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It was actually never intended for sigint.sg to seem like it was created independently. There's a link back to Hacker News in the FAQ: http://www.sigint.sg/faq
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There has been a better article of this kind not so long ago:

http://reinh.com/blog/2009/03/02/a-git-workflow-for-agile-te...

It describes effectively the same workflow, but with more background.
I think there's a market need for physically handicapped folks but thr segway was never designed for them. Agreed the market targeted Was hallucinated
One suggestion I have is to reduce the number of links on the frontpage to say 15 instead of 30 until there's a little more traffic on the site.

On the whole, great effort! Look forward to participating.
Really good point. It's really of little interest to me whether Google acquired good things or developed them in-house from the start. What I like about Google is that their stuff is good. Unlike many companies, they are doing good work with their acquisitions.
Thanks, the evil toolbars have hidden it below the scroll...
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I often interact with people who work for corporations like that. They usually don't care about the company because the company won't acknowledge any extra effort on their part. All that's expected from them is to comply with what they are asked to do.

If person A calls me to do X, from the point of view of the company all that matters is that X is done. If A comes back with a complaint from me about Y, from the point of view of the company A is wasting her time.

He says "if you are not proud, go somewhere else" but that's wrong. She may need the salary and be satisfied with her conditions. Who says she has to be proud? He's the one with the problem. Seth, if you are not happy then do business with a different company.
Sounds like you've figured it out. Just as it's easier to avoid the popcorn in the grocery aisle or theater lobby than when it's within arm's reach, it's easier to block HN than to avoid typing "Cmd-L n" in your browser.
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How to get the command key back as the meta key on Mac OS X: (setq ns-command-modifier 'meta)
This is an idea I've been kicking around since building our iPhone app.
I noticed this back when I used OS X. Part of the reason I switched from OS X back to Linux was that Emacs never worked right on OS X.
But what if we use "dead" to mean, "No longer in demand"?

Or, "No longer marketable/saleable"?

Hasn't the most really journalist "news" long been subsidized by gossip and "human interest"?

For the small portion of population that values in-depth, analytical coverage, perhaps some mimicking of The Economist's business model may be necessary?
Lesson: The US Government can and will completely fuck you over for any arbitrary reason at any time with no possibility of recourse. I'm sure that's exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.
Yes, I realised that after reading the quote another three times. The article itself however seems to be about scrapping, or theft, so I thought that quote describes what he does well, but of course failed to see that he works for Linux Magazine.
So he deserves to have all of his life's work yanked out from under him based on a lie and then sent to jail for 5 years for no crime?
Some operating systems, including OS X, don't provide that script, but it's easy enough to just download it: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/cvsweb/~che...
are you serious? this may be what the segway needs. Extreme segway sports. If i saw someone going 70 mph on a segway, my first thought would certainly not be 'what a square'.
I am hoping to be able to pull together code for this project, but a fair part of it has no similar code that I can find allready around. Do you know any resources/examples/guides for "gluing" other pieces of code together properly?

As for database skills, one of my units for this half of the year is a database course based heavily on SQL, but I have already had a few experiences.

Thank you.
In that case, I should have linked you directly to the Raymond Chen articles that Joel was paraphrasing:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/15/55296.a...
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/23/45481.a...

Here's a quote:

This is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to application compatibility. I could probably write for months solely about bad things apps do and what we had to do to get them to work again (often in spite of themselves). Which is why I get particularly furious when people accuse Microsoft of maliciously breaking applications during OS upgrades. If any application failed to run on Windows 95, I took it as a personal failure. I spent many sleepless nights fixing bugs in third-party programs just so they could keep running on Windows 95.
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Builds available at http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/

ETA: Information courtesy of the mighty EmacsWiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc2
That's because it's powered by Reddit, not Arc. They're both about the same in terms of undesign.
NYC the capital of the world, hmmm.... the NET is the new capital of the world.
While we are talking looks I might as well add that the light blue header doesn't go too well with the brown background. #BFDFF9 would look better.
I'd try Python. There's less syntax to type, and examples are more consistent due to the general flexibility of th language. Django and the Python Facebook module would be a good start.
Well, also compare where solaris is today.

Software development is about trade-offs and apparently linux wasn't hurt as bad by the occassional ABI breakage as solaris was hurt by the "backwards compatibility above all" mindset (which ofcourse reaches way beyond the basic ABI).

It's all about the albatrosses.
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"If you want to reward the staff for working quickly, you can’t make 'hours worked' a constant, because then only quality and quantity remain variable. In a traditional situation where 'hours worked' is a constant, the reward for working quickly and efficiently is just getting more work."

If only my current employer understood this.
Boycotting large companies rarely works without a highly organized campaign and participation by the masses. Unlikely in the case of Apple and their very popular iPhone. I agree, though, that we need to demand respect as customers.
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I submitted the original video instead:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=732090
Not always the case.

For example: Watson (http://www.karelia.com/watson/), was killed by Apple's Sherlock. Later, SandVox (http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/) was later followed up by Apple's iWeb. The list goes on...

Indie Mac developers have taken to calling this act, "Sherlocking". See a mainstream usage of the term here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1137

So, Apple swings both ways. :)
The Downside of Specialization
My advice is to meet as many like minded people as possible. Face-to-face bandwidth is amazing :)

I'm based in Melbourne, feel free to drop me a line.
Ok good suggestion. I'll dig around the code to change that when the traffic dies down.
At my university, the campus security used Segways. I imagine that they were able to cover ground more easily than on foot and it was easier to stop and talk to people than if they were on bicycles (referenced by another commenter). The campus was small enough that there wasn't much road access within.

They didn't look that dorky either, even with their helmets.
Why OSGi is cool, but not for most enterprise apps…
Lesson: Do not live in the US. Just Don't Do It.
Should I develop my skills first? Maybe write up a bit of a plan to share with possible partners?

And how did you guys find partners on your first projects?
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What's the startup scene in SG like? Also, are their consumer Internet companies mostly English-language, or multilingual?
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Speaking of which:

According to the MAN documentation for ssh-keygen, host keys must have an empty passphrase, so just leave it blank.

We're not making a host key here, are we? Shouldn't a passphrase be employed?
Good points. Specialization is for insects!
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No. I'd say from personal experience that journalism is dead. I ran for elected office last November. I had a number of opponents. None of us got more than a passing nod in either (now only 1) local paper. Time and time again, the reporters covering the "beat" that this elected office fell under would call or send pages of questions about us, about our campaigns, about our goals if elected. Chatting with the other candidates, they, like myself, sent page after page of answers only to have everything truncated to $CANDIDATE is $AGE and works as a $JOB.

Why should anyone have voted for any of us? The local papers chose not to let the voters find out. That's a major fault of the papers. If they're not going to bother telling the voters what's going on, then who is? If the local papers aren't going to bother covering a state-level race, then why are they still in business (one isn't) and why should we care when they go out of business?
the founder of binarycake is a great guy, he's 15 and is working at my startup. If that helps :)
Not everybody has the hope to get big, e.g. my favourite cafe doesn't.

I would say that someone who wishes to get big, but doesn't take appropriate action, will still have a startup, albeit likely unsuccessful. You might define someone's company as not being a startup because you don't think they will be successful - but how do you know they won't be? Hence my ironic use of "delusional" etc. Many startups were doubted before they became successful.

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html references the example to which I alluded: McDonald's.
There are plenty of legitimate sites without data feeds where scraping becomes necessary such as some .gov sites.
chiropractors make their money off of ignorance. if you feel better after going to a chiropractor it's because the muscles that support and stabilize the spine (especially the posture muscles of the lower back) are weak. do some basic exercise like stretching, hyper extensions, and yoga and your back problems will go away.

there's a reason chiropractors don't grab a chunk of the lucrative physical therapy market, their techniques are a stop gap, they don't improve your condition.
Dtrace and ZFS and other features that Linux is struggling to copy (e.g. SystemTAP and BTRFS).

Backwards compatibility in Solaris is a matter of minor annoyances (e.g. ksh93) it hasn't hindered it being a cutting-edge Unix.
in utter fairness this seems to be the the mission of one FBI officer (though in spirit I agree).
Everyone hates the App Store
Scraping itself is not theft. It could be used to commit theft, but there are far more legitimate uses.
To tell the truth, if it is not some big organization, maybe it would be possible to do what was requested... Hard to tell without knowing anything about that though.
If you own an apartment building and you are suspected of committing crimes, the government cannot search or sieze the entire building without a warrant for each individual apartment. Each renter has 4th amendment protection and the courts have consistently ruled this way. So if I'm a renter, and you're the police or FBI, you can't get a warrant to seize my property from a judge until you can convince a him that you have probable cause to believe I am involved in a crime (the fact that another renter in the building or the property owner is a suspect is not justification). This same premise applies to storage lockers and other rented space. You can't simply seize an entire rental property. Co-location data centers should function the same way. Our servers are in locked cabinets at our co-lo. We have an SLA and a contract lease with the host. The property in that space is legally ours. Let's hope we never have to convince a court of that.
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Replying to myself for the benefit of future googlers:

The "invalid URL parameter" can be solved in midpssh by switching the connection to TCP/IP instead of Auto. I haven't found a solution for jmirc yet but of course I can ssh to a box running irssi.

A few more observations: the trackball responds better to a very light touch, pushing down even slightly seems to affect its resolution horizontally. I didn't notice this on a co-worker's Bold but it may change with age.

Also last night it silently stopped receiving mail. I came into the office to 97 unread messages that were never pushed. Forcing a reconcile didn't find them but pulling the battery did. If this happens again there will be a chat with Verizon and/or RIM in my future.

There's a small flaw with the headset socket, it appears to be slightly too deep. Pushing headphones in all the way doesn't work, you have to pull them out just a tick. Which is useless as then they get knocked back into place when a gnat farts in the next zipcode. The included headset does work but it's crap. I picked up a set of bluetooth A2DP earphones [1] which are frankly only adequate.

[1] http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/mobi...
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I want this kid on my team... such a great concept.
I'm similar to you. Australian (Sydney), 21, Uni student, tight budget. E-books are great, but as others have said, just start fiddling.

I won't tell you what to do, because I'm still quite inexperienced and other advice in this thread will likely be far more valuable, but what I've done is purchased a cheap slice @ slicehost.com. I taught myself to work with Unix, setup apache/nginx, php, mysql, perl, python, ruby and so forth, fiddle with the internal settings. Then you start learning how these things interact with each other.

I then suggest installing something like Kohana, which is a fantastic PHP framework. By working inside a framework you are forced into good habits.

PHP, HTML and CSS should come first, in my opinion. Once you have the basics of these there, start implementing some fun Jquery and making a small site that's database-driven. All of a sudden you're using 5+ technologies, and from hereon out you'll learn things as you go.

*Edit: feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat some more! woodsier at gmail
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Most of the food alerts come from two sources:

1) Imported food where raw animal and human waste are used outside of FDA guidelines (i.e. no uncomposted manures used in fields within 120 days of harvest if the vegetable touches the ground, 90 days if it doesn't).

Look at #1. Its actually totally consistent with organic practice, other than the safety violation ;)

2) Rat and other animal feces in processing facilities - a la peanuts.

The FDA is not overwhelmed at testing GMO foods. They're overwhelmed in testing imports, and inspecting production facilities. Think of the scope of those two problems. The FDA sits at a chokepoint of GMO, and not at imports.
Not yet comparable to the bay area but definitely picking up. There also seems to be a genuine desire by the government here to see the startup scene flourish and they're allocating resources as such.

Consumer Internet companies here are predominantly English language.
The man himself: http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/WWSEF/08Awards/08Burd06Port0...
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Scraping is theft. Alone downloading and storing a copyrighted article is forbidden by law in certain countries.

It doesn't matter if you make the article public then or not.
DRM for news? Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its content
I see it as a problem with the company, not the just individual. If I walked into the Nordstrom shoe department and said there was an error on my store credit card bill, I bet the salesperson would get me on the path to fixing the problem, not say, "I just work here."

I also see a problem with the individual. She is failing the basics of the sales process. She calls up a person, someone obviously influential, as she knows who he is, and asks him for something- time at the least. In return, she's not willing to offer him anything? Even the phone number of the person in the department that handles that stuff- someone in marketing that would probably like a chance to speak to Seth Godin, even if it's a chance to get some feedback from him?
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No, but surely they have a better chance of tracking that person down than Seth does, especially if they are asking him for a favour. It certainly wouldn't hurt to spend 15 minutes trying, or as others have said, say you will try. The main point is that blaming someone else inside your organisation to shift the blame from yourself is not cool.
Not really. If you look at the details today, it seems as if Obama has started to embrace policies by Bush and even expand them (while simultaneously still criticizing Bush).

This is one example:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/27/preventive...
Ok noted. Let me mess around with that when the site is restarted next.
My advice would be to move to a hosting provider that can scale easily with the success of your site. I like linode. If your site isn't generating much traffic, $23 should cover your hosting expenses ($20 for a single node). As your traffic scales up, add additional nodes.

I'm not really willing to sign up on your site, and almost nothing is viewable without an account, so that's going to be it as far as advice I can offer. Good luck!
The title is misleading---these are all apps in the Top 25. They are not the 'middle class', they are the 'rich' in the App Store economy.
The opposite of this, of course, is groupthink...
I am in Sydney. Feel free to drop me a line.

Our startups actually work in some of the area that you described (haven't launched yet).

But, i agree with other comments, research around ...most of the time, it won't be unique. But, you'll learn more and more as you do more iteration of releases.
How about:

(defun kill-it-with-fire ()
(interactive)
(loop for b in (buffer-list) do (kill-buffer b)))
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=732133
Scrolling (redisplay?) slow for anyone else?
When using a small font (ProggyTiny) it gets really slow.
He also flubbed using ssh-agent. Usually it is run from the login script once. You then do a ssh-add to add your identity to it. Once that is done you don't need to enter your password for that session anymore. You can even allow ssh on other systems to access your agent so you can ssh to another machine, ssh from that machine to a 3rd which will use your agent for the key info.

Never leave your key without a passphrase!

A good series of articles on ssh bt Brian Hatch can be found here - http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20021211.html
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Do you think for a second that Apple shipped an important part of their iPhone platform without a contract guaranteeing the service from the third-party provider?

Google is almost certainly required to keep providing its map content to Apple by contract.
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I'd wager responding to the vultures is unproductive. The majority of readers follow your point. Respoding just fuels their linguistics lawyering further.
My learning process usually works like this:

1) Learn the syntax/guts of a tool by going through a book, tutorial and trying trivial examples.

2) Work until I run into a problem. (How do I make merb-auth work with a flash uploader?)

3) Find examples/read a book/look at API docs until I figure it out. (Ohhh, you write a Rake middleware to handle it!)

4) Goto 2.

So reading materials are important, but I usually use them to solve real problems. There's no part of this process that doesn't involve writing code.
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Great work. I think it would be great when you guys start cover the region, like Indonesia. I hardly can find any Indonesian startups so far. Unfortunately, i don't live in the country.
Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t make much sense to protect the password without protecting the whole session (that is, without serving most of the site over HTTPS). If just the login page is encrypted, any attacker who is now prevented from stealing your password can still obtain your session cookie that travels over plain HTTP.

A compromise of a single session is bad enough for many services. Set up a filter to forward your email to the attacker’s address? Access private information? Post messages on your behalf? Change your user profile, including your email and shipping address? Usually such actions do not require password authentication when the client already has a valid session cookie. A man-in-the-middle attacker could also intercept your attempt to log out and keep using your session for as long as possible.
Here's a MacPorts Portfile for 23, if you're into that sort of thing: http://paste.lisp.org/+1T5E
Benifts tend to cap out so 40k /year for someone making 200k might not be unreasonable. Granted, social secuirty and heathcare both cap out, if they start adding a free car then benifits can keep going up.

He is forgetting about is travel expences and a subscription to the AP etc. But his extra 50% buffor is probably not that far off but let's double it and say 34 million a year. That's 34million$ * (1000 page views / 0.25$) / 52 weeks = ~650 million page views a week. Which is probably not that unreasonable.

However, 50 reporters are not going to cover a fraction of what the The New York Times covers.
I was arguing more in terms of market- and mindshare than in terms of technical merit. Yes, Solaris grew a few very strong subsystems. The problem is that your list ends very shortly after Dtrace, ZFS and Zones (which is already matched by OpenVZ anyways). Those few bright spots are simply not enough reason for most people to put up with with an OS that is otherwise firmly stuck in the 90s (horrible userland, absence of a package manager, no worthwhile mass provisioning options, etc.).
Good stuff, but it's still that (Western?) way of thinking about treating the symptom.
So basically because you don't understand it.
This is a pretty bad implementation, it doesn't take into account that it may take a longer time than you expect before some new data will arrive (say a week or so) and then it will take 10.5 days before the next poll.

Some upper limit would seem advisable.