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I agree that a million dollar bounty would do the job, but then you'd have to do it again the next time a version of Office came out, and again and again.

Way ahead of you. Note I said the bounty would be for establishing a process and demonstrating currency for a year. The goal would be to take the project over and keep it going (for much less than a million a year).
To effectively bootstrap the system so we can quit our day jobs it's needed from ten to twenty thousands.

The system does work but at a small scale taking into accoung our financial capabilities
> available for use on your website under an open source license

what does this mean? am i free to use it on my website or can i edit/fork them?
Also, there are many "competing" open source IDEs. Potential contributors will likely join one of the live projects instead of trying to ressurect a dead one.
I'm personally more concerned with the huge time-waste of the interview process, then getting a rejection after all that.

(I'm also concerned about their discriminatory hiring practices -- selecting principally from specific schools rather than looking at individual candidates)
Missing good people isn't the issue when hiring, hiring bad people is.
Server side browsers are good for making screen snapshots.
... Which assumes people keep their machines running 24/7 on unlimited data connections. It's a nice idea from a tech point of view, but for the life of me I cannot see how it's superior to what we already have.
I will have to add an API to my site http://makeyourgirlfriendhappy.com so people can track for breakups as well. Great idea though, definitely relationship 2.0
My co-founder and I are approaching 30, married and my co-founder has 2 kids. We were in the W2010 YC group. Neither of us had anyone to "sponsor" our living expenses. Yes, we were at a disadvantage compared to younger founders when it came to cost of living, but now that StartFund is investing $150k into every YC company, that disadvantage is erased.

By the way, we were not the oldest founders in our round.

Furthermore, in my opinion, we also had a huge advantage over some of the younger guys -- applicable experience. Most of the younger guys had to stay inside a realm that was familiar to geeks (social media, technology, etc.) whereas we're able to attack a market that most young folks can't touch (old media, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, etc).

At times it has been hard on our marriages, but at the end of the day our spouses both see that we're living our dream and they're happy for us (plus, it probably doesn't hurt that we have a chance of being wealthy some day).
The best I have been able to make of it is that he wants to make a protocol where anyone can make an application/service and distribute arbitrary data via the browser. Basically, the internet at large except all of the 'computers' are actually web browsers running on actual computers.
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Was there a correction to the article? Because I see 6 years in the article. Which actually works out to 12% annual return, not that shabby in these return-challenged days.
Quite possibly true :)

I didn't mean the above in a bad way. I just mean that, if they communicate badly, they will often also misunderstand the requirements, or spend a lot of time coding without communicating, and that's not good for the project.
It'd be nice for the iPad to be more readable outside, but it'd be even nicer IMO for the Kindle to be more readable in the dark/dim.
Start now! The sooner we get the ball rolling the better. Libraries are waiting on devs who are waiting on libraries. There are definitely enough compatible libraries for a brand new project. It's when you have to port old projects that things get tricky.
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Approaching 30 is still young.
the People's Republic of China attempted to make learning characters easier through a series of simplification rounds that took place between the 1950s and 1970s.

And somehow they missed a far better target of Zhuyin Fuhao.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo

It would have not only vastly simplified the written language problem in China, but forced the nation to standardize on Mandarin as the spoken tongue (with the benefit of a standard pronunciation!)
I'm not suggesting that coding up solutions to PE problems should be done instead of reading tutorials. I mean how are you going to write code if you have no idea how the language works. However I personally find that I learn very little from simply reading a book about a language, I have to write code in it at the same time to help internalize the concepts I'm reading about. And for that I find PE to be a good first step after hello world.
It's much more powerful and smarter to make the clients into servers. Aka P2P.
Personally I'm fairly fluent in English and Slovenian (to the point of having published short stories in both languages in magazines) and I have to say I don't even differ between the languages anymore. Most of the time I'm not even aware which particular language I'm listening to and it's happened before where I was watching a programme in Slovenian and thought the actors were talking English.

However I can't say this has beneficially affected my ability to multi-task. I certainly seem to try multi-tasking a lot and can't even not do it, but as to whether it's effective or not, I couldn't really say. People around me seem to dislike me doing it (especially when I hold multiple conversations with them at a time), but it's just the way my brain works. I can't not do it.

This makes achieving a state of flow somewhat hard, which sucks terribly.
Right, but what if that attention becomes less valuable as time goes on?

We're already at the point where many people don't even see ads on sites like Facebook. The ads are just background noise.

In five to ten years, the kids born in the mid-90s who have never known life without the internet will start entering the workforce in large numbers. What happens if they're so desensitized to online advertising that they don't even notice it, for the most part? Will companies that derive most of their revenue from easy-to-ignore advertising find that they've hit a wall in terms of being able to derive revenue from the 'attention' of a large number of people?
This is not a layer 7 problem, its a layer 1 problem. Get your ISP to provide unfiltered nearly-synchronous connectivity with pervasive ipv6 (no-nat) and then we can start getting rid of the client server model.
Please could you expand on why you think that

In 1993, I was the only person I knew with a web browser. 18 years later, we have applied hack after hack to make it into an "application platform." And it's still the same old thing.. a way to deliver hypertext pages to people.

If you want to allow people to sync their files, share large popular binaries or listen to the perfect mix of music, you don't do it over HTTP. Not because you don't understand HTTP, but because you do.
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Ask HN: What are the must have gadgets for an hacker?
Yes, we all have computers and so on. But beyond the obvious any suggestions?
May be a CRKT toolkit ?
Blackberry/Android/Iphone ?
Torch?
Screwdrivers ?
What kind of flash drives ?
Which tablets?
Just name it.
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I've never had a good sense of why people are so desperate for Linux to take Windows' desktop market share. Linux already clobbered Windows on the server, and probably will in perpetuity because of its momentum, price, and developer support. It's a good place for Linux. No one can legitimately call open source unviable at this point.

I can understand it from an ideological perspective, but many of the people I see talking about it aren't ideologues.
Good communication is a requirement, yes.
I always write a game, specifically a crossword puzzle solver.

I've now written it in 4 languages over the past 10 years or so.
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No analogy is perfect, in particular many analogies are trying to link our everyday experience with things that extend outside of it.

If we take this and your statement further, we could just declare that all analogies are doing a disservice, and all pop science writers should be flogged.
1. I have a feeling, that even if MSFT will open-source all their SW products - people still will be complaining ;)

2. Office is de-facto industry standard. The only way to beat it is to innovate into new paradigms, i.e. something like Prezi vs. PowerPoint.
Or if somebody will find new better way to do electronic tables - they will beat Excel, etc.

3. How can one expect to make open-source desktop better, when most open-source hackers using proprietary Macs with OSX?
Don't get me wrong, I actually think it's a great idea. But I suspect it's not above Microsoft to deliberately change things so radically that this becomes untenable in the long run.
Awesome explanation. But what I've never understood is what the universe looks like to photons. What does it mean for a photon to travel between two points from the frame of reference of the photon?
Ask HN: What is a good alternative to techcrunch?
I'm looking for a good source of tech startup news. There seems to be a lot of noise creeping into techcrunch and so I'm looking for alternatives that are more focused and less sensational. Any suggestions?
+1 , I also stopped by a local bank, talked to the person in charge and had the whole thing setup in few days. They actually gave me choice of different gateways as well, I went with authorize.net per recommendation
A small notepad + a pen.

I prefer a small, lined Moleskine and a blue Zebra F301 pen. Being able to write things at moment's notice is invaluable.
This is just my own 2 cents. I use Merchant Plus (not affiliated with them in any way). The application process did take a while (they were thorough), but once approved everything has been very smooth and... get this... if you ask a support question a real person responds.

Prices are competitive with Paypal.
I've never gotten a really solid response on someone in the know about this, so I'm curious about your thoughts about PCI compliance while using APIs similar to Authorize.NET's direct post method (http://developer.authorize.net/api/dpm/), but I've seen similar setups referred to as postback or other names.

From my developer's perspective using this setup, my application no longer "processes, stores, or transmits" credit card details as the PCI spec reads, so my server/app should be out of scope for PCI compliance, right?
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I think it would benefit you to read the PEP before making such a post.
The line under each link "51 points, 27 comments" should be clickable and take you directly to the HN thread.
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Writing ∈ communication. Not disagreeing with the powertrip thing though :)
If you are interested in web development, this is the ideal way to learn the language. You won't just learn the language, you'll have immediate practical applications for the language constructs.

Unlike the people you speak of, someone trying to learn the language would stop and learn what a class variable is. This is exactly how I learned Rails and the Ruby language. I just dove in to Rails and went to Ruby references along the way.
I guess there are a number of people out there who are now studying Java so they can write code for Android?
Well, I'm a student, so it is entirely possible that I underestimate the importance of company and culture. That being said, I'm not sure why I should care more about culture than my actual work. I obviously want a certain work climate (no annoying micro-management, smart and friendly co-workers etc.), but that should be possible in big companies in startups, no?

> What if the company needs to pivot and you are no longer working on whatever excited you about coming to work on day zero? Will you start looking for somewhere else?

Honestly: If it is a massive change for the worse, why wouldn't I? Example: I am interested in algorithms and low-level bit-fiddly stuff. I don't particularly care about HCI and web design. If I was to join a company that works on, say, databases and file systems, I would probably do it with the expectation to work on the kind of problems I find interesting. Would it really be unreasonable to look for something new if it turned out I could no longer do that?
How to tag incoming email automatically?
I have tried using Taqilla or "Tag the Bird" (which doesn't work for Shredder).I am looking for a way to tag incoming emails based on the content of the email. This should make it easier to sort the emails given the huge volume of mailing lists that I get.

Any solutions?
To all the people commenting here:

Firstly, I'm deeply envious of anyone who is genuinely bilingual. I've worked pretty hard, and still only have a smattering of other languages. I've never really had the chance or reason to develop fluency in anything other than my native tongue, so cherish your ability. You probably can't - from the inside - realise quite what advantages it bestows.

And that's my second point. Many of you are saying that you don't think it's significantly affected your ability to multi-task, but you can't know. This is why science demands proper double-blind randomized trials. You don't know what you would be like without your bilingualism, so you don't know how - or if - it's affected you. Maybe without your bilingualism you'd be a lot worse at multi-tasking. Or a lot better. You can't tell.

I have various skills, and I believe that some have helped, and perhaps some have hindered, my programming, but I certainly can't tell.

See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2244178 where there's a report that bilingualism seems to delay the onset of Alzheimer's.
You can implement this (somewhat wastefully) using VirtualBox and VNC.
Generally I make a SpaceWar! clone in said language/library.
We're on Word here and still have that problem. If you have a newer version of Word that does .docx files, you have to save as the older .doc files, because some recipients will complain that they can't open the newer ones. And if you're on the older one yourself, you have trouble opening stuff people send you. Whenever Word files go out to a distribution of more than two or so people including some external collaborators, I've always had problems. Afaict, Word on the Mac also behaves differently from Word on Windows, at least in terms of who reports back to me that they can't open a file I sent, and god help you if you try to embed media or use the reference manager.

Honestly OpenOffice users give me the fewest problems, because they seem to be able to at least open anything I send them, even if the formatting is a bit mangled, while a significant percentage of Word users report back with "I couldn't open your file" or "your file seemed corrupt" or something.
neat and minimal! I will update the code. Thanks for your comments and stopping by :)
Has potential.

1) Make the 'x comments' part a separate link that opens the comments tab.

2) try and put the domain linked to somewhere

Otherwise, I like this interface
Hmmm - so they have a response time of about 2 years to each patent.

Simple solution: disallow all software patents.

Your welcome.
Not when it is so hard to find qualified people...
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My favorite feature of this: the option to donate to the font designer when you download. +1 (although I'd love to see the conversion stats).
Then if the compatibility project was tenacious enough, it could get Microsoft to increase it's rate of inconvenience to customers, to the point where they might want to switch, or realize how bankrupt their lock-in strategy is.
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It's generally a safe assumption that someone writing about physics is a man. You will be right about 80-90% of the time, if not more [1].

http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/women3/faculty...

[1] It was noted by many, while discussing demographics of Wikipedia, that women are less willing than men to contribute to the intellectual commons, particularly on sites which are not walled gardens. If this fact generalizes, we would expect women Physics PhD's to be underrepresented among people writing about physics.
How should we treat it?

What is the alternative application delivery platform?

Where is it becoming exceptionally obvious?

Tks in advance.
I think if I saw a CV written by someone who's first language was not English I'd be a lot more forgiving of grammatical errors, but that is an edge case and not the point of the OP.
domain and the idea seems a bit unmatched in my view.
wildcard support is nice. what features are you planning to add?
Well, except some degree of redundancy would be built in to the storage scheme á la BitTorrent.

As far as data volume, I've got to imagine the data usage per user would be significantly less than BitTorrent.

The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google.
Whilst your three points would indeed be bad, they really don't seem to be born out by reality - this is not what we see happening on HN. Slashdot style one-liners are not common, and generally speaking fare poorly in the karma stakes.

You also seem to be labouring under the misconception that the quality of a reply is proportional to its length. However, a short, pithy remark that cuts to the heart of an issue is far more valuable than a long-winded argument that makes the same point.
Your comment isn't offensive to me, but I it looks like it is because of the disclaimer, which you don't need.

If you turned:

"It's cool to support gay people and all, but if I'm straight I shouldn't have to look at all the dudes when I'm clicking who I'm interested in."

into:

"If I'm straight I shouldn't have to look at all the dudes when I'm clicking who I'm interested in."

I don't think people would misunderstand it.
Can't get a passport scanner at Office Depot.
I have a lot of gadgets, but the only ones I need are those that allow me to test product, such as my iPhone 4(iOS projects) and iPad.
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A number of us use Java for web development as well. (GWT for example) Not to mention projects like Hadoop etc
Who is patrickb? Why should I change my name?

[edit: ok, I get it! :) ]
I actually don't think Linux is clobbering Windows on the server. Here's a year old story, but I doubt things have changed much in a year: http://blogs.computerworld.com/15675/idc_windows_dominates_l...

With that said, I do think Linux is clobbering Windows on mobile devices.
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We're on Word here and still have that problem. If you have a newer version of Word that does .docx files, you have to save as the older .doc files, because some recipients will complain that they can't open the newer ones.

This tells me that Microsoft is actually in a vulnerable position here. If they start ramping up their rate of change to maintain lock-in they're going to inconvenience their customers even more. OpenOffice will start looking like the better alternative.

Honestly OpenOffice users give me the fewest problems, because they seem to be able to at least open anything I send them, even if the formatting is a bit mangled, while a significant percentage of Word users report back with "I couldn't open your file" or "your file seemed corrupt" or something.

It's not good to get egg on your face because the formatting is messed up. That looks like your fault. A corrupt file is seen as something like traffic. "Computers are tricky and stuff happens" is the usual reaction I see.
I think "If you can distract me, I'm creative." would be a better title.

Being easily distracted means you have a harder time to get stuff done. To bring it back to another commenter it also means you have a harder time to achieve and maintain Flow.

So in a typical pop-scientist way the writer of the article got the headline completely wrong. You can't make me more creative by distracting me. If I'm creative I'll have a harder time to maintain focus.
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Mainly because as Sys admins/Users we don't want to be forced into using Windows. It's selfish but seriously for those who know Linux, they are generally much more productive on it. But this often is not the case for people in more administrative type jobs. So the question becomes should it be easier to administrate and use for us (sys admins and power users) or for the average user in the office.

I'm lucky to work in a place where windows doesn't exist except for one of our project managers who like windows. No one complains about it and she is capable of supporting herself. (As a research lab, our tech support team is really small, desktop users usually have to be self sufficient.)
Thanks for the positive comments! There are two more articles on the pilcrow coming soon, and after that I'm moving on to the interrobang. I hope the new entries live up to the first one!
Public code repositories are the first place I go when I look at applicants.

Surprisingly, however, public code rarely tells you anything about a user's CS fundamentals. Can they tell me the time complexity of a method they just wrote? Do they know the difference between a depth first and breadth first search?

I've met individuals with good code who were unable to answer CS 101 level questions like that. It's not a deal breaker, but it needs to be given some weight and consideration in hiring. It's also a matter of seniority -- I would never offer a senior developer position to someone who didn't have CS fundamentals because I expect such a person to solve hard problems that fall outside of "hacking up a webapp".
I read the title completely wrong. I recently had an idea for facebook that breakup notifications. So for instance when its your birthday or someone decides to upload a photo album and tag you in 10 pictures it is sort of annoying to receive email/phone notifications one after an other, this app would simply allow you to set up the ability to put a delay on when you receive them and it pools them together. So if you get one notification it would wait x minutes and then it pools all the notifications you get until no more notifications arrive within x minutes. Then you just get one pretty notification with all the annoying notifications you would have received one after another.
So everyone who is not mainstream is subject to not being sane? What a strange hacker attitude...
Why is that the people that can afford it (the enterprise) gets more for less cost than the people who can't (everyday consumers)?
For what it's worth, I agree with you completely.[1] What I was trying to say is that it's probably difficult to convey these things in an application form, barring any obvious red flags. I assume the YC gang are pretty good at spotting such negative traits in person though.

[1] I tend to be principled to a fault, talking potential customers out of projects they don't actually need and turning down any deals that smell bad. Apart from the fact that I couldn't sleep at night if I didn't, I also think it's a rational strategy.
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It's old enough to have the problems that someone older than 30 might have, for example: kids, a mortgage, health care, a retirement plan.