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> Answer every question he asks

Louis CK would disagree with you there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdc28bZ90G4 :)
This is pretty neat, but you should make it so that if you click, you create a small dot. Right now it looks like you only render when the mouse moves, but not on the initial mouse down event. (tested with latest safari and chrome).

I've been working on a similar idea with canvas, node.js and socket.io - it's amazing how many people are taking these same technologies and solving similar problems.
Not Saturday because it would, presumably, take that same whole day to get back.
Let's say you have three projects, A, B, and C. Assume each one takes 3 days.

You can work on them serially:

A A A B B B C C C

Or multitask them:

A B C A B C A B C

If you take a look at when the projects complete, you'll see that, in the serial approach:

A finishes on day 3. B finishes on day 6. C finishes on day 9.

In the multitasking approach:

A finishes on day 7. B finishes on day 8. C finishes on day 9.

This results in lower system throughput.

There may be reasons for multitasking, but increasing system throughput isn't one of them.
"If you are a Libertarian, you should find and write-in your candidates, not stay home"

Actually, the LP is very good at getting on ballots, so write-ins are usually unnecessary for those who want to vote for them.

However, can you put together a cogent argument why he should go to all that trouble just so you can skim over the section in the results showing that the Libertarian Party candidate for Congress got a handful of votes?
Maybe it's time to have spam url filter setup.
And a disadvantage to non yc start-ups
Thanks to both of you.
Meta: interesting that you think HN will exist in a recognizable form by 2028. 18 years ago, the web looked very different. I wonder what will we call "web" in 2028.
I think that voting for third party candidates is a great way to move a cause forward if you live in a state (or district) that is locked into one of the parties. If you care about the environment, vote for the green party. You won't change the outcome of the election but what you will change is the issues that the parties run on in the next election. For instance, if the Republicans lose your state by 5% but they see that the Green party won 2% of the vote, they will try to get that 2%. They will do this by adopting the Green Party's platform (third parties are usually very narrow so one of the big two can co-opt their entire platform). Now, you have a major party that is pushing for your agenda and you did it by voting in an election where "you vote doesn't count."
Thanks for taking the time to comment, @zachster.
Same goes for Netflix's streaming only rate - it's either $7.99/month or $8.99/month depending on your browser.
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I don't think they even do it well. I prefer the default menus system on Debian/Gnome. They think they are UI experts and clearly they are not. I think the best thing they could do is unify the system control panel - copy that from OSX rather than this weird hybrid thing they are doing. Though I'm hoping their unity project will mature into something nice. I'm not even that bothered that they are straying from Gnome. Having said that I have enjoyed Ubuntu - though I put most of my good experience down to the system sitting on Debian.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
I'm not favoring dumbing down curricula. I'm favoring honest practices on the part of the administration to not overcrowd their graduate departments simply because they have too many lower division class offerings and somebody has to be a TA for those classes. It's unfair to everyone involved and the university is the only one that benefits because they pocket the tuition fees.
Teach them how to solve problems, and how to work through getting stuck. I've seen lots of kids (and adults) who give up when they can't figure something out right away or get it to work the first time. Learning how to work through this will certainly help once you are ready to introduce more IT specific knowledge, but will be invaluable in several aspects of their life.
My 3 month old daughter knew my voice, but didn't recognize my face when I shaved my beard. She would turn to see me when she heard my voice, but cry when she saw a stranger.

My second daughter easily recognizes her older sister voice at birth. My older one spoke to her constantly in the womb (usually asking her when she is going to come out and play with her). The best way to stop her crying is to ask my oldest daughter to sing to her (works better than my singing/soothing)
It's David Ogilvy actually.
Did you enjoy figuring that out and making it work? That's pretty much the whole job, except, replace "chunked encoding" with "every warped undocumented proprietary protocol anyone has ever built", and replace the payoff of "now I know how chunked coding works" to "now I can make withdrawals from other people's bank accounts".
Firefox 3.6.12 on a Mac.
For what it's worth:
Interesting behavior on the left side, the ball occassionally sticks to the paddle and vibrates, travels up the paddle and then scores a point against itself. (This is not a set up for a punchline.) Also, both sides show some stuttering in the ball movement.
I like to see others people work. Sometimes RMSes are linking to things that are just weekend small projects, but still it is nice to publish them and ask for opinions of other members.

I think that spam posts will disappear in few minutes from the frontpage, because nobody votes them up. In this case a kind of collaborative filtering by HN community will do its work.

I believe that by not allowing new users to submit links is a radical approach. There are many kinds of users, for example I crated this account recently (because I lost my old password and did not find a way to recover it). Usually I visit this page 2-3 times a week just for reading.
By forbidding new users to post the community will be divided in two classes "the privileged one" (those who have time to read and write comments) and "the rest" (no write access, because probably they do not have enough time for writing comments (my case)).

I think that "classical" approaches will minimize the spam. For example CAPTCHAS will stop spam-bots. And throwaway accounts may be limited by verifying email addresses of members.
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it means at least one per day :)
Thanks. Been looking for a ruby like syntax to do text formatting for a while. Time to create one, I guess!
Awesome: that's really useful! thanks!
I don't know much about the contents of CS degrees, but from observation over quite a length of time it does seem to be true that most software engineers in businesses are really clerks - and treated as such. It's a very lowly position in the corporate pecking order. There are the software engineers and then there are the cleaners and the part time vending machine attendant.
We're talking about two different things. I'm trying to say "Don't force Jimmy to program if he wants to be a football player" and you're saying "Help Jimmy to learn about what he's doing."

I'm not an expert on children, by any means, but I'd agree with both you and myself.

Also, I don't think there's anything wrong with playing flash games.
Not sure I follow what you mean. Lots of people are using One Page Per Day every day and getting a LOT written.
Homepage was uninspiring. Looks aren't everything, but I don't think you meet the minimum 'confidence inspring' graphic design that convinces people you are legit.

No social proof offered (has even one person used it and like it? Tell me about it.). As a Broker, I would like to see at least an example of an application before I invest the time to create an account, etc. Also, there is no mention of pricing at all. If its free, say so. Saying nothing at all makes me suspicious.

When I sign in as a Tenant, there are no current applications to view. There is nothing at all to do. Understandable.

I like the concept, but to get actual Brokers/Tenants using Leasely, I think you are going to need to put some more effort towards convincing: social proof, examples, call to action, explanation of pricing.
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Definitely make friendlier URLs.

The current URL structure basically requires an email to get the word out about the listing.

I would suggest <tld><username><keyword> resulting in http://leasely.com/Joe/LakesideView
No, a lot of people sit on good domains for years before doing anything with them.
Indeed I was phreaking out thinking pg was deleting Stallman's posts !! ;-)
That source doesn't have figures after 2005 and doesn't break it down by area. The skew is the population figure versus infrastructure and defense. I would imagine that the continued flooding will change the figure also.

California needs to get ahold of its pensions, no one can fix that but themselves.
I attended a TEDx event yesterday and a few parents had their middle-school aged kids there. It was an eye opener for a few of them.

My parents watched a lot of PBS or National Geographic type documentaries with me as a child. It gave me a view of the world outside of mine.

Internships. I did mine in my late college years but if you can start kids in high school, again it gives them a view of the future (possibly THEIR future) and great insight on paths to take.

Best of luck to you!
Ask HN: I want to understand Bloom Filters
I tried reading the Wikipedia article but it's confusing the bejezus out of me. Does anyone know a good tutorial, or perhaps would like to write a simple explanation here?
Hmm, that's cool. The new syntax puts me off somewhere, but this could form a good basis.
See http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662465/for-a-company-that-sells... and find the part starting '"I can't stand whiteboards," says Fried.'
I don't think it's a good idea as domains may be placeholders for quite a bit of time. Especially if startup is not a weekend project.
Why not? I'm a big proponent of the SQL K-X model. You have two text fields in each table: key and xml. The flexibility of this model is incredible.
I agree. Open-ended play is very important, I think. Give him stuff to build things that don't require instructions or guidance (or, at least much guidance). I am routinely amazed at what my kids build with tinker toys and blocks...
I'm not sure how I feel about phrase "startup career path" as concept. Not that I disagree with what Gabriel is saying here, but be careful not to box yourself in conceptually.

I definitely consider myself an early-stage startup guy, and I am extremely hesitant to work for a large company, however I've actually only been in a true startup for 3 years out of a 12-year career. Before that I worked for a public University, a new media agency, and a bunch of small freelance gigs. In all of those circumstances I was able to do great work, meet great people, and learn a lot about business (yes even at the U).

Now it's true that nothing matches the ambition or intensity of a true startup, and it's definitely a place I like to be. Conventional wisdom in silicon valley evolves quickly, but it's very inbred, and it tends to create bubbles of competition around sexy concepts, where hundreds or thousands of the very smartest people in the world are working 18 hour days on some specific concept that doesn't even have a market yet (eg. Check-in-base mobile apps). Meanwhile, out in wider industries you find huge markets with huge inefficiencies due; billion dollar markets that are ripe for disruption, with reasonably small barriers to entry for someone with a little inside information.

If you bring your technical and execution skills to one of these markets you have a much greater chance of success, and with an established market you also can be sure there's something really there. Spending a couple years in an established company could be the seed to a brilliant startup. Likewise, working on yet another social widget just for the sake of being in a "startup" could land you with obsolete skills when app-fatigue turns to backlash, and silicon valley moves onto the next hot thing.
The same can be said of single-core computers, but we have been referring to that as multi-tasking for a long time. If the term multitasking is used commonly to refer to context switching, both in people and in computers, on what grounds do you disagree with its use?

Also, I question the scientific basis for suggesting that no one can do more than one thing at a time. My understanding is that the brain is massively parallel, so it seems likely to me that it is capable of running background processes in parallel with foreground processes. It's probably true that only one task can have conscious attention at a given time, but that doesn't mean that we can only do one thing at a time.
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In Perl, you can use /e which is probably cheating as far as some are concerned.

You could also probably do it by repeatedly applying a fairly complex regex that would continually decrement by 1.
Except Google TV doesn't fit into that strategy; why have a version of Android that only runs a browser? Why have two browser codebases for Android?
was just about to say that! obviously cnn didn't bother thinking about this
A web server in a shell script
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The problem is over time as noone links to their stories they slowly lose relevancy and their brand diminishes. Remember, the future of news is online, and right now they are probably at their peak number of subscribers. They have nowhere to go but down.
It's certainly not impossible, and I do it all the time, too. (I'm running 4.2 on my iPad.)

But, still, I often find using the two together to be advantageous and wouldn't want to not have that option.
I don't care about my karma a great deal (although I've written about a personal karma-related goal before for me to gauge how engaged I am in this community, it's a guide for me rather than a score per se).

I care about other people's startups, but not spam.
Is this credit report real?

http://leasely.com/site_media/app_doc_attachments/8/8/WHC%20...

I'm guessing its yours and modified, but it looks convincing :)
In reality, those are considered remarkable because elections that are so close are extremely rare.
As the comments at TC discuss, this doesn't take account of how many ads are running per page, and depending on how the various numbers stack up it could go either way. But if they were making more money from this, wouldn't today's press releases have boasted about this, rather than just the increased numbers?
Where did you get this idea? You are absolutely not going to harm your career by having a key role at a startup that dies. Dying is what startups do. Most startups are doomed. Moreover, if you're not the founder or CEO of a startup that dies, nobody is going to attribute anything --- success or failure --- to you, unless you actively campaign to make the attribution happen.

This is bad advice. You should stop giving it.
i've never felt politicians were particularly courageous if they were afraid of the possibility that someone might talk for awhile. if something is so important, at least give it a shot. worst case you have to listen to somebody read his grocery list to you. (and he ends up looking like an idiot on national tv. the news will ensure that.)
Depends on what you mean by torpedo'ing your career. Yeah, maybe your options are worthless but you will learn a lot about what does and doesn't work in startups. You can use this in any of your future endeavors. Also, the relationships you form and network you create could be invaluable. My dad worked for a startup that failed about 15 years ago and his friends from it still meet every once in awhile to help each other out and network.

Edit: FYI- he had mentioned working for an unsuccessful startup would torpedo your career.
$16 per month * 100,000 * 12 months = $19.2 M per year

Would 4 million readers bring that much in ad revenue?

Depends on how good their ad sales team is.

Here's Alexa graph: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&...
Make it clear from the start that success comes from hard work not necessarily raw intelligence, it took me quite a while to overcome this idea instilled in me by my parents (i.e. when your kid does something good, "well done, you must have worked so hard to do that" opposed to "well done, you're so smart")
>What I'm interested to see is how other sites traffic went up as people left the Times site as the pay wall was put up.

I can give you a single data point - I used to read The Times online most days, not generally very much. I'd skip to the letters to sample the public mood, pick the top stories and view the World and UK front pages. I have missed it, but I can't afford to pay, i.e. it's not a high enough priority to warrant the money (but I'm an outlier with respect to payment power).

I use Google News now, kinda. It doesn't really hit the mark, I do occasionally look at other papers - Guardian, Telegraph, Mail (rarely), Independent - but generally I'm relying on social sites to get news. I miss The Times, I grew up reading it, but Google News is OK along with one of the other broadsheets.

Somehow the BBC never really hits the mark, I find their bias a bit annoying too. I do read news there about once a fortnight and find their news reviews to be very thorough.

Worst data point ever, probably.
I think you've correctly called me out on all three points. It looks like I have some studying to do before responding to you intelligently.
Get an iPad.

We have several apps we use with our 9-month daughter. It's her favorite toy by far--the minute she sees it, she's off like a rocket tugging at the feet of whoever is using it. It has flashcard apps, a cartoon dinosaur that talks to her, books that read themselves to her while highlighting the words, cool fractal displays that respond to her touching the screen, etc. It's well-built and has withstood many baby-related mishaps.

If you can get him to love computers, everything else you're worried about should fall into place.
Sorry about that. I'll see if I can get the information on the charges changed to include DNSIMPLE.COM. I hope it didn't cause you too much trouble.
I joined my first startup 20+ years ago because I liked creating software, being at the researchy end of the product spectrum, the informality and speed of a small company, having a lot of responsibility, and of course, the prospect of a big payout was attractive.

I've been exceptionally lucky in all of these aspects, so I've been doing nothing but startups since then (except when I found myself at a big company post-acquisition).

If you're going into it just to get rich quick, you are definitely doing it wrong. And your motivation is sufficiently off-course to pretty much guarantee that you won't get what you want.
Startups aren't a zero-sum game. If you're in direct competition with a YC startup, the synergy might hurt you (though everyone says not to worry about competitors anyway). But if you're not going after the exact same segments of the same market as a YC startup, their success isn't hurting you one bit.
I like this company, but this is the 3rd time you've posted about them...
I think if a conclusion is made about the policy posting them somewhere easily noticible will really help readers like me. I was a passsive reader for this site for a while before I signed up which was also to get feedback on my site. I see the point about spammers and think its fair to ask readers to contribute but just that the policy should be clear to new users
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Good point, but of ALL the things we are forced to do in Western societies, compulsory voting would probably be pretty low on the list of things I'd want to see go away.
Remark: this isn't twitter. Because replies are automatically threaded, you don't need to include @name.
Yes on 19 in Cali!!
Find an election for a significant, contested office that gets no votes, and we can worry about this parable.
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I'm still in procrastination mode and haven't tried glyph but it seems that textile and markdown are supported.
I stand corrected; Jean-Louis is just fond of saying it.
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Thanks @endgame. Err.....endgame :) Habits die hard.
Couple of things to ponder considering future audiences.

a) How many of those 105,000 subs do we think are under 40 yrs old?

b) Try to sign up to the site and you will note something interesting when entering in your DOB. This text:

"You must be 18 or over to use our websites"

I assume this is because most payment processes don't cater for < 18s. But still, think about it, it is now an over 18s ONLY newsite.

Therefore I think the future of The Times looks actually quite bleak due to the lack of future readership.
That's a pretty curious and probably flawed metric to choose. Surely it would be better to find the actual "is no longer in a relationship" updates?

Sample size sucks too. Of only 10,000 status updates, how many would actually include those two phrases? I call bullshit.
Right, the article examines breakups ex-post. That is, they can only identify breakups after they happen.

Ex-ante, though...I remember hearing somewhere that Zuckerberg used to predict when people were about to split, because they could see whose profiles you were looking at.

If you started checking out potential partners with a high frequency, and you were in a relationship, Zuck et al. knew it wouldn't last long.
Anyone who would flame you for writing this would be a jerk--not worth worrying about.

I am sorry for your loss. It sounds as if the world has lost a decent person who used his gifts to give something back.
With such a wealth of information available, to dive in one only needs the hardest things: a path and a reason.

Anybody have insight into how to actualize these nuggets into some semblance of a self-learning course?
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Wait so after you subscribe, paying hard cash for access, they still show you advertisements?

Who are these suckers paying for access?