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I think international soccer is a better analog for war, not least because there are actual rivalries between countries that have gone to war with each other. Every time England plays Germany, the English play it up as a rematch of the World Wars; every time Argentina plays England, it's revenge for the Falkland Islands.
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No. What I tried to say is that whether they make it work or not just tells a lot if they are willing to go the "extra mile" for their developers.
I believe that screen manufacturers flooding the market has brought the profit margins on TV's down to about 10-15%

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/average-profit-margin-televis...

However, Apple's business model - at least for iPod/iPhone, maybe MacBooks - has been to make a decent profit on hardware (estimates as high as 30%), and to incentivize the higher price with peripherals, such as a large support network, good compatibility and a plethora of apps.
Nice looking app. I stopped at the part where you asked for a credit card. I am not sure if I can trust you with that info. Great job though and I'm glad you're delivering happiness in SF.
I recently added my own syntax rule to JavaScript mode in Emacs to highlight lone { at the beginning of line (with or without trailing whitespaces). After your comment, I think about adding some more highlights for with, == and !=.
I have no idea what textyard is. There is no link to the site. Please add a link on the blog in your own interest.
Some hackerspaces are much like you describe, although, they are not as well organized to accept low-commitment walk-ins at any hour of the day. But that sounds like an interesting way to keep the space going -- half the space is entry-level fun at a modest price, half the space is the usual craziness.
You'll find this minimum spend, or minimum deposit, to be typical in advertising outside of Google.

These minimums are often in place to make sure you spend enough - and get enough clicks, to have statistically significant data in order to make a decision. At a $3 CPC that would give you 100 clicks, about the minimum you would need to know if you even moved the needle.

In general, when testing a platform or medium you need to dedicate $1-3k to testing. With an email distribution, you often need to push even more. If you stop running your ads before you have enough data to make a decision, you will miss out on most opportunities.

For example, I ran a campaign on one of the major RTB platforms about 2 months ago with a $500 minimum deposit. The campaign got about 650 clicks at a $0.94 CPC costing me $611 in one day. I grossed $434 in total, for a $177 loss.

However, this told me something: this campaign could be a winner eventually.

I kept at it, capping my spend at $1k/day. Within 5 days I was spending ~$900 and grossing ~$2k+. The campaign ran for about 6 more days before the offer I was running expired (limited time deal with the client).

Basic stats were this:

$19,434 revenue

($10,340) spend

---------------

$9,094 profit

If I had paused out the gate I wouldn't have found the sites and ad creative that succeeded. This is typical in online advertising and why very few players manage to stay in the game: you have to have staying power and the will to keep at it, not to mention the credit.

Be careful when dismissing that minimum spend - if you aren't willing to test, you will rarely ever find the success.

_Note: I'm not some big player in this industry, but I have found my methods and have a better ROI than most, allowing me to compete where others often can't. Yay :)_
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> the problem with this statement is that less code != readable code

Never said that. When writing code I never go for the least possible number of symbols (if I did, I'd write traditional APL). Still, more concise code is often closer to what you want done than the details of how you'll get it done. While I find Ruby's syntax a bit confusing at times (and that's why I prefer Python) I cannot deny idiomatic Ruby is very close to intention than to implementation (to a fault).
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I, erm, played around with Play! early last year and loved it. However, I wanted to get out of my Java comfort zone and moved on to Python (and subsequently Django); I would have tried Scala with Play!, but support for Scala appeared flaky at the time - that looks to have changed with 2.0.

If you're a Java developer who needs a MVC framework, this is the project to check out.
I think it's because you're more likely to encounter NaN in JavaScript due to the lack of real integers (er, should I say true integers? Everything is floating-point, anyway).
We actually just have a version under review that allows you to skip the CC entry during registration. ;) However, we use Stripe to store your Credit Card details.
> the variation of first having everyone brainstorm alone

This would be called "thinking" by most people wouldn't it?

Calling it a variation rather than the complete opposite approach seems like people just like the word brainstorming.

Your conclusion is if you decide to call whatever works "brainstorming" then brainstorming works. If you study the specific technique that has been called brainstorming for decades it doesn't work. Like the title says.
> Since trying to cut junk out completely is really hard, instead I limit my intake of junk food while ensuring I get the nutrients and energy I need.

I actually find it easier to completely abstain from unwanted behaviour, than allowing myself some and keeping a tally.

The author's method would probably still work for me, as it doesn't require keeping a tally. Not so much for eating, since I don't have any problem with willpower in that area. But for choosing activities.
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There are plenty of firms who will stake quants, the amount of the profits they take varies. If you have enough money to handle your losses and just use them for margin, you'll keep 80% or more.

Search for prop fund incubators and quant fund backers.
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I'm not sure why sensationalist headlines like this are necessary. As has been stated, the real problem is getting content. Lots of technologies exist that could have "killed" TV but haven't.
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I've always found == to be very useful when comparing undefined, because undefined == null. It's very rare that I want to treat undefined and null separately (unless one or the other means there was an error earlier).
This title violates two HN guidelines:

"In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to YC unless they're actually associated with YC."

and

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

Please use less bait-y titles in the future.
You know how everyone wonders how "unskilled" people will make money in the post-material-scarcity future? This is one of the answers. Only one of many answers, but one nonetheless. You can add value to someone's "experience" and capture some of it.
Good point-- I've updated the post to give an inline link to textyard.com. I'm not trying to promote TextYard anymore, but if this helps clarify to people what you can do with the data then it's definitely beneficial.
1. Water

2. Fruit.

3. Nuts or different fruit.

4. One serving of crap.

5. #1 again, etc.
I'd be interested to know what this guys body fat % is because that sounds like some seriously horrible advice.
The NFL is already perhaps overprotective of quarterbacks, because quarterbacks are bigger superstars than defensive ends and linebackers. Oddly, this is one of the biggest things actual fans complain about.
> Make your long-term decisions when your head is at its clearest, then don’t question those until you’ve had time to track results.

Great tip - I've come across it myself when learning emotional maturity. A part of self-awareness is the mental equivalent of trying and failing to sudo - understanding that who I am at the moment isn't who should be making long-term decisions... and being at peace with that. This doesn't dissolve my discontent, but simply adds a sensible maximum to the damage my emotionally-charged moods can have.
And I think, ideally, most people follow this pattern. Problem is, my 4-month old daughter (and, I suspect, many, many other 4-month old daughters) haven't heard of this.
Not quite as many more this season.
Good advice. But it is indeed, still frustrating. I'm not sure some fo the people here quite understand just how little journalists make...

I mean, yeah I did not get into it for the money, but the Valley feels like a lottery sometimes, and journalists do not get to buy tickets.

Of course, I'm super happy being a journalist. But you gotta admit, it's frustrating to watch all this money fly around while yer struggling to pay rent.
Exactly. I used to hate meetings too. But, when you are working on a project that requires thoughtful discussion of something specific, email can be horrendous.
It just makes it pleasant rather than jarring or off key (which is a HUGE difference).

The shape == form follows function. It's a (tuned) metal bar across the bottom that's struck by a hammer. It's supported by an elastic bungie so it's allowed to vibrate/hum after it's hit.
I mean this in all honesty: how do you know that?
When's the best time for your caffeine fix? There's an app for that
You can then just turn of it off and go right back to bed. At least that what I would do
Here's a better example, and it does suck to single anyone out, especially one that I use and like:

Dropbox - the only thing they've done recently was take small evolutionary steps on the innovation they showed 5 years ago when they launched.

There was so little to say about what else they've done that you basically just mention they're growing and making money. Which is great, but does growth and revenue make them the 22nd most innovative company in the world?
Great idea and beautiful UI. I sent chocolates to a friend in SF. I'm a little sad he got an email notification, though. I was hoping it would be a surprise.
Thank you for the offer. I completely agree that "doing is the best learning". At this point I can't commit or take on responsibility on someone else's project. If you have a web developer already and that has the patience to work with me, I might just change my mind. But at this point, I'm looking for more flexibility to work on my own ideas.
I desperately need this in ebook format so I can read it in chunks, leave it, come back to it, etc.
[edit]
Found something -- dotEPUB works great.
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Cool, good to know. I look forward to the next release. :)
Tweets on a plane
Always wanted to do something useful with LinkedIn api/graph. Can you elaborate on what that "something" you mentioned could be?
it's 2012: stop using horde and install roundcube !
Ubuntu, and nope.
Now I know why WebOS was not successful:

https://github.com/isis-project/isis-browser/blob/master/sou...

They use tabs instead of spaces.
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yeah -- we actually started without a minimum and it was a disaster for everyone. advertisers would try very small amounts $20 or $50, which to kposehn's point, you need a good sample size to know if the channel is valuable to you, and if you don't get that, then it's just a waste of $20 or $50. when you take out a campaign with LaunchBit, you're not just getting your ad in one newsletter. we get you impressions in multiple newsletters. so, if you're just trying $20, then effectively, we're trying your campaign in just a couple of newsletters, which is just kinda a crapshoot if it works. in order to know if this channel really works for you, we need our platform to get you in a lot of newsletters and adjust from there based on what's working and what's not.
Check with:
grep -r "\$m\[1\](\$m\[2\])" /path/to/horde
For comparison, OpenDNS does ~37bn http://www.opendns.com/technology/traffic-stats/
Blocking and blindsiding are pretty separate things, right? Blindsiding is when you tackle someone from behind, which is why a right-handed quarterback needs a more reliable blocker on his left side. But without blocking you could still be tackled from behind.

Likewise, while above-the-waist tackles are legal in football, they're certainly not the preferred technique because they aren't as reliable.
Got invited to Mini-Seedcamp. Got covered by Scoble. Got invited to YC interview. Got rejected after YC interview. Launched anyway. I thought that was obvious?
Based on Wikipedia's definition of this fallacy, I don't think your examples fit. From Wikipedia:

No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.[1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule.

The key part is "without reference to any specific objective rule", which I don't think you're taking into account.
Some common themes with an essay[0] I read yesterday.

Social media is to the Read/Write Web what sprawl is to the metropolis of modernity: a homogenous, cancerous, rhizomatic junkspace that expands exponentially outward on a sludgy wave of strip malls and sponsored links, greed and induced demand. This ruthless modernization produces miles of “junkspace” — a term coined by the architect Rem Koolhaas, who wrote that “more and more, more is more. Junkspace is overripe and undernourishing at the same time, a colossal security blanket that covers the earth in a stranglehold of seduction… Junkspace is like being condemned to a perpetual Jacuzzi with millions of your best friends … Seemingly an apotheosis, spatially grandiose, the effect of its richness is a terminal hollowness, a vicious parody of ambition that systematically erodes the credibility of building, possibly forever.” Koolhaas was referring to the airport and the strip-mall and the single-zone sprawl, but he could have been talking about Facebook.

[0] http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/arcades-mallrats-tumblr-thug...
When I was living in the dorms at school, I had a nasty habit of turning off my roommate's alarm and going back to sleep.
Max, great feedback. Tracking is important for us, but maybe we should have disabled it during Valentine's!
Those questions are valid if someone is trying to build the next Facebook. However, I think a person should work on important problems (not necessary hard, but important).
And most importantly to like your work to reach a flow state.
Oh, I know, I just think it's more fun than Baseball :-) ISTR that MLB had a lock-out a while back which ended up with Cricket filling some of the broadcast slots. Speaking as a cricket fan with any luck they can similarly shoot themselves in the foot in the future and T20, as a faster form of the game, can develop a foothold. One has to have dreams!

(Honestly, I've tried watching baseball and, well, incomprehensible covered it well. Trying to work out what was and wasn't a strike a) confused and b) bored me, what with the slowing effect on the game. Then, they keep doing hits which get easily stopped and they're out before even making first base! Gimme T20 every day.)
I've always been very trusting of open source software. I've often thought "surely someone else has looked through this source code" and just assumed that malicious code never hits stable releases. The same goes for "verified" binaries, packages, etc... apparently that is not always the case.

What are the possibilities that such code could make its way into some piece of extremely popular public facing software, say Apache? How many cleverly hidden "bugs" already exist that open us up to complete pwnage for the clever bastard behind them?

Just think about the havoc someone could do with a few popular but nasty PyPi or RubyGem packages...
In football, if you don't fall on the ball properly, you might fumble it and turn over possession prematurely. It's not exactly the same but more similar than you're making it seem.
I've been using a Now & Zen timepiece for about 5 years now. It is far more pleasant to wake up to a gentle gong than electric buzzers that shock you awake. You can adjust the strike force to control for loudness. I keep it set fairly soft. When I first got it, it would take a several gongs before it gradually woke me. Still no need for snooze though. These days I usually become aware of it on the first or second gong.
Have to echo that it's a beautiful app...

So this is like Uber for bike messengers (and other courier type services)? Very well done, have had occasion where I could have used it in NYC.
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not for beginners? how come one start with it?...
I have tried it once and found it very easy to use and setup website.
I have two thoughts:

1. Wow! I didn't know that the FBI had intercepted (as opposed to cultivating) that many "terrorists". They must have quite a database (like the serial killer database) of behavorial traits built up to be saying something this specific.

2. The FBI is just cultivating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. This is totally transparent.
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a flagship Android phone that doesn't have to have a manufacturer's special sauce added to it

Is the hardware between devices really all that different? Phones are basically giant screens attached to giant batteries. Where do you go from there? Put in CDMA and GSM radios that each do a bunch of frequencies, and you're done developing phones forever.

(Even the iPhone 4 and iPhone 1 look approximately the same. Big screen. Home button. Power button / volume buttons / vibrate switch. Android devices are even simpler because they only need a power button.)

The problem with phones is that they are all the same in an abstract sense, but all different with respect to drivers and hardware bugs. That means you can never write phone OSes like you can write desktop OSes, which is a huge drag on innovation. Imagine if you could choose between Ubuntu and Mint on your phone. Instead, you're stuck with whatever you get from your carrier, which is worse than nothing at all.

Phones are all software these days, and the hardware manufactures cannot code their way out of a wet paper bag.
Uh, SOPA wasn't a child porn law. It was a copyright enforcement law. By definition it didn't cover anything regarding illegal pornography, because illegal things aren't subject to copyright.
>Data at the scale that the largest websites handle doesn’t work that way.

Which accounts for a small minority of databases compared to the whole; ergo, why you find introductory SQL courses structured the way they are.

"Performance" comes in many flavors. Reliability of data is on the top of a lot of company's priority list. It's not the end of the world, the end of someone's job, or the end of someone's service contract if a Facebook user doesn't get a message on time or at all.
Incidentally, the game in question (Edge) is part of the current Humble Bundle, including a version for Android devices. I've already had quite a bit of fun with it on my way to work. :)

Edit: Kinda obvious, but here's the link http://www.humblebundle.com/ (only 4 hours to go!)
Having purpose in life also helps. You'll feel excited to go do your thing when you wake up.

At least that's what works for me.
You have a pretty diverse collection of books there!
Do you update the site regularly?

I would suggest that you explicitly name the site as hacker-books or something like that. For people who don't know about HN, would be able relate to the name better.

Also consider adding a list of online resources that are not in published form. There are a ton of that out there, would make it even more diverse.

Overall, thanks for your effort.
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The title is slightly misleading -- a better title would have been "tool allows you to see the actual size of products on your screen."

The link points to an application that allows you to measure your monitor's dimensions and then see the real-life size of various items on-screen.

E-commerce websites badly need this to display products at real-life scale...
Just to play devil's advocate, but I like this practice. Convention over configuration. Just place the favicon in the root directory of the site, give it an explicit URL if you need one.

Of course, many people end up putting an explicit reference in anyway, so, eh. Probably not that helpful.

The 404 errors in particular seem like a very Machiavellian way to get sites to support your browser's features. You have to wonder how many people add in a favicon or iTouch icon just to shut up the errors up.
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Anyone else seeing this?
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."

-Steve Ballmer, 2007
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really? I played running back for 5 years (through high school), and the only thing they taught us about falling was to fall forward. The moment your knee, hip/butt, or elbow hits the ground the play is over, so you don't have much to worry about.
So several Horde releases were trojaned for three months? That's pretty terrible. Good on them for coming clean.

What's the best way for open source projects to make it easy for their customers to get verified downloads? A lot of packages post MD5 checksums but no one tests them when downloading manually, do they? Automated signature checking on Debian packages seem to work better in practice; homebrew also verifies download checksums automatically.
This acquisition really has nothing to do with making Google-branded Android phones, and everything to do with acquiring a huge patent portfolio to defend against Android-related lawsuits.

I predict that there will not really be much change in Google's or Motorola's device offerings and that other manufacturers will actually feel better post-acquisition, because now they will be further-protected by Google's patent portfolio.
I thought the same thing! The next generation of toys gets me really excited. I hope things like that become a reality. I can't wait to play.... err get them for my kids. ;)
Wow, I can't believe you put sensors in the bed, that is awesome. You are completely correct though, an alarm clock should be next to the bed not in it.

But you don't need to know what cycle your customer is in to implement a gradual wake up process. You can just assume they are in the deepest sleep, start incrementing, and eventually the alarm clock will be in sync with their current state of sleep.

Again, the product looks great.
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Yeah, I could see a personal project using a good chunk of those. (Apache, nginx, memcached, MySQL, Varnish, PHP) It's definitely not outrageous to think Tumblr uses them all.
Lyons sounds more like a rival mafioso to me.
I'm not arguing which education system is better, but having a degree of familiarity in the subject matter you plan on proving things in helps out a lot. Proving things about continuity/discontinuity would be a bit difficult if you've never had to identify continuous functions with calculus.
> What's more interesting is how successful intellectuals have been in this country

They've been successful at delivering concrete, immediate results. Fundamental science at the highest levels is usually done elsewhere.
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