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One More Idea: A super simple dating mobile app. Your profile consists of a picture of yourself and the question , "Ask me about....?", filled in. There would be a list of bars organized by cities and people could choose to share which bar they were at. Potential suitors could browse all the singles at a bar and decide which person to talk to (in real life).

The goal is to solve the awkwardness of cold openings at a bar. It's much easier if you can use something as a conversation starter. Also, one of the problems I see with online dating is the stigma attached to it. Hopefully, since this app is to be used in aiding real life dating, the stigma will not be there.
We didn't get ultra low sulfur diesel here until a few years ago: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/ultra_lowsulfur.html
Also, datamining blogs? :)
"...our target support is PHP 4.3.0, so this leads to some creative (i.e. fun) problems at times."

"I don't have any issues with writing PHP - it just works for me."
Why the flame protection? I hear JRuby is pretty nice.
I was going to say "mindless dribble", but "overblown hyperbole" will work too.
Totally Depends...
That's the real quality of us startup guys (entrepreneurs as they call us), to make changes to our mindset, to keep judging things constantly, basically no absolutley solid rules...it all depends...I believe no two situations are alike...
In fact, I think at some level, that's the reason we all love doing this so much....that creates the excitement.

I would just say this: Life is not Black and white....there are degrees of gray in there.....now it's each individual's call at any given point.
So, this philosophy might work for some people in some scenarios, but will you back down from a difficult project because it involves much more work than you can see ROI. In most cases, I would rather go with it for a few days and then see, if that HELL YEAH feeling comes...
Uh-oh. Perusing his site is making me realize that my long-latent woodworking interests aren't going to remain latent much longer... ;-)
Also...

Myth: "Using the word 'myth' in your title is a good way to communicate any old set of idea you want to put forward"

Reality: "Give the whole 'myth' conceit a break, darn it!"

The 'myth' format makes whole piece is just about incomprehensible... funny for someone who supposedly knows something about interfaces ...
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Well then lets get the ball rolling. There's a theory that protein folding is like a funnel. That is to say, the initial probability space is huge, much like the wide end of a funnel.
But then it quickly collapses and the probability space becomes close enough to be computable by brute force.

Now while there are some proteins that will unfold and then fold correctly again, most can't do that. Most don't start out as one long chain that then crumples in the right shape on its own. Most are carefully built from other parts, carefully guided along the desired path of entropy. And if they misfold, and that does happen, they are taken out.

Now I personally have always thought of it as a simulation.
Think about a can of mixed nuts. Have you ever noticed that the biggest kinds are always on top, and the smallest at the bottom?

You might have to shake the can for a while but they will sort by size with the biggest on top. This is a function of friction and volume. If you shake a glass jar of mixed nuts, you can almost see a flow along the sides with the smaller ones flowing down and the bigger ones "floating" to the top.

Imagine you were given the starting position of each nut, and the exact time and direction and force of the shaking of the jar. You are asked to write a simulation which will predict the final locations of each nut.

If you think about a single threaded algorithm looking at each nut and how it nudges its neighbor and its neighbor and so on, it's a lot of calculations.

But if you think of it a multi-threaded simulation then things get interesting.
A valid point, however not providing such a control group in this case would mean that you're simply assuming that your definition of 'decent and fair payment' is accurate, which is quite a large assumption.
I was considering language features separately. If you're trying to pick a language, no one would pick PHP unless they need to work with people who already know PHP. If you're trying to pick a runtime, PHP occasionally makes sense due to ease of deployment, memory issues, etc.
I would love to hear from everyone who has loved, previously loved, or played any rhythm music games. Our startup JamLegend.com is focused on innovation in the space and have a couple of ideas. Would love to get your honest feedback on the industry in general (your favorite games) or on our site. Rant here or feel free to email me at Andrew [] jamlegend.com

Completely agree with Steve though that rhythm games will be around for a while and there is still a lot of room for innovation. GH sales have dipped, but that's why they're expanding their game selection.
No, you're not being a n00b. It'll help because the stack usage will grow linearly as opposed to quadratically, as in the case of the naive solution. You'll still overflow the stack without the optimization.
One of the beautiful things about JRuby is that for performance-intensive code, you can drop to Java instead of dropping to C. Java's almost as fast, and a whole heck of a lot nicer to program in.

If Surinx is able to produce Java-like speeds, that means that you never have to drop out to a different language at all. That's pretty awesome, and it would open up a whole new world to Ruby programmers.

I hope some of this work gets pushed into JRuby. I'll take 5x speed boosts any day, constant factor or not.
I don't know about automatic transmission. As for the fuel economy, I find it's easier to slow this way without really trying. Just put in in neutral when you see a red light. Of course it's only for before intersections/blockages, not on the highway.
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I enjoy DadHacker a lot, partly because I enjoy anecdotes, but mostly because Landon writes extremely well and seems like a nice guy without an agenda (unlike Joel and friends). I also used to read _why's blog from time to time before he vanished.

Mostly I just follow HN and proggit. I'm not very big on blogs.
If we've solved protein folding we can fold cures for new viruses just as fast as jerks are folding new viruses. But in addition to that we can also fold proteins that will take care of old viruses and other diseases.
Diesels are great engines, but hard to come by in the US. In Europe the majority of cars, from small ones to big limousines have Diesel engines these days.

The most vexing problem, particulate emissions, has been solved with particulate filters, that burn of the collected particulate cake occasionally, by heating it up to 600 C.

In the US Diesel cars are only available from VW and Mercedes. Due to the recent availability of low sulfur Diesel fuel in the US, new models have come onto the market. VW offers the Jetta and Touareg with the latest technology (common rail) Diesel engines. These are direct-injection turbo-charged, and have excellent fuel economy.

However, I've heard that due to fleet emissions standards, VW will only be selling Diesels for a few years. Which is probably true for Mercedes as well.

Personally, I've been driving Diesels forever, and love the efficiency and torque you get from them.

[EDIT] This article gives a good overview of the state of Diesel in the US: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/automotive_news/423558...
It is. But there are a lot of Ruby haters around, it seems.
It's a grey area, although usually accepted that 90% of drivers drive faster than the speed limit anyway.

If it's a 70 limit, and someone is in the passing lane doing 70, you'd still flash them.
Or not oddly at all. He seems to have started with a set of rules he wanted to put forward, negated them to create putative 'myths' and then tried to argue back to his original points. So the whole thing reads like it was written backwards...

Which frustrating, since some of what he's saying is a little bit interesting...
Writing it tail-recursively forces you to switch from the O(2^n) algorithm (which has two recursive calls; you can't put both into tail position) to a more efficient algorithm. You could also write the more-efficient algorithm without tail recursion, of course.
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When you're single the incentives for being good at partner dancing are considerably higher than when you're securely in a relationship.

I went the opposite direction - from being a fanatical swing dancer while I was single to being completely uninterested in it after I met my wife. It was purely instrumental, in other words. And I saw the same pattern repeated with the majority of swing dancers both male and female. As soon as they were hooked up, it was see-ya.
We've been seeing a lot of these idea threads lately. Maybe someone should make an "I have an idea" site :D

It would be nice to have a page per idea, plus commenting, and maybe some sections for research (other competitors in the area, probable market sizes, etc).

If I had unlimited funds, I always thought it would be cool to start a company that did nothing but churn out little ideas. People could put idea synopses on a big board on one wall and either grab the idea off the wall when they wanted to build it, or write their name under it to let people know they were working on it. Then other people who were also interested in the idea could collaborate. Or compete, whatever.
Load it down with ads _after_ it becomes popular.
The only problem I see here is that a business developing some web application won't want to run their code on something as public as TestSwarm where people donate their own CPUs, because it can potentially give too much away about their POSSIBLY top-secret product or top-secret upcoming features.

BUT that being said, TestSwarm is open source, so a company could easiy grab the source code from github (linked below) and set it up on their own private cluster behind their corp firewall.

http://github.com/jeresig/testswarm
Good looks. Those iframes were miserable.
Well said. I cannot think of a solid reason why this would be a difficult fix. Totally incompetent.
One thing to remember about a lot of JVM language benchmarks is that they include the startup time for the JVM. Java code running on a pre-warmed JVM is significantly faster, and for short programs can be faster by an order of magnitude (or two).

For a good example, check out Nailgun (http://martiansoftware.com/nailgun/background.html).
The hashtag isn't necessary, ie https://post.craigslist.org/manage/1340717167/tkrju works too.

Actually, I think craigslist probably views this more as a feature than an exploit. Since you don't need an account to post on craigslist, they can't do normal cookie based authentication, so they just give you a secret url for editing your page. Unfortunately, the only thing secret about the url is a 5 character alpha-numeric string, which I suppose would be possible to brute force.
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There are several affiliate programs out there, I am messing with the more risqué ones right now. (sexsearch.blue74.com).

Is it possible to make any money using these affiliate programs, or is it all bullshit? Part of me thinks they are just to provide the referring site google in-links, without paying out... the other part is hoping to one day - buy that case of beer with hardly any effort.

So, share your thoughts...
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Startup with a clever twist on online dating looking for cofounder. Concept is devilishly entertaining, viral, potentially addictive, and highly monetizable. Worth your time to check out - could get big fast if executed properly. That's where you come in. Email mark.tortorella@gmail.com if you're interested. Technical cofounder will be generously compensated with equity. Based in Cambridge, MA.
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The following day, they searched the trash outside, turning up fragments of counterfeit bills, printer cartridges, and a name: Albert Talton.

If they had watched "Goodfellows", they would have known not to throw anything out in their own trash.
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Was G not there? I couldn't find it...
BY STAYING THE F*CK OFF OF HN!
Makes it sound like Yoda should have been writing ad copy for Nike. I think a Zen Master might be more likely to put it as:

"Do, or do not. All is Being."

The line between Zen Buddhism and Nihilism is a fine one.
A fund that's able to raise $85M has probably shown healthy returns to its investors already.

VCs are still incentivized to make good deals due to the carry.

The problem happens when the size of the fund gets too large and there aren't enough deals for the money available.
Not underestimating at all. But it seems like it could be solved. Maybe a hybrid auto/manual tweaking approach is the answer? Or perhaps users could requests songs be converted by the creative team and/or pay for individual tracks? I'm not interested in buying song-packs, but I'd pay $1 for any given song.
Hah, wow, thanks for the layman's description. That made sense!

It also triggered one of those 'holy crap I have so much to learn' moments, followed shortly by a 'what the hell am I doing wasting my time with all these silly things I do' moment. ;)
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Chicken and egg, but kinda neat.

Screw the whole bar scene though and just make it "geo-aware".
You pre-define picks and as you travel throughout town, it let's you know when one of those picks is close by.
Good luck to you. I dropped by and one thing I noticed was that your gift suggestions were often below the fold. Example: http://www.morethanagift.com/occasion/retirement

I would think that someone who clicked a link for "Retirement Gift Ideas" does not need to be sold on the idea of buying a retirement gift; they likely want a few sentences of intro and then to see the gift ideas.
"The plan, however, is not to take resources away from other efforts (e.g. porting Photoshop to Cocoa)"

Yep, because it's not like Apple gave you a 9-year heads-up on having to port your app to Cocoa or anything. In fact, Adobe made no move towards porting until Apple took out binary-level support for 64-bit Carbon in Leopard.

These guys have no excuse to complain about taking resources away. They've been practicing shoddy development for years - consistently building on top of deprecated API.
The sooner they can get rid of all the horrible Squeak graphics the better. Was playing with Pharo last night and, unfortunately, it still doesn't take long to run into Squeak aesthetics.
out of curiosity, why do we need a GUI to go with a runtime?
Agreed. HN is the best aggregator for hacker/dev content
Interesting - may I ask what line of business you are in?
I don't think I could get away with this without people suspecting I was being sarcastic.
No, the exploit is only for applications capable of interpreting JavaScript, such as web browsers.
Clearly a Microsoft person. A quick peek at his profile actually says, "I work at Microsoft. I don't want anyone to be confused on that point."

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I do find it funny that he put Zed in that list.
Raymond Chen's very Windows focused The Old New Thing - http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
Because if we apply that philosophy to everything then chances are we'll just be sitting thinking about what we could do for 90% of our time. :)
Good stuff. This would apply not only to beginners though. I know lots of programmers who have worked for years that have either forgotten or never learned this stuff.

EDIT: ...or just don't care.
Typical Smalltalk environments are interesting because the runtime and the development tools are very tightly integrated (or "coupled" depending on your point of view). This affects the way the development and debugging tools interact with programs. For example, you can change a program just by modifying elements of its UI while it's running.

For a Smalltalk without a graphical environment by default, try GNU Smalltalk: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
Some years back I was occasionally involved with the OTA (Open Travel alliance), and ended up attending a meeting to discuss specs. Along with a largely enterprisey view of XML, I was amazed by the amount of attention given to defining markup to handle golf tee times.

I'd worked in hotels for many years by then, but never at a resort; I first thought they were talking about tea times, which seemed just plain bizarre. But no more bizarre than their love for W3C Schemas.
One possible future I see for the series: migration away from the consoles. Just buy Rock Hero, plug it into your TV, plug in the instruments, and play.

You aren't limited to four instruments (except perhaps by screen size, but that's becoming less and less of an issue). A song could use as many of each instrument as it needs, and probably some other instruments (like keyboard) that aren't currently provided. There's no expectation that a given song will use all the available instruments.

Perhaps the publisher strikes a deal with the RIAA, and all newly released tracks get a version for RH that you can buy and download.
http://followthedata.wordpress.com is one
http://hackety.org/

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Oh, damn :(
Being browser based actually would make me even less likely to play it. I dropped both Free Realms and Cartoon Network's MMO because they were both browser based. Free Realms was specially poor designed to handle slow connections since it downloads everything on demand, every time it is demanded.
The problem with me is even if start with a 'hell yeah', I usually fade to a 'yeah' by the end of the day and when I wake up the next day it's more like a 'ehh'. My 'hell yeah' reliably always hops to the next thing and follows the same fade-out pattern.

It's actually pretty depressing now that I step back and look at it. Thanks, Derek.
Almost everyone is splitting their tests by browser; are we (IMVU) the only ones who have to horizontally shard because of test times?

Granted, our list of fully supported platforms is small (effectively IE6, IE7, IE8, and FF3.5) considering our downloadable client is currently windows-only.
Have a look at http://www.halfbakery.com/ - it's pretty much exactly what you describe in terms of an ideas site.

Also, there are companies which churn out little ideas - my girlfriend works for one. It's pitched as an innovation consultancy, aimed at opening up new markets for companies big enough to afford their fees. Not sure if that's exactly what you were talking about, but maybe kind of similar?
You ought to have a session on FluidDB. :-)
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Is this a joke?

A link to a 1 sentence post that goes to a bing search that somehow embeds a youtube video?

Here is the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqlq25PRbko
Thanks! That's a good point. We should perhaps even switch the section order or, as you said, at least shorten the intros.
The idea that you would compare actual professional medical terminology to stuff that AV company employees made up is why I'm not having this argument. For the third time: you win.

Now, what does this have to do with OS X security?
Despite being rather simplistic, it's a damn good concept. I've never played an instrument before and can tap out a half-decent Jingle Bells in a few minutes, and it's quite good fun. I'm sure it would be even easier if it had more features like a metronome.

It's a bit of a shame the guy doesn't get VC money and a proper development team together to develop the product, because I think it really is the future of learning to play the piano.
Protein-folding can be expressed as a superset of molecular modeling(my area of research). In the strictest physical sense this is not a P problem if you consider the interactions of every atom with every other atom O(n!) for n atoms. No one does it that way of course. Once you ignore all but nearest neighbor interactions you have a problem that is polynomial time for n.

Proteins have too many atoms for even these techniques to be efficient. Now we're getting out of my area. As I understand it researchers do a Monte Carlo search of all possible configurations of amino acids(or even protein segments). Naively searching the space of all configurations would be make this NP. Of course you don't have to search the entire space. You can limit each step to make small changes only from an initial configuration and stay along a Markov chain of probable intermediate steps. I don't know enough to say that this would always be solvable in polynomial time, and of course you could miss the true minimum answer.

I'd love to hear from someone who knows more.
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That is true, it's Windows 7 Starter (see wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions). It does not seem to limit the number of programs though. I don't think the Starter edition is a particularly evil thing from Microsoft, because this edition is cheaper.
Stupid easy GUI screens with 'SPW' for python and pygame.
I'd always thought halfbakery was mostly use for joke ideas; but looking at it again makes me think perhaps it is being used more seriously than I thought.

I want to go work where your girlfriend works, it sounds like fun (and yes, that's roughly what I was talking about :D )
interested in applying. need to find co-founders. know c, c++, c#. familiar with lisp, scheme, java. currently living in la.
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my mistake. i guess i should have put this in my calendar. well i hope things keep going well for you all. wish i could have attended.
I found it easier to keep myself disciplined to work when I was freelancing. I simply had a schedule and kept it. It is like when you are working. You wake up at such hour, you leave home at such hour, and so and so. I simply kept doing the same, minus the part of leaving home. I woke up, watched cartoons while eating breakfast, turned on the computer, turned on the stereo and went to the zone.

However, I found very hard to go after the jobs myself, because I hate to deal with clients (don't we all?).

The best part, however, was that when I was done I was done. Even if it was only 2 PM, if I met my goal I called it a day. That prevented a lot of stress and a possible burnout.

Also I had a set goal of money I wanted to earn every month and once I attained it, I stopped worrying about quarrelying for every possible offer I could get. I gave myself the leisure of taking only the ones I wanted to do.
Probably it's their last chance to survive.
Seriously, the linkjacking is one thing, but putting "Schneier on Security" in the title... what this says is, "this content is only interesting because Schneier has filtered it for us".
Yeah, nice motivational speech.

It bores me. It bores me like the 50 near identical articles that hit HN before it.

"Hell yeah" is completely great when it happens. But most projects, even the "Hell yeah"-projects take much longer than that feeling can possibly last. Everybody who has built a startup knows that it inevitably becomes very tedious at a point. A few months into the gruntwork the "Hell yeah" turns more into a "God damn".

In my opinion the "God damn"-part is much more relevant than the "Hell yeah"-part. Many people start "Hell yeah"-projects. Few survive through the "God damn"-phase.
To be fair, the controllers are usually of pretty shoddy quality. I've broken, repaired, and re-broken almost every piece of GH and RB equipment I've owned.