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Yeah, I went to tech during that period. It didn't make much sense, I remember the writing on the desks, Stuy rules, tech sucks and vice versa.We were in high school after all. The interesting thing is that Stuy was still Stuy, just in Tech's building (we were in the building at different times, so the two schools never met). So when they said tech sucked, they're usually referring to the building, which we can all agree is not as nice as Stuy's but as far as the people and classes go I would say they're very similar. Stuy, Tech, and Bronx Science all took kids in the 90th+ percentile, in any event silly SSHS pride aside we can all agree it's unfair to compare it to other public schools.
Yep, I know about the MS-Novell deal fiasco, for example.
To find events, try http://startupdigest.com/

As for organizing events, it works better to set a time without any consensus/asking and let people know that it will be happening with enough notice.
In a hundred years from now. People will look back at the war on drugs and what else it's called in the various countries as a primitive and barbaric method.
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Developing web apps in 2011
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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post
I'm pretty sure that was the plot of a fairly well know scifi book cough hhgttg cough. Except it wasn't God's boss that pulls the cable - Earth was demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass.
There exists a non-negligible rift between "supposed to" and "actually does".
Initially I would say pivot, but I always wouldn't force a pivot (e.g. try to think of a similar idea, make that instead). The fact that your product is well-known in your niche means that you've got a slightly easier job at marketing a similar project.

Other options you could consider:
A) How technical is the support you get caught doing? Is it something only you can do? Would hiring a technical support "employee" via oDesk or Elance make sense? Would an open forum for support (if it doesn't already exist) help users solve simpler problems? Can you reasonably charge a support / maintenance fee (Charging for exceeding X hours of support per month)?
B) Are there other ways to encourage the time commitment and get churches to keep using? Are there small features or changes you could make to encourage involvement?

What's your motivation for creating the product? If you really believe in it, you could find ways to minimize your current involvement while building another smaller service that may not mean as much to you but generate more cashflow and allow you to pursue projects.

Most of those questions are rhetorical but hopefully they help you narrow down the issue and possible solutions.
rambling late night thoughts from someone who has done lots in China:

Do you expect more customers in China? If so, find a partner in China to handle sales there.

I would expect most any Chinese customer to want to have your solution hosted in China..either by themselves or at least through a China based server. They do have good reasons for hosting it themselves that have nothing to do with stealing your product.

You will always risk your product being copied. This is a good reason to find a China partner that manages this process for you.

B2B software sales in China is an "ok" market. Chinese companies do spend money on specialty software and there is usually a purchasing officer at a company that makes money off the process of spending money. If you do not understand how this works, best to find a local partner.

Ultimately though, even if they do copy your product, it may not effect sales to other markets.
IM for groups. Cool. Now I need to have this integrated with my other IMs. I just can't have so many windows open at the same time (or can I?). Maybe Google Chrome Destop Notification? Maybe http://imo.im ? just guessing.

Nice work.
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I'm afraid you just don't get it. I didn't mention the time because I don't think email isn't 24/7. I mentioned it because I think most people don't expect to get 300 notifications all at once. Thanks for playing, though.
In your README you state:
I find it fascinating that you can get a text file, roughly 25meg big that contains what I'd imagine to be terabtyes worth of data

I just thought I'd point out that you're really just getting a 25MB patch to a 3GB file (which is really duplicated to 6GB).
The Forbes List (minus the 20 clicks needed to read it)

1. Stockton, California *

2. Miami, Florida

3. Merced, California *

4. Modesto, California *

5. Sacramento, California *

6. Memphis, Tennessee

7. Chicago, Illinois

8. West Palm Beach, Florida

9. Vallejo, California *

10. Cleveland, Ohio

11. Flint, Michigan

12. Toledo, Ohio

13. Fort Lauderdale, Florida

14. Youngstown, Ohio

15. Detroit, Michigan

16. Washington, D.C.

17. Fresno, California *

18. Salinas, California *

19. Jacksonville, Florida

20. Bakersfield, California *

http://www.forbes.com/2011/02/02/stockton-miami-cleveland-bu...
I moved my main domain from theminimgroup.com to minim.co when .co domains came out to get a shorter, better looking domain. I've had maybe 1 or 2 people ask me if I meant to say .com on something but it seems like the overwhelming majority don't have any problem with it. Then again, I wouldn't know how many emails I receive at minim.com.
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You could make the argument that HN would be more interested in the code as opposed to the blog talking about it...
Hey, are you flexible when it comes to experience, or is it a Hard Limit(TM)?

'Cause I'm a pretty good problem-solver and rapid learner, but I've not been around as long as you're looking for, WRT years developing ASP.Net. I'd still love to apply if you'd consider it?
A very good point. Let's settle for a software engineering error :)
I wonder how much memory this lamp setup ends up using compared to the jvm (for subsonic).
Ray Kurzweil's predictions?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2036575

http://c0068172.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/predictio...
How long until someone pays for blatant black-hat SEO on a rival's site in order to get it trashed in the google ratings? How would you be able to tell whether that's happened?
In the decision even the judge knew this wasn't a good standard. However, the law states that a computer is:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html

18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)

(1) the term “computer” means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device, but such term does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand held calculator, or other similar device;
And by that standard, yes, some modern toasters (let alone mobile phones) would qualify.

From the opinion:

Indeed, modern cellular phones process data at comparable or faster rates than the desktop computers that existed when §1030(e)(1) was enacted.

...

We acknowledge that a “basic” cellular phone might not easily fit within the colloquial definition of “computer.” We are bound, however, not by the common understanding of that word, but by the specific—if broad definition set forth in § 1030(e)(1).
Here's the paper that summarizes the results of the Remote Agent flight experiment ("RAX"), which is the project Erann was working on at the time:

www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/papers/rax-results-isairas99.ps

The stuff about integrating a Lisp executive/planner and the rest of the C flight software is in section 4.1.

It's for sure none of this flight software is in Lisp any more. Additionally, I would be highly surprised if any shred of the ground software that supports it is in Lisp. Both flight and ground s/w is almost certainly in C/C++ and Java.

One of the successors to RAX is:

http://ase.jpl.nasa.gov/

in which an Earth-orbiting spacecraft can recognize events like volcano eruptions) and autonomously (without ground control) take extra data from it.

*

It's hard to appreciate just how unwilling a flight mission is to take on any unnecessary technical risk. Risk, along with cost, schedule, and mass, is one of the fundamental things mission designers must cope with. Lisp looks like risk, and risk will be eliminated ruthlessly (as in the meeting Erann describes in the OP).

Additionally, there are the software lifecycle considerations. That is, flight s/w, if it works, tends to be passed forward from mission to mission, and quirky choices tend to be weeded out.
It blows my mind that this is the same person who created and owns DNA Lounge.

(Btw, DNA lounge is way cool. Tho it could use some nicer bouncers!)
I believe Bill Joy has to make the list.

From wikipedia:

"Some of his most notable contributions were the vi editor, NFS, and csh. Joy's prowess as a computer programmer is legendary, with an oft-told anecdote that he wrote the vi editor in a weekend. Joy denies this assertion.[2] Joy's accomplishments have been sometimes exaggerated; Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell at the time, inaccurately reported during an interview in PBS's documentary Nerds 2.0.1 that Joy had personally rewritten the BSD kernel in a weekend."

"Joy was also a primary figure in the development of the SPARC microprocessors, the Java programming language, Jini / JavaSpaces and JXTA."

"BBN had a big contract to implement TCP/IP, but their stuff didn't work, and Joy's grad student stuff worked. So they had this big meeting and this grad student in a T-shirt shows up, and they said, "How did you do this?" And Bill said, "It's very simple — you read the protocol and write the code."
To answer a few of the questions asked in the comments:

My interpretation of what the combo algorithmic and manual efforts is this:

-One of Google's paid link algorithms (possibly a new one or possibly an existing one that was recently tweaked) flagged some of the links or one of the link networks. This caused those links to no longer count towards PageRank credit (and possibly causing some of the initial rankings drops, such as the ones from position 1 to position 7).

-When Google was alerted to the issue, they took a closer look and on manual inspection found not only additional problematic links but also other spammy issues (if you follow the link in my story to the blog post by the guy who helped NYT with the investigation, you'll see that the SEO firm set up doorway pages and that the jcp pages themselves have keyword stuffing and hidden links on them). Based on that manual review, Google added a manual penalty to the site.

That's why my conclusion is that once they fix the issue, the manual penalty will be removed and they'll rise a bit in ranking position. But since the algorithmic penalty simply (I'm speculating) caused some of the paid links to be devalued, there would be no "lifting" of this penalty.

It is very disheartening that something so vital to business success (understanding how to operate online; build a web site with good site architecture; engaging with searchers; solving their problems) is so much equated with these types of tactics.
Is 23andMe worth it?
Here's a fun bit of trivia: you can download the original Mosaic Netscape 0.9 beta today and experience for yourself what it was they shipped way back in October 1994.

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9341/netscape091.png

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3833/netscape092.png

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6576/netscape093.png

Details on how to set this up are here: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

Now excuse me while I go play Mille Bornes, Glider Pro, Lemmings, and Oregon Trail...
Runs about 30MB idle streaming a song with PHP and 97MB peak scanning 8500 songs using iTunes.xml. FFMpeg uses a bit of ram, but I think song scanning is the most intensive because of the stupid plist parsing task not streaming its results to PHP nicely. It's on the todo list for cleaning up.
Ask HN: indexing the revolution
Amidst my feeling of joy and gratitude towards younger generations - I have an idea (among other) for indexing the revolution (tweets, media, articles, posts, etc...)
Any suggestion about a platform, or any prior similar experiences would be appreciated.
need os lectures :P
Why Did 400 People Volunteer for a One-Way Trip to Mars?
GitHub and Mercurial aren't mutually exclusive; hg-git works pretty well.
Thanks jhancock. It is true that it may not affect sales in other markets but I was hoping to make money from sales in china for my company!:)
In addition to the problems you mention, the Central Valley was harder hit by the housing bubble.
Thanks! yeah, thats what I was thinking but was hoping that people would say otherwise/offer reasons why they would be insistent on hosting it locally.
It's unpleasant for me to watch you willfully misunderstand Alex3917 with such vitriol.

It was clear to me from the beginning that he didn't mean the government literally had a campaign to poison the elderly, but rather, that that is the effect of poorly thought out, vindictive policies that the government has instituted. It's hard for me to understand how you could have misunderstood this.

You make such a big deal about his comparison of the death toll to that of the Holocaust, even though it was YOU, not he, who first brought the Holocaust up via your invocation of Godwin's Law.

Your refusal to address the assertion that addiction has nothing to do with the molecule is well advised, since you clearly didn't take the time to understand it. You may agree or disagree with his point, but it would be better to at least look at the links he provided before commenting; the second in particular, a study from Kaiser Permanente that discusses the origins of addiction, should make clear what he was talking about.

It's your final paragraph, though, that motivated me to write this reply. You find Alex3917 "offensive" and "disgusting"? What I find offensive and disgusting is dragging a controversial but interesting line of discussion down to the level of ad hominem attacks, strawman arguments, and deliberate misrepresentation of others' positions. That's not the kind of thing I come to this site hoping to read.
This just blew my mind - mostly because it could totally happen some day.
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yes it can.. see any Siemens USA handsets lately?
I don't see this here yet, but I really enjoyed all of the stories in Founders at Work (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590597141).

Not sure how helpful it will be, but it is definitely a source of inspiration, and also possibly examples of how things can work. Either way, once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down.
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one could make an argument that it broadens the educational experience or whatever

While I tend to agree with your point, the truth is that undergraduate study is not about specialization. There is a trend in that direction, but in my mind it's a bad thing, not a good thing.

In a perfect world you would take comprehensive classes specific to your chosen field, but those classes would take a more holistic approach, and would draw course material from a multitude of sources.
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"15. (Shea's Law) The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up."

From Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design: http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
How can I become an instructor?
An oldie but goodie. I'll actually bookmark it and tag it correctly this time. I seem to periodically find this site, and then can never remember it when I actually have some spare time and want to find it.

Something that I couldn't find on there was Standfor CS106A - Programming Methodology taught by Mehran Sahami. Amazing Amazing AMAZING lecturer, and a wonderful introduction to programming. Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#p/search/34/K...
Can't wait for the result. Seriously..
Hrmm.. the image upload is not as cool as I'd hope. Yes it includes it, but you still need to upload and host it somewhere yourself.

This could be really killer if it allowed uploads of arbitrary attachments and images. Could see it as an interesting way of keeping a log with a client.
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

Source/Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1684732
It's partly a grim sort of math where the public would be forced to support continued funding for the Mars affair. The Moon landings generated some interest for about a year, but nothing substantial over the long term. Having a number of hostages stranded on Mars and completely dependent on public funding will ensure Mars spending in perpetuity.

Now and perhaps for the next few decades, Earth's most hostile environments would still be more habitable than the best Outer Space has to offer. Early colonists to new lands on Earth would already be self-sufficient the moment they arrived, whereas Mars colonists would be dependent on Earth for decades to come.

It's not even certain that this mission would add much in terms of know-how or capital investment into economically sustainable (instead of subsidized) space colonization. 20 years of space shuttle and a decade of ISS didn't make Earth Orbit more inviting to humans. The costs to sending humans in space has not changed in decades and commercial exploitation of space has not been helped by government boondoggles.

I think it's rather foolish to pursue planetary colonization before at least Earth's orbit has become economically accessible and habitable.
Because I'd have to make an account to answer this one question, while I'm already a member here at HN.
... do you not think [it] ... is a bit of overkill for a single word that YOU found to be offensive?

No, I don't. The value of Hacker News is in the self-moderation that we all make to keep the signal high and the noise low. But, you've jumped the shark in this case because I am not an admin and didn't edit your title. So evidently there are at least TWO people who found your title to be in need of rewording.

Anybots isn't going to be killed by a netbook strapped to a Roomba. Trevor et al are doing fundamental engineering for creating large, capable, humanoid robots. The Roomba won't even work on shag carpeting, let alone cary a payload over terrain. The real Anybots killer, as with statistically all startups, is the current lack of demand for humanoid robots. Without a demand for its product, a product company can't last forever.

But I still wouldn't call that an Anybots "killer".
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That's always been a popular theory but if you look at the facts it's not really true. Yes things in central California are bad but the worst city in California (and the one cited in the article) is Stockton which is Northern California by any measure (it's further north than San Francisco). Looking at the Forbes list posted in this thread only 2 of the 8 California cities listed as "most miserable" are in Central California (and that list doesn't include the miserable unincorporated areas bordering Mexico where unemployment is in the 30% range)

The other part of the article focuses on California's budget problems. Now without getting into an argument over which political philosophy is better there are two political facts that are not in doubt...

1. Central California is very Republican

2. Republicans have not been in control of the state legislature for AT LEAST 30 years

So whatever problems we have in the state government can largely be traced back to Northern and Southern California (though the California Republicans do get an honorable mention for mismanaging their local cities and stirring up trouble whenever a 2/3rd majority is needed)
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Hopefully this might help newbies getting started with the language.

Directed at people from business/non-technical backgrounds
They can't think of any way how?

Maybe they could cut back on the resort like environments?

If these educators lack the ability to imagine how it's possible, maybe they shouldn't be teaching.

Here's one idea of many. Average time to graduate is in excess of five years now. We also read that most college students have to take remedial classes. We also read that 1/3 of college students learn nothing before they graduate, not because they already knew it, but because they learned nothing. OK, stop accepting students that need remedial classes. If you can't add two fractions together or write a 5 paragraph essay at a sixth grade level, you should not be in college end of story. Just stop accepting these people. But do write down the names of the schools they went to, and shut down those schools if there are more than a certain number of these illiterate people graduating. Or why not just return to some vocational education. It's absurd to think that the entire public is college material and people are some sort of uniform robots that can be programmed to do high tech work. A lot of people are not so smart. That's just the way they are. I am tired of having to fix my own plumbing because I can't find a good plumber because there is no vocational education! Plumbing pays $100 an hour if you have your own truck! That's 12 times more than most PhD grad students make.

Huge amounts of resources are wasted at college dealing with people who should not be there. No college in the US should have a class in basic arithmetic or writing. Those classes should not exist. If you need those classes, go to an adult education center that services the homeless and ex convicts. Not college.
Google has not taken a hit so the internet as a whole does not seem to be blocked.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=US&l...
You feel sorry for them because they didn't properly vet their SEO firm? They're paying someone (probably a crap-ton of money) to perform a service for them. They should be keeping tabs on what they're actually doing & have someone in house or a third party checking to make sure they're being legitimate.
Assuming OS as in operating systems, here's UC Berkeley's CS162:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=...
8 courses over 8 terms. At most you've reduced your direct tuition costs by ~15-20%. And I would argue that you're actually loosing value. If you want to do a program where you leave undergrad as a hyperspecialized specialist in one sub-field of engineering, be my guest. It'll make it easier for me when I get out looking for your jobs.

It's true that there's a crap ton of bullshit courses out there. But you know what, you get to pick your electives. Pick them right, and you'll get to avoid most the bullshit. I took a macro-econ course from one of the most passionate (and hilarious) profs on our campus to supplement my eng courses. And now I have some extra understanding into what actually effects my actual job market.
Whoa... what's with the title edit? That's a far cry from "[refusing] to upvote". This is borderline admin abuse.

Which admin are we abusing? And, why are you accusing me of rewriting an article title when I'm not an admin? More importantly, it is perfectly reasonable for an admin to edit a title to be less sensational.

(Some <reasonable> other stuff)

I specifically said that we shouldn't call anything "* Killer". Not sure what you're going on about.