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Show HN: My weekend project, Hacker's Coffee
Primary link: http://hackerscoffee.org

I thought Coder’s Coffee (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010355) was a great idea but disagreed with a few aspects of its execution (registration solely via linkedin, iOS app only, manual approval process, brittle: crashed every time I used it on my phone). I noticed the app had stopped working entirely last week, and went to the site (http://www.coderscoffee.com) to discover that the project seems to be no more.

I re-implemented the concept, minus my grievances, in about 20 free hours I had last week (and also took the opportunity to make a time-lapse video of the development process, something I’d been wanting to do for a long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlll6SN-Ybk).

This is very minimal and rough around the edges design-wise, but it has the critical features I’d been after. Just the features I wanted to make it capable of solving the problem of introducing me to other like-minded developers. I welcome observations/suggestions/improvements.

At the very least, you can grab a coffee with me if you’re in New York:

http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98722/pub
He wasn't critiquing snarky jokes[1], he was critiquing the fact that your snarky joke was badly constructed and didn't correctly cut to the point you were trying to make. Which means your snark, instead of reading as funny and biting, read as trite and less relevant.

[1] I mean, clearly not, he snarks all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428558
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335271
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979603
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281694
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1491259
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315118
Sorry if I'm missing something key here, but why does the implementation of a stock trading system involve a particular trading strategy?
This is actually pretty neat and I would def. use it. One note, i'd add on the linked page is more/better/visual explanation.
I think the hygiene hypothesis implies a golden mean: enough immune challenge to keep it functioning normally, but then too much challenge is just bad.
TL;DR: Boo single-minded, yay disciplined.
He writes "Google's decision to shut down Google Reader has upset a number of people I know" so I guess he felt it necessary to weigh in.
Sure, but read closer,and you'll see that the impression of the two interviews is based almost entirely on the subjective terms the writer chooses to describe them. One person was the "shark on the team" whose questions got "very aggressive", while the other was "intimidating but tolerable" and "I could tell he was protecting the quality of his team".

Or consider "Instead of demanding from me why I wanted to work there, he just tried to get a feel for what I was aiming for."

Was there really a difference, or did the writer just click personally with one group and not the other? If it had gone differently, I could imagine him writing that "team one was respectful of my time and allowed me to order my favorite sandwich and eat during the interview, while team 2 expected me to waste yet another hour socializing with the group at a bad restaurant, where they got very aggressive asking about my personal life".

So maybe company one really was hostile; just like you, I've seen that happen. OTOH, maybe it was just a personality clash, or maybe some of it is slanted by the fact that he got an offer from one and not the other. In my experience, once an interview process starts to go bad, I start to see everything the company does in a bad light, and vice versa.
"That convention is for company names that appear in headlines of stories."

The guidelines state: "In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to YC unless they're actually associated with YC."

AFAICT Coinbase is associated with YC, so the appearance makes perfect sense.

"Strictly speaking I should have killed the post entirely"

The real question is why it took an HN post that reached the frontpage to see any sort of response from coinbase. If you read the comments and the original assertion "because nobody trying to trade with Coinbase can get a public answer", it seems like people have tried other means and couldn't reach anyone at Coinbase.
Warning to people reading the comments before the article:

This article is not calling Google evil, it's examining the economic and social incentives of maintaining a public utility as a for-profit company and as a society. I tend to think that putting scare quotes around words in headlines is really condescending behavior from headline writers, but threads like this remind me that I'm not an authority of headline writing.

And for the people arguing that Krugman is an ignorant big government fraud for claiming that Google Reader is a public utility - Mr. Johnson's water pump on the corner that half of the people on the block use is a public utility. It's economic analysis, not a communist grab for your guns, or a socialist power play to keep capitalists from doing whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.

edit: hadn't refreshed in a while before replying. This comment is mischaracterizing the level of discourse in this thread now:)
Ask HN: Compensating for uneven hours among founders?
Background: we're a small bootstrapped startup, with four founders with equal equity share. We're about half a year into the game, still feeding off of everyone's personal runway and paying no salary, but this is looking to change soon (which is brilliant!)

Due to differences in personal life situations, we are seeing that some of us voluntarily seem to be putting in more hours than others. Everyone is carrying their weight, so this is not a problem, but depending on a situation, individuals are finding themselves working through weekends, mainly due to their own volition and the fact that we're pretty thrilled about what we're doing. For some of us, facts of personal life simply do not allow this.

We've agreed on equal salary among the founders, but there's a growing suspicion that we should compensate for the uneven hours somehow, and we're exploring different options for that.

Does the HN community have positive/negative precedents on how to handle uneven hours among founders? An easy way out would be to start compensating for overtime in salary; however, this brings along issues like time tracking, which we're a little uneasy with.

Personally, I have been wondering if a more results-based approach would be more appropriate; after all, in these times I would encourage us to work smart rather than to work hard. Sales commissions (even among founders) could be one way.

Any thoughts? We're worried that if we somehow do not deal with this, it might lead to friction later. Any input is much appreciated.
Yeah, as someone that used to do a bit of caving seeing people working underground wearing cotton jeans is crazy.
It's disappointing that SPEC refuses to fix the code and is spreading disinformation like "it is at minimum arguable that the code fragment is compliant under the C89 standard". If the global 'int d[16]' is placed at the very end of a page (which the linker is allowed to do), that code compiled in the most naive possible way will SEGV.
Oh nice, they ripped off the Snowbird logo—http://www.snowbird.com/

Side note: I've always loved Snowbirds unabashed and beautiful use of Helvetica throughout their brand. Same since the 70's but it's aged so well.
Show HN: A website that enables to search at every Amazon website (.it, .de,...)
I made this website because I found that it's possible to save money buying a product, for example, on amazon.de instead of amazon.it.
The bad thing was that Amazon does not enable to search at every retail website at the same time. This website (yasse) does.<p>I hope you'll find it usefoul :)
If I were to hazard a guess, it is that that Reader is too closely tied to other Google technologies (caching, crawling, search) for it to really function outside of Google.
Question about coding bootcamps
Are they legitimate? Is there real value to be obtained from such experiences? Which ones are more dependable than others? It would appear that most of these "bootcamps" are like flash-in-the-pan phenomena, similar to the law school explosion that occurred when the demand for lawyers skyrocketed, now resulting in way too many law schools and horrible job prospects for aspiring lawyers.

Thoughts?
I really don't think its that hard to make accessible web interfaces.

I personally ignore most on-page SEO trick things, and just focus on accessibility when I can. If a screen reader can handle it, Google can handle it and understand it. I'd rather focus on people than machines. If companies can take time to SEO-trick out their page, they can focus on accessibility.
Who should be responsible then? If you shift the burden onto small business owners, that seems pretty unreasonable to me.

Imagine a small business owner asking their web developers if they used alt or title attributes properly? Absurd, right? I can't name a single plumbing instrument other than a plunger, and I don't have to because there is a division of labor. If my toilet gets backed up and it's not as simple as making sure the ball in the tank didn't get jammed, I call a plumber.
It was fairly clear months ago that there would be depositor losses. The small amount of capital flight was surprising.
i used 3310 as a bottle opener
Gestural Abstractions: Alexander Provan on Touch Screens
But that makes it increasingly difficult for Google to have success with new services. Why commit to using and coming to rely on something new if it might be yanked away at some future date?

This perspective just boggles my mind. If anyone decides not to use a Google product because it could "disappear just like Reader" or something, they are shooting themselves in the foot.

First, any product (especially web sites), made by Google or otherwise, can disappear. If it's not a profitable product/market, it will go away, whether it's run by Google or some guy in a basement.

Secondly, even if you suspect a product will eventually disappear, why not chose to use a superior product while it's around? This is especially true for something as inconsequential and fungible as an RSS reader. I mean, in retrospect, do hard-core Reader users wish they could go back in time and chose a different product instead of Reader for all these years? What would be the benefit of that? Whatever choice you made could have also disappeared. And if your answer is that you would have still used Reader, than that's all the evidence you need to know you shouldn't hesitate to use a new Google product, if it's the best option.
I'm still trying to figure out what your product does, and how it works. Questions that come to mind at first glance (although I'm sure I can reason some through, and take guesses... and probably think of more):

- I just download this onto my phone?

- Where would the presentation be stored?

- What do I have to do on the presenting machine?

- What does the remote look like?

- Is the remote going to force my screen not to lock?

- Will my screen be bright and distracting to my audience?

- Why is there no information? Is this malware?

- How do I get rid of the Tip box which is covering text, because I'm using 200% zoom on Retina?

- Why is there a log in? There's no accompanying register.

- What software does this work for?

Also, your logo is really fuzzy, and your HRs don't match up... but that's just me being picky!
Momentum is a hell of a drug
Def agre, will probably film a little video explaining how to connect the phone. Thanks!
This is pretty cool and I like the concept.

The problem I see is that by requiring a working internet connection on your smartphone and the computer you use to present, this add a number of points of failure. I'd feel safer with just a USB key (+ publicly accessible copy on the web) and a PDF.

It would be cool if you'd show the presentation on the phone too and let the presenter use the phone (or tablet) to draw/highlight stuff live.
Eh? I thought current stable was 3.8.4
>I use RSS and I still didn't understand why I would ever click that button.

If the current page is a blog, and you want to subscribe to the blog in your RSS reader. (When you go to use the button, it asks you to pick a reader and also gives you the option of making that reader the default choice for the next to you want to use the button.)

Are you saying that a bookmarklet would work just as well?
US Senate approves proposed Internet Sales Tax
Nice blog!!
ah cool. I'd put it on my list of platforms then, Windows, Mac, Linux, Web :)
I scanned the QR code and then pressed next/back a few times and then it said connected on the screen. Then I wasn't sure where the demo was even though it said to try it out. I eventually saw the little link at the bottom right hand side and clicked on it. Then it presented the slides but kept going automatically very sporadically and nothing I did stopped or moved anything.

You might want to give a better walkthrough and explanation. :) Really cool though if it is solid. You have to be careful with slide control because this is LIVE and people want things that are absolutely solid and going to work 99.99% of the time. One mishap and you've probably lost that customer if it was in a live setting.
It is a pretty easy word to learn. Heck, even FB already has a "news feed"
Mark them as Close Friends in Facebook.
If it takes someone more than an hour to determine a programmer's basic worth, then they should fold up shop. The extra 4 hours is a waste of both side's time. You won't really know how good the person is until they are working for weeks or months so how to do you expect to learn this in 5 hours?
This is an incredibly neat effort. I'd also be interested to see how this performs with a non-wifi/throttled sort of connection.

Also, if the laptop is behind a firewall, would there be any trouble?
>If you can't afford to lose your investment, you shouldn't be investing at all.

While I generally agree with that statement, it's a bit of a red herring in this context. That is, it typically applies to the notion of risk in the investment itself, not the risk that the intermediary or exchange will simply "misplace" your investment or your cash.
Scala: Rising Threat to Java?
Reader is probably tied in to Google's back end infrastructure too tightly to decouple it into a standalone app.
Ask HN: Why is my IP banned?
From my usual host, I get a 403 Forbidden:

$ curl -i https://news.ycombinator.com
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:15:46 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 162
Connection: keep-alive

<html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

However, if I access it from a different IP or via Tor, everything works nicely and I can even log in. Wouldn’t it make more sense to ban my account if you™ don’t like me? :)
Kut is dutch slang for vagina, though.
Ask HN: Where do you look for job postings?
Looking for sites to post some 'developer wanted' ads - what do you look at?
| "marketplace of user interfaces"

Most of which would be used for phishing.
Spiffy! A buddy and I have been working on a similar thing (not open sourced (yet?)) for a while off and on. The model we're going to shoot for is to look at online opinion on the stock as a base for estimating rise/fall.
Reminds me of Photobeamer (https://photobeamer.com) which is equally cool!
You see US workers in similar getups in certain situations (usually workers involved in wet or messy work like concrete/slurry pumping, drilling etc or working in cold environments). I for one (having spent thousands of hours on construction sites) would prefer "cotton based jeans and hoodies" to those outfits in all but really colt & wet environments.
Linking a profile to your web page is not the same as using the plus.google.com website.

Verifying identity is simply submitting a form to Google.
3.2 branch is "8th long-term stable release from March 2012 to 2015, used in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Debian 7 Wheezy and Slackware 14.0" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Maintenance).

Not "current stable" but still stable and maintained.
I barely trust MongoDB with my personal projects. It's shot me in the foot enough given they're not a very stable vendor (case in point, see the 2.4.0 replication bug -- we didn't get hit by that thankfully).

We've had issues where databases can get on divergent paths, then MongoDB will keep up to 300mb of the stuff it can't match in a directory and after that you're hosed.
On Embracing Constraints
What's wrong with Drive? Doesn't it export to open formats rather easily?
After reading the article several times it seems to me that it has nothing to do with Google. The idea that a company that can't price discriminate and isn't able to make a profit to provide a useful good is interesting. Words like 'Evil Google' and 'Monopolist' are just added fluff for link bait.
Canonical to create UbuntuKylin OS for Chinese users
I could see it only applying once you reach a certain level. If you only have 100 customers, then it doesn't really matter, but once you reach 1 million customers, it might start to matter.
On the Sun/Solaris machines where I first worked, the `sl` command had an added bonus: it played a really loud "choo-choo" sound from the workstation's internal speaker, regardless of volume or mute settings, so you always knew when someone fat-fingered their file listings, and much laughing was had by all.

I very quickly learned to alias sl=ls in my shell rc, and it's still in there to this day, just in case...
Hey thanks for the comment! Any chance you still might have the URL for the remote, so I could figure out what happened there?
Error in Firefox Nightly 22.0a1 (2013-03-21) for me, and it's repeatable: http://i.imgur.com/UhtZcpw.png

In both Firefox and Chrome the QR code on the homepage only appears after a refresh or two.

Overall really nicely done, though the two reasons I wouldn't use it personally are 1.) Confidentiality (most decks I would ever want to present I can't upload to some random MVP site) 2.) Branding (I'd want to be able to white label, or self-host).
Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies
Since stock prices are all about speculation and market psychology, it is an interesting approach. I'd be very interested to know about how you implement.

How do you define and track the "online" world though?
Though the market adjusted, it does not always adjust in an optimal manner. With the increase in automation we've seen a shift into service jobs. These jobs are low income, low skill and often do not provide a living wage. They also don't actually increase wealth or create any real, long lasting value. This creates an income gap, which is what we're dealing with now.

The primary means of generating wealth has shifted to controlling capital from adding value, and that's not a good thing either. Those horses died off, we can't count on people to do the same.
as opposed to the convenience and accessibility of phones with conventional removable parts?

I don't deny that soaking up impact energy is an outcome, but I'm doubtful it was a deliberate engineering decision for purposes of impact survival
Interesting title. Please re-post this when there's something to show other than an e-mail signup form.
While I support the general cause of increased accessibility, I have a philosophical problem with "perfect or none at all" legislation. When the laws are passed, they are passed expecting lots of perfect making everyone shiny-happy, but they often get a lot of "none at all" with a side of frustrated resentment instead.
Randomly Failed The State of Randomness in Current Java Implementations
Only if it harms user experience.
How Kickstarter will kill Open Source
A .g[doc,sheet,...] file isn't a document. I want to open, edit, and save in .odt within Google Docs. There's no reason they can't make this possible. It was possible before Drive.

I get that the collaboration features need the native format. I don't need collaboration features most of the time.
Perhaps not mass unemployment, but certainly a shift to less valued employment (i.e. service jobs). There's a reason we're seeing a larger income gap now, and it's due to a shift to capital creating value in the economy rather than labor. Lower income folks are getting even poorer by shifting into low skill jobs and people who control capital are getting wealthier.
How did you get this in the main repositories? I'm curious what the process is for something like that.
I had a Nokia phone that had a flip, forgot the model name.

Once I dropped it from 4 stories high in a shopping center, parts flew everywhere, even parts that were supposed to be glued got unglued and flew.

But the flip got no damage, neither the screen... I went around picking the parts and assembling the phone again, interestingly one glued part was seemly hold in place only by the glue, but I noticed that if I twisted it only slighly, it would fit in place, and stay put, with the tension holding it in place without looking ugly, just awesome engineering.

After I assembled it entirely again, it worked fine, like if nothing happened, the only thing that could hint the accident was that any minor impact now made it fall apart again (because the formely glued parts now being held in place by tension).
Maybe I need to take a break, lest my snark jump the-- no, that's too obvious.

My point was, "If Y Combinator is actually funding Bitcoin startups, they're dipping into the taint-bottom of the barrel and need to take stock." I thought that some Ascii art might lighten the mood surrounding cultural calamity. Funding good-faith business failures is inevitable and fine-- it's an unpredictable game-- but funding Bitcoin is an obvious sign of a decision not given enough time.

Of course, he and you are right that the shark-jumping metaphor is clumsy if we're looking for exact correspondence. Incubators work in parallel and a single bad decision is macroscopically inconsequential. It's not like a sequential narrative (from which the shark-jump motif comes) where one bad segment can set the whole thing off. I didn't actually mean that this suggests terminal decline, only that YC miiiiight want to be more thoughtful/selective if it's actually at the point of funding Bitcoin startups.

Anyway, I'm off to go create a currency out of mediocre Internet humor. It's called BitClown. Anyone want in? 0.1% equity, unlimited vacation, free beer and abundant bad jokes.
Derwent Capital Markets (website down now) tried to do this with twitter, but ultimately collapsed:

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=80469
http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/28/twitter-fueled-hedge-fund-...
UI/Web Designer for hire.
Hey, I hope I don't get killed for posting this here. I'm looking to raise a little capital for my venture, which is about education and books. I'm looking to work as a web designer/ UI designer to raise around $500-400 to give us some breathing space, and get things going. We might go in for a Kickstarter, later this month, but until then we really need some dough.

* * *

I worked as a designer at a design lab, so I guess that's something in my favor. You can see my work here http://whimsic.al — I also designed this website, incase you're wondering.

Shoot me an email at "mail at arsalanbashir dot com" or DM me on Twitter — buzz me and I'll follow back — at @Arsalan_Bashir.

If nothing else, you could help me by spreading the word. I've always put my trust and faith in the HN community, and I respect your take on this , in case you think this is out of place, but I really am out of options.

Thank you for helping out a brother.
Reminds me of an article I read awhile back that pointed out a correlation between news about Anne Hathaway and an increase in Berkshire Hathaway stock.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-a...