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I really like the stores. They have a refreshing vibe that's in contrast to the Apple store's minimalism. The Kinects, Xboxes, and Surfaces also bring in a pretty diverse crowd since there's an addition of a gaming aspect. There's a wraparound screen that adds a lot of color that the Apple store lacks. It's definitely a well-done ripoff in my opinion.

I go to the one in Tyson's Corner and it's usually pretty busy. I can't say I've actually bought anything from there, but the employees have always asked if I needed assistance. They were also very helpful when describing laptop options to my parents, and pointed me to the ultrabooks when I couldn't find them.

I guess it depends on Microsoft hiring the right employees and management making sure the customer service is up to par. I have no complaints though.
I wonder what would have happened if twitter had said all free accounts must use the twitter app or website, and pro-accounts (let's say $5/month) can use the full API with 3rd party apps?
Mail Pilot is excellent. I helped fund it as one of many people on Kickastarter, and I'm so pleased with Alex and Josh.

The fundamental insight is that mail is essentially an inbound task list, and to help you field these tasks as smoothly as possible. It's a big time-saving improvement over Gmail labels and Outlook folders.

Working on mobile is especially good, with iOS and Android apps. I have an iPhone and Nexus, so it's great to be cross-platform.

Kudos to the team!
You changed the structure, though, to use something much closer to a cond instead of an if. Also, there are variants that require fewer ()s for this.

clisp:

(defun factorial (n) (cond
((<= n 1) 1)
(T (* n (factorial (- n 1))))))

Clojure (which I believe is similar to Ark with respect to not using extra parentheses around cond clauses, but I don't have Ark setup to verify that that's actually the case and then to test my demonstration with, so I'm going to do it with Clojure, despite the "weird" [] syntax, as it is orthogonal to the demonstration):

(defn factorial [n] (cond
(<= n 1) 1
:else (* n (factorial (dec n)))))
So the author walked into a Microsoft store and asked about their competitor's product, and the retail employees didn't have much to say... And this is news? You don't think I'd get a similar response if I walked into a Reebok store and asked them about the new Nike Air Jordans?
I wound pay for a Guardian subscription.
So saying that plants/animals wouldn't exist on a planet significantly hotter than ours is really strange to say

Not true. In biochemsitry, some important compounds (eg, proteins) begin to de-nature at ~105 degrees F. So, temprature is a legitimate variable to consider, and the range between denatured protein and frozen water is not that big in Absolute scale. And (even) if you eliminate protein, you still have to deal with the properties of water (anothe ~+100ish F leway before it boils; as noted by other commenters).

You rightly note that there are examples of life (even on earth) which are in some unbelievably hostile environments (think: marianna trench) that are ungodly in temp, pressure, and ambient energy. But the absolute schema it seems more likely that these are evolved special cases of carbon-based life than the origin variants.

Som from Abslote zero to vulcanism (the possible ranges) narrowing down to 0 to 50c or 0 to 100c puts you in the right order of magnitude. At the scale of the cosmos, this seems to make some sense. Although, undeoubtedly imperfect.
It's not - Macs are vastly over-represented in Edinburgh, and in London too.

There's more Macs at the Edinburgh Ruby user group meeting than at the Mac user group meeting!
I don't understand why everyone's calling this "cheating" when HN exists to enable this sort of behavior from the YC elite.

Another incubator sets up a system to replicate YC's influence on the front page and we all decry cheating. Who cheats the cheaters.
I'm a contractor and have to deal with recruiters constantly, i've been saying for years it should be an agent style model and would even be willing to set this up myself for the UK contracting market as i know a LOT of contract developers and know how to find more.

The problem is, i've no idea how to go and find work for them, if i did, i wouldnt use recruiters myself. I'm not comfortable cold calling companies and i think thats a poor way to do things and most contract positions are only advertised online by other recruiters.

If i knew any UK companies that were looking for a contractor, i could absolutely place a highly qualified one in their company, but how do i find those companies?
I have to agree. I mean, it's nice and all but really it's a function you can write in a few minutes. I don't think it needs a website and a submission to HN.
The fact that all YC launches hit front page with few comments should prove it.
P2P (especially the cypherpunk wet dream that you're talking about) is at least 10x more complex than S2S architectures like Tent, which themselves are more complex than client-server aka Web 2.0. Also, server hosting has known business models while cypherpunks don't.
I'm going to have to assume you meant to post this under a different article.
> Labels change, especially in IT. Duh?

No, not unless you really just want to be rude.
How to hire a sales person
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Yes, but they do a lot of stuff besides writing articles (they host conferences, have a consulting arm, etc).

The horse's mouth: http://www.economistgroup.com/pdfs/annual_report_2012_final_...
> I think you could at least make an argument that Firefly is comparable to Citizen Kane.

Er, how, exactly?
OK, I see. so is there a 15 second limit on the videos?
I can't find the open beta part or more information about linux but I hope they didn't use adobe air and still think it is compatible with linux.
Yeah I have seen lore's, I think their grading App is nice but last I checked they didn't have an easy way to do the grading. Specifically you have to upload assignments and the instructor has to download and use some external tool like ms-work, then manage all the files.

Easy would be

student does his/her assignment in word

hits a submit button

Teacher/Grader opens word

There is a list of submitted assignments on the left panel

Clicks on anyone of the listed items

Item is opened on the right without changing views

Teacher Grades, annotates, adds comments and click a "done" button.

Student opens word

Their graded assignment is also listed on the left panel

Clicks to open without changing views.

Perhaps they're asked to redo something

They do requested edits and hit submit button again

etc...
I think your problem is with government bailouts of private companies, not with HFT. The effect of most HFT firms completely blowing out would be completely unnoticed in the market.
Author here. In your case, probably through the network of your former clients and the networks of your candidate pool. It's tough to do without some cold calling, but when recruiters cold call companies they are saying 'I have a candidate, will you pay me to hire him/her?' whereas an agent would be saying 'I have a candidate that is interested in working for you, and it is free to hire him/her' (or close to free). It's a big difference - you are offering the same service as recruiters offered to companies, but you're giving it to them for free.

If you are making cold calls to tech companies starved for talent, telling them you can solve their problem for free (that they have been paying a LOT for historically), the cold calls will get pretty warm pretty quickly.
Can we separate WebRTC functionality from a complex, bloated, insecure and unreliable web browser? (Assuming we ever get straddled with such a thing.)

Can it be captured in a small, simple application?
I would say Clojure is a lot closer to Scheme than CL. It is a Lisp-1 after all, and with a focus on immutable data structures.
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Not sure about RT, but IMDB has some fairly strict rules about how their data can be used. http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions

IANAL but from my reading it sounds like non-commercial use is ok.
There is a 30 second limit on the clips, but the reels can be as long as you want. Are you going to enter the contest?
LOL it looks like we have a lot of pre-typewriter peeps in the house :)

I'm old school, so when I learned to type, I learned it on an actual typewriter. When we had to fix mistakes, we needed to use good old fashioned liquid paper.

So doing things like calculating your typing speed in words per minute was done where 5 characters was considered a "word". So when I was in school, when the teacher or prof said to hand in a 2000 word essay, it would be based on where a word was considered 5 or 6 characters, regardless of how many actual words there were.

http://www.speedtypingonline.com/typing-equations

Interestingly, I just checked on MS Word, and they consider a word to be anything with a space inbetween, so I guess the definition has changed since the Mesozoic era!
Why don't you ask Apple? They sold 100 million iPhones before they ever set foot in a courtroom. Were they not adequately rewarded?
what are the differences between hiring a sales person verus a VP of sales?
That's the FreedomBox or Tonido.

I think a $100/year cloud server is likely to be faster, more reliable, and easier to set up than a home server.
I was going to suggest making a browser extension out of this, but after some searching see that it has been done before. (On Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kmndjoipobjfjbhocp...).

This seems useful for people who 1) are not programmers, and 2) either are running a browser where there is no such extension, aren't interested in installing extensions, or have a one-off need.
I have a pile of PC Magazines from the late 80s and early 90s. I'll have to dig up them up and post some of those ads online, as well. They're similar to these, but for different companies and products.
I'm sure there would be plenty that would complain, but I would be happy to pay $5-10 a month for Twitter.
"Actual customers" is about as overloaded as "talking."

You need people you can connect with, provide value to, extract value from - and you have to make all that into a reproducible and reasonably predictable process given all of the constraints in play.

If you can do that, you're often well down the path towards a viable business. If not ...
What pain are you solving?
It's obvious people go crazy for anything new Apple launches thus you as a blogger would be foolish to not write about it... Further it's obviously newsworthy.

Apple brought forth the smartphone revolution ( nailed the execution and others since copied). Also they have created other things like Siri (others copied their execution too). Thus it's no surprise millions are extremely interested in what new tech they'll be releasing.

For me though the iPhone 5 isn't too exciting... Nothing revolutionary or profound. Personally i was hoping they'd add a QR scanner to the built in camera.
I actually expected the word count to show up in the grey area, I think it would look nice.
Why would you try to implement this with WebRTC? WebRTC is for real time communication. It's in the name. Social networks don't have to be real time. How would you do persistence in a WebRTC-run social network? E.g. how can I visit your profile when you're offline?
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Apple did not create Siri; it was an acquisition. However, Apple should get credit for bringing it to a wide audience.
What makes you think increasing the tick size would help? HFT would still be at the front of every book, except in larger quantities now. Most people support MORE decimalization than less.
Well, how much are we talking here? I'm guessing the fee would have to be fairly large to retain an agents service. Perhaps the agent could tie the fee to the engineers salary therefore having a real incentive to negotiate well? The downside to this approach is the same as you've mentioned elsewhere - the agent will push towards any job just to get paid.

I guess I'm just having trouble seeing how this model could realistically work.
the fact that 2% of the entire world has one
That's really neat. It's quite addictive to rank films that way. Annoyingly hard in some instances. The only thing I think is lacking is some way to get a reminder about the plot; when you're talking about movies seen more than a couple of decades ago ...

A "would like to see" button would be useful too.
I guess you will get very different attitudes when asking reasons for failure rather than success
That's rough. I know a couple Canadians who went through a similar process (also for Microsoft) and had no problems. Shame to hear this guy had such a shitty experience.
Corporate networks are followers when it comes to social software. If a protocol becomes very popular among users eventually corporations will give in and make it available. Companies used to block HTTP also.
It could mean less money overall, if advertisers want to target the kind of user who would sign up for an ad-free pro account.
About $60k/yr
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I don't get your concept of lower margin store: the commission that store employees get is not in general related to the margin, i.e. Apple store workers get one of the lower salaries in that space.
That has absolutely not been my experience in the last 8-9 years of doing onsite engagements for corporations. You can usually count on HTTPS getting through unmolested. Usually.
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Because this code was designed well over a decade ago, and someone decided 16 characters was an acceptable limit. From a guy that worked on the Live team, he said in many years of reviewing the security issues, password length never came up as a high enough priority issue to justify the changes required. There's much more important things for them to do.

Now as to why someone chose 16 characters 10+ years ago... who knows. But having such a limitation roll forward isn't that mysterious.
For starters sales reps are individual contributors where are VP of sales tend to be organization builders. They hire sales folks and build a sales organization under them. So you should expect VP of sales to be much more senior and thus cost you more in salary and equity. A good VP of sales tends to get 1 or 2% of equity. That may vary though.
This. So much this.

The notion that everything has to be HTTP annoys me too.
Launching Summer 2012?

This looks really interesting but I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy using it day to day. Having the 'review in the future' type of features integrated into a standard mail client would be nice though. That said, if this handles high quantities of messages better/faster than mail.app or sparrow i'll definitely use it just for the speed improvement.
child morality -> child mortality in the last sentence.
Just downloaded it. Curious - from start to app store, how long did it take?
Dick sez: Play nice or I'm taking my ball and going home.
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This sounds awful (even though the product looks slick): The problem with email is that people use it as a to-do list which anyone can add things to. I'm constantly struggling to move away from using my inbox for this very purpose — why empower it?!

(I'd also note that Outlook has very similar (less pretty) features built in too.)
I never said ad-free, but I guess certain clients could block or hide those.
This is so profoundly true. It's all just feeds. RSS could have been implemented as mailing lists, too. Maybe we should use mailing lists to build the next big decentralized social network instead of this infrastructure.
Hacked Bitcoin Exchange Bitfloor has Reopened for Trading.
my 2c is that if you hire a stellar VP of Sales, then he can help you hire/train an amazing sales team. So aim high, and poach guys from whichever industry leader there is: Facebook, Google, AdMob (in our case), etc.

thoughts?
Hardly surprising, the less government interference there is in the market the better the economy does. Look at the industries that are tanking such as finance, manufacturing, education, healthcare, airlines and you'll find no end of regulation and interference.
Has anyone put up a public server yet?
This protocol seems to miss a secure routing of messages inside of its network, insead offering point-to-point interaction. However, this will be required in order to build indeed a decentralised social network. Something that was developed in Tonika project: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/5ttt.org/
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Sigh, I like Mark Cuban, its fun to watch him on Shark Tank but I don't think he makes a good case here. The financial markets have several ways in which people use and/or exploit them. One of the ways people use the stock market is for investing, one of the ways they use the market is for 'trading' which for all intents is extracting value out of the first (or second) derivative of market trades.

An analogy (weak but serviceable) is that a home town bank is for "saving money", you save your money, you deposit, you write drafts against your deposits that other people can use to make value limited withdrawals. Oh and the people in the bank? They also have a business where they take your deposits and they loan that to people who need money now and can repay it in the future. But to do that they have to do 'magic math' and figure out how likely it is that this borrower will pay it back and they do that with an interest rate. Now the bank, like it has from the beginning of time, is "making money using your money and dealing with people who will pay to borrow it."

Interestingly this exact same works on Wall street and with 'investment banks'. You "invest" (equivlaent to making a deposit) and instead of a chit that says you have $1000 on deposit you get one that says you have ownership of 50 shares of stock in AT&T. Guess what, the bank doesn't just sit on a bunch of stock certificates, they have another business where they let other people use those shares on the agreement they can always get back 50 shares to give to you if you decide you want the certificates to put in a safe deposit box or something. One customer is 'investing' and one (possibly different) customer is 'trading'.

Guess what you can do this with anything of value, and if its something someone consumes you call it "commodities", if its currency you call it "banking", if its stocks and bonds you call it "investing", and if its gossip you call it "journalism."

Mark is smart enough to know this, so why the blog post?

My guess is that a lot of people don't like high-frequency-trading because they can't afford to play. What has happened is that a large holding company, fund, or bank with programmers and computers and data center space near the exchange can easily out trade someone trying to do this through the e-trade Web API. I get how that could be annoying to someone who used to make money that way, tell it to all the folks who used to be able to make a class A game title with a couple of programmers and an artistically inclined person or two.
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Hola,
The Ars review (while super awesome) was actually completely unexpected and unsolicited. I realize that we first posted about AeroFS almost two years ago, but we haven't been idle, and we have been releasing invites regularly. Users have also been able to invite other users to AeroFS from day one, and many of them ahve been doing this.

We keep AeroFS in private beta mostly because we have an already overwhelming amount of feedback to work with. We want to make sure that we make the users who are with us today (and who have been with us for the past two years) as happy as possible, before releasing it to the masses.

Cheers,
Yuri

(ps. sorry for the late response, today was the last day of one of our interns and we took him out for lunch)
Right. In Mail Pilot, one of the best features is to mark an email as "Complete/Incomplete". This lets you quickly read an email and still track that you want to return to it later because you want to do something for it.
thanks a ton for posting this! as a semi new developer sometimes I run into questions like in my head like"is it ok for me to feel this way? should i just be coding faster?". Though it may be true in some scenarios, developing is one of the toughest problem solving skills to to learn. you are always facing something you have never done before.
As long as there's an awesome system like Hacker News, there'll be people trying to hack it. HN wins to the degree that it can counteract that and MAKE SURE that the 'best' ideas organically flow to the top. And pg is all over this.

I really like the idea of 'trust' / influence making your upvotes worth more than my upvotes or someone else's if you're proven to give good stuff. Hmm..
I would imagine that to be a bit more. So, a senior VP of sales at a reasonable company (not necessarily at a HP/Oracle etc.) makes $200K/y easily. If they are high performers then sales bonus and kickers (e.g. if you sell a $x mn. deal you get 1% of the deal value) easily take them into the $250-300K/year range. At some companies good sales guys/gals make more than the CEO itself. At larger companies like HP/Oracle/Salesforce.com etc those salary #'s are anywhere between $500K/year and $1million/yr
For the most part, yes, until your certificates expire :)
It's not always a fabrication, it's just difficult to predict. It was quite difficult to get an iPhone 4S for many days after its release.
I didn't get the impression that the developer would release the fixes without a donation.
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As a developer, I can't help but see 3rd party recruiters as parasites feeding off of my hard work and expertise. I see any money a hiring company pays to a recruiter as money that could have been in my pocket via a signing bonus or a higher starting salary if there was no recruiter involved.

I don't see anyone in this discussion questioning whether we, as job seekers, even need 3rd party recruiters. In my experience, we don't. Throughout my 16 year career as a developer, I've only been placed by a 3rd party recruiter once. That was way back when I only had a year of experience. I haven't needed 3rd party recruiters for the last 15 years.

If you want to disrupt technical recruiting, don't send recruiters your resume, and don't work with them when they contact you. Instead, do some leg work when you're looking for a new job.

Browse the job boards looking for positions posted directly by the company with the opening. Contact people in your network about open positions where they work. Find tech companies local to you, and look on their job boards. (This is how I found my current position, and it is the best job I've had yet.) If a recruiter contacts you about an interesting position and tells you the name of the company that's hiring, bypass them and submit your resume to the company directly.

Bottom line, they can't make money without us. We can make money without them.
I don't think this surprises anyone - the problem is that the people who stand to benefit the most in the short term from copyright regulation staying the way it is are those who have the most political power.

The real question is how we can change that situation from the outside.
Sorry to hear this. As a Canadian in the US on an H1B, I've stopped visiting Canada :( This really sucks because I can't visit friends/family easily any more. The last foreign trip I had (was a quick visit to Europe for a conference), the border agent went through every single page of my documentation pack and asked me questions (intention of the questions seemed designed to trip me up on minor details). I hope the situation gets better one of these days :( :(
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