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Category view glitch
Hi
i installed boomtango recently ... since then i have noticed that category view page just displays a blank .. the other view work very well ... even my new categories show up on other 'tabs' ...

one more thing i woudl like to see in boomtango is the ability to reimport the data from places ... while installing boomtango i stopped importing data thinking that i will do it when i leave the computer idle in the night ... but now that option is nowhere to be seen in preferences. ... needless to say the boomtango i see is pretty much useless as a result.

otherwise a great thanks for this excellent concept ... when is it going to appear in AMO ?
Niraj
Couldn't really finish it, but it reminded me that life is short and that there are a lot more fun things out there to do and think about than yet another business app: Stories, Art, the intersection of fantasy and reality.
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Don't be so hard on yourself, I'm sure a lot of nice people like your regular UI just fine.
I tried to write this post in a manner that transcends politics

Pretty much failed in that regard, then.

Also, there's no point bitching about IDL just because the author doesn't understand it. That doesn't make it a bad language.

If you wanted to read something about the code that isn't from a biased point of view and is from someone who can actually read code and write about it, well, there's my blog.

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/12/bugs-in-software-flash-messa...
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/12/whoops-theres-third-bug-in-t...
If you didn't have to worry about buying food, would you start a company?

If you didn't have to worry about paying the rent/mortgage would you start a company?

If you didn't have to worry about .....
Yes, I agree. What I was meaning to point out is that the headline is misleading. Someone else stated that better.
> The evil ones are the ones who happened to be advising the representatives of the taxpayers

The advisors weren't significantly different from the representatives. Does that make the representatives more or less evil than the advisors? Does it matter?

Given that this is how things are going to be if we have this sort of regulation, are we really benefitting from this sort of regulation?

I think that we should always evaluate based on realized benefits and incurred costs, not desired benefits and promised costs. However, our actual policies show that most people disagree with me.
I'm really impressed by this. Good job.
Call me a skeptic, but this project ditches Erlang's awesome VM and takes only the clunky language syntax and puts it on the JVM.

I wonder how things like process isolation will work out.
Ask HN:  What do you think of DropZap v1.1?  What should I improve for v1.2?
Notable changes in v1.1:

* sound is more pleasant

* faster animation in gameplay (so less waiting for chain reactions to complete)

* user interface tweaks

* improved general instructions

* Scorecard no longer slows down noticeably with a huge number of scores

What would you like to see in v1.2?

DropZap is free for a limited time.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap/id338490375?mt=8
And since when does Google contract out for development work?
I understand where you are coming from re: privacy issues, but aren't you also missing some real value?

I check Facebook 2 or 3 times a week to see what family and friends have been doing. With Twitter, I follow people into the same technologies that I am interested in, and I get a lot of interesting links.

re: gmail: I have never bought anything from a sponsored search link, but I do occasionally buy things from advertisement links on my email - also, sometimes I get an email from a customer asking me to help them with a problem and a useful link is on the right side of the customer email.

Sure, privacy issues are huge, but I think that people need to make a personal calculation of benefits vs. potential problems.
I found the article very fun and interesting. Mixing print-outs with drawings of which pictures are taken to be the images in the article was a nice twist.
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About which community product are you talking?
I'm sick of hearing that... it has been said over and over already.
The only fake profiles I ever see are from other developers testing their facebook apps.
Correct, ack - Kanji code converter is the one I just installed by not reading HN posting first...
Right, and due to Erlang's lightweight processes, it's not unusual to have a process finish before it needs to do any garbage collection. You can tune for this by spawning a process with a larger heap than the default - if you know that it tends to grow up to a certain size and then finish, you can just spawn it with that much to start and it will skip GC entirely.
Am I the only one who found her creepy?
The guy who made the interface for Minority Report is actually commercializing it. http://vimeo.com/user922585
PS: If anyone is a Gentoo guru looking for work in Paris, don't hesitate to contact me :-)

Sorry, I won't work at places where people use the term 'guru' to refer to their workers. ;)
I'm a frequent user -- but I mainly use messages. All your friends are like a contact list and you can send them messages. No changing emails, you can use their real names, and the search is very good. Usually the person I want is the first result (for people I'm not friends with.) Phone/email is always changing (and you can lookup phone numbers on facebook: very useful.)

I have been a member since before they added the photo feature, and I have deactivated my account for over 4 months before, but messaging + events + all my friends are on it compels me to stay.

Also, I know people who are either or both email and voicemail bankrupt (more messages than they can possibly ever check), and facebook is the best way to contact.

EDIT: Purpose of this reply: why do I find it compelling to use facebook. Also I don't do IM, don't even answer the phone some days (need quiet time) so it isn't just because I can't help myself.
I don't either which is why i'd never use my real name when signing up to them. I dont mind giving them free content, i'm just not comfortable with how they can tally that content back to me.
This is pretty cool.. Hope they make a mobile version soon.
While it's not designed to be post game-over security software itself - as the author states - it's primarily designed to support post game-over security scanning software, which seems like a poor motivator to include it in the Linux kernel.

A better solution to this problem would be:

* user education about why these solutions don't work

* ensure binaries and scripts are either signed or created locally

* ensure analysis is done from trusted environments (eg, another OS connected to the same SAN you're booting the suspect machine from).
Sure. But remember that there was a time in recent memory where the notion that AOL would be a mere extension of the web was a very optimistic thought as well, or that some young upstart would knock AltaVista from king-of-the-hill in Search.

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
Yeah, I don't get why shorteners don't have the option to do something like http://tri.im/maps.google.com/8HkN - short but still insightful (way better than 'visit this preview page')
Please don't confuse healthcare with insurance.

I went for over a decade without insurance yet I was never without healthcare. That used to be quite common, especially among folks in their 20s. Is that unthinkable for the current generation? Why?

Plus, if you're talking about the US, free basic healthcare is almost universally available. It isn't pretty or convenient, but US govt services rarely are.
I completely disagree. I have a fake facebook profile that I use to access useful groups / access content from organizations that use it.

I would absolutely hate to use my real profile as I find the whole 'incoming' side of it intrusive and desperate.

The last thing is need is to have to deal with all the useless drivel people would be expecting me to take part in with a real profile.

I would also say that at least 4 of my friends do the same.
I wish I could vote this up 100 times. The first rule of requirements gathering: the customer doesn't know what they want. You have to tell them.
An outstanding presentation both in terms of content and presentation.
I just feel kind of irritated with this "People who you may know" feature. Especially on Facebook and LinkedIn.
People are going to trust facebook, but they're not going to trust 'cherry credits' or whatever suckass companies you know nothing about that you're signing your credit card information over to.

Judging by the ridiculous amounts of money that social gaming companies are hauling in, this is clearly not true.
Atwood's a perfectionist? You couldn't tell it from the quality of his blog posts.

Version 1 sucks. Ship it anyway? Yeah, Cuil can tell you how well that worked out.

Clearly, the decision to ship is one that should be taken seriously, and the pros and cons of shipping need to be weighed. There's an upside to shipping early (feedback from users) but there are a lot of potential downsides as well.

But we all knew that already, didn't we?
This is awesome. I'd like to see more about the overall structure of the program, i.e. how the search work was partitioned and completed.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. That was meant in support of "You can also disagree with Warren Buffet [...]."
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I have a number of friends who work in creative sphere and this is extremely common in the industry.

Probably clients get away with this so much is because many creators shy away from describing these "misappropriations".

Why do clients do it so much?

IANAL, but pure ideas can have little legal protection, so legally(not morally mind you) they are in the clear.

You going in the open about this is actually healthy.
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Yes they should have left the prices up, I ordered some and it was 7 GBP or about 11-12 USD. This included international shipping.

They had different pack options, but I think all the options were the same price. I got the option 1: 5 X 10g pack and 5 X 5g pack all for 7GBP. They had one option for one 100g pack, so the others were probably combinations between 75g and 100g total weight.
I don't disagree with the general argument here, but the headline may be overstating things a bit-- I tend to think that some of these brands may be able to limp forward for a few more years before ultimately collapsing. There's an art to circling the drain...
Could someone elaborate on the issue? How much of a problem is it?
That's kind of a chicken & egg thing though, isn't it? How do you get that community if your city isn't startup friendly?
Cool. Another part of my experiment complete with this publication: how to get press without really trying.
(but I should probably save that for another post)
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If the cost of health insurance is the deciding factor in your decision to start a new company, you're better off not starting--you're seriously undercapitalized.
Like Slime, for Vim
I agree with this point, except even basic health care (in the US) is expensive especially for someone on a ramen diet.

If you plan correctly financially this doesn't have to be a problem.

edit: My biggest issue would be hiring my first full time employee.
It's a little different from that, as there are active proposals in the U.S. to not have people worry about healthcare, and in many other countries you already don't. There are relatively few countries where you don't worry about buying food or paying the rent, by contrast.
I half agree.

The presentation was, indeed, outstanding.
The content was half-a-click above 'meh'. Honestly, were there any ideas here that you don't think were common knowledge to the average HN reader?
I guess my once-only fake account still counts towards the growing number of facebook users

FB only counts users with recent activity.

I insist that people post their photos on flickr or some other service because I don't want to use facebook

The problem with Flickr is that not everyone is on Flickr. Facebook's ability to tag photos and associate them with events is light years ahead of anyone else, not least because they have a critical mass of the people in the photos on the service.
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On the off chance, does anyone have recommendations for similar resources in German, French, and/or Spanish?
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The big trick about uninsured healthcare in the US now is that you will pay 2-3 times market rate for everything. My local hospitals wins with a 9 times multiplier on some emergency care.
We've been using this for a few weeks now and it's been really helpful
It's also different because healthcare isn't a necessity. Many people can go for years with no health issues, but everyone needs to eat on a regular basis.
I have some experience with Forth; I have been programming a forth CPU in 2002 and got paid for it.(it's me who left a comment in the article)

The article says "the main WikiReader app is written in C" and uses forth "for testing and apps"; a fine approach if you depend on core libraries which are in C. It'll be interesting to see which functionality is done in Forth.

The article mentions that Forth is used to simplify debugging. This is traditional approach and this is what Forth proponents say. The truth is, it was more true back in the day when JTAG wasn't available. Now that JTAG is omnipresent and popular IDEs can use it, the use of fringe language such as Forth (or any software solution where hardware-assisted one is readily available!) is so much less justified.

In the quoted letter, Christopher Hall, the developer, does a nice job of explaining the use of Forth in a project. But I think many people who got the chance to familiarize with Forth, feel like this is a mere justification. Like "c'mon you can tell them what you want, but between you and me, we know that this is a good shit and you just want to try it once again" Or, like, picture Paul Graham picking a language for his next project: "Should I use Lisp or Blub? Hmm, this question needs careful consideration."

NB: Wikipedia articles for Forth and JTAG are good.
Since I'm in withdrawal from gold star collection ever since I finished Super Mario Galaxy, I looked for it, and it turns out the street his villa is on hasn't been recorded in street view: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
It would be nice if there were a way to get straight to it from a regular search though. It is still more convenient for me (in Firefox) to hit Command+k and type "define:".

Also, it'd be nice if Google could just read my mind instead of me having to laboriously type in search queries.
I bought my iPhone in Beijing for 4800RMB, this included delivery to my apartment. It was unlocked, jailbroken and had WIFI. This let me use it with my mobile account on China Mobile since few people use China Unicom. I have many friends with iPhones. Free WIFI is everywhere in China so it'd suck not to have it.

Why would you switch carriers and your phone number to the smaller, less popular carrier and buy a locked phone without WIFI for another couple thousand RMB? Of course Apple/China Unicom sell no phones, DUH! It's almost like this is a face saving move by Apple to say they're in China without having to meet all the demands that China Mobile wanted.
Fortunately, Canada has a sane policy on public health care and this isn't nearly the issue it is in the US.
Well, this usuage is not so unique, although I don't have 200 tabs, but usually way more than 50.

As a side note, untill chrome is ported to linux (with a usable state) and untill adblock is ported to chrome, this browser does not exist for me :)
While things like cost of living, availability of specific services etc are important the article missed one thing.

In the earliest stages at least, what you need most is a place to be able to think and work and create something without too much distraction.

I'd say a good place to start a startup would be similar to a place you'd want to live if you were working on some hard math problem or something. Somewhere you can walk the streets and think about stuff, with libraries with quiet corners and ubquitous coffee shops would be my ideal. I guess that probably describes a lot of university towns, especially the older ones.
Isn't this a contradiction to being "ramen profitable"? If you're only ramen profitable, how can you afford health insurance for yourself and employees?
The comic referenced at the top of the article was good for a laugh or two: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
I am in the same boat, I have a fake facebook profile that I used once for a specific (slightly nefarious) purpose and that was that.

Anyhow, I must be one of the few according to Slate, who does not like sharing everything I do with my friends, enemies and strangers.
If you're uninsured you get price gouged. A simple trip to the doctor with some basic tests can be a months rent. I have catastrophic health insurance; $5k deductible 20% copay to $50k. It won't pay for anything, but it will give me insurance group rates. Where is this magical free basic healthcare? Does not exist. Medicaid is only free if you've already become bankrupt.
I'm tired of all those stupid "you get shafted by default but you can 'opt-out' if you don't like it so what's the problem?!" schemes.
With all due respect, how do you know you haven't seen a fake profile?

Fake profiles can be quite elaborate.
" I have no idea how insurance companies and employers ended up married like that"

I believe the short answer is WWII. Price controls meant employers needed to find a way other than higher wages to attract workers.
I think Fred's post is more about startups acquiring smaller startups based on talent, not about large companies acquiring for IP.
It's a big problem. Private health insurance is expensive, and a costly medical snafu can bankrupt you if you're uninsured. Health insurance costs significantly increase your Cost of Living(/barriers to entry, so to speak).
Didn't pick any courts up in my city (and there are plenty). Here's one right near my house http://i49.tinypic.com/8yi4cm.jpg. Maybe the search hasn't processed my area?
I find that it is highly dependent on your target employees. For example, if you are a recent college grad and intend to employ recent college grads, you can probably get by without health insurance. However, if you are older and/or have a family and intend to employ people who also are older and/or have a family those people will expect at least partially subsidized health insurance from the company.

And the costs of health insurance are relative to the size of the group you insure. The larger company you work for, the less expensive and more comprehensive the health insurance is likely to be. For small companies with few employees you will pay a lot for health insurance.
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Is your city in the Bay Area? He specifies it's only processing the SF Bay Area.
Think of it as a type of garbage collection. That stack frame is an unreachable resource. TCO guarantees that the language implementation will free the resource automatically. Without TCO, the programmer has to explicitly prevent unused resources from accumulating by trampolining, looping, etc.
+1, may be something new come and take it! It's just a luck for facebook that no other new startup screw them (Twitter is good, but too limited comparing to Facebook)
I totally agree. Facebook at this point is a phonebook. That's all I use it for now. I could care less what a random acquaintance did last weekend. It is totally irrelevant and wastes my time. Twitter forces me to focus on only those who I care about.

http://twitter.com/dwlz/status/1379312535
I'm quite intrigued by this but it didn't find the tennis courts near my house. I think it was foiled by tree's and shade blocking some of the lines.

Edit: oops. I didn't read the disclaimer about only processing the Bay Area for now.
Pitch for free, spec for pay. Doing business analysis is delivering significant value to the client, and you can sell that in particular. You are delivering a spec that's implementable, no matter by who. You're obviously the best for the job, but it's no skin off your back if they go with somebody else, everybody gets something, and gets paid.
As I posted in a comment on the article, he seems to have unrealistic expectations for an x86 assembler. TI's DSPs have a nice assembly because of their architecture. The x86 architecture is too complicated and the implementations too diverse to have an assembler like he wants.
What you really want to do is log performance under real conditions over an extended period of time and then evaluate the results.

Given that the differences in query time between various DNS solutions are significant but minor, you will almost certainly find differences in performance that you hadn't thought about.
Yeah sorry, our site suffered from traffic overload and we quickly implemented some caching. :)
It'd be nice if they included dental and eye care as well; those are basically the same deal.
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For translations to/from German from/to (English, Spanish, etc), dict.leo.org is pretty decent. Not sure that's what you're looking for.
I understand Jeff's point, but this post tripped my false dichotomy alarm:

A. "spending three months fixing up this version in a sterile, isolated lab"

OR

B. "listening to feedback from real live, honest-to-god, dedicated users of your software."

You shouldn't need to 'ship' in order to get feedback from potential users. You should be engaged with them early-on, during the design and development of your product.

I would revise Jeff's argument to read: "Don't develop in a vacuum. Get feedback as early on as possible. If you need to ship something in order to get that feedback, then so be it, but that's risky. "
Many EU countries have welfare so generous that one need not worry about buying food, paying rent or paying for healthcare.

Why not look to those countries and see if they have more startups?
And with selection bias it's all so subtle that most times everybody fails to find it.

For instance, in this article one of the points was "make friends with the press" That's all fine and dandy, but a zillion other guys are also making friends with the press. If you're a YC alum, know a bunch of other "friends", live in the Valley, etc, you're going to have an easier time of it.

Lots of seemingly insignificant factors work cumulatively to make an easy piece of advice actually doable. Too often when the winners throw out the advice, however, there's no mention of all the dozens of little supporting pieces -- most of the time because they don't know or haven't really thought about them.

It can be extremely misleading.
If you start along that road who do you trust. Many organisations now collect data on their customers: loyalty cards are a good example. That is before you get to public organisations. You'd have to be a hermit for data not to be collected on you and to be sold.

Do you just object because some companies make it their primary revenue stream or because it's obvious?
If you give Facebook your ssh password, there are much bigger problems than "Facebook shouldn't do such-and-such with the information it gets" - and those problems are not with Facebook. Same goes for any other password that you want to actually protect something.

If you give up your password just because a stranger asks you nicely, whatever happens is your problem, imho.
I think that this is horrible advice for someone new. But if you've been around for a while, and understand that what you're doing is a hack because you need to get a product released, it's more acceptable.

It's a case of making sure that you know you're doing the wrong thing, vs just assuming that it's the right thing. The latter causes all code to be bad, and the poor code never gets fixed.