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Yes, all good points. As I think we both seem to be aware of, it really depends on the type of business you're doing. It could be high growth, or slow growth day 1 revenue generating machine, or something in between. It could be primarily virtual, or an older business model with a tech twist.

So, depending on your business model and your background, whether you're based in the U.S. or outside of it, both come with their own sets of challenges. I just think more business models have a higher probability of success if the company is based in the U.S. than they would if they were based in SE Asia.

From what I've heard by talking to other tech startups in the area, if you're looking to do a high growth type of startup, that can be difficult in this region and the reason is primarily due to funding. There's a cultural difference in the investors here that boils down to risk aversion. Asian cultures are typically risk averse and this no doubt applies to Asian investors as well. They expect you to already be making money or if you're not making money, then they'll want a sizable stake of equity - sizable enough to make the founders feel like employees rather than owners. One could get investment from firms in the U.S., but I've not heard of many who have gone that route, and I suspect many investment firms unfamiliarity with Asia could make that a little difficult.

Now if you want to talk about bootstrapping, then anything is possible within the limits of your abilities and tolerance.

If you're based in Asia but targeting the U.S. market, that's again not an insurmountable obstacle, but you'll need to be able to talk to your customers, and when your customers are based in the U.S., the time difference, distance, and being culturally disconnected can make this difficult at times. Possible yes, but at an extra cost.

So again, it really depends on what your business is doing. I think being in the U.S. gives you more options though.
i'm not sure if it's as simple as finding what you love. starting a company comes with lots of things you must force yourself to do in order to achieve the dream. just like getting a girl requires you to swallow your pride and risk rejection. you may love to run, but not waking up every day at 6am to practice for that marathon, even though the end result could be an experience of a lifetime. the self help can be of great help in pushing you to work a little harder towards your goal, and it does work. At least i can give it credit for helping me identify and overcome some self limiting beliefs i wasn't even aware i had.
The TV stuff tends to be. The radio programmes are not. This is because one needs to pay a license fee in the UK to watch television, which funds the BBC. Listening to the radio is free, however.
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I agree with the headline being sensationalized.

However, the default iTunes sort method will still manage to do some damage. If I recall correctly, iTunes sorts reviews mostly by how many people found it helpful. Additionally, this is as an absolute value, not a percentage (so 8 of 65 finding helpful will be above one that 7 of 7 found helpful). The result is if you go to the App Store page, the reviews you are shown by default -- overall rating aside -- are all heavily-upvoted one-star reviews.

The question that's left is how much of a material effect the one-star reviews being shown by default are having on the game's sales. However, even if there is no material effect, that's probably not a black mark Zynga wants visible even if it's not affecting sales much (or at all).

The "Whose Expression is it Anyways?" article on Gamasutra (link: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TommyWu/20120216/9455/Whose_E...) I think is a good discussion on the topic. Using that article's terms, Dream Heights may only be the "legal distance" from Tiny Tower's design, instead of the "classy distance".
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There are a lot of end-users willing to test the builds and provide feedback to the developers. So there's definitely a benefit for both sides.

And yes, there are builds for every handset. You can have a look at them at github[0].

[0] https://github.com/cyanogenmod
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When this was posted 2 weeks ago, I tried to step up and do the hosting with Amazon's Cloudfront. 72 hours and 3TB later, I sadly acknowledged that I didn't have the checkbook size to properly meet the download needs.

Since then, @datassette has moved hosting to Dreamhost and they're truly sticking by their unlimited bandwidth policy. So as much as we typically like to point out when DH is down or messes up, I think they deserve some public acknowledgement for doing something right.
Sorry if I'm just ignoring something(I'm not from the USA) but isn't it possible to say you were freelancing or something similar to cover the gap?.
Interesting way of looking at it (as it were), though in principle if there was some other scattering effect specific to methane, I don't see why this couldn't dominate the effects of Rayleigh scattering. (as I've said in the other comments, I'm not convinced that such an effect actually exists)
Thanks. We've considered doing other things — like function call syntax for macros (which is essentially what Lisp/Scheme have), but decided against it. It just causes confusion. Can you pass a macro around like you can a function? Can functions shadow macros and vice versa? What happens if a macro introduces a local variable that shadows the macro itself? Basically it comes down to fact that macros are syntactic and as such behave very differently from functions, which are not syntactic. With the @ syntax, there's no confusion.
Definitely avoid charging for CM - that will put a total damper on community enthusiasm. The better approach would be to rationalize builds - we don't have to have nightly builds. IMHO even weekly builds would be plenty.
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I'm mostly with you. But Mozilla could issue a blanket moratorium on the issuance of CA=YES certs to external organizations; Verisign would, during the moratorium, only be allowed to issue chained CA certs for Verisign properties.

They could do that today. Nothing would break.

Then they could spend some time --- spend as much time as they like, really --- coming up with a policy that allows extraordinarily trusted companies to sponsor and sign subCAs.

But they didn't do that. It's not just that they only issued a letter; it's that the letter is comically weak.
I don't have the time to look for it now, but I recall, somewhere in the myriad of recent HN comments on GoDaddy, there was at least one where the person stated that they switched with no downtime. If you find it, you could ask them if they did anything in particular to achieve that outcome.

Regardless, I think that, ultimately, when it comes to DotCOM, it does not matter which registrar you use, or where your business is located, because it seems as if the US will continue with, and expand upon, its various efforts at interfering with that TLD. I have a pressing need to register a bunch of domains, and it's obvious that I should use DotCOM (simply for the purpose of preventing those names from being taken by someone else in the most popular TLD), but I don't know to which TLD(s) my DotCOMs should point. I've investigated a bunch of them, and I'm leaning towards DotTEL, because it has a few nice features, particularly its uniqueness in that every webpage is generated dynamically from content stored in DNS. Of course, DotTEL can't replace most websites, but it could act as a gateway to your content.
In my opinion answering like that gives interviewer idea that u have thorough knowledge and know all the solutions in the incremental level of improvement (complexity and space usage etc).
At first we were going to use 0-based indexing, but it made porting any Matlab code over very hard, which defeats a large part of the purpose of having Matlab-like syntax in the first place — to leverage the large amount of Matlab code and expertise that exists out there.

However, as I've used it more and more, 1-based indexing has really grown on me. I feel like I make far fewer off-by-one errors and actually hardly ever have to think about them. This has led me to conclude that 1-based indexing is probably easier for humans while 0-based indexing is clearly easier for computers.
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The lack of a privacy policy isn't good enough evidence for people not caring about it. It just means people haven't written one up. I'd question whether a privacy policy that says "we'll collect any information about you we can and sell it to everyone we can" would be an example of caring about privacy.
Issue a moratorium on subCAs. Nothing will break. Today would be great. Then we (or, more appropriately, your organization and the stakeholders) can work out a better policy than we have now.

(Is what I'd say if you were the right person at Moz to talk to).
Honestly, I've found that getting a job in a field that I'm interested in is a much faster way to learn. You have the advantage of working with people already in the field, an existing codebase and set of data to tap into, and clear projects with deadlines and impact to the bottom line.

Example: Machine Learning. I learned much more in a few weeks at a job at a Machine Learning company than I ever did trying working through Elements of Statistical Learning on my own.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.openssl.php

you would store a private key on the server, store the blob in mysql and encrypt/decrypt as needed.

There are other library wrappers as well.
Yeah - the idea is that the cablecos could avoid sending a truck to activate or remove services.

But this isn't mentioned in the article, and the article is actively wrong in the ways I mentioned above, plus others (e.g. "There is no reason to change this policy now just because the cable companies want every home and apartment to have one of their set-top boxes..." No they don't. They want people who don't want more than basic packages to have a settop at all, and avoid that up-front investment).
Seems to me that a high-profile entrant to the market, generating buzz and paying heftily to market the concept, could in itself breathe new life into SkyChalk.

The cyclist on the team-sponsored, wind-tunnel optimized trials bike can still be drafted.
I usually listen to The Prodigy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTw2YvutJRA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVefPPr69NU) or some drum and bass, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au_BUnGWquA. Basically, anything with high energy, exactly the opposite of what this site suggests. I feel like I'm typing faster. It's like a race between the song and my fingers.
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This could add quite a bit to the economy, in my opinion. There's countless applications for these things.
For a company who ripped off Sim Towers I don't really get why they are complaining this much
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I've gotten tired of watching the spinning beachball, so I decided to switch back to Linux. A friend has a dual boot set up on his mac - OS X and Linux, so I bought a little macbook pro and . . .

Bootcamp Assistant only supports Windows 7

After updating the OS X on the system, my arch linux boot disk cannot find the disks - which it could prior to the update - so I can't even flush the hd and make a single boot machine.

Looks like apple is now an entertainment company.

Does anybody know of a nice laptop that I can use - preferably Arch (Ubuntu seems to be going (or have gone) the way of bloat and slow
I've been doing a lot of research over the past week on all the solutions out there because I'm building a phonegap based html5 app. My goal is to make it as native feeling as possible. The closest to that experience comes from Sencha Touch and Spine.js mobile. However, what I have found is that doing things from scratch is really the best way to get as close to native as possible.

Sencha touch is a bit heavy and you have to do things their way, and there's a bit of a learning curve (not to mention it doesn't mesh well with a lot of the javascript MVC-style frameworks out there). That said, it really is the most complete, best performant option out there.
They're breaking all kinds of internet laws with that.
> he begin/end is due to Matlab

Octave has solved this by allowing both matlab-style "end", as well as block-specific endings, like "endif", "endfunction", "endfor", etc.

Having several end end end endings without any hint of what they are closing is one of the ugliest parts of matlab. Even though you are reimplementing this for compatibility reasons, it is rather sad that you chose to make this the default behaviour for Julia.
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In the UK, it costs $0, employed or not, previous neck injury or not, prior condition or not!

No insurance required and it's always good care from experience.

Healthcare is the last thing you want to have to worry about if you are unemployed.
Ask HN: should I negotiate salary for an internship?
Hi HNers,

My "problem" is quite simple. I've the possibility to do an internship in a big US company (but in EU). I won't disclose which one, but that's the kind of company every CS student hope to work for. This internship would be great on my CV + I really want to work for this company, but should I try to negotiate the salary? I mean obviously I can get a little bit more money that would be great, but is it common to negotiate an internship salary?

Thanks,

(btw it's a throwaway account...)
You should love what you do. Idealistic, I know. But if you don't get up in the morning and don't feel a certain level of gut certainty that you like doing this, regardless of success, than re-evaluate.

The passion for what you do will lead to success. On that there is no question. How you define success is very much in the air. But if you're doing what you love, it really doesn't matter, does it?

Keep in mind that at the end of the day you are more valuable than the idea. You're still in college, it's early in the game. You can create new ideas, change the world in ways you haven't even thought of yet.
I don't understand this, Justin. What part of any one CA makes them too big to fail? Isn't this tantamount to saying there's really not much a CA could do get distrusted?

I'm actually not advocating for the overthrow of the whole CA system.
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Interesting, but this only works if (a) HN covers everything you'd want to read, and (b) some folks still go out and find other material to submit. This second assumption probably will continue to hold, but (at least for me) the first does not.
In the UK we have The Open University (which is open for international study too).

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On the other hand, it's not entirely about him getting away with it; as I read it, he's still open to a civil suit, but the judge likely (hasn't written his opinion yet) thought this didn't justify criminal charges.
Well, by your definition then, "a shop that develops APIs" is the same as "a shop that writes code" is the same as "a shop that makes websites" is the same as "a shop that makes apps". Come on now! Clearly, it would be a shop that writes code. And at that, a shop that's specialized at being excellent at figuring out APIs for clients. I don't think this would be geared towards software houses, or companies with their own dev teams, I think this might be geared towards aspiring businesses who don't necessarily want to be a dominant player in the market, but would rather be more accessible to its users.

It strikes me that quite possibly one of the next channels that businesses might want to exploit are having their data available programmatically. Which is why I'm wondering whether that's one of the next market opportunities.
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Off topic, but asking about downvotes is rarely productive. It'll almost always fix itself given time.
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I assume by the last sentence you mean they DON'T want people who don't want more than basic packages to have a settop. Considering everyone usually "leases" their cable box from the cable company (at least in NYC) for something like $10-13 a month, it seems like in a matter of months the boxes have paid for themselves and then they are making profit. I've had my box for 2 years. Do they really not want people to have settops in their houses?
You're probably right, the market is probably quite small right now. But! I feel as though that might be changing... and quite honestly, I feel like the clients may very well be both businesses that are established and want to have more of an omni-presence, but also the more technical ones.
It's true that celebrity entrepreneurs have a decided advantage in terms of [ease of getting press, money to hire people, making connections, etc].

However, I think most of those things can actually be replicated (though admittedly not as easily) by the unknown coffee shop entrepreneur. Yes, you have to hustle your ass off. But it works, and most people are very sympathetic to the cause of the underdog entrepreneur and will go out of their way to help.

Additionally, "guys in coffee shops" have the advantage of being extremely agile, can turn their startup on a dime, and can do whatever they want.

This "whatever they want" thing is kind of important -- what I'm saying is "they can do mildly shady stuff". For example, krausejj could have chosen to populate his map with a bunch of fake people and posts, or unknown airbnb type startups can spam craigslist users. I'm not saying it won't bite you in the end, but airbnb seems to be doing great, and whether it was a calculated decision on their part/they were aware of the activities of the third party the engaged or not, I think they're winning now.

Each entrepreneur has different challenges, I'm not saying one isn't easier than the other, but Davids can absolutely wreck Goliaths in some arenas. They just need to embrace a different bag of tricks.

I'm a guy in a coffee shop -- and for now, I wouldn't have it any other way.
If they did tracking based on IPs, they'd get some pretty screwed up results. My university alone has hundreds of FB users behind a dozen IPs or less. Even my home alone has two.
Other than the basic aesthetic of "you're building a tower!", Tiny Tower and SimTower have practically nothing in common. If anything, Tiny Tower draws more from Zynga's "Ville"-style games than it does from SimTower.
That's quite true, but this micro-benchmark wasn't chosen to make Python look bad — it was chosen to test how good each language was at function calls. So using a loop defeats the point of the benchmark. Using double recursion to compute Fibonacci numbers is also stupid and could obviously be avoided in all languages.

The story the micro-benchmark tells is that Julia's pretty good at function calls, but JavaScript is even better (and, of course, C/C++ is the gold standard). In general the V8 engine is really amazing. We had the advantage of being able to design the language to make the execution fast (with the constraints of all that we wanted to be able to do with it), but V8 makes a language that was in no way designed for performance and makes it blazingly fast.

After I wrote the benchmark code for JavaScript and saw just how fast it was I had a moment of "should we be doing scientific computing in JavaScript?" Now wouldn't that be nuts?
I feel like Bootstrap should be added to this list. The included CSS and Javascript is amazing and makes development incredibly easy.
I really appreciate the work you all are putting into this, and I look forward to the course being ready. Thank you so much!

Will any of you be at liberty to discuss the legal and administrative challenges you're facing? I'm sure I'm not alone in my curiosity.
I think that the way HN is set up encourages people to contribute interesting and engaging content (not to mention comments).

As for (a), I see what you mean. I think, seeing as I only recently started really getting into new aggregation, I haven't found my niche yet. I appreciate most topics on HN and they usually have some form of impact on me (developing my first Python application at the moment). Maybe once my likes/dislikes are more defined I'll want something that isn't regularly found on HN (at point I might just start posting it to HN -- there's got to be someone else out there with the same opinions as me).
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See and therein lies the problem! I love working on the idea (Far more than I like doing school, that's for sure). It's practically my baby. But of course I like my idea...

But you raise very good points. I am quite stuck on this one, as you can see.

"You can create new ideas, change the world in ways you haven't even thought of yet." - What if this one isn't it. When do I move on? Haha
Thing is, moving locations isn't going to help. When you're operating on the web that's you're neighborhood and a change of domain name won't keep this from happening again nor will it make it harder or less pleasant for them to do.

Maybe we should pass some more laws to solve the problem... (I hope I don't have to clarify that that last bit was sarcasm)
Things only get Interesting™ when the non-US companies start kicking up a fuss, and succeeding in kicking up a fuss, in other countries.
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Actually, I have evidence to the contrary. Check this out:

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Thanks, icarus_drowning. Having reread my post a day later, I realize that it could have been a lot better written. I suspect you're right, just based on MS history, but that logo certainly looks like a fresh mentality. It's simpler than the Arch logo, fwiw.
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