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I managed to amalgamate some similar projects into http://feedladder.com and move it from activerecord to mongomapper. Basically it allows for twitter feeds to have their own submission and voting for their tweets. Best example right now is probably http://profquotes.feedladder.com.

Haven't gotten around to making workflow to add new ones automatically though, school and work take a toll.
my fav use of this: http://didyouwatchporn.com/
esp the viral part where you can get a report from all your friends.
Speaking of DOCTYPE, it seems there is no DOCTYPE on HN.
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Regardless of how social you are, your network is always going to be relatively small, by limiting your hiring to that small pool of candidates you'll likely be missing out on many more talented candidates.

There's also conflict of interest issues that are raised by hiring through your network, you need to be very careful you don't let the fact they were introduced through a friend (or a friend themselves) bias your judgement of their abilities. It's very easy to find yourself brushing away the flaws in a candidate because "you know they're good anyway".

And of course there is the issue that if your in the startup community, most of your contacts are probably quite happy working at a startup of their own or one where they have options (hence don't want to leave).
Sorry, no. I'm a gardener, so I'm more about the soil...

Why do you ask?
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I failed to launch http://plumrss.com/ - We'll probably be close to a private beta this weekend though, so if you want to be included, drop your email address there now.
Achieving the milestone where your users help each other means you have built a community and that it is thriving. It's sometimes very difficult to figure out the best way to do that, though. Some products are better suited for a traditional forum, some to a StackOverflow-type supplement. This seems like it might be a ripe place for innovation -- how can we better get our customers to talk to each other?

This was a great interview.
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Dead already? edit: it's up again!
I am very interested in seeing what you come up with, even if I have no immediate use for it now. The last month taught me, again, why I am not a sysadmin.
"Porn enthusiasts" is quite a descriptor.
As to the geography section, meteorology was covered in world geography when I was in eighth grade in Texas in the late 80s.

What isn't as impressive (and has been pointed out elsewhere) is that those are the only science questions.
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This should be working much better now, thanks for all the feedback on this. If you're interested we just open sourced the MooTools class that handles the validation - https://github.com/BankSimple/ValidateSimple
Not likely:

http://blog.bit.ly/post/2071681766/announcing-the-winners-of...
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Has the last love story been written? I'm always a sucker for these entrepreneur-psyche-yourself-up stories. ABDC: Always be double checkin'.
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Does this mean the Clojure Conj videos are all up?
AFAIK any skepticism regarding the purchase of YouTube has been borne out. They have owned it for 4 years and so far it has never been profitable. So far Google has lost billions on YouTube.

Unlike YouTube Groupon is actually profitable. (ergo apparently going for 4x YouTube's price tag) The question with Groupon will be their ability to maintain profits.
And if the organism uses relatively standard RNA, it might suggest these critters diverged from other life on earth before DNA was widespread. This could be taken as support for the "RNA World" hypothesis.
http://vimeo.com/channels/galois

http://clojure.blip.tv/
Or, regular beans and regular water, but a "magic" combination of legume-growing and real estate insight.
The application described in the article is specifically written to interface with Node.js servers. It keeps those processes running, and restarts them as needed. It is not a general process monitor.
Very cool! I need some more colors and other type of post-it (photos?) though before I seriously consider using it...
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I don't know about that. The first wave of 20th century combinatorialists were pretty much all Hungarians (Bollobas, Erdos, Polya, Szekeres). Hungary hasn't stopped churning them out either.

I'd argue that their education system's just fine.
I could have passed the 8th grade in 1895 if I was born in 1882. But I wasn't.
Be aware, the one big draw-back of Raphael.js (and its best feature) is that all drawings are declarative JS. So you won't be able to extract and store the generated SVG, in a designer for instance. You could extract it from browsers which support SVG, by getting the XML, but in IE, you're dealing with VML.

A neat project which renders SVG's in Flash for IE, and fakes in the SVG DOM so you can code against it using JS, is svgweb.

http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
This just won the bit.ly api contest. Congrats to the developer(s), it looks great!
"Give your variables meaningful names" is good. But attaching a remedial Hungarian notation-style type indicating letter to the front of the variable name is not. Especially in a dynamically typed language!
If you paste an image URL into a note it shows the image
Do you already have experience with warehousing and fulfillment? That would seem like the hardest part to manage. You'll have to charge people a monthly fee to store their items, so work that into your pricing. Also look at Fulfillment by Amazon to see if that is cheaper or easier to manage.

I know companies who have looked for services like these so I know there is at least a niche market. Another service you could offer is managing exhibit pieces for trade shows, though the problem with those is the setup and teardown, not so much storage.
Working on a game called Santa Strike. Should have a prototype for HN in the next day or two. Remember Elf Bowling? It's a bit of a tribute :)
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Which marries with the speculation from yesterday:

http://skymania.com/wp/2010/11/alien-life-form-is-here-on-ea...

(Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957823 )
Chrome does have a sync, but it syncs more than just bookmarks: Apps, form fill, etc.

Also, don't give up on a web photoshop just yet!
Definitely. I'm thinking how I can implement that, possibly a mini-map or a snazzy zoom out feature. Definitely will come in a future release.
There is interesting video from RSC2010: http://video2010.scottishrubyconference.com/show_video/11/1

"Dependent Types: A Look At The Other Side" by Larry Diehl

It talks about using Types for Driving your Development. So it is TDD, but without tests, without runtime and programmer's overhead of them.

When using TyDD, you isolate core that should go as bugless as possible and write DSeL for it in language with strong type system. The talk above tells about Agda, but we and some number of other companies in the world (Eaton http//eaton.com/, Echo http://aboutecho.com/ - from the top of my head) successfully employ Haskell for that task.

That way you shoot two birds with one stone: you get provably correct software and you get an ideal language to express your core problems.

Best of all, you get free "requirement tracking" - whenever your requirements change, you express them in types and then apply changes where they should, guided by friendly compiler. Still getting provably correct software (modulo types) at the end.
About four minutes in he gets to what he's actually going to talk about.

For anyone who doesn't want to skim through to get an idea, he talks about his philosophy on thinking about the problems he's working on rather than always going straight through them. When you spend some time away from the computer just thinking about what you're working on, or working through completely separate problems every other day, it gives your brain time to process all the separate components that are too big to fit in your working memory at one time. This allows you to create connections during the day (or after a night of sleep) that lead to seeing the problem and its solutions in a new light.
No. They are going to be available gradually.
Will they do the "enhanced patdown" on all bus travelers? I haven't traveled by bus in 20-odd years, but I would bet money on the personal hygiene of the average bus passenger being Not As Good as the average airplane passenger.

If the TSA TSO's get too demoralized by patting down out-of-shape airplane passengers, they can always Look on the Bright Side of Life: they're not patting down asymmetrically shaped bus passengers.

This will also give the "Travelling by plane is a Privilege" cowards and apologists one less option to argue.
only people affected by marketers should be affected by these trojans. stay safe and ignore this.
One of the top requested features so far (colors). I have it on my list.
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This may be totally stupid, but couldn't you have a database of companies looking for a job ("need 8+ PHP, 6+ MySQL") and developers ("have 7 PHP, 7 MySQL, 9 Ruby on Rails")? Of course, actually getting that going would be difficult, but Monsterboard et al. seem to be making a lot of money...
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It's relevant because it's a counterexample. Now people can't say, "If Lisp is so good why don't people win these things with it?" They have to say things like this instead:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1961546

Obviously the OP is relevant for other, better reasons than this, but that's what my comment meant.
I am in this position as well, learning to code and work on my idea at the same time. Very interested in hearing about what resources and tools you used!
That doesn't hold any water. If your only choices were investing in $MY_COMPANY at a certain margin payment per month, or putting 80% of that amount of money through a paper shredder, wouldn't it make a whole heck of a lot more sense?

Your analogy just doesn't factor in that you have to pay for housing in some manner. Then the argument is rent vs buy, I'm currently on the rent side of that fence, but for plenty of people the rational, responsible, decision is to buy.

You haven't actually addressed my original point, which is that blaming the people who got screwed in the housing market ignores any facts about how they got into forclosure. You had plenty of people that put 0 down and their income could never possibly pay for the loan they took out, those people are cupable. There were other people that had a mortgage they could pay for, a large amount of cash in the bank, and were trying to pay off the loan in good faith and got screwed by circumstances outside of their control. I don't blame the people who got screwed by a black swan event they didn't see coming. A lot of people whose job is to invest every day all day missed it coming.
I wish... Part of the problem is that FTP is still built into today's browsers, so many people don't even know that they're using FTP, it's just a link they click. Luckily IE removed support for password in FTP links a few releases ago, but still.

HTTP is ok for small files, but I'm often on unreliable links with big files to up/download, and browsers implement 'resume', ehm, let's just say 'not so well' (it's a server thing too, to be honest). Anyway I've used scp for years myself, and I've tried getting others to use it, too; I mean winscp isn't harder than any ftp client. Some would grudgingly accept if I made them, others would just say 'I can't up/download the files'. So I've given up on that part of trying to improve the internet :(
Terrible, although I am smack in the middle of selling my house and moving from the east coast to the west coast, so perhaps this wasn't a great time to try to build and launch an app.

I really like the idea of setting a deadline to launch an app though. November wasn't really a workable time period for me personally, but it would definitely be helpful for me to set a deadline and possibly make it public so it would force me to really get something done.
Looks like a great implementation. Maybe have a couple of demos on a landing page that use something other that the placeholder text.

If you do get any traction though you might attract the attention of the copyright holders the videos are based on. Did you get any legal advice on that before putting it up?
For some reason this reminds me of what OS/2 did to try to gain market share from the Windows world. They included the windows libraries to be able to run Windows apps on their OS in the hopes to keep people from leaving them for Windows.

Didn't work out for them.
Ha! Since I 'discovered' this I've used it nearly daily in preparation for Christmas travels as well as gift shopping for friends around the country. I had a suspicion that you were a HN-er.
How to get rid of unit tests (Ruby Scottish Conf video).
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Was Paul trying to coin the word "tablet" for these kind of devices? I don't know how this is anything new, I have read of the iPad "tablet" or "tablet computer" many times.
I have to say this is pretty genius. This could take e-cards to a whole new level. Suggestions: some of the text is impossible to read - I had to guess what the registration form fields were. But the rest of the design is nice. Also it's slow. I know you're doing video rendering, but if you could find a way to cut down the render time, you'll probably up your retention and repeat rates. Also you want to be able to add a longer message at the end of the video: the video is the "front" of the card, the end message the contents. Plus get your cost down to a dollar.
Interesting. So I would have:

Toilet cleaner, tub cleaner, shower cleaner, floor cleaner, counter cleaner, mirror cleaner, etc...

The big drawback to this is that's a lot of robot maintenance. The vacuum is pretty easy, I just dump the dirt into a garbage can when I get home. Add five more robots for each bathroom... I will have to think about this.
Instead of selecting a meaningless location for the user by default I would suggest either auto-detecting their location or having them type in a zip code / location right away with a search form that's more prominent. I'd suggest moving the search form you have to the top of the page and moving the short code lower on the page while making it smaller.

This is a really cool app, but I almost left before I read the text on the left about how I have to click on the map before using it. Anyways, great job, just remember you have about 5 seconds to sell your idea to your users -- make their first interaction familiar and/or obvious.
Really poor title for the NY Times. The deaths didn't cause the government to lose money. It's not the government's money to begin with, it's the property of the people who died.

It's distressing to see the country's premier newspaper resort to linkbait.
I suddenly have the urge to watch The Professional.
This is a very unfortunate situation in our industry.

BizDev guy says he needs one of them "programmers" who can code and don't talk back to him. BizDev guy knew almost nothing about software development or the "properties of a system software". Business didn't work out because the software is flacky. BizDev guy blames them "programmers" when changes are hard, software is super buggy.

BizDev thinks he's awesome cause he has 3 things: Money, Network and Idea. Everybody should bow down to Money.

Programmers became hateful against the BizDev guy. They say "I can do this by myself, screw you guys". Then programmers try to re-create their ideal world: solving cool problems, working with cool gadgets, in a cool office environment. Some said programmers have to work in a close office, alone GASP. Of course these silos came up with a chunk of code that probably hard to be integrated. Them programmers try to hire BizDev guy cause now the VCs are on their butt asking how money could be made. Of course it'll be hard for them programmers to hire BizDev since they have a very strong bias. They probably ended up hiring Sales Engineer instead of bright BizDev.

Programmers think they're awesome cause they have 3 things: Knowledge, Skill and Idea. Knowledge is everything they say.

This... is why 9 out of 10 startups failed. That 1 startup that succeed? the BizDev guy has an MBA and BS in CS or EE. The Programmers? they took minor in economics/commerce or accounting.
Started working on mine webapp, but unfortunately other things came in the middle so I'm about 5% finished :\ I'm planning on completing it someday as we need it internally anyway. So maybe some day.
I launched http://bettermeans.com
Over a year of coding though, so it was luck that it launched in November
As a homeschooling parent, I always find this kind of stuff interesting. For reference, people should check out the following link (under "Practice Tests for State Exams") for relatively current standards tests for various states, grade levels, and subjects:

http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog:

http://www.quickbrownfrog.com
http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com

It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so far. I guess it's hard to compete with the many free typing tutors out there.

Still, I plan to keep plugging at it. I have no aesthetic sensibility whatsoever, so next on my list is to get some badly-needed design help.

Many thanks to everyone who provided invaluable feedback during the past month. I really learned a lot and had great fun developing it.
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It's written using NanoBlogger, which generates static HTML files. They're being served from a university server, which means powerful web server with nearly unlimited bandwidth. Hardly anything's static HTML nowadays...

Also it doesn't have dozens of plugins like so many blogs, so it's not hitting Facebook, addthis, last.fm, etc.
I gather this is how industrial robots work? I get a robot with a clean slate and then I guide it through the first few attempts at a task, then it does the same thing over and over again by itself.
It seems like this could be a good opportunity for us to make good use of newly available technologies. Not exactly sure how it would work yet but a Distributed DNS system could be implemented using CouchDB.

Specifically, CouchDB's ability to distribute databases to clients seems like the ideal feature for this technology.

"CouchDB is a peer based distributed database system. Any number of CouchDB hosts (servers and offline-clients) can have independent “replica copies” of the same database, where applications have full database interactivity (query, add, edit, delete). When back online or on a schedule, database changes are replicated bi-directionally."
Why would fixing the original vulnerability be more important than backups?
Very well done. It's nice and simple as software should be.
Well the facebook group is very verbose about that :
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952...

It's now a monthly launch pad group
Congrats! And will you be doing a final wrap up blog post about the process? If so, I am looking forward to it.
"The only problem is the interface. It’s simple and easy to get used to, but it’s also a trifle — dare we say it? — ugly"

Since when did an interface that was simple and easy to use become a bad thing? As a designer, I would take usability over aesthetics any day. Besides, most people go to websites for the content, not the design.
That is really, really cool.
I think it's worth pointing out that not only is the argument logically incorrect, it's based on incorrect facts. For example:

A: "Lisp sucks. If it didn't, we'd see it winning contests or something"

B: "But it has been used to win a contest. Besides, you're really bad at making an argument"
I launched CaptionMash, definitely need some usability / UX feedback though. http://www.captionmash.com
Is it really link bait?

The amounts in question are tax revenue that the government would have collected in other years which were not collected this year due to the one-year-only-exemption.

How is missed revenue opportunity not lost money?

The question comes down to semantics of how you interpret a missed chance at revenue, we can probably leave the question of the fairness of the inheritance tax out of it (for now).
YouTube, in my opinion, was a big financial mistake, it's never made a profit and was so expensive and has been so unprofitable for so long it's going to take a very long time to make a return on the investment for google.
Well, I have raised venture capital 7 times for 4 start up's. 2 of these companies were acquired - by the Walt Disney Company and Norwest Venture Capital. My learnings in all of these are that the moment Value seems to start building, your colleagues, your partners, the industry gets a whiff and VC's start calling.

In none of my 7 raises did I have to do door to door selling.

When I did, I never raised money!
I don't remember the Government forcing Microsoft to keep Office for Mac viable... I think that was Jobs' doing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#The_Micro...

I read that Cult of the Mac book, and in it Leander seemed to indicate Jobs' intention was to make sure people believed that Office would still work for Mac, and that the cash investment was a way of doubling down on the notion that Macs weren't going anywhere.

This is all based on my knowledge off hand / Wikipedia, so I definitely don't consider it bullet proof. If the government intervened, I'd definitely want to know.
Love it. I finally have a one-stop resource for breaking news for popular culture and other things outside of the web/tech/digital news that I spend the vast majority of my time reading.
Need a visualization system to interpret the current status of the 3D space, id tasks, prioritize and execute.

The configuration and the space consumed by the Robot will be the most significant challenge. Need a customized trussing system to enable the robot to move in the 3D space of a bathroom. Most efficient would be a track-based, ceiling housed system--depending on the size of the bathroom--think claw games you see in arcades. This would be a semi-perm install however.

Need a tooling system on a central locomotion/power actuating system. If using one central robot system, the tooling system will allow you to change "heads" between the specialized tasks of lifting lids vs spraying disinfectant vs wiping around corners.
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There is a quote that I don't know who to attribute to or even the exact quote but it's roughly "Only in Budapest can a man walk into a revolving door behind you and come out in front of you"
Bhavin, I am not a Novelty Writer. I am an entrepreneur attempting to share my experiences. There is no 'sales' pitch in the numbering of the blog
I would like this for just my "network", maybe people I follow and people they follow.