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"I'm not going to side with design over engineering"

It shouldn't be one or the other, it should work in unison. Design includes aesthetics and user interaction. Airbnb wouldn't successful if the user flow wasn't well crafted and a far superior experience than using Craigslist.
It's telling googlebot to slow down and not be so aggressive.

You can use google webmaster tools to dial down the crawl rate.

Some think you can use Crawl-delay: in robots.txt but I have not tested this (and it may very well not work).
Microsoft Will Pay Nokia "Billions" To Use Windows Phone
Just out of curiosity, what is it that you think is complex using phonegap build? I've used it before and I thought it was very simple. I was even able to walk our receptionist over the phone on how to generate new build for android from our ios build using phonegap build. Thanks. I am also interested in using command line tools though. Thanks.
That's nothing!
6922251 * 8 on a calculator spells my ex's nickname....
I'm not sure what angle they'd play with advertising, but I think "build a fighter plane!" sounds a lot more exciting to a kid than "improve the fuel efficiency of passenger planes!"
If you could some how port all that knowledge to "right cerebral hemisphere" I would flat out give you my degree..
this website has some GREAT content: http://highscalability.com/

Many articles focus on bigger, high-profile companies with unique challenges but there are tons of great articles and tips on scaling normal web apps. Check the archives.
Just over a year ago I drove my friend, Josh Buckley, from LA to SF for his YC interview. Since then I have had the pleasure of watching how YC can help transform a number of things:

1.) His product, www.minomonsters.com, has evolved from a nearly-finished Facebook game into beautifully designed and highly engaging iPhone app.

2.) Josh is now an alien (with extraordinary ability) due to his O1 visa.

3.) He has grown the business from a one-man-band hiring freelancers into a proper company with an office and staff.

4.) His network has expanded exponentially.

5.) He has found a truly great cofounder who makes him raise his game.

6.) He has ridden the emotional roller-coaster of fund-raising on his own and that has transformed him into an even better businessman.

7.) The process has taught him the art of focussing on one huge, seemingly-insurmountable goal. He has sacrificed a lot but gained even more.

8.) Despite his incredible work-ethic and dedication to his startup, one thing hasn't changed. He is still a great friend and always makes time for those he cares about.

I met Josh about 4 years ago. He was on a mission. YC was a fantastic catalyst for that mission. He provided the spaceship, they have provided the rocket-fuel.
Confirmation bias....causation & correlation.....yadda yadda yadda
That's not a bad idea. IIRC many of the people on Storage Wars do exactly that.
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Actually, I would go for it. I think with your experience the University of Illinois would be more than enough.. Crap.. A degree from University of Phoenix would make you CIO with that knowledge.. I'm not trying to hype you up but honestly with you experience any degree should work..
I wonder what this could mean for using Google+ in the classroom – perhaps teachers could post links in a circle exclusively for the students in their class, and allow students to comment and discuss those links. Also, on a hangout, students could more easily collaborate on group projects, especially if they use Google Docs.
what about other cash-only businesses like a barber shop?
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I was friends with a blind web developer years ago - I remember him telling me that he had the computer "speaking" so fast that a tech fixing his laptop thought it was broken.
Comparing yourself to people that have 8 years of experience is silly.

Think about this: You go to a school to learn about music, but you don't actually learn any instrument, just music theory. You then pick up a guitar for 3 months and go play in a club. Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) walks in and shreds it. You feel depressed.

Makes no sense right? Don't give up, but realize that it's going to take more than 3 months of practice to be good at this (or just about anything really).
Pulse Grows from 1M to 11M Users in One Year
Github is a bit special but I guess this can work every time you have a few basic ingredients: a product that has final customers (no busines-to-business), and a company that is completely focused in developing this single product.

It is not very common but also not rare either for web startups to have this kind of setup, so I think this may work for many... of course a fundamental thing here is that they hire smart guys, you can do something like that only if every piece of the company is skilled and independently able to handle his own work.
I am not sure if this is good for the consumer. He will pay for it in he end
This is weird. Freedom shouldn't be the price you pay to operate in any country. Is it passe to push American ideals abroad.
MPAA Wins the Oscar Screener Battle, but Loses the War
Background: I'm friends with the owners of Wildbit, and have watched the journey they took that led to shutting down Newsberry. Several times, over a couple bottles of wine, my husband and I advised them to "just shut it down"! Because my husband & I run a very similar business, and we understand what it's like.

Here's the thing about the comments on this article, here on HN: of the people saying it was a mistake, that the article was misleading, etc, etc: How many of them have a profitable business with a team of any size, and multiple products?

That's the hidden problem with HN: with a few notable exceptions, everybody here is an Monday morning quarterback.

There is NOTHING more draining than to keep a product running "because it's just profitable enough." Or worse, because you feel guilty about shutting it down, because you feel like you're going to let down your customers.

There's nothing more divisive than a redheaded stepchild product.

There's nothing more wasteful than a distraction to you & your team.

Running 2 products is not simply double the work than running 1. Running 3 products is not simply 50% more than running 2.

When one runs a successful business oneself, one knows this implicitly.

But when you haven't, then you are likely to look at this kind of story and go "WTF? They just threw away $75k/year? But they could have spent 1 day a week on fixing it and making it more profitable! They could have hired a part-time designer!"

But this is just a lament wrapped up in logical, impartial language - but still a lament, which is really saying "WTF? I could use $75k/year! How could they possibly throw that away? WASTEFUL. SHAMEFUL."

Which is, really, totally understandable. Until you run a business of this scale, it's hard to imagine how $75k/yr in profit could be a millstone around your neck instead of something to celebrate. However, that does not good business advice make, and one must always consider the source & experience of the person dispensing it.
Why Soundcloud ditched Flash for HTML5
As an American, I've been explicitly called childish by several people for not desiring a driver's license. Because you only grow up when you have a car. -_-
It shouldn't be one or the other, it should work in unison.

I completely agree. That's why I prefaced my comment by saying that I wasn't siding. Most people talking about the subject will be strongly supporting one particular side.
why not just link to the youtube video of the professor explaining? http://youtu.be/UqBmdZ-BNig
Synchronized Collaboration Environment is also a topic attracting academic interest. There were desktop white boards GUI that are similar to this, but I think porting it onto tablet and the recognition part is a game-changer. Question: will the backend be open source?
> I'm not sure there would be any emotional trauma.

I'm pretty sure I will be. I work with a former Boeing employee. Him and a number of coworkers were absolutely devastated that aircraft they sold where used to kill people.

Granted, it's a small number of data points but I would be pretty upset knowing something I designed killed people.
Every one I've been to has a POS computer/register where they enter every sale, no matter how it's paid. Enter the employee ID of the person that did the cut, the service, cash tendered, money drawer opens, provide change if applicable, offer receipt. Same as any other legit business.
So what if we had a study linked specific races of people to intelligence (based on the same sort of data here)? It would not be accepted, even if the proof was in the stats.

This is my problem with this entire article. It's just fine to be prejudice against conservatives/republicans. The whole thing stinks of liberal bias.
you can't equate hiring a vp with a VC, they're apples and oranges and I'll tell you why.

With a VC, its simpler, if the start-up has a good idea with a good plan to execute, then the risk is only money. If the start-up does well, both of them make money. But if the startup screws up, then you lose your investment, and move and invest in other companies.
It's different with hiring a VP. If you're a VP and you do well, you help the company grow. But, if you screw up, you've just ruined your company and its employees' which could potentially affect tens or hundreds of your subordinates' futures AND especially their families, and with some screw ups, you can't even use money to fix it.

If you can't distinguish between those two things, then you're going to be a crappy vp if you ever make it.
What an incredible story. Think back 4 years to 2008. Where were you? What were you doing? Imagine going on the journey that the founders of AirBnB have had in the next 4 years. Some people out there are starting something that will grow as fast or faster. I wonder what is going through their minds.
The World's First 3-D, Free-Standing Invisibility Cloak Conceals from All Angles
I've been reading a lot of these articles and would like to think that I've implemented a RESTful API. I use GET for the get_all, get_one methods; PUT for create and PUT for replace/modify (as in replacing a field, not appending to it), HEAD for checking if certain resources exist, and DELETE for the obvious.

The framework I'm using assigns any visit a new session, but it's unused in the sense that the REST interaction doesn't require the session and also doesn't use it - authentication is handled using a the "Authorization: basic" header.
Show HN: Saving Gowalla's UI - I recreated Gowalla's animated refresh bar.
Granted, clarity and power aren't necessarily the same thing:

http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html
That would put all the clever people in a minority party, where they are the opponents to the politicians and the media. Best to guarantee scientists a place in all governments (like the Surgeon General) without making it a political position.
And this is true in Hungary for sure, and I guess in the whole Eastern Bloc, Russia included.
I'm guessing that the only reason CoffeeScript embraces Javascript is for debugging.

I wonder whether CoffeeScript embraces JavaScript is because its author, jashkenas, likes JavaScript’s semantics. he has created several extremely useful JavaScript tools and has described JavaScript using words like “gorgeous."
I too find it irritating when other wireframing tools don't have that one thing I am looking for. The ability to easily create your own on the fly sounds interesting.

Handful of questions:

Drawing with a finger/pen on a tablet... will the lines auto-smooth? Is there a scripting language under new elements? Would I be able to combine elements and make a reusable gallery type super element?!

Will my clients have to install something to view my templates? Can I send them a URL or will I have to export an image?

Am I asking too many questions?
Stealth mode company hiring?
In reference to memorizing material the OP writes: In the “real world,” having a copy of your notes is called being prepared. Instead, university exams expect us to tie one hand behind our backs and master a skill we’ll seldom if ever use again.

The truth is in the middle of the dichotomy you setup. Yes having notes, referencing materials, etc in the real world is being prepared. BUT, even in the real world, there's a reasonable expectation that you'll store and retrieve as much of that information as possible in and from your own memory. For example, I'm a pretty adept with python. I occasionally need to look at the standard library reference; yet, I try to commit as much as I can to memory. If I didn't, I would spend the majority of my time searching instead of doing. It goes without saying that a person who knows something off the top of his or her head is more efficient than someone who doesn't. You're correct that in the real world you'll rarely be in a situation where you don't have access to a reference of some kind. However to say at the same time that memorization is a skill that you'll seldom if ever use again is incorrect at best and reckless at worst.
Nature’s shiny sounding copout on open access
I've found a painful lack of examples too. There's a lot of written material but few concrete examples from what I've found...
iPad-centric strategy obnoxious and short sighted

I agree that this is short-sighted. I have worked in the Healthcare field and am also related to a couple Doctors who built their own private practice. All the software they use for medical records is buggy as hell and extremely outdated. (Technically the software is updated frequently but it looks like something out of 1998.)

An iPad-only (or any tablet) interface, however, would be a non-starter for every practice I've worked with. It would be a great supplemental device for some situations, though.
Is it possible to go back to phones with physical buttons? When it was obvious where to press, and not a guessing game?
Can you do $30? ;-)
3 column layouts never really work for me.
Exciting, can't wait to keep my rejection streak going :)
you almost lost me 30-40 seconds into it because i thought - oh this is just another wireframing app. glad i stayed to the end! nice work guys
It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday how I hadn't heard much about Airbnb since all the attention from the robbery in SF this past summer.

There was a lot of negative press, and some serious concerns.

It's great to see that they've overcome that hurdle, and are growing like crazy.
You can find info here (unfortunately not just an easy download)

http://www.sap.com/hana/index.epx
According to anthropologists, debt appeared before money. So it's hardly a new development that debt is seen as OK.
HN stores everything as files in certain directories. A directory is sort of like a table, and each file is sort of like a row in that table. I think there is a directory for profiles, stories, and votes. I forget how cookie-user mappings are stored, it might be a single file or another directory.

The data is stored in files, but there is a lot of caching done to make everything fast.
Railroad Association Says TSA Hack Memo Was Inaccurate
I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but roseburg, have you considered packaging up this wisdom you shared on this blog post as a class and make some money teaching? I'd think you could get a bunch of students to take at least a one session 2 hour class or something learning this stuff from you. Or even some class online. You could video some of the interactions you have on the phone and in person when doing the deals etc...
>I'm not a fan of loudmouth hipster programmers either.

I throwing hipster around is a waste of time, especially considering these are extremely successful hipster programmers.

Create product everyone loves, create environment everyone loves to work in, live in San Francisco: fucking hipsters.

>He was hired to work on a project he was interested in, and was moved over to a project he dreads. They won't stay long though.

There is always shit work to do. It's a constant of the universe - there will always be work you're not super interested in. The difference is, is the rest of your job good enough to suck it up and take one for the team?

(Do you even think of it in terms of taking one for the team, or do you think you are just being shat upon?)
Judge says Transocean is indemnified for most Deepwater Horizon spill claims
I interpretted the recognition to be of the actual wireframes itself, which allows for the user experience at the wireframe stage. Is that correct?
Apple & China’s Laborers: The Heat is On
Nobody forced you to give him the stuff. As long as he's not lying about what he does - and we have nothing to indicate that he is - the seller is free to make that decision for themselves.
Thanks for the feedback Maxdemarzi.. Your right I think it just gets frustrating when I'm starring into the eternal sea of abstraction not knowing if the bug is somewhere in session manager, datalayer, or hate to say it sometimes UI..The someone comes along and says it over here in xxx after looking at it for minutes.. but.. You are right though I can not compare myself to them....
There's also the issue of exposure industry cred. I mean, we're talking about GitHub here, one of the hottest websites amongst developers. Working on it comes with a certain amount of prestige and every feature they add results in a massive amount of industry press on sites like HN. Of course engineers working there are going to be extremely driven and motivated, it's a very rewarding product to work on.

Now imagine you took the engineering team of GitHub (or one like it) and transplanted them to work on Widget Inc.'s CRM system that's primarily used by their sales, marketing and HR people. Instead of your end users being similarly savvy and motivated developers they're now your typical corporate office staff. They're not using your product by choice but only because it's what the corporate higher-ups handed to them. They couldn't care less about new whiz-bang features you add to the product, they're mostly concerned about getting their TPS report out on time. Interface changes only confuse them and slow them down. They're never going to tweet or post a blog post about how awesome the new thing you just rolled out is.

Do you think the engineers would be similarly motivated to work on such a product? I doubt it.
Ask HN: TechCrunch article "A Post-Mortem for Plancast," SOLUTION FOUND?
I believe that by focusing less on “events” & more on “meetups” happening soon (meaning in the next hour to 24 hours) & by integrating info from leading meetup & check-in apps, one can overcome the 8 challenges listed in this article (see http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/22/post-mortem-for-plancast/).

Equally important is having a product that has a very clean and intuitive user-interface with functionality that allows for a meetup to be posted in 1-click, much in the same way that one would post a status update (see https://vitapeeps.com).

What do you think?
How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space
Seems like a shortsighted move, given the perception in developed Western countries that Twitter is a tool for fomenting freedom.
It isn't about having, or not having, a sense of humor. It's just that Hacker News culture prides itself on maintaining a certain decorum to the discussion here... and it doesn't include internet memes, Chuck Norris jokes, or a lot of the other frivolous stuff that's accepted on Reddit, Digg, Slashdot, etc.

It's not that people here are stuffy, or humorless, or anything; we just want HN to be different, and not decay into a festering cesspool of malfeasance like Slashdot or whatever. There are plenty of places one can go to get that kind of stuff on the 'net. Here at HN, it will usually be downvoted mercilessly.
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There is nothing to "spell out" for the sellers since nobody knows at what max price an item will sell. When the original seller sets a price, they are balancing their need to move the item with how much they think they can get. When the arbitrageur buys an item they are offering immediate liquidity and accept not only the item but the risk that they will not be able to move it at a profit (or break even). Liquidity and transferring risk away from original sellers is the value this offers to the CL community.
The application links are a special type that don't expire for day, so this should not be happening. But I know of course that should not doesn't mean does not. Is anyone else seeing expired links when saving their application? I can't reproduce it myself.
I don't think that's a real problem; you don't page through all 1800 listings to look for something to buy. You add a couple filters and get exactly what you want. Heck, if you wanted to find Newsberry, just click "High End" in the main menu and sort by price -- it would have been right there on page one. Any custom set of filters/searches can be saved and turned into a daily e-mail alert, too.
Don't submit to playing the stop-and-go traffic jamming game. http://trafficwaves.org/ Even in rush hour I make a goal to press the brake as little as possible which simply means finding the average speed of the cars in front of me and going slower than it. It's a much less stressful way to drive and since I have a manual also requires less work.
What about operating in bigger markets, like cars, trailers, RV's, etc. ?

Or are those markets too competitive? Having sold cars on Craigslist before, I know that there are people who are offering low values, fast sales, shortly after posting in hopes of finding a desperate seller, so maybe these people make profit much less likely for a trader.
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I am wondering what you have learned from each rejection, mind sharing?
You're right - posts with nothing but a joke aren't really acceptable here. We want to discourage that sort of thing.
We love questions. :)

Lines will be smoothed, similar to how the Bamboo iPad app does it. Our prototype already does that. Does this answer your question?

You'll be able to create custom (even grouped) widgets and store them for easy access (e.g. if they're complicated to draw every time). We also plan to make pentotype even recognize your custom elements.

Clients won't need to install anything because pentotype is web-based. They just can point their browser at a URL and interact with the wireframe and leave comments.
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I probably should have specified "other than atom pub". It is so trivially REST since it simply describes publishing web pages using HTTP.

I'm more interested if anyone has managed to use REST for an API that has more business logic than simply publishing documents.
Apple's Tainted Profits
The original vision for Walt Disney's EPCOT was a radially designed city, where "the pedestrian will be king" (Walt's own words) and electric vehicles are segregated from the streets. See: https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/the-epcot-fil...
I hadn't considered it from this point of view. Although a tad extreme, as they did mention partnering with Campaign Monitor to aid the move for customers, I can imagine I might have been a bit miffed to see a service I regularly use be shut down.

It would be interesting to here some ex-customer perspectives on this.
Related presentation: Hacking Your Organization[1]

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Hacking-Your-Organization
You interpretted it correctly. The actual wireframes itself are recognized on-line so you can directly move elements around or test your wireframe.