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The first part of the title is descriptive, but there's not much of anything "Done Right" in there that I can see. Just the same old.
Well, your number of children is linear, but your number of descendants is exponential. For the CS students, what this means is that the number of children you have personally, even assuming they all reproduce, rapidly becomes immaterial next to the number of your descendants.

The only reason having more children might be beneficial is if it significantly increases the odds that they personally, or their children successfully reproduce. If you have some other way of boosting those odds -- say, by being a successful parent to a smaller number of children -- that's just as good in the long run.
I've lived recently through a experience in which I failed to convince the founders into making me a co-founder. Two very successful entrepreneurs (with many successful exits, one of which worth hundreds of millions of dollars) invited me a couple months ago to join them to work in their idea. I started working part-time at first, getting to know them, and from day one, I stated I wanted to be their co-founder, not employee. I tried to stay part-time until I was more sure of how working with them would be like.

We assembled a team, refined the vision and were then negotiating how everyone would join it, so we could build the MVP. I was ready to work full-time, but suddenly, they were trying to reason with me that % of equity doesn't matter, what matters is the number of shares you own, and tried to offer me a regular salary + options (not even a decent salary). I tried to convince them about why % matters, and why it was fair for me to get equity, but then they told me that this model doesn't work when they are the investors who are going to put millions of dollars into the company, having effectively the control of dilution over me.

I proposed ideas that would take care of the dilution problem, but it was no good, they weren't really listening to me, using the same arguments over and over. This was the first red flag that raised in my head, and later, we started disagreeing on how to build the company (I was showing them how the Customer Development Model works, showed them the canvas from business model generation and all). I noticed they had very strong beliefs on how to do it, and weren't willing to discuss it with me. That's when the illusion popped and I noticed, I wasn't a co-founder, and ended up getting a call a week ago with them saying that "maybe I wasn't ready to face the risks of starting up" and that I shouldn't participate in the meeting later that day... It's a shame, I liked the team, and the idea was quite interesting, but no way I would put 4-6 years of my life into this without being a co-founder.

In retrospect, I think that what caused our issues was mostly the fact that they never had another co-founder and all of their previous startups were bootstrapped. So when I asked equity, they likely saw it as too risky, even though we worked together and they saw my determination and skills.
People saying this patent could kill free commercial radio should also be saying that AdBlock could kill the free web(-sites, -blogs, etc).
There is a need for snark. Claiming unlimited when it's not is ridiculous doublespeak. It's lying.

They need to stop doing this, it confuses non-technical people. Advertise the limit clearly. Make it a big number if they need to grab attention.
I am really surprised and many time pissed off ( as a Opera user) that Opera desktop doesn't have as much user share as it should. I don't know what it missed. Many of the new features in browsers these days would trace back to Opera. Many features in Opera are not found in other browsers. But still, it remains flat. Sad.
Oh good, NASA will get their funding back. You know because we went to the moon on an ICBM and curiosity has a laser.
Most cellular modems are USB devices, intended to be plugged into (laptop) computers.

You should be able to use something like the awesome ASUS WL-330N3G credit-card sized 3G router (http://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/WL330N3G/), once 4G-capable versions become available. Which I really hope they will.

Of course, you could also replace your router with a 4G USB-capable one.
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..but in this case, there isn't one. FTA:

No data caps, speed limits, or bill shock

It's pretty explicit to there being no artificially imposed limits of any kind.
Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
You could use Windows Internet Connection Sharing.

Right-click the connection on your computer, share it, and then plug the ethernet cable from your computer into your router.
Yes, we are celebrating the ability to use tabs to open mail vs a browser tab. Because surely nobody likes browser tabs. sigh news fail.
I love learning and teaching. So I would either start a school (ilke a trade school) where anyone can come and learn 'real world" employable skills. It couod possibly be online.

I would also do an open source learning management system (some ppl are already doing this of course)

If nothing else, I will become a tutor/teacher at things that I am good at. I will volunteer at schools/universities.
Yeah something like Freakonomics (Tim Harford calls himself the undercover economist) and with equally admirable production qualities. I mentioned More or Less as my podcast recommendation on the very last HNpod actually.
"I managed $ABC million budgets..." always makes me think, "Was it your money? Or were you just dipping into the seemingly endless corporate coffers?"

I think working with big corporate budgets negatively trains you for running your own company. You can just throw money at things and if it doesn't work out, no big deal. Drop $80k on a booth at a trade show that didn't result in a single sale? Well, at least you got some good face-time, right? That kind of thing just doesn't fly when you're just starting out on your own.

It's much harder to manage a $20k budget and go from $0 to >$0 revenue than it is to manage a $1 million budget that just magically refills year after year.
Given that the article makes it clear in the first sentence that this is about more than the specific example of Jesus that's relevant how?
Offer HN: Usability Feedback
I'd like to connect with other members of the HN community more, so to do that I'd like to offer to give usability feedback - just send me an email. My email address is on my profile. Or ping me on twitter, @nonrecursive.

Here's an example of more detailed feedback that I've given: http://www.usabilityfeedback.com/example/spaces_new.html . I probably won't include screenshots but I will provide detailed notes. Also, that web site offers a service that I'm no longer offering, so please don't consider this an advertisement for a service. I just really like giving usability feedback :)
Great news! There's more details on the company's blog, too: http://blog.typesafe.com/typesafe-announces-14m-series-b-fin...
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I want to punch anyone that uses the phrase "after the break", when there is clearly no "break".
Is that really lost if there's a login that keeps track of the individual list urls? I don't think they have to become private just because they're tracked.
Please, for the love of Jef Raskin and Henry Dreyfuss and Don Norman and all that is human factors, no.

The film version of Minority Report was not a model for practical or usable interface design. Millions of years of evolution have built our brains and bodies for interacting with things that provide physical feedback when we touch them. Waving a pencil in the air, "manipulating" an invisible item and looking for visual feedback from a screen, these are not good experiences. Even if you discount the "gorilla arm syndrome" that StavrosK quite rightly points out here, the fatigue of trying to perform fine and accurate motion without physical stimuli for your hands and fingers to respond to is significant.

I'm sorry to be a negative voice in the face of innovation, but this really does feel like a technology in search of a problem. What worries me greatly is that it has a remarkably high "cool factor" that would be excellent in short demos, and could be easily pitched to companies looking for a flashy feature to get a leg up on the competition. We were saddled with some dubious decisions at the dawn of the GUI age, and we're just starting to lose them as we enter the Direct Manipulation age of interfaces. Please don't let this concept of feedback-free hand gestures become a paradigm that we're stuck with in the future.
You're referring to the year 0 CE, he's referring to the advent of agriculture around 10000 BCE.
T-Mobile won't allow you to tether a phone that uses this package, so they presumably wouldn't allow another device to share the package.

Src: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/t-mobiles-service-to-...
Perhaps deep down you really want to be Japanese though. Google might know you better than you know yourself.
Typesafe (the Scala company) raises $14m in series B
You can do these things even if you have to pay bills. Just start small with sth you can ship quite fast (a part of a robot or a small one, a robot for a niche market). You can grow your company and eventually you will be shipping robots like it's 1999. A lot of companies start like this, the problem is that we look at apple etc as examples while most companies start with a small part (or as distributors of a product).
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not mentioning Jesus was never a common ancestor to all people, even in the bible.

Adam and Eve were (and I guess Noah?)
You better hope it will be me!
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>it's unlikely that the effect will be limited to that single person only

It's unlikely that the effect has been limited to that single person only. We don't care about the families now when we put their parents in prison - so why would keeping parents out of prison and reducing the price and risk associated with their drugs give us more of an obligation to their families?
Developer evangelism is marketing.
This drives me crazy all the time.

Even my OS and browser are in English and i made search with "English words" ( eg. "operating system" instead of "Betriebssystem" ), search results are in German because i'm in Germany.

At some level it's acceptable but things get weird when i use my girlfriends notebook ( english OS, chinese browser ) : Now google decides to obey "Accept-Language" and even i sign in with my google account, google switch language to Chinese. Since google tries and fails to being "smart" , i have to switch constantly between English, German and Chinese.
This is a full post page - the "break" will be on the front page of this site (which appears to be directing me to a mobile version for some bloody reason..), where everything before that will be just displayed on the page, everything after on the full post page.

No need to get violent.
because there's no advantage of a vertical touchscreen. the lcd should rotate so you can hold it like a tablet.
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The full idiom is "graceful degradation". It's been common on the web since the 90s, but I think it actually came from networking jargon.

It's not the same as responsive design. Graceful degradation implies a sort of hierarchy, where you subtract features on platforms that don't support them. So if you're using an supercool advanced browser feature, like colored text, you don't break the site for older browsers.

The responsive design idea is really more about different use cases than adapting to a more primitive environment.
Or were you just dipping into the seemingly endless corporate coffers

At both large companies I've worked at each department had its own budget, and each department head was responsible for that budget. If a manager keeps losing too much money, they get fired, if a department continually fails to turn a profit the department gets closed down. So while it's not the same as a startup it's also not like you have infinite money to throw around without consequence.
"Looks like those free lunches are already starting to pay off."

Stopped reading there. Mayer has been there 5 weeks. I highly doubt this has anything to do with her.
I'm coming to the later stages of implementing an MVP with Rails and for me, FactoryGirl and RSpec have been a godsend.
Mechanics should make videos.
In the meantime, in the alternative universe I wish I were living in, the same thing happens to the company behind the widely used Clojure programming language...
Being released in the UK first at £150 (which is $240ish) - so they might be higher in the US at first with import costs. A great price though, and with HDMI would also double as a media centre for me.
Ok, sales up. How about usage?
I had Opera Mini on my Sony-Ericsson a few years ago. Used it maybe half a dozen of times.
They mention a few. The main strapline includes "playing amazing android apps on the GoNote's touchscreen".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

Because in English, that second 'o' in such an awkward place would obviously become a schwa, and because the country's namesake is spelled with a 'u' in English, too?
I know a guy that donates to the sperm bank non-stop in Canada. Since it is illegal to pay for sperm here, he's got to be contributing a significant percentage of the banks' resources. He figures he has at least 100 children at this point.
Ask HN: Do we really need real-time social networks?
Facebook and twitter have put a lot of engineering effort into making their services real-time. You get the notification of a like the second another person clicks the button. You see comments (almost) immediately after they are published. You get tweets immediately.

But is that needed? Won't it be nearly the same if things happened with 30 or 60 seconds delay? (apart from the chat, of course). Would such a delay be a deal-breaker?
The main difference between the two communities is the ratio between what I'll call the 'experts' and the 'fools'.

'Experts' are people who have a solid background in the topic they're discussing. When it comes to technology, these are often people who have one or more degrees in fields like math, science and engineering, in addition to other more specific training. They have years of experience in industry working on real systems, or working in advanced research labs. They know what they're talking about. When they post a comment, it has real, intrinsic value.

'Fools' are the opposite. They have limited, if even any, relevant education or practical experience. In many cases, they're so ignorant that they're completely ignorant of the fact that they're ignorant. Thus each and every comment they make is full of nonsense.

So here at HN, there are a very small number of 'fools' for every 'expert'. That's why the quality of discussion here is generally so much higher. There's real insight in the discussion here, because so many 'experts' are involved.

It's a different situation at /r/programming. For every 'expert', there are literally thousands of 'fools'. Any relevant discussion from 'experts' is drowned out by the sheer volume of junk from 'fools'. Worse, the 'experts' often have their comments down-voted, which essentially removes any trace of intelligent discussion. All that remains is stupidity.

I don't think that people here necessarily hate /r/programming or its users. It's just that many here likely see it as a waste of time to deal with that community, and with the ignorance that permeates it. And it's hard to take them seriously because of the low-quality discussion that often happens there.
Now I can code all goddamn day and probably never achieve the same impact as that little conversation in the middle of a busy conference.

Correlation is not causation. Sounds like the author is about to enter that glossy pink world of hybris where you think the words that come out of your mouth is what makes the world go 'round. ;)

I'm not saying those words of encouragement where worthless, but they did not cause the development and launch of a successful business.
Link to Kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tohl/tohl-elevating-infr...
Show HN: Github for normal people.
Hey HN!

So this is something I have been working a bit on in my spare time (err, I mean, I just wrote it in 3 seconds :p).

I have been using Github since I got into coding a little while ago and I love it. It makes it super easy to store files, find projects that are helpful, and just encourages the idea of open source by making it easy and fun. I feel like I have learnt a great deal just downloading peoples code and making changes to it and seeing the process they went through. I have been wondering what a similar site like this would look like if it was made for people unfamiliar to Git and would never take the time to learn a new language or whatever do collaborate or use version control.

Right now it works very simply. It is like Google docs but everything is public (I will be introducing private projects). You can upload changes by dragging a new document onto the page and it will be stored. You can annotate files, highlight text, etc. Right now it supports images, text docs (code), pdf, doc(x), and excel. I think it would be exciting to have a system where people could come and collaborate on things such as books, textbooks, etc.

I have seen a few cases here on HN where such a system is discussed but I have not seen any solutions.

One of those was how Wired used Github to publish an article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631618). They were not happy with this solution however and are looking for another system that is more user friendly. But the demand is there. I think it would be awesome to be able to easily suggest mistakes on articles and allow an easier way for the author to accept those.

Another was about a git powered Project Gutenberg (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638917). Gutenberg is a mess (no nice way to view, no consensus on what the base text format should be) and git would be an interesting solution but again it is not that user friendly. As an example I put a couple PG documents on Rubberdocky (http://rubberdocky.com/ProjectGutenbergFiles/Siddhartha).

I am hoping to make use of a cool project I just ran into called substance.io to make it easy for people to collaborate on documents.

Rubberdocky is not the solution yet, but I am hoping to steer it that way by getting some feedback from interested user. If you are interested in the idea email me contact@rubberdocky.com and we could discuss this in more detail! Im looking for some web designers/UI to maybe join forces (I know supposed to find someone you know, but desperate times). If you get some errors email me or Tweet me @Rubberdocky.
"Within minutes of using it, GoNote turns years of web browsing on its head, and you intuitively touch, swipe and pinch the web rather than reaching for your mouse. GoNote’s resistive touchscreen recognises 2 finger inputs so you can pinch to zoom into webpages and get a close up with your digital photos."

This strikes me as incredibly naive. Since when is "reaching for your mouse" a bad thing when using a laptop? If adding touch screens to laptops was all anybody needed to do to improve our computing experience Microsoft would have run away with the tablet market years ago.

Pinching to zoom is a pattern that makes sense on tiny mobile devices, not large laptop screens. If I have to zoom in on a webpage to make it usable on my laptop, it's time to increase my font sizes. Zooming into a photo perhaps makes more sense but why not simply support the pinch gesture on the trackpad like Apple does on it's Macbooks? Instead I need to gorilla-arm it every time I want to zoom into a photo?

Tacking multitouch screens onto traditional laptops does not a better computer make.
Also Christian here. I loved reading a few Dawkins books. Then I learned about his stance on religions... Well, I prefer if we just stick to science.
It's often this way. Once they have the customers, they introduce the limit, as the GP pointed out: the infrastructure has limits. Once they hit them, unlimited will disappear just as always.
Terrible article. Calling histograms awful, based on nothing more than an opinion.

Then trying to conclude that some convoluted scatter plot system makes more sense is laughable.

Not to mention, this system is still just a star rating system. This would be no different than having two histograms side by side.. assuming, of course, that you'd even want to rate different aspects of the same thing.

I can't even imagine scatter plots on amazon, or trying to convince the general public that "it makes more sense"
If you've not tried the Asus Transformer, then seek one out. With that you can use either the 'touchpad' as on a normal laptop, or the screen.

To me, Android makes much more sense when touching the screen not a trackpad.

Just because we are used to using laptops with trackpads, doesn't mean that's best way to interact, especially for children. It would be great if they did some research or show videos of children using the tocuhscreen to browse and surf.
The nice thing about Unity is that there was never any question this would happen. They've built up enough trust that we can be confident that they'll be on any popular new platform.
Thanks for the response, looks like it uses a Blowfish salt by default.
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It wasn't built to back up your family photos and music collection.

But at its price points, with most US families living under pretty nasty data cap or overage regimes, it sounds superb, with of course the appropriate front ends.

There's no good (reliable), easy and cheap way to store digital movies, e.g. DVD recordable media is small by today's standards and it's much worse than CD-Rs for data retention (haven't been following Blu-ray recordable media, I must confess, I bought an LTO drive instead, but I'm of course unusual). And the last time I checked very few people made a point of buying the most reliable media of any of these formats.

In case of disk failure, fire, tornado (http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ ... and rsync.net helped save the day), for this use case you don't care about quick recovery so much as knowing your data is safe (hopefully AWS has been careful enough about common mode failures) and knowing you can eventually get it all back. Plus a clever front end will allow for some prioritizing.

Important rule learned from Clayton Christensen's study of disruptive innovations (where the hardest data comes from the history of disk drives...) is that you, or rather AWS here, can't predict how your stuff will be used. So if they're pricing it according to their costs as you imply they're doing the right thing. Me, I've got a few thousand Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs who's data is probably going to find a second home on Glacier.

ADDED: Normal CDs can rot, getting them replaced after a disaster is a colossal pain even if your insurance company is the best in the US (USAA ... and I'm speaking from experience, with a 400+ line item claim that could have been 10 times as bad since most of my media losses were to limited water problems), so this is also a good solution to backing up them. Will have to think about DVDs....
The author isn't saying that Apple could kill commercial radio by suing the radio stations for violating this patent, the argument is that no one will ever listen to commercials again therefore killing the stations revenue stream.
On a 10" screen it might still do - it feels fine on the Asus Transformer.
The question is about the claim that Jesus was a descendent of David rather than people being a descendent of him.
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