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Geithner warns U.S. to hit debt ceiling by May 16
This computer is still useful as a desktop PC. A c64 isn't and whoever bought one would still need another PC.

I could give this to my son and he would still be able to browse the web, read his e-mail and do his class assignments. A c64 is a toy.
Printer-friendly version: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110401/can-rob-kalin-scale-ets...
It is a great place to start! Additionally Make magazine has good articles and a slew of projects for the Arduino.

1)Arduino Issue: http://makezine.com/25/

2)Arduino Projects: http://makeprojects.com/Topic/Arduino
Dreams about tooth problems are common and usually are about lack of confidence (particularly in presentation). Read more: http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/teethdreams.pl?method=exact&...
I sort of have this feeling too, but Twitter is a business after all, and hosting god-knows-how-many twits can't be cheap.

Sure, they could do something else instead of selling data, but until end users pony up for the service, then they're the product.
It's a pretty complex topic, so I'm still trying to figure out how to write it up coherently.

The shoemoney guide I linked is a decent intro to the topic.

The best one-liner advice I can give is A/B test a lot of images.

Also think about what keywords align with what you're trying to sell (obviously I can't really give very good generic advice on picking keywords!)
An Asus Eee Keyboard is useful as a desktop machine and you can install a C64 emulator on it. If you are buying this product, it's for the nostalgia factor (as I doubt they will be able to hit a commodity nettop/netbook price point).
http://xmpp.org/
I think this is the second problem he solved (to which he was added later as the co-author).
http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0...

Still searching for the first one...
"FB charge a premium for CPC"? what do you mean?
Good looks? I'd say Patrick Steward is average looking at best. Any charisma he has comes from his behavior, which is something I believe anybody can change given enough effort.
Build relationships, relationships and relationships .. with your customers. Definition of "customers" vary from phase to phase of the startup. If you want to create awareness through media, get to know all the people (customer) who write about social dating. Later if you intend to seek funding, map that space and get to know investors ... so on and so forth. It is always best to build relationships with people when you dont seek something ...
Just don't access the same data? Threads, greenlets, tasklets, etc. allow you to share state, but don't force you to.

Greenlets/tasklets are game changing with respect to OS threads not because they introduce new ways of working, but because their performance and scalability afford you ways of working that would be theoretically possible but impractical with threads. The GIL only widens that gap.
Wufoo uses this effect on the add-field options when you click "add field", if the add-field options are already open.

It directed me to what I wanted immediately.
There's truth in the meme: hit the gym. You can be George Costanza or you can be Vin Diesel/Bruce Willis/Jason Statham. Your choice.
The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation
Only downside here is that the slower rumbling just makes it look jerky and cheap - it appears to have the same animation, just with large gaps between the frames, instead of adding a little bit of easing.

edit: Now I realize what vibe it was giving me... the 200-speed one makes me feel like I'm watching South Park.
Tony Hsieh has fascinating discussion on outsourcing in Delivering Happiness. They could have outsourced two big parts of their business:

- Their telephone support

- Their fulfillment center

These are both things that, typically, are very expensive to run. The temptation to outsource is huge. The trouble is, these are also two of the most crucial interaction points for customers. So if they don't work correctly, the business will suffer.

What Zappos discovered was that by outsourcing, they ceded a lot of control and insight into their business to other parties who didn't really give a damn whether Zappos succeeded or not. Outsourcing fulfillment almost destroyed them because aligning incentives and priorities with outside parties is so very difficult.

When they returned to doing fulfillment themselves, they figured out a bunch of ways they could not only do it well, they could do it in a way that was so surprisingly good that people were blown away and told all their friends.

Similarly, by maintaining control over their phone support, they could make sure everyone answered the phone in a way that took care of each customer thoroughly. No operators hurrying people off the lines to keep their scores up, reasonable autonomy to make people happy. As a Zappos employee, immersed in the day to day of Zappos' business, they reflected the internal culture to everyone they talked to. This would be hard to do through an outsourced firm.

So can you outsource UX? Even software development? Sure. Maybe at first. But eventually, your company is going to need to have an internal understanding of these things. If your success is tied to UX but it's nowhere in the heads of your people or in your company's DNA, eventually you're going to lose out on opportunities that come to you only when people are invested exclusively in your success.

Eventually you're going to have the crap beat out of you by a company in another city made out of two guys who really know UX and code and iterate all night and all weekend because they don't have to haggle with anyone to reach perfection.
> Thanks to Qwerly integration, when you look at a Twitter @username - Mediasift sees more than just the Twitter profile. It sees @username who has bookmarks saved online, plans for public events to attend, photos shared publicly with friends, check-ins to places around town and much more. Any of those are like columns in a spreadsheet of Twitter search results. Show me Tweets with any of the following keywords by people planning to attend event A and who have been to place B or C. Thanks to Qwerly, Twitter didn't just get a giant new developer search and filter feature - it got integration with a whole lot of other social services.

Thank God I use different pseudonyms on the internet. That just gives me the willies.

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On another note, this may come at a very opportune time when the Obama 2012 is kicking into gear.
If I could, I would vote 'east' (not hackerish) [1] on this news.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696
You make a very fair point, one that's important to the deeper question.

Sorry if I sounded combative, I was merely trying to point out that (still cogent) point does not say anything about the willingness of Android/iOS users to pay for apps.
Work for a Great Manager if You Want to Get Gilt-ed
30c... an hour

which is ((24x7x52)/12)x$0.3 = $218.40 a month
How does his output and skills compare to the other developers? And what type of product is your startup building?

There's a wide variety of working styles that can work out for startups. Don't fall into the startup mythology of believing you have to work 7 days a week, 8-12 hours a day just for the sake of working all the time. Over the long run, you end up being less productive than a team that takes a more measured pace, because you tend to get tunnel vision and miss big opportunities in the haste to get your current goals done. Startups generally tend to be marathons, not sprints; that code you wrote at 3:00 AM in the morning early in your startup's history may end up killing it a year later when everything's been based off it and you find a flaw in the design.

OTOH, there are real cases when you need to crunch, and some startups (based on their product idea) need to crunch more than others. If you're trying to capitalize on someone else's platform that just got to market, it really behooves you to be faster than everyone else. The early iPhone and FaceBook app developers made a killing; the people who got in later, not so much. If you're commercializing academic research, this isn't as much of a factor, because there are many few competitors with the specific technical skills needed to replicate your product. Same if you're in a niche market that requires lots of specialized domain knowledge.

Regardless, you need to work out the expectations with your cofounder ASAP. If one of you expects to be working constantly and the other wants weekends off to be with his girlfriend, that's going to be a problem. It may not mean he's unsuitable for startups, but it probably means he's unsuitable for this startup. I've turned down cofounder positions because the level of intensity that the other cofounders wanted was very different from what I could sustain; that's just a bad situation waiting to happen.
Wait, what? Why the hell would anyone WANT Etsy to scale? Their brand is synonymous with the worst sort of tasteless kitsch known to man. What really needs to happen is someone needs to reboot the concept but include istockphoto.com's vetting process for potential vendors.
This was meant as a proof-of-concept and has several big inefficiencies that could be fixed pretty easily if someone was actually going to use it for something. The UI could also be improved, and I think at least IE9 could be reasonably easy to support (though I haven't tried).

I was using XHR because an important constraint was to do everything client-side, and there's no other way that I could find to get the raw image data. If you have server-side support, though, a lot of things can be made much simpler. Is there a reason not to proxy, like crux_ suggested?
This happened yesterday:

American mining company Molycorp has bought up a 90.023 share in Estonia's rare earth metals producer AS Silmet, taking control of one of very few sources of the much-sought materials outside China.

http://news.err.ee/economy/c12a9355-2b41-46d3-b00e-875806144...

Relevant, I hope.
Another friend of mine from grad school did his thesis on something like this.

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/18013

"We propose a novel variation of a doubly-fed induction generator which aims to improve power density and simplify construction. Our design is a doubly-fed, dual-rotor, axial-flux, permanent-magnet machine."

The magnets for that thing were truly scary. Every once in a while I gave him a hand with the assembly and it took three or more of us to safely install each magnet in the rotor.
This site is great. Love everything about it.
Companies need to realize that devs hacking on side ideas or new technologies can end up helping them in the long run. Makes for happier devs, brings new ideas to the table, and creates a tighter culture.

This is one of those things that I think is only true at small companies. Places like Google have tried and largely failed at this. I wouldn't be surprised if Page completely ends 20% time since pretty much everyone I know personally at Google says that it became a way to do spin your wheels, but provide no value.

At a small company, you're still figuring out how to make money. It's just as likely that your next revenue stream will come from out of the blue.

With that said, as an employee, I'd never give my employer any of my side project's IP. They can license it or buy it, but it's mine.
Why are wrinkles considered something that is so badly in need of a cure?

Why is not looking youthful something that is so badly in need of a cure?
Etsy has a huge UI challenge right now: as the volume of listings increase, it becomes harder to find things that I'm interested in. Even text search is quickly overwhelming, because it's hard to describe new and quirky objects that are Etsy's biggest draw (for me).

If Etsy could create a good "we see you've bought quirky post-industrial greeting cards, maybe you'd be interested in ____" function (much like Netflix, Amazon, etc) then it would be greatly improved. It's a much harder problem to sovle than Netflix and Amazon because many items are one-of-a-kind (nobody else bought exactly what you bought), but comparisons of trends across sellers, across keywords, and across image features might work.

Etsy has an experimental "pick the object you like most" feature that leads to some results, but it doesn't allow narrow enough focusing yet: http://tastetest.etsy.com/

Same for the "explorer" view: http://www.etsy.com/explorer
"Far from making editors superfluous, systems that democratize publishing have an even greater need for editors. "

Pure gold.
I have considered Google to be neutral regarding patents for a while now.
Time spent does not always equal output. Some of the best startup founders in the world can do more in a day than another startup founder can do in a week. It's all about what they produce, not how they produce it.

If your partner meets or exceeds your goals of what should be created, then you shouldn't worry. However, if he is truly slowing things down, then that's a problem that needs to be explored further.
You Sold Your Company Too Bad It May Take Another 8 Months to Close
most women find bald men very unappealing

Really? I know for a fact that there are women who are crazy about bald guys in particular. And I know that in men, maturity is a good thing, not a bad thing -- you have male sex symbols of actors who are pushing 50. And there's the association between baldness and confidence.

I guess your experience trumps my intuition, but I find it surprising. I'd think, on balance, baldness would be a benefit.
American company Molycorp has bought up Estonia's rare earth metals producer.
As a point of clarification, raganwald is from Canada where software engineering is regulated (though you don't need to be a software engineer to develop software professionally).
Is Setlr better than Quora for Yes / No Questions / disputes
For simple yes / no questions and disputes, is Setlr better than Quora?
There's two responses that spring immediately to mind:

First, "what time is it?" There's lots of cases where a single centralized authority can provide definite and concrete advantages.

Second, ultimately, every system of authority (and note that I'm using the word in a very different sense now) is built on a foundation of a threat of death. And that kernel should be held at as much of a remove, as carefully controlled as is possible. Introducing "failover" regulators means that you now have multiple parallel columns of authority, and each basic threat of death needs it's own system of control. That strikes me as nightmarish.
Etsy really has the potential to become a major player in the micro-vendor market if it can take design considerations seriously - it may be at the vanguard of the industry at the moment but without actual design consideration for the future may be exactly the problem. I sometimes frequent the site and get the craigslist-this-will-probably-stay-the-same-forever feeling.
The event season 1 episode 16
Believe it or not, that's the premise of a republican democracy. There's just more prose and less code involved.
Only in the U.S. though - here in Australia, most carriers offer a free iPhone with a 2 year contract (e.g. you can get a 16GB iPhone 4 on a $54/month two year contract with no upfront fee).

And we don't have to pay for incoming calls on our mobiles here.
You can buy FB ads either on a CPM or a CPC basis.

If you buy CPC ads, FB shows your ads to users who are more likely to click on ads, but you'll pay a lot for this service.

CPM prices are much cheaper. From my experience if you've got a CTR of over 0.025% (1 in 4000 views) then paying CPM is cheaper than CPC. And you should be able to get a CTR over that for most things.

General opinion among the FB ads community seems to be that paying CPC is a suckers games, FB are just using CPC pricing to exploit unsophisticated ad buyers.
Maybe hosting the site on an actual C64 wasn't such a good idea...
"Kerney stresses that, contrary to some media reports on the symbiosis, spotted salamanders are not photosynthetic."

This appears to be different than the sea slugs photosynthetic capabilities.
I read that after the first tooth dream and thought it was an interesting metaphor. It might apply in my case (I have a daughter en route), but the waters are a little muddy because I have a love-hate relationship with dentistry and am not sure whether that's what my subconscious is keying on.

Regardless, it's a disturbing dream and it regularly takes up my shower time.
Many public PivotalTracker projects look as though they should be private
Yes, GE paid taxes (explains BigCo tax/accounting)
Poll: Is HN "Recovering"?
It seems since yesterday's PG Ask HN the quality of posts has increased significantly. I'm definitely not a empirical source, so what do you think?
Of course not—We're turning into Reddit.
There is always the garden hose sample feed from Twitter. Or, use this service for short test intervals.

Seems like data hackers are being taken care of.

Also, if you want a lot of social media cheaply, check out the sample web app for Google Buzz that runs on AppEngine. I ran it last summer with some of my own filters. I could run it about 5 hours a day before I hit the limit of a free AppEngine account - so it would not cost too much to pay to keep a derivative of this example program running 24x7.
> The downside to doing evhttp is that he'll have to write his own request parsing...

Which, these days, isn't a huge deal. Both of these are decent:

https://github.com/ry/http-parser

https://github.com/mongrel/mongrel/blob/master/ext/http11/ht...
...but WHY is baldness considered something that is so badly in need of a 'cure'?

I will suggest that stuff like this matters to people because it is (or can be) indicative of other, more important stuff. I'm female. I had crappy fingernails most of my life. Then I got diagnosed with a serious medical condition (genetic, so I've had it all my life). This serious medical condition significantly impacts the lungs. It's common knowledge in the medical community that the lung damage shows itself as clubbing and cyanosis of the fintertips. Getting my lungs healthier and improving my baseline health has caused me to have significant improvement in my fingernails. I have the most lovely fingernails I've ever had in my life.

More directly related to the hair issue: While very ill, I began going grey in my early 30's. In hanging out on health lists, I heard that grey hair can be caused by a PABA deficiency and/or adrenal stress. I treated for both with supplements and dietary changes. I am 45 (and have a life expectancy in my mid thirties, so in human terms I'm like the equivalent of an octogenarian :-P) and have less grey hair now than I did 10 years ago.

So I think all these "silly" concerns about "looks" are really rooted in more serious concerns about health. People don't find unhealthy folks attractive both as a means to protect their own health and as a means to protect the health of potential future offspring.
For Theory Of Geek most of my organic traffic is driven from social sites like Twitter and Reddit, Facebook visitors are actually much more engaged (average Reddit visitor views about 1.2 pages, average Facebook visitor 4.5 pages).

For CoderStack engagement (developers applying for jobs) roughly matches that of long-tail organic search traffic.
According to those results, 31% of android users are earning £10-20,000 vs 13% for iPhone. In the £20-30,000 category the positions are reversed. On the other hand, Symbian users seem to be even more affluent so I'm not sure this proves anything.
Netflix isn't an exception anymore. Look at http://www.kaggle.com/, the Android App contest, Windows Mobile 7 app contest, etc.
As PivotalTracker migrates to a subscription model, projects with multiple users can either pay Pivotal or make their projects public and free (the GitHub model).

From the directory of public projects on the PivotalTracker website, it looks as though many companies are opting for the public free option even though all their tasks, comments, screenshots, etc are now public.

To be clear - PivotalLabs isn't forcing them to do this - but I just wanted to put it out there to make sure anyone considering paying for their PT projects to remain public are aware of the outcome.

Plus if companies are making their agile workflow public (knowingly or unknowingly), it makes interesting observation.
What is the difference between a $100,000 sales person and you?
How long (time period) do you run your A/B tests?
I recently switched from iPhone to an Android and I am definitely less willing to pay for apps. To me its all about the pricing.

Going through a list of apps on the first page of the android market I see prices of: $8.05, $7.99, $2.89, $0.99, $9.99, $14.26, $5.99, $2.99.

A random selection from the iTunes app store: $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $0.99, $4.99, $2.99.

To me, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one, a $3 app is 20x more expensive than a $1 app. There are few iPhone apps that cost more than $1 and its rare to find one more than $5. This pricing makes me feel like the android marketplace is a huge ripoff, so there is almost no chance of me buying an app for $15. When I buy an app that sucks on the iPhone market I only lose $1 which in turn makes me feel better about future purchases.
Already done.

http://pinboard.in

I migrated my delicious library to it in a minute or two.
It's the main reason I won't buy a Kindle, as much as the thought of owning a beautiful ebook device reader attracts me so much.

So buy a Nook. Or a Sony.

I have a Nook which I use exclusively for out-of-copyright content. (I doubt I'd ever pay real money for an eBook, since I like paper books far too much.)
The thing is, existing politics has analogies for all the programming-inspired ideas that come up here. To wit: fomenting revolution. If you want to tear it all down and start from scratch, rise up and overturn the standing government by force of arms.

Too hard? They have all the good weapons? Then you don't care enough, and that's the check on reseting the government.
Good points. I figured it was probably totally infeasible, thanks for filling me in on why.
Think of it as a stepping stone to curing the disease of aging. If we ever want to acheive immortality I'd say curing baldness is a good place to start.
GuideGuide: a columns, rows and midpoints panel for Photoshop CS4 & CS5
Ask HN: What VPS-provider would you choose if privacy was a big concern?
Now that the Norwegian parliament decided to bend over for EU and has put in to effect a law, the so called "data retention directive", that will make it mandatory for ISPs and teleco's to store loads of information about every citizen, me and I am guessing many other fellow europeans are looking for a good VPS provider to funnel our traffic through. My main concerns are privacy (i.e., not have their servers in a country that would bend over for the norwegian justice department), and of course price. It would mostly be used for ssh -D and irc, so the hardware is not much of a concern.

Googling for "cheap secure vps" lists pretty much every VPS-provider out there, so I thought I'd reach out to this knowledgable community!

Also; if anyone wants to discuss the directive and/or ways to circumvent it, my contact info is in my profile.
I didn't post the link.
Can a business ever just reach a natural size and say to themselves, "this is as large as we're going to get, we're profitable, having a good time, and everyone is happy."

I realize they have funding and thus a responsibility to maximize their investments, but I'd love to build a company that feels like it has a natural size.
Socat can do this:
first read:
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat-tun.html
then read:
http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat-openssltunnel.ht...
FCC Commissioner slams N. Carolina attack on city-owned broadband
The difficulty is definitely an issue currently. But Amazon have shown willingness to get involved in the hardware market.

An Amazon (or Kindle?) branded Android tablet with the Amazon store and music locker service is starting to be more and more likely.