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This hypothetical business model exists already: It's called Brookstone.

They go out and find unique gadgets to sell at high markups in malls. It would be interesting to see that format adapted to Best Buy's "big box" real estate and store format. (In other words it is hard for me to imagine how it would work.)
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Yes, our name doesn't fully match our product :) That's because it's from our original idea. When we pivoted, we considered getting a new name, but pg's advice was - "If it's short and can be easily spelled, you're good. Move on." - so we stuck with it.

As for the product, you hit the nail on the head. Our goal is to disrupt the process of setting up communication infrastructure. We want our users to be able to spin up/down solutions on demand.
From what I see, knowledge comes from experience and study. An IDE doesn't magically separates you from the need to know how stuff works. What you describe is a unexperienced programmer, but those exist in any area, using or not a IDE. From what I understood you, your see a problem with code generated by a wizard or by an automated process and if that's your point I agree, but that's not how eclipse is used.
Besides that, I don't think there is a link between bad code and IDE. You can't look at a bad code and say..hmm this code probably was written in eclipse, or at a good code and say that it was written with vi, because this connection does not exist.
If you had $10,000,000, and never had to work again, what would you do with your time?

(not what would you do with the money)
How would that affect the BSD projects? Do you think they would be able to maintain the same quality control (which even with a relatively small number of contributors is still a challenge) if they had the same pressure to change things day in and day out that GNU/Linux has?

I have my doubts. And I would guess I'm not alone. If there were a way we could "test" it and then revert back if the effects were terrible, I'd be all for it.

But if BSD became like Linux or OSX, and there was nothing to replace the space it fills, I would lose my interest in computers.
Yes, in fact I find it mysterious too. I can get used to the fact that there are such these people but I cannot possibly relate. I can empathize but I can't pretend I really understand how does it feel. Frankly I find it a bit repulsive but I won't judge for what's in other people's minds. You'd possibly find some of my tastes repulsive as well. To each his own.
Groupon is now threatening small merchants with lawsuits
> Disagree that 50% should be considered a good success rate though.

Perhaps this is just a signal that society may be moving past "Till death do us part". I don't think this indicates anything bad about society, except perhaps people forgetting how serious society once treated marriage.
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Probably the Smartest Thread You’ll Read on (Social) E-Commerce
I do what I love to do. I leave my programmer job
what's wrong with JCC?

http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/jcc/index.html

i have used it a lot to generate JNI bindings for other code via a simple Makefile template (list JARs and packages, alter names and versions, and poof). it works quite often, but it does run into some wonky C++ code it can't quite figure out.

still, pretty easy. one example are some (work-private) mahout bindings.
I hadn't thought of 'for grownups' in that way, but I see what you mean. I've now updated the copy.

The resending idea is fantastic. You could, I guess, copy the message into the send message form and click send, but I'll look into adding that as a native function to the UI as well.

The messages are stored on the server. I am a bit nervous about spam, but I plan to deal with that when it arrives. At the moment only one or two of the emails have been 'spam' (messages with only a single word in them).

I'll also look into making some sort of logo ASAP. Thanks for your feedback :)
MusicHype Launches Social CRM Platform The Appreciation Engine
On the results page, it would be nice if all the salaries were vertically aligned. On the ranking, when you go from single digtis -> double digits -> triple digits the alignment changes.
It's also called rape because it involves sex with someone who was asleep and wasn't able to give consent.

If you see someone asleep and go up to them and start having sex with them, that's rape!
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New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars
A lot more of these low-quality "research" pieces from The Atlantic are popping up on HN.

For a while, the only Atlantic pieces that trickled up were well-researched and well-thought. So now I'm eager to click on links from what I thought was a solid news source, but disappointed when I find fluff. Maybe they write less of those research pieces nowadays? I sure hope they don't become one of those link-bait crap news sites.
#4 has made my life miserable in the past, and will probably do so again. ISO certification requirements seem to exacerbate it, interestingly (frustratingly) enough.
Assange is wanted for 4 offences in Sweden. One of them is the "sex without condom one". Another is "sex with someone who is asleep". That is the one that is refered to as rape, and that is rape.

Stop spreading the ideal that this isn't a "real rape" or "legitimate rape" case.
Glad to see this coming to SF. It's one of the things that I miss the most from Mexico City, where the EcoBici (http://thecityfix.com/blog/mexico-city-launches-ecobici-bike...) program its one of the best ways to get around on the upscale neighborhoods.
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll be moving to and optimizing for mobile soon. (I'm a Survata co-founder).
Studio Ghibly announces new PS3 game (preview)
It's amazing how many things are in terminal decline according to Google trends

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=new+york&ctab=0&geo=...
I believe the precedent being cited is that the general welfare may be more important than black letter law.
"What it does is render the whole screen at a different resolution, say 1920×1200, and then scale it up, using the graphics hardware, to 2880×1800! This means everything gets blurred. I.e. I get less crispness than a native 1920×1200 display would give me."

No, it does nothing of the sort. It renders the whole screen at 3840x2160 and scales it DOWN to 2880x1800. As a result everything designed for retina is razor sharp. Everything that is standard resolution is blurry, but no more so than when running at 1440x900 equivalent.

I run 1920x1200 equiv. on my rMPB all day. I even run Adobe CS6 on it. No problems. Seriously, all the complaining I've heard about "unusable" Adobe products on this machine are bunk. It hasn't effected my photo editing, or page layout work even a tiny bit. I don't use MS Office much, which is indeed blurry at any resolution, but LibreOffice is sharp.
Interpol is not qualified to judge if what a full member country calls rape is really rape. They received a request from the country, and they charge it (well... they do filter non-serious charges... but this almost never happens to fully respected democracies).

And yeah... rape is actually one of those things that Interpol almost always investigate if it's crossborder. It's actually not strange at all... To Interpol, it's rape. Which is considered a very serious crime. Period.
Nine 3D printer startups have been funded on KickStarter
If it were a benefit, don't you think you could elucidate it?

There is a challenge to 'open' salary information (which professional players get a pass on) which is that typically the interest is in the comparing. Do I make more or less than average? Than Bob? Than the President of the US? And yet the underlying jobs are rarely matched.

The common case is that someone who you think is a complete waste of oxygen is making more money than you. Does that make you feel motivated? Can you step outside your complexes of self evaluation to listen to your manager explain why they are in fact worth more to the company than you are?

The only successful way to play this game is decide for yourself how much compensation you require in order to work at the job you are working at. If it isn't enough, then quit, if it is more than enough, enjoy it, and if it is merely sufficient then don't sweat it.
It's a morale problem.

Anyone at the high end will see the numbers and say "Well, I'm worth it." No win, no loss.

Anyone at the low end will see the numbers and be really angry about being underpaid. Negative impact.

On net: not worth it.
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People hate taking surveys. The only reliable way to get data out of people in survey form is to ambush them on the phone or in person and pressure them into answering some questions for you. And even then, the data has to be filtered appropriately. Paywalls and most online polls are the wrong place to ask people serious questions.
Why make it harder for users to do something which is already possible using your own filter feature?

For example, data on one company:

# of Founders: 1
Founder Age: 43
Number of Months Worked: 20
Number of Employees / Contractors (FTE): 2
Social? No
Mobile? No
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=405727117130

"Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts."

"We'll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the "Like" button and the Wall."
> Well non-consensual doesn't necessarily imply unconscious

Correct. But non-consensual means rape.
Writing thoughtful, complete responses to Hacker News posts takes me a long time, time I could use instead to write my own essays or code. HN is my enemy (or frenemy). So I mostly just lurk.

(Sometimes I fail to resist the urge to respond, as you can see.)
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And I think the solid relationships with big publishers is the big part that's hard to replicate.

That said, you could probably more easily approach smaller (more local?) publishers that are more willing to experiment to get traction. Is that what you're planning on doing?
I blogged in a vacuum for almost two years without an audience. An audience has shown up since then but I continue to blog for me. Just being able to google for my thoughts the years later makes it worth it.
I always thought "a GUI interface using Visual Basic" was paid product placement.
Yammer CEO argues with Marc Andreessen on Facebook
I am offended by the ideal that there are people who think non-consensual sex doesn' count as rape.

What's next? "Some forms of non-consenting taking of property shouldn't count as theft", etc.
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While I totally understand that the mission's computing power was decided a long time ago, if they'd left some 'high risk' room in the budget (mainly weight) then they could have added whatever new tech was available, say a year before launch in the hope that it works, if it doesn't then the old klunky decade old tech will still do its job, but just maybe the foil wrapped iPhone will Facetime back to Earth and work just fine. Aside from adding a little weight, it seems like a small risk to throw onboard something closer to cutting edge with a caveat that it might not work in the mission plan.

I bet if NASA had had a competition to come up with the most likely to work gizmo, up to 1 lb (or whatever) we'd have seen some pretty good ideas (beyond duct taping an iphone to the antenna mast)
Why would I stop running a website? It's a cheap VPS that I use for lots of things. No reason for it to go away.
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24 years old, and I'll still do this every now and then when an escalator is uncrowded enough.
If you enjoy that kind of programming, sure, go for it. It certainly is possible to program a crawler in Java. Personally I can't go back since I experienced more succinct languages.

Also beware of pseudo work: I suspect Java is partly popular because it makes you feel productive. You are constantly busy creating Tiny Types (as you call them), generating code in Eclipse (cool: one click and you have 50 lines of code in your class) and so on. It is all just pseudo work that accomplishes nothing, but maybe feeling productive is worth it.
Neat stuff here.
If you believe that men are now being prosecuted and hounded by all those nasty nasty feminists who just want to castrate all men.

It's just another conspiracy theory, like the Jews did 9/11 and Obama is a secret muslim. Nutcases.
Tsunamiii!!
>Now if you want to go so far as to say there is an emergent market for 'craft' electronics

You can also check out:
https://www.tindie.com/
There are cases where surveys are useful, but none of them hinge on getting accurate results. The two that come to mind: push polls, and exploiting sample bias to make yourself look good.
> You didn't even answer someone's direct question toward you, a question that can really help you focus and find the direction you need to improve: "What are you working on now?"

I didn't see it.

My day job leaves me pretty drained. Aside from that, I've been learning more about web-app programming. I allegedly do embedded and kernel work now for a large network hardware vendor so I realized a while ago I need to spread my wings so to speak.
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Still, the short haul market is also huge. There are _a lot_ of data centers around. If you got a top of the rack switch serving 40 machines each with 10Gb ethernet, you want more than a 100Gb uplink.
"I guess my point is, that if you want to become a programmer, you have to be comfortable with having
to learn new things constantly for the rest of your life."

I think that applies to anything, if you want to have any measure of success, especially these days.

"So the lesson I've learned is that - even though I like coding -
I enjoy building products even more."

Yeah, never say that to a developer.
I like hearing these stories of released apps. It's one reason I like the Show HN threads. I enjoy reading about how they overcame the problems they encountered. As somebody who is working on a project, it helps to distract me from frustration and (hopefully) fix a problem I will stumble across in the future.
Very cool! But does he have to stand like that? Or can we change it?
Startup: crowdfunding for actual real estate. Will it work?
Something not mentioned here is that timing attacks have been proven effective even across the internet; you might think "Oh the jitter in TCP is going to overwhelm any leaked information," but you would be wrong.
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I definitely want to know about computers.
Are there Bootstrap tutorials that also combine the minimal CSS knowledge required in order to use it? For instance, I have a vague understanding of the box model, and can hand-code very simple pages myself, but I find it unsatisfactory, as the nested divs and knowing what class to use when can drive me a bit nuts. So far the tutorials I've come across don't add much to the official documentation at all.

I'm hoping this lean book [1] will give me a nice, integrated walk through these issues.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Twitter-Bootstrap/dp/6201519254/
Kind of useless if everyone puts in bogus numbers, though. $10*pi million annually? Really, guys?
I think @FAKEGRIMLOCK has the best idea here. As others have suggested, writing long well thought-out responses takes time. A lot of time.

But writing like a dinosaur, with short well thought-out responses. Now that doesn't take that long. And you can see this in how prolific @FAKEGRIMLOCK is.

To put it another way: LONG RESPONSE TAKE TIME. TO THE POINT. QUICK.
Thanks for checking it out! That's right, you can change his poses in our product. We're adding some crazier poses in the days ahead - drop me a note if there's a particular pose you're envisioning and we'll add it in.
The monowidth version of the font is still in development. I look forward to hearing about that in the ("near") future.
How the Open Source Lab helped Drupal grow.
is it sustainable? does it matter if it's sustainable?
You seem to be evaluating this company based on either A. how it would work for you personally, as someone who isn't interested or B. an inaccurate assessment of how it would work for other people who aren't you. When discussing a company you typically try to avoid both.

For instance, many girls like dolls, but if you don't like dolls that doesn't make dolls a "No." business, and it's not illuminating to hear why dolls are icky. A better discussion would be how and what makes a new doll appealing (or unappealing) and whether it can compete with Barbie.

Clearly the online survey industry is making some money. Certain parts of the web, which may not target you, rely on surveys. Combining surveys and paywalls, if not perfectly novel, is at least interesting. The combination raises a host of issues and potential problems which your comment ignores.

Your being off-base would not quite matter as much if it wasn't so rude to the team that worked on this. Did they do a good job in their implementation? I don't know, it hasn't come up yet.
Great stuff! Very cool, wish I had this when I was little.
"Pay us to fix X. It'll cost a bunch, and you end up with the what you had before." Where X in [y2k, ajax, retina, ...]. I love this field!
For some careers, particularly technical ones, "learning for life" / autodidactism are no longer optional. You're required to keep up with all the latest research, trends, tools, and a variety of other things that make you current. Sure, having a solid foundation helps, but is no longer enough (I'd argue it hasn't been enough for a long time.) You're required to learn every day to keep up.

What some here (who I'd venture are more likely than the median person to be autodidacts) may find surprising is that many people find the idea that you have to "keep learning stuff after college" distasteful, even abhorrent. The "go to college so you can get some job and then do what you 'REALLY' want with your life" thing is vanishing quickly, and the level of competitiveness in society (well, in America at least) is increasing.

The economic disparities this creates have been discussed at length, but the social ones less so. The fact that some careers require non-stop learning for these people means that in some ways school never ends, and the post-college, "no more competition" sigh of relief never comes. To me this is neither good nor bad, just inevitable at this point, but I think understanding the perspective of those who can not or will not follow the self-learning-for-life path is important. If nothing else, people here will know the reason that they are so grumpy.
I'm sure there's some way to run BSD on linode, but the path of least mouse clicks put ubuntu on it. :)
Polite social reciprocity has changed. Many contacts are ignored outright (hanging up on telemarketers, not acknowledging job applications, not returning voicemails, etc.). Delayed responses are the norm with emails, texting and voicemails. Greetings and closings are rare unto suspicious in emails. Spam filters black/white-list what gets through. Long replies are rare. ...and little of these are ever considered "rude", as we all understand the staggering volume of messaging faced and managed, if with occasional notable failures.

Today, E.B.White would just set up an auto-reply and get on with his next book.

ETA: Right, he wouldn't as indicated. Though something would give, and some technology would be leveraged, making replies take much less than hand-typed-on-paper.
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Yep! You beat me to it. I wonder if it would be possible for some big brands like Dyson, Samsung, etc. to band together and maintain the retail show rooms. Perhaps a new holding company could be formed to manage the real estate on a more "Walmart" like 2-3% margin with the HW companies bearing most of the cost of retail, but also gaining a much larger chunk of margin.

I think retail is going to become a very interesting space over the next 10 years as the Big Box model gives way to an Amazon same day solution on one side and a high touch, high service model on the other.
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Your statement here suggests that what is considered child porn always involves the abuse of a child. This is not the case. Many teens have been put on sex offender lists and had their lives trashed because it was found out that a girl/boy of similar age sent them a picture of themselves naked.

Also I wonder what the prevalence of fake/real violence in our society has on the demand for "snuff". You don't really need to seek out snuff films because you can easily see films that depict horrible things happening to people, completely legally.

I am not pro-child porn here, it just makes for an interesting philosophical/societal topic.
> I feel the author needs to skim some books on evolution to see that there is nothing inherently wrong with this approach.

This is broken thinking.

You encountered,

"Process X has attribute A, and this is bad."

and you respond with,

"No, because Process Y also has attribute A."

This is only valid if we are either 1) guaranteed that there is nothing bad about process Y, or 2) considering processes X and Y as alternative options whose merits we are comparing.

Dispensing quickly with 2 - we are considering "Cathedral-mode development" vs. "Bazaar-mode development", not "Evolution" vs. "Bazaar-mode development", so this is not applicable.

Without further support, option 1 strikes me as confusion of is-ought. It is the case that evolution works this way, so any design process ought to work this way. There is, however, plenty "wrong with" evolution as an approach to producing designs for a given purpose. It is horribly inefficient compared to design, suffers from greater path dependence, doesn't keep notes about systems that may have worked that went extinct for unrelated reasons, etc. The attribute A that you are comparing is in fact one of the things "wrong with" evolution and "wrong with" Bazaar-mode development.

(Note, of course, that a problem with evolution in terms of producing optimal designs for our goals is not the same thing as a problem with evolution as an explanation of the world around us.)
I was thinking about this, also, what stops say a recruiter from this to figure out worker salaries?
Ghclive: a Haskell REPL for the web.
In short? The companies and their lawyers. Litigation is becoming more about hampering your competition and protecting yourself than it is about consumers and things which are 'wrong.'
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Would be great to hear your feedback on this.
Paramilitary operations imply quite a bit of paperwork. That doesn't just happen at a whim. Especially not on a multi-million dollar compound at the risk of legal backlash.

If NZ wanted an excuse to walk their toys then there's never a shortage of drug dealers
and other obvious targets with better publicity.

Why would they go ballistic over bagging an overweight computer-fraudster?

There is no plausible explanation other than somebody demanding special effects.
Would also say, there are tons of blogs out there with dedicated readerships in niche, but high value demographics (to advertisers). This is perfect for them.
I love this idea, but my issue with it is that it turns investors into merely a vehicle for money. If all you need is money, then it's awesome. But presumably, there are plenty of startups out there that could benefit from the advice, contacts, and expertise of the investors as well as their money. The role of the strategic investor is reduced.

I understand you can still secure investment outside of FundersClub, but there can be issues with dilution. It'll be interesting to see how this all turns out.

(Yes, I copy-pasta'd my own comment from the article.)