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Nothing concrete, all this was verbal. The whole idea is about allowing L for small companies like startups. And O for startup founders who have gone through accelerator programs since that's an "extra-ordinary" ability. I am crossing my fingers for O since that's where I fit in.
UX experts gave us GNOME 3 or so I'm told.

Great work guys!
Bucky ball darts? I can imagine but please elaborate :P
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Awesome way to fight against patent trolls, by hiring people on eLance. Though "Creating descriptions of OpenStack technologies for prior art publication" is a relatively complex project, I bet RackSpace may find great help from university students on eLance, Guru or Freelancer. I wish more tech companies did this.
That's more work than you need to do, just provide two options-bulk add, or single add...the person is smart enough to know which to choose.
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You probably mean the Azure Websites service. It doesn't support SSL on custom domains yet, but it's a preview version. That feature is expected before this service is released.

The PaaS offer per se is called Hosted Services and it does support SSL on custom domains.[1]

The price for the IaaS offer for a small Windows VM is $0.08/h ($57.60/month).[2] EC2 pricing for a small Windows VM is $0.115/h ($82.80/month).[3]

[1] https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/...

[2] https://www.windowsazure.com/pt-br/pricing/calculator/?scena...

[3] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
I think a lot of money got thrown around too quickly and now investors are being much more wary. With TechStars NYC going on hiatus, and things like this happening, sounds like trouble ahead in NYC.

Find it more interesting though how critical of consumer products cdixon has been lately in his blog posts, and how founder collective's seed investments seem to be very b2b focused lately, and yet he's going to be dealing with mostly consumer internet it sounds like.
> The business I currently run (an exotic car rental company)

wow, it sounds like an awesome business. drop a link so I can take a look at those babies.

//edit: got it http://www.gothamdreamcars.com/our-fleet.htm holy crap, nice collection (although I was hoping for some more diversity and vintages :)).

If you don't mind me asking, I was always curious: who is the common clientele for these kind of services? People who own such cars at home and want something similar while travelling?
And in Windows 8 you don't even need to worry about it. After switching to another program the previous program will be suspended and if it takes too long to suspend, terminated. Sounds a lot better than asking "Non-tech-savvy users" to make the decision.
I've been using Windows 8 as my primary OS for nearly a year and a Surface RT (which has successfully replaced my iPad and MacBook Air, so far) for a little over three weeks now. I've only had trouble with the Store app once, and that wasn't even on the Surface. I also haven't had any trouble with apps downloading slowly or not at all, like he was talking about. I came away from his article really not understanding how he could have legitimately had some of the experiences he wrote about.
This is awesome, nice work, thanks for sharing.
FYI, the name seems to be playing off 'music for geeks and nerds': http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295714

http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com/
Huh, put in some dummy email address. Than hit next. Then go back to yipit.com and you can see the real site.

Asking for an email before showing me what you do is absolutely crazy.
There is no such limit. That only ever applied to media content (if it has DRM).

You can install apps on as many devices as you want and redownload them as often as you want. They are bound to your account, not specific devices. If you, for example, set up a new iOS device you can just pick your iCloud backup from another device on startup and your new device will automatically download all your apps from the App Store.

Mac App Store apps are similar: You can download them (as often as you want) and use them on as many Macs you own or control. They are bound to your account, not your Mac. (The sole exception might be certain iLife apps like iPhoto that come for free with your Mac. Those might be bound to the specific machine you bought, they might not, I’m not sure.)
I bought v1 with the hope that a merge tool would be added. Looking back, I can't remember if that was just something I had in my head or something that was mentioned somewhere or maybe they just mentioned something like they were "working on it".

Kind of disappointed that I have to spend more money to get that… and there's no upgrade path for people who bought v1.
Misfit Shine communicates via "surface of your iPhone"
Check username availability on many services simultaneously. (Shell and Node.js)
Yeah, should have been more specific. If they result in the company getting more sales done with the available time/resources then they add to revenue.

The company could of course treat it as "doing more with less" and therefore use it for cost cutting instead. Depends on the situation.
I was struck by the Bucheit/Pirsig conjecture "Live in the future, then build what's missing." and the following paragraph regarding ideas that come out of folks experience at college. Pg encourages those readers who are still studying to take classes unrelated to their CS major so that they may see more problems worth solving, but what struck e about this paragraph was how much, for me, college was like living in the future. In the late nineties, I lived in an environment where every single member of my social circle had an always-on 10 Mbit connection to the Internet and spent inordinate amounts of time communicating via email, IM etc. It seems like no coincidence that so many successful Internet companies were born out of students of that era. I doubt that today's students encounter the future of much at all in their dorm rooms. Perhaps universities should be working hard to make sure that campus living is more like living in the future than setting up mobile app development courses, incubators etc etc.
Who do you use for your registrar, currently? I'm not particularly happy with my local one, and a security minded one would be a refreshing change.
If you're holding it horizontally in your hands (that case where you can't easily reach the hardware button), you can swipe in from the left and the Windows button/tile/whatever-it-is appears in the bottom-left. I'm sure it depends on your hands and how you hold it, but I'm able to swipe it in and go back to the start page with barely any effort and no hand movement that way.

You can also swipe in from the right and get the "charms bar" which has a start button on it too, positioned midway up, which might be easier to reach for some people/grips.
Perhaps I am just much more impressed with the last 30 years than you. I'm not a point-by-point rebuttal man, but its very tempting. Try thinking about the massive changes if you don't limit radical progress to being in a straight line going the direction you want.
Well, they certainly didn't get a "good exit" from Color, which was an unmitigated catastrophe.
The situation in Japan is that all individualistic thought is progressively destroyed in the early years at school. When kids are thought not to ask any question or to challenge the professor, it is unlikely you will end up with an environment where entrepreneurs will flourish and thrive. The society in Japan is also very effective in making sure everyone fits the same mold.

This being said, there is still fascination for entrepreneurs in Japan. There is one TV program I watch every week, called "Canbria Kyuden" (Palace Cambria) discussing exclusively stories of Japanese entrepreneurs based on new market insights. They review large and small corporations alike and this is a very famous program here in Japan. It is probably "edgy" in a way, but I guess the interest/public is there as well.
Maybe you need to post or comment. Does it work now, after making this post?
From everything I know about PG and YC, I highly doubt they themselves would take that kind of action unless a post was outright slander. It just seems Nixonian.

That said, there is obviously quite a bit of goodwill on HN for PG and YC. You could call it fanboyism if you were feeling uncharitable. To me, that seems a much more likely scenario - an anti-YC submission getting a bunch of flag votes, rather than an intervention by admins.
Moot is a dictionary word. Not trademarkable. C&D was a waste of money. He would have done better to just ask them nicely to stop.

Ultimately Moot could use his social clout to get them to switch names. IANAL but I'm pretty sure it's a legal name.
This is the same criticism that was leveled last time. What do people want? Yes, I wish DNS was magically simple. It's not. It's not going to magically be easy and downvoting me doesn't change that.

It's like me trying to do anything besides changing the wipers and oil in my car. It's right there in my garage and I certainly have the tools to work on it. (To be fair, me working on my car poses more physical risk to me than a novice breaking their DNS settings or being held "hostage" by a hoster/registrar).
Apple paid approx. 5m. It's hardly about making anyone whole.
Is it just me, or are all ex patriots living in Belize completely insane?

Each one of them left a comment talking about how wonderful it is to live in Belize, with just the minor downside of a secret police force / gang of thugs running around murdering people, throwing people in prison, and demanding exorbitant bribes.

Judging by the comments that they themselves left on his blog, it appears that saying Belize is a wonderful place to live is akin to saying that living in Nazi Germany was paradise on earth, except for having to live with the Nazis.
There are supposed to be two threads in Japanese society. One that comes from the values of peasant farmers, which emphasizes communal values, and one which comes out of the old feudal power structure, which emphasizes personal loyalty over all else. I suspect that both of those would tend to work against the aspiration of the self made man.
I've been using a Surface RT for about three weeks. I've never experienced anything like what he's describing.

Further, there are apps already in the store for some of the things he mentioned no official apps being available for. Dropbox access is available through a free app named "New File Manager v2", for example. I don't know if he just didn't put in the effort to look for them or purposely used the "official" wording to paint the picture he wanted to, but it's somewhat misleading.
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Case in point: the gmail action icons. Oh god, why? They used to be simple text labels, and now every time I use them I have to hover over every icon looking at the text popups to find the one I want.
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This looks great; I hope the other puts a title on the HTML page!
Many of the reasons presented for not using your web host as your registrar, such as they may get bought by a shady company, or try and lock your domain in if you try and move it, could happen just the same with an independent registrar. I don't using a separate registrar mitigates risk, and the benefits of having your domains at your host can be numerous: consolidated billing, automated DNS setup, and in some cases cheaper prices because the hosting company treats domain registration as a value-add to its primary product offering (hosting), not as a source of revenue generation itself.

The process of transferring domains these days is automated and nearly the same between every registrar I've used in recent years, regardless of whether or not they offer hosting. I have never had one that tried to lock me/prevent me from moving a domain, period, as long as you have direct access to the account at the registrar which the domain is registered under.

This does bring up one scenario that I do warn people against when registering a domain however. Always make sure you personally setup and hold access to the account at the registrar that holds your domain. Don't just let your web designer do it for you because it's easier, or you don't understand the technical stuff. Get them to walk you through it, but make sure it's your account. I have seen disgruntled web designers make life difficult for clients trying to migrate away from them on more than one occasion because the domain was registered under the web designers account.
Hypothetically speaking, the odds of getting laid after seeing a movie with a date probably go up if both people liked the movie.

Not exactly how we'd track it but the number of people that get laid after using our system would be a fascinating statistic.
I've just recently started working with Elixir for a major project. I actually like the Erlang syntax so don't need Elixir for the syntax, but for some other features that are useful for me.

The community around Elixir is small, but VERY good. Jose Valim is the kind of person who is an ideal community leader, and thus it's great to have him leading this effort.

This is the language that should be getting rockstar status (not Coffeescript, etc.)

Real erlang concurrency + the features Elixir offers makes it unbeatable.

Of course, I admit, I'm still in the "honeymoon" period with the language, so this could be hormones talking.
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It's not necessarily a new idea. In fact, I posted a note to myself on Facebook in August that reads "Try hard to recognize problems; then come up with the solution." (Yeah, it's weird to post notes to yourself on FB but I actually see my notes on a daily basis and nobody else does since they're on 'only me').

The thing is, most people will read this essay and go "Yeah, yeah! That's great. I'm going to do that" and then forget about it by next Sunday. So I don't think you need to worry too much.
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Looks like you've got a sweet little startup! Thanks for sharing :)
I love this idea very much - mainly because I had virtually the same idea maybe 5 years ago. I was frustrated with existing prototyping/design systems and getting bogged down in details and pixels instead of thinking about the 'big picture' and the workflow (which IMHO is far more important, especially at the early stage).

I had a manual process whereby I would draw all my prototype UIs in pencil on large sheets of paper, then use an A3 scanner to import them into a slideshow. The cumbersome part was creating hot-clickable areas to jump between screens. But it worked a treat, and enabled very fast turnaround of ideas.

I think workflow (or UX if you like) does not get enough attention in the early design phases, where people seem to like producing pixel-perfect mockups in Photoshop. The problem with this is that it takes you a very long way down a particular path, when you don't even know for sure if that is the correct way to go.

Photoshop mockups are time-consuming and expensive to make compared to rough sketching on paper. This app looks like a great solution in this space.
True. It looks like there isn't an official one so that one is as good as it gets :/
Thanks, this is a nice summary of music theory. I wish the font were more readable... though I like how it conveys a casual feel.
I completely agree with you and have come across the same finding, but from an entirely different perspective...

Short of scratching your own itch, a great way to come up with startup ideas is through careful observation of others, and particularly those who could be defined as a "market" of sorts (e.g., those in a hospital setting, business, etc.). Observing behaviors and the language people use when they are trying to accomplish a task is an amazing way of developing new ideas, which can easily lead to new startup ideas.

I've been in qualitative market research for about 10 years now and by far the most effective studies I have run for my clients has been through observational and ethnographic research methods where we just follow along as people try to perform a task. This is the best way to uncover unmet needs and ideas for new products.

If you're stuck for a startup idea, just ask someone in an industry you're personally interested in if you can watch them do their job for a day. Just sit there and observe - ask questions only at the end.

If you really watch carefully, that will produce more ideas than you know how to handle (although I still agree with pg's original point - solving your own problems is the best way to go because you'll be more likely to stick with it through the inevitable ups and downs of startup life).
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But those are huge and well-established brands; using their names is likely in some cases to cause confusion amongst consumers. Preventing such confusion is, as far as I'm aware, the goal of trademark law.

Moot-the-person on the other hand is quite obscure; nobody knows who he is or associates the word "moot" with him other than a small handful of people in one online community. I.e. it's not a well-established brand, and using the word isn't likely to cause confusion or mis-association for the general public.
Wasn't Google on its way to winning mobile even when Jobs was around? I know that Apple makes far more money on hardware, but Google is an advertising company. As a company that makes most of its profits from advertising, isn't the largest share of the market enough for them to "win"?

Also, isn't it possible that Apple could continue making boatloads of money off hardware even if Android builds off of its smartphone success and becomes the most popular tablet OS? (Which I think is inevitable unless Windows 8 devices get better) Wouldn't this scenario mean that both companies are winners?
For what it's worth, here is a reading list that I think does a pretty good job providing the context needed to understand most of the problems in US health/medicine right now:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus11.pdf - Health, United States, 2011

http://wps.pearsoneducation.nl/wps/media/objects/13902/14236... - To Err Is Human

- http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192842 - JAMA: Institute of Medicine Medical Error Figures Are Not Exaggerated (Context for To Err Is Human)

- http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192908#RE... - JAMA: Is US Health Really the Best in the World? (More context for To Err Is Human)

http://www.innovationlabs.com/summit/summit3/readings/Schust... - How good is the quality of health care in the United States?

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/F... - Why Not The Best (Commonwealth Fund)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309091179 - Health Literacy: A Prescription To End Confusion (IOM)

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6121 - IOM Workshop: Antiomicrobrial Resistance - Issues and Options

Books:

Anatomy of an Epidemic (Mental health)

The Emperor's New Drugs (Mental health)

Crazy Like Us (Mental health)

The Truth About Drug Companies (Pharma)

Overdosed America (Pharma)

Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence: Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare (Medical adherence)

This list doesn't do a great job of covering certain niche problems like current issues in drug discovery or electronic records, but I think it provides enough context to understand whatever issues aren't covered directly. One of the quirks about medicine is that a lot of the data we have on even the most important issues (e.g. antibiotic resistance) is either 10+ years old or else woefully incomplete, which is extremely unfortunate but on the plus side it makes it actually fairly easy to learn about what would otherwise be way too complicated for anyone not in the industry to understand.
PHP is generally geared towards the application, not the backend. The backend is comprised of things like database servers, message queue systems, etc. It is, of course, not impossible to implement those services with PHP, but I don't think it is very common. Java, C, and C++ have been the traditional languages for that level with a few other more esoteric ones mixed in on occasion for certain tasks.
15-year-old is a self-taught engineer
I'm sure it's mentioned in Moon Shot[1]. Most books about the space race mention it. Houston was just one of several proposed locations which met NASA's official specifications for a mission control site.

One of those specifications was the minimum distance between mission control and the launch site. That specification was revised upward so that it just barely excluded the then-leading site after Rice University agreed to donate the land. It doesn't take a Von Braun to figure out what happened.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Shot
Teaching music theory is damned hard.

You very quickly find yourself making statements like this (taken from the second PDF in this series):
"A tuplet is any non-standard division of a note. These are usually written as a group of notes delineated with a bracket and a number showing the division being made." It's correct in grammar and sense, and about as exciting as a lawn-mower repair manual.

This is probably the best series of music theory cheatsheets I've ever seen, though... just about any other music theory resource you can find, online or off, gets bogged down immediately in sleep-inducing language. I had to poke around a bit to find the example above.

The real problem is the "building blocks" approach to music theory pedagogy; that is, making students learn all of the basic concepts before they can do anything remotely interesting or useful.

It's really, really logical. It's also a sort of mental torture, in the realm of music theory, because a lot of the building blocks are arbitrarily weird for historical reasons, and it takes too much meaningless memorization before you can do something as trivial as sight-reading a piece of music you could already pick out by ear 10x faster. What about doing basic analysis of a piece of music? So, so many building blocks required first....

I think it's possible to make learning theory enjoyable, but it'd be damned hard (and not possible in a static form).

That said, if you have the external motivation already to make the slog through the basics, these are solid references to help get the details straight in your head.
Thanks for the info. I can see why devs wouldn't want to discuss everything on the same forum as the help / support topics, and I assume the mailing list is easy to subscribe to.

That blueprints link is pretty useful for taking a quick glance at what they're currently hacking on. Something longer term might be helpful for recruiting folks that don't want to lurk on the mailing list and irc just to figure out if there are interesting bits for them to contribute on.
Except unlike stock market investing, startups are not a zero sum game.
[16] is a rather cynical view of women in sororities. Maybe it's actually true for American colleges - I have no experience there. I doubt it is.

At it's core, it seems to be saying "Ask women what they need, then build it for them". Start with that attitude, and women will have no interest in your product - because you begin by assuming they're incapable of building the things they need themselves.
Russia wants United Nations to have control of the internet
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Only difference between "firing" and "getting to quit" is in the severance package.

That said, this guy seems like he may have preferred firing over getting employee to quit.
When the reddit team was 4 people, we would preference towards flights with wifi when we all had to go somewhere, because we wanted to be able to fix the site if it broke.

Also, when programming, I find I'm much more productive when I have the internet available for looking up docs, getting libraries, etc.
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Good point. I've seen many of these cases. My guess is some lawyers don't even care, they will get paid anyway, they can only win.