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Ask YC: Review my project: meta.li News for Startup Hackers
The link: http://meta.li

The description: I like the Drudge Report. In a glance I get what's happening in politics and major news. Chances are, if I spend 10 minutes reading Drudge I'll up on any major news related topic that comes up in conversation. It also has a sort of scandalous feel to it, which is fun.

I created meta.li as a Drudge-like site for startup news. It pulls from a few sources and ranks them by authority (notably HN, the highest ranked source) and sorts articles based on a number of parameters. I've used it as my primary source of news for a couple months and I'm pretty pleased with it. Feedback is welcome.
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The timeline might be kind of tight, but your best bet might be to interview at another company and get an idea how they value your skillset.

Also, check out glassdoor.com and see if the company has any salary information posted there.
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nowhere in there does it say that there will never be a native-app sdk. you are putting words in his mouth.
Before you approach the recruiter about this I would consider the potential repercussions on your friend for sharing his/her salary information with you.

It could be that your friend is a better negotiator or it could be that there was something on your resumes or in your histories that, while you may consider it minute, was of some importance to this company.
I wish they don't allow caps but everyone know the FCC is a corrupt board of folks..... Sad but true..
This seem to be the most complex Twitter clone out there. I'm talking about an open source one...
To generalize, I'd say "lazyweb" questions are GREAT on Twitter.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lazyweb

Anything where a person is going to make a better judgment than an algorithm, from product recommendations (which are better from friends than strangers) to "which of these pictures is a better shot of me?" type of judgment calls.
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Can someone refresh my memory of how SQLite handles concurrency? Doesn't it block on writes or something?

For a long time I've thought a spiritual successor to Access, Filemaker, etc. based on SQLite would be a great idea.
What about how the two compared when they interacted (British Empire comes to mind)
I use 'conkeror' as my main web browser, which is a emacs-like browser running on xulrunner.

I can have 10+ pages open and switch rapidly to the one i want by typing C-x b <3 letters of a keyword> return
For me this beats regular tabs.
My partner and I started a company together and we both work out of our home. We did not want to spend a lot of money on a phone system. We did some research and we signed up for a virtual pbx service online. We configured the system in less then a half hour including getting our greetings recorded. The virtual pbx system helps us sound more professional and streamlined our communications. We have been using http://www.iTeleCenter.com for a few years and we have been very happy with the service.
this is a performance art. a relatively simple an awesome addition would be something that would record a session and replay it.

then build a simple social net/comments ratings on sessions.
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Laconica is open source...
I think it blocks on write for 'the smallest possible time' (its does as much of the data change preparation as possible before locking the database).

If you are just using it as a single user for generating excel style reports then this doesn't really matter.

I have been thinking for a while that if I had to export a significant amount of data from an app for a tech savvy audience, I would probably send it out in an Sqlite DB instead of XML.
How badly do you want the job?

If you don't want it that badly, just turn the offer down, because the company has already screwed up once and you're not even working for them yet.

If you want or need the job, try to push your offer up 30% but settle for 20%. This won't put you at the same level as you friend, but take comfort in the fact that he'll be axed before you. At 6 months, quit if you're getting crappy assignments, not learning anything, or otherwise being underestimated; if you're getting good projects and doing good work, negotiate another 15% raise at the end of the year, and another 15% at the end of the year after that, closing the discrepancy.

Do not mention the discrepancy to them. You won't make any friends by doing this, since most companies hate when employees discuss or compare salaries with each other, and you don't want to put your friend's career in jeopardy. If it's that much of a big deal to you, then don't take the job.
There's a Reaktor ensemble based on Life: http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=r5library&... (see "NEWSCOOL")

It doesn't sound too great actually, or at least it's quite obvious to the ear once you've heard it being used once. Fun to play with though.
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> Having access to that code allows me to tightly integrate it with Excel, so much so, that I can use Excel functions (built-in functions, VBA user-defined functions and 3rd party add-in functions) directly from SQLite’s SQL; and vice-versa, access SQL functionality via Excel "formula" calls.

This sounds really cool and is available here: http://blog.gobansaor.com/projects/xlite/
If you have a database that's just hash style, why not stick it in a DBM-style database and get a major performance increase?
TextEdit isn't a text editor; it's a rich text editor.
2 weeks seems like a lot of effort to waste on something without good reason. Maybe there is some sort of magical thing that you only get after using it but it doesn't seem likely to me. I'll try and keep an open mind though, maybe I'll see something that will convince me otherwise.
What about the spread of existing hubs? How much bigger is Silicon Valley than it was a couple of decades ago? How many start-ups and how much land will it encompass in another 20 years?
Yes, that's what I said.
Because there's Revou which is another clone but it is commercial and I don't know how complex it is.

And I think Jaiku went open source (maybe under another name?), but I am not sure...
it could be that there was something on your resumes or in your histories that, while you may consider it minute, was of some importance to this company.

An example would be an investment banking internship in college. Banking internships often pay $1300-1500/week (although the hours are hellish, even for interns); the company might have decided that he should be making more than he was as an intern.

The degree of the discrepancy is worrisome, though. If it were 70k vs 80k, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but his friend's being offered almost 50% more than he is.
i agree with this. there are many reasons why he might have a higher offer that can't be put on a resume.

do not bring your knowledge up to anyone. however, you could probably negotiate higher with confidence knowing that they're likely willing to go higher. worth a shot.
IBM's mistake wasn't allowing other PC operating systems to survive. (CP/M was only 8 bit and not a threat.) It was allowing Microsoft to license MS-DOS to other hardware manufacturers. They simply didn't understand the threat. They do now.

(Another way to think about it: If IBM had retained license to DOS, the only 2 laptops you could buy today would be Apple & Lenova.)
Did the recruiter contact you with the offer or did the hiring manager? Do you both work through the same recruiter?

Any number of variables could lead to the discrepancy. You're likely being offered positions on different teams with different budgets. As crappy as it sounds, salary offers are often based more on budget than relative worth.

Within a given company, there can be a wide range of recruitment approaches. One recruiter may expect you to haggle more than another. My advice for first-time job seekers is to do one, at most two offer-counter-offer rounds. Remember that in these kinds of negotiations, the relationship is more important than the particular outcome. Being hated on day 1 sucks.
By default it does deferred transactions (exclusive lock is only acquired when you need to commit), but if you use insert/update/delete outside a transaction, each statement is it's own transaction.

Locking is database-wide, although IIRC there's some branch that can do table-level locking.
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Yes, but it's a little more involved: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
Are you a woman? And yea, I know that shouldn't matter but you never know. I'd say the scales just tipped in your favor for negotiations, you know for a fact they are willing to go significantly higher.

Update: Geez guys, down vote the messenger. He asked about salary discrepancy and I happened to ask about one of the top reasons. It's real and it's really not fair, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't ask about it.
The most popular is BerkeleyDB and it's license isn't very friendly for commercial apps. Rest of what I tested are really slow.

Also, most of DBM-style databases suffer from same flaws as disk-based SQLite - they don't use memory cache. I prefer to have slight chance of losing my data, but having 10-100 times faster performance on most queries (RAM vs HDD is often 1:100), rather than 100% consistency and slowness.

Last, but not least, hash-style mySQL is easily distributed and cached.
If you want to see startup revolution as the norm, just go to Asia. I'm sure Paul Graham has seen the scale of small business across the Mideast, China, Southeast Asia, for that matter the whole world, I just haven't been to South America so I can't speak about that.

It's kinda helpful to look past your own borders sometimes. There's a lot more lint in the world than just in your own belly button.
Sorry, I failed to mention that I use Linux, hence the "I miss" part of my rant.
We're both guys.
This is great. Vuzit continually does amazing work.
The difference is that you can visit a website without adding it to your Springboard. You can't try an app, however, without adding it to your Springboard. I'm weighing requirements vs. options.
Back in my Delphi days I once came across a nasty compiler bug. That was fun.
Without divulging too much information about this company's hiring process, here's a little more information. The jobs are abroad, so the company looks to hire people in pairs in order to ease the relocation process. We have different recruiters, but our recruiters knew we were both applying for these jobs as a pair.

This might be naive of me, but if I were one of the recruiters, I'd probably assume that the two people being hired would discuss and compare their offers before making a decision.
I don't think you need to put 'feedback is welcome' on a entry where you are asking for a review.

I think you may have a bit too much of a crush on "drudge resport' as well. Just like Drudge, your site is almost unusable. Forget the 3 column layout. It might work for them, it doesn't work for you. Your text is too small for headlines. You want to grab the users attention, and make them click, right now, i'm barely reading what you've got.

That top section with the centered text and yellow border, i thought it was an ad and ignored it at first. Now I see it is a headlines section.

In general..not good.
different tools for different tasks. as far as setup time goes, sqlite wins by a long shot.
Who knows might be a clerical error, contact the HR and tell them that you know the going rate for this position is 60-70K for example, and ask them to explain why you are getting paid so much less
Worth a long look. Very good!
I'm curious as to the point of building a Twitter clone (other than because you can). It seems that Twitter has really captured the market for 140 char messages.

What is the differentiator here?
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initial impression is overload. I tried to scan quickly, and it was just too much. You should do a layout similar to this site, hacker news. Easier to scan for content im interested in.
Told ya (mostly): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555649
I am one of those people who just don't get twitter. I have some friends on it, it seems to me all they use it for is pointless chit-chat. I am slightly intrigued by the potential for real-time search. Like the picture of the plane in the Hudson which appeared on twitter. But how do you rank search results? What about people like me, whose work requires deep focus, how would I with minimal twittering ever generate enough followers to get something out of a twitter search?
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Wow, this is really cool but they all have one huge caveat: "You need to learn how to use a 3D design program like..."

What a huge opportunity for an enterprising businessperson: Send us a broken part, we'll make you another. No design skills needed!
I'd switch to his recruiter:)
I bet the author just made the "make sure to audit him" list.
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very good, I like it!
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I agree. Getting an offer from another company will provide some perspective (as well as an alternative should you decide against the current one).

Also, can you get more info on what "entry-level" means at the company? At IBM (my first job out of college) I started as a band 6 - if you're coming in as band 6 and your friend is coming in as band 7 there will definitely be a discrepancy in salary. (I don't think the offer letter will include this info and you most likely won't find out until your annual review unless you ask.)

At another company I worked a lot depended on how you did in the interview process - I saw people with a couple years experience get hired as SE1 (software engineer 1) or SET (software engineer test) while a new college grad might get hired as a SE2 (software engineer 2) - just because he did better on the (technical) interviews.

So, if possible, find out what your exact position will be and how it compares to your friend.

And finally, the best time to find a job is when you don't need one. It might be worth taking the current job just to get experience and buy time to look around.
This is a fabulous enhancement to your already great product. Security is a major concern for us, and we love where this is going. Cheers!
That is a very good point. Ironically enough I was first hire at a biotechnology startup which turned out be a small business. It stayed in business but it failed to scale.
The first rule of negotiation is to not give a shit.

If you care about the job, you risk losing it, if you don't give a shit, you will more often than not walk away with a better deal.

If you're ok with the odds, just tell them that you think the offer is very low based on your research online and after talking to career services at school, along with the fact that you thought the interviews went great and that you have student loans (all great reasons to ask for more money, come up with more). If you got the contact info of your interviewer (not HR, the real person who makes decisions) - email them expressing strong interest in the position.

But, above all, be prepared to walk away at any time, if they think they have you, then they have no incentive to give you more cash.

If this was a startup might advise would be totally different, at that point you're doing a job out of love than just for money :)
I'm on twitter too, but I'm not using it for personal blabbing, i used it to promote my site tripntale. I only have 1 friend that is using twitter religiously to broadcast what she's doing everyday, and she's a housewife, albeit a lonely one.
You're a lightweight! I work with somebody who never closes buffers (with ido-mode and enough of RAM, there's just not much point). When I met him, his Emacs session had over 1100 buffers open.

Then he found midnight-mode. I think these days he tends to have only 300-some-odd buffers open at any one time.
Electronic, and by sources I mean forums or blogs. Somewhere with interesting people like HN, but with an electronics focus.

It was 4 or 5 years ago that I first heard of Stripe Snoop http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/ I thought it sounded like an interesting project, I'm not sure if it's dead now, but certainly interested me at the time. I was also intrigued by Zed's rant about programmable peddles.
My workspace last year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rend/2381390598/

Now I prefer to head off to some wooded area with Mac Book Pro unibody + mobile wifi hotspot setup in my FJ Cruiser.
Actually that's for the PRO edition (actually it's currently $799 USD.) It's $299 USD for the standard one.

I absolutely defy you to come up with a better IDE with better support (MSDN, etc.) It is a joy to work with.

They DO take care of their devs and always have.
Oh god, not Oliver Reichenstein. That guy is an absolute know-nothing clown - the typical useless twittering "expert" with a pretentious self-chosen job title (he is an "Information Architect" but a non-programmer) and no clue about how the world actually works but willing to spout nonsense to anyone that listens - which they unfortunately sometimes do. He's like the Joel Spolsky of information architecture, sans the actual technical skill.

I don't even want to type one more thing about this nong. I refer you to a (badly written, ranty) thing I wrote last year about one of his more ridiculous articles: http://fukamachi.org/wp/2008/06/09/the-revolution-is-not-ove...

Don't pay any attention to him please.
Constantinople wasn't part of the muslim world in the middle ages, it was the center of eastern orthodox christianity, it lost its fight with the western branch, and eventually was conquered by the muslims :) (well, depends on your definition of middle ages, but the opinion that middle ages ended with the fall of Constantinople is quite popular).
When I see stories like this, I always wonder what happened internally at the company.

When they launched the DiggBar, I'm sure most people at Digg thought it was a good idea. But they must have had some reservations. They must have acknowledged the mere possibility that the DiggBar would incite the kind of anger and hatred that it did. So, from a business perspective, why did they launch it? They forever tarnished their brand for something that doesn't really seem to be worth it. It'd be interesting to know what happened in the meetings where they discussed this stuff.

Also, I wonder how long it took them to realize they were really upsetting a lot of people, and that they made a mistake. Were there phone calls? Yelling? Meetings?

I had the same questions about Facebook Beacon (but, unlike the DiggBar, I thought that was a good idea).
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See, that's reasonable.
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I have nothing against this company but 4 of the 6 comments on this story are by accounts created minutes ago and the other two are by accounts who don't have comments on any other story.

The story itself is not really clear on what the value of this thing is.
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enterprise microblogging?
John Gruber is going to be a happy man today :)
There was a great image in a slide-deck at Web 2.0 Expo where the announcing cone was turned around.
You need to listen to your customers more than you shout at them.
Webwright mentioned 37Signals shouts and markets like mad, but I believe they (in contrast to Jason Calcanis) listen more or just as much as they shout. Could be that is just their marketing spin though.
It is not a doomsday scenario. It will be simply a different world, and people will get used to it (well, at least, they will have no other option). Our problems of today aren't very happy either, and if you told someone in 1950 how the world will look in 2009, he would call it insane and doomsday scenario too :)
As much as I was against the DiggBar, I'm going to keep it enabled in my Digg account. I find it extremely useful - as I do the Reddit bar (which is essentially the same thing with a better implementation). I just believed it shouldn't be the default.

If I send someone a link using the Reddit Bar and they're not logged in with the option turned on, they get redirected to the proper url. This is how it should've been from the start.

Thank you Digg for listening to the community - even though it took some yelling.
I have to second this. I've been using the Tree Tab addon for months now and have a hard time going back. I definitely wouldn't want to be without it for any widescreen monitors (e.g. every laptop I own).

I now, on average, have ~20 tabs open. When doing lots of fast research or having a very multi-tasking day, it will hit 40 or so tabs. But it doesn't feel like hell, it feels great, because they're all organized in trees/collapsible, and are just a very visible/readable list on the left side.

In normal Firefox or Chrome, I never let myself get more than 15 tabs deep because they're not organized in a meaningful way and feel like unsearchable clutter. With the tree-style tabs on the left, it's really easy to organize/reorganize them and feels more normal to have lots of them open at once if you need.

I unofficially challenge everyone reading this to try that tree-style tab addon for a month and see if you feel more productive/efficient using that over the top-style tabs. It will feel slightly weird at first, but give it that week/month and I bet you'll prefer it when you're done.

Here's the link if you need it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

Edit: If you're not convinced, tell me which is easier to skim quickly.

This:

* GMail, thorax
* Active by Milest...
* thread sync - Google Sea...
* MSDN - WaitForSingleObj...
* Twitter / Home...
* CNN.com - Breaking N...
* Congressman came under fire in ...
* Jailbird ruffles features ...
* hello - Google Sea...
* hacker news - Google Sea...

or this:

> GMail, thorax | Active by Milest... | thread sync - Google Sea... | MSDN - WaitForSinglObj... | Twitter / Home... | CNN.com - Breaking N... | hello - Google Sea... | Congressman came under fire in ... | hacker news - Google Sea... | Jailbird ruffles features ...
I guess this resembles the case of the social networks out there. There are some general leaders (Facebook, Myspace, Hi5) and some niche leaders (Linkedin and other dozen of niche social networks).

And a bit resembles also with the search engine situation: Google is the leader but that doesn't stop entrepreneurs to build niche search engines or even take on Google directly.

Twitter is the leader, no doubt. But a Twitter clone could have a specific niche (Yammer, for example, is much more oriented to enterprise "twittering").

Laconica just offers you, free, the mean to build such a niche service without being necessary to hire developers. Like there are lots of social networking software...or video sharing software (Youtube clones).
Exactly...Yammer does that.
Interesting...I used a Youtube clone software to build a niche video sharing service. Of course, I never hope to reach Youtube mass...and I don't intent to.
"And in actual fact it is very rare to hear a good idea from a group we don't want to fund." -- pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=548299

My co-founder noted that the rejection email contradicted this, but I'm sure there is some there is an explanation such as we are bad at selecting successful startups. It is tough to really know for sure, because while some of the groups selected fail, some of the ones who ought to have been selected will never succeed on their own when they may have with some guidance. So don't blame yourself, there are two parties involved and neither are God, just human.