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While I'd love to see that happen, I'd also be amazed if it happened. The startup scene around here seems pretty poor from what I can tell.
Fake. Check out the obvious mouse pointer UI being used at 07:28!
Of course. Is law more than canonized moral philosophy?

I don't think rape or theft would be legalized tomorrow, because I don't think the people would accept rapists or thieves among them publicly. If the state refused to act upon its mandate to enforce the canonized moral code of the people (read: the law), the people would enforce it themselves and install a new state that provided the services desired.

The law and other social constructs reflect their society, not the opposite. That's my whole point.
IMHO many leftist have noble intentions to help the people. However many dictators specially in LA only use the left ideals to manipulate the people and gain power. But you can see in their actions that they don't care about the people at all. That is why you need to differentiate between a person with left ideals and a dictator dressed on left colors.
The original title is definitely linkbait, but I disagree with your better title. The iPad may be for geeks who know what they want, but it's also for "the rest of us". I can think of so many family and friends who are still scared of computers and have only tepidly started using email and Facebook. The iPad will be an amazing device for all these people who still don't feel comfortable with computers after more than a decade of mainstream exposure.
Hey Paul! I can see some new use cases, but the fact that Apple has made this compatible with most iPhone/iPod apps tells me there will be a lot of overlap. In my own case, I use my iTouch for couchtop browsing (and sometimes light email and Twitter) so the iPad doesn't hold as much of an attraction right now. If there's some other killer app(s) that come to the platform, I may change my mind.
As a non-Lisp person, I find the reliance on LispWorks off putting. Mainly the 5-hour runtime limit on the personal version.
"if you're a hacker and have been avoiding Macs because of the effort of learning another OS .."

I doubt that the hackers who avoid OSX do so because they have to make an effort to learn a new OS!
Anecdotally, the standard advice I've always heard is that you should look for a house priced at around 3x your annual salary, and that you should be able to make a 20% down payment. If it's not possible to find a reasonable house which fits that, then there's a problem somewhere.
Is anyone hiring for non-technical positions?

I'm posting this on behalf of my wife, but I'm sure there's some other people on this site that would be interested working for a startup, but aren't necessarily programmers or designers.

So, anyone hiring in non-tech positions? Ad inventory management, sales, project management, content administration... any of those jobs needed to actually run a site.

(Submitted this a few days ago, but it fits under this topic better than by itself.)
Is the iPad for dumb people? Are automatic transmissions for dumb drivers? No, but you'll wish you had one in city traffic. That said, I'm glad I can drive a stick - even though I no longer own one.
It's an interesting tangent- how much crossover is there in the inherent skills of a developer and designer?

I use those terms from a pretty elitist graphic-design view. Of course anyone with a knowledge of tools can 'create' something. But the good graphic designers I know are so much more than their tool set- they are just different breeds of people. After immersing yourself in that world it changes your perspective.
Is there a similar guide for mercurial?
This is almost exactly like Google's trademark claim against Groovle.com a couple months ago, which was unanimously dismissed (read: not even close) in Canada. However, that was only the second time out of 65 that Google has lost a domain name dispute.

http://www.gawkwire.com/domains/google_loses_domain_name_tra...

In the end, unless you have a ton of money to throw down on a big-time lawyer and a lot of press coverage, I don't think your choice of attorneys is going to make or break your defense. Might be better to just go ahead and decide if your domain name is worth the money it'll take to defend it.
That's too bad. The only other thing I can think of is TechShop, but they don't have the same focus. I know they at least have a board up in the kitchen area where people put up ads and requests, but I don't know if there would be any casters. Good luck!
Endgame: collapse is beginning in earnest
"That which can't continue, won't." Like I said, my kid is not even two years old, and predicting the world he'll be entering the labor market in is effectively impossible right now, because there's a crapload of trends that simply Can. Not. Continue. And therefore won't, the only question being in what manner they will not continue.

For instance, I'm not sweating trying to put aside vast quantities of money for college education. Why am I doing this horrible thing? Well, tuition has been going up by about twice the rate of inflation for a long time now (http://www.finaid.org/savings/tuition-inflation.phtml ), and projecting that out, it's another 70% increase in real tuition prices over what I already consider the completely unsustainable tuition rates of today. I don't know what will happen, but today's traditional "four-year college you live at" is not going to be the only choice, or possible even the dominant choice, by then.

Similarly, health care insurance simply can not continue increasing at the rate it is currently increasing at for another 20 years. It's physically impossible. Who knows what will happen instead?

Housing prices are also very difficult to predict once it really settles in that housing is not a good investment.

It's a choice he'll make with eyes wide open if I can help it, but it's his choice, not mine, and frankly neither of us sitting here in 2010 have more than a passing clue what sort of world he'd be making that choice in. Care to bet that by 2028 the US won't have some kind of universal health care, for instance?
From Removing Features to Meebo Modular Innovation
Interview with David Hauser Co- Founder of Grasshopper(Formely GotVMail)
I switched about four years ago because my employer issued me a MacBook Pro; for the previous six years I'd been using Linux full-time as my desktop OS. It took... well, hardly any time at all to get used to it.

Admittedly, I still spend most of my time in Terminal and a lot of what I knew transferred immediately (minus the quirks of going from GNU tools to BSD), but even in the GUI parts of the OS there wasn't anything that really surprised me. And once I'd learned the standard keyboard shortcuts I was rather pleased with how completely consistent even third-party applications are about implementing them (a situation which didn't, at the time, exist with most of the GNOME apps I'd been using).
Agreed. The analogy with the fire is spot-on.

I've also heard: "If you ask for money, they'll give you advice. If you ask for advice, they'll give you money."
It's just the city of San Francisco for now... I hope to add the rest soon.
This kind of planetary gear is used for a lot of other things too, like Toyota's hybrid system. It's really good for any system where you want to split power, but not torque. I've never heard it explained like this though. Really great video.
The application looks good. The overall idea is also good. But I got "An error occurred Application error" when I tried 2nd time.
Haha, I always forget you're lurking around these parts.

The man speaks the truth, people. ;)
haha, good pitch... except you don't have any contact information here or in your profile that's publicly viewable ;)
I'm still confused here (Math is not my strong point either).

He mentions he adjusts the income figures for inflation to compare 1975 income to 2001. He then mentions he adjusts house prices to inflation to compare 1975 prices to 2008.

But what I don't understand is where he gets the 2008 median income figure from (Even adjusted to inflation) as he said he has no income data past 2001. He needs an actual figure before he can adjust right?
In UK, 20% of all radio listening on digital platforms
Wow, your post demonstrates incompetence.

#1 -- median home prices have shot up. That includes homes without {stainless steel appliances, marble counters, and whatever else it is you think people shouldn't be consuming}

#2 -- people didn't just choose homes they couldn't afford. Banks gave people loans they had no hope of repaying. Bankers lied on applications to get their clients larger mortgages. Appraisers inflated valuations. Credit agencies accepted bribes to allow banks to syndicate loans. Government, in this case mostly Republicans, looked the other way as housing advocates begged for intervention.

Your natural order is characteristic of your utter lack of knowledge. Banks didn't hold the vast majority of mortgages, so they got paid either way.

The government was not at fault for guaranteeing loans -- try actually learning something about the situation. Fannie / Freddie loans plummeted as a share of the market and performed, and continue to perform, far better than mortgages originated elsewhere.

The government (/we/nation) is involved in the housing market -- and this is complicated -- because PEOPLE NEED A PLACE TO LIVE. So while I agree that government probably oughtn't be involved in, say, video game production, they should be involved in {housing, food, medicine, education} -- basically life's necessities.

I'm sorry for being blunt, but perhaps you could try educating yourself just a tiny bit before forming and sharing nonsensical opinions.
Social network design principles
Design: I like your simple design for one reason - your call to action is up front and straightforward. That is ruined by the bright yellow box right next to it. I can't stop looking at it! Take it out or tone it down a lot. The design needs some obvious work beyond that, but the fundamentals of your site are better than most.

Marketing: You aren't selling a "Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer", you are selling a system that ensures your customers will _never pay a parking ticket late again_. Benefits, not features. Focusing your marketing message not only helps increase conversion, it also forces you to outline who your customers are. In this case it's obvious - people who get lots of parking tickets. Write your copy to those people!

Idea: definitely interesting. I know a handful of people who would uses this -today-. Also, thank you for thinking about revenue up front! Not enough people do this.
I have yet to meet an individual who has, in the last 10 years, both remodeled a kitchen and adopted an austere entertainment budget (in which I include restaurants and movies).
Are you familiar with Fox News, here in the US?
Presence TeleCare is hiring. (http://www.presencetelecare.com)

We're looking for a good Flex engineer. We're an early startup and it would be our second technical hire.
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Also, if you want to actually understand what happened in the housing market, go read calculated risk

calculatedrisk.blogspot.com

esp anything by Tanta
This is the only way I can work. I think it really keeps things clean+tidy and forces everyone to make sure the current HEAD is clean, works and compiles.

Branching just isn't a natural workflow for me.
a garbageman, especially if he works for the city, will have a better chance at all that than an artist of most varieties with an ivy league PhD
thxu.

Too bad it assumes knowledge of C++. I hope I can still follow it with my limited C++ knowledge.
Make sure your fax to the patent office is the right way up
This concept really resonates with me -- my girlfriend and I bought a house recently, motivated by a combination of the tax credit, ever-increasing rent, and a desire to be able to plant, build, and remodel to our hearts' content.

Having a proper workshop in the garage and garden plots in the yard is important for me. I grew up "hacking" on physical objects just as much as computers, so being stuck indoors with only computers and small gadgets to work on always felt oddly limiting.

At a fundamental level, home improvement and micro-scale agriculture offer many of the same sorts of problem-solving challenges as coding. Plus, it's a lot easier to get other people interested in your latest kitchen remodel or crop of produce than the SQL optimization you pulled off at work.

Owning your own place can complicate the pseudo-nomatic lifestyle that a lot of developers seem to thrive on, but it can be totally worth it if you want interesting problems to solve outside of the digital realm.
I would be even more critical of the HN crowd nay-saying the device. Its too soon to tell, but I think that Apple may have made Something That People Want. To say that it sucks because the highly specialized group people that we belong to thinks that it is "wrong" is to miss the point of entrepreneurship entirely. And really, any time that you say "I won't use one... but I might get one for my Mom" should set off The Bells And Whistles On High.
One can hope. The Apple TV is an obvious counter-example. Despite being on the market for nearly three years, Apple hardly updates it and has yet to add any truly compelling features like divx/xvid support or DVR functionality despite obvious demand.

The iPad may not suffer the same fate, if only because Apple seems more concerned about its success at the moment. I'll need to wait for iPhone OS 4.0 before making a call. Honestly, there's rarely been a modern Apple product that demanded waiting for the second generation more than the iPad.
I know StartupList is on here, but Venture Hacks just started an AngelList http://venturehacks.com/angellist . It's a good way to see what types of startups specific Angels are interested in.
Quantcast

We're a rapidly growing, venture funded company.

We have a bunch of interesting problems -- from pixel servers that see a pretty decent percentage of the internet's net web traffic, to scaling our large hadoop cluster, to real time bidding on ad exchanges, to predictive models for demographics.

If any of the above sounds like your thing, feel free to drop me an email.
Much was said about the different aspects of design, but what I want to point you to is the ultimate goal of design. It's not for you to "like it", it's for your visitors to get the most out of your website, and seen from that perspective, design is all about added value.

To do it right, imagine how adding each bit of "cosmetics" improves the ability of your visitors to reach the state of mind you want them (to get into the buying mode, decide to subscribe to your blog, whatever)

Only after that you'll start understanding what kind of design you need, not just putting on some random fancy-pansy stuff.
> they'll get looked by the masses as as a monopoly-maker or as a company that stifles outside development.

Well, they are.
I have a manual in a 200hp compact sports car. Driving around downtown Philadelphia doesn't bother me at all.
Ask HN: Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest?
Running Wordpress on a Budget Slice
Not to burst any bubbles, but Silverlight isn't a plugin that everyone has in the way that Flash is. Silverlight seems to be at slightly less than half of all users (http://www.riastats.com/). So, that would mean anyone with Firefox, Chrome, or Silverlight could watch it and that would be pretty awesome since I think Microsoft will push for greater adoption. But right now, Silverlight isn't so well adopted. Better than the situation was before the announcement, but still not up to Flash's penetration (and well under 94% of traffic).
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
So where all these privacy issues will lead to? It seems that some people just want to destroy any kind of privacy there is. Probably Matrix was just predicting the future.
It's easy enough to drop a comment, if it's highly relevant, it will be upvoted to near the top of the heap.
Cassandra: Structured Storage System over a P2P Network
I like the idea and it looks really clean and professional. But if your purpose is to allow people to simply listen to things that are otherwise uploaded to YouTube, why not just create an application where you can type in the URL/GUID of a YouTube video (except on your site) and it plays back the audio from that YouTube video, rather than making people upload things to both YouTube and your site.

(Keep in mind I'm not familiar at all with YouTube's API, so I'm not sure if this is either possible or in compliance with their TOS, so if it's not possible, then I say great job, looks good!)
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yes http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1104550

quantcast

http://www.quantcast.com/info/job-listing

feel free to either contact me or submit job via web form
Any European startup hiring ?
Looking forward to going. Would anyone like to arrange an HN meetup?
Is clicking the back button the only way to get from the FAQ page to the home page?

I like the word sticket, but I don't like the ellipses afterward. It sounds weird in my head with that pause. The other thing is that maybe the "to the man" part should match the S (because you add both of those parts onto the word "Ticket").
Slurper and slurper.vim get a big feature update
the slurper gem and slurper.vim now support chores, features, releases and bugs among other things.
Good CSS 3 links and I have to assume that the Webkit and Gecko based browsers will follow suit eventually.

In regards to proprietary vs vendor extensions terminology. I would agree that "vendor extensions" would be the official name for them but I used proprietary as an adjective to describe the type of CSS that it is. If it's not an open standard and if it's closed to a certain platform isn't that proprietary?

I'm also not saying that you shouldn't use them, it's based on the interface you are trying to implement and your coding preferences. All, I was trying to say that I would prefer to use images and standard CSS before I would consider using a vendor extension.
I'm not so sure that a dangerous precedent is being set here. Don't you think it's far easier (and more harmful to the community) to game the killing of stories than to game the promoting of stories?
Less is less
ITablet.Like the iPad but with USB ports, Flash, multi-tasking, HDMI...
rdl's post that started this thread discussed contracting in Afghanistan, and replies to that post discussed overseas deployments in a general sense. In fact the "bullets in the bad guys" comment that set off this thread comes in rdl's point 2 about combat going on in Afghanistan and not Iraq. It wasn't a trick or deflection. My comments about the Taliban also go for Saddam and his Ba'ath party.
memcache clients already support client-side compression, which compresses the data before it goes over the network. It wouldn't make sense to move that to the server.

I'm quite sure they're already doing compression.
I only drive manual transmissions, and I live in San Francisco - plenty of city traffic. The problem for me is that, if you know how to drive a manual well, you can't help noticing all the mistakes most automatics make (shifting at the wrong time, or into the wrong gear).

Most Apple products aren't like this. I ran nothing but Linux for nearly 10 years, but when I bought my first Powerbook, nearly everything was actually significantly better.
Hey Dana,

Thanks for posting here.

I'm not a community leader by any stretch of the imagination, as I already wrote to you, just someone that in episodes spends way too much of his time on HN.

My 'nomination' will never be given to stuff I'm asked to submit because that already stacks the deck, I'm no longer unbiased towards what you wrote.

I'll post the stuff that I find on the net while surfing, irrespective of the source of my relationship with a source.

As a rule, if someone mails me their submissions I'll read but not upvote, unless it is excellent stuff.

If I come across readwriteweb articles that really interest me - and not through my inbox - then I'll definitely post it, or upvote it, but otherwise definitely not.

I understand that the pragmatic view is that 'everbody does it' but I simply don't feel comfortable with doing this.

It suggests some kind of collusion, possibly in the long term a quid-pro-quo and I like to be independent.

Over the years I've had plenty of press on my projects but not once was there any kind of behind the scenes dealing going on, and I frown on the cozy relationships that some press people build with people in the industry. Having press contacts is one thing, getting too close is imo not good.

As for HN, I'd expect readwriteweb.com content to be caught by enough people to be submitted anyway if it warrants that, I doubt you'd need to go out and solicit it (I could be wrong there), so for that you really don't need me or any other HN user specifically.

The best 'nomination' you can get here is to simply post your stuff and see what sinks and what swims. It's far from perfect, good stuff will fail plenty of times and fluff will rise to the surface but on the whole it is better than anywhere else, and to carefully read the comments, there is plenty of really good feedback there.

best regards,

Jacques
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I had the same experience, switching from Debian to a Mac. The only moments of confusion I had on switching were things that were too intuitive. Coming from a Linux background and remembering dependency hell, I couldn't quite get my head around the idea that to install an application you just drag and drop it into the application folder. As soon as I stopped trying to second-guess the system and just did what I thought would be the obvious thing, everything became obvious!

Of course the terminal just feels like home, OSX is a proper *nix and everything works as you'd expect it to. The big difference is that everything else works as you'd expect it too as well. It seems like some sort of dream that I used to spend a whole week setting up a new computer, fiddling with drivers and dependency problems and xorg.conf nonsense.
Abuse of language warning;

I can't see any connection between restaurant quality and the particular properties of fractals.

I mean, fractal properties appear in a situation such as when one section of the coast of England resembles (statistically) another section of the coast of England. I don't see the comfortable chair of a restaurant resembling the thick napkin or the delicious steak of the restaurant in such a fashion. They're just all product of a single, conscious plan - something fractals generally are not.

It's shame people know so little about mathematical process that "fractal" is the only analogy that's become popular enough to use. If people had a larger pallet of terms, they could perhaps use them more correctly. Restaurant quality and overall quality is like a dynamic, feedback system. If only the author had known...
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I found that the only times when I had to use a proprietary extension in order to make a page work the same in all browsers was because of IE, and that was probably because it implemented the standards wrong.
40 years ago my parents purchased a house on a 7-year mortgage. At the time dad and mom were employed as a carpenter and a social worker, respectively. The price was about 3X their yearly income, they put up 30% up front, and they paid off the rest in 5 years. BTW, it was large enough to raise 4 kids and a flock of poultry.

Today houses where I live cost 8-15X (!!) my family's yearly income, and the standard mortgage term is 30 years. Part off this is the shift from farm-country Texas to geekville San Francisco, but the other part is that homes are much more expensive compared to incomes than they used to be.