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I'm not going to give feedback about your business model or the idea or your mobile app or strategy or anything like that. Let me share the first thing I noticed.

I went to your website, and I saw something I had to register for. I almost immediately closed the tab, and wasn't even going to respond. But then I thought I would give this feedback. There's nothing on the site that tells you what it is. The info boxes try to do that, but they don't really convey a message about what the website actually is. My suggestion is this: Decide what one thing your website does, and communicate that very bluntly on the frontpage. Beyond that, direct people to learn more before asking them to sign up. Your "login" is taking up very valuable space, despite the fact that you don't have users. Put it in a less valuable place, and try harder to sell your product. And "Birds of a feather flock together"? What the hell does that even mean?
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Maybe mouse-driven computers should be considered touch-based too?
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Didn't I just say this isn't my viewpoint :)

Interestingly, you can hold this position and still speak out against it. Stretching my analogy: If Joanne is being a bitch and you don't know her well you can talk about her behind her back. If you're usually cool you can tell her to get her cranky ass to yoga and watch the fucking lip.

It's not that it isn't wrong or bad. It's just a question of thinking about it socially (the way people, though not necessarily the people of this site, are built to operate) rather than judicially/bureaucratically. Socially we take into account grey area, degrees, mitigating circumstances, and sometimes the voluptuousness of Joanne's buxom. We don't even have to be 100% consistent.

We the people (HN readers, Airbnb sleepers, etc) are not Interpol, we are humans. We don't always have to be completely objective and consistent when deciding how to feel about something.
People on this site are smart, but I do have a lot of forehead smack moments when being people becomes such a struggle for some.
Where did Jon Rubenstein's team come from again? ;-)
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> I don't want my tax spreadsheets in the same grouping as my music files. I want them in some kind of separate container.

That's file centric thinking. Most normal people don't think about files, they think about apps and the data that's in them. iTunes holds my music, Word holds my documents, Excel has my spreedsheets; that's how people think when they don't grok files.
I agree that humans will likely never leave the solar system. However, I think it's very possible -- even likely -- that human intelligence will.

One interesting thing about sending some future human AI into space is that it could in theory 'power down' higher functions for hundreds or thousands of years as it travels to its destination. Upon reawakening, it would be in a new star system, with the cumulation of human knowledge in memory and enough tech to reproduce and start anew.
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It's basically an SaaS app for retailers to run group buying deals.

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

If you're on HN, you already know what this is. Probably.
Olin Shivers's "Control-Flow Analysis of Higher-Order Languages" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.9.39...) is all about using abstract interpretation for compiler analysis. It's focused on Scheme, but is applicable to higher-order languages in general.

It's also noteworthy as part of Yale's T / Scheme current (http://paulgraham.com/thist.html), which produced a lot of other great stuff: "Orbit" (http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/orbit-thesis.pdf), "A Tractable Scheme Implementation" (http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/vlisp-lasc/schem...) and Scheme48 (http://s48.org). For starters!
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I agree with this pretty well, in that it's likely that flesh-and-blood humans will never physically travel to other planets en masse without some fundamental discoveries in physics. You'll note, though, that he explicitly disregards both starwisps and strong AI, and there's a reason for that: putting human-descended AI out into the universe is a much, much more feasible endeavor, and one that I personally believe we'll eventually accomplish.
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Best overall: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and its less well-known sequel, Lila

Best fantasy in terms of most imaginative and full of wonder: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. (I know, everyone saw the crappy movie; it simply does not do the book justice.)

Best Scifi: The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
So you're counting weeds as part of the 10 lbs/day, or all the harvested edible plants, part of which is not eaten? If the latter, then 36.5 lbs/ft^2/year gross harvest is still really amazing...
Black holes spaceships are the ticket with our current understanding of physics. They can carry a large and heavy cargo in ship form or can push small planets slowly in a desired direction. The travel times for black hole ships are reasonable too, about six years to Proxima Centauri. It beats the other sci-fi concepts like fusion, Orion, anti matter and solar sails.

Funny how solar sails seem like the easier option to build, but for interstellar travel you need enormous lasers near the home star to push the sail as it gets further away. Might as well build black holes with the lasers and solar collectors.
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2632290 .
With respect to #3, is this happening because field names aren't getting compressed when stored as BSON objects?

P.S. Your ebook and tutorial are great resources. Thanks for sharing!!
You are probably right, but is it possible they saw the type of business that iFlowReader what doing, not them in particular but the general idea, as something they wanted to be in and they were looking at making it hard for others to compete? I do have to admit I'm implying they were trying to be mischievous and I hardly have proof of that but it's just I possibility.
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It also sidesteps the issue of people who plan/want to live indefinitely through advances in biotech, cryonics, mind uploading, etc. At the risk of distorting 'rational', if one personally cares at all about the future of humanity rather than just oneself in the present and immediate future it's easy to see why a course of action that helps humanity survive rather than hinders is a better, 'rational' course given that person's beliefs. Insert "moral dilemma" of the same flavor as being asked a preference on dying now, with everyone else living on, or living 5 more years then everyone including you dies.
Cool thanks - surprised at how high it is to be honest, considering 100% of the buy+sell side is pretty much automated
"MongoDB should likely not be run in a 32-bit environment." This is sending up alarm bells for me. Why does it matter? Can a Mongo fan explain why this is?
I barely graduated with a 3.0. The interesting thing about the grades I received in classes was that they tended to be a lot higher when I got to take advanced undergrad or graduate-level classes than Freshman-level required courses.

My first employer couldn't care in the slightest. They were interested in my past work and experience, and how well I did in the interview. None of my subsequent employers have ever mentioned anything about my education.

My recommendation: don't kill yourself over grades, but do as well as you can. If you never find any of the material interesting, then you may have a problem with your selected major.
I think that you're strategy is a little off here. The classes that are just requirements and uninteresting to you should be the 'easy A' picks. For basic requirements I always looked for a class or professor that was known for an easy A - other classmates and sites like myedu.com (formerly pickaprof)can get you started. Conversely, save the real work and effort for classes that you are interested in or ones that you think will be most beneficial to you after you graduate. For these classes intentionally pick profs that you know will expose you to the best knowledge, even if they're not the easiest. I think this gives a good balance while in college and sets you up well for your professional career.
Perhaps because All Logos Must Fit in a Square These Days?
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When tethering with wifi through my phone, I use "viruses". But its still a constant stream of connection attempts from passer-bys.
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Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl, the first edition (a.k.a. "The Perl Edition", http://regex.info/ for more information about the book and its editions)

It's my standard litmus test judging a programmer; if you haven't read or don't care to read a book on regular expressions, then I probably don't want to write code with you. It's also useful to remind people who think they're nerds because they own a smartphone and can download "apps" that they're in a league far below.
Their app, Kaleidoscope (http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/), sounds to be an incredibly simple app to make. Not that I am planning to make yet another app like that, does someone know if it's selling well?
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The star at a trading company is the traders, as it should be. Nothing has changed that or probably ever will. The programmers are just one layer closer to that than the sysadmins, which tends to make it more interesting.

> it costs about 15k a month

That's like saying "a piece of meat costs about $25".

I don't think there was one POP (of dozens) that was the same price as another. Not to mention the equipment and connections required made the deal unique every time.

There's more to it than that regardless. I'm not going to get into specifics, but don't presume to know something you would have no way of knowing.
I have this book sitting next to me, but I never read past the first chapter. Could you tell my why I should read it over the dozens of other books on my reading list? It just looks so dense.
I guess i have heard this kind of argument before. In the movie book "Around the world in 80 days". Its not possible or you can't do travel all around the globe in 80 days. Still someone did it, sooner or later someone will do it, and see it takes us nearly 24 hours to make a complete rotation around the earth. Some day we will even reach to Proxima Cetauri.
Read it three years ago; entertaining, engaging, and quite deep in it's development of characters within a relatively static environment. Definitely a great.
Probably because of the file size limitations with memory mapped IO on a 32bit system.
i probably would have regardless because i've been conditioned that way all my life, but i wish it wasn't the case. i'd have had a hard time dealing with getting a C, but looking back i wish i spent less time doing busy work for dumb classes and more time doing other things like chasing girls and having fun

the fact is i could have worked my ass off for an A in french class, or writing, or whatever, and years later i wouldn't remember the material regardless because i didn't care about it at all. in the classes i did enjoy and did want to do well in, the material stuck with me (partly because it's my job)
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Oddly idiotic blogspam, obviously no one cares if someone tries and fails to connect to their secured network, as if people just sat there guessing passwords anyway.
One of my neighbors used to have a (WPA-enabled) network with the SSID, "$10 internet call <phone number>"
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The article says that most people don't shut off broadcasting the SSID on their router because it's too much hassle. Really? The option on mine took less than a minute to turn off. Then once I set up the machines I use, they connect automatically. Should someone want to use my wifi, I'd just give them the SSID and password. It's not that big a deal, and I have all the security I can get short of setting a hardwired VPN up. The risk of bad things being downloaded aside, why would you want someone tying up bandwidth and slowing your connection down? I don't get it.
It's interesting to see that this guy wants to transfer BTC -> USD in the form of Newegg shipments, but I have yet to see anyone major accept Bitcoins directly.

Newegg has something of useful value (like a hard drive). Both BTC and USD have no useful value in this sense. The actual item 1 USD is simply a piece of cotton-paper with ink on it. A BTC is a mathematical hash. Nobody major with useful objects accepts BTCs. They accept USDs.

I would think that most people trading Bitcoins are just trading it. The price goes up and up because everyone is just buying and buying so they can sell before it goes back down. At some point, enough people are going to randomly decide they're done and sell at the same time, and the transfer price will go all the way to (near) zero. I haven't seen many people actively trying to make a real economy out of it. That's why I have no confidence in Bitcoin.
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Strange, I can see the flag just fine.
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Tangentially related: a clever coffee shop / cafe that offered free wifi changed the name of its network every day, updating it to broadcast whatever their special was. You could not join without thinking (momentarily) about "Corn Chowder, $2" or "Chocolate Chip Cookies - buy one get one free, today only."

Yes, they had specials boards, but people ignore those. The network, on the other hand, was unavoidable. From what I understand, this tecnique was extraordinarily effective. Something about clicking on the name of the item triggered an expectation that you were going to get the item. As you sat there, drinking coffee and futzing on Facebook, you'd keep thinking about the special that part of you was now expecting.

I suspect the "free" wifi paid for itself very swiftly.
That's what I thought, too. I think the energy examples were supposed to scare me, and if he'd said something like total output of the sun, ever, they would have. But total power output of current civilization for five days garnered more of a "sounds doable" response from me.
How short do the posts have to be?

Probably wouldn't, it often takes longer to write a short post than a long one. It is nicer to read though. Maybe it should just encourage the writer to summarize after the post is written, as a twist on drafts and finals.
Its actually an incredibly complex app. Beyond being a UI dream, it was also technically rigorous as they for example came up with their own custom diffing algorithms for more human readable diffs.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson.
I don't close programs anymore either, and I'm male. I do close documents to keep Exposé from getting unworkable, but my emacs usually has dozens of buffers open.
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Take the class first before commenting on it.
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That's kind of what I'm thinking. This only looks revolutionary if you haven't been watching Android at all. When the G1 shipped with universal integration with gmail, calendar, contacts, google checkout, etc... it was a revelation. When the "share via..." interface was extended (often via third parties) to handle youtube and twitter and facebook etc... it was really great...

And now this is a focus for Apple too. Great, I'm sure they'll do a good job and come up with some fantastic new ideas. But let's not pretend this is a whole new market or a fundamental innovation. Handsets have been moving in this direction for 3+ years now.
The core problem is that you can't solve a problem you don't understand.

I imagine that a large number of the twenty-somethings lured into the Valley to build the next wave of YC startups have just finished or dropped out of college. Very few of them will have worked at large companies with real sales revenue. Of the ones who have, most of their "real company" experience is still in the tech sector.

That's why there is this growing sense of cloneliness: you build an area that attracts people of roughly the same demographic, who have been exposed to roughly the same kinds of life experiences, and you whip them into a frenzy to be entrepreneurial. The hypersocial tech scene breeds a monoculture whose key mantras include "do something now/fail fast/pivot-pivot-pivot". Is it any wonder there are so many photo/social/messaging-oriented startups?

Every person in every company in every industry in the entire world needs better tech, software and hardware. I'd wager that many of the bright-eyed, bushy tailed entrepreneurs in the Valley are not even aware of the existence of 99% of those people, to say nothing of their domain problems.

Stop monetizing eyeballs to get a bigger valuation. Start solving real problems and adding real value.
Actually insurance may be a option in the very near future. We are working on adding many new features!
Each post is limited to 200 characters. And I agree with "it often takes longer to write a short post than a long one" - We hope that by doing this we can encourage stronger and well crafted opinions vs large opinions that are usually followed up with "TL:DR".

By doing this we do realise we reduce the # of opinions, which could impact on involvement.

Thanks for your thoughts!
I used a similar strategy with a 5 day stay in a hospital that didn't have WiFi. I tethered my phone and made a protected network called "$10/day - go to room 515". I was actually expecting to get a few clients, but no one ever did visit me.
To be honest, I cared quite a lot about getting a relatively high GPA and was upset if I scored below 5.25 (out of 6). I don't think that standardised tests are good in themselves but they help keep a student intellectually honest. Some people will tell you that grades don't matter, a creative person reads freely and off the curriculum -- and that's true. But indulged too much it can weaken your intellectual discipline, which you desperately need on any ambitious project (especially a self-driven project).

You've got to love what you do but you've also got to DO it when you don't love it. I think the best thing is to strive for both: learn your own way, read what you want, but also push yourself to pass these exams. If you just go off and do what you want, scraping by academically, how can you be really SURE you were honest with yourself, that you weren't just making excuses?
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Fiction: tie between Of Human Bondage by W.Somerset Maugham or The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Non-Fiction: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Business: Rework by Jason Fried - one of the best in a long time
King Lear (Shakespeare).
Disgrace (Coetzee).
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky).
Тихий Дон (Sholohov's name is on the cover; there are several translations under various titles as Quiet Don or something like that).
I believe that was originally a technical limitation, and only later did it become evident that there is a business value in offering partially-literate individuals a medium that caters to, while providing plausible deniability for, their slow reading and writing speeds.

Twitter has little or no technical reason to be so limited, of course, but doesn't want to alienate the tldr crowd.
For 99.9% of startups anything but a .com is a mistake. How many YC companies do you see getting other TLDs? They're all getting the same good advice.

Buy a good one if you can or choose a name that's not taken.
No, it's b/c of the document-oriented db system. All the field names are in every single one of the entries. Ex: If in every instance of 'Title' you had 't' instead. and every 'Post' you had 'p' instead --- it can add up to alot.
When I dealt with Accenture (back when they were Anderson Consulting), they were quite predictable - always late, always over budget, and always producing an unmaintainable mess.

The developers were good or bad in about the same percentages as other companies, but the management structure was designed to suck money out of the client. Work product was secondary (or, whatever) and it showed.
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I follow, but how can one tell from looking? There is a convenient "[pdf]" tag when a link is a PDF, but no indicator besides missing controls that there is some special arrangement for job postings. I had to check the web to find out that Optimizely is YC-funded, and I had no idea YC jobs had special promotion on HN until I found this post. It's a slightly shady thing to do without any obvious indicator of what's going on.
Accepting BTC directly would really be ideal from large vendors. But one very interesting thing about our service is the worldwide shipping. Newegg makes it very difficult to buy with a non-US (or non-Canadian) credit card. They won't ship outside the US or Canada either. So it really opens up the market to other people. Things like this are exactly what we at bitspend want bitcoin to be successful in. Opening up new markets.
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Best novel about growing up is The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Chaim-Penguin-Modern-Classics/d...

I got a LOT out of that when I reread it at least thirty years after reading it the first time.

Best nonfiction book full of amazing facts and insights into the human condition I didn't know before I read the book is The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie.

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Paleolithic-Art-Dale-Guthrie/dp...

There are bunch of others I could remember, but these two in particular took me by surprise by being much better than I would have guessed they would be when I first picked them up.
The limits he talks about are fundamental. We would have to be very wrong about much of physics to invalidate his arguments.
This is perfect for me as someone who does not live in the US. I live in Peru, don't have access to real electronics, cannot order from newegg without a US credit card / US address. If this site really does mail forwarding, then it would be awesome for me.

I just wish they also did clothes, books, maybe amazon.com or something.