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make a site where people can "donate" their (startup)-ideas.

there are a lot of people who are currently building something else, don't have the time, skills, connections, knowledge, whatever to make every idea happen. but they probably still want a solution to their problem/idea, so they are quite happy if someone else builds it.
on the other hand, there are people like you who want to build something but don't have an idea.

make a site that connects the two.
I am always annoyed with articles promoting safe cycling when illustrating pictures show cyclists on fancy bikes wearing fancy clothes.

You don't need fancy clothes and a fancy bike to commute to work, in fact those are often a liability.

Pretty much the only people in Copenhagen that wear helmets are racers. Yet the fatality rate in Copenhagen for cyclists is an order of magnitude less than it is in North America, where a good percentage of cyclists wear helmets.
I did post your GooseGooseGo link on HN at the time but it didn't get much traction :(

ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836779
That fish rots from the head down.

I've met a lot of smart and friendly developers who work for Oracle (or companies acquired by Oracle) so I know for a fact there are many people in that organization which are genuinely good and really smart.

However, it seems to be a culture which promotes aggressive "shark" type personalities into leadership positions - people who, in my experience, have less focus on ethical business practices and more focus on increasing profits, crushing competition, and advancing up the ladder.

It obviously makes for a successful company but it's a not one which I would trust to have my business' best interests at heart.
The former Mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa, has done remarkable things for that city.

Among them, a dedicated bike lane/walking system that loops around most of the city.

http://www.streetfilms.org/lessons-from-bogota/

http://thisbigcity.net/photo-essay-bogota-and-the-bicycle-a-...

“Do we dare create a transport system giving priority to the needs of the poor? Or are we really trying to solve the traffic jams of the upper income people? That is really the true issue that exist?”

“God made us walking animals – pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.”

He is quite a character, featured in the maker of Helvetica's "Urbanized"

http://www.pps.org/reference/epenalosa-2/
ksplice was supported in rhel.. when oracle purchased it, they announced they were going to drop rhel, and then turned it into a 30-day free trial-- after the 30-days, you must switch to oracle linux to continue using ksplice.
Thanks. I will go for it. I will try to build better product and see.
HSBC also did this. For business they use hard tokens. IIRC they were moving personal accounts to hard tokens too, I moved countries and lost access to my online account because of this (there was no money there, I tried to get them to send me a token to my new address but the person I talked to was hard to understand and the token never arrived).
Qt 5 work on Android looks to be highly experimental at this stage. You should look at Necessitas project. Qt 4.8 works fine for the most part, though apps that do 3D work through OpenGL don't always work due to limitations in Android GL stack. Non-OpenGL apps should work fine with several Qt apps that I know of in Google Play already.
I assume he is talking about Visa/Mastercard gift cards. If so then they do not need an SSN number to work online. At least here in the USA. You can pretty much enter whatever information you want.
I'm an intern in the Seattle area for the summer and was faced with a choice upon arriving - buy a bike and get $350 of it covered or pay ~$1000 to get a rental car for all three months. Due to the obvious financial benefit of the former I wanted a bike, but after it raining for a week straight upon my arrival I chose to get a car. This, along with the tremendous social benefits of being able to come and go as you please, convinced me that owning and riding a bike is a healthy alternate transportation method for the nice days, but not really a feasible replacement.
I think I could do better, I have some ideas that other party didn't get a chance to implement or better - they didn't think about yet.
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By the way, Scientific Linux isn't perfect when it comes to these delays either. I wanted to make a similar graph plotting SL, but laziness prevailed. (I crawled the RHEL, CentOS, and OL mailman archives to get the data, but SL uses listserv.)

It's just one data point, but:
Red Hat released RHEL 5.6 on January 13, 2011, but Scientific Linux didn't release SL 5.6 until June 21, 2011

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2011-January...
[2] http://www.scientificlinux.org/news/sl56
Ask HN: startup with a great pricing page comparing the price to two cafe lattes
I remember seeing them on hackernews, but I havent been able to find them again, hoping that one of you guys remember what it was...<p><i>fingers crossed</i>
Why don't you take some ideas and test the market using Google Consumer Surveys?

Don't feel pressured to determine what the market wants/likes, ask them.

www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys
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I really like the search suggestions.
Thank you all for support. I am more frustrated than depressed. It was wrong choice of words.
Neat! Thanks for the info/site/email thread.

> You missed a spot in your handling of bang syntax, DuckDuckGo allows you to use either "\", "! " or "!ducky " to find the first result, you don't handle "\".

I left this out on purpose since I don't really consider it part of "bang" syntax since it doesn't include ! ("bang") but I suppose I'm just splitting hairs at this point.

> Also, to anyone using DuckDuckGoog or my GooseGooseGo you should be aware that you're trusting some (other) random dudes on the internet with your searches, I don't log anything with GooseGooseGo (no access or error logs), but you only have my word for that.

Agreed, this is a concern. I posted a link to the GitHub repo for DuckDuckGoog in the site's footer but of course it's my word against the user's that that is the current code being used on the site and that I didn't add in any tracking code in the build process or anything.
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Useful it may be, but after more than 10 years of having to work with Oracle products and consultants, the first thing that jumped at me was

...doesn't Oracle Linux cost money? A: Oracle Linux support costs money

That "support" word, right there, is the thing that makes me stay as far from Oracle as I can. It's like "Dude, here's the software. Have it, it's cheap/free." When things go wrong you get stung for exorbitant support/consulting fees, because, hey, you're tied in. With nowhere to go.

Sadly, too many organisations still go by the mantra of "The answer is Oracle. Now, what's the question?". That's no basis for a business case.

And yes, this is a rant, and I do have an axe to grind. I'm sorry if that offends (not my intent).
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How about Stickler?
Of course it does: http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search
They tried to make APIs copyrightable. That's about the same magnitude of evil as legalising software patents.
I also appreciated the concept of _In Time_, even though the plot was awful. I wouldn't hedge by saying there are limits to this type of thinking. Everyone should take it very seriously. Time is money in a very real sense.

Speaking of which, I should get back to work.
I agree for the most part, with a minor disagreement on the following statement:

>The only confusing actor is Bin Laden, who attacked a superpower that had already expressed a desire to invade his people.

The superpower was already occupying much of his people through puppet dictators; the Saudi, Egyptian, Yemeni, Bahraini, Jordanian and Lebanese for example. Israel was created out as a "Jewish state" on 78% of Palestine while the population of Palestine was still only 34% Jewish after mass-migration campaign of the 1900s (1905 Jewish population of Palestine was 3%) but their bombings on Palestinian villagers successfully cleansed some 80% of the native population. The refugees still aren't allowed to return while any Jew (born Jewish or converted) can instantly migrate to Palestine and get a US-subsidized home in a Jewish only settlement.

The US diplomatic, monetary and military support for this 60+ year old occupation and denial of injustice was a major motivation for Osama.

Every year the US and Israel vote against this UNGA resolution while the rest of the whole world votes for a peaceful settlement (i.e. normalization of relations and recognition of Israel in return for a Palestinian state on 22% of original Palestine and a symbolic return of some refugees, some compensation for the rest of the refugees, which would give Israel the chance to preserve a Jewish majority rather than equal rights for all).
https://www.google.com/search?q=peaceful+settlement+of+the+q...

http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/997AAD7178DBFD6685257995...

A/RES/66/17

26 January 2012

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/ga10791.doc.htm

"The Assembly also adopted by a recorded vote of 164 in favour to 7 against ( Australia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 3 abstentions ( Cameroon, Canada, Tonga) (Annex IV), the resolution on the “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine”."

http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/cd358b22995a4b078525767e...

Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine
A/64/L.23
23 November 2009

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/resolving-the-israel-palest...

Year

Vote

[Yes-No-Abstained]

Negative votes cast by… 2005

156-6-9

Israel, United States , Australia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau

2006

157-7-10

Israel, United States , Australia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau

2007

161-7-5

Israel, United States , Australia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau
Every time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, "What makes managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?" I go to Chrome's "settings", I click "Manage Search Engines", and I update the keyword. Why is this so hard for some people?
And the GP was giving his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people I've interacted with in the open source community regarding Oracle. Maybe instead of browbeating him over it you could consider encouraging Oracle to pay attention to things like this and do something about recovering their image. BTW, it isn't illegal in any jurisdiction I am aware of to harbor personal feelings towards brands and companies. That's what marketing is all about anyway.
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I think here you're assuming wealth was the limited resource referred to, were it might be other things.
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You use the word "track" which implies you were cycling at a high speed, so you are quite likely correct.

Studies show quite a clear benefit for wearing helmets if you are travelling above 20km/hr.

The benefits of a helmet are much less significant if you are biking less than 20km/hr.
Scoble is the counterexample to mature restrained online presence.

There's been a lot made of the oversharing which occurs with teens and 20-somethings on Facebook and other social networks, often painted as a generational change.

For those of us who were alive and tech-conscious in the 1990s, there was a very similar trend, though rather smaller (as the Net and Web were also much smaller), of a small number of high-profile "online diarists" who shared, often fairly compulsively and excessively, life details.

Some remain online, some have largely disappeared, some are much more muted than previously: Eve Astrid, Xeni Jardin, Rebecca "Net Skink" Eisenberg, Violet Blue, (many were notably women), and some of the early bloggers: Dvorak, Ito, Weiner, and others.

Andersson at last check worked for Google. Jardin continues to blog for Boing Boing, though more quietly since a dust-up with Blue and recent breast cancer diagnosis. Eisenberg is corporate counsel at a tech company. Blue continues her sex blogging, though less prominantly than I recall. Life, jobs, relationships, breakups, kids, and the like, tend to take the edges off over time.

It's something I'm presuming FB and G+ will discover over time. Google's approach has been more nuanced in part, I suspect, as its creators were more mature than Facebook's.

Past age 35 or so, the most voluble social networking types tend to be those with a vested interest in noteriety. Mostly marketers, entertainers, other media types, technology evangelists, CEOs, and VCs.
Make it prescription based? Then you still have people buying & selling in alleys. What's the difference other than slightly increasing the supply of high quality drugs?
LOL!
So they took it against RHEL and failed, not they're picking on CentOS (and they will fail). This is just hilarious! Can Oracle get any more pathetic than this?
My class-project-turned-hobby-os: https://github.com/tjdetwiler/timix
I'm trying very hard to be as neutral as possible (as opposed to "Oracle bad. Raaaaar!"), but I've been part of the HPC community for a long time, and Oracle has done their best to tell us that we don't matter at all to them (Grid Engine, Lustre, etc.). I understand that the margins on HPC aren't great, so I don't necessarily fault them, but it leaves a very bad taste. That's just one community of many who feel like they've been wronged by Oracle.

You say that they've produced something useful; can you say a little more about what Oracle has specifically produced with respect to Oracle Linux? My strong impression is that they've taken 99.9% Red Hat's hard work, dumped their own 0.1% on top (OCFS2, some IB enhancements, etc.), slapped a big price tag on it and then exclaim, "look what we made!"

Removing that price tag doesn't change much. I'm open to being reasoned with, though, so please tell me why I'm wrong.
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Chrome automatically fills the list for the sites I actually visit. By default the keyword is the domain name, but I can change that to whatever I want, rather than memorizing DDG's idiosyncratic abbreviations.
thx, very appreciated! we've only been live for just over two months now so we're still the new kid on the block, but every jab, nudge and slam dunk you have to give really helps us towards taking on the heavy weights :)
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Tcl/Tk was easier and used the native widget set.
The bottom line is that CentOS is now a second-class citizen with regard to support from KSplice, compared to Ubuntu and Fedora. See the KSplice download page at http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download in which CentOS is missing.

Regarding the source code, yes the original code was GPLed is still available. But are you saying that Oracle/KSplice will continue to make available ongoing versions of KSplice?

The link you provided is to a source tarball that was mostly last updated in August 2009, except for a small change in July 2011 (removal of zlib detection). Therefore, either the KSplice code is not being maintained at all, or there are ongoing updates to it that will no longer be released in source form.
I just want a server OS that is stable as hell, has a long lifecycle, and won't break when updating. None of those are quite as true of Debian and Ubuntu (though Debian and Ubuntu have their own benefits, they just don't match the priorities I have for a server OS), and I prefer yum to apt-get, anyway.

And, most of our customers think the same way. CentOS is, by far, the most popular OS for running Virtualmin/Webmin/Cloudmin. Ubuntu has been gaining pretty fast, particularly now that LTS releases have become relatively stable (6.06 LTS had some awful breakages, 8.04 has some minor breakages, 10.04 and 12.04 seem to be pretty stable so far), but RHEL-based systems still have a strong lead in web hosting.

For people already having to sign a deal with the devil, using Oracle may make sense. But, I don't have that requirement. Everything on all five of our servers works fine on CentOS, RHEL, and SL (and Ubuntu, Debian, etc.).
Ask HN: What currency is best for a UK startup to charge in?
So i've been working hard on my startup, and i'm now ready to see if i can convert some of these beta users into hard cash.

But which currency should i display on my pricing page?

The product really doesn't have any territorial boundaries, and i've chosen a payment processor that can handle £ or $, but i just wondered what people's thoughts were on this?

My thoughts are that globally $ is better, but we're based in the UK so would people expect a price in £, would that put off other countries?

General thoughts please :)
I have a technical reason for not using Oracle Linux: it's easier to install Oracle on RHEL than Oracle Linux.
Aerogel (aka "solid smoke") was the lightest so far, at 1mg/cc[1] .

The density of air is 1.2 mg/cc.

FTA: "The substance weighs just 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter"

So why doesn't this thing just fly away, if its density is 0.2 mg/cc ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel
That's pretty much the best reason to keep using it. It's got a good head of steam for pushing forward so it'll take a lot to kill it off.
It is not hard. I think the pointis that people do not like "manual touchpoints". In your examples, you described 3 of them. Most of us are lazy.
>All it gives us is insight into his taste in composition styles. That, coupled with the fact that music is a highly unscientific endeavor and the reasons he gives for disliking some of the works might be the exact reasons why others might love those very works, makes this article completely useless IMHO.

You seem to conflate "unscientific" with "anything goes".
I'd argue that this is actually good for security in that keyloggers are indeed useless. There's one downside: if the bank gets hacked, you lose your password. But seriously, let's face it, that's not an issue because nobody uses the same password on multiple sites.
> The US of A has a greater capacity to produce grains needed to produce the noodles

And more importantly, a greater capacity to subsdize production of said grains.

Edit: Did this comment really get greyed out? The mechanism for that is still kind of mysterious to me. Let me clarify, I don't mean the US has more money, just a dumber system of farm subsidies.
That can be an advantage of "timeless" industrial design; it doesn't matter how long it takes to bring it to market. The G5/Mac Pro cheese grater hasn't changed since 2003, but what's ten years when you're borrowing from the 1960s?
Cue obligatory quote:

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!"
Reverting a push should be at least as fast and easy as the push itself. This minimizes downtime if you introduce a new bug. (Which I know you, the reader, would never do, but other people might, so this is for them.)

Using this workflow, if you break your site, reverting would require either a) fixing the bug and then doing another push or b) looking up and typing in the hash of the last known good commit. Neither of these are as fast and easy as "git push".

Our solution is to deploy with tags. Every push to production gets its own tag, and that is what we checkout into production. If the site breaks, you just checkout the previous tag name and you're reverted. This way reverting is exactly as easy and fast as pushing new code.
but at what price? at the price of losing centos because oracle are a predatory monster driven solely by greed?

put it another, more constructive way: wouldn't it be better to help centos rather than try to kill them? why not take that route?
this will be possible once we have our APIs available - you'll be able to create rooms on the fly and manage your users and their interactions directly by throwing new rooms up for any two people wanting to meet and then by keeping track of which room these people are in you can then prompt others to join these people in that same room. more to come very soon.
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Wow nice writing. I was half expecting that by the end of the article mighty Captain Ahab himself will emerge and strike the wallowing whale of windows mobile efforts with a decisive blow. Or is it perhaps the author himself who aimlessly roams the modern day sea of tech products yearning for a revenge for all the BSODs that he had to witness?

Apart from that it's filled with lies (WP7 apps unsupported on WP8? It's the other way around) and nonsense (WP7 built upon heaps of out-dated code covered with shallow visage? Do you mean WinCE? Why is it out-dated? How is the WP7 new code only shallow?)
Small suggestion: You should give focus to the text area when the user lands on the page, so I can instantly search and not have to reach for the mouse or tab.
Thank you. I don't know what's up with the increasing trend around here for people to imply you are an idiot over some nitpick that seems to reveal only that the nitpicker spent no effort to try understanding what you had to say, and would rather berate you for a detail rather than engaging in the gist.

One of the things that can seem almost mystical at times about math to someone who has not studied math heavily, is even just simple things, like how pi and e seem to get into everything, even where you might not naively expect it.

The visualization in the OP shows how to use sine waves to build a sieve of Sieve of Eratosthenes. Now that I've seen the visualization, this revelation seems so utterly obvious that it goes without saying. But somehow, I never drew this connection until seeing the visualization.

And once I see how "obvious" this is, it's suddenly obvious how e and pi might get into everything, because everything that repeats with a specific frequency can be modeled as a wheel rolling along and leaving a mark on every revolution. And what is multiplication, but repeated addition? I.e., a wheel of a certain size rolling down the number line, leaving its mark once per turn. Above a certain age, we tend to stop thinking about multiplication as repeated addition, and so we don't think about how all multiplication is implicitly bringing pi into everything we are doing.

Maybe everything I said above is wrong in some way, since, as I have mentioned, I haven't studied any math past calculus and college algebra, and even that was so long ago, most of it I don't remember. Or maybe what I've said is so obvious to someone who has studied math seriously that they just want to shout, "Duh!" But there must be some way to interpret what I just wrote that doesn't deserve being summarily shot down.
thx, much appreciated! we're moving fast and have lost of great things coming up - stay tuned for more.
I don't think there is a real comparison. Living in a gated community would provide better home security and a quieter, safer neighbourhood. It doesn't really have anything to do with privacy/sharing.
I don't got a name for it, as it wasn't a specific algorithm being followed, I Just "solved it" by coding it.
I had to do it recursively because calling it once would not give an accurate number, so it called itself until the numbers matched up :)
I can share the Ruby code once I clean it up. I intend to open source the web app anyway.
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This site appears to be focused on the design aspects of visualizations, which is a shame. While I agree that design is an important consideration in info visualization, it's clearly less important than accurately representing the underlying data. I've seen far too many "infographics" which either misrepresented or presented false interpretations of data.