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- Actually, I just sat on my keyboard cuz I wanted to fit in :)

Just curious - is Gaelic still required in schools and in some dealings w/ government?
Ask HN: What's the Best way to get private beta testers for early feedback?
I have been working on and off for the last year coding a new social based platform that is focused around the usage of hashtags. My biz partner and I have just recently decided to work on this fulltime and have been working day/mostly night working out some of the bugs and are now starting to focus on cleaning up the UI. We are almost ready to launch a private beta to finish flushing out the UI based on user feedback.

What is the best way to find beta testers that will give us the feedback that we need to take this project to the next level? Are there any sites where we could showcase our start-up for beta testers? Do you have any other suggestions? We are looking for around 500-1,000 beta testers that will really take the time to give us honest feedback.

We threw together a quick video that explains the platform for a local start-up accelerator which might explain more about our service. http://www.linkies.com/video.html
After a billion, what's next for Facebook?
Original submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864241

Submitting it as a new item as the BBC link seems to be dead.
The listing they referenced has been taken down so maybe it had some more info, but how on earth did they make the jump from "Linux Engineer wanted" to "Nokia will be making Android phones?".

I'd be pretty shocked if Nokia did no Linux development in-house for backend systems and the like. Hell, even Microsoft hires quite a few Linux engineers, but that doesn't mean the Xbox 720 is going to be Android based.
"We're very comfortable with where we are. Our revenue is growing at a healthy pace."

I have to ask myself if that's true, or if they're just saying that.
If you are suffering from this, please switch to a proper ISP such as Andrews and Arnold or newnet plc.

Cheap ubiquitous internet connections in the UK are always broken in some way.
Does it Pay to be Honest on Twitter?
Javascript secrets of Bret Victor's homepage
Being able to mimic the Sun's 'perfectly white light' is brilliant. Many people find CFL's really annoying.

Almost as cool though is the fact that it can easily be built in any shape desired, as it sounds like you run a change through a surface instead of having a specific light-generating element.

The example they give is of a 2x4 'panel' replacing CFL's in offices, but could imagine some fantastically cool applications of this in interior design.
Google Returning Month Of December To Nexus Devices With Android 4.2.1
So basically, dropbox makes a public announcement to tell the world (and the shareholders) they're now engaging in tax evasion in Europe to make better profit.

Hopefully they'll have a better story for the european authorities later on, not like starbucks, amazon or google: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/13/starbucks-goog...
well, i just planing to post a blog about interactive books, hmm , seems late
starbucks too. http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/13/starbucks-goog...
Did I read 800C properly? Even if it's only for a minuscule moment, isn't that dangerous? Especially if there are environmental factors that can unpredictably affect the process?

After years of being conditioned to try to cool my hardware as much as possible, it's a bit unsettling that I'd want to heat it up, especially at such a high temperature, even if it's for only a tiny moment.

Excuse me for my ignorance, but I'd like someone to explain to me why this is OK.
In relation to your bottom paragraph:

I play a text based online game where activity is extremely important and I often only have 3 or 4 hours of sleep every day, and even that is broken in to chunks so I can be online every 3 hours - and this is for the past 5 and a half years.

Outside of the obvious physical and mental stress it can put you under, you are perfectly right when you say that it takes time to perfect, at first I was tired from having 8 hours of sleep, now I can have 3 hours of sleep per night, wake up and operate at 100%.

I'm not sure when, but somewhere along the line I lost the need for sleep, I don't get tired any more or yawn and even on nights where I can sleep as long as I want, I find myself only wanting 4 or 5 hours anyway.

I'm without a doubt the highest ranked player on the game, fought for through perseverance and a refusal to let my ego take a hit, but was it worth it? I'm not sure.
As we all know, Hacker News is a community based around the idea that comments should be either positive, or at least constructive. Since your comment is neither of those things, my first instinct was to scold, however, I decided first to do a little research.

Your stack overflow profile led me to discover what was once called Fohr, which seems to be a company you founded with the hopes of becoming "the next Pixar." Considering you also mentioned Pixar in your comment above, I'm sensing something of an obsession. But regardless, I've decided not to harass you for your bad-taste comment, because I assume it's due mostly to you feeling bitter over the fact that Fohr was not successful, but some other company in the same space might be.
Tax evasion. http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/13/starbucks-goog...
AFAIK (did an internship in Dublin), irish children still learn Gaelic in school, but not in a way that’d make them able to talk to each other in it, much like Germans in some schools chose to learn latin. You can use the language to decipher old pieces of history, but not to talk about how your day was.

I’ve never heard about dealings with the government that could only be done in Gaelic. Everything I did was in English.
"Apple made an iTunes version for Windows, Microsoft made Office for Mac. if those two could work past their differences for the sake of serving their customers, anyone can."

I understand what you're trying to say, but MS Office was first released for Mac (1989), then for Windows (1990). MS Word was released for Mac in 1984, later for Windows (1989).

Even before the Mac was released, Microsoft made products for Apple, like Applesoft BASIC and the Microsoft SoftCard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_office#Version_histor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_grow...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC

http://apple2info.net/index.php?title=Microsoft_SoftCard
Clicking 'Instant Demo' on the landing page doesn't seem to work...
That's faster than the JS demo (even the improved one) in any browser. It's sad that browsers still don't have at least the same performance as flash :(
I think it is a smaller demographic than the article makes out, but I think that the "New Japan" is going to NEED to come about in the next 10 years if we have any chance of staying afloat as an economic power.

Because of our aging population, in the next 15 years, 1/6th of our population will die. While the strain on the pension system will be lifted, I'm left to wonder if the seniority system has gotten to the point where there will be no changing of the guards -- and the future generations are left in charge of something that they have no idea how to maintain.

There's a saying in Japanese that companies last for 3 Generations:

1) The 1st Generation Innovates & Creates

2) The 2nd Generation only knows how to Maintain

3) The 3rd Generation only knows how to Decline

There are exceptions of course, but as a generality, I have found it to be mainly true.
No, they haven't :)

I reported on the IMEI/Android issue by the way: http://samgranger.com/whatsapp-is-using-imei-numbers-as-pass...

Ezio Amodio reported it for iOS & Windows phone shortly afterwards: http://www.ezioamodio.it/?p=29 & http://www.ezioamodio.it/?p=49
Where do you collect your facts? I'm not even sure if you don't have bad intentions with your comment. It would be nice from your side to state your relation to Jolla (e.g. competitor)

1. Headline was written by journalist not by Jolla. OK I got it wrong. You are negative to journalist, right?

2. You are most probably right about production but you simply don't know. You are wrong about carrier partners: they have one in Finland (http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/11/21/jolla-signs-first-ca...) and one in China.

2. Europeans can get subsidized phones but don't have to. You can use any phone if you manage to get one. I even used one phone that is not for production just fine (N950).

3. I doubt that lock is an issue here. You basically can reflash your phone with pure OS if you want to - like you can reflash your N9 with Mer now.

4. I almost agree with you regarding patents but idea is that Jolla has its own patent portfolio gifted to them by Nokia.

5. Hurmola according to LinkedIn still works for Jolla. As well they are not hiding why CEO was changed - they are quite transparent regarding that. Sorry, but don't find that now.

I'm not related to Jolla in any way. I'm (mobile) developer who believes that Jolla will succeed.
No Kyle, music discovery isn’t a lie
It makes me worry about all these magnetic fields and wireless signals traveling though our bodies all the time. Twenty years from now we may all end up with cancer...
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How To Throw An Awesome Launch Party + Get Featured In TechCrunch + VentureBeat
Want to know how to throw an awesome launch party and get major press? Find out how here: http://blog.atthepool.com/post/37089565882/how-to-throw-an-awesome-launch-party-and-get-featured
When they say natively, I think they mean as a primary language. My impression is that there's only a small percentage of people on the West Coast who speak it daily, but Gaelic used to (and may still be) required in a lot of schools as sort of a token secondary language (kind of like Latin in US Catholic schools, or Hebrew schools for Jews), and a fair amount of official government business was/is done in Gaelic.

EDIT: "secure" talks about this further down the page. He says it's still taught in sort of a token way in the schools, but that he didn't run into any Gaelic in his dealings with the government.
Aontaím leat!
Sorry, here's the link: http://blog.atthepool.com/post/37089565882/how-to-throw-an-a...
It is not an active one as you can probably tell...
neither of these sites is blocked for me, in the UK.

I use IDNET - smaller broadband companies don't have to comply with these rulings. Also, well defined usage limits and no throttling! what's not to like? oh, slightly more expensive.
I agree. I've been working in the startup scene in Japan for the past couple years (and at GREE, one of the companies which is mentioned in the article). I have met a lot of very enthusiastic young entrepreneurs, but I am not yet sure that there is a big enough crowd of people with that mentality to call it "New Japan." He makes it sound as though there has been an entire generational shift.
It's deep inside the chip - there is probably insufficient energy for it to still be hot once it makes its way out of the package (even if it were to get stuck in the on state).

However, 800C is really hot - there's probably a reason this is not a shipping product yet.

If I were making one of these I'd charge a capacitor, then use the energy in a burst to get really hot. This smooths out the power draw and makes it completely impossible for it to stay stuck on.
By the volume of the demand for this, I was under the impression that a lot of startups were doing it and that it was commonplace for PR firms.
I don't write enough unfortunately. I have something like 20+ text files in a folder on my machine with notes... that I'm meant to at some point turn into blog posts. :)
As Ubuntu gets more popular I'm sure they are selling more support to schools, governments and others.
In 2009 they had a revenue of $30m which was enough to keep things running. So why not?
Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Ubuntu 12.10)
Networking in the Silicon Valley
I don't think i'll ever fully understand this approach. Most of the web is simply broken without javascript.
Sensitive information of 1 Million people breached at Nationwide Insurance
ok, here is my suggestions:

1, add a on page chat for people, so they could help each other

2, add comment extension for the page, so people could add extra notes or corrects for your error :] , i saw those style here `http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-the-basi...

3, if possible, DO develop an app for mobile device, so you could get income or reputation which could driven you to continue this greate initial and finally done the job
You know, people keep repeating this assumption that the NSA stores every post that people make online. Maybe someone should do a quick back of the envelope calculation to see how feasible that actually is?

My guess is that it's nowhere near possible given the amount of network traffic coming into/out of the US and current hard drive storage technology. IMHO the extreme amount of volume and limitations of storage space should create a necessity to be at least somewhat targeted in scope.

Not sure why people don't use common sense a bit more often...
I dont think most people would look at where the product is assembled, however as a European, assembled in the US, might be worse than made in china. US made items dont have the best reputation here, the stadard US 30 day warranty, dose not scream "made to last".. (European law requieres all products to feature a 2 year warranty)
> gives off soft, white light – not the yellowish glint from fluorescents or bluish tinge from LEDs.

The claim of not having "bluish tinge" would be more credible if their picture of the thing wouldn't clearly show a blue color cast :)

http://i.imgur.com/gGx5W.jpg
Please note though you can train yourself to sleep only 4 hours a day, it doesn't mean you must. What I mean to say is, rest is essential to any long term productive endeavor. I think athletes and gym freaks can attest to this. How much you rest and how quickly recover from stress can decide how productive while you are awake. And probably affects your larger health situation on the longer run too.

>>but was it worth it? I'm not sure.

I won't comment on your habits and whats important to you. But speaking objectively. I would say its bad use of time.

If you are in need of entertainment, which demands a lot of engaging activity I would advice you start to learn playing a music instrument. Again not risking your health in the course of it, but music is a liberating experience. Especially if you learn how to play yourself. It can be very joyful.

And its generally a good skill to have and a lot better than fighting for internet points.
Palestine is recognised by the UN as a state now.
As are the 4 constituent countries of the United Kingdom.
What's the benefit over email? I still don't get it.
I'd guess there is some correlation with time spent on HN, times of access, comment rate, language usage, etc. HN may be one of the largest data sets on a candidate that YC has, so as big brotherly as it sounds, I can't imagine YC could resist analyzing it.

It might sound trivial, but it is probably a good indicator of impulse control, attitude, and cleverness.
The Silk Road will be a tiny tiny spot of activity if every startup is forced to the alternative network. If the "open" internet is based on who can pay the most to get a competitive quality of service, anything competing with existing products will be pushed out of that market.

Bitcoin and the silk road are not the future, but prototypes of it. It will be interesting to see if they become more than that, but they are showing the way forward if society continues to go down the directions currently being perused.
Wolfram thinks that Scotland isn't a country ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+scotland+a+country ) even though it has all of the things required by the definition offered by Wolfram. Even the equivalent of a Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet for External Affairs.

If the definition Wolfram cared to use was "Passport issuing state recognised by other passport issuing states" then we might agree.
It's not blocked on my UKFSN / Enta connection either. It's possible to get unblocked connections in the UK just fine.
promobay.org resolves to 108.59.2.74 for me, and www.promobay.org resolves to 108.59.2.75.

The first is blocked for me on Virgin, but the second works fine. This does look like a DNS issue on the part of TPB, rather than Virgin blocking promobay.
Yes, I was actually following that quite closely. However, I don't believe UN recognition is the definition of sovereign state. A country that is permanently occupied is hardly sovereign, no? If they don't have control of their borders, are under blockade, can't police their own, don't have say over who enters and leaves their territory, don't have their own currency, and are being literally split into 3 disjoin, non-connecting pieces (West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza) with no passages between any of the three under their control, is it a sovereign state?
Wouldn't it be great though, if they could get it absolutely right? Bloggers had complained before that Lumia has wireless charging and iphone doesn't, but this article answers that problem very well - Apple isn't just trying to solve wired problem with a 20% improvement, they want a 200% improvement. I hoep they can get this right. Would sure be great to have all my i-devices charge as they sit here on the desk.
I couldn't agree more about Google sticking up for what's best for Google. And while I don't agree that we need more government regulation and intervention, we do need to call Google on their BS.

It gets even funnier if you read between the lines on their "take action" page and translate.

Original: "A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet."
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Translated: "Google's revenues depend on a free and open Internet where we can freely monetize content created by everyone else."

Original: "Some proposals could permit governments to censor legitimate speech — or even allow them to cut off Internet access. Other proposals would require services like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype to pay new tolls in order to reach people across borders. This could limit access to information — particularly in emerging markets."
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Translated: "Who are these governments to censor what appears on the Internet? Only Google and our hand-tuned animal-named algorithms have the right to determine what people see and don't see. And how dare anyone but Google attempt to impose tolls on the Internet? Shocking, the audacity of these governments..."

Original: "Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future."
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Translated: "Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. That privilege belongs to Google alone."

Original: "The ITU is also secretive. The treaty conference and proposals are confidential."
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Translated: "Only Google is allowed to be secretive. Everyone else must be open."
Reminds me of when I wrote a Game of Life implementation in JavaScript in college using a bunch of tiny absolutely positioned <divs>.
Tax evasion is illegal. I doubt this is illegal, as that would be an incredibly dumb move, so it's not tax evasion.

> (and the shareholders)

Well of course they are telling their shareholders: they must be rejoicing with the news!

Makes you wonder why we don't lower our corporate tax rate in the U.S. Hell, both presidential candidates this election cycle agreed on that.
To be technically correct we can speak only about MeeGo device N9. It's support is discontinued from 2013 but you can still buy one if you find it. Overall very nice device. As well I must say it is quite popular compared to Symbian devices.
I wonder what the real breakthrough is here. Dumping "field-induced polymer electroluminescent" into Google yields other papers going all the way back to the 1990s, and the article itself says he's had one in his lab for over 10 years. Why does he expect to commercialize it in 2013, but couldn't in 2003?
Then you will love BB10. At least you can do this on PlayBook therefore I believe BB10 will allow that as well.
Free SMS/MMS, on countries which don't have a flat message plan, like Spain
Well they pissed off half the users with amazon so I'm not that sure it's true.
Low irish taxes mean US subsidiaries generally go there, even if they're not trying to perform tax evasion.
I'm toying with a very low bit rate protocol for short length messages. Low bit rates are associated with high signal to noise ratios at low power. Most of the messages people send aren't worth sending or receiving, and among those that are worth sending, many are short and non-urgent. There is a need for a slow, highly obfuscated messaging service...
‘It Is Tough To Identify Painkillers In Developed Markets’
Are you able to cite the court order?

I am curious whether a site (and it's many domains) was excluded, a specific list of domains, or "all domains owned by <entity>".
Hard to know, but at least they are not firing people are still expanding in the scope of their projects, so either they have good financials or strong investors believing in them (on top of Shuttleworth). We know Google is using a custom-made distribution of Ubuntu in their offices, and they are probably a big commercial partner for them, among others.
seems like a logical step for me. facebooks messenger is still lagging behind whatsapp in terms of features (ie. it lacks video and audio sharing) and most likely also in users. plus in the past year I've noticed quite a shift from communication on facebook to dedicated whatsapp groups. it's just a much more convenient way to share and chat with close friends and depending on the group you're in it can be kinda addictive. needless to say I would be very disappointed when whatsapp would become part of facebook (especially if it would be linked to my fb profile).
I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. The NSA's dossiers are automatically being built from data they're getting via the expensive hardware they forced telecom companies to install, not scraped data from the web.

If your email, or SMS, or voice call, or fax, or IM, or whatever else they care about and know how to parse, ever goes through any of their boxes, it's stored and associated with your entity forever, and may be used to glean unknown levels of insight about you, or used against you in criminal cases.
Glucose replenishment restores willpower significantly.
I am more pissed of by the regressions in compatibility in 12.10 than the Amazon thingy that could be turned off in 3 seconds.
States != Countries

The UK is a single state, but comprised of at least three countries. England, Wales, Scotland. Northern Ireland would not count as a 'country' I guess, though Ireland itself obviously is.
I guess headlines was written by journalist anyway. Actually you try to read more from headline than it actually states.