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This is very cool and I hope this idea spreads to other languages.

There was a recent post on HN about compiling various dynamic languages to C (I've lost the link). Of particular interest to me was JavaScript. For writing js code targeting the iPhone, PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium are cool, but still feel a bit gimped for doing truly native non-cross-platform stuff.
I've always been very interested in this kind of housing. To be honest, I have the feeling I will build myself a house like this one day. I can probably find a small patch of land at a reasonable price about an hour driving and take a small loan to build it. I lived in a 12 square meter studio for 3 years, this seems heaven in contrast to that. Mix it with solar panels and you have a very nice place to call home...
i play frisbee with a guy who's a top IT guy at a leading telecom company. he says they went back to outlook from zimbra. they are now looking at google apps since it has full full outlook support.
Opera Unite vs Tonido. Whose approach is better?
Opera Unite seems pretty similar to Tonido. Will other browsers join the bandwagon: Chrome, IE and Safari.
Theres still a strong trend in angel investing to remain quite and lay low. Thats changing with the new guard (sacca, lindzon, dave, etc) and its starting to trickle down to other parts of the country.

Soon enough I think people will see the benefits of being visible and having good deals come to you, like Fred and AVC....
Considering that most people neither know nor care what an algorithm is, I wasn't surprised. Ask made the classic mistake of talking more about possessing superior technology than the supposed benefit to users.
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Couldn't you use Google Calendar for group calendaring? Just have everybody add the mygroup@gmail.com calendar as an overlay.

And folders are just a degenerate case of labels, where each message can only have one label. You can set up a filter to "label as emacs-devel and archive", and watch the unread count in the labels box. Just as easy as folders, though it's harder to have a "favorites" list like in Outlook.
Firefox 3.5RC1 is old? I think not!
Yep, that shouldn't be a problem. There are people that specialize in Drupal, WP, Joomla, etc, so just ask.
Hydrogen cars: still 100% nonsense.
If someone needs a web-based puzzle the python challenge is decent:

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
Hey, cool, 'home'. Well, a bit north, but close enough.

Here's the Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=45.12363,... zoomed in.
I haven't seen one of these Dwell-Magazine-Modern-Prefab inspired cottages, but an old girlfriend of mine lived in a studio cottage in the Bay Area. I also checked a couple of them out when I was looking for an apartment a few years back. So I guess the answer is "yes."
Well, this is an art exhibit, and it's really more about cultural deconstruction and examination than entrepreneurship.

This reminds me how much I love getting lunch out of a cart or kitchen truck. Some of the best (and/or most satisfying) food I've had in NYC has been on wheels.
Not exactly. Zimbra also keeps track of when people are busy and when rooms are available and things like that (in addition to supporting push email on iPhones).

As another commenter pointed out, it's more of an Exchange replacement than a Google Apps replacement.
In the gerontocracy that is government bureaucracy and politics, pretty much. Presidents like Obama, Kennedy, and Teddy Roosevelt were "young", even "too young", just because they're in their 40's rather than their 50's or 60's. 46-year-old vice president Dan Quayle was a "kid", too. I don't think there's a single senator or governor under 35, and barely any congressmen. Likewise with the Cabinet and upper level advisors.

Don't expect anyone under 35 years old to have any impact in the government at all, ever.
buying a single small piece of land and getting the utilities connected for one house is going to be crazy expensive. there is a reason why people live in subdivisions...the developer worries about bringing water, sewer and and power lines to the property. its not cheap. if the property already has connections, chances are there is a house on the property already, so you are going to have to buy this, tear it down, and then put in your dwell house

if you say you want to drive an hour off of the beaten path, chances are this plot of land you have in mind isn't anywhere near a hookup, so you are either going off the grid or you are spending mad cash to turn your little plot of land into a single-house subdivision

just buy a condo
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I kind of think of Starbucks as that early innovator that did a lot of footwork, (massively) introducing something new to consumers, that was ultimately destroyed by new entrants in the market. Think what AOL did with home internet access.

Starbucks made coffee not just something for adults/people who work but really brought it to a broader group of people with things like Frappuccinos. As a result, they kind of did all the R&D for competitors like McD's and Dunkin Donuts (along with everyone else that is coming out with iced coffee/coffee flavored drinks).

These competitors are able to eat into Starbucks' moat and differentiate by supplying beverages at a lower cost and supplanting it with existing food options. It puts a company like SBUX in a tough bind and I'm not sure how they're going to regain the oomph they once had.
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If you announce that you're an angel investor, there's a 100% chance that people will take the opportunity to ask you for money.

You see that behavior quite a bit on this board. Even at AngelConf, which was supposed to be for current and aspiring angels to connect, there were a bunch of guys asking for money.

That aside, it looks like the list was compiled by Googling "angel blog". That's exactly the wrong way to go about it.
(I'm confirming that this works)
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Free access to tax funded research ? Is that not socialism ?

So good to see open scientific journals getting popular!
Well, legally you have to be 35 to be president, and 30 to be a senator. Many states have age restrictions on governorships, too.
Gosh this is awesome.
I've worked for a ~100 person company that switched from Exchange to Zimbra last year.

While many aspects of the system work great, others are buggy, difficult, or practically useless. (For example, the calendar features are miserably immature, and the web interface is clunky and eschewed by most employees.)

The company is currently considering switching back to Exchange.
The problem is that you have to filter out the 99.5% of non good deals, and most angels don't have the time/resources/interest to do that. (That's why they come to YC- pg does a lot of prescreening for them)

Besides, what's the likelihood you'd invest in a random person that comments on your blog? I'd trust that person only slightly more than I would a Nigerian scammer.
For the same reason people used to use the blink tag. It was novel, and people like using novel things. Eventually people will get tired of doing input via accelerometer, and you'll see such heavy use of the shake gesture fade.
Funny, I just wrote a blog post yesterday about our extreme bootstrapping ways at Starbucks titled "Two Guys One Cup". We have free wifi because one of us has AT&T DSL at home (and you can log in with multiple laptops at the same time) and we sometimes bring seat cushions to make the chairs more comfortable. http://grubwithus.blogspot.com
Curious what they do with sewer/water/electricity... must be an easy hookup I assume?
I haven't used any version of IE (other than for testing, or where sites require it) since the first time I tried out Firefox, which I think was called Phoenix back when I started. But the issue I have with that logic is that nothing ever changed with their so-called "anti-competitive practices", and yet the browser market did drastically when Firefox started picking up steam. IE kept on being bundled with every Windows install. The market worked itself out.

If IE6 were holding it back for so long, why did it miraculously stop, even though nothing changed? The answer, of course, is that it wasn't IE6. It was the lack of a business model, which was inadvertently solved by Google.

Saying IE6 held the browser market back is like saying Yahoo held the search market back by giving it away for free. Just like Yahoo, Microsoft is now feeling the pain of failure to innovate.

Of course, everyone here hates IE6 (understandably) and Microsoft so I'll get downmodded a lot.
It's almost like having a storefront physically in NC, which would traditionally require a multi-state retailer to collect sales tax in that state.

It's nothing like this. This isn't about NC wanting to collect sales taxes on purchases made by buyers in NC. And while Associates are involved, they're not involved in the purchase at all. They simply forward traffic to Amazon and if the customer buys, they get a commission. This is completely different from a retail store that's holding inventory from vendors and handling the actual transactions with customers. This is quite literally just like hearing about something from someone. If I live in NC and I send an affiliate link to a friend who lives in NY for a book on Amazon and that friend purchases it, NC is claiming they're owed sales tax on that sale. That makes zero sense. They're taxing my income on the commission, which is enough.
This Tonido astroturfing campaign is starting to get pretty tiresome.

Here are the usernames that appear to be a part of this ongoing campaign:

villagegal
devbloke
codemechanic
amaru20
dj8nes
madhan

I'm all for promoting whatever it is you're working on, but please stop with the shady tactics.
"Starbucks needs to do some corporate soul searching. Take a look at American Express. It doesn't sell credit, it sells membership. Coca-Cola doesn't sell soft drinks, it sells refreshment. Starbucks, what do you sell … besides coffee? What do you stand for? Ambiance? Community? Social consciousness? Until you figure this out, count on losing both customers and shareholders."

This is totally wrong. In my opinion, Starbucks knows exactly what they stand for. They don't sell coffee, they sell a "lifestyle". If Starbucks were just a shop that sells coffee, it would've never become the giant it is today. People go to Starbucks to experience the hip, yuppie, modern ambiance. Not just for the coffee.
JavaScript beats C++ but a daemon beats browser integration. It's not clear to me that either platform is that compelling.
Ask HN: Which page is your entry to HN?
Where do you start?

+ The actual "Front Page"

+ The new submissions?

+ The comments page?

Starting with the Front Page, there's loads that you miss because there's loads that never attracts enough attention to get there, even if it's good.

If you start from the "New Submissions" then you read the item before there are comments, so you don't get the benefit of the discussion that's often the best part of HN.

If you read the "Threads" page then you get everything mixed together.

So, where do you start?
Given how important deal flow is to both Angels and VCs, and given that Angela invest in a FAR higher number of deals, why do angels keep such a low profile? Aren't they concerned that they'll miss out on hearing about deals because the founders can find or contact the angels?
The pricing and marketing copy for Zimbra are all pretty clearly geared at the enterprise/educational market rather than consumers. So yes, Exchange killer.

Yahoo's consumer email product is, obviously, Yahoo Mail, which has massively higher market share than Gmail. If anything, GMail is supposed to be a Yahoo Mail killer.
Speaking of K-cups and single serve coffee, I recently discovered the Italian moka pot. Wow! Simple, easy to clean, makes good coffee.
You know he's talking about life in the US, so you know it's not safe, affordable and public housing.

Hahaha. Honestly.

The age limits are two-fold - in terms of tax burdens, as one commentor stated, and also because it seems like lots of old folks want to retire where there aren't screaming bratty kids. Not all old people enjoy the dream of sitting on the porch and yelling "Get off my lawn!"

And many of those types are premium... and of course, often home to (or close to) medical facilities and other things old folks want to have nearby. Maybe they're cheaper than the cool parts of town, but certainly not cheaper than the normal suburbs where you have all-age neighbors.

It's surely not a social service.
Well there goes my lunch break. Day. Week. Godammit.
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I am not sure about Rosetta. That is a good question as I was under the impression that if you need _anything_ ppc related you should stay with leopard and not upgrade. Again, I have no specifics here.
What's the connection between abortion and careers?
Does that really say "it's not as stupid as it sounds" on the bottom, there? hah!
Didn't even know about this...
AboutUs is Hiring for Multiple Positions
AboutUs (aboutus.org) is hiring for a few positions right now.

* Systems Administrator

* User Interface Designer

* User Experience Designer

For what it is worth, I found my job at AboutUs via the great "Who's Hiring?" thread here on HN. It is a wonderful place to work. We are a venture funded startup backed by rails, jquery, rspec, tokyo tyrant - the works. We do about 2000 requests per minute and rank in the top 1000 websites if you ask Alexa, so your work will get plenty of attention.

See: http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

Contact: jobs@aboutus.org

Feel free to contact me as well.
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Looking for startup partners. Developer and Designer.  Here is the idea.
I am looking to create an app which will enable people to create their own designs for a niche market.
It is a high end consumer product. This market actually needs a sales team to guide customers through the purchase. People are not comfortable buying such a high end item online without speaking to a real person. I have a sales team in this industry that will guide the sales.

There is no company doing it for this market yet. Spreadshirts = t-shirts. Etsy = cheap handmade items. Ponoko = design bracelets and cheapish chachkas. Shapeways = design 3d objects.

So think of it as spreadshirts for a high end industry. Go on, give it to me over the head for not stating the industry, that is what makes HN exciting. I am waiting for it, :-).

Contact me if you are interested agrinshtein [at] the big g. If you cant figure out what that is, I don't want you.
Clickable: http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs
I start with the "front page", then hit up "newest". If there is something in the top 10 or 15 on the front page that I don't understand the popularity of, I go to /classic to see if it's just me or not.
>> If IE6 were holding it back for so long, why did it
>> miraculously stop, even though nothing changed? The
>> answer, of course, is that it wasn't IE6. It was the lack
>> of a business model, which was inadvertently solved by
>> Google.

I think one reason was that Netscape had got so big and unwieldy that users didn't see a compelling case to switch from IE once MS forced them into using it.
Firefox changed all that with innovative features, and a quick easy browsing experience - credit where credit's due.

I don't think the business model really matters TBH. Firefox would have happened without google.

Maybe you have a point though, maybe people could have tried harder, and "Done a firefox" earlier, and still been able to gain market share. I don't know when all the legal stuff against Microsofts anti-competitive business practices started to get stamped out, but it seemed to be around the same time of phoenix/firefox.
They explain it here:

http://www.shedsforliving.co.uk/

Choose options => FAQs => 05 How do we connect to the services

Basically they say it's easy + for a cost you can make it independent of any services.
Very nice. Has anyone found a way to use the vi keys for movement?
Voted down for not posting the real URL.
All apps shipped with snowleopard are native cocoa where applicable, specifically finder, and compiled with the new (to Xcode) llvm compiler. Terminal has also been upgraded :)
The amount of global warming we're experiencing is still a matter of debate, and certainly the specific climatic responses are mostly unknown. One day it's "we'll see increased hurricane activity due to global warming", and then it's 180 degrees around to saying that hurricane activity will decrease.

My point isn't to deny global warming, but to show that we don't really understand very well how climate works. We may be on a deadend path right now. But people who want a radical change -- whether it's one of the suggestions in this article, or simply an enormous decline in CO2 emissions -- may turn us off that dead end, but they do so by closing their eyes and hitting the gas pedal simultaneously. Nobody really knows where we'd wind up.

The article points out that the effects may be uneven. But I think it's worse than that.

Returning CO2 levels to historic lows, or blocking solar radiation, might not be able to return the system to its original state: these reactions may not be reversible. Our environment has many factors that keep us at equilibrium, and many of these things have been working diligently to take up slack. Why should we think that these things will simply unwind back to their original state?
As a test, I've been using Bing as my default since their launch and I don't miss Google yet. Bing is a very good product, imho.
I really like the idea of having one VM for many languages, but having just watched the Google IO video on V8, I think there might be some real performance advantages to specialized engines.

For example, they replaced the regular expression engine that Webkit was using with one that was specially designed to work with Javascript's regex syntax. Maybe you can get similar performance with a generalized engine, but I'm no longer of the mind that one VM for all languages will be the end-all-be-all solution.

http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/V8BuildingHighPerf...
Yes. I would definitely live there.
Yes, I know what you mean. The other night I thought I heard gunshots and I wasn't able to sleep for the whole night because I was so afraid. Thanks to everyone for their valuable input. I guess I will look to other options in regards to affordable housing.
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I was kind of hoping this was implemented as a port of the game to Javascript, but it seems that it works by running the game natively server-side, using AJAX to channel input/output to the browser.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662261
I think this link is from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=661655. There's more discussion there.
I wouldn't go that far. Zimbra was the first client I was willing to use over Mutt. It taught me the value of Gmail-style conversation threading. It has strong IMAP support, and a reasonable J2ME client. It never ate my data, and I was able to use it on a daily basis for a year.

"Gmail killer" is wonderfully hyperbolic, but in its space, it's really not a bad option. Especially when measured against other self-hosted webmail + calendaring solutions. Of which there are two: Horde and Outlook Web Access.

I'm personally pulling for Bongo (http://bongo-project.org/), but I think it's more likely that this space will be ceded to Google Apps.
If you like small homes, check out:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/
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Changing the user agent in Firefox lets you view that page in IE8 mode. I wonder if the clue pages will do that to?
I knew a guy who dated a girl that used to date a guy who worked in the IT dept of a company that used to have Exchange and then switched to Zimbra but now uses Google Apps. For what it's worth

;)
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Is it me or are these things insanely expensive. Maybe if you live in the bay area this is cheap, but I live in Indiana and in some places you could by a house way bigger than one of these for the same price. And that includes the price of a 1/8 to 1/4 acre lot.

The other problem is where do you put it? I am not going to live in my parents back yard.
"If you cant figure out what that is, I don't want you"

I have to confess I have no idea what you'd define as "a high end consumer product"
I think you are misinterpreting the law. As I understand it, the law is both better and worse than your interpretation.

Better, in that your hypothesized shipment to NY won't be subject to NC sales tax -- only the payment of the commission occurred in NC, not the sale.

Worse, in that all shipments to NC residents will be subject to sales tax -- even if those sales did not start with an in-state Associate referral.

In the view of the law, the presence of the in-state Associates means that Amazon has a paid sales force operating inside the state borders. That, just like having offices or warehouses or storefronts, makes Amazon liable to collect sales tax on all sales into NC.

They are paying people and facilities inside NC to help them sell. In some cases -- and I imagine those cases that generate the most commissions -- the in-state facilities display product names, pictures, descriptions, and prices. Sounds enough like a 'storefront' to me that Amazon should pay the same taxes as their in-state competitors.
This is a problem. Because I run Linux all the time, and Wine can't run any games I like very well, I don't have any temptation to stop work to play a game. If VirtualBox can actually play those games (most of which aren't particularly modern or requiring a lot of 3D horsepower), then I could be in trouble.
why is this on the front page? its not related to gmail. its not new. its not hacker news related.
I lived in a shed on my parents farm for more than a year. it definitely wasn't anything like the ones they are selling here: It was incredibly hot in summer and the pipes froze once in winter, I did what I could to insulate it and enjoyed it very much. (After I air-conditioned it).

The total cost of construction for my shed was R50,000 (~$6 145.35) complete with bathroom and kitchen. I now live in a 140 square meter (2x bed, 2x bath, loft) apartment which almost costs as much as these sheds.
We could turn the major deserts into forests if we wanted to. Geoff Lawton did this in the lowest, saltiest place in the Dead Sea, on 10 acres, with nothing but passive water harvesting earthworks, and selective planting. Now, that 10 acres is completely green, and produces enough food for quite a few families, and neighbors.

Imagine the rainforest, and 90% of it being edible. Seasonal and successional plantings, so when you walk through it, you can't help but stepping on food. Cassava, Potato, etc, all underneath the ground where you can't see as well.
> having to subscribe to a bunch of FOSS email lists at work I appreciate just filling away the mailing lists into a folder for later, way better than Gmail's way with the tags and searching and stuff

Sorry. I feel like I'm bringing up VIM vs. Emacs or something here, but please explain how folders are in any way different from tags and filters.

Why can't you just create a filter that tags your FOSS stuff and then auto-archives it?
What I don't understand is why Amazon doesn't get it's shit together, and sue North Carolina over this. They have plenty of cash to make it happen, and the positive outcome will stop other states from pulling this crap in the future.
I'm going to guess a car.
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And this in turn reminds me of the "Car of the Year" ads. See http://www.thetalentjungle.com/hospitality_blog/index.php/ar... (I don't think the Bentley one is real, though.).
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