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I live in DC, my commute is 1.5 hrs/day on the Metro. I consider this my time. No internet, no cell phone. I set a goal "theme" for each week, it could be getting a project done, move along an idea, learn something new, whatever.

Each week, I get one full day (~7.5 hrs) of learning/doing something new that would have otherwise been spent watching others play Angry Birds or Sudoku. To date, I've read the notable lean startup/venture finance/start something/be inspired books, listened to all of Andrew Warner's interviews/taken notes, run through all of Rails screencasts, updated my linkedin, launched a small blog, built a couple MVP apps and have hammered out most of the details of a project for an upcoming YC application. Next up is learning more about managerial finance & economics of ventures small and large.
Terrible title to which I have to reply: Web Designers should all have learned to care about accessibility by now.
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I'm not referring to the new Delicious changes but the actual release itself, users still cannot login or retrieve passwords (including myself).

I've been over at the beta blog trying to get answers and judging by the amount of major issues, this does not look like a well planned release:
http://deliciousengineering.blogspot.com/
The metaphor applies to their market strengths, not their market capitalization. Samsung does have manufacturing prowess, which lowers its cost per unit, which allows it to compete with Apple on price. I get that, I really do.

What I don’t get is how it sustainably competes with Amazon on price. I’m not sure that manufacturing prowess is going to make up for such a disruptive business model asymmetry at the low end.
Yup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
I started out thinking that visual diffs for PCB artwork was a great idea, but as I think it through, I don't see a whole lot of value.

Circuit board layout is not like code where you can reduce changes to diffs. Often you want to look at the entire layout because the change may have a side effect that you don't see from just the diff: e.g., re-routing a 120VAC input line near the connector that your pH sensor connects to. The layout is all that has changed, but that change can have an effect on something completely unrelated.

Absolutely version control for schematics/artwork is a good idea: that's a given. But I'm not sold on being able to visually diff the changes.

On an unrelated note: did that PCB layout shown make anyone else cringe? I still shudder thinking about it.
You may be thinking of smallpox, which exists in one or two declared labs (and probably a few more black labs).

Polio is unfortunately still "in the wild" in certain areas (Afghanistan/Pakistan/India, Sub-Saharan Africa), and had a bit of a resurgence lately. The Gates Foundation is putting a lot of effort into finishing up polio eradication.

Relevant TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_aylward_how_we_ll_stop_polio....

One of the main issues is that the polio vaccine requires a cold chain (presently; I think they have a new shelf-stable one); the smallpox vaccine, at least one of them, does not.
Well, it was a late 80s / early 90s thing among people who weren't crackpots. As evidenced by the OP, some people are reluctant to abandon the idea even though there is now overwhelming evidence against it.
Data could be off but not for the reason you are mentioning.

That is how it is supposed to be since these jobs are theoretically given to outsiders because you could not find suitable people within the US.
It appears that Oracle has been taking PR lessons from Michael Arrington.
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It's probably sufficient for the long run too. We fetishize this stuff in ways that real customers do not.
To me this seems like an ugly hack to get around flaws in the HTTP protocol. There was an article on HN yesterday about SPDY (http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper), a transfer protocol that allows multiple concurrent requests over a single TCP connection. This seems like the proper solution to the primary issue (requesting several small files is slower than requesting one large one). Also, as the design goals for SPDY state, this has the benefit of "avoid[ing] the need for any changes to content by website authors. The only changes required to support SPDY are in the client user agent and web server applications."
I'd say that the sum is bigger than the parts when it comes to copying products. One or two things would be perfectly okay, everyone does that, in every market, but the accusations range from the packaging and peripherals to the core product and its interfaces... Sure you can split hairs and stuff, but it's not that simple.
I just signed up and had a quick look, is it fair to say it's just a forum?
That sucks, I have known people like "Ted" and have learned that any bit of flakiness early on (when you should be trying to impress each other) is a bad sign. 1.5 months is not a long time, though, keep at it!
I agree with you, but there's something important to remember: If you want to make this work, you have to build your product in a way that someone else can support it when you're not actively giving it attention.
This is genius. I'm going to start putting an nginx installer on usb drives and sell them as full fledged web servers.

(Incoming downvotes...but really, this is silly)
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The moravo logo[1] is a blatant copy of the Aperture Science logo[2] with a couple of segments coloured Portal orange and blue.

[1]: http://stylate.com/portfolio/moravo-com/

[2]: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Aperture_Science
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You don't need to get 100% vaccination to eliminate the disease; somewhere around 90% works, unless it's incredibly contagious and in a high density environment.

"Herd immunity" protects the others -- basically, the disease itself can't spread if a sufficient number of people are vaccinated, so it dies out in a few generations (of the disease, not of humans).
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I had it when I was younger, and I heard it only gets worse if you get it when you're older. It was pain unlike anything I've experienced since, I can't imagine what it felt like for her.
A more relavant link to discuss: http://www.quora.com/Neeraj-Agrawal/posts
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Was it not Oracle who sued an alternative support provider out of existence on very spurious grounds? That's hardly a customer-friendly action; I can't imagine the support organisation's customers were very well disposed to Oracle after this.

I'm sure they are targeting (who they think are) their competitors. I see and hear good things about their technology. I don't doubt the management culture of some organisations would count it as to their credit that they act 'forcefully'.

But still, there surely has to come a tipping point beyond which aggressive nastiness and cockiness works against, not for them. It's not relevant for me on several grounds but this is one more black mark against Oracle's culture for me that would discourage me from working with them and make me wonder what it'd take for them to do something similar to me.
My advice -- just started doing this myself --

- don't overscope

- don't limit yourself to a platform (language, console/pc/mobile)

- don't be afraid to aggressively cut features

- don't ever think that you really know what will work

- do try things (lots of things)

- do make a great game

- do spend time studying games that sell on your platforms (business development)

- do write terrible code (if you're someone who knows the difference)

- do it fast

- do things that keep your morale up
"Apple don't have a trademark on mains plugs"

Correct it's a design patent not a trademark:

http://i.imgur.com/5YKdT.jpg
When I launched my (non-startup - services) business I called myself CEO. This had some nice side effects,for some reason people (reporters, researchers) would call me for advice. But it seemed lame to call myself the CEO of one-person company. We are now more then one but I've taken titles off our business cards, instead just letting our clients know our roles ie "Technical, Design etc".

While we are still small, less then 10 folks, we're going to keep it that way since we all wear many different hats at this point. We'll get titles eventually - but we'll also get more structure as we grow so we'll wait until we need it.
Submitted because of the interest expressed in this issue in other HN threads where I was only lurking. The one new study on the issue has been reported on before, with submission to HN,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664252

but no discussion back then. It's interesting how successive rounds of press releases can bring the same single study back into the news cycle.
I never understood the point of having a title. I find the government is especially interested in my title/occupation and I never know what I should be telling them.

Professionally, I am a farmer, a programmer, a designer, an administrator, and was even a baker for a short while; though, sadly, I gave it up as it was too time consuming on top of the rest. Not to mention all of the business stuff that goes along with doing those jobs, like management, sales, mechanic in the case of my farm, etc, etc.

Why are people so hung up on them? They are pretty meaningless.
I hope NYU-Poly wins the bid but the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship is not quite there yet like it is in places like Stanford. (even though that's in the school's marketing efforts)
This is right on the money. I don't know how we are going to support the lower-class in light of this revolution. There are far too many people who are not in a position to pursue education and it is these people who are having their jobs stripped away from them.
The names of the domains are more creative then the logos.Most names sound like a mid size start up website but the logos very high quality clipart.

I think they should create a tool that does this name and custom logo creation then doing it themselves. Dont see how they sell much
Journal generally won't do this so long as researchers continue to do it for free. In addition, even if researcher's followed the OP's advice and the journals adopted this strategy, it get us where (most people think) we should be: all research article available free to everyone.
Thinking about it more, this may have well been HIB's idea, if only because it is so different and they are very curious/experimentive people.

If this bundle works out well, I could see them trying to float an entirely new business model. Something similar to Woot, with a new game every two weeks. Not sure if this is good or bad. It would certainly be hard on my wallet.
Ask HN: Does selling electronic equipment at a loss actually happen?
I'm really questioning the idea of selling electronic equipment at a loss to recoup by selling media related to that equipment. Does this actually happen? Does anyone have any examples with evidence to back this up?
read the sentence right above that:
"We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://example.com)."
that means that the SSL is terminated at amazon's servers, they see it in plaintext, then they send it via SPDY (re-encrypted) to your device. so it is always secure over the wire, but is plaintext readable by amazon. if you are worried about what someone on the wire can see, you are good. if you are worried about what amazon can see, you're not.
With patterns (stripes, plaid, checks, whatever), essentially you don't want to have more than one item with a similar-size pattern. So if you're wearing a shirt with small checks you can wear a tie with a big pattern (wide stripes, big plaid, etc.) but shouldn't wear a tie with a small pattern. Same goes for pants. The reason people advise against it is that it's visually distracting. Some people are bold and mix patterns but the safest bet is to just not wear more than one patterned item at a time.

In terms of colour matching, that's more of a personal thing. The biggest thing you need to remember is don't put a brown item next to a black item (ie brown shoes with black pants). This post on reddit covers the basics: http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/ginj6/in_...

As with all aesthetic disciplines the rules are made to be broken, but it's good to know them first.
"those infected with HIV - who get treatment and adhere to that treatment - can live long and relatively normal lives."

The adherence part is the most interest bit of the story. The adherence to HIV medications is ~93%, much greater than the adherence to almost every other drug or behavioral treatment. If diabetes patients or cardiac patients had adherence rates anywhere near that high then the life expectancy of the average American would be dramatically higher.
Plenty of excruciatingly successful companies have run start to finish with dumber, emptier names than you'll find here. I'm surprised "TransVerify", for instance, is even available.

If you think you're going to get less than $250 worth of value from this site, don't use it. But count me in with the people saying that that a lot of these are steals. Just in terms of opportunity costs saved in spending weeks bouncing names around, this seems like a major value.
I view Oracle's customers as old, big and dumb. Although it personally scared me to see them acquire MySQL I thought that I understood it.

I thought that they were going to use MySQL to get a new series of leads so they could target companies as they began to outgrow it. But they seemed to have failed to execute which has opened the door for a lot of companies trying to steal that market. Not just the NoSQL guys but companies like YCombinator's ReThinkDB.

Right now it seems that Oracle's strategy is to buy other old line enterprise software companies whose products their current customers are using and jack up service fees. Larry Ellison is a smart guy but imho that isn't a long time sustainable strategy.
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The key word in your example is "undisputed". The successful group that you describe must have previously adopted a system of beliefs that elevates some individuals over others. (It's a system of beliefs, and not sheer physical force, as even the strongest individual can be overpowered by a coalition of the disgruntled.) For the purposes of this paper's model, it doesn't matter whether the distinction is based on strength, beauty or purported magical powers.
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By terminate I mean Amazon's doing the SSL certificate verification on AWS and reestablishes a new connection (with SPDY) that they themselves sign. In this case, Amazon will be free to read and modify all data in flight, defeating the whole purpose of HTTPS.

"We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL."
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with the price of smartphones approaching $50 there is no niche left to them..
"Refuses to seek treatment" is not necessarily a fair description of these people's actions. They can get HIV at birth through their mother without engaging in any "at risk" behavior. They can have it and not know it. They can lack education. They can lack resources. They can have received misinformation.

There are places where the official government-endorsed treatment for HIV was sex with a virgin. There are religious notions that declare use of birth control sinful. There are moral police that call education about safe sex (instead of abstinence) wrong, despite its proven efficacy.
I use delicious on a daily basis, and I feel that the problem it solves is very much alive. Maybe I am a bit of a power user, as I search and tag (and love the automatic tag suggestions) all my delicious links from a FF plugin.

But I believe it is still a solution for a very persistent problem, and as long as it solves it, it will be able to survive very well in today's web.
Thanks Clavalle, good advice..
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Ask HN: Ethics of Employee Surveillance
I am considering installing time tracking / activity surveillance software on staff computers. I mentioned this to a friend who was shocked and strongly opposed. So I would like to ask a wider audience.

Some background. I have a web company that is largely online, but requires two office staff to complete qualitative work which is hard to track effectively, such as proof reading and document editing. I am out of the office 90% of the time working on a new project.

I am generally pleased with their work, but I've no way of knowing if the day's work was completed in one hour, or eight, which makes setting targets problematic.

So I am considering an application to track activity. This won't stop staff playing on their phones, chatting, of course, but I've ruled out webcams so short of actually turning up to work, this is the next best solution.

I am worried that introducing this measure will be demoralising to staff.

Any thoughts?
"While waiting for Ted, there wasn’t much real work that I could do and my morale declined… my mind started to wander"

If the founder wasn't working on the product, why should anyone want to work with him?
> And if your early guys ask what they should put on their resume, tell them put anything down.

If you are called about a former employee and can't answer the question "what was their title" with something more concrete than "meh, whatever", you will sound like a fraudulent reference. You're inadvertently screwing over your employees if you don't pick something reasonable and stick with it (modulo actual role changes or promotions due to growth).
Oh I give up. This whole patent situation has gone long past the state of 'severe problem' and is now into the phase of 'ludicrous farce, bordering on trolling'.
It might. While this trial was meant to check if this vaccine could help prevent or restrain the infection (a prophylactic), in the same press conference¹ where these results were presented, the authors announced they were about to conduct a second phase I trial, this time to check for therapeutic effects on infected individuals.

1. http://www.cienciatk.csic.es/Videos/PRESENTACION+DE+LOS+RESU... (Spanish)
Apple and Samsung have much larger budgets for art direction than a guy selling a $.99 app. There are tons of recording apps that have photos (or if you have money, illustrations) of the equipment they're mimicking. Ever heard of ProTools? Apple takes inspiration all the time from its indie developers. iBooks is a great example:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apple-tablet-ebook/

If you want other's:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejecte...

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/08/apple-ripe-developers-app

Not just indies either, the iOS 5 Notification Center is a page out of Android. iMessage is a play on BBM. OTA updates? Android and BB./
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"Highly regulated" implies to me you should be testing against certain IE versions, and a Firefox 4.0 or something would be in addition to that.

What's the breakdown on customer browser usage? You could be supporting FF7 when actually only FF3.6 is installed on these systems.
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how do you sign up people to be infected with HIV?
It's worth reading that essay. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051914
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This is what happens when you're a non-technical founder - you become desperately dependent on others, and when they fall through, you can't do any meaningful work (Josh describes what sounds like just reading some blogs and 'thinking' while Ted leaves him on the hook). Sometimes it works, of course, when the CTO you depend on actually is an awesome coder/architect, but you've essentially just increased your startups possibilities for failure with the same amount of upside as if you were just a technical founder in the first place.

I've noticed this dependency of non-technical founders on a "ninja rockstar CTO" is much more acceptable in the NYC startup community than the Valley.
It's almost sad watching RIM flounder and thrash around so sadly. It's kind of like watching a coworker slowly succumb to dementia.

Although, in an odd way that clashes with the metaphor, it is kind of enjoyable watching them crash and burn.
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Your response would have been much stronger without the condescending "ivory tower" and "get a job" jabs.
Trying to introduce a design compatible with a user that specifically overrides your design seems like a losing battle, not one that should even be waged.
Let me ask you this. What do you do when a friend says they are on MySpace? That is exactly how I see my friends On Facebook after I make the switch to G+ over the next few months. I will still log into Facebook to see what is going on, but for the most part I am only keeping my Facebook account because I admin several pages. For now I am double posting things to FB and G+, but eventually I will stop. IMO, G+ is another social platform, just like Facebook was when there was already Friendster and MySpace. Some people with jump ship, some people will keep both accounts.
Patents aren't the problem here, but it's an interesting thought experiment to think about what commercial terms a vaccine for AIDS or other diseases which at this point mainly affect poor, third-world people would be distributed under.

India would probably just violate the patent, claiming national security reasons, and sell it for ~production cost throughout the world. The USA might enforce a patent domestically, and it would be a rational economic choice for insurers to pay for it for many patients instead of long-term treatment if someone contracts AIDS otherwise -- if you have a 0.1% risk of contracting AIDS in a lifetime, and lifetime treatment costs $1mm, it's worthwhile to pay $100-$1000 for it.

A charity (or government) might pay for full rights to the vaccine globally, and then distribute it for the good of humanity (and to burnish their reputation), but the really out of the box thing would be for a consumer product company to distribute the vaccine cheaply, purely as a form of PR. Imagine: "Coca-Cola, the drink that is good for you. Remember, we cured AIDS."
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