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I couldn't agree with you more.

Just over the top of my head over the last 16 years I must have written a million lines of code but have sold nothing.

Gotta crack this nut !!
Just read this: http://paulgraham.com/start.html

Graham argues if ideas would be worth a lot, there would be a market for them. If you understand how the market works, especially in the US, even more so in the Valley, you would agree, I certainly do...

Or if you don't like Graham's argument think of any established venture's story: it has never, ever been a straight line from the idea to success. Business models change along the way: it's the people that count, their attitude and execution

Would you have thought that coke is a good idea in the late 19th century? A black, sticky drink? Or mobile phones in the 70s? Or messages with 140 characters in the era of emails?
OK I'm not really sure what we're arguing about anymore. Your original point was...I just did a double take. All this time I thought you were being doubly sarcastic, so I completely misinterpreted your meaning. My original point was:

I agree, it was unreasonable of the security guard to do that. However, if the Muslim religion is violent when taken seriously, it can be valid to question whether someone is a believer in that violence.

What I should have done is left to question whether the Muslim religion is violent when taken seriously, because I'm not sure about that.

Do you agree with the if-then clause in my argument?
Everybody loves to sue HTC lately.
Some of us are on mobile devices, or have half working silverlight plugins like Mac and Linux.
When I first saw the headline for this story my immediate thought was "What does an 18 year old know!"

but it turned out to be a very interesting monologue about this guys experiences in the trade. It also highlights the how fragile web companies can be
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Yeah not going to bed tonight. Too much adrenaline pumping to let it go to waste. Easier to just keep working. Good luck everyone!
Wonder how many of these people subscribed out of curiosity? What I'm most interested in here is the trend that appears after a couple of quarters.
After looking over the counter-arguments you have provided and talked a Muslim friend of mine, I have come to the conclusion that like many other religions, it is possible to "interpret" out of the holy book pretty much whatever you want to interpret.

I think that the way the Qu'ran words it, you could legitimately interpret it the way that that blog post did, and I think that you can legitimately interpret it to be peaceful. (Not that that makes the Qu'ran legitimate. I hate that religious books aren't perfectly unambiguous.)

Based on this I think that we should judge the individual, not the religion.

However, based on statistics, it has been members of this religion that perform terrorist attacks, so profiling makes sense. I just don't think it needs to be done in the manner described in this story, especially for U.S. citizens.

In my ideal society, we wouldn't even have airline security for U.S. citizens, regardless of religion. This means that every once in a while, a terrorist would slip through the cracks. But such is the price of freedom. Perhaps even the good guys on the plane would be armed and take out the bad guy before he could cause harm.
There's flashdist, but the consensus seems to be 'disk/flash is cheap and OpenBSD is small, just install a full system'. (Where 'full' means full userland; you can easily leave off the compiler, X, games and man pages.)
They are both really good companies, and I've met really sharp people at both. Palantir's mission is pretty exciting and their employees are generally quite passionate about it, while with Facebook you can say "I work at Facebook." Both companies will treat you very well and I bet you will have a good experience at both.

While your grandmother may never have heard of Palantir, anyone in Silicon Valley who isn't living under a rock has. If your goal is to experience a more startup-like culture, between the two I would go with Palantir given its size and potential.
Ask HN: Your startup programming language?
What is your startup project programming language?

Just a random information collection to get a picture of how many startups picking particular programming languages to develop their project.

Really appreciate the support. Thanks :)
Another one:

http://twitter.com/#!/nivertech/status/26590054457

Who's suing whom in the mobile business: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5058172628_1a3597347e_z....
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Low maintenance, water resistance and ride quality is everything in commuter bike design. Electric assist pessimises the first two aspects. Plastic construction seems nice but how does it ride on less than perfect roads?

Traditional bike design is refined through the ages, changing it without a good usability reason will be a tough sell. I'd like to try a prototype on cobbled streets in the rain.
One of the most poorly named entities I know of is "common sense". It's extremely uncommon. I can't tell you how many times I've went somewhere in winter and seen idiot mothers with their baby sitting in the stroller with it's belly showing. It's not a bad thing to keep repeating and demonstrating these kinds of health facts no matter how obvious they should be.
Interestingly, the immediate aftermath of a workout is suppressed immune function. (http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/82/5/1385)

But it does seem reasonable that someone living the broadly healthy lifestyle of a person who gets a good amount of exercise would also find themselves less susceptible to colds etc...
Yep: £1 for 30 days trial. I think it's very suspicious that such a high number is published in the middle of this campaign. I would rather have them release their figures >1 month after the end of the campaign.
Have a upvote. More so, even if the team is assembled, VC is still investing just on idea. Scary thing if I were a VC.

The ability of founders to stick together is thrown out of water. I may be wrong, but just an idea(no matter how good) can't make people stick together.
System archetypes
What Adams is describing is a staging area for business formation. The general insight is that there is a large class of transactions that need a staging area in which the components needed for the transaction have a chance to come together.

Online dating sites, bars, clubs, etc are staging areas for dating. They bring together interested people and hold them in proximity until dates happen. Dates in turn are staging areas for marriage.

Stores, markets, auctions, and stock markets are staging areas for purchases. They bring together buyers and sellers and hold them together in proximity until purchases happen.

International talks, conferences and political summits are staging areas for treaties and political agreements. They bring together political decision makers and hold them together long enough for agreements to happen.

Writing and broadcasting are staging areas for learning. Both writing and broadcasting connect a speaker with a listener long enough for information to be transferred.

Democratic governments and corporations (with chains of authority) are staging areas for coordinated group action. A democratic government allows citizens to work together to accomplish big tasks like building a national highway system, putting a man on the moon, and waging a war. Corporations do the same for private profit-making activities.

Banks are staging areas for loans. Banks allow borrowers and lenders to get together.

Ports are staging areas for trade. Ports allow buyers and sellers of goods and transportation to meet each other.

The Internet is a great tool for making or improving staging areas because it makes communication easier.
To be honest, I'd be a lot happier with my subscription if the website actually worked...At work I'm constantly getting 502'd when I try and read it during lunch. It's fine from at home, but it's still very irritating.
To add my own anecdotal evidence: I have experienced the same relationship.
I believe that no hiring process is perfect, so something like this could also work as an additional filter for both junior and senior developers: those who are unable to follow the instructions are poliyely shown the door on their first day, instead of wasting more time of the other, productive members of the staff.
Hopefully Rackspace starts getting competitive sometime soon.
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I'm not really sure what I'm writing, but I'm writing something. There is no focus character development, some action, and so far it mostly consists of the author trolling the reader. So far the protagonist has walked through a desert, talked to a discoloration, survived a gunfight, won the admiration of street urchins, and started the perilous admissions process for some kind of school. It's basically ridiculous(ly bad), and there is no plan for the future plot or really even a well-laid-out setting. But hey, Nanowrimo is not about the plot.
I call bullshit

I'm with you 100%. A lot of this just doesn't make sense.

When he mentions that he was 'invited' into the interrogation room he makes no reference to any aggression or hostility from his interrogator until this guy finds a book referencing the prophet mohammed amongst other religious icons and suddenly we have a complete psycho on our hands:

...holding up the book of quotes from the Prophet, proceeded to repeatedly scream 'Do you believe in the words of the Prophet Mohammed?' over and over again while standing one foot away from my face.

Whilst I appreciate there are probably a few unintelligent brutes defending the US as immigration officers, this particular guys approach appears to be lifted from a poor straight to TV movie.

I personally believe airport security and political correctness has gone completely over the top and I'm disgusted by the general level of ignorance towards the Muslim religion but this whole article reeks. I simply don't buy it.
I don't understand how this is a step forward; ease of manufacture, maybe? It doesn't strike me as being any more reliable, comfortable or efficient than any other electric-assist bicycle. I do like the thought that's gone into the various luggage compartments, though.

And I really don't get the CF wheels. They're about the last thing I'd want on a commuter bike.
Up working like always. The adrenaline is pumping and need to take advantage of it to get some more work completed as this is another important week for us. Good luck everyone. Don't be discouraged if you don't get in. Just keep pushing yourself and your team and all will work itself out.
http://blog.abrah.am/2010/10/googls-shorten-api.html
you can lookup once and inline the method, and only keep a flag to check if you need to invalidate that.
Pypy & other jits al do this kind of things all the time :)

But you don't need a jit: you can partially execute the code and determine that no changes were happening in the referenced globals, thus the inlining becomes possible.

There is quite a bit of literature on the issue of using partial evaluation for optimizing dynamic/reflective languages.
0.25-1% conversion rate (50-200k vs 20M) is not bad, 100-400X in terms of readers compared to the pure ad vs. subscription model that would be more like 500-5000X in terms of revenue per user depending on their CPM, CPA, CPC rates and subscription pricing structure (assuming the range for all these are somewhere between 1-10 pounds).
Plus they can fire half of their sales team..
I don't think DuckDuckGo has received the same amount of coverage, actually, so I'm not sure all search engine launches get such enormous productivity.
Hey Paul, when I submitted my app I submitted as a single person. After the deadline I added two critical co-founders to help execute the technical side. Since then, I've been concerned that the app would have been considerably strengthened had I included the other co-founders in the app. Would like to hear your thoughts on this
I've noticed the exact opposite myself, and I've actually managed to take advantage of it sometimes.

I climb rocks, and a few times I've had days where, for no reason I could explain, I have performed far above my normal abilities (1). Big days, where I've sent routes that were way above my head. Routes that I couldn't pull individual moves on when I came back to them a week later.

Then the next day I would be clobbered by a cold so violent that I'd be bedridden for an entire day.

I chalk it up to the body knowing that a cold is on the way and storing up all the immunities, defences, and reserve energy that it will need to fight it. If you time it right, you can steal all that stuff and channel it into one day of hard climbing. Of course then when the cold does come, the body has nothing to fight it with so you get crushed.

Considering how good it feels to be that on form, even just for a single session, I think it's actually worth it.

(1) If you climb, you'll know that it's a very measurable sport. If you can boulder a certain grade, you can get on a given problem and have a reasonable expectation of being able to work it out. Or alternatively, you can know for a fact that you could train on this one particular problem for an entire year and never top out. So when you're having a day like the one I describe above, it's the equivalent of showing up at the gym one day and finding you can suddenly bench press 50 pounds more than yesterday.
GWT in Scala has made some good progress recently, with parts of the GWT Showcase successfully ported. Unfortunately, the primary developer behind the project is returning to academia, and will have limited time.

Hopefully Google GWT devs can get behind this initiative and make Scala a first class citizen. GWT has gone from being a Java to JavaScript compiler and widget set, to a genuine app framework with the 2.1 release. Having Scala as an alternative to Java would go a long way towards attracting new developers to the Google platform.

In the future, other JVM language may acquire JRibble backends which would theoretically allow you to write GWT apps in any JVM language. Personally I'm very excited about the prospect of one day writing my GWT apps in JRuby or even Clojure!
I'm calling a spade a spade.

100,000 people is pathetic.

Note that this is not subscribers - this is "the total amount of people who have paid in one way or another". 50,000 of those are subscribers, which in PR-speak probably means "people who have subscribed" i.e. not the current amount of subscribers.

With an in-built audience of over a million in circulation, plus a reach that goes far beyond that, an ad campaign AND the novelty value of "new", getting less than 0.5% of your audience to pay for online (it's not even 0.5% - some [most?] of these people have an online subscription because of their print subscription) means either a piss-poor job is being done converting users, or this business model is a dud.
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> you never know if "chr" has been mapped to something new during the iterations.

Why must this be true? Scan the loop body, find nothing that redefines chr, create a local variable holding it at the beginning of the loop. The same goes for all identifiers mentioned in the loop.
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PR isn't the only thing in the world. Google regularly state that a large % of their searches are unique.

If you've got the only site in the entire world that talks about mutant killer spider monkeys it should come up top if someone searches for that term, regardless of the page's PR.

After all, that site's the only one in the world with the foresight to predict the coming apocalypse.
This appears to be a bike designed by someone who has never ridden a bike, and who never got a handful of bits of wood and mocked the thing up. For example:

1) The handle bars have two hand positions, yet no brakes. Dual brakes are possible, but expensive, fiddly and don't work with hydro disk brakes.

2) No mud guards.

3) Why solid spoke carbon fiber wheels when stressed steel spokes work so well?

4) Riding a bike with a 8 inch wide cross bar: a 10 minute mockup of this by sellotaping a lunchbox to to crossbar of a normal bike would reveal why this doesn't work

5) The saddlebag briefcase will interfere with your heel while pedaling: panniers need to much further back.

6) No lights
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That's true, I just thought the protocol would be more esoteric and with more corner cases than that :)
> If you understand how the market works,

If you know a bit about economics, you would see why there are not, and cannot be markets for ideas, unless someone finds a very clever way of making them 'excludable' without hordes of lawyers and contracts and various other very high transaction costs. See my other post above/below.
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I'm finishing (so it doesn't really count) Children of Vitruvius, a future-punk/sci-f novel on the conflict of humanity's desire to do things because it can, against doing things because we should.

I've about 60-70k words left to go, so going to do that instead.
Latest figures I saw (recorded Google I/O presentation on Android game development, the "redux" speech by Chris Pruett) 30% ran 2.2 back in June.

They went from zero to 30% in 10 months:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-62tRHLcHk

I watch the mobile industry religiously; my biases are firmly with the cross-platform side of things. I want Palm, Google and MS to compete shoulder to shoulder so that we (developers) may win; I hate Fascism with a vengeance!

But so far, nothing even comes close to the R2D2 look-alike. The green robot is just gorgeous, it doesn't hurt that it's Free (as in speech.)

Android, like I said before, is as open to you as your mother's arms. Grok it! Fork it! Code for it! It's all yours :-)
The input surface could be marked so that the finger feels what is the home center and where the quadrant boundaries are. The marking could be done with ridges or indentations on the surface, or by vibrations or even sound.
Hi,

there has been couple of polls about the subject lately.

I remember at least this one:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083

Hope it helps.
There are a couple of lessons for startups here.

Things to avoid doing: spending crap-tons of investment money long before your product is on the market; gold-plating the business plan; relying on the classic "expect everything to go as planned waterfall / big-bang integration" model.

Iridium could have been much more successful (read: profitable to the initial investors) if they had used different techniques at each step such as iterative development with strong market / customer feedback. If they had begun by gauging market reaction through using pre-order commitments (paid and unpaid) instead of relying heavily on deep pocket investors they would have been able to scale their initial offering to the market a bit better. If they had planned to launch a "minimal viable product" initially that could be scaled up over time as the business grew they would have avoided the massive up-front costs that sank them (the biggest cost was launches, they could have pre-built the entire fleet of satellites and kept most on the ground for a pittance in comparison).

Instead they put an entire fleet of satellites into orbit at tremendous cost and launched a service which on day 1 gave essentially 24/7 phone coverage over the entire Earth. An impressive achievement to be sure, but at too great a cost.

Some companies can grow like this, ramp up to enormous proportions quickly and find enough traction to keep running and keep growing. But for every success there are many more failures, companies that devoured their seed corn too fast.
He probably can't help you, especially this late. The best course of action probably would have been to email him as soon as the cofounders were official.

It would make sense for them to allow you to reapply as a late applicant (with all the disadvantages of being a late applicant) because you've had such a significant change since applying. That would set a dangerous precedent though: "I added one more feature to my demo! It's a significant change, so I can reapply!"

But that wouldn't be a huge deal since they only skim the late apps anyway. And for reapplying, the first question could be "What has changed since your on time application?" They could then very quickly reject people without a good reason to reapply.
Wow, that's nuts. We work out in advance which systems they're going to need access to in order to determine what level of vetting they'll need. It's not always perfect, but getting access is generally a case of raise request -> accepted by system owner or director -> do.
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Probably, yes. Somewhat closed gaming groups can have fun with an imperfect game if everyone agrees not to abuse the holes in the rules. (After all, rules abuse does not necessarily lead to a more fun game.)
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I've had a bit of a think of this and you're right about settling in, but I'd say it takes a bit less than you're suggesting as generally we start the process early. If I get time I'll write a blog post about it.
Games is a particularly odd area because the big companies actively don't want designer/entrepreneurial type of people much. Everyone wants to be a game designer, but realistically, EA needs like a dozen top-level game designers, a few dozen designers of subsystems of games, and a whole hell of a lot of programmers, artists, and testers. They want to hire the next "pumps out thousands of lines of animation code", not the next Will Wright, because there isn't really any advancement path within the company to move up to be the next Will Wright, and if you hope there is, you're likely to be disappointed (or leave). Exceptions for a very few areas, which are usually direct hires by important people; e.g. Will Wright himself likes to hire a few, often junior, people to help him design and prototype his games. But a normal EA recruiter is not hiring for that kind of job.

I get the feeling that the situation isn't as skewed at many other tech companies; e.g. Google doesn't feel threatened by people with entrepreneurial / run-your-own-project kinds of instincts, and tries to channel them where possible. Also, when my brother got hired at nVidia, the recruiter actively was trying to sell him on the idea that nVidia was a great first company to have on his resume. Followed up with the usual we-hope-you'll-stay, etc., but didn't have any illusions about the fact that the kinds of people they want to hire often plan to move on or found startups, and that's fine.
Yep, I'm also seeing positive signals. Both the SEO and the integration ("your website is your API") angles seem to work pretty well with publishers.

In the IKS Project we're trying to implement some semantic features to many popular Open Source CMSs. When that is built-in, there will be lots more RDFa out there... http://www.iks-project.eu/