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nimbleScript is an application and online marketplace that makes it easy to create, run, find, install, and publish JavaScript scripts and modules that can automate almost any task.

Pure Node JS based application and web site, it aims to make running scripts as easy as a desktop app, with the convenience of an online store for sharing, publishing, finding, and installing scripts and modules.

Node JS just became a lot more accessible to a broader range of people.

http://www.nimblescript.com
https://marketplace.nimblescript.com

Look forward to feedback
It would be interesting to read more about "traditional" drugs in the 1945-1968 period. I've only read about the rise of LSD and such.
Some places you might find interesting:

scott's hut

shackleton's hut

Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
This is a pretty surreal experience. I really enjoy typing in an address and seeing other towns and cities flash before my eyes. I love the app, but I almost think the sequence of random street views is more enjoyable.
and by the same user, too.
For maximum effect try a UK or Canadian postcode.
It was also used as insurance so you could criticize the war and then point to your car as defense against the "but I stand with the troops" nonsense and say "I do too". At least that was my perception in suburban Massachusetts.
There's also a random button which shows random views from within the current map.
I can't tell if this is a good thing or bad thing.

Good = it will publicize and make the horrors of war very accessible. This is the biggest jump since Vietnam (the first war to achieve widespread broadcast on TV into living rooms daily.)

Bad = it will inflame the irrational players further.
Make games like a Pro? What are these folks smoking?
Haha, I use a modern Linux 95% of the time these days, but keep an old box around for testing. I run a very tight ship and that box has never been owned (except for the one morning in ~2004 when the dcom exploit hit). Your implication that I'm a security threat is amusing.

The nice technologies the article mentions are operating system level and don't "have to" be tied to the browser. They are using fancy terms to describe security features from the 80's (on more professional systems). "Browsers can't write to the OS to install rootkits"... wow.

MS decided not to backport to further corporate goals, fine. But, the idea that IE has to be part of the OS was debunked a decade ago.
I should start a company that gives rejected applicants a second chance, lol yc-rejects.com We will RE-View your app and pick the most promising startups, based off good ideas!
I've been teaching myself the guitar ove the past few months with a similar method. I go on dylanchords.info, open up a tab, play the song on google Play, then play along with my guitar. Dylan's songs have simple chords, so its ideal for beginners. I've been at it for the past 4 or 5 months, and Im already almost at the intermediary level, so this method of practice does work.

My suggestion: the interface for entering the tabs is not ideal. You should invent a srt-like file format for entering chords. For instance a sing thats the same three chords over and over again is tedious to enter through your interface.
John D. McAfee's Roanoke College commencement address
every now and then, I hear this - "The most distant galaxy seen!"
Does this mean that we will eventually see the Big Bang?
Facebook's approach is desperate and ham-handed. It shows me nearly every day on the mobile app that the same three people I went to high school with like Target, BestBuy and some other major corporation. I have visited the profiles of those people no more than once and have no real interest in what they like whatsoever.

Facebook must be desperate for ad impressions. I too unliked nearly everything and experience a tinges of irritation every time the mobile app "so and so likes this major corporation" stuff shows up in the mobile feed.

In comparison, Twitter's ad platform is subtle, engaging, and visually beautiful.
Interesting. Decent rank on AniDB too: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4345

I'll definitely give it a shot. Thanks!
Great job guys! I think it's awesome. As for all the haters and critics: I'll give their opinions more weight after I see their work.
To the extent that anyone said the same thing about Nintendo, which I assume is what your intent was, they were wrong and Nintendo had the sales and profits to refute such a claim.

In my opinion the trouble with Zynga is that it's a game company which doesn't make games, it makes loops of engagement tricks culminating with calls-to-action for buying virtual widgets. And then make those people who play their games look like idiots by spamming their friends. The kind of people who were engaged by this were the lowest common denominator of the gaming market, but have either become too sophisticated or too jaded for Zynga's tactics. Additionally, Facebook is choking Zynga's main channel, I'm guessing because aforementioned tactics were so pervasive and repugnant that they were ruining the Facebook UX.

Given the above speculation, Zynga would have to either try to double/triple/quadruple down on monetizing cheap engagement loops, or try making and selling real games that deliver actual value (insofar as any game delivers value).
Fog Creek was bootstrapped by taking web development overflow from another company. There are certainly startup gems that were rejected today.
Really, you only use email as a TODO? You've never used email to discuss ideas? Catch up with an old friend? Have an argument? Flirt with someone you are attracted to? Anything that qualifies as a conversation?
Please change the link to use damian2000's Google referral link.
I'd love to read a post about both the inspiration and making of this project.
This is way too addicting. I've been typing in addresses one letter at a time, just to see what pops up: a beautiful metro station in Saint Petersburg, the graffitied walls surrounding an airport in Brazil, a neighborhood in South Africa, a wooded street in suburban North Carolina, a deserted country road in rural Iowa, the entrance to a gated community in Texas, and finally, my house. What a fun way to explore. Great work!
Metric prefixes work just fine. milli, micro, nano, pico, femto, atto...
I agree with you. By band-width I meant the time and resource I have to devote to this idea. I have a full time job, and in evenings, I have been taking programming classes. So, I didn't think I could support cross platform from the get-go.

Your responses and suggestions are right on the money. What's your background and interest areas?
Partner actually has a practical meaning: co-owner of the partnership.

So it's more like 'stockholder', in that it's a title of objective value: this person owns a portion of the firm.

I sometimes suspect that software engineers should operate more like lawyers, in that firms don't generally hire lawyers internally.
This is a bit premature. The article points out that an announcement may be imminent but doesn't have any actual information on how to run Netflix on Ubuntu.

(But there is a tantalizing screenshot. I do believe it's possible, just not public yet.)
Same problem here. I wouldnt say that the animation is jerky but just that everything blends into a long motion blur. MacbookPro 2012. Tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
I wonder if he had tears in his eyes when cashed out?
If I don't need a physical safe to hold my money anymore, then obviously banks will be forced to go digital as well right?

I'm no expert, but I don't think that most banks would actually hold paper notes for every dollar they are storing for their account holders. In reality banks are already pretty much digital for most transactions.

What I am wondering is when* various governments are going to start enforcing existing regulations^, that apply to banks, on the various bitcoin exchanges.

* perhaps the exchanges already comply with these regulations, but I would be surprised.

^ don't ask me what the regulations are, I am guessing that banking is/should be a heavily regulated industry in most countries.

edit: formatting.
You make a great argument, and I agree with you that it is very unlikely that a model which can only ever be an approximation of a human brain will ever exhibit intelligence.

My gut tells me that we'll have more success building an exact 1:1 copy of a brain, but from digital components rather than wetware. The discovery of memristors[1], and other yet to be discovered building blocks, may lead to just these types of advances.

If consciousness still doesn't emerge in such a 1:1 copy then that would be spooky.

[1] - http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/cpo/205104793.htm
The maximum life expectancy point is good, note that actually it's changed a bit.

"The maximum (recorded) life span for humans has increased from 103 in 1798 to 110 years in 1898, 115 years in 1990, and 122.45 years since Calment's death in 1997" - Wikipedia

And "as long as there have been people" is going way too far.
Your point that there seems to be some intrinsic limit stands, until medical science disproves it.

Living forever is as ridiculous as 100% uptime, but eliminating preventable deaths remains a good goal.
Why do they hate single page?
Agreed, this is through wine, but if this is real, it's awesome!

Edit : Actually, it does look real : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyO... Basically, silverlight through a patched version of wine. Good Work!
Are 'geek' and 'nerd' now positive terms?
Another instance of Poe's Law...
Like pron, you for some reason insist on taking the casualties of one side as representative of the scale of the conflict overall. He says, 25,000 Israelis killed puts the Israeli-Arab conflict on the same scale as the Mexican Drug War (30,000) when in fact the overall death toll puts it more on the scale of the Wars in Yugoslavia (115,000).

You say that the 'cost' of the Iraq war is a mere 5,000 deaths, coldly ignoring the deaths of many tens of thousands of people just because they're on 'the other side'.

I hesitate to ask exactly which historians you recommend that would justify this selectivity.
I know it doesn't matter, but I think its still kinda funny that revenue in one day on the Amazon store is more than the entire net worth of the whole Bitcoin network.

This just means its early days for Bitcoin. I fear governments will present themselves as a major obstacle in the next 5 years. Lets hope i'm wrong, the idea of Bitcoin is really interesting (in a good way).
I have used Nokia's Flowella http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Tools_and_downloads...

But, this is much more cooler as it is further simplifies the process. Is an Android version in the works?
People who learned Java in 2000 seem to be having a very good run.
"but I filled mine out in under a half hour"
See this:
http://lloyd.tc/how-we-hacked-the-y-combinator-application-p...

It took them one month to fill out theirs.
Try _The Little Schemer_. It is the classic interactive textbook.
Unfortunately, I think they're damned either way.

Making things that are actually fun is hard, and selling them is harder. Even if they succeed, they'll have a brutal transition period while they learn new skills and build a new market.

But the alternative looks no better. As you say, the well of credulous idiots is running dry. I haven't done any user tests lately, but a year ago our subjects were incredibly suspicious of any Facebook auth dialog. If you asked them why, it was clear that everybody had been burned, and Facebook had become too important a social context to end up looking like a fool.

The only upside I see is that we have a good reminder that that "you can fool some of the people all of the time" is not actually a good entrepreneurial strategy. Even if a hype bubble does get you to IPO.
Thank you! :-)

How much does the lack of a share button prevent you from "manually" sending the link to friends via Twitter/Facebook by copying and pasting? (I'm asking honestly -- and I'd like to prevent the site from getting gunked up with share links.)
Glad I could help! :-D
Except Nintendo's primary revenue stream was not derived from ripping off other people's hard work, and slapping on their own artwork and calling it their own.

Nintendo created/creates a novel hardware platform, enabling other people to deliver great and compelling entertainment.

Have you ever listened to John Siracusa's Hypercritical Podcast when he remises about Nintendo, Nintendo hardware, and Nintendo games?

I do not expect anyone ever has, or ever will, wax on enthusiastically about any of the addictive little feedback loops that Zynga has sucked people into engaging. None of my friends who work there are particularly proud about the company they work for.

Zynga is one of the few (non toxin/polluting) companies in the world that I can't wait to see walk off the stage. The sooner the better.
Now there's a Webvan one. I kind of don't get it. It seems like YC is one of the least deserving targets if you're going to mock the Valley hype machine.
Why haven't they? Success in practice is hard to argue with. Theory can always sit in the corner, winning every debate by staying above the fray of the dirty real world, and never get much of anything done.

Please don't attempt to rebut with Real World Haskell, unless you have read the book and gone on to build a widely deployed application.
Thanks for the Shrine suggestion! It really looks very interesting.
What I don't understand is how this is stunning ?

It just shows the fundamental lack of equality or fairness in the 'currency'.
Ask HN: What is your build and deployment strategy?
What tools do you guys use to deploy code to production machine?

That also depends on the scale of your organization. For now, we have a fabric script which does the deployment via git.

We are looking make that automated and have a web interface to monitor the continuous deployment.
Adrian: as you are one of the only people on YouTube I've ever subscribed to, I felt the need to say that this is fantastic not only for the features of the software itself, but also because you've provided a wealth of tabulature for your own arrangements. And it's intuitive to use and GREAT for practicing. The ability to scope out which part of the track I need to loop for practice is invaluable!

This is really remarkable stuff, and I hope to see more in the future!

Also, if you could please get back tor recording a little ditty here or there for public enjoyment, it'd be much appreciated :)
Can you explain the chain idea? I'm at the airport, and that link is blocked. Maybe this isn't the right time for me to be in this thread.
To my knowledge, accurately building and calibrating a stereoscopic camera is a significant pain. Saying you could just wave your phone around and extrapolate a 3D scene is easily 10+ years out, because people make terrible tripods, and the requirements for planarity, etc. to do stereoscopic well are pretty strict. That said, there are 3D phones with parallax screens and stereo cameras; they're big and bulky and not that great.

The cool thing I saw about Lytro isn't their flash based player. Its the idea of giving you another degree of freedom after a picture is taken. Like colour correction, you can do focus correction, DOF correction, etc. I would still export one flat image as a result, but gaining that flexibility without carrying around a monopod to take 10 bracketed images is awesome to me.
Awesome app. One suggestion: Make the tab numbers WAY bigger. Really hard to read at the default settings.

Future feature: Lyrics with chords.
Nice! I added this one to my favorites. As I type it often finds an address elsewhere, until the address is completed, but it's still easier to get to the desired street view than in Google Maps. I even enjoy the extra views.
Not really but some firms have tried. There are equity and non equity partners at some firms, for example. If you eant more detail than you will ever use use google Adam Smith, Esq.
The existence of which makes me wish there was a global random button.
It's a 2007 MacBook, with a Core 2 Duo processor. I had been under the impression that it was running a 64-bit kernel. But it seems I was wrong. I believe that since Lion most Macs boot with a 64-bit kernel. I guess this model was left out.
Which consultants built Romney's "Project Orca?" None of them
>Normal people and economists use the same word to describe two different albeit somewhat related things.

It's actually worse because economists themselves use the same word to describe the two different concepts.

I agree with Symmetry above that the simplest 90% solution is just use "inflation" for general rise in price levels regardless of cause, and "monetary inflation" for money supply expansion.
Instructions are here now -http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-her...
Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here
My understanding is that the camera's file format is essentially a stack of JPEGs and a depth map. That's how the camera can do it's own refocusing without needing a huge processor. It's not generating the image from the light field, it's combining regions of a series of JPEG images.

I was really disappointed when I found that out. I thought the software on the computer was to process the raw data, but I guess not.

I still might be interested, but the the form factor is odd. Worse is that since they decided to go with that shape, they had to make the screen very very tiny.

It's an interesting product, considering it's the first of it's kind on the consumer market. I hope there is a version 2, because I think it could be very interesting. If it could shoot video, that could be pretty fascinating.

Heck, tell other people how to use the format. A series of focal planes and a depth map? Seems like hackers might be able to come up with some pretty fun stuff.
Mark Cuban’s Complaining Over Facebook News Feed Accomplished Something?
Tried some random views and this is where I reached! Beautiful.

http://qsview.com/7dsamz1jpf4z3wnzmpz1ap
That would be the one in the article: http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/enhanced-buzz...
Google delays Nexus 4 orders by up to three weeks after 'overwhelming demand'
We had one video view (embedded in ycombinator.com) and two referrals to our landing page from ycombinator.com as well. No questions.
Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution
If you don't understand that Triumph of the Will and the yellow bumper ribbons are the exact same thing, you're not understanding propaganda.

It's always more difficult to examine something you're inside (yellow ribbons) than something you're outside (Nazi war movies). But they're identical. And in fact the modern PR industry was founded to sell World War I to the American public.
I found the article useful. As a self taught programmer who works in enterprise software using procedural programming, I was missing knowledge of design patterns and Big O.

Having dabbled in Java recently, I found myself struggling with design patterns. I realized a bit late that I should read up on design patterns.

This post hit home for me at least (although I do unit test :))
The following two things trouble me:

1) Employee morale is low. One problem cited is that they are unsure about the direction of the company.

2) The attempted fix to the moral problem was with an options grant.

The article goes on to talk about the quibble around who got what options, but this is all a tempest in a teapot. If the very people who make your products, who are the engine of your company, do not understand how you are going to continue to remain in business, then stock grants are, literally, worthless. You cannot get rich off a company that makes no revenue.
I'm appalled that this was Pincus' (or whoever acted in his stead's) idea. You could actually, I don't know, TALK to your employees, elevate their ideas, and produce something of value. Hell, you could even talk to your customers and discover what they like, to try and help you drive some innovation.
This is not particular to Bitcoin. It is a basic economic principle that those with the most capital can invest to make the most returns (in this case investing in a chip). How is this unfair?
It is not badges that honor men, it is men that honor badges.
I made it about 10 months before I caved in and recreated an account. It's so ingrained with my family and friends. But, just don't log in and cancel all the email notifications, works pretty well.

I've had friends say "oh we forgot to invite you to the party because you weren't on Facebook." I'm glad of the friends that use evite.
Any idea when do late applicants usually hear about interview decisions? (If they hear at all)
In that case very true, that caused a mad rush. Would've been much better to take pre-orders.
One of Zyngas big problems is that they can only really continue to make these same types of game. They could try and make better games that more people would consider fun but I doubt that will really push their valuation back up. They only really got so overinflated taking advantage of psychology and addiction and pushing low quality but high return offers at their players.
Compiling. Too excited for this.
I love that "news" randomly brings up a kebab :)
Rob Pike is insanely good at what he does. But along the way he maintained insane ignorance about everything he doesn't do. Unfortunately, he forgets to confine his opinions to the important areas where he is knowledgeable, and has grown defensive about the world straying away from his domain. Hence the nonsensical rants against OO and type theory that put incoherent words in the mouths of his straw men.

Contrast to someone like Simon Thompson, toiling for decades on a marginalized language (Haskell) for decades, yet never wasting time insulting people who ignore his work. In fact, he praises his team for avoiding the distrsctions and hassles of attaining popularity before his work is perfected
I'd love to have that freedom... combined with everything else that I've come to expect from a DSLR. Lytro's cameras are nice novelty gadgets but it's not clear to me if they're trying to move in the direction of working with a sensor/DSLR maker to enable this. I think that's what they should focus on...
My love for Mixpanel has now caused me a moral dilemma in which I briefly considered the ease with which I could forge an email and get free service.

Don't worry, the good angel won the battle, but uhhh, I hope you're doing something to verify email headers and all that jazz. If it had been the $350 plan, I don't know that I could have held out.

To anybody wondering whether or not you actually need this offer (and is legitimately eligible), jump on it now. I picked up an old Mixpanel plan on an AppSumo deal with no idea how to use it whatsoever, and it's now used integrally in a variety of projects.
What inference can one make from a reject?

(A) Got 4/5 video views from YC/partners and even as late as November 11th.

(B) If there were no video hits at all.

Looking for some postmortem but shouldn't stop me from continuing my work.

It will help us know which axes to improve up on for the next time.

So for example, if we have had video hits and got rejected, does it mean the idea sounded good but they were not convinced with the team? Helps one learn...
Depends what your definition of "easy" is. It's harder in JS than in most languages.
2007 Apple agrees: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iPhone-to-Support-...
Dancentinello.com is why everyone should try to own the .com domain for their name, if only to maintain control over your online presence.
It looks like their viewer is JavaScript-based not flash (this may be new, I'm not sure)
Here in Uruguay most houses have a bidet too (since we copy the Spanish model), and I find it very useful.

It's purpose is similar to that of the Japanese toilet, though way more primitive - the Japanese solution takes less space and is more advanced generally, but way more expensive.
very interesting story--but more interesting is that this story is on the front page with only 3 points.