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Startups aren't for everyone and not all startups are created equal. It would be unfair to assume all startups are misdirected and low paying. There are plenty of positions that pay market rate salaries and give equity. While you can definitely make a greater base salary at a semiconductor company or "adult" job. You miss out of the potential upside of startup equity, the excitement of a growing startup, wearing many different hats and trying to build something disruptive.
yes, it's all about learning
I'm surprised to see a crossword editor use the phrase "crosswords in England". It's not what you'd expect from someone so concerned with trivia.
I'd agree with your logic if he was in the tech industry, but he wasn't. He had 0 technical skills, his barrier to entry was far greater than money.
Indeed, on my average LCD screen your post is ~150 chars wide.
That's covered a bit in the Wordplay movie, they had both Clinton and Dole comment about it (both saying they knew they won because it said so in the NYT crossword).
You need some choices involving comments...
I have my todo list in the form of tabs. I typically go through them fairly linearly as I work on things on the list.

That said, if I start typing in the url bar, already-open tabs whose title or url or tags match what I type show up in the dropdown search results and can be switched to by selecting that option from the dropdown (that includes tabs in other browser windows, etc, so I can just grab any window, type a few words in the url bar, and then be in the tab I want to be in).

This is in Firefox; finding a tab you want in Chrome is indeed a huge pain.
What sort of invention is NOT putting existing things together? In fact, to me that sounds like as good a definition of "invention" as any.
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1. All entities named in a way that describes their purpose as precisely as possible. Prerequisite: a design that carves the problem into concepts clear enough to permit precise naming.

2. Well-factored at all levels.
Payments Company Seeking Front-End Engineer
Background

We’re a pre-Series A payments company located in Palo Alto, CA, looking for an exceptional front-end engineer to help us build the next generation payments platform. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of general web technologies, but is most passionate about working on the display/browser end of the stack.

Your work here will directly impact the financial livelihood of thousands of consumers and businesses. What you build must exude trust and credibility, it must strike an expert balance between security and convenience, and it must be powerful, yet intuitive. Payments is a space full of challenging, fun problems and we're looking for a new member of our team to help us solve them!

Our Technologies

- Python

- PostgreSQL

- Werkzeug

- Mako

- Javascript(jQuery, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript)

- HTML/CSS

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- You have extensive experience with Javascript & HTML/CSS.

- You are proficient in at least one additional scripting and/or programming language.

- You have superior problem-solving skills & experience tackling tough problems.

- You're reliable, self-directed, and creative.

- You have the passion to build an extremely valuable, sustainable company.

- You take pride in your work.

About Us

- Located in downtown Palo Alto

- We offer benefits, competitive equity stakes, vacation time, etc.

- Small, well-rounded team:

- 5 engineers (including co-founder/CTO)

- 1.5 designers

- 1 CEO (also an engineer)

- 1 business development

- 1 compliance/in-house legal

- 1 dog

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Bonus points for sharing significant/relevant projects.
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Ask HN: Is Your Startup a Side Project or Full Time?
Just wanted to see who all is working full-time on a startup and who all is doing it on the side after work.
Fascinating. Gotta love the HN format.

Any sense of what the Quantly user base looks like? Geographic diversity and all that jazz would be interesting.
and who is going to implement this law? surprisingly enough, countries outside your own also have the internet.

if you want users to drop old browsers, write web apps that require new browsers.
Thanks, Shimsham :)

Unfortunately, I think it might have spent a little bit too much time on the bicycling part of the story...

I'm considering rewriting it and submitting it again tomorrow...I think it's an important thing to remember (that screwing up and doing it wrong is how you learn) :)
Happy (belated) 20th Birthday Visual Basic
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Well, ignoring counterarguments, blabbering fallacious nonsense and citing 'community standards' to hide the first two things seems to be a 'community standard' amongst some people here as well.

If you care more for being nice than for valid arguments, then I indeed appear to be in willing violation of 'community standards'.
I don't think you and I are in any general disagreement here.

Perhaps I should clarify: when I say that adopting flex time requires a leap of faith for certain companies, I'm simply making an observation. I don't condone that mindset. In fact, I think it's every bit as ridiculous and antiquated as you do. But a lot of employers are old-school that way: they don't trust their employees, and opening up to a concept like flex time is inherently going to require a bit of a leap of faith for them.

My entire point was that such companies -- as it so happens, a lot of companies -- still view their employees from an inherent place of mistrust or wariness. Yes, it's their problem. And yes, it will prevent them from getting the best and brightest. No argument there. I was simply pointing out that such a mindset exists and that it is still fairly prevalent. I was not in any way justifying it or lending credence to it.

In a perfect world, I agree: it should not have to be a leap of faith. But in the world as it exists, it's still a big jump for many, many employers.
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Do they accept bitcoin?
Here is how I think about this. Amazon's market cap is about 96 billion. Having a valuation of 1 billion would imply that FlipKart is, as of today, worth about 1/100 of the whole of Amazon (in every country, across all products including the Kindle and the AWS product line). I don't see it as of today(but am willing to be educated).

Due Disclosure: I have used FlipKart and I do like it. But that is because the alternatives in India are non existent or horrendous. With Amazon coming to India next year, that will change.

And it is not all doom and gloom for FlipKart. I suspect being overvalued is good when you are trading equity for money. All they need to do is to find a strategy to counter Amazon to survive and thrive. They don't have to beat Amazon on every measure to have a succesful business. They'll have to pull off an Intuit vs Microsoft style defence. I hope they do. From all I know, they are bright people. They've crushed their local competition (Infibeam say[1]) with superior execution.

Competition is awesome. Good for us customers. The local bubble is (imo) just a reflection of the global bubble.

[1] Trivia: I was having dinner the other day with an Infibeam ex employee and asked him why FlipKart won so convincingly over his ex employer and he said "FlipKart is run by engineers. Infibeam is run by managers. Why are you surprised?".
CGI may eventually change this, but back in the day, if you were filming Top Gun and you wanted your F-14s to look like real F-14s, you had to work with the people who had real F-14s.
No, it has fewer-than-32-bit fixnums. Integers are practically unbounded. Also, on cmucl and it's derivatives you can declare something to be (unsigned-byte 32) and when possible it will use untagged integers for performance.

This makes a difference because if you declare something "fixnum" you know you're being non-portable, but if you declare something (unsigned-byte 32) or just integer then you expect it to work across all implementations.
If you haven't yet seen the wonderful "Sagan Series" on youtube, start with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHuve33yOVY

or this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsJeND_D-k&feature=relat...

Honestly, watching this chokes me up a little bit. Watching the last shuttle flight, then seeing SETI have to realistically think about parking all of their listening equipment is just...sad.

Too many people get caught up in the "why" of this stuff. You're looking at it wrong. Look at space travel as an expression of humanity, and a really important one. Ancient people built Pyramids, or Stonehenge, or the Colosseum. I wonder how many Romans thought building the Colosseum was a waste of money.

The shuttle, or SETI are our Pyramids. It's disgusting that we can spend as many billions of dollars a year as we do on blowing each other up, but things like "Let's see what's on the other side of that proverbial mountain" get defunded because they're "pointless".
Agree on the naming, though it always brings to mind Tim Bray's quote: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"
I'm curious. Why do you want ads shown to you NOT be targeted?

I want unsolicited ads to not be targeted for several reasons:

1) I don't want people to necessarily infer my interests/character based on ads they see when I'm just browsing the web. "Dude, why do you have porn ads all the time when you browse the web?"

2) I don't need to be sold to on a constant basis. Unless I'm in the market for something, I generally would prefer to not be sold to. Selling me something I'm sure to not care about, e.g., IQ tests, are almost the same as no ads. Showing me well-targeted ads are more likely to prove to be a distraction.

3) Privacy. I'd really prefer no one to have information that associates my account with specific information. It's hard to avoid today, but to the extent that I can reduce it, I will.

With that said, solicited ads are fine. If I do a search, x% of the time I'm looking for a product to purchase. I don't mind it then. Many of the websites I read, e.g., Engadget, are almost ad sites in that the content is generally about product for me to buy or use. And Android ads on Engadget are fine. They're not specifically targeted to me, but the demographic of people reading Engadget.
If you read the article carefully, in Chrome when one tab crashes in this situation you only lose ... half your tabs.
It sounds awesome - small, customizable datepicker, but nothing shows up for me in chrome for Mac.
I cannot understand why anyone would you buy a Chromebook instead of something like a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge. At their current price, Chromebooks seem like a really bad idea to me. They are more expensive and less capable than low end laptops and, unlike tablets, offer no new benefits.

Can someone please tell me if I'm mistaken?
I'm female, 26, and it didn't even try to guess. Hehe maybe the programming interests throw it off. (:
Beautiful work guys. This going to be such a big deal.
I switch between DreamPie and IPython regularly (depends on which shortcut I press).
22 years old, it guessed I was 25-34.
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> Does technological literacy correlate with intelligence?

It really depends on what technology you mean.

I used to know a lot of graduate students in the biochem dept of my university. They were quite clearly very competent with technology that was important for them. But if you mean technology as in computing technology, then no. Most of them did not care much about them at all. And many (most?) used IE 6 as well.

Personally I wouldn't rate their intelligence as below normal just because they did not have an affinity towards technology that I happened to be enthusiastic about.
Ahhh, thanks for the link. That page brings back two cherished memories: the C2 Wiki and the indefatigable TopMind!
The Slow, Sure Demise of Paper Money?
Everybody wants to be special here (In praise of pseudonymity)
Please excuse my curiosity. How do you navigate so many tabs? Is it in some way more efficient than reading them in blocks of say 10 or 20?

I am interested in your use case of pages you read every day. I have such pages and I would love to be able to open a specified list of such pages with one click. Is there a way of doing that? Or an add-on for it?
Is this clearer?

even if they collect CC and other information pertaining to the person... [] This requirement changes nothing []
PyCon seems to be some sort of an amazing global annual movement. I haven't gone to one yet (I do have a plan in the future to do that) but I know that many more countries want to have a local PyCon as well (to cut the transportation cost). They have the people but lack of the Python skill, marketing, and organization.

I think in about 5 years or so we will see more and bigger local PyCons.
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Can I upvote more than once? Getting out beautiful soup and 1000 proxies
The most popular crosswords in the UK are the same type as those in the US. But some newspapers have an additional 'cryptic' crossword. (I don't know more than a couple of people who actually do the cryptic crosswords, but I guess they must have some sort of following.)
Well done, Dave. This looks like an amazing solution for designers looking to jump right into client work, and at an incredible price point, too.
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"In the July 2011 survey we received responses from 357,292,065 sites."

We're using the total published sites on the Weebly platform divided by that number to get our percentage of the total.

We could probably use active sites and put up a higher percentage, although that number is much harder to calculate...
Agree here too.

It always makes me think of Hemingway and his ability to never use more words than necessary to say something, and at that, always the words that say it best.

Someone else picked up on the similarity between the Hemingway rules for writing well and parts of the UNIX philosophy: http://unix-simple.blogspot.com/2011/03/unix-and-hemingway.h...

It should be noted that Hemingway's fifth rule "5. Write one page of masterpiece vs. 91 pages of garbage." doesn't infer writing complex sentences, but emphasises not using 10 words when 1 will do.
Confirmation bias is a tough thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Persistence_o...

I know about confirmation bias, so I should consciously look closer at things that confirm my prejudices, but it's not easy to remember. In this case, was actually wary of the conclusions (unless I'm misremembering, which is a whole other issue), but I think that's largely because it was such an obvious example.
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True, but that's why flex time and/or remote work should be a two-way street. Almost an unwritten, social contract of sorts. In exchange for the flexibility and freedom to work in a self-directed fashion, the employee must demonstrate that he or she performs under self-direction.

Flex hours/location isn't for everyone. Personally speaking, I believe companies should offer it to everyone and not necessarily restrict it...BUT...let the buyer beware, so to speak. If an employee wants to take up a customized schedule, he or she had better be prepared to do good work under it.
Sounds battery-expensive.
I like virtually everything about this, but if I had a Twitter-sized time machine, this would be going to @patio11#2000:

If you’re going to fail at something, at least fail by being too aggressive, rather than failing by default through passivity.

If you ever have the opportunity to come to a Tokyo HN meetup, you'll get to meet Jason, who wrote this and runs them. He's one of the few people at the sweet spot on the Venn diagram "personality is a force of nature" and "would gladly spend time hanging out with."

On the specific topic of getting a job in Japan: if this is really your goal in life, star the part where it becomes 100,000x easier to do this after you have some "in" in Proper Japanese Society (TM). If you are a force of nature like Jason is, then you'll end up getting one sometime between landing and convincing the Prime Minister's secretary that he should be having tea with you. You can do it in meek-friendly ways, or I never would have managed it. (I applied to an exchange program, got placed as a translator, and used a happy client as an introduction into the wonderful word of salarymandom. So that's a route. There might also be one that passes through the river Styx, in which case, use that one instead. But there are definitely options.)

Key take away, though: like Jason says, virtually anything you can possibly do here is more effective than the halfhearted typical resume spray-and-pray from abroad that most people who say they want a job in Japan do. Resume spray-and-pray is a terrible idea in general, but it's terrible-squared in the particular circumstance "foreigner wants a job at a Japanese company" because of the way gatekeepers work here.

BTW: You can get status in Proper Japanese Society (TM) by working for a high-status organization outside the country which you can convince to lateral you over to Tokyo. Think of a massively high-status US organization: they probably have dealings in Tokyo. There are a variety of ways to convince them to send you to Japan. One fairly straightforward one is to know more Japanese than you can find printed on a sushi menu, which will catapult you ahead of 99.8% of their US employees for that opportunity. The specifics of how to do this and how hard it would be depend on the organization: I have heard of places where Tokyo is considered a hardship post and have heard of places where Tokyo is considered the kind of place you kick butt and take names for a career to get a stint in. (And would have had ZERO luck identifying those prior to hearing anecdotes from inside. Sorry, can't identify them without breaking confidences.)
This post http://bechalis.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-dont-care-about-e-com... absolutely nails why the e-commerce scenario is different this time from a customer's point of view. Obviously, it is not at a massive scale yet, but you can see the momentum that is building now.

The valuation maybe over the top, but the fact is that in India we are reaching a stage where expanding into large tracts of our market can't be done on the cheap. And I am not talking about spending on marketing here. Most of us take putting together the logistics and supply chain on a pan-India level as trivial. It is unbelievably hard and that at least some of the new breed of companies are getting it right is a significant differentiator from anything else we have seen so far.

Also, compared to where we are otherwise headed with the ad-based online business in India (which has not shown growth worth speaking about since forever), give me a bubble any day.
Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax
Apple seen merging iOS, Mac OS X with custom A6 chip in 2012
oh that one, I didn't recognize the name. Thx
Columbia shuttle debris found in drought-stricken lake
It seems like instant messaging would be a better fit than email for this use case?
Personally, I think the Nexus S is the best phone right now. I would never buy a phone that wasn't difrectly from Google (G1, Nexus One and Nexus S are the only phones Google has released directly) because these phones are always the first to get new updates and they don't come bloated with crapware and customized UI. All of my friends who own Android phones that aren't one of those 3 models are really disappointed that they aren't getting software updates, that their phones have built-in UI and apps that they can't get rid off and they have more compatibility problem with applications on the android market.

The only thing is, should you buy the Nexus S right now or wait for the next Google-released phone? I think only you can answer this question
I work remotely and have done so off and on for much of my career. For about 9 months of the last year I took a trip around the US and lived in a RV. All the while being as productive as my colleagues.

Does allowing your employees to be happier people increase their productivity and loyalty? Yup, I think so.
Oops, forgot to respond to this! You're welcome. Don't get me wrong, Cracked can be very good for spurring on interest as well, but sometimes it's good to have references. :)
Sum it up this way: The difference between good and great is persistence.

Anyone can be good by ability, the great manifest it forcefully.
The Quadrangle Conference that he references was called the "FourSquare conference". Coincidence?
MIT's Crash Cart for Frozen Software Lets You Escape the Infinite Loop
I wish mozilla would make web pages for these new versions. The top search result for "Firefox 8" is the 1.0.8 release notes, followed by a "download free download" link that is definitely not mozilla.com.
It would be much better for Windows, if it would be based on a BSD kernel instead of using a newly developed kernel. Legacy apps could then be executed using virtualization. Doing so Microsoft would have a lot of capacity to improve their windowing system and desktop on top. This would also open Windows for serious software development.
Does anyone here know how one would differentiate between someone (or group of hackers) in China doing this vs. the Chinese government being behind it? I'm just curious how that's determined.
Probably a lack of motivation rather than ability. Also, their current algo is probably "good enough" for most cases.
Making of a Neon Coca Cola sign
I wish Chrome would do that. If it is memory crunched, it seems to swap out the rendered page image, and then it very slowly repaints it when you switch back to that tab.
the name veyron was already taken, hence veyronb :)
I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion for this, but here goes...

Please don't bring this phrase to Hacker News. The only time to complain about downvotes is when you're sure you've been unjustly downvoted.

I think it's completely reasonable to expect alternate browser users to be more technologically literate than IE users though. Unless their alternate browser was installed by someone else, installing one is a choice that requires enough technical knowledge to find, install, and use another browser. I'd assume these people would be more knowledgeable than most about adware because it would make sense for those skills to be correlated.

On a completely unrelated note from this story, how do you justify supporting adware? I assume this is why you thought you'd be downvoted.
I'm actually a vim user :)

So we're trying to tackle all of the hard problems with creating a website. Sometimes that means we develop very specific tools that just don't have a good solution yet, like our written-from-scratch ImagePerfect image editor.

In this case, we think designers still have it a bit rough. They end up doing a lot of things that aren't related to designing, like managing a hosting environment, or upgrading Wordpress when new vulnerabilities come out (or recovering from a hacked site). Then they have to continue doing inane little tweaks to the website on an unrealistic budget.

We're trying to make the designer's life easier with an integrated solution, and their clients happier by letting them log on and update their website themselves.
If someone sends me a mail with a 1000 character subject, I'll delete it unread.
I just went through the donation checkout process, and they only accept Visa and Mastercard.
I didn't see a need to introduce another piece of jargon, but thanks for the clarification.
Can you buy anything with bitcoins other than drugs right now?

edit: I know someone will roll their eyes at this comment and proceed to defend bitcoin, but seriously - what can SETI buy with bitcoins that's useful to them? And "anything people are willing to sell, man, it's just a currency!" is a trivial answer.
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