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I, and many others I'm sure, owe a huge thanks to Jeff. 99% of the time, searching an error message from a compiler/framework I'm less familiar with + "stackoverflow" yields a well written, well explained solution to the problem - this solves a huge problem with overcoming undocumented code, and corner cases.

Not only that, but StackOverflow is often the de-facto place for a response to a technical problem of any kind. Heck, some companies even use it as a method for responding to queries about their product - one example I noticed the other day: http://blog.appharbor.com/2012/02/02/announcing-pricing

This is a result of such a thriving community, which Jeff has made possible through StackOverflow. So I just want to say thank you, for advancing the pace of development on the web and beyond.
Exactly. But Lightsquared is NOT an "existing license holder". Lightsquared purchased the neighboring spectrum within the past few years. At the time it purchased the spectrum, it knew that the spectrum was limited to low-power transmissions.
I only said technically because the case for fair use would be so strong that in practice I doubt I could actually be sued successfully.
I love the ad for Stack Overflow Carreers at the bottom.
Declaring pornography to be unprotected by copyright on account of "it is not useful" is an extremely scary proposition to me. The apathetic responses in this discussion are also pretty scary. Try to understand the potential implications here.

People enjoy it - if that is not enough to declare that it is "useful", then what is? How can you define any other forms of entertainment to be "useful"? How far-fetched would it be to eventually declare video games to be not "useful"? Or movies?
I use SimpleNote on my iPhone. I have probably 1200 ideas in it, with maybe 1/3 of them being specific startup concepts. Others are just things I've written down to help piece together my worldview; contradictions I may have unearthed or new ways to think about a certain thing I previously had a more foggy understanding of.
Didn't JavaScript start as Netscape's LiveScript intended to run on the Netscape web server? So more like it is coming full circle.

edit: random link sort of supporting what I thought I remembered http://www.findmeat.org/tutorials/javascript/x486110.htm
Besides that, as a contract programmer there have been a few times I've posted my StackOverflow profile in a cover letter and have had very positive reponses.

One interviewer went so far to say he didn't bother asking technical questions since he'd seen my answers on SO.

Obviously I wouldn't recommend that tactic, but it's nice to see my online rep actually translate to the real world like that from time to time.
I wish I knew the answer to that question. I know that most startups will ask you to sacrifice other aspects of your life, which I think is really unfortunate.
Perhaps (I am speculating, not dictating) this is exactly why four-year vesting periods work. If a large chunk of people burn out or get bored after four years, a five year vesting period would create sullen, unproductive boat anchors. A three year period would have people jumping ship to found something new while they are still able to bring their prowess to bear growing the company. But after four years, both parties have maximized their gain from each other.
"RasberryPi release date February 20th". No.

FTA: "[T]he boards will be finished on February 20. [...] [Y]ou should be able to buy them before the end of the month."
LTE vs GPS is like the difference between a Tsunami and a dripping faucet.

The problem isn't the noise, it's the volume. The volume alone would overwhelm the GPS filters' ability to filter out the out-of-band noise.
Seeking Beta Testers and Feedback
I need beta testers and feedback to give me validation about this idea suggestions about what more needs to be done.
mysimplecircle.com is like an address book for the 21st century, everyone maintains their own information instead of you maintaining everyone else’s information; which ends up being out of sync when they move or change phone numbers. You add your personal information, address, phone, email, and web links of sites you are on and you share the information with the people that you want to see; this can either by group or on an individual basis. Some information you might want to only share with your family and some with friends and you can choose what information you want to share. It can also be any type of information also that you want to share. You can also create groups with preset permissions or set permissions by the individual. There is also a public group that you can add yourself into and share some information, but of course minimal amount, maybe just enough for someone to find you and ask to connect with you. You can show hobbies, professional interests, anything. People might want to connect with you by different criteria if you’re in the public group, by hobby or different interests. If you don’t want to be in the public directory, you can send email invites for people to join you on mysimplecircle. You changed your phone number? Just change it in mysimplecircle and the people that have my simple circle accounts will see that reflected automatically. Join a new site? Update that in mysimplecircle.com and share the information to the people that you would like to join you.
I cannot recommend Comodo.

I paid for one of their certificates (through a re-seller) but they refused to issue it on the grounds that they could not verify my phone number. It was true that it was not in the directories they referred to, but they did not make that clear before selling the certificate.

I would have made a chargeback, but was paranoid about them informing other CAs of the fact - it would be a disaster if I was never able to get another SSL certificate.
Redbox has all the new releases, streaming never does (at least not under the monthly all you can eat).
What is Lululeman????

I think you're right that landing an anchor would change things. It's a little simplistic to stop there.

I would say that landing an anchor is like a litmus test of approval for an entire eco system.

What environment does it take to land an "anchor"???? Kind of a chicken or egg thing....you need the schools/environement to land the anchor and you need the anchor to perpetuate the hub??? You need silicon valley to become silicon valley.
Especially at the age of 2. I have two boys, 4 and 2, and have spent the past 2 years with a 5 hour a day commute. It is not uncommon for the 4 yr old to ask if I can stay home in the morning. They care more about visibility and don't understand the connection between working hard for comfortable lifestyle yet.

After 2 years of my crazy commute for a higher paycheck, the paycheck doesn't quite feel as justified.
Heh ... I should have specified ... free/open membership to all ... as long as you agree not to sue other members of the group. I don't think IV does that.
Wow, 1200 is quite impressive even if only 1/30 are start up related. Are these 'cured' to some degree, or just anything you've ever thought might have some potential?
I think it's inarguable that Atwood, through both Stack Overflow and his own personal blog, have had vastly greater impacts than either those Show HNs or that meetup will.
I've been looking for a mouse acceleration program that solves this problem. I can't tell you how many times I've installed / uninstalled Mouse Acceleration preference pane, Mouse curves, and that Japanese mouse acceleration program.

It's incredibly frustrating. It's one of the things that takes Mac OS X from a perfect operating system to a good operating system. And it's such a simple problem.
Stack Overflow are even kind (cheeky) enough to provide a calendar on a user's profile showing the day they've visited (or not).
SoundCloud is the least important, the least promoted

and, you forgot, the youngest. If the musicians start using any network, the fans will get there eventually.
Why most UX is shite
There's only 10,000 units in this batch. I'm guessing it will be sold out in an hour or two.
How do you plan on making money?

Any plans to include people who don't have or want to link their Facebook accounts?
Is there an automated tool for finding profanity in software source? I know we can always 'ack' (grep) special keywords in source code (or on OS X, use commands like 'strings')?
I'm under the impression that you can only purchase 1 per person (or per transaction?). So group and bulk buys are out of the question. 10,000 units might last a bit longer than 1-2 hours, but only time will tell.
What are those apps ?
As I understand it, the motivation was to be able to transmit Unicode text over a channel that's only 7-bit safe (e.g. mail protocols) without having to do something silly like Base64-encoding the whole thing.
Can a lawyer comment about evidence tampering or something else? Do not know how the police could delete the videos and not be held accountable for something.
I listened to a fascinating podcast on FoxConn on This American Life. It certainly opened my eyes a bit.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/m...
The first 3 points about industry groups, incubators, and public support are valid. I would like to see how effective the programs have been.

4. The Quality of Life is extremely subjective. I lived in Chicago and experienced the opposite. People are mostly concerned with getting drunk only. The city is ultra segregated. Big 12 frat house to the North, Suburban "hipsters" in the North center, etc. It's very suburban.

5.The only time people spoke to me on the street was to insult me. Most people you will meet in Chicago are not from Chicago.
I disagree that building an app in 30 days is "stupid." For some applications, a v1 in 30 days is entirely possible/reasonable. You have to consider the app you want to build and who you're selling it to. Some people are content with an MVP backed by a solid vision, others need something more substantial. Nobody's wrong here, it's totally based on the needs of your customers. The important part is that you understand this and approach it appropriately.
Except that copyright isn't something the government generally has the right to enforce: it infringes on free speech and and free expression. It is legal because the constitution specifically makes provision for it in certain cases (limited time, though the courts ruled it doesn't have to be a reasonable limited time, and to support science and the useful arts.) In all other cases, copyright laws would be unconstitutional.
We had Sam in our (2nd) YC interview for W12, unfortunately we were rejected but we contacted Sam a few days afterwards and he generously offered to give up his time to sit down with us in his office for a general chat about the interview and to offer some advice on our startup. We really appreciated that.
You missed Sama's awesome post on "How to Get Into Y Combinator" (which is sadly now private) Here are some good sections:

For most startups at this stage, the best predictor of success is the founders. So, the most important parts of the application for me are the questions about the founders' backgrounds and the most impressive things they've done. We're looking for evidence that the founders are smart, effective, and determined. If you can't go through your application and point to evidence for all three, that's bad. Don't be shy about telling us why you're good, but don't write a bunch of meaningless marketing speak either.

The first question I usually ask is something like "so, why this idea?" I'm happy when founders say things like "we wanted this for ourselves" or "we understand this space better than anyone else because of Y". We ask about parts of the business we have concerns about, like market size, competitive differentiation, growth plans, business model, etc. In particular, I'm interested in seeing how founders react to new information, and if they're flexible while still standing their ground on things they believe in. If I've already thought of everything a founder has to say about his/her company, that's bad.

It's important to remember that most investors are optimists by default. We want to believe that we've just found the next Facebook.
The scary thing is that enough people blindly pay this rate. If they didn't, they'd lower it to a more reasonable level...
Online reputation, when contextually appropriate, should be a very strong defining attribute related to an interview or judgement of knowledge and expertise in a field.

I imagine a world, reminiscent of Ender's Game, where online discussion holds much sway and credence, and the separation between it and "the real world" exists only to differentiate physical properties.

It would seem that we are slowly approaching this more transparent mesh of societies.

If a person can empirically show their value and experience with a topic, as you did with your SO profile, it should hold the same regard as similar measures.
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Wow, looking at the data sheet BroadCom provided has confirmed my worst fears. Comments like:

There are a number of peripherals which are intended to be controlled by the GPU. These are
omitted from this datasheet. Accessing these peripherals from the ARM is not recommended.

There is of course no documentation at all for the GPU, if you run Linux on this thing you are at Broadcom's mercy for maybe giving you a binary blob which might run the GPU in an acceptable manner but no promises.

This is such a sad state of affairs. Where a chip company refuses to divulge information that is critical to using their chip.

Say what you want about the OLPC but like Stallman's laptop the damn thing had pretty good documentation on all the parts. I guess its finally time for an open source SOC.
Storm sounds awesome. Can you make something exactly like it but built on Node.js (CoffeeScript if possible but not important) instead of Java?
Well put and I agree. What I'm referring to are the people who want to get covered in TechCrunch and have valuations in the millions. I very much respect the people who do something they love and make a comfortable living from. I very much feel sorry for the ones who are looking to have a movie made about them a la The Social Network.
I followed the entire genesis of StackOverflow pretty closely via Jeff & Joel's blog posts and the first go 'round of the StackOverflow podcast.

During that time, and to this day, I never ceased to be impressed by Jeff's committment to making the web a better place for programmers and the general public too. He never got mired in startup-speak; you never got the idea he was just in it to sell it, and even once they got some VC backing, you never got the idea he was planning to just sit back and collect the money. Just a no-BS guy in every regard.

It's obvious to me that when Jeff does something, he does the shit out of it, and I can't imagine that parenting will be any different. We could use more people like him in every part of life.
Ask HN: YC Companies Hiring New Coders
Are there any YC companies willing to train people coming from a non-software engineering background in exchange for free work?

Basically, an intern but not one in school.
webchat works well for me personally.
It says it's a Word Press theme. Maybe WP expects those identifiers?
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me and shook hands with the king and thanked him and talked to him; and
then they shook hands with the duke and didn't say nothing, but just kept
a-smiling and bobbing their heads like a passel of sapheads whilst he
made all sorts of signs with his hands and said "Goo-goo--goo-goo-goo"
all the time, like a baby that can't talk.

So the king he blattered along, and managed to inquire about pretty much
everybody and dog in town, by his name, and mentioned all sorts of little
things that happened one
I think there is also a bit of backlash to government programs that tried to mandate equality and fairness, but many served to just be bureaucratic money sinks. Unfortunately in some peoples minds, the inefficiencies of these systems, and the outright deception by some politicians in support of these programs to further their own aims, get blamed on the recipients of these systems. It is not fair, but I think it is a natural product of people that don't analyze the situation fully.

Lets take immigration for example, there are politicians in the system that are in total support for the current situation, because it creates a market for less than minimum wage workers for companies, some of which contribute to and lobby political offices. As such, it creates a financial system that encourages bureaucracy that is intended to look like something is being done about it, when in fact the intent is to maintain the current status as long as possible. Unfortunately in this situation, people just looking to make a life for themselves and doing what anyone else would do in their situation, are left to bare the brunt of the outrage, a situation said politicians are more than please with. There is a lot of scapegoating going on in the US right now, which I fear could be leading to a dangerous situation.
Have you tried trillian? I've been using it for around 10 years or so. They have a client for Windows, OSX and I've tried it before on WINE as well. They also have a mobile client on nearly every platform. They recently added chat sync to their client so that you can see your missed messages when you log in from another device.

Example:

Someone left you 10 messages on your home computer while you were afk.

You log in from your phone and as soon as you do, your missed conversations pop up as well as any chat windows + messages you had open on your computer before leaving. It also has an option to push your messages to email on the mobile clients when you're offline and I believe there is a way to do it for the desktop client as well (just not as obvious).

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I also think it generally stores your messages by default until you log back in (if you're offline on all devices) as well. I generally get a storm of chat popups if I have been offline for a day or two on all devices as soon as I log onto trillian again. I don't think I would always trust it to work, but it generally seems be fine for most protocols.

It supports most protocols (xmpp/jabber, msn chat, google chat, aim, icq, yahoo, facebook chat, twitter, irc and some others).

The only annoyance of trillian is the free version has some ads for their products (a recent decision by them to reevaluate what their call their "pro" version). They went from making their free version lack a few features to having everything except their cloud chat history sync backup and making their "pro" version a subscription instead of a one time payment. I regret that they went the subscription route and ads showing up occasionally in the chat window, but I still find it's better than other clients. It's 12 dollars a year though to buy the pro version.

It does have built in encryption for chatting, but it's sadly not OTR (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/) and only works with users on trillian. There is an unofficial OTR plugin out for trillian, but it's always been sort of buggy and I don't think it has been supported by the developer for a while. There is a fork of the original, no longer supported trillian OTR plugin out (http://sourceforge.net/projects/trillianotr) so it might be working better now. I'll have to give it a try.
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And if you want to run something that isn't Linux, you're completely out of luck with those peripherals, because we will not be told the information needed to write our own drivers. Broadcom are notorious for being shitheads about this kind of thing, although they're not the only ones.
I've seen this tip a few times before, but have always wondered: isn't this what the OS disk cache should do? One of the "possible uses" is:

What if you're an internet host and you want to show off your massive bandwidth by having users download a dummy .bin file of 100MB. You'll find that if many users access this file at the same time, your hard drive becomes the slow factor and you're running into disk IO problems.

Surely the OS should keep this 100MB around, rather than re-reading it from the disk over and over? By keeping it in tmpfs, aren't you just "locking" the file in RAM, and defeating whatever "optimal" choice the OS is making over what files to keep around? Isn't this something better done by vmtouch? (http://hoytech.com/vmtouch/)
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Thanks for the comments folks :)
Hilariously, while it's true about JavaScript, it is not true about Ruby.
How many people are going to attend that meetup?

How many people use StackOverflow every day, and are interested in the people behind it's success?
FWIW, as a musician, this is a really good idea. If you do implement it, please do post a link back on Hn.
How did you feel about the news of Jobs's passing showing up high on HN?
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You think that Atwood leaving SO has more impact on HNers than HNer projects and networking events? I think that's ridiculous.

I think that this is utterly not in keeping with what should be promoted on HN. This isn't /r/programming.
I think the real problem isn't that you have to work long hours, it's that you get so involved in whatever you're doing that you end up working far longer than you planned.
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I've always been slightly surprised that founders accept vesting at all.

What is to stop the VC from firing you the day before your options mature?

Then you would effectively have worked for them for free for 2 years, and for a low salary for a year and 51 weeks after that, all at 70 hours a week.

I would never give anyone the opportunity to do that to me.
Yes and no. I might have a fantastic SO profile, but be utterly unable to communicate face-to-face, or in stressful situations. I think it's important to remember these possibilities...
How can we even be talking about node and long-term maintainability when it is about 2 years old? And require is younger than that?
Yes, I heard that. It's a great thing to point people towards who feel vague about the issue.
I will play the part of the alarmist and also be the first to invoke Goodwin's law by stating that unchecked rhetoric was the first psych-ops that the Nazi's used. Group acceptance of dehumanizing a different group is the first step down a horrible path. It should be checked at every advance. The seed in America seems to have happened with Muslims, as it was acceptable in good company to view them all as fundamentalist psychopaths, the government and media where all to willing to reinforce such group think as it strengthen their case for war, now that the seed has set it has grown to bear fruit. Vilifying or dehumanizing a group of people always leads down a path of darkness. I would not hastily blow it off as being stupid and crap said on the internet, it is a dangerous mindset, that is easily infection to those susceptible to group think and the sewers of it tend to be far too willing to act when they feel emboldened by numbers and the echo chamber.