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I wouldn't have downvoted you, but then your edit included some incredibly bigoted and unwarranted stereotypes:

>...fundamentalist christian [sic] ignorant half retarded hillbilly sex fiend town...

>Typical small town american [sic] fundamentalist hillbillies...

>Southern Bible Thumping Fundamentalist

>The fundamentalist missionaries infected them with the peculiar sort of madness, entitlement, laziness and corruption that comes with that belief system.

This last one takes the cake. Even if I take it at your word that the Saipanese are as lazy and corrupt as you make them out to be (which seems to be the general consensus here and on Wikipedia, so I'll accept that for now), you have absolutely zero proof that they became that way because of "fundamentalist missionaries," rather than being that way to begin with. You say that these negative attitudes come "with that belief system." What belief system? It sounds like you're blaming the problems of Saipanese culture on some chimerical theology that doesn't really exist.

If those missionaries were protestants (especially if they were Calvinists) in the 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries, they most likely did their best to instill the indiginous people with a solid work ethic[1], exactly the opposite of the vices you are trying to pin on "fundamentalism."

Here's my anecdotal evidence: In college, I briefly dated a Samoan girl who was working on a graduate degree at a nearby university, with her research subject being the colonial history of the South Pacific. Samoa was proselytized by Calvinists in the 19th century, and she told me that when the missionaries first arrived, the Samoans were pretty much the way you describe Saipan today, and that the Calvinist influence helped bring about a more egalitarian and less corrupt culture (with unscrupulous European traders often at odds with the missionaries because they sought to profit from the native corruption). Samoa isn't Saipan, but it is an example of "fundamentalist missionaries" having exactly the opposite effect on a South Pacific culture from what you blame them for in Saipan.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
As for your statement about Linux and Unix being better thats far from true. There are many areas where Windows doesn't compete at all with those systems, but its also completely true that Linux and Unix is completely rubbish at certain things Windows excels at.

Is this anything other than application support?
Thx for the feedback. Yeah I really don't want people's Driver's Licenses - I just wanted to be able to let people access the site without having a corporate or student email address. If I just open it up to all email accounts, it'll be just as spammy as Craigslist.

You're definitely right about the design also. thx again.
> but its also completely true that Linux and Unix is completely rubbish at certain things Windows excels at.

Have you got an example?
I had some clear and systematic way as I recall, but it was so long time ago that I don't really remember what the idea was.
Few people are in on this. They're going to end up giving the prize away to randos

http://bwdisrupt.appspot.com/
I am unfortunately familiar with the CNMI/Saipan and what you say was true 8 years ago; no reason to think it has improved.

How the USA treats trust terriories is pretty shameful.
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Hi,
I ma having a problem of Attention while working on small - small things.
For example - I write mail to people and do double check it sometime three or four time. Latter once I go back in my sent item and check again I found I did something wrong like spelling, Name or some grammar.

Same thing happens while reading stuff and miss read loads of words.

These kind of problem waste lots of time and some time its become humiliating.

I am quite frustrated now due to this problem which happens with me regular basis.

How can I Improve my condition? Please help.
Make sure you check out the online crossword. It's 'responsive' as well. And quite cool. (Have to register to access it)
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Not to mention fairer on the employee.

Not everyone is a self-starter or "rockstar". Failing to document clear responsibilities and goals and then measure performance against those goals shortchanges you and them.

This may be an unpopular sentiment around HN circles, but just expecting every employee to "get it" and not having a consistent process to deal with underperformance (which can have many different and often addressable causes) is a crappy way to treat employees in my view.
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Any thoughts on using local XMLHttpRequest instead of the more usual frame reload method?
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If you guys watch a little bit later after the talk with Peter Thiel and his partner they did a little segment with PG and Harj. It was very interesting. They talked about the difference of what that was and what interviews and office hours are like. Not sure if it was recorded are not.
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Not only that, Box2D and Bullet are not iOS-specific.
Pardon my ignorance but, who or what is AngelList and what can I do with it? Do I need to start with the API
I check it out. It worked nice but still needs something to set it apart I think. Even if you have something that's a little better than Google I might be willing to still choose Google over OmniPlaces just because I'm already familiar with Google and probably already have it open. Just a thought.
^^ this. Fixed bid contracts are the ONLY way off of the hourly merry-go-round if you're a contractor/consultant. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
If you didn't watch the office hours I would recommend watching that first as it provides a ton more context to this video.
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I want to also point out that doing statistics in Python is currently a chicken-and-egg problem. You need the foundation of statistical data structures and algorithms to enable people to implement their models and research. NumPy and SciPy by themselves just don't compare with base R. So I've been trying to a) fill that gap and b) build tools that are quite a lot superior to R's. I use R myself but I have no intention of "copying" or "replicating" R but rather figuring out what what are the fundamental data manipulation / statistical computing challenges and building tools that address them.
In order:

SFBA or NYC? No, but I'm open to relocation (particularly out west) if there's a relocation package involved.

Programming language? Yes. I'm pretty decent with Python and C.

Web or mobile app? I've never done it, but I don't see why not.

Work in a team? Yes. I have some (unrelated) professional experience, most of which involved working in a team.

--

Honestly, I think my main problem is not having the right contacts. Being in the midwest, and having previously been on the academic track in grad school meant I wasn't naturally going to develop those contacts, either.

My current plan is to put up a small Django-based site and find a Python-based OSS project to contribute some code to. With luck, in a few weeks, I'll be able to list "contributed to XYZ project" and at least a beginner's knowledge of Django on my CV. :)
How do you get free traffic?
Saying look how it worked for netflix and blockbuster misses the key point that my library is free. Netflix won because it is much cheaper than blockbuster. Any book subscription service is going to have to put up with a competitor who is free.

The only way I could really see it working out is if they have a very impressive selection of books, enough to beat the library on selection. For me at least it would have to surpass Safari and be much cheaper.
If only we'd gone through something like this before and knew better than to make the same mistakes all over again.
Oh good, I can finally build a simulation of a Turing Machine (with an infinite tape).
I think it is worth pointing out that this is not a redesign but an entirely new site. That probably made the website easier to develop. The old site, boston.com, hasn't changed.
AngelList is a community of startups and investors who make fund-raising efficient. You can post your startup on there and get efficient intros to good angels in your space.
Compared to all the thousands of ways in which the government tends to find to waste taxpayer money with near-zero chance of it helping anybody, I just can't seem to be so offended by this one.

If you hate the idea of taxation or stimulus, that's fine, you're certainly not alone, and I'd even agree with a lot of your arguments. But do you really think this is such a poor attempt at it, compared to the other things governments tend to try? As far as I can tell, this is aimed at allowing people that would have been on the dole anyways to spend their time doing something productive in an entrepreneurial capacity rather than sitting on their asses and deliberately not working so that they don't lose unemployment benefits.

Personally, I'd take even a half-baked attempt at spurring entrepreneurialism over monetary fiddling, another round of tax cuts for the rich, or a $50 check in the mail, any day of the week. At least this has a small chance of incentivizing innovation, which is known to help the economy in the long term, as opposed to most of the other options which mostly rely on wishful thinking...
I'm not a fanboy of Linux or Windows (I use both at work and at home), but I would venture application install experience?

I was reading (http://blog.vrplumber.com/index.php?/archives/2526-Python-2....) today and thinking, "This wouldn't have been much of a problem on Windows."
This is the hard nut "I canceled my paid subscription because I got tired of looking at ad's".

It is interesting that NetFlix traffic started exceeding torrent and p2p traffic, it will be more interesting if the price hike at Netflix reverses that trend.

Many people don't think that they are 'paying' for something when they sit through and advertisement, and yet they don't sit through it when there are 'too many' ads. Economically that transaction is identical. If you consider ad tolerance as the currency, you 'raise' the price by putting in more ads (which does raise the income of the content provider) but that drives away people (reduces demand) when people are ad saturated. Lower the number of ads, get more people. Since you can't always make enough to run a business, there is the advertisement + subscription which is two currencies vs just ads.

Another HN comment talked about the need to disrupt the movies, this is the same for TV.
the designer is Ethan Marcotte, he's written a book about fluid (or as he calls it, "responsive") web design.

http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design

one member of the backend dev team was posting in /r/web_design over on reddit. if you're really interested, it couldn't hurt to post a reply and ask him about things.

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/kd2e9/boston_glo...
Obviously that is not an issue with a startup

... if only that were true...
Maybe it's like the yahoo mail infinite mailbox. They just severely limit the bandwidth in/out, but storage is infinite. Given an infinite amount of time...
Thoughts on adding support for the main feed?
You mean aside from lousy driver support, even in Ubuntu? Try playing a modern game in a Linux distro. You probably can't get Wine to run it properly and if you can there's still your issue with good drivers for nVidia (and possibly ATI) cards.

(Long-time Ubuntu user)
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you want free software with great documentation, and you want it to amuse you too. anyone can ask for that stuff, far fewer are prepared to help out
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On a related note, I've said exactly the same thing about Matlab to people before. It (Matlab) is good for getting the algorithms and calculations correct, but as a programming language, it's pretty terrible.
It's probably an integer :D
Thanks for the feedback, I knew the landing page wasn't great. I like the recommendation by japhyr to use the sources as filter items so a user can tailor the view to their interest.

In terms of landing page, would you rather see a list of buttons with the available locations or I was thinking of having a map that highlights the areas covered and allow a user to click on a pin or popup link over an area when they hover over it. Then it would be 'Get news, weather...etc' and a map with locations or a list of buttons with locations.

I also like the idea of submitting personal zipcodes to weigh the demand for locations not already setup.
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Materialized views and query hints are the big ones the PostgreSQL is lacking.
This product is so amazing that it makes iOS provisioning and ad hoc distribution look professional, and that's saying a lot. Huge fan of this service.
We reverse-engineered XHR long before it became a big competitive deal, back in the pre-WHATWG XML daze. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_supp...

XHR was a good idea. Even choicer irony: MS exposed it to JScript when they gave Java the boot, to keep Outlook Web Access working!
Broadcast your strong opinions on Amen
I have to say that I find it a 'little' sad that the entire post reads like a Press Release, touting 'client side encryption' like something new and exciting and two thirds down it's revealed that CrunchFund is an investor.

Poor author didn't even know when she interviewed them.
Did not work for me at all.
Tried to search for Starbucks near Hamburg and compared it to Google Maps.

Got nothing on Omniplaces and everything i needed on Google Maps and as pg pointed out on stage you fight against Google in search and there is no compelling feature im even interested in on your site.

Overall it looks like a clone of Google Maps with less features and information sorry to say that.

Maybe adding some social layers (friend recommendations etc.) would help.
Thats true, but there are also surely people executing on poorly thought through or uninspiring ideas since they've been told to not go through the various thought exercises one should go though before settling on an idea for a new venture.
rdl: "what you say was true 8 years ago" //

So you put your name to this?

">...fundamentalist christian [sic] ignorant half retarded hillbilly sex fiend town...

>Typical small town american [sic] fundamentalist hillbillies...

>Southern Bible Thumping Fundamentalist

>The fundamentalist missionaries infected them with the peculiar sort of madness, entitlement, laziness and corruption that comes with that belief system."
It seems as though some of the features are very integrated with their backend's view of the world (e.g. sessions and checkpoints are broken down by user, in-app updates require OTA deployment). Not to say that it couldn't be changed to allow anonymous user statistics and pointing users to the App Store for updates.

Remote logging, questionnaires, and crash reports would be great to have in production, though!
I'd be very interested to know this as well.

I'm yet to use their framework, but am going to integrate it into my next project and these reporting features look very attractive from a production perspective - and for free!

Does anybody know their business model? It's such a good idea but I have no idea how it wouldn't be making massive losses.
This article does not mention that in order to qualify for unemployment insurance you have to have worked for a certain period of time and then been laid off.

This program will not help a college graduate (or dropout) that wants to start a business right away.

It's a great program, but unemployment should be expanded to include people who are first time entrepreneurs that have never had a job and been laid off.
I'm the last one to hold his breath for fear of vaporware, but I have high hopes for a new Sproutcore UI kit. I want robust client-side UI elements that bind easily to a REST API. I feel like we're right on the cusp of that revolution.
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Hi Dr. Li, I saw your presentation on BiMaple at the Irvine Incubation Center, so it's nice to see the technology out in the wild. My initial reaction to omniplaces was that it was slightly harder to use than Google Maps because it does not guess at your location based on your IP address. I think if you implement that it will be easier to use than Google Maps due to the instant fuzzy search (though as Paul Graham said, just being slightly better might not be enough.) Good luck!
In response to your edit, I've downvoted & flagged you. I've never flagged a comment before.

I have no use for such vitriol in my communities.

Just so you know why I did it.
They really pushed the "infinite storage" point in their presentation. But didn't they mention something about predicting which files to cache before they are requested? I would have liked to see more focus on that. Otherwise, it doesn't seem much different from dropbox, which is more established.
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"Ubiquitous" ActiveX without Windows is a pipe dream, not a useful premise. Kind of like assuming world peace first, then resolving a lesser conflict.

With ActiveX, the interfaces that might be used are too many, and their implementations too large and complicated, to have bug for bug compatibility. Even having source code would not be enough. All-paths testing would be needed.

Someone could (and a few companies did, for COM on Unix) tediously reverse-engineer a subset of COM interfaces and components implementing them. No one ever pulled off anywhere near a full Windows workalike.

The same threat arises with delayed-open-source controlled by a single proprietor. You can port and fork such code, but you can't depend on the single proprietor, especially if it's a hostile competitor. You'll have to co-maintain if you don't make a long-term fork of your own.

Source != spec. An implementation will over-specify in its source code and API. Abstractions leak. Standards can and do turn down specificity by dropping to prose or more formal means, without overspecifying.

"The risks of Google behaving like a Microsoft-style monopolist here are low because (a) they have no monopoly in browsers, VMs, or OSes to abuse,"

Look closer: Google is a search monopoly in many locales, and they are an emerging duopoly member (the larger share than Apple) on mobile, whose growth predicts it dominating desktop.

"(b) their culture is the most hacker-driven of any large company"

That was true a few years ago. It is much less so now. Larry has cut back on the thousand flowers, and focused on a few strategic bets: Android, Chrome, Google+, Search.

"(c) their interests are aligned with what is good for the web,"

So you say (and perhaps Google people say this, but I know some who candidly admit it just ain't so any longer).

Why do you believe this? As a public company, Google has to show quarterly good results, not just great profit margins but bubbly growth, to keep its stock appreciating, to retain and recruit (see the Facebook defection problem of last year). This is a big distortion on a pure open web mission.

"and (d) the industry has changed since the bad old days."

And human nature has changed since the 20th century, or the French Revolution, or the dark ages? Yeah, right.
another bloody coupon site

Somewhere out there, there is a scuba diving school / cafe / massage therapy practice which does not have any way to turn money into customers into money into customers. If they had such a thing, it would improve the lives of their customers, allow the business to make payroll, and compensate the owners for the enormous risk, investment, and effort they put into the business. Delivering that -- scalable customer acquisition -- is a sexy, sexy problem. The coupon sites are an implementation detail.

I've got one customer who feeds ten families (and probably expanding soon) in the face of the worst economy his business has ever seen because Groupon Works For Us.
FWIW, you don't "crack" cryptographic hashes, you just find a valid preimage, of which there are infinitely many.
I think you're forgetting the scenario where you have a lot of Python code and only a small part is performance critical. You can speed that part up with something like Cython, and directly integrate it with the rest of the code. If you would have to rewrite it all in C++ it would be a tedious and buggy process, the same goes for ad-hoc interfacing with text files.
I've heard a lot of praise for Testflight, and now we have people proclaiming "I wish they'd charge me". What's the catch - or put in a better way, what's their business model?
There was some sort of announcement (that I can't seem to find) that it is free for developers and that they plan on charging for some sort of enterprise version.

This blurb on TC briefly mentions a little bit about it: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/20/testflight/
I'm confused, they mentioned at techcrunch disrupt that they are able to offer infinite storage because they are deduplicating data. Fine. But they also said that they will be doing client side encryption. Contradiction - encrypted data cannot be deduplicated.
Sounds like a better plan than they've had for a while!
Talking about running things in Wine is the point the parent post was talking about.
> You mean aside from lousy driver support, even in Ubuntu?

No, he means aside from applications, such as the games you mentioned.
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Here is one of the lines of the source code:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

For those who don't know, this disables user scrolling on every standards-compliant mobile device. The reason is a bug on iOS, that causes test to flow off screen when changing orientation on non-default zoom levels. http://adactio.com/journal/4470/

I really wish more sites would enable it by default, then use javascript to disable it for iOS devices. I have come across many sites with small text that I want to zoom, but can't (this is especially bad for people with poor eyesight). Disabling it for everyone reminds me of the days of IE5 and 6, when other browsers were hampered by IE's bugs; we are only starting to see what having no bug-ridden, dominant browser on the Desktop can bring.

Before anyone says that browsers shouldn't implement this feature, they should. For better or worse, it is a part of the standard. Using browsers that don't implement parts of the standard would bring about situations even worse then this.