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Show HN: Review my app, WAYWN (What are you wearing now?)
It's up and running at : http://www.waywn.com/

The gist of the app is building a community around fashion that fits an individual's style. Understandably, there are similar applications that have launched recently, but we feel that ours is distinct enough to still have a valuable place in the fashion ecosystem. The biggest difference from ours and sites such as Pose, Fashism, Tryiton, Lookbook, etc. is that we want to capture a lot of the forum based discussions and create a community out of them. The existing sites tend to skew heavily female (to the point where the design often alienates men) and don't facilitate much in the way of a community, or they really only cater to fashionistas and cause 'regular people' to not feel especially comfortable posting pictures of themselves.

Ultimately, we want to build a site that feels comfortable for people who aren't especially fashionable (such as ourselves!) to want to share outfits and create discussions around them.

Given the recent state of online outfit/fashion sharing sites, is this something you feel is valuable to continue pursuing? Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Jack Dorsey: “It’s Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”
Clickable link: http://www.waywn.com/
I think the original suit for Copyright infringement proceeds against Google.
ITunes is Down I want to spend 99 Cents, but I can't.
Not necessarily. I was once working in a large software project (500+ people), which went off-track, and then some added processes helped to save it, like for example continuous preintegration and more rigorous testing before each check-in.

I agree with the parent comment. "Just programming" looks nice on a manifesto, but you need processes when you want to scale.
The Battle of Chernobyl http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319... is a good documentary to check out.

They sacrificed hundreds of men in a rush to stave off a secondary explosion that would have made a far larger uninhabitable zone.
That was pretty good, can we get the slides anywhere?
I made a user script for this a while ago: https://gist.github.com/880967 Just click one of the “raw” links to install.
Met seriously world-class folks and had life-changing mentoring in the winter session. Jessica from YC came by and talked with us one night. Many others in the star-studded cast.
Distributed systems and dynamic typing
> the summary is that good hustlers are hard to come by

That's true, but I'll add to it. I've met good hustlers - people who _get shit done_ - but they still leverage sleazy tactics. And that's the problem. Out of the possible combinations of sleaze and GSD, I keep encountering {sleaze} and {sleaze, GSD}. What I'm finding hard to come by, and what I'd kill for in a cofounder is the other: {GSD}. And tbh, I think {sleaze, GSD} is more representative of what people view as an ideal hustler. I can say, with certainty, that I don't want that in a partner.
Welfare analysis between Groupon and Goldman Sachs
congrats dotcloud! you guys deserve it! Glad we're hosted with such an awesome company.
"Anyone want a calendar?"

"Yeah, I'd love one."

"Here you go; for your convenience, it's got a speaker to remind you to get an oil change at my garage."

"Huh, that's weird, but I'll just remove the battery and I won't hear the message."

Once the bits leave the nytimes.com server and travel to my computer, they don't control how I use them. I can't break laws (e.g., republish the words as my own), but if I don't want to see part of the page, that's my prerogative.
>It could be useful for lots of folks that know UIKit inside and out ...

Then they'll have a very easy time picking up AppKit — certainly much easier than someone coming from any other platform would have, mobile or desktop. The lineage from AppKit is supposed to be one of the advantages of UIKit. These frameworks are very similar.
The only secure password is the one you can’t remember
Yes, you wouldn't flood the market, of course. Likely you could only bring it back piece by piece anyway, so it might not be a huge problem.
Your definition of 'hustler' is both valley-centric as well as seemingly predicated on a wink and a nod denial of the sleazy origins of the term.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
That won’t work in all browsers. User scripts are executed in their own context and don’t know of plugins and libraries that are available on the page.

The good news is, you don’t need Prototype at all. I made this userscript this morning: https://gist.github.com/880967 Just click one of the “raw” links to install.
The article came out well, happy to debate the merits of Rails as a platform in the comments here.
MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor
Hold on to your butts!
They use a ghetto gallery that requires a pageload to change images.
You're right, my mistake. I had it in my head that Zoroastrianism was first, then looked up its origins to get a date, but didn't double-check it. It looks like Judaism pre-dates Zoroastrianism by a couple centuries, and Atenism (emerging in the 14th century BC) preceded both.

The argument still stands. We're still talking about 4 millennia of monotheism, preceded by 200 millennia of various other forms of religion.
I agree with the assessment that both terms come with such differing meanings, that they should probably be avoided in the mainstream for the fear of losing the point in the technicalities.

What I took issue with is that the post was in direct response to a piece that outlined exactly what the term hustler meant in the positive sense, then went on to say that they wouldn't want one based on the negative meaning, when in reality they just couldn't find a good one to work with.

As the original article from Micah said:
A Hustler on the other other hand is a relationship builder. Someone who can build direct relationships with their customers. They arent really promoters, although they do a lot of promotion. They arent salespeople, although they do a lot of selling. They are passion people. They have the ability to articulate their passion clearly and in a way that gets other people equally passionate.

As a technical person who has worked on several projects with someone who I consider to be an "enterprising go getter" and in my mind a hustler, I think that they can often be greatly under appreciated - especially good ones, and this article didn't do anything to convey that respect.
Yeah.. it will be the last time I give them any money.. It was a complete waste of time
Absurd Software Patent: Google Gets Patent for Doodles
Could be worse - switching from opt-out to opt-in is unlikely to make a huge difference to Google's bottom line. A bigger problem is dealing with the anti-trust issues; I'm not sure what remedies would be appropriate or how they would impact the business model. given that Google's position is built around US copyright, it may be in the company's interest to deepen its existing relationship with the Library of Congress.

Theoretically I would have made $75 or so out of the existing settlement for a little-read tech book I wrote back in the 90s, but I'd rather see it become available again digitally than worry over payment. I must say I found navigating the settlement website vastly more pleasant than dealing with the publisher, who my rights in a much more invidious fashion.
Not only does Alfred, NY reportedly have more downloads than any other city in the world, or any other state in the US, but it currently has more downloads than any _country_ other than Germany and the US!

I think this has got to be a bug of some kind. Any explanations?
1. This is more for the amusement of people who don't care, who will buy or not buy based on the value proposition. It's not the professional who is going to take advantage of this -- those of us in startup mode don't need the time sink of keeping up with the news, those of us not in startup mode have the money to buy.

2. That said, this is useful for the high school or college student who doesn't have the 20 dollars to spend.

I'd be more worried about people bypassing your page and just emailing the articles to each other, actually.
Cady's hair is... impressive.
Why should we assume that this writing style is evidence of optimization rather than plain skill?
That's the thing, Scrum basically assumes that all software teams are so dysfunctional that they won't talk to each other unless and until everyone is watching.
I don't know exactly what was going on, but we noticed that we were getting as much as 2,000 hits per minute from Alfred, NY. That IP is getting blocked by the load balancer now and I'm working on a way to remove that aberration from our stats.
Yeah, but it requires porting apps, and if you're doing that anyway why not switch to a modern system without the decades of legacy cruft, like Wayland?
AppKit and UIKit aren't at all similar. And they aren't related. UIKit was written from the ground up for iOS and is based on Core Animation. AppKit was written by NeXSTEP and is based on software rendering with dirty rects.
You're right, mine won't work. Taken down.
It's actually the opposite: 1) massive corporate abuse, 2) "Look, over there, the GOVERNMENT!" (which received its direction from behemoth corporations).

AT&T will not go out of business tomorrow. "The government", as you know it, will go. At least it's made of elected officials. Peons don't elect or have any control over large corporations.
I am only going off the definition which this article is referencing.

http://learntoduck.com/micah/hackers-hustlers
Flagged ---- seriously?

With a title containing 'motherfucker' ----- you should have known it wasn't totally serious.
It's definitely not a sport
Why does this article not actually link to http://www.dotcloud.com?
Focus is Hiring a Senior Django Dev
www.focus.com is hiring another senior Django developer. What you should be: smart, use Python, Javascript (jQuery) and CSS (Blueprint/sass) or some combination of these things.

Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco. Our offices are about a block from BART's Embarcadero stop.

Contact info is in my profile.
How to Avoid Burning Out by Implementing a Business System
Is obkect oriented programming no longer modern enough to teach?
Not at all! Just try not to repeat yourself. Be creative. Invective can be a form of poetry. See, e.g., Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts
A very fragile fence, in this case.
Interesting question regarding whether Groupon increases or decreases societal welfare. IMO Groupon is an 'excess inventory' business. They find places which have tables, food, drinks, spots free and sell them at deeps discounts to attract customers to fill those spots. So I do not think that is a net increase in welfare by any terms; since they are not producing or consuming anything themselves and are rather just selling something that is already there.

Moreover, Groupon thrives because a number of people (mainly small retailers, merchants) are worse off, since they have to suffer the consequences of selling at deep discounts, and it is well documented that these people suffer losses due to a Groupon sale. Small retailers build their customer base mostly on repeat customers. However, with a deeply discounted coupon and non-returning customers, Groupon actually leaves a large number of merchants worse off then they were before. Plus, loss of brand value, and group thinking which leads a lot of people to switch their demand curves and expect the same 'groupon' price for actual items, leads to increased loss of welfare. I guess you can argue that the marginal decrease in the welfare of merchants, is compensated by the marginal increase in the welfare of patrons/customers.

So my point being, at best they might have a net zero effect. In most cases, they probably make someone worse off.
Ask HN: feedback on an idea - send messages/questions to suburbs/cities
Probably one of the many location based startups do this now, but anyway.

I was thinking it would be good to be able to send a message/question to a suburb or city. People who know the area can reply.

Is there a site that focuses on this concept?
I'll be looking forward to adding Certified Programming Motherfucker (CPM) to my CV
coding is a very small part of programming. your next level is to plan before you code. have a blue print of what you are going to do, put it down on paper. learn UML and create your diagrams. this forces you to think through what you are trying to do. then it's just a matter of translating what you're thinking into code. you'll find yourself creating code.
PHP Programmers Wanted for Bay Area VoIP Software Company
Opportunities for PHP Programmers, developing and maintaining web based applications run on Unix based open source platforms. Our software is utilized on a 24/7 basis requiring well planned, robust implementations to streamline the user experience. Our team includes smart people who appreciate talented goal seekers, continuous learning, experimentation and a lust for creating and implementing cutting edge technologies. We welcome those who share these passions to apply.

What we’re looking for

* Smart people. We’re working on harder-than-average problems.
* Real software engineers. You get excited about things like functional programming, algorithms, systems programming, and hard problems.
* Tenacity. If you don’t know how to do something, you figure it out.
* Flexibility. You’re comfortable with more than one software stack.
* Self-direction. You work hard because you enjoy building good software, not because someone is looking over your shoulder.
* Expertise. Mainly with PHP
* Team player. Write clean, maintainable code as a part of a team.
* Fundamentals. Solid understanding of web application architecture, from HTTP to security to data storage to deployment.
* Some experience with or desire to learn: PHP, JQuery, MySQL, CouchDB

Object oriented PHP, JavaScript (JQuery).

* Comfortable working in an informal, high-energy environment.

* Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

What we look for in all employees

* Ambition to make things awesome, not just good enough.
* Communicate with both respect and confidence.
* Excitement about 2600hz and what we’re building.
* A culture fit. You’ll enjoy your work and your colleagues, and we’ll enjoy you.

About 2600hz

The 2600hz Project's mission is to remove barriers to entry for utilizing VoIP and SIP technology. The company focuses on providing carrier grade hosting solutions to small and medium service providers. Service offerings range from free and pay VoIP calling to carrier-grade switching systems and VoIP training courses for industry professionals. The company's core revenue comes from helping VoIP 2.0 companies build, support and maintain scalable infrastructures. The company is located in San Francisco, CA, is privately funded and is profitable.

In-office perks include awesome music while working, Friday morning breakfasts, and frequent company outings!

Please email a cover letter describing why you feel this is the position for you and detailed PDF resume.

Email- jobs@2600hz.com

http://www.2600hz.com
How to apply

Email resume & cover letter to jobs@2600hz.com
This is one of the features I wished Chrome has. It is really nice!
When you pay for the physical newspaper you still have ads too. I'm not surprised that they are translating this to online...
What requires people to respond to cell phone calls/messages/texts promptly? I only respond if I want to and when I want to.
Firefox 4 Review as a Word Cloud
Very interesting that you have to pay money to be in the program, considering the vast majority of these types of programs give you money as a participant (YC for example). What is the thinking behind that? I am curious whether it's better to have people pay (then it's clearly an educational environment) or to pay them (then it's a seed investment and performance-driven). Any thoughts from alums on how the entrance fee affected the group of participants and the general vibe?
Progress at Reactors, Signs of Looting in Sendai
Yeah, the Q/W thing is a longstanding annoyance. It's a dumb decision, going back at least as far as the original Mac.
Yeah. It's a shame we don't get anything like clean water, sewage treatment, police protection, 24/7 fire response, trash pickup, recycling, public transit, street repair or parks in exchange for our taxes.

What a scam.
The difference between what you did, what you’re doing, and where you’re going
The names of regions and cities come directly from MaxMind[1], our GeoIP service. Some of our localizers provided localized names to replace the phonetic translations, so Russia, France, and Ireland see the real city names.

All of our localization is done by volunteers, so please feel free to contact me if you'd like to get involved.

[1]: http://www.maxmind.com/app/fips10_4
Yes, this applies to the original article -- and the minority use of this vernacular in general.

People (like myself, and I believe the original poster) take issue with the use of 'hustler' because we see clear parallels between the negative connotations of the term and those individuals that self-identity with it.
Uhg. Had to roll back to 3.6

The new one looks great and seems to run fast, but my most important add-ons weren't supported. I hate being held back by my add-ons, but I have no choice.
Free invite PortalHub Cloud Based Enterprise Portal – Online Collaboration
Damn them - damn them to hell. The thing that Firefox 3 did in Winidows (XP anyway) that was so useful was that when you deleted trash or spam, it automatically put the pointer on the OK button. Not the OS preference, but a Firefox feature. It didn't work in OS X, but it worked in XP. They took that feature away - I saw it in the beta, but was hoping they really hadn't deleted it. Damn them.

OK, other than that, I like FF4! Just had to vent.
When Groupon Worked Too Well: A Cautionary Tale
She doesn't seem very tech savvy. Who doesn't back up their phone numbers these days? If I lost my phone tomorrow, I could just go online to my google contacts and get them all back.

I can understand the liberating feeling. 1 year ago, I went to Europe for three weeks and didn't take a cell phone or get one there. It was really nice not having to worry about returning calls and just going back to basics. However, I still think the convenience of cell phones for those few times you really need it outweighs the liberating feeling of not having one.
or written by unicorns, motherfucker.
"Kudos to Zed for pulling it off" ? C'mon, he's the prototypical "rockstar programmer", just putting his name out there and a few profanities is enough to push it to the top. Honestly, I don't mind the (debatable) humour of the submission as much as the fact that it's a case of "the message is the messenger". If this was posted by the random Joe P. Rogrammer (a) it wouldn't be #1 post in HN and (b) it wouldn't be welcomed with so many open arms.
So, no way to ask questions, then. Hm.
Just a minor suggestion: I'd add a tooltip for the Featured Papers' topics/categories. The big two letter acronyms took me a second to decipher before I noticed they're all CS-related. Would probably be a lot more confusing once (/if?) you've added non-CS topics to the set, as well.
I've known a couple of examples. There was the hustler who was booted from his own startup because he was a shallow jerk that no-one wanted to work for. The company is doing very well without him.

Then there was the founder/hustler who made promises to customers without even consulting his development team, despite this repeatedly coming back to bite the company in the rear-end. He's still doing it today.

I think it's great if someone is willing to do whatever it takes to make a deal... but the deal isn't over until the product is in the hands of the customer. When promises are made that can't be kept, it lowers everyone's morale (customers, developers, hustlers, etc). Hustlers need to look at the big picture and understand what the real cost of closing a deal is.
New Startup - Cloud Based Enterprise Portal & Online Collaboration
yeah I believe the idea has Merritt, but from my perspective, I think the hardware is key to making it easy to use. If all one had to do was what they normally do (e.g remove an item, put it back) then you are not adding steps to their normal flow. I am a stickler for usability and if it adds work flow you are going to lose people. The hardware is the problem for me, it take more investment that I can muster, I figure 1-1.5 mil to get to fully functional prototype that you could then solicit real investment dollars. That is a big outlay for what amounts to just an idea right now. With diabetics you may be able to get away with a more complicated work flow because the disease already impedes on their daily life so if it eases it they may see the value in the trade offs.
This is just one of transformations performed by supercompilation.

I recently discovered distillation [1], which could transform quadratic and even more complex programs into linear ones (ie, perform non-linear complexity reduction).

So there's more in supercompilation that partial evaluation.

[1]: http://meta2010.pereslavl.ru/accepted-papers/paper-info-2.ht...
Both of you (nadam and api) are arguing with a strawman, not what with Joel actually wrote: "they solve something that appears to be the template of a lot of problems"

If something actually is the template to a lot of problems then obviously it's going to be successful.
I don't think the problem with OOP is that it's antiquated, but rather that it leads to spaghetti/difficult to maintain code because things get so tied up in encapsulation or not properly encapsulated that you end up with a bad java framework in the extreme case. But CMU is replacing it with functional programming, which has been around longer (and has recently gotten more trendy).

This also serves as a differentiator for CMU: they're not just churning out Java developers like some universities.
Could be that people just aren't looking for the humour and fail to see that you're joking. Maybe you stand out because you tend to write what's on your mind without trying to spare everyone's feelings and that gets people talking, for better and worse.
Distillation - supercompilation from quadratic (and exp) programs to linear ones
Another way to defeat the paywall is to use a link on Twitter. https://twitter.com/#!/freeNYTimes uses the NY Times API to share all stories that the paper publishes online.
Yeah, personally, I'd rather stick with evince, and have the same PDF viewer whether I open a document from the browser or from the command line.
Looks like a phishing attempt.
Ah, well first off I thought this event was just something these guys from his job organized, like, at one of their houses.

But still. Even for a large event like that, the language he quoted in the article was kinda creepy. I of course agree that at any time ideas can spark and work can begin that will eventually have a large impact. I'm sure there are CS conferences that use more sober language.
A little from column A, a little from column B. ;p
"Democracy" would emphatically vote for funny cat pictures.