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> in order to become founders for real

The first 1000 people at Facebook are millionaires.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/facebook-1...

Any early Facebook employee has both the money and the name brand to be a credible founder.

By contrast, have you founded a successful startup? Have you raised money from investors? If not, why would you feel qualified to offer advice on the matter?
I do although I'm barely dipping into Silver. Also I'm on the EU server.

Perhaps something for an "Ask HN" or an in-game channel? I'll go sit in a "HackerNews" channel when I'm online.
From my quick run with the app, what I find lacking isn't in the events, but in actions: currently, it mostly notifies you (or others) about events.

It'd be more useful if it could also interact with the phone settings (for example, silence the phone at certain locations, &c).

Currently, this could be worked around by having an event launch SL4A that would run another script doing it; but this forces you to maintain a separate script for the desired action, instead of doing it at the same place.
Personal comment:

Most of the people in Germany don't seem to be aware of the situation, simply not knowing that there is such a levy. Most of them also don't even know that they are allowed to make private copies (aka Privatkopie), and fall for the 'U r all pirates' propaganda of the content industry.

Friends are often astonished when they joke about pirating while we swap music and when I subsequently tell them, that what we are doing is absolutely legal.

Those tech savy of us who are aware about the situation are massively annoyed. Basically because THEY are taking our money as compensation for the Privatkopie while spreading propaganda that copying is illegal. WITH THE MONEY WE GAVE THEM.

Head of the ministry of justice, Mrs Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger, recently made a move and suggested a reform of the Urheberrecht and copyright in Germany (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Justizministerin-fuer...)

While she is member of the dreaded neoliberal FDP, she is actually one of the very few politicians acting in favour of the developing information society. For example she is taking a stance against the EU data retention laws (Vorratsdatenspeicherung).

PS: whishing the term "Privatkopie" would become part of the english spoken world just like "Zeitgeist", "Gestalt" or "Kindergarten".
Yes it is very common, though not always 100%.

I tend to estimate the total price, and charge as follows:

10% of the estimate when the proposal and contract is agreed and signed. This secures the project in to my schedule.

40% of the estimate when work begins.

And the remaining fee when work is complete. Only when paid in full are copyrights and files transferred to the client.
Would the bubble create a non touch sensitive surface, since it is at a distance from the screen? Assuming it can be pressed flat against the glass before the touch screen beneath detects a touch, you have pretty much what you want.

There would still be touch sensitive areas between the bubbles, which might be a problem, depending on the app.
Yep. Opened it on my monitor and it detected my macbook screen also and gave me the option of both. Really like the site. Good work.
Chrome dev tools are equal as powerful, and regarding the other comment about speed. I have tried the new firefox and chrome still flows better. The reasons posted here are not sufficient, sounds like the firefox users are just loyal.
Given the cost of power and space and vs. the number of additional drives necessary I'm not sure that longevity is worth it.
I’m Now a (Self-)Published Poet
Saying that, I'm usually pretty flexible with pricing - If the client wants a different payment schedule then I'm open to discussion.
Join the modern web: Enable IPv6
It From Bit - Entropic Gravity For Pedestrians
I don't want to look at the screen all the time, same way that when I type on a real keyboard I don't usually look at the keys (or even the screen some of the time). On tablets, i'd like the feel of a keyboard some of the time (without losing the real estate when I'm not typing), but I'd also really like tactile feedback for music applications, scrolling and stuff like that.
The website appears to be down. Who uses Yahoo for hosting?
If you need to know PHP scaling, a) the amount of money that two books cost is still absolutely meaningless to you, b) you will, very probably, still have questions after thoroughly reading your first book and c) it is worth having a second book just to have a second shot at book cover art which will convince one of your engineers to actually read the damn thing instead of re-inventing it poorly as need arises.

Absolutely finish and release your book. Half-writing a book is an even worse decision than writing a book. (Tongue only somewhat in cheek there: if you have actionable information on how to scale PHP, a book is one of the worse ways to change people's lives with that information while simultaneously making money from it.)
Putting aside the issue that much of this data shouldn't have been sent anywhere in the first place, I'll never understand why, in 2012, SSL is still not used by default when sending any sensitive or private data across the network.

It's even more puzzling when we're talking about background data upload when the potential SSL handshake latency isn't going to pose any UX issue. This has boggled my mind for years actually. Why?
How so? I'm really curious, do you have any links detailing the upcoming availability of UDP in the browser?
I played PoE on the beta weekends and its been on my radar for a while, along with firefall (the beta for that is pretty good too)

PoE was great fun playing, and the fact that builds can go in any direction is definitely a huge plus point.

After seeing some of the ideas from D3, I'm quite hopeful that PoE will be a solid competitor in this area.

With Torchlight 2 coming out as well, its going to be very crowded in this niche of the gaming arena.
Am I the only one thinking Heart of Gold(Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxiy)??
P.S: I couldn't really reach the page. just the description evokes that memory
The top 1000 Alexa ranking is impressive. I was scratching my head thinking that has got to be a tiny niche, but apparently it's something a lot of people need.

Amazing really. Execute well and you can be one the top 1000 biggest sites on the internet. No matter how trivial or small your idea may seem. Wow!

Skål!
Honestly I am far happier with this ending, than the typical warcraft - Your heroes today will be your failed villains of tomorrow.

Almost every character at some point in the timeline, has their moral compass turned 180.

At least here there was hopefully an unambiguous disney ending for once. I'd give them time, they have lots of scope to improve on the story line (levels 60-70, 70-80 and 80-90 I'm sure.)
Bookmarklet to see YC / Reddit thread of any URL
From the point of view of an established designer most startups are seen as having a high flake factor: Some startups go south overnight without paying their vendors, many startup owners have no clue on how to work with creatives and the worst offenders ask you to work for free.

So for a designer to work with a startup is high risk. Now of course if you're Steve Jobs after Apple and you're starting NeXT then yes Paul Rand will work with you. But that said I don't think Paul Rand would have even spoken to Steve Jobs when Apple was in the garage in the 70s.

PS This isn't just for tech startups, but for any sort of startup.
I don’t think the majority of people here condone piracy. It’s the practice of criminalizing people who don’t acquire stuff legally because they either can’t (e.g. the content not being available in their country) or won’t (because the distribution model puts the consumer in a unfavorable position) that rubs people the wrong way.
The game's user score on Metacritic wouldn't be so binary if it wasn't for the fact that the game is called 'Diablo'. The name invites certain expectation. If they had the sense (and confidence in their abilities) to call it something else, at worst they would be getting "Meh.", "I played it, finished it, and moved on. A decent game I guess.", "Nice, but nothing special."

One thing that particularly annoys me is that Diablo 3 developers are in denial about the game even being different. They are either in denial or they're cynically lying. Check out this thread, a guy responds to Jay Wilson's sentences point by point. Highly recommended !

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5638007856?page=1
I think you have to think about icons in more broad terms ranging from a generic symbol database (used by designers to find good metaphors for their own icons) to graphics used in presentations. The use cases for small well-designed symbols are plenty.
Barbarian is stupidly powerful, at least in normal. I killed Diablo first attempt, no AH bought gear (I hate the AH, think it ruins the game, and haven't bought a single item from it). I stood toe to toe most of the fight using the first passive ability and two other survival related abilities.

It's funny there's a lot of whining about melee classes being weak and I just don't see it (I'm only halfway through nightmare) -- I'm playing a monk with my wife's wizard and the monk is just as ridiculously overpowered as the barbarian (as in run to the biggest concentration of mobs and make them explode). Demon Hunters have to deal with enemies that are immune to missiles, which is ridiculous. (The worst thing with melee so far is dealing with flies in Act II.)

As for the challenge level of normal, I think it's fine for new players. I just wish nightmare were unlocked to start with (with whatever mechanics you like). I don't like games to assume every player has played twenty similar games and knows how to finesse gear, specs, etc. I imagine normal is quite challenging for new players (and I had trouble with two bosses on my DH and one on my Barbarian -- mostly because I had gotten so far using simple minded tactics and actually had to think).
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This is a free piece of advice: try not to display your allegiance so clearly and so early (especially not before any bashing comment has even appeared!) A better approach to educate is to calmly correct each factually wrong statement, ideally with references.

This way you'd avoid being classified early as a(n overreacting) shill, as that can only hamper your educational efforts.
Will you post your email and cell contacts to this thread now? If not, why not?

I'm confused that you're confused. There are a hundred scenarios I can think of. Gmail being good at spam detection is your defense? For one, I get text message spam all the time now. I dont want people having my number who don't need it.
Node.js 0.8 sounds great, though I'm afraid there will again be a long period where many of your NPM dependencies are simply broken, especially with the new build tool for native modules:

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp

We had a bit of a similar situation with the transition from 0.4 to 0.6 because of some API changes, especially the removal of EventEmitters from the C++ module API:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/rmvA434u3Dk/discuss...

Hopefully this time it will happen more smoothly.
From some Google searching, it seems like Instagram got $300 million cash and 23 million shares (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/04/23/facebook-bought-insta...) and assumed the shares were valued at $30/each. So if they aren't able to sell the shares yet, then as of right now Instagram actually lost $100 million on the deal due to the declining stock price. (Although if they were able to sell right away, then they would have made more money.)

I'm not understanding what you mean by "~250 share price".
For a company the size of Samsung this is not a large amount, but it's certainly not a small amount either.

Articles like this make me feel like I'm back on slashdot sometimes. Am I alone?
No, it hinges on entities being held to the same standard as any other contracting party in the economy. Party A agrees to do something for party B in exchange for a sum of money, party A doesn't hold up its end of the deal, now B has a claim on A for damages suffered because of A not doing what they promised.

(technically the law is more nuanced, of course - there is a whole field in law dealing with the subtleties of this, but this is what it comes down to, and it's the same whether it's for stock or grain or a wedding dress).
Agreed.
And it is interesting that they did not even do simple fact-checking before posting such a headline.
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And gladly so.

The Internet is for network protocols and documents.

Although I develop web applications, not by choice, I'll take a native desktop application always over a so called "web application", when possible.
Unfortunately for them that won't be a lot of patents that would stand up under examination since there's been heavy research in haptic interfaces, and especially haptic touchscreen interfaces for quite a while now.

In fact I would be surprised if Apple wasn't doing research into this themselves.
"In what way is money not being taken from the pockets of others?"

In the way that they are taking money out of their own pockets by not catering to this sizeable crowd.

Intellectual Property does not fit neatly into our existing socio-economic framework. This is one of the areas where that really shows.
I very much agree that dashboard design is generally awful. As controls have become more digital and less mechanical, they seem to have come to require more attention. For instance, one general pattern used to be if you wanted warm air you slid a horizontal lever more or less to the right or left. Once you got used to it, you could set it without looking, and with gloves on.

Nowadays it's much more likely that you spin a knob or repeatedly press a button to set the temperature, and instead of the setting being indicated by a combination of position and color/text, you likely have only a numeric value, an exclusively visual indicator.

Not only does the digital, numeric value (usually in degrees F or C) provide a (possibly) unneeded level of precision, it's a visual-attention sink.

The "glass cockpit" of the Tesla I have to believe is even worse in this context. However, given its extreme versatility, I doubt the touchscreen will be going away. If a screen interface can be designed to require less attention, and I believe it can be, it's possible that we can gain all the promised flexibility of glass without it becoming a safety hazard.

Thanks for the HOTAS reference, btw. Hadn't heard of that.
Sweden already have this and was lobbied and implemented by an organisation called Swedcopy like a year ago. Most swedes don't know about this extra taxation due to popular news media never really brought it up. I found out about it due to a brief article on a PC magazine.

Those affected and who complained a lot were of course businesses who sell these things. But apparently they were forced into accepting the new taxation.

As a Swede I'm directly affected by that Germany now implemented this slave tax, due to I figured I could import products from Germany instead of buying them in Sweden.

What this seems to imply is that those in power seem to plan this in the EU behind scenes. Keeping it from public as much as possible and using the you are all pirates as an excuse for the extra taxation.
This article is out of touch with what it's like to not yet be a financially independent, respected, and successful entrepreneur.

Making a few million dollars, one path to which is selling a company, solves a huge number of problems. You stop worrying about making rent, take a year off and start something new without worrying about a paycheck, return to school to change careers without risk, have children and afford a babysitter, build the company you want to even if you don't have confidence it will succeed, hire a maid, have a lawyer do your taxes, have price insensitive vacations, wear fancy hats and expensive suites and deign to tell people how little difference money made in your life, ... shall I go on?
compiling & debugging native libs in node 0.7 is vastly easier, so I'm happy that 0.8 will be here soon. Previously you'd get a pretty generic hardcoded error message about failure to compile/link and it wouldn't be obvious what was the underlying issue. Also, gyp is a lot easier to use than waf -- it just generates the makefiles that are used to do the compilation.

The solution was to compile in 0.7 to see the error, then go back to 0.6 to make the module.

(I'll also mention I haven't run into any native compatibility issues between 0.6 & 0.7 yet)
Sounds good. Any chance you can encourage Mozilla to share UDP, TCP, POSIX with those outside of boot2gecko? i.e. someone else who wants to build something like boot2gecko but outside of Mozilla?
WebRTC is evaluating allowing for sending raw data. WebRTC uses UDP hole-punched P2P connections.
Good luck with all that, in the UK, 'format shifting' (i.e. ripping a CD to mp3 to put it on your phone) is still a criminal offence, copyright act has not been changed despite undertakings from both recent governments.

I'm quite interested in what happens in Germany with second hand computers. Many computers end up in recycling or landfill when they could be used for some further time. Do the small computer shops/people on ebay still have to pay a levy? Is the levy a percentage of the asking price or a flat fee like the original article points out is the case for media?
No, its bad scheduling. In your example you seem to be assigning the same amount of work to part-timers and full-timers then complaining that the part timers take twice as long and make the full-timers wait. Well Duh! It's perfectly possible in big teams/projects to schedule tasks to part-timers, because you assign them shorter tasks or tasks that full-timers won't be waiting for immediately. I've been there several times. (The fact that sometimes task times are hard to estimate in advance cuts both ways; sometimes a part-timer could be waiting for a full timer to finish work because the full-timer got a task that turned out to take longer than estimated.)

I'm not saying that at all, I'm saying in big projects where you divide tasks among a team it should be possible for a good manager to deal in part-timers. The smaller the team/project the harder it gets, but it's still possible.

Why do you assume full-timers are "fully-invested", eg defined by project constraints and not time constraints? Balls. I've known plenty of full-timers who were out the door at 5pm. If a company wants workers to work over-time it has to agree a system before-hand and agree compensation, money and/or time off in lieu. Its the same for part-timers and full-timers, no difference. If a company is just rocking up to it's full timers and saying "oh the projects not finished so you have to work this weekend kthxbai" it's a bad company.
A related story from npr

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/06/04/154284...
Site hosted on Yahoo and instantly overloaded. This is like reading Slashdot in 1998.
From my personal experience this is an entirely plausible reaction.
I understand the concept, however don't see why them startups can't just advertise on the existing deal sites that have a larger user base.
I don't get Mozilla. The first OSX Lion developer preview came out in March of 2011. This kind of (very) slow adoption of platform improvements is the worst way to win users, and by extension power, to fulfil their mission of a free and open web.

I honestly can't think of an excuse for not supporting Lion specifics this late in the game.
Yeah it was inevitable that this guy would show up in this thread: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention... .
"Identify bottlenecks" - I hope this is the first topic covered. There's no point in fiddling about with PHP if the actual bottleneck is the fact that you're sharing a slow connection with dozens of other companies or are hosted on the opposite side of the world to most of your customers.

Having said that, I'm looking forward to the book, as there doesn't seem to have been much on this topic since the O'Reilly books on scaling web applications (2006 I think).
Llama does some of this sort of thing already. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...
Jirafe - yet another US company who does their R&D in France
Can Post-Editing make Machine Translation more Meaningful?
Well, they're more serious than Red Hat (Silver member), SUSE (Gold member) and Google (Gold member though currently doubled via Motorola). How much more serious do you want?
Just curious; what's the hardware like? Is it reading from spinning disks?
Okay, looks like we will continue to have difference of opinion on this one. But nice getting to know your thoughts. Hopefully continue later some time ...
> Watercooler discussion is the rationale now?

No, it's an argument. And it's got nothing to do with "watercooler discussions", people can talk without involving you, people can talk at the bar, people will talk, art is not just a personal experience it's also a social one and the social part is actually important — hell, there are a number of cases where it's fundamental.

It's especially the case for TV series (with significant and/or cult followings) as they become shared/group cultural artefacts and values and a significant section of social interaction.

> That's a reason to take money from the pockets from the 1000s of people who worked months or years to make something you like?

No, but I should not be surprised by your mis-representation since you seem to have no interest in discussing this.

It's a reason why "waiting a few months" is not an acceptable alternative.

And by the way, pirating does not "take money from the pockets of [people]" any more than not watching at all does. That doesn't even remotely make sense.
Hacking an ATM
> until they decide to air it in my local country.

Dubbed, too.
Do you mean, like, HN? No pictures, no videos, no personal info. Just content.
The RIAA is paying attention, but this would never fly in the Land of the Free: it's a "social market economy" approach.

Personally, I'm thorn: if this would mean the MAFIAA boys drop their guns forever, I'd be almost happy to have it. Unfortunately, they'd never do that, they'd just keep gunning on top of collecting their racket money.
I feel like people like you complained when the first computers were invented because they were slow. This is haptic technology progressing and just the fact that it's getting major media attention is amazing since on-demand haptic feedback is the biggest presence missing from digital technology. Touch is just such a fundamental part of the human experience that anything that advances the technology that gets us to that implementation should be celebrated and here you are declaring it annoying?

It boggles the mind...
So you want the experience without compensating the people who made the experience possible.

It's entirely possible to compensate them if the experience is valuable to you. Not doing so is wrong. Sorry, but that's how I see it.
Mocks are useful, but their example of mocks being used to increase speed is a bad thing (tm)

I believe your tests need to run as close to real data as possible. This includes making calls to the DB, and making calls to API's.

If you're using mocks to speed up your testing, I think you're attacking the problem in the wrong way. If you're tests are truly isolated and atomic then they can be executed in parallel. Some tests will rely on the results of a previous test, so break the testing into modules and execute the modules in parallel.

Mocks are handy, but should only be used when real data isn't appropriate.
Ask HN: Tool to apply alternative css to a webpage
Some months ago one guy posted at HY info about a web tool he had developed that enabled to create alternative css for a webpage and share that with the world. Do you possibly remember the name of that tool?