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If you learn one thing from Jason, I'd suggest the "customer development interview as sales.". It blows my mind, but he's getting that adoption graph largely by taking his iPad around Tokyo, demoing prospects, and signing them up on the spot. Never would have considered this myself.
I was so upset when I got to work this morning and found that not only had the chrome extension changed, the website had changed completely too.

It used to be that I'd click on the chrome extension icon and immediately get a link along with the page title that I could post straight to twitter or facebook. The j.mp/bit.ly homepage was bookmarked in my bookmarks bar and showed me everything I cared about in one place (the link, with another link to copy it, how many clicks on my link, and how many total clicks to that particular article).

I imagine they went "hang on, we're making life waaaay too easy for them" and proceeded to throw up the vomit that is the current homepage. Now to get the shortened link from the extension, I have to click save and them do some other nonsense to retrieve my link.

I'm the worst kind of angry about this ... angry and powerless, because bit.ly is such a part of my online life now (personally and a bunch of apps that I've written use it) that I simply can't do without it ... there's no other decent alternatives, plus I have this weird thing where I think its kind of rude to complain about a free service.

So apart from this, I'm just going to shut up and hope something better comes along so I can jump ship. It happened with delicious (pinboard), so hopefully, it won't be long.
I made my own little url shortener because I think bit.ly is getting too bloated too. Took me a long time! Appreciate feedback.

http://weakurl.com
On the other hand, I think giving a range to 3-7 years implies that many people have, after 3 years of work, the skills that others have after 7 years of work. It's not unreasonable to say 3 is a stretch and 2 is right out.
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Thanks for the feedback sixQuarks and rumberg.

I like the idea of letting people post notes before asking them to sign up. Until I get that setup I may just have a demo account that anyone can use that gets wiped clean each night. Thoughts either way?

The extra space in the sign-in field is for twitter and facebook sign-in icons once I get them working, which is hopefully in the next week.

rumberg: I agree with you on the design. Thanks for the tip on Open Sans & PT Sans. I hate to have the design follow, but I have to prove the need for the product before too much time and effort are put in on that front.

Great input! Keep it coming...
I'm not active in the field right now, so I can't give specifics (the comment was more borne out of frustration with people putting in so much effort 'reinventing the wheel' in an academic sense).

But if I was you, I'd start with Knuth (he, as another commenter mentioned, covers hashes in great detail), head to the references, and then use Google Scholar to find well-cited recent articles that reference the important papers mentioned there.
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I'm glad you mentioned this. BeamNG was actually founded out of a game called Rigs of Rods, which in turn was influenced by 1NSANE.

What you ask for is possible in Rigs of Rods (although soft-body on soft-body is usually enabled on a per-vehicle basis). There is a plane that ships with RoR (the Antonov) that actually starts to wobble and shake apart at high speeds (I believe above 150 knots).
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All this rukus about bit.ly. I tried to make my own url shortener and I am coming for bit.ly. Lol. Looking for some feedback!
> As Bitly’s CEO Peter Stern told me, the company anticipated the negative reaction: “It’s the response from the vocal minority who are quick to complain about any change. We put a great deal of thought and effort into making the change as minimal as we could, but we recognize that people don’t like change.”

How disrespectful.
Pretty interesting stuff - one thing that stood out for me was that the Google+1 was more common than the Twitter Tweet.
That's like saying we shouldn't call sexism sexism because its just the opinion of a few men that women are inferior and if they are being jerks about their opinion then they are just being jerks. No, having the word pronatalism calls out the fact that it is just a viewpoint. And it is one shared and promoted by many - often to the detriment of those who think otherwise. Having names for things helps in clarifying what it is we are talking about.
For most start-ups, much of this should apply if you are going for funding or not.
This seems to have become a trend in all of Microsoft's products lately. Is this even legal?
Twitter is doing the best approach which is a mix of both client-side and server-side. It is not an either or situation.
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It is far more common for a doctor to underdiagnose a patient that presents with flu systems but actually has the "cool, rare disease". I just read a good article on this, I'll try and look it up.
Thanks for answering. Is that absolutely the only thing it does? Because I am getting the vague impression the miscoded protein has some other functions as well.
> in a process called saccadic suppression, we are effectively blind for at least 2 hrs of the day. This is why you cannot see your own eyes moving when you look in a mirror!

False! Stare into your own eyes in a mirror and turn your head left and right while continuing to look at your eyes. You can see your eyes moving left to right in their sockets.

Saccades may blind you, but the only reason you can't see your eyes in the mirror is because changing your gaze means you're not looking at your own eyes anymore. What silly "evidence"...
So bit.ly tried to do something about this a while back by helping to found http://archive.org/details/301works
Fairly typical internet connection in what country? In a major city?
A follow-up from the company's autoresponder:

<blockquote>We are in the midst of reviewing all submissions and will contact chosen candidates during the week of June 8th to schedule an interview. Due to the number of applications, only those we wish to interview with will be contacted. If you have not heard from us by 4pm on Monday June 11th please assume the position has been filled.</blockquote>

To my knowledge, the opening was announced last week.
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Nice! Simple and to the point. Also makes very short URLs. How long can that last, though?
It's a great point, and was actually a pretty intuitive connection in my experience. I started in Sales at Yelp, and when I launched my startup, I recognized that the interviewing and customer development process I was putting potential users through was pretty much exactly the same as the early stages of the Yelp sales pipeline.

The 50 customer development interviews turned into warm leads already halfway down our sales pipeline by the time we were ready to ship.
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Partly, I was too sick to actively pursue it. Partly, I don't know enough code to use a "sandbox" approach to playing with it, which is how I got started on HTML. I tried looking at some things that were suggested to me and nothing clicked. I imagine I will give it another go at some point, like after I get off the street.
That sounds like an excellent idea.

A thought; in a large enough site, new users need a way to find quality users they vouch for (imagine going to reddit's homepage and trying to vouch for users).
Amen. There's more to life than business.

If you want to devote your life to creating and running a world changing business, do it.

If you want to devote your life to your family and kids, and use a "lifestyle business" to fund it all, do it.

Just remember one is not better than the other. To each his /her own.
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Sorry I didn't realized this was 2011, someone referred to it on G+ and I posted as new...
I feel they were doing it wrong. If they preloaded the page with bootstrapped data + templates then it should be as fast.
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I'm pretty sure that's, by definition, untrue. Unless people are never mis-diagnosed with rare conditions, which is patently false.
HTML is HTML. Why would it be any easier for the browser to render server-generated HTML incrementally, versus client-generated HTML?
Perhaps he should learn to get better with the flute he has and then he can graduate to the more advanced tool.

Perhaps there are different tools for different levels of experience. Much like software.
Being usually on the other side of the equation, I found that it's pretty hard for a developer to break into the Perl world. To give a personal example, of the languages that I did when I was doing the whole schooling thing (Perl, Java, VB6), I enjoyed coding in Perl the most. Dont' know what it was, it just "clicked". But because folks that were hiring had no interest in new grads at the time (post dot-com bubble), I had to settle for PHP shops since they were the only one hiring. Even nowadays with years of experience with development (sadly still with PHP mostly), applying to Perl jobs gets the "sorry not interested" reply.

Maybe I need to know Ruby or Python? :D
Thank you.

the video was exactly what I was looking for.
Maybe a mod will swap it for the blogspam. nod
That was a really informative post about the culture— business and otherwise— in Japan.

A question for Jason, should he read this: I'd love to hear your personal reason for developing with the Japanese market specifically in mind. I think it's unique for a company that's not well-known to break into a foreign market. Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc all have some presence, but I've rarely seen a company cater exclusively to a foreign market. Was it just because you saw it was ripe for disruption, or something else?
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The thing about Clippy was that he was inserted in what was supposed to be a working word processor.

If he'd appear in something less formal, like a video game or a quirky website where I just came to goof off and play with animated doodads, I might have had a different impression of him.

And further, he appeared when a tool that was suppose to accomplish a specific task failed and he then proceeded to fail to be useful. Mostly, he appeared where the index to help menu was suppose to be. I generally knew the topic I wanted help on and Clippy wasn't it. Under those circumstances, you really couldn't help but want to rip his guts out and shove them down his throat.

But hey, that was then. Maybe all is forgiven...
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It seems like you would just need someone likable and not a business guy. Classes can't teach you how to be likable and get along with developer who sometime can be very opposed to people in suits who think the only way to succeed is to ware a suit.
I definitely agree about niches--in my experience, the best comment threads are not due to the forum but to the commenters. All other approaches weed out poorer comments; you can only get actively good comments by attracting the right sort of commenter. In practice, attracting competent people in a certain niche is easier, and most trolls aren't very interested in whatever particular topic you're discussing.

As far as your three categories go: the first two are really bad, but I'm also very put off by the last. Most places I've seen with a single "dictator" have the same problem: posts are moderated not only based on tone and presentation but also on content. I'm happy if a troll or overtly offensive comment gets removed, but seeing reasonable comments that may not follow the "dictator's" ideologies removed or ridiculed annoys me more than an inundation of poor comments, even if I agree with the "dictator"! I stay away from most "dictatorship" style boards just as much as from the "worthless holes".

The best solutions outside of narrows niches are either truly impartial moderation (usually by people apathetic to the issues at hand) or some sort of process-oriented moderation based on voting or a set of clear guidelines. The former requires having the right sort of people run the site while the other requires having a reasonable audience amenable to moderating themselves. Neither is a silver bullet, but both are much better than the three alternatives you listed.

Coincidentally, I still think the best moderation system I've seen was on Slashdot. I don't go there very often any more, but the highly rated posts were always good. If anything, it went too far the other way--too many good posts got buried. However, even with that misgiving, the end effect was still basically the best I've seen. Also, classifying posts into categories like "insightful" or "funny" also really helped especially for skimming through longer threads.

EDIT: Also: I think having very simple rules for moderation is the best approach. The best rule I saw was simple: "no personal attacks".

This is trivial to enforce fairly (that is, both removing bad posts and not removing good posts) and manages to get rid of most "bad" comments without stifling minority opinions. It also keeps the discussion much more civil and pertinent, which is very nice. And, ignoring everything else, personal attacks never contribute to the discussion anyhow and should not be condoned.
I guess what I really want to say is that the world is so divided and polarized, can't we just this one time drop the anti- and pro-whatever and just say that someone disagrees with us and move on?
On a cold load you'd have to transfer 2 megs of mostly JS over the wire, and only after all that was done could JS start rendering. Even with a fast 10 megabits/s line that will still take upwards of 2 seconds just to get to square 1.
not for an fps game
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yes, but again not for an fps game, especially if playing along with ai, scripted or not, or other players (coop)
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Gnarly article, radical dudes. I'd say it's mondo choice and totally tubular, even. It's, like, righteous and not even a little bit bogus. Now I'm gonna bail and go check out this bodacious betty...
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The difference between computer science and software engineering is Software engineering is real work for the real world. Often the constraints are money, time, resources.

So demands of a software project in the real world are very different than the academia. Although you can argue that Lisp is far more a better language than Perl, based on some parameters you wish to evaluate. Others might have totally different parameters, for example in terms of mere usability and pace of getting things done, Perl will fare better than Lisp.

While evaluating two technologies it is really important to define the parameters you wish to evaluate them upon. Without that we are just comparing Apples and Oranges and then arguing that nutrition on one isn't better than the other. Unless we define who needs an Apple and who needs an Orange for what reasons, we won't be able to say which is better than what for what purposes.

There fore comfort is really a subjective term. For a professor sitting in a university with endless time at his disposal Lisp will make the perfect and most comfortable language. But me sitting on P1 ticket assigned to me, and given 45 minutes to provide with solution has no other option but to use Perl. In other news I just have a weekend to hack up a automation or produce a quick prototype. You know what language I'm going to use, Its Perl.

Not because I hate Lisp or I'm uncomfortable. Its just there is no other option.
Ask HN: In terms of employability python or ruby?
Hi,

I'm currently a studying computer science and hoping to enter the workforce very soon, at the moment I've only coded with java and php.

But in terms of employability php looks very crowded and I much like the idea of startups utilizing the latest web technologies.

Anyway if I were to have the best chance of being employed when I finish uni should I learn python or rails?

Thanks a lot.
On the initial request, Twitter has no way of knowing what resource was intended to be rendered when it's prefixed by a fragment identifier in the URL. There is no reason why having javascript render the page has to be perceptibly slower than shipping down the page in HTML. Hashbang URLs are the sole issue here, not javascript.
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I think it's mostly investors that make fun of lifestyle businesses. Other entrepreneurs, not so much.
What would be the advantage of using this vs using Resque + S3 + heroku worker auto-scaling?
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I don't think it is that clear, businesses that people to devote their lives to also get called lifestyle businesses. People that aren't taking big rounds of funding, only reinvesting profits. People that don't intend to IPO or be acquired, rather are building a sustainable business.

Whether that is the official definition or not, that seems to be the distinction I have seen around here.
>I'm not looking to add anything to theirs. Thats why I link to them.

Then link to them here as well. Save your own blog post for when you've got some original insight to add, then submit it to HN. Not before.

>I'm looking to get discussion here and on Twitter...while I formulate my own thoughts...and more analysis. That's why I said...your the detail of this post.

That's lazy as shit.
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Agreed.

My point is simply that either way is fine. There is no right answer here.
Not easier... just faster.

Server-generated HTML: the browser GETs it and renders it as it streams through.

Client-generated HTML: the server GETs an HTML page with a JavaScript link, then GETs a JavaScript .js, then executes it, the jS GETs the JSON, then translates that into HTML at the DOM level.

The latter is arguably something that will lead to a better user experience once the page is in a "steady state", i.e. all dependent representations are loaded into the browser and rendered. But relying on it for "first render" makes for a slow experience when (e.g.) clicking on a link to an individual Twitter status.
Yeah, that is definitely one of the main problems we face. A few things that mitigate this, however:

1. If you have friends who use Thought Ocean, they can be the first people that you vouch for.

2. If you see a particularly interesting post or insightful comment, vouching for the person who posted it is likely a good idea.

3. Thought Ocean has a feature that gives you feedback on why things get ranked the way they do (the "flow comes through.." feature on the flow tab). This makes a trial-and-error approach possible: just vouch for random people, keep the people who contribute to good posts and lose the people who contribute to bad ones.
Probably because the browser doesn't have to generate the HTML before he can render it?

And generally from a user perspective you merge the steps "show site" & "show content" back to "show site with content".
So even if the server takes just as long to generate the HTML (and I don't think that's the case) the perceived speed will be higher when the site loads and that's it compared to loading, showing something and loading again to show the rest.

edit: parasubvert was faster and said the same thing with fancier words;)
Wow, makeleaps.jp is completely down. A bunch of traffic to a blog post managed to take down the business' entire site. Hmm.
AdRoll does have an opt out, through the adchoices links on ads and through, http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy

Most advertisers that do display retarget attempt to build segments and suppress ads to buyers/logins from potential new customers. this can be difficult though with cookie deletion and people using multiple devices/browsers.
Funny this was written just before Old Twitter (that did not use hashbangs) was removed:
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Learn x the hard way takes a very sandbox approach. Dont expect it to just click, just keep pushing until it makes sense.
Not banned. I will not respond to trolls who want to remain ignorant. (http://www.naturalnews.com/010038.html)
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2011-02-11: "We've made a tradeoff, however, in making twitter.com into an application using the hash, which is that it now cannot be both an app and a site at the same time."

http://www.adequatelygood.com/2011/2/Thoughts-on-the-Hashban...
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I did my Masters in CS from a top 10 ranked CS University.Due to visa issues/recession,I relocated to India about 1.5 years ago. I am looking for opportunities at startups based in
Bay area/New York- Backend,web infrastucture-I would fit in well there.I code fluently in C,C++,PHP (in that order),and have a pretty solid understanding of algorithms.If you might be interested in hiring based on Skype Interviews,or know other startups which have done the same,please mention that in a comment here. It is incredibly hard to find out guys who might be willing to hire internationals directly.

I shall ofcource provide you with sample code,with my resume.

Also,please mention if you find my query offensive or tasteless.The last time I posted on HN,I received no comments at all. I am a regular at HN- using a throway for this-since I don't want to give any hints to my current co-workers that I am searching now!
The way that trolls are made invisible on Thought Ocean isn't really analogous to hellbanning; it's closer to how people who aren't your Facebook friend are invisible to you on Facebook. Thought it's still pretty different from that also.
It's funny to see the startup crowd rediscovering age-old techniques... Seen the Amazon.com home page recently? Does it look the same every day for a month?
Thanks. I will keep it in mind.
Not sure about your comments on public sector drama/propaganda. The startup & tech sector alone has it's fair share of propaganda & drama.

Facebook IPO. SpaceX. RelayRides & AirBnB liability concerns. Google & Apple taking over the world, etc...
It isn't just Microsoft.

Game and software companies have been doing this for a little while now. I think Sony may have done it first such TOS change to get a bunch of publicity.

As far as being legal or not, I am not sure it has been officially tested yet. However, I think it certainly seems like dirty pool.