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Why is HN wrapped in a Center tag?
I read a lot of the comments here on a blackberry. Since the BB strips tables/css by default, all of the text appears centered on the device (very annoying). If HN could remove the <center> tag that wraps everything and just use a centered wrapping div, I (and I'm sure others) would be very grateful. Thanks!!
No proof at all. I was just trying to point out that your initial suggestion that picking up 400,000 followers in three days didn't deserve "hype" was unfounded.
I have chills down my spine too :D
As Mikhail Gorvachev wrote in his book "Perestroika" the big problem with the Soviet Union was its mentality:
"More work=better"
"More materials used=better"
"More time spent=better"
"More effort applied=better"

People cared more about "looking" hard working, that about the actual product itself.

He learned looking at capitalist that naturals were rewarded (people that make some things "effortless"). In communism talented were bad seen.

"Less work doing the same= better"

If something did what it had to do with half the work it was considered twice better, not twice bad.

Look at this, I was in a big company that valued programming work per lines of code written!!. This is like valuing the worth of a plane by weight in direct proportion.If my code works with ten time less code,its really much better.
I bought ones to try out. I used it for 5 days straight walking around extensively in banff, and let me tell you my feet were in AGNOY! I did a lot of pavement walking although with it, to see if they would work as a shoe replacement. They did not, and my feet didn't really adjust at all.
There's no direct english translation, but the term "su zhi" has class, cultural, economic and even ethical implications beyond that of just education level.

It (very) roughly means something like "basic cultural quality level."

To focus on the "education" inflection of that word could result in misunderstood arguments like the Chinese government wants to keep its population uneducated. If anything, their basic educational policies over the past few decades have been the complete opposite of that.
Is there a waiting list? They are seriously underpricing this, assuming it can hold up to industrial material handling use...
Thanks, I needed some new shoes and was about to ask where I could get "Shoes that let your foot function like you're barefoot - they're the shoes for me.", as the article quotes. Even though the TPV shoes are about $100 more than I would normally spend I'll get them next.
And, apparently, they will throw in some winning sarcasm.
I like your approach! It would be nice to at least offer them a bed in your broom closet. When we were starting out we paid our summer interns a little above minimum wage (one of their mom's was a tough negotiator) and let them sleep on our couches.

They still talk about it as one of the best summers of their lives, and for the ones that didn't stay with us, it definitely helped them get better jobs later in life.

Part of your pitch should be (and might be) an involvement in more than just low level coding so that you attract people who understand that working for a startup at such a raw stage will be a unique experience that both you and they hope will be priceless.
The name Cyberdyne made me think this is a hoax. It's not, right?
I dare you, kill it, there is still Postgres, SQLite, and others to replace MySql.

So no, Oracle can't kill MySql, it is like the RIAA trying to kill file sharing.
1. real estate brokers are typically state licensed. State licensing boards often have online databases with good contact info.
2. he probably owns real estate. if you can narrow it down to a county, check that county's property records (also often on the net). Nexis/Lexis or Westlaw also has decent nationwide searches.
3. some counties also keep records on personal property, i.e. cars. he's probably run to a relative, is his car in their driveway?
4. +1 to the previous recommendation to send him an email containing a link, to get his IP.
5. zabasearch for established addresses (does he have a second home? relatives?)

Frankly, this type of thing is a lot harder than it seems. Although, law enforcement should be able to run his social security and credit card numbers to find him. Once he settles somewhere and his new info has time to get into the "system" it will be easier for you to find him.
I was the same way...

I never EVER worse shoes in the summer time. By the end of it, I could walk across pavement without feeling the burn :)
Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates
I had never looked but the HN styling is pretty ghetto.
Apple Rejects App For Using An Icon That Resembles An iPhone
I'd agree with you. I don't know much about cs students, but engineering internships usually always pay. While looking for engineering internships the range seemed to be between 12 and 20 an hour.

I have offered to work for free, but whenever I have done that, I have been informed that the internship paid. Also, I have only volunteered that when the internship was close to home. I understand that the startup might not be able to afford to pay, but I don't really know how affordable it would be for me to volunteer and have to pay for food, housing, and transportation.

The offer would be a whole lot more attractive if you offered housing, even if housing was just sharing a room with another employee.
Sounding arrogant does not equate being arrogant.
My guess is that it has not gotten a lot of traction because it appears to be completely vaporware, and it's hard to get excited about something that doesn't exist, and does not seem to be on a path to completion.

The Internet, and the VC startup world, is littered with fancy product illustrations, mocked-up demos, and empty press releases. What makes this one worthy of a fan-club above all the others?
I kept thinking of Oblivion while reading this story. Rings very true.
A detailed explanation of those 10 steps would be greatly appreciated. Teach a man to fish, and all that.
"A customer is the most
important visitor on our premises. he is not dependent on us. We are dependent
on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not
an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by
serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."
- Gandhi
Ok, just for the record: $12-$20/hr is about the range I'm arguing internships seem to land. The original claim was that interns should be making $5k/mo.

I agree with you that the big thing missing here is housing. On the other hand, if you mostly plan on picking up locals, housing doesn't matter. We pay interns, but we still end up with Chicago and NYC people for the same reason.
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I would start with the email. Headers store quite a bit of information, and can usually tell you where the email started from. Start by contacting whoever the email originated from.

Unfortunately, its rather easy to get beyond the range any realistic, legal tracking can be done. Your best bet of finally tracking the person down is to go by the phone number, but that will likely (if he knows what he's doing) be a pre-paid phone with fake information that has no way to be traced back to him (other than rough estimates of location, and the phone companies are unlikely to release that kind of information).

Its really unfortunate that most of cyber-forensics relies on analysis of computer systems to prove that a person did something, rather than finding and tracking down who did it.

With all that said, the good news is that a few Google searches may turn up some useful information. Google the phone number, email and name, maybe you'll get lucky and either find the person bragging about it, or someone else in the same situation.
Don't forget that much of the article is talking about injuries in professional runners, not amateurs.
There's been a bunch of debates on HN about a pragmatic, simplest-thing-that-works approach to HTML vs. proper xHTML/CSS. This post is a good example of why the latter (sometimes) matters.
Just think if the iPhone did video like, you know, every other phone on the market. Of course, maybe that would be a bad thing for a childbirth.
"In the survey, they asked respondents if they have downloaded free music, and avoided the phrase "illegal. The results therefore provide a degree of uncertainty range, as there are also free legal services"

Isn't this just a survey that says that people who have downloaded music for money are 10x more likely to have downloaded music than people who haven't downloaded music at all?
I do love the Flickr integration.
I don't believe it is very strong. I believe it's designed to provide enhanced mobility to old people and others with limited movement abilities. Not to enable geeks to chuck cars at one another.
Apple has made it signficantly easy for a programmer to throw together something nice w/ the default GUI widget set. It might limit him from the game segment, but there is still lots to do.
I know.. I spent a non-insignificant amount of time looking/hoping for the 'next page' link
This is one of those ideas that sounds wonderful, just like the touchscreen of the iPhone sounded wonderful... But people are rightly skeptical of things that claim to be game-changing which haven't launched.

The instant this exists and a reporter slips it on and can "type" 70 WPM with minimal errors (with no learning curve) is the PR shoots straight up.

Until it's changed the life of a single user, it's science fiction. I'll cheer 'em on in the meantime (just like I'll cheer for TechCrunch's 'CrunchPad'), but I'd go hoarse if I evangalized every game-changing product that hasn't been built yet.

(Flying car? Jet Pack?)
Yes, which seems rather uninformative. Also, the article appears to be written by a twelve year old.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10223183-2.html

that looks like the startup you're talking about
Because they can't? It's open source regardless of the "corporate nest" it may reside in.
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I wonder how popular this feature will actually get. From an AI standpoint, its pretty cool. But personally I haven't run into very many instances where if I search for some image, I find it, and now I want another one that looks just like it.
Advice: Make it do one thing well before you ad a job search and all this other stuff.

I don't think I'd use this for a serious business, but I might use it if I needed 10,000 for some little project.
It doesn't really matter whether you explicitly made the comparison or not. Science and engineering are totally different things, but you drew a bright-line distinction between them (as a group) and the humanities.

It's far easier to find a job as an engineer than as a scientist. That's all I'm saying.
I'm gonna go with nutrition and training.
You seem to have gotten a lot of good suggestions. It sounds like the easiest is to get the police to subpoena the phone company or the email provider. It seems like the police are working on that.

If they won't do that, do it yourself. The easy way is to just do a reverse phone number look up. I found a site that will do single lookup for around $15. It may not be accurate, but that is relatively inexpensive. But I don't see why the police would not have already done this if possible.

Address lookup: http://www.numberinvestigator.com/

Otherwise, you will probably need a court order, but I don't believe that should be too hard to get.It sounds like the amount might be small enough to be handled by small claims court. So just file a case yourself. I don't think he actually needs to get served, you just have to make a reasonable effort. Since you can't get his address, I'd hire a process server, or just try to contact him through all means possible.. If the judge won't accept your efforts to serve him, I think you could reasonably subpoena the phone company for his address. If he doesn't show up, you will easily win, and I am sure you can obtain his address through a court order for collection purposes.

Of course I am not a lawyer, so I might be totally wrong in what I suggest.

How to file a case in small claims:http://consumerist.com/consumer/small-claims-court/how-to-ta...
There are multiple well understood ways of limiting the effects of biological activity. It's not like compost heaps or breweries have eaten civilization yet.
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This article was very interesting and inspiring. Also meditative in an unexpected way.
Poll: Mac or PC
Just curious... what are you on?
It's an auto-translation from a foreign article. I found it on gizmodo but prefer to link the source article. Here's the post:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5219587/study-finds-pirates-buy-10x-mor...
> Posterous is great and all, but it has nothing on the communication-legos that is Twitter's API.

Posterous's "api" is that it accepts posts via email. Is that really that much harder to integrate with than twiter's api?
Running on dirt, forest floor, sand, even plain rocks, is quite possible barefoot. The sole does need substantial acclimation to it, though (something we all used to have.)
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I've got a couple of reasons that I think have more influence:

- When voice acting isn't in your own language, you don't notice the flaws so acutely.

- A lot of anime dubs (especially older ones) were made by people who just didn't care about quality. This seems to be changing.
Recruiting and growing talent - The disciplined approach of the Baltimore Ravens.
Are duplicate posts only impossible within a period of n days?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263571
I can't tell if this comment is serious or not.
We all know this isn't the first nor the last thing that come before its time. But even in this case I think all that is needed is a single person with enough will and dedication to shake things up and at least move them in the right direction. If that isn't you, and it certainly isn't me ;) (don't get me wrong, I like the concept but I'm not really interested in using it... much less in bringing it to masses), the world will just have to wait for someone who is. Given that this product has the future. And I'd merely wish I could try it out to see how good I'd be typing in midair :) - honestly. My main problem with this thing is that I believe not many people would be able to use it easily...
I'm not acting like its weird to offer an internship, merely pointing out that not offering some form of guaranteed payment in exchange for work will exclude a group of people who don't have the money (either set aside or from an outside source) to do such a thing.

Unless you're seriously suggesting that someone should take out a few thousand dollars worth loans in order to go move hundreds or thousands of miles across the country in order to work without knowing if they'll be able to pay that money back anytime soon? Which is more of a troll then anything I've said IMO. Not that I can see how anything I've personally said in this thread is a troll at all, but we all have different perspectives on things and definitions of trolling, so I suppose that's subjective.

From when I was looking at internships for this upcoming summer, there's not that many Engineering/CS internships that are unpaid. An overwhelming majority of the unpaid internships are Marketing/PR/PolSci internships. The Engineering/CS companies tend to realize that its a good idea to pay people for doing work.
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Voice acting does not sell games. Pretty screenshots sell games. Companies optimize accordingly.

(See also: Why do companies with engineering budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars come out with websites that look like they were designed by an artistically talented 15 year old in flash in 1998?)
I just reread my post. I was referring to the startup not paying, not anyone else.

I agree with you. Royalty is a very surprising offer. But their most competitive applicants will probably be local. I don't really know how to judge the expected worth of the royalty, and the cost seems like it would be expensive for anyone not local.
one of each
I know, I know. There's just a very tiny slice of talent for which this is a good deal: if you can't make a business that generates, say, $40K in a year, this internship pays worse than most others. If you're able to do much better than that, though, the 10% revenue share seems pretty minor, when you could pay some of the upfront costs and get 100% instead.

It's the only software internship I've heard of with those terms, but in New York lots of startups looking for biz-dev interns will compensate like that.
That doesn't sound right. It's a pastiche of things Gandhi might have said, except that he would surely not have used the word "customer" in this way. That comes from the language of 20th century capitalism, which Gandhi abhorred.
The handshake picture is positively chilling. Does anybody respond well to such imagery these days?
"We interview people for culture fit. We want people who are passionate about what Zappos is about--service. I don't care if they're passionate about shoes."

I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is. Perhaps I'm used to software--in which jobs aren't [hopefully!] excessively tedious--but I'm sure lots of us participate in non-work-related forums and mailing lists, helping others for free, just because we are passionate about the subject matter.
But Fog Creek is small. Both of my offers for this summer were at least 30/hour.

Furthermore, the average wage at my school is 22/hour (for ECE interns).
I would provide a personal anecdote:

The shoes I use (I did not like Vibrams) are http://feelmax.com/panka_leather.html. They have a very thin (3mm?) kevlar compound outsole to protect the foot from glass, sharp rocks etc. It is thin enough to fully feel the ground texture underfoot. I am a bicyclist, so aside from a few trials, my experience is limited to "barefoot" walking.

According to the fairly reasonable theory that the human foot and leg is best suited for toe-stepping (like most animals), not the heel, I also modified my gait to stepping on the ball of the foot. After an adjustment period (and finding some pretty much unused leg muscles), it provides for a far more fluid movement, with the leg muscles and ligaments acting as shock absorbers. Trying heel-stepping thereafter brings to focus the fairly harsh impact each step actually causes in that mode of transportation. Plus toe-stepping helps keeping balance on slippery surfaces.
I'm just tired of seeing what seems to be first class ideas like this sidelined while streams of clone digital cameras, media players, GPS receivers, cellphones and so on pour into the market as if the world wont be satisfied until there's ten models for every human - and that needs to happen yesterday!)

It always seems that what could be built and hasn't been is so much better than what can be built and is. This is how technology matures. The market explores the new space with tons of releases with tons of features. Eventually, the best features are evolved and incorporated into all models via consumer selection. Sometimes this takes "ten models for every human" before we come up with the one model for every human.

The thing I've found about most of these sound-bite vaporware products that are going to "change the world when its released", is that most suffer from the 95% problem. The idea 95% works. But the 5% that doesn't makes it unusable.

In this example, perhaps it works just like a keyboard! The only thing we haven't been able to solve yet is that it confuses j and n 25% of the time. So its useless.

Many products get into the 95% phase, generate all of their buzz, tout their impending, world changing release, and then flame out struggling for that last 5%. To make matters worse, their investors then sell the leftover company for pennies to patent trolls who ensure that its not worth it for anyone else to solve that last 5% either.
If you are going to carry around a pocket projector, why not use the bluetooth laser virtual keyboard. And best of all, it's not vaporware.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/8193/
My biggest question is: does this work? Or are we sure it can be made to work?

It seems to me that interpreting your keystrokes from tendon movements would be hard.

But if this can be done, I would buy one immediately.
Its not a hoax. I used to work with folks who were tangentially involved with the project (their team and the other team went to the same robo conferences) and got to see the tech demos.

Their favorite one is suiting up a comely young Japanese lady and then having her lift various "That must be impossible!" objects. (30~50 kg of rice and the male presenter being two favorites.)
Check out Angelsoft and Kiva and figure out how you differentiate yourself from them.
When you create a patent, are you obligated to follow through with the creation of the product/idea to keep the rights to it, and if so, do you have a limit?

Or can the creator of this idea just wait for somebody else to create it, and then sue for patent infringement? (if he has a patent, that is)
> If my head was moving at 10mph towards brick wall, a half-inch of dense rubber would probably make a whole lot of difference.

Once, yes it would help. Do that a few thousand times, you'll still get brain damage.
There are similar devices and ideas, aggregated here: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6670894.html

Personally, I don't see much hope for something that requires you to maintain a mental picture of a qwerty keyboard while you type. I do about 85 wpm with 10 fingers but when I try to type on the surface of my desk I just get lost, even looking right at my keyboard 3 inches away from my fingers.
Only now? What about GMail and how they allow themselves to 'automatically' cruch through it? Google Voice and how it transcribes your voicemails? Google Translate which is trained on everything we put on the net...
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According to A/B testing I have seen: yes. (Ditto the ubiquitous "cute girl with a headset".)
Ask PG: Why aren't URLs in the HN submission text clickable links?
Especially given that URLs in comments are clickable.
You're right. Unpaid internships definitely exclude people who can't afford to live without a living wage. Also, you are right that most CS internships are paid. This is, as you point out, an unusual offer.
How about "because they can't".

And don't give me some tripe about special non-GPL features. What matters about MySQL, ALL that matters about MySQL... IS GPL!
Ubuntu, once on a Mac and once on a PC.
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Maybe spruce up your pitch? I skim read this Ask HN and went on to the next article. Everything's a pitch in startup. Even this Ask HN.
One more reason why TV-delivered news are fodder for morons.
Not if it's being generated from some prosaic source, like (just shooting from the hip here) oxidizing palladium for example. And not if it's not reliably reproducible.