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Good point. I'm fully immersed in the current bay area bubble so I sometimes lose perspective.
Prototypes in JS are problematic due to false cognates- it tried to look like Java (due to marketing department fuckery), and use the same keywords as java, but it doesn't act at all like Java which leads to some nasty surprises. This has been fixed in ES5- the correct way to inherit from a prototype is no longer via constructor functions and their prototype property, but via Object.create()
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The one piece of advice I curated from the many articles I read and have put into practice is: "Make it easy".

I moved all the things I need to exercise into one place, streamlined the entire process, and reduced the mental inertia it takes to do things that are good for me.

Part of it is simplifying the process, the other half is making it a habit. I'm also a fan of picking some rationalizations.
For stopping caffeine - every time I drink Coke I'm just thirsty for water, and should just drink water.
For the gym - every time I've ever gone to the gym I feel good when I get home and don't regret going.
For food - I'll enjoy this for 5 seconds and won't even remember it by tomorrow, but it's got the caloric value of 30 minutes of exercise.
From personal experience strictly: First and foremost the exercise is something we can all use, successful or not. What working out did help me do is get into a sort of a discipline and made me eat and drink proper healthy food. A side effect of workout, indeed a good one for all us chair-dwellers, is that it fixed my posture as well - no wrist pain, no back pain, no neck pain ...
My first thought was FancyHands, but the pricing is different enough that I'm not sure.
Apple is kind of a special case for a few reasons. There are definitely parallels though.

Apple shot to popularity in America first before Japan, leading the way for Japanese consumers.

Insanely great customer service is definitely a big part of Apple's way of doing business, considering the genius bar strategy.

They also have a large team on the ground here. Steve Jobs identified Japan as a huge opportunity, and flew here to hire the Japan CEO himself years and years ago.
Preactor is a comercial scheduling software suite. I haven't used any of the tools, but they sound like what you need.

They have a free product that you can play around with. Good luck!

http://www.preactor.com/Express/Default.aspx
Really this is more like a feature to help you choose which AP to use when you can see more than one open AP at a time. But it doesn't provide any APs that aren't already open.
Google just seems to be taking a strategy of pushing the "R" a little closer to "D" in "R&D" then taking it directly to market.

What most people don't see is that a feature of the "R" is a great many failures. By pushing the "R" forward some of those failures end up in the public sphere.

Will it work? Who knows. But history shows that investments into pure R&D ultimately end up paying in large multiples of the initial investment despite the large numbers of failures.
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The Gameboy color hardware can be simulated on a desktop computer in a browser, in javascript. Does that make desktop computers more primitive than Gameboys?
I'm surprised no one has brought up his ability to generate hype. Other than actually building the product, one of the biggest problems startups face is being able to get users.

Do you remember how much publicity Milk got without a single product and just from having Kevin attached to it?
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Maybe he doesn't want to be tempted with the Red Bull in his fridge.
Was Flame virus written by cyberwarriors or gamers?
One could argue that Facebook's hiring spree enabled them to scale and further handle large amounts of users and photos.

Is this a total waste to society? Could the Arab spring have happened without such social tools? Is the world a better place when common people are empowered to fight against perceived repression?

I'm not taking a stance on those revolutions will affect their countries. I will say, however, that a government that can protect itself against revolt has little incentive to look out for its people. Society can be made 'better' in many ways.
who said it was running windows? intel is not only windows, could be a linux machine as well, couldn't it?

I would expect any machine in sleep mode that is eyeing out for wifi networks to last considerably longer than my commute. Though I'm surprised they are able to keep searching for wifi while in sleep mode.
That graphic isn't even internally consistent. I measure the 2000 "computer usage" circle at 56 pixels in diameter and the outer 2008 circle at 195 pixels. The text states usage in that time frame has increase 342%. Visually the change is 1,212%.

In text it states that Hitatchi came out with the first terabyte drive which holds 1000 GB. Later, in graphic form, it shows 1024 GB = 1 TB.

In the Internet Users by millions chart the author uses a bar graph (time is continuous, why use a bar graph) with no x-axis labels and then to express hard drive price over time we get a line chart (still no x-axis label). The missing labels are okay because there are callouts specifying the dates, but the change in graph type is weird.
Ask HN: Startup founder - should I default on my mortgage?
I wanted to get advice from fellow HN founders who may have faced a similar situation.

Background...
I am the co-founder of a profitable but young tech startup (<3 years). My wife and I own a home currently with a 6+% 30 yr fixed rate mortgage. We've had this rate for 6 years and have never been late on a single monthly payment. But since rates are much lower, we want to refinance. Based on the math with current rates, refinancing to a 7/1 arm will knock our monthly payment down by 40% (big savings).

When the startup was making nothing, I opportunistically called our mortage provider (Wells Fargo) to see if I qualified for any of the gov't relief programs for mortgages, and I was told I had too many assets to qualify. I was not distressed enough I guess. This wasn't surprising.

Fast forward to this week...
I went back to Wells Fargo since I am now paying myself a salary and coupled with my wife, our income is good. The Wells Fargo team asked if I was an owner of the company after reviewing our personal taxes, and then asked for the company returns in addition to all the personal financial details (bank accounts, paystubs, 401ks, tax docs, etc).

And the verdict was...
Our income (meaning my income since my wife works at big co) is not enough or stable enough to qualify for a re-finance.

The 'perverted' part of this whole equation is that if my mortage payment fell by 40%, I'd think that would make my wife and me much better credit risks to Wells Fargo. But oh well, I was too credit-worthy to qualify for distressed programs and not credit-worthy enough for a refinance.

But enough woe is me...My current debate/questions are:

- Should I call Wells Fargo and tell them that I'm going to stop paying my mortgage. Basically engage them in a game of chicken.
- Try to goto banks with looser standards?
- Or do something else altogether?

Anyone who has been in or seen a similar mortgage dilemma who can share some wisdom? Or if you work in the mortage industry and know how to beat the man, pls share that as well :)

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Or how about this? Imagine a store you'd walk into, get issued a pair of glasses, then you could walk around, look at things, and have information about 'em magically appear? How cool would that be? Answer: awesomely cool... the first time. In year one, that store would be the coolest thing on the planet. But the fiftieth time you go in there.... meh.

They're doing this in Korea already, I believe.
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Because that's worked so well in which countries?

Do you often shop around for who can give you the best deal on your hip surgery? Would you like it if your insurance agent did?
Haxe does the same and more: http://haxe.org/
I still think that the future of Facebook is data (not specifically picture data, that's just one piece). Advances in hardware and cloud computing have kick started an era where data mining and machine learning are pervasive in every field from pharmaceutical research to banking to sports and everywhere in between. Facebook is the single authoritative source for a whole bunch of personal data. People have started thinking about the basic applications for that data when it comes to things like online shopping (you're a 31 year old white male with an 8 month old daughter who likes rock and roll, so you probably want to buy diapers, zinfandel, and a radiohead album), but I think that lots of new interesting applications will emerge over the next several years that don't violate user privacy and will monetize well.
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It's a difference of power and size, not level of complexity. In theory you could simulate a desktop computer with a browser and javascript on a gameboy color given enough processing power and memory. (without increasing instruction set complexity / requiring more abstraction levels than on a desktop / sneakily inserting more complexity in some other way)

Actually it's a rule of hacks, isn't it? If it can exist... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZrD622qf0
Link? This sounds great (as someone trying to move and sell a bunch of stuff).
I think that most new languages feel obliged to have some sort of fun syntax quirk, usually, it seems, in the form of odd token choices.
It gets even better if the rumors about a 4.1" iPhone come true...
It's a noble idea, but read the fine print. Winning 10k votes doesn't guarantee a model will go into production - only that it will "be reviewed" by Lego for worthiness and fit into their product line.
As someone with perpetual difficulty maintaining a 24 hour-based sleep schedule, when I see these "my routine" posts I'm always most curious about their sleeping habits.
The pricing is actually the same but TR said it is not backed by FH. https://mobile.twitter.com/tedroden/status/20798591017065267...
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I'm building a site that performs discounted cash flow analysis of stocks. Most of the existing work in this area comes from people selling custom spreadsheets. I think there's a good chance to disrupt that market, especially by combining it with education and a notification component.
I didn't get slide 13 (Other common problems/questions). Are these more bad questions? Are these questions users often ask?
None of the demos I've seen have involved any speaking. They've involved tapping something and what might be eye tracking or head movements, but all the speaking was pretty obviously superfluous.
Make some calls. When I refinanced a house many years ago, only one bank in town had terms that worked for our situation. You only need one.
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> JSX performs optimization while compiling the source code to JavaScript. The generated code runs faster than an equivalent code written directly in JavaScript.

This is just absurd. It is claiming it will run faster than JavaScript ... by compiling to JavaScript. If generated JavaScript code would run faster, it just mean the JavaScript code could have been written better in the first place. They probably have logic optimization behind the scene, but clamming it will run faster that JavaScript is just ridiculous.
Curious about what exactly? Like the author, I also have a very rigid early morning schedule centered around exercise. I get up at exactly 5.45, go to the gym at 6.00, etc. It definitely helps me maintain a more regular sleep and work schedule, which used to be a problem for me.
I was hoping it was because they allowed `(x, y, z: int)` as syntax sugar (like OOC does)... but no, they don't. In that case the : is a bit pointless.
Right, but capred is asking why he gets so much hype. You're basically saying that he gets hype because he is able to get so much hype.
"Coding standards and reviews prevented bad low-level decisions, but not bad high-level ones"

This is true for coding standards and reviews everywhere. That's what design standards are for -- i.e. some kind of process around specifying a technical design.
I'm seeing more and more of this kind of article on HN recently. Solid blogger or not, if I had a penny for every "$current_trend sucks" screed posted here and frontpaged, I'd be retiring by now.

Isn't the quoted statement from your comment a "$current_trend sucks" statement? I guess you see the need to decry some current trends, just as all of us do from time to time.
When were they not cool? As a teen in the late 90s, everyone I knew had a discman. (Mine was bright orange, and got plenty of comments on how cool it looked. :) )
Richard Branson is known for being fit.

http://www.quora.com/Richard-Branson/How-does-Richard-Branso...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2003255/Sir-Richar...

http://www.mensfitness.com/leisure/sports/fit-to-fly
Eh, these sorts of "rule of thumb" guesses are quite common in engineering. You fit a line to some data points and you might realize that power usage is roughly proportional to the size of the plant. In aerospace, in preliminary estimates you scale a whole bunch of random things on the gross weight of the aircraft.
@viraptor and so we can see that we must take into account more than just whether one can be simulated on another, we must take into account /expressiveness/, or level of complexity as well! In theory, you could simulate prototypes with classes too. You have to be able to, or else it wouldn't be possible to write an interpreter for a language which supports prototypes. The question of "can" and "can't" then, in the context of my original question has to do with the level of difficulty in doing one or the other. Now that we've got this far, what is more difficult- simulating classes with prototypes, or simulating prototypes with classes? Which requires more code, and more complexity? And from that, what do we conclude about primitiveness?
Surely censoring the functionality is completely impossible, due to the dynamic nature of JS?

alert("blah")

can just as easily be made to be

window["alert"]("blah"), where the string 'alert' could be made by a very convoluted manner. Solving this would be akin to solving the halting problem, no?
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You must be parsing my sentence differently than I am. Clarified:

It is far more common for a doctor to underdiagnose a patient that presents with flu systems but actually has the "cool, rare disease" [with the flu than it is to correctly diagnose them the first time].

In other words, within the ecosystem of "cool, rare diseases", it's far more likely to be mis- or under-diagnosed the first time than it is to be correctly diagnosed the first time. One reason for that is they're not common diseases (so the docs won't have a lot of experience diagnosing it), but another fascinating reason is that they have already sort of diagnosed you in their heads before getting into the data.

If you're interested in the topic, you should pick up the book I linked above. There's a fascinating study in there that tests this problem: the study takes two sets of identical x-rays with an obvious primary diagnosis like a cancerous tumor and in one set, they add another problem (blocked artery or torn heart valve or something else obviously serious and life-threatening). They give the x-rays to doctors, inform them of the primary diagnosis, have them look at the x-rays, and track their eye movements. Here's the crazy part: every one of the doctors lingered over that second, undisclosed problem, indicating they saw something wrong. Yet none of them reported the problem. (It's been a while so I might have gotten the specifics wrong, but the gist is there. It's really fascinating and I encourage you to read it on your own.)

On a personal note: take it easy with the "by definition" and "obviously untrue" stuff. I know this is the internet and all but it makes you seem hotheaded, especially when we might be misunderstanding each other.
I launched past week but still lot more to do. I am on the east coast so can you describe how this would work with demoday, meetups etc?
I'm sorry, but claiming inflation is fraud is complete nonsense. Inflation is a sign of a growing economy. It is neither good nor bad. It is however inevitable.

It is not related to fiscal irresponsibility. Sometimes it is due too too much demand and not enough supply driving the cost of goods up (prices are sticky) and other times it is due to underlying company costs going up and raising the prices to keep their profit margin even.

In neither case is it the government's "fault." Most governments around the world try to maintain an inflation rate of 2-3%. This is well understood. Don't keep your wealth in currency. No one sane has for over a hundred years even when we were on the broken gold standard (if you think inflation is bad, you should see what rapid deflation caused by a spike in gold demand followed by a rapid drop in demand does to an economy on the gold standard).
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A partial ponzi scheme is the same as being half pregnant. I do agree though we have to start being more critical of currency manipulations across the board. We're dangerously close to a pile of monopoly money here. When that facade breaks we're in really huge trouble. (a new dark ages type of huge trouble)
If it works well enough, of course it will be cool. Once everyone has one to get shit done with, "cool" will be one of the biggest differentiators to determine which one to get.

If it doesn't work well enough, then it will be the new Newton—and even then, here we are 20 years later, and tablets are cool.
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One could argue, yes. But not, IMHO, well. Again: other companies have done much more with their employee talent. To argue otherwise seems like mostly excuse-making to me. Facebook has taken a bunch of great hackers and exploited them very poorly.
I agree We should also take periods out of sentences They aren't needed as long as you capitalize the first letter of every sentence This makes things much cleaner
I think that's a great explanation! However, I do have some exposure to the topic, so I would be interested to know if it makes sense to someone totally new to the subject.
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A buddy of mine took it upon himself to redo the UI. Looks pretty slick.
This is really exciting. If this stood alone as it's own service and paired with Siri, well... take my money! But something niggling with the banner: the strange depth of field, combined with the sheer size and incorrect angle of the laptop cannot be unseen.
Working out on stimulants is one of the easiest ways to overstress your heart and can cause permanent cardiovascular damage. Happened to a friend of mine, his CK levels were through the roof, he ripped his heart muscle because he used adderall before workouts.

For a hacker news post, I'm sorely disappointed. The body will secret epinephrine once you start working up a sweat, there's no need to add caffeine and shitty simple sugars to your body before a workout. Eat a brown rice granola bar or bring some Gatorade with you if you really need the sugar boost to get going. Usually, glycogen stored in the liver from previous days will suffice to rocket the body's bloodstream with sugar.
The problem? They are already fully entrenched in the classified ads market. It's going to take years for something else to become popular.

It's the same thing with Amazon. They treat their sellers like garbage, but it's really the only place you can go if you actually want to make sales.
I just launched last week and still have lot more to do. Can you describe How it might work out with demoday, meetups etc with East coast or folks not in the valley.
Looks like ActionScript, which is already based off ECMAScript...why not just use that, or extend what's already there? Getting adoption for a brand new language is tough, plus there's already a ton of software/libraries/tools written in As3
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I'm a little surprised they didn't put Rose on the YouTube team. He would've been a great figure head for the video platform. It would have played to his strengths as a creator and promoter of pro-am content.

That being said, perhaps Google Ventures is a great place too. Kevin has shown a strong ability to act as a connector between budding entrepreneurs and capital. This might be a brilliant move for deal flow.
There are certain javascript constructs and memory usage strategies which are known to harm performance- and a compiler can ensure that your code does not use any of these constructs. While you can't make this claim for any arbitrary code, it's not completely absurd.
Ah, interesting. I was thinking that there was no $95/unlimited option, but I guess for a white label you wouldn't want it anyway.
If augmented reality glasses have adblockers, I hope it's possible to set the adblocker to "They Live" mode: http://www.jnack.com/finnegan/images/theyLive.jpg
As an avid user and supporter of Flow I'm pretty sure this is a step in the wrong direction. The effort it takes to launch another offer in this already competitive market distracts them from some much needed updates to justify their price.

I was happy to pay the $10/mo for what looked like a promising service, but with other task management apps making real progress towards helping me manage my tasks and MetaLab focusing on monetization, I'm not sure I'll renew.
I think this is a neat idea, and I'd love to try it. It seems a bit odd to hold meetings at a bar, but that's not necessarily a dealbreaker.

But sadly, due to random bad luck I can't do it: my Tuesday evenings are spoken for. (It's one of the very few times during the week that I have a fixed schedule. Let's call it a sanity preservation activity.) If nReduce was on, say, Wednesday evening (or Tuesday morning), I'd sign up.

If the expectation is for people to take a leave of absence (or quit) from their job, anyway, then I would have scheduled it during the day, as most extracurricular activities (IME) are in the evenings.
I would also suggest a sales video explaining how much better performance based SEO is than the standard company. Put it where your screenshot is on the homepeage. Videos really connect with people, especially if you can get across your passion to really help your clients. something simple would cost you under a thousand if you found the right person to do it. (check out www.quiry.com "manifesto" or even go with some basic kinetic typography with music and your voice in background)
Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 already use bluetooth to connect the controller, so this isn't much of a stretch to say Apple could.
I'm curious to hear the actual legal explanation. To me, it seems like showtimes are facts and my understanding is that it's fine to re-publish facts. Of course, that doesn't mean you're allowed to scrape and re-publish the facts directly. Is that the main issue here?
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