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I may be way off, but my guess is not much more than generous signing bonuses.

The site makes no money and their grant ended June 30, so I'm sure MSNBC had almost all the leverage.
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Not a joke:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

(I'm assuming by "joke" you meant "not a real app.")
"NYC constantly stinks like dried vagina in the summer."

i read zed for gems like that. hilarious. but, imho, nyc does have shortcomings when put up against sf, especially in the tech space. i live in manhattan now and although there are a handful of people/groups that do hackernews type stuff they are few and far between. mostly those that do play here are along the lines of the job zed made example of in his post.
It's not as if they don't tell you how it works...
A well-written piece from an avowed fan of Apple. What makes Gruber not a mere fanboi is his willingness to take valid criticisms of Apple seriously.
In my experience, actually it isn't. I didn't just make that up. Sorry -- your anecdotal evidence doesn't trump mine, especially since:

1. you haven't provided a comparison with X, which is sorta the point -- so maybe X would be blazing fast in your circumstances too

2. if what you say is true, you're obviously operating under different circumstances than me (or my girlfriend who has to use RDP all the time for work)

3. I have no way of knowing if what you said is true
I got nine straight years out of my Mac SE/30, five from my (used) PowerBook G3 Lombard and five from my iBook G4. Also my second generation iPod works fine (aside from a dead battery which was mostly my fault) and my 4th(?)-gen iPod is in ship-shape. In fact, every Apple product I own aside from a refurb Airport Express will work if you plug it in -- that's two IIe's, a IIc, two SE/30's, a Quadra 840AV, a Lombard, a Pismo, two iBook G4's, an iMac G4, the aforementioned iPods, an Airport Extreme, an iPhone 3G, a unibody MacBook, and a MacBook Pro.

In my 21 years of Mac usage, I simply do not share your experience.
You know, I ask the same thing when the more personal stuff I write goes to #1. I can see my more technical and/or inflammatory posts hitting #1, but this is seriously a fairly mundane travel journal.

Anyway, I don't post these (or anything I write) to HN so if this is tops on the front page just chalk it up to a slow news day or a possible trend worth exploring.

Zed
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I upvoted because being an NYC native (well, after 5 years here) it is always interesting to see what I think I may be missing out on by not being in SF.

Honestly, I think he's spot on with SF being cheaper, cleaner and better tech scene than NY. Where NY wins out is that it is actually refreshing that not everyone is consumed by startup culture here, yet there are still people (buglabs, drop.io) building interesting companies. Also, NYC feels more vibrant compared to SF but my experience is highly limited to an 8 month stint in SF '05 and I wasn't working at a startup.

How about we cut the negativity and share other experiences of people that have relocated?
What people look for when hiring a manager is a different set of characteristics than what makes a good manager.

When interviewing, they want to hear about how you'll be effective and get results.

When managing, people want someone who is competent and can make decisions that are reasonable and sane. People also want a manager who will be their advocate.

The very best managers are the ones who can fill both roles.
So you want the news feed?
That's spooky - I actually have a small contract with a PR firm to do the same thing for Twitter and blogs, and I recently ran into another local startup focused on this.

My advice would be to spend your time growing the business and possibly hiring folks to handle the non-techie side if possible. There's a point at which the risk has been lowered enough that the co-founder level of reward isn't appropriate, and it sounds likely you're there if you're making decent revenue.
Same reason that your complaining about it is at the top of the discussion of the article - people thought it was worth voting up.

Personally, I thought this article was much more interesting than what Zed thinks about Django after using it for 2 hours (which was once also #1). As far as your comment, I don't think it adds much to the conversation at all. If I were a moderator, I'd delete this whole branch.
zed had the exact same thought:

"WTF. Why is my post about moving to SF #1 on HN? I need to write something that is worthy of that spot again."

(http://twitter.com/zedshaw/statuses/3363785875)
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wow! great step by myspace. this sure will irritate facebook like hell. might even lead to bidding war with facebook.

surprised by low price though. might be an investment?
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"A monoculture benefits no one in the long run, because it’s competition that drives innovation."

I found myself agreeing with this statement strongly.
"I went down to the Mission to get some Mexican food, because there is absolutely no good Mexican food in New York. None."

Wrong. Sunset Park in Brooklyn has excellent Mexican food. I say this as a person who recognizes the insane subjectivism of "good" Mexican food. Books could be written on how Americans judge US made Mexican food and I really do think there is no deterministic way to understand what goes into each persons position on what is good and not good when it comes to a burrito or enchilada.

But I will say this; if you go to Sunset Park in Brooklyn NY, you will find quality tacos and tortas. Probably the burritos won't be as good, but I personally find the burrito to be an uninspired dish. I've had good enchiladas and excellent tamales in Sunset Park, too.
I just got my 18-month-old niece a big set of Duplo (made by Lego, with blocks too big to be swallowed by a 2-year-old). I'll make an engineer of her yet...
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Other than hardware, none of those problem sources is any excuse for the whole system to crash -- but people still behave like they are on MS Windows.
good for them! i was at the nytimes open event a few months back and everyblock/microlocal news reporting was definitely something on the radar amongst attendees and people at the times. glad to see an major news operator 'get it' and get behind something innovative and new.
That's certainly one platitude that contains some of the same keywords as the article.

Except that programmers work in a synthetic world. We shouldn't have to "trade off" (nor should we find this acceptable) unless we actually encounter some limitation from the real world (e.g. finiteness of computer memory or CPU cycles, or developer time). I would argue that most of the time, we are tilting at windmills instead of solving things the way would we like to solve them.
Well, forgive me for having long toes but it could easily be taken in another way.

That's the downside of a digital forum, tone of voice is not one of the style attributes :)

I've never even thought anybody would be interested in the stuff that I did long ago, as I said, I've been quite busy.

Hacker News brings up the memories though, lots of this stuff I haven't even thought about for years. But the Chuck Moore post the other day brought back lots of memories of the 'dadadata' times.

I never had a real plan, just an endless fascination with technology, maybe if I had a plan things would run smoother :)

As for all the details, that will take some time if you're seriously interested.

The people that I've met and that left the strongest impression on me are a guy called Eckart Wintzen, Guerrino de Luca, as well as Rene Somer and some other people at logitech.

I came within a hair of meeting Doug Engelbart when visiting there several years ago and I really regret not changing my plans.

Drop me an email if you will ?
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I'm reluctant to characterize the world as being composed of independent agents passing messages. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but it just feels like a very lossy oversimplification.
That's only relevant to the discussion at hand if the person in question actually seems to believe that Y is better than Z in all ways except one. Instead, he appears to believe that Z is better than Y in all ways, period, and uses Y just to have reasons to complain.
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But the one guy supposedly did a lot of travelling for work. He could have faked the death while on a trip in another country, leaving his passport somewhere so people would know it was him.
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Mike Butcher is one of my favourite journalists. Always cuts the nonsense.
I would feel enormously pleased, because it would mean that we had finally lowered the barrier of entry for programming to a point where people with little or no specialist training could create useful programs that were largely correct and bug-free, presumably with a minimal commitment of time deemed reasonable by the average person.

I think it would basically mean that we had "solved programming", which would be something of an achievement.

As for me, there would still need to be people who figured out how to keep programming theory ahead of the current state-of-the-art in terms of practice, so I reckon I'd at least have a shot at still having a job.
One of my favorite design-of-everyday-things examples is tiller-controlled outboard motors, like the one seen at http://bit.ly/3Aftns, and in particular, the ones where the forward/reverse control is integrated into the tiller (as opposed to a separate shifting lever).

With those engines, there's a very direct connection between the user's movements (moving the tiller) and the way the boat moves in response. It's not immediately obvious, but it becomes natural once you create a mental model around it - in the same way that using a turn signal on a car isn't immediately obvious (why does moving a swingarm down equate with going left?).

The real part I like, however, comes with reversing. As opposed to having to explicitly shift gears, simply turn the throttle in the opposite direction as you do to accelerate. Counter-clockwise to accelerate, clockwise to slow down, and keep turning it clockwise (through a safety stop) and you'll end up going backwards, which you can consider the extreme manifestation of slowing down (you have slowed so much you have negative forward velocity).
I don't understand you here. If you write an algorithm in C that uses malloc, it will perform differently on different C implementations. This is exactly parallel to the fashion in which your python program will perform differently on different python implementations.
Performance is not always the the primary issue in programming

Except when it is, python rapidly becomes depressing. Try writing a game in python/pygame, for instance, and watch how quickly things get out of hand.
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I like the sound of this. I know it sounds silly and, really, you shouldn't need this when you're starting off a relationship, but I often forget to make these sort of little communications efforts with my wife and it'd be cool to be reminded of them.. so "Wife Keeper" might be better, lol :)
I couldn't find the simulator, but as I recall, from any point on the surface, whatever initial velocity you give a projectile will impact the surface at some time later, if it doesn't achieve escape velocity.

A good way to think of it is this way: if you were able to point the cannon tangential to the ground, ie horizontal, and you were to fire the projectile at exactly orbital speed for that elevation, then you would achieve orbit at ground level. If, however, you elevate the cannon at all from horizontal, you create an oblong orbit that intersects the surface at some point (even if the orbit extends thousands of miles up into space) That's because all orbits are elliptical to some degree. No matter what the angle or power, you're just creating an orbit with some degree of stretch that eventually comes back around to where you launched. A 45-degree launch from one place would just be the same as launching at 90-degrees from another place on the globe.

BTW, this makes for a nice hobby program to write over the weekend. I ended up adding angle, initial velocity, and projectile thrust. I also added scaling where you could either go very small, like a model rocket launch, or zoom out to include the moon. I was very surprised at the sizes of the earth and moon and the distances between them.
I would think that it's standardized nationally by whatever body approves cars for sale - as in I've never seen a car without the indicator stalk on the left in Canada, aside from a Saleen import I saw once. For this one, I suspect it falls under an import exemption, in the same way you can get right-hand drive cars here with some special paperwork.
> But isn't the end result the same?

Zed thinks so: Now obviously the SF companies are all really looking for an employee to make them rich. The difference is in their approach and how they don’t say it so blatantly or in such a gigantic douchebag way.
Agreed. However - I'd definitely like to see more content on there. I know the poor bloke has got to keep a handle on the whole of Europe, but they definitely need to be punting out more posts...
His whole point is that if you feel the need to blast me with your semi-important offer, you should feel the need to listen to my response.

Most of your points just highlight that having a do-no-reply is a simple convenience to the sender at the expense of the receiver. That is exactly the attitude that he is talking about.
"They were never here. It's always been easy to fork a project, or put patches up on a web page or whatever."

Yes, but simply making it easier does change the dynamics. Putting up patches that way invokes a completely different dynamic than just lobbing onto a webpage somewhere as a .patch, to wither and die when you couldn't keep them up-to-date, which what usually happened to unfavored patches. Forking a project is possible but a lot larger task than a git fork.

I fully recognize that there isn't any bright line between what you could do in 1999 and what you can do now, but the enough quantitative change becomes a qualitative change. It's easier to maintain the patches, easier to publish them, easier to audit them, easier to grab them and still have source control over the newly-forked copy, and all these "easier"s add up.
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Hubris.

Programming is partly a creative pursuit. Thus, it helps if one enjoys using the tool you need for the job.
Along the same line, given that YC is based there, and you have to move there to participate in it, any story about someone's experience in moving there is definitely of interest to me. My guess is that's the primary reason its of interest to others as well.

Zed writes reasonably well and captured aspects of the experience that I find intriguing, so I found the entry worthwhile.

I hope he continues to write about his move, and personally don't mind at all if additional entries get posted here for discussion in the future.
Holy crap. If X forwarding over SSH is that slow on an internal Gb network, either network congestion is crazy-high, or you're doing something wrong. At least, that's my guess, based on my experience with X over SSH, since "shit is not slow" on my 10/100 network.

> I've tried both Gnome and KDE, I've also tried some alternates. They all suck in comparison to Windows and OS X.

In my experience, KDE (pre-4.0) and GNOME are marginally better than MS Windows, and slightly worse than MacOS X -- but most of the rest of window managers are significantly better than both MacOS X and MS Windows. Then again, if you're specifically speaking of some kind of interaction between your window manager and X forwarding, I really don't know, since I've never actually tried using KDE or GNOME in concert with X forwarding over SSH.
Yeah, but...

This might just be me being cynical, but unless MSNBC really tries to innovate and make money selling Everyblock's aggregated data or something, they'll just end up slapping ads all over it.

And since, at least in its present form, it both requires lots of up-front work and manpower to start up each new local area (have to scrape brand new local gov't sites every time, etc.) and isn't a site that's going to pull in huge traffic numbers (meaning news that's more in-depth than celebrities and political FUD) -- if it ends up never making money, the core team will either leave after a couple of years of frustration or be absorbed into other projects, and Everyblock will fade away.

Again, probably just me being cynical, but I love the idea of data as news and was really hoping they'd be able to do something a little more independent than this.
If you're not already covering the brake, there is no penalty due to putting the turn signal there. In my opinion, adding a linked-braking system to the pedal would do more to improve rider safety than moving the turn signal controls.
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And that's learning, right? I did exactly the same thing and I consider it a positive thing that people can easily produce software that is usable by other people without having to convince others to install software or do any "distribution" as such.
I disagree with this. I have a Nuvi 550 GPS, there is no way that I want my iPhone tied up with navigation duties for long stretches of time.

While the iPhone can theoretically function as a GPS, or a Kindle, I don't think it particularly excels at either function as is no real threat to those devices.
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> the ability to reply via email doesn't guarantee my communication will be dealt with in an appropriate or timely manner.

If they're too incompetent to handle email, I won't expect timely or appropriate action from them no matter what I do, and I'll regard doing business with them accordingly.
I hope that someone over at Palm reads this and uses it as a playbook for the Pre. Actually, I hope that someone over at Palm already thought of all this, and that this is their playbook. And others as well.

The platform you need to beat in this plan is not the iPhone. It's the jailbroken iPhone. Make something that the real tech-heads and first adopters cheer, and they will be your beachhead. Do that, and you can get droves of the rest to follow you!

As usual, the hard part is not the idea, it's the execution.
>Well no, we just need methods leading to verifiable (ie predictive) results

That is an extremely vague statement, but is basically a statement of the logical positivist notion of the scientific method which is now universally accepted as inadequate. The philosophy of science and the scientific method is a very complicated (and unfinished) subject, and crass statements like this just won't cut it as serious claims about the nature of scientific investigation. If you're interested, the Standford encyclopedia of philosophy gives a good overview of some of these topics (or pick up a copy of "Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge," or look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem)

> I'm sure in your scenario we'd want to know the reason why intuition works so well (and there would be a reason)

Yes, if in that scenario we knew the reason intuition worked, that might make it rational to use intuition. But a method could be effective even if we didn't know why it worked, and you did not add in any additional criterion of "knowing how it works" in your original statement. Are you sure you actually meant what you said?

Regarding the moral issue, you seem to be suggesting that (1) reduces to the fact that humans have a preference for not killing people (as far as I can tell, your vague references to "parts of the brain lighting up" aren't doing any work here, they're just decoration). But of course we all recognize that moral statements are different from statements about preferences -- they are descriptions of what people /should/ do, not what they like to do -- so I don't see that there is a successful reduction here. (Unless you are willing to be a moral nihilist and believe that there are really no facts about what people should do, only facts about what they prefer to do.)
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Because celebrity worship is endemic to modern western culture, of which we are all a part of.

It isn't the domain of stay-at-home-moms and teenagers exclusively, even if you thought we were too smart for that tripe. :)
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Hrm, you could be right. Could be...

Can you elaborate at all? I'd be very interested to hear (since this is a topic I find quite intriguing).

For humans, we ourselves may work sequentially, but there are many of us working concurrently. Like many many sequential processing cores. Perhaps your comment was targeted at the "message passing" aspect. Its a bit of shared state mixed with message passing, really. Often we interact directly - I could tell you something (message passing) or I can shout something (multicast message passing). Of course, we also operate in a shared state model: multiple people taking food from a plate, we have to synchronise this so that we don't clash (physically, in this case).
To be fair as well, the burrito (as we know it in SF) is either a San Francisco or LA based creation. You're not going to find that in Mexico.
This is only a crappy investment because these music startups are looking at the entire business model in the wrong fashion. They are regurgitating the same old lame model that has failed time and time again. Its time for some new blood, new ideas, and greater innovation. You cant perform the same task and expect a different result. Its not going to happen. The three reasons that these web based music startups fail, that the writer suggested are true I agree. But they all can be easily fixed and turned around via a different thought process. These are not reasons for these companies to fail in this business. The writer states that people just dont want to pay for music, the ad supported model is not their yet, and dying labels have no interest in helping these companies survive. This may be true, but I have the remedy to solve all of these issues. Must keep my ideas guarded at this point, except for those at Y-combinator ofcource. But trust me, there is a different and much for effective way.
See the recent discussion about Fleet dataflow hardware: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723882
First, I second the notion that switching to another tool is a good idea when performance becomes important. I was doing this by diving down into C years ago, and I have to imagine the toolset has only gotten better since then.

Second, you can make your generator method a coroutine and send it data as it iterates.
Crap dude you just summed my life up in a paragraph. 3 start ups, all sold and the most I ever pulled was 100k for my efforts. I did however make a comparable wage to developers in established businesses so it did not hit me so hard in the earning potential; but you are right about the intellectual capital spent. Once the risk of failure starts to subside the amount investors are willing to part with follows a similar curve. If you are going to get in, it has been my experience that, ground floor is the only place that you will see any significant chance of getting to anywhere better than well off or comfortable.
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Even without that, DHT would help.