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I see problems with all three approaches. The Wii U depends mostly on casual gamers, but the best casual gaming device for most people is the iPad Mini.

Never underestimate the power of Pokemon though. That alone can potentially change the tides.
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Why we need real cryptography instead of passwords
"Forcing me to take vacation when I'd rather have more salary, is wrong."

You have a weird idea of what's "wrong."

What's wrong is American companies that have created this environment where employees feel guilty to stay home when they have the fucking flu or take a week or two off to spend time with their families on vacation. These are the companies that ostensibly offer paid time off benefits.

Then there's the vast majority of the working poor who don't even get this option, so they're screwed when they or their kids get sick or they're at the end of the rope and just need a break. It's not even just pay either -- unpaid sick time can result in getting fired.
'Your margin is my opportunity"
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"And the Xbox One’s heavily pushed smart-TV integration features seem to be designed for an imaginary world in which people browse the web on their TVs instead of the (non-Microsoft) smartphone in their pocket. "

I don't think I've read a more accurate summery of the Xbox One than the above quote.
Obviously a GET has variables and a POST doesn't (that's why they are called "GET variables")

[I've encountered this belief more than once working with PHP developers. I would hope that the answer was closer to something demonstrating knowledge of HTTP as a protocol.]
Pandoc - a universal document converter
And shy people may not even have a FB account (like me).
Notability is in the eye of the beholder. I look at them both as notable products.

Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones are notable to a certain set of people. However, they are probably not notable to a large swath of South American tribespeople or even the 7+ billion people on Earth at large. This doesn't mean they aren't notable people in certain contexts.

Now, once again, Marco is writing an article to his audience, and his audience is aware of Tumblr and Instapaper and they find those products notable.

It's notable to his audience. Is this really that hard for you to figure out? Or do you have some personal anger/beef with Marco?
> My personal opinion is that fashion is a gigantic waste of time. In any and all venues.

In my own (one person, non-experimental) experience, it significantly changes the way people interact with me. That can make a huge difference over time.
I don't think it's the size specifically that makes an impact. For me, the main question is why load a library to do something that is pretty straightforward with the existing APIs. Most DOM manipulation is just as easy. AJAX can be more complicated, but it depends on your needs.
Anyone else impressed by Pud's ability to ship as a solo dev?
It's illegal to make and possess snuff films. It's not illegal to watch them. It's a legally vast distinction.
Hell I'm 25 and struggled with some of those font sizes. I probably do need to get my prescription altered, however.
Ask HN: Rails devs, will you be using Turbolinks on your next Rails project?
Pokemon is mostly a mobile/handheld title. The new Pokemon X and Y games are for the 3DS, not the Wii U.

The Wii U may make a comeback when an original Mario or Zelda game comes out for it.

The mistake Nintendo continues to make (which it made previously with the Game Cube) is releasing a new console without a "Oh my god I have to play this!" game.

So far Sony and Microsoft have not announced "Oh my god I have to play this!" games, either. At least, IMHO.
Agreed.

I do not use Facebook. I won't sign into a service with Facebook.

For professional work, I'd far rather use Github as my auth provider. :-)
While running the sample nodejs code, it opened a virtual terminal with the message "Building application in a new virtual machine" - Are you actually creating a new virtual machine for every app that is run? Isn't that resource-consuming?
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I just wanted to let you guys know that there are a few issues with the execution system due to the load we got from HN.

We're on it right now.
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First of all, declaring failure at this point is so ridiculous that I'm pretty sure that the only purpose of your blog post is to advertise that "Iron Conversion" thing.

Second, Reddit and adwords aren't the only marketing strategies out there, especially when it comes to small businesses. I mean, C'mon, how many small businesses owners turn to reddit in search for "inventory management app". Even more than that - how many business owners actually turn to the web to look for solutions?

I don't know how you imagine them, but small businesses owners aren't hackers.
They want solid solutions and they surely would be interested in something that solves a problem and is cheaper than their current solution.

As I see it, your only marketing strategy is phone calls. I mean, hundreds of them.
Just open Yellow pages and start making them calls.

Pitch your product, ask business owners about their problems with their current system, describe how yours would solve their problems. Try to get business owners interested, offer a free trial, ask for email addresses, do follow up -phone calls-.

I'll reiterate - small businesses owners aren't hackers.

Edit: I just saw this - "Online Inventory Management without the suck"? Seriously? I really want to know how you imagine your average customer (genuinely interested)
I find it Ironic that the dean at Harvard has the fortitude to step down when he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees (and yes I recognize that working for someone is not the same as being a citizen of a country), yet our elected leaders, when caught authorizing far more heinous eavesdropping, do nothing, not even so much as apologizing.

Whereas an institution MIGHT be able to justify such egregious violations of privacy, a government can have no such moral quandaries because of the exacting detail of our laws; and yet, here we are.

Steal a little and they call you a thief. Steal a lot and they call you King.
Yes, each app is run in a new virtual machine.
I doubt the providers would be interested in providing a bulk rate, because their business model isn't based on the constant consumption of content. In fact, if you're planning to constantly utilize all of those accounts, they likely ban your service.
Why is persuasion such a bad thing? He's absolutely in the persuasion game. So is everyone else. I see it as him acknowledging that and saying "you know, this is a position of power, I have a responsibility to use it for good, as I see it". Other people have a responsibility for how they react, too, of course. No-one is an island.

In particular, anyone who designs a user interface – which guides you to do thing A rather than thing B – is in the persuasion game. They're trying to shape your behavior for - hopefully - your own good. Blackhat UX is when the converse happens.

Facts are the domain of pure math. Everything else is conditional.
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I've actually built a custom inventory system for a customer, so I know the challenges you face from the engineering side. I'm also (co-)founding a startup, so I know your challenges from the product development side. However, my gut tells me that neither of these are your problem. Your problem is very clearly your website.

Your first image is nice and somewhat explanatory, but there's no call to action until the user scrolls at least once, and even then it is small and rather unnoticeable. I would say that the worst part is the wall of text that follows. No screen shots, nothing to play with, just a wall of text listing the features.

You have to draw the customer in with your coolest and/or most useful or unique features first. If they want to learn more, have a way for them to do that (take them to a "features" page or something), but your current layout is just way too intimidating.

And to reiterate what others are saying here, small business owners aren't always the most tech-savvy. Maybe your angle should be how dead-simple easy it is to use (way easier than anything out there, of course :)

I hope this helps, and good luck should you attempt to revive this project!
By saying 'us', I assume you're a small business owner?

Have you looked at OpenERP? What doesn't it do for you?
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> the Xbox One’s heavily pushed smart-TV integration features seem to be designed for an imaginary world in which people browse the web on their TVs instead of the (non-Microsoft) smartphone in their pocket.

This overlooks a use-case that is common in my home: browsing the web with others in the room. It happens all the time in my living room that there are multiple people present and we want to look up something online, or share something with the group. Yes, we could pass around or huddle in front of a tablet or phone, but using the HTPC is the best shared-experience solution.

It's for reasons like this that I'm (so far) heavily leaning towards the Xbox One as my preferred choice as my nextgen console. If it's as fluid of an experience as they led us to believe during the unveiling (which is a big if), the Xbox One will become the #1 used device in my home. It will be the best way to view content in my living room, without having to hunt for remotes or wireless keyboards or switching inputs. And yes, it will also play triple-a video games. Sign me up.
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thanks for the tips, especially the story boarding
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One note here - base-64 encoding a 256-bit string would result in a 44 character password (43 without padding).

It would be pretty cool if a 12 character password gave you 256 bits of entropy though :)
Those don't seem to be implemented yet.
Thanks, that does answer it! Good luck :)
Enforcement of property or contract laws != regulation

An uncorrupted legal system, as well as police force, are a necessity for healthy economic functions. Those are the two biggest things Somalia is lacking.
yup, I think they may have loosened their dress code for vendors by now
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It's so much better to use a database that only allows one autoincrementing value per record, or one TIMESTAMP and then only allows you to have either a create timestamp or an update timestamp without writing a trigger.

I prefer the way Oracle does it, you may have to do more work but it's more explicit and flexible that way.
I agree, 4 months to build, market, and sell. That's nothing. Remove the dev time and you're looking at what, 1-2 months? And considering your marketing isn't very strong and its all new to you, you can't expect results that tae. Adwords alone costs at least a thousand just to start getting an idea. And at least 3-6 months of experience.

If someone was coding for only a few weeks you'd probably tell them they just have the basics at best. A bit more than hello world but not much. The same is true with marketing ;)

It took me a year just to figure out marketing. The overnight successes you see on techcrunxh are either very lucky, its not their first time around (ie lots of experience), or have been working at it for a long time and you only see the last and exiciting part. Don't be fooled into thinking you can build something AND sell it in a few months.
"serving in a bread shop" = baker? Or at least "a woman serving in a bakery" :P
We're on a dictatorship kick today, it seems.
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Before I ever got another pair of eyes on the product, I had built every single feature. It took nearly a month to get it all together and ready for users.

So the product has only been around for 4 months, it only took a month to piece it together and get it ready for the public? Doesn't sound like you've failed to me, you've only just started. Starting a new company with no rapport with anyone isn't just going to burst onto the scene and people throw large amounts of cash, trust and praise at it. Marketing to small businesses isn't easy, you've got to build trust first.

And by the way just by launching the product instead of burning through savings and investment capital for a couple of years you've succeeded in that I've seen tonnes of ideas and startups fail because they couldn't get a product finalised and out the door for people to use. You've launched something, be proud and keep working at it.
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Really?

I guess I should've said "this is standard in most disciplines ... that I know about". I'm really surprised that it isn't done in physics!
Just out of curiosity. A real live application or a personal project. ?
Ah, Xbox 360. I love it for the unbreakable power supply unit that does excellent work powering DIY 3D printers worldwide :).
I am told the video of tonight's hearing will be put up on YouTube on Thursday at https://www.youtube.com/user/BATV1017. If I hear anything else, I will post here.
How so? The one time I was a referee I got the paper by downloading a PDF and sent in my comments by entering them into a form. That technology is newer than snail mail.
Your 'Clef' URL at the end is broken. Toss an https:// on the front.
If you plan on just building a product and waiting for small business owners to float by your web site to buy it then you are wasting time. Small businesses, at least initially until you become a well known brand, need direct marketing. And that will mean you have to pick up the phone and start calling. If you have a particular niche you are targeting then getting list of those businesses should not be hard.
Searches of e-mails are not clearly unconstitutional under our laws.
Why does 500 Startups' www point here?
Here's some free book lists

http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab...

I think the best single resource is Kevin Murphy ML text, but there's lots of relevant stuff on linear algebra, Bayesian analysis etc

______________

Here's a "curriculum"

http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/post/46864003608/a-practical-...

And look at the coursera courses by Koller, Andrew Ng, NLP by Collins etc
What's in your pocket?
> Enforcement of property or contract laws != regulation

Property and contract laws are compulsory rules backed by government force and, therefore, regulation in every meaningful sense.

They may be desirable regulation (even assuming a value system where regulation, but for certain special exceptional cases, is undesirable), but calling them "not regulation" is just an exercise in creatively redefining terms to prevent communication.
Men can wear the same OCBD with shorts or with a casual suit, I don't think there's really a formality gap issue in menswear.
woops! good catch.
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What? No.

> There is not a single exception. [of lack of economic freedom and economic prosperity]

Except China -- Mostly Unfree. And Brazil -- Mostly Unfree. And Argentina -- don't you know it's Repressed, of all things, according to Heritage's bullshit, yet still a G-15. And Russia -- Mostly Unfree.

You know, I just cannot fathom how someone could seriously say Bahrein is more free than Argentina, for any meaningful sense of the term. I mean, in Bahrein atheists are put to death, FFS. Just goes to show how intellectually bankrupt and self-deluded the Heritage Foundation is.

> a "class," in the Marxist sense: a bunch of people who all think alike. [...] I hope you don't justify punishing _me_ on the basis of your characterization of the "global business community."

I get you're a budding capitalist and all that, but you could at least read the philosophy of your enemies to criticize them. And stop victimizing yourself, while you're at it.

But I guess my main point is, congratulations, you took the noble, if largely unrealized, principles of the European forefathers, passed down since the Athenians through Robespierre, Paine, Marat, Jefferson, Bakunin, even Lenin... and then turned them in for the petty ideals of a shopkeeper.
> and it outputs a json serialized array as html

Actually, it renders a raw JSON response - a single object of 'unguarded' attributes (all by default) for the model with Content-Type: application/json set. It has nothing to do with HTML.

Your syntax is invalid too. To do what you want you'd actually call

return Model::where('asdf', 1)->first();
That is a interesting plan, it will require a few things though. Firstly you need a lot of clients to make it worth their while. Secondly you need the business ability to negotiate with medium to large companies.
The Dean of Harvard is stepping down not because there is anything illegal about her searching through the e-mails of faculty (your employer has every right to search your work e-mail), but because it was in bad taste in an academic institution which made the Dean ineffective as a figurehead. Similarly, there is nothing definitively illegal about the federal government asking Google to voluntarily hand over your e-mails. It is at best in bad taste.
"I think the concept behind supporting a general tax cut is that the supporter believes that the tax cut will not increase the debt load in the medium term because it will stimulate the economy"

History is pretty strong evidence that this idea is flatly wrong. So these tax cuts are a tax burden for someone else. I'd also argue that things like the large cut in the capital gains rate is not a tax cut that applies to most people. In fact, it's a rather targeted tax cut for the wealthiest.
Indeed - backed by court systems.

Those are basic legal regulations or established charter rights. Not economic regulation as the original commenter implied and this entire thread is debating.
To what? The article? Draft? There was a bad link to Draft in the article. It was fixed pretty quick.
Chris Dixon (and I'm sure many others) talked about it: http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...
All I can say is "ouch".
Ain't no party like the people's party because it's mandatory.
I have to disagree somewhat. The Wii released with Wii Sports which, despite being more a collection of mini-games, was definitely an "Oh my god I have to play this!" game.

When everyone you know, including your 85 year-old grandfather, is getting in on the bowling/tennis action you know Nintendo did something right.
One of the biggest problems in modern society is that most people are quantitatively illiterate and therefore poorly equipped to solve the problems of modern society.
> I think most people here got that.

Why are you assuming, or at least implying, that people who wish you wouldn't exert such an aggressive attitude, really just don't understand you and are stupid?
Fail, WSJ, epic fail. I stopped reading at: "Officials brought charges against a group of men who allegedly manufactured an Internet-based currency to launder about $6 billion in ill-gotten gains, a sign of authorities' rising concern with digital cash." These reporters seem totally and utterly confused.
I appreciate the clear description of local vs global illumination. This isn't quite what the article is discussing though.

Pixar have had a global illumination system in place at least since Up, and maybe earlier [1]. However, it was one that integrated with their rasterizer.

The article is now claiming that Pixar have switched to Raytracing exclusively, which really is actually a HUGE change, as Renderman only introduced raytracing at all with Cars 2. Every prior Pixar movie exclusively used a micropolygon rasterizer for rendering.

The article also claims:

> ray tracing is a relatively advanced CG lighting technique

Well, not really. Ray tracing - at least Whitted-style ray tracing - is about as simple as physically-based rendering gets. It's making it fast that gets complex, but it's possible to write a basic ray tracer in a few hours if you know what you're doing.

[1] http://graphics.pixar.com/library/PointBasedGlobalIlluminati...
If I was personally interested, and thinking about the purpose of the app, it's easy to understand that a connection with Facebook may be genuinely beneficial in this instance.

That Facebook is "for people who know you" means it's exactly where Let's Be Amigos can find other local, friendly second degree links. Twitter, LinkedIn, etc, with generally global and/or impersonal links, aren't as good source material for the stated goal.
We still get these via amazon prime. We actually get much more than $80 in prime instant videos and shipping.
Nice! A year ago I made a demo website that works pretty much the same way: http://sandbox.self.li/qr-login/
A big warning side for Silk Road and MtGox, I would guess.

If you let a large proportion of Bitcoin transactions become linked with illegal things like drugs, credit card fraud, and money laundering, the law will certainly figure out a way to shut it down.

So I guess the interesting question is how the Bitcoin community can police itself to ensure that these types of transactions (while ultimately not avoidable altogether) remain a minor part of the whole.
Just curious, are you guys building the FriendCode app by using FriendCode?
I find it kind of odd and off putting that Adobe makes you sign something to contribute to the project. I think the only proper way to do switches is by using checkboxes and CSS transformations [0] - their javascript solution is not desirable.

[0] http://www.larentis.eu/switch/
You should have kept reading. This might be a blurry sentence, but the rest of the article is pretty clear.
How would serving everything through SSL and "enforcing" workstation locks on people mitigate XSS and CSRF attack vectors? Requiring additional privilege elevation drastically reduces this.
We do have SSL certificates you're advocating for. I have two installed in my browser right now. No one but their issuers lets me log in using those.

I get the push for Cleft but fussing around to find my phone which is no more, and probably less, secure than my laptop is not really a win. It may be nice for shared workstations but those are largely on their way out. Nowadays, we have more computers around than people to use them.
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I don't list my interests on my facebook profile, nor do a great many of the people on my friends list. For some that is because they don't want facebook having this information, for others, they simple can't be bothered entering it.

I don't think you can classify this as "using it wrong".

It seems obvious that if I or a user like me were to use this service it wouldn't work very well, and would potentially devalue the service for other users (through poor matches).

The developer of the service is artificially limiting their market by only allowing Facebook Connect and they may have problems getting the necessary critical mass for the service to be useful as a result. I don't think it's trolling to make this observation.
You're right; I did 256/8 in my head and got the obviously wrong result of 8 rather than 32.
Never understood why people follow this notion. All gaming consoles are for casual gaming (relax on the couch, turn on, play , stop). The number of FPS' don't make a good indicator to distinguish between "hardcore" and casual.
If you use eight different email addresses to buy each bundle, then you get a glimpse of their A/B test for newsletter subjects: Got lots of "Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 8" and one "Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 8: Name your price for seven amazing games!" and one "Lock, stock, and 7 smoking games: Humble Indie Bundle 8 is here!"
Why would you want to lose your accent? Accents make people sound more interesting