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Show HN: Hoodsup, meet those you should meet
Hey HN,

I've been a long time HN reader and here is my first contribution.

Hoodsup.me is a chat-based matchmaking app built on top of your Facebook social graph. It matchmakes you with people who are geographically close to you and with whom you share common points. You can optionally activate your webcam to talk face-to-face with your partner. Think of it as a Sonar meets a genital-free Chatroulette.

I would love to get some feedback. It's only optimized for WebKit for now. No signup is required so just stop by and say hi! :)

Clickable link: <a href="http://hoodsup.me">http://hoodsup.me</a>

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here are my two principles that i always keep in mind to stop procrastination:

--> Start with the hardest part first. You'll attack it while you're energetic and enthusiastic. Encourage yourself by knowing that all the rest of the job will be easier.

--> Avoid saying yes. Don't start taking on too many tasks at once. Be sure you really have the time. Don't work on a project if you're tired, in a distracting location or not thinking ahead.
Well, the Australian dollar has doubled in value. That makes it much harder to migrate.
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That's not a sound technical solution if you prefer or need a different OS, like Windows or one of the Apples.
he resents you (for good reason)

Disagreed, IT should not be given a pass to resent people just because they don't understand and have as much time and training with computers. Nor do I agree that the IT person will be the smartest person in the room. Everyone has their own set of skills that they are good at. Put the IT guy in sales, if he fails miserably what good are his technical smarts?

If it's the role of the IT department to support users, they should be helpful and courteous, no matter how "stupid" they think of the request. Should I ever have an IT worker who has the stereotypical "better than you attitude", he will be gone in a second.
You lose the chance to prove your value to someone if you block them. I usually whitelist sites that I find useful. I've had Penny Arcade whitelisted for years.
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Domestic monetary policies also badly fail. Zimbabwe is the most spectacular recent example. Panama has been using the US dollar for over 100 years - is it not am example of how the policy can succeed, or does that work only because it has the Panama Canal?
thanks for sharing...

I have also read these points. I think these are on the wikihow article to which i've also provided a link
> I actually clicked on an advert that interested me. It was the ad for a computer game I wanted to buy. And after seeing the trailer on the ad-site I bought it.

I would not be so sure about that. Without seeing the ad, you might have never watched the trailer. Or maybe a week later when you see the trailer for a different reason you suddenly realize that there is a better game you want to buy. Advertisements are sneaky that way.

I have Adblock enabled and don't ever want to disable it. Those few times I am on a different computer/working inside a virtual machine are enough to stumble upon many ads that are intrusive and annoying. I really wish advertisement would go away alltogether. Of course this won't happen anytime soon, but alternative ways to reward website creators like flattr, paypal donations, beerware license or a simple subscription model are getting more common.
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Gulf Co-operation Council countries – Bahrain (my country), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.

They have separated citizenship from work visas. Anyone can come, they do not need to prove that they can do work that anyone else cannot do, and as long as their employer sponsor is happy with their work, they can stay and work. The governments compete on how quickly they approve the visas and how business-friendly they are in doing so.

The system works well enough that 60-80% of the people living in these countries are not from these countries. They work, study, bring up families and they go back home wealthier than when they left.

(I am missing out a lot of politics here, and there are plenty of things I would want to change, but the GCC does have the most open economy in the world, both for goods and for people.)

Disclaimer - I live in the UK, where my start-up is, because I grew up here as my father came to complete his studies and then became an academic here. I have lived and worked in the USA on H1-B visa and so know first-hand how bad that system is. UK has a similarly bad visa system, I am told, but I love the start-up ecosystem here.
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Two years ago at our student conference we had a guest lecturer from a dutch company called "Kyoto cooling" they install these kinds of things in data centers. The guy said this kind of cooling works when the temperature outside is <22 degrees Celsius.
Perhaps, but alternatively, there has been a huge influx of startups lately. There is probably credence to the view that many of those startups have had heavily inflated valuations - that can't go on indefinitely.
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About the meaning of the word "Plankalkuel".

Taken verbatim it means something like plan calculus in the sense that you 'plan the calculation'; 'plan the computation'. But it also works the other way round and has a connotation of 'the estimation within the agenda'.
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You are being provocative, ok. But there is plenty of space for start up innovation in many sectors, just not any more social apps, agreed on that.
Just to clarify: are you saying with your point #2 that the government can break any encryption currently in wide use with 802.11 networks and all popular VPN solutions? Or are you just saying that they can physically listen to encrypted transmissions? I was under the impression that encryption scales in complexity pretty much infinitely, so long as you don't care about encryption/decryption speeds.
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We may measure city populations differently - where I am, we go by the metropolitan area. Wikipedia lists SF as a metro population of 4 million, San Diego 3, and San Jose only 2.

The bulk of the trip is outside SF though - that 8+ hours has little to do with the very end of the trip... something a bullet train might help with.
The jQuery sorter thingy is incredibly buggy / slow. I would have been done in 1/3rd of the time if it wasn't!
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Encapsulation is only somewhat more protective than simply adding a version number on the file format. Not that it isn't helpful from a project-management standpoint, but in the really complicated cases(real world example: serializing the state of a video game down to the exact frame - many of the entities want to reference each other, numerous static resource hooks, etc.), there's an impedance at the moment you decide to serialize, and the design challenge is mainly one of deciding where to attack it:

1. By doing reflective magic (potentially a lot of it) at the moment of serialization so that a serialization-friendly form can be teased out. If you are not working within a reflective environment, this option doesn't exist without additional effort. And if the runtime changes the magic breaks.

2. By "primitivizing" the runtime so it's closer to the serialized representation, at the expense of dirtying the codebase to exchange e.g. object references for id numbers. You can make it look prettier again by enforcing conventions, but the extra weight is still there. Adding reflection within an environment that didn't have it built-in also requires going through this step.

Those two options are the design tradeoff. And the bigger your serialization ambitions go the more the pressure builds to either massively primitivize(e.g. use a SQL database for all data and make the special runtime representations non-persistent always) or make an image so that data never "actually" leaves the runtime.

In electing to use a database layer everywhere, web apps have more-or-less standardized on primitive designs, and subsequently try to claw back readable code through tricks like ORMs and DSLs.
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The thing is, advice is common sense once you get it.
I've read a lot of self help and I feel that it has helped me evolve in many ways. I am not attracted to the new-age stuff but for instance Tim Ferriss offers really actionable advice which I like.

The same thing applies to HN. I used to swallow all of it whereas now I feel that most material here is repetitive. I catch myself thinking "Jesus, another blog entry on this topic that is obvious to everyone!". What has happened of course, is that HN has shaped and evolved my thinking in this particular area. I still love it but I am looking forward to discovering the book/forum/idea that will take me to the next level in my life.
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The problem with that is the infrastructure you need to have in place. It does have the advantage of solving security, maintenance and latency issues you have with data furnaces.
Related to the article, although not directly to the main point ("Should GH bless the root of project forks"):
So - I looked at the pull request that was linked to as 'couldn't get our fixes upstream'.

I don't know the project, but I was totally lost when I read the commit messages in the pull request. Samples:

I fixed something
small change'
better idea
class custer method
much much better
no such thing as an error here.

In the end upstream was lost as well, which might or might not be related to patch size and - erm - a little mess?

I know Zac is doing some pretty cool stuff, but this seems like dumping code, i.e. looks careless to me.
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I am basically trying to find out if there is an actual need for a service like this. Thanks for your input.
Or maybe that new "X" sharing app that does nothing new doesn't need $ 2million in seed funding
Yes of course. I was doing 0.55Wx24hx365=4818 kWh/year and it is about 30,000 kWh/year for the house. Easy to check, as it is about 1 SEK/kWh or so, and I have an average bill of about 2500 SEK / month. (It's what I get for trying to do maths when supposedly on holiday. ;) It was 5k kWh, ie 5MWh).
So they've done the first 90%. Bully for them. Come back to me when they've the navigated the full range of traffic, weather and stupid driver/bicyclist/pedestrian obstacles. Google has a long way to go yet.
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An interesting article, but the title's talk of "anarchism" is of the anarcho-capitalist variety. It has to do with the state, and says nothing about other forms of hierarchy and domination.
I can't block them, there is no way to do that reliably.

But if I had a brick-and-mortar store, I also wouldn't hand out free products to people who tell me "I may pay the second time".
or it'll be even more good if they just create way to let any website configure themselves without any problem. This way they can act as a medium for material objects and websites and can position themselves for a very gud product. They can even charge for exclusive support.
The title alone makes me want to see an image taking on data centers as the new Dark Satanic Mills.
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I read this was to be done at Telehouse West (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/15/teleh...) last year but haven't seen any detailed follow-up.
would love to see that happen :)
Although you'll need to spend 100% of your time on your startup, at some point, you don't have to start that way. Just make sure that you do whatever you can to fully switch context when working at your job or on your startup. Trying to do both, switching back and forth during the day, will drive you crazy. So in short, yes it can be done.

BTW: if you haven't read it already, read "REWORK" by the guys from 37signals. They talk about this misconception.

Also, starting your startup this way is incredibly hard. But, if you are really serious, you'll find a way and all of the sudden you'll find yourself spending more time on your startup that at your job. Good luck.
"457 visa holders are usually required to purchase their own since everyone else is covered under the national health care system."

Not sure if you are aware of this, but if you are not entitled to Medicare, you are exempt from paying Medicare levy (and surcharge), which the rest of the residents do have to pay. Though, you have to get it back with tax refund at the end of the financial year (it is paid with PAYG taxes) after you apply for a letter from Medicare that you weren't eligible.

Private hospital insurance should cost you about the same per year, so it's a fair arrangement, I think.
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php a right tool for what? the author never mentioned this.

assuming it is web dev, really, php is a tad 1990s as a right tool for the job. sure it works. sure its easy. but hell, there are definitely better tools for the job, as you progress up the development skill ladder, there are options like RoR, django, flask, pyramid, anything! PHP is well, just unweldy.
Ok take a step back.

Suppose that mercedes benz is only able to sell half as many cars as normal. What will happen? Will they keep the same number of employees? If the US is any example, the answer is clearly no. And once families lose their incomes, they have less income to deal with.

If you presuppose that they magically earned the same number of euros without concern for the demand, then yes. However, that's not how it works. You have to look at Mercedes Benz and other companies because they are the ones who are paying most of the consumers.

Put simply, a consumer with no income in a world with a stronger Euro is worse off than a consumer with an income in a world with a weaker Euro (something is better than nothing :)
This is why we can't have nice things....

and why the EFF [Subpoenadefense] list is basically dead.
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But you really should have that infrastructure around anyway -- in the city I live in, heating costs are a joke (I pay about 11% of what it cost my grandparents to heat their home, even though it is only about 20% larger -- though it is difficult to compare directly since I live in an apartment) because we reuse excess heat from some local factories (and make them a bunch of monies in the process).
The TC proof for Zuse's Z3 is worth a read: http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Kommentare/Html/0684/universal...
The interesting thing about this study is the finding on a classic "hard endpoint," namely all-cause mortality. And what is worthwhile about this news story is that it doesn't just regurgitate a press release, but points out what issues haven't been resolved by the study. Those issues are always important to keep in mind.

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The first author

http://www2.kumc.edu/internalmedicine/cv/jvacek.html

and his lab

http://www2.kumc.edu/internalmedicine/cv/publications.html

appear to have some relevant experience and previous peer-reviewed publications. A finding of this nature must, of course, be replicated by other researchers.

Here is a link to the abstract of the e-publication ahead of print of the underlying study in the American Journal of Cardiology:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22071212
I think I would use this, depending on the quality of the tester. $9 per user is a little expensive. There are a lot of traditional marketing techniques that could get you users for less than a $9 CPA - especially since it's $9 + you're giving away the product for free.
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Ah, it only chafes when I apply your statements back to you about your profession. I see.

Point of fact: I started as a visual designer when I was a teenager. Then I learned PHP, then Ruby, then JavaScript, off which I made lots and lots of money and no little fame. Then I got really interested in the way software WORKED and turned into an interface designer. Who designs and develops her own shit. Now I make and sell products directly to people who use them, nobody will "hire" me for anything ever again.

What is my profession exactly, that I am preciously trying to protect?
I feel that the end result of polished code isn't useful unless you can see the process they went through to get there. It seems difficult to retrace their footsteps.
They can and already have solved the security issues by full hard disk encryption of the servers. Any attempt to open the server rack or tamper with the hardware triggers a dead man switch that powers off the servers. After losing power, the systems must have a passphrase typed in over a remote secure console before they can boot. Many Fortune 500 companies already do this with all of their laptops. By using full disk encryption, if a laptop or server goes missing, even if it had a hard drive full of SSNs, they don't have to report the data loss because the data was encrypted.
It depends on what you understand under "self-help books".

The generic, feel-good ones, sure, those are trash that usually doesn't work (they still might work given the specific situation).

The well researched, written by scientists and psychologists - I found a few that I love. In fact I'm going to buy ten pieces of one book for this Christmas because I have found it crucial.

These are the three well researched books I've read in the past 18 months that turned my life around for the better and that I heartily recommend:

[1] The Promise of Sleep

[2] Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development

[3] Learned Optimism (that's the one I'm buying ten times for this year's Christmas)

The one recommended in the article, 59 Seconds, is waiting on a pile of books (not exclusively from the self-help category, with The Algorithm Design Manual, Street Smarts, Architecture of Open Source Applications, Learn You a Haskell etc.) to be read soon.

Let's read, think and become better people.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Sleep-Medicine-Connection-Happ...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Self-theories-Motivation-Personality-D...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1...
Second that. You might also want to change your wording on that message. I don't even know what your website does and it's already calling me 'not cool enough'? Sorry, that's an instant negative impact and I'd never return to your site. If you really want people to visit using a different browser, you should at the very least request them to do so politely.
Folks have been predicting this throughout 2010 as well as 2011. The arguments are generally devoid of data, i.e., "based on what we see".

First, let me say, there will eventually be a decrease in funding levels primarily because the VC asset class is raising less money and since they can only invest what's in their bank accounts, it has to come down. When will that happen? Not sure.

Here's some thoughts based on data we collect.

- 2011 is shaping up to be banner year for VCs ($30B+ invested)
- Seed investments whether by VCs, VCs & angels or just angels are growing like mad

If you think of investing as a funnel, i.e., more seed stage companies get funded than Series A than Series B, etc, it def looks like the funnel has gotten a bit fat up top, i.e. a lot more seed deals than Series A, B, etc money down the pipeline.

So if anything, the Seed thing has been overdone. At the same time, many of those Seed companies can become real businesses on just the Seed round, i.e., SaaS companies (just look at UserVoice's second small round raise as a case study). Or these companies get acquired for $20-$50 million. Which is not a great return for a mega-VC who only care about billion dollar opportunities, but can be quite good for a micro-VC. I'd imagine Dave McClure and others like 500Startups would be happy hitting those all day long.

That said, there is an overabundance of seed backed companies and many of these will be orphaned and die. That's not a bad thing. It's the market working.

At the same time, there are a lot more investors at the Seed stage and a lot more can pile in so the trend might continue for a while as everyone hopes to fund the next Facebook, Pinterest, Quora, etc (pick your soup du jour). This is only natural as there are a lot more folks who can invest at the $1 million level than the $10 or $100 million level.

As to whether later rounds will decrease in # and a bubble exists, that can really only happen when the buyers (investors) decide not to pay crazy valuations. I'm not sure what the 'forcing mechanism' will be that will drive this. There is not a long list of public internet companies that will set the "real price" for these companies and cause a correction. So without the forcing mechanism, it comes down to investors agreeing that valuations in private markets are too high. Not sure there is anything out there that would cause an across-the-board shift like that. Of course, some investors might get more conservative but there looks to be no dearth of cowboys investing right now.

Finally, this could all change if the stock market and general economy go into a tailspin. If I could predict that with any precision (or if anyone could), we're in the wrong business.

Some links for those interested in some data -

Startup Cash Crunch? Hardly - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/startup-cash-...

VC on track for $30B in 2011 - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/quarterly-ven...
This is not a bubble, I think a lot of people are yelling fire because they want to cool the market, but this is no where near a bubble. When the stupidest ideas are being funded after a meeting with 2 guys and a sketch pad, with no product and no company, then we are in a bubble. Wait until the Euro collapses and all that capital flight happens, then we may see a real bubble like the one we saw in the .com boom or worse the kind of money that hit the housing boom.

I think the wise people in the Vally see the capital influx coming and are trying to cool the sector to ducks some of that capital. We have already killed the goose that laid the golden egg once before, I think we are just trying to ensure that we are not to attractive to the stupid money.

There are fewer and fewer places for it to run to and tech is one of the last bastions, but it cannot sustain the kind of fiat capital that has been created, we are too weak in our recovery from the last exuberance. That being said, this is not a bubble, it can and has gotten a lot crazier than this. This is what healthy was before the bubble.
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All this does is statically link the user to the GitHub page. It does not actually "Watch" the repo when you hit Watch. While nice, it's just a glorified link. The counter is the only real feature here.