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You may want to check out the NY Tech Meetup. They hold monthly meetups in Manhattan, and their online community is pretty strong.

http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/

From there, you should be able to get a pretty good idea of what startups are NYC based.

I also suggest following some NY-based VCs or startups on Twitter to get a feel for what's going on in the city. Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) from FRC sends out a weekly email with things happening in the NYC tech community.

Dogpatch Labs has a NYC office, and they're doing some great things to help young startups get going:

http://dogpatchlabs.com/

Living is a whole other ballgame. Manhattan is preferable for ease and access, but also the most expensive option. You should also consider Brooklyn, Queens, or even Hoboken, or Jersey City, NJ for something less expensive depending on your situation. All three of the alternatives have great mass-transit access to the city.

Good luck! I've lived here over 10 years now. It's a crazy but great place.
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"Human nature is a wild elephant."

Agreed.

I also like, "“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
We do some SEO work ourselves, but we run three businesses here, all of them make decent amounts of money. Its not worth us to pull a partner out, have him learn SEO, implement it, etc. We'd rather pay someone that knows what they are doing and let the partners do what they're good at.
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They may be too busy focusing on other areas of business. If so, then definitely bring in someone else.

However, I'm curious about your "not rocket science" comment. I've always generally agreed with you, but I've been watching a lot of twist lately and Calacanis keeps saying stuff about SEO guys making crazy salaries ($100k - $200k/yr). If it's really that simple, how are some guys pulling that much $?
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Yeah, same here. I noticed a few spots were blank, so I'd say around 540, but yeah, close enough.
What a waste of money. The money would be much better spent on two things that would work very well in concert:

1. separated bike lanes. I don't just mean painted lines on a street, which generally do more harm than good, but physical separation, like pedestrians get.

2. The Parisian "velib" system. This solves both the storage and availability problems.

After that, the only advantage of the monorail is the speed it attains, which is basically irrelevant when you're traveling 1-5 km. The huge disadvantage of the monorail is that it has very fixed paths.
Actually, to be blunt, if it's not sales it might as well be a million miles away.

Startups need people who build, who create, who do. Things like "strategy", setting up deals, introductions, "almost sales", etc. are, by themselves, worthless at a young company.

My advice to you would be this:

Learn to code, or, don't do a tech start-up.

I think it's a little bizarre that people without technical skills (or startup skills) feel compelled or even entitled to start a tech company. These are specific, hard skills (not unlike law or medicine), and if you don't have them you need to develop them or find another line of work.

You could still start a "technology-enabled" company, like HuffPo (a media company), or Gilte (a fashion retail company), but you should probably have specific domain expertise in the non-tech vertical that you want to work with.

If you want to "start the next Facebook", though, (I.e. build a scalable, virtual product) then I have news for you: if you can't code it, you can't do it.
Initial thoughts:

- It's hard to tell what are buttons and what are simply boxes

- Share button appears on accidental mouseover and obscures article text

- Top banner is a black box that takes half of the screen. Should be smaller

- Cosmetic issue with "Yes" / "No" buttons and lines

- I'm not american
This sounds like good advice to me.

BTW, "Build something first, even if it’s just for fun." doesn't just apply to freelancing. You should do this even if you are applying to work for a company. Having something to show means A LOT in an interview.

And if you're in college and haven't done that yet, you're wasting time. Get on it. Have something ready for when you graduate.
Are you interested in doing Android work? I'm not sure what files you would provide to an iPad developer, but for Android just providing mock ups and graphical assets would be hugely valuable.

It would certainly be more challenging to come up with good designs that work well and look great when the variety of screen sizes and resolutions has to be taken into account.
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> going to generate a ton of bad press

That's already happening:

http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/2010/08/13/time-for-open-s...

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/203336/oracles...

http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/computer-user-group-bla...

http://www.infoworld.com/t/languages-and-standards/oracle-th...

Comparisons with SCO are already being made in the kind of publications read by IT management and Oracle is already taking damage from this.
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There are SMTP addresses that are perfectly valid, non-local and yet does not contain '@'. But in practice that could be probably ignored.

But if you want to verify email address, then going with must contain '@' is probably one of the more reasonable routes (you should probably also ban few characters like newlines and ';').
1) Consumers don't care; most of them have never heard of Oracle and 2) Oracle's large corporate customers will cheer them on for defending their patents.

Oh and 3) Google's "do no evil" schtick is a triumph of PR, but that's all it is. They are just a corporation like anyone else, and they will do what's right for them, period.
I think I read about Forth influencing Smalltalkers on the c2 wiki somewhere - IIRC, it had more to do with the problem solving approach than the language itself. I could be wrong, though.

Edit: Found one reference - "It must have been ten years ago that I tried to explain the essence of Smalltalk to my brother, a Forth programmer. We found common ground by programming -- one day in Forth, another in Smalltalk. In Forth we wrote the essential Smalltalk: object identity and method dispatch; in Smalltalk we wrote the essential Forth: dictionary, words and builds-does. We both showed off our respective environments with great skill, pride and confidence. Oh, if only all programming could be so educational. -- WardCunningham". (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthInSmalltalk) So yes, Ward Cunningham knew Forth, for one.

As for other "great small, regular languages", there's also ML, Prolog, and SNOBOL. I haven't used SNOBOL for anything, but it AFAICT it introduced pattern matching, so it's been pretty influential. There's probably more good candidates in HOPL I and II. Maybe also awk.

(And yes - the original version of the "invented" sentence was positively unctuous. ;) )
I read it years ago in college and took it as a metaphor for a psychedelic experience. No surprise I was having a lot of psychedelic experiences at that point in my life.

To be clear, I don't think that it was literally meant for tripping folk, but I also think kunley (top rated comment at the moment) may have missed something fundamental maybe due perhaps to not grasping a fundamental part of tibetan and buddhist culture.

To the Buddhist, the whole of existence is a struggle between experiencing the perfection of the cosmos as your bona fide identity and your mundane ego. Liberation is not something for those on their death bed, liberation is the thing to strive for.

-- well I was writing about 'The tibetan book of the dead' I have never heard of this particular book, I just realized. I figure I will just leave this here in case anyone is interested rather than just delete it.
When the speed limit was 55 and you happened to be driving in a rural state (ND perhaps), fatigue was a greater danger than anything else. The roads are long and straight and you don't have a huge traffic load. If you covered the driver's speedometer, the driver would naturally be going 75 - 85 on these roads (had several incidents with a couple of friends that demonstrated this). That extra 20 - 30 mph does save quite a lot of time.

I do wonder if the results and conclusions of this study are broken out by rural / urban roads. Or, like many studies I see, do they lump everything together or just not study rural areas.
Additionally, it is even unsafe for Americans who do read Arabic, because if the site has user generated content, and one of the users submits content which is against the Islamic rules, they may use it as an excuse to seize the valuable domain.
#2 is exactly what I've been going through for the past two years. I'm on my third job in that time, and I'm still miserable. All three jobs are ones most sane people would be THRILLED to have. Three very different environments, all with really great people. But it all comes back to the simple fact that it's not what I want/need/should be doing.
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Probably a stupid question, but does this take into account the speed of light?
If you need lots of thorium you can usually find a ton of it Winterspring or the Burning Steppes!
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I'm not familiar with the pricing trends in the iPad scene, however, when I am dealing with my clients in web/graphics design, I've been billing for 15-30USD per hour.

I would be producing the design files that a developer could use and put together when producing an app. I am able to code as-well (not for the iPad, though), but in this case I would like to strictly stick to the design process.
They forgot "his ideas about software economics only make sense if you have a $1M grant from the MacArthur foundation and tenure at MIT".
Here's to hoping Oracle gets crushed. If they don't, it's very bad news for everyone who has anything to do with the Java platform.
This is unbelievable, I think the worst privacy transgression so far. My number's on there. I didn't publish it.
If you don't take the time to at least learn the basics and what people are going to do for the money you pay them, my guess is that you'll be an attractive target for more snake-oil salesmen. Once you've learned that, you could pretty much do things yourselves, handing off make-work things to contractors for significantly less money.
From the OP:

You will hear that we can’t make bombs out of U-233 because it is a virulent gamma-ray emitter. This is not true, and I find it curious that it is used as a reason. U-233 has a 158,000-year half-life. What they are referring to is the protactinium-233 contaminant, which has a 27-day half-life, beta-decaying into U-233 with gamma-ray involvement. Chemically scrub the protactinium, of course, or just wait a year and it will be gone.
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What? How does he not have access to a serial console or something?
Yes, as long as it features a GUI. I don't own an Android device myself, but this seems like a neat opportunity nevertheless.
If they base the case entirely on one piece of evidence than they have already lost. Through programs like CSI, people are convinced that most of the evidence for a case comes from a lab and all they need is that one piece of evidence.

What really happens is the investigators have to answer the 5-Ws (who,what,etc) and they "build" a case against you. If they have one piece, then they can go fishing for the rest. This is why it's important to shut your month when talking to the police. Anything you say at this point can really open you up to all types of crap later. They'll twist your words around, become your friend, good cop/bad cop, mention friends and family and all other types of tricks to get you to talk. Believe it or not, criminals willingly give up testimony about themselves. Some guy in a lab with half a shoeprint isn't what wins the case, you do.

If all the prosecution has is one piece of evidence then a competent barrister can shred it to pieces. This guy's job is to create FUD, and lots of it. The less evidence the prosecution has the easier his job is. But what he/she can't do is fix anything you say in front of the police while he isn't there. This is why it's important to shut up and ask a lawyer first.
CAAT. Canvas Advanced Animation Toolkit
Old school RPG style thing using html5 canvas and websockets. (chrome only)
Only fully works in chrome to where multiple people can connect to the map. You can test by opening it in different windows then moving around. Flickers pretty bad in firefox. Character sprite from chrono trigger, and background for secret of mana 3. Javascript source code is there in plain view. Will post erlang server code if there's interest.
Exactly. Mainly, the current nuclear power industry, i.e. Areva, Westinghouse and GE make all their money on the fabrication fo fuel rod assemblies. They tried to make thorium fuel rods work in Indian Point Unit 1, but the layout of the rod bundles was tough to optimize to allow fertile material to become fissile and cycle correctly to be efficient at heating up the primary coolant.

Add this to all the regulatory hurdles and the big three nuke companies see no reason to pursue such a financial risk.
you´re right.
but real business people also know the technology to some extent already.
so, the posted advice is for people who do not have that knowledge yet.
We have a pretty good idea on SEO. One of the businesses is a web marketing firm focused on Copy Writing (he's a copy writer). So, we do know the basics and can ferret out BS, but he/we believe good SEO takes time and effort. Neither of which he (or anyone else) has any interest in. Why spend weeks learning and then months implementing SEO, when you can pay someone to do it? His time is more valuable than the presumed cost of paying someone (copy writers also make serious money).
Password hacking software
Seems a silly thing to offer
You can find it pretty much anywhere actually. It's a by-product of many mining processes and India has literal beaches of it.
That is absolutely true. I once got a job offer because I could speak at length about a custom news-scraper I simply wrote for myself so I could read the news easier in the morning. Have something built that you can explain - including the challenges and why it is important.
post an asinine and narcissistic update to your Facebook 'friends'

Perhaps I'm outside of the norm in my use of Facebook, but I don't think I'm that unusual. I use FB to keep in touch with my family, all of whom live several thousands of miles away. I also have a six week old daughter. So yes, FB is very important to me and I'm quite annoyed when I find a spare ten minutes to share some photos and it happens to be down.

What's my paid alternative, which all of my family can join for free (I'll pay, but I can't expect them to as well) and which has at least say five-nines uptime?
Why couldn't he reach port 5337 if the firewall was turned off? Doesn't make sense.
I bought the Kindle app for my iPhone and now it's pretty much the only way I read.

Saving $2 for each new fiction "softcover" I want to buy? Fantastic.

Saving $5 for each new fiction "hardcover" I want to buy? Incredible.

Saving $15 off Coders At Work? Seriously? AWESOME.

Having my entire book collection with me everywhere, and being able to add to it at a moment's notice regardless of where I am or if I've vaguely close to a bookstore? So convenient, it makes paper books wince.

Seriously, there'e relatively few downsides. Comic books don't display well on my tiny phone screen, so I'm not there yet. And not all books are available yet in ebook form (Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson wasn't, but Fear and Loathing WAS.).

But realistically, eBooks, e-readers, and the various apps that emulate them ROCK solid.
But in an odd kind of way, people do have a right to be annoyed. It's a little bit circuitous, but... People trade their data, pseudo-willingly, for a perceived service (which they like). They know that Facebook et al make money from this. Therefore, if Facebook still have their data, but start offering less, or take the service away, the terms have changed. If it goes down, it is now imbalanced. Annoyance results.

Admittedly, most of the people using these services probably haven't considered it very deeply, and more peeved that the shiny has gone...
Redirects are also the better way of having content at yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com, etc.

Redirect and avoid content duplication.
And the third reason: to stop the candidate going direct to the company.

But from a candidates viewpoint they don't really care what reason the recruiter has for hiding the company name, it takes away valuable information from them when looking at job ads.

There are always going to be some companies who prefer not to be named (stealth hedge funds, etc.) but I think they're in a relatively small minority.

I suspect for the most part avoiding letting the competition know what you're hiring for is fairly pointless, as the first thing your recruiter is going to do is to call the best potential candidates and pitch them the job. And as it turns out the best potential candidates are often most likely to be working for your competitors.

When I was working in investment banking and got a call for a recruiter hiring for a rival trading desk I frequently pumped them for information which we could use for our own advantage. I'm pretty sure everyone else does that as well.
Ok if you don't care then

1. You should have automatically disregarded all of those tweets/status/whatever-s.

2. If you have written a full post about this then you care.

Umm.... a two part strange loop
No, they're not, but they have to dance the dance and say / do the right things if they want to keep their users and investors happy.
Virtual machines run on physical machines. Physical machines can have stuff plugged into them and can probably run a VM app.

It's a hassle, sure, but if you're hosting this elsewhere chances are this isn't the first time this has happened, and if you're hosting it yourself then problem solved.
The site doesn't seem to accept myname+lifechore@gmail.com as a valid address. Could you update your validation logic?
"...but I can log in to my online bank and presumably transfer money without any dollars ending up unaccounted..."

This sort of example gets thrown around a lot and it's totally bogus. Banks are solving a much easier problem. To keep track of all the money they just need to make sure that every dollar is always tied to an account. Every transaction is logged.

A key requirement of a voting system is that it must be impossible to tie a vote to a person. This complicates things by at least an order of magnitude.
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It increases the efficiency of the economy, but somehow I doubt that it is the only determining factor. If people were able to produce and consume, they would find ways around a scarcity of money (for example exchanging things directly).

At the end of the article they mention that the US dollar has depreciated by approximately 30% against a basket of currencies with no appreciable affect, and they predict that further depreciation will do no good either without other changes. In other words, this upcoming trade war will have no winners, only losers.
Notably, this DC pilot program was using open source code. It's right here http://github.com/trustthevote/DCdigitalVBM
That page won't load for me. Maybe it's because I am on dial-up. What are the four main points?
well, is there any reason why you keep asking for emails on a site you sell products? Users don't even have time to find out what you sell and they already have a popup on their faces, not a great UX , drop me a mail if you wish ( see profile ), I will review your SEO for free and send you a report, if you feel comfortable with my report, we could go further, if not you can pick someone else, you may also try Patio , but he's most probably overbooked.
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Add a neutron to Thorium-232 and it becomes protactinium for 30 days which then decays to Uranium-233. Uranium-233 is great bomb material and perfect reactor fuel, although as mentioned it is quite hot and difficult to work with. The key with thorium reactors, is that apart from the U-233 seed to start the process of converting fertile thorium into fissile material, no more needs to be added.

Thorium is all around us. Adding a neutron to it to create uranium is no simple matter if one doesn't have a high flux neutron supply (such as a reactor).
Aren't they doing what he is doing, complaining about stuff they have no control over? So if they can do what they do, then he can do what he had just does, whinge about them complaining.
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From the article: "And here's a detail that matters in any copyright infringement litigation: 17. Google does not receive any payment, fee, royalty, or other remuneration for its contributions to the Android Platform."

I don't why this "matters" in copyright infringement litigation except perhaps in calculating damages. However, even in the absence of proven profits by Google on account of the alleged infringement, or losses by Oracle, there can still be statutory damages[1] which, in many cases, could be pretty steep.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_damages_for_copyright...
I would like to draw attention to the fact that US had economic embargo on Libya till 2004(?) and even today there are many items that cannot be exported to Libya.

So, when your government (assuming the entrepreneur in question is American) classifies Libya as a dangerous state, it might be prudent to avoid building your identity over the domain names provided by Libya... don't you think.

I remember this only because Oracle made me click a check box agreeing not to export any of their software to these "axis of evil" countries.
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You can make 200k selling snake oil in many fields, including SEO. That doesn't imply SEO is hard. That said, SEO at strategic levels is nontrivial, like marketing, and is worth millions in direct sales to many firms.