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Ask HN: Meetup in SF for YC rejects and community (repost)
(Sorry to repost, but wanted to make sure others got a chance to see it.)

Let's face it. You still think your idea is great and has legs but you didn't get your seed funding. Or you've followed the community and are interested in entrepreneurship but haven't taken the leap yet.

We're having an SF meetup this Thursday at a bar in downtown. Come meet others to share ideas, find partnerships and, well, be a support group for those lonely, hermetic entrepreneurs.

If things go well, perhaps it can be a weekly happy hour/coffee sort of thing.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=401254911062
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ruined, really? my understanding is that usually venture-backed companies like that are not started by loans co-signed by the founders, but instead started by investors. If that was the case, the founders/managers running the place would have walked just as free as the Engineer would have; the investors would have just lost the money they invested.

(the entire system is biased towards letting people 'just walk' - unless you are so small that you need to personally co-sign your loans/leases/etc... like I do.)

I mean, I'm not saying a employer who pays people salary instead of stock options is evil; I mean, as long as everyone knows the score ahead of time, that's fine. (In fact, that's what I do with my employees. The downside of this is that as you can't attract people who are as experienced or otherwise desirable as you could with options, and people leave you for better paying gigs as they gain experience sooner than they would if they had stock options.)

I'm just saying, the way most (not small-time) corps are structured, the founders have an opportunity to protect their personal assets in case of corporate bankruptcy. And even in the case of small companies like mine (I have a corp, but the protection means nothing; nobody gives me jack without a personal co-sign. I'm tiny.) American bankruptcy laws are pretty liberal, assuming it's business debit, and not tax debit, so sometimes you can still walk. (I do know several people who were 'ruined' by screwing up their taxes enough to get a giant, long-term debit.)
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Here's what would make my day: an announcement by MS that they will force-upgrade all users to IE9 from IE6,7 and 8. Goodbye clunky images + css + javascript hacks, hello lovely design.
What? No. This has nothing to do with the Chinese Room argument. The Chinese Room argument is about refuting the claim that reasoning according to rules can ever be considered intelligence (i.e. refuting Strong AI).
Trademarks are generally easier to validate than patents. Especially in the case of textual trademarks, not symbols.
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Seriously, you should leave out the "would it unduly offend you" part. If you don't believe me, try an A/B test and report the results to us.
Hmmm, good-looking guy doesn't have a problem with the ladies. What a surprise!
If you're into distributed computing and storage engineering, give SpiderOak a call. Or if not, drop a note when you land anyway; we'll at least invite you for lunch or something.
Problem #1 with that scenario, is I manage fairly Sr. Network Engineering groups. Should I lose my Job in the Greater Kansas City area, there is probably a grand total of a dozen companies who would be interested in hiring someone who deploys Cisco 6509s by the truckload. And, other than Sprint and the Military, I suspect there is nobody out there particularly interested in the deployment of IPv6.

Meanwhile, in Redwood City alone, within walking distance from my house, I can count about 20 companies who might reasonably employ me.

I'll agree there isn't as much competition, but, the high end positions are _very_ few and far between.
Sit up and take note, kids: this is an early sign of a coming change in the tide of how we use the web. A shift from search to social surfacing for content discovery is under way.

Google will surely fight back, and probably be back on top by next week, but the trend is clear. This is not the beginning of the end for Google, but it is, as they say, the end of the beginning.

Facebook works the way humans work: people hear about stuff from the people around them. Google has to do crazy AI gymnastics to determine intent of keywords, and yet still people often can't find things simply because the keywords they pick aren't the "right" ones, leaving them frustrated. But their friends always know what they mean. (Twitter is also very, very well positioned for this kind of ambient sharing)
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>, it's also phonetically very similar to Latin characters.

The history of alphabets is awesome.

Phoenician -> Aramaic -> Hebrew
Phoenician -> Greek -> Latin
I'd even say the jury has returned a verdict of "failed" already.
"Of course I could verify the flight status at the airline's website if you say it's a high probability, but in that case, why use FlightCaster at all? I should always just go to the more likely correct source first."

Why wouldn't you do that first, if the airline has that info on line?

Also, why aren't more airlines doing what Southwest does: make automated calls to passengers to tell them their flight is delayed.
>If you eat whole foods that have been around for 1000s of years, you probably don’t have to worry about counting calories

Total rubbish. Calories are calories. I have a picky palate (I like things this person might call "whole foods"), but I eat too much. Hence, a belly.
I like this. For years, people have been tasked with remembering if a site was .com, .org, etc. My parents often just type "google" or "ebay" into the address bar, and expect it to go there. Now it will, using proper DNS architecture instead of relying on google or opendns.
A process monitor or separate thread can check if your request has been stuck for too long and kill it.
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WTF, Garmin... The real issue for me as a long time sports user of their products is, if this causes problems with garmin connect (like I expect), I will finally be fed up with their products.

I've had nothing but disappointment with Garmin's commitment to their products until Connect came out. I hope this isn't the last stupid move of a failed company.
All of the sports I mentioned benefit from strength training, and I mentioned powerlifting twice. I know strength training is valuable. The thing is, a bodybuilder caring how much he can lift is like a poker player caring how well he can roll chips on his knuckles: it might correlate with dedication and therefore indirectly with performance, but it doesn't win him any points in competition.
You can never be too sure. After all, chrome floundered in market share for a while before it really developed. Google certainly isn't a company to just let something decent lie around.
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Having been subject to benchmark criticisms myself, I say this to all the complainers: walk the walk instead of simply talking the talk.

It is practically impossible for a benchmark to cover all the special cases and what-ifs. If a benchmark doesn't cover the corner case that you want, fix it.

Every benchmark that is too small will be criticized as a not doing anything useful, and every benchmark that is too big will be criticized as too polluted by external factors.
You raise a lot of really important issues here.

Let's take them one-by-one; data, algorithm, and user experience.

Data:
We've done a lot with our data pipeline recently to ensure you have the best available information in real time and we are able to recover as quickly as possible if one of our data suppliers goes down or backs up temporarily. As to the international issue, we will get there in time, but it is not so simple. We want to get the US stronger first, and the international data sources are sparser and not the same as those we use already.

Algorithm:
We're working really hard on making our algorithm better and integrating new data sources as new features to learn from. We do a lot of very hard data transformation and feature extraction in order to get the feature vectors our models learn from. We just underwent a major overhaul of our Hadoop and Cascading infrastructure, and our research environment is setting us up to be able to do a lot of cool stuff now. You can find the code for our cascading lib here: http://github.com/clj-sys/cascading-clojure

User Experience:
We wrestle with the kinds of issues you raise on a daily basis. It is tricky to have a user facing probabilistic model. As you point out, some folks look for certain outcomes, and don't do so well with probabilities. Others love to geek out on as much data as possible and want an even more fine grained information dashboard. It not easy to satisfy both groups with a single experience, although we're exploring different user experiences right now that try. As to the crowd sourcing, we've talked about social media integration, and it does seem like it would help people interact more to share the best current data with Flightcaster and our other users. Again, it comes do to the priorities and focus required at startups - we can't do it all at once.
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The team fails to mention that the deployment of Garmin Connect was over a year late and the migration from motionbased.com (which Garmin bought) was a total disaster.

It looks like the motionbased.com blog and forums have been taken down. That makes it hard for those who didn't go through that hell, like I and many others did, to appreciate just what a total cluster fsck the transition was. The new site, while much prettier with all its shiny web 2.0-ness, is functionally on par with the site it replaced.

Here is a cached forum link talking about how the December 2008 launch is slipping.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:YnEfNC3lDnwJ:forums.moti...
Note to others: OfficeTime appears to be primarily an OSX app. They have a downloadable Windows beta, but no immediately-downloadable Linux beta.

http://www.officetime.net/download.html
We have a well-hacked version of ActiveRecord migrations that works with our replicated databases. We also have a number of different staging environments that we test with before deploying changes to production.
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You don't have to use the same people to develop, document and train. Most of the time it's a very bad idea.

Also, each change in the dev environment doesn't kick off a bunch of admin. However, each change in a live environment with hundreds of thousands of customers, who in turn have businesses with collectively millions of customers, should be as close to perfect as you can get. You just can't get that if you only document something up to two months later.
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*Feynman :p

sex-only-for-producing children is a bit of a stretch. The link to Ebert's blog post above describes pre-1960s society pretty well; couples were sexual, but if they weren't married (or at least engaged), they probably weren't having sex.
Just to take a small example with youtube, they've created an entirely new ad platform. Building out an ad platform at that scale is by no means easy - there's an ad server, BT, targeting, reporting, payments to youtube publishers, not to mention recruiting a sales team. And that's just one aspect of youtube that google's had a hand in.
I agree, and as I said, it really doesn't matter. The vast majority of people are going to get what they need through Google, and to a lessor extent, the other search engines.
Twice is great for us, but it's one of those things that evolved to meet our specific needs and architecture. If I were starting a new Rails app tomorrow, I'd start with Varnish, and only move away from that if absolutely necessary.
Is that really the perception of Wichita? I would have said Topeka. (Most) All of the crazy abortion protesters are from out of town. (I lived in Wichita at one point long ago.)

I'll add that some of the parts of Kansas I've been to seem very nice if you want to raise kids, or just relax, although I wouldn't want to stay there long term.
It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon).

Actually if you buy an arbitrary top level domain, there will be no more .com.

Instead it will be .google, .apple or .hackernews
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Oh, I get it. Somebody offended your false god. Too bad.
Well, for the 14% of the population that works on, sure.

Confidence is key, but there is a difference between a confident stud and a confident creep.
Because I do not want his charm to detract from the rest of it. (charisma > sexism) == wrong.

I'd say that the type of (charisma > sexism) is boolean -- maybe fuzzy boolean given the fuzzy quality of the operands -- not right|wrong.

In any case you're entitled to your opinion; the problem is that you did some blatantly unfair editing there. If someone says "Steve is an asshole, but I have to admit he's a great CEO", you're not supposed to quote only the first sentence, no matter how much you think being an asshole is a bad thing.
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I have the hypothesis a fair bit of people in here
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No you're not. I'm still getting over the trauma of .info, .tv et al.
I feel stupider for having read that.
Garmin makes fairly solid devices (they have their flaws, but in general work well), however I feel you on their software. It's a nightmare, as any person who has used Garmin Training Center or Mapsource can tell you.

If you are really fedup with connect, try out our service at http://ridewithgps.com. We offer much of the same stuff they do and more.
It's extremely difficult to read Romanji, especially with the sheer number of words that would be represented exactly the same way. It's the same as representing everything in Hiragana or Katakana; one simply cannot read it properly.
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yea we're still squeezing people in. apply away.
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3 out of us 4 partners have been traveling the past 2 weeks. If you tell me who intro'd you and to which partner I can make sure one of us follows up. If its me... I'm still plowing through hundreds of emails and just haven't caught up yet. :)
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Basically, geeking out on flightcaster.
That's also aimed really specifically squarely at FB's primary demographic - college students. For the majority of businesses that won't be the case.
> lacks a large, vibrant community with mature libraries

> too much variation among the various flavors of Scheme which fragments the community

> lacks good language constructs for managing large software projects

It seems that those points are being recognized and worked on very seriously in R7RS. See http://www.scheme-reports.org/

> Instead of pouring a lot of effort into Scheme, let it stay an academic language.

Well, the "Little" Scheme (working group 1) should still fit that bill. And the "Big" Scheme (working group 2) is supposed to fix the above problems you mentioned.
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It takes about 3 seconds to output the data, if I re-run it, discounting for the reload of the page, from the start of the output to the end again about 3 seconds.

I figured this can't be normal.
The tutorial was posted here by the HN user that wrote it.
"we need to tune our trust of science down a bit"

Science != popular reporting/understanding of science.

But the point about some of our understanding being wrong is right on the money.
One of my examples: I was working on a political campaign for federal office. The party had promised our candidate significant financial backing, it didn't come through they just wanted a candidate in the race. We realized that we were never going to be able to compete financially against an incumbent candidate with a war chest of special interest money.

The hack I came up with was that we would announce that we weren't going to accept and money from lobbyists, PACs, or anyone outside the state. Not that we were going to get much anyways ;)

We still got stomped. But it was great ammunition in our message toolbox and we used it all of the time.

Thats what I call message hacking.
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never heard of it before. the demo seems to leave itself open to CSRF though. shrug.
Right, but at this point, you've degenerated to CGI scripts with ulimits. If you want to do better than that, then you are going to have to fix your code.
Garmin isn't getting "eaten alive" by the smartphone market. Yes, Garmin, Navteq and others had market share eaten by navigation services on smartphones, however you are neglecting the fact a smart phone isn't a GPS. Try using a smartphone in a small airplane, boat, bicycle or while hiking. Garmin and crew are going nowhere, they may just lose the in-car navigation market to a certain extend. However, even that is a maybe/maybe not, because Garmin and all develop the navigation systems for stock cars. Plus, many older users will not buy a mount to put their tiny cellphone screen close enough to makeout, they'll use a giant in-car GPS system from one of the big manufacturers.

There is definitely no PR disaster. The site isn't knocking Garmin at all. In all actuality, the people creating the site do not seem disgruntled one bit. They seem proud of the work they did, they rep Garmin products and seem in good spirits. Sorry, but your analysis is way off.
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I don't think it means this. I think it means people want to look at pictures of their friends rather than research random things on the Internet.
Ask HN: GPL copyleft applies to ports?
I'm hoping someone out there knows the answer, but I ported a library from one language to another (C++ to Java).

I was going to release it under a 3 clause BSD, but the original code was licensed under GPL v3. It probably won't ever make a difference, but does the GPL force me to license the port under GPL as well?

Thanks in advance!
I remain unconvinced that this shift is taking place on the scale you're referencing. Search is a fundamental web activity that isn't mutually exclusive from "social surfacing" for discovering content. Rather, they are complimentary to each other and the main points of differentiation are with branding and marketing rather than any specific shift toward one or the other.

I also think its a bit simplistic to state 'Facebook works the way humans work' as people hear about stuff through numerous other channels than the people around them (ie: nyt.com dining & wine section for a new restaurant).

The 'crazy AI gymnastics' Google is doing isn't for nothing. I actually think those gymnastics are advancing the web in ways other companies aren't. There will always be some overhead to interacting with your friends on the web and those gymnastics Google is doing make the web a better platform for people to interact with (more like your friend).
How are you running it? What machine? What JDK? On my machine it takes milliseconds to print out the results.

Taking 3 seconds seems very odd to me.
And you're assuming a massive amount about these people. I don't live in California, in fact you'd probably find me dead before you'd find me living in most parts of California other than San Fran or San Diego (certainly not LA thats for sure). I'd probably rather live in Kansas than an equivalent city in California simply to avoid the horrible taxes and dysfunctional gov't.

But I do get the desire to live in a big city over a suburb. I've worked in a city for the last few years after growing up in a suburb, and waking up in the morning and walking through the energy of a city is just different than waking up, getting in your car, slogging through traffic to work, parking in a giant lot, and going into a corporate office park for the day. Just something like lunch is vastly different in a city vs. a suburb, and that kind of stuff matters.
Looks like I accidentally ended up at Reddit...
My sense is that the conditions at small and mid-sized Japanese companies are reminiscent of the early 20th century, and are not compatible with producing innovation at a level necessary to sustain the economy.

Some things that I feel contribute (take them for what they are worth)

a) I haven't met a single female Japanese employee who hasn't been the victim of power harassment or other forms of emotional abuse. I can honestly say that 80% of women I have met at 5 different companies have been on some kind of psychological medication to cope with the stress at work. (Goodbye many useful innovations from female employees.)

b) I have met people who work 15 hour days; albeit where work consists of 6 hours of doing nothing, 4 hours of work, and then another 5 hours of waiting for the boss to leave. (Reasons include saving face - and poor housing conditions.)

c) The best university graduates tend to go directly to big companies; they don't create their own companies, because of the number of practical difficulties. (being accepted for & paying for rental properties, getting loans, etc..)

d) Everything has a big city perspective, since practically everyone has to come to Tokyo to do something important.

I can go through a hundred reasons; but the idea that there is some simple cultural issue that could be chopped away like a Gordian knot to solve the problem is a bit too simplistic.
I haven't read the article after reading the comments. But this actually is a rather naive view on nutrition. Just recently I read that in ancient Egypt priests had the very same diseases we have because of the unhealthy food they ate. Sugar is around since ... so are sweets.
No. Japanese has a LOT of homonyms. Kanji are necessary to tell the difference between all the possible meanings of a given set of sounds^. IANAL^^ but from my experience it seems Japanese is much better for speaking and reading than it is for writing. In speech the homonyms are more useful because it's easier to tell what something means from context. I find that I'm often much terser in Japanese than in English in speaking and vice-versa in writing.

^The number of kanji in use is actually INCREASING because of auto-completion software.

^^(I Am Not A Linguist), actually readability of Japanese could go either way, I'm not sure. On the one hand, the characters are more complex, requiring more space and processing; on the other, they stand for larger chunks of meaning. Has anybody here seen any studies on the reading-comprehension speed of Japanese vs. English?

^^^Also, on readability: Kanji help show the grammatical structure of a sentence somewhat. The same way you read English words by recognizing their shape, you can recognize the structure of a Japanese sentence by it's shape.
"unduly offended" never failed. The former did once.