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But Bing does new features at a pace on par, if not faster, than Google search.

It might be the case that different types of products have different release cycles. Not strictly though... IE is way slower than Chrome to rev.
yeah i noticed people doing that too but my guess is that it's mainly on the demo site -- in a real team hopefully your peers won't be jerks.
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That was disappointing. This doesn't tell me what to do with a billion dollars at all, it tells me what not to do for one year. Okay I wait a year... then what? Beyond typical "invest wisely" advice, there might be things you can do with a billion dollars that I can't even conceive of.

Buy an island and populate it with beautiful naked women? Fund a nuclear fusion project? Build a high speed Mag-Lev train system between Washington DC and New York? Or do you invest in longevity, brain-scan and cryogenics research in attempt to be the first human to live forever?
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Sadly its not "in your city" but "in twelve US cities."

I was really hoping that I could see if there were even other people who used Git in New Hampshire and how prominent they were.
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Hmm, this could be an online replacement for the various PersonalKanbans I have setup.
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Agree - - would love to see a Chrome extension that will give me a one-click button to add the domain of the page I'm currently on (presumably after having clicked on it from a Google search) added to my block list.
I think, in time, Singapore will produce superstar startups. Singaporeans are highly educated and skilled, deadly combination. The only thing stopping Singaporeans from choosing a startup path vs a MNC career is choice.

I'm a Singaporean entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. I was raised and educated in Singapore. Most Singaporeans want 3 things: a private condo, a car (super expensive in sg) and a maid/housekeeper. And these are the things that stop one from taking risks because a startup salary (or lack thereof) will never be able to fund the above 3 things. There's nothing wrong wanting the above, I think they are like badge of honor in Asia, but they are definitely show stoppers from being an entrepreneur.

I had a high salary before my startup but I chose to walk away to work on something I'm passionate about (http://lovewithfood.com). I'm in my 30s, coding day and night and earn $0 salary. Most of my friends in Singapore think I'm nuts for leaving a very 'cushiony' lifestyle and I only have one question for them "Do you work to live, or do you live to work?"
"Coderbots" - Why be so derogatory? There's no need to be. Who knows, maybe someday you will meet someone who only learned programming in school who is faster than you.
The part about turning feedback cycles into feedback loops doesn't really say anything, same with the part about turning dissonance into resonance. The rest of the video is amazing though.
See the answers to this question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2251940
I'm really excited for this. It seems like having CouchDB available on iOS will make it fairly easy to build apps that require synchronization to the web backend after being offline.
You might appreciate this as well http://mashupbreakdown.com/
I'm not judging features here as more or less important. I just meant to point out that N900 can easily be a rival to all but the most recent iPhones from the technical point of view. I'm not sure about N810 screen - never used it. I'm ok with the N900 one, although yes, it could be more sensitive. But I'd honestly take resistive screen over the cap. one for the advantage of using it in gloves (my hands are easily getting cold ;) )
True, I would love to expand. But within github api limit I'm limited to what cities I can pick. Maybe NH would come next :)
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Currently, I'm aggregating data from github since there's no way of getting those values live (to my knowledge). I'm staying with the limit of the api rule so I'm limited to how much data I can retrieve per week. Yes it would be awesome if I can do it for more cities.
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I used these guys a while back and was very pleased. Highly recommended if you're stepping out into the world of credit card processing.
I don't know; which direction is the gap in?
the constraints quickly force you to think small

That only works if you're building stuff for yourself. And then only if it's for a hobby. Otherwise you find yourself trying to (e.g.,) stuff a complex and somewhat safety-critical(1) control loop with 16-bit fixed-point division implemented in assembler into a processor with 1200 bytes of memory.

(1) phone calls from the irritated client that your design caught fire and would have burned down his lab if he hadn't noticed the smoke at 5PM are generally not a good thing...
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There's a joke to be made here.
If you go through the process of trying to delete your account they do all this crazy stuff to try to dissuade you. One example - they show you pictures of your friends with comments like, "friend x will really miss you." The process tries to get you to just disable it. If you go through with totally deleting it you have 14 days to change your mind and then it is supposed to be permanent. Ars had an article a few months back showing how your data (specifically pictures) could still be found even after deleting your account, FB claimed they solved that issue, but I'm not sure.

Hopefully this is helpful.
Guys are doing great things, keep it up! Will your server side stuff always be backed by Tropo or are there plans to make the provider integration more pluggable?
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Disagree. Perhaps the company is hiring for a skillset that is not widely represented in this particular local market and yet they are not committed to paying a salary that is competitive on a nationwide level.

Paying an extra 20% on top of the first year's salary for help in unearthing a local gem may be preferable to trying to lure a Googler from Mountain View to Topeka at a rate that would be twice what the rest of the Kansan developers are asking.
Isn't it possible that malware which found its way onto the phone could skim off the data as its being swiped? This is entirely different than a typical physical skimmer, as the person swiping the card for entirely legitimate reasons is likely unaware of the malware, and would be as much a victim as much as the cardholder. From what I understand, the Square device does not encrypt the data sent to the Square app, making it easier for malware to capture transaction data as its processed.
You may be right. I get the same memory usage numbers with my Chromium memory usage script as Chromium's "Stats for nerds", but Chromium's detailed memory usage tool does link to a bug where it over reports its own memory usage. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25454 I guess if even Google can not figuring out how much memory Chromium is using, laymen, such as myself, are not going to do much better.
interesting Des, your presentation on tuesday at DWS was thought provoking
I'd like to see something to trank time spent on a task. Perhaps in 15 minute increments?
I think you mean ROM. Nothing eraseable about those :-)

...not without X-rays, anyway.
For most of my Haskell work, I just use the standard GHC package, with libraries installed in clean environments using ``cabal-dev``. Compatibility with Ubuntu-packaged libraries, such as xmonad or mtl, is too important to trade away for a new GHC.

For testing against GHC 7, I built from source and installed to ~/.opt/ghc_7.0.1 -- over the next few days I'll probably grab 7.0.2 and install in the same way. This is only for testing -- I don't built software against it, generally.

Building GHC from source is actually very easy -- just install the development packages, then ./configure && make . There's instructions in the GHC tarball.
Maybe it's just me, but I switched to Bing a few weeks ago, and I'm finding a pretty good increase in search result quality. For me, good search by default > good search only with my help.

OTOH, I imagine that bing will also eventually succumb to content farms and other techniques that will come up, so maybe this is the way of the future.
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Weird how many negative comments you're getting. I for one absolutely love it. I think it's energizing and the awkwardness+energy is fun.

It's definitely not the "typical SF thing" etc, but to anybody outside California, this feels refreshing.

Great job
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I disagree. Having wikipedia results at the top of my google searches has been extremely useful. It's easier to find a wikipedia page through google rather than search on the wikipedia site.
great idea, this could be a really big deal. best of luck!
Not sure why they are limiting this to particular browser versions. If I'm running IE7 (which I'm not), what does that have to do with which sites I want to block?
Actually, maybe not you, but I think a lot of the modern world is fundamentally anti-excellence. Maybe America less than most places, but a lot of the world Tall Poppy Syndrome going on -

Yes, a lot of the world is at least ambivalent about personal excellence. I think most of the world is trained in school to do enough to plausibly cover their ass and stay out of trouble. That makes them good cogs in the burgeoning machinery of society, but useless to an entrepreneur.

I notice this a lot in music. Many people in America think it's more important to praise some kid for doing some worthless flubbery musical thing than it is to just appreciate good music. If you just be sincere and applaud for what you really like (as opposed to what gets your attention while you try to talk over the music) your kid might pick up on and be inspired by your passion for music. Applauding for any old flubbery thing just to bolster self esteem just teaches kids that it's all bullshit, fake, and you're trapped in a suburban put-on devoid of real meaning.
Get in touch with the GitHub people. They are some of the most reasonable people on the planet. I'm sure they'll help you somehow.
Sounds more meta than changing the world, sorry. Twitter and FB are the ones making social life easier.
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The applications near the top get read by everyone. We meet in person (or in Rtm's case by Skype) to come up with the final list we're inviting to interviews.

In the past it was hard for anyone to unilaterally reject an application. Nearly all were seen by at least two of us. That will probably no longer be the case with this batch though, because we expect a lot of applications.
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Agreed, dystopia. I would've expected the personality-fit to be of top importance, so it's surprising to me that it really wasn't that important to the people filling out the survey.
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Yeah this whole startup business stuff is a serious maze. Seems almost paradoxical. I've got a working product that people really like, just don't have enough sales.
My advice would be to find a better way to capture that spirit than "winning! excellence! to infinity and beyond!", which to me at least, just sounds corny.

Like many people here, I don't fit into a mold at all, but am pretty comfortable with my life and with most people I deal with. Maybe it comes with age.

With sports, at least, I think people like to see the underdog win because the idea of "sport" isn't just about who's best on paper. For instance, with cyclists, there is an impressive array of physiological tests they take, but it's more fun to watch the races, rather than simply decide, say, the Tour de France over who has a bigger VO2 MAX in the lab.
I really like this.

You guys should really open up a tagging API. As a developer working on a social site, I'd love to be able to auto-tag content that users upload.
I'd love to see Chicago up there if you get around those limits.
Thanks for that heads up. More here:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/10/facebook-may-be-maki...

I could delete all the pictures I've uploaded before deleting the account. I think that will be enough for me.
What is harder to trace and delete is all the comments and likes one spreads around the site. I'm more interested in what happens to them.

I guess I could create a fake account and spread some comments and likes around the site and then delete the account and see what happens.
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A lot also depends on the context of $10,000 per day. Yes, it's a fair bit if it's a situation where the $10K/day captures all the time you spend on the client including most prep work, travel, and so forth.

But for some types of consulting, you actually spend a relatively small amount of your time "on the clock" and lots of time gathering information, talking to people, formulating your thoughts, marketing yourself in various respects. In a prior job, $10K per day for an on-site consulting session (or a speech, etc.) was actually a pretty typical fee for that type of work but you did relatively few such engagements and sent a lot of time doing things for which you didn't get paid--or got paid a fair bit less--that were nonetheless necessary to being able to command the $10K per day.

(That rate is also getting in roughly the ballpark of high-end lawyers and similar professionals with the difference that they charge you for much more of the background work.)
More specifically, an agent working on commission gets proportionally less reward for a price increase than does someone negotiating on their own behalf.

- Real estate agent negotiates 8 hours for an additional $10,000 on the sales price: 5% commission gets him $500 for an hourly rate of $63.

- Real estate agent negotiates 8 hours for an additional $10,000 on the sales price of his own home: he keeps all $10,000 for an hourly rate of $1250.

- Recruiter negotiates for 8 hours for an additional $5000 salary: he gets a 20% commission for $1000 or $125/hr.

- Job hunter negotiates for 8 hours for an additional $5000 on his own salary: he gets $5000 for $625/hr. plus compounding effects for every future salary negotiation that is based off of his current salary.
Very nice! I've never written anything in Haskell beyond configuring Xmonad, so I don't know if this is how it works in the Haskell-world, but presenting it this way (the "Robust"-section in particular) really gives me the feeling that this is a great platform to explore. Libraries are extremely important, and choosing between similar ones leads to anxiety.

I think many languages should take after this. If not distribute libraries with the platform (batteries included), at-least bless some libraries. It'd be so much easier to get started with some languages (cough, Erlang) if authoritative characters in the loop would share their opinions.
They've done bundles similar to this in the past, right? Has anyone had any experience with those? I'm interested, but hesitant.
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For $10,000 a day, you could hire them to work with you.
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My former employer featured on there, and I can confirm that the story was entirely accurate, as far as the person submitting it knew.

(They didn't stick around long enough to see all the many real WTFs that were happening there.)
Chicago def should be on it. I'll add it next.
Or set the OPTIMIZATION environment variable for even more control ;-)
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Boulder? I understand all the other choices but didn't realize Boulder was such a hotbed of developers. Is it? (If you're taking votes, Los Angeles seems a significant omission at this stage.)
I believe TS and Dreamit are both making decisions about a month before YC.
FWIW, in my experience one of the more difficult aspects of starting and growing a company is knowing if what you believe is true, or just something you want to be true.

So you go to start a company and you say that you believe the search experience is getting worse and worse. That you believe the leader in the market place is fighting a losing battle of trying to algorithmically determine relevance in a world where humans will actively work to subvert the algorithms. That the world would be a better place if a more customizable search experience existed.

A common response is "Well if this is such an important idea they would already be doing it."

So as an entrepreneur you deal with the naysayers and you build something which other people have "... been clamoring for a blacklist for years" and yet has never materialized. And you put it out into the market.

Right up until you deliver your product, nobody knows who is 'right' in this back and forth. It is all academic. You've built the best product you know how to build, you offer it up to the world, and when you ship the debate stops being academic and starts becoming empirical.

When the market leader adds features that mimic ones you've launched with several months ago, it can be simply timing (they may have been going to do it all along and it just happens that they did it now), it can be a response, it can be random I suppose. Regardless of why they did it, it seems to be an unequivocal damnation of pure algorithmic search.

As one of Blekko's founding concepts was that the search experience can be made better by human curation, I choose to interpret it as validation. Not that I expect Google to join in and adopt the "web search bill of rights" anytime soon of course.
I'm a interface designer that loves design. I want to design your killer help app thing. I also need help to do everything... I mean anything.
Zappos launched the API about a year ago and since it's been used for a lot of internal projects, especially our quarterly hackathons. The public API also powers our Ipad/Iphone apps and several 3rd party webapps. We are really excited to see what other devs can do with it.
Sure I am just thinking that to actually get to that level the post talks about requires far more than a couple of days.
You know, maybe I'm just slow and don't see the big picture, but I don't understand what all the hubub is about.

The '-' operator has worked wonders for me for years.
That's not entirely honest.

A) You still have to worry about it when interfacing with libraries that use plain pointers

B) Shared pointers incur runtime penalties (larger data pushes things off the cache, spurious inc/dec-refs messing said cache. If you don't care about that, why do you use a language like C++ in the first place?

C) Reference counting is a poor form of automatic memory management, you still have to worry about cycles, and use weak references or such to break the cycles.
Back in 1999-2000, I knew a guy that sold his website about $20m (a few million in cash, the rest in stock of the buying company). Within a month he had spent around $3m on a new home and his wife had a $20k/month shopping habit. It was then things got ugly---the tech market crash, legal problems from the sale of his company and a high maintenance wife. From what I've been able to find, he no longer has the wife, the house, a company or the money.

So yeah, I can see waiting a year before any major lifestyle changes.
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Perhaps not in total population but Boulder definitely has a solid startup presence, relatively speaking (SimpleGeo, OneRiot, TechStars, ...).

update: But certainly, LA and Chicago (mentioned elsewhere) are good additions.
Good luck for Socialcam! Just got an email for from them.

But, please, never send mass mail without an unsubscribe link. Never. It is actually against US law. And its bad user experience. Otherwise, users will not trust their emails for a beta program of next YC startup.

Legal discussion here: http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum/internet-law/28768-unsub...
It's not a DAG. Since you know that subversion has merge tracking since 1.5 I'm going to assume you know what I mean. I don't have time or space in a comment to explain why this is so much better. For an example or two:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2613525/what-makes-mergin...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2475831/merging-hg-git-vs...
Nice page, but you won't be able to read the text on smaller screens. You may want to consider making the height of that huge graphic dynamic (within limits).

Also, the dance thing is just awesome.
Agreed definitely something that should and possibly be shared virally and or bookmarked or stumbledupon.

A start-up is about creating/doing your own thing, making a living off of it(hopefully profit from it) and most of all having fun!
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That's a passive-aggressive mindset. We're all beautiful snowflakes but salary isn't based on how special you are, it's based on what you're worth, which is very closely related to what others would pay for you. Don't be all offended because your boss doesn't want to pay what you feel like you're worth, you know, in your heart.

"Boss, I'd like to make $x."

"No."

"Boss, I'd like to make $x and Y will pay it."

"You got it."

It's very simple. You can't negotiate without options. Nothing personal. You won't hurt someone's feelings by standing up for yourself (unless he is very insecure).
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So, evidently, it doesn't do any proximity analysis. I listed my location as "Limerick, PA, US", which is outside Philadelphia. It'd be interesting to add that capability.
Yuck! The pink "strawberries" are the WORST!* I have a pile of them underneath my monitor when I'm unlucky enough to get one in the little two-packs.

* Out of the original flavors (orange, lemon, cherry, and strawberry.)
Please explain what would make anyone buy this over Windows, Mac OSX or Google Chrome???
I'm not personally a big SVN defender/apologist, but I'll bite.

Imagine you're on a small team developing closed source software. Like many people, you already have SVN, your team already knows SVN, it's already integrated into build system and you're using Trac for ticketing. Based just on that, I would absolutely keep using SVN instead of transitioning to Git. Perhaps you disagree, but I hope you'll at least concede that's a reasonable position.
That's a really nifty API. Performance is nice too. Would be interested in knowing more about it.
I'd love to say what phone of Nokia was the best one, but I can't remember its obfuscated and cryptic code-name.
It looks like something I would integrate for my current project but your term suggests that the api is only for personal and non-commercial uses.
10,000 a day for how long? If the contract is guaranteed to last a year, then heck you can bring your friends with you.

Even if they're top level devs making 200k per year, you can still hire 17.5 of them (10,000 * 356 / 200000).
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Do you type "-mahalo.com -efreedom.net -allthespamblogsthatannoyme.com", every time you do a search?
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This looks great. I'd love to find out more about your API and what type of web scraping techniques you're using. It looks like this is going to be available publicly to developers? What type of usage do you guys allow?