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Being a NYC dev, I get the feeling most of the local hackerspaces are mostly hardware/art centric (Resistor or Alpha One), or they are co-working spaces first and community space second (New Work City).

For a $100 a month I'd been in a NYC Hacker Dojo at least 2-4 evenings a week if it was more of a start-up/developer type space than the others.
Show HN: Jazzroom, collaborative real-time music hack in Node.js
> is there much benefit to precaching ALL of them? ... If anything they're probably hurting performance by bombarding the local nameserver with a flood of requests.

It's a tragedy of the commons. Each individual user gains personal performance from DNS prefetching. The gain for each individual user is greater than their loss to their share of the performance penalty imposed on the entire system.

The real super smart answer would be predictive prefetching based on pointer movement. When the browser sees the mouse heading towards a link, start prefetching. Or at least on mouseover.
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Social and Personalization go hand in hand - I don't see them as alternative options.
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If you click on the "Show Log Navigator" button on the top of that sidebar [the button furthest right], it will show you build results.
nice post wb. does he use prezi for his presentations?
I think it's great that they're doing something so obviously common sense. If anything undoes Google it will be their dogmatic approach. Blekko can exploit that.
Taking down chrome would definitely get you the most trade press by far. Just sayin'
Users, he explains, will be exposed to high quality music they haven’t heard yet, and bands obviously get the exposure they’re fighting so hard to find.

But the richest bands don't guarantee high quality music. In fact, as mainstream music suggests, often it's the contrary. Similar situation with low budget vs. high budget movies.
Interestingly, according to http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214002/Safari_IE_hac... , the researchers who signed up to hit Chrome have either not shown up or decided to concentrate on Blackberry instead. Seems their sandbox holds up quite well.
Well, I'm sorry for being entirely negative, but after looking over the templates... in my opinion you're doing it wrong. For example (at a glance) I don't see any mechanism to upgrade anything after the fact. Am I just missing that, or what's the approach there?

Either way, it seems you're effectively reinventing a subset of puppet. Wouldn't it be more sensible to implement rubber in the form of puppet manifests (or chef recipes)?
I thought the design was cool and creative and I agree with illdave that on an iPad the scroll is satisfying.

Can you please explain what is special about your diary? How is it different than a private blog?

I felt you emphasized the privacy policy a bit too much.

I thought you would appreciate the design of another site (also vertical scroll), see http://benthebodyguard.com

Good luck!
Which part of SOX requires this?
Congrats! Wish there was an alternate to FB connect to save songs...
Ask HN: Why Apple make cheap tablets but more expensive notebook?
Why?
> My perception is that it wants to be a turnkey solution for people with little admin knowledge.

We're using it for two reasons. One, we wanted a way to assist in our migration to EC2 without doing a bunch of manual configuration. Two, we wanted a more sane way to scale out and provision our instances based on what had been working on Rackspace, but had all been manually configured. So, we had decent sysadmin experience and knew what the moving pieces were, but didn't want to keep going down the same path.

If I understand correctly, your criticism is two-fold: 1) the documentation is too thin and 2) there is too much voodoo going on.

The docs and surrounding blogs posts that we have found have been enough to make pretty good progress in 2-3 days with a relatively distributed architecture. James' blog post is designed to further help people new to it.

Based on the brief amount of time that I've had to look at it, I didn't see too much black magic. It's basically just built on top of Capistrano and provides lots of configuration templates for different components and architectures. I'm sure there is a lot to improve but no complaints so far.

> For people who know what they're doing there's fog, puppet and chef.

This doesn't really move the conversation forward.
I like the piano the best of the three.
Seems like you all have quite a few employees! I was under the assumption that YC accepted groups of 2 - 4 founders...
I use both Linux and Mac and I can assure you the Mac side is not completely painless. I prefer Linux for work, but, then, I don't develop for Macs.

It's, of course, next to impossible to develop Mac software without a Mac and, since we are talking about Xcode, access to a modern Mac is a necessary condition.
Why Search Engines Suck
Ask HN: Review my startup, tasskr.com
Hi everyone! I made a list maker app and would like your feedback. A few months ago I went looking online for a todo list to help me get things done. I eventually decided to write my own and learn rails (and put things off even more). Tasskr is a simple list maker with due dates, time estimates, recurring tasks, reminders and graphs. I'm hoping it could be profitable.

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I agree too.. after 2 clicks if I still dun get it, I leave. Suggest you put in your form after the 2rd click.
Bingo. It throws an obstacle (however small) in front of one of your most important assets, a huge developer community, for minimal gain. It would be one thing if Apple, rightly or wrongly, decided that developers had to be commit to a $XXX/yr developer program. It's another to just say that developers on the current version of tools have to throw in some trivial amount given that seems to affect tire kicking levels more than revenues.
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Hit Command+7 to view the "Log Navigator", and you'll get the familiar build log and results. You can configure XCode to automatically jump the Log Navigator when a build starts; see the "Behaviors" section in the Preferences.

The Log Navigator includes a history of all your builds, debug sessions, and commits, which is kind of neat.

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Hey Sev,

Our algorithm, much like Adwords, will be a combination of ratings, relevancy to a particular user, and only after those things help determine a fit would their bid affect anything. Also, a band who spends more may be introduced to more people, but will not necessarily saturate the experience for a single user, as is the case in regular radio. Also, we don't sell pipe dreams to artists with low quality material. Everybody has to be approved, and I think you'll find that even if you don't love everything you hear on Earbits, it is all high quality, professional-grade music.
Accidental Innovations
As a filter. If you have a large pool of applicants you want to take steps that reduce the size of the pool while increasing the average quality inside the pool. Remember, you're not trying to pick the single very best individual in that pool; you're just trying to pick someone who's well qualified. Why? Because processing a large pool of applicants and completely ranking the entire pool is prohibitively expensive and doesn't give the employer much marginal benefit.

Now, let's consider what happens in an economy with high structural unemployment. First, the pool of applicants for every job opening becomes much larger, pushing more and more businesses to employ quick, cost-effective filters to the applicant pool. Second, the new people who join this pool are the newly unemployed, who are less likely to be well qualified. Even worse, the people who can't find work stay unemployed, become more desperate, and apply for more jobs, including jobs they're not well qualified for.

As a result, there's a lower proportion of well qualified applicants among the unemployed applicants. Sure, there are well qualified applicants in there, just a lower proportion. Lower, even, than there would be if it wasn't for the high structural unemployment. But among the employed applicants, there are just as many well qualified applicants as ever. Also, the pool of already-employed applicants is much smaller than the complete pool of applicants.

What happens when you ignore applications from unemployed people? You go from a huge pool with a low proportion of well qualified applicants to a much smaller pool with a higher proportion of well qualified applicants. How is that not a win?

And I wouldn't discount this thinking out of hand, either. People generally do things for reasons and act upon the evidence that's available to them. I'm willing to bet that most of these companies that don't even consider unemployed applicants chose that policy because someone went through hundreds of hopeless applications from unemployed and completely unqualified people and decided it wasn't worth the effort.

Also, keep in mind that all I've done here is show how it could be rational and self-interested to ignore job applications from unemployed applicants. That's not the same as saying it's fair or morally right.
Sigh. IMO one really really has to give up the thought that you are paying for the hardware when buying Apple products.
It's easy to build an awesome team when you have a vision people can get behind. Look at our advisors...they are some serious heavy hitters. ;)
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Pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged
I'v been in many original bands and I can tell you as a fellow musician and band leader that this will not work. If your business model is based on the bands paying you...good luck. We're broke from day 1!
Most of it sounds like we do more than we do, but all of it is necessary up front for the things we enable after you connect. I can assure you that we don't do anything that isn't about making your music experience better.
> with all the pro features uncrippled

Do you mean Eclipse, NetBeans or any other modern, professional IDE is crippled?

This is a death blow to Apple hobbyists who live in parts of the world that don't have access to the Mac App Store.

All three of them, most probably.
He is. Hero material. I have a feeling we'll be talking about him in decades the way people talk about Feynman now. Making people want to learn and helping them do it is a noble thing.
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The notes had too much of a delay for me to play anything decently. I like the idea though.
Nah. Clear Channel has a very complex legal system to maneuver so they don't look like they're accepting Payola. Earbits simplifies the payola scheme quite a bit.
What the heck is a venture bank? My convo w/ Mark Loranger
Aren't there a ton of apps that do this, or something very similar. I did a Google search and found a pretty solid top 25 list http://www.solutionwatch.com/450/25-to-do-lists-to-stay-prod...

I am just curious how this one stands out?
I understand the hesitation, we try to avoid asking for anything that we don't need to make the user experience better. We don't post anything without you explicitly performing a "share to facebook" action, so you can rest easy on that front. And we ask for your profile info so that we can see what bands you already like.
I can see how you associate it being the least secure with it being the most awesome. I don't see what could go wrong with your ability to take some legitimate and important criticism about something you like and turn it into something awesome about said thing.

Mac's always go down quickly in these contests. The people who make it happen often say that its considerably easier.

edit:
Charlie Miller: "It's really simple. Safari on the Mac is easier to exploit. The things that Windows do to make it harder (for an exploit to work), Macs don't do. Hacking into Macs is so much easier." - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/questions-for-pwn2own-hac...
I hear where you're coming from but bands spend money on fliers that cost $0.15 a piece, just hoping you'll go home and listen to their music online. We know, because we have done all of that stuff for our own band.

For $0.15, we can play you for 15 people who love your genre of music and put links to your show's box office right there on the homepage. That means for $15, we can play you for 1,500. You won't find better value anywhere, and if you can't sell one $15 concert ticket with the links to the box office right there, God help us all!
Basically #1. If there's absolutely no chance someone is going to hire me I'd just assume not spend my time going through an interview with them.

The entire idea that racist should hide what they are is flawed in my opinion. I see far more advantages in knowing who and where they are.
I like what they are doing in theory - it makes a lot of sense, but Blekko has a LOT of issues... like surfacing a domain that we got rid of 7 months ago, and showing sites that have nothing to do with the intended search (apart from a similar domain name).

Details: http://feefighters.com/blog/?p=4554
But labels aren't. The promotional reach is the whole point of signing away your music to a record deal. What will be interesting is if Earbits can turn payola into actual record sales. In radio or elsewhere paid music promotion exists, the evidence of conversion rates has always been fuzzy.
That's good to know. I still wish Facebook offered a feature where you could explain why you need a permission, or better yet, let you pick which ones you agree to instead of all or nothing.
Notes play on key-UP, rather than down, so that might one cause of the delay.
I could be wrong, but it sounds like the developer program is free for universities, and xcode is supposed to come free with that.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/university/
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Agreed. With personalized streams for every listener, bands with a $10 budget can have the same (albeit scaled down) opportunity as someone with $1000. With terrestrial markets there's no way to start small. Additionally, anyone with a split focus on advertisers and an attempt at this model are not going to compete with someone who has 100% focus on treating artists like clients.
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Search is so broken. The web was a better place 5 years ago, before Google started to lose to the seos and spammers.
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>You know, like how SVG was standardized in 2001 and 10 years later can still not be used reliably.

And XHTML too.
The existence of the vulnerability itself is now obvious-- no one is arguing against it. (And thus, I don't think anyone's arguing that a fully-patched OS X system is fully impenetrable). But the fact that the winner gets to keep the hardware certainly has a lot to do with which target they choose to attack.

Did Safari fall first because it is the least secure, or because it is the hardware everyone wants to win? It really is difficult, if not impossible to tell.

Personally, I'm quite sure that the Windows machines are at this point far more secure, simply because Microsoft takes so much battering by being in the dominant position. But I wouldn't use this as evidence for it.

EDIT: Question about your quote-- later in that article, Miller suggests that there is no "randomization" in OS X, while this year's article says his exploit bypassed ASLR in OS X-- is this a new feature in OS X that wasn't present in 2009?
RIP: The Iteration 19? - 2010
An analogy to this guide's strategy:

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Which parallels YC's golden rule:

Make something people want.

In general, I agree with both of the statements as solid business advice. After all, nothing kills a bad product faster than good marketing. Make a good product first, and then market it.

Although I do have to slightly disagree on one point. If you've built a better mousetrap, or made something people want, how do you let them know? The general strategy seems to be "let the product speak for itself." The same advice is prescribed in the article: write good content and let it speak for itself.

Well, good content is critical, I agree. Gunning for rankings on crap content is a sure way to fail. But it's lazy to leave it at that. You must let people know that your content is there to link to. Post it to newsboards and forums. Gather a following on Twitter and let them know. Market it. The real gem from the article is that the difficulty of the sale and the quality of the content are inversely related. Make quality content and the sale will be easier... but you still have to sell.
the optimizers are significantly better, enhanced profiling, standards compliance more strict, c++0x additions, and improved compile times.
This has THE best sharing flow of any site I have ever seen. If you actually like making money check their site out. I'm absolutely rolling it out across our products in the next whack of updates.

Bar at the bottom showing friends' faces, filter to find someone in particular, requiring like to share, posting to wall instead of Newsfeed- perfection.
Productivity paradox: why hasn't the Internet increased economic growth more?
Ha, his shirt is same color as this website bar.

(also just realized it's near prison jumpsuit orange, lol)
This is somewhat unfortunate, as it means you can't sustain notes.
Apparently, Microsoft is better at music than software :D
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so I played the bass.. and though the notes are on piano keys, they're wrong (left to right should go up in pitch)

also, if this is jazz, use fingerstyle bass instead of a bow

(note: this is meant as constructive criticism to inspire improvement in the idea, not disparage it)
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teenagers dont often have credit cards.
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Let's talk about burst scenarios. I'm not worried about the tens of startups raising $500K at inflated valuations. It doesn't really matter.

What I'm worried about is someone like Zynga having a bad day. Imagine their next game doesn't quite take off as much. Boom: their valuation crashes. Since they are so linked to Facebook, I'd expect Facebook to crash as well. And once Facebook is not so hot, then Twitter, with abysmal revenue, will crash too.

The question is: what happens after that? Angels stop pouring money in startups, Silicon Valley goes into nuclear winter like 2003, or not?
You choose one of several definitions you find on the web and call it the "standard definition," as if that made it a sort of axiom. Then you interpret its vague "considerably" as synonymous with "at all." But then you're one step away from your own reductio ad absurdum, because you can now prove that any random (upward) price fluctuation is a bubble, and that is just not how people use the word. Stock prices rise and fall with investor confidence, but not every rise is a bubble. The term "bubble" is reserved for really extreme cases.

Incidentally, I've found that when the conversation in a forum descends to arguments about the meanings of the words being used, it never rises back up to talking about ideas. So if you don't mind, I'm done with this one.
>Did Safari fall first because it is the least secure, or because it is the hardware everyone wants to win? It really is difficult, if not impossible to tell.
>But the fact that the winner gets to keep the hardware certainly has a lot to do with which target they choose to attack.

That's just weak, the prizes were $15,000 even for IE8 and Google was offering $20K.

How many Macbooks can you get for $15K or $20K ?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9207939/Google_bets_2...

The easiest way to get a lot of Macbooks would be to exploit the easy software to hack and just buy them from the store.
That's simply not true. Macs are often said to be easier to take down.

However, a vulnerability on the Mac isn't worth as much (on the black-market) as a vulnerability on Windows. So people keep trying to break Windows. Even if you tried to sell a Mac vulnerability, the people who make botnets wouldn't be interested, as they can buy Windows vulnerabilities instead.

pwn2own is the only show in town where a Mac vulnerability is worth roughly the same as a Windows one.
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I see what your trying to do but I just don't think it will work. Your tapping the wrong stone. There's always going to be more fans then bands. You should be finding a way to bring new music to your fans and bringing new fans to your bands. Figure that out and you will have something no one else has. That has value.