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Doesn't work in IE6/IE7.

Raphaël does.
An embargo like this was inevitable. I'm sure it will not be the last time they reserve a resource for Chinese businesses. Commentators in the west sometimes forget that China is not like western countries; its political elite do not buy into neoliberal ideas and are not easily corrupted to promote American business interests, like in so many of America's trading partners.

Simply put, it makes no sense for Chinese representatives to scour the globe snapping up resources if they don't intend to reserve them for Chinese use at below-market rates.
...but whether from LTCM, or more recently seeing so many CDS etc blow up,...

I'm confused - how do CDS (did you mean CDOs) blowing up prove that a fractal model of the market is better than the standard Black Scholes + assorted tweaks model?
One thing that always struck me about his writing: he is the freakin master at metaphors.
check this out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1768358
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14/06/2011, 11:45:15 : First insufferable hipster developer implements content block for his web-app based on the fact that "Someone drinking Starbucks coffee doesn't DESERVE my content!"
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Turning off JavaScript (I run noscript) works just as well (though it took me time to realize they actually were error messages).
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Not sure about the guidelines here, but you can check out an overview of the code at peterdowns.com/projects/. And yeah, I wrote this, but after searching around for the past year for a telnet equivalent with a few simple features like custom tab completion and up/down arrow history (like in bash) only to come up dry I figured I should release it to see if anyone else wants to mess with it.
The guy is Mathias Wandel. His homepage http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/ has been around for quite some time and he has lots of really interesting projects including marble machines, how combination locks work with wooden demo, CD changing machine, among others.

His site is worth a read.
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"Perception" is very important in communication and communication is very important in who I am.

I think the perception is that I am completely refuting the idea of a super-angel, which I am not.

I am merely commenting on the perception created when attaching the word "super" to the word "angel" in the process of appealing towards people who are looking for money. There are no doubt differences between angels, super-angels and venture capitalists; the question was the use of the word "super" in its communication and if it is really justified in illustrating the advantages that the word "super" suggests.

Obviously, discussion in this aspect of the "Super Angel" is not something that is welcomed here.

Anyways, what I have learned about this forum from this is:

"Don't bite the hand that feeds."
This is certainly an inspiration for developers that want to take the time to make a quality game, instead of trying to "game" the app-store with submissions like iFart, etc.
You weren't being trolled; I am simply a moron.
Actually, Joe Hewitt is rather publically no longer an iOS developer: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-fac...
Pretty quick, they seem to have put the whole stunt together in a single day, if the real Chevron campaign was launched on the 18th.

From the fake press release:

"We were asked to show an agreeable, involved, of-the-people face for Chevron, and we think we came up with some really great ways of doing that," said Gordon Bowen, Chief Creative Officer of McGarryBowen. "But what’s unique and different here is the honesty. We've never been able to do this before."

I've watched the Yes Men movie premier at Sundance Film Festival, it was incredibly funny. I think it is out on DVD now.

If you look at the real ads, you can see they are crying out to be spoofed:

http://www.chevron.com/about/advertising/
While I see your point (I agree for the most part), I do hold that while it is being a bit... overconfident(?) I do see that is a problem sometimes in companies.

I think it's mostly a fault in recruiters as some of the more-technical positions are frankly over their heads, but nonetheless I myself have had a few failed interviews because the people weren't willing to take me on my word that if I am passionate enough about something, I WILL learn it and I will be GOOD at what I do. But that alone will not net you a job.

I think part of his problem is a lack of persistence. We are (for the most part) hackers of some flavour here, and hearing "we'll get back to you" when we know that's "you will never hear from us again" is unacceptable. So go hunt down the recruiting manager. If that fails, hunt down someone who likely holds a similar position and who you can impress to the point that they might vouch for you.

Take alternative routes, and be DAMN persistent and passionate about the job you are trying for, even if it may not be 'teh bestest job evar.' Make them believe that you think it is.

As someone commented below, they get tons of resumes (especially now). You've gotta stand out. If that means rolling up to some business in a suit and tie one day and wanting an interview so you can circumvent lackluster recruiters, so be it, or setting up an interview with (insert manager here) because you can Google things / social engineer a bit (obviously you don't want to lie, but you'd be surprised how few questions receptionists ask - usually just your name).
In June, RadioLab (The NPR show), did a show called "Oops" that had a section on this. It was a REALLY interesting episode and continues to be a spectacular podcast.

If you're interested in the Oops episode, check out.
http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/

EDIT:
I looked, the section I'm referring starts around 4:30
Yeah... and Google has their own implementation called "African or European".
I'm grateful for arch and its users, like gentoo users before them, for being a giant expendable human wave of beta-testing to make my life with foss easier.
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I liked Ron Conway, Brian Chesky and Tom Preston-Werner the most. But it's kind of hard to choose overall.

pg's state of the funding was very interesting but can be found in writing on his site.

Adam D'Angelo had some good insights (if you're not sure yet, go work for a startup; at first, it's ok if it doesn't scale) but his presentation was so-so.

Mark Zuckerberg was interesting though I'm not sure you'd get as much good useful bites as others.

Finally the Imeem's CEO (whose name I can't remember right now, sorry) had a great presentation and delivery. If you were not thinking about doing a music startup, the insights are somewhat limited. Very fun guy though.
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On the other hand, you may end up with what they call a Kigyo Shudan, a type of horizontally diversified business group found in Japan. Such a corporate structure could be beneficial if there is a lot of synergy between the participating companies, especially synergies where individual companies can increase their value by strengthening business and technological links with each other.

The Small Business Web is a group of companies that voluntary cooperate with each other for the greater good. Involved equity exchanges between companies should foster self-interested cooperation.

However, I do echo Cubes' sentiment that any equity exchanges should not diversify founder risk so much that they rest on their laurels or focus on the relationships with others to the detriment of their own startup.
Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? It wasn't.
If I recall correctly (and i graduated high school 10 years ago), so I may be a bit fuzzy on this. But in THEORY you could not calculate a max "out of 4.6" because you could take more credits than the baseline by taking summer school, college courses, etc.

So one could end up with an "average" of 6.3 or 7 since they are divided by the baseline (i think it was like 28 classes? at 4points max each so 112) so assume I took ALL AP classes all 4 years, I'd get a 140/28 (7 classes/year/4 years?)

I think my school's valedictorian had like a 6.X gpa.
Actually, this isn't a particularly novel idea. It's just that it hasn't been really applied to startups beyond FRC.

Read about keiretsus in "The Machine that Changed the World"
The answer is 0.000.......0001 %, with too many zeros to count. Lithium comprises 0.005 percent of the earth's crust, the 15th most abundant element on earth. Yes, the price might go up, perhaps dramatically, but we're not going to run out.
This recent discussion of angels vs. VCs is just like the debate of hedge funds vs. proprietary trading firms. What's happened in New York (and Chicago) is that they've gone after after completely different strategies.

Hedge funds have a lot of investor capital and must hold positions overnight, so they concentrate on portfolio construction. Prop shops don't have a lot of capital, so they can dabble in high-frequency trading where the concern is taking single positions as fast as possible, and often earning rebates from the exchange to provide liquidity.

Having worked for both types of firms, I can say that "quant trading" is a pretty broad term. I suspect "investing in start-ups" will come to mean different things. (PG hints at acquisitions vs. IPOs as a differentiating investing goal.)
for web (framework). Google App Engine still depends on Python 2, Django has some hesitates for the Python 3 port[1], the thread has some discuss about Python 3.2, peps 333(3) too.
and have a Python 3 version itself is not the same thing it can be put into production as it's tried-and-true Python 2 version.

[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/862066#8620...
Right now, it is specifically designed for personal trainers to sign up and use; so it is a little bit easier for a trainer to grab-hold. However, we agree that guidance is needed and are already working on improvements within its communication.
Furthermore, when adding syntax you are not limited to a Lisp-style grammar.

You aren't limited to Lisp-style grammar in Lisp either. You can write reader macros if you have to. The point is, that on a basic level manipulating s-expressions is far easier to think about than manipulating the syntax of whatever the flavor of the day language is. You're essentially trying to invent reasons why macros in other languages are the same as Lisp macros and it's simply not true.
Enlightenment not implied, but here's my retrospective theory:

Sunday: few people looking to start something new, languish for a few days.
Monday: it's *Monday*.
Tuesday: Still beginning of the week, things are still being piled on
Wednesday: nothing wrong with it
Thursday: early adopters try, advantage of full Friday + an extra day of users before weekend
Friday: people finish / wind down / have more free time to start things
Saturday: In the swing of X, or looking to start X.

With an assumption that you will always have early adopters any day of the week, at roughly level values (or increasing on Friday evening through Sunday).

My final take from that: Thursday gives you part of a day with early birds to find game-breakers ASAP, and Friday and Saturday are useful days to have early to boost your numbers at the start. You're also sure to get all of Friday by starting on the day before. Wednesday gives little advantage over Thursday, but costs you another day before bug-fixing weekend / next week. And early week releases are, well, too close to Monday. Nobody likes that.

All of which is wildly subjective, and is merely justification and not reason. But it makes some sense in this light (to me, at least).
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You were looking for the Endowment Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect).
I agree. It is occasionally disruptive to the user experience.

For pagination, this is a very minor inconvenience. However for topic threads such as this one, expiring links is irritating.
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This sounds like you have two questions:

Why are web services emailing you when you have explicitly asked them not to?

I do not know the answer to this, but have noticed it as well. Normally, I receive an email for a service when I signed up for an account several months ago. Despite the fact that I unchecked the email notification box, they have assumed that my absence made it okay for them to contact me. Whenever it happens, I become more likely to either delete my account or blacklist the entire domain in my mailserver.

Why don't actual people at web services send me personalized emails?

I would be concerned if a job search website sent me a personalized email that included job recommendations.

Humor aside, I am tired of websites sending me faux-personalized messages that are really attempts at getting me to buy things. Better was the email from Derek Sivers sent to my CD Baby email address (about various projects he was working on). It ended with:

"Please let me know what's going on with you (really!), in case I can help in any way, and to keep this from being a one-sided conversation."

It seemed like he cared less about getting me to click on the earlier links, and more about actually caring about the people he sent the messages to.
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Seems to confirm the subthesis of Carl Schramm's The Entrepreneurial Imperative. That is, established firms are having to become increasingly entrepreneurial in order to compete.

This is largely good news for those doing startups. Since the lifespan of profitability for any one business model is decreasing in the future, existing firms are going to be offering a lot of money to buy new ones or get pushed out of the marketplace.
I hope I'm not the only one that thinks it's hilarious that this news about Google is being reported by Yahoo.

Where's the official Google announcement?
I think print.google.com can be an amazing tool for fostering research on ancient texts without compromising the preservation and security of such rare ancient documents. I hope this is the first of many rare texts to be made public and accessible.
But your super simple methods fail to further a culture of feedback. If there is a central place where all employees can see positive feedback given to each other, it encourages everyone to continue giving this short notes of encouragement/thanks which keeps morales high (hopefully).

I'm not sure if having a central repository of feedback is really what callmeed was getting at but it's what I've built with my small app so this was my line of thinking.
It just doesn't fit Joe Hewitt's definition of open. Regardless I think it would be beneficial to google to at least work with Joe to get him to contribute to Android.
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But whether an embryo is sentient or if its life has more value than that of a dog or cow is a debatable point for people who don't derive their opinions from their dogma. If you take "pro-life" to be short for "pro- sentient life", then you've shifted focus away from the issue over to what's pretty much a tautology.
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While I agree Plone 3 was not as simple and elegant as I would like it to be, it's much better than most "corporate" CMSs. For the developer, the learning curve is steep, specially for those unwilling to unlearn bad habits, but for end users, it's easy to use and fairly complete.

What problems did you experience with it? I may be able to help.
Steve should of actually talked to Android developers of major apps before making these claims.
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It's not so much that we learn differently, I think everyone in CS who's any good is a "theory" guy to some extent.

But understanding the basic flow of a language well enough to write "hello world" doesn't mean you fully grasp the semantics. Sure, you need to get a basic understanding down before you start coding but you don't actually understand things until you've had to look at them from a few angles. I used to assume I had something once I had the basic idea, but I've been bitten enough times by all of those unspoken assumptions that I have a healthy respect for the practice as well, is all. First inclinations notwithstanding.
nice proof-of-concept but after looking at the libraries and non-standard css required, I couldn't help but think "...yeah or I could just do them in photoshop".

the A/B test fanatics out there will cry "but this will allow you to test hundreds of different CTAs in a fraction of the time!" - which is all well and good but really, if you're a startup and you're analyzing to the extent where you are trying out hundreds of different CTAs and need a framework to manage it all... you should probably read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

and focus on building a feature that benefits a customer.
By several do you mean 2 from AT&T? And that can easily accept sideloaded apps regardless of AT&T's desires? yeah...
Welp, there ya go. Wish this was around about 18 months ago :)
I think it's just as important in a startup to know how to be able to control the deluge of ideas of things that you're able to build. Many times I've seen smaller teams just go overboard testing out and implementing all their ideas that really doesn't add a whole lot of value to whatever they're building.
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Also, worth saying, if it's running in a web container, threads are involved. You don't need to know what you don't know until there's a tricky bug.
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I had no idea I never wrote anything in June.

What happened in the first half of 2010 I wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/top.html
Funny... I find it exceedingly easy to use. :)

I've been using it for over two years now. Makes a great workstation OS. You get the latest releases and all their attended bug fixes, security updates, and yes.. new bugs.

But at least in the Python world, there's still virtualenv, buildout, pip, etc. I rarely install system packages for libs anyway. I don't really see how this is going to bring down the house. At the least if it does work out well and makes enough people happy, there will be more reason for people to hurry up the transition to py3 already.

(An aside: as much as I disagree with py3 forgoing practicality for purity, I wish the transition would be over already so we can get on gettin on).
Seeing as how Google initially made the entire web more public and accessible, and has done so with much print, it seems likely they will continue as much as possible.

I, for one, would like to see some older books that I have little chance of finding used in a bookstore, or do not wish to pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege of owning. Perhaps the next rare book will be the Codex Seraphinianus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus)? I can always hope...
I recently rebuilt my site[1] in Clojure. Ring at the bottom layer (basically a given). Beyond that I'm using Moustache[2] for routing, Enlive[3] for templating and Clutch[3] to talk to CouchDB. I had previously tried with Compojure and Hiccup.

The hardest parts were learning enlive and moustache. Enlive is incredibly powerful and very clever, but can be a bit overwhelming for clojure noobs. You definitely want to check out David Nolen's tutorial[5] for it. Aside from that, #clojure and the ring google group are full of wisdom.

Deployment wise, I build the site with a basic leiningen[6] uberjar and run it from an ssh, background it and disown it. yeah, thats terrible, but im lazy and nobody visits my site anyhow ;) Caveat here: Clojure 1.2 has a small bug with interned keywords[7] that will knock my site over in a couple of days if i forget to start it up with the default JVM profile. the -server profile fixes the trigger issues

Aside from that, I have an nginx gateway server that handles serving my media, nowww redirection and proxies all dynamic requests through to the jvm. the site itself hosts a jetty HTTP server via ring to handle all the requests.

The 'hardest' part of getting started with clojure vs say Python+Django or Ruby+Rails is that there is a lack of 'get you going' magic / tools like scaffolds or djangos admin. Once you get past that though, it is a very enjoyable platform inspite of the API changes.

[1]: http://brehaut.net

[2]: http://github.com/cgrand/moustache

[3]: http://github.com/cgrand/enlive

[4]: http://github.com/ashafa/clutch

[5]: http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial/

[6]: http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen

[7]: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/444?comment=9...
fixes have to go through app store approval, so you can't fix it on friday. it takes about a week for it to get released
I watched the youtube video of the author making the wooden gear and I was amazed at his level of craftsmanship, and how effortless it looked for him to make the gear. It's magical to watch.

I suppose for a non-programmer it may appear that hackers do the same sort of magic, except with a computer.
I agree. I think HN is becoming a victim of it's own success, and it's UI wasn't built to scale. (aside - that's a challenge to all you folks interested in ux ;) ).

I would say that we definitely need a way of detecting duplicate submissions. And I would also add another suggestion: categories (or tags) for filtering.
Faster page-load times benefit the customer.
I think the definition is based on Super Angels investing other people's money (usually alongside their own money).

VCs - investing other people's money (endowments, etc)
Angels - investing their own money
Super Angels - investing their own money and other people's money
App store sales spike on weekends, so better to ride that trend.
Maybe not the right place for this, but why is gxs's comment dead? It's factually correct (as far as I can tell), and provides more related reading material.