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Chandrayaan sends images of Apollo 15 landing
Sounds like you might have become disinterested in your project? Maybe there's too much on your plate? Maybe there's not enough risk/reward pressure going on?

I don't think a piece of software can help you. What about bringing someone else on-board that's a naturally hard worker to help pull you more in that direction?
What happens when Mike reads this:

I think, "Brilliant!" To my eyes, you can tell the applicant is sharp, has put a lot of thought into the problem area, has a breadth of technical skills, has a track record that shows he had ambition, vision and can execute, and oh, by the way, he's out to solve a real problem that people have every day. So yeah, that's a good application to study. And it helps that, since then, at least in my opinion as a big user and fan of Dropbox as it works today, he has successfully executed on that vision and plan. Well done, man. Well done.

And bonus points for having Python in the stack. :)
The Google Apps SLAs are pathetic
I registered years ago, I can't even remember how long ago (5 years+ I'd guess, maybe even 10). I have not gotten a single email from them.

I don't understand why they want the registration, but at the same time it's not problem to do it.
Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problems in 25 minutes?
If I read it correctly, the leader of the scoreboard submitted the solution for problem A in 7 minutes, problem B 11 minutes later, problem C 7 minutes later. (see http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/scoreboard?c=90101#)

I was expecting some people to be way, way faster than me, but that seems stunning. Can't wait to see what programming language they used.

Me, I tried to solve the problems in Ruby. I am not that experienced with Ruby, so I lost a lot of time debugging. My solution for problem A was too slow in Ruby 1.8 (only 8 minutes are allowed for computation) and only barely made it with Ruby 1.9 - Google Q&A claimed it should be doable in less 8 minutes with Ruby 1.8, though.

In general I had no problems thinking of an algorithm (except maybe some really clever optimization), but I can't imagine coding them in 7 minutes. My solution for problem B is 93 lines long - even just typing it might take longer than 7 minutes...

I did not practice at all - perhaps with more practice of the typical class of problems for such competitions, it becomes more of a copy+paste thing?
You should give founders these notes from the application during YC. It's gotta be brutally honest, probably more so than you are to someone's face.
Mac OS X 10.6 eliminates the use of file creator codes
This is an honest question: how much exercise do you get? More general question: Any insomniacs out there that also happen to get cardio (running, yoga, whatever) at least 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes each time?
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I'm not sure I follow. If you admit that you'll still end up with innocent people being sentenced to death, you haven't fixed anything. You can work on not convicting innocent people and remove the death penalty, they aren't mutually exclusive.
> Eliminating the death penalty without fixing the trial process will still send innocent men to prison for a very long time.

Actually, sending innocent people to prison will kill a significant number of them, especially if the sentence is "life without parole".

If you're innocent, you're actually much better off being sentenced to death.
I especially liked hoodwink'd. :)
Why not learn enough basics to at least keep versions of your code around. You never know, perhaps one day you'll find it amusing to track your progress.

You don't have to learn all the ins and outs. I don't know git very well yet. Basically to start use

git init

git add -A

git commit -m "yay, another submit"

Also a .gitignore file might be useful
And now this page is the number 1 hit in google for that phrase and some little vector spread across racks of google boxes is wondering why hackers suddenly care so much about Annabel and what they can sell us.
I tried the first round, just for fun. I don't expect to make it much further than the first round.
Do it.

A night or two spent on learning how to use git (and maybe setting up a remote repo) will save you tons of headaches later and produce lots of benefits almost immediately.
Maybe :visited should not apply to cross domain links.
Better can beat better + cheaper
When Projects Attack
ohmygod, learn version control from the get-go.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/
I don't actually write this stuff down. That was just what my train of thought was while reading the application.
Right. You can train a person to put 2x4's together to frame a house fairly easily (it's not hard).

Teaching someone to collate nonstandard bits into a structurally sound building would be much harder. The base problem therefore is that while yes he's reusing goods, the houses are only cheap because he values his time so little.
Learn revision control concepts as soon as possible. This is one of the ancillary things you need to know to become useful to other programmers...those that can teach you.

When you work with teams, in particular, being competent with your revision control system is mandatory. You'll be surprised by how easy it is to pick up the basics, if you just make yourself do it. The Subversion book is quite good both from a conceptual, as well as specific technical perspective; we've just started moving our projects to git (and I've been using VCS of one form or another for more than a decade), so I don't have a good notion of what the git docs are like for complete VCS newbies.

Anyway, create an account at github, follow the tutorials and docs they provide, and you'll be able to do most everything you need. I don't think Subversion will be going away any time soon, but DVCS is definitely rising quickly, and most new OSS projects are starting on git or another DVCS.
You beat me to it. I agree 100%. Learn to use version control as early as is reasonable. Hell, learn to use it for your personal document directory on your computer at home -- it's great for that, too. It's useful for more than just source code, especially if you want to work on the same stuff on multiple computers.
learn a version control. If get/svn is to complex, use rcs. Really, if I was learning today I would start with git.

But what you choose does not really matter. Learn a revision control system.
Here in New Zealand, our '.edu' equivalent is '.ac.nz' No idea what the ac means.
At some point you have to accept that there is finite bandwidth. Shannon says that if you have an arbitrarily noisy channel, you can get data through it slowly.

The problem is that people don't want slowly, they want it now.
News stories that conflate underlying technologies with the application of those technologies are dead. Time to switch to a better news source.
Really spotty story in terms of actual facts. Ok, it's an outdated version. How outdated? Are there any documented exploits that were fixed in the new version? The story never goes into detail about what exactly makes this version "vulnerable".

I just installed snow leopard on my computer today. I haven't checked to see if my flash is in fact out of date (I'm typing this on my iPod touch), and I'll certainly upgrade if it is, but I see no reason to get excited about it.
It looked like you could view the problem statement first, and then the timer only starts when you download the input file? If so, then write out the solution in full according to the spec, proofread it, then quickly download the input, run the program, and submit the solution. The total time taken is only what you need for program execution and debugging; I could easily see that coming to 7 minutes if you write fairly solid code to begin with.

I'm really tempted to give a couple of these a try, but I'm not eligible (Google employee - heh, never thought I'd be disqualified from a contest for that reason), and I'd rather work on my compiler. :-)
"The houses are only cheap because he values his time so little"

I love it when somebody grabs the point I was trying to make, and says it ten times better.
I hate to go against the grain, but I would say don't learn version control until you know you have to. The first time you get burned, like just lost a week of work burned, you'll know exactly why version control exists and why you need it.

That being said, I did use vc (cvs, uggh) from pretty early on, but I still got burnt a few times when I forgot to check in or damaged my repos.
Boo, stop changing the titles I submit!
No, I think it is the time from the beginning of the project. Once you download the file, you actually only have 4 minutes to submit the solution.

(Edit: I just realized that you could look at the problems without logging in. So maybe time measurements only started from the time the user logged in - then you would be right).

The only thing is that apparently in the beginning there was a problem with the downloads, so Google extended the available time. Maybe they only started counting time one hour later. 1:30 hours would still be very fast, though.

Edit: hm, just thinking, supposing the counting really only started 1 hour later, they could have cheated by letting different people work on each problem. 1 hour per problem seems doable. I don't think the counting really started late, though.
"Making money at writing is super bonus extra hard."

On the whole, perhaps, but if you have a compelling story that appeals to a specific market, you're way ahead of the game.

It helps if you can write, but people pay for shitty writing if the content is otherwise not readily available.
The post says spin-off. Is it a new startup or a new app?
It's a new app. Our startup is called Simpletastic Inc. and created both Anyvite and now Tweetvite.
I think I saw a price point of around $100 for the device, with no monthly charge (beyond your existing internet uplink costs).

I agree AT&T should offer them subsidized or even free to help offload traffic from their oversubscribed towers. Still, at a one-time-cost of $100 per location, if it gave myself and others near-perfect coverage at home and work, it would be a bargain.
svn update

svn add newFiles

svn commit -m "I did something"

There's not really all that more to learn, just check the docs or "svn help" but it'll certainly be well worth your time to get into the habit.
from the git-go?
You know, this could be an elaborate phishing scam. The download page for the new Flash player is not secure. You could be installing a Trojan horse if you "upgrade."
> The real problem is that death penalty does not serve as deterrence.

What do you suggest in order to deter an innocent man from committing the crime that he never committed?
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Back in '87, I wrote a little Mac shareware INIT that grossed around 20K over a few years. Almost 4K registered users (counting a BigCo license for almost 3K seats @ ~$1/seat).

It made a MacUser cover story (along with about 50 other utilities).
Then and Now, Seven Years of Blogging as Business
NFL Bans Twitter Before, During and After Football Games
Yes. The first time you accidentally blow away a bit of code that you spent two days debugging, and can get it back because you check in every night, you will be thankful.
A Reluctance to Retire Means Fewer Openings
Absolutely as soon as you start working with other people you will need this knowledge. I wouldn't learn SVN because you can interact with SVN via Git. (git-svn). To get startet:

Git on Windows, how to install and use it (or see below for Tortoise git)

http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/git-on-windows

Mov: http://media.gitcasts.com/c10-windows-git.mov.zip

If you use the Git GUI from Msysgit to clone a repo please use the following credentials: ...

Tortoise Git is a easy solution which is thought to integrate into e.g. Explorer etc. Please see here for details:

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
(first install msysgit then this..)

Linus Torvalds on Git (a more detailed introduction)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Git usage:
----------

Most interesting is for git is that "Branching" is very cheap. This means that if you want to implement feature X you just "branch" the repository (e.g. local or remote) and don't affect the main branch until you want to merge your code back into main.

Cloning:
---------

1.) Open e.g. Git Bash

2.) Go to the folder where you want to store the repository

3.) git clone ssh://IP:PORT/REPONAME.git TARGETDIR

4.) It will ask you for your ssh key. (please see the above video (.mov) for details).

Later then you can test things by just changing something slightly and recommiting it, e.g.

1.) cd TARGET

2.) vi README

# ---> .... changed something

3.) git add *

4.) git commit

# --> vi will pop up and you type e.g. one line "-

Added some more

# details to the README file how to do XYZ."

# This can also be done on the commandline by:

git commit -m "<YOUR MESSAGE HERE>"

5.) git push

This will push back your changes to the master repository.

Have fun !
Clay's surfing is simply incredible. For a more visual example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZbUuwM4_w
“Whether an iPhone, a Storm or a Gphone, the world is changing.” Mr. Munster said.

Gphone?? I'm not sure Mr. Munster is exactly a reliable source…
According to CrunchGear OnLive is a "cloud gaming service":
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/24/can-onlives-cloud-gamin...

One user per core would probably work fine, if you leave one core for the operating system. Of course you will need a lot of memory and probably a video card per user as well.

Edit: Just checked out the Wikipedia entry and it looks like they're doing something like that and with virtualization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive#Architecture
I don't think that's what those people meant. YC-style investments were seen by many as a way to attract talent to an area. I viewed such predictions as saying that regional YC's would fail to attract talent. I don't see why anyone would think that people who are already in the city would all leave just because they've participated in such a program. If anything, it would make them less likely. Having to leave an investor is a disincentive to moving.
I would to see a restaurant do something about that. Much like the man in the article, find thrown goods, dust them off, and put them back into use. Or food.
Indeed.

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
I get more than the average joe, but not as much as I need. I'm 30, and still childishly vault railings and fly down stairs and swing around corners on poles and the like.

But, no, I haven't been getting enough serious cardio exercise; thanks for the reminder. Thinking back to my time as a climbing instructor, I think my sleep patterns were a lot better. Still irregular, but better.
Atlanta is sufficiently cosmopolitan and citylike, yet considerably cheaper than almost any other metro area in the US with a significant technology sector. This means you get both (comparative) affordability and the benefits of being in an IT-savvy city. Sure, it's pretty ass-backward compared to, say, the Valley or NYC, but it's highly functional as an urban technology space. Don't underestimate it.

That alone can be a huge advantage to a startup, especially those going the bootstrap route who are not nearly as dependent on the systemic VC ecosystem but highly dependent on being close to other technology companies and/or corporate customers.

It's also a major telecom hub. That's why I stay here.
In contest like TopCoder I had seen people doing problems in 5 minutes flat. It depends on expertise and regularly solving algorithmic problems (i.e. being in touch). However 3 problems in 25 minutes is awesome !!
Indeed. As it relates to hacking and productivity (which, I realise, is hardly the focus of the post), I shared my thoughts in a submission previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407
Or if you change a massive chunk of code only to find out your customers HATE it and you must roll-back.
I don't think first round had started yet. The round currently going on is qualification round which makes you eligible to participate in GCJ i.e. first round.
If you don't take the time to start working with version control from the very beginning, you'll just give yourself bad habits that you will have to break later. Also, you run the risk of losing your code in the event of some catastrophe. I would recommend you use one of the distributed version control systems so that everything for a project (including the entire project history) is self-contained in a single folder. That way, when you upload the data to your dropbox account, the entire project history is archived/backed up. With SVN, you'll have to setup a separate server, which you'd also want to install in your dropbox account.
Market Update....
More often than not, we find ourselves concentrating on the micro rather than the macro, thus keeping the ‘big picture’ in mind is prudent. While theS&P is in a bull market up-trend on the daily timeframe, there are periods of overbought and oversold levels making ‘higher highs’ and ‘higher lows’. Assuming the uptrend continues, ‘buying dips’ would consist of looking for oversold conditions to enter.
Should I wear a seatbelt in my car?

No. That way, when you have a crash and are severely injured, you'll realise that you should have been wearing a seatbelt!
A single colour rarely has much of an impact on your mood. Its contrast that matters.

(Read: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/shikisai2005.html)

So when an article lists all the colours along with the emotions they represent and says things like that red is associated with excitement, strength, sex, passion, speed, danger - it raises my BS signal.

It means they're copying some pseudo science article they read in a fun coffee table magazine once.

If you're really interested in colours and colour psychology, let me recommend:

Website: Color Matters
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html

Book: The Art of Color by Johannes Itten
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Color-Subjective-Experience-Object...
Yes you're crazy :-) I love it!

If you find entrepreneurs who'll be willing to share details like these: http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/

...then you hit a goldmine.

So my suggestion is to go and find start-ups that are not yet well known and get no attention from the bloggers, but are willing to share their numbers.

Publish your case stories as freemium PDF's with kickback to the entrepreneurs.

Best of luck!
+1 for version control.

1) Do it because it will give you a huge piece of mind (backup & history)

2) Do it because you can code review (git diff) the whole feature before committing it, rather than doing it one line at a time and hoping you'll achieve stability in the future.
Yes. But don't just learn the tool, learn what problem it solves. Tools have changed significantly over the years, but the principles are the same.
I assume the OP is not actually going to let us pick his career. Aside from that, what's wrong with asking for some advice?
Unless it means download from the app store.
Try GTD, aka David Allen's "Getting Things Done".

Book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produc...

Read the book, then get a tool like "Things" (for OSX) or try web software like http://vitalist.com/ that works cross platform and supports some group collaboration too.

And about those software project management books -- the guy who evangelized software engineering for the past three decades just published an article saying he was wrong: http://bit.ly/pRrkd (links to PDF).
Template oriented programming = lisp macros
When 37signals started Basecamp they didn't have their fame, Rails, their books or their blog readers... Just like everybody else, they started with none of that.
That won't stop Ochocinco.
Sure. But you can't sit down on a random Windows machine and expect to have vim installed.
RSS * IS NOT * dead, in fact I would even go so far as to say... I'd rather have RSS subscribers in my pocket than twitter followers.
Your post has no content. Perhaps you'd like to read the Hacker News guidelines, then make a reasonable, polite argument?
Hey I was just complaining, because I have to a Windows maschine at work. I try to make it behave like a Unix with Cygwin and Emacs, but there are limits.
Actually I think the Hanselman List is pretty useless. To use 3 different editors is BS. Get to know one, for every kind of editing.
Apple Hiring: Application Frameworks Evangelist
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I was watching The Fifth Element and my friend said that Milla Jovovich had an A cup. I was pretty sure they were a B so I looked around and found this page
Full disclosure of last week's Apache.org security incident.
We do put up with it in anti virus programs - mcafee deletes Daneware mini remote control service and angryziber ip scan both of which are innocent useful tools.
the houses are only cheap because he values his time so little.

An alternative way to put it is that the houses are only expensive if he places negligible value on the enjoyment he gets from doing this. Your criticism could be applied to most of my favourite activities, in any case. I don't really see much of a market for a flagrantly-inefficient Scheme-to-32-bit-x86-assembly compiler, but I'm bloody well doing it anyway, because I just like it.
Is this entirely Apple and AT&Ts fault for trying to achieve a greedy communications monopoly? (Foreigner here, I believe AT&T is the only one offering the iPhone apart from outright?)
And since he was pitching to PG - then it was completely appropriate. Your elevator pitch can change based on who you are talking to.

case in point, the pitch to his sister is/was: "You'll be able to keep track of all your high school term papers, and you wont need to burn CDs or carry USB sticks anymore."
When I first learned how to use SVN I found the Subversion book (this one : http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) very confusing. I think it goes in too many details early on.

If I had to do it all over again I would try to find the very basic functions that I have to use and a few graphics explaining how it's structured.
They should stop shipping Flash with the OS. Anyone know if Windows 7 is going to ship with Flash, too?
How fast can you type? Once you've implemented an algorithm enough times, you can almost do it in your sleep. My team at the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition had so much practice banging out breadth-first search implementations that we used it for everything we possibly could.
What's even more insane is that the leader, Neil Wu, is 16 years old.

http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663...
Completely true, of course, but the original poster's use of irony wins more style points than yours. ;)

Irony is judged by how artfully it approaches the line of apparent total sincerity without going over. Your response is clearly ironic. But it's possible to imagine, for a few seconds during the first reading, that the OP is being serious. Only after you think about what he just said do you start laughing.
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