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Welp... just registered today so that hopefully when I try to post my own startup thread, I can. I'll try to post more from now on instead of lurking but I'm pretty busy. :|
This is actually a really neat find an an excellent source of inspiration.
I live by the Galleria area. Sorta right in the middle I guess.
I was looking for places strictly for coding. Not much of a fan of Starbucks. I regular Diedrich's and Antidote, but they are more of a social place, and I'm looking for a place to meet coders.
I like techhub, but I am talking about a investment/office space for n number of weeks
Define "unacceptable". I much prefer flying in Canada (or anywhere else) as opposed to flying anywhere in the US. I've found the whole process post 9/11 to be unacceptable, disrespectful, uncomfortable, tedious, and just plain unpleasant. The only people I feel more sorry for are those who work in the airports because they have to deal with regulations and procedures that create hostile attitudes amongst the cattle (erm, I meant passengers) and they have to become desensitized to the whole malarkey on the off chance that a bottle of breast milk might be some liquid explosive.
It's happened to me in the UK (and in Austria) from time to time. Mostly seems to be shops with a relatively large catchment area. (something like Ikea, though I'm actually not sure they have ever asked me) Asking for the UK postcode is of course pretty sinister as it narrows it down to a couple of houses. Sometimes they only ask for the first bit. Based on the reactions I've received, I doubt many people opt out.
3d navigation with CSS3 / wonder-webkit
IPad Magazines: DOA?
Slightly unrelated, but anyone know why they put chalkboards in their offices and not whiteboards?
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> CSS3 is not HTML5 and that fact is not debatable at W3C.

HTML5 is like AJAX, it's just an umbrella term in reality. When you hear "AJAX library" you probably think of a library that does a lot more than just HTTP requests. Same goes for HTML, it's almost useless without some CSS.

> Geolocation has been removed from the main HTML5 spec.

InnerHTML wasn't in the spec originally, but everyone used/had it anyway because it was a good idea.

> WebSQL has been dropped in favour of IndexedDB (both are separate specs).

It was dropped only from Firefox, just like h.264, but that didn't stop anybody from using it. Some browsers have IndexedDB, some have WebSQL. IndexedDB was just a work in progress last time I checked, WebSQL already had existing implementations.
Calculus distilled into hours
That was my RMS - honestly have just been a reader and less of a participator. It was highly suggested that I seek HN for feedback on my newly launched site, thought little of posting it from my newly created account. Tons of great feedback in the time it was alive though. (Thanks everyone.) Lesson learned.
If anyone lacks the right to complain about "the next set of assholes", it's the people who actually voted them in, no matter what they put on their ballots.

Also, as a rather different brand of political fringe sort from members of the BNP, I admire your bold frankness in exhorting people to vote so that any ideas outside of the most mainstream are safely kept out of public debate.
I grew up confused and depressed, meanwhile, my parents did their best to show me every day they loved me and still do, but I feel entirely distant from them. I'm over 20 years old.

GG logic, gg.
The article title is pretty misleading here. It starts off citing a 62% drop in uniques and 90% drop in pageviews and how disastrous it's been, but concludes that they're actually netting $600,000 more per month from the subscription revenue than they would if they kept it free with ads. Assuming those CPM figures are accurate, that sounds like a pretty good business decision, especially with a more focused user base that actually places value in the paper's content.
State of cutting edge Ruby development as of November 2010
Las Vegas Slot Machines vs Electronic Voting Machines
Here's a link from The Times front page with their own take on the numbers

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/media/arti...
Bad reviews are often symptoms and not causes, but I agree with you here. When you're selling a new MMO to consumers, you need to keep in mind that customer trial costs are high, especially for hardcore early adopters. These are people with lots of time and money sunk into their current "solutions," and they're only going to try a new one if it seems like a sure thing. Reviews and pre-release buzz are thus critical. Especially significant is that a good aggregate review scorecard doesn't necessarily make your product, but a bad one can certainly break it.
16cubes.com - Chat and play games with friends
For those curious Expedia actually captures a stupendous amount of information down to session level activity. They can play back failed sessions to discover areas of opportunity. This was discussed at an analytics conference I attended on how they implement testing across a range of systems to find possible areas of friction and improve the business.
People keep saying things like this. Seriously: If a flash pong game is messed up, it's the programmer's fault.
TortoiseGit is pretty usable on windows. You should try it.

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
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I'm three years into an ambitious and promising startup now, and feel the same way. I gotta get out and get in touch more with the community.
Huge supporter of #1 - Around the start of high school my Dad cut the service provider. I thought it sucked for a while, but in the end I realized I was much more productive, and was generally more interested in activities / school.
isn't this making a lot of assumptions with regard to memory locality and the organization of the hash table?

for instance: what if the initial capacity isn't set properly for the hash table? what if the hash function isn't perfect and you end up with 16 buckets and 4 elements in one bucket and none in the other 15? (at which point you end up with what is essentially a list with lots of overhead). what if you start off by allocating a hash table that is too small and midway through populating it have to expand it?

the more comments I read, the more Erik becomes right.
How voter databases are used in elections
This is going to be very useful to me...
Looks like Rupert Murdoch gambled correctly. Congratulations to him for taking a high-risk move in the face of huge opposition.

I think it has a valuable lesson for entrepreneurs that sometimes taking the unpopular route can be the correct business decision.
> > don't force anything on him. ... Just let him use a computer in a completely natural way.

> This is absolutely true.

I disagree, sort of. I have a 5 yo and an 8 yo. If you let kids use a computer without guidance, they will learn how to use a computer from their friends at school. And what they learn is to fire up a browser (chrome if you've got it, otherwise Firefox) type "<some word> games" into Google and play thousands of really mind-numbing flash games. Go ahead. Try it.
Well.. you could but you would need the IP address also.

You just need to check if the request is coming from a T-Mobile IP, or any other GSM carrier in the USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless_...).

This wouldn't work outside the USA (unless you want to research the carriers) and most people would be connected to wifi.

So, this wouldn't really work. It would be much easier with a BlackBerry as they transmit the vendorID (a type of carrierID) in the UA. You could easily check this with the IP.
I slightly disagree. Obviously love him, but don't smother and coddle him. Spend as much time as possible interacting with him as well as teaching independence and to think on his own. Interaction is the key.
It's interesting that the Flash version has a frame rate of 100 and a calculated size of 8000 by 9000 pixels, while the javascript version leaves these undefined. I have no idea what the performance implications these attributes have, as I have never seen either so high.
Ain't that the truth, right? People need to experiment and figure out what works best for them. Perhaps it's for the best that some folks will give up after trying writing and not succeeding to their own expectations. And the ones who persist after a few initial setbacks may never go on to become great success stories -- but they'll have cultivated a personally enriching hobby, and the quality of their work will improve with practice.
Considering Silverlight and WPF also go together, I don't see Silverlight going away anytime soon. I see it changing direction, or at least, not being limited to just the web.
So why not Saturday? That article doesn't mention it.

Neither sabbath nor market day, yet still a weekend day. Or did people back then consider Saturday a regular work/week day too?
What struck me as funny in that line is that it's essentially a re-purposed bit of anarchist rhetoric...
Sorry, couldn't read that, it's behind some sort of paywall :-)
Many answers to this new policy proposals mention some version of the argument that if you don't participate, you shoudn't be able to solicit the help of others.

While this is true to some extent, it undervalues the fact that RMS posts create value for everyone, since the comments are then available for everyone (not just the poster).
Do different web browsers bring different demographics?
Nerds in Mourning: A friend, father, and founder leaves us
Today, the dev community in Minneapolis got word that the wreckage of the private plane piloted by the CEO of The Nerdery, Luke Bucklin, was found in the mountains east of Jackson Hole Wyoming. The plane had been missing for more than a week. Luke, and his three sons, were returning home from a family vacation. There were no survivors.

Most of you probably don't know of the organization called The Nerdery (http://www.nerdery.com). They're a group of 120 nerds in Minneapolis who are technological wizards - building mobile apps, web apps, legacy apps - any app you can imagine - they've probably built it. And you've probably also seen their work out there in the interwebs, too.

They're also the creators and sponsors of The Overnight Website Challenge (http://overnightwebsitechallenge.com/), where once a year 10-15 development teams of 10 people each gather together to donate 24 hours of their time to build websites for local non profits. That's well over 2500 hours of hard core hacking, donated for FREE, to groups in need, every year. This organization has done good - a lot of it.

Most of you didn't know Luke. Some of you did. Some of you might know someone who worked at or works at The Nerdery. Some of you might actually still work at The Nerdery. Either way, Luke was a guiding force that made, makes, and will continue to make The Nerdery an awesome place to work for people who love code, technology, and all things nerdy.

To quote my friend and former colleague @malbiniak: "He proved that you can build a successful business, based on passion, and maintain decency in the process. The more sincere the effort, the more genuine the return. Best. ROI. Lesson. Ever." That defines Luke, and the team at The Nerdery.

I'm a relative newbie here, and realize I run the risk of getting flamed for this post. There are other tragedies in the world, all deserving of our attention - not just this one. But the dev community in Minneapolis is mourning right now, and so are members of this (Hacker News) community, and I don't really give a shit if posting here pisses someone off.

If it's your thing, head over to http://blog.nerdery.com or http://www.lukeandginger.com/, or follow the conversation on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23LukeComeHome.

Also, please take a moment to read the thank you messages for the search and rescue teams involved in this effort: http://thanks.lukeandginger.com/
Thanks...I guess queue is such an integral part of my career I forgot about alternatives!
In our startup, Hear a Blog, we did some things wrong, but we fixed them.
yes, but I don't particularly care about the politics in the state I'm in.
It can handle whatever you put into it, but obviously won't be able to diff them.
I had a lot of fun reading your idea, but I can't say that I'd expect it to gain traction. Simply too confusing.

Also, one problem I notice is that the receiver might simply have no clue what's going on, either failing to read or misinterpreting the "you were to receive this email with 10% probability" message in the footer.
All this shows is when people are statistically most likely to break up. This cannot be used to predict a specific situation (ie, "when you'll break up"), only to generalize about broad data.
It's very easy to find yourself on no branch at all, for instance, or for a developer to believe they've committed work to a shared branch when in fact it's a private one (and therefore leave the rest of the team hanging.)

I've never ever found myself on "no branch", and in cases where I've commited a bunch of code to a non-shared branch, I can easily push my branch to origin and make it shared.

Frankly, I see two kinds of arguments in support of git: arguments that derive from the fact that it's a DVCS, and therefore apply to other (IMO better) tools, or "community acceptance" (a la github, Rails) which I find frustrating and circular.

I use Git for exactly those reasons. Why wouldn't I use the DVCS the rest of the community uses? Why would I use, for example, Mercurial or Fossil over git? I think you missed the third argument in support of Git: "I like it and it works well for what I do."
I love how the score is persisted between visits if you close the tab or navigate back to the page later.
Bozeman, MT (probably not remote)

RightNow Technologies

Don't be fooled by the location. Large SaaS/Cloud company looking for well rounded Python programmer with good MySQL / Linux systems programming experience.

http://tbe.taleo.net/NA8/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=RIG...
When I use my iPhone to play this game HTML5 side always wins!
Thanks for the nice memorial. I didn't know Luke, but it sounds like he's leaving behind a great example and a lot of inspiration.
crazy idea: maybe also check to see when the domain was registered? more than a year old doesn't sound like a 'startup'. it could be another metric in the decision engine.

in fact.... i sense a new startup/weekend project. 'spam link analyzer service' which incorporates user defined metrics (e.g. HN metrics)
The spike on April 1st is because people joke about breaking up.

Other than that, the title is total linkbait.
"You can even make a show of doing it"

Why should I be forced to show up for your voting-day entertainment?
That assumes he wants to cap the size of future batches.

He has said, multiple times, that he is not sure how large is too large and will continue growing as long as he hasn't hit that threshold...sooo....we'll see.
At one time I kind of felt the same way - I had a degree from a good school, and really it seemed like all I got from it was (maybe) increasing the chances that my resume would make its way to someone who could potentially hire me. But the longer I've been in the software development world, the more I've seen its value to me.

The school I went to made it really easy to dive into projects, build weird things, talk to brilliant people about idea - in fact often it was hard not to (if you wanted to do well). I really took that for granted. What opened my eyes to that benefit were some of the amazing developers that I've been able to work with since - they did the same things in college, and often they had to really look for those opportunities rather than stumble in on them like I did.

I didn't go to school to learn how to not be afraid to play with (and throw out) ideas, but it's probably the best thing that came out of my degree.
This email by proxy system you want to build seems odd. With normal email, a recipient knows that someone intended to send them a message. If you were to add an anonymous service in between, you would have the same setup except that the recipient would not know who the sender was.

What you're talking about here adds another dimension on top of this basic anonymous scenario that doesn't make any sense to me. If I receive an email from an anonymous source that only had a 10% chance of delivery, how is this any different than if the email went through an anonymous mail system that had a 100% chance of being delivered?
openbsd foundation. read the mailing lists and you'll see many like minded, experienced people contribute to openbsd code.
"A big problem with git is that the commits-and-branching model is poorly thought through. It's very easy to find yourself on no branch at all, for instance, or for a developer to believe they've committed work to a shared branch when in fact it's a private one (and therefore leave the rest of the team hanging.)"

I don't think you understand how git works. Calling it "poorly thought through" when you haven't taken the time to understand it is not a compelling argument.

"It's very easy to find yourself on no branch at all"

A branch is simply a pointer to a specific commit. If you checkout a random commit it is likely not a branch. I don't know why you find this troubling.

"It's very easy ... for a developer to believe they've committed work to a shared branch when in fact it's a private one"

Again, this is from a lack of understanding. All commits are to your local repository. It seems you haven't tried very hard to understand how git works.
Trouble is then why would you do a CS degree?

I'm looking for smart and go for scarcity then I ask myself - if you are so smart why did you do CS instead of maths/physics etc?
If you do have a startup and are new to the site you're welcome to send me an e-mail (it's in my profile). I don't mind spending a few minutes looking through your site and posting an RMS on your behalf if everything is legit.

Be aware that I'll look on archive.org to see whether your site has been up for five years :-)
It's not really systems programming, but we've done a lot of real world business programming in OCaml. Examples:

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/

http://libguestfs.org/ has a lot of OCaml for internal stuff. The tools are written in Perl, but I wish they were written in OCaml :-)

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/guestfs-browser/

Another forthcoming tool which I can't mention yet.

More projects here from the company I used to work for:

http://merjis.com/developers
Alice and Scratch both look like good learning tools (and have educational research backing them up).

I think it's more important though that there's someone who loves hacking in the child's life. Children pick up on genuine enthusiasm quickly, whether it's from you, your spouse, or someone who's a role model.
Even if it's not "reliable", it could still be a usable heuristic. If there data shows a correlation between Chrome use and dependable loan repayment, who to say they should ignore it?
Teach him to think for himself. Being able to think things through will definitely help with a career in programming/IT, but it is also very valuable skill for life itself. This means knowing when to 'baby' him and when not to.
Saying "what if your hash table becomes linearized" is not a fair argument when comparing linear search to hash lookup.
Convert xls to mysql insert quick and easy
I figured I needed a quick and easy way to convert a excelfile into a mysqltable. So i wrapped together a simple webform that reads the excelfile and outputs a create table(although somewhat stupid column types), and a bunch of inserts.

And no, of course not, it doesnt save any of the uploaded excelfile.
It's easier to be informed of candidates' position than the logistics of voting. Free and discarded newspapers are everywhere, and cover the former extensively, but the latter only marginally if at all.

Case in point, at least two HN readers (OP and myself) didn't know homeless people could vote by mail at the US Post Office, but I know at least one of them is very well-informed on the issues.
glyph (http://github.com/h3rald/glyph) looks very promising for books writing
Its awesome because its a neat little ipad webapp, its free and it took 3 days. Its not the Sistine chapel or anything but personally i like little things like this.
Try not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, it doesn't help convey your point.

I'm sure somewhere in that statement is a cogent opinion about downside of accepting equity investments and the loss of control entailed, but the lack of structure and general ranting makes it hard to see.
Method behind the madness?

-= ComScore study suggests that FireFox users, while more affluent, also tend to skew considerably younger than your average Internet Explorer user

-= Pair that data with the fact that younger people have lower credit scores, and the lower your credit score, the higher your APR.

-= By showing a prospect a loan rate near to what they will qualify for, Capital One is going to close more business, and not waste resources on non-qualified leads.

VIA - http://conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/11/do-different-web-br...
What qualifies as an "established" account? I have been here for a while but don't post that often.
I think it's important to remember that he has ~40 slides in reserve to talk about the specific points that investors want to cover. These 5 slides are fantastic and will cover the bases that you want in a short meeting but I don't think we should gloss over the point that there is a deep well of hard data to draw on if the investor wants to.

Also, demos rock. If you took away the demo I don't think this approach would work. So, I'd rewrite the title as "A pitch deck with 5 slides ... and a demo ... and 40 backup slides." (not really but I think all three sides need to be there for the 5 slide deck to work :)
> American voting is under-informed and has low turn out, but at least the few percentage of electorate that vote actually care.

I think politics among the US electorate is exactly analogous to bikeshed discussions on a mailing list.
I can find you hundreds of people in short order who multitask on their Windows PCs entirely in full screen. There's nothing about a tablet that precludes multitasking. I bet lots of people multitask on their Android or iOS 4 devices.
Why should we require a clumsy physical connection to keep individual devices in sync when all of them have internet connectivity? I have an Android phone and I never copy data over a cable, everything is synchronized wirelessly. (Large content like videocasts only over WiFi.)

I claim that every mobile device should be completely independent and it's surprising to me that iPhones are still tied so closely to iTunes.
[insert witty comment about down-voting at the polls here.]
Like myself. Been around for a couple of months now and this is my second comment!
I agree that it would be more interesting to predict.

Has anyone taken Facebook data and seen if they could predict suicide or crime? Do people exhibit certain patterns before committing suicide or commiting some big crime spree?

It would also be interesting to see if it could determine if someone is cheating. Of course its harder to get data on when the cheating began to do a good analysis.
"The customer is not an idiot. She is your wife." --Jean-Louis Gassee
This study draws conclusions about very coarse grain (month to month) multitasking, which I don't think is the common interpretation of the term. Multitasking to me is doing multiple things either simultaneously or within an hour time span or so. The two are very different things, so I would be careful extrapolating this to finer grain multitasking.
Personally I can't really tell the difference, but I'm guessing this is the patented hinting algorithm? If so, Fedora can't ship it, because Red Hat is a large US-based target with lots of money. However rpmfusion is available for those of us in the free world:

http://rpmfusion.org/
Exactly. As a businesses, they aren't trying to optimize viewers but profits.