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A program where where the state pays before collecting from the company would be pretty amazing, so I read your link and the related form.

I found no evidence the state pays before collection; in fact they warn that "collection depends upon your employer’s financial ability to
pay, business closure, bankruptcy filing or location of money and assets". It might still be a good program to help assert an employee's claim with the weight of the state agency, but there are other caveats which might make many Vidoop employees ineligible for even that sort of assistance, such as a total unpaid amount more than $10K or "having a direct financial interest" in the company, which many startup employees might have.
I didn't find this particularly interesting, personally. It is a detailed model kit, but there wasn't anything novel that sparked my interest.

All commentary is in Japanese so that didn't help me, a non Japanese speaker, either.
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Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier?
For the last fifty years, we have lived in the world of Moore's Law - with truly astounding results.

However, within the next decade we will be approaching fundamental physical limits of the transistor (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_nanometer).

What do you think comes next? Will hardware plateau while software catches up? How will this affect the computing future we've been promised (atom-level simulations of complex systems, the singularity, etc.)?
It never crossed my mind to worry. But, then again, I've been in situations where my company (a previous one) wasn't making any money for a quite long period of time, and I had to improvise. It all turned out fine, in the sense that I never experienced foreclosure on the house, the power and phone and gas companies only threatened to turn them off, and the cash advance on the credit card covered the next couple of months worth of payments. I'm pretty easy going about that sort of thing, and I think it's served me well.

Just make sure you always have health insurance (this one isn't optional), and be prepared to tighten your belt a lot at the first signs of actual trouble.

It might help for you to make a plan for belt-tightening so you know how little you can actually live on. Things you could plan to do and factor into your new lean budget: Sell your car (assuming it isn't bringing in revenue due to doing contract work on-site or something), turn off the cable TV and mobile (again assuming you don't need a phone to make money), cancel all subscriptions to everything, eat cheaply (dry beans, rice, whatever vegetables are on special; about $1.50 per meal easy to achieve), and if you look at those numbers and are still worried, then your house or apartment is too big/expensive for you and you should downsize before trouble hits. You also want to make sure your credit cards are paid down while things are going OK.

And, of course, fearmongers are just that, and don't usually need to be taken too seriously. The Internet is pretty robust, in general, and important enough to the rest of the nations economy that even if things really went to hell, the biggest corporations in the world would spend billions or trillions to bring it back quickly. It's just too tightly integrated into everything now. You're not some outlier in building your business on the web...everybody is depending on the Internet. We're all in this together.
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Presumably there's nothing stopping you from factoring out all that HTML into methods on a 'view' class.
Old-fashioned, but there's still something to be said for shorthand. Then you can hand-write as fast as you can type. Type up the notes afterwards, which (as you say) forces you to review them as well.

[I've had good experiences with Teeline shorthand; was able to learn the system in an evening, and from there it's just building up speed. Avoid Pitman's shorthand like the plague]
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A lot of people have "looked into this" (Jakob Nielsen among them), and the only reasonable conclusion is that yes, you want to do it twice.

What happens in the browser cannot be called "real" validation, but if a user has to wait thirty seconds to be told that they've forgotten a field or entered invalid data, you can usually count on one fewer user. In the wild, that can mean a lost customer; in captivity, it means that user communities will skirt the corporate tools in favour of tools tha work for them.

On the other hand, there are ways around in-browser validation, some innocent (such as having JS disabled, which also implies that a jQuery-based app probably wouldn't work well at all), and some a little more sinister and deliberate, so omitting server-side, "true" validation is not an option.
Excellent stuff TBH, it does the job in a nice speedy way.

2 Issues.

- the name is awful. really bad. I can "get" the inspiration ("bing and your search is done") but it clearly was a guy in a suit who likes to wave his hands about and yell WICKED alot who came up with it. Baaaaad. :)

- the layout is a bit clunky. Huge graphic on the main page seems to serve no purpose. Will they be rotating that? ON the search results page the list is offset from the left. That feels wrong (might just be due to google habit) and hard to scan. Also the results column could be wider.

Other than that - seems usable!
I fully agree that discussions are often very educational and can change your beliefs for the better, but sometimes you aren't so much corrected and taught as disregarded, ridiculed, admonished or beaten down. That doesn't sit well for a short while, even if I agree it was an appropriate response.
On a sidenote: I never understood why these 10 page presentation things have to autoload the next slide after X seconds. Either you haven't finished reading or you sit around waiting, so you use the back/forward buttons to navigate anyway. The only thing the autoload does is annoy you as the content suddenly changes for no apparent reason.
Robots can work on as many waves as you like. Minimally, a robot can just be a participant in any wave you want it to be a part of. You could technically have 5 Eliza robots in a wave, all talking to each other -- although that would probably be a very boring conversation.
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Even if it's like you say, I don't really see the problem. If it's just a matter of principle I'll agree with you, else I welcome a good and healthy competition between Google and Amazon, and on the other hand I don't think Google can sell those ebooks if the owners of the works are not agreeing.

Edit: I hope they'll make some open ebook reader, with no proprietary stuff like the kindle.
When I type es_msg into Google I too get the "did you mean" link, but the top result is the same as the Bing result.

Yes, Bing does feel really fast, but it's not like I've often felt like I was waiting too long for a Google result.
Ask HN: basic web design for small projects?
As I am seriously hampered by my lack of design skills, I wonder how others cope with those small projects (like small demos) that don't warrant hiring a designer. Are there some tricks to make simple sites look good? I remember one guy writing on HN how he just found a free web design template on the web, but even that approach failed for me so far. Did I just not look in the right places?
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I read it while suffering from the flu, meaning I was a bit out ofit, and that is the takeaway I had - not just the full court press, but the training, and the wearing the other team out.

He says it explicitly.

The guy who trained his girls to do it says it explicitly. "I have them running around for hours" etc. and that other coaches A) don't train their kids to have that level of athletic endurance, and B) don't respond to the use of the strategy by changing their routines.

If people miss it, they are either bad at reading comprehension or deliberately wanting to misunderstand to lampoon Gladwell.

I'm not a huge Gladwell fan. I felt totally ripped off by Blink. But I was pleasantly surprised by the essay.
This is a very limited study that is getting too much press. From what I understand, she has researched "perfect use":

>Her studies found that in perfect use -- meaning the man pulls out every time -- withdrawal has a 4 percent failure rate, as compared to condoms, which have a 2 percent failure rate.

>"But nobody's perfect," said Jones, who published her commentary in the June issue of Contraception magazine.

So, if nobody's perfect, I would say we need more research before drawing conclusions one way or the other.
I think two obvious ways forward are

* Increasing the die size (feasable by reducing substrate costs)

* Stacking transistors (3D CPU's)
Ah. In the UK we get a crappy clipart snow leopard. Looks terrible.
Hmm, I'm getting a nice picture of Santorini here (Australia), not a nebula or a panther.

Overall it seems pretty decent - the results are quite different from Google on some queries, but not necessarily in a bad way, and it's just as fast.
Good, keep on doing it. Cuban is talking about publicity. Most of us here are trying to learn, teach, or share information about things, not personalities. As a famous person, Cuban is talking about chatter and how to respond to it. Bottom line: don't bother.
There is a strong correlation between comment quality and length; if you wanted to compare the quality of comments on community sites, average length would be a good predictor.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
It could be his company.

The bigger issue that I see is that I don't want people wiping their ass with my brand :)
True - that's a very good point explaining why the loose coordination of Open Source works so good. But it also has limits - so to reach a next level we need to think how to incorporate design into that view. Maybe if we are more strict with our methods we can make the design also easier to objectively evaluate and sort out those that don't meet the standards.
Actually, one of the benefits of Git over, say, Subversion, is that it's much easier to hack away on multiple things, and then arrange a series of sensible, self-contained commits from your messy working directory.

It's not necessarily a great way to work at all times, but it's a handy facility to have. Personally I use it most in the early, somewhat experimental stages of a new feature or project, when I find it useful to mentally separate experimental hacking with organised committing.

For most things, though, I try to focus on one thing at a time, and here Git's quick-'n'-easy branching and merging helps out. Whenever I start something new, even if it's just fixing a minor bug, I'll create a new branch just for that work, often naming it after the ticket number in our issue tracking system. Then your being in that branch is a constant reminder of what you're supposed to be working on.

Ryan Tomayko has written a good article on these aspects of Git here: http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git
>There's no need to make this out to be a conspiracy, though.

You don't generally keep up with the times, do you?
It's stories like this that sometimes make me wish I had moved to the US.

The American Dream is truly a wonderful concept.
You would think we'd learnt nothing from "only Perl can parse Perl".
OT is an obsolete approach, to my taste. (1) centralized (2) quite complicated (3) just workarounds the real problems.
Bing indexes a different Internet than Google
It's kind of a Victorian writer thing, I think. (Getting more verbose with age, I mean.)
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I didn't start college at all until I was about 20. I'm shocked that anyone thinks it might be "too late to turn it around". When I was 20 I hadn't even settled on a direction yet, much less decided I wanted to turn it around.
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I have to say to whoever tries this, make sure to set bing to "United States - English" mode as opposed to whatever default localization it applies. The difference is quite stunning.

While I realize in the long term, you will need localized data for wherever you live for queries to be more useful, if you want to get a test of the technological platform and how it differs from google, chances are you wont see many until you set it to US-mode.
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I for one was amazed at the dedication involved. Also, I never realised what complex and detailed materials and extensions are available for dedicated model-makers, like all the pressed-metal replacement parts for the basic plastic model kit.
this study shows that condoms are less effective than most people think, not that pullout is a good idea.
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I should have been more clear, sorry.

Yes, validation always needs to be done on the server side. What I'm wondering is if tools exist for automatically generating the client-side validation from the same rules that have been specified on the server side. If one were to use the JQuery-based tool that the article submitter created, you'd have double the work, and making changes would risk introducing inconsistancies.
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bing and your search is done

Curiously, I searched for a youtube video and the Bing summary says

"Sorry for the interruption. We have been receiving a large volume of requests from your network. To continue with your YouTube experience, please enter the verification code below."

Has their spider been abusing Youtube.com?
Similar idea gets used for compression of code - transform it to a more amenable form.

http://www.paul.sladen.org/projects/compression/

Make sure that the transform and its inverse are robust in the face of random data - and it can be completely hidden from the user.
Plus anyone who can't make it just drops out and attends a regular school. That would help keep the API scores high.
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I really liked The Pragmatic Programmer, although some might think it's not a very technically challenging work.

I also like most of O'Reilly's Perl books.

Also, Jonathan Rockway's book on Catalyst was very helpful for me, although there were some issues with typos in the first edition (which is to be expected.)

Also, Philip Greenspun has published a good free collection of computer-science and web-development related texts on his website.

(Sure, he's a little arrogant and some people find his writing style to be somewhat abrasive or even borderline nonsensical, but I certainly liked most of his work. And I believe I learned quite a bit from it, as well, though I'm sure that is debatable.)
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If a small demo, as you put it, is important enough that you need to show it for your career, it's important enough to either spend the time learning web design basics to make a decent looking demo, or else to enlist outside help.

(This doesn't necessarily mean hiring an expensive web designer or design firm; I regularly consult on projects for cheap or free in order to help clients, business contacts, and friends, and have found that it almost always pays off in terms of establishing better relationships with people, who in turn refer projects back to me, etc.)

So, I guess what I'm saying is, if you're not the greatest at design but need design services, then, uh, try to make friends with a good web developer with altruistic tendencies.
So, planting trees or preventing massive deforestation would be a good idea. :D
Massive parallelism. Of course we need parallel algorithms as well and deal with all the concurrency issues. I think there's one or two paradigm shifts in the cards as we transition towards this massive parallelism.
High test scores and blind following of rules may not lead to people who are happy, creative, entrepreneurial, etc later in life.
I felt the same when working on my startup, and something that helped me was to re-think what was required for my first release. Often it seems that everything you've spec'd out is required, but if you really think about it, you should be able to leave some things for subsequent releases.

Once you've culled some features like this, it's much easier to get excited and stay focused on that first release, as it will seem so much closer than before.
Basic design competency can be learned. Sure, you may not be able to learn to be a brilliant designer, but anyone can learn how to use Photoshop and CSS and how to produce a decent design.

I'm no designer either, yet I can make some decent designs (e.g. http://danieltenner.com) that, imho, look far from horrible.

The key is to practice and to get comments/criticisms from other people. It also helps to join a web designer forum and offer critiques of other people's designs. What you need is basically to train up your own internal critical engine so that you can point out the flaws in your own designs and correct them.

Being able to make things look good is a pretty useful skill in all walks of life, I'd recommend learning it rather than trying to outsource it.
That was part of my point. I don't see why we can't have a fast and good in the same piece of software. I've written software like that before, it's not difficult at all. Just keep your CS knowledge in the back of your mind and be a little pragmatic.

This is something that bothers me a lot. We've made huge, massive, spectacular progress in hardware. We know what the characteristics of our problems
are (usually they're quite simple like CRM), yet software seems
to ge slower, and more complex. With more layers of added complexity.

I simply do not see why continue to produce such bad software as
a society. We continue to build on quicksand when a few hundred
yards to the side is solid bedrock (lisps, ada, smalltalk, erlang, etc).

Back in the 50's we had teahouses in england [1] that fully automated their accounting/payroll system. On 50's hardware. Yet today we still need quad xeons to do even a fraction of that. It makes me very very
angry to throw more hardware at a problem that has already been solved
with orders of magnitude less.

1. http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/leo.htm
But once transistors can't get any smaller the only way to get more cores will be to have physically larger CPUs. That might work for a while. But, pretty quickly, those larger dies will use too much power and get too hot (not to mention be too physically large to fit in the form factors we want).

At best that will buy us another few years of Moore-level growth. But you can't really have CPUs be more than 5 to 10 times larger than they currently are.
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You have got this down to a science, haven't you.
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Yay, finally found something I have been looking for for the past 3 days. Thanks for not stripping terms from my query! Not as good as Google used to be, but my new #1 stop for search.
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People don't tend to discount condoms as a method of birth control given perfect and typical use rates the way they do withdrawal even though the typical use failure rates of both methods are very close to each other. I daresay the same goes to most forms of contraception I can think of. If this study can help dispel some myths, so be it. I'm tired of women I know thinking that cervical caps or spermicide or even the female condom have lower typical use failure rates when they don't.

Possibly the biggest potential downside I can see in publicizing this story is that some people might think it an acceptable substitute when there is nothing else, which is not good given that some barrier methods can prevent transmission of some STDs.
I think it would be easier for you to convey the idea of your site to potential customers if you had a more descriptive domain name. 'Browseology' is a good name, but not for what you're doing. In fact, 'Browseology' could be almost anything shopping or internet-related.

How about 'ShopSync' or something like that (that particular domain is not available for new registration it appears, but it IS for sale.) There are many variations on that domain concept, using synonyms and such, and many of them seem to be for sale by the same domain owner...perhaps that person tried a similar site and failed [or, more likely, never got started.] He/She may be open to joint ventures or other creative arrangements if you don't have the cash to buy an existing domain. I'm sure there are also other good domains that you could find for just the registration fee. Browseology would be a good name for your parent/holding company, once you're raking in the dough from this and move on to your next project ;-)
The horrible thing is that people are going to hear the sound-bite headline, rather than the actual conclusions of the study, or even the article.
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Rethink your idea. Maybe you are not 100% sure what you want, and jumping left-and-right instead of facing it.

Once you clear up and the path is found everything will go smooth.

Pragmatically, put yourself one question: What will go into the first release?
According to the web page this video was recorded for teaching high school students. That might make it an easier introduction.
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I think where one's design skills can be considered lacking, as I very much consider my own, simplicity becomes increasingly important and attractive as a design philosphy.

Plenty of white space, clear typography, showing only what is needed, and aligning vertical and horizontal edges helps hugely.

Two tools that also help enormously:
http://www.906.gs - a grid system for layout and
http://www.colourlovers.com - Colour Lovers for awesome colour palettes.
Moore's law isn't actually what's terribly important I think. What we want isn't transistor density but processing power. The human brain has a lot of processing power, uses very little energy and works with massive parallelism. But you may be right to question whether we can smoothly transition to some entirely new hardware paradigm quickly enough to double processing power every 18 months. In the long run I believe we can, but we may hit a temporary roadblock in the next few years.
Use "Google Design": as simple as possible, no fancy css / photoshop / effects.

If worked for Google it will work for you.