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I tell people not to buy me any gifts at all, frankly I always feel a little embarrassed when someone went out of his/her way to try to find something to buy me, especially if it's something I don't have a wish or need for.

Maybe it's just me who's a little weird, but I don't actually like getting gifts. I'd much rather go somewhere and have a good time instead of some stupid item I could have bought myself.

The GiftSocial site looks very well done, and it's a cool and probably useful idea for many people. But still something stings me about the idea of making wishlists of gifts you'd like to receive, just like you are saying. Something with gifted horses and their mouths ;-)
On our own gift ideas site, we were working on this problem. We started out with getting people to suggest gifts to each other, much like Stack Overflow handles Q&A. We got to a point where we were able to suggest things to people based on their shared interests, using an algorithm and all that accumulated human-based suggesting.

It turns out that when you get enough somewhat generalized interests in the mix, you create something of a profile that relates pretty directly to what you might like as gifts. If you and I both like movies, wine, cooking and travel, we probably will both like the same kinds of movies, books, or trinkety, Etsy-style gifts.

Our difference is that we directed ourselves at the frustrated masses who were trying to find gift ideas, and couldn't come up with any, which turned out to be very difficult to sell, in terms of the right marketing message. Still working on it!
Maybe it's just me, but the Skype "upgrades" for Android and Linux seems to have gotten progressively worse. Whereas they both used to run smoothly for years, the Linux version now doesn't recognize my webcam (on hardware it had no problems with before, and with no OS upgrad in between) and the Android version stutters and randomly garbles video...

I'm actively looking for better alternatives now. Barring that I'll have to hunt down older versions of Skype..
Must be one of the most useless inventions ever created, already made obsolete decades ago by post it notes and pens.
I wonder why the website package even wrote a log that included plaintext passwords. That's not IEEE's fault, except perhaps a lapse in judgement to use whatever opensource package.
WordPress has BuddyPress (http://buddypress.org/) for social networking. I don't believe it allows interconnecting with other installations.
Actually, OStatus is based on RSS - it's mostly just feed.
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This is exactly why a service like this needs to be crowdsourcing gifts. We don't need another wishlist - we need a way to turn the 7 giftcards and 6 sweaters you get for Christmas every year into one iPad or two plane tickets to Hawaii.
>Meanwhile, Microsoft zinged its mobile developers (the very ones they're so desperate to court) even harder by deciding that the new mobile platform they brought out only two years ago would not be compatible with the new mobile platform they're bringing out now.

WP7 apps will run on WP8 without any modifications or even without anything needing to be done by the developers.

>Well, it turns out that all those developers he wanted to make such a big deal of saying are such a big deal? They're are all kind of pissed off and disgruntled right now.

Citation needed and content farms like TNW who will "print" anything to drive clicks don't count.

I know it's hip on HN to rag on Microsoft, but cmon, two thousand apps for a platform that is a month away from release(only available to MSDN users right now) and everyone is predicting doomsday? Perhaps developers are making use of the last month to further enhance apps before submitting them?
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I'm waiting for them to do Venice, which is an hour down the... 'road' from here. It ought to be an interesting challenge, and extremely popular.
Yes and no. If your autonomy, mastery, purpose is low you are just a wage slave.
Like you said, they're just links. You can't distribute or sell your apps through the store.
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Seems like the key to doing that well will be to remove all friction on capturing an image (or linking to a comprehensive product database) then making shipping a breeze. I have to say inertia is a bitch, and keeping these things on your shelf is an attractive alternative/competitor to getting rid of them.
Meteor - A better way to build apps.
While that holds true, we are also able to do a better job of distributing your wishlist to your social network, which is what makes a wishlist worthwhile anyway - the people who see it.
UV resin printers have been a popular research area in the DIY 3D printing community for the last year or two. There are a few more too. Most are based on DLP projectors with some hackery to remove the color filters (e.g. carefully snap off a hundred little pieces of glass from a rotating wheel) as I understand it, which makes them expensive and fragile for a individual. This is a situation where volume assembly of a complete device makes more sense than garage experimentation, so Formlabs' work looks promising to me.
I checked your website is really useful, it is not easy to find the adequate gift. Have a question for you, if someone select an item in my wishlist, do you have a system that warm my friends ( in order to not by the same) ?
I agree with your statement, but I'm confused by the story in the link... I haven't come across a message board that doesn't use rel="nofollow" in a few years (that NYT article is from 2010). How would these negative reviews bolster his PageRank?
"revealed his team is 90 percent done with the coding for the relaunch of Megaupload"

Great - only 90% of work left now ;)
This is neat. To delete all text, hit enter and type something else.
That is some pretty amazing putting-words-in-my-mouth. I mean, if we're going to call out fallacies.
Ask HN: Education is broken, how do you fix it?
For the past few years, there has been a worrying trend in education. Bill Gates has even blogged about it just last week. While everyone agrees we need a departure from the rote memory method of learning to one which involves critical thinking and decision making, how would you go about implementing this in a real life class format? Do away with text books and work with Case Studies like Harvard? What other methods could work?
>4. No, because post processing can only solve relative stabilisation between frames of video, it does not work within one frame.

Apparently you haven't seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLJBfRzXIQ#t=0m57s
I agree that this doesn't really solve the gifting "problem". In addition, gifting is supposed to be a guilt free and a no pressure process stemming from what the gifter is capable of and comfortable with. It should come from the heart. A wish list really doesn't break down any new walls for me. Glad someone is at least thinking about new ways though.
This is a very feel-good article, but the reality is that it's very likely that if you're working at a startup that's going to succeed, the boss himself is a "brilliant jerk."

The world needs brilliant jerks. They get things done, partially because they're brilliant but also sometimes because they're jerks.
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> They will not always work for big data, which often means "max out our storage with crap, don't worry disk is cheap" eg web metrics

Having worked on this kind of stuff myself, I'd have to argue the exact opposite. I've always ended up building something precisely like what is described when trying to tackle those kinds of problems at large scale.
I think its right to say Perl 6 is not Perl 5. But Perl 6 is definitely Perl.

I mean its Perl because it preserves the spirit of Perl since Perl 1.

Besides as Larry has mentioned in so many occasions, Though Perl 6 has been designed ground up, in many ways that's the language Perl he always wanted to use. Using the name Perl also serves marketing needs.
Is the proper term for this sort of protest "malicious obedience?"
What if Apple launched iPhone 5 on Kickstarter?
For the non nerd two things:
- login via FB/Twitter would be nice
- user voice (or similar) feedback instead of GitHub issues page: no non-coder is gonna leave you feedback there!
> Quality control would seem to be a subset of build quality to me. How do you mean to separate it?

I think it's pretty easy to separate the two things. Shoddy build quality means every single instance of the item is built badly, uses low quality materials and breaks easily. Shoddy quality control simply means the ratio of good items vs. lemons is too high. As long as the manufacturer takes responsibility for sold units that are defective or damaged, shoddy quality control does not necessarily mean a bad product.
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direct link to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvSTk8M5qY
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This is a fantastic publication! I do some part-time mathematics tutoring, and kids are always wondering where math is used in "real life". Since kids are all familiar with Google, this should resonate with them.
> Most are looking rather worried as yet again the rug has been pulled from underneath them. They got burned with Silverlight and the first drop of the Foundation series of products and Entity Framework.

Not one dev saw that coming with those APIs? I don't believe it. Microsoft in the 2000s has been all about throwing APIs against the wall and then deprecating them. Anyone who has been around Microsoft knew this was a risk with Silverlight.

I think the real reason these particular devs got burned is because is because Windows today is like Mac before MacOS X: it's all about incompatibility with the rest of the world, "doing it better", crap like that. MVPs are happy to go along with it and adopt these technologies because they can keep their position of being important in the ecosystem. It's like Apple fans in the 90s. WPF, Silverlight, EF, all this stuff is akin to Apple's OpenDoc, or Dylan, or even Newton. It's shiny technology in an incompatible vacuum.

On the topic of the Windows app store. When Apple made iOS, they took components of MacOS X as the foundation of iOS. But when they released the Mac App Store, they didn't force developers on MacOS X develop to the iOS API. That's what Microsoft is trying to do here. Develop with RT or Metro or GTFO. Pure idiocy. The next step is predictable: Microsoft will have to step in like they have on WP7 and they'll start offering to pay for other people's development costs to do the port. I'd be surprised if they haven't already started offering that.
This looks very intriguing, and might just solve a problem we were putting our heads together to solve.

"Login process

Passwordless allows your site's users to log in using only their email addresses. After submitting the login form with the email address filled in, the user will receive an email containing a login link which can only be used once. Clicking that link results in the user getting logged in for one year or until he logs out. Unused login links expire after one day."

This makes a user experience on your website all the more enjoyable.
Awesome idea! I love the people's wishes thingie
I like the idea of giftsocial, first I can connect with friends and people I know, vs just sharing links out to, or emaailing lists or targeting people
I found a bug

In the Chasm of Fate, after you defeat B'Joril the TimeMaster, you're supposed to get 1 piece of Titan class armor, and a random roll for 1-3 Peacock Plumes, but every time my group only gets the armor, and never any Peacock Plumes.

The devs really rushed this one out. I can't believe they expect people to pay 12 dollars a month for this.
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I think that by now, everyone should have learned the lesson to not buy anything the instant it comes out. It seems like every first batch of hardware has issues, and every major software revision requires bug fixes.

The very simple solution is to wait. I always wait for the first major patch to OS X before upgrading, and a couple of months before new hardware. While I don't have the latest shiny gadget, my life is a lot simpler.

I shudder whenever I see someone upgrading the development machine their professional life depends upon to the new version of OS X on release day.
I think a first step would be a service (maybe even just run by Kickstarter) that would handle the printing and shipping of T-Shirts.

In every post-mortem of a Kickstarter project I hear the project owners lamenting how much more time and effort it took to handle sending rewards out than they had anticipated.
These publications are available as PDFs at the bottom of this article, too.
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Weeks was being a Negative Nelly. What he said was a non-sequitur. Not making it now does not necessarily lead to not having any in 6 months. Jobs was gently pointing that out. I suppose he could have said "Then get the capacity! I don't want to hear excuses!" but that probably wouldn't have worked out so well.
I'm still excited about their old idea of floating data centers that uses ocean water to lose exess heat.
"Malicious obedience" means following orders when you know the result will be disaster. So, sure.
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Even then, to drive costs down further, you could make them larger and you have fewer of the easier operations.

The minima for cost will always be, make the elements as large as feasible.
Ignoring all the screen capture and webcam nonsense and focuses strictly on the location tracking: should it be expected for a company that will by its definition attract deadbeats and scammers be required to detail its security measures?
The German finance minister played Sudoku on his iPad during a heated Greek bailout debate.
I think in general every supported app does trend toward infinite feature count.
True to a certain degree, but you could also say that money provides greater autonomy. However there are also people who work because they choose to, rather than because they have to, and I doubt they all consider it a hobby. Some people may not need the money, but they need work to give them purpose, which falls in line with the article. It's a good article, though a bit too simplistic, as I feel that motivation is more individualistic and diverse than what's set forth. But I think the purpose was to set forth the authors premise in a straight-forward, scientific manner, so the simplistic nature of the article is likely unavoidable.
> simple boolean logic

A SAT solver[1] can automatically figure out a range of acceptable solutions for your conditions. 'I want this goal, is there a way to make that happen?' Security people love this. SMT solvers are even crazier[2] and can automatically determine solutions to linear equations or inequalities (this comes in handy when analyzing loops). Z3 has an online version at [3].

Also, if you have a lot of nasty cascaded if-statements, a K-map[4] and espresso[5] can reduce those down to a minimal set of branches. Note that fewer branches means fewer branch prediction penalties, which means faster code!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem

[2] http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ywn1iesH1r6uu3b.gif

[3] http://rise4fun.com/z3/tutorial/guide

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map

[5] http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/downloads/espresso/in... and ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/amulet/balsa/other-software/espresso-ab-1.0.tar.gz
> Our firm is often subcontracted out...

This might be the difference between our experiences and responses. Most of my work is direct, corp-to-corp, B2B. We're steadily climbing up the value chain each year, and find that we have to directly interact with procurement departments more often.

For me, it is not a matter of what we can negotiate and lock them into terms we can live with; I've done that before, but fortunately now we aren't in the cash position to have to do that. It really comes down to the unavoidable reality that these customers' procurement methods cost us a ton of sales time that we could more profitably spend elsewhere on customers that more appreciate our value props. As for transparency on margins and per hour rates, we avoid that because we price on business value: if your business benefits by $X+N from spending $X with me, we both win. I've concluded from experience that sharing this information simply opens you up for piecemeal negotiation and commoditization in the future, which doesn't currently fit into my company's business model, but certainly YMMV.
Yikes, that is quite a large phone. Lumias look like great phones but must they be so large?
Build it. People who worry about the privacy implications just won't use it...

As someone who travels a fair bit, I think it would be really cool.
I've gotten used to never upgrading my idevices before doing a search for potential problems. I usually just stick with the last iteration of ios designed for that generation of hardware.
Is this a real problem?

I would never use this. First, I don't expect people to get me gifts. Secondly, even if I don't need/will never use the gift I received, it truely is the thought that counts. It's a bit ungracious to tell someone what to get me, no?

It all feels very alien and weird to me to have this problem. Maybe I'm weird.
Time to eat crow: Windows 8 is better than Windows 7
> heck WinRT doesn't even reach parity with Silverlight

That reminds me: WPF is not even a superset of Silverlight; There's functionality I need in Silverlight (regarding media codecs) which is not available in WPF, and my only way to get it is to instantiate a browser, run a silverlight app inside, and somehow bridge it all underneath in my app.

Pure madness.
Ask HN: Is copying (and modifying) Terms of Service legal?
Hey HN, we're about to release an MVP for which we'll be charging subscriptions. Because we want to do it right and be legally protected I was wondering whether it's okay to take existing ToS (like facebook's or whatever) and just change the names (and paragraphs, where suitable).

Thanx!
Texting finally replacing paging for doctors
Will the economy recover?
That article was exactly what I was thinking of while reading this post. Thanks that you posted the link.
The camera looks really promising.

The movie on the other hand... when every other visual art form has freed itself from almost every constraint imaginable, it's amazing that in the 21st century young directors, who regard themselves as innovative, are still content to offer us simple combinations of representational art, like oil paintings from 17th century, with the narrative structures of romantic novels from the 19th.

The subtitles, if I'm not missing something, seem to be a direct rip-off of Godard's "Navajo subtitles"[0].

[0] http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/godardenglis...
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Hey guys, David here from Embark. If you have any requests for features or for new cities, we'd love to hear it.
Google HomeView [parody]
OpenStack Folsom: Looking at the numbers
More on why they're banning laptops : http://fraktion.piratenpartei-sh.de/2012-09-19-bericht-aus-d... (in German),

Google-translated version: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&...
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Yep, I thought plain examples of input and output. I'm obviously a bit nervous about pricing estimates (I might need to raise them later).
Techniques for Responsive Images & Creative CSS Properties
Note Anytime: The best note taking and sketching application for the iPad
If the server hits its user limit, you can console yourself with a demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLxOVYeo5w
Hatching An International Office: 6 Tips For Startups Going Global
If you commit yourself to playing poker 40+ hours a week, to improve your skills, get to a point where you are making $40-60 an hour, and do that as a full time job for a few years you can make money. What happens on a downswing? If you run into a string of bad luck and bad beats? You can be a great player and go for months without making money.

Worse, let's say that you do this for two years. At the end of that two years what skills have you acquired? The ability to play poker. Basically that's it. There might be some tangential skills like reading people, staying calm under pressure, etc. — but, basically you have learned to play cards well.

If you spend that two years starting a business, trying out new product/service ideas, testing the markets, programming a website/service/app you are learning skills along the way that can help you down the road. Even if you completely fall on your face and every idea you have is a bust, you have some skills that will help you with your next business venture or (god forbid) getting a job. If you play poker for two years you have none of that.
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> In Windows 8 you have to either check "Allow all trusted applications to install" in the Group Policy settings in Win Pro/Enterprise, or change a registry setting. This means users will have to go out of their way to install anything beyond what the App Store provides.

This only applies to WinRT apps. You can still install whatever desktop apps you want. So if you want to install Picasa, you can do it just like you would on Windows 7.
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I wasn't that familiar with Azure, but I had heard that they had Linux VMs now (which would be one option), but I did a little digging and it appears you can actually run RoR apps on the Windows side as well:

http://rubyonrailsinazure.codeplex.com/
How about 5 free copies of Windows 8 for any developer who ports their app to it?
Interesting business model. I don't think I'd ever trust Megabox enough to install their applications on my computers.
Tablets and smartphones are allowed, just laptops are not.
I remember when HTC and Samsung were starting to make some really good Android phones around 2009-2010, and I was thinking that there was no doubt in my mind that if Nokia adopted Android tomorrow, they would easily become the #1 Android manufacturer. Really missed opportunity there. Back then they were still too "proud" to adopt "someone else's operating system"...which now reminds me of RIM.
Or are we facing into another printer ink situation?
Qtea.js + mod_js + Apache 2.4 = performance, size responsive mobile/web apps
Toronto PLEASE!

I like the navigation on your website. I suggest that it should include a list of cities currently under development and the copyright year should be 2012 :)
> And worst of all, most of the equipment will be collecting dust 95% of the time unless someone has just the right Kickstarter project for them.

Cloud manufacturing?
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these are a great set. thanks
What the hey... I'd love to see support added for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
I guess a lot of the people here are too young to remember - but it's always been this way with Microsoft, and admittedly, with most other infrastructure companies out there (Sun had an era like that, NetScape did too). MFC, ATL, ADO, DAO, ...; Win8 might be breaking new ground in how "out of place" your app will be if you don't adopt the latest and greatest, but if you wanted nice modern menubars and toolbars ("Coolbar"), you had to switch from Win32 to MFC in the past. You had to go through hoops to get somethings done with COM without using ATL (with quite a few things working through ATL but not if you try to use COM directly; because no one in Microsoft ever tried to use them NOT through ATL).

And for a long time, it made everyone happy - because jumping on the new thing kept you employable, and actually shipping working products mattered less.

Microsoft did not change its ways. The world did.
these are great. thanks