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Hey PommeDeTerre, I think it's because of two things primarily:

1) Dan is beyond his years in terms of articulating his thoughts on startups and software development, and reminds some people of a young Jason Fried (co-founder of 37Signals, author of "Rework", etc.)

2) Dan is (much like Jason Fried) a bit of a contrarian. He has shipped almost two dozen apps/sites in the past couple years and is working night and day on growing his current startup, but he isn't dropping out of university. He also isn't out raising venture capital and trying to scale scale scale -- instead focusing on building a business that makes revenue and is profitable from (almost) day one. And lastly, because he is not chasing the "sexy", popular consumer app space -- instead focusing his efforts on the 'less glamorous' SaaS and B2B space.

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The combination of these factors make a lot of us in HN interested in where Dan's career is headed, and thus interested in reading his posts and watching him progress as a founder while still in school.

That's why so many Dan Shipper articles get submitted here, and why they always end up near the top. He is the real deal.
Yeah, modern browsers are great at not losing form data. When I hit this error I hit back, then reload, then resubmit with full confidence that my comment will be unharmed.

So HN doesn't bother me so much. It's the #$%# smartypants webapps that try to reinvent textareas in javascript that piss me off. I'm looking at you, Quora and new Gmail compose.
Great. Now Kayak will become a hell of a lot more "biased". Priceline does not give nearly as good of results as Kayak.
While I appreciate the effort and the work of the author, I really don't think it's a good idea. Decoupling makes things easier. Nevertheless good work
Please read the lines at the top: "alternative to template engines and CSS pre-processors".

It's not supposed to be used instead of HTML and CSS overall.
My startup was on TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/11/appifier-launches-new-servi...) and I'm happy to say that we didn't spend a dime for news coverage. Never have, and really never will.

Like pretty much everyone here, I have big issues with paid placement in the press because it makes reading news that much more boring and really takes away from all the people working hard to do cool things that actually matter.

If you're even considering paying for press, know this: press will not turn your company into an instant success story. Only customer development, understanding your pain points and solving them exceptionally will. PR is not a sustainable and effective customer acquisition strategy in the majority of cases (however it does feel really, really good)

Liesl Barrel, a trained actress is one of my friends and advisors. She's a natural at attracting attention to what she's involved in. She gave me one solid piece of advice that sums up our entire PR strategy: "Do something interesting, tell somebody abou it."

If you're doing anything more than that, whether it's kickbacks to a blogger or paying a PR firm to put you on the newswire, you might need to seriously rethink why you're even chasing the press.
That's just the startup/angel investor template.
it's not a good feature, it's just a gimmick, a good feature would be it pause if and only if I tell it to(vocally would be nice).

Also, I'm pretty sure it would make me feel uneasy having machines reading me all the time and making decisions on what should I probably want it to behave like
"Oh Breno is watching a QOTSA concert, he left to grab a beer, I should probably pause"
that's sort of goofy, but the matter is: it doesn't know what I want.. it's a shitty feature

I'll call this type of gimmick "smartass technology"

I'm pretty sure there's a design/usability guide that supports what I'm saying...
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For complex sales, one thing I've found that really helps is to create a worksheet and use it during the sales call. It asks things like:

Who is involved in the decision?
What are their primary pain points?
What are some reasons they may not buy? (Paradoxically, asking for objections instead of waiting for them to pop up makes you seem more trustworthy)

Etc.
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well at 6 billion people on the planet and growing they might just run out of an market in a few thousand years.
Funny. I was thinking of the guy who lost his job, lost his wife to leukemia and has all of her medical bills left over, had his car repossessed and his house foreclosed upon, and was just crossing the street to stay the night at his cousin's house when an uninsured driver puts him into the hospital by crushing his body with 2000 pounds of speeding steel.
I'm a progressive but I don't know if I'm convinced that the populate is moving to the left. I hope so but....

Romney's loss may just be that he just wasn't a candidate that excited the right-wing enough for them to really get out and vote. Romney wasn't conservative enough for them and he made a number of bone-headed blunders along the campaign trail.

That said, I hope you're right and I'm wrong : )
http://i.usatoday.net/news/graphics/elections-2012-app/dist/...
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Who spends more on books for their kids, Democrats or Republicans?
nice writeup Sam.
It is pretty interesting that they didn't have the system up and running well before early voting started--do campaigns not do get out the vote volunteer work during early voting?
Exactly. Instead of learning arbitrary meta-languages on top of these technologies, I think we're better off just porting the syntax to JavaScript and using a more reliable and well-tested foundation to build abstractions.
i occasionally flash CM9 and CM10 nightlies to see if performance has improved. unfortunately both are significantly slower even with third party kernels than CM7. also, there are no 4G/WiMax drivers for anything above GB, so i really have no better options. it sux i cannot run latest native browser or chrome, but i run FF mobile nightly and Opera if i need the latest goodies.
The site does not work on the iPhone at all if you want to zoom in to read the text. If you start to touch and scroll the menu that was hidden away on the left decides to rear its ugly head and makes the site completely unreadable.

I'm pretty frustrated with sites that don't just have a basic two column layout. Is this a template theme? Otherwise why would you waste so much time on a left column that reflows and messes up the browser experience? Or better yet why not test this on an actual mobile browser?

I am not trying to harp on this site or the author specifically because there are certainly other offenders. This site though is quite annoying because once you finally think yougot that stupid menu out of the way, BOOM it pops right back an ruins the site again.

This is both a rant and a notice to the author since most people probably got too fed up to tell him about this problem.
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I like symfony: Symfony.com menu broken in linux (debian, kde, Firefox)
Great question. This is our first release, and we will be fleshing out features, here are a couple of advantages to our approach. We will be able to have much finer grained sharing than is possible with VNC. Eventually you will be able to publish a single interactive plot, or a single environment to collaborate on. For many new users, VNC is a non starter because of the setup involved. VNC works really well for controlling a single computer, but it doesn't help you much with managing clusters, python execution environments, sharing or many of the other things that we are doing with Wakari.
The problem I find with something like gnome, is that it pulls in a huge amount of dependencies, and it isn't always easy to cleanly remove it.
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Awesome post Sam!
Hey there (author here), can you explain what you mean by decoupling? I'm not sure how this is any less decoupled; you can still keep everything modular in separate files/systems. You can use this to compile your CSS and still LINK it as a separate file, for example.
What about the wages/salaries + the rest of the labor supply side? Comparing the raw quantity of job postings (labor demand) across cities doesn't have much value. The suggestion you received in your last post about collecting this data over time was the best one you've gotten. Building on that, you need some way to proxy for the number of relevant job seekers in each location (and for each programming language in perfect world) because 10 times more jobs in city A than city B doesn't matter if there are 10 times more potential workers in city A. The other piece that you could think about adding is a way to detect when a job match occurred. Although it's far from perfect, a start would be doing something like inferring from recently removed Craigslist posts that "Hey this post that used to be here is now gone. They must have found a job candidate." Obviously it's a strong assumption since posts can be removed for a number of reasons, including ones that would lead to a false-positive under the assumption I just described. On the other hand, one metric you'd get out of your data if you setup the system this way is the length of time jobs across programming languages and cities remain active (e.g. "Jobs for Python developers in Austin, TX appear to get filled N times faster than jobs for C# developers.") If nothing else, this time-based metric could be used to explain the supply side -- cities that fill jobs for a certain language faster on average may be doing so because there are more potential employees in that area. You could even use Google Trends data to see how trends for searches for "python jobs" or whatever in each city affects the story.

It's something to think about and play around with. I've read published economics research papers that used the "post removed" assumption in the market for used products on Amazon.com -- when a unique URL for a used product would disappear, the authors concluded that to be a sale [at the price it was last observed at].
‘We are the yid army’ we don’t need sanctimonious moral crusaders in football
It reads like you're offering a personal transcription service, which would be an unusual thing to see in this context, so it's reasonable to interpret as sarcasm.
The example should really be changed to reflect this.

If it's not supposed to be for rendering a whole page, the example shouldn't be rendering a whole page.
(Not a lawyer, so don't take this as definitive)

Generally, ambiguity in a contract goes against the party that wrote the ambiguous clause. I believe that applies both in the US and the UK (and I'd expect nearly anywhere else whose contract law arose out of English common law).

Based on that, I'd expect someone trying to enforce a "good, not evil" clause to have a tough time.
You also often need to scan the whole data set in order to sample properly.

Suppose you are interested in user behavior. You want sample(group_by(user_ident, all_user_events)), not group_by(user_ident, sample(all_user_events)). This involves running a group_by on the full data set.
It is really cool to see services like this. Specially since we are actually working on the sibling of this, but instead of using Objective-C we use C# (http://iknode.com).

I can think of a couple of ways we could work together. Are the founders on HN ? Drop me a line.
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I wanted an MVP and now I have customers.  Help
I launched my company's Minimum Viable Product on October 24th and have had 696 people sign up, 691 messages sent, and 12 purchases of a zero-cost item. We've proven our business model as well as a customer acquisition cost that is low and scalable. These things are great. What isn't great is that we're starting to get noticed and our product isn't where I want it to be and we don't have the resources to make it what it should be. I could use some advice from people who have been here before. Should I shut it down and use the case studies and proven model as marketing to get investors and advisors to round out the team? Progress with a leaky product and plug holes as they come along? Thanks in advance.
Yes, there are things lower down on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that should be addressed. However, it is not the only thing. I grew up in an international community in the US, playing street soccer with people from different nationalities. We didn't play with trash. But I can tell you first-hand, being able to bond with other kids (of different ages) and having fun is very important.

Is it as important as teaching children how to farm their own food? It is very difficult to learn when you are not having fun. Children -- even adults -- learn best from play. I don't see the harm in having something that brings the neighborhood kids together.

There's also a big myth that people of the Third World don't know how to farm, don't know how to feed themselves. In the past, NGOs have brought in modern farming technologies that ultimately devastated the local environment and the ability for the communities to feed themselves. It's been a big problem, it isn't just about those "lazy" and "ignorant" Third World farmers who don't know how to farm and feed themselves.

Projects like the Open Source Ecology are much better suited for ... "teaching them how to farm their own food", and they need people. If you're concerned about this one entrepreneur and want to do something about it, see what you can contribute to OSE.
As I tend to use in very simple situations, I happen to like curl's default use of stdout. Not a very compelling reason, I know.
"Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party’s newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election."

I hope this puts the last nail in the coffin holding the remains of the hope that Romney would have been a better business and technical strategist for America than Obama.
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This is because the datasets are unique for each user, so you need to login first, and then download the dataset.
The right would have voted for a lump of coal vs Obama after foaming at the mouth for the past four years at Obama. Romney is kind of proof of that since he was the pick of the primaries.

It's not a get out the vote problem, it's just that the old population is slowly dying off and they can only brainwash their young to a certain level when information flows so freely today.

I am disappointed there is only a 2.5% difference in the popular vote when Bush was only 4 years ago but people have tiny memories and change happens slowly. Values like anti-gay, anti-birthcontrol, etc. etc. etc. aren't going to fly with most voters under 25 unless they are raised in a very conservative environment and are never exposed to the rest of the world outside their home.
AirBNB did some amazing image work recently, they got the word about this out across NYC incredibly quickly and the Mayor's office has been touting it. It looks like they did indeed make an unregulated landlord exemption, but they have clearly not openly claimed they have done so. This is in line with the recent Uber moves in the city too, kudos to Bloomberg and Rachel Sterne for doing excellent work with the tech community to heal the city!
I tried fresh paint which is a Microsoft product.

Yes I have a CC and I have made purchases before even an in-app purchase... It's works... the problem is that it works SOME times.
Most features are incomplete

Sounds all too familiar :-).

I don't have a windowsbox available right now, but demo looks great.
It is not true that the number of bugs users have found and reported correlates linearly with "how buggy" a piece of software is.

And it isn't true that every piece of software is born with the number of bugs, and the number of solved bugs in the tracker is a measure of how close to perfection the software is.

But the second is much closer to the truth than the first.
One could make the (admittedly flimsy) argument that a proper ball could reduce injuries caused from improvising balls from refuse, and lessen the need these kids might have for medical attention resulting from which.
A glaring issue with this is SEO. The page/site will appear empty for most web crawlers.
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Talk about marriage Equality, this Indian Farm Laborer married a stray DOG
Sampling lowers your confidence resolution, period. When you're testing hypotheses the biggest constraint can be that the effect you're looking for is too small to be within the resolution that your confidence intervals give you. Improving this resolution, even by a little bit, can be worth a lot.
I really like this. The inability to share information between the server, stylesheets, and javascript is problematic.

Imagine, for example, using this to semantically declare the frontend elements that your website uses, and thus allowing your server to render them, your css to style them, and your javascript to render/manipulate them, all using the same, DRY data. I much prefer something like elements.user_login_form.class_name to needing to remember / deal with naming conflicts.

edit:

I'd love to see someone mix in some http://lispyscript.com/ with this
I don't believe Nate Silver pointed out that the polls undercounted democrats, do you have a cite? In fact his analysis was basically that the aggregate polling "got it right", coming very close to the final counts in almost all cases.

In the four victory-critical states I still have in my head, Silver's polling averages (which weren't very much different from Wang's or TPM's or RCP's, by the way) nailed it dead on in Florida, undercounted Democrats in Colorado and Virginia, and overcounted them in Ohio. But in no case were the errors more than 1.5% or so.
Why is GM spending millions of dollars on soccer balls? Didn't they go bankrupt recently?
You sure tore that strawman a new one, but did anybody say that Orca would have facilitated a win, or even a significant vote gain for Romney?

The closest I could find: "We lost by fairly small margins in Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Colorado. If this had worked could it have closed the gap? I sure hope not for my sanity's sake."
You will have to remember your naming scheme multiple times in a year and continuously in the future. People should be changing their password at least every three months. This password scheme wouldn't work in a long run.
If these achievements are anything like the ones that get hyped at things like the Intel science fair, there's probably a lot more mainstream science than is getting credit.

Behind nearly every 14-year-old "genius" stands a supportive expert who made the work possible, but doesn't get the press. The media is credulous when it comes to stories of youthful precocity.
I imagine most users will want to compile the code on the server side to html/css, and javascript.
In Australia, The Wheel is Patented. The system is insane.
Well we could rationalise this by linking to the MRI studies that show such structural damages not be correlated with pain. And conclude with a snarky remark that CF Style training at least produces some visible changes initially. Therefore it must clearly be superior to everything else. Criticising CF makes you the enemy.
Wasnt even close for me. Not sure if the data's poor for my demographic or I'm atypical.
I'm a native English speaker and found it hard to understand. I think the audio echo makes the sound unclear.
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Sorry, I should have specified better. By "Linux" I meant the overall mix of Xorg and whatever display or GUI toolkits are in use, and instead of "graphics card", I should have said "graphics card drivers". If the card itself were having issues, I'm sure more than Firefox would have problems. Alternatively, I always hear about how "Linux has bad font rendering!" but since I'm not much of a font guy, I'm not sure if they're referring to how the fonts look, or some deeper part of the process which displays the fonts.

I recently had to switch to the radeon (open source) drivers instead of fglrx (AMD's proprietary) drivers due to some incompatibility with a kernel upgrade. It makes sense that the problem would exist somewhere between Firefox and its use of those drivers.
I've worked on real-time displays of election results data in a newsroom setting, so I know how much planning goes into something like this. This looks great!
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Why not its not like there is a lot of risk out there for such things, yeah you might get sued but it it shouldnt be too much of a problem in general
I'm skeptical of blaming the tools so much as the people responsible for buying them, building them, etc.

Also, no amount of data driven malarky changed the fact that a lot of people weren't so excited about Romney or so upset about Obama that they changed the current status quo.

President, house, and senate remain largely the same, so really, people weren't convinced that a dramatically different direction was needed. At the end of the day, Romney lost because he didn't convince enough people to change. Some of that is money, some is tech, some is just he didn't do a good enough job leading his campaign to victory.
This makes me wonder how feasible it would be for a group of activists to get patents on business practices they are morally opposed to and then never license them to anyone.
It's right there in the article's title: "An inside look behind Romney's loss". I take that to mean that the article attempted to explain (partially) why Romney lost.
Well, I might as well try striking while the code is hot..

It occurs to me that I would like to interact with noprocrast in a different manner. Currently, I leave noprocrast disabled most of the time. I like to use longish minaway times (~day), but this makes me feel as if my first visit to HN will start the clock ticking, and I'd better be sure to get my HN fill before the timer runs out (yes, this is kind of ridiculous). So I only enable noprocrast (with a short maxvisit) upon realizing I'm stuck in a web loop.

The mechanism that I envision is either a button that immediately starts a one-shot noprocrast ban, or a page-count based maxvisit. The latter might be better since it could always be left enabled.
Certainly I wouldn't argue your point that the money could be used in more productive ways, but the purpose of knocking on doors isn't to change peoples' minds, but rather to find the people who DO support your guy, so that come election day you can make sure they get out to vote.

For example, senior citizens are VERY important electorally, and many of them have mobility trouble. You want to know where they are, so your 'Republicrat Election Funbus' can come pick them up and take them to the polling station.
I'm curious what OS and graphics drivers you are using. I've gotten a similar effect once in a blue moon while simply scrolling.
It is my belief that the common usage of this word will be an indicator when the English language stops being defined by its native speakers and starts being defined by its more numerable foreign speakers.

In most languages, it is called something very similar to football.

Since I don't have a native English language, I prefer to call it football for that reason. I don't give a damn about its history, soccer's origin as association football, etc etc.

Football is Fussball is fotboll is futbol is fudbold is futebol is futball is fútbol is ..
PET (for oncology at least) typically uses 18-FDG, a glucose analog. Unfortunately has a short half life requiring facilities to be close to the source.
Just to add to that: Obama would have still won even if he had lost Florida, Ohio and Virginia, combined. See: http://nyti.ms/VJ5rDb