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>Just thoughts.

Your comments have been very genuine and insightful.

>Even if not your specialty, you could get a lead gen fee.

FYI and probably good practical knowledge for all founders to know when dealing with lawyers especially those who use lawyer referral services (1-800-*-pain). 1. Lawyers cannot split fees with non-attorneys (whether a lawyer works with a referral marketing service or a professional CPA who works on the case as an expert, the lawyer cannot split fees with them). and 2. In most States, for a lawyer to split a fee with another lawyer a.) the actual % of the fee split must be in writing and approved by the client (this presents switch and bait, or you retaining a partner with 30 years experience and your case getting dumped on a first year, and b.) the fee % must have a relationship to the actual amount of work done on a given matter (this practically prohibits a lead gen fee, because a referral alone does not support a lawyer splitting the fee). Hope this info can help keep some start-up's legal fees down if not just a little.
Yes, definitely been an interesting discussion. Thanks :-). Even more surprising for me was Maxthon's ad-free results as well.

FWIW, I'd definitely recommend looking into other alternative search engines like those I mentioned earlier. Usually my opera's speed dial default engine is dogpile [http://www.dogpile.com] that curates Google, Yahoo and Yandex results into one search result on one page. Definitely also worth looking into if you're interested.

I use Bing often, as I love Bing's homepage. Oh! those panoramic pictures. You got to give it to them. They definitely got that UX right. ;-)

Edit: Blekko and DDG are quite fab. And for an old contender, Lycos quite literally, rocks! Try them.
I certainly agree that, done correctly, RWD enhances usability on all platforms. But the cost of doing RWD "correctly" (device testing and experience optimisation across a wide range of devices) can be prohibitively expensive when developing anything more than a landing page.

Any site that requires extensive user interaction (i.e. contains custom form controls, overlays etc.) requires that usage patterns be tailored to the context in which they appear. So at a minimum, you're going to want to change your interface based on whether the user is using a finger or a cursor. Screen size, browser capabilities etc. are all additional factors that a careful implementation needs to be aware of and adapt to.
Anecdotal example: I used to work for a small company where the programmers did both algorithmic design and the implementation. Looking back on that work, I could write code to sling bits from point A to point B all day (and did the 12-16 hour weeks you mentioned for months on end). But there is no way in hell I could do algorithm design for 12+ hours a day for weeks on end. It's extremely dense work. There's no mental breaks while waiting for the linker to run, or long stretches of babysitting the program in the debugger, or breaks of mechanically typing out something you've already thought of. It's just you and a pad of paper, thinking the whole time.

The article refers to mathematical work, which is by its nature very dense, much more dense than other intellectually-demanding jobs like programming. As a programmer, you might spend half an hour now and then thinking through all the potential race conditions in a parallel algorithm. But you don't do it non-stop all day, day in and day out. Most of your time is spent on things that require far less concentration.
This looks awesome. What plans do you have for other services (off the top of my head, I'd love Dribbble and Tumblr)?
Simple, don't use source that isn't maintained.

And while your at it don't use terminal green on black for your website schema. Ouch my eyes.
The quality of the courses I have followed was excellent:

Coursera:Cryptography I - Dan Boneh

Coursera:Functional Programming Principles in Scala - Martin Odersky

Coursera:Compilers Alex Aiken

class2go.stanford.edu Introduction to Databases Jennifer Widom
It's a shame, warhammer40k has an interesting plot (including horus heresy) but this kind of corporate bullying plus the ridicule pricing are making fans to leave the lore.
The problem is 90% of the time, I don't need that much of a reminder. Its only for when I have meetings before 10:30am.
Think of Pypy as somewhat like LLVM, except the language it's built on is a subset of the python language, called RPython.

Although the most well-known language implemented in the pypy "vm" is python, the toolchain is completely language agnostic.

So, this is more akin to Apple writing a C interpreter on top of llvm than it is to building a ruby interpreter on top of python.
This is pretty fun, going to play with this today. Suggestion - add a button to plot when you feel an associated negative symptom?

Could be cool to hack your ideal caffeine ingestion. Also a cup here is measured as 8oz right? So a large coffee is 2 clicks?
How exactly? It's just an ultrabook, which aren't much more than a tiny niche market in the PC market right now. And it has a touchscreen does that make it a tablet? A tablet with 4 hours of battery life, that is heavier even than an iPad, that people have already quit for the lighter iPad Mini and Nexus 7's, and that costs twice as much even than the $500 iPad?

The PC is not back, and the falling PC sales during this year will prove it.
Google Grants Program Changes - Initial Results
I knew this was going to happen some day. Games Workshop is essentially two separate companies, the raving legal department/copyright trolls (A couple of years ago they regularly put full page colour adverts in all the British wargaming magazines warning that they would enforce their IP with the full power afforded to them by the law, it was generally considered a bad joke by most.) and the (for a lack of a better term) hobbyists who make most of the miniatures and write most of the rules. And it seems like they take turns running the company. For ages, there'll be lots of player-friendly new things and shiny new figures and the terrible quota-driven managers at the shops will be replaced with the people who are there because they love their hobby. And then everything'll change and they'll start enforcing stupid dictats on IP, change the rules of the games to excessively favour those with bigger wallets, bump up the prices of everything and fire those people that sacrifice short term gains for cultivating a long term base of customers and fans.

I find it really sad, I grew up near their HQ in Nottingham. A number of my dad's friends work for them. And I'd love for this to be the push that means that all the other wargaming companies (who in the past couple of years have really progressed in professionalism and quality) will find even more traction. (Although they all still suffer from a lack of space to sell things, there is a GW in almost every town in the UK. They've all but squeezed out the independent hobby shops.) But a lot of people just won't care. And an equal number of people are too locked in, they've spent a lot of money on the GW armies. All their friends have GW armies. You can't just splurge two, three hundred pounds on warmahordes unless all your friends do the same.

All I can hope is that GW gets their arse handed to them and the hobbyists get put back in charge.
Apple announces new iTunes Store record with 25 billion songs sold
And now there seems to be a decent bit of actual happening now. People are really buying it?
I think Minecraft would undoubtedly sell more units if it were at $2.99.

I disagree, because Minecraft is already a strong, developed brand. The $6.99 price point is actually cheap when compared to the price point of the PC version ($26.95). Anchoring at work.
We're looking at adding some of the most requested services (like multiple Gmail accounts) first. We'll definitely add any requests to our backlog, so I'll put your requests on there as well.
Facebook Token Hijacker Can Post On Your Wall, Create Events and Send Invites
Hmmm... I did get all the right letters. :-( Sorry about that.
Video of Google “Chromebook Pixel” with 4M Pixels Removed
I'll provide the server, you provide the client. deal?
No it's not. Technically speaking yes, but without Python there would be no RPython. In other words you're betting on three language/vm communities: Ruby language, Python (RPython!), LLVM (iirc).

I don't believe introducing a lot more dependencies and complexities will cure any problem. Sure, it's a nice project and the work shows the great skills of the developer. But it's not practical to use this besides some non-crictical fun projects.
Show HN: Deploy and scale a Blender 3D Rendering Farm in the cloud
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Um you're the CEO of Appendto.com right?

I'm assuming your site is working for you (or you'd change it?) because that site isn't responsive.
It did not get flagged off the front page. I watched it myself how it dropped to the bottom of the page. Getting flagged off the page would've meant disappearing from the top early on. Maybe it's too hard to admit people just don't care much about it.
Apps should write data files to %APPDATA%, not Program Files where the executables shall reside. The only excuse for installing to c:\chocolatey is lazyness
So, lets talk about JRuby. JRuby is a Ruby implementation on the JVM, and its really awesome power is actually that you can wrap and interface with Java libraries, and still write all of your app code in Ruby.

If Topaz was able to give me the ability to access NLTK, but still write in Ruby? I'd be overjoyed.
PyPy is totally not like LLVM in many regards. It targets a very different demographics. Some differences:

* RPython comes with a good garbage collector

* the language where you specify what's going on is RPython in which you write an interpreter. Then you get a JIT using a few hints. This is difference than "interpreter in C + compiler to LLVM" scenario by quite a bit.

* RPython comes with a set of data structures that are higher level (lists, dicts, etc.) and is a GCed language. JIT is also well aware of those.
Hey cheez, do you have any examples? Github should count =)
I have often thought that tech companies should pay more attention to how movies / tv series are managed then MBA programs. I get the feeling the Producer / Director / Show Runner model might work better for software. Support might complicate things though.
And in fact the amount of shit that corporate developers are protected from is phenomenal. Getting shit out of the way of developers is the job of these managers.

Now of course, some companies are better or worse than others, some managers are better or worse than others and so on.

Personally I don't see myself a manager because I lack the social skills. In some days I barely remember to do minor things like sending out an email to my team at the end of the day or ask about the status of some roadblock.
https://github.com/michaelkirk/death-by-coffee
Pretty sure LLVM has nothing to do with this, it's not currently used in PyPy.

(Also, LLVM is not a language...)
We have Github already, but have had an overwhelming amount of requests for Bitbucket. So it's on our radar!
Insect’s mate-seeking behavior may help researchers program self-driving robots
The verge review wasn't very complimentary either, though I trust Ars more on this kind of thing: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/5/3955130/microsoft-surface-p...

What are those TC guys smoking? Could it be delicious PR funded paid placement?
Facebook has an explicit program (hackamonth) to avoid limiting internal mobility - https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/hackamon...
The Bowdoin to Boston Tech Trek
So Ruby on top of RPython on top of PyPy? Why not, but how does it compare to JRuby and Rubinius?
Do you know what an analogy is?
"I really think the blending of tablets and laptops is a bad idea."

Reason? What's the problem with "touch interfaces plus a keyboard"? Many thought the iPad was a bad idea, but its sales suggest the opposite. After all, an iPad is a "touch interface with a smaller keyboard on the screen", right?

"you've got to take into account the types of gestures people are naturally accustomed to plus the size of touch targets" Were people accustomed to the iPod touch interface when they first used it? No, it was completely new and different at the time of its introduction but younger generations picked it up really quickly because it was intuitive. I still find older generations struggling to use the iPod/iPhone/iPad.

You're making too many assumptions with this post. Go out, give the Microsoft Surface Pro a try, an unbiased try, and then report on your findings. It's much more credible that way.
Send us a note support@chimeapp.com with a screenshot please of the "All notifications" page :-)
Would this happen in Marketing or Accountancy?
Empathy: A Better Practice
> And the ratio of the time invested in beautifying your website, to the quality of usability improves is almost negligible.

Having had many companies hire me and my company to "beautify" their site for the sake of usability and performance, and subsequently measuring the improvement, my response would be that you just haven't run into the situation yet.

Additionally, history on the web tells us that hardware likely won't standardize on any resolutions in the near future, which is the problem that RWD is intended to solve. The problem exists now and the solution exists now. All that's standing in your way is learning how to implement RWD correctly and efficiently.

Here's a few links to get you started: http://www.jannahagan.com/2012/05/responsive-web-design-reso...
Because Games Workshop employs the kind of lawyers that consider petty things like the truth and other peoples IP to be inconveniences to be worked around.
Seems like as time goes on, I have to deal with more and more bugs in iOS and OS X. I know I'm not the only one.[1] I think I've figured out why: Apple doesn't track bugs. I just know they don't, even though I don't work there. Its like they just add features and release a new version, so they can ignore all bugs reported for previous versions. Crash reports are automatically and constantly submitted (looking at you Safari), but it never seems to get better. Gives me the feeling that the bugs are never fixed, just carried over into every new version.

1. http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2012/10/02/finder-bug...
Topaz as a name? Seriously? (http://topaz.sourceforge.net/)
You're correct. The RWD version is launching soon ;)
Impressive,
how does it compare to JRuby?
It's from a 2012 Forbes article.
Topaz doesn't run rails yet (as far as I know, I didn't even dare to try!), so I doubt you'll find any benchmarks ;) There is one benchmark in the bench/ directory of the repository you can try though!
A) not true, the API releases "primary email" which is usually NOT facebook. and B) even if it were that's why you check and verify: if u pull a @fb address don't save it, just prompt the user.

To me as both an app user and developer, single sign on feels like the Right Thing To Do. I'm sick of running through the same sign up flow for every single service I use, like a hamster wheel. Maybe the solution isn't fb, it's some kind of apple or google SSO? Why aren't AAPL and GOOG pushing their own SSO hard on the mobile ecosystems they control?
ITunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold
My tolerance has changed a lot going from my early 20's to my late 20's. I used to regularly drink 8 cups a day, but now start to feel awful after 2.

I think its a combination of losing the acquired tolerance, increasing a latent sensitivity, and more awareness of my physiology.
What did you try to do?

I've worked with both and Instagram is… pretty straightforward. Granted, I only ever authenticated and consumed feeds, but still.

Facebook on the other hand is a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
Instead of asking, you could read the linked article, which itself says it isn't complete enough to run Rails yet.
There was a book in the late 1990's, "First Break All the Rules: What the world's greatest managers do differently" which was the write-up of a Gallup study about manager effectiveness. One of its conclusions is the point made in this article almost verbatim, that people leave their managers not their jobs or companies. One of the most powerful sections for the book for me was the opening chapter where they explain their assessment methodology. They compiled it down to a catalog of 12 questions and they found that if these questions were answered positively it correlated with high employee performance, good financial results, good retention, etc. The rest of the book dives into more detail on the reasons for this, one being that each employee's talent is different and managers should try to align talents with business need, focusing on employee strengths rather than weaknesses.

Here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/0...
I agree. Because of the "hybrid" theory, I also thought that's the future initially. But once I started using Windows 8, and thinking about the compromises you have to make with a "hybrid", I realized it's not the best of both worlds, but the worst of both worlds.

With a Surface RT you get no legacy app support, and it's slow. You get support for Atom ones, but they are still too slow for most legacy apps. And they are not very cheap either. At a time that even an iPad, the market leader in tablets, costs $330, these things are going for $600+ with a keyboard. They stand no chance.

As for Surface Pro, you get the speed of an ultrabook (more than a tablet, but less than a regular laptop, or a PC), but 4h of battery life, so not useful as a tablet, while only having a relatively tiny tablet screen, compared to a laptop, so I don't think you can be that productive on it. It's also too thick and heavy for a tablet.

I now think the future really is having a good, no compromises tablet, that should be very affordable, especially in the future. And a good, no compromises laptop with a large screen, that you can use for work, and you don't have to change every year, or even every 2 years.
I am just going to assume that every bit of mail that would have been delivered on Saturday will just sit somewhere all weekend and be delivered on Monday. I doubt there will be any actual redistribution... just a heavier Monday mail bundle.
Not really. RPython is a statically-typed language which is used to implement PyPy's virtual machine framework. PyPy is itself a Python VM built on top of that framework, but the framework is designed to be reusable. So Topaz is a Ruby VM using that same virtual machine framework.
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Dell's downward spiral: 10 years of failed consumer devices
Holy fuck that is an arrogant comment.

Yeah, non-tech companies who produce actual products/services can't really do that, but then they are also not really that relevant since nobody here works for them (outside of IT departments, which could be run as suggested).

No the real reason for almost any stupid thing done in corporate environments is politics. Everybody is a peer and results only environments threaten those who have accumulated power under the old system and who couldn't cut in the new system -- which is basically all managers.

So of course this only happens when somebody with enough political capital to institute it does so -- typically the owner.

Add to that that it is extremely unorthodox and that very few people have previous exposure to systems like that.

And you get the few companies that do this, and do well by it.
Chromium has more bugs than devs to fix them all. There have been heated debates on chromium-dev about what to do about old bugs. Some devs think they should stay open till they are fixed, but given Chromium's development pace that doesn't necessarily make sense. So they close them, assuming if the bug is still relevant it will be reopened.

One way they prioritize bugs (I believe) is by the number of times the bug has been starred.

I do not believe they have separate bug databases. They do have the ability to mark bugs private, which afaik is only used for security issues.
Funny, about half the links I've put in comments end up as submissions soon later (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5119372). I'm not saying people are using my comments as fodder, just a funny coincidence.

Guess I have to start making submissions!
Sweet, I'm very interested in this. I assume this implementation has a GIL? Any word on how threads will be implemented?
I'd argue that this problem exists in any large bureaucratic culture, and that its prevalence is often just as bad in non up-or-out environments.

The key difference between up-or-out and the alternative is that, in the alternative, a certain segment of the employee base plays the politics game, and a certain segment kicks back and stagnates in the middle, while the rest try to get ahead honestly. In up-or-out, at least the third category has a decent shot. In non-up-or-out, the people trying to work hard and advance on merit will run up against the entrenched slackocracy and the political Machiavellians.
GW is a large company. And it is the behemoth in it's industry. They do not innovate, just rehash same properties. They are the incumbent, "monopoly", content holder who (attempts to) destroy little guys.
[citation needed]

I have not seen anything that suggests that any single Android phone yet outsells the “latest” iOS phone on a full quarter basis. In CQ3 2012, the S3 topped the iPhone 4S by a couple million “shipments” (vs verified sales), but that's not surprising because the iPhone 5 was introduced.

I didn't pay attention to the recent earnings reports, though, so it's entirely possible that this changed this quarter—but I have my doubts.
SEO is just a form of Marketing consulting. I work with lawyers and insurance agents - and I don't do blackhat,or greyhat, nor do I make promises. What we do is go after our keywords by writing quality content, and press releases mostly - as well as very good on-page optimization.

I guarantee that people need the service, I also do web development, which gives me even more insight into how everything plugs together.

Most lawyers and Insurance agents don't even know what a robots.txt file is, or javascript, or the dom, or alt / title tags - they just want leads for their business.

I do think some people place a little too much emphasis being #1 for specific searches, because #1 doesn't always mean tons of money, or business.

A/B testing is also important, as is other methods of business gathering. Also, a lot of times adwords can be more beneficial and less costly than SEO -- if you're paying an SEO 300 a month, vs a 300 a month Adwords budget where adwords is guaranteed clicks -though there's optimization there as well.

The best solution in my opinion is to hire a web developer who knows SEO and SEM, because to lower Adwords costs, and rank high requires some level of programming - for instance I had a site that was costing $2.49 per click, I made it so that the adwords landed on a dynamic url which would grab the keyword they searched for, load it strategically throughout the webpage in specific locations including description, title, keyword tags. This increased the page value in Google's eyes, and brought my cost per click down to $1.68 which was a huge savings! My client could never have come up with that on their own, and would've lost a thousand dollars by just spending the extra money without knowing how to optimize..

Where ever there is something technical, there are people who don't know jack about it, and sometimes people take advantage of them, sometimes people are honest, same goes for other industries like Plumbing, or house repairs...