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Bankers were secondary to the tech scene? Maybe for a couple of years in the dot com era, but otherwise I'm not sure which NYC you are referring to.
We are not just talking >200K, we are talking 8-9 million people, a mix of bankers, media folk, fashion folk, diplomats, tech companies, and the usual realtors, doctors and lawyers found in most cities. That's a big mix, and makes it difficult to stand out.
After the talk, I had a lot of time to meditate about this on the train back home.

Yes, I think it'll happen, but it won't look anything like the valley.

When I was aiming at a finance job, I had two recruiters from two separate banks tell me one of the qualities they look for is an entrepreneurial spirit. Of course, they want you to be entrepreneurial with other peoples money and forfeit the reward to your employer. This is the attitude that creates a city overflowing with smart, ambitious, miserable people. Thats a powderkeg ready to be lit.

They key will be getting the financial services industry on board. If there was an incubator run by Goldman Sachs, kids at NYU and Columbia would start talking about startups like the kids at Stanfard do.
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Is there an up-to-date list or site somewhere listing these places?
Peoples' alternative is driving or caltrain, not being unable to get to work. Presumably this will go even less frequently than caltrain, so that's what you have to beat on value.
An interesting case may be when technological growth outpaces societies ability to absorb it.

Perhaps this is a case of one gear (tech progress) going faster than the others (humanity).

Plus I would have to bring in another aspect - the fact that humans age, while machines/tech wont.

When you/people grow older, its quite possible that they wont be nimble enough to jump and twist fast enough onto new platforms.

In which case you/they are screwed. You can't assume that everyone is going to invest and save away and have perfect retirements/medical situations in their old age either.
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Or "Kindle Prime". But who knows? I thought iPad was silly name at first. "Too close to iPod." Seems to work now.
TextWrangler is perfectly adequate. Just by having undo that works properly it's more useful than TextMate for a lot of tasks.

I agree BBEdit is expensive.
I've always thought of it as a global adjustment to the levels of poverty - maybe America is worse off, but humanity as a whole is better off.
The big webapp I'm working on moved from deleting data to adding delete flags over the 7 years of its existence. There are two reasons for this, none of it involves tracking users.

For one, a lot of the data is synchronized to offline applications.

If you just delete the data on the server, it's gone and it becomes impossible to tell clients that they have to remove their copy. In this case, I could keep a second list of deleted items around and synch only that of course, but that would mean additional work and it wouldn't help for the other case:

Many times, end users wanted us to restore some data for them that they accidentally deleted. Back in the days that meant restoring the backup, and merging the backup with the current live data. A risky, complicated and thus expensive process.

Nowadays, I just set the delete flag to false and the problem is solved.

On the other hand, the data we are dealing with isn't nearly as sensitive as Facebooks and it's never shared between users.
"..most of the positive responses were from people who, like me, have a depth of experience on other client platforms.. Then there are the people who reacted negatively to my post. A common theme throughout these responses is complacency."

So everybody who disagreed with you is complacent. Who's being complacent here?

I enjoyed the original post, but the tone of this one is off-putting.

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Between the two articles I built my first iPhone app. It felt like a ghetto. Interface Builder, I christen thee 'click and pray'. Perhaps there's a simpler explanation for these phenomena: we tend to discount the drawbacks in what we know.
I really don't know if I want Facebook involved in politics when they show such a blatant cavalier approach to privacy, regardless of how its (what can soon be referred to as) constituents think of it.
This is a well-written article. You've acknowledged an interview process, and you've provided very good advice for candidates who may encounter a similar one.

Ideally, both hirer and hiree would obtain perfect insight during the interview, and an alignment of skills, personalities and potential could be determined and made obvious to both parties.

We cannot obtain such insight, and yet hiring decisions are still made every day. Some work out, some don't.

As in most things, companies must optimize toward some strategy that produces results consistent with their priorities. If each of your programmers must be able to define - not just implement, but actually recall - breadth first, depth first, big-o notation, and others, I suppose your strategy will have to include such questions. What better way to determine whether your candidate can memorize definitions than to ask them for them?

But some parts of the common technical interview exist simply because the interviewers themselves aren't aware of any better strategy to obtain the insight that really matters. Is your culture easy-going? Do you need a certain kind of creative influence on your team? Is it really true that your programmers need to program algorithms at all?

My point is really quite simple: to alleviate the feeling that we're passing over good people, we should alter the interview process to give the candidate ample opportunities to show us they're a good fit (and that we're a good fit for them. For the record, I never accept offers from companies that ask me lexical structure or algorithm questions, especially if those questions are posed by peer-level interviewers - it suggests a non-performing competitive rather than cooperative atmosphere). We should identify, if we can, the priorities of our team, and then attempt to find a strategy that is optimized for presenting the candidates we're seeking in a favorable light.

(I'm leaving this comment because you've written a post that is less about improving the recall or application of algorithms, and more about helping a candidate show you they're capable.)
Let's make a distinction between the two aspects: Last.fm radio and Audioscrobbler. The data from audioscrobber is listed front and center in your profile as "Recently Listened Tracks," your library, top artists, and top tracks. The iTunes plugin is an audioscrobbler plugin, and yes, that's obviously opt-in. But when you sign up for Last.fm radio and start listening with the web player, it scrobbles your listening habits by default.
Here's a link to this paper that's a single page and doesn't require going through archive.org:

http://storyarchive.tumblr.com/post/9437438977/the-political...
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Voting the submission up and then going to http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=matlaber would do the same without adding a comment to the thread.
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In my experience, the only people who weigh in on these debates are those who do not live in Silicon Valley -- like any epicenter for anything, those of us who have made our careers here hardly give a damn how the rest of the world compares themselves to us. (Or to put this another way: New Yorkers do not sit around debating if or that New York is the world's epicenter for finance.) But as someone who has grown slightly sick of the pro-NYC mania, I feel obliged to enter the fray -- if only because Silicon Valley is being misunderstood at an essential level.

While I agree that New York has displaced Boston, it is no threat to Silicon Valley's crown: New York does adequately at some variants of software service startups (e.g., the Foursquares of the world), but it is missing virtually every other element of the ecosystem. There is no microprocessor company in NYC. There is no network equipment provider in NYC. There is no computer company in NYC. There is no handset maker in NYC. There is no cloud company in NYC. Yes, Google may have a large presence in NYC, but Intel has a large presence in Portland; a single company's large presence cannot in and of itself create an ecosystem. And that ecosystem is the difference between having a "vibrant tech scene" and being the world's epicenter for technological innovation; NYC may be the former, but is unlikely to ever displace Silicon Valley as the latter.
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More and more, it's common for your kids to move back home, but how should you deal with this? Set up some ground rules and you're good.
Of course a big part of this is Zynga bet huge on Flash (for no particularly good reason). If Zynga had bet on HTML5 it's stuff would all be working on iPhone for free.
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Ever get a weird/sentamental feeling when getting rid of old computers?
A few months ago, I bought my first Apple computer, which is a MacBook Pro, and it is awesome. It cost about $2000, which is a lot for me, and I figured I'd offset some of the costs by selling my previous computer, which is an old Dell laptop that I had for about 2 years (I was way overdue for an upgrade). However, when it came time to selling it, I decided against it. It was the first computer I used to install Apache on. I learned PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript on it. Not to mention all the SERIOUS web browsing. The keys on the home row have considerably more wear than the rest of the keys, which is evidence of how much I've had my fingers on the keyboard. I figure that the memories I have on this machine are worth more than the $200 or so I would get from selling it. As a result, I chose not to sell it, and now it sits in my closet. Anybody else have similar sentimental bonds to their previous computers?

I recall my very first computer - it was an old Packard Bell machine with a top of the line Pentium processor, and it had Windows 95 on it, and although I was very young and did not do much tech related stuff on it, I still used the hell out of it. Lots of educational games that my parents bought me, and lots of playing Sierra's "3D Ultra Pinball" and "The Incredible Toon Machine". Haha. I also remember my second computer which I used in a similar way which was a Pentium II and had Windows 98 on it. I used the HELL out of these machines.

When I was in high school, I thought it would be fun to take these 2 computers apart and destroy them in the process. I recall opening the hard drives with a screwdriver and throwing all the parts all over the yard. When I was done I threw them in the trash. Boy what a fucktard I was. Now that I just graduated college, I wish I had these machines :-/ I kept this regret in mind when making my decision NOT to sell my old laptop. :-)
A fridge with sandwiches and healthy snacks would be cool. Keep onboard menus of restaurants near the pickup/dropoff so I can arrange for food easily.

Yea, I live close to caltrain, its a 12min walk for me. Personally, I like the extra 3-4 miles of walking a day because its a change of pace, good exercise and good people watching. But, I'm probably an exception, most opt for comfort, convenience first.
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I used to. But I've gotten into the habit of selling on my current computer (a Macintosh) every six months and upgrading. But selling my first NeXT Cube was a real blow, I admit.
No, they aren't, that's my point. Neither Chrome nor Flash can expect patch pickup in the order of days - in fact, Flash updates (on Windows and OSX at least) require user intervention, whereas Chrome will do it at browser restart.

One of these is much more likely to occur than the other.

In any case, Chrome's update mechanism promises to get more users patched, quicker, than Flash. Waiting for Flash is nonsensical.
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Definitely! I buy new computers very rarely, coz I prefer upgrading old ones - getting used to them :)
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The question at hand is not "Does NYC compare to the valley," but instead "is the NYC tech boom sustainable."

NYC tech sustainable? Yes. NYC = SV? No. And that's a good thing.

Also, Appnexus is a cloud company.
I'm definitely "reflective" -- and had serious doubts about the article until I had an opportunity to reflect on it! :-)

I challenge this statement based on the test results provided in the article:

"Importantly, researchers discovered the association between thinking styles and religious beliefs were not tied to the participants’ thinking ability or IQ."
Oh, what I meant is that on the Mac we can use garbage collection, so it's not always a problem.

I don't really like the property dot syntax though, I always use the `setProperty:` form for consistency (is it a struct or an object? why is the = operator sending an Obj-C message?)
I've been working on this for a while.

HN feedback is always appreciated.

I'm bringing the VeriTrust / BBB model to individuals.

Anyone on HN that would like a free VeriTrue verification, shoot me an email. chase@veritruecorp.com
My GF asked me to sign up for Spotify, and I planned on doing it today. But having to use a Facebook account stopped me—although I might make a fake account just so I can log in.
I wholeheartedly agree that NYC is no threat to Silicon Valley. That being said, for my individual startup, why the hell should I care if there is a microprocessor company, network equipment provider, computer company, etc etc etc? I can't think of very many of the hot startups discussed on this forum where it matters to have those things in the vicinity.
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What's interesting to study is the difference between the dead sea scrolls and the "current" or canonical version of the old testament. See more on http://www.bibleandscience.com/archaeology/dss.htm and http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/1st/papers/Anderson9...

Think that Judaism, Christianism and Islamism, and a big part of world culture are based or influenced on that.
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One way to 'prove' that would be if Facebook can support such claims in legal documents or terms and conditions. Well technically it's not really a proof, but I will accept it.
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Type "cache:http://dtuite.github.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-labels.h... into Chrome's address bar and hit enter to see the content.

The repo is no longer visible (http://davidtuite.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-labels.html), so I'm guessing it was either deleted or made private. The CNAME file in that repo probably inadvertently pointed to "onlyvariance.comdavidtuite.com" and GitHub is still caching it.
Does this narrower focus include securing licensing for a better streaming library then they provide? They're losing Sony and Disney in February, this looks like suicide for their streaming business. Are people actually groaning so loudly about the streaming QoS?
> Also, I happen to like my scroll wheel.

Use a modern version of emacs.

> I may be a programmer, but that doesn't mean I want to learn a new language just to use my text editor.

You don't need to program emacs to use it to edit source code and interoperate with revision control and so on. A lot of other emacs hackers have done all that for you, in many cases upwards of 20 years ago.

> Likewise, configuration options are easily discoverable through the Preferences window.

Believe it or not, modern emacs has this. It's accessible the menu at the top of the window (or, in Mac-land, screen), even.

> Other features, like Filter Through Command, are easily discoverable via the menu system.

Again, odd as it may seem, emacs has this as well these days.

> you don't have to go google "Quit Textmate"

And emacs can be quit through the menu. You know, the one at the top of the window or screen. Unless you started it in a terminal window or some other text-only context, in which case you damned well got what you asked for.
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Isn't there a way to run specific web applications, like Facebook, in a virtual sandbox? I.e. storing its cookies separately from other apps, launching new unrelated browser instance if you browse facebook from/to some other site etc.?
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At some point though, the ones subsidizing the others will say no.
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I'm very glad this was posted- too often HN gets the first initial provocative post and it receives a hundred upvotes and comments while the followups that explain and clarify the original story go ignored. I commend you for your experiment, and am currently working on a similar diet that can work for myself.
Dude, if I am a facebook user who has not logged out, they can send cookies as much as they like.

The browser manages this - if they are logged in, set a cookie that will be sent to the hypothetical 'like' subdomain of facebook, if they are logged out, remove the cookie.

This kind of functionality is really not rocket science, there are dozens of ways to implement it and I feel kind of stupid talking about it.

There are reasons for facebook not doing this, but they are not technical ones.
Intuition is not cognition. I disagree with the fence-straddling study author - it's clear that one approach to "problem solving" is better than the other.
My browser disagrees: http://imgur.com/M2EoJ
You can get massages, dry cleaning, and dinner without taking a job at Google, too, but Google still spends millions on these things. (Plus shuttles, incidentally.)
As a kid, I ended up reading a lot of "mindless" books in my spare time- novels, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure gamebooks, a lot of fiction in general. I wonder if replacing "useless" sites or shows with reading materials (magazines and newspapers in addition to books) would be any better. Reading non-electronic text is less dynamic than TV or the internet- at the very least, that could prevent further atrophy of one's attention span.
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Why do you want non-gamers to "feel good about gaming"? Why do you care? Why is this kind of thinking so prevalent among the gaming community? You don't see golf enthusiasts concerning themselves with the general population's interest in golf. You don't see golfers applauding courses opened up with the sole purpose of getting everyone on the planet to golf (in fact it's often the opposite).

Not everyone has to play video games or want to.
Can I ask you why? Any company that jumps into bed with Facebook clearly thinks no more of user privacy than does Facebook. There's every reason, then, to expect Spotify to abuse user trust and user data just as Facebook has done.

Does this not bother you, even in principle? Bogus FB account or not, this kind of behavior should be rejected out of hand.
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I'm thinking the difference is that golf isn't widely misunderstood to be an activity only engaged in by lonely male teenage misanthropes.

Regardless, many people do try to promote activities or groups that they are involved with. Golfers who want to keep their courses uncrowded is a poor example; generally games get better as more people play.
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