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It's even worse than that, he kept them on hold believing he was working on it. If he had made it clear from the beginning that they weren't a priority they could have hired someone else and had a chance. I would consider what he did sabotage.
Same URL gives me different results on the phone and on the desktop. Apparently Google doesn't link them? I'm using the same GMail-Account on both though.
I would probably pay a bit more than 1.5% to stay in San Francisco. That amount isn't worth it to give up on your metropolitan lifestyle and appeal to employees.
For a certain type of job; this would be good (but definitely supplement it with a real resume!!)

For most jobs it is useless.

For a certain other type of job it is an instant turn off.

With that said; marketing is one of the only areas I actively advise people to be creative with their CV's because it can pay off. So good idea.
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Indeed, authoritarian regimes like arbitrary laws that they can enforce selectively. As long as people fly under the radar, the laws won't be enforced. This makes sure that there will be no protests, because "who cares about laws that aren't enforced anyway?".

On the other hand, police officers (and higher authorities) can use these to lock up people that they don't like, or didn't pay their bribes. It will also mark the accused a social stigma, even though everyone and their brother violates that law, but people arrested for it are "criminals": Very effective in locking someone out of positions of power.

This can concern copyright laws, traffic laws, tax laws, laws with respect to sexual conduct, and so on... they've all been used in this way.
This is a worry for me too. I'm a long-term ClickToFlash user. I've enjoyed my time in a flash/ad/animation-free web but am horribly aware that it is temporary.

As HTML5 takes over we will see more unstoppable content - pop-up panels, intrusive advertising etc.

I just wish we could pay for the web without all this crap.
Imagine taking a look at a month of someone's search data, it would be revealing

Please explain to me how would any random person get that? Actually how would anyone get that data if you have not already done something which throws suspicion on you.
Winklevoss syndrome a.k.a. IP copyright?
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Most Americans aren't seeing this stuff.

When I was married and my American wife got to join me in the queue I was in, and had to go through the same process that I went through. Well she was incredulous that she was being treated that way.

Until Americans actually experience this, nothing will be done about it.

I've considered that enough to think that a better way to approach it is to subject people to the kind of security that they subject others to. So that if Americans want to visit other countries that they are finger-printed, interrogated, X-Ray'd, delayed and otherwise harassed.

Then when they complain point out that what is being done to them is a reflection of what they do to others, that is the only thing I can imagine might make them consider changing their ways... and I really am not living in the kind of world where I think this is achievable since European border control isn't going to start implementing this stuff on a per nationality basis. So it's not as if I really think this is feasible.

As I've pointed out in the past, I also no longer go to the USA or do business there.

When I am forced to have face-to-face meetings with Americans, I force the venue to be in Canada at a location I can get a flight to that doesn't require going via the USA (tends to be Toronto as direct flights from London are cheap and frequent).

This works for me to the point that I no longer think about it until it appears like this on a forum and I remember that I don't go to the USA anymore... it's become subconscious. I just don't go to the USA because of the experience of doing so (not limited to border alone, but border is the initial impression and the worst).
Urgh. I was severely sleep deprived last night and I am starting to feel that I shouldn't have posted at all. You are correct about 18 months.
He means quarantine. If you had an open packet of oreos and some muddy boots, you'd still be there now.
That's an app with a one off payment, we're talking subscriptions here. The point being, do you get that 30% (ok 27%) value from Apple when they take it every month. Also, note that I'm not saying I disagree with Apple taking a cut of subscription fees, I just think 30% is insanely high, it should be around 5%. Also, I don't think it should be mandatory.
You don't have to license your own copy just for this. I have no other interest in using Word, so when someone wants my updated résumé only in .doc format, I just pay a couple bucks to do that on one of Kinko's machines. Some libraries offer this as well.
Cloud Computing - programmers implementation of hw and sw infrastructure?
Maybe he's a sock puppet that needs to back-fill some believable human look and feel?
> ... subjectively ...

That's the question. Maybe you would, in fact, code "better" (whatever that means) with complete silence.

I'm interested in the difference between music you're accustomed to and music that's less familiar, words, no words, loud, soft, silence, etc. You think you like techno, but maybe, just maybe, objectively something else would be better.
Isn't this really just a case of a decision which became bad in hindsight as many technology purchasing decisions are?

In a market for music (and digital music) that was (and is) rife with choice, your wife (and others) chose the convenience of iTunes over portability of the format.

That is exactly the same sort of trade off as we all make in purchase we all make every day. In hindsight, particularly in a developing market, we may regret the decisions we make but that doesn't make the vendors acts anti-competitive or immoral or anything else any more than Betamax or Laser Disc or HD DVD was.

Besides, could be worse, she could have bought them on Mini Disc...
I am extremely confused with the company/product situation here. Honest questions: Is InboxQ a company, or is it a product of another company? Is Answerly a company? What is Queryable Corp? Which company/product actually got funded by Y-Combinator?

According to TechCrunch, Answerly is a company that built InboxQ (product), but the InboxQ website leads me to believe that it is a company in and of itself, while the Answerly website doesn't mention InboxQ once. Neither Answerly nor InboxQ about pages mention Queryable Corp, though this mysterious company sits in the footer of both. When I discover a new tool, I like to learn about the people/company that are behind it, so please make this a bit more clear.
What killer app is only available in Flash?
I'm surprised no one has suggested the obvious reason why making a site like this is not necessarily "wasted extra effort" for Nissan. When Apple's iAd platform was unveiled, they demoed... a Nissan Leaf ad. That ad content had to be written in javascript, so it probably wasn't a huge leap to say hey let's push that content out to the web as well.
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This is going to be a growing problem that Wikipedia will have to address. Wikipedia is increasingly becoming a primary source.

If you witness an important event that has been reported inaccurately would your first reaction be to write a newspaper article, write a blog, or edit the Wikipedia page?
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Stop.... Hoooldup.

Replicating what Flash does in HTML, CSS, SVG & JS is not the way forward.
The vast majority of the traffic that hits Sourceforge is there to download software, not contribute to the projects. When we spoke to them a few years ago, they said their main competitor was Downloads.com not us (GitHub).

Don't get too caught up using graphs to assume relevancy, Myspace still gets a lot of traffic.
Cost of living low or not, that is entry / mid-level pay. Ruby tends to be in high demand as well..your post is confusing.
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Discussions and presentations at CRSM 2010 focused on the main cognitive enablers Database vs Sensing vs CPC (Cognitive Pilot Channel). The database approach seems to be most promising now, sensing still have potential and CPC does not seem to have much support by the industry now.
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I will tell another personal experience. I am based out of India and have been invited to speak at a conference in San Francisco. I applied for a business visa and was denied that visa because apparently I am young (23) and they have not heard about my startup (it is of course not an IT service giant like Infosys, TCS or Wipro) or conference (it's about A/B testing). Mind you: my startup is doing quite well financially and we pay regular taxes (had all relevant documents to prove it). Getting a simple business visa for US is so hard that from multiple sources I heard that founders of a lot of VC funded startups (with more than million $ in bank) in India many times don't get a US visa if they need to setup a sales team there or be there for some business purpose. Is doing business in US for foreign startups really this hard or I am an outlier?

It's, of course, frustrating and I don't know what to do about it.
I've been using CouchDB a lot over the last six months or so and I've been seeing a lot of JSON on the command line - either through curl or using my own application-specific command line utilities. I must admit that I rather like working with JSON on the command line - it is easy on the eye but allows far more powerful structures than the usual Unix approach of lines with delimited fields (which I've been happily using for 20+ years).

Using JSON to extend command line processing looks to me like it is a nice step forward. Things like Microsoft's PowerShell are perhaps conceptually more elegant (where you pass real live objects about) but the practical reality always seems very fussy and tied to a particular programming platform. Other approaches (e.g. passing XML between Unix-style command line programs) isn't very appealing due to the general ugliness and verbosity of most XML.
>> Study economics. It isn't that difficult of a subject.

I just want to note that a 4th year economics course was the hardest course I ever took at university. And I'm a guy who liked economics, though I didn't major in it. The course had to do with economic analysis of the law. It explained why the law was the way it was, why it was applied the way it was, etc. I never had a textbook before that made my head literally hurt, nor did reading the phd papers each week help either. I have a lot of respect for the difficulty of real economic study and the intelligence of real economists after that course.

An interesting aside, my Stanford friend told me that the best mathematicians seem to be economists by far. I don't know what to make of that anecdote, but he was an engineer in a masters program, now doing his phd at Berkley. He's run into a fair bit of smart people, so I'm guessing his anecdote is worth something.
A lot of grandiose claims in hopes of the death of Flash around here. As though Flash has never done anything good for anyone.

I agree that it's nice that the browsers are now supporting new features that allow so much well needed functionality across the board - but they're really just now catching up to what Flash has offered us for years.

Forget all-flash websites. Seriously, forget them. I like the OP's site about as much as I liked flash intros from 2001 before they started adding "Skip This" buttons. I'm referring to media players, socket clients, file uploading tools worth using, vector animation, a decent programming experience that worked across the board (AS3 is actually a fun language if you give it a real shot).

Where would the web be without Youtube? Where would Youtube be without Flash? How about last.fm? or Pandora? Do you remember what the web was like before flash? Real Player, anyone? Java applets? I'll take a flash game over a Java applet any day. Regardless if you use these media-centric sites personally, they changed the internet as we know it - making it accessible to normal human beings. To disregard Flash's place in that history doesn't make any sense.

And it's far from over. The browsers STILL haven't gotten media playback right across the board. Everything's a big fat beta right now and IE is dragging us behind as usual. It would be nice if everyone could at least agree on a codec or two, but no. Meanwhile, flash-based media players still work just about everywhere.

I'm happy that the browsers are catching up with Flash - truly. I loved developing in Actionscript, and I'll love replacing it. But these claims that Flash is somehow the bane of the internet is to deny some of the very foundations of how successful the internet has become.
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The SiteMeter graph is irrelevant too as they didn't add the SiteMeter.js.
Ask HN: Facebook ad split testing tool
Hi

About a month or two ago, somebody posted a link to a 3rd party A/B testing tool for Facebook ads. Does anyone know what it could have been or any tools that do this? Thanks
I think you'll find that economies have been doing this for centuries and theyve been crashing because of it too.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/fallromeeconomic/a/econof...
With the real-life example of "Waterfall" being discussed ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233584

I thought this deserved another outing.

SPOILER ALERT - the page does show how it's done.
I think the bureaucracy is right, because Nokia wasn't able to make focused decision.
Actually I think this is a classical management problem. Control 132000 people.
I would recommend having a lawyer involved beforehand. Presumably there are some conditions associated with this investment? If you do not have a lawyer, how will you know whether the terms of the investment are fair to both you and the investor?
I can say this is not true for myself, the problem really is coming up with something that people will buy, i have no idea what sort of things people would pay for, i see a lot of things that i think are useless that a lot of people pay/use.
Imagine for a minute that you walked into a passionate notability discussion without such habits already ingrained. How do you think it would go?

Are you suggesting that Wikipedia is like a debate training ground, and that Wikipedian HN users are prone to citation?
Scotland has 3 patron saints: St Columba of Iona, St Margaret and St Andrew.

The Wikipedia page listed only St Andrew so I added the other two only to see them immediately deleted. So I added them again. Again they were deleted.

I asked why they were continually being deleted. Someone, who claimed to be in charge of the Scotland page, replied:

"if you ask any man in the street he will tell you that St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland"
> - it's illegal in many places to discriminate based on appearance (stuff you can't change) so many employers will discard resumes that contain a photo of the applicant to mitigate future risk

So they see his appearance, then discard his resume from consideration. That's Orwellian/paradoxical, boggles my mind actually. On several levels. I mean, it's almost guaranteed they're going to get to see him in person and learn his gender/race/body-condition/approximate-age at some point before a hiring decision is made, anyway. Hilarious!

I actually like photos because it makes it more human and realistic. And yes, because sometimes you can see (at least a statistically significant correlation with) certain desired qualities in the way someone's face and body look. Most smart/fit people tend to look it, and vice versa -- not 100% correlation, of course, but statistically significant trends are noticeable over the course of real life experience.
Try Sea-Tac airport. 20 lanes at the border, 17 reserved for American citizens, of whom there are probably about 20 on a 400-seater plane.

I've traveled all over the world, US borders are the most unpleasant. I'v had border guards in FSRs point guns at me but hey, those guys are just doing their jobs. In the US they go out of their way to be rude, lazy, incompetent and just plain obnoxious.
I would rather everyone expresses their opinions in humble, honest way and everybody gets points.
Communicating information to new users, especially ones who make little effort to learn about community norms and practices, is extremely difficult, because there is no way to force them to look at any particular explanation.

Karma systems deal with this by using game dynamics. Beginners are channeled into work which supposedly educates them and indoctrinates than into community values.
Your spelling of Vulcan is highly illogical, Captain.
Anybody willing to share how Schengen/EU borders are for foreigners?
On that note, where does a "homeless" person even PUT a television?!
I imagine that "Q" from James Bond's resume would read similarly.
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> I've been to Russia before the cold war ended. I've been all over the middle east. I've been to China. I've travelled all over Europe. I've been to Cuba and I've been to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua. What all of these places have in common is that going there was a far more pleasant experience than going to the US.

Oh, c'mon, this sounds very over-the-top. My experience is that TSA and USCIS (formerly INS) are very professional and follow a strict protocol. The protocol may be unfair or not, but that's the protocol, not the professional's fault. In places like Brazil your entire trip is at the hands of chance: Most times you get a nice officer, but sometimes not.

For example: After an incident involving an American in Brazil [1], all Americans were out of a sudden required by the Brazilian authorities to get pictures taken at the Brazilian customs. The situation got so ridiculous, that at some point the airports ended up with 3 lines: "Brazilian Citizens", "Foreigners", and "Americans". In other words, Americans were singled-out from the rest of the world. Would the OP describe that as a "pleasant experience"???

I have had somewhat bad experiences in the US too, but that's not even close to the kind of stuff I (or close family members and friends) went through in Brazil, or as a Brazilian in Europe. In the US I never had any trouble, and officers always acted professionally.

And I highly doubt this person would get compensated in any one of these countries.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/14/finger.gesture....

Disclaimer: I am a Brazilian naturalized American.
I have to admit, as difficult as it is, he makes a good point here.

I'm nowhere near as well travelled, but we do a lot of work in the middle east (some of the nastier parts too), which is a place you would imagine a white westerner would count seriously against you.

But, frankly, I've never felt safer or more welcomed in my life (apart from the odd dicey moment).

OK, the US is not terrible, unsafe or specifically unfriendly. But there are little things; some cities I just didn't feel overly welcome because I wasn't American. I'm in my mid twenties and ordering a beer with a meal got me some highly suspicious looks! Numerous times I have been questioned by police; for being sat at a bus depot with a rucksack (they made me miss a bus and were utterly unapologetic, grr), for being stood on a street waiting for my pickup (for about 20 minutes.. I think someone had actually called them) etc.

Don't get me wrong; I've met loads of really awesome, friendly and welcoming Americans. And mostly it is fine. But more than any other place I have been to you get treated with suspicion.
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What exactly would you like to know? I've traveled to about 10 European countries. I've never been photographed, had my fingerprints taken, been interrogated about my intentions. But every time I visit the US, all of these things happen. I should note that I'm a European Union (EU) citizen which gives me the right to travel freely between countries in the EU. But my American friends have only ever been hassled when they broke the conditions of their holiday visas (e.g. overstayed their 90 days).
"sometimes you can see (at least a statistically significant correlation with) certain desired qualities in the way someone's face and body look"

Sadly, this is exactly the kind of idiocy that has been used to excuse racism and sexism for centuries. It's the same nonsense that had victorians measuring criminals' ears and is no different to a late-nineties British start-up I knew that would only employ female staff that had a breast-size bigger than 36B.
I've found it. It was initially called XA.net but now it seems to have rebranded to http://optim.al
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This is great! how accurate is js for maths?
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Wasn't there a woman on This American Life who tried to become as close to a real life superhero as possible?

EDIT: Found it. She calls herself Zora. (Which is the name of a character in Powers.)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/178/s...
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How to check the viability of a startup idea
I thought it would be cool to share with each other how to check the viability of your startup idea.

To kick off, I'll share with you what I do whenever an idea pops to mind.

1) Adwords keyword tool
First I go to the Adwords keyword tool, to find out if people actually are looking for my idea/future product. You can check per keyword how many searches per month there have been done and if there's a lot of (SEO) competition.

2) Surveys
I setup a survey for potential customers. In the survey I try to find out if my assumptions are right. I use this survey for step 3 and 4.

3) Run Google ads
Running Google ads is a great way of checking my assumptions. I emphasize different benefits per ad. This way I can check what benefit appeals the most. The more clicks, the more important this benefit is, the more this should be the focus point of the product.
The ad leads to my survey. Not so many people take the time to fill it in, but still it is some extra data.

4) Meet with potential customers
Although I always find it hard to take this step, I know it's important. These meetings can motivate tremendously, can force to iterate my idea, or make me decide it was a stupid idea.
The survey comes in handy in these meetings as well, btw.

So that's my viability-check. I'm wondering what you do to check viability. Looking forward to your ideas and advice!

ps. I'm sorry if I made some mistakes in my English. I'm no native speaker and I know that especially grammar tenses are not my forte...
"Say hello" to a REALLY slow running website and my hardware ain't that shabby. Running FF 3.6 It's very cool but a little too much too soon for general consumption IMO.
Well, I am an EU/Schengen citizen, and I would like to know what non-EU, non-Schengen citizens experience at the EU/Schengen borders.
It must be great to be able to afford to stop doing business in the US.
Yes. But I nearly clicked on "clicktoflash" decal because it took a couple seconds to kick in.
You seriously think I made this account just to troll you?

Of course not, that is just an assumption of yours ;-)

Seriously though I do feel your comments have had a troll tone and my previous statement was half in jest. So I do apologise sincerely if you have taken offence to it.

So again sorry and welcome aboard HN.