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> "this particular 'horizontal velocity' figure would never be large enough to cause overflow, it would always be zero since the rocket should still be on the platform."

Except the Earth is not stationary, nor is the surface of the Earth moving at a constant velocity.
It looks great! My nexus 4 is arriving today, will definitely be one of the first apps I download. Good job!
It's not as though the public SDK was a totally new thing. It contained some new components, but AFAIK most of it was existing stuff that they just hadn't released an SDK for (heck, a lot of it was stuff the iPhone inherited from OS X). All the awkwardness surrounding the SDK's actual release — for example, the neverending, absurdly restrictive NDA that seemed to flummox Apple's own community reps — really did feel like a rush job. I find it a little weird to think that Apple didn't intend to release the Cocoa Touch SDK after touting it so highly, but it did kind of feel that way.

And the App Store was just an extension of the iTunes Store. Adding a section to your existing online store in one year is not exactly breakneck speed.
I think solving any of these can be reduced to a max-flow problem, and thus it is efficiently solvable.
Off-topic, but can't miss this opportunity:

Please tell us why the Amazon homepage doesn't auto-focus into the search box. I think of this every single time I go to the site.
Great game and well made. I am sure you guys know the little quirks with the product ( like dragging sometimes includes blocks which I dont wanna include ) but on the whole very impressive. Good way to get the brain juices flowing :)
This is a start, but what you guys really need to do is author specific legislation and then lobby to get a few sponsors to introduce it. Once you have identified a few potential sponsors, we can focus our efforts into lobbying them, ad once it is introduced, we can lobby the rest of Congress to pass it.
That talking head / speech bubble concept is generic:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22talking+head%22+bubble...

The Noun Project also has a profile speech version, though with curved lines instead of the bubble: http://thenounproject.com/noun/speech/#icon-No1202

Flat UI's version might have been partially inspired by LayerVault, but it's far from identical. In fact, the Flat UI head is very similar to the Noun Project's head, similar to how the LayerVault's newspaper is similar to the Noun Project's.
As an employee, knowing this only costs the company $5.00, this wouldn't even register in my "total compensation" calculations. I mean, it would be like them sliding the offer letter over the table and saying with a wink, "Annnnnd we'll buy you a double venti latte every month. Unbelievable, right?"

And don't get me started on actually trying to navigate these group buying offers. Every time I've tried to redeem one you're shunted off to some obscure buy flow: "Oh, you'll need to talk to our corporate accounts representative, do you have your company contract id?"

And to get a little meta here for a second: how lazy is ez-pr.com that they just link to their half-assed Google Spreadsheet. Or for that matter, how lazy is Business Insider that they just regurgitate this PR crap. And why are we even linking to this low-effort content?
http://videorascal.com is a web app that enables anyone to create explainer and intro videos for the web. Just launched as a MVP a few weeks ago
The linked article is a listing of VPNs with affiliate codes attached. Spam.
Both look like an inverted F-clef. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_clef#F-clefs
Hold on...

So when a consumer is not aware of XXX, it's Microsoft's fault?

*Substitute XXX for anything you want - alternative browsers, quantum mechanics, his own mortality, etc.

Personally, I think it's the consumer who should accept that responsibility.
>In fact they can be small keys, or information tangentially related to the DRM scheme.

These sound like things that should have substantial non-infringing uses.

>I think the entire "anti-circumvention tools" part should be removed, period.

So then you need to fix the international agreements. Go for it. I still think we should do what we can in the meantime though.
People charge for Chess apps. :)
exch, you point to the mother of all "we stole your game play and made a new game" sites. :)
So basically the generalized description is "don't document what is immediately evident from language syntax/function name itself".
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I can't help but think this sort of thing is going to happen more and more as we move towards a flat/minimalist UI.

I've read comments (not on HN) from people who have endorsed the DMCA takedown because of their personal ethics and morals rather than knowledge of the law. Particularly one who claimed that the similar colour palettes between LV and Flat UI justified the takedown - even though colour palettes themselves are currently not copyrightable subject matter. To win on those grounds you'd need a genius (and crazy) lawyer and a judge who is either asleep at the wheel or bribed. Then you'd lose on appeal anyway.

Colours can be only trademarked. Using that colour is not a copyright violation. Hence no DMCA.

It makes me sad that as we all move towards minimalist design startup founders will need to know IP law better than a few years ago. Some of this is due to trolling and some because of a mislead or otherwise naive understanding of the law like I mentioned above. It's just adding pressure on founders that we don't really need and more work for lawyers.

A lot of us are doing whatever we're doing for the first time and that makes us (potentially) easy targets. A better knowledge of the law in this scenario might have prevented everything from blowing up like it has. But Flat UI and Layervault wouldn't have had as much energy put into the product and so everyone suffers.

Then again I'm in law school right now so at least I know there's a job in all of this if i ever need it :-/

I guess I just wish we could stop bickering about stuff like this and get on with building cool stuff.
Currently there is too much wasted space.I see 6 messages on my puny 1366x768 screen.
I say this to my kids all the time: "Bye! Make good choices!"

I stole it from Jamie Lee Curtis's character in Freaky Friday when she drops her kids off at school.
Three gears together doesn't seem to be that novel an idea either: http://thenounproject.com/noun/gears/#icon-No8949
I want to know how the food was changed by processing. For example, how much sugar did they add? Not just the total.
Great job! Congrats on a slick product. I noticed you had a link to listen to the soundtrack. Cute music, did you guys make the music too?

I'm glad people are getting onboard with HTML5 for apps and games. You should get a blog going, I'd love to hear about your trials and tribulations over the 6 months since you quit your job.
dude.. go to ubuntu or mountain lion and then write another article...

I don't like windows because:

1. I don't have terminal
2. I can't configure it easily
3. I don't like to have lots of things in taskbar
4. I want multi-workspace and easy to switch between them
5. I want more fullscreen stuff..
6. filesystem built not ok! viruses in windows are a big threat! I don't want antivirus
The Coca-Cola Company offers $10K Prize to Re-Imagine the Soda Fountain
For some values of "destroyed", including "not destroyed, just dislodged".

Obviously, washing hands with soap and water is important and helps reduce infection. This CDC article has some information about some of the difficulties with this. (EG: Why don't surgeons shower before surgery?) When is clean too clean? (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/2/70-0225_article.htm)
Seems sketchy that I can't view the available numbers before signing up. I almost signed up but without that information, I was skeptical and opted not to continue.
$39 for 100 minutes - that comes out to 39 cents a minute. Even the cheapest you can buy minutes ($22 for 1000, or 2.2 cents/minute) is more expensive than comparable web-based services. Is there anything that this actually does better than normal, in exchange for those prices?
Great work! My advice is just change the first screenshot at the appstore. Because it's not feel like a game at the first impression when searching the game.
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If you can afford not to get paid for months...
My thoughts: what if you select the initial 5 colors, then recursively "extend" one of the colors in one of three possible directions. The sum of results is your level-space. Store results in a DB. Then, select all levels that have a)cell coverage of 85%+ b)min path length of 5 on all paths.

In order to cut down some of the search, you can make the recursion smarter (e.g. extend one color at a time, early cycle / impossibility prediction, etc)
Looks very nice and polished. I downloaded your app and played it for a bit. I would have paid for it after being able to play the web version and knowing what the app was about. An IAP upgrade would be cool if you decide to put ads on it. I would upgrade in a heartbeat.
Colour schemes are irrelevant to the DCMA as they can't be copyrighted, though they can be trademarked in some circumstances. Either way there isn't a relevant infringement.

Hope it wasn't the basis for the DMCA takedown...
You're right, that is definitely an indicator that his code is absolutely horrible. He should have spent more time obsessing over which letter to capitalize.
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Cell Phone Unlock Proponent Moves Forward With Attack Against DMCA
It's important to note that it would be 4% of those infected die, not "another 4%". That's a little less than one in five hundred die of these particular infections, a far cry from the implied one in twenty five.
What provider do you use for processing the credit card payments?
A Montessori Footprint
I won't write tests for getters and setters, but then again, I try not to write getters and setters very much in the first place.
It's great but the only people who it would speak to are technical people. If you started with the section on blind people, then security researchers, then go into detail about other things like getting apps from an app store first, you'd appeal to more people. And if I studied english more I'd have learned how to write that without a run-on sentence.
I have a Raspberry Pi for movies/media and its great. I bought a second one for my son to learn Python on - definitely worth it and its to a good cause
A remembrance of Aaron Swartz (March 12th)
Can you find the part of the WIPO treaty that requires anti-cirvumvention tools to be criminalized? I can't.

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html

Keys do not always have "substantial non-infringing uses" by the way. They can be unique enough to skate the line. And tools which address a general type of DRM (enormous research value) would also be criminalized, which would not meet that standard if the tools were explicit enough.

Hell, if I released the circumvention tools for my own DRM (intended to allow others to access the protected content) I would be violating that standard.
Bears a resemblance is not enough for DMCA. LV was stupid to file a DMCA on this. It was clearly a scare tactic and all it did was make them look like petulant children.

If Flat UI had really stolen assets, that would be one thing.

But aping a design isn't the same thing as stealing. See also: Apple v. Samsung.
thanks for feedback, i think we have bugs with asset loading in the playable demo but I haven't been able to easily debug it
It's similar to what Gruber posted on daringfireball:

"Great new service, sort of like Google Voice but private."

I guess implying that Google have access to your phone calls and this company isn't going to.
"In addition, the color schemes have been claimed to be identical: http://pixxel.co/feed/layervault-issues-dmca-takedown

Flat UI has more than 20 colors. LV just 7?...
Love the music!

First stab at basic time challenge puts me at rank #2.

I think the challenge system could be something quite fun if you integrate it well.
I want to know whether the food is: vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, nut-free, certified organic, certified fair trade, and country of origin (and whether some ingredients are from different countries).

I don't have a problem multiplying, really. Maybe something indicating how good/bad the quantities are (e.g. green light for low unsaturated fat per serving) or something.
Nutrition facts labels often give misleading information about trans fats, which are quite unhealthy.

The RDA for trans fats is 2 grams. Trans fats are listed on the nutrition facts in grams and amounts less than 0.5 grams are listed as 0 (this is often advertised outside the nutrition facts label). But a serving of food with say 400mg of trans fats is actually a lot (especially if a "serving" is defined as much less than the average person actually consumes). The simple correction would be to list trans fats in milligram units instead as sodium (which has a comparable RDA) and ban the misleading phrase "0g trans fats."

This may seem nit picky but I don't think we should put up misleading numbers in the nutrition facts label.
Drone strikes: Death without due process
Tomorrow's Human-Computer Interfaces
Excellent choice allowing me to play the game right on your website. Now I'm going to download (and buy, does it cost money?) your game. If I couldn't play it immediately, I probably wouldn't have.
Thanks. The launcher icon of the current version appears smaller on the Nexus 4. Will be fixing this soon. BTW, I upgraded to Nexus 4 from the Nexus One about 3 weeks ago :)
Except I've read most of the comments and on the whole they seem a) correct (to my understanding of the DMCA) and b) reasonable and well thought out.
FYI, there is a less-polished clone on the Android store called "Flow Cube".
I think you mean a Mercedes-Benz A class, in the moose test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_test)

I have never heard that was software related, but it also is a decent bet software was involved, e.g. for stiffening the suspension. What top of the line car did not have software, in 1997?
Mods, stop it with the overzealous title editing, will you? Compare:

HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? Fix it, it's broken.

to

Ask HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? It's broken

This is not "Ask HN", I wasn't asking and I don't want it to come across as a question. If you feel like fixing capitalization, typos and punctuation - fine, but then stop. If you edit in a way that affects the tone and style of the title, then change the submitter name to your own! Because that title is certainly no longer mine.
Great work! I finished all 10 levels on the website--I'm assuming more are available with the app, but it's not completely clear.

I linked my wife to it and she got a kick out of it, too.
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Ok, that's one data point. Without further explanation, that's hardly an indictment of the business model. They could have failed for any number of reasons.
I've always thought "being the dumbest person in the room" was a bit of overstatement to the truth. It's probably more accurate to say you don't want to be the smartest person. Not so much because you avoid having a target on your back if something fails and a scapegoat is needed, but more because you not only have the ability to teach those that know less than you, consequently reinforcing things in your head and giving yourself a better understanding, but also having people around that you can learn from.

I can say being the smartest person in the room gets really old fast because you always feel like you have your hands tied behind your back and as much as X may be a better solution to a problem you have to fall back to something the entire team can understand.

The general environment would probably make a difference too. If you in an environment with people that enjoy learning and sharing the knowledge they gain being the dumbest person in the room probably isn't as bad. I can't say I've met a work environment that is like that, though.
IRC isn't about being anonymous. Its about having a simple protocol that makes chat portable and easy to make on the fly.
Apple had obviously already developed the tools (most of them being extension of the OSX tools) and some (or many) of the APIs (again most of them being extensions/rethinks of the existing OSX APIs) for their own internal use.

A year later, things still felt pretty awkwardly rough.
As a other-than-the-occasional-nes-play non-gamer, this is addictive!
Every piece of reporting I've read, including books like Isaacson's bio and Lashinsky's Inside Apple, shows that the initial plan was to not have an SDK for the iPhone, because of fears about security and terrible apps "ruining" the experience.

It was only after it launched that Jobs reversed himself and Apple came up with the idea of the App Store process to manage those fears.
Then I wonder why it's a "creative way" according to the article)
We aren't "killing it".
> On my personal machine, I basically only use Firefox, Sublime Text 2, and Terminal anymore.

My ideal dev environment is Windows running putty connecting to a local linux VM or a bunch of VMs running on a nearby ESXi server and then Firefox (and occasionally Chrome and IE for compatability testing) and a bunch of other general stuff (Thunderbird for email, Skype, music player, etc).

On a dual screen machine I'll have the putty window (or windows) made fully screen on one monitor and the remaining stuff on the other monitor. Inside the ssh session I run screen to give me multiple shells without lots of windows or tabs. A lot of my navigation is done via the keyboard.

The desktop machine is also for family and guest usage so the ability to switch user accounts but leave existing stuff running is a must.

This setup means I can also login from pretty much anywhere (that I can get an ssh connection from) and resume where I left off, including having tunnelled HTTP connections to my dev network via ssh.
Please also stop perpetuating the fake Henry Ford quote about faster horses.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4877934
I like it. But 10% seems a little high - I'd at least have reduced percentages for volume.

I'm not sure if you have (or intend) to support people with a lot of products, but I'd be interested to see how it works if you have 50 products vs. 500 vs. 5000. It would be nice to get group reporting (like every color of a T-shirt combined, all my mugs, etc. Ideally with tags instead of categories so you can cross-report).
They diverted extra developers to those projects, which ended up delaying the upcoming OS X release.
I wish the article had linked to the Unesco study. I wonder who Mexico beat out.
This is the essence of what is wrong with copyright law: "Apple paid $21 million for a clock design."

I believe in the value and importance of design, but the money/value ratio of design IP has gotten out of hand.
I like to point out, when faced with that argument, that they are right! We didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved with them from a common ancestor! That doesn't seem to help though...
Thank you, I can relate to that, as I lost my grandfather in similar circumstances.
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Evolution is the result of multiple forces. Mutation and gene flow add variation to a population (mutation creates variation; gene flow imports it from elsewhere). Selection and drift change the ratios of existing variations (selection chooses the "best"; drift is random fluctuation between equally viable variations.) When two different subgroups of a population go through the process separately, over time they can diverge enough to no longer be able to interbreed, and therefore become separate species.

There are those who believe selection works within a species, while simultaneously believing the process as a whole breaks down or is inadequate on some larger scale.
This is wonderful ! The very limited Finder was the thing that I found most annoying with OSX.

Finally having tabs in Finder is almost cheating. Humans were not supposed to have a taste of tabs on OSX. I'm sure this XtraFinder technology was stolen from aliens or from a time traveler's Apple laptop dating from 2033.
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I am developer at Ion Torrent. If you want to help hack the future of medicine, I am looking for Python and Django hackers to join my team in San Francisco. We are a totally open source shop.

We also need awesome electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, signal processing engineers, CUDA hackers, FPGA developers, statisticians (we use R too), bioinformatics folks, JavaScripters, UI people, distributed systems engineers, documentation and developer evangelists, DevOps and SREs, and testers. Not to mention all the wet lab bio stuff.

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Unfortunately, it certainly seems like there are a lot of them. "Types are pointless because you have unit tests" is a common refrain from the dynamic language camp.
dealextreme actually ships pretty quickly. I've ordered items from California and had them in my hand 5 days later, using their free shipping option.
I remember that this is how Mac menus worked vs Windows menus!
You do have an ambiguous description - so my answer here is very general. Feel free to e-mail me (see my profile page) for a deeper discussion.

My instinct is that you are getting a decent amount of ad revenue, and that you might be able to get more - but it will likely require a whole bunch of experimentation to figure that part out.

I would instead focus on the other opportunities: driving more users, and generating other forms of revenue.

You likely will be able to 2-4x your users by experimenting with SEO and Social traffic sources. Also, 2M page views means you likely have a lot of users that you can try to get them to interact with the site more - that interaction will likely result in them coming back and getting more users (via) facebook.

With regards to revenue your simplest bet could be with thinking about different affiliate programs - you might want to approach relevant companies even though they might not have an explicit program.

If you have a specific niche of users, then you can likely drive up ad revenues more, but even if not you can try segmenting your users giving them a little more reason to stay and finally targeting them differently for higher ad rates.
Not trying to brag.

I was hired for a short-term contract where i was clearly smarter than the manager. He admitted it in the beginning but then started defaulting. I got on very well with my peers and my associate manager pushed hard to get the CEO "out of the way" but he wouldnt budge. All he did was try to clamp everyone down and act from a place of fear. As you can imagine things didnt go so well. I had to leave.

I now have two guys working on a side project that are both smarter than me. I do my best to get out of their way.
Working with the standard library logging module does make me feel like I have stepped out of Python land temporarily. But it does its job, and once it is configured for a project, I don't really think about it again.

Also, the maintainer of the module, Vinay Sajip, is on Stack Overflow and regularly answers logging questions.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=python+logging&...
Valve's Steam Box races the PS4 and Xbox 720 to market?
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going to get out of touch with the code, unless you have some phase where you are going to review them in depth

I think treating comments as something that's done in a separate phase is the wrong mindset. Comments should be integral part of code and therefore change whenever the relevant code changes.
Kids love the Apple store so much they pee on the seats
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