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> As far as connections, I mean no offense to the author of this article but it's foolish to assume people will acquire connections as valuable as those Paul Graham has simply by showing up.

You should go one step further because you don't even need to show up to get these connections with YC. YC is basically offering people the ability to email in their idea, and get funding, connections, and a network.

I don't live in Silicon valley. I don't know any angels, personally. There are probably a very very very tiny few where I live, but not like the valley. I'd like to know about all these angels I can just effectively email with my idea to get money. That's what YC is offering. I reject the notion that there's all these angels out there offering a similar path and that they are easy to find.
Ask HN: using only static magnetism - impossible to stably levitate against gravity?
I don't get it? Why would something like below work:<p><pre><code> ________
SSSSSSSS
NNNNNNNN
</code></pre>
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS<p>Top magnets are glued to a board, a larger area of magnets are glued to the floor. Surely the magnets wouldn't have the strength to flip the board, so how is that not stable?
I started using Linux on a 386 with 4 megs of memory, and Emacs was definitely slow on that machine, so I used jed. I think most people use faster computers these days, though:-)
I don't get it? Why would something like below not work:

________
SSSSSSSS
NNNNNNNN

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Top magnets are glued to a board, a larger area of magnets are glued to the floor. This would be in two dimensions. Surely the magnets wouldn't have the strength to flip the board, so how is that not stable?
Does anyone have recommendations for CSS framework that manage grid-based layouts? I've been using YUI Grids up to this point but have been wondering if there are other frameworks to consider.
It increases the incentive to hack by raising the average return. One result: a cracker knows that, at worst, they get $200 for breaking into a system; at best, they get whatever they can get away with.

Though they could structure the deal differently (by making crackers identify themselves in advance).
The combination of Facebook, Funding and TechCrunch in this submission makes me reach for the flag button. It's little more than gossip.
"Good news, however: Earth is safe. The closest rogue black hole should reside thousands of light-years away."

this is ignoring the possibility that some of them may be stealthed
Emacs is an operating system where the default shell is a text editor.
But that's his argument isn't it?
It's sluggish on Cygwin. I guess, though, it's not Emacs' fault.
Or, slightly more moderate: suppose the delay is depth^1.75 seconds: each upvote could be a slight reduction in the 'depth' factor: (depth-score/3)^1.75 or something like that. Could also be useful because becoming more "flamey" means you're actually increasing the depth via down votes.
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Lots of handwaving, some ad hominem and plenty of condescension. I like Chrome's speed and stability. I really like the idea that if one tab crashes (beyond recovery), the rest will survive. But I still use Firefox and will go on doing so until Chrome gives me two things I need:

1) a set of plugins (add-ons, extensions, whatever) equivalent to the ones I use

2) a way to decide that yes, I want to have a title bar

The feature #2 might seem laughable to most, but it's important to me. What Chrome devs did there, I can only describe as "arrogance". It's okay to decide that the title bar, in your opinion, is a waste of "screen real-estate". It's perfectly natural to ship Chrome with the title bar removed by default. But it's arrogant not to offer an option to turn it back on. Some of us are actually using that "screen real-estate".
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Another way to not break the build is to add a local git hook that compiles your project before allowing a commit. Assuming you compiled and tested your change already (you did right... :) the compile hook will take no time at all. Using this I have only commited broken builds once or twice when it built on my macbook, but not on Linux (case insensitive file system) Wrote up more details on hooks along with some examples here:

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/10/git-hooks.html
Compass deserves a mention, despite it being a Sass-based meta-framework rather than a straight CSS framework.
And if you're a Safari user, you can just right-click on something and choose "Inspect Element".
I'm no expert on this stuff, but it seems like 10x improvement in terms for the Angel route is abusing some New Math.

If a two person team goes with YC, and YC gets 6%, then the founders have 94% of the equity and $15k. If they go with the hypothetical Angel, who takes 2.4%, then they end up with 97.6% of the company and $50k.

So yes, they end up with 3.3x the cash in hand, but only 3.8% more equity (97.6/94). And it doesn't seem to make sense to multiply those numbers to reach some good-for-headlines number like 10x. Not to mention the stated goal of YC has been "seed stage", which is presumably before, and not exclusive of, "angel stage".
Can't these by easily unblurred to reveal Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher's email addresses?
Your need for plugins, styles, and scripts are the exact reason why the author claims Firefox has jumped the shark. It definitely can't feel 'right' if you need to customize it so much.
as you have it designed it's basically a pinpoint balance.

i'd suggest 4 corners of the "board" having magnets

M - M

- -B- -

M - M
I think part of it comes from Emacs running as one process, so things like Gnus that run periodically can make everything seem to freeze. Firefox does this a lot, as well, and it seems to be the new program that people criticize for being slow and bloated.

It's not slow as such, but interface freezes (like when you move a window and stuff under it doesn't redraw) have a disproportionately large impact on how slow programs seem to users. You can do relatively heavyweight, long-running operations without people even noticing as long as you do them in the background and don't make the interface stall out.
I think you're about 2 orders of magnitude off:

- 1% = 1 out of 100

- 0.1% = 1 out of 1,000

- 0.01% = 1 out of 10,000

- 0.001% = 1 out of 100,000

- 0.007% = 7 out of 100,000
I will have to give this a shot :) I've been looking for good high level ways to program embedded boards (like the Beagleboard)... definitely going to give this a try.
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A lot of people do want a physical keypad on their smartphones: look at the Blackberry, G1, or Pre. As for an iTouch netbook, the potential utility would be greatly improved with a couple of usb ports and bluetooth for keyboard, mouse, hard drive, etc. Apple said they wouldn't make a netbook that doesn't suck, and being able to type properly would go a long way toward not sucking. </speculation>
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I'm surprised by how basic it looks. They clearly put the features they needed and didn't go further.
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"We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results."

That quote rings so true for me and not just on a marketing/creative side. I've seen so many poorly developed/designed applications and websites simply because the client couldn't properly assess the work being done by the vendor. In addition, in many cases, it is only exacerbated by the insecurities of the client who feel they need to make critiques to maintain an air of authority.

I'm actually in the middle of that scenario right now... any tips on gently telling management to back off, they don't know what they are doing.
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Interesting that HN doesn't allow for exclamations(!) in the submission titles. Must be to prevent "OMG So Cool!!!1" posts...
No; he gets that it's a matter of both "advice and connections," though he doesn't seem to realize how much more the former varies than the latter.
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The author of this article made a mistake in proposing the "more money cheaper" investors as an alternative to YC. In reality, YC and those investors target totally different segments of the market.

If you have a good idea, you are confident in your ability to executing on it, and you just need money, then of course it is dumb to choose YC over other kinds of seed investment. As the author stated, it is relatively easy to get more money for less equity somewhere else.

YC is easy money. You type up one short application and you give one short presentation and you are either in or out. If you lose all the money they give you nobody cares. Raising money other ways is not nearly so easy; if it is easy then you probably got it from people whose money you will feel very guilty for losing.

From afar, YC seems to be a very college-like experience. PG is like the professor. The other founders are like your classmates. Your acceptance into YC is akin to that letter you received in the mail your senior year that made your mom cry because she was so proud--instant validation. When you get into YC you feel like you've succeeded regardless of whether or not your business fails. Once you are in, the environment is so confortable because it is just like the environment you've been in your whole life: people hovering above you, waiting to collect your homework every week.

Other people who might be willing to fund a business are not going to offer such a friendly, comfortable environment. You actually have to read everything they want you to sign; you probably should have a lawyer look over everything before you even sign the initial agreement. You're going to hear "where's my money" in your head every time you talk to them. They are unlikely to appreciate the vital importance of a weekly dinner party.
I believe the proper name for it is, in fact, the "awesome bar".
I think another fallacy in his argument is that he is saying all Angel investors are worth the same outside of money. Sure, some angels will bring good advice, input and ideas to the table, but some will not.

With YC you know there's a solid support infrastructure.
Actually the Opera 9.5 beta and Firefox 3 betas both started using a "Awesome Bar" type feature around the same time. Opera 9.27 was released over a year ago.
This is a big drop from the valuation that Facebook spokesmen quite recently claimed was the minimum reasonable valuation (about $15 billion).
IANA physicist, but how could magnets be strong enough to lift the board off the ground but not strong enough to flip it?
When I first read this, I thought "old news." Then I realized that most of Apple's custom IC development work I rememeber was during the 68k and PPC eras. Since Apple migrated to Intel, they've been using third-party provided "north/south bridge" chips and BIOS hardware (albeit a less commonly used version.) Being a hardware focused company, rather than software, doing this kind of design work in house has historically been first nature to them.
I agree on the Mirra, it's a bit "softer" than the Aeron, very nice. I have the Embody. It's quite different, narrow at the shoulders, which is good for my current arrangement!
A very basic embedded operating system for an ARM7-based microcontroller. I'm still in the early stages.

I have no illusions that I'm going to write anything better than the other RTOSs out there; it's just for the kicks of working on the bare metal. Sort of exhilarating to apply voltage to a microcontroller, and know that only _your_ instructions are running.

A number of EE/CS programs have a course where you do this over a semester - I'm afraid I'm going to take a while longer on my own!
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I thought of that, but what about magnets barely strong enough to lift the board, maybe 1cm or levitation or something?
Agreed. I used to have a similar bloated Firefox setup and then switched to Chrome. I just couldn't go back to the Fox, even missing a few features like delicious integration, the feel of the url/search bar is too good.
If it is possible to do it in Java ME, then Java ME is the best. It is so easy to code for, it is the most widely deployed by far, and it is easy to port to Android and Blackberry. Unfortunately, there are a lot of cases where the user experience with Java ME is sub-optimal to native apps or some capability is exposed only via the native API.

Windows Mobile is probably the worst because it has a pretty low market share, it is expensive to get started, and it is pretty tedious to code for.

Symbian is the most tedious to code for but it has a huge market share.

The iPhone SDK is the only way to make iPhone apps, and the iPhone is obviously very important so you can't ignore it. It was the most expensive to get started for because it more-or-less requires the purchase of a Mac.

Android is easy to code for right now but I've heard that the Cupcake update is causing a lot of people pain. When more devices from more manufacturers are released on more carriers, we may find that Android is not much better than Java ME in terms of ease-of-coding.
There is a mention of this in "On Writing Well" where Zinsser tells a story about speaking at a conference along side an author who was able to write publishable first drafts.

Sure, they're out there, but the skill is extremely rare.
Unlikely, but it would be a cinch to determine the number of letters in the address; do a little creative guessing with that value and you could probably find it. Of course, having an interesting conversation with them would likely be a little harder ;)
Ask HN: CPM - Eyeballs vs Impressions
Hey guys,

I have seen CPM referred to as both cost per thousand eyeballs and cost per thousand impressions (or pageviews).

I am confused. An eyeball can result in multiple impressions/pageviews, so how are cost per thousand eyeballs and cost per thousand impressions the same thing?

Basically, if 10,000 visitors (eyeballs) result in 100,000 pageviews (impressions), will a CPM of $1 result in $10 or $100?
Wow...According to these screenshots Britney Spears has more followers than Obama.
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The addresses are likely for their publicists.
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After first I hated Compass (and Haml and Sass) - I didn't mind futzing around with CSS, especially with a nice editor, like CSSEdit. But after using Compass on a project, working with a regular CSS file is just painful. I wouldn't be surprised if editors start supporting Compass in the future.
Good article, but should mention that "conservative GC" != "good GC". This is why C/C++ don't have a GC system.
Yeah, for Google most of the code that runs when you do a search is C++. (There's a lot of backend servers that handle different things so it isn't 100%, but the core search engine is definitely C++.) It's not just that it's extremely micro-optimized... the general issue is that when your code is running on enough machines it's more often a good tradeoff to spend programmer time to increase performance.
> Maybe 3.5 will change that though.

Doubtful. The new JS JIT is only turned on for web content, so extensions don't benefit at all.
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Then wouldn't the board start to destabilize until an edge hit the ground? So it wouldn't be floating exactly, just sort of eerily resting.
I tend to use 960.gs when a grid is appropriate. Honestly, I looked at that and Blueprint, flipped a coin, and came out with 960. It did enough of what I need at that time and I've stuck with it since.
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Something like the Creative Commons License Picker (http://creativecommons.org/license/), but for the open source licenses offered by Google Code.
I am surprised how many Europeans there are here. There just has to be done something in Europe so that we do not turn to US for developing ideas... Greetings to all European hackers! :)
Not just according to those screenshots. A quick twitter search shows Britney has 1.25M [1] and Barack has just over 1M [2].

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[2]https://twitter.com/BarackObama
I think it is fair to say that Ruby on Rails is more than its core team, but to say they are not equal can be misconstrued to suggest that the Rails culture is independent of the core team. The core team exercises a strong influence over the technical direction and the culture of Rails notwithstanding the fine contributions from such great folks.
> Practice writing. Write every day. If you are a top-notch computer scientist, you probably read technical papers nearly every day. You are a writer too, so practice.

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"Safari 4 is essentially Google Chrome by Apple."

Google Chrome is essentially Webkit by Google.

Webkit is essentially KHTML by Apple.

Why be angry when it's all so circular?
Not only does advice vary in value, but when you're new to an area, you probably lack the ability to evaluate advice on its own merits.
No code to show, but I'm working on a one-off remote controller for pole cameras for an indie filmmaker. It should enable "aerial" shots like the pros, but at a small fraction of the cost. Version 1 is in testing.
I will never, ever understand people who have large displays but still run fully maximized browser windows.

It seems a bit half-assed to run these images uncropped... not like they couldn't provide links to the originals.

(a bit OT and negative, but seriously folks...)
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True. Good point. What if you curved the bottom piece into a slight dish shape?
Same here. I even went to the trouble of building a bookmarklet to handle the only Firefox plugin that I missed (rikaichan - http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2009/04/japanese-english-bookmark...)
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It feels 100% right after I am done customizing it. Chrome can never feel right because it's not customizable at all, really. One size does not fit all, and you don't get to tell me what feels right.

Everyone has different needs. Mine are not the same as yours. I used Chrome for several weeks, and it didn't meet my needs at all. With no extensions, I was unable to do 1/10th the things I do in Firefox.

It's not a bad browser, but it's extremely limited. I hope this will change, as I'd like more competition, but Chrome simply doesn't do the things that my extensions in Firefox enable it to do.

Also, some reading up on why FF has the extension model, and that not everyone uses a browser the same way, might be instructive here.
I'm planning on wiring Ruckus into Hexfiend, so you can highlight hex characters Ethereal-style and using CSS selectors from packet formats.

I don't know what I'm going to do with the Burp clone, but if you ask me for it, I'll hand it over. =)
the term "eyeballs" is in reference to someone looking at an ad once. equivalent to a single page impression.
I have the same problem. Startup time is over a second on some modern systems. There is some good advice on how to avoid this on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/778716/how-can-i-make-ema...
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The key distinction being the ability to find the URLs that you don't know by fishing for the one piece you do remember, that may (inconveniently) not be until the end of the URL.

An example: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ which I inevitably reach by typing "big"; this was un-possible with the previous iterations.
Linux is emacs's boot loader.
How are they computing "brand value" ? MSFT's market cap is ~$184B, and GOOG's is ~$127B. They're just using some subjective measure?
> if acting on one datum was always fallacious, you'd think it would be bred out of us by now.

True enough, but you have to look at the context.

LW is sort of obsessed with Aumann's agreement theorem at the moment, which is why it frequently has long back-and-forth threads that don't go anywhere. This post can be seen as a reminder that sometimes you genuinely cannot convince someone of something, because it's all in your head.

> I am skeptical of Galton's claim that people who cannot visualize are over-represented in math and science.

I was about to say that it's impossible to do (algebraic) topology without visualizing... but then I'd be generalizing from one data point.
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I guess it's a question of priorities: work on something 15 people use, or something 15 million people will use? :)
I'd like to take a look at the burp clone, not sure if I'll contribute.

Do you want help on wiring to hexfiend?
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Those are both great ideas. Please consider a donate doohickey for each project. I would gladly contribute to both.
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I gave up with the Cygwin version and switched to the native port (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/). Some Cygwin integration is supported by adding to .emacs:

(require 'cygwin-mount)
(setq cygwin-mount-cygwin-bin-directory "C:/cygwin/bin")
(cygwin-mount-activate)

And I use the following alias to open files directly from bash:

alias emacs='D:/tools/emacs-22.3/bin/emacsclient.exe --no-wait --alternate-editor=D:/tools/emacs-22.3/bin/runemacs.exe'
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