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Ask HN: Local HN Directory?
Has anyone put something together yet that allows HN users to list where they live so that you can find others in your area to network with? I know we can use meetup to create local HN meetup groups, but I feel like it would be nice to get a quick list of people near me. Sort of a hnofficehours type thing, but localized.

If not, I'm thinking about hacking something like this together next week. The gf is out of town so I'll have some extra time, haha :)

If anyone else is interested in this idea, let me know in the comments or shoot me an email directly. If you have any ideas or requests, let me know that too.

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Does anyone know what the new features of this version are?
I can't wait for the blog post and haven't been following development closely :)
I used to use Quicksilver 3 years ago when Spotlight was unbearably slow on Mac OS. So what is the reason people use things like Quicksilver today? I personally find Spotlight to be everything I need. I can quickly open any application or system preference within seconds, all from the keyboard with Spotlight.
I replaced Quicksilver with Alfred[1]. I think its on the mac store, too.

[1]: http://www.alfredapp.com/
I added a bid for you. It is nice to see something that isnt a mlm scheme on flippa, not to mention is RoR.

I don't know if flippa is really set up for what you are doing either, but I did actually toy with the idea of starting a site that does more or less what you are attempting. The idea is that you put a basic website/design up, and people who place bids get to make suggestions. Each bid/suggestion combo creates a fork of the auction. Seller can choose to pursue only the highest bid of all the auctions, or each of the branch winners.
Location: Paris, France.

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An UI/UX designer

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It's worth pointing out that 'broadcasting' is specifically prohibited by ham (amateur radio) licenses and so Wired's advice to 'broadcast' would be breaking the license. Clearly, if you are in a country that's disintegrating you might not care.
Hence the 'mostly'. I'm saying that the relative efficacy of that approach is lower than generally believed. It's woods-for-the-trees, IMHO.
JiTouch is also a vastly under-appreciated mouse gesture enabler. http://www.jitouch.com
Well, that's partly right. Yes, clustrix is more expensive than the open-source databases.

But, companies like Twitter and Netflix certainly have the budget for Exadata (which is what clustrix wants to be when it grows up); they are using Cassandra instead not just because it scales on commodity hardware (the other price factor besides licensing) but also because it works across multiple datacenters which two-phase commit systems can't do no matter how big your budget is, and because its availability (failure tolerance) model is much more robust.

(Many NoSQL systems don't provide these advantages either, which is why lumping all non-relational systems together is usually not helpful.)
I think http://www.hackernewsers.com/ does that.
I'm surprised that perception would exist. It's really a shame if that's (in addition to JSON hype[1]) what has killed Atom.

The main difference between SOAP and Atom is that I can explain the latter to anyone in 5 minutes. Actually that's what some Google engineers have exactly done and you can find the results on YouTube.

And there's plenty of XML APIs and JSON APIs and each one of that APIs reinvents the concepts of feeds and entries, because those concepts are very natural.

Anyway, I understand that AtomPub just isn't very popular[2], but I was interested in any technical difficulties that may arise for both services providers and consumers. That is, if I were to implement API for NextBigThing and were to implement AtomPub-based API, could that be a problem for anyone?

Well, I guess it's a shame I haven't had a chance to get this discussion going while this story was still on the front page…

[1] Which went from "XML is too complex, fuck it; Let's just dump our internal data structures and be done with it" to "Oh, now I understand what that schema thing is supposed to do; it's kinda neat. Let's just re-implement it in JSON."

[2] Actually it seems extremely anti-popular if you just go to ProgrammableWeb and filter several thousand APIs by protocol; there's only one page of results!
Wow, never thought I'd see molybdenum in this context. When I worked at a light-aircraft production plant, I saw molybdenum all over the place; from drill bits to grease. Some parts were made from alloys containing molybdenum. Anything that was on the outside of the aircraft, and needed to be high-strength usually contained molybdenum. MoS2 was also in a lot of the grease we used. It has an interesting failure condition. Even if you overheat it, a small coating remains, which can help extend the ability of the component to function well outside of normal parameters. This is a really good thing in aircraft.

One thing they didn't mention in the article is heat resistance. Mo is fare more heat tolerant. Far, far better than Si. I know there is a difference in melting point and the efficient transmission of electrons, but given the other qualities of Mo, I'd think we could push chips made from this material a little further.
My alternatives:

Chrome + Vimium instead of Firefox + Pentadactyl
MacVim instead of Aquamacs
LaunchBar (or Alfred which is free) instead of Quicksilver
Divvy instead of SizeUp
has anyone out there actually used or evaluated clustrix? i haven't been able to find anything on the internet about this thing that hasn't come straight from the company.
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I much prefer Divvy (http://mizage.com/divvy/) over SizeUp for window management.
Cool - thank you!

Your idea sounds a bit complex, somehow, but I really like the idea of trying to do this on a repeatable basis. I guess I'll see how it goes this once, and think about it.
Not much better is still better.

And it can be significantly better. In a past situation I stored sensitive information using public/private keys. Even if you got complete access to the webservers and database, you still could not decrypt that information. It would only be useful if you had access to the private key, which was much more securely controlled.
See also http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/31/intel.cougar.p...

apparently it's only the desktop chipset. Still, it's not entirely clear what does the bug actually cause-will there be errors on the disks? Or just slow down? Or will it outright kill the SATA device under certain conditions?
I recently discovered Hyperdock (http://hyperdock.bahoom.de/). It basically turns OSX into Windows7. Very awesome!
I know it's not in the traditional vein of what people look for at HN, but Microsoft is hiring for Commercial Technical Support in Dallas (Irving) TX, Charlotte NC, and (I think) Fargo ND. There are openings in a variety of groups (SharePoint, Windows OS, SQL, IIS, Exchange) and for a variety of positions (Support [Escalation] Engineer, which is phone-based, and Escalation Engineer, which is debug/code-based).

Note: I work for Microsoft in CTS, though I'm posting on my own.
That wasn't my take-away. He answers a ton of questions and made a conscious effort to maximize his return on that work (in this case, karma). He knew how to get what he wanted, but in order to get what he wanted he still had to be helpful in the process. If he wasn't being helpful then he wouldn't have gotten the votes in the first place.

If he actually wasn't being helpful but yet still received a lot of votes then that is a flaw in the community's voting habits. For example, people automatically up-voting him because of who he is after seeing other people do that countless times "so he must be insightful, right?" The guy knows how that place works so it seems logical that he might make the most out his time spent on there. There are power players in every community -- even this one -- who can relate to Scoble in this regard.

His problem was that he was playing too hard IMO. This ticked a lot of people off. Now, he does mention that some of his practices were annoying to other community members. That was also his flaw.
Ask HN: How to separate business and personal accounts?
I have a US LLC for my online businesses with a business account separate from my personal accounts. However, I'm not exactly sure how to separate them - I obviously use my business account for my business expenses, but when it comes to compensating myself through my business account I'm not sure exactly how to do it correctly.

I don't have a steady income currently so I just take out what I need from the business account into a personal account and "expense" it as salary.

Is that the correct methodology? If not, what is? Are there better ways to do this from a tax perspective? I would consult a tax attorney / accountant except I'm currently in Shanghai to take advantage of the lower cost of living and don't have access to any contacts of that variety back Stateside at the moment.

If you have any links to read up on I would also very much appreciate it!
Nice... I figured there would probably be something like that out there.
The answer is contained in your own post:

...since these are the industries i have the most contacts in already...

Work those contacts!
RequireJS also has a "compiler" that will combine your files into one or more layers for production use, as well as straightforward dependency management.
If you live in Europe, you can try to contact the Copenhagen Suborbital guys[1].

Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space.
This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor, based entirely on sponsors and volunteers.

[1] http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com
Most of the interviews I've been to involved coding. The only one that didn't was my first - but they required a code submission.

My reputation/referrals have allowed me to skip parts of the process but never the whole thing (I've skipped phone screenings, for example). I haven't been in the industry as long as you (~6 years) which might have something to do it. Also, you may be well known whereas I am not.
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I'm looking to see a few bare bones MVP's, early stages, or different MVP's at different stages perhaps, I know what they are, just trying to get a post / resource going for HN to see real people's MVP's, not like, facebook, flickr, etc.
Just curious - why? SizeUp isn't as customizable as Divvy, but it does significantly cut down on the number of key strokes required to resize windows.
I guess the OP does not realize that a correct solution to his ill-defined "question"

> Print n digits of the Fibonacci sequence

is (in Python): print "1"*n
Startup Quote: Mark Pincus, co-founder, Zynga
At any rate, anyone who has actually used pof can tell its been hacked together by substandard developers.

Developer, not developers.

It started as a part time side project, and until 2007 Marcus Frind was the sole employee.
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We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

- Mark Pincus (@markpinc)

http://startupquote.com/post/3032181284
In fairness, you don't have to tune MongDB poorly (deliberately or otherwise) to get poor performance with a workload involving substantial numbers of writes; it's well-documented that there is a global lock (http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/How+does+concurrency+wor...) that prevents reads during write operations.

That said, there are certainly nosql systems with better scaling and concurrency stories* than mongodb out there that he could have benchmarked against. :)

*I'm a cassandra committer
Is this the only position you guys are hiring for currently? Your website lists a few others.

Also recently saw you guys mentioned in Entrepreneur magazine, congrats on the nice writeup!
You haven't seen those devices because Apple's brand-name competitors are choosing to enter the high value markets first. Anything with a recurring data contract brings in far more money.

And Google itself would rather make the devices and the contracts cheaper, so that the users can spend more time online using Google products. They'd rather replace a kids iPod (inc. Touch) with an always net-enabled "phone" if possible.

But away from the headlines there's been generic, wifi-only Tegra2 tablets on the market for a couple of months now at half the iPad price. Not only does the Tegra2 beat iPad hardware, it's in line with the rumours for iPad 2 hardware.
So the magical Apple hardware efficiency and price competitiveness doesn't really add up.

Note these generic tablets have plastic bodies, screens with poor viewing angles and non-tablet Android often without market access or official Tegra2-optimised Flash out of the box, so they're a tinkerer's delight rather than an iPad killer right now, but that's a separate issue from the power and cost of the hardware.
San Francisco, CA (Remote's a possibility, too)

Elation EMR - http://www.elationemr.com

We're building web based tools that improve the lives of physicians and their patients. We're a small, angel-funded team with some really incredible people on board ( http://elationemr.com/aboutus.html ), and we're looking to add one or two more engineers to complete core of our technical team.

As one of our first hires, you'll play a key role in shaping the company and culture, architecting the foundations of a very complex system, and designing the experience for a highly demanding user. No healthcare experience is needed, but you should be excited about building technology that has the potential to deeply impact people's lives.

Our tech stack is still growing but currently includes Python, Django, MySQL, jQuery, and Java. A few more details here: http://elationemr.com/jobs.html

Don't hesitate to be in touch!
Bronto Software - Durham, NC (remote is possible)

We build complex marketing software. PHP on the frontend (Zend Framework and custom components) and Hadoop/Cassandra on the backend. Lots of huge data challenges & tons of servers. You'd be joining a big Engineering team with a ton of smart people.

- Looking for a web software engineer with deep experience with PHP and MySQL.

- Looking for an engineering manager to run the new team working on new cool stuff.

Both positions shown here: http://bronto.com/company/careers

Bronto's a great company and the Engineering department is especially fun. The environment is great: 20' ceilings in an old tobacco warehouse, exposed 100-year old beams, gigantic windows, open floor plan. Foosball, lots of free drinks, snacks and food. Lots of freedom to build great stuff, no micromanagement.
I'm pretty sure you can't set the Origin header yourself. That would kindof defeat the purpose of it. If anything they'd only allow you to specify whether or not to include the header. But I doubt any browser even lets you do that:
$.ajax({url:'http:// asdf.com/1,beforeSend:function(xhr,set){xhr.setRequestHeader('Origin', 'http:// realorigin.com)}})
Refused to set unsafe header "Origin"

So since you can't force an Origin header to be on all of your legit API requests, you won't be able to differentiate them (using the Origin header) from an attacker with a <script> tag.
Next thing you know, the cereal boxes will be telling us about the new life awaiting us in the off-world colonies.
As someone in a similar situation, I gotta give you props. You lasted longer than I did. A bank would tell you that 90% of businesses in this situation fold within a few months. Add that to our already-high tech startup failure rates and you've turned a slim fighting chance into something nearly impossible to do.

Mix in the emotional motivations, and well, it's just a tough situation to be in. I applaud you for moving on and for keeping your entrepreneurial spirit alive in a new project.
It's the position we're hiring for most urgently; we're hoping to fill it within the next few weeks, whereas for the others listed the time frame is 1-3 months (depending on when we find someone who is a good fit).

Glad you caught the article, thanks.
It appears that way. TRIM has always had its own issues. It doesn't work for disk images (hello, virtualization) or on RAID arrays. IMO, it was an interim solution to a problem that was looking for a lower-level fix.
My company is participating in the current AlphaLab (Pittsburgh) cycle. Although we're still learning all the details about what being in the Network will mean for us, I can't imagine that this will be nothing but good for us, our company and the AlphaLab program as a whole.
also, I just realized archive.org has a complete mirror of all of the lectures, exams, etc.

http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita

EDIT: actually its only the first 8 courses (there are 12 total).

EDIT: wrong again; they have all 12 courses, but only list the first 8 on the landing page.
Completely depends on what kind of "communication" you're trying to promote. Twitter wanted people to send short, timely messages so they limited message length. How do you want people to use your service? Put constraints on your product to encourage that particular behavior.
Bubbli - Palo Alto, CA. Remote not a possibility at this stage.

We're a very well funded augmented reality startup co-founded by myself (who created Yelp Monocle) and my co-founder, a designer from NYC. We're going to be closing a big round in the next few days and are soft launching at TED (the real one) next month. John Doerr also told us he's just seen the future when he saw our demo, if that means anything to you.

We're looking to hire a computer vision engineer, front-end engineer, and back-end engineer. You'll potentially be our first employee - and we'll be paying well.

For an intro see http://bubbli.co/intro

For more about the jobs see http://blog.bubbli.co/jobs

For a bit about some internal tools see http://blog.bubbli.co

Shoot me an e-mail @ ben@bubbli.co
I don't care too much about efficiency.

As a corollary to this, I often ask this same question as my opening question when interviewing candidates, and I find that asking what the big-O runtime of their proposed solution is is also a good indicator of talent/knowledge.

For example, if they answer with a recursive solution (return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)) but are unable to figure out why it's performance will be worst than linear, then this is a red-flag on the topic of being able to analyze and compare different algorithms. If they answer with recursive and say "oh yeah the performance of this stinks but the code is elegant, I can re-write this to be linear" then it's a good sign.
This is most definitely NOT the way to do it! If you had an S-Corp, you could do it this way, but I know for certain it isn't appropriate for a C-Corp and I suspect the same holds true for an LLC.

A payroll service like ADP is probably also not appropriate given the inconsistent income. Have you considered hiring a part-time bookkeeper/accountant to process payrolls for you on an infrequent basis?

You are not your company - you are an employee. Expensing salary is gonna get you in trouble. I think it will be classified as a loan to officer and something that needs to be paid back (unless you've contributed capital to the company already, in which case they are paying you back).

Google for accountants from your home state and reach out to them.

Transferring money from biz account to personal account, and vice-versa is a bad idea for reasons other than taxation. It destroys the validity of your company and can expose you to individual liability which is exactly what you are trying to avoid by having a company formed in the first place.
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Thanks for your great contributions Jacques ... it'll be strange not seeing you around here anymore. Best of luck!
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

I used to run all of my email via UUCP (over tcp mostly, but when I moved across country twelve or so years ago, I switched to dialup).

You get file distribution, usenet, routing, email and it's not hard to layer other services on top of it.

You can run a mailing list on a loosely connected machine without a TCP/IP stack if you wanted to.
In this article MongoDB == NoSQL, that is not the case. Different NoSQL solutions have different use cases.
Also IMHO MongoDB is pretty SQLish in the data model, so you are actually comparing two implementations of a similar data model here, and one may be superior to the other one or the other way around I guess. No surprise.

A more interesting attempt is IMHO to check how the difference in the data model of some NoSQL solution can lead to very different performances.

For instance Clustrix VS Redis can be interesting. Examples:

1) A lot of writes against a table where you require then to get things ordered by insertion time. With Redis is is just LPUSH + LRANGE. Try to do a read/write test where many clients are writing and reading at the same time (real world), against a table (or Redis list) with millions of elements.

2) Range queries when there are a lot of writes against this indexes. For instance a table with a score (we are modeling an online game leaders board), a lot of inserts of new scores. Get ranges between random intervals at the same time. Again, many clients writing, many reading.
I didn't mean that to be a snark! :-)

It was simply a(n emotional?) reaction (has been said many times, etc.) to the reality of bandwidth being reduced in Canada over the past... 15 years.

I used to have the-nicest-DSL-in-high-school, provided by Bell, in the late 90's -- 74$/month for 2 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, unlimited traffic.

Today, their "Fibe" offering (it sounds like "Fiber" as in FTTH! but it isn't! %^&^%$#!!) is 55$/month for 25 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up.

The speed is definitely better -- but the 100 GB transfer limit means that your effective average monthly speed is 38 kB/sec (100 Gb / seconds in 30 days...)

Why doesn't signing up for 5 Mbps mean that you get a full constant 5 Mbps, and that you can use up to the full 1.6 TB of transfer per month (5 Mbps * 30 days...)?

Isn't the reason because customers are sold oversubscribed connections?
Thanks for the info. I also noticed that http://apply.seatgeek.com/ seems to be down at the moment.
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Waltham, MA and Providence, RI. Some non-remote time desired.

We're an early-stage healthcare startup seeking web application developers (Python/Django) and UI/UX design talent.

Contact: Andrew.Shearer, at myrozi.com.
Bandwidth.com / Broadband.com - Cary, NC (no remote)

We're hiring for quite a few positions: http://bandwidth.com/about/join/careers.html

Everything from web programming to tech support to billing to sales.

I started with the company as a web programmer a little more than two months ago. Great so far: nice people, great work environment, fun atmosphere.
How extensive is your telco/healthcare knowledge?

I think the more established the industry, the harder it is to enter as a consultant on your own. In telecoms the only true "independent consultants" I know of have 20+ years of experience. Otherwise most people are either contractors (usually 6M+), or consultants within a larger organisation.

I'm interested in telco enterprise software myself. dm me on twitter if you want to chat about ideas (@MarkSwanb) (currently working on my side project in that sort of area ish, have considered many many other options).