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I don't know. I think these sorts of competitions are actually becoming more and more common. I've read about other ones at various schools, and I think they even had some similar competitions at my school. I certainly remember advertisements for some sort of tech startup-geared competition as well as something similar focused on Bioengineering.

Maybe you just didn't hear about it at your school? The one at MIT and the Bioengineering one I saw here were both aimed at PhD students and Postdocs rather than undergrads, so that could be a factor as well.
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Yes, after eating his photographer he called the front desk to extend his stay until the licence plate and kickstand were assembled.
For those who haven't read the book: it's a great experience and gives you confidence in bootstrapping: that you can get things done just by starting and doing it yourself and not waiting for some coding talent or VC money. So, it's definitely very motivating and I recommend to skim it instantly if you haven't done it before.

But at the same time it's pretty old now and if you read HN for more than 3 months then the book won't offer any surprise. And though it's not very much about Rails or programming it still transports a specific and opinionated mindset about how life and in particular entrepreneurship has to work. From 37signals' point of view it's the only way how entrepreneurship should be approached while heavily despising other ways, as recently seen in DHH last post about players like Pinterest, Instagram or Quora. So, it's pretty much like Rails—there is only one way and no other—and thus, you should take some messages of the book with a grain of salt and be aware that it's aged and to some extent just a leverage for email Marketing for 37signals (also aging) products.
I wish Apple would synchronize their clang with this one so we don't have two different versions like we do now. There are two different "clang 3.0" compilers out there now, with differing capabilities.
But who really cares? It isn't like 37signals is spamming people. As far as less reputable people, I don't want what they're giving away anyway.
Talking about this

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

There other ways of blocking crawlers other than robots.txt
Quit complaining. Convert the PDF yourself. The damned thing was free! Perhaps they should send us an iPad to read it on too?
Except it doesn't have much memory, no sata/ide interface, a relatively slow CPU and a version of the ARM that isn't the same instruction set as most Android/Linux targets
Bob Mathews: "Pressing"
My first real job was with CableData and my first "Big Boss" was its founder Bob Mathews. Bob was a visionary; foreseeing online on-demand video entertainment, networked gaming platforms and other digital services long before Apple, Google, etc.

He was also a relentless and intense leader. When I worked there (in my very early 20's), I was kind of afraid of him. But he was nice to me and I think a bit of his work ethic rubbed off on me.
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My favourite part was when the hedge fund manager called himself "blue collar". I couldn't care about the rest, boo hoo there were technical issues, NASDAQ had a clause covering them in the event of technical issues and Facebook stock didn't balloon into the $60 or $70 per share price range. I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for anyone who can freely gamble away $100M then have the audacity to complain about it, if the situation were reversed the hedge fund manager wouldn't care if I lost out because I invested $100M into Facebook stock either.

Don't get me started on the fact this disillusioned guy thinks the stock should have been in the $70+ range. It doesn't sound like the guy should be handling money full stop, he obviously has a lack of understanding when it comes to the stock market.
If they do that, then their price/(qty|mass|volume) label, mandated in US supermarkets next to the unit price, will shoot up.
My first real job was with CableData and my first "Big Boss" was its founder Bob Mathews. Bob was a visionary; foreseeing in the late 1970's online on-demand video entertainment, networked gaming platforms and other digital services long before Apple, Google, etc.

He was also a relentless and intense leader. When I worked there (in my very early 20's), I was kind of afraid of him. But he was nice to me and I think a bit of his work ethic rubbed off on me.
That's a fairly trivial optimization for a jit to perform. And a 1000x penalty for bounds checking? No way, that would literally require your bounds check to take a minimum of 1000 instructions, even assuming your inner loop didn't do anything meaningful with the accessed value.
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I didn't mean to imply it's not possible, or won't be possible in the future, just that I don't think it's on the immediate horizon for anything but small kernels. 4.6 million dollars may be reasonable, but if you have to add on another million dollars and another month of verification time for every patch release... it's just not practical yet.
You don't understand my point. I was picking at how you claimed that X was bad because it can't be used for applications designed for Y.

I also doubt your understanding of "negative proof"... But that's off-topic
Does this support the same git post-commit hooks?
Facebook: regulators may review the disclosure process
And? If that was really important, only those products with the lowest number would sell any units.
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I'm sure they've used some unique combination, treatment and application of those materials to create this effect.
That's my point. They've set up the contracts so they don't have much more legal liability for flawed upgrades than Cyanogenmod does.
It work kind of okay, but formatting tends to get screwed up when doing this. Conversion with something like Calibre can give better results, but typically nothing's as good as a well-prepared epub or mobi.
The suit against Nasdaq is fascinating in principle. In brief, trading started nearly an hour late and there were difficulties with trade confirmation. Now, the sinking price is also a reflection of a) weaker public demand than underwriters may have anticipated and b) disquiet over dubious accounting/disclosure in the runup to the IPO. But clearly, delays and stumbles right at the commencement of trading took a lot of air out of the balloon.

How to value this, though, is a very difficult question that will most likely be left to a jury. Assuming NASDAQ were found to be negligent, it could be messy; Facebook's market cap has gone down by $20 billion since it began trading (or $39bn peak-to-trough). Nasdaq's Market cap is only $3 billion.
Kaczynski addresses this possibility explicitly in his 1995 essay "Industrial Society and its Future":

"Anyone who has a little money can have something printed, or can distribute it on the Internet or in some such way, but what he has to say will be swamped by the vast volume of material put out by the media, hence it will have no practical effect. To make an impression on society with words is therefore almost impossible for most individuals and small groups. Take us (FC) for example. ... Even [if] these writings had had many readers, most of these readers would soon have forgotten what they had read as their minds were flooded by the mass of material to which the media expose them. In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people." [1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...
SSH: What and How
Sorry, but what the hell is a 'software artificer'?

If you look at how the word 'artifice' is used, it is generally negative, associated with being overly clever for the purposes of pretense, or generally false/insincere.

So if I'm not sure the job title 'software artificer' even parses. 'A person who writes unnecessarily ornate/impractical software.'

I hope I can write in whatever job title I want. It will be 'guy who may not have shaved in a couple of days, has had too much caffeine, and is grumbling incoherently at his laptop screen.'
In the post you're replying to I said: "I also live with a software developer who helped bail me out from time to time", and I linked to the html5helicopter.com page which links to that blog post. I wasn't trying to hide anything and didn't mean to be misleading. I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. Nathan helped teach me to code, but DailyDo.it is my own creation.
"From 37signals' point of view it's the only way how entrepreneurship should be approached while heavily despising other ways"

Nope. It's not the only way. It's one way. There are lots of ways to build a product and run a business. Getting Real is what we've learned. Same with REWORK - it's our experience and advice in book form. Neither book pretends to be the only way.

If you have your own unique approach, and you think your experience can be valuable to those who haven't had your experience, take the time to write it up and share it with the world.
This release gives 37Signals a number of advantages. 1) Free press towards the 37Signals brand and 2) a product that they're proud of and which indicates the future quality a customer can expect from them.

This will benefit them far more than any lingering sales revenue might have. 37Signals seem to consistently do this sort of thing right.
Works absolutely flawlessly in Chrome, impressive stuff. Can't wait to see a company like Blizzard release a HTML5 MMO in a few years time (it'll definitely happen). Imagine a game like Diablo 3 in HTML5? Wow.
This is much better reporting than I usually expect from Business Insider.
I think your answer is perfect: make sure you're making enough not to worry about money unduly and then pick whichever one seems more fun. I find worrying too much about getting the highest expected return just isn't worth it, at least to me.
Apparently the theme was designed by these guys: http://www.tomsskylinedesign.com

I think the style on that page speaks for itself.
FB Stock Confusion From NASDAQ rule Could Have Caused Selling
Jury Flummoxed Over Google-Oracle Patent Fight
I actually want to get their email. It will allow me to analyze their marketing tactics directly.
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If wifi routers had usb....
Nanostructures may be likely, considering the group's recent (but different) patent:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=JBoFAgAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
Actually, Facebook is not worth more than Google ($195.7 billion)
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Biomedical autism intervention specialist physician, Dr. Kurt Woeller, talks about TACA (Talk About Curing Autism), a wonderful parent driven support group for other parents.
It is generally considered cheating by Google phone interview standards, the interviewer probably was satisfied by the other answers, plus the fact that the interviewee immediately and casually owned up to it probably indicated that it hadn't been made clear that it was disallowed.
Facebook Effect Masks Trouble In U.S. Entrepreneurs
> blowing up their first three Falcon 1 flights

Only the first flight did anything close to "blow up", and the payload was recovered largely structurally intact (sensitive components irreparable). It would almost certainly have been survivable in an LES-equipped capsule.

Flights 2 and 3 were prevented from reaching orbit but did not blow up, catch fire, or do anything else that would have precluded a safe, if rather early, return of the crew.
I have a lot of sympathy for those guys, their ability to artificially pump stock prices brings a lot of value to the economy. Anyways my heart goes out to them.
You havw to remember that in the imagination, the vehicle is a large part of the journey. Having a nice one definitely helps, or car styling wouldn't matter so much. Beautiful vehicles will definitely help.

So you're left with the question of which helps more: a beautiful/sexy vehicle, or safety and cheapness, the answer is basically one of detailed analysis. I suspect you're right about where the balance leans, but I also suspect it's possible to have both.
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Completely agree with you that there's an opportunity for a time based search engine and maybe some standardization so that events can be read by that search engine.
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"Then it was holding at $42 for whatever reason. $42. $42. $42."

42 is the answer. He's just not asking the right question. Sorry, couldn't resist.
I don't much care for unions and have severe reservations about their compatibility with public service in particular. However, if you think of a union as an employee-owned labor supply corporation that has a right to enter into exclusive contracts with labor purchasers, people clearly have a right to organize, market, and sell their labor, and suppliers asking buyers to enter into exclusive purchasing agreements for several years at a time is not so weird.
Yes, completely agree. But I just use this as an indication of the number of people in search of something as opposed to say that if you create it you'll be #1 ranked for each event. Many people will go directly to ticketmaster or meetup as well - those people are part of the market.
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Every time the subject of Google's driverless cars comes up, here or anywhere, almost 100% of the discussion always seems to presume that this technology is heading directly towards consumers as a travel solution. While I'm sure it'll get around to that eventually, I think the realization of a scifi-like fantasy might be distracting people from a more obvious, practical reason for Google to be doing this.

Sebastian Thrun co-developed Street View. You know, with all those cars driving around gathering information about meatspace? One might say... crawling meatspace? Thrun is also a major force behind the driverless car project. Isn't it likely that for Google, at least for now, this is all about making a system of real-world crawlers, exactly analogous to its web crawlers?
> Render to a buffer object and use that as your vertex array.

I don't think that's an option in ES2 or WebGL. I'd love to be proven wrong!
You know when the motor car was first introduced, the law required a man with a red flag walk in front of it at all times. The excuse of course was for safety reasons :p
Take my advice with a grain of salt because I'm still a student, but I'd join the company. You don't really need large amounts of money just after graduating, and besides, most people in other majors probably end up making even less. On the other hand, working for a small startup would probably be more interesting and exciting, especially if you like the founders. Then, if it doesn't pan out, you would probably have no problem finding a job at a bigger company for a sufficiently high salary. So maybe you'd make less money overall in the event of a the biotech company's failure, but you'd still have enough to not worry and a more interesting experience.

Also, your risk tolerance as a fresh grad is much higher than it will be in the future. You (probably) don't have an expensive lifestyle or a family, and you can live pretty cheaply yourself. So you have much less reason to be leery of equity than somebody older and more established.

I personally think that the best time to work for a small startup is just after graduating, and that it's definitely worth doing at some point in your life. So I would go for it in your position.
Dokuen operates as a pre-receive hook on the receiving git repository, on the server side. This is so that if something prevents your app from building the remote repo doesn't get corrupted by a bad push. Your post-commit hooks on your development repo will continue to work as normal.

At the moment the only additional hook that Dokuen supports is after-build, before app startup. You set it by setting the DOKUEN_AFTER_BUILD environment variable to a command that you want to run. For example, I have one of my apps set to run "rake db:migrate" here.
I'm looking forward to that one too.

Previous reference on hackernews here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3682664
The hedge fund has $100MM, that doesn't mean he has $100MM. He's managing other people's money, he's not "freely gambling" with it.
> Nope. It's not the only way. It's one way.

I don't know if DHH agrees on that—maybe you should check his latest post.

> If you have your own unique approach, and you think your experience can be valuable to those who haven't had your experience, take the time to write it up and share it with the world.

Good idea, thanks, but I won't write a book. Reading HN for some months gives starters the same full experience but less opinionated—so blogging, reading and posting to HN should transport knowledge very effectively, maybe easier than reading cumbersome PDFs and that's what I'd recommend for getting into startups. People get here the wide variety of different approaches.

Don't get me wrong: I still highly recommend Get Real—again for all people here: it's a great book, it was groundbreaking, go, get it, provide your email adress to 37signals and read it, it's worth—but its content is not so outstanding as it was 5 yrs ago and for some more experienced ones maybe just a little tiny bit too opinionated. And that's all I wanted to say.
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To plenty of us in the tech field a successful Facebook IPO would have opened up a path for other tech business to IPO in the near term. On top of that a successful IPO would have opened up some funding in our hacker space (Paypal Mafia/Google Mafia..etc). We want them to be successful.
I have a hard time drumming up sympathy for these guys. They're mad because they couldn't make a quick buck. Isn't a hedge fund just gambling? It's high time Wall St. learns that it's never a good idea to put more in the pot than you can lose.

The part that is most striking to me is that share price and a company's intrinsic value are seemingly in different galaxies. This guy is talking about decisions based on hype. I'm floored. Do these guys really trade based on public opinion?
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Yeah - Sorry I know its a bit nitpicky, because "second world" is pretty commonly understood in this way (to mean "secondary power"/"partially developed economy" etc.) but although common it is really a bit of a misuse of a word that has a very specific original meaning and I thought its probably worth pointing out to people (not just you) where the differences lie.
I don't know about others, but personally it sucks when some product for which I paid, is now available for less or even free.

Specially in case of electronics, you buy something when its new. The next month you meet some friend with the same piece, which he got for fraction of price. And more disturbing is that at that point of time, your piece is older and his is new.

Here I am not talking about this case in particular, even I am happy to get free Getting Real.
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You go to Vegas and put $5,000 on the roulette wheel and it breaks, it's like, hold on, I'm not going to do that.

I like this analogy. You want to play the market, fine. But if NASDAQ breaks, is that really part of the game?
The Mississippi is dying, and I want to record it.
Humans don't do nice things to the environment. Before we populated the Midwest, you could actually catch fish and eat them out of the Mississippi river. Now you can maybe eat one a year due to the Mercury in the water. We neglect the river, we destroy it, and we treat it like a toilet, not nice like the faucet it could be.

I just graduated from college, I don't have a job (by choice). I want to do something awesome. I want to ride a boat from the start of the Mississippi (Lake Itasca) down to Lock and Dam #1 (the first large amount of human control exerted over the river, and conveniently located near my house). I want to take water samples the whole way down (hopefully with some kind of real time chemical sensing equipment). I want to collect this data, put it online (raw data), and build a visualizer for it overlaying Google maps or something. I'll put the raw data up so you can do something cooler with it.

I would like this project to spark interest in other people to take care of their water sources, I want other people around the world to take on similar projects. I want people to realize that the environment is not an unmovable object, but humans may be an unstoppable force until we go too far.
I would like to see this applied to the inside of engine oil bottles so that I'm not tossing out a few ounces of expensive synthetic every time I change my oil. Assuming it's inert and stable at temperature, I'd also like to see it inside the oil pan and oil galleys inside the engine.
"Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager: No doubt. But this should have been a blockbuster. This should have traded to $60 or $70. This should have launched a wave of tech IPOs."

I think Facebook just deflated the tech IPO bubble for a year or so. No average Joe is going to invest, because, "Well fuck, if Facebook didn't explode, why would any other new tech company? No thanks." The bubble is still there, but it isn't looking like it will be rapidly expanding like people expected it to after the fb IPO.
If they signed a legally binding agreement, then I imagine NASDAQ breaking would be part of the game.
Ask HN: Clojure code worth reading?
I'm learning Clojure. Coming from Python and JavaScript, I'm still not used to the Clojure way of doing things.

Can anyone recommend code (ideally, large apps or libraries) that is considered high quality and readable? I'd like to better wrap my head around the techniques used.
The interesting allegation here is that NASDAQ required traders to dump a bunch of stock on Monday morning, which depressed the price artificially.

We'll never know the truth of it, but if it happened it's unfortunate.
He is complaining because he was sandbagged. He didnt know what his position was, and NASDAQ and MS both dropped the ball here.

You can vilify hedge funds till kingdom come, but it sounds here that this guy played by the rules and lost due to a circumstance that he didn't believe was fair.

If the opposite happened (price spiked) yet the same technology problems happened, you'd have a bunch of people complaining that they were over or under filled.

The complaints would not be justified if there was no confusion on his position.
HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE PROGRESS! HOW WE ALL DESPISE THEE!

It sounds like your problem is perhaps one of envy. You hate other people having nice things more than you enjoy having nice things for yourself. Just relax, things are going to get cheaper, and better, and that will benefit you just as much as it benefits the next guy. If you paid for something that's cheaper now just chalk that up to the cost of being an early adopter or take pride in the fact that you were able to support something in the early days that is now so successful that it can be offered for much less.
Sounds really expensive, to achieve ... what?