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Can you offer any links to a discussion of the issue, or how it is being approached by different startups?
do you mind sharing how you actually got those hits in the first two weeks? i know with many startups getting the word out after the launch is very hard.

so aside from HN what else did you do to get word out and get even foreign non-profits?
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it's still easier than ie6 compatibility...
I think rather that a 1990s computer would take the full battery (or 180 kJ) to accomplish the same tasks that the macbook air could in 2.5 seconds of operation (~50 J?). So if you changed the task efficiency of the Macbook air to be that of an old computer, but kept the same processing power, the Macbook Air would be consuming 72,000 Watts.
Makes sense to me. If they calculated that in 1990 it took x watts to generate y processing power by now x has gone wayyyy down if y remains the same. They don't have the best documentation but it doesn't seem unreasonable.
>'with the gray interpreter'

sorry, ya lost me there. Are you referring to a language interpreter? In that case, which one?

The only difference I can see for interpreters is that it necessitates parsing the entire line before acting, which all but the most highly-tuned (and designed for this purpose) interpreted-languages probably already do.
so if someone could make a 68030 as efficient as an i5, I could have a PowerBook 170 that would run for a week on a charge? Yes, please.

( I'll need someone to knock up a Twitter reading client in MPW too, pls)
Is it just me, or do a lot of the reasons listed seem to be focused on founders that are still in some form of school? I doubt that a frequent reason that non-college going founders fail is because "one of the founders chooses to do a term abroad and get back to the startup "later"".
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I appreciate the suggestion and information, but please read the comment elsewhere: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997713

In short, I have no idea what to do with the information you just gave me. I don't know the things are that I have no awareness of. There are unknown unknowns, and for me in the field of web design, everything is an unknown unknown.

One day I might have the time to learn, but that day is not today, won't be this week, month, or probably year. I am interested, but other things have priority just now.
It sounds like you're building a solution without having a problem. You need to decide what the problem is that you're tackling before you can build a solution.

Are you trying to build something that will let people quickly share what they're working on, are you building something that will act as a bio for people giving talks, are you building an alternative for a CV ?
It's not a fair comparison. A 90s mainframe would probably smoke an Air if they were competing on IOPS with a thousand connected users!
Given the current way [Riak] index queries are expressed, I was reminded of the unfortunately named HTSQL; I'm not sure if I am fond of it or not yet, but I thought I'd pass along a few references as it bears some at least superficial similarity to what exists in Riak at the moment, and that may be of use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTSQL

http://htsql.org/doc/ref/index.html
This is just another way of stating Moore's law. Chip transistor count doubles every year and a half; chip power use doesn't.
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I'm not trying to be mean, but I agree. I could not tell it was a shell until the end where I saw the drawings with no color/ribbon/things in the way.
The rocket part doesn't go into orbit, only the nose.
Yes, it must be. And from 1990 to 2011 number of transistors per cm2 has doubled 14 or so times.

If they are going to compare it with computational power, they should also factor in battery development since 1990.
Apparently sshfs is news enough in the Mac community that it seems like a Cool Trick instead of a standard tool.
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Walking on a pedestrian trail in a park or the woods would greatly reduce your likelyhood of being hit by a vehicle... it would also be highly rejuvenating (nature is relaxing to most folks).
I remember there was an article about climbing Everest that was pretty high up on HN for a few days. It makes a lot of sense that it was popular now that I think about it since there's plenty of startup analogies to climbing Everest. Fall asleep because you need to "take a break" and you might never wake up. Just one of many interesting parallels.
Or even better, compare it to a butterfly flapping its wings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect) as this kind of comparison is sensitive to so many different factors you can't take any conclusions too seriously.

Still, not a bad yardstick to see how far we've come with respect to computing power per watt - maybe this is why the rate of change is increasing more than exponentially - you have multiple exponential rates converging in a positive feedback system...
Personal blogs like Fred Wilson's and Mark Suster's are less hype driven and more content driven. A TON of their content is geared towards providing the startup community and aspiring entrepreneurs with valuable information. Their content is derived from their personal experiences - the companies they invest in, advise and have created themselves - and this is why reading them is valuable. They never claim to be or are never perceived to be neutral news sources.

Blogs like TechCrunch and GigaOm are more journalistic in nature - their goals and the public's perception of them is as a news source. There are certain responsibilities and standards that need to be upheld when you are a source of news that don't apply to personal blogs.
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I've actually got a blog post planned for that :) I'd love to get a little more traction so I actually have something to write about though. But a big thing is just that people like to talk about designy stuff on Twitter a lot
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Yes you are right. My two co-founders and me are still in college/university. We live - to some extend - in a college world and we face problems which may not be faced by folks already out there working at companies.
Startups will get the economy moving again. You'd think the banks would help.
Wow. Posting the textbook definition of MVP gets downvoted. The Redditization of Hacker News.
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No shit.

I'd go as far as saying, failing at least 5-10 times in a row, before you hit it off at anything that you are really committed to.

Most successful entrepreneurs know this - because they failed at starting a business. And eventually they succeed.

The side-effect of success is that they (successful people/entrepreneurs) create a belief system and/or a cult of personality around their success, thinking they have some kind of a "winning formula" for success and miss out on Who really gave them what they got.

Some will eventually, even if it means several lifetimes of the spirit hanging around in this realm of existence, discover their true calling and purpose - to pave the way for the return of the one who started it all. That's, if they're "lucky" .... otherwise, stick to your money, sex, "internal peace", vacations, educations, whatever....
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When joblessness is 3% and you can (not easily) find a job if you get fired from another, landing to the moon is quite interesting for you, and for anyone else.

When you are struggeling to pay the bills, finding a job, or securing your current job, landing to the moon is a quite stupid thing the USA gov. is spending the money on.

Although it won't cost the US economy only a little (few billions) comparing to its size, people won't be easy with it. They are in trouble living in earth, and are not looking for the moon or massively expensive explorations.
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Agreed. Seemed like some weird cross section of heart and boob to me at first glance. Brought nothing sound related to mind.
prestigeous[sic] 6k/month job?
it looks nice - went to buy it but i don't see it in the app store... has it launched? I found quite a few hansel and gretel books so you have some competition.
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You ought to question that belief with some careful thinking -- economic and moral.

Copyright restricts access to goods -- that is bad. It only makes sense to do that in so far as it is counterbalanced by doing some good -- supporting production. That is something to weigh up by evidence, and the lifespan of the creator seems not particularly germane.

And what exactly is being 'suffered'? If you look carefully, you will find nothing there. The loss of control of the work? But you only expect that control because of the current law. You cannot justify that expectation based on itself. The connection between creator and creation is abstract. Using a creation hurts the creator no more than poking a voodoo doll of them.

You might say you still 'feel' hurt by uncontrolled use. But by restricting other people's use you are very directly, materially, controlling them. Ought there not to be a good reason for telling someone else what they can or cannot do? Is some vague 'sense' or 'feeling' enough? It really does not seem to weigh up in favour of the creator.

And one cannot simply say that other people are irrelevant, that it is only about what is right for the creator. Laws or rules are not made to serve one (kind of) individual but to serve everyone -- otherwise why should everyone have any interest in obeying them?
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This is the first thing I was looking for!
It's easier to pirate music from a seemingly larger-than-life band than it is to pirate a book from a man who you (I, some of us?) watched grow the idea from a few blog posts a year ago. Perhaps I've got the narrative all wrong, but from my point of view, Mr. Kadavy made a couple really well-done blog posts covering "Design for Hackers", they became fairly popular on HN, he responded to comments on HN, got support for his book idea on HN, and made it happen.

Perhaps a better analogy is this: Yeah, I might pirate a Metallica song, but I'm not pirating the first album of that indie band I heard when I was passing through Louisville earlier this summer.
Google Code Search does do regexes against an impressively large set of documents nearly instantly, though it's clearly much smaller than the set of all webpages. It'd be interesting to know how much Google could scale it; could they handle 100x the number of documents in the current code search? 10,000x?
If only battery technology had kept up with computing technology.

We'd definitely all be driving electric cars today if that happened.

The best (commercial) batteries today are only a few times better than the ones used in electric cars 100 years ago.
I used this to port jQuery.data implementation and its corresponding tests into Batman's internals[1]. Worked wonderfully and saved me hours of manual rewriting.

Kudos to the author!

1: https://github.com/Shopify/batman/commit/6b421b32c2d28bc7e41...
I agree. The emperor who replaced Zhu Di was more conservative and thought that China should close its doors. He famously said that "The outside world had nothing to offer China, it is too primitive and backwards, leave it alone." This inward looking mentality, fueled by the belief in your own superiority, is the disease of great powers. I am afraid that in some ways the United States has become one, maybe it's a good indicator of a power in decline.
Not for me!
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There is also the large markets of tutoring and online learning. Not to mention the huge market that is higher education.
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You might want to add that qualifier to your article. Startup founders and employees may be in different life phases; your advice is likely to be relevant only to college-aged founders.
The roundness is mostly due to the fact that propellant almost always requires being stored in a pressure vessel, more so for cryogenic propellants. It's far, far easier to make a pressure vessel that's at least axisymmetric. Thus, the fuel tanks tend to be spheres or cylinders. And since the fuel tanks are by far the largest components of launch vehicles the rocket itself tends to be cylindrical.
> Once dead, however, their works should transition to the public domain.

So we can make their work free once they're dead? That doesn't seem fair. What's wrong with something going into the public domain? It's not terrible.
I wonder how many features facebook can continue to add before things get too cumbersome... I understand the vision and the fact that they want to address all of their users' needs. But trying to integrate everything that other social networking sites do really well seems like overkill.
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I have heard that humans have a wavelength. Is this true?
I'm aware of the shuttles limitations and the politics behind them, but the Soyuz system isn't any safer. I'm just skeptical of this sudden "ZOMG DRAGONX SAFETY WILL BE AWESOME" assumption that so many pro-privatization types seem to have. Considering how many times their rockets have blown up already perhaps its best to be not drawing any conclusions thus far.
It's too bad there is no decent way to use speech recognition to translate voice into code.

I often find myself using transcription while driving to send long emails for example... I'll dictate stream of consciousness while driving, including the um and ahhs, then when I get in, the email will just need editing to send.
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where every person without paying.... start making web,desktop & mobile applications for personal use specially kids which is the best part over their is a kids corner where kids learn how to make , design applications and learn basic programming oops concepts with help of videos specially for kids

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....after all this stuff u start looking deep in open source tech like java n android .....their are lot of free tutorials channel in youtube New boston is one of them and many paid tutorials lynda, video2brain ,nuggets so many.........Thanks
A counterpoint: the Air still does not match the battery life of a TRS-80 Model 100 from 1983: 20 hours on 4 AA batteries.

A Model 100 was pretty much the opposite of the iPad: great for creative activities (writing, taking notes, programming) but poor for consumption activities.
I think (1) is pretty interesting, do you have any more information on this phenomenon? Have there been any articles written?

Very cool, thanks for bringing it up.
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Probably the bullet points are specific to student/founders. But in the case of us old geezers you run into the same basic concepts. Often people get a "real" job because they need some stability (mental as well as financial) and it becomes a drag to spend your free time working on the startup. As somebody who has been trying to make a startup work for about 3 years, it takes a lot of passion on everybody's part to keep going.
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on any Apple-branded products running Mac OS X (“Mac Computer”) that
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I managed to set one up last week with Wells Fargo. They wouldn't set up a credit account without a SSN, but I have check and savings. Granted, it was because I'm moving there next week, but the process only took an hour, and a few scanned documents.
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Sorry about the audio, we'll try to fix it in a second. Also, we'll be turning the stream off for some of the off the record companies.
Ask HN: How to sustain project with steadily increasing active users?
Hi Hacker News,

I launched the private beta of http://handpick.me about 2 weeks ago on Hacker news:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949117

After being covered by 3 blogs, the number of users has grown steadily, with a good handful of active daily users.

In the event that the copy on http://handpick.me is unclear, Handpick offers you a bookmarklet or Chrome extension where you select which groups of folks you'd like to send a link to. Handpick will compile the links and send them in a single email digest at the time of the day you specify.

I think Handpick has a chance of making a dent in the universe and I love to wake up to emails from users who tell me how much they love Handpick when they suggest a feature or find a bug.

The app's running on a free Heroku plan with a free Sendgrid addon for sending daily email digests on links collected.

Right now, I'm uncertain how to proceed. I've been using Handpick myself with my friends for the past year and it seems like there are others who like this too.

I haven't started promoting Handpick at all as I'm worried that I wouldn't be able to support a sudden growth of users. I'd prefer not to pay for resources out of my own pocket yet.

Is there a way to monetize Handpick and yet maintain a high amount of respect for my users’ time, attention, and happiness?
had something like that in mind for quite some time.. too much heavy lifting every time you drop in something like.. SSToolkit or stuff. Let's start something!
>maybe this is why the rate of change is increasing more than exponentially

Doesn't seem so. Classic Moore : 7h (25200s) / 2.5s ~= 2^14 that places us in - 1.5 years for a power of 2 - 1990.

>more than exponentially - you have multiple exponential rates converging in a positive feedback system...

not really. The system as whole improves with the same exponential rate precisely because all and each of its components improves with the same exponential rate. Exponential rate of CPU and exponential rate of RAM produce the same one exponential rate of the improvement of the whole system comprised of the CPU and the RAM. Exponential rate of the CPU only, for example, would result in much less than the exponential rate for the whole system.
The eventual decline and stagnation was the effect of the decision to close China's doors. But the cause of the end of the expeditions was largely financial. Culture also has an important role to play. The Chinese were not looking for new lands or have any interest in converting people to their religion. They were looking for respect and recognition. They want to prove to the world that China is the undisputed power on Earth and that they are the pinnacle of civilization. They could not have imagined that the world is about to enter into a period of tremendous change so they felt no reason to change their imperial system. How can you change perfection? ...LOL
Thanks for the feedback. I added a paragraph making clear that I'm an undergraduate student
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Ask HN: Manufacturing small electronic devices?
The hacker community has been a great help getting me from components to prototype, but I haven't really found much about the mass production process. Has anyone gotten a small electronic device mass produced? Is there anything I should be aware of? Who should I talk to? Is it going to be as expensive and difficult as I think it is going to be? Are there any books or blogs on the subject I should check out?
Not to mention the title.
I'd be interested in seeing how fraud applies in the event that investors are talking about their investments in private companies. For example, it's not uncommon for you to see an investor to say something like, "I like the businesses in space XYZ and the ABC business model...and that's why I invested in company LMN". In this instance, I don't see an overt statement that is fraudulent...even in the event that the company pivots away from any of the above points.

I have heard investors say, "I'm not in deal ABC, but I could have been / wish I was, because now those guys are killing it." Is that fraud? While that type of talk can excite people to act, if the investor isn't involved...idk. Oftentimes, the common public perception a company is 'killing it' is neither news (to the general tech public), nor is it always true (lots of companies appear to be killing it, but are running out of cash.).

Another scenario is when a VC talks publicly about an investment they are in, in conjunction with details about how the company is performing. I can't recall ever hearing this type of talk, though I'm sure it does exist. In these cases, I'd suspect, as long as the company isn't about to go public, fraud would still be questionable. If this type of information was used to persuade other institutional investors, who conduct their own diligence, I'm not sure the statements hold much meaning. With private investments, which are not usually liquid, and investors are selected...it's akin to Goldman making the argument that their clients are professional investors and therefore responsible to make their own investment decisions. However, with the introduction of Second Market, this might not be the case. In the event that private stock acts like public stock, forward looking statements (either positive or negative) that move the market could have a fraudulent effect.

The whole situation is unclear, especially considering the rare IPO and Second Market effect, VCs can really only defraud professional investors / acquirers. In those cases, I'm not sure their words have much of an affect. However, VCs could potential make statements and sell stock on 2nd market.

It'll be interesting to see how it all works out and whether or not Second Market will be able to trade private company stock in the future.
It's easy to forget that 1Gbit/second an insane amount of text / numberic data and 1990 was a LONG time ago. Just concider that the extimated monthly transfter acroos internet backbones in December 1990 was 1TB. That 1GBit lan cable was 100's of times faster than all of the internet backbones in 1990.

So while, Mainframe software is vary efficent the hardware still sucked compared to modern systems. Just think a 1GBit/second Fible Channel did not show up until 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel.

PS: The #5 super computer in June 1993 had 4 cores Processor NEC 400 MHz (6.4 GFlops). http://www.top500.org/system/377 A 999$ mackbook air uses a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor that would crush it in large part due to that 3 MB L3 cache but also due to being able to do far more in of those cycles.
I didn't expose the problem nor our point of view because I thought was not the point.

The problem for me, as a developer is, I don't have a place to show off all my stuff (like a developer portfolio). Online CVs are almost the same as were 10 years ago, filling forms about what you have done, so our point is to create an alternative for a CV, something automatically updated, with all the info that you care about and without all the pain off filling forms and repeat the same info again.
Any modern text editor?

Spell check hasn't been the exclusive domain of the big bulky word processors in years.