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mrduncanon How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

In case some weren't aware, Arrington is a Stanford Law School graduate and was previously was a lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington

mrduncanon Not Even In South Park?

What really is a shame is that your comment regarding this submission--which isn't entirely on the mark--is what is at the top of the comments and taking away from the discussion which I am finding (and I'm sure others) very passionate and enlightening.

I completely agree. My only goal was to remind people of the guidelines and get one of the mods to tweak the title, certainly not to overshadow the conversation.

mrduncanon Not Even In South Park?

I haven't read it yet and don't doubt that it's a great op-ed but:

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

From: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mrduncanon That Old College Lie

Also, where exactly does the funding for sports at major Universities come from?

I'm not totally sure (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but here are my best guesses:

- Money for sports complexes, stadiums, etc. mostly comes from donors who want to help make their alma mater more competitive and/or get something named after themselves.

- Conferences and the NCAA pay schools with money from sponsorships, TV contacts, etc.

- Schools are willing to spend some money on sports because it brings exposure to schools. For example, I'd be willing to bet that Butler's applicant pool is much larger next year due to their recent success in the NCAA tournament.

mrduncanon Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestructing email aliases.

Didn't have much time to actually check it out, but the "What is this good for?" link on the front page doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome Dev Channel on Win7).

mrduncanon HW Hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang on The Setup

As far as I'm aware, only mods can edit titles once they're submitted.

mrduncanon The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog

For a little background, John Gruber tweeted "Someone should make a Tumblr site for (and only for) these Steve Jobs email replies." earlier today. It seems a few people have ran with the idea. He's retweeted[1] about 6 of them now, this one seems to be the most complete though.

[1] http://twitter.com/gruber

mrduncanon Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1

There are many good applications written in something other than C, Objective-C, C++ or JavaScript available for iPhone.

Any examples? I'm genuinely curious since I've heard that a few times already today but haven't heard of any specific examples.

mrduncanon Cassandra Explained: An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model

Twissandra is also a good one, it's a simple Twitter clone built on Cassandra - http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra

mrduncanon A Supersonic Jump, From 23 Miles in the Air

The Red Bull Stratos video is pretty cool, especially in HD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGmTV0q2kY

mrduncanon Are You Scrubbing the Twitter Stream on Your Web Site?

A simple way is to create a new element in memory and set it's text property and then retrieve it's html.

Using jQuery:

    $('<div/>').text('A & B').html();  // "A &amp; B"

mrduncanon Apple's Tribute to Jerome B. York

I imagine that they'll get a good amount of press out of this, which will (somewhat) negate their monetary losses here. That said, it's pretty obvious that this is a heartfelt message from the company, props to them for doing what most other companies rarely do and honoring the passing of an influential team member.

mrduncanon Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)

45 degrees Celsius = 113 degrees Fahrenheit

mrduncanon Michael Lewis’s ‘The Big Short’? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead

Here's a link to the actual thesis:

“The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis.” - http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/students/dunlop/2009-CDOme...

mrduncanon Ask HN: Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity

Nifty. One suggestion: let me click on states in the image of the US instead of having to click on the image and then find the state in the list.

mrduncanon Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

Awesome, I had no idea that XKCD encouraged people to do that - major props to them!

mrduncanon Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often.

One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png

mrduncanon Reddit joins Digg, Twitter on Cassandra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(database) has a pretty good overview if you're not familiar with Cassandra.

Cassandra only guarantees eventual consistency where as most RDBMS systems are focused on always showing a consistent view of data. Because of this (and other trade-offs), Cassandra is able to provide much higher IO rates as well as improved fault tolerance and linear scalability.

Twitter, Digg, and Facebook all happen to have usages which fit perfectly with this model. If you see a status update a few seconds (or even minutes) late occasionally it's no big deal. If your bank funds aren't matching for that long, it can be a big deal.

Edit: I just started looking into Cassandra a few days ago so someone please correct me if I've mis-stated anything.

mrduncanon [dead]

Out of curiosity, can you share any more details on your company?

mrduncanon Panic-inspired: Round up of business dashboards

Sounds neat, with a simple API for application specific metrics it could be really useful.

mrduncanon Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

That's always been one of my favorite speeches. I highly recommend it to anyone who's never heard (or seen) it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

mrduncanon Women refuse to go through airport body scanners

I actually noticed signs (at IND) a few days ago saying that the scanners were optional. If you chose not to be scanned, you would get a pat-down instead.

mrduncanon Github: Interesting Repositories

It looks like it is manually curated to me.

If not though, I'd second your interest on how they determine it algorithmically.

mrduncanon How Josh James built Omniture into a powerhouse & sold it to Adobe for $1.8b

So we bought a 10-minute spot for $15,000 at a trade show. We had this sales guy say, "Everyone stand up, because we are going to play rock, paper, scissors. And the winner gets a Hummer. But instead of saying 'rock, paper, scissors,' we're going to say 'Om-ni-ture.' " So you got 1,500 people chanting "Om-ni-ture." Ever since that day, there really haven't been any RFPs that we didn't get an invite to.

Simply brilliant.

mrduncanon Noracle

He was the director of web technologies at Sun, he's also worked on the XML and Atom standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray

According to his website, he is also a member of the Technorati advisory board and a friend of the company, a former advisor and friend of Make Technologies, and a friend of Smallthought Systems; I have an equity interest in all three companies.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Tim

mrduncanon Flight radar - air space above Europe live

Could the circling be due to waiting for landing due to a lot of congestion at the airport? I'm not a pilot so I'm curious how that's normally handled.

mrduncanon Flight radar - air space above Europe live

As a-priori pointed out in another reply:

My guess is that someone forgot to change the flight number on the transponder, so what you're looking at is the path of one plane over a couple flights.

mrduncanon Ex-Googlers have invested in 200 startups since '05 & are just getting started

Ron Conway, one of the Valley's most active angel investors, who has backed 190 companies

Anyone happen to know if that number accurate? It seems like, given the length of time he has been investing, that number would be higher.

mrduncanon The First YC Conference

If you haven't before, make sure you apply for a spot at Startup School (http://startupschool.org/) this year. It's run by YC and open to non-founders.

Edit: This is of course assuming that there will be a Startup School in 2010 since it hasn't been announced that I'm aware of yet.