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Google does support searching only discussions, you can find this on the left column (sometimes hidden under "more").
Beautiful idea, and well executed.
Nice one, off to install that now!
Recently i have started taking photos throwing my iphone in the air. Do you think you could extend app functionality to trigger camera while phone is free falling?

Let me know :)
"Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem."

I would love to see a transcript of this debugging session.
"it would be extremely difficult to define "science productivity" as an objectively measurable quantity"

Stepping back from the original article, what I would say is that a lot of the problems in academia are perhaps caused by inappropriate rewards systems based on the idea that academic research productivity can be measured over reasonably short timescales.

I'd actually be more in favor of much less overt short term performance evaluation for academics and accepting that some will, undoubtedly, squander this privilege while others would, I believe, more than reward society for this trust. Of course, this would probably be unacceptable politically as the emphasis there is often to minimize the negatives rather than to maximize the positives.
Someone can be difficult from an investor's perspective, but not so with a team member. Both a team member have different personalities and motivations which might not align. Co-founders are probably more likely to have found an alignment, then moved forward together.

Also, if co-founders are friends, they've likely learned to get over each one another's difficult spots and manage to have a bond that lets them work together.
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Absolutely. But there's something about being "overworked and underpaid" on your own startup that's easier to stomach.
One of Nokia's problems has been lack of focus. I am a huge fan of Qt so I hate to say it, but keeping Qt, MeeGo, and especially Symbian alive (even with reduced investment) makes it sound like this problem has only gotten worse now that WP7 is thrown in the mix.
I don't know man. Everything you say about productivity in science rings equally as true for computer programming. And yet it is possible to be a reasonably happy, reasonably productive software engineer and never work nights or weekends. Why is science fundamentally different? Is there less good work which needs to be done and can be done by not-super-brilliant people in science than there is in software engineerintg?
No where in Texas? Sweet! We win!
Addition:

As I was thinking about it, why isn't there a Bandcamp.com for software?

Some of the things I'd like to handle are:

1. Updates (email list)
2. Storage
3. Integrated shopping cart (like Big Cartel or Storenvy)
4. Tied to Mailchimp's API
Amazingly ugly Google doodle for Valentine day
Interesting that you mentioned a media company since this is what I had in mind.
Craftly, a mix of Kickstarter, Groupon, and Etsy. Mmm... homemade goods.
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4410 in 30 seconds is almost 9km in a minute, or about 540km/h at a constant speed. That's quite the terminal velocity - 200km/h would be normal for a human. How are you calculating this?
Many years ago I had the luck to work on a project that involved me writing a lot of code in both Lisp and PostScript (another RPN language, although not one commonly associated with manual code generation) - there is actually quite a lot that the two environments had in common - particularly the REPL and a relatively simple set of structural abstractions.
I really liked part one of this series. I find myself falling into the pitfalls that the author described, often without knowing.

I find that it can be equally effective to partition a "difficult" project into easy and hard parts to achieve the same effect. If I am tired of coding, I can open up Photoshop and do mock-ups for the next area of the site I will be working on.
Also Craig Newmark.

Different but related: founders (Page, Brin, Jobs, Ellison) who stayed involved after IPO. The VCs have an exit in those cases, but the founders stick around.
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I think it's even worse than grey-on-black, which is an achievement of sorts.
That's truly amazing because I can't recollect a Helicopter that big making it to 8,800m as they claim. Usually it is very light copters that can do that. Clearly the Indian army will want to get their hands on this as they operate in the highest battlefield on earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_Glacier

Evacuating troops and dropping supplies there is difficult to put it lightly.
Thats a tricky thing to do though, where do you draw the line?
The advantages of Lisp are fairly well-known among its users. Assuming that Lispers are the intended audience, it requires no explanation. It would be helpful to discuss for a broader audience though.

I think the market forces argument is overstated with languages like Lisp, Haskell and ML that have very devoted users. I believe, but cannot prove that hiring for a Lisp job in an area with a large programmer population would be at least as easy as hiring for a Java job. The mere fact of being a Lisp job would tend to attract the Lispers; there would be applicants. Certainly, they would be fewer than for a Java job, but that's not a bad thing; the hiring process often involves spending a massive amount of time weeding out people who are too inept to even consider. There are very few Lispers who are too inept to consider for most Lisp programming jobs.
Pardon for the comment. I will likely be voted out of existence. Regardless, before that happens and you can see this comment ... is there a contingent gaming the scores? Perhaps paid trollers? How did this get 48 points? A post that's basicly saying "criticism of Microsoft is petty" getting cheered like it's the Gettysburg address? I smell something fishy going on.
And yes the accent was "extra-normal" quality.
"Sometimes, when the difference between "best way" and "standard way of doing things" is not so great -- it is better to go with standard practice. "

...and thus XML is born.
+1

I for one cant take UI advice from anyone who fails the basic contrast ratio test.
It is also possible and very common to be self-exploited, overworked and underpaid at your own startup. And depending on the exit of your startup vs the exit of someone else's startup, and the % you get from the total of outstanding shares in both cases, you might be better off joining a startup than working on your own.

And as the article points out it's getting less risky working for a startup, while working on your own you might need to spend your savings on it.
For their time, the BS1 and BS2 were considered pretty open, powerful, and cheap compared to the other options out there (PICs with expensive programmers and steep learning curves, etc.). Being able to drive a 44780 LCD, read a rotary encoder, and do basic serial I/O in the same hobbyist project were well out of the grasp of the common hobbyist in the late 90's, but the BS2 made all those things possible for $50.

Arduino hasn't really set the bar that high, it's the next/current evolution of something that has been going on ever since the commercialization of the first NP junction.

Like the Stamps before it, the Arduino is a neat prototyping device, but not something you can build a 'product' around with any great scale beyond a hobbyist market. The biggest difference in that in its heyday the Stamp didn't have the full power of the Internet to make people aware of them. You mostly had usenet or publications like Nuts N Volts to expose people to the possibilities of simple micros. The Arduino has gotten great exposure because of the Internet, but in the grand scheme of things hasn't really done all THAT much. The article on Make references 100000-150000 Arduinos sold. Maxim has given away more PICs than that as free samples.

Sure, the Arduino is neat and cool, but the fawning over it you see on sites like Make heavily skews reality. 30 years ago if we had the Internet this blog post would have been "Why the 555 won and why it's here to stay"
You want to make money? Write something useful.

Yes like an app which produces fart sounds.
Thank you! I'm pretty sure it will help people to learn about iPhone development.
Similar to http://picloud.com but for Ruby.
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The Factor version of (((4 5 +) 3 ) print) would be

4 5 + 3 * print

http://factorcode.org/

Also, Factor was influenced by LISP and Forth among other languages.
If "the customer's always right", then, for the current search situation, you have to ask: Who's the customer?

--

P.S. Google: I'd accept, gratefully, as a stopgap, being able to specify multiple "site:foo" parameters. I don't know what the computational (or financial) impact to you would be.

(So far, I've held off trying browser extensions to accomplish this, but I guess I can start looking for one having a good reputation.)
You could compile the decompiled code with an optimizing compiler, then decompile that, or use GCC's C backend, or something to automatically simplify the program?
"sometimes we make money with brilliant people who are easy to get along with, most often we make money with brilliant people who are hard to get along with, but we rarely make money with normal people who are easy to get along with."

You can distill that down to "we make money with brilliant people, not normal people". Seems reasonable.

It leaves out what must be the truly bad spot, normal people who are difficult to get along with.
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Ask HN: Why is Canada startup unfriendly?
I've always wondered why Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal were so start up unfriendly. I know that there are tax limits to outside VC investment and that there are hardly any seed/startup funds in the country. However, with SR&ED as well as other innovation related tax benefits, I thought it'd get a little more love from start ups. Additionally, Vancouver, Montreal and especially Toronto are all hip tech-friendly cities...

The only major start ups I've seen come from America's hat are: Kontagent, FreshBooks, "RIM" and a few others.
transcript: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-287.htm

"It's something that a cryptographer, a Japanese cryptographer created about two years ago called BitCoin. ... this thing really looks like it's the first solution to the concept of a distributed, non-central server, no central clearinghouse. ... it's Internet currency, which can work and is working."
Yea, I never agreed with every claim they make.
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The email field on your profile is not visible to others. If you want people to be able to contact you, please write something in the description field, whether it's a personal address, an anonymous Gmail address or a link to your site, blog or HackerNewsers page.

I know this comes up quite frequently, but it's frustrating not being able to contact people, and replying to a post is only realistic if it's part of an active discussion.

Thanks!
Ask HN: Advertising a bootstrapped startup
I did a search for this on HN before posting and didn't find anything. So if this question has been asked in the past I apologize.

My question is simple. What is the best way to advertising a startup for little to no money? Currently my startup is in the "Coming soon" stage, and taking emails from people for updates. I apologize if this isn't enough information, I'm new to this. This is my first "startup" so take it a little slow with me.
Insurance is for abuse? Insurance is a contract between you and a company who assesses risk by allowing you to buy risk relief at a fixed price. In your contract, there is usually a stipulation that you agree not to intentionally damage the insured "thing" or put said thing at risk.

I hope you'll reconsider the ethics of how you perceive insurance.
You have a heart of gold, for actually taking the time to highlight it and not leave the page.
How would you have described the original asteroids then?
I think he means that Government employees are "over-pensioned, over-unionized and over the top" and that that burden creates a deficit and high taxes.

I guess he means all of the above because otherwise you're right and it makes no sense.
I was expecting a large background image to load because the text colour seemed so inappropriate to the actual background.
"It's a myth that we've fallen from our glory days."

This one seems to pop up a lot. Not just in education, but in everything. Is it just a sort of cultural nostalgia, a collective-but-selective memory? I'd be interested in seeing studies on it.
The later being the "lone wolfram" approach.
But there is nothing stopping non homoiconic languages from adding first-class macros

This is true, and Nemerle is an example of a language with this feature. That said, it's harder to write macros in non-homoiconic languages. One can write Lisp macros by starting with the desired output and inserting quote and unquote where appropriate. Generating a syntax tree in other languages requires mentally translating them to something like Lisp.
For those still unware, here is the politically incorrect truth about PISA and America's subpar performance on it: http://buchanan.org/blog/who-owns-the-future-4587

"True, East Asians - Chinese, Koreans, Japanese - are turning in the top scores in all three categories, followed by the Europeans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders.

"But, looking down the New York Times list of the top 30 nations, one finds not a single Latin American nation, not a single African nation, not a single Muslim nation, not a single South or Southeast Asian nation (save Singapore) [which is Han Chinese], not a single nation of the old Soviet Union except Latvia and Estonia."

...

"Steve Sailer of VDARE.com got the full list of 65 nations, broke down U.S. reading scores by race, then measured Americans with the countries and continents whence their families originated. What he found was surprising.

"Asian-Americans outperform all Asian students except for Shanghai-Chinese. White Americans outperform students from all 37 predominantly white nations except Finns, and U.S. Hispanics outperformed the students of all eight Latin American countries that participated in the tests.

"African-American kids would have outscored the students of any sub-Saharan African country that took the test (none did) and did outperform the only black country to participate, Trinidad and Tobago, by 25 points."

Here is the chart: http://www.vdare.com/sailer/101219_pisa.htm
This is not just a good idea for how to present yourself to your boss a raise. This is also a good idea for how to present yourself to another job in a resume. For example it is what I tried to do with http://elem.com/~btilly/BenTilly.pdf.
There's something about the feeling of self-determination - directing your own fate - that makes the hard work of your own startup more tolerable, even if, from a mathematical standpoint, you would profit more from working for someone else.

And, sure, it might be getting less risky to work for (someone else's) startup. But I don't think the culture of the startup work environment has changed much recently with respect to the unfettered expectations of your work output and willingness to self-sacrifice for the "larger cause" - regardless of how counter-productive that self-sacrifice may actually be.
Months ago I talked with a guy who was working on a similar idea http://tap.info. (Well, the site is down as of now)

http://oi53.tinypic.com/2w1wfn7.jpg - I can't find a better screenshot
The differences in standards applied to people perceived as "executives" vs. people perceived to be "employees" are truly astonishing.
A UI should follow the same rules of etiquette as human conversation - if it would be rude for a human to interrupt you constantly when you were trying to do something, it's just as bad for your UI to do it.

A good notification system needs to be context-aware, to realize that there's a difference between a device sitting idle on a desk or in your pocket, and a person playing a game, writing an email, or watching a video.

Even within apps, there should be context. I may be fine with an unobtrusive notification appearing when I'm reading an email, for example - but if I've got the keyboard up and I'm typing, don't place a button right where I was about to press a key, or shift the location of UI elements while I'm interacting with them.

The trouble with the iOS (and Mac & Windows, for that matter) approach to notifications is that they try to be "user friendly" when they should be "user subservient."
From two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2160071

Looks like this blog is mirrored on LispNYC or something, which is why it wasn't picked up as a dupe.
Nokia to get 'huge' payments from Microsoft
I need more information on the zombie apocalypse survivability.

Until I know that it's safer than my bomb shelter, I am not leaving.
My last startup had 181 mobile AdWords clicks, but none of them converted. Our AdWords guy hadn't even known our content network ads were being displayed on mobile devices.

Given that our product was a niche B2B product that appealed to maybe 1 person in 100,000, I'm guessing that all these clicks were accidental. We had 20,764 impressions and 181 clicks, for a CTR of 0.87%, which is a lot of accidental clicks.

The ratio would obviously be better for a B2C product with broad appeal. But I'm guessing that a large fraction of mobile advertisers are AdWords novices, and they're getting burned.
Anyone can explain the video one? Why those particular areas?
you can simply use c# with mono for android, ios and webos(in near future) development also you ca use c# for building wp7 apps. but you need to know differences in api of that platforms.
What about exercises with game mechanics?

I think Khan Academy is becoming a whole system of learning rather than just a very large library of free instruction videos.
High taxes, strong unions, etc. apply to places like Massachusetts and California as well, and they don't seem to have the same kind of troubles Detroit has.

I'd chalk most of Detroit's problems up to the post-industrial malaise that affected Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Gary, etc. as well, i.e. cities built around industrial-age factory sectors that turned out to have their eggs in the wrong baskets for the 21st century. Factory towns in right-to-work states didn't generally weather the transition any better-- South Carolina is littered with ghost towns that were formerly supported by the textile mills, and the state's economy never really recovered from their departure (it's now the country's fourth-poorest state, worse off than Michigan).
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Just tried DuckDuckGo on "windows autorun". What a world of difference. Top two links are recent news, and the third link is the authoritative KB from MS on disabling/re-enabling.

I tried DDG some months (years?) ago, but it was too inconsistent. Maybe it's ready for prime time, or at least the Late Late Show, now. Jazz hands!
dont worry dude, in USA the health insurance also takes into consideration the stupidity.

Also by the same logic apple should also ban the SMS and Voice calling app, since driving while using mobile phone is dangerous.

In any case the logic that a user might hurt himself is stupid.
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Interestingly, some of the most successful startups today may never "exit". Facebook seems to want to avoid an IPO if they can, and Mark Pincus from Zynga has said he hope he can exist as a privately held corporation indefinitely. [1]

SecondMarket creates liquidity for investors, founders, and employees while allowing the company to still maintain some control of how many investors they have.

At NextGenConf a few weeks ago, Peter Thiel specifically said Clarium prefers to invest in companies that can be successful without any exit. [Can't find a ref here, taken from my notes.]

[1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2311
Bill Gates has been selling millions of MSFT shares each year for years. You cannot look at his most recent sale as evidence of anything other than he is continuing to do what he has been doing all along.
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I agree, but working for the startup of someone else you might learn from an awesome team that will prepare you for one day having your own startup. This was the advice of D'Angelo, from Quora, at the last Startup School.

I think it all depends on how prepared you are. If you think you have already learned enough, then go for it.

So, good luck with your startup! :)
lionhearted, which books would you suggest to get better at negotiation?
But there is nothing stopping non homoiconic languages from adding first-class macros (macros that are written in the language itself).

That is true in theory. However, I struggled with camlp5 [1] for hours to achieve something that could be done trivially with a lisp macro. I'm certain its because the I was having to do much more than rewrite a datastructure. Interestingly, it was this very experience that moved me back to lisp.

[1] http://martin.jambon.free.fr/extend-ocaml-syntax.html
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Game where the point is to quickly tap the screen all over the place gets a high CTR? What are the odds?
>Peter Thiel specifically said Clarium prefers to invest in companies that can be successful without any exit.

So how does he get his return? By selling his shares to others?
I find that that statement personifies the difference between conservatism and liberalism at its core: contrasting the glory of better days through more idealist eyes to the glorified potential utopia of the future.
Wait a second... so Microsoft is paying Nokia to use their software? Is "inverse licensing" a viable strategy now?
You just need to make sure you're using it well if you use it :)
VDARE is a hate group, which often republishes white supremacists. With such a clear, ideological bias, I would hope that people here would know better than to accept their conclusions without some serious corroboration or fact-checking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDARE
It's still not clear how these payments are structured.

If Nokia gets paid for sales of all manufacturers' handsets (perhaps as royalties for the Nokia mapping software), that explains why Elop says that Nokia has a stake in the success of the platform as a whole.

But it's hard to imagine HTC or Samsung being thrilled for Nokia to get money for sales of their handsets...
Step 1. Attach to carousel.

Step 2. ????

Step 3. Profit.