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If my dad were on Hacker News, he'd be all over this. I clearly don't value his advice enough even though it's been pretty dead-on. One thought to add though. I think one problem people have with advice (at least a problem I have with advice) is sometimes, when delivered the wrong way, it oversimplifies the complexity of the situation you're in. You're in a situation and the decision looks hard. And someone comes in and gives you advice which is great but sometimes in the process makes your problem seem simple. If you struggle with a problem that to others seems simple, how do you feel? Answer = dumb. So when I'm asked for advice, I try to keep this in mind - to not minimize the significance or complexity of the person's struggle.
I really like this app. My only suggestion would be to add a "Refresh" button or option in the menu. I minimized the app and went back to it about 20 minutes later and it was bringing me to the wrong article comments and then it gave me a 'network error' (guessing the page expired) when scrolling. Closed the app via recent apps vs minimizing it and restarted it, worked fine.

Aside from that, I truly like it.
Raspberry PI hacks on Airplay
bad logic riding on emotion

Humans make purchasing decisions in a fundamentally emotional way. Most of the best marketing out there trades on emotion.

People get pissed off and hold grudges in a completely irrational way. Think of all of the people who refuse to buy [BRAND X] because the first product they had from them eventually failed. Visa just went out of their way to have a lot of people hold grudges against them.
What really gets me is the use of the term "proud" - as if the people displaying such signage really feel anything remotely like pride about it.

In reality they likely feel indifferently(they're going to make a lot of money anyways, just being at the Olympics). But they certainly do not think to themselves "This is a good thing I'm doing. I'm happy to present this to my customers."
The article is sad but true. However, #3 is gives the most ROI from an interviewee perspective. It is not scalable for an interviewee to try going to lots of tech meetups or conferences just to network with as many potential hiring managers. One does not even know if they are hiring or not and if there is an open position.

Also if one has a current job and looking to switch it is even more less scalable as there is not enough time to do all these shenanigans.

Of course if you have the connection go leverage it...

I think for the better good we should encourage #3 as that is the right fair approach where talent and skill set is at stake and not whether one had the time and money to go to a conference/tech meetup.
Sure, I hear you. But I could make the same argument about most any pop business book, biography, case study, history book, or startup blog post. That doesn't mean they have no value, nor does it mean that the simple act of reading them and coming to your own conclusions will transform you into some kind of idiot.
Marc is the real deal... excited to see what comes out of this.
We have a print-out of an N-set Venn diagram on the wall which we use to illustrate the peril of having too many features with subtle interactions. It resonates because many of us have worked on areas of the code preceded by comments indicating which subset of interacting features you need to keep in mind. There's at least 7 such features, so it's not a small space. We've been desperately struggling to make these features more orthogonal and having a succinct diagram of the problem (read: "enemy") has helped us stay motivated.
"A simple Venn diagram is one in which no more than two curves intersect at a common point."

http://www.combinatorics.org/files/Surveys/ds5/VennWhatEJC.h...
Muc cheaper to get the money back from the bank and let them sue him. It was their mistake and they have lawyers fur such things.
That would put me in the awkward position of having published a private conversation by a deceased gentleman who generously paid for several dozen poor students to go to college, including me.

It's not like you told us he secretly punched babies to steal their toys. It was a charming anecdote. It makes him look like a great person with a sense of humor. If anything, the story is entirely flattering. This is not the stuff secrets are made of.
> True, but they would have gotten more money had they held their ground. I was still going to buy the item, sometimes I abandon the cart accidentally because I got distracted.

This is one of the very things they are trying to fight.
Well, anyone who was British and bought their tickets through the official UK process for buying Olympic tickets had to use Visa to pay for them anyway. I think lot of people bought their tickets through travel agents, though.
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You don't think they were already dipping their toes in these waters with their book publishing programs? What about Amazon Studios, which is funding film making?

While a change of direction, I don't think it's an abrupt one. Amazon has been slowly drifting toward creating their own content for a while now.
Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner!

Moreover, the terms the independent vendors get are likely extremely onerous, such that they are likely the ones shafted with inventory for items that don't sell.

The IOC gets the money coming and going. Which is good to support, you know, amateur athletics.
$ git commit -m "It is possible
to write a multiline
commit message
using the -m flag."

Just hit RET or C-j while you have an open quote and you can send newlines to your heart's content.
I've got two conflicting viewpoints on this article.

On the one hand, I got my current job (as one of the first 10 employees at a startup) by "traditional" means--I saw a job ad, responded to it, interviewed, and accepted the offer. It worked great.

On the other hand, I am now on the other side of the process, and I really wish more people would follow your advice. Enthusiasm goes a really long way--if you're competent and likable, I will likely vote to hire you if you seem enthusiastic. Sending individual emails and doing company-specific prep for your interview should be a no-brainer. Have enough confidence in your technical chops (or non-technical jobs, I guess, if you're non-technical) to put effort into the other aspects of your job search.
Stripe would end up costing an additional $20,000 a year or thereabouts for us.

Due to their instant sign-up and almost instant approval however, they were the only option for a quickfix while we await chase or braintree to approve our applications. :)

Love their UI & easy integration though.
> I'm not sure if this was the point Yep, there is also the stipulation that no Shops in London are allowed to sell hot Chips unless sold with Fish aka Fish and Chips (...)

Just to clarify, the restriction only applies in and around the Olympic venues, not the whole of London!
This looks great and I look forward to running some analyses of the same test data between Statwing and Wolfram|Alpha Pro in a mini-bakeoff.

EDIT: Can you talk about your business model any? Sort of a freemium service, or maybe charging for a future API, or something along those lines? Please don't say "ads".
I was answering this question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4346116 Your point is exactly why we shouldn't settle for SPDY becoming HTTP 2.0.
It's a numbers game, and the money form extra sales might very well make up for a few sneaky users abusing it.
You know coal typically contains 1-4ppm of both Uranium and Thorium, right? http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html

And that the US burns around 1 billion tons of coal a year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

So coal fired powerstations send something like a few thousand tons of Uranium and Thorium into the environment every year (he said, blithely simplifying ppm into "proportion by weight").

Still worried about 10lbs of Plutonium?
Well, I'm not sure I condone this behavior, but the Fox News thing to do here is for NASA to blackball Scripps, and to refuse to grant them interviews or access to their events.
If you haven't already, you should notify the kind people at Github. They respond within minutes, are friendly, and, most importantly, they actually react on what you write them. Who'd have thought?
Very nice. One tip: Don't require an email address to provide feedback and you'll get more feedback.

A bug that I found in the tour for "Politics and the Big 5":

The instruction bubble says:
To run a different analysis, remove "Neuroticism" from the white box by clicking the X to the right of the variable name.
But, "neuroticism" is not one of the variables I was using. It seems that something was hard-coded when it shouldn't have been.
You don't trust your bank's online systems, but you trust them to properly verify that cheques drawn against your account are valid?
I happened to smoke Camel's back then so that is the brand I stated in my tale. But my friend smoked some nasty unknown clove crap he also purchased at this gas station. My point was that you can't always blame the manufacturer for how the product is placed/sold/controlled once it reaches the retailer. When I worked at a convenient store in college, we set up the displays and put up the window posters... not some company rep or anything. I would never expect all the different suppliers to come by every time we switched stuff around to make sure their product was not too close to the candy aisle. So I would not expect the Bucky Balls people to go to every retailer to make sure they are not selling them to kids. That is just not a reasonable expectation to have.
I may misunderstand what you mean, but isn't unmapping standard commands bad for portable scripting? Not everyone will have the same aliases as you; for something like git commit this may not matter, but it seems like a bad habit to me. And again, I may misunderstand what you mean, I don't even know how to make it impossible to type a command.
This fits in nicely with the IOC WLAN police: https://twitter.com/SadaoTurner/status/230737352958566401/ph...
>>>and had his record expunged after agreeing to 12 months of addiction therapy

And yet he cannot get it expunged from all the companies that got that info from the state. It will forever haunt him. For One. Freakin. Pill.
Epilepsy drug reverses Alzheimers memory loss in animals
What's funny is just how simple these algorithms are. All it really took was something looking at this from a slightly different perspective.

The best optimizations I've done at my job have been exactly that. Looking at things a little differently and even removing steps. It's really a testament to open-mindedness and creativity.
This is a good question and I would really like to see it answered.
As someone who gets paid to 'run the numbers,' I can tell you that many large businesses make their decisions based on internal bureaucratic politics rather than sound business reasons. The executive sponsoring of the analysis project can easily bully the analysts into agreeing or simply restrict information from them such that the available evidence matches the sponsor's opinion.

And sometimes there is simply no data. We can't estimate the value of a year of college to the average American. There are a vast number of variables involved in the flavor of Olympic sponsorship. There are a tiny number of observations. Sure, you could count other large events, but few if any are truly on the scale of the Olympics. And there will be differences according to the host city and the technology situation. The harder the problem is, the more your assumptions (or 'a priori knowledge' if you're confident) affect the answers. It's like Congress trying to estimate the effect of legislation on tax returns over the next 30 years.
The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover's descent to Mars.
I am surprised that it had that effect on you too. You even realize that it did, and don't rationally reevaluate? How does that work?
I'm not sure how much you provide beyond art, also an sdk? It sounds like you are essentially a publisher. Since you are giving a royalty advance in the form of art, software support, handling distribution and possibly marketing. You are then giving devs a royalty rate of 70%.

My understanding is that publishers usually take more than 50% of revenue. I don't know if you should take that much or restructure your payment system, and honestly I don't think being a publisher for tiny xblig like games makes sense.
Diversification is rarely good business, if it doesn't leverage some existing core competitive advantage. That's particularly true for public companies-- Amazon investors wanting some social game company exposure can easily buy some Zynga stock.
Will investors be able to meet the startup founders at all? Or is this kind of like blind investing where you just look published stats and such?
That already exists, it's called StatusNet. Unfortunately, nobody uses it.
Methinks this is some high-up executive's pet project. How else would Amazon decide to make a social game that doesn't run on Android, a platform they're quite invested in, or HTML5, and a moving-item game, no less?
Ill just have to work my way to $200k minimum salary necessary to be able to invest :)
I wonder how much data costs per kilobyte from Mars?
If a service doesn't kneecap its developers, yet those developers have no userbase because nobody uses the service, does it make a sound?
I wrote an article on this here: http://byuu.org/articles/optimization

Executive summary: yes, I could probably get it twice as fast with identical accuracy (in the absolute best case -- 50% faster is more realistic); but I would sacrifice the portability, maintainability and readability of the code. This is a big problem because I have very limited time and resources as a single person. It's because the code is so straight-forward that I'm able to rapidly fix bugs when they are found.
I was inspired by this to share the rebuild alias I've finally come up with:

sf = tcstop && mvp stretch-base,stretch-app && tcs
tcstop = ~/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh stop
mvp = mvn package -projects
tcs = cl && tcstart && sti
cl = cleard; cleari; cleare; cleart
cleard = find /cygdrive/c/var/log/tomcat6/*.debug -exec truncate -s 0 {} \;
cleari = find /cygdrive/c/var/log/tomcat6/*.info -exec truncate -s 0 {} \;
cleare = find /cygdrive/c/var/log/tomcat6/*.err -exec truncate -s 0 {} \;
cleart = find /home/sthomas/tomcat6/logs/catalina.out -exec truncate -s 0 {} \;
tcstart = ~/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh start
sti = tail -f /cygdrive/c/var/log/tomcat6/*.info ~/tomcat6/logs/catalina.out
Exactly. Everyone knows the risks associated with stuff like cigarettes and alcohol, so we can get away with things that we wouldn't be able to get away with nowadays. There's a lot of stuff that's like this; for instance, paracetamol/Tylenol would probably not be approved if it was introduced now because it's really easy to accidentally overdose on.
>>>You might get arrested

And that can be hell in and of itself. You can get a prick cop or prick detainment officer and spend up to 72 hours incommunicado, with a communal toilet to shit/piss in, and cheese sandwiches you wouldn't give to your worst enemy.
This is excellent. I'm not convinced that playing games has many benefits for the average teenager, but there's no question in my mind that learning how to build games will have tremendous benefits. A successful iOS game requires expertise in such a tremendous number of areas (typically some combination of programming, AI, music, art, geometry, trigonometry, physics, even calculus) that getting youth involved in building one will be a definite learning experience.

A recent topic of conversation here on HN lately has been the difficulty many young people are having learning math. I think one of math's major obstacles as a teaching subject - and perhaps it's the biggest one - is that much of it can seem totally irrelevant.

But get someone totally committed to building a game and then watch what happens when they realize they need to understand Newtonian mechanics in order to make it work properly: I'm willing to bet that a lot of young people will take up that challenge and master it.

Good luck with your startup and be sure to update HN on your progress!
Yeah, who would buy cloud computing from a book store anyway?
Python and Ruby devs will probably continue to move to Clojure and Go for the concurrency models. The multicore reality is only going to become more relevant, and right now Clojure and Go have the most compelling concurrency stories.
I was recently talking to someone who worked for a company that was acquired by google. He seemed to think the setup was bittersweet. On one hand all he had to do was stay for 1.5-3 years (I forget exactly how long) and his 500K in google stock would vest. On the other hand he was stuck there, working on a really boring project translating some API (or something similar that sounded just as boring as he made it out to be). He said he was in at 11 and out by 4 every day, and most of that time was surfing the internet. It must be nice to get paid an average of 300k a year - with awesome benefits - to do nothing, but it also kind of sucks to feel like you don't accomplish much every day.
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Custom chemical reactions with 3d printing
Why? What's wrong with free WiFi? (This is a genuine question)
And the PayPal flow is godawful - direct to a new page, get prompted to:
1. Log in.
2. Create Account.
3. Enter payment deets. (Small text near bottom of page, not always available, depending on the merchant).

Even if you have an account, they don't consistently keep my default payment method - often switching back to my bank account even when I've made a CC my default.

This all adds up to a level of friction that I hate, hate, hate, hate as a user. I can understand people abandoning a purchase at that point.
> "Don't hate Visa, hate/dislike the venue host that agreed to such terms"

"Both" is a perfectly valid option. My ire is not zero-sum.. far from it.
I doubt anyone is stopping him from doing more, being promoted, and so on. It probably just seems pointless when you're getting paid so much.
Fortunately, people are pretty used to paying for this kind of a product. So we'll do freemium based on number/size of datasets uploaded and some as-yet-unreleased advanced features. Probably throw in some academic discounts for good measure.

Thanks for the question. Cheers!
I agree they could have done a better job of explaining the why for starring, but I assume that starring is a way to keep track of repositories you are interested in, but which you don't necessarily want to see filling up your activity feed.
MARGINAL COSTS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY
Ah, thanks a bunch. Appreciate both the bug and the feedback tip. Have a good one, thanks for checking out Statwing.
A global perspective on the consumerization of IT
Facebook's Stock Crash Has Created A Bunch Of New Problems For The Company
More fine journalism from Gizmodo
Thanks for fixing that bug! It was really irritating. I guess I should try out guake again.
He said rarely. The fact that Amazon made it work is one of the notable business stories of the last decade, so if anything I think that reinforces his point.
That's a bunch of self-justifying sophistry.

Let me guess - you either don't write software for a living or you're lucky enough to write the kind of software that can't easily be copied?
The banks I use do offer this. I call it "electronic on at least one side" because it appears like an electronic payment for me, even if it's old-school on the other end.

It works fine for the "paying utility" case (or "mailing combined rent check"), but it feels kind of silly when it's for transferring money to my roommate who lives 20 feet away.
Since there's probably nobody else using the line - nothing.

Or more accurately: The fixed cost for getting the dataline installed is extremely high, but once it's there and has no other use than sending data back to earth it's almost free to use. The only cost is the electricity used, and since it's on a nuclear battery that will run for many years you can discount that.

In other words: Send as much data back as you possibly can. Prioritise it and send the most important first of course, but don't ever let the line sit idle.
Misleading title. If you want to avoid metro, don't buy windows 8 :)
For now, I have to disagree. I only want to watch the libraries/projects that are critical to what I'm building. This is a very small set of repositories. I have wanted the ability to star interesting things for awhile.

This seems like it'll be great.
So, when can I get a nuclear car? And what's the insurance gonna cost?
I use watch to help me find repositories I'm interested in, but don't necessarily want to see notifications about. Watched repositories are autocompleted when you begin typing a name in the search field. So starring looks useful to me.
Since Visa's been doing this since 1986, that's an awfully long test. They do quantify the results, though:

> According to the U.S. Sponsorship Tracker, a Visa commissioned study following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games conducted by Performance Research, an independent research company, Visa cardholders
who were aware of Visa’s Olympic Games sponsorship claimed a 16 percent and nine percent increase in Visa card usage in Canada and the US respectively. The same report found Visa’s brand equity was 32 percent and 38 percent higher among consumers who were aware of Visa’s sponsorship in Canada
and the US respectively.

http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/vis...
It’s brief and grainy, but here’s the first POV video of Curiosity’s descent
well.. the same thing could be said about allowing teenagers to drive a car on the auspices that they will not drive too fast, or text, or do any number of other stupid things... or else people might die. At some point you have to make people take responsibility for their actions.
Just my personal experience coming from an Indian family that mostly is involved in their own businesses that the sole purpose of having a business is to make a living or carry on the business from a previous generation. I see very little in terms of wanting to create new innovative businesses or collaborating with other entrepreneurs or encouraging young entrepreneurs that I see happen in the US. So, the article seems spot-on in that indian entrepreneurs seem to not want to take many risks.
Agreed, glad to be a part of the community of folks trying to democratize data analysis. It feels like an important problem to work on, and we're passionate about it (as I'm sure you are, too).

Thanks for chiming in.
Nice article Naoki!
Did anyone else read this title thinking it was from a disillusioned immigrant?
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So, basically, the "best minds of our generation" aren't even necessarily pushing ads and pictures of cats? They're just turning the crank on something mindless and looking at web sites all day? What a waste.
Why do people always start arguing about music when piracy comes up? I write music making software and I know many indie developers that can correlate big drops in sales to the day a new crack is released for their software.

The argument that piracy isn't a lost sale just isn't true much of the time.
Without physical scarcity, the concept of ownership makes no sense. You can't own information.