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I spent half a year doing home renovation as a way to get out of software development and into something totally unrelated only to find out the two are exactly the same thing. The tools are different, but the problems and the way you go about solving them are freakishly identical.

You wonder why buildings take so long to construct? It's because nothing goes as you expect.

As they say: A plan is just a list of things that don't happen.
"Use TLS to encrypt data in motion" It's also worth checking that whatever language/library you're using bothers to validate the cert (AND the hostname). Many (most even?) don't by default. You have to ask extra nice in order to get a secure connection that's actually secure.
>also a personal insult, such as calling someone a complete and utter muppet, can be a perfectly reasonable point to make in argument as long as it is particularly relevant.

I think that comment applies more to you.

the jury's partial verdict means Mueller > you. so who's the muppet now? :)
Of course in this case the person who wrote it is also the same person who copied it.
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And since Firefox has already supported both var and let for several years now, and most Firefox chrome code uses let exclusively, this approach is pretty well proven in a large code base. As a Firefox developer, I now find it quite annoying to write for JS engines that support only var.
doesn't mean he's wrong.

jury's partial verdict means Mueller > you
Okay, couple of things here:

1) Just about every magazine app out there, that I've tried, is shit. I was happy to pay for Wired, because I love Wired, but the app was terrible. 500MB for a mobile app, with 'interactive' features that belong on a 1990's giveaway CD-ROM from RadioShack.

2) 19% of ALL tablet and smart-phone users paying for news apps in the past 30 days is still a LOT of paying customers.

Magazines are known to throw stupid amounts of money at things, yet when presented with a new platform that could be the saving grace of their entire industry they said, "The guys who make our web banners could whip something up for us, right?"

It sounds like they're giving up without ever having really tried. And by having tried, I mean developed something that really embraces the medium and isn't just a dump from In-Design into some pre-fab 'app' engine.
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I can't find links to the papers themselves, but the research was published by Lerner and Stahlman at HBS. They looked at firms that had top quartile venture funds and then looked to see what percentage of them remained in the top quartile in the subsequent fund. For public market managers, the measure was the same but on a year over year basis rather than fund over fund.
I think this is one of those technologies that will go from "science fiction" to "everyone uses one every day" very, very quickly.

Until a few months ago, I had no idea that the technology was as far along as it is; it seems like they've cracked the hard problems already. That means it's a social problem now - and there's reason to believe that the biggest motivator in adoption of automobile technology (and related public policy) is the insurance industry. As soon as these cars are statistically safer than human drivers (and my expectation is that they may already be safer - humans are crap at driving) then there will be strong incentives to get them to the public.
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Oops. Attempting to upgrade my 4S to 5.1.1, it's been well over an hour and progress bar on iPhone (Apple logo) is stuck. There are three reports of similar hangs from other users.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/18327088?tstart=0#1832...

No response on the Apple forum. Hoping for some advice from another user who has seen this problem and gotten past it.
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they said it _is_ working for them:)
Given that "Powerful analytics" tells most teachers "You're on the wrong website", I might have skipped that sentence and gone directly to the problem which they actually care about that you purport to solve.

n.b. I love the idea of launching a new Heroku instance for demo accounts... though one questions why Heroku would let you do that. You should probably rethink that interaction design, though. "Setup Demo" suggests a lot of work -- unify the two steps into one and then give it a call-to-action that suggests a low-friction experience. I don't know, "See It In Action" or something. Similarly, virtually anything beats "Create New Account."

As always, please test confident statements I make regarding relative conversion rates. I do, because I flub guesses all the time.
Random question, but if every car was driven by a robot, would that mean we could start building cars that don't have to follow safety as much? Like, could I have a wooden box and shove some wheels on it and let that drive me around? I know there'll still be accidents, but interesting thought nevertheless.

If they keep making cars the way we are making the hybirds (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/06/lowcvp-20110608.html) then how will we get to the future?

It would be pretty awesome to use whatever materials that are lying around to make a car/transport device.
It'd be cheaper just to use quadcopters (a la Half Life 2).
I think a smart businessperson could blow it up much bigger. Open it up to a variety of different industries. Wedding planners, photographers, florists, interior designers, architects, etc. Think big.
As the only adult in my household capable of driving (due to my wife's vision limitations), I'm quite excited by this - and so is my wife.
Regular people can't see software, they really can't: for them it's a bunch of crazy numbers and letters, and incredibly boring too which is why media like movies do a montage with meaningless 3D objects and not actual code.

That's also the reason why is so easy for people to justify pirating software: is something unsubstantial, "how can it be so expensive? how can it cost more than the computer in which I'm using it? I can see the computer!" is what I hear the most...

And it gets even funnier when you consider most coders and pro users can deal with half-baked apps and find a workaround for bugs and glitches, but the average enduser, the kind that barely appreciates good quality software or how much it costs to make it is the first one to complaint when something doesn't works perfectly, even if it actually does but they are too dumb to know how to use it.
We may do that too.
Neat concept and a well designed site, I hope you guys get some market penetration as I'm sure this would be a huge burden relief for teachers everywhere.

A few suggestions:
If I were you I'd make the login button stand out more by having the orange rectangle always visible. Teachers aren't the most tech savvy bunch, and having the login button blend in as much as it does currently will probably confuse/frustrate alot of them.

Also, its probably best to refrain from using the word "Scantron." Its a registered trademark of Scantron Corporation, and as they're technologically WAY behind you guys, their probably going to get pretty trigger-happy with litigation if they see their monopoly threatened.
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Having an opinion doesn't itself discount an opinion. Being biased or unreliable is reason to discount an opinion. It's important to remember that those are separate concepts.

Bias has nothing to do with how strongly you believe something to be true, or how hard you try to spread that opinion. Bias is nothing more than the extent to which your opinion differs from reality. If you consistently and vehemently insist that the earth is round and not flat, you aren't biased, you're right.

And regardless of bias, you have to also take into account the specific evidence and reasoning provided with an assertion. PJ in particular is pretty good about explaining her predictions, so you can't dismiss her solely due to her bias - you also have to find fault with her reasoning.
I guess it comes down to "would you release an adequate product now and a great one later, or would you skip the adequate one completely?"
This comment is smug rather than constructive or helpful. It might be useful the next time the poster decides to move, but it's certainly not useful right now.
To me, there are only a few "out there" technologies that have a chance to change everything. 3-D printing is at the top of my list, but that's going to be a while before it really takes off. The others are robotics (also taking a while) and self-driving cars.

If Google can work through not only the technical but the social and legal problems associated with fully auto-drive cars, it could literally change the world overnight. Instead of driving cars being a time sink, it could change into something along the lines of being in a room that goes places. You could sleep, read, play games, or otherwise occupy your time. It would literally give the nation tens of billions of hours in added productivity time. It could make the elderly more independent, eliminate drunk-driving, and a lot more. Very cool stuff.
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Thanks!

Yeah, we don't use the word anywhere on our site, but figured it might be okay to use in the title of an HN post.
The site is extremely lacking, white papers? Examples? Source?
That's easy to do if it's a long way on the open highway. But driving through gridlocked traffic in cities or during rush hour that isn't possible... at least for my limited brainpower :)
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With C++11, you can use constexpr constructors to guarantee that they run at compile-time and end up as flat data in the .data/.rodata section instead of run-time static initialization. Or so I'm told by the C++11 people I asked about it.
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My point is that, that was one of the reason he want a sanctioned biography, so that his children (we can defined children as being the generation living with ubiquitous Apple product such as the iPhone of the iPod, but I will stick to the family definition, adopted like he was or blood related ) know him (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046367/Steve-Jobs-b...), he sacrificed his family life for his job.

He did great
Hey patio11! Funny thing, my co-founder and I were just talking about you and methodologies earlier last week (conversion rates and ab testing you do with BCC etc).

We really hadn't thought about the vocabulary in the buttons there at all, so that's really great advice. Thanks!
In my experience most open source tools like this have a sentence-long description on their sourceforge page or a brief introduction on their github repo, which puts this miles ahead in terms of design effort.
I don't think we need to get all defensive about this. Yes we overtweet, share, retweet, 'like', etc, and we love how self-aware we all are. Good point, Teddy Wayne. Now, what suggestion do you have as an alternative to offer?

Ah, I thought so.
The tradeoff is between a possibly marginal improvement in accuracy between juries and trained judges and the risk of the entire system becoming unaccountable and systemically unjust. Since the system is already designed to optimize for false acquittals, it's not an entirely bad idea.
Consequently, I'm often trying out newsletters and then ditching them after a week or two.

I remember you doing exactly that with Hacker Newsletter. :)

That is great advice though - I had several Google and Twitter alerts setup, but then I realized I was never doing anything with them so I axed 'em. Another thing to watch out for is recurring todo list items that you never actually do.
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They are shutting it down for no money on July 1st. There is no immediate capital in that situation.
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It is ok if you don't change anything (or nothing significant) between version 1 and 2. But then, why would you rewrite from scratch ?
In any case, if you use a different team to rewrite your application, you just lost the biggest value of the previous team: experience solving that problem the first time. No amount of documentation can really make up for the difference . The source (with doc) of a software is a compiled version of business/technical knowledge of the team that developed it and not really that good as a guide to the next team.
You hit the nail on the head there. My ideal hacker laptop would have something like:

Realforce 87U keyboard

2x (yeah they do exist I think) 1920x1200 screens, perhaps with really high PPI like the new ones Apple is releasing soon.

No touchpad (I'm quite happy with plugging in a mouse), I'd rather use a nipple.

Light, lots of battery, no need for a fancy graphics card. Decent CPU, doesn't have to be extreme.

Tons of memory, 16gb at least, the more the better.

No software at all. I'll install my own distro.
You don't have to actually have a product before you sell it, or build something to see if it will sell... It's called vaporware : a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available
You're right. Disingenuous would have been a better choice.
Realforce completely spoiled all the other keyboards for me. Totally worth the $400 pricetag.
After reading this, I think I may write some filters for my incoming email to just keep tha actionable stuff. Now determining exactly how to do that is going to take some time.
Andrew Bridges @ Fenwick has gone to bat over this case when others largely ignored it. At Stanford he blasted the entertainment industry lawyers over this case and they just shrugged. The impact of the entertainment industry's actions and lobbying are perverse and have far-reaching implications for startups and our economy.

Hopefully this story doesn't end here and Bridges gets a pound of flesh from these people.
To be clear my cursory analysis does not rule on the goodness of this deal for a buyer who believes they can affect the growth variable, it was merely feeling for the edges of plausibility.

Assuming the buyer cannot significantly mitigate any loss of customers resulting from the sale, I looked at the interaction between that crash and expected return. I assumed lower growth rates in my analysis based on the low growth and deviance in the historic cash flow data.

If a buyer got hit with a 1/3 initial crash but believed they could growth cash flows thereafter by at least 10% per year for 5-7 years they could expect an internal return of 21% to 30%, independent of the capital gain on the larger, growing company at the end of the road. The game naturally changes if one ignites such non-linear growth.
There's nothing stopping the police from paying some cop to crawl neighborhoods taking photos, so I don't think this technology will change anything in that regard.
Wedding planners, photographers, florists, interior designers and architects have no idea who 37signals is. Consequently they won't be fazed in the slightest by a simplistic job board with relatively poor usability entering their respective markets.

Furthermore, even if they knew who 37signals was - that brand is removed from the product after the sale.

Alternatively, if you seriously believe the success of your job board is due to technical excellence and would map to other markets. Why would someone buy the tech for half a million dollars instead of replicating it within a few months for under 100k dollars?
Using the very same tech staff that he will need anyway to operate it?
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About time. In many countries there are laptops that come with "FreeDos", which is rather pointless. If they aren't going to use Windows, why not just use a great Linux distro like Ubuntu?

Sure Microsoft might not like that, but unless Microsoft is paying them to not allow Linux on their laptops (which I think would be illegal), then who cares?
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When I was doing EEG signal analysis in grad school, I used the FFT all the time. While there's some cool stuff involving wavelets and using interesting basis sets (matching pursuit looks cool), if you're primarily looking at power and frequency over time, the FFT is sufficient, and usually faster than the other algorithms. (And if you're looking at power/phase, the common Morlet wavelet choice is mathematically equivalent to an FT with a Gaussian taper.)

I'm not sure what you mean by "on a small window such that this isn't really applicable"; can you give an example? As long as you accept the inherent time-frequency resolution trade-offs, there's no obstacle to using FFT on a small window. It's called the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), and it's used everywhere; it's probably used more than analyzing an entire signal, since we frequently want to know how power and phase change over time in a signal, and a full-signal FT can't tell you that.
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It'd be interesting to see a service that could act as a floodgate for notifications, with scheduled release times when you're ready for a deluge of distractions.
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I guess you'll have to wait and see.
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That's not the case at all. You can ping me privately if there's some reason you can't just patch nginx; at this point, though, you should just patch and be done with it.
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It's a good thought, and an area that's ripe for all sorts of standardisation. My passwords follow a system which is secure, but doesn't conform to all the password requirements of all sites, so I get caught out with this problem all the time.
In military terms, the US did hold South Vietnam against insurgency. The problem is that the source of support for that insurgency was in North Vietnam, and it was impossible for US ground troops to advance there and eliminate that support.

The war effort was also politically micromanaged--for instance, every airstrike had to be individually approved by the White House. This led to delays and, frankly, interference in military affairs from incompetent politicians.

Fighting a counterinsurgent war on the defensive is never strategically sound; one is always better served by being on the move and taking the initiative. This was politically impossible in Vietnam, which is why it took so long.

Now, perhaps there were valid political reasons not to invade north Vietnam. In that case, the answer is not to get involved at all. You either do the job right or you don't do it at all. In either case, the mistake wasn't that the US invaded Vietnam without a good reason--there was no invasion, and there was a good reason. The mistake was that the US didn't fully commit to the objective, and that the White House didn't let the military do their job.
That is a great idea. We don't have templates but I love the idea of quickly dropping a template in, hitting update_plan and seeing how it looks. Adding this to our taskk list of things to do! :)
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Right, but a fair use isn't an infringement.

> This means that, in litigation on copyright infringement, the defendant bears the burden of raising and proving that his use was "fair" and not an infringement. [emphasis mine]

Just like in a murder trial where the defendant clearly killed the victim, the defendant must prove that he or she acted in self-defense. That doesn't mean that self-defense is murder.
Well, she'd have a lot less ironing to do... Look, I think this analogy has gone too far already!!!
Obviously they're "on the same page" now. But they must not have understood the sharp dropoff in VC performance when they invested in mediocre funds, or they would not have done it.
Developing general solutions to specific problems is an engineering timewaster, in my experience.

Using complicated tools and tooling where simpler tooling would cover your actual needs with less effort.

Developing a solution that attempts to meet all needs with a lot of effort, instead of developing a product that meets the needs that can be effectively addressed.

I'm guilty of the last one, so what I do is develop two solutions:

1. a solution that actually "solves" the problem with engineering (the "right" way to do it), and

2. a second approach that is an order of magnitude (sometimes a few orders) easier to implement that partially solves the problem, but requires a bit of management to stay "solved" over time.

Engineers seem to prefer engineering solutions (go figure), but especially in business, a combination of engineering and management is usually the most cost-effective approach.
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I haven't seen much on how they handle inclement weather. That's a key requirement for becoming more than an experiment.
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Well, yeah.
For me its:

- alert = something that i need to know right f. now

- passive email (does not generate sound alert, etc) = something that I need to know within the next few hours

- everything else: goes right into a file that i can lookup if needed, but rarely do

- finally theres always some program generating some heavy logging activity with zero useful data in it so if its really overboard i disable it, just for the sake of grepping speed if i need to look at the archived logs.

didn't even need a blog post! ;)
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One of those things that seems obvious, but that teams often fail to do.

My last job "errors" would get logged and the team would get emailed. We'd get 5+ error emails a day, but they were always expected and always ignored. Of course, when a real error comes in, you just write it off as one of the expected errors. 30 minutes later users are screaming at you....