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I use an EEE 701. I mostly work at the command line with Vi for programming. Occasionally I'll look at code in KWrite. If I need an IDE, I often use Arachnophilia, which is a pretty stripped down but easy to configure IDE that recognizes syntax for a number of languages.

You can also use Eclipse or NetBeans, but it takes a lot of configuring. For myself, I ended up taking both off my drive, since I found that I was doing most of my work in a terminal window even after I'd cleared up a reasonable amount of screen space in both.

It depends on what you want from your dev environment.

And if distraction is a problem, turn off wireless. ;)
Don't do it. I spent 3 hours today working on a golf instead of, well, working. Luckily I still got everything done that I needed to but man, this is a real time sink if you thrive on competition. The people doing golfs on there are insanely good.
Late 80s is pretty close to 1990, and I'd bet MADD USA was active in Canada before they actually created a formal organization. Not that I really know that for sure.

In general (I was around in the late eighties) I'd say that that's the time when drunk driving basically became socially unacceptable in Canada. I think it's still acceptable in the US to a much greater extent. Whether that was because of MADD or not, I don't know.
We need a place to anonymously share site stats
When I'm looking at stats like homepage exit rate, average amount of time / pageviews per visit, etc, more often than not, I don't know whether my numbers are good or not because I don't have anything to compare them to.

Of course "good" is different depending on the goals of the site, but nonetheless, I wish there was a place where hackers could anonymously post certain usage statistics. Not so much number of unique visitors or other pure measures of absolute size, but the relative statistics, things that any startup could use to get a baseline of how other sites are doing.

Anything like this exist? Anyone want to set something up?
This is disappointing because muxtape is/was such a great venue for people to discover new music.

The obvious takeaway here: It's going to extremely be hard for truly transformative services in the digital music arena to succeed until copyright laws are changed.
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I seem to recall they had stuff on in the background while you browsed, but I don't know if they had to pay for that right or if the movie distributors paid them, or neither. But I suspect if a commercial establishment started having "theater" showings, they might be violating the license agreements of the videos.

I know that schools sometimes do it (or they used to, before the RIAA went rabid), however, as do (did) day-care facilities.
It's not exactly that far. I believe there are public transit routes that cross the bridge. :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q...

I've never lived there myself, but you bring up a good point. I'm sure lots of people do drive drunk across that bridge in the wee hours.
Thanks. Fixed the colors. Will look at the line spacing in a sec.

The lack of members is the biggest feature. The odds of it turning into the next Reddit/Digg are much lower than the odds of that happening here. :)

Seriously, the idea stemmed from the YC meetup last week. PG said that the YC interviews aren't like interviews at all, they just "Do YC". If the team and YC seem to click, then they get accepted. I think the same thing applies for finding good cofounders--you just start something and see if the chemistry among the team clicks. I've started projects with friends and complete strangers before, and whether or not I knew them before the project isn't correlated with how well we worked together. There are a few people I met the day of starting a joint project who I'd love to start another company with.

That's what I hope this site could do: not just bring hackers together to discuss startups, but bring them together to launch things and find new cofounders.

I think there are a lot of people on HN that would be great to work with, and the best way to find them would be to just start projects. I currently am lucky enough to have a few hours free each day, but unlucky that I'm far from the Valley(I've got family commitments that have been keeping me in Southern MA all summer). When I get to the valley, I think it will be easier to find co-founders, but until then it's not that easy.
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lets be honest here, no one, not even you in the long term, will want to "own" the shit you churn out at work. use your negotiation points on salary isues.

and what company is going to pay you and then let you retain IP on all your works? get out of your fantasy world. even more galling is the qualifier that the candidate is looking for their first job. okay, you have problems doing fizzbuzz in c++ and i am going to waste my time discussing IP rights? sounds like the loser at mcd's spending his first break obsessing over what color his lamborghini should be.
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FTA So Griffin's job is to help Warner monetize digital music, and he's convinced that the issue of payment for music is nothing less than "our generation's nuclear power." If our society can monetize music in a balanced, consumer-friendly way, the results will be awesome. If we can't... well, remember Chernobyl?

Umm... Chernobyl? Like where lots of innocent people died and an entire portion of the planet was rendered permanently unlivable? This is the in the same category as a 13 year old girl downloading "The Jonas Brothers" on Kazzaa?

Yes, the current model of moneterizing content/art/whatevertheycallittoday is broken. We should work on fixing it. It is important to do so. But this sort of ridiculous hyperbole does not help their case. It borders on being obscene.
who are these mystery employers? the reality is that you will sign a contract that assigns rights to the company. thats life. not a good deal? try denny's overnight shift.
That's a nice example of Conway's Law.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=82997
As a student at U.Michigan and member of its local student entrepreneurship organization, I would also add south-east Michigan as another prospect, particularly the UM in Ann Arbor.

@incomethax, like Wisconsin though, VCs around UM are skewed more towards biotech-related startups. And, like Wisconsin, Ann Arbor also lacks the financial resources of a S.V/Boston
I use 8aweek.com for a similar benefit.
Yeah, now if only every day of the year was somebody's birthday...
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Breck, commendations for taking the initiative. As someone who is looking for a good hacker to team up with on an iPhone (+ server side) project, I have a few observations:

1) Although being too secretive about a project isn't usually a good thing, I don't really want to plaster my idea on a site, either.

2) I think another (more controversial) approach to solving the 'co-founder problem' would be to create a database of users populated with answers to questions similar to the YC application form. So, one could filter based on interest level, availability, proximity, etc. Real names would be optional (news.yc user names could be used instead). Think YCombinator meets LinkedIn.

The more I write about 2), the more I like it. If I weren't working on another project, I'd implement this myself. In any case, contact me if you want more ideas (see my profile).
Everywhere sleep.fm is mentioned on HN, you are around. It is funny that although it is a bad idea to you a few thousand people like it enough to go back to use it everyday. Not a lot of startups can claim those numbers.
> prohibit driving after the age of 75

I, for one, would welcome that. The unpredictability of elderly drivers is every bit as dangerous as the stupidity of inexperienced ones. I saw an elderly man take out 8-10 of those construction barrels the other day just because he drifted over a bit out of his lane. Thank god no one was working that day.

I agree that we should have the freedom to take risks, but one has to weigh the risks taken with the lives of others. An 18 year-old that drinks alcohol is primarily a risk to himself, whereas a 75 year-old that is physically unfit to handle a vehicle is only one step away from a drunk driver.

I find it amusing that we have all these laws to protect ourselves from, well, ourselves, and yet we don't do obvious things like determine if someone is physically fit enough to operate a vehicle in public.

My problem with MADD and the whole debate is that somehow the drinking age got attached to drunk driving. Last I checked, there was no minimum age at which driving while intoxicated becomes illegal. It's always illegal. Regardless of the drinking age, drunk drivers should be punished severely.

For that reason, (and the cookies argument pointed out by someone else here), I think the age should be lowered to 16 or so. (I'm 25, and I feel more strongly about this now than I did at 18.) Let kids have their first experiences with alcohol with their families, which are more likely to instill some responsible habits. At the same time, I think drunk drivers should be punished more severely, including the use of public shaming (in additions to fines/loss of license/jail time).
>This is a stupid theory, mostly because your facts are false and imaginary.

Not cool.
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silentbicycle also recommended the Little Schemer books. But for me personally, while they may work for you or someone else... I found that they didn't work for me. Not to say that I have a weight problem, but I love food and food is the theme throughout these books. I like to watch my weight and my sense of control with food is not that stellar; and about three-quarters of the way through the book I realized I wasn't going to make it through to the end or with the sequel: Seasoned Schemer. The food they use to bring their concepts full circle just don't do it for me. Thus, I'm yet another one for SICP or PG's book.

I always recommend Applications Programming in ANSI C by Johnsonbaugh if you're interested in learning C. It's got a great scientific and engineering theme.

While I'm not sure about your area of the world, I know that in my area books at the bricks & mortar stores are ridiculously expensive. Thus, I always do my book buying at places like Amazon and I suggest you do too.. especially if the book you're looking for in the Borders store doesn't carry your desired book. I find the stores like Barnes & Noble to be great places for eye candy... exploring the books they have, sitting in their comfy chairs and making notes on the books I'm going to buy online later. :)

Best of luck to you!
>Faulty reasoning and crap evidence.

Keep it civil.
The drinking age should be 13, with supervision. In practice, it is. What kid doesn't get xmas or passover wine?
So more like a dating/matchmaking site?
Absolutely! For folks who are technical enough to care about ssh'ing from their iPhones, a jailbreak is such a no-brainer. There's so little cost involved in it now with QuickPwn and stuff..
no, it should be lowered to 14, that way the kids can adjust to alcoholic before they get behind the wheel of a car.
Way, way easier. Group projects, the ACM-ICPC, short internships at many different companies, student conferences, research labs on campus...
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I'm a big python user, with some lisp coding in the past. I took a look at his code and I'm just wondering if this is any different than xrange() in python? For those that don't know, xrange is a generator of integer sequences... a way of iterating a "list" of N integers while only allocating space for 1 integer.

*note: This isn't a "python is better" argument, it's an "I'm surprised sbcl doesn't provide xrange type functionality, am I right in that assumption" argument.
social acceptability is the big problem. driving is the only activity most people commonly engage in that routinely kills people. It needs to be taken more seriously and the step towards that isn't legislation it's making it socially unacceptable for people to drive recklessly.
People are drawn to success. Spend some time building your own value by making something cool. If you are impressive more people will want to meet you and more will come out of the people you meet.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
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My bandwidth on each end was not the limiting factor, and all of the network equipment was gigabit over ethernet, and I used ftp across two debian installs.
I think the second one is a "lost in translation." I can imagine that there's way of presenting the punchline so that it'd be funny, but I couldn't give you the words to say it in English.
I don't deny that 18 year-olds have access to alcohol. I did plenty of drinking well before I was 18. It would be hard to argue however, that lowering the drinking age to 18 wouldn't give them more and easier access to alcohol.

There are tons of laws that I disagree with in this country but this isn't one of them. In fact, I think penalties for selling to under age kids should be much more harsh than they are now.
I once signed on as a contract engineer (mechanical, not software) for a Fortune 100 company. My contract was actually with a contract agency that this company normally uses. I had negotiated the details of the job with my manager and then met with the onsite manager of the contract agency to deal with the paperwork. The lady got bent when I actually took about 45min to read every single line of the contract. She got even more huffy when I signed it but crossed out and initialed about 3 lines of the contract and handed it back. She claimed that I could not do that. I told her to talk to my manager and run it by legal (I knew they really needed my skill set) and get them to initial the crossouts and mail me a copy. The lines that I crossed out legally claimed anything I might invent, create or produce at work or off-hours for the terms of my employment. So if I invented the proverbial better mouse trap on my own time this Fortune 100 company would have moved up a few notches and I would get my salary. Legal signed off on my edits and I went to work. So the moral of the story is don't be intimidated into signing something you don't understand and don't be afraid to seek changes to the contract if it is not acceptible.
It's easy: show me the code. Links to quick examples and tutorials that show me what and how this language can do are amazingly useful. Pretty much you want the primary focus to be on using your language, not selling it. You have a navbar across the top; at first glance I know for 100% certainty only what two of those links will do for me ("home" and "company").

In short, look at http://python.org/ , http://www.perl.org/ , and http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ . Focus on enabling the developer to do something useful as soon as possible. Focus on community, libraries, etc... If you make one change and only one change to the site, add a link titled "Getting started"... make it a wiki. See http://www.erlang.org/starting.html for more inspiration. Right now it feels like the marketing department designed the the cilk site.
Are the billions being spent on the "last mile" worth it?
Location would be important too. You might want to start your startup with someone who lives in the same urban area, at least in the beginning.

BTW, Breck didn't write this post. It was me.
Ideas for a startup cofounder matchmaking site
Thanks. Of course SlinkSet did all the heavy lifting.

2 is actually a very interesting idea. I know that among my friends some are interested in different types of startups(music, video, commerce, social networking, etc.). Finding people who want to start a company in the same space would probably be helpful.

I'm surprised by the response to JustHackIt. Already, in 1 hour the site's gotten over 400 unique visitors. Mostly from HN but also coming from Reddit now too.

I don't think JustHackIt will take off, but I do think that if a version of this idea was integrated into HN it could help a lot of people. I'm sure the rockstars here don't need this, but the average startup-rookie on this site could find it helpful.
The little girl likes to "take" a shit, but not be "given" a shit. It's funny.

Has anyone else noticed that coprophiles tend to be highly specialialized and intelligent people? Howard Stern types.
as a fellow nerd, you should have some idea how much I care about your downmod
Breck, I posted your site:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281111
Most vegetarians just jumped from one unhealthy diet to another. They're still eating as many preservatives and HFCS calories as anyone else, often more.
I have owned a number of Apple products; workstations, laptops, iPods etc. I had one super bad incident with Apple which they will never live down. (After 6 months of phone calls, and visits to their 'geniuses'. It ended with them giving me a brand new $2000 workstation in exchange for my $1300 brick.) But that was it. If you are having problems with everything you by from them, you're doing it wrong.
It's commonly cited that while athletes' hearts beat faster while exercising, they beat lower the rest of the day, thus giving them fewer beats per year. I'm assuming, though, that most athletes don't swim 6 hours a day + weight train.
Very cool use of SlinkSet.

I guess a further elaboration on the whole YC meets LinkedIn/matchmaker concept would be that it places the people (and their 'compatibility') ahead of the startup idea, which is also what VCs and YC (I think) place priority on.
yeah, he is the smarter of the dumb CEOs. As he knows he at least realizes that.
Very nice, especially the idea to share your lecture notes. The best way to really learn a subject is to teach others...
Agree.
Even if you are not a visionary at least being updated with the market is absolutely necessary.

Imagine how Keyes would respond on Amazon's release of Kindle, lest sold books online or having a vast catalog.
That doesn't explain why west Africans are so strong at sprinting but very weak at distance running, while east Africans are the opposite (dominant in distance running, very weak sprinters), nor why whites are somewhat competitive in the middle distances but not sprints and long distances.
It's just better coded, for the most part. It was actually better before we started growing a lot; now we have scaling problems. We're working on smoothing everything out now.

Of course, there have also been insights that I think may be fundamental, but they aren't patentable as far as we know.
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One thing that hasn't be suggested is Twitter, twitter with local people and a lot of times you cross some amazing individuals
One of the best blogs IMO is Steve Yegge's. One of the qualities that makes it really good is that he doesn't post often, each individual post is very long and discusses some particular thing in great detail. Incidentally, this is not mentioned in the OP. As a metaobservation, this particular post is neither very long nor does it really discuss the target topic in great detail.
Hm, sounds like a whole lot stupid guys are throwing a popularity contest. Remind me not to apply for a job with carr's team.
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I understand that. I'm not disputing the fact that a 128 bit random integer is hard to guess.

The problem, however, is that it is being stored as a string. As such, if you decide to use the 32 character hex representation as a password, you're essentially storing a 32 character string that can only consist of 0-9a-f.

A random 32 character alphanumeric string would correspond to a random integer much larger than 128 bits, and as such, would be much stronger. There's no benefit to go with a weaker password.
The article links to ExCanvas, and goes on to explain that its performance is inadequate for many applications.
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Mike from DreamIt followed up on this comment with me by email. He said that everyone in their database should have received a personalized message along with a form letter, but neither my partner and I nor Mike has either. He sent us a copy of the form response that was to precede the personal response.

I appreciate the gesture in following up, so I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it got lost in Gmail's spam filter. Sorry Mike and the rest of the DreamIt team.
They think it gives their rhetoric punch, like kids will be reading this and thinking "But I don't want to cause Chernobyl!!" so then they'll stop downloading music
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I think the problem with MADD is that it achieved many of its objectives, and didn't know what to do next. In the early days of MADD, severe, repeat drunk driving wasn't recognized as the serious crime that it is and should be. MADD had a lot to do with getting this recognized - in law and in society at large.

But now, I think MADD is a texbook example of an organization that achieves it's objectives but needs something new to do with its fervor. So now they've been pursuing a kind of neo-prohibition under the guise of preventing drunk driving. I don't believe the original founders have much to do with it anymore, and have actually even renounced the organization.
"No civilized society, he adds, can endure "purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture."

Right. So the Greeks, Romans, Germans, Italians ... all those troubadors, singing poets ... none of that happened? There was an entrance fee to the Library of Alexandria??

Blogga, pleez.
Which ones are Hebrew, which Russian?

I'm venturing this guess:
1. Russian
2. Russian
3. Hebrew
So... will you go to the trouble of pitching this idea to a VC and setting up shop in some major cities (Columbus being one of them)? This would be a cool way to meet new people.

It kind of sucks that there is nothing in between "watching movies with friends at home" and "watching movies with friends at the theatre". The former is a lot a of fun, and the movie is even ignored at points as you are having more fun with each other, but there is no chance of meeting new people. The latter is 100% focus on the movie with a few comments here and there, with a slim chance of meeting new people.

Your idea could be really cool... almost an informal theatre that allows talking and horsing around, a place for both friends and bored individuals, where you can meet cool new people.

The more I think about this idea, the more I like it.
>My plan B for them would be to change store format entirely. Build a nice home theatre that can sit 20 people and have showings of new releases. The catch is they use equipment that is in the $1000-$5000 price range, and it's a great experience that you can 'take home'. Delivery is free. Installation is extra.

Great idea, but not economical -- public screening rates for movies are ~$500. That was the rate clubs at my college had to pay, a commercial rate may be even higher.
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Yeah, I don't know what gscott is eating.
Umm, a few thousand users is basically 0 on the web. Investors ignore you until you have half a million.

Are you one of the founders?
> What would people say if we decided, for instance, to prohibit driving after the age of 75?

In Ontario, they have started making people over 80 take mandatory vision and knowledge test's. There hasn't been alot of outrage over this. I'd say that most people consider this to be a good idea.