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I don't submit all of my posts. If I think a post is appropriate for HN, I usually wait a few hours and see if someone else submits it first.

Only then do I add a link back to HN, not a frame of some kind.

If my blog was a magazine, I wouldn't want to drag people into my home office to read it and discuss it, I want them to take the magazine to their book club and read it and discuss it there.

And it isn't always HN. I've noticed very little interest in discussing my JavaScript posts here, so now I link to the http://reddit.com/r/javascript discussions, where there have been more comments.
Part of me really wants one. The other part of me is concerned.

The concerned part is my developer self. I am having a hard time not seeing this as extremely limiting from an interaction perspective. All I am seeing is GPS and text input (from speech). I'd imagine there will be an accelerometer, but I couldn't imagine asking users to jerk their heads around to point at something. If it came with a glove that tracked a hand or something, I'd be less nervous.

If this takes off, everyone will get one. It looks like the future. Many people already feel they can replace their computers with smartphones, what if they replace their smartphones with this? If I was an average american and didn't know better, I'd let me 5 year old computer continue to age, chuck my cell phone, and blow my technology budget for the year to get one of these instead... It's a device that as far as I can see has no decent ability to capture pointing.

How do you scroll in it without looking like an idiot that talks to yourself in public?
It also looks like total junk on a retina screen and the responsiveness is there but very lazily done...
> Ok, basically android is well known, it is not just geeks (yes there are some technophobes that don't, but a minority IMO).

How do you even measure something like that? It is impossible, so we only go of our own opinions and experiences.
Show HN: I built an open source Android app for radioreddit.com
And? The claim was the reaction to the Pebble is what motivated Apple. I merely posited the calendar doesn't support that.

If you want to generalize it to "Apple is doing something similar to what other people had previously done" that's a completely different argument.
I was initially thinking that it was just going to be an Apple branded knockoff of http://www.amazon.com/Nanotch-Protective-Wrist-Watch-Strap/d...

but it looks like they're intending to use the flexible screen tech that's been demo'd by Samsung recently

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

before the inevitable complaining about who innovated what first, I'd like to say that it looks like Samsung has the screen nailed down, but Apple is going to get the device concept figured out (which will then probably be launched off of by tons of companies not the least of which will be Samsung). I'd say Samsung's strategy might be "why waste R&D when you can get Apple to do it for you?" but it's obvious that this core tech is the result of unbelievable amounts of R&D dollars.
Source code: http://code.google.com/p/radioreddit-android/

http://www.radioreddit.com is a website where independent musicians upload their own music to the service. The songs are then played on one of the live radio streams and voted on by users (using http://reddit.com to handle voting). The more upvotes a song gets, the more likely it is to be heard on one of the live streams.

My application allows you to listen to these different live streams. Let me know if you have any questions or comments!
Either you are being naive or you are puroposefully misunderstanding or simplifying the issue.

1. It doesn't matter if there are "more important things to do". If it did, Silicon Valley wouldn't exist, and poverty wouldn't exist.

2. If the Whitehouse invents a petition system to allow people to show what is important to them, people expect the Whitehouse to react and do something about those things.
Serial Bomb Blasts in Hyderabad, India. At least 15 Dead
> "University of Oxford". (Uh, that's not "Oxford University" or any of the colleges.)

The University of Oxford is indeed the ancient and well-known university informally called Oxford University.
Yet another broadly-worded patent designed mostly to kill competition. EVERYONE KNOWS that we must have wrist mounted screens at some point. EVERYONE KNOWS that having the display wrap around the wrist a desirable feature. EVERYONE KNOWS that there must be wireless connectivity. EVERYONE KNOWS that the screen MUST be flexible and MUST be a touchscreen. EVERYONE KNOWS that in the long term the devices themselves WILL include the necessary processing power and be completely independent.

It doesn't take a genius to see where tech is heading.
Even 3M had the same ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZz4jFok_o

Nowadays it's all patent the obvious and sue all competitors.
>Since when is the President a 'lawmaker?'

Probably since overriding a veto is a lot harder than getting one more Senator to vote for the bill, which means the President has more say in what makes it into law than any individual legislator.
Depends.

The price for moving all the porting effort to Microsoft is inflexibility. For example, WP7 supported only Qualcomm SoC and nothing else. Meanwhile, in the Android world, the vendors (mostly SoC vendors) had to do engineering, but they could use Exynos or Tegra or any other SoC they wanted.

Another significant part of the engineering is customization. It is not that we, the geeks, want the manufacturers to customize their Android builds (see the popularity of the Nexus and AOSP builds for other phones). But they have a choice and they chose to do it. In the Windows world, they don't have such a choice.

So it is not a black/white. It is a set of compromises and constrains on a curve. It is up to a vendor to pick the optimal point, after weighting costs and benefits.
Are you intelligent?
It still has a prevalence around 20%, and its market shrinking rate is diminishing.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200807-201302
Scheme was/is seen as a teaching tool/research platform while CL was/is the language to actually make something in.
Doubly so with PLTScheme being marketed as a teaching tool, just never got the momentum.

The re-brand wasn't a bad idea in that respect but they probably should have held off until they had some shiney new showcase app/library to (ugh) synergize with (see Pharo piggy backing with Seaside).
Sony is Being Strangely Coy with the PlayStation 4
Scott Chacon, CIO of Github, The Future Of Work [video]
Anatomy of a Stoning in Iran
Yes, definitely. One piece of advice I can give from experience:

After you've left your first startup behind you, take a break.

Mine was only a month, but it was the most productive, thoughtful, and interesting month ever. I came up with new ideas about business, people, philosophy, and the world, and just had some of the best and most clear thinking I had had in many years. I processed my former mistakes and turned them into valuable lessons that I will remember forever. I had tons of new ideas and started writing them down. I went skiing a lot. That month has proved immeasurably valuable.

It's amazing what your brain can do when it has space, and you need to let it have that space, especially after such a long time being focused on one thing.

My explicit recommendation to the OP: leave it all behind for as long as you are able (a week, 2 weeks, a month), travel, and bring a journal.

And remember—you'll have a new perspective on all of this in a year's time. Try to keep that 1 year/5 year/10 year outlook and just take the next step. Don't worry, it's just life.
Wouldn't you have to know its speed?
Agree! This is really good, especially if somebody writes plugins for things like wordpress to screenshot straight into your blog
> When it comes to basic care, there's absolutely no reason why a capitalist approach wouldn't work, and work well.

I disagree completely. Providing basic care as early as possible to people is the best way to catch problems earlier and reduce overall cost of treatment. Anything that gets in the way of a person seeking basic care, such as payment or wrangling with insurance, means that some people will choose not to seek or will delay seeking basic care. Universal health care options that do not require individuals to pay at time of service are far better for removing barriers to accessing basic care.
Actually, according to webarchive, this version is up since the 24th of Jan.

23th Snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20130122230349/http://jquery.com/

24th Snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20130124012815/http://jquery.com/
Here is an example of multiple screenshots rendered on same page.

https://urlbox.io/demo
Facebook Faces Risks From Fast Growth, Co-Founder Saverin Says
I agree. You could even argue from a business perspective that Groupon's making a wiser business decision by using the time value of money more in its favor.
A few thoughts on semicolons
Nah not silly questions at all.

I changed the remote port from 80 to 4007 because I figured my web server might get DoS'd :)

I have a crappy cable modem which is kind of a "research problem" to root, so I did the netstat on the web server end to get the local port.
Show HN: Marksy - translate between markup languages on the fly, in your browser
Sorry, I had misread your comment.
Exactly this. Sometimes you need to get something done quickly, and getting sign off for a "proper system" just takes too long, or there are too many budgetary constraints, or the dev team is working flat out on higher priority projects that means your will project will never likely see the light of day.

And sometimes you just need something which is much more flexible than what a pre-programmed computer churns out. It's the reason that so many bank still use Excel for financial modelling. They can change a few parameters and instantly see the output of the bottom line.

Totally agree with your second point, the trick is to get a proper system in place before the Excel gets too mammoth.
came here to say what gojomo said.

treat everyone with respect, honesty, and be forthright. it'll feel awful and scary, but it'll mean a lot more than if you made everyone rich, or at least helped them with some more paychecks. people will remember your character and your behavior far more than any money you made or lost for them.

i think a lot of people forget the incredible risks and burdens founders take on. i saw a quote in inc magazine that put it best, something to the effect of "if this business goes under, you lose your job, but i lose my house and maybe even more." never having founded anything i can't imagine the burden your under, but i know it's immense. that said, remember to be forthright with everyone.
While I agree with a few things here, I also agree you are very much a cynic (and that can be good).

I too am a cynic, but I also believe that the startup culture we have created has many more benefits than you seem to weigh in on.

I don't work at a startup to get rich, I work at a startup to figure out what I did wrong with my own business(es) in the past. I joined each of the companies I have worked at in the past 3+ years to learn and love my job... big emphasis on these two ideals.

I want to better myself, I want to see how other people succeed and fail, I want to see how I deal with failure without risking my own investment(s) like I have in the past.

I think -- I hope -- that other people in the scene feel the same way.

This is a learning experience, and so far I have learned that this approach to raising massive amounts of money for an inevitably doomed business is totally fucking flawed.

I will start a business within the next year, and like my previous business(es) I will do it with my own money, it will be cashflow positive at launch, and it will succeed because I will not make the same mistakes as others before me.

I only know this because I have joined startups that have failed miserably, as I sat and watched the management teams, and board members struggle to cooperate.

I hope others see this as the same opportunity. This is a chance for us to learn how to be better business people, engineers, and designers without taking the burden of risk.

Sure we will work hard, we will also play hard, and hopefully love our jobs. Some of us will move on to start a business of our own, and with the knowledge we gained from these experience, we get our value out of it. Its not the equity, or compensation, its learning.
>Maybe, but where the idealism gone? Both on HN, in tech circles, and, yes, at Google, there was some healthy dose of idealism. You know, this thing that make people do thing for something else than money, for the better good of humanity for example.

The people who brought Linux, Vim etc.. had a different motive from the outset. A public company spending millions, if not billions, on a project needs to see return on that investment. I'm not saying that the people involved were not doing it for the sake of improving technology for humanity, and they certainly have, but when you're accountable to shareholders profits often take higher priority.
Sony Announces the PlayStation 4 and the Death of Hardware
The problem in his example was that people were lying about where they generated leads from based on a management failure. It had nothing to do with Excel???
It's not all that suprising. Ubuntu is doing the same with Linux brand -- they hide what the system actually is, perhaps in fear that people might recognize that there are other distributions and run off, or because Linux has bad publicity as geeky stuff.
I would probably say a sysadmin, although an ops-capable developer would do.

A short list:

- Systems monitoring and being able to recognize and resolve performance problems

- Being able to fix/compile/modify/package software

- Being somewhat of a polyglot. Knowing shell, a few scripting languages, config languages, regular expressions, etc.

- Being able to identify and fix hardware related issues
Are there any corroborating reports on this? I can't find any. I'm calling BS.
That's just a standard the team uses, all of the code in the source is formatted that way.
> In 2008, University of Hawai’i professor Raymond Panko published a summary of 13 field audits that checked spreadsheets used in ‘real-world’ environments. His analysis found that a whopping 88% of the spreadsheets had errors.

This isn't the entire crux of the authors reason to transition away from excel but this stat doesn't exactly seem that damning of excel.

What if the author audited custom written software used in ‘real-world’ environments, I'm pretty sure he'd find that 100% of programs have bugs in them:)

In this regard excel seems to be an improvement over custom written software.
Not really. Most of us just have no reason to practice it. If we lacked the ability, audio engineers wouldn't use reverb effects.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/05/2...
In practical terms, how often are you actually parsing HTML? Building a DOM, rendering...

A knee-jerk reaction to 'HTML' and 'regular expression' being used in the same sentence is like someone seeing 'goto' without understanding the context and shouting "goto considered harmful!"

I recently use some combination of perl's split() and regexes to trivially pull all links from a piece of markup. I had to suppress the "Don't parse HTML with regular expressions!" voices echoing in my head the whole time I was writing it. I'm OK with the code now, of course.
> the patent application describes the device's battery being charged by ambient light and kinetic energy. That's pretty wild.

Fairly common, automatic mechanical watches already use kinetic, but were we to say "But those aren't electronic" then you could always look at something like the Seiko Premier ( http://www.seiko.co.uk/products/seiko/c/premier/m/snp005p1_s... )

And for ambient light charging, you have Citizen and their Eco-Drive range ( http://www.citizenwatch.com/en-us/watches/collections/citize... ) and Casio's G-shock ( http://www.gshock.com/technology/solar/ )

I enjoy the fact that my current watch is ambient light powered, syncs with atomic clocks each night via radio... and therefore never needs a battery or charging, and is so damn accurate that I can glance at my watch when some event happens on my NTP sync'd server and the entry in the log file is precisely when the time on my watch said it would be.

Anyhow... those power sources should be irrelevant to the patent... they've existed for years by numerous players in the watch market.
Couple other links.

Web version: http://marksy.arc90.com/
Small Writeup: http://lab.arc90.com/2013/02/20/marksy/
So the government can tell you how to run your own personal life health care like they can tell you how fast you can drive, how powerful (weak) your cell phone can be, etc.? That's not a world I want to live in. Isn't that the kind of world liberal loons thought Bush was going to lead us to? LOL too funny and too ironic. It seems liberals think as long as a liberal is in the Whitehouse then it's ok for government to take over our lives. Either way having our lives controlled by a conservative government or a liberal government; they are _still_ the Government which is supposed to be _us_!
This looks great. I've been having one heck of a time trying to get good screenshots lately. It takes up a lot of my time. I'm really interested in your service, but for whatever reason when I punch in a url it won't render a screenshot. It just hangs on the ajax spinner.
I got a little Android wind-up walking green robot at a conference... seemed like that little green robot was on everything for a while. I feel like they worked on the brand just enough and then, when their experiment was sucessful, they decided to go ahead and bring the product into the fold. If Android had failed, it would be easy to forget (for the general public, not for devs or techies) that it was even part of Google.
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Podcast Episode #17 - Java Packages
Arc is written in Racket.
Just call me an asshole already and have done with it.
What if you're not that great?
Reading HN I often get the impression that there are a hell of a lot of bright individuals out there creating amazing things seemingly out of thin air. But I have a question: what if you're not that great?

A very brief background: I'm about to finish a CS degree. I had an internship for a CPU designer which (in my own words) was disastrous: I barely learned any code or design, instead I learned the damage a poor manager can do. In short, I don't really know what I don't know. I'm more interested in what I can learn than what I've learned while at school. I'm still finding my way.

With that in mind, back to the main question: I haven't created a world-changing web app nor do I have bucket loads of experience in projects or languages.

Is there a place for a hard-working, "jack of all trades, master of none" type person?
Yep - I don't see any blame for you guys in this thread :-)

If you know you were used for this, you might be in a position where you could choose to help out. There may well not be any clear evidence you were used in this instance though.
| If this image flew through that process, then
| Sony knows what it did.

So there are people at Sony that can determine the source of a random icon presented to them with 100% accuracy? It's impossible that some lowly contractor somewhere copied it, and lied about it to management? It's impossible that there was human error along the way in the review process?
Your Dev system should be the same as your live server (same distribution and ideally the same hardware) other wise your just a hobby programmer.

Back in the day at BT we even brought all our systems (Dev, Test and Live at the same time so we had identical systems from the same production run from sun.
I think Colonel Cathcart works in the White House.
I love how critical everyone is being of this site, despite the fact this organization has saved us all so much effort and time during our careers.

I'm easily willing to forgive a few browser compatibility bugs considering what they've done for the Web. I'm also happy they've updated their site, it was a long time coming and I think it looks great, certainly an improvement in my eyes.
I generally store captured CO2 in homebrew.
Clean. Cheap. Delicious.
Neo4j: A Developer’s Perspective
> Because the government can force a cost upon a hospital that is not sustainable? Which in turn requires the hospital to recoup the costs elsewhere.

Is this accurate? It was my understanding that payment practices with insurance providers is what causes the high sticker price of any given medicine or service in hospitals, even though insurance companies and programs like Medicare do not pay those prices, only those who pay out of pocket do.
It sounds like using Excel correctly is as a prototyping tool or a means of doing one-offs. If that's the case, then Excel is to a proper business intelligence system as shell scripting is to a real programming language. Each has their place.
At the End of the Day, Only Four Things Matter in the Valley
I think the logic behind corporate financing/lobbying is that if you allow individuals to contribute money separately, there is no reason why organized groups should not band together, analyze the election, choose a candidate and pay $100 for every one of their members to that candidate's campaign. This organized machine is going to always trump a bunch of individuals haphazardly contributing money.
Digging Up Your Personal Information Online
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences [founded by Brin, Zuckerberg et al]
> "or because Linux has bad publicity as geeky stuff"

No, more like Linux has bad publicity as obtuse and difficult - which it very often is with many other distros. Ubuntu is (intended to be) Linux that "just works".

I don't think Canonical is afraid of "oh no Linux, nerds!", they're more likely afraid of "oh no Linux, like [insert other distro where you spend more time tweaking configs and compiling your kernel than using it]!"
This isn't subconscious influence, this is copy-and-paste. I'm all for avoiding lynch mobs though.
The article fails to explain in what use case does excel fail. It problem when people make sweeping generalizations blaming a product. Especially one like excel that works.

From what it looks like they're trying to provide "sales reports." It one thing to say that they can simplify and save time generating these reports.

Its any other thing entirely to blame excel. Human error is prevalent on every level, so unless you can completely remove human interaction from the process or do it for them, then you're still open to the same risks.
So I already know system admins are in high demand. I am a computer science undergrad and hope to get a sys admin job out of college. What should I be doing on my own to get a job like this? (besides playing with different linux distros and learning commands).