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Ask HN: a 4chan for Hackers and Startups?
Firstly, I'm not referring to a /b/ for Hackers/Startups, or at least the content that community produces.

What I'm suggesting is a rapidly-changing community for hackers and startups. Something where almost everytime you hit refresh new content made by other hackers and startups appear. This news site has this, but it's really more about the news (Content generated elsewhere).

I check Hacker News several times a day, sometimes more than once an hour. This is one of the few kinds of communities I enjoy being around. What I don't like is that it's boring a lot of the time. Actually having conversations with people here other than comments never really happens. Not only is it boring for lack of conversation but boring because there isn't enough going on.

What do you guys think?
I noticed it has the new "vanishing" scrollbars. Looks a little ugly, but it's not that bad. I expect it will get better with time. I like the color-coded tabs and easy tab switching. The editor itself lags a bit.

Strangely enough, it didn't recognize my .mm files as Objective-C++ files.
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We get that you think it is a bad idea, but don't know/understand why/how?

Since you are the security expert at Hn, we are trying to understand/learn from you.

This is not plain Nerdgasm making people understand about software security is making the world a little better.
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Where are these chats between anonymous taking place? How are people getting the chat logs? I haven't seen anyone talk about this.
The truth is that anyone smart enough to use C++ for real work is certainly smart enough to use Lisp, and they don't, and it would be worth figuring out why. It's definitely not the syntax.

Not to mention that ViaWeb is a website... Was that not sufficiently hard a problem?
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I was looking at the facebook github page for hiphop php and I only just made the connection that the compiled php projects could potentially be ran via "nativeclient".

Equally, its interesting to read that you can register a nativeclient as a plugin for Chrome to be used in their speech api. Not for speech per say, it demonstrates that the connection and the code exists to make it easier to hook into other aspects.

"Extensions are free to use any available web technology to provide speech, including streaming audio from a server, HTML5 audio, Native Client"

https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.t...
Duh, just read a few paragraphs up: "[funds] could soon be relocating ... to defy the laws of physics". It's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that if they can defy the laws of physics, selling stocks at 90% of the speed of light is trivial. (Although once you get above 90% you start to run into some limitations.)
"How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data"
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
Wow! When they removed the "http:// from Chrome, I knew exactly why they were doing it: to hide the SDPY rollout while simultaneously not breaking copy paste interop with non-Chrome uses. However, I had no idea they had already done it! Amazingly clever and effective. I totally saw it coming and then totally missed it's arrival. Awesome.
I love this. You simply create a symlink to your app, and boom, the app works at nameofthesymlink.dev. Even after a system restart. And pow is clever enough to only start workers if the app is accessed and shut them down when idle.

This is a blessing if you usually need multiple local apps running.

It also means you can now elegantly use local ruby webapps as personal desktop applications. Say you'd like to build a simple journal or expenses app to use on your desktop for personal use. You can now quickly build it with - say - Sinatra, Datamapper and SQLite. And no need to launch or quit it. Beautiful.
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Blizzard freaks out about changing IP addresses when you sign in to World of Warcraft. I have two internet connections at home and sometimes I switch back and forth, and back when I was playing WoW, it would lock me out after each switch. I had to login to my account via the battle.net website and stell it that everything was ok.

It was extremely annoying. The last few times it happened I just didn't play for a while because I didn't want to bother with reauthenticating; that's when I realized that I didn't enjoy the game that much any more and cancelled my account.
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We've already booked an apartment for 2 weeks in the Mission District of SF for the interview and to see some of our friends at companies based there. Looking forward to really getting to see SF - I've wanted to go for years!
I signed up, and was expecting a very different workflow.

IMO, asking me to upload my tax documents without having chosen a tax professional feels backwards. I want to know who is going to be looking at my tax documents. The way things work now, it feels like I'm sending my docs up for bidding. I'm sure that's not what is going on, but that's the perception.

Perhaps some general questions up front to help properly route the customer to the right tax professional, then allow for a match, and then finally, once the customer is paired with a tax professional, present the rest of the features.
So you are arguing extremely intense competition is useless.

From my point of view, market participants make a living by their ability to execute OODA loops. The bot trading wars is a more extreme version of the competitive process.
I think there just happens enough here :) If you're doing other things at the same time, a fast community just moves too fast.

I agree on the other thing though. This is not really a place where interesting conversations develop. Generally, after a few comments, a thread dies and fades away because it falls off the front page.

It would be nice if it had some heuristic to keep threads that still have active discussion higher up.

However, wouldn't a faster community make this even worse?
Congratulations on getting your account back

Its a good sign that they are still working

I just wish they answer my email and reevaluate my account
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IIRC, the next JVM will indeed offer a new operation that allows tail calls (not exactly tailrec). However, this operation is incompatible with the Java security model (what you're allowed to do depends on what's above you in the stack -- this is used in many places in Java, in particular for anything related to accessing the screen or the file system, or more generally anything involving JNI) and with the Java exception model (exceptions contain the whole stack). Therefore, the operation will not be used by Java itself, and there are chances that using this operation in JVM languages without breaking compatibility with the Java stdlib will take some work, at least for the features that relate to security.
Yes. If there is any tech company that is 'evil' at the moment it's Sony. I don't agree with every action that Anonymous does, but honestly I hope Sony gets their due like HBGary did.
When the secret copyright-related Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty made Hacker News, I asked "Any idea on how to finally fix all this?" partly due to the fact that I was getting frustrated with what was happening and what was causing it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315729
Google for "file search engine"

This one seems to work: http://globalfilesearch.com/

http://globalfilesearch.net/index.aspx?q=.eap&t=Files...
The title seems to imply HTTP 1.1 is already dead/abondoned, when in fact almost nobody except Google is supporting SPDY.

Firefox doesn't support it, but if it's open enough there's a chance they might add support for it. MSIE support is far away and I wouldn't but any bets on it being supported any time this year. If SPDY is supposed to be more than a http-option (i.e. "beyond http 1.1") all clients need to support it. That's far from the case today.

Given that last time I heard about it was quite some time ago and little has changed, I would say a better title would be "Http-times: SPDY is still around, still looking for friends".

Just because it comes out of Google's door doesn't make anything a guaranteed success and I outside HN's usual Google-praising sphere I haven't ever heard a single geek mention it. I'm not saying it's dead either, but at this point it seems to have gathered very little interest and momentum.
People have conversations with other HNers, they just tend to do it in person. There're several meetups I know of involving HNers; I've met a few of the prominent names on the site.

There're two problems with a rapid-fire, conversational site for hackers:

1.) Good, thought-provoking work takes a long time to produce. If you read a blog-post that, say, features useful benchmarks between popular web frameworks, it probably took dozens of hours to produce. There are very few people willing to spend that time for 15 minutes of fame, certainly many fewer than are willing to post quick memes on an imageboard. Fewer people generating content + content takes longer to generate = a much slower update rate.

2.) Conversation is interesting for the people involved, but it's boring for bystanders. Most lurkers here are attracted because they might learn something; if it just becomes an exchange of social pleasantries (or not ;-)) and memes between an established clique, it'd probably mean the long-term death of the site.
That depends: if they will need to write C code, then of course, they need to know the language. But if all they're gonna do is write Haskell, Erlang or Lisp, what's the point of knowing C?

I do know a lot of people, who are excellent programmers, but their C is read-only at best, because their language of choice has been something else.

I see nothing wrong with that. A good programmer usually doesn't think in a language context anyway, he translates his thoughts to a language, yes, but when designing, he thinks a few levels above the language. Thus, the lack of C knowledge does not, in my opinion, does not mean one's insufficiently skilled. Nor does good knowledge of C mean one's a good programmer.

I've also met with people who were excellent C coders: they could code down whatever they were told to, blazingly fast, using every trick the language had to offer. But they couldn't design their way out of a paper bag, because they lacked vision: they could only think in C, and not beyond that. They couldn't see the bigger picture.
No posts from patio11? Is something broken in HN server?
I disagree. I'm not saying faster as in faster growing. I mean a more active community. Instead of having a 100's of people submitting per day, have 10-30 people actively engaging in discussions with other people of like-minded interests.

What I really like about 4chan is the sheer volume of content. Everytime you refresh the page there's new discussions going on. People are just talking to people interested in listening.

If we can group together just hackers and startups to have a place to go for their questions, meeting people, and talking to people of mutual interest, in an active and engaging way, I think it would be a fun place to be.
Good point! Does the intent system allow for a cross-intent permission misappropriation? With the proliferation of ad-supported apps on Android, this would be quite troubling.
If you get the chance, you should swing down to Palo Alto and check out Stanford University. It's the birthplace of silicon valley, the campus is beautiful, and if you're lucky you'll catch some co-eds frolicking in the fountains :)
I've first heard of Varnish today, so it's quite a coincidence that this poped-up today here ...

But I'm a little bit confused. If I used this for CSS, is it really more efficient to serve them trough Varnish than to serve them from my server (nginx) which is configured to send the appropriate cache headers? I always set my css to expire far far in the future (expires max;), and I invalidate the cache by changing a GET parameter for the CSS file that has changed (somefile.css?v=X).

I'll have to read more about this, especially the stuff about dynamic content.
Keep in mind here "not ideally" includes "you lose your flashdrive, then whoever finds it has full and ongoing access to your Dropbox account".

That's kind of a worry.
I've flagged this for being off-topic for HN. Hopefully others will join me.
It's not surprising that LIGO and VIRGO (the European analogue) haven't seen signals, given the expected sources. Both observatories are currently being upgraded to more sensitive versions which will begin operations ~2015. The Advanced versions should see sources.

However, LIGO/VIRGO aren't a replacement for LISA, as they look at gravity waves of different frequencies: the sources they'd expect to see are different.
I'm 23, self-taught (though not asking for pats on the back), and fairly proficient in QBASIC (hahaha), Haskell, Python, JS, Prolog, and I am learning Scheme and Erlang, but there's something mythical about programming in C, and I try to read C (linux kernel, etc) regularly.
Nothing wrong with that. I believe that everybody wants fast machine-code compilers to exist.

However, experience shows that, at least in presence of sufficient RAM and for code that runs long enough, the combination of VM + JIT beats fast machine-code. For sources, see the Big Language Shootout (nowadays, JIT-compiled Java ranks above OCaml and even C in many benchmarks) or the Dynamo papers (JIT-recompiled native C beating optimized native C by about 5% on reference benchmarks).

In addition, having a VM + JIT allows for very nice tricks. For instance, recent versions of MacOS X use LLVM code that is dynamically targeted to either the CPU (generally predictable when you're building the application) or the machine GPU (much harder to predict) depending on available resources. If one thinks in terms of distributed/cloud resources rather than one computer, it also makes sense to target one specific architecture at the latest possible instant (e.g. during deployment, possibly even after work-stealing), to be able to take advantage of heterogeneous architectures. Also, the VM + JIT combination paves the way for extremely powerful debugging primitives, or for late optimizations that just can't be performed during compilation due to lack of information.

So, in the long run, it's quite possible that efficient machine-code will be relegated to niches (e.g. system development), while JIT-ed code will [continue to] take over the world.
Unfortunately, with JWST sitting out there as its own line-item in the NASA budget (as opposed to rolled in with the rest of Astrophysics), there's concern in the community that it will be a tempting target for a Congress anxious to cut anything that moves.
If you don't mind - let's shift the context :). If you didn't have to use a Build Server to deploy with (in other words you had a competent tool that could deploy, run tasks, etc) - I would assume you'd use that tool.

I do understand it's what you (and me and others need to use) - but it's because there really isn't another choice.

Thus my post.
Google has apparently taken this lesson to heart. With Page taking over, it looks like his goal is to allow each group to act more independently, like startups, and to reduce the management structure so teams have more flexibility to do what they want to be successful.
Fair enough. I also had an Evo and the battery life wasn't great, but I didn't take that as an indictment of the entire Android ecosystem. (My Nexus S can last for 3 days with moderate use). I ended up giving it to a nontechnical friend, whose immediate reactions were that the screen is gorgeous, and that Swype and the universal text-to-speech are great.

It's completely absurd that carriers are installing things like a clock with hands which prevent the phones from being instantly upgradeable when a new version of Android is released.

No question that the carriers are doing significant damage to Android's perception. I don't think the skins are a huge contributor to update delays, for example the G2 runs stock Android but still won't get a Gingerbread update until some vague future date. You're absolutely right about the incentive problem; as long as customers are locked into contracts via phone subsidies, there's little motivation to keep them satisfied.
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A very convincing argument.
I put what I think are the top 3 in a list here:

1 - 99Designs for Interior Design

2 - VOIP Outbound Call Tool

3 - Presentation Analytics for Sales People

The interior design idea is a really great one in my opinion, especially if you can provide a room layout tool, and allow designers to specify exact pieces of furniture by model number, and maybe make a shopping cart; (if you want to take it a step further, you could partner with online furniture stores, and make a combined checkout). I was recently thinking about redecorating a bedroom, and have a theme idea, but no brand knowledge or colour co-ordination skills.

I have considered making a VOIP outbound call tool, as well as a separate inbound one, to perform mechanical turk-type tasks, but could never really figure out how to implement this well, and what the bounds of the project would be; but it is a great project.

The presentation analytics tool could be combined with a 99Designs type of idea to allow people to improve their presentations, either on a fee basis, or on a community help scheme. This idea has a lot of potential, but it might be more difficult than the other two to get up and running, especially when dealing with things like corporate secrecy.

Whatever your choice is, I wish you the best of luck, and thank you for putting these ideas out here.
What an important point to note!

Money is good, but you can work around financial needs much of the time. It is almost impossible to place a real value on advice and connections, though and it's difficult to know what you don't know (if you did, you could figure it out for yourself). Even if you stumble upon the right questions to ask, it's sometimes impossible to find someone who can truly answer it.

Personally, if presented with the option of cash injection or access to an adviser, I'd choose an adviser, every time. Hell, apply this to all aspects of life. The older I get, the more I realize knowledge and experience are the real commodities.
When the next round?
I agree, good stuff isn't made quickly. But good conversations tend to lead to good stuff. In other words, the community wouldn't be for regurgitating pictures made by other people. It would be having for having good conversation with the right kind of people.

So maybe these conversations could be limited to only a certain group of people, like say 5 people who are contributing to it then nobody else sees it. If the conversation ends, and the person who started the conversation isn't satisfied they restart the conversation and it will be hidden from everyone who saw it. But this is just one possible way of doing it, there are probably better ways than this.

I guess it would be kind of like a meeting place for hackers and startups. That could turn into something along the lines of a dating site, but for meeting co-founders.
The question I would like to research is: 1 billion core-hours on Google's infrastructure yields exactly how many bitcoins?
I'm not really an anarchist, but I do think it's important to distinguish between living breathing human beings, as opposed to the social and cultural structures we impose upon each other. I am not my property. You cannot 'violate' me by stealing or destroying the things I 'own'.
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Why do people keep reacting to me saying he knew what he was setting himself up for as an implicit approval of what is happening!!! I keep saying I disagree with the law and agree with the aim of Anon, just not their methods.
Yes, extreme competition is useless.

A level of competition is good, because it makes people do their best. But as soon as it becomes too cut-throat, resources are wasted on auxiliary things beyond just being the best and most cost-effective.

These electronic trading boats would be an excellent example of "market failure" in this regard.

Instead of actual trading boats to trade their food and stuff, we'll now sit in the middle of the ocean to correlate some arbitrary signals... Like excessive speculation in commodities, it doesn't add value.

Don't tell me "it adds liquidity" because I already know that. One could argue we have massively enough liquidity already in the things that would actually be arbitraged here.

The financial sector overall is much too big: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6328
Someone could sell their HN account in real life.

"Relevance to real life" is not a good indicator of a submission's suitability for HN. The Minecraft CPU has less relevance to real life than this submission, but a Minecraft CPU definitely deserves the front page.
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BTW, there are actually queries that give you exact answers which are not specifically programmed in, eg:

http://www.google.com/search?q=empire+state+building+height
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"Something where almost everytime you hit refresh new content made by other hackers and startups appear."

I think you just described Github. Follow your favorite hackers/startups and that's exactly what your news feed would be. Also see Forrst and Dribble for design work.
Since you run a fairly flat organisation, do you ever promote the exceptional people that have worked with you for many years into the 'partnership' area of your company?

I read somewhere that David was originally a contractor and then became a partner, but has this occurred for any other significant contributors to the company. I'm thinking 10+ years, has a solid and respected reputation within the company, etc.
The "Take a picture, upload, tax agent files your returns" sold me. Too bad I already filed my taxes.
Many (most?) ground-based telescopes are funded by private donors: e.g., the Keck Telescopes, the Allan Telescope Array, etc. Space missions, not so much. My guesses for why: the costs are significantly higher, and NASA isn't set up bureaucratically to work with private capital.

That said, private money for technology development efforts or data analysis could likely be well-used.