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Do you have a citation for the Stanford valedictorian thing? I can't find anything on that topic.
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This would be a good time to have the promised follow-up with the developers mentioned in the article. There's some decent discussion about the risks of going indie, but it'll have more teeth when we find out that the devs actually lost their homes when the risk didn't pan out (if that's the actual outcome).
Actually, there are reasons, and lots. Go read the literature. Really.

One of the best study is International Preferences in Selecting Mates. This is a large study (N=9474) with samples from six continents, from cultures with monogamy and polygyny, etc.
>Egalitarian marriages last longer.

Second the call for a rationale for this. In fact, I would wager that the opposite is true.
Here's the trailer for The Ville:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXX6XvGBj4w

It definitely has a 'Sims' vibe to it.
Love the residency idea. Good luck processing the next batch guys.
A developer could side-step the difficult to contact issue by being a shareholder and contacting Investor Relations. The SEC may get involved if companies ignore IR communications. The IR person would be able to give you a direct contact.

Also, pay attention at conferences when you meet Googlers and stay in contact. They may also be able to help you with direct support.
On the subjectiveness of reputation:

I once met a recruiter for the University of Toronto (Canada) who focuses exclusively on visiting US high schools. She told me how U of T was behind other "top" Canadian schools in advertising to potential students in the US. She mentioned how McGill University (in Montreal) started going after US students aggressively beginning in the 70s, and as a result, has a far better reputation there today. Even The Simpsons once joked that McGill is "the harvard of Canada", even though most Canadians would probably say otherwise.

Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5vN2XReWs
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Through word-of-mouth and social media.

My thinking is as follows: People naturally want to share a good joke/anecdote. If I make the sharing frictionless, then good jokes should multiply viewers organically. No?

I have a feeling that people will return to a good joke site habitually.

The big "if" for me (I know, I know. Like all entrepreneurs, my Achilles heel is that I am too optimistic!) is how we get the good, the very best jokes on a regular basis.

For example, I don't know if you have read any good jokes lately, but I read the "the waiter and the spoon" joke on Slashdot a few days back and could help guffawing:

yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2988669&amp;cid=40695313
Actually I remember reading [1] that since the recent economic downturn, because it affected men much more than women, more women are marrying "down" than are marrying "up".

I agree that our societal norms haven't caught up with the fact that there are no longer enough high status men and low status women for all the women to marry up anymore, so the social pressure is still there but it seems to be changing fairly quickly.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/08/marriage-and-c...
I'm surprised at the negativity around this article. Chris Dixon is a pretty successful investor, and well connected in the valley. All he's saying is you need a lot more users now if you make money off of ads and if you want to raise a large series A.
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I believe the unmanned Falcon 9 Heavy is designed to have greater to-orbit capacity, though, and would be capable of launching Hubble.
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Reed College (Portland) goes out of its way to not be ranked. Colin Diver, the outgoing President, suggested as others have, that chasing a rank doesn't do the students any good.

[1] http://www.reed.edu/apply/news_and_articles/college_rankings...
If you're a slave to the school rankings in choosing a school, you get what you deserve.
There's no shortage of troglodytes advocating women stay at home, in the kitchen, bare footed, and pregnant.

And I imagine these troglodytes make some women skeptical of whether they should rely on men to empower women.
It's not a git alias. It would be better to do this as a post-merge hook though.
To be a bit fair, the shuttle was the only part of a much larger boondoggle that originally involved NASA and the DOD. Its a much better example of mission creep, after reading Richard Feynman's "personal observations on the reliability of the shuttle" after the Challenger explosion shows just how badly the shuttle was designed/pressed into service/etc...
No, that just means it's safe.
That's what Falcon Heavy is for ;)
> It is easy to use superlatives like "safest rocket ever designed". But a lot of stuff can go wrong - fast - when you're sitting on a big pile of potential explosives that under other circumstances you'd keep a safe distance from. Until they actually achieve it, you shouldn't throw the superlatives around.

This claim revolves more around the fact that the rocket can do a powered abort at any time, I think. It's purely liquid fueled, with full ability to shut off and restart the engines. They're also designing the capsule to land on rockets, meaning it won't need to aim at a runway or water - any flat area will do.
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Please *delete* all data associated with my account.
My registered email address is: ______________

I would keep my account except there's no way to
actually delete my content and actions myself.
All you can do is *hide* stuff.

I want my stuff *deleted* permanently without a trace.
Society doesn't refuse anything. If a male CEO wants to work less, he can do so. If another male potential CEO can perform better by working more, he will probably replace him.

The only solution to this is to mandate working hours for CEOs, an idea that rather impractical to say the least.
I guess if you are looking to start a company that offers a free service that you try to monetize later, than ten million is the new one million. But if you start a company where users pay right off the bat, then perhaps you only need a few hundred customers. Sortfolio being the perfect example of an app that generated hundreds of thousands dollars/year, and took way less than one person to run.
I got to say, I have a 30GB Zune and a 120GB Zune and I still use the 120GB daily.

The 30GB one fell out of my car three times and had so much abuse that I'm really surprised and amazed of the quality and durability of it.

As you probably don't hear this enough whoever was on the Zune team are geniuses and I love it. It's going to be a sad day when my 120GB dies and especially considering it's almost impossible to find a new Zune under $300 nowadays.

Once again thanks for all the work you guys did on it, and I'm extremely sorry that it did not get as much traction as it should have.
This is such a silly thing to have to worry about. You're starting a company but first you have to spend a day or two along with a bunch of money finding a group health insurance plan (whatever that even means).

When I started a company in the UK, I didn't have to consider this.
That is an ad hominem attack. The article mentions nothing of religion, it stands alone. How many articles that you read are written by the religious, probably more than you realize.
For me, close to NYC means Poughkeepsie or further south.
I wonder if the insertion of lemon juice is enough to counterbalance the dizzy spells. I recall doing long walks but not any jogging while doing longer fasts.

I'm very surprised by the lack of muscle fatigue though. I've done fasts of 4+ days 10+ times and I always get significant muscle fatigue around that point (esp. in the hamstrings).
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If you have a way to become a CEO or any position that's highly competitive without playing the game I'm sure everyone would like to hear it.
Sponsorship is functionally brand awareness advertising, as opposed to conversion-oriented advertising. Sponsorship likens closer to the days of billboards and TV ads, when you either "felt the effects" or didn't, very qualitatively.

Why do you, and "any marketer," think we're headed away from conversion-oriented, highly quantitative models of advertising?
Sadly, I'm not too young to know. The Apple II had tons of documentation, including its schematics, for christ's sake, and a built-in disassembler so you could inspect anything in the ROMs. It came with two versions of BASIC -- Woz wrote an integer-only BASIC, and a licensed Microsoft BASIC. Over the years I had one, I also wrote programs in Pascal, C (with a Z-80 card), Forth, and 6502 assembler. Plus, you could wire crap directly into the game port's A/D converters; it was our generation's Arduino. So yeah, it was a pretty great box for developers.

> There was no internet as we know it today

It was the age of BBSes. I spent thousands of hours trolling random BBSes for bits of knowledge. There also were Compuserve, the Source, and Delphi -- today you'd think of them as AOL-like walled gardens. (In the early days AOL was considered just a Compuserve clone with a GUI front end.)

> 6502 assembler... not like that's a trivial task

I wrote an Apple ][ game in 6502 assembler for Compute! Magazine when I was 15. (Yes, back then, software was distributed in magazines... people would type the code in...) I urge you to find an online Apple ][ simulator and try it. It's crazy and fun. But yes, it's like going from the big lego blocks to the tiny lego blocks. You say "Python will teach you a lot about how to structure problems into smaller parts" -- writing a simple game in 6502 assembler will teach you (force you) to structure your code into even smaller parts.

I personally like bigger lego blocks and the higher-level abstractions we have today, I think it makes me ridiculously more productive and now that's what I crave (productivity = more time spent with my kids) whereas when I was younger I loved digging into the internals just because they were there.

> Apple II... glorified calculators...

Awww hell. Now it's on.
My guess is that you haven't spent any actual time on dairy farms. Early in my career I worked in the fertilizer business and a large part of my customer base were dairy farmers.

I worked with dairy farmers with as few as 100 cows and as many as 1200. These were family farms and they cared well for the animals. Antibiotics were only used on sick cows and not as a daily regimen. I really respect those guys, most of them are far better businessmen than the tradesmen in town.

The few times that I saw animals mistreated were farmers who weren't very long for the dairy business.
yeah its temporarily down, but will be back soon. thanks for the heads up.
Ask HN: Wireframing - How should I wireframe?
I was having a discussion with my designer friend about how to go about wireframing a site.

I was under the impression that if you have the skills to do so, using a framework such as twitter bootstrap and creating code would be a lot more efficient/lean than using a program such as omnigraffle to first wireframe through images, and then again create a prototype/wireframe in html.

What is the benefit of using the Omnigraffle -> Bootstrap Wireframe -> Dev

Vs.

Bootstrap Wireframe -> Dev

Thanks!
The article states, "Take a look at your Google Analytics first, see how many visitors are coming to your site from different devices, look at their screen resolutions and operating system and then decide who you want to please first."

That does align nicely with data driven decision making, but I'd sure be worried that new visitors, upon visiting my site and realizing the competitor's responsive site is a much nicer experience, decides not to return.

I help run a small store online with enough traffic to matter to me and I think I'm at around 12% mobile new visits. That's a lot and I'm currently not responsive. I'm becoming a bit anxious wondering about new user experience on my site and whether I should start the move sooner than later.
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Your #1 is a good point. Since the only value of this "product" is that it's a joke, the number of "likes" he got in different countries could just be a reflection on how funny people from different cultures think "virtual bagels" are, and not an indication of any commercially significant behavior.

Or, users in the U.S. might just be so jaded from having seen too many joke products advertised on Facebook that they don't bother liking them anymore, while they may still be a novelty in Egypt.
Also, milk/dairy products in general are chocked-full of cow hormones that cause acne, baldness and prostrate cancer in men. It's best to not consume it.

Sources:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18194824

http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/qa/2008/PCPTQandA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrotestosterone
I was merely debating the "useless" part. Clearly they are of some use.
> Physical attractiveness aside, a male doctor or male CEO is going to attract more interest than a male barista by virtue of his occupation and income.

You clearly do not live in San Francisco.
I know it is not a gitalias, it is a shell wide alias for a command that involves git. That is why I said the better solution would be to use gitalias than your shell's alias functionality. With gitalias you can provide the same functionality without creating the possibility for command conflicts.
It's also in his interest to raise the bar.
I haven't seen any recent stats for HN companies, but here are some other stats:

StackOverflow tagged questions: Django 36000+, Flask about 3000 (Flask 675 + SQLAlchemy 1880 + Jinja2 376)

Google Groups: "Django updates" 35864 topics, "Django users" 37333 topics, Flask (no user groups)

PyPi packages: Django 2539, Flask (no classifier for flask but somewhere around 260 search results for 'flask')

IRC: #django usually has 500-600 in channel at all times of day. I can't connect right now for exact numbers for flask (assuming there is a channel) but other frameworks like Pyramid are probably equivalent and less than 100.

Now, except for IRC these numbers don't judge current momentum... but they still give a good indicator on community size. For example, in all these areas plone/zope numbers beat django but clearly momentum is towards Django when comparing the two.
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Ask HN: Did my friends account get blocked?
My friend "youngdev" has been posting but lately not getting any response. I just viewed his profile and all of his posts are not visible. Did his account get blocked?
Would you really? What about the "mistake" of thinking that the web was just a passing fad?
I worked for a great guy who also happened to be on the board of a reasonably well respected tech university in the South Western U.S. Every year they have a meeting about doing the kinds of things that boost their rankings in US News and every year they've decided to not do those things because of how it would hurt what they feel to be their academic mission - educating students.

He said that almost everything that you can do to boost your ratings are gimmick events like rejecting more applicants, or increasing spending on getting applicants.

One particularly greusome idea was to hire national survey companies to hang outside of popular teen events and get students to fill out a preliminary application that they would then reject to get boost their rejection percent and appear more "competitive".

They keep rejecting these kinds of meaningless shows of status.

But the lure of prestige keeps this meeting on the agenda anyways.
I see. So you do have a database (it's the YAML file) but I see how you're talking about keeping costs and maintenance on the lower side. Nice! So I guess the only thing you're worried about is if google algorithms change. Still, that won't happen to PPC.

I would love to find some good niches for PPC affiliate commissions. Do you have any examples ? ( don't have to be your sites..)
Here is what I think:

1) If it is a fairly large website, then first get the core on paper, then fireup the Omnigraffle, sketch some initial screens in to it, and see if it make sense regarding flow.

OR

2) If it is not that big website, then starting with Twitter Bootstrap Framework will do the job.

See the thing is "what is the only I should do the wireframe", the real question is "What's the demand of the situation and context?"
The best possible outcome IMO would be for Facebook to back Zynga and have EA and Zynga/Facebook sue each other into oblivion :D
Unfortunately, it is a very real possibility. This guy is a hero. I can't imagine how much guts it takes to fight a machine so vast, powerful and dangerous as Russian governing syndicate.
Assuming the balloon itself has zero mass, every cubic meter of hydrogen in your balloon can lift a maximum 30 grams of payload. For the 2000 ton space shuttle, that's sixty million cubic meters - a spherical balloon half a kilometer in diameter. There's a reason we don't launch rockets with balloons.

There are practical non-rocket ideas, though, such as the Verne Gun: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/150-kiloton-nuclear-verne-g...
Create your own company. This site is littered with examples of people doing exactly this.

The other way is to discard the idea that being a "CEO" is a desirable goal at all.
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So, would you pay $1 to tell 1,000 people a joke and then a bit about your product? Would you pay $2? $3? $10?

Just testing the possible price points.
Thanks for the name, I had no clue that this practice was widespread. A bit of research says that this thing is also capable of phoning home the contents of your selection to an analytics server, but I presume that the New Yorker doesn't use that feature as I'm not seeing any errant net requests (and as someone who compulsively highlights arbitrary bits of text while reading, I wonder how useful that would be in the first place).
On the other hand unhealthy unproductive competition to work the longest doesn't do anybody any good at all.

Sometimes individual incentives don't lead to the best societal outcome and it can be beneficial to try to change the situation by setting examples, incentives or even sometimes with rules.
That definitely makes sense. We aren't saying that you shouldn't consider doing a responsive website for your mobile visitors, you certainly should. But, like you mentioned, you have a small team and there must be other features on the development roadmap that may be of a higher priority. For example, if you run mobile-targetted ads, you should probably have a great experience on mobile to make sure your users convert. However, if your shopping cart requires 16 steps to checkout, then you're better of first upgrading the cart to a 1-3 step checkout process. Do you see what I mean? Thinking about user data just helps to make a decision on when you'd start implementing responsive layout.
Get in touch by email, I can help more by sending over some excel files of example restaurant inventories that are currently being used by the industry.

Restaurant inventory has clear needs that i can go into further, if you're interested in pursuing that market of course. I'm not sure they'll pay for it, and they're not the best early adopters, so I would hesitate to build a business model around them. That being said, take a look at http://www.scanitinternational.com as an example of one group trying to solve it.
This is a pretty important observation. I will applaud SpaceX for their efforts as well, but there is a massive difference between transporting cargo into space and human beings.

SpaceX claims their transport is cheaper but they have not claimed it is safer. If they are really aiming for the human transportation business I wonder if the true cost of their rocket ships will be much more on par with existing vehicles. I'm sure they have taken advantage of some optimizations and efficiencies in new technologies and materials. But I also believe one of the reasons the other rockets are so much more expensive is not because they are relying on old technology, but having to satisfy much more stringent government regulations regarding safety, testing, and quality control. The ATLAS V has had 100% Mission Success and that does not come cheaply.
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The problem with the P in MVP is that Your Product is NOT “The Product”[1]

But I guess that as the term goes mainstream, it is only expected to be misunderstood[2][3]

[1] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-pro...

[2] http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...

[3] http://blog.fogus.me/2012/08/03/everyones-agile/
An aside to anyone who does want to just push pixels with native code in 3 lines: http://code.google.com/p/pixeltoaster/

Pixeltoaster is a dead easy to use framebuffer wrapped on top of GL/SDL. It also comes with a timer and keyboard/mouse input, it's pretty much as much fun as you can have in C++.
One other problem I see is why would people spend the same money for the Surface as the iPad, when Microsoft has a history of abandoning their products?

People have already seen the demise of MSFT's Zune products, RIMM's Playbook, etc. If I'm going to choose between an iPad or a Surface, and they are the same price, will I really gamble on the Surface when I know it might not be around 1 year from now? I know the iPad will be around. I can't say the same about the Surface, and if it's gone quickly, then I will kick myself for not buying an iPad.

This is something that the Amazon Kindle Fire did right. They priced it low enough so that there isn't as much risk, and their Kindle brand makes me believe it will be around for a while.
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I ordered mine on the first day, so I presume it was an early manufacturing run. The magnet in mine seems fantastic. I've had no issues with it staying in. I can't, however, compare it to earlier models as this is the only MacBook I've owned or used extensively.
This quote seems relevant:

[Navalny] was similarly dismissive of the people who think that he or anyone else is fighting a well-oiled, repressive machine. “I disagree, because the people who work in business at a high enough level can tell you that there’s no machine at all,” he says. “It’s all a fiction. That is, they can destroy a single person, like Magnitsky or me or Khodorkovsky. But, if they try to do anything systemically against a huge number of people, there’s no machine. It’s a ragtag group of crooks unified under the portrait of Putin. There’s no super-repressive regime. There are no mythical Cheka agents that we need to be scared of. It’s just a bunch of crooks.”
"we were targeting English-speaking countries only, so I don't know why we were getting hits from India and Egypt and stuff"

Seriously? Seriously?

I mean... no, never mind. "Confused" doesn't even begin to describe it. Given that the US doesn't have an official language, India is more of an English speaking country than the US is.
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"I often wonder if being shackled to a job by the specter of being uninsured isn't built into the system on purpose."

I've often wondered this too. It just seems so asinine that we tie healthcare to the employer--it's bad for employers and employees.
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