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"I believe the successor to the desktop is the room, that instead of thinking that the computer is just something on the desk that you go and sit in front of, [in the] future basically the whole room is the computer and you go in it."

Think he meant bathroom
I think the question is entirely different for founders and employees.

For founders, the question loses some of its meaning, because the company itself is intrinsically tied to personal goals. Founders tend to not refer to the company as "a job". It's something of a different beast. This doesn't mean that some time doing non-company stuff won't ever be required to maintain sanity, but the dynamics are pretty different.

For employees, which this post seems to be about, you're ultimately working to fulfill someone else's personal goals. There it makes a lot more sense to balance working on your own personal goals and pastimes or whatever with working on the goals of the person who's signing your paychecks. The problem is that if there's a sufficient supply of employees who are willing to forgo that for whatever reason (loving the work, not having much of a life, peer pressure) then they're more likely to be favored by the employers with the implications that go along with that.
The fact that it is not a development/work machine is exactly the reason I use a tablet at home. Does wonders for work/life balance
Hmm, not a bad idea. My company is going to be hiring soon, I'm thinking about doing something like this. It would be relevant to our service though, not just a random web app. e.g., building something on top of our API. Thanks for the idea!
This is the government we're talking about... Whoever wrote this won't get sacked for gross negligence, which is what this is, as much as say, operating machinery without a safety cover, and is probably paid waaaay more than anyone with comparable "skills" in the private sector.
You aren't going to find a magic module that does what you want. Break down the problem a bit.

Parse xml (RSS/ATOM feeds)

Parse tabular data (some times) -> parsing html

*Parse html (DON'T USE REGEXES)

You're on the right track where you're going to have to write a separate parser for each source.

I would recommend structuring your app in the mindset of drivers for your computer's graphics card. The OS doesn't need to know about all the thousands of kinds of graphics card hardware. It just needs a set of drivers for the ones you're going to use with it.

Each custom parser is a driver. The output of each driver should be some standard data format you've decided on (json is your best bet). Your app layer should live over this, so it can just ingest the various sources of data without having to worry about formats.

We went through something like this on an internal project at my office last year, in Java. Its not fun.

I'd honestly recommend going with Python. If you're a java guy or girl, it'll be easy to move over to Python. The language is much more expressive, so you will be able to work easier, faster, and with better results.

Another benefit of using Python for something like this is all of the useful modules that are available. Beautifulsoup for html parsing is particularly useful.
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Which company would that be, if you don't mind me asking? :)
Take a look at Beautiful Soup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
the title is actually very wrong: it's $1.5B on bet for today's match IND v. PAK, and not about 1.5B people betting.
So you want to work in a startup?
Neighbouring Denmark (where you'd track me down) put a law into effect some years back saying that all telcos must log basically everything all the time about everyone.

This makes me wonder if I could request to see these full logs from my cell and Internet provider. Would make some interesting data for mining.

Plus I'm sure they'd hate handing it over, which makes this that much sweeter !
I find it interesting that with all the frameworks that Microsoft builds that they (seem) to spend so little time on optimizing the code.

An interesting example is how the Entity Framework is actually slower than LINQ-to-SQL, which came before it. It's bizarre that they'd design EF to not reuse the same DB connection for multiple queries, or to cache the output of dynamically generated methods.
Yes, I'd imagine it'd be quite different for employees and founders. I don't know if I'm willing to make that kind of sacrifice though--maybe that means I'm not cut out to be a founder. Or maybe I haven't found the right opportunity yet.
Surprisingly absent from the entire article is the actual prices for the iPad and iPad 2 that he's comparing. When I read it I thought the only price difference could be accounted for with inflation, but I'm fairly sure we didn't see 20% inflation last year in the electronics market.
Nice, but I'm not sure I get it. There is no such thing as a concrete non-deterministic operation. How does the expression evaluate? If all the parameters are evaluated in order, there's nothing non-deterministic about it.
Well, on iOS since the only real way to execute code is from their app store, its much harder to attack the client code. Android can not do so, so there needs to be defense in depth to protect against that.
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It's not such an arcane algorithm. Choose a pivot element, (say) p. Rearrange the array into left_sub_array + [p] + right_sub_array such that all elements of left_sub_array are no greater than p, and all elements of right_sub_array are greater than p. Then recursively sort the left and right sub-arrays.

If you don't remember this, it's OK. If I was the interviewer I'd still give you the description above and see if you could implement it. Most candidates cannot.
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Over the weekend I got inspired to make a live version of Hacker News. I thought people would find it interesting to see the site updating in realtime.

To this end, I created the site and put it online today. I then submitted the link to HN this afternoon, but by the time it rolled off the new page an hour or so later it had 1 additional up vote. I also sent out one tweet about it which didn't get picked up anywhere.

So I wonder if my assumptions about my audience (fellow HN'ers) was wrong. Or perhaps I submitted it at the wrong time of day. Or perhaps the project is just boring to most people.

Here's the site, http://hnlive.trending.us.

How would you go about promoting this?
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I'm involved in a startup since 9 months ago. After the first 3 months wich were loaded with tons of work, long hours and a lot of stress someone told me to categorize the work on my todo-list, to think about wich tasks i could delegate to others and to filter the most important ones (a common model for this wich helped me a lot can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_...).
Now I still have a lot to do, but i can manage to take a day off from time to time, i even went skiing for 4 days without working there.
In my opinion people lose their attitude and motivation if they dont take time to do something besides working and think about other things.
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This is based on an incredible set of inane assumptions, with essentially no data to back them up.
It's an interesting idea. Perhaps I'll replace my Speed Dial for HN with this one so I don't have to keep refreshing the page.

One comment: Your date and twitter area on the right don't like narrow windows. Once the date hits the "submit" area it drops the next line and messes up the layout.
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Actually, Swiss.

And yes, Euro is pronounced oi-ro in the German speaking parts.
According to me Amazon Cloud Drive -- is targeting to the users who have data in cloud and want to get some better services around their data -- more towards the amazon services, this is good for people who use amazon services.

Dropbox do more then what Amazon Cloud Drive does --- it is more concentrated at data in your system and cloud storage as way to make it work.

Amazon CloudDrive is more on data at your cloud and Dropbox is a solution to the data at you system. I still use my system as my primary storage for my data -- for me Dropbox/IDrivesync make lot of value.
Clickable: http://hnlive.trending.us

A few questions:

* What was your original submission?

* What time of day did you make it?

* How long did it stay on the "newest" page?

* How many people clicked on it?

* What was the title?

These are important questions - knowing the answers shows you thought about your promotion. Not knowing the answers shows you didn't.

And it's now important to think about promoting your links on HN, because of the sheer volume of material now here. If you want something noticed you need to get your title right, pick your time, write something that's immediately eye-catching, and generally market it.

Otherwise it's pure chance, even if it's good.
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I would challenge the notion that Android in aggregate will outsell Apple in any product category due to its "open" nature.

From 2004-2008 the Digital Audio Player market was synonymous with iPod. Apple had and still has ~80% market share. Even now can you name one credible Android device that competes in that market?

Android has made excellent inroads in the mobile phone space because it is free, carriers need a strategic answer to iPhone, and have subsidy power to shift market share.

It seems to me that in the tablet market, where consumers bear the full price of the device, that the dynamic will be more like that of the iPod than iPhone. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple have 70-80% of the market long term.
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It's back from August 2010, but probably still working.
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The pervasiveness of radiation data, notably from random people putting their Geiger counters on ustream but also from the government (daily per-prefecture updates on municipal water, rain water, and atmospheric fallout), is the only thing keeping us sane in Tokyo.

So I really appreciate this idea, and indeed I wouldn't feel as reassured that we're okay here if the government was the only source of that data.

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"A typical rep using an auto-dialer will probably call 250–300 companies a day. You have to use an auto-dialer to get those kinds of numbers, which I have to presume Groupon uses."

If I'm reading this right, this is saying "if a rep had an auto-dialer they could call 250-300 companies a day. To call 250-300 numbers a day, a rep must have an auto-dialer. Therefore, I presume Groupon uses auto-dialers."

Beg the question much?
..based on the assumption they have a list of every company in the US to call, it's a bit far fetched to think they will call every company - do you think Bang Bros are going to offer a Groupon voucher? ;)

Maybe Warner Bros will offer 50% for Two and a Half Men..
And e-ro in French, so your "an" works both ways if you're Swiss, I guess :)
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I spoke to someone a few months ago, and what I remember most vividly about the conversation was when he said, "once your team starts going home for dinner, you know you're in trouble."

This is an example of a social pathology on two levels. First, it means that working for that one particular company sucks. Second, it is being deployed to make working sucks normative at other companies, too. (And if it gets widely repeated by credulous entrepreneurs, it will infect their lives, their employees lives, etc etc. The viral factor of suck in the social graph has exceeded k = 1.0, watch out!)

It has not been my experience that the narrative this social pathology tells about work being necessarily all-consuming has basis in objective reality. I've done all-consuming work. My business' schedule doesn't resemble that schedule even a little itty-bitty bit.
Original submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2384668

Title "Hacker News Live".

About 11 hours ago.

Stayed on the newest page for roughly an hour.

Google Analytics indicate 52 page views, about 75% bounce rate. Much of that might have been me personally as I was getting everything working.
Was your company offering "business solutions" by any chance? I remember once walking across an IT fair in Munich and being floored at the extreme boringness of all the company banners. They all seemed to provide "solutions" - whatever, no details about what they were doing (solutions for what?), nothing special going on. My brain was completely drained after the walk.

Just saying, maybe a better presentation could help. Also working in a software company is a kind of dreadful outlook, even today (neon lights, specs filled with hundreds of pages, dreary meetings...).
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It's not a pipedream. We run a dev team that is both productive and enthused about the work we do. Every single engineer is out the door by 6, unless there is something that needs completing urgently. We are constantly shipping new versions of our product, are very profitable and have a minute churn rate of developers.

My gut feeling is that developers who cultivate a lifestyle that will inevitably lead to them burning out are either drinking the koolaid of some kind of cliched' notion of how developers should perform, or are simply being exploited by their employers.

Everyone has a right to see their family and keep fit, and in this sellers market, developers CAN work at a sustainable pace that doesnt put their future careers at stake.
And I doubt most people realise;

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Well personally for me , its more of a novelty. I don't sit on HN all day to actively want to see things change in real time.
Thanks for the comment.

I was thinking that it would be useful to create a site where companies could pledge a small amount of help, or entrepreneurs could post their top 5 tips?

Anyone else have any interesting ideas?
The iPad 2 costs 499, just like the iPad 1 one year ago. the iPad 1 costs 399 now. I guess that confused him.
Simple observation - you needed either to point to a page that explained the problem your potential users have that you are solving, or you needed to do that in a comment to your own submission. People could easily have clicked on it and just thought - "Huh - can't see what this does that's different" - and closed.

It doesn't do anything special for me because I do my HN borwsing on a very elderly machine that can't understand anything new or fancy. I may actually be mis-interpreting the site because it degrades gracefully and I don't see anything special - maybe it looks completely different on a modern browser.

But you need to get people to recognise their pain - then take it away. Your submission here didn't do that.
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> Even now can you name one credible Android device that competes in that market?

I can only speak for myself, but any device that runs Spotify meets my needs perfectly. This includes all contemporary Android devices (and probably all contemporary iOS devices as well).

So, while the Android devices I'm speaking of don't directly compete against the iPod, for me iPod and iPod-like devices are uninteresting.
There is a difference between "I didn't have time" and "I didn't want to spend time". It is entirely up to you and you decided to not have time for them, but for your startup. Or put another way: You decided for the part in you that wants to work on the startup instead of the part in you that wants to deal with your mother or your girlfriend.

When I read something like this, I sometimes wonder what the intention of people of running a startup is. Is it really about creating an app? The app/startup will be forgotten at some point in time anyways. So why are you doing it, if it isn't for the personal freedom that comes along with a startup (eventually) and that enables you to spend more time with the people you care about?

I mean, it is just a startup. The people might care to some degree about your product, but they don't care about you at all and you shouldn't care too much either.

I know that the "work hard" mantra is ridiculously widespread in the startup culture and especially in the US and I also know the feeling that one's mind always comes up with new ideas, whether you want it or not.

However, I prefer to work on my startup 5 to 10 hours a week, just enough to get decent money from it, be ahead of competitors and make plans or delegate the work that needs to be done.

I think the real trick in startups is not to spend as much time as possible, but as few time as possible and still get good results. At least, that is how it works for me and how it supports the general idea, why I run a startup at all: to increase my personal freedom.
Yeah, I agree with this. It is essentially a novelty site I built in a couple of nights. I wonder if this is part of the issue.
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one issue as site owner is why would I use your service and not just stick with Facebook login. Facebook give me access to everything I need. I have no reason to go with your service. If and only if you got some huge traction would I need to implement your service, but your whole idea is based off the idea that people want to use your service to login/authenticate to my site.
I actually met him at the start of this (Erlangen), it feels even more weird if you think about how much data you can correlate if you have more than one persons data. This could be big - you will probably get millions of funding even pre launch.
yes there is that too.. but I would like to add some anecdotal evidence.. I am not Asian and while living here I've gradually adopted the same diet ( and adapted to the portion sizes ) and it has done me wonders.
There is no known real world non-deterministic Turing Machine. We could only simulate it using a deterministic Turing Machine (like a common computer).

Using this operator make the code really clear (IMHO) and I suppose it is its purpose.

Furthermore, if one day we discover an hardware able to be a non-deterministic Turing machine is discovered, the code will work.

[1]: I doubt such an hardware exists. But you could look about quantum computer for something close to what is a non-deterministic Turing machine.
I founded a startup with my brother 5 years ago - we launched in my two weeks paternity leave from work. For the first 4 years we both held down full time jobs and worked on our startup every evening. I had my 2nd child when the startup turned 4 any my brother had his first around the same time. I'm not sure if it's because we are family, but we've always had a policy (not written down or set in stone) but that if one of us wants some time off then we do.

We pretty much do normal hours (10 - 6), we still work a few evenings, but we're now both full time so haven't got the added stress of a 'day job'. It was always our dream to be able to work full time on our startup and now that's a reality there is honestly no other job i'd rather be doing. We both get to see our kids everyday, i'm due to be taking my eldest (4) swimming at lunch.

Based on my experience (every startup is different), we do live and breath it, but at the same time we always make time for family, holidays and anything else we want to do (taking the kids for days out, nursery, the gym). Our startup is actually doing better than ever and I personally feel that because we put in all the work in the first few years whilst holding down a full time job we are now in a position to be able to enjoy the fruits of our labour and have a great work/life balance.
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I took a little extra effort to make sure hnlive matches the native style as closely as possible, just without tables. Basically every 10 seconds or so, if there are changes in votes/comments/position the page updates.

Its built on node.js and uses socket.io to maintain the open connection to the backend.
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What about code you built yourself, jailbroken iPhones?
What do you say in the US/UK? (I am German)

I only know the rule to say "an" if a word starts with a,e,i,o or u, so why not Euro?
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Isn't it arguably a component to "startup" culture that maximizes apparent effort (which is easy to measure) rather than actual productivity - which is very difficult to measure objectively.

Note: I have founded startups (a long time ago now) that very much went with the traditional startup culture but have also worked at small new companies that didn't have this culture at all but still did pretty well.
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