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Thanks, this is looking like what I wanted.
Apart from all the industries, services and products that exist because of by-products and waste, you are correct. Businesses don't have to worry about waste and can still be successful. However, I'd argue that eating healthy and exercising is an important part of any life. You can still have a good life if you don't, but the benefits are well documented and very clear.
In beta. Feedback will be appreciated.

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Wait, what do you mean no substance? We had a rabbit-powered Santa Clause-esque sleigh, a "thunder battle" between two Michael Bay-esque transformers ("robots in disguise" as mountains), lots of silly makeup for the dwarves, Voldemort from Harry Potter made a cameo as the "pale orc," and we got to re-watch maybe 25 minutes of The Fellowship of the Ring again. Oh, and we learn that Kili is apparently related to Legalos, when you see his unrivaled agility and skill with a bow and arrow.

It takes a lot of effort and hard work to take a great story that would have easily made the best 3 hour movie of the decade and turn it into a 10 hour, 3-part ridiculous something. "No substance," he says!
I don't know, Rust has Mozilla behind it, and lots of active development and (for a new programming language) a pretty decent community.

ATS is hosted on SourceForge, and looks to be someone's research project. That's totally fine, and it may actually be _better_, but the real world often doesn't care about better.

If I was a betting man, I'd be putting chips down on Rust. (and I sort of am...)

That said, the more programming languages the merrier!
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OTP is more than just a framework it is really an important part of the language itself. Parts of OTP like proc_lib are built right into the VM among other close ties. This is why we focus our ErlangCamps 70% on OTP constructs and we wrote the book "Erlang and OTP in Action" and not just an Erlang book. We believe that an Erlang book would really only be describing half the language. When I say Erlang what I really mean is Erlang/OTP.
http://www.listnerd.com

Listnerd is a kind of Pinterest for lists. Users can create, share and explore interesting lists about the stuff in their life they care about. The lists are social, so your friends can vote on and add items to your list. It's a democratic approach to list making. We launched the site on the 15h of November, so we could use the exposure :)
My team and I have been working on Lucidchart for a little while now.

https://www.lucidchart.com

It's an HTML5 diagramming and wireframing app. We've had some coverage but are still in the early stages in this billion dollar per year industry. Happy to set you up with an interview with one of our founders.
https://artistsnclients.com

Artists&Clients lets you quickly hire an artist to create a customized artwork for you (most often digitally). And for the other side, it's a tool that lets artists manage these art commissions.
Don't use Career Objective. To be really honest, no employer really gives a shit about that if at all. It is (fortunately or unfortunately) not about your objectives, but about what you can offer to the employer.

You should add a SUMMARY OF SKILLS on top. This should be able to tell me your nutshell within 2-3 seconds. Make it as specific and tailored towards the specific employer you are applying to if possible. Did I say "Be specific and to the point" ?. Anything that is abstract such as progressive minded, hardworking, passionate leader etc. is usually bullshit. Instead, use words that show what you achieved specifically for the previous employers. For example, instead of garbage such as "Excellent developer with ability to learn and code anything", you should instead say "ABC+ years of experience as a developer in building applications for clients in xxx domain using yyy technologies"
I'm also a "well-calibrated interviewer" at Amazon. I'm an engineer and a 'bar raiser' with 700+ interviews. My thoughts are:

1. Interviewing and evaluating a candidate has very, very little to do with engineering. Yes, you have to be able to evaluate code but this just scratches the surface of what needs to happen during an interview.

2. As a corollary to #1 - just because you are a good engineer doesn't mean that you will be a good interviewer. Never mind whether or not you want to interview. It is just a different skill set.

3. Interviewing can take a lot of time. But it also has high value for the company. If you are passionate about the people that work with and really want to shape the company, then get involved in interviewing. There are very few activities that will influence things more.

4. A lot of the time that I spend in 'interviewing' is actually time that I spend with co-workers to make them better interviewers. For in-house interviews the breakdown is 15 minutes preparing, 45 minutes interview, 30 minutes writing debrief feedback, 30 minutes attending the debrief, and then 60 or more minutes working with the other interviewers on the loop or helping the hiring manager understand what they should be looking for.

5. In some ways the interviewing process is no different than any other process employed by a company. In particular there is almost always room for improvement. As an employee of a company you can spend time complaining about the process ('it is broken', 'it is unfair', 'it is too heavy weight', etc) or you can spend time fixing it. If you are working at a company where you are not empowered to fix things like this then you should consider working for a new company.

6. I like lists!
It's possible it was an innocent mistake, and she didn't allow that mistake to surface. Maybe he mistook her for someone he'd already spoken with. Maybe the recruiter he talked to was named Rachel and/or had a similar voice, or even a recruiter at a different company, and he got confused.

Confusions like that would have easily surfaced if she had asked "What made you to believe this isn't the technical interview?", but instead she played the part of a less technical recruiter trying to give a technical interview.
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You can't add a single bit of information to a system with negative temperature, - right or not?
What I liked most about this article is the first-person account of what it feels like to have startup ideas. It's so exciting! Your friends love them! It's super fun!

I guess ideas for movies and creative stuff are similar.

And for those who follow startup culture we all know there is a massive gulf between those who try to actually do stuff and those who just tinker forever. This guy in the article is the sad "I never tried" type.

As a guy who has built a bunch of big startups myself (a.sarva.co) I meet these guys all the time and feel bad when I do. The only advice is DO IT!!!

It's a whole other ball of wax once you meet those guys who DO start -- it's not just DO IT DO IT till it works (repetition). At that point you have someone who DOES stuff. So now they/we/me must work intelligently to do successful stuff.

I think folks in the comments here may be missing that distinction.
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http://www.actionshotsapp.com

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We're also moving to help news organizations enable safe user submitted content. The moderation system keeps editors in control while enabling the person on the scene to quickly submit photo content.
Crockford has been criticised so much, but he's a legend, thanks for making JSON mainstream.
I don't know about the process of non-intubation initially - I don't think it's necessary for general anesthesia (I was youngish and otherwise quite healthy and fit, with no breathing issues, etc.), and I know there's some risk in the process itself - they decided to do it during the surgery to increase control of the process even more in case I quit breathing as they increased the anesthesia. The paddles were because even though the readings said I was under, I was obviously not, and the anesthesiologist and surgeon had to make a rapid decision about what was greater risk - me awakening even more, which the talking indicated was happening, and complicating the surgery, or cranking up the sauce. They went for the latter, and my heart started skipping beats - a few at a time or so, but kept coming back steady. They put the paddles on me three times I was told later, but I was obviously messing with them, as my pulse kept coming back before they'd fire 'em. I suspect there was actually some amount of time between the phrases I heard above due to a lack of temporal awareness and that I was being stubborn about actually going back under.

Anesthesia has never had much effect on me - dental procedures are uncomfortable, but bearable enough, for me as I'm quite aware of what's going on with locals, and having had something more serious for an impacted wisdom tooth removal once, I now prefer the unpleasantness of a little pain rather than the aftereffects of the more serious stuff, and I dislike "being under". After talking about it with the docs afterwards, I believe I simply have a serious fear of dying, and my brain intensely dislikes not knowing what's going on, and fights it. A matter of trust I suppose.
According to https://lwn.net/Articles/525459/ filling the entropy pool with /dev/urandom is a bad idea. Of course, checking my Nexus S, /dev/hwrng just plain doesn't exist; I assume that means the kernel would normally get entropy from other sources at a slower rate.
Launched http://www.cameralends.com/ last weekend for peer to peer camera gear loaning. Not sure I'd call it a 'startup', but it's a service I'm actively working on and trying to grow.
Those are many of the same reasons I program in Go.

To add another:

* Go's build tools and the language's overall approach to building projects are fantastic.

For the vast majority of projects you don't need an external build manager like make. One of my least favorite bits of programming in C and C++, even when I was doing that on a daily basis years ago, was the huge morass of make/autoconf hell that would grow up around projects and would be very difficult to understand and reason about unless you were there for the entire project's development.

With Go open source projects (on git, svn, mercurial) much of the time you can just

go get http://hosted-code-site/blah/(package)
cd (package)
go build

... out pops a working executable.
You don't. There are something to be said about the Erlang semantics though:

It is functional, which removes a lot of mistakes. Unlike other languages, there is fewer ways to "cheat" and use imperative features. It is a simple, yet powerful language. It got most of the semantics right. And it supports fault tolerance.

Fault tolerance means automatic handling of unforseen errors. This is not the same as an exception, mind you. Because you saw that possibility of an error coming from a long distance when you catch an exception. Error handling in Erlang lets you do far more than that.

As to getting a faster language, it depends. Erlang is built for low latency over throughput. So it depends on what you value. Do you want better interactivity and low latency, or do you want more throughput in your computation. Do note that most computationally intensive Erlang applications often contains portions of themselves written in other languages, typically C. Or portions implemented in hardware because C is too slow, but I digress :)
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My parents never forced me to do my hw. I never did chores. Almost no praise and no punishment. All in all they were pretty hands-off. I'm from a low income family and lived in a crappy neighborhood in NYC, went to some crappy schools. And yet, I managed to get a Bachelors in Engineering and a Masters in Computer Science. I have a very strong work ethic. What worked? Who knows.
That sounds really handy, but what happens if someone damages your lens?
http://snapmanage.com

Member management software for fitness centers & health clubs.

I forwent college to pursue this.
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https://annotary.com

It's a social bookmarking / annotation service for the web. Highlight web pages, take notes, share with colleagues and friends. We're just about to launch a collaboration toolset for businesses and organizations. Happy to chat more about it - my email is in my profile.
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No offense, I love Sam, he is brilliant and cheddarapp is fantastic. But from a business side of things: Who in their right mind would buy a $12k/year revenue business for $125k?
> They have fans.

This is not a feature, it's a downside. Why should I care if this pushes up their BoM and reduces their margin?
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From what I've read you can convert individual developer accounts to company ones and transfer ownership of them with a company sale but you can't split them or transfer apps between accounts. I would be really interested if anyone has experience that is different to this.
I like that you can try it without signing in.
Moved to SF recently, and was looking for a place with roommate. It was EXTREMELY hard to get anytime, and demand was insane. I ended up renting a 2 bed room apartment from a complex, and posted an ad looking for roommates on Craigslist. The response was impressive (~10 applicants within an afternoon).
So far...I love the startups guys. Will definetaly dig into most of them for writing a story.

Also it would be useful if you could add your twitter account in the comments!
An anecdote: I've been using my iPad everyday since I bought it. Laptops and desktops much less so (though mainly because I don't have a good work set-up atm.) Recently I was on my Macbook and someone called me on Skype. Incredibly, it took me around four seconds of prodding the "answer call" button on screen with my finger before it struck me that I wasn't working with a touchscreen!

Anyway, I'm sure that won't answer all of your objections, and while I agree with you in principle - about screens wobbling for instance - I have to reject your claim that a touchscreen laptop is totally useless. At the very least, with a well-thought out new interface paradigm, you gain small-to-medium boosts in everyday productivity while losing nothing in base functionality. You only add a new interaction option while taking away none of the previous mouse-and-keyboard functionality. That's why nobody is proposing taking away keyboards from touchscreen laptops - because clearly physical keyboards are better than touchscreen keyboards. So your argument about touchscreens being bad for typing are moot, because everybody is going to just use the keyboard in that instance.

I do see a lot of use for touchscreens on laptops in the sort of situation I described earlier - pushing large, clear buttons on screen. This is actually a case where current laptops are miserably unfunctional. Even on a plush, responsive trackpad such as a Macbook's, remotely manipulating a small cursor from one arbitrary spot onscreen to another arbitrary spot and clicking is very inefficient. Being able to simply reach out and tap the screen on the exact spot is much better. This use-case for touchscreen laptops could become even more widespread if popular software begins to follow Microsoft's design cues with large, clear buttons.
Authic is a secure, brandable authentication service that provides nice authentication screens / flow for your web app, allowing you to concentrate on what makes your app unique.

http://Authic.com

Our MVP does all the standard authentication forms/functionality/ We also make it really easy to hookup social signin with a number of popular providers.

On our roadmap is functionality for group/role manangement and turning your app into a paid subscription service using stripe.

We've launched our closed beta and are looking for a few more beta user developers to get our MVP tight before a wider real launch.

p.s. Please excuse our marketing pages - they are attrocious :-(

Right now we are concentrating on pushing out functionality / changes as requested by our beta developers.
"Cult classic"? I've only ever heard the name via self-promotion.
Pretty cool - seems similar to clipboard.com though
Really cool. I'd need to be running it to see notes that someone else has made on a web page?
One thing to do: set up a healthcare advocacy group as a honeypot. Try to figure out who the plants and shills are, document their behavior. Also, faithfully document the gifts/bribes received, and what the quid pro quo was.

Any takers?
I don't believe recur works with mutual recursion. I wish I understood mutual recursion better, frankly. Got any pointers about how one might use it in practice? In general my Lisp-fu could use a lot of improvement.

I would call it more like Ruby vs. Python — c'mon, perl? that's just mean — but yes, we're quibbling. :)
http://www.shodanhq.com

A search engine of all Internet-connected devices. Lets you find anything that's on the Internet based on the software it runs, where it's located and a bunch of other filters.
Is this seriously a todo app that has a monthly subscription fee?
I thought the same when I read the sensationalist title and opening remarks. Personally, I've always thought task warrior and org-mode were the most popular among hackers with OmniFocus being the go-to program for Mac die-hards.

It's also worth mentioning that the developer of Cheddar works for the author's husband as seen in the footnote.
It is misogynistic, and it makes me think, maybe online dating works and that is why his experiences are negative!
Hey guys,

Great to see open source, light-weight, backbone based, frameworks =D

I am building a mobile application for a project I am working on and for this I have also (after using a lot of other libraries) built my own framework.

It consists of 3 packages.

1) sass-ratchet (repo: https://github.com/jocks/sass-ratchet)

This is my sass port of ratchet (just starting).
It basically adds vendor prefixes, and puts a couple of main colors in a variable, and calculates all colors with the darken() method in sass. I am not really happy with the variable names yet, so expect a lot of change in this repo.

2) jocks (repo: https://github.com/jocks/jocks) (docs: http://jocks.koenschmeets.nl/#!/api)

Jocks (JavaScript Blocks) is based on Backbone + MarionetteJS, it allows me to have JavaScript create the DOM elements for me (and keeping a reference to it), and allows me to define methods on a block to manipulate it easily after it has rendered. Basically, any component will only be rendered once, after that, it's manipulation. I am planning on wrapping up Bootstrap too, and use it for building web applications.

3) jockstrap-ratchet

This library is based on tbranyen's excellent backbone-boilerplate (https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate), extends the "jocks blocks" to make it play nice with the phone, and includes a nice build process to minify all your stuff into 3 files.

I would love to see how we can help each other out, for example, a good start would be to put both our efforts in creating and maintaining a single sass / less port for Ratchet.

Oh, I'll put my project on Hackers News once it is more complete (along with a demo and a getting started guide).
One further point:

The withering self-criticism might even be merited the first few times around, but every iteration of creation hones our skills.

Perhaps, instead of hoping that our first work is a masterpiece, we commit to putting it out as fast as we can and aim to learn from it what we can to make our next reiteration better.

After we commit enough atrocities, perhaps it's actually possible to hit a place where we no longer have that withering self-criticism as it's no longer merited. Perhaps that withering self-criticism isn't just unwarranted insecurity - it's accurate, but the only way to get rid of it is to keep creating crap until we learn not to create crap.
at least quote him right he said extra baggage. We all carry around these traits that define our lives, our jobs, family, hobbies, the list goes on and on.

In this case when you date someone (man or woman) who has a child it creates boundaries on a potential relationship. An imperfect example would be the adult w/o a child likes to take last minute trips (it is something they do enough, and they are not willing to give it up at this time) maybe reluctant to date another adult who has a child because they would presumably not be able to partake in this cherished activity.
Yeah, looks nice. One question: how does it differentiate from Diigo.com?
Yeah, I hate it when they do that. The worst part is when the MPAA henchmen break into my house and steal the copies of the original books that I legitimately paid for. I guess Orwell was right... control the past, and you control the future.

Or maybe Christopher Tolkien needs to STFU, sign his royalty checks, and let culture take its course. Or - gasp - get a word processor and earn his own keep.

I haven't seen the Hobbit, but as far as I'm concerned, Jackson owns LotR now. The best-rendered edition of the story is his.
Thanks. The instant demo converts quite well. If you have a product where it makes sense to do it, I'd recommend it.

There's a significant segment that doesn't want to provide an email address just to try something quickly to see if ts the right fit.
Right now the lenders are friends of mine, and they understand that I will personally comp them if there is any damage. I realize that won't scale, but it doesn't need to yet -- I'll worry about it if/when it becomes a problem.

Still trying to figure out how to do this :) so any and all feedback is welcome!
http://CrowdEngage.com

In private testing stage now: CrowdEngage enables brands/smb's to easily launch video based engagement campaigns or competitions.

Here is a blog post that should help clarify:
http://blog.crowdengage.com/hot-off-the-press-video-marketin...
Having gone though Epictetus's Enchiridion several times, it's certainly something you have to pick through. There is a balance between emotions and objectivity that is lost in stoicism.
My guess is that a woman who sticks with a guy five years typically wants to get married, but you're right that I don't know, and we may be back to me not understanding the younger generation.

This may, of course, be a UK/US thang... but...

My partner and I have been together 17 years. Neither of us want to get married (discussed previously at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832058).

Couple of great friends of mine (who I introduced) have been together 24 years. Two kids. Not married.

We both have bog standard monogamous relationships and are very happy thank you very much. Neither of us are into any of that new-fangled poly/open stuff ;-)

I know a stack of other couples - mostly a bit younger that me I admit - that are in long term monogamous relationships where neither want to get married. Several folk I know who have got married have only done to make some legal stuff easier for the kids, or to deal with immigration hassles (they still want to be together - but the marriage bit was just legal hoop jumping).

I don't know about the younger generation (at 49 & 43 I'm not sure my partner and I count ;-) but for me, anyway, "committed monogamous relationship" does not necessarily imply any eagerness to get married.
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How big is the startup and what is the breakdown by position (i.e. # engineers, # marketing, etc)?
Paying for sync services isn't weird at all. Apparently it has upwards of 600 paying customers.