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Looking for cofounder who interested in activities graph
Well, I'm student and currently working on new project. But I'm only good at UI/X Design + some frontend, so I want to find anyone interested in building this with me :)

My project is.. basically group with friends and share activities with friends. so basically it will let people auto suqare(group) their friends by activities they did together, hangout together(autogrouping histories). Activities graph will include location area,histories and activity words and keep changing graph by interactions between friends and me. and then, notify that might be interested in.

It sounds like cool grouping app, But no. It will suggest where you go next, nearby same-minded people, and next activities. This will use shared activities and histories, but also Facebook connect. Grab facebook account and get all things, then system will analyze and turn into personal db.

and keep them interact thru frolic by that, notification system i said above. But also behind it- It will know, and change how we get info and act outside. The reason I put auto grouping thing on the front side of concept is, people usually not gonna use something looks very technical. By covering graph side to nice auto grouping to let them share activities without feeling something awkward.

Anyone interested in, comment or email me innov.todd [at ] gmail (or gtalk to this) my bio is on yc profile :P
Yes. If you've ever watched cars drive by on a snow-covered road you know that most of the noise comes from the tires and the pavement. I'd be surprised, and I'm sure automakers would push back, if their new electric cars had to be louder than already shipping cars.
1. an ide/language with really good static analysis
2. aggressively minimize codebase complexity

done. when my code doesn't work the first time, and i'm writing in a static-typed language, it's usually due to high accidental complexity in my code or code i interface, requiring me to keep too much context in my head, causing logical problems and problem states to be non-obvious.

stupid errors like writing an if statement wrong, is sophomoric. "most common errors" really means avoiding mutable state & leaky abstractions[1]. i do think the OP gets this, it just doesn't come across too clearly.

[1] nostrademons of HN, "how to become an expert swegr" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185153
It came from inside a bunch of universities, and it's not hard to find papers talking about things like "monads" or "arrows" mentioning things like "monoids", which are mainly Haskell things. (But monoids aren't really Haskell things.)
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Operations might be a good place for someone with certain business talents. But also, apple has lately received a lot of flack for their off-shoring and the types of workers and working conditions.
Hmm, looks like a gap in the market. . . though I guess banks wouldn't be too willing to provide an API to third parties who'd offer this service, so it would require a bank to fill this gap, rather than an independent.
Maybe they email a lot with the kind of people who embed their fancy company logo as a 50K jpg into their mails, then you're down to 100 mails per day.
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For what computers cost in 1980 compared to their utility, I'm not sure why an average household would get one.
You can download your data and delete your account if you wish, I would classify that as being open in social networking terms.
Have to agree. While I like open source, I too will spend money in a heartbeat on good tools.
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But that's one thing that was distinctive about GMail : it encourages you to keep (archive) everything - and searches it very quickly. Compare this to Outlook : Searching is painfully slow, and the instinctive way to use it is to delete emails rather than keep them.
Well you can always login with a BugMeNot account for Twitter (http://www.bugmenot.com/view/twitter.net). I don't have a Twitter account and it's working fine with that.
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My guess: because too many of today's startups are more concerned with the profitable exit than they are with building a diverse, long-lasting organization.
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the purpose of debate is not to discover the truth, it is to win an argument. … If you don't like it, you don't have to play.

This isn't a particularly good defense if the opposition to this sort of thing is that it teaches students to favor winning arguments over being right (meaning everyone who didn't participate still has to live in a culture built on that preference).
From the numbers I've seen, Shanghai is not far behind Beijing...lots of available space in less desirable/developed areas, tight in others, pricing that makes no sense for buying as a home. Certainly, there is nothing "fair" about this.

What do I expect will happen? I expect a lot of people will eventually take paper losses but get to keep the home they live in at adjusted terms. Larger holdings will take losses relative to how connected they are, with a few making out very well. Municipalities will test a variety of tax schemes.

How much social instability will there be in between now and this eventuality? I can't say but can only hope level heads prevail.
But somewhere in the design of Outlook was an implicit 2Gb limit : The max size of a PST file. Maybe it was an OS limit, but still the decision to store all email in a single binary blob wasn't sufficiently forward-thinking.
I worked at a small company that had a graphic designer who volunteered his skills to do promotions, posters for a few local non-profits. He really did a good job. From this work, through board members of the non-profits, he got great work (lucrative, think corporate annual reports).

When I first started consulting, I did pro-bono work. If you do it well and network in your local community, you will be approached with offers for work. Think of your first few engagements as investments. And with luck and calibrated hard work, you will build your portfolio and reputation

For finding pro-bono work, you must believe in their cause.
C is actually one of the few languages that gets the language/library separation mostly right. You can write pretty much the entire standard library in C, and you can easily write C without the standard library. It's very straightforward (if sometimes a bit annoying) to do this in Windows, and I believe neither EPOC/Symbian or PalmOS supported the ISO C library.

varargs, setjmp/longjmp and sbrk are 100% library. You can do varargs without stdarg.h; if you know the calling convention, you can just walk through the memory occupied by the arguments. setjmp is trickier but if you know the rules you could write it using assembly language, just like the library writers did. As for sbrk, I'm not terribly familiar with that I do admit, but judging by the man page it is not part of the C standard library, kind of proving my point. But you can definitely have a heap, and allocate out of it, and (where plausible) grab more address space, without having it.
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A real life example

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مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومصر المقاصة بث مباشر
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I used Protovis for about 6 months and then switched to D3 about 2 months ago. In those 2 months I reimplemented everything that I had built in Protovis, cut down on complexity and lines of code, and have not seen its limitations (and I would consider my use cases extreme).

There have been core design changes to the library that have given it this ability. This page - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/tutorial/protovis.html -demonstrates very well how impressive the author and library is.
It says that my company's site [1] is running ASP.NET on Microsoft IIS, which it's not. To be fair, it also mentions Ruby on Rails, Apache, and Phusion Passenger, which are all correct. Aside from these minor glitches, this is a pretty cool project.

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- Always carry something to read with you - so if you have 5 mins downtime you can dip into it quickly and easily.

- Try audiobooks - if you drive 30mins to work each way thats 5 hours of listening to audiobooks a week!

- Since you find time to read reddit and such, try something like dailylit.com where they email you a small section of a book each day.
To state the obvious, many MBA's also have engineering degrees. What should be done with these guys?
It's customer focused because it allowed them to enforce strict standards[1] with regard to how devices on the telephone network behaves, which in turn let them provide high quality telephone service to a huge number of people. The Bell telephone network of the first half of the 20th century was a marvel by the standards of the day.

Anyway, there honestly wasn't much of a problem with doing things that way from most customers' point of view: Bell owned the telephone equipment, but that was a good thing because it was expensive stuff, and they would maintain it for you. Moreover, there just wasn't much opportunity for differentiation in CPEs (customer premise equipment, the stuff in your house): battery technology wasn't at the point where wireless handsets made sense, commodity answering machines were a long way off, et cetera. In total, in terms of Bell's ability to roll out the network quickly, it was probably a net win with regard to the technology that they kept the whole thing closed.

Now, obviously it also gave them the opportunity to act pretty anti-competitively, and obviously that was not good for customers. But it's often been observed that huge infrastructure buildouts are much more efficiently done under central control, and given the choice between the Federal government doing it and Ma Bell doing it, I'll take the latter.

[1] I've read and implemented most of the Bellcore standards; in the past I worked on a team doing integrated telephone line control circuits (SLICs), and if you think fifteen years of web standards turns into a rats nest, try implementing 100 years of standards plus working around well-known cases that break those standards but are too widespread to ignore. The telephony equivalent of IE6 is the Casio Phonemate answering machine. That single piece of equipment is, I shit you not, singlehandedly responsible for about a 10% bloat in the cost of telephony equipment because it sold so many units and yet so badly breaks the ringing standard.
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You should also check out TinkerPop (http://www.tinkerpop.com/) -- another exceptional developer group. Graphs are a much more elegant way of storing relational data, and TinkerPop has developed the open-source software stack for the emerging world of graph databases.
> turntable.fm blowing up right now

When I look at a music app, I now compare it to turntable.fm because they are setting a new standard. Sorry, but console.fm cannot compete in it's current configuration.
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In the iPhone version of Warfare Incorporated, testers were geographically somewhere else which made this problem even more fun. A history of the state on each client that led up to the divergence is needed to find these problems. When hashing game state, WI clients maintain a log of the state contributing to the hash at a useful level of detail. The log gets trimmed as the server acknowledges hash matches. On hash mismatch, clients post this log to a server for analysis.
DropBox attacked by spammers?
Has anyone recently seen odd movie files showing up in their DropBox folder?

I just noticed a Growl notification that indicated the file "CandidCamera.wmv" was removed from my DropBox folder, yet I never initiated any action.

Since WMV movie files are a standard attack vector for many computers, I'm wondering if spammers have somehow hit Dropbox and Dropbox took action to remove those files.

Anyone else seeing this behavior? Now I am getting concerned about my use of DropBox.
I love that this uses OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps, as I like being able to control all my own data and not be reliant upon MegaCorp (TM) for my site to function. At the same time, I've never seen an OSM API that seemed both as useful and as simple as the Google Maps API, but this looks pretty nice.

I may have to wipe the dust off RateMyStudentRental.com and retrofit Leaflet at some point.
I don't even know half of what the optometrist's office does. The bright light that shines into your eyes, the pupil dilator, all seems unnecessary. Those alphabet tests - really, the difference between two different 'powers' is so minimal I can barely make out. Call me a cynic - but the eye exam is an enormous waste of money and time. This device is perhaps what we need for fast and reliable eye care.

Oh and let me not even go to the spectacles cost. 150$ for a 'cheap' titanium frame, ya right :).
I like its simplicity.

But, I thought this was dead:

onClick="javascript:smoke.alert('this is a normal alert');"

... apparently, not.

The 'javascript:' (attempted psuedo protocol), is just acting as a pointless label here.

I also thought we said goodbye to obtrusive JS altogether.

Also, the API isn't great. There's no instance to work with... It doesn't work in IE7 (probably because it doesn't cater for non-W3C events APIs). The source is littered with getElementById calls, and non configurable HTML IDs and classes. And it uses the window's 'load' event to initiate itself, when there's absolutely no need to. There's also 'smoketimeout' polluting the global scope when it could just be a property of the 'smoke' object itself.
Which is why my favorite answer includes both (e.g. "if you really want to do it this way, it's like this... but you should consider this way..."), rather than simply assuming that I don't know what I'm doing.
More likely it is an accommodation of base64[1] (MIME) encoding of binary files, which results in a 30% expansion (3 bytes get encoded to 4): 25MB * (4/3) = 33MB. People who read that GMail is limited to 25MB will expect their 25MB photo to be accepted. This requires the absolute size limit to be set to 33MB (probably bumped up to 35MB to accommodate the HTML body and other spurious stuff like the 25 off-topic replies).

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Limiting your audience from "fans of electronic music" to "fans of electronic music with twitter accounts (willing to trust us with access their data)" is quite a few people.
I wouldn’t think that if you get a desync error the only option is to quit. Couldn’t you give the user the “Desync Detected” dialog box, but then allow them to choose a player whose version of the game state should be considered the correct one? Then you would wait a few minutes while the most-chosen player sends all players all state in their copy of the game, and then the game can resume from that state. It may frustrate the user to have a long pause in the middle of their game, but not as much as it would frustrate them to have all of their game progress so far lost.

You would choose a player to be considered to have the master copy by who is least likely to be cheating. In the case of a tie in votes, the player with the master copy could be chosen with a deterministic random number generator instead.
Simple Service done well for the proper niche. Nice work. Would love a link out to the actual SoundCloud page to leave comments, see other artist tracks etc.
I'm pretty sure that fundamental economics are the same the world around - if there's no end consumer for your product, then there's a loss somewhere. It doesn't matter who covers the loss, but there's still a loss and it's not correct to say that no-one cares.

The biggest fallacy I've heard recently about this housing situation is the oft' repeated "things are different in China" - you can't argue with basic maths like this. Surely the 2008 economic crisis was triggered by a similar situation, with western banks and investors ignoring fundamental economic equations?
Great work, this kind of unattended service is great for days you just need good background work music...
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So far this summer, the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of “American’s Got Talent” are the #1 and #2 series on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox in total viewers, while ranking #2 and #3 in adults 18-49, behind only NBC’s “The Voice.” Versus last year, “America’s Got Talent” is up in adults 18-49 by 14 percent on Tuesdays (with an average 4.1 rating vs. a 3.6) and up 27 percent on Wednesdays (4.2 vs. 3.3), according to “most current” averages from Nielsen Media Research. In total viewers, the show is up 17 percent year-to-year on Tuesdays (14.5 million vs. 12.4 million) and 21 percent year-to-year on Wednesdays (14.3 million vs. 11.8 million).
I'm far more interested in code that works when it ships than code that works the first time it's run.

Code that works the first time it's run is magical, and therein lies the problem: Magic code is untested and unproven code. It offers a false sense of security, which is why it fills experienced developers with a sense of dread.

Until you prove that code's correctness (such as with tests), it is almost certain that it has nasty bugs in it that your initial successful run haven't uncovered. So what does having it work the first time give you? Bragging rights, maybe, but nothing of any real value to shipping code.
Compare this to Outlook : Searching is painfully slow

Outlook 2003 maybe, but that was eight years ago. Microsoft bought lookout and Outlook indexed search is pretty much instant.
I'm on a mobile phone right now, and I have to say, that was the most poorly laid out and convolouted site I've seen on a phone......
oh, and another thing - people have no way to invest outside of China? What?

Any quick google search will tell you about the hundreds of millions of government money being embezzled by officials outside of China, not to mention rich Chinese citizens legitimately taking American citizenship and investing their money overseas...
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This article resonates with me particularly strongly right now. I'm knee-deep in an ERP implementation and, on all fronts (costs, software capabilities, end-user satisfaction), the author hits the nail on the head.

I've been uncomfortable throughout the implementation believing that, in 2011, there must be a better way. Kudos to the start-ups and companies fighting for this space. A lot of money and opportunity.
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Most of that is no doubt due to the fact that it's framework-agnostic, meaning it can't rely on all the things frameworks like jquery do to make it easy to create reliable, unobtrusive javascript.

I don't so much have a problem with the getElementById calls, as that really is the best and quickest way to do things. Even jQuery's $('#some-element') selector is simply calling getElementById('some-element') under the hood and then wrapping it in a jQuery object.

And technically the onClick stuff can still be unobtrusive, as long as the link still works as intended with javascript disabled (i.e. it's a normal link and doesn't have something like href="#".

But all technicalities aside, I totally agree with your sentiment. Almost every site I build now is using jQuery or some other framewor; I'd prefer not to use some library that has to re-implement all the bindings and selectors and browser-specific hacks and work-arounds that are already being included elsewhere in my framework.

Furthermore, if my site is so low-level or small that it can't easily include jQuery, I doubt I'll be worried about replacing or trying to spruce up the standard javascript confirm dialog.
I have no idea what Apple's justification was for going to the authorities (and I hate to defend them), but I think they have a valid case regarding the privacy of their customers.

Imagine if Apple installed the software instead of the artist. Without warning their customers before they approached the laptop, there would have been an uproar.

That said, cool idea.
Fuzhou! Garden city of the south! i would love a China HN meetup. Organise/post it and I'll come.
Maybe it's just me, but I still have to delete messages. Otherwise a bunch of crap I no longer care about gets returned in GMail's search, completely defeating the purpose of having a search-driven interface.
True. But to go a level deeper, Facebook is dangerous to Google, because:
1) The competitive advantage of AdSense ($10 billion in annualized revenue) is all about having better user profiles that can translate into better syndicated ads. Facebook will undoubtedly launch a competitor given the hires they have made.
2) The competitive advantage of AdWords ($20 billion in annualized revenue) is mostly about having better search results. Again driven by better user understanding.

Facebook has excellent information on users interests. As opposed to MySpace and Twitter, most of the data on Facebook is not crawlable. It's private data, which means that Google is completely locked out. Even if it was crawlable, the data is not as valuable since Google would have to try to interpret it, while Facebook knows what it really means.

Summary: Facebook is an existential threat to Google's two major lines of business AdSense and AdWords. This is going to be a huge drawn out battle. Sit back and enjoy the show.
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I wouldn't even dare ask where various genres of tracked music (demo style, epic, silly, etc.) or video game music (NES, SNES, RPG, etc.) or the new scene trying to make dance music on old videogame hardware... could manage to fit.

Which reminds me, I'm off to Nectarine.

http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/
Getjar are hardly good guys themselves. They knocked my mobile web directory mjelly.com off their index a while ago even though it had been listed in there for years. This was because they claimed it was a competitor to getjar. They recently did the same with Opera.
I haven't run into the "walled garden" hedges with Google+, when I visit a profile or page, as someone who doesn't own an account at least. You can't say the same with Facebook.
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