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I don't really understand; what's so special about Mailplane? It's just an email client right? What can it do that Mail.app or Outlook hooked up to your gmail account can't?

I must be missing something.
That is quite literally how it works, although most emerging artists (who are serious about their career, and who have a real chance at regional or national prominence) would probably not describe what they're doing as "noble", more like "crazy", but in the understanding that that's also the only path that works for them.

The other option is to have rich parents. Sounds snarky, but it's true. In that case, you also get contacts and an understanding of the social class of most collectors.

(My wife got her MFA from UCLA and shows around LA.)
LaTex does many great things. It's sad that the overwhemling majority of the world chooses to use inferior tools like Word, Google Docs etc. I threw in the towel a long time ago, but still wish I didn't have to.

The worst part is that all the problems that people cite below in Word can be solved relatively easily, but Microsoft doesn't fix them because their customers are too undemanding.
We (Ars) have run our own ad servers in the past. The unfortunate truth is that our own URLs will end up in the various live ad block lists within about 36 hours. People are going to block our ads (deliberately or just because their block list does) either way, despite what they might say about not liking DoubleClick or Flash or wanting text ads or any of the other technical "solutions" they clamor for.

To date, running that post was by far the best thing we've done to counteract ad blockers. We saw a measurable bump in our pageview to ad served ratio, and we sold a ton of subscriptions.
Yeah, this was a result of toying with the data during the last hour to fix some other stuff. Should sort itself out within the hour.
Impolite does not mean irrelevant.

What I'm trying to point out is that there is no sign in what little we know of her biography or in this article that she knows math at this level, the modern math she thinks Carroll is skewering.

Let's put it this way: how certain is anyone here that she understands how quaternions are non-commutative and how that was such a leap from all previous algebra? Such a leap that it took Hamilton years before he made it, such that it is commemorated on the bridge where he first wrote (carved) a solution?

Something I impolitely point out is that all too often I've seen people from "the humanities" make incorrect claims about "us" without any understanding of our work or our culture, which they don't realize is a superset of their's. (And I'm annoyed about all the attention they get in doing this, but I suppose that's obvious.)
This is a great idea having disparate data aggregated in one place would allow data that was collected for one study to be used in unforeseen ways to make entirely new correlations in data.
I used to use LaTeX (with AUCTeX) for writing medium-sized documents. AUCTeX is great, and made typing the required markup very easy.

For a while I tried reading all my docs in pdf instead of html. After that I tried using the various latex-to-html tools, but wasn't really crazy about any of them.

Somewhere along the way I must've gotten lazy or something, and now just use Markdown which works nicely for me.
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I use Pandoc to write most of my assignments in Markdown with a bit of LaTeX, and then convert them to a PDF via LaTeX. It makes doing small papers really quick and easy.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Heh, so #3 is basically using a NoSQL approach with traditional SQL tech?
Not dead now though, which makes me wonder how that's so..
Could just be more and more affiliate marketers are finding Hacker News :)

I'm slowly going back into affiliate marketing and product creation (did it for years, but became a consultant). Scalable income intrigues me (and I'm sure many others), never really liked the whole hours for dollars trade.
Anyone getting stock from a startup should know what percentage of the (fully diluted) company it is.
Different default safe-search settings per region makes total sense as moral sensibilities vary significantly (for example, in parts of Europe, nudity is commonly used in normal advertising, which wouldn't fly in the US), however, what seems offensive with this is that it seems you are not allowed to switch safe search off.

I wonder if disabling such is as simple as switching the region setting or if it's region coded when accessed from those countries.
Advertisement, like any art form, is made of 90% garbage. The difference with all the other art forms is that there is a whole industry that works towards force-feeding the greatest number of people with that the garbage.

A few times I was so disgusted by a movie that I walked out of a theater. I don't have the choice to walk out of most advertising, I don't have a choice which advertising I see in the first place. Most of the ads are in the worst possible taste and dripping with hypocrisy. I guess you get used to it somehow, after all those years. I bet you could get used to eating shit too.
Looks really interesting (and +1 for Haskell). I've used for this purpose Deplate written in Ruby, which has a rich feature set, but is not quite mature, so sometimes you have to go to the source code.
Good point that markets and long term vision are valuable assets in a company, and that the simple idea that one's moral impositions should be considered. However, I'll contend that human rights are about a whole lot more than just morals.
Just posted on Twitter: Final Algorithms is also operating Quantis, Stock Tech and medical devices company BSP
Friendfeed did something similar:

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
iPhone vs Android reminds me a bit of Amiga vs PC.

Having one platform (or a few variants) with well-known hardware/software allowed to focus on the 'real' work on the Amiga, and we saw amazing things despite the lower raw power compared to PC.

In the end thought, PC took over Amiga.

I'm be curious to know how the future will go for both iPhone and Android...
It's been this way for as long as I can remember. I like it. HN is the only place where you can submit something and have it hit the front page in a few minutes. It feels much more "real-time" than something like Digg or even Reddit.

Combine that with the strong spam filtering and fast moderation, and you have a winning formula. If something lame hits the front page, you can expect it will be [dead]ed quick.
That seems a little overly alarmist since it assumes that there is no background check-and-scrub going on.
That's a good exception to the rule, but you have to admit it's not common.

I don't know the context of that source, so I can't make a proper reply to how to work around that. Is it really necessary to put it in the pre-processor? Does it change that often? Perhaps you can script it before pre-processing and compiling. It depends a lot on the design's context, this is probably a bad guess but the point is more often than not there are ways to avoid or minimize macro-hell scenarios, IMHE.
"Then I got an iPhone with a busted screen for $60, enjoyed it for two weeks and decided it was nothing but a toy."

Stopped reading there. Argument is completely invalid.
"... I'm thinking if you even have to say "OpenID provider" you've already lost."

Yeah, I've tried to explain the OpenID idea (just the idea) to people, and I just get crickets.
Using MongoDB also solves this problem, with an arguably cleaner approach.
If you split your PRNG, you can 'tree' it through your algorithm instead of threading it. That should help with lazyness.
Where can I learn more about the mathematics behind this and similar companies?
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his analysis may be acceptable comparing one shot blocker to another, but when analyzing how many points or wins the shot blocker is worth he is missing a HUGE part of the value of a shot blocker.

Pretty much any basketball player or coach will tell you that while a shot blocker may only block a few shots a game (to have 10 in a game is a spectacular performance), often what's even more important is the fear he instills in the opponents when they attempt a shot near the hoop. It usually leads to shots taken at a tougher angle, or with more arc, that ultimately are going to be less successful, on average.

Unfortunately this impact would be very hard to accurately quantify. You could perhaps compare a player or teams average success of a given shot (especially near the basket) against the success of a given shot with the shot blocker on the court. There may not be enough data to do this, and unfortunately this still doesn't accurate gauge the plays when the shot blocker truely affected the shot (if a layup was taken and he was 15 feet away, he most likely had little to no impact on the shooter's decision making (note he still could have some small impact, because players do take more notice of who is around them when taking a shot when a known shotblocker is on the floor. Even if he ends up being farther away, being "in the shooter's head" can affect shots)).

This may also affect the analysis of comparing a shot blocker to another shot blocker, since the overall impact against the opposition that a shot blocker has could vary and be very significant.
Read the essay, he is considering it.

He's been worried about this issue of latent errors for years; I think it was largely his Storage Mojo postings and the papers he brought to my attention in them that got me so interested in ZFS.
Unfortunately, it's not really a missing link. :) First, it's not that easy to run the entire ad server stack for every advertiser. Many want their own DoubleClick tags in regardless of what setup you have, since they're running campaigns on multiple sites and want to track them in the same place. We call these third party ad tags and they cause no end of technical problems, but it's not going to change anytime soon.

Secondly, running your own ad server really just guarantees that your specific ads will end up blocked by the vast majority of people running ad blockers. There is an entire Easylist ruleset specifically for site hosted ads: https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/file/8811cd8afb56/easyli...

The only unblockable way of showing ads to people is by selling sponsored content. It's shady as hell, but many sites do it.

This is why we ran our little experiment to hide content for people using AdBlock Plus on Friday night. We wanted to see how many people noticed (a lot) and we wanted to know how quickly Easylist was updated (about 8 hours).
This question comes up all the time here. There's a very simple answer: Yes. If equity is a significant part of your compensation, you need to be informed of how to value it.

Here are all the caveats and wrinkles I can think of:

* Ownership percentages are deceptive. If you're an employee (meaning: you start with a steady salary), 1% is a big number. With 19 employees preceding you, you're probably not getting 1%. After funding, the founders may be only high single digits themselves.

* 90% of 0 is 0. You need to be asking questions about how equity might become worth something. This isn't as hard a conversation as you may think it is. Startups often sell for rule-of-thumb multiples of revenue. Ask: two years from now, what's the top line revenue of the company going to be? Will the market value the company at 2x that revenue (a consulting company multiple), 4x (a product company), or 8x (a product in a red-hot market)? Take all the numbers you get and work back what the company is saying you might make if the company gets bought, and then scale it by the likelihood that any private company gets bought favorably. Otherwise, all the "percentage" you get is is a point score for your ego.

* (most importantly) Even if you know what the shares are worth today, you don't in fact know anything about what they're worth by the time they become liquid. That's because every single financing event in the company will reallocate ownership. Every round of funding is going to impact them. In extreme but not (unfortunately) rare cases, your shares can be worth nothing even in a tens-of-millions-of-dollars acquisition --- this goes double if you leave the company before the liquidity event. A company with a stock plan and 20 employees has spent a lot of money on legal to ensure that you have no rights.

I just got back from a huge industry convention in San Francisco, and after talking to a lot of friends there, I've come to this conclusion: tech people are unbelievably awful negotiators. Let me make a suggestion. Do what you'd do if you were buying a car. Negotiate the value of the transaction in an objective currency: dollars. Then, when the company tries to "finance" the deal in shares, you at least know the dollar value they're trying to assign to the shares.
Latex is better than its competitors (Word, OpenOffice), but it has its problems. Many of the environments are fragile and not composable. Last night, I was trying to embed a list inside a table.

I had this, and the problem was that the longer item does not wordwrap:

\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
\textbf{Title A} & thing 1 \\
& thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items \\
& thing 3 \\
\hline
\textbf{Title B} & thing 1 \\
& thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items \\
& thing 3 \\
\hline
\textbf{Title C} & thing 1 \\
& thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items \\
& thing 3 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

The items on the right are not a list. However, you can not embed an itemize environment in a tabular environment. Further, this table does no word wrapping. I wanted an itemized, bulleted list on the right, so 30 minutes of Googling and experimenting later, I have a solution using the tabularx package:

\begin{tabularx}{0.9\linewidth}{|l|X|}
\hline
\textbf{Title A} & \begin{itemize}
\item thing 1
\item thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items
\item thing 3
\end{itemize} \\
\hline
\textbf{Title B} & \begin{itemize}
\item thing 1
\item thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items
\item thing 3
\end{itemize} \\
\hline
\textbf{Title C} & \begin{itemize}
\item thing 1
\item thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items
\item thing 3
\end{itemize} \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}

This does as advertised. I get a word wrapped, bulleted list on the right. It's also fugly. The spacing of the list is atrocious. It's not fit for a professional publication. Eventually, I end up rolling my own bulleted list:

\begin{tabularx}{0.9\linewidth}{|l|X|}
\hline
\textbf{Title A} &
$\bullet$ thing 1 \newline
$\bullet$ thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items \newline
$\bullet$ thing 3 \newline
\hline
\textbf{Title B} &
$\bullet$ thing 1 \newline
$\bullet$ thing 2, but it's much longer than the other items \newline
$\bullet$ thing 3 \newline
\hline
\textbf{Title C} &
$\bullet$ thing 1 \newline
$\bullet$ thing 2, but it's much longer than the other itmes \newline
$\bullet$ thing 3 \newline
\hline
\end{tabularx}

Finally, this looks okay. But the road it took to get here is ridiculous, and the solution I came up with is silly. (Also note that I had to use \newline, because the end paragraph maker, \\, would screw up the table.)

In the end, I like Latex. It is, as I said, better than the alternatives. When what you want to do fits exactly into what's provided, it's fine. But when you hit edge cases, abstractions leak and you can sink hours into fixing things. I would love there to be a version of Latex that was not fragile like this.
Yes. Though you get a lot of packages in that 750MB. And editing your code (as opposed to compiling) is a 'light' operation.
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Aren't all palm phones potential dev phones? I recall you just have to do a konami style code to flip it into dev mode (it's described in the palm sdk)
It happened to me before that some stories only with two votes go to the front page but I think it's based on time, the longer the article spends on new stories more difficult it goes to front page. I'm note sure if the Karma has any influence on this.

Anyway I'm pretty happy how HN sorting algorithm works, meaning even with two votes you can go to the front page if it's quality article will remain on front page otherwise you are going to the second page.

This is smart system because every article has a chance to go to the front page and on the front page the "human factor" who will decide the destiny of an article. Not like many other sites that you need "million" votes to go to the front page meaning quality stories can be lost because people visiting the front page is much greater than people visiting upcoming articles page.
Item 4 makes item 2 harder to achieve - less relevance per unit of effort.
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Because we want writers to have as little knowledge of ad campaigns as possible. We cover relatively negative news about the vast majority of companies that advertise on Ars. Breaking that firewall leads to bad things. Often very bad things.

It's hard enough when companies try and bully us by restricting access since they're not really happy with our coverage. At least then we're not implicitly encouraging authors to mind their tongues. :)
This was exacerbated by the fact he was using very low level interfaces which were likely not consistent among models.

Android is a tough platform to target, as its basically 8 platforms or so currently with differing OS versions and screen sizes.
Flash MiniBuilder is an IDE for writing AS3 written in AS3
Start with Stochastic Calculus for Finance I & II by Shreve. It starts of with a binomial, discrete time, model and builds up to the BSM model in continuous time and more, but really what you need is the math it teaches, not necessarily any specific model. This is the first book you would study in mathematical finance. Here's a free textbook pdf on stochastic calculus/ SDEs, just to give you an example of what you're looking at http://math.berkeley.edu/~evans/SDE.course.pdf . I can give more recs if interested as I'm currently getting a masters in math, concentrating on mathematical finance.
You should know at minimum the current value of the shares (i.e. last funding round price) and the number of shares + options outstanding.

Options are also horrible - unless you have some agreement which allows you to exercise them upon a liquidity event (i.e. buy-out, IPO). Get shares vs. options when given a chance.
Facebook has a procedure for handling this problem, and it seems as if they recommend that website owner's follow it.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Reclaiming_Acc...

http://grab.by/2Tn6
Should, but often doesn't.
As a Brazilian, I consider very offensive the american difference between Hispanic and White. Were iberian europeans somehow lesser than north europeans?

No matter the answer, non-hispanic whites are ignored and the term is now used to designate people from latin countries - I, myself, being the product of german and italian "whites", have been called hispanic more than once.
I've never even heard of an employee managing to negotiate the structure of their equity grant. It's not unusual for your hiring manager --- even if they're a founder --- to have their hands tied on the number of shares you're getting, let alone the vesting or the vehicle; those are board decisions.

Shares vs. options may also not be a meaningful distinction. Any equity plan that has seen a lawyer has been scrubbed so that employees have no rights. If you "own" shares in a funded company, the odds are strong that they can be taken back from you (or devalued totally) at the whim of the board.

The place where the company probably has the most negotiating flexibility is US dollars. Employees get hired for wildly different salaries. Don't waste time bickering about options vs. shares: spend your time getting the dollar number up.
American ethnicity categories don't make much sense even in the US.

Agreed. The United States Census Bureau itself says "These categories are sociopolitical constructs and should not be interpreted as being scientific or anthropological in nature."

I hear that all Brazilians are considered "hispanic" there, even though Brazilians don't speak Spanish

Not by the federal definitions.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/85867...

There is a college recruitment and scholarship program for Hispanic youth that includes Brazilians, but usually the "Hispanic or Latino" ethnicity term only includes people with cultural ties to Spain. See the linked thread for a link to the full definition and more FAQs about the issue of Hispanic ethnicity.
Why not go with LaTeX? LaTeX can make tables, and can embed graphics made in other programs.

I make graphics using R (r-project.org), save as PDF, and embed them in my documents. This makes sense, because R also generates the numbers behind the graphs, and it leaves me with PDFs that can also go directly into presentations and web pages.

LaTeX has packages for making drawings, but it doesn't shine there compared to other tools.
It can use Gmail's search features. (IMAP doesn't do that nearly as well.)
But patents themselves may be the best way to level the playing field for newcomerts. The Mises article makes the case for patents being "unnecessary evils, the relics of an earlier time", but they don't make the case for the flip side.

Take the story of Robert Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54564-2005Feb...). Granted, it took a while for him to get a just resolution, but think about what would've happened if patents had been considered an "unnecessary evil" and he had been unable to get one. Not only would he have not gotten any reward for his creativity, but he likely wouldn't have even met with the automakers. And why would he bother tinkering for years to make these wipers when the automakers could just dismantle one, and use their greater resources to copy it?

There are a lot of problems with the current patent system, but it should still exist in some form.
"I pay you $400" suggests that he gets paid immediately, regardless, then gets $400 in ad revenue ( if any ), the the poster is left with the site and any further ad revenue.

Which sounds a lot better than your interpretation.
You may have been alluding to this but all phones should/could be 2.1 OS in the future:

http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/all-u-s-android-phones-...
I consider very offensive the american difference between Hispanic and White.

Reading the official United States federal definitions

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/85867...

carefully will show that the Hispanic category is an "ethnicity" category, the only ethnicity category in the federal classification scheme, and "People who identify their origin as Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino may be of any race" by the federal definitions. (In the federal definitions, Brazilian people are not included in the Hispanic or Latino ethnicity category anyway.)
20% of the DAX, and only 100M in profits? I call total bullshit.

"Financial Algorithms that aparently are able to ‘beat the market’." Right. Until it blows up.

To use my English vernacular, what a load of bollocks.
I think books are a separate model all together from anything we see on the Internet today. I'm not aware of any "publish once a year" websites where they push out 200+ pages of content. I think books will translate from paper to electronic as a publishing method but I don't believe we'll end up with books as a website.
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I would also look at natural language processing (better domain-specific and realtime search engines being a prominent subset) and computer vision/image processing as areas with huge upside.
How is it condescending to choose to not censor content? If someone is averse to specific content, then they shouldn't search for it. Easy as that. They're able to make decisions for themselves.