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Scotland is part of the united kingdom. The royal bank of scotland is a UK bank and it was bailed out by the UK government.

The UK is a country comprised of four countries. Don't worry, the people that live here don't understand it either.

Great Britain is simply a geographical term applied to the actual archipelago itself.

The economic relationship between scotland and the rest of the country, particularly the government in london is a vexed question that is seen as being badly in need of a solution, but it has been pushed aside in the current economic situation.

It's basically down to the fact that while scotland has partial legislative autonomy, it is unable to raise its own tax revenues independently, but it is much deeper and more complicated than this. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/West_Lothian_...
I thought hapless' point was very clear:

"A "flat" structure overvalues the opinions of the loud and aggressive, with little room for more pensive contributors, especially women."

Coincidentally enough, Jason leads off the article with an anecdote about a talented woman leaving the company because of their flat structure.
http://twitter.com/YCnews

Tiny side project to get Hacker News over Twitter with comments. Click on a link in any tweet to see.
Someone I follow on Twitter said they're doing this course and that it's OK but the quality of the other participants is a little meh ;-)

On the (Open) suffix, I don't think there's any requirement to include that part. You've been conferred with that part of the title but I can't see any reason you have to use it - it's still an MSc. But perhaps someone with insider knowledge could correct me here ;-)
Technical Co-founder/Advisor Opportunity For StickyFrames
We are looking for a web developer to join our venture. Sticky Frames are magnetically attached frames that contain messages users create and print themselves. So one day your StickyFrame can be used as a political bumper sticker, while the next day you can used it to advertise your business or sell a car. At this stage we are going forward with production of prototypes/low volume test series but we need a functioning web platform to maximize the potential of the product. The web service should help our users to create and manage content of their StickyFrames. We can offer a stake in SF project - but we are also ready to discuss other forms of compensation. If interested please contact me via HN or email at computerfix at gmail dot com http://stickyframes.posterous.com/pages/about-us -> Our ycombinator video for W2010. Since then we have developed much better looking, more functional, and cheaper prototypes that are almost ready for production. Other co-founder Dustin is currently in Hong Kong sourcing the production and finalizing the physical design of SFs...
Yeah but this one will get used by more people than most of those other 7. Like this article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/06/us-blockbuster-dis...
Unscatter.com http://www.unscatter.com - A search site (not engine) still in major product development. My TODO list includes simple things like fixing a bug for blekko searches that return 0 results throwing an error page, all the way to build a realtime engine using zeromq and multiple tornado parsing engines to dump into mongodb for the tornado front ends.

What it will likely be is a process of fix the bug, make a new logo (got a great idea for one), add more apis for the raw search, then get to real time processing.

I'm also considering trying to write a caching reverse proxy using tornado and zeromq ( or maybe make it an opportunity to teach myself erlang ) while on vacation to replace nginx. Mainly to keep my mind busy as I'll be in location where I don't think I'll have internet access. Seems like a good time to write a proxy and possibly learn a new language.
They "recommend" people don't build businesses like TweetDeck, because they believe there isn't enough room. However, it seems to me that TweetDeck has done pretty well for itself.
Are you aware of http://proxlet.com/ - similar but not the same - trying to cut down "twitter noise"
If books sell!
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We have affiliate links set up which will provide some revenue.

The site is still very clean, almost Instagr.am -ish, but we are also working on a web view where you can see and share each others app profiles (see http://www.zwapp.com/users/237 for a work in progress example).
Most biostats people I know wind up doing considerably better than code monkey.
I found it interesting (though not surprising) that the entrepreneur Branson admires most is Steve Jobs.

http://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/53092854683287552
Thank you so much for only requesting the permissions you need when looking for friends via Facebook. I'm so frustrated by the number of apps that request permission to post just so I can find friends. (And I'll never grant that permission.)

Edit: Though it looks like you're asking permission to update Twitter, and that's making me hesitant.
I would assume TweetDeck is grandfathered in. However, it does make for interesting discussion when monitization roles around...

Twitter: Want unlimited API calls?
TweetDeck: YES!
Twitter: Okay, thats $XX,XXX a year...
I have the 9" DX and I use it regularly to read technical papers. It's just about the right size for that; I wouldn't want something smaller since there are already occasions when things get a little too small. I find it works reasonably well for reading and navigating PDF's (no detrimental delays).

Putting PDF's on a Kindle is easy -- just plug it in to your computer over USB and it acts like a flash drive.
I concur. I'm self-taught and would agree that "we don't know what we don't know". I'm not sure that's exclusive to programmers. Give me a tip about what I don't know that though and I'll research it obsessively. That's just my nature.
It seems that it might be a good idea to design future nuclear reactors with pneumatic-powered robots in mind; purpose-built shafts and ramps could allow robots with minimal electronics into areas unsafe for humans. I say pneumatic instead of hydraulic, as based on my very limited understanding of nuclear physics, lightweight gases are less likely to become neutron activated for extended periods of time.
Keep in mind that "smartphone" is the term TNW used not Google.
Yes, and the bank doing the website renovations (HBOS) is one of the ones that was bailed out.
This is a good point. I am not sure how long it takes for change to propagate, but you are right; one day seems pretty fast.
It is the Dilbert Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_principle

"[C]ompanies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management [...] in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing."
That is an interesting point. When we were in the "stealthy" part of Mixer Labs' lifecycle, telling people "we were not telling most people what we were doing" made people want to talk to us more. E.g. recruiting sometimes went more smoothly, as people took the call just to find out what we were doing. :)
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Gotcha.. either way be prepared for a fun high stress no sleep weekend. It's great. One other hint I can give you, bring something you can tether to for internet. Not sure if it was just the location where it was held here, but I ended up tethering my phone to get to the internet because the attendees pretty much swamped the wireless network where we were at.

Oh and if Stephen Douglas is at your startup weekend, ask him to do a one handed keg stand.
The wrong way to handle user feedback.
Speaking as someone who knows nothing beyond what you'd find in a Tom Clancy novel: The inability to quietly hold still is kind of a deal-breaker for almost all military & many research uses, isn't it?
So does Dreamhost with their shared hosting :(
Out of curiosity, can you use MonoDevelop as a direct alternative to Visual Studio?
SF author David Brin proposes an organization that champions philanthropic ventures that might earn rich donors a historic legacy. For example, funding a flight to the moon or Mars or building a free university in a third-world nation.

http://www.futurist.com/articles-archive/business-and-econom...
isn't iphone almost out of business? what about an android version?
I don't understand why this has to be a binary choice. The real issue at hand appears to be that people get promoted to positions for which they are not well-suited, and then stay there, because they do a lousy job (agree that this sometimes happens... although eventually they probably get fired).

What if "promotion" doesn't necessarily mean domain over other people, which seems to be the other issue. There can only be one SVP of Technology, for example, in most organizations.

What if, like in school, you get "degrees" for achieving things within the organization? If you launch a major new product successfully, you achieve a "master programmer" honor, and the associated pay benefits. This doesn't necessarily give you any right to control others in the organization, but it rewards employees for stellar performance. They can then put that on their resume if they go to another company.

I would argue it is a little short-sighted to say that the company can exist in a vacuum, when every other company in the world, for the most part, operates with a title. That doesn't mean you have to play that game within the company, but you should at least accommodate employees' concerns that they work for you for 10 years, and then can never get a comparable job because it looks like they never advanced. If they stay in your good graces, it probably isn't an issue, since I'm sure you will give them a good recommendation. But if not, they could be in big trouble when they go to find a new job.
It looks like Twitter double posted then removed both.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aengin...

Update: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now...
Works on HP webOS. Think it is a webkit browser thing.
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We'll look into that, it shouldn't be like that. We will not actually post anything though.
You can have a Hyper key (in X11, at least!)

http://computing.fnal.gov/docs/products/xemacs/v21_1/xemacs....

Depending on your keyboard layout, the "Menu" key makes a good Hyper, and if you've set up Caps Lock as an extra Ctrl key, you can remap your left Ctrl key to something useful.

You can also separate Alt and Meta to different keys.

A quick emacs session will show you whether your new modifier keys are working as intended.

IIRC you can do similar for the (text-mode) Linux console as well.
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Ask HN: Review our project Zorter - Redefining rankings
http://www.zorter.com

Zorter is a ranking framework that lets you build and share dynamic rankers.

The idea: People have largely failed to recognize that rankings aren't a one-size-fits-all product nor do they have to be. We’ve built Zorter to do three things: to make rankings more personalized, more accessible, and more fun. In addition to being able to use Zorter to help make tough decisions, users can generate their own ranker in seconds by uploading a spreadsheet of data to our site.

We're still in beta and are making a lot of changes to the site, but we wanted to get some feedback from HN. If there are any features or datasets you'd like to see on Zorter, let us know!

Thanks!
Good thing Zynga, his most successful portfolio company didn't listen to his advice. Much of their initial growth came from buying users. Only later is the origin myth of "we built something cool and it just went viral" put into place.
We really want to do an Android version, it is a great platform too. We are working on Android already.

We want to strengthen our Android team so if you know any good Android devs they can contact us for a job!
I would think working for 37 signals alone would be a big enough evidence of how awesome you are. Also the kind of company that is looking at your "progression" probably isn't the place to go.
I have come to use the term "frighteningly thing" to describe most of the math and comp sci textbooks I decided were worth keeping. They are tiny, polished, beautiful gems rather than a ton and a half of rock studded with some promising crystals.
Technology: Submarines have to withstand hundreds of atmospheres of pressure.

Spacecraft? 1.
Top Dying Industries
Not a lot of surprises, but interesting nonetheless. Some of these seem to be dying because of the economic climate, some because of globalism, and yet others because of disruptive technology.

Here are the 10 listed:

1) Apparel Manufacturing

2) Music Stores

3) Manufactured Home Dealers

4) Photo Development

5) Wired Communications

6) Mills

7) Newspaper Publishing

8) DD, Game, & Video Rental

9) Formal Wear & Costume Rental

10) Video Post Production
Not a lot of surprises, but interesting nonetheless. Some of these seem to be dying because of the economic climate, some because of globalism, and yet others because of disruptive technology.

Here are the 10 listed:

1) Apparel Manufacturing

2) Music Stores

3) Manufactured Home Dealers

4) Photo Development

5) Wired Communications

6) Mills

7) Newspaper Publishing

8) DD, Game, & Video Rental

9) Formal Wear & Costume Rental

10) Video Post Production
The central problem I see is most PMs don't want to be PMs, and are tricked into being hired as account people. I like what I do, and my team knows I have their back, we do quite well together.
I think the "kicking a puppy" metaphor is wrong. MSFT still has some billions of dollars of cash reserves. No down-and-out puppy has power like that. And let's be clear, that power is outside the market place, but still has influence over it.
FTI - here's the Twitter developer group post:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...

It seems stronger than merely a "recommendation" to me. They flatly state that new apps may not replicate the mainstream Twitter experience. Existing developers are allowed to continue to "serve their customers" - but I think developing new product lines as TweetDeck is doing, is going to run afoul of the new API terms of service.

Unless they have a side agreement, I expect some sort of battle to arise from this.
You don't typically put a salary on a CV.
If anyone ever faces this thought-experiment problem when they leave 37signals, I'll be happy to bestow them a non-managerial fancy title of their choice. If someone leaving 37signals thinks they need to have a "Master Programmer" title, they'll get that. Problem solved.
I am working on my start-up: http://pagekite.net/

PageKite aims to make it super-easy for people to self-host websites or other servers by solving all the problems caused by IP address shortages and unfriendly firewalls.

At the current early stage it's mostly useful for making prototype web apps or web designs visible to coworkers or customers without having to go through a deployment step, but there are numerous ways this could develop into a consumer product as it matures.
I'm making a game for Android that's Tamagatchi meets the Sims meets Civilization. I'm using libgdx as the foundation and building off of there.

Initially the game will be available in two modes, "Challenge" and "Freebuild"; the challenge mode will be time-limited or resource-limited challenges to take your tribe through. The Freebuild mode will just let you grow your tribe in a set environment like a tamagotchi/sims game - get them foraging/hunting for food, building shelter, etc,.

Ultimately I want to add a third mode, "PvP" where you will play in a large world populated with other players and you'll need to cooperate and coexist or crush them depending upon your play style.
I agree. When I think of "Stealth Mode," I think of people who won't tell anyone what they are doing or what their startup is about, and you actively discourage people who know from talking about what you do.

I think that the Google behavior described doesn't fall under "stealth mode" for me. People knew what they were doing, they just didn't know how lucrative it was.

Might be a small distinction, but I think it's a meaningful one if you're trying to have a discourse about strategy.
How are you actively seeking them? I'm just curious because I'm sure I could be doing more.
> And that is the agency model, which allows the publishers to set the price, a move I argue is anticompetitive.

would you care to expand on this? I am not sure I understand what you mean by this, nor why.
> My position is that states shouldn't be empowered to allow or deny immigration, because freedom of movement is a human right.

Any government is a sovereign nation. The laws are decided by a democratically elected legislature.

Are you proposing that state sovereignty should be abolished and power should be removed from a democratic legislature?

> I have a small-government ideology;

Then your ideology and your proposal are completely inconsistent. Rich countries will be flooded by poor and unskilled immigrants. These immigrants will then vote and fight for a redistribution of the wealth (through social services, etc...). Simple market forces will tell you that this would happen.

What is left is a big government with a small tax base (of former citizens).

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On a side note, I believe that immigration discrimination is good. It allows minorities who are productive members of socialist societies (i.e. tax heavy) to flee in to countries where their skills are valued.

This then forces poor countries with socialist tendencies to either re-evaluate their taxation policies or face a huge brain drain.
To be fair, there are a few more regulations on how a bank's website works compared to your average node.js mashup. This affects the timeline and usability.
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> surely it depends on the value of the content inside it.

It doesn't when an ebook is priced higher than paper editions with the same content. I do agree on the padding, though.
I disagree that this would appear a "career limiter" to smart people. Most people in tech work for the same company for only a few years, so it's challenging to make any significant career advancement within an organization.

But give them an opportunity to serve as team lead on a successful project or several, and you've got plenty of resume mojo to spread around to everyone.
Isn't it amazing that we can be talking about "when" monetiization rolls around after Twitter has past 175 million users?
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A platform to address some of the most challenging problems in machine learning & artificial intelligence. Just started prototyping and don't want to be more specific at this point.
I would assume that means your link / article is displayed in your LinkedIn status updates and in addition to being seen by your connections its's picked-up by the LinkedIn Today News product http://linkedin.com/today
Hey, I'm the creator of said project. I started that 2-3 years ago, but abandoned it once I heard of Mono for Android officially being supported :)
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We've had plenty of forays into the ocean by private oil companies:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/11/mile-and-half-deep-...

This is much more inspiring, though.
A physically based renderer that will be able to calculate photosynthetically active radiation and usable radiation in aquariums. I'm into planted tanks. Currently I'm mostly programming the render part and decided that a stochastically progressive photon mapper is good enough and will make it easy to calculate the intensity and reflector efficiency and also get a photo realistic render of the tank. I'm using Java3D to grab/create the geometry and parts of pbrt in my own sppm-implementation. Here is the latest result: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defdac/5513265646/

Don't know if it is startup material though? It's a hobby but I would really love working with light calculations or combine my knowledge about plant physiology, electro magnetic radiation and graphics programming.
In the Darwinian world of Share buttons, many shall fall until a handful of the hardiest remain.
This article fills me with more warm fuzzies than anything I've read all week. I think every HN post needs to end with "<3".

<3
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There are tons of niche keyboard producers around. Most of them would probably be willing to work on custom layouts if you can show pre-orders. Here are some that produce quality mechanical keyboards:

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/index.html
http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/index.html
http://elitekeyboards.com/
http://www.diatec.co.jp/

Something like a Happy Hacking keyboard with a Space Cadet layout would be a big hit IMO. Put me down for a couple.
One of the problems that I have is that I am considered a "non-technical" person because I am not a coder, yet I AM very technical. I have very good technical skills - but they are not around development.

I am fixing that now though by learning to code - but at the same time, people need to also recognize that non-technical does NOT immediately mean "Marketing/MBA".

Everyone is/should be Sales though.
Clickable http://www.zorter.com

I just checked it out for best neighborhoods in NYC, seems like a really cool idea! Nice work. One thing, though, is I don't understand how it ranks the attributes as best or worst.

Example: Transit options. What if I want a car heavy transportation system versus a mass transit option (not the case)? And what if I DON'T want bars/nightlife around, as in I actively want to be away from them (again, not the case)? Just a few what-if's... not sure how you would expose the attribute for user manipulation.
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Amazon had the market power to force a $9.99 price point in spite of publishers' preferences. Apple lacked that power and followed publishers' preferences. This entrance of Apple as a competitor reduced Amazon's market power, allowing the publishers to dictate pricing.
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I believe radiation messes with machines a bit too, though.
I agree it doesn't have to scale, and you certainly shouldn't setup an organization around projected growth 2 years out. That may never come, and you also may not want it to come.

However, if you want your company to grow into a Groupon or Zynga, and you have the rapidly expanding demand to support that, then you need to scale. I don't think Groupon could run on 26 people, so they needed to scale to get to such massive revenue figures.

I specifically didn't use Facebook as an example because I know your feelings about them. I figured Groupon at least has the revenue to support their valuation :)
For anyone using the new JS API, I'd like to reiterate this post [1]. Just like Facebook, and Twitter, and countless others, they are telling you to add their widget to your page in a way that can seriously slow down your site's load speed.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771607
No disrespect was taken. The hacker news coverage came as a big surprise. We like to turn any caching mostly off and we know this is a risk. This is because we do not want the possibility of any stale data as this annoying to the type of users we have. We are working on a better cache invalidation scheme but this has not been a big priority.

Your feedback is appreciated, thank you.

Edit:
Our amount of steal was much much higher than that.
windows 7 is the best OS, devs that are using XP are not real devs
Tweetdeck is probably okay until twitter decides that their business is being hurt too much by them.

Though there is always the chance that twitter tries to buy tweetdeck.
Onerous labour rules restricting economic progress in Europe?

I for one am glad we've moved on.