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Apogee has a good reputation in the music industry, and this is a product where manufacturing quality matters a great deal. Unlike HDMI cables, the 1/4" adapter must perform analog-digital conversion. This is a lossy, signal-altering process, so you want to use the highest quality converter available.
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If I needed $750 more than I had in the bank, and knew I could pay it all back in a month, I would put some of my expenses on plastic. Back when I was fresh out of school in a not-very-well-paying job, and had recently completed a debt management plan to pay off the bills I had run up as an undergrad, I got plenty of unsolicited offers for credit cards; eventually I had something like a total credit line over $10K with interest in the 20–25% range.

So who are these people out there who “need” short-term credit so badly, and yet can’t find anyone to loan to them at anything short of quadruple-interest rates? Is it really good for society to have a company fill this “need”?

(Just to forestall flag-waving about contracts between consenting adults being sacred: The banking system, without which easy credit would be impossible, is even more dependent on the state than other kinds of private industry. As the de facto lender of last resort, the state has a legitimate interest in what kinds of lending it permits among its citizens.)
And you can't even take a 100px x 100px cut out of some of those excellent screens to put in a portfolio? A widget? Obscuring actual client information?

Somehow, that just doesn't sound right. You have to put yourself in the shoes of someone hiring. Make an effort to show me your work.

Password protected is ok, by the way, just send me the password in your application.
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This link might clear things up for you: http://bit.ly/ecPfxv
It does look a little crappy at 32x32, but hey - it is the dev build. I expect that it'll be cleaned up before it hits general use.

Also: linking to a comment way down the page? Bad form.
Right, that's what I figured.
I think this dualism is absolutely necessary as you have a chance to have a very simple, one-field sign up for non-developer users whereas right now the friction is pretty high (five fields, separate page).
I suppose they had to launch the brand new browser with a 3D Spherical icon when joining the market along with IE, Firefox and Safari, but now they're comfortable enough with awareness of the browser that they want to 'innovate'.
A web designer should know where they can showcase their work, right? Suggesting a free hosting service is making the hirer do all the work. Just saying.

I'm just posting these to share my frustration with the applications I get. The majority of them are so incredibly lazy. Spell check. If you're a designer, have an online portfolio. Etc.
I'm a little scared of being too social.
So basically, according to this graph, coal, oil and natural gas cause way more deaths per unit of energy produced than other energy sources, and notably, nuclear energy is by far the least dangerous.

That's interesting, if it's true.
Did you have at least have passion for it when you started it? If so, what made that change?
This article looks a lot like a scheme tutorial to me. That is not to say that it isn't interesting and written well. It's just not what's advertised.

Anyhow, for some things Scheme can produce efficient applications. However, other things are extremely inefficient in Scheme. There's no way around the fact that C is still much better at producing small, efficient, native apps.

It's much easier to get things going in Scheme. But then when you want to finish off a project to a high standard, the language itself becomes the limiting factor. The lack of optional typing, lack of native 32 and 64 bit integers (for some things you really need all 64 bits), inefficient string handling libraries (especially substrings), lack of standardised object oriented stuff and standardised foreign function interface and a general lack of available efficient and full-functioned libraries all end up causing frustration.
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We're working with app developers to arrange for high-value deals, similarly to how Groupon does.

From a user perspective, at worst, it's perhaps the easiest way to discover new apps you may not have heard of. We do have 'free' apps that are featured, and we don't discriminate, so long as we think the app is worthwhile.

At best, we have arranged deals that we've arranged for '1 day discounts' that will be exclusive to AppDiem. So, whether or not there are free alternatives, I believe there's value in getting an app at a discount. There are plenty of invaluable apps worth paying for. Who wouldn't want to get them at a reduced price?
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"Should I keep my day job?"

Yes. In my experience if you don't know deep in your heart that what you are doing is what you should be doing, then maintaining gainful employment until you can find that passion is recommended.

edit: I shouldn't type in the morning.
"The movie industry is used to getting random articles changed when they don't like them."

They have a big stick: they can just remove access. Then what is a movie site / news org going to write about?
I worked for the same company for 7 years - similar situation, did way too much and was WAY (my opinion) too valuable. There was much that I did that no one else could ever do. It reached the point where I couldn't take it anymore so I gave up the golden handcuffs and quit to start my own company.

You know what - they didn't miss me at all. There were a couple of "how do we do this" type calls but that was it. However, six months later I was hiring people from the old company. The best decision I ever made was to leave.
Start over.
Passion is everything -- especially for a single founder.
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"Wonga"

I never would have learned that word without Damon Hill.
Excellent point. :)
Just keep in mind that "something big" is just relative. What you're making may be "big" to the people you're targeting, which may only make up a tiny fraction of the people out there. So, does that still make it "big"?

Also, selling your current codebase seems to be a very real option. I've never done it, but I know there are sites where you can sell your half-started websites, etc. Have you thought about just putting your code up on GitHub so that it may potentially attract an open-source following of people that want to use it?

It sounds to me like your mind is already made up. You know what you want to do.
You're assuming an intact core.

No, I'm not.

Criticality is a function of density, shape and temperature, in addition to mass. Melt the fuel rods, and the guarantees of that nice, well-moderated behavior are off.

It is impossible for the uranium in a nuclear power plant to become critical in the absence of a moderator. Even if it's shaped into a sphere and supercooled. Add heat, and it gets further away from criticality (mostly due to doppler broadening; partly due to thermal expansion). Change the shape, and it gets further away from criticality (because there's more surface area to lose neutrons).
So products which take a long time to initially build and release simply can't be successful? That just seems like an extreme and limiting economic theory to me, and one which requires a lot more data and lot less rhetoric than the current hype about launching quickly is producing.
This is awesome.

Any plans to expose an API? This would help rescue teams that are stuck in jira or trac.
Hmmmmm!!! this is great. You are even lucky. In this part of the world where I am, there is no opportunity to get fund to start any idea. All I do is put up the UI. I have many UI of various idea I would have love to start up as a biz. I think you shld continue working on it, when it get to a stage you can hand it over to people to manage you instead of abandoning it. You can as well be working on the other project. For me, I can't program and that has been a very blocking stone 4me. Good luck
As a musician I would suggest giving a "real toy instrument" to your son such as toy drums etc. -- it will allow him to form an early understanding of how objects produce sounds (i.e., bigger cavity = lower sound, pressure on surface = higher sound, etc.)
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He recounts to Francis Spufford here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/...

that he learned to program on an Acorn Atom.

Still got mine :)
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Ask HN: Rate my startup - automated financial planner
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When I started, I had the same pain point, so I needed the solution myself. Then I quit my job to build the thing and now I don't need it any more...
You have a mistaken view of what makes a technology revolutionary. Sometimes what seems to outsiders like a minor design tweak makes something immensely better. For example, Watt didn't invent the steam engine. His big discovery (he also made several smaller ones) was something called the separate condenser. Unless you're fairly knowledgeable about steam engines, you'll have to look that up to know what it means. But this tweak to Newcomen's design was so important that it caused a qualitative change in the way steam engines were used.
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I would be unsurprised to find a talented designer had only ever designed for someone else, and that someone else had always done the web stuff. Just saying.

And I share your frustration - I get equivalent things constantly. I have several form letters that can be sent with minimal effort to maximal effect. Depends how much you care.
Suppose Vladimir has an incorporated business in Russia, comes to the USA with his laptop and does some work for a USA startup from his laptop VPNned to his home base in Russia. The bills are sent from his Russian business address. After a while when his tourist visum expires, he flies back. Would this be viable?
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I really like interviews with programming language creators, especially programming languages I like.
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The APR is a ridiculous amount, but you're not supposed to borrow over a year.

It's a bit like saying that "Based on weekly rental rates, it would cost me £50,000 to rent a [insert basic model of car here] for a year! What a rip-off! I could buy one cheaper than that!"
Yeah, it's a third-party plugin. There are a few ways I could smooth it out.
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You shouldn't apply to YC if...you don’t have the heart and the team to go through five product pivots in three months and back... (from article)
The thousands of children (now adults) near Chernobyl with thyroid cancer don't show up in these stats, since they're not all dead.

Doesn't necessarily change the conclusions but worth noting.
Not to detract from the nice job, but I think it would be even better with sound added to emphasize the intensity and sense of bombardment.

Related: radiation map - http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=4870 (Miyagi and Fukushima are still under survey at this point.)
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~$1000/day is pretty standard for corporate software training; I know a previous employer paid about that much to send me to a few SAP courses.
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There you go then! Just pick one, and start banging away :)

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I tell you that Facebook brews a mighty strong pitcher of Kool-aid.
And, so far, all the troubles at the nuclear reactors have produced a grand total of zero deaths.

Make that one death. One worker died as a result of the the crane he was working in becoming unbalanced and falling over.
Misogyny is alive and well in technology circles
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What would it take for you to stay behind in a failing nuclear plant?
Just wondering what it would take for people to stay behind in a failing nuclear plant (like what is occurring right now).
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I've seen

#define true false

Think they do it just for fun sake. Evil.
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The sources look good [1] In particular, the deaths as a result of hydroelectric power caught some catastrophic failures. Dams are very, very dangerous constructions, and have a failure mode that makes a nuclear plant look safe by comparison. Just one major Hydroelectric Dam [2], Bangiao, was responsible for on the order of 50,000 deaths related directly to the Dam Failure.

[1] http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
Since I dont have a rich history of startups, my opinion would boil down to this.

The single best decision I made was to be a founder for my startup.

The next best decision I made was knowing who my co-founders will need to be. The people I ended up choosing were chosen due to their work ethics, their drive, their commitment, their tenacity and their deep expertise and willingness to pivot.

With those two things, the willingness to step out of my comfort zone and lassoing two brilliant and ethical minds around my product idea, I dont care if I fail this time around. Eventually We will succeed.
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It's going to be automated, so a hacker will only see a password if they choose to log in manually to that account for some reason.
But will this work with someone living and working in Russia? It's one thing to work remotely in the US for a US company and it's an entirely different ballgame to do this when you are outside the US. Am I right?

EDIT: grammar
Conflating race and socio-economic status is a pretty classic justification for racism.
I'm finding the Nuclear Reactor Safety course interesting -- lecture notes and slides are available.
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Guaranteed super powers. For starters.
Same reason people are much more afraid to fly than drive, despite statistics- We're not scared of dying so much as dying in a catastrophe. Also notice that natural gas is especially low, even though everyone who's ever had gas heat has imagined their house exploding.

I'm pro-nuclear myself, but you could argue that these stats are somewhat misleading, since nuclear deaths would tend to come in bunches and the fears are based on what could happen, not what has happened.

You could also conclude that nuclear weapons are extremely safe to have around since they haven't killed anyone for 65 years.
I've seen lots of nuclear physicists say "micro sieverts" when they mean "micro sieverts per hour". Apparently radiation levels are normally cited in hourly dosages, so people get lazy and don't say the "per hour" part...
One of the most important bits to pull out of this article, is that when you ask the kernel for memory, it doesn't actually do anything other than update its accounting of available memory and VA space - when you touch the page, you page fault and the kernel actually gives you a physical frame. The NT kernel (and I suspect any other production OS) works the same way.
You're right, we should separate the tech blog from the normal blog. We'll definitely work on the theme as well, we've been concentrating on the main page to be honest.
I mean something big like Amazon, Facebook, Google big.

I haven't considered selling my code. I probably won't sell just the code. If I have to sell, I'll sell the whole company.
It was pretty humorous being in the Facebook YC Hacker meetup, and a facebookie referred to any non-facebook-hosted page as "only interesting to the Google SEO bots"... With a straight face. It wasn't a joke. (!!)
My job search experience in a small western college town has pretty much mirrored yours. I'm a grad student so I'm only looking for part time work, and about twice a year I send out a few applications for development positions and almost always get as many offers as I applied to, from which I either take a better position or use as leverage at my current position. I'm not a CS student, but I think my resume (where I list tons of projects completed and programming languages I'm comfortable with) stands out against the CS student/new grad resumes they're probably swamped with.

Occasionally I'm turned down for something like not remembering some syntax triviality, something that could easily be looked up; that's a sure sign that I wouldn't want to be working there.
Are the current typography settings better?

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if you know nobody inside yc..
You're splitting hairs. A company whose valuation rises enough for this to become an issue is very rich in a very real sense.

Second, most events that would cause such a huge rise in valuation are accompanied by a huge influx of cash. There may be some tiny edge cases, but a gangbusters IPO ain't one. The bill is due once a year, and imagining a company being without the cash for it stretches my imagination to the breaking point.

Third, "being asked now for money they don't have yet" is the entire reason the company is selling equity in the first place. They can surely budget for an extra 0.015 of an already proportionally tiny amount.

Fourth, they aren't taxed on valuations but on, to coin a term, their employees' realized compensation. This may be based on valuation, but justifiably so, since compensation is compensation.

Hell, a company with bottomless greed and a deep commitment to nickle & diming could probably find a way write the tax bill into their options contracts.

Fifth, the weird part of the law is that it is structured as a payroll tax rather than as an income, capital gains, or wealth tax.

Otherwise it appears to be a very honest attempt to fairly tax different forms of compensation in a non-regressive way.
I think Netflix isn't trying to minimize the risk, but rather "test the waters" as it were to see what level of risk exists.

It's more of an experiment than a business strategy.
I read through the article explaining how the numbers were calculated and the thyroid cancer is noted. The analysis provided could be disputed on methodology but at least there are references you can check if you want to improve upon it.
From the sources:

"But what about Chernobyl ?
The World Health Organization study in 2005 indicated that 50 people died to that point as a direct result of Chernobyl. 4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after the fact and the cause and effect becomes more tenuous.

He explains that there have been 4000 cases of thyroid cancer, mainly in children, but that except for nine deaths, all of them have recovered. "Otherwise, the team of international experts found no evidence for any increases in the incidence of leukemia and cancer among affected residents.""
Quick google tells me its $7.25/hour, is that really the case? Sure is decent in most of Russia, depends on the city though.
Yeah, I'm responsible for the bug :P, we rollbacked the broken update and will look at it later.

The initial services we are going to integrate with are the usual suspects:

* Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare for social marketing
* Google analytics for website traffic data
* Zendesk for user support
* Mailchimp for mail campaigns
* Bit.ly to track urls
* Highrise CRM
* Google AdWords and AdSense

As the product grows and the users propose new services, we'll integrate them.

On top of that, we'll provide a HTTP API to provide your own metrics.
Everyone wants to do something really "big" that they're really excited about. If you've found that really big idea then sure, move on. If not keep in mind that your passion for whatever you do next will someday wane as well.
I think it needs a clarification.. As a gamer, a map is basically the virtual place where you play and quake is a famous shooter game. So, basically, I thought that "japan quake map" was a map for the quake game.

It, by no means, was an insult/bad joke about the current situation in Japan as we all know how terrible it is.
Thanks so much for writing this. I've been a UX consultant for almost 20 years and it's always good to see these kinds of things as some of us forget the simple things over time.

Also, this is a great tool to share with project teams that think wireframing has no place in an Agile or "Lean" methodology. Wireframing can, as you have eloquently put, be very simple and FAST and is not considered a "deliverable", nor should it be. It's a means to the end result of a good solid set of requirements (both functional and UX).
My God, if that happened near my city, it would be completely wiped off the face of the earth.
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Howdy HN,

What analytics tools do you recommend for a SaaS Web App?

Post-launch we're focused on:

* User interaction within the funnel [1]
* Heat-mapping user interaction within the app
* Revenue per page / keyword (paid and organic)

We're launching with Crazyegg and Google Analytics, but I'd love a better perspective on the tools you use and recommend.
I personally have never had a hard time finding work, so don't consider it a complaint from my end, but I've also always been able to work with the hirer to get them that information.

To put it into perspective though, most of my clients are federal government agencies, and yeah, to them, even a 100x100 pixel screenshot is tantamount to treason.
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I believe the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) have been ignoring meta keywords for years now.

link: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-do...