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Business co-founder - Portland, OR

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Awesome developer - Portland, OR

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A Periodic Table for HTML
What are you doing with the data you collect?

I assume you're trying to followi in the footsteps of Luis Van Ahn... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvVAViDtKeA
Looks to me like "a list of things HTML was never intended to do", except #10 of course.
I solved the problem, but before doing the real work of updating my CV -- could you please write a little bit about the job, to avoid wasting time for us both? :-)

(And I know, it is not really a waste to update your CV.)

Edit: For instance, are Europeans and other aliens a possibility?

Edit 2: Thanks. But I've probably forgotten too much math. :-( And you should get enough people anyway, sounds like a cool place.
I guess so. I'm not really opposed to features; they're cheap and they add value for some people.

My beef is that the most common operation (heating something up quickly) should be really simple to do. I thought this was a fundamental idea in UI design, but it's broken on appliances everywhere.

Here's how it should work: numbers 1-10 represent commonly used cook times. 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 120 seconds...I hit one of those and the microwaves waits two seconds and then goes.

If I hit multiple numbers in rapid succession, I can enter an exact time.

The only other buttons on there should allow the functions you want too. A power level button, add 30 seconds, and the more advanced scheduling option that lets you set multiple times and power levels.

All options, which are almost always set-and-forget, should be accessible through a single button. My car does this well; I can change what I want displayed on the dashboard and what color it's in using two buttons. It's not a quick interface, but I only have to use it when I change the car battery, which is hardly ever.
the choice of a VPS or dedicated server depends on what you want - guaranteed disk i/o (dedicated server) or protection against hardware failures (VPS).

Another thing you want to consider is network latency. If your clients are also from Mexico, a VPS in Texas/California would be better i guess, than say a VPS in New York or Europe. I have seen the latency correlate with light speed + base last mile latency, but ymmv.

But since are managing fine in a shared hosting environment so a VPS might be the logical next step.

As lzw had already mentioned, http://www.hetzner.de/de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... is by far the cheapest dedicated server I know of, with awesome hardware specs. We own a couple of servers there and are completely satisfied with their offering and support. But they are in Germany and a new server takes about 3-5 days to come up.

If you look for dedicated servers in the US, http://www.serverbeach.com/ has a ~100$ server. http://softlayer.com/ comes close with a $139 entry-level server.

The usual players in the VPS market are http://www.linode.com/, http://www.slicehost.com/, www.rackspacecloud.com/ with a HN member (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc) running http://prgmr.com/xen/

Creating subdomains and databases - this depends on your linux-fu with djbdns and postgresql/mysql !
Great! This explanation was worth the downvotes my post got :)
Read the true stories of (so many!) entrepreneurs who failed, failed, learned, learned, failed, and then succeeded.

Exercise 5-6 days per week, 20-40 mins per day. Aerobic, weights, whatever. Don't over-do it; exercise is not punishment. However, it is vital to keeping your mind healthy. Scientific fact.

Get enough sleep.

Eat well.

Brainstorm ideas. Have friends (potential new partners?) help you. Any idea is worth playing with. Develop a list and keep adding to it.

Brainstorm needs. What do people need? What problems do people have that they may pay to get rid of?

Go to Hacker meetups.

Understand your mind and how it works. Mindsight by Dan Siegel is excellent.
NYC (Chelsea) - Chicago - SFBay

Matasano.

Job title: Scary Story Told To Young Software Developers By Their Parents To Get Them To Go To Bed On Time.

In one not-too-atypical week last year, our team attacked the messaging front end of a financial exchange, used a GNU Radio to decode an RF protocol used by a major utility (we later cheated and used JTAG to turn their own hardware into a modem), reverse engineered and defeated a secure remote login protocol, and game-overed a web app your mom has heard of.

What are we looking for? Here's my first interview question: what is your research project going to be for us? One of our team members built a web testing tool. A couple more got together and wrote a cross-platform debugger in Ruby. One of our team members finds vulnerabilities in Google Chrome in his spare time. A few of them are running a large scale software fuzzing farm to bring mass production techniques to bugfinding. Does this stuff interest you? We should talk.

Downsides: Not building things people want. In fact, building things people fear and loathe. Also, not being able to wear silver, eat garlic, or enter houses without express invitation.

Perks: Infinite free tech books, medical, 401k.

Testimonials:

If I were looking for a day job, I wouldn't be looking for a day job any more: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all day, and then go home while it is still light out. - HN:patio11

Your Amazon policy is almost better than stock options and a 401k. I'd probably never willingly leave a company with that policy. - HN:SkyMarshall

For god's sake someone please get me out of here. - HN:wglb
There is no suggestions on incorrect spelling. Instead it just says no results found. WOuld be great if it can suggest a correct spelling.
You may be right (I know little of Simon) but the average person doesn't see the experiment, or peer review. They just see the authority.

Just like our ideal legal system, to prove someone guilty it has to be done beyond a level of reasonable doubt. Science should be scrutinized in a similar manor.

Often I feel scientists are disproportionately hurt when someone attacks their conclusions. They need to get over their own emotional shortcomings and find a solution to the problem. Much like people need to get beyond "common sense" and reason with the facts.
>If the rope really is weightless and the pulleys really are fictionless (and inertialess) then it doesn't matter how hard or fast you pull, the lighter weight will rise first.

I'm considering a thought experiments that make me believe that this is not the whole story.

Imagine a two weight system set up similar to the original diagram in which the weights are the same weight, and the gravity is very little. Yanking on the rope I imagine them rising at the same speed. Now, we take a very small flake off of one weight and repeat the experiment. It seems clear that both weights will still rise from the start, just the lighter weight will rise at a faster speed.

I think this should extend to three weights of any positive mass -- if you yank the rope fast enough (and it might be very fast) all three should rise from the start.
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What does Einstein have to do with Nuclear Power?

Just to stop one answer: The mass-energy equivalence works as well for lighting a fire or for water-turbines as for nuclear energy. And yes, Einstein did some initial work on quantum mechanics.
They're already way late to the market with a music social network. IMO they should have got it right from the get-go. Startup rules are also different than giant corporation with bundles of cash. With built-in market-share for conversion, they missed an opportunity to impress the tech savvy and early adopters.
True, but it's a bigger undertaking in C.
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The trend has always been there-- for example, these folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
Sigh... typical response. I suppose I should have known better than to expect an intelligent response, eh? (Then again, people actually believed Apple in spite of their equally transparent gaming of their SPEC tests.)

The best way to see the comparison in person would be either to see my prints (easy if you're in Seattle) or order one or two large prints and see for yourself.

However, there are still some examples online done by people who are skilled photographers, and who know a thing or two about scanning... plus, unlike the folks who did the comparison for the luminous landscape, this guy uses a GOOD scanner. (He's also the person who got me started with large format photography, so I had a chance to spend a week photographing with him in the Smokies, and got a lot of instruction from him.)

http://www.dannyburk.com/drum_scan_resolution.htm
HTML 5 maybe? I kind of know what she's talking about. Chrome used to seem lightning-fast for me; seems to be slowing. Could just be perception.
you also forgot the light industrial parks filled with 1-2 story commercial buildings and massive parking lots.

And Los Gatos as the "trendier downtown?" I dont get how that isnt Santana Row (as much as I dislike it)
Strong early sales of $140 Android tablet surprise retailer
I couldn't agree more about your statement regarding authority. But oppose the behavior of trusting only those who "deal" with a subject every day. History shows many medical and scientific advances were made by smart people working outside their field.
Ask HN: Review my Startup - GitMac: Git, made easy
As a long time reader(lurker) of HN, I am excited to finally have something to share with everyone.

After migrating from Subversion (and the excellent Versions SVN client) - to Git, there wasn't an OSX app that made it easy to work with checkouts without using the command line (as much). So we decided to make one.

http://gitmacapp.com/

The product is basically at alpha/pre-beta stage, so any feedback would be very much appreciated. Thanks so much.
us: The Online Privacy Company: http://www.abine.com - Cambridge MA, San Francisco

We're a small venture-backed team working on being the leaders for a big concept (online privacy), and we're looking for a passionate engineer to join us. Abine is "the online privacy company" and offers Firefox and Internet Explorer browser add-ons coupled with Web services to provide easy to use privacy features for a wide audience.
There's lots to do: designing and building new parts of the Firefox and IE applications, working on our front-end XUL, javascript, JQUERY and AJAX stuff, squeezing a few more MS per page out of our REGEX / DOM parsing/processing. We don't like big specifications or heavy planning processes; instead, we work on small projects, ship code frequently, and write tests. We're built on Xul/Jquery, MySQL,
Javascript.
Java Developers, Web Devs using Ext/Java and also looking for a Java/Web app Performance Tester - Austin, TX(no telecommute, sorry)

Trying to ramp up quickly(next couple weeks) on a Java Workflow based web application. Generally looking for contract work, however permanent is also a possibility depending on the skill set.

Contact me directly @ enoren@gmail.com for more info

Other dev positions are available as well(Java, Mobile, J2EE, JQuery, etc) on other projects so if you are in Austin feel free to contact me and maybe we can find a match elsewhere.
Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part III
the problem states what happens "if you pull", it's assumed that the guy can pull, otherwise you are right and weighs matter
Both may not be very convincing, depending on your biases. But I found them consistent (especially the many worlds interpretation). Could you explain?
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I find the anthropic principle unpersuasive. It is entirely irrelevant to the question it tries to answer.

Imagine applying it in a different circumstance. Imagine two people coming upon a computer terminal, upon which was typed an elaborate love letter addressed to one of them.

"What's this? John has written me a love letter!"

"Nonsense, it's just noise. Probably a stack dump or something."

"What? The odds are clearly against that."

"Ah, but if it hadn't happened, we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we? Since the letter is necessary for the discussion, it requires no explanation."

This is clearly wrong. The correct rejoinder is,

"Yes, that's just the point. We shouldn't be having this discussion, but we are. Hence the letter still requires explanation, and the simplest is that John wrote it."

The fact that our universe suits us does require explanation. If it didn't suit us, we couldn't ask the question, true enough. But that's just the point. We shouldn't be here to ask the question and yet here we are. It still requires explanation. Now, you can say, "Well, the universe is one of many, and we're in the one that suits us because we couldn't live anywhere else." Fine. Count the universes, run the probabilities, that's an explanation. Or you can say, "God created it." That's an explanation, too.

What you cannot say is, "If it didn't suit us, we wouldn't be having this conversation, so it requires no explanation." That's a bunch of anti-intellectual sophistry that just annoys the people trying to honestly grapple with the question.
True. No scientist should feel he can just wave his degree without presenting evidence. However I think you overlook just how much distrust there is of scientists.

A scientist doesn't start on equal footing with the "guru". People (who like anti-science) are always suspecting scientist to be talking some random bullshit with big words to confuse them, or can come up with conspiracy theories to shoot them down. Scientist can go on TV and show all the pretty pictures of graphs showing their argument, but it takes a guy with no clue to say: "Oh, but you forgot X" or "That graph is deceiving because..." and suddenly the scientist is playing defensively again.

And when a scientist dare stop playing the game then if he just stop replying he is accused of being in an ivory tower and being arrogant, and if he start attacking the other theory then he is accused of having created his own religion/faith because "that's not the evidence-based arguments that a scientist should do". It's a lose-lose.

I am not saying there is no way out, just that for a scientist to drive his message home takes a LOT more than just showing he has some evidence.
Considering they've had the whole Genius recommendations in place for quite some time now, their complete failure at recommending relevant artists is pretty bad. I've heard numerous complaints that the recommended artists were nowhere near the user's taste.
Here is a link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65K3YV20100621
I find spirits much easier to drink in rapid quantities without realising I'm doing it. Quite apart from the lower volume, the lack of carbonation makes the onset of drunkenness less evident
Yes. Though to be more precise, in the process of using fertilizers, even the atoms are conserved. Though you will have to re-build the molecules.

On the practical side: Using coal as a raw material, you should be able to make fertilizers with only somewhat more energy than from oil.
Dup detection isn't terribly good here. Trailing /'s, Google Analytics link-junk all aren't detected.
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"Einstein's greatest role in the invention of the atomic bomb was signing a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging that the bomb be built."

http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml

where he cites the work made by Fermi el al.

The first artificial nuclear reactor was built in 1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1)

Einstein's relativity theory and the equivalence of mass and energy is commonly cited has having laid the ground for the exploitation of the energy from nuclear decay, but I have the feeling that research in the nuclear energy field would have continued and yield some interesting results even without knowing that E=MC^2 beforehand.
Hmmm, I think a major problem is going to be culturally specific questions. E.g. I got a picture of 'Big Bird'.
I'd imagine that this would be easy for most beta testers who are likely to be of a certain demographic and from a country where Sesame Street was aired, but it's going to be baffling for everyone else, as well as giving a feeling of being excluded.
I'm having a hard time understanding why he thinks Xanga wasn't a success. He worked on Blogger as well, both of those sites are huge still, maybe not Twitter huge but they are big.
Yeah, you missed the point here.
I'm not an expert, but this guy is: http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/inconsistencies...
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But that's not Apple's style. Their style is "be amaaaazed at our new thing! It is perfect in every way and your life is useless without it!"
Thank you, this is one of the most succinct explanations I've read. I understood how it worked in a roundabout concept, but you made the explanation simple like it should be.
At least some BMWs have, or had, analog clocks: http://rcaslis.xkill.net/vehicles/1998_BMW_M_Roadster/n02.jp...

Just twist the knob in the center to set the time.
> Surrounding yourself with smart people you like to work with helps immeasurably.

I think this is one of the most important pieces of advice ever. Not many people are solo savants - almost everyone who is successful (in business, academia, life) is surrounded by other competent, like-minded people.
We're all standing on the shoulders of giants here, and the romantic meme of the lone-wolf superstar maverick needs to be put away.
Anyone else get so annoyed by the flashing little dummy avatars at the bottom of the page that they couldn't finish the article? Shame too, I was liking it.

(is that an ad? or some kind of 'social feature'?? Something incredibly ironic about this article if the latter)
Fair enough. I gave the summarized version. I'll try to explain better.

I'll only take basic classic mechanics assumptions: that the rope is of constant length (ie is like a cable that doesn't compress or expand). The framework is quasi-static classical mechanics; the results of the guy pulling slowly a little bit can solve the problem or be generalized (I won't consider the situation of the guy jerking quickly the rope etc).

The guy's hand is under a calculable tension Tw that will be 60 units or whatever, it doesn't matter. The problem asks what happens when the guy pulls, so we suppose that he's not the one being pulled but he moves forward to the right. The tension Tg that he applies doesn't matter; as long as it's bigger than the one from the weights (Tg > Tw) he'll move the rope (we discard friction since he moves slowly or if you take into account friction he just needs more force, it doesn't matter). So the distribution of weights or their actual measure don't matter so far. (of course if you have a million tons and you blow the guy away weighs matter).

Now since the cable/rope has constant length (there are no slacks etc since it's moving) when the guy pulls 1mm then than length needs to be taken from somewhere in the pulley systems.

The effect of a pulley is to divide the length of rope you take in two (one has to go to the left vertical part of rope and the other one to the right one); this is why the tension in each side of a pulley is 1/2 of the total tension and you can pull with 1/2T a weight of T with a pulley. So with this we can straightforwardly calculate the tensions everywhere but we don't need that.

So the that 1mm is taken from the system and the more pulleys the rope has to go through the less is taken (because of this 1/2 I explained above), so the weight closer to the guy (with less pulleys) will raise first, then the next one in the middle, then the next one etc; weighs don't matter.

clarification update: poor conclusion wording: if weights are in the air all 3 weights go up at the same time but C will move more than B and B more than A.
If you're a startup working on a mobile-related software or device, the comments there are a whole wealth of the ideas for your brand name... Damn, jeejah.com is taken... ;)
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There's going to be problems with spelling and phrasing -

e.g. 'sewing machine', 'sowing machine', 'sewing'

or 'a jigsaw', 'jigsaw'

etc
Quora is hiring, I'm not involved with them, but pretty baller product - http://www.quora.com/jobs
As a longtime HN reader(cough, lurker) I am excited to finally have something to share with everyone.

The reasoning behind GitMac was after migrating from Subversion (and the excellent Versions client) - to Git, there wasn't an OSX app that made it easy to work with checkouts without using the command line (as much). So we decided to make one.

The product is basically in Alpha/pre-Beta stage, so any feedback is very much appreciated. Thanks so much.
You mean like this? http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.829048.1...
the really disappointing thing about ping is that unlike last.fm, apple has access to the binary file for itunes and so could provide even more info about your listening habits.

I assume last.fm's scrobbler works entirely from the unencrypted itunes file which only gives play count.
"May be the number of patents that are being produced has to be increased, to generate enough jobs to overcome the producctivty gains caused by new technology?"

What productivity gains? So far as I can tell, it doesn't take any less time to get anything done, yet people spend more time not doing it. Especially in IT, where it seems that the primary goal of the next generation of developers is to find ways to create as much accidental complexity as possible so as to keep their seats warm as long as possible...
does he say it wasn't a success?
You got me - we don't really know either way.
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Where can I see this actually working?
Hmm. Sou baie interessant gewees het. Pity I'm too preoccupied with existing projects.. Maybe another year, and I'll look you guys up again.
it makes setbacks tolerable, and day to day toiling a pleasure.
Stackholm Syndrome

Nice.
Shouldn't? malloc doesn't make any guarantees that the memory is initialised or not. In the Linux malloc man page it specifically says it is not cleared, on Mac OS X it doesn't specifically mention that it is initialised. On FreeBSD it says it is initialised

Yes, programmers should make sure that memory is indeed cleared, preferably by using calloc or memset.

I just ran a test on my FreeBSD laptop, allocating 256 MB of ram (on a 64 MB physical ram laptop), and then walking through it, and with just malloc I got all 0's. I then had the program write random out to those 256 MB, free it, re-run the program, still no garbage values. Same on Mac OS X. I don't currently have access to a Linux machine so it is not possible for me to run the test there.

So apparently that way may run on Mac OS X and FreeBSD could fail on Linux.