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By this action, I think they're assuming a closeness in relationships that doesn't always exist. I tend to read messages from close actual friends fairly quickly, but messages from people I have friended who aren't really friends will get read ... maybe: maybe next week, maybe in a couple of months, maybe never. I don't feel that those relationships need any notification of this either.
Yes, but it still requires SHIFT + - to get the underscore.
Yes. But you can also waste lots of time creating code, when just doing it quick, dirty and manual is faster.
If you had ever banged your head against FB's ad approval process, you would have a better sense of how little they give a shit about what their advertisers think. They most certainly don't have people posing as customers and sending warm fuzzy emails.
Can anyone find a link to the actual product?

The only clue appears to be:
"The new metering device will be presented at the Sensor+Test 2012 trade fair in Nuremberg from 22 to 24 May"
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Actually, it apparently started as a way for Zuckerberg to get back at all the "popular" people at Harvard, of which he was not. So dating site? Definitely not.
Sorry, but we aren't responsible for 3rd apps who try to use VLC's functionality in a completely unsupported way. Stuff within an application bundle is considered private and can change anytime.

Anyway, we informed the Handbrake devs about a month prior to VLC's 2.0 release, which is why they came up with a fix in their latest version shortly after.
I don't learn anything from 99% of HN posts.. My suggestion is to do something else w/ your time.
So, you have no facts, just bias. Thanks.
You can probably find a PM role at larger corps, especially those that interface with the government.

Some of us know what DOORS is... to our dismay.
It's not targeted. Users can add any product as long as amazon sells it
That requires JavaScript to be enabled, which limits it a bit.
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Thomas Jefferson was strongly against the idea of intellectual property. http://bit.ly/JJa8Va

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
You're setting up a false dichotomy. You seem to feel that either the Internet is a place that is 100% trust-worthy (so much so that you can take off your critical-thinking cap), or it's a place where everything is a lie. The point here is that people should learn that they can't blindly believe things just because they read it on the web, not that lies on the web will render it completely useless.
Drinking and smoking are allowed in the underground stations.

Drinking is, but only beer (I think some max ABV%). Smoking is not allowed, though it doesn't stop some people, I guess.
It's not as if underscores aren't used liberally in the standard library. Which is probably a hangover from C.
This is typical of HN submissions that link to fraunhofer.de: they misrepresent some impractical or extremely speculative idea as something practical or a finished product.
I had a very similar experience! I used to work holidays for the family mail order business.

While we could easily process upto 400 small orders a day (because the warehouse was well organised) we maxed out at shipping around 6 large trade orders per day. Each one took an hour and the courier collection was at 3pm.

After getting through a particularly manic afternoon, I decided to have a look at why they took so long.

I realised it took 25mins just to turn the mailorder spreadsheet into an invoice to mail out with the parcel.

I was dying to automate it! I made a macro to remove the empty product lines, format the layout, background & colour, position the delivery address, insert the company logo and information and generate an invoice number and mark it as paid.

I even future-proofed it so that it would still work even if we added new products to our order form.

I stuck a big smiley face button on the tool bar. I tested it out, invoices now took around 4 seconds. The screen sat there with a beautifully formatted invoice, cursor flashing patiently for me to enter a payment reference and hit print.

Basically that one small change doubled the trade order capacity of the business, which was a LOT of income. It's an awesome feeling :D

That was about 8 years ago, I think they still use it now!
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What a guy who 'can't do email' can teach a bunch of software geeks.
I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.

Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.
There's about a million things wrong with this story. First, advertising rarely works that quick, so making those kinds of leaps of logic need to wait weeks or months, when hard data has been crunched. Second, most advertising (basically, the effective kind) attempts to work on your subconscious, so you end up buying Pizza Delicious, but may not ever report remembering why. This is just basic Marketing 101, but this article got it all wrong.
Yeah and that's pretty horrible too...
Ah, didn't catch that part. Yes it does.
Nice idea.

What is the product you are working on?

You talked about about the numbers, but some general idea of the app would be interesting if we are going to follow along with your progress.
It seems more and more that "this isn't slashdot" might be the more relevant admonishment.
Although in theory they could just up their hourly rate, if their hours are more productive, now.
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Face-to-face planning and decision-making is crucial for fully distributed teams for exactly this reason. So you need to take the money you save not having an office and put it into travel and regular in-person meetings. Somewhere nice!
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-May/127258...
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is the link which is in the same conversation [which includes quora link you posted , the python ,the pearl and the comparison in the finest print i ve come across],but yes it takes patience to get that.
Stephen Hawking could easily come up with rangeCheck in minutes, even counting the time it would take him to type it on the editor.

I really thought Oracle couldn't surprise me, but they keep getting to new lows.
The mechanics for AdWords are more complex for sure. But the concepts are much simpler.

AdWords: When people search for something, we'll show them your ad, which they'll click, and then buy something.

Facebook: At various times, we'll show people your ad. People will click on it, but the vast, vast majority won't buy. But you've just engaged with them. So you need a fan page and the right kind of content to put on it. If you do this right, you'll build brand loyalty and increase sales in the long run. Did we mention you can use Facebook ads to drive fans to your Facebook page?

Conceptually, Facebook is way more complicated, and less easily outsourced. You can hire an AdWords guy, throw money at him, and get results. With Facebook? Not so much. You can try to outsource it, but it's expensive, and everyone will tell you "you're doing it wrong" (because you are), which is becoming a very common theme with Facebook ads.

If everyone is "doing it wrong", does "it" really work?

When selling AdWords, the most common objection I get is "nobody clicks those links". That is, of course, extremely easy to overcome.

When talking about Facebook, the first question is, "what's a fan page, and where are these ads? Can you just do it all for me?" They usually haven't got a clue where to start, and their first instinct is to pass it off to someone else so they don't have to think about it. There's a market opportunity there, but it looks a lot more like traditional media advertisements (low effectiveness, opaque results) than online ads.
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Roundabouts are great in suburban or low-volume urban environments where speeds are low.

But they can be dangerous for pedestrians in areas where you have a high density of traffic and pedestrians.

The problem is, transit planners tend to think of terms of making things flow well for suburban commuters going to work in the city. They tend to forget about the folks who live in the city.
I was simply trying to show that even seemingly-simple functions can have surprising bugs. Binary search isn't week 1 of CS101 - I think it was week 4 for me. Bentley's published version had a bug, Bloch's original corrected version had a bug, etc.
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My 2 cents are that coding is becoming more and more relevant with the times. Like reading, writing, and arithmatic, coding is a form of communication with the current technology of our time. Learning the foundations of coding should be a priority because it is a base platform for which we as humans conduct our lives.

Granted I think Jeff's "tone" might come out to some as harshe, but his thought process rings true. His two points at the bottom are the all encompasing truths that make learning coding relevant, but it also helps explane that it is important to learn about everything around us and to not focus too narrowly on one subject.
That was one good manager!
I'm very curious about this guy's background. He seems to have experience in product development, marketing and customer acquisition.

Having said that... I'm not sure how long ~16k USD (10k GBP) lasts in London but here (Boston) that would not give too many months of runway. Not using consulting for at least a short time he is giving himself a small window for success.

I wish him the best of luck but his approach does seem a bit aggressive.
Or they just don't know what is automatable? Or they are worried they won't understand the new system?
It doesn't fall when a dividend is announced but rather after it is paid out.
Please do. Sounds like it could be very helpful.
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This is good information, but could you explain why you think that everyone should use caching? You don't mention testing in this article so is it safe to say that you don't? Do you have performance tests that show that the caching actualy matters for you application workload?
Pagination feels like it was one of those things born out of need by computational limitations, and then was taken as "just the way things are" by designers.

In a world of infinite computing resources, I see no reason to provide multiple pages at all. Designs can accommodate the data to make it work nicely for the end user.
I think the key takeaway here is that people put up ads and just hope to turn clicks into money. As Gary Vee says "don't try to close on the first date" Its just basic human nature that once I like a page, I'm not going to immediately go into the place and hand them money. You have to keep telling a story to build lifetime value.

Internet marketing is not a sprint, its a marathon. Only exception is most types of affiliate marketing.
Increasingly, most shops do not offer the ability to swipe/sign. I think it is their right to refuse to do so.
I know developers are used to setting stuff up in local environments, but that guide's about 20 steps too many. It would be nice to have an apt package built that encapsulates the operations in that script.

And is it really necessary to install Git just to download some software? The devs should make a tarball out of the 0.3.0 tag and follow standard packaging conventions. /opt/ is for 3rd-party/proprietary stuff or "really big crap" like KDE/Gnome (if you're on certain distros).

If the generation gap between modern developers and Linux package-managing folk is too big, i'll gladly write up some guides that explain how (and why) to package software instead of slapdash local installs.
As a Brit in NY, when I swipe my UK card to by a Metro pass I'm asked for my ZIP code. I just put in the ZIP code of my apartment and have never had any trouble. A teller at the bank told me that since it isn't a US card they ignore it anyway...
Actually I think there is a speed and comfort issue relating to any symbol that requires key chording. To test this try using sticky keys for a while - it's much more comfortable - it seems to free up the fingers more.

I use alternate hands when using the shift key, so that's not the issue. Perhaps it's just that I've got into a bad habit of depressing the shift key with a little more force and holding it for longer. With sticky keys I seem to dance off the keys better.

If you have a number pad, perhaps it might be better to switch the number row with the symbols (i.e. don't use SHIFT to get to the symbol.) I think that's the default for French layouts.
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>> But social advertising is so new that nobody knows for sure. It's still unproven, untested and largely unstudied.

FB ads have been around for several years and there are plenty of businesses dropping $10Ks a day and making a very healthy return. It's been proven, tested, and studied ad nauseum.

What is the agenda of these articles, exactly?
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In that story the boss didn't want the automation, and I made the same experience whenever I offered to automate the tasks for somebody else.
Hi everyone!

I'm working on a project called http://makeyourlaws.org. It's open source and non profit. Simply put, it's a practical project that aims to completely replace existing legislatures with online liquid democracies, through incremental steps within the existing legal system that have real teeth all the way. No waiting for a revolution and no begging. Read the site & its G+ page for details.

In particular having a git for laws is going to be a necessary backend system — along with e.g. pretty diff, blame, mass import, in-browser editor, simple markup language for laws, etc.

MYL is not git-based as it were — the policy authoring process is discussion- and voting-based, as it's a fundamentally different process than code authoring — but once it does get to being about laws, git is a good model.

There are of course also a number of other subprojects within MYL, like legal identity verification, empathy-creating discussion systems, factchecking, privacy-preserving voter-verifiable auditable-in-aggregate cryptographic vote proofs, etc etc.

If you're interested in working on git-law, or online liquid democracy in general, please contact me either by email to makeyourlaws@saizai.com or posting a comment at https://plus.google.com/100183759660923071401/posts/NQVuM65j...

We're making it happen.
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>You make it sound like search is the be all and end all reason why people use the Internet. It's not.

No, it's just the be-all end-all reason for people using the internet to find information. You know, the very situation where an ad is more effective.

>Facebook is more akin to a TV station

Yes, and ads on these do not work that good, especially if you can ignore them far more easily than switching channels in a tv program when the ads come in.
And you think not having this one course will make it easier for you to keep your illusions?
Would love to hear about it! Do you blog?
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Living in London was quite expensive for me. He estimates four months:

"All my expenses come from the £10k but I can only make money from products (e.g. no consulting). London is expensive, so this gives me about 4 months."
It's not a feature, it's a privacy bug. Why would I want people to know that I'm ignoring them?
I'm two thirds through a very similar process. I quit my job in late Dec 2011 and temporarily moved myself and my girlfriend in with my folks.

5 months, 1 pivot and ~£8K later I'm almost ready to release a public beta. With a bit of luck, this will happen before the end of June. I've then got a further 6 months left in the budget to feed us until the site (hopefully!) starts bringing in enough money to live off. Failing that, it's back to salaried employment (if any one will have me...)!
> But he should just have shared a paper about or something like that.

Would anyone would have paid attention?
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It seems to me that this is something that a year or two ago would be just classed as a work of passion, you've been writing a game on and off for a while with a friend and you have a very rudimentary engine with no polish. As a student you should be making lots of things like this instead of asking everyone to chip in so that it can have Art assets. Why not take more time in polishing, or find an arts student who can help you out with art once you've got a prototype you can show them that it works neatly.

As a student ( only a handful of years ago ) I made lots of projects like this, but Kickstarter wasn't around then and to get art for it I just had to prove to people that I could finish the project and not waste their time. But Kickerstarter is here now, so I guess you'll see if people will be enthused with the idea. If you don't hit your goal, you should consider thinking of ways to stylise it. Programmer art can be beautiful.
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This really is a "Google Apps Scripts" editor for writing JavaScript to manipulate stuff in Google docs...see https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guide_writing_scri...
In my city, there is a roundabout with five junctions, although I find most roundabouts fine, I really don't like this one. During peakhour, you can have long wait times, much longer then a respective traffic light. Another interesting thing about this roundabout is gaps in traffics caused by other traffic lights determine which road is currently a main outlet.
Certainly _all_ don't. New equipment distributed in Ireland, particularly to smaller businesses, often don't have swipe readers at all.
Facebook knows when you open your emails too. http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-ope...
Is there an article explaining this or anything? I couldn't seem to get to it anywhere from the main google docs/drive page (although I didn't look very hard). 'docs.google.com' also isn't being translated to 'drive.google.com' like it normally is.

I hope they end up expanding this and using it for things like phone code interviews, though. Coding via the regular google docs interface was a bit of a pain.
>The chant that "X is best, period" is a religious notion, not a practical one.

When it comes to Math, there is no argument. Period.
Spending £2.5k/month to live in London? In your experience, how accurate does that sound?
Yes please! I've been trying to crack this particular nut for nigh on half a decade and still haven't made much headway, so it would be great to read about how you managed it.
Does anyone have any information on what their infrastructure looks like? What do they use to manage their servers? I guess a lot of this information would be "proprietary" but scaling something this large would be a great read. I manage about 1000 non-critical (think kiosks) servers, and deploy the code to them; and it is relatively painless, I would be curious to know how the big boys do things.
Is this only for group messages?
This could work really well to harness the power of learning from the community if you reveal your product.

I'm sure lots of folks, especially here, would jump in and help you improve your registration rate if we had visibility.
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I think the left side is more suited for backspace. Which is how my Compaq keyboard is setup - the key is physically divided into two.

Perhaps the spacebar is just too big, and could be divided better into other modifiers. My left thumb is usually wasted (though not on a Mac, where the thumb can easily reach the Command key.)

Some people however - seem to alternate thumbs on the spacebar - or rather use the other hands thumb to the hand that just typed a character. I personally always use the right thumb to space.
The amazing thing about CoffeeScript is that most of what it does is tiny little changes that shouldn't matter that much, yet the overall effect is huge. For example, string interpolation involves one fewer character than concatenation, yet the effect on readability would be hard to overstate.

A similar feature in another language is PHP's ability to mix in with HTML. It would be utterly trivial to convert the HTML sections of a PHP file to echo statements. Yet this tiny bit of sugar goes a huge distance toward making up for the language's short comings (also known as "almost everything else about PHP").
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This is actually pretty cool, one step closer to making Google Docs a worthy competitor to Office. If they combine this with an Access-type database app, it could be a great tool for businesses.

Although using the interface builder brings back memories of VB...
This site will search all of the streaming services in one interface, and I use it for Netflix/Amazon if there is a particular movie I'm looking for: http://www.canistream.it/
Yes that would be great. I've used debian for over a decade but I still don't know how I would turn my python packages or other programs into debs.
But maybe things are a bit different if the advertiser is part of an NPR story ...
I smoked once on the S-bahn station (wouldn't imagine it can be allowed on U-bahn), and the security politely informed me with a smile that it's not allowed. In my homecountry I'm not used to any form of security being polite.

Not only beer, you forgot gluhwein :)
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From reading PEP 3131 and UAX 31, it looks like the only non-ASCII punctuation mark that would be permitted is U+2040 CHARACTER TIE (⁀).
Anything from Duke Ellington to CCR and from U2 to Top 40. When I'm "in the zone" progressive or trance work really well (Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, or more dance oriented such as Mike Snow).
Ask HN: What are the most profitable startups (Net profit - 2011)?
It's easy to find a list of the most valuable startups but I could not such list in terms of net profit. may be this thread could be that list :)
Sounds about right, the London Living Wage (a suggested but not mandatory minimum wage for living in London) works out at just under £400 per week, so maybe £5k to live on, the remaining £5k for other expenses, etc.

Bear in mind it's not £2.5k/month for living expenses: it's £2.5k per month for all expenses: including building the product, etc etc.
Maybe looking at what's VC funded is a mistake - but that seems an fairly small chunk of the startup community. Even in this effervescent time. Where most of the noise is, of course, but there are a stack of people bootstrapping products, or starting small dev or design agencies, or consulting. Lots of other ways to start and build businesses, and many lessons to learn outside of the VC funding bun-fight.

(I also question anybody who has a generic career goal of "startup founder" - they're probably heading for trouble anyway :-)
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