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I bought Peepopen way back when it first came out, but it was incredibly slow even on small projects with just a couple of thousands of files.

Anyway, Peepopen doesn't actually support Sublime. It needs editor support, which means someone has to write a plugin.
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Doesn't CSS define a pixel as being 1/96th of an inch?
I’m confused by the relationship between your statement and my imaginary HoneyFarm.

First, how would a system that searches for exploits in the wild then releases patches for those vulnerabilities have a primary purpose of “putting pressure on Adobe?” Its primary purpose is to protect the users of its products from an exploit.

Second, help me understand why I should care about how hard Adobe’s team works. Are you saying they deserve our sympathy? Or implying that since they are smart and working hard, we cannot expect any better results than they are getting?
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I worked at a company that had invested big $$$ into an agile tool without consulting the teams if it was adequate for their needs. For a month or 2, the teams used the tool as required. Eventually, when the boss turned his back, each team quietly found a tool. Because they were being quiet, each team found a different tool from every other team. They were actually tracking their progress in both systems, but the expensive one was only being updated afterwards. Everyone would sit around the easy-to-use tool and plan things, and then 1 unlucky soul had to transcribe it into the crappy tool. This actually sped things up because the crappy tool would waste time x5, where the combination of tools only wasted time x1. (And we usually got a non-developer to do the transcribing, too.)

Eventually, the whole thing came to light and the company was forced to admit how stupid they were being.

See, they had paid for a year's service of the bad tool, and they were adamant that they get their money's worth. They were absolutely blind to how much money they were wasting daily. The sunk cost was sunk. There was no way to recover from that, and the tool just couldn't be salvaged.
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The stability is normally poor, even with a tethered balloon, depending on wind conditions.

It also appears, from the guy's videos, that he has a large area of ground to cover, and with the limited optics and image resolutions he's working with, a tethered balloon wouldn't be very functional.

He should just stick with his plane idea.
Have you considered a Chargify Lite (or an HN discount =])... I'll be launching a SaaS product soon that will be $10/mo. Even your Launch and Start plans won't be usable since they'll suck away the early revenue (which curtails my ability to reinvest growing the user base).
Someone had stolen and posted my 99 cents eBook on entrepreneurship
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Hi Martin,

Thanks for the answer :) The Web Summit looks pretty good indeed, I guess it's worth the investment (early bird).
How come there's not more happening? Other capitals have a fairly active community, and Dublin is supposed to be among the best places to start a company... There should be a huge community!
I really enjoyed your post; I, like many programmers I would assume, look at anything like financial trading or sports betting and wonder if it's really possible to build an algorithm that could consistently beat the market.

The assumption is that once logic is removed, a machine could execute based on data. But humans crunch data so much faster than CPUs at this point (at least until around 2020 probably), it's still hard to pinpoint the minute logic that goes into a successful trading strategy.

Your post really shows the realities of how challenging it is, even when guided by humans who have past success at trading.
I sleep ~6 hours per night, drink 6+ cups of coffee and 1-2 cups of tea per day, and only rigorously exercise for 25 minutes 2-3 times per month. My daily diet consists of 600+ calories from extra-virgin cold-pressed coconut oil and butter, 2-4 eggs a day, a handful of cherry tomatoes, 1000+ calories from beef/poultry/pork/fish, 400+ cals from hard cheeses (like swiss), a 1/2 pound - 1 pound of vegetables, maybe a handful of mixed nuts, and a whole lot of kitchen spices (including salt!).

I also try to take 5 - 10 minutes a day to do focused breathing/relaxation (i.e. meditation w/o the hocus-pocus).

With the above lifestyle, I have a resting pulse rate of 54, a bp of 122/70, and I have been losing 2-8 lbs a month for the past 18 months while maintaining strength, endurance, and muscle mass levels. Moreover, I feel wonderful!

I turn 30 at the end of the year, so my good results aren't because I am some youthful, exuberant teenager. I actually attribute them to my diet and lifestyle.
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Apparently, this is the infected resourse[1], although it's not infected when (or rather where) I load it.

[1] https://www.mysql.com/common/js/s_code_remote.js?ver=2009101...
A List of alternatives to Spotify
Awesome! Thomas Bachem (http://www.facebook.com/thomas.bachem) has announced he's attending and would have time to hold a talk. Which topics would you like Thomas to talk about?
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I've had the same problem. On the rare occasion that I can launch Spotify without it crashing it forces me through a bunch of modal dialogs begging me to connect my Facebook. Needless to say they won't be getting any more of my money.
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Real good advice. Totally agree with the brute force thing, I usually resort to that first just to put something down. Related note, Palantir was at the MIT Career Fair recently and when talking to prospective candidates, they asked them a little brain teaser as a filter on the spot.
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i came to the same conclusions as this fellow, and left electronic trading for the startup world almost exactly a year ago today.

i couldn't be more pleased with my decision.
Why not just learn both of them? It would not hurt you to have more than one language you are good at, especially if they are very different from each other.
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Hmm, so it does. A "reference pixel" they call it.
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Look on the bright side. At least they admitted it.
My email is in my profile if you have an extra invite that you could throw my way.
Curious: after the year of service was up, did the company decide to go with one of the other tools you guys found, or did they keep dropping stupid money?
The most correct program (in terms of maintainability and evolution -- as well as mathematical correctness) approximates the most orthogonal program.

In term of modeling it with objects that contain state, this may mean having objects that have a varying degree of state (unless you choose other purer approaches).

But it's naive to think that all classes should be a noun. Everything should be an abstraction that models the solution. However, nouns that end with 'er' do tend to have a little bit of state that seem unorthogonal. But I guess my point is that that's the wrong way to look at it. Better to think about it in terms of DRY. Some 'manager' or 'controller' classes violate DRY (whereas it's rare for 'connection' classes to). But not all 'manager' or 'controller' classes do.
If you've paid for the account (in other words, it's not a free Amazon Student, or Amazon Mom account), then some of the titles will be available for free streaming.

see this: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sa_menu_aiv_piv_t10?ie=UTF8&...
>Given a whiteboard and one hour, determine whether the person across from you is someone you’d like to work with, in the trenches, for the next n years.

If we ignore the requirements of one hour...

Brute force: Hire a random candidate that hasn't been hired by you before. Fire them when you get fed up with them. Hire a different candidate. Repeat.

Greedy Algorithm: Develop the model for an ideal candidate, assign that candidate a numerical model and then compute the distance from the current candidate to the ideal candidate.* Hire the candidate with the lowest computed distance. If a candidate comes along with a lower computed distance fire the old candidate and hire the new one.

Simulated Annealing: As with the greedy algorithm, but instead of hiring based solely on lowest computed distance, include a small % chance that you will randomly fire the candidate and hire candidate that is slightly worse. (Optional extension to the algorithm is to keep the best candidate so far cached somewhere, potentially a transporter buffer).

Genetic Algorithms: From your pool of candidates, select the top candidates. Breed these candidates, randomly introducing mutations. Repeat again with the progeny of the previous pool, until one of the candidates passes a satisficing threshold 'distance' score.

* = Notice that this is the actually the most difficult part of (almost any useful application of) these algorithms but I managed to hand-wave right through it.
Hard to believe that I bought my TM license on October 19th 2006. It's been 5 years! I'm looking forward to another 5 years with TM2.
I think that the author's point is that these latencies would, in fact, add a systematic bias to the measurements (i.e. they would shift the results, not add noise). I interpreted "added or subtracted" to mean that this bias could either be added at the source end or subtracted at the receiving end.
You appear to be assuming that getting those licenses is difficult. It really isn't. If Spotify managed it, any competent competitor can also do it -- after all, the labels have no particular loyalty to a small Swedish online radio network.

Spotify is far from a small Swedish online radio network; here in Europe they are far and away the market leader. They have over a million accounts in Norway alone, which is phenomenal penetration in a country of 5 million.

Second, getting those licenses was incredibly difficult for them; the negotiations to enter the US market took several years. There is absolutely no indication that the record labels are prepared to give similar terms, or even any terms at all, to other competitors. Again, here in Europe, I know of several firms attempting to compete with Spotify, and they are getting hung up on precisely this point.
an old friend told me a few days ago how much he enjoyed my ebook. i asked him if he bought it from amazon and he said no. it is available free online. i did a search and this is what i found. this is great. i hope more people could read my book. if you want the latest version (3rd edition) where i corrected many grammatical errors, you can go to amazon. i get about 40 cents a book and it is enough for me to cover my wine budget. it would be great if you could write a review. thx.

http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Guide-Start-Entrepreneurs-ebo...
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My history in IT has been that of circumventing corporate policy for fun and profit:

Scraping the company mainframe for billing data: Increased rev by $1 million fixing accounts incorrectly billed.

Compiling the scrapped data into MySQL: $3 million in lost inventory found.

Waiting 6 months for a site visit so I could tell the COO directly that any employee could dump all the credit cards in our database: Priceless.
I would say social networks are not "most internet companies". And I would also say that most social networks are not generating enough ad revenue to generate sustainable profits.
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Are massive whale deaths good predictors of earthquakes?
I think a lot of it depends on the problem space. Are you solving a problem that uses a B2B or B2C solution (or a hybrid)? B2C problems are likely easier to find early adopters, if the problem is of any significance. You likely already have friends who face that problem and would be happy to be an early adopter. For those situations, you just reach out to your social circle and can work from there.

I think more work is required for B2B solutions. Linkedin and Facebook probably already have several groups dedicated to the general topic your solution falls under. It's not too difficult to identify people there who are pushing the boundaries of your problem area. These are the low-hanging fruit for finding early adopters. I think networking events, especially if there's a meetup.com group in your area, that are specific to your problem area can be a great place to get some face time with people who might be early adopters. From there, it's a matter of setting up some coffee meetings and talking to those potential early adopters in more depth.

Some people like to throw up a landing page with a form to collect email addresses, then throw money at some ads to drive traffic and see if anyone is willing to send their contact info. I think that strategy has it's merits, but I think you lose something by automating the process at that time. I think there's a lot of benefit from the early face time with potential early adopters. I think you can find out a lot more about who might fit the profile of an early adopter, by actually finding out what an early adopter looks like.
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You said it, we're all doing it - hang out where the early adopters hang out.
I'll tend to get something like 0.1% in charge backs nearly all through Pay Pal. I just pay and ignore them.

Note, when a person requests a charge back through Pal Pal, Pay Pal will ask them to prove their side, and I don't remember the person ever doing it successfully. The successful people initiate the charge back via their credit card company and Pay Pal always accepts those and charges me.
Ask HN: Interested in coding academic Sims?
I am trying to get developer feedback for a program (SimuPad) I developed that makes it easier to build and use PhET (http://phet.colorado.edu/) type simulations. It is both an IDE and a virtual class room environment. Development of Sims is done using Javascript and SVG. I would really appreciated it if you would review it and provide any feedback or questions you may have. Below are some examples of Sims built using SimuPad:

Firefox, Chrome,Safari or Opera required.

Refresh browser page if it doesn't load at first, I am working on fixing a bug related to loading.*

Spring Mechanics Lab:
http://bit.ly/owUS1B

Projectile Motion Lab:
http://bit.ly/nwnJ94

Here is an example of the above programs embedded in a blog post: http://bit.ly/qGR1zv

User Demo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZcIMvejVA

Developer Demo: http://youtu.be/wma9MU2e_U0

Regards
Edmond
Divide and conquer: Assign all applicants randomly to teams. Run competitive coding competition. Reject all but the winning team. Split the winning team into smaller ones, and repeat.
I spent a good 15 seconds trying to find the input box to type my fictional website name. You might want to make that more obvious.
Great, I need something to help me design a logo easily. You could even guilt-charge me $1 once I click SAVE.

However it isn't going to work as is. You need to show all fonts immediately. As a user, and potential paid user, I do not want to click endlessly.
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Okay. I'll let you know (and bring printed stuff). How do I reach you?
The fonts are from Google Web Fonts API. Check out the examples for some awesome stuff that can be done with the site. Also add an example if you are visual talented. Finally, I'd like a lot of feedback on what needs to be done to make the webapp great.
nvi -> emacs -> vim -> eclipse -> vim/macvim
Compare your viewpoints with the presidential candidates of Election 2012
The constant among those companies/founders is that they were started by technical/engineer founders. IMHO, tech companies should at least have 1 technical co-founder. I'm sure someone has data around the correlation between success of web/internet companies and whether or not they had a technical co-founder.
Thanks, those are great questions.

OurLabel is a platform that brings fans into the music-making process from discovery to funding to promotion. That covers a few different aspects of a traditional label. You could say it is crowdsourcing A&R. It is also crowdsourcing publicity by incentivizing fans to promote the releases via their social media channels. OurLabel plans to share 25% of net income from releases to fans who helped promote it (in the form of rewards such as music downloads, merchandise, concert tickets, etc.).

OurLabel is also a free service to funded artists in that it helps in the execution of the project by connecting the artists with the right resources (whether it be production, marketing, legal, distribution, etc.). OurLabel DOES NOT manage the artist. Also, it is important to note that this is done on an as-needed basis. We give artists all the freedom they want as well as the support they want.

To us, success is measured by getting new music, commissioned by fans, out to the market. We certainly take an active role in marketing the releases and aim to maximize their value, as it is in the collective interest of the artists, fans, and us that the releases sell more copies, get more licensing deals, etc.
I used Mog for a while and was pretty happy. It's pretty similar to Rdio, except that it has a (claimed) larger library of tracks.
I think Adobe's team deserves more sympathy than it gets. I'm not making any comment about Adobe- the- company, which I know very little about.
The PC is dead? Wrong. The tablet is the PC.
How many HTC desire S users have had their mainboards die?
Hi HN, we're launching a new way for you to compare your viewpoints with the candidates of Election 2012 on TwoSides, a social debate platform. This launch also coincides with us opening up our beta to the public. Would love to hear any and all feedback you guys have, as we're always looking to improve!
Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cloud
My first thought was "is there any actual content in among the buzzwords". My second thought was "what's he trying to sell". Apparently, cloudability is a service that allows you to track your "cloud" spending, which seems totally useless to me. I mean, why should I track SaaS and Amazon S3 backups in the same category, but leave off $1000 Yourkit license in some other category?
I'll try to fix that. Thanks for the feedback.
I've got decent replies from ministers by email before.
Disclaimer: I work at Palantir Technologies. These are my own opinions and not my company's.

The Palantir post is great for how to handle yourself when you are already there. Steve Yegge's "Get That Job at Google" is a great how-to-really-prepare piece. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

A couple other suggestions:

* Find sample questions that similar companies use. Work through them. Discover what you don't know. Find if you're weak on dynamic programming, graph algorithms, algorithm analysis, etc. Then get strong on those. The less you want to do sample problems, the more important they are for you.

* When practicing interview questions, whiteboard at least some. Talk through them. Really go through a question in every detail.

* Before you interview at your dream company, interview elsewhere with similar difficulty questions. In my opinion, it should be another company that you'd like to work at but don't covet. If that doesn't work for you, a technical or even a non-technical friend could play the role of interviewer (you'll have to give the non technical friend questions!). Nerves have been a giant issue for me in interviews - and this has significantly helped.

* Calm down as much as you can and forgive yourself when you make errors. The questions at good companies are calibrated to have non-obvious solutions, interviewers expect you to struggle a bit. Candidates who freeze-up and attach their mind to one (usually wrong track) solution fail interviews. I've done it. If you've practiced with the first three bullet points, this should be less likely.
> (I should stress I'm a very peaceful chap with no revolutionary or violent inclinations whatsoever!)

That's how it starts...
It depends on who you're circumventing. If you're making an end-run around an obstinate IT department -- a situation we've seen a lot of -- then this is precisely the sort of tool that finance would want to help bring things back into the corporate-governance fold.

If you're circumventing finance, then we may not be a particularly helpful tool for you.
Are you sure you didn't mean you created a tool to help web developers create logos quickly? I'm a designer and I really can't see myself ever using this tool. I have Photoshop open at all times and know all the typefaces I have on my system, so I can bust out something incredibly simple in seconds. Plus, for logos, there's just not much benefit of using a web font since you typically won't use the same font from your logo elsewhere on the site, and the selection of good web fonts is limited and their kerning sucks and/or can't be adjusted at a precise level.

Just my 2 cents.

Edit: One more thing, designers don't create logos quickly. They're sweated over and tweaked and modified over and over until they're perfect. It's not something that we quickly generate or don't care about if there are small alignment/kerning issues. I'm sure there are some good use cases here but they don't immediately pop into my mind.
I completely agree with you. Most of the time founders have no clue of what they are doing or how to do it. Most start with a simple idea or problem to solve and then start doing something about it with no plans or roadmap. Like Google for example, it started as a simple phD project and is now the most visited website in the world worth billions of dollars.

Back in 1998 Brin and Page had no idea of what they would accomplish with Google. Or Mark, which coded a website that million of coders could code. The difference is that he met the right people and persevered.

But that is why it is so fun to be a founder, you never know what to expect or how far you can go. Its scary and fun.
kedit -> DOS edit, Borland IDEs -> UltraEdit, vi, Symantec Cafe -> vim, UltraEdit, IntelliJ IDEA -> vim, Coda, TextMate, NetBeans.

Different editors have different strengths though I spend most of my non-terminal time in TextMate. Need to check out a recent SublimeText.
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For an excellent discussion of the approaches outlined here and problem solving heuristics in general check out Polya's How To Solve It, it's a classic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It)
You have a good point. If the movie making was just a charade, you are probably right -- it might have been some kind of fraud.

If he actually was producing a film, even if it was just a short one or an advertisement, he probably was okay. But only through a loophole. :)
I used to have that problem until I excluded log files, images, and other extraneous files from my project. Find in project now works relatively quickly.

I don't consider my app "really small", or the prior two I worked on using TextMate.
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