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swapspaceon Google bans tethering app from Android Market

Exactly. There's also slideme.org, an open alternative to android market.

swapspaceon SuperMac War Story 2: Get the Hell Outside the Building

This is part of a great ongoing series by Steve Blank, author of 'The Four Steps to the Epiphany'

swapspaceon STAPLE - An All-or-nothing transform

The wikip page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_or_nothing_transform and the outgoing links are also pretty interesting.

swapspaceon White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code

Just search for the headline on google, and click through that way. No registration.

swapspaceon Ask HN: programming and science related podcasts?

3rding Astronomy cast. This Week in Science: http://www.twis.org

swapspaceon Ask HN: When do you code?

Ya, I think that's what I fear as well. I get into a sort of tunnel vision when I'm focused. Some of my colleagues have mentioned that they have stood at my side for a minute or so(I have a slight reputation ;) ) and I don't feel that there is anybody there. When they finally do tap, it's all the more jarring.

swapspaceon Image Recognition Software Breakthrough

and here are the demo videos: http://www.mobvis.org/downloads.htm

swapspaceon Image Recognition Software Breakthrough

I was searching for the same thing. This came up: http://www.mobvis.org/demos.htm

swapspaceon Ask HN: When do you code?

Same here. Between 11pm - 4am. I'm not sure why, but I just feel much less distracted at night. Maybe it's the feeling that it's calm everywhere or maybe because daytime at office, with low cubicles, is full of noise and movement. Even with my noise-canceling headphones, I can never escape the feeling of movement and noise around me.

Sometimes, I sneak into an empty conference room when I've to really focus during the day.

swapspaceon Ask HN: Need help finding a post

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_be...

The corresponding HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373041

Is this it?

swapspaceon Surprisingly, Younger Users Care More About Privacy

I don't really find it that surprising. I think average privacy concern will be just about same for all age groups. It's just that older users don't feel that online privacy is as important as the real world equivalent. For most that I know, it's not even a consideration.

For younger users, on the other hand, the line between real and online is much more muddled hence the same concerns apply to online data as well.

swapspaceon Superloud Moth Jams Bat Sonar

Another example in which, interestingly, the prey goes silent instead: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060923105230.ht...

swapspaceon Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my little brother?

Python and probably a lot of shell scripting. I like zsh a lot.

swapspaceon Distributed personal wiki - server-free (well, kinda)

Both tiddlywiki and repos are great ideas. This got me thinking of other things which get updated frequently and will be useful to access from multiple locations. Hmm, probably chat logs and vim/other configs.

swapspaceon HN meet-up in Bangalore on Saturday 10th Jan at the Headstart conference?

I'm coming to proto.in as well. Mailed you

swapspaceon Ask HN: Is making clones bad?

It depends on what he means by cloning. Speaking from an Indian perspective, there is a horde of vanilla Indian social networking sites which are just floundering. On the other hand, there is bazee.com, an ebay equivalent which was bought by ebay and is now known as ebay.in. There are other startups similar to US ones in travel, mobile payments and so on, which are doing pretty well.

I guess it's not just about localization in terms of language but also about making related offline services available, which is sometimes not feasible for the original site(s) to do all over the world, at least fast enough.

swapspaceon The Neurogenesis Experiment: Six ways to stimulate neuron growth

On both wikip and google, everything finally seem to point to this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17400186

swapspaceon Typealyzer - Find Your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

HN is ESFJ :)

swapspaceon The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

Apart from HN, another community which has handled trolls quite well is MetaFilter.

An interesting paper on MeFi: http://www.noor.bz/pdf/ali-hasan_metafilter.pdf [pdf] I wonder how much the $5 joining fee is responsible for that.

swapspaceon 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich

How is any idea, that makes money, stupid? It's arguably the best metric for judging an idea/execution.

swapspaceon Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

I don't remember the series clearly, but he comes back much before that future event so he is not really missing at that time.

swapspaceon Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

Don't pretend to do, just do.

swapspaceon Ask YC: Where do you get international startup news?

http://www.killerstartups.com does cover non-US companies in bursts but they go overboard, imho, with what's considered to be a 'startup' so there is a lot of noise there.