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Ask HN: I'm quitting my job to start a company. What should be on my checklist?
For those who have gone this route, what are the things you forgot to do that came back to get you? What do you wish you'd done differently?
Definitely get yourself a car radio that has Bluetooth audio man.

Once you hear the music from your device coming on your car speakers with out the need for wires you'll never go back.

Whats interesting that I learned about it once I got one came from the way I bought it. I made sure that it had a usb, a 3.5 mm jack, and bluetooth.

USB - sound quality is best but you have to use the radio user interface to interact with your device and play music, a ui which is terrible. Also on my HTC EVO the USB port doesn't stay connected reliably

3.5mm - not noticeably above radio quality still needs another cord

Bluetooth - better than radio quality audio (though not quite as good as the usb), no interference and no wires. I use this most of the time as not having to hassle with wires or the usb disconnecting interrupting the music is great.

ipod - Also almost forgot, if you use an ipod for your music most car radios nowadays have a special mode for them and the audio quality is awesome. (Like crazy almost CD if not CD quality awesome)

I use a Sony xplod personally.
Yeah! That's why I stopped playing xbox live and why I threw in the word "choose"
math.log uses floating point arithmetic. That will lead to trouble on large numbers. The article addresses the issue.
It's sad that people have to hide their actions. Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us and his particular setup sounds highly oriented towards downloads, not uploads.

Additionally, as somebody that highly seeds Linux distros through torrents, I'd like you to go back to your Jump to Conclusions mat.
I'm tired of hearing this from people. The US exported more than every country except China and Germany last year.[0] We're the leading producer of airplane components and engines, and we still produce a high volume of heavy equipment that goes overseas.

[0] http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_exp-economy-exports
e.g. last names like "jumpycat", "Purple" etc.

I reminded of Catherina Fake, a Flickr co-founder.
I did, it's not stated. If I've missed it can you quote it please but I've looked at both the article and the linked article.
That's assuming they want to make money.

It seems to me their mandate is to make everyone's lives better. This looks like a project to define web standards for the future. It also looks like they've got enough to last them for a bit.
Redux of this comment thread: "But it's not perfect!" enumerate minor flaws. sneer.

Sometimes it's worthwhile to tackle one issue at a time, especially if it's something many people (designers) a) don't care about b) don't want to do c) possibly don't understand.

So yes, perhaps they fall down on graceful degradation / progressive enhancement, but to be fair the target audience is exclusively web designers. In that respect they are playing well to the audience, which in turn makes it more likely that they'll get their point across.

As for "large text is too hard to read" & "I can't read centered text:" seriously? Deep breaths, everyone. ;)
pgAdmin? http://www.pgadmin.org/
I don't know if this is actually a helpful action or not, and what, if any, consequences will arise, but it's certainly good marketing for Anonymous. Much of the public don't understand their more nuanced reasons for attacking companies like Sony. For many, Anonymous are those people who took out Playstation. Attempting to thwart the desires of someone who's universally accepted as a villain at least starts to complicate their image as villains themselves.
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Run a Facebook ad campaign (targeting 30+ professionals who like the Economist, etc.) and ask for likes. Yes it costs money, but it can be a great way of bootstrapping a social media strategy.
But they aren't in base 10. The constant mentioned might as well have been put into the code in hex or octal and nothing would have changed. (I don't know whether C support binary constants.)
I far prefer the SL model of scrolling, and I visually use scrollbars.

So I would not upgrade unless those options were available
Thanks for the reply !!
Amazon, others cave to Apple on in-app purchases today, HTML5 tomorrow
Customers are oxygen. Without them, you will die.
Spammed out malware attack claims your credit card is overdue
It's a great medium. I used it to make an "interactive" resume when I got laid off:
http://prezi.com/mhgrwgnxrs2g/meet-israel-vicars/
And you thought Coca Cola spreads western values
Pagination with Backbone.js & django-tastypie — Gist
Man builds DIY Segway for $434
So, communicate? But it's surprising how many people do not do this. I think as a teal leader, you should take care to repeat these points to every new person joining the team.
If they are easy to put into practise, how come they often aren't?
There are some usability concerns with your implementation.

1) A 24x20 arrow is a tiny target compared to using a scroll wheel anywhere on the page. Scroll bars are also an infinitely wide target when the window is maximized. Fitts' Law and all that.

2) Scrolling requires a lower cognitive load on the user because they don't have to make a decision about turning a page and having everything they're looking at vanish. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html

3) This one is just a bug. I had to reload Skimmer because the first time it came up the pages would not turn. The animation would play, then it would jump back to the first page. Not all the little article squares were loaded, so that may have had something to do with it. Opera 11.50 on Vista with 80% zoom.

4) Not scrolling, but navigation-related. The site doesn't play nicely with my back button. I had to click the close button in the upper left corner of the screen instead of clicking the back button. Confusing.
Face detection API in iOS 5
usesthis.com is such a guilty pleasure.

I pour over every detail of their articles while at the same time reminding myself "it's not about the tools, it's about the person".
Ask HN: Steve Jobs: We are working on something you've been expecting for years.
The comment was on Steve Jobs G+ account, any thoughts what it might be.
https://plus.google.com/109951318521803670908/posts
The simplest script combining Twilio and Domai.nr, but it has already proven super useful to me. I love the idea of being able to install an app by emailing someone a vcard.
More info on rankings history and such:

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/discovr-apps-discover-ne...

Wonder why they went free a week ago.
That's a pretty awesome quote...
I think this is a much better article to read, because it covers a variety of platforms, instead of grabbing headlines by talking about Lion, and it contains links to a variety of preexisting papers and tools, instead of regurgitating the contents of a press release
Surely for Twilio to become the 37Signals of the telephony world, they'd need to stop releasing new features and just let the product stagnate, while occasionally publishing bitter screeds on their blog about how worthless other companies are?
Anders Behring Breivik plagiarised 'Unabomber'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8658...
In my experience(mix of large and small companies) the one that seems to really confuse people is ASK. It seems the when people run into a problem that they are unable to solve, the majority do not think to ask for help or guidance, but choose the path of self preservation and do whatever they can to hide or spin the situation. This of course inevitably comes back to cause them or someone else in the pipeline problems, but that doesn't seem to stop most people. Is it just too powerful of an instinct for the majority of people to overcome or are we just becoming a "Cover Your Ass" type of society? Then again maybe I am just frustrated this week :)
Would probably cost him less than $100 to buy a cheap head unit and have someone install it.
It's a ruby issue. See: http://rhnh.net/2011/05/28/speeding-up-rails-startup-time

My rails 3.1 starts in under ten seconds on ruby 1.9.2 with the patch.
If it's a shared computer then I'd have a root folder for each family member and specifics go underneath those root folders. On my personal computer I have folders for each major activity like work, side-projects etc. and files are grouped under these folders.
Yeah, I have a minimum font size set on my browser (necessary because my eyesight is bad and virtually every site wants to use font sizes that I simply can't read) and this site looks like crap as a result.
Why we’re betting everything on FCP X
Nah, if the computer is left on I could use a cold boot attack to dump the memory and find the encryption key in there somewhere. If you really want to secure devices against physical intrusion you'll need to do a bunch of TPM, anti-intrusion, and smartcard work.
Thank you for the link - this is good to know.
Coming from a single founder almost a year in: Get a Co-Founder. You will have probably more than double the output, someone to bounce ideas off of, and a more sane life.
Easy to put into practice if your team is composed of automatons that will execute your directives with instant and willing obedience. But the reality is that we're just people, each of whom has their own concept of what's expected from them and what they're actually willing to do in return for a paycheck and it varies widely. In a perfect world we would all be striving towards a common goal with a clear understanding of what that goal is, the milestones to be reached and the methodology and processes to observe but none of that rarely survives the first sprint.
Even if these tools are commonly used for suspicious activity, in a legal context simply stating that you use them does not constitute evidence of any wrongdoing. The former does not simply mean the latter; rather, it is speculation on your part. Whether or not it has a probabilistic basis is irrelevant.

There are many examples where this is true: BitTorrent/P2P (this is actually far more prominent than you'd think; a trendy example is Spotify), BitCoin, Usenet, Tor, Metasploit, any anonymous network, et al.
Downloading copyrighted material is legally in the clear in .us

[citation needed]? I’ve never heard that before. Mind you, I’m not in the US.
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The list of futuristic gadgets this technology enables is extremely underwhelming.

Example: "Transparent e-readers so you can watch the ground as you walk and read"
Chrome has a "Use side tabs" option in Labs, though only on Windows and Linux for some reason.
I like the site.
Playing devil's advocate.

You used the UK as an example, however, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans were ethnic Europeans and these genetic groups didn't split from indigenous people in the British isles tens of thousands of years ago but more recently. The projection (not fact) above mentions that: "in a few decades the genetic makeup of most Europeans will be more similar to that of NON-European ethnic groups than to that of people who have lived in Europe for TENS OF THOUSANDS of years".

In any case if you were any of those groups, you would have opposed an invasion from a later group. Picts fought Roman "immigration". One might interpret this as Picts wanting their genetic makeup to be more representative in the overall population of the British isles.

I don't see how this justification might convince someone who is "an ethnic European and predominantly carries genes that split from the ethnic groups of immigrants tens of thousands of years ago" that the projection doesn't matter if they don't already believe so.

I wasn't aware that these extremists aren't concerned about genes. I haven't read the manifesto nor am I planning to. However, people can still have a go at debunking the genetic argument above if they wish.
which extension do you use for tree tabs in chrome?
Log management and network auditing led to AT&T insider's arrest
I have yet to see it work - at least my Hip Chat tab doesn't update when a new chat comes in, whereas it does in Firefox.
9.0.4 apparently (found it elsewhere).
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If you have full disc encryption enabled, you'll need to keep the encryption key in memory somewhere (encrypted or not). Basically, if an attacker gets hold of your running computer and you don't have serious hardware security then you're screwed.
I don't know about the U.S., but at least in The Netherlands you are allowed to freely download copyrighted movies and music for personal use. For now, anyway...
For those curious about the tech behind this: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-technology-behind-the-New-Y...
Clearly not much has changed in the 414 days since this story was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408813 : 88 comments

It's been submitted more recently as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439742 : 403 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233443 : 158 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305491 : 138 days ago, with 42 comments
The ruby issue should improve performance of rails 3.0 as well. Given that the parent was comparing two rails versions on the same ruby version, I do think there has been a degradation in rails itself.
I don't always check it, but I tend to look later in the day when I've read everything that seems interesting on the home page.
That's all fine but doesn't go far enough, focusing only on contrast problems (related problems to contrast are using shadow engraving style on small fonts and clashing foreground/background color schemes).

A really big problem on many sites is the length of lines.

It is very difficult to read text that has too many words per line.

A recent abysmal nightmare is Apple's decision to make Mail.app (and other apps) in 10.7 oriented towards full screen as if it was running on vertically oriented mobile, but on large wide screens. Small font sizes here and we have scan lines with up to 30-40 words in some cases, which is complete insanity.

Count the words per line. If the average is much more than 12, either your columns are too wide or your fonts are too small. Here on HN is a typical example with around 24 words per line on top level articles. Bad design, but very typical on the web. However, it is at least manageable, many sites are far worse.

HTML Solution? Some advocate that columns be around 30em width: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/em/
I would agree with you if the subject were anybody but Microsoft. But it seems extremely rare for any big business partnership with Microsoft to go well for the other party (unless their plan all along was to exist solely as a nice in the MS ecosystem or sell to MS altogether).

I think there's enough evidence to call it a debatable fact.
Here is another interesting method dubbed KonBoot.

Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as 'root' user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root. For Windows systems it allows to enter any password protected profile without any knowledge of the password. It was acctually started as silly project of mine, which was born from my never-ending memory problems :) Secondly it was mainly created for Ubuntu, later i have made few add-ons to cover some other linux distributions. Finally, please consider this is my first linux project so far :) Entire Kon-Boot was written in pure x86 assembly, using old grandpa-geezer TASM 4.0.

http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/
I'm not for software patent but I always found the "Software is a mathematical algorithm" thing annoying. I don't think it's a really good argument against software patents.
Not really. Each point puts me in a position where I appear as a weak or ineffective employee, which is likely to harm my coworkers and managers assumption of my skill level and therefore bonuses, raises and future employment.

If I inform you now about the risk of missing the deadline, I look weak, ineffective, etc (even if it is better for the team) but if I wait and some situation develop which I can say will prevent us from reaching the deadline, I don't look nearly as weak.

His 3 points are very good, but unless you are working a small company or a start-up, you have to play politics.
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I was doing some dev testing with Tropo. It works pretty well, but I think I'm going to use Twilio. Twilio just seems to be more on top of things.
Curious, why vim /and/ TextMate? And on the former, console or MacVim[1]?

[1] https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim
Because you don't just need to do it, someone on the other end needs to receive it. If every "ask" is met with annoyance, every debrief with "uh ok, still ready for september deadline?" and every warn with "but you promised! does this mean we will have to move the september deadline again?" then it's not hard to imagine people stop doing it.

His list implies a promise that he will not respond like this.
AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean is abstract
It may be cliche around here, but I'm a big fan of 37 Signal's Highrise.
It's important to make a distinction medically between pushing as many as people as possible towards the high-age end of that curve on one hand and scaling the entire X axis on the other.

This is a great synopsis of the situation. There is little research going into actually extending the human lifespan. It's fascinating to hear people like Aubrey de Grey describe some of that research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey).
By what metric is it working better?

Google seems more profitable than ever, has the lead in search engine usage by a far, far margin, and Microsoft's online division continues to lose billions of dollars.
This isn't a legal context - it's Hacker News. I think we are all intelligent enough to realize & accept that John is almost certainly using SABnzbd to download copyrighted material.
Oh great. Now I feel like watching Office Space again.
Take a look at:

https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

It solves this problem by providing adapters that transform the output of a program into JSON, and then tools that can be chained together to manipulate the JSON. It is quite powerful.
The trouble with this article, and indeed many of the posts in this HN discussion, is that what certain web frameworks have decided to call MVC has only a tenuous relationship to real MVC.

The point of MVC, as originally practised in Smalltalk and used by numerous GUI libraries ever since, is the three-way separation of concerns between the underlying data, the presentation of that data, and interactions that change that data. It's an elegant way to reduce dependencies, in particular eliminating dependencies from the model onto any part of the UI, by having some parts of the system push information and others pull it. It remains a useful basic architecture for interactive GUI applications to this day.

In the modern corruption used by various web frameworks, three subsystems have the same names, and that is about where the similarity ends. The three components are typically arranged in a linear stack, with linear dependencies. The responsibilities for the "controller" are very different.

This leads to comments like the parent post:

He had me up until the part about models talking directly to views.
I was nodding along until then. While I agree that the application
business logic should be in models, but the controller needs to be
that traffic cop, only asking for what the view needs and then
handing it to the view.

If your view can't present data from your model without going via a controller, then you simply aren't using MVC. Your design might be perfectly reasonable and do its job well, but please call it something else.
Can you think of any well done websites with high contrast designs that aren't just black text on a white background? I was thinking the same thing but I couldn't think of any good examples off the top of my head--and to me that's a bit of a let down because all this time I've thought the text and style you use on your website can be an identifier of your brand or website. I mean if I could clearly read a site written in dark purple or something, I'd remember that.
Also, is there any pure C code that an optimizing compiler could make into a POPCNT instruction? I would be quite impressed if a compiler could recognize some of the snippets in the article, and compile them into a POPCNT and a compare with 1.
Short and sweet. Applies to teams beyond software development.
I suppose it's mostly layout/look&feel. I actually didn't realize how powerful the built in Chrome developer tools were. Little things, like showing the color or image when you mouse over the hex or link are what make Firebug nicer to use, I think. Is there a way to persist the network tab or console across page loads in Chrome?
It doesn't matter if we do. The original question was if he just openly admitted to illegally downloading copyrighted material, and the answer is he didn't.
"In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women. And 34% of the systems analysts in America were women. ... the percentages of women who earned Computer Science degrees rose steadily, peaking at 37% in 1984."

While that's definitely higher, still seems like the field was male dominated (the majority were male).
I agree with you this does seem to be the case in most companies, but I think that is because a majority of the people would look at it the exact same way you are. If you, your manager, their manager...etc all think this way, then you will think a person asking you how to solve a problem is weak because you would never do it yourself. Now if the majority of the people at your company believed in these 3 points personally, then the whole dynamic would change. Granted this is a bit of a perfect world scenario, but it is one that any new founder or hiring manager can start putting into place from day 1.
"It's wrong to say "that guy has dangerous ideas and should be censored", but it's another thing to say "that guy killed nearly 90 people to promote his manifesto, we should make sure he doesn't get what he wanted""

But that's still censorship, you've just added some spin. Simply put you can't have it both ways. Either individuals are free to speak their mind (regardless of how heinous you may find their viewpoint) or they aren't, and if they aren't that's censorship and oppression.
The thing that sticks out the most to me in Andy's critique is how he skims over the fact that news sites currently have a lot of ads to keep them afloat, and removing them requires dismantling entire ads sales departments, marketing departments, industry standards for ad sizes that must be available on your site for advertisers to even want to talk to you, and the bottom line: huge chunks of money (especially for big homepage campaigns).

This is something that every designer (and developer) at every media organization has to struggle with. And it speaks to what you said about someone looking in from the outside. It's very easy to create something like Andy's lovely design (and I'm sure every designer at every media organization has created or has wanted to create something similar), but it's another thing to design around all these ad sizes and push back on ad sales to have more room for creativity.
ARM-based Macbook. Or maybe a TV - I know it has been rumored a lot.

But is that Steve Jobs' real account? If so, I can't say I'm surprised. I knew that if Steve Jobs would have to use any social network it would be Google+, mostly because of how well it's designed, being the closest to his own principles.
>> ... make sci-fi gadgets a reality ...

Sci-Fi gadgets ARE already a reality.