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I totally agree, when your product sells well, why would you question the way it's put together?
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Whats with all the democrats, welfare, high taxes, high .gov spending (city managers, firemans, state troopers make more than $150K with lifelong health and retirement).

such a beautiful location. If it were some other state people would have abandoned it long time ago. Most of the companies are moving to OR, WA or Utah/AZ, NV(?).

I guess the UoC university system helped so far, but with high tuition increases and funding cuts, i doubt it will survive this time,
Ask HN: Windows phone dev success/failure stories?
Has any of you made any apps for Windows Phone 7? Any statistics, insights or anecdotes to share?
Well, you wouldn't say someone with AIDS had problems with "Stress, bad diet, lack of social interaction", for example. Yet Dr. Nancy Klimas got interested in CFS patients when she found they were sicker than her AIDS patients. (Of course, outcomes for AIDS patients are far worse!)
If the point of the article was to say that facebook should be able to decide what to do based on what they believe is in their best interest...then thats not particularly interesting and i have no doubt that facebook is doing exactly that (along with every other company and individual in the world).
"Then the Monopoly became evident, and around the time of Windows 95 Microsoft realized they did not need to make things simple to users, but instead users had to learn how to use their tools."

I doubt they were consciously making a bad product. What was the state of usability in the mid 90's? If I think back to my Mac OS 7 days, I remember more than a fair share of problems. You really don't realize the problems with a 'good enough' design/process/business model until someone does it better.
Most of the grievances can be (and are) addressed by placing the factories in business zones that are placed near to transport links and a certain distance from residential zones.

Obviously I don't know the details of the story, but it sounds like it goes both ways: This local government is likely home to a lot of people that would commute to Paris. And as they attract more factories, eventually someone might see an opportunity to open a local services firm. After all, time spend driving out to the factories are wasted.

I recently had an errand in a business district near a major airport. As I cycled through, I enjoyed picking out the chain of supporting firms (airline, caterer, catering equipment, for one). Neither HAS to be near each other, but if practicality line up with opportunity, why not?
That's pretty smart. It basically anonimizes individual responses, without harming the statistical outcome.
Why do you infer she's being honest? That argument goes both ways; problematically significant however is the fact that we don't have all the facts therefore there's no use assuming she's lying or Airbnb is lying!
Nothing that outlaws so many people is ever actively dealt with, the whole world learnt that lesson from the Prohibition of the 20s.
That won't happen, anymore than powerdrills will be the end of carpenters -- it will require people to adapt and learn new skills but so have every invention ever.

Replacing humans with computers is easy in a lot of cases, but far from all. Human workers will simply have to take those jobs that are difficult to get robots to do.

They tend to be better paid too.
For the purpose of this discussion, any machine that automates or assists in a task is a robot. Electric screwdrivers and conveyor belts are robots, albeit unsophisticated ones.
I've read a bunch of your comments about Paul Graham (Hes such a stand up guy!), but what you are completely ignoring is the fact the he is an investor in Airbnb. People keep telling you this fact, but you seem to not understand at all.

First, PG has a financial interest in keeping the company growing strong.

Second and most importantly, if PG intervenes here against the will of other investors, they may not want to invest in future companies where PG is a shareholder. So it is vastly in PG's interest to not act on the contact info you gave him.

Overall, all you did was seriously creep out a vulnerable lady.
Interesting -- how can you verify that f() was applied when by definition you don't know what the output of f() should be?

If someone was trying to be dishonest then they could fake any attribute of f() that you could likely verify.
Very nice game. Do you mind if I make a few criticisms?

The icons on the opening page take up a lot of space - the bottom 1/4 of the page - and compete with the app for my focus. I would suggest separating them from the start button with some space & moving them a little closer to each other. Maybe even shrink the size of those buttons.

Since I'm mentioning focus, I think the tiles kind of get lost during the game, too. There isn't really anything that makes them stand out, and they are surrounded (crowded) by several large buttons. The visual focus should be on the tiles and the word line. The other buttons should be out of the way.

When playing the game, the shuffle button is too close to the bottom row of tiles. Maybe swap its position with the pause button & move them both down, away from the tiles. Also, I occasionally press "shuffle" rather than "submit", and I'm sure it has something to do with the buttons' positions.

I'm still unclear about the bonus & combo multipliers. What's the point of the combo multiplier? Does it effect my score at all? And how, exactly, is the bonus multiplier calculated? Since it affects my score, I'd like to know how it comes about. Maybe it's just me, but feel a need to know these details.

I don't think it's necessary, but I kept looking for a "last word" button similar to the one used in Word Warp. I often want to riff off of the last word, and I'd rather hit "last" & modify the word than type it in each time from scratch. Of course, adding yet another button isn't necessarily a good thing....

Most timed games that I've played will pause when you hit the countdown timer. You may be able to gain some more space by eliminating the "pause" button all together & implementing the "hit the timer to pause" feature. (I'd say it's common enough to be an expected feature of timed games.)

I really like the portrait view. Holding my iPod in landscape just doesn't feel as natural to me & I tend to use landscape games less and less. I know that's just a personal preference, but I think you got it right.

Overall, it's a fun game. I often test free games & then delete them, but I see this one staying on my iPod. Good job, and good luck.
Tell HN: Domain name pa.ge (page)
Hello HNers,

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The project behind pa.ge domain failed and we decided to sell it.

We really think that domain is rare. It's short, meaningful and could be used wisely in a tech-world.

Any person who'll refer a buyer to us will receive 15-20% commission, depended on a sale price.

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Thanks for the compromised time.
I'm interested in this as well (again, on a long term basis, not going anywhere any time soon). However, I am concerned that the type of visa would restrict my employment options once in the country. First, I believe they are often linked to one company, and not trivially transferable? I.e. if I quit, I will have to leave the country more or less immediately? Second, even with saved money, I'd have to jump through hoops in order to take a month between jobs (since I'd be unemployed)? Third, becoming self-employed is not an option since I can't sponsor my own visa?

I'd like to be proved wrong, but these issues are deal breakers for me, which probably means I won't get to work in the US, except on short secondments.
Yeah, I'd love to hear about this too! Anyone with experience for/against this?
100% agree apart from the WP hate.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227045
I am in your exact situation, I plan to leave everything I've behind and hit the states or Canada in one year or so and as far as I know there shouldn't be any problem for any kind of startup to get you in(legal wise), of course there's the money problem, the startup has to choose if you are worth the money they are going to spend on lawyers and other expenses (~$10k as I've heard) but nothing that a good resume can't beat, also you can offer to pay for the expenses as I am willing to do.
How exactly could she lose as much as PG? It seems that PG is in a situation to lose a lot more. Instead, EJ would likely get public sympathy and help.

This honestly sounds borderline threatening. But judging from your recent actions, I don't expect you to take care with how things are said.
$10k? Wow. If that is true it is much more expensive than I thought.
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/clinical.pdf

IANAD, but if your symptoms are exercise-induced, then maybe you have Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency and not CFS? The reason why I suggest this is that if you're getting flu like symptoms after exercising, to me this suggests a possible role for inflammation. And it would possibly explain why your symptoms are exacerbated by stress.

There isn't enough research on CECD that doctors are able to yet diagnose people with it, but I think the research that does exist so far is pretty compelling.
What do you mean it's more than you can say? Android's system is precisely the same. To build an Activity you set up and extend Views using the ViewGroup function 'addview'

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGrou...

I actually use this to inflate a series of layouts, and then to arrange them inside an existing layout dynamically.
I myself left Europe in 2001. It wasn't easy. I attempted to get sponsorship from 77 businesses but no luck.

I finally settled agreeing to work for 3 months unpaid internship, at the end of which I got my first job in Australia.

It ain't easy to wing it, so be ready to think outside the box.
Great post. Calls attention to the importance of having clean, stable commits in the 'master' branch and thus avoiding plain vanilla 'git merge' for 'squash' and 'rebase'.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2427238/in-git-what-is-th...
I'm relating all this to explain why I think it's ludicrous to suggest that this illness is hysterical.

I don't know anything about the validity of the research being done in this case. That being said, when people are talking about mental illnesses they aren't referring to hysteria. That is not a mental illness.
@loungin, it occurs to me I might not have responded to what you were really asking. Some suggestions:

1. No matter how mistaken you think your boss is, once he (or she) has made a decision, your job is to support him as best you can, subject always to the fundamental constraints of ethics and integrity.

2. Loyalty up, loyalty down, and loyalty sideways, subject again to the fundamental constraints. Among other things, that means constant patience, courtesy, and respect for everyone else on the team, at all times (no backbiting).

3. If you don't know how to be humble and modest in your dealings with others, fake it. (It helps to remind yourself that, whatever Supreme Being might or might not exist, the odds are it's not you.)

4. It's no sin not to know what to do. When in doubt, take your best shot at formulating both a Plan A and a Plan B, and then ask your boss for guidance; he might tweak one of your plans, and/or might point out something you hadn't thought of.

But use your judgment---while your boss might want you to go through the learning experience of figuring things out for yourself, he might also not want you to spend a lot of time doing so before asking for help. You could ask him that, perhaps.

Consulting with peers sometimes helps, which is one reason it's good to be on good terms with them.

5. Don't take it personally if someone criticizes you, even harshly. While you might well have screwed up, that doesn't mean you're a failure as a human being; it means you played the hand you were dealt as best you knew how at that time, and now you have a welcome opportunity to learn from the experience; be glad of it.

6. A serviceable rule of thumb: Seek the best for others as you do for yourself.
Tell HN: What I learned from the AirBnB / EJ incident
I posted this as a comment on a previous thread, but I thought I'd share it as a separate post. While I hope the situation resolves well for all parties (except the guilty ones), I'm most interested in learning the lessons that would apply to my own startup.

I'm trying to learn from other people's lessons (it's the cheapest way to learn). Here's what I learned from the recent incident as well as others recently talked about in the 'sphere. Whenever there is a crisis:

* Respond quickly

* Respond in the open so that there's no he-said / she-said

* Be fair, and err on the side of the customer

* Don't spin the company line - be thoughtful, especially if someone has lost money / time / confidence / data / faith in humanity

* Think "This could be me / this could be someone I know & love"

* If relevant, get the authorities involved quickly so that you can be sure it's not a shakedown.

* Assume the customer is telling you the truth unless you have specific and verifiable reason to believe otherwise

* Get insurance

* Don't let others (especially those with interests) speak for you.

* Try to establish a single point person for all contact with the customer, and make that person easily and quickly available to the customer at the customer's behest

* Try not to respond to what's said in the press

Did I miss any good lessons here?
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Thanks! Australia has crossed my mind as well, I might go there instead.
This comment thread about language is awesome by the way, enjoyed reading it more than the post!
That $10k number surprises me too. I did the reverse a few years ago, going from Canada to Switzerland to work on a research project. It cost me about $200 for the work visa, and no legal fees. I don't see why a) Canada would be more expensive, or b) why a startup would be different than a university in this respect.
Indeed. I'd say it's about twice as old as Mac OS X. The first version of OS X was released 10 years ago. BBedit about 20 years ago, at the end of the System 6 era.
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Don't take it as granted but here's an older thread where $15k-$20k is speculated http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2397020.
Here's what's going to happen.
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
The minute I learned about "rebase -i" and "add -p" has changed how I think about commits. I learned how I could easily keep the history clean and conversely, I learned the huge value that a clean history has for maintenance.

Now, building the commits as self-contained entities that don't break the build in between not only helps me while searching bugs later on, it sometimes helps me detect code smells around unneeded dependencies.

That said, I still like to merge big features with --no-ff if they change a lot of code and evolved over a long time, as that, again, helps keeping history clean because a reader can clearly distinguish code before the big change from code after the big change.

Of course the individual commits in the branch are still clean and readable, but the explicit merge still helps if you look at the history after some time.

"you said 'a long time in development' - surely the merge target has changed in between. Why still -no-ff?" you might ask.

The reason, again, is clean history: before merging I usually rebase on top of the merge target to remove eventual bitrot and in order to keep the merge commit clean. Having merge commits with huge code changes in them which we're caused by fixing merge conflicts, again, feels bad.

But this is certainly a matter of taste.
It looks to be just a css file to make Markdown files pretty when straight-compiling to HTML. It's better than keeping them with the browser's default stylesheet, but I don't know anyone who serves Markdown files straight up after a conversion...
Talking about "dogfooding" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
This one isn't bad. I've picked up a lot of R on my own, but this tutorial is a good reference:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html

You'll learn, though, that R is not the prettiest language, and sometimes requires annoying mucking about to get stuff working.
Only the doctype, title, and the loss of </link>, are required for it to validate as HTML5; <head> and <body> are implied.

I think the original `markdown` utility generated a HTML fragment rather than a standalone page. If so, perhaps the point of this is that adding the CSS link is the Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work in order to improve the page appearance?
Sport is not fair, even more so Olympic sport.

Is it fair to let persons who spend millions in training and equipment compete with athletes who get their equipment from charity?

Is it fair to allow some athletes the use of performance-improving drugs and deny others the same (asthma sufferers are allowed to use stuff others cannot; diabetics are allowed to inject insulin; others have, in some sports, to follow a 'no needles' rule)

IMO he does have the unfair advantage that he can choose his leg length depending on race distance. His obvious disadvantage apparently more than compensates for that.

We allow him to compete because we think he will not win (all the time). If he did, he would be banned.
One anecdote vs another, my cousin is currently serving compulsory military service.
Although there have been negative PR effects for Airbnb due to this incident, it appears that they have benefited as well, by wisely using the lesson learned to improve their business by adding essential insurance and pre-deal inter-member communications services, among other things. The future value of that benefit to a start-up company most likely far exceeds the damages suffered by this host, assuming the PR issue can be positively resolved. There was no similar benefit for the host, unless you count the lesson learned that they should avoid the sort of activity your business is built around.

So here's a suggestion: acknowledge publicly that this incident exposed ways in which the service could be improved and offer to make this one host whole as compensation for that value. Solves everybody's problems in one fell swoop without accepting blame for something that isn't Airbnb's fault (and more importantly without resorting to blaming the victim - not the host's fault either). I'll bet it would cost far less than the usual media blitz companies commonly use to repair their images after incidents such is this. Consider it a good investment in the company's future.
Road Map for the Digital City
If you have multiple levels of bullets, there’s usually something going wrong.

Nonsense. There are many situations where 2 or even more levels of hierarchy are exactly what you want. Screwing up such a common need in favor to a questionable typographic preference is not a good idea.

And yes, in theory you can "fake" the hierarchy with headlines. In practice that tends to look rather odd and make it hard to actually recognize the hierarchy. Especially in a whitespace-heavy stylesheet like this one.
Agreed - "in your head" doesn't mean what most people think it means, and is somewhat of a pejorative term. Such a disease is not really addressed by the psychiatric community at all, which disavows that the mind can have such a powerful effect on the body as to cause gross organic conditions like chronic pain (e.g. fibromyalgia), CFS, etc. However, there is nowhere else for the author of this article to point for ongoing research, most of which was abandoned in the 1960s. Such an ailment is not supposed to originate from the conscious mind at all, but from the unconscious, so:

1. The effects of the disease aren't in your head at all, they are very real, and

2. The cause happens to be in the brain rather than some other organ of the body, but it is not available to the conscious, thinking mind.

That doesn't mean that we should stop researching non-psychogenic causes for common ailments, as has been mentioned, ulcers and even some forms of CFS have been shown to have a clear cause and treatment. However, it seems a shame that this entire line of research has pretty much been abandoned...what happened, after all, to the hysterical diseases that Freud was successfully addressing in the early part of the last century? I doubt very much that they just stopped occurring.
>>What should be the unique features that will motivate you to join and participate either as a teacher or as a learner.

On behalf of all teachers in the world, how about paying them?
Wouldn't this greatly throw off the results in cases of rare behavior? For example, if only 1 in 100 (1%) people were leopard killers, but the frequency of throwing a die is 1 in 6 (16.6_%), how would you prevent the results from being thrown off by dice-required yes answers?

I'm assuming there's a statistical solution to this - if someone could explain this or link to one I'd appreciate it.
Human desires are endless. This is why you will always have employment. Technology frees up time and humans than use part of that time for leisure and part of it for doing more meaningful, higher value work.
Ah sorry, most likely that number doesn't apply to Canada, everything is cheaper there :).But lets wait for someone that has some better numbers and enlighten us.
I, too, need an identity. But not one controlled by a corporation ultimately responsible to its stockholders. Note three lines of guidance (restated in http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author ) from Google:

> The TL;DR version for implementing rel=”author” is that it requires three specific links.

>> A link from your blog post or article to your author page using rel=”author”

>> A link from your author page to your Google profile page using rel=”me”

>> A link from your Google profile page to your author page using rel=”me”
The "Linux" servers are Akamai's.
AFAIK, the servers itself are all-microsoft,
most brobably netcraft.com is confused by load-balancers (akamai or something similar)
> As a business owner, I feel for them. As a human being, I feel for her

Separating the two is what causes situations like this.
This is an easy one tho.

Just look at the thread on this email and you'll get the sense of the typical org finger pointing downward spiral.

But look at how Jobs handles something similar: "When you're the janitor, reasons matter. Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering."

I'll leave it at that.
Former michigander here, seconding all the advice. There are more jobs in Missouri than in Michigan.
Nice post, thanks.

I've been using traditional RCSs for years but find that whenever I introduce SVN (or CVS before that) to a team it's very easy for new users to fall into bad habits around branching and committing transitory changes.

I'd like to try git to help manage the mess during the prototyping phase but I'm wondering how suitable it is for new users to learn git vs. learning svn.

Any opions out there on the suitability of git as a first version control system? My team consists of highly experienced engineers (EE/FW) with little or no software engineering experience.
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