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Excellent, thanks everyone for the advice! I think I could easily produce a barebones beta and just push it to grad students (the intended user) for free, see what happens. If people adopt it, perhaps I can investigate adding bells/whistles as you mentioned.

How big of an audience/revenue stream should a startup shoot for? I really have no idea. Just for fun, I ran some quick numbers:

A 10k yearly fee works out to 0.04% of MIT's library budget (26m), and 0.27% of my alma mater's budget (3.6m). If 10% of 4-year universities adopted the service (~230 colleges) that totals 2.3m yearly.

Obviously that is a really simplified example. I imagine larger schools would pay more than smaller schools, 10k is probably a silly number, ten percent adoption is probably overly-optimistic, etc. But I suppose it puts everything into rough context.
But the music in the squares is better than your average dubstep track.
I agree that sometimes pursuing prima facie "ridiculous" ideas to their logic conclusions can sometimes provide insights into problems that have far more real-world utility than you might ever expect when you start down the path.
A location startup called "Hipster" ?

I'm not cool enough, I don't feel worthy, and now I feel alienated. Ironically, it also has the same cast of characters we all expect to see backing California startups and is not surprisingly covered on TechCrunch. How utterly uncool and old hat.
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They are all patented, you just have not seen the relevant patents (or if you had seen them you would not be able to understand them).

There was a story not long ago about how somebody had patented doubly linked lists (or maybe how to traverse a double linked list, I can't remember the details, but it was just as obvious).
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It seems to me that with this:

"It is all too easy to look back with 18.5 years of hindsight, and knowledge of how the market has evolved, and say ``of course this is how everyone is going to do it'' or ``the patents are too broad.''"

...Lodsys are actually putting forward an effective argument against long-lived software patents. It didn't become obvious because of the disclosure of the "invention" in this patent - it became independently obvious through the progression of the start of the art. 20+ year patents certainly shouldn't be granted on "inventions" that would have become obvious anyway within a fraction of that time.
In my opinion, a formal CS degree is not achievable in a summer’s time. Just the core material can take at least a year or two to finish as a full time student. This should include data structures, algorithms, some discrete mathematics, computability/logic, programming languages (class on issues and features in language design and implementation), and some computer systems work (looking into lower level system topics). It is a lot to cover and absorb in a summer’s time. Unless you are familiar and have experience with most of these topics, just one summer is extremely optimistic.

CS isn't just about programming and software engineering, as there's quite a bit of theory involved and generally isn't learned just writing code on your own, which I'm assuming is where you've picked up what you know. It can be much easier to get a software engineering or a programming related degree if that is the case, and should be more doable in a short time frame.

P.S. I'm assuming you are like most programmers that have learned programming on your own, and you haven't dug into the more theoretical topics on your own. Most don't, and I wouldn't have learned most of the more theoretical topics on my own. But they are very useful and good to know, as they will make you a better programmer. Lastly, don't get a CS degree that does not require these topics, as you'll just be kidding yourself and people you show your diploma to.
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I had an idea like this a while back, but I tried to go with less flashy and more interesting patterns. I was making a website for stoners who were up late at night. The plan was to sell them pizza and other munchies.

http://www.treeowls.com

Navigation is rough but click on "content" and then the picture of what you want to view. Some of them move along with the mouse, most don't.
It never got much further than how it is now because I felt guilty selling things to people who were chemically dependent on drugs. Still a pretty good idea though.
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I don't think reasonable people believe that women who have babies can't remain focused on their careers. However, let's not pretend -- there's a lot of caring going on, and somebody, whether it's mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, aunt, uncle, or nanny is doing it. Particularly at a startup where as an employee part of my compensation is options, making me effectively an investor (viz foregone income), I don't care if hypothetically my boss might not be distracted; I want to know if she or he in particular will be focusing less on her baby and more on the company. And no pretending sleepless nights don't impact work performance.

As an employee, I'd be very reluctant to work for a young startup where a founder wanted to have a baby before the organization grew quite a bit.

edit: it's not just a partner helping; it's being damn near a single parent. One of the founders of my company did just have a second child and let's not kid: his wife, even with the nanny, is practically a single mother.
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Thanks. People can downvote stuff for silly reasons here, but I've found it's usually pretty easy to know when to take the downvotes as a badge of honor, and when to take them as a genuine learning experience.
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I realise this is kind of old news,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759189
but I'm pleased to see it in a major newspaper.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/filmmakers-bet-on-bittorrent-for-a-hit-20110517-1eqdb.html

If you're in Syd-ney,
"The Tunnel will be launched on Wednesday at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, in a Popcorn Taxi screening followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers and Andrew Denton."
I'm not convinced that to the average buyer there is enough separation there any more to call them separate markets. I know several people who have bought Apple machines recently because they pretty much wanted "a computer" and as far as they were concerned the Apple machines were better enough than the alternatives to justify their higher price. It running OSX was a point of difference but only in the way that people buy eg. a Dyson rather than some other no-brand vacuum cleaner, not like a decision to buy a car instead of a motorbike.

Dell probably would love to have Apple's revenue share, but they don't have Apple's requirements for style so would make a hash of it. Theirs would also end up being plastic instead of carbon fibre.
I count 6-7 paragraphs of 'scholarly writing.' Scholarly: concerned with academic learning and research: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scholarly

You sir, in the kindest way possible, are 100% wrong. You're entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts.
Canonical maintains and updates their own AKIs for their official Ubuntu AMIs, which is what we're running in production. I suggest deferring to their judgement. Here's a full release history of the Ubuntu 10.04 server AMI's, note the changing AKIs and note that none of them are the default ones provided by Amazon:

http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/query/lucid/server/released.txt
I don't disagree that the pair is far free the be-all end-all of primitive data structures. On the contrary, when I'm programming in Clojure, most of my data structures are made out of hashes and vectors.

And most definitely, the need to walk a linked list inhibits parallel thinking (and, just as importantly parallel execution) and so we shouldn't avoid baking richer data structures into lisps. Again, Clojure does this and even Scheme does too, with R6RS with hashes as well as the more established vectors, because, again, Scheme is not about axiomatic minimalism. But to make a hash the fundamental data structure out of which everything else is constructed would be crazy.

There's plenty of room on the world for atoms, pairs, vectors, hashes, and maybe even primitive sets. What I don't know is if this proliferation of primitive types would cause other problems because we'd wind up dedicating so many bits in a pointer to tags to signal a type that we'd restrict the range of atoms too much. But hey, we're living in a 64 bit world now, right?
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Very, very cool, for what it is. After about 7 minutes, I begin to see fairly interesting evolving kaleidoscopic patterns that are in my mind, and not actually on the screen. I'd like to go further, but the sound stops randomly after 3-7 minutes, which is the only thing seriously limiting my enjoyment of it.

Of course, this has very little in common with a real psychedelic experience. It's more trance-like, and somewhat meditative, which is still neat.
Yes, I read that today, but is that a new development from the time of the whole non-Apple-approved language kerfuffle, or have MonoTouch apps always compiled into c/C++/ObjC?
I'm not planning on finishing the degree during the summer, just get started on it. If I could take the classes online, that'd be something I can do in my spare time.
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For a direct link to the 34 min video: http://www.10gen.com/video/mongosv2010/craigslist
I agree, a lot of this feels like when cereal companies in the 80's would have white kids rap along with the mascot... Just trying way too hard to be relevant.
Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see a matte screen iMac ever. The iMac is geared towards the consumer market, and the general consumer market prefers glossy screens.
Do newly funded startups offer salaries which are comparable to market rate?
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I think the number you're referring to is Apple's gross margin where as this number being quoted by asymco is iPhone gross margin.
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I wouldn't call it a marginal improvement :P, but it would definitely not require such an elaborate announcement.
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It's sarcasm, but I had to look at his comment history to figure that out.
Orionvm bills to the millisecond and takes about 15 seconds to come up. They also have the fastest disks around and good cpus. They are currently located in Australia Australia though, which might not be useful.

Disclaimer: I'm a founder at orionvm
I wouldn't be surprised if iOS will run on AppleTV as well...
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I don't know about "hard data." Only one of the pins that I clicked seemed legit ("I drove one-way street with scooter. Fines would have been about 30 euros"). The others were either full of ipsum text, simply said "test," or seemed like jokes ("Was smuggling an elephant out of Libya").
They did say in certain terms, on their site, that their employees could not access the files. Maybe I should have known better, but I took them at their word. Based on that, my assumption was that the key to everything other than my public folder was unique, and was itself encrypted with my password.

Obviously that was a dumb assumption. I'm not a security specialist, but I'm not exactly a lay person either, and in coding sites that have had to be secure I would never have considered writing something this way. Let alone marketing it to general consumers and intentionally misleading them about how secure it was.

The most important question to me now, actually, is how do I know they're telling the truth about having proper access controls, if they've already shown a willingness to lie about this? WHO are these employees with access to my data, and under what circumstances can they get at it? Can they just browse through it whenever they want? What's the process? What records are kept? To whom do you appeal? How do you know if your data's been copied?

And YES, I feel using them was a stupid decision. I uploaded my stuff without knowing for a fact that it was safe. I only knew what they'd written and that they had a solid reputation and that they came from here. But I absolutely do feel violated by it. And I'd like to see some records showing that my data was never accessed, never copied, and that it's now deleted.
Coming from nyc's subways -- which look like a place you wouldn't be scared to enter if you didn't know it's public transport -- Moscow was a shock. The subways are beautiful, each of the stations is unique, they're clean, and pretty well maintained.

I keep pondering buying this: http://www.beeflowers.com/moscowmetro/
In an ideal world, yes. But from a strategic point of view monotouch/monodroid (or whatever their new equivalents will be called) don't really help MS, it just helps developers from the MS stack port their skills to other platforms. If developer division didn't have the 'strategy tax' of being part of MS they'd probably be trying to do this themselves (re-targeting their tools to support development on alternate platforms). So in a way MONO helps MS by helping MS customers that MS can't help directly themselves. If there was a corporate equivalent of the relationship status "it's complicated" that's what I'd be using to describe the relationship between MS and the MONO project, but the rub is I don't think MS will be funding Monotouch/monodroid stuff any time soon.
Not as good as the real thing. Don't visit if you are epileptic.
If my understanding is correct, Megavideo is the person streaming the video and you are the person watching the video, meaning Megavideo would be the one with the felony.
Unless you were ignorant and wrong, and it's what you believed.
I think you are going in right direction. Library budget is pain in ass, there is a huge untapped opportunity to disrupt the whole eco-system. Good luck with your Beta.
It's 2011, and screwing around with kernel compilation is a waste of my time. It should 'just work'.

The only time I recompile a kernel is when I'm working on kernel code. If UNIX distributions are doing their jobs, a sysadmin should never have to touch it.
Google voice has quite a bit of trouble transcribing the clearest of calls. I've got 170 or so voicemails in my google voice box and maybe 1/4 of them are transcribed well enough that I don't need to listen to the mp3.

My voicemail message tells people to email me if they want to hear back quickly.
Because you'd get paid for it. If that still doesn't interest you, perhaps you don't want to work at the company? No reason to apply in the first place.
Isn't it possible that Gruber, you know, actually has a mind, and that he uses it? In my experience there are more knee-jerk haters of companies or even ideas that there are unthinking "fanboys." While Gruber can be very hard on people who have a solid track record of irrationality or intellectual dishonesty, he doesn't write off anyone who disagrees with him as Android sheeple. And there are times when he's quite critical of Apple. Basically, he's a nuanced thinker who doesn't hide the fact that he has an affinity for Apple. It's not like he's one of our fellow Philadelphians who think's Michael Vick is evil…until he starts winning games for "us."

So chill out a litte with the hating. (Of course, given that I've owned and used almost exclusively Apple computers for the last thirty years, everything I write may very well be just as subject to the same "fanboy" well-poisoning gambit.)
It doesn't? The photograph has people in it, and the guy is talking about the people... I guess.
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It's 2011. Everything should just work.

Alas.
Weird that she repeatedly asserted a lot of determination after reading Graham's positions, but didn't even try to argue against

> Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. - http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I'm curious now. What part of the iPhone is innovative? To me it seems like a Palm Pilot with a phone app. Well, and a few hardware updates, but it was released ten years later, so you expect the hardware to be better.

What parts does one have to look at to see the innovation? I feel like I'm missing something obvious...
MongoDB is being used for historical archiving, not for the live site itself. The big reason being that changing table schemas for very large sets of old data is painful with MySQL. So the 2 billion number would be any ad/listing older than a set amount of time.

The live data is < 1 TB and is still stored in MySQL.
real disruptors. They might take drug dealers out of business in a matter of months considering the fact that it's an easy scalable idea. If you add bitcoins they might take over the world. Unless someone from Mexico will buy them out.
Are you open to discussing why you want a degree?

Why don't you just follow a few CS courses?

If you don't mind me asking of course. :)
For me, it induced a pleasant, mild hypnotic trance after about 5-7 minutes. Then, mild visual "floaties" dancing around in psychedelic patterns.

I imagine this wouldn't be any good for people who are light-sensitive in negative ways (e.g. prone to migraines).
Since when Carmack was not cooperative? From his begining the dude kept finger file, gave people ability to mod stuff, gave them tools, later open sourced the game runtime and the tools: Radiant, qmap, qlight and others are still used at LARGE by AAA game companies - Call Of Duty for example still uses large portions of that engine that Carmack wrote almost 20 years ago.
This looks like a data warehousing of the archive. The two billion listings probably represents all expired ads ever. There is no way they have 2 billion active ads at any one time.
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Let's take a look at the report:

"Gamma Dose Rates in Areas More Than 30 km from Fukushima Daiichi Plant

Gamma dose rates reported specifically for the monitoring points in the eastern part of Fukushima prefecture, for distances of more than 30 km from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, showed a general decreasing trend, ranging from 0.1 µSv/h to 20.3 µSv/h, as reported for 10 May."

Let's say we're unlucky enough to live in that 20.3 µSv/h environment. Our daily dose is 487 µSv. Our monthly dose is 14 mSv. Our yearly dose is 178 mSv, way above pre-Fukushima radiation worker permitted dosage.
You are right. The purpose of registries is for components to register and announce their location. If a complicated piece of software has a lot of dependencies then no amount of registry-fu will solve the problem of cleanly migrating the application to another machine. Virtualization is the only sane solution.
The key feature was not even mentioned but alluded to. If you use your ChromeBook everyday you will never ever hear about new versions, new features, or even think to read a story like this again. It will just be, and little things will get better and you will be pleasantly surprised and move on with your day.

I've been running on the dev channel here since I got m CR-48 and I didn't even know I was running version 12 or anything but here I was. I've been getting regular updates and have been only seeing minor changes from time to time.

That is the key feature.
Definitely. I've been employing a trick recently that has been working well. Hide everything that isn't vital until the user needs it. Things like message times or delete buttons, hide them until mouseOver. Helps to make clean interfaces that allow you to design the key functional UX while not eliminating important functionality.
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Make sure you're following the instructions before you criticize the site. Being as near to the monitor as possible (moving it half and inch or less in front of your face) is really important.
Is it available on the app store? Cant seem
to find it.By the way this location based app has potential just need to find a way on how to forward the report to designated agency for each country or at least make it available with transparency.org.
Totally a false choice... Both FeeFighters founders have had babies in the past year (with working wives) - but there are certainly compromises to be made, and it's especially tough at the super-early stage.

There are some issues though - not every startup founder has the ability to pay for the costs of having a baby and watching it grow up. Nanny's aren't cheap.
I don't understand why this isn't the dominant view of this disaster. A dam also broke and killed more people than Fukushima has to date. Nobody pays attention to such things because it doesn't have the novelty and sex appeal of a reactor meltdown.

The reactor was hit by a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions, it broke, it caused dangerous side effects. Congrats, welcome to the technological age. What happens when a tsunami or a 9.0 quake hits an LNG storage facility that creates a giant explosion that destroys a lot of real estate and kills a lot of people? Will people blame the technology of LNG or will they just blame the natural disaster?
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A rough sketch of a proof might note that, if the input has n digits, then the output will have roughly n digits (n * log_newbase(oldbase)); and the lowest digit of the output depends on all n digits of the input, the next lowest digit depends on maybe the higher n-1 digits of the input, and so on.

Or you could construct the output by computing the effects of the input digits one by one, and in that case, the highest input digit will affect all n(ish) digits of the output, the next highest will affect roughly n-1 digits, etc.

The algorithm could be thoroughly parallelized, but I'm pretty confident that the work done has to be O(n^2).
There are occasional cases where a location isn't enough to identify a TZ rule. The most famous is Xinjiang where the Han run on Beijing time (like the rest of China) and the Uighurs run on Beijing-2 (traditional and more normal for their location) and both live in the same place.

But that's a pathological case :-)

More seriously, iCalendar, the main standard for exchanging schedules, has broken models of time and place, and I don't see any desire to fix it properly.

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I haven't applied even. I probably have decent enough programming and system administration skills. I can recognize problem types from my computer science classes but I would need to spend time googling for the exact problem and possible solutions before I could give an answer.

The reason I haven't bothered to apply? I don't know how good I really am. I keep jumping between over estimating and under estimating my ability. But, I'm pretty sure I'm not a rockstar since I suck at math. A weak math background keeps a bunch of computer science out of my reach. Still, I've taken a course on OpenGL and managed to pass with a high A because I worked extremely hard to understand all of the vector math that was required.

It certainly doesn't help that I've failed every logic puzzle that's ever been presented to me. Ask me to reverse the order of words in a string and you'll get:

"Words in a string".split(" ").reverse.join(" ") #=> "string a in Words"

I see little point in optimizing that until you can justify the need for a more optimal method. Whacking my brain for a better solution isn't worth it otherwise.

TL;DR -> I haven't applied because I don't think I'm good enough.