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Jessica Mah seems like a very talented individual - certainly very entrepreneurial (though she doesn't like the term for whatever reason). This may be the first of her startups to post any revenue, but it's a huge step.

All the best of luck, and hopefully you'll be "post-profit" soon!
I'm positive about Cydia as well as there will be more and more frustrated users and developers turning to the store. Additionally big publications like CNN, Wired and lots of blogs are writing about it.

The question is really how long the store will last, or, how long jailbreakers can win against iPhone software updates. Unlikely but maybe Apple finds a way to keep them of doing so.

Yes, I think the Android market is interesting as more and more companies are distributing their phones with pre-installed Android, especially in China.
The side effect of increasing longevity would be to make Social Security collapse that much faster.
Tell PG: HN link bug
If something like http://http://notarealurl.com is entered into the url field, the submission title is linked to it, but no link reference is displayed. I'm not sure if this is that big of a deal, but there have been a few submissions like this, and thinking that I would be taken to the discuss page when clicking the title, I was taken elsewhere and grew a bit hesitant to click on other submissions without link references. I'm afraid perhaps someone could run some sort of exploit, although I'm not sure if that's really possible.
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Garmin 256MB Secure product is designed to meet the most demanding standard: customers' satisfaction. That's why Garmin equipment is manufactured to give you reliable service for years to come, with intuitive features you can grow into over time - all at a price you can afford.
A co-worker of mine did rough calculations on the cost of charging an electric car vs. buying gas and they concluded gas would have to be $8 per gallon before electric was cheaper than gas purely on fuel cost.
"These are live video feeds from 325 unprotected Panasonic Network Cameras..."

This one is very funny:
http://212.248.100.101:89/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Langua...
Android is gonna have to fight the old war of OpenSource platforms that go commercial (a fight that has been won only very seldom in the past). If it succeeds at that, its future is going to be very bright.
Cydia will never be as popular and/or successful as the AppStore. But then again, it never was supposed to be. Cydia is supposed to be an open platform welcomming any kind of developer without restrictions and/or fees. The idea itself is meant for an outsider-position. Saurik is doing an awesome job at maintaining the Cydia store, but his much more important work consists in bringing *nix software to the iPhone platform. Cydia is only one of these advantages ;-)
Did anyone else just immediately scroll to the bottom to look for the U.S.? That's what I did, as that's where I expected to see it. I had to scroll up to look at the rest of the countries.
Well, Andover has 31,000 and Albany has 94,000. The first is as a puzzle, the second one not so much.

In my case, the town is much smaller, and pretty much everyone knew everyone.
Define "enterprise".
Not Arduino (I use mainly PICs at the moment 'cos they're cheap and simple) but my current hardware project is working with my friend Felix on his Machines (music making sound art machines):

http://felixsmachines.com/

I do the electronics & programming stuff, it's an awful lot of fun. Plus I got to go to TEDGlobal for a day :)
I would ask that question on LinkedIn: friend a bunch of people in your local area first. I think you have to pay to actually be able to broadcast a job on LinkedIn, but it can have pretty wide reach via your friends and your friends' friends. If you ask generically enough you may not need to pay.
Here's an interesting blogpost from an android developer:
http://tseng-blog.nge-web.net/blog/2009/02/28/android-market...
I'd love to be the guy who decided I bet that low frequency monthly term is the tides, let's just regress it out shall we?
B2B sales - selling a content solution to web publishers of all sizes. Looking for someone with experience selling to media companies.
If it were expressed as a percentage of GDP, the list of numbers might even be meaningful.
I spit coffee, because I thought you were consoling the OP on his own death.
The blogger disqualified himself when he said: "Seaweed, like plants found on land, are also rich in phytonutrients." -- note the last word, which means "plant nutrients." The sentence is then as devoid of novel claims as saying that "bread is made of wheat" and "meat is made of muscle."
Mix this kinda stuff with corporate espionage and corrupt insiders, and you are not too far away from the future described by (among others) William Gibson where corporations, not nations, rule and fight wars.
Hmm. As a coffee shop owner this is interesting. I was thinking more along the lines of getting a megaphone for my baristas so they can loudly shame the deadbeats.

Most of my clientèle are students so the internet access is pretty key. I have noticed a few obviously non-student types hanging out looking for jobs online. Which is cool unless they are bringing their own drinks. Which happens.
Oh no, how will I be a rock star writing Rails code in TextMate on my MBP now? :(
China ranks 1 in CAB and ranks 82 in Satisfaction with Life Index

America ranks 191 in CAB and ranks 23 in Satisfaction with Life Index

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_with_Life_Index
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try craigslist - you'll be surprised - i've seen VP (sales) posting their resumes there ...
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Well, this was before the +4, and the official address was Rural Route #.
Yes, we tried that. I was surprised that Craigslist is used to extensively for Sales/BizDev. Wondering about other channels...
"Android is gonna have to fight the old war of OpenSource platforms that go commercial (a fight that has been won only very seldom in the past). If it succeeds at that, its future is going to be very bright."

Care to explain that? Google does not intend to make money directly out of Android sales and just about all the applications users buy are proprietary. It's more or less the same as someone buying Oracle to run on Linux - the OS is open-source, but the application is not.
In my experience, enterprise salespeople desperately want to be found. They put themselves out there in all kinds of ways - they join associations, they network in their communities, they network within the startup community, etc. Generally speaking, the investors know who the best enterprise salespeople are. If you have investors, that is a great place to start.
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These values would mean more if they were per capita, but they're still impressive.

Per capita current account balance (according to CIA factbook reported population, and current acct balance), sorted by total current account balance:

1: China: $276

2: Germany: $3242

3: Japan: $1145

~~

15: Sweden: $3893

42: Israel: $255

79: Afghanistan: -$2

135: Chile: -$95

179: Portugal: -$2245

~~

189: UK: -$1190

190: Spain: -$3766

191: US: -$1872
Like many other commenters, I've been dealing with sleep paralysis for some time as well, and at it's peak, on a very frequent basis (as many as 2 or 3 times per week). I've made changes to reduce some of the supposed causes, and although the frequency has seemingly lessened, I still encounter sleep paralysis on a regular basis. If you've never had the experience, feel lucky - it's very scary. Even though you're conscious enough to realize what is happening, the length of the spells varies, and as it persists longer, panic often sets in. On the off-chance that this can actually help someone, I'll share a bit about my experience, and things I've found to be helpful.

Personally when I "wake" to this state of paralysis, I often imagine that there are people close by, and despite trying to call out to them, I am unable. This is an incredibly frustrating feeling, but it is very important to remain calm. I find it helps to continually think about what is actually happening to you, and that it will most certainly be over in a relatively short time, no matter how long it may seem. What's most troubling though, is that it takes only the slightest touch sensation for your body to wake up. Therefore the urge is to try to move and create the sensation yourself, yet you are seemingly incapable (some people here have said they can wiggle their fingers or toes - I've never been able to). If you do this, it is very easy to let panic set in - trying desperately to move and not being able to is frightening - so again it's important to relax and not futilely struggle. In most cases it is best to just wait the scenario out. I eventually became tired of just waiting for these bouts to end though, so I went to speak to someone about it, and they actually gave me the only tip which has ever worked for me on a fairly consistent basis: rub your tongue against the roof of your mouth. The way it was explained to me was that the root location of the paralysis (in most cases) is situated such that it largely does no affect your mouth. Despite not having complete control, most subjects are still capable of moving their tongues, and the palate is filled with sensitive nerve endings. Doing this for several seconds it's usually enough of a sensation to kick-start your body into actually waking up. It's far from a perfect solution, but given the available options, it's quite effective.
Thanks - have reached out to our investors. Unfortunately most of their contacts are seasoned enterprise salespeople who are outside our current budget - we're trying to remain capital efficient, but still willing to spend if the match is great.
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try all social media locations: myspace, twitter, facebook, orkut etc.
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An "Ambient Orb" clone I call "orbison": http://code.google.com/p/orbison/
And here's a video about it recorded at a Chicago Python meeting a few months ago: http://blip.tv/file/1773285
Why not submit the source instead?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/no-fee-no-ft-...
Slightly off-topic, but perhaps not too far: http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=228
Quote:

"I must admit that I'm biased in that review, and I haven't been using so much AS3 myself."

Yeah, not knowing foo is definitely the ideal starting point for writing an article about how much foo sucks...
doesn't look like a security vulnerability, just a regex issue when he's trying to parse the domain via the URL.

perhaps he could start to parse the URL at the last (and usually first) occurrence of the protocol tag... assuming that this is a common error by submitters and worth coding a fix for.
I was about to ask the same question.
The quality of the images is so bad with these I wonder what "security" at all they do provide.

Scientific surveillance studies have shown that CCTV has no positive effect on crime. Either the crime happens elsewhere or it happens anyways and just gets filmed.

The only thing that CCTV changed is that you have footage of masked burglars afterwards or you catch some people having sex in the act.

Statistics suggest that catching the criminals on tape does not mean more of them get arrested either so it's just about civil liberties being taken away.
Some reasonable advice in there, but #3? Ruh roh.
Ask YC: Do you have a cool Arduino project?
I've noticed that the arduino (http://arduino.cc/) has gotten quite a bit of traction, and that people are building really cool stuff with it.

Do you have a great, funny, interesting or noteworthy arduino project you're working on? Just-for-fun projects count too :-)
I made a Gmail checker based on a project I did with my local hackerspace, step by step guide is below,

http://www.matthewforr.com/index.php/how_to_make_an_led_ardu...
Is Bing Censoring Questions About Microsoft?
Germany is #35. If anyone is striking the right balance, it's them They are the world's largest exporter, ahead of China!

What are they doing so right?
the much better version: http://tlrobinson.net/bigbrother/snowstack.html
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I think the 'solution' will depend on how paranoid you want to be about security. You could count the occurrences of protocol tags and if it's more than one, don't allow the user to submit it -- however, this would break some url redirectors and print pages. Or, you could do what you said, and check the string for consecutive protocol tags, then discard all of them except the last one.

Since there is a fairly low volume of new links that need to be checked, PG could simply add a few lines of code that send an HTTP HEAD request to the url and see if it's really a valid link before accepting it (or try a HEAD, then a GET if that fails, in case the webserver doesn't handle HEAD requests properly). I think that would be the most flexible solution.
In my school's product realization class my team built a prototype of a portable device used for a specific type of genetic testing, LAMP.
2008 Google study has Russia leading in IPV6 adoption[pdf]
Interesting.

Any nice reference about pgsql and query optimization? Any book recommendation?

As an old mysql guy, as far as I do db:s, the advice re subqueries (#4) was unusual... :-)

(I looked at trying pgsql for a hobby a few years back and found lacking support for different char sets for different tables, etc. Is that [still] so?)
One of the things I thought after watching this is if Archimedes could have been inspired/influenced by noticing the crow's behavior or by Aesop's fable.
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The reason for a low life expectancy in Swaziland isn't that people eat unhealthy food, it's because they have no food to eat at all - 60% of the population get by on less than $1.25 a day. On top of that 38.8% of the population is HIV positive.

Americans have the choice of healthy living, Swaziz don't.
Good Programming: Nobody Knows You Did It
Senior programming "guru" who can't program - should I find a different career?
The thing that really surprises me about all this is the surprise. Bing was not set up with Chinese walls in place (they way it should have been done) and has been produced by a company that sees every communication with others as a marketing effort (this may be a good thing, I'm not sure).

They'll do everything they can to portray themselves in a good light.

For instance when you search on bing for microsoft vs stacker the wikipedia page that specifically adresses the lawsuit is not even in the top 10 search results, whereas it is arguably the best page on the subject on the web. Coincidence ? Possible. Probable ? I don't think so.

Bing has its uses, but to get objective information about its owners you'd have to look elsewhere.

The interesting thing with all this is that people are now so conditioned to find stuff using search engines that if a search engine does not list a page it might as well not exist.
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So glad to see PostgreSQL bubbling up these day's as it's been my DB of choice for many years. I'd love to see a more portable version and of course something like mySQL's group_concat(). If you are game for trying it out be sure to check out the tools at sqlmanager.net (unfortunately they don't offer Linux versions anymore).
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I'm quite strongly against CCTV but the claim that they are not a deterrent is false.

3% of the crimes solved in areas where CCTV systems are set up were attributed to that. This is a pittance, but it is 3% more than would have been solved otherwise.

The real drawback of CCTV is the 'false positive' rate, and the fact that people that should not have access to the data (which was sort of the point of my posted link) are able to look over the shoulder of the people in control of the cameras. This is a serious invasion of privacy.
You got me curious about who is striking the "right balance" -- well, BEST balance. With near 40 mil at #12 and #2 in satisfaction with life, my vote is with Switzerland.
Many economists don't think it's a good idea to grow huge positive current account balances either. Eg, this article: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1... The problem is, if you do that, a large proportion of your savings are abroad, denominated in a foreign currency.
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As a non-student (with a job) that works fairly often at coffee houses, I try to not always buy the cheapest drink, put a little extra money in the tip jar, etc. understanding that sitting there for 4 hours working and spending $3 is not optimal for the health of the business. I'm curious, however if you've ever considered any kind of alternative business models besides just charging for the Internet access or for the electricity? I've thought about what kind of "value added" services I could charge people for realistically if I had my own place and I haven't come up with much. Do your economics really work with a bunch of students coming in and sitting for hours?
Actually, there are a few more ways to speed things up:

1. Let’s make the web faster (by Google): http://code.google.com/speed/articles/

2. Implement the recommendations at WebPageTest – http://www.webpagetest.org/test
A small note of caution.

I did a startup some time ago where we were four founders. One of them was an excellent enterprise sales guy. In his previous job he had managed sales in excess of $100 million on a yearly basis. His job was, of course, to push the product. It didn't work out because he was used to a big organization that took care of everything from planning his meetings to serving him coffee. He simply didn't get the startup culture where you have to save every penny you've got, and do everything yourself with noone to delegate to.

We ended up buying his shares and he went back to big-corp where he was more at home.

I'm not saying that all enterprise sales people are like this, just that it's something to be aware of.
This is really great feedback - thanks. We have do everything ourselves. We've met sales guys that don't even want to do lead-generation. They think they are only "closers." Anyway, finding someone great who fits into the entrepreneurial atmosphere and needs of a startup is another challenge.
I'm working on an inertial navigation system for an autonomous aircraft. An Arduino Mega communicates with an inertial measurement unit (six degrees of freedom, 3-axis gyros, 3-axis accelerometers), a 3-axis magnetometer, static and differential pressure sensors (altitude and airspeed respectively), ultrasonic rangefinder (for very precise landing altitudes), and a 5Hz GPS.

I just completed a first flight which limited the scope of the test to a glider that kept the wings level and the nose on the horizon (using the pitch and roll data from a Kalman filter running on the IMU data updated at about 54Hz). Here's what that system looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttrueman/3770700718/

It's a lot of fun and I highly recommend Arduino hacking to anyone that wants to give hardware a try.

Here's a good starter kit: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...

One simple project that seemed cool to me was this LED one: http://blog.bsoares.com.br/processing/controlling-rgb-led-wi...

If you're ambitious you could try building your own UAV based on Arduino using Ardupilot: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-main-page

(I know this comment goes on and on but if you work with i2c, SPI or serial often check out Saleae's Logic: http://www.saleae.com/logic/ which is a cheap logic analyzer that is incredibly useful and well done.)
I vote Finland - #27 by CAB with $10 billion, and #6 by satisfaction with life.
> Yeah and disabled people and ill people. The take up precious time and space!

These are completely different issues. A lot of disabled people are able to sit still in their allotted space. A disability is usually also not a lifestyle choice (as obesity is in 99.99% of cases).

I have great empathy for a disabled person. But my empathy does not stretch to people who to supersize their burgers.

> Is it not a slippery slope where people who are not standardised are charged more? Maybe non standard people should sit at the back of the plane so no one has to see them?

They use up more of a service. If a fat person is in a restaurant and he eats to burgers instead of one, is he charged more or not? If you use more of a service then you should pay more.

Also, I pay good money for my small piece of seat. If you sit alongside a fat person he will unapologetically take up 30-40% of your seat space. If you do not want to charge him more, can you at least charge me less? (Since I do not get to use the seat space).

Or why not let fat people sit alongside each other? That way they can feel themselves how they make other people on the plane feel.

The very least an obese person can do is to minimise his carryon luggage – but unfortunately the opposite seems true.
What a great business plan: Harrass the jobless who are working on job applications (or maybe a startup?).

Think they'll become loyal customers once they're employed?

Weird business idea: figure out how to be supportive toward the down-and-(temp.)out techies (and their laptops) so you have a tech-friendly reputation. [ If you don't, some of them will open shops that will compete with yours. ]
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The writer is a bit unfair on the "is microsoft evil" one - because those are news results. So assuming Bing gives equal share to the keywords (which is fair enough, it has no clue MS is the focus of your question) then the news results will, surely, depend a lot on when the story was published.

In which case the Google story (with 2 keywords in the title!) seems a fair one ot come top :)]

EDIT: incidentally I get this: http://screencast.com/t/dlYz0HMM so Im not convinced this isn't just waffle.
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"Its" not "it's." This is not rocket surgery, people.
I still want a non-relational distributed database that can do fast range queries over arbitrary properties -- I hate to be iterating over millions of items when I just want the latest 10.

MongoDB does exactly that. But it's not nearly as good on the decentralization front as Riak.

A crossbreed between Riak and Mongo - that would be perfect feature-set.
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I'm currently building a media center, and I'm using an arduino-derived board to control an LED display on it. I'm short-sighted, but don't wear my glasses much, so I wanted a big bright screen to do track listings and look pretty. Plus it only cost £35!
What is so upgradeable about the hardware in the iphone ?
When I read this the other day, I wondered how many laptop abusers there are compared to people who sit with their laptop and continue to buy things. Because this gets rid of both.

Maybe the economy has gotten bad enough recently to tip the scale too far.
Is that still legal ? I thought that the AA+Enron debacle put a solid stop to that practice.
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I always wonder if the cost of complying with new regulations is contemplated. If I think of how long our family take just to do stupid and inane administrative tasks (VAT, Union payments, tax, unemployment insurance, etc…). All this administration is really hampering small businesses.

Why aren’t these regulations simplified? Why aren’t employees paid on a
cost to company” basis and are responsible for their own administration (i.e. own union payments, own unemployment insurance, own health insurance, etc…).

Maybe it is just because I hate admin – but I doubt that admin should take up 40% of a small business owner’s time.
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