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FastMall iphone app turn by turn directions @ malls, shake iphone 4 bathroom?
We find the premise of using the web for time tracking a flaw. IM is real time communication instead of ad hoc.
I agree; my interviews, and interview process, were not painful at all. And, actually, from what I remember, I wasn't really asked any trivial questions. They were generally interesting and challenging without being impossible "a-ha" problems. The process did drag a bit, particularly as it seemed to require a dozen levels of committees and approvals to actually make an offer, but I wasn't really expecting a company of that size to move at lightning speed, and at the time I wasn't aggressively looking for work so it wasn't really an issue.

I'm sure other people have had different, less positive, experiences. I'm also quite sure that there's a selection bias among those who feel they need to publicly talk about their interview experience. But, yes, it's a big company and there's bound to be mistakes and mishaps and bad interviewers and recruiters.
Shoot me an email - mark {at} marklancaster {dot} org and I'll send you a file to start going through.
In this sense, I revise my original comment to "less profitable than alternatives" rather than "unprofitable". While I think there are other things to take into account with your proposed solution, it feels like a better long term solution than "let's try to scare these already desperate people into not attacking ships".
Most of the content will be seeded from stats, which means less emphases on qualitative content. But I do get feeds for things like injuries so I'll be able to automate injury reporting.
What Can Economists Tell Us About Teenage Sexual Mores?
eh, it was just a joke. if you read the article you'll see that the author says, as a refrain throughout the paper, "fuck me".

but obviously it's not the kind of thing that works in text. i'll delete it.
I give you 1 week before you change your mind. I initially found them very amusing but now I cringe every time I pass a news stand or otherwise catch sight of the tabloid front pages.
Not sure why anyone would vote this backhanded comment up.
Well, very few published papers are. Reproduction of others' work is usually a foundational preliminary to original research.
I've been wondering for a while now: why are so many people at HN and similar sites generally the late-riser type? It seems disproportionate.
I can't quite get a read on this guy. He seems smart, but he also seems very bitter about his experience in New York, and seems to think everyone's experience is the same.

New York's options for early-stage funding have been growing rapidly - there's a lot more options out there than Chris Dixon and Fred Wilson. And meeting whoever you want to meet is pretty easy. Not sure why this guy had such a different experience, but something feels off here.
You're right... but still, "startup" is a recognized word. When I use the word "our product", nobody upvoted it. When I changed it to "our startup", it was upvoted.

Use the words that your customers understand they say...
"some describe cold fusion as the 'Fleishmann-Pons Effect' in honor of the pioneers, Marwan noted."

Really? In honor of the possibly-crazy-but-much-more-likely-liars-and-con men whose experiments couldn't even come close to being replicated. The whole article acts like any current research is a vindication of Fleishmann and Pons, but honestly, if cold fusion ever does come to pass, it will be despite Fleishmann and Pons' fraudulent work. How much time and credibility was wasted trying to recreate that BS?
7. Put change in their cup- or go the extra mile and help them find a job. (journalists reading- I mean this in good humor ;)
Ask HN: iPhone application tester community
Does anyone know of any good community site where I can get people to test out my upcoming apps? I want to run a beta test session before submitting the app but can't find a place to find good testers. Running beta is hard on iPhone platform but if there was a site that offered me the ability to pick the kind of testers (experience and device type) that I am looking for and then select them as my testers would be BIG.

Any ideas? suggestions?
Actually, what he is saying is that the the stories are exactly the same, but Hamlet has a realistic outcome (truth) whereas Cinderella is all about the story graph. Hamlet makes the mistake of killing Polonius, and getting killed himself, because there really is no shoe fitting happily ever after in life, and that's why the story works.
From where?
Canadian border guards to check iPods for infringment
Modeling categories in a graph database
Adults aren't teenagers.

As an adult, your [highest daytime alertness is at 10AM]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.PNG). You don't go from drowsy to alert instantly, so 9AM to 10AM is one of the most alert parts of your day.
Statue of Boyhood Obama Finally Moved
He fixed it, its now crossed through.
What problems does this new approach solve? I see one that it creates: I can't see the whole month at once, so I have to take extra action to get to a date. I completely lose the spatial view of the grid which, among other things, helps me find a date when I don't know the day, and find a day when I don't know the date.
http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/
"There's two kinds of investors in this world. The ones who think big, and the ones who don't; the ones with a Valley mindset, and everyone else."

Perhaps there are startup founders with a realistic perspective on their contributions to the internet, and there are startup founders who believe their own marketing lines?
>This isn't a decline in our recruits; this is a decline in our American society in terms of their physical capacity. It's just a softer generation.

In some unmarked grave, the minerals of the rotting bones of a Roman General are moving.
The Washington Post on government data, journalism, and doing journalism online
I wonder if his parents have everything they want, like a reasonable retirement.
I would look into http://www.openx.org/ad-server and that community for advice.
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The thing is though, I don't think the market sees it like that, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here trying to sell the source code and instead enjoying your millions of dollars.

I've built something that I thought was brilliant, however when going through user testing it turned out the concept was flawed at its core.

I still think the idea has heaps of potential, but it turns out that unless I am able to fundamentally change the way people behave, that eventually I'll still be wrong.

I'm ok with being wrong, are you?
Interesting how the incentives play out.

(DVCS show similar things in reverse---by making merges much cheaper, they change the workflow, too.)
I came across the gtrends tool that supposedly helps you find niche markets in the past few days - it looks like it may be helpful.

Do you care to share any example sites you have produced that bring in some amount of money passively?

I am currently employed in a decent job at a big corporation, so my goal at the moment is to do something that makes some money, so $12 a month be a start. I have in my mind a 2 year plan to some sort of independence.

As I said, I would much rather spend my spare time building Rails Apps that provide a useful function to some small set of people willing to pay something for the pleasure, but finding the niche markets is the problem.
US Senate to unveil new bipartisan Global Internet Freedom Caucus
Single page version: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut...
odds are because they've developed stuff with ColdFusion before.
How to Get a Job Without Experience
I upvoted it because it was my exact sentiment.

When I saw the submission title, I thought "oh no." And then I felt relief that it was not about the CF platform.

Coldfusion was pretty bad when it was first introduced, and it hasn't improved much. I've been dodging it for years, but some of my friends haven't been so lucky. Each of them hates it, and one had even quit his job because his employer didn't want to give it up.

Yes, I would be sad if CF became "mainstream" again and I had to learn it. If I recall correctly, everyone needed ColdFusion when it was first introduced, and it is only barely alive due to that initial boom.
Interesting contrast with this thread...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210972

Perhaps the issue with VCs pushing for the "1 in 20" exit is more of a silicon valley thing?
In my experience this is a pretty typical expectation at a startup. Good for these people for being so honest about it.
Aaron Wall of SEOBook will be interviewed on Mixergy today @11AM PST
How did you implement the XMPP part? Just wondered, because I have been toying with writing web-hooks for ejabberd
http://happy.cat/blog/XMPP-Bots-ejabberd-mod-motion-2010-02-...
I feel as though a table may have been a more appropriate way to present that data...
However, if Apple is going to sell me a phone, then I own the phone.

You do own the phone. You do not own the software that runs on the phone.
My favorite "gang mentality" moment is Jobs' refusal to implement Flash in favor of a "non-proprietary" method, such as HTML5.

Killing a proprietary product with a MORE proprietary product is somehow a great moment in our technological revolution.
I used it because it's slow. Because the speed of Redmine running on webrick isn't the point. The points are A) you can write some really fast stuff that runs in Ruby, and B) if you do some prudent things like think about how to use caching in front of your app, even a really slow app can effectively be very fast when viewed from the outside.
Nintendo press releases crack me up sometimes. So they announced a handheld 3D games machine, gave no further details, but don't worry, it will be backwards compatible with DSi and DS games.

That's like Ford announcing a flying car and saying nothing except it will be backwards compatible with existing Michelin tyres.
My good man, as long as I can get the intended message across to 99% of the people, I guess it works out just fine :)

Although, I do stand corrected. What I meant to say was "Not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur." Thanks for the pointer.
I hope I don't come off as pedantic but, presuming I understand you properly, I wouldn't describe these people as meta-experts. Unless I'm mistake, the prefix meta- means, from Wikipedia, "about (its own category)". If this is right, a meta-expert would be an expert about experts, or an expert on experts.

Thus, it's my opinion that calling these people meta-experts could imply something different than what you intend, particularly to people who don't read the article fully, and if it takes off as an Interblag "term", it could cause some confusion (although it could be that I'm just crazy).

Perhaps I could interest you in neo-expert?
Normally, I don't like backhanded comments. But Adobe's recent products (post Macromedia merger) are so bad that it's OK to jab at them (because it's true!)
Isn't $1 million to Ford basically $1 to an individual? I have a feeling they could have gotten 80% of the benefit with far less than 20% of the work by creating a batch file on everyone's desktop that puts the computer to sleep and asking them to click it after they're done for the day. Sure a lot of people wouldn't, but you'd also be saving all the money spent on creating their system for automating the shut downs.
Direct link to the Mixergy interview page: http://mixergy.com/live/
There is also lots of money in homeopathy. It's a going concern.

Then there's fundamentalist religious education. Plenty of funding there. Lots of impressively architected buildings. People with advanced degrees.

Recruitment, funding, and NDAs are but one metric of success.
First look at Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner.
It's true. It's time to impose sanctions and deal with the consequences.
Upvoted, you silly code
monkey.
I didn't mod the comments myself, but it is common here to mod down a comment that doesn't add anything to the discussion -- that is, both "Great article!" and "Terrible article!" comments that lack further content or commentary would be modded down.
Mentions of Lee Sheldon's Game Design Class, XP in lieu of grades
cold fusion won't move any closer to mainstream acceptance until people can start to show any examples of positive net energy cold fusion, either in the lab or in nature.

or, alternatively, show that it is possible to do coldER fusion. just, show that there's a process with the possibility of scaling down.
Small reactors are very promising, but Chu is just paying lip service right now. Honestly, he says it will take a whole decade to license smaller light water reactors? They're essentially smaller, simpler variants on what we've been using for decades. How does that take a whole decade of red tape? This whole thing is ridiculously broken.

And he's barely funding it, despite its vast importance. How can I render in text a sound of utter disgust? Probably something like "bleghhgkpptht."
I don't really understand your problem fully, but if Mixpanel looks like a good fit I would recommend using them for your new data, and creating a separate system for viewing your historical data.

That reduces the requirements for the code you have to write (it only has to be able to deal with historical data, you don't need to figure out how to deal with updates), while giving you maximal features in the long run.
No, I absolutely know that I would not work better that way, but my point is, everyone around me is forced to wake up at the crack of dawn and get their ass to work.

I have kids in school, and every year the school changes things around to accommodate some consultant's suggestions regarding grades, start times, recesses, how they learn to read, how they learn math, etc.

Every damn year!! Kids are getting screwed left and right because of studies like this. Last year, my oldest was using one method to learn to read, this year it's something new. And a new way of learning math too.

They had an assembly for us parents explaining to us that they were preparing kids for "jobs that don't exist yet". And that they didn't know if these methods were perfect, but they were based on studies, so.... Kids just end up confused.

This hits a nerve with me. I hate seeing this stuff happen because of studies. I hate when people like you justify stuff like this when you aren't living in it.

Also, how do parents get their kids to school at 10am? How? School needs to start when work starts so we can drop them off on our way.

This stuff screws up kids and will make adjusting to the real world much harder.
When we think back on Newton or Einstein, we don't say 'he won an Nobel and pocketed a cool million'. We remember them for their results, which changed the way humanity sees the world. Granted, if it was me I probably wouldn't have declined, but then, I wouldn't have found the proof either. In 40 years nobody will remember all this circus around medals, awards, and money, just his result, which is the way he wants it. Feynman also cursed the day he received the Nobel and wished these awards bodies were more discrete and privately gave an opportunity to decline without all the publicity circus.

I hope he is secretly at work doing what he does best, away from all these distractions.
Here's a just-as-oversimplified claim: "Mac OS X allows the installation of arbitrary software. This hurts consumers by allowing viruses, spyware, and other (including non-malicious) causes of degradation of enjoyment."

Everything's a tradeoff. Tens of millions of people, including a large number of which are tech-savvy and completely aware of competing phones, are very happy with the iPhone as a complete product and specifically choose it, often in part because of what they perceive as a better overall experience because of the limitations.
So we have the EU, the USA, Austrailia and China all seeking to influence the internet in different ways. It seems like the only big places around the globe that are not trying to control it are most of Asia, India and South America.

Too bad the internet is curently not a safe harbor from the politicians who change from time to time.
I'm not the messiah, says food activist
I just don't buy the "you won't be distracted in the office" argument. I work from home ~12 hours a week, and I find being in the office more distracting because people are constantly badgering me with questions. And I see plenty of other people wasting time talking around the proverbial water cooler.

Working from home requires discipline, especially when it comes to unplugging from work. When working from home, I try to provide a schedule of availability to my co-workers, so there's no expectation that I'm going to answer an email at 6:30 PM while I'm eating with my family. There are also days, however, that because of family schedules, that I work from, say, 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and folks know they can contact me 'til that point.
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Few things are as ugly as

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Palm WebOS, Pre and Pixi – Where Are We Now?
mtarnovan, I can try to help. Drop me an email at hrishi@prettygraph.com.
Control does not necessarily mean total control. For the record, there are other iPhone browsers. Here are some examples: http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=138409
on the flip side, I work with a bunch of math nerds (machine learning experts and what not) and they often write terrible abstractions and apis. There are a lot of skills that are important in software dev, but I feel we often act as if the math skills are more important than the rest, and I'm not sure that they are in general. Having them is definitely a plus.

Also, math is a very broad field, and a lot of it is specific to certain problem domains. I'm just rambling, not sure if I have a real point ;)
Whoa angelfire.com

It's like it's been in a time capsule
This is very, very true. I worked on a start up for a friend of mine years ago, and I lived in his guest room. I woke up, rolled out of bed, walked 2 feet to my desk, and coded for my 4 hours work day, then some at night, and it was exhausting. I know, that sounds crazy, 4 hour work days and being exhausted, but when you work where you sleep you get pretty confused. The 4 hour work day was mostly due to distractions: video games, walking in the woods, arguing with cofounder about randomness. On top of that, where we were was so isolated (about 16 miles from civilization) so I never really saw anyone but my cofounder. Things got tense sometimes, and there was no one to vent to.
Quotes are almost automated today. Most pro sports coaches and athletes endlessly recite the same cliches already.
Doubters and such should note several things about this press release:

1. It's from the American Chemical Society. While no one is infallible, they're not exactly flakes.

2. There are some serious names and institutions involved. Same caveat as 1.

3. Ask yourself if your doubts are based on hearsay of hearsay. Unless you are a nuclear chemist or physicist who has tried experimentally to produce low energy nuclear reactions without success, maybe there are reasons research has continued for so many years in the face of overwhelming public and professional ridicule.
Providing a schedule of availability is a great idea. I work in the office in the morning and at home in the afternoon. One of the things that was a struggle at first, and I received feedback on, was knowing when I was available. Providing a schedule is a great way to address that. How do you make it available and how often do you update it?
Choosing to live in squalor and denying an earned $1m prize suggests that Perelman is suffering from clinical depression.

The sad part is he’s probably going to be written off as eccentric and never receive help that could change his life substantially from the better.
1 word: duh.
This is the new blog of Lee Sheldon, the professor mentioned in Jesse Schell's popular talk on the future of games. Sheldon gave out experience points to his students in lieu of the typical grades, making his course on game design a game in itself.
liars-and-con men whose experiments couldn't even come close to being replicated.

Well, in the first few weeks after the announcement, several labs said they had replicated the experiment, so if Fleishmann and Pons were liars or con men, I suppose we must assume a vast conspiracy of such across several notable institutions... well, that or some people were excited, mistaken, and desperately wanted to find evidence of something that apparently wasn't there.

Bad results -- even replication of results ultimately found to be bad -- do not require liars, only error.
I'm not aware of any service that lets you import historical data.

For a start, each of these services collects a slightly different dataset measured in a slightly different way-- and so if you wanted historical data to analyize trends, you might be comparing apples to oranges with the data from the old system vs the new one. I'm also not sure there is a standard format to import/export this kind of data.

What system is the historical data sitting in right now?
Thanks for your question. We tried ejabber but it was just less friendly than Openfire. We used XMPP4R with Starling for the queue to have a fast interaction between the web and IM. Plus, we used the ORM Rails to access the DB from the listener (the bot), written in pure Ruby.
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The thing he tries to avoid is extra attention to his persona. With all the media buzz, I feel sorry for him, tabloid "journalists" will keep distracting him for a while now. Let the man live his life the way he wants to; leave him alone. People should respect his decision however impossible it may be to comprehend for an average money-driven individual.

Don't turn him into a lab rat for own amusement; don't visit that tabloids linked above.
Do you really want to be rich?
I can only understand your comment as if you were saying that being able to use Lotus Notes would be for the user's benefit.
The Backstabbing on Twitter has to Stop
Maybe I didn't make it to the 99% after all.

I'd like to add an interesting turn to an already interesting parallel conversation going on here; there are plenty of peculiarities between how English is spoken in the North and South of India.

Believe me, it's a cultural shock for Indians themselves, when they move to a different part of India.
There are plenty of distractions in an office as well -- chitchat, meetings, poor environment not under your control (e.g. too hot or too cold) and noise.
You do need to be disciplined because there's none of the peer pressure that arises from being around other people who are busy working. Additionally, I'd only work from home if living in a big city, in order to combat isolation. In a city you have access to people, whether by interspersing meetings into your day or simply stepping outside, and this combats isolation. I would not enjoy working at home in the suburbs.
We switched to KissMetric's beta product and have been pretty happy with it. Doesn't support importing data though I don't think.
China Calls Google’s Bluff, Blocks "Certain Sensitive Queries"
Writing JS bindings to C/C++ libraries using V8
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He meant Android vs iPhone OS.

To me it was clear ever since iPhone OS 1.0 that AAPL wants full control of everything the same way it did with early Mac OS, and in my opinion they will repeat the same mistake again and it's going to cost them dearly in the long term.