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Next round YC applicant looking for Tech Cofounder
Startup in private beta of hot niche looking for a tech cofounder to come in and lead us on the tech side of things. We currently have a private beta product up and running which is stable and works well. We have an expert UI/UX person revising our designs right now and a pretty big dev revision coming in the next few weeks.

Who we are: Three founders with previous successful businesses. We have a hustler, and hacker/hustler and a hacker as founders. Our current tech cofounder cannot take a risk at this point in his life and has decided to take on a smaller role at our startup because we are planning on applying to YC. He will stay on and help but we are looking for a tech cofounder to go "all in" with us. We are self-funded for now.

What we are building: We will give private beta invites to anyone who is interested in learning more about joining us but we would rather keep our product private for now...we don't think it's ready to be shown to HN :) What I can say is that it's a web application (HTML4/5 w/ jQuery) with a custom PHP/MySQL backend using PHP5 PDO, Pear and Zend packages, hosted on an AWS EC2 farm (mostly custom configured 64-bit Ubuntu servers) managed via Scalr. I know this description is not informative at all but we can provide more info for people who are interested.

Who we are looking for: A tech cofounder looking to help build a startup. This cofounder should be ready to go all in with us on this idea and be willing to come to SF if we get accepted to YC. The perfect candidate will have experience with all of the technologies listed above. We want someone who loves dev and just as importantly loves this industry. Passion + skill is what we are looking for.

Please send requests/info to beatjunkie84 @ that google email service.

Thanks!

TL;DR - Web application startup and next round YC applicant looking for passionate tech cofounder.
Nah, I need breaks man! Can't just be heads-down all day. Your work starts to deteriorate. May as well make your breaks awesome!
Is Language a Technology?
If you've got the data it's not hard to figure out who the 5 most important people in someone's life are. Shear volume alone would give you a pretty good estimate I bet.
Take with grain of salt.

I'm all for supporting but these guys already tried this

http://stomp.io/

I signed up and did not receive so much as an email.

If the founders are on here:

Great work, I hope it happens and I get where you are coming from. But don't make this _just_ about you trying to get covered on techcrunch.
These are my first impressions on reading this and parts of other linked articles in it. My opinions are fallible and often change over time.

First, being in the field and a part of the teams that first published the general human genome and the individual human genome, I know that our current knowledgebase of genomic variant <-> disease correlation is not very vast. We don't even know how much more or less important are the particular type of variants "SNPs" that personal genomics companies mostly mine, in comparison with other types (Insertion/deletions , structural variations, copy number).
At more serious genomics research institutes, we are still trying to figure out the genetic pathways that might be affected by this mutation or that - far from actually predicting their effects on actual physical condition. So does that mean personal genomic companies are far ahead of institutes in their research? I am not so sure.

Second, I think we need regulation here for the same reasons that we need net neutrality. I wouldn't be surprised if with time, the reports start advising you on which of the alternative drugs would be most beneficial for your genotype and disease. I would still be okay with it if companies like 23andme published their research or atleast cited publications - but I am not sure they believe in public access when it comes to their findings. (I can be wrong on that - so correct me if you know better)

Finally, I actually like the prospect of public driven science in addition to just organization/scientist driven, as that is likely to fund some actual science in addtion to pseudo science. So one solution I can think of is for FDA to approve a most trusted mutation screen for all these personal genomic companies to abide by. Let them focus on their core competency which is sequencing and customer interface and not research, If however they come across findings that might be beneficial, let them publish it in a peer-reviewed journal and apply to FDA to add it to the universal mutation screen.
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I assumed that it was going to be publicly cremated, but I'm not going to complain about a burial at sea.

The important thing is that it doesn't become a rallying symbol, or an object of international controversy. Having it rest at the bottom of the sea is one of the best ways to accomplish those goals.
bb user's finally getting some love!
Spying? - maybe, for lame spies. It's manipulative, deceptive, hideous in its exploitation of group psychology, but the information it contains is trivial and only the lamest of spies or terrorists would use it. It's the world's greatest reality show and that's all. If I were CIA i would search for suspects among the people that are not on facebook. Assange himself is on facebook. He's a smart guy, and i don't think that statement makes him justice.
Apple's Cloud Could Help Blunt Amazon, Google, Microsoft Threats
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has a lot of artillery aimed at population centers of the Republic of Korea. But most HN readers do not spend significant amounts of time in population centers of the Republic of Korea.
From the FAQ:

"Is there a demo video of Ambur?
Yes! Please click here to see a real demo of Ambur."

However, nothing is hyperlinked.

Same here:

"Ambur will be available for free shortly in the App Store. You can also download the software from any iOS device by launching the the App Store and searching for "Ambur"."

I would actually just link to the app (there is chance someone is viewing that page on an iPad after all).
I think Disqus is a good choice for the comment system. There are some issues with the frames when I try to login to my disqus but other than it looks nice and I think can be used easily to collaborate.
Many of these criticisms seem to be compiler specific rather than language specific (perhaps with the exception of the os example).

* I like knowing explicitly what kind of integers I'm working with and plan on using the full 32 or 64 bits available to me.

* IEEE floating point issues will be around forever. If you want something more precise, store the numerator and denominator, or factorization.

* foldr doesn't have to be implemented recursively.
There was DNA evidence to demonstrate it was him and the enemy has already acknowledged that OBL is gone.

This was probably the best thing they could have done short of taking him alive.

Who cares what internet "truther" types have to say about it?
The basics of building a kidney
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19298
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19298
The PlayBook Will Suck Until RIM Fixes These 4 Things
My assertion is that language is indeed technology. I love this quote.

"Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations."
- Edward Sapir Language (1921)

It is so ubiquitous that often it passes my awareness that it has been constructed by innumerable generations. I dare say language is the most advanced technology that we have ever created, and that everything we as programmers do is a continuation of our fragile protolanguage. Articulation and crystallization of ideas in the form of code.
My first SSD died in three days. It is entertaining when an SSD dies, as you simply get a "no OS found" type error from your bios. Checked the drive and it appeared to be working, only was completely empty.

Swapped it out, been fine since (about a year and a half now). Also no problems in my mac.

But both machines run regular backups so that should an SSD fail, it's just a matter of imaging the new drive and replacing it.
Israeli warplanes massing at U.S. airbase in Iraq to strike Iran
Israel says it had no knowledge of such a strike plan and both the Pentagon and Iraq's air force commander deny the Iranian report.<p>Iranian state television ran a report on Monday saying Israeli military aircraft were massing at a U.S. air base in Iraq for a strike on Iran.<p>The report appeared on the website of Press TV. Israel said it had no knowledge of such a strike plan and both the Pentagon and Iraq's air force commander
It's a real shame, great thinkers can no longer congragate inside a company, least their ideas are taken for little compansation and implemented across seas.

Great programmers are always breaking away from their 9-5 to create their own start-ups, but is this really the most efficent way?
This article understands how floating point works.

People using floating point often have a fundamental lack of understanding how floating point works. Floating point numbers are a leaky abstraction that exist only for performance optimization. Using floats as a default is an example of premature optimization.
http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror.h...
From the FAQ:

> Is there a demo video of Ambur?
> Yes! Please click here to see a real demo of Ambur.

There's no link anywhere near this text.
The fact that it allows separate arguments should make injections vulnerabilities a lot less likely to happen by accident since there shouldn't be any need to interpolate you arguments into the code string (this would also mess up the compiled function cache so you definitely want to do that anyway).

Also, LUA is a very small at core and I don't think it by default includes things like file system access. You pretty much just get what the host applications gives you, which in this case seems to be just the Redis API.
I read that saying the impact on Australians has been huge so how has it been huge?
This is an interesting article and worth a read. Then head over to Mike Cowlishaw's rant on decimal [1]. I met Mike at a conference and he's a brilliant guy, prior to seeing his decimal stuff I was using REXX on an Amiga (what Tcl might have been) which was language he invented while at IBM.

He got interested in decimal math early on but not because 'floats' such by binary floats really suck. That is a number system where .1 can't be accurately represented. How often do you use .1 in your calculations? He has a couple of examples of 34 digit precision which is representable in a 128 bit quantity. (3.7 bits per digit). Straight BCD would of course be 32 digits minus the digits which represent the exponent.

I wrote some CAD routines once that used decimal arithmetic rather than binary and was amazed at how much better it worked in terms of edges lining up and when you approximate non-square surfaces you get much better tesselation.

And of course for history buffs the IBM 1620 used decimal as a native representation for numbers. Now that we've got lots of transistors to play with, perhaps its a good time to revisit the way we represent numbers.

[1] http://speleotrove.com/decimal/
HTML5 WebSockets and Real-Time Tutorials and Resources
This is a round-up of HTML5 WebSockets and Real-Time tutorials, JavaScript libraries , and free resources. It's part of series of HTML5 round-ups that includes HTML5 tutorials, a Canvas round-up, a SVG round-up, a Geolocation round-up, a HTML5 Web Storage round-up, a Web Sockets / Push / Real-Time round-up, a HTML5 Microdata round-up, a round-up of HTML5 Media Players, HTML5 Cheat Sheets, HTML5 Resources, and CSS3 tutorials and resources.
With Exxon making $11bn in profit, no wonder no one is making jobs here. Just because "gas is $5/gal elsewhere" is no reason it should be here—because our economy runs on cheap gas. When gas gets costly so does food, and so does the feeble reenergizing of the economy.
That isn't true. There is an important justification for State control in Communism. It increases the fairness of societies. There are plenty of important ideas that use Communism to achieve their ends, and the fact that they use Communism doesn't say anything good or bad about them.
But it is well known (see either "The Good Parts" or "High
Performance Javascript" that appending strings is quadratic
in JavaScript, and that the best way to assemble a large,
multipart string is arrayOfStrings.join('');

It's a bit fuzzy now, modern browser optimized that quite a bit, so this mainly applies to older versions of IE.
Giving Wikileaks any credit for those uprisings is a troll.
Haven't read it either, just basing it on "The pre-eminent symbol of our the multicultural, multiracial society", and I'm not sure why you mentioned racism here
Here is a nature paper (for those who can access) discussing the state of Direct-to-Consumer companies in personal genomics
"An agenda for personalized medicine"

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7265/full/461724a...
Some people outsource the coding (e.g. via elance). If nothing else, a good demo might make it easier to convince others to join you (a technical person may want to start over, but at that point you have your cofounder). The results are uncertain, though.

A lot depends on just how difficult the technical aspect is. You can pretty much forget about building Google this way.
This looks cool. I'm a fan of notifications in general and I like thinking of how notifications can be improved and such. I will say that this is a departure from notifications I usually see on the web with the sliding block that has an 'x'.

Comparing it to humanmsg, the messages themselves are similar although it would be better if it had (not sure if it does and was disabled) the message log.
Shocker - Cutting edge new technology has high failure rate! But +1 for mentioning Boob Job in a article about SSD drives.
Ah, right. I don't actually do much numerically sensitive programming.

Why aren't Haskell's SmallInt functions parameterized over Int size, anyway? Of the points brought up in the blog post, this one seems the easiest to fix.
If you are willing to pull your mail down into a local maildir one way or another, you can index and search it with notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/).
For people doing consumer internet startups, learning how the average normal person thinks, what makes them tick, is something I'd pay for. All of you reading this here are by definition, not normal ;)
GNU MediaGoblin: Free and Decentralized Media Sharing in Development
Be wary that in many cases, paying money actually _reduces_ effort, especially when the money is small. I'd hate to see a FOSS project slowed down because people started thinking "I'm only making $1 an hour on this" rather than thinking about how they are contributing to a meaningful project and their own experience.

One summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
Driving Directions from Pakistan Military Academy to Bin Laden's Compound
I've been wanting this, thank you much.
I have a 3.5" OCZ Vertex2 that's being used on a daily basis (with lots of swapping) since Oktober. No problems as of yet.

I've had another one (2.5") in my Macbook since early january. No problems either.

Performance might have degraded, but not that I've noticed.
This post is one long moan. Of course startups are hard. So is marriage, and so is jogging. So if you're doing it, you'd better love it, because if you don't, you're going to be miserable. You do it because you love building things and love to learn things -- and you can handle failure, whether it's temporary or permanent. You can recognize that you have not actually failed if you've learned in the process, made personal connections, etc.

People doing startups need encouragement. They may need to be warned that this isn't easy, but they really don't need moans.
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I think the ranking is less important than what all of these incubators are doing for startups. There is more of an opportunity than ever for entrepreneurs. The barriers to entry are getting torn down through these programs.
I created Stomp, and I'm one of the organizers of Startup Workaway.

Stomp needs much more iteration before it's ready for prime time. I don't want Stomp tech crunched until then, and Startup Workaway is a completely separate project that doesn't even mention Stomp on the web site.

However, I do apologize that I haven't emailed the 10 folks who expressed interest in the Startup Workaway on Stomp, or notified them of the date change. That's completely my bad.
Lest anyone think this is being suppressed or something, it's a dupe. The original is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2506580
Sure you can test it. While any parent will try to minimize the number of new injuries their child receives, it's hard to imagine that the number will ever reach 0. So the next time the child hurts herself, just try the crib state transition again.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

It's a great quote because it's so true, and it's happened so many times throughout history.
Bin Laden’s Compound Gets A Bum Review On Google Maps
1. According to Isalmic traditions a body should be buried in 24 hours
2. One would not want to create a shrine.

So the haste and burial at sea.
I really wish the big guys would start trying to be innovative instead of copying other sites/companies. It seems like everyone is jumping on the "daily deals" bandwagon and it's going to end up killing the whole thing. There's only so much SPAM I'm willing to opt-in to receive.
How does Readability (a web app) achieve the launch screen when run from the home screen on an iPad?
First of all, congrats. I'm sure it wasn't easy getting to this stage.

Now, there are lots of good comments that others have made already. I think the most important ones are the issues with the speed of taking orders and the suggestion to talk to local restaurants and bars for input.

My two cents are related to the video. It looks too amateurish. The camera is not 100% steady (use a tripod, or set the camera on a table), the narration is not very fluid (practice, practice, practice) and it's too technical. The video should target your audience and highlight the advantage of using your system. Show a waiter taking orders, and the kitchen receiving them instantly. Show how a fast and easy it is to print receipts and how a manager can help resolve customer issues/complaints. How would you convince a restaurant owner to ditch the multi-thousand $$ POS system that he/she has, and invest in yours?

Also your FAQ page seems to be outdated and missing a few links.

Good luck!
If you have stuff that you need to keep secret from your government, only discuss it face to face.

If you have so much secret stuff to talk about that its not practical to do it all face to face, then there's probably enough at stake that setting up some simple key exchanges and keeping a tight protocol will be the least of your worries.
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Why would I use this rather than the notifications api? To support IE? Any other reason?
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="/startup.png">

under "Specifying a Startup Image": https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/Ap...
I really want to try CoffeeScript out but am fairly comfortable with developing with plain JS (I say that now at least). One thing that would make me likely to jump in right now is if it will make development faster, caring less about the beauty of the code (Going from PHP to CS could be too jarring). Has it been your experience that it's more 'accelerated'?
Chaos Communication Camp by the CCC in Germany.
Things Cloud Sync – Beta Begins
We could ask Google. They've tested a PGP feature in Gmail back in Feb. 2009, so I'm sure they would (try to) release it publicly if we ask for it loud enough.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/02/gmail-tests-pgp-sig...
Thank you. That is a very nice offer. I wasn't specifically looking for a getaway but that is a very appealing idea.
Ask HN: How not to be an annoying customer for a designer?
We are working with a freelance designer on our small start up. My partner works on the business side of stuff, and the communications with the designer, while I develop the app.

I get the feeling we are not syncing well with the designer, making it a more 'Give us X' kind of relationship instead of a more mutual creative process.

I want the designer to be proud of the design he gave us. So, from the customer side of this, have you got any tips? (We are working remotely)
zurich, switzerland

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FYI Schneier later admitted he had no evidence for those claims and now believes them to be untrue: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o...
Lame. Most restaurant owners already have a POS system, and it likely runs on Windows. You are asking them not only to overhaul their business processes, you are asking them to now go out and buy a $500 tablet per server. There are real cost barriers here, and since this app's UI is not absolutely stunning he's not going to capture that extreme of the market either.
I certainly don't think this is a dig at YC at all (despite the unfortunate inflaming title chosen by RWW). It will be interesting to see what the data say when they are released. Rankings coming out have certainly given schools much greater visibility and clout. I think that they can do the same for incubator programs. More incubators > more competition > better startups > world changes.
Given the typical size of houses in Palo Alto, 5 founders to 1 house might be more practical :)
Indeed. http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
So does that mean personal genomic companies are far ahead of institutes in their research?

Does it matter? Maybe they will contribute something useful, maybe they won't.

If we shut them down now, they definitely won't.

Second, I think we need regulation here for the same reasons that we need net neutrality.

To prevent service providers with a government granted monopoly from extorting payments from the rest of the economy?

Is this a serious danger in the personal genomics market? I was under the impression that the FDA wanted to prevent consumers from purchasing genetic tests without receiving permission from another government granted monopoly (doctors).
> Can you name one great application the last 10 years that wasn’t a web app or a game?

Yes. Scrivener.
Bloom Launches Planetary, a visual iPad music player
Favourite quote: "The people who use foursquare are people that no one would mind seeing bombed anyway..."
You'll need a lot of bootstrapping for hoverboards. (teehee)
If the true odds are greater than 50% then you are more likely to win the bet than to lose it. So even if the odds given imply true odds far greater than 50% (ie poor odds) then you will still probably win money if you bet just 1 bet.
Yandex had planned to sell up to 20 percent of its shares in New York before the onset of the global 2008 global financial crisis forced it to postpone the

And the article cuts off. Would assuming the word "listing" was intended to be at the end of the sentence be a bad assumption?
My apologies if it seemed like a giant moan. I was just trying to give a slice of reality about our personal experiences. Startups and the Silicon Valley Life are made to look pretty glamorous, and I wanted to offer another viewpoint.

I went into this whole thing being pretty naive about a lot of the process, so I wanted to relate some of the things I've learned along the way.

I'm not looking for pity.
Yeah, something tells me money isn't what's slowing Hurd down. Isn't Hurd even more irrelevant given the rise of virtualization?
Check out the network hub at http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/

Otherwise, its pretty spread out from Richmond to Burnaby to downtown.