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The "terms and conditions" checkbox was not enabling the "Register" button for me under IE7.

It works under Chrome though.
Thanks, I agree that lawyers can quickly escalate the situation. His email to me was already pretty hostile, but I am trying to keep it cool unless there is no alternative.
Edit: Ok ok got it, birthday includes the year, my mistake; no need to keep downvoting
so painfully true =(
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This is an excellent example of "how to write a title for an HN submission."

For the busy HNer, it's not even necessary to click on the link to get the key idea from the article.
Apple's long-awaited iCloud music-streaming service won't...
Wait, if no one ever leaves Valve then why is Garrett for hire? Would be interesting to see him address that...
The problem of product abandonment
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Facebook copied Google Translate for Google+ that translate updates on google+. facebook translate button seems to be using bing as an engine.
We get it Matt, you're a killer in your own mind. That's cool, but you sound like a rapper who sold 100,000 albums taking a shot at one who sold 10 million. You know what would really be cool, if Rand offered a big pile of cash for SpeakerText, strung you along, and then said F-you.
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I'm curious about how investors viewed you: do you think they were generally more hesitant when you were alone, versus when you had a co-founder?
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I would very much like to see this. My current philosophy is to go it alone until I have made some things that would demonstrate my abilities, with an eye to impressing others who also have a track record.

I would like to know: How you were able to cover aspects of your projects for which you did not have the skills. Not having the skill for design (for example) has been a double blow for me - I don't know what I don't know, so I can't evaluate the scope of projects, nor determine the best use of money and the timing for bringing in external resources.
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Right, but that's parts. If the parts are already bought, then only labor and shipping has to be paid on top.
You can't measure Google with old world style metrics :-)

(that was sarcasm of the Googley kind, you see when you work at Google and you say something like "Uh to do that wouldn't we have to violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?" and someone will respond with "You can't use what you knew before to evaluate Google, we've changed the rulebook and its a whole different universe!")

(that was sarcasm of the ex-Googler kind :-)

So meta comments aside, this is an excellent insight into the key 'issue' that most investors have with Google, it doesn't provide a return. The reason for that is that a lot of the capital flowing into Google is being spent on speculative ventures, from self driving cars to alternative ways of converting solar energy into power. So billions come in, and they get spent on things which have a zero ROI, on the off chance that one of them will have a huge ROI. Sort of a VC firm wrapped inside of a search company.

Using the eponymous self driving car as a reasonable example, seriously, if you have the technology to build self driving cars at a modest premium over manually driven cars you can build a business around that. Automated taxi fleets for example would be a trivial way to disrupt an entrenched market, put a lot of people out of business, and get all that money. Calculating the ROI on that, you go from zero to a lot (I can't find a solid number for cab revenue in the major metro areas sadly, I'm sure the Uber guys know it though).

Wall street hates Google for pretty simple reasons, they don't tell them enough to evaluate their business, they have 'golden' (aka Class-A) shares that allow Larry, Sergey, and Eric to out vote all the other shares combined (so there is no share holder leverage) and they don't show any respect to wall street bankers. So far its working in Google's favor, but it is an open question as to whether or not they can keep it up.
Lanier is fascinating to me in that his perspective seems so far askew from my own that the exercise of even trying to understand what he's saying is necessarily broadening.

Yes! Not that he's so far afield of what I might think, but sufficiently contrary to my own opinions while at the same time offering plausible reasons for his point of view.

Even if I'm ultimately unpersuaded at least I've had reason to reconsider some things.
Agreed. And not only does the ribbon increase accessibility for novice users, it also encourages advanced use by displaying keyboard shortcuts to a wide variety of functions in an intuitive way.
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Where are you searching for your zip code and birth date? I couldn't find anything on the Data Privacy Lab site. :\
^ Garrett

I finished my contract at Valve a couple of months ago. I'm still fairly early in my design career, and work with a contracting agency in Seattle. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not quite well-rounded and seasoned enough to be a true Valve hire, but I also think I was there to fulfill a short-term need.

Still, it was a great experience. I learned more in that contract than any other, by far. Just thought I'd share some of it!
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Thanks again for all the feedback. I've been trying various tools and i've honestly been loving flairbuilder. Quick, simple to use, and it's highly interactive that's just built in. Haven't tried balsmiq yet but will give it a shot.
It's interesting to me that you thought you were the only one who put doing before ...learning, for lack of a better word - from what I can tell, the trendy thing at the moment (besides all the trendy technologies) is to spurn design, best practices, and maintainability in favor of doing things in the stinky, realistic, checkbook and bills friendly manner. At least if you're judging solely based on articles and comments that get upvoted on HN. It's a constant pendulum between "right" and "quick", which makes me think the answer is almost certainly somewhere in the middle. Honestly, it makes me wary of being a customer of startups currently, if everyone is just trying to get to version 1 as quickly as possible without any consideration for the future, so I hope that attitude is not as widely spread as it appears to be.
But if you poll the database every day to see when age increases, you can get DOB.
I'm not surprise people would laugh at this back end, it's sort of a who's who list of frow upon technologies, it's amazing how popularity contests are so prevalent in tech ...
It's good enough when it works acceptably in all your supported browsers. You can always come back and refactor. Really, the only people that truly care about the quality of front-end code are other snobby front-enders. I'm not talking about obvious poor performance, more semantics. Have you ever had a boss that cared about your code quality as long as it worked acceptably? Having "high-quality" code is awesome and should always be a goal, but in the end, the shit has just gotta work....Lord, I've been in Enterprise-land too long.

BTW, I'm a front-ender since February of 1996, worked everywhere from an agency to Yahoo.
hmmmm..... Looks like I should use IE instead of chrome.
Jessica - you always look like the happiest person in the world. It is infectious.
Well... if the records are released I don't think they should change. Someone record at 50 isn't the same as at 60. Unless these are live datasets.
It's a great post and I think your/Valves observations about letting designers design are spot on. Thanks for the follow up on your reasons for leaving.
I don't know what is so confusing. They want to shut down hardware production but still keep WebOS as a platform. Now what hardware will it run on? I don't know. I'm going to assume they want to license it.
This is sort of the reverse of the "curse of dimensionality", for those interested in machine learning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality). From an ML perspective, as you add dimensions to a dataset, the amount of data you'd need to accurately model the data without overfitting (i.e. without memorizing specific details of the sample rather than underlying trends) grows very fast, because due to the combinatorics you end up with extremely sparse coverage of the overall possibility space even with huge data sets.

The reverse of that phenomenon is that, given a data set in a high-dimensional space (even 3 dimensions, if each dimension has more than a few bits of entropy), it will cover the dimensions very sparsely (even if it's large!), and therefore it's relatively easy to recover specific details of the sample from the aggregate statistics.

edit: Well, I was hoping this might be a new insight, but in fact there's a good 2005 paper exploring that connection in much more detail: http://www.vldb2005.org/program/paper/fri/p901-aggarwal.pdf
Poor guys. I met Seth and the first few employees back at Dreamit Ventures. Seth is a brilliant guy, and for such a young guy he was quite impressive. It's a shame to hear that things arent looking great for the company at present. I havent been following the storyline of SCVNGR religiously, but this does sound a bit like the company got pushed into trying to be a home-run when it was a sure thing as a single or double. Unfortunately, when funding is in the mix the incentives point in the direction of trying to become gigantic at all costs. To be honest, I feel this is the same thing that did in the first startup I was a member of - we knew we could be a successful business but the pressure to become the next LinkedIn for fundraising reasons caused us to pivot and crush ourselves as we got over-extended and ran out of runway. I'd hate to see the same thing happen to SCVNGR.
I highly recommend you get a good noise-canceling headset, put up some towels or carpets in a small room, and re-record the video. The sound will be a hundred times better. Take the opportunity to cut the video's length to a minute and a half, and prepare a more complex demo file (i.e. more than a gray canvas).

That said, I'm glad there is more VCS for designers. I see the need every day teaching Git to designers (although it's much easier now with, say, gitx).
Here's a clearer shot. Anyone who wants is free to use it for motivational posters or whatever: http://ycombinator.com/images/itwillneverwork.jpg
They already follow these directions - they're just the wrong directions.

Recently I've had tickets that have a Boarding number - zone 1, 2, 3 or 4. That doesn't change- just re-hash the zones.
I wonder why it's so expensive to run the thing? I mean, it should be pretty cheap to deliver small applications like that. Maybe the labor to check all the new apps?
" It's kind of ironic that geeks who were picked/excluded/ostracized in school turn on each other in their adult lives and become snob/hipsters, instead of breaking the cycle."

This is more a result of our tribal tendencies which manifest themselves in a number of ways: including xenophobia, racism, nationalism, religious discrimination etc...

edit: Tarsems
You already figured out how to control bandwidth consumption - quitting the application.

Do you really disagree with the p2p model that provides you with good services essentially for free, or are you getting carried away on the bandwagon? The Spotify and Skype EULAs [1,2] both disclose that they will use your bandwidth to provide the service.

The services provided by Skype and Spotify are way more valuable to me than the value of the bandwidth, and I expect this is the same for the overwhelming majority of people.

[1] http://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/ (search for "bandwidth")
[2] http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/legal/terms/tou/ (also search for "bandwidth").
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If I cared enough about the space to make a karma-based threading system, I would attempt to come up with a way to differentiate disagreement with contribution score (aka karma).

Sometimes people feel the need to register disagreement but can't be bothered to write a specific reply as to why, and while it sucks that many people do that via downvoting the contribution score, it is understandable why they do it and there is probably a better fix for it than just telling them they shouldn't do it (they won't listen).
Awesome idea, had great fun racing other people I finally ended up talking to!
Some qualms/suggestions:
- Text wrapping doesn't work properly, the text box doesn't resize with larger messages, the text just gets cut off.
- If you miss a message, i.e. someone says something after the message, there is no way of looking at what they said. Some sort of history would be cool. (Maybe scroll out a list when you click on the user?)
- It would be cool if you could hold down the arrow keys to move, right now the movement is one by one. To be fair, this does make races more fun! (not that big a bother at all, to be honest!)

Cool idea!
If their market share ever dips dangerously low it could be a good option.
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Samsung Bada 2.0
Samsung has announced a set of three new handsets running its proprietary Bada 2.0 platform: the Wave 3, Wave M, and Wave Y.

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/08/samsung-new-bada-20-phones-wave-3-m-and.html
They must be using an old snapshot of foursquare data - found missing venues on my first query.
I think the first part of your post is correct, but I think it has less to do with ad/apps revenue, and more to do with engendering good will toward the WebOS brand to keep the resell value of the IP high.

The Touchpad sale thus far has tarnished the reputations of a few third party resellers who mishandled inventory management during the firesale, see:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/at-a-glance.html?ie=UTF... (note 30 day negative percentage)

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Onsale

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Datavis

By making more units HP comes across as the 'good guy' here towards the (perhaps bargain-minded) early adopters and gives people an increased positive impression of the WebOS brand and I think they are hoping that'll help them get back something closer to what they paid for Palm when they attempt to resell it all (which I think they will do, though obviously this is just speculation on my part).
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Or rather: "IAM Jon Finkel. AMA."
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> Dump the TIPS man.

I had some USD, didn't see any good buys, and wanted to stay liquid in USD. I figured inflation was definitely coming, so even if interest rates rose (unlikely anyways, but the only real risk) it'd likely be cancelled by the inflation premium.

The bonds appreciated around 7% in four months, so it worked out okay.
$300 is a pretty expensive blu-ray and streaming player.
Forgot to add:

What I get out of this: I get to cust-dev & hustle for you - that is my prize. If you want to pay me, I won't say no to money :)

That's it. I'm not looking for a job. Or new ideas. Everything is private & confidential. I stake my real life reputation on it.
"I don't want to wear a suit and sit uncomfortably in your office for 4 hours trying to impress you with my words. "
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A business where they can extract enormous licensing fees from content sold at a much higher price point.
The article is badly one-sided. Some misconceptions were already mentioned, here are more which comes to my mind:

"Of course, this assumes the concurrent deployment of a nationwide Smart Grid that could store and disburse the variable sources" -> the price is extreme and not calculated. Furthermore, you would still need 100% backup in traditional sources.

"it will create lots and lots of permanent jobs" -> therefore badly increases the price of the power generated

"projected growth in electric vehicles" -> thus further increasing the demand for electricity
> Except the PS3, which is a pretty good Blu-ray/Netflix/DLNA player and probably had problems with low attach rate in the first few years.

And it's precisely why it took Sony a while to make any money out of their PlayStation division. They underestimated how many people would find it useful 'out of the box'.

It's a great Blu-Ray player that just happens to play games. Sony sold it as the other way around.
Good point, with broad examples. Seems like you've led an interesting life - not many people would pull out "blacksmiths" as an example :)
This. "I'll worry about security when I hit the big time" can only work if you never actually hit the big time.
This is cool, seems to have a pretty fair price structure. I still don't understand their shared database pricing. 5mb for free, then $15 for 20gb. I need like 100 megs for 5 bucks.
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The last paragraph feels like a zen koan. Is a "good investor" not one that finds start-ups which will succeed (and thus make him money)? How do you try to be a "good investor" without trying to find start-ups which will succeed? How far away am I from enlightment?
This does nothing to stop people who are intent on communicating privately (SSL, SSH, public key encrypted messages, etc.) and everything to hamper internet progress in Pakistan.

Why would a tech company even consider spreading/outsourcing to Pakistan after this?
Geez, I hope this isn't due to some crazy mass resignations.
How to transition to monthly pricing?
PgAdmin3 on Ubuntu here: gorgeous!
Based on some TouchPad teardowns, manufacturing a TouchPad costs about $318 in parts plus $10 in labor. If HP sold TouchPads for $250, they would "only" lose $68.

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HP-TouchPad-Carr...
Interesting -- using NoScript reduced my "bits of information" from 20 to 14. I would have expected it to increase the uniqueness of my browser.
Somehow I don't think this is the main sticking point preventing the US from ratifying the nuclear test ban treaty, as the article seems to suggest.
Hiding a valuable contribution because you disagree with it probably isn't the intended purpose of the system. Hiding something that lessens the quality of the conversation, independent of the skew it takes, makes more sense.

It doesn't matter what the common practice is. What matters is preserving the integrity of the discussion.
I imagine they want demographic data on who's taking the course. If you were running a large-scale education experiment, wouldn't you want to be able to measure how things are going and account for variables such as gender, age, and education level? I bet they are going to look at location as well, via IP addresses.
Related: If you're a single founder (I am too), I'll help you make 10 cold sales calls to get feedback. No strings attached!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943170
"to name a few of them."

I'm guessing the extended set contains countries with names that don't start with "I"?
I've used Navicat Premium with Postgres and have had no issues. Pricey, but it works.
have you considered Navicat ? there is also a free version and it runs on windows, osx, linux
Ask HN: How to find a room in SF to rent?
So I've almost given up now. I've sent about 40 Craigslist messages in the past week and haven't had a single reply so far. There's something different about San Francisco.

I've tried using my Gmail, my university email, a nondescript account too. I've tried long descriptive messages and short punctual messages. I've tried thoroughly describing myself to sound legitimate or not at all. Not a single bite.

What am I looking for? Simple, a room to rent with some other young-ish (lets say less than 30 years old) people in San Francisco. My lease terms are totally flexible too, 6 months, 1 year, whatever. I was hoping for something in Hayes Valley or Mission but honestly, I don't even care anymore as long as its safe.

Is there a secret handshake involved? Is there a formulaic way to approach classified inquiries? Should I be calling everyone? I'm even open to giving someone a referral bonus at this point.

Advice would be awesome!

Context: just finished college, starting with a company in Palo Alto on the 12th, flying from Canada to SFO on Saturday and have no place to go.
i frankly wonder if there isnt some form of holywood accounting going on so their 30% cut can be "justified".
I was going to disagree but then I worked out the numbers and it doesn't fly.

Suppose they invested $1b more. At a loss of $150 / device that would let them put ~6 million devices into the ecosystem, not counting phones. 6m devices would get it off to a start but it is still not enough to get it within an order of magnitude of the iPad and probably won't even get you ahead of the plethora of Android makers who will most likely sell more than that combined.

If you can't pole vault at least into a solid second place then you've essentially made no strategic gain at all - you're just in a slightly better third place.
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Actually I'd be surprised if Aws makes up more than $10bn of AMZN Market cap. Which might mean Dropbox valuation is absurd. Or it might mean Dropbox is making fat margins in a consumer market, while AWS is making slim margins in b2b.
startupguild.com uses Yammer, which seems to be decent.
I left London in 1994, and at that time I was earning 25K GBP, being 4 years out of university. 20K now sounds very low, being the US equivalent of quite a bit under $40K.
It's hard to understand your point if you change it. Of course no one likes preachers or endless discussions or anything else that's clearly bad: that doesn't have a whole lot to do with programming languages though. If that's all you're saying, it doesn't amount to much.

What you actually wrote (and what this article partially argues) is that the only thing that mattered was that it worked, which is a statement people can disagree over. Working isn't a binary switch that flips when you launch, any discussion of the value of something as complex as a piece of software has a lot of different dimensions. After all, bubble sort "works" too, but you'd be a pretty terrible computer scientist if that was as far as you investigated the issue.
Also Simmery and Memamp. According to my notes, Infogami ended up merging with Reddit as well as one persome from Memamp. Firecrawl became TextPayMe which was acquired by Amazon. Kiko sold on eBay after Google Calendar launched. Details here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF9...
I've worked with kpeiris on a project before, and he's a pretty awesome guy. Won't regret helping him!
Has anyone ever done a simple cost benefit analysis comparing the cost of tracking all the "undesirables" getting the aid + those who are false positived out (and the resulting societal cost) to the simple method of just give it out, minus a few obvious and simply tracked exceptions? Every time I read about crap like this I wonder about how much anyone factors in the true cost of all the red-tape machines.
It varies a lot depending on sector/technology/funding-status, I run a job board (www.coderstack.co.uk) which is used by a fair amount of London startups (I think including yours if your company is who I think it is) and I've seen salaries range from 18k-35k for junior web developers.
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Frankly, that describes the whole Node Knockout this year. It was pretty disappointing.
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Is the any way to HTTP POST to a site, non-serverside with ASP.NET using a POST /ajaxpro/www.website.ashx? instead of POST /ajax/www.website.php? URL...
Note the group of high rankings from 8-Sep, tailing off in early October - all those NYE babies ;)
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To paraphrase Margaret Meade: a small group of people can change the world and indeed is the only thing that ever has.
Yet the OP mentions the <cfquery> tag, which is exactly the problem. It's mixing of the presentation (view) with a DB call (something that should be in a model and routed through a controller).