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Thanks for the feedback!

We're actually looking at ways of measuring management performance. If we can do it, it'll be great for Buffett fans everywhere, myself included!

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They went on a tangent with breakfast cereal for presidential campaign candidates just to settle their credit card debt.

While it made for a profitable fundraising/publicity stunt, it came in vitally important later on--while they sold out of Obama cereal, they had enough McCain cereal left over afterwards that when they ran out of money and food, they could live off of it!
Ken Robinson is an excellent thinker and innovator. Could listen to his work/speeches/interviews for hours and the animation on this makes it even more engaging. Very cool.
Ok, when I read the copy on the home page and "How it Works" I didn't get it at all.

When I watched the video it made a ton of sense and made me really excited. Problem is when I come to a site like this I don't ever click on the video.

I would work on the copy, a lot. The tool is definitely powerful (I can think of several use-cases where a client wanted to use cheaper HTML forms but augmented with mobile device capabilities like camera & geo location) but the copy isn't expressing what it does in terms of the problems it solves for me, the random visitor. You need to paint the verbal descriptions with broader strokes.
Use Googles AdWords Keyword Tool enable the estimated CPC column.
Take the keyword "mortgage rates" the CPC (Cost Per Click) on similar searches is around $30. Which most search terms are around $1,2,or 3. So even if a few people interacted with the ads you are getting alot more in return for ads being displayed.
Now put Lindsay Lohan as the topic. You maybe break $1. I wonder why those articles perform better.

I work for the company that delivers ads to travelers before they travel, below your printed boarding pass. And ads that work well are ones that are contextually relavent to actions they are about to take or might take while on their travels. But the CPM is much higher than just random search terms, but it takes that guess work out of what internet ad servers are trying to do. We know exactly what the person is doing and can deliver ads to them based on where they are going, coming from and such. Most people searching for mortgage rates are not interested in the history of mortgage rates they are interested in the current rate and how they can perform the next action of refinancing, which means a big payout to the lender.
Would you be willing to release lagged data? 12 months, for example?
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I've had similar thoughts. What I've learned is you hear new things based on where you our in your journey. Regardless, hearing people like Zuckerberg and Brian Chesky is extremely energizing.
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Incredible for a freelancer like me!

I just hope all this positive feedback doesn't result in crazy-ass pricing :)
Fantastic. Thank God we have someone like Sir Robinson to articulate the deficiencies of conventional education in a way that ignited the passion in others to challenge the senseless traditions that keep us bound to an antiquated system of "learning."
I've added Gridspy (be fun to have a companion) http://desksnear.me/workplaces/87-gridspy-office
Thanks for the feedback!

We're planning to provide a projected growth rate, but to be able to compare that to pgr of peers is a pretty cool idea.

Hmm, how would you measure value catalysts?

Shoot me an email. It's in my profile. Or tweet @vurudotco . Your feedback would be great as we move forward!
What is the Skanr app? Is that a desktop program or a mobile program? If it's mobile, how does it get on my phone?
China also does a whole lot of currency manipulation, in addition to this stuff. Instead of developing conventional defense capabilities, it is high time the US started thinking of other defenses as well...
I suspect it would require some heavy editing to be suitable for the Times.
Very cool. I wish I had heard about this before it was over.
I don't understand why there aren't more stories about this-- it is beyond rampant, I'd call it business as usual for most popular apps since the Apps platform launched. I'd like to see an article about creative uses for all that data.
This is perfect. With my team of 3 there couldn't be an easier way to do this. Thanks for this. Also killer design.
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The "Mrs. Nat King Cole" debunked:
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Thanks rwhitman, based on the comments I can tell I need to go back to the drawing board with my pitch. What could I have told you to make you more inclined to have watched the video? Thanks again for your input!
+1 for Mixergy. You could literally listen to Andrew's archives for days -- it's like a treasure trove.
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Net neutrality is about people using their property in ways I don't like. And the fact that I dislike them and still purchase their services is de facto proof of market failure.
And how. I thought this book was even more entertaining because of how '5 minutes from now' it felt. He strikes me as someone with their finger on the pulse (god I hate that phrase) of the internet and it's various subcultures, as well.
Did you watch the video? In the video, they show clip from Steve's commencement speech where he talks about adoption. I think the video was very interesting and covered Steve's career pretty well.
> This is worse than multi-page stories. =(

But I bet dead simple to write. I mean, sure, getting in touch with these people and getting them to speak honestly to you is hard, and keeping them coming back probably isn't easy either, but... you go hang out with them, write down what they say, and type it out.
Thanks, very excited that you find it useful! :)
Yes. The main crux of their business is turning ids/email-addresses into personal profiles.
thank you for the feeback,
This looks really cool, and is designed beautifully. The only thing is that it id kind of featureless to be really useful for managing projects (read: even though I love the concept and execution, I wouldn't pay to use it yet). I do think that the design is beautiful and will probably make an excellent company dashboard on a big screen in the office. Add more project management tools, if you guys can merge help desk ticketing, bug ticketing, and to-do lists in a easy to use package I'm sold.
Giving away all my secrets here, but anyway:

- rate of stockholder's equity growth, over 10 years

- a graph that projects that growth over the next 10 years, assuming I buy 1 share at today's price; plotted with a projection of the same dollar investment in an index fund (projected from its long-term return).

BONUS: do the same for earnings (I don't actually do this, but I should - because shareholder's equity is artificially influenced by things like 'goodwill' from acquisitions; and employees exercising bonus options. Earnings is closer to what a business actually does; I just really like stockholder's equity for its apparent simplicity).
I have a co-worker. This co-worker can't solve problems. He just lacks the ability completely. Give him an existing code base and an error, and he has NO IDEA how to proceed.

Contrariwise, if he has to write something from scratch he can... as long as it's entirely stand alone and not too complex.
I like to see improvement in the company's fundamentals. For example, a decrease in net debt or an increase in economic value added.

Additional information is comparison to other stocks, such as within a related index (use GICS or similar codes). So how does the balance sheet compare to competitors?

As for other investment metrics, take a look at the Piotroski score:

http://www.grahaminvestor.com/articles/quantitative-tools/th...
A twitter client. No, really. There's only a small handful of native Mac twitter clients, compared to the plethora of iOS clients. And I believe that @ev recently said that Tweetie|Mac isn't going to get updated anytime soon.

Or a small app that only runs in the menubar that will disable or enable bluetooth whenever I hit a key combo. Or when I move into or out of a certain location (Core Location exists on 10.6). Maybe if the person's on a laptop and they disconnect from a power source, turn it off, etc.
You could expand the question to say why do abc, disney, and espn all include go.com in their url? Obviously they all share the same ownership. Although I think there would be better ways to promote cross brand pollination.
I would somewhat agree. In Asian culture losing face is probably the biggest social fear there is. Americans for the most part don't have this fear. Americans love the comeback story, the rags to riches, etc. We also have government incentives in place that encourage you to keep trying even if you failed.
Ssshhh, don't say that, you'll make the developers nauseaus!
Currently, it does, but we are discussing/planning the ability to add locations you don't own in a later release.
Getting warmer, but are you sure you want to assume that every business owner that owns an iPhone knows immediately why they want a custom iPhone application? You have 15 seconds to sell them.
Thanks! We have small teams ourselves and we created this based on what we need. Great to hear that it'll be useful for others, too.
I've checked out books from the library, and later bought my own copies because I wanted to re-read them again, at my own convenience.

(insert standard "sample size of one" disclaimer here.)

Not to mention, by that logic, you should never donate books to a library, since it is effectively costing the author sales.
I remember using the Altos at PARC during a visit in '73 or so, then using the MIT-LCS pool (actually not that busy) during the late '70s.

The Lisp Machines we had in the EECS computing pool (which I was managing along with our own DECsystem-20) were much cooler even then so the Altos never caught my fancy... :-)

(Edit: expanded slightly.)
"I'm not saying you should or shouldn't feel or act a certain way"

But, that I shouldn't say it at Hacker News?

I'm disappointed. First, I'm disappointed that you've suggested that my comment, whether a joke or sincere (I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader as to whether I intended the former or the latter), is unacceptable speech. Second, I'm disappointed that 12 other HN readers agree with you.

I now have to conclude that, as others are talking about, HN is losing the culture it once had, and that saddens me.
Those (a) (b) and (c) points sound like strengths of make, to me.
So where are all the confident and feminine women in SF?
Scientific truth isn't determined by what percentage of scientists believe in it -- it's determined by who can show convincing experimental proof to back up their hypothesis. At the time that Einstein published his theory of relativity, the overwhelming consensus among physicists was that he was crazy.

Also, no real scientist would find a result convincing if there wasn't enough information published to allow them to independently verify the experiment. Using this criterion, 99% of "climate science" is not science.
Language Exchange looks neat, though I don't know anything about learning foreign languages.

At IO this year, Paul Graham and a bunch of other cool people talked about how interesting education via the Internet will be. And how tough it is to monetize.
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Looks like it just went for 30 grand.
Hmm. This is very interesting.

A few facts:

1. When you embed an iframe with fb:iframe, the parameters Facebook passes to your app get passed to the iframe automatically. This includes the Facebook UID. This is the way everyone has always embedded Facebook ad units and AFAIK nobody has ever been punished for doing so. I've had people at Facebook look over my apps with a fine tooth comb when dealing with TOS violations and this has never once come up.

2. Facebook will take action against apps if people use fb-provided widgets in ways that "violate" the TOS, i.e., if Facebook's own widgets violate the TOS they will take action against the app.

This happened to be with the fb:wall widget, where Facebook told me I wasn't allowed to have comments auto-post to people's walls (the default behavior) and must include a "report" link to every comment (impossible / not a feature of fb:wall). They disabled feed posting for one of my apps due to that "violation."

3. Facebook, as an organization, hates, hates, hates bad press. They will move mountains to prevent or preempt bad press. I've had people at Facebook tell me more-or-less verbatim that whatever I did, my applications were not allowed to generate bad press for Facebook. If they did, I would be banned.

4. Facebook will scapegoat companies. When the Scamville drama happened, Facebook banned Gambit payments from the platform and threatened any application developer with banning if they used Gambit. They were no worse than Offerpal or Super Rewards with respect to the types of offers they were running -- everyone was getting their offers from the same pool -- but Facebook banned Gambit and implicitly endorsed Offerpal and Super Rewards.

Gambit was the smallest of the three, so the general feeling in the FB developer community is that they picked the weakest one and took them out to show how "serious" they were in dealing with the problem. They also made SR and Offerpal clean up their offers and punished Zynga for running questionable offers, but only Gambit was permanently and forever banned.

So, given the above, I have to wonder...did Facebook ban lolapps, the smallest of the major FB game companies, from the platform as a way to preempt the press fallout from this article?

Very interesting.
How will the iPad influence Apple's future Mac strategy?
My degree was pretty hardcore as well. Did it prepare me for work? Yes, but only in the abstract, and that's because I was lucky enough to have a natural talent that uni enhanced through practice (That of rapidly picking new stuff up).

Not once did I use an MVC beyond a crappy Java implementation. We didn't do maintenance practice, or log file spelunking, or customer interaction.

I learned how to create multi-user, networked, stateless applications editing one source. I created a compiler and language, learned assembly, studied algorythms and z-schemas. I switched between languages every day and solved some annoyingly abstract and difficult problems.

Number of bugs I solved in other people's code outside of an exam? 0. Number of incredibly obscure projects I took from start to finish? 0.

CS Degrees only teach people to be potentially good programmers IF those people are able to learn how to fix shit by themselves. Otherwise you're teaching greek to a deaf person. Sure, they know what they're asked, but they can't talk back.
There isn't a direct walkway between Gates and Wean. There's one from Gates to Newell Simon, then one from Newell Simon to Wean. You must be thinking of the walkway between Gates and Newell Simon, but I never saw that sticker.
Thanks for the feedback!

First, this app is 48 hours old so we didn't have too much time to build features. We'll likely introduce new stuff later on.

Second, this tool is actually more for project portfolio management than project management per se. The goal is to let teams use the tools that they like for ticketing, bug reports, etc. and focus more on scheduling, resourcing and overview of the projects in an organization.

Currently we have GitHub integration with commit messages updating the project activity stream. We have plans to introduce other integrations like this.
Is this is the next big thing in the alternative energy sector?
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I've been in the same predicament before for finding older software. When I needed a certain older version of Hypercam that couldn't be found anywhere, including eBay at the time, I ended up pirating it. I was willing to pay up to the full original price for it because of the need.. what else can you do if the software is a torrent search away?
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"And it uses dark colors."

Much prefer white on black to vice versa.
Great design and very usable!
I remember a while back there was an attempt to compensate the producers of content that was more conveniently acquired via piracy, whatever happened to that? I think the context was music, but it stands to reason that it could be employed in any market.
>Look, even if you're joking, is that the sort of attitude you want represented here?

Yes. He was obviously joking, and I smiled. It was funny.
Given the parlous state of more liberal economies, perhaps the Japanese and the Germans have a point.
Figlet "large" font sighted about 20% of the way down. :-)
This is probably the most unusual part - taking the time to leave that kind of comment outside of the HN submission itself.

It's one thing to interrogate if a link is valid on here (eg, by downvoting or through the comments), but taking the time to interact with the site itself and backreference HN is pointless, and damaging to the reputation of HN (regardless of if they are an accurate representation of the community or not).
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Actually three20 is a great option to go with for many apps.

This is the only bit of advice in your post that I completely disagree with. Three20 may have some nice UI bits, but it is a very poorly designed framework. I say this having looked at it before and after Facebook made a big redesign of it (breaking backwards compatibility and minimally documenting the changes.)

You can't add one view without adding a dozen other classes. Its not very well documented. It adds a large amount of bloat to the binary and drastically increases compile time.. I can go on, if you like.
Could one's heartbeat authenticate and authorize mobile payments?
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/06/apple-patent-applications-heartbeat-biometrics-multidimensional-dashboard-widgets/
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China is a complicated place to be in. Think of it this way, like USA, its people and government value patriotism. But in China the government prefer(enforce) patriotism without the (any)freedom of speech.
repost HN didn't catch for whatever reason...

original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801784
I'll second that: definitely go find Lewis' letter and read it.

And if you want a glimpse of some thoughtful scientific discussion of the other (skeptic) side of global warming, go find the blog "Climate Audit" (and no, they're not funded by big oil or the Republicans, and I have no connection with them other than being a reader).
I desperately need an app that watermarks a bulk a amount of images. Let me drag in photos, and then control let me resize the images and control the size of a specified image(s) to be used as a watermark. For example, it should let me apply one image to every corner if I wanted.

ie: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs814.snc4/69481...
This connection with net neutrality occurred to me when I heard about this row between Fox and CableVision a few days ago too.

Well... anyway, even if they aren't connected issues, the fact that conglomerates & government have repeatedly colluded makes it difficult for somebody my age to have good faith that they wouldn't do something like that on purpose. Not saying they did...
There's no way to do that, except I suppose by retrieving a copy of the data from backups.
Similar behaviours and reactions can be seen on a lot of otherwise professional internet forums. I think its the difference in the following kind of people

- A highly skilled professional

- A highly skilled, non-professional

Just because someone has a very well developed skillset, it doesn't necessarily dictate good conduct. Most art / illustration forums suffer from this problem - to generalize, they will have a subset of highly skilled people who ultimately aren't professional in their conduct and reply with some severely inappropriate responses.

It's the same scenario too - when a user submits content that is significantly below the general quality standard of the community (in earnest, being a legitimate effort on their behalf), two responses are generally provided due to the difference in these groups:

- Professionals tend to ignore the content or provide some indicators of which basics to cover

- Non-professionals flame and attack the user due to their level of ability

It's regrettable but the latter often has quite a negative effect. If you can look at someones work and recognise that they are highly skilled, but not understand that they are of poor professional character, you will take on board what they say as being correct or fair.

It's the kind of conduct that stunts a lot of people who aren't thick skinned about their trade.
And just for the record: I'm a California based hacker voting Yes on 19.
If that's true, I wish whoever flagged would have left a comment on the thread explaining why they did so. Much more helpful than just flagging.
I'd be for it for a variety of reasons, but I also feel like this topic is too political for HN. It's the kind of thing that will turn into a bunch of anecdotes and values based arguments.

I still hear you though, that there is some value to be derived from sampling the makeup of HN. Maybe we need HN demographics apps?
Thanks for your feedback! Glad you like the dark theme.
Only if it's valued more than past revenues would suggest. IMO, Tesla Motors is still a startup Google is not. What separates them has more to do with the stability that comes from profit than it does an IPO or company culture.
Erlang also has convenient features like list comprehensions and partial definitions of functions to make this stuff easier. And while the process communication stuff is supposedly a distribution/concurrency system, you can treat processes as objects and do message-passing style OOP with a little cleverness.
We've solved this problem, at least if you don't mind reading. They are called subtitles.
So, can you teach us something about the design process? I too found it very pleasing.
I can't imagine a situation where I wouldn't add Boost to a project, especially considering that large portions of it have been included in C++0x, and that the library has been for years a kind "standard outside the standard" or a de facto standard.

Installing/building it the 1st time can be a little messy (the same to be expected from any large library) but it pays off in the long run... Boost has all the stuff you wanted the standard library to have.
When you sign into a facebook app you give away all sorts of interesting information. Check out http://www.rabidgremlin.com/fbprivacy/ and click on the "view raw data" links to see what I mean.
You ought to read Stephenson's Anathem.
How does a link from my website launch the Skanr app? What is the NS class or method?
Cool, I am following him now on Twitter.
:-)

Because there's a lot of grey area between those binary states, and plenty of examples of the GPL being used for good and/or evil to various degrees.

Either the GPL is sufficient to keep participants harmonious or it isn't.

You could say I'm arguing that the GPL isn't enough to keep participants harmonious, and therefore accepting the binary nature of your claim... but in the context of your post, I think you're conflating the GPL with all kinds of other social interactions in FLOSS projects, and carving its impact into binary positions can't give you an answer based on fact and experience.

(phew)
The article laments the lack of innovation, then introduces a groupon clone as an exemplar of how things should be. <eyeroll/>