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> but honestly, what do I have that's worth actually broadcasting?

Um.. how about your Hacker News comments?
Are these meet-ups more social for actually getting work done?
Homography.
And my Desktop right now http://tweetphoto.com/40827362

I need some feedback folks. Criticisms. Anything. Please..
You're bordering on Andy Rooney-ism here.
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I would be interested in this.
I thought it was pretty much determined that most employees just need a minimum amount of salary met, at which point they're fine. Kind of like maintaining a lawn or pool; don't add a stressor by cutting things so close to the limit, but rather keep things plush, so there are no issues.

The combat soldier takes a calculated risk, and is there to assist because not doing so would be too powerful of a demoralizing force and fill themselves with regret. People leap into action at those moments because the alternative is incomprehensibly unacceptable.
I had that problem with an older pre-aluminum MBP.

I just bought one of the newer models with an SSD and the temperature rarely gets beyond warm. Great for laps.
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What is it like? Is it like a hacker/creative study hall where everyone is motivated by peer pressure (in a good way) and good vibes?
They are united in their creative diversity.

I've always thought it highly ironic, "think different" being associated with such rigid conformity.
Well, it seems as though the listings area was centered... I see no other changes. A real shame really. Craigslist could use some aesthetics.
Depends on your background / intended purpose:

1. if you are making web apps then Google App Engine / Python is a good choice

2. If you are developing Ipod/ipad/iphone touch apps then you should learn obj C

3. If you are more scientifically inclined and working in bio / Chem field then again I would recommend python.

4. If you are you young and have ample spare time at your hand then learn C.

5. if you are just plain beginner with no clue then I would suggest Ptyhon again.
I was going leave a comment asking why this was here, but after reading about his mathematical prowess/history all I've got to say is: whoa.
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Browsing through the SFNightOwls Twitter followers... (http://twitter.com/sfnightowls) there are also London, Stockholm, Krakow, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, and Boston: http://www.meetup.com/BOS-Nightowls/
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Anyone interested in starting something similar to this in Ottawa, Canada?
People have been told there is order and you can rely upon that order.

I once an old driver misinterpret a green light for a green arrow and he slowly turns left while the rest of us continued to wait. I mean, very, very slowly.

Coming in the opposite direction is another, also moving clowly, maybe 10 miles below the speed limit.

The guy turning left is moving slow, the oncoming car moving slow. Everybody else can see whats about to happen. Everybody else taps out a text regarding how they are able to predict the future.

Eventually, the guy making the left turn crosses the median. Some time after this, the other car enters the intersection. I get a reply to my text. Then the collision finally occurs.

Clearly, neither driver ever drove in pre-quake downtown sf. Or maybe they did. :-) What is clear is that both were lulled asleep to such a degree that couldn't see what they were driving into.
Well, there are 184 other apps (and counting) in that contest that fit that same criterion:

http://10k.aneventapart.com/
very true. "we'll tell everyone what to do and when" seems a good model in the abstract but in practice its not as good as everybody making their best judgements based on the signals available where they are, while broadcasting their own intent.

There are good reasons why human intelligence is naturally distributed.
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I remember the first time I met an Australian taking a year to wander around the earth. That was a bit of an eye-opener. It wasn't the last one of them I met, though. There seem to be a lot of them.
"It's called 'the American dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
No wonder you don't understand it. You've got it wrong.

The "American Dream" is not white picket fences, 2 and a half children and a dog. It can be, but that is not the only thing it is.

The idea is simple- you can be anything, do anything, achieve anything. You apparently see it manifest most often in the form of the desire to elevate your family for your children- pull your family out of the lower classes and solidly into the middle class so that your children have it easier.

Put succiently; it is the possibility of everything that is impossible in a caste/class system.

(Not that I believe it exists in all it's shining glory etc, but before you criticize it make sure you understand it)
My housemate and I did this for Tandy Color Computer cassettes a while back. If I recall correctly, a binary 0 was a certain duration of 1200Hz sine waves, and a binary 1 was the same duration of 2400Hz sine waves. The circuitry counted zero crossings over time, which made it fairly resilient to noise.

And yes, plugging the cassette aux in cable to the headphone jack of a Macbook and transferring code through it was really fun. :)
i don't that view either, but i do understand wanting to have purpose.

So many choices in the world, it's easy to become overloaded and fall back on a path of least resistance. Especially if such a path harkens back to a view of some "golden age"
Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. Now what?
I've been reading everything I can from HN and elsewhere on the tech startup industry and have done what seemed necessary so far. But I don't code and would be looking to find a good technical co-founder.

I have what I think is a good idea for a web app, it's a pretty simple concept and while I expect the equity split to be most of the motivation for the technical cofounder, (I would deal with the business side of things) it seems that I would have a better chance of getting a good programmer on board if I offer some cash in addition. Ideally it would be someone looking for experience but also with the ability to have a guaranteed paycheck as well.

And I'm in San Francisco- what now?
The photos remind me of the stat I read recently that the majority of incoming college freshmen are bringing Macs (one source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/07/big-macs-on-campus/)
The thing that always kills vacations for me is, I suspect, directly related to our lack of vacation time.

Vacations must be optimized and maximized, to get the 'most' out of the short time you do have.

As a result of this, you get nothing out of it because you miss the point entirely.

Holidays are great, because nobody is going anywhere and the only concern is that the food is not burned.
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If you like to cheat at games like me.. Set a breakpoint in the minified jQuery source, follow the callstack back to the game's scope, then set c.W to something high like 1e9.
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Now all you need is Windows 3.11 and one of those newfangled CD-ROMs and you too can run Encarta!

or

The 1990s called and they want their ideas back!

/end_sarcasm

This looks like a nicely polished product, the major barrier to uptake is going to be getting someone to use it as part of the syllabus. Difficult given that it will require the school to require everyone who takes the class to have an iPad.
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1G - Analog technology (AMPS et al)
2G - Digital transmission (GSM, TDMA, CDMA et al)
3G - WCDMA (UMTS (aka the orginal 3G), HSDPA, EVDO et al)
4G - OFDM (LTE, WiMax et al)
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I don't see significant enough improvements to make this a 2.0 release.
if you want one in dc, you can make it happen! anyone can start a meet-up in any city here: http://www.meetup.com/nightowls/
as the ajaxian article stated, i believe that people are trying to make use of it to squeeze the most out of the size-limited javascript contests that are out there. but, i've not seen an entry that does yet (haven't looked that hard though).
Could we please get a New York meetup that's not on Tuesday night? :/ LWOB, NY Tech Meetup, and NY Tech Mixer all meet primarily on Tuesdays.
weird. maybe they stopped running it. Basically, you connected your fb profile, and the trailer for the video game was personalized.
Here you go naysayers. You said this day will never come - but it has. Next - the Messiah!
Smalltalk is probably absent because they're happy and productive and don't care about other languages. I have to say my Smalltalk years were full of more,"Look what I made!" vs. "Look what I got the computer to do!"

An alternative explanation is that there are no longer any Smalltalk programmers who don't also belong to one of the other groups. :(
if anything, they're less social and way more about getting shit done. we've actually had people come who were surprised to find that so many people were quietly doing their own thing. for me, it's a focused work session without distraction...
Thanks. You're right - fortunately would have been a better choice.
"doesn't make me want to go see some exorcist movie."

Watching peoples' reactions doesn't really make me want to go either, but tbh, it may have made me want to see the movie if I experienced that. Not sure how many impressions that they got, but it could be significant.
$0 of which you will get back at the end of the semester.
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I get that you were employing hyperbole, but still seems just a little pointless to say "storage is now basically free" two sentences after listing a couple of prices for the storage you're talking about. (And it's not like it's dropped to a price you don't notice, most of us have a minimum of 200GB storage in our computers, many of us have multiple terabytes for personal use alone, and while a few hundred dollars may be crazily cheap compared to 20 years ago, it's a long way from "free".)
we may open a thursday night edition... but overall, tuesday works well. there's always something going on in new york so it's all about determining your own personal priorities. if you want to get shit done, come to nightowls. if you want to see new tech start-ups presented and have the opp to meet 800+ interested in nyc tech, go to meetup..
I like maximizing and optimizing my vacation. I definitely want to have an original, self improving experience on my vacation. I think I would last about 2 minutes just laying on a chair.

In all utter seriousness, is there some better way to spend a vacation? Can you describe it?
good vibes for sure! also a spirit of getting things done... you should come by and say hi! (my name's amber!)
do it! http://meetup.com/nightowls is the group meetup to make it happen!
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I've been working on hybrid web/desktop apps for a while now. I use Qt's webkit to make the application window a HTML page (QWebView) and load pages bundled with the app or from a remote server (or mix content from both). Whenever I need to reach out to the client platform--in my case, for bluetooth and for app.exit()--I use Qt's javascript/native bridge mechanism for great justice.

As with everything there are tradeoffs. Benefits include reusing libraries for both browser-based and native-based applications portably across client platforms. I have a large library of server code for the kinds of applications I write, so knocking up a new application in that domain is easy. I find writing clients in HTML/javascript easier for my iterative development style. Client libraries like jQuery help too, although I don't use them much as my apps run on an embedded device (333MHz) where they slow down page rendering too much. I use them for mocking up and prototyping and rewrite to inline javascript for deployment.

The biggest drawback is the native client, and I try to avoid having to use one as much as I can. And while Qt is good for Windows/Linux/Mac, you need something else for Android (I can't comment on iPhone/iPad because you can't program the bluetooth on them, so it is useless for my particular requirements). So you'll be maintaining separate clients which can be a bitch, but such is the nature of tradeoffs.

On the whole I much prefer this style of application, playing around mostly in HTML/javascript/perl, dropping into C++ when I need to touch the platform. Originally I thought using a browser might be too slow on my constrained device, but webkit is quite pleasingly snappy--faster than VB for an application one of my hybrid apps replaced.
The "American Dream" is not white picket fences, 2 and a half children and a dog. It can be, but that is not the only thing it is.

While you are absolutely right, there's no denying that there is intense societal pressure against making anything other than that your "American Dream." Ugh.

Everyone I know seems to think I'm crazy for not chasing after some promotion so that I can buy a bigger house, a better car, find a spouse, etc. I have the freedom to choose otherwise, but not the freedom to not be ridiculed for it.
On a related topic, what are some examples of well-known conjectures, generally believed to be true, that were later proven to be false?
There are some weeks in which I'd like to do both. I'm far more likely to go to something on Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday night than Tuesday, because there's a lot competing for my attention on Tuesdays.
That was very cool. The only thing I'd say would be great on top would be some 8bit chip sounds...
The "Titan Test" may be considered the single most difficult exam ever created. Supposedly able to calculate your IQ to one in a million.

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Hi, Matt-

Good to see you guys are taking a pragmatic approach with regard to your audience.

My concern isn't even so much with the look or theme of the system as its social model and the UI for exposing that model. I've written about this somewhat: http://interuserface.net/2010/05/ http://interuserface.net/2010/02/buzz-facebook-and-social-fl... and there's an excellent if long-winded slide deck by Paul Adams here that makes a great case: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...

I really hope you guys do succeed, and I hope you succeed through innovation!
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"I'm the actual author but thanks for the feedback I'll put it into good use. I'm new into this type of writing so I was expecting my first article to be not that great...And poor? Honestly, I don't think its that bad."

Your final remark is the best way to guarantee you never write anything great. You begin by saying you appreciate the feedback but end saying you think it wasn't bad.

The better way to close, instead of getting defensive:

"How could I have done this better?"
The platform was actually designed to be device agnostic - the content is expressed in X(HT)ML.

The iPad is our first target device because Apple did tablets right. You'll have to wait to see what comes next :)
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I got stuck in an infinite loop at 12 and never made it to 13 :)
I do standard TM. Have done it regularly for 38 years - 20x2x7. The practice is very simple and pleasurable. With TM, it is easy to be consistent. Transcending regularly makes a broader awareness of reality my daily experience.

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Now what?

Start writing code. Don't know how to code? Go to amazon and buy a "learn X in Y days" book. Create a prototype of your web app. Announce it somewhere. See if anyone uses it.

Yes, it will suck. But it will (a) give you some idea of whether or not your idea will ever go anywhere, and (b) give technical people an idea of what it is that you're trying to build.

That second bit is very important. You won't get anyone good by saying "I'm looking for a technical cofounder to help me create the Google of cooking". They won't share your vision and won't have a clue what you mean. Putting up a prototype website allows them to understand your vision and start thinking about how they would fix things.

If your website is interesting, you'll get people coming to you saying "I love this site, but...". Most of them will just be offering suggestions. Some will be looking for work. Find a co-founder from this pool.

Now get out of the way and let your new co-founder rip up your code and replace it. Don't even think about keeping your existing code: No matter how hard you worked on it, trying to keeping it will just slow your co-founder down. Let your technical co-founder make all the technical decisions. That's what he's there for.

Congratulations, you're now the CEO of a startup company.
Auto updates of apps is the way to go if you have to build a native app. I expect more apps to move to that direction.

At the moment the biggest problem I see is that there is not a framework for doing this, it has to be build from the scratch every time
If you don't mind my asking, what did the offer look like? Feel free not to answer if you'd rather not say.
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I wonder if he realizes posterity means our descendants. That is probably a bolder claim than he means to make.
This looks like a nicely polished product, the major barrier to uptake is going to be getting someone to use it as part of the syllabus. Difficult given that it will require the school to require everyone who takes the class to have an iPad.

Not exactly. One of the books listed there, for example, is a popular text I had for an intro biology course at my university. To me, it seems more that if your professor has adopted one of the books, you can buy the iPad version instead of the dead tree copy.

As an aside, I wish I had an iPad version of that biology text when I took that class, if only because it was a monster book that weighed down my backpack.
Unfortunately, most of the HN comments < 140 characters are so content free as to basically violate the site's guidelines.

(and yes, the above would fit into a tweet, but it would be so devoid of context as to be absolutely meaningless to people who weren't already reading this same thread)
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I had to mod it a bit to get it to work on my setup. I guess I should fork it.
You are right, but who is the masochist that uses one that doesn't have that functionality ? ;)
Given that it's suborbital velocities they're aiming for, the return trip is free. (And making it safe is pretty cheap, because there's not much energy to dissipate. The horizontal motion at reentry will be small, as opposed to several times the speed of sound for the space shuttle.)
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I'm not aware if there's anything similar for Windows.
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> We need to know what the superficial people are talking about...

ugh, no thanks. If I have an hour of free time and a choice between hearing what vapid morons have to talk about, or illuminating myself with something a bit deeper, I'll take the later.
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The one for which you are not prepared.

Every exam is easy if you adequately prepared.
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Someone should create a "everything" test, which pulls graduate level information from every topic maths, statistics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, medicine, therapy, psychology, english, history, art, accounting, business, marketing etc etc.

I'd love to take it just to see quantitatively how much I don't know.
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How do we live in our real life? Do we behave same with everyone we know? Do my co-workers get to know what I’m talking with my family or friends? Never.

We live in groups. Different groups and different relations. All current social networks on the web allow you to keep only one group of all the people you know. Thats how they are designed. So any update/photos you share, gets visible to ALL. This is where many people stop socializing online.

We have developed a new kind of social network: tubri.com which is based on real-life groups. It allows you to create separate groups of people and interact with them differently, send them different updates or photos.

For example: No one in group “friends” can see what you are talking about in “family” group or other groups unless they are a member of that group too.

1. Groups are personal and no one gets to know which groups you have created or which group you have kept them in.
2. No need to send any group join invitations to anyone, just arrange your people.

Here is a short video explaining Tubri:
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I think it's more that Apple laptops are more popular among a certain crowd. I was a Linux guy for a long time, but despaired of perpetually poor laptop hardware support. I got a macbook and enjoy such basic niceties as

a) closing the laptop, opening it back up, and being productive in <5 seconds

b) wireless networking pretty much 'just working'

c) sound support that allows multiple programs to play sound simultaneously

all of which were issues on my earlier laptops running various linux distros.

That said, much of my time on the mac is spent sshed in to linux servers, in vim, so... is Apple the 'platform' I use? I guess. If I didn't have a need to be as mobile as I am, I'd probably just have a nice linux desktop system and still mess with vim and ssh as much as I do now.
My prediction: he implements his experiment for a few weeks, notices that nobody comments on his posts any more and then he backpedals.

If you don't already know Dave Winer, he's very bitter about not getting the recognition that he thinks he's owed (read the first sentence of the linked article, it's actually quite representative of the guy) so he keeps coming up with these "revolutionary" new things in the hope to invent something.

He'll come up with another wacky idea in a month.
Would love to start a Seattle one if anyone else is interested. One good place I've found that is loung-ey and has great food is the Night Kitchen downtown, but it only has space for about half a dozen people. But they have board games, sofas, and decor in the back room.
Actually, if you came back 24 hours later, it wouldn't even to see responses to your own comment (since nobody can see it during that period): it would be purely to see if other people commented.

What a sad, sad prospect. I certainly hope the blogosphere never goes there.
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