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$1B in rev but $3 mm in losses without profitability in sight.

You can create a pretty "massive" company pretty quickly if you basically sell $10.00 for $9.97

Their size actually works against them. Lots of companies lose money in the early days, but are able to justify / demonstrate why and when they'll be profitable. If you already have $1 B in sales and are still operationally unprofitable ... how much more will it take?
My Android phone already does voice-to-text better than the system demoed in that video. Looks like Microsoft's research needs a bit more tuning before it can be declared 'amazing'
BlackBerry 10 Browser Passes Ringmark Ring 1 Test
A good company shouldn't forget who their customers are. In this case it should be obvious, but evidently it needs pointing out: your customers are the people buying your mice! Not potential advertisers you can sell their data to. What were they thinking?
From the article:
"For instance, he says, Razer is moving toward cloud storage because "we realized that as firmware, profiles, macros and other settings stored in onboard memory became more complex, more memory space was required."

Er, that doesn't explain why the settings can be saved to the mouse after online setup has been completed. I'm with you on the notion that they are gathering data for sales to other parties in order to boost their bottom line.
Excellent link. I had my curiousity raised about the techniques of the image capture, which this article provides some direction towards. Thank you for posting it.
Pretty tangential, but why is it that none of the flight search engines include Southwest? I realize that Southwest doesn't give their fare info to whoever the other airlines give it to, but what's stopping someone from just scraping southwest.com every hour or so for the current fares? Or even if scraping is against their TOS, couldn't they hire one data entry employee to manually go through and add Southwest's flights every day? Or is it somehow illegal to publish Southwest's prices?

I imagine it would be a big competitive advantage for whichever one did it first - it's pretty annoying how every time I want to search for flights I have to first search on Kayak/Hipmunk/GoogleFlightSearch and then separately go to southwest.com and wade through their slow, awful search interface.
Why is that? Males have poor taste in role models?
Australian Bank Anonymizes and Releases Billions of Records
Mass Effect players know and expect that players will have their own version of the main character with different genders. Nobody has that expectation about the Legend of Zelda.
I would like a credible dismissive comment to be at the top of this thread now please, because otherwise this is very bad news.
Pic could also be a Monday morning beer fart in a crowded elevator.

You just never know.
Same, but my doctor just samples it a couple times during the visit and it eventually leaves crazytown.
The Island of Lost Apple Products
Running a VC fund in the cloud
Check out the articles at lef.org
My previous company migrated from Exchange Server to Google Apps and we found Google's migration tools to work well and to be well-documented. They provide a tool to do it at the server level https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=..., which sounds like what you would want, as well as a tool for individual users to do it themselves. Note that the server-oriented tool is named "for Microsoft Exchange" but it's actually for any IMAP server.
As someone who is myself about to be the father of a baby girl any day now, congratulations!

I have to admit, it is pretty shocking to realize for myself how gender-normative I am already being. Her room is Tiffany Blue and all her clothes are already pink. I hope I keep it to these superficial things...
See RoboTeddy's comment above.

Some tech details: canvas-based rendering engine, firebase for chat and presence, sockjs for realtime events, phantomjs + beanstalkd for rendering static tiles (for zooming way out), python on the server side, mysql where convenient and mongodb where convenient.
I booked a Southwest flight last week using Kayak. Try it for yourself, here's a screengrab from just now

http://cl.ly/image/3j0Z2m1Y2N44
Southwest does not believe in distributing their fares through the metasearch or OTA channel. They want to own the customer and make sure there's only one destination to book Southwest fares and that is Southwest.com and it's worked out pretty well for them.

The hard part for scraping is that it's both against their TOS and you wouldn't be able to have accurate availability and price information through manual data entry. The nature of how frequent price changes and the number of possible combinations of fare types/routes/availability is what gave rise to companies like ITA.
It's unlikely Razer will change their business strategy, but in the meantime you should be able to download old drivers from Softpedia here: http://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=raze...

If the particular OS/version is absent from that list, then googling around will likely get you what you need. Zero point in enjoying less than the full potential of your hardware. Good luck!
That raises the barrier to object creation, as the objects appear to be just flippable 2D images.
Do you suffer from decision fatigue?
TEDx Frank Lantz - Assign Probabilities to Your Beliefs [video]
I'd like to see them demo this using a few different voices. The voice still sounded very computerized, but maybe I'm just not used to hearing this speakers voice.
I think you missed the Channel API : https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/channel/

(also available for Python and Java)
Translators and interpreters are still used in a fairly wide range of situations. I've worked both as a document translator and as a spoken interpreter in a number of manufacturing plants.

After watching this video, I'm fairly confident that a large part of the interpreting that I did could already be handled by this technology.
Useability test when drunk
> I don't know.

Oh, come on. Think a little. Let's say your entire family was enslaved and made to work on a plantation for a few generations. How much money would you want for that? Why offer the alternative if you can't come up with a number?
I'm the same as makmanalp; even the Dropbox home page demo was too slow for me.
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Take a look at http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/ . I have a client I do freelancing for on there and they have great support and a pretty good control panel for both you and your users. Ability to do a hybrid setup with IMAP and Exchange under the same domain.
Ahh, I see that it didn't draw the lines but it handles the budget constraints while dynamically updating the map.
Windows 8 is a one way street for consumer PC users
It's hours later and I'm just now responding, so this will likely get lost amongst the other comments, but... I distinctly recall playing The Legend of Zelda and having Link be completely genderless. It even led to a lot of interesting conversations amongst 10 year old kids about why Link and who was Link. Unlike Super Mario Bros., there are no stereotypically male or female aspects of Link. You're not rescuing the princess, you're working for the princess. I have always found the design of the original Zelda game fascinating in that regard, it's designed so that any player can project themselves onto the protagonist without any psychological conflicts...it's as minimal as the protagonist in centipede.
Is that it? It doesn't have anything to do with a second hand market?
It looks like a translation we can hear occurs around 8:10. Is anyone able to verify the correctness of the speech? (Also, remembering it's a demo and it has probably been tested multiple times for that phrase).
I didn't say it was zero. I said it precludes principal component analysis (or whatever variant you prefer).
We're talking turnout now, not preference. No one is talking unskewing.

The polls did in fact show that Republicans had higher enthusiasm, which is valid evidence for expecting better turnout. The better turnout did not materialize, but it was completely reasonable to believe that it might.
Interesting, I've never noticed Southwest results in my Kayak searches before (maybe it's new). But when I try it, it doesn't actually give the price as in your screenshot, it just has a link labeled "Info" (which goes to the southwest.com homepage) where the price would normally be. I wonder if it has something to do with you being in the UK?
AT&T Moves Dramatically Towards 'Internet Everywhere'
I generally agree with you, but it really depends on the context. You can never abstract the development side from the business needs, and those trump everything.

In a fast business with a very small team and a very short runway you often have to sacrifice quality in exchange for putting something out there. If something doesn't come out of the oven, there's no "long term". At that point, the choice makes itself. That's probably why a lot of people will, likely rightfully, claim that startups don't need to be highly technical unless it's where their competitive advantage will come from (and in the words of Mark Suster, 90% of startups do NOT fail because their tech wasn't good enough).

On the other hand, in long-term projects that have enough budget to survive for a while, you can shift priorities and focus on quality as appropriate.

The release process is also really important here. In web/saas you can fix things very fast behind the scenes without the customer being aware of it (Etsy claim to make what.. somewher around 100 checkins into production a day?). In mobile / boxed you have to be a lot more careful. Nobody wants to wait 2 weeks for Apple to approve your patch when a major scenario is broken in your app.

Of course, if you can have both wonderfully clean and extensible code and get that done exactly as fast as poorly written code, that's the preference.
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Running a design studio, this comes up frequently. We work with startups that rarely have the time/budget to do that over-the-top perfect work. In most cases, too, it is a bit soul crushing to ship work that isn't the absolute best we could have done.

I'm sure both of us don't feel great about it, but at some point there has to be a compromise. We tend to work along the lines of "strive for perfection, accept reality."
Has anyone tried garlic to help with blood pressure? It seems there's good evidence for it.
MIT creates biobattery
How a Lower Manhattan datacenter survived the aftermath of Sandy
zalew, thank you very much for helping me fix the data - I will drop you an email with details.
> The hard part for scraping is that it's both against their TOS and you wouldn't be able to have accurate availability and price information through manual data entry. The nature of how frequent price changes and the number of possible combinations of fare types/routes/availability is what gave rise to companies like ITA.

Anecdotally, whenever I've checked Southwest prices multiple days in a row they usually stay the same. So I'd imagine it would still be a valuable enough resource if there were someone who did this manually at the granularity of a day, even if when you clicked through to buy the tickets they occasionally wouldn't match the price the search engine told you. You could even have a "report this price as incorrect" button.
Chrome has gotten 26 percent faster this year
Kixeye
http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/05/KIXEYE-RULE-THE-INTERWEB...
http://cdn1.uptownalmanac.com/cdn/farfuture/TLjMiGusFNsz18B-...

Good? Debatable. Memorable? No doubt.
You know what, you're right in that I happen to fall way out of the bounds of their target, and that's not harsh at all. But I think my point still stands. Even people who like to sit through 2 hour long bullet-point presentations / butter-up sessions with synergistic turnkey solutions know, briefly, what they are being pitched before they sit down and watch.

In any case, I doubt any such research happened :)
At first I thought you were actually encouraging me to post obtuse, self-righteous replies! Your advice (the correctly interpreted and misinterpreted versions) is taken under submission.
This is great, what's your traffic like? Where did you get your data from?
it performs fine. what are you talking about?
Microbenchmark: Ruby 1.9 MRI vs Google Dart 0.2 TP
This is pretty cool. I tried messing up some of the JavaScript variables (increasing acceleration, turning speed), and it looks like they do some sort of server-side validation on your race results. The Ajax POST request includes your score, the path you took, and the road that the game generated (and didn't accept my sub-30s score).

I set the game parameters to generate a straight course (set curvy, mountainy to 0) and got 32.94 seconds, so I'm not sure how some people are getting ~33 seconds honestly.
Link that's undecorated and goes to start of story: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/lost-apple-products
It'd be so awesome if the engine and code behind this world builder can be opensourced.
that's weird, when I booked my flight I was in the states...might be certain routes or something?
Ask HN: Creative Squatting in SF
San Francisco never was particularly affordable, but now that the valley's epicenter has shifted north, finding a clean and private place to sleep in the city has gotten to be quite the challenge.

And yet the price for office space doesn't seem like it's all that high. A 2 bedroom apartment might fetch $2500/mo. but an equivalently spacious office could be about half that.

The sorts of things given up would be a kitchen (like I'd need a full sink and cabinets) and a full bathroom (gym memberships can be cheap).

Naturally, this would be rented under the auspices of a startup office (which is perfectly accurate); would work out of there too.

Just wondering if anyone's tried this, or considered it and decided against it.
Yeah, while it's fun to scroll around and see what stories people are trying to tell through this medium, it'd be really cool to have some actors moving around in the world. Riders on the roller coasters (which seem to be among the most fun things to build in any building game; even when the tools don't make it easy to do so), people roaming around exploring (and occasionsally being chopped up by the chainsaw guy or eaten by the scary smoke monster thing, or turned into a newt when walking over a black magic altar, etc.) would make this absolutely magical to just watch and play with. Not to say it's not cool today, as it is, just that if the dinosaurs roared and flung cars, it'd be a mild form of ecstasy.
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While machine translation is not ready yet, there are some incremental innovations in the interpreter industry.

A local entrepreneur is having some success with a remote system for interpreters that tries to replace the interpreter console and related expensive interpretation equipment:

http://www.glotweb.com/

Not sure how his has handled the strict no-lag requirements though, but they were doing trial runs in Washington and San Diego.
You said the C word (class) and you weren't downvoted into oblivion. Thank you, Hacker News readers, for not voting purely on political biases.

Class mobility is essential for a healthy society. When everyone who starts life at one income level and almost always finishes life at that same income level you have an unbalance, neo-feudal society.

We live in a world where if a child's parents don't have the income or education to take them to a doctor when they get a simple inner ear infection they can be permanently disadvantaged (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitis_media). This kind of class lock-in is what was so terrible about earlier human models of cooperation and what the Enlightenment apparently fixed. Any argument against class-based discrimination is void while poor children are going deaf and ending up with speech development problems from a curable condition that very rarely causes serious long term consequences for a child of wealthier parents.
So very damn true. I'm trying to unclusterf*ck this in our codebase.
I wonder how accurate this actually is... I punched in my details and apparently for my details there are less then 10 people like me. Considering where I live, age etc... that seems unlikely.
Bean there ... Done that
What you say about rate limiting is true, but actually you weren't getting responses because my account was suspended for about 15 minutes.

I don't think even the frontpage of HN would be capable of getting enough chess players for 1 msg/sec to be too slow.
Shhhhhh don't mention the Skeuomorphism
Exactly as you described it.

I had the privilege to discuss the issue with the late Russell Means ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Means ) a few years ago.

What's disgusting is that the abuse continues to this very day.

First they were decimated, then they were forced into "reformation camps" to break their spirit, and then casino licenses and the like were thrown to them as a bone (and to corrupt and silence the more tempted or gullible with the easy money).

The government and various interested parties even try to take some of their supposedly "sovereign" reservation lands from them and/or poison them to get profitable minerals such as Uranium.
New Relic will donate $10 to Movember every time a new customer tries New Relic
Vert.x: concurrent + Evented I/O framework for Java, Ruby, Python and others
The creation of Wonder Woman is actually pretty interesting -- it was done in collaboration with the creators wife, and she was modeled somewhat after a woman they were in a polyamorous relationship with. She was also explicitly designed to be a good role model for girls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwoman#Creation
Plausible, but it turns out to be mistaken.

Look at this map of results in South Carolina:

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/S...

County population is negatively correlated with voting for Obama.
I think this is less about selling data, and more about marketing another perceived desired feature and trying to gain an edge on their opponents. This happens frequently in this space, where mouse sensors with maximum DPIs no one would actually make use of are the key selling point.
sorry, when I've read Babice, I thought Balice (Krakow), it's late. Babice is of course indeed in Warsaw, even nearby me, but it's for small aircrafts and stuff, not passenger airplanes.
What do you get in return for all of this? As I read it the person who signs up gets to work with you two, plus they get the $500 in credit at tweaky.com, but I do not see what you guys are getting out of this relationship. I am not trying to troll, I am just curious.
I get the same crash/shutdown experience, but with the Galaxy Nexus. My Nexus is running 4.0.4.
I think it would be wonderful if there was some sort of rapid and easy framework for mobile apps, like WordPress is to web sites. Just throwing that idea out there.
That was my opinion as well.

Actually I stopped learning Chinese and living in China because I discovered the following. They were learning English faster then I could learn Chinese, and I only needed to know enough to let them know I wasn't culturally insensitive.

Not sure where the quote was but it went along the lines of "Don't try to talk in their language, because you will make a hash of it and they will have the advantage."
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We may at least do a couple write-ups about some of the tech behind it.
A designer does not have total control except in the most ideal of circumstances. In the real world there are deadlines, a budget, the whims of clients to cater to, and investors to impress. It's nice to think that perfection is possible but realistically compromisesl must be made in the real world.
Ubuntu conveniently distributes and packages desktop Linux. The software that they distribute may be written by a person employed by Red Hat, but I don't care. I just want to run a version of Linux that is easy to use, configure and upgrade.
And you think programming/product design is unaffected by these disconnects?

What if a server crashes? What if Illustrator doesn't draw the exact like the hand performed?

There are physical and technological disconnects in much the same respect as a musical performance.
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It's laughable anyone would consider an organisation willing to produce this abomination of a website an authority on technical progress.

I'm tremendously disappointed this had made the front page.
Really impressed! For it is in the giving that we receive with no expectation of anything in return (stock is nice though). I think St. Francis of Assisi said something like that - and for sure Brad Feld ;)

I also sent you an email.
Exactly. Too often I see posts by idealistic people who haven't actually shipped product who are espousing the idea that your product should be perfect. (Not saying Dustin Curtis is one of these, mind you.)
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This ad hominem comment is inappropriate. It is certainly not "completely idiotic". There is a lot of intelligent discussion on the issue in some places. For example: http://www.fff.org/comment/com0306f.asp .
Well said. I'd like to even take it a step further and see designers and developers really, truly collaborating at every point in the process as opposed to the traditional model of designing something and handing it off to a development team. Just as bad is the model of developing a product and then handing over to a design to "make it look pretty." I'd love to see the teams all up in each other's grills from the moment of hunch to the shipped product. Very few teams, if any, work that way now (at least in Ohio) but I'd be excited to see how each could really challenge the other directly.
If this ran android, I'd be all over it.
Thanks, that's interesting. The issue for me is that Hipmunk only serves the US market and won't let me enter multiple airports as source or destination. My best results have started with a list of 20 possible sources and destinations which is unfeasible to search with any other publicly available service.
Ah, I see. I got the impression from your comment and edit that you were taking a hard-line copyright maximalism stance.
V8 for Javascript is also that much faster than Ruby/Python in almost all benchmarks. And Javascript is as dynamic as Ruby is.

Seriously, even V8, speed wise is up there with Go and even faster in most cases: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

Sure, raw benchmark speed doesn't matter for code dealing with external latency sources (databases and similar IO bound cases), but it's very nice for CPU intensive code. TL;DR: V8 and Dart are blazingly fast.

Now, maybe Dart doesn't have much future in the browser space without being adopted by the major vendors, but, wouldn't it be nice if Dart could got some adoption like Go did in the scripting/server area. It would make a nice and modern dynamic language to balance something like Go that plays at the statically typed side.

Of course, getting someone like Lars Bak to make a screaming fast Ruby or Python VM would be even better. He could improve on one of the next-gen implementations of those languages, like Rubinious or PyPy.

Maybe there's hope a crowd-funding project to pay the man? Because, as it seems, volunteer effort can only get you that far.
Okay... 2004 and now it's 8 years later. I'm curious to know what PG thinks of great hackers after 500 startups and plenty of exposure to would be hackers. Surely his thoughts have matured?

Paul Graham, care to oblige us?