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As for Adsense, I have tried it in the past but the payoff per click for my niche is really low. I prefer eBay for this site because I can incorporate it in a way that actually adds value to the user experience.

Just out of curiosity, where did you go after leaving the content publishing arena?
Completely agree regarding comparing the two - if you want to meet up and discuss feel free to contact us at founders at otelic.com :)
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I think timjahn was trying to say something like:

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
I was surprised to learn, given the inelegance of much of Matlab, that it was explicitly influenced by APL. See the blue callout box at

http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/news_notes/clev...

which shows part of a 1983 plan for Matlab:

"Combining the technology of 1) mice and windows, 2) matrix and APL environments, and 3) direct manipulation, will do for engineers what Lotus 1-2-3 has done for the business world."

Ulf Grenander, the Brown University mathematician who invented statistical pattern theory, once used APL, but moved to Matlab for his expository book on pattern theory:

http://books.google.com/books?id=lxBDcFvFFvsC&pg=PA146&#...

I agree that the vectorized operations in Matlab are good at lifting computational ideas out of the fog of nested for loops. It is more compact to represent some matrix algebra in Matlab notation than in ordinary matrix notation, as anyone who has read Golub and van Loan knows.

It's weird to proclaim, but this concise notation can be as freeing for certain problems as Prolog's declarative transformations, and functional composition in Lisp.
Ok, keeping mine because it works very well in the US. Hopefully, we're now at the center of an outward-expanding wave that will eventually result in everyone speaking to their phones instead of poking at them.

I have always been deeply skeptical about voice-to-text. Dragon? Too many errors. No way. But in just a couple of days I got used to dictating text messages. It's like voicemail people actually listen to! Who knows how many other applications will be transformed.

If I'm driving down the road and want a pizza, I guess it would be swell to tell Siri and have her come back with 23 pizza joints in the vicinity (I listened to my son do this and more) but trying to find stuff just doesn't come up that often in my life. What I really need is an assistant to help me remember the things I already know, like what I want to do tomorrow and what I've got to do. This is the area I'm hoping not to be disappointed in. But that's tomorrow. Today, reveling in all the things I can do I couldn't before.
I think that's good news. Designing by (the GNU/Linux) community has not really proved to yield impressive results in the past.
for me, my first encounter with Peavey was when the rich American kids from the international school came to my school for concerts and sports. They had Peavey speakers and Reebok sneakers!
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Useful as it is, I hope the high valued problems will become a bit more diverse, involving topics other than graph theory.

Despite that, and some late-game changes, I think this first codesprint event went off really well. I think the interviewstreet guys have done a good job of identifying the more pressing issues in their writeup, and this gives me confidence that they understand and can improve on those issues next time around. Good job, and good luck!
Summary: You don't need to hire sysadmins because you can outsource your systems to a cloud provider.

This is true, but it's also a lot like saying you don't need to hire developers because you can outsource your development to Lithuania. Really what it means is that it's possible to outsource systems. If you're the little guy and your needs manage to mesh well with what you can get off the shelf from a cloud provider, this is true. Otherwise, this isn't true. If you're the little guy and your needs don't exactly fit what you can get off the shelf, it's going to be trickier. If you're the big guy, you can afford to cut out the middleman.
Yes, teaching to a test should be easy, and it is easy to your median 15-year-old. The gigantic problem with NCLB - and something I've not seen mentioned in this HN story - is that NCLB is a one-size-fits-all mandate, and there is NOTHING about education in the US or anywhere that is one-size-fits-all. Hundreds of factors influence the raw material (children) that teachers have to work with every day.

Countries like Finland do not try to graduate all of their children in the same way. 43% of Finland's HS graduates graduate from vocational schools (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands...). The US has slowly moved further and further away from this type of "tracking" since the 70's. Things like NCLB and the over-valued notion of a college degree has only accelerated this problem. I am not optimistic.
I live in Brighton, 15 minutes north of Ann Arbor, where I work. No, we do not consider ourselves to be "just part of the same community". Detroit's "over there". Detroit does extend out past Detroit proper and there are municipalities where one might just say for convenience "I live in Detroit" to those from out-of-town even though the mailing address isn't Detroit, but there's a lot of not-Detroit less than an hour away. And as Detroit tanks, there's a lot more not-Detroit to be found.

While Detroit has been trying to resurrect itself, to take just one for-instance, Ann Arbor has just gotten on with life, and slowly but surely the rest of the region is following. Even if Detroit becomes alive again it will be a while before it culturally dominates the area again, if it ever does.

In terms of the sorts of things that might be of interest to Hacker News, there's not much point to resurrecting Detroit and to be honest I don't understand the HN obsession with Detroit. Just drive an hour west. What people don't seem to get is that it really is Detroit that is dead/dying; the Greater Metropolitan Not-Really-Detroit-Anymore area is getting on with it. I will not say thriving, because that isn't true, but only Detroit and the aforementioned absorbed municipalities are dying.
> At what point does a piece of technology become too essential to ever be allowed to disappear, even if it's under a legal threat that would otherwise kill it?

I think if it was that essential it would be recreated, or a work around found.

However the (US) military does in fact do something like that: They say we need to implement your patent. So they just start using it and pay the owner. The owner of the patent has no say in the matter and can not refuse.
Actually, because 1 mile is about 1.609344 km, you can convert approximately between miles and km using Fibonacci numbers. See http://www.catonmat.net/blog/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-conv...
There are two kinds of sysadmins: pipefitters and engineers. Or put another way, maintainers and architects.

The pie for maintainers is indeed shrinking. The pie for architects, for people who invent novel ways of solving new problems, is growing.
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It's disappointing that a mean comment with no content gets upvotes.
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We're not porting ffmpeg to JS, but my startup is working feverishly on the "I made this video and now I have to upload the whole damn thing.. ugh!" problem. Stay tuned.
Or, have a gloriously common combination of first + last name that the internet is already pre-flooded with stuff about people with your name.
The guidelines[1] just say to submit something interesting/relevant, and this is. Besides, no one knows better than you where to find your content. :)

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why do I suddenly get the sense that no amount of stimulus funding is going to solve the structural unemployment issue in the USA? We appear to have crossed the technology Rubicon, whereupon the ratio of jobs created to jobs destroyed by technology becomes less than unity. The Luddite fallacy only holds true as long as the ratio is above or at unity.

Interesting times.
The CEO has a considerable social media following and is a good networker (Which is why I came to work for her in the first place), she's a nice lady...

Honestly, she doesn't sound very nice. She sounds like the kind of person with good social skills of the sort that allow her to take advantage of people by, say, bullying them into working for free and then putting them in the position that they would feel enormously guilty if they left because they are the only engineer. For people who are very socially astute and also in a position of power, such situations are often planned, not mere coincidence.

I suggest you find a means to deal with your personal weaknesses in terms of not feeling comfortable interviewing and what not.
when i was in a band, peavey was low end. everyone always wanted a mesa boogie or a marshall.
Silicon Valley encompasses many cities in a "region". Here in Detroit, we don't have a name (yet?) to describe the region so we use Detroit to encompass the whole area. Ann Arbor falls within that area. It's roughly a 45 minute drive from Ann Arbor to Detroit...or 35 minutes for me ;)

The Detroit "region" or sometimes known as "Detroit Urban Area" or "Metro Detroit", is actually quite large and has many beautiful communities with in it. This wikipedia page sums it up well. The "region" is actually the 9th most populated urban area in the US.

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

People also forget how large the actual city of Detroit is. If you look at the map linked below, you'll see that Boston, San Fran, and Manhattan all can fit within the city limits of Detroit.

http://markmaynard.com/?p=56
Ask HN: where to find a StackOverflow for refactoring code?
I write a lot of ugly code. Lots of times, I don't know the idioms that would help me write better code.

Where can I post sample methods and get feedback on how to write them better? I'd like to ask on a place like StackOverflow, but they are looking for questions with specific answers.

(Specifically, it's feedback on Clojure).

Thanks for the help,
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I didn't say it dropped out of existence by any means. There is enough of a user base and word of mouth to sustain it and I'm by no means deindexed. I don't feel that Google "owes" me anything. The content that is often times outranking me is just flat out bad and my content is much better. It feels like something I'm doing / done is causing me to rank in spite of, rather then because of, my quality content. But I haven't done anything black hat and have always focused on user experience first, SEO second.
You're first two sentences are the most right.
I have a long laundry list of issues, but it really came down to: Every few months I ended up spending a whole day fixing the server for one reason or another. I wasn't expecting the server to go down so much. Gitolite is a excellent counter example of something very simple you can set up, keep upgrading and it just keeps working.

After the fact that it was more effort than expected to keep it running I found the UI frustrating and annoying. This was all part of the reason I started GitHaven.
I wrote a book called "Rails 3 in Action" for getting started with Rails. Obligatory link: http://manning.com/katz

The idea behind it was to have more focus on BDD than anything else out there, which is exactly what the community is all about these days.

Just like Michael's brilliant book, we go through building an application from the ground up using Rails 3.1, RSpec, Cucumber and many other gems provided by the community.
Actually that is not true. If you don't give someone the binary, you don't have to give the source.

So you can, if you want, sell the binary to select people (and ask them nicely not to give it to anyone else), and you only have to give the source to those select people, but not to anyone else.

The GPL does not require public source, only that the source follows the binary.
Edited.

I just checked my command history, and that is exactly what I ran. Install xfce4, log out and log back in with the new WM, and everything just worked.
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I've read some of your writings. Just going to say, maybe look at politics, but never forget the reasons why you went into it in the first place.
So what's up with this game having a Grand Vizier named Jaffar and Disney's Aladdin having a Grand Vizier named Jafar?

Edit:

Did some digging around and apparently there was a fictional Grand Vizier named Jaffar in the 1940s film "The Thief of Bagdad." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_of_Bagdad_(1940_film)

So it looks like those two instances are a rip-off of a character in that movie.
I get about 2000 searches or so per month of people looking specifically for my brand.For my particular niche that's actually really good though. Other then the manufacturers ( and one other big site, no one has enough brand recognition to generate the searches necessary to be graphed on Google Trends.
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Ann Arbor is practically 35-40 minutes away from Detroit via I-94. The region as a whole is how it should be identified/branded. Fragmentation doesn't help anyone nor any community.

For example; Mountain View, Cupertino and Palo Alto are all roughly 45-50 minutes away from San Francisco. Yet, it is perfectly fine to say that they are in the Bay Area, or sometimes even as San Francisco for simplicity, familiarity and recognition sake.

There is really no reason to treat Detroit like a plague ..... it is 2011, let the dark history be by-gones, and give these start-ups the due respect that they deserve. They could be successful anywhere at all. Detroit and Southeast Michigan are glad to embrace them and support their goals.

Great job, Alex, for putting this list together.
Take a look at Numbers for Startups - http://numbersforstartups.com/

A few weeks ago I saw a link to the demo video of this hardcore financial spreadsheed for startups, and it might be the perfect resource for you.
"In terms of the sorts of things that might be of interest to Hacker News, there's not much point to resurrecting Detroit..." Kindly don't chop important words off of quotes, please.

It was never a startup hub, it was never a computer programming tech hub, it was full of the sort of Suits that that startup culture is in large part a reaction against, it is bizarre to insist on trying to turn Detroit into some sort of startup hub when there's one radically further along and tied to a world-class University just an hour west. If you want to resurrect it because it's your home, or because you feel for the people who live there, or because you have other interests that are relevant, go nuts. But I don't get Hacker New's obsession with the topic. A few articles about a case study of a modern city in major decline is interesting from a sociology perspective, but it gets a lot more attention than I'd expect from that.
Out of curiosity, why did you select your current mission statement instead of the the description you gave me? I like yours much better. Magic and sunshine are difficult to understand sometimes :)

"Our goal is to help people qualitatively and quantitatively understand the culture in companies, so that they can address problems, cultivate their character, and attract the types of people that find it (the character) compelling."

Sounds like a much better springboard for a mission statement!
I’m not sure why I don’t show up here, even after clicking “more” enough times. I’m seeing users ordered by karma, but I’m not in the list of users with karma ≥ 3881. My karma has been higher than that for … maybe half a year.

Edit: I see, I have to list my Twitter username in my HN bio…
There’s a philosophy here: user happiness is prioritised over developer happiness.

See also the App Store policies. Apple's priorities tend to be it's users, Apple, then any 3rd party developers. I don't tend to think this is a bad thing...
Everyone who voted the parent comment down because it offended their groupthink should read the forwards of a few books. Authors constantly sing the praises of editors who helped them get their books into shape. Good producers do the same thing to music.

This meme that there are no benefits to professional production is demonstrably stupid. If you're unable to leave it on Reddit or Slashdot where it belongs, at least have the courtesy not to mod down people who say otherwise.
The publisher is a very odd beast -- the services you are citing as their primary benefit are the kind you would expect an author with money to simply pay for themselves.

Or to put it another way, publishers are a combination of:

1. Angel investors / Talent scouts (insert moneyball reference here)

2. Labor pool for book completion (cover design, editing, etc)

3. Marketing assistance

4. Physical printing

5. B2B marketing to get printed books on bookshelves.

Five distinct businesses. Why are they commonly grouped? My guess is a combination of most authors not being very business oriented / not wanting to not think about these sorts of things (30%), and most authors not having the money to hire their own #2 (the other 70% of the story).

Amazon already has a product for #5 on its own, and a separate product providing #4 and #5 together. This story is about them adding on the #1-#2-#3 punch that is currently the exclusive domain of publishers.

Stross is a technical and successful guy -- he should probably just hire his own #2 and #3, and then use amazon's #4 and #5 service. He probably won't, out of loyalty to the angel investor that pulled him out of obscurity (or the contract his angel made him sign...), but hopefully future Strossi will!
100% this. The term "sociopath" comes to mind. Even if you didn't have any job prospects, you should get out. Since you do, it's an absolute no-brainer. No two weeks notice either; the most I'd do is make sure somebody has access to the source.
I accidentally linked to the wrong article. Although that same report talked about there did actually pertain to workers' rights, it's not highlighted in that article.

Here are a couple others that come up in a quick search:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/technology/23apple.html?pa...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/chinese-environmen...

and this (which is a little bit older)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07suicide....

Whether or not Dell is guilty of the same thing is a different issue altogether and no less surprising or upsetting
A service like QuickBooks Online (http://quickbooksonline.intuit.com/) combined with a part-time/hourly bookkeeper (a few hours a month) who has experience in technology startups might be your best bet, then you can focus on products and customers.
We can argue whether there are opportunities out there or not (I personally believe that there are), but in this link I see many instances of annual returns far greater than 10%. The writer seems to have an above average understanding of the market (or just got lucky), and presuming that the average Joe (who is the target audience of his blog) can replicate these returns in any given economy sounds rather absurd to me.

Retirement managers typically assumed 8% annual return for portfolios, but in recent years have adjusted this number to 5-6% per annum. The writer's returns are at times more than 3x this number. Generalizing his experience to the wider population is going to be dangerous.
Until you receive a paycheck don't think owe them anything.

Go for the interviews. Very few corporations these days have any sense of ethics or even common decency anymore (which is why so many people build startups) so there is no reason not to decline their job offer should a better one come up.
Sure, and it's still the same way now, but their stuff is affordable and it works. I like their basses and guitars best, they're a really good value, and they do make higher-end amps that sound pretty good.
In 2011, all the big publishers are pressless publishers. They don't edit books. They don't print books. They don't write books. They don't market books.

They just fund books, at terms which would shock the conscience if they weren't so well-established. (If a book was a startup, the typical offer is something like "We'll put in $5k at a pre-money valuation of $1k and, by the way, we're going to claw that $5k back, too. Also, we're going to contractually lock you up from talking to other investors for your next three companies. You owe it to us, because we're rescuing you from not being published.") I will not mourn their passing, as either a reader or an oft-suggested author.
They've started Amazon Studios which is already heading down the road of competing with other Hollywood production companies.
If you have worked in smalltalk and C (a somewhat rare combination these days, I must admit) , Objective C is trivially readable.
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Thanks. This looks right up my alley.
I don't think it's misleading at all. Here's a direct quote from the page:

"While we focus on the Metro Detroit area, we do include entries from throughout the entire state of Michigan. For us it’s about the cause, not about drawing lines in the sand."
That's been true for a looong time. Remember when offices had typing pools and messenger boys?
Binary blobs for configuration should be considered evil.

Next do you get to 'binary blobs for code should be considered evil', have a LISPiphany and found Symbolics?
45k a year (5%) + supplemental income from side projects is A LOT of money when you aren't paying a rent or mortgage in most parts of the country. I suspect many HN people have a warped view of living costs living in areas with lots of high tech jobs.
You might want to take a look at CFEngine too. It's in that puppet/chef family:

http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/uncategorized/relative-orig...

And Bcfg2.

Not to discourage you from innovating; just so you know what's out there today.
Make no mistake Apple's priorities are: Apple, Users, Developers.
I live in close proximity to the campus yet didn't know about the service until now.

Much respect to the organizers, the school, and the attendees for keeping this private event, private.
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