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I am interested in learning at least the basics of programming based on the nature of tech startups, even if I never end up doing any. Even if to simply communicate to a cofounder on a slightly higher level, rather than being completely ignorant of the ramifications of certain adjustments the app needs, etc.

I understand that people with an idea are a dime a dozen, but I think my time is better spent on other aspects of the project rather than actually writing code, even if it's the initial version.

Thanks everyone for the advice.
I'll send you an email in a minute, I appreciate this a lot.
And to think that they used to say "Think different".
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I think it's not the worst idea in the world to hold people accountable for what they say. On the other hand, the legal system in most of these cases seems to serve not for the better purpose. It basically ruins people's lives and makes them spend their money to defend themselves in courts over accusations that may not pass the common sense check. Not good for economy.
... But the people with real insight very rarely share it. All you get from these sorts of networking tools is a mishmash of mediocre gibberish.
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As far as I know, a language with less keywords lends itself to a faster parser. That's the motivation behind using "auto" for type inference in C++0x, "auto" is already a keyword.
According to this ECMWF planning document (page 14, figure 4):

http://www.ecmwf.int/about/programmatic/strategy/strategy.pd...

the forecast skill for ECMWF and NOAA have been improving pretty steadily over the last 15 years. Basically, we're seeing two days farther into the future now than 20 years ago.

I agree that chaotic dynamics and various noise sources limit the time horizon for weather predictions to perhaps 2 weeks.
FWIW, there are about ~5 startups, all started by HNers that I have done this, or something similar for.

(if anybody I have yakked at over the phone is reading this, tell the poor guy what he is in for.)
Maybe I'm missing something -- I write PHP files with HTML sections - and often CSS <style> sections in HTML. I can't figure out how to get true multi-language highlighting working. Does anyone else have this working?

If I choose HTML as the document type, I can style some PHP elements - but CSS in particular is just standard foreground-on-background...

Otherwise, this looks like a replacement for PSPad, which is my current choice.
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Ianal, but isn't there some system in place to prevent really ridiculous cases going to court? E.g. grand juries or something?
Small online retailers argue that collecting and paying sales taxes to states would be difficult or impossible to manage, given the thousands of tax jurisdictions across the country, each with its own rates and rules for what items are taxable. Others counter that simple computer software can handle the task easily.

This seems like it'd be a great opportunity for a new company (or how well does Quicken already do this?). And of course this would be the perfect time to get started, before these kinds of laws start going into effect in more and more states. As a consumer I feel like I'd much rather just pay sales tax to the retailer at the time of purchase rather than having to keep up with it and file it with my tax return (assuming those are my only two choices). But as a small online retailer that'd be such a pain having to pay taxes to 50 different states potentially.
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Maybe Kevin Rose should work on trying to keep digg's user-base professional and on-point, site design clean and fast, and less an aggregate of sponsored links before trying to be another tech messiah/mouth piece.
Well, I think you said two things.

(1) "Predicting Weather is near impossible in theory forget the practice."

and

(2) Quoting wikipedia, "Weather is usually predictable only about a week ahead."

These two remarks are not quite opposites, but almost.
Looks like Mr. Assange needs to do some updating here: "As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective."

That's an awfully tough sell. In the first place, according to the entry, one of Wikileaks' leakers has indeed been exposed -- one Specialist Bradley Manning. And Mr. Manning is now being prosecuted by the Army for, well, leaking to Wikileaks. Which Wikileaks claimed was legal. Too bad they aren't the arbiters of what's leagal and what isn't. And too badk for young Specialist Manning that he trusted Mr. Assange.

Regarding the recent allegations of rape against Mr. Assange, I have difficulty believing that the CIA, the NSA, or President Obama are behind them. The claims were made by two separate women. If Wikileaks has any proof that these women are working for his enemies, it ought to leak it. Until then, I'll just continue calling Julian Assange a collateral rapist. There's more support for that than for much of his claims against US and coalition servicemen.
This is probably because they can't really see the vision, at least for some ideas, that is required in order to get excited about it. I've been working on my elevator pitch when I dream up some new idea, but as excited as I get sometimes about some new app that I think can be great, I understand that if a number of other perspectives (peoples' opinions) disagree, I'm probably deluded.
They'd probably rather not get arrested.
Can't Google TV do all of those things as well when it is released?
The key difference between economics and weather is that experiments with prediction change the economic system's dynamics (e.g., large-scale automated trading), but not the weather system's dynamics.
Sorry, I'm still learning proper HN etiquette. I have erred on the side of silence in terms of comments, I try to avoid cluttering up the forum. I really appreciate all the advice and I'll try to clarify things when appropriate.
Yes, it is true that correlation is not causation but the article is not claiming causation. It is observing that the correlation between the unemployment rate and the education level of those in power means that they are out of touch with the problems of those suffering. It is the correlation that is the basis for the argument, the fact that lower education levels might be causing the higher unemployment for the specific populations is not relevant and is never claimed by the article.
Ideas are worth pennies. It's time, energy and execution that are worth something. I have notebooks and notebooks full of ideas. But while it takes a minute to have an "AHA!" idea or perhaps hours to refine it, it can take weeks to years to bring it into existence in a successful form.
This is a great idea- I have connections in the business world, a number of people with money who will certainly be interested in helping me out if I get something started, but I haven't been utilizing the fact that they can refer people THEY know to me.

As for networking here, it's something I'll certainly start to do.
Oh I see, I just saw the link to the app store and assumed..
So you are saying that it is easily ported to other devices, but still requires a native application? What requirements stop you from making it an online thing, that people could use with their home computers as well? Or is it just a personal preference?

Nevertheless I like the site and the idea.
The only problem is, well, being able to pick the best one. From what I'm gathering, the OP is the not-software business type, and as such, he really doesn't have much of a metric to use to determine whether or not the person he decides on dragging into the whole mess as a co-founder will be up to snuff.

Worse yet, he's in an unfamiliar town, and as such, the trust metric he'll be using for people that he meets in SF is probably going to be out to lunch for a while until he can get his bearings down. This is the most troublesome part for the simple fact that it doesn't matter how much networking you do if you can't willingly place enough trust in the people you meet.

For now, to the OP, do everything: Network with people, kludge a project together, and do business development. Welcome to the club.
Had 5 years of german. I'm from Norway, and most people have 3+ years of learning a 3rd language. But I only learned enough german to make fun of it :-/

Halli hallo wie geht es so? Ich bin eine kleine HN-er.
I don't.

>1. A fixed commenting period for each post of 24 hours. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

>2. Until the period expires, none of the comments would be visible to other commenters. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Seems pretty clear to me that for 24-hour period following a post, comments can be made, but are invisible. After 24 hours, comments are made visible, but can no longer be made.

#5 on the blog makes this more clear - #1-#5 really explain this concept.

As an aside, I hate the idea. :shrug:
Since beginning to learn about the startup community I have heard this mantra pushed over and over, and I continue to disagree. There are many ideas that require good execution for their success, but being first in a new space is extremely valuable. I've heard and agree with ideas being a multiplier of execution.
If bloggers want the discussion to happen on their blogs and not on HN or reddit, then they really need to offer something better than HN or reddit. Hell if you can't even do threaded comments or something similar to make it easier to follow the flow of discussion, it is obvious to me that you don't care too much about getting comments.
i remember writing a qbasic program, in school, to count the number of steps required for a 4-digit number to reach 6174.
I'm missing something. Apparently the plan was to prosecute people for posting classified documents to Wikileaks. Diabolical stuff indeed.
Distillation isn't magic. It works because different materials have different boiling points. When it's salt and water it's really easy since the boiling points are totally different but when it's something like this we're talking about hundreds to thousands of possible compounds all in the same mixture (also, there might be different compounds each time because of the different materials), melted up together. I doubt it's purified.
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I think everything is multiplier:

idea X execution X timing X who-you-know X "luck" X previous-audience X how-early X market-size X etc.
I have given my all to someone, even though I was employee #1, and the only one at that, for a few hundred dollars a week. Because the person who hired me: 1) knew what he wanted but not how. 2) was so honest, that he paid me without even being able to evaluate my work. I could have shown him anything I wanted as a "deliverable" and he still would have paid me, and because of that I went overboard, and made sure to do the best job I could. I billed for 5 hours a day while putting in 12.

Btw, he is someone who I firmly believe has the midas touch. He can't write a line of code, but he has the makings of a top-notch tech CEO. He is an average medical equipment salesman from an average mid-sized U.S. city. But everything about him; intelligence, attitude, knack, foresight, etc. just screams Future Fortune 100 CEO. He is someone I would forsake dreams and fortunes for, just to be part of his team again.
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It would be an interesting experiment if a blogger adds a small disclaimer: "This is a work of fiction &| gossip" to his "libelous, slanderous" "claims"... Or put every adjective in "quotes" with "some say" at the beginning. This would confuse the lawsuits even further.
Well, our approach works great for rich JavaScript web applications like those built with Cappuccino, not so much for websites. We don't have image URLs specified in stylesheets at all, but rather we use JavaScript to build up the DOM and set the src of all img tags (or background-image style properties, or canvas drawing, etc). That gives us the opportunity to replace the URLs with these data/MHTML URIs looked up through a map (URL -> data/MHTML) that gets populated when you load the sprite.

Regarding the "Flash of Unstyled Content" effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content), I believe this has been fixed by modern browsers, as long at the stylesheet is loaded in the head section, since the browser won't display anything until those resources have been loaded (not 100% sure about this, it doesn't affect the kinds of apps I'm talking about anyway)

Regarding Base64 + Gzipping, no, that's not accurate:

"Base64-encoded data URIs are 1/3 larger in size than their binary equivalent. This overhead is reduced to 2-3% if the HTTP server compresses the response using HTTP's Content-Encoding header."

This is saying the overhead is reduced from 33% to 2-3% over the raw image sizes, which is insignificant relative to the performance gained by significantly reducing the number of HTTP requests.

You last point doesn't apply to web applications where, for example, a progress bar can be displayed before showing any of the application UI.
Seems to probably be a benign mistake that will be rectified or clarified in the future.
Or we just think they make good computers ;)

Hell, if the majority has good taste, I'm with the majority.
I try to follow the rule that whatever you do, do it well. When you have to cut down, reduce the number of things you do, not the quality of work.
A few years ago someone realized that every New Yorker Magazine caption contest cartoon can be effectively captioned with 'Christ, what an asshole!'.

I'm starting to think this also works as a comment on any piece of Wikileaks-related news, regardless of one's political views or feelings about any of the players involved.
Great story, Steve. What's really sad is that because of _why's disappearance, I was introduced to Ruby and programming in general. At least something good came out of a bad situation.
that's $137k per student

Only if they keep it open for just one year.
Those are pretty timid explanations for how iTV will 'change everything'. Per network applications, instead of just say, one feature set for all networks? iAds to monetize content, meaning something like ads on Hulu, or, the internet? $99, like Roku? Granted the iPhone as a remote is an excellent convenience and obvious evolution in home entertainment.
This developer is an idiot.

It's very simple. You can't make people register for no reason just to use an app. (e.g. just to harvest their information.)

Twitter, facebook, evernote, all have account features so they were approved. Apple was crystal clear explaining this.

The poster's muddled logic and inflamatory reaction shows me why Instapaper by Marco is a vastly superior product.

My guess is the author is using a fake controversy to drum up attention for his product. Astroturfing, methinks.
I wish I had your confidence. :(
There are some people who are lucky enough to have friends that have the same drive to succeed, but I think they are in the minority.

I found my co-founder through the co-founder wish list. I couldn't be happier. We were not good friends at first, but friendship comes easily when you are both working hard towards the same goal.

Something that is super important (other than skill) is motivation. If you've got to do some convincing to get a friend to work with you on an idea, it probably won't get too far.
A quick question about meetup.com: Are meetups automatically generated based on my IP and location?
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Well, E was inspired heavily by Textmate and IIRC the author of Textmate was involved a bit:
http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/11
Isn't this the same guy who said he'd seen the iPhone and it had two batteries and a slide out keyboard?

Edit: Yup: http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/03/kevin-rose-confirms-iphon...
Why not meet half way?

Everybody can't code, but everyone can make mockups. Use a tool like mockingbird (gomockingbird.com) and literally sketch out every single page/screen. When you make the mockups, you should be sure to know where every link/button goes, otherwise there's a page missing in your mockups!

Just this task alone would stop 95% of people with vague ideas. It also shows the coder that you have taken it as far as you reasonably can without learning to program.
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While I do not care for obfuscation for its IP protection function, having the source visible and accessible is a problem for games: how can we know that top scores are valid and a variable has not been modified? Basically, all JS games are cheatable. John Resig talked about this http://bit.ly/bO3bcf
In that case, you may want to revisit your original formulation, Ideas are worth pennies. It's time, energy and execution that are worth something.

Time, energy and execution thrown at a bad idea will not be worth much more than a good idea sitting in a notebook.
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I had the exact same experience coming to London from Athens. I was in absolute shock that cars were stopping for me to pass when I was at a pedestrian crossing. You can't even stand near a crossing without having cars stop, just in case. Of course this only makes it worse when I go back home, and get more and more irritated at the apparent invisibility of pedestrians..

Come to think of it, I didn't think there was another Greek HNer in London, this is definitely worth a beer. Drop me an e-mail, or come to the next HN meetup this Thursday.
Me too, how does one get a thing like this started?
I wonder how the "open company" thing turned out:

http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany
http://e-texteditor.com/wiki/index.php/OpenCompany

since it looks like this new version is closed again.
No, it will just make them better.
I am a newbie in this space. Is it better to build webapps for Twitter, facebook and Gmail like applications that rely heavily on the data to be downloaded? Is this the best route for web developers to take? I have seen sencha mobile and it looks great for cross device compatibility as well iphone/ipad/android.
you are getting confused in semantics of word "prediction".

Weather in theory is an Chaotic system thus there is no simple laws such as F = Ma to predict it.

Time frames of week , seconds and years are meaningless. You can always argue that you can predict weather for next milli or micro or femto seconds, why stop at weeks? but that does not proves that chaos theory is wrong or that there is some generative law which can be used to predict weather without relying on data.

Also from a utilitarian perspective, a long term accurate weather forecast would be so much useful rather than just a week long range [Assuming that is accurate right now,]. But you dont find accurate prediction for monsoon in January, or even of say a hurricane a fortnight before.
A prototype is halfway. :-) All the way would be learning to code well enough that you could launch the product yourself.

If you can communicate your product vision in static mockups, that's great. But for most products, there's a world of difference between seeing something working - even if it's held together with string and wires and only works for the inputs you're demoing - and seeing a bunch of pictures.
I'm not sure this is Astroturfing; Astroturfing is making something carefully planned look spontaneous and bottom-up. We need a new term for this. I suggest misinterpretunity.
As far as I can tell, RiL has account features. I don't know the guy but I have exchanged emails with him regarding pinboard.in integration and he didn't seem like an idiot nor is it really all that likely that he's posting this just to promote his app.

'Astroturfing' seems an odd choice of words, too, for someone who seems to have just created an account to call someone else an idiot.

A P.S.-ish edit - I know he recently wrote an opensource iOS library to simplify integration with various sharing services and seems to have added it to the latest version of his iPhone app. Pure speculation but I wonder if the reviewers saw that the app can potentially ask you for authentication information for a bunch of different services and some 'password harvester' alarm went off.
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I agree with WilliamLP: It would really make this a lot more interesting if the process of the implementation of this game was documented as well. Nonetheless this is pretty cool especially given the constraints of fitting it in 10K.
Is the ad hominem necessary? The app offers account-based features, namely cross-platform syncing.

Applying "never ascribe to malace what can be more simply ascribed to incompetence", I expect this is just a bad, baseless rejection. Apple is clearly not going to stop in-app login and registration, so this post is mainly FUD.

I can see how App Store rejection can drive a developer to these thoughts though.
How would you expect a service like this to exist without tieing an account to the items which you marked to read later?
This means you could do a pure css image and put it in a PNG ... !

Mind bending.
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Actually, I think that being first in a new space is a bad place to be in. Being the first good entrant in a space is worth something, but almost all ideas are shitty when they're first dreamed up, and coming later gives you the ability to look at other people's failures - in some cases, lots of other people's failures - and see how you can make them better.

Google was not the first search engine. Microsoft was not the first microcomputer OS. Facebook was not the first social networking site. Netscape was not the first web browser. Flickr was not the first photo-sharing site. OKCupid was not the first online dating site. The Apple II was not the first microcomputer, the iPod was not the first MP3 player, and the iPhone was not the first smartphone.
I know what 'chaotic' means. Or where the seasons come from. The statement I was taking issue with is still complete nonsense. We can predict the weather, both in theory and in practice. He was saying that we can't and this is obviously untrue.
OK, that's enough. I think this Wikileaks stuff has officially become conventional news i.e., not HN material. Maybe I'm wrong and someone will explain it to me.
I use Read It Later quite often. The account specific functionality is synchronization for saved URL's between Read It Later on various platforms: iPhone, Firefox, etc.