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> Because they prefer leisure to work, even if it means they have less money.

Who takes bus at 4 in the morning to clean the toilets at your office and leave before you arrive at 8? The poor. Who does two different, hard and unfulfilling jobs to make end meet? The poor. Who has to spend 12 hours far from home but is paid only 3 hours? The poor. The poor have it much less easy than you and I, and your self-satisfied condescending attitude is sickening.
Did exactly the same thing last time I was in London. Swipe credit card on checkin and checkout at one of the half dozen or so terminals scattered around the lobby. In fact that was the only way to check in. If you went to the reception desk all they did was lead you to one of the terminals and walked you through the procedure. I don't get what's so "first" about this system, unless they mean first in Oslo.
You don't need an award for any of those things. The award recognizes the accomplishment only to those who cannot understand it. That's why it's silly. But there are other ways to recognize their achievements... like understanding what they did and why it's important. Yes in an ideal world it should be unnecessary...
So there was press, lots of live-blogging witnesses, and what would be an incredibly interesting statement by Eric Schmidt, and you can't find any record of it?

I'm sorry, but the most likely theory in this case seems to me to be that you're misremembering things, than somehow a whole room of other people were simultaneously rendered incapable of recording or publishing a very interesting quote from Eric.
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Other acquisitions that I would call successful (at least from user adoption point of view):

* Picasa (Picasa - Jul 2004)
* Google Earth (Keyhole Inc - Oct 2004 )
* Analytics (Urchin Software Corporation - Mar 2005)
* Youtube (YouTube - Oct 2006)

and probably many others from this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
Are your computer check-ins anything like your computer voting machines? All boarding pass destinations silently changed to Texas!
It scales. I ran WorkZoo.com (Time Mag top 50 website of 2005 - sold it the same year) and we scraped over 500 job boards and aggregated the jobs into a search engine. A team of devs developed and maintained the regex for each board and I managed them and I wrote the dev tools they used to develop the regex for each site we scraped. It was incredibly effective and maintainable.

Incidentally, the dev tools I wrote were in javascript and they created regex that we'd test in javascript and deploy in Perl. The regex engines are identical which is why it worked.

Scraper abstraction is for people too lazy to learn regex. Get a good book on regex, and learn how to use Perl's s/// regex with the 'e' modifier. It'll change your life.
Most VCs have ADHD - they see familiar slide formats and become irritated and impatient. This is also professional disease of many mid-level managers. Several years ago Intel was able to lay off 10000 middle managers to make decision making process shorter.

Not once I had investors looking for 1 millisecond on the slide and telling "Next". Only 5% of the stuff is drawn or written on the slide, I can talk several minutes about it, but VC understand everything from the 1st millisecond ;)

I like people who can ask questions about the contents of the presentation and not only about it's format.

One of the reasons of choosing familiar slide formats (like for example "Competition Quadrant") is that it's familiar, so you can go straight to the content without loosing time to explain the format itself.
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Not exactly.

A Googly is a type of delivery bowled by a bowler where the ball, after pitching on the ground, turns in the opposite direction of the majority of the balls bowled by the bowler.
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>all it does is turn away the cheapest customers.

which helps you....
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How screwed up is that ?
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cool. how long did you use to put this together?
It really isn't that difficult for a programmer to learn how regexps work and construct your own rather than relying on fragile tools.
Like you, I've been searching for a solution that works for a long, long time (and also a college student). For some reason, to-do lists never felt right to me. I'm not sure if it has to do with the inherent structure or design of to-do lists (and similar web-based concepts), but they just never clicked. When searching for the perfect solution I always ended up resorting to scribbling thoughts in tiny notebooks and on whiteboards - something that felt more natural and unstructured than to-do lists. As I would get things done, I would scratch them off. The things I wrote down were usually just thoughts (as opposed to "tasks") and never had associated numbering systems (for priority) or deadlines.

Eventually, I decided to scratch this itch with my first web-based app, Pocket. I released an MVP a few days ago and it gained quite a bit of traction here on HN, receiving thousands of hits and nothing but positive feedback. While building Pocket, I translated much of my experiences with physical note-taking to make the app feel as natural as possible, and I'm really pleased with what I have accomplished thus far. Over the past month or so, I've recorded hundreds of thoughts - everything from new Pocket features to songs I want to download to little miscellaneous reminders, etc. If you're interested, check it out at http://letspocket.com. I'd love to hear what you think and whether or not it suits your needs.
Awesome! Great for someone who is just starting out programming and has a hard time conceptualizing regex.
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A handful of gold. Im sure we all believe that we are in possession of the greatest idea of all time. Unfortunately, we cant all be right. But fortunately for that 1 in a 1000 the belief is absolutely and completely true. Now then imagine that you are that one person, how frustrating it must be in trying to convince the unconvinced as to your ideas merits. Its alot like handing a cow who has eaten grass its whole life a hearty and nutritious carrot. Its not the cows fault he doesnt like the carrot, its happy with the grass, completely oblivious to this delicious carrot. Average always begets average, and when that 1 in a 1000 above average stellar idea comes along it in turn requires an above average audience to see its lustre. Which by all accounts is a difficult task, since by rule average is everywhere. So all you can do is just continue plugging along, and eventually greatness will cross paths.
I thought this discussion was about a hypothetical future where Apple takes away the sudo access to MacBooks, too.
Why does everyone keep bashing on about.com? They've been around forever, have excellent content, and I even used their resources to learn a foreign language.
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This is pretty cool. Reminds me of a Defcon presentation that only used whitespace characters to encode the script (and a bit of boilerplate). I think it looks less suspicious than lots of symbols lumped together.

Here it is: https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-16-archive....

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-16/dc16-presentations/d...
That's rather odd you say this because i totally agree with you that users don't want to be aware of the UI and that is exactly why there is no tools everywhere one the screen like other softwares, so you can focus entirely on your artwork.

We made the choice of innovating in almost every aspect of this software (tools, UI, Design) and took some bold decisions that indeed the most conservative users might be not understand.
We are not named Psykopaint to do things the old-fashion way.
i can view it fine in chrome & ubuntu via

chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; WIndows NT 9.0; en-US))"
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Italy has its own Hacker News
It's called 'Italian Startup Scene' and is a Facebook Group. Its activity level is incredible, and it was born just in October.

1000 users, hundreds of posts, thousands of comments.

Italy has its own Hacker News:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_163895500288173
This reminds me of wordings from Osho (I will paraphrase from memory here): when we go to see a movie we immedesimate in the story and we laugh, cry, feel happy or sad based on what we see. Then the screen go dark and we remember who we are and go back to our real life. Our mind is like a movie screen and we laugh, cry, feel happy or sad based on the thoughts we "see" and immedesimate in. If we could turn the mind off we could remember who we are and go back to our real life
I have also written a blog post that discusses the webapp in more detail:
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It's neat using jQuery for this but I've found the arduous part of scraping isn't in the actual parsing and extraction of data your target page, but rather in the post-processing, working around incomplete data on the page, handling errors gracefully, keeping on top of layout/URL/data changes to the target site, not hitting your target site too often, logging into the target site if necessary, respecting robots.txt, keeping users informed of scraping, sane parallelisation of requests, and general problems associated with long-running background process.

All tractable problems with standard solutions, but it's difficult to accept the claim that the idea of using jQuery—which is still pretty neat IMO—now makes scraping easy.
Sanitize everything, use multiple redundant sanitizer libraries (there are several out there that handle different things), and use a whitelist, rather than a blacklist, based approach. If you want to allow the use of <a> tags, enforce that they adhere to the exact format of a safe <a> tag, otherwise encode or strip them. One look at the XSS cheatsheet page should be enough to convince any sane developer of the futility of a blacklist-based approach.
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At the end of every release notice they put a list. It is in no way complete though.

http://lift.la/ann-lift-22-release
So you make $100k a year working 15 hours a week, and you're worried...? Something is wrong here. I think you're asking the wrong people for advice. We should be the ones asking you for advice.
Agree, I wouldn't use that or any other tool to construct regexps, but I am using http://www.regexbuddy.com/ to test, debug, and refine the ones I've made.
Omena Hotels (http://www.omenahotels.com/) does this in Finland in several locations, and it works very smoothly. If you reserve a room in advance, you pay online and get a keycode or you can also just do chip & PIN at the door if there's vacancy.
it's a great group!
Scratch too, but, while both run on Smalltalk and are written extending the Smalltalk system, thy cannot be called Smalltalk.

Windows and browsers don't make a language visual.
Raises the question if it'd be reasonable to have the installer optionally run unit tests, if supplied, on the client device?
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You can say what you like about Microsoft, but their server stuff just plain works.

You never really hear stories about how to make it scale because so long as you don't go out of your way to shoot yourself in the foot, it just sorta scales on its own without you thinking about it. Every piece of the stack is crazy fast, and they're all built by one organization to work together.

In that light, it's not all that surprising that it works so well. You see a lot of bias against MS in tech circles, but this is one thing that they're actually pretty good at.
right. especially the comments (which are the part of TC, aren't they?).

for example, the comments to the posts of my beloved Alexia Tsotsis are of a certain colour! which says much about the microcosm
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Aw, spare a thought for the left-handers.
I think it's ironic 37Signals is listed under the Best Enterprise category.
a Facebook group. What a sad choice.
Python 3 is much more than a version number increment. Newbies are advised to use Py2 only because there are more libraries available for 2, and newbies are more likely to need more libraries. This is changing slowly but surely as more libraries go to 3.

2.7 is the last major release in the Py2 line. It's all Py3 from here on out, so people are starting to take Py3 seriously, as they rightly should. Python 3 is now the default distribution in Arch Linux and other bleeding-edge distros will be following soon. I'm kind of disappointed the major shift didn't start happening earlier, though the long cycle was to be expected.

"Stable" and "production-ready" Python 3 releases have been out for about two years now, by the way, so this definitely isn't a case of everyone jumping over just for a higher version number, and Python 3 has been "battle tested" for a while. I'm sure as the real heavyweights like Scipy start seeing real Py3 usage, cpython3 will get a lot of fixes and improvements.

We're just starting to hit "conversion critical mass" where everyone is beginning to see it's important to upgrade Py3 soon. I would guess in the next year most major projects will have ports underway if not completed, so the Python world will be undergoing a major transition this year, which may complicate things for a while but is for the long-term good of the community. :)
Sad Choice?
Ok, try to build a community of that level of activity and quality in three months.
Let's talk about it when you'll have it done :D
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For some reason, I can't imagine PG opening a facebook group.
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One of the founders in the YC W2010 batch had a very similar idea before abandoning it for something else.

Your decision to build on top of Twilio makes a lot of sense.

There is only a limited amount of radio stations in this country. And most of them are owned by a handful of parent companies. This is a good and bad thing. Good because you can easily find the buyers. Bad because this could turn into a time consuming enterprise sales process. And this isn't something you sell on the web with a website.

Good luck! I'm thinking there could be tremendous data collection value in this business model if you add a few more features after you've successfully sold the MVP.
Why should someone care of what PG would do? Trying to build something effective is source of much more fun ;)
Driving through Gilroy, I had someone light up my car repeatedly from behind with a high power laser. They must've been in another car, heading in the same direction. So, it's not just pilots.

If they'd done it from the front, or got a lucky reflection off of one of my mirrors, there could've been a serious accident.

It's a shame that there are so many people out there who can't act responsibly.
I personally hate greylisting. I use IMAP IDLE to get notified on new mails immediately, so I don't want the MTAs to bounce mails around. Especially since SpamAssassin works so good.

What I do is the following: SpamAssassin rules + Bayes (currently about 200k mails trained, 25% of them spam) + URIBL. I think I could even tune that with Razor and/or Pyzor but I get to few spam to actually care.

Since that, I've given up hiding my mail. On a long enough timescale, the probability that spammers get your email address is 1, so why bother?
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Why would you think that? From context, the topic of discussion was the merits of app stores, certainly not some sort of implausible hypothetical future where Apple cripples or discontinues the actual computers they sell.
well, all the deck goes to the dev/null.

it was crafted reading other advices like this.

well... i think i'll do everything reflected/filpped vice versa upside down on the slides. just that a VC could not say 'oh i saw that before 1000 times just with other names'. will catch their attention, make them think, use a system of mirrors just to read!
Making the warning page primarily accessible by the people that will actually be affected by the problem? Makes perfect sense to me.
I agree with what you're saying: there needs to be an algorithmic approach.

But I'd like to say one other thing. Why is Google only doing something about web spam now after people have pointed out how bad things have been getting? Has anybody considered creating a small team to just oversee public perceptions of the search results and try to keep on-top of things in the future?
Wow, I knew the + operator was weird, but didn't realise it allowed you to do stuff like that.

What I don't get though, wouldn't you still need to call eval() on it to do anything with it? Or does javascript do a 'implied eval' when you try to call a string?
Did you go down the route of hiring pros first and then just decided to go with friends for the voice talent?
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Not that I am too interested in PG either, but I was referring to a certain view of things. Personally, I would never subscribe to facebook for any reason, no matter what shining things are being created inside it. I wish you good luck anyway.
It really depends on what easy means here. Poor people might have to work more often and might have less physical comforts or conveniences available, and those things can certainly ease a subset of life's problems, but I wouldn't say that money automatically makes one's whole existence or life easier. I've known several individuals more affluent than myself whose lives, at least in my estimation, are much more difficult.

Money can take care of some things, and the things it helps are nice, but I think it's important for us to have some perspective.

Wealth comes with its own worries and some of those that don't have these worries ought to be grateful that they don't. Beneath its luster, wealth is often regarded as a destroyer. Think about it: of the the few that are capable of obtaining wealth, fewer still are able to bear it without destroying their own life or the lives of many surrounding. Wealth comes with burdens. Can you bear it?
original title was for PG/Y Combinator as "Angel Investor of the Year", but the title was changed...
While agree fully with your point that we should not judge things by the medium they are using, I cannot fail to see how most of the comments violate the guidelines of HN (take my comments with a grain of salt, I used google translate to look at ~10 conversations).

1) There is no karma system so there is no ranking based on quality. You can say that the number of likes can be considered as karma, but that does not rank comments or links.

2) Though people there can be considered civil, not all of the comments are particularly interesting. I come to HN as 80% of the conversations make me go "OMG, I never thought of it that way". That didn't happen here. But again I just looked at a small sample.

3) I don't care how many members you have, you may have 10 or 10,000 the question is, how many of them are actively contributing at least mediocre quality content. Judging by the profile pics I see, it cannot by more than 40 and that too is a conservative count.
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I am going to present a position paper at ICISD[1], this will be my first paper presentation. The problem is, I haven't seen any paper presentation even at local college techfests. That would mean I am totally blank about how all this actually works. Right now I am making a 10min presentation giving all the material I have in my paper. I think that should be enough to cover all the points in brief.

But I would like to hear about experience that you have had if you had presented a paper at such conferences or you have seen anyone present.

I am getting really nervous as they would be expecting PG students or research scholars only, I am just a UG student and I don't know how I got an idea that was worthy of getting selected in such a conference. But yes, I did work very hard on this. Anyways, the conference is on monday, hope I get some replies by then.

I would also like to have tips about how I can juice this networking opportunity to the fullest. I am a UG sophmore in US terms and would like to take up a MTech and PhD one day.

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No, what I developed for 5 years is non-transferable to other industries/niches. If I were to go into other industries/niches, I would have to start from zero again. What I stumbled upon is a niche within a niche. And the core tech is useless outside of the 1st niche. (if that makes any sense)
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What I find so odd about this whole Python 3 situation is how completely accepting the Python community has been in the face of what amounts to programming language suicide. How on earth is it possible that none of the web framework authors decides to break with the past and just ports to 3 regardless of any incompatibilities? Why is an antiquated web server interface like WSGI more important than the whole of Python? Why are the popular postgres adapters and many other libraries not ported to 3? I just don't get it.

Of course all these people work for free so no one can tell them what to do. But I'm honestly baffled. If I work for free over years and years, supporting a programming language I like, I don't let it die like that.

I have looked into some of these unicode issues myself and I have a general idea about what the technical porting issues are. It's not rocket science. It must be something completely non technical that's going on here and I don't understand it.

It's infuriating for me to see that happen to a language I have been using on and off almost since its inception.