skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The best place to start your particular business ultimately depends on the field you’re in, but clearly, it’s best to stick to the coasts, because that’s where the money is."

- um, no. I'm probably biased since my biggest failed effort was based out of SF and biggest success was based in a suburb of Oklahoma City (yes, really!). But, you can find smart people anywhere. There are some amazing companies being built here in Colorado and top-notch investors.

"Flyover country" also offers a lower cost of living and less competition for amazing engineers. Wait, what am I saying? By all means start your companies on the coasts. ;-)
Once you get to Beijing ($600-1400 from SFO), a 3-6 day trip costs $1-3k depending on EUR/USD, exact itinerary, and when in the year you go (winter trips are cheap). I know a few people who have gone and loved it, although I'd prefer an Antarctic cruise.
Thanks! I asked because Ars reported that it was available for "4th-generation iPod touch". Your response was exactly what I was hoping for, as I wasn't in a position to try it myself.
Goodbye Filevault
I tried Netbook edition on my original Acer Aspire One and found it be slow and clunky - worse than plain Ubuntu. Not a good thing for something supposed to be for netbooks.

Have now settled on plain Ubuntu 10.10 with the top task bar moved to the left side, and the bottom one removed completely.
Apple does distribute sources, though I'm unsure of how often:

http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/gcc/

The http header's date for the newest tarball is:

Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:39:59 GMT
Seeing as I have an inability to get more than five or six hours of uninterrupted sleep a night, polyphasic sleep has always appealed to me. My life is a constant struggle against sleep deprivation and running a startup for the past year hasn't helped matters one bit.

Still, it's rather hard to see a way for a sleep schedule like this to be viable for most people unless it becomes the dominant way that people find their rest (which is hardly likely).
Meet the New Readability Mobile
It looks like if you're signed into a Google account, you can access profiles with this link:

http://profiles.google.com/me
username subdomains are a very popular feature with many websites, especially older ones. users like it too. there is nothing abusive about it. He cant scrap several years worth of links and throw everyone at www.example.com/username
There's another thread on here comparing the MBP to the HP Envy and I make the argument that you can't factor out the intangibles when comparing specs between MBPs and PC laptop - OS is highly personal, design/status symbol is of value.
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In the side bar, and I assume he means he'd like to reorder them, in order of priority. The top labels being most important.

I'm +1 on this.
Facebook’s Future
I appreciate your humor. Unfortunately there are so many who actually reason using the most common of fallacies: reversing the direction of the arrow of implication. A->B != B->A.
I don't get it, does it do something different based on user agent?

Personally I'd hope IE10 is a browser we don't have to care about/follow beta and launch, we just make html5 websites and it works.
It's SOX that's "weird", to put it mildly. I don't blame Apple for being paranoid about it.
They are a software vendor, and by vendor I mean producer. They don't not become a software vendor because they bundle the software and hardware together. They may make money on their hardware which is great for them, but it doesn't change the fact that OS X, iTunes, and the others, like all other software platforms, want lock-in; Apple merely wants to lock you in to the hardware too, so they use the software platforms to do that.
Great stuff. I agree its 'pulp fiction' in every sense of the word but its also defining the marginal cost of the creative effort as defined by scale.

So if the author really clears $500K on a 'best seller', they can easily make a living selling 3 - 4 'stories' a year once they are known. Plus there is the long tail.

Will this promote a lot of crap into the market? Absolutely. Will this create an economic opportunity for a crap filter? Absolutely. From 10,000 authors wanting to be heard to 'king maker' publishers whose job is to provide a selection along some theme or genre, an analog to Analog or Amazing Stories for example.

Would an author be willing to give up 10% to the editor/curator? Who knows. That isn't an economic transaction with a lot of history yet. But it will happen, some new John Campbell of the world will emerge who can read 1,000 of these stories a month and suggest the top 10 or 15 that are 'worth' reading. If the average annual return on one of these stories is $50K and our editor person gets $5K of that, then each month they add another $75K to their income stream.

The next story in the series : "Editor makes a killing telling folks the good stuff from the bad in the 99 cent e-book market."
Web development - creating a web app series – part 1
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a time tracking application from scratch using html, css, javascript, php and mysql.
I apologize for being unclear. You are correct on the clock starting, but the clock can also be adjusted by the PTO if your patent is delayed in approval if I am understanding what is below correctly. If all patents granted to 'small business/inventors' are delayed to a great extent due to larger companies paying more for earlier patent approval, I assume that smaller inventor's patents will be adjusted, allowing them a longer term of protection, as they can start their business as soon as they file.

See #3 here (also great info on patents in general): http://www.bpmlegal.com/howtoterm.html

"Patents based on applications filed on or after May 29, 2000 (actual filing date, not priority date), might have had their terms extended for Patent Office delays beyond certain limits. Such extensions, called "patent term adjustments", are automatically given when the patent is issued, and they are usually marked on the face of the patent, flagged with "()". For example, see patent 7,613,700 - "() Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 USC 154(b) by 291 days." These adjustments are calculated mathematically based on a formula which takes into account when each office action was sent by the USPTO as compared with a standard for such actions, and subtracts any delays caused by the applicant's delay, and so on."

However, if the standard is now different because of the new law, or if it is segmented by pricing, I have no clue what may happen.
I think you misread what he wrote.

Xcode 3 is free for anyone with a free developer account. Today, the newest version of Xcode was released, Xcode 4, and it is not available for free with a developer account, it is $4.99 in the Mac App Store. If you happen to be a member of the Mac Developer Program, or the iOS Developer program, both of which cost $99 per year, then it is included in your subscription and you may download it for free.
I'd interpret "most startups are funded by savings" as meaning private savings rather than either VC or Angel investment.
That's all very nice, but it seems to do more with the fact that each person gets his/her own subdomain. And given that I found three xss's in about five minutes [edit: and then like ten more in the next five seconds, after realizing any input box works] doesn't give me confidence in their abilities.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/search/?q=%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3Cscri...

http://www.pinkbike.com/product/compare/?items=466,%22%3E%3C...

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/list/?date=all&text=%3C/ti...

http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/list/?q=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28...

http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/search/?q=%3C/title%3E%3Cscrip...

Edit: I've stopped adding xss's. It's actually harder to find input boxes which don't lead to xss's than ones which do.
You do not need to update to XCode 4.0 to develop for either OSX or iOS (even 4.3 SDK is available for XCode 3.2.6). There may be some great new wistles and bells in XCode 4.0, but it is not essential. For a hobbyist learning OSX or IOS development, it is probably better to wait anyway since all of the existing tutorials, Courses and books are still focused on XCode 3, and changing the IDE this much will probably just confuse.
I've been looking for something like this! Can't wait to get started and fire up my chat server. Thanks!
Yep -- nice to see that in this instance, as I noted. Then again, why should you be punished for your success if the reasons for query increase are based on simple traffic growth? Or worse, a competitor just sending you a ton of DNS traffic.
My poor iPhone 3G...or maybe I should be happy since my phone got progressively less useful with every update. Very eager to see what iOS 5 has in store.
Is Microsoft Building an Xbox 360 Successor?
Olivetti,
98SE and XP on same machine,
OSX

Ten years on Windows.. Ten years too much. I would rather have stayed on the Olivetti. I may be misspelling that, but it was amazing.

Eventually a Hackintosh with Lion, Debian Linux Mint and Windows. I wish I could add dust to the Windows wallpaper and wipe it away with a desktop trackpad.
Can't think straight because you're too tired? !Try a power nap! A 15 minutes nap in the afternoon (use the timer on your iphone to not oversleep) and you'll be good as new.
If by startup we mean "runs off of venture capital", and by "my startup" we mean "place where I work", then I'll answer: High efficiency heat engines. The current focus of our technology is turning sunlight into electricity, but there is lots of potential in other areas like residential heating and cooling.

http://infiniacorp.com/
How can you get out of the building when you're stuck on a bus?
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+ saved 10 billion DNS queries per month.

- wasted a total of 10sec of each user's time per month.

it's all about trade offs
Disagree, somewhat.

Craftsmanship requires both broad vision and attention to detail during execution. It's challenging, but there's no reason a someone can't do both, even if they prefer one over the other. There are lots of great "one man band" developers out there who clearly have to wear both hats. To me, this smells like folks wanting to shirk their responsibility for the part of the job they don't like.
Tour Diary: 48 Hours With 30 Hackers on a Bus | The New York Observer
Before everyone goes rushing off to disable DNS prefetching, remember that DNS prefetching is generally a good thing that exists to make websites faster. And the faster your site is the more pageviews you can expect. Faster sites also have a lower bounce rate and better pagerank from Google.
For the uninitiated: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

I think you meant DH1...?
Come on. Let's not assume too much here. If what is said is correct, that this pricing is because of the accounting rules, then the cost of OS X 10.5 and 10.6 includes XCode 3. XCode 4 will be included in the cost of OS X 10.7.
Actually, its pulp fiction without the pulp!
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I've faffed around with optimising LAMP for years in order to get Wordpress to perk up. Aside from WP-supercache, the biggest difference I ever made was moving MySQL onto a second server. It halved page generation times and the whole site is much, much snappier.
Ie6
> just trying to think what kind of cool thing to provide in return for the generous donations.

It seems to me that people are donating because you've earned it. If you really feel a need to give back, perhaps the gift of education would be better. W. Richard Stephen's TCP/IP Illustrated is a great book, but looking long in the tooth these days. I'm sure you've forgotten more about TCP/IP than most of us have learned, but perhaps a book on TCP/IP by a guy that wrote a stack would be a good start?
Maybe if we hack real nice we can get an @anybots QB receptionist to greet visitors some day. Would need new login kiosk option, though: Guest, Member, Staff, Robot!
I think that magic may be "upgrade to Lion".
When I first heard about this I thought this was cool: a couple of people are going to build the basis of their startup over a few days as they travel on a bus! However, this is the first time I've seen the actual website and the whole thing feels more like a well-sponsored publicity stunt. I'm sure it's still an awesome experience for the people involved, but from the name of this thing I imagined something completely different.
Just curious, I'm assuming that switching to Linux to get automatic updates for all packages would cost you more than $5 in pain in other areas. Is that assumption correct?
I don't buy it. Maybe it worked for this specific pair, but normally pure Steves are worthless. The creative part of programming is where all the fun is, who would want to be the Chris? You can get yourself some Chris's if you're in a position of authority, but no talented ambitious programmer would want to be stuck in a Chris position, creating is where it's at!

The pure Steves of the world, are the unprofessional "rock star" programmers that quickly whip up an unmaintainable undocumented solution and are gone by the time their mess starts really hurting the project.

As professionals we have the obligation of being both Steve and Chris.
I think Austin is going to be the next big tech center. Well, bigger than it already is.
As an aside, beware using idiomatic ruby while writing ActiveRecord queries.

Model.all.inject { sum or average code } will destroy you once you get into production. Working at an otherwise excellent Rails shop I had to launch a mini-jihad to drive this stuff out.

(NB my code is wrong because I haven't written Ruby for a while).
I have been on the Dojo mailing list since well before launch but unfortunately the $100/month membership fee has prevented me from being able to enjoy in person. I resolve, however, that my business to at some point make enough to pay for this some day!
I don't know. Personalization was all the buzz about 8 years ago, but there have been very few (no?) success stories. Not to say someone might not get it right. But perhaps they won't.

I'd rather bet on social than on personalized these days, as a concept that can be widely applied.
Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954.

Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?
In over 2 years I've never once seen Xcode update through Software Update - is there a secret setting somewhere to enable it? I'm ready to plunk down the $4.99 just to get the automatic update in the App store. Thanks!
The dojo is nice enough to host me for the co-founders meetup. It's a great place, great people. If you are nearby Mountain View, check it out.

PS: it's one of the few places that let me bring alcohol, no questions asked. It makes for so much better socializing :-)
It's node.js' equivalent to a Haskell monad tutorial.
Yes, the solution to you not willing to pay $5 is for someone else to invest hundrends of thousands of dollars (at programmer's market pay) to re-implement XCode.

I do develop open-source software (SumatraPDF) and give it away for free, but this kind of attitude of entitlement always gets me.
Does not work on Mac.
One of the major changes for Xcode 4 is that Apple is moving from gcc to llvm as the primary compiler.

They still include gcc in the package as of now, but it is based off a now-old gcc version (4.2 series, back when it was GPLv2) for which they have already released their source changes and it is really only there so old code that expects gcc specific features can continue to be compiled... it is basically deprecated at this point.
mmm, move over mister Brett Arends, if you found a 200$ for your soul please shut up and and enjoy your tablet, the 15 million iPad users really dont give a #*%& about your article ;)
Btw. I dont have an iPad, neither do I need one :D
No, it's not; the issue is that the domains prefetch REGARDLESS of whether the links are ever clicked on. The browser is pre-fetching in case the user DOES click on the link. This really verges on being a browser bug, esp. since in firefox's case, it fetches both A and AAAA records.
AppHarbor (YC W11) now integrates with Bitbucket
People still use Xcode?
Traction.

It is believed that, if you can get a large amount of people engaged (ie. "traction"), there will be ways to make money of that. Sometimes it turns out to be true (Craigslist), sometimes not so much (MySpace).

It is also believed that there are multiple profitable markets being created right now on the internet (coupons, q&a sites, casual games, ...) and that this will continue for years to come. Even though we don't know exactly how the winning companies will make money in these markets, if you're the winner, it is thought that you have a good shot at figuring that out.

If you are fast growing in a promising market, you have a chance to become the winner of that market. (It is also believed that many markets will have only a few winners, due to network effects (Facebook), economies of scale (Amazon) etc..) And then the investors want in.

Mostly, investors don't invest in ideas. They invest in markets and teams. Teams can prove their worth by showing a proof of concept, or better, traction.

In Dailybooth's case: traffic and engagement.

There's no calculation where X traffic = Y $, because it's not linear. Growth is promise.
Does Google take DNS prefetching into account when they measure the speed of a web site?
I'm loving working with IndexedDB. For some reason haven't been able to get my Chrome nightly to play nice with my site but it runs like a charm in FF4. For one, FF uses less vendor prefixes for IndexedDB. I'm not sure if that's my issue but it seems to make FF easier to work with given that when learning IndexedDB there are precious few resources out there aside from the spec.
I'm with you on this. Like most people, I would like to consistently get 7-8 hours of sleep a night, but I've got two young children, a packed work schedule, and volunteer commitments. These days I'm operating on about 5 hours of sleep per night and I'm functioning fine. If I wasn't up at 5:00 am to get a couple of hours of work in before my kids are up at 7, I'd be falling behind right now.

I'm probably making more errors than I would normally but they're mainly minor. By about 8:00 pm I get pretty fatigued and I may nap for 10 minutes at this time, to recharge for the evening.

The work I am doing is challenging but for the moment doesn't require a lot of creativity, so the tradeoff between the sheer amount of work I can get done versus the decrease in errors is worth it to me at the moment.

I do exercise pretty consistently however (approx. 4 times/week for 30 to 45 minutes) and I find this invaluable in terms of keeping me less stressed and more productive.
Do any hackerspsces prohibit alcohol?
Source code for J language is available under GPL 3
I'm pretty sure homeopaths and Microsoft would both disagree with you.
It's actually about as fast as Chrome now. Too little too late in my opinion, but at least it's fast enough that it won't actively piss me off when I need a second browser open for some reason.
Perhaps a little better than random - but why use such a poor indicator of suitability when you there are so many other more concrete ways to assess a person's worth in the workplace?
Are you really saying that you can't afford to pay $5 from your own pocket for XCode 4?

What price, other than $0, would be acceptable for a tool that took years of effort by a team of programmers and cost Apple tens of millions in programmer's salaries to develop?
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$544.5 cheaper than Visual Studio. Oh my.
PG has all these amazing quips.

> "If you have big plans initially, you are probably Webvan"
> "The valuation of an early-stage startup is the % chance they will be big. i.e. a $10M valuation ~= 1% chance they will get to a $1B valuation".

Also, am I the only one that picked up that AirBnB and Dropbox clearly have a valuation higher than $250M. I wonder what they consider their valuation to be right now.
Well, yes, there's a definite link between being employed and employability.
There was a time when the dev tools were included with the installation disks. Is this not the case anymore?
Well, I guess you could look at it the other way, with firefox 4 being released is there much in chrome that provides a significant advantage to the end user?
Sure Chrome has iterated faster and as a result the current Chrome is a lot better than FF3.6, is this the case with 4 now though?
My point exactly. Although if someone really does want to re-implement Xcode, more power to them I say! Me, I'll pay the 5 bucks.
well there is one thing. its faster.
I like the new look its more wide screen friendly.

basically because of adblock plus and firebug i did newer jump on chrome bandwagon and i really like the firebox 4.
Of course. I pay hundreds of dollars to run Mac OS instead of desktop Linux; it's a bargain.
Also found:
Using node.js, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis to make a real time chat app
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2306423
Graphics acceleration via OpenGL on Mac or Direct2D on Windows is a big one. Chrome doesn't have either in stable builds.
How would grading on performance discourage cheating?
Our startup, lightpointsecurity.com is building software to make it virtually impossible to be exposed to malware while web browsing.
Noisebridge.net is cheaper -- and donation based - you can stop by for free, drop a $20 in the bucket and get right to hanging out and seeing whats going on.

The soldering on mondays is really cool.
Well then they have a choice. Pay $5 for the convenience of installing gcc/clang via a 4 GB download, or install gcc/clang manually for free.
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Firefox has a more customizable interface. You can hide or move any button or bar.
IPhone Text Editor Comparison
It's not about the money; it's about getting your credit card number hooked up to to an Apple account.
I admire Firefox for what it's accomplished, but Chrome has stolen my heart. I had to use Firefox today actually to test something, and discovered a Bing bar that I'm pretty sure I didn't consent to, taking up valuable real-estate.
You can drop in at Hacker Dojo for a $10/time suggested donation before you maybe become comfortable enough and affluent enough to afford it on a monthly basis ;)
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This guy made $227k largely because he has very little competition in the 99c market. I don't think it's likely that "within 5 years, all digital books will cost 99 cents"; unless e-reader ownership dramatically increases, the market is not large enough to support the volume required to make many 99c books profitable.
As a current uni student, I have access to both DreamSpark and academic alliance, I probably wouldn't even have windows on my dev computer otherwise, let alone any of the dev tools and the being able to access free quality software from Microsoft really improved my opinion of them and it's important to get that mindshare of new developers if they want to stay such a huge force.
Will definitely check it out. I'm SoMa-based anyways, so it'd be a lot closer than the Valley
This is the Mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455165

I know you know this, but for everyone else, Firefox doesn't play chained ogg files. Icecast uses this feature. If the icecast stream doesn't use chaining then it plays.
I've had a few doctors in my family say the same thing.
Ah, this is interesting. I'd love to see how this classification correlates with age and the recent poll about which OS you use.

I'm 45, a "Both" and use Win7 and Linux.
Pentadactyl (http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/index).
I don't know a ton about gcc internals, but I imagine it probably wouldn't be overly difficult to create an installer that puts a precompiled gcc into /usr/bin.
Xcode 4 - review