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Change the implementation, not the API.

Netflix broke their API with their customers, so they're gonna be confused and upset. No explanation, no matter how good, will fix that.

It's like when you write a long comment in some code to explain why your code is goofy. Just fix the code!

In this case netflix needed to make their site more usable and make the pricing distinctions between streaming and dvd more clear.

New company, new prices, new billing options. Wayyy to much info for your avg customer. Netflix is way too confident if they think, customers won't cancel their plans with all these questions being raised. Once a customer starts to think about all these options, they might just think I don't really use Netflix much anyway!
This is what I was talking about when I said people going on about invites, nymwars and Google Apps were missing the forest for the trees. Google is taking this very, very seriously. They aren't afraid to leverage their previous success. Expect Google+ to be all up in search, maps, and a default app on Android.

Whether this is a good thing is an entirely separate issue. Personally I don't care for social networking, but Google has shown a unexpected amount of panache with this. I do think it is such a singular focus that it may prove a distraction (especially since I think social networking isn't a good fit for Google). The stuff I love from Google may suffer. But they are going broke.
I do both as well. I love sports in all forms. I go to the University of Miami and haven't missed a home football or basketball game yet. Also I am always ready to play a game a pickup anything really.
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Awesome idea. A really good market you could hit could be students heading off to college for the first time. College is a scary place and having some really good advice about going to college (even better if it is about your school specifically) helps a ton.
Show that you have a past record of Getting Shit Done. List things you have accomplished on your resume. Be able to say "I led the doing of X, and it improved the company". If you are fresh out of college, describe your ability to finish your schoolwork early and completely and have recommendations from the professors backing you up on that. If none of this applies to you, start a small open-source project _and complete it_. Also RTFA and see that you meet the author/interviewer's definition of a person who can Get Shit Done since he describes what he's looking for in a fair amount of detail. Having a college degree used to be evidence you could GSD but it's not good enough anymore.
I as well love sports. And I feel like there are definitely hackers out there that do like sports. I think that sports have barely been touched by hackers and feel like there are a lot of cool possibilities out there for people to pursue.

Mike, Hope things are going well with the new digs and everything is going smoothly.

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Which worked wonders for Chrome.
That's not really something that helps Google. They want everyone there, not just self-proclaimed 'early adopters.'
I don't think you understood me.

For the same baseline level of internal well-being, people will respond to the question "how happy are you?" differently depending on their culture. Do you understand how this presents a problem when measuring happiness across cultures? That is why I refer to it as subjective. Cultures change over time, so a change in the HPI might simply be a reflection of that.

That being said, I do not believe that just because a measure is subjective, it is useless. Of course it's useful. It's just important to understand what exactly you're measuring.
What's not true?

An independent contractor can only work 6 to 12 months before being let go? Absolutely true. I saw it with my own eyes.
An independent contractor returning after a few months of break? Absolutely true. I also saw this.

But a US law? You're right, it may not be a real law. However, when the legal department comes down and says that contractors cannot stay longer than X months because of a previous lawsuit at a company, I'm going to rightly assume that they don't want to break a law. And the way you said "if you are a business walking up to the line of the law", I'd guess that you agree that there is some sort of law that may be broken if companies aren't careful.

I was merely pointing out the real problems that companies face by employing contractors, instead of giving a blanket "Untruth!" statement.
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I asked on the blog, but since there's other people here who might be using these technologies: Why Node and WebSockets over Twisted and Athena/Minerva?
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This works: http://www.slate.com/id/2301449?mobile_redirect=false

Add ?mobile_redirect=false to the url.
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> but then again who actually pays for Linux apps?

Despite this oft repeated statement, I have seen no evidence that Linux users don't pay for apps. The only thing saying it does is scare developers away from a perfectly good source of income.
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It's essentially a unit-fuzzing framework, so it can find holes in boundary conditions people generally forget to check, because it's in their blind spot or because "nobody would ever do that".

QC does not care, and since it's injecting fuzzed data at the unit leve (~function, generally) it makes it quite easy to see precisely where the failure happens.
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I bill less than 8 hours a day (normally) but I work that much. I just don't feel like I should bill for what I call "stupid time" or getting stuck on something that, were I faster and more knowledgable, would only take 1/3 the time.
> It would easily be sufficed with a "free app" and "paid app". Apple just doesn't make this seamless.

In-app upgrades from free to full are exactly that, and generally seamless... What are you whining about exactly?

> are these transferrable across devices like the apps are?

Yes.
I think the problem with that idea is that they're likely preparing to sell off the whole DVD business in order to get the studios to stop insisting on Netflix paying streaming licensing royalties on EVERY subscriber rather than just the ones that subscribe to streaming. The problem with that thinking is that Netflix then loses the leverage that being able to say that they'll just offer a disc offers them.

I'm worried that the studios are like the barbarians at the gates of the Roman/Netflix empire, and that the dark ages and feudalism are looming. Hopefully we won't have years of crappy legit setup vs. a much better illegal option before another unifier like Netflix rises.
Ah yes, the "Maximum PC" CRT pick many times in a row. :) Brings back good memories.
I feel you. I had an identical experience last year around this time. Wasn't a startup situation, just a very small shop run by a hot ninja who was trying to palm off a quarter of a million lines of undocumented byzantine code without bothering to mentor or even explain the business processes this thing was designed to satisfy. Bleh.

I was able to land a gig with a small shop doing work for some incredible clients filled with brilliant people that know their product back-to-front and management that polls the developers for input throughout the project life cycle. Needless to say I've never been happier.
> Does the treap balancing mechanism not result in a tree equivalent to what one would get permuting the input sequence with "order by rand()"? I'm pretty sure it does.

Yes, it does, but I was responding to you comment that "expected logarithmic height is achieved just by randomly permuting the input sequence". It achieves the effect of having randomly permuted the input sequence, but it does not actually perform input sequence permutation.

> Can you give me an example of that, then?

Any tree with nodes that store the number of descendents (weight-balanced search trees, for instance) take Omega(lg n) for finger updates. See also "Heterogeneous Decomposition of Degree-Balanced Search Trees and Its Applications" by Shan Leung ("Maverick") Woo, section 1.1.4 and "Robust balancing in B-trees" by Scott Huddleston and Kurt Mehlhorn. They both mention that the original flavors of B-tree have sequences of k insertion and deletion operations where the update costs alone are omega(k).

http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2009/CMU-CS-09-13...

http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ftp/Huddleston-Mehlhorn-...

Another example is repeated insertion and then deletion of a single element in a full binary tree viewed as an AVL tree. Node height (or even single bit height-balance information like "which child is heavier") propagates all the way to the root for both operations.
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" What bothers me are not the taxes I pay to help others and to support the services our country needs. What bothers me is the mis-allocation and inefficient distribution of our tax money."

Completely agree. I doubt many people would be happy knowing that a lot of their taxes (or government debt) goes toward funding the defense budget, two wars, and such. But that's the price everyone pays for a democratic country. If there were enough people pissed off about the misallocation of taxes, then vote the bastards out.
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I love sports and have always loved it.

I get the same kind of rush when I'm playing a sports game and when I'm coding. Sometimes, you just go into a sweet mental zone where you feel unstoppable. and winning a close sports game at the very end is very similar to when you get a complex app to run and functioning. The moment when everything just works out is pure bliss.

Video games are also similar. I remember the same feelings playing DOTA, where you have a super close game at the very end and both teams are going for the final push, and you end up executing a perfect plan. Pure bliss.

For all of these though, you need to have a certain level of competence through practice or coaching. I'm guessing a lot of people, not just hackers, just never gets to that stage and give up.
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Honestly, I missed it. I mean I did see something drawing itself out of the corner of my eye but I didn't let it distract me from my search, which I think counts as missing it.
I'd really like to know if your estimation is accurate
I seem to be right. The workload was molecular modeling (see blog post); and many of the algorithms are very well suited to GPU, see: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/gpu/

I am not saying they are newbies for failing to exploit GPUs. There could be other reasons why they did that. For example the pharma needed the results ASAP and may not have ported that particular molecular modeling app to GPU yet. GPGPU is a nascent field after all.

I do too write GPU applications (crypto bruteforcers), just so you know ;)
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Couple of thoughts perhaps on how you could better close a sale.

It wasn't immediately clear to me what exactly I'd do with this. Would I create a book for myself with things other people have told me? Would I put my wisdom in a book and give it to someone else?

Lets say I've got my mind around it and I think this is a good idea that I plan to do. You need to convince me pretty quickly that I shouldn't go and look for other online book publishing sites that are cheaper/easier.
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This is a common mistake that Cuban makes. The problem with taxes is that they affect marginal behavior. The doctor works a little less, and entrepreneur sells out a little earlier, the medium business hires one less worker than they otherwise would have. These decisions are invisible because they are small and we can't compare what is to what would have been. But, the costs of taxes on economic efficiency are real. We need taxes for to pay for government. And, we can debate how big magnitude of the distortionary effect of taxes. But this should be done with data not based on anecdotal feelings.
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Good points.

Given a query string of length k and cache lines that store B bits, the crit-bit trie for the bad input uses Theta(k) computations and causes Theta(k) cache misses, I think. A balanced tree holding the same set causes Theta(k * lg n) computations and O(lg n + (k * lg n / B)) cache misses, I think. My understanding is that lg n / B is frequently much less than 1, even for small cache line sizes, so that the balanced tree will generally use less I/O than a crit-bit tree but more computation.
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I know that patio11 often talks about adding big-ass buttons to web designs to the point where they seem absurd and this is is a good example of why.
> But this should be done with data not based on anecdotal feelings.

This last line has me confused about the first part of your reply
Ask HN: Why or Why not to advertise early-on in a startup?
I've heard that early on advertising can deter your growth in building your user base, can create a bad reputation for you, users don't come to your site for the ads but rather the content etc.

Contrary to that, I've also heard people talk about launching their iPhone apps with ads from the start and were able to promote their user base with no problem. People downloaded their app and used it because they needed/wanted to use the app regardless of what ads might be in there.

From what I've noticed- most iPhone apps that are backed up by capital (VCs, Angels, etc) don't have ads and secret future plans for some kind of revenue model. Other apps that are individually created don't have the luxury of having the same kind of capital and usually have no choice but to sell ads to survive. Is it proven that you can grow a more successful user-base without ads early on?

In your experience, why or why not should you choose to advertise early on in your startup?
With complete transparency we could have hundreds of volunteer deficit reduction Super Committees to look for the best places to cut costs and improve efficiency.

This sounds like a great idea, but I worry...

A lack of shared values means each "Super Committee" seems likely to fall into a battle over values. Some will insist on cutting defence spending, other will cut welfare programs. Compromises won't be based on what makes sense, but by trading off between sides.

I'm not sure that is any better than the existing system - and in some ways it is worse. It slows down government even more, and it is likely to increase partisanship.
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Mark, watch out - the tea partiers, libertarians and wealthy will think you're some kind of socialist with that kind of talk.

It's a good problem to have is a great saying and has helped me time and again to put things into perspective.
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I stopped using Facebook a week or two ago when they started putting an opaque overlay over the entire page to direct my attention to a popup box that said nothing interesting and had no apparent way of closing it, no [X] in the corner. If that's a feature of the new layout, I already hate it even though I haven't been able to see the new layout.

A hint to UI developers: if your proposed user interface feature resembles something that porn sites did in the 1990s which users found so obnoxious that browser developers rewrote their products to disallow it, because disabling your feature would gain the browser many additional users, don't do it.
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The string b-tree also does trie-like search without sacrificing balance:

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> we can debate how big magnitude of the distortionary effect of taxes. But this should be done with data not based on anecdotal feelings.

This is true enough for the Tax-Me-More rich folks, but much more so for the Tax-Me-Not crowd who oppose just about any taxation--a belief often supported by little more than "anecdotal feelings" itself.
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The "investors find undervalued stocks" proposition is also testable: find investors for whom this is a stated investment strategy, and track the performance of their picks vs. the market at large. A small number of fund managers do have long-term above-market returns (Warren Buffett comes to mind). However many have only a short run (even Buffett made much of his bank in earlier times).

There's a lot of back-and-forth on the efficient market hypothesis, but (other than market-wide run-ups based on bubbles / inflation / loose credit) by and large it holds with small opportunities for arbitrage. More likely you'll see manipulation (cornering markets, playing "penny stocks").

Regarding stock performance following an event, this can be statistically controlled in a well-designed study. I'm not saying that the referenced paper describes one, or that it doesn't, just that this is feasible.

Control can come both from a well-selected sample size, and including other control variables in your statistical model. "The law of large numbers" as applied to random samples will ensure the normalizing tendencies. A cogent argument could be made that stock markets and industry segments aren't particularly amenable to random sampling, though as I said above, other statistical controls also exist.
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I just sent an e-mail to Marco. Hopefully he'll be able to implement this in to InstaPaper.
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Pretty sure he means "moral imperative", not "moral hazard" which has the opposite meaning in that context. Sorry, it jumped out at me.
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But what is "Linux"? If it were a package you could buy in a box from the store, the manufacturer would just sign a contract with OEMs to have a suitable key present in all manufactured computers, but Linux isn't like that. What if I want to compile my own kernel in order to try out an experimental feature, or help test a driver? What if I need to upgrade my boot-loader?

The only alternative to 'blocking Linux' is 'allowing anything to run', and if manufacturers were happy to allow that, they wouldn't bother with these features in the first place.

I'm sure there'll still be lots of computers that are capable of running Linux - multi-thousand dollar servers and high-end workstations; the kind of computers you buy through your account manager. It seems pretty sensible to block unauthorised OSs on low-end computers — the kind that ship with OS X or Windows Basic, the kind where minimizing support costs is vitally important.

Unfortunately, that's the same market segment where I and everybody I know got their start: taking over an old Windows box and putting Linux to see what the fuss was all about.
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That depends... how about if it were presented as "our new models come with a feature that will dramatically lower support costs"?
I think power-netizens like you and me aren't the target market of this kind of advertisement.

There are folks who still go to www.google.com to even launch an URL (more details: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2185238&cid=36242486 )
In this case I hope you also charge the fast and knowledgeable rate.
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