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The Wikipedia page for the book lists an online copy and a PDF download that are both formatted nicely with just the text and no distracting graphics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Advertising
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It makes much more sense now! Thanks Jan. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the released content. Events like this are really important, and it's a shame that we can't all make it out to all of them.
It's nice that the app seems you promising but imho there are thousands of apps which are just rolling in the sand, no meaning of their development but on the other hand lots of apps are there developed with really nice idea in mind, which created their own niche. So imho be assure that the app belongs to the category that do create its own niche.
and as other comments there are appreciable too.
I guess the motivation behind the journal mentioned in the article.

He chose to publish one paper, fittingly, in the online journal PLoS Medicine, which is committed to running any methodologically sound article without regard to how “interesting” the results may be.

edit: though looking at the site, it doesn't seem to present itself with that motivation. It also costs $2900 to publish an article, so there's some financial hurdle to publishing.
Notice how the focus was on the benefits the product brought to the end user and the industry, not on how it actually worked.

Technical people tend to get this wrong with pitches that are all about the "how", when they should be about the "why".

We hackers tend to love the details of how something works. Regular people just care about the benefits that a black box brings to them.
In yesterday's conviction of the Norweigan traders, the prosecution said the pair had given "false and misleading signals about supply, demand and prices" when they manipulated several Norwegian stocks through Timber Hill’s online trading platform. Anders Brosveet, the lawyer for Veiby, admitted that his client had learnt how the Timber Hill trading algorithm would behave in response to certain trades. However, he denied this amounted to "market manipulation".

Brosveet told the Financial Times, They had an idea of how the computer would change the prices but that does not make them responsible for what the computer did.

- Apparently it is ok for the computer to poll for supply, demand and prices.. but it's illegal for traders to do it. The last time I checked it is a free market out there, I guess I missed out on the fine prints.
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Sure, and I did mention command line utilities. The issue I see with the benchmark is that it compares apples and oranges. For some programs it tests JIT performance and for others it tests startup time. If I want to test startup time, I just use a hello world program. To test JIT/interpreter performance, I try to exclude startup time.
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Having visited some offices and friends homes, most of them use the computer to browse the web, watch videos, play games and also use Office.

I don't think Win 1.0 can run Pro 9 or play a HD movie. I don't think also that $50 hardware at enough to open 3/4 browsing tabs.
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The critical thing about have open and public pay scales is that it incentivises people to make the team better - not make themselves relatively better by hoarding information.

I worked at a big corporate which had a culture of individual bonuses and it was a shambles. All employees ended up being 'above average' and the bonus pool was shared out on a 'project managers pet' basis which sunk any business improvement techniques or any 'pay now, save later' which are the meat and drink of cost improvement.
Do you know what happened to e-gold ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold#2008_court_trial ) and e-bullion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Bullion#2008_murder_of_e-Bull... ) owners?

Unfortunately, US government doesn't like private currencies.
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Medical research is mostly paid by the pharma industry; this industry as a whole is NOT interested in preventing people from getting ill, for obvious reasons. Another nice example of market failure :)
Http://worldnews.psctube.com/nc-patrol-4-people-killed-in-wreck-on-wet-road-ap/
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I mean, the ad wasn't particularly bad IMO, I'd be willing to say the vast majority of software job adverts are just not good.

It was certainly near the top of the curve :)
This is a good summary, and I agree that NeXT contributed a lot to what Apple is today.

I don't understand your final sentence though... To whom are you referring when you say "They switched from being a H/w S/w company to a S/w company" ?

I thought that both NeXT and Apple continued to produce their own machines and software.
Microsoft justifies this by saying "Notepad is for notes" (in the same way that a Stickies dashboard widget is.) That is, Notepad is "Microsoft OneNote Extra-Lite," in the same way that Wordpad is "Microsoft Word Extra-Lite." Hackers think Notepad is actually "Visual Studio Extra-Lite," but it's not, and it's not trying to be. I think everyone would be happier with debugging and automating a default Windows install if Microsoft just shipped a SciTE-like accessory separately from Notepad, and defaulted .ini files and such to opening in it.
I am 110% locked into GAE with a start up in the legal services space. And I couldn't be happier. For needs that cannot be satisfied by GAE, our app spins EC2 instances up and down as required (from GAE).

For me, the numerous benefits of the platform outweigh the lock-in risk by a large margin.
Maemo is missing.
Wow, Trinity is impossible to search for. May I have a link, sir?
Say the option pool is worth $21.5 million for a $215 million exit (it'll presumably be worth less than this but assume that cancels out that the pool may be larger than 10%).

Assume that half the pool is given to the first ten employees - so that's about $1 million each.

I know people in the software field who have "regular jobs" and earn ~$200K and have been for many years.

So I would perhaps disagree with the assertion that being an employee in a successful startup means that you will make "far more" than is possible in a "regular job".

Now this isn't to say that the startup would be a much more interesting experience - but in purely financial terms the rewards of a high earning "regular job" are comparable (and that is ignoring the risk profile of startups).
There are a bunch of ways to prove this. Let's start with addition, subtraction, equality being commutative, that a + 0 = a, and that a - a = 0

Suppose that d != a - b + c. Since a = b, a - b = 0. This implies d != c. This is a contradiction, so our supposition is inaccurate. d = a - b + c

Now, suppose a + c != b + d. Plug in what we just learned. a + c != b + a - b + c. The b's cancel, leaving another contradiction. Thus, supposition inaccurate, so a + c = b + d. QED
Hello world programs only ever rely on the bare runtime, though; real utilities have to load libraries after the runtime loads, which incurs further delays (which might depend on JITing/interpreting speed if they're not pre-compiled.)
Feels like they are holding aspects of the site hostage - only released if you give up more privacy. I am simply not comfortable being forced to give up my privacy in order to use aspects of the site. Would rather pay - to maintain privacy.
Lack of concern over 'user privacy' was the primary reason I quit Facebook. If the average person really knew what was going on in the back room connecting all their data - without their knowledge or approval - they would be astonished.
Ok, you've got a point there about separating the things that are measured.
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GEM was still so superior.

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

If ever there was a good lesson it's this - DRDos was lighyears ahead, and far superior to MSDos. GEM was ridiculously more advanced than Windows, yet they lost. Having the better product doesn't always translate to winning.

Of course things like this helped MS:

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

(MS put some code in place to detect DR-DOS and make things not work properly).

"Microsoft Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg later sent another memo, stating: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS."

It'd be great to see a movie made of this period of time when MS were engaging in so many dirty tricks.
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Ask HN: To merge or not to merge (small business)
ASK HN:

I'm a fairly successful small business owner working with large media companies helping them with performance and development process work as well as building websites. I have nearshore freelance staff working with me in Eastern Europe for site builds e.t.c. However I am essentially a one man shop.

Lately I've been talking to two other small business (one man and a two man) about us merging so we can "get bigger jobs".

It seems like we fit well but I can't get rid of one nagging feeling that it isn't quite right. I'm not sure whether it is the control freak in me or some form of risk aversion. We tend to procrastinate over the smallest of things like whether to open a bank account with HSBC or Natwest and whether the geographic location of our accountant matters. All of these things I hardly think matter at all. If a company doesn't hire you based on where your accountant is then you probably didn't want to work with them anyway.

The other business owners are known in our shared community. This is how I met them. I even said up front to them that we should work together up front before forming a company on a trial project where we bid as three companies. They weren't too interested in this as they immediately wanted to start building up a business history.

I think the chances of earning higher and more frequently are available and we want to build products as well as sell our services.

A part of me feels like we are just merging not to solve a problem but instead to make our lives easier, which it would, which is a big consideration. The other guys are very professional and I am sure that when working together it would be fine. Am I just worried? One thing I heard again recently was the advice on hiring. "If there is any doubt then it is a no" Does that apply to business partners?

Has anyone done this with good or bad results? Any advice?
"I have never seen a software invention that is foundational in that way. Much more often, I see cases where a naïve patent examiner is hoodwinked into approving a patent on the software equivalent of the word “the” and when the patent later falls into the hand of a troll, it becomes the platform to systematically extort as broad a segment of the market as they can."

I wonder what the US Patent Office thinks of all this?
Not being able to get another loan when you need it?
Possibly need it much, much more than your current one?
Agreed. Having done it it is entirely possible to live on minimum wage quite comfortably.

The problem is consumerism, and the real problem is people desperate for stuff they can't really afford (like, a big TV) and not accepting they simply cannot afford it.

This sucks, ideally everyone should have what they want.

But life is unfair, and for most it just does not work out.
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It's not too bad, I just thought you'd like to know why you were getting the downvotes :)
i-tunes seemingly has to have a new update and install every time I open it, so I'd question how much "perfection" goes into the releases of Appl software.
I should mention that I've created a fake account for this as my potential cofounders read HN.
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Windows Write and Windows Paint were included as part of an introductory special offer? Wonder if that makes their modern incarnations, WordPad and Paint, the longest running special introductory offers ever?

At any rate, on very interesting part of the document was that it emphasized that it was created on Windows Write. Often I open promotional PDFs for Office 2010, iWork, and more just to look at the properties, and usually they're created in Adobe InDesign, not the program they're promoting. Would make more sense to show you're "eating your own dog food" and make your promotional materials in your own program as they did here.
Unfortunately it is scraped from various sources on the web so it cannot be used commercially
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In addition to what fauigerzigerk said, if you run a lot of command line utilities where startup time is relevant, there are established solutions to that (nailgun for example) so it still isn't a fair comparison. If you want a comparison of state of the art solutions, which this post obviously is, put nailgun into the mix.
I don't think UserAgent reporting is even remotely reliable. Is there an alternative way to detect browsers?
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And contrary to the usual simplified narrative,
Apple was quite successful with Scully running it

From article I got an impression that these were benefits of Jobs' "methodology".
I've often wondered how long it will be before TV companies edit the video of sporting events to replace the adverts in the stadium with different ones they've sold themselves. Given the adverts are in fixed places it would be easy to do you'd think.
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I too feel that the Loser-pays scenario is much better. This leads to all parties trying to amicably solving the issue before going to court. Here in Germany, the person suing needs to send a minimum number of warnings before taking the case to court. This provides the defendant with a chance to pay off if he in the wrong, instead of having to go to court and paying the additional lawyer fees for both parties.
> LuaJIT is a nigh untouchable work of art, we might never see a faster dynamic language JIT.

Well Mike Pall disagrees in that he says there are still a lot of possible optimizations. Also all the process of by hand optimization for specific architecture can theoretically be automatized and decoupled. You're totally right about Python complexity though.
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besides Adwords, twitter ,adWords, goog trends to put numbers on potential users/buyers/revenue (these are from searching HN on "market size":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454221

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476197

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581008
You call it micromanagement, I call him having high standards. I don't think he acts any different now: all the designs and advertising has to be approved by him, design report directly to CEO, other stuff gets delegated.
As for the large picture, I think Jobs gets it much better than most of other CEOs.
That's really nice for PyPy. Although Eulers are mainly numerical tests. Most of the work done in many programmers "real world" are work on strings, which CPython is very good at since all its strings libs are implemented in C. So i'd like to see a comparison with a better benchmark i guess :)
> One thing I heard again recently was the advice on hiring. "If there is any doubt then it is a no" Does that apply to business partners?

I'd say that applies x10 for business partners. You need an immense amount of trust in the person(s) you go into business with.
Here's another idea, for what it's worth: a home router that would also filter out ads and act as an antivirus. I would pay good money for this.

At my home there are not less than 6 computers, each with two-to-three browsers that need an ad blocker, and all running some kind of anti-virus software (except the two macs).

I understand incumbent anti-virus companies would rather sell me the same product four times, but there could be a disruptive startup selling the router...

And ad-blocking software is currently free, but I think people would actually pay for an ad-blocking (physical) device. I would.
I suggest exporting to PDF when you want to show someone your document. They need not know you were using Open Office.
I'm having trouble parsing that.
It's like you went bezerk on reading the word "evil".

Maybe you haven't realized it, but when 2 people get connected on Facebook, that's public knowledge already that can be crawled.

If you're going to the normal route of getting your app integrated with Facebook, at least you're informing users that you need that access, and you also give them the option of blocking your app later.

If that's evil, then I'm all for evil ;)
Oh... so this guy basically patented the evil method of associating registration code with specific hardware configuration. But he should have used it for good and sayd: "No Microsoft, I will not allow you to use this technology at all."

IMHO it would be a good idea to patent all evil business practices and then disallow companies to use them :)
Alright, point taken. A valid remark.
I guess advertising agencies do not code Office or iWork, so they are not able to eat their own dog food. On the other hand, Keynote is aptly named :)
They tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump which is illegal.
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Do you realize that spamming your website on HN won't give you a good first impression?
schedule a interview with a company you don't really want a job ahead of the interview with the company you do want a job from as a practice interview.
I've noticed exactly 3 things since Ubuntu's Open Office updated to Oracle's version:

* It's about half as fast as it used to be.

* "Oracle" logo on the splash screen (which remains on the screen for twice as long)

* A message box that says "General error" any time I open a document. I kid you not: http://www.superjoesoftware.com/temp/general-error.png. Note that after I hit OK the document opens fine.
I really do think that this was said in jest, as a sort of bragging joke between two friends,not a serious attempt at getting his friend to purchase personal data.

It seems to me that Zuckerberg has a very dry sense of humour.
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Actually there is already a tool for enhancing anatomical features: "MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos",
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/MovieReshape/
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Being prepared for an interruption does not mean paying attention to your surroundings or actively seeking distraction (e.g. checking email). The problem here is that even if you've made an attempt to block everything out but have not prepared yourself for an interruption, it still may happen and will severely hurt your productivity when you try to return to what you were doing. Keeping even very informal todo lists (e.g. comments in code, todo.txt) helps greatly when you need to quickly restore your context. Even if an interruption does not happen they give you a sense of direction and you can also use them to prepare future contexts for exploring ideas you came up with while working on the current task.
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because in theory, the private key that was stored on that trusted instance could have been stolen ready to be used to impersonate that machine later on.
That is a brilliant analogy with TV and channels! I'm going to use it.
It's actually worse than that, if a lot of studies are being done:

Let's say that you only publish when you discover an effect with a p-value of better than 0.05 -- that is, when you believe that, if the effect weren't real, then the probability of observing an effect at least as extreme as the one you got has less than a 5% chance of happening. This is pretty typical.

Let's also say that you and 19 other groups are studying an effect that isn't real: the hypothesis that meditating on pink unicorns will get rid of skin cancer.

By (perfectly reasonable) chance, 19 of your studies reject the Pink Unicorn Hypothesis with p-value = 0.05, and one accepts it -- i.e., one group gets a result that should have happened 1/20 times or less if there is no Pink Unicorn effect.

Since the first 19 groups are silent, and only one group publishes, the only thing we see is the exciting announcement of a possible new skin cancer cure, with no hope for a meta-study that notices that this actually the expected result given the null hypothesis.

So yeah. That's bad.
There's also an iPhone app for interfacing with Org-Mode, MobileOrg:
http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/

Note: Unfortunately, the Dropbox integration is currently kinda borked, sometimes displaying the password in the clear, or with connection failures.
So am I to take from that sentence that you think I am entering into this wrongly?
Why? It's superb. It's available to nearly everyone with a web browser, easy to pick up and learn (deceptively so), and allows you to do things with webpages that would be impossible otherwise.

Yes, it has flaws, and lots of people use it without really understanding how it works / best practices etc, but purely for it's accessibility and ubiquity, coupled with its charming quirks and idiosyncracies, I think it's great.

It baffles my mind that more people don't appreciate Javascript for the lovely little scripting language that it is.
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projects and track bugs, tasks, feature requests very easy because of its clean and user-friendly interface. The essential part of

Bontq is it's cross-platform Desktop Client. Using Desktop Client's functionality you can Capture Screenshots, Record Videos and

attach them right to your items