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You should be able to just dial directly from the phone app. I haven't tried this on my phone, but based on the way it works and the way Google describes the integration, you should be able to do it.
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As I recall, their issue with the GV app was that it "duplicated features" like the phonebook and dialer. Whether you believe that was their real reason or not, the Sprint integration doesn't duplicate anything - everything can be done using the native phone functions.
Any chance we can get a Github mirror?
That is just as easy to use for extortion. Suppose we have a dispute over who owes who $1000. You hire a $10000 lawyer. I hire a $100000 lawyer. Now although we both get the same ($1000) if we win, you stand to lose more than I do. So if we both have even chances of winning I can use that to pressure you to drop your case.
Here's my take: you want to do something like this for software (indeed, any business) only if you have a way to follow up and tap that customer for future promotions.

Do you have some additional software you could pitch him after he's made the purchase? Are you getting his email for your autoresponder?

These are important questions to ask. Otherwise you are just devaluing your own product by selling it at such a steep drop.

Say, if you were running a small bakery, then you might be willing to sell your wares for less because of the word of mouth publicity that a few extra visitors from beyond your usual customer base could buy.

If you are selling software, you want to do it if you have different stuff to sell and want to use a daily deal as a gateway to lure in customers and pitch them other products after the sale has been made. Say, you are Adobe and you want to sell Photoshop. You do so by promoting Illustrator at a steep discount, then telling them about Photoshop at the checkout stage or emailing the customers about it. Then, it can work out as a good deal. Otherwise, not a very good idea.
Ask HN: Moonlighting
I've noticed three things at our small startup and at other big companies that I've worked at:

1) The traditional interview process is broken: there is no way for a candidate or company to get a good feel for what working together would be like in in 4 hours of conversation.

2) We have lots of smaller projects in almost all areas that we need immediate help on.

3) I often want to do a real starter project in a language/framework just to get a taste for its strengths and weaknesses, but some companies restrict languages and frameworks to a canonical set. My usual course of action is to write some toy project that is eventually abandoned.

I've been thinking that a structured Moonlighting engagement with another company could be a good solution to these problems.

I'm posing this as sort of a lean startup experiment. If an exchange existed such that folks interested in moonlighting could be connected with companies interested in hiring or contracting domain expertise in this way, would you be interested in taking on 5-8 hour a week paid projects either with the aim to find the right new job or expand your technical horizons?

And if you are moonlighting now, how did you find a position that matched your interests?
'startup tree' -- Neat idea for a weekend project.

It's hard for early employees not to be inspired by high-energy, inspirational organizations.

I feel startups should work into their biz-plans, the fact that greater than 50% of their early frontline force would want out, within 12 months even. Some of them competing too. 'Scratch an itch' often stems from environmental input.

I like the idea of hiring and nurturing early employees with these thoughts in mind: http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2011/10/03/creating-an-entrepr...
You'd be lying to yourself if you think your employees would give their best to your gig alone, indefinitely.
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0% chance FTC allows Google to buy them.
this seems to open a whole new door for double-spending and other forms of counterfeiting. nothing seems to stop me from buying a physical coin, then transferring the digital coin to my mtgox account but still spending the physical "coin".

to guard against this, you need to check block explorer for every coin that you were going to spend with a physical merchant, I think?
This is a must read for any start-up!
But Tumblr has already made it
A lot of people that fit the profiles described are lurkers. Content consumers, but not creators. That's a pretty common thing on most social networks.
TOME (http://www.te4.org) is ADOM-ish (reputedly, haven't seriously played ADOM) and pretty fun. I found the level generation a bit repetitive, though.
First of all, an attempt at a correction to one of the motives of the article. I think Milner's jewish background has nothing to do with his success. His family, while Jewish, had and still have a complete worldview that only a member of the russain intelligentsia can have. It is such a bizarre and wonderful world-view and way of life that it defies my abilities to explain — being delicate among a world of merciless brutality. The cultural class of Russia really are a class apart.

I suspect that the influence of growing up surrounded by cultured Russians, as few of them as they were in Soviet Times is why he always stands a little bit disconnected from the crowd.

The air of Russian culture is gentle but always restless.

Russia is a land of big crowds but the intelligent among that people always desire to be a little bit aloof, if not in solitude.
This is a preview article that isn't even 2 paragraphs long and requires subscription to read the whole thing. How did this make the front page?
"I received 140 responses"

Uh... how many did you send out? How many people are unemployed? I had similar issues with my university, where I and everyone I knew made less than half the lowest quoted value, but had never received such a survey.
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this is linkbait..FTC will not allow Google or Microsoft ot buy Yahoo..in fact both MS and Google have discuss before how they were handcuffed by FTC considerations about this
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I am currently moonlighting as a security lead for a small startup that can't yet hire me fulltime - I found the position through personal contacts. Totally recommend it. It both has kept me fresh with the latest technologies (which I bring back to my day job at bigco) and also is fun to work with a small company. I put in 4-5 hours a week.
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Here's the Reuters version (not behind a paywall): http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/22/us-google-yahoo-id...
It's actually an alteration to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) that most distros are adopting (all likely will in the future). Nothing specifically to do with Ubuntu.

It was introduced in 3.0 of the standards: https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/476610-a-look-at-the-f...
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The private key is stored under a special hologram sticker, which is tamper evident. It should be obvious if the coin was digitally transferred.
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Node.js for Android committed on github
Yesterday, I posted my initial port of Node.js for Android on github (https://github.com/ldesegur/nodejs-android). This is a very early work, as my main job has kept me away from making more progress. However, results are showing some promises. I am sharing this code so other people are able to help.

So far, v8 and libev seem to work. libeio needs some more work on the I/O side. I’ve wrapped all the missing bionic kernel calls, so they are emulated correctly on the thwarted libc available on Android. They appear with ANDROID defines. Maybe node.js main could take those back into their repo? I have yet to modify the makefiles, conforming to ndk-buiid, to generate JS2CC files, so for now, the translated js to native are committed in the repo

Running basic eval commands with node.js returns results in the log files. I believe that Node.js can be used client side too. It offers a very simple way to write JavaScript code in multiple modules with export and require declarations. The V8 bridge is simple and will allow other libraries to be developed as local and remote modules. My goal, as I move forward with this project, is to offer all functionalities that a modern browser DOM would supply (including webgl), to the client JavaScript executables.
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The original one was http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/. You may also be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming.
It's on the to-do list, thanks for playing!
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obvious if you have an internet-connected computer present at every point of sale? -- oh nevermind I was mistaken, I get it now. neat.
While I support the vigilante destruction of child porn sites, I do want to point out that in doing so, they may have interrupted an ongoing investigation. Outing the names may embarras the users, but it may also make it harder for authorities to prosecute them or to move up the food chain.
I think this is why you don't load them yourself. Essentially it is this company backing the coin, not you. When they send you a loaded coin it probably won't be loaded with the coin you bought it with.

Another interesting property is that unlike a bank they cannot issue more money than they have assets, as each coin is linked to a unique private key. (assumes they are not just a one-time scam)
>Many companies are mapping the so-called payments genome to make more accurate predictive marketing decisions and improve fraud detection. Some vendors say their systems can be used to determine the products and services consumers will buy next.

It's fascinating stuff, but I can't help feeling that they need to solve the problem of someone calling their bank, saying that they're going to $COUNTRY on $DAY, and please don't freeze the card; and then when a payment is attempted the card gets frozen.

Because that's really annoying.
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Hm, sorry, I was under the impression the WebGL implementations were being done rather differently than they apparently are. I hadn't thought the calls were getting passed through directly due to security concerns.

Chrome, at least, appears to be a straight binding with extensive validation... That... kinda makes my nervous.
Embedded compilers are perfectly intelligent; I would hazard that you just wind up doing weird things more often, and/or you care more what exactly it does with this or that function because of your 32kHz clock and/or 1KB of program memory.
A significant percentage of oligarchs from the former USSR carry a very bad reputation because the means through which they became rich are often suspect and shrouded in secrecy, which is understandable given the lawlessness of the 1990s in that region, and which to some extent continues to this day. Russia since the collapse of the USSR has been a lot like certain parts of the U.S. were during the time of the Prohibition -- giving orders to physically terminate rivals is or was daily business.

After finding out more about Milner, I am now more convinced that he is not at all the "robber baron" Al Capone type, but a genuine businessman who is both lucky and smart.

Wrote this just to explain the possible reasons behind the initial worry, being myself from the former USSR. I think this also explains why Milner cares about establishing a reputation in the Silicon Valley as opposed to being completely aloof to what other people think.
Ask HN: CTO and Product Engineering Manager
Note: I'm posting this with an anonymous identity

I'm currently the CTO of a small (7 empl) saas company in spain. We are three founders and an advisor who has little shares. After 3 years of working hard, we finally have a product that people likes and we have had some sales (about 100K soft+services). We are on the way to receive some seed investment, and the advisor told us to get some loans from the government. Until here, everything is fine, after 3 years of scarcity and courange, we will finally have some resources that will help us to bring our software to a next level and expand its adoption.

The advisor told us about creating and organization chart, to see how we will spend the money. And he proposes the figure of a "product engineering manager", someone responsible of some R+D, vintage chart, and pilot test. That job was made by me until now, basically because after some years I got some expertise on the market, and I tried to push some cool "intelligent" features, but due to the small resources, we focused on minimum viable product.

After being told that I would no longer hold this position/job, the advisor proposed someone younger (we are all 28), but who has been working for 3 years in a very similar companies in the U.S. He had an outsourced development team of 30, and they got a nice piece of software. They focused on final client (12 clients), we got a sales channel (35 partners) and (70 final clients) and the amount of items represented in the software was about the same (150). He was supossed to have a bigger salary also.

I've said that now we lack of someone to take care of the operations, someone to help the sales channel to setup projects and deploy our software (our software needs some piece of hardware) for really going on volume. But the advisor (and also the CEO-sales manager) told me that what we have to do is to focus more on the R+D on the product.

I'm feeling displaced from the position I think I could bring to the next step with some extra resources, and I supose I will end giving support to the sales channel, while someone else plays around with some R+D unit that I've been trying to push for the last year. So, I expressed some doubts on this decisition, and I got a confrontation with the rest of my board (founders and advisor). I even being told by the advisor that if someone gets an advisor he cannot refuse their advices. He added that he is very angry at me, and that I'm putting sticks on the wheels.

So, to wrap it all, I face a decistion, wether I fight for the position I think I must work in, or I got displace for the best of the company.

Ah, just forgot to tell one thing, which is supposed to be irrelevant the supposed rockstar to be hired as product engineering manager is the son of the advisor, with whom we have some common friends that told me that he is desperate to come back to spain.

So, what I have to do?

Thanks!
I think Eric is a fantastic author (and speaker). He uses examples from real companies like Dropbox, provides helpful vocabulary to use with your team, and moves on to the next point. Most modern business books take one fairly simple concept and tease 10 chapters out of it. I'd much rather have a book that is packed with ideas you can use, even if densely packed.

I'll take Eric's writing style over Steve Yegge's any day.
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You probably don't remember this, but Emacs did that in the 1980s. And then of course there's Android, but I guess you might not consider it a "desktop app". And then there's Wikipedia, which has completely displaced Encarta.

I don't think it makes sense to make generalizations about where "open source seems to win". Things are changing too fast; the circumstances that made it possible for Mozilla to beat IE in the mid-2000s no longer exist, for example.
Same situation. Strange...
If there's one mistake this story makes, it's in trying to come up with complicated theories about why Yuri does well. He's simply smart. That's what DST has in common with Andreessen Horowitz, though they have little else in common.
I am not sure if it was the same app but I remember seeing something like this on hn before. I will use this but not unless you already have a list of groceries I can pick and put in my list. I am not going to fill a ten field form to add each item.
Then just run in checked mode.
The Valley doesn't care about a person's ethnicity, as long as they generated their wealth through legitimate means.
Milner, on the other hand, is nothing more than a frontman for Alisher Usmanov, who basically accrued everything through wholescale theft of state resources.
Basically, Milner is a crook, and if there was any justice in the world he and Usmanov would be in jail for what they have done. But there isn't, and there are people in the Valley who are willing to overlook ethics if you have enough money. The fact that Milner is now working with YC is a sad testament to that fact.
I used Google Voice with my Sprint HTC Evo for a while, the integration with the Voice webpage was nice, but SMS's seemed to rely on having an actual data connection for them to come through. If I was in an area with spotty data coverage my SMS's seem to get lost or not come in in a timely manner at all. I switched it off the other month because of this.
Charlie asks a variant of one of my favorite thought experiments: what is society like when everyone lives like the 1% of today, affordable housing, universal health care, robotic servants, cures for nearly all of today's diseases, cheap customize mass production, a society where only the 5% make a meaningful contribution to society (designers, artists, entertainers, writers, scientists, etc).

One theme he doesnt mention is what is the road there like. What happens when all the fry cooks are unemployed because of fast food robots, maybe 30% of the middle class is suddenly unemployed?
I love stuff like this. I really hope keen engineering youth are able to get involved with building toy CPUs. Maybe not that complex, but enough to grasp what memory mapping and registers actually are.

Anyone interested could read either:
(http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...) {the intro is too gentle for too long, then bamm it's too hard for many people.}

(http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Student-Manual/dp/0521...) the student lab manual for the art of electronics. Probably best with AoE, which is showing its age but still excellent.
I have just skimmed this so far, but it looks very good.

A lot of the Python scripts that I see at work look like either C programs or glorified batch files. I'll definitely point people to this when they are ready and willing to move on to the next level.

Well done.

Suggestion: one thing I didn't see mentioned is switching from "if s.find(c) == -1: ..." to "if c in s: ...". I see people do that a lot.
Since they've hacked numerous police departments and government agencies of those pursuing them, how do we know they haven't inserted some of the names of those people into the list?
This is just free market law enforcement. No reason to wait some self-designated "authorities" to deliver justice.

Edit: I'd appreciate it if people who downvote all my comments explain why they are downvoting. I am writing thoughtful responses to any of your questions. Downvoting just because you disagree isn't cool.
I could be interested in such an arrangement. I'm not moonlighting right now, but I think it's a great opportunity to align my interests (verifiable experience with new skills, some extra income, opportunity to network) with those of a company that may not want to hire someone full-time but still needs work done.

What sort of projects do you see fitting this idea?
I think that's normal. Part of learning Clojure is learning to think in another kind of pseudocode.

What does this imply about the languages you already know?
Twitter is a botfest too - post anything with the phrase SEO in it and you get a bunch of followers with no icon, no tweets and no value. This is where Facebook has a big edge, the focus on real identity and the crack down on API use has kept Facebook much cleaner than the others
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Mild quibble: the attribute you want is "pure", not "const". The distinction is that a const function inspects nothing but its arguments, but a pure function is allowed to read (but not write) external memory. Both are without side effects and can be optimized out of loops, but pure is looser. Not all const functions can be pure.
I'm not denying this fact, but do you have any evidence for your claims?
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Which is a terrible idea.
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Obvious if the hologram has been tampered with.
Anonymous isn't putting anyone behind bars, that's the difference. Yes, the "authorities" will take more time, but that's because they have to build a case that will convince a jury and hopefully 1) lock the guys up, or at the very least 2) get them into a sex offender registry.

The list of names released by Anonymous won't be considered authoritative.
I don't know that either. I don't know any details of this case. My point was just that it will be a distraction for the company if they do.
If the intent is to make me pay attention to WebGL, it just may have succeeded.

If, on the other hand, the intent is to prove that I suck at video games, then it's a resounding success.
What a useless video.
> I was surprised that the vectorisation it mentions was not performed automatically.

The OP didn't mention what compiler was being used; GCC will certainly automatically vectorize this example (and ICC probably will as well). I used GCC 4.4 for x86 with -O3 -msse2.

Of course, there's a lot of compensation code inserted for unaligned pointers and aliased pointers and the like, but automatic vectorization is certainly doable.
That would be hilariously ironic, since that's exactly the kind of thing the Church of Scientology does to discredit its detractors.
Some things are a bit confusing, and may need more clarity in order to help reason about the situation:

1) The advisor, who has "little shares", is also the "CEO-sales manager"? Does this mean that the advisor is the CEO, or that he's the one responsible for bringing in the $100K (in sales + services revenue)?

2) You are currently the CTO, mainly focused on a lot of the R&D, prototyping and product development. It seems that the advisor is proposing that a new position be created ("Product Engineering Manager"), yet you make no mention of whether you still retain the CTO title. If you're upset that you'll be delegating the important product development responsibilities to somebody else, yet you still keep your title, then perhaps this isn't a bad thing as you would hopefully be ramping up a larger technical team for you to (learn to?) manage.

3) It's not a problem to express doubts about a decision. What's more important is that your founders and advisor sit down and discuss the issues one by one. If your advisor is angry with you, he should try to explain why.

4) What is the equity agreement that you have? I can't help but feel that this would have an impact on the discussions, and will be an important factor in deciding whether to part ways (hopefully with vested equity still intact).

5) "Fight for the position I think I must work in" - is that as the PEM, or as CTO?
How frustrating. I only posted because I saw the full article - WSJ must detect certain referrers and show the full text if linked from certain sites. Paywalls suck.
Show HN: Food Fight
Made in less than a day, so it's the simplest it could be. Would love some feedback. Thanks!

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