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Hackers Meetup : Hyderabad , India
How about 2nd July , 2011 ? Suggestion for a good place highly recommended :)
Somewhat related :-)

xkcd: http://xkcd.com/810/
5 Nuggets for Software Developers
Supreme Court: Calif can't ban violent video games
How about a picture of an example before I give my Facebook info away to yet another app developer?
If such a thing existed, it would have helped this guy: http://huff.to/kKIGDa

The important part is in the grey box. The guy went to a notary public and legalized a statement that he could later use in court.

You could take your idea further and actually charge users to have their submission automatically notarized, after they prove their real life identity, of course (there's already a startup that offers to certify users' identities, anyone remember the name?).
I know of at least one company that tried this and failed. It was quite a long time ago and targeted large companies, but it did work. To give you an idea of how long ago, it was written for PocketPC 3.0.

The company is now defunct.
Clearly you are being purposely dense.
that's an idea right there
Agreed. http://xkcd.com/810/
Our brand is crisis was a great, great, great production.
my view on the article aside, the reason this type of advice is well received by entrepreneurs is because the blood/sweat/tears formula consists of elements we are all in control of (contrary to the outside investment/luck elements that you read about and say, "well hopefully that shit works out"). not a bad thing at all... primary focus should be on elements you can control, with the others being secondary
These Fake Chinese Microchips Were Made To Disarm U.S. Missiles
Apple Will Have TWO New iPhones In September
The process pictured here: http://servletsuite.blogspot.com/2010/08/mobile-id-card-for-...

And you does not give actually your info away. Mashup does not store your data - it just links to your FB profile
Ask HN: What do you use for load balancing and failover?
It's been 3 years since this question last appeared on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180311). Time for an update.

What software or hardware do you use for load balancing? Are you happy with it? How does it compare to alternatives?

How do you achieve high availability? How do you handle the failure of a machine, a network connection or a data center?
Really cool idea, it would be even more awesome if you can extend it to other languages, like python etc.
> "The conclusion I came to was that Amsterdam was the most livable city in the world."

Before publicly stating that idea I would have waited until I had lived in the place for a few years.

I've been to Amsterdam and about 50 or so other cities in 30 countries(sorry for the humble brag here). I would never come to that conclusion for one reason: the winter weather.

I personally love the Northern California climate and would say San Francisco is the most livable city in the world(I've lived there for 2.5 years). But Amsterdam is a cool place and a great city. I could see how it'd be nice to live there if you don't mind crummy weather in the winter.
Opinion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701385
The only barrier you will encounter if you actually want to settle there is dealing with paperwork. Companies and official authorities will gladly help you in English, but the paperwork is in Dutch. People often seem to forget the implications of that tiny detail when they move here.
I found the offer to open the books and work through the financial logic appealing. That demonstrates a high level of faith in the fiscal actions and also a high level of faith in the judgement by management.

Cooperation is a big deal.
The key part is allowing both parties to sign the content as accurate and then lock it down. Without both parties signing I suspect it would carry little weight legally.
Thom, I work with designers and git all the time (iOS dev)

Git does work for the design files (however less well than with the text the programmers work with).

I'd say generally speaking, it works better if you do design and cutups for a programmer who then implements a fork. He then submits the fork to the project to be merged in to the main project if the rest of the implementors agree.

Gotta find a front end programmer who likes you and thinks you're doing the right thing for that to pan out well.
That's ridiculous and beside the point.

It's ridiculous, because CRA loans were a tiny fraction of delinquent loans, they didn't go bad at meaningfully higher rates, the non-bank mortgage lenders like New Century that made the worst loans weren't covered by the CRA, something like 15% of loans over $1m were delinquent.

It's beside the point, because a well-designed financial system wouldn't blow up insurance companies, S&Ls, brokers, all because banks are required/encouraged to make a small percentage of their loans in underserved areas.

It's called confirmation bias, humans can and will believe what makes them comfortable.
I am thoroughly unhappy about good .com domains being squatted. I can't say how many times a perfectly good domain that I would have liked to start an internet service on is being squatted with a page of "contact me if interested in domain" message -- and it's more or less useless trying to contact these persons, as they'll not reply, or demand absurd amounts for the domain.
To create an airline where the staff were united to offer a wonderful service to their customers.

Sounds great, pity it's PR rubbish. The service that I got from Virgin Atlantic in December 2010 when Heathrow was troubled with a little snow was nothing short of crappy.

They may be good in the air, but if you have to call them to sort out a problem, you are already screwed.

I have avoided flying with them since.

The December airport closure was out of Virgin Atlantic's control, and affected all carriers, but their lack of information, the inability to take any calls on the helpline for 48 hours afterwards, and the slowness and opacity of the process of offering the bare legal minimum of a refund for a wrecked Christmas holiday leave everything be desired.

They offered a statement about the "unprecedented" conditions. I don't care and it doesn't matter if the conditions had precedent or not. Stuff that hasn't happened before happens every day. What matters is if it was predicted (it could have been, it was not) and if it was managed acceptably (likewise).
A Return to Common Sense
Remove a useful feature, ask the community if they want it back, and then ignore overwhelming support for adding the feature back.

Keep in mind that this is a man that tries to give you startup advice.
You can google "fleur de lis", it's a relatively famous symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis

I don't have a good aerial photo of roads arranged in this manner, but basically the idea is that you have a connector road with clumps of dead-end roads off either side. I'm assuming they come in sets of 3 per side, where one road goes straight and the other two curve away, like the "petals" in the fleur de lis.
What I've noticed during meetups is that if there is even one non-Dutch speaker in the audience everyone switches to English. Amsterdam is very touristic and I think you won't miss out on anything in Amsterdam without knowing our native language.
Right, but nobody (well, probably a few people...) is asking human nature to change, much as we might find it distressing. I'd instead advocating changing the rules of the system to encourage actual value as opposed to the parasitic value generated by these articles.

(getting on a soapbox here) I think it's easy to forget that we don't use the capitalist system because it is somehow morally right and pure - it's because so far as we know, it's what works best to motivate people to generate real value for humanity as a whole. If the system stops working, then you tweak it - which is why we have regulation on things like monopolies, for example. In this case, google has changed the system for us, and for that I'm very glad - incentives are now more aligned with producing quality content that's actually useful to someone.
Other fun I've had with Benford's Law.

1. Spotting odd things in MPs' expenses: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/06/its-probably-worth-testing-mps.h...

2. Spotting odd things in BBC executives' expenses: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/06/running-numbers-on-bbc-executive...

3. The Iranian election: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/06/benfords-law-and-iranian-electio...

4. New Age mumbo jumbo: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/02/any-sufficiently-simple-expl...
Which apps by young programmers does Inc. think are coolest?
in fairness, I regularly find information that's actually useful to me on about.com. Not the highest quality site, but I certainly wouldn't rank it with the demand medias of this world.
On Choosing to Arbitrate
To call Mike Lee a huge dope head would be an understatement.
> Cars overall have shrunk over the years

Cars in America have shrunk over the years, which isn't difficult if you're starting with the monstrosities of 1950s and 1960s. Cars in Europe stayed mostly constant, although they seem to be trending slightly larger.
ICANN, not ICAAN.

user:	bastiat
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That should speak for itself. You don't have to respond to absolutely everyone.
As they say, you can fit the whole population of the world onto Manhattan. That is, of course, besides the point.

Atlanta is completely unequiped to handle that population (infrastructure-wise). It's not even clear that building out that infrastructure at that density would be wise. It's costly to build infrastructure for a city as dense as NYC. The cost of the subway system dwarfs the cost of running water and sewage piping to suburb. It makes economic sense in NYC, because space is at a huge premium. That doesn't necessarily make sense for Atlanta, a city with no natural boundaries and surrounded by cheap land.
A large number of workers with Zero Marginal Product can be a sign of an economy in transition -- that is, a sign that people are employed in positions where they may have been productive in the past, but changes in the overall environment have rendered them obsolete.

This does not mean they're incapable of doing valuable work. It just means they haven't yet finished the transition from whatever no-value-added position they were in to a value-added position.
"Organic"... Nice word for "Rube Goldberg"-ish...
It works when I have cut out the files and do the CSS/jQuery etc.

But my point is more about about design iterations within photoshop, fireworks etc.

Obvious problem is file size. It's going to be interesting to see whether LionOS will allow for some sort of integration with GitHub that allow for this.
There's a longer and less journalistic article about the same study here: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/06June/Pages/type-2-diabetes-and...

I wonder it it supports/is related to this line of reasoning: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...
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i agree, as a designer/front-end dev, that uses github, git versioning works on css (~ my tone doesnt translate to text) etc, so yeah there is a breakdown when asking designers to use git, but to be honest i manage fine, so i dont see why others cant do the same :)
perhaps you could explain a bit more about how you're solving the issue?
Cool, but man, could that website possibly take up less of my horizontal screen space?
The files are large, for sure, but not that huge. Is there some file size limit killing you or something at github in particular?

Or are you just referring to transit time (aka upload/download time)?
Would Vint Cerf's recent work on a high-latency network standard for space[0] apply? Would it make mobile more useful? It's designed for latencies of days (not seconds), so it might be overkill. But something to masticate upon...

0. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/21601/?a=f
The Current State of Android from an iOS Users Perspective
I get down voted because I prefer native Javascript to Coffee Script? Wow.
My advice to CS undergrads (opinions?)
Given that the bitcoin protocol adjusts the difficulty of block generation, it's kinda ironic that mtgox didn't use bcrypt.
anyone know what tool I could use to run a similar test?
Ask HN: How should I learn a programming language effectively?
I've found one combination of websites to be very effective for python, http://learnpythonthehardway.org , which pretty much allowed me to pick up the syntax, and projecteuler.net which allowed me to apply it. However any web based experience is still lacking, so any ideas?
I've also found the MITOCW videos on LISP to be really helpful! Yet, again, I have no way of applying it other than on project euler..
Some Practical Food Technology Coursework Tips
Food technology coursework is for the students who love food! However, this does not mean they will study only how to make foods. They will also study about food packaging, food production etc. This article will provide some practical tips on how to proceed with food technology coursework.
Glad someone clarified the role playing not IBM RPG.
Yeah I did find the wikipedia page but I still couldn't picture how it looks on a street.
Not exactly. First what has been granted is the option to purchase stock, the employee need not do so if they feel it is a bad investment under the terms of the stockholder agreement.

Second, the stockholder employee will receive any dividends paid by the company and in most cases this is the primary value of stock held in non-growth oriented privately held companies - keep in mind that the strike price for the options typically no more reflects market value of the stock than the repurchase price will; Both are typically fixed at a low value because this is in the company's interest because the departure of a large share holder at a time of low cashflow could easily put the company under (not to mention that stock options in a private company are primarily a tool for attracting and retaining employees not an attempt at raising cash (that's what investors and banks are for) from those who do not have it.

Finally, the repurchase is only triggered by an employee leaving the company, those who survive corporate restructuring will see the benefit of the higher stock price if the company is sold.
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You seem to think the market for jobs operates with something approaching market economics. If this were true then we should be running PSAs to encourage people to become investment bankers because the incredibly high salaries paid are indicating a severe shortage. Instead I see commercials encouraging people to become teachers - if there were really a shortage wouldn't salaries rise by market forces?

The truth is economists have long recognized that the job market is different than the market for most other products. For one thing wages are "sticky," they don't change every couple of days the way the price for gas or a loaf of bread does.
It is exceptionally difficult to run SaaS businesses with low price points, principally because you'll often be cash flow negative with regards to marketing spend. e.g. even if the LTV of a customer is a few hundred dollars, to scale the business, you may well be paying $200+ in customer acquisition costs. (Check the price for AdWords clicks on e.g. project management or invoicing sometime. Oofdah.) If you quickly recruit a couple hundred users, you may well be tens of thousands of dollars in the hole for the better part of a year. That can be challenging without receiving external investment. Even funded companies can fall into the same liquidity issues, typically by hiring large sales forces who take years to ramp to the point where LTV from customers exceeds the costs and commission of the sales guy who closed the deal.

Also, with regards to selling to teachers: I know you think they're stingy. I thought they were stingy. Empirically, there are at least 5,000 or so teachers in America who have paid $30 for a bingo game they used once. $1 is not not not not not not not not not not not an appropriate price point. For those teachers who think $30 is a lot of money, wish them happy fulfilling lives and move on.
Ask HN: What app/dashboard would you use to track metrics?
I'd like an easy way to be able to track metrics for my projects - for example, I would put in sales, milestones, and traffic data and get a dashboard with analytics and visuals.

What do you currently use or what would you use to be able to do this? Thanks!
Apple is in big trouble according to Paul Hochman
Aside from that, arguing that he is ignoring the basics of economics also sucks.... 'the basics of economics' are not an end in and of themselves.

(However something like the 'greater good' or 'the right thing to do', which is what the op seems to be arguing, actually can be construed as a reason).
Link is broken. The URL was edited by Virgin: http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/open-letter-to-al...
Also '.bak' or '.old'
> Its utterly ridiculous that some of the nicest, caring people in the airline industry have to deal with such people as the general public (myself included, of course) and yet make less money than a manager at a McDonalds franchise. Day in, day out.

If you want to give them more of your money, or start a company that pays them better, or take up a collection for them, nothing is stopping you.

The airline is paying them a salary and you are paying them nothing. Yet you are mad at the guys who are providing their job in the first place?
Been there done that. It's very annoying indeed. I wish things were slightly less finicky in *NIX platforms as a rule. They need a serious de-crufting session (plan 9 looks very much less crufty).
There were some interesting discussions here on hacker news before about alternatives for startups in Europe [1], [2].

I don't quite understand the part about Berlin, though - why not raise a family in Berlin (especially if the alternative is not some rural area but other large cities)? I found the side-stab against Ireland a little weird as well, wouldn't have considered Dublin to be "in the middle of nowhere", or was that about attracting developers to join your startup in Dublin being hard? (Never tried that, could well be the case). The last time I was in Amsterdam 10 years ago I thought it would be a nice place to live, but I feel the same about Ireland and I am living in Berlin right now, so ... )

To put it short: I think all 4 cities are worth taking into account and it depends a lot on your particular situation. Seeing startup funds like this pop up is awesome and I hope more places in Europe will follow :°)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573513 (link-baity title though)
I lived in The Netherlands (right outside Amsterdam) for 6 years. It is a nice country with a lot to do and see when it wasn't raining. But the Dutch tax the heck out of you on everything. On the flip side you get an 8% holiday bonus mandatory by the government but most companies already compensate this into your salary already.

If you are an entrepreneur I would recommend never to hire a fulltime employee and only hire contractors or be absolutely certain on who you hire. We had such big problems with a few employees and the government would not let us fire them. Our company had to pay them compensation and help find them a new job?!?! We also had another employee that became to stressed with the workload and the Dutch government told us we had to pay his salary until he returns for up to 2 years.

Finally the nail in the coffin for me was the weather. I couldn't take wind and rain for what seemed like months straight and summer lasting for sometimes only 1 month.

I wish Appsterdam success but for me I prefer lower taxes and better climate. Malta or Switzerland anyone?
Google PR Dropped for Google.com too
You don't really make $2K per month with just 2K customers at $1 per month.

You have credit card fees - 2.9% + $0.30 (fair?) So that's $0.67 or 2985 customers (round up to 3000)

And IF you ever reach a substantial income, you could be in about the 25% tax bracket.

Now you take another .17 off of that, and you're down to $0.50 per customer.

You need 4000 customers per month to earn around $2000 per month at $1 per month per customer.

Now, if even a quarter of those people require even a lick of customer support, you've worked that money away with your time.

So I agree, at $1 per month, you really can't make any money.
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Responsive Mobile Web with Skeleton and XUI
I think I'm missing something. The comments that appear as if they should contain the answers contain nothing. Have the answers been removed? Does Reddit's [spoiler] tag do fun javascript-y things that don't work on IE8? Or am I so obtuse and unobservant that I'm missing something obvious?
CSS button, SVG button, Canvas button.
Updated and more detailed Transparency Report
The line of inquiry does not go solely in the direction you might initially think. (Instead, think data collection and analysis.) Worth the read.
You are talking about a Ground source heat pump. Once you are down about 10m the temperature of the ground is fairly constant at about 10-14 degrees C. You can exploit this temperature difference for either heating or cooling using a heat pump.
Google experiments with new search results page view
That's a low probability event, and doesn't affect the thesis much. We're talking overall here.
I found an older bug report for Debian that sheds a little light on why this behavior is useful: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911

I can understand not changing the behaviour wrt historical
precedent: I have been told that people used to rely on the
ignore-dot mechanism to disable things (e.g. mv foo foo.disabled).

At the end of the report, you can see they added the --regex flag to allow for user-defined filename validation.
To me, this is an incredibly backwards way of thinking. First, most of Apple's recent successes have been because of 3rd party developers. The App Stores wouldn't be worth anything without awesome apps from 3rd party developers. Then, Apple products are open enough to work, say, with Ford's own cars, so they're at least up to that standard.

Does Ford let you buy a copy of their SYNC software (other than the fact you can buy Windows CE and customize it yourself...) and run it on your GM car? By his own definition, Apple's just as open as Ford here, in an entirely different industry.
It's also interesting how you showed how Benford's Law breaks down, especially when prices are involved. There's lots of $10, $100, and $1000 limits, so you will get a lot of prices being pushed back to something starting with an 8 or 9.
If you approach someone in Dutch speaking with a (non-middle eastern) accent, people will switch to English without asking. It's horribly annoying really, learning the language (and thus really picking up the oh so important subtleties in professional and private life) is made really difficult this way.

People often explain it as kindness, but it's really just plain rude laziness: for many Dutch people, speaking slow and clear Dutch requires a lot more energy than upspeed English. Let alone listening to and trying to understand broken Dutch.
The Fallacy of Mobile App Versus Mobile Web
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Debian GNU/Linux updated to 6.0.2
Click and drag over the text with your mouse and you should be able to see it.
Philip Greenspun wrote a very interesting article about pilots and unions last year. Recommended reading.

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines