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Ask HN: what to do about the design?
for my previous project, we ended up paying a design company to do all the graphics for us.

however now, i'm starting another small side project targeted more towards charity instead of making money and i don't have the capital to pay another design company. it's a google map mashup of some sort but i want the design to be simple and sleek. i found the following theme on themeforest.net which is perfect: http://themes.themolitor.com/wpaid/ but it's a wordpress theme. i'm looking for something exactly similar to this with the red background, the map in the background but something i can use without wordpress.

your help is much appreciated
Seeing a state-vs-state comparison is interesting, but it really doesn't mean all that much to say that people making under $25,000/year take in 24.7% of the country's income, at least not unless you tell us how many people make up that "under $25k" demographic.
This reminded me of "God Mode" (http://qntm.org/godmode).
And if it were actually legal, there would be more; many more. If it gets past a certain tolerance you can bet Bloomberg will fire up the ticket machine.
Who IS this jerk?
TechCrunch link, didn't read.
> People are just looking for excuses to justify their behaviour.

You're right. My point was that if the majority of people want to copy stuff, it should be legal.

> but then proceed to take a picture of it, make your own copy, and then start selling copies to other people. (...) Does that strike you as a decent thing to do?

You are intentionally conflating filesharing and "selling copies" with the intent to make filesharing be in the same category. But these two imho are different things. In my experience, a large number of people who consider filesharing not morally objectionable, _do_ consider selling copies objectionable.

> All against the express wishes of the artist.

What the artist wants is irrelevant. The point of a democratic vote on copyright policy is not to fulfill artist's wishes, but to have people vote how _they_ want copyright to be. Democracy. Not just some bribeable politicans deciding whats best for authors and the industry.

> Does that strike you as a decent thing to do?

I consider selling copies without the author's consent wrong and I would vote for it to stay illegal. I consider non-commercial, private filesharing not wrong, even if authors oppose it because it may leads to less sales, and I would vote it to be fully legalized.

I just want me and millions of other interested people to be _able_ to directly influence copyright policy by directly voting on it in a fine grained way. I dont want to just give a party my vote and then let them allegedly "represent" me, because at least with respect to copyright, they dont. I want direct democracy.
OK, I read the infographic and its parent article, but I still haven't seen where they are sourcing the data from. Is this mint data? US Government data?

Edit: as both posts say below, it's from the US Census Bureau. I didn't see it when reading from my phone. Thanks!
Every time someone or some system lazily says "driver's license", substitute "state-issued photo ID" in your head. You can get one from your local DMV office for a few dollars and a little time. It and its number will work fine in any context (other than actually driving) in which a driver's license may be called for.
For what it's worth, I've been using Webfaction for years now and while there have been a few snags here and there, they're very reliable and have great support.
You shouldn't be bolding condensed text like that. Impact was never a good font imo.
The countermeasure is trivial: single-origin policy or origin managmment for cache access. At a slightly expense of slower browsing when visiting evil websites.
So they make $5 per day on Windows Phone as opposed to $1 per day on iOS? This stat is meaningless without figures...
Author here. It's not exactly that; the <img> approach is commonly suggested, but it has some serious limitations (explained in the source code).

Instead, I time <iframe>s, which allows SOP violations to be trapped the moment the browser barely starts thinking about rendering the target page. The other benefit is that <iframe> requests can be aborted quite easily when they are taking long enough for us to suspect cache miss - before the request is completed and cached.

The results should not be fuzzy, although the PoC uses hardcoded timings instead of doing calibration, which makes it a bit tricky with "outlier" clients (very fast or very slow).

I made some minor tweaks today, and the success rate should be greatly improved; there's now a mini-survey on the page, looks like ~90% of the people who bother to complete it are getting accurate results.
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Nauseating because...? It's a post-war truth, it happens at all times that the most powerful cities n states attract the most creative and impactful people. They do not just exist, as if, born superior, it's a process that involves a lot of external assimilation and national filtering.
Why is the decline of the bookstore any different than the decline of record stores?
Link to the original paper abstract: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...742...76G
Or even RAM?
A business is a business ...a product or a service(candy), a distribution channel (subway), customers (subway riders) and profit margin... that is it!

How many of you (on HN) have done that? the answer can be surprising.

Before thinking about making millions $$$ on a startup maybe try to run a lemonade stand this weekend.

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I suggest focusing on getting and accepting personal invitations you get on here. Meeting people is far more interesting than going to specific locations, in my experience. The more places like Hacker Dojo you can visit, the better (there are some great hacker places you can stay at on AirBnB, too). You might even land more interviews out of it ;-)

If you're an Apple fan, don't forget to swing by the Apple campus store at 1 Infinite Loop. They had plenty of trinkets in there I hadn't seen at other stores.

Palo Alto is a pretty nice town in its own right although it's not culture central like SF. Must admit I'm not a big SF fan though and prefer heading to where interesting things are occurring rather than wandering about as a tourist.

If you have a car, Buck's of Woodside is worth a visit if you appreciate its history and significance in geek culture, but if you don't, there's little to actively see.
SF and Silicon Valley are relatively standard cities/areas (but the overall, Bay Area environment is fantastic). I don't think you'll find anything particularly special about San Francisco: it's a nice, cultured city, but you've already seen plenty of those.

As diego mentioned, Silicon Valley is about doing, so see the do-ers and the do-ers hangouts:

* Visit google's campus in Mountain View (cab ride from Caltrain);
* Visit DogPatch Labs in SF (15 minute walk from Caltrain);
* Visit RocketSpace in SF (15 minute walk from Caltrain);
* Visit Hacker Dojo in Mountain View (10 minute walk from Caltrain);
* Walk around Stanford's campus (5 min walk from Caltrain);
* Grab coffee at Coupa Cafe or lunch at University Cafe
in Palo Alto (5 minute walk from Caltrain);
* Don't visit Facebook (it's a boring campus).

If you're an avid reader of Hacker News, seeing some of these places might provide some helpful context for the stories you read.

Obviously, if you're going to visit these places or others, drop another story on HN with places + times and I'm sure folks will try to greet you.
Interesting you mention Voyager I. Last I read it's going to enter the interstellar medium sometime between now and 2015, the first man made object to do so.

To me that's totally mindblowing. It's an amazing time in the history of homo sapiens to be alive.
The USA has copied that innovation from India. Now we have "Data Scientists"

And of course we've had Vice Presidencies for anyone who can sign their own name in the sales profession and finance sector.
This app worked. I have an Atrix 2. I froze the process associated with cIQ. I'm not an advocate for violating peoples privacy but if they want to collect the texts i send to my mother they can have at it. The lack of disclosure is obviously a problem though. What was infuriating to me is now my phones battery life has increased by 1/3. For the last few weeks and probably on my older android devices this nonsense has been sucking the battery down like a sorority girl drinking malibu. On the atrix 2 the process you want to freeze is called "device health application"
Probably because of this line: 'Once you're beating someone by a factor of over 100:1 you move on to other things.'

which I thought was abrasive.
Why is it okay to break the rules in the tech world but if you do it in the NYC subway, it's cheating.

Entrepreneurship is all about breaking the rules, making your own way and making things happen.

The guy probably didn't have a lot set up for him in life, so instead of feeling sorry for himself, he put on his shoes, grabbed his box of candy and made it happen.

Just because he's exercising his entrepreneurial spirit by doing something that's not as sexy as programming the next facebook/twitter/social "disruption" doesn't mean his attitude shouldn't be applauded.

Give the guy some credit.
It says something for how much diligence people voting stories up have.. Has a good title, vote it up! ;-)
Sure. Start off with a couple from C++:

- Everyone should avoid global static initialization of complex data, even though it's the most convenient way to achieve certain effects. The chances of screwing up something with the initialization order of variables are just too high, and impossible to control.
- There are people who like C++ template metaprogramming. Some very cool things can be achieved with it. But all C++ projects that I've seen ban it. Some because they want new people to be able to easily pick up the project. Others just because of the tool issues around heavy duty template use, like slow compilation speed and horrible error messages.
- C++ has many different kinds of inheritance. In practice many projects will ban most of them, and only allow single public inheritance of bases classes with implementation, and single or multiple public inheritance of base classes with only virtual methods. The convenience of multiple implementation inheritance is just not viewed as sufficient to balance the risk of shooting yourself in the foot. And the utility of non-public inheritance is not viewed as high enough to balance needing to explain it to people coming from Java.

Or how about Perl?

- Anybody suggesting changing $[, the variable that controls the array indexing base, would generally be given a good thrashing. Allowing changing the language (at runtime!) from 0-based indexing to 1-based was presumably thought to be a benign feature at some point, but it's hard to see how in retrospect.
- As a more modern example, later Perl got the ability to embed executable Perl code inside regular expressions with (??{}). Again, it's totally possible to see uses for this. But in practice it's so inscrutable (and at least in the past so crashy), that it's best reserved for stunt coding. Maybe not using it means rewriting some extremely compact regular expression in a way that's 3x longer, but that's still a net win.

Does that help showing the flavor of things you'd want to avoid?
How come Alaska is so wealthy?
I answered your Wordpress/Google+ question in part 2 of this article: http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/3/part-2-why-are-you...
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US Census Bureau. Says at the bottom.
Agreed, it's better than pushin crack.
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Look at the bottom left of the infographic. It says source: U.S. Census Bureau.
The physics are more forgiving to make up for the fact that gravity (and as a side effect, vision) can become much less forgiving. At that point, the game's much closer to DDR or Rock Band, except with a much less readable note chart (the well + next 3 pieces). You have to think about where each one belongs and have your move ready before the piece drops; instead of just one piece you have a small amount of time to work with.
Thanks. I wish I had known about Jekyll back when I used Tumblr and Posterous. I gave credit to you for that suggestion in my part 2 follow up to last nights piece: http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/3/part-2-why-are-you...
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When you think about it, $55k in cash is comparable to a $70k taxable income.
They don't give figures, but they do give this info in a previous posting about their iPhone version:

"Rankings

We have reached the following top charts and have also been listed in 36 more countries around the world:

US: Top 100

UK: Top 50

Australia: Top 50

Germany: Top 25

Austria: Top 25

Switzerland: Top 25

France: Top 25

Italy: Top 10

Spain: Nr. 1

Mexico: Top 10

Greece: Nr. 1

Canada: Top 50

Argentina: Top 10

Colombia: Top 10

Chile: Top 10

User Ratings

Our paid versions have received 90+ reviews across all countries with an average of 4.5+"

No raw sales numbers, but it seems fair to guess they've made more than $1 on the iPhone version.

I'm actually surprised there aren't more people targeting the education market. On my iPad I tried to find good educational apps and I'm having a really hard time. It's probably one of the few app categories where I'd pay decent money for a good toddler+ app, and have only found a few worth a dime.
Yes you save more people in the short term but the risk for disease transmission jumps up quite a lot. I'm sure that not even the doctors really like the fact of the matter but they have to accept it because they must save lives and not take them away for short term benefit.
He isn't breaking convention, he's just breaking the law. That law exists for a good reason - because being stuck in a confined space with a bunch of salesmen is intolerable.

Does your tech startup break the law? If so, please call your local precinct and wait for the police to arrive.
I would be stunned if the lifetime advertising revenue from a Kindle unit was higher than the price to turn the ads off. Isn't it much more likely to be purely a market segmentation thing? Sell the cheap version to the extremely price-sensitive, but get an extra $30 from those who don't really care about the price.
55k is a lot better than nothing.

I don't think it makes any indication of whether he's making a "killing" or not. The only thing that can indicate that is the $300 kicks, which are more likely to be his personal indulgence than reflective of everything.

The amount of money he makes isn't what's inspiring. What's inspiring is the fact that he had two choices - wait for something good to happen to him and blame others or take responsibility for things and make them happen by himself. Thats what's inspiring.
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"With millions of apps on the PC, what are the chances that a user is even going to see your app at this point? Without a ton of marketing muscle or the good graces of the kingmakers at Microsoft just hanging your shingle out on the Internet doesn't get you anywhere."

Funny how that sounds ridiculous now, no? The larger the audience the greater the potential. Successful software has always been equals parts technology and marketing.
I think this is the epitome of entrepreneurship --> "I've been doing this since I was 11. Not because I had to do it, but because I chose to do it...because there's nothing better than your own money."

Well said.
I'm sorry, but what the everloving fuck?

I see these guys every day on the subway. They have absolutely no impact on my life whatsoever, except the one time I chose to buy a bag of M+M's. I'm not sure how you ended up talking about robbing houses and kidnapping people.
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For those interested but unfamiliar, google the "permanent fund". (It is not the explanation for Alaska's income distribution; well-paying oil-related jobs are. But it is interesting in its own right and indicative of Alaska's oil wealth.)
> Not rebasing and just pushing loads of small commits makes it more likely that you will not have a clear history of progression for the project.

Disagree, because the commits are merged in and I can clearly walk through them. You should think very carefully about what you're committing and when--but that doesn't make rebase a license to do stupid things to make life harder for other developers, and personally I am completely and entire convinced that that's really all rebase does; I consider it one of the biggest brain damages of git and in pushing the SVN->git migration crusade (because even with rebase stupidity it's vastly better than SVN--I'd prefer Hg, but that ship has sailed) at my current employer I'm pushing to have "don't mash your commits" made into policy.

> How the development actually happened is completely uninteresting in git.

"In git" has no bearing on what is interesting in the development cycle, and it's a little arrogant to claim that that's the case. My version control system does not decide what I find interesting.
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I'm confused by this comment, Zynga is moral because it only copies games made by people who aren't personal friends?
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How many startups are currently facing legal action?

Do you really want to know the answer to this question? Tons of startups are breaking the law either intentionally or purposely trying to disrupt it. I think we've established long ago that something being "legal" or "illegal" doesn't necessarily mean it's "right" or "wrong."
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"Just because your not robbing houses or kidnapping people does not mean it's ok."

Because selling M&Ms on the subway is akin to robbing houses.
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His other article about his missed Foursquare opportunity is a good story: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/09/i-lost-five-million-dol...
>Entrepreneurship is all about breaking the rules, making your own way and making things happen.

Braking the rules is ok, braking the laws is not. So if I understand, you would consider the people, that are in the drug business, as entrepreneurs? Illegal activities are highly profitable, precisely because most people, will not participate in them, and this distorts the market.
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Funny, I know what A/B testing is, but I had to read this twice. I thought you were referring to the A & B trains which converge with the D train track between 59th and 145th.
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Good for him.
I hope he is successful.
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Chances are that on any rush hour train there are at least one or two people busking, selling candy or begging. It's a near daily sight for me.
You're reading it backwards. 24.7% of households (not people) take in under $25k each; the infographic doesn't say what this adds up to as a fraction of total national household income.
That does tend to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks for WP7. I'm surprised they haven't figured out a way to deal with that.

I'm going the other way - my own code is all in C# (Mac and Linux with Mono, and MonoTouch and MonoDroid for the mobile platforms) so deployment to any of the above platforms becomes relatively easy. (I'm writing games, so I can hoist a lot more of the otherwise platform-specific logic into OpenGL, OpenGL|ES, and XNA, respectively--still requires building different GUIs based on desktop vs. phone but is a lot nicer than Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux vs. iOS vs. Android.)
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I have a few negative points to make about this graph.

1) Maps are generally useful for area-based values, not population-based. A simple bar graph is equally as informative.

2) The bin sizes are unequal "below 40" and "above 60" bins may be misleading depending on how many states fall into those bins. Why bin at all? Just select a color in the colormap associated with that states value.. The bins are even worse on the state-by-state graph (25k bins mixed with 50k bins).

3) I'm left to assume that the %'s in the state-by-state section is % of households in the state, but it's not clearly stated and could be interpreted as % wealth or something.. And the national breakdown would be better in-line with the other states (but segregated) so that a state can be eyeball-compared to the national breakdown.

4) green/blue is usually associated with low values and red/orange with high. I understand why the colors were chosen, but it took me a couple of seconds before I realized I was interpreting them backward.

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Interesting surprises (to me anyway): Oregon, Utah, and Maine
What the hell was that? That sounded like self important self help advice. And it rambled.

I will not set up Gmail filters for my thoughts and I'm still wondering where that 500% number is coming from.

Everyone's got their productivity booster but this one sounds silly. The 500% claim makes me want to stay away from it from the get go. Sounds like bullshit to me.

Edit: I was pretty harsh in my criticism and then I thought about how I'd feel if someone said that stuff about me after I posted something sincerely. So I'll try to add so,etching more constructive here:

I hope those sad stories were from when he was very young, like 18. Don't make outrageous claims like "500% productivity boost". A lot of TC audience will want some proof of that besides anecdotal evidence. Then, inevitably, almost everything on TC ends up on HN where we're far harsher so please think of who will read this before writing it. I think this article belongs somewhere else, not on TC.
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Why exactly is breaking the laws not ok in the general case?

And in this particular case, why isn't it ok? He is clearly providing a service that the people are demanding.
Don't knock the hustle. I remember hearing about how GrubWithUs started by inserting flyers inside the free morning daily newsletters in subways (illegally) - people applauded at how "scrappy" this great startup was. Setting up lemonade stands is also illegal unless you have a permit, but nobody complains. I guess sometimes the law just isn't in your favor, and you have to actually think for yourself whether something is right or wrong.
My friend who works at a Zynga competitor claims that they make most of their money from what they call "Whales", a tiny subset of the playing (and paying) population that goes way overboard and spends $10k+. The entire point of getting other people to play is just to get the whales in the door.
I don't think it's bad to break the rules in either case. He's just not an entrepreneur, and this article proposes nothing truly interesting. He's selling shit on the subway. He didn't come up with a new and interesting way to sell shit. He's just selling shit. Panhandling. The only reason he can make a profit is because it's illegal and people are nice. He's taking advantage of both. Is it better than selling crack? Without the slightest doubt. But thats a terrible metric with which to judge your surroundings.