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Seriously, Stuckite, are you on crack?

Quite apart from the fact that my website makes it clear that my business is secure installations of WordPress and not SEO, it is a tad dumb of you not to have noticed that that there is zero SEO benefit to commenting on HN - the standard link above my comment is to my HN profile and that doesn't even list my website.

The only way to connect me with my business would be if you were so incredibly PARANOID about other commenters, so crazy to prove yourself right in an essentially meaningless forum, that you would go to the insane lengths of googling to find dirt on them ... and, failing to find dirt, make some shit up.

I said 9 days because bhousel said 9 days and, no, I didn't bother to fact-check that piece of information, I didn't rush to look at your profile, because what we are doing here is ... drum roll please ... HAVING SOME FUN!!!

Now, as it turns out, bhousel was wrong ... by ONE DAY. Your profile says that you created your account 10 days ago, not the 37 days you claim. Really. Feel free to go take a look.

So, wow, not only are you this completely paranoid freak who goes around googling your fellow HN commenters but, bizarrely, you're also too lazy to quickly double-check your own profile to make sure that you aren't about to make the provably false claim that you registered 37 days ago. I mean, why would you do that? What are you thinking?

And, no, I'm not being a prick here; you're the zero-karma ass whose very first comment to HN was to make a completely ridiculous complaint about the submitter - the submitter who has, you know, actually DONE something, not just sat in the audience whinging.

Armchair critics like you never amount to much, they certainly don't launch start-ups, so, please, save us your pearls of wisdom and feel free to go on back to sucking on your crack pipe.
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I'm not sure Rev3 and TWIT should merge. TWIT seems to focus more on niche tech topics like Security Now and Floss Weekly so they can build a relatively small loyal following. Rev3 seems to be going for the mass market, which is why they produce lots of movie and game review shows.

Rev3 is more like G4 while TWIT is more like TechTV.
Y'all are missing another part of his value proposition - he spends, or fails to get back, $49 and in return gets something to blog about and a lot of hits.
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That is a good point, but is it really worth it for a bunch of strangers to debate the issue based on a blog post? I don't understand what anyone has to gain by examining his personal psychological makeup.
Failure here. Outsourced development of an iPhone app for $700. The outsourcing went great. He was the lowest bidder and developed the app ahead of schedule with few bugs. The app never caught on though, and at my current revenue rate, I'll make back the investment in 25 years.
Man, that earthquake in Japan was sure bad leadership.
If you assume that the vast-majority of non-frequent fliers book solely on price

Is that a fair assumption? I know a lot of non-frequent fliers who only fly SouthWest or Singapore, etc... These places seem to do well and have good reputations. And for people that don't travel as much, confidence in the airline often means something.

I don't actually know the data, but I wouldn't be surprised if United fared really poorly among those who don't fly often. I don't fly much, but I know enough to avoid them and Continental like the plague.
I don't understand - all actual purchases go through mandatory, non-customizable Apple UI. There's a "Confirm your In-App Purchase" AlertView, which will also trigger the entry of your iTunes password if you haven't purchased recently. It would be very difficult to misunderstand the purpose of these dialogs. Am I missing something?
Awesome, one of my fav Twilio apps. Great job guys!
Sounds really interesting, I look forward to reading it.
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This is not an airline user forum. It's an entrepreneurship forum. The point is not to discuss his rights and opportunities as a consumer. The point is to learn something about customer service and the business tradeoffs of different refund policies.
This is a known issue with United's pricing system, and something you should be aware with when you buy from them. It's bitten me a couple of times, both in cases where a family member had just died or was about to die, and so I'm not inclined to be charitable.

Most recently, I had an issue where I was scheduled to fly home for Thanksgiving, but my father's condition worsened suddenly a week before then (he'd been in the hospital for about a month before) and the nurses informed me he wasn't going to make it until then. I looked into moving up my flight by a week - it was significantly more expensive than just buying a new ticket. I also looked into buying a one-way ticket: it was also more expensive than buying a roundtrip with a random end date. So I just bought a completely new round-trip ticket, ate the cost of the old one, and didn't show up for it.

Fine, whatever, I had the money and didn't feel like fighting. But maybe this is why I frequently end up with an empty seat next to me on United, even when the plane is supposedly booked solid. (Hey, I'm also fine with that, but it seems like from a purely business perspective, the airline would want to sell that seat to somebody else...)

It's interesting to contrast this with Southwest, which will give you a credit for the cost of the flight if you reschedule anytime within the next year. Southwest in general does a very good job of minimizing perverse incentives on the part of passengers and flight attendants, and their bottom line seems to reflect that.
Ask HN: Startup Advice for College Students
Dear Hacker News,

I am currently a student at Northeastern University. Lately (last three or four months), I have thought more and more about founding a company. The next questions becomes; what is the best way to prepare myself to do that? Of course, everyone says "nothing can prepare you for it." I am sure that is true. But just because I cannot fully prepare for it before-hand does not mean I should not try to be as prepared as I can.

I know smart and talented, dedicated, programmers. I have plenty of time to learn about anything that interests me (which I do). But I'd like to do more.

So my question to you is: What are things you wish you had been told while you were in college? Things that would have prepared you better to found a startup, or at least seriously maim the status-quo.
Same for me, until I got a Nexus One.

I was using an HTC TyTn2 that I didn't purchase at a Cingular Store and I was on the $15 data plan.
Never got caught with this phone, probably because they didn't know what phone to map my IMEI to.

I got a Nexus One for AT&T last year, and received an auto upgrade SMS shortly after, saying that my Nexus One required another plan...
That's not what the author was doing though. He could have written suggesting how they ought to improve their business, but no, he wrote complaining about how they had done exactly what he knew they would do when he bought the ticket.
Or Hebrew.
Is editing code on a very dark background the norm now, or just the Hot New Thing?
0.238 * 0.000127 * 100 * 1700000 * 550 * 0.093 * 0.266 = 7000

So they assume 90.7% of messages get caught by spam filters.

Apparently they send out around 1 billion emails, 23.8% of which gets delivered. Around 2600 people read the emails, and a quarter of them will an average of $100.
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Digg showed a lot of people that crowd-sourced editorial curation could work. While Digg certainly wasn't the first to do this, I think it was the first to reach a certain level of critical mass to make it an incredibly compelling news portal.
I'd love to have a try but I am unable to figure out how to call from the UK.
I haven't said that OOP is a type of polymorphism, I only said that OOP has a type of polymorphism, that is its most important property and easy to overlook when talking about OOP.

I'm also not saying that you could throw away the rest - thinking in objects has value, having the ability to inherit implementation has value (in certain cases) and so on; so definitely the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts.

The comment I responded to said OOP is a metaphor ... but now you're saying it's like a Ford Focus with a certain type of combustion engine. That's exactly my point - it's easy to overlook what makes it tick.

And you asks questions to which you (probably) know the answer.

Multimethods are sweat, but a bitch to optimize and only useful in certain use-cases - that's why Clojure is backing away from them. Single-dispatch is what you need in 80% of the cases and it can be optimized aggressively ... notice the JVM where most method-calls end up not doing a vtable-lookup (not that you can have a vtable with multimethods).

C++ / Java handle OOP so poorly because these are languages with a static type system that can't blend in with OOP (where method dispatching is done at runtime). But that's what people asked for.
Oh, come on. How many successful startups can you list that are benevolent world-changing businesses versus how many are simply solving some technical problem or a fun distraction.
Some people are happy being an employee. Some people are happy starting a business just big enough to support themselves. Some people want to "swing for the fences" and make a fortune and/or change the world.

Just because the majority of those swinging for the fences fail doesn't mean it's not an worthwhile choice. If only 1 out of 20 of those people do make a difference, but the difference is 20x more than 20 small businesses combined, then that group is net ahead in difference-making.

All are valid paths in life. It's simply a matter of choosing the best option for yourself based on your risk profile and ambitions.
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Feel free to ping me if you want someone to look over your idea (don't if it's in any of these spaces which I'm involved in: recruitment, marketing analytics, advertising)
Yeah, totally. Though I think I remember reading that it was her editors who really controlled that story (and the title/cover). In any case, I've been pleased to see her appear to grow tremendously as a journalist over the past few years.
You can write to both masters at the same time in a MySQL multi-master circular replication setup. It's done via auto_increment_increment and auto_increment_offset configuration settings in my.cnf - each server generates autoincrement keys that are unique to that server.
The mostly likely reason is probably familiarity. Most languages use the 'new' operator to create new objects, so it seems natural to follow the same pattern when creating a JS API that will likely be consumed by people who come from other languages.

The main advantage of Douglas Crockford's power constructor pattern is that it allows truly private variables or functions. I used to be adamant that this was the right way to go (and I still appreciate the pattern), but then I found that just following the convention of prefixing private members with an underscore worked fine--most people understand that it means "private". My code also started to look a little neater. All of my instance members are actually tied to the 'this' context object, rather being spread between nested functions or local variables declared within the constructors, and public/privileged methods declared on the new object itself.
And getting all those minerals back to Earth, and building sustainable communities on the moon, costs as much or more than the value derived, hence zero ROI. And we're not going anywhere in space till we have more efficient propulsion than we have now. Isn't the energy/propulsion problem the one we should be focusing on first?
I don't teach math the way you are thinking about it though. What I mean by math is more like the way of thinking and not specific math concepts.

I mean they learn boolean logic but really it is more of gaining comfort with defining and working with functions, domain, range, and variables.
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It may be hot, it may be the norm, but it certainly isn't new....
Why 20M and not 200M? Or 2B? The question is, can it scale? If so, why not show the VCs how it's a potential 1B+ company rather than 20M?
I was just joking about SSI as a startup, but I'd wager that unlocking the secrets of the fundamental particles of the universe has a great deal more potential than even ISS's best experiments.

One of our biggest problems re space exploration and colonizing other planets is that our energy and propulsion systems suck for the task. Imho, materials science, nanotech, and further drilling down into sub-atomic mechanics is where we're more likely to make breakthroughs in things like energy generation, storage, and efficient propulsion.
> How do we make a world that harnesses rather than suppresses this enormous amount of creative and industrious energy that is not being utilized?

I think this is exactly what we're seeing more of. Sites like reddit really allow for people to tap into their inner creativity and make something that makes other people happy (like rage comics).

Of course, no one is making money off rage comics (except reddit). I'd love to see more start-up ideas that empower regular people to make a living doing something they could be happy doing. In fact, I'd love to just hear some ideas along those lines, because my brain fails when brainstorming about this.
To me, Allen Downey is the Salman Khan of programming education.
It's a little weird, isn't it? At least in public, Leo has always been exceptionally kind to Kevin & I think he was a very influential in Kevin's development. Yet Kevin has never seemed interested in teaming up and I always wondered if Leo wasn't a little hurt by that.
Only unexpected change is undesirable. The reason that all change is met with the same hostility is due to the processes set up to document the changes that are wanted.
Obviously they don't want it to become a money pit, but I still think it only makes sense to consider app store revenues in the big picture of the entire iOS business. I'm sure they'd rather it were profitable but even if the store ran at a reasonable loss it would still be an essential and healthy pillar of their business.
well, kuro5hin and others had done this before. Digg was the first to break through to broad usage on this (at least in the US).
Does the 888 number cost you a lot? Or have we reached the point where so many callers are on mobiles, and mobile operators are happy to charge for minutes, that toll-free numbers cost little/nothing on receiving side?
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Sorry, Digg executed their way to a top 100 website. Right now it's number 111 in Quantcast.

How do you define success?
What's to stop someone on $15/k a year jumping on the internet, finding some good contract work and easily doubling or tripling this? If they are great developers.
Haskell is not sufficiently practical for real world programming
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Dial 00.
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True, but the result is low prices and that's what they market.

The other big advantage is that they are ubiquitous. Outside of major cities, Walmarts are everywhere.
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The background of the correlated website (http://www.correlated.org/) just gave me a seizure. I wonder how many people that had seizures also like sushi.
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That's sorta what Slingshot Labs was with News Corp. They were a separate company but were funded by News Corp with the goal of innovating and generating new "startups". Employee's had equity in the company.
you have a declaration without initialization there. Variables should always be initialized - this removes another large potential source of bugs.

UINT uFlags = DST_ICON | DSS_NORMAL;

or in C++

UINT uFlags( DST_ICON | DSS_NORMAL );

Also, declare variables const whenever possible.
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Alex worked at Twitter, pretty world changing if you ask me.
I recently wanted a Zurich -> San Francisco -> Buenos Aires -> Zurich ticket. This was either not possible or unreasonably priced so I ended up with two independent tickets, one for the Zurich -> SF round trip and another with a SF -> BA round trip. Well the BA -> SF return stopped in NYC one day and SF -> Zurich stopped there the next day and I didn't see much point flying across the country on consecutive days, so I tried to cancel those legs of my ticket (buying the ticket without these superfluous legs would have cost $2000 more than what I bought). Cancelling the first cross-country flight was going to cost around $200 so instead I just walked out of the airport in NYC after clearing customs.

I tried to cancel the second, but Continental told me that I couldn't cancel part of the trip and would have to rebook with no credit from my existing ticket (a 1-way NYC -> ZRH would be $2700, compare to a round trip at $600). Fortunately, the NYC -> ZRH leg was operated by Lufthansa which apparently doesn't talk very closely with Continental because they didn't blink an eye when I showed up at the airport after "missing" the Continental flight from SF. Had Continental been operating the last leg, they would have turned me away and I'd have been stuck buying a new ticket, but still better off than formally cancelling because of not paying the cancellation fee.

I had hoped that ubiquitous online travel indexing would bring some sanity to the airline pricing model, but this does not seem to be happening. I fail to see how having ticketed passengers that don't plan to fly, financially rewarding passengers for being deceptive about which flights they will board, and incentivising mixed-carrier tickets for the flexibility they lend is helpful to their bottom line.
Loved the presentation. When I saw the team, the first thought I had was "oh god, this is going to be awkward". I'm happy to be wrong.

A few questions:

- how do you know your character? I see there are letters on them, but how is this related to the phone number?

- what is the process to show a room over a projector?

- what happens if you button-mash?
Try it on FreeBSD or Solaris 11, in general I have found it to perform better on the same hardware.
Note that my colleague Dave Herman (on the TC39 committee; i.e. the JavaScript standards committee) is working on an official modules proposal for the next version of JavaScript, code-named Harmony. See here for examples: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:simple_modul...
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Isn't reddit primarily about the comments/community? I don't see a way of logging in/creating a throwaway account or commenting on the particular podcasts?
TWiT has a lot of air time to spare on produced content.

You mention two of the least watched TWiT shows... They are more defined by This week in, Macbreak, and iPad numbers wise
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I already opened an Issue in github about this. Accordion is fine here. Opera 11.01, Win7.

I'm impressed everything else worked so well, Opera is usually neglected.
I never understood why email servers never adopted something like the 3-way-handshake, which ultimately would increase the bandwidth and processing power required per email. It would theoretically make bot-nets easier to find and protect against. However, I admittedly don't know much about the industry, so there's probably a simple answer.
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I like it for how single-minded it is. Do one thing and do it well.

Here's my one question (and it's not specific to namespace.js)

How to do imports so I can avoid

var obj = new namespace.com.foo.bar.baz.FooBar(...);
Just to be clear (please correct me if I am wrong), this is wrappers for the Cocoa API so you can write Cocoa apps in C#. It doesn't provide cross platform compatibility for apps since there's no UI framework compatibility.
Let me guess - something like Cassandra + Clojure? ^_^
Toll-free numbers often don't accept international calls. Perhaps TouchToneTanks can provide a normal number as well?
Well, correlation certainly isn't causation, but being a data-nerd, I had to take a look. I grabbed Anne Hathaway's web presence from Google Trends, and Berkshire-Hathaway's performance from Google Finance. After a little massaging, I dumped the numbers in to R, and there is indeed a reliable correlation between Anne's (per-week) web presence and B-H's weekly average close (or closest preceding close).

data: hath$AnneTrend and hath$BerkClose
t = 4.6739, df = 373, p-value = 4.135e-06
alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
0.1372140 0.3286587
sample estimates:
cor
0.2352165

It's an R^2 of 0.23, which isn't much, but it's not completely spurious; Scarlett Johansson doesn't show the same pattern (there's a weak correlation, but not reliable at p < 0.05).

Pearson's product-moment correlation

data: hath$ScarlettTrend and hath$BerkClose
t = 1.7687, df = 373, p-value = 0.07775
alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
-0.01016440 0.19071018
sample estimates:
cor
0.09120053

However, Scarlett's career hasn't mirrored Anne's all that well. What about someone a little closer to Anne, say, her Oscar co-host, James Franco? Note that apart from that, the two haven't really done anything together (http://imdb.to/g6vwbp), although I'd say they've both come to fame recently.

data: hath$JamesTrend and hath$BerkClose
t = 4.5991, df = 372, p-value = 5.826e-06
alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
0.1336854 0.3256934
sample estimates:
cor
0.2319475

And that might be the clincher. James's little ups and downs shouldn't match Anne's, and yet his recent rise to prominence seems to share the same, slight relationship to B-K's stock value. Thanks for reading!

(edit: Ugh, awful formatting! Apologies.)
i was done with cnn when I saw a segment titled 'who would jesus vote for?' during the last primary, and their anchors were sitting around a table having a debate.
Yeah, the nuclear reporting in the first couple of days was terrible, someone on the ground would be repeating a few lines they have been given from someone else without the slightest understanding of the workings of the reactor.

Also had 10 minutes of news on an unsubstantiated claim there was another tsunami heading towards the coast, only to be then told there wasn't.
I tried to keep the code simple -- no Python esoterica, only a few objects. So it should be easy to pick up the Python as you go along.

But let me know whether that turns out to be true.
Or perhaps of a challenge your boss encountered. May be a wrong kind of challenge, depending on the boss.