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While a lot of this may seem obvious to people who have promoted multiple projects, I think having all of the advice laid out in a simple guide is very helpful. I recently released my first open source side project [1], and realized I didn't really know what to do to promote it beyond trying to get some exposure on HN (which failed). I'm going to try some of this advice this week, starting with picking a better name!

[1]: http://jarwol.com/aTable/
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True, but just measuring carbon dioxide for the whole planet does show a distinct seasonal variance and that's for the reasons previously stated - there's a lot of land mass in the northern hemisphere and terrestrial plant life has a significant effect.

Possibly on exoplanets there might be similar asymmetries, or the asymmetry of an elliptical orbit. Seasonal variation in atmospheric gasses aren't necessarily a certain sign of life since there could be other non-biological causes, but they're a big clue.
Some of the EIPs suffer from the same 'head-in-the-sky' issues as the GoF design patterns, but there's a few that have come in handy (like the idempotent receiver!).

The link to Apache Camel is a bit more informative with actual examples with code snippets.
I'm truly amazed that this made the top of Hacker News. A $5 decal that advertises services. We've officially come full circle. I hear that people have even tried approaching potential clients and talking to them and once one crazy person actually spent money on soliciting business in a printed periodical with somewhat widespread distribution.
I thought it was a new band :)

Wouldn't coffee shop owners use this to kick you out?
That's what I thought. So I'm having trouble understanding how I would apply bitwize's iron rule.
I was shocked to see 'hey.io' was just bought today.
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Strictly, I don't think he did; Dropbox is a big thing but it is not a "killer application" as I'd define it, ie. an application that people would buy a particular platform just to get. In the way that, say, Office is for Windows, or Halo might be for Xbox (or so I hear).

Of course, it's kind of irrelevant to Dropbox; they don't have a horse in the platform race, so they're supporting all the major ones and doing very well, but they're not a killer app for any one of them. I don't think that proves that it couldn't ever have been a killer app, but it looks unlikely now that it'll be the case.
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Lot's of currency's have died in my lifetime, consider just what the introduction of the euro did. But also a lot of things like game near currency's like bitcoin have also gone the way of the dodo. Limiting things to just national currency's and going back say 500 years you find well over 90% of all currency's that existed back then or where introduced in the meantime have died.
A/B Testing Rigorously Without Losing Your Job - B. Tilly - http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part1-rigo...

20 Lines of Code that Will Beat A/B Testing Every Time - S. Hanov - http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132

These are the ones I've read recently. If I remember any others, I'll update.
I assume that the orbits of most planets is not perfectly circular and that the axis of rotation is not usually perfectly aligned with that of the host star.
A few ways.

1. People seem to find side-by-side diffs easier to read than the Track Changes compare functionality built into Word, because the old and new versions don’t get mashed together.

2. Usability. Draftable is easier to use than the inbuilt functionality. (You’d be surprised how many people don’t even realize that Word can compare documents.)

3. You get more control over Track Changes and the comparisons. For example, Word can't create a comparison that preserves the existing Track Changes. Another example: we have a button “Track Changes Since Open” which makes it as if you’d turned on Track Changes when the document was opened.
I believe it's also a good preparation for the domain extensions that'll be releasing out in the wild later this year. There's hundreds in contention. It could heavily factor into Google's "Did you mean domain.com?" handling where they assume you searched incorrectly for an alternate gTLD, cTLD, or ccTLD in some cases.
Our reason to use the Passenger Enterprise version is that it's the only truly reliable application server for Ruby that handles threads good enough. The administration tools and how it handles stuff like deployment upgrades to a huge application server are done remarkably better than in any other Ruby app server.

Update process loads our application once and forks it to all the workers like Unicorn does. Puma wanted to load the application as many times as we had workers, which caused a huge spike every time we deployed.

Same goes to the thread handling. It really seems Passenger is the only Ruby server able to handle massive loads with threaded Rails app. Money well spent.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly...

I've got to think that they'll see a pretty big influx of .io registrations today & over the next few days, I'm sure they're thrilled.

I also have the same reservations too, though -- although I applaud the reaction & speed, a big part of me wonders if it's really best suited for decisions like this.

What happens when some other TLD needs to be re-categorized the same? Where does it stop?

Is there any precedent to Google removing a domain from their 'gccTLD' list?

That'd be more scary / have a bigger potential impact on people I'd assume -- although I suppose they could just 'tweak' the TLD to not rank quite as high without doing as much publicly like this perhaps...
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It's not either/or. You generally need to learn from both.

The problem is social stratification. If you're a normal person, you end up mostly around people who didn't succeed and get only half the story. If you have a break-out success (or just luck) you end up in a world where everyone has, and there's a lot of self-congratulatory just-worlding. Either way, you get a biased account.

I think it's most adaptive to learn from both sides while playing the attitude of the successful, to make yourself seem like a high-status person. You always want to seem (except to true friends whom you'd actually like to help, with accurate information) like you've had an unbroken chain of successes and can't imagine anything else; you just don't want that to bleed into self-deception. Maybe the reason why psychopaths do so well in life is that they're most resistant against cognitive dissonance. It's easy for them to maintain a successful front without falling into self-deception or delusion. For everyone else, there's nonzero cognitive load in doing that.
Unfortunately, these logos probably work.
I go to coffee shops because it's close and a break from working from my otherwise empty apartment.
get something we already have, apply a use case nobody should care, make a nice website with a video and promote it like a great idea, overprice it = success.
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"Oh, it's that guy again."

The stuff some coffee shops put up with is truly bewildering.
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Even for a press release the TFA has woefully little real information. After digging around I did find this one article which has a little bit more on how this is supposed to work. http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/technology/solar-discovery-...
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Does it matter? Do you actually care about your spdycheck session?
I see their (mostly fake) stories nonstop, so apparently no one ever stops biting.
There's also those window stickers that adhere to a lot of things but peel off easily.
.io prices are coming down rather quickly. Gandi.net sells them for $40 apiece, and I wouldn't be surprised if it became available for half of that with some sort of promotion. I'm waiting to grab one when that happens.
Some usability feedback: It seems like the most useful information is contained in the links between nodes, but at first it was not obvious to me that they were clickable, or that clicking the text links at the bottom of node descriptions would actually show the 'link' description, rather than just taking me to the next node.

I'd recommend you make it clearer that the linking lines between nodes are clickable. Even better, rather than using a modal dialogue to display node contents, you could use a popover with an arrow pointing to it's owner. Clicking a link a the bottom of an item would simply move the popover, making the relationships between various items of content clearer.
Maybe you could make an app for laptops with a reverse-facing screen (http://blog.parts-people.com/2012/06/22/dual-display-laptops...).
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John Carmack also has a lot of praise for static analysis: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysi...
If anyone wants to cowork in Los Angeles, there's Droplabs.net near downtown, next to the Brewery, in a pretty cool freelance artist collective called Big Art Labs. (Disclaimer: I'm one of Droplab's founders.)
Yeah, there are some really interesting words that have been available way longer than I thought they would be.
Have you considered data centers located in North America at some point?
Draftable for Word lives right in the Word ribbon, with native Word rendering of the documents. You get a side-by-side view of the documents with deleted and inserted text highlighted, and synchronised scrolling. By not having to switch programs, it doesn’t break up your workflow.

It also works great with Track Changes, and has a handy “Changes Since Opened” feature, which saves a snapshot every time you start working.

Thanks for the question, and we hope you give it a try!

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Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something.

It doesn't mean anything; I bought this laptop & went directly to a conference, and just wanted it to look slightly distinctive, and the duct tape was all I had. It does cover the Apple logo so it looks like I hate Apple or something (I do hate excessive and ostentatious branding).

I kept it because I kept having conversations about it. Even baristas remember me as the guy with the X.

It's odd but I don't think a logo has any meaning any more, because real life turned into Nascar.
Thanks! Is that a pop usage, or do any professionals jokingly refer to it as such?
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In many cases, success comes from experience, and experience comes from failure. When you succeed, you don't really know why, exactly (luck plays a huge role and can mask many mistakes)--but when you fail you can at least guess why, because your trajectory differed from the successful one, and you can observe the difference between the expected path and the actual path at key points and draw some conclusions.
It's a basic principle of international law that a country can hold someone criminally liable for violating laws in that country, even if they did so from abroad, so long as the activity was specifically targeted at the country or had a major impact on that country. E.g. if you run a service that defrauds people from a country with lax fraud laws, but specifically advertise to people in the U.K., the U.K. is within its rights to hold you criminally liable under their fraud laws. This is most visible with financial crimes, which aren't uniform between countries.
To answer your question about what made me think you were taking that stance:

"it's better than nothing; and if it can protect one kid from an abusive situation, or one set of kids from their abusive situations, then that is wonderful."

The thing that made me think it was the lack of any qualification. It appeared to be (your follow-on comment repudiated that, obviously) a case where, if you protect one kid, regardless of the consequences, it is wonderful.

Taking this discussion back to the kids, I think it should be possible to do things to help kids, even one kid, that don't have potential downsides, but it requires the people who are performing the actions to be more likely to do it for the kids and less likely to do it for themselves.

Politicians seem to fail continually at this; the ad might be a positive (I have no data) but it leaves me uncomfortable that somebody is targeting my kids directly with something I can't see.

Something tells me is isn't the last "message hidden from mom and dad" that will be directed at kids. But is it worse than "Remember to drink your Ovaltine"?
I bet you did not create StackOverflow nor have a successful company.
You know what? I'm gonna start doing this.

This is a tool that could help improve journalism in some circumstances. It would help society as well as biz if someone made this.
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How is it a counterpoint exactly?
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Agreed, and also failed to promote my project a few times on HN. In January I've decided to take a different route and promote on /r/javascript instead and all of a sudden it got bumped to number 1. Got picked up by tbranyen and eventually jashkenas.

Oh, BTW, my Backbone-based grid clocks in only 6.2K minified and gzipped :) Much better documentation too. No column resizing and reordering at the moment, but working on it for the next version :P

http://backgridjs.com/
Are you targeting your activities in Ireland or India or Israel?

You can't just read out the "target people in the country/have a major impact on people in the country." If you're operating say a financial services website, and specifically allow users from Ireland to sign up, or advertise to users in Ireland, should you be surprised if you have to abide by Irish banking laws?
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This is an excellent post with excellent links. I hope more will follow.
It's less than a month old. Do you expect overnight success?
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I thought that as well.

Also, I can't think of any .ms sites yet that is listed there. Even a google seasrch of site:.ms doesn't seem to show up anything that sticks out... maybe a few music related sites using it as the 'music' tld?
I've written and thought about this a lot, and focused a bit on alignment. ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/gervais-macle... ) My bias is chaotic, so I tend to think that people are a little better (morally speaking) than neutral, but that institutions tend to become a little bit worse. It's not a huge gap. The average person might be a moral C+ and the average organization might be C-.

As you said, people tend to become biased in their views based on success or failure. People who succeed tend to overestimate how good they are, and how good the world is. People who fail tend to underestimate one or both (the "one" case being a defense mechanism).

It takes a real mix of experiences to pick up the nuances, which include not only an accurate view of the average person and institution, but also the tools to assess them.

So why does failure bring slightly (and, really, just slightly) more wisdom?

I tend to think that people will on average improve with experience, so both the successful and failed person will become better humans if they learn the right lessons. This means that conclusions-about-self aren't as useful as conclusions-about-world because the self changes and can be improved. However, the array of institutions out there doesn't seem to change in quality. The failed person has been exposed to a more accurate sampling of human organizations and is more likely to have an accurate understanding of how they work.

I almost feel like some successful people deliberately portray a naive worldview (when, in fact, many are experienced and cynical like everyone else) because they want the social status that comes with being assumed to have had only positive experiences.
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I took Alan Edelman's 18.337 class (Parallel Supercomputing) at MIT a few years ago, and on the first day he brought in some boards that had been used in the original Connection Machine - it was like looking into a piece of living history to see circuits that had been influenced by Feynman. Fantastic article!
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> psychopaths do so well in life

Do they?
Reply to mattacular, whose comment was deaded:

Idempotence (literally "same power) in a REST API means a given request produces the same result whether you execute it once or multiple times. Given the URL:

/resource/1

Whether you execute the DELETE method on that resource once or ten times, the resource is deleted. Therefore, it is idempotent.
We're planning to do this eventually, but we're focusing on EU right now.
To the OP:

Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain.

In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't get that many with one domain and you also are preventing anyone who wants to get in touch with you from contacting you.

Also, why should someone give you money if you don't even have any info as to who you are that they can trace on your website? (which to repeat I like the idea).

Registrars (I run an ICANN registrar) typically push privacy because it's good for them. I've seen privacy on records with businesses that want the exact opposite.

Anyone who disagrees please post your thoughts and I will address them individually based on my years in this business. (I'd actually like to hear new reasons why people do this that I haven't heard before).
He was arrested in New Zealand under NZ law by NZ police. Should we do something about their government and laws?
Most of his examples are using copy and paste of the logo and none of the companies claim that there are 'secure' by using that logo.

It's more of a conversion/marketing tactic as it's well known that showing such badge on your checkout page increases revenue.
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Right below this sticker you should probably list your hourly rate, otherwise you're making yourself a magnet for the wrong kinds of clients.
> . . . by preventing them from carrying weapons onto those planes. Yes? So, going back to my original questions, if the screenings are security theater, according to your definition, they should be 100% ineffective at that job without any attempt at circumvention.

This is wrong on several levels: first, it ignores the fact that security screenings existed prior to the establishment of the TSA. So the TSA screenings could have no value for actual security without being 100% ineffective, if they were no more effective than the preexisting screenings.

And second, because something can be security theater and still have some positive effect on security, if that positive effect is both not its primary motivation and not remotely warranted by the cost.

Security theater doesn't mean that there is no gain in security, it means that the security function is pretextual and any security effect is incidental.
I do both.

Debugging CSS is much less fun than using a proven multiplatform C++ toolkit. Only when node.js got popular I could write the ever reliable callbacks in my web code, while I use them all the time in C++.

But of course there are more people who can write web apps than people who can add this symbol at the end of the line -> ;
What will the SEO effects of this be to existing .io site?
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I've been writing this in my spare time. It's a cross platform terminal client which lets you draw graphics inline using Regis. This means you can quickly plot data using gnuplot without and serverside support.

It also lets you render PNG graphics inline by streaming it as base64 encoded data. Which I find handy for displaying email attachments from mutt.

It's open source, and a iOS version is available for 99c (though you can also compile it yourself of course). I hope to make a Cydia version available if the project gets any traction.

At this stage I'd love feedback, bug reports and of course users to push me to do more development.
I wonder how much CPU it really uses. The Firefox PDF viewer always makes my CPU usage jump almost to the top.
As smart? No. As familiar with the level of math they're at? Yes.
Thank you for the response!

I'll keep an eye out for your US launch! Competition is a good thing.
> so there is no need for contractors to compete with one another

Why would buyers desire this?
Valid doesn't mean much, is it good markup? Millions of useless nested divs with class names describing the tags that should have been used instead of div is valid html, and also terrible.
But it's not always about professional connections IMHO. This sticker has the potential to signal 'geek/programmer', and I would very much welcome a fellow hacker coming up to me and having a chat because of it. I agree that it seems like a so-so way of getting quality clients.

@spqr Your comment is informative, but your account has been hellbanned for quite a while it seems. Only users with showdead can read your replies. Maybe you'd like to look into that.
Absolutely, but it's not Zuckerberg's generation that created them.
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This organizes a lot of thoughts I've had regarding the economic history of the 20th century. It seemed that something really changed in patterns of invention and investment somewhere in the late 70s, whereby - as Peter notes - big ideas and making plans became considerably less fashionable.

I hadn't made the connection to the surge of effort in law and finance, but it's a convincing argument.

The real question, then, is: Can we return the western economies to an optimistic-deterministic point of view? It would require really reframing a lot of public debate - or perhaps taking discourse elsewhere from regulated airwaves where the established players seem to worship an utterly indeterminate world view, as evidenced by continuous coverage of uncontrollable events.
Anyone have a plugin that prevents ST2 from showing the contents of binary files? For example, clicking on a JPG in the sidebar shows the contents, requiring you to somehow close the window before you can continue.
Someone should order some for the guys in the ISS.
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Thank you. I regularly need to side-by-side compare word document versions. I still have no idea why MS doesn't just offer this functionality.
I'm currently working on something close: location based notes.

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