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There's a trend, particularly in the Apple community, to use "gorgeous" and "beautiful" to describe software which uses full illustrations rather than 'vanilla' UI elements. In accordance with this trend, this "Amazon Instant Search" might be called "gorgeous". But I disagree.

For one, I can't possibly describe it as 'instant': Google's instant search gives me feedback as I type, but here I have to stop typing and wait before I see any change in the search results. Even after I see the search results, it takes another few seconds to load the images (book covers).

The interface is littered with other imperfections: the book titles are truncated, I can't see the user reviews (arguably the most useful part of Amazon), and after I used it for a few minutes the page started flickering between two different sets of search results.

This is a cool tool, and it's fun to play with. But it's not gorgeous.

"That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." (Steve Jobs)
You are stuck on this notion of publishing the link being "taking control of the content in ways the publisher didn't want" because you feel like you found this FBCDN link thing and it's captured your attention.

But in fact you lost control of the content the moment you published it to your friends (or whomever) on Facebook. We're just talking about 2 numbers, one 136 bits long and the other 73,720 bits long. I don't think the difference between these two numbers is worth arguing about.
This would have been about 20x as useful with pictures or videos to illustrate what the author is talking about.
Per default, Java 6 uses a generational collector with multi-threaded stop-the-world copying for the young generation and single-threaded stop-the-world mark-sweep-compact for the tenured generation.
This makes a lot of sense. Investing seems to be a specialized skill, and finding talent isn't the same as hiring "generally bright people" (the top ivy league kids).

I think I'm paraphrasing Burry, who said if any one school had figured out how to pump out great investors, it would be the most expensive school in the world.

I really hope other industries consider this type of approach, cherry picking standout/non-traditional talent, that independently build some type of track record. Actually, I believe YouTube eventually hired the student who created instant, so it might already be happening.

Do you know how things look on the operational side? For a fund with $1M AUM, how much of the costs are legal or for getting the business up and running? It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the process involved in starting a hedge fund and how similar it might be to starting a startup YC-style.
Interesting. This is about "Quieting the Lizard Brain". Seth created Yoyodyne. Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems is from Buckaroo Banzai. Buckaroo Banzai has Lizard references (Lectroids were lizards, Lizardo is last name of John Lithgow's character):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banz...
I really love the design. Any tips, books or tutorials you can recommend to learn web design?
Great insights, thanks! What I personally struggle with is learning all the necessary knowledge and lingo, coming from a different field - it's so much harder to even get to the point where you might come up with an investment idea of your own when you're not doing it professionally (yet).
Southwest's acquisition of AirTran: Why they're doing it and why you should care
Firefox would be an obvious example of that. All that happens is that Debian will rename the package and ship it anyway, and users lose even more than they did before. Good job! ;)
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Ask HN: Reduce Load time 'appearance'
I'm launching a site in a few hours, and it takes around 10 seconds to load all the data, which isn't really reducible by much time.

I'm wondering if anyone knows any articles on reducing the appearance of load time? E.g. progress bars, countdowns, etc.
It would seem to me that the outcome would depend a great deal on who was voting.
Are you sure? Did I miss the bit where they give lots of cash to the politicans? (Isn't that what lobbying means?)
Perhaps this type effect has something to do with the fact that most all individual who have brought a gun to school and opened fire have been on similar medications. Worth some serious followup.
You won't get very far developing GUI applications for modern Unixes using just the original Unix APIs, either. And most Windows programmers today aren't using Win16 APIs. I think you're missing the point.

I've written a few iPhone apps. My background in Unix, and the Unix libraries I've been able to use without modification, were both extremely helpful.
I can't blame them for side-stepping those issues--I would do the same thing. Anytime someone mentions that they're Catholic on reddit, people automatically assume that (1)you are fully versed in everything about the situation, (2)you agree with how the Church handled it all, (3)you must be contributing to it by staying in the Church, etc. We're all generally angry about this problem. I don't know a single person who approves of the practice of just moving people around, but there are so many complexities to the issue. I can't even begin to discuss the finer points without someone piping up with their random, pointless garbage that taints the conversation. The Catholic Church has done a lot to fix the problems with the child abuse stuff. We've stopped with the Crusades (and apologized for them!). And the Catholic Church's stance on homosexuality and things of that nature are much more nuanced than people realize. Honestly, most of us are just tired of talking about these things. (Except the crazies who get all the press. The news people don't like talking to sensible people--that doesn't make for good TV.)

Really, most of the stuff on reddit about Catholics is vitriol and hate, and there's really no point to answer obvious flame bait questions when there are other perfectly good questions to answer.
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That's a good point on #3. Just to toss out an idea- what if the service offered tracking of the referral and could provide some sort of analytics to help retailers optimize their social campaigns.

For example- I complete a purchase on Retailer A and I am presented with your widget and: maybe I get a rebate on my purchase, or a coupon for next time if I share on Facebook, or maybe the rebate goes into effect if a referral completes a transaction. You could use something like bit.ly to track the links. Ultimately, one of my friends sees this on his feed and goes to Retailer A and makes a purchase.

The retailer would be: 1. incentivizing the user to share and 2. be able to see some sort of stats analyzing which campaign is preforming better.

I think I would definitely be tempted to pay for something like that.
Ask HN: efreeme.com Head to head with etsy.com, marketing help?
Okay. I've built the site efreeme.com, proven it works, done the bare minimum required to get it off the ground, however now I'm looking for the marketing angle to push this. Any ideas?

My big competitive advantage over etsy.com is that we are completely free for both the buyer and sellers.
There's also the fact that he made have simply gotten more enjoyment from doing this in Minecraft. Perhaps he would have spent some of his leisure time enjoying and playing the game anyway. Maybe he would have made a sweet castle instead. However, he spent his free time enjoying the game and learned something valuable in the process. There is nothing wrong with taking some time in life to have fun.
I don't know if Dropbox has a limit on file size, but whether or not they can do that, it's not their positioning. They're all about "sharing files", but to say "we let you share big files!" would be too narrow, and turn off or confuse more people than it would attract.
A third option is leaning back in your chair. I find that I never get tired of sitting in this position.
dupe.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739488
Because some people really love it when their email inbox is a giant, chaotic FILO buffer that matches the "In Box" tray on their cluttered 1960s-era desk.
"Awk is so small that you can be productive in half an hour. It's so concise that most useful programs are easy little one-liners."

I can say the same for ruby and python (and perl).

From personal experience, as an awk script/program becomes more important - it will evolve with more requirements and it will start to be clunky. It just isn't practical to stick with it since you'll eventually need the features/libraries that the other languages have. Given the choices we have today, why even start with awk?

On the performance side, you can always just use Lua if that's really important.
And then you would wipe out because you don't "run over" things with motorcycles so much as you "wipe out over top of them..."
FWIW, I don't like those either. I think it adds unnecessary clutter to the web.

And: Lowering the threshold of work needed to share something reduces the average value of the things shared. It's not a big deal when you can moderate who is sharing things with you, but it's catastrophic for a communal service like HN. It is the path to funny cat pictures.
It depends on how much back office work you want to do yourself. A lot of young fund managers get enamored by the prospect of being able to spend all their time looking for investments that they forget about the administrative work required to run a fund.

A friend runs a $3M fund where audit, legal, book-keeping/accounting costs about 0.8% of assets. This guy does A LOT of the back office work himself. You can actually hire other firms to do stuff like cut checks, client contact, etc. It just raises your costs.

Also, what some young guys will do is sell a percentage of the hedge fund business up front, in order to secure capital that will pay for initial start up costs, compliance, a living salary for the first year. So maybe you will sell 20-30% of equity in the fund up front to get that.
Captain Obvious: It's even worse if you're doing anything related to critical business systems. This was just a simplistic example to get the ball rolling.
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My little story about building a "real" program in awk was really just a toy example - I did it to teach myself some awk. I wouldn't really recommend writing significant persistent scripts in awk that much, if only because nobody else will want to maintain them. I think the beauty of awk for me is the little tiny bits of one liners that I can string together to do a quick bit of ad-hoc work. Anything more and I agree with you - I'd pick a real programming language.
In my old company I said that people can use their computers for personal stuff too, as long as it was legal and wouldn't compromise the company in any way. I was fine with that. If people are spending 10-16 hours per day in the office, get your bills done, send email to your spouse, watch your nanny cam, look up what those little bumps might be caused by, or whatever. Just get your work done too.

I always made it a policy that whenever I stepped behind someones desk that I asked first. You'd be surprised how far respect goes amongst professionals.
re: FW: re: RE: re: re: Re: fw: re: re: re: re: thursday meeting

Sorry, I'm forever spoiled by GMail's automatic threading now.
On sites like VIC, you can grab a guest account where you see ideas that are 45 days old. SumZero also has their weekly idea e-mail which Conor mentioned above. From there, I think you can get a really good understanding of how to lay out your investment thesis and what kinds of factors are relevant.

I spent a good amount of time reverse engineering ideas on VIC before submitting my own. You'll pick up all kinds of relevant metrics/industry lingo by doing that.
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> Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP.

Then the knee-jerk reaction becomes "But why did you do that?" and the response still seems unsatisfying.

I think asking for IE9 on XP is like asking for a Python project to be compatible with Python 2.3-3.2. Assuming it could be done for a complex project, is it worth the effort, compared to targeting 2.6+ instead and leaving people on older, long-supported systems behind?
Here is the AMA that just started. Seems the reddit base is riled up against them from the start.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...
BlackBerry Launches In-App Purchases
"two clicks away"?
Didn't see Al Gore?
You should make your site compatible with IE.
Possibly made sense back in the day of MS-only web technologies. Now, not so much.
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Agreed. I should have stayed away from advisory tone.
You can also combine maps and filters in a list comprehension:

suffix_str_lst = ['{0}_suffix'.format(x) for x in str_list if x[:4] == 'meep']
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No, I am arguing that it is a problem which they have absolutely no incentive to solve.

They're trying to sell Windows licenses. They have no reason to sweat to make a hardware accelerated IE work on OSX, I'm baffled that people think it'd make sense for them.
Just commented on the original article as such.
Depends on the shell one uses, i think. On the other hand, who doesn't use bash these days.
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Again, we're okay with facebook/gchat/whatever. The rest of our employees are not engaged 100% of the time, and we're okay with that. This is not about spying on them, or making sure they have their nose to the grindstone for 8 straight hours. We have flexible hours, allow telecommuting, etc.

From my perspective, it's a cultural thing - we have tried to foster a two-way culture of openness and communication. We have 70 employees - 68 of which are okay with our environment of trust. What makes those two think they're special?
I don't think you deserve -points for this response, but I clearly it seems your sample isn't representative of the overall community.

Though I've become curious, what would your group have considered a positive result for MA and TC?

Is there an exit strategy that your group would have preferred? Why?

Or do you feel that any exit would have been selling out?

Is there some inherent value you see to TC being independent?
jQuery UI has a progress bar that you can use: http://jqueryui.com/demos/progressbar/

Another thing you can try to do is to load the site in chunks so that the user has something to look at ASAP. If you give them something to look at, they will be more tolerant of a 10 second wait time, which is really long for the web. I have no idea what your website is so this may not be applicable.
What about using the large-pages (huge pages) mysql option:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/large-page-support.ht...

From the kernel documentation @ http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.... :
"Pages that are used as huge pages are reserved inside the kernel and cannot be used for other purposes. Huge pages cannot be swapped out under memory pressure."
Two really important bits of backstory to this, if you don't follow the US airlines: Southwest is famous for flying a single plane type (the 737) and for a Greyhound Bus-type route map that differs starkly from the hub/spoke model served by ATL --- the largest "hub" in the US market.
10 seconds is not good at all. What is causing it to load slow? Are you coding in ASP?
Ask HN: When do you NEED a co-founder?
In the past, I brought in some friends who are really smart to help build out a product idea. Unfortunately, the initial flurry of dedication and output turns into a complete lack of long-term desire. There seems to be a general lack of entrepreneur interest in my friends.

I need to go out and meet new people to find someone who really aligns with the idea, is smart, and is interested spending the time long-term. Unfortunately, as an introvert, this is a daunting concept and not something I look forward to. I would need to meet new people, have pretty extensive conversations, and finally trust someone I have not already known for years.

There will be challenges building a product but I have not hit any big ones yet in this discovery/prototype phase. So then the question becomes, at what point do I truly NEED a co-founder?
I would argue that quid pro quo in the positive direction is less bad than the same in a negative direction. Especially on a system like HN where votes mostly have emotional value (rather than "your comments never get seen if you have a low carma" like slashdot) I think unreasonable up voting is less bad than unreasonable down voting... unreasonable down voting tends to degrade into unproductive name calling, etc...

Note, also, that I do understand the argument for keeping both anonymous, and I'm not saying the current policy should be changed. I'm just saying that if we were to change the current policy, I see some limited upside to making upvotes non anonymous (even though I also see the downsides you point out.) while I see no upside at all to making downvotes non anonymous.
PHP. We've got to collect about 10 XML feeds. Basically the site loads, but it takes time for data to come in.

We collect the data, then filter it, then display it. Will do a Review My Startup in a few hours :)
The main headache-inducer I've encountered is that to really get the benefits of F# I'd like my model objects to be immutable records, but the ASP.NET MVC model binding infrastructure (along with the binding/serialization/etc. parts of a lot of other .NET frameworks) assumes mutable model properties (and default constructors). You can create a custom model binder, which works but isn't 100% satisfactory for other reasons.

The example gets around this by just using LINQ to SQL generated C# classes as the model, but that's a big compromise.
Staggered loading-in of data works extremely well. Instead of loading in 100 items, load in 10-20 (whatever will fill up to the fold*2 is my go-to threshold), and then background load the rest as the user is busy with those.

Think about caching too, if a particular XML feed is fetched frequently.

Also, animations and fades really help in the appearance of speed (versus the above, which actually increases it).
seems cool! I am excited that more people are getting into this stuff.

Sorry mine is so limited from a synthesis perspective, I would really like to add more controls as well. I was getting a bit bogged down in all of the UI stuff.
"I think the beauty of awk for me is the little tiny bits of one liners that I can string together to do a quick bit of ad-hoc work. "

Again, my point is that you can do the same thing in Ruby, Python, Perl, or Lua just as easily and fast as you can in Awk. Awk used to have a nice niche years back. It pretty much lost that niche the second Perl got popular. It's even more irrevant now that Ruby and Python are even easier and faster to build stuff with quickly

About the only real pragmatic reason I can think of for learning Awk is to migrate existing Awk scripts, that started as nice useful one liners but eventually evolved into spaghetti, to Python / Ruby
JIRA is one of the worst bug tracking/task tracking tools I have ever had the displeasure of working with.
The major benefit with awk is that it runs as a pattern recognizing/processing filter by default, so it handles certain common problems in very little code, and fits particularly well in Unix shell pipelines. I'm also a big fan of structuring code in terms of pattern-matching. (I wrote an Erlang-style pattern matching library for Lua, btw: http://github.com/silentbicycle/tamale/ )

I write a lot of little awk scripts, but if they grow past ~5 lines, they usually get rewritten in Lua. (Perhaps eventually with inner loops in C.) Still, Awk is simple and useful enough that it's still worth knowing.
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When plotting the response time over time, this educated guess becomes even more solid:

http://earl.strain.at/2010/ringo-node-benchmark/buffer-alloc...

(This uses the very same dataset underlying the "buffer alloc" graph in the original post.)
if you are using the new mozilla/chrome audio apis, you can do sample accurate timing.
What the location arrow on iOS 4.1 now means
I saw this and at first I was hopeful that something good would happen. Then I saw the comments and remembered that, for every smart Reddit user there are about 99 blithering idiots.

Most of the comments were troll responses and a circlejerk of Microsoft hate. Very disappointing.
True, but if you analyze Southwest's network, it's way more hub and spoke than most people think. They are the largest carrier at many of their top airports, and a high percentage of their flights go through one of those top hubs.

Sure, it's not like AirTran at ATL, but I think you'll find an ATL hub not nearly as inconsistent with Southwest's current network than at first glance.
You are right. Maybe Tor should be configured by default to work that way.

Do you have a .torrc that makes Tor to exit from non-censorship countries? I would like to use it.

Alternatively, do you have a list of non-censorship countries?

NB: If you run a Tor hidden service remove it from your torrc before posting it.
Well your proposition is buy and sell handmade goods at no additional cost. Market that angle.

But I think soon you'll find you want a new proposition. There is a lot of work involved in processing payments, dealing with chargebacks, keeping customers happy, etc.

It looks like your revenue model is completely ad based? You need a way to start getting money now, rather than earning spare change each month via adsense.

Running customer service and daily operations take money. If you don't value your time (more than just spare time if you want this to grow) or don't mind paying out of your own pocket for someone else's time, I think you'll need to start taking a cut somewhere.