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Germany has just 82 Million people. The EU has 500 million. That Germany dominates and even controls the EU is a myth.
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From what I've seen, the problem is that HR only knows what to look for from the job description given by the hiring manager. Typical HR personnel don't have the technical background to properly identify candidates, so you get to play buzzword bingo.

The sad truth is that I know many people in HR as well as hiring managers who weed out resumes for completely arbitrary reasons.
While I'm unaware of a way to determine stats on downloads or revenue... you can use App Annie (http://www.appannie.com/cloth/) to get a reasonable idea of how the app is doing.

From App Annie: They've been featured roughly ~110 times on the app store in various more prominent areas. And their ranks look semi-decent.

My 2 cents: He's at least made his money back and probably a little extra on top.
He's the co-founder of Gidsy, who just raised from Ashton Kutcher & Index Ventures http://www.crunchbase.com/company/gidsy
Part of the backstory here is that ai-class.com is by Udacity (Sebastian Thrun), while ml-class.org and pgm-class.org are by Coursera (Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller). Formerly colleagues from the same department, now competitors with very similar education startups, all the way down to the naming conventions. Lot of fur flying about who copied who.

Coursera has been launching a ton of classes[1]. Probably Sebastian feels that to beat Andrew and Daphne, he has to go full time.

[1] http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php
It is auto-profiled in google and other indexers.

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You (gldalmaso) don't list your email address, but you haven't used a unique username, so you pop up under twitter (your name is disclosed).

You have a StumbleUpon page which lists your age (27) and your hometown Flxxxxxxxxx, Brazil

You are clearly an Anime Lover.

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This has all been automated, cached and waiting for me just to do a search.

Facebook has not been involved at all.
Analyst: 350,000 Apple Textbook Downloads in 3 Days
It should be noted that technology wise you could add CentOS and RHEL.
I'm pleased to see Debian #1 though, i hope it stays that way! :)
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Typkov is a little webapp I made this past weekend. I'm learning Colemak, and I wanted more gtypist lessons to practice with, but I'd prefer lessons that would let me practice the kind of things I usually type.

You paste in some text (like blog entries, essays, code, and such that you've written) and it generates typing lessons based on that text using simple Markov chains. So instead of practicing random words from the dictionary you can practice with the kind of stuff you actually write in real life. It works surprisingly well.

Right now it outputs files for gtypist and ktouch. If there's another program you'd like supported let me know and if the file format isn't too terrible I'll add it.

It's open source (on BitBucket and GitHub), and I also recorded myself as I made the initial version, so if you like watching programmers work you might like that (though I'm pretty new to Clojure/Noir).

BitBucket: http://bitbucket.org/sjl/typkov/

GitHub: http://github.com/sjl/typkov

Screencast: http://youtu.be/uTwnoZEw7FE
There is strong evidence that links sleep deprivation over time, even minor, to long term health problems.

As someone who cut sleep for years (6 hours was normal in twenties and much of thirties), I can attest that at some point, it becomes difficult to operate on less sleep. If all of your coping strategies involve putting in more time (essentially at the expense of sleep), when you can no longer cut the sleep, you may be in a bind when that is no longer the corner that can be cut. Though not always, that point in time often coincides with when your parental commitments are at their peek as well, and as a parent, you probably shouldn't cut that corner. So what then...

Something like the Pomodoro method helped me alot.

Or just be really rich.
I prefer http://caniuse.com/ as there is far less scrolling and a better brake down of browser support. It doesn't suggest polyfills and shims though and this one does.
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If you have a look at the military expenditure database you will see that Germany has the 7th largest military spendings in the world. Almost the same amount as Russia. I think that the German defense needs are covered enough even without the USA.
So you're saying the difference is that the perpetrator intends to profit from copying? Surely by copying a movie for personal use you are still profiting, if not by much.
Ask HN: What revenue X has by the time acquired by Y for $Z
I wonder is there is a list of acquisitions in the start-up industry having the actual revenue a company have had by the time of acquisition.

Sure there are many other factors for a company valuation such as TOM, SAM, SOM, talents, and other stuff.

It does not have to be acquisition rather valuation, which was made for an investment.

What I care about is simple.

Being a bootstrap profitable startup, I wonder what is the optimal momentum to approach VCs for series A, assuming the TOM a very huge figure.

If there isn't such a list, (I doubt there is), what is the formula for a valuation then? Where should I draw my top-bottom lines?

As PG once said on Bloomberg, founders wish they were valuating their own companies, but they don't investors do that, and I wonder, how do they do that, and what shall I accept / reject.
Doesn't have to be.

Hint: Unsubscribe from any sub-reddit that new users default to being subscribed to...
The US uses most of the difference for it's imperialist agenda (as in waging offensive wars well outside its borders) and simply shoveling money to it's military-industrial complex, not defense.

Germany spends enough money to reasonably protect it's own borders, as do most of Germany's other allies. The US overspending on military is insane, and has fuck all to do with "defense".

(Apologies for the over-used terms like "imperialist" and "military-industrial complex", but they seem appropriate in this context.)
Good catch, I missed that. Thank you.
Funny enough, that's exactly what I did this morning.
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This post demystifies digital marketing term for software technologists. It breaks down digital marketing world into small pieces.
I can try. Basically it is a PHP framework written in ruby. It has a really poor API that makes for very error prone coding. It completely fucked up the entire MVC architecture, creating a big fat controller layer that contains logic that belongs in the model. This makes it impossible to re-use code as much as it should, and makes unit testing much harder as there's too many inter-dependencies. And monkey-patching is the norm with rails, which causes all sorts of bugs. Monkey-patching is basically changing the API of existing classes, so then other libraries you might use break because the API they are expecting from the ruby library has changed on them.
I had the same thoughts as you, "is it for real?" as I've read this part:

"nd, why even bother spending two hours of your time sitting and absorbing a complex narrative that isn’t connected to you, when you can pop open your iPhone and get a quick hit of rarefied entertainment from people you actually know — who you can actually relate to as opposed to just project on."

"absorbing a complex narrative"? Of a Hollywood film? Yes, that's "demanding."
This is really interesting - do you have any way to show things like most talked about (most good, most bad), etc? Nice layout, really easy to use!
I am sorry but this seems somewhat contradictory:

(i)They are arrogant and ignorant to any feedback they don’t want to hear.

(ii) They seek too much advice from too many sources with too many conflicting views.

Seeking advice is the opposite of being arrogant, and if seeking advice is a mistake it's only because you listen to too much of it, thus making you too responsive to other people's thoughts, not ignorant towards them.
>I used to work in construction

This is why you were able to fall asleep! If I get up early (~6am) in the morning, my body just doesn't seem to care -- I won't fall asleep (or even feel truly tired) until about 2am.

Unless I actually do something physically taxing during the day.
Yep, sorry.

And it could even stated as:

and we get 30% --compared to 95% to 80% traditional publishers get from you.
Just curious, but how much coffee is 400 mg of Caffeine? This would seem to be 2-4 regular size cups of coffee (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/AN01211).
> "Absolutely no spam policy."

They don't have a spam policy, is what it says. This means they could potentially send you spam, or sell your address to others who will do so.
How long would it take to brute-force ASLR for this exploit, given that execution is under control of the exploiter, and can thus be tried many times in quick succession? I recall that some OSes only have a small number of different ASLR permutations, but I don't know the details, and especially not the details of Linux's implementation.
This pressure exists for decades know and even before the fall of the wall. German companies are active world wide and have production on many continents. German workers always had to compete with workers in lower paid countries. VW for example produces in Brasil, China, Slowakia, Mexico, ... Still VW expanded its manufacturing in Germany. For some years there was a huge trend to go to other countries even in the Mittelstand. About ten years ago many of these companies detected that the German workforce was better educated, the infrastructure was better, production was more flexible and the productivity was higher. But more important they detected that the quality at home was also higher. So the movement than was balanced out. New factories and new production was set up. Since we have a lot of research in this area many of the new factories are top-notch and some are full of factory automation.
The problem is that consuming is social and doing tends not to be. It's hard to come home to your family and tell them that TV is bad, instead we should all go our separate ways and work on personal hobbies/projects. Exercising is the one thing that is social, but usually not if you want to get to the expert level.
"There's a time and a place for lawyers, but right up front is usually not it. Unless you've got some sort of truly innovative, groundbreaking technological innovation on your hands."

The bigger problem I see is that many people actually think they've got something innovative, unique, groundbreaking or patentable. A "social network for dog lovers" is probably not patentable, certainly not that unique or groundbreaking, and none of it matters without execution and a userbase (ideally of paying customers). But I run in to many people who fret way too much over "how can I protect my (one and only) idea?!!"

We need have a "Founder's Daily Prayer":

"God grant me the wisdom to execute on the mundane aspects of my business, legal protection for the truly innovative and patentable aspects of my business, and the wisdom to discern between the two".
Next time, could you please use a standardized EULA/TOS
For those of you who bother reading the EULAs, you know how tedious and time consuming the task is. it's also mostly repetitive (don't cause disruptive interference, don't abuse our services, don't hack into our systems, ..etc)

My question is: Why don't we have a standardized EULA, a general license agreement that covers most of what companies want in an EULA?

This way I, and everyone else who bothers reading, can avoid 7-minute long reading excursions in much the same way we don't read the GPL; we already know what the terms are.

Companies that have more specific requirements can append the additional terms to the end of the EULA so that we can skip immediately right to the unique terms and conditions.

Just a thought.

PS: I apologize in advance if my usage of English is incorrect.
Agree.

The second was added by suggestions.

But to be honest. Although contradicting. Both happend to me.
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well it depends on if you can or can't know in advance if you are tracked on some website. but if you are worried of tracking there are allready available solutions to that problem . like proxyes, but that is another safety hazard by itself. world is not necessary a safe place.
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The prizes:
* Grand prize: round-trip flight to Barcelona + entrance pass to MWC
* 2 finalists: entrance pass to MWC
If these countries would have did that, they would be in a worse situation than they are now.
This is definitely not suggested as a replacement. We link to caniuse.com for details. This is for suggestions on how to use a particular feature.
> Because it yields a situation which the largest number of people is OK with. It maximizes the satisfaction of the people with the legal system.

It could maximize the number of people satisfied with the legal system, assuming they are rational. The gain of satisfaction for the may majority comes at a steep price on the satisfaction of the minority and has lead to much suffering in humanity.

The "first they came for"-quote is thrown around in this thread without much care. It should be noted that they came for the minorities.
well perhaps these are different phases. At first when you're looking for an idea you are looking for good advice, but once you've set your mind on something there's no need to hear anything discouraging. There are enough reasons why things won't work, I don't need to hear them.
it's somewhat contradictory but not entirely so.

I've seen this with people I've consulted with. They'll get advice from 12 people, and ignore the advice from 9 of them because they don't agree with it, then go ask another 5-10 people for more advice to confirm the original 3.
They don't count because they are not selling software.
They are selling something else and the software is essentially a byproduct.

This means that there are categories of software where GPL does not really fit at all, games for example.
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Using the information posted by thomasz it doesn't seem plausible that the average German truck driver would make 5 times what your brother made. Assuming that your brother followed European laws and didn't drive more than the allowed hours a day, and assuming an average work week of 5 days* for both your brother and the average German truck driver, the German truck driver would have made €421,80 in 4 days of work.

There are a few possible explanations to your blatantly wrong assertions here. One could be that you are simply as naive to think that a European truck driver would make €1500 for 4 days of work (if that where so I would be leaving my, in relation to the number you provided, low paying work as an IT consultant in a heart beat, €7500/month drool).

Another more cynic explanation would be that you are trying to spread some poor-me-I'm-from-an-ex-communist-country-I'm-so-poor propaganda, hopefully that isn't so. The flip side to that is that the former Eastern block countries are effectively out competing European haulage companies, with the effects most visible in the countries with the highest salaries. For instance, in Sweden, most small family owned transport companies have either filed for bankruptcy or been bought by larger companies, much due to the increasing price dumping caused by Eastern European companies. And increasingly the Swedish haulage companies are hiring Eastern European drivers as contractors, as this is cheaper than hiring Swedish drivers. This, and other similar cases for instance cheap builders, cheap ship yard workers, steel workers and so on, means that many Eastern European countries may be poorer than Western European countries, but the work force have a lot of work opportunities, especially the Eastern Europeans that are in the European Union. Work opportunities that are disappearing in Western Europe.

* That is, about 40h a week give or take according to work schedule in accordance to what the law says about continuous work hours and obligated rest between shifts. For instance it is possible that a truck driver can be scheduled to work 56 hours a week, the regulations are very strict in Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_driver#European_Union)
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Germany has this instrument for decades.

In this case it was easy to see. The economic crisis before had seen a more layoffs. So companies knew the effect and they wanted to avoid it. They wanted to keep their workforce to avoid the cost of rehiring well trained people, to be able to take advantage from the recovery as early as possible, etc.

It was not just the Unions. Even the conservative government also was part of it.
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> The legal question will be answered by the courts.

This is not a legal question of interpreting an existing law. The law itself should be rewritten in a way that makes the biggest possible number of people OK with it.

> One of the first principle that I hold is

I dont. Now what? We're back to deciding whose first principles should count. The only way to get a set of generally acceptable first principles is to vote on them. Again, you cant circumvent democracy.
For many European countries health insurance and pension plans are payed for by taxes, as for Germany specifically I don't know, but I know they have very cheap health care.
Maximite harkens back to the days of BASIC
They are forced to considder the wellbeing of the employees as well

A practical example of this is the Cologne-based Toyota F1 racing team [1] of a few years back. Despite having one of the largest budgets and workforces in the sport, the team was never successful at all, never having won a race. Common wisdom among racing pundits was that the workforce was inefficient, and just not cut out to be a top-rank F1 team. But the labor practices of Germany prevented Toyota from getting rid of the deadwood to build up a better-performing team. The end result was that Toyota threw in the towel and got out of the sport altogether.

Of course, other examples in the OP show different results. But the absolute meritocracy of top-tier sports is hard to argue against. I would submit that it's a purer example (although "anecdote" isn't the singular of "data"), since the intrigues of international politics and voodoo of macro economics may obscure much of the truth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Racing
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what a sad attack. A browser will only issue six simultaneous http requests per domain, so you have a per-user concurrency ceiling of six. The only thing they're proving is that the DOJ website was built by disinterested consultants and doesn't handle a large number of concurrent users. Bravo. What a revelation. You could probably say the same about most websites on the Internet.

This type of behavior isn't insignificant; it's dangerous. The fact of the matter is that most people have no idea what programmers are capable of, and what makes one attack sophisticated and dangerous or another one benign. These high-visibility, low-value attacks do absolutely no damage to "the establishment". On the contrary, the visibility of the attacks makes this type of behavior doublespeak fodder.

Computer hackers broke into government computers last night, disabling government communication. What can hackers do to your Facebook profile? Does your child have a Facebook profile, and are they safe? Tune in at ten and find out how you can protect your children.

Etc. All closing civilizations invoke a powerful and unseen enemy. What is more powerful and unseen than The Internet? We must be careful, as a collective, to draw the line in how we protest. "terrorists" were the last great invisible enemy, but people are getting tired of hearing about "terrorists". They're just not scary like they used to be. Will "hackers" be the next great invisible enemy? Why not? Everyone has a computer; a little fright center in their living room, or held up to their head. We get up in arms about location tracking in iPhones, but:

Law enforcement officials say that the tracking technology was put in there to help locate lost children or assist in the pursuit of known criminals. But now, officials say, computer hackers have found a way to get to this information, tracking you wherever you go. What information is your phone sending that you can't afford not to know about? Find out at ten.

There's a right way and a wrong way to defend Net Neutrality. This is not the right way.
How did this get 10 upvotes.
How Twitter can make a few million dollars...And customers happy.
I get what you're saying, but the guy in the article is talking about renting an "extra bedroom in a nice neighborhood". Look at that guy's place -- he's got a duplex penthouse in what appears to be fairly nice shape with at least 2 bedrooms. Most likely substantially more than $1000/mo.
I think he just described some.

There seems to be a phenomenon on HN of hardcore anti-copyright or pro-piracy posters who reply antagonistically to posts that they appear to have either deliberately misread or not read at all.
I'm a night owl, and a few decades agoI was on a rigid Army training schedule for months at a time, where we would be released for the night around 1am-2am and already have roll call at 6:30am; I would still not fall asleep until 3-4 am. (This was not physical training, although we did do a short physical exercise daily, and a an hour long one three times a week)

My pre-army reserves carried me through the first 3 months, and then I would just uncontrollably crash for 20-30 minutes at lunch time. My eyesight deteriorated significantly (much improved after I started getting some sleep again, thankfully, but not as good as it used to be, unfortunately) and I'm sure my body was otherwise harmed, although I did have more waking hours than at any other time I can remember.
"""And Apple already tried to abuse its position with the Kindle app by forcing a distribution commission for books it didn't sell."""

Well, regarding Apple forcing Amazon to play a distribution commissions for books sold through the iPad, it was either that, or allowing other companies a free ride to sell on Apple's platform, the Apple spend tons of R&D on, without Apple getting anything.

Apple puts those restrictions because it considers not just the hardware of the iPhone, but also the App Store as a platform that it have invested money, engineering and infrastructure in, and wants to profit from it too. Apple doesn't believe in the old mantra "apple only makes profit from the hardware". With multi-billion app/song/book/etc sales, why should they?

Allowing others to sell stuff in your platform without paying you makes sense if your platform is an operating system.

It does not make sense if your platform is an application market.

Now, regarding "being kind to competition on their platform", indeed they have been not. But they would have been foolish to be. They invest in building a game changing phone device, then a game changing app store AND a game changing mobile platform, why would they invite competition in their own platform? Let competition exist between multiple platforms.
So? If this is a problem, sign up with the minimum amount of information necessary. (Which, as of time of writing, is first/last name, email, gender, and DOB.. and the DoB doesn't have to be legitimate)

You are not forced to share anything. If you want to use Facebook as strictly a messaging platform, there is no negative effect for doing so.

Characterizing it as "surveillance" is RMS's typical good-natured extremism.
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