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Sure, Mogotest fulfills the needs of the hardcore web designer set, but I see the trend moving towards CMS platforms like Wordpress and pre-tested, standard compliant templates, rather than designing from scratch.

That means professionals from related web industries, enthusiasts and "amateurs" may require a service like Mogotest, but not with the frequency of professional website designers, or at the current, one-size-fits-all subscription price. Just sayin.

A little background on me. Over the past dozen years I've developed hundreds of websites, and I still wouldn't consider myself a "professional website designer". Website design isn't where my expertise or passion lie.

So yeah, nirvdrum, maybe I'm not your market. That's cool.

I wish you luck with Mogotest!
I must be showing my age but I can't believe the animosity displayed by some here towards RMS. He's the archetypal "stubborn man", and anyone who uses computers today is in his debt.
The governance model borrows very heavily from the apache foundation. They use a similar voting / membership mechanism to self-govern. Thousands of devs on dozens of high visibility OSS projects.

So far it's scaled easily for us up to 15 people.
About the lisp in unix question (#3): ocaml has struck me as lisp +c, because it's functional + mind-blowing performance. I'm not experienced in ocaml, it's just that when I tried it, it was that fast. I don't know if it has the homoiconism of lisp. It is statically typed, which is a pain (the type inference requires methods like "print_string" - perhaps these are rare if you code in ocaml idioms).

I'm very glad to see him looking happy.

Love his geek answer to "what's your favourite movie?". Why don't normal people react better to answers like that?

Perhaps the love for him is because, for anyone who is even the least little bit weird perhaps in secret, Stallman is a shining beacon of weirdness. More power to him!
Ask HN: apartment finder in SF?
I've been living in the city for 3 years, but my roommate is leaving at the end of August. So for the first time in years, I am beginning the process of finding either a new place or a roommate. I would like to use a service offered by members of the HN community rather than something like craigslist.

The reasons for this is that I like to support our community and I tend to like the people that interact on HN.

Any suggestions?
In all seriousness, if we're going to argue the ethics of charging for software

Which RMS isn't, he's arguing the ethics of restricting freedom. Which means he'd probably disagree with your claim "[Microsoft] created products that made the lives of millions of other people easier" and frame it as a negative not a positive.

Bill Gates made his money restricting the freedom of hundreds of millions of people, from which he bought a huge house and then gave some of the remainder back to the world.

Freedom is nothing without survival, but stealing freedom from some to buy survival for others, at a personal profit, is not clear cut moral or good.
Minute trading introduces very high levels of liquidity to the market.

Your thinking represents a common fallacy: "I cannot immediately see any benefit to X, therefore X is pointless / should be abolished".
it's easy to remove self-citation, but it's hard (and unfair) to detect and remove citations in the case you mentioned "a small community ... publishing lots of low-quality papers and citing each other a lot. "
I can't help but always be totally impressed with Patrick. I admire the way he focuses on every detail of his business and is so thoughtful about everything he does. He is a big reason why reading the comments on this site can be so rewarding.

This was an excellent read.
Node looks so promising. Every time I hear something about it I hit Google hoping that by now there's a Rails or Django for Node, but there always just seems to be a mass of 200-line projects, none of which I would be comfortable starting a project on.

EDIT: Look what I found: http://geddyjs.org/
I use http://www.mapmyrun.com It gets the job done but I find it a bit clunky.

It's nice to see some lightweight but no less functional alternatives.
Google wants to exist in China, but without complying to their law.
Sorry I'm not going to be there guys :/ - out of town this weekend.
Am I the only hardware engineer here? SystemVerilog gets no respect :).
I get a lot of credit (perhaps more than I deserve) because I talk a lot, am amicable, and write in a compelling manner. Communication is the great underlooked startup/engineering skill.

I prefer taking the opposite tack [+] with regards to simplicity: there is indeed such a thing as simple. Your business, on day one, is simple. It will gradually become more complex as you learn things and learn what the business needs, but you don't need to let the complexity coming down the pike scare you away from starting something today. (And compared to many businesses -- from megacorps down to a lot of the startups around here -- BCC is still pretty simple, even four years in. My best marketing strategy can be explained in three Powerpoint slides, all the code I have is under 10kloc, and the core customer need is pretty much unchanged.)

[+] Some day I will learn this English idiom properly, but until I do, thank you guys for correcting me on it.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring V 2.0 Non-techie edition
Are you a tech company looking for non-tech (engineering/developer/programmer) talent in positions like operations, marketing, sales, administrative or general management? Then post your openings here because Hacker News is read by a wide range of talents who might be looking for new opportunities.
"That's completely wrong. You're fundamentally misunderstanding what the free software movement is about. Ultimately it's a sort of grassroots consumer protection movement, not a bunch of hippies trying to abolish money."

They aren't trying to abolish money. However, they are trying to abolish the idea of making money selling software.

"Stallman believes that you should vote with your feet and avoid using non-free software, and that if we all did this for everything there would be no space for non-free software in the market."

Stallman wants all copyright abolished, which would abolish commercial software. Stallman doesn't want freedom, he wants everyone to follow his rules. True freedom means we have a market of free and non-free software.

"That doesn't mean that you can't sell software. The FSF has always sold copies of their software (I know because I've bought some). All of their licenses allow you to sell software, they consider any license that doesn't allow this to be non-free."

Which also allows the user to re-distribute the software for free. If companies did this, many wouldn't have a business any longer because anybody could legally get it for free.
Fraud.

The press release mentions that 94 MPG is achieved under the New European Driving Cycle:

http://www21.porsche.com/usa/aboutporsche/pressreleases/pag/...

With a bit of Googling, this means

* 20 minutes of driving

* 11 km (7 miles) distance

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

http://www.dieselnet.com/standards/cycles/ece_eudc.html

(Distance is: 4x ECE-15 cycles of 1 km each, and 1x EUDC cycle of 7 km, so 11 km total. Time is analogous.)

The press release also says the battery range is "up to 25 km".

In short, they are averaging together ε time of gasoline driving, with (1 - ε) time of battery driving, with ε tweaked to get a very high but barely-plausible mpg figure that is in fact complete nonsense. (I hope \epsilon encoded correctly). A big fat lie.

Note there isn't really a discrepancy: the NEDC cycle has a 75 mph component and quite a few accelerations, while the Porsche battery range is given as "up to 25 km", implying ideal, minimal-acceleration driving. So it's reasonable the battery lasts less than 11 km under NEDC conditions, allowing for an ε sliver of gas driving (to keep things finite).

Google's Mark Chu-Carroll devastated Chevrolet when they pulled the same trick with the Volt mileage ("230 mpg!"), on Good Math, Bad Math:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/08/the_chevy_volt_gets...

Lots of other hybrids are pulling the same trick. Here's the numbers behind the Hummer H3 electric (yeah, seriously...):

http://www.rasertech.com/wp-content/uploads/hummer_fuel_econ...

See how it works? The press release summarized this as "100+ mpg":

http://www.rasertech.com/media/videos/the-electric-h3
Is more liquidity always better? (It's an honest question - I have no idea myself).
I am a full-time graduate student looking for a part-time job in the Phoenix, AZ, area (or telecommute). I'm skilled and experienced in web development, particularly with PHP and JavaScript. I also know Python and C. I also have some experience with Android development. I'd like to pay my rent, of course, but I'd also be thrilled to work on a fascinating product or learn something new.

My email is thinkago at gmail.
Your first sentence reminded me of the famous mythical "Help Wanted" ad for Shackleton's voyage.

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

http://www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm
However it also adds high levels of volatility and self-organizing behavior (i.e. trends that feed on other trends, not on underlying signals). One might add another fallacy: "The market does X, therefore X is good".
Yes.

I was saying something about the post I replied to, I wanted to point out that it's easier to ease into emacs without sacrificing the chance to learn about it for familiarity.
There's a huge time cost to preparing your own food from raw ingredients. I agree it's worth it, but it's definitely more expensive than hitting Jack In The Box.
Stallman has possibilities and no direct proof of anything.

Stallman is the guy who pushed the asteroid and watched it sail harmlessly past. In alternate reality, Gates is the guy on the ground helping the survivors clean up after the asteroid hit.

Metaphorically, of course. Stallman's good is causing unknown amounts of freedom restriction and consequent problems to not ever have happened - which isn't really tangible.
Why is everyone fishing in Groupon's pond?
Ok, I typed the wrong word! Thanks for the edit.
"the opposite tack". In the interests of compelling writing. And pedantry.
>He says one group was generating $100,000 a day from his high-frequency trading software and paying him $150,000 a year.

I'm not saying I don't want the guy to have a higher salary, but there's an implied fallacy here. It seems he should be paid relative not to how much value his code generates, but to how hard it would be to replace him.
I didn't say it was good, I said that discarding something merely because you see a drawback and no benefits is foolish.

You are right about the feedback loops though.
I find it odd that one of the core businesses is a type of user (business users) while the other seven are products.
Imagine liquidity as tank full of fuel in your car. The possibilities of going with a full tank are endless. More fuel than tank's holding capacity is pretty much useless.
I'd actually love to see more jobs that offered the opportunity to work with a small base salary but increased compensation levels based on measurable results.

I'm really curious about non-startup work models that would encourage this. So far, the easiest path would seem to be via consulting, where you sold your services as business services that happened to be software-based rather than as a "warm body" to staff some open slot somewhere.

It seems that overall, startups are probably lower expected value to the early employees in pure financial terms than having compensation tied to measured results for work done for some other company.

I remember essays by both PG and Joel that mentioned the "value effect", PG talking about a "monster of productivity" hacker who added a bunch of value to Viaweb in a single day and in Joel's case, a summer intern who (I vaguely recall) suggested and then built the joelonsoftware jobs board.

I think fogcreek offered the intern some type of stock option bonus for joining fulltime. I don't remember if the Viaweb hacker got something or already had equity of some sort.
"RMS sees the ability to hack your own system as a fundamental freedom. Computer as an extension of your mind/person. It would be like me telling you that you are not allowed think certain thoughts."

Under these rules, I should be able to include GPL source in a proprietary application and not have to release the code. It's my fundamental freedom to do as I wish with open source code. Yet, it doesn't work this way. People that do this get sued.
The only mentions of Google concern Google Docs being SAAS and thus being unacceptable.

Hence, he was still lying about Stallman "using Google search".

My cry of shenanigans stands.
It is the same for every company. Employee says I do 'x' and without me, the company would not be able to operate therefore I deserve part of the profit. Thing is, the employee was hired on and agreed to do 'x' and so they do not have a right to claim any more. As such, they can strike out on their own and as the article says, learn that there is great risk to be had and choose between large risk and making millions or little risk and a small salary.
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Good question. I would imagine not, especially from the point of view of someone who can exploit an illiquidity.
To this day I find it funny that what is arguably the most successful web-centric company in history does not really like or support telecommuting. :)
200 people 'viewed' the video on youtube. I don't know how to tell how many watched all the way through.

Around 180 people signed up to be notified when we have an 'official' launch, and over 100 people created an account for themselves.

This story has been on the front page for around 10 hours now.

Don't know how many people hit the landing page until google analytics tells me tomorrow.
math/cs double, emphasis topology, knot theory, geometry, some analysis and dynamics, also systems (mostly unix) esp. disk data structures and kernel dev, functional programming, security

currently seattle at MS, stony brook university come fall, graduating feb or may

possible relocations: seattle, san fran, NYC, philly, austin, boston. anywhere in europe would be fantastic, I speak french so paris/montpellier would be great, or anywhere they speak enough english for me to get by (stockholm, copenhagen, london, maybe berlin)

serious inquiries for people solving serious problems only, no web stuff unless your backend requirements are crazy, also, expect me to wander away to grad school in a couple of years, I already have some good looking offers so don't get your hopes up

my username point walsh at symbol and then the popular webmail provider most of you probably have that starts with 'g', .com

also my username, no dot or space or hyphen, followed by walsh and .com, though it's pretty sparse these days and my resume is out of date

you can also email me if you just want to chat, I'm friendly :)
awesome, once you get enough data like that you can do real cool analytics like "what color draws the most attention", "do drop shadows make it easier to focus on sections", etc... it would make for a great blog, something along the lines of http://blog.okcupid.com/
Its never perfect, and there are downsides to any circumstance. It just depends on how execute within the constraints.

Small companies often lack the resources that they crave, have to be scrappy, and viable from the start. Big companies are often comfortable, suffer from inertia given their size, and innovation is often not a survival instinct. Small, well funded companies have built-in expectations from stakeholders for X-times return in N years, and so the operations and culture may not be built for long term viability.
"Metaphorically, of course. Stallman's good is causing unknown amounts of freedom restriction and consequent problems to not ever have happened - which isn't really tangible."

Without Stallman and the GNU, we would still have just as much software on the market. Many of the people and companies would have most likely released it under the BSD license (or public domain).

..and like I said. I still don't buy it. Piracy causes unknown amounts of damage to commercial software companies. If the community comes to terms with this, I might be more apt to come to terms with the amount of unknown "good" Stallman has done.
Bill Gates also called open source developers communists.
I have to admit I've always considered RMS somewhat of a freak (but one who has done some amount of good in this world).

However, I have now lost all respect for him for making non-free software a human rights violation.

EDIT: Grammar
So?

Let's say all subsecond trading is abolished tomorrow, and rather than a smooth curve, all asset prices step at 1-second intervals.

What value was destroyed there?

If none, what value are these guys creating? None?
Ask HN: How do you deal with severe social anxiety?
I have had a lot of social anxiety ever since I was a child.

Small encounters (in other people's minds) have always become collosal conflicts in my mind, making me feel that social interactions are far too much cost and too little benefit.

I often spend hours thinking about all of the possible meanings of encounters I have with people, oftentimes only able to sleep for a few hours a night because I go over everything in my head so much.

I'm sure there are other techies who have dealt with this issue in different degrees. My question is, is it possible to overcome it?

The reason I ask is, I feel that it is now becoming a serious impediment to my ability to enjoy my life and even to my ability to make a living.
Historious just got public pages and subscriptions
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These are leeches stealing money from 401k's and pensions.
I'm surprised at how high your comment is rated.

Bill Gates didn't become rich because Microsoft managed to work itself into a monopoly position with dirty tactics. The whole problem people have with Microsoft is that they abused their monopoly in one area to gain a foothold in another! They already had a virtual monopoly on desktop computers. How did they get there?
By having smart people and making really good software that more or less worked everywhere.

When Microsoft started becoming evil they were already fully entrenched in the market.

How many millions of US$ would those people have donated to charity if their budgets hadn't been constrained by purchasing Microsoft software? Some of them were probably African countries that could have used that money to buy vaccines 10 years ago.

Yes, I'm sure that any money left over from a large corporation's IT budget would have gone straight into the donation budget.
When you say "should", are you making a positive observation or a normative claim? My positive observation is that people get paid whatever amount they can successfully negotiate, and a programmer at the very top of a field with ungodly amounts of cash money flowing around is in a good position to negotiate lots, because their BATNA is "I walk one block out of this office, have coffee with someone, and a week from now I'm making seven figures and you're competing against my algorithms."
But grep (written for Unix) is older than GNU.
I have a feeling this article confused the creators of the trading algorithms, which is what makes the money, with pure programmers, who are hired to implement someone else's pre-existing algorithms.

Sometimes these are the same person, but in those cases that person almost always has a profit sharing contract, not only a base salary. (And if they don't, they're crazy.) The fact that the programmers in the article only had base salaries leads me to believe that they weren't the actual creators of the trading algorithms, so they don't really deserve a slice of the profits anyway, because someone else a) created the profit machine and b) is taking all the risks of running it.

What really happens is that these programmer guys learn the trading secrets after a few years on the job, then depart to a different firm to recreate the machine themselves. There's no oppression or revolts here.
We are a bootstrapped startup that aims to change the way you bookmark sites. In order to remain bootstrapped, we just instituted a $3/mo subscription that gives users some perks.

We also launched public user pages where you can share your bookmarks and give users the link so they can search your bookmarked items. This is my page, for example:

http://stavros.historio.us/search/

We would, once more, appreciate your feedback!
The Microsoft C compiler has been good too, but it comes with strings attached, just like vaccinations and bio-tech.

What are these strings?
So why does the GPL make it so difficult to make any kind of money. Many of the supporters are also against any and all forms of commercial software.

How many Free software supporters did you count said they're explicitly against profiting from software?

Beside, if GPL make it difficult to earn money, than it's a pure side effect.
Liquidity means you can easily find a buyer or seller. In what circumstance would this not be a good thing? You get minimal markups (bid/ask spread), you can get in and out of trades quickly, and you can easily determine the market value of your securities. Housing is totally illiquid: there's a big broker fee, it takes a while to sell your house, and you can only guess at its true value by comparing to recent sales of similar houses. There's some weird cases in global markets where liquidity allegedly causes problems.
I don't think those bosses have so much more risk than the programmers, yet they earn substantially more than the programmers according to the article.
> Apache has a habit of taking down memory-constrained VPSes when hit by large amounts of traffic

Give Nginx a spin if you can. I use 300MB VPSes running Nginx + PHP and have memory to spare to run the dropbox daemon, lightly loaded mysql, etc.
Would love to see a slightly smaller plan for 2-3 servers or a little more flexibility for those of us that don't have 6 servers...yet! :D
grellas, you are too kind. i stumbled hard in the middle. it was a pleasure to meet you.

i forgot to say a bunch of stuff. most of it was targeted at how to actually be an angel.

- stop going for crazy protective terms - if stuff goes pear-shaped, you lose your money. period. and it makes life harder for entrepreneurs as terms given up in the first rounds are never recovered.

- invest in people you would consider working for and with. you will be.

- learn to give a clean, proper no. it's hard, and i do this badly.

- don't sit on deals hoping they get hot.
I would have agreed with you prior to hearing this argument: if someone's pension fund wants to trade 10,000 shares of a stock with a 2 cent spread, then in the next few seconds market makers are going to make $200, guaranteed. The only thing HFT changes is who the marketmaker that pockets the $200 is going to be: some day trader in the bathrobe, market maker at the exchange, automated proptrading strategy, or a sickeningly optimized HFT bot which measures execution times in nanoseconds. Either way, the pension fund is going to transfer $200 to marketmakers.

What you should be worried about is your pension fund actively trading, which it is doing because it is being managed by someone who takes ~2% off the top every year and who has to justify this by showing they can beat all these damnfangled machines at stock selection. They'll almost certainly underperform the index over time and overcharge index funds by about, oh, 180 basis points or so, precisely because they insist on conveying your wealth to marketmakers every time they trade.