skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you have a really biased view of serial entrepreneurs, or maybe I do since they've been so generous toward us. they are world's apart from get-rich-quick guys. They build real value, quickly, and it's an extremely hard thing to do more than once, specifically in technology where innovation and speed often move in parallel. We're not talking about MLM herbal medicine schemes here.

If most HN readers were interested in lifestyle businesses, I question why they vote up so many pg, et. al. articles about the difficulties and intensity of startups. To your point however, my initial comment was presumptuous and Steve cleared it up...
And it's entertaining enough to give to other non-technical "stake holders" in your website planning committee. Which means a lot when you're trying to convince them not to make an egregious UI mistake.
Momentum scrolling makes huge ergonomic difference.

The batteries on my Magic Mouse (which has momentum scrolling) are dead, so I'm using my Mighty Mouse today, and boy, is it a drag.
Ok, thanks.

I'm wondering how users on mobile browsers which aren't iPhones would react to that interface...? (And also, how well it would render.)
China has blocked access to products by Microsoft, Google and others in the past, though in most cases they eventually got unblocked.
PastryKit looks cool, but jQTouch is cool and freely available to use today. Check it out if you haven't:

http://www.jqtouch.com/
micro-Objective-J might be a stretch (everything looks like straight JS to me), but they have a lot of Cocoa JS libs floating around:

http://help.apple.com/iphone/2/Contents/Frameworks/Foundatio...
http://help.apple.com/iphone/2/Contents/Frameworks/Foundatio...
http://help.apple.com/iphone/2/Contents/Frameworks/Foundatio...
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etc

oh, and http://help.apple.com/iphone/2/Parts/license.txt too.
Now that they've gotten this far, what you describe can't be too far away.
I don't know how I will tell my father. He hasn't upgraded to the internet yet!
I think humans are pretty much incapable of doing long-term science and coming to rational conclusions on any kind of climate or environmental issues. If any money is involved at all it gets politicized and science goes right out the window.

Plus, time scales of even 10 or 20 years are too long to really enter our decision making process in any meaningful way. Essentially we will do whatever we want until there is an immediate crisis, and then we will deal with it to the best of our ability. Maybe that means mass deaths or extinction, or maybe the consequences will be manageable.
We used iUI for the PAX scheduling app a friend and I hacked together in a few days (best seen on iPhone, mostly works on Android): http://pax.expojunkie.com/

iUI is a pretty decent way to get going quickly - it's a fairly simple framework once you start digging into it, and you can make some decent looking stuff. The AJAX loading of sub-pages is a nice touch and is handled well. We had to do a lot of the fancier map scrolling/etc. ourselves, though, and there are still a ton of shortcomings that we can't get around due to lack of native events (fixed toolbars, proper scrolling, a few other fiddly things that you might notice but are too esoteric to mention here.)

jQTouch is getting a lot of buzz right now, and we might look at rewriting ExpoJunkie using it early next year: http://www.jqtouch.com/
WebSharper - Write F# and Run JavaScript
Shame it requires iPhone OS3.1, as I'm unwilling to upgrade due my love of the jailbreak-free tethering possible on 3.0

Can any iPhone developers comment as to what was added in the 3.0 to 3.1 upgrade to make you target the newer OS?
Overall I agree, but there is another side to it: you can't win on ideology with science.

There are lots of ideas/facts (e.g.: evolution, free trade, vaccines, etc) which science has a huge pile of evidence to support but still face a lot of resistance because of ideology, conflicts with political interests or plain dumbness. Global warming is just another one of these ideas.
This is negligence; plain and simple. Users have a right to expect web service providers to keep their private information secure with basic industry standards. Someone should sue them and set a precedent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_liability
It works well enough on Android and Palm Pre, although without the fancy OpenGL-accelerated CSS transforms (it gracefully degrades to more traditional CSS animations if WebKit transitions are not available).

The underlying HTML is just a bunch of unordered lists and divs, and all the advanced behavior is via CSS and Javascript - if you want to make sure it'll work on less-capable browsers it's doable, but you'll need to keep an eye on how you're loading things.

You may wind up needing to to browser sniffing on the server and serving up different HTML if you see various browsers; we didn't get that far in the project we worked on.
The one problem with super-fast-scrolling: even with an iPhone-designed web app, you can easily go past the boundary that Safari has rendered and wind up with the checkerboard pattern.
Not sure about iUI, but jQTouch uses webkit-enhanced markup so any webkit engine will read it correctly. jQTouch apps look great in desktop Safari, iPhones, and Android devices. It's even marginally passable in firefox.

Though, Android is very late getting some features (HTML5 manifests, local storage, and navigator.geolocation) and I'm still not sure if it supports support CSS animations.
a) make sure there's a cliff
b) define roles and responsibilities. the cto should have final call on tech matters, business on biz dev,etc.
c) clearly designate someone to be a final call/leader type person. they should also have the board seat.

Equal equity is fine. It's the voting/power/decision making that comes with it. You'll end up with a startup bureaucracy where every decision needs to go through a 6 person committee. You will lose one of the ultimate attributes of a startup: speed

Personally, I'd also be asking yourself how you ended up with 6 founders and if all of them are "founders". Yourself included.
I think that the candidates who are most secure in their ability won't think that they need to pay $100 to get their CVs seen by good companies.
I also wonder what all the hoopla is about. So Go now has a prettyprinter. Big f'ing deal. Welcome to the 1980's.
Entrepreneurs- Modern Day Visionaries
One Android to Rule Them All
My copy of Don't Make Me Think is ragged because of how much I've read, referenced, shared, and noted in it. It's that good.
2010 and the Fate of Your (Virtual) Desktop
Newsflash: some forms of information exchange have limitations that prevent them from being useful for every single possible aspect of communication.

You don't drive a Vespa across the Atlantic Ocean and you don't use a 747 to go to the grocery store. Having an extended conversation on twitter is as silly as trying to send attachments via phone or publishing a peer reviewed research paper via lyrical poem. Recognize that all forms of communication have their strengths, weaknesses, and limits, and know when you're abusing a particular form of communication and stretching it beyond it's boundaries of usefulness.
Especially the later question especially, [why should I] "ask the candidate to pay to give it to me?", hangs in the air.

Asking a candidate to effectively pay money to apply isn't "the way to their heart". It isn't necessarily legal or ethical either. Joel has described what high demand there is for the "great programmers". Is it plausible that these same great programmers are going to be paying money to be found?

I like Stackoverflow. I spent a month getting 1000+K reps and then realized I should stop and do some work.

I like the idea of integrated SO to job search. It's just that direction that this integration has been problematic, indeed it could plausibly called evil.
duuuudee, you're being such a von ahn fanboy.

Von Ahn has some pretty good lectures, but that's due, in no small part, to the fact that the courses are "Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science"/"Science of the Web"/"Artificial Intelligence". He gets to cherry pick from some of the coolest stuff out there, and though he presents it very well, I wouldn't describe him as the best lecturer at Carnegie Mellon.

One complaint I have about his excellent TAs is that, though many of them are stand-up guys, a lot of them perpetuate a long standing Carnegie Mellon tradition of dickish undegrad TAs (Full disclosure: this is also true in one of the courses I've TAed, and is a much stronger influence in the Systems side of things at the school).

Von Ahn is a pretty good professor, and he's pretty funny too. I just wish that people would realize that things like the "Luis Von Ahn Awesome Classroom" in the Gates Center are him poking fun at his own image (I hope) rather than the foundation of some sort of Cult of Von Ahn.
In the design highlights, it has a diagram of the materials used in each section of the plane. The pointy part at the back is the only part made of titanium in the whole plane, does anyone have any idea why that would be?
Wow.. this is the missing piece to the puzzle for a project I'm thinking about working on soon. Is this going to be open source?
This page is easy to break, at least using Safari on a Mac. Just pull the top list item, Getting Started, down the screen a little. Now when you try to scroll the gray scroll bar on the right moves but the content doesn't scroll.

Still, this is a very cool piece of JavaScript.
Maybe that means mass deaths or extinction, or maybe the consequences will be manageable.

Levees; lots of them. :P
Every candidate has different additional dimensions. People aren't interchangeable cogs.

Also, life isn't fair. I don't see what fairness has to do with anything.
Dividing unequally != Unequal Distribution.

If some members are contributing much more (in terms of effort, time, cash) then dividing by 6 equally will also mess with morale and effort. This touches in to pg's point about cliffs (which I understand means when you leave, your equity leaves too) and jasonlbaptiste's point about clear roles and responsibilities.

If responsibilities are equal, so too should equity. It's possible to not define equity at this stage so that it can be fairly allocated at a future point based on actual contribution, but that can be messy and time-consuming, which again takes away from speed.
I'm pretty sure people are in fact allowed to bring cameras onto the Apple campus, and, from what I can tell, there are no metal detectors or bag searches of any sort there. My knowledge is secondhand, but I'm inclined to believe that much of this article is BS.
Maybe this is obvious, but in case it's not: For those interested in really studying direct mail tactics, there are lots of books on the subject by experienced practitioners. I read several of them a few years ago; wish I could highlight one or two as a recommendation, but I don't remember.

As noted in some of the other comments, these folks test everything, right down to the color of the envelope and the size of the signature at the bottom of the letter. It's also fascinating to read war stories. IIRC, there's a direct mail letter for Reader's Digest (or some similar publication) that was most effective for decades. They kept testing it against other contenders, but that same letter kept getting results.
Free Wifi at McDonals coming soon
It's widely accepted that the "two men" letter has made huge amounts of money for the Wall Street Journal. Here's some numbers, and the letter:

http://dennyhatch.com/billion/
I bought ACM membership. They never sent me the monthly CACM on time (8 months before receiving 6 issues in a box(!!!) in the mail, then 1 more 3 months later, still missing 5), and they sold my address and now I receive junk mail advertising academic books.

Joining ACM: just a plain bad idea. Only value is older papers not available ungated on citeseer or elsewhere.
Of, of course. He even mentions this in the article.

The "sticking" problem when you drag your finger off the bottom of the screen doesn't happen when you add the app to your home screen and launch it that way (because there's no safari menu at the bottom of the screen, presumably).
That video is ridiculously awesome.
They should start a wacky community-driven site called BoeingBoeing.
Have you read the article describing the problems implicit in SO careers? Also, look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997068 the high post on this thread.
How to measure product/market fit
Those Nazi comparisons sure are so funny.
I don't see what fairness has to do with anything.

Uh, I wouldn't want to work for a company which showed blatant unfairness in its hiring. Similarly, most worthwhile companies don't want to show such unfairness. The companies that are unfair in hiring probably would be unfair in their treatment of employees once they get hired, etc..
C'mon guys, this is the year TWO THOUSAND AND NINE, are you seriously storing plaintext passwords in your DB?

Normally I'm not so hasty to call for head-chopping and head-rolling family fun, but I would think this is entirely called for.
Read about this yesterday. Still can't believe that a web company could get so big without somebody screaming to hash the damn passwords.
Ha-ha, you're right, thanks for the link! I think this is really bad.
The link reads like a joke and you seem to be taking it as fanboyism (word? sp?).
A study put out by the Direct Marketing Association claiming direct marketing works? They're not exactly the most disinterested source.

How about something published in a respectable peer-reviewed journal?
I realize that von Ahn is joking, but this one isn't terribly funny.
Nine Months Later: Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2
In Israel, because there is a fear from terrorists, before you go into any shop, restaurant, mall, or university, your bag is searched (for ~30 seconds) and sometimes a metal detector is used (a hand-held one).
I know nothing about Apple HQ, but it would be trivial to set something like this up.

Unrelated, but they (Gizmodo) shouldn't have used the word 'gestapo' or anything else related to nazis.
Why API Design Matters
Why all the downvotes? It's true. It is easier having to apologise for a bad vendor then for a bad department.

"The vendor has now acknowledged that a portion of the code they provided was indeed copied. This was in clear violation of the vendor’s contract with the MSN China joint venture, and equally inconsistent with Microsoft’s policies respecting intellectual property."

That would have been a lot harder if it had been a Microsoft team.
As much as I'd like to think Apple will officially announce PastryKit at some preview event Q1 2010, it just doesn't seem very Apple-like to do anything at this point that could dilute the ongoing popular attention to the App Store.

Actually, maybe that's it: Perhaps PastryKit was developed originally as a "plan B" in case the App Store didn't take off. Its development probably tracks back to before 2007, when third-party native development was still in question, and was kept in the back pocket as the App Store was launched.

My guess is it will stay a stealth project unless the voice of devs burned by App Store policies becomes too loud and Apple needs to bring out an alternative.
I was going to chastise you for breaking the entire internet by failing to render <PRE> with fixed width fonts, but it looks like the W3C did that in HTML 4.0 when they reduced the fixed width requirement to a "may render in fixed width font".

If you ever see two members of W3C next to each other, please knock their heads together for me.
Or it could be that the old adage that "there's a sucker born every minute" applies not only to the consumers of junk mail, but to its purveyors as well.
Facebook - Forbes India Person of the year?
It doesn't really make any sense, to have Facebook as a choice for the person of the year.

Look at the last second row.
Google Australia: Our views on Mandatory ISP Filtering
Actually I'd prefer to assist a local consultancy, I've been looking at Aqris as they were listed on the grails development firms list and seem like a good place to work, but in the event that I'm unable to find some place to work over there already I can happily live off remote contracted consulting work from existing clients after I leave my full-time position end of January 2010.

Might even give me some time to actually build something of my own if I can outsource the sales / marketing aspects I'm not so hot at.

Time will tell I guess.
I don't know how people who work in large companies expect to have privacy on the company premises anyway: most of those companies make you sign a set of rules that basically says you forfeit your rights. Same concept in the military, you don't have a right to privacy because (they say) it would be to difficult to manage privacy and check for spies at the same time.
That makes sense. At this point, all I want to do is collect stories, to determine if there is widespread evidence of abuse, so it seemed like people would understand a wish to remain temporarily anonymous. That said, my gmail account doth not run over, tho it may be that I just picked a bad day to post this to HN.
Which benchmarks for what?

I'm not being smug, I really want to see some benchmarks that make sense. The only thing I've seen is either "jQuery version x.y.z. is % faster than jQuery version a.b.c." or "jQuery is % faster doing something than Prototype." Yes some of these libraries may be getting less slow, and some of them are less slow at doing certain things than other slow libraries, but the only thing that would make sense is to compare them to hand-written JS and see the trade-off in performance vs code size.

Most jQuery application code I see is just adding layers over the DOM in a way that doesn't provide any extra expressive power or conciseness (frequently the opposite).

Yes, selectors are cool, but only if you need to manipulate a document that's been generated by someone else. If you have control over how you generate HTML, you can actually keep track of your DOM elements in a way that doesn't involve searching at run-time and expresses domain concepts - I mean, imagine this!, actually program normal code.
From what I've heard from a friend who has already moved over there, English is fine for Tallinn (the capital). That said, if I do end up making the move permanent, I'd want to learn the language fluently regardless.
Everything you've just said are claims about the effectiveness of direct marketing. They are not proof that it works.

It would be nice to see some studies in credible peer-reviewed journals about the efficacy of direct marketing at getting consumers to buy their products.

Though, from the quantity of junk mail that I've received, I personally have no doubt as to the efficacy of direct marketers at getting businesses to hire them. But that's a different thing from being effective at getting consumers to buy whatever it is they're selling.
He has a nice line in rhetoric. I especially liked global warming ‘sceptics’ and pointing that a true scientist is always a skeptic (his spelling is legit BTW)
In this case I am willing to extend a little slack. The site design of plurk seems very strange to me, but may be normal in China. Perhaps a Chinese company is better suited to develop a site to be used the Chinese market.
Being able to break it on a Mac isn't really relevant, though, since the only way to access it on a Mac is to deliberately spoof a mobile browser.
Very much like the design tradeoffs Google chose for GWT - with the promise of reducing bugs through static, compile-time type checking. They require an ASP.NET back-end, though, while GWT is independent of the back-end. F# is a much more interesting source language, though.

This reminded me to go check up on Volta, which had promise of bringing this style of development to the .NET world. From the wikipedia page, it disappeared a little over a year ago, however.
I'll be sure to do so, I have found a few already but they're more stream of consciousness than data point based.

http://palun.blogspot.com/

http://utvandrarna.blogspot.com/

http://estoniaonthemap.com/
And it's not just one off-handed comparison - the article goes on and on about it. It really trivializes the hardships of people who couldn't just leave and get another job, and where the stakes involved torture and death.
Fry's. HSC Electronic Supply (www.halted.com). 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. Stanford. Googleplex.
Tell HN: GoDaddy offering domain registrations for $1.17
How we accidentally built a social network by loving the pixel.
Not normally something I'd share, but this is a pretty great deal that I'm sure a lot of you will like.

I just bought a dot com for $1.17 and it worked for me.

Considering the Verisign fees on .com's are $6.49, looks like GoDaddy is taking a loss on this one.
In more sane countries, they expect to have privacy because there are reasonable worker protection laws. Something of this sort would be illegal in most western countries.

As an American that's been in Germany for the last 8 years, it often blows my mind what's actually taken for granted as being acceptable in the US. Searching through employees' mail is illegal here (as would be searching an employee's personal belongings, drug tests, the whole shebang).
Not only that, but people opt to work at Apple, some of them not just in spite of the secrecy but because of it; Apple is super-sensitive because what their people work on tends to really matter in the marketplace.
US Broadband Penetration 2009...Lack of competition = falling behind
Private Share Sales Getting Bigger
Redditors' secret santa project
Its not possible to cover all aspects of a company in a couple of paragraphs, but if you look at the dates - they are entirely consistent with operating as a small company for 2-3 years: security scanner released in 1992, no funding until 1996. As to interest - maybe Hacker News is interested in the early days, but as that kind of thing is covered over and over it is of no interest to me. Thats not what I'm researching.

Second: Most tech companies everywhere go nowhere. What is interesting is that in 1986 there were a lot of computer companies in Atlanta, but only (so far as I can tell) one security startup. ISS made the market hot, and a new cluster formed where there was not one before. As to the idea that work experience at a startup that sells for $1.3 billion has 'nothing to do with' it... I politely disagree. Whether you can draw a security hub in other places - you could NOT draw one in Atlanta before ISS. That is why it interests me - because it is new. As to its importance - I spoke with founders across the cluster, and yours is the first opinion that is so dismissive of ISS.

As to your other comments, I'll just quote me, since you didn't read the article:

"This is an incomplete founder map of security companies in Atlanta. Each link indicates that a founder worked at one company (as employee or founder), then went on to found another company. When 3+ executives came from another company, as in the case of Damballa, I’ve drawn a link and marked it as such. A few nodes are missing founder links, and that means I haven’t found any. Note that if you were to plot links between companies in terms of all employment, boards of directors, boards of advisors and investors, this web is so dense as to be incomprehensible. Also note: When founder paths cross in and out of the cluster, I’ve included the complete path, whether they remained in Atlanta or not. This means that a few of these companies, such as ZScaler, aren’t Atlanta companies, and that a few companies like Starpound, aren’t security companies."

I'm actually particularly interested in offshoots that aren't security companies, as well as flows into this cluster, and so I've included them. And I haven't filtered small/failed startups, because they're still important in showing a vibrant ecosystem.
Sweet . . . I wish I worked on something so important that the secret police would interrogate me about it.