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Sage Line 50 is the standard package for most small business'.

How much are you willing to spend?
My Life of Starcraft - Day[9] Daily #100 [video]
Here's a shot of Qt Creator for comparison, default settings as well: http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpg-0-plasma-desktophl5039

That shows some of the issues I have with it - I don't like the custom theming, especially given how inconsistently it's applied (still uses system looks for scrollbars, the menu bar doesn't fit at all, etc.).
I admit I grow tired of that kind of posts. Doesn't it depend on the app and how well you market it? It is already well known that you can earn a lot of money, but also not so much money, depending on your luck, effort and dedication.
97k is the median income in the valley. That's why you keep seeing this figure. Pedestrian engineers a couple years in earn this all over the valley....and drive 60 minutes because they can't afford a 3 bedroom house near their work on that salary.
Oh, I am by no means against explicit naming. I'm just recommending people to read chapter 14 of On Lisp if they find if-let and when-let good macros they use often.
How Sony can still ship playstations into Europe despite LG's latest move
Hakyll 3:  A static site compiler DSL/library in Haskell
Time for a more accurate machine translator?
It's the story of Day[9]'s Starcraft career, as told by himself. Quite inspiring and especially interesting if you are into Starcraft.

Warning: it's almost two hours long.
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Depends on life goals. If your primary goal is to amass further wealth, large bets on single items/industries can pay off very well. However, if your goal is to not lose wealth, then diversification is a very good strategy. The OP is in the latter school with these particular investments.

Additionally, I find it ironic you bring up Buffett: Berkshire is diversifying out of insurance :D

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/warren-buffett-scouts-f...

>Foremost, though, was his acknowledgment of the need for Berkshire to expand its non-insurance businesses, a broad collection that most prominently includes the railroad Burlington Northern and the electric utility MidAmerican.
For the geeky types, she has an Erdős–Bacon number of 6 :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number...

EDIT: it is 6, not 5, sorry
Even if it didn't merge the discussions having some automatic indicator of 'Related Discussions' ala Reddit would be fantastic.
Ask HN: Do we disagree less online since it's
Do you have a source on that? I live in Sweden, have an average wage, and we have pretty high taxes, yet I could potentially buy a lot of movies and CDs if I wanted to, and I gather Denmark doesn't have that much higher taxes than Sweden, so that is why I'm asking.
I don't think it's biased at all.

I do agree that long form tends to do better for information products.

However, it also does better in 90% of cases, as well. As I mentioned in the post... it does NOT do better in EVERY single case.

You're "essentially" comment is absolutely wrong... and TOTALLY biased after you just said my post was biased.

It depends on the market maturity, the branding of the company, and MANY other factors.

All in all - all I'm saying is this.

Long copy works in 80-90% of cases... TYPICALLY. It depends on a lot of factors, and the only way to really know... is to test it with a GOOD copywriter.

After all... long copy that sucks will always do worse than short copy which is brilliant :)

Jeremy
Totally agree. I'm surprised more people don't figure this out. Our assumption that work and fun are opposed seems like an atavism from millenia of scrounging and slavery. Admittedly, those millenia are still going on for countless people, but not for those of us blessed with the chance to do creative work. Creative work is fun, even when it's gruelling. This is so vital for software projects that I sometimes toy with the conclusion that it's the most important thing - not the most valuable thing (that's what you create) but the most important indicator about the project itself. It's the canary in the coal mine: if fun goes, everything goes. You can walk into a software team's space and tell within minutes how a project is going by attending to this. Yet billions of dollars get spent trying to answer the same question.

While I'm surprised that so few people figure this out, I'm also surprised to see it expressed so elegantly as "We optimize for joy." Yay Salvatore! More projects should have manifestos. I want to write one!
What an odd headline. I guess "Chrome Finally Gets 50% Of What Firefox Has" doesn't make Chrome look good enough. The stats show that Firefox still has about 20% share, while Chrome only has about 10%. While there is a downward trend for Firefox right now, that's also attributable to Firefox 4 not being available yet.

This headline seems like the author's conclusion getting pushed on the reader. There's no telling whether or not Chrome will capture Firefox at all, because anything can happen in the future. Perhaps Firefox 4 will be great; perhaps Chrome marketshare will flatten out; perhaps IE9 will be a huge success that draws users from all the other browsers.
What if I said that participants' physiology (stress response, in this case) is completely different depending on a single variable: being interviewed by a person, versus giving an unprepared speech to a camera about why you should be hired.

You can be as cynical as you want, but there's no justification for ignoring good experimental design and the statistics that demonstrate it's unlikely that people would react so differently based on the camera/person condition.

The evidence is: if you interview in front of a person, your blood pressure is demonstrably higher, your palms sweat more, and you self-report that you were stressed out. In front of a camera, the averageperson does not exhibit a stress response.

You're not the first to observe that college students are a poor stand-in for the general population, but I have experience with one of the labs that conducted this work, and they did extensive "general population" work as well, which means it's not all college students.

So many of these naive criticisms are addressed in the paper itself - if only people would take the time to read what the scientists wrote (i.e. "read the science".)
HackNY Expands Its Internship Program, Matching Student Hackers and NYC Startups
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Make sure you diversify your portfolio. You don't want too much real estate in it.

Consider adding some municipal bonds. In most cases the income is tax free. Create a ladder of individual bonds and hold to maturity.
Related to this is the "Underachiever Method" and the previously discussed thread on the "400k/yr Parrot eBook guy" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215

The long form is particular popular with this market targeting method because "ugliness" doesn't matter especially if you position the product as a ultra-niche subject matter authority.

I'm surprised to see that the article doesn't mention that the long form also benefits from SEO juice (more word, better chance of google rewarding keyword context relevance).
Harvest (http://www.harvestapp.com) has been great for us. Simple, effective, and works.
No problem with Nature's paywall they are a business.
I do have a problem with no longer owning the copyright to a paper I wrote and gave to them for free - or even paid page charges to some journals

So I put a sample of code in a paper to explain an algorithm and I can no longer use that code, or include it in a GPLed work?

In fact between my university's policy that it owns anything I do that can be commercially exploited, the journal claiming it owns everything and I can't post it online and the various different international laws on software patents and publishing code that has anything to do with crypto/security - in theory I would spend a year talking to lawyers before publishing each paper.
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I do so desperately want a small walk-on part in a film with Kevin Bacon to get an Erdős–Bacon number of 3.

I know, I know, it's hardly a worthy ambition. But still.

<sigh>
I really appreciate and liked your thought. I am slogging from last 3-4 months to create something, I believed in opportunities worked hard to launch beta ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2109084 ). But as my post not displayed in ASK:HN category ,not much traffic generated. I still continuing and building on small feedback which i have received, and trying to understand what’s going wrong with me.
And Techcrunch still gets millions of page views a day. Quality by quantity is an odd concept.

"Everyone should look at..." doesn't follow from "a lot of people..."

Objectivism might be worth looking in to, but that doesn't mean this book (despite being the founding text) has merit.
Gotta wonder who has the largest collection of these products and prototypes.

Word is Jobs won't have nostalgic old products around, no matter how important or successful they were. If it's not in production now, it has failed; only current success should be on one's mind.
absolutely, data++

in fact one of last year's fellows did multinomial mixture modeling and boosted alternating decision trees to, as he put it, improve okcupid's "love machine". video available via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VYdYw4Mth4
It's more a comment on the justification for authors to shut up because of what's in the license, which is far more stupid, sorry.
OK - any ideas how to create one?
Will look forward to it, thanks.

Also, if you do this via a new thread, make sure you post the URL of that thread here, so that people can track from here. :-)
Why Being Unreasonable Pays Off
(not neccessarily in that order)
Don't know if what to think about it : actually surprised that many of them are or aren't (yet?) on AngelList...
I count 34 in the top 100. Remove the non-individuals (TechCrunch, Sequoia Cap, SAI, ...), that's about ~40%.
Is this a lot ? Is this only a few ?
Popular entertainment has tons of smart, cool people- Just none of them spend all their time with solitary, sedentary activities on a computer or in a lab. How many times do you see a 'mission impossible' type hero who goes around kicking ass for most of the movie but suddenly turns into a hacker when he gets to a computer terminal?
I'm a little disappointed to see min.us making headlines—it started off as a fairly obvious clone of http://www.dropmocks.com/.

I guess min.us has built out their feature set a little more, and DropMocks was just a side project of Glen Murphey's (open source! https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks ), but all the same it'd be more heartening for original ideas if it was DropMocks that was getting this press.

[edit: In fact min.us is built on DropMock's source, in accordance with its very permissive license but without acknowledgement and a little tactlessly in my opinion. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/eailg/minus_code... ]
Am I the only one who checked if "placepuppy" was already registered after seeing this?
"It may seem incredulous to imagine that the boring coffee mug you held this morning while chatting with your kids, or the clipboard you held while filling out that interview this afternoon, were actively priming your behavior and emotions."

Yes it does seem incredulous.

Are we to believe that the only differing factor in each case was the stated coffee cup, puzzle piece softness etc..
I do not work here. But have a friend who started up a company called Active Interview - they do a really good job with video based interview.

They actually allow you to write up a bunch of questions and have your candidates record video responses. Awesome for self selecting people out too.
That could mean the end of silly Hollywood movie physics. Imagine the possibilities!
San Diego, CA. Remote ok.
Klatu Networks: A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only be working with other great engineers.

The most important requirements is to be passionate about creating software and be able to quickly grasp new technologies. Other requirements include strong knowledge of Javacript, experience with Ruby, Java, SQL, Git.

Contact me directly if you are interested, email is in my profile.
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At one point the article says, "Ms. Portman is one of a handful of high-profile actors who happen to have serious scientific credentials, awards, degrees, patents and theorems in their name."

They go on to talk about some other people besides Natalie Portman.
Alternative (and usually more successful) search:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/bipolar+lisp?sort=by_date
Longevity is difficult to predict, but I suspect Salvatore's approach will seem familiar to those who wrote some of the decades-old software that programmers still use every day.
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Nobody wants to pay me to do that, trust me.

There's a lucrative universe of adults sites out there.
All of this is anything but clear-cut. However, I think that in a no-IP world, producing 'commercial' movies as we now know them would be far trickier.

Of course copyright does not 'guarantee' profit: you can make a shitty movie and lose money. However it provides some protection for content producers and indicates a fairly clear path to making money: make something and sell it.
This is my earlier post

All , It's my first attempt on my own. I left job in last quarter to follow my heart. I slogged hard, kept myself motivated and developed a very simple social reader for android phones and tablets.
1. It aggregates your Facebook, Twitter accounts at one place but keeps feeds from each networks separated. (Unlike existing products in market) 2. Well supported for android tablets. 3. Less number of clicks and uses gestures for quick glance. 3. Seamlessly updates with real time notifications. 4. Allows you to update with your location as well as post photos.

I am launching it early and want to learn more from you people prior to launch in android market. I need your feedback to improve the product and serve better.

You can signup for beta and view screen shots of application at http://zubhalabs.com/
Interesting idea. It sounds cool.

My only piece of feedback would be about the name. When I first read the title of this post, I thought your company was a mentoring service.

TripAdvisor and Where I've Been certainly sound like travel apps.
Exactly. I have no doubt she is very intelligent and _could_ have been a scientist if she had chosen to. But until she publishes her own peer-reviewed research or gets an advanced science degree, she is "an actress with a BA in psychology", thank you. She's impressive enough w/o artificial hype.
It's about Natalie Portman.

"handful of high-profile actors who happen to have serious scientific credentials"

Hedy Lamarr, Danica McKellar, Mayim Bialik, and Leonard Nimoy all get substantial mentions in the article. The article is framed around Ms. Portman but the inclusion of the other actors indicate that it is not just about her. Certainly Dylan (who has actually performed with Ms. Portman) is more relevant than the other actors who, AFAICT, have not.
Foodspotting Comes to Android
~$15 / month total from three apps in the app store. Two paid, one ad-based. Half comes from ads.
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Happens mostly at conferences for me, sometimes at networking events. Especially if I'm at an open source software booth. I don't look like "a hacker", so prevailing stereotypes apply. Last year it happened at least once at each of 3 conferences I attended and staffed a booth at last year.
I've had both CLR's Algorithms book and Skiena's on my wishlist for a while, and would be curious to hear why you prefer Skiena's.

I had a copy of CLR back in school, but like most of my textbooks from back then, I'm sure I sold it for food. Before rebuying the same book, I figured I'd see if Skiena's might be better.
Frederick Schauer [link] showed over 25 years ago that any slippery slope argument depends on a prediction that doing the right thing in the instant case will in fact increase the likelihood of doing the wrong thing in the danger case. If there is in fact no danger, then the fact that there logically could be has no weight. For instance, the federal taxing power theoretically empowers the government to tax incomes at 100%, thereby wrecking the economy. But there’s no slippery slope, because there is no incentive to do this, so it won’t happen.

Oh, so that explains why we stopped at 91%, during the Eisenhower administration.

The slippery slope argument may be a logical fallacy, but humans are not logical creatures. Hence the author is guilty of illogic, himself.
San Diego, CA. Remote ok. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only be working with other great engineers.

The most important requirements is to be passionate about creating software and be able to quickly grasp new technologies. Other requirements include strong knowledge of Javacript, experience with Ruby, Java, SQL, Git.

Contact me directly if you are interested, email is in my profile.
So I know people keep asking this, but I am dying to hear what industry / niche your dipshit company was in. Obviously you are out now, so no need to keep secrets?? :)
The internet is the largest record of human history in existence. If you don't see the problem with it being created and curated by white and asian males the issue lies with you.
The point wasn't the degree. But more that she made the semifinals of the Intel Science Talent Search -- that in itself is prestigious, but at the same time (and I quote):

"She’d been in films directed by Woody Allen, Tim Burton and Luc Besson, appeared opposite Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Drew Barrymore and I’m getting tired of typing celebrity names here. She took on the major role of Queen Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy that rocketed her to international fame."

To be honest, I'm not sure there's any degree where the mere act of receiving it would be more impressive than the above feat.
Right. Our idea was to have a original name, easy to spell and that was also related to an exotic place which is the Mentawaii island.
The problem is rational people disagree over whether B is irrational, and whether A is rational.
> Whether sharing in the digital realm is compatible with profit is an equally important question, but the onus is on producers to figure that out (current evidence seems to indicate that it's not such a big problem, given record box office revenue in 2010, for example).

Part of the problem with the piracy debate is that advocates of unrestricted personal use copying tend to pitch it as sticking it to The Man, where the man in question is a big name movie studio that puts annoying unskippable messages on the front of every DVD or a record label that charged absurd prices for CD singles for a few years.

This is a problem because (a) many smaller companies and individuals rely on copyright protection just to make a living, and (b) many copyright-protected works are developed because they are useful rather than because they are inherently fun to work on, artistic, or otherwise worthy of volunteer effort. In their haste to show that Big Media "can afford it", critics of copyright seem amazingly willing to overlook the number of small businesses from inde games developers to niche publishing houses that have been going to the wall in recent years as the Internet has made copying quick, easy, and practically free.

There is a valid argument when assessing damages from copyright infringement that not every copy made necessarily represents a lost sale. You can't know for sure either whether everyone would have bought the product at its legal asking price or whether the free but illegal distribution channels have positive effects on legal sales because of secondary effects like advertising.

However, there is also a valid argument that we don't really know how much work would be created in a world where copyright was fully respected or could be strictly enforced, but never gets made because the current illegal activity makes it too risky to get a project off the ground in the first place.

> It's quite simply infeasible (technologically, legally, socially, and culturally) to demand that people stop sharing because the power of sharing and of stealing are too closely related.

People used to make that sort of argument about driving after a couple of pints at lunch time and about driving while using a phone. They were always better than everyone else, and what harm did it really do?

And yet, today there is no doubt in the mind of anyone who has seen the real evidence, or worse, the result of a driver who overestimated their competence and caused a crash, that we should not condone bad driving just because it means some people will have to suffer some minor inconvenience.

The trouble with the copyright debate is that while we have ample empirical data to support policy on driving law at this point, we simply don't know exactly the effects of different models for promoting content distibution to consumers while still incentivising the original creation and sharing by artists.
AND-LET* is a nice generalization: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-2/srfi-2.html
In honor of her scholarly pursuits, beauty and skill as an actor, we gave one of our products the internal codename 'Natalie' last year.
I do not wish to claim it. But when I and others say "Free Software", we mean a particular thing. Whether or not you agree with that makes no difference to the reality of the history of the movement.

And yes, "Open Source" includes GPL licensed software, but it does not include the philosophy that I'm interested in and that I think to be vital to community cohesion.
I realized saying "it's a trivial exercise" without showing some code isn't very useful, so here's everything you need:

1) Add these imports to your class:

using IronPython.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Scripting;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;

2) Instantiate your engine & scope in the appropriate location:

mEngine = Python.CreateEngine();
mScope = mEngine.CreateScope();

3) Add variables to your scope like this:

mScope.SetVariable("ThisIsWhatTheScriptSees", mReferenceToYourObject);
mScope.SetVariable("Cars", mCars);
mScope.SetVariable("Dog", mDog);

4) Load your script up:

var source = mEngine.CreateScriptSourceFromString(strYourScript,
SourceCodeKind.Statements);

5) Run it!

source.Execute(mScope);

* You can call the stuff you added to your scope from inside your script:

if Dog.IsTame:
name = Dog.CheckName()

for car in Cars:
car.BeepHorn()

* Alright, this is a little more than 2 lines, but I think you get the drift. Good luck!
Never mind the fact that this is vapourware, but I'm just not sure I would use such an application.

What separates this in terms of functionality from the likes of google's free compose mail chrome extension.

I don't argue that the looks are nice, but in my opinion panel notifiers or buttons such as these are rather infuriating to use.

As someone else has mentioned, Keyboard shortcuts would make this a more attractive option.