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I think we already have. They call them Super Angels, and YC is one of them.

Prosper style? I don't know. I think that would already have been done if it were viable. In other words, something would have to change fairly dramatically for us to see that.
I don't think it's either, just a rant about how natural languages need to MAKE SENSE DAMMIT!

It's a common failure among the half-educated.
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"Do You Want Me To Throw It on the Ground?"
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I intentionally never ask "who's hotter," only "who has the best picture." I want to avoid alienating people and still have some emotional strings
Google already has some great native apps (the google app and google voice for iPhone). They seem to only use native apps in cases where some functionality isn't available in the browser, e.g. push notifications or accelerometer control and speech to text.
Doesn't that title still belong to Sierra Leone? Or perhaps Liberia? http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm
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Ask HN: How many downloads/day do you need to be in Top apps in AppStore?
Followings are some examples but if you have any other cases, please share you experiences.

http://www.quora.com/How-many-downloads-day-do-you-need-to-be-a-Top-10-Free-iPhone-app

Top 10 free is roughly 30K-120K downloads per day. We had a top five free app getting 120K in one day with an overall rank of #3 before dropping.

http://www.quora.com/How-many-downloads-do-some-of-the-Top-50-free-iPhone-apps-get-per-day

Apps in the top 10 free can range from 50-100K+ downloads a day with the number one free app having the potential to get even more with the correct marketing.
ingdirect.com has a checking account that gives 1.25% APY with a balance over 100k

http://home.ingdirect.com/products/products.asp?s=ElectricOr...
HN has a rather specific audience though. Reddit and 4chan have a fairly general audience in comparison.
> Do I have a mental illness?

Yes, if you want to kill yourself you are "mentally ill". But as you are aware, mental illness is not defined by right and wrong, by rationality and irrationality, but rather by normality and abnormality. If you are unable to conform to societal norms without suicidal ideation, then with respect to society you are unquestionably "mentally ill". Michel Foucault's "Madness and Civilization" isn't exactly on point, but might be encouraging reading if you fear the label.

So "mental illness" isn't really the point. But are you right? About the world, probably. It is not the way you want it to be. It certainly doesn't seem simple, happy and loving to me. Is suicide the answer? It depends on the question. If the question is "Would killing yourself make the world more like you want it to be?", I'd have to think the answer is 'No.'. Beyond that, I confess to being stuck at about the same point you are.

Earnest Becker's "The Denial of Death" is an attempt to answer such questions honestly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death
Not when the ads come from different domains (which is the case for 99% of the annoying flash ads). Adblock stops all requests to these domains. Incidentally, this is also why Adblock is a hit with privacy-conscious people - it mitigates tracking through log file analysis.
I agree, it shouldn't overshadow other stuff. But that's the odd thing about those kinds of issues -- they tend to overshadow the work anyway.
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If you're properly serving XHTML 1.1, you're supposed to use the application/xhtml+xml Content-Type, which means browsers are supposed to FAIL to render the page if there are any well-formedness erors.

It turns out that's a really bad idea on the Web.

Further reading: http://diveintohtml5.org/past.html
I read about BitBucket in passing, but I might look into them now too. Imitation works for me.

I'm becoming frustrated with Github. Do any links to github from google work? I'm tired of cleaning up old blog posts with links to Github. Github has the most beautiful 404 page. Geez, I wonder why. Github's site and issue search are practically useless. Github feels like it's built on a house of cards.

I went from SourceForge -> Google Code -> Github -> what's next?
For many generations the American moral view, like most everyone else's, has included taxpayer-funded programs that promote the general welfare. The only debates are about how much and which ones. Anarchists and libertarians have found negligible traction with the voters. If they want Somalia, they know where to find it.

As for "they'd pay more voluntarily", I just don't believe they'd go to all the trouble to dismantle our one crude solution to the free rider problem if none of them intend to become free riders. Usually when anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.
Was the features list not compelling, or simply too little?
agreed, but it seems that's going to change and native apps (even when the functionality is available in the browser) are on the way.
How about the fetch and push man pages:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.ht...

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.htm...

Even the summaries are terrible:

git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository

git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects

Now, I haven't been a git newbie in ages, but I imagine a beginner asking "what is this objects and refs about?" How about:

git-fetch - Download changes from another repository

git-push - Upload changes to another repository

(Warning: there will be lots of back-and-forth on the mailing list about doc changes. Old timers tend to want the man pages to be technically correct, even though I think this makes the documentation harder on beginners. I suppose the argument is that the man pages are reference type documentation, but I still think there's lots of room for improvement.)
Freebase wasn't built around RDF - they ended up emitting RDF because it made sense to do so, but the core APIs the service is built on are based around JSON, not RDF.
As I recall Germany and Switzerland do not have particularly good social securities. They both differ from Norway (the country in the article) by having very, very, very limited base health insurance. Their system is pretty similar to the US.
Thanks for letting me know about this. I wanted to stay away from making it a dating site but I think private messages would be a good feature to add.

I'm planning on adding some more granularity to the battles page if I ever get more users.
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Classical short-term thinking. Making more money of the consumers in the short term instead of making an infrastructure that supports richer applications in the future which will lift up the whole system and hence will provide more value for everybody.
To say that this study doesn't support the broad conclusion is being generous.
I have developed a similar framework also built on Xtext, but not Applause. The tool is cross-platform and generates back-end data services using PHP/MySQL and HTML forms for the mobile application companion web site. It can also connect to existing HTTP or SOAP based services.

http://www.moppr.com
This is kinda similar to a site I was thinking about doing - so you may as well port it and do it instead since you already have the codebase. The concept is "Who's the bigger douche" - pit Michael A. against Jason C. and so forth. :-)

Oh, good job - especially for a weekend project. Like others have stated, it wasn't immediately clear to me the function of the site at first.
I didn't know a couple of the acronyms from the article. Here they are in case anyone else is puzzled like I was:

CLA: Contributor License Agreement - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/20/open-letter-to-mark...

OCS: Open Collaborative Services - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Collaboration_Services
that page is purdy but it really should explain what it's about. what's the plan. all i can tell is that it involves Git and they want an email. to be more specific: what is it beyond what we already have today with something like GitHub?
In my case, I recently just put a repo on my own site. I access it over ssh, and it's visible over http using gitweb. Works fine for my hobby projects, and it's under my own control.
Indeed, but Canada has a long history of the government supporting business interests against the interests of its own population. I have a list somewhere that I prepared for an article that I intend to write about this, it's probably never going to happen because I can't get mad enough about it any more (since I've left Canada that sort of thing has gone on the back burner).
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good idea. a sort of pre-YC. could be worth it now that every YC alumni is basically guaranteed a $160k+ investment. (forgot offhand how much YC itself gives)
I had considered that back when I started it. Initially I was just going to develop more into Redmine and build it out into a central site, as it was really the only suitable candidate for something like this. The internals clashed a lot with my vision of what I wanted to do, so I made a decision to forgo using it outright, and just developing beyond it, referencing it purely for inspiration.

SCM/Project Management is very saturated at this point, and that's really my only worry.
There's a lot to be said about working in the same location. I never bought into the 37Signals school of thought that location doesn't matter, and can hamper productivity by way of interruptions.
Hrm. Thanks, I'll look into it and correct it. I could have sworn it was necessary at one point...
What I'm predicting is a ban on manual control in heavy traffic. Besides any throughput improvement, all-autodrive traffic will probably be safer, which is our priority (to an IMHO unhealthy extreme).
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Possibly. I mean in theory, correct me if I'm wrong since I haven't read any books on this type of stuff, VC investments always have a bubble like structure attached to it.

Every VCs nowadays want to find their Google or Facebook, so more and more LP's are investing into VC funds so all of them can get a piece of the social network / internet hype. If the VC firm's name is not Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins, or any well known firm name, it is probably not going to attract a lot of top tier entrepreneurs, but since they've already raised a fund, they got to invest somewhere.

In a way it's good for entrepreneurs, since there's a lot of available cash, but at the same time a lot of entrepreneurs are getting money for the "same ideas". So let's say 100 secret deals are made this month on new social networking sites. After a period of time, only one company will achieve high success, 4-5 are surviving and resilient, and the rests are gone. All this stuff is theory, but I'm sure if someone really digged into this, it can show that there's a lot of flaws with the VC industry.

But one thing keeps it going, which is winning. I mean once you start to win like Sequoia and KP, life is good. So I believe if there's competition, there's what people like to refer to as a bubble. Since not everyone can be a winner, there are always a lot of losers. I doubt there is going to be another dot com bubble burst, that just happened to be a crap load of bad investments faltering at once. In essence there's no that much theoretical difference between dot com bubble and the great depression.

It will just happen again and again because of Gordon Gekko's favorite phrase " Greed is Good"
Singapore has some advantages. It is small, so in terms of dollar-per-citizen, its infrastructure burden is lower. It is also located within kilometres of some of the world's busiest trade routes, both north-south and east-west; indeed its port is one of the world's most active.
I don't think so, better check on NVIDIA forums to be sure ...
1990 predictions by Ray Kurzweil in The Age of Intelligent Machines. Strangely (or on purpose) some topics are also in the OP:

Early 2000s

. Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages.

. Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words.

. Exoskeletal, robotic leg prostheses allow the paraplegic to walk.

. Telephone calls are routinely screened by intelligent answering machines that ask questions to determine the call's nature and priority.

. "Cybernetic chauffeurs" can drive cars for humans and can be retrofitted into existing cars. They work by communicating with other vehicles and with sensors embedded along the roads.

Early 21st century

. The classroom is dominated by computers. Intelligent courseware that can tailor itself to each student by recognizing their strengths and weaknesses. Media technology allows students to manipulate and interact with virtual depictions of the systems and personalities they are studying.

. A small number of highly skilled people dominates the entire production sector. Tailoring of products for individuals is common.

. Drugs are designed and tested in simulations that mimic the human body.

. Blind people navigate and read text using machines that can visually recognize features of their environment.

2010

. PCs are capable of answering queries by accessing information wirelessly via the Internet.

2020-2050

. Phone calls entail three-dimensional holographic images of both people.

. By 2020, there will be a new World government.

2020-2070

. A computer passes the Turing Test, becoming the first true Artificial Intelligence.

taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...
I understand and agree with your first paragraph, except I would sum it up as empathy.

Where I'm confused starts at "such people are very easy to spot...". Who are you referring to? The people who fail your test, or the people who exemplify this kind of intellectual honesty?
A corporation's rights and responsibilities just derive from the rights and responsibilities of those who own it.

It doesn't work that way, unfortunately; if it did there would be no reason to have 'corporate personhood' since the owners could simply assert their own right of free speech. A corporation can assert its own right of free speech completely apart from its officers or owners. In theory a corporation with no living officers and only the estate of a deceased person as a shareholder could nonetheless legally assert a right of free speech based on computer generated messages. Not that it's ever been tested. Angry mobs, on the other hand, are not generally viewed as persons, nor are parades, crowded beaches, or book clubs.

I'd think that in the case of personal injury caused by a corporation, if the corporation's full assets are not enough to compensate the victims, then the owners could then be held responsible to cover the difference.

It doesn't work that way, either. In the case of big liability, a corporation's owners frequently try to shuffle as much of the corporation's assets as possible off the books and then declare bankruptcy in the face of the liability. The personal assets of the shareholders are generally untouchable. Turns out that when you tell people their only responsibility is to create shareholder value, they take it pretty seriously (particularly if they're the shareholders in question).
QWOP - World's oddest iPhone app
www.hulu.com .
It's simple. It's easy to navigate.

Only bad thing is too many commercials. But the user interface is just awesome
Socialism != Communism

And there are many degrees of socialism.

In Norway there is socialism (to some extent) and start-ups.
Ask HN: As a startup, how do you do bookkeeping?
I'm interested in what solutions startups use for bookkeeping. Do you have a dedicated bookkeeper? DIY software e.g. Quickbooks, and do you actually enter everything? I just check my bank account... what's bookkeeping?

I'm finding that most people are January bookkeepers: Do everything at the end of the year for taxes.

I'd rather not have a dedicated bookkeeper, but want to keep everything updated.
"Each table in the database is one spreadsheet. You tell the RDBMS how many columns each row has."

If this is not a relational database this is still true. Correct? For instance, Google App Engine, pretends to be not a a table http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4731657/google-app-engine... but it is still a table with columns and rows.
Selling Internet access could become something like the next oil. Almost everyone in the US has to buy oil/gas, whether directly or indirectly. Therefore, that's a good business to be in. Internet usage, both in terms of breadth and frequency and data volume, will likely keep increasing. Therefore, getting into the business of selling access to it -- especially if you can sell metered usage -- could be increasingly lucrative. And it's a growing pie.

Furthermore, since so many mediums and industries are seeing their traditional cash flow streams go away due to the easy availability of free alternatives on the Internet, it makes sense that if you can't beat em, join em, and then just charge for the pipe to it all. So-called "pirates" can avoid paying for the official e-versions of digitizable media (songs, movies, images, encyclopedic info, sound effects, games, books, news, etc.) but it's much harder for them to avoid paying for the physical connection.
Agree with all of these points, except that I've never had to use a virtual keyboard; password entry does use sort of an odd widget, but I can type normally into the password field (typically Chrome/OSX).

Thanks especially for noting the linux problem; I'd forgotten about that.
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Does anyone actually use Interface Builder for serious iPhone development? I find the lack of control it gives you infuriating, especially when the fix would be only a line or two of code. I've seen some larger projects that use it when looking through the filesystem, but I've always wondered how they manage with all of its quirks.

Anyway, for an easier solution for Xcode-less iPhone development, I'd check out Theos by Dustin Howett (https://github.com/DHowett/theos). It's a set of makefiles (mostly used for jailbroken app development), but it uses the same tools and methods as Xcode and the binaries it builds are perfectly fine for the App Store.
Silicon valley romanticizes the startup life. We read about Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs and dream of doing 1/10 of what they did.

The reality is that the startup life can be hell, and if you aren't prepared to walk through fire for your startup, then you shouldn't do it.
How will an eventual ban (after every vehicle has auto-drive presumably) on manual control have any impact on the initial take-up of auto-drive systems? What you're talking about (if it ever happens) will only happen many years after auto-drive becomes popular.
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Damnit, you beat me to my bitching.
Quickbooks works well, easy to learn and use.
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It's both intimidating and exciting to read about what awaits me as an entrepreneur in a very early stage startup in such a straightforward manner.

I'm looking forward to it. :)
I have been programming in Java for 7+ years. I am responsible for several site that use struts 2 and Java. In the past year I have been moving toward groovy/grails. I have successfully integrated groovy scripts into production code running srtuts 2. I have also had success with placing an existing struts 2 application into a grails application. The beauty of groovy is that it is built on top of java and compiles to bitecode. Grails is just a convention over configuration approach to a groovy/spring/hibernate or jpa stack. You mantain complete control over all configuration.
In Norway healthy young men make the most money, so they pay the most taxes. Essentially it's a lot harder to get super rich in Norway, but then again it's a hell of a lot harder to become super poor. We find that if everyone is moderately rich things work fairly well.

Edit: And there would be very few healthy young men if there were no healthy young women giving birth. Just check out Japan.
Is this is a problem you face personally?
I'm not too far away on I-4 East
I would be surprised if that page wasn't at least 5-6 years old. Philip Greenspun founded ArsDigita which released the software known now as OpenACS. His thought processes were quite interesting and his theory on hiring the top .2% of the programming elite were radical at the time, but, proved to be quite on-the-money. The implosion of that company has been told on the net many different ways, but, some of his methods still hold quite a bit of merit.
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Yeah, but I actually find the less glamorous startups to be a lot more interesting and inspiring. Bingo Card Creator is one of the best examples of how to keep things simple, and it's working pretty damn well.
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Yea - sounds right to me. Perhaps even kill targets on the vehicles to limit? I'd think we'd get to unkillable bots pretty quickly with aerial ones - maybe I'm wrong though. Reminds me of the spinning blade bots that seemed indestructible...
While nobody will deny that startup life is hell, it also is very much as good as the Valley makes it sound for the right type of people. Most people aren't the right people though, so it sounds romanticized.

edit: To clarify, "right type of people" doesn't necessarily mean successful people, just people who enjoy this kind of lifestyle. Success is just a bonus.
I agree with Mystalic. You better be ready to drop your entire life for your startup otherwise you will not succeed. It's easy to say that you're ready but you will know if you actually are by the end of the first week at your startup.
I know I shouldn't. It may be a terrible thing, but I like to check in at a certain time, work for a predetermined amount of time, and then go home. I work to enjoy the rest of my life, I don't want my work consuming my life. I worked in a startup for a few years, and the way it crept into all the other aspect of my life was disquieting.
I agree with other commenters. The investor didn't give you the money to invest in, they gave it to you to invest in your business.

In Australia we have easy access to high interest savings accounts that can be attached to a regular savings account. So money you put in this account can't be accessed by an atm or used for daily transactions but you can put it into your main savings account instantly when ever you want. But for every day it is in this high savings account you will earn 5% interest.

Ask the angel investor they would also probably have some great ideas.

But focus on investing that money in your business. You have a burn rate of about $5k-$9k would increasing that burn rate by investing more into your business (people, sales, marketing, etc) help you reduce that burn rate quicker?

Anyway I have no idea what business you are in, but use it to invest in your business, that is what is was given to you for.
I don't know anyone who would mind pitching in a bit for a pregnant woman with complications.