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No, it doesn't. Correlation is not causation. If awesome people have worked crappy jobs more often than not, there can still be a positive correlation between the two variables even if there are dramatically fewer awesome people than people who have worked crappy jobs.
Thanks for your comment gaius,
I was not saying that we can or should take credit for those applications. I was simply trying to point out that we were the first generation to grow up with the internet around us and with these applications that connected everyone!
Strange that it's so prevalent globally and yet the US commander can still claim that it's "a sign you’re dealing with Al Qaeda".

He was a little more careful than that: "It’s a bit of a sign you’re dealing with Al Qaeda when you come across them in Pakistan.".
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Its focused on the already established community of SO users - and it exists in the same place people are already hanging out answering questions. Plus the chat logs are being stored and made available the same way all the commons Q&A data is - I just think it'll turn out to be more and more valuable as they improve on it.
Well, this attacks one of the problems with the US justice system. The other problem is the fact that someone like O.J. Simpson can murder two people and then hire a team of expensive lawyers to get him off the hook. Now imagine if the government even ended up being the one who had to pay those guys!
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erm, pretty much everywhere. one example - you have a "free trial" button, but below that a required form field, swap them over, surely?

the free demo button doesn't work - goes to a page not found or sits there saying "building your site"

i feel like this "Making it easier to collect, collate and consolidate data and figures." is a really really poor description of what your product is. have you tested that it resonates?

i don't seem to be able to drag charts to move them, if i click the graph once it shows me formula, i click away to change view and it selects whichever cell i clicked in, i press cmd + z to undo and nothing happens.

everything feels like a lot of work, for example all the buttons need much much faster tool tips. why when i hover over one doesn't it tell me what that button is in the silver bar to the right?

why are some things formula and others lightbox ui controls (eg: add a link) feels like consistency for that stuff is ++

Site > Settings > Pages is honestly terrifying. draw some inspiration from Numbers.app? :)
Awesome, I'm just curious as to what technology and tools did you use to implement this? Anyone has any idea?
You must have 20 reputation on Stack Overflow to talk here.

I guess I'll be sticking to IRC.
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Yes, I will also include peak memory used next time.
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Any of it going to be open sourced? :-)
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You're all creating sites quicker than the DNS can handle them at the moment - I'm working on fixing that.
You want me to port all my Project Euler solutions from Python to Lua so that I can tell you that LuaJIT is much faster than any Python implementation, which you already know?
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Funny. Europeans talking about the US system they only know from TV. Americans talking about the European system they only know from TV - if even.
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All new, shiny, custom code, built on the Microsoft platform. I'm sure a detailed blog post will follow.
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I guess I see where you are coming from. But at least on HN, I expect people to be a bit more imaginative.

How is this different from Google Docs? I can't speak for the creator but here's what I can think of:

It's created by a clearly passionate founder who's directly reachable for feedback and support. The guy's put up his cell phone number!

Hypernumbers has this strange-seeming idea of converting a spreadsheet into a wiki/webpage/table. That's pretty interesting and could be very useful.

Even a quick look through the app suggests there are a lot of features. Now I know it's fashionable to say features don't sell software, but hey this is an Excel competitor. Features rule.

It costs money, which suggests it's a serious effort, not another big-Co project which can be shelved if it doesn't get enough eyeballs.
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Would be nice to see the articles coloured by the change in their movement since last version, one colour for rising another for falling.
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This is a little like going to IKEA and saying "I need to furnish my house, what should I buy"? Without knowing more about the intended use of the language, it's hard to give a good answer.

However, if pressed, I would say Javascript. It starts simple (but is not a simple language), you can build slick web pages with it, and you can even build native mobile apps for Android and iPhone (e.g. with using PhoneGap).
Here's a "help wanted" post instead of a "for sale":

I want to do a research-oriented tech podcast but I'm looking for a cool name. If anyone can think of one (and has the domain to match), I'd be willing to pay as much as I can scrape together.
To be frank, the download-and-build script felt pretty horrible.
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Tacoma looks the same but it is overall weaker than the Hilux
To be honest, Insteadsheet sounds a lot worse than Hypernumbers.

Names don't have to describe products. It's funny you talk about Excel - the word Excel itself does not describe spreadsheets!

Is a negative of another product really the best way to go about branding? I can't think of a single good example.
Why? The AK-47 seems quite sophisticated.
Its frame was broken, but they (Top Gear) drove it off the rubble and, later, into the studio. They ended up putting it up on display in their live studio, you can see it sometimes when the camera moves around.
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It's kind of ironic that the GOP is pushing for changes to make our legal system closer to Europe's, but they are quick to vilify similar attempts regarding health care.
FWIW, the guy behind mibbit.com has a partial solution to the 'stateful server' problem for IRC. In some ways though it's not a problem: it keeps things more informal. I think the ideal thing might be to get a little bit of history when you join.

The reputation thing is both a positive and a negative. It's going to be a barrier to entry for some people - both good apples and bad. Hard to know the ratio...

The interface is nice, but I like my IRC client too.
Great job, Gordon! And a truly inspiring story too. I shall be calling you soon for feedback.
We did for many years. Or to be precise, a version with a slightly different body. Like the article said, that truck was basically bulletproof -- it was a tank on wheels. It was way, way overbuilt for what it was intended to do and that's why they last so long and are so popular with offroaders (the reason I got mine!). Typically the bodies rust out after about 10-15 years but the rest of the truck: engine, frame, driveline, etc is still rock solid so there was an aftermarket industry in fiberglass bodies.

I sold mine (1987 4x4) with 130,000 miles on it for about $2,000 in 2005 and it would probably have gone another 100,000 easily with minimal maintenance. The kid who bought it got a hell of a deal (it was pretty heavily modified by the time I sold it) and he was grinning from ear to ear when he drove off.

The Tacoma was the "new, improved, bigger version."
If they are theocrats who "locked men in shipping containers" till their beards grew (article), then the fact that they have tattoos in violation of religious norms is odd. Either that or someone embellished the story.
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Some of them are quite funny at their own. Like this one.

3. The default state of processes is “sleep” which is where they are found 95% of the time.

It's obviously meant as a joke, but if you think about it, your real processes in your real OS are (on average) going to spend even more time sleeping, and it's exactly what you want.
I have a few friends who worked at DRDO, and the stories I've heard make them out to be total clowns. They're clueless where it comes to anything except missile design. I have no doubt that this is yet another clever plot to waste taxpayer money in the name of national security.
That intro video is about 30 seconds too long, and it needs a voice over rather than the annoying typing sound.
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Python's easy to use introspection helped me break away from my Visual Studio Intellisense crutch. I remember the days when I didn't know how people code program in a plain text editor (or even vim), because I was so dependent on Intellisense to help me figure out what properties or methods an object or class library had available.

Fast forward a few years and I can hardly stand to use Visual Studio, it's just so slow and clunky! Who needs Intellisense? Just open up the python interpreter and if you're not sure about something you can dir() it :-) But I find myself reading a lot more of the source code and documentation for third party libraries that I'm using. I'm a far different programmer now than I used to be, and I thank Python for helping me progress so quickly.
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I just can't stop laughing.
"Make your change and then restart right away "

Sorry if this seems painfully naive, but what happens to your current set of windows and apps?

Do you have to close out of everything in order to make a config change?
Yes, I'll include IronPython next time.

IronPython is at 2.6. PyPy and Jython are at 2.5. psyco is at 2.6.

Most of my Euler solvers are compatible with Python 2.5. The ones that don't work in 2.5 end up getting excluded from the benchmark, because the benchmark only shows programs that worked and finished in less than a minute on every tested Python.
Why does it self-host the front page on Hypernumbers?

Either:

1. Hypernumbers offers this kind of web page as a feature, in which case you've got a problem because the pages have trouble looking good (and therefore won't virally advertise the service in the way they might if they had a little more style cred).

2. Hypernumbers doesn't offer this kind of web page as a feature, in which case you shouldn't try to make it fit - I'd suggest dropping some money over at 99 Designs for a more professional-looking front page. You're going to need something slicker to sell this.

In either case, it's non-obvious that the page is self-hosted. It's obviously a pride point, so you might want to point that out! I'd also love to be able to play with the spreadsheet UI, or at least a little piece of it, directly on the front page. Show off what makes you awesome!

I'd also take another look at your copywriting, both on the page and in your video. You've described it as "the Team spreadsheet" - why is "Team" capitalized? Also, the contact details in the top bar makes it sound like there's only one person in the company. Is that true?

(I should say that this isn't a comment on the product itself, which sounds very handy.)
Python

Its easy to learn because it has a simple and clear syntax, yet is a powerful language. It allows you to learn various programming concepts one at a time (while other more complex languages may force a bunch of concepts on you before you can do anything useful) and anything you learn will translate to other languages, should you wish to learn others in the future.

Python comes packaged with a large library of pre-written modules and is supported by a lot of third party API's.

Python also has a very active and friendly community of users, so help will be easy to find, should you need it.

Learning Python: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

(PS, the same can probably be said for languages like Ruby, but I learned Python first, so have no real experience with Ruby)
Cute, someone just deleted the whole spreadsheet. This is why we can't have nice things.

Anyhow, I have a few I'd be willing to sell: meeep.com, crapucopia.com, lolwhut.com, railsapplication.com, rofflez.com, taxonome.com, tweetannotations.org/.info, youshouldbuymesomething.com, webuildwebapplications.com/.net/.info

Just want to sell them; not interested in startup equity, you aunt's horse, or sharing an apartment in the Bay in exchange. :P
What this reminds me of more than anything else is a cheap-n-cheerful version of Oracle Hyperion - no bad thing as Hyperion is the market leading financial consolidation system.

However, finance users are pretty much wedded to Excel (Hyperion's SmartView interface for Excel is pretty slick) - what kind of integration do you have with Excel?

I've been kind of toying with the idea of building a SaaS OLAP database with an Excel plugin - but that is project #2 at the moment.

NB I'm in Edinburgh as well and saw you present at the Techcrunch event...
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I am always puzzled by the attention paid to JavaScript execution speed. Obviously, it's important (and should be) to the people who are intimately involved with the maintenance and development of the JavaScript engines, but apart from that, why do so many people in the web business care about it so much?

What sites and/or web apps are so JavaScript-heavy that they are bottlenecked by slow JavaScript execution?

In most cases, aren't the speed of a user's network connection and the responsiveness of the web server itself far more important to the user experience of a web app than the browser's JavaScript speed? Is GMail on Chrome really a radically different experience from GMail on IE8?
In the long run this seems the obvious direction search will head. The facebook "like", or a twitter link is the new hyperlink. This is just a new way to use crowdsourcing to judge the quality of a link or domain. Backlink, "like", its all the same.
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Interesting question: Whether the people who market breast cancer awareness do too good a job of it, raising the profile of one health threat above others that are actually more common.
My understanding is that the (no longer produced) T100 is the closest equivalent NA gets to the Hilux, it has a fully boxed frame and was offered in a 1-ton form (with larger brakes).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_T100
I'm completely in the dark about the development, but the UI looks a LOT like 37signals' Campfire app (http://campfirenow.com). Was this intentional or a coincidence?
Are you using Facebook or Twitter to share ideas?
> I do not know of any open source operating system certified...

Certification costs money which is most likely the real reason why open source OS's have not been "certified" as secure, not because they're intrinsically insecure. OpenBSD, for example, has a reputation for being secure.

FWIW none of the open source Unices have UNIX certification (http://www.opengroup.org/platform/unix_certification/) but that obviously is not preventing the spread of Linux into "enterprise" computing.
A while back I was presented with a contract to work as a subcontractor for a small IT body shop. The contract had a clause that either party could terminate the agreement on a month's notice, which was perfectly fine. But then I was startled to read that if I didn't complete the three year job for their client for any reason I would be liable for any and all expenses related to completing the job. I'm not a lawyer, but it seemed to me (since there was no explanation in the contract) that it could easily be interpreted that I would have to pay out of my own pocket for someone to complete the job. In other words, they could terminate me on a month's notice and say "oh by the way, you have to pay for your replacement even though we're still billing the client and making 100% profit") That was a total WTF clause as far as I was concerned and I had them strike it out, which they did after a bit of hemming and hawing.
I agree. It's a good idea, and I can see it having advantages over your competitors, but those advantages are negated when hard to access. UI needs to be cleaner and following all expected conventions (this isn't a new UI).

Is there a reason the landing page is 730px wide? It feels like everything got crammed in pretty hard.

I'm excited about what this could do, but it needs some time on the design before I'm comfortable playing around with it to evaluate properly.
Also, we're flirting with the limits of Moore's "law" here. I did a report back in high school on it and speculated you'd never really see processors over 4GHz. I guess I was right.

As you start to shrink transistors and the spacing between them, the chips get hotter, burn more power, and throw more errors. You also get electron "leakage" where the electrons inadvertently jump between gates, so the processors become less efficient and you have to run extra fault-tolerance to check for the errors.

Multi-core and bringing all the other components up to speed is the way to go for now until a newer technology comes, like quantum computing or light based processing.
You need to pick a few languages, research them and find which one interests you the most. Take into account your and the languages philosophies, your end goal or even something as shallow as how the language looks to you.

Note: ruby has tryruby.org and python has trypython.org

Both are good candidates for a first language, and have excellent books available online.
I don't have a specific app idea in mind for which I want to learn programming. Mostly, I like consumer web apps, and which may require integration with facebook, twitter APIs.

I'm not looking to build a full blown app myself - rather a quick prototype to test it out with users and if there's traction, then it would make sense for me to team up with engineers and build it out.

Regarding Javascript - as you say, I too have heard that it's not that simple. Some folks were suggesting to start with PHP. I though of checking with HN community on what they recommend.
I don't want the feature.

Twitter and Facebook are different things. Facebook is for sharing things that are important to me as a person, whereas Twitter is about consuming and sharing information that is important to me as a professional.
It must have been available at some point - because it appears in the Back to the Future series as Marty's truck. Unless it wasn't called a Hilux.
Well it's "bad" because you lose easily findable history.

One of the big things StackOverflow has going for it is permanence. Someone asks a question, gets an answer and then google indexes it for the next person who has the same problem.

With the chat it will fix the problem for 1 person but the scalability of investing your time into an answer that could potentially help a lot of people over time is lost. Even if google indexes all of the chat conversations reading through a chat transcript looking for the answer is tedious.
Some sick part of me really wants lolwhut.com
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We did, for some time. A pre-Tacoma Toyota 'pickup' is a Hilux. I drive an '88 and it's still in great shape.
Confirmed, having just checked the spreadsheet.
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You're right. I really meant to say that Hypernumbers implies something else (an app dedicated to advanced math, perhaps?), not that it isn't descriptive.

Insteadsheet would indeed be a ballsy name, incorporating the "We're the anti-Excel/Google Spreadsheets" feel right into the name. LessEverything is closest to the approach that I can think of.

I stand behind it. And I doubly stand behind not being the guy who just says "The name sucks!" without offering any alternatives.
I was looking for a domain similar as I am writing small iphone/ipad apps to teach science and other concepts to kids.
e-mail in my profile.
Yeah, those were definitely present in the first Mac.
Thanks dkersten! I'll check out Python.

What do you think of PHP? Some folks were suggesting that, but I haven't yet checked it out.
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The reason CPUs aren't getting any faster is only tangentially mentioned in the article. Yes, it is heat dissipation. But why then did they get faster for so many decades?

As the process size drops, you can crank up the clock-speed while leaving the total heat dissipation constant. But the heat density is related to the voltage, resistance, and the amount of time the transistors spend partially on or off (we wish they were perfect switches, but they aren't really). So as you switch faster, unless you can lower the resistance or voltage (which requires changing your materials), you probably spend more and more time in a partially on or off state. This means your heat density rises to the point where you are just south of burning things out.

You make some engineering decision about the reliability you want in your chips, and calculate or test how high a heat density you can tolerate. But unless you change your materials so they use lower voltage, or invent new ways to move heat away faster, or use materials that are more conductive, you aren't upping the heat density or clock rate. But you can still make them smaller and use less power total for the same amount of computation.

This is why reversible computing (gives off less heat), diamond substrates (much higher thermal conductivity), microfluidic channels (moves heat away faster), and parallelism (larger chips = more computation) are being explored. And only the last one is practical THIS year.
This is kind of cool. My major concern is that everyone would be quick to go to chat and ask the question instead of posting a question. I mean, we all want instant gratification, so why wouldn't we use chat?
Well, with a user name of "run for your lives" I think vitriol is probably already taking it easy.
I have diledidact.com kind of a mush up of dilettante and autodidact.
And people wonder why cars have so many fiddly knobs and other things that break. You make a great, sturdy vehicle, everyone who needs it uses it, and your vehicle gets heavily associated with violent groups.
Thanks jeebusroxors! Python seems a good choice from the comments here.

What do you mean by 'language philosophies'? can you pls explain a bit?
I've been holding on to 'isby.us' (this.isby.us etc...) for a rainy day. I've had a few thoughts, but nothing that really grabbed me yet.
Oh, please, please someone toss in some animation (and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame).

By animation I mean that the transition between two "frames" should be titles moving smoothly between positions. It would need some clever use of color and exact path to make it legible.

The user-facing purpose of such animation is to make it easier for people to perceive (viscerally) the bouncy dynamics of the ranking system.

(It's a neat hack as is, too, of course.)
note: i can't sign any NDAs or anything, i invest in a lot of companies, etc. so please don't think that any idea you send is really that important…

Not that he's wrong, but just an example of how he comes off as abrasive. The "so please don't think that any idea you send is really that important" just serves to belittle everyone else's ideas (while his ideas are "killer").

The startup community generally embraces the "execution is really important" mantra, so just stop it at "i can't sign any NDAs or anything, i invest in a lot of companies"
I'm interested in this. You've got email.
The more I think of it, the more I like the name Hypernumbers. It has the word hyper in it - it's exciting!

And the acronym is HN. A tribute to Hacker News, perhaps?
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