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the ads on puremango get me about a cup of coffee per day, for 2000 visits. So, yeah as a business it's nothing, but as a nice supplmental trickle it's ok.
They also bleach them for color and tumble them to round the edges.
> a more productive response might be to hack the system

Yes and no - for those of us not currently involved with Facebook, a more productive response might simply be to steer clear of a system where it's all about who you know - if it is indeed like that and this isn't just an unfortunate blip. "Choose your battles" and all that.
Does Silverlight have something like Firebug? I remember that was my main gripe when i was working withe the then new Silverlight 2. Regarding the "Timing" i say that nowadays you browsers implementors should have pretty strong communication between one another so the conflicting implementations shouldn't be an issue if you really WANT to be working together.

I dear my sloppy text-based technology that is HTML/CSS/Javascript, i don't think any technology or any widget can replace good software engineering and well thought out workflows. Extra widgets are not going to make me any more productive than i am today.

I'd buy into Silverlight only if i was developing a media platform.

BTW comments on their blog don't work... will they ever learn?!
So, you break First Normal Form, require some text-processing code to be put into your queries, and lose the benefit of indexes, all in order to avoid creating another table?

For the love of God, why?
A few reasons I think Apple has been on HN more:

-Apple is a very successful company. As this is a board related to startups/business it seems like we can all take a few lessons from them. (I know they are a large corporation... but they also champion a few things that many startups on HN do such as minimalism)

-Apple is starting to increase it's market share. Personally I didn't own a Mac until 2 years ago but in all honesty I enjoy it so I am more prone to read articles about Apple. (Also... is it a sin to be a fanboy of a company? I've always been confused by this mindset EDIT: I don't mean that I am blinded by some "Apple is God" mindset, but I don't see anything wrong with liking a certain companies products whether that's Google, Microsoft, Apple, or something else)

On a side note I think your view of "engineering" is a little narrow. An entire computer system inside a device 9 inches high, 8 inches wide, and half an inch deep seems like a pretty significant engineering feat to me. Why should design and ui be excluded from the category of engineering? Currently I'm a CS major at Stanford with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction which means I work a lot on user interfaces, and I would still consider myself an engineer.
30 lines of code here:
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People have been speculating about this for a while now:

2008, http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear/ben-collins-on-topgear-...

2009, http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear/daily-mail-reveals-all-...

Some even guessed correctly in 2005, but I think that was luck because a lot of names were thrown around.
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All of us here on HN are helping promote YC companies to the disadvantage of other startups. HN is an amplifier of pg's already formidable megaphone in the industry. YC has used HN's buzz machine to fantastic effect and is starting to have a real disruptive effect on silicon valley. Whether by design or not pg's empire is working synergistically. And you good sir, as well as all of us here, are part of it.
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I always wonder why people get amazed when someone raises money for their startup.

Yes, it is impressive but it would be a lot more impressive if it was "20 Year Old Founder Jessica Mah Gets Over $1 Million In Profit From Her Bootstrap".
This is tricking people. At least, I feel tricked whenever I'm made believing I just have to provide an email and a password. I usually leave the site unless it is compelling. Being able to know beforehand every field I'll have to fill is paramount.
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Many have tried. It's hard to succeed. The guys at startuply seemed to manage to find a niche that works for them. Good luck.
which is written in Ragel and compiled to a C state machine, if I remember correctly
I think you're a little late on this one; PG has a few essays bordering on fanboyism.
I love one-click whenever I'm after something.

The worst approach ever was on a forum I stumbled upon. I read a thread I felt I could contribute to, but I had to subscribe. You know, the we-have-sent-you-a-confirmation-mail thing. After having confirmed - which is an hassle in itself - I discovered that my membership had to be approved! Should I have bookmarked the thread to post afterward? They serious?
well said than well done (:
It didn't work out so well for J2ME, though.
> This is not correct, the eye is optimized for side to side motion, and does it really really fast.

> Up down motion takes longer.

That's why upper labels win. You are able to scan the kind of data is required faster.
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Ah, so HN is becoming like Reddit after all. ;-)
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I notice a lot of submissions on Ask with small slices of this - quit my job, kicking off a product, maintaining a side project etc.

However, if you had to do a shortlist of suggestions, books, sites, materials to absorb to get in the right frame for this - what would the top entires be?

This is in the context of myself (and a good few people I know), who seem to have a decent set of technical or managerial talents, no real ties (under thirty, no family, no debt), but don't seem to have the understanding that they are well positioned to make the jump into something self-started.

There's obviously a large community of motivated and talented people here, but a few of us reading often have that sensation that you're performing at levels of risk and ambition that seem quite superhuman!

TL;DR: Whats the mandatory reading for a wage slave looking to wake up and leverage opportunity?
Listening on techzing #56 http://techzinglive.com/?p=257 they talk about your possibilities (CC info at signup of after the trial period).
Asking for CC info lower your signup numbers but makes for higher conversion rate at the end.

So, it really depends on how much does it cost to you an user (bandwidth and support-time).
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Unless you rated in whether or not you read the article/comments, in which case it might still work.

And of course, if downmod meant more "hide this sort of thing from me" than "I don't think this should be on HN", maybe you'd downmod more...

(But this starts showing the downside to such personalization - it's a lot more effort server-side, and it dilutes a single community)
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I'm not sure why you feel socio-economic background is relevant here. And I'm not sure what relevance a suit has here. I'm not trying to raise investment from Zuckerberg or get invited to a dinner with Paul Graham. I'm not trying to launch in career in silicon valley, or get the attention of a venture capitalist.

I'm trying to recover my facebook password! That's all!

I should not need to make people from facebook "feel like I grew up with them", just so they can re-enable my account.
"I think it's important for business owners to remember this type of thing: you're absolutely not selling coffee, or beer, or dell computers, you're selling me a little temporary friend that makes me feel like they really and truly care about whatever problem I am coming to them to solve."

This is only true in non-commodity markets. Yeah, the coffee shop is selling you the 'coffee experience' - the service, more than they are selling you the coffee. But if you follow that chain backwards, you can bet that someone along the line is selling actual coffee.

to take the example I actually know something about, yeah, dell wants to be my buddy. But micron? micron wants to sell me some fucking ram. Because cheap reliable servers are central to my business, I find my friends elsewhere, and I bypass dell and go to suppliers that don't want to be my friend, and I pocket the difference.

On the other hand, when I buy things like accounting services or coffee, I expect something that is more 'full service' - I know jack about accounting, so you've gotta put me at ease, and be willing to pretty much just handle it for me. If I didn't know what I know about hardware, and if my servers needed to be reliable but cheap wasn't as big of a deal, I'd think about buying my servers from dell, too, with the silly expensive support plans. (dell, on the minimum support plan, in my experience is worse than building yourself. On the other hand, the gold plated support, I hear, is damn good.)

So, uh, yeah. Sometimes you are selling your product, and sometimes you are selling "the experience" of the product. Most of the time, you are selling a little bit of both.

But, you are right that it's very important to remember what you are selling... If you try to sell me 'the experience' when I try to get ram, I'm probably going to walk. and if dell tried to just sell the servers when they went to sell to $BIGCORP, without the, uh, "tips" and gladhanding, they'd loose out just as badly.
Dude, your loss. I was frankly wondering - it's already a trend on HN. We've had lots of "who's hiring?" threads and "I'm looking to be hired" threads. Heck, we have a link on the top bar to facilitate it for YC companies: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

If I were in a startup and I had a mission-critical problem and I was near the end of my rope, I think I could do a lot worse than looking to the HN community.

As paulbaumgart said, he's clearly a contributing member of the community. This isn't some newbie freshman who can't figure out linked lists, wandering in looking for an easy grade - this is a bootstrapping entrepreneur at his wits end asking for a favor from friends... a favor he's willing to pay for.
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Apple hardly cares about giving engineers/researchers (outside Apple) a wet dream with their contribution as much as they care about doing what matters - build stuff that people are willing to pay for. They care about that so much that it's evident with their brand realignment from Apple Computers to Apple Inc.

"No engineer in his right mind cares about coolness of Apple brand."
-I am sorry, we must've missed the survey that day on HN

"I also rarely see researchers from Apple at any CS conference (WWW, SIGIR, VLDB) while there are thousands of Citation for some of Google's prominent papers PageRank,GFS,MapReduce and countless in IR/Machine Learning."
-Haha, you are comparing Apple to Orange literally here. Apple completely is a consumer need (hint: people who are willing to pay money to solve their problem) driven company and it's pretty evident - just take a look at the new Apple Tv (sure it's not technically impressive, but they listen alright).

And iPad?
-Show me a company from your list that has an unbelievable focus on executing something so well. There's much too fragmentation even at Google's Labs. But Apple somehow works perhaps maybe because of the sheer control of Jobs and that may be all the difference. Remember, the iPhone is no easy feat and that wouldn't have happened if Apple hadn't first started work on iPad. So, in some weird way, the iPad gave seed to iPhone which made iPad possible. And dismissing iPad outright as a design innovation alone would imply anyone could've done it (hey, remember JooJoo Pad?).

I am by no means an expert/hardcore fanboy of Apple but your thesis seems to be spread too thin - from your salary discussions, it looks like you are basing your whole line of argument based off a few TC articles. And besides - what kind of recruiters are offering 150k at universities?
Apple spells the iPhone outright in Australia (and other markets). It's $859AUD for the 16GB which is about $780USD.
I came here to say the same thing.

Does not really 'gratify one's intellectual curiosity'

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, the Brownian Motion paper concerned the increasingly popular atomic theory, not photons. The photoelectric effect paper used the notion of photons, but it wasn't new and Einstein didn't really believe that photons existed. And special relativity is different from those two entirely. And all those papers were published in the same year. The same year in which he defended his thesis.
"For instance, the iPhone puts the labels inline with the form element."

The 'placeholder' text is a new attribute of HTML5. It allows you to specify the 'inline text'. It's suppored in modern browsers.

Reference: http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html
He's right the Apple crowd is wrong, but Apple/Steve Jobs is mostly right.

This doesn't seem to be a commonly expressed thought so I'll spell it out plainly.

I like the fact that you can get Flash content on Android phones which works about as well as standard web content works on the iPhones (i.e. generally good enough to get the job done while away from a full computer, but with a few hiccups). It's handy and worth considering if it's something you want/need when buying a smartphone.

I also like the fact that Apple's anti-Flash stance has effectively ended the Flash Hegemony and you can't just assume it's there. If you're building interactive apps for a kids website you'll still use it, because there's nothing else comparable (yet), but if you're making an interactive graph or chart you'll at least investigate if SVG or Canvas could work just as well.

So Adobe loses out, because Flash isn't ubiquitous.
Also Apple loses out, because Flash isn't available on their devices.
Also Apple users lose out, because they can't access Flash content.

But overall the web wins, Apple and their users are taking one for the team and they have my thanks. If they could just stop denying reality on this (and various other issues) in their slightly scary, culty manner, I'd appreciate that too.
Yeah, but youtube doesn't charge you to watch the videos...
If you think the twenties "are typically the best years of your life", you haven't grown up yet. Unless you let your brain dry out or rot, your life will continue getting richer and deeper as you live it and continue to gain experience and knowledge.

Life is an ongoing "learning experience". What you learned in the past allows you to function at a higher level now; and it allows you to learn more so you can function and learn at an even higher level tomorrow; and so on, "forever and ever" (with a little bit of luck).
Direct links:

John Underkoffler on gesture-based computing: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/872

Gary Flake on extreme data visualization: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/783

Jane McGonigal on how gamers can save the world: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/799

Stephen Wolfram on creating a computational theory of the universe: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/843

Pranav Mistry on a gesture-based interface that goes everywhere: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/685

Eric Topol on wireless tech in medicine: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/772

Tim Berners-Lee on making the world's data open source: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/788

Ray Kurzweil on machines that think and grow: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/560

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Edited to add: I just made a simple script to download the hi-res videos. Available here: http://bitbucket.org/johannes/tedget/wiki/Home

Then just run `./tedget 872 783 799 843 685 772 788 560`. (Please be nice with the good people at TED and only download what you need)
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All 747s (and i presume most other commercial aircraft these days) are designed to be able to carry extra engines, as you'd otherwise need to have stockpiles of engines at all airports that your planes may land, or special aircraft used solely for transporting engines.

My understanding (though this is second hand so it may be entirely wrong/misunderstood) is that switching out an engine is a relatively simple task.
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I clicked on the "UPDATE: Scribd Responds!" link, only to get a page with this message:

>You are attempting to access a resource on this site which is restricted. Please login below. After re-logging in, you will be automatically directed to the page you were attempting to access.
Well Ragel supports Ruby code output as well (it can generate any of C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby). But I'd be surprised if Mongrel used that.
I have a lot of stuff in there. Most notably, I use tabbar and my own custom textpad-mode, which makes the cursor move around in the same way that textpad (A windows text editor) does it.

Linky: http://github.com/troelskn/troelskn-emacs
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I think you're making the common mistake of confusing relational databases with entity-relationship modeling.

I can't really figure out your foo example though, needs to be a bit more specific.
I intend to spend next year building just this. The problem I have, which I suspect all similar efforts will face, is how to bootstrap a network like this, especially when your competitors are the social news sites where all your future users hang out.
Scribd should be upfront with both authors and readers about this tactic. It's very disappointing, and makes me wonder about how various other services are using content that is uploaded/distributed to them on the basis that users can access it for free.
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The article quotes several users' comments out of context. In context, some of them seem more like indirect venting rather than directly attacking fellow HNers (pwn0cakes post is the first example), which is my understanding of what PG writes in the quoted rationale on civility. Note that two paragraphs and three user quotes are written in disregard of the above.

I see how one could consider the language used in comments as hard or even offensive and insulting. I also see how one could make a justification for using such inflammatory language when responding to an equally inflammatory and one-sided article, although I do not find it excusable. Nor do I find excusable one's desire to prolong such "mean spirited" debates.

That being said, I do not find flag-able comments in general as something useful. Up- or downmodding fills the same niche. Usage of real names is also not going to happen and serves no purpose other than holding grudges. With regard to notifications about submitted stories, I don't even know how Disqus et al implement this, so I'm reluctant to comment - I had no idea a platform to allow such tracking existed.
I'm pretty positive about Apple from at least 3 perspectives:

1. I think Apple makes great products, and I own several of them. Apple operate in a space where making great products is pretty difficult, and great products are thus pretty unusual.

2. I develop for the iPhone, and I find the experience generally pleasant. I've developed for other platforms, and found those experiences often a lot less so.

3. I'm the informal support guy for various friends and family. In my experience, those with Apple products tend to need less support. So I'm pretty clear, if asked, that it's in my interests and theirs that these people also get Apple products.

Fanboyism suggests a degree of tribalism -- and a lack of rationality -- that I don't recognise in any of the above.
If the price is right I'm interested. There's only one thing that concerns me. Can anybody explain why companies insist on making super glossy screens? Is there any good reason why they can't make tablets with nice matte screens so that I can see what's on the screen rather than my own reflection.
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People sitting in their cars 2 hours every day for a parking space is a questionable use of one's time.

In my opinion the actual problem with the article is that it's not clear these people are actually wasting time. Maybe they use this time to listen to language tapes, audio books or something. In that case it could actually be valuable time to them. I treasure my 2 hours on the train because it's the only place I can't be interrupted and don't have to feel bad about that fact.
A lot of it has nothing to do with your practical ability to quit your job and start a company, or with the genuine risks involved (which often turn out to be very low... What's the worst that can happen? Your startup fails and you have to get a job?). A lot - perhaps most - of it has to do with your confidence in yourself. Or to put it another way your ability to push fear of failure (and ultimately fear of what others think) out of the way. To that end, I recommend immersing yourself in true stories of people who (a) have overcome fear, (b) have not let fear stand in their way or (c) don't seem to have fear. Two books that come to mind are The 50th Law (about hip hop artist 50 cent) by Robert Greene and How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis (don't worry it's NOT a self-help book but the autobiography of one of Britain's richest men).
That whole 'Note 8' sounds pretty stupid.

"In Mongrel2 we use a parser that rejects invalid requests from first basic principles using technology that's 30 years old and backed by solid mathematics."

The mind boggles... (Unless he's just being satirical here).

Personally, my advice to anyone thinking of using mongrel2 would be to write your own webserver. You'll learn far more than you ever dreamt. If a webserver isn't that important to your success/failure, use a battle-worn webserver - apache etc
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I'd rather more people see the paper anyway so left it alone.

I would ask the uploader to add proper attribution though.
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I frequent HN because I have an active and professional interest in the industry plus the off-topic comments that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I'm a big Top Gear fan and I'm also a bit of a petrolhead and to satisfy my curiosity in these areas I frequent pistonheads or reddit.

This article certainly doesn't gratify one's intellectual curiosity.
Weird that he would out himself though,

I'm guessing he, for whatever reason, felt he was coming to the end of his stint as The Stig and wanted to cash in before it was too late.
The 50 cent one is interesting. I've always been completely fascinated by the attitude of a lot of people that do well in Hip Hop - because it does seem to be pure raw determination to succeed in a lot of cases.