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If enough people use ad blocking technologies, the ads and analytics industries will simply switch to server-side / invisible-to-the-end-user options.

The only reason why tracking and ad serving isn't done like this today is because it's a pain in the ass and there's high switching costs. Make current practices unprofitable, and switching suddenly looks appealing.

A lot of previously theoretical workarounds are being quietly turned into commercial products these days. As a consequence of all the privacy fuss, there's a good chance you'll end up with less privacy than before.
I'm right there with you! This has happened way to many times for me.
Thanks for the feedback.

1. As you pointed out we do not control the prices of underlying partners. However, our price guarantee is for the subscription billing solution that we provide.

We understand that we become an integral part, an extension of customer's application to manage billing. And that is a lot of responsibility. Will clarify on the price guarantee part by rewording it correctly.

2. This is one of the things we want to focus on immediately with our customers on-board. Thanks for the reference. We intend to help manage the entire accounts receivables piece for you, so you don't have to even worry about integrating info back to a Freshbooks or Quickbooks. Coming soon. :)

3. Will ensure we document the portability part very well upfront, so you know we have a plan in place.

Thanks again.
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Oh I most definitely agree. I think the problem is that the company isn't a tech company (it is debt collection) and the people who bring money in can work 5 extra hours and bring in more money. The owners aren't tech savvy and definitely don't know the first thing about development. I think in their mind they figure the collectors can work 5 hours and make x more money than the devs should be able to work 5 hours and increase productivity by y.

It is a red flag but unfortunately I was told this AFTER I started the job and figured I wouldn't be able to get another job since I have no dev experience and no CS degree.
good stuff man.
Airplay as-is isn't really suitable for gaming. It's impressive, but even under best network conditions you still have to deal with a mild amount of lag. The ideal solution would be to run games on the Apple TV itself (relatively simple, given that the aTV is effectively a headless iPad 2); using the iPad as a glorified controller.
And, just as a reminder, there is a wonderful book. It's from the journal Jordan Mechner kept at the time. It's an excellent read.

http://jordanmechner.com/ebook/
So what might be going on here?

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/04/a-puzzling-fuller...

The average life span of the Wistar rats used is 2-3 years (24 - 36 months). This was a small study size, but that's no so important in determining whether you have an actual means of life extension if you can show that any of your study group lived much longer than usual - but it is important when it comes to the degree of life extension. If the study group is small, as it is here, using only a handful of rats, then the size of the effect can be much more readily distorted by chance. This line in the paper jumped out at me: "Before C60 administration, the rats were fasted overnight but with access to water." If they failed to fast the control group, then we're looking at yet another study that failed to control for calorie restriction, and this is actually largely an intermittent fasting study - which has certainly been shown to extend life in rats.

This would explain how the olive oil administration also apparently extended life significantly...
This may surprise you, but I never use the results of a computation without first estimating what the answer should be, estimating the errors in that estimation, and having some alternative ways of deciding how accurate the calculation is. Of course, I do work in safety critical application.

But I also deal with students, and constantly, constantly struggle against their willingness to accept just any old number simply because it came from a calculator, a program, a newspaper, or wikipedia. Recently a colleague recounted how a student had been doing some work and had come up with a result. When asked "How accurate is this?" the student clearly just didn't understand the question, let alone have a clue how to answer it.

There is no single solution, there is no single way to make the lazy work harder, there is no single tool that will solve all the problems that exist in education as a whole.

But having a collection of tools, a collection of techniques, and a collection of approaches has to be a good thing.
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"Dude, they lost... that totally sucks, man. Hey, is there a pizza joint around here?"
Quick note on my gut reaction about the design:

The changing text and the header below the blue section don't look very good with serif fonts. They seem to not flow well with the rest of the design and are giving (at least me) a feeling of disjointedness.
And yet... There are still Karma sutra apps on the Apple network. And a LOT of fart apps. If what you say is true, then why hasn't Apple removed them?
What leads to stress and frustration is not the craving for the solution but rather the pressure to find the solution. Most of the time this kind of thing happens in day jobs because there is less emphasis on learning and more on getting things done.
Thanks for the feedback. Will fix it.
you are right, the position is tricky, but I think partnering with Apple is the easy way out for Valve (and they'll probably loose their identity in the long run - probably not a bad thing, but still).

They have a nice user base and if they'll adapt to WinStore coming out with proper counter-measures and marketing approaches (and maybe some new ideas), I think there's nothing they should be afraid of.
I'm very tempted to get one of these. But I probably can't since I'm moving soon to a place I can't decorate how I want it. :(
Well, given the title I was expecting to be snorting dismissively, but this actually does seem interesting and I hope there's followup work. In particular, the fact that this was a group investigating C60 toxicity makes me less immediately suspicious of fudging, but then again if their funding were coming from someone making something with C60 in it they might have subconsciously treated the C60 rats better.

What I'd really like to see is a duplication with a larger sample size and some sort of blind setup with the people caring for the rats. And even then, there are good reasons to expect that this won't carry over to humans, given that humans already live so long for an animal of our body size.
I don't think SpaceX is really seeking attention. They don't depend on consumers or the aerospace industry at large. Musk certainly doesn't strike me as the kind of person who craves attention. The interview on the Daily Show was the first I had ever seen with him.
During opening arguments, the lawyers are not supposed to argue. In other words, they are only supposed tell the jury what the evidence is going to show. However, there is an art to this, and there is obviously an element of persuasion in the way the evidence is presented. Also, for various reasons, the opposing counsel may not object to possibly argumentative statements.

During closing statements the lawyers are free to argue that the evidence should be interpreted a certain way, but you are basically correct that the jury should use their own judgment based on the facts presented. Yes, a persuasive lawyer is worth a lot!

As to point 2, there are exceptions and nuances, but basically the parties CANNOT present things that are not admissible evidence. During opening arguments the parties can use items that will eventually be admitted into evidence, and the email is definitely one of those things. The parties have already argued extensively over whether the email should be admitted, and the judge has ruled that it will. Ideally, the jury never hears or sees anything that is not admissible evidence.
The GP, asked this:

> which free service (or service that pays you money, ala AdSense) has a better approach to customer service?

The parent answered with PayPal, which is not free.
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I understand that the post about your site ambushed you out of nowhere and you were immediately compelled to shift into damage control by flooding the thread about how hard you were working on your design problem and all the other lip service the community demands. It's an unexpected pain and I sympathize with anyone who has to go through it.

However, shifting blame to one of your employees in an effort to cover your own ass for burping a lemon signals poor judgement and a lack of maturity on your part. To silence the critic, all you had to do was acknowledge the problem, allude to being "in development" and thank the over-eager Michal for pointing it out. Instead, you made it worse by exposing internals for a problem you should've taken responsibility for alone. Probably at the price of their reputation.

Your job today is to seek them out and make a personal apology.

Had it been a bug in the code, I highly doubt you would've named the entire dev team in a thread and pointed out the party responsible.
Please, tell me you are not spending that much time driving every day.

If it is a train or a boat, a plane, anything where you do not have to concentrate, I could see doing that, as you could do plenty of interesting things on a commute these days(ereaders, netbooks, regular books and so on).

I had a 4(2 back and 2 forth) hour daily commute for a year and it was not bad at all since I got 3 hours or reading time every day on a train and and one hour of walking(15minsx4). That actually was quite nice as it let me unwind and get into appropriate zone.
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Comments on regulations are invited so that government authorities may determine what those regulations mean and how to implement them.

It appears from the article Microsoft is asserting that some interpretations which would be disfavorable to Microsoft have broader implications if applied uniformly across the spectrum of ICT goods and services.

The author wants to draw a distinction between software and hardware under the law without supplying evidence that such a distinction is made within it, e.g. his claim about GSM being acceptable is based on "nobody suggesting."

The author appears to have an ax to grind, democratic processes be damned.
The "do not track" concept relies on 3rd party decency and you don't have to look much further than the spam in your Inbox to see how well that works. A do-not-track request is like saying "please don't take my lunch money"; that request would be honored by almost everyone but do you think it would change what a bully does? If you put something valuable in your front yard with a sign that says "property of Joe Smith", sure it might stay there a few hours...but eventually someone will come along and take your property anyway.

In the real world you might be able to find witnesses and involve the police to deal with a theft. On the Internet there's nobody to report a "do not track" violation to and no reliable way to punish anyone who simply ignores what you say. The 3rd party doing the tracking can be anyone in the world.
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this article is embarrassing in every way shape and form.
To everyone who is offended (or even just somehow unhappy/less convinced) by swearing, I strongly suggest not living in Scotland.

Here, "fuck"/"fucking" is often a filler word and "cunt" can be a friendly way to start a sentence or refer to your friends.

I don't get offended by any words or sayings, only by their intent.
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I think Apple should buy Valve. Valve may not be for sale. But Valve's creativity is off the charts- they make great games. Apple, on the other hand, knows how to deliver quality software, something valve has not mastered.

Steam is "great" in the sense that it was the first and its so far the most reasonable game store, but it is terrible in terms of bugs and performance[1]. Valves games are often unstable[2]. Game developers just seem to have a much higher tolerance for bugs (or an environment where the publisher makes them ship and then the teams disband so there's nobody there to fix the bugs.)

At this point, I'd much rather buy a game thru the Mac App Store than thru steam.

I don't think that Valve is for sale, but they'd make a great independant division within Apple.

You want a wearable computer? Well, here's the best hardware company in the world.

[1] Just so people know what I'm talking about. Often when launching Team Fortress Steam will throw up a dialog "Preparing to launch Team Fortress 2", that stays there from 60seconds to 7 minutes. This occurs without regard to the quality of the internet connection (have seen it both on 5megabits with high latency and 40 megabits with low latency) During this period the TF2 executable has not yet been launched, and steam is apparently doing nothing at all. Then of course TF2 takes quiet awhile to get to the point where its ready to play.

[2] Not so much with games like Portal 2 which are done and not constantly revisited, but TF2 crashes regularly, sometimes there are releases that are completely unplayable on macs, and you just have to wait til the next patch. Steam itself crashes, is interminably slow (When really its mostly web pages, couldn't they have at least used webkit?) regularly wedges itself, and can't seem to download and install games to reliably. (usually it works but the rate of failure is way too high.)
I think the really interesting thing here is that the seller that is reselling your book for $800 has what I would call a pretty good seller reputation, at 92% positive out of almost 1000 ratings. Crazy.
The Apple antenna happened because Johnny Ives and Steve Jobs loved the design look and feel of the metal around the edge of the phone, and told the engineers to make it happen. Unfortunately, this time hey couldn't bend the laws of physics. I suggest looking up "Steve's Folly"...
Valid points that we keep getting asked about.

Our thought is: how can I build the essential tools to help you manage entire accounts receivables for you? What reports, integrations can I provide so you are able to focus completely on core product and marketing functions.

This is our first entry into building a business and our focus is to add more value on the side of merchants than the processor end.

Thanks for the input. Will definitely keep this in mind as we add features to our application.
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"The ship pauses at each planet until the closest approach of the next planet in the journey" ? "The ship waits at each planet until the next planet comes closest." ?
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Just curious, what are it's chemically similar relatives? I'm no chemist, but I thought the only thing remotely similar to c60 is graphite (which is harmless).
Thanks for the long post and sharing your experiences.

I learned from you that Clojure is appealing for folks coming from Java. I read your conclusions and just got a vague feeling only. Coming from other worlds (like node/js, Haskell, ocaml, Go, Erlang and for the sake of completeness Ruby/Python, C++), I'd like to know good reasons why one should try Clojure from your point of view? What is the main USP to dive into Clojure (except the similarity to LISP)?

I just checked Wikipedia sayings things like 'treats code as data and has a sophisticated macro system' or 'concurrent programming through software transactional memory, an agent system, and a dynamic var system'—but I'd be happy to get more explanations/reasoning on this and why Clojure is so special compared to other languages.
I ordered mine in March sometime (I forget exactly when) from Element14 and my "estimated delivery date" is August 2012.. :-)
Our Data Mining (different field but somewhat related) professor had this quote "All models are wrong, but some models are useful" on the first day of university.

You can build an extremely complicated model that is not useful, where a simpler one might suffice.
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Kitchen remodeling requires lot of planning and for this you need to take into account various aspects that need to be altered. This will include tables and countertops, colors, lighting, flooring, walls, sinks and many more.
"The SUV of space capsules!" (It was after all designed in America! ;-)
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Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "those who want porn can get an Android". I'm very much afraid you are wrong on this one.
>"The problem is that "app approval" does not scale well,"

Orwell's description of how censorship looks at scale is probably as good as any.
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Or with automatic line breaks: The tolerance - how far out one may be for the estimate to be accepted and the answer shown - must at all times appear reasonable ... The student should never feel that an estimate was unreasonably rejected, and on the other hand should not find an odd guess being accepted.
The other half of the problem is that management (especially nontechnical "PMP" types) suck at understanding the realities of software development and obsess too much on deadlines and "accountability" when they would do better to focus on removing obstacles for the team or, god-forbid, perhaps jump in and do some of the actual work.
The beauty of Skydrive is, it's WebDAV. You can mount it in Windows, you can mount it in OSX, you can mount it in Linux. There isn't a native client yet, but it doesn't strictly need one to work at a basic level.
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I'm puzzled what you mean. Commercial spaceflight has been going on for decades. Commercial human spaceflight has not, but there are no humans on this flight either.
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The patent covers how the calculator decides whether an answer is "reasonable".
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Lean startup workshop/game looks like fun
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Your comment reminds me of when Bungie went up for sale. They'd found success making great games for the Mac, and were showing the early work on Halo to great acclaim. When Apple had the chance (I presume) to buy them they assumed that it didn't matter who bought them because they were a Mac only shop... then Microsoft bought them and Halo never made it to the mac.

I hope Apple has learned from that lesson, but on the other hand, Apple is an environment focused on operating systems and hardware, and not necessarily run by the right people to be deciding which games to green light.
Once more, with feeling: pagination is an inappropriate paradigm for most web content.

While I appreciate that they did not take advantage of the multiple page views to just get more ad impressions, it's still a pain in the ass to view a single item of content like that.
Not necessarily. I had a few bad experiences with vWorker, freelancer and other market places. oDesk is slightly better than the lot. In oDesk the initial 30 days was working on low priced contracts and couple of times with clients who didn't pay. It was a little painful learning.

But, then I got a little better at identifying the right set of clients and now the I set rate at $33/hr and most of it in hourly contracts that are guaranteed payment. I also take fixed price contracts from clients with whom I have existing relationship. Many guys I know are charging $60/hr and having a good practice.

The thing in the initial phase you come across a lot of noise and as you find out the 1-2 good clients from the 10 shabby ones, you get repeat business from them.

The difference between freelance marketplaces and direct sales is that in the former the clients have a real need, while in the latter the we have to convince the potential leads of the need to have a good website with proper attention to typography, speed and ux.
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Nooooo, please don't let them get involved in the actual work!

EDIT: Maybe I should politely rephrase that: If they're anything like my previous non-technical managers, I'd rather they make the most of their talents elsewhere.

Moving back on topic, the article is worth reading just for the mention of Planning Poker alone. Another moment of enlightenment for me on HN.
I can't believe someone was so proud of this idea they patented it. Then came the second WTF: it's actually a physical calculator (and an early-nineties model at that). If anything, this idea would have been neat as an app. And you shouldn't have to guess the "right-ish" answer by some margin, instead make it a social game where you get points for getting as close to the correct answer as possible. Enter your estimate, instantly get the correct solution and your points. That could be fun in classrooms.
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We got rejected also. We're a designer & developer in Ireland, both early 30s (one American, one Irish). We've built a platform for designing/building magazines & newspapers once and publishing them everywhere (epub, .mobi, html, ipad, pdf, etc.)

It's called Woop.ie (Write Only Once, Publish It Everywhere), and we have a small number of customers at the moment. We just have a holding page here: http://woop.ie but our demo page was live and allowed magazine creation, issue building, previewing, etc. It got some visitors from yc. Unfortunately guess it wasn't enough this time around.

We'll keep working on it obviously. Considering applying to Brooklyn Beta summer camp, actually, anyone else?
Why would you need an IoC framework in clojure? It's already built in, pass a function.
I have a co worker who used Yii, it looks very rails-like and doesn't look like it would be that hard to learn.
Profitable since day 1! That speaks volumes for the potential you guys have..I'm sure you guys will do just fine without YC backing.

All the best!
Happened to me at a small company as well. Actually it's probably more of a small company problem as "not my job" doesn't really work if there isn't anyone else to pass the job to.
Yesterday, Facebook wouldn't let me post a link to a pirate sports video stream, so they're censoring based on copyrights too.
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