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I like reading about startups but I like building things more. I started my first serious attempt a week or so back and aim to get a scrappy release in peoples hands within the next 2~3 weeks. It'll lack a lot, but hopefully it'll give me a foothold to build other things.
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Researchers Critique Today's Cloud Computing
It's time to move beyond those squiggly letter tests.
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Does anybody wish Gmail had an API? That would be oh-so-sweet.
Pittpatt definitely has the best face-detection algorithm I've seen in any commercial/opensource system. The algorithm they use can be found in these papers:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hws/

Maybe someday they'll get ported into openCV to replace the current detector which doesn't handle frontal features well.
Pushing against a brick wall won't move the wall -- but if you do it long enough, it'll make you stronger.

The point is that it's good to reach beyond your grasp every once in a while. And when you're trying, you can't always tell if the thing you're grasping for is too far away. You just reach.
Ask HN: What criteria do you evaluate cloud platforms options  on?
I want to deploy an app(dealing with personal records) on a scalable platform. So security is an important aspect. I started with appengine but i needed SSL support so from what i gathered it doesn't have that.

Anyhow, there are various other options such as Joyent, Salesforce to some infrastructure platforms like Amazon EC2. At a high level there's certain amount of feature overlap among them too. So, i was wondering how do you decide or what are the points that i should look at while considering each platform? Also, currently i don't have any restrictions/apprehensions on using any technology/languages etc.

In other words are there any "Gotcha's" for the ones that i mentioned? Or other ones that i should look at as well?
It has. It is called IMAP. Joking aside, what would you want in API ? Search is something that gmail does better than most clients so that should be there
I like the tiny Apple wireless keyboard, because it leaves more space for written notes on my desk. People obsess about about monitor size to get space on their virtual desktops, but what about the space on your real desktop?
GMail does have an API and it's called IMAP.

You just need to write a wrapper class to retrieve whatever info you need from the mail servers over IMAP vs a usual data API.
Be sure to unplug and if it's an old crt, wait for an hour or so - those tubes can carry a heck of a static charge!
If you are considering cloud computing, then I guess you have worked out the reach of your application. If you haven't (i.e. you don't know what's the user growth rate), then you don't need cloud computing (yet). Just get a VPS with Slicehost or Linode to start with.
Conversations. You know, that threading-done-right they have that people love -- with a few holdouts -- but that no other email client has yet done correctly (and, no, an indented list of message titles isn't nearly the same thing, nor is IMAP THREAD's "same subject? Must be the same thread!").

There's a fair amount of deduction goes into Gmail's conversation ordering -- it's quite hard to fool -- and an API that allowed you to treat conversations as the primary unit instead of messages would be great.

This article is right that the inbox needs to get smarter, and GMail is the closest to it yet. But while they're furiously adding frills around the outside, they've made very little changes of the sort suggested. Even easy things are missing: eg, why can't I click on a "from" header and automatically see all messages sent from that person?

In fact, it's mostly small changes like this that could bring GMail much closer to what the author is looking for. Sure, being able to pull in Facebook interactions isn't going to happen, but a desktop client could certainly do that. Which brings us back to hoping for a GMail API.
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One of my email accounts if full of activation/verification emails, forum notifications, auto reply notifications, etc.
"If something could crash XP, it should be able to crash W7 transparently through VXP"

Pretty sure users are going to be willing to give up a degree of entanglement to both be able to run their XP apps and have a system that doesn't crash. That alone would be an incentive to upgrade to W7.

Classic on OS X worked the same way, too: a Classic app could take down the entire Classic environment, but OS X would safely charge on apace. This was definitely something that helped drive people to upgrade.
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What the author's real issue appears to be here - which they don't quite articulate, but which is lurking in there - is really simple. We use email for two things nowadays: interpersonal communication and event notifications. The fact that they both end up in our inboxes is more by accident than by design, and a really good email client should probably separate the two to some degree.
Of course, it's not all environmental.

I live in Kansas. There's a long-running feud going (several years now) over permits to build several coal-fired power plants in the western part of the state; the legislature keeps passing bills ordering the permits to be granted, and the governor keeps vetoing them (thus far the legislature's been unable to get enough votes to override her).

While various folks here love to complain that it's just some sort of environmental agenda being pushed by our (liberal) governor, there's a powerful economic reason to say no to these plants: although they'll be built in Kansas, although they'll use resources from Kansas, although they'll dump pollution into the air and water of Kansas, not one single watt of power from them will go to homes or businesses in Kansas (the plants, if they're built, will be built by out-of-state power companies to produce electricity which will be used elsewhere, mostly in Colorado).

Which raises a valid question: if Kansas is going to bear the cost of having these plants, why shouldn't Kansas get any of the benefits? They won't generate nearly enough jobs to cover the impact they'll have on the state in other ways, so I don't see how any sound economic argument can be made in their favor.

From what reading I've been able to do on the subject of power-plant construction, it seems Kansas isn't alone in facing this sort of situation. Though it may feel like a variation on NIMBY, I think it's entirely reasonable for one state to ask why it should bear costs while another reaps benefits, and to refuse to enter such an obviously one-sided deal.
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Before you build an application, you need to learn how to build it.

Starting a startup requires much knowledge, not very much, but reading a lot, can help you avoid mistakes other had made when they started their startup.

Reading intensively can be unuseful, because you'll forget what you have read.

So make a plan, read about the things you planed to do. Don't be shy to ask the community, sometimes you'll get downvoted, but a time you'll get a gold comment, that have important information that may change your startup.

Planning is the most important, not to loose time. Some courage and START!
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I personally love that people associate the end of the Mayan short calender (most people claim it as their predictive end of the world, when in reality their long calender ended millions of years in the future) with the end of the world. The Mayans associated the end of the short calender as a party, because a new b'ak'tun was to them like the new millennium was to us.

We're about to hit the 13th b'ak'tun, which some people claim is the end of the calender. However, it's generally regarded the count is supposed to go up to 19 b'ak'tun (they counted 0). Incidentally the end of the 20 b'ak'tun will be in the year 4,376.

What all the end of the world nuts are too ignorant to see when they obsess over these things, is that despite the end of their calender being thousands of years in the future, they'd already fixed the problem. There's four larger integers in their calender: piktun, kalabtun, k'inchiltun, and alautun. If the b'ak'tun is in fact a cycle of 20 then each of these are also a cycle of 20. This puts the end of the world about 400 million years away, which is probably very close to when the Earth will actually be uninhabitable as in about 1 billion years the sun will have gotten so hot that the oceans will have evaporated.

I give no credence to this guys argument, first he has no clue how the Mayan calender works, just like all doomsayers, they only see what they want. The fact that the earth hasn't ended in the 23 previous solar cycles that we've recorded, seems to lend credence that the 24th won't end it either. Just because it's the end of the Mayan short calender doesn't make it in the least bit more special.

My prediction, this is another load of bunk, just like the predictions that the world would end in 1999, 2000 and pretty much every year.
And where is FORTH ?
Yes, as usual the Google team does a good job.

Then why do I get nervous when they start taking over one more aspect of web experience? Is it concern that eventually "do no evil" will succumb to "maximize return to shareholders"?

Is it the spector of a "What microsoft is to control over OSes, Google shall become to web experiences?"

[ Your reasoned assurances are welcome. ]
It is simpler to separate the inboxes than to separate the mails.
Ask HN : Best location for new freelancer
I decided to try freelancing while studying on university. I plan to work as a developer and study programming in the same time to develop my knowledge. That's a decision.

I live in Tunisia, where I can't get a Paypal account, a credit card and also there's no much opportunities for freelancers here. In university, I'm more (much more) competent that profesor them selfs. Another problem, you can't work here without degree, employers don't look on what you have in hand, but on the papers you get.

So I decided to change location and study in another country. The problem, I can't select one. I don't know which one is best.
Some people says the USA, but others says that it's expensive. Another problem is to get VISA.

I'm looking for idea and suggestions, if you have such experience in travelling, I'm looking for a place

* Not very cheap, not expensive, a total spending of $1,000 a month is good for me.

* I can easily get Paypal, credit card. Also there's a good internet connection

* Good and serious universities, also more IT opportunities.

* Mental Capital people (cyber mind), that I can meet and do mutual projects.

Does any one have an idea, please?

If you have an article, report, or anything useful in the internet, please point to it.
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Please keep religion-bashing out of hn.
Did you consider France ? You're Tunisian, you can probably speak a good french and you'd be able to join a french university to study programming.
I second reading a book, way more relaxing.
As for the bed-lamp- I used a extended line with a double-switch and use it very near to my bed, that way when it's time to sleep, it is effortless to switch off
I wouldn't want a bunch of unknowns taking photographs of me. I don't want to imagine a society that take photos of each other without your permission.

Just go ask politely their name or something if you defenetely need to know.
I was told by a German that in Europe, it's hard to find an IT Job in Europe
i use apple pro keyboard (the one which has 2 usb slots) on ubuntu

i dropped it like maybe 100 times for the past 3 years or so, it breaks but none of the button breaks. it's easy to reattach loose button to keyboard (yes, even the space-bar)

it's always wise to invest on keyboard, you are practically married to it ... just don't buy new (mine's used, bought like Sing$10)

if you're opposed to buying used, think about it ... you test the used kb, find it's usable, nothing breaks ... what that tells you? ... the used kb has stood the test of time and abuse for years ... then marry her
Haven't had a TV with capability to watch broadcast for 1,5 years now. Love the way it has freed up time for other activities (sports, reading, browsing), which I actually like more.
Interestingly, IMVU had the same issue: many of their target customers didn't have a credit card, and apparently they were able to get mobile phone payment to work for them [www.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/handouts/IMVU_Case_Draft.pdf]

But you're right, you need some way of differentiating among your players; some have money and some don't. If you try to charge everyone you lose those who don't want to pay, but if you charge no one then you lose the revenue (and the benefits that would come to the site and for your players if you had revenue) that you'd get from the players who could pay.

What about a premium service? Anything nifty you could offer to paying customers, while the basic game remains free?
Check my delicious bookmarks, I have a few stored for precisely this:
http://delicious.com/search?context=userposts&p=fonts...

IMHO the best in that list is probably: http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/45-beautiful-free-fo...
Of couples and copulas
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That's why his qualifying of his advice of taking risk is excellent. Take risk sure, but not stupid risk. I know now you have passed the time, but in your case to apply the advice would have been: spend time on your start up sure, but don't ignore your degree, things do go wrong more often than not and to have a safety net is not a bad idea at all.
The world is at your fingertips

And you will never find out what part of the world your fingers should work on until you get down and dirty and actually try stuff rather than just complain.

I have a friend, he is my age and he manages to keep up with so many stuff from directing to explorations in Egypt, I see that only as someone to be admired and if he can do it then sure so can I. I envy him of course, but I am sure he envies me about some stuff too. I guess there are many ways to succeed, graduating for many is one such way, for the guys here I think what success is, is spending time efficiently and constructively, preferably in some niche.
Yes, and the associated book (CTM, http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html) is excellent, in much the same way as SICP. It's an in-depth tour of several major programming paradigms. They show relevant parts of Oz used for, say, lazy evaluation or OO, and then talk about the paradigm's strengths, how it affects reasoning about programs using it, etc. The writing is very clear, without shying away from being challenging.

There's a PDF draft version online (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3108#comment-45392), but after a chapter or so I decided to just get the hardcover.
Hi ahoyhere,

Thanks for the advice. I'll digest your comments and see what bits I can tweak. Hopefully, the end result is I get to ship soon!

BTW, freckle is a nice app. It helps to have have legendary Thomas Fuchs et all on your team.

Love it if you and team can evaluate my app for me?

dave
It's Saturday morning here in the UK. I can barely see because my eyes are suffering the ill effects of a hard day of coding on my start-up yesterday. I should be in bed. Or I should be outside enjoying the sun. Or giving my wife some attention. Instead, I am damaging my eyes even more, by being here. Yes, I do love reading about startups. More than doing one? Nah. That's a bit like loving women but not doing one...
Looks like PayPal is now available in Tunisia,

http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/thread-view.asp?...

Also the article mentions MoneyBookers. Can you make something that the people around you want?
Can you pass this JavaScript test?
Would you mind letting us in on a rough number of accounts that have been obviously abandoned?
Why so ridiculous? Those .01% often have a vastly disproportionate impact on the rest of the society, so it only makes sense to have special rules for them.
Gmail has filters. Use them.

"if subject contains analytics apply label alert"

"if subject contains facebook skip the inbox"
the site's design is unique
I've never seen Outlook's conversation view get things wrong.
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Conversations. You know, that threading-done-right they have that people love -- with a few holdouts --

Oh, you mean that useless representation that breaks down as soon as a third party gets involved and that google forces upon us even in their abysmal "groups" product that everyone insists on using nowadays?

Referring to conversations as "threading done right" is the worst joke I've heard in a while. It's subset of what most e-mail clients already do with their collapsible threading based on message-id and subject and could be trivially added to same mail clients without loosing the advantages of real threading.

The reason why that hasn't happened (except in niche products) is because most people just don't consider it a worthwhile feature. It has actually done more harm than good to the e-mail ecosystem because it encourages TOFU which annoys the hell out of people using regular mail clients and completely blows up on mailing lists.

Edit: I just learned that outlook apparently has a conversation view. Well, why am I not surprised...
Heroine is worth 10 times more. Pick your merchandise right.

The effort and jail time is the same, the profits much much better.
I'm not sure why MS doesn't distribute the public releases over a P2P network. They would be able to support many more people downloading with less bandwidth problems.
Ask HN: Moldable plastic for products?
I'm a hardware guy with a product I'd like to sell. Mass manufacturing of the circuit won't be a problem, but the plastic it's mounted in looks like it will be. I don't need a 3d printing service, I'd like a cheap (under $300), preferably DIY method of making and mass-producing plastic shapes. Any ideas?
It's never failed me on multiple-party messages, and it's especially useful on mailing lists. What it isn't is a subset of threading. The crucial difference -- and this is why it can't be "trivially" added to mail clients -- is that it treats a conversation as a fundamental unit, not a message.

That means I see the entire back-and-forth on one page, including my replies, not a basket full of subject lines I have to click through. Even just getting my replies into a thread seems beyond most mail clients that I've seen (short of a client-killing smart basket that includes my monster sent mail folder).

Still, though, I did say there were holdouts. Hi there.
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Go lowtech and use shapelock or plasticene for prototyping. It's amazing how much you can do with plasticene, playdoh and other similar products. Some of the top design firms start out this way (ideo & frog from memory).

Make some things and see how they "feel" with your product. At this stage you need to forget about styling and worry about how it acts.

Then once you know what you want the product to feel like (even test it with potential customers), then make it look nice. There are plenty of people who can do that step for you, but the next step is usually a rapid prototype after designing in 3d for product testing.
And both are simple to simulate :)
Do you have a citation for "Microsoft pressuring hardware makers not to offer XP drivers?" I'm sure they are pressuring them into offering Vista/7 drivers but I'd be surprised if they were telling them to stop offering XP drivers.

People want maximum benefit for minimal investment. My friend just bought a 2005 Corolla instead of a 2009 Corolla. The 2009 model is much better, but it isn't 225% better to match its cost. It is the same thing with XP and Vista. There really are a lot of important benefits to upgrading to Vista from XP and from IE6 to IE8. But, people aren't convinced that it is worth the cost of upgrading. Especially now that Windows 7 is around the corner, nobody wants to roll out a new Vista deployment that is already obsolete. Instead, the companies that avoided upgrading are going to save a lot of money upgrading directly to IE8/Win7. And, they are probably not going to upgrade from IE8/Win7 for another 5-10 years.

By the way, the #1 reason for having this virtualized XP feature is to run IE6 inside of Windows 7. Some companies that didn't upgrade their internal web apps to with with IE7/IE8 are going to save a lot of money because of that.
what do you mean by "TOFU"?
"Try something you’re 99% certain you’ll fail at. Sign up to speak in front of a crowd. Enroll in classes you don’t have the prerequisites for."

Doesn't sound like fun for the crowd or the teacher...
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Hate that I missed announcement... My usability-expert friend speaks highly of its collaborative features.
I sure wouldn't mind test-driving it for a year for $5 ... so if any of you are willing to put in a vote on that link it'd save us a bundle - and maybe give a boost to a still-young start-up.
We're using Confluence, Crucible, Fisheye, and Jira at our non-profit startup (no one says profits have to be all about the money :) and can't praise them highly enough. They're must-haves and motivate quality software development.
Perhaps. Although there is, I would suggest, an element of problem solving with programming that doesn't seem to apply with poetry. Most projects I start are chosen because I feel that that particular app needs making, that the problem in question needs solving. I enjoy programming by itself, but whenever I do it there is almost always a sense of purpose, if not of necessity.
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