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It was discussed earlier, pg IP blocked google's crawlers due to the load they put on the servers.
I'm in the UK and can buy it as of 5 minutes ago
And what would stop the losers (or self-perceived losers) in free trade to opt out of it? History is full of examples of that.
Sure. The thing is that

(a) a good track point is ways more precise than a touch pad

(b) to cross the screen from one corner to another on a touch pad you have to make several strokes, whereas with a track point you don't have to leave the device a single time
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But without extensive testing, which popularity generates, it is hard to have confidence that the striving was successful. In other words, popularity narrows the confidence interval around the measured and reported level of security.
I use Deal Drop daily on my iPhone/iPad. It's a great application, thanks for your work.
Submedia.tv? What is Submedia?
I want an Android app that will autotune my voice as a microphone so I sing quietly into it and midi out is sent autotuned realtime voice.
Varnish to the rescue :-)
Links? If you're not going to release that Dosbox port, could you at least leak it? You can do it anonymously.
The downsides are greater too. It's one thing to miss out on TV or drinks with friends; quite another to miss out on the one evening you might get to sit with your wife and have dinner, or not see your kids for a week.

It doesn't matter how rich or respected my side-project startup would make me, I wouldn't be able to get that time back.
Standard Response: Fork it and remove it.

[nobody has aptitude or inclination to maintain such a thing]
I just put in my two weeks to pursue LayerVault full time. It's all up and to the right from here.
Those are short so I will just answer them here:

* Basic social sharing of products, fancy bookmarklet, following other people and then we quickly moved into some high-end realtime recommendation technology.

* At first, it was just friends and family spreading the word. Our first big jump came after our bizdev guy joined and he did a deal with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to feature us on their homepage and for them to create accounts and share products they were interested in with their fans. We did a bunch of other celebrity stuff. Then, we really grew right after the Facebook platform launched. SEO was also a major factor.

* B2B connections were largely a waste of time.

* 90% affiliate, 10% advertising.

* Funding: I didn't pursue it at first, but smarter people than I saw the bigger opportunity that I hadn't tuned into yet and made introductions.
What's frustrating is that Facebook, with what are almost unlimited resources available to them relative to Path and Instagram, hasn't come out with something better. Sure their problem is different and tougher, but with the latest version of their app they are just taking shortcuts. They're trying to put a native wrapper around a web app, which time and time again has been tried and has never once (that I am aware of) come close to matching the UX of the best native apps. Not only that, but their app constantly times out, clicking pictures rarely takes you to the one you want and in general is an exercise in frustration to use. All that would be understandable from a startup, but from a company that snaps up the best developers in the world by the hundreds and that clearly knows the value of mobile, it's mind-boggling.
It's basically an index of users against tags. I don't understand how this is helpful to me.
I disagree completely. Artists are loosing out because people who buy legitimate music are switching to Spotify.

I buy the music of bands I really like. I buy their albums as a conscious choice to support them. For other bands I would download their music, the artist would get £0 from me unless I went to see them live.

Since switching to Spotify, artists whose albums I would have'pirated' are getting a few cents which they wouldn't otherwise have got. They are winning.. if you could call a few cents winning.

The problem the music industry has is that non-pirates, people who otherwise would have purchased an album are switching to Spotify for recreational listening. If a CD is worth £8 to various people it means that shops, labels and artists loose about £7.90 if the person chooses Spotify instead of purchasing.

Artists and Labels can work around this. They can not put latest albums on Spotify. They can withdraw their music in the hopes they can negotiate a higher streaming price. Both of these would lead to more piracy.. MORE IMPORTANTLY.. this would lead to more casual listeners purchasing music and keeping the wheel's turning for labels.

Spotify is reducing piracy at the cost of reducing the number of non-pirates prepared to pay for music ownership.

Music label's say that piracy is the devil and they are missing out on millions. Spotify proves there is limited value in ending piracy. Spotify also proves there is a growing desire for people to have access to, but not ownership of, music. This is what should be terrifying labels, not piracy.
I think you should go one step further. Any time you are switching on a type, you're re-implementing virtual functions. I have never coded in Go, but I know it has interfaces and allows this kind of polymorphism. It looks like your type "sexpr" should really be an interface, and then you would have separate structs for a cons cell, a symbol, number and a string.
CSS-Tricks.com, SohTanaka.com, and InstantShift were taken as well.

Yep, you're right. Our fault.
That's a GDB bug actually. GDB doesn't handle remote targets that change CPU modes. If your guest is in 16 bit mode, you need to do 'set arch i8086'. For 32-bit mode, 'set arch i386', and for 64-bit mode, 'set arch i386:x86-64'.
You like being annoyed?

For similar reasons, I have removed all references to Sh*repoint from my CV.
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How much influence did the Americans, British and French (as occupying powers) have on those laws in what was originally Western Germany?
Yeah it's working now :)
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Are you asking 'can I easily make 10k a month, working only 8 a week on it (a few hours here and there at night an in the weekends) and do it without having anything special (connections, experience, market knowledge, ...)' ? If so, the answer is most likely 'no'.
I've always had that reaction to that 3rd piece too. I wonder if there is any objective reason for that.
I'm inclined to agree, but I want to make the caveat here that a lot of phones don't have encrypted bootloaders (e.g. the Droid RAZR) by default. The carriers throw a fit and refuse to buy the phone unless it's encrypted for their needs. So, the handset companies are listening. The carriers are the ones generally imposing these things.

Pitchforks: that way.
I spent nearly a year building a SaaS application for Oil and Gas companies here in Calgary. My partner had the idea after he got tired of phoning/emailing/talking to every contact in his book in order to find partners/buyers in land deals.

So after a year of weekends and evenings, my partner started to pound the pavement. We were profitable in our very first year after launch, and continue to be. Our biggest expense is advertising, which is very targeted. I think about 80-85% of our pre-tax revenue ends up being profit, which is great.

I still have my day job, and for the 30 hours/week between us that we still put in, we've been _very_ successful.
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Google doesn't need CarrierIQ because they have their own spyware, such as in-the-background location tracking if you ever turn on the GPS or ask for location even once while running Maps or Plus, and of course because they mediate all your access to the world through their built-in apps, and don't offer an opt out from data collection and mining.
Sorry to hear that man. Your advice is definitely more practical. The grief of getting sued would be bad enough, I hope the guy lost.
This isn't reddit. Hacker News doesn't really do image macros and memes.
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Is this not in violation of the seller's merchant agreement though?
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maybe one pane could be a so-called one-way mirror
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I must be stupid, but I just can't wrap my head around this three-axis-in-a-2D-space graph: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

Is this normal?
Cool idea, I hope it reaches some kind of critical mass!

One question though: what does the available/unavailable status mean? I'm unclear what the difference is, especially since anyone who would fill out a profile here is available in some form. You may want to add some clarification, I wasn't sure what to use that for.
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Some small tips that can make it more doable.

* If you can, take the train into work. That's about 1.5 hours of additional productive startup time. Sitting in a car is dead time.

* Get rid of your lunch hour. Park yourself at a nearby Starbucks and add an extra hour each day of productive startup time. Do this every day.

* Given your spouse's variable work schedule, my guess is that your most productive time is in the evening, after kids are in bed. Can you shave off 2-3 hours per night? Better managing this time is huge.

There may be other things that are specific to your family life that can give you 30-60 minutes here and there. Time slicing like this is hard, but it adds up to meaningful startup time.
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I think the project logotype, “cλarity”, is really bad. It looks like “charity”, and not like “clarity” – it will confuse Googlers who have only seen the logo.
UK (Looking for remote collaboration)

IS Support/Data Security tech. Currently a contractor in Banking & Finance industry, working on my company around 30+ hours a week (afternoons, eves, weekends) to develop some small web apps. I've got industry experience in the market I'm aiming towards.

Skills are mainly technical but not development, IS, network support, data analysis. Photoshop, Advanced Excel/VB, Photography, Basic HTML, CSS, Business Plans, Technical Documentation etc.

Currently learning Python in my free time. I've got a deep interest in eventually becoming a proficient dev so I'm really looking for someone with an enthusiasm for it and maybe helping me a little bit! I don't expect you to do everything technical.

I'm looking for someone to collaborate with over several projects if the team fit is right.

The main app I'm working on is a web directory with an emphasis on high quality images. I've tested the market and have got paying users signing up even before the app is built! That's how I know it's time to bring it to life. I'm also building a solid mailing list of interested businesses, & constantly networking with our potential userbase.

I've also got a small app idea that I'm looking to put together to help my learning curve, could be achieved using Twitter API & Twitter Bootstrap. This is more 'scratch my own itch' type. It could generate revenue but I feel I could learn a lot from it.

I'd love for the working arrangement to go full time if the directory and subsequent apps generate sufficient revenue to support us.

I'm always specific & realistic with detailed ideas. I work fast & do my best to move obstacles out of the way for team members.

I'm at my username on gmail.com

Thanks.
I do this. In all honesty, it is tough but not insane / impossible. I'm usually home @ 6:00 pm and with my daughter until she goes to bed at eight. I spend two hours with my wife until she goes to bed usually around 10. After that, rather than play video games, watch tv, etc, I work on a side business until one or two am in the morning.

I'm lucky in that my whole life I've been good with really only needing 5-6 hours of sleep a night so, when my daughter wakes up at 7:30 and I go get her out of the crib I'm usually good to go.

So, it's really a matter of prioritization. I play a video game once in a long while, read books slower than I used to, never really watch tv (but parenthood also removed that possibility) and I have the time.

Customers and customer support are where it gets tricky as you will be juggling two companies that operate 9-5. In that scenario I more often than not give up my lunch hour at job 1 to work on job 2.

Not saying it's perfect however, if you want it, it's there for the taking.
"Despite its troubles, the PlayBook is not going anywhere, RIM said."

If that's a direct quote, it's an unfortunate choice of words.
I have read posts of these kind for quite some time. All of them suggest. ...
Wake up early, exercise, work for 2 Hrs and then get ready for normal life.
I have been trying to do this but failing miserably, cos my body doesn't cope up. I say start exercising regularly once it becomes a routine then start working on your start-up.but don't forget exercising.
Having said all that it boils down to one point. WILL POWER.
Yes you are correct for company law, but not tax law, see the §§ 1, 2 of the german corporate income tax law. ("KStG" http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kstg_1977/BJNR025990976.ht...). Unfortunately there is no official english version, but the tax code is formulated in such a convoluted way that GoogleTranslate can't make it much worse ;)
Question: Since we know that quantum entanglement does not provide for FTL communication, then what _are_ some practical uses for it? Why does it continue to get so much attention in research? This answer might be, "to learn more about quantum mechanics," but my impression is that entanglement is fairly well-understood in physics.
I think this depends entirely on the nature of the startup.

If your startup requires consistently high turnover for new features, then it's going to occupy easily 40 hours per week on just that project.

However, if what you build doesn't need to be updated for months at a time (like some mobile apps or other software) you can probably get away with doing this. An entire company? I don't think so. A particular type of website, or app? Sure, if all you're doing consistently is maintenance.
I don't know much about interoperation between clojure and java, but wouldn't it make more sense to build a java gui which makes calls to some sort of clojure backend?
To be clear, this fund is explicitly NOT for startups. According to this Washington Post article, they're targeting firms with $100M in revenue to try and boost them to billion dollar companies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/leonsis-case-...
Yes. For 4 years now...2 hrs in the morning 2-4 hrs at night + bigger chunks on the weekends.

When I look at my day job I only ever get 4 hrs of real work done anyway...with wasted time for meetings, bureaucracy, and being blocked by others. So even though I'm at work for 8+ hours, on my free time, I'm able to work on a similar sized project putting in less hours because there is usually no waste in that time. I've also got 2 kids and train 4 times a week at the gym or jiu jitsu. It can be done!

After reading a few more comments I want to add something. Work hard at your day job, do your best work, and make them dependent on you. Here is why...if you ever come in late, or leave early because there is a crisis on you side project your employer usually won't care. Your the superstar so that's expected. However, you've got to keep your day job really, really happy to walk this fine line between pursuing your own interests and meeting the needs of your day job. Plus when you have a successful side project (that maybe can't support you just yet) and you're out job hunting people will see you as a golden ticket, a diamond in the rough. Usually when I interview people I often ask what they're working on on the side. That indicates to me this person has drive and determination.
Yeah, don't skip on the family time. Your family (spouse) will resent it.
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Suddenly the Swiss position seems quite enterprising.
For more of this, see "the Hacker's Delight": http://www.hackersdelight.org/.
I juggle two companies and refuse to give up family / wife time.
[I can only put it here: if you're interested, I created a google group as discussion here is limited: http://groups.google.com/group/eu-startup-interest-group]
There's absolutely no point in trying to "suffer" ads. If the ads are of no interest to you, then it's a dying business model anyway. Using AdBlock is a way of communicating to the advertisers that they're doing it wrong, at least in your particular case.

Personally I recognize many good forms of advertising that work for me, such as Amazon's product recommendations and certain shops sending email offers that actually interest me. But generic ads on websites I just block because they suck.
Because what usually happens (or what makes people angry anyway) is that someone who's been living in the country for ten years gets deported because of a shoplifting offense also committed ten years ago. Violates the principle of no ex post facto laws.
Do you still have to properly pronounce "rødgrød med fløde"?

The problem isn't deportation per se (which lots of states have), but the specific bill. First of all, it made it automatic deportation, is likely to conflict with international and EU law and references a few crimes by names that aren't the proper legal terms. IANAL and this is from memory, but it went a bit over the top for most people not on the far right. And the campaign for the referendum was quite on the fear-mongering side, if not a outright racist.

I think right now it's still in a state of flux. It passed, but the legal bodies now have to properly determine for which crimes it really applies. Might take a few years yet.

People aren't used to GOP-candidate-level craziness from the Swiss… (It barely passed, and was generally rejected by the French-speaking part of Switzerland. I blame the German grammar, it seems to create some kind of envy against every nationality who don't have to learn that many cases, genders etc.)
Yesod also has automatic html-escaping of strings, enforced at the type level. You have to explicitly tell it when a value is raw html, to avoid XSS. It also has automatic XSRF prevention.
Am I reading that correctly that that site is making 25k+ a month? How is that possible? Do people pay for the site or is it from ads only?
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Yes, it originally was part of Allied regulations in the occupied territories and was basically included as is in the new German constitution.
"But really, who cares what their motivation is, as long as someone is fighting the dark side."

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I have a (barely) profitable SaaS app that I wrote while having a full time job. The advantage I have is that my day job is teaching, which gives me chunks of time off during the summer and winter. I think that if I had a job coding all day, the last thing I'd want to do is come home and do more coding.
Well the beginning was 1995, so I was competing with Newspapers and Weekly Magazines more then websites. People would refuse to let me list their car for free because they were scared of the Internet.
I think I recall something like this posted some time ago. It is an interesting idea, with a few caveats :

* At least in the video at the bottom of the article, it is not actually a swarm - there is never more than one robot doing each task (pickup, place), and one can see them waiting to get a 'workzone' cleared before moving in. In a swarm I'd imagine each flier working independently, with interaction limited to collision avoidance and occasional cooperation when needed(lift heavier block, etc).

* I hardly see such bots battling even moderate windspeeds in a real-life construction project, while carying any kind of real-life construction material block - assuming they can even lift one.

* Intuitively, I'd say this way of building is very energy-inefficient (in terms of power used by the drones) - but I'd love to see some actual figures.
Correction, OAuth < 2.0 sucks. OAuth2.0 is actually easy to use and more secure.
Wow, that is excellent news! Hopefully that is the end of it.
I think the best thing to do in your situation is to work on a project you really enjoy on the weekends. It'll be the equivalent to or replacement of games or other forms of entertainment. Try to write a blog relating to your project on the weekdays, even before you launch your product. By the time you launch, you'll have a good audience. Even if your project doesn't get traction, you technically didn't waste your time for nothing, because it was an enjoyable experience. :)
Except your examples aren't really even examples of speech, free or otherwise. Walking around with a swastika on your arm is quite different than actively holocausting people.
"Not to sound like an old dude stuck in his ways, but there is a reason that we're still all using VT 100 and 220 emulators from 30+ years ago -- they work great."

No, they don't. Really. Look at the source code to ncurses and see if the millisecond timing loop around select() is still there, to distinguish between a terminal sending ESC[1D in response to you pressing "left cursor" and a human pressing "ESC" "[" "1" "D" very quickly :-)

It sucks. Windows got this right a long time ago, to the extent that the left & right modifier keys are distinguishable. Try doing that on a VT100.

Of course, a REAL VT100 doesn't have half the keys ; F1-F4 (IIRC) aren't sent "over the wire" and have no standard encoding. Linus basically invented one for the "linux" console terminal type, and lo yet another "standard" was born.

And don't talk to me about shells. The lunacy that is never quite knowing what insane metaquoting scheme you'll need today based on which arcane shell some moron has configured as the default for THIS particular machine is EXACTLY what the top-voted Koan is about.
I think that will defeat the purpose of file sharing. The fact is that Switzerland is treating piracy like drugs.

It's not that bad if you use them, it's definitely bad if you are selling them.
It worked here, but only when I did a right-click and "save as".
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25K a month? Really? That's like 50 medium Amazon instances.. all for at most a couple million uniques a month? What were you doing that required so much servers?
I keep seeing this argument and I keep not understanding it. Is it an economic argument? What is the economic point? The economic point to me seems to be that musicians were previously making money on inefficiencies that streaming services have now solved. Just like newspapers made a lot of money on classifieds before craigslist. Sucks for musicians, but it's an economic reality.

Or is it a moral argument? That musiciancs deserve to be paid a certain wage, and that streaming services are taking that away? This seems pretty absurd to me.

I think musicians need to come to terms with reality, which is not that different from old reality, actually: recorded music is basically a commodity, unless you win the megahit lottery. The way to make money as a working musician is through the scarce products you can provide: live performances, merch, and relationships with your audience. Google Amanda Palmer.