if that badge cost me thousands of dollars.

Travel in groups when possible, stay in the light, move quickly when approached, yadda yadda yadda. Pack as light as possible. Don't wear shoes that prevent me from running at a decent speed.

Get around to this project: Pack up a decoy wallet to carry around in the city, containing $20, some kind of old expired ID, and a bunch of expired credit cards. When mugged, drop that wallet and run. If that doesn't work, hand over the real wallet and run.

Don't carry anything that you're not willing to hand over in a mugging. Which is to say: Program yourself to understand that it's not worth fighting over your things. You may have to struggle (or not -- you kind of have to play it by ear) to avoid being raped or kidnapped or shot or stabbed, but when someone demands a thing the proper default response is to drop it and run. Credit cards can be replaced. Cash can be replaced, even $1000 worth of cash. Expensive cameras can be replaced. Even passports can be replaced. Your body cannot be replaced. And street fighting is not as easy as it looks in the movies.
It seems much more likely to be availability bias on pg's part.
There is their “Data Export API” currently in private beta. See the bottom of this post:

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-enterprise-class-...
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Can we define Goredwin's Law as: 'As a technology forum discussion continues the probability of someone joking about Al Gore creating the internet approaches 1' and as a corollary stipulate that the participant who jokes immediately loses any credibility, and perhaps karma?
The screen is probably the size it is because of price, not because the keyboard.
The series was plotted out in full before the first book was published. Some things probably changed in the rewrite, but you can't suddenly take it in a different direction without ruining the coherency of the story. (Just look what happened with the Wheel of Time, or A Song of Ice and Fire, or Heroes Season 2).

There're also little details in the prologue of book 1 that only make sense in book 5/6/7, so it's clear that she had the later books in mind when she wrote the first one.
I think the point is that nobody knows, yes?

The word you omitted is that you 'claim' to build your ladder to a higher set of standards. As it isn't measured against CSA regulations, or independently verified in any way, then unless we perform rigorous testing ourselves, we have no way of knowing how safe or unsafe we are.

Even in the event that we properly test your ladder to the point of breaking, and are satisfied that its breaking strain was significantly great, we have no assurances that the replacement ladder we purchase from you was built to the same high standards as the demo.

So, while I agree with your initial arguments that contract law ought to be more enforceable, I think this argument confuses regulation with standards. Under your original argument, your faulty ladder could only get away with the 'CSA approved' lie for so long until it was sued out of existence.

If your ladder were superior, one would assume that either word of mouth, market forces, or superior marketing would get you rewarded appropriately.
The download link was not very straightforward. Here it is on github:

http://github.com/bauhouse/fluid960gs/tree/master

I wasn't able to download the .zip from the master branch, but 1.0.3 is fine to download and try locally
They waste very little screen space and time (by design). And they can help those of us who always read comments first. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean nobody likes them.

What really wastes time is clicking through some link and reading five paragraphs of something that turns out to either be linkbait, or something that many of us have seen a dozen times before. Of course, many people think that the solution to this problem should be "never submit something that's similar to something that's been submitted before", but that turns out to be wrong, because new people arrive all the time, and they need an education in the basics. And the basics keep getting updated with new examples and new variants -- sometimes I really would rather read a restatement of something Fred Brooks said in 1978 than the Fred Brooks itself. But sometimes I wouldn't, because I'm too busy.

Perhaps the rise of these summaries demonstrates that submission titles aren't being crafted well, or that the technique for linking to stories is missing a "teaser" feature. Ever notice how many magazine stories have both a clever title and a short, one-or-two sentence teaser that talks a bit about what the story is actually about? (Nonfiction book titles utilize a variant of this strategy: a clever first title and a descriptive subtitle, separated by a colon, as in "Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West"). Many submissions have clever titles, but often what we really want is the teasers.
I thought it might be a spoof on Al Gore. :-\
Site is hanging for me...
We had Printing, then Manufacturing came, and now Networking. Frankly I do not see any other significant business innovation coming. If there were to be any, I would hope we would see new methods that speed the process of finding new drugs (not narcotics).
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the netflix apis offer pretty rich catalog detail APIs that are RESTful: http://developer.netflix.com/
There are just as many jackass fathers pushing this.
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Mandela founded the ANC's armed wing (Umkhonto we Sizwe). This armed wing was responsible for its fair share of atrocities such as:

- Planting landmines that killed people indiscriminately in rural areas

- Torture and executions esp. in foreign camps

- Burning people that worked with the apartheid government alive (necklacing). Mandela's wife killed a 14 year old boy without spending a day in jail (Stompie Sipei)

- Church Street bombing and Magoo's bar bombing (which killed civilians). Bombing of an Amamzimtoti shopping center (which killed two children and a woman).

- Factional fighting with the IFP in the late 80ies and early 90ies (which killed more than 15,000 people).

What happened in South Africa was amazing - but it was not just Mandela that made a great leap. White people gave up all power that they had - military, political, just on the basis of a constitution. This knowing full well that there were no other successful democratic African country.

This brings this post to a familiar ground - we do not want to be discussing politics on YCNews. So if you want to use a person as a hero, use Archbishop Desmond Tutu who advocated for non-violence from the start.
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I think the design could be better. Right now, it looks like one of those typosquatting website.
True... but if done right like Quicksilver for OSX and Wundrbar.com, this could be immensely useful if an observer here has tried them BOTH.
Great article.

One of the main reasons I want to use as much library/finished code in my production projects as possible is not just that it's faster to integrate a finished code, but that there's an unknown X in for every new line of code you write and that is how many weird bugs might come up, and how much time that will cost to fix.

But then. OTOH, if you never try to reinvent the wheel you cannot judge between wheels very good either.
How we built Dojo Learning - Keeping motivated
http://www.dojolearning.com/siteblog-post-action/id.39/title.how-we-built-dojo-learning-part-6

This is the last of a six-part blog post I wrote talking about how we built our startup, Dojo Learning, from my perspective as co-founder/lead developer. This post talks about keeping motivated and one thing that helps keep me going. I'm interested to hear what others think and what strategies you have to keep motivated through the long haul as well.
It doesn't work giving them what they want? Because that's what he did.
There are other employers out there.

I switched from physics to C.S. in my last semester (I don't recommend this... ;-)) and it's never been an issue. Most prospective employers don't even know; my resume lists "B.A. in CS" because that's my degree, and if they care about the history, they can ask me in the interview.
"hacker"
"What about complex developments that consist of more than one commit?"

Obviously since you use git or another DVCS, you can do your mucking about locally in a branch, and when it's ready to go, squash it down into one atomic commit.
Users and the admin
When I read those summaries I feel like I'm reading HN's equivalent of "first post." They also often read less like true summaries and more like one sentence newspaper movie reviews, which, coupled with the "first post" feeling, makes me question people's motivation for posting them.
Same. I wonder if it got HN'd.
The dumb behavior is not just from identity, but from identity as part of a social group.

People identify strongly with plenty of things without getting stupid over them. Being a good bargain hunter, or a collector of ceramic frogs, or having skin cancer might be an important part of your identity. But for the most part, these are not identities that provoke people to shout slogans at rallies or spend hours typing insults to other usernames on a discussion board.

But when you are identifying with a group, then "you" becomes "us", and the social interaction becomes "us vs. them". It is human nature to enjoy these kind of conflicts, to demonstrate that you're a loyal member of "us", and that you are ready to do battle with "them".

Unfortunately, when this plays out in a discussion group, it results in rude, repetitive, and boring conversations.

Also, I do not think it is workable to say "don't identify yourself with social groups because it will make you stupid". That is much like saying "don't let yourself feel sexual attraction because it will make you stupid". While true, it's only telling part of the story, and in any case impractical for most people. Better to be aware of your natural inclination for group bonding, and try to manage it and be aware of when it is managing you.
Exactly -- reinventing the wheel is perfectly sane if it means you don't have to use a bicycle tire on a bus.
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The leaks look like the same design broken on BGR (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/03/amazon-kindle-2-eb...) 3 months ago.

I love my current Kindle, and if these leaks are accurate, Kindle 2 feels like a step back for a few reasons:
* Pouch instead of binder. Current Kindle can be opened and read while waiting in line at the airport, train, etc. What do you do with a pouch after you pull the Kindle out of it?
* Larger and heavier. I'm all for sturdy, but the current Kindle is feather light, which is great for extended reading sessions.
* Joystick rather than roller w/ spare LCD. Is the new E-Ink screen really responsive enough for a random access pointer?
* No SD slot. So, moving the 400MB of programming books I have as PDFs is going to be a PITA.

We'll see on Monday.
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The End of Hotmail - Never Looking Back
The world is moving to Gmail, about damn time.
The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
I was sure this must have been submitted before, but I couldn't find it. Maybe it's regarded as off-topic, but I thought there were lessons here to learn for all hackers.
Well done. Make your own luck.
Thanks Edw.

Somebody posted it over on reddit and you should see some of the comments. Makes me sound like some guy living in a cave eating twigs and berries. I wonder how much of the response to an article comes from situational cues -- knowing the author, being part of a community and such -- and how much is actually predicated on how good the article is?

The guy who submitted in on reddit had a really low score. I'm assuming he's not one of the "in crowd" over there. It would be interesting to wait a month or two and then have a high-profile person over there submit the same article to see if the reaction would be different. I'm betting it would be.

Hey. Still working on my hacking skills. Been slinging code for 20 years and I don't think I'll ever reach uber-coder status like some of the other guys on here.
There is another way to look at this. Maybe the OP just decided he wants to live in a world where people can't just grab badges off the street and enter conferences. The same way we, collectively, decide we don't want a world where having an expensive phone means you can't use it on the street at night. We take the chance it'll backfire, but we still prefer the risk to the alternative.