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Firefox may be free, but Mozilla is not poor. Their foundation received about $120 million last year. In their most recent negotiation with Google, it was reported that Mozilla would receive $1 billion over the next 3 years from search engine fees.[1]

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp
This is actually the first time we've run the programme properly. We did a test run about 12 months ago but at that stage didn't have the money to invest. Even so the teams got a lot out of it I hope. Good Gym (www.goodgym.org) has probably progressed the most but it was a different set up then - they're a not-for-profit.

The value for teams will definitely come from our network which we're still adding to the site to show who's involved. I think maybe we're underselling ourselves by being a bit British about the whole thing. Any advice gratefully received.
I actually never finished playing Borderlands. And by God I tried. I had reached a point in the game where I had ended up with very powerful weapons, more powerful than anything I could buy and 99.999% of those that I found. Gun collecting became boring.

Going on fetch quests and fighting the same few enemies? Boring.

Driving around in a weirdly physic'd car that didn't have at least proper driving sound effects and damage models fighting enemies that weren't even a token match? Boring.

Slaying skags by the thousands? Boring.

etc. etc. etc.

Eventually I just gave up. I had "beaten" the game only insomuch as having leveled up a character to the point that he had achieved virtual godhood in the game. Nigh-impervious to damage, wielding weapons Zeus would have feared, there was no progression anymore, I had beaten the difficulty curve simply by grinding my way ahead of it.
I can't help but notice that there are a lot of accelerators being created in the UK at the minute. I am worried there will soon be more accelerator places than there are serious startups and I say this as a http://oxygenaccelerator.com/ graduate.
Compare and contrast with the Rails attr_accessible kerfuffle of last week, where it was generally held by (I think) the majority of commenters that the library should not have provided this convenient feature or at least should have made it more difficult to enable.

I'm right there with this "startling" (some would say "opinionated") position. And so is my C library, which complains at me every time I compile a program using getwd()

("my" as in the one I have installed here. I am making no ownership claim)
Zynga's Mark Pincus Wants to Occupy the Sky with Ads
How do you "buy" HN? HN is a community-driven site and long-running experiment. I suppose YC could sell the domain name, but the community would just evaporate and move elsewhere over night.
Ask HN: How to hack after Marriage
A Single Programmer About to get Married. How do i still keep hacking or create startup after Marriage. Any Tips , Ideas.
Timing Schedules , Stressful Strategy etc...
Watching the Future of Canonical
Show HN: Mechanic.js, a jQuery-esque UIAutomation library
Does anyone know why the team has only managed to squeeze one droplet of fluid into each fiber?
Have tracing JIT compilers won?
Thanks for your support. I've actually worked to get this off the ground - unpaid - for the last two years but it's a ten year play for us.

Many more Team Advisors to come... just ran out of time in updating the site I'm afraid.
I pretty obviously didn't mean that the library designers should just throw out a bunch of stuff to see what gets used. Re-entrant locks seem to fall into the same design space that memory checking in debug C runtimes does: you never want to need to use it but if you do need to use it you want it to be there. Designing for the perfect case is poor design, imho, because we live in an imperfect world.
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Well tech crunch is much more focused on startup and tech. Mashable has lately turned into Hoffington Post. They cover everything from startups to world news and politics
I’m calling it: Ubuntu is finally ready for the world.
Important to note that this isn't just a issue of digital rabbit holes. Freshman year I spent two days teaching myself to juggle with the oranges I was supposed to be growing mold on.
I wonder how hostile people will be once the H.264 patents expire. (Remember GIF hate?) It will happen within most of our lifetimes.
The links going to http://i-wish-it-was-true.com/ are not encouraging for the veracity of the story :-)

What gives? Hoax? Thought piece?
Like Conde Nast bought reddit?
That was it, thanks.
Show HN: We'll guess competitors’ keywords,we'll predict your App Store position
Links added to the alumni page now - sorry, just slipped my mind to update. Three of the projects are still running.

Bethnal Green is an interesting place. It's got a pretty strong heritage as a place where social reformers have created new things - the Open University for example. It also has some very good pubs.
Yes, I've heard this as well, and it is absolutely terrible.

I am told that they are international in scope and go under the gang-sign of 'Bankers'.
We spent the last 2 weeks analyzing the intricacies of the App Store rankings, and here are the results.
Questions more than welcome :)
StatsD: Measure Anything, Measure Everything
GTX 580 pricing lowers as GTX 680 launch nears
I detect missed irony here.
Moldova is a dirt-poor country, sporting an extremely volatile political system that only just pretends to implement the rule of law. For Moldova to be some sort of information freedom haven, especially one that points its finger at the United States, is laughable.
I wish you the best of luck if it's a real programme and not just grant & subsidy milking. That sounds really offensive, but it's not meant to be.

Do any of the alumni have a web-presence? Perhaps you could either link to their websites; or you could host small "about" pages for them?

You're going to get people thinking that this is just another quango product - something created to use a budget from some government organisation - so how could you address those concerns? How can you show that you're different?
TeamLab Reveals World's First Online HTML5-Powered Word Processing Solution
Other manufacturers barely scratch the surface on what TeamLab can do.
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Well, I mean, the laser would always hit the first droplet, irrespective of how many droplets there are further down the fiber core.

I guess that's why the MIT write-up talks about oscillating the droplet, rather than somehow squeezing more in.
It's a (bad) hoax. Moldova is runned by ex communists. Enough said.
I heard great feedback from some of the people who took part in the first run of this program. It was spun out of "Social Innovation Camp", a series of hack weekends that I attended and found highly rewarding.
Toshiba Supermarket Scanner Recognizes Objects Without Barcodes
This will do wonders for the home-schoolers and allow kids to have flexible school hours. You could also have all of the students in one big location and only the teachers move as students need them, except for situations that require specialized locations. ie gym, band, art, lunch.
But, batteries are much more expensive than shipping crates and also wear out with the sort of usage cycles that this sort of tech requires by design.

I was hearing recently about a similar energy startup that was based on cooling air to liquids as a power soak and then shunting that back through turbines to re-extract the power. Similarly less efficient than batteries for power density, but also longer lifed and much cheaper.

Who knows what the best solution is? Not me, I haven't studied physics since I was 16. But I'm glad people who are better equipped than me to find out are investigating, and I look forward to the day when we can use this sort of tech to provide the smoothing effect on renewable power sources rather than relying on burning fossil fuels.
If true, that value is off the chart crazy but makes this also amazing. Pete Cashmore has definitely put the time in.... but as many of us know has been crazy with the linkbait drivel for like the past year or more. He must be in a surreal state of bliss about all this.
I don't know Paul beyond following him on Twitter, but SICamp is a respected hackday and School of Everything is an angel funded startup (with funding from Esther Dyson and JP Rangaswami among others).
So this:

Can I apply as an individual?

You can try but it’s very unlikely that we’ll fund you. We’ve found that a startup is much more likely to succeed when it’s started by a small team rather than just by one individual.

Is a big load of bollocks then?

You're passing yourself off as experienced when you're anything but.
I'm sad to see a site like Mashable get rewarded for their crap, but if this contributes to their eventual demise, I guess I don't mind that much.
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380316
I think edw519 used to write in length about 'just-in-time-learning', calling it 'pull learning' (as opposed to 'push'). See, for instance, comment 71 in [1].

My rabbit-holing doesn't always resemble your approach; I often end up reading a book on a topic I'm just interested in, without a particular project or feeling of lacking knowledge. However, I try to transition myself into more JIT-learning/pull-learning style, so that I learn things at the same time I try to get something useful&interesting done. This mindshift is probably mostly due to HN (and we're looping back to rabbit-holing :)) - especially the prevailing emphasis on 'shipping the damn thing'.

[1] - http://edweissman.com/53640595
I would upvote this 700,000 if I could.

I absolutely love the application's idea and the implementation.
Make that current communists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Communists_of_the_Repu...
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Ask HN: What are other "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas"?
In his recent essay, (http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.... ), PG discusses several frighteningly ambitious startup ideas. The question revolves around other ideas that PG did not discuss, Here are the one he discussed:
1. A New Search Engine
2. Replace Email
3. Replace Universities
4. Internet Drama
5. The Next Steve Jobs
6. Bring Back Moore's Law
7. Ongoing Diagnosis
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Interesting article, but the constant juvenile sexual references count against it. I wanted to send this to a girl I know for the addiction topic, except you can't send junk like this to girls. Grow up.

If you like jumping have a look at Cobalt. Quake had rocket jumps and good grenades and you could hack the physics and was way more fun than quake2, which dumbed them down.
Yeah, good call. I had this article stored in Evernote http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/14/cisco-mobile-data-forecas...
I think it's just a pleasant "what if". One of these days some internet billionaire is going to be elected president of a country and what if they decide becoming technology business friendly a good for their economy?
"I'm not there for the knowledge. Not anymore."

I'd argue that you ARE there for knowledge just not the kind that universities tend to say they give you.

Rather it's the kind of knowledge that the University system was supposed to give you before they all turned into job training, especially telling is "Access to people who know some particular area inside out". That's what university is supposed to be about.

Of course cheap bus is nice too.
Found additional details here: http://daniellefong.com/2012/01/22/green-dreams-life-in-the-...
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Congratulations!

You only seem to have 9 ratings in the App Store globally (7 in the French Store, 2 in US) so far for 57523 downloads as you say. I used the iTunes Search API to obtain this info for your app id (I'm contemplating a move from iOS programmer-for-hire to full-time indie and this Python script is part of my market research).

That suggests only about 1 in 6391 users bother to give you a rating on the App Store, which is very low from what I hear: the usual figure quoted is 1 in 100 to 1 in 1500 for free apps. If this is right, it might be worthwhile to ask users in-app to give you a rating on the App Store if they like the app.
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IPhone fails to gain market share in China
Couldn't help but laugh at this bit from the linked article :

"It even has a nice restful API so you can spawn companies and file for bankruptcy 100 companies/second. If you want more there is a premium plan."
MP3 will go there first.
Game Theory class too: http://www.game-theory-class.org/
Where did you get the idea that I was supporting OOP-first? Its a terrible idea too.

In any case, I think Python is a great procedural language out there for a beginner - you can use the classes as if they were just structs and go a long way with that.
I've popped links into our alumni page but with the caveat that the first test run was very different.

I guess I understand the concern that I'm just a quango/think tank guy but most of the useful stuff I've learned was as co-founder and CEO of School of Everything (www.schoolofeverything.com). We built a product, were finalists in the first round of Seedcamp, raised seed investment from angels including Esther Dyson and have a whole load of happy customers. We never became Google but the site does ok. I'm the first to admit I made lots of mistakes along the way which I hope I can help our teams avoid making again.

Would definitely welcome advice on how to show we're different.
I strongly disagree, and take exception to the fact that this "article" is 3 paragraphs long with zero information yet throws out the idea that Linux, even Ubuntu, is 1:1 competitive with Windows or OSX on the desktop.

Contrary to the author, hardware is still a mess. Have a Lexmark wireless printer? Tough luck, there is no way to print to it from Linux. Have switchable graphics? Good luck there, too. Want your new laptop to work? Better check what touchpad you have. Just because the author found hardware that works doesn't mean the public will.

Linux won't be ready until you never have to drop to the terminal for something. Linux won't be ready until you can download a file from the Internet, run it, and install it just with a couple clicks (and not "you need to set the 'exectuable' flag!" error). Linux won't be ready until you never have to reconfigure the graphics driver from the command line upon boot. Linux won't be ready until you can run a system update and install a new program at the same time.

Flashiness is nice. People like flash. Consumers crave flash. But flash needs to come with the same amount of wow-factor built into usability. I can make this same list of complaints about Windows and OSX, but the point remains that Windows and OSX are used and known by the public. Linux isn't. To take any marketshare from the giants, you need to not just be as good as them, not just better than them... you need to make it so not using Linux is a ridiculous proposal. Ubuntu won't be there for a good long time yet.
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Since the Metro environment imposes numerous restrictions that would hinder the development of a decent browser, Microsoft has created a new application class, called "Metro style enabled desktop browser".

On the one hand the author seems to be criticizing Microsoft for insisting on a set of ecosystem standards, on the other hand the criticism is for creating a kludge.

It's 2012 and the OS is in beta, any comparison of the development of of third party browsers to those of the Netscape days is absurd. These days Microsoft provides a browser to round out their product line and to facilitate the user's ability to engage the internet immediately following a fresh install.

Browsers are so ubiquitous as to appear on feature phones. They are commodities, not strategic tools in the quest for OS market share.
Wow, such a negative comment. Some great organisations have been spun out of this, and it's predecessor, Social Innovation Camp (look up the Good Gym, Enabled by Design, My Police etc). Many of the people working on these social ventures do so for no money, in their spare time, trying to use their skills to change the world. This is absolutely the opposite of 'jobs for the boys', and the small amount of money that NESTA put in is insignificant compared to the time that these highly skilled people are giving up. Just to be clear, I have nothing to do with the programme, but I do know some of the people who have been involved, and they are some of the nicest, and kindest people you will meet.
I am unfortunately forced to disagree.

I recently moved my home machine from Windows to Linux. After a little research, I picked Ubuntu 11.10 (with Unity).

The installation went by pretty smoothly, everything seemed to work out of the box. The only manual configuration I had to do was to teach my Linux box to ping my Windows laptop. So far so good.

Then, 2 weeks later, my disk went out of space.

Turns out Ubuntu has a hidden log file that logs errors, with no sanity checks on size, and it hit 300+ GB.

In addition, flash still isn't smooth in full screen.

Easy to install and use? Reasonably so. Ready for prime time? I think not.
Huh? attr_accessible is the whitelist feature; the argument was that it should have been non-optional.
Ask Anonymous to put down these crappy systems for life
Totally agree on the jumping front. Rocket jumps have gone out of style unfortunately, but they're still my favorite damn thing. Team Fortress 2 scratches that itch, but I always love me some good explosives assisted jumping.

As for the maturity of the article, it's an article about Borderlands. It's kind of to be expected. And expecting someone to read through that who doesn't care for that style of humor is a lot to ask. Cherry pick the info if you want to get straight to the message, but the bulk of the article's entertainment value is not the message, but the delivery.
Moldolva is also famous because of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmncrAPILw
Link to original article: http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

I spent hours yesterday looking for this tutorial. It was amazingly difficult to find on Google and I used all sorts of keyword combinations.
+1 to this. I accept that the pg-anointed wisdom is that single-founders are less likely to be successful, but I wouldn't take advice like that as dogma. Assuming it's true 'because Paul said so' is a little weak.
Little apps are the least common denominator of startups. Just about anyone has the technical capability to get one started quickly, so for people who are interested in the kind of social and business creativity that has driven many of the biggest startups in the last decade, they form a common ground where everyone can meet and talk about their startup aspirations. Hanging around HN will give you the impression that scaling successful web apps is the major technical challenge in the industry today, and that's partly correct, but a lot of computing centers around entirely different topics, so if building the next successful iPhone app or social web site isn't your cup of tea, don't worry.

You're on the right track asking questions of people who are already working. Keep doing that, and ask your professors, too. My personal story is that I majored in mathematics, programmed as a hobby, and became a professional programmer almost by accident. My math background has been a major plus in getting jobs where I work with scientists and mathematicians, not because they need me to do math (it actually doesn't come up much) but because math is a common language that lets them communicate with me easier than they could communicate with the average programmer. Skills in applied math, computer science, and practical software development will get you in the door in a lot of interesting jobs. My last three jobs could be roughly summed up as scientific computing, mildly distributed systems programming, and finance.

I would suggest you pick a field you're interested in that requires a lot of computing power and find out if there is a career for someone with CS expertise in that field. Possibly pick up another major -- applied math would be an excellent idea if you have no particular field in mind. But even if you stick with CS, it's an excellent field for someone who hasn't figured out what kind of work you want to do in the long term. If you were getting a law degree and had doubts about being a lawyer, you'd be in a much worse situation :-)

Good luck!
They can probably afford to pay the license for themselves, but Firefox is "libre" software, licensed (among others) under the GPL. If Firefox requires an H264 license to be usable, it's not a real open source project any more.
Our measurements agree with yours.
rabbit-holing

New favorite word.
Ha nicely described. I think you hit the nail on the head.

On a side note: I fucking hate Shoreditch hipsters - you are a disgraceful parasite to the industry in the UK.
And saw no return, put next to no effort into improvements, and later spun them back into the wild.

And in the meantime, reddit's community was completely unaffected by the changing of hands.
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When the instant service of home tutoring available at your ease, why the hell one will waste his time and waste his money on travel finding tutor service offices from here to there? So, the opportunities to protect your money and time with tiredness have gone away with tutortutor.org.
The problem with non-peer reviewed articles is that you don't know how they selected the data, etc. Scientific research requires you set your hypothesis before you get the results.

Clearly this didn't happen in this case. Why did Telegraph chose to use this particular metric ("crimes solved using CCTV") rather than for instance "crime rate change as a result of CCTV" (which would take into account deterrence). Why did they choose to use total number of CCTV cameras rather than the number of active CCTV cameras ?

One of the points of peer review is spot biases like this.

I'm not saying that CCTV works (or that it doesn't) but newspapers or non-peer reviewed research often falls far below an acceptable standard for evidence.
Are you sure that you are editing in two dimensions?
While I agree with everything you said, I kind of liked the AI-class because it was so short and superficial. I felt it gave me a very high level overview of field without taking up too much of my time.

So while the Coursera courses are better in the sense that they cover the material in much more detail and require that you understand the material much better to do the assignments, they end up being much harder for me to squeeze into my already hectic schedule. So in the end I think there is space for both approaches.
The Malaysia fashion experience 
The shopping destinations of the world include Malaysia, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong which have thousands of tourist shoppers visiting them every year.
Entry-Level Start-Up Job or Entry-Level Big Company Job + Side Project?
IMHO that request limit is very restrictive.
That's a good point ... I will see what I can do about that.

maybe the best approach would be to proxy everything through my server, so the sender can only see airmail's ip in his logs ?
Good points there, I completely forgot about Lexmark printers because the last one I bought wouldn't work on Mac OS X or Linux and I returned it; haven't bought Lexmark again. That's not to say that people shouldn't buy them, just explaining my view.
To be honest that comes from our experience from Social Innovation Camp. We've watched a lot of people trying to get ideas of the ground struggle if they don't have a team around them. It can be a pretty lonely business.