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We are a launching company at next week's TC50 DemoPit. We are looking for an all-around techie to come on board prior to securing any funding. We are looking for the right person to join the team with co-founder type equity as we look to raise seed money following TC50.

email sid dot viswanathan at gmail if interested.

sid
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In the world of development, it is often quite easy to get cynical over the multitudes of people who make rather significant amounts essentially tax free working abroad. Even in some local charities, we have to be careful about this notion that because their mission seems pure that they are in fact pure.

Sometimes (and I'm afraid more often than even I suspect) instead of generating profits what would be "profits" instead accrue to what I'll call local empire building - managers building their own little fiefdoms of employees who report to them. Generally there's not as much pressure to stop it if the organization is reasonably well funded. Alternatively, they pay themselves more to soak up any potential profit so they can perversely call themselves not for profit.

Otherwise I agree - choosing metrics is not an easy task to be taken likely. Profitability/+cash flow are however far easier metrics to measure and manage.
"Californians are stupider than I thought." Hmmmm....you're commenting on a site funded by a California-based incubator, probably searching on a search engine based in Mountain View. Why such a negative view?
President's speech to schoolchildren
I hadn't originially thought of posting this to HN, but it struck me that some tech companies might be happy that the President mentioned their products.

Here are a couple of references

Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class.

...and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
Ever heard of adequate response? No? Well, in this case it would be writing a review about the app being nagware. In general adequate responses are good because they prevent situations from escalating into hostilities. Yours also has a sideffect of making it impossible for any buyer in the app store to make an informed decision, and therefore makes it hard for good apps to stand out on the merit. It ends up giving a boost to the actual crappy apps because now, with your generous help, all apps have bad reviews - both truly bad apps and the ones that had the gall to ask for your opinion.
FWIW my app has a web site part to it, and I put up a banner there asking users to write a review. It's easier on the desktop that it is on the iPhone. Seems to have worked - at least I know that people are clicking it and there have been quite a few reviews.
Here are three:

* Sample data for test suites. I have single files of such larger than 21MB in my current project's git repo, and I've seen much bigger.
* Audio resources.
* Large PDF documentation items.
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Are these the worst DATING videos ever made?   
They are some of the worst chat-up lines ever heard. From one of my favourite foods is pizza to the guy who says I'm not afraid to get sand on my tuxedo a video that features some of the most excruciating dating clips you will ever see.
It's probably less of racism and more of narrative fallacy - people just like to think there is some sort of a plan and a story to go with it.

But it's a keen observation.
There is of coure a very important problem charities trying to do this kind of measurments of efficiency face. They are in a market for public perceptiom to get donations, and (if we take the numbers the article cites for Oxfam), can you imagine the loss of donations and goodwill after a few newspapers and TV programs run the headline "Charity X spends half their donations on statistics instead of helping people!"? Even if the costs could be amortized over a few years, the charity would be dead by then.

Perverse incentive factors, again. (And the news might be right, collecting in depth statistics about the help program might just be a pretext to give a lucrative consulting contract to the director's best friend).
why people let their ideas to go waste? why don't they think that their ideas may lead to good startups?

excellent post about Ideas for Startups
http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
I still don't understand the problem.

In your use-case a user provides your application with a URL to a JSONP API, which they obtained from someone malicious who wants to steal the user's data (from your application, or from the JSONP source?)

Presumably the URL contains the malicious callback parameter, since that's what you're sanitizing, but your application needs to provide it's own callback parameter to get the resulting JSON. Shouldn't it strip the entire callback parameter and add it's own?

IMO the much bigger problem in this scenario is that you're loading untrusted URLs in script tags. If an attacker is able to trick the user into entering a URL with a malicious callback parameter, what's stopping them from using a URL (with or without a callback) pointing to a file on their own server which can contain any JavaScript they like.
The pool of funds is often not fixed. A non-profit can make themselves more competitive for available funds by providing metrics.
Actually, it'll do it just once per version and only after 30 days and 15 launches. So if they tap 'Rate' or 'No, thanks', they won't be bugged anymore unless they update to a new version. Even then, only after 30 days of usage and 15 launches (which are both customizable).
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Let's predict what Apple will announce (or not announce) on Wednesday.
But until then they will probably prosper, as no one ever seems to get sentences for leaking/loosing/selling private information.
A couple of weeks ago a friend pointed me to a blog entry about the coming inflation since the Fed supposedly printed vast quantities of new money. The blog entry felt very religious in proving someone defined as "deflationists" wrong, so I didn't think much of it.

I am very much interested in open government data so I wondered how much of the financial data is actually available from the Fed in its raw form.

It started as me wondering how full of shit this guys is and turned into five to six hours of trying to understand the raw data that is readily available from the Fed online. Their website is surprisingly good.

What I saw did not make me happy. The Feds actions resulted in an EXPONENTIAL increase in monetary base of our economy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_base Note that all I did is plot the numbers that the Fed supplies: http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2792/44768686.png

It seems that all those "bad mortgages" that the Fed bought were not bought with "debt." The Fed bought them with freshly printed bills. Go on the Fed's website and download the data for yourself, don't take my word for it. Regardless, I dismissed my findings as "I don't actually know what I'm doing" and forgot about it.

This article however is absolutely in line with what I saw happening from the raw economic data, so it makes me wonder. We _did_ print exponentially more money than we have ever done before. Look http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2792/44768686.png The Fed literally DOUBLED the amount of money in our monetary base in a matter of months. I can't imagine the Fed being able to take that much money out of circulation in nothing less than years. I also can't image how that could not be a very bad thing.

Another thing that I saw is a rather sharp increase in how much banks are keeping in reserves since the Fed now guarantees interest on reserves. http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/2008...

All this money in reserves has nowhere to go but into the economy once banks start spending it. It also pisses me off that our banks were essentially given a lot of money (when you see a doubling of money in the economy, thats a lot) for them to sit on and for us to pay interest on it!

I am failing to understand the Feds plan. Can anyone enlighten me or is it really this simple?
Ask HN: How do you wake up?
I was thinking about this the other day. How you you guys wake up in the morning? And/or what is a routine you all know of to work better for you to get you started on the right foot?
Huh. I thought this was actually going to be an article on how to stop your mind from obsessing over "great ideas", or tell when a "great idea" is bogus. I was disappointed to find it was just more cheerleading.
>other developers are gaming the system with bad reviews in an attempt to assassinate their competitor.

Or the actual developer gaming the system with 5 star ratings of his own app.
Any plans of releasing the source code?
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I've published and contributed to a great deal of open source software, much of it successful.

I have also published a great deal of open source software, much of it successful, and some of it almost universally used. Unfortunately, that does absolutely nothing to bolster either of our arguments.

If you published an essay containing controversial opinions, would you demand that it be immune to criticism on the basis that you're giving it away for free

You asked for: "I want some evidence that I'm going to be gaining something".

If we try to apply that to your analogy, why is it the author's responsibility to not only produce the work, document the work, but then also supply their own literary criticism so that you can decide if the work is worthwhile, all before the essay is completed and ready for publication?

Open source developers regularly produce software just because they want to, and feel no impetus or desire to convince you of anything. That's not, as you put it, some sort of "narcissistic" behavior, but rather a desire to simply share without additional burden or demands by others.
Sure, that's why one should only add hosts/base urls which one trusts, e.g.

http://github.com/api/json/
http://api.twitter.com/json/

But with what you suggest, then you would've to keep a lot more state -- i.e. knowing beforehand every single possible URL the host may offer.

Whilst that would be a solution, it also slows down development dramatically. What if Twitter were to rename/add APIs?

Being able to trust certain hosts/base urls makes life much easier and lets things evolve at a much faster pace...
Go to bed and wake up at the same time every night/day. Also, avoid using 'snooze' and taking naps. If you're not used to it, then you really have to be determined at first, but there's definitely a noticeable difference after a week or two. If you're consistent, your alarm will become obsolete.
Irrelevant, but too good to pass up with Paul's title: http://webspace.webring.com/people/fc/churud_geo/cyberiadn.h... ...a short bit of sci-fi for your reading pleasure.
I've learned (and adapted) to the fact that I just can't get any reasonable work done in the first 3 hours or so of the day. I can ingest massive amounts of caffeine, go run a marathon, or whatever, but my brain just needs a few hours to get up to speed.
Awesome, both you and replicatorblog. Please post more often, you two!
That's true in theory but not in practice because most funders don't care, which is a point I describe further in the posts linked to above.
Coffee and a grapefruit.
I can see there's a mistake in my reply - we were working on a 32-bit architecture for this problem. We didn't pack 8 bytes in a 64-bit word, we packed 4 bytes in a 32-bit word. Sorry.

And in short, our target CPUs don't have SSE. I've only been vaguely aware of SSE, although I used to program a Cray on occasion, so am familiar with vector processing. I must see if the SSE instructions can accelerate some of our other work which isn't yet critical, but may become so.

The demand driven stuff was done by taking 32x32 tiles in the target and reverse transforming each to the source, hence finding out which 32x32 bit tiles in the the source needed to be computed. Flags prevented redundant multiple conversions. The transformation doesn't preserve straight lines, so some care was required on boundaries.
snooze my iphone about 3 times, zombie walk to the fridge for some orange juice and then a shower. it's not recommended.
no naps? booooo
I'm sure it's a fluke but it does raise a point: Apple is missing an opportunity to make MobileMe a really strong companion to Macs & iPods. They could build it into a comprehensive online backup/syncing tool. Buy a new Mac or iPhone, plug it in, download your data in the background (stream on demand, tie into Bonjour for first backup if both machines are on the same local network) Considering storage is cheap it seems like a no lose scenario for Apple. Some companies are getting by offering huge amounts of cloud storage for far less than the cost of MobileMe is today.
Very nice.

Can you link to the article's comments instead of the article itself?
Yes, and the more secrecy there is the more everything appears to be part of a grand plan.

Another such fallacy is to always assume that what happens is the result of a successful plan, when it's most probably the result of many conflicting plans with variying degrees of success plus a lot of randomness mixed in.
Has anyone else here switched to caffeine pills? I used to do several cups of coffee a day but I decided I could control my dosage better using pill form. Not to mention avoid staining my teeth.
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i wonder if that guy's in love with his public image. :D
Like someone pointed out in the post itself, since this is intended for use by developers and not end users, I'd say it doesn't matter what it's called.
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Try to get used to waking up always the same time. Every time I wake up early in the morning, I kiss my girlfriend, then get up, and after the bathroom I do some workout. Nothing serius, just to make myself fresher. And then, for about an hour, I work on my private project(s), until my girlfriend gots up too (she's a little sleepy :) ). Then have breakfast (ALWAYS have a substantial breakfast), and then I go to work (I always get a shower before I go to sleep). This way I always start my day with good mood, and by achieving something, which makes me confident.
Ok, fair enough, that addresses my last paragraph.

But I still don't see what problem this sanitization solves. For a JSONP source to be useful you need to specify your own callback, not rely on one provided by a user input. Shouldn't you strip the callback and add your own?

Furthermore, even if there was a reason to keep the user specified callbacks, shouldn't the application that's consuming the URLs do the sanitization, not the JSONP provider?

It's your responsibility to secure your app, not the 3rd party JSONP providers.
It must be a sign of this site's quality that this is the most offensive comment I've seen posted on here.
First alarm: iPod plugged into a stereo playing something pleasant. (7.20am)

Second alarm: iPhone alarm 40 minutes later. I now mega-loathe the "Harp" alarm tone. (8.00am)

Third alarm: Girlfriend kicking me out of bed between 5-10 minutes later. (~8.10am)

Works like a charm every time.
Live at home and my Mum wakes me up.
If it's a good day and I'm paying attention to my body, I just get up whenever my I first wake up, usually before my alarm goes off. Sometimes I think it is the cats that wake me, other times I think I wake the cats... I can never tell. If it's a bad day I don't get up right away and then proceed to sleep through multiple alarms; often I will snooze them and go back to sleep until I run out of snooze cycles and then wake up hours later wondering why my alarm went off. I sleep snooze.

I have noticed though, that when I wake up first without (before) an alarm and promptly get out of bed and start my day I am usually less groggy and more inclined to be productive. My body has ~1.5hr sleep cycles, meaning if I sleep in increments of roughly 1.5hrs I tend to get better sleep. I learned all this about myself when I was practicing a polyphasic sleep experiment. I don't recommend this to anyone as an actual method of sleep or rest (my experiment was less than successful) but I sure learned a helluvalot about my body and tolerances.

Read more at http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ or on http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720
I put the phone in landscape mode and just read away. I haven't noticed any major usability issues, aside from when entering comments.
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Every two months or so I read such articles. Wonder when is it actually the best time to start. Now?
I'm going to sleep right now so I can try this in 7 hours.
I haven't used an alarm in about 10 years, and always manage to wake up at the correct time, even if it is 5am. My girlfriend is always amazed. I get up, have a shower, then go straight to work. I can be out of the house in 10 minutes. I find my housemates strange, the ones who fool around in the mornings having dinner, watching tv. I know I used to when I was a kid, but not anymore.
You are going to try waking up and kissing his gf?? Good luck.
The chit-chat sessions
thanks for the feedback, much appreciated
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It is not quite the same thing, but some of the elements would certainly apply, such as confidentiality etc.
I would hope that there are legal consequences...this is a huge breach of trust, and there are quite a few laws in place to protect children online from marketers and predators, and these people are both.

I would also hope that they have trouble sleeping at night...but I may be giving them too much credit.
How come Carmen Electra is halal? Fail ;)
Financial crisis has deep roots in academia
you reach haram level 3 when you search for "anal sex" :)

haram means sin btw and it's haram != halal
It's a good book, but rather short. It's worth reading for an introduction into Wabi-Sabi concepts.
I think the concern is justified. However, considering Japan during the 90s and the Great Depression makes deflation appear much more dangerous and persistent than inflation because no one knows how to fight it once it's become entrenched.

We know how to fight inflation. Interest rates can be raised without limit. They cannot fall without limit. The Fed can sell the bonds they are now buying back into the market and thus reduce money supply.

And you need to consider two other facts. First, the monetary base you plotted is just a small fraction of overall money supply (M1, M2, M3). Other parts of the money supply are growing as well but not as fast. Second, money that isn't used has no effect on inflation. The speed of circulation is sharply reduced in recessionary times and that's why the amount of money has to be sharply increased to counteract that potential deflationary spiral.

The line you want to plot is the amount of all monies (the Ms) normalized over the speed of circulation. That line is flat to falling, but it's true that there is a potential for a sharp rise down the road.

Inflation is very likely in say two years time. It's very difficult, politically, to raise interest rates while unemployment is still high. And inflating debt away is rather convenient for a heavily indebted nation like the US as well.
Nice design.

Sadly, not usable on Livejournal, because that doesn't allow iframes (for security reasons).
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can i have 17 kilos of better world please?
More specifically, it's haram = -halal
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Two alarms: One within arms reach, and another that I have to get up for, set 1 minute later than the close one. Always make sure you have an alarm out of arms reach from your bed.
I pulled an all nighter in EE lab once with caffeine pills.

This is for the good of everyone reading this: do not overdose on caffeine pills. Fucking unpleasant is what it is.
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I've run into that twitter logo thing on summize.com (search.twitter.com) so many times. Every single time I'm there like a fool I click on the twitter logo, I never learn.

As a side note though, if you really want this article to be taken seriously (especially by people at twitter), I would rename it. I'm sure they see a million "why twitter will fail" style posts every day, so the honest points of your article doesn't shine through.
Summary of interesting bits: transmitting power is (relatively) easy; so is mooring the turbine (prior experience with oil drilling). Access to the turbine for maintenance is not straightforward even in fair weather. Traditional tall turbines not a good fit - need turbines that are closer to the surface to tap surface winds.
Interesting. I wonder if it could be ported to a "real" SQL-server like PostgreSQL, for greater performance in multi-user environment (ie. central server).
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Agreed. Ouch. Even his code has text-shadow.
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You might find that, like myself, you function much better in the evening and night. Even though I keep a normal daylight schedule for work reasons, I long to fall back to my natural rythmn: rise at 4pm, and sleep at 7 or 8am.
China has beautiful architecture and landscape? I must have missed it.
Sidenote: Mega annoyance. Why does the iPhone not wake for an alarm. I think pretty much every other phone in existance has nailed this?
Set a recurring alarm on my phone, snooze it a couple of times, head to the restroom, freshen up a bit and go play squash for an hour. Come back, take a shower, have breakfast and then get to work.
As we continue de-valuing the dollar, China and other investors will convert their assets (cash being diluted by the fed) to physical assets and ownership equity (real estate and stocks). It's in their interest, and we provide the money management services to handle-hold them through it. This is not alarmist, but the US will be somewhat different with significant ownership by Chinese investors (in addition to the existing Dutch, Japanese, Saudi investors).
I've noticed I don't need an alarm to wake up. If I keep my blinds open, the sunlight along w/ any ambient noise always wakes me up after about 7-8 hours of sleep.
I have a small 3 year-old walk into my bedroom ~6am every day and jump up and down on the end of the bed saying, I want to have breakfast/watch Bob the Builder/brush the baby's teeth..

Funnily enough, this perfect alarm-clock never fails to wake me up!
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How do I wake up?

I realize the inherent nonexistence of all entities and how they are all impermanent, and thus that all striving is striving for temporary results; the only true achievement is to dissolve one's karma and be liberated from the Wheel of Rebirth, never again to be born & suffer.

Then I have some tea and check my email.
1) ifconfig wlan0 down

2) No matter what, I always sit down at my desk at 10AM and fire up Emacs first. Even if I don't know what I am doing, as soon as the project builds and I scan the first few lines of code, yesterday's hacking session comes back to me and I resume work.