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Show HN: Allcni.com
A Secret Society for Social Media

Allcni is like FriendFeed, but membership is restricted so only individuals/organizations with their own verified domain may register. Allcni uses a newspaper style format and each social media account linked receives its own page, and the Front Page can be customized by the Member to display certain feeds and further certain posts within feeds. Members will be able to publish their Allcni social media newspaper on their own site.

Member benefits:

1. Getting content from all social media networks in front of users who would generally limit themselves to 1 or 2 networks. 2. Ability to control your social media message and presence, through the Front Page. 3. Redirect your social media traffic through your own site.

User benefits:

1. One stop shop to view all the social media accounts of a single individual/organization. 2. Being able to perform a single search across all social media platforms. 3. Having Allcni filter Social Media noise for you, by only allowing verified users with domains to become Members.
Gah - typo - "intercessionable" is the word; I've taken its use from the the Art of the Metaobject Protocol. (Thanks for the double-checking.) It's a usage that doesn't bear much relation to its others, but it's fairly easy to define: if introspection queries internal state, intercession changes it.
Enabling Dev Tools Experiments makes chrome a good front-end editor
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/revolu...
Show HN: "coPhilly: The Philadelphia Experiment”
I haven't been able to get Chrome stable in the past month or two and gave up and went back to FF after trying a few different things. I've missed my old buddy Firefox, he's grown up a lot.
Kickstarter for Learn Ruby on Rails book
Having spent the last couple years developing a bookmarking / archiving service which is somewhat similar to Kippt (as well as Historious and Pinboard + Archiving) I'd be interested in knowing what other tools you've found that provide a valuable core feature set?

Shameless self plug: The site is called http://preserve.io and if you're interested we'd love your feedback on our pre-beta which has now been actively used for over a year
Why should the MacBook Air be the default choice? Most people don't want to run OS X, they want to run Windows. A notebook designed to run Windows will do so better than one that's been highly optimized by a competitor.
Isn't this basically Bill Gates exemplifying the "Rockstar Programmer" persona?

"I did X in Y time so why don't you follow my lead" may have been a motivational tactic at the time, but it did backfire. I'm forced to wonder if this is how the motif began.
More like it.
"Data collection seems highly suspect."

My understanding is they collected every 4 minutes for 200+ days, which implies 72,000 measurements.

If there were 72,000 measurements and none of them found the bird stationary, that's a pretty good sign the bird rests extremely infrequently.
Well, there is clearly some things that have evolved the way they have, so I don't think anybody's claiming that there's no merit in evobio. It's applying it to everything that's the problem.
I think I'd still rather be around people who argue with statistics and logic than people who don't. Step into a Yahoo news comment section with any article that mentions the US gov't or Obamacare. There's so much bullshit and stupidity thrown around it makes you lose faith in humanity.
Time For A PC That Runs Only Off RAM? (2011)
Cloud Party first Virtual World to add Oculus Rift Support
2 bars of reception, in a brick building - 8.5 own, 3.6 up, ~35ms ping.
Eh. My own procrastination and the horrible ad hominem in the local political discussions on my feed got me off Facebook for over 2 months, and on minimal Twitter (use it for work-related stuff). Definitely at least a smidgen more newsworthy than quitting Twitter for a week.

AMA about my great sacrifice
perhaps. I was interested in it because the jvm is appealing to me (performance and the sheer volume of available, tested libraries), but I dont want to write java boilerplate and groovy seems to have some cool dynamic language features.
Ok, I'll buy it if you can make a convincing argument for cold showers. To convince me you'll have to address:

1) Given the finite resource model of will power, why should I spend a considerable amount of it forcing myself to take a cold shower?

2) I spend the vast majority of my so called free time doing things I don't want to do, why deny myself the pleasure of a hot shower? [1]

3) The shower is prime alone top-idea-on-your-mind time [2]. Why minimize this?

[1] I have kids - my life was not like this before. (Seriously, it's like navy seal training without the guns.)

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
Zombies vs Sexy Mechanics: who Will Win?
You can't typically write just 1 byte into flash - you have to write in pages of say 4KB.

And writing to flash is painfully slow.

So it's most efficient (current-wise) to store up 4KB worth of data in RAM and then write it all to flash in one fell swoop.

It's a tradeoff with data security, but I think it's a good tradeoff because only rarely will things go wrong, but the additional current burn is guaranteed and constant if you write every datapoint to flash.

Magnetic FRAM is making a comeback just to scratch some of these low-power itches. It's faster, uses less power, and has greater write endurance. TI even put it in one of their latest MSP430's.
I still prefer to write on paper on planes.
Livestream has open sourced its Scala Redis client: scredis
Thank you for this lucid explanation. Gandhi's way of thinking and acting remains extremely counterintuitive (to us), so it's important to remember both that he practiced what he preached and that it actually worked. If one forgets either of those things, many of his statements become obvious monstrosities. But the fault is with our definition of "obvious".
Google engineer submits joke support ticket Google buys monorail cars
Gladwell's books aren't aimed at nerds in the HN sense. They're actually targeted at people in communications / advertising who want an edge and also something to read on the plane.

That's what makes him so influential.
Bought and loaded up in my Kindle app. I've learned a lot from you over the years Jason, and I look forward to reading the book.

Congratulations on getting the book out!
You didn't address my comment at all. You are making the baseless claim that most criticism of PHP is out of ignorance. I am countering your baseless claim with a baseless claim of my own: that most defense of PHP is out of ignorance, and most criticism is out of knowledge. Linking to you whining about people disliking PHP does not support your claim.
Second link in bzbarsky's post?
You Can Now 3D Print in Bronze at Shapeways
No, your point was:

>My point is you can hate PHP all you want it is a great tool that has its place in enterprise envirronement.

Go back and read your post. Now if you want to deflect the criticism that you did not support your point by pretending you had a different point, you are again failing in the same way. Every scripting language has equal or better "speed of development deployement" compared to PHP. Saying "PHP might be a giant pile of crap, but at least you can write stuff in it" only works if you can't write stuff in other languages. But obviously you can. If you want to claim PHP has a role, then state that role clearly, and support the claim with evidence. You need to show that PHP is in some way better than the alternatives.
SkyDNS - Service Discovery and High Availability through DNS
MiKandi builds workaround to launch the first third-party Chrome app store
Adult app company MiKandi has worked around Google developer restrictions — again.
It was clarification for those who might think that accident was caused by UAVs (as most of us think of them anyway), not a cry for no regulation.
Interesting seeing the high likes and dislikes for coffeescript. Recently there have been a few articles about xyz moving to JavaScript from coffee and how it writes non performant code. I still find JavaScript hard to write without libraries and remembering specific gotchas that coffeescript takes care of without me thinking about.
Couchsurfing lays off 50% of staff, fires CEO
In people's experience, how big does a non-tech company have to be before you can expect the CTO to be really wrong or behind with current practises, hardware and so on?
It looks like you can email in content (there is special address in the Settings) - so you could email Bob, Jon, and CC the Inc address and share a link.

You can also get digest emails on new stuff/mentions. So it seems like you could interact entirely via email and then only go to the web if you want to search/see groups.
Many people don't know that the New York Subway was built and run by private companies until 1940.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interborough_Rapid_Transit_Comp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%E2%80%93Manhattan_Tran...

Busses and ferries were private too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Coach_Company
In the world of wearable video games, a new challenger appears
To-do lists are poised to take over your life. Find out how
Sorry, you're right, the value of the house does count towards your net worth.

However, if you already have some student loan debt and the value of your house declines due to the housing crunch, you can easily be in the negative on "net worth", while still having more actual wealth than someone who's at 0.

However it works out, I've seen figures citing 25% of American families as having negative net worth. But I don't think that means that they actually have negative "wealth", nor is it all that useful to point to someone who has 0 net worth and say that they are wealthier than 25% of America combined.
Well, it's not just that he's been successful in the past, but that to this day his advice and mentoring helps produce many successful startups.

When someone achieves repeated and consistent success over many years (say, Warren Buffett), it is wise to listen to what they have to say if they're willing to share their knowledge and experience.

And also, HN isn't full of nearly as many mindless zombies as many other sites. When pg posts something contentious or controversial, usually there's debate about it in the comments.
What is actually new here? Pay with Amazon has been around quite awhile.
I have been using ShiftEdit(https://shiftedit.net/) & secure shell extention (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...).

This setup works great. Only thing I miss is debugger.
Yes, but Gwern links to the wiki page on the NFL theorems.
Michele Filgate made me quit reading Salon forever.
Conflicts in my mental model of Objective-C
More than I think most people here realize. Some people find particular, unique problems fascinating. Others have a sense of duty that outweighs material or personal concerns. Others just don't know better.
Early M7 variant? I'd sure like the creator to chime in and dismiss the work as a marketing gimmick.
I am a first responder. This would obviously require buy-in from the agency involved (that's the whole point... to provide the guy wearing the white helmet with a live view from a vantage point he can't see while sitting in his SUV across the street).
You could buy a lot of microsoft t-shirts with that much money.
OK, cool. Some feedback: I still don't understand what your @decorator does, after looking over that page, then finding the source code and finding it to call other functions with no doc comments, which call other functions with no doc comments, etc.; after about 3 levels I gave up, not interested enough. This on top of the blog post including it with no explanation.

I've seen a @decorator function defined by Peter Norvig before, but it only propagated metadata, it didn't change the usual functionality of its argument.
Java is big today because its static typing with a focus on performance led to the some of the best free tooling in the industry married to some of the strongest performance metrics. Religion its not.
Ah, it was always my understanding that Microsoft and Sony did take a hit selling their console, and made the money back in things like controllers and games. Do they make a profit on the console itself now?
That's one of the points of bug bounty programmes, isn't it?
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Can the Paleo Diet Cure Bulimia? A Very Personal Story
Best Buy also has the XPS 13
According to one book (Hackers?), he wrote the loader code for BASIC for the Altair on the plane to NM.

If I remember right, he did have a Compaq "portable" he lugged around in the early portable days. Something like http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

It obviously came out after DOS / FAT.
I doubt Amazon would use expensive space in the warehouse to waste value by "letting a box sit in a corner" or something like that. All space in the warehouse must be dedicated to adding value to the customer, not taking it away, or else you're spending money on making your company worse with bad process. What is really going on is that they are actually using the shipping capacity of the warehouse or are getting better at stocking inventory that moves, so there is less idle time to catch up with low priority orders.

I order used books off Amazon constantly, and it's probably my #1 expense after food and shelter. Never had a single problem, but I pay attention to the 3rd party seller's history and read the extended descriptions that most of them fill out. I have no problem ordering from new sellers either and never ran into an issue, exercising due caution is much easier on Amazon than eBay.

I don't understand your argument about price. You seem to be arguing for less choice and consumer power.
> But the government, in an effort to make sure there was absolutely no risk, mistakes, or accountability associated with software development, started adding more and more mandatory forms that had to be completed each time a developer checked something back in.

That's because "the government" is operating under different pressures than corporations. A corporation, big or small, screws up, only a handful of stakeholders are affected and raise a stink. If the government screws up, you're looking at headlines in the Washington Post.

Plausible deniability is a powerful force.
Screw Algorithms - New Music Service Uses Celebrity Curators
The complaint seems to be that entertaining books are not sufficiently educational.

What I think we should really be complaining about is that educational books are not sufficiently entertaining.

Many of the startup websites promoted on Hacker News go to extreme lengths to reduce "cognitive load" - to make everything as easy as possible for their users to understand what they are doing.

Entertainment is content presented to us in a manner which does not require unpleasant effort on our part to maintain our attention as readers, listeners or viewers.

When text-book writers put the same effort into making their content entertaining as startup websites put into the UX of their websites, then we will have an educational revolution.

Actually, for most people, video is more entertaining than books, so the best results will come from making entertaining videos on technical subjects.

It is much easier to be entertaining if your content is "fluffy", and some of the most entertaining content is about "almost nothing at all", like Seinfeld, for example.

But that is no excuse for neglecting the need to make serious content as entertaining as possible.

To get some ideas about how to make technical content more entertaining, try the following:

* Search for your favourite technical subject on YouTube, and watch the most popular videos.

* Still on YouTube, search for "vlog", or "youtubers", or anything else that leads to videos made specifically for YouTube which include visual and verbal presentation of non-fictional content and commentary. (For example, see Ray William Johnson.)

* Observe the difference.

* Don't just observe the difference. Revisit the technical videos, and identify each point of pain, where the video requires effort of the viewer in a manner that would never have occurred in the "entertaining" videos. It could be things as simple as an extended interval where nothing happens at all, or too much talking and nothing happening on the screen, or the talking consists entirely of reading words that are already on the screen, or action on the screen but no talking, or too much talking about what the presenter is going to talk about. Etc.
I used to work on ArcticStartup with Karri Saarinen for several years. Grew to respect his views on simplicity, beauty and function.

Congrats gents on the latest developments!
This lament reminds me of the scornful recounting of many photographers (Jason Wilder is one: http://www.ishotyourband.com) about how they are frequently asked for permission to reproduce pictures for no compensation, or just have their photos ripped off, with the explanation that they'll get valuable "exposure". They know very well that this exposure is worth zero, and is offered as a cynical excuse, often by large publishing organizations that just don't want to pay for anything.
Lisa cipher the content to allow the possibility of restore the transaction using external tools. This is only a feature to ensure that the information can be restored.
I find the article to be a little misleading. While I do realize the benefits and merits of transitioning to ipv6, I don't really see this transition resulting in a better gaming experience for gamers. It would solve some issues for some users in certain scenarios, but when I think about a better gaming experience, I think about lag (aka latency). I'm a little bullish on the subject because I am working on something new in this space (focused on multiplayer gaming connectivity), so maybe I'm being too harsh. But most of the gamers I know don't really care about their Router/Wifi Configuration or ipv4 vs ipv6. They just want to connect, they want it to work, and they want minimum lag.
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Given all the weird syntax people put up with in other languages I don't really get the complaint.
My goal is only to convince you to try taking one, perhaps a week of cold showers, and see if you like it and want to keep going.

1) First off, if you're not exercising much, you should probably spend your willpower on ramping that up. In general, research has shown that willpower acts more like a muscle than a purely "fuel tank" model and taxing your willpower in small increments can actually strengthen it in the long run. [1] But in general, your shower time is already allocated for, and happens at a regular interval, so after exercise (which takes up time that people sometimes say "they don't have") it is a good place to do some willpower strengthening.

2) In the book, I actually explain that I start cold for 3 minutes and then end warm/hot. It's actually better than just going warm right away.

3) I admit that when the water is cold, you are not able to think about much. But if you turn it back to warm after a period, you still can spend the rest of the shower thinking. Also I find that clearing your head via the cold means the rest of your day's thinking is more clear, which may be worth the trade off.

Ultimately, you should just try it once, go through it, and see if it serves you.

[1] http://blog.bufferapp.com/what-the-research-on-habit-formati...
Think strategically. It doesn't really matter what the user base of Chrome or Android are. What they do is raise the bar. Competitors and alternatives need to be at least that good.

Javascript performance was pretty dismal until Chrome came around, and then everyone had to up their game. Until Android, mobile platforms were tightly controlled walled gardens (although Windows Mobile was amongst the least worse). Now everyone wants Google Mail, Maps and Search on their mobile devices.

Google ultimately makes money through usage and the platform + apps/browser don't matter that much financially. Without Chrome and Android, there is a strong possibility of being cut out completely.
"Tony Stark was able to build [a miniaturized arc reactor] in a CAVE! With a box of scraps!"
I don't buy the "non performant code" argument. For the majority of applications it's not going to make a difference, and even stuff like an audio codec can be written in CoffeeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371171
The inefficiency is primarily due to the scale and customization of the projects, not that it's government per se. In any project of sufficient scale, 1) you very likely use contractors at some level 2) you will have to invest into some sort of oversight infrastructure 3) with that much money invested, you want a strongly guaranteed outcome, so you'll err on the side of reliability over cost efficiency (or pay for the cost of failure and rework in subsets of the project).

I agree though that the mix of in-house expertise vs outside contractor effort does play a big part in the outcome. Look at Boeing's 777 vs 787 aircraft development for different sides of cost to use internal resources, vs leaning more heavily on external resources. The 787 with it's heavy use of subcontractors has had a much more difficult introduction.

The government in general has been upping the contractor content in a lot of projects with the belief that more "competitive private contractor" content automatically means better efficiency. But, in truth, it's no silver bullet, often increasing costs if it's blindly applied - especially if you fall below some threshold of in-house expert judgement.
Interesting that Brandon no longer appears to be at SiftScience, of which he was a co-founder. I recently received a rejection after an interview at SiftScience that was precisely of the form that he criticizes in his post ("sorry, not the best fit right now").
> I'm sorry, I don't really see how any of those explain the government being granted money (in staggering quantities), then spending it, then having nothing.

Would it help to know that the same government (altho Federal Reserve is private but heavily regulated) print the money for their own use?

Imagine you have a small house with a garage inside and printing money machine in it. Now you want to expand the house and you know you can pay for the materials labor, etc, thanks to your printing machine. Wouldn't you do it?

The answer is those who care about US, about their outlook on the world would be very careful with using this machine. Those who would "own the house" for just a little bit would abuse it. We are at this stage where government human resources are so overbloated, ,you need so many signatures to buy a roll of toilet paper that eventually at the end of the day nobody is responsible for anything.

That can least if you own the world and don't have to answer to anyone. Un/fortunately this is not US case. If we default, we lose credibility with other major player such as China. Imagine if China stops producing for US (would be insane embargo if you think about out), can you imagine what would happen with us economy? all of sudden the soap dispencer you buy at wallmart cost $45 (made in USA) instead of 4.99 (made in China). Unfortunately, like I said there is no credibility even Chief in Charge Barrack Husain Obama is not aware (in most part) what is really going on under his watch.
The difference between Gladwell and Diamond (and for that matter Levitt) is that Gladwell is attacked for his work being atheoretical; it's basically a collection of anecdotes that belongs on a bookshelf with Bill Bryson.

Diamond is criticised for stretching his grand unified theories too far and missing all the evidence to the contrary. Levitt is accused of picking bad hypotheses and doing sloppy econometric analysis to support them. Gladwell doesn't have any grand unified theories, or any theories substantial or original enough to be controversial. and doesn't do any comparable statistical analysis.