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Applications are now open for Hawaii-combinator:

For 5% of your start-up we fund you with a laptop and $273. It's not much, but it's enough.

It will cover your room and board and full health care benefits for 91 days. No more ramen (like other programs); eat delicious chopped beef steak with vegetables, mashed potatoes, bread, a fresh apple and cake. Demo day on the beach. Apply now!
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Greed, incompetence, ignorance, and stupidity are too rampant.

And unfortunately many of the greedy ones are neither incompetent, ignorant nor stupid. If they where they would be a lot easier to stop.
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This is not unique to Javascript. To a Java programmer this behavior seems natural(octal literals lead with a 0) and not really worthy of a angry blog post.
I can't recommend enough that people watch The Wire. It is especially illuminating on the subject of why politicians and bureaucrats do what they do.
Why only 90%? I would naively expect that you'd either be able to get in and recover them all, or not.
I've been on T mobile for a year and my G1 is still running Android 1.6. I can't complain, because the phone is weak sauce and at least everything needed for turn by turn navigation is supported.
You do know why it costs so much to have a drug approved? Running 3 phase clinical trials (the last 2 with people) aren't cheap.
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Isn't OpenSocial just a mere API?
My comments on this launch here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1339453 tl;dr -> I thought of a version of this a day ago - they read my mind through remote telepathy and said they weren't interested in it, then went off and perfected it. I'm pretty psyched.
Nice! This is a perfect little utility for uploading files to a backup server. I regularly post family photos to a remote server via sftp. ExpanDrive has been my goto solution for ease of use, but OneWay presents even less friction. When my needs are a little more complex I tend to hit the command line.
I'm not a mac user, but I really think this is a great idea. Your website does a good job at informing the visitor about the software and I think the benefit is clear to the right visitors.

Good luck.
Well, if reformatted and updated/reinstalled then it possibly overwrote some of the deleted sectors - rendering some files unrecoverable.
It's hard to do the man justice, only a personal meeting would have done that.

This is the best I could do to revive a sense of the sort of person he was.

I've met a lot of people over the last 15 years, very few have made such a lasting impression based on so little actual contact. As someone else already touched on in this thread he must have left a trail behind him of such events and I don't doubt it for one second.
Yes. For one, there's that big ol' fusion furnace in the middle of the place that's tossing out a variable amount of energy as time goes on.

Examining the weather of other planets would help explain if solar activity or other factors are affecting planetary temperatures more than recent human actions.
because it does not tell anything about flash vs html. It's just a statement from a flashdeveloper that is speaking about e.g. performance and showing cpu usage. It would be great if flashdeveloper would read Tinic Uro's Blog and understand boundaries on systems and browser.
The performance of a flash animation/website also depends on how it was done. I've seen "BLING BLING" made by a flashdeveloper that uses 90-100% CPU. The same "BLING BLING" running on the same machine/browser done by an other flashdeveloper uses around 50% CPU ... Bla bla and no standardized tests.
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I believe it. Apple device diagnostic modes are usually extremely rough. You can put iPods into diagnostic mode. It's just unadorned text, and, on older iPods at least, you had to click the forward and back buttons to scroll through the menus. I remember seeing a different iPhone test screen that was similarly unrefined.

Apple's 'character' is to have things looking good by release, not necessarily internally.
Currently they seem to be running into a bit of a supply issue. I keep 'running out of people to pick'. It looks like you need something along the lines of (number_of_pics * 20) votes to get your rating back, so they have a bit of an inflationary issue.

It probably doesn't help that I am male and voting on female pics. My intuition is that more males are participating in uploading/voting, so there is a gap in female picture supply.
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Nice point. I wish I had written that in. That does seem to complete the picture I was trying to paint. Thanks.
I wouldn't be surprised if they decide that this was just a "code name" for the project and come up with something that sells better. Though I like the name.
Short of such draconian consequences it's hard to find a system of incentives that encourage good thinking in the long run.

Decision markets (ala Robin Hanson's futarchy) attempt to do this. In short: we vote on our goals. We then bet on whether Policy X or Policy Y achieves this goal. We select the policy with the highest odds of success (say X). Then anyone who bet on Policy Y gets their money refunded, and anyone who favored Policy X loses money if it doesn't work. Thus, anyone who favors bad policy loses all their money.

The main drawback to such a market is that it might not be deep enough; if one bets 1 million dollars on policy "transfer 2 million dollars to me" and causes that policy to be enacted, they lose money on their bets but still make out like a bandit.
How does that even remotely answer mooism's question?
First comment on in the article is an HN-like and interesting response.
It's not only startups that don't have phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and identifiable persons of authority. It's big companies too.
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Are you...joking? Or am I supposed to be taking that explanation as your reasoning behind why that's a lambda?

I'm hoping for the former.
The money still goes to the labels, because of the licensing agreements they have in place.
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They said they'd have a turnkey paid service. I guess that exists in email as well.
Hello -

A bit late getting to this topic but I had a useful resource.

Through my 'Google Listen' acct I found a good resource - zen cast podcasts on buddhist topics.

In recent months there have been some excellent talks on meditation / awareness / focused thought / mindfulness from this teacher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Fronsdal

I offer this in light of some of the good comments in this thread about fuzzy thinking on "Eastern Meditation" etc.

Michael
There are vastly easier ways to do it.

Example:

http://www.iphoneinsecurity.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wS3AMbXRLs

(there are other intricate little ways to get the same effect. Jailbreaking is easiest but it affects the integrity of any evidence)
Too much exaggeration. PR style article
They just raised another 10k. They should see if this guy wants to help out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel
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One thing I look forward to is being able to do whatever I want with my page. It being open source, there's no way they could stop that from happening, even if it wasn't in their design. From the beginning of social networks, part of me always figured, what's the point? You want pictures of me, list of my interests? I can put that on my website. You want to know who my friends are? Is that so important? But ultimately I do understand the benefit of connectedness. But with Diaspora, I figure I could just make my personal website into a Diaspora site.
I was a happy Dropbox user. Until I read that they only accept engineering resumes from grads of "top tier" universities. Sorry, but I can't entrust my data to a company with such fallacious and just plain stupid hiring practices.
> Bla bla and no standardized tests.

You mean like anything else? Thank you for admitting you didn't have a point. Most people can't do that.
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Cool. Money is an AI algorithm for allocating resources, and an extremely buggy one-- some people have very little, and others have a lot, for literally no good reason-- due in part to the massiveness of the problem, but also to the secrecy and lack of transparency.

By getting some insight into what's going on, we can debug the system.
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Lots of places reporting this...there is still no download link.
What do you mean you would act accordingly? You would ignore any recommendations they make? So then you are left trusting the original drug developer to have properly done and analyzed the safety trials?
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Hmm... I think you might find this a little more flexible in the long run:

String.prototype.toInt = function (base) {
if (typeof base == 'undefined') base = 10;
return parseInt(this, base);
}

Smart defaults are always best, but there's no real need to handicap the users of your API.
Neat idea. Honestly? I'd find it more valuable to have a "copy to dropbox public folder & copy public url" shortcut.
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Ask HN:  How to draw attention to do about the erosion of online privacy?
I've been kicking around this idea for a while. And I'd love your input.

There seems to be more and more discontent on HN and in other places regarding the erosion of privacy online. The recent changes on Facebook's privacy policies, the Google Buzz fiasco, along with Zuckerberg and Schmidt's comments this past year seem like dark clouds on the privacy horizon.

Normals can't grok the problems that geeks are trying to draw attention to. And, these policy changes from Google and Facebook are happening so gradually and continually that there really isn't room for any intelligent, public discourse on the implications of this. It seems very much to me like a frog in the kettle scenario.

So, I've been trying to think of ways/hacks to draw attention to this issue. I've been toying with the idea of setting up a site for people to post publicly available information on Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt. Not to be a complete dick about it, but I'd be interested to see if their attitudes towards privacy change at all when it's their personal information being made public.

Any other ideas for publicity hacks to draw attention to this issue?
I have this vague feeling that Sony is currently letting DOD know that Sony could actually produce units with Linux capability, to a spec, for a price.
> "It's possible to think deeply while surfing the Net," Carr writes, "but that's not the type of thinking the technology encourages or rewards."

I think Carr needs to read "On Bullshit"[1]. Nothing more to add.

[1]: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html
We are facing exactly the same thing with graphs, we're using a custom canvas based solution but we found out it just isn't up to the task anymore when we need them to display lots and lots of data. Browser lockups are a result because it is just that Javascript intensive.

We are looking at Flash solutions right now to solve that problem.
Is there a case where it does makes sense to put write off salary as loans to the founders? As the OP indicated, any sophisticated investor would insist all the money goes "forward." But even if the company bootstrapped it to profitability, there would be no difference in tax due using this accounting practice, is there?

Is there any advantage at all to doing it this way?
FYI:

ruby-1.8.7-p249 > nil.to_i
=> 0

ruby-1.9.2-head > nil.to_i
=> 0
It could be anonymous on your end?...

I like Matt a lot, too, but his opinions (at least, those he publicly offers) are well known and well publicized. It would be great to hear other voices.

If not, how about if/when you ever leave the team. Happy to be patient :-)
People are creating accounts just to troll? Someone needs to address this.
Why in the world does Facebook let me do this?
This has the same problem as existing personal data storage appliances and such...data redundancy and reliability is a really hard problem to solve by non-technical users.

An appliance, to be really reliable, needs to automatically store it's data somewhere else...like, say, a central backup service run by the company that sold the device. Oh, but now a central company has all your private data. Oops.
Wow, they were at double their goal yesterday, today they're at triple: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p...

And 20 days left to go. What are these nerds going to do with all this money? Deluxe Ramen I suppose.
200k in the bank is nothing in sneeze at. Not to take away from his financial success but he is 32 and still living at home! Personally, I don't think I'd _ever_ trade money for the freedom and fraternization that can happen when you leave home and start spending money :)

hmmm.. maybe that's why I'm 28 with $1900 in the bank! Ouch. Reading stories like this make me a little jealous but at the same time it seems like life might be passing this guy by. He might not be travelling, meeting girls, or enjoying life. I just don't see the goal is saving everything for this "future" date..
If there was no FDA, you'd basically need to slap a label on that said - "This is not tested to be safe for anything", since it's the FDA that mandates all the safety testing.
I recently went to work at a local cafe for a few hours over the weekend. It's a cafe that is well situated for people to grab coffee and a snack, and then sit down to get some work done.

What was striking to me was that I saw no fewer than three people pop open their iPads and work for a few hours. And I'm not in the Valley.

To add to this, on my last business flight last week, I noticed two middle-aged businesspeople with their iPads in their laps while I walked down the aisle.

I don't know what definition of "mass market" the researchers are using, but when you see multiple people casually use the same device in a random coffee shop, and random businesspeople on a flight popping open the same device, it's tough to argue it's not getting widespread adoption.

The market may have proven this report wrong before the proverbial ink was dry.
This whole match was riddled with blunders. An old school Soviet master like Petrosian or Karpov would have eaten both these guys for breakfast.
tried OneWay out, works great, really easy to use. Great work. Thank you.
Too bad it takes a lot longer to count up. :)
"..., it is harmful to consumers to have a company tell them what they can and cannot have on their devices."

While I agree in theory, my practical world of PCs laden with malware & viruses tells me otherwise. Consumer protections is sometimes protecting the consumer from himself.

But yeah, a 'manual override' would be nice.
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I'm not saying you're right or wrong, or that your point is right or wrong, but with as strong a statement as you made in point #2, you should cite references - even if only so that others can be aware of the situation.
Have you ever hung out on a comp.lang.X site being helpful to people? I acknowledge your description of the POV of the questioner, but from the POV of someone who spends significant time helping out people who have (ahem) "real" problems, see if you're still so polite after your 200th "please solve my homework problem!" post.

To whatever riposte you might be planning, I would point out that I'm not talking about theory, either. Yeah, sure, everyone deserves care and love and ponies. I'm talking about, in practice, would you still be so caring and loving and pony-dispensing after hundreds of these things? If so, you're better than most. (Too much better for me to believe in, in fact.)
I use it for this as well. I've also been thinking about adding support for a one-directional rsync.
A "Diaspora" -- breaking up a monolithic gathering and scattering the people into lots of little enclaves here, there and everywhere -- is a pretty apt description of what they want to accomplish.

Also, the allusion is more recognizable in the niche of early adopters they need to court for traction. That's a signal that they'll be less mass-market (connotations: more hip, less tacky) than FB has become recently.
I was disappointed to learn that the history of deleted wikipedia pages is hidden from public view.
Some gotchas: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809796/any-gotchas-using-...
I think the difference is that Identica hasn't found any terribly rich veins of Twitter discontent to tap into, whereas Diaspora is getting NY Times publicity just because Facebook has pissed so many people off with their privacy issues. And this despite the fact that Diaspora doesn't even exist yet.
Of all the concepts under the lean startup umbrella, the pivot is the one that makes me twinge every time I hear it. I talked to someone at a lean startup meetup who was proud to have pivoted six times in under six months. It sounded to me that they were looking for Twitter or Facebook-like growth in one of those ideas and, not finding it within a matter of days or weeks, moved on. I told them that if we had pivoted that many times in our first six months, we wouldn't have survived a year. In hindsight we maybe pivoted once in our first year, once in our third year, and now we're in year six.

Part of the problem is the word itself. "Pivot" has a certain lightness, like dance -- just pivot! There, you're off!

My mental picture of a pivot is turning a column of tanks in the middle of the desert. Your tanks are hauling at full speed to an objective just over the horizon. They're going to mow down anything in the way. New intelligence comes in, is duly considered, found to be accurate, and on command your tanks hang a left to the new objective. Their commitment to reaching the new objective is unwavering.

It wasn't hard to make the turn. Radio in the order and they're off. But you better be careful not to ask that column of tanks to go there -- wait, no, over there -- wait, back to the first place -- wait, just stay still for a little while while we figure things out.

Go ahead and pivot. Do so when customer feedback, hard data, and your gut tell you this path is right and the previous path was wrong. But know that you only get so many chances to pivot before you die in the desert.
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I'm actually really interested in hearing anyone else's thoughts on this. In my opinion, there is no advantage.
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Just wait until the blogs pick it up, then "serious" newspapers, magazines, etc... Then it'll get it's own Wikipedia page. See: Santorum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_(sexual_neologism)
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I meant market makers in the role of traditional market maker (which could be HFT but is not HFT as a strategy, merely as a speed measurement).
Yes, they will. It's a big "when" though.

I work with Flash and I don't think it's buggy or bloated - that's overblown. It's not perfect, but it's definitely much better than people paint it to be (specially people who don't work with it).

In the same vein, HTML5/canvas is unreliable both in terms of performance, adoption, and consistency among different environments. People like to think of "standards", but when it requires as much hacks as any other 'standard' work nowadays do, and when it's not even available in half the browsers out there, I wonder how can anyone think it's the golden goose people like to claim it is.
This article is complete crap and has no business on HN.
These people must have their privacy set to 'Everyone'.

Facebook's Privacy Guide states that such information may be visible to everyone on the internet.
I live in DC. I briefly worked for a think tank whereby I was exposed to a lot of politicians. In general, those that rise are smart (shocker). They manipulate as a means to an end, thinking themselves justified.

Unfortunately, everyone is using the same means (i.e. manipulation) leading to some pretty weird systems. Most politicians then fall victim to pursuing their ends relentlessly, even if the landscape has changed so much that an unbiased observer could see it is no longer of value.

To be fair, this happens to most ambitious people at some point. The difference being that the non-politician (e.g. entrepreneur) who becomes blind to material changes fails locally in his pursuit while the politician fails nationally.
Right now, these guys are thinking about development, but they should already be thinking about "adoption".

If it's too geeky, it will never take off. It needs to be trendy and sassy, whether you like it or not. The "if we build it they will come" approach may shoot this thing in the foot.

On another note, are we putting data in control of the "user" or their "isp"?

This feels like the Kazaa or Napster of social networking, which can so easily be shut down by ISPs.

Lastly, people use Facebook at work and at home, and they log onto it from their friend's houses, their phones, etc. If it's all on my "node" at home, do I have to leave my stuff running all the time? That's not very convenient or green. And I don't want my bandwidth at home being eaten up every time my friends want to look at my vacation photos.

Anyway, kudos for the ambition, but the idea needs more time.
Thanks for the laugh Ed, it is much appreciated.

You could do a series of those based on country stereo types.

The Dutch version:

IJ-Combinator, for 5% of your start-up we fund you with hijacked wifi on a laptop stolen from a parked car and E 19 per day. This lets you eat and sleep at the local Salvation Army. Free drugs on Friday, demo day in the vondelpark under the bridge at midnight. Be sure to bring your own cardboard box.
Wait, these are the messages that are sent between two users? Does just one of them need to put their settings on "Everyone" to display both sides of the conversation?

Please tell me this is a bug/hack/exploit/mistake/error.
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"The worst programmers are certain of their skill. The best secretly fear the day when everyone figures out they're no good."
http://twitter.com/izs/status/13509482462

hehe
Ask HN: Where are all of the CSS Themes?
It seems like before anybody ever started making CSS Templates, they should have had a strong foundation of CSS Themes. Stylesheets that reset the browser defaults, then style all of the default elements to be a better browser default. I've been using Drupal's "default.css"(?) just so that development is easier on the eyes. Does anything like this exist?

This alone would really help get my MVP up and running a lot quicker. jQueryUI only handles so much (as it should).
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> Just like people started using CSS over table-based layouts when it was pragmatic,

And vice versa. There's a nice table-based layout on the Google front page still!
Objective-C is C plus brackets and a recv message function. Everything else is built up on that. You can very easily use c libraries in iPhone / iPad development.

Maybe this is true on android, but iPhone is a great platform for c programmers.
The next step is testing: violating minor rules, asking for things that are not supposed to be given. They test for the resilience of the guards and are also playing to what in psychology is called the “foot in the door phenomenon”: people who do a small favor for you are more likely in the future to do larger favors for you.

I am reminded of the teachers’ maxim “don’t smile before Christmas”, i.e., establish yourself as a firm disciplinarian at the beginning of the school year, and you can be more flexible once the students recognize that you aren’t a pushover.
how is this different from googling: clojure filetype:pdf
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