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I enjoyed the article, but I just can't completely agree. The microwave is seen as essential because it gives us humans such a valuable asset - time. Our time is hugely valuable. I don't see tablets, iPad or other, having that same impact. Sure they have some great qualities and they can make some tasks easier and more convinient, but not significiantly quicker. That doesn't mean they're not going to successful of course, I just don't seem them becoming ubiquitous.
Checking the ul of the autocomplete has an inline z-index of 1 more than the input box (.zIndex( this.element.zIndex() + 1 )) which is 0+1 in this instance while the slider handles have a z-index of 2 (.ui-slider-handle).

So it's not a browser problem.
It's a pretty valid question. The mono homepage has some info that may be useful: http://www.mono-project.com/MonoConcerns
A similar approach is being piloted in the UK on certain train lines - on demand media streaming called Volo (http://www.volo.tv/). Its expensive, you have to pay for headphones and their content is mediocre. Train prices have consistently raised from year to year.
Exactly. Or, if you do want to compete on price, make sure you're competing for the customer set who cares mostly about price. This is usually a less sophisticated and less needy customer base, which can be a good thing. But it's also a less stable customer base, and generally, you need that many more customers just to get to the same revenue potential as a handful of larger customers with a more expensive product.

There are tradeoffs everywhere; just make sure you know which ones you're seeking and which ones you're consciously avoiding.
Yes, but as a lowly developer, I have no idea how to set read-ahead buffers or change io schedulers.

Plus, that's a year old, would love to see some updated advice. You'd think Amazon would write more guides like this.
Only if 60% of the impossible doesn't equal 80% of the ordinary.
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You should post that to HN, if you haven't already. Possibly wrap a blog post around it.
I prefer the 37signals advice, "build a kick-ass half, not a half-assed whole." As I've mentioned, they seem like better advocates for "finish-ups."
Good thing too, because Chrome's rendering of XML and JSON pages has been nearly useless for casual reading. I love this extension already!
yooo nice
Some do science to teach, and many do science to cure a particular problem. The first set is probably orthogonal, but while most people won't equate a successful drug launched to market as 1905-like, those trying to cure a disease would disagree.

Different strokes for different folks. Hell, some probably do science for the bucks, as being an academic with the hot med/bio topic can result in serious coin.
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Greetings from CA, home of the next big quake!

We are a small startup software/educational company looking for a hot shot programmer. Our idea has HUGE market potential. We have developed an excellent math content curriculum, and a national/possibly international marketing program. Please email me at jaejflowers@gmail.com. It is possible an exchange might be fruitful!
I don't know anything about the history of the wireless market, but it seems to me that it is locked up and (to some extent) capital intensive by virtue of the way that we regulate it.

If you look here:
http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auctions_al...

You can see the amount of money that goes into the auctioning of the bandwidth. You have to pay in the millions of dollars before you can build a single tower.

It is a capital intensive business, and I don't suggest otherwise, but it seems to me that there is absolutely no incentive for any of the major players to innovate, as the market is locked down as soon as a chunk of bandwidth has been bought.

It would be nice if there were another way of structuring it to encourage competition in this particular market. One possibility might be to have a local distributor, and then competing vendors that work through that distributor. That is just of the top of my head, so I'm sure there are problems with it (I can certainly think of a few).
Are you considered as a content farm if you mirror Wikipedia Articles?
I'm working on a website project that will have lots of Wikipedia articles associated user generated content on the same platform. The user-generated content is produced by the website's users however, wiki articles are just mirrored. Is there a risk of being considered as a content farm by doing this? thanks for the support
Interesting. Does anybody know if there was a specific event that led to them deciding to go public with this investment now, or just a general feeling that it's time?
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Great post. Reading HN is better motivation than any cheesy book on the market. I love HN. :)
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Not only that, but I bet that in a country with both frequencies companies are not going to want to manufacture and stock both types, so I bet just about everything is designed to be able to handle either frequency.
Slideshare also started its development office in India first. Its as product-y as it gets.
I never programmed a thing before last year and picked up PHP in just a couple months.
The W3schools tutorial is easy:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp
and the manual is easily understood with examples.
http://php.net/manual/en/index.php

Python would allow you to code beyond the web though...
Or sell tickets $3 cheaper than your competitors, advertise "Watch DirecTV on our flights (quiet voice: for a small fee)", differentiating on ticket prices versus in-flight amenities.

I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that's what lead to airlines charging for drinks, meals, etc: it allowed them to lower ticket prices.
Hardly surprising, but it's an interesting situation. The only company in the world that wants and needs Windows XP to disappear is Microsoft; for everyone else XP is an enormously bountiful source of users and revenue. It would be suicidal for Mozilla or Google to say "we won't support XP", just as it's fatal for Microsoft to linger on an 11-year old platform that eats into their revenue stream. Interesting dilemma.
I would say you are a content farm, mainly because I think you'll use Wikipedia content to drive traffic to your pages even if there is no user generated content on them. There are two things you can do to reduce the spammyness of this concept: show Wikipedia's content in an iframe and show only pages where your users have actually commented.

That said, I'm still waiting for someone to actually fork Wikipedia. I think it's about time.
Very cool idea. Can you optimize the front page? Scrolling lags a lot on my Droid incredible.
It calls rake jobs:work.
You've had the chance to sit on "both sides of the table" in a vibrant startup ecosystem. Also, the average BA/VC in NYC (or the valley or Boston) is way more tech/startup savvy the avg BA/VC elsewhere... Getting feedback on your day to day operations or mid-term decisions is even more harder the further you get from major tech hubs.
In France, the avg entrepreneur know WAY more about the industry than the avg investor ... i guess.
Great post, thx !
True. However, for some cases where you don't mind losing some data due to a recovery process EBS snapshots are 'good enough'. Additionally, with a database like CouchDB with a 'crash only' design, it should work for some cases as well.
You don't escape html entities, you can easily have fun inverting text with the mirroring character &#8238;
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If you've ever had to deal with the expense and overhead associated with running a business that has extensive production systems, you wouldn't say that. The cloud represents a huge decrease in the initial cost necessary to set up production systems, and it relieves businesses of all kinds of issues regarding long-term leases on equipment or depreciation / amortization of equipment. You don't have to worry about swapping out racks just because they've reached an arbitrary end-of-lease date. You don't have to worry about provisioning hardware months in advance to make sure it's available "if" you need it.

There are definitely hiccups, but I can't imagine many guys running an internet-heavy business going forward are seriously going to say "let's build out our own datacenter rather than solve the issues with the cloud" unless they're doing something really, really, specialized.
Didn't Einstein's Wife Mileva Deserve credit
It turns out Eistein's was a great Physicist but horrible at relationships.
http://www.teslasociety.com/Mileva.htm
Mileva entered Einstein's life in a crucial period of his scientific achievements and helped him in his endeavor. Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an intellectual partnership. Einstein admired Mileva's calm independence and intellectual ambitions. He consider himself lucky to have founded Mileva, "a creature who is my equal and who is strong and independent as I am" said Einstein.

Hi wife Mileva deserves a lot of the credit for the theories and support. She was a mathematician and worked with him and supported him through all the studies and took care of the kids.
Mileva was a Serbian Jew. But for some reason Eistein was a egomaniac and forgot to thank some of the help along the way especially his wife. He left his wife and kids to marry his cousin because he felt that he needed a woman that wouldn't challenge his theories and only cook and clean for him.
Oh well. Behind every great man is a great woman.
What surprised me (last night as I wrote my paypal integration) is that Paypal's API is broken by design. Horribly.

Even their new APIs are based on the IPN "reliable messaging" notification system. But there's nothing reliable about it:

* You receive a message from Paypal

* You post it back to Paypal

* You get back "VERIFIED" or "INVALID"

* The burning stupid: This postback is also what acknowledges the message and stops the retries.

In other words, your code must either:

1) Commit transactions in your database based on unverified information, then figure out how to revert the changes if the message comes back invalid. Or:

2) Verify the message (stopping retries) and then try to commit your transaction, possibly failing and losing the IPN message entirely. Your customer may never get his product enabled.

Oh, and let me mention that the verification postback can happen only once. It's impossible to build an idempotent handler for IPN messages.

Paypal's documentation and sample code push you towards solution #2. This is just negligent. I've built porn-serving infrastructure that was a thousand times more robust. People trust this with real money?

And don't get me started on Paypal's near-useless morass of documentation. And the fact that IPN messages don't have any kind of unique identifier.

Technology FAIL.
You are correct.

I am from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, I started learning German in kindergarten (though those lessons were mostly useless until 7th grade). By 9th grade I had French, German, English and two options : Latin and Ancient Greek.
(All students were required to stay from 8AM to 4PM at school, those who didn't study ancient languages just sat in a room guarded by a teacher whose task was to make sure they did not talk to each other too much).

In High School it was a bit different, you had to choose between German and Italian (Two of the four official languages) and between English and Ancient Greek (Yes, some people actually pick Ancient Greek) and an option, which spans from Math, Biology/Chemistry or Psychology to Latin, Spanish or Italian.

None of these choices actually restrict what you can study later in college.
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New Rule: Stop Calling My Company a Lifestyle Business
- My business partner and I have been working 60-80 hour weeks for 12 years (8 years on this company).

- We started our business because we are passionate about the problems we are solving.

- My co-founder and I own 100% of our stock and our company is debt free.

- We get a nickel's worth of value out of every penny we spend.

- Our 2010 revenue was $450k, our 2011 revenue will be more.

- We have "world changing" funded players that compete against us (although we're regional) and we kick all of their asses.

- We are about to close our first M&A deal.

- Our customers will tell you that our website is WAY more important to them than Facebook or Twitter.

- We try our best to inspire our families and the people around us.

- We fight to win every day and dream of a $20M exit some day.

Instead using a term like "lifestyle businesses" (that, intentionally or not, belittles our efforts) to describe what we and many other hard working entrepreneurs do, please start referring to our businesses as "Ass-Kicking-Hyper-Awesome-Style Businesses" or something similar. The term "lifestyle business" is not descriptive. Thank you.

(This post was inspired by this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337745)
I doubt your jobs get pulled into the queue. You probably enqueue them and just inform your workers to execute them when the worker's Time.now > the job's run_at. This mean's you may have thousands of jobs in your queue at any moment. An advantage of using cron to schedule is that you won't have as many jobs in your queue at arbitrary times.
They probably just see that you are using more bandwidth than a normal user and infer that way. If they were packet sniffing your non phone traffic they might be able to infer from a plethora of non phone headers that the system will invariably send out. (system update check in the background. Etc. )
xfs_freeze

In fact there is a handy package called ec2-consistent-snapshot (https://launchpad.net/ec2-consistent-snapshot) that will manage this for you!
Supposedly all packets from the iPhone have a TTL of 64; packets from your laptop routed through the iPhone would not necessarily have the same TTL and are thus detectable.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/g62wv/i_woke_up_...
There are dozens of legit ways to automatically detect this, and dozens more if humans are involved.

Requesting non-mobile versions of sites that do not have the option

User Agent strings such as "Internet Explorer" or "Safari" in HTTP requests

Sending screen sizes via relatively common web calls

The use of UA-Pixels at all, especially when specifying large screen sizes.

Use of protocols that are only seen in desktop OS programs (ventrilo, starcraft2, etc for instance is one that should be a good detector).
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No VC, but it was spawned out of research work at NCSU and one could argue that academic "incubators" can be even better ways to get started.
Do we need computers built for inductive inference?
Completely disagree -- there are tons of parsing papers that are extremely notation-heavy and difficult to follow. Even other authors say so; this is from David Gries' 1972 paper "Describing an Algorithm by Hopcroft":

"In [3], Hopcroft gives an algorithm for minimizing the number of states in a finite automaton. [...] Unfortunately the algorithm, its proof of correctness and the proof of running time, are all very difficult to understand. We present here a "structured", top-down approach to the presentation of the algorithm which makes it much clearer. [...] Such a structured approach to presenting an algorithm seems to be longer and require more discussion than the conventional way. If the reader wishes to complain about this, he is challenged to first read Hopcroft's original paper and see whether he can understand it easily. The advantages of our approach will thus be clear."

And this is just a DFA minimization algorithm! It's not an undecidability proof or anything like that. And Hopcroft's original paper (PDF: ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/71/190/CS-TR-71-190.pdf) isn't nearly as dense or symbol-heavy as a lot of parsing papers out there.

There is a wide gap between reading papers that begin "A grammar G is a 4-tuple G=(N, sigma, P, S)" and are full of proofs and lemmas, and actually implementing algorithms.
well the ipo market heating up would then in turn involve the general public. imagine people clamoring for facebook stock? coupled with resurging economy, you get an interesting bubble action, as people will invest more than they can afford to and risk more than they should.
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The problem isn't running your commodity devices on the different frequency (most stuff you mentioned transforms and rectifies the wall power, so it's all DC anyway). The problem is getting the grid to work together. West Japan can't send enough power over to East Japan, because the signals don't line up, to leave out the technical bits.
You can't do multi-master with MySQL anyways, which until very recently has been the only "engine" RDS supports. Even if you could do multi-master, replication is still single threaded. You have to come up with your own sharding scheme. This is a limitation of MySQL not RDS.
That's exactly what I'm banking on with the new app I'm developing http://www.mightycv.com. I needed a new résumé and didn't like the more generic builders I found out their. I wanted a résumé builder that worked for hackers and integrated easily with HN, github and stackoverflow and so I built one. I really hope that by scratching my own itch I've executed well and made something that others will find useful.

If there's lot's of competition in a particular area then I think it might be a better plan to focus on a niche part of that larger market. Remember facebook was only for college kids to start with.
Node.js might not be a bad option seeing as you already know JavaScript, so could save you time learning new syntax. The other options are more mature though.
_The_ Abe Froman? The Sausage King of Chicago?
I've found it very inspirational and informative...
Working on ways around this. Reason for lag right now is that iPhone requires that play events come from a UI event rather than any arbitrary javascript function call. To get one-click play on the homepage, you have to load all 40 players on page load. The alternative is 2-click play. 1 click to load player, 1 click to play. Opted for 1-click and laggy over 2 click and snappy.
But what will happen to those that don't work? If they're permanently damaged (and perhaps difficult to replace?) then that might cause more problems than just rolling blackouts.
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There are 3rd party web browsers on the appstore and though would trigger false-positives, so they probably would't use UA.
A main developer for VLC is doing an AMA on reddit
TV? How quaint. Can I hook my iPad up to it?
The opposite of amateur is expert.
> modulo hiccups that can bring it down by a factor of 5.

The comments on reddit indicated hiccups more on a factor of 10x and, sometimes, 100x.

Either way, the issue is that the more drives you add to your RAID0, the more often one of those drives experiences a "hiccup," and kills the performance of the entire volume.
The name is a little too close to ZenDesk, isn't it? Especially since the two companies are in the same market.
For the first instant I saw the page, I thought it was one of those spammy, ad-filled domain placeholder pages. It's because the design is similar - boxy, list of links, no images. I'm not sure if that first impression will actually drive people away, but you think it might, you should change the design a little to distinguish your site from those placeholder sites. Perhaps adding a podcast-related image or a large logo to the main page would work.
the bottom line question...

are you happy with your success?
At surface value, sure - although if you want a table at one of these places, it's fairly useful.

The backstory is that we used this mini-project to see how we work together as a team. We're working longer-term on NivNav.com, but wanted a short, isolated project where we could feel out our collaboration style. HackerTable.com was born.

I'd recommend this approach to any early-stage startups that are looking for co-founders. Obviously don't distract yourself with side-projects if the timing isn't right, but seek out short, isolated projects where you can get a sense of how you'll work together.
How are any of these legit, all of that's illegal wiretapping.
I love all the stuff coming out in the Javascript world lately, especially things making comet-style coding easier. That said, seeing last week's chatroom in 15 loc and this week's chatroom in 10 lines kinda reminds me of the "5 minute abs" infomercials. I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out? :)

In seriousness, I'd love to see a comparison between this and now.js and some of the others.
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I'm not sure you have to go all the way to India for that. Here in Denver we had Downtown office space (about 1200 sq. ft.) for $500/month on a sublet. That's about $0.41/ft as compared to $0.21/ft for freshdesk. Sure it's about double, but they're within shouting distance of each other. Our four person team had a burn rate of about $12k/month at that point... again, about double but still really manageable. Given our access to capital in Boulder, it was a really nice situation all around.
Look at the population of India. Do you think the "botulism spores" have caused any damage?

Besides the obvious, "YES!", what effect does your statement have on the fact that American babies have died from botulism spores found in raw honey?

Have you verified that, of Indian infants who died, all were tested for botulism?

I suspect you haven't, and it sounds like maybe you're just ranting about the tangential subject of cleanliness and allergy. But hey, maybe a few dead babies and some hookworm (42.8% infection rate) is better than popping a Claratin.
Because in IT we somehow have tricked ourselves into thinking that change is undesirable.
Aristo is a great theme - I wish more designers would do custom jQuery UI themes.
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I love when my ISP is actively monitoring/reading packets. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
I offered my last girlfriend a fast-paced environment. I'm single now.

Ladies.
Now we have a team of six people - (3 developers, 1 UI/UX designer,
1 QA / Customer support engineer and me as - the Product Manager / CEO)

It would be great if you could throw some light on how you went about building this team and your hiring process. In my experience, it ain't easy here in India to find quality talent willing to work in an early stage startup whose product is still not out in the market.

Did they come through the connections made during your Zoho stint?

All the best for this venture!
My understanding of TV-on-Continental is that it's mostly a venture of LiveTV (unit of JetBlue), the company that installs the equipment.

"We're providing most of the capital and we're retaining most of the revenue," Nate Quigley, chief executive of LiveTV, told Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/29/continental-tv-idU...
It is possible for them to detect this if they are doing Layer 7 inspection. All it would take is parsing the user agent to see that you're not on Mobile Safari. On the iPhone side, it just does a NAT and theoretically passes all information as the public IP of the phone itself.

Honestly, any respectable nerd is going to have either a) a box to SSH to or b) a VPN endpoint... if you encrypt/encapsulate all traffic originating from your tethered machine there's very little chance they'd be able to catch you.