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So has anyone here crashed a conference or convention? I've wanted to but haven't for fear of someone recognizing me.
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Tell HN: Building something to change 'single' status for next Valentine's Day
Hi HN,

I've been a lurker for the longest time--HackerNews has been a great place for someone who's looking to learn more about startups to...well, learn more about startups.

Back in November 2011 I pitched WingMate.ca at StartupWeekend Toronto. The concept is an online dating platform where singles could enlist the help of their friends as 'wingmen/women' and get additional support in finding good matches. The 'wings' would know the singles well and would know the type of people that will be compatible with their single friend, helping to find high quality matches rather than relying on an algorithm which can be gamed.

Why am I telling you this? I wanted to work on something that I would use myself. Being single yet again on Valentine's Day has really spurred me to step it up and just do it. There's not much on WingMate.ca yet as my team and I are slowly designing and building the site. Just wanted to put this out there as a promise to myself to see it through.

Thanks for listening.
Ed
Here ya go sir http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/27/study-...
The major non-governmental funding agencies recently banded together to solve the problem roughly the way you suggest, by creating their own open-access journal which they will enourage their grantees to submit their work to. It will be called eLife:

http://www.hhmi.org/news/elife20111107.html

It would probably be considered dubious/anti-competitive if NIH and NSF launched their own journals, but because of the Open Access Initiative (which RWA attempts to reverse), NIH is able to host articles that have already been released to the public via PubMed Central.
Bro come on :(

Ember is a total, ground-up rewrite of some of SproutCore's ideas and you know it. I don't count any SproutCore examples as Ember examples, and saying that Ember is anything other than plain 'ol open source is unfair.

I don't count the time you spent on Backbone at DocumentCloud against Backbone's open source, because it would be ridiculous to do so, and you shouldn't count time spent at Tilde working on Ember (mostly on our free time) against Ember being open source.

Our largest contributor (according to https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/contributors, Peter Wagenet) has done almost all of his work on his free time, and we have a wide variety of contributors who were never on the payroll of this so-called "major corporate backing".

There's a lot that you validly disagree with about our approach, but trying to attack us for being "not real Open Source" is a low blow.
Wow, it's always taken me about an hour (sometimes two) to, but 4 is pretty rough. Care to share why this is, and how you combat it? I do the regular stuff, but have also come to embrace it since I often have pretty productive thoughts.
Good post... but amazing how many rails applications and examples, don't use SecureRandom or ActiveSupport::SecureRandom
I've recently realized that most of the enjoyment I derive from building things comes from the process (figuring out neat / new ways to do things, debugging, thinking). Shipping is a necessary tedium for me. Maybe people like me have more fun fiddling with the minutiae of our tools than actually "doing cool things".

No value judgment there, just an observation.
I suspect the freedom for carriers is at the root of the similar freedom for users to change launcher, change default applications for the home button, dialer, etc. If reducing the former means reducing the latter, I'm against.
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When news broke that Steve had died, I put up a post listing many good remembrances, articles, and content about him that I knew of and/or could find.

http://www.chipsandguac.com/thoughts/stevejobs.html
Seems like a plausible explanation.

Still, if the guy had not used Godaddy he probably would have his domain back already.
I apologize for calling you an unethical shill.
I used to feel the same way but after many years of tinkering with languages, tools, operating systems etc the novelty began to wear off and I began to feel unsatisfied by the things I'd actually shipped into the world.

These days I get far more satisfaction from putting something new that's useful or fun in front of users and I don't care much exactly what it took to get it there.
I hope bug #1744 is fixed... Not having a functional group by in the ORM is literally killing me.
Just thought I'd throw out SmartClient here:

http://www.smartclient.com/

It's an example of what you get when you follow the "framework does everything but the kitchen sink" philosophy to the end and pile on feature after feature. (It's open source, too!) It's great if you need to hack together a "enterprisey" client and don't really care about style or extendability (rare but these requirements happen.)

The databinding support, controls, and the amount of stuff it does out of the box is absolutely incredible for a free open source framework. But, it's ugly as hell, bloated, and if you want to do anything off the beaten path, you're fucked. But it's a remarkable piece of engineering that goes under the radar (similar to OpenLaszlo) but also a cautionary tale for the Ember guys to not take it too far.
This sounds like an engineer chiding artists for not being productive.

There's nothing wrong with deriving pleasure from deep analysis of a programming language - similarly with all of art or mathematics.

Feel free to fall in love with your technology, just realize it's not as likely to make you rich if your goal isn't to ship product.
Apologies -- since the article was treating SproutCore+Ember as a single continuous entity, I was blurring the same line -- and thinking of the Apple and Strobe years... I'll try to keep the blows above the belt ;)

But, I do think that looking at the empirical -- what's been built with 'em, and how -- is one of the most useful points of comparison.
There are some pretty legitimate concerns with Ember and large data sets right now as the treatment of those datasets tends to be fairly naive and linear. There are several people, myself included, who are working on ways to address that problem--but modifying a large collection, at the moment, can trigger the entire collection to re-render which can be extremely expensive.

FWIW, I'm not an expert on Ember.js or Backbone; just someone trying his hand at hacking the Ember.js code to work more effectively with collections (since some of the use cases I have would be impossible using the current methods of bindings and collections).
This is the guy: http://www.nevblog.com/images/prime-minister-of-malaysia.jpg
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i used to work in a movie theater in high school, same theory applies. you can actually walk right in without a ticket and no tricks, just confidence and a sense of entitlement. my coworkers would never stop people with the balls to do it and it happened many times.

walk close behind a group of at least 2 other customers. as their tickets are being ripped just keep walking past them at a normal pace, head facing forward, and without making eye contact. they will notice you but do nothing.

go ahead and try it with a legit ticket in your pocket you can show them if they do stop you.
It must be a sign of how much time I waste on HN that I expected it to be a discussion of talking to VCs.
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benologist please stop trying to make it sound as if there is any dependency between your 1 and 2.

How can anyone who has ever used the Internet or has even a basic understanding of the Domain Name System believe that it is a registrar's right or responsibility to take down a domain, especially without notice, and that does nothing to contravene the conditions of owning that domain name?

I wouldn't even say you are beating a dead horse with that dependency. It was never a horse to begin with!

The blame obviously lies squarely with the US federal agencies - you do not see this happen in other developed countries, for example (UK does not count since its a US colony in all but name).

In particular, to be able to shutdown or ruin the reputation of a business at the drop of a hat due to alleged breaking of the law - not even by the business itself - before it has even been processed by the justice system!

Just imagine if this had been a takedown of Google, Microsoft, Apple or Facebook site, all of which easily meet or have met the conditions for alleged infringements of US IP or other laws at some point, if for no other reason than hosting user-generated content...
Agreed. Quote of the fucking year.
In my experience the best events to crash are art exhibit openings. You can do it with any attire (so long as you are the attire) and it's not hard at all to fake an appreciation for whatever art they may be showing.

Furthermore, the faster you drink the less people care about how you act. People at exhibit openings tend to get positively sloshed.
Frankly, cost and a call from a GoDaddy rep. I decided to hang tight and see how it played out. Mission accomplished. Now it's just a matter of deciding where to go. I have zero interest in playing musical registrars.
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Perhaps one problem is that Wikipedia doesn't take into account the type of field being reviewed and the age of the citations?

For example, a lot of publications have been made about Newtonian physics. I mean a lot. We're going all the way back to Newton here. And yet, from the perspective of a 1940s Einstein it would appear that Einstein is definitely correct, going purely by the academic and secondary source community. The problem is just the proliferation of years and years worth of outdated information on Newton.

In other words, maybe Wikipedia would benefit from a decay mechanism? Newer academic publications would earn proportionately more worth and newer scientific consensuses would be favored stronger than old ones.

This isn't a change to the fundamental policies of Wikipedia, it only makes it a more timely encyclopedia with a smaller reaction loop. Given the constant realtime editing happening every day, this seems more appropriate for Wikipedia than, say, Britannica.
I played around it with in some of our apps, and I can second that running it was a pain in the ass. It seemed to fail randomly (the entire cluster would go down) even with minimal use.

I know I must have been doing something horribly wrong, but I never could really figure out what it was.
There's a way to get around the phone requirement, too. I've seen this as far back as 2010.

You pay to post a fake job (something unskilled that will get a lot of applications) on a site like Simply Hired, Indeed, etc. Applicants come to your fake careers site. Applicants fill out the application for the non-existent job and are asked to input their phone number to verify their application.

When they input their phone number, the backend of the careers site submits that number to Craigslist. The applicant receives the call from Craigslist which reads them a number. The careers site instructs them to enter the number to confirm their application.

A few days later your site auto-emails the applicant saying that you're sorry, but the position has been filled. They forget about it and no suspicion has been raised.

For the price of posting a single job, you can get hundreds of phone-verified Craigslist accounts working.
Are they doing any deals for transferring hundreds of domains?
Awesome. Good times, good memories. Lots of my BBSing was done on slower modems, though - it would be cool if you could render them as an animated GIF with regions slowly typing into view... :)
I think you probably mean Ticket #17144.

#1744 was a bug in contrib.comments and was fixed 6 years ago.
Agreed, completely, however there is one difference: When an artist ceases to ship, they starve.
This statement doesn't make a lot of sense to me - even if it's "intuitive", there should still be objective criteria one can use to reason out whether or not raising money is a good idea. In fact, I would hope that most people wouldn't just follow their gut on such an important decision - even if the answer seems obvious, something like fundraising is worth investigating closely and carefully.

Moreover, there are definitely some situations where people will be unsure what to do; and in those cases, knowing that the decisions "should" be intuitive is of no help whatsoever.
That actually sounds like a bad idea from the outset. There are exceptions (Apple), but my general observation is that hardware companies are bad at writing software, especially user-facing software. Making a consistent platform by writing a compatibility layer is a rock-solid concept, but expecting hardware vendors to be the ones writing software on top of that layer seems misguided.

On the other hand, while they're not good at making the user-space software, it's something every OEM will think that they want to do. So if the goal is to get widespread adoption, it's a good hook.

To be fair, most companies are bad at writing software, regardless of type, and even software companies aren't always good at writing software. I don't blame hardware companies, it's just not their core competency, and a hardware-engineering mindset is a poor fit for software design.
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Fun fact: The title is likely an adaptation of the quote "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" by Theodosius Dobzhansky.
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I'm fixated on the many incorrect statements you're making, not the dialog you want to have.

You do not follow my argument. It's not that "experts should want to write encyclopedias", it's that experts do write encyclopedias. This is not a disagreement in our viewpoints, it's an observation that your statement does not fit observed facts.

You believe "experts should do what experts do best, and Wikipedia should do what encyclopedias do best: to wit, experts should conduct research to generate new primary sources or write books to generate new secondary sources, and Wikipedia should continue finding secondary sources to summarize." This also shows that you believe the goals of Wikipedia are aligned with that of encyclopedias in general.

I've listed two dozen titles of encyclopedias written by experts and links to several hundred more. Quite obviously one of the things that experts do is write encyclopedias!

This means that your philosophical view regarding encyclopedias is very different than that used a large number of other encyclopedia projects. Granted, individually each of those projects is smaller than Wikipedia, but collectively they far surpass the amount of content in Wikipedia.

I cannot have the dialog with you about the article we're commenting on until you acknowledge and understand the big difference between the Wikipedia model and that of most other encyclopedia projects.

Once you do that, you'll understand autarch's original observation "that wikipedia attempts to substitute policy for expertise." With that understood, it's easy to consider how an encyclopedia maintained by domain experts would not have the same deference to secondary sources (and avoidance of primary sources and new research) as described by this article.
You could use a phone and just call. Old school I know but it works!
If pre-publication peer review goes out of fashion, then another possibility if that the brand of major journals becomes more important. We still need a quick gauge of the quality of an article, other than its Google rank or number of page views. Nature can retract popular articles that are later proven flawed; I don't think Google would attempt to wield that kind of authority.

Relevant example: You published these two posts in TechCrunch to get a wide audience. (And I'm glad you did!) I read them partly because they appeared in TechCrunch.
"...You’ve built a successful business, which you have no interest in selling, and would like to extract some liquidity..."

Why would a VC put money into a company in this situation?
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Meh. Isn't that just good PR? Who cares, outside of the small group of tech punditry and obsessive geeks like ourselves, that they won't open up to just anyone? Their customers certainly don't seem to care.
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I switched to LastPass too after my debacle, but was never comfortable with storing all my passwords in a such potential vector. LastPass may as well just rename themselves, CmonHackMeIDoubleDogDareYa.com.

Then I discovered KeePass2, and switched that. It also does generated passwords. It stores everything locally, but you can sync the datafile to a secure backup service like Tarsnap, SpiderOak, or Wuala (maybe, not 100% sure about Wuala).
I absolutely agree that comparing actual apps is a very useful point of comparison.

Ember itself is actually relatively new. The fact that Ember inherited some of its runtime semantics from SproutCore might give the mistaken impression that there is shared code. Everything, including Ember's runtime, was rewritten from the ground up for Ember, and it's only with the release of Ember 0.9 that I consider the APIs and codebase stable.

Some companies, like ZenDesk, hopped onboard earlier in 2011, while the codebase and APIs were still undergoing a lot of churn, and helped flesh things out. That said, when taking the scope of Ember into consideration, Ember's adoption curve is behind's Backbone's, so it's not surprising that there are many more impressive Backbone apps in the wild.

We're proud of many of the apps that people are building with Ember today, and as the year progresses, hope to compare favorably to Backbone's impressive list.
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Would someone please post a one sentence summary of what the 'master plan' is? At work and too busy to watch the video. Thanks in advance.
It works in Finland, the lowest coin value is 5 cents. If you pay by cash the price is rounded up or down. They've also got rid of cheques.
Where does it say second-oldest?
> he knew where he wanted to be but didn't have the resources or connections to get there. So he figured out a way to achieve those goals.

I want to have a hundred million dollars. I think I can figure out a way to achieve that goal easily…

That's an absurd stretch of course, but the analogy holds. The end does not justify the means. Crashing a party for fun is harmless (and pointless), but basing your professional life on deceit won't do you any good.
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What do you think? we are trying to crowd source video playlist curation to make video discovery better!
I had to scroll back up while reading this to see how old it was. The bug linked to is now closed, and the interview is from last year. Android 4 does use the GPU for more GUI operations and Google has mandated that 3rd parties must not modify the default theme (http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/01/06/google-imposing-gui-rest...).
The company is doing great, has a solid growth strategy and headed for an IPO. Why wouldn't you invest in a company like that?

Not all VCs are early-stage, high-risk investors.
Disagree

> And RIM’s BlackBerry was still the most popular smartphone in the world.

If your world was the USA. Symbian/S60 was the dominant smartphone OS.

> What Miner and Google gambled on, and it seems bizarre in retrospect, was that the carriers and the manufacturers would be good at customizing and improving the user experience of the base operating system.

No, the problem was that the available OS's had huge (leave it to the handset vendor) holes (Symbian), or that their competitors had control of the available 'easyish but hard' options (Nokia dominated Symbian). Or that the other options were crap (Windows Mobile), or required S/W engineering experience which was not easily obtained (generic Linux).

The miracle of Android was that though it had some gaps in it's implementation, was good enough, and sponsored by a somewhat benign entity (at the time).

However, the reason for the handset manufacturers trying to differentiate, no matter how incompetently, or not was that the problem that Android solved also holds a curse. That is that the handset manufacturers do not want to repeat the PC experience of comoditizing the hardware market - What has happened before will happen again - unless we try to retard things.

The only way Google can reduce manufacturer freedom is to become truly non-free, on the day that happens, Android will fork.
And by "literally", you mean "hyperbolically".
Reliability is an issue for me, but in my workstation I need speed more than I need five 9's. So I have a Vertex 2 and a 750Gb HDD in the DVD space using an OptiBay [1]. Time Machine backs up the SSD to the HDD with room to spare. I have a bunch of "old" disks that I can drop in and start using immediately (the HDD in the bay is the original boot drive in fact). And all my code is in remote repos if I lose the whole thing. I find I'm regularly (every 9 months or so) upgrading my disk, and in fact the Vertex 2 is probably the longest I've gone without upgrading.

[1] http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
"We have noticed that a lot of people in this area have committed violent crimes. So we are assuming you are a violent offender as well."

WTF!
Robots are taking jobs. What happens to middle-class unskilled labor?
People making new sites need to stop making that mistake! Get something that isn't .com (.me .info etc) and register it at a non-US based registrar. We KNOW that US registrars always cooperate with corrupt government agencies, so stop giving them business just to save a buck, and risk your whole business.
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what do you think?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597547
Nice to see Django moving forward! I've been developing with Django since 2006 and have been frustrated at seeing the steam and community seem to stagnate in comparison to the Rails community. Granted, I've heard the opinions that the Django community is less vocal because they're busy actually building things--which I could agree--but as a fresh developer I could see how the Rails community would seem more inviting. I've played around with a couple good ideas in my head for promoting the Django userbase but haven't gotten around to it.
Thanks. I have fixed the error about RIM.
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