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So true. I've been working on an idea with several visual concepts for a while. There are 2 devils on my shoulders. The one devil is saying to me, "Be the Steve Jobs. Don't allow garbage out the door." while the other devil tells me, "Ship, ship, ship, ship. Something is better than nothing."

Both of these little devils have a few great points, and I pine over them both daily as I find myself frustrated halfway through a concept, realizing something is missing or something needs to be removed.

Start over and make it right? Or get something out the door?
Can I integrate this with my online banking service? Bank of America shows my account history in ledger format, so I have to do the work in Excel to categorize the expenditures.
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Ironically, it may turn out that what appeared initially to be one of Scala's greatest strengths, the close integration with the JVM, may be its undoing. As a richly multi-paradigm language Scala is complex enough as it is, but the various warts and leaky abstractions it inherits as a citizen of the JVM make it that much more perplexing.

Perhaps the idea that Java programmers would find it an easy first step into functional programming was incorrect, and in fact those bold enough in the first place to dip their toes into FP would prefer a cleaner and less compromised view of FP as provided by Haskell, OCaml etc?
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Robert E. Hall & Susan E. Woodward, 2010. "The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(3), pages 1163-94, June.

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is risky. We study the risk facing a well-documented and important class of entrepreneurs, those backed by venture capital. Using a dynamic program, we calculate the certainty-equivalent of the differences between the cash rewards that entrepreneurs actually received over the past 20 years and the cash that entrepreneurs would have received from a risk-free salaried job. The payoff to a venture-backed entrepreneur comprises a below-market salary and a share of the equity value of the company when it goes public or is acquired. We fi nd that the typical venture-backed entrepreneur received an average of $5.8 million in exit cash. Almost three-quarters of entrepreneurs receive nothing at exit and a few receive over a billion dollars. Because of the extreme dispersion of payo ffs, an entrepreneur with a coecient of relative risk aversion of two places a certainty-equivalent value only slightly greater than zero on the distribution of outcomes she faces at the time of her company's launch.
As a government you'd probably want some insane theories floating around so you can hide the less insane but real secrets inbetween - after all, conspiration theorists are rarely taken serious.

An example in the UFO case: You tested your new amazing stealth plane, but something went wrong and there are reports. However, if they fit the common UFO sighting tropes, chances are the whole issue is ignored/misinterpreted, leaving the secrets you want to stay hidden.
I think Cyanogenmod builds also are CarrierIQ free.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices
This is great how really good patterns are copied and well adopted.
I remember how the "Pull to reload" feature was first used and now it is used everywere!
How can I deal with the cargo-cult programming attitude?
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The amount (and nesting) of flagged comments at the bottom of the article is both hilarious and depressing.
As long as it's R that does the heavy liftting, using one of the many Python frameworks along with rpy2 would make the development easier.</shameless plug>
Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on.

At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post.

Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 chance that that next Google won't be happening in the US.

The Valley is amazing, but it's nothing without talent. Making our immigration law more amenable to founders obviously won't cause a mass migration of founders here, but surely some will be attracted to our awesome startup hubs. And we need every edge we can get.

We really need a startup visa.

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Edit: A couple of the responses have misinterpreted what I was hoping to convey. Of course I don't think everyone is dying to come to the US. What I am simply arguing is that 1) HN is a decent proxy of the startup community, 2) much of that community is outside of the US, 3) is there anything the US can do to attract some of that talent?

This is a question every country should be asking themselves, because startups are engines of prosperity.
For the US, I think the startup visa is a good solution.
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"(Rest of the) United States" and "(Rest of) Europe" seem too broad, since they have by far the largest numbers of votes :(

There should probably be a separate poll for the US and Europe where regions within Europe and the US are differentiated :)
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Sweet copy paste.
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Ha, I literally came on to say the same thing. Yes, I can confirm that this does indeed work.

http://www.manythings.org/podcasts/how_to.html
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As long as I'm mining the three longest years of my life for humor, my favorite incident was this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312592
I use emacs and python-mode. This is not an editor issue. It's more fundamental than that. The problem is this:

block:
stmt1
stmt2
stmt3
stmt4
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If your indenting gets screwed up for ANY reason there is not enough information left to reconstruct it. There is enough information reconstruct the indent at stmt1 (thanks to the colon, which is essentially equivalent to a left curly brace), but not enough to reconstruct the outdent at stmt4. There are many, many ways for indentation to get screwed up.
The convention I've seen is "SIM-free."
I don't understand how this thing works. How is it different from paypal?

Someone at Dwolla should make a nice infographic explaining it. And a chart comparing Dwolla to paypal, google checkout, etc...

The 25 cents flat fee is the big selling point, but its well hidden in the support page.
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into either:

http://www.onlinedisassembler.com/

or

http://pyms86.appspot.com/desasm_hex
One professor of statistics, who is a co-author of a highly regarded AP statistics textbook, has tried to popularize the phrase that "voluntary response data are worthless" to go along with the phrase "correlation does not imply causation."

And look how successful the campaign to educate about correlation versus causation has been...

Just as you note, people tend to believe whatever the heck they want to believe.
Also take a look at OpenResty, which bundles LuaJIT for Lua/nginx-based web app development, using the nginx event loop to do async I/O:

OpenResty aims to run your server-side web app completely in the Nginx server, leveraging Nginx's event model to do non-blocking I/O not only with the HTTP clients, but also with remote backends like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, and Redis.

http://openresty.org/
or maybe it's just that the podcast form does not present the data densely enough.

You might find playing podcasts at faster speeds enjoyable/useful - any decent podcast app should let you play at 1.5x or 2x speed, which I find much more engaging for more informational podcasts (ie anything where comedic timing isn't critical).
That line stood out to me too, since I have found the opposite to be true. Sounds like it's coming from someone who's never seen the benefits of switching to a DVCS.
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Uganda has an adult HIV rate of about 6.5% (US about 0.6%); the median age is about 15 years old (US about 37 years); life expectancy about 53 (US about 78); literacy about 67% (but only 58% for women) (US about 99%).

It seems that Uganda could do with some KickStarter style innovation in HIV/AIDS funding. People think of good projects; they create a page and ask for funding; other people offer advice or ask questions; people either offer funding (with conditions?) or they look at some other project.

The amount of money that this group needs to create animated versions of their books is, probably, tiny.
The complex captcha has shown has been taken completely out of context; it's at http://random.irb.hr/signup.php and its completely appropriate and funny
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I would love to have a touchscreen keyboard with this functionality in it. This is the biggest thing missing from touch screens presently. Very excited to see what comes from it.
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What kind of marketing is worth? How can you make your App more visible and findable? How much should be spent on marketing? Where does it make sense?
HN isn't that bad because you can read articles on how to improve your coding skills, learn about libraries that can help you be more productive by not reinventing the wheel, and so on. As long as it doesn't get in the way of work that has to be done, there's much worse ways of slacking off.
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Fair point Will, I'll find a different image!
For anyone still wondering, T-corp is Toyota, based in nearby Nagoya.

> the problem is that Japan has been in a recession since about what, I think it’s ’90, ’92, something like that?

Eh, this isn't exactly accurate: https://www.economist.com/node/21538745
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I've been following Dwolla for a while now, and I think this is a good step for them. I still have two big concerns, though:

1. Credit cards. Consumers like using them--they offer something that debit cards don't: an "undo" option. Dwolla seems to have gone all in on pleasing merchants, but I think there are still huge barriers to get consumers to use their service. What's the value proposition? Why should I deposit money into a Dwolla account when I can just swipe a card?

2. This might seem petty, but their site needs a re-design. When it comes to payments, your site needs to inspire confidence and trust. Compared to Square [1] and Stripe [2], Dwolla's blog and main site all look like amateur hour. Until recently their developer docs consisted of stickies in phpBB-esque forum.

[1] https://squareup.com/
[2] https://stripe.com/
It's not politicians certainly, but it's often unaccountable bureaucrats stamping something classified for questionable reasons. The conventional wisdom is that nobody ever got fired for classifying data, and the administration may classify a lot of information that is simply embarrassing.

The Intellligence Squared US podcast did a nice job of covering both sides of this issue in their June 8th, 2011 podcast on freedom of the press:
http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/past-debates/
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Yep, the slide out menu seems to be popping up everywhere now to.
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Didn't read all previous comments,
but your last sentence is really cool.

Here, in Belarus, we have a startup challenge called "Belarus Startup" and the prize is a payed trip to the Valley :)

Startup visa is a cool idea
Just guessing here, but it's pretty common for enterprises to set up a lot of configuration via some sort of centralized policy mechanism. So, you'll have custom certs and a proxy PAC pushed at the system level via GPO or Puppet. If a browser (or any application) re-implements these features entirely, it won't pick up any of that context.
I'll second this. After pulling my hair out for a bit trying to get error messages out to see what wasn't working, we are calling R from python using rpy2, using the pylons web framework - so although we are writing html, we can write really nice reports conditional on the data content. It's not immediately clear to me whether Apache is opening up a new instance of R every time a page loads, but I think it seems not to be.
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After seeing what happens when you partner with an "ideas guy", the only way I will have a non-technical co-founder is if they can offer me: connections in my industry or cash.

Otherwise, I don't need them and I can do the rest myself.
Are you kidding? Chrome is awesome when it comes to tab management. I love that they allow little slivers of tabs, rather than degrading to a clunky arrow button setup when you have too many open.

Plus after closing a tab, the "tabs don't resize until you move the mouse away" thing. And tabs living in the titlebar, so they get Fitts' Law infinite width targets in full screen. So good.
All it does is allocate a block of memory, write data to it, fix it up a little, and then execute it.
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Definitely agree. What do people think about remote teams?
>There's a flip side to this as well: as a voter, I don't know what information my elected leaders have when making decisions.

I once had a discussion with an Air Force officer who was involved with Homeland Security planning. I made points about warrantless wiretapping and other 4th amendment violations by DHS and TSA. He just shrugged and said I would probably feel differently if I knew all the things they had prevented. I said "Absolutely, tell me. Let me make an informed decision about whether DHS should exist or not".

He just shook his head and changed the subject. So much for an informed electorate.
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Is Dwolla a competitor to https://www.simple.com/ ? I'm not sure exactly what their service does - I know it's different than paypal and google checkout from previous articles. Can you use it to pay at brick and mortar stores like a debit card? It seems like it would only be useful if all merchants already accept it. Am I missing something or can someone explain it to me better?
Israel then?
This looks like a good place for my animated terminal nyancat: https://github.com/moshen/Image-Term256Color

Version that doesn't require any cpan modules: https://gist.github.com/1417991
Conversely, not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs. Here in Ede, the Netherlands, I feel pretty isolated, and I imagine a lot of people in Europe also do unless they live somewhere like London or Amsterdam.
Indeed. We, central, are always "merged" into south america or Mexico depending on who you ask. I don't blame them though since in recent centuries we have not been a major world player.
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We use git at my workplace without branching, and we practice continuous deployment. The advantage is that you spend less time merging, and you ship things in shorter intervals and smaller increments, an important part of CD. Some of us do use local branching, but we don't push to remote branches.
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It could have been the particular agency that was doing the clearance in my case. With a military customer, I saw less issues, but with the customer I was referring to in my previous post, there were lots of denials. I think the location of foreign born wives is important in this case. The few cases I saw were countries we don't have good intelligence relationships with, in asia and the middle east.
Back when I used Windows, the memory leaks in Firefox were one of the main reasons I switched to Chrome on the day it came out and never looked back.

I'm not sure if that's still a problem, or if that's a problem on other platforms, but now I use Chromium on Linux and I've never had any major issues. (Except sometimes when Flash is involved, but this is Hacker News).
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Nobody argues that this is not scientific research, but that doesn't mean it's not interesting or useful. It also violates some of your expectations: the majority is not in the US, India is underrepresented despite English being their second language. And if i might add, despite their national focus on entrepreneurship, the UK numbers are low.
I imagine they have a mechanism to detect abuse? I.e. a $100 transaction broken into ten $10 transactions to avoid the fee.
This could be a boon for taxi drivers. They hate credit card fees, especially for quick trips that are <= $10.
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No.

Simple provides an alternative on-line banking front-end through agency agreements with banks.

Dwolla provides a mobile payment service and Bitcoin routing services.
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Here's a better description I found somewhat buried: http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/87210-what-i...
I work at a federal agency and our browsers just got updated a couple of weeks ago from IE6 to IE8. While I'd kill for either Chrome or FF, I have to say: I never thought I'd be so happy about IE8.
nice to see someone from Turkmenistan!
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I don't understand it either. I actually wrote a really long post asking for someone to explain this policy to me, and nobody was able to.

I won't copy-paste it, but if anyone's interested, it's here: http://bit.ly/q6624N
Nice to learn that Meltwater alumni are here at HN! If Francis and Samuel from Streemio are still there, tell them Linus said hi!
For what it's worth, I didn't coin the phrase. AFAIK, pg started the conversation with the founder visa post: http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html

And it has since evolved to the startup visa campaign: http://startupvisa.com/
Thanks - so essentially they're just a better digital currency exchange platform? Better pricing and more features, but still have to build up their network of people who accept their transactions?
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Interesting article that was on HN earlier I think:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/10/...
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Site appears to be down, and Google doesn't have it cached. Anyone have a copy? Also, the title implies that I should know what Path (V2) is; can anyone explain or link to that?
The question here is really "for how long?"

Ben isn't running a charity. If he thinks this strategy will help increase the user base, he could be right. The only problem is that if that strategy works, he'll be losing money on almost every transaction. (ACH transfers are cheap, but they're not free.) Dwolla also has pretty limited fraud detection at this point, and no bonds in most states to serve as nominal protection (see http://www.facecash.com/legal/brown.html). So at some point the price will need to rise again.

If the strategy does not work, then this will just hasten the company's demise. There's a remote chance it could help catalyze an acquisition, but that's really remote.

I then thought for a minute that perhaps this was a step toward operating legally in states like Pennsylvania (see http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta...), which waives its money transmission regulations only if you do not charge a fee (a la Venmo), but since you'd have to pay a fee at $10.01, that doesn't make sense.

So honestly I'm not sure I get what's going on here.
Thanks. We now do a new transcript for every single interview.

The demand was too big for me to ignore.
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1) How it works: Dwolla works by leveraging the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system. But to do that, you have to link your Dwolla account to a checking account. The ACH system is not the credit card system, so it can avoid the requirement to pay a toll, and thus can avoid passing on those fees to their users.

2) How is it different? Dwolla doesn't charge a percentage of the transaction. They only charge $0.25. And now $0.00 for transactions under $10.
I managed a team in the Philippines remotely from the U.S. At the same time the rest of the firm was in NYC while I lived in Chicago. The remote experience was not exactly a positive one. Although remote teams and workers are a bigger part of business life today, I would avoid it when possible. It's very hard to get everyone on the same tempo of work and it is really easy to have a miscommunication.
This even applies within Europe, for example most British people can't donate blood in Spain.
Ask HN: I need a *dream* job
Unfortunately, I am hearing news that I'm going to be a victim of downsizing in the company where I have currently been working. So naturally I am looking for a job.

Basically, I am a web developer. Recently worked in a PHP shop but it's also true that in current(soon to be former) job I also discovered that I am more inclined towards business part and always keen to do things different other than conventional method. In short, A startup like environment is quite suitable for me which is unfortunately not possible in Pakistan.

I'm available for remote work. Ideally it's more suitable for me now due to various reasons. Here's my CV Link.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35231160/Resume/AdnansCV.doc

So how can I be helpful?

1- I can code in PHP
2- I can code in java _though last time I did back in 2009
3- Intermediate knowledge of databases, specially MySQL
4- Have working knowedge of Sphinx
5- Enthusiastic about involving in entire life cycle of a product; from conceptualizing the idea to a finishing product and marketing.
6- I can help to make research and suggest a solution( ready made or development from scratch) to any business problem. E.g: I suggested OpenX as an Adserver to my company when it was not even embraced by GroupOn and Microsoft at that time. By the way, a cool open-source Ad server for an enterprise site.

7- I have worked on iPhone apps, mostly in Titanium Appcelerator.

8- Working knowledge of stuff used in Web 2 like Ajax etc.

Let me know if you find any lead. I am even available for freelance projects

Thanks in Advance

p.s: Oh by the way, I have started learning Rails, just it made me curious because people say it's quite beautiful, robust and easy to learn. So any RoR lead will also be welcome.

p.p.s: I am an INFP: http://www.mypersonality.info/asiddiqi/
Would be easy to add a 20 second interval for <$10 payments between the same parties.

This way you'd spend over 3 minutes trying to save $0.25
It seems that a 30 day rental window should be cost less than that.

For a book costing $14, it still costs 60% of the price to rent it. Even blockbuster at their prices was 25-30% of a new release price, with red box being 10% or so.
I'd just like to point out that what I hypothesized above have been revealed to be actual features of the CarrierIQ software. So I'm not sure what the downvote is for, but it's not inaccuracy or undue cynicism.