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Good tip! in the meantime check out this blog post with examples. http://blog.conduit.com/2012/12/09/we-have-a-special-holiday...
I agree with you. It is particularly crass that we see this trend occurring on Hacker News. I would encourage PG to add a temporary rule discouraging the misuse of the term hacker, and the mods to rewrite titles that likewise misuse the term.
Why? did you have difficulties uploading your logo?
What exactly is wrong with Click? Each programme is broadcast several times over the weekend, so there are plenty of opportunities to catch it.

I like that the presenters don't take technology too seriously - it's refreshing. And for the intended audience, the format is well balanced between 'dumbed down' and informative. I wouldn't expect anything more geeky, from Click or Tomorrow's World (which I remember well).
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I feel the "IP extortionists", those that acquire IP only to claim the value someone else builds, are the biggest problem.

I'm no law-talking-guy, but I've thought;

Maybe we need a "if you don't use it, you lose it" clause?

Maybe we also need better definition and enforcement of what's an "obvious" idea?
We'd first need to somehow revive him before we can take him on a Delorean ride.
So ,how exactly do swedes treat people who were born gay.Do they also seek to reverse it?
You know what @jacques_chester said further up the page?

This is what he was talking about.
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It's not the technology and innovation. It's the lax environmental regulations and labor arbitrage.
I'm sure I am, but unless I'm remembering it very badly they didn't have quite the same 'OMG Science!' presentation.

The bit about the gyros in the Click video is awful. I was expecting her to use the word boffin at any moment.
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>Gender is something that occurs on a spectrum, but most of the world is still trying to pretend there should only be two boxes to divide us all into.

It might be technically true that gender occurs on a spectrum, but it's also true that the "ends" of the spectrum are heavily populated. In other words, it's a bimodal distribution.
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This is an extremely confusing explanation of MVCC an 2PL.

MVCC is about keeping all the versions of an entry and associating an unique timestamp with each entry. Its advantages are scalability, no deadlock and simplicity. Its drawbacks are increased memory consumption, the requirement that all nodes must be synchronized and that all elementary operations must be atomic.

2PL is a straightforward albeit pessimistic approach. Lock access to your data, make your modification, and then release. Its advantages are reliability and tight memory consumption. Its drawbacks are the lack of scalability and potential deadlocks.
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I think it is more relevant what portion of their portfolio the investor allocates to one stock.. Zynga in your example. Which is something that we will are planning on showing a breakdown of.
Yep, you can see all the bitcoin donations they have received over here:

http://blockchain.info/address/17gN64BPHtxi4mEM3qWrxdwhieUvR...
Most do.
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It appears the homepage got hacked actually - http://justinangel.net
My thoughts exactly. Staying balanced on a motorcycle isn't even on the list of things that are dangerous about riding one. Once you get over about 10 mph, it's impossible to fall off one.
I can buy that there's a lot of benefit in there being low barriers to communicating with your coworkers ... but I don't think talking in meat-space in your open-plan office is the best way to fill that niche. My teammates and I are always in irc (and campfire or whatever would meet the same need). Conversations can be archived for later reference, people on different continents can participate, you can drop links to gists of code or log lines, and you can have a handy place for bots to tell you when the build is broken, or when a deploy is happening, or whatever. Things that need to be private can actually be private conversations, without conspicuously grabbing someone and walking to a glass-walled conference room. Plus, when you're not actively part of a conversation, you can easily ignore it and actually work.

Being able to get a quick answer to a question is important. Being able to ask my question in a way that only distracts the person to whom it is addressed, and in a way that allows them to defer answering until they're at a natural stopping point makes us all more productive. As does being able to save the answer so I never have to bug anyone for that question again, or even share it when other people encounter the same issue.
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If X is some investment (gold, real estate, Apple Inc. stock, whatever), and I have structured my portfolio so that I would benefit from the price of X going down, then I am “short X”. If I would benefit from the price of X going up, then I am “long X”.

“You are naturally short housing.” = “If the price of housing goes down, you will be naturally be better off.”
A lot of somewhat early jazz (bebop) initially used popular showtunes as the base composition, and then improvised solos off those. But precisely because of not wanting to deal with the copyright on the showtune compositions, jazz players began composing their own music. They used the same chord progressions so that the improvisations stayed the same, but a different melody, so it legally was a different piece of music.
I've never heard of a bullpen before, it sounds like a pretty horrific work environment.

A civilised, open plan engineering office should indeed be quiet. Not silent, but fairly quiet.

We did exactly the opposite to your method by the sounds of things - meeting rooms for 4 to 5 people, and one or two much larger rooms, were available around the edges of the floor to go and bounce ideas around or discuss things. The rest of the floor was quiet space but informal conversation was fine. It worked very well for us.
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That might work; can either of these be configured with separate encrypt and decrypt keys?

Basically, if someone takes control of the hardware or software we're hoping that it would still be very difficult to get at the contents of the emails.
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I would look into medication for that. I'm not actually kidding either.
Ask HN: anyone else sick of startups for startups posted on HN?
I've seen 3 different "Review my startup" posts on hacker news in the past week that was a startup whose sole focus is curating content for startups. I hate to sound like an ass, but it feels a bit like navel gazing or preaching to the choir. It would be one thing if those startups are doing something truly extraordinary, but so far I can't even say that.

I realize that hacker news is the ideal place for marketing to other startups, so kudos to you for knowing your market. But it feels a bit like when I played in a band and most of the audience watching were in other bands. If you are going play to a bunch of other musicians you better be amazing and blow people away or have something that will make jaded people remember you, i.e. amazing musicianship, great energy, brilliant songs or talent, even something unique like using different instruments like accordion or tuba. Otherwise you are wasting your time.

Similarly the expectations for building a startup for startups is very high, and these little projects for curating content for other startups when there are already some brilliant sites for startups does not bode well for your idea. Sorry to sound like ass, believe it or not I'm trying to help.
I hate this attitude, and it's prevalent all over HN. What makes you so special? Because you simply found this site before someone else?

I imagine there are plenty of brilliant and interesting people on the internet that are not aware of HN, but could contribute nicely if they became members here.

This "age elitism" issue is wearying. It happens in other places too (SomethingAwful, for example, went through a hilariously horrible period where the year you registered was the most important part of your post).

But this is supposedly an intellectual forum, not a comedy forum. Grow up and stop thinking the number of days since joining makes you better than someone else.

(Yes, I joined after you. I am also diluting this forum. Get off my lawn.)
The reason it took Google is that this is an economy of scale industry - it doesn't make financial sense to do anything small, you invest either a lot or nothing. That's what "barriers of entry" mean.

I am speaking about the technical bandwidth burst + jitter requirements on the whole channel from your [caching] servers to the settopbox or equivalent.

Netflix is not available where I live, but as far as I know, it's not a TV service, it's a completely different animal. Launching a movie is trivial because it's done once. For TV, imagine a person on a couch with a remote pressing the 'next channel' button, browsing through 10+ live TV channels in one minute. It is a major pain to get this experience to feel pleasant on an internet TV setup.

Movies can have a small buffer for better viewing experience, but a live football game needs to be, well, live - so that you see a goal before getting a tweet or SMS about it.
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This would actually been even cooler to hook into DuckDuckGo's zero click interface. The machine would be able to respond with actual information for lots of queries.

Mathematics calculations, topic summaries, definitions, etc.

https://duckduckgo.com/api.html
What happens to standard, unenclosed and gyro-less motorcycle in a collision at speed with an SUV? I suppose they are introducing the possibility of being trapped/crushed instead of being thrown or run over, but my sense is the rhetoric about elephants is intended to entice non-riders who wouldn't want to try and handle a motorcycle.
I'd like to see how easily someone can drive a bike with a steering wheel that also suddenly loses the gyro stability. I'd wager the average person would crash before they had time to sort it out. Even doing something as simple as changing the fork height and angle of the handle bars on a normal bike can be enough to you to wreck in a corner (speaking from experience).
That may be, I have made no comment regarding that, all I've said is that the Megaupload case is NOT an example of that happening. The Pirate Bay case may very well be, but again, I responded to someone using Megaupload as an example of Government not caring about safe harbor, not TPB.
Basically it just lets you drag little Christmassy type icons over top of your uploaded image. Kind of underwhelming, especially since the small dimension limits on uploaded files means you're basically going to obscure your entire logo with little pictures of gingerbread houses or whatever.
I think it's because "hack" connotates cheating in some way, and people are always interested in finding ways to beat the system.

Can you think of another word that has the same effect?
How are they going to get to the top of HN without posting their useless blogspam?
I guess it is not so norm in USA. I've seen friends renting together apartment, but not owner living in one room and renting out another room.
I agree with you on this. I live in France but travels often to the US and I can definitely tell that americans are louder.
LOL! we added also a link to a resize platform (http://picresize.com/) if you try to upload a logo that is too big. maybe that can help?
From my own experience and friends I know, users rarely go the app store and search for a term. What they do there is check out the high ranked apps. The most effective way of discovering an app is still recommendation by mouth or websites. There are a lot of app review blogs out there for a good reason.

We are talking about different business. apps/ebooks generally don't have a high margin.
Probably only briefly. The only thing that kept Martha Stewart from retaking the helm of her company was an agreement to settle a civil suit the terms of which included a 5 year ban.

Do the criminal penalties for tax evasion in Germany also entail such a ban? In the US, it is fines and imprisonment only.
I don't know much about investing, but want to get into it more and thought that something like this would be really helpful to someone like me. What sort of "regulatory minefield" are you talking about? That sounds ominous.

And with investment newsletters, you buy stock based on information that they sell you, but it's your choice right? Would you really be in violation of their terms?
I didn't get that out of this. @fat is a funny guy and likes to say funny things, but his message here applies to developers of all colors.
Sure, we all have to adapt when we don't have control over our environment but the situation in the article is a bit different than your own as the author and the authors peers all agree to a mutually beneficial behavior in an environment they fully control.

Presumably, they now have a better working environment when adhering to the rules collectively rather than each of them individually trying to adapt. The noise level in the office is akin to a tragedy of the commons and this is their solution.
Why would that make a difference? Laws don't typically include an "unless you make money from it" clause.
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Just like obesity has become a major problem, I wonder what other blight will be wrought on the second and third billion by progress? My wife and I often close each others laptops or devices when we are doing a shared activity (e.g. watching a movie). We recognize we both might be a bit internet-addicted. We have a friend who has a strict "no computing devices in the living room" policy. I hope these problems don't go hand in hand with ubiquitous access.
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I somewhat agree with this sentiment, but the `musicians playing for musicians` analogy just does not make sense -- it implies the target audience (the other startups) has the same skillset the new product demonstrates.

However, I too feel these new startups are ends in themselves, but then again I'm not in their target audience.
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Such arguments make sense only if the iTunes Store wasn't the only way to distribute apps on iOS.

I do hope they continue doing whatever they do, because such measures are really indefensible no matter how you try to rationalize it and this way developers and consumers alike are waking up to the fact that walled gardens are really a bad idea that will hurt us in the long term much more than anything Apple ever brought to the table and that the open web, for all its warts, is a much better platform.
Great presentation Ben, thanks for sharing
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I'm disappointed nobody mentioned Primer.
I wasn't aware that Java went anywhere. ;)
at least Google doesn't force you to distribute apps on their store.
I'm pretty sure it's spelled "instantiate" not "instanciate."
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See… Because I am an idiot I hate (with a passion) a – d.

I like e; it’s clear and succinct.

I find f very appealing; it’s cool as it makes implicit use of short circuiting – it’s clever and I like clever. But it does not adhere to the adage, ‘Write code like that guy who maintains it is an ax murder that has your address.’

I also like g a lot (again, because there is something wrong with me). But, frankly, it relies on a somewhat esoteric quirk of JavaScript so, again, the ax man cometh…
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What a patronising and illinformed article, I would like to be more constructive but I really cant.
Thank you, but we (let's say naive believers) just began to suffer the consequences of its first coming..))
I'm saying that players have come to expect that issuing "move" will make AI take the shortest path without destruction, and we know that if there is a faster way, we have to tell the AI to attack through the wall if we want to break it. I guess the TL;DR didn't cover that though.
Where was I claiming any kind of causation?
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[dons asbestos longjohns] Let the flamewars begin!

Some of those are outright clever ways of doing the same thing; in source code, that's not a compliment - that's right next to "obfuscation." Source code is not only for the machines, it's also for the unfortunate soul who has to maintain it two years down the line. Note that this might be you, for somebody else's code.

Therefore, the usual maxim applies: "Code as if the next person to maintain your code were an axe-wielding madman who knows where you live."
And wouldn't they have to make them for much less than $50 if they are selling them for that much?
No. Just simply wrong article.
We had the fugly IBM terminals by the time I went to the university. Long lines waiting to key in your assignments, then even longer time awaiting the printouts.

Found a nice loophole that I could exploit. Modem users got higher priority on jobs. Plus the TRS-80 Model4P I owned was capable of terminal emulation and other nice tricks to speed up Fortran and JCL assignments. So I sat in the comfort of the dorm room and used the time I saved on EE assignments.
Thanks for the heads up, will be fixed quickly
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No, I don't think so. I use Java/Spring in my day job, Python/Django for my own projects, and I don't think the use case for each is changed significantly by faster disks.

Ruby/Python aren't only best for 'prototyping', they're best for building your MVP and launching your product. If and when you get a bazillion users and your app starts creaking around the edges, then sure, rewrite some components in Java as necessary, as Twitter did; until then it's a premature optimization IMHO.

Note that speed isn't the only consideration: the other place where Java (and C#) shines is readability and ease of refactoring. If you're a stage one startup where all your developers are rockstars, this doesn't matter so much, but if half your dev team are grads or journeymen, it's a major factor.

So I can't see Java going away any time soon, but equally I can't see the resurgence that Cringely talks about.
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Mister. Mo from mobility blog based in Nigeria gives his analysis on when android will take over the Nigeria market.

http://mobility.com.ng/when-will-nigeria-become-an-android-m...

I totally agree with him.
What is this, a troll? The ruby bashing in this article is terribly juvenile, and the talk of disk seeks is so off the mark it reeks of incompetence.

Let's talk about the disk seek issue, because that's the most embarrassingly wrong thing here. Firstly, for many sites disk-seeks haven't mattered in ages because many data-sets fit into RAM these days. Buying 64GB of ram isn't that expensive. If that were really a motivator we would have seen shifts years ago.

Secondly speed doesn't matter when you have low traffic and expensive developers (and with CPUs today, almost all traffic seems low). In fact, since app servers tend to scale horizontally with zero issues (until you get to truly ginormous sizes), it's far more efficient to optimize the most expensive part of your budget, your developer salaries, by giving them the most efficient to program in tools available. The main exception really would be optimizing SQL queries, which this article doesn't address.

That being said, for some people that stuff does matter, but they weren't using ruby/python/perl anyway, they were already on Java.

This article is written by a guy who thinks he understands some kind of new reality in the market, unfortunately he only understands a very small part of it.
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When I first got here, people were complaining about the new guys. I only seem "old"-ish because I joined to make a comment like 3 (edit: actually 4, crikey) years ago and then didn't come back until this year.

My problem is not the new guy. It's that he says he found non-HN readers and, in so many words, said "fill up their page with stuff".

He didn't say "join HN and hang around for a while".

He said: "Get your page on the top of HN".

Those aren't the same things.
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Yup, I should have written make them for a price where they can sell them for $50.
You can use whatever math to rationalize your theoretical position on the subject. However, my parents who were a single income middle class family earning no more than 60,000 at their peak now has 1.5m in the bank.

The idea they "lost" 410,000 when they have $
1.5m cold hard cash is mind boggling in your own self delusion.
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Ugh. I'm working in an office now that's library-like. It's totally oppressive. I'm afraid to open my mouth, because anything I say will be heard by absolutely everyone else. As a result, no one asks any questions, no one discusses problems, and I can go a whole day without any human interaction. It's really torturous.
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How would you compete with XTube, YouPorn and Cam4 that are already entrenched in the market and occupy various niches?
I'm pretty sure it's spelled "hello" not "hullo."
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Meds help, and I'm exaggerating my anger because I rather like the anarchist web presence that I've developed, but I shouldn't have to put medication, that I otherwise wouldn't need, into my body to overcome your failure to design a decent office environment.

I realize that 99% of white-collar work for the most talented is compensating for other peoples' fuckups, but I don't have to like it.
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> [These guys] should be able to sell space, etc., without paying 30% -- otherwise it's financially impossible.

The difficulty in finding that "fair line" might be that using government's implicit threat of violence to force Apple to capitulate to these guys demands to be in their store without playing by their rules is inconsistent with a belief in property rights.
It could have been a wordle.

Just imagine.

It could have been a wordle.