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Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight led to a searchable start menu in Vista.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
What you can't accomplish something like this with a mobile webapp? You can certainly provide upload capabilities.
I never used the word unique. Also re: bureau v. Dept-- Im not ashamed to admit I can't spell to save my life so I used dept instead of bureau because I was on my way out of the office and was too rushed to google when my spelling was so far off the browser's spell check didn't even know what I was trying to spell. It actually has two official names, I forget the other but it may very well be dept, or office. at least it did 2004-06 when I was working with them.
You didn't apply to a startup incubator. You applied to a local vanity project.

Local/city governments all over the world are trying the "incubator" fairy dust in an attempt to seem hip and with the times. The "analyst" you spoke to is really a gatekeeper trying to filter out any project with a bit of risk (or any possibility of outsized success). What they're looking for is zero risk, guaranteed small-time success which officials can point to and say "see, we're entrepreneurial and digital!!".

On the other hand, if being rejected by third tier "analysts" gets you this down perhaps business isn't for you.
Having read many threads on HN about race, gender and other -isms, I can predict what this comment section will look like at around 100 comments. It will be equal parts denial of other peoples' experiences and dogged insistence on the existence of a magical leveling force ensuring that justice has been perfectly delivered. There will be some gems among all that, but it's mostly going to be sweeping, questionable assertions about a wide swath of people.

Before you comment, please read about the Just World fallacy (thanks irahul) and ask yourself whether you may be subject to it. And answer honestly.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/07/the-just-world-fallac...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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He is saying that the tech clique is whites and asians. If you're not Indian but you're white (Chinese, Jewish, etc.) this does not put you at a disadvantage. If you're non-white and non-asian all things being equal you would be at a disadvantage.

This is not a very strong claim. It's been shown repeatedly with resumes and in loan applications that a black name/photo/applicant is less likely to move forward than a white photo/applicant with identical qualifications. It shouldn't be shocking that this exists in VC financing.
I don't think they have to. Fiverr uses Paypal Adaptive Payments and I've bought stuff on there without using a Paypal account.

I use Paypal to charge my own customers (not using adaptive payments) and I had to upgrade my account to a business account before I could let customers pay without having to have a Paypal account. I'm guessing something similar applies to Adaptive Payments.
When you look at this video, to me it does look like a bunch of masked batteries hooked in serial and parallel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1OSUdktTE

But I have no idea what a rack of cold-fusion devices would actually look like in reality.
I imagine whoever dismantled the medical device must have a very peculiar medical record.
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https://twitter.com/Skud/status/129413764356382720

"also heard a rumour that someone within google was banned from internal g+ for using a nickname, and may treat it as a discrimination matter"
Ask HN: How to manage multiple Facebook accounts?
I'm developing an app with Facebook integration and I have multiple FB accounts for testing. I'd love to be able to manage all my FB accounts without having to login/logout of my accounts in the browser.

My ideal solution would be something like www.sparrowmailapp.com or the Mac Twitter app, but for Facebook accounts. I've looked around but all I've found are a crap load of apps like Facebook Pro (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebox-pro-for-facebook/id420422934?mt=12), but that's not what I'm looking for.

How do you manage multiple FB accounts? What are my options? Is what I am looking for out there?

Cheers
They can have more than one company ID
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Yup, I'm offended now :)
That's a much nicer response than "Don't hold your phone that way."
Just checking - you have already ridden sport bikes, yes? I mean, you could get similar thrills - and more, of a different kind - for a whole lot less, if you're so inclined.
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Why do we need to archive everything?

I do a lot of photography on film - maybe 5% of it ever gets scanned. I have, at this point, maybe 10,000 frames of images shot on different types of film all sitting around in binders. Most of them will never be scanned.

So what? Most of them don't deserve to be scanned. Save the effort and braincycles for your good sketches/ideas/doodles/etc as opposed to trying to painstakingly archive every insignificant thing that's ever crossed your mind/pen/keyboard.
We may start seeing shows as apps, not channels as apps. So I can get The Walking Dead app, or the Battlestar Galactica app.

Television networks are like book publishers. They're not really needed anymore when content creators can sell their stuff directly to a willing audience.
> this is more radioactive than Fukushima

... and is contained in a steel box. This gave them time to decide what would be the proper course of action.
I've heard in the past one theory for IT departments favoring PCs ... might be that the Macs are very cheap to administer and thus don't require much IT support.

If true, that's a mighty dysfunctional IT department.

Perhaps it's the company I work for: if there was a desktop machine that was cheap and required little support, we'd be all over it.
Check out distrowatch.com and see how bad freebsd has it... It is the only none linux os in the top twenty and it been there as long as I can remember. Its the only server in my datacenter that upgrades without a problem and runs and runs and runs.
My role as an employee is technical leadership and architecture. I also write code and deal with some low-level administration tasks, just by virtue of the fact that it's still a relatively small company.

But as a board seat and shareholder, it is my responsibility to concern myself with the overall direction of the company. This means I work with the other founder and executives to formulate strategy and make decisions on matters that have nothing at all to do technology.

These are two separate roles, as far as corporate governance is concerned. There is the possibility for conflict, but this is unlikely.
Are other people seeing this? I use the web interface all the time, and deliberately avoid services that force Facebook sharing/integration.
What are the artists that you're not finding on Spotify? Are they available digitally at all?
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Not really: they're just as easy to find as ever if you subscribe to The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Both are, as far as I know, on more-or-less the same publication schedule they've always used, since the 1920s and 1850s, respectively. If you like long-form stuff, there's also the NYRB, Harper's, and a bunch more in that general class; I just happen to like the first two the best.

"Give Me Something to Read" is a pretty good online aggregator: http://givemesomethingtoread.com/ .
-Xincgc avoids pauses no?
Also, try http://www.longform.org - Good collection of long form articles.
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How do I create a Mog account without using Facebook?
It's probably worth clarifying that a "compromised login" means "you know the username and password for an account, but we suspect you may not be the actual account holder." Basically, knowing someone's username and password is not enough to get into their Facebook account.

Every time this happens, we don't let the suspicious login into the account, and instead make them pass some additional authentication challenge. Often this involves a "social captcha" (see http://lifehacker.com/5743872/facebook-experimenting-with-so... or https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130), which basically tests that you are the account owner based on the shared knowledge of who your friends are.

Accounts are often compromised outside the facebook ecosystem (via phishing, malware, sharing their password with a site that was compromised, etc). I think the fact that we catch so many is actually pretty awesome.

A more-accurate (but less link-baity) headline might be "Facebook prevents 600,000 compromised logins / day."
That is a very cool tool. Not to complain too much, but the first design I tried was a simple differential amp (current source, diff pair, current mirror), and the lack of a "mirror part" control ended up making for pretty sloppy layout (although the auto-route to avoid labels stuff is pretty neat).

Good job!
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I doubt that. Trust when I tell you this, the carriers (and I'm including Comcast) sales people do not tell the customer the downsides and limitations.

If you don't believe me. Try it. Call the business sales units of the carreirs.

Now I believe in buyer beware. But that's the problem... most small business are suffering cash flow problems. When something cheaper comes along there is no "buyer beware". They think about lowering their monthly bills. An of course, in the end they get bit in the ass.

It's just mind-blogging to me how many business owners are so ignorant about the tech that runs their business.
This is actually great information. Thanks a lot!
Indeed. The eCat website was pointing at that tweet feed and I thought it would be updated more often.
They've certainly sorted out the website since I last looked, and the gallery makes it look a properly desirable supercar. There are a couple of videos on youtube, and a prototype out and about. Brilliant.

An electric car talking about a 90% charge in 10 minutes, and looking less like vapourware than ever. (If only I had a spare £150,000).
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What does that show? The people who forked it decided to change the name of their fork.
P.S. It's 2011, if you are concatenating strings IN ANY LANGUAGE to build up SQL statements and you aren't even bothering to sanitize input then:

1: You cannot call yourself a professional web developer. You can't even call yourself a competent amateur programmer, you are just playing with toys you clearly do not understand.

2: You deserve absolutely no pity when (not if) you get hacked.

If this sounds harsh, it's meant to, this is an incredibly well known problem (and has been for years) and it's incredibly easy to fix.
I think I am done with HN.
You are narrowly reducing the "like him" assessment to race alone. It's culture + race that makes the determination. An Indian person has an easier time demonstrating that s/he is part of the mainstream culture. In my experience, educated immigrants, or children thereof, are often received as a blank slate and accordingly it's easy to see them as "one of us."

Most Americans, however, already have a conception of who Blacks and Hispanics "are" and it's not quite positive. They have a deficit initial position, where Indians and Chinese have a more-or-less neutral position. Moderately educated, well dressed Whites are generally neutral or positive. This may be in part due to the general American dislike of poor people -- immigrants who come to this country are usually educated and well off compared to the population of their country of origin, so the American over here only ever sees educated people from that place. However, that same American sees Black and Hispanic people all across the social spectrum, and can't help but have his opinion of that group lowered.

In my experience, the white guy who graduated from state college starts off -- in the mind of the person assessing him -- as well or better than the brown guy who went to a top tier school.

You're welcome to disagree, I'm sure you will object to some degree. This is only what I've observed.
Spotify seems to have fixed the problem where the desktop app sucks up ALL of your outgoing bandwidth (although it is still bad enough to lag YouTube and other streaming video), so I started using it again.

However, would it kill any of these streaming music apps to add an equalizer?

Edit: Also, I highly recommend EarBits for music discovery.
Xooma business is as easy as 1-2-3.
Mind-reading: technology can now see what people are thinking
200 million container movements across 100 countries - all computerized, all labelled with a fixed format ID.

And you don't see the problem with expanding a serial number field in the middle of the code?
"...how we even know it exists."

This is not a subject where we have to rely on speculation or personal experience. We know widespread racial bias exists because of solid scientific evidence accumulated over years of study. An example and some history: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617142120.ht... . There is no reason to assume VCs are immune.
Hopefully MPEG LA is seeing this and will sort out licensing for websites using this.
Sports bikes are harder to justify than cars when you have kids :)
I did the typical American thing and started mowing lawns when I was around 13 or 14. At first I had a single 20" push mower and had one or two lawns. Then I used our family riding mower. After I had built up some clients I took out a loan and bought a used 36" commercial mower. The loan was repaid early, in about 8 months as I recall.

About this time my dad bought a trailer and we used the family van to pull the trailer around. Not very long after that, I bought a 48" commercial mower. Along the way I also bought string trimmers, backpack blowers, and hedge trimmers. Every new customer was a springboard to more customers in that neighbourhood. All I had to do was make the lawn look great, and the new customers would come to me!

At the fall peak, I could gross about $1400/month. I was my own boss, in top shape, had plenty of money (way more than all my friends) and in general was very happy. Those experiences were invaluable, and helped form my work ethic today.

My father still has the large mower, and uses it every week to mow his own lawn - 20 years later.
here it is - you can see the bend and pool.
http://maps.google.cl/maps?q=45005+Russell+Branch+Pkwy,+Ashb...

(from looking at job ads)
And there is more than one of these in every hospital radiotherapy machine, in every machine for sterilizing surgical instruments or medical supplies and even in machines for preserving seeds.

Amazing this sort of thing doesn't happen more often
I'm going to give it a look over the weekend. I must say, it looks interesting and has some unique features. I'm sure I'll have some insights for you after I mess around with it.
Thanks for this. I appreciate both the warning and the tl;dr. It's interesting and well written but I don't have the time right now to make my way through it.
I am more interested in who that 19 year old guy with the millions is
Ask HN: Should I kill my competitor legally?
Hi HN,

I am in a moral dilemma and need some suggestions.

I am in a regulated industry, the entirety of it is rather complex. However my position is a great place to be in because I have been the first player in this domain within this industry (since mid 2010), and now another competitor in interested in entering the same domain (rather, has been interested since mid 2011).

This competitor just got granted a licence to operate in the domain that I have a monopoly in. I have tried reaching out to these guys in the past, regarding what they are planning or whether they'd like to collaborate, but have never gotten a response.

According to my contract I have a "Right of First Refusal" which essentially lets me get their contract cancelled (I wasn't aware, my lawyers just pointed that out to me). When I pointed that out to the guys that are incharge of granting licenses, this is the gist of the response I got:

" I have asked XXXXX to cancel their license if you are not okay with them holding it, or cannot work out a compromise. Please advise."

Now I do not know whether to just go ahead and get their contract terminated, or work with them. I have always hated the idea of monopolies, however everytime in the past I have reached out to these guys, they have not responded despite having read or gotten the message. As such their behavior seems rude, however I do not want to appear (I have always had this perception issue) bad to the licensing directors, having them given me the option, makes it that much difficult. If they had just terminated the contract, I would have been happier, but now the decision is in my hands, I feel paralyzed sort-of.

If you were in my situation, what would you do? Rather what should I do?
Mog blows spotify away. You say "we", so good work!
Or, the longer you wait to get married, the more you get to do. Just saying.
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my mistake, my original response was to the person saying "unique" and I got confused on who was what.

If you apply for a computer security job, make sure to not list "Dept of Interior" in the context of tribes. They had some serious data loss issues (as in whole Dept of Interior (parent org of BIA) being taken off the internet. I still want to talk to the damn judge since he removed the tribal college access to the internet at the same time (including those schools not getting their internet from the BIA). The bricks just keep on being stacked.
It says it was headed to a scrap yard in Italy.
There's one on Getaround that's only $50/hr in SF if you're so inclined.
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There's two sides to this, from my point of view.

The first answer is: yes. Absolutely. Every "founder" really needs to be deep in the nitty gritty of the business. There's absolutely no point in investing a pile of time into technology that isn't going to be driving the business goals forward. A technical co-founder who has no interest in the direction that the business is going really is more of an employee than a co-founder.

The second answer is: yes, but with a balance. Here's a situation that's pretty easy to imagine: together, you have a fantastic idea for a product that will require a PILE of technical work. You're working away on getting an MVP ready to demo to investors or to beta users. In that case, how much effort should the tech co-founder be putting into the pitch deck, compared to effort that could be going into developing the product? That's a balance that you'll have to figure out together.
You have a point about the actual amount of time saved, but there are plenty of questions that are very complex that can be answered by a good FAQ.

For example: we offer Single Sign-On for UserVoice. If we didn't have any documentation at all about it, we'd spend many, many more hours answering basic questions like "how do I set up SSO?", "how can I encrypt my JSON token?", etc. Yes, we still have to answer specific questions that can't be anticipated by an FAQ, but we've saved ourselves many hours with this documentation.
Why should they reach out to you to sustain your monopoly? Because that's what you really want to do, right?

I once worked in retail (apparel) where it is very common for manufacturers to grant individual companies exclusive wholesale rights to entire markets, i.e. a country, multiple countries, or sometimes even continents. Any other company would have to go through these wholesalers to purchase products. Anyways, whenever we came across a wholesaler that didn't have their act together - refusal to sell products, having cheaper prices for their own retail arm, unfair terms, etc - we would make a formal complain to the manufacturer and let them know why their products were doing so poorly on the market. More often than not, we ended up with getting wholesaler rights, making us completely independent. Similarly, if your competitors can show that you are damaging their sales with anti-competitive actions, they will be very quick to react, even going so far to remove your exclusive rights.
But the point is that we're largely blind to it because we don't have to deal with it.

The point isn't if it's intended to be sexist, or if it is that big of a deal in and of itself. It's a tiny pebble, one that most of us wouldn't notice in and of itself. It's as if most of us have shoes and we're walking over some gravel. Someone who was barefoot would notice every pebble a lot more.

I think that's why mentioning male privilege is important. If we don't think about it, we're more likely to throw a pebble on the ground without thinking of the consequences. More importantly, if we are unaware, we're more likely to dismiss someone who has a valid complaint about a small issue, because they've been dealing with a thousand small issues that combine into one large issue.
The "street legal" bit is almost always environmental, but neither the car companies nor Apple have police.

Does Apple claim that jail breaking is breaking the law or breaking a contract?

FWIW, the car companies do go after (some) folks who produce "mods" on intellectual property grounds. They haven't yet gone after users but there doesn't seem to be any any reason why they couldn't, using exactly the same reasoning as Apple.

> It's completely unanalogous.

It may not be exactly the same, but there are significant similarities.

In both cases, we have IP claims and (some) users want to "not manufacturer" software mods.
My ideal work week is 1-2 hours a week!

Seriously though, 40 hours doesn't have to mean 9-5. It could be 6pm to midnight, 7 days a week.
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Great, thanks for your advice, it looks like a great book with lots of top exercises.
As a minor nit-pick, you have confused intermediating and disintermediating. Disintermediating is removing intermediaries, which is good for being in touch.
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Yeah they did--a scrap recycler in Italy.
OK. I'll weigh-in on this. I identify as an African American, developer, and aspiring entrepreneur. I'll post here the message that I give to my kids and will continue to hammer as long as they will listen. IT DOESN'T MATTER if it's a meritocracy or not. Go succeed. If there was an envelope that had a provable answer as to whether things are harder/easier for me to succeed with a new venture...I'd rip it up without opening it. What I love about Silicon Valley is the number of people who don't care to be told by other people what's possible.
Given that your account appears to be eighteen minutes old... wow, that was fast!
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I'm Chinese. There is way more to me than just being Chinese, and there is way more to the white people I meet than just them being white. I can usually take it for granted that they're like me, and it's obviously not for the race; I can usually take it for granted in the Valley that the other people I meet are college-educated. In general, I do not make this assumption for black people; hence, black people are not like me.
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> As far as I can tell, they sold each one for a loss and even then weren't able to produce enough to meet demand.

If you're selling at a loss, why would you want to meet demand?