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You don't have a TV?

You just have a machine that can receive television programs and display them on a nice screen? It kinda sounds like you have a TV.
Probably because he's surrounded by assholes.
The site is down, but I'll take a stab at it anyway.

Not owning a TV doesn't make you an asshole.

Making sure that everyone else knows you don't own a TV is what makes you an asshole.
It seems to me that the lesson to learn here is to be careful about agreeing to vesting. Pre-series A, the three founders owned most [1] of a company which had a $6M pre-money valuation and was "on track to hit $1M in revenue" for the year. Post-series A, they each owned less than 3% of the company outright, with the rest of their shares vesting over four years [2]. What sort of idiot takes a deal which reduces them from owning stock valued at $1.5M to owning stock valued at $300k and an employment contract which gives them $300k/year of stock if they stay at the company?

Obviously if you're running out of runway, you take whatever terms you can get, since your company is worthless if it goes bankrupt; but if your company is profitable and your only concern is about allowing it to grow faster, why the heck would you take a deal which is practically begging your investors to fire you?

[1] We're not told how much Cambrian Ventures took, but for $250k it presumably wasn't a huge amount. I'm going to arbitrarily guess 25%.

[2] Based on the way the numbers work out, I'm guessing they kept 20% of their stock outright and gave back the remaining 80% to be four-year vested. This fits with the fact that the company was about a year old when they took the funding.
I say both. An impressive waste of time is still a waste of time and the output is still impressive in some way. If you had fun (and/or learned something) "wasting" that time then, on a personal level at least, it is not time wasted.
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The sad part is that Krait is faster, so in this case better marketing leads to a worse product.
I'm not worried about the 'old news' problem he talks about, I'm more worried about the combination of groupthink and algorithms that learn what I read and serve me the same stuff. One of the joys of newspaper reading is that there's a lot of stuff in them that I don't want to read (at first), but over time I get trained to look at topics I wasn't interested in.

When recommenders are applied to news you'll get more of the stuff you like, but you're losing out because you are not seeing the stuff you didn't know that you would like.
For all his skills, there are no two ways about it. Torvalds is a jerk. The kind of jerk who leads a technical rebuttal with a personal insult.
It's not the split that's annoying, it's the delay when the page refreshes. If only advertisers and media companies could agree to pre-load articles like in a slide-show, show new pages with javascript, and that each 'next-page' click counts as a refresh.
it's in the comment below yours: https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS
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I'd be less concerned about my VPN and more concerned about how reliant our financial and military systems are on public key cryptography.
The only reason to post the article on multiple pages is to expose readers to more ads.
This site also posted this (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all) like it was a real interview, when in reality... http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp
Chrome is already using LevelDB as the backend for IndexdedDB. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2526263
Which of your points does Chrome's implementation not satisfy?
I think it's important not to conflate the more subjective regions of psychology with somebody who is erratic and clearly suffering/causing harm to themselves/others.

In fact this sort of relativism can be harmful I think as it can justify people who are mentally ill thinking that nothing needs to be fixed, yet carry on harming themselves/others.

You really do have to be extreeeemely careful about this sort of thing, and the Feynman case is hardly comparable, unless there were some nonsensical outbursts from him that I don't know about.

On that subject - just because Feynman didn't think psychology was a proper science (and essentially it isn't), doesn't mean it isn't an incredibly important hack. All the people who have suffered from mental illness and received effective treatment are a testament to that.
Excellent recommendations. I stumbled upon LessWrong.com a couple of months ago and its been a great source of interesting and useful material on practicing rationality and integrating it into everyday life.
Ecellent read because it provides an alternate (and ugly) perspective of the often glorified (read techcrunch-ified) world of startups in the Valley.

Shaikh has obviously made some big mistakes but take a minute to feel for the guy. He literally bled for the company to save some money so I can imagine the emotional rollercoaster he must have been on.

Well written piece Inc.
One unfortunate thing about localStorage is that if you start using it, and then decide to move instead to IndexDB (or WebSQL, or the Filesystem API), you need to jump the chasm from synchronous to asynchronous.

Which in Javascript always means a hefty rewrite, since there's no way to abstract out async vs sync.

It makes me long for call-with-current-continuation.
Why not take the kernel (it's gpl code) and re-write a major part of it in C++? And then fork that and get others to use it? That would either prove that C++ can be used in kernel or disprove it. We could call it C++nux ;)

Then, the BSD guys would have even more reason to call Linux garbage and the OS/language/superiority wars would rage on for even more generations. Wouldn't that be so cool.
a) Everything that I've heard about the various Android tablets suggests that despite being more "powerful" in absolute terms suggests that there's still sluggishness in a lot of user interaction. That's anecdotal, though. I would argue that well-designed software matters as much on a 10-inch screen as is does on a 3 1/2-inch screen. You can't simply scale a 3 1/2-inch UI to a 10-inch display.

b) This is the only real advantage to Android tablets in the real world, but smaller tablets are what you claim in (c): they're consumption devices.

c) Your use of tablets is as a media consumption device. That's not how the iPad is used (heard about Photoshop Touch?). It's also not necessary to transcode videos if you use tools like AirVideo.

d) Apple will use "4G" (that is, LTE) when the economics (price, availability, and effect on battery life) make sense, just as they did with 3G. Personally, I'll take a little slower speed now for more battery life.

Given what you've posted, I'd suggest stepping back a bit from your assumptions: they're very geek-oriented. Just because you have a lot of video you'd have to transcode doesn't mean that others do; just because you use your phone as a data modem all the time doesn't mean that others do.

I'm quite often surprised at how people use their phones, and I don't think that the iPhone is the right choice for everyone. We as geeks need to start listening to how other people want their technology want to work for them.
I don't know that you have any way of measuring mistakes vs successes in any objective way. Sometimes mistakes are helpful even (as they were with me--- a misdiagnosis for depression helped me out and lead to a very real ADD diagnosis, but I refuse to give up on my anti-authoritarian tendencies--- and indeed I do not take prescription medication for ADD and haven't regularly since I was 17).

The problem I see is that there are a lot of people who genuinely think that they are treating sick patients who will get better and have fewer problems in life if they just get in line and stop resisting authority. I see it in schools and among mental health professionals. But those people have a very narrow and misguided IMNSHO opinion of success in life.

As (early psychotherapist) Roberto Assagioli put it, clinically normal means mediocre, and to excel, you have to step outside of that. He claimed that there were criteria you could use to tell whether a disturbance was pathological or morbid, or whether it was a first step towards growth and breaking free.

This brings me to ODD. The concern is that some people who are habitually defiant get worse and can become sociopathic later. But if that's the concern, it's grotesquely overdiagnosed.
That's great but one of the evil things about GroupOn is that when you join you are signed up for a whole bunch of different email lists and the link in each email allows you to unsubscribe from just that list, not completely from GroupOn.

I made the mistake of once trying out GroupOn and I continue to receive mail to this day.
looks good, but unfortunately one can't navigate with the mouse (think about touch devices like iPad)
If I pay 100$ for oil from X, and someone else in the US makes 1$ profit from that sale then the US paid 99$ for that oil.
I've had normal blood work and an adrenal panel. Don't know about the more advanced stuff you are talking about. I'll bring it up with my doctor, and I thank you for the advice.
> Webpage completely freezes for a few seconds while the browser populates Local Storage key/value store.

The synchronousness means the whole DOM will block; blocking anything else would be an implementation bug, however that is not what Taras's post describes.

Blocking the DOM is bad. JS is designed as an evented language (the insight that led to node.js), which means it can't accept primitives that stall its main loop; breaking that assumption would add a lot of complexity to code that never uses localStorage.
This is not true at all. I work in the defense industry and their is certainly not any law requiring my company to pay me for overtime. I think what you are referring to is the fact that any hours worked on contracts must be billed to the government. Say a company receives 1000 hours to do a job and an employee works on the project 80 hours per week. At that rate, the government will only pay for 12.5 weeks of work(1000/80), not 25 weeks.

This prevents the problem you mention, but it still isn't good for the employee. It does create an incentive for the company to encourage their employees to work more. If they charge for 80 hours in one week, but only pay the employee for 40 the company just made a bunch of extra profit at the employee's expense.
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We are looking for iPhone users to test this webapp. The beta is public, and all that is required is to visit http://geolocha.com/ on your iPhone to get started.

Happy testing!
"Sibelius was originally developed by British twins Ben and Jonathan Finn for the Acorn Archimedes computer, under the name 'Sibelius 7'. Development (done on RISC OS entirely in assembly language) was started in 1986, just after the Finns left school, continuing while they were at university."

There was a window of time... but the Finn brothers re-wrote the code in C++ for Windows/MacOS, then sold(?) product to Avid.
That sounds like a lot of effort for nothing but if you fancy doing it, then it's gpl so nobody is stopping you.

edit: I didn't see the last part of your comment, did you edit it? either that or I have a sense of humor failure :)
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Semantically speaking, understanding is simply knowing enough to recreate something, preferably with your own aquired skills and knowledge. We're all just fancy parrots wrapped up in monkey bodies.

To be honest, the bedrock abstraction should stop at "what humans can realistically create with their own hands from nothing". You can make your own transistor quite easily and Ebers-Moll provides a nice set of rules to work with.

The quantum physicists and philosophers can remain arguing about technicalities then and let the rest of the world observe, understand and create.
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I'm really curious about your politicians statement. Has it been studied and found that politicians match the population in this area, or is that just your supposition?
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637300
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Get a Cub monitor though - it's not the same without one!
>But i dont believe there ever will be a day when a person can live without outputting an iota of value as measured by the standards of the day.

Millions of people are already doing just that, and have been for decades, with the assistance of various government programs.
"You're not arguing with Grellas so much as cherry picking sentences out of his comment and howling at them in isolation."

That's certaintly a creative way to put it. But that is what everyone does when they make comments. They respond to things they don't agree with. The use of "cherry picking" in your context seems to indicate taking unfair pot shots. The use of "howling in isolation" brings up an image of a lonely dog in the dead of night. Why is that necessary exactly?

"I think I speak for a lot of people on HN when I ask that you not berate one of the more uniquely valuable contributors to HN for writing "walls of text"."

Then why do you need to say this? If there are people that think that they will downvote, right?

By the way this is not to say I agree with his language. I think it's great that grellas takes the time to write a "wall of text".
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You are reading it rather more harshly than it was meant and ironically your comment has probably exacerbated that. While I wish the discourse here could be my primary focus, I can't spend hours researching each commentator, I say what I honestly feel.

It is a wall of text, it's hard to really pick out what he is arguing.

It is the top comment at the moment and I felt it hadn't been effectively challenged and this is an area that I actually feel strongly about. I fundamentally disagree with the conclusion of his comment, which admittedly may just be mine. In my reading this is what I perceived:

Historical employer/employee relationship + Freedom of contract = unshackled startups encouraging hard work (with an overarching definition of a 'professional' and hard work = lots of hours)

There's an overall theme to his comment which is 'it's a factor of the historical way of the relationship between the law and the employer and the employee'. I don't fundamentally disagree with that. But only if we were talking about accountants or lawyers or retail employees or engineers or architects, etc.

I am cherry picking out the arguments as to why this theory should apply. Why is this a particularly compelling argument for the field of modern startups or programming, neither of which have to be shackled by convention as they're not established industries.

Perhaps he does agree with the general gist of my comment, ignoring any unintentional insult, but the comment and the underlying assumptions about what is career development and hard work certainly didn't. I am attempting to demonstrate that there is no link between many 'professional' industries as they operate on different models. I fundamentally disagree with several statements in there like I think they see it as career development and I will not begrudge them the choice to work exceedingly hard (especially as they are first developing in their careers) to achieve other "unbalanced" goals.

There is no choice if that is the culture of the company or even, as it seems in this case, the country.
I have been using normalize for the past few months in all of my new projects and I can attest to its superiority over the standard resets. Great work, as ever, necolas.
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Sometimes I find topics with alot of comments to be disconnecting when I'm going through the comments. Especially when there are multiple replies within multiple replies, it can be tricky to follow the conversation and understand the comment's context.

Made a quick sketch of a hover action that would show the comment that it is replying to, to put the comment in context. Think it would help the comment reading experience?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/hovercontextcomment.jpg/
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I admit to using BeautifulSoup, lxml, scrapy, nokogiri and mechanize. But these days I just stick with PhantomJS. Just load the DOM with WebKit. http://phantomjs.org/
I know you put heavy caveats on this, but really, it's not worth your time to speculate about how neolithic people were organized and then draw conclusions. Unless your goal is to reveal your own prejudices (which invariably happens when people imagine primordial worlds).

In any case, where do the orders come from? Even in your wolf pack example, the alpha wolf is occasionally challenged by others, and sometimes loses.

In my experience, it's pretty common for great leaders to have questioned authority in their youth. Leaders are self-directed, look out for their own interests, gather their own information, and trust in their own judgments. How could they not come into conflict with authority?

Perhaps I am falling into the same naturalistic fallacy here, but as far as I can tell, it's normal and good for people to test authority on a regular basis.
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And probably the most important application of quantum simulation is the ability to solve the 3d structures of complex organic materials.
Can you cite a source on that? As a software engineer for a major defense contractor who works closely with other major contractors, I can say with some degree of certainty that being paid overtime is certainly not the norm, and 60 hour weeks aren't terribly uncommon during crunch periods. We have to report our hours accurately, but they've always been pretty clear that we're exempt employees and so they're under no obligation to pay us overtime. (They sometimes will, at a manager's discretion, though rarely is it 1:1 for hours worked)
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I use MailChimp's Wordpress plugin. Its integration is a little rough around the edges I think. Does anyone have any experience with this new plugin?
Amazon probably knows their business better than you do. If they're hiring people instead of buying robots, that's probably because people get the job done cheaper - for now.
I'd imagine the only time you'd see an economic rationale for systematically overworking your team would be in a moon shot / burn the ships scenario, neither of which seems necessary for a service company.

Perhaps if the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was a buyout in the tens of millions you'd be tempted as a part owner. Even then the front-line employees being whipped would be unlikely to get a significant piece of that pie, no?
I've been reading "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller and have been amazed by how hilarious it is. Also recently finished "Life" by Keith Richards which was also very entertaining.
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Ask HN: Would you still by Apple stock?
I know they are the largest company in the the world now, so I don't expect them to double. While on the other hand, there was a recent hn article that they still only had 8% of the worlds cell phone market. What are your thoughts, and better yet your quantitative analysis?
Works with any conductor like a ring or tape a paperclip to your index finger. I often touch the metallic part of my keys then use the key's to touch your door.
My biggest problem with IDEs is that they make bad languages and practices (that would otherwise be untenable due to the weight of accidental complexity) just barely work, well enough that they aren't replaced. Most of the Java IDE ecosystem exists to make up for deep deficiencies of the Java language.

Also, Java "best practices" involve shitting all over your directory structure with singleton directories like "com"-- because "no one actually uses the Unix command line anymore"-- and putting tests in a separate directory tree ("src" vs "test").

If you have a Repl, you usually don't need an IDE. If you have no Repl, you're working with stone knives anyway and should just give up. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/repl-or-fail/

What I do like is the idea of a read-only IDE available through the web. Google has something like this (Codesearch) and it's great for large codebases.
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Clojure compiles to JVM bytecode; what's stopping browser-builders from creating a similar bytecode format (or even JVM) so developers can build in their language of choice? Time/effort?
The advertising boxes here don't have much to offer for me.
I can entertain myself with my computer if I need to.

Why would anyone without a tv be an asshole? We are all born assholes I guess.
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Some people process drugs very slowly. I am one btw (I usually cut down medications to 25% of less of the recommended dosages, except for antibiotics where that's a really bad idea). I haven't tried protodrugs like vicodin but I would assume they probably wouldn't have much effect on me.

But hey, they call that a "Cytochrome P-450 defect." All because my body doesn't work the way the pharma companies would like.....
> I’ll occasionally type in the domains of other blogs, but if I find myself doing that, it’s a sign I’m not very focused and should get back to work.

This is so true (for me at least). Especially when you reach that point that you actually checked some site only an hour or so earlier and know nothing new of interest with be there.
I think this is a great point. Hate is a strong word, I'm not sure I would advise hating your idea. You've got to love what you're doing, right? But love the process, not the idea.

What I think may be best is to be endlessly curious about whether you should love or hate your idea. I think that will lead to a search for whether others love or hate the idea, which is the way to validate it.
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There is a chance that you were right on everything, there is also a chance that the question was more vague than what you've thought and you didn't answer exactly what they were looking for.

If you are curious than I would send them a very polite email thanking them for their time and ask where you can improve on your code. If you are asking them for help they will be more likely to respond in hopes of you walking away with a good experience interviewing with them.
Good. I'm still not convinced of the utility of Siri to a person walking down the street- perhaps I'm alone, but I don't want to talk to my phone. I find typing to be less conspicuous and not significantly more difficult.

In a car, however, things are different. I think Siri would be a great fit in a hands-free environment.
I do a substantial amount of web scraping, yet I haven't written any actual scraper code in 24 months. I don't really understand why you'd spend your time writing individual scrapers. It's one of the most easily outsource-able tasks out there. There are people out there who can write and deliver scrapers (including the full python source, a database dump, and anything else you'd need) 10x faster than you, while you're sleeping, at insanely low prices.

I can see the merit in writing a few to start, but after that it's seemingly the same task on repeat.