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I am an Indian living in the US and I registered for the marrow donor program after my wife forwarded information about Amit . I sent the swabs more than a week ago. Not sure how it works, but hopefully there will be a match.

They said it will take two weeks for me to get the kit, but it was surprisingly fast.
This touches on what I see as a pretty big deal for social networks going forward, although Path is probably not the right app to solve the problem. We have been throwing all this data about ourselves into all these different apps for as long as 6-7 years now (much more intensively over the last 2 though), but don't have a meaningful way to browse through it, or even find anything in it. Timeline is another major step in this direction, but as of now still has a way to go.
Everyone's talking about what these networks our doing with our data, but what are WE doing with our own data?
I keep coming back to Google's Parisian Love commercial, if only we could have our own online history presented the same way: http://youtu.be/nnsSUqgkDwU
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You can and should separate view and controller. Imagine if you could spawn windows at monitors, and then have things display on them via pipeline.

You might type into a tiny window on one monitor that never loses focus, but sends graphs and text and streams to these windows.

There's no reason that the place you enter text should correspond to the output display, and a lot of value to be had by separating them.

Imagine being able to plug display consumers into a port so that you could do visual demos.
Heh, I hate that "feature", mostly because I can't see the titles of the tabs when I have like 30 open and I have to cycle through them to find them.

By the way, Firefox also has the "tab doesn't resize or move until you move the mouse away", and it's pretty useful indeed...

Chrome has the best "Incognito" mode, though... after Opera's "Private tab" feature, of course :-).
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Unsurprisingly, google has a slightly higher marketing budget than mozilla... :P
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Je suis @ Mexico aussi. We are North America!!!
I think you make a good point, there are definitely complex situations that call for Java-esque and enterprisey tools. However, having a simple solution often trumps complex solutions when you just want to "get things done"™.

I suppose it boils back down to the most appropriate tool. Are you selling to enterprises? Use SOAP. Everyone else? Use REST/JSON.
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On the backend we are running Postgres for persistent storage, MongoDB for document-based storage and ETL staging, and redis for key-value stores and queueing. All of our calculations live in ruby at the moment, but we need to be smarter about building an elegant/sane data processing world.

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As I'm writing this the numbers are 2186 for the US vs 496 for the UK. The US population is almost five times the size of the UK, so the UK is actually overrepresented compared to the US.
I like what Dwolla is doing, but unfortunately without a faster way to move money out of Dwolla (transfer to PayPal, debit card, etc.) it's pretty useless for me right now.

The devs have told me that's completely against all they stand for, blah blah, but I think if they're trying to take down PayPal and the credit card companies they really need to budge a little bit to make the transition more palatable. I don't mind eating transaction fees until I can get some clients to use it.
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I actually liked Konqueror, but it might have been a later version than what you had.
I for one, just use Firefox's built in bookmarks.
And I bookmark everything, photos/videos I like, posts that have a nice quote, pages I'll read in after I'm done with dinner, random corners of the internet, threads I know will get pushed back a dozen pages by the morning, whatever.

Google is fine for most recall, as long as what you're looking for isn't in the darkweb (like my dozens of achive.org bookmarks), but why bother with Google, extra steps, extra friction.

Side effect of the awesome bar and compulsive bookmarking though: I rarely have more than a dozen tabs open because picking up where I left off has so little burden.

And yeah I do end up with thousands of bookmarks I probably won't even use again, but it doesn't interfere with anything.
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This is a great story, and kudos to Max for being able to profit massively from it, but this type of thing always reminds me of day traders. For me, personally, it is not all that inspiring. Maybe I am being too altruistic, but it seems like instead of creating value, he is extracting value from other companies. Honestly, I would rather read stories about young people making 1/100 of what Max made, but instead of affiliate arbitrage, they are building their own product and hustling their own sales. Nonetheless, it is still an interesting read, and a way to make a quick buck if you are willing to put up some cash to get the traffic pumping.
Maybe pg could release a picture of a few months of Google analytics or the like on a map.
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Bitcoin is squarely at the bottom of the dip in the Gartner Hype Curve right now. It's a little bit of a gamble, but it could pay off. The risk to Dwolla of facilitating Bitcoin transfers is pretty minimal.
Kudos for 'fessing up.
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I am in Mexico too. So either North America if you go for a geographical division, or Latin America, if you wish to characterize culturally.
My opinion about the common thought saying "NodeJS forces you to code many callbacks that seem ugly" is that some people hesitate to abstract that functions.
Hi Steve,

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Good for SEO too.
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The author confuses a terminal with a shell running in a terminal.

I'd like for my terminal to be able to open a stream of html in my web browser. Use case: running `man blahblah` in a ssh session opens a nicely formatted page in a local browser window.

I'd like for my terminal to be able to open a stream of text in my editor, and accept a stream of text back from my editor to save somewhere. Use case: running `sudo -e /etc/blahblah` in a ssh session allows me to edit the remote file /etc/blahblah in a local text editor, and save my changes back.
The concept of a view and a controller are distinct, a terminal simply happens to be both, because it can do both. Commands are solely controllers, and you're right, a read-only terminal would be just a view.
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Think about if the poll were (the horror!) political. The person who responds to that kind of poll is the intersection of:

1) An HN reader

2) Somebody who thinks politics on HN is a good idea

3) Somebody who is on HN / has free time TODAY, skewing the distribution in favor of certain verticals that are in a low point of their seasonal cycle or against startups in a coding marathon

4) Somebody who personally cares about politics sufficiently to have an opinion strong enough to want to be counted, this is likely to skew the distribution in favor of extremes

In contrast, if pg picks 1000 random HN users and personally asks them the poll question via e-mail, some of these biases evaporate. And you lose the "interested bystander" effect whereby more interested people tend to want to take the poll, because the only way to take it is by personal invitation.
Nope, I grabbed the source and made sure all links pointed to http:// etc etc, and it loaded the page fine.

The dependence on javascript to load your resources seems dumb in this instance. Whatever happened to being able to degrade gracefully? With noscript, his page would be completely blank.
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To be fair, it makes sense in some circumstances. Would you want your employees taking your algorithms, trade secrets, insider knowledge and networking contacts to build a competing business while you are paying them at the same time?
Does anyone remember AllAdvantage and BeFree from last decade? At that time it was cost per click ... :)
Are you using XP or Mac OS? Cause Firefox looks pretty nice with Aero on Vista and 7 - a lot like Chrome, actually...
why not split US and EU? Clearly a statistically significant number of visitors are from NY/SF and UK.
> Bitcoin is squarely at the bottom of the dip in the Gartner Hype Curve right now.

Similarly, the Gartner hype curve is at the peak of the Gartner hype curve.

Gartner doesn't change the fact that bitcoin is deflationary and will die as a currency for the same reason that precious metals died: They are deflationary.
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Have jvisualvm and jconsole been of any help? Those are two tools I wish I'd been introduced to when I first started programming in Java.
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the eventual goal is to expand into other music genres and eventually take over the entire lyrics space. but the big vision goes beyond music and touches ALL OF TEXT.

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I'd just tell them that your current financial situation doesn't enable you to work for just equity. And if you feel like you're doing more of the technical work than the technical co-founder, it's probably not a good situation overall.
Jamming ephemeral cloud infrastructure into an ITIL-style bureaucracy is like jamming a square peg into a round hole. You can push as hard as you want -- it ain't gonna fit.
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Good point.

Seems like that would inevitably lead to everyone in the organization unable to determine whether or not their contribution was useful. (Short of them actually saving a life at the bottom level.)

With no hope of finding meaning in your job, it would make a 40-year career to retirement a long career indeed.
patio11 - you say pick up a book on a/b testing - recommendation?
What arbitrary keywords? "." and "#" are the existing CSS selectors for "class" and "ID", and I personally really like that I don't have to type them out all the time.
This is text editing in OpenGL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5DJTOy6EA I'd like to have such a terminal.
Summary of startup related job boards from around the world, most of them are broadly recruiter free:

======================

US:

Crunchboard http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/

Startuply http://www.startuply.com/

YC Company Jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

======================

UK:

CoderStack (Developer Jobs - run by me) http://www.coderstack.co.uk/startup-jobs

Mind The Product (Product Management Jobs) http://mindtheproduct.com/jobs/

Work in Startups http://www.workinstartups.com/

Enternships - (Startup Internships) http://www.enternships.com/en/enternships

======================

Germany:

Berlin Startup Jobs http://berlinstartupjobs.com/

======================

Canada:

StartupNorth http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/
Sometimes when I have text files open I want to be able to run command line tools against them. I know I can go write a shell script but sometimes I want to write grep against my inbox or against all the windows I have open at the time. I want to be able to high lite some text (possibly in more than one window) and then have a transparent shell appear that lets me write expressions to work with that text, like sort it in place. Often I have to move things into and out of text files, spreadsheets,databases to be able to apply all the tricks that I like. I wish those tricks could just appear and work with what I'm looking at.
I don't fit in any of those categories, I'm from México. :) Maybe you could change "South America" to "Latin America"
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Well, I don't see Carrier IQ in the list ;)
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I live in Peru but created my corporation in the US in Delaware just to get the gateways and other US services.
I think so. I know they have a "big announcement" in 15 days, so I expect it to be related to this. Previously there has been some news about a service I think was called "CU link" where credit unions can offer Dwolla as a sort of service and the ACH is accelerated. I sent an email to my CU bugging them to get this and they gave me an answer like, "we pay attention to what is going on". My CU has some sort of ties to Members Group and I use Dwolla for online payments so my fingers are crossed.
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"And we, the users, play along, pretending our machine is a video terminal presenting a grid of ASCII characters in all of 256 colours. This is ridiculous."

Not everybody uses their terminal to churn out HTML pages and add 'Nyan mode' to our 'newly discovered' emacs program. For those who do that, just buy a Macintosh or whatever is this week's hip flavor of Best Buy PC. Otherwise, use a language that doesn't require >256 different colors to be represented meaningfully.

"Typography is the future"? Thank goodness X.org/XFree86 has supported custom fonts since the 1990's.

"Opening a man page would scroll gently to the top of the page, letting you scroll down and read, or search through it as you would any text"

See: MANPAGER.

"We then add syntax highlighting and hyperlinks, so you can easily navigate between man pages"

Many terminals and shells support these features already.

"Finally we add visualisations so you can view plots of lines of code, etc., without having to context-switch."

Huh? I read that as 'code folding' and clang compilation.

I think the main takeaway here is that most of his "ideas" can be easily achieved within the current ecosystem of available programs, most of which are stock on modern UNIX-like OS distributions. I do think he misfiled this article under "Ideas"; it's more akin to a polite rant.

edit: colours/color killed due to conflict with reality (and irrelevance anyway).
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85% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/mozilla-extends-lucrative-d...
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Why does he need to make a good impression? look at the code and make your determination - build it and make a pull request with your improved video. This is the spirit of Github: he may be an awesome coder but weak in video production - fork and collaborate.
Hahah, was simply. Opt and pasted from my iPhone to show ppl ;). (I get seriously bored in work)