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This is basically the same space as local search, except local search doesn't require retailers to integrate their inventory system or share their inventory information. They just need to pick what kinds of searches they would want to receive traffic from.

It's easier for the store, easier for the customer, etc. The odds of a retailer not having something in stock are low enough it isn't a big problem, and you have a phone right there so you can call to verify.

Most importantly, the barrier to entry is extremely low... and yet, it's very hard to get enough content to make the service really work. So adding that more complex barrier to entry is NOT going to make things better.
I think the "serious" part of his description stops at "He works at GitHub". Everything after that sounds pretty jokey.
What you measure (and reward) is what you will get.

If long hours are mandatory, people will just tend to do the same, if not lower, amount of work in those 12 hours than what they would otherwise do in 8 hours.

And why would they care about quality if that's not rewarded? They could always say: "But I worked for 12 hours a day.".
In Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, the Unix epoch is still used thousands of years in the future, but "programmer archaeologists" of the time mistakenly believe that was the date when humans first landed on the moon. They also measure time in kiloseconds and megaseconds because "day" or "week" don't mean much for interstellar travelers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste...
> The idea that MS Office is necessary for productivity simply does not exist.

If you have thousands of pre-existing spreadsheets in your office, many of them running fairly complex VBA macros, the idea that MS Office is necessary certainly does exist. And I've never worked anywhere where that isn't the case.

And at organizations of this type, the licensing cost of Office per desktop is peanuts. Can't remember what the prices were, but I was shocked how little it costs large organizations.
Instead of hardcoding those colors, I'd suggest:

git config --global color.ui "auto"

Now, this already gives you most of articles info:

git log --decorate --graph --oneline
Interesting that Dawkins and Pinkers rebuttals of group selection have gotten so much more press than Wilson's affirmative proposals. Has anyone actually seen a serious proposal of the narrow notion of group-level selection that Pinker is refuting?
dd-wrt is simple and has a good ui but not really open/no real tinkering possible etc

openwrt is very open and community-like (with actual VCS, package building scripts, package manager, and so on), easy to tinker and so on. But there's no neat and simple UI. Command line or uhm, "half decent UIs that u have to install and setup"

tomato has a very good UI, is open source, but isn't really all that easy to tinker with (none of the openwrt niceties)

I generally go with openwrt because, i like command line anyway, and i like being able to make my router do absolutely everything. for example, patching my openvpn and installing the package took 5min with openwrt.

Basically, if you're not into tinkering i'd just go with tomato. If you are, i'd go with openwrt. If somehow tomato doesn't work for you, dd-wrt.
Everyone has irrational beliefs
> Sure, you can work more, but you're not expected to.

Are you sure about this? I tend to believe you really mean this, but it's hard to believe that you, or other managers are not looking at someone doing 20 minutes of work a week as a weasel that hacked a system.
I agree that this would be a nightmare to build. There are many other problems as well (like how easy it would be to game the system).

However, my comment was directed at the parent who claimed that a business wouldn't want to use it even if the product did exist.
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They've done a bunch of work on reducing buffers and setting up AQM by default, and I've heard mumblings about improvements but can't find numbers. Closest thing I could find was this github repo: https://github.com/dtaht/deBloat/tree/master/test with lots of tests but no comparisons (stock OpenWRT vs ceroWRT would be interesting, for instance).
To say nothing of the fact that Microsoft have been doing tablet PCs since circa 2002.
I suspect that even in China and Russia, most software will require that dates be entered as if the current Gregorian Calendar had always applied.
Streaming parsers are key when dealing with XML files this big. Used to have a C# parser that would parse about 1 TB of XML per day the biggest files were > 200GB.

It was impossible with out rewriting everything to use a SAX style parser.
Almost right. It goes both ways. I'm not talking about making things in general. I'm talking about things you make as art (or craft, I suppose, where part of the design is chosen based on your own esthetic preferences.) If you design it in a way that satisfies your own esthetic desires--it's art that you would enjoy for yourself--then it's your art, even if I don't like it, and even if it will end up going to someone else or bringing you fame and fortune.

But if it's not something you'd ever want yourself but, for example, you made it as a vehicle to gain notoriety or money, then it's not art, as far as I'm concerned. I don't owe your childish demand for attention or $20,000 "statement about capitalist oppression" any reverence just because you claim it's art.
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If you think it the other way round, you give local stores a way bundling together. and size sometimes matter. add some "buy over the internet" function with a partnership with local courrier services and you have a potential threat to the likes of wal-mart and even amazon. yes, amazon.

Why so? because they are doing the same thing, more or less. the biggest advantage amazon has is logistics and range. but sometimes locality matters. I think there will be enough place for both approaches.

But this idea will only work if you work out two things: sales for market penetration and to gain acceptance by local stores and logistics. Both issues aren't trivial but the idea certainly has potential, HUGE potential. In more than one way. I can imagine that as "your social and local amazon alternative". And the main benefit smaller stores have is a means to ultimately counter amazon in some way or the other. But again, convincing these stores, very hard, logistics, very hard. And that's exactly the reason why the potential is that big.
As much as I like hearing about Go, SAX parsers are not exactly new.
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Those early reports of the Galaxy S3 being lawyer-ugly were overhyped. I'm typing on one now and I find it quite sleek.
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This has definitely got legs - well done to the Vero guys.

If you take shopping cart abandonment emails (which I'm most familiar with), you see a set of quite tired, overpriced providers (see e.g. https://www.barilliance.com/pricing) - so there's definitely a big opportunity to shake the transactional CRM market up.

Question: as a generator of customer events (I run SnowPlow, an open-source alternative to MixPanel, https://github.com/snowplow) how can I integrate SnowPlow events into Vero - do you have an API or similar?
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Given the last statement, it appears the marketing has done something right

No, the engineers etc have done something right. His intrigue is despite the marketing effort, not because of it
Ask HN: How to create follow-ups in Google Calendar
I have a problem that I am sure faced by many. We are not able to complete many tasks in a single To-Do posting. Like talking to someone to fix up meeting or paying bills.
To manage such things, there are many follow-up To-Dos required. When you call someone, he is busy. So, a follow-up is to call in an hour. I have not seen such a minor but extremely important feature in any popular calendar app such as Gcal (popular to me - 'cos I use it).
I want to click on an even in gcal. It shows a button for a follow-up. I click it to book another calendar event. These follow-ups become a task ring so that, I can understand how much total time was lost in setting up a trivial meeting.
It would be awesome to use follow-ups for booking sales orders. Such a task ring will tell me how much time is required to actually close a sales call and grab an order. If I am able to hook it to customer (contacts) it is even better - I can bunch a few contacts that are fast / slow for purchases and give them the right treatment as per their history.
Someone knows how it can be done on Google Calendar?
nah, I'm wating for the drum and bass remix...

edit: googled "dubstep tablet", first link http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-surface-tablet-on-video...
but can i sit it in my lap and type, like on my laptop?
I think this downward spiral would not happen because of the location-based nature - or only if there are many stores in one area having the exact same products. If I need a product RIGHT NOW (why else would I fire up the app and look for it?) I will walk into the next store and pay perhaps up to 20% more than the average price. I remember the time when I often forgot my micro USB cable when going to Uni, so someday I walked into the (ridiculously expensive) tech store near Uni and bought another one. Had I bought it over the internet I might have paid only half or third of what I paid there. This is also the reason why expensive lemonade stands at points of interest do so well - they are just THERE.
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Personally, I have a penchant for writing my own pull parsers. Its a mind-expanding exercise.

The neat thing about Go is that parsers can return functions that consume the next token. Rob Pike has an excellent video about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
I think perhaps "positive" or "negative" respect, in the manner of Isaiah Berlin's positive and negative liberty.
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So your request is that Haskell force programmers to not throw unchecked exceptions when a checked type could work? That's a PEBKAC, not a language issue.
is it having simple to use and captures previous test etc..just education like what is addition..give me the exact link
SAX style (parsing library callbacks) is not your only option; you can also use an iterator style (i.e. something like XmlReader in C#).
This THE reason why wal-mart, and in extention amazon, became that profitable and big. wal-mart tracked AND managed inventories to almost perfection. and amazon hired wal-mart supply chain experts pretty early on. you can the effects now. amazon is much more than just its website.
> Does your team list cooking skills as a requirement to be hired?

No, we don't require cooking skills, but we do require things that are a lot harder in comparison so should be able to learn to cook in no time. And it's not a requirement to take part in the cooking either. You're free to go an grab lunch from a restaurant if you wish.
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`git df' sounds like it should tell me how much space is free on all remote mirrors of the repo.

Is there a `git du' ?
In the first place, why should you have huge XML files? (Except those wikipedia dump files :))
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Maybe it's different for you, but where I live (in a largeish city in the US), most stores don't have direct competitors within easy walking distance. You've assumed a walk across the street, but out here it's probably a mile and a half drive and 2 unpleasant parking lots. That changes a lot of your scenarios -- while you'd be silly not to walk next door to save a few bucks, the time investment in many US cities is often too high to be worth going to cheaper shops. Looked at in another way, if I'm looking for something specific and I discover that I can get it from a store that is in close range, the value proposition of immediacy and reduced frustration for me can lead to a sale for that retailer even if their price isn't great.

You're also considering the value proposition symmetrically, when you should be considering it asymmetrically. That is, you're thinking "the store that sells this for $15 wouldn't use this app, because then the store selling it for $10 would steal all their business." That's a crappy value proposition for the $15 store, but a great one for the $10 store. Some stores might not use it, but those with better prices or better selections would basically consider it free advertizing.

Also, I'm pretty sure you're wrong about retailers not being able to compete if their prices are higher, and about this sort of app destroying those businesses. We already have this scenario with grocery stores, where you can compare them just by reading the paper (or the online ads), and yet certain more costly stores still survive. Maybe it's location/convenience, maybe it's unique selection, maybe it's customer service or return policies, or maybe it's that cute girl ringing up your groceries.

I think, ultimately, you're conceiving of this app as "how do I get the best price on X within a Y block radius?", whereas I'm conceiving of it as "can I get X from anywhere at all within a Y block radius?" and only secondarily "can I save money on X?" Phrased my way, there's an obvious value proposition for retailers.
Read this thread and the blog post, it seems everyone has had this idea. I've had my own thoughts about it. It's a difficult problem. There are various paths to get to that result, with most of them having to build on a network effect of the previous success. You have to provide value to both retailers, product owners and customers along the way.

An interesting way to approach it, which I don't think people has mentioned is to provide incentive for people to share/store their own shopping. Scan a slip with your phone and it stores it. Now you can easily create a new shopping list, and or remember what you bought.

Now you start building up this database. Now you go to retailers and say: Look, customers are using this app, why don't you make items available so people can search them before making their to-buy list?

As with any idea, this one has holes as well. How many people actually make to-buy lists? And would be willing to scan their slips to process what they bought? Interesting thought experiment none the less.
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Cons:
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I have to say, Windows 8 is looking pretty good for touchscreen devices.
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What about these PR reps, what if all the other girls they say that day weren't really experienced players of shoot-em-up games, how were they supposed to know she was different right away? Doesn't your comment apply equally to say she assumed things?
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I have been running the RT-N16 + TomatoUSB for a couple of years now.

Pros:

- Hard to brick, easy to revert an f'ed up flash

- 5-6mo uptimes (most stable consumer router I've owned at least)

- Tracks network usage, attractive graphs

- Easy to add local DNS entries for your systems

- Improves DNS performance with a transparent DNS proxy (dnsmasq)
(e.g. you can have it query all servers at once, and return record from the first server to respond)

- Easy to use port forwarding rules

- Attach a USB HD to it to act as a NAS (smb/ftp/dlna, nfs possible with unfsd)

- Setup a full pxeboot enviroment with it, including a shared nfs root!

- Run tcpdump to troubleshoot network issues!

- Runs most openwrt packages

Cons:

- Sensitive to heat (90f days will cause it to crash, only reason I've had to reboot it though)

- Doesn't always mount my USB thumb drive at boot (poor USB connection?)

- Not fast enough to stream 1024p HD over wifi

- Limited internal flash, I store my utils (e.g. tcpdump, nmap) on my USB thumb drive

- TomatoUSB doesn't appear to be maintained anymore :(
I think that's just what you're supposed to type in.

(I see that too, with JS enabled, and if you view source you can see that that was intentional based on the &gt; and &lt;.)
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I think that there's two things that the restaurants hate -

1) It costs them money which eats into their already thin profit margin.

2) It makes it harder to build a relationship with the customers since the customer has to opt-in to giving their e-mail address to the restaurant which they're less likely to do compared to being asked for an e-mail address if you're making a booking directly with the restaurant. Having e-mail addresses for customers is clearly valuable for a restaurant for the purposes of marketing and using things like special offers to increase demand during slower periods of the week/month/year etc.

3) If/When opentable breaks, they've got no access to their reservations - a problem you don't have with a traditional paper reservation book. You probably do have chaos though, if you're a busy restaurant!
Though I have never been to PAX East I would still say: I'm sorry.

It's incredibly perverse, the way I was socialized in the US. I was taught essentially that love was always "at stake" in every discussion with the opposite sex, and that if I didn't have love, whether by commitment or conquest, then I was worthless. I ultimately had to resolve the problem that I wasn't treating ladies as genuine human beings by jumping off the deep end, and accidentally inventing a personal religion. Basically I committed to the worthlessness and resolved to make it my own, because it was better to treat others as real human beings. In doing so I suddenly discovered that love isn't static, isn't a substance, and that along that earlier path, real love was in fact impossible. So by embracing worthlessness I accidentally discovered worth.

I can't apologize to those I have wronged before, and those that have wronged you can't apologize to you now, but though it is empty, I would apologize to you on their behalf. I'm sorry; I've learned.
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Lit and art, not philosophy.
"they have learned the hard way that styluses are not the way to go."

No, what they learned is that requiring an active matrix behind the screen consuming battery and weighting more(and adding $1000 per device in terms of licenses), is not the way to go.

But I'm pretty sure that Apple is considering it with other technologies(like the same touch tech they use today with hi res for stylus). Not as the main input, of course, but for drawing like you can do on paper.

This is the single most important thing I need on a tablet as an engineer-designer, drawing sketches on a tablet so I don't need paper.
> Perhaps not for the Hacker News audience.

I'd say especially for the HN audience.

A lot of people around here live most of their lives in the terminal, using Vi and Git. They have no reason to work on a beefy machine, as long as they can access more hardware somewhere else. It could be a server in the closet, or "the cloud".

When I bought my first laptop and started doing webdev in 2001, I noticed that all I needed was enough power to play music, edit text and run a web/database server. It worked great with win2k WAMP on a P2 266 MHz, 96 MB, 4 GB. My much more powerful desktop was suddenly left powered off most of the time.
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I feel that this kind of combination of lazy evaluation for sequences, together with eager evaluation for imperative code hits a particular sweet spot. Python and Clojure have very nice lazy sequences.
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^ the truth. hurts, doesn't it.
I'm reminded of my old collection of Dauphin DTR-1's:

https://www.google.at/search?q=dauphin+dtr-1&um=1&hl...

We've come a long way since those days .. but then again, maybe its the same, just .. shinier.
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If you were in this position I could try and help. Lisp is by far my favourite family of languages and any new success stories would be great.

However, and this answers your second question, I did not understand why this question was important to the OP. I do not know but assume the most important thing for a YC company is the founders, their background, their product and their passion. Whichever programming language they use is of no consequence at all IMHO. (Unless we're talking Brainfuck or Malbolge.)
Correct. I can see here locally that many, many Android tablets are sold on regular basis. $100-$300 price range, manufacturers that I've never heard of (yarvik gotab, goclever, prestigio, archos, ...), marketed everywhere - even with flyers in mailboxes and so on. And many people buy them.
The time delay in Galaxy Note is unacceptable for Apple(and for me, I used it a lot and I hated it).

You could do a responsible program on a Nintendo DS with 40MHz. Lazy people.
I use it at least 4-5 times a day mainly for setting events and alarms.

It is much, much quicker to say "remind me about X tomorrow at 6pm" than unlock screen, find the app, open it up, create event etc.
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> 5. POSIX's CLOCK_MONOTONIC never goes backwards. On some platforms and virtualization environments this can break with CPUs shared between virtual machines.

> 6. On systems without virtualization, CLOCK_MONOTONIC never goes backwards. On some platforms this can occur due to clock skew between CPUs.

Could you explain these situations in more detail? Or cite a source I can take a look at?

CLOCK_MONOTONIC is what I use for timing quite often. I tend to do soft real time stuff and that clock seems the best suited for my tasks.
I wonder if Microsoft's new keyboard will work with my iPad.
Not comfortably. But I can more easily play angry birds on it while slouched in front of my TV. Each device has its pros and cons.