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No, cutting off his ear wasn't rational, but it also wasn't art. I think a reasoned process is rational, but maybe this is getting into semantics.
Yes, and? Are five weeks no vacation or what? This is what you said (just to remind you): “[We] have Summer vacation for schools (unlike the rest of the world).”

That’s blatantly untrue.
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I read the post, I just wanted to publicly appreciate the (frankly, creative) way that the blog was being hosted.

Sometimes it feels like the Hacker News community wants to "place restrictions" on expressions of humor.
Just following Eric Ries and watching the streaming. Too much work on the current startup to actually have the time to join one of the three simulcasts where I live.

And trying to help other HNers with getting the signal out of all the stuff the conf is generating.
Yeah, you're totally right. Except about missing the point.
I guarantee that you don't have 1.79% + 22 cents for all transactions. You've got tiered pricing, which is mostly a bait and switch scam.
http://feefighters.com/blog/tiered-pricing-for-merchant-acco...

If you'd like, you can email me your statement and I'll tell you what you're really paying
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Thank you for your reply. I think they can close this project down without taking me to court
It's in the terms somewhere, I remember this coming up once before on hacker news when something was being linked directly from dropbox.
It is an anti-spam "feature", basically if a spammer can't tell he is being auto banned he won't try to get around the block. Not sure why you got picked up by the filter.
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and the prices per millions ?
Ask HN: When is the HN community most active?
Is there a time of day or day of the week that consistently averages more user activity than others? By user activity I mean reading, submitting, and commenting on posts. I tend to visit in the early evening after work, although I admit I sneak a peek every now and then throughout the day.
I know the feeling... ultimately I decided it was worth it to spend the day watching, and - in retrospect - I think it was worth it just for Steve's presentation. Not that there was't a lot of other great content as well.
I agree with your analysis that sale = acceptable price discrimination, but I think there's more to it when they do a sale on release day. That's when most of the people willing to pay full price buy it!

I think it's largely to get people to buy from them instead of iTunes and thus to try CloudDrive and their mp3 service. And also to price discriminate and get people who would have otherwise not bought to buy from them and try CloudDrive and their mp3 service.
Most of the large stuff I have, TV Shows, Movies, Music, Programs are pretty easily replaceable and given I don't do any major amount of graphics or produce much video the main thing that I'm using dropbox for is code which easily fits within the nearly 8 gig limit after all the bonus space on the free account.

I sometimes wonder if they have been to generous, it's one service I would definitely pay for if it had a lower free cap.
right... now this submission is visible again. weird. maybe I need new glasses. :p

check out http://xycombinator.com though
Yes. I am currently hiring and have a candidate that is actually perfect for the job. I will not hire him. Why? Because on his resume he claimed ownership for some very impressive projects, and in the interview it became clear that he was in a very junior role in those projects. As my dad taught me, "Do not lie, cheat, steal, or associate with those who do"

It would be better to be honest about your experience, and if you feel you are lacking in some area, get some experience in the area you need while you are looking for a job.
The rationale for the decisions da Vinci made while painting the Mona Lisa are actually pretty well documented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa .
What about if you were sick and your doctor said you had to stay home?

In Norway we can take up to 3 consecutive days off due to illness 4 times during 12 months. If you work in an extra exposed environment (kindergarten, old people's home) you have more days. If you need more than that, you have to see a doctor. The doctor can give you up to 12 months of leave. During this period the state refunds your employer for your wages (after 14 days or so). Under no circumstances can you be fired due to your illness, and if you can not return to your position your employer will need to provide a new position. This of course can be very bad for small companies and start-ups. So they tend to use temporary employment to circumvent these issues, though there is a limit as to how long you can employ someone temporarily.
I'm sorry if this sounds rude but I can't agree that you have high integrity. If you did, you would have never considered a lie (white or not) just simply because you felt you needed to, regardless of any reason.

I much rather have someone be honest with me, tell me they don't know, but that they will do their best to pick things up fast and learn without hindering the team, and work hard at being the best they can be than someone pretending to know something, try to pick up pieces and then still not be great at what they're supposed to know. Honesty goes a long way and I've never turned anyone down because they lack something but I've certainly turn away countless number of people who've lied even the slightest.

BS meters are easier to trigger than you may think. And honestly, there's no integrity if this was ever a passing thought.

Disclaimer: I've hired many people for my own company as well as have a slew of friends who've hired many people for their own companies/startups. This isn't something new.
I was wondering the same thing, and tracked down the original article:
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nph...

There's a diagram available in the abstract that compares OFDM (the technique they use) with WDM.

Apparently OFDM only uses a single light-source, versus (C|D)WDM, which multiplex multiple discrete wavelengths onto the same fiber.
they are marked dead on a post by post basis, unless (i believe) the account has a history of only posting spam links.

In this case, your link is a duplicate of an earlier/more popular post. So it got auto-deaded
I think they are. I bought the album and at first my locker had only a few of the songs marked as playable, a few minutes later, more were playable, and after maybe 5 minutes they were all playable. To me, the best explanation for this behavior was that it was taking some time for Amazon to copy all my purchased songs over to my locker.

ps: I'm not a big Lady Gaga fan, but for 99 cents I figured I'd give it a whirl.
There was another good one too recently that I can't find, but here's one: http://blog.itlater.com/whats-the-best-time-to-post-to-hacke...
They're going to be selling a lot of photos of food and cats.
This would be a pretty good way to sneak in an affiliate link.

Personally, I found it in a big banner ad on amazon.com/mp3
Now, if only anyone knew what timezone those graphs used we'd be home safe.
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Mine isn't even hung up in downloading; I don't even have the songs in my Cloud music thing. Half of them are just pending somehow.
Advantage of doing it right...
"CNN reported that Twitter acquired the business for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock. If confirmed, the deal would end nearly 6 months of rumors about advanced talks between the two companies."

The headline is misleading. CNN didn't confirm, they just reported on it.
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I don't disagree regarding the dichotomy between Technical/Creative per the article. I also subscribe to Heinlein's "Specialization is for Insects" truism (below).

However, one of the best pieces of advice I ever got from one of my favorite mentors (Bob Muglia) was to never take a job where you have to do something you know you are not good at.

I have always sucked at detailed-status-list tracking. I eventually figured out how to compliment myself with others who could do it. However, at one point in my career when I was looking at new opportunities I saw one that would have forced me to get good a being very detail oriented. When I showed Bob my potential job options and asked for his advice he told me "Don't take the detail job. You will suck at it and you will hate it. You have other super-powers that are valuable and you should focus on finding jobs where you can apply those."

You CAN do anything, and you SHOULD try everything. But in the end, you'll be most successful if you focus on what you know you are great at.

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Uh? Is that new? Whenever I posted something already there I got diverted to it. And I believe the older submission got an extra point. That was cool.

Maybe it's different when the older post was marked as being dead? But I hope there isn't such a lack of humour on HN.
You need innovation at all layers of the stack. imo our engineer friends who work on lower layers of the stack dont get all the press and love they deserve.
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In my experience colours look more vivid on glossy screens than on matte ones. Although usually, especially for laptops that move around, I'd rather have the matte one. I wish every manufacturer offered both.
This is so irritating. Why do people expect new products to be infinitely scalable out of the gates. Of course they're going to show slowdown during a flash event. Because of people like this, great projects like Google Wave get shut down, and all because of people's irrational expectations. "It doesn't do everything... I'm never using this again." Startup projects grow slowly and organically. Just because it's coming from a big company, why do people expect it to be totally different.
Mine is second to newest, officially the MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)

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A former employer of mine stretched that even further by employing interns and freelacers, so he had about two dozen people employed.
What's stopping twitter itself from doing something for photo sharing ? Seems like it's a tested market, users will always prefer twitter image sharing service and there is no risk in trying this.
It's actually a little scary for non-ios devs; isn't Apple recognizing that the patent is valid?
I got caught up in that sort of identity thinking about the time I was getting out of high school but thankfully realized how wrong it was a few years ago. I think that was probably one of the damaging ideas that ever got in my brain.

I'm not sure how much natural talent there is for various skills but I do know that believing in natural talent is harmful.
The employee caries the cost of insurance, tax, etc... in every country: that's the tax incidence concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence).

The fact that from an administrative POV, some part is split between the employee and employer is just that: an administrative convention, but don't be fooled by it.
Glad you noticed that because I didn't and was about to forward it on. The dependence on Flash ruins it for.
Here's the blog post from Lenovo/Thinkpad as to why they switched to 16:9 screens:
http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/2009/04/display-rati...

They say that PC makers have no say in the issue, screen manufacturers are all wide-screen these days.

Yet Apple had no problem sourcing 4:3 displays for their iPad? I guess when there's a will there's a way.
Yes. The vast majority of people do not know how to open a link in different ways. They just click the link. Unless you are making something very techy like github, design for the user that simply clicks on links. Of course, most users expect normal links to open in the current page, so don't just throw target=_blank everywhere.
I think the broad appeal of statistics is because it seems to offer a way of finding truth automaticly, kind of like the allure of neural networks.
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...I doubled the number of tests in our suite to a healthy 101.

What good is half a test? ;)
Someone did actually make (roughly) that point[1], but it was since deleted.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576325 is the thread that was sparked by this comment.
Generalizations like Europe is more expensive than the US make no sense. Where in Europe, where in the US ? There is quite a difference between cost of living in London, Paris and Munich already, and the cost of living in the Bay Area is not the same as Austin.

Even within a given country, the cost of living is very spread out (London and Paris are extremely expensive compared to the average of their respective country for example).
Whether CNN has "confirmed it" or just reported it, CNN Money is certainly an unusual source to break a startup story like this.
Pandora is 6 skips an hour ( More for Pandora One I think)

If you pay for Pandora, you get six skips per hour per station. Free users get six skips per hour, across all stations.
I took the month of August off from my software dev job between my freshmen and sophomore years of college. That was in addition to ~3 weeks of other vacation time spread throughout that year. I spent the month traveling and volunteering. It was unpaid, but my expenses were pretty low at the time and I had enough in savings to get by just fine. I highly recommend it.
It isn't too terribly odd to have 1 to 1.5 months off a year after working for someone for 5 to 10 years

I would actually say that that's very odd, except in very specialized fields.
I'm interested to see what Twitter actually does with the client. Do they EOL it and force a migration to their own official Twitter client? If so, what precedent does this set for other popular third-party client acquisition?

If not, where do they go? Tweetdeck, despite the name, does more than just Twitter—though I'm sure the number of users accessing other networks through it is low—but they're going to need to bring it in-line with their monetisation strategy.
I wouldn't call it disingenuous. Putting a Beta label on a product says clearly "may not always work, proceed at your own risk".

When you need add features faster than you can exhaustively (as in aerospace-grade) test them, it's an act of balance. It has to work well enough to be useful, but it also needs to have the coolest features.

And it's not like, say, Windows, after about a quarter of a century, has been fully debugged.
Ask HN: What approach would you take in my situation?
First, a little background into myself, then I'll tell you my story.

I've been working a corporate job for 6 1/2 years and have been interested in trying to do a startup for a large majority of it. My biggest obstacle has been that all of my friends are either happy with their job or uncomfortable with the risk associated with a startup.

So, last Friday my cousin calls me out of the blue and says he's got a website idea. We get to talking, and he explains that he and a friend of his have this idea but don't have the technical know-how to do it. He explains the idea then asks if it sounds like something I'd be capable of. He originally presents the idea as if he'd contract the development out. I tell him it does sound like something I could do and that I might be interested in partnering with them. So, he arranges to further discuss the idea in person with his friend. We met today.

The idea has promise, but there were some things that set off flags for me. Would they set off flags for you? One, the friend didn't seem to place much stock in a technical co-founder. His offer was 10%, with the logic that he was taking more risks in going after the money and that somebody he talked to said they could built the site for $7000 and walk away. I replied back that not having a technical co-founder would probably be a bad idea for him,and that before meeting him, I was thinking we'd all be equal but wondered if 20% might be closer to acceptable for them. He replied that the two of them would need to talk about it. The other thing that was discussed before that was whether he had any intention of seeking VC or angel money to be able to pay me to work full time. They didn't plan on going that route, and were hoping I could work on it on the side while continuing my full-time job, though they were hoping that I might still be able to finish it within a few months if at all possible. There was more in the discussion about the idea itself, a little brainstorming, and at the end we ended with the two of them saying they'd talk to each other and get back with me.

So, at this point, if you were in my shoes, do you think you'd move forward with these two or walk away? Was I being selfish or selling myself short?
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I'm right there with you. I work for a small VoIP company as a support engineer and even we get decent vacation. Plus we work remotely 60% of the time. I've got it setup right now that ever 12 days of work I have 7 days off. Plus I have sick days and personal days. Which I don't need to use as I can just work from home (unless I'm so sick i can't work).
You're saying Warren Buffet, arguably the greatest investor of all time, doesn't know how he became successful?

Yes.

Or that some random chance gave him his uncanny investment insight?

Possibly. The point is neither we, nor he, know.

[W]hy should we bother trying to control our lives at all?

A good question. Without getting into philosophical questions of free will, I suspect the pragmatic answer is that there is at least a weak correlation between the publicized 'formula' for success and actual success, for the same reason that most lottery winners are repeat buyers. By doing something, you expose yourself to fate. And generally, any activity we can afford to keep doing will at least permit us to make a living, which is the outcome for most. After all, we can't all be Warren Buffet---not even the Warren Buffets of the world.
I love how "SJ keynote demos" is something you put in a one sentence description of what he did. And what's even crazier is if I had to describe what this guy did to someone else I'd probably sound more like, "Built some of Steve Job's demos ... and did some other engineering stuff too".

I don't know anyone who's been at Apple for awhile that doesn't have one or two stories like that under their belt. To me, the "other engineering projects" are the fun ones; the ones that people still can't talk about, even after leaving Apple (because it hasn't been released yet).
I doubt that would go over well with your unwitting followers.
It is kind of comforting to know that Anon is still smaller than the fanbase of a pop icon.
I've been a Prime subscriber for a little over 3 years.
I use it for everything. It's really dangerous, combined with the mobile app. For example, my wife and I were talking over lunch the other day that we needed a new weed-whacker for the yard, and three minutes later I'd priced one out and ordered one on my phone for next day delivery.
They are mainstream now. I was playing the Wheel of Fortune iOS game a couple of days ago. Both Twitter and Facebook were answers.
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The next step would be to move to websockets on the client (and also node, yes), and eliminate the Flash dependency altogether.

I personally prefer to work in HTML/CSS/JS entirely, but there are some things that Flash does nicely - and it can talk to JS (and can be fast), so it makes for a way to extend functionality in some cases.
It doesn't sound like they put much, or any real value on what you'll be doing. Let them go with the $7k guy, if you want to do a startup then do your own.
Here is a link to the original CNN article - http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/23/technology/twitter_acquires_...
To my untrained eyes, it looks like they're trying to consolidate the Twitter eco-system, going by their recent statements about third-party clients. I would expect TweetDeck to either live on as something like "Twitter Pro", or be EOL'd and the team rolled into Twitter (or even layoffs).
Thanks. I'm working on an article relating to that at the moment. Should be fun once it's out there (and on Github, etc.)
You don't sound like you're in the market for that kind of software, which kind of invalidates your entire point.

If I'm selling software that scans for and removes spyware, popups would be a pretty damned compelling marketing channel as people without the savvy to install a popup blocker can probably derive a lot of value from my product.
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Let them go with the $7k guy, fail when they realize that a technology business is way bigger than an idea

Then they'll come back with a better offer
No, you're still missing the point. I never said anything about not using the middle click to close tabs. That's precisely how I close tabs. When you have as many tabs open as I often do... the resizing ruins the ability to quickly close tabs in succession.

I would again ask that you actually go try it rather than assume you know what I'm talking about. Trust me, the way I can target a tab and rapidly close lots of tabs (YES, by using the middle click SPECIFICALLY) does NOT work in Firefox 4. Please try it yourself rather than force me to make a video of it.

Open 8 tabs in Firefox. Target the third tab and without moving your mouse, close tabs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It's not possible. The tabs resize and you end up closing tabs 1 and 2. I don't know how you browse the web, but I daily find myself opening numerous tabs and then wanting to close the last several after opening lots of pictures or articles on reddit. (But then again I'm in Linux and scroll on my tabs in Chrome so I move my mouse very little as it is and it suits my browsing habit.)
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Although it competes with the IPAD, reduced prices for Galaxy tab sign of a change in the pricing of the enormous price from $ 800 Motorola Xoom
Ask HN: How did you supplement income when bootstrapping a B2C startup?
Over the last couple years since I originally started working on the premise for http://gorankem.com , I've held a variety of side/odd jobs to scrape by and keep the vision alive.

Unfortunately, Athens, GA isn't exactly the most conducive setting when you're bootstrapping a B2C startup where the monetization strategy comes with the data collection.

As I alluded to earlier, I've done a wide variety of part-time gigs such as promotional events to small-time consulting to my most recent gig with an 11hr/wk salary social media marketing job.

It was nice to always be able to count on a set amount of income, but they just squeezed the budget, and I was an axillary expense.

Sooo with that said, what's a guy to do that has handled just about every role on the hustler/business side of things?

Where do you go to find consulting work? How do you get off the ground with elance, odesk or guru?

Any other specific suggestions for outlets to generate some income on a part-time basis (even remote opportunities)?

Thanks in advance,

Adam
Could it be that they're afraid to make the jump because they've already labeled themselves as non-artsy?

I think one common reason people think they can't do something is because they try once, fail, and attribute it to the idea that they're "not that type of person".