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Note that this may break any API libraries. For example, github2 broke. I have patched it: github.com/irskep/github2

Yes, I need github2 bad enough to patch it within two hours of it breaking. Otherwise the "Steve's last 10 Github commits" stream won't display on my site! The horror!

Edit: Scratch that. Apparently I was cloning from the wrong repository and the up-to-date version works fine.
I'd wait till the votes are counted...
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scribd does do HTML5 and flash. They do provide an api, but I'm not sure how useful, then get embed code.
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With 92% precincts reporting, the Arizona bill to legalize medicinal marijuana is 50.3% against. Surprisingly close for a conservative state (McCain was overwhelmingly re-elected despite some debatably racist campaign commercials).
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Hello all

I am 21, a recent college graduate, and I just quit my safe, stable, high-salaried job as a Mobile UI Designer yesterday, after only 2 months.

I feel happy and stupid, because in my situation I'm the only bread winner in my family, so they're really dependent on me for money. (So don't tell my mom, she will kill me.)

But I was getting miserable at work because all I wanted to do was work on my startup. Now, I'm looking for other seed funding since I can't afford to bootstrap. Let's see how this turns out. And let's hope my family doesn't starve.

In the meantime, I'm available to freelance as a UX/Mobile designer if you're hiring in nyc! Or we can work virtually.

Although I need the money, I really can't go back to a full time job. I thought I'd reach out to you guys who are seeking designers and understand the startup mentality and my need for flexibility to work on my own stuff.

All opportunities should be paid...I really can't work for anything else. Maybe for food..maybee...

Let me know

Also, this is something that completely speaks my mind. every single word.

hopefully it will inspire you all as well :)

http://bit.ly/cW5JpS
I think some people got confused and thought the election was on 4/20.
Well this is a rather discouraging result.

I've never understood why people want to lose tax revenue and provide a massive source of revenue to criminals when marijuana is going to be sold regardless.
And really, do you want to be pressing multiple keys at the same time like you would for emacs hot keys on an iPad? I'm not an avid user, but those motions seem incredibly unnatural.

C-X, C-S to save? and that's just the beginning.

vim suffers similarly, though probably not to the same extent. An editor that takes advantage of the iPad's touch screen would be superior, imo
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I believe they are using HTML5 to accomplish this.
I feel like I've seen so many alternative resume / business cards that I tend to dismiss any that are actually practical at this point. Something I'd really like to see a redesign of is the print newspaper. As it is, I get most of my news online, but I love the idea of reading a newspaper. I would probably do it more often if news stories weren't scattered across several pages and I could quickly identify stories that might interest me at a glance. I don't know exactly how I would tackle the problem, but, in my opinion, it could use some modernization.
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Sometimes it isn’t so obvious what the canonical repo is, right? That could use improvement, generally, on GitHub. E.g. a low-friction way to say, “hey, this is just a fork I made to fix a bug — don’t clone me!” etc.
Pardon the poetry if it is not your thing, but this one by Gibran always lifts my spirits after I fail.

"Defeat" by Khalil Gibran

Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all worldglory.

Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,
Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot
And not to be trapped by withering laurels.
And in you I have found aloneness
And the joy of being shunned and scorned.

Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be levelled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fulness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.

Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion,
You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,
And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings,
And urging of seas,
And of mountains that burn in the night,
And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul.

Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.
Whoops, you're right. It's really the same logic, though.

Another factor is likely the one behind this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/derek_sivers_keep_your_goa...

We were really nervous about getting to the interview stage, despite the greatly increased odds of being accepted once you get there.

If I remember correctly, I didn't tell anybody, including my family -- the fear of telling them I was probably going to get in and then having to tell them I didn't was just too great.
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Ah, that's very prudent, you're right.
At least prop 23 went down. To me that is way more significant than prop 19.
Both Brown and Boxer opposed Proposition 19.
In all seriousness, this is probably true. Marijuana is BC's 2nd largest industry behind construction and ahead of forestry. I believe it contributes over $7 billion/year to our GDP. I'm sure there are articles somewhere to back this up. :) Had Prop 19 passed it would have been bad news for BC's economy.
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title pretty much says it all Id like to hear the stories of the teams who did get interviews and their ideas, if you are willing to share the video that would be cool too ... would just like to know where to improve in future pitches.
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It makes sense in the context of other policy such as the body scanners at airports that were talked about here recently. It seems all about playing on the populations fears "you don't want another terrorist attack", "you don't want you children exposed to illegal drugs".

I'd imagine there would be a large percentage of the population primed with the opinion that drugs are bad without any real informed opinions past that.

Sure it's still being sold, but more in an out of sight out of mind type way for those opposed.
I assume by people you mean people who regularly vote. The problem with Prop 19 and other similar measures is not that they don't have support, it's that their base of support by and large doesn't vote (at least until they grow up and realize you don't get anything through apathy).
I've gotten more legitimate interest for positions from my LinkedIn profile and Github repos than I ever did in all the years using monster.com. One person even hit me up based on my about.me page.

The only stuff I get from the older job boards these days is cookie cutter emails from the same 15 outsourcing companies.

One bit of real advise I can give besides beefing up LinkedIn and Github presence is to become friends with a recruiter who you had a positive experience with in the past. Keep that person informed every time you even consider looking for something else. Make sure they know what your current skillsets and desires are. I have a two people that fit the bill that I always go to when I'm on the market and check in with regularly.
Have a friend who posted this elsewhere, an interesting take on the unconstitutionality of 19.

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Prop 19 is 100% unconstitutional, and it's not even close. It will get struck down by every court that reviews it, unanimously so by SCOTUS (if it makes it that far). It violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution which says Federal Law trumps State law (when they conflict) and Prop 19 clearly contradicts the Federal Controlled Substances Act.

Now, medical marijuana also violates the Federal Controlled Substances Act, and so technically the Feds could go in and enforce federal drug laws against medical marijuana users/growers in CA, and they actually threatened to do so, but they have since opted to let California enforce that law on its own, which CA has basically decided not to do. That same thing could play out here, with the Feds making an empty threat to enforce FCSA in California, and CA calling the Feds bluff and basically refusing to enforce Federal law.

Even if you support marijuana legalization (which I do), you shouldn't condone states simply ignoring Federal Law. If you think its acceptable for CA to ignore the FCSA, do you also think it's acceptable for states to ignore the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Obamacare, Federal Minimum Wage Laws?

Also, it won't be hard for the Feds to force California's hand. The Feds can threaten to withhold funding from CA unless they follow what the Feds want. This is how the Feds forced a nationwide drinking age of 21 (see: South Dakota v. Dole).
Thanks Jonathan. I'll see what I can come up with.
There's a discussion over on the "I Got Rejected" thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1863374

The understanding, from previous winners that have commented on that thread, is that the winners usually wait until they get the project built enough to publicize before even mentioning that they got approved.

Also... "getting in" tonight doesn't mean actual funding or being part of the project. "Getting in" tonight just means that you get to attend the interview round in Mountain View. After that, they decide whether you get funding and ability to participate.
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As cool as pornography relative to sex.
PacNorWest states may have followed suit in next few years if Prop 19 passed. But I doubt BC pot has a big impact on CA.
But has it drastically changed the games, books, music, and movies?
With cellphones around people are never alone anymore. To my mind, this "aloneness" (does not mean you are feeling lonely, but could) is an integral part of a meaningful human experience.
Excellent, helpful, understandable - thankyou.
I have been unable to find any logical discussion on prop 23. Was AB32 tied to some massive layoffs?
Like I always say, this all will make for a good story one day right? :)
I like this idea. I was really shy in my dating days and it was hard for me to approach girls I liked. But maybe I could have sent a love note if it only had a 10% chance of going through, and best of all if she'd know that I was assuming it hadn't gotten through. (Assume this type of email was in widespread use and people understood it.)

In technical terms, there is in a certain branch of science the concept of "common knowledge". Something is common knowledge between us if I know it, you know it, I know you know, you know I know, I know you know I know, and so on to infinity. It's a powerful concept with many surprising implications.

Basically you aim to sell a service to let some knowledge be shared without it becoming common knowledge. The main problem I see is that it doesn't work - it doesn't achieve that goal. The problem is that the most likely outcome of your low-probability email is that nothing happens. No mail is delivered, no knowledge is shared. This is not providing any value.

I don't see how even in theory to provide knowledge transfer without that becoming common knowledge. If you could come up with a way, it might well be worth paying for.
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Sad day indeed. I never had much interest in pot, but I find the general populations stance w.r.t. to Marijuana irrational.

1. A lot of tax money is wasted in prosecuting non-violent recreational users.

2. Most studies place Marijuana as less harmful than alcohol or nicotine. Many attribute beneficial effects to it.

3. This way we'll maintain the artificial scarcity providing a high value market for organized crime.

4. Lost tax revenue.

5. Officially controlled substances are usually safer (since regulated, inspected etc)
Don't underestimate the power and reach of "BC Bud"!
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And you would know. You're not just a YCombinator winner, you're also founder of the very popular weebly.com ( http://www.weebly.com/ ).

:-)
The best scenario to my mind would be if the cops simply decided unanimously to ignore all marijuana offenses. On a side note, I really wonder how often cops act against their beliefs, such as arrest people who, they feel, did not harm.
Thanks for mentioning this. Made me look these up and learn something.
No. This is complementary to Hadoop. Google's Percolator is a similar system and they say that it's much less efficient. If you don't need continuously updated data then Hadoop is a better choice.
Congrats. Please keep us updated on your progress.

Where did you get your LLC done at? Online?
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It's wrong to call it "unconstitutional". California has no obligation to enforce federal law.

From both an anti-prohibitionist and an anti-federalist perspective, I liked proposition 19. It's about time states pushed back against federal overreach.

>" If you think its acceptable for CA to ignore the FCSA, do you also think it's acceptable for states to ignore the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Obamacare, Federal Minimum Wage Laws?"

I never liked these "law and order" arguments. The civil rights protesters ignored state laws on segregation. What if they also ignored laws on rape, murder, and arson?

Law and order with bad laws is tyranny.
Yay! Rejected! Withing hours!!

Anyways, I wasn't waiting for YC to do a startup anyways. If you wanna do a startup, you don't wait for YC - you do it.

Off I go.
Yup, indeed!
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Yah man! It gave me clarity. That was nice. :P
What I submitted was this: rapidintro.com:8000 You need two people to really demo it. Oauth with LinkedIn and then you video chat. The video chat is still buggy. We didn't finish the event system. This is the first ChatRoulette configuration written in Erlang.

The reason the design looks like it was designed by Slovakian college student for $50 is, well, because it was designed by a Slovakian college student for $50.

As I said before, we are now working on a different application and we should be completing that shortly. I'm considering releasing this application, with some design tweaks, as is to Hacker News and other entrepreneurial communities and seeing what happens.
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You're missing the point. Even if it's unconstitutional and might/will be ruled so, its passage will send a message to everyone that change is coming. It will ignite a greater debate, and more states might/will follow. It will ignite change.
The Supremacy Clause does not mean that "Prop 19 is unconstitutional" it means that Prop 19 would not protect people from prosecution under federal law. For example, if I have a warehouse full of pot and the feds bust me, I can't point to Prop 19 (if it had passed) to get out of the bust.

You are sort of right that the federal gov't can kind of use the commerce clause to (in my view) over-reach (e.g., threats of withholding various forms of funding). As a question of realpolitik, it's not so obvious how far that would have gotten.
"There is no hard data on how common it is to believe in the paranormal ... But trends in television programming offer a sense that there is a widespread interest in mystical phenomena that is becoming more common."

This is journalism?
There was little real support for this among the general public. Prop. 215 (medical MJ) passed in 1996 because it seemed like it might benefit people (patients) who needed it. Without the medical appeal, it sounds a lot more like just making it easier for people to get high.

People are pretty ambivalent about MJ. A lot of cities have outlawed medical MJ dispensaries, or limited them.

And Prop 19 was not very well-written (like many propositions). Among other problems, it allowed each city and county to set their own rules for MJ regulation, which would have been a huge mess. It's not clear that there would have been significant tax revenues, for example.

There's a bill (AB 390) bouncing around the legislature now which is better crafted.
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This situation fascinates me. CA has been ignoring federal law for a long time w.r.t medical marijuana. IIRC, during Bush, the feds actually did raid the medical marijuana dispensaries. (Glancing at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Medical_canna... doesn't rule out that possibility but doesn't actually support it either.)

Civil rights and the drinking age are high-profile examples of the Feds forcing states into compliance, but I wonder how widespread the state/federal discrepancies are about smaller things.
One reason is that people (like me) don't want to further legitimize something they want society to discourage. I am strongly against drug use, and believe it sends the wrong message to impressionable kids to make it (more) legal.
No thank you xD
Why don't you validate this in software on application time? Just put a big warning on every save and don't allow final submit.
Start eating a whole lot more ramen :)

Seriously, if you can't see the utility of getting 17k in your pocket, you're probably not the target of the conference?
Doesn't that in-of-itself say something about the legalization.

I see that things like this fail not because people are against pot, but because everyone has the same feeling, "it's fine, just not in my back yard".
No reason to downvote things you disagree with, folks.

Thanks for sharing your contrary opinion, davidmurphy. :) Can you explain why you're against drug use, specifically marijuana (not the harder drugs)? And are you against alcohol as well?

EDIT: lol, I write the post and he goes from -1 to 4. Ah well. :)
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Haha yes, even Star Trek, they can travel at warp speed but the away team can't send an MMS back to the ship, the captain has to beam down personally and see for himself...
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That just means they've already made at least some of the possible mistakes in such a venture, and on someone else's dime.
As a believer in tax and regulate, I can tell you why I advised people to vote against Prop 19: It is bad law. Go ahead and read the wikipedia about it or any of the articles in the major california papers. Many say the same thing: legalization is inevitable, but this isn't the way to do it. It went too far on protecting pot (such as disallowing local ordnances from prohibiting outdoor grows.) Also, it allowed too many varying tax situations. Essentially, passing it would be empowering bad governance.

Unfortunately, voting against prop 19 as a bad law isn't differentiable from voting against prop 19 as a proponent of prohibition.

When legalization passes, it will have to satisfy people's NIMBY impulses while protecting considerate adult consumers.
But it an optimal decision is even better than a "better decision that isn't optimal"
How many people use debuggers like GDB day-to-day? I've found them useful when trapped in a corner, but typically I debug with the source in hand.

Anyone got any good debugging war stories?
I'm not a fan of drugs either[1]. I've never smoked or taken an illegal drug, and I drink comparatively rarely.

The thing is, prohibiting things just makes them seem cooler. For example, 80% of new smokers start before the age of eighteen. Few people would sign up to an expensive habit that smells foul and gives you cancer if not for the lure of the forbidden.

[1] Although to be fair, I'm even less of a fan of governments telling people what they can and can't do in the privacy of their own homes.
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It's changed the content that an average person has access to without replying on what as being distributed locally. It has allowed those that would have never been able to get wider distribution of their content, those producing niche material to access a big enough market to make their projects viable.

So it may not have changed the content on the whole but it has certainly changed the content that most people are actually able to experience.
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Isn't that what parents are for? I also don't want kids to smoke cigarettes, but that doesn't mean I want anyone caught with tobacco thrown in jail.

Extending the metaphor, tobacco smoking rates have fallen to new record lows in the US. Not via prohibition, but through taxation and education.
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So...

This was a legalization measure that, before anyone else much cared, split the pro-pot base. Many commercial (grey and black market) growers were agin' it (fearing a market crash). Many medical pot providers were agin' it (fearing being taxed to death and/or getting shut down in the ensuing chaos, stranding needful patients either way). In "the community" of casual tokers, BS rumors were all around about various ways in which Prop 19 was eeevil.

So, right off the bat, the base was split.

Then, for everyone else, comes a lot of other BS like "this will legalize driving while stoned; this will legalize getting stoned at work; etc. And all because -- while legalization might be a fine idea -- this law is badly flawed."

Well, actually, a lot of that BS was pretty far off the mark but it was convincing enough to scare away a lot of voters who might otherwise have been fine with legalization.

NOBODY on the yes campaign made the serious and needed case about lowering the incarceration rate, about undermining organized crime, etc.

Frankly, I never saw any serious message from the "yes" campaign. I couldn't tell you their talking points if I wanted to. Meanwhile, the "no" campaign's are easy to tick off one by one.

Prop 19 lost because the "yes" campaign was very -- amazingly -- incompetently run.
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Having Government enforce what people can or cannot do in their private lives is a slippery slope, David. If I don't want homosexuality legitimized, let's keep sodomy illegal, okay?