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Could you post the street view location for the neighbourhood? Here's the centre of the Richmond for example: http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&sourceid=navclient-...
True - it's better than nothing.
Calling them "screenshots" and using the word "development" both in the present tense when talking to potential customers is telling them implicitly that not only do you have the skills and competency to deliver this functional piece of software, but that you are already in the process of doing so. Unfortunately none of that is actually proven explicitly by what you're showing, as all of the functional coding implied doesn't actually exist.

Unfortunately for everyone involved, if all you've done is paid a designer to give you some visual and functional mockups, well, that means absolutely nothing about your ability to actually code and deliver the product.

Also the fact that they could write the code to support the designs isn't the issue. The issue is that they didn't, and didn't say so. It's giving the impression that they are operating at what seems to be an amazing speed supporting what presumably appears to be a fully fleshed out user experience, etc, when all that exists might be a design/pitch doc and some jpegs. Programmingprowess is implied. Frontend to backend functionality is implied. Progress is implied. When you leave things implied, then blame your customer for not catching the fact that you weren't explicit about details and therefore you weren't lying to them after all, you're doing it wrong.

It's like that episode of Arrested Development where they go to show clients a model home, only to have one of the walls fall down to reveal nothing inside but a bunch of air, and two people who thought they were hiding inside making out.

They may not be lying with this approach -- they do have screenshots, the same way the guys in that sitcom really did have four walls and a roof -- but they're also setting themselves up for a pretty killer "I don't think you've been entirely honest with me" conversation with a client if one of those walls happens to fall over a bit and reveal what's inside.
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I'd like to spend the rest of my life having sex with really hot girls -- a different one every night. That's a full time job.
I believe the kinesis keyboards have an (optional) foot pedal.
I read an article about this once. Here's the gist of it: if you want to be lucky, you should gamble, etc. only when the entropy levels are higher than usual.
How in the world did you get that from the article?

I'm really chuffed about these kind of "hacks". There are a lot of initiatives in India to try and improve the lives of the rural community and it is really great.

India cannot progress by leaving the villages behind.
"Anti-Asian quotas aren't anti-Asian."

They are going to be in a lot of trouble if they are using upper-limit quotas outright. Quotas, then intangibles and geographic diversity were once used to limit the number of Jews at top universities (Jews being largely in urban areas in the Northeast and the West Coast). There'd be a huge uproar if it could be shown that similar policies were being used to limit the number of Jews at top universities today.

Some kind of sense of fairness in the admissions process, even accounting for considerations of diversity is still something that colleges strive for, and if they discriminate, in some forms it is illegal and even when it's not, there's so much public money involved that they would still have to consider public opinion.

There's also a straw man in your Latino example. Set aside groups that are treated favorably for reasons of diversity. Probably the two largest groups we're left with are whites and Asians. Whites aren't underrepresented, but this study is implying that it probably is significantly easier for someone white to get into a top school than it is for someone Asian. How do you choose between the two based on diversity when neither is underrepresented?
Agreed. I hate reaching for the mouse. I spend most of the time typing, so why should I have to break away from this in order to manage my windows? Thanks to keyboard-centric tiled window managers (Musca being the one I like best), I don't have to.

Now all I need is to begin using a keyboard-centric web browser. Sooooon!
Ask HN: Evaluate my start-up idea - A new take on dating
Inspired by PG's list of start-ups he'd like to fund

A cursory Google reveals no one doing this, but I reserve the right to be wrong.

Instead of a "profile-centric" dating site, i.e. a site that essentially just displays/matches profiles, then leaves it up to the users to arrange meetings, I'd like to create a "date-centric" dating site.

The site would have specific, pre-fabricated dates. For example, if you were in LA (as I am), one date might be "Friday at 6PM: A stroll through Universal City walk and drinks at Saddle Ranch (don't forget to ride the bull!)" Another could be "Sunday at 9AM: A morning hike to the Hollywood sign followed by pancakes at Roscoes."

The dates would fill up on a first-come, first-served basis (think poker sit-n-go's).

As you can see, the idea is to be a little less focused on creating perfect matches and a little more focused on creating fun dates.

To that end, many of the dates could be double or even triple dates. A group of two or three guys (or gals) could sign up for something they always wanted to do and have a few members of the opposite (or same) sex show up to join them.

Perhaps profiles could put some limits on the type of person one would like to date (age, hobbies, etc.) but overall, the dates themselves would probably be a pretty good filter. The type of person that shows up for the "sushi and night club" date is likely different from the person who shows up for the "hiking and picnic" date.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I think they created basically all of the GTAs, though they got bought out and changed their name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_North
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I thought links to sources were preferred over blogs regurgitating them? It would have been just as easy to simply link to the Guardian article [1]. Supposedly this is related to their reporting on the oil company Trafigura's alleged cover-up of intentional pollution in west Africa.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/12/guardian-gagged-...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/16/trafigura-oil-iv...
what is funny about the status page is that it isn't a day that they don't run into an issue ..
Well as the guardian is prevented from publishing the question it probably makes sense to link to someone who can tie up the whole story...
This is all true in my experience, as if I'd written it myself.

The kid who filed the complaint wasn't discriminated against because he was asian. He was probably discriminated against because he was BORING.

I worked at PU during the time this lawsuit was kicking around. Never looked at the kid's credentials or anything, but what I read about him in the press made him sound like every other asian kid who applied to the Ivies, with the added wrinkle of being a sore loser.

Poor Latino students with great academic credentials are rare in America. They get snapped up and fought over by admissions committees.

Poor/middle class Asian students with great academic credentials are dime a dozen in America. The very best of them get snapped up and fought over, the rest face a roll of the dice like a lot of other applicants.

If you're an elite college, you want to fill your class with outliers. You're looking for purple cows. Unfortunately for Asians who play the violin, get perfect test scores, and hold student council positions, that's a really common profile.

When I was working at admissions at Princeton Asian students would ask me how they could stand out in the applicant pool. I would tell them to stop the piano and violin lessons and go to clown school.

Or for those in the scienCe/engineering track, I'd tell them to actually make something interesting that they were passionate about because few of them had actually accomplished anything tangible outside of school activities. If you want to be admitted based on how smart you are, you can't just show potential. You've got to show us proof that you're doing stuff with that brain.

As common as that profile was, the best application I ever read was from a middle class Asian-American woman who was class president and played the violin....

...and who didn't just compete in the Intel science fair, she WON it...

...and wrote a hilarious essay about counting in finger binary (128!)...

...and who filed her first of 4 patents at 13 years old...

...and who had a rave letter of recommendation from the woman who ran the local senior center...

When you spot a true outlier, you snap them up every time.
Like you, I also read PG's list of startups he'd like to fund. The "dating" item ends with this: "So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that you're going to offer. That's the easy half. Focus on novel ways to get around the chicken and egg problem."

I'm not seeing your solution to the chicken and egg problem here.
If this was true we could do something much more interesting than shuffle cards and decide not to turn it on.
We'd basically have an infinite improbability engine at our disposal. We could declare that unless bricks of gold spontaneously appear in front of us, we'll turn it on. If they do appear, we wait a day and repeat.
Given the number of domains they host (nearly a million: http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/reports/total_domains/DR...), I'm shocked they don't have more outages to report. Perhaps they do. They've got enough hardware that system failures are bound to be a daily occurrence. And I'm sure software problems stack right on top of that.
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Flicking a switch I expect to work.

Pushing fat guys in front of trains seems a bit cartoony and far less certain to save anyone in reality.

I think that the confusion around whether it would even work is enough to muddy the results in that case.
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I seriously thought this was a The Onion article based on the title. Gotta love incredibly dangerous things running on antiquated hardware.
The Guardian and I rarely see eye to eye on anything and, honestly, its been a while since I would have assumed that factual representations made on its pages should be treated to a presumption of accuracy.

That said, for once, I appreciate the righteous indignation about the sacred mission of the press (usually invoked in the service of their own power and privilege, not in the interest of the public per se) and the writing is a masterpiece of British wit. ("Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret." is beautiful.)
Potentially it removes it altogether because you could do a more traditional "scale up". Picking a few dates a week in a small region initially you only need a few users (sub 100 probably) to fill up the slots.

Then with luck the membership should grow by word of mouth.

Matching people DOES require a huge amount of people to stand the chance of finding a geographical and personality match. This idea of date oriented meeting seems to nail the first problem perfectly.

@OP: I think it's got legs, serious legs. Though I see a problem with no-shows (I guess the 3 or 4 "couples" per date fixes that somewhat). The question is how do you monetize?
DH are mostly just very transparent about downtime - more so than most hosts. They are also very cheap. If you would like more nine's, you will need to pay more. MT, rackspace, etc... are all considerably more expensive.
Twitter considering live video tweets?
Struggling to keep up with the mass of text-based tweets to your Twitter account?
Yes, some studies have suggested that working night owl shifts for a long period of time can shorten your life by a significant amount - possibly years. Loneliness, poor eating habits, and hormone changes were all cited as possible reasons why this might be true. Night shift workers also tend to exercise less, and are more likely to run sleep deficits. A couple of the studies I've read said hormone changes can be permanent in those who worked nights for 5+ years. (Melatonin is the obvious hormone affected, but there were other hormone changes as well.) The fact that many people are unable to stay on a nocturnal schedule, and switch back and forth between days and nights (to see friends and family on weekends, perhaps) makes it even worse, health-wise. The changes are stressful on your body.

Most of the studies had participants that were probably quite unhappy about their late shifts, but had to do so out of necessity and not choice. [And they may have also picked up fast food on their way to work every night, for all I know.] So...if you're more productive and happier at night - and you eat properly and exercise - I guess you would only have to worry about the hormone changes...?

It's been 5-6 years since I've actively monitored the research, so I'm not sure if there have been any major new findings recently. Check Medline or something.
They are just very bad. I am so glad I moved away from them a year ago.
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"If you don't make mistakes, you can't make decisions."

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Yay! I was right there's nothing called luck.
The chicken and egg problem is alleviated by the model. We needn't supply each user with a huge pool of profiles from which to choose - we only need to supply each user with ONE other person also willing to go on that date.

In theory, the site could function with just two users.
Probably nothing as it's been closed-source for years now.
Hey, I got into Princeton because they hadn't admitted anyone, much less a white middle class male, from Western Michigan in a few years.

Everyone catches a break. No use crying over it. Exploit it.
The article's reasoning seems to imply that everyone who releases a good product without advertising will eventually succeed by word of mouth. This doesn't sound to me like an accurate description of our world, though I'd have liked it to work that way.
Yahoo (finally?) pays attention to SouthEast Asia
I'm not quite convinced that multi-touch panel that large would be practical, but smaller, one hand version could be nice. Imho it would also be better if the panel was on the side of a keyboard(ie in the place of numpad and arrow keys), not under.
Here is the question asked in the parlimentary records: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/newhtml_hl?DB=...

And here is the report in question on wikileaks: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_dum...

What's interesting is some Guardian staffers are tweeting links to the wikileaks on their personal accounts. Are they covered by the gag order on The Guardian itself?
Ask HN: Would you go to a workshop by the beach?
So I am from Jamaica, and am wondering if you guys (you are my target market) would be interested in attending programming/development/startup workshops in a tropical location?

I am thinking of a similar structure to 'Big Nerd Ranch', except it will be a more 'relaxed' environment - with the waves crashing in the background and all.

There are many beautiful locations to have these workshops in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, so not all will be by the beach...but you get the idea.

The price range would be similar to Big Nerd Ranch - $4000 - $10,000 - depending on the workshop you sign up for and the location we have it at. Everything would be included except airfare. We would even have a bunch of extra activities included - horse back riding, 18 holes of golf, jet skiis, banana boats, snorkelling, scuba diving, cliff jumping, etc.

The general workshop would be about 5 - 7 days, it would be structured so that there would be a lot of good 'tutoring' along with downtime to allow you to work on your own projects with the knowledge you learn in the workshops and get guidance if needed.

So overall it would be a package of work & play.

Would love to hear feedback on whether or not anyone would be interested and what would appeal to them. What would be make or break, e.g. the quality of the instructors, food, accommodations, extra/included activities, etc.

Thanks.
True, you haven't been conned, you've just made two shitty hiring decisions in a row -- paying sone designer or developer who didn't build you a good site, and then paying a snake oil salesman to try and make your troubles disappear.
Will the event streamed live for people who cannot make it there?
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Crash-only software: More than meets the eye by Valerie Aurora

http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/

From the conclusion: "Properly implemented, crash-only software produces higher quality, more reliable code; poorly understood it results in lazy programming. Probably the most common misconception is the idea that writing crash-only software is that it allows you to take shortcuts when writing and designing your code. Wake up, Sleeping Beauty, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. But you can get a more reliable, easier to debug system if you rigorously apply the principles of crash-only design. "

Also, of interest I believe Snow Leopard simply kills (i.e. crashes) any software that signals it doesn't have state in order to speed up shutdown.
yeah!

echo "there are data from our distributed, fault-tolerant cloud-based backend"; # TODO: Insert actual code here.

is much better.
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Other than search and google.com, the reliability of Google's services is truly awful.
Beware, a strategy like this might aswell backlash. Maybe it would not be as easy to get away with if you're not the 4th largest site in the world.
The #trafigura hashtag on Twitter is going a bit crazy.

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23trafigura

On the one hand, it's good that news that needs to get out gets out. On the other, I can't help thinking how easy it is to rustle up a lynch mob these days.
There are some great points, argument and counter-arguments. I would like to move forward with the "campus" style analogy.

I think you could side step a lot of the problems, i.e. house squatting, housing discrimination, screening of less then ideal individuals...
if you made it into a vocational school, or certification style program.

Granted, your biggest hurdle is making those diplomas and certifications carry weight for the prospective entrepreneurs. On the same token, the prospective entrepreneurs would want there efforts to mean something, meaning they would work towards proving the reward.

In this process people are applying for the educational benefit. As the process moves on, education is about empowering the individual. This is generally where entrepreneurship takes flight, or at least leaves the nest in an attempt...

As a founding principle I would take your love for those old brick buildings, and run with it in the application process, as well as a lead into the educational process. The focus being on rebuilding, sustainability, and creating future generations in the program, of witch I'm assuming your goal is to make a Y Combinator style "campus".

There is something to be said about building an empire from the ruins of the past.
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Dammit, where's Eliezer Yudkowsky when you need him. I'm pretty sure he'll have an interesting take on this.
I am not too excited by their keyboards, unfortunately. They do sell separate USB foot pedals, but they act as the mouse buttons until you reprogram them on a Windows computer.

I don't know anyone that uses Windows.
Banks could distribute the cds themselves (and customise them so that people are prompted to login to their bank account as soon as it's connected to the network).

Wifi drivers would probably be a bigger issue than working out how to boot from cd.
Adding a heater would be an interesting mod.
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Turning a few hours of online outrage into something actionable that fixes the problem is hard. Like with the Iran elections.
It would be a "shame" if the information the Guardian has was leaked to a US-based newspaper. UK laws do not apply over here :)
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Hmmm.. I actually have both types of products.

The Kinesis keyboard with backspace, ctrl, alt, enter, home etc using my thumb AND the iGesture pad from Fingerworks ( http://www.fingerworks.com/ ) which is a large "mouse pad" where you can use gestures with 5 fingers (and it works for all applications).

The brilliant part is that the iGesture pad fits perfectly on the top of the Kinesis keyboard (the left and right part of the keyboard is separated for ergonomic reasons).

I've had the iGesture for a couple of years now - it will be a sad day when it dies as there are no replacements that I know of....maybe Apple will release a similar "mousepad" in the future ?
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The article needed me signed up for free access. And "more", as they say.
This is a wonderful example of how to demo an idea to the public. Yes, yes, it's cool that it's 100x thinner than our hair and twice as energy efficient, but seeing a pickle glow just makes the video pop out.
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