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>>(but don’t worry, it isn’t stored on your device, it’s securely stored in the cloud)

Wow, I thought the decentralized way was better, since it makes it very hard for malicious people to get to a significant amount of info, and keeps the data in your control. It's interesting how the notion of security is being flipped over completely.
Hi Michael,

We are also starting to think that the "real-time" factor may not really appeal to both the retailer and the end-user. We are therefore still hunting for a specific use case or experience that we can focus our product on. We have been seriously considering game mechanics, for example.

I'm keen to learn about your sub-niche suggestions via email.
You are overgeneralizing. Sun's (and Oracle's) main customer base are "people" who use Solaris/Oracle to manage their millions of customers and billions of dollars. They don't want to mess with it, they want support, and will pay for it. The question is, "how much?" -- and Oracle is very good at getting a profitable answer to that question.
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You'd have to be pretty casual not to want a bug tracker - even for completely internal, non-public facing, one dev projects they're invaluable for keeping things straight, tracking todos, etc.

That said, I think there's definitely a use case for some sort of bug tracker/wiki which can be embedded in a repository, a'la Fossil. Perhaps flat files rather than SQLite though, so you can track changes in your repository. Not sure how you'd get changes in though, other than via a pull request.
The Gigantic Sources Of Dissertation Research
Dissertation research is an important element to a well written dissertation. There is a vast amount of sources which can be used when conducting research. Knowing how to differentiate the authentic sources from the non authentic sources will enable you to find right information.
Not free, but I highly recommend "Programming Collective Intelligence" if you are looking for python examples applicable to web applications. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321
They didn't have anything to lose. And if they somehow managed to win, all the better for them.

Just bringing the case is intimidating enough. Even if it's legal, the fact that you might have to go to court to defend yourself will deter some people from filming them.
Bragger!
Good question. The short and unsatisfactory answer is because "that's the way it's done", and any professor who decided to copy someone else's course would face heavy criticism, and neither the students nor the department would feel like they'd be getting their money's worth.

The system could work a different way, but it doesn't, and you can't really get there from here.
And in other news, someone on Hacker News commented that someone who sold out to AOL in 2010 should, perhaps, think a bit before taking a swipe at someone who sold out to Yahoo in the late 90's...
Why don't you ask them for a refund and see what happens?
As pg mentioned above it is better to channel this talent to startup world :)
So you spent $599 or $699 on you iPhone? Odds overwhelmingly say no. And in the end every smartphone costs virtually the same $3000 or so.
Turn off the computer.
Lay the yoga mat out the night before.
When reading stop at the first great idea and do some action toward it.
That's my point, is that in most cases the amount of traffic isn't there to support such an AB test.

It is also very difficult to isolate all other variables in the conversion funnel. For the case of an online software startup with an inside sales team like we have at Central Desktop, it's nearly impossible to say that every signup gets the same sales attention and is pitched in the same way.

Of course every case is different, but I'd argue that most startups don't have the traffic or the ability to isolate ALL potential variables in the conversion funnel.
>Not to get too irate about it but I can't stand when people whine about [...]. If you're going to extol the virtues of being a man, the least you can do is act like one.

I hope you see the irony in complaining about perceived sexism towards females by being sexist towards men.
Look at it from a different angle - how many customers out there require code repositories? Now, let's say you want to have a 20-30 employee company, with a likely $3 million salary overhead and $10-15 Million dollar exit in 5-7 years.

How much do you have to charge per customer to hit that target? Remember, you have to cover Salary + Hosting/Hardware Overhead.

The most likely response would be "Why would someone expect to make that kind of money off of hosting repositories?"

My answer would be "Why would you expect a First Class Entrepreneur / Founding Team to commit their time to a endeavor that didn't have that class of pay out?"
This is BS, we already have 30+% efficient solar cells and 10 times more energy from sunlight would = 3x energy gain.
As a former co-worker of Anthony, I'm so happy the charges have been dropped. You couldn't meet a nicer guy. As much as I'd like to see this case continue to higher courts so it can set a higher precedent, I hope they don't appeal and Anthony can put this behind him.
IMO that screams for more AB testing as there's obviously a disconnect between the homepage and signup pages that should be tested.
You only mentioned "for-profit" companies. If money is the problem, Confluence is free for non-profits:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/licensing.jsp#n...
Maybe. Or maybe the group that did the above site was already around at the time of the Challenger disaster, but half of NASA had never heard of them. From what I've seen in large organizations, it's not unusual for there to be departments doing valuable work that could make the company millions, if only anybody knew they existed, or understood what they were talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if NASA's color site was originally an under-the-radar project done by three guys who just loved color and information design.

I have reactions similar to yours when I think about Microsoft employing Simon Peyton Jones, or the fantastically advanced people working at IBM's Watson research center. They do not represent the Microsoft or IBM I've come to know.
OK, here's one more example of how to write a Fexl combinator. Back in 1924 the great Moses Schönfinkel demonstrated that all computable functions can be defined in terms of just two primitive functions: C (the constant function), and S (the fusion function). So here is the source code for S, the Mother of all functions:

#include "node.h"
#include "type_S.h"

/*
Fusion function (Verschmelzungfunktion)
S x y z = ((x z) (y z))
*/
static void step(void)
{
int f1 = pop();
int f2 = pop();
int f3 = pop();
if (!f3) return;

set_pair(f3, P(R(f1),R(f3)), P(R(f2),R(f3)));
}

int type_S(void)
{
static int node = 0;
if (node == 0) node = new_combinator(step);
return node;
}
What's the advantage over in-person tutoring, dance, music lessons et cetera?

If it's cost, it'd better be significantly cheaper.
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Groupon can be beneficial for some businesses and not so much for others. When restaurants run on Groupon they hardly make money off it. The reason being they have to over staff for the 3000+ people that are going to show up the day after the deal ends. The cost of ingredients equals the value of merchants receivable from Groupon. There is no margin for profit. End of the day if the service is good, new customers will visit that are now willing to pay the whole price. It gets the word out for less known businesses. Takes time but the rewards are fruitful. For other businesses that don't have high costs definitely make good money. It helps people to try out new things. A good example is driving a nascar for an amazing deal.
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Ben Lerer, cofounder of Thrillist, talks about his company's philosophy of e-newsletter subject lines.
They seem to be kind of enterprisey, which kind of makes sense because (a) you can get paid to make enterprisey stuff, and (b) no one likes enterprisey stuff so no one wants to make it without being paid. And usually enterprises ask for terrible features. I just hope Bitbucket doesn't get enterprisey.
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Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and CEO of GitHub, was also an English major.
1. That was actually the result of one of the changes we made. Quite a number of retailers have expressed concerns about how the widget was too "obvious." As per the placement in the demo, we are trying to mimic exactly how it would be shown in their own stores.

2. Our hypothesis has always been that we optimize the sales funnel by giving buying confidence, reassurance, social proof, etc. But having tested it out with several retailers, we don't think that's very much the case. We thought that getting numbers to prove an inaccurate hypothesis would be difficult, thus we are looking for pivot ideas.

3. I think that's a great idea, and I have seen many of my female friends parading their purchases to garner comments. We are afraid, however, that something like that might be too replicable. We aren't sure if retailers would be willing to pay $30/mth (our current price point) vs. pay a one-off however-many-hundred dollars to hire a consultant to build it.
Surround important elements with DOM shielding...
They may prefer that parts of your code not be made publicly available. They may prefer that your code not be encumbered with GPL-like redistribution or reclassification restrictions.
Someone should add touch events so it works on iPad / iPhone.
Thanks for the reply..

I'm in the US..and am a single founder. I figured since I was in the US and since my service is offered over the internet I shouldn't have to do anything special. I just see an opportunity in going beyond the US.

If anyone else knows some solid facts on this I would appreciate it!
Does that mean you were going from hg to git? Any specific reason for that? Any opinion on the two?

(I've been using git for a little bit but wonder if Mercurial could be more powerful but less popular, and that I'd be missing out)
Thank you for the tip. I've always wondered how to make the fonts look engraved on the page.
One could view this as a by-product of the research university vs the teaching university.

A research university is supposed to be a place where experts at the bleeding-edge of their fields congregate. That expertise is expected to trickle down to their undergraduate teaching, and so the argument goes that only they are qualified enough to prepare those courses. I think this is all largely unwritten and largely unsaid, but undergraduates would be pretty unimpressed if they were getting standardized lectures.

A teaching university isn't bound by that sort of expectation, so one could imagine that courses can be more homogenous without penalty. Lots of textbooks provide "sample" slides to use, and if you're teaching out the textbook anyway, you may as well use the slides you're given. Having had no experience at a teaching university, I can't make any claim as to whether this happens with any regularity.
It's not that it's non-deterministic, it's just that, since your javascript interpreter doesn't execute each instance and its event handlers in parallel, each instance will receive slightly different inputs. This is because the number of times each instance's main loop fires before its keyup/down handler gets called will vary.

If you load up, say, 6 instances, hold the up button for a while to get them up to full speed, then turn for 4 or 5 seconds and let go, they'll be a bit divergent, but not too badly. They should all be going roughly the same direction, and wrapping around at roughly the same time.

If you load up 6 instances again, hold the up button for a while, and then turn back and forth very rapidly for a short period of time, they'll be much more divergent.
I'm excited about the number of upvotes for this post about "activity systems." There are a number of excellent concepts/tools in strategy that could help founders assess and develop their start-ups. Anyone have any thoughts on how to best convey these concepts/tools to generate interest and understanding (e.g., book, blog, app, etc.)?
Seriously, 6usd/month gets you an unlimited repositories(up to 2 GB) git/hg/svn on RepositoryHosting.com .
Even New Zealand... E.g. http://www.xero.com/
I'm a fan of Confluence and JIRA from a user perspective, but oh man, they are terrible products to install and administer.

For instance, we're an Atlassian shop through and through; we also use Fisheye, Crucible and Bamboo. As such, we wanted to tie all of these apps up to Atlassian's SSO solution (Crowd). Take a look at the integration guide for JIRA¹. The process can require finding missing JARs, editing Java property files, commenting and uncommenting forests of XML, and then you're still subject to a bunch of arbitrary restrictions around group membership (super fun when paired with AD). The whole thing feels like an afterthought that was never given the respect of a proper feature.

I personally get the impression that Atlassian's product codebases are pretty fragmented as a result of their grow-via-acquisitions strategy. On the front end, the products are good looking and usable. On the back end, things are a mess. Still, it's my job to run the mess, so I'll keep slogging.

¹ http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Cr...
No, you should just point it out.
I didn't write it, Ersek, Laszlo did. That's how sheddingbikes works. Rather than comments, people can send responses as a post and if it's good I post it.

Sadly, it's not frequently that people send in a good response.
Right, thanks for pointing that out. I was actually coming at it from a different angle - Atlassian's support, and the ecosystem (at least in the valley) around confluence, make it (in my opinion, I'm sure others might differ) a better fit for companies that are willing to pay money than a tool like TWiki.

It's not as big a difference today, though, then it was 6 years ago. But, the thing is, Atlassian almost gives away their software (compared to what other companies charge) - so, to some degree, it's almost like comparing two free software packages with each other.

Confluence's real competition is actually sharepoint, more than it is TWiki.
Writing a letter?
An apology to who? I spoke my mind and made what I thought were valid points and I still stand by them. Debian is abusive to developers who create the software they need. It's only a matter of time before the programmers making their supply chain of projects declare enough.

As a good reference for the exact type of behavior I'm talking about, see this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380731

This is what I'm talking about. You can't treat people that way and not expect them to rise up.
I came here just because of that line. How is that any better? "Don't worry, your info won't be securely kept in your phone, instead it'll be saved on the server of some guy you've never met".
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Good idea aresant, as I mentioned, we're actually testing a lot of different variables right now, and one of them is including testimonials to that effect. It's not in the testing queue as yet however, due to limited traffic and an abundance of tests!
I researched it plenty, and since your comment can't point out factual errors in my post, I'll just assume you're a hypocrite.

And yes, they embrace and extend. Embrace is taking the package in the first place. Extend is carving it up and patching it so that other companies that choose Debian are forced to either work around their quirks or accept them. That's the exact classic definition.
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Yeah, we're actually running 3 tests currently, although you probably didn't notice them because they are fairly subtle. We were doing multivariate stuff before, but I think we're going to sticking with simple A/B tests for now due to the limitation of traffic.
Mozilla: No Firefox browser for the iPhone
Why not just a built-in alarm clock in the wrist device?
If you don't have traffic, you don't have traffic.

You don't have to isolate other variables. Just make them randomized, and they become just another factor you don't know that is handled by the statistics.
Telemedicine, decision support and more favorable regulatory environment could be a VERY interesting mix for 2nd / 3rd world (and rural medicine domestically.)
Actually, I really agree with you here. In fact, it got me thinking about sort of a protection clause in licenses along these lines. Where you can say, "This software is BSD licensed, providing you follow the guidelines in the PACKAGING file."

Then, any OS distribution would be required to follow your wishes or not include your software. If you want unit tests, they include them. If you want all of it, or parts of it, they do it. If they don't want to or can't then they don't adopt your project.

I'm currently just figuring out how to word the license that way so it'd still work.
It is indeed. I tested it out by opening this in multiple tabs and switching back and forth:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="sd1"></textarea><br />
<textarea id="sd2" rows="20"></textarea>
<script>
$("#sd1").focus();
$(function() {
$("#sd1").blur(function() {
$("#sd2").val($("#sd2").val() + "\nblur!");
});
$("#sd1").focus(function() {
$("#sd2").val($("#sd2").val() + "\nfocus!");
});
});
</script>
</body></html>
Looking briefly at your pricing plans, and having just done some in person personal training, I would like to have access to a personal training but don't necessarily need that access 24/7. If I could send an e-mail with a 24 hour response time or something with your basic plan that would be perfect.

Other than that it definitely looks good and I think could be a great alternative to spending $75 a session with a personal trainer at the gym.
It is a personal hobby of mine to record cops in the off-chance anything happens. Usually it's stuff like driving on the median to get around a traffic jam (ugh) or parking in front of fire hydrants.

With the proliferation of camera phones, I think the world would be a better place if everyone pulled out cameras and started shooting as a matter of principal. I don't sympathize much with Rodney King, but the LAPD is more civilized (at least in public) since then.
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Cost and convenience were the two main motivations behind PhysicalFix. If you consider that a gym membership can cost anywhere between $20 and $200 per month and a personal trainer can cost between $35 $60 per session, the amount of workouts you get with physical fix would cost you between $440 and $920 whereas physical fix has two tiers priced at $25 and $100 per month.

The other benefit is that you can workout pretty much wherever you can bring a laptop or smartphone at any time you want. You don't have to worry about finding a time that works for both you and your trainer.

I don't see why these same benefits wouldn't apply to other fields as well.
A few issues:

1. Groupon deals aren't only valid for one day, thus the restaurant owner has no idea when people are going to be in the restaurant or not.

2. I reject the notion that I restaurant owner would prefer to serve a full restaurant at half price over a half full restaurant at full price. From my discussions with businesses who use Groupon, they mostly see it as a tool to drive repeat customers not one-time customer volume. Very few restaurants can make ANY money at 50% menu price, much less at 25% menu price (after Groupon takes their cut).

3. I would be willing to bet the 'tipping point' effect of Groupon on the sharing of deals is nearly insignificant. I think a far larger driver of sharing these deals are deals that require multiple individuals to participate. (e.g. I bought a coupon with 15 of my friends to go paintballing in a few weeks)
"Text HAITI to 90999" for business?
I'm interested in setting up a business account to receive money like the text "HAITI" to "90999" campaign to donate $10 to the Red Cross. Does anyone know of such a service for non-charitable donations? The idea is to bill people without access to the internet for a service running on Twilio. Thanks!
And then I have to dig through that folder and find a generic icon just to find the application, and then launch it

Spotlight is your friend. Cmd+Space, first few letters of the app name (first is usually sufficient for new apps) then hit enter. Indexing in OSX is as good as instant, and new apps seem to show up at the top of the results.

Agreed, auto launching with a confirmation dialog would be better, but I find using spotlight preferable to digging about in Applications
Or if they have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear.
# TODO
* add foobar support
* remove baz
* refactor quux to be more QUUUX-compliant

Why use a web interface for what a text file does fine? You aren't sharing with anyone, so you don't need collaboration capabilities.
I've also brought up a counter question that people seem to not be able to answer: How do you get a bad Debian Developer fired?

It seems once they get in they're in for life. Yet, some of the worst DDs who crap on programmers seem to somehow get in charge of projects they actually hate. If they hate it, and they're breaking the software because of this, then why can't I, the original author, get them fired.

At an even simpler level, why can't you report bad DDs and have them reprimanded or taken off the project? That alone would bring out some better responses.
[I was a co-founder and am a primary developer of Kiln.]

Speaking purely for myself, I don't view Bitbucket as a competitor, to be honest. It's a great tool, but serves a very different purpose.

When it comes to social code, Bitbucket's great. It's Mercurial's equivalent to GitHub, and it fills that role awesomely. I have an account on there where I post stuff I want to be public, including some open-source parts of Kiln's source code, such as our new kbfiles extension.

Kiln, on the other hand, is really focused a lot more on making DVCS a really great experience for companies. A lot of the stuff that makes GitHub and Bitbucket great--the whole social experience--kind of gets in the way of just getting stuff done in a corporate environment. You still want the ability to have personal repos and branches and everything, but you also want really tight integration with bug tracking, really easy ways to follow everything going on with a project in the forms of activity feeds and comprehensive search, APIs to manage everything, a really solid code discussion system so that your developers can talk about code and make sure it's really great before it gets integrated, the ability to quickly answer questions like, "What bugs were open in this point release?" and "Have I contacted customers affected by this to let them know it's fixed?" Kiln and FogBugz together provide those things right now.

I'm sure Bitbucket and Jira could provide that functionality eventually, but it's not what they do right now. And I think that's fine: we need a service that provides really great social tools, and Bitbucket's that. And we need a DVCS hosting solution that's awesome for companies, and Kiln's that. Given that something like 90% of developers still use centralized SCMs, there's piles and piles of room for both of us to coexist peacefully.
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Ask HN: Early Hire Offer. Need Help
I have been given an offer at a fairly established startup (~1mil/yr in revenue). The team consists of 7 people: a couple suppport guys, some sales guys, and the guy who did all the dev work who has become the CEO. So basically, I am being brought on to take over current development and all new stuff.

What should I expect in this situation in terms of salary (low/med/high), equity and/or profit sharing?