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I'll echo some of the sentiments already put forth: do you actually need funding at this stage? How much do you think you will need? Have you and your co-founder thought about asking your respective parents for seed money?

I think the answer to the question at hand is really quite obvious. Yes, since you are relatively young, they will take your age into consideration. They will also take into consideration your experience, your maturity, and similarly, your ability to handle responsibilities. I'll play the skeptic and conjecture that you probably don't excel enough in all three of these traits to make up for the risk presented by your age.

If that's the case, then at this point in your start up and with all things considered, I would say the best route would be to attain seed money from family, friends, etc. and once your start up starts getting buzz or generating nice revenue, you would be in a better position to start looking for funding from larger institutions or venture capitalists.
And many of those components going into these products come from elsewhere. A manufacturing company I worked with bought parts from all over the world and had few US parts. When I tried to increase the number of parts they were using from the US they said good luck and I failed because nothing was available and no one wanted to make what I wanted (for example I wanted 1,000 metal tubes bent, to make them into legs... there were plenty of places that I visited could do it but they didn't want to so it ended up being done in Mexico).
@schwabr21 I'd take him up on it if I were you! Too bad I'd already broken one of the rules with my semi-secret launch that's coming up...
I think the problem is whether the former Hudson community have a vote against a company sustaining an open-source project. When company's interests conflicts with the community ones, which interest will remain? I think the community decision is a pretty clear statement of what's best for the project. In a nutshell, we need a project that works for us, not for the company
> contemplated insurance fraud plus suicide in one swell foop

It's technically only insurance fraud if you commit suicide and manage to make it look like an accident (IE drive into a lake or river known for accidents and just don't try to escape) rather than actually getting killed (IE starting a fight with the nearest drug dealing gang banger after signing a DNR order).
I've noticed at least a 2 hour lag with Google Analytics.
Most people tweeting on the topic don't agree with you. Perception is reality in this case, despite their intentions.
Thanks so much for the tip! I think we fixed it now...

This is why Hacker News is so cool.
I've seen several cases where free or even paid software is pirated, rebranded and then re-sold, giving the original author no credit at all. Having the source code or not seems to make little difference in these cases, but it's certainly very simple to re-release a product using source code. Not everyone in the software business is full of ethics, morals or even a shred of respect for the work of others. It's a valid fear of being ripped off, even if you don't receive money for the software - not all value delivered to authors is monetary, as the vast bulk of people who write books will tell you.

The other thing with releasing open-source versions of software is that sometime, underskilled consultants build versions of your software with code hacks in it, and pass it off to unsuspecting clients. The clients then contact you for support, and you chase your tail trying to work out what is wrong, only to work out eventually that it's a rogue build of the software. This is somewhat ameliorated with a true open source project, but is always a risk if you are supporting versions of your software.
i think a big question is how much is B&N losing on each nook color sale? 7 inch IPS panel with a decent processor.

10 inch tabets over $300 don't make any sense to me. archos 70 and 101 seem like the only sane products for the casual computing market that doesnt already have an ipad.
Mind me asking what size Linode you are running EE on?

I have an EE install on Linode with nginx and MySQL, so I was wondering what I could expect?
I've hit #1 a few times (or, more accurately, links to my site have - I didn't submit them) and this roughly mirrors what I encountered. Between 20-35k extra pageviews spread over a couple of days.
no prob, good luck! :)
That is why I emphasized the word _let_. He doesn't have to editorialize their actions and responses. Those speak for themselves. Just share them on his blog -- he is not complaining, he is just communicating to the open source community the state of the Jenkins project. Let others comment and let Oracle damage its own image.

> what would have happened to Oracle?

Well eventually the same thing that happened to SCO ;-)

They are losing credibility in the PR domain even more. This is not directed towards the general public or even Oracle's corporate customers, but towards the hackers, sysadmins, and other tech workers. The opinions of those people matter however, and eventually they will be consulted by those that make purchasing decisions. A general mistrust and dislike of Oracle will take its toll.
Very valuable comment, thanks!
More so with our natural disasters creating huge demand for tradies.
I wasn't satisfied with the existing solutions (once again...) and thought somebody could do better. It might have to be me. Open to ideas and criticism!
Blatent plug - http://www.dyndns.org. No affiliation other than being a happy customer for over 10 years.

Edit - fixed the link ... Sorry for the IPad typing.
Interesting suggestion. Do you know if anyone is doing it this way?
Any press is good press. If people didn't know what Groupon was before this, they will soon. All they'll have to do is issue a big apology like they did in Japan, and people will move on to something else to pseudo-care about (if they really cared they'd do more than bitch and moan about a commercial).
just like to point out that IQ is not correlated with wealth when educational attainment is corrected for. that is, smart people without degrees don't do that well on average, contrary to the anecdotes.
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Good idea.
One suggestion: vary the colors of the columns. Green for quiet days, red for busy days.
pic got removed. Did you still got the conversion code?
The online programmer testing site mentioned in that story (http://codility.com) is pretty slick.
From a macro economic point of view it doesn't matter

If your stealth bomber uses $100 parts made in the USA or $10 parts from china with the difference going in the CEOs bonus - doesn't make any difference when the taxpayer is billed $1000
"In any case, I'm all for equality, but I'm also all for acknowledging human nature. Men like hot women, women like men with money and power."

I'm also for recognizing human nature. Like the fact that women like hot men, some men like women with money and power, and some women don't like men with money and power.

"So be it..."

The fact that men like hot women does not excuse objectifying them.
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That link doesn't seem to work...

Edit - great. :)
Interestingly enough, her mother, Esther Wojcicki is a teacher at my school.
>It wasn't a tough class, but it was useful and enjoyable.

Did you negotiate your grade at the end of the class?
On the other hand good documentation is essential if you want many users. I think that O'Reilly, Coriolis, New Riders, and the other publishers have had more to do with the wider use of open source in the last 15 years than ESR and the FSF itself.
Verification is easy compared to getting people to use PKI stuff.

I wonder what kind of inroads Facebook could make concerning public knowledge of crypto by allowing people to post cryptographically verified entries using an SSL client cert.
Not any more, you can get chinese 2 channel 50-60MHZ DSOs for $250. If you do your homework you can find the same ones that are badged HP or Agilent here
I was able to get shoehorn jquery-facebook-multi-friend-selector (https://github.com/mbrevoort/jquery-facebook-multi-friend-se...)
To work for a beautiful mobile app I am working on, that I hope to show off soon.
There were better ways to set type even back then, like the Selectric Composer http://ibmcomposer.org/ (1966). But yeah, things have improved quite dramatically.

My high school had a print shop with some old hand-fed letterpress machines, using real type. Now a media technology where you stood a good chance of getting your fingers crushed...those were the days.
The size of the columns already indicates that. I think varying the colors as well would be confusing.
I've been working on my project non-stop this weekend and yesterday was my birthday. Took a dinner and cake break and got back to it. When you're really into something, it's all you can think about!
His point about scons is unfortunately well known. You can find an explanation from Steven Knight (head of the scons project) about why scons failed for chromium on scons mailing list (http://old.nabble.com/why-Chromium-stop-using-SCons-for-buil...).

It would be interesting to see what would happen if they were using waf instead of scons. Waf is also in python, and started as a fork of scons (but is so different that it can now be considered as a totally different design and codebase). Waf is much faster than scons (easily one order of magnitude), to the point that I think it would be hard to be much faster without losing features and/or system specific features (notifying systems, using checksumed file systems, etc...).

Samba has been using waf for > 6 months now, and they seem quite happy with it. As a former user/contributor of scons, I much prefer waf now, and anyone interested in complete build systems should look at it IMO.
Very nice job. I don't have a use for it since I'm not in London, but I like your implementation and design. A comparison feature would be nice, so if you're uncertain where you want to go one day, you can compare activity.

You might also want to take a look into incorporating Spotrank data (http://www.skyhookwireless.com/spotrank/examples.php).

SimpleGeo is one way to do that (http://simplegeo.com/).
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That seems to be the consensus here too - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2187194
Sorl with Heroku WebSolr add-on would be the most obvious choice. I use local solr and it works great for my needs.
I'd say that web design in today's market is as deep of a rabbit hole as development and coding itself. You really have to know the fundamentals of design, grid system, the trends, psychology of UX, and know-how to using the software packages.

Once you have a good grasp of the fundamentals of design theory (golden ratio, rule of thirds, color theory) it's really easy to adapt to different trends as you see fit to what you're working on. I agree with what some of the other guys suggested here, a quick way is to just copy what other sites are doing instead of trying to invent something yourself.

By copying, i don't mean a verbatim clone of other website's visuals. Look deeper into how a site is laid out, where certain elements are positioned, and try to figure out why the designers visualized the content the way they did.

All this would be assuming that you have a good understanding of photoshop/illustrator. If you don't feel comfortable using photoshop. I'd suggest you to either spend some time to pick it up (sites like tutplus have some basic tutorials that are pretty easy to follow http://psd.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/interface-tutoria...), or you can just buy a prefab theme from themeforest like pius11 suggested.
Imagine when the next time around Google couldn't find a hero. Perhaps Microsoft will? There will be an endless race to finding a hero for the revolutions.

Bad idea all around, a slippery-slope no less.
I just set it up to run tests on an app I'm developing after each check in. It was amazingly easy to get running, and so far it's worked wonderfully.

Amazingly for a Java app, I didn't have to touch a single XML file. Everything can be configured through the web interface. Fantastic!
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Xoom costs more than the iPad, so what?
People usually think of money as a symbol for "stuff" because we trade money rather than stuff (yay! no more barter system!). But really, if you think about it, stuff is merely a symbol for energy. Wheat, or some sheep, or a sword or whatever is really a symbol for the energy that goes into producing such a thing.

When we talk about vast interstellar empires of thousands of starships travelling faster than light, we really should think about the vast expense of that. No doubt, the amount of energy required to build and maintain a fleet of such things would be tremendous, therefore it would be expensive. Consider this, the vast energies required for even a single ship to approach c (I believe I read someplace it would take the mass of Saturn to drive a resonable size ship to those speeds), now multiply that by any notional fleet. We have no modern notion of how to even convert that much mass (and drag it around).

In other words, sci-fi economy:modern economy::sci-fi energies:modern energies

Sci-fi economics could be truly fascinating as a sub-genre, but I don't know of any texts that do a decent job of it.
> Rails Guides is in there as an example of Tutorial type documentation and a way to leverage your project's website.

But see, that's what kept it from being really good in my opinion. Sure, it's an example of good tutorial-based documentation. The tutorial/reference divide seems kind of artificial to me though. It leaves you with documentation you can use as a beginner and documentation you can use as an advanced user, but nothing to help you move between the two. In contrast, django's documentation tends to be a good mix between the two.
Thanks Alex. I spend most of my time on linux, so photoshop/illustrator hasn't been an option, but the gimp and inkscape have. Still, I do have a macbook over in the corner and largely unused, so perhaps it's time to invest in some adobe software?
> Better still read the last paragraph first .... you may save yourself five minutes of reading.

Started reading, realized it wasn't worth my bacon, check the comments, found yours and read the only meaningful thing I could deduce from the article.
There's a reason why the Wii did so well out of the gate, despite being far behind technically. With an $800 price point and a data plan attached, the Xoom is a non-starter.
For those who don't know, Ubuntu is mostly Debian Unstable with a few packages delayed and a few pushed in earlier. In the experience of most people I know, it's normally slower to move than unstable but not that much better.

The debian unstable->testing->stable cycle is vicious, and on a production system it's actually very sensible - by the time a package is allowed to reach stable, it will have been rigourously tested and actually be properly stable.
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I'm not going to disagree with your general points, but I will say one thing. The reason no large governmental projects have taken place is because the idea is not compelling.

The push for the moon was extraordinarily costly - but an entire nation, the richest on earth at the time, was behind it. It was a national effort, a calling together of an entire people, a lining up of all effort and a relative lack of detractors.

There are plenty of prior examples of this type of cohesive effort - Britain in World War 2 springs to mind. But many others in prior history as well.

Therefore I would say the lack of decade-spanning effort is not because people now are different, there just is a paucity of generational ideas that get everyone excited. If something falls down on a partisan basis, then it's just not good enough as an idea to unite an entire people. History, after all, is really a long string of dull years punctuated by exciting events.

The LHC may be the last of it's type, but then how many people are really excited about particle physics, no matter how good the possible benefits might be? I would not say our attention span is narrowing, merely reverting to the mean.
Interesting, thanks. Just been talking to some people locally who said $65-$80 would be a likely range for NYC - so not too far off your estimate for FL.

Any idea if the rate would be better at a national agency (KForce/Manpower/etc) or a local one? Curious what your experience is since we seem to have a similar background.
A mob mind is rarely well-informed.
Normally I would not reply to anything in this whole thread because people are saying a lot of rather harsh things to you. But it may help to know that your perspective on how you wrote the text is clouding how the text actually reads to someone who is not in your own skull.

I don't know a single person who actually has a life insurance policy, but movies have taught us (rightly or wrongly) that people who buy life insurance policies and then talk about killing themselves to make it look like an accident, these people are trying to do so specifically because, in movie-plot-reality, and who knows, maybe in some actual contracts, suicide would not be covered.

The appropriate response here is to say "gosh I didn't think of that, you're right, people are likely to get the wrong idea since I didn't say WHY I was thinking about making it look like an accident." Simply saying "no no you're wrong, I never said anything like that" is fighting with the reality that what you think about what you say has little bearing on the most natural way that other people are going to perceive what you say.
My life has never been that simple. I have special dietary needs and a compromised immune system. And lung problems. I am considering some kind of camp stove. Smoke is not good for compromised lungs.

Thank you for the reply.
I spoke about exactly this at a recent conference in Brisbane, Australia:

http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4697493

Beyond various companies working on an open source solution you have the more important benefit of being able to choose your support vendor.
yea I would definitely invest some time learning photoshop at least, it's the most powerful package up to date. Since almost all designers use it, it'll be easier for you to communicate with them knowing the basics of the software. Let me know if you need any other help in this area, I'll try my best to point you to some resources.
The problem with that is that it forces a negative opinion on busy days. What if people like to go where other people are?

Here's my suggestion: ditch the black borders on the columns and add very subtle shadows.

I really dig the idea, by the way.
Weighing a kilogram.
This is pretty cool. If I were in London, I'd use it.

You could integrate Google Maps to show you the least busy places in a certain part of London, so it could be used for "I've got an afternoon to kill. I'm over here; where can I go?"
Usually ordering a "flat white" while abroad results in either blank stares, or laughter. It'll be nice to just get a coffee.
One thing I believe sci-fi seems to always miss is the 'information economy.'

Sci-fi typically depicts contact with other races through spacefaring on FTL ships, and then trade being established through that channel. But I think it's exponentially more likely that rather than developing the means to travel into the stars, we (first) develop the technology to allow FTL or instantaneous communication. And from there we'd pick up other civilizations' signals, and soon we'd work out the protocols and have access to some sort of galactic internet. Communication technology has been advancing faster than locomotive technology for a long time now.

People always talk about the internet reaching a point where we all work from home - well there should be a corresponding 'work from your home planet' notion.
> Why wasn't "Lawyer Up" the first thing she thought of?

It's not clear that a lawyer would matter. Facebook would plead immunity under CDA 230 [1]. Facebook would claim that CDA 230 grants complete immunity to hosts for user-created content, and that the fake profile is user-created content.

The legal theory "you should have made your website better" has yet to gain a lot of legal traction. Maybe it should, but it hasn't yet.

[1] Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996
Thanks! Don't forget @ajaymehta helped as well!
It's overly melodramatic, yes, but that's not the most important thing wrong with this article.

> The Internet makes it easy to casually carve up real people in some cartoon world. A drive-by shooting, a stab in the dark. A fast, vicious punch to the reputation. Easy to do damage. And awfully hard to repair.

Nice call for internet censorship by the way, these are coming up more often recently. But that's not author's main failure here either. Instead the glaringly obvious problem with this whole viewpoint is her alarming ignorance of how easily more fake profiles could appear all over the place. For a borderline Luddite it may seem miraculous, but it's really not hard to publish disparaging content about a person. If someone really hates you, they will do something like this again and it takes very little effort. For victims hitting the "report abuse" button is always a good step, but other than that a healthy sense of detachment is clearly called for. Celebrities (I use the word loosely here) who are that prone to collapse from mind-bogglingly childish psychological assaults should probably not be on the web at all period.
You can do the same with Capistrano. However for a very basic static site it does sound simpler to just use a post-receive hook rather than having a script ssh in and do a pull.
Either you don't understand what I'm saying or you are purposely misconstruing my words so you can have a convenient strawman to take apart.
That's incorrect. They hold 20% of US Debt held by foreign countries. In the total scheme of things I think it amounts to somewhere between 6-9% of the total US debt.
agreed on the current, and the new one seems broken.
Another mistake: not clearly linking your book in the article in case people who read the article were interested in the book. I spent five minutes skimming up and down trying to find a link to the book because I was interested, but I couldn't find one.

I came here to write this comment when it finally occurred to me that your image might link to the book itself.

Edit: A preview or something might be nice, too -- I'm not exactly enthusiastic about buying it as an eBook without a preview after you talked about all of the formatting/OCR errors...

Edit: I am completely dumb. I missed the link in the introduction.
Depends on the trade, of course. But tradesmen work on different projects, travel to different areas, work with a range of skills.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that tradesmen != manufacturing plant worker.

I have a relative with a manufacturing plant. Their strategy is to try and out-niche the chinese. Their chinese competitors can dump finishing product onto the market cheaper than they can buy the raw materials. Thats' before the value-add of labour is included, with all the attendant taxes and benefits of the labour is paid for as well. The only way they can compete is to develop close relationships and fast turnarounds with their clients and hope like hell that's enough for them to ignore the price discrepancy. It generally depends on the final item being manufactured - anything competing in a fierce marketplace is going to go overseas at some point.

It's the unionised manufacturing sector worker that is getting smashed by low-cost foreign labour. And that is happening across all high-cost labour countries, Australia included.
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Yes, my team has been using it for about two years to build over three dozen different projects. Great project.