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A Problem Entrepreneurs Should Solve: Veterans not getting Jobs
Watch the Daily Show from Oct 24, 2012 with Dakota Meyer.

Earlier in the show at around 10 minute mark there are two veterans. They talk about the difficulty of getting a job related to their professional training in the military and then doing a mock interview. Both of the veterans are medics, so the jobs they are interested in are nursing field related. A field where we have a sharp shortage of workers...

Yet it is really hard for veterans to get a job because most professional license boards do not accept military certification or training. Even if they have a lot of experience doing the job in the field, in combat and under fire. They need to go back to school to restart their learning to get some trade licenses.

This is pretty horrible when we are have shortage of these professional across the country and we have veterans who want those jobs. I think it is also an opportunity for entrepreneurs.

There are peoples economic welfare at stake and there is a lot of money to be made, in good way, solving this problem.

Paul Graham maybe you can make a new RFS??

Daily Show Link:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-october-24-2012-dakota-meyer
Exactly. Their last two big product reveals have been almost entirely defined by reference to Google/Android products: A 16:9 screen on the iPhone. A 7" tablet. Changing maps providers. And they're not even trying to hide this. (And, I should note, all of this is quite objectively a good thing for the market).

The premise of the article is ridiculous. Sure, Apple has built a great brand that they can leverage into huge sales for the iPad Mini. I have no doubt it will be the most successful tablet in its size class within a few months. But to pretend that this means the Mini's development wasn't driven by the existing competitors is just silly. Apple jumped into this market because everyone else proved it out first.
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I think the real "customer pain" is that having a ton of apps leads to more difficult visual search. You want hipstamatic, but you have no idea which screen it's on.

I already use iOS's app search as my default method of finding most apps, but going to the left to find the search is irritating. Maybe it would be better if apple just allowed you one page of apps, and an integrated search box on that page.

Android may already have solved this problem.
Is the classic one actually going to be able to leverage tail-call elimination? Obviously it could be refactored to make a tail-recursive call, but correct me if I'm wrong, it wouldn't be automatic.

After refactoring it, the tail-recursive version would be a bit harder to read than the naive implementation. In a sense the Clojure code is in the same boat, it's just that the optimizations are more complicated, because it's not working with singly linked lists in the "address register" and "decrement register".
I am highly interested in the answer to this. I am tired of learning news things just to learn them. I want to be able to the use the stuff i learn to build something that is actually useful and interesting, and not just another app/website in some already crowded space. I have built a few apps that I use personally but they are not things i feel anyone would pay for. They mostly solve my particular requirements for an already solved problem. I would love to find an answer to this question.
I think it's really about the cost of visual search, which simply doesn't scale to 76 icons.
Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley have very little in common, unless you are arguing that Silicon Valley has embraced unbridled greed. Indeed, open source, open anything is contrary to Randian ideals. Rand would embrace the RIAA and the MPAA and their defense of property rights. Rand stands in opposition to almost every value that has made Silicon Valley worth celebrating.
Is not that a good thing that fb is taking this issue seriously and going after the people who sell this information?

On the other hand, they are trying to solve this issue secretly, no disclosure. And we dont yet know if they are taking any privacy measures to prevent this kind of data leak.
I don't think there is Segoe UI webfonts that I can embed? I tried to look for it in some point and could not find it. Do you know any font that is close to?
Ha! I'm inclined to agree that their product was doing well simply because it was discontinued immediately after Yahoo bought them.

Isn't killing successful products what Yahoo is known for?
That's not what Herb Sutter said. If you watch the video, he said they just barely missed making the deadline for VS2012 and it would be available soon after.
Using the PageVisibility API
The New Yorker piece (written by Aleksandar Hemon) on the Wachowskis was really good: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/10/120910fa_fact_...

Some parts I found interesting:

"According to Mattis, the Wachowskis were “the hot flavor of the month” when he sent the “Matrix” screenplay out, in 1994. “But then everyone read the script and passed. Nobody got it,” he said. “To this day, I think Warner Bros. bought it half out of the relationship with them and half because they thought something was there.”

The power of connections! If Warner Bros haven't bought their Assassins script The Matrix might not have been made.

Also:

"“The problem with market-driven art-making is that movies are green-lit based on past movies,” Lana told me. “So, as nature abhors a vacuum, the system abhors originality. Originality cannot be economically modelled.” The template for “The Matrix,” the Wachowskis recalled, had been “Johnny Mnemonic,” a 1995 Keanu Reeves flop.
Achieving fast deploys for a large Rails app
Some tricks we picked up along the way.
A clarification on "There's only ONE exchange rate"
"Corporations are there to make increasing profits for their shareholders, period."

This is an overly-simplistic and ultimately quite wrong view of corporations.

Corporations exist to achieve the goals their shareholders set for them, which may include increasing profits, but it may not. That's certainly not the only goal the shareholders may set.
I am not sure what you mean by "It's much cheaper to make clients compete and use their time". Can you please explain?
Drupal Company Acquia Launches New Cloud Media Management Service
The article sums up itself in the first paragraph:

"On first glance, that sounds really scary, but that’s just because it’s a bunch of FUD. "
I think it would be much more unnerving in real life.
Huawei partner offered U.S. tech to Iran
Ruby had blocks way before Piet even existed. Welcome to the 1990s.
Cloud Atlas comes out tomorrow. Be there or don't. If you're around Austin and want to see it tomorrow evening, let's organize a going out.
I think the point is that the PS3 is now trivially easy to update to the latest without trouble. In fact, I'm sure there are people working on alternative market interfaces for the PS3 so that you can do it just like it were really connected.

Honestly, the Wii is the most annoying console to keep up to date. Since JTAG/RGH on the Xbox, it's just silly easy to pirate, cheat, mod, play old games you couldn't otherwise, etc.

I just laugh at this because I think overall you're absolutely right, that this probably doesn't tradeoff with potential sales much. That having been said, I have no sympathy for Sony.
Bossa Nova Robotics Launches Mobi Research Ballbot
Why not seven minutes?
Engineering a platform or product is seldom a pretty business. Ask the Yesod folks. It's only recently that anything like Conduits with Conduit's performance is finally finding "good" and well-researched alternatives.

Not that your complaint is incorrect, it's just sort of difficult to actually use this as the basis for an argument against Clojure because everyone has already made their peace with this. It is not a "pretty" lisp; it's a natural response to the question, "How can I keep working with the JVM and leverage JVM libraries without devolving into the 1990's Taligent style verbosity that is modern Java?"
Android Will Surpass Windows By 2016, Say Gartner Stats
It could be worse. They could be nano users.

Edit: I ment this a joke on the war of Vim vs Emacs vs the world. I guess it didn't come out that way.
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It isn't easy to make a product that generates a few hundred dollars a month. The way Hacker News writes about these little products, you'd think they fall off trees. Nope. The step from nothing to $250/month is much much greater than the step from $250/month to $5,000/month.

You're frustrated because it isn't easy. I mean seriously, you really think there is a golden bullet to this? There isn't. Launch more stuff.
That type of business logic is actually quite straightforward. I was involved in a project many years ago, for which we got a patent I think, that involved detecting if time of day, distance from home and other factors could be attributes of ad serving.
Classroom Crowdsourcing: Flashnotes Gets $1.8M Seed Round for Study Marketplace
I'd be great if the US implemented some sensible privacy laws.

I'm in the UK, and Europe has a nice set of data protection laws. Enforcing those laws is sub-optimal.
Your example is nonsense. Clojure's keep is based on lazy sequences instead of concrete lists, and is also optimized for performance.

That said, you raise a point that occurred to me recently, and it relates to Clojure's literal representation of data beyond lists and your point about the "ruined magic".

In most Lisps, the only evaluation semantic is that of the "operator form": a list of operator car and arguments cdr, both of which are evaluated themselves.

Clojure, however, adds an evaluation semantic for its data literals. Consider this code:

{(+ 1 2) (+ 3 4)}

It results in the map {3 7}, but where is the "operator form" that caused the top-level evaluation?

In Lisps with reader macros, an expression like above boils into code resembling (hash-map (+ 1 2) (+ 3 4)), a classic "operator form", which is then evaluated.

In Clojure, however, which does not provide reader macros, there is no intermediate list representation of the expression accessible to the programmer. Effectively, Clojure adds evaluation semantics to Lisp beyond "operator forms": data literals evaluate their contents, and qualify in many ways as "special forms".

I have run into at least one implication of this design having to do with the structural representation of Clojure code. With a "classic" Lisp, an IDE or editor is empowered to present to the user any representation of the code, and can convert it to Lisp expressions arbitrarily the same way reader macros do.

With Clojure, this type of "skinning" is harder, because IDE-like navigation of data implies ordering. The ordering exists in the character-wise representation of a map like {3 4} but not in its evaluated counterpart.
I'm sure I'm putting more thought into this than I should, but say $1000 in four years, that equates to one game every 3 days, so 50 hours per game would be pretty high.
It shouldn't be this hard to figure out. Software development, what have we done?
Realtime instagram updates. [SF, NYC, LONDON]
The nice thing about git is that it is distributed. Meaning, you don't have to push to your public fork until just before the deadline if you concerned about your ideas being stolen.
The solution is to do it manually.

A dedicated team to manually transfer your account across locales could do the job right the first time.. and it retains a happy customer within your ecosystem.. which is the whole point.
I'm not sure about your use case, but it has certainly helped us identify new synergies between our verticals while disrupting traditional silos.
if I were 20 and still had a cell phone with all my friends from 4 years ago

I think that's the key here. Smart phones which you use like a database.

If you had that when you were 20, you might have hundreds of contacts in your smart phone today. People rarely change both emails and phone numbers at the same time.
It's not all about pixel count.
I bet they are probably forgotten military/security projects who now just live their own lives. Creepy anyway.
mouse scroll feels backwards, on normal pages one scrolls down to advance, but here one needs to scroll up instead
How we designed our logo for $30
For all the folks out there that are completely, and emphatically, 100% --ambivalent-- about Facebook and hardly use it, I say: Meh!

Sincerely,
A non-anti, non-pro barely-occasional, FB user :)
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Perhaps you could clarify what you're asking for.

Have you taken a look at http://www.rabbitmq.com/clients.html or http://www.rabbitmq.com/devtools.html?

They seem to have native API's available for Java, Erlang, and .Net; I haven't used any of those, but I used Pika (Python-based) and it worked nicely for me.
Hotspots for Obama (or Romney)
Einstein on Buddhism
I agree. If you read HN on a daily basis it does often feel like building a product that generates money is easy. I guess that biggest question is what does traction feel and look like?
lol, nice for pointing it out.
Can someone clue me in. "They brought back little—841 pounds of old rocks, Aldrin's smuggled aesthetic bliss". What is meant by "aesthetic bliss"? Is that a reference to something?
The actual data is of lesser significance than the network effect in my opinion. You already can pull your data out, at least to some degree, but a ban resulting in the loss of social amplification that services like fb provide is probably what would impact even moderate users the most.

To paraphrase Joel Spolsky from his Startup School session, "grandma's gonna be calling".
Even the title of this post smells like "another one of those HN Apple fanboys declaring his adoration". The article itself is even worse:

"The world divides into people who think of Apple as a company, and people who think of Apple as a brand..."
For a few years? Hardly. Actually living in another country is extremely different from traveling for a few months. You don't know much about a country until you live your everyday life there, shop at the grocery stores, participate in cultural events, go to the doctor, pay bills, rent an apartment, go through the immigration process, have a JOB etc. You don't truly know a place by just traveling there.
Why did they use the most alarmist title possible if they were going to debunk it immediately after?!
Followers are automatically provisioned on a different AZ than their leaders.
Their former CEO's thermonuclear war is solid evidence that they do indeed care about their competition. You generally care about something before you drop nuclear weapons on it.
Nice idea. I never thought of using fiverr for this.

Previously I have gone the 99designs route and been less than thrilled with the end result vs the money put in. I'm going to give this a try next time I need a logo.
So give yours to charity when you win it. It's great motivation for a lot of people who would otherwise not be that psyched to participate.
She's the youngest Fortune 500 CEO, what do you expect?
I can completely understand the decision to use Parse. On the flip side of what the parent commented, big players who only have a comparatively limited presence in the mobile world don't always want to have to hire a full team just to implement their one or two simple apps. Conversely, a small player might not have the resources to hire a full team, or might not have the know-how or time to implement it themselves.

A team that is deeply invested in mobile might want to engineer their own solution. If you're a mobile-only company or even a mobile-first company, I would expect you to have a full backend team. Otherwise, contracting out the bit you don't have resources for just makes sense. That's where I see Parse sitting in the world, and with the client list you mentioned, it seems to fit perfectly. I wouldn't expect Home Depot to have a complete mobile team.
What's more exclusive that you can openly apply to?
I'm absolutely interested. Feel free to get in touch.
Does anyone know the exact model of board in that photo? Clicking around their site yielded only images, and sadly little text.
> 20 hours on a video game is extremely rare these days, especially if you're not one that goes for the torturous achievements or sports/multiplayer FPS.

What are you talking about? One recently released critically acclaimed game was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which players have averaged 75 hours of time on[0]. Even at $60, that's $0.8/hour.

And don't forget that unlike food or movie tickets, the price of a game goes down drastically over time. If you're willing to play older games, you can get them for almost nothing.

With Steam, I got L.A. Noire, a game released in May 2011 to pretty good reviews (83/100 on Metacritic for the PC version), for just $7.50 in July of this year. I've already played it for 43 hours (and still haven't finished it) - just $0.17/hour.

0: http://www.gamespot.com/news/skyrim-pc-players-average-75-ho...
I don't think this is Hacker News, but...
Seems to me like the gap between military certification and professional licensing is due to protectionism (due to the number of veterens) and politics (because the military can be forced to innovate and iterate on a much shorter cycle than the professional community would like).

I was reading the other day about how military trauma response is pretty far ahead of the civilian law enforcement world. Particularly how with $100 in basic medical supplies and a little training you can quickly treat gunshot and blast wounds that typically cause the victim to bleed out before EMS can arrive.
Beware: Ironic title ahead. For something that [poorly] attempts to expose hype, this article creates an equal amount in return. Might be popular with the anti-Windows crowd, but seems to just be a bunch of FUD about how Windows should never change ever again.
I know someone who generated thousands of links to facebook profiles, including non-linked ones. They crawled for images with facebook meta data, pulled the facebook IDs, and used those to generate the profile links.
New category of exercises: Linear Algebra
Immensely surprised that Bluetooth 4 LE wasn't brought up in this article. The potential to replicate here, aslo triangulation possibilities is significant.
> It shouldn't be this hard to figure out.

I don't know, MUMPS is used in production systems...
Unrealistic Nobel economics explained
Actually, I studied the conspiracy's¹ Scrolls² before reading it, but… yeah.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/

[2] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
I would say this might be true when it comes to creating the initial version of their products. I feel that the way you make an iPhone is not by saying "let's see what our competitors are doing and do the opposite of what they're doing bad". If you do that you ground yourself to at the time what was pretty terrible HCI.

By separating the design of the iPhone from what your conventional competitors are doing and re-imagining things they were able to create something that was very usable. I felt that they did this again with the MacBook Air.

Like others have pointed out I feel that Apple definitely cares about it's competition. That's why you're seeing aggressive lawsuits against it's competitors, swapping out Google Maps, and restrictive App Store policies.
And for once I'd be okay with HN mod headline editing.
Postgres, as of 9.0, has binary log streaming replication built in, truth. Slony ad other logical replication solutions out there are quite hard to set up and come with their gotchas.

A rock solid one command (cli)/click (web) is a whole different story though, making it super easy to form more complex DB topologies and adapting them as your needs change.
Actually, he pushed the red button accidentally while cooking souffle.
I would love to see more government funded research. There are so many problems that, if tackled via the unregulated private sector, have misaligned incentives.
I think perhaps the point it to give the kids something that they can feel like they are doing real stuff with.
I think this might work well. It's an Adobe open source font, it was popular on HN a little bit ago.

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro....
I was actually planning on doing something like this for fun. In my case, the numbers would be generated from a random function and wouldn't mean anything. YMMV.
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Also, check these guys out: http://www.risesf.com
Just take a look at the number of spammers on Twitter, or (recently) Instagram. It's not even possible to open up a dialogue for every single instance of possible spam.
I can see wanting immediate delivery for:

RAM, hard disks, DVD drives, cables, mice/keyboards, AC adapters
ink/toner/consumables
AA/AAA/9v batteries
cell phones (when original is lost/destroyed)

.. but it depends on the size of the markup/premium. In my mind, the comparison is to asking my assistant to go buy the thing, or buying it myself, so I think about the cost of driving + opportunity cost (e.g., if I send the receptionist, they may not buy the right thing, and then someone else has to answer the phone, or calls go to VM and maybe we miss something important)

.. I'm answering from a business context, not a personal context. Personally, I can probably wait, or just go buy the thing myself if I'm in a hurry.
Yep, still a managed float, with gold perhaps added to the basket at some point to make the RMB a partially gold-backed currency. Up until a few years ago, the Swiss Franc was 40% backed by gold.
You should go over all of your side projects and catalog the point in the project and the reason that your interest fell off. Maybe you'll find a common theme such as, "built prototype, now need to add a ton of (tedious) features". Or "built MVP, now need to polish the design and write marketing copy". If you're able to find such a theme, it may suggest a path to success. For example, if you always get to a functional product but quit when it's time to promote, you may want to find yourself a bizdev partner.

Aside from that, the only other thing I'd say is that you should find yourself a partner. Things turn out much better when you've got someone to work with.
Thanks, I appreciate your and everyone else's responses; i think i'll take the plunge tomorrow.
I would love for Barack to win, but this is just dirty. Who's going to pay for web advertising anymore if any malicious DNS in the middle just feels entitled to hijack them for its own purposes?
Really? I might not be in an "important swing state" but when my wife doesn't fast forward through them on the DVR I see plenty of local/state/and congressional commercials. Unless in your state the presidential campaigns are buying up ALL of the available airtime.

Edit: what about outside of prime time. Say during your local 5 o'clock news?
Nope, they were all different ideas/companies.

Typewire - disqus for liveblogging

Attend.me - conference management software

Prospector - medical chart review

and finally LightTable. Oddly enough we had/have domain expertise for all of them :D
I'm not so sure about this.

I'm writing a pretty complicated application using parse. It's been great so far. I've been a very vocal non-fan of their iOS SDK though, so much so that I'm actually dropping it in favor of a custom written job using their REST API instead. But besides that one thing, it's been fantastic.

The new Cloud code stuff they just added is awesome.

I spent 10 years doing heavy backend shit until about 5 years ago when I switched back to native front-end development. I still am having to write a service here or there to cover some holes that Parse doesn't cover for this application, but those are pretty small holes.

A+++ would use again.