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Ask HN: Advice on when it is acceptable to simply "hack something together"?
Firstly apologies for the possibly open ended question. Like, I assume, most people who will read this I have a ton of ideas and experiments I want to undertake. The problem is of course that between my day job and my family there isn't a great deal of time. So obviously I prioritise and tackle things when I can. When I start a new project I start doing it with quality and "doing it right" foremost in my mind which leads to the next problem. With limited time I find it incresingly difficult to maintain momentum when I hit a "boring" spot (usually writing some authentication module - but that is oly one example). I am then suddenly drawn to the next shiny idea and the current one ends up in the great pile of TODOs that only ever grows.

So my question is - are there any recommended books, articles or techniques that outline how to stay focused and push on through or know when to cut your losses or more importantly deciding when it is best just to ditch "the right approach" and just hack something out?
phppgadmin? I've used both (using phppgadmin right now), and they're similar enough. It's not as nice as phpmyadmin, but that shouldn't be a determining factor over whether to use mysql over postgresql.
They should be treated as Flight controllors.
My friend is one and ,it being a high-risk job like being a doctor, they have 8hr workdays with 2 hours of working and 2 hours of resting, and their salaries are sky-high.
So sad all those smart,kind and hard-working people are being so used.

(plus, so glad I didn't end up in med school, I almost did :)
Go through and flag the ones you see. The mods will catch on quickly.
That's the number for deliberate practice.

In other words, every hour of deliberate practice brings the number down exactly one hour.
Ask HN: How to promote a fulfilment service?
I own a under utilized fulfilment service for ecommerce mailorder in Germany: inventory management, collection process, crm, call center, personell etc...how could I best promote this service to e-store owners?
Not to be harsh, but the code I've seen taken from "scientific" papers were the worst code I've ever seen. One function of a couple of thousand lines in C++ (But using a mix of C and C++ functions) using variables named with 1 or 2 letters.. without comments, gasp.. I still do nightmare about that (I had to refactor that code.)

But I do agree with Jacques that I so much prefer a graph with a summary than a couple pages of unreadable mathematical expression. A high-level pseudocode of the general idea might also be great. Sometime, I feel like the paper wasn't written for people to understand.. but as a way to make it seem difficult. It's not rare that I talk with an author of a scientific paper and can easily summarize an entire paragraph with a couple of simple sentences..
Though not a bsd user myself, I'm glad to see this happening. A few extra security-minded eyes on the nginx source code can only make it better.
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I looked into their annual report:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol...

In 2010, they say "Generally, we recognize gross revenue from items we sell from our inventory and recognize our net share of revenue of items sold by other sellers."

(Page 19, the second paragraph)

portman's comment could still apply to sales where Amazon acts as the merchant instead of just the storefront.
This article from a couple days ago did a good job of dampening any wild hopes http://io9.com/5843112/faster-than-light-neutrinos-not-so-fa...

A probably nonsensical idea about the super-nova point they make: maybe what it means isn't that neutrinos are traveling faster than light but that they are traveling just ahead of light. In other words, they are some kind of shock wave moving through space at speed c but at a location just slightly ahead of the disturbance. Maybe we are detecting the supernova neutrinos a few nano seconds before when we're supposed to be.

Still, it's probably a measurement error.
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Nice ones :)

The thing that annoys me about this hacker / painter stuff is that it really boils down to: do something with passion, and you will discover unknown depths, whatever the field may be. That's pretty much where every comparison stops.

Recipe to learn a new skill:

1) get the book called "the art of XXX", written by someone who has been doing XXX for the last 60 years, and which has good typography (no shit)

2) skip the intro and first chapter, which is almost always "XXX has taught me a new way to see the world, XXX is a way of life, blablabla"

3) do the exercises that seem incredibly futile in the second chapter, and do them over and over and over and over all your career. In music, that's your scales / hitting just one note deliberately / tempo exercises (I studied jazz bass), in drawing its those shading exercises and figure drawing or just hatching that you can see the guy in the mentioned thread doing over and over (cast drawing / painting). That's stuff you still see masters doing after 60 years. They don't do the crazy fancy whizzbang stuff, they practice pretty much what the beginner has to practice on the first day. Also, it's almost always something very physical, not mind-related. My only real comparison in programming would be: "practice typing", but that only helps for the first few months I guess. After that, more like having a routine of learning new things or practicing existing data structures or so.

4) do it and do it and do it and never worry about finding your own voice or not being good enough or being better than someone else or having envy or getting frustrated. Just do it and when you don't feel like it then at least do the boring exercise stuff and then go out and enjoy the sun or something.

that's it. nothing magical to it. no silver bullet. don't buy the expensive guitar, go for the one that keeps in tune and the amp that doesn't distort. go for the ballpoint pen. you will know when the expensive tool is right when you know it's right.
Married to a final year surgery resident and unfortunately this article rings very true. I'm not sure if the profession changed at some point, but if we were advising my kid now on future professions, doctor would not be on that list. I remember the idealism that my wife went into the profession with and that is completely gone now. I find that very sad.
"Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life."

No thanks.
The steps are good, the title is link bait.

I know you want to encourage people to stop complaining and get starting, and it can sometimes be that easy, but it's a lot of hard work over the next 12 months even if you prove your idea works and I feel some of these types of articles forget to mention that.
Great stuff! but, why have you not used big oversized X's? These blue check marks dont give enough satisfation as big red X's. Test it :)
I'm sorry, you're sorely mistaken. I've worked at Oracle (been acquired) and i've seen numbers. Licensing is not the main source of profits, support is; they might sell it differently, but that's where they make the real dough. The margins are astonishing.
And look at the numbers they just posted about Europe: +50%. At these levels, that's huge.
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The article suggests actually taking money from people.
Let's just say that I had a meeting with my boss at 7pm last night. Yes, Friday. But at least we all went for beers afterwards.
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A diary app implements this:
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The sales pitch is probably what threw you off. "I'll pay you to bring you new customers" is the pitch, but the detail is likely more along the lines of Groupon's deals: "I'll charge $12 for selling your $25 product, and keep $3 for myself. So I'll pay you $9 for every new customer I bring."

Assuming it's the kind of business that typically sees recurring revenue and the expenses of servicing each new customer consists of little more than pushing electrons around, $9 for a new customer isn't too bad compared to whatever their current cost per acquisition is.
> You should become a doc because you always wanted to work for Medecins Sans Frontières and your life will be half-lived without that.

Everything else was just whiny bullshit.
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And Category Theory is not even taught here.
I think Facebook's new features are good. They made me realize how much of my old crap (status updates, comments, etc) Facebook has stored. So I deleted everything older than one month, using the new Activity Log view and some Selenium scripts.
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Some are prescriptivists.
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Awesome, that'll do as well, thanks
I've found dipping my toe into category theory in the course of writing Haskell libraries has been very fruitful and I don't have much of a math background.

For instance a few weeks ago I noticed a useful property of some objects in an concurrent actor model library I am working, and after a bit of googling saw what I had were contravariant functors. Of course there's a package on hackage defining this class and implementing some interesting properties that I hadn't realized before.

I would never claim to know category theory, but I think I have an intuitive understanding of some objects from the field and it has helped me write better code.
I read a lot of CS papers and am not particularly strong on formal math (that is, I have a lot of gaps) but I'd rather not have actual code to demonstrate concepts. Instead, I prefer it when they use pseudocode because it forces them to boil their implementation down to the simplest parts possible than cut and paste code into a paper.
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You run this risk when you build on or using any type of platform. If you build something that is hugely successful you might get acquired by the platform provider, or if it's cheaper they might build it themselves.
So if you were the UK government, and you knew the BBC was going to publish something you didn't want them to, how exactly would you get them to stop?
I did not realize until this point that it was this very Numair who wrote this brilliant answer on Quora http://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-difficult-to-build-a-music...
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An idea I just thought of on that front - instead of the usual bland "we cannot fulfil the order at this time" end to a dry-test, send people to a 404-alike page with a contact email. You can track conversions by watching the clickthroughs, but as an added bonus, if people subsequently email going "your site's broken! Where can I buy?" you know they really want your product
i guess his point was that the reason the web works at all, or tcp/ip, or email, or any of the really successful platforms - is because of certain contracts of openness and (essentially) fair play that are built into the very structure of how they are built.

this openness allows them to scale to that level and without it you can't get to truly global scale.
Ok, so I'm trying to wrap my head around he ultimately gets screwed on this... Are the people/entities who bought $382mil worth of shares potentially screwed now that they see the real valuation? Is there any potential for fraud in this case?
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Who do you think funds drug research now?

The NIH, nonprofit fundraising organizations like The Jimmy Fund, small companies like Advanced Cell Technology, and Venture Capital to biotech startups. Finally-- existing large drug companies like Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Novartis; who issue grants, own large research labs and acquire startups much like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft.

But the last are heavily biased. Consider the study covered by this article: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/?p=88990&utm_source=Silv...

That study won't result in technological innovation. That study will result in health insurance policies more likely to cover sleeping pills. Funded by Merck and Sanofi-Aventis, who sell sleeping pills.
Can someone explain how this can be beneficial to more or less typical web apps? I don't see where the extra concurrency could be used...

Alternatively, what sort of use cases is this good for?
In that case, I meant no disrespect. Brevity is difficult for some but the application is the first step in that program - it teaches you to be 'right to the point' because we are dealing with people's time and meandering around a point makes people lost in translation. Tips, huh....analogies are always good, as PG has often suggested. Examples1: 'I am like a combination of Mr. X and Mr. Y" - it saves you some adjectives and gets the ideas across of who you are. Example2: 'My idea is like FB but in Starbucks' - a social media service but in a coffee house...something like that. I believe these are the same strategies and advice that PG and YC will drill you to hone down when it comes down to Demo day. Given the 120 word limit, it is hard, I know. Also, ask friends and family who are not familiar with your work/idea to read it. If they don't get your idea within the first 2 sentences, then keep working at it. When you really get good at it, 120 words may be too much...=) Good Luck.
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ah, makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation.
>>it proves that a psychotic mob of minutiae obsessed sufferers of Autism are capable of incredible productivity in spite of anachronistic tooling

>That should've been your hint that I have an admiration for them and their project.

You called the developers a psychotic mob of Autism sufferers. A hint of admiration, you say?
In the US, you have to get the applicant through a lottery system. It used to be a high percentage would get through, but the last I heard, it was more like 50/50. So, if you hire a lot of people, and have 30 with visas and get 15, that might be ok. But, if you only need 1, it's too high stakes.

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Yes but what I meant was they have to be Everything for everybody. They cannot afford to offer less features.
Then you should contact the antitrust authorities: This is a blatant anti-competitive behavior if there is one...
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When we publish papers, we usually include sample raw data as part of an online supplement or appendix whenever the journal permits it (most people never look at these). Not all journals do permit this, and storage constraints sometimes make it difficult to provide a worthwhile sample anyways. We do supply raw data to anyone who asks for it. If that counts as keeping our data secret, then so be it.

I have yet to find encounter a group in my field that refused to share raw data when asked for it. They're usually happy to have another set of eyes look for a meaning they didn't publish (This could lead to another paper they might not have to work very hard for!). Again, is it really secret if all you have to do is ask for it? Corresponding author email addresses are on papers for a reason!

I will say that it is unusual for a group of scientists as prominent as the ones at CERN are to go to the media before publishing, but they are clearly very unsure of their results and would rather have a lot of eyes looking for bugs before they commit to publishing their results. This, of course, won't accomplish much if they try to keep secrets, as you are suggesting.

In fact, here's a challenge for you. Go ask CERN for their FTL neutrino data. I bet they'll be happy to give you a copy. They'll probably even have a grad-student to spare to explain some of it to you, although his or her time will probably be at a premium for the next few weeks!
Is mobile search a good platform to target now or would you stick to desktop pcs?
...more so for the people who collect user's personal data. Funny, I haven't had that many telemarkerters since FB. Yes, we are all that much more connected (whatever that means; I don't use FB at all so I wouldn't know), but there must be a better way than to dump our personal lives into servers 'out there'. I hope 'profoundly changed' means that it has taught some of us to think twice before we give out our personal data. Startups around FB have benefited from its existence, so I should balance my comments with some positives. A debatable issue that will surely continue...
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the term everyone means is not sharecropping its Farm renting...the Big farm owner rents out certain parcels because he has neither the time nor the labor and equipment to plant and harvest...

But, like the much maligned sharecropping its heavily tipped in the Farm owners favor.
I kinda had a feeling, that you should have written it in Ruby On Rails before opening the link, seems I'm right.

Good Luck for your coding and other endeavors.
This is why HN needs improvements. Jerry Seinfelds productivity secret has been leaked on HN plenty of times. How come no one flags this?
Its great to see this person's progression! He is obviously very talented and has a real gift.

I went through a similar progression as a child. My mother worked as an art teacher at the local YMCA while I was growing up. After school each day I would take the bus to the Y and sit in on her art classes. I became a pretty proficient artist -- technically speaking anyway -- but I never really developed into what I would call a creative artist.

I just didn't have that "gift." My brother did (and does) however. The lesson I learned is that anyone can learn to draw and be able to reproduce what they see fairly well (it is really just techniques) but to actually create takes something beyond technical skills. You have to have a vision and courage to express it. MindCandyMan has it.
This may seem like a stupid question, but how do I even do that?

I'm a long time reader, but only recently started posting, so the finer details like flagging and downvoting are beyond me right now :)
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Ask HN: What is "warrant allocation"?
I received a job offer from a startup, and among others it mentions:

The warrant allocation is in line with salary. If you joined at this stage and we have an exit in the $X range you could expect around N years salary to be paid out.

Can someone explain what this means?
Ask HN: Founding a startup in New York City?
Myself and my cofounders are currently based in Dublin, Ireland, and we're in early stages at the moment.

Our potential early investors and supporters are mostly based in New York City, and we're being asked if we would relocate there in order to continue on.

Now, this sounds utterly amazing to me, and myself and the team would love to head out there and give it a go, but I've got a few questions for my fellow hackers.

What's it like running a startup in NY? I've seen a few scattered posts that it's more cut-throat than SF, and that there isn't as much help and camaraderie available between startups. Is this true?

What kind of prices would we be looking at to get a small but decent office to start off in? The same goes for apartments. What websites are the best to find good rented property? In Ireland we have daft.ie, but there are a bunch of other shitty ones here and it's not obvious which is the best, so I assume the same is probably true in every other city.

Has anyone had any experience founding a startup as an immigrant? We'll be offered support in getting visas and such, but I'd like to hear any anecdotes about the process.

The interbutt is a big place, and there are lots of articles. It would be amazing if anyone who's seen any good posts about this could send a link along.

Cheers folks.
I clicked on this article expecting to have a laugh, considering the linkbait title and the website it's on.

But I was impressed. The article nicely introduces ideas like customer validation and minimum viable prototypes in a way most people could easily understand. Well done!
Click the "flag" link under the submission title.

Edit: apologies, I just read on the guidelines that:

"If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)"

I just upvoted to help you on your way :)
Very cool. As a father myself, I can relate. It's really touches me when a simple thing like this (with all of our tech at hand) can just influence our children for the better.

I also used photoshop to replace my daughter making a funny face in our Xmas picture with another shot a few frames back. Voila...everyone got their Xmas cards and no one was the wiser.
I did that when i was working on previous startup, but for now me and cofounder are just trying to show prototype really quickly. No sleeps, Lots of snacks and redbulls- but I think prototype > 'launch soon' site. You can even get some sample reference datas. Whatever it looks like, something that actually communicate with potential users is better, i think :)