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Judging from most of the comments here, I'm in the minority, but I applaud Mark for taking such a personal approach to recruiting desired talent. Sure, it can be seen as cheesy when you read about it - but I'm sure each person who got this invite was somewhat impressed and/or flattered by the personal attention.

I once wooed a great developer by taking photos of people from my team holding a sign saying, "Hi $Persons_Name!" (where $Persons_Name was the actual candidate's name, of course). Seeing it now, it sounds kinda cheesy and dumb, but it worked. He took the job and rose quickly in the company.

This approach may not work for everyone, but it's still admirable that Mark is taking time out of his hectic schedule to try attracting these candidates.
That and every question is dodged like a professional politician.
I find turning on 'focus-follows-mouse' to be a great asset. Then I just hover over the pane I want.
Funny thing about that. Bob Taylor ran ARPA and then Xerox PARC. May be that he was his own golden age.
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iTerm 2 is essential.
Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark
Healthcare is the new "gold rush"
What's after the Hubble space telescope? Possibly nothing
The "Instant-Replay" (View->Go back in time) can be a handy little feature if you've ever wanted to look up something that turns out not to be in the scrollback because it was a full-screen app running on the alternate screen buffer, or whatever. It's also good for checking out /when/ something happened, after the fact.

I've not used it much, but when I've needed to, it's been a lifesaver.
You really should start a blog, I would read it.
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I have no idea what point you are attempting to make.

Do you believe the solutions we have today are decent enough and cannot be improved further? I wish handling files was so simple that even those you call “non power-users” (i.e. pretty much everyone) could work with versioned files.

Note that I am neither saying it's easy nor that it is appropriate for every program. But it is definitely possible: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/auto-save.html
Since when does industry revenue dictate "high culture?" By this measure, reality TV shows would be the highest art form in the US.
Fortunately, people still value "real" high art in the form of opera, symphony orchestras, theater, etc. If it weren't for these folks (me included), we'd be knee deep in the plot of Idiocracy.
Ask HN: How much are your clients worth?
Hello all

One feature of my new web app is the evaluation of clients. At the moment I have the following criteria:
1. Size of billing
2. Payment speed
3. Amount learned on their projects
4. Fun had on their projects
5. Effective rate on their projects

Am I missing anything? Does anyone have any thoughts on how these criteria should be ranked?
Iterating, heavy editing, and rewriting should be taught before you get to college.

Really they are the most important part of any sort of English composition. Getting words on paper is easy, getting the right words on paper is hard. As soon as you begin writing papers for school (in middle school, perhaps), you should be learning all of those skills.

If you don't know them by college (which is entirely possible), they might be offered in a remedial 'English composition' course.
The main iTerm 2 guy works at Google
Sorry to be that guy but these graphs are awful.
Also, author should probably think about color-blind people.
You mean that when you open an account, your voicemail box originally does not have a PIN number at all?
So tmux with a shiny 200x200 icon?
If you go to amazon's home page there is a link on the left that says "Appstore for Android".
Everyone thinks they're underpaid, but the truth is, academic skills do not transfer well to industry. I refer you to the discussion in Ghostbusters:

"Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
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Citation needed for claim that "if you accidentally leave you wallet in a bar, the bar owner now owns the wallet".
I'm not trolling, I was merely adding another analogy to the OP's selective list of things-that-are-like-browsing-directories-on-a-website.

Like my profile says: "I'm not trolling; I actually think that."
The government's version would always cost less, since you can subtract profits and the costs of features / expenditure to support other customers.

Aren't there already counterexamples of government products costing more to end users than privately produced products, even in the world of software. Certainly there is no general principle in economics that that which is done by state actors is less expensive than that which is done by private actors. Often the situation is exactly the other way around, with government services being much more expensive than privately delivered services.
Also, 250 million of the 750 million actives are mobile users, and those are much more unlikely to be fake. ref: https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

I still find some pets and companies using profiles, but most of these are pages these days (since there really aren't advantages to making a profile vs. a page for them), and there is a process for converting these to pages - https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=18918 - and it is the way to reactivate a non-human account that is reported.
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I am probably the only American here that would only buy in EUR. I travel internationally quite a bit so I have a bank account and debit card (through First Republic) that gives me end-to-end conversion with no fees (no bank fees, no exchange fees, and refunded atm fees). In fact I usually get better than the going rate because my bank doesn't try to make money off the currency float.

Your USD option, on the other hand, almost certainly comes with exchange fees, and a slightly higher price to start with in order to cover your margins if the currency fluctuates. In real life I've found that I'd pay 5-10% more if I bought in USD vs the native currency. That may be counting pennies, but pennies add up.

That said, I'm guessing my story is unique, and that most people outside the Euro-zone will prefer a USD option. But I would recommend that you also price in EUR.
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Yea, there is a reason why math is not patentable, and it should not be patentable just because it is executed on a computer.
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There's a phrase I recently heard that has helped me a lot: "Success is not a destination, but a direction and that direction is forward."

I think about this phrase everyday. It helps to remind me that I all need to do is put one foot in front of the other and eventually I will have taken a lot of steps. Focus on your vision, take steps there and good things will happen along the way.

You're more than welcome to connect with me over email if you'd like (in profile).
It seems crazy how nonchalantly they discontinued support. I really wouldn't have thought the suggestion of appointing a community manager would be too much trouble.
"We also have some patents we believe you're infringing. Let's just call it even, shall we?"

Problem solved.
Wait until he gets older...
Just had a discussion with some coworkers, and we settled on a conclusion, which may be beneficial or not.

Impulse buys are feelings, not thoughts (see Simon Sinek's TED talk), so it really depends on your market and why they're buying your product. If it's the sort of thing that they'll do a ton of research on, compare other products, and then settle on a conclusion, then you should be fine either way.

If it's the sort of thing people will either impulse buy or forget about, then you may want to consider the issues involved with making a currency conversion.

1. When a user encounters a currency they're not familiar with (for many Americans, this is any non-USD currency), there's an immediate break in their purchase flow as they suddenly have to try to figure out what it's going to cost them. This requires math or research (most people don't know Google will do currency conversion), which gets in the way of their quick-purchase-then-off-to-facebook workflow.

2. When a user sees your product at (for example) €20, they see the number, they see that it's twenty, and they decide in a split second whether twenty is a reasonable price. When they realize that it's twenty Euro* and the price is actually thirty of their local currency, then, despite their conscious awareness of how currency works, the price has effectively increased by 50%. This can hurt purchasing depending on how devoted they are to the service. Even if '30 of something' is a fair price, their brain got used to the idea of 'twenty of something' and now they stop and reconsider.

This disjoint is especially noticeable at higher values; at €90, you're below the 'one hundred' threshold; at $135, you're suddenly above it.

One recommendation I can make is to provide an approximation of local currency. Figure out the user's most likely local currency, do an automatic conversion (e.g. to USD) and then round up. Give them a ballpark that's higher than their original purchase, but make it clear* that it's an approximation, and the actual cost will depend on exchange rates and their bank's conversion fees (which will help hide any discrepancies). e.g. for €10, offer $15, even though the exchange is $14.348. Rounding up means that you never overcharge, but also that the user doesn't suddenly have to switch between currencies mentally.

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4
There's a name for this, I forget what it is.
* …enough. Maybe a note like 'You are currently browsing in USD, but you will be charged in Euro. Currency conversion fees may apply.'
funny i've been using iTerm2 for a while now and didn't knew it had split windows built in, main reason i used it was the speed, and it allowed me to have different scheme of colors.
This was actually the entire purpose of Chrome - to push forward the state of the art in browsers. When Chrome was released, Google made it clear that they didn't care per se whether people used Chrome. What they cared about was getting more people using better browsers by forcing the browser market to move at a faster pace. And it appears they have done exactly that. I'm very impressed with the execution - they articulated this precise strategy in 2008 and we're now really seeing it work.
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> "users have no idea what major version their browser is on"

To be fair, I'm pretty sure this is true of every browser. And most software in general.

Marketing people like having a number. Developers like having a number. They like it for different reasons and have different goals for it. But users have never really known or cared.
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1) I'm probably missing some truths by not knowing how limits work, but his use of limits didn't impede my understanding of the larger point. He quickly moves each time from an equation with limits to a more basic algebra expression.

2) I understand what parallel is saying after looking up "gradient"..
You might be right: http://sunday.co.uk
1. Jail over 24K in back taxes? That's insane

2. Getting sentenced to a medium security prison? I mean really, this is a big wtf...should have been light security...or better yet just house arrest
Also, why you need to be very careful when filing tax returns. A good accountant is a god-send.
Oh yes double plus yes yes yes.
"A star's day is generally a very long one (12-16 hours)"

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4778488_movie-star-spend-workda...
I like how he equates filing for IP ownership on something that was obviously developed by others with a gainful venture under capitalism.
There's no such thing as a big name startup.

Like my friend says, if you have an HR department, you are no longer a startup. You have started. You are up.
Yeah I looked, and they even have versions for Windows Mac and Linux. Once they add in mobile support they have it pretty well covered for all platforms. I don't think facebook/skype has the same support level.
To follow up: I talked to sales today and they confirmed that there's a hackish workaround for this use case:

Spin up a small server. You'll be charged about $35 (the exact amount will be shown). Use it if you like, or shut it down right away. You can then start servers of any size using the ~$35 credit you have. It is important that you not be running a large server when the billing cycle rolls over, or you will be charged for a month of that, and this may result in an effective $35/month usage minimum (though credit does roll over). It's a small hassle, but it may be worth it for access to that 32-core box.

If you, like me want EC2-style billing, they have a suggestion to that effect on their uservoice: https://storm.uservoice.com/forums/23166-general/suggestions...
I'm surprised how few connections/day they report for the majority of clients. Just in a normal day, my phone is going to reconnect about 7 times, just switching between wifi and 3G, as I go to the office, lunch, and back home.
I use Chrome, and this is the first time I have been ignorant of what version number my browser is on. So yes, most users don't know or care. But now, even techy users don't know or care. It really is a step change.
Nothing funny about it. The analogy is good. Garrett Reisman, astronaut, joins SpaceX:

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20110304

The time of NASA-monopoly (DARPA) is fading, and the time of commercial space (Xerox PARC/Bell Labs) is just beginning. But it really shouldn't be anything for anyone should get worked up over--Xerox PARC/Bell Labs ushered in golden age of innovation and wealth creation, and DARPA still exists and still does amazing things.
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It is becoming the American Way.

I'm not sure there's any due process issue here. It's just a business, or a group of businesses, deciding to restrict your account when you've violated a policy. You're not being charged with a crime, you're just being throttled or shown the door.

I don't like it, but it doesn't seem to be a due process or rights issue. That may change as Internet access is seen as a necessary means to access day to day resources.
Competition sure can be a wonderful thing, when it happens.
Hey Tito, congrats on shipping! This is Patrick from Baltimore-- we talked for a bit at iGEM and the FBI DIY-BIO thing last year.

In the dry lab, I'm really more of a regular PCR consumer than a regular PCR user, but yeah, my attitude towards PCR is more or less my attitude towards snakes: try to keep a respectful distance :-)
>"IE's release cycle is still humiliatingly slow."

Or reassuringly stable if you are supporting an enterprise. Given Google's planned abandonment of support for older browser versions in their applications, there may be a ready market for a more stable browser platform.
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Show HN: An HTML5 advancing-wave maze game
How to Build a Leading CRM: Interview w/ Founder of Connected - Sachin Rekhi.
I found it hard to tell the difference between content in the Sun and the News of the World on a good day. The loss is one of brand, little more.
when web startups decide they need to build a product in a hurry, MySQL is natural choice. But then they hit that hockey-stick-like growth rate like Facebook did

An awesome problem I'm still waiting to have.
What possible use case exists for that ability? The card's generally blocked after a set number of incorrect attempts anyway, so it's not as if it could be used anywhere else.

ATMs that keep your card for the duration of the transaction only serve to decrease trust in the mechanism.
Trademarks aren't like patents or copyrights, there isn't a strong presumption of validity attached. Even if he should manage to get one he shouldn't be able to much beyond send threatening letters (at least in the US).
The SVN repo doesn't have a tag for version 1.0. I know it's a quibble, but it's useful for people who maintain package managers like Macports. :(
We have a blog, but it's for our customers. We use it to give away some of our generic training material as a loss-leader and attract clients to our premium, customized software. It doesn't cover our development stories. I'd find it fun to do such a blog, but I'm not sure the rest of the team would be willing to put in the time necessary to make it rewarding to read.
While it's certainly possible to do so, I doubt any engineer worth his salt would actually use a zener and resistor as a stable power supply for automotive lighting. Voltage in cars varies from pretty low (sub-8 volts or so) when the starter is cranking, to around 14-16 volts when alternator is running against a fully charged battery, to the occasional high voltage peaks of 40V+ when, e.g., the air conditioner clutch disengages.

That's a pretty large range to run a current-driven device (the LED) from a fixed resistor. Most useful applications these days will use constant-current supplies that feed the LED a fixed amount of current as the input voltage changes all over the place.
Thanks - again tons of useful informations.

My guess is that the lean version will be $ only (almost everyone agrees to buy in $, and € users can just divide the price a bit :-)).

Thanks for taking the time to write and share all this, really appreciated.
I think it's fair to call it capitalism--he's obviously capitalizing. What's debatable is how conscionable that is.

He would have done better to go to someone in the Bitcoin community and offer his services. Someone should own the trademark to protect it. Lots of cc and open source stuff has registered trademarks so the name can't be abused.
At first blush, I'd say you have a very serious problem that you're trying to solve. That's always a good place for a startup to begin. In this one example, millions of dollars were lost and one founder did time in jail and is hundreds of thousands in debt. Hind-sight being 20/20, I'm sure these guys would pay $10k to avoid this mess (not to mention going after the potential upside of doing this business right).

The risk that I see is that the problem is a latent problem (i.e. one that founders are not aware of) rather than a realized problem. So, the people who understand your value proposition are already ruined and don't have the cash to pay you and the ones who have the cash and need your service don't know that they need your service.
I'm always confused by people suggesting that the options are to have either MySQL or NoSQL. (Or, as this article suggests, "NewSQL", which I'm desperately hoping will be clarified by its proponents.) Is Pg not an appropriate suggestion for people looking to improve their SQL-based backends?

Edit: The article includes this gem: "The widely accepted problem with MySQL is that it wasn’t built for webscale applications..." Every time I see "webscale", I get the feeling that the author doesn't actually have a great grasp of what's going on. However, this guy did mention ACID, which confuses me. Did we define "webscale" when I wasn't looking?
I'm saying that [Client A -> Server -> Client B] is better than [Client A -> Kik Client A -> Kik Server -> Kik Client B -> Client B].
re: warning signs

I agree. For those asking how it could go wrong, a brief hypothetical example. Let's say you have a 500k seed round, with 100k initially, then 100k after each of 4 milestones.

If the investor is out to pull a fast one, they might make their equity acquisition immediate (all of it) while you get the money in tranches. Then, let's say they decide you haven't met the first milestone. You're running out of cash. They suggest re-negotiating the terms. Since you "didn't meet" the milestone, it's a down round this time. Maybe they wind up with a controlling interest.

Or let's say you find that scenario coming and find another investor. They might have a liquidation preference so they get paid more; and perhaps first too. Plenty of snares can be constructed by investors who want to take advantage.
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Sigh, not this BS again.

Look, google doesn't advertise version number revs, and updates happen invisibly behind the scenes. Figuring out the chrome version number takes effort, as there is no rebranding on a major version number bump. Chrome uses the major version number for engineering reasons and uses a continuous deployment method. Certainly other developers may make a bigger deal of major version revs (often tying them to a product updates requiring new purchases) but that shouldn't affect anyone's judgment of chrome's versioning. They could jump to version a million by now, nobody should care much.
Well as a real hacker you get that experience at the age of 12 when you join a "team" to make a P2P MMORPG. After that you kind of learn to recognize people+idea combinations which work and which don't work.
I think I will end up pricing in both $ and €, but will only start with $ to keep thing simple. Thanks for sharing your story!
One feature of iTerm that we've come to depend on is 'Send input to all sessions'.

Don't use it often, but I'm glad it is there.
Sounds about right. In GPU drivers, we keep specialized shaders as hand-tuned GPU assembly, not as GLSL/HLSL. This is just a very cool example of Python running at C speed, not Python running at --omg-optimized x264 assembly routine speed. :3
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Let's not forget the tack-a-tack sound...
Hmm, since you are offering comment size consulting...

I built http://impromptudo.com a few months back to scratch my own itch (I'm bored right now, whats going on around me). Simply: I want to be the padmapper of local events.

I'm not selling a product all I want right now is traffic. I've got some great ideas for features but don't want to spend anymore time if it's a dud.

I did spend some money on reddit ads, but it was mostly useless (but at least I know why).

Any ideas on just getting traffic? I've spammed HN as much as I can spam I think already.
I didn't mean to imply that markets were efficient or that MZ can't have information that suggests that fb will surpass Apple in market cap or otherwise.

I really just meant that historic trends don't imply future trends.

Your (and maybe also the previous poster's) point that Apple is an example of valuations changing rapidly is obviously valid.
What's your opinion of this remedy? I was about to start implementing Viola-Jones detection through CV for a personal project.
Stonebraker has a new DB (VoltDB), so his claims and criticisms should be read in that light.
Woah was just looking and undeciced at the available iTerm palletes from the gallery and Solarized (dark for me) seems just what the doctor ordered
Really? That's odd given that open source has been traditionally more successful in the server market than in the desktop one.