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currently two other related HTML5 posts that went up over the weekend: HTML5: Over-Hyped or the Next Big Thing? http://bit.ly/beu8pw Video That Plays Everywhere: HTML5 + Flash http://bit.ly/bDRZgU

rockyou is doing quite well- def bigger then Slide. They just signed a 5 yr deal with facebook for using fb credits in all social games http://tcrn.ch/adWPTK

Involver (www.involver) is hiring RoR Developers. They are based in downtown SF and well funded. There is a pretty fat referral bonus so ping me if you apply and we can split the pot if you get hired.

SingleFeed (singlefeed.com) is also hiring RoR developers, they are based in SF as well.

If any front end designers or developers (CSS, HTML, Jquery) are interested in some contract work we have some projects coming up at Webvanta (www.webvanta.com), ping me if your interested.

Contact details in my profile if you have any questions.

The video is written entirely in code, and feeds in content from fans via Twitter. The beginning of the video features words from the song, in which Robyn sings about the various vices that are killing her.

disagree, there are the blatantly obvious reasons as stated in comments above. Women do read tech news sites but I think HN design is more appealing to men. Not the core reason for the audience stat but an aside.

shocking.lol. while def has correlations to the dev/startup community, HN is a very low design site, super info driven, seems like that would appeal more to male demo then female.

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I just saw the "search" link in the footer to google site search, so that works. a rel search box in the main nav would be better though. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com

agree with comments here that this is not real lost revenue - its mostly online window shopping - however on your ecommerce retail site we put flat rate shipping cost on the product page to entice people to buy and give them that crucial info upfront. also there is a typo on the infographic - it says US population is 309.5 Billion : )

growing grapes is easy, but producing an amazing wine is hard, or more in the spirit of HN building a web app is pretty easy but building something people want is hard, I assume the same applies with weed.

It would be pretty lame if the Budweisers and Phillip Morris of the world come in and commoditize Marijuana, and it would put a major dent in some local California economies. But like a fine microbrew or boutique web shop there will always be a market for quality.

Muslims should be offended by both the South Park episode and this continued effort to offend Muslims by drawing offensive pictures of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), precisely because its extremely offensive. Are death threats by rogue terrorist groups or chat room nerds (who knows) wrong, yes, quite simple everyone gets it.

However that does not make dragging this out and going to extremes to further offend a group of people ok. I am Muslim myself, though not devout and lived my my entire life in America (luckily traveled a lot as well). My father converted to Islam so we also don't have a long ancestral/cultural tradition around Islam.

I find South Park utterly offensive and choose not to watch it, whether they are making fun of Jews, or Jesus, or whatever. The big difference here is that Jesus has been depicted in pictures for thousands of years, in churches and everywhere, so a stupid tee shirt with Jesus drinking a beer has somehow become not so terribly offensive in 2010.

In Islam it is Haram(not advised) to create depictions of the Prophet Mohammed (pboh). There are no pictures of any Prophets in Mosques, and just because people of other religions or no religion don't find it offensive does not make it so. Muslims have a very bad image right now so there is an feeling of antagonism in these types of situations. Its all a bit weird, but intelligent people should just respect other peoples differences rather then dictating how and what is viewed as offensive.

recently brought my wifes ipad to a conference and was really stoked to have it versus laptop. got lots of little things done, bu didnt totally zoneout which is easy with the laptop and miss the event, very nice balance, but also a pretty specific use case.

i think this has a lot of potential - many people here have mentioned the pain points of the urban/apartment gardener and you guys seem like a goot fit. Someone mentioned the anti-famville - which I love from a marketing angle. Prepotted ready to go is a bit harder to do but I think that is a killer service for urbanites. I live in the country (Petaluma, Ca) and there is an abundance of amazing nurseries near by so tuning in to the urbanites seems like were you want to go. could be cool to run a few very geo-targeted (one city) adwords campaigns to see if you get some early pickup.

clever - this is the marketing thread that could be very valuable - as a marketing guy I think this is brilliant

this is my new gig, we are launching v2 on Monday. Webvanta is a hosted cms for building powerful websites without the pain of backend code and servers. on the dev side its a rails app.

ha ha april fools

those pictures are creepy and I really dont like the slideshow format (used often in forbes), it takes so much longer to read.

yes so stoked to get the email this morning. thanks guys. now how to hack my way into the presenter parties?

repeatedly mentions that you can publish to twitter, but not from twitter to an fb page, not sure if that would require twitter to build it or some joint effort, but it would really be good if you could add twitter as a tab on a Page and push updates in both directions.

i grabbed this from the app store as soon as I heard it was released. its def a shirt in design and functionality for a iPhone app. While very easy to use I'm still kinda figuring out what its for.

working my regular job and doing a side startup has def made me embrace the night-owl shift. I find that my first hour of night work, say 9-10, is less productive then I'm able to pick up the pace from 10-1, at that point I have to go to sleep or I'm wrecked the next day. Ideally, when I'm able to go 100% on the startup, I would work from 8:30-5:30, come home chill with the fam, then work 9ish-1ish. that way I get 6 hours sleep, have time to hang with kids and still put in a solid 12-13 hours. funny that my dream is to be able to work 13 hours a day, but its really about doing something I love and own, and the crazy hours are a side result.

my apologies for the gender bias, its just that right before i posted the link i sent an email to my wife, mom and mother-in-law to let them know about the article.

Also the article is about some off beat small business using social media to market themselves.

Look mom/wife/mother-in-law we are in the news!

the reporter however never made it back from columbia, where she is now seeking permanent residence

my guess: he was the boss, made it important and just did it. I think its often the mid level managers / engineers at big companies that are pushed and push themselves to work crazy long, life impacting hours.

7pm is a good time, set a limit on the day and you get more done, then hit the all important hustle hours of 9-1am hard and your overall productivity will soar in relation to simply staying at work till all ours of the night.

very timely advice and perspective with fathers day around the corner. two things that really resonate with me (father of two young kids 2 1/2 and 7 months) is the dedicated time between when you get home and when they go to bed. its magical and puts the entire day in perspective when your able to get a few hours to play and read stories to them. The one to one time with wife/spouse is so valuable as well, in all scenarios its becomes very easy to skip that with all the hecticness of raising kids and you running the company.

love the quote about so many SV companies have great bring your pet policies and not bring your kids, so true and weird.

they should partner with YCom or setup a secondary market for folks that didn fit the niche focus of Ycom, so young startups can get cash from a broad community. maybe its a whole separate biz concept loosely modeled after YC and Kiva.

matt, sorry for the misspell, annoying im sure. a young guy indeed.

something buggy going on at inc website, article wont load and now the site wont load at all. the PG effect?