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Cambridge UK
B2B (stealth) start-up is looking for Technical Co-Founder

I’m a Postdoc at the University of Cambridge. I work extremely hard and am interested in product and business development. I'm looking for a hands-on technical co-founder to help me build an MVP and successful company.

The idea is a web-based platform that puts the 21st century into market research by utilising smartphone applications and their developer communities.

I’ve pitched the idea to industry experts and received great feedback. I’ve since been accepted into an incubator and need to find a second developer to join me (salaries committed for one year plus founder equity).

If you’re a self-motivated developer who likes the idea of disrupting a large market then please get in contact, whatever your experience and preferred technologies.

Get in touch - d.gutmann@pojonow.com
Is it not obvious that it is an online diary?
An inconvenient truth: game prices have come down with time
And I get the feeling his 'productivity' is measure in dollars - but wages increase in cities due to competition for workers and other factors that don't involve true output.
2 Mexicans face 30 years for tweeting rumors of kidnappings at school
This article seems to be an ad for this guy's product, which is non-accredited college degrees from an online school. There's a lot of organizations doing online degrees, this is not very unique.

The comparisons to Khan are bizarre.
[video] Lessons Of Scale At Facebook
And he's not an expert in 90% of the things he teaches. He's just quite good at understanding things quickly and explaining it to others, like Feynman was. Being called Khan Academy is apropro, it's mostly about his teaching and he is irreplaceable. Fortunately, video lives forever and most of the subjects are not transient.
It's hard to believe that so many business are complaining about Yelp if nothing was wrong... If what you are saying is true then the only conclusion is that the algorithm used has a major flaw but Yelp doesn't want either to acknowledge it or fix it.
I believe that they rather don't want to fix it so it help their true business of selling ads.

Anyway Yelp overall business practices and customer/business support is flaky at best, and a scam at worst. "freedom of speech" has not the same meaning when you are at Yelp.
Take the job. After a year, once you have the experience, you can move on. Or they will offer you more money, because you'll have proven yourself. Either way, you'll be better off, and you'll know what market rate looks like.
"I understand that I should be focusing on improving my skills, living my life, etc. I am." Why should you?

I'm 17 and also in High School and have found starting tech companies/working on projects great at this age. I think you're coming at this thinking that you won't be respected and you'll have problems launching a startup or working on projects at this age.

I'd say in many ways it's much better to do so now. You have the opportunity to learn, the best way to 'Improve your Skills' and learn is to launch startups/test things out. It's both a unique learning opportunity and chance to do anything someone a few years older can do.

I've never been treated any differently to anyone else. I've been to numerous events, meetups and meetings over the last few years and have found it refreshing to be treated like anyone else there. It's actually taught me a lot as well. People don't care that you're younger, even when I have to speak to someone personally in business. The point being that you're in the position that you can do anything you want, whether it be something for fun, a niche product or something with a big vision.

Don't let policies stop you, you'd be surprised at the amount you can do under 18.

This is me, if you want to talk more: http://twitter.com/andrewbrackin

Some things you should look into:

http://mlgen.com which is amazing as it's full of both hugely successfully young entrepreneurs and some doing amazing things in small niches. I've also met loads of like minded individuals who share their experience and help me connect with people I may want to meet.

http://teensintech.com is another cool site with a pretty great team of folks.
I wonder if Google actually knows that, or if it's something else that causes it.
I remember this story from another angle - when Reddit was a few years old you'd see stories claiming his presence, an Israel ex-commando, on the plane "proves" that Israel was behind 9/11. Nutty, but these submissions were doing pretty well, often hitting homepage (IIRC some of them were from a site called "what really happened" or similar)

For me it was an early clue on the "social news" world that's still unfolding. I believe it might turn out to resemble humanity's past in surprising ways.
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"Impossible matter"? What's "impossible" about it? That we don't know what it is, and that it isn't predicted by our current models, doesn't make it "impossible." It means we're going to need to extend our models, which we've been doing on a regular basis for hundreds of years. Rob Knop sums this up nicely:

"In the face of evidence otherwise, many still insist that most of the Universe must be made up of baryonic stuff that interacts with other baryons and our familiar photons. Is this not just as much hubris as insisting that the Earth, where we live, must be the center about which all the other Solar System bodies orbit?" (http://scientopia.org/blogs/galacticinteractions/2011/08/14/...)

The dark matter hypothesis seems to have a great deal of explanatory power. The antigravity hypothesis, like other MOND theories, has a good fit for the specific phenomenon it was designed to tackle, but doesn't explain a lot of the other things that dark matter does. Ethan Siegel has a good post on "What Dark Matter's Alternatives Must Do" (http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/08/what_dark_ma...) which points out some of the stuff that dark matter explains and rival theories don't (e.g. temperature fluctuations, hydrogen/helium ratio). He does presciently note that 'antimatter has negative mass' could explain more than traditional MOND theories but claims that this impacts other well-tested assumptions such as conservation of energy.

He also has a specific article on the antigravity theory: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/dark_matter_... (and yes, he does acknowledge that "dark matter ... historically has problems for individual galaxies").

Of course, none of this is to say that the dark matter hypothesis won't eventually be disproved and go the way of Vulcan as you suggest. Ironically, though, it sounds to me like the MOND and antigravity theories are the Vulcans here: they solve only one specific problem, while dark matter fits with so much more.
I don't even like the term "illegal sites". It's like the term "illegal books" or "illegal thoughts".

Anyone advocating for sites to be illegal is probably not too interested in freedom.

Can sites advocate doing illegal things? Sure, just like books. I can legally write, publish, buy and read books on how to make bombs and drugs. That is different from actually making and using bombs and drugs though, a very important distinction. There are plenty of documentaries and movies that show drugs and bombs being made and some are quite accurate. That is not illegal either.

Can sites be used to gather together to plan criminal activity? Sure, that's called conspiracy and is illegal whether done with the internet, via phone, postal letter, or meeting in a cave with dissidents. Again, a site being a medium of conspiracy doesn't make sites illegal any more than paper used to convey a bank robber's note makes paper illegal.
Sure it will. But if the business had done nothing wrong, journalistic ethics (which play no role in the "moderating" position taken by Yelp between "customer reviews") would stipulate that the newspaper could not report anything other than verifiable fact.
All signs point to NO.

You're taking just as much risk as the founders, however you aren't receiving any equity. Negotiate an equity position that rewards you for your risk.
This is interesting. Offer someone -untrained- $1million to not to connect for 30 days and they'll (most of them) do it. A trained person may fail to do that without the incentive.

Now offer an untrained person to lift 100 Kg with the same incentive. They'll fail whatever the cash is. A trained person with the right physic power will do it. No incentives required.

Conclusion: will power is not a muscle. Will Power is already strong, at its max. It's not about improving it, it's about creating incentives for it to perform. It's putting yourself in the right environment and making a strong plan.
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Ask HN: I made a 'how it works video', how is it?
I made a video showing 'how it works' after strong suggestion from the HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2924313

It's the first video I ever made, I'm pretty pleased with it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RlSmkSbleI

Comments welcome! I know it could be a bit more polished but I think overall it works well and is better than no video.

So far the response has been great. People who knew I was working on this are suddenly far more interested, it seems to be the right medium to use.
I personally like TypeRacer. You get to practice your typing and you get to race against other people. Plus, there's no need to start and stop the clock. That might add a couple WPM to fast typists.
Am I the only one who doesn't mind the blue/orange gradient? I don't get why everyone is going mental about it (this article and many like it have popped up frequently over the last few years). The article itself isn't even worth reading, filled with hyperboles like "...a monstrosity that would eventually lead to one of the worst films ever...". Especially the history lesson at the end is superfluous.

Ironically enough, the first thought I had when I visited his blog was "oh god no not another white text on black background site!". But I'm not going to write an article about the trend of light text on dark background, which would actually be a more valid complaint because it objectively reduces readability, while the orange+blue palette is just taste.
$75,000 = Free Android Smartphone. Really?
Ironic value of complaining about the ugliness of Hollywood movie color schemes while utilizing an absolutely putrid color scheme on the blog itself: priceless.

Physician, heal thyself.
Just thought this was a little out there. Wouldn't you already have the smartphone you prefer if you have $75K to invest?
You can't blame the audience for believing the eureka myth when new designs and new features are revealed in an instant, on stage, often punctuated with a brief utterance of boom.

Steve makes it look easy.

Arguably, it's not dissimilar to the techniques of showmanship that a magician uses. Months and years are spent perfecting their stage performances so that when you finally show an audience, they don't see the ropes and pulleys -- they see the trick.

Perhaps it's part of Steve Jobs' strategy to make everything seem so effortless and inspired, as a way to frustrate and flummox his competitors when inspiration inevitably fails to strike them on cue.
Not quite the same money. Employers willingly pay a big cost-of-living premium for face time. I doubled my salary by moving from Seattle to the bay area, which is to say they could save more than 50% (including office space) by hiring someone in the same time zone and a short plane ride away from meetings, yet they aren't even doing that. Founders don't have this opportunity cost (or rather, they've already accepted the opportunity cost of 100% of the market rate for their labor), so work while travelling makes a lot more sense for them.
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The Hidden Secrets of Marketing Text
One of the most important factors which determines whether someone will buy into your services ideas or products is the element of trust. When you walk into a shop, subconciously you are weighing up whether you can trust the seller or not. You do that by assessing the shop environment, how honest the salesman seems, and how knowledgable he seems about his industry and the product.

Our minds work in exactly the same way on the net. As soon as we see a web site we make judgements about its trustworthyness, its credibility and its standing within its industry.

This is one of the reasons why web site content is so important. Sadly it is the one area that people tend to give least thought to. Once the site has been designed and put up then comes the often tiresome problem of filling up the empty spaces with words which often get rushed and entered more as an after thought.

The fact is those empty spaces are probably the most essential places for marketing on your whole web site. Your web site has two audiences. The human visitor who either finds you by being referred or by putting your web address into the address bar, and the search engines.

And the only way the search engines know if your site is relevant to the search words in the text box is by the text on the page. Google only read text. You may have flashy videos, lots of beatiful piccies and it may be at the cutting edge of web site technology. But if you do not have text that is optimised for the internet – Google will pass you by. No-one can see you.

Optimised web content will:

1. Attract search engines to your site

2. Encourage your target market to your web site

3. Convert interest to sales.

This is done through excellent marketing copy that takes into account branding, is written in the style and voice of your business, targets your market audience, uses appropriate keywords, and uses optimised textual layout.

Don’t rush with the words! They are the most important element on the site! If you don’t feel you have the time or the skills and know how a Professional Internet Copywriter (such as me ) )can help you out
Plan 9 From Bell Labs
DON’T BE ANOTHER MAN’S MINION, OWN Your LIFE
Great read, I had previously only seen Greenspun's, but a lot of it didn't ring true, it's good to see some clarification.
Can we please stop this?

You are not making a valid argument, not in any way, shape or form. It’s pure, irrelevant bullshit.

It’s possible to be completely unable to color grade yet still notice trends and write that you think they are horrible.

But you are not even talking about the author’s ability to color grade, you are talking about fucking web design which is a tenuously related field at best. It just makes no sense at all.

Critics do not have to be good at what they criticize in order to be good critics. Would Roger Ebert be a good director?

It’s astonishing really, a complete non-sequitur.
Let's be clear: the SSL/TLS protocol specifies no certification structure. This structure was built by the members of CAB in the relatively distant past.

It /is/ possible to use TLS to make a genuinely good secure web. Unfortunately at the moment there isn't a strong enough economic reason to fix the current certification structure -- while fundamentally broken, it isn't broken enough in practice yet.

Something like an large ISP-level compromise of banking services using mis-issued certificates would probably incur some action.
I'd freak out if that second example from the feature-list would happen to me while I was browsing some site.
"Hello I see you are having issues finding the 'free account' button?"
...
"are you spying on me?"

edit: ok, maybe not "freak out" but i'd certainly feel at unease. Specially if it was a site enabling some form of PIM/im/private-ish activity.
Does anyone have a good ref for the details of "internal competition"? The organizational architecture would be fascinating.
I disagree. Travel is much, much bigger than football. If you don't enjoy travel, then you haven't found the sort of travel that you enjoy.
Should we call the 'undocumented' sites.
Instead of beating on with the rhetoric of your wet dream fantasies where you were already crowned King Of I Know Best, how about some of you ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION?
They broke it on day one. Basically we are stuck with a bad decision. It's a Win32 subsystem specific problem. Both NT and NTFS do not have this issue internally.

It's not backwards compatibility - it's just a turd.
Wow, that is some nasty sarcasm you've got there.

Readwarp's an ancient hobby that I don't work on anymore. Did it seem like I was trying to convert traffic? We all know how to build landing pages with big, bright call-to-action buttons, you know.

I've long since pruned most features on the site. There's no way to import feeds, etc. It only really works for me anymore. I linked to it because it's hard to make sense of custom reading solutions without pointers to try them out.
NT API is fine - it's Win32 subsystem that is broken.
Firstly, I'm not aware of how RSI is related to sitting, or how standing would alleviate RSI. RSI is due to many things: posture, positioning of mouse/keyboard, length of work/breaks, and of course, how repetitive your movements are. Given all that, standing or sitting is just a small part of RSI, and possibly the least significant factor.

If your posture is right, if your desk, mouse and keyboard are at the right height and distance, if you take regular breaks, and if you exercise your hands/fingers, then it makes little difference whether you're sitting or standing.

That said, I've recently set myself up with a standing desk – just an Ikea Fredrik. I just want to try it out for myself too, to see whether I like it. I do kung fu, and my main motivation was to practise my stance for longer periods. It's a stance similar to if you were sitting on a bar stool – that is, a few inches lower than standing straight-legged, with hip tilted straight.

That stance has taken some years for me to be able to do for more than 20-30 minutes without turning into a jelly-legged mess. If you're standing straight-legged, this won't be a consideration for you. So, I'm in reasonable shape, but by no means super fit.

This bit you add – "I'm not very used to standing and walking, and I'm afraid of being tired all the time and having back and feet pain..." – is a really important point. Don't expect to be able to just start working at your standing desk for extended periods. Go and do more walking at the very least to build up a bare minimum level of leg/back strength and stamina.

A standing desk is a great motivation to sort out your level of fitness. How long should you try the standing desk before giving up? That depends. Give yourself time to get used to it. Don't stand before you can walk (to paraphrase "don't run before you can walk").

Good luck with it, and please do report back after you've tried your standing desk for about a month. If you keep a blog, a blog post about your experience would be great.
Spot on. The problem for me is that in some software (Visual Studio) it breaks and other software (MSBuild) it works so you get inconsistent issues. In my case, it dies when building VS solutions (vs.net is win32) on disk but not using MSBuild (win64 platform).

Basically software dev breaks something by creating long file name (which if you ask me is fine) yet the integration tests succeed.
Hi spaznode, I will be really curious to hear more about your approach for doing a better filtering. Feel free to contact me (contact info/web site on my profile).
I was hoping for some feedback on the concept. Thoughts?
Speaking of this, did anyone on HN beta test Chicago (windows 95?)

Early betas had the tendency to bork the LFN's which was a joy.
Yes, but to do that you'd have to download two versions then throw some special software at them - or someone else would have to do this then supply a new torrent without them, which would mean you weren't getting it from an official source any more. Whereas if your movie has embedded directives saying "get some ads from ads.hbo.com to fill in 6:25 to 7:45", it seems pretty trivial to have the player software respond to that as "skip straight from 6:25 to 7:45".

As for the DRM software thing - that does solve that problem, but to me it is a deal killer. Yes, I would probably download TV from the "official" torrent with ads if it's just a movie, but if it's some DRM-laden mess that has to be played through their proprietary player, no way. Also, there would seem to be very little chance of getting a Linux version of the DRM software which would be a practical deal-killer for me even if I got past the conceptual issue.
Oh, and here's Gina Trapani's blog post on standing desks… http://smarterware.org/7102/how-and-why-i-switched-to-a-stan...
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A short opinion piece that touches on the Baumeister's study:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/opinion/02aamodt.html
Hey thanx for the tip, I did their live chat and their instances come with LAMP already set up and can use webmin/plesk. I've heard good things about them and so far they are living up to their reputation. I would have switched a long time ago but for some reason thought they were a lot more expensive. At the height of our business, we needed 500MB storage and 40 GB transfer per month, which works out to about $19, but only on the heaviest months, so we'll probably save money by switching.
This about sums up HN these days -- not a single answer in these 166 responses! Just a bunch of unrelated (and for the most part), uneducated opinions!
Try clicking on the links, you'll see some pictures.
69 wpm with this typing test. Though i didn't like this, because it does not start and stop the clock itself.
These sound awesome! For those of you who are like me and hadn't heard of either before, here are the links:

http://html5weekly.com/

http://javascriptweekly.com/
Aid groups are misleading the public on Somalia says MSF
I think you missed the slightly tongue-in-cheek tone of the post. The author is an indie filmmaker so it's his job to draw parallels between movies in order to highlight his probable above-average attention to detail in movies.
It is pretty common in any form of art or photography to use color balance to convey a mood.

The eye is pretty good at dealing with these things, does the author get frightened and angry when the setting sun makes things appear orange?
It is backwards compatibility, because there are a fantastic number of programs out there that simply allocate a MAX_PATH sized buffer and assume that a single file path has to fit into it. If MS simply changed things so that paths of 500 characters could be returned all those programs would fail.
What's the strategy here? Just make as many models as possible and see what sticks?
I write one of these for every large project during the optimization stage (beta testing with real data and use). I could not possibly recommend it more - not only for SQL tuning but also for tuning the cache.

I haven't looked at the source just yet, but in my own implementations, I usually keep a hash of the results as well so I can see how often the results change. If they rarely change, you have a prime candidate for heavy caching.

Another solid metric to follow are queries that are run often per request. So if I have the same query firing 5 times in a single request (even a light one) with the same returned data, I'll find a way to make sure it only runs once per request (or less).
I didn't think you worked at Yelp, but you were defending them just like my parents' customers were defending them. And as you point out, it's wrong of me to accuse you of gaming the system without any evidence that you work for them. Doesn't feel that great, does it? You actually illustrated my point quite nicely.

Also, we're not really competing with Yelp at all, so I think it's all fair game. In fact, we're integrating with Yelp's API, since we do recognize that despite how screwed up I may think their business is, people still trust them.

And my father did it because the few hundred dollars he spent is paid back if it prevents a couple customers from leaving, or even if he doesn't have to spend another hour on the phone with them. Doesn't mean what they did is fair, though.
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