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From the example sites, it looks like Telescope is extremely configurable. I haven't looked at the code yet, but is it considered production quality? I wouldn't mind a small bookmarking tool like Sidebar for Clojure/Clojurescript projects.

Thanks for posting this, awesome to see examples of polished Meteor projects!

Update with link to demo, looks very nice: http://demo.telesc.pe/
Hey, love your idea!

Some unsolicited advice from someone who's just heard about your product for the first time :)

* Avoiding the word "vibrator" is a good thought (sadly it has too many negative connotations), but I'd recommend never shying away from discussing the underlying problem you are trying to solve because it's both serious and real. ie: "People are busier than ever and are spending increasing amounts of time apart. We're taking steps forward to helping couples maintain a level of intimacy and connection in our dynamic world."

* Alternative language to just talking about "intimacy" can be a focus on the positive side-effects of intimacy, such as: happier lives, higher level of trust, and greater relationship satisfaction.

* The settings screen in your screenshot has a lot of sliders. I hope there will be some good presets for those who would otherwise get overwhelmed by the number of choices.

* Similarly, fingers crossed for a PC/Mac client (or otherwise the ability to video-chat over Skype) since holding two small devices (a phone and the massager) can get tricky.

As for the pitch, maybe a tongue-in-cheek: "Vibease lets you reach out to your partner and maintain intimacy from across the room... or across the world."

Sounds like you'll have a ton of (challenging, unique) fun with this product. Good luck!
The problem for me is the time investment required to be any good at gaming. When people say they want to play Super Smash Bros. or Halo or something, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do, no one wants to show me what to do, and so I lose interest very quickly. It's not like watching a movie, where you can spend two hours on it and come out with a decent understanding of the movie, even if you aren't a movie buff.
With the iPhone you can sync up to 25 Google calendars to your phone. You have to manually include them in the sync preferences though, which many people do not know about.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Mini I bought jailbroken off of Ebay for about 100 dollars. I use a pay-as-you-go card for calls and free wifi for the internet -- except for the part where I don't dare login to anything because anyone could probably root it on a whim, it's pretty awesome.
Credit to the Bloomberg reporter.

Aside: Why is that popular Apple bloggers who claim to have inside sources are never able to break a story?
Does anyone else want to answer "Yes" for all of those reasons?
There was a blow-up-the-page book market posted to HNa while back... you might find some pleasure in tthat if someone can dig it up.
Yea and incur an extra DB lookup every time. This is very welcome.
Well getting retailers on it doesn't seem to be a problem.

What we are trying to achieve is a shopping centre environment where buyers can jump in and out of individual stores without having to leave GU.

We have some PR campaigns setup and some online advertising ready to roll out.
It seems to be really hard for any big company to be "OK" with piracy, even if that company wants to get its software in as many hands as possible. They simply crave control. This is even somewhat reasonable, as pirate versions may be unreliable in ways that the official version isn't, thus giving a bad impression of your software. They would rather just sell the official version dirt cheap.
[cite needed]

The current system (assuming you're not from Australia) - plurality (or first-past-the-post) voting - is literally the least representative voting mechanism. Tell me where you see IRV as having a worse-case than plurality/FPTP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
I would say it's "use-it-for-a-side-project"-quality, but not "build-a-business-on-it"-quality just yet :)
What pay-as-you go card do you use?
I don't need a smartphone. I've been happy with the cheapest Nokia I can buy from the shop each time I've needed to change phones.

Recently I wanted to use a phone to get some Internet (for maps and WWW) when out and about. So I got a Wildfire S (it's small and cheap) and will get some kind of data plan from somewhere.
escrow serves the same purpose, you confirm you are happy with the product before releasing the funds, but you cannot just claim the funds back yourself once the are in escrow, that requires the other parties agreement. What it does is even the playing field between seller and buyer, which benefits all honest parties. the current status quo is that the merchant/seller whatever takes all the risk for a potential chargeback down the line.
We'll see, there are surely dependencies that people simply haven't looked into because of Django's prominent lack of support.
have you asked your landlord?
this is hilarious and awesome!
New carpet is a big one, with people that insist not wearing shoes on it. If I do put new carpet in a house one day I will be making an effort to treat it exactly the same as the old stuff I have been using.
Tracking the reading position with a visual guide is one of the fundamental techniques in many speed reading methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
I don't see a point of licensing, since they might as
well have used Google Maps.

Google only release their map data as slippy map tiles - they don't release the underlying data required to implement turn-by-turn directions.

Navteq and Tomtom will let you do essentially anything with their data for the right price.
If you came through then its good management. If you didn't come through, but you didn't waste the companies time as much as the alternative, then it was also good management. If it encouraged you to bite off more then you could chew, and you failed then it was bad.

The people I supervise aren't programmers (graphic design artists) and they sometimes need to be reminded to act like professionals and solve their own problems. I sometimes feel that most of my job is tricking them into doing their work. To this end giving them self-confidence is an effective technique.
no it is not, its decentralized nature does lend itself to anonymity however.
I dunno if "pandering" is the word I'd use to describe those who intentionally take on an attitude of openness and curiosity.

Intentionally taking on an attitude of openness and curiosity is, of course, a good thing at any age. I read (possibly misread) it in this context as meaning that you have to demonstrate this in some more extreme way if you're old. That, to me, is pandering to bigotry.

The fact is, most of the older people I know (my parents, grandparents, etc) still listen to the music they were listening to at age 25. Many of them (such as my aunt) are still working at jobs that use technologies they learned 30 years ago. It's not because they are incapable of evolving. I think it is because they never made it a point to sharpen their openness & curiosity.

I know people like that. My experience has been though that those people are just as inflexible in their 20s as they are in their 50s. It's just that it's trickier to spot - because they've been stuck for a shorter period of time.

If you're in your twenties and look around your peers now I bet you'll find some folk who are still really into the same bands they were into when they were in their teens. They'll still be into those bands in 30 years time.

My solution personally is to try to constantly force myself to understand and appreciate the zeitgeist of music, programming, and design as I age. In terms of personal empowerment, it seems to me one of the most sensible routes to fight ageism.

That's a fantastic approach to living an interesting and fulfilling life.

It's a lousy strategy to fight ageism.

Ageism is what others do to you. It's bigotry. It's not looking at you because of your age, not because of how open minded (or not) you are.

Being open minded doesn't help you since the person on the other side of the table doesn't see an open minded person. They see an old one. And they assume.
Sounds a little like the Dantzig story: http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
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Some of you are forgetting something; that even if you had some form of "stadistical fairness" (whatever that may be); you still have the biggest problem of most democracies: Uneducated people; people who think an atheist shouldn't be president, people who like to reinforce their biases more than they like to have deep discussions about the nation's issues, people who were never taught to do critical thinking... and without doing exceptions for their government, their parents, their religion and the law.
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Just tried it. Looks nice but a bit lacking on the code completion, i think. Maybe I need to give it another chance.

Also, I think would be nice if there was a way to interact with the console after running a script. I realize this may be sort of an odd request, but it is very convenient when you're not quite sure on how you want to solve a problem, and you need to try out some solutions interactively. I greatly enjoy this in spyder, my current python ide of choice.
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The thing that's made it easiest for me to embrace the top-posting worldview is to remove all redundant fluff from e-mails, including the quote when not forwarding.

That said, it looks like the world is converging around the idea that down maps to past (inboxes, browser history, Twitter, Facebook timeline).

I wonder if anyone has made a top-posting-style shell? It'd be like using less as a shell...
Excellent point. I doubt very much they would ever get sued - they are too smart for that, but it doesn't mean that what they are doing there is right. Could someone be so kind as to tell me how many people over 50 have been admitted to Y-combinator? How many people over 40?
2x CPU priority may simply mean that you're sharing the host with 1/2 as many other guests (and each guest is guaranteed at least its equal share of the CPU). They've stated publicly in the past that larger Linodes share the host with proportionally fewer other guests.
I understood the bucket to have been located at a thrift store where he fished out the 15 sets that he bought.
I tend to use it for sites that have low line-heights. Like this site. The wide page and low line-height make it really hard for me to read. For reading content I'd say a min of 160% line-height.
I, for one, replace memory modules as soon as they trigger more than one ECC event.

I thought ECC events were triggered by environment, rather than hardware faults? Or you just figure some sticks are by chance more susceptible?
I have thought about it a lot, but the quantity makes it unmanageable. I have over 1.6 billion pics indexed, about 5 million added each day.
T-mobile. Payments through their website are a bit broken though, currently the only way I can put more minutes on is to use the refill cards, they don't seem to be able to accept my debit card.
"if repeated often enough, this process leads to a house full of crap"

So unless you buy the absolute "best" of a given product, it's just crap and couldn't possibly be satisfying? There's
no middle ground there at all?
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Is it possible for someone who knows my mobile number to log into whatsapp with it? If yes, will my messages be loaded into their whatsapp?
Meaning if this person wants to spy on me and read my messages, its just as simple as downloading the app and inputing my mobile number and ta-da! Whatever msgs still on my app would be replicated in their app as well? Of course the contacts wouldnt be named as they wouldnt have the same contacts as me. Pls comment someone. Thanks
I am trying that route but not enough people flag content on Twicsy to make it work well.
I'll back it if it comes with that awesome bugs bunny sound track.
I like to read longer articles with the diigo highlighter.
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> Each side feels it had a fair shot, regardless of outcome

Yeah, but the calm fades away when a big enought amount of people realizes that they are not actually part of neither side and they get angry about it.
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When I'm reading something really intense, it helps me focus -both visually and mentally, on say two or three paragraphs at a time, before moving on.
I do it. It does not help me in any way. It annoys people reading with me or sharing my screen. It baffles even myself. But by god, I cannot help it.

Have you tried selecting text and doing circles or rectangles? Amazing satisfaction!
I'm not sure how timely Google's email would be. My understanding was they sent one 6 hours in advance.

I'm scraping the page every 10 minutes.
1. Hope you didn't keep your response short merely on account of my comment...i was only jesting.

2. A huge fraction (imo) of the apps available in the app-stores did not need to go native mobile.

Mobile app-stores have mountains of apps that really have nothing mobile specific about them. This astounds me. Yet developers spent serious time/effort building these native apps. Why? I suspect it is the web-noise that continually dangles stats about gazzillion smartphone app downloads that triggers a greed hormone in philosophers and scientists alike, which begins to make them see mobile everywhere.

I am not suggesting that there's no need to address the form-factor issue. Only that "native mobile" of the app-store variety is frequently not a good strategy. Certainly not, as you point out, as a first-option.

Aside: You state "you need to be where your customers are". Yes, but if you define customers as those that play a role in generating revenue (either by paying directly for services rendered, or by permitting you to arbitrage someway), is mobile the place to be? This is obviously only a rhetorical question...you address this in your original article. I am just a bit outraged that the ios store has a million deluded worker bees building apps for it when they won't see a penny. Instead, they could've leveraged their work by owning the entire stack.
If you are close minded, it is not my problem.
I’m certainly not clicking that many Google ads per year and neither are you.

Are you sure? I used to think that, but I wrote a chrome plugin to test the hypothesis and found I clicked at least 1 or 2 ads most days.. I do 30+ searches per day. As a heavy internet user, you may click less on a particular ad, but you see a lot more because you search a lot more.
I still don't have a smartphone. I have an old clamshell phone, and I'm happy with it.
Visa waivers (ESTAs) are fine during YC, but after 6-9 months it becomes necessary to have legal status to do things like fund raise (many investors only do local), paying yourself, staying in the country for more than 6 months in a year etc. Obviously there is also the risk of the nightmare scenario that immigration dude has a bad day and doesn't allow you to enter the US. Whilst this is rare, I know of it happening.

Most international YC companies end up moving to the US, and they sort out visa issues after demo day as it takes too much time during YC.
sounds like they are both optimising for value
Ask HN: Is Sun part of binary star system?
I stumbled upon this theory and the evidence supporting it. Hard to ignore it completely, considering we are constantly updating our place in the Universe century after century. A binary star would explain a lot about climate patterns that fluctuate approximately every 20,000 or so years.

Evidence: http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/bri/research/evidence/lunarcycle.shtml

What do you think?
Maybe it sounds like I'm doubting the veracity of the story. I'm not. Credit to Bloomberg! What I'm skeptical of is the interpretation on HN, that this guy is a sacrificial lamb. If they were sacrificing him, they'd have done it months ago, or they'd do it after the holidays. November-December is bad time for human sacrifice.
I think I know exactly what you mean. Super Smash Bros. is actually the exact game that made me realize I was no longer going to pretend to be a gamer, for exactly the reasons you explain.
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Better yet, encourage openness by funding/using OpenStreetMaps and strengthening their dataset. Nobody wins if Google/Nokia end up being the only owners of accurate map data.
Not a local, but... Proportional voting systems suffer from the problem that voting "power" is not proportional to representation.

Consider a parliament with 100 members and 3 parties. Suppose the breakdown is: A has 49 members, B has 48 members, and C has 3 members. Guess what... A, B, and C all have equal voting power! Any two parties are enough to reach a majority of 51 votes, and any one party is not. Despite A having, in theory, over 16 times the representation of C, it does not have any voting advantage.

Keep in mind that any voting system based on parties will tend to have very partisan voting blocs. Representatives in the US are more independent and likely to break with the party because they are elected in geographically isolated elections. Representatives elected directly by a party generally have about as much independence as the Electors in the Electoral College.
In a discussion about this at work a few months back, someone suggested to me that part of Google's motivation might be to increase the cost of entry for search competitors. No longer can you just scrape a page and index it: not one of the 22 KB served at that URL actually contains the text of the page. To scrape one of those awful pages, you need to JavaScript interpreter and a DOM - a headless browser, really. Unless you're Google: they can just index the back-end directly

I'm not entirely convinced, but I've heard worse conspiracy theories that turned out to be true.
love it... probably not intended but i found it fascinating how the description of finding new ideas and approaches in mathematics (or any field for that matter) is similar to that in startups. this part in particular resonated

"If you keep asking yourself such questions when
reading a paper or listening to a lecture, then sooner or
later a glimmer of an answer will emerge—some possible route to investigate. When this happens to me I
always take time out to pursue the idea to see where
it leads or whether it will stand up to scrutiny. Nine
times out of ten it turns out to be a blind alley, but
occasionally one strikes gold. The diﬃculty is in knowing when an idea that is initially promising is in fact
going nowhere. At this stage one has to cut one’s losses
and return to the main road. Often the decision is not
clear-cut, and in fact I frequently return to a previously
discarded idea and give it another try"
FYI I used a Ruby library called Coderay to handle code highlighting. This wasn't integrated with Pages, but instead with the Bookshop Ruby gem after I moved the text into HTML files.

The code was inline in the HTML, but set apart using pre tags.
The radical new all-white design of the desktop app and their refusal to address the outcry it caused among their users was the main reason I switched to Spotify after happily using their service for years.

If they're "doubling down" on this style in the mobile app now I guess I made the right choice. It's a shame - rdio is a great service in a lot of other ways.
because everyone else has one and complains if you don't reply to emails within 30 seconds?
Flatware failure modes I've experienced:

1. Fork tines get bent into an uncomfortable pattern.

2. The side of a spoon accumulates rough scoring damage which is uncomfortable to the lips.

3. Bending

4. Rust

5. Breaking entirely
Interesting, I would have thought that spending time to constantly mark your position would be detrimental to speed reading.
I'm looking under settings->labs and don't see anything resembling "Send & Archive".

Any ideas?
It always confused me that some really bright young people (e.g., Zuckerberg) can't grasp this: the variation in intelligence and capability due to non-age factors >>> the variation in intelligence and capability due to age factors.

Put another way, I'd take Einstein in his 40s over a thousand other randomly-chosen physicists in their 20s
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Legendary. Was working on building this exact kindof thing but you beat me to it. Took 1.5 minutes and it worked.

However, it HAS NO DETECTION OF SUCCESS, there is a popup not a page change. If I did it again I'd save the setInterval() result id and then use clearInterval(thatVar) when it works.
Has he said so in an essay? On a HN post? To YC founders in person?
Pff … just use your mouse to scroll!

/me moves cursor over to the scroll bar only to be intercepted by a pop-up menu containing a logo, helpfully labelled "Logo".

Oh.
I wondered about wheelchair/disabled access too, having never seen a wheelchair-bound person on one. Apparently it's a solved problem though – at least one gondola manufacturer (CWA [0]) explicitly states that their cars are wheelchair (and stroller) accessible, and their cars have been installed in the USA – the Texas Skyway at Fair Park, Texas [1], where I imagine it was probably a requirement. Another system which advertises its accessibility is the Seilbahn Koblenz – “all visitors can easily get in and out of cabins… including wheelchairs, pushchairs, bicycles and dogs(!)” [2].

As long as the doors open wide enough, and the car is able to have floor-level loading, it shouldn't be a problem. Cars are able to be brought to a complete stop if needed. AFAIK, the only reason gondolas currently slow to “crawl” pace inside stations at the moment is that keeping some momentum means they require less acceleration to get back up to travel speed.

[0] http://www.cwa.ch/en/ethos-_content---1--1049.html

[1] http://www.fairpark.org/index.php?option=com_content&vie...

[2] http://www.seilbahn-koblenz.de/buses-and-groups.html
Crashes on launch for me.
Yes please, where? I'd really like to get some cheap-as-chips android phone to play with, as I've started doing android development. The Nexus 4 looks like it isn't happening, and honestly it wouldn't be healthy for me to have 24/7 web access. But a crappy little Chinese handset sounds perfect.
I take it that you have either really high CS-culture standards even for 'coders', let alone 'hackers' (which is probably good), or really low standards for SEOs (which seems sad to me). I too am against slapping a 'hacker!' badge to every guy who knows how to write a fizzbuzz in Haskell, but I definitely wouldn't even consider calling someone a SEO if he can't code (and by coding I don't mean ability to tell HTML from CSS).
Anyone care to share their experience with linode.com vs. http://prgmr.com/xen/ ?

(We setup a few vps's with rackspace and have been happy so far.)
Any reasonable person wouldn’t feel liberated by a $50 fork, but constrained by it. One wouldn’t be able to help but worry: is it being cared for correctly, is my friend going to mess it up when absentmindedly tapping the table with it, is it going to get dropped or stepped on if a dance party erupts in the kitchen? After all, it is the perfect fork, what if something happened to it to make it not perfect?

The flaw here is assuming getting "the best" also means it has to remain "perfect."

I tend to err towards the higher quality and (usually) more expensive side in my long term purchases but have no qualms about treating them as I would anything else. My 2 week old retina MBP has a funky dent in it now, for example. It's still a great notebook! And so would a $50 dinner set remain an excellent dinner set, even if someone did chip or tarnish it.
Americans pay way way too much for mobile data plans. In Vietnam I get unlimited data for $4/month. Speed is throttled after 500mb but there's no hard cap.