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Using www.domain.com for mobile web app
We plan to launch our mobile web app, which will be solely be mobile-only. Instead of using m.domain.com sub-domain, www.domain.com/sub-directory, or domain.mobi new domain name, can't I just use www.domain.com for my mobile web app?

People who go to www.domain.com on their PCs will see a small mobile site homepage!

Or perhaps I can redirect all people from PC to eg. www.domain.com/PC which will basically be a simple homepage instructing people to access the site on their mobile devices.

Feedback welcomed!
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My personal preference as an end-user will be to get a redirect to www.domain.com/welcome (note: not "PC", or "desktop" ... but "welcome"), with a playable slideshow or demo of the mobile site + clear instructions on what I need to do access it on the phone.
No no no, that doesn't fit into the whole republican narrative that taxes need to be lower and spending needs to be lower. How a moderator makes the comment that guy made just blows my mind. Complete and utter ignorance.

Edit: Just noticed his name was dothemath, head explodes.
Women in IT and a mom in the field
I am glad it resonates with you. Can't agree more with your second para too.
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At this time phrases like linkwheels, pr release submission, contextual link building and so on are utilized commonly in the Search engine marketing market.
What songs will I play most in 2013?
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How do I evaluate the credibility and relative bias of an economic article?
I feel more at home reading reviews of CPU microarchitectures.

http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265
"Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why"

Is this a mere linkbait, or something worth researching deeper?
Competitive Scrabble player here :) -- the reason the C goes down to two points despite having no two-letter words is that it is actually a very good letter - basically, it's in a lot of high-probability bingos. In contrast, the V is one of the worst tiles in the game. It's telling that the Q stays at 10 despite QI -- the Q is by far the worst tile in the game.

In any case I've always wondered what the values of tiles should be if we were to use our current word list rather than the NY Times - thanks for this analysis. The blank is missing though, it would probably have a significantly negative value (-25 to -30?).

At the end of it all I'd rather keep the values what they are. Part of the beauty of Scrabble is the fact that there is chance. Despite the Z and the Q both being worth 10 points, one realizes pretty quickly how much worse the Q is.
A job posting mentioning the Indian rape case
Is It Fair To Compare Founding A Startup To Gambling?
Best Linux Distro of 2012: Comparison of KDE distros
Iran says defeats cyber attack on industrial sites
From a human perspective. Money really isn't "wasted" during the holiday season. Most of money is spend on your family as gifts anyways. As a kid, Christmas + birthdays were looked forward to because that when you got the toys you wanted for the entire year.
Noted and thanks for the feedback. www.domain.com/welcome is definitely better.

My main concern is whether there is any issues using www.domain.com for the mobile site (and not m., or .mobi, or .com/directory). Any thoughts on this?
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Short demo video http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/27/video...
That's not the point I'm making. I'm only talking about the temporary payroll tax decrease. His opponents will say that he's raising the payroll tax, when it is really only expiring.
The foundations for the 19th Century improvements were established in the 14th century, and followed nearly ten centuries of stagnation and decline. The payoff wasn't instantaneous, but it was certainly cumulative.

Exponential, one might almost say.
Where in SW china were you doing your cycling? And what kind of startup were you doing that allowed you to be there? (NB I just moved back to SF after a year and half in Kunming)
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I've never had to call or email Amazon though. Not for retail anyway. Just getting into AWS and we'll see how that goes.
"You can also have an opportunity to better understand that mildly geeky guy living in his parent’s basement who has mild Asperger’s syndrome because you work right next to him."

haha - classic :)
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I think its the startup equivilent of "no one has ever gotten fired for buying IBM".

When you need a developer machine, and don't have the time or care to research the build quality, configurations, etcetera of various PCs in order to maximize value then you simply buy a Mac.

You pay a premium, but get a machine that will at least be adequate.
Correct, if you already know something then it is likely not news.

I reckon most people -- myself very much included -- 1) weren't aware of the tax change in 2010, and 2) definitely didn't have its expiration on their calendars.
I do most of my work through agencies in Austin, TX...

It took about a year to build up a good hourly rate reliably... this was done mostly just by being fast, available, and good and always keeping an eye on the next project.

At this point, I know several people who are able to make money off me, and that has always been my goal as a freelancer, more than anything. The agencies I freelance with all recognize that I'm as reliable as an employee but far cheaper as far as total cost, so they have a better margin on work they do with me.

And even though I'm charging quite a bit, since they are charging a markup on my time... well, it's just a lot nicer for everyone. If I raise my rates, they make more money (within reason, of course).
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Never bought a package of deveined shrimp?
The only way to deal with very large companies is to think like Machievelli.

How to measure the success of a consulting company? Well, you have to ask "What are they REALLY hiring the consultants for for?"

Probably a third of the jobs I was hired for, inside large companies (and particularly corporate-y startups), were clearly (to me) about CYA. "Hey, we're doing something, look at all the money we're spending on consultants!" When you go in, as I did, trying to actually do a great job, this becomes incredibly disheartening. One more reason I came to loathe consulting. However, in that case, given the actual (unstated) goal, I was able to be very "effective" for the client, despite the fact that no matter what I did, they wasted endless hours of my & my partner's time at $500+/hr total. $2k on a meeting? Sure, why not? Changing "project managers" every week? Hey, why not? Putting a glorified secretary in charge of signing off on user interface designs? Sounds grrreat!

And yet… for their purpose… I was a tool they used effectively. Bummer.

Wasn't just me, either. Do you remember that "shocking" post a while back by an anonymous ex-McKinsey consultant? He detailed how McK hires kids out of college with no experience and gives them jobs pumping out Powerpoints to client specifications. That doesn't sound so bad, put that way, but he meant that he was told what outcome the client wanted to see, and that he should make the data (and the presentation) come to that conclusion. Given my experience consulting, I wasn't at all surprised (although it's a different type of consulting and I was never dishonest to a client).

We assume clients are rational actors, but they're not. They're people. And people often do things for all the wrong reasons. They will pay somebody to tell them what they want to hear; they'll pay somebody to look good; they'll pay somebody to listen to them, to have somebody have to obey them and their wishes on topics they know nothing about, because nobody listens to them usually.

As notable consultant Jerry Weinberg wrote, "No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem." And unfortunately it's not just "a people problem" but "problem people."
The MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco: PX00307 and DR-DOS
After reading this a while ago, I thought that piracy in iOS is over. Then I learned that there are various apps that offers "pirated" apps. AppCake (http://iphonecake.com/appcake/en/) is an example.

But well, it's been a long time since I jailbreak-ed my iOS device. It is because I'm not really comfortable doing the jailbreaking process. Also, waiting for a jailbreak for new versions of iOS made me realized that there are various free apps that are good, or also better than paid apps.
No, because Jefferson is not part of the argument. I accept that I got suckered into believing it was a Jefferson and didn't check the sources, but if no one else said it, I just did, and my argument still stands.
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Why not? Why are they rushed? They're trying to displace a competitor who was first to market. It's not going to work the same way, so quickly rushing out to make an API isn't an automatic assumption to be made relating to if it will help you be successful. Keeping higher quality content in G+ seems to be their current goal - whether that means there's currently less content overall initially, I imagine they're quite aware of their overall analytics.
This is the first time I've seen something like this, but it's greatly broadened my knowledge of Clojure over the past few hours. I've always had trouble trying to find out where to begin. Lisps are foreign to me, and functional programming was and is still a mostly foreign concept. However, things like this that are so simple and understandable make such great introductions.

Kudos to the authors, and you have a thumbs up from me.
This, and the other comments about the poor state of open-source speech recognition, are very disappointing.

Until now, I'd assumed the voice input on Android was open source. But if so it could clearly be taken and integrated into desktop apps like this. How does it actually work? Is it a closed-source plugin? Does it send a recording of what you say to a Google API?
Yeah, sorry about that, that happens sometimes. It's built with Meteor and hosted on EC2.
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/pricing/ $16.06 per month for 512 RAM (no traffic)
What's an intuitive way to think about the determinant?
For most of my lived I've lived in the penumbra of richness. That is, I've been rich on paper but never had actual access to the money. In addition, there is an opportunity I know that with near certainty would return 10's if not 100's of millions of dollars that I choose not to pursue because it would mean living in a place where I would rather not live.

In the end time is much more important than money.

(yes i know I'm know I'm hell banned)
So why do you think then that they should offer a Write API? Shouldn't they put a lot of thought on their API offering so it won't be shut down in the future?
Personally when I saw the change I just hit the back button. I really hate this kind of behaviour. Reminds me of http://www.experts-exchange.com/ shenanigans.
I haven't found a use for a lot of these features, a lot of them just seem very ad-hoc additions to the language. A class based object oriented model would have solved a lot of issues relating to the myriad ways to implement object orientation in javascript. The schizophrenic like approach we have right now isn't being helped by incremental changes driven by the lowest common denominator of what can be implemented in a web browser development cycle.

Knowing the [Good Parts](http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...) helps but you just can't keep adding parts that you think may be good.
Predict what's going to happen in 2013
Did you know that 30-50% of sales go to the vendor that responds first?
Not this again. We already have a thread with this line of bs, go polute that.
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Ask HN: MOOCs taken in 2012, planned for 2013
2012 shall be hailed as the year of the MOOCs. Just wanted to check what fellow HNers were upto in 2012 and what are their plans for self-education via MOOCs in 2013.

Here's my modest little list:

Done in 2012:
1. Sebastian Thrun's ST101: Introduction to Statistics @ Udacity
2. Martin Odersky's Functional Programming Principles in Scala @Coursera
3. Few Sal Khan's videos on finance and economics @Khan Academy

Enrolled (so far) for 2013 with Coursera:
1. Game Theory (starts on Jan 7th)
2. Financial Engineering and Risk Management (Feb)
I can't speak for any issues (are you thinking in terms of SEO?) except for the fact that it would be better if you drop the "www." in your marketing as well. It distracts.
Application to archive data from your web apps
Bottom line: speech recognition in the general case (more than a few predetermined words) is only as good as the 1) acoustic model (which utterances were heard), and 2) language model (how do we group the utterances into words).

This requires massive amounts of labeled data. This is why Nuance is king and few others come close - the amount of labeled data necessary to catch up is astounding. Not to mention a patent minefield to navigate.

This is unfortunately one field in which open-source alternatives face real obstacles and won't be viable in the near future.
Nowadays, the same can be said of C.
Interesting, some of the exercises are new to me. However I have yet to come across a resource that presents both exercises and references to scientific papers/resources proving that such and such technique is beneficial in medium to long-term. Mere "common sense" can be really backfiring when it comes to your spine. Does anyone know of such resource?
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> buying stuff on mobile is a terrible experience and fewer people do it than on the full-size desktop browser. Things you can buy easily (games, apps, content) is all cheap and single serve (< $10 per purchase)

It's not a coincidence that most mobile purchases were made from iPads this holiday season. Plenty of other tablets still offer a substandard browsing experience and the more obstacles you hit, the more likely you are to abandon purchasing on your mobile device and switch to a desktop.

It also helps that most online retailers factor in how their site performs on an iPad at this point. You can't just sweep how iOS based devices continue to trounce Android based devices in terms of showing up in weblogs under the rug. Even on a more modern device like a Galaxy S III running up-to-date Chrome, it's a noticeably worse experience.

It's a vicious cycle. They don't show up in logs frequently enough, so the experience doesn't improve (in fact in many cases it gets worse), which in turn results in less attempts which continues to validate the company not offering good support, and so on. Just selling them clearly isn't enough. Google can continue to tout how they're activating <insert insanely high number> of Android devices per day all they want, but something is clearly amiss when people aren't using them enough.
Some of the claims are just plain wrong. "Heavy lifting" doesn't make your posture worse. If you squat with good technique, working up to heavy loads, you'll have rock hard lower back stabilizers - cause otherwise, you won't be able to squat heavy.
Useless semantics. Just because that strong crypto was somewhat de facto while the gears in washinton turned, doesn't negate the fact that the US has and still has a Orwellian slant to technology law, predicated on the desire for control and power over everyday interactions.
which article exactly?
Yes, can drop www ie. straight to domain.com on a mobile device to access the mobile web app. Just that I can't seem to find any mobile web app or site that uses domain.com as it's homepage. Its normally a m., .mobi, or .com/sub-directory.

So wondering whether I am missing something if I don't follow the norms and just use domain.com for my mobile site exclusively.
That was exactly what I thought. bump. $6K down the drain. Presumably the whole thing powers down before you can do the slide out for a swap.
Everything is moving much faster than it once was.. so its very hard to say what does have commitment effect especially when it comes to social thats so much more incredibly fickle .. friendster, myspace, even facebook to an extent you see people using Path and other niche services. Utilities are the only thing that has any lasting commitment.

You keep on wanting to point out Nir Eyal as an example, while the mechanics he speaks are true and relevant, most example he uses is a piss poor example of a true commitment. Really Slashdot/metafilter/fark/Digg/ and Reddit is the true commitment or Quora - the struggling QA platform. Really taskrabbit and airbnb. Lets be serious none of these are good examples.

Like I said previously Snapchat is a communication utility that people commit like BBM or whatsapp or kik or skype or even aol messenger. When it comes to a communication platform, people will commit to a few of them. Snapchat will be fine because its anonymous and provides a very specific community and has first movers advantage.
Great comment. The connections you make to software management and to the liberation of startups (if I may put it that way) strike me as spot-on.
I've found that the application of formalism to most any problem I have in my head takes me down paths I hadn't considered. Said another way, forcing a problem into a straight jacket tends to squeeze out the interesting bits.
I have also heard that the regular spacing of towns east-west is how far a steam locomotive could go before it needed water, but have no idea as to the accuracy of that claim.
Car commute routes often have more-or-less parallel routes better
suited for bicycling. If you are pedaling on the same route you
would drive on, it is likely to be well worth spending some time
trying to find a more suitable route. I would prefer a longer route
with many stop signs over a congested multi-lane route with traffic
lights. Spend a weekend morning in your car with a road map looking
for smooth pavement.

Disclaimer: Works well in grid layouts (western US), less well in
older cities, depends on local topography, rivers, rail, etc.
Just in terms of health recommendations (by the CDC, WHO, ect...) the ideal range is a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9. For someone who is 5'8", that would 122 to 166 pounds. Power athletes would be heavier of course, but as a group they don't have the greatest health outcomes.
Minneapolis looks a lot larger than I'd have guessed.
Was that last question ironic? Aren't you describing a traditional 'boxed'/retail PC/console game? That's something that is well designed and self contained that you buy once and can enjoy forever (if you have some friends to play it with).

(IMO, in the context of Zynga and similar, the idea of pay-once-play-forever games is off topic in this discussion!)
The Voice Recognition is 1) part of the Google apps (the Google Search app) which are mostly not open source and 2) send the input to google to get analyzed
I think that anything a dealer says about buying cars to non-dealers should be looked at with a fair amount of scepticism.
Not yet..
I haven't found any evidence that stretching in any form is effective over any longer term than a few minutes or hours, in my brief check on the subject.

The best I've found is a Cochrane review that says that specific neck stretches (NB as far as I can tell not those in the article) are effective in the intermediate term for relieving neck pain. A different review says that there is no evidence that stretching is effective in preventing injuries in runners.

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD004250/exercise-for-neck-pai...

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001256/interventions-for-pre...
Cycling is the perfect hacker sport:

* You can go out riding by yourself, or with groups.

* You can geek out about the tech involved if you want.

* It gets you outdoors in a context very different from sitting on your ass in front of a computer. Great for clearing the head.

The biggest drawback is that it's tough to find the time for a good ride (at least 2 hours), whereas something like running takes less time.

If anyone ever makes it over to the Padova area with their bike, I'd be happy to take you out on a ride and show you the area. The Colli Euganei and Colli Berici are both pleasant and attractive areas to ride.
SaaS tools for startups
It's lazy to give up and devote all your energies on yet another company's proprietary platform. Instead of constantly writing articles like this, how about we focus on the obstacles web apps face, and fix them.

Sure, if both a web app and native app are programmed optimally, the native app will run slightly faster. But a program written in machine code will always be faster still. There will come a point when the speed disadvantage is outweighed by all the benefits of web apps - and that time is near.

The biggest issues with web apps are:

- Development. Creating web apps requires writing code in at least 3 different languages, including server code, client code, and markup code. Try making an iOS paint app that saves your drawing to the cloud. Then try doing it as a web app. If you think this is easy, believe me, Objective C is a drrreeeam.

- Discovery. The App Store/Google Play are the best ways to discover new apps. There exists no such popular and lively platform for web app discovery, review, and sales.

- Browser and OS Dependency. Mobile browsers don't all allow access to the camera, easy installation to the home screen, and all the access to APIs a full-featured app should have.

So let us be constructive from now on, and focus on fixing these issues, instead of giving up and locking ourselves into reliance on yet another company (Flash, iOS, Android, etc).
Also, I have a hard time believing you've read any Marx. You're not doing his work very much justice.

I call foul. That's personal, and it's unsubstantiated, which makes it unfair not only to the GP but to the rest of us reading the thread. If you're going to make a comment like this, instead of being mean why don't you share with us some of what you've learned about (in this case) Marx? I for one would be interested to hear it.
Thank you.

The HRT study mentioned in the article (WHI study) looked at the effects of starting HRT, often years after menopause, often in women with existing morbidity.

Those women who started it at the correct time ie healthy women aged around 50, lowered their all-cause mortality by 25%+.

Thus, the original analysis of HRT WAS correct. Many women have died young since the WHI published with its erroneous conclusions, who would not had they taken HRT.
I just can't like javascript, and it's the design idea behind stuff like this that causes it:

> Object.freeze(square);
> square.length = 20
20
> square.length
10

square.length = 20 should be throwing an error. No excuses, sane defaults.
What would you'd reckon the accuracy of the algorithms are? I'd have thought the numbers probably justify the language.

Security is a tradeoff, if you do business on the web, deal with it.
If the hour-long sitting is the cause of the problems, why not fix them by using height-adjustable sit-stand tables? They've become popular in our office...
Willy Wonka is the father of nano-food
That's disappointing. They had a package that let me test programs I developed on my own device.
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The Fetishization of the Offline
I had no idea. I thought it was just a fun word in the tradition of bits and bytes. It had an internal logic - you'd have datatypes for things, and then you had this catch-all amorphous type called the blob. It's a great name.