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IMHO, HTML5 addresses real needs. VIDEO+AUDIO tags, awesome. Some other really useful things as well.

My money is firmly on HTML5.

Just because it's not a standard, doesn't mean it's not usable. You can already feature detect and use audio tags where available etc.
They're a YC company now.
My favorite part:

"Shipped horribly buggy beta in 6 months. Charged from day one. No PR, no launch. Revenues: $10 million"

Lots to learn from this approach. Eric gets it.
Enterprise ready Iphone  web applications with icefaces and dash code.
There's that word again: steal..
Ask HN: Moving to Silicon Valley?
So, anyone have tips on finding a place? Do you just fly out there and start looking, or try to line something up on craigslist first?

Anyone looking for a roommate for their tech startup? I'm a single person founder.
I'd like to point out one weighs 9 lbs while the other is 4.5
OK so let's take out one cell of your brain and build two identical electronic braincell replacements (if braincells need randomness, let's say they're both connected to the same source of randomness, or use they same pseudo-random algorithm.) Let's connect them both to the remaining part of the brain, i.e., all the outgoing signals from the brain go to a switch that splits the signal and sends it to both electronic replacements, and all the incoming signals from the replacement cells to the brain go through a switch that asserts that the two inputs from the electronic braincells are identical and sends out just one copy to the original brain.

Now let's repeat the procedure for every remaining braincell, with the correction when the two electronic braincells should connect to one another, we connect them directly in both copies, without going through the switch. In the end of this procedure we will have two identical electronic brains, connected to the same input from the senses, and the same source of randomness so they work identically. We can make them to two completely different persons by bifurcating the input at some point, then the two electronic brains' states will bifurcate too. Which of the two is "you"? They are completely symmetric. And if neither is "you", then how is it different from your thought experiment?
Maybe its just me -- but I really don't see how this article is declaring financial doom and gloom for Microsoft, or saying that the market is running screaming from Microsoft? It just seems to be saying that enterprises aren't (yet) seeing a compelling case for upgrading from XP to 7.
Well, that the method outlined in http://www.37signals.com/papers/introtopatterns/ still works after 5 years is rather unsurprising, as it already based on Christopher Alexander's 41 year old work "Notes on the Synthesis of Form".

Like all good methods, it is partly structurized common sense mixed with reminders of the less intuitive things one should think about when designing.
Would you work for free?
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
The overreaching goal, of course, is to be able to have your Reprap prototyping machine make a copy of itself. This is a great step in that direction.
I went on a similar tour of one of Canada's CANDU Uranium/Deuterium plants in high school (The one in Pickering, Ontario http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/features/pickering/index.html?data...)

Especially freaky was the containment pool, glowing blue with cerenkov radiation, with nothing but a lead window between you and and an ugly death.

They were many checkpoints to go through with detectors that check your shoes and hands for radioactive dust and I inadvertently set one off. I had not placed my hands on the sensors exactly right and the machine went off, scaring the sh*t out of me and everyone else.

The most interesting thing about CANDU reactors is the vacuum building that can suck all the air out of the reactor buildings in the event of a deuteurium steam leak. Dampening rods are also held up by electromagnets that will drop and kill the reaction in the event of an electrical failure.
But other people clearly have a different opinion of what constitutes force. So we're back to the beginning. I would suggest using a different word, since your definition of "force" very much bends the standard English meaning. In particular, it's hard to use the verb form in regards to piracy: nobody is "forcing" anyone to do anything.

Edit: the physical meaning of force ("I forced the lock") doesn't really apply either...
Let me use this opportunity to make a plug for another excellent writer. If you like Greg Egan, chances are you will like Stanisław Lem, who tackled some of the very similar questions in his work. One good place to start is: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Diaries-Further-Reminiscences-Tic...
How to save Sun/Sparc/Solaris, and why
Ask HN: Legitimate speed reading method?
I know there's a lot of snake oil in this area. Are there any methods you guys are aware of that work well (increase reading speed while maintaining comprehension levels)?
Ask HN: 6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control?
My first Ask HN! I've had this issue forever and I'm hoping someone here will have a brilliant solution. I created my Gmail account the day Gmail went into public beta, and I was never able to use it once. It's a short name; spam bots started submitting it into every signup form around, so I got/get about 100 "legitimate" emails a day (not including spam which is mostly caught by Gmail.) How can I get myself off the 50,000 or so mailing lists I'm on and make my address usable again? I'd like to bounce all messages for six months, then set up a whitelist afterward. Don't think I can bounce on Gmail, though. Other thoughts?
Yep.

Welcome to the internet.
Stop the Hype Cycle
Dailybooth got funded by YC
There's already apps for half the stuff on that list
I think the subtext of that advice is that you're still making something that is eventually excludable/controllable, so you have options.

For an open-source library, the right-to-fork and to use without paying licensing fees means many of the options used by other startups which defer revenue questions in favor of building an enthusiastic userbase are already off the table for you. You can't easily withhold your product unless fees are paid; you can't add advertising; you may not be in a position to sell excludable complementary offerings.

You could try a dual-licensing structure like Sleepycat BerkeleyDB -- free for other open-source projects, pay if you want to use in a closed-source application. However, that presupposes a large closed-source commercial market for the software your library-users make, requires some capability for closing big corporate sales, and it may take years of proven library quality before becoming the solid/safe choice for companies to embed in their own products.
There are any number of which we have "only X years of proven reserves left", for which we've had X years left for 3X years. That's because mining companies only prove out reserves for many ores only as far in advance as necessary to show they are a viable concern to invest in.

99.99% of the earth's crust has never been explored. When oil got scarce on land in temperate climates, companies began looking -- and finding -- oil in cold, tropical, and ocean environments.

Then there's the very real possibility of substitution by other technologies. No doubt there were those who predicted the world would run out of silver for developing photos. Now we have digital photography getting better all the time.

And dont' get me started in carbon nanotube technology.

And finally, why didn't they include the numbers for iron? (Over 1,000 years worth proven.)
Just to elaborate from what I gathered from the audio. They shipped the product in 2004, and achieved $10m revenue by 2007.

Still impressive, but that quote seemed a bit misleading.
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Hi guys.
latley, iv'e been engaged in the biopunk movement, http://biopunk.org
now, i'm looking for anything on the subject;
university courses, movies, articles, studies and so on.
Cryonics is of great interest !
Thanks!
It's a known problem, but not a cause for concern:

http://www.hanford.gov/rl/?page=671&parent=666

The worst that will happen is that an emergency/safety system will be tripped accidentally. The workaround is to mask the EPROM windows (with tape, I assume) after programming them.
YC, Techstars (in Boulder and Boston), Launchbox, Seedcamp, Alphalab, Shotput, Dreamit, NYC Seed, Capital Factory, Awesome Inc, Bootup Labs, Lightspeed Summer Grants, Summer@Highland, Founders Co-Op, Flow Ventures, Gangplank HQ Incubator. Also iVentures10, but they come with a strong unrecommendation from an anonymous YC commenter.

I didn't include some of the funds at the periphery, like CRV Quickstart and fbFund. There's also the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, just about the only true tech incubator left in the Bay Area.
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A stack of these tubes, bolted together and held under tension by internet rods...

Internet rods hold the tubes together? Typo, presumably? Or a joke I'm currently too hungover to appreciate?
There must be a pattern to filter (typical words in 'welcome to XYZ' and 'Sign in XYZ' emails) all those emails and delete them as they hit the inbox.
That's true. Your point is more clear than mine.

What I intended to say is that it's difficult to differentiate one consultancy from another. You have to do that based on clearly proven, previous performance. When you're starting a new company, it's easier to sell something that's new (like a service or product).
"It is not as easy to 'get your feet wet' these days like it was back in the day."

Really? I've always thought kind of the opposite. Maybe not as easy to get your feet into the nitty gritty internals of the hw and os, but easier than ever before to get a development environment set up and start writing code.
Catalyst web framework 5.8001 (on Moose) has shipped
http://www.imminst.org/
Is a good one to start out with
They are at least as likely to build a descendent of this reactor as a BWR or PWR, because High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors are inherently safer than either of the water cooled types. The Pressurized Water Reactors became the dominant type because they were directly descended from Naval sub and ship reactors, not because they were actually better than other types. They were used on ships because they were more compact than other types, which is not a particular necessity on land.
There is some good writing on cryonics at www.overcomingbias.com.
You need to do your research in person. There are very expensive neighborhoods within a mile or two of places that aren't safe to walk the streets. It's best to have a friend help you scout out places. Also note SV is not transit friendly except for commuting into downtown SF or Oakland and to a lesser degree San Jose.
You should try CGI::Application (Titanium) - it's simple. For Perl code cleaning try Perl::Critic and perltidy.
Seriously? The 5 minutes it takes to download and install an interpreter is negligible compared to how much better the languages are now.

Making simple GUIs is easy with a lot of languages, plus many languages are more natural and English-like.
would be interesting if someone brought a hidden mic to their interview, and upped it for other people to listen
dup http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345782
Thanks for the recommendations everyone, we're going to go with Moin Moin.
it makes very little sense to take a product with the name recognition of Webmin back to an incubator. neither the money nor the YC mentoring seem a good fit for them; they could have gotten funding from RedHat, IBM, Oracle or whoever else. And with respect to the mentoring, i don't think the server automation tools like Webmin or cPanel see much love from hackers; their clients and market base are in the shared hosting industry.

Hope I'm wrong about this.
I didn't read the article, but I suspect it is completely out of date. Python is at releases 2.6 and 3.0, and the class mechanism has been completely rewritten.
I actually got started on that site. I went through their questionnaire and it told me 53 wikis met my needs and that made for a bit of a ridiculous looking comparison matrix.
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I've worked in both startups and corporate IT depts, and that would be my take as well. Large companies are far more concerned with anti-discrimination law. They also strongly prefer a stable workgroup, which is helped (I think) by a bit of additional age.
There are modules on CPAN for different types of regex engines.
Alan Kay, of course.
He has given up nothing. Free software is freedom, and don't forget that 99% of the time people have the freedom to IGNORE whatever you publish and use something else.

You can have your closed-down code base where nobody knows your software, and you're just another hacker. You open source it, get users, and you're suddenly a software publisher; all it takes is for one university or corporation to contact you for help and you're free to ask for compensation. If your software was locked down, you wouldn't have had that lead to begin with.
great tips!
Why your 6-char account on a free email service is so important? Get another account and stop thinking (and asking) about this.
I'm tired of linkbait and of those clichés about the french.
Lets Band Together and Stop the Hype Cycle
US looks to hackers to protect cyber networks
I often work standing up. One thing he missed, probably because he uses a laptop, is that it is more comfortable when standing to have your keyboard quite a bit lower than your monitor. For some reason, it feels more uncomfortable to me to have my elbows bent as much as would be necessary to have the keyboard directly below the monitor. I have my keyboard at about 42 inches (navel height) which is also where I have my fine assembly workbenches (for electronics and other small work). My monitor I have raised higher, with my eye level about one-third from the top of the screen. Footrests do help, but I just have file boxes around that I can rest my feet on when needed.
Gmail allows you to connect via IMAP and send via POP3; setup a postfix server and filter the crap out of it.
It's much harder to have the computer show you something simple and fun.

That's the whole premise that _why was taking when he decided to make Shoes (http://shoooes.net/)
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Heh. Todd received those in the mail as we were working on our demo.
Yeah, that's part of the concern, too. I've been doing biotech for almost 4 years. That could be a bigger problem.
EPROMS usually have a paper sticker glued onto them. As the sticker had details printed on them. The glue on most printer-compatable stickers gets old with age and thus they fall off.

Due to pricing quirks, the EPROMs with windows were far cheaper than the same chips that didn't have quartz windows on them. They weren't ROMS, they were the same IC, but with an opaque lid.
This guy uses "security" as a value prop for SPARC and Solaris 3 times in this article. But there is no such value prop for either technology. Solaris is not more secure than FreeBSD or even many Linux distributions. And despite the mocking jab, the Itanium processor has a far more powerful and flexible security model than the SPARC does.
"I think the subtext of that advice is that you're still making something that is eventually excludable/controllable"

And the unstated assumption of that interpretation is that it is impossible to make money without coercion.
My experience is that the same programmers who suck at CSS design, are the same who suck at GUI design, and the same who suck at creating modular code , and the same who hardly ever indent their code, and the same who write spaghetti code,

... and the same programmers who thinks that if it runs, its good
... and the same who are just not good programmers.

Think about it, if you are a generally good programmer, you would never create a bad UI, CSS or otherwise! ... Linus Torvalds as far as I know don't create UIs, he is a very good programmer too
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. It is just as hard to differentiate a product as it is to differentiate a consultancy. And there are far more differences between consultancies than "experience".
Saw these guys on a list of startup accelerators. Anyone heard of them?
Looks interesting but there is only one portfolio company listed, a maker of leather sheaths for knives.
I had a phone call with a Japanese friend the other day, and she told me she also quit (deactivated her account) Facebook. Since their traffic is still on the climb, it seems the birth rate is simply outpacing the death rate as we are starting to hear about more and more people quitting. There will be so many lessons learned from Facebook 10 years from now.
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The story links to the complete Forbes list. For amusement only. I'm not sure what their criteria are, but lots of places in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and other such red states/rust belt cities are high on the list for you to start your careers or companies.

San Francisco is 127, San Jose is 115, and Los Angeles is 180. I moved to San Luis Obispo County, CA, when it was #8. Now it is is deep into the triple digits. Sic Transit Gloria.
Huh, from the title I expected an article about tipping the other way.

The general population is learning how broad, expansive, and one-sided copyright law has become. Learning the extent that governments are on the payroll of big media corporations and how the laws, treaties, and enforcement are largely to protect thier bottom line.

People think it's absurd to be sued for signing happy birthday or reading a book outloud to their child.
You can be a slob dress and grooming-wise 80% of the time but know how to look good 20% of the time when it matters. That's the key, to be able to shift up a gear.

It can also be cheap to be fit, exercise gives you new thoughts, and doesn't take long. The downside of exercise is injury, over-exertion and poor form. Again, like clothes, you don't have to be fit all the time, you can ramp it up when you want to start giving off some pheromones with your new clothes.

Diet is crucial all the time. Here's the key: avoid all processed foods and stay away from trans-fats. Choose water.
Game Maker was my start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Maker. Maybe I used it from version 2.x until 5. I had a blast with it, it got me started with the web as I wanted to make it available for download and it got my started with distribution. I think every computer in my middle school computer lab had versions of my games by the time I left. I even sold a few games for 5 bucks.
I got my start because simply I want to program games. I still program games to this day, although with a bit more realistic expectation.
#1 and #2 require substantial legal expense and a lot of subsequent sales and support management effort. And unless a founder has a prior experience building this kind of organizational infrastructure, it will be a very painful experience to go through. All in all, it's a project that is simply too risky for the investors to put their money into.
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Ok:

1. This doesn't account for undiscovered reserves.
2. This doesn't account for the ability to substitute one mineral with another in some applications (copper was replaced with zinc in pennies, and aluminum in wires when the price went up).
3. This doesn't account for consumers responding to higher prices as a resource becomes scarce by substituting an entire product or technology for another (as the price of energy increases, more people in dry climates switch from AC to swamp coolers).

And on and on and on.
4.
So your argument is that women don't have shitty, infantile tastes so much as shitty, infantile priorities, then?
(Insert standard comment about graphing calculators as a typical starting point.)
Armstrong's book plus the style guide...I'll post the link to that when I get a chance. It's overlooked.

Edit: Submitted the style and efficiency guides, check "New."
I don't think you can do much except use filters + aggressive labelling as spam for a while. Hopefully after a while when you've got down the filters to an art form, unwanted things should stop hitting your inbox.
Very cool short, but I don't see how it is even remotely related to relativistic physics..
Someone needs to build a Wordpress-like application that lets anyone with limited technical knowledge build an Iphone app
So your argument is that women don't have shitty, infantile tastes so much as shitty, infantile priorities, then?

I guess now we know what time_management's new nickname is...
Actually, the article seems to regret the way Microsoft looks like it's about to shoot itself somewhere very painful (after having already shot itself in the foot with Vista).
Your best bet is to use Gmail's filtering feature for stuff you know is spam for sure. Make sure to make the filter mark it as spam.
The post actually contained some very good tips for any beginning designer, although the title does the article a disservice ("Why Do Web Designers Suck at Programming?")
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Because some do not care enough about other users' experience -- like didn't bother submitting the proper permalink at the bottom of the page.
Unfortunately, paying online is also quite an inconvenience if you live in an area where credit cards are an exception, not the norm.

The Dutch banking sector solved it quite nicely by creating an online payment system (supported by almost all banks) that's well integrated into their online banking systems[1]. It works for the national market, but when your browsing crosses the border, you're back into the territory of the infernal credit card.

In this country, the credit card is often seen as a road to debt and as insecure. The banks' system is seen as much more trustworthy. Even if it doesn't support chargebacks, where the CC does...

I suppose that moving from no-risk piracy to risky paying is a hurdle in and of itself, even if the risk is just perceived.

[1] It's called iDEAL. It even has a Wikipedia page in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL
It never ceases to amaze me how often my countrymen translate their national quirks into English...
Visualization of SBCL Development History [video]
See how one man's private hack becomes a movement to take a free optimizing Common Lisp implementation (CMUCL) and make it self-hosting and bootstrapping from ANY Common Lisp implementation, adding unicode, threads, porting to Win32, statistical profiling, code coverage, a massive ANSI regression test suite .. the story continues at http://www.sbcl.org/
> People think it's absurd to be sued for signing happy birthday or reading a book outloud to their child.

When did that happen?
See how one man's private hack becomes a movement to take a free optimizing Common Lisp implementation (CMUCL) and make it self-hosting and bootstrapping from ANY Common Lisp implementation, adding unicode, threads, porting to Win32, statistical profiling, code coverage, a massive ANSI regression test suite .. the story continues at http://www.sbcl.org/
Using HTML 5 now would only mean using wellformed documents and dropping "deprecated" attributes and elements from your HTML document (e.g. not using font, cellspacing, etc attributes). You don't have to use the new elements introduced (since IE pretends such elements don't exist).
Would also be very unscrupulous to upload such a thing without the folks from YC's consent. However interesting it would be, I would hope that no one would actually do this.

Personally, I'd much rather just find out how an interview goes by actually going to an interview.
I don't think I've seen him post here, though he's probably aware of the pg/yc scene, at least peripherally.
well, it is. they just try (and fail) to make it appear otherwise.
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Create a whitelist using gmail's filters.
On a related note, I'm working with a friend to make a Python version of Logo, that old thing with the turtle you could program to make drawings.
http://www.squeakland.org/