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If your startup is using filetype/mimetype icons, where did you get them from? Some sites use simple, yet elegant, icons (e.g.,: http://www.basecamphq.com/images/screenshots/files.png). The FamFam silk icon set has some, but they are small (16x16 pixels). Is there any other place from where good, yet elegant, filetype/mimetype icons can be obtained (either free or for a nominal price)?
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Meaning "no true framework":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman allows you to stream results out piecemeal.
http://www.mercadopago.com/

http://dineromail.com/
My friend who works at Comcast said the perennial top late night/wee hours of morning Video-on-Demand requests are modern Nickelodeon-era, child pleasing staples like "The Wiggles"

I've watched "The Wiggles" several times. How can a tired, full-time parent ever compete (in the entertain-my-kid realm) with the hyper-naturally perky, fun, safe, singing and dancing former punk rock band called "The Wiggles"
Chad Hurley, Craig Mundie, and Mark Zuckerberg Talk Mobile At Davos
Why is he giving this talk? I don't believe he fully knows what he is talking about. Seems like he is just following a presentation someone else prepared for him.
Video games activate the brain’s reward circuits but do so much more in men than in women, according to a new study. Researchers hooked men and women up to functional MRI machines while the participants played a video game designed for the study.

I wonder if a video game could be designed that would have the opposite effect; women would feel more compelled by the rewards system in place versus men.
Since modern motherboards don't have serial / parallel ports, it seems like something like this would still let people get their feet wet with basic electronics hacking. A simple example that we did back in my day was to build our own TI-LINK cables for the parallel port with $5 in Radio Shack parts rather than the $40 for the cable.

When I saw this I also started thinking of connecting it to a relay for lighting applications. It'd be fun at a party to connect this to a set of relays and lamps and drive it from the output of a beat detection algorithm. Or to have it automatically dim the lights in the living room when the PVR computer starts a movie.
Somehow this has turned into a Europe vs USA "discussion". That was not my intention. I have no particular axe to grind, being neither European, not American.

Further, it seems clear that the point I was trying to make is not going to be heard, and other points - no doubt valid, but nonetheless tangential - are going to dominate. Perhaps it's wrong, perhaps no one wants to hear it.

Perhaps I just can't express myself clearly enough.

So I'm simply going to walk away from this thread. You have made many valid points which I will remember. Thank you.
Dropbox is only free for 2GB, not much if you want to back up photos.
Both are good but limited options.

Mercadopago is restricted to Mercadolibre and Dineromail is just for sending and receiving money, not for web purchasing.

Together they cover less than 0.01% the market I am talking about.
That is a really sad factoid.

Oh man. Don't get me started. But if you insist, a few high-level thoughts: real life isn't about being entertained, the parent has the advantage of being the parent--wow, a relationship possibility, right before your eyes! Why are you wasting the 12 years you have before adolescence on mindless drivel instead of winning your child's affection? Agh! OK, I'll stop.
Nice. Austin is a really nice place to run a company too.

Good weather, not too expensive, educated population.
Unfortunately, I think all child raising theory and advice is theoretical until you get to practice it on your own children.

"I really didn't like TV-Turnoff Week except that I did notice that my grades went up and I was in a good mood all week." - Second grader Drew Henderson, Donora, PA

http://tvturnoff.org/

"In a recent study, two economists at the University of Chicago, Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, came up with a different way to test the long-run impact of television on kids." Yes, but sometimes test scores aren't the defacto measurement of impact on kids..

http://www.slate.com/id/2136372/
Life well lived! Didn't know much about him till now. But totally impressive. Very few get to achieve so much so early and live life so fully.

Another nice post here http://lundxy.com/?p=3250
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I would guess that better code means more readable and maintable code.
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I do have experience with it, and it is painful.

If you're going to host an Asp.NET site; do yourself a favor and get a dedicated box to do it with.
http://www.barstoolsports.com, besides the usual techcrunch, gigaom, readwriteweb, go2web20, etc.
"I used to use Linux, but left because it really wasn't stable. It messed up repeatedly"

I have to ask: have you really ever used Linux after, say, 1998? I ask that because in my experience (I moved to Linux by 2000) it is a rock-solid OS. It won't work with every hardware I throw at it, of course, because not all hardware is documented enough for people to write drivers for it. I have had my troubles with cheap sound cards and cheap motherboards, but, all in all, the system never, ever, gave me any headache.
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I found the Hacker's Diet a useful reference for both diet and exercise. I found its engineering-minded explanation of how the body uses food resonated with me. (I lost about 50 lbs. in 6 months). Link: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

There's also a small section on practical daily exercises that can be done quickly, without need for equipment. I'll link directly to that:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/exercise.html

The key to both diet and exercise, however, lies in consistency -- you have to apply yourself every day.
Take everything you read on CNet with a grain of salt, however:

"CNET News' Krazit wrote that an internal assessment at Apple--using supplemental metrics--determined that the iPhone represents 39 percent of company revenue, while the Mac accounts for 30 percent."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10072404-37.html?tag=mncol...
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This reads like fucking Ender's Game meets Atlas Shrugged.

Some bozo makes shitloads in the internet goldrush, and thinks he's some kind of fucking genius, so he appoints himself to solve "solar power, space travel, and electric cars".

But... turns out he co-founded SpaceX (first civilian rocket to reach orbit), and is chairman of Tesla Motors. Fuck.

This is an excellent article. Those unable to read multi-page presentation would do well to acquire the capability.
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We have, and so has Reddit. For any site that could be described as a community, the people sitting round the table are probably more important than the shape of the table.

E.g. we don't even have our own search (I recommend http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html if you haven't tried it), but we do crack down pretty vigorously on trolls and spammers, because they hurt a site more than lack of features.
I think people can get motivated for less than $5000. Maybe you should increase the prize pool.
You don't consider Apple products to be "premium"? You can make a pretty good argument that the iPhone is the best phone out there. It may not be, but it's certainly successfully targeting the highest portion of the market. Same for iPods - what would you consider a "premium" mp3 player if no iPod counts?
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Those unable to read multi-page presentation would do well to acquire the capability.

People have the capability. They just choose not to support such a rude presentation. To each their own.
I wonder how fast this will be disabled... Youtube need only check the referrer, right?
Or just copy the file from /tmp.
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Onsip.com is pretty great for VOIP stuff, I think the numbers are $2/mo more on top of whatever plan you have there.
This is obviously trivial, but why have a "* - required" thing on the application form when every element is required?
as an example, I present kittens riding a roomba
http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=GTxW3GWZ5hI
Kudos! I love Austin.

The more these YC style company exist the better chances are good startup will get exposure. Who knows the ones PG missed can actually become tomorrow’s big idea.
Now the question: What other sites can be pwned the same way?
First point: consider that if the only people that are smart and motivated have something to show for it, then there are vastly fewer smart, motivated poor people than there are in the middle and upper classes. Intelligence and motivation may be necessary to learning, but they are certainly not sufficent.

It's hard to say objectively whether anything is worth it. However, I don't think that hiking and paying for school are that similar - with hiking, you put the work in up front, and with school, you receive the diploma (and ostensibly the benefits of 4 years of learning) before you even have to start paying back your student loans. That said, doesn't it say something if all those who have done it say it's valuable?

In any case, I guess the fundamental issue that I see is the relationship between learning and applicable skills. Picking up skills is certainly learning, but learing is not always economically valuable. Schools do not exist to create wealth in their students - they exist to pass on knowledge. If schools are not passing on real-world skills, they are not intrinsically failing, nor is the real world somehow broken. I value learing for its own sake and am actually willing to forgo some matarial comfort for it. I suppose it all depends on your definitions of success.

I will admit that if people are going to school with no clear path and no motivation, and expecting to come out on the other side more employable, that's a problem. But again, it's a problem of expectations, not institutional reality.
I hate to say this, but do you know who you are up against? Domain squatters are the sleaziest web entrepreneurs known to man. You are basically making their job much easier...

If this site gets at all popular, domain squatters are going to scrape your site for domains that have any value whatsoever and register them. That's how they operate. They are set up to register domain names quickly and cheaply, and squeeze any profit from them at all.

For example, it used to be the case (might still be) that if you did a search on GoDaddy.com for some domain, and did not register that domain within X hours, GoDaddy would sell their searches to squatters which would then often register the domain you just searched for. My guess is their whole process is automated based on how long the domain is, which dictionary words it contains, etc. Shitty, right?

You are a dream come true to them: more than just data on if the domain was searched, but actually tracking non-registered domains' popularities... and posting it for all the public to see! All it takes is one of these self proclaimed "web real estate guru" assholes to come along and see your site has decent domain names listed, and tell his programmer crony to scrape and register them.

I see your only option being using images to display domain names, and mangling up the URLs, to hopefully stifle anyone trying to scrape your site. Then, if you have a lack of morals and want money really bad, you can sell a feed of popular domains to squatters from some good money.

Good luck.
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Not that I like or use Orkut, but keep in mind it's the #1 social network in some countries. The story has to be a bit more complicated than "it's terrible, they just didn't get it."
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I just quoted someone about $3k to develop a simple datalogger that among other things needs to read a few switches through a USB connection. This would be perfect for that. Basically I would just need to get one of these, add connectors for the switch inputs, put it in an industrial enclosure along with a mini ITX mobo and write a few lines of code and I'm golden. It will save me a few hours of development time over using an FTDI chip and I can pocket that difference. Money changes hands and everyone's happy!
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Looking at the other videos, it would appear the robots spin in circles in order to lift up the racks.. so I'd suspect that's what's happening there
I've been using Applian Media Catcher http://www.applian.com/replay-media-catcher/ to capture videos for teachers at my school for a while now. It's not free, but it works with a lot of sites besides YouTube.
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considering youtube is starting to add their own download links (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/19/youtube-begins-addin...) and there are already tons of sites and utilities to download them already that haven't been blocked, i'd say youtube doesn't really care.
hmmm that's weird. it's not doing it for me in Safari or FF. Try this:

http://saltlicklabs.com/pow-3-week-challenge/?flush=1
It would be nice if I could search all snipt snippets.
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Do they care about the "youtube" trademark used in other domains?
Friendly correction: it's Bhikshu

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If data is broadcast, someone will find a way to download it, regardless of any software DRM.
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I remember when Jobs was caught by surprise by the then-Windows-only process of ripping and burning CDs using Winamp, etc. Apple had zero momentum in that area. I read an interview where he admitted to being 'caught by surprise' by the whole phenomena and he declared something to the effect of "Trust me, it won't happen again." Next thing you know, Apple came from a position of being in last place to becoming a market leader. AOL, on the other hand, bought Winamp, had all the raw materials and the dedicated users required to rule the music universe and what happened? (that is a rhetorical question ;-).

I'm not sure I'd want him as a boss, but I have tremendous respect for the man and his ability to hire great people and demand the best from them.
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If the guy had been at all smart, he would have used someone else's laptop/login to plant the script, and he would have put it in the middle of another very long script.

Of course, maybe he did and this Makwana is taking the fall for someone else.

Of course, maybe Makwana really did it and plans to use the "I'm not that stupid... I would have used someone else's laptop/login and not put it at the end of a script" defense.

Man, Hollywood has screwed me up.
Depending on who I'm talking to, I've heard that Princeton, MIT, and Harvard are each the best in the world (for undergrads). I'm not really in a position to judge, so let it suffice to say that all three are fairly impressive.
It's hard to compete with free. Google can afford to undercut Dropbox.
I didn't mean to insult you, my suggestion was sincere.

Secure design is not something that can be relayed via small forum messages, the best I can do is plead for you to not implement those schemes but instead take more fundamental approach of either taking time to learn this subject in depth or leaving it to someone who has.
Personally: slack

Professionally: I'm looking for opportunities to reduce "the load" on consumers. It's great that the "scratch your own itch" has significantly reduced production costs, but consumption is important too.

Consider web search (which I'm not working on). I think that search engines are technological marvels, but is the search box really the best possible interface? I'm pretty sure that it isn't.

Consider Word/Outlook, two heavily used applications that "provoke" searches. (That is, while folks do things in word/outlook, they often find themselves needing to do searches.) The steps "select, copy, paste into a search box" are at least two steps too many, even if the search box is in the application (as it is in Excel). (Yes, I'm aware of "lazy search box" - it's two steps.)

Moreover, when those steps are completed, they only get the searcher to a results page - said person still has to make use of the search result, which typically involves select/paste and the like.

At a bare minimum, applications should find reasonable search terms and provide shortcuts for using them. Note that this alone can significantly improve search results because the document has information that can be used to improve said results. (For example, the appropriate meaning of "dolphin" is usually unambiguous in the context of a given document.)

The next step is to make it easier for folks to use search results. Google Spreadsheets allows one to "link to" data extracted from a web page, but is that sort of "do it each time" programmatic interface the best that we can do?

Instead, we're getting things like "Enterprise search" that give us the same clunky interface to internal information sources.

Yes, I know that the "Semantic Web" (and Xanadu before that) will to address these issues "any day now", so folks could more easily incorporate outside information, but search engines are way ahead in terms of finding and extracting meaning.
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Yes. The way this is done is to make the oscillator's frequency dependent on the parameter you want to measure (normally a voltage) and the A/D conversion is done by measuring the osc. frequency. There are temperature sensors and accelerometers that provide output as a varying frequency so they can be fed straight into a digital input.I've been playing with a Maxim temperature sensor that works this way and it works really well.

Alternately, there is an old technique that generates a PWM-like output that is added with the signal-under-test (the thing you want to measure :-) and the output of that addition is monitored by an input pin. Measure the on vs. off time (PWM) at the input pin and you have a fairly accurate ADC. Low resolution, but it works.

But honestly, with so many precise, accurate and cheap ADCs available these days, doing conversions like this in software is relegated to designs where pennies are significant and the manufacturing costs dwarf the development time.
While no one can legally refuse dollars to settle debt, it's perfectly legal to refuse any other dollar transaction. If I trade my chickens for fish and fish only there is nothing illegal about this.
It works in IE, but not in firefox. That is strange.
It's going to be a good day. :)
Maybe someone will invent magic, and we'll be able to abacadabera in pea-sized 10ghz processors!

My dad told me once that some people from his generation were positive we'd have colonized the moon by 2010...
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First that would make him want to downmod it even more, second it's obvious by his reaction that he has looked at it...
This is a duplicate of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458357
Determining the video url is done on pwnyoutube's server and they can set whatever referrer (or none) they like. The real question is whether Youtube will start checking the request ip address and block pwnyoutube's. But then just put the site in a cloud.

My experience is that Youtube combats this (either intentionally or just by way of code changes) by changing the method in which the flv urls are determined by the player. The download sites break until they reverse engineer, and the cycle continues.
This was on Reddit a couple of days ago and people pointed this out. This is about the hundredth time I've seen a link get tossed around, and then a blog post that regurgitates things already remarked upon from various discussions...

Someone might as well start a blog that just does exactly that... browser for URLs and read comments from Reddit, then create blog posts reposting the URL and rewording the most popular comments. Probably would get a lot of traffic, especially if done quickly before the link gets tossed from Reddit to Digg et al... then the blog could submit itself to Digg et al, and get traffic because the link has already proven itself to be valuable (and comments presumably add more value to the URL).

I've often thought about taking advantage of this "popular URL" arbitrage: links get popular within days of each other across Reddit, Digg, et al... why not automate this for one's benefit? Aggregate links from Reddit, Digg, et al and figure out where the link has been "underrated." If the link has tons of upmods on Reddit and has not yet been submitted to Digg, for example, you have yourself a winner. Just create a blog post about that URL, rephrase some popular Reddit comments, submit to Digg, and profit from the traffic.
And with proper design you won't blow the chip. Let me rephrase: with proper design, the only thing that will blow the chip will blow the entire board!

Even so, if you do it's only $19!
The google link was already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458357
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> They just choose not to support such a rude presentation.

Ironic considering the GP.
In the mean time one can use http://www.jungledisk.com/
it keeps stuff in S3, looks like a local disk drive, client-side encryption, standard amazon s3 rates + $20 for software itself.

You can also give your key to their middle-tier server and have web access to your files.
Well, as others have said, of course you can survive -- there's more to a site than its codebase.

And second, this isn't exactly a dilemma. They got a grant in exchange for a promise to open source. Seems like a pretty reasonable deal to me. If you want to keep it all to yourself, then you've got to pay for the development yourself.
Unfortunately, I think all child raising theory and advice is theoretical until you get to practice it on your own children.

I know you don't mean to imply otherwise, but that is what I'm doing right now. And I will tell you that I love hearing my daughter say "Anyway, I'm going to go to the couch and read a book now." instead of "Daddy can I watch Wiggles?!?!" :-)

Not that my wife and I don't have a long, long way to go.

Awesome quotes, by the way. Thanks for sharing.
For the past few years I've been using the youtube-dl Python script to download youtube videos on my 64-bit linux box (thanks for dropping the ball on a 64-bit flash player Adobe ... thankfully GNU gnash has become more stable recently).

http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl
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Small world, my wife also shows youtube clips in her psych class, and has to download them b/c of lack of connectivity too.
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