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Any SV folks wanting an awesome roommate?
I'm currently just chilling at my friend's place in mountain view, and I thought I'd give hacker news a try...

I quit my job in Seattle where I've lived the last 6 years. Now I've been travelling for last 2 months, and am looking for a place to settle down and work on some of my own software projects.

About me: I am a 30 y/o dude. ex-uchicago, ex-amazon hacker, originally from the east coast... looking for a place to live and hack.

I want to find a good roommate where there is mutual respect and understanding, and somewhere where it's just easy to get along with people.

While I will want to work from the place I live at, I will be quiet. I am going sitting at my computer zoning out everything, or taking breaks sitting in the lawn basking in the sunlight. Or grabbing some food at the whole foods or in and out.

When I'm not working, I'll probably be travelling more. I have plans to go to Europe later this year.

If you have something, e-mail me, and we can see if it's a good fit or not.

my e-mail is i r a d i k _at_ g/m/a/i/l

http://twitter.com/#!/iradik

thanks!
Zappa is an excellent web framework that builds on Express to provide a more Rails-like "convention over configuration" experience for Node.js. And this is its fancy new website.
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I've been in Vegas 14 years doing business and I've never seen anything like what's happening in #vegastech this year. Previous attempts felt lean and temporary but this time, well, it's for real. Zappos' support is foundational but other entrepreneurial leaders are emerging to run with the baton and build momentum in a myriad of areas (events, coworking spaces, services swaps, funding, organization, media, etc.). There are a lot of smart people here and it's a collaborative vibe thus far. We have to be in it for the long haul but it's awesome to be part of what feels like a very authentic #vegastech groundswell.
The biggest draw of Arch for me is pacman. The system itself is incredibly simple (and incredibly fast), but more importantly, it's really easy to design and compile your own packages for it. To make a Debian package, you have to edit a bunch of control files, run a bunch of shell scripts, and then it packs all that up in some obscure cpio-based format.

With Arch, on the other hand, it's one program - makepkg - with only one or two "control files" (PKGBUILD and maybe an install script), and it generates a nice, easily-inspectable .pkg.tar.gz file. Plus you can find just about any package you could want in the AUR, and if not, you can find one that builds like it and then modify it to work with your package.
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Tagging, Category, etc...
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I am not a programmer, so I did not know about the clear() method. I thought it was a rather elegant solution! I guess it's all about perspective.
FYI, while all of Facebook's SDKs already support OAuth 2.0, starting on October 1st they will only support OAuth 2.0 - anything that depends on the older authentication system will break.
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What interface are you using? I use wmii on my arch boxes.
if apple can survive without steve jobs, techcrunch can continue without arrington.

and, just out of curiosity, why do you say sadly? whats your HO?
I believe BOSS has Erlang in the back-end.
I love Posterous as a blogging platform and totally understand why they'd want to expand to a wider audience. But I just hope they don't get rid of the old experience. I don't understand why the service isn't just called Posterous with a Spaces feature?

Not sure i'd use the social features much but as long as the original blogging features are continued to be developed in the fashion they are now i'll be happy.

Maybe it's that the spaces at their core are like Private blogs for certain groups of people. The fact it's called spaces (like G+ Circles) has scared people into thinking it's building itself into a full social networking platform.
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Yahoo! owns over 40% of Alibaba which is a multibillion dollar company. I have seen valuations over 30B, but these are rough estimates since it is not public.
I'm sorry but I've watched and seen Schonfield a couple of times now and do a bunch of interviews, but there is just something off about the guy. And at this point, no matter how he responds he comes off looking like a loser. The smartest thing he can do is shut his mouth. Especially if MG leaves.
Actually, been around longer than that just finally made an account because there was something worth commenting on.

Keep down voting tho because of not liking the truth being said about how this site is turning more into what I stated previously, or better yet emo posts about how xyz startup is failing and the founders want to know why people don't like them
It's not Explorer, it's a bug with the Win32 API that loads DLLs. Any program that uses Win32 to load libraries is affected.
Gender issues in the professions covered by HN is at least debateably on topic (though one comes to feel one could just copy and paste discussion N into discussion N+1 in toto and nobody would notice). Gender issues in general, not really; just an invitation to flameage.
One thing off the top of my head: she ended the year-end parties. Those parties were great, because they brought lots of people together, and for one night, you forgot everything else and enjoyed yourself, with your spouse/s.o./friend . It was fun to see geeks bathe, shave and dress up for this yearly event.... ;-)

I keed, I keed about the bathing. :-)
Author here. I agree things go in waves. I haven't seen the sandboxing reach mass scale success before though. And I think this time it's different (last words, I know). The metaphor is now so popular, it's hard to change.

I hope intents solve the problem of sandboxing.
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Seven-billion-realities/
How's your open-source Flickr coming along, man?

// sorry, using a throw-away account..
How do you treat blips in people's past? What if they had a bad year at university, for example, but have been consistently "A" players since beginning a career?
Android does a good job of this with intents. Google is also bringing this standard to the browser. It's an elegant way to solve this problem

http://tomasztunguz.com/2011/08/30/liberating-user-data-with...
The article is actually written by a woman.
This is the best option. If you're good, then you can easily get a job very quickly in today's conditions. So a signing bonus, of, say, 3 months salary is ample.

Also: Yahoo is known for _very_ generous severance benefits. Typically you'll get 3-4 months of salary.

So if you're even half-way decent, you should be OK.
For those who've never used it. You know all of the "boilerplate" frameworks that have been hot recently? HTML5 Boilerplate is one, iOS Boilerplate is another... well Arch is the Linux Boilerplate if there ever was one. It gives you only the essentials that you need and leaves the rest up to you.
I'm not sure this is a smart advice. Of course, frugality is good thing. But it does not help you to become rich.

There is a saying which says: Don't waste your time thinking about how to spend money, think about how to make money.
You have a point there. That someone could possibly anticipate what Doodles are going to be used and SEO map their site to that.

It still isn't the kind of thing I personally am hoping to get at Hacker News.

It seems to me that more and more people are interested in shortcuts to success and praying to the Tech Religions than actually doing something themselves or sharing stuff that is really worthwhile.
no-name = huawei

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/productHomeAction.do?m...
And that's a lot of momentum!
No, it's not society that has become adversarial, it is the vague and far-reaching laws.
How do you feel about web apps? They update themselves automatically and generally frequently. I think that's what Chrome is aiming for and in my experience it works well. For something like a browser where both security and features for developers depend on everyone updating, leaving the majority of users on an old version is just a bad idea.
So everyone downvoting me agrees with what Paul Carr did and disagrees with my sentiment OR just finds my choice of language offensive?

Genuinely curious as I'm a newbie to HN.
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Have any of you signed up for the service yet? It looks quite slick. I've tipped a couple of people as well as verified my own website so that I can claim tips that people leave for me. The really neat thing (as the ERE post mentions) is that you don't have to sign up for people to start tipping you. All the tips for a site are logged until you claim them as the site owner (via meta tags or file upload). It's a great way to overcome the initial adopter problem WRT getting people to accept your payment method. So website owners don't need to install anything in order to accept tips. I'm interested to see if this catches on. It's really great from both a concept and implementation perspective.
A hatchet job on a colleague, even one you don't like, on a public blog is awesome and heartfelt?
May I ask how subpixel smoothing is not a form of hinting?
Definitely agree. The AUR makes it really easy to manage software not in the official repositories- without that it becomes difficult to keep track of what's installed and often impossible to uninstall.

However, it would be nice if pacman used signed packages, especially in light of the recent kernel.org situation.
I thought USPS is a "private" company, just heavily regulated.

Edit: Never mind. It has a complicate ownership, as a US government-owned corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
Show HN: SoWink - The Most Exclusive Social Experience
I've been working on SoWink with my team for the past couple of months now and we're finally in the closed beta stage of our product testing period. I'd love to see what you guys think about our product and would highly appreciate your feedback - be it support or constructive criticism. (I actually prefer the latter) Any suggestions or advice are welcomed as we humble ourselves before the HN community.

What is SoWink? (www.sowink.com)

SoWink is a new up-and-coming startup in the social dating and networking space exclusively for users between the ages of 18 to 35 - that is to say, you definitely won't find your mom on it! We aim to revolutionize your dating world by being the first provider to effectively bridge the gap between the virtual dating world and reality.

Over 1000 users in the Bay Area alone have signed up in the just the past few weeks! See for yourself what the buzz is all about and let SoWink revolutionize your dating world!

We're also on Facebook at facebook.com/sowink and twitter at @sowink_inc
Sigh. Why, oh why, do these sites use OpenID and not let me write my own OpenID URL?
I haven't downvoted you - but see my post above as to why I'm sorely tempted.

I guess I'm just curious why folks need to express opinions like these about stuff they really don't know that much about. Obviously people DO express such opinions... and will continue to... but it doesn't aid you any to do so. Just costs you time and energy.
i thought so. did you read it? have you followed tc regularly? we're not talking about one person going rogue amongst an otherwise polite and self-effacing bunch of perfectly behaved people...
I just checked out ArchServer and it looks like the project is winding down.

http://www.archserver.org/
Is the plan B of all startups to convert their services into a photo-sharing social network?
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They just want to position themselves to get acquired by Google. It's a smart strategy, I admit. Though I think Posterous is starting to become a solution in search of a problem.
Isn't this identical to what the original post I replied to was saying - those he refers to as the "clueless" have not sufficiently analyzed enough technology to distinguish it from magic. I wouldn't go so far as calling people clueless though, thinking of some things as magical black boxes frees up mental space.
I smiled reading this exchange, very good-spirited. Hope you can successfully work together!
I do have a couple issues with the Android browser on a phone, but overall I am pleased with it, and I've never thought it was too slow. The most obvious problem is that switching tabs takes too long. Also, lack of SVG rendering. (This happens to be preventing it from passing the Acid3 Test.)

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1376
Read TC a lot less recently since they want to be the news vs. breaking it...
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I was a TC subscriber from not long after its launch and continued to see it as "Michael's blog" (with all the bias and personality that entails) and not the media behemoth it has become. Admittedly, it's like lamenting Wozniak 'leaving' Apple in 1987 ;-)
Generally cutting small things has too small of an impect. At least if you are young, childless, healthy, and making a software dev salary, there are really only three flexible items that matter:

Rent (huge)

Car

Food (esp. if you eat out all the time)

At least in expensive urban areas (Bay Area, NYC, etc), saving on rent is one of the easiest things for most of the software dev types to do. Dumping a car or getting a cheap used one helps a lot, and eating out can be exceptionally costly everyday.

Once you flush those recurring costs down, you'll have plenty left over to save and/or splurge. Getting good deals on $50 electronic products really isn't worth your time; getting your rent lowered by $300 a month is.
Anyone still owns YHOO stocks? Got some at around 13 after the collapse of Microsoft buyout. The book value was/is good. Was hoping there's another acquisition.
There are bigger crimes than breaching a paywall. It's not hard to see an argument for downloading as civil disobedience in this case.
I agree 100% actually. I was annoyed with myself for taking the bait and commenting on this at all cuz it's an utter waste of time.

That said, I thought Paul Carr's effort to torpedo TC was unprofessional and disrespectful of his former colleagues who still get paid and probably require their paycheck from TC. I don't need to know the facts or the players (nor do I want to) to know this was a selfish move.

But again, agree that this whole saga is a waste. Back to real work.
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Interesting post, here's some replies to your problems/ideas.

Problem 1, (Bad Teachers): I don't think this is a startup idea? But a thought and something that school districts should test and maybe address. There is ratemyteachers.com which does this to an extent.

Problem 2, (Motivate students with motivational material): Don't really understand this one? I'm sure there's lots of blogs out there with tips for students to stay motivated and lots of tips from teachers about this.

Problem 3, (Students can't code): I'd love for every student (including me) to have had the opportunity to learn to code in school. It may be too much of a niche, I don't know but I do know that at least HTML is taught in the UK. Which isn't much of a start. Not sure how a startup could fit into this equation. Maybe a campaign to push this.

Also I don't think most students have the $100 to spend on such courses. At least the students I know. But you're right, more startups like Codecademy should help people learn to code.

Problem 4, Twitter Analytics: Only Twitter could much of what you talk about (where people find you), I suppose Bit.ly already do this to an extent if you use Bit.ly. There's also Crowdboost an awesome YC startup which does a load of Twitter analytics.

Problem 5, Website creation with Google Integration: You could do all of this with tools from Google in Google sites. Although you're right that having a well designed site is important. I guess things like ThemeForest or hiring a freelancer (can be expensive) help. Even using Wordpress which is pretty flexible for those on a budget.
This is a positive idea, but I think it should be done somewhat differently. I'm not sure the size of the company is the main factor. Instead, I would like to see something like

> No use of software patents against open source code

Companies could then protect themselves from patent lawsuits by open sourcing their code, which makes sense since everyone benefits from open source code.
As others said, it would be good if you indicated only OS X support. I just assumed from the screencast that at least any *nix system would work. Surely making a Linux client isn't far off, though, right?
Yes, that would be a great answer, and ideally they get to the part you mentioned about adding it to an internal library, to which the next question is, Ok, you're adding it, how do you write it? My point is merely that it's still worthwhile to see an implementation, rather than moving on when you hear the word "Clear".
I used Slackware for something like 13 years, and have been using Arch for maybe 2. If you'll allow me to post a link to my own stuff, I put together a blog entry about exactly this question:

http://beej.us/blog/2009/12/arch-vs-slackware/

Both Slack and Arch are excellent, but not quite the same in their objectives. I run Arch on my netbook and desktop (with FVWM) and love it.
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Huawei has been building better and better phones lately. I could definitely see them becoming like HTC in the future (as in a popular brand with high quality products).
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Debian has dpkg-* , apt-* and aptitude. Now I now they all have their purposes and whatever, but Arch has only pacman.
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Hey, thanks for the comment! I'm not sure how to solve the problem of motivating students. An idea that popped into my mind was a blog of some sort, but looking back that's not a very good solution. For problem 5, I felt as if though having a onepagerapp.com for those professionals would make sense. To me, teaching kids to code in school isn't really a niche market. Not every school would recognize the value of having students well-versed with programming/computer science, but I feel like having this course as a way to incorporate web development into the curriculum without having to hire too many teachers makes sense. Thanks again for commenting!
If someone used clear on a vector of pointers AS RECOMMENDED IN THIS ARTICLE they've just introduced a serious, serious problem.

readability < does it work
There was a deleted reply that said:

> On the other hand, a daily habit of frugality makes it easier to not splurge.

My response: that might not be true based on the recent information about decision fatigue[1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fro...
I disagree with the general sentiment of the article, but this comment rings true. If you are aware of how to survive on a limited budget, that could give you the strength, knowledge, and confidence to power through a tough financial situation with your startup.
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>which makes sense since everyone benefits from open source code.

Companies (and people in general the last 30 years) have not concerned themselves with doing things to benefit everyone. I'm sure open sourcing code would be better overall, but I don't see that happening with most major software.
You could save a lot of money by never going to a barber and a lot of money by never speaking with a lawyer. Of course, you'll look like a fool in both instances.
Why are a couple of books any kind of evidence that "Lean" is more than a buzzword?

Airport book stores have many buzzword books for sale :-)
And if you are looking for some advice when investing in the stock market:

get_hot_stock_tip() {
ACTIONS=($"Buy" "Sell");
ACTION=${ACTIONS[$((RANDOM%2))]};
STOCK=`</dev/urandom tr -cd A-Z | head -c$((RANDOM%4+1))`;
echo "$ACTION $STOCK";
}

Sell GUF
Sell LNT
Buy WILK
Buy EWM
Sell RLAO

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Someone I know was working on a kind of About.me for professionals, to create simple one page sites. I think this is an interesting market.
> It really does take time if you want to understand Arch deeply.

I'm don't get what you mean. I've been using Arch for 4 years or so and I don't think I know much more about the system internals than I did 3 years ago, because there aren't many.

The system config is stored rc.conf, the package manager is configured in pacman.conf. That is Arch Linux. You open these with vim, read the comment, edit, save, that is it. If you break something, tough luck. Other distros will half-assedly babysit you through the system config and leave you confused. That is the main difference I think.
Erick's reply: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/paul-i-accept-your-resignat...
I see. I asked because I recently listened to FLOSS Weekly's "Apache Traffic Server" episode featuring some Yahoos who were involved with it from its beginnings, and which is apparently used heavily within the Yahoo infrastructure.

http://twit.cachefly.net/floss0179.mp3

"We talk about the Apache Traffic Server, a proxy server that you probably don't realize you are already using.

Guests: Leif Hedstrom and Bryan Call"
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Paul, I Accept Your Resignation
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I have had used so many to-do apps, but at the end I always come back to .txt.
Nitpicking here, but it's RPM that uses the CPIO based format. Debian .debs are ar archives with control and data tarballs. The data.tar.gz is pretty easily inspectable.
Well, this is unprofessional.

Let's all grow the fuck up and get back to reporting news. This is the kind of shit that made me stop reading TC.
Why the hell is it so hard for me to determine wtf NowJS does?! All I can tell is it's a framework on top of Node and I can build a chat server in a few lines of code...

EDIT: Ok sheesh, I had to go to nowjs.com's frontpage to see it. The Docs page was less clear, which was the most obvious button to hit from the real time page.
Yea expect the unexpected with those guys. They are creative at wringing out cash right now with no thought to the future or any wishy-washy stuff like morale, culture, history, etc. I've seen 90% of employees fired and the rest relocated a thousand miles away just so they could get the cash out of selling an office building.
In my experience, in Boston, nobody will bat an eye if you go into most libraries at MIT (so long as you don't go breaking into wiring closets) or BU. Harvard is very restrictive because it'd probably be overrun with tourists otherwise. I think libraries in big cities (NYC) tend to be more exclusive, to keep out the riff-raff and homeless people, but such cities usually have good public research libraries.

In Toronto, the the UofT libraries are accessible to anybody. However, I did once get kicked out of the Law Society of Upper Canada library when I mixed up Osgoode Hall with the Osgoode Hall law school when I was doing research for a high school class, and I'm still bitter about that.
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Flask support would be amazing.
I suspect any attempts to distribute VMs of Visual Studio stack would result in nifty licensing costs.
There is also a package for Python, pyCUDA (even easier than JavaScript - personal opinion):

http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda