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What is better than Salesforce in terms of APIs and performance?
All it does for me is reload. Well played ReadWriteWeb, well played.
I think the point was that immigration laws are still laws, even if you (or someone) doesn't believe they are good laws.

However, your point is quite correct, if one subtracts the immigration law from the equation how do the statistics stack up. A more complex picture will likely emerge as it does whenever statistics are quoted, for example is the root cause immigration or poverty caused by the status.
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Scapegoating at its best. Really, what a disgrace this is.

Scientists are already loathe to communicate directly with the general public for fear of misunderstanding of carefully chosen words. This kind of farce will cause a rift that will take a long time to heal. If ever.

What's next? Putting the Earth on trial for manslaughter?
Minor nitpick: for machine-reading hand-written text, the process is actually called ICR - Intelligent Character Recognition.
That's silly.

If I'm trying to decide whether to buy a Maserati or a Tesla, and you tell me I need to pay you $300 for the Tesla just to test drive it, I can tell you that I'm buying the Maserati, since they've already figured out that I'm a potential buyer.

Tesla is smart to size up the people that walk into their stores so that they don't offend the ones that actually can buy their cars. If they offend non-customers, so be it.
Unfortunate.

I have to deal with a number of folks who will be overjoyed to read this news when their tech cartel vendor of choice forwards it this evening.

There's a huge contingent of currently endangered infrastructure folks (and vendors who feed off them) out there who throw a party every time AWS has a visible outage.
But couldn't you throw something like Cloudflare in front of your solution to eat some of that spike?
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Calculate the lifestyle cost, not the one-off cost
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Can you actually afford a Tesla? Honestly?

And if the answer is no, would you want someone you pay good money to spending time with someone that doesn't have the means to actually buy the product instead of a person who does?
What if you, by some affliction unimaginable, actually don't like the car? Is it worth $300 to determine that?
I don't see how this could possibly go wrong...
Because reddit and ycombinator are the center of the tech sociosphere?
HTML5 localStorage on the server
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So what? Nothing you said is inherently bad.
Yes! I started to attempt this. I had quite a few background images to use, but I realized assigning a background to each quote would be too large a task for this initial release. Hopefully I can add this for the next release.
I appreciate the support guys, but this is just trolling. Whether this poster was serious or not, he didn't have enough information to make this judgement and he did, emphatically. Classic trolling.

So for promoting bands on social media, what I would is provide interesting content to the broader audience, like if we made a cool youtube video, and then be sure people knew where to find information about shows, I.E. the event pages for those shows.

However, I did creep into the world of spam from time to time: I would post unsolicited posts on my friends walls about really important shows. However, I did this very carefully, posting it only on my friends walls who I KNEW were strong supporters and wouldn't mind. This increased visibility without annoying anyone too much.

But it was kind of spammy and I'm not here to defend myself on how I promoted local art and made a living. I think spam comes down to intentions and being open to feedback: if you don't want to see my messages anymore, I would stop sending them to you IMMEDIATELY, including sending you event invites , and excluding individuals from those used to be really hard.
cool. "rvm install jruby-1.7.0" works :-)
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Just as startups have a natural advantage to make big change due to the agility of a small group, big change will most likely come from countries with smaller populations.
I like the black and white graphics. It reminds me of dark castle, which was arguably the best non-educational game for the original Macintosh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0
I am not clear on how "Heroku" is "developer related" in a way meaningful to most of its customers.

"Abstracted", "unique", and "interesting" are very easy bars to clear when you take "relevant" out of the mix. So yes: I buy that you could come up with a name as good as "Heroku" in a day. Just open up a book of Japanese plant names.
... All that and the best you could come up with was "Heyzap"?
I think this view is misguided. Apple would be foolish to make you prove that you could buy an iPad before letting you play with one, and the same holds true for Tesla. They need to overcome widespread skepticism about purely electric cars, and a large part of that is exposing everyone they can to their cars.

Sure, give preferencial treatment to people who have the money to buy one, but let everyone try them out.
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what's the incentive to stay a subscriber?

why wouldn't people sign up, look at their information, then cancel their subscription?

how do you know if they have anything relevent for you prior to you signing up?

seems like the same thing with Angie's list, living in flyover country, how do I know if there are any reviews worth paying attention to prior to signing up?
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I see this as a great opportunity to gather more info about this slimeball
One of the most frustrating issues here is that we have to deal with Amazon's status page for information. It's a complex page, divided by continent instead of region, which means at least 5 or 6 clicks to figure out progress. They should learn from these issues about how people want to be informed - to date, they haven't. Also, they have a twitter account, which would be the perfect fit to keep everyone up-to-date with what's going on; to at least show a human side to these issues. Alas, they're not updating that either.

I've been working with AWS since early 2006 when they first launched - I was lucky to be granted a VIP invite to try out EC2 before everyone else, and ended up launching the first public app on EC2. This might be the first time when frustration has overcome my love for these guys.
Speaking of defining names, "Nominology" comes across as the study of eating.
Completely depends on the day, for myself.
IMHO:
I sum it all up as "Digital Rights."

-The right to not have your traffic limited, and controlled by ISP

-The right to purchase a non DRM "file" and use it on your phone, computer, etc free of burned from some company

-Ability to install what ever you want on your $600+ device

*Edit for: formatting, and additional thought.
Wait, it gets worse: once you have basic updating working, you face having to modify a lot of UI widgets that, for example, use smooth-scrolling, which would muddy-up an e-ink display. You could start by nerfing a lot of animations in Android, but I'd bet you would still encounter implementations that are not as clean as to use up-to-date animation implementations.

You would have to size the job by looking at every standard widget's implementation and factoring out the parts of that implementation that are hostile toward e-ink.

After all the widgets are clean for e-ink, you then have to take a look at some user interactions: Dragging a "thumb" to scroll through a list might be quite tough to do well no matter how it is implemented.
Chances of an Italian being an expert on Italian corruption far outweigh the chances of other nationalities being experts on that subject.

So even if it isn't ironclad evidence it definitely moves the posterior probability towards 'expert'.
Sure, there are a lot of question marks about the methods, but the long time effects are astonishing

Because Widow Ramos no longer had a husband to share her hovel with, GDP per capita in the hamlet doubled!

How prosperous she must have felt that he was executed!
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Metro is what they're selling. Are you blaming people for testing Microsoft on their own promises?
Maximizing and multi-tasking are completely orthogonal.

Jamming more application windows on the screen does not mean you are "multi-tasking". You still have to interact with one piece of software at a time. It just means you slide your mouse over to another program and click to change contents instead of alt-tabbing or clicking on the menubar (or whatever the task switching metaphor is in the OS of choice).

In old *Nix systems before X you just hit alt and a function key to switch usage contexts, but you could still multitask in many cases on a single terminal just by dispatching a task to run in the background, and just check the result later.
That's pretty impressive. I know this because I spent a good nine months working on a clone of one of the Zelda games (I didn't make it very far, although granted, I went down a huge rabbit hole) and it is tough. So many things you have to think about if you are designing your own game engine. Mad kudos for sticking with it.
Mine is named Robots Everywhere and has a 1950s logo. This came from my mom's exclamation in entering the workshop while we were testing mesh-networked antbots.
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It's not just because it's crowded. Everyone I know who's worked in that DC hated it. Aside from that, storms regularly knock out the grid in NoVa.
We (Netflix) have done a bunch of presentations on it which are on our slideshare page and across the internet.

After this issue is over I can give a longer answer. In short, we've just evacuated the affected zone and are mostly recovered.
Well if that was their goal then it has been a success as they have taken out a lot of the forums and discussion sites which were critical of them.

Except HN.
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Hmm.

You do realize, do you not, that it's not my code. Or my server. I'm just sharing something I found.
HA good question. Succinctly, our pricing is not set in stone is likely to change.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of weddings these days do not have full planners, and if they work with a planner, generally it's a month-of or day-of planner, so that lowers the tiers of people we would be "competing" against.

WeddingLovely is also very new, so starting out at $14.99/month seemed ideal to test out. $19.99 is actually an experiment in price anchoring. $119 is because people usually work with us way before their wedding so we wanted to have a tier that rewards people who start with us early.

Basically, these are all guesses that we're testing, and will update and improve both our pricing as well as our features as we work more with engaged couples as well as gain more experience running an online wedding planning app.
Is JRuby worth using if JVM language integration isn't needed? E.g. A fairly standard Rails app.
There were lots of demos showing cross-platform Android / iOS and even OSX! (with MonoMac :).

I met the creators of iCircuit and TouchDraw at MonkeySpace they said it was really easy to get going and you just needed to design your library so the UI was decoupled from the main code-base (which you could effectively re-use as-is). Several of techniques of structuring your code-base was described in @gshackles talk, some of the slides are here:

https://speakerdeck.com/u/gshackles/p/cross-platform-mobile-... (SpeakerDeck seems affected by EC2's outage).

MonoGame (https://github.com/mono/MonoGame) is an implementation of XNA which allowed games like Bastion and Infinite Flight (A C# Flight Simulator) to run cross-platform.
A good list of considerations. The most important ones I think are still the classic two:

1) Emotive - The name should evoke some sort of emotional connection. This is essential to being memorable and likable. This is why computers.com and chairs.com are not so great for selling computers and chairs unless you are going for mass-market, price-based, SEO-optimized, unbranded sales.

2) Meaning - The name should evoke some sort of actual meaning associated with your product. This becomes less important as a company becomes established. When a name is established is the right time to separate the meaning component, not when the company is formed. Apple was formerly Apple Computer, but Apple would have been a terrible name choice in 1979 because it would require too much explanation.

Hipmunk is terrible name for a travel product, despite Jude calling that out as a good one. It has decent, if confusing, emotive response, and zero meaning or association with travel. Establishing that as a travel brand will be much more work than, say Kayak, which has at least some association with travel. I, for one, struggle to recall "Hipmunk" much more than Travelocity, Kayak, or Orbitz.

AirBNB is a good name, but fails is the secondary concern of being easy to communicate and spell. Despite that, it is strong in the two primary concerns above, so it is ultimately a good name. I agree with Jude that at some point they may follow the path of Apple and reduce the name to a more essential emotive component, such as just Air.
Single point of failure?
Biggest things stopping me from using jruby:

1. Incomplete integration with postgresql. The ActiveRecord jdbc adapater doesn't have all the features that the standard pg adapter does.

2. Slow startup / test runs. At one point, loading large amounts of files (like during rails bootup) was much slower on jruby than MRI.
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Heroku has implemented AWS services correctly, most websites can't afford to do that.
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> There is a religious obligation in Mormonism to proxy baptize one's non-Mormon ancestors so they can get into heaven.

That bugs me. I'm afraid of it going down like this. I die, and the Valkyries select me for Valhalla. As I enjoy the afterlife there, knocking back flagons of mead and knocking up wenches, while trading tall tales of valor with the other chosen, there comes a knock at the door. A maiden answers, and then goes to Odin and whispers something.

Odin frowns, and whispers something back to her. Now all eyes are on the maiden as she walks back to the door, and invites in two Mormons. She leads them to Odin, and they hand him some paperwork.

Odin summons me, and tells me that they are from Mormon Heaven. He tells me that my half great great great great great grand niece has converted to Mormonism, found me in their ancestry records, and baptized me into the Mormon Church--and that I must leave Valhalla and move to Mormon Heaven. No more mead and wenches for me. :-(
I'd use jruby if you were going to use something like http://torquebox.org/
The best resource for this I've found is: http://www.thenameinspector.com/10-tips-for-naming-your-comp...

And the rest of that guy's blog.
Yep, I'm definitely looking forward to the exiting happenings in Mono/Xamarin land launching early next year :)
I've got a rooted Nook ("simple touch"), it handles the redrawing remarkably well. I wouldn't call it production-ready, but the shadowing is small and it's more than usable. Available RAM is abysmal, but that's a separate problem.

The weirder part is how e.g. dragging an icon makes a greyscale-rainbow trail behind it as it redraws pixels. Panning through the app screens is also pretty crappy, and all the little animations are so over the top with a slow screen rate that the results are basically laughable. I wish there were a "never animate anything, ever, for any reason" switch I could flip :|
You can move your projects on demand?
The B&W style plus the minimalist music in the demo remind me a lot of Metroid II.
Our mobile devices have long since evolved from portable telephones. Especially for people in the younger demographic like me (I'm in college), my colleagues can (and do) live off their phones. They send and receive email, communicate socially via Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, play games, takes notes, and compile to-dos and calendar appointments. It's quick, efficient, and painless.

Before you know it, our phones will soon be replacing our credit cards (i.e. wallets) and opening doors for us (i.e. our keys). Mobile phones are arguably one of the most important things we carry around with us in our daily life, and it won't be going away anytime soon. And whoever innovates fastest to add more value to our lives, wins.
It's an amusing sleight of hand to equate Tesla's run-in with franchise law to Uber's run-in with taxi licensing.

Franchise laws are the product of decades of overlapping private/public enforcement of contractual issues between dealers and manufacturers. It seems clear on the face of it that Tesla should in no way be encumbered by the arrangements made between General Motors and its dealers, because Tesla never had dealers to pull the rug out from under. And this is notwithstanding the fact that encoding and enforcing agreements between dealers and manufacturers should have been the province of contract law, not statutes.

Taxi regulations serve legitimate purposes beyond enforcing agreements. For instance: in many states, it's difficult to get a job driving taxis or even black cars with a suspension on your record, because the licenses are held by parent companies who are liable to lose them if a driver causes an incident.

Loud arguments declaiming the insanity of applying taxi regulations to a service as excellent as Uber also tend not to engage with the real argument, which is, "what do we do when there are 10 Ubers, and drivers can hop between them?"

You can believe that there are valid reasons to regulate cabs and black cars, or you can not believe that. But it's intellectually dishonest to lump that question in with franchise laws and licenses for florists.
A fair point, thanks for the advice.
I dream of one day when someone will make a minimalist phone that meets my needs. The perfect phone for me would be this:

- Can make and receive calls and texts.

- Has a phone book (just a name/number key-value pair).

- Has a clock and timer/alarm.

- NO OTHER SOFTWARE FEATURES. Nothing extra other than calls, texts, phone book, time.

- Small e-ink display.

- Simple T9 keypad.

- Rugged construction, should be able to take a lot of abuse. Should not feel cheap.

- Small and thin.

- Tons of battery life.

- Beautiful, minimalist visual design.

- Cheap enough that you can lose it without feeling bad.

That's all I want - something optimized for calls and texts, nothing more or less. It would be a cheap phone to produce, I think. Would there be any market for this?

EDIT: the Motofone looks like it's kind of like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone), but it has a segmented display (bad for texts), and it sounds like it feels a bit cheap. It could also be prettier.
I'm wondering if some of the simpler cache-busting tricks would force google update their cache. For example, somescript.js?v=201210221559.
>Really guys? Nobody gets that it was actually a design solution to fit in the slimmer body of the 5, as well as a step forward technologically.

Fanboy.

>I picked up the iPhone 5 on launch day

Fanboy.

>it’s a beautifully crafted device with incredible attention to aesthetics and an impeccable operating system.

Fanboy.

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This is poppycock. People are this far into the hype? It's good phone. Not 800$-good, but good.

People are just not that into the iPhone hype-machine because information is more readibly available online. PEOPLE HAVE CHOICES - that wasn't true in 2007.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the first comparison in the docs to be with core data? It is the point of reference in cocoa for model data and persistence and is much simpler than the example given, so ignoring it till the end seems a little disingenuous... Looks interesting though, I'm off to read further.
Interesting approach. Not sure how you get over $10mm, as there are only so many LMS companies.

They must have a pretty good vision to attract the capital
Is a* more or less infinite than .*?
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It is so much less expensive for Apple to let a prospect try out an iPad than it is for Tesla to arrange a test drive that these two things are effectively apples and oranges.
I like the gravity effect. Next: make it so I can drag around the menus.
If you're really deciding between a Maserati and a Tesla, I'd be willing to bet that Tesla isn't actually going to charge you $300 to drive one.

If you walked off the street into a Maserati dealership dressed like a hacker, refused to provide any information qualifying yourself as a prospect, and demanded a test drive, you might not be allowed to drive one at all.

Of course, if you wanted a Maserati, you could probably have one next week. Tesla is back-ordered to forever. So whatever they're doing seems to be working OK.
If you give similar answers to the Maserati sales rep, they will also charge you a fee for test-driving, or maybe not even let you test-drive.

Like I said, any high-end car sales rep is trained to quickly profile potential buyers. They judge everything from your looks to your body language and profession. When you're talking about really expensive cars, it's better to err on the side of caution and lose a few potential sales than let just any loser off the street test-drive one.

I had a friend back in college whose dad was the owner of a local Mercedes dealer. After interning there for a summer, he cryptically told me that he "cracked the code." From there on, his favorite hobby became dressing up in nice suits, walking into a high-end car dealership, and convincing (with 95% success) the sales rep to let him drive one of their cars. I accompanied him for one of his trips and got to test-drive for free a Lexus convertible, a Ferrari, and a Nissan 350Z back when it was new.
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> be skeptical of such stories

Don't be too skeptical. Most of the people on HN had some big company restrict/kill an account by some BigCo at some point.

Microsoft, Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook, etc. handle millions of accounts. They have automated filters that trigger based on specified criteria that kill your account.

Their default response when this happens? Talk to legal. Well, more like write to legal. They don't want to talk to you.

The problem? Microsoft has your operating system, Google has your email, eBay has your stuff, PayPal has your money, Amazon has your books, Facebook has your social life, etc.

And they can yank all of that away.

They don't even press any button. It's triggered automatically by criteria they never disclose beyond a vague TOS.

We need to push for a universal option for arbitration by a 3rd party regarding these sorts of unilateral actions. If anything, it will probably reduce the support and legal costs for all of these companies.
There is a religious obligation in Mormonism to proxy baptize one's non-Mormon ancestors so they can get into heaven

Not quite right. Proxy baptism simply allows an individual recipient the opportunity to accept or reject the teachings if they didn't get a chance to learn about them during their lifetime. There's nothing passive or automatic about it.
Would you expect him to say anything else?