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I agree with all of your points but this one:
"- the clairvoyance to your business will be shaded by the lack of feedback from your unexisting peers"
Are you kidding me? you don't need co-founders to get feedback of your application, that is why you have friends, family, ex-co-workers, etc... :).
Also, are you saying that an open source project is not/cannot be a serious business? that is wrong - 100%.

Thanks for the feedback!

Ricardo (gdltec).
I think you mean non-compete agreement instead of NDA? They are two different things. :-)
They don't need nukes. South Korea is well within range of conventional weapons.

In any case:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Interesting. I recall reading that Google, MS, and Apple were in hot water over that kind of thing. But I didn't realize H&R Block was in trouble too!
In the best case scenario, that sounds like the case. Worst case scenario: they're trying to scare you into staying with them for longer than you would normally. And that IMO makes them scum.
Exactly my point, do not believe for a second that having a co-founder will change any of the above, at least not a lot. I believe that not having another person to dream with about your project actually helps you by forcing yourself to convince others of your idea, friends, potential clients/users, etc... Being a solo founder helps you getting out of your bubble and it also forces you to describe your idea in a way that other "regular" people will understand, yes it's draining... but it is good. :)
Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.
He's in Ohio. Mostly just painting privately, from the last newspaper interview I remember reading about him.
Anyone building their smartphone around a hardware keyboard is essentially admitting Apple has won.

Apple have been very vocal about not having a physical keyboard, clearly they feel the benefits outweigh the costs. Everyone else is fighting over the scraps that are left behind.

I'm not saying that's a bad business decision, it's just not some noble adventure in customer satisfaction when you're a) playing by someone else's rules and b) doing the obvious, easy and safe thing because they've already spent years staking out the innovative ground.
It's already got a name -- hacktivism -- and it's happening in places like the Citizen Lab (U of T) already. If you're not familiar with the Open Net Initiative, it's worth a visit to http://opennet.net to find out what's being done today.
that is a fair point: I apologise I guess.

The image has been doing the rounds in the regular "copyright it evil" discussions as legitimisation of copyright infringement. I think I might have been guilty of a knee jerk reaction.

Though I think my analysis still stands :)

EDIT: and wow I totally misread the title. All the versions I have seen dont have the second Not. I apologise for missing the subtlety!! :(
I will second this. Since I've been commuting by bike, all nighters are much easier on me the next day as I get my second (or third) wind on my way to work.

Another trick I've found is don't hit the coffee or energy drinks until you absolutely need to, you're going to crash anyhow, and drinking stimulants too soon will only make that happen quicker.
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That's cool ErrantX, always nice having a conversation with fellow HNers. :)
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That I understand. But usually when a huge business (oil/pharma) is threatened with a cheaper alternative, (batteries/generics) people die in car accidents and the alternative quietly goes away. I guess it's not at the point of threatening to steal much business at this point.
> Coffee? Teas? Energy drinks?

No this will make it a lot worse.

> Sleep?
your best bet - but plan carefully to avoid mucking up your sleep patterns.

If you must stay awake orange juice, water and regular walks (outside, fresh air) are the key.

If you must have caffeine then drink tea. Coffee is too high in caffeine and energy drinks have the same problem but with added sugar - which will fuck you up.

Natural sugar from fruit juice is a better way to get sugar in your system (which is important because you will be deficient of it)

Moderate exercise (swimming, jogging, cycling, weight lifting) are also good because it gets adrenaline going in your body.

I spent a long time working out methods for working long hours: I finished my final year thesis in a 52hr straight through work session using the above methods. With energy drinks / coffee you'll struggle to hit 48hrs at best :D EDIT: it got a good mark too so it was a good move.

As I mentioned here in the past; for my finals exams I spent the best part of 2 weeks on an average of 4hrs sleep a day without feeling particularly tired throughout using these methods.

But it's not good for you long term.

Oh, regular food is good too. Have a medium sized but greasy breakfast.
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Ask/Tell HN: Just launched an API for my Web App ...
... and this initial release was in direct response to requests from some members, who will have no trouble picking it up.

To make it easier for everyone to use, I've spent some time writing the documentation, including working examples, in the hope that it will help others take advantage of it too.

I'd love to hear of other experiences people have had with launching API's and how you've helped your users start using them.
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Here's the working example documentation - http://docs.doculicious.com/api/working-examples/get-entries
I actually have no problem staying up for 2 days straight. It's the NEXT day that I'm useless, so I don't do it often. I don't partake in caffeine beyond an occasional cup of tea. My body just seems fine with anything up to about 2 days of being awake.
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I've never seen your service before and have only taken a brief look (it doesnt look like something I would be interested in).

But you get +1000 kudos here for fantastic documentation. I find often stuff is so wildly underdocumented (I especially hate API documentation that just gets auto-generate, like a lot of stuff written in Python for example, with no organisation behind it) and it's a pain. Well done
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I just blogged about the whole "rent vs buy" thing:

http://messymatters.com/2009/06/01/buyrent/

If you don't believe in timing the market then the rent vs buy decision just doesn't matter nearly as much as people act like it does. The biggest factors are the crazy tax reasons and perhaps the leverage you get with a mortgage.
Site currently seems bombed and google cache comes up empty. Anyone have a mirror?

Edit: Seems to work for me too now. For anyone interested, there's a bing developer site which has more extensive information.

http://www.bing.com/developers/
I suspect that the problem isn't so much speed as motivation.

The police get paid whether they show up or not to handle your problem. The repo man doesn't get paid unless he delivers.

If you wanted your property recovered, who would you want on the job?
First, you should read on how XMPP works from http://www.xmpp.org. Second, no, you don't need an SSL certificate. You may choose how your XMPP server authenticates your own users and it's up to you do decide whether you want them to use TLS/SSL or not and no any other XMPP server have means to learn what authentication method was used on user end. The established practice is to use TLS with self-signed SSL cert. Server-to-server connectins are usually insecured, so Google may require to use SSL while connecting to their XMPP servers, yet as till now they don't.
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I hate to sound all up myself but I HAVE been saying this for at least the last year.

I think other people have been too: but there is so much zealotry in both camps it means even suggesting Windows might do it better and why dont we try that gets you lynched :P (even if it's clearly true).
Came up fine for me.
The machine I have has one 1 GB of memory. I could run Windows under a VM, but that would consume precious resources for the "good side". There is a lot of "heavy" stuff being done in IE (ActiveX for Project and so on).
Popovich's first rule of firearms is pretty simple: The man who tells you he's going to shoot you will not shoot you.

Definitely not a job for the faint of heart.
I usually drink coffee with lots of water after, need to be hydrated so you don't crash after the coffee. Putting some music on helps as well, and try to stay active. Seems like once you get over that first drowsiness you're good for the day
From the forum post this article links to:

"We already contacted with their competitors and they didn't show interest in buying their data -probably because the mails got to the wrong people- so now we are
offering them for the highest bidder. "

Are these guys serious? How could they expect any legitimate company let alone a large-scale telecom to want to buy this info?

Sounds suspect.
That's a nice summary of their platform, but it is perhaps also worth noting that one of the defendents in the Pirate Bay case (Carl Lundström) is a neo-Nazi, who has a history of funding small single-issue parties and using them to push extremist right-wing views.
Sadly, we use Exchange for corporate calendar and contacts. Evolution sort of works, but I have seen it refusing to connect or update stuff more than once.

Had I sufficient memory (machine has 1 GB of RAM), I would go down the VirtualBox/VMWare route.
Ask YC: What happened to Scribd's ipaper with Google Ads?
The publishers were over excited by the revenue potential from the news of displaying google ads alongside their docs inside ipaper view ... but i cant see any more info on this, is it been implemented or its still in development mode?

It would be nice if ipaper can have client version to read docs offline, the offline version should also check (on regular basis) whether device (PC, iphone, netbook etc.) is connected to the internet, if yes then it should show google ads automatically, increasing revenue potential for publishers.

Also is there any other doc format that can display ads in their reading-view mode ?
I really wanted to like this, and didn't mind the 250MB download, because I just got my coffee while it was downloading. But the first address I entered caused an error page about insufficient memory even though my system shows 800MB of free memory. It has a nice bug report facility, but wanted me to signup for Microsoft Connect in order to leave feedback. Which I did because I want this product to succeed. So a big "meh" overall on this one at this point.
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I work mostly with Windows, so that is where I have my core skills. That however doesn't detract me from the "Use whatever tool that works best" philosophy. And I consider OS part of my tool-kit.

In some cases Linux is clearly superior. In other cases I find Windows a much better choice.

It all boils down to two things: What you know well, and what actually gets things done. I see no reason to artificially limit my choices and make my work harder.
Those of us who don't know history are bound to reinvent it.
Is it just me or are these howtoforge posts borderline spam?

I normally go look for a specific howto when I need one. There's no reason to clog my news feed with random howto's.
So how'd you find your niche?
Those FBI agents are gonna have a field day.
I'm disappointed that some one answered "no" and added nothing to the discussion and got a 0, at the same time someone else answered "yes" and added nothing to the discussion and got 27 (as of now).

I agree with the yes fellow, but it still added nothing. If you didn't think it was funny, why? If you did why? Otherwise its just a poll then, isn't it?
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Bad link. I'm posting the fixed link below because there are so many good quotes about legitimacy and education sprinkled throughout.

"Organizational legitimacy is perhaps nowhere more essential than in the field of higher
education, because in several ways what higher education itself produces is legitimacy. Higher
education certifies individuals as legitimate employees by awarding them degrees"

Click under "View Document as HTML"

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/...
There are legal frameworks in place for repossession. It's not just and ad hoc grab and run situation. As I understand it, it's indeed true police usually can't get involved beyond keeping the peace since it's a civil issue and they open themselves up to civil liability, but it's very different from theft.
If you do stimulants, you'll want to figure out when they'll wear off. For me, drinking coffee works as long as I can have another cup every hour or two to ward off the crash. Go outside and walk around, or try to schedule something you'll care about for around midafternoon.
Wow, what a great piece of progress. Just like MIT's opencourseware I think that this is a great step forwards. We should use the internet much more to facilitate the best teachers reaching the most students. I can see a day in the future when the lecturing part of a course could be delivered by a leading academic and the student's tutorials and practicals could be given and marked more locally.
Most collage ranking systems start with a list of top schools and work from there to the ranking system. It's often more a question of how close you are to Harvard than anything else. (Or MIT / Cal Tech for tech schools etc.)

PS: It's not that Harvard needs to be in the top spot, but if Harvard and Yale don't make the top 10 buisness schools they are going to start over.
Fuck you Coding Horror flags it. I thought Hacker News was going to ban all Coding Horror articles..

(Sorry, I know this isn't a constructive comment but nothing ruins my day more than seeing a Coding Horror link :/)
I'm not against seeing the occasional Coding Horror article here, if it is relevant-- but this one doesn't seem to say much, and to be honest, I can't remember the last Coding Horror blog post that didn't get linked here...
Great speech, love watching any talks of Adam's.

This host though is a bit annoying.
I can see this being used by cam-girl sites.
More on pg's Bayesian Filtering

A Plan for Spam: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
This is an interesting experiment in human coordination.
Everyone heard the same instructions at the same time, but no one heard the instructions given to anyone else. This is a combination of coordination by an omniscient director (the same voice directed everyone) and coordination by actors with limited knowledge (no one could hear what the voice was saying to anyone else). I've never really seen something that was a mix before.
I still kinda disagree with your point though. There's nothing particularly unique to comet here.

If you want to make anything the best it can be, you need to build it custom, and it will probably take a lot of time, but it will pay off...
Can we please stop pretending that the new WSJ bears any resemblance to the old one?

The top WSJ editor already "resigned" shortly after the acquisition and the shift in content is completely unmistakable.
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2245129320080423

Why do we still give so much weight to the brand even when we know that the management is completely new?
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This is mainly relevant to UK folk, but unless I'm mistaken I believe its a worlds first too.
I'd open up an apartment or office as a coworking space, rather than for living. You can fit a lot more people, and you might be able to get more money from renting desks than resting a whole place.

That seems like better legal territory too, as there are a ridiculous number of regulations about renting.

For example, someone can just say that a stove doesn't work, and they won't pay rent until you fix it. The stove actually doesn't need to be broken to either make the claim or get a pro-bono lawyer to back it up. You also can't forcibly evict people easily. Generally, the worst case scenario for a residential rental property is far worse than a coworking space.

Buy a studio in SF or Palo Alto, buy an espresso machine & bike rack, and find some good hackers to try it out.
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I can't see why the presence of MFCs and of the registry make windows more user-oriented.
Carl Lundström and The Pirate Bay are not affiliated with The Pirate Party. As far as I know the rest of The Pirate Bay do not share Carl Lundströms views. The connection between The Pirate Bay and Carl Lundström is also very loose.

The Pirate Party has very clear views on civil liberties and human rights for everyone, regardless of religion, ethnicity, sex, age, sexual preference, handicap or political view. Most political analysts actually think that The Pirate Party, with its large number of youth votes, prevented the right-wing nationalist party in Sweden from reaching the European Parliament.
What the big companies are realising is this: When you get lots of small developers using your API, you have tens of thousands of people who are actively marketing your product through your API.

You don't need to build up any large marketing force anymore, just let the developers do for you. For example, facebook connect drives people to facebook, etc. The web is becoming an OS, and the big companies are trying to achieve developer lock-in by offering a lot of convenience APIs and platforms.

He who gets the developers will get the users.
I usually do the 2/3 hour nap then wake up, have a shower, go outside, find some work I can get into a grove in.

then just try and last it out till evening and have an early night.

if you go to sleep in the afternoon and dont get yourself up within a few hours then it completely screws my pattern for a few days.
It's a trivial, and a solved problem. You might as well vote for the anti-prohibitionist party. Really pathetic. The kids today have way too much time on their hands.
That's a stupid quote. If he didn't want to put a negative spin on it, he should have avoided the word "cult". Replace it with "club" and it is both more reasonable and accurate.

Note that most of the fan boys that are cultishly obsessed with pg and yc are actually NOT in YC. That's just such an important distinction. I get this impression just by tracking the most ridiculous comments on YC during the acceptance notifications, and noting the source.

In my experience, YC startup founders are far more likely to say they're sick of his slop (literally) after a few weeks than gush over him.
The interest you pay on a sleep deficit will hurt your health in the long-term. Please don't do any extended driving (>15 min) today.
Did this post really just get deleted? Hating on TC and CH articles is now the in thing? This is disappointing.
"Need?" Maybe. "Dire?" No.

Both Macs (and to a much lesser degree, Windows) were both designed to allow applications to be atomized into easier to install "drag-and-drop" installs. The problem is from those development houses who get too ambitious or too paranoid to allow users to keep their installs in just one folder. (Either they are being too worried about library versions, which is really a red herring, since in the real world, apps can only maintain reliability if they keep they're own copies of the libraries separate from other apps. Or they're too afraid of software piracy to allow apps to be too easily moved.)

The classic Mac architecture did things right by having a simple key/value lightweight DB built-in, to allow apps to have all it's components in one file. (Actually two "forks", but that's ancient history.) Even under OS X, the OS provides the "bundle" folder concept to keep an app's state in folder, save for a prefs file.

I've worked with package managers like Fink, and they strike me as solving a problem that should not have existed in the first place: Unix's insistence on breaking apps into little teeny tiny pieces strewn over half a dozen directories. It's sad that Windows succumbed to this by the time of Win 3.1, and OS X is heading in this direction too.

I miss the time where I both knew what files were on my system, and that the organization was simple enough to do things "manually" without too much technical knowledge. We didn't have to have the current byzantine system of thousands of files in an install; it's not progress, but technological laziness and paranoia to keep the underlying technology complicated enough to cow most end users.
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$25,000 is a lot of money to attend. But I think it might be a valuable educational experience.
200 mg modafinil. Useful for any rotating-shift type of work.
Because almost all the reporters and lower level editors remain the same and they're the ones with the greatest impact on the product?
I agree, the message is a little much, but the idea is right on. All forms should have this behavior.
I seem to pick Yahoo the vast majority of the time in the blind test. I wasn't expecting that.
This is a great article! Max Chafkin takes a way of thinking most of us here take for granted and makes it understandable to a general audience. Sure, he occasionally gets lazy with the same old tired cliches about hygiene and interpersonal skills, but really nails the 3 essentials, passion, hard work, and customers.

This interchange with pg makes almost anyone want to jump up and do something:

"But what you really should do is start a start-up," he says. He stops and thinks for a moment. "You know what? You should do a news website for finance. You could be like Bloomberg, but you'd be just one person." His mind is going faster than his mouth. "What about Blogberg as a name? Is Blogberg.com taken?" Before I have a chance to respond, he flips open his MacBook to check, using a clever domain-name search tool developed by another Y Combinator founder, Beau Hartshorne.

Sam Altman's quote about hard work pretty much sums it up:

"The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time."

Good to see he didn't miss the most important thing of all:

"We learned quickly by paying attention to the users," Graham says.

Thanks, Max. How about a follow-up article about Hacker News? Paul Graham & Y Combinator's influence goes far beyond 145 start-ups.
Nice to see. Google got rid of their non-Javascript API, IIRC, so Yahoo was the only one with a decent API.
Pray tell how is it solved?
SuperPreview is disappointing, IMHO. It shows screenshots of the various browser's renderings, but they aren't interactive. Since a lot of cross-browser bugs are JS related that doesn't really help.

Xenocode's browser sandbox on the other hand is great:
http://www.xenocode.com/Browsers/

It lets you run all versions of IE, Opera, Firefox, and Safari without having to install them. They were also sharp and included the IE Developer Toolbar in the packages. Highly recommended.
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This has been a banner year for pirates. ARRGH!