kristopher

Congratulations.

Unfortunately, this translation is too direct. There is no culture in the text and it feels weird.

Do you have a Japanese person manning your telephones? You list a 1-866 number on the site, but be prepared to answer the phones in Japanese.

Japanese people are very tolerant of the outside world and English -- you would be better off working on PR in Japan and keeping your site in English than translating into mediocre Japanese.

If you make the jump to support the Japanese, they expect that you support them in every means possible or else they will not even attempt to contact you. If you show yourselves in English, they will be more kind and understanding.

If I were you I would immediately take this site down and work on PR in Japan. Come over here and meet with folks.

Japanese people love foreign technology and would be happy to accommodate you. Be careful to not offend Japanese people by using their language and culture incorrectly.

I, too, wanted to ask this question, but feared that someone would respond with something akin to "submit a patch" or "grep the source code"

Obviously, it makes sense for someone who is versed in the news.arc internals to fix the problem; nonetheless this issue certainly bugs me.

Amazon already has these up and running in Japan.

Amazon Help Article (JP): http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId...

Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js...

Although very loaded, Fukushima recently had a very similar problem.

Generators unfortunately are not everything -- perhaps more companies should think about how to gracefully fail instead of try to keep the ship afloat no matter the odds.

Indeed, on the 3/11 as the events were unfolding and prior to the explosion, I was checking the Japanese "SPEEDI" network [1] for the very same information. I thought "wow, how cool is Japan for having this system up and on the Internet in the case of Nuclear disasters!"

But something was very peculiar -- the zones I wanted to monitor had all become listed "調整中" in Japanese and written "under survey" in English.

I smelled a cover-up. Before the Tsunami hit they had a small item explaining that due to the Earthquake some of the monitoring equipment had been disrupted. After the Tsunami, the same information read that the sites now had been originally disconnected via a tsunami.

You would think that they would work quickly to re-enable the affected zones, though even today the website shows that affected sites are still "under survey" -- if you jump to the top page, it clearly reads in Japanese "At the moment, all updating for monitoring data regarding Fukushima and Miyagi have been stopped."

[1] http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/ [2] http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/speedi/pref.php?id=07

There are many interesting aspects about the Japanese arena.

One of the most unforgiving is that users do not understand that their phones are connected to vast networks or that navigation system in their car is powered by a computer with memory, et cetera.

When I first moved to Japan I asked normal people on the street to tell me what they found interesting about their phones -- I was shocked to learn that many Japanese women and men told me that they believed the popular website Mixi was just a screen (画面) that displays when the press buttons! (In Japanese: ミクシーはあたしの携帯に入っている画面だよ！とよく言われた)

One of the other aspects of software vs. hardware is that hardware is relatively easier to debug than most software environments. You will find that easy to debug environments like consoles have many software developers. This is important because the Japanese are very risk-adverse. Making claims on others and keeping everyone/everything in check is a big part of life in Japan.

Finally, programming is considered more of an engineer's profession than a creative profession. Engineering is seen as directly applying nature's laws into practice and as such, the approach is one of: "if you want to say build a bridge then you may choose from these designs that we already know are best"

Programming in Japan follows this cookie-cutter model and although there are very bright, creative engineers and programmers in Japan, the schooling system is very rigid.

Twitter Firehose was never about Realtime Search but more about adding an additional signal to their crawler and perhaps to Google News.

When the Firehose was enabled, it was not surprising to see GoogleBot immediately after a new link was posted via Twitter.

I found this interesting: "Hacker News" vs. "HN"[1]

As the site gains reputation/users you can see that many switch to the abbreviated version.

[1] http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=hacker+news%2C+HN

This appears to also have affected Sony in Japan, as well.

It is interesting how this announcement differs from the Japanese announcement[0]. Japanese people are so paranoid about their identity that this cannot go well for Sony in Japan.

It does not seem like Sony is preparing people for any sort of identity theft in Japan other than calling the card companies. They apologized and remarked at how they are gearing-up to better protect their users when the service reopens.

[0] http://cdn.jp.playstation.com/msg/sp_20110427_psn.html

Some HD Video flyovers done by the Japanese Self Defense Force show various abnormalities in quality once they fly over the damaged reactors. See this video[0] from the 2m40s mark.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M22Gt4sswEA#t=2m40s

Try entering the URL of the service itself[0] for a small easter-egg.

[0] http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/

There's an in-n-out, if that makes any difference. Plus, you can bike to the caltrain station if need be.

Most likely these some 280000 lines represent conditional statements that are drawn out to keep weird edge cases out of sight.

For instance Boeing used Ada [0] because it can quickly assert all of the conditionals at compile time.

[0] http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html

> And between you and your co-founders you would be ill-advised to begin building that astonishing core value and creating out-of-pocket expenses without some kind of legal agreement in place of ownership and ownership %ages.

If you have grown to the point where co-founders are bickering about cap-tables, then hopefully at that point you have Good People and solid Core Value -- time to incorporate.

The problem with most 'entrepreneurs' is that they only have an idea (not even direction!) and they are already working on how they should incorporate and setup shop.

Business and money for that matter is only the transient result of core value -- something that we should all be focusing on delivering.

Runway aside, you should have already have a direction and an executed prototype already moving you toward that direction before even thinking about corporations.

I don't know where people get this idea that companies come first before good products. Companies are the establishment of two things: Good People and astonishingly great Core Value.

If you're lucky enough to get those two things into the same room then chances are you will grow to a point where creating a corporate entity is a necessity.

Only then can we start to talk about runway.

Lots of interesting treasures hidden in this dataset. For example, here is Benford's Law:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...

I think this mostly has to do with the 'Batteries -not- included' approach of Lua.

This is mainly done to keep the language/vm compact and embeddable, yet what it leads to is many similar implementations of modules that do not play well together.

When I first launched Ping it asked me to connect via Facebook -- I did, and it worked perfectly.

I noticed that immediately after I had connected that the connect button and surrounding UI to that feature had become a search box.

The Ping community on Facebook is still up and running[1], so isn't this just a problem with Ping and its UI?

[1] http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=146879158663...

I have a pretty good feeling this is about being able to directly communicate with consumers.

If the rumors about the iTV are true, I can imagine that there are pretty good odds that it's either going to turn the TV content community very much pro Apple or very much against Apple.

Apple is all about controlling its brand at whatever the cost. This is another move to secure its position should proponents not look fondly upon Apple as it moves into all channels of media and communication.

Thanks for putting this together.