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This was great. One funny quote from PG "Who would have thought that one could use recruiting as a way to make money"

PG: Isn't that exactly what the YC program does!!! Recruit startups to find the best investment opportunities!
Just a few thoughts:

-A lot of content on the web is already chunked into readable, bite-sized pieces since people don't like reading big paragraphs. Do we need to distill those down even further?

-How do you deal with differing opinions on what is and isn't important to highlight? If I highlight the first sentence and you shadow it, what does a third reader see?

-Maybe it is just me, but I personally hate all websites that hyperlink or markup words (even if they are trying to be useful). It makes the text obnoxious to read.

-How is this better than me just skimming the text myself?

-I could see an annotation feature being useful, perhaps allow comments on the annotations to create discussions?
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It's true that you can use the NDK to write "Parts" of the app but, don't get me wrong, I don't think it's intended as a replacement for Java or the Java libraries (unless you are writing a game that requires high performance requirements).

I think Java is a decent programming language and Android comes with tools nicely integrated in Eclipse IDE.

I quote:
"The Android NDK is a toolset that lets you embed components that make use of native code in your Android applications.

Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows you to implement parts of your applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain classes of applications, in the form of reuse of existing code and in some cases increased speed."

See http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html
This is the article that introduced me to monofur, which I dearly love even though it seems fairly unpopular. Take a look[1] and you'll either think that lowercase L is a terrible idea or exactly the thing to distinguish it from the number 1. The rounded friendliness distinguishes it from all the other fonts I use; now when I see monofur (in the zenburn color scheme), it says "programming time" to my brain.

[1] http://www.dafont.com/monofur.font
iKeyboard: 33 days left, already 440% funded. Why? It's a very cool idea.
'On the record' in legal terms means being under oath, eg during a deposition or when testifying in court. A comment like this could be offered as evidence, but the outlandish idea of spending 20,000 years in jail means it could just as easily be taken as a complaint about the unfairness of the charge.
If you don't know any English then you don't code. How could you?? Every programmer I know does know some English and can write/speak well enough to be understood.
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There are a number of sub-sections within HN that can sometimes give you a different insight into the content. These include:

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

http://news.ycombinator.com/active

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

http://news.ycombinator.com/ask

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
I was already pretty sold on the concept, but the infographic definitely pushed me to make it more of a priority at my workplace. However, this site seems to be ultimately trying to promote the Ergotron store, yet it took me way too long to find the tiny Products link at the top.

If you're gonna sell something, sell something. :P
Clickables:

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

http://news.ycombinator.com/active

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

http://news.ycombinator.com/ask

Feel free to add your own!
The best advice I get usually is in the form of "these are the hidden dangers you may not anticipate..." i suppose this is a special-case of the personal-experience-sharing "advice" that the GP is talking about
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But you DO speak english.
The first few days feel a little weird, but I tried it almost a year ago and now I'm stick in Times New Roman.

I actually mix a bit of monospaced in... I have Xcode make comments monospaced. Which is nice, because it makes them fade to the background a bit.
"Although I can’t remember much else about the night, I can vividly remember those sodas: the feel of the drink, the tang of the cola, the constant need to supress burps."

I was just telling my dad the other day that there was only one event I could remember from years of playing baseball at a particular field. It was when I went to go buy a drink from the concession stand - they only had RC cola.
On the other hand, check this out:
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=obama+win&t=wee...
Before clicking on the link, I already knew that it's security-related release.
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How does a Spaniard who doesn't know English write French?

About as well as he knows French.
All the Chinese programmers I know can understand some English - especially enough to write code, though many have taken English classes as well. It's possible my selection sample is biased, since the Chinese programmers I know are somehow related to this industry.

FYI: they use keyboards that have both Chinese and English characters on them, like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Chinese
yeah, sure... lets make a system and store all kind of information there, so people can browse it... it would be great to distribute it around the world, maybe on different companies, and sync the data every day so it keeps fresh... I don't know, maybe we can even have every person store their own data on their own private server... but of course, in an open index... </sarcasm>
What's your major worth?
Combine it with realtime chat, and you can be like "that part was awesome!"
Me too. I think this is default on the Ubuntu terminal. I liked it so much I brought it over to my Windows computer at work and use it with Putty.
I think google is working to move Android to Go as soon as possible; Rob Pike replied to a related question with "I cannot talk about it" and that sounds like a good clue :)

Go binaries already run on Android/ARM, the higher level code is the one that's missing.

That would bring great boost in performance (compilers are available for both x86 and ARM) without adding any complexity on the language side (Go is a cool language).
Dear parents of the Facebook Generation, it's time to step it up.
I'd recruit someone that is learning SEM, and just let them have a blast with your account (it is free, right?). It is hard to learn SEM without an account, and the only way to create an effective campaign is to spend a lot of time and try many different things.

IMO, for most organizations Google Grants is a waste of time. SEM is a useless tool for building "awareness", which is what most organizations try to achieve with Google Grants.
If you really want to help someone you need to go a little deeper than your initial gut reaction. I've heard 'can't miss' ideas that had me excited days afterward that were executed by a stellar team but still failed.

Research the idea and you will likely find one or several people who had already tried the idea. Ask the enterepreneur to research them, get in touch and figure out why they failed. Ask them to explain how they will avoid their predecessors mistakes.

Unfortunately that doesn't always work. Sometimes an 'A' team can fail when something was just too early. A 'B' team can knock it out of the park a few years later when the timing is better.
I have worked with F# in a limited degree, but one choice is not as good as all the options given by the JVM right now.
As a developer I've often wished for this. You can stick it in the app description but it'd be nicer if it was on the permission screen. Marking permissions optional would be helpful too.
What's your revenue like? Pass through taxation, the S Corp is cool for making startup accounting simple. You'll want a C Corp once over 100K in profit or basically when making more than you need to live.

Only problem? S Corps do NOT allow international owners so you may want to wait on international ownership until you're startup is ready. Also remember that getting legal probably shouldn't be your startup's priority.

According to PG...

"There is more to setting up a company than incorporating it, of course: insurance, business license, unemployment compensation, various things with the IRS. I'm not even sure what the list is, because we, ah, skipped all that. When we got real funding near the end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. It turns out that no one comes and arrests you if you don't do everything you're supposed to when starting a company. And a good thing too, or a lot of startups would never get started."

An excerpt from "How to Start a Startup"
This is definitely not the case; I've seen different QS on different match types for the same keyword.
If Google and a few other companies can charge some multiple of what it costs to index a site, then it could even be a money making prospect for them.
The IDEA Scala plugin is pretty solid now; worth revisiting if you haven't tried it in a while.
Show HN: My new link sharing site
Link: http://this.isby.us/

I've been working on this on and off for a few weeks as part of an apprenticeship program with a Rails shop. I was given the opportunity to create a 'toy' app to learn more about Rails development.

The basic idea is this: If you know people you often share links with, you can create a 'bin' on the site, and share that bin with others. Then, you and your friends can all add and view links that you find interesting. My goal was to make this happen as simply as possible, so there are no user accounts, and there is a bookmarklet for adding links without having to go back to the site.

Any feedback is appreciated, and I'll happily answer any questions as well.

Thanks!
I don't know that predict is accurate. Correlate is probably more accurate. Is correlation sufficient to profit in the market? I have no idea.
I doubt it would be that hard. You'd just have to memorize the keywords in the programming language. You don't need to speak English to write code, although it does help.
>> not infinite is infinitely far away from infinite

Nit picky in my opinion, but the reason I didn't assign it a number and rather opted for the more generic "nearly infinite" is because there are a ton of possibilities.

Here is my idea for you and will eventually come up with most solutions (might miss some outliers, this is my <5 minutes of thought on the topic):

Write a program that shows a square and it's center point.

A single line increment out from the center point going at a random starting angle between 181 and 360 (in other words, they generally tend toward going left). The line moves the smallest amount possible each iteration (1 pixel for example).

After the line has moved one pixel, a new angle is picked for the line move, from 0-360, and it increments 1 more pixel. If the randomly generated line crosses the center line of the square (if you folded the square in half from left to right) force the line to randomly pick a new angle before incrementing.

Do not allow the line to cross over itself.

Now you have your first line. Take this line, replicate it, rotating it 90 degrees, then 180, then 270.

This is your first square. Set the program to keep generating new squares, add rules as you see fit.

Now you have more solutions to this puzzle than you can count.

Edit: This is pretty badly explained, but it is based on the idea of a single line leaving the midpoint, moving randomly until it reaches an edge. You then replicate that single line 3 more times, each rotating by 90 additional degrees.
I love Hacker News. Where else would you get 100+ comments on an article about typefaces?
Upscaling pixel art to vector graphics
too bad that upvote number for your comment is invisible. It would be interesting to know how many people is able to see it through the same way

Edit: looking at the other comments, doesn't seem to be that that many were able to get it. What a disappointing state of minds.
Same experience. They always back down.

Not to continue an old argument, but to continue an old argument, these are the good medallioned guys who are regulated by the state so that they can't scam you. This is supposed to provide an advantage over e.g. Ubercab, where the perils of unregulated capitalism would allow a driver to cheat you. But they still try to scam you and their medallion is not going to get yanked for it. Meanwhile, Uber solves this technologically: they can't run payment scams because the system doesn't trust drivers with any part of the payment flow aside from hitting "The Ride Is Over."
I'd be interested in the once-a-month cooking. Especially your recipes.
Did some digging couldn't find out if this was taped as well. Any one have a link?
I think this is a good idea. The whole idea of people syncing their own data doesn't work though, it gives too much room for people to fudge their data into the system so it favours them more.

I think the idea is good though. I think there would be a fight though to say who is the aggregator of the information. This would also mean whoever does distribute it has a stranglehold on the industry in terms of how and when it supplies this information.

I can see it's uses but I can equally see a lot of cons for the system not working or some serious amount of anti trust.

If you could get an unbiased 3rd party involved though and they built the database then I think that would work.
James Hamilton's notes from the talk: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/05/23/GuidoVanRossum21...
It's unlikely that the number of people who think like you is large enough to make a significant difference in the lives of the unemployed.
You couldn't find any reliable people with decent customer service skills? Soemthing seems off about that. Maybe you should get someone to help with hiring. If the actual business made that much, then why not run it instead of selling the idea?
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I have no problem getting downvoted. To clarify though, I expressed my opinion disagreeing with mtogo's comment. I did not tell him/imply what/how he should comment. In any case, I did't know that opinion-based comments are discouraged in an opinion-based comment thread. I guess I am missing something here...
Just went to Google to see if I could find anything relating to this possibility, and was immediately reminded how annoying it is, with respect to search, that they named the language "Go".
I like the fact that "love" has a huge spike every year, mid-February, and that it's correlated with "restaurants in downtown".

While we're on the subject, "how to propose" oddly enough seems to have a spike at the end of every year and a huge trough at the beginning, and it's correlated with "kenneth cole watches".

(C'mon guys, lift your game, if you're giving out an engagement ring you should be getting a Patek Philippe in return, not a Kenneth Cole.)

Oh, and one more thing: "divorce lawyers" has a spike in the middle of every year (including a particularly large spike last year) and troughs at either end. Maybe cold weather makes people want to nest and warm weather makes 'em want to leave?
Oh get real Uvdiv. The idea of taxi licensing is that you can identify a cab on the street and get from A to B without any serious worries about being assaulted or held up for hundreds of dollars at the end of the journey. Somehow I doubt that if you ended up having to pay $250 for a short ride in someone's car that you'd just treat it as a regular business transaction instead of calling the police.

Addressing a problem by going to the opposite extreme is just foolish. There's a reason that most people wouldn't feel safe accepting a ride from a random stranger, and why children are taught not to do it from an early age. Hint: it's not fear of capitalism.
Memorizing keywords in a language you know/understand is really much different to just memorizing.
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I also would love to hear from someone who has put effort into and succeeded, or failed, at selling their enterprise clients on Scala.
As an Android app developer, I'd totally support this as part of the native platform. While I haven't gotten an e-mail from a paranoid user asking why Fresh Comics needs their location data, I've gone ahead and done a small writeup on why my app needs the location permission, why I need that data, and what I do with it afterwards:

http://freshcomics.us/support/privacy-location-information/

In my role as a developer, I'd support a way that I could specify these details in a more standard & concise way and allow the user to enable & disable permissions as needed without having to make an all-or-nothing decision whether to install the app.

As a user, I'd appreciate it even more. :-)
> The horrific notion of criminalizing a consensual economic intercourse between two adults...

Was that intended to be a double-entendre?
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Good article. The fact is, the index itself isn't worth nearly as much as the algorithms. Heck, open the index, and let anyone add to it. MSN, Yahoo, Bing, anyone... let them add to that single index and make the index awesome, and then anyone can try their hand at making a great search algorithm. If each company really thinks their search algorithm is better than everyone else's, this is competition at it's best.
> I think the issue with Clojure is that it does runtime bytecode rewriting for macros

This is actually very rare; nearly all bytecode generation in Clojure apps can happen ahead-of-time. But Clojure relies heavily on Hotspot's world-class JIT (the bytecode Clojure's compiler outputs is only optimized in so far as making it easy for Hotspot to optimize it.)

In addition, use of persistent data structures puts more strain on the GC; another place where Hotspot is leaps and bounds ahead of Dalvik. You can bypass this by using Java arrays directly, but it's very awkward and un-idiomatic.
Much discussion from the submission yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
Another thing to consider is that Carbonite throttles the hell out of your connection so that you're only able to upload at the following speeds:

* The first 35GB of data can achieve upload speeds of up to 2 mbps (megabits per second).

* Between 35GB - 200GB of data can have the upload speeds reach up to 512 kbps (kilobits per second).

* 200GB or more of data can be uploaded at up to 100 kbps (kilobits per second).

So if you use Carbonite to backup over 200GB of data, and let's say your computer is on for 6 hours a day, you can only backup 270MB a day which is useless (or 1.08GB if you run your computer 24 hours a day). I did the math and it would take 1 year 7 months for me to backup the 800GB of data I wanted to with Carbonite.

It's also not fair to compare Carbonite to Dropbox. Comparing Carbonite to Mozy would be a more leveled playing field.
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For a company at their size, they probably already have those internal logs in place (for debugging, security, etc). Would be nice if they opened it up to the en d users.
This was directly from a Google Adwords rep.
>“Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn.” This is easily confused with "Orville Redenbacher's Gormet Popping Corn"

These are not really great examples of brand confusion IMO. In the name "Orville Redenbacher" is considered the origin whilst the remainder of the name is the particular product. Both of these are claiming the same origin (company/person). This isn't brand confusion based on similarity it's a direct rip-off. To make that point clear the consumer isn't confused about the origin they have been conned. Maybe it's a bit of an esoteric point.

Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn and Gormet Popping Corn are two different products in two different geographic regions.
As you are most certainly already aware you never start a article with "As you are most certainly already aware" because it is looking down on your reader.
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This is totally doable, and if someone asked for it for Appointment Reminder, it would turn a $30 a month account into a $5,000 a month account by itself. If you honestly care about audit trails, welcome to enterprise pricing and hope you enjoy your stay.
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I don't agree with the articles assumptions on the immense usefulness of this. Services where it makes sense disseminates the info anyway. Amazon sends me e-mails when I buy something. Other sites have RSS feeds of activity.

Why would I want to run intrusion detection on cloud based services? Isn't that why you put it in the cloud?
> as a group

Sure, there are exceptions like you point out... but I'm guessing that applied to the groups, this is a non-ridiculous assertion.
Turns out got I called up but wasn't there. I wasn't notified that I was included. I'm a startup so I wasn't able to fly out unless I knew I was in.

My Company is Emotely, check out the Teaser Video here:
http://emotely.com/

Michael specifically said he thought Emotely looked cool. Here is the mention by Mike/Paul (Skip to 3:58):
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14951420

It was probably assumed that I'd be there and just had to show up,
Oh nice. Must have missed that. Thanks!
They managed to optimize their golang.org homepage to get the position #5 on the word "go".

They must be good at SEO.

BTW the video I mentioned is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk&feature=playe...

(at the end during Q&A)
Upvoted, but if I am not mistaken those statistics are for false positives (VC thought idea would work, but it didn't.) What we're concerned about here are false negatives (VC thought idea wouldn't work, but it did).

I could be wrong, but I would bet the true negative:false negative ratio for a good VC is (1) very, very high and (2) higher than Joe Average who doesn't do this for a living.

Sure, nobody has a perfect crystal ball (famously, http://www.bvp.com/Portfolio/AntiPortfolio.aspx) but that doesn't mean there's no value in getting input from someone whose job is to get it right more often than your roommate. I'd even go so far as to say that any really great idea should go through a chorus of "that will never work"s as a kind of conditioning process.