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Ask HN: Easiest Way To Formalize with Cofounder
My cofounder and I are looking to formalize our arrangment. Is there a legalzoom for start-ups or anything to make it easy to work through all the issues and file all the necessary papers. We don't want to shell out tons for attorneys at this point or over-complicate this but we do need to form an entity as are starting to work with outside parties.
For a fun read, check out:
"The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius"

I think it's fun to play across disciplines :)
Is There A New Tech Bubble? No. But There Are Other Things To Worry About.
This is a nice benefit of two companies competing asynchronously (each has a different core competency). The open source community gets the non-core competency of both.

Now if only there was a company whose non-core competency was Google-style spelling check ("Did you mean to search for..")
No one that we've explicitly talked with. We're planning on implementing features to guide people along to polyphasic sleep but haven't had the time yet.
As someone who manages a dozen retail employees I concur. I'm using a custom developed Excel/VBA solution but would love to use something web-based.

If you are going to target retail business (I think you should) you should keep in mind that most people working retail are young and have other commitments (school, other jobs, etc). For this reason I think having employee-editable "availability" schedules would be a killer feature.

edit: I see that you have a "request day off" feature: is it possible to request just a portion of a day off? Think - "I have an exam that morning but can work at noon"
I don't know. We pay ADP for similar software currently that is completely horrible from a user experience. However, they've got us because of the integration with the rest of our payroll and HR systems.

Jason's site looks extremely well-designed and user-friendly, but I'd wager a lot of companies will require some integration work to really see the benefit.
it is never what. it is always why. you can make jelly beans dance with void *'s and make a lisp machine cry harder than a pypy. heck you can even brainfuck your self. you can do just about anything with a general programming language. always look for the why.

any new syntax this new language offers is going to be useless anyway as you will be calling functions most of the time. so just get used to to the () and recur into that skip list.
I'm on this boat too. It irritates me that facebook is pretty wishy washy about which urls they decide to encrypt and which they don't...
We had some issues integrating 3rd party systems, such as the Twitter button, which has had an invalid certificate for months now. If your site can live without these bells & whistles, then you should investigate and see if your site can take the performance hit.
I'm not sure if it can be done at install time, but it's very easy after you're booted up. Almost all cards I've tried are supported by the basic drivers, and enabling third-party driver support (to get nvidia drivers, etc straight from the commercial source) is as simple as System->Administration->Additional Drivers. Click activate and you're good to go.
Dereknewton.com's Blog:

Improperly cached by design. :)

But seriously, anyone got a mirror? Definitely curious to read this.
How to Insert Multiple Values in a Single Query in SQL Server
fwiw, I agree and actually fought to try and get a lower priced VS out there.
Not important, but why the ".cx" TLD? Is this intended to be pronounced a certain way?
Ballmer is right: Microsoft should open more stores.
non-profits ==> competition is not exactly red in tooth and claw

Are you serious? Competition for donations between non-profits in my experience is often even more extreme then between for-profits. Do you have any evidence for softer competition among non-profits?

Besides some non-profits are really phenomenally well functioning for-profits, which happen to have chosen a non-profit tax status.

For example, in the US the non-profit AAA will quickly drop any pick-up truck company known not up to its standards. Mind you, all that's needed if for the truck to show up roughly on time and be reasonably courteous. Still that is quite something when you're in a bad spot and need those kind of services.

And the AAA is popular enough that being on their shit list will cause sever financial pain to any pick-up truck services provider.

But to join the AAA you have to pay a regular fee and they have all kinds of tie-ins with piles and piles of 3rd party service and goods providers.

I don't begrudge them their non-profit tax status, but they are a damn well run and huge business.
http://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/56062315665178624

"Process journalism" at work.
We use PHP/HipHop/Redis and nothing else. The server can do 1500req/sec.

The traffic today is about 30 users per hour without additional exposure. We'll do a proper PR campaign in a few days but have some user requests to implement right now.
You Can Keep Your Fake Commodore 64
>its people knew the competition so intimately that the best product managers could rattle off the birthdays of the CEO's kids.

That's not competitive research, that's stalking.
Wow, I didn't think about twitter's button. :-/ We use the twitter widget.. Do you know if the twitter js is behind a valid cert?
Ask HN: GMail Username Issue
I have a user id to gmail that is joe.none@gmail.com. Gmail has assigned joenone@gmail.com to someone else. All his personal (including his banking details) emails are showing up in my inbox and also, he tries to reset the password every other day and that also shows up, in all the emails that is associated with my gmail account. Gmail says joe.none & joenone are the same email addresses, but I can guarantee you this is not the case. Has anyone run into this issue? If yes, please direct me in the right direction to solve it. Thank you.
Encrypting site content increases server load, so response time may lack a little.. and we all know Google does take that into account. Also, it might be important that robot files and sitemaps are under the https protocol. I am guessing Google is pretty darn smart about it, I can only imagine though that a broken certificate throws a red flag.
I agree with the points you try to make about the importance of a work/life balance.

I don't come from any kind of start-up background, but I've found that even in regular jobs there is a noticeable productivity cycle that I experience mentally, making the argument for balancing work / life (ie rest).

What I experience is like a life cycle but for my attention span/productivity. I start off fresh, become very creative, critical and able to function at my optimum and then my interest starts to decline. Whenever I would find myself crashing I'd follow my natural instincts and take a break. I'd chat with coworkers or surf the net for something that interested me until I found my interest in these leisure activities start to decline. Then I'd come back to work, refreshed and re-interested. Needless to say that in my department I held the highest amount of workload, I was the most productive and I had by far the best attitude, which was the most important thing of all since those with a bad attitude dragged down everyone else around then, decreasing others' productivity potential, thereby creating compounded productivity problems.

I think this kind of attention-span or mental focus cycle is normal and healthy. It's like our mental microchips over-heat if we dwell on a certain thought train too long. I only wish someone with so-called credentials would "discover" this and bring it to the attention of the human resources corporate-culture gate keepers.

I understand productivity is key in capitalism, but if we're going to make productivity the most important thing, while putting our own human needs aside, then we might as well live in a communist economic system. Whether it's about the "masses" or the "economy" it still all boils down to the same thing: the entity who holds onto the net benefit winds up being the afore mentioned curtains "the masses" or "the economy", not human beings. This inability to enjoy the net benefit is supposedly the reason why we oppose communism as an economic system. And no, stuff is not a net benefit; stuff becomes burdensome due to maintenance needs, gets old and thrown out, and only provides momentary satisfaction anyway. People should ask themselves why China has proven to be the most successful economic power since the birth of capitalism (discounting euro nations & US since they grew only because they siphoned other nation's resources). It's because China fused together two effective resource-allocation systems that are mirror images, complimentary and thus an explosively productive combination: communism and capitalism.
There is a setting to choose better quality songs. The default is to prefer lower quality songs. Also, you can offline songs on mobile devices for playing later.
[Core-serveR] - http://labs.core.gen.tr
Well I think the history is more complicated then that, but yes, OS X has some code and ideas from NextOS/Openstep.
Well, function pointers exist in C, though they are certainly a clumsy replacement for having methods (or first-class functions / closures / currying) built into the language.
How much of this is OSX specific since it's a node.js app? Other than the launchctl and plist stuff could this be ported to linux?
Expedia to split into two companies, separating out TripAdvisor
With a source fairly prominently displayed at the bottom. Follow along if you absolutely must know more:

1. Navigate to twitter.com/scobleizer.
2. Observe first tweet.

http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/56062315665178624

That said, I lost all interest in the image due to the dumb focus effect.
Well, since that is just a landing page, and appears to be founded by one of the guys behind 500 startups -- I think i will be a matter of having a good idea, having a sound design for implementing that idea and getting them to believe that if you were empowered with funding you could see that idea, based on your design developed.

I belive that having a good idea/design and the credibility of some funds behind you, you should be able to pay/convince a tach co-founder to work with you.

What would really be of value, as I mentioned, would be if this incubator provided you with some development hours. Further it would be great if they provided good development estimations based on your design.

So then they could say "You idea and design should cost about $XXX to get it to stage 1 2 or 3"

Stages 1 2 and 3 being, MVP, Beta, Market respectively.
Forming a startup without a real lawyer is very difficult, especially if you have to create contracts with outside parties. For a basic incorporation and issuing of shares, you are looking at a few thousand in legal fees. Though it may seem like a lot, it's best to do it correctly from the start, rather than doing it multiple times.
the hardware was licensed from another company, but the body-tracking software was developed in house (by a small incubation team in Redmond working with researchers at MS Research's UK office). the whole product definition as well.
The difference is the quality of execution. I don't think "Windows everywhere" implies the crap they've been putting out. I chalk it up more to incompetent middle management.
Yeah, it's great. You can also grab the Google I/O logo and bounce the balls on it!
The gmail help forum:
http://mail.google.com/support/
Hi there, we should pick up the change within 24 hours - unfortunately the sync is not instant.

Based on the time of your comment, it should have updated by now - if we're still not showing the updated phone number, could you email supportive@rapportive.com with details so we can take a look?
The missing manual: why great startups can begin as features « ex post facto
if only everyone had the twitter bar in their chrome browser :)
Ha! Interesting.. I wonder if Google does count that against you since part of their latest algorithm factors in page load times.. though I would think that having your site behind https might give you some extra kudos somewhere.. considering you verified the integrity of your site at least.. (ALTHOUGH, there was that recent security breach where we someone can spoof being a CA...)
yep, same thing here. I get this if I launch it manually on 10.6.7:

launchctl load "$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist"

Bug: launchctl.c:2325 (23930):13: (dbfd = open(g_job_overrides_db_path, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR)) != -1
launch_msg(): Socket is not connected
Sort of alarmist, if I understand it.†

The root of his concern is that Dropbox is vulnerable to local attackers. There is little Dropbox could reasonably do to meaningfully change this††. The Dropbox client needs to be able to authenticate itself to the Dropbox server as the price of entry to make Dropbox work. The Dropbox client is usually always running, and is in any case often running. While it's running, anything it did to prevent attackers from stealing authenticators could be circumvented by attacking the running Dropbox process.

If you think about it, this is a problem essentially shared by Google, and your bank. It is fair to critique the application for not making it even easier to revoke access to all but your current authorized machines (in other words, to make rekeying understandable and simple). But it's a UX issue, not a fundamental security problem.

† I may not; I'm going from 'trotsky's mirror.

†† Irony, based on previous comments from me today, noted.
Yea, luckily nearly every major API and service (Amazon, Facebook, Google..) has an encrypted version to pull from. So as long as the entire team understands that, then I only have the usability issue as an argument. If we could get GoDaddy and other hosts to have like a $10 "Add SSL" feature, I think we would see a really good adoption of it being the standard!
When I was growing up in Taiwan, there was a private consumer-protection agency that actually seemed to work. It all came about after a rash of food poisonings, and a private organization came up with a certification stamp, and somehow (I'm not sure how) convinced most consumers to look for and demand the stamp on packages.

All in all, not at all unlike how government protection agencies work, but in this case entirely private and independent. The neat part is that, IIRC, their safety standards were mostly stricter than the US.

Probably the exception to the rule though.
Unfortunately, it's been invalid for awhile. You can check it out for yourself here:

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js vs
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
"I would work from home sometimes and have days off pretty much anytime I like (within reason)."

I would strongly suggest that you get the working from home piece in writing and I'd also have the amount of vacation specified in writing. It's important for you to be able to point to a contract and not just a verbal discussion should you need to. You want to be able to enjoy your vacation and not feel guilt or pressure not to take it.
QorIQ is pretty cool, but for whatever reason there's massive hype about ARM servers and zero about PowerPC. Perhaps this is evidence of an information cascade.

If Facebook is already getting custom Intel and AMD motherboards, ARM motherboards should be no problem. (Note that a major undercurrent of Facebook's announcement is that "custom" is actually cheaper than "commodity" at "Web scale".) ARM server chips (Armada XP and Calxeda) don't have GPUs.
It would improve the situation but I'm still not a fan of perpetuating the pipe-into-shell idiom.
I'm getting a "504 Gateway Time-out". You must be attracting a lot of HN'ers.
Current ARM SoCs have all been built for embedded applications, which is why they integrate things like GPUs and radios.

The next-generation high end ARM core, the Cortex A15, will be the first one that's intended to be suitable for server use: they've added virtualization support, PAE for up to 1TB of RAM, and cache coherency to their bus to support SMP. The server-oriented implementations will be quad-core 2.5Ghz chips, of which you would be able to put at least 4 on a motherboard like this. When they start hitting the market next year, they'll probably all but kill the market for Intel Atom-based servers.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make shipping more efficient for the seller? I feel like we can encourage more listings by making shipping dead simple.
Google seems to have it, in case you want to see it with the original formatting, etc:

Full (seems to be timing out): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?&q=cache%3A...

Text-only: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?&q=cache%3A...
lame artists copy, great artists steal.
I'd rather a hacker stole a revocable id/key combo than had access to credentials that were guaranteed full access to my DropBox account.
I am curious if they would ever look into loongson.
It's 64bit and fairly power efficient.
Yea, I am sure there is some top secret Google magic if they are forced through SSL!
With that in mind, what is your idea for Wompt? Why would the mass market adopt it? I mean no disrespect but Wompt is pretty simple in its current form. Where are you going to go from here? How do you plan to keep people using it after today when there's no reason to discuss whether or not others have received an email from YC?
New asteroid discovered in stable horseshoe orbit around the earth
SystemC was about (co)simulation - for building models of hardware. ALthough there were some tools for converting SystemC into HDLs, I don't think they ever really took off.
Releasing information about this helps others better compete with Facebook's competitors while not diminishing the value of Facebook's core asset at all.
"Situationist" iPhone App Turns Your Social Network Into an Art Collective
Holy cow, this is an active day for semi-large earthquakes all over the planet:

7.1 2011/04/07 14:32:42 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
5.8	2011/04/07 20:41:54 NORTH OF HONDURAS
6.5	2011/04/07 13:11:25 VERACRUZ, MEXICO

source: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
It seems to me that it DOES pretty trivially give you polymorphism; just change the function pointers in a struct and it behaves differently, while retaining the same type! Inheritance can be implemented, too, by copying function pointers and other struct contents around.

If you play with languages that use prototype-based OO like Lua and JavaScript, you can see pretty clearly how to implement such things. Implementing your own OO system in Lua is an experience I'd recommend for anyone who uses OO; it's easy, and you'll almost certainly learn something you can apply elsewhere.
That's the story of mass online media. Today I spent like 2hours preparing a blog post and it spiraled from new page in 15 minutes. id=2421007 It's the way life works. New things come, old die. It's the same story with internet technologies, not the best ones survive.
I think personal attacks like that degrade whatever credibility they gain by fighting for the little guy. Granted people have been prank-ordering pizza's to other people's houses since waaaaay before the Intarwebz, but I'm sure our generation of news-addicted alarmists will send up the flag saying this is why we should give away all of our privacy and freedoms so the government can protect us from bored teenagers.
As other have pointed out above, the point is not where you think it is coming from, it is where it is actually coming from. Someone could easily man in the middle the connection and change the code you download, so your computer ran whatever they wanted you to run.
Crap, I wasn't expecting to be HN'd. I'd been experimenting with a lower polling interval to make updates less jarring.. working on getting into my server.. :)
AppCode: Objective-C IDE from JetBrains goes public
I am a QA engineer and was hired straight out of college, before i had much of an idea about what QA was. What i will suggest is understand what are the different types of testing -functional, performance, reliability , security etc, play with testing tools(I haven't personally tried Selenium but i have heard its pretty popular).Continue to try your hand at programming, as automation will be a huge part of your job as a QA engineer and programming questions are asked in QA interviews. You can also go through Alan Page's blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alanpa/ . I think you will find them interesting.
That said as mentioned by other people in the comments, the job becomes monotonous after a while. The most exciting parts of the job will involve programming. Though you will find most of your bugs manually, continuously going through the same set of tests will exhaust you mentally after a while. Talk to some QA engineers near by and understand the job little better before you jump into it. Hoping this helps.
We rarely actually say this out loud, but we do intend to take on eBay.

I've got this sling and five stones, you see...
Couldn't this just be a person who doesn't know how email works? Maybe they use joenone@aol.com and just assume that gmail.com works the same?

The reason I suggest it is that the "dots don't matter" behavior has been in Gmail for a while. I'd be surprised to find that they assigned two people the "same" username. Anecdotally, I've actually had people sign up to websites using one of my email addresses (ie: a random person used one of my Gmail accounts as the backup email address on his Gmail account).
Before the internet, people were comfortable releasing small amounts of personal data - and so they still release small amounts of personal data (to a florist, into the garbage).

One of the issues here is that a few of these pieces of data are like Primary Keys: home address, ssn etc: once you grab these you open up so much else, and there's not too many alternatives to these keys (for those times you actually need them).
Drat! Someone over at twitter should fix this. :(

Luckily, we don't use that js, we use:

http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js

and I just checked the certificate behind this and it's valid (I should hope twitter's main cert is valid!):

https://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js

and we use the json API:

http://api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/healpay.json?c...

which also happens to have a valid cert:

https://api.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/healpay.json?...

So it looks like we're in the clear for this at least :)
it's seems to have something to do with Iterm or tmux. It works using the terminal.

edit: I only get the error using tmux, strange..
where's the poll?
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PagerDuty [YC S10] hiring an operations engineer
"He works at a hard-drive repair center". Ah? A hard-drive repair center yes? What do they do there? Take the drives apart, polish the platters and bolt them back together? Must be a Russian thing no?
Of all the words above, "Ask HN" is becoming too much of a buzzword(s)
Another factor people seem to underestimate consistently is that there are simply a whole lot more people today. It's much, much harder to stand out from a population of a billion or seven than the, what, few tens of thousands of literate white people that Europeans noticed in 1800?

Takeaway for me: screw standing out on a global or historical scale. Do good work and get creative and you might get lucky, but first you gotta do the good work and get creative.
Sorry about the duplicate post -- wanted to make sure people could ask questions about the job or PagerDuty. (Is there a way to enable comments for job stories directly?)
FCC forces "data roaming" on reluctant carriers
If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags…
I use RSS with Google reader, in addition to HN consumed from http://hckrnews.com. Most of my general news stories come from http://slatest.slate.com.
Probably not to conserve space, since who needs the extra 30px on most titlebars? It's just that GNOME like to eliminate everything they possibly can, to look minimalist.