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Well, of course, I mean that's great. How are we doing at educating at educating the masses in biology, mathematics, physics, etc? Not very good right? So now, we're going to add more stuff. Why don't we add queuing theory, that's important right? To me the movement is not clear; it's not as if you can't learn programming school as it is now. I love programming but I just don't understand what the goals are of the "code fever" movement are or even when I do I think it is naive, at best.

Even that sort of crazy video with Zuckerberg and Gates literally made it out to be that programming is easy and you don't have to be smart and then implied that learning this stuff that is easy and doesn't require smarts will land you a job at this places where you can skateboard in the office and futons and so forth when they are the ones recruiting masters and phd students and asking people how to move Mt. Fuji (ok ok I know that one is gone, just throwing it out there. :) )
I have some suggestions for Garry:

http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/02/blog-platforms-will-not-l...

"To actually commit to the claim of being 'the most durable blog platform ever created' and 'made to last forever', a blog hosting service should either:

A) Require new users to bring their existing domain.

OR

B) Have users register for a new domain during sign-up.
"
Ask HN: 5" phones - why this trend?
Note: At this point this is Android specific. Current flagships from Apple and Blackberry are 4" and 4.2" respectively.

I'm a person who dislikes carrying a shovel of 5" in his pocket for a phone. Sadly, this is becoming a standard for top of the line devices. There's even a new term now - phablets - for phones over 5".

This trend puts people like me in a difficult situation. There's simply no compact alternative of similar capabilities. They're cut down in functionality, downgraded versions in the mid to low market. If you want a modern phone of 4" with LCD high-res display, 8MP camera, 4 cores, NFC, etc - it is virtually non-existent.

My question is why companies push for ever larger displays on smartphones? And what can we, compact phones aficionados, do about it?

Is this where we're going? :) http://i.imgur.com/SZ31YuL.jpg
I don't understand what you are saying. Not a clue.
Sounds like you hit the nail on the head.
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I suggest they remove the "forever" next to the price to make it clear the service will last forever, not the price.

$5.00 in 2006 had about the same buying power as $0.43 in 1930, so $5 in 1930 is equivalent to $58 today.
Awesome, looking forward to that!

I'm doing my best to bring my IDE demo up to speed, it's just a month left now but still so much to do... >.<
Well, there is this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284524
That's crazy. One of the incredibly attractive things about my job now is that I get 40 days of discretionary PTO. Sick time is separate.

I took a reasonable paycut to get the gig, but its totally worth it.

10 days off a year is a joke.
I worked at Groupon for about three years, during which time I witnessed Brad opening a box of Atlas Shruggeds which he gave out for christmas. I've heard Eric literally yelling in anger that certain departments within the company should not have scored so highly on the yearly employee survey that measured happiness/satisfaction.

Now that I shared those anecdotes, your guess is as good as mine.
I think the real issue is when infrastructure things move.

How would the move to PulseAudio have worked in a rolling release? Would someone with a new install end up with PulseAudio, but someone with an existing install, would just never have it installed unless they knew what it was and started poking around for it?

The same for the transition to using evdev for (e.g.) mouse-handling in X.org rather than defining things in xorg.conf.

I know that Debian has lived through these transitions, but my impression was that the packages were setup in a way that allowed people to keep the old config, or move to the new one. That said, it seems like these issues could be more complex than a 'human being' (Ubuntu's target market) would be able to decipher.
Yes, your affiliation is quite relevant. When you are talking about something when you have a clear conflict of interest, you need to disclose it. Then at least the reader has the right context in which to make a decision.

When you post w/o disclosing, you make it seem like someone from this community has found your product interesting and is suggesting others try it. Instead of working for a company and trying to drum up business while disparaging a competitor.

Seriously, things like this reduces the likelihood that I'll ever try Tonido to nil. All you had to do was add "disclosure: I work for Tonido" to your post, if that is the case.
I'm sorry but their pledge does not say anything about what if they shut down?

If they are trying to improve on Posterous they need to be up front with the fact that Posterous is closing and people don't want to move again in an year year when Posthaven shuts down.

Businesses close, people die. If you are going to make a promise, make it worth it.
I think there's a clear argument for computer literacy. That's a given. But programming, I think that is a very separate issue. The code fever movement is just a bit out there. It's one thing to say it's good to learn to code. It's another thing to say "everyone needs to code" or "we should make a curriculum about programming because we use software."
I haven't seen anyone note that the person who replied to Marx's letter in his role as US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Charles Francis Adams) was the son of America's 6th president (John Quincy Adams) and grandson of the 2nd president and Founding Father (John Adams).

I highly recommend David McCullough's biography "John Adams." Even if you're not really into history (I'm not) it's actually a pretty good read and entertainingly covers most of US History from 1750 to 1830.
Slightly off-topic, but what kind of forum software does Dropbox use? I like the clean look and the use of the blue background for the Dropbox employee.
And yet, those users are still wearing moderator tags...
Tarbackup gets a UPS and on-site and off-site backups
Everybody involved in this is an arsehole and should be ashamed.
Java libraries for accessing a wide variety of file formats
What to Write About
I want to be able to enter a target dollar amount into a certain date on a calendar, then select a date at a time before that date, and have it calculate how much I have to save each week to reach that target. And have it auto-adjust the weekly amount when I miss a week now & again, or when I save more than the required amount sometimes, too.
I want a Microsoft Excel clone where each formula is replaced with a call to R. Formulas can also be used as array formulas.

Wouldn't this be cool:
{=randomForest(A1:A1000,B1:H1000,...)} and out dumps your rf to the selected cells
then
{=predict(...)} etc.

Pretty sure I'm the only one who wants this.
For a second I thought this was about Burt Reynolds.
But we're being a little silly here right. How about everyone learning basic algebera before we get to trig for your fun game. Believe, coding a game sounds fun to us programmers, it might sound fun in theory to others, but it is not fun in reality to others.
> "those people are forum moderators and not employees of Dropbox"

They're official representatives of Dropbox, even if they are unpaid. Their behavior is entirely on Dropbox, and the fact that Dropbox has farmed out its customer support to unpaid amateurs is possibly a worse realization than the fact that the clueless person was not an employee.
One of the authors of bootstrap also released, today, a version of the Bootstrap framework (with another name since he left twitter) using mixins and mobile first.
But built with less and not sass.

http://markdotto.com/2013/02/28/reintroducing-preboot/
Ah yes. The social safety net is causing society to be overrun by a plague of undesirables. If we would only let people die in the streets, our society would be pure.

Edit: I'm being sarcastic.
Get traction for your startup (Private Beta)
Get traction / early adopters / beta testers easily so you can start focusing on the more important things.
Is the expire time set in Outlook will work in another email server/client like Gmail?
Though perhaps not as dog-fooding as some other projects, we do build (almost) all of our dashboard on top of our API. This was one of my first goals at Stripe, and I think it's been a huge win for us. We also have a couple of employees who run a real business with Stripe.
I'm using PyPy for real-world code every day, because it runs fast as^H^H^H^H, uhm, very fast! I regularly see 6-15X speedups compared to CPython.

That being said, if your code is mostly IO-bound or calls into foreign-language libraries, PyPy's speedup of the Python code of course won't help much with your wall time.
Wall Clock in Pure CSS3
Nice tool. However, w3schools.com reference makes me cringe a little :)
"if you are running too much stuff on Heroku, you probably should be running your own servers tuned to your own very specific workloads"

...and if you're using a blocking, single-threaded server/framework your definition of "too much stuff" is a lot less than everyone else's.
Late Labs talks to Wedgies about Community Building
the right answer to the question is something along the lines of:

"Yes, our company is not just sustainable but is set for a new period growth. Our team has worked hard to get a foothold in the market and our next iterations on our product are going to be twice as awesome. stay tuned."

which is also a bullshit dodge and a deflection, but its a way of doing it with grace and style, and even potentially allowing for the audience to believe they might be capable of fixing a broken business model with some innovation and hard work.
OR they could agree to 301 your URLs even after you leave (maybe for a small, one-time fee).
There's something I always wondered about 3rd world medicine. If her surgery was $1125 and the average person makes $0.90/day (less than $1) that means her surgery cost 3.42ish year's wages.

Could I get the same surgery here in the USA for $171233 (median income in the US assumed about $50,000)?

Is there some sort of balancing feedback function thats stretching the cost of a certain level of medical care to a certain predictable multiple of a local year's median wage?

It would at least be an interesting rabbit hole to descend.
Do less.

That's pretty much it but this is what has worked for me.

Remove any commitments you can outside of work. Go home at a reasonable hour. Leave plenty of time for rest and relaxation. Don't check email outside of work. It's ok and important to do nothing and waste time. If you're like me, you have this feeling that you always need to be doing something. That is very detrimental.

Most importantly, your body will tell you when you are stressed. Listen to the signals and take a break. Small breaks during the day are just as important as longer breaks at night and weekends.
http://www.photometadata.org/meta-resources-field-guide-to-m...

Yup there's already a field which could do the job just not quickly editable in your phone's camera app.
It's all about the networking that you do. Also, the small business market is pretty brutal, and ends up being a numbers game... Your rate is too low to make a living without scaling out.

Big consulting companies are all about applying a predefined framework to business problems.

VARs or similar companies partner with bigger fish to provide pro services to markets that aren't valuable enough for the parent company. An IBM partner will peddle servers and implement IBM products, etc.

A freelancer is all about subject matter expertise. Your either an expert in technology x, or an expert in implementing technology x to vertical market y or integrating technology x with technology z. Your customer might be the end-user, or you may be a subcontractor.
whoaaaa awesome!!
Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough
Everyone should try to learn to code (and write). Not everyone should become a programmer (or writer). There's a big difference, and I don't think anyone ever suggests the latter.
Nice design. Looking forward to seeing it launched.
Excellent and enlightening share. Sadly, this seems to be the norm throughout the upper echelons of the western system of democratocapitalismywayorthehighway. Ahh, humans.

PS. Where's paradise?
It would be great if they can be successful at making a company where you can be confident that your data will not die; but flexible enough for the inevitable sampling of future 'bloggish' platforms that come out.
I'd love to see another novel written about the scenario espoused at the end of the book about the groups of people who couldn't have the jack installed. But then I remember that Forever Peace exists. If you haven't read it, don't.
Jeremy, your code's comments are all hard-wrapped at column 80, but the code itself extends beyond that.

Do you tell your editor to hard-wrap each "block" of comments as you write (or edit) them, or is your editor configured to automatically hard-wrap all comments?

Either way, have you considered configuring your editor to soft-wrap comments while leaving your code alone? I'd say that's the most natural approach from a writing standpoint.

P.S. Every day, I use tools you've made. Keep making!
Personally, I think Google Glass could take off but it definitely won't be an instantaneous hit. Here is the way I see things playing out:

1) At first the main use is in the car. It's a place where you can wear them and not feel super awkward since the majority of the people around you probably wont be able to tell you have them on. It has the navigation system built in and you could even record the trip as if your glasses were a dash cam (hey, worked for Russia!).

2) People gradually forget they have it on when driving and end up getting out of the car with the glasses still on. You'll maybe see a few people wear them briefly while walking from the parking lot to the store but it still won't be that public. At least by now it will have been out long enough that people know about them.

3) People wear them more and more out in public and eventually it becomes the norm. Sure, some people might be like "oh that's weird" but they won't think too much about it.

I highly doubt that suddenly the streets will be flooded with Google Glasses right from the start. But I could see a gradual increase in usage if it's primary function is used in one location (like the car).
301s assumes their host is up. Services disappear within 24 hours:

"The shutdown will be quite abrupt: Memolane accounts and content are set to be deleted tomorrow"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/memolane-the-internet-time-...
Ask HN: Transition from Free to Paid Apps - Android
Hi All,

Are there any good/established/proven strategies on how to transit from a free app to paid app on Android Play Store?

I released my first app on Play Store, and I have been getting some decent downloads in last couple of days. I understand that this could be entirely due to the fact that the app is free.
I wonder how does someone go about on this decision to make a paid version of the app, with some added features.

I am not sure if I can share the link here on HN (guidelines), but I will be happy to share if it is acceptable.

Thanks!
Hey Adrian,

Can I show you a mockup I have that addresses the prioritizing problem?

Let me know.
Love it! In my mind THIS is the best new feature of foundation 4 (I mean the new doc ;)
I love Foundation 4 so far, but I still find the top-bar nearly useless. Maybe my opinion or experience is atypical, but that's the one aspect of the framework that I usually find myself replacing when using Foundation. Most of the rest of it is logically designed and useful right out of the box.
look into data center energy efficiency, energy efficiency software, or synthetic biology. also- are you in the bay? if so, i'd love to meet up. my head's in the same place- software is cool, but renewable energy offers something bigger.
FYI, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz which is both faster and gives better compression. But as others have said, Google doesn't care because browsers do gzip.
Could you be more specific on what is driving the stress? Is it workload, expected results, lack of resource, colleagues etc. This might help peeps give more targeted advice.
Fucking THANK YOU.
NASA: "We've discovered a previously unknown surprise circling Earth"
The FAA's E-mail database for pilots has also been hacked or sold.

So has the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's.

Those are the only two I've caught with similar tracking in quite a few years. Oh, and Oakley. They acknowledged that one though.
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If someone applied for a job with the attitude Manning showed for publishing this information, would you even bother giving him an interview?
Yeah, but if that happened to a person who habitually used sub-addressing it would be pretty obvious. They would likely have received the same spam many times from many of their sub-addressed emails. People who take the trouble to set this up, don't use it in only one place.
> So what he is humble.

A willingness to admit your mistakes is more than humility, though. It's the first step towards not making those mistakes a second time.
Well, history's written by the victors, right? One thing I realized as this story was percolating today was that since it occurred, the value of the release was attacked based on the legality of doing so.
Interesting argument. Seeing as Mason created from scratch a company valued at around $20B using Lefkofsky's seed investment of $1M, it seems to me like a very respectable accomplishment.

Whether the current business model is viable and how much they need to pivot if they do, that's hard to tell without walking a mile in their shoes. But if I only had to bet on one horse, I'd pick the one that has a proven record for a "very respectable accomplishment" and give him the tools he need to succeed.

If Lefkofsky thought the business was so bad, would he have taken the reigns himself?
The moon did not show up in earth after a collision, it destroyed the plant that was there, and then the earth and moon formed from the debris cloud.

Anyway, orbital mechanics are complex, Mars has 2 moons and the sun plus the solar wind all of which clean up it's orbit which is why it's so clear in the first place. However, it would be possible for Mars to collect this as another Moon which would be vary cool. Or worst case it collides with one of the existing moons and then you get a lot of junk in orbit.
Hike (a mountain or a city) and take pictures of things that make you happy.
> I have data and you have anecdote.

That's not true. You have anecdote and GP has speculation.
Richard Branson Says That Marissa Mayer Got It Wrong About Remote Employees
"what HNers upvote" - "what moderators kill"
the prior guy has no shares anymore.

These sunk-costs (traction, incubation, awards..) have been the reasons why we've been selected. Joining after is lowering the risk. If he would have started long time ago then 50/50, like with the prior guy.

The loan is a personal loan from the first incubator, which hasn't to be fully pay back in case you fail.
Wow. It's SO beautiful! And I love the care you took to show me how to use it.

I have no idea if I'll continue use it on a daily basis (Trello for now), but it's fun, and pretty.

Well done, and thank you!
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You just make another couple of custom UIs for "in-between" cases.

Notebooks with a touchscreen can be treated either as tablets with a bunch of integrated USB/Bluetooth peripherals, if you want to use them like MS Surface, or alternatively, a regular notebook with an oversized multitouch-enabled trackpad that happens to be the display. So there's no need for a new UI paradigm there.

Super-large or gesture-controlled devices will probably need their own UI paradigms when they become mainstream.

None of this is meant to imply that every device will need its own, incompatible, radically different UI. Competent designers should be able to come up with a "line-up" of 3-4 UIs that "gracefully degrade" into one another, e.g. a menu bar appears if the device has a mouse, and non-maximized apps are allowed if the screen is larger than X inches. And of course, lots of options for power users, e.g. I want non-maxed apps in my 7-inch device even though the default only triggers them in 10-inch devices, and I want Alt+Tab to switch between windows rather than apps.
Lovely story but what kind of husband offers to adopt a child without even previously discussing it his wife?

Great relationship there. This story turned out well only because of her.

BTW this is why many cities now have a law there is no penalty to leave a newborn at a firestation, yet some cities still resist it.
I suppose they could learn about strawmen and logical arguments. :) Actually, that would probably make a lot of things better than programming!
It will democratize the ads - your corner shop or plumber will start putting similar ads. Subsequently, we will grow immune to these ads as we are now to junk/spam mails (not emails).
At this stage the key differentiation point is touch (ie. your finger as the pointer) v. the pointer (mice/keyboard, etc.) The UI for these two categories is naturally different, and convergence would be possible only when the UI can handle both. Even in the case of notebooks with touchscreens, the UI has to handle both requirements well, that of the finger and of the mouse/keypad. I personally feel Ubuntu is neglecting the latter. In time, that may well be the right choice. At present, it's definitely only part of the story.
App.net has evolved into a very good micro-blogging service, so why not use App.net instead? You can upload photos and post long essays on App.net. And App.net costs $3 a month, instead of $5 a month.

But I would not choose App.net simply because it is a little cheaper than Posthaven. I would choose App.net because the guy who founded it, Dalton, seems to have some kind of long term vision. There is a heavy focus on the API as the future to a platform that goes beyond what Twitter is, and goes beyond what Posterous was. That longer term vision is enticing, because it also offers slightly more concrete possibility of longevity than the mere verbal promise offered by Posthaven. After all, the only way any of these services can offer longevity is by surviving, and the only way they can survive is to have an idea that really is adapted to what the world needs next.
Mobile first is just a new paradigm where you make your application fit a mobile screen first, then your second step is to scale up to web (or tablet).

Doing mobile first forces you to distil your app to just exactly the right components you need to achieve your product goal because there's so little real estate. It prevents you from adding non essential bullshit that you could easily throw into your design if you started with web.
SpaceX CRS2 Launch Stream
They didn't file it, they picked it up after the fact.
Never is a long time.
1) Will definitely exist in some form. Perhaps a slate-like device with relatively fast eInk display which you can connect a kb/mouse to.
2) I can see mobile SoC's becoming so cheap that you can probably personally hack together something like that for cheap in a couple of year's time. Then just buy Data from some reseller.