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This. People don't even have Windows 8 tablets yet, and the OS itself is still only available to MSDN subscribers. Once the OS and devices hit store shelves development will ramp up exponentially.

Most iOS apps weren't developed before the iPhone was released. They were developed as a result of somebody getting an iPhone or an iPad, thinking "Why can't I do X with this?" and then building an app.
> 1. The Windows app store is Metro only.

They allow Desktop Apps as well.
Embeddable graph db for Ruby
Looking at the Replicator2 specs vs Formlabs.
I see that Makerbot lists layer height and XY resolution as 100 microns, while Formlabs has layer height as 25 microns, but XY as 300 microns. Does the improvement in layer height matter much when the XY resolution isn't as accurate? What I'm basically wondering is are you only as good your least accurate spec?
They could donate some of the savings to LibreOffice to improve the interface
"cubicle for 5 years has crushed my spirit"

I envy you that 5 years was enough for you to take this step. I am still trying to do it after almost 9 years even though technically I am a contractor but still got the 9-5 cubicle work.

Now, good luck, work hard, don't get demoralized easily and associate with people who are better than you in aspects that you care about.
Various Device Bit Rates Comparison
I lost focus after he talked about how easy poker was to make $85k a year.
Which makes the things easier to nick...

Club individual on head, yank thing, run away.
I am relatively new to actively posting / discussing on HN (have been a passive reader for over a year now). This blog post is my attempt to share with the community what I thought of my experience learning to program this past summer.

There may be some people in the community that are considering attending one of the full time programming courses in SF/NYC, and I'm happy to share more here about my experience and answer any questions.
Thanks! That's definitely something we've thought of, and could very well find its way in at some point in the future. We'll be gathering a ton of feedback as we continue forward developing the tool.
This is the kind of website that makes me want to go redesign a website for no reason than to fiddle with these patterns.
This has gotta be a April fools joke delayed by 5 months.
Defining the output quality and resolution of a 3D printer is a subtle thing. Sticking to DPI, laser spot sizes, and layer thicknesses is somewhat akin to comparing clock speeds of modern processors. The question is a lot more subtle than that.

When we talk about minimum feature size, we are giving a rough guide for the finest pillars or walls that you can print (see the fingers of the Neptune figurine in our photos). By this metric, the Form 1 is comparable to the best high end SLA and inkjet machines, and well beyond any FDM machine.

-Max
Co-founder, Formlabs
RIM's management fails to see they don't sell phones. They sell enterprise communication. Or they used to, before BYOD happened.

Never confuse the boxes being moved with your business.

Either they embrace BYOD and convert themselves into mostly a software/services company (maybe with a full-stack hardware/sopftware option), or they risk becoming a cautionary tale.
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know anything about the 3D printing tech used by http://www.shapeways.com/ ? Limited materials are the one thing holding me back from picking up a desktop 3D printer, so I'd like to learn more about their tech and what might be holding it back on the desktop. Their material selection is seriously impressive.

The Formlabs one looks promising and I love the design, but I just don't have any interest in printing PLA/resin.
while it is a funny joke it does not really make any sense because no serious academic journal reviews papers with less than 3 reviewers. Most use more then 5 or 6 so one reviewer on a bad day really cant have much impact
As a French civil servant I can say it doesn't fill our needs. We have difficulties to work with documents we receive sometimes created with LibreOffice, sometimes Microsoft Office. Documents are full of errors from bad imports and exports. I know many people loosing tons of time trying to fix the documents. An average French civil servant has many documents to write every month.
I don't hate the idea or anything but I don't see what problem this solves in practice?
It'd give you more freedom to implement it in your own design.
Either that - or you're a crank. We'd have to read the actual paper to decide.
"Special thanks to Google Chrome’s developer tools for making this post possible."

So it's a faked/speculative mockup created by swapping out the Google logo and changing some text? I'm think missing out on the newsworthiness.
So indication as to the type of data available, the format of the data (json/xml/yaml/etc.) would be really helpful as is some pricing if you have any estimates.
Not sure about the exact chemistry but I think there are actually two exposures, one to harden the shape after which the unused material is removed, and then another higher one to make it less sticky or "detackify" it.

Here's a paper from 1995 explaining the chemistry http://195.37.231.82/publications/pac/pdf/1995/pdf/6701x0025...
He also lost me at poker. A lot of us entrepreneur types love poker because we just love risk, IMO. To say that you can comfortable make 85k a year playing poker is the most outlandish statement I've ever heard.

I also hate how people try and tell me poker is a skill. Yes to a degree it is, but it's more luck than anything once you understand the game, let's be real.

Seemed like a good blog post until he became delusional about poker.
Tags: yahoo, Marissa Mayer, home page, joke
Building software for Raspberry Pi in Windows: Cross-Compiler Howto
It grows on you. The only thing I don't like about my windows phone is that it's on AT&T.

I say this after having the first iPhone, the GS, and the 4.
To me, the biggest deal breaker is that having a Windows Phone developer account doesn't let you release applications for Windows 8.

It's a shame because many people including me could at least port some of their apps. An additional 99$/year for the Windows 8 store simply isn't worth it. If there's one major reason why the interest is so low then it's probably it.

I am definately going to stick with Windows Phone for the time being since it's been a great experience and the release of WP8 will bring some needed attention.
> This is not what Paul meant, and I don't think it's what he would recommend.

"During Y Combinator we measure growth rate per week, partly because there is so little time before Demo Day, and partly because startups early on need frequent feedback from their users to tweak what they're doing. [..] This is, obviously, only for startups that have already launched or can launch during YC. A startup building a new database will probably not do that. On the other hand, launching something small and then using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a valuable technique that any company that could start this way probably should.
"

"using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a valuable technique that any company that could start this way probably should." -> that looks like exactly what the 6% check is for - a simple tool to keep you motivated, not to rely your whole strategy upon.
I've had a custom-built carputer in my vehicle for 5 years now. It first ran Windows Embedded, and now Windows 7. The front-end UI is a commercial application called Centrafuse(http://www.centrafuse.com/) at the moment, but there are open-source options available, namely Ride-Runner (http://guino.home.insightbb.com/roadrunner.html).

From a hardware perspective such a system is simple - I have a nano-ITX board, a 12V DC-DC power supply, and an SSD. You can package this into a double-DIN opening without issue. OBD-II connection is via Bluetooth to an adapter plugged into the diagnostic port under my dash. GPS comes from a USB receiver. Currently I use wifi to connect to my home/work network and load content, but a 3G/4G dongle is an easy mobile solution.

However, by far the best solution suitable for commercial, rather than hobbyist, use is from QNX. Check it out: http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/ It's what powers most OEM systems, such as BMW's awesome iDrive system.
Everytime I read about diaspora and see where it is today I feel sad...
Ok, but what does that prove really? The bottom line is that while virtually all phones can crack their screen, i4(s) is the only phone that can just as easily crack its back.

The most important property of glass is transparency, while the big disadvantage is that it breaks catastrophically. You get no benefits and all of the downsides when using it for the opaque back plate. It does look nice, but there are other nice looking materials available.
Yes it does. Perhaps college would have helped him with his delusion.
I agree. Mint is great.
Nope, OP said he was posting as it was cool. Which it is, but it's nice to see that they sorted the domain issues so everyones a winner.
Perhaps I disagree with PG. I stand by my post. However you're correct, in that context it could be a useful metric when the goals are very focused, the targets are well defined, and the growth is directly correlated. He could be entirely right in this context, you're right.

It is my opinion that this sort of thinking builds unsustainable companies. There either needs to be an incredible shift in the way growth is looked at and achieved at some point in the company's life (which to me, seems unlikely or at least a difficult change of course)—or the company can start out with sustainable growth in mind. There is no reason that a company designed for overall quality rather than speed cannot also be a fast growing company; but I think they'll look at their strategy much differently. And that way of thinking will last them through hiring, market expansion, and beyond.

Maybe they are compatible strategies and I'm just over-thinking it. But I can't help but see the recent articles about how few long-term successful companies arise from tech accelerators and think how strikingly relevant they are.
Actual OIS performance: Lumia 920 against iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, HTC One X
I thought trotsky was suggesting an ARM/x86 mix along the lines of ARM's big.LITTLE, which allows process migration between two very differently implemented (though ISA-compatible) cores.
I used to work in a quasi-academic development and production environment (DOD S&T[1]), and I heard that excuse quite a bit. Usually it was because someone had a pet idea that would be threatened or was too afraid of the risk of moving from the established development line.

[1] http://www.acq.osd.mil/chieftechnologist/index.html
It's actually not terribly hard to get good enough to make money playing poker, but sustaining $60/hr for 8 hours a day takes an enormous amount of dedication and concentration, plus it takes time to get to that level. You're far better off learning to program.
Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating
As I said, no one who could expertly read my papers will read them. So while I'm a crank, a crackpot, nowadays that's based on subject matter alone.
The SQL of NoSQL
In 2006, you actually could fairly easily make $85K in a year playing poker.

Not anymore, though, and not for the past few years.
The irony is now MSFT needs these other developers to port their successful iOS/Android games to their platform. MSFT shouldn't be making this a difficult choice for devs. The few people who do end up with Win RT tablets and such will likely hear about games/apps working on other platforms and then look to see if they are available on the Win device...and since MSFT put up this wall....well....users will think should've bought an iPad.

(Note, i'm actually a little excited about the Surface tablet as a potential device that crosses the chasm between full tablet and laptop. But I don't have very many apps that I use now on my iPad.)

EDIT: Also, I don't know much about any game development SDK engines that abstract devs from these proprietary libraries and runtimes...however I think they must exist?
"So yes, writing yet another Twitter client is easy on WinRT, for more complex applications, well, it is way too hard and difficult to do it this fast."

Almost every Metro style application demo I've seen is some variant of a "social" app. Do they really think that the millions of windows developers all suddenly started working on social apps?

Every one of the pivots that they have made in the past few years has been in reaction to some external threat and the developers are in the crossfire. Windows developers are too weary to be excited about yet another wide ranging change.
5 Questions with Formlabs: How a 3D Printer Could Change the World
This makes the Dimension 768 SST we just bought look like a dinosaur. Can't wait to get one of these on my desk.
This post would have held more sway for me if it had been touted as a preparation for school - not as a replacement.

I am of the opinion a number 18 year olds are very far from being emotionally mature and self possessed enough to get the most ouf of college. Such individuals would probably be well served by making a go at dealing with the world, which might well include some form of the OP's syllabus.

However, touting this as an alternative to higher education is IMO doling out plain bad advice. I'm not even going to touch the highly dubious claims made about poker as a source of reliable income (by an amateur with one year of experience).
Ask HN: How to get users to communicate?
I'm not yet running a professional website, but I've run an academic website for about 3 years now. Despite iterative attempts at prominent contact information for everything from research collaboration to code questions, I've only had one person contact me. This despite getting close to an average of 80 hits a day.

HN, what do you do to encourage communication?

(in case you want to see the site in question: http://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick -- its still a little under construction)
as mentioned before they could follow the Wordpress model with one-click install for individuals that one a hosted solution.

And a download option for those who have the expertise to setup their own server.
The bug report is, to me, comedic genius. I laughed so hard when I read it on HN yesterday.
At that point you have more or less invented rss again ;)
It would be of massive costs to change your 404, so those missing kids could suck it.
Facebook stock falls below $20 for first time in two weeks
Just curious, why 18 months?
It's useful semantically to think of different versions of a resource as different resources. It makes reasoning about them free of any assumptions the previous versions may have introduced.
"The JVM the only game in town if you want some combination of high performance, the ability to do user-space systems level programming, type safety, and GC."

I think all those points are covered by Go. And Go is more succinct. It was trivial to cross-compile Go executables on my Mac for Windows and Linux.
Why not number one plus?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20065265-17.html
They say they are using 260 MW from renewable energy, so far. I wonder how much they need to meet their carbon neutrality goal.
Good luck man, I wish I could do the same.
Agree ... normally the V2 API comes out with major revisions, such that it would not work with someone that coded up an app based on the V1 API. Using /v1/ and /v2/ allows customers to transition over some set amount of time. There is some value in keeping things simple for your end-users.
It was used in the marketing campaigns, so kind of was public reference to the style already. Now it has no easy reference.
Someone get me Jon Orlin on the phone.

You're fired.
Poker is unquestionably a game of skill.

You need be able to separate the orthogonal components of EV and variance.

Over a large sample of hands, a professional poker player will wipe the floor with you.

There is a great deal of variance in poker, but that doesn't mean that one person can't be significantly better than another in the long run.
And here I thought the answer to life was 42, not Poker.
The Revolution Will Be Home-made
I highly recommend Cal Newport's (e)book, So Good They Can't Ignore You, which tackles the issue that passion is not always enough to succeed. I think it would help you make your mark.
The next sentence ruins it though: "Nobody loves Java but it is the easiest language to recruit for if you're targeting the JVM."

Recruiting for Go is not nearly as easy as for Java.
Facebook is down 1.13% as of this post. NASDAQ is down 1.06%.

Facebook is effectively down 0.07% on the day.

This is news?
First thing I noticed as well. "pre-Order on kickstarter" screams out "This is a scam!!!! You'll never get anything".

I've never understood why anyone would give anything via kickstarter. A "donate now" paypal button would probably be less scammy.
If its about luck, than why do we see the same familiar faces deep into WSOP finals?

Luck is only relevant if you're playing for the short run. Professionals generally make decisions that favor them in the long run against natural statistical deviations. That's why playing against a beginner is incredibly hard; they make poor choices that don't necessarily result in poor results. But put compare the results of that beginner vs a pro after 1000+ hands, and you'll see how much luck vs skill matters.
How Great iOS Animations Make Great Apps
It's also a major theme in the Steve Jobs biography that Steve was obsessed with this kind of aging in objects (evident, e.g., in his preference for faded blue jeans), and wanted the products he built to acquire character by scuffing, etc. (Not, of course, by actually degrading performance such as broken screens or cracks in the casing).

You may disagree with this philosophy, but the lazy refrain of "this wouldn't have happened if Steve still was around" is particularly clueless for this issue.
Opinions differ, but I'm sure he is serious and I agree with him. I find the organization of the menus in Libreoffice much more intuitive than it was in Office when they used that style. I also prefer that style for use with a keyboard - it's much more intuitive when you're not entirely sure what the shortcut is.

Even if I did prefer ribbon, it would have to be MUCH better to justify the drawbacks that come with Office (cost, etc.)
It solves the problem of client-server communication. This is the same idea as with: "GET /car HTTP/1.0" and "GET /car HTTP/1.1" . It provides a clear way to specify which protocol the client speaks, while allowing the URI to stay the same. Contrast this with: "GET /v1/car" and "GET /v2/car".

The article simply uses the Accept: header to achieve the same.
what happened after 2006 that caused the dropoff in payout?
Nepal Government's website hacked by Anonymous
Status.net was 'better than Twitter and open' for a while; as I understand it, Status.net was grouping together threads of replies, and handling @mentions in the body of a message (as opposed to only at the beginning) long before Twitter did those things.

Of course, they were kind of obvious additions and Twitter does them too now. Status.net also had a very handy, very slick XMPP interface, perfect for those of us who don't like to play "where's the setting" on a website. Unfortunately that got taken down with the upgrade to Status.net 1.0, and hasn't yet returned.
Looks like my DNS account ran out of funds in the middle of the night. Whoops. Sorry about that guys. It should be good to go now.
Here we go: "We're currently using renewable energy to power over 30% of our operations..."

So they need ~867 MW to be neutral, depending on how outdated this page is: http://www.google.com/green/energy/.

I commend their efforts.
It's very expected situation. Developers don't like WinRT and will stick to Win32 forever because Win32 is open platform (anyone can develop for it without paying Microsoft) and WinRT is closed platform where Microsoft can apply censorship in their "app shop". No developer in the whole world wants to be thrown out of that "shop" and supply ideas for next version of Windows for free.
maybe someday microsoft will be able to build its own stable of titles if these xbox and direct x projects ever take off
The peer review system is riven with ego politics. I've submitted a paper before that got rejected by a committee member because I didn't work closely enough with member's research team. He was the one hold out among four other positive peer reviews. The paper ended up getting published in a subsequent conference where the committee members didn't have a stake in my area.

The usefulness of any given idea isn't usually reflected in peer reviewers' opinions, but whether it actually is a good idea, and sometimes that happens outside the peer review system. For example, I don't think even Larry and Sergei's PageRank algorithm was published in a peer-reviewed conference, and we all know what happened there.

Novelty, on the other hand, is probably a lot harder but even those ideas fall through the ego-drilled cracks of peer review.
All of the others seem "zoomed in". I've heard someone say it's because the others use digital stabilization, which means they have to crop the middle of the image to stabilize it against the edges, or something like that. Is that true? Because then OIS seems to significantly improve image quality in video recording as well.
Are you being cheeky? At least 2 of those are PHP-based...
Yeah it's off putting that poker was #1 on the list. His remaining suggestions were actually things that seemed sensible, like reading, writing, programming, and starting a business, but the poker stuff was so distracting it was hard to continue.
Diagramming Tools - A (Biased) Survey
I think this is pretty insightful, I was comparing my daughter (17) as she looks at colleges to some of the other potential freshman. It was clear that a noticable number of young people were going to be lost.

I'd guess that its the 'hovering parent' syndrome which trys so hard to keep their kids 'safe' and 'competitive' that they don't let their kids develop into adults, but I don't know. It is definitely a factor though.
Everyday Leadership In Your Startup and Lollipop Moments
As long as

* I can't write my own JIT compiler because of a lack of VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect() functions

* I don't have access to some other lowlevel functions not available in WinRT that exist in WinAPI

* I am forced to use Microsoft's App Store to provide my Metro applications

I am not in the slightest interested in writing applications for WinRT.

See http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/FYI-No-JIT-on-Windows-8... for explanations to the first point.
Some libraries that are used to connect to versioned resources like this don't support these types of media types. I tried to version my RESTful APIs exactly like this and ran into integration problems with an externally developed client which was based in Flex. It could have been our contractors not knowing Flex all that well or it could have been inflexibility in the language libraries itself (pun intended).
He needed to reframe the discussion -- he was controlling the discussion, and was completely at liberty to define success however he pleased. He could've said, as others have pointed out, we're going to be #1 at X, where X is some subset of the market.

When you can't win the game, change the game to one you can win. The trick is making sure it's still one worth playing.
UIGEA [1]. It basically killed the entire U.S. online poker market. And what little that remained was destroyed by Black Friday [2].

It certainly was possible (with a little bit of study) to make $85k/year playing online poker back then, but those days are long gone.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on