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^ This post is a classic example of why it's so hard to be an entrepreneur. No matter what mountain you climb, there will always be people yelling that you don't deserve the success, or that anyone could have climbed that mountain, or that you should stop climbing mountains right now lest you "empty the downtown core". Always another brickbat.
Loren, that's a very nice resume page. But I think it's missing something, which is quite important: Your portfolio.

Collect some of your best work, and create a slider in one of your clouds. If you have also worked in some companies in the past mention it. Stackoverflow, Github, Dribble... links are also useful.

hint: Change the white up arrow color, so that it contrast well with the background. You can detect this with scrolling and assign colors. This will show that you put lot of attention to small details ;)
Of course, many very successful businesses are built on the GPL and rarely is a competitive advantage, so advantages that the entire company hinges its success on denying people their freedom. I call bullshit on that whole argument.
Hey Loren, love your website! Great work you go there, and such an ambition!

I would definitely hire you for my start-up company (Viatask).
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I'm curious how well Airbnb is doing outside of New York. New York's real-estate market is so out of whack it strikes me as fertile ground for p2p hotel rooms.

One example: I wonder how many people are renting out rent-controlled apartments on Airbnb at a huge profit, while the owner maintains the unit at a loss?
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Really nice looking page. Was going through the source and found this -
"I'm a self-starter and <strong>entrepreneur</strong>"
part of their success is due to being in the echo chamber. If you view their stats pre yc, I would of questioned their success as well.
Ericsson has implemented p2p binary websockets in Webkit, they have an implementation for Ubuntu that you can download and try.
Any other great shows?
"What i'm seeing here, is that traditional recruiting practices are failing in some way because priority is achieved by a) making it to the hn frontpage which b) gets pg to vouch for you. Which is basically no better (or efficient) than the traditional method of hiring folks that you've networked with via friends/school/etc or what have you."

Well, yeah. The purpose of jobvite isn't to get the candidate attention, and these "resume 2.0" (ew...I already hate myself for writing that) shiny, whizzy, attention-getting things aren't scalable. If everyone did this, it wouldn't work. It would just raise the noise level.

Also, keep in mind that you're focusing your attention on the wrong side of the problem: it's always possible that this guy could show up for an on-site and stink the place up, because there are plenty of people out there who have lots of enthusiasm and a smattering of ability, but aren't qualified to write code for a big website. So this kind of thing is great for personal marketing, but it's not a solution to the core problem of recruiting from a company's perspective (namely: lots of mouth-breathers are applying, and we need to filter them from the tiny stream of good applicants).
Whoa! Nice work guys :-)
> basing a business on GPL as you stated may be a problem because it would compel everything in the stack (including something unique built on top of established code) to be opened up...

This is a very rare situation. If you link to GPL code, then your code has to, at least, grant GPL rights to your users. However, just using GPL code to build your code is not. I use Emacs to write code that is either interpreted by Python or compiled by GCC and nothing I write needs to be licensed as GPL. A lot of OSX is compiled with GCC and many programs on the OSX install DVD are BSD licensed.

Unless you link to a GPL-only library, you are probably safe.

As for other licenses, there are licenses like BSD and Apache. You can pick code licensed under them and use it as part of proprietary code you release. OTOH, your competitor may use the BSD-ish code you release as parts of your competing product.
We have in fact contacted him.
Wow. Thanks. That strategy was coincidental; I only knew I'd have to promote the book once I finished it, but I didn't know how I'd do that. As about a week ago, I got ranked in the top 50 bestsellers in 3 different categories, so Amazon is basically promoting the book for me right now. I'm trying to understand how the Amazon ranking algorithm works--I reduced the Kindle price from $9.99 to $2.99, and I am still unsure whether they weight downloads or absolute revenue higher. If I had to guess, they look at number of downloads first to rank your book, and I also assume reviews and ratings play an important role so I've been encouraging people to write reviews if they like it. I'll bump the price back up to $9.99 tomorrow and see how it affects the rank.

As for other methods of promoting, I'm always experimenting. I've noticed that giving away more content is a good thing, for example. You mentioned after reading Wufoo's interview that you decided to buy, but that was not intuitive to me; someone else who is an expert in the publishing space advised me to give away more interviews. I wanted to give away one interview per day for a week, and then realized I'd have to get the founders' permission. The first person I asked said he didn't want his interview to be cached by Google because it's too personal. So I thought maybe I'd just open the interviews up after companies get acquired, for example.

I'm interviewing John Resig tomorrow, and I'll make all of that publicly open. If you have some questions you want me to ask, please let me know, my list of questions so far: http://bit.ly/mHhA37. Stuff like that helps promote the book to varying degrees. Still in an experimental phase with everything.

Someone is interviewing me for an article on Friday to talk about how I've made sales post-AppSumo. So I'll cover everything I've done to promote the book in that interview (will post a link on the blog when it's ready). I have a blog halfway written on the topic, so hopefully will finish that soon (this book is paying my rent while I'm trying to focus on doing my other startup, so I'm not giving the book 100% of my focus right now).
In practice, things like Base64 encoding are used. That's what we use in Ganeti Web Manager to host a noVNC (HTML5 VNC client) and have it talk WebSockets with the backend.

In theory, there's no good reason we can't have binary frames; I have internally filed it under the "Why can't we have nice things?" category.
Fumbled around with integrating a portfolio, but ultimately decided to leave it out and keep things simple (for aesthetics, primarily). I was sure to include relevant projects and descriptions in my resume, however.
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I have several note-taking applications on my iPhone, but I still prefer writing into my Moleskine that I always carry around in my pocket.
How to Start a Business Part 2
In this episode we discuss the power of public libraries and small business resource centers.

For more information on how to start a business please visit: http://www.inventroconsulting.com/.
Ask HN: What to do when you have a demo of your start-up?
Hey,

I've been a bit curious for the past few days, as we're wrapping up our web demo of what key features our start-up will have, what will happen next?

I've been thinking about contacting some Angels near SF, but thought a bit mentorship would help out a lot, someone who's been through my stage.

I'm currently one of the two founders (both being business people), we have one designer/programmer on board as well, he's working temporarily until we receive funding.

So HN, What should I do next?
What about Dropbox's method? There was no lead-gen site that tried to imply for 99% of it that the product already existed; instead, there was just a video containing synthetic "this is how we imagine this working" flows, and a request for people to sign up if they were interested in seeing that vision realized.
Yeah I like Dragons Den, but it doesn't air in the states, I wish it did, but unfortunately it does not.

We only have Shark tank here.
Looks good, there are a bunch of questions he answered in his reddit interview that you have up there that probably don't need to be there (e.g. Resig knows Alexis and briefly did a YCombinator startup in Cambridge).

Reddit link here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/related/h42ak/i_am_john_resig_c...
I think you mean PowerVR
Weeks after Fukushima alleged terrorists were found making their way towards Sellafield in the UK. The obvious viability of this hypothetical attack became apparent after March 11th.
I must be missing something here: how does the key get into the registers?
Even after applying your patch I had a little trouble getting everything to link properly on x86_64 Fedora (14). I ended up manually tweaking my make files after running qmake.

Changed the LIBS line (in MLDemos/Makefile, _AlgorithmPlugins/<n>/Makefile.<n>, _IOPlugins/<n>/Makefile.<n>) to:

LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/local/lib -lhighgui -lcv -lcxcore -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread

I suspect there's an easier way, but this at least allowed me to build and everything seems to work properly.
Would that the walls of the containment area on the reactors in Fukushima were that thick.
The network administrator? For a school, or what? That sounds strange.

How about asking your mentor for advice?
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Very interesting! I never thought about the insurance issue. The current systems rates premiums mostly according to personal driving record, right? [1] Hence, if I never drive myself, my premium should only depend on the crash record of that type of robot car.

This would also imply, that my premium could raise, because that kind of robot, recently crashed a bit too often. At the same time, I might be able to reduce my premium by installing a software or hardware update.

[1] I have a license for years but never owned a car. AFAIK it is not just the drivers record but also the statistical likely hood of a crash, according to gender, age in car. Though, cars today are not rated as 'unsafe' because they are buggy but because they are popular with reckless drivers.
A child will grow old, but that does not change the fact that it is young _now_.

LLVM _is_ the new kid on the block, and gcc _is_ old. GCC also is wise, but I think, given a) that we learned a lot about compiler writing since gcc first appeared and b) the support that LLVM has both in business and in academia, the writing is on the wall for gcc as the favorite compiler, first for X86 and ARM, later for other architectures.

Of course that may change; gcc can evolve. However, I doubt that will happen fast enough. the FSF does not like allowing proprietary compiler plugins and (I guess) has to little manpower to work on gcc.
Easy, their sole acquisition target would disappear overnight...as will most of the value they provide today.
The Bookseller is quoting a blog run by known pirates.
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/05/02/the-goodereader...

People who know their rep have not been taken in.
There is also a variable cost in allowing the old designs to continue to run that you are not accounting for.
Good luck and hope to hear from you if you did get your dream job at AirBnB.
Is our scientists learning to write?
Recreational refreshment? Another technology revolution that will be driven by the fact, that sex sells?
The article doesn't say to fake being successful. It is talking about faking the product (or feature). There is some clever stuff there, and I’m not sure your criticism is relevant.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599592.
Review the following interview with PG:
http://tcrn.ch/js0Zzc
:-)
good luck!
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I didn't realize until I read that IAMA yesterday that he was in YC. He didn't provide much detail on it, maybe I can get him to talk more about that--maybe other projects he would have liked to build instead.

People seem to be most interested in why he went to Khan Academy and how Javascript should be treated moving forward. He didn't talk much about Khan Academy, so will try to ask more questions about that since he has probably been there for a while now.
haha, yeah i think so too. But they might add some features maybe integrate with instagram (if they dont have that already--I dunno) that might still give em an advantage...
I'm not seeing flight information in my Google search results. Anybody else?
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So why would insurance companies actually want that future. Wouldn't car insurer be out of buisnes if there were no more crashes?
Count me as jealous, for a variety of reasons. I mean that in the nicest way possible.

Best of luck!
nice give this guy a job! I love his creativity. Btw airbnb is awesome. Using it for my internship in NY!.
EE, like programming, depends on effective modularization. With hardware whilst you can design top-down, the implementations, especially whilst you are learning, needs to be bottom-up. Like TDD, you implement and test each module before you integrate it into a larger module and test that, rinse and repeat ...

When designing hardware you need to keep in mind how the software will interact with it. And when designing software you might want to think about how the hardware could help you simplify the design. A general word of advice, keep the hardware as unspecialized as possible. Changing code is easier than rebuilding the board.

You may wish to consider starting with an Arduino kit and breadboard stuff incrementally. That way you'll get a feel for how SW and HW interact.
Yes, and ?

Nothing happened.

The fact is that terrorists want to target nuclear plants.

What's unlikely is that any of them should succeed.
Terrorism isn't that easy.
I will build your prototype
Producing a killer guest post
I think you probably mean 'irreverant'...
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Some countries (e.g. Ireland, UK) are a bit more north than Austria. Would they get enough sunlight to go solar?
earlier discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598100
> If there are things that the recipient must do, place them up top instead of burying them in the body.

Amen to that. At cruxly.com, we have figured out a way to detect just that and give an alternate view of messages.
Your suggestion is great echobase, but engineering courses at university delay the sense of satisfaction that comes from building things and having them work. Ohms law and a handful of components is a good start. I was an electronics hobbyist in high school then went on to do EE at uni. If it hadn't been for my prior hands-on experience I would have dropped out from overwhelm at all the theoretical subjects and the lack of hands-on in the "proper" course.
We did that for several years with web apps over SAP.

We developed a series of reusable building blocks, grabbed from one implementation to the other. But what was presented to clients were nice and trendy png screens, based on the last information we got from them.

Leaving our competitors in the dust, with their product releases, documentation and aging interfaces.

But it's over now, today I'm in a SaaS startup, and here we can't fake anymore. When people try your app, they see the real thing.
I enjoy the design but I find it very decorative. By which I mean there are a lot of visual elements (clouds, arrows) that serve no real function and distract from the message. It's fine for a resume page but doesn't say much about your ability to design the front-end user experience of a consumer web app, except that it's possible you might spend a lot of time on glitter.

Just my opinion as a fervent minimalist.
Also smart grids (trinding price due to current demand and consumption and intelligent consumer hardware automatically controlled by this price) are emerging.

Sounds terrible. Can you imagine half the lights in your house automatically turning off due to price increases? If it's enforced on people then it's basically rolling brownouts. If it's optional people will leave the lights on, pay more and grumble, but you'll still to generate the electricity (unless you do rolling brownouts).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#cite_n...
Table for figure 54 World power use by region, 1990–2008, TWh
Europe: 2857
US: 4533
pdf warning - albeit free of charge.
By your logic - europe is for luddites because it approaches half the consumption of the US per captita.
Its possible to prove that driverless cars can be safe. And that's by keeping cars from having accidents. If safety systems can keep human drivers from having accidents by stopping vehicles before they can have an accident, they can do the same for robotic vehicles.

Such systems would place limits on how fast you could accelerate, turn the wheel or apply the brakes. And they would also brake for you when other vehicles, pedestrians and animals appear to be on a collision course.

Such systems will have to be proven in the real world. And we are starting to see them. The newest Mercedes have such features. I predict that full blown systems will dramatically lower accidents for older people, teenagers and those who drive under the influence. Eventually all new cars will have these systems.

And by then it will be a lot easier to trust the machines.
Building, dismantling and taking care of waste all costs money and generates no revenue. (Building a nuclear power plant at least brings with it potential future revenue. Power companies have no interest in dismantling plants or taking care of waste, it doesn't make them money.) Running the plant also costs money but also generates revenue. Especially old nuclear power plants (which are already written off) are profitable as hell. Why do you think are power companies interested in keeping them running as long as possible?

Every additional day those nuclear power plants run decreases their cost/kWh.
It's inefficient to carry electricity over long distances, so I don't see Germany buying energy from say Ukraine. That said it seems that Poland is big on coal and crude oil...
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Yes, this seems a bit too anecdote-based. It would be good to pair the anecdotes with statistics.
Men are tough nowadays. In fact, we are so manly, we hide Moleskines (tm)(R) in our hipster pockets.

I always keep a half-burnt papyrus with me, like Archimedes.
joel isn't describing managers here but enablers. programmers are dolly parton in his analogy (which is damn weird) and "managers" are basically roadies and the like. again i'm simply asking how there is any point in time when (to return to dollywood) someone performing the mic check is optimal for leading the band.
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Another upshot to this method is that
(a) a business/product guy can do it without an engineer.
(b) and if its an engineer faking it, it will give her/him some insight into what it takes to build it.
I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not - anyway, perhaps the reading speed could be changed after signing up. First reading speed value is calculated with average reading speed, 150wpm seems safe (wikipedia based ballparking here).
Look, this is a very long article, it really wasn't worth reading and to be honest bad_user summed up a fundamental flaw.

And I'm saying that having read it. Three times. I wish I'd taken bad_user's comment on face value but your comment and the author's comments made me read it.

Whole chapters were squirming before my eyes that seemed to make a single tiny point. Was I missing some gem of knowledge to unlock the shockingly badly written conclusion (otherwise known in writer circles as 'Um, what was I saying?')? Whole rambling diatribes could have been cut down to single sentences ('Building a Deck' and 'The Miracle Deck', I'm looking at you.). A little of my soul died inside. I thought I was missing something because he waffled so much.

I wasn't.

And 'I lost my interest at' perfectly sums it up.

This is an old article by someone who at the time wasn't a very good writer.

The core points of the article are sound, the author is right about programs being too brittle, but he took a lot of words to say it and his conclusion buried unconventionally in the middle of the article is way, way, way, way, way, way, way off the mark and the article is a massive chore to read. This is from 2006 and it shows.
I'll bite. Is this actually that good? Spending a lot of time on it, sure, but other than it being quirky (which is hugely valuable) is it doing it's job? No specific accomplishments, core skills, and no software in the wild for us to see.

You could have linked to your Airbnb profile ("hey i use it!") linked to your google map ("hey i travel!") and then listed all your software projects and links and things about each that you are especially proud of, and that'd have been awesome.
Somalia is closer to Waterworld than Mad Max I will grant you however it is not as if the international community has leapt to their aid in the manner you describe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4312553.stm
"Tsunami waves could have spread illegally dumped nuclear waste and other toxic waste on Somalia's coast, a United Nations spokesman has said."
Hey! This is my project, and I almost missed this thread entirely! @$&*!# offline time!

The ∞³ blog has been thin on updates but I'm still aiming for a launch of core functionality soon and I'm very interested in feedback/collaborators.
I am a senior in a business school. Once I decided I wanted to work with web apps I taught myself programming and started building. Almost a year later, I now run a profitable company which sells web apps and mobile apps.

My advice//
- Code in PHP/JS it's easy to learn, not going anywhere, and has the most documentation to accompany it (which is crucial if your a novice). This decision has served me well.

- W3 schools is your best friend. Stack Overflow is good. But for the most part random forums will have 90% of the answers to your questions. Don't waste your time reading programming books or theory ect, just start building a project. By doing this you will learn exactly what you need to know without wasting time with extraneous material.

Your progress will be subject to how fast you learn and how much time you put into each week. I spent on average 2-10 hours a week building my projects - three months in and I considered myself capable of building pretty much anything I wanted to.
It's actually about multiple famous logos, not just one. Some of these really surprised me, like Continental. (Though I think the author means 'tire', not 'tyer'.) I thought it was a worthwhile read.
Ultimately, you get the worst you're willing to put up with. When the Windows dev team bends over backwards to keep buggy applications working, they signal that those bugs are acceptable and turn them into the accepted way to develop Windows application software.

When Torvalds bumps the major version number with little warning, he signals that anything which depends on it always being '2.x.x' or, worse, '2.6.x', is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.

I've lived in both worlds. I prefer Linux. I'm not alone.
The future looks extremely bright. The only thing holding reddit back was that, until recently, Conde Nast didn't think the site needed more employees than could fit in a car. They didn't even have a salesperson assigned to the site until last September.

In other words, it's been less than a year since Conde Nast's even been trying to monetize reddit. And I can't talk about the numbers, but note how much the site's been hiring to get a good idea of how things have been going.

As big as the last 12 months have been for reddit, the next 12 are going to blow them away.