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Ask HN: How do I get founders/partners?
I am in a situation where I have a great project, but no one to share it with. I need to get a team because the project is infinitely expanding in all directions (like the universe or the internet). What are some sure-fire ways to get a good founder or two? Heck, even a place to look? Anyone with advice?

[I am working on the front-end of the project and planning the back-end right now, for what its worth. The business model/strategy is already made also.]
"Breaking Silicon Valley's Silence"? What? Didn't Google lobby in favor of CISPA, and Facebook support it publicly?

This is also a very misleading summary of the history behind CISPA. It suggests that late-breaking amendments to CISPA widened its impact; in fact, unless you're concerned about child pornography or bodily-harm threats, the later amendments to CISPA drastically narrowed the act's reach. The bill the House passed adopted the classic C-I-A triad (confidentiality, availability, integrity) to define "cyber threat", and explicitly exempted "threats" that target only "consumer licensing".

I don't support CISPA, but the media's track record in representing it is terrible. This is unsurprising: they benefit directly from outrage about this silly bill, since outrage -> rageviews -> ad dollars.
Just a clarification - I was kind of requesting a feature, hoping that the new plans will work that way.
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Because somebody submitted it and then some other people upvoted it.
Need they be? Etherpad was good enough to get bought, clearly a product just like Etherpad would be of some value.

Looks like Salesforce thought so.
Unlikely. We already have one example where Apple is enforcing the “no malware” rule and that’s the App Store.

On the App Store, Apple reserves itself the right to not only remove apps from the store (which Apple has done often and we know a lot about) but also to actually remotely pull apps from users’ devices.

Apple claims they will only actually remotely pull apps if said apps are malware. That’s the exact same rule they seem to want to apply in the future to third party apps on the Mac outside the App Store.

I do not think Apple ever pulled an app from iOS devices. They certainly never used that right for apps that were rejected or removed from the App Store (e.g. tethering apps). They seem to really only want to pull true malware and don’t seem to apply some contorted definition of malware here. (E.g. I’m sure carriers would claim that tethering apps cause them much damage, hence they are malware, Apple doesn’t follow that definition of malware, though.)
- schema. Maintaining schema and dependencies is hell on all but a small system

When you have the tools you have the power.
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Read the linked thread. Apple's issue is quite specific and the fix appears obvious and has been implemented. Don't land on a page selling something bypassing IAP.
I know the feeling, sometimes it's ok to interrupt people. You just need to practice the 'conclusive' tone of voice and say something appropriate, e.g. "Well, I guess that's just the way it is" ... pause ... "Good talking to you!"
"Scientific Forth" sounds like a fun read, but looks like the only copy on Amazon is over $700. Youch.

Edit: here's a review- this book sounds awesome: http://www.rigwit.co.uk/papers/review.html
Roughly three of them, yes.
I'd think that getting people like that to talk about themselves and things they like would be easy. But not necessarily that interesting.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Someone found it interesting?
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Congrats Jason and Byron. You guys deserve it. Salesforce is lucky to have you.
There is no contradiction, Apple 'owns' the high end market where people actually pay for apps. But, as a percentage of overall phone / tablet OS there well under 40% so it's hard to call them a monopoly.
A fair amount of research suggests this company subscribes to the GoDaddy school of thought about your privacy.
I've always been terrible at story-telling, my friends have given me shit about it. Then I have one friend who can take any normal every-day event and basically turn it into an epic poem which is hilarious or fascinating or both. Definitely a good skill to have.
Wow! Congrats.

Isn't this like huge, though? If you can actually make it run faster, I am guessing it would be possible to spin it off and get serious funding.

I merely watch from the sidelines, but what the Mono/Xamarin guys accomplish year after year could be a good lesson for any founder. Having spent enough time in the .Net world, I can tell that any attempt at creating a compatible .Net framework is a daunting, enormous undertaking. I guess the key thing is, FOCUS.
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This is Amazon's way of handling the issue. Another option would be to cut a deal with Apple. Anyone having a free sample on their Kindle app presumably got it from Amazon's website and knows how to buy the full version.

Compare this with trying to read a Nook, iBookstore, or DRM free ePub on a Kindle Fire. I'm sure it can be done, but it's well hidden.
As my colleague commented last week, "'You wouldn't steal a car?' Feel free to copy my Range Rover."
My response was based purely on the parent poster's comment:
"It looks like Heroku's dropping the larger shared database offering".

The rep from Heroku hadn't added his clarification yet.

I should have been more skeptical. Apologies.
How Germany’s Pirate Party is hacking politics
I wish I could go back to using it but I currently have to do some GWT dev and they only officially support linux. I tried running a vm and dual boot but that was too much hustle... as soon as I'm done with this project I'll go back to this distro. :)
Many Happiness Engineers write significant amounts code as well as respond to customer requests. Also, much of what we do (as a company) is data-driven. Since we apply scientific methodology to our support and CRM systems & processes, I think it works.

That being said, our job titles aren't exactly hard and fast representations of what we do day-to-day.

Check out the subtitles here for examples:
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Congrats guys! Seriously awesome to see you acquired.
I've been wanting a service like this for anime for years. Instead of paying ridiculous import prices for DVDs without English subtitles, let overseas fansub watchers pay what they want, directly to the studio, anonymously. Admittedly this might discourage some buyers who previously imported DVDs from Japan, but I'd bet there'd be an overall net increase in revenue for the studios.

Too bad it won't happen anytime soon.
I used to feel the same way. Then I read it. This is a self-help book from before self-help books were a scam. Or maybe they still were, but in any case it was a genuinely useful book and a really quick read too. I keep it around and review a chunk now and then.
There's an element of sexism in the poem. It's not hateful but it's pretty overt.
If you're looking for an exciting opportunity and know Java, give Jordan a call. Was speaking with him about this very same job and he's got some great ideas and is a pleasure to speak with.
I'm not sure these rules are what makes their playground profitable - only painful. If it goes on too long and too far I foresee it hurting them.
Thanks for that link.

I'm just surprised that this article is near the top of the front page, next to Apple, John Carmack, Android ported to C#, and an OpenBSD release.

Seems to me that a few writer's articles always shoot to the top of this site, regardless of topic. No disrespect intended towards those authors.
There is no irony because as I stated, "I'm sure I'm not the only one." This sentence conveys that in "some" not "all" cases women make better entrepreneurs.

Irony would only exist if I made a sweeping comment about all women being better as entrepreneurs, which I assure you, I did not make.
But is the name of their add-on toolset really key to their brand image?
Presumably you're using those two questions to determine whether you should say aloud a thought in your head. The problem is that "is it useful?" is pretty much semantically the same as "should I say it?"
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We're still evolving, but it's far overshadowed by cultural evolution, technology in particular.

Significant evolutionary pressures at present include: rich people having fewer children; increasing infertility and sterility (caused by susceptibility to certain pollutants?); whatever causes SIDS; whatever causes susceptibility to various serious mental illnesses; etc. In short: whatever makes one less likely to reproduce.

But these effects take at least a few generations to be visible. Contrast with our technology a few generations ago - and extrapolate a few generations into the future (we keep searching/inventing, and using the tools we come up with to iterate ever faster).
I think in the modern business climate there is an emotion around wanting to do the right thing, and it could be something of a appealing idea to latch on to always being truthful, or radically honest. However, I think this is an easy way out, for several reasons, most notably that honesty is not the same as fact, and I would say facts are much more valuable than your honesty, and ideally have nothing to do with you personally.

When talking about opinions I think many people can't help but be absolutely honest when absolutely necessary, too, and this kind of honesty is different than say "tough love" or even at times "straightforwardness." This is the continuum of communication, I'm trying to speak to, and perhaps radical honesty is a part of it. But if everyone were radically honest or straight forward I just simply have to lie or be subtle or sarcastic or cynical or just be silent to get any attention, or at least that's how I feel I might react to it.
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You seem to be confused.

This Dropbox is the same rule that has been in places for years. In fact the walled garden is less evident than in the past.
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And the Mac App Store doesn't restrict anything either. What is your point ?
For the people wondering what autodiff is, I found the following article a real eye-opener when I came across it (mainly, his paper he links is very accessible: http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/paper.pdf).

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Yeah, but it is more of a facade that can only run client side JavaScript/jQuery, more than anything is it a model of the UI/UX. I haven't even put it on my server yet. (I don't want to scare anyone off...)
I totally agree with you. I feel like I can produce a huge amount of good work over a 4-6 hour period of 100% focus; significantly more (and better) work than I can accomplish over an 8-10 hour period littered with distractions/meetings/etc.

I was just hoping somebody from Flow could weigh in with a first-hand account. Since everybody obviously has different work needs/environments for productivity, I was wondering how they managed to build an office culture that fosters these types of work habits.
If Microsoft pulled a move like this there would be hell to pay
A couple quick, important clarifications:

The parse does not turn the custom tags into divs, there is no need to do that. These are fully capable, valid tags and exist in the source just the way you write them: <moz:sometag></moz:sometag>. Check out the demo linked to in the repo and you'll see ;)

Also, the way the code works is even a bit better than you described in the dynamic creation case. Let's take your example:

var slider = document.createElement('slider');

you would actually receive a _fully inflated_ element that is already event-bound when it is returned out of document.createElement, pretty sweet right? The innerHTML value of slider would literally read:

"<moz:sliderknob></moz:sliderknob>"
I would argue it's because they've become the default freebie phone.
Those corporate credit cards are still pretty easy for an individual to get because they don't fall under the same bankruptcy laws as personal cards.
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If Apple were like Microsoft in the 90s then they would have implemented their own Flash player for the iPad and made its frequent crashes look like Adobe's fault, they'd make it impossible to uninstall or remove Safari from the desktop or dock, and switch Chrome and Firefox for Safari as your default browser every time you upgraded Safari (which would be every time you patched). Every time a mew version of OSX shipped, competing third party apps would become unstable. Software compiled with non Apple tools would generate bogus error messages on pre-release copies of OSX. Apple would develop its own version of Java that ran faster but encouraged developers to use features not available in Java. They'd also bundle apps together so that anyone buying Apple's popular video editor, say, would have a free image editing and page layout programs. They'd steal code from third party developers and turn them into free add ons for their OSes. Oh and they'd simply kill off competitors by releasing free clones of their products. They'd license their OS to hardware vendors on the condition that those vendors pay a license fee for every box shipped even if it didn't have the OS installed. When successfully sued for misconduct, they'd pay some of the fines in the form of strategic donations of software to their competitors' best customers.

Each of these items can be mapped directly to something Microsoft has been demonstrated to have done in the 90s.
Where are you located? If you want your cofounders to live near you then I suggest attending meetup and hacking events. If you are open to working remotely, then HN might be a good place to showcase your work and recruit someone to help you with your project.

In any case, any demo--regardless how crude it is--is more valuable than a description of it.
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Your title claims that Apple is rejecting apps which use Dropbox.

Which is completely and utterly wrong.
This was an excellent video for those interested in programming models for distributed systems. Hewitt explains the key features of the Actor Model and makes the case that it more closely matches the physics of distributed systems than other models(e.g. Petry Nets/CCS/Pi Calculus). The Q&A with whiteboard format was very nice -- I got a lot of what I would get by reading an introductory paper on the topic, but in a more entertaining fashion.
> I find this unlikely. Piracy is just a copy. It's not like anything new is actually created in the process. You are getting a very nice duplicate of the original.

As unlikely as you may find it, it's a fact. Pirated media has none of the restrictions that legitimately obtained media does. For example, I don't have to worry about whether a new device that I've just bought will be compatible with all the media I already possess - since it's not DRM-encumbered, I'm free to do whatever neccessary to get the file onto the device.

Acquiring the media is the same - I can torrent music on my Linux PC, but I can't download music using many legitimate sources.

> You are part of the entitlement generation. Since you are so used to just getting things for free, you will just keep making excuses to pirate when the company doesn't give you exactly what you want.

Wrong. I buy media when it's provided in a cross-platform and non-DRM encumbered manner. I've purchased every single Humble Indie Bundle until now (and paid more than the average), not only because Linux & Android versions are available, but also because I can download the games from my web browser. I haven't really played the games that much, but that's not the point.

When Louis CK announced his $5 comedy special that was available online (from a web browser) in a non-DRM encumbered manner, I went and purchased it immediately, even though I don't particularly enjoy his comedy, and did the same with Aziz Ansari's comedy special as well.
Someone explain to me how what Apple is doing is not the same sort of monopoly the government squashed with Microsoft. Basically MS used their os monopoly to push IE. Apple uses its monopoly to get a cut of all action on its phone.
From a cursory look - that's a nicely organized, formatted and documented piece of code. Well done.
I share your sentiments.
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I believe Etherpad was open sourced. I suspect there are other reasons why Salesforce went ahead with the buyout. Perhaps licensing?
It's not luck that they are already well known for their UX work. That is part of their hard work to get them to that point.

You say these results aren't as reproducible without significant connections... but getting significant connections is reproducible. I guess you could consider that step 1 in their process.

I would also say that you can build an audience and get connections with some hustle and/or money. A well designed pre-launch page and some paid advertising will get you an audience for launch day.
I am one of the very first 'startup'-types ever to be in my town near Lake Erie. The only conferences where I live are private company-only ones. Hacking is still a degrading term here. I freelance right now, here's my site: mayorpear.com

As for a demo, maybe a description is a better conveyer of value right now. But thank you for commenting by all means, usually I go unheard on HN.
It's also possible that there are bots (or people) that simply submit Coding Horror posts. I believe duplicate submissions are counted as upvotes.
On the go: Pulse is the best. HN, Engadget, TNW, and TC all in one.
Lots of connections from the US to a couple of "hot spots" in France and Germany. I'm guessing those are the locations of a couple of popular dedicated server providers?
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I want that too.

In fact, on my todo list is to research the other database providers for Heroku to see if any of them offer this capability.
Check out the linked post in this comment (esp the screenshot) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3916971

Looks like he had to remove anything that seemed to be a domain name.
If you're talking about Postgres most people would likely implement this using date/time-based partitioning which provides a more seamless solution to this problem.
There are reasons they're the most profitable company in US history, and doing stuff like this is one of those reasons.
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Ive worked for Apple and it is no different to any other company.

A policy was put in place that governs the rules around when apps should be rejected or not. The rules haven't really changed for a while now.

The current version of Dropbox SDK violated the in app purchasing rules which app developers unwittingly used. Hence their apps were rejected.

People forget that the employees who are auditing these apps are the equivalent of customer service reps. They aren't developers and their job is to be objective and simply follow the rules.
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It won't be realistic to short FB in the first few weeks. Shorting is dependent on someone lending you shares, and that will cost some absurd fees in the immediate future.
This seems particularly likely given that Coding Horror post is quite fresh. It shot to #3, but has fallen to #10 in the last few minutes.
Do you mind if I ask how many users you has when acquired? How did you first come across sales force radar?
That variability is precisely why I'm freelancing, so I bill hourly, in quarter-hour increments no less. I worked 13.25 hours yesterday, for 3 different clients, and I'm getting paid for all of them. Last Friday I worked 6 hours, because I slept in a bit, and then it was nice out so I did some yard work. I billed for 6. Sunday I worked 4 hours for a client and 2 hours for my own projects, billed for 4. I've billed as little as 15 hours in a full week (due to time spent on personal projects) and as many as 90.

If I billed daily, how can I justify that schedule? I've worked with hourly freelancers before who said "You're going to pay me for the whole day, and between 9 and 5 I'm all yours", which is fair. I don't make that commitment to my clients and I would not take a client who required it. I commit to specific goals and bill them however long it takes. I tell my clients my goal is to be as replaceable and fireable as possible, because I have plenty of other interesting work to do and I don't need to spend time doing crap work to pad a budget.

Do I run a timer or punch a clock? No. I look at the clock when I start, and when I end. If I'm bouncing between two projects all morning, I just split the time. I don't obsess over minutes spent on quick phone calls or responding to important emails or IMs.

I also don't want someone to "use or lose it", whether that's the last two hours of a slow day where I'm blocked, or a retainer agreement, because then they're going to "use it" on something dumb because it's now a sunk cost.

Perhaps I'm misleading myself, but I don't think this is because I'm low on the food chain, and it's certainly not bending to the wishes of an evil client as these are my own rules. I think it's just a matter of work/lifestyle and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Stypi has support for code formatting and syntax highlighting, and lets you play back all your edits. To my knowledge etherpad did not have these features.
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Out of curiosity, where have you had this happen? I've lived in the East Village (well, technically Alphabet City) for a year and a half and I've never experienced roaming Mariachi bands. I feel like I'm missing out.
The only part about this written in NaCl is the "ssh" command. The terminal emulator portion of it is entirely JS.

The only reason it isn't currently cross-browser is because I don't have enough time in the day to make it work everywhere. I tried not to make it too Webkit specific though. If some brave JS hacker/Firefox user wants to make this cross browser, I'd be happy to help.
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There's a link that I like to give in response to erroneously declared "ad hominem"s. http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

Since it's so full of examples, even the thickest of nerds can learn!
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