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> The winning variation was Google Hover Clone

I was enjoying the article, but feel like it just abruptly ended. Why was the clone the winner? I would have loved to hear more about your process for judging the successful mockup.
Neither, actually. The OP is quite clear about what he means, probably more professionally than I put it:

https://twitter.com/rabois/status/397233618449227776

i.e. Not startup bubble companies, companies that actually produce something of value, either for society or in significant returns. "Lead generation" isn't one of those.
I also like XPath for some purposes, but I think it really suffers from (IIRC) having been designed before the xml namespaces, which it only integrates very awkwardly IMO and which ruins the simplicity of XPath. Or maybe XML namespaces spoil everything they affect to some degree :)
Spending more per unit of labor achieves very, very little (well, except in campaign contributions from the labor union).
This is a brilliant story, and reenforces the problem start up culture atm.
One other interesting data point with charter schools (and most opt-in schools) is they (usually) have the ability to kick out misbehavers and not have to deal with as many LD kids. The public schools often have little mitigation with said pupils.
To be fair, you don't make a $5B bid without having the capital lined up. It felt really scummy to have them bid up like that then include those egregious breakup fees if BB found a higher bidder.
Upvote them. You can see them if you click on your username, and then "saved stories" after that.
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When paying a gift instead of interest, is the "gift" obligatory by any chance? Is it the same thing under a different name?
Was there seriously no one there that appreciated the AWS cost savings?
It doesn't seem like you've actually read the article in its entirety, then (I can't blame you, it was very long but also very well written).

The author addresses 1) the counter-argument 2) an explanation for the "angle" wording (the section with the diagrams) which did a much better job of explaining the purpose of the angle than the "px is a non-linear angular unit" article, and 3) a line-by-line reasoning for why that other article was confusing (or outright wrong).

All of these sections made more sense than the other article, and in fact established why the points made by the two articles are very different and why it would make no sense for the px unit to be either "angular" or "non-linear".
While I agree that going Android would be bad for BB, and having more diversity would be good for the mobile space, I disagree that there is immense variety in the existing Android handsets.

They're all more or less the same design: thin low-quality plastic slabs of touchscreen phones of varying sizes. Choice is even smaller if you want a decent/high end phone: those just tend to be big. There is no differentiation based on form factors any more, it's basically a game of me-too and playing it safe.
According to everyone who saw it and touched it. I was watching their unveiling of the phone, trading their stock and listening to market opinion, and I remember that very day. Everyone in the market agreed that Meego could have been huge (it was also open-source like Android, and in many ways a better OS), and it was only Elop's allegiance to Microsoft which killed it.

Meego was good enough that Jolla picked it up, and Intel spun it into Tizen. At the time of the N9 unveiling, it was better than Android.

Speaking of ecosystems, fast forward a few years, if Nokia had indeed attempted to push Meego and failed, Android would have been the logical choice. Now they're settling for scraps with Windows Phone, when they were once THE leader worldwide in smartphones...

Edit - by the way, Nokia was the smartphone market share leader as recently as 2011... In fact, it was during Elop's tenure that Nokia lost most of its market share, although they were on the way out for awhile before then. But had Meego had better traction, it could have been very different. Nokia had an ecosystem, and had mindshare...
I've been following this Robohand project for quite some time now. They are based in South Africa, with a clinic there, and are trying to expand to the US (Atlanta) and Australia.

It started with a successful crowdsourcing campaign, but they've fallen short of their targets for two other campaigns to keep things growing. http://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2984667/campaigns

Right now we're building software that would allow them to crank out parts faster. I hope that it can help them out.
This is around like 6 months, no progress beside nginx and transmission inclusion has been made in that time. It's nice idea but without community I don't see this project succeeding.
Take a look at XMOS: http://www.xmos.com/
I think icebraining was referring to your use of "embrace, extend, extinguish", which specifically refers to standards-based technologies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

Not that it makes the sentiment of your comment any less valid. It just isn't exactly the same as the original Microsoft meaning of the phrase.
As a Coloradan student, I've discussed Amendment 66 with some teachers, and there are a lot more underlying effects of it that harm the system. Take pay-for-performance for example. What if the teacher teaches a subject where the student inherently lacks motivation? Another less obvious issue is that if too many teachers are reported to perform well, they get audited whether or not the performance review is accurate. In such a scenario, you're job and salary is safer if you perform average and not get audited at all rather than perform excellent and risk suspicion and auditing.
To be fair if I was Nokia and wanted to save myself this microsoft deal would still make sense. It all depends on the contract terms.

Sell the smartphone division, aka Windows Phone division, to Microsoft. You get rid of Elop and still scavenge a portion of the money poured into WP. Then start a new smartphone division leveraging Android. On the employees front most of your best former designers and engineers are still local just working for Jolla or Intel. Buy Jolla for the hardware designer then partner with Intel and get help on the engineering front. Hype the hardware at some consumer electronics conference and try hiring back the few of your best engineers which stayed and were included in the Microsoft deal.

Boom, you now have Daniel's untested and high risk plan for an Android Nokia. Please vote for me as the next Nokia CEO.
Ben Horowitz?
It doesn't surprise me terribly that, in the sizable userbase, some people manage to make it segfault - particularly running unknown plugins &c. The first example you give is even found to be a bug in a compiled external extension. I've not read through any of the others...

I've been using vim pretty much daily, across many versions, over roughly two decades, and I literally do not recall encountering a segfault. I would be hugely surprised if "segfaults all the time" is a more typical experience for an individual user.
Vim is one of the software I use almost everyday. I've almost never seen it segfault. You are doing something very experimental or running some stuff that maybe is not just suitable to be used with VIM.

What is this async stuff you are talking about ?
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It's the latter (XML namespaces spoil everything).

In every single task I do that involves munching on XML with xpath, the largest timesink is figuring out how the ns needs to be set up. (Looking you you, PHP simpleXML).
Frans Osinga's book would be more insightful for anyone who was interested in this article. There is a small cottage industry that has grown around Boyd's work (every year there is a conference dedicated to his ideas held at Quantico every year.)

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Strategy-War-Strategic-History...
I'm sold, but I have an additional question though. Can you please explain why hard-drives follow a flying head approach? Why don't they just perpendicularly fix the reader above the disk, rotate the disk and then use a linear actuator to move the reader back and forth - exactly like optical drives?

I'm guessing that the status quo exists and that my suggestion is inherently flawed because of the precision required to maintain the head at 10 nm above the surface and as such letting fluid dynamics wrestle with gravity might do the trick for you (given that you can make the spindles in a precise manner that the forces cancel out in a way that ensures that the head is exactly at the desired distance above the drive)

That leads to another thought, would the following conjecture be in the realm of possibility? Imagine that you have coated the disk with mystery thing X - which is an etched semiconductor that does something very magical. When an incident beam of light strikes a point on the coating, it releases electrons, which are then controlled through magical mechanism Y etched on X to create a magnetic field that flips the bit. If you do this then you can remove all of this stuff and it might lead to some gains.
'RoboRoach' is Bad News in So Many Ways
also - although the dashboard can be used regardless of where you are, you can only share data about UK companies. I'd love any feedback about launching this in other countries.
was to the enterprise. When Gartner, one of the main influencers of enterprise buyers warns them to look at alternatives, they're not really much to the "enterprise" any more.
http://www.crn.com/news/mobility/240162203/gartner-blackberr...
Hi, I wrote this article (the response, not the original). though I didn't post it here - I just noticed the pingback email.

I am indeed responding mainly to the wording, and you'll see at the start and end of the article statements that I think the original author does at least kind of understand what is going on (though I don't think his understanding is very solid).

Your statement that 'the css unit "px" has no relationship to the actual size of a pixel on the screen' exemplifies why I am concerned about the wording and thought it necessary to write a response. This statement is just not true!

The CSS px unit was carefully designed to embody as closely as possible the intuitive concept of a "monitor pixel", while retaining sufficient flexibility to allow implementors to accommodate a wide range of devices. The whole concept of unit anchoring was invented to support this. To pretend the px unit has no relationship to actual pixels is to waste all of this work.(*)

I would suggest people aim for one of two levels of understanding:

1. Really understand the rules. Read the standard, and/or a proper CSS book like "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" by Eric Meyer. Be an expert and design with confidence.

2. Altenatively, just think of 1px as a monitor pixel. The standards authors put a lot of effort in to allow people to do so.

For people that are currently in state 2 and are uneasy about retina displays, printers and the rest, my advice would be that they are going to need to go to state 1. It's not that hard. Just getting a vague idea (as many people are) that "px" is angular, or worse that it's in some way "unreliable", is not going to help anyone.

[PS. Here's an ironic aside about the lengths people have gone to to make 1px correspond as closely as possible to a real pixel: As you say, 'marking a button as "width: 1cm" will almost never render something over 1cm of the screen geometry'. But why exactly is this? It's because the whole system of units has been anchored to the screen pixel size (or a simple multiple or fraction of it). On a printer, where there is no "pixel" worth anchoring to, the units are typically anchored to physical units, and width: 1cm really does mean 1cm. The reason that on your monitor screen 1cm is not 1 real cm is because your browser is resizing everything - it's bending over backwards to make 1px match the screen pixel size! (or a simple multiple or fraction yadda yadda yadda...)]
Perhaps the "Ugly banking site" makes them think you're not a bunch of kids with some VC money ;)

Seriously though, it could be that a less trendy design gives the users some reassurances that you've been around since that design style was in fashion.
Netflix has CDN's they put at peering points, you can read about it here @ https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/tue.lightning1.gen...

But you can also check out the Netflix open connect site @ https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
Why does FB need this data? Isn't it enough that they track clicks, and they (should) know exactly where that link or button is placed in the user's current viewport?

I guess scrolling is important to know, in terms of how much time you spend looking at what's currently visible in the view port, and that the number of times you trigger the infinite scrolling is not granular enough to figure out which of the previous 10 items you spent the most time on (and didn't click through).
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Darn, that was exactly my thought !
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Earned $1 from http://gyaansharing.appspot.com because of Disqus ads. It has been used by less than 10 people, mostly friends, till now and it's been a while since anyone posted anything.
> all of the success in his story is based on being a really good bullshitter.

And then delivering on what he said. You forgot that part.
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I work at Zynga. If it's a cash/premium reward then you'll get the most sign ups for the biggest reward given to a few people. People consistently overcompensate for games of chance. The best is when they can take actions to increase their odds or tickets, like post on facebook, invite other people, etc.

And depending on what your reward is, I wouldn't be representing Zynga well if I didn't say you should test it. :-)
Hi Colin,

Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure I totally get it though. When you scroll, text goes under the bar but it looks normal to me. Could you elaborate?
I think the definition of bold may be what is causing the disconnect. The two things I saw on the website that stood out were reduced class sizes and the reinstatement of cancelled programs. I can see how this benefits teachers, but am not sure how this improves reading, math and reasoning skills and increases the number of kids that are job/college ready.
Isn't there a worry that "fake" sights would damage your reputation?
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Google finally hides passwords from snoopers in new builds of Chromium
Cool beans. I'll definitely include it in my review. I'm getting about a day's worth of work on the project done a week, and I'm looking into an intern to take up some slack on my other projects to be able to put more time into this one.
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I was an owner of a N9 and really enjoyed the OS. Most of the employees that developed Maemo and MeeGo are carrying on at jolla.com. They still have not shipped a phone yet and I have been following them for nearly 2 years now.

As much as I love the close to open source atmosphere and very good UI of the N9, Elop is right. Android turned making phones into a commodity. The only place where money can be made is by providing an ecosystem. Customers demand an ecosystem too. Nokia was losing market share so fast that as Elop said they were on a "burning platform". I am not sure they had the might anymore to create a MeeGo/Maemo ecosystem in time to save them.

I really wish that Nokia would have continued MeeGo development but I understand the decision to can it too. Nokia for many years was offering contradictory statements and making half assed partnerships. So they had to say we are going all in and all of our resources are behind Windows Phone. Developers got burnt several times. Even with Maemo they suddenly partnered with Intel's mobile OS and had to spend a year porting stuff with no apparent gain to customers. So I wish Jolla well, but Nokia did what they had to do.
Plz -> please.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing! What specific actions did you measure to determine a winner?

Noticed you answered the question above.
*Was just clawing my eyes out browsing craigslist for NYC spaces, remember hearing about you guys a little while back, thanks for refreshing my memory ;)
Ask HN: How do you deploy your (hosted) java apps?
So here at the Large Financial Institution I was blissfully unaware for an entire year of the process of deploying applications. (This was because nothing that I have worked on has been deployed - joy!)

I finally got a chance to read over our deployment guide and I was mystified. There are dozens of manual steps. Lots of places where you had to copy over your personal settings from one place to another to get a build to work.

So, how do the rest of you normals deploy your java apps? Something as simple as Capistrano? Do you do Tomcat deploys from Maven? FTP? What about non-web-based apps? We mostly read off of queues here in the back-office, so no WAR files to worry about (mostly silly zip files as opposed to an uberjar - that's another battle). How do you tag and build releases? How do you do move the files? How do you do restarts?

No, we do not use GitHub (SVN). No, we do not use anything with "Cloud" in the name. And no, we do not have virtualized servers - we pay lots of money for large amounts of disk space and put them in racks.

Thanks in advance.
Can anyone read the paper? I don't understand how a minority group of colluding miners could privately mine a longest fork of the blockchain. Wouldn't this take more than 50% hashing power?
Hi! A ton of progress has been made beside those things. And the frameworks behind them (database management, SSL certificate management, webapp download/installs, etc) are nothing to shake a stick at. Check this out for a full list https://github.com/cznweb/genesis/releases

The project has already started developing its community at https://bbs.arkos.io and has an active mailing list, Twitter following and others in diverse social media. I'm working hard to get people active and involved, and contribution/bugfixes are very easy to do.

Thanks!
Bump.... if Ugly Banking Site had lowest bounce rate why wasn't it the "winner"? If you're just looking at a static page what else is judged other than bounce rate? If you're measuring conversions, isn't most of that influenced by the existing site? Or do you attribute it to some lasting impression based on how the site was entered? Glad Ugly Banking Site didn't win, but I am curious about the critical metrics.
And why do URLs have google.com appended in front of them. Every single one, even if it links to their own site.
> In every single task I do that involves munching on XML with xpath

And more generally that's true of every single task involving muching on namespaced XML. Namespaces are a good idea implemented absolutely terribly.

XPath is a good idea well-implemented (no, XPath 2 does not exist, there is only one XPath). One of the few I've found in XML-land. I still hate that we have to use CSS selectors rather than XPath (although that's understandable considering CSS selectors predate XPath), most of the improvements since CSS1 were in XPath day 1, and the rest (pseudo-classes) could probably have been implemented using functions.

Also, that might have finally gotten us a non-eye-stabbing standard function for "match any item of a space-separated list in an attribute" (matching HTML classes in XPath without custom helpers is the worst)
IIRC the latest version of the CDN is 100% flash, though.
But dude your app still swears at me when I tell it I drink Sixpoint beers, Sweet Action too.
I'd really like to see a Verilog/VHDL design of this chip to see how it works. Does anyone know if I can get that?
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"Everyone has the potential to be productive or unproductive. There aren’t people who are A players and C players. Just people who are performing at an A level and at a C level."

But some people will go from 0 to A faster and with less assistance than others within the scope of a specific set of tasks for which they have innate talent or relateable experience.

Further, if the skill set demanded is fungible it is cheaper to buy talent than build it in-house. Firing a C to hire an A is better business than hiring a C and expending time and energy to increase the probability of them converting to an A at some unknown point in the future provided that there is a ready supply of As (or Bs) on the market. With regards to entry and mid-level programming positions, that appears to be the case.
That's why I use dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=16 | base64 to rename my dog every 182 days. He gets a bit confused at first, but adjusts quickly enough.
just speculating but...

- Microsoft is the natural buyer - for patents and to migrate users to Windows Phone with Blackberry Messenger and BES, don't really see anyone else who wants into this business v. Google and Apple, plus of course the enterprise users are all Exchange, rather keep in-house than cede to Apple and Google

- Board decided to sell. Prem Watsa is a big investor, he put out a maybe-not-that-serious $9 per share bid as a stalking horse

- Management did a road show to get a bidding war going (supposedly met with Facebook... you really think Zuck has time for this? probably just weak-ass psy ops v. Ballmer and Elop)

- No bite at whatever they were asking, presumably $10+

- For his trouble Watsa picks up some cheap $10 options on ~16% of the company

- According to Yahoo, they have $4.50 in cash, last price $7, enterprise value < $2b at current share price

- Gotta think at that price Microsoft could buy it in a sec

- Sort of sounds like Watsa saying we got plenty of cash, you gotta pay me at least $10 to go away.

- Not really sure what leverage Watsa and management have if someone decides to go hostile, proxy fight , but that's unusual in tech, nobody really wants that drama
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Yeah, they talk about that on slide #9.
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Came here to say this. I used Google Wave every single day for team collaboration like this, and it was awesome. I was really sad when it went away.
My claim is no more statistical nonsense than the original tweet that claimed successful ceos don't blog.

My point is simply that blogging is a proven, repeatable strategy for building an audience. An audience that trusts you and is happy to give you their money.

Whereas not-blogging is at best a shaky correlation to successful ceos and their success is just as likely to be despite their not blogging than because they save two hours a week not blogging.
4th at 4.1%. Beating Motorola (which was stagnating, even after the Google buy) and ZTE (which didn't have much US brand recognition anyway) wasn't super difficult.

Also, Meego Harmattan (released with the N9) got pretty stellar reviews all round. See for your self:

http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/22/nokia-n9-review/

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9-review-659.php

Every review lauds the software, and laments the fact that it was doomed by Elop.
Perhaps doomed to the same plight as most of these kinds of visualizations (wherein it becomes more of a population density chart than something with which one can cull any sort of actually useful information)?
> money is often valued more than time

I argue that time is always worth more than money. You can transform time into money, but not the other way around.

> which is why the majority of us spend most of our days working for someone else

You can use time, money or both at the same time. In your example, you have both every day: first money, then time.