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Thanks for bringing this topic up. This is a real and serious issue that isn't talked about much. But I should mention one more thing in greater detail, because it's crazy important.

If there's one warning I would give to every potential technical co-founder and those who work with them, it's this.

It's the very same motivation that drives the dedication of many developers — not to disappoint people depending on them — that often leads to a cycle of despair.

Since developers are enthusiastic and don't want to disappoint people they've already made commitments to, they often choose to accept an easier form of cognitive dissonance over another. That is, they prefer to believe that they will make crazy things happen instead of accepting that they made a commitment they can't deliver on (even for perfectly understandable reasons).

So they offer an overly-optimistic outlook or overcommit themselves as a result. They're not being knowingly dishonest as much as believing in something unrealistic. This pathology often starts with procrastination in school and can manifest itself like an addiction: it builds and builds until the individual either hits bottom (the stress is finally too much) or there's an intervention (they are confronted with a reality check or given an out).

Be extremely careful about this because it is the epidemic of software (where estimation is difficult enough if you're completely rational, possibilities are great and heroic feats are legendary). Always be on guard and try to prevent this cycle from happening, because if it takes over an organization, things will begin turning in a Yeatsian gyre.
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There's so much mainstream consumption based not only on the quality/usefulness of a company's products, but also on the public perception of that company. Just think about Apple and its ability to turn everything it touches to gold. It becomes a self-reinforcing cycle unless something drastic happens to shift the momentum in the other direction (e.g. Netflix now suddenly is starting to go in the other direction after their recent poorly-received decisions).

Given RIM's downward momentum in the past couple of years, I don't think its a surprise to see its latest products do poorly. In the tablet industry, they needed something that was revolutionary or at least something very very good in order to have a fighting chance. Releasing something mediocre that lacked some basic features (native email) that Blackberries are based upon portended doom. The $500 price point guaranteed it.

Look at the recent launch of RIM's Torch 9850. Received lukewarm reviews at best (CNN destroys it) amid lots of hype from RIM. Can you guess where this is headed?

I don't really know what RIM can do to reverse their continuing downfall, but I think it starts with acknowledging that their proprietary OS is not going to work and get on the Android bandwagon. Then hope to get lucky with a blockbuster product.

At least they still have most of Corporate America...for now.
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ive been inviting people alot too, The absence of chat is keeping some people away, plus how its stranded and undercrowded
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Another possibility, which I use for testing my Firefox Add-ons, is using Rhino + env.js, which creates a very good simulation of the DOM.
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>You have to understand Samsung. Cloning products cheaply is how Samsung creates a market...Now they can afford to innovate.

Samsung has been a very wealthy company for a very long time. They've long had the ability to innovate and they do in some regards. I have no interest in software patents but I do find it offensive to imitate design. A unique design gives an object its identity. It's not as if Ive is the only talented designer in the world.
For several years I have been using QtWebKit to write tests that utilize the dom. Fast startup, console output etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chrome guys have a similar stripped down Chrome for JS unit tests.
Having recently graduated from University, I see this being huge for that specific market, first. If you can find a way to get this more exposure I see it being a useful tool for students with no car and needing a ride; either back home for the holidays or extended weekends, etc.

I like the implementation, needs more users in different cities.

Would be interested in the drill down of how payment is fulfilled?
Fwiw, a friend of mine recently returned to NYC after serving in Iraq in the Army, and started an initiative to get this engineering campus built in Willets Point, Queens:

http://www.coalitionforqueens.org/

His argument in a nutshell: why relegate NYC's tech hub to a single university on a cramped island, relatively inaccessible by subway (which Ramen-subsisting entrepreneurs will need), when you can situate it in the middle of 60+ acres, near the 7 Train, Mets/tennis sports center, and LaGuardia airport, with enough room for several universities plus office space and restaurants and other amenities.

He thinks NYC's attempt at recreating SV will be DOA if it tries to build 'Silicon Island'. Imagine instead having a 60 acre campus with say, Stanford, Cornell, and the Technion, alongside incubators and other entrepreneurial support infrastructure, in the middle of a hungry immigrant community. That's a better recipe for success.
Another €50,000 Enterprise Ireland Start-up Competition.
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/funding-supports/Company/HPSU-Funding/Competitive-Start-Fund-CSF-.html

Latest round of the competition. Because they're using the same URL as last time HN won't let me submit as this as a URL.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300658 for comments on the last round.
"are just charging you a fee solely because they thought of it first."

For some domains, true. In other cases considering that back in the day there were an infinite number of domains that you could register (and by the way they cost $70.00 after they were initially free) and $35 per year (until ICANN and competition dropped the price) I wouldn't say it was simply "thinking of it first".

As somebody who spent much time programming algorithms to figure out which domains to, um, SQUAT on, I would hardly say I own names just because "I merely thought of it". It seems like that way now because now value has been established and it's obvious.

Do you think it was obvious back then? It wasn't. I was there.
Background for those unfamiliar with f.lux - it is a utility for adjusting the color temperature of your display at night to warmer temps. I'm quite fond of it.
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That 4chan is a bastion of cultural output is not something to be ignored, either, and that's something I'd hope even anti-free-speech advocates can recognize.
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I very much agree with this. The interesting effect is platform lockin because of unportable data. In the 90s and 00s plaftform lockin was a function of the availability of software on specific platforms. Now it's data...

Will there be services for porting data between platforms?
Scala scene is heating up in NYC, Tumblr seems to be the biggest in the area, some of the other startups like FourSquare and ideeli are using it also. Word is some of bloomberg.com is on it also
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Privacy in the sense of 'what websites do I visit' or 'what am I posting on Facebook' is one thing; privacy in the sense of 'how much money does online banking say I have?' is another issue entirely.
Thanks! After seeing mobile f.lux I was looking for a way to set my own gamma ramps. This should come in really handy.
This is a huge improvement for Google Analytics. I always needed to have multiple tracking scripts installed on my website because google didn't display the data in real-time. I'm excited to test it out.
An SVG icon would probably work. My best guess is they couldn't reliably determine the correct background color to use.
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Looks like more investigating has been done: http://goo.gl/Yp447 with the result not looking good along the same lines that you mentioned.
You know what I like about this guy ... his attitude when things go wrong.

No wallowing in self pity, just quick and firm decisions about what to do next ... very awesome read and a great lesson to learn.
There are alternative browsers available:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_kk_1?rh=i%3Amobile-ap...

That doesn't fix the problem for unaware users, but at least the option to use other browsers still exists.
non-dom based javascript, would be my first thought.
I'm looking to branch out after having used qUnit for the last year or so. Looks like this framework does mocking REALLY well (which I feel like I can't do well in qUnit). But it's v8 specific, so I can't test if Internet Exploder won't screw up my script.

Would anybody recommend any other unit-test frameworks for mocking stuff out?
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The insight of the article is that indexes and tables are the same thing underneath. Using an non covering index costs like a join. I'm a tokutek fan, but this article is the clearest report of the pros of tokudb so far.
If 75% of them thought it worthwhile enough to "toot Fred's horn", then in general, 75% of them might enjoy the rest of the comments also "tooting Fred's horn". I agree with you, but that's not something that can be ignored. Groupthink can be intoxicating.
Thanks you :) and no, I didn't think you sounded harsh at all.
The problem to me is that the technical parts of a tech startup are usually more than 50% of the company. Maybe it is even 90%. You write the blog post and pose as if you had something. What did you have really? If getting this guy was critical to success and the reason you moved, I think you should focus more on how in the heck you got into the position to consider moving in the first place, i.e. a combination of bad advice from investors that weren't good advisors and you taking that advice. The critical mistake happened when you decided to move out there, not because of the red flags you mentioned. Those were secondary imo.
If by Oracle you mean heavily modified version of mysql, then yes. Or if you mean Java, then yes.

But if you mean any Oracle technologies that need to be licensed, then no.
I wish atroundtable used fragment identifiers so you could deeplink to comments. Or give each comment it's own standalone page as well, a la twitter.
Pretty cool guys. I like where this is going.
Well, ok, but you need to consider that Apple is actually winning most of the cases where it has accused Samsung of copying it. It has gotten injunctions. This is clearly a case of a company (Samsung) not thinking though the consequences of its actions. Although lots of companies copy stuff all the time, Samsung has done a really thorough job of copying the iPad this time around.
How about

try await foo = bar(baz)

as shorthand for

await error, foo = bar(baz)
if (error) throw error
I've taken to doing the same thing, though I just did my first one the other day:

https://github.com/Hovertruck/sublime-pyflakes
>"First of all, fit is kind and much easier to understanding." - Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Probably because it made no sense! What I MEANT to type was "Fit is KING and much easier to understand."

Don't worry about a colour matrix, just try to buy clothes that go with everything. Nearly everything goes with dark blue jeans. Nearly everything goes with grey flannel slacks. Most things go with khaki chinos. I wouldn't try to match patterns but there's really no need to. How often do you really need to wear more than one patterned item at a time? Or even more than one coloured item at a time (not counting neutrals that go with everything like greys, beiges, browns, and really dark blues)

However, all of that aside none of it matters if your clothes fit poorly. Most 'bad dressers' are just wearing clothes that are far too big for them.
Those employees are wasting there time. If you work for a company that should go out of business and it doesn't (or takes a very long time to) then you are wasting your time producing a product that isn't valued by the market. I want to make things that people need/want.
Looks really good. But why did it take so long?
For another company who has built an awesome android app, look at Gowalla. In my opinion, it's one of the best looking apps period. Yesterday I had both the iOS and Android versions of the app open, and by and large, I'd say the Android won out. (Other than it lacks the cool drag to refresh)
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Thanks man. To be honest, I wallowed in self pity in private for a few days ;). One of my advisors gave me some good advice right after it happened which made me get back to business "get over it." Surprisingly effective :D
we're on it! look for it on the next Roundtable (with Khoi Vinh, Garry Tan, etc).

Any other features you would like to see?
If all you want is an Android phone whose components (power adapter, USB cord, packaging, even Maps application) look exactly like an iPhone, then yes.
Curious, how many domain names did you sell since posting on HN? (If you dont mind answering)
I think marvin has an excellent point: people as a universal culture tend to shun certain subjects and embrace others, and these change between nations, faiths, etc.. The availability of an anonymous forum in which to address these shunned portions ideas is a useful tool when it is leveraged in the right way. There are many things people would not say if they were to be held personally accountable for their thoughts and feelings by those who would rather punish their "abnormal" beliefs than appreciate their candid honesty.

I think the major issue here is the responsible use of the Anonymous tag. Too many hateful, prejudicial, or otherwise ignorant comments are tossed out from behind that shield of "you can't see me" that is the anonymous internet, and this becomes the norm by which others come to judge such communities. I firmly believe that our state of being as a society indicates there must be a striation in the internet: one where we are who we are, and one where we can discuss counter-culture or taboo subjects without fear of reprisal. Ideally these would be the same place, but realistically they cannot be until our society becomes much more accepting of itself.

(Also, I've never commented on here, but HN is the Bee Knees.)
Number 3 looks interesting. Maybe become a cloud-based competitor to VBulletin.

(Make sure that transitioning from the old forum to the new one is as painless as possible, though. Forum members usually hate any changes to their forums.)
He didn't say there was no difference - just that it's obviously not 'all-new'.
Really happy to see that Google Analytics has a monetization strategy. Hopefully they will start paying to the needs of their users more (and not let it keep on stagnating).
The Playbook is more business orientated (secure QNX OS) but is also on sale to consumers. The kindle is purely a consumer product.
Sure, you could if you didn't need food, shelter, transportation, new hardware, et cetera. But since web developers DO need these things they need to sell enough to others to get the money to buy them. In international trade, this is called the import-export balance, or balance of trade.
i will be signing up to check it out as well. like the simple design but i agree with removing the capital text in the footer.

also i just realized you are not protecting your site against SQL injection in the registration page!! that should be the first thing you do :)
A pretty fantastic example of potentially generating money from stuff you've already got discussed in the How to make money while you're sleeping article earlier today. http://www.netmagazine.com/features/earn-money-your-sleep
I agree entirely. Sites like Youtube and Yahoo! Answers have been maligned in the past couple years with the rise of sites like Quora and Google Plus, but to me, the interaction on Youtube feels a lot more human and authentic than on the other sites. You don't even have to build it up into a whole thing about free speech. It's just that there's something about those communities, perhaps the anonymity, that allows people to be less guarded and it gives you a stronger sense of community.
When it said Hipmunk, I thought it was talking about the Haskell bindings (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Hipmunk) to the chipmonk physics library. I got all exited thinking that someone had made a great haskell app for android.
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this is Google's actual legal reasoning as to why they shouldn't be held liable for contributory patent infringement in Oracle v. Google:

"[S]ection 271(c) applies only to offers for sale, sales, and importation, but Google does not sell, offer to sell, or import Android or Android SDK. [...] The ordinary meaning of 'sale' requires transfer of ownership for a price. [...] Android and Android SDK are offered free of charge to anyone who wishes to download them off the Internet, however, and there is no evidence that Google ever receives any consideration in return. That undisputed fact precludes a finding of contributory infringement."

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/oracle-v-google-upda...
Yes I can imagine the decision conversation going something like this:

Number 1: Sir, we just received word, Apple put their product in the box FACE UP!

CEO: CRAP! Back to the drawing board. Note all staff, "product face up" has been done. It's tired, it's old. Yesterday's news.... now we have to try something totally different.

(sorry for the trolling, couldn't resist the sarcastic approach. Yes it does look like Samsung totally did a workalike on this one.)
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And you can just inline svg in base64 anyway...
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Actually, the fact that mutation testing is useful is a sign of one of the major difficulties with automatic algorithm generation: a tiny change in a program typically destroys a piece of functionality completely, which means it's hard to follow any sort of fitness landscape to incrementally create a working program that passes all your tests. When writing an algorithm you're looking for a needle in a haystack, not tweaking parameters to find the peak of a broad mountain, and that takes a lot of the punch out of automated methods.

What this means, in part, is that brute-force search will often be just as effective as evolutionary or hill climbing methods. Where evolutionary methods start to shine is when you allow them to reuse bits of code that have already been found to be effective, esp. in other problems - that corresponds a lot more closely to the way that humans write code, we lean on our memories of the types of things that have worked before, for everything from syntax to algorithm design to system architecture.
Then again, you could also do that in images. Especially if you have some graphic effects like feather, gradient and drop shadows, the advantage of client-side rendering is not entirely clear. If anything, it makes the site heavier to render.
(sure, you get scaling for "free" because it's vector, but in many cases you don't need to use the same icons in multiple sizes on the same device/page, so you could do that as well offline and simply fetch the right image...)
While I agree with alttag's comment a million percent, I think you'd be surprised how often companies DO actual UI/UX, just not in the way that we think.

Enterprise UX isn't about making the product easier to use, it's about making it more efficient to use, in most cases. I remember working for a large Fortune enterprise company many years ago, and they had a product that, simply put, was for customer, bug and issue tracking. There are a dozen or so REALLY good startups in this scene now (there weren't then) and they're all radically easier to use than the product we had, because they focus on the kind of UI/UX you're talking about.

That said, there was a laser sharp focus on making the product more efficient to use. We hired consultants to use the product extensively, and determined that moving some of the buttons around was a more efficient workflow. We determined that DEcreasing the font size allowed for more information to be on the screen at a given time, which allowed highly trained personnel the ability to do work more quickly than if they had to constantly scroll back and forth. Things like this fly in the face of what is largely considered good now, but was not only a priority, but a highly flaunted (and appreciated) selling point.

The biggest difference is the customer. Most of the SaaS customers are for things that aren't used religiously, or by a lot of undertrained / underqualified people. If you have a help desk for a 50,000 person company, chances are you're not going to use FogBugz and the like to run your company with. You're going to have something in-house, and you're going to train your people to use scripts, and you're going to have a really efficient (if not necessarily GOOD) help desk that uses these tools day in, day out, repeatedly. They get to learn the product well enough that they don't have to look at it to use it. They learn it as well as most of us know how to type. They know that they can enter last name, tab, first name, tab tab tab phone number enter and voila, there's the customer record.

Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3052236
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also when logging in if i leave the username or password field empty i get a 404 error. so you'll need to fix up the error handling on the register and login page.
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e.g. Samsung makes the iPad's CPU

Not for much longer, I think.
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>Will there be services for porting data between platforms?

All of these companies, except Google, will do their best to block it until governments intervene. Even with Google allowing this, it will be extremely difficult to do so and virtually no one will go through the effort. What if a third party app you use doesn't exist for the device you want to switch to?

Even in regards to carriers the average user considers it a bigger headache to switch carriers than to stay where they are, even though they're unhappy. Humanity, regardless of their plight, having difficulty adapting to change.
Actually finding investors and advisors and getting them on board with the project is a big deal. And apparently finding a good CTO takes a lot of time and effort as well.
Two answers to your post:

i) Here is a recent analysis of existing evidence: http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hiv-has-never-bee....

ii) A prize of $100.000 "was officially offered to anybody who would demonstrate HIV particles in the blood of allegedly high viral load patients". It has not been claimed yet.

So far, there is ground for a reasonable scientific doubt regarding claiming that HIV causes AIDS. The accumulated evidence is not conclusive unfortunately.