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"What Portland doesn’t have is capital. Founder friendly, fast moving seed capital."

The poster's site, COLOURlovers, apparently has over 500,000 registered users, ~195,000 UVs/month in the US (according to Compete) and a lot of engagement. It's not Facebook or Twitter of course, but it looks very solid for a niche community.

Which begs the question: why is outside capital needed here? Usage-wise, this site has enough scale relative to the niche that it should be able to monetize its popularity. This hardly seems like a case of needs-more-employees, needs-more-servers, needs-more-marketing -- things that capital is best applied to.

On the flip side, as a niche community play, COLOURlovers isn't exactly the kind of site with the kind of growth potential startup investors have traditionally looked for. So while there may be a lot of "founder friendly, fast moving seed capital" out there right now, so the fact that the founder "just raised a large seed round from some of the top VCs and Angels" demonstrates the fact that there are an awful lot of angels and VCs who are stretching to put their money to work. In the long-run, I'm not sure that benefits founders of sites like COLOURlovers even if outside capital provides some immediate comfort.
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Thank you!

This project is just for learning and fun. No ideas yet for monetizing it.
We shouldn't discount criticism entirely, lest we give the world to the Uwe Bolls out there. Your post would have gone from being "critical" to being a critique if you had provided both: an explanation of why it's bad, and insight into how it could be better.

Consider the art crit. I've seen a full range of reaction: some students would completely qualify why they did everything, and be able to either discard useless criticism and incorporate the good; others would completely reject it: combativeness was either anger or sadness. Once, a girl cried because the professor (very politely) said that she needed to increase the contrast in her photos. The explanation, much like Knight's, was "well, I tried hard, isn't that good enough?"

And the answer is no, unfortunately. You can't just hide the work in a shoebox under the bed to shield it from criticism. From what you said, though, earnestness is not opposite from politeness. It's possible to be critical without being a dick.
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Er, sorry, could someone explain why this is bad UI? I frequently want to delete in both directions, and delete a selection. Seems efficent and sensible to me. In fact, I find Macs are almost impossible to use for text editing because of their "nonstandard" behavior in this regard. Oh, the home/end shenanigans.
Thanks for the suggestions this is something it will certainly work on.
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The idea is that these new Apple customers may be so pleased with the iPad user experience, that they may consider a Mac more closely when it comes time to replace their computer.
Idea dump: March 2011 edition ...
So true. And to develop the argument further, why are so many geeks insecure and nervous, as they then must be, assuming the OP is correct?

I think it's because they are smart. Smart minds make a lot of internal noise, commenting loudly on every experience, making it harder for geeks to 'hear' their own finer feelings, including conscience. This makes them nervous, insecure and guilty. The guilt is unbearable, and they unconsciously attempt to project it onto other geeks with things like condescending feedback.

However, the good news is that there is a minority of geeks who have broken through this barrier, e.g. by meditation. They are a formidable sect, possessing both Bene Gesserit and Mentat powers.
Foreign entrepreneurs whose business has generated at least $100,000 in sales from the U.S.

Now that's more like it! If US consumers are sending lots of dollars out of the country, it makes sense to bring those entrepreneurs into the country and keep the dollars at home. Not all of us need funding so this proviso could help us out without having to go looking for arbitrary angel cash.
Wait..

1. Calculus was invented to make the geometry easier -- basically opposing geometry and calculus is a broken idea.

2. Geometers use radians too.

3. All the stuff other repliers said about 1 tau radians...
> even if a complete meltdown happens...it cannot breach the safety containment.

This is true assuming the containment chamber hasn't suffered structural damage during the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis. However, given the magnitude it seems prudent to be as cautious as possible.

Even as I type, the NYTimes is running a story about the latest developments: it seems emergency cooling efforts are failing in at least one of the troubled reactors: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15nuclear.html
I believe it is ARC Forum.
Feynman is an example of a guy who would be ruthless in a technical discussion but charming in a personal context. (Well, charming towards your wife, anyway.) Context is everything.
Indeed, just to make it clear: There's no more C++ code in the OpenBSD's base, but g++ the C++ compiler is still present.

I don't think that g++ will be removed. Too many things are written in C++. And as long as GCC is present in OpenBSD, there's no reason to remove G++.
Japanese society is also ethnically homogenous (which increases trust and social capital - see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007....), hierarchical, and strongly favors social harmony over individual expression. I'm not convinced that a country like the U.S. could be as well prepared as Japan seems to be. I'm not saying we couldn't eventually overcome a similar scale disaster, but I think Japan is always going to have us beat in the immediate to short term aftermath.
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That's only in the case where you can prove that someone knew there would be an investigation and destroyed the key as a result. The nice thing about thumbdrives: they're incredibly easy to lose. If it's only needed for startup, you can just say that you lost it a long time ago, but it wasn't a problem because you just left the machine running. To disprove that, they'd need to check the system logs, which are, of course, also on the encrypted disk. :)
A nice, gorgeous app. Definitely added to my collection.
Interesting to see these different color schemes.

There's one particular thing which I liked was that, it stores previous search results. I wasn't expecting it in first place, But liked to see previous search results.

One more thing, will there be any API access to this service.
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You are what you repeatedly do. Practice makes perfect.

If you're not thoughtful on your own I can't really think of a better way to train yourself to be. Practicing thoughtfulness when you know you're not great at it seems quite thoughtful to me.

I also think anyone who is frequently trying to do romantic things can fall into a rut. New ideas are welcome and fun.

I like the idea. Congrats on shipping.

Finally, I think providing a way to purchase/deliver the ideas in the email is a good way to make some affiliate cash.
What do you do on the weekends?
There's also hackerne.ws which some guy pointed to the HN server's IP at some point http://www.google.com/#q=site:hackerne.ws

Just changing HN so it only responds to Host: news.ycombinator.com would probably be the best solution.
The (excellent) "Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" reminds us: "You don't need to reload a machete." A chainsaw will run out of gas and a gun will run out of bullets, but a machete will never let you down.
All I can say is I find category 2 -

Workers on an H-1B visa, or graduates from U.S. universities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or computer science—if they have an annual income of at least $30,000 or assets of at least $60,000 and have had a U.S. investor commit investment of at least $20,000 in their venture. Two years later, the startup must have created three new American jobs and either have raised over $100,000 in financing or be generating more than $100,000 in yearly revenue

on a strictly personal basis, umm, droolworthy.
Looks good - might be an idea to include the price on your page though.
Have you tried it? It’s really not too bad, unless you’re in some context where τ is expected to mean something else – and those are relatively rare – or unless you’re simultaneously flouting other conventions.
We've know how to build much safer reactors since Clinton
HN runs on software written by pg (and others?), using a language called Arc (developed by pg and rtm).

See: http://arclanguage.org/

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8742 provides some info.

http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar is newer than the arc2.tar referenced above.
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Sweet - this is definitely getting bookmarked to use at work :) Very refreshing interface and flow.
I think condescending feedback = insecurity is a bit of a generalization.Maybe sometimes it is true but not all the time - for example Linus' "feedback" on CVS was pretty condescending but I doubt that was because he was insecure
Partially responsible for the situation is the fact that many (if not most) of us (nerdy geeks) are to some extend autistic, or rather "aspergerish". Go read about Asperger Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome) and tell me that you don't recognize your own traits. Not only we enjoy being abrupt and critical, but we are also better fit for being around people who are like us and so we don't mind it as much as other people do. That said, it wouldn't hurt to learn some human interaction skills.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Why do you feel that smuggling some relatively harmless stuff into prison is so bad that the entire internet has to shame him? It's not like he was smuggling in two knifes and an automatic rifle...
The E-Commerce functionality of Google Analytics does that pretty well-- or did you mean something else?
You might want to checkout the Reddit source - http://code.reddit.com/
As someone who has mostly unsuccessfully looked for junior positions...

I see some, but not many, junior positions on job sites like 37signals' or Stack Overflow's, or Monster, or Dice...
A lot of the 'junior' positions want things that don't seem terribly junior- several years experience in a certain conjunction of technologies.

My computer science education has largely come from books like K&R and Programming Pearls, C2Wiki, Wikipedia, and a whole bunch of personal projects in Python, C, and occasionally C++. It's not exactly conducive to the commonly posted requirements for a junior position.

My limited perspective suggests it's a lot easier to make a good junior engineer than it is to find one that meets your requirements.
"I think that communication is a winner takes all"

Which cell phone manufacturer has "taken all"?

You seem to be basing your statement on the impossibility of interoperability, which is an odd position to take, at least if you actually think about it.
Actually his "discoveries" didn't just claim that pi was 3.2, it claimed (sometimes implicitly) several values. The wikipedia article is more informative:

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

Google finds many more references of varying detail.

Most people know the approximation 22/7, and many people actually think this is the exact value. A much better approximation is 355/113, unreasonably good, as evidenced by the unusually large integer in the continued fraction expansion of pi.
They were already quite successful, to be fair.
The bill has been reintroduced in the Senate: http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=4e6a51f6-fb2b-4212...
I assume you're talking wealth here. Not only can you become successful later in life, if you are so fortunate to become wealthy in your lifetime it's the most likely scenario. It's actually very unlikely to happen in your 20s. The 20-something self-made millionaire is much, much rarer than you would think reading articles on HN.
140,000,000
You could have a look at http://pligg.com/ - it's an open source Digg-alike. I've used it on a company intranet and it's not bad.
Can be an issue with multiple countries, app store website shows €4 but I just paid £3 for it.

I look forward to using it.

Edit - Can't actually get it to stay open for more than 4 seconds. Im running 10.6.6.

problem with the app store no try before you buy ;)

Edit 2 - Seems to work now I launched it from my applications folder rather than the doc where the app store put it.....
Glad to see US ISP's starting to take a note from Canadian (and Australian) ISP's. Next, you can look forward to unabashed packet shaping, as practiced by Rogers.
The transcript of the video is coming soon, in the meantime, here is a summary of it:

1. In this video Tim talks about what “Web 2.0″ means. (How he views the internet as an operating system).

2. Tim realized that software was becoming a commodity. He saw the same thing play out earlier with hardware in the IBM era. When something is commoditized, an adjacent thing becomes valuable. In the IBM era when hardware was commoditized, software became very valuable (and Microsoft won).

3. The web is a platform. The example Tim gave was Napster. Napster worked by indexing the songs you already had on your computer, not from a pre-determined master list. This was a huge shift in thinking about what the web could be about.

4. Tim encourages entrepreneurs to not “paint by numbers” when it comes to solving problems. Just because one company was successful doesn’t mean you should clone their product.
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I believe it's bad UI because Text Selection is marking a range of text for manipulation (like copy, move, style changes, etc.). Of course, you might also like to erase the text, in that case you can use the Delete/Backspace key.

But to have any key also function as 'Replace all this text', when you're solely in a text manipulation mode just seems like a destructive action, where it wasn't explicitly commanded by the user (it might be explicit if you've experienced the behaviour before, but consider a novice user). I can't think of a good way to rationalize this to a novice user.

I should have clarified in the article about this. I will add this clarification to my article.
http://arclanguage.org/

It is surprisingly easy to set up
Actually further back than that, see: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/03/14/1565013/future-of-i...
You are exhibiting what I call "expert idiocy".

Basic teaching theory states that experts don't think like novices, and further, they are likely to not remember the misunderstandings and difficulties they encountered as novices, because the novice problems are what they now consider simple. This is a being studied a lot in the world of education.

I call it expert idiocy when the expert refuses to accept that his understanding is actually a pretty advanced state of thinking, and not immediately obvious to the beginner. It is this form of idiocy that leads to people feeling that "only freaks can get math" or "I'm not smart enough for physics" or "computer geniuses can only do basic tasks".
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Hi folks, it's been a while now.

We've applied for Yc few months ago but we've been rejected :(
Still, we kept posting about our startup and many folks here helped us in pivoting our service, changing our positionning and reviewing our marketing proposition.

And it worked!
We've been invited to the last DEMOcon in Palm Desert and we've met many VC/Angels willing to help us :)

By the way, I just wanted to share some links with you guys to keep you updated about our progress so if you have any additional tip, please let us know.

PS: super mega ultra special thanks to the [OFFER HN] guys. You've helped us so much! Really looking forward to meeting you one day.

Our demo on stage: http://www.demo.com/alumni/demo2011/234738.html

TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/demo-wrap-up-7-new-social-startups-to-watch/

PC Mag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381210,00.asp

The NYT (venturebeat): http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/03/01/01venturebeat-demo-elive-entertainment-turns-online-videos-30234.html

!nlabVentures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSWEESJyIAE

and for those who read french :
TechCrunch FR: http://fr.techcrunch.com/2011/03/04/ca-marche-fort-pour-elive-et-dotcloud-cette-semaine/

and http://fr.techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/avec-gamersband-et-elive-pimentez-vos-parties-de-jeux-video-invitations-beta-inside/
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I look forward to contributing to the American economy if this passes.
O2 have had this on my phone for quite a while.
Yes. Pointing out that Diaspora is hard to set up is like complaining that nobody could compile Mozilla before its public release.
Ask HN: How can I find a story from Yahoo's Front Page?
Basically, there was a story that I wanted to read on Yahoo's front page yesterday, and now the browser's refreshed the page and I lost it.

Is there any way to actually get the previous Front Page stories? I don't mean news.yahoo.com, but the Front Page featured stories -- sometimes they are about dating or fixing your hair or something not newsworthy -- but how to find them the next day?
Do you even attempt to check your statements, or do you believe an appeal to consensus will simply make people listen to you?

Nobel laureate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz

Dissention: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/recession/5045421/Geithne...
I really dont care what you think of me as long as I feel that I did the right thing by warning fellow entrepreneurs. I would not want others to waste their time like we (and several others) have wasted theirs.

Note the 21 upvotes yet no comments besides mine. Nobody wants to go public with this but many of us feel the same way.
Regardless of reach, I still don't believe attacking or embarrassing someone is the answer.

My conscience is better off letting someone have a right to their own opinion (albeit a poor one), rather than attacking them for it.

In other words, I'd rather choose to understand where their point of view is coming from and accept it, than to try and change it.
And just six days before YC S 2011 application deadline. Will probably encourage many people to apply.
There are quite a few bible apps out there already. Most popular one is just called Bible I believe, it's free. There's a couple of very high quality ones as well.

Know less about the other 2 options, but I imagine there's different options there as well.

On the other hand, there were loads of musical instrument apps, and then Apple came with Garageband, which is far superior. Keep an eye on Apple's career page, as soon as they start hiring bible scholars you know what's going to happen.
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That's a subset of the functional purity problem. It's a relatively-commonly-understood one, but Haskell has taken the argument far further than most, such that that is now only a subset of a larger argument about state and mutation. The argument is not merely that you've got some state being mutated in a bad way, the argument is that the fact you've got state mutating at all is a bad thing. In this case, it's state in the compiler phase, but it's ultimately the same argument. The argument would be that combining any two things that mutate state is inferior to trying to combine two things that don't, at any level.

I'm personally still skeptical of this general argument, but I mean that in the "true" sense of skeptical. I think in a lot of ways the benefits have panned out as promised but there's some costs still swept under the rug. Rather a lot of the development ongoing even now in the core Haskell community can be viewed as various ways of lowering or eliminating the costs associated with their approach.

(For instance, the still-ongoing, but rapidly converging, changes associated with trying to create a decent string library that does not treat strings as linked lists of integers. On the one hand you can see it as normal feature work, but on the other it's a way of trying to go from having an unusually bad string story induced by functional purity to potentially having an exceptionally good one. It's this sort of work that actually keeps me interested in Haskell; I don't know of any other community doing so many actually new things to prove out their philosophy, instead of rehashing mutation-based OO in yet another way.)
Hm… Digital Color Meter lives in /Applications/Utilities and works pretty much the same way. Cmd-Shift-C to copy to clipboard.

EDIT: Also, DCM lets you adjust the size of the loupe, which is handy for getting the aggregate when there's a slight variation in pixels (grain textures and the like)
Cool little utility, but €3.99 works out to US$5.50 for me. OS X includes the DigitalColor Meter app by default, which -- as far as I can tell -- has most of the functionality shown here. From what I can tell, the advantages include a global keyboard shortcut and a menubar item, rather than an app window. Can you tell us if there is any other significant difference?
The press release can be found here: http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=4e6a51f6-fb2b-4212...
Curious when this happened. My parents just bought our first home in fall of 2010 and I'm scared to death that Wells Fargo will try to pull this sort of thing.

It seems the only recourse in this type of situation is to contact your local representatives in Congress for help and to bring attention to your situation, because of the bureaucratic nightmare these mortgage backed securities that your house was rolled into are.
Signed up! Eager to take this for a test drive. I've been waiting impatiently for Google Voice to roll out in Canada..
There a some broken or missing citations at key parts of the this article so I would love to hear rebuttals against the criticism section and also more detail about this phrase: "political and economic decisions were made to abandon the technology".
I wonder if government institutions will be connected to this some day? If so that makes me think about how easy it would become to cut the general public internet off without interrupting your own operations.
Actually Skype is pretty horrible on linux, it uses tons of CPU, crashes a lot and lacks tons of features compared to windows. Also I've heard bad things about the OSX version.
We didn't start with 500k users. (And Compete's traffic numbers are utter garbage, btw.)

And we are bootstrap profitable, but we have some big things in the works... things that do in fact require more resources to tackle well.

There is fast moving, founder friendly capital... And yes, we were able to raise a round. But not from any investors in Portland. I live in SF now and raised the round there.

And I'm all for bootstrapping. I think you learn invaluable lessons when you're operating on your own dollars and needing to move quickly. With that being, said... we grew to a point where additional resources would better help us execute on a vision that we bootstrapped to clarity.
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You could probably make your excellent personas a little less cynical. In cases where you want to point out a flaw it's best to not act as if you think you know everything. Start your sentences with "you could probably".
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I just WISH we had such politicians in my country. It is just mind blowing to me that a politician actually took the time to read a TC article and modify a bill accordingly.