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Absolutely! Ironically I was investigating Heroku in order to think more about markets, and why its market worked. But I can see that my writeup ends up focussing more on the apparently technical side.

It's really about the market aspects of the technical side though. Why people didn't like the online code editor, but did like the straightforward solving of the Rails hosting and scaling problem. Why that particular product was a successful route to a PaaS business at that time, when often other apparently similar ones have failed.

Would love to learn more about Heroku's biz dev stuff that you talk about!
Since this message is directed to new hires, probably in a new-hire orientation, I don't see a problem. New hires know exactly what they're getting into with Apple, at this point. At least this message has more soul and honesty than "we're a people company". Also, isn't it saying you're not a cog here. If that's a flat out lie, then ok, but its a nice thought.
Good thing that brainwashing is so easy these days.
I'm still wondering if there's a Macbook Air with a retina display in the works.
That's why I said "innovative, ships products, ahead of their competition, AND people like to work there". You can't get all of that without a quality, cohesive team covering many disciplines. And a bad hire into such a company increases the danger of derailing things. Thus, it's in any good company's best interests to carefully iterate and improve on their hiring practices, and any company that survives a long time with all of that intact is probably doing a lot of things right, including hiring.
When someone gets hit by lightning, you generally don't expect to see them again.
You might want to consider another name in light of the Google Vault product: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products.html...
It would be nice if the collapse thread link collapsed the parent of the thread, as well, the way reddit's collapse buttons work.
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Apple, Google on Buffett's No-Buy List
I assume for laptops, unlike iPads, it doesn't make sense to just keep selling the late-2011 MBA11 for a new $799 price point once the expected 2012 MBAs ship (presumably at the current price points).

Unless there are parts shortages, bumping the CPU to a newer one probably raise costs -- smaller process should eventually make the same number of computrons cheaper from a low spec new chip than a mid-spec older chip.

Not upgrading to better (retina?) screen (although 1440x900 on the MBA13 is pretty close, especially when used at arm's length), keeping RAM at 4GB, and maybe cost savings with older/slower integrated graphics...maybe that could let you have lower costs and price discrimination.

Refurbs already are -$100 to -$200; I don't know what availability there is on laptop refurbs vs. iPad refurbs.
Found some screenshots on the creators twitter stream (https://twitter.com/#!/charliesome).

http://i.imgur.com/oiRZo.png

http://i.imgur.com/ISlpA.png

Very impressive, even more so considering he is (apparently) 17.
Sounds good, but it's exactly contrary to how McDonald's operates. At McD's, the goal is to upsell continuously. To transform casual eaters (1x per month or so) to "heavy eaters" who visit on a weekly basis.

A few minutes work at the Googles will show you how this pervasive philosophy started with all of the kids menu items and advertising, and has continued onward with the McCafe and other additions.

The goal is for you to eat three meals a day at McD's. Make no mistake about it.
I have btrfs (with lzo compression) on a rotating disk, and the boot feels a little slower (one or two minutes total?) for reasons I haven't really examined. I'll have to check if something messed with ureadahead.
How accurate were Leonardo's anatomy drawings?
The F-35 is stealthier and has far better avionics than all of those aircraft. It could detect and shoot down an F-16 before it knew it was there, and do the same to ground targets. It doesn't have the low-speed loitering ability of the A-10, but that feature makes sense only for a pre-MANPADS era or battle.
Same here. Installing with pip (not in a virtualenv), and I get

Cannot find the python executable to set env var PYTHON_BIN.
Please check where your python binary is.
if your tagline is "For geek and non-geek users." then you probably should not be depending on users to open a shell and type commands there to access their emails.

For this to be remotely useful for non-geeks, try adding a small IMAP server so people can access the mails through their mail clients. Having to re-upload all mail back to a (presumably new) gmail account will take ages and accessing the mails locally is not really helpful these days with mime encoding and HTML email.

On a related note: If you have a small box with a PTR record laying around somewhere, you can use my setup described at http://pilif.github.com/2011/02/how-i-back-up-gmail/ to route all incoming and outgoing mail through a mail server you own as it moves to and from gmail.

If you ever lose your google account or its data, all mails will be on your small box in convenient maildir format, ready to be served over IMAP.
Err, isn't there a flaw in that plan?

Surely the back-up should protect you in case you lose access to your Google account...
Verizon to begin offering "text to 911" service
Ask Apple if paying attention to minute details (which the average user does not mention) has paid off in the long term.
Does this use SSL to grab the emails?
And the person got fired on his first day after sharing "company's secret"
Except Apple doesn't just talk about quality.
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Why One of Your Board Mtg Goals Should Be Addressing the Elephant in the Room
Kids profile test
Virtually all parents would like a good chance for their youngsters and also this can only be achieved when they pick the correct career. It really is in no way as well early to start talking in what your children want to be in foreseeable future.
> they can make a great product anywhere, why with Apple?

I bet a lot of them would disagree with your premise. You can't just make a great product anywhere, a lot of things need to be in place for that to happen.
iPhones or Bibles probably are more common. And an isolated brain without an environment really is much more likely than a brain and body and environment, at least if we're talking about random fluctuations rather than structures created as a consequence of the the availability of useful energy in the environment.

If you think about it in terms of the Canonical Ensemble the regions of states that correspond to "a brain and body" are obviously a small subset of the regions that correspond to "a brain". The incompressability of phase space means that this translates directly to the world being less likely to wander into those smaller regions via random fluctuations in direct proportion to their size.

In the end, the second law of thermodynamics is only a (very strong) statistical likelihood. If you mix some salt water and fresh water, then wait long enough you'll eventually find all the salt in one side of the glass (in time proportional to 2^N where N is the number of salt ions). Its not something written into the fabric of the universe directly, but a consequence of more fundamental laws and if you take Statistical Mechanics in college you'll get to re-derive it and see why it works that way. In fact, I'd really recommend taking a Stat Mech class to anyone considering it, it was probably the most interesting class I took in college.
I have to say this is a pretty nifty way to harness the power of market psychology. I am interested to see what your results say. Please post any future IPO prediction polls to get more data.
At low income levels, taxation is generally low. We've tended to avoid flat income taxes because they impact those with low-incomes more than high-incomes because poor people spend a higher percentage of their money than rich people.

So when you look at how poor people spend money, the rational economist would never advocate spending the money on the lottery. The utility is low, and even if the expected value is positive, the variance makes it a bad idea. Poor people would be better off spending money on things with greater returns.

The problem is that poor people don't spend their money on things with greater returns. They spend far too much of their money on lottery, and it's probably combination of psychological factors and financial illiteracy. I could be off on this, but I remember a statistic showing that there isn't much deviation on how much money any random household spends on the lottery. So a household with $100,000 in incomes spends as much on the lotter as a household with $20,000 in income. The result is that the lottery has become a regressive tax.
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20 years ago under Reagan

30 years ago, to the nearest decade. That was the change in Social Security policies that raised my retirement age and the tax rate that I pay into the system. My standard retirement age is just after Medicare "exhausts," that is runs out of accumulated funds to pay full benefits to people who have been paying into the system for their entire working lives.
I used another Gmail backup tool once that made all my emails "read". Does this do that too?
Its ease of use and ease of storage. Setting up a mail client and getting it to download everything isnt a 1 click operation.

However, clicking "download backup now" is a very easy 1 click operation, and I can just store that zip file wherever I want. Done.
Buffett: "It is not a bubble...we aren't in any bubble phase of anything"
On Vista64: made it through all install screens. No desktop shortcut (even though I asked for one), had to nav to install dir to find it. Ran uninstall and it only did a partial uninstall (I've still got a gunky folder in program files).
I agree with this, but I'm not sure what your point is relative to the rest of the discussion. I'm pointing out that "fun" and "compelling" are distinct. You can engineer for either, or both. If you watch people playing slots, it's pretty obvious that most people who play slots for a long time are not having fun.
An 11" with a 16:10 screen would be nice.
Maybe there could be a few options? Download all mail, download by month, download by year? Seems like they could solve that problem pretty easily and would be very awesome.
> We improved our GAAP EPS during the year from a loss of $0.48 per share in the first quarter of 2011 to a loss of $0.12 per share in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Groupon is still accelerating towards demise. It's just now accelerating slightly slower than it was before.
I think he was trying to be subtly ironic. Perhaps too subtle.
almost all of my spinning disks in the last 20+ years have failed. Some right away, some in a few months, some in a few years but they all have failed.
Goes to show how many (greatly needed) programmatic features CSS is adding. Also shows that some people love a creative way to attack a problem.
Honestly, I'd be willing to make more games for Android if my games weren't completely drowned out by the insane volume of utter shite pumped onto the Android Market.
The first programming conference on G hangout, I am desperately waiting to join you.
Pretty sure @kn0thing got into YC essentially with no idea (PG wasn't into the food ordering idea but liked them). Hard to argue that was a mistake.
I'm guessing this a list of the different languages being used in commits displayed in real time ?
I don't know what it's like to work at Apple, so I can't speak to whether Apple mistreats its US employees. I did visit Apple back in 1993 and its employees then were treated very well, but things may be much worse now. You know how it is. Just look how badly Pixar treated its employees under Jobs. (That was sarcasm by the way.)

We know from interviews and research that Apple treats its employees in China better than most of its rivals. And we know from customer satisfaction surveys, year after year, that Apple's customers seem to like the way Apple treats them -- at least compared to how rivals treat them.
Six people? Try 3,100 when the number 7-7-7-7 came up.

Source: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-04-02/news/27060744_1_l...
Ask HN: Any exemplary PHP codebases out there?
I've got my CS degree, I'm a competent programmer, and I know the principles behind the web, but I'm a bit short on experience with big projects and major industry-standard languages. In particular, web development seems like the sort of thing I could do well -- but almost everyone wants PHP, which I've only ever dabbled in.

So I'm thinking a good place to start would be looking at (and maybe contributing to) some existing big PHP projects; ones that are considered shining examples of how to "do PHP right". Particularly considering PHP's reputation for being awfully easy to "do wrong".

Can anyone recommend any such projects?
Yes, but it won't keep the gmail labels etc. And I doubt it would do a restore to gmail.
An Open Letter To WordPress
Reviewing Alternative Photo Apps for your iPhone (8 apps reviewed)
Well, I only boot my home/work computer once a day. I only do hibernate/dehibernate during the day, which is quite fast.
The OSX feature apparently notices files which are slowly appended to (downloads) and defragments them. It does not reallocate a set of files (such as the ones touched at boot) to be adjacent on disk, which is what e4rat does.
Just came across this clever solution yesterday, actually. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for URLs containing a username and password (e.g. http://username:password@example.com). Glad to have found URI.js, though--it's exactly what I was looking for.
I just read this article. It's awesome. Yeah there are definitely problems with the industry. I wonder, though, if some of the things mentioned (like the frathouse like atmosphere) is a sort of response to the 'geekiness' associated with programming. [Not that that in any way justifies sexism or boozing at work, etc]
I believe that OfflineIMAP now has gmail-specific code (type = Gmail) :

http://docs.offlineimap.org/en/latest/MANUAL.html#sync-from-...
Just because something has a nonzero probability doesn't mean it will ever occur.

Entropy is just dS = dQ/T. It's simply a thermodynamic property that measures where system energy is. All of these grand notions extrapolated from thermodynamics are crazy.

Thermodynamics is/was just a first approach at studying macroscale systems because we didn't yet grasp the underlying quantum behavior. It's incredibly useful when applied to chemical and physical problems, but you can't use it to make wild claims like this.
I should note that the person who posted this thought it was inspiring.
I note that you didn't answer my questions.

Your experience as described isn't really relevant to the Lean Startup approach, which would explain why your intuitions mislead you. The people who practice this method are aware of the "faster horse" problem and have techniques for dealing with it.
I'm not sure that word "accelerating" means what you think it means.
One Step Closer to Wearable Nanogenerators
Similarly, there's Pentadactyl for Firefox:

http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
When restoring a gmail account (say I want to upload all the backed-up emails to a new account), would the date information be preserved as well?
DHS looking for forensic tools to lift evidence from solid state drives
Looks like the associated blog post is here:

http://codeofrob.com/entries/github-live.html
And let this be a lesson to those who do not host it relative to the project they are working on.
I guess installing an email client is a hassle. But in Outlook and Thunderbird (at least), it really is that easy. You just put in your email address and password and it will start downloading automatically.
ephan172, it's anonymity from publicly accessible means. (total blackout would consider making illegal/fake accounts, which is not the case here).
I can secure my whois data, but can I secure my payment account?
I have two use examples:
ie: you sell items you'd rather not to be linked to you in any way (the same way people want discrete packaging when buying certain personal items)
ie2: it's a grey area business, such as porn sites (can you completely hide your personal identity when receiving online payments?)
Since ureadahead looks at blocks and not files, it has a potential speed advantage if the boot process is opening some large files but not reading them in full.

Edit: except the ureadahead packfile only points to the blocks and files, it does not provide a way to inline them. So e4rat is almost certainly faster. It's a shame it is ext4 specific.

Apparently Scott James Remnant, the ureadahead developer, considered feeding the collected info to a defragmenter: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502 ; this would be nice, as it means a single package is responsible for the feature, and filesystems perform to the best of their ability whether or not they have ext4-like fine-grained control of defragmentation.
I think your latter assertion is the point - the statisticians refused to gamble and many of the hotels' services are provided at a loss to help bring in gamblers.
Oh that's funny, I went and actually read the article and his conclusion is exactly this point.
I think at this point Apple is holding carriers hostage in most parts of the world, and they are demanding they buy a certain amount of iPhones from them (at the full retail price) before the launch, otherwise they don't give them the iPhone.

So at least for a few years, Apple could just keep increasing profits, by demanding the carriers buy 30% (or whatever) more units each time, and ride that business model for a long time, until the iPhone is not a popular item anymore.

If the other manufacturers want to make some decent profit, besides making great products, obviously, they also need to be more forceful towards carriers, and also demand full retail price for their phones, rather than a heavily discounted price for "volume" or whatever reasoning carriers have when dealing with the other manufacturers. Those $600-$700 Android smartphones you see in store at carriers, they pay only $400-$450 for them. Manufacturers need to stop this practice if they want higher profits.
We better start preparing for Y2KKK92.
A fairly tawdry argument in this article.

Dustin said, simply, that you shouldn't become an entrepreneur just for the sake of becoming one. You should have an idea that you're energised about and want to build.

The fact that Zuckerberg had ideas before Facebook doesn't mean that YC's "no idea" round is a good idea.

Zuckerberg was building things and tinkering before Facebook: that's the exact opposite of not having any ideas. Literally, that is the opposite. He had ideas. He worked on them.
Thanks for the comment.
Yeah the "for geek and non-geek" is a bit premature. I would like to create a gui for the tool that will be for non geek.
Regarding your second points, currently Gmvault is a tool to backup your Gmail account and restore it into a Gmail account preserving labels and unread emails, etc.
The Gmail web interface I think is the premiere interface for Gmail and with Gmvault, I want to offer to users a "safety belt for Gmail" (backup and incremental backup) and allow them to restore all your emails as they were in the Gmail web interface.
Suggestion: Scale images based on commit size (additions + deletions) :)
Exactly! I don't recall many times (if ever) where Apple has competed on price. Gotta keep those margins healthy. To me it seems the article is link-bait.
Coca Cola contains relatively little caffeine by fluid volume compared to, say, coffee. But more importantly, it's well documented that regular users of caffeine build up tolerance to its diuretic effects. From the Wikipedia page on caffeine:

"Most people who consume caffeine, however, ingest it daily. Regular users of caffeine have been shown to develop a strong tolerance to the diuretic effect,[34] and studies have generally failed to support the notion that ordinary consumption of caffeinated beverages contributes significantly to dehydration, even in athletes.[35][36][37]"

Here are the references:

[34] ^ a b c Maughan RJ, Griffin J (December 2003). "Caffeine ingestion and fluid balance: a review". J Hum Nutr Diet 16 (6): 411–20. doi:10.1046/j.1365-277X.2003.00477.x. PMID 19774754.

[35] ^ O'connor, Anahad (2008-03-04). "Really? The claim: caffeine causes dehydration". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

[36] ^ Armstrong LE, Casa DJ, Maresh CM, Ganio MS (July 2007). "Caffeine, fluid-electrolyte balance, temperature regulation, and exercise-heat tolerance". Exerc Sport Sci Rev 35 (3): 135–40. doi:10.1097/jes.0b013e3180a02cc1. PMID 17620932.

[37] ^ Armstrong LE, Pumerantz AC, Roti MW, Judelson DA, Watson G, Dias JC, Sokmen B, Casa DJ, Maresh CM, Lieberman H, Kellogg M (June 2005). "Fluid, electrolyte, and renal indices of hydration during 11 days of controlled caffeine consumption". Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 15 (3): 252–65. PMID 16131696.
Ask HN: How does Hacker News load so quickly?
I know that it's a stripped down web-page with light HTML code but even so Hacker News loads faster than pretty much any other page I visit.

What does the infrastructure look like and how is it architected to load so quickly?

Apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere. I tried googling but didn't find anything written on it.
jstanley to not have my personal life linked with a specific site. Think of good programmers behind a big porn site choosing to keep their privacy. Except this site will sell stuff (services, not really products) to the end user (B2C). How to remain anonymous and still be legal?
Be default, yes: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/blob/master/src/gmv/imap_...

However, if I recall correctly, Python's built-in SSL support doesn't do certificate verification, so you're still completely open to man in the middle attacks.