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I agree, that would be a very beneficial thing for science and compsci in general, not just startups.

Actually, I was EXTREMELY disappointed with our second level computer education (in relation to computers). Out of my class, only one other person went on to study something computer related (and not a computer science degree). The school made little effort in trying to promote such things and instead focused on the usual (mechanical) engineering and business type things that are (or were when I was in school, anyway) so popular. Yet those are industries (as far as I see, anyway) badly affected by the recession. Schools, in my experience - I'm sure some are better than others in this respect, put much too little emphasis on computer education, even though it has become such an integral part of most peoples lives and certainly of business. I think some solid computing and programming education for primary level children would be a great advancement for our country, but honestly, second level education is so lacking in that area that I think any additional computing-related education would be beneficial.

In fact, it should be a mandatory part of education for everyone. Even if most people are disinterested and do something else, the problem solving and analysis skills would serve them well whatever they do. It would also expose people to computers and programming who would otherwise have overlooked them. For example, all this hype about getting women into computing could, in my opinion, be tackled by introducing everybody, male and female, at an early age.
I was at the lunch he mentioned - we have a good startup community here in Utah but it was surprising to see the number of people that showed up to hear him. I hope to see the number of scalable startups in Utah increase over time.
There is one exposed in Germany at the "Technik Museum" in Speyer. The story behind that particular model is quite amazing.

Taken from : http://speyer.technik-museum.de/node/647

"After the end of the Russian space shuttle program, a long odyssey began for the BURAN OK-GLI. In 1999, after 10 years of storage, it was shipped to Sydney where it was exhibited as a tourist attraction during the Olympic Summer Games. Subsequently the shuttle was taken over by an investment group from Singapore who was planning a world-tour with the BURAN. However, the first and last station of the tour was Bahrain. Due to financial differences the shuttle was seized and put into storage in the harbor of Bahrain. In the summer of 2003 the BURAN was acquired by the museum but transport to Germany was delayed because of legal struggles for five years. In early March 2008 finally the time had come - The BURAN was loaded onto a cargo ship. The voyage to the Technik Museum Speyer could begin."
Sorry, but this is a ridiculous argument. What good are those savings when something goes wrong?
I am in Northampton for the transport links you mention, the reason to setup in London is however simple the majority of good people in Northampton are commuting to London. As you say its about 50-70% of the cost of living in London but still accessible
CMD-` doesn't solve the problem, if you are in an application and you want to bring up a window from another application you still have to use CMD-TAB. But this brings up all the windows from the other application.
I think it means he is not looking at you as a technical co-founder. He's looking at you as an early hire. From his point of view, he has the expertise, the money, the assets, etc... you are just a resource.
Disheartened with technology during the lull after the first dot com bubble burst, I went to law school.

After finishing up and working at a law firm for a year, I realized that I'd rather fail at startups than do that for a living.
For anyone who doesn't want to use Terminal for file system navigation, a Finder replacement is a must. I'm constantly amazed at how terrible Finder is at its (relatively simple) job. Windows Explorer set the bar pretty low though.
There are a number of good Finder alternatives, each with their own perks. I won't steal your thunder here with a list, cause totalfinder is one of my favorites.
Way before 2002: lynx -dump example.com
You're totally right, I just skimmed the comment before I posted, my bad.
Exactly, that was my point. Applications and "CMD+TAB window groups" should be separate concepts.
Collective group buying and live music in your city?
What the hell is innertoy.com?
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It's not bad - you can crank it out for quite a while. When you pass 2xbw on the squats and 2.5xbw on the deadlifts (which are done at 1x5) it starts to get tougher.
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Ask HN: How do you handle an impersonator?
Hi,
I work at a non-tech startup (financial services industry, not evil), and we're having trouble with someone trying to use our firm's name for their own ends.

We first found out about this through one of our founder's friends who was based in the UK branch of a major bank. He told us that instructions had been given out to ignore emails and calls claiming to be from my company. Till date we have never spoken with them, but they are a long term target we hope to convert.

We've seen internal emails discussing the issue, and it seems this individual had called multiple times to obtain phone numbers and names of people in the department. Bizarrely, he tried to impersonate the Financial Times and our firm in the span of ten minutes. Fortunately his voice was identified and the bank sent out an email letting people know he was a phony.

We suspect that he was part of some sort of unscrupulous recruitment agency, since he was primarily focused on getting names of people to talk to. We figured it was best to let the issue slide. A key fact though, was that the faker knew that we were active in country A, and at one point said that he was based out of Country A.

Now a few weeks later, we found an account on LinkedIn trying to masquerade as a Director of our firm. The account is based out of Country A, and I suspect that it is the same idiot trying to run another scam. I've spoken to LinkedIn and I am getting his account flagged, hopefully I can prevent some of the damage he may end up doing.

It is particularly painful for my company - our reputation and brand is one of the most important assets we are building up, as the industry really values trust and security when dealing with its vendors.
We are worried that a reputation we have spent 4 years building up is being damaged by some dead beat, who we cannot figure out how to get a hold of.

Has anyone faced something similar? If so, how did you handle it? Any advice or suggestions are welcome.

PS: Please excuse my word and sentence usage, I will try and clarify as much as I can. Thanks in advance for any thoughts or input!
I wonder what he was trying to say.

Okay, taxes are lower there than in Germany or France, government spends less - but what are the effects? Do people live better there than in Europe? Are there any companies that prefer to do business in Mauritius rather than in Germany because of lower taxes?

I understand that libertarians see low taxes and governmental nonintervention as good things, but his point would be much stronger if he showed any positive effects of these factors.
The article's rubbish but some of the comments are amazing though.

Like the fact that the guy in charge of HTML(5) closed a feature request for DRM as WONTFIX with the blunt comment "DRM is evil".

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10902#c8

And the guy (from Opera?) explaining how to do basic server side obfuscation of HTML video/audio file links to equal basic Flash obfuscation.

http://www.webkitchen.be/2011/01/26/stealing-content-was-nev...
Try to understand what went wrong, take a break, and scout for the next opportunity, patiently.
+1 on Starting Strength. It helped a lot with my form.
Hey Adrock,

From this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140643) thread:

Inconsolata

Liberation Mono

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono

Terminus.

Menlo.

Monaco

andale mono

More fonts listed in:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-fo...

by way of ambirex
This happened on the 2009 Christmas episode of Bones.

A guy gets forced into a suicide bomb vest and then it's prematurely detonated. The trigger turned out to be a radio signal from a nearby pirate radio broadcaster who happened to be on the same frequency as the bomber's detonator.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541172/synopsis
Hey, I'm the author of the linked post. More than happy to answer questions...
>I think that some people might have had the same worries about paid user/customer support (messing things up such that people had to call us would lead to revenue).

That's pretty easy to fix: provide an acceptable level of support without charging for it. Then it can't be an incentive. In fact, in that case it can only be a motivator to have good software because support would just be a loser for google.
TotalFinder is awesome; but I want my rounded corners back. :(
The GC issue deserves more light shed on it. Its a critical failure of most modern application environments. There may be hoops to jump through to ameliorate its effects, different on each platform.

Why not explicit language features? Animation is a niche but pretty important to many of us.
I'm a hater of the App -> Windows paradigm. I just brought up two finder windows, minimized one, CMD-TAB'd to Chrome, then back to Finder, and finally no amount of CMD-` would make the minimised Finder visible. Plus, just how many mouse actions does it take to tile two windows? Two in Win7, a whole lot more in OSX.
And for anyone reading, Inkling is an early YC company. W06, if I remember right. (Hi, Adam!)
Yeah I don't get it, they most be targeting something specific or using telnet to create a botnet and what is seen is communication between those bots? This article is light on details for sure. One thing I can think of using telnet for to attack the wireless network itself? Is telnet widely used for wireless tower equipment and such?
Duff's ignorant anger is why the program was killed.
Might as well mention some local chocolate-making startups that pay particular attention to their sourcing in areas with HN readership, to try to avoid this problem:

SF Bay area --- TCHO. Factory and shop between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building.

Boston area --- Taza. Mexican style chocolate made in Somerville, just over the Cambridge line.

Bonus: the stuff tastes a hell of a lot better than what's on sale in supermarkets.

Clickable:
http://www.tcho.com/
http://www.tazachocolate.com/
"Power user" replacements for OS X default apps more like, very questionable list that is...
No more so than buying insurance against terrorism.
It's the opposite, I recommend you check out the work of Steve Souders, his blog and his books (http://stevesouders.com/). The general idea is that the server is going to be speedier (through a combination of hardware than caching) than the user's machine. And there are a lot of old machines out there.

Souders estimates that around 80-90% of a site's slowness has to do with the time it takes for the browser renders the page, js slows that down.
I have challenged myself with the same question. After giving Ubuntu another chance, I realized how frustrating its inconsistencies are. For example: "cmd+,".

Maybe I haven't been with Ubuntu long enough to see through these slight details, but they make all the difference for me.

Another solid advantage is that when you hit a wall on Ubuntu and start googling around for a solution, you typically need to sort through several pages of "What's your configuration". On OS X, there is no such issue.

Disclaimer: I'm probably not a power user by HN's definition.
Exactly. And now Lion is going to apparently emphasize full-screening apps. This is a complete 180 by Steve Jobs who has hated full-screen apps as long as I can remember.
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A good part of that though is circular; it's where the 'good' jobs are so people go there for the jobs so the companies set up there because that's where the 'good' people are and... I've worked in enough much smaller towns that could still draw good staff from the surrounding area. Note 'good', I'm not convinced it's more than perception.

The distances I've known people commute over the years horrify me; I know I would take a lower-paying job if it in return saved me something of the 90 minutes per day or or 8-9000 miles a year I've had to drive. From the staff I've known commuting between towns over the years, I find it hard to believe that a company offering good work and reasonable pay in a large town couldn't draw the staff and within a reasonable commuting radius of Northampton as the town in question you've easily got a 1m population, maybe more, let alone the 200k or so as the immediate local work force, keen to cut down the commute.

EDIT: I should add part of the company location suggestion is ease of reach for clients / partners, rather than staff lifestyle. Give yourself a hypothetical 10AM meeting and look at the percentage of UK business you can reach without an obnoxiously early start. London and West Midlands obviously, Thames Valley, pretty much the whole home counties, much of East Anglia, Oxfordshire, Leicester / Derby / Nottingham area, even up as far as Sheffield or Stoke.... Get yourself on the morning flights out of Luton and you've got Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels too at little more cost. A very powerful reach and in a cheap, densely populated area.
I want to know how one actively becomes a 'double agent' - anyone know any books that tell the 'story' here or in similar cases?
I recently had a (current) YC founder approach me online about interviewing for a job. He messaged me on Quora soon after I'd posted a spate of answers for a chic programming topic.

We set up a phone screen the next day and then he silently hung up halfway through my answer to the first question. He'd asked "so are you a dev or a designer or what" and I guess "I configure and integrate custom enterprise software packages" was the wrong opening for me to use.

I'm going to have to assume we wouldn't have been a good match.
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I prefer KeepassX for password management. It's a little more hands off than its more browser-oriented counterparts. It's also free, open source, and cross-platform.
You are correct, but for what's it worth the market was intended to be for security experts. Not just anyone could place a bet.
If charging by the gigabyte is ridiculous, what is AT&T data roaming on Rogers for $15/MB?
That's some pretty bad math. That analysis uses the average characters/message for SMS, but uses the maximum characters/letter for postal delivery. The average is probably less than a page.

It also double-counts SMS costs (for sending and for receiving), but doesn't double-count the ISP bandwidth costs.

Still, I agree with its conclusion: there's no good reason for texts to cost so much.
That really depends on your personality type. I don't mind sharing at all - I've been doing it frequently for a number of years now (I'm 32).
I don't find that VLC is a good replacement for Quicktime Player. I often have problems with VLC playing audio streams (frequent rebuffering, often freezing up completely), whereas Quicktime will play the same stream faultlessly.

Edit: I do use VLC though, it's great for other things, just doesn't replace Quicktime for me.
Thank you for giving Aristotle some credit! Even though modern science has been able to correct some of his ideas, he was an amazing intellect and still has much to teach us.
My research involves making electronic agents to mediate interactions in markets, with one application being to prediction markets. One of the things I've discovered is that prediction markets where prices influence events are significantly more complicated from a theoretical perspective than a standard market. In such markets it can be difficult to predict how rational agents will act, even if they care only about their risk-neutral monetary payout and not about the events in question.

For instance, one of the new trends in prediction markets has been corporate elicitation (e.g., Inkling Markets YC W06). For instance, a market might ask a pool of employees "When will product X ship?". Now consider the employee's problem. He knows the product will be delayed until November at the current pace, but that if managers see high November probabilities they'll cut back on the project and re-focus development efforts (or, perhaps instead, shift some staffers over to get the project done faster). How should the employee trade in this market?

If your answer is "it's unclear" then you're exactly right. The self-referentiality of prices (they cause actions which then define prices) makes the problem much harder. It's actually possible to design markets which are so self-referential that any trade will be the right one (the market prices are self-predicting prophecies) or that any trade will be the wrong one (e.g., if there's a high price on terrorist attack Z then the government will always spend enough money to prevent Z from happening).

In fact, the only way around the paradox is to have the prices in a prediction market not matter at all - for the managers to take the same course of action regardless of the prices they see in the market. But then why run a market in the first place?

The whole thing is an interesting and seemingly fundamental perversion of the way we normally think about prices. And again, this is without any malicious intent on the part of participants, which will certainly only further confuse things.
That stat refers to the first month of sales. I would imagine "normal" people neither time their purchases to coincide with Apple product announcements, nor like to pay early termination fees to be the first on the block with a new gadget.
My biggest frustration is that people care about the motto of a public company. It doesn't matter what the motto is, they're in this to make money. They're not going to turn down billions of dollars because of some nonsense written on a wall.
It massively depends on who you're living with. There is a big difference between living with a bunch of people you just met on gumtree and living with your closest friends you've known for years.
So the plan is to get into heaven on a technicality?
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I downloaded the TotalFinder trial a few months ago and used it for about 20 minutes before throwing a wad of cash at you.

It's a really great Finder replacement. Especially if you're rocking a 13" or smaller screen. TotalFinder is the first app I install on a new machine.
It's also a much nicer place than london. And they managed not to make the mistake of having an entirely speculative property market like the UK has.
I've worked at 8 jobs in my life, only 1 was a regular company.

Of the 7 startups 3 survive to this day, one so mutated as to be unrecognizable, one identical to the day it started (still small and struggling), and the one I'm in now.

So that's, what, 4 failures? They each failed a different way. One bought by Unisys and integrated into their bureaucracy, one bought by Dell and cancelled, one never got funded (could have, but the chief founder wouldn't take anybodys money with strings attached).

Or were those successes? Made me who I am, was a great trip with some truly amazing people, I still keep in touch with dozens of those colleagues. Got paid along the way, saved a bit, own my house and some property.

Only one resulted in any money for me, putting my kids thru college, not rich but a nice bonus. And I'm still working, got the job thru an old friend that recommended me 20 years after we last worked together!

Its a way of life if you want it, welcome to the new millenium.
I use: Emacs for editing/coding, mail, chat, task management, and calendar; Terminal for file system manipulation; Safari for browsing, though Chrome is nice too; Preview seems fine for PDFs.

Not much else on a daily basis.
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No. Absolutely not. Are you being sarcastic? I would never buy a phone that vibrated every 5 minutes, that would drive me insane.

That's yet another way to show that the terrorists win every single time. What better way to change the world than to force every single cell phone to annoy the bloody hell out of its user? Who needs to keep killing people when you're able to constantly and continuously annoy every single person in the Western world?
Lisp and Forth are both very simple systems in terms of basic concepts, and push them to their limits.

Both are quite flexible.

Forth often runs on the bare metal, and exposes everything below. Lispers are customarily more shielded.

Both encourage code to be treated as data and vice versa (without even looking at macros), but Lisp builds on the lambda calculus to do that, while Forth just sees code and data as being contents of memory.

In Forth if there's a bunch of data flowing into a word, you might put the number of arguments on the top of the stack and the other arguments below. Lispers would run away screaming from this manual and error-prone approach.

Lispers like to build e.g. their their own object system, if necessary. And in Forth it's easy to tag on a garbage collector---from within the language.

I hope that's some meat to back up my assertion. I hope I got some good examples. What I really want to say, is that the languages feel related in spirit. But less like brothers, more like to generals from opposing armies still respecting each other.
I very much agree here! Ubuntu's 90% of the way there, but when you're used to things like Cmd+, for preferences, not having it is frustrating.

That said, more and more I'm moving to the cloud for doing things that aren't Emacs or a shell, and I'm thinking that Ubuntu and a tiling wm are all I'd really need to be productive. I've tried in the past but it just never seems to gel for me in terms of usability.
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Unfortunately there are a lot of kids living on the street in scotland. It really surprised me the first time I went to Edinburgh, how many young people there were sitting in doorways. A lot of them didn't look like they'd been there long either.
When I tried it, I was annoyed that new tabs didn't open instantly; it seemed there was a significant delay before it opened. Also, when I had minimized windows and switched between Spaces, sometimes the finder window without the tabs would reappear unminimized, which was really annoying.
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The first order of battle would be to figure out who this is.

Once you've done that and it turns out you are in the same jurisdiction or one where you think justice will be done you could have a lawyer draft a nice C&D and send it off to him by registered mail. It's all fun & games until the doorbell rings.

If the impersonator is abroad and in a jurisdiction where he won't be bothered likely the harm they can do is limited.

If he is near you and he does not stop then the next step would be to sue him for trademark breach and anything else that you think will stick.

What I'm wondering about is what he is trying to achieve, have you figure that out? Is he trying to damage you, steal your customers, defraud someone?

Knowing the perps goal will go a long way in to figuring out a strategy to deal with him.
I don't think you can do that; please correct me if I'm wrong.