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Title: The availability of highly resourceful and rocking apps at our disposal, has actually revolutionized the world of technology. Upvote:
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Title: Original hosting down, moved to: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ Upvote:
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Title: This is just a concept I made that allows a user to discern whether they have typed a password correctly before submitting. The user never sees their password, but should be able to recognise it's pattern.<p>Thoughts? Upvote:
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Title: "We are proud to present..." the next HN Meetup in Munich. :-)<p>Based on the poll answers (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670514), several emails, and comments with suggestions, we fixed the date, time, and location as follows:<p><pre><code> Date: 15 Mar 2012 (Thu) Time: 18:30 - open-ended Location: Couch Club Klenzestrasse 89 80469 Munich http://www.couch-club.org/ </code></pre> The HN crowd will have the bar to itself until 20:00 when it will be opened to the general public.<p>Skoobe (https://www.skoobe.de/) has generously agreed to underwrite the minimum cover.<p>That means 6m of free pizza for everyone.<p>If you are interested in giving a short talk, please leave a comment or mail me at [email protected].<p>Hope to see you all next week! Upvote:
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Title: [Update] It seems Skrivr has crashed under the HN load. I've thrown up a flat-file version of the article here:<p>http://samuelfine.com/iphone_lessons_learned.html Upvote:
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Title: see page 31 Upvote:
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Title: "Mobile AI robots do all the work autonomously. If they are damaged, they are smart enough to get themselves to a repair shop, where they have complete access to a parts fabricator and all of their internal designs. They can also upgrade their hardware and programming to incorporate new designs, which they can create themselves."<p>Okay it's too soon to talk about self-programmed robots. But I think it could be interesting to think about easier self-programmed things. They may not be too far away from now. Upvote:
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Title: I've got a few ideas and I'm not sure if they'll ever see the light of day. I'm happy to share them with HN in the hopes that you work on them or they help give you other ideas. Some may already exist, and if so, I apologize!<p>Idea #1) A scholarship service/site that doesn't suck<p>You'd think finding scholarships wouldn't be that hard, but you're in for a surprise. My wife is fixing to start graduate studies and I've been pouring over scholarship/fellowship sites for her. I've spent countless hours just looking for ones for her to apply to, and I've visited 20+ scholarship search engines.<p>They're filled to the brim with scam/"you could win $100,000! sweepstakes" type scholarships. They also have tons of extra offers from paid for profit universities. Lastly, they display scholarships that she isn't even qualified for, despite narrowing the filters to ones that she is supposed to be qualified for.<p>I've found different scholarships on each site, so there's not even a single site that has all of the same scholarships on it. I'm starting to wish at this point that there was a paid service that someone could just pay $X for. They'd research for you and send you back a huge list of scholarships that were tailored just for you.<p>For that matter, you'd think there would be a better service out there that would research anything like that. Kind of like Google Answers/MTurk, only for in depth things. For example, maybe I'm interested in opening a bakery and I want someone to do the research for me for all the competitors in the area, what they charge, what they have on the menu, the size of their bakeries, the available properties in the area, the legal requirements of opening a bakery and getting licensed in the city, etc.<p>Idea #2) An expat job site that actually helps you immigrate, aka overseas recruiters<p>I've flirted with the idea of immigrating elsewhere for a while now. But the sheer volume of things you'd have to do just to immigrate is mind boggling, not to mention different for every country. Some professions can help you get a green card in X country, but not Y, etc. I wish there was a site that would be designed for hopeful expats that would connect them with jobs from employers in other countries that hire foreign workers. The site could also guide you through the immigration process, kind of like Legalzoom does for creating a company.<p>Idea #3) Sortfolio for X<p>Sortfolio is a neat tool because it's a great way to browse web designers visually. There's lots of other things that could benefit from having this, like what about Web/Mobile app developers? Videographers? What about a way to browse local/regional bands for weddings/gigs?<p>Idea #4) SponsorMe<p>How many hours in a given week do you spend on Youtube? What about your friends? Tons of Youtube members easily have 10,000+ subscribers. It's true that they can choose to display ads on their videos, but what about cutting youtube out of the equation? If someone has a video series where they review phones, wouldn't it be neat to be able to reach out to the content creators directly and have them mention your app in their video, or wear your company TShirt? American Idol for instance does this with Coke cups drank by the judges (or at least they used to). Think about how much time they get of their product being on screen.<p>The site could basically be a marketplace that lists both youtube members who are willing to take on sponsorships and possibly their rates, as well as companies looking to advertise their products. You could browse by category to find the best people to partner with. The site doesn't have to stop at youtube, as there are also traditional bloggers out there that might be interested.<p>Idea #5) "Beat Mine" restaurant, aka the reddit restaurant<p>A brick and mortar concept for a restaurant. The restaurants menu is driven by the patrons. For example, let's say the restaurant offers a chocolate cake. You try it but you know your homemade chocolate cake is better. You submit the recipe and the restaurant offers it temporarily. If enough patrons vote for it, that chocolate cake takes the place as their chocolate cake. You could offer a tiny percentage of sales of that dish as commission to the recipe submitter. This would provide constant incentive to keep trying to top that item. But who knows, maybe people (and/or the kitchen staff) demand familiarity when they go to restaurants and this would be a horrible failure. Upvote:
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Title: Someone can't handle all those Transfers from Godaddy.<p>ping DNS1.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM - down<p>ping DNS2.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM - down<p>ping DNS3... - down<p>etc...<p>Update: their support rep has confirmed the issue and promises a fix within an hour Upvote:
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Title: I have been meaning to link up my modern warfare 3 account with facebook (new feature) so I could see which of my facebook friends play. Today I finally did it and paid very close attention to the permission I was granting to the game. Call of duty asks for permission to access all your basic info, view your photos, and post to your wall. A bit hefty, but I wanted to see who else was playing modern warfare 3 so I agreed. I was logged in, and when I went to my friends list i was informed it found no results so was pretty much pointless. Immediately I checked my account settings on facebook thinking I would just remove access and forget about the whole thing. I was not so shocked to find that call of duty had allowed itself more access than it asked for. I WAS however shocked that there was another app allowed in the last 24 hours called 'Playstation Network' and it had a pagelong list of access permissions all of which were completely open and I had never been asked to allow that. (I'm pretty sure it just opened up every permission setting possible on facebook) Seriously, check it out yourself if you have the game on ps3. I would take a screenshot but I was so disturbed the first reaction was to of course revoke all access. Obviously any information they could access would have been crawled and indexed in sony's servers in those few minutes, but it was all I could do of course. Has anyone else been disturbed by this? It is particularly ironic that sony not so long ago lost all psn users' personal and financial data to crackers, and now they want to underhandedly grab more of it from our facebook accounts. Please help me bring some attention to this. Upvote:
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Title: In Peter Norvig’s talk The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, he describes a translation algorithm based on Bayes’ theorem. Pick the English word that has the highest posterior probability as the translation. No surprise here. Then he says something curious. Upvote:
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Title: I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to recruit friends of mine to come work with me at my super early startup. In doing so I’ve had to educate a lot of my friends on what it’s like to be at a startup, and why you might want to join one. This post is a summary of all that advice.<p>My hope is that I can inspire more people out there to quit their job at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, The Man, and join a startup :). Upvote:
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Title: PaintCode is a simple vector drawing app that instantly generates resolution-independent Objective-C drawing code for both Mac OS X and iOS.<p>You no longer have to tweak and recompile your drawing code over and over again to achieve the desired result. Upvote:
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Title: EC2 appears to be down (not Heroku, specifically, but EC2). AWS dashboard doesn't yet show this. Upvote:
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Title: Zigfu (YC S11) is happy to announce the commercial launch of our ZDK for Unity3D bindings. Full information is available here:<p>http://zigfu.com/en/zdk/unity3d/<p>A trial version is available with a watermark. You can buy a dev license with your credit card through our site to eliminate the watermark. We are offering developer seats at the totally awesome public-beta-release price of $200 for the .99b version and we are offering free upgrades for all 1.X releases. Site licenses are available and we published our prices on the site.<p>Features:<p>- Compile to Mac, Windows, and Web Player using the Zigfu browser plugin<p>- Compatible with OpenNI/NITE and Microsoft Kinect SDK computer vision libraries<p>- Calibration-free Skeleton Tracking<p>- User selection methods (first user found, hand raise)<p>- point-cloud to particles effects<p>- Hand gesture detectors (push, swipe, steady, wave)<p>- Plenty of Samples Scenes to get started<p>If you have our kinect browser plugin installed (http://zigfu.com), you can try our examples compiled for the Unity3D Web Player up at http://zig.tv/examples<p>FAQ, tutorials and more examples to come. We appreciate your feedback and we look forward to seeing what you make! Upvote:
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Title: I'm trying, but I can't quite wade through the legalese in order to verify what the article is claiming. This crap is worse than perl. Upvote:
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Title: The other day while placing an order through O'Reilly, I inadvertently submitted two orders. When I caught the mistake, O'Reilly had already shipped two identical orders to me. They gave me a full refund, however, instead of making me ship the books back to them the told me to just go ahead and donate them to a school or library. Donating books is way more fun than a trip to USPS. Upvote:
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Title: When you raise angel funding, do founders usually take a salary? If so, what's acceptable? Upvote:
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm a programmer and I'm looking for some recommendations as to what type of Ultra-book I should buy for myself. I use Sabayon Linux (Gentoo based) and I would mainly use an ultra-book for programming and perhaps some light gaming.<p>I'm looking for hardware that is fully supported / compatible on Linux &#38; I'm interested in hearing more about your suggestions.<p>Kindly note that I'm willing to make sacrifices regarding hardware incompatibilities with stuff like fingerprint reader, etc. as long as most stuff works fine on Linux.<p>Also I'm on a limited budget so I would prefer if the ultra-book doesn't come with a high price tag.<p>Thanks. Upvote:
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Title: Likely bowing to public pressure, the F.A.A. has agreed to take a fresh look at the use of e-readers and iPads on planes during taxi, takeoff and landing. Upvote:
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Title: Petition to oppose this clause, India startup envt.<p>Details: http://capitalmind.in/2012/03/angel-investors-beware-funding-startups-could-be-classified-as-income/ Upvote:
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Title: A small demo of the SourceMaps support in Chrome Dev Tools which allows languages which are cross compiled to Javascript (Java, CoffeeScript, Objective-J, ClotureScript, even minified-JS) to be source level debugged in the browser.<p>Firefox will also be sporting support for SourceMaps. Upvote:
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Title: I'm the cofounder of a startup that really needs me right now. I suspect I may be burning out or have already burnt out. Despite things going relatively well, I'm somewhat depressed all the time, easily irritable, resentful of my cofounder and constantly think to myself that I need a break.<p>My work isn't really getting affected (yet?). I've taken half days off before, but they weren't enough.<p>Anyone had the same problem? What did you do about it and what happened afterwards? Thanks. Upvote:
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Title: Inspired by "I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone". My story is about the same. I think I'm at the stage that comes after the burning out.<p>I'm a single, 30yo, systems architect at a quite known and popular Web company (top 30). I also have a strong open-source persona and pretty useful projects out there (overall around 2000 watchers, I guess). HN score of about 1400, all from feedback on projects I've released.<p>I'm the guy who always get a crazy eyebrow raised when people hear I don't have my own start up yet. I get tons of offers from CTOs, CEOs and founders to co-found/participate, and I usually think of the people offering them as misguided and naive. And if we're anonymous, let me throw in that I used to be a hacker, cracker, around 13 years ago, when I was in high school.<p>End background.<p>I find myself waking up at 8:30am, at work at 9:30am, finishing up at 19:30-20:00pm and at home by 21:30pm tops (I'm not living in the US). I still have most of my vacation quota unused. This leaves me with about 3 hours of free time where I do my open source work. Of that I allocate 1 hour to my girlfriend daily. I tried managing my life the traditional ways, and non-traditional ways (kanban). I even tried putting home tasks on a kanban and trying to measure velocity. All to get more time out of a day, more efficiently. I'm constantly in burn-out mode, but I found that I can take it. I become depressed, agonized, my back is killing me (even though I am in top shape -- used to compete athletically) and I cry like a girl alone sometimes. But then I pick myself up and move on; pick a task and do it.<p>Hero? no.<p>I got back to my home town yesterday (writing this hung over). Met my old friends: married + kids, and the sorts. Simple jobs (bus driver, photographer), 0-stress.<p>Where am I? where is the _exquisite_ systems architect? yes, I solve crazy problems (over 100M users), scalability and performance is my motto, but still struggling with a couple hours of free time per day, making my employer's dream come true (On several occasions, I had direct first hand influence on company's success -- i.e. if no me, no success, or at least considerable fiasco).<p>I have no friends (its quite hard to keep in touch when you have a couple hours a day, which you already use up). I barely see my family.<p>I'm not half the man I used to be, before the University-startup-startup-startup-enterprise-startup jobs run.<p>Should I give up everything to be a bus driver, a photographer, and move to a quiet town, leave the city and all of my skills and knowledge? I don't know who I am anymore. That's the question that bothers me.<p>Anyone recognizes this? Upvote:
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>This is our new startup and we would love to hear what you think about it. We are trying to make it super-easy to create a tour for your website -- you can literally create a tour in under a minute.<p>We also show important statistics about your tour so that you can see how your users interact with it and improve it. (Statistics page will be launched very soon.)<p>So what do you think? Upvote:
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Title: I run out reading material pretty quick on HN and then I'm left wondering where I can find submissions just like on HN. Where do you go after you exhaust HN? Upvote:
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Title: Small experiment of visualization of wikipedia articles as a graph using d3.js.&#60;p&#62;Articles with more traffic are bigger. I computed the semantic similarity using LSI with python (gensim) You have to scroll down/right a bit!&#60;p&#62;http://similarityapi.appspot.com/graph/?title=blade%20runner&#60;p&#62;There is also a JSON api: http://similarityapi.appspot.com/api/v1/?limit=100&#38;title=blade%20runner&#60;p&#62;All feedback is appreciated:&#60;p&#62;@lucamartinetti [email protected] Upvote:
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Title: A recruiter's guide on how to get mo' money... Upvote:
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Title: I submitted a link, when someone clicks on it I get an up-vote for this article.<p>I don't want people to misuse this I just want to bring attention to this problem.<p>This is the link I used that up-votes this: http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=3742742&#38;dir=up&#38;whence=%6e%65%77%65%73%74 Upvote:
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Title: From the Boston Python Meetup group last night - @jtauber presented a few different projects, including an Apple ][ emulator in Python! Upvote:
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Title: Demo Day this year is March 27, and we just realized we'll all be too tired to read a lot of applications the next day anyway, so we might as well give everyone another day to work on their application.<p>I'm changing the deadline now in the various places where it appears. Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m throwing a hail mary here - because desperate times call for desperate measures.<p>I have an awesome prototype built that brings an emerging tech to the masses and I think has a good shot at changing the world. YC has expressed interest (got to the interview as solo applicant in the last batch but decided to defer without a co-founder). This idea won&#x27;t be fresh forever (there are others starting to look into it) so I want to move on this asap with the right team. But there is one thing holding me back from knocking this out of the park: I have yet to find the right co-founder.<p>For the past year I&#x27;ve met with 1 or 2 people a week, either by phone or coffee, and despite some close calls that person hasn&#x27;t turned up yet. But I believe they are out there, and I&#x27;m hoping they are reading HN tonight.<p>Getting a &quot;shotgun wedding&quot; is really not ideal, but if you are the the right person then I don&#x27;t care how we meet. I&#x27;m going to improve my chances of finding you any way I can.<p>So what is the idea?<p>Credit card fees are too high. In the next five years merchants are going to start moving away from paying 2.5% plus 30 cents per transaction when fast secure alternatives become available. They&#x27;re going to (at first) offer them at checkout alongside traditional credit card options, and then eventually start incentivising consumers to make the switch. If Amazon has a 5% margin on a $100 text book they aren&#x27;t going to give $2.00 of their $5 to Visa&#x2F;MC forever.<p>The same thing is going to happen in mobile. Your phone is going to become your wallet, and I don&#x27;t think 30 year old credit card technology is going to be powering this new ewallet when someone goes to buy a cup of coffee in 10 years. All solutions today are carrying along the legacy baggage of credit cards.<p>So what will this solution be? It&#x27;s going to be a digital currency, like bitcoin or some derivative of it, running in the cloud with a solid api to build an ecosystem around it. It&#x27;s going to spring up organically in developing countries first I think, or places without stable currencies. If you think bitcoin sucks, this isn&#x27;t really the right place to get into a flame war on it. I&#x27;m making a long term bet here and when it&#x27;s more clear in five years or things have evolved it will be too late to jump on this, so whoever is going to win this needs to start now. Digital currencies show some early promise but are way too difficult to use for normal people (or are proprietary and controlled by one company like facebook credits). To me this is an opportunity, and I&#x27;m in a position to start laying the groundwork for this new platform.<p>Here are some screenshots of the prototype: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;KSKOt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;KSKOt</a> It has basic send&#x2F;receive functionality but is still super early stage.<p>In a few words, this is paypal for bitcoin. The killer app will be in disrupting transaction fees that are a tax on every transaction in our economy.<p>Who do I want to meet?<p>You must be technical, have a passion for this space, and have insane work ethic. This is going to be super fucking hard, but the payoff is that we have a non-zero chance of really changing the world in big way. This isn&#x27;t another photo sharing app. Let me just stress again that you must be a deeply technical builder (I am one too). There is no room for idea people at this stage. I&#x27;m happy to share more of my background if we get in touch. (Edit: I added some of my background below).<p>If interested please send an email to [email protected] And include (1) something awesome you&#x27;ve built (2) why you would be right for this and (3) a phone number and how late I can call you.<p>Even if you aren&#x27;t the right person, please upvote this and help us meet. This post could literally form a company in the next three days. Upvote:
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Title: "I know it's awesome, but the iPad is inherently device meant for consuming, not producing. By getting the iPad you'll spend more time consuming and less time producing."<p>This hit me hard. I met my friend over beers yesterday. Ever since he said this, it clicked, and I've been afraid to use the iPad. I'm considering returning it.<p>I thought back: Shit, he's right. While I've put some books &#38; iTunesU videos, I've barely done anything useful with it.<p>What does YC think? Obviously this clicks more for YC folks than the average consumer.<p>Edit: Of course you <i>can</i> use it for useful things. I’m saying my personal usage so far has been anything but productive. Having the iPad on and NOT using it to browse the web/flipboard/etc is incredibly hard. Something even PG struggles with: www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html Upvote:
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Title: Anytime I come to hackernews, reading about a new startup, a new programming language (e.g. go), or a new concept (e.g. dotsies) to name a few, all i see is negative comments. We got our fair shares of them for our startup too.<p>I came to this conclusion, let me know if it makes any sense.<p>When there is something new, haters comment on it almost immediately. Sometimes, if you look at the time of the entry, you know, it's almost impossible to form any kind of opinion in that little time that the hater hated the whole thing already.<p>Sad part is, (inserting my analysis) if anyone actually has a few good things to say, they pass,<p>1) because then they would also be attacked by the same folks who just hated the original content. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish kind of thing.<p>2) (scientific/logical/rational) quality of hating content is so low (sometimes downright ridiculous), it makes smart ones refuse to take part in such thread. You know this, when that weird dude comments on your facebook status, makes everyone else dissipate.<p>This situation makes hackernews a place where everything is mostly hated, not renowned or embraced. A few years back, hackernews was definitely not a hateboard - it was a great source of high-quality information.<p>These days I come here saying to myself "let's see how much sh*t this will receive on hackernews". It makes me sad, seeing one more platform that I respect, is taken away from me.<p>Do you agree? Or did I happen to see the bad ones? (http://d.pr/1wCv http://d.pr/j614) If yes, how do you think this can change ? Not asking for how we can fight against, "i know it all" guy, "every new thing is worse than what i know" dude; if what I'm saying is true, there are ways that system can fight to balance negatives and positives, maybe like stackoverflow does.<p>What do you think? Upvote:
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Title: I'm looking to try to get to know some writers who cover startups and up-and-coming web applications and tools.<p>I figure that it will be easier to get some traction with the small to medium size blogs because your average Wired or Mashable writer is inundated with emails.<p>What blogs have decent readership but aren't so mainstream that the writers are impossible to reach? Upvote:
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Title: I know this question gets asked every now and again, but the most recent informed thread I found was two years old and, as we all know, things move on.<p>Last time, the answer could be summarized as "Django but ...", with Pylons and Flask getting a good mention. Have these now "overtaken" the incumbent? What about Web2Py? Upvote:
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Title: Not my project, but found this interesting... Upvote:
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Title: We wanted to share one of our favorite moments from some special research we conducted. Watch this video of Steve, who joined us for a drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment outside of our core research efforts, but we think it’s also a promising look at what this kind of technology may one day deliver for society if rigorous technical and safety standards can be met.  Upvote:
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Title: Im curious to know: Which companies are HN users invested in?<p>And if not: Which companies WOULD you invest in? Upvote:
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Title: This is not the first post about Svbtle. It only tries to show how you can easily build the same product in WordPress. Go to GitHub to get this project.<p>THE INTERFACE<p>When I read about Svbtle just seemed to me to write great enter without stop from view. Having a list where these ideas “cooking” and another where the already published is just great. Only someone with experience doing great publications could accomplish this interface.<p>TECHNOLOGY BEHIND<p>Since I did not want to ignore the features already offered by WordPress and reinvent the wheel by creating a login system, writing (drafts and published), optimizations of queries, features that are not visible to the user’s eyes as the cache (WP Super Cache) , pushState (WP History.js) and minimize js and css files (BWP Minify). Upvote:
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Title: Video from the "Go The Fuck Home" Ignite Philly presentation. Upvote:
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Title: Funny story.<p>A web site, you login with google oauth, and after that send invitations to all of your contacts. Including that email accounts that are reserved for monitoring and alert systems. See how my college receive and sms from and alert system and asking to ack the alert "you have and invitation from reference.me" was fun, but not serious.<p>So for your good. Don't even enter this spammers site.<p>And if you do, remember to revoke access from your oauth provider. Upvote:
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Title: I just got an email from Google Plus telling me that I'm in violation of their Naming Policy.<p>Apparently, Google thinks my real name (transliterated from Hebrew) is a nickname. That's also the name, by the way, that appears on my passport.<p>I have no idea why Google thinks 'Or' is that odd of a name (I can't imagine that they took exception to my last name).<p>I've been warned that if I don't appeal the decision within 4 days, my Google Plus account will be suspended. Other than pressing an 'appeal' button of Google Plus, I couldn't find any way to provide 'further information', as requested in their email.<p>Comments: 1. Good work scaring your users, Google. 2. Facebook never had a problem with my name. 3. People at Google really needs to read this : http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ 4. On a further note on 3, Part of my day job is writing software for name identification. Trust me, My name is not all that odd.<p>Or<p>Notes: * Naming policy: http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38;answer=1228271<p>* Google email:<p>Hello,<p>After reviewing your profile, it appears that the name you entered does not comply with the Google+ Names Policy. Please log in to Google+ and visit your profile to learn more and take action.<p>The Names Policy requires that you use the name you are commonly referred to in real life in your profile. Nicknames, previous names, and so on should be entered in the Other Names section of the profile. Profiles are limited to individuals; use Google+ Pages for businesses and other entities.<p>If you do not edit your name to comply with our Names policy or appeal with additional information within four days of receiving this message, your profile will be suspended. While suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile, such as Google+, Buzz, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, like Gmail.<p>The Google+ team. Upvote:
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Title: First article that makes the point. Upvote:
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Title: Lately I've noticed far too many constructive comments that have been downvoted (usually without any explanation). Please stop this. It's okay to have comments that are not in support with the original post or your own thoughts. We don't have to shoot them down.<p>Downvoting is meant as a management tool to filter out comments that negatively impact the community, or ones that provide no substance or insight. Please do not downvote legitimate comments.<p>Thank you. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (April 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783658 Upvote:
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Title: Can you list the essential readings for a self taught programmer - I'm guessing this will include things like Big O, and recursive functions, etc. Upvote:
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Title: I've enjoyed reading these in the past, and I think some folks who have recently built or launched something have enjoyed the brief publicity and chance to get some early feedback.<p>So, If you built or launched something in March, let us know, and maybe even show it off with a link. Upvote:
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Title: I've found myself in this situation more often than not. Due to my own fault of course. But I always ended up relying on others until I caved in, doing jobs that provided me with more money than I need but with no enjoyment and the feeling of unfulfillment, dropping them like I had a choice even if I didn't.<p>I can program, it's what I can do best, it's what's keeping me happy. But without a college degree, experience or a stack of projects in my pocket no one is going to believe me.<p>With all the app hype one could lose himself dreaming about all the money that's in the business.<p>But what real chances are there? What small jobs can one do with the ability to write code but the inability to prove oneself just to keep from starving?<p>Guitarists can busk, drifters could mow the lawn, artists can do caricartures. What can a lone man with a laptop under his arm do? Upvote:
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Title: On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first foray into wearable computing. Upvote:
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Title: I'm looking for ideas to build an MVP and I thought I would hit up the HN community. As developers, entrepreneurs and techies, what service that doesn't exist now would you gladly pay a monthly fee to use if it existed? Or, if it exists, what service would you use if it was cheaper?<p>edit: spelling Upvote:
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Title: HN has always been a great place to get news not being reported elsewhere - but lately I have noticed lots more submissions from standard media sites (at the moment wsj.com, nytimes.com, npr.org, time.com, theatlantic.com are on the front page). Has there been an increase in mainstream news links on HN? Upvote:
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Title: I applied for the current round and will know by next month if I get accepted. What I read are mostly positive, however I'd love to hear your experiences.<p>Are the required events very time consuming? Can you get by easily with the maximum salary you can take? Is it easy to find local talents with good English skills? What's the average salary for an intermediate web developer?<p>Thanks! Upvote:
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Title: Always loved posterous, but I thought it would be really cool if somehow you could treat email addresses like twitter hashtags and usernames.<p>So after 2 days of coding, it's here and works. It's not pretty, but it's really neat &#38; kinda addicting.<p>Anyone can email or text anything to _ _ _ _ _ [email protected] and it immediately creates a public page and an email address. For example, say you wanted to create a page for coding errors called fmlcodesucks, you could just text or email it to [email protected] and it instantly posts your picture to that page and lets anyone contribute by sending pictures to [email protected].<p>This is just an example and you can come up with any name you want, no account registration or any of that BS. Right now we only support pictures, but plan to support other stuff.Would love your feedback and see if you think there are any legs here to keep working on it. Upvote:
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Title: I read most of the time on mobile, i downvote people i intend to upvote and so on.<p>Most of the time i have to unflag links when all i wanted was to go to the fine article.<p>This is duckling infuriating. Upvote:
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Title: Overview of alternative Markets for Android performance based on real world application example. Upvote:
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Title: The link is http://act.demandprogress.org/act/new_sopa/ Upvote:
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Title: several browser, leak vcards and userdata through their autofill feature - i am happy about any support and comments! Upvote:
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Title: We've just launched our new, three-headed API (part of which is an open WebSocket server) and we'd like to thank this community for the all the help, feedback and inspiration. Ducksboard launched as a Show HN and countless hours that should've been dedicated to developing the product went into browsing the site (until we discovered noprocrast, yay!)<p>For the next 24 hours we're giving away free, full-featured plans to everyone with a HN account more than 10 days old, sign up at https://app.ducksboard.com/signup/hn/<p>These plans will always be free, but we can't promise we won't try to upsell you along the way, or add juicy new features and put them in paid-only plans :)<p>If you're curious about the API, the docs are at http://dev.ducksboard.com/ and there's a short blog post about it at http://blog.ducksboard.com/2012/04/introducing-the-ducksboard-api/<p>Thanks, HN! Upvote:
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Title: Watch his reaction! Over $82,000 has been raised for his scholarship fund. Upvote:
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Title: Reporter Rob Schmitz is the Bureau Chief of Marketplace in Shanghai. He is the person who discovered a large portion of Mike Daisey’s accounts about Apple’s Foxconn factories from China. Upvote:
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Title: Not sure if this is something new but I really think this feature is very thoughtful. Great UX. I hope every site will do the same thing. Upvote:
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Title: Site seems to be getting hammered, so here's a direct link to the demo: http://hildr.luminance.org/Lumberjack/Lumberjack.html Upvote:
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Title: See also http://www.chasertv.com/ Upvote:
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Title: I've researched about incorporating in the US, and found Bank account is mandatory. It seems creating a bank account needs physical presence, but, I'd also read there are ways we can open a bank account without need for physical presence.<p>Fellow HNers who have actually done that, please share your experience about opening an account with US Bank, preferably startup friendly bank. Upvote:
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Title: If you are familiar with Django you are familiar with a nice set of template tags called "humanize". In essence it turns data such as "13 April 2012" into "2 days ago" or "1000000000" into "1.0 billion". JS Humanizer is a jQuery counterpart to the Django humanize template tags we wrote and thought that others might find it useful too. Upvote:
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Title: Our mission is to inspire kids to learn how to code. Our plan is to create a nationwide network of volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged 10-11.&#60;p&#62;We're asking interested programmers to teach for an hour a week at their local school using Scratch and lesson plans based on the Scratch curriculum. Lesson plans are currently being created and tested so interested programmers can sign up to hear when they are ready at www.codeclub.org.uk&#60;p&#62;You can follow our progress at www.codeclub.org.uk/blog and follow us on twitter @CodeClub Upvote:
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Title: "On April 16, we'll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View during April 26-30." from apply.html<p>Does anyone know when the invitations go out? I'm super anxious to know. Upvote:
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Title: YC has started sending out invitations for interviews and rejection emails...so check your email and your spam folder.<p>Congratulations to everyone who got invited to interview.<p>And everyone else, remember, YC can help you get to where you want to go faster, but isn't everything. Don't give up and you will make it anyway. Upvote:
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Title: I applied as a solo founder with my project http://www.quipvideo.com, but alas I didn't get an offer for an interview. I think a big part of that is the fact that I don't have a team behind me. I don't know too many other awesome hacker types, but maybe you - failed YC applicant - are such a person, or suffer from the same problem. Perhaps we should get to know each other better?<p>Let's turn this unfortunate news into an opportunity to share ideas, brainstorm and meet like-minded folk. Share your thoughts in the comments. Upvote:
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Title: Some thoughts about the recent redesign of Codecademy's courses page Upvote:
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Title: Hi Guys,<p>after researching how to continuously aggregate and mine our tracking data (200GB and growing fast) for almost a week, I'm still stuck. Is it just me or didn't I just find the right product yet? I must admit that I'm a generalist developer, no DBA - but to me it looks like all the products I've looked into just don't "feel" right. JasperReports, InfiniDB, Pentaho, just to name a few... it's all - how can I say - crusty, unintuitive, 1999. All the products look very corporate, there are basically no howto's, no prices, no shiny, bold Open Source products that fit my bill. I wouldn't even mind using a good commercial product that does what I want, but even the advertisements are "from DBA to DBA". Lots of termdropping like ETLs, M/ROLAP, BI, Case-Based-Reasoning - but nothing that looks reasonably simple and straightforward. Maybe I'm spoiled by the DX (Developer Experience) that Backbone and Rails give me, but is there really nobody that has done something simpler and more straightforward? Like "these are my dimensions, these are my facts - now generate my Cube here so I can go datamining"? Now I know this is a huge field and I might sound naive but I'd like to know if there are others sharing my pain or having something closer to a solution.<p>Some more data: I'm lead architect for a Berlin startup - currently we're storing our data in MySQL but moving to Cassandra soon. I'm open to any technologies that could simplify our lives here.<p>Thanks in advance, Dom Upvote:
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Title: I find myself often texting people, "where are you?" so I wrote this little iPhone app that lets me text them a special link. When they click the link, it uses the HTML5 geolocation API to report their location and shows it on a map.<p>http://whru.at/<p>It's only as accurate as the HTML5 geolocation API, but I've been finding it pretty useful. What do you think? Upvote:
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Title: I run a medium-traffic website that generates about $200-$500 in advertisement revenue every day. Yesterday I came back from a two week vacation to find out that the advertiser code of AdSense was changed to a different account. Then I found out that the domains were transferred away from NameCheap to a Chinese registrar "22.cn". I assume right now this is because somebody found out my NameCheap password through a trojan.<p>Few questions to the HN community: Is there a procedure to retrieve stolen domains? Do I have any way to claim damages or press criminal charges? Is there a law firm that specializes in these kind of litigations? Upvote:
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Title: In a Kafkaesque use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the UK audiobook company, AudioGO, demand the removal of a web site that links to ...nothing. Upvote:
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Title: Twitter Bootstrap is an amazing resource for free baseline styles, interface components and interactions. Are there other companies out there who have released their own version of similar resource? Upvote:
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Title: What it’s like to grow up a non-citizen and have to earn it. Upvote:
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Title: Proposal to make "match" deprecated because it is useless and insecure. Upvote:
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Title: Whenever an Intercom blog post gets to the home page, it lasts about 20 minutes and is then bumped to page 3. I'd love to know why this is happening.<p>These aren't spam posts, they're meaningful content (they have been featured in HN Monthly, NY Times, Daringfireball, etc) An example from 1 hour ago is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3889878 This was #2 on HN and dropped to #87 despite praise on Twitter/FB/and here.<p>I work really hard to create good content that people will enjoy, and I'm sure you've all read at least one of my posts (even previously on contrast.ie) so I'd love to know what's happening.<p>If I'm breaking rules, what are they? If there's a spam filter, why is it flagging them?<p>I'd love to know,<p>Des Upvote:
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Title: This is a spiritual successor to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909. However, I am hoping to just hear from bootstrappers today.<p>Show us what is paying your bills. Inspiration for those that are not there yet. Upvote:
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Title: Just thinking how much fun it would be to have a Kickstarter-like fund but with real equity. Maybe the HN community could pick its own YC applicant each season that gets into YC if the HN community funds it. We could see how valuable the wisdom of the crowd is when it comes to real investing. :) Upvote:
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Title: http://i.imgur.com/ILEyc.jpg<p>While updating our ads today, this is what appeared on the screen. We can't submit an ad that contains airbnb.com. No explanation why. Upvote:
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Title: I need help. I've reached a point where I have several parts of the project that are all interdependent, and it seems nothing can proceed without a huge amount of parallel work.<p>I'm a single tech founder and I feel like I'm going round in circles trying to get through this wall. I'm thinking of trying some freelancers but even the thought of explaining the dependencies is like a heavy weight in itself.<p>It all came to a head today, when I just realised I can't even beak down the next step into small prices because of the dependency. It's getting me down and I've run out of ideas to get me through. It feels like I'm wading through mud, and actually the end is in sight, but it's like looking at the summit of Everest from the ground.<p>Does this make any sense to anyone? Can you help? Upvote:
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Title: This is a notice to fellow HN readers.<p>This morning around 8:00 UTC Nagios alerted me, that the thread count on a number of Apache Tomcat servers I support for a client started to rise dramatically. I've discovered that a library that is part of the application was trying to fetch DTDs like http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd from java.sun.com. The servers are unreachable so each request thread was taking 30+ seconds to time out. I've worked around the problem by putting an iptables rule for 192.9.162.55 port 80, that would reject the request immediately and informed to client to look for a permanent solution.<p>In case the library can't be fixed (I don't know who developed it), I'm planning on putting the relevant DTD files on a local HTTP server and redirect all requests for java.sun.com to that virtual host (eg. through relevant entries in the hosts file).<p>Check your application servers and the software you use if it processes XML documents. One way to check:<p><pre><code> $ netstat -ant | grep -E '192.9.162.55:80[[:space:]]+SYN_SENT' | wc -l 184 $ </code></pre> SYN_SENT is because the 192.9.162.55 (java.sun.com) is not responding ATM. If it becomes reachable again, just s/[[:space::]]+SYN_SENT// .<p>Relevant URLs for more information:<p>http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/<p>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html<p>And a previous discussion here about the same problem:<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094075 Upvote:
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Title: http://giving.github.com<p>A few weeks back, from a conversation around helping make the world a truly better place, we started a site where charities, organizations and those trying to make the world better could ask us programmers for help.<p>The site is hard to establish as those doing meaningful work and in need of our help are sadly unaware of the programming community and spirit. But it has started to attract some requests - issues in github-mapping - that will hopefully propel it forward and serve to raise awareness with the good causes!<p>So go get over there and help code something meaningful!<p>We have to be careful not to spend time making the giving.github.com website and workflow while there are real causes to be helped, but there are some areas on the site that could do with optimising if anyone has any thoughts about it:<p>* how could those of us wanting to be told every time a new issue is raised on the site be kept informed?<p>* how best to track workflow back so that commits in personal forks / repos can appear in the issue?<p>* how to say 'I've read this file and find no obvious bugs' kind of code review in github? Upvote:
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Title: I didn't write it but I thought HNers would be interested.<p>Send praise to https://github.com/kien! Upvote:
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Title: It is frequent usage to see all the .NET Version with it’s features on one page. While surfing on net it is difficult to find or even not a single site provides all version on one plate with features. Following is a try to put all the .NET Framework versions together with other release and features details. Upvote:
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Title: The funny way to know what time it is!! Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (May 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914001 Upvote:
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Title: Hi!<p>My name is Ewout Kleinsmann, a Dutch 24-year old EE student at the University of Twente and co-founder of a Dutch startup. 17 to 20 May me and 45 other EE, CS and AM students will be visiting Berlin.<p>We'd love to visit some startups and hear about you and Berlin as startup hub in general.<p>So, to all the start-ups in Berlin: may we come and visit you in Berlin?<p>Ewout<p>PS. if you have any questions regarding our trip, please do ask :) Upvote:
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Title: EU court of Justice decides: Program language, API free to be reimplemented. Reverse engineering also OK, cannot be stopped by license terms. Interesting when compared to Oracle v Google. Upvote:
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Title: Airbnb signed a 10-year lease for the historic 888 Brannan building. The lease is for over 169,000 square feet, and Airbnb plans to move in by February of next year to accommodate the company's anticipated growth to more than 1,000 employees. Upvote:
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Title: Some company in Argentina ripped off a friend of mine's site, but didn't even bother to host the JS themselves. So he did this. Original site is http://www.socketstudios.com/ Upvote:
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Title: Today I left my position at a tech startup (to join a different tech startup). My former boss and I have some differences of opinion, but I respect him a LOT, and he gave me some parting advice that really stuck with me.<p>He said, "You're going to be successful. You're very good at two things [design and front-end development]. You need to focus on ONE of them, and get from 'very good' to 'excellent'. Then build your career on that."<p>My career thus far (5-6 years) has been based on straddling the fence between the Photoshoppers and the code wranglers, and I'd like to think that I've gotten to where I am because of that mixed skill set. But my boss wasn't the first person to tell me this. I've had people from both camps suggest that I pick one discipline or the other and really become an expert.<p>A couple questions:<p>1) Am I selling myself short by trying to be good at multiple things, when I could be an expert at one? 2) Is it even possible to become truly excellent at more than one thing in one's career?<p>And a bonus question:<p>*) Are there any examples of 'generalists' who have built and/or led successful startups? Upvote:
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Title: Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see how many people here think the simulation theory of the universe is quite probable. If you're not familiar with it, here is a good synopsis: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html Upvote:
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Title: Our product (distilbio.com) is in good enough shape to be exposed to the whole wide world (we think :)) and we'd rather have top rate criticism sooner than later. Is it ok to just cold-mail Techcrunch and others, or is there a better protocol? Comments from fellow HN readers much appreciated. Upvote:
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Title: "Today just feels magical. What a wonderful day." said my fiancé as she walked out the door this afternoon to take our son to her Mother's house.<p>I am a weekend warrior, a wantrapenuer, a dreamer. I am constantly tinkering with a new idea, or an old one. Striving for the piece of mind that I have finished working the equivalent of a life time's worth of work. I'm 2-3 weeks away from my first beta launch.<p>When today began, I was discussing with my girl what we were going to do today. Because she was concerned with me meeting my side project goals for the weekend, she thought it best that she give me a full weekend of free time. I told her that I think we should do something fun today, even if it is just for a few hours. So we did.<p>This morning I went to a coffee shop and banged out code for about 3 hours. I came back and, my son (almost 2) and I, listened to Louie Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra while Maggie got ready for our weekend outing. It was amazing to watch him fall into a trance listening to Louie sing La Vie En Rose. Now we have video of him running around the apartment dancing to Louie, something that I will never forget. We went to market street, shopped, had sushi, and my boy played in the water fountain with other kids from the neighborhood.<p>We came home, William took a nap while his mom and I made a couple jack n' cokes and watched an episode of Shark Tank, drinking and joking the entire time.<p>Some of the most valuable things in life can not be bought. Don't miss out on them or let them slip away because you are distracted. If I had taken up the offer to spend the totality of my weekend coding, these memories would never have happened.<p>If you are like me, striving for more than a paycheck and full belly, I hope you find some time this weekend to create memories that you will never forget, memories that can never be bought.<p>Good luck and best wishes of success to you and your ventures. For me, its time to refill my drink and get back to grinding out the future that my family deserves. Upvote:
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Title: My wife is a stay at home Mom and is bored - unfortunately she doesn't have the best formal education credentials but she is far from stupid. However this does heavily impact her ability to get a job that pays much more than minimum wage, usually labor intensive. She has a herniated bulging disc in her lower back, so I'd prefer her not do a lot of manual labor all day. I wanted to hear from you guys what sort of entrepreneurial endeavors she might embark on with my programming/web expertise and a little bit of cash backing her. The catch is, she needs to be able to do it from home. She doesn't need to get rich - even earning ~$1000/mo would be acceptable as long as the man(woman) hours to money earned ratio is reasonable. Ideas? Upvote:
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