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Ask HN: Consulting/Partnership model
Is there a model where a consulting individual can partner with business founders while minimizing risk.

This might sound selfish - but I'm willing to spend all my time upfront for equity, however when a business-founder don't deliver (sales), the loss is all mine.
Great start, keep on innovating!
Who are the other reliable providers offer value for money in US ?
Loosecubes Shutdown Casts A Shadow Over ‘Workspace Marketplace’ Model
I've worked in similar environments and Heroku is crazy expensive and slow compared to dedicated hardware.
this seemed like another argument for food prices (since i assume they are a larger proportion of total expenditure for low income people). see my other comment here about that...
One of the most basic rules of finance is diversification. You are putting all of your eggs in one basket. That usually doesn't end too well.

I wish you the best, but betting everything means you could lose everything, too.
Soldout.

Added it to my cart, kept trying to proceed with the order but it kept saying there was an error (in their ajaxy way) until it showed an empty cart and on the product's page the "in stock" changed to "coming soon".
Good riddance! What he and others are complaining about is that Facebook has started to use pricing to stop them from spamming users. This is a good thing!

We're free-marketeers, right? Prices allow scarce resources (eyeballs, users are the product, remember?) to be rationed in an efficient manner. Would he prefer some nameless, faceless bureaucracy determine who gets to see his messages?

This is a commons problem on some level. Very similar to the issue with push notifications written about elsewhere. Too many companies used Facebook as a way to get around email spam filters, and now everyone (good actors included) is suffering.

Cry me a river.
I've been using Softlayer for years now and have only good things to say about them and their support team.
Yeah, It flaked out on me too. I don't think I got one.Never did receive an email about it going on sale.
"There might be a huge opening here for a "companies only" facebook clone, where you can only get updates from your favorite brands and service providers, not socialize with friends."

Isn't this just Twitter?
Do you have a similar problem with product reviews?
[video] Google Fellow, Jeff Dean, presents 'Scaling Deep Learning'
Speculation is speculation. I went to great pains to mention that it was a question/concern. I also provided enough proof to at least justify said speculation (i.e. it wasn't totally idle).

I disagree that is is, within its self, a bad thing to do. We should hold people in the public eye to account, in particular when we spot what might be potential conflicts of interests.
Yes! I would really like to subscribe to Netflix, but the lack of Linux support is stopping me. It would be nice to have a web client, but a native client would be a blessing for those of us that find web clients to decrease performance system wide.
Could have. Little late for that now.
I dropped you an email ;)
Qt 5.0 Beta 2 is Out
Your best bet, in general, is to get a Nexus-branded device. Those are straight from Google, run vanilla Android, and tend to get updates more quickly. Additionally, they are frequently among the most hacker-friendly Android devices, so custom firmwares and the like from the modding community tend to spring up quickly, so you tend to have lots of options about the software your phone runs as it gets older.

Often times, phones from Samsung or HTC or whatnot come with a customized version of Android, which has been made to look visually distinct, has some additional value-add packages, and whatnot. Most power users will tell you that they prefer vanilla Android. That said, most all the popular devices have aftermarket builds based on vanilla Android (AOSP), or a juiced-up fork of vanilla Android (CyanogenMod, my personal preference), and it's not that difficult to replace your factor-installed firmware with one of these packages if desired.

The S3 is a great device, though, and I don't think you'd regret it if you got it, but if you're looking to get an opinion of Android, a Nexus device is the way to go.
Along with the departure of Ray Ozzie (thank goodness!), this actually makes Cringely's suggestion -- http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/28/steve-ballmers-dilemma/ tl;dr that Microsoft simply milk its cash cow for as long as it can and then turn into an investment fund -- seem like it may actually happen.
I did work in a Sinofsky org. I was an individual contributor and didn't have a flashy title. What I saw was a man that maintained a sizable gap between reputation/rhetoric and reality. The man who supposedly cleaned up Windows did so largely by taking credit for the work of COSD, which he didn't run. For all he would amusedly repeat the phrase "don't ship the org chart", we pretty much ... shipped the org chart. During the big re-org he seemed very precise about getting a fixed number of reports on each team and having a constant tree height in all parts of the org chart, but during the (overly long) planning phase and during development he never seems to have asked the right questions of the folks doing the Modern UI or WinRT, such as "dude, what the fuck are you building?", or "does this shit make sense?" He empowered what is in the end a very dopey PM organization. He and his people would also veto stuff if it depended on non-Sinofsky divisions. He was also a staunch advocate of not doing things right the first time, and letting it become someone else's problem in a future release.

I also recall he wrote in a blog post that it should be expected that people in their early 20s work unreasonably long hours and have no social life, and that expectation was clear if you looked at the rank and file of many important teams: lots of kids right out of college doing the work that you'd expect someone more experienced to have some role in, or at least mentor; I saw a fair number of regressions and crappy features result from this approach.

Years ago some commenter on the "Mini Microsoft" blog called him "The George W. Bush of Microsoft". I tend to agree.
I had it in my shopping cart after multiple errors on the site, only to have it disappear, and now its unavailable again. Seriously Google?

If Google expects people to funnel their financial transactions through them, they have to get this kind of thing right. This is the third time they have proven unfit to handle this kind of rush.
I managed to order one, after struggling with the checkout process for around 10 minutes @ 11:50 ET. I think I have seen at least three different types of errors, on the cart as well as during the payment stage.
Softlayer does have some ancient seeming hardware still available (which stupidly shows at the top of some lists), but has Xeon E5 systems too, which are fine. They actually had E5s available before general availability.

The only criticism I have of Softlayer is their RAM pricing is sometimes extortionate, but is negotiable.
U.A.E. Law Restricts Online Criticism of Government
11:00 CT

The 8 GB version now shows availability and the 16 GB version does not. It is not clear what is happening with regards to site/infrastructure issues or sold out status of the 16 GB version.

11:05 CT

The 16 GB version briefly showed itself as available. I successfully added it to my cart. But, I immediately received an error when trying to check out.

11:10 CT

Both the 8 GB and the 16 GB are not showing availability.

12:06 CT

Because I kept seeing them become available on and off over the past hour, I had a feeling it was an infrastructure problem. Every 5 or 10 minutes, I logged out, logged in, saw that they became available, added them to my cart, tried to check out and received an error. That led me to believe that they're just having issues.

I was able to successfully order both the 8 GB and the 16 GB at 11:57 CT and 12:04 CT respectively.

Clearly, the cries of "SOLD OUT" being heard across the web are incorrect.
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They don't own their "Likes"! Has that ever, even for one single moment, really been in doubt? Facebook owns the platform. You play in their sandbox, you follow their rules. They own all the toys.

Look at Twitter locking down their API or Apple inconsistently enforcing arcane app store rules. When someone else owns the platform, they effectively own anything you create with it.
The single most important factor is also the most subjective. I personally dislike Android and wouldn't use this phone if you gave it to me for free, but I can still respect the price for hw. I'm surprised this even needs explaining.
I haven't got an MBA but many close friends do - and none of them fit Matt's views. I repeat, none. Having an MBA is not a black and white scenario, and that same "profile" can apply to anyone with no MBA. Still, let the facts do the talking, founders/executers with MBAs:

- Chris Dixon (Hunch, among others)

- Jeff Skoll (eBay)

- Trip Hawkins (Electronic Arts)

- Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy(Sun Microsystems)

- Gery Kremen (Match.com)

- Alexandra Wilson and Alexis Maybank (Gilt Groupe)

- Jeff Fluhr (Stubhub)

- Miriam Naficy (Minted, Eve.com)

- Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard (Wildfire)

- Mike Cassidy (Stylus Innovation, Direct Hit, Xfire, and Ruba)

- Inaki Berenguer (Pixable)

- Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, Jeffrey Raider, David Gilboa (Warby Parker)

- Cyrus Massoumi (ZocDoc)

- Jessica Flannery (Kiva.org)

The list can go on...
Microsoft: Defenestration
Have you considered using PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper (mysql_fdw) to pull data directly out of MySQL instead of the dump/load process?

It would be great to know more about your new setup, i.e. do you use streaming replication and some resource manager like Pacemaker?
Would it be better to have a DMCA style process for deleting anonymous online libel?
Wonder when the next batch will be available.
Glyph’s New iPhone App Tells You What Credit Cards To Use To Earn Better Rewards
Discover the best Electronic Dance Music.
If there's something I think is valuable and useful I have no issue paying with a tweet—and if you've got a SaaS business this one's more than worth a tweet (even if you think you know your shit it's a great resource to review), and I think the people that read my stream might find it interesting too
All the crypto code you've ever written is probably broken
I have no vendetta. It is simple pattern matching:

I receive lots of applications every day. When nine out of ten that share one common characteristic (MBA), share another (no understanding of how they could add value in an early stage startup), you begin to connect the dots.
On the other hand, having a consistent identity also helps people help you.
If they got $7.8M in June then they must have more money in the bank, so does this mean they are going to pivot?
Very excited and much needed. I am in Wisconsin at the Early Stage Forum and it is lonely being a woman! Way to go!
My point is that the content isn't identical unless your WebGL backend is emulating all the steps that Canvas implementations are required to take in order to conform to the specification. I do agree that it shouldn't matter as long as the output looks the same, but that's clearly not the case either as you demonstrate by the screenshots showing how much better your WebGL version looks.

I simply think it's a misleading comparison. You could easily compare Canvas performance in Firefox and Chrome against Canvas performance in IE and the better browsers would probably still come out ahead. If you wish to simply demonstrate that WebGL is faster than Canvas, you should do that comparison in the same browser. You could also demonstrate some of the use cases that simply aren't possible with Canvas, or are much slower (blend operations, for example).

My perspective comes from porting a bunch of XNA games to HTML5, so I've spent a lot of time digging into the semantics of Canvas and trying to figure out how to use it to achieve precise results in varied scenarios. That's part of why I think it's inaccurate to treat it as equivalent to just drawing textured quads with WebGL. A lot goes on under the hood.
I got charged, but I haven't seen any confirmation in my orders or email that it worked.
We're looking for hosting which has both dedicated and virtual servers on the same network. SoftLayer and Rackspace seem to be the two big players who do this. Does anybody have any experience with them both?
Nexus 4 now available in US
I totally agree. As I said in the original post:

"I am not trying to argue that there is no place for MBAs, or that no MBA has a clue about startups – both of those are demonstrably untrue. Also having an MBA itself is clearly not the problem."
I had the same thought.

Think of when you go to an NBA game and they give out some sort of "freebie". I would imagine those game "freebies" cost much more than $3000, and regardless of that, with Facebook you are potentially reaching the 1M+ fans where as those game "freebies" might only be handed out to a measly 5K. It seems like a no-brainer to use Facebook to reach 1M+ fans at that price, vs what they traditionally pay for other forms of marketing.

Also, you could easily be selective on what sort of post validates for a $3K (post) promotion. Not all posts are worth promoting to every one of your fans, doing so would just weaken the brand image (in my eyes).
I had to keep hitting the "Proceed" button dozens of times in order for it to succeed. Finally got the Google Checkout popup to work properly and completed the order.

If you see it being marked as sold out, refresh or clear cookies. Apparently it's a caching issue.

Edit 12:10pm ET: caching doesn't seem to make a difference; may actually be sold out now. Surprised at (a) high demand and/or low inventory, (b) that Google struggled to keep the site responsive.
Go talk to some folk in retail - they'll disagree ;-)

Conversion funnels. Split testing. All happened in retail long before all this new fangled on-line nonsense. In fact retail optimisation is fascinating stuff. It's a few years old now but 'Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping' by Paco Underhill is a great read.

If you ever get the chance to chat to folk who do data mining for store chains do so. They have fascinating tales to tell.
What's the big rush?
i'm sorry i offended you. if you can explain, please, what was so arrogant about my own post i will try to correct it in future.
He makes fair points. Though the one thing that really grinds my gears about Facebook (and I will state it so that Facebookers can consider the issue) is that I cannot use their Open Graph API to build FB apps without being an active member of the network. Being an active FB member requires me to give them my mobile number, an spend a questionable amount of time using it. Time better spent working. I wish I could just pay them a developers fee ($50/year ? ), and have my own little dev account with no other feature other than being able to use the API.
You might be familiar about this whole 'hacker' culture. Right?

The 'hobbyist' programmers were creating the most beautiful things, when the enterprise with 'trained' programmers had no idea about the term 'internet'. The hackers gave us the internet.... The spirit of software development..

They create better things with haskell and clojure, and the trained graduates are stuck
with what their boss say.

True pragmatism comes from within, and believe me, it librates you.
My impression from the article is that's what he's doing. He's still going to use FB, just de-emphasize it as the main source for fans to follow the Mavs.
Haiku R1 alpha 4 released
That's amazing but doubtful. Anyone received his/her package at 01:00 a.m.?
BTW, Taobao is a third-party e-commerce platform, it doesn't handle the delivery.
While $90 is an improvement I think we need to get closer to $20 for things to get really interesting.
After switching away from a 5 monitor setup to just using a laptop I began using multiple workspaces. As a vim user the default Ubuntu key bindings left something to be desired so I remapped them so that Alt-(h|j|k|l) move around in workspace... space and Ctrl-Alt-(h|j|k|l) move the current window similarly.

I am surprised that after enjoying multiple monitors for so many years, this way of working fits me well. I have been using this setup for more than two years now.
Show HN: PHP For Affiliate Marketers Free Today at Amazon.com
Sold out in Canada. Turns out it went on sale ~20 minutes ahead of time. Guess I'll be waiting a few more weeks to replace my N900.
I don't get it. Facebook isn't working out so they are considering a change to MySpace or Tumblr? How about changing your focus to oh I dunno ... your website!? Moving from one free, closed-garden system to another isn't progress.
coincidental
Same. I have a pending Google Wallet charge on my CC. Hopefully it went through.

I've heard of Australian/European buyers who had this issue and received shipping information a few hours later. Hopefully we're in this same boat.
Intro to JavaScript Game Development (with Impact.js)
Can anybody confirm if the 16GB was ever available?

I see 8GB available but not 16GB.
If you will ask me, my answer is no. I'm living in a region / country wherein LTE is still "not there yet". I'm buying this phone because it's cheap. I don't mind the lack of LTE because it's still somewhat useless in my country.
GitLab releases CI server
It did sound a lot like he was assuming Facebook would act just like email, at which point you have to wonder why not collect email addresses.

As an infrequent and naive Facebook user, I would not expect that "Liking" a company page meant "Subscribe me to whatever they want to send me."
When you're looking for resumes, you're not looking to be perfectly fair. You're looking to sort wheat from chaff.

For me, for example, developer certifications are a black mark. Does that mean I auto-reject people with them? No. But it is correlated with a couple of different kinds characteristics I don't want in a developer, so they lose points.

But aren't there some good people with certifications? Am I not being unfair? Sure. My job isn't to be fair; it's to find a great person in minimum time.
The last page should say "Thank you. Your order has been placed, and you will receive an email shortly with the details of your purchase."

To the right is a link that says "Order Status". Right click on that to open in a new tab. That will contain your order number, which should be enough for you to resolve any problems with your order.

I haven't received my email yet, almost 15 minutes after ordering, but I will be saving a copy of that order status page...
On the other hand, it could do with it's planetary stack pointer thrust engine being repaired.
It's like registering for Google I/O - we would all LOVE to throw hundreds of dollars at Google for one of their products, but for whatever reason, we can't.
And a separate subway, with just the billboards and no travelers!
I was also charged but didn't get any email from Google :(

Edit: Now there's transaction on my Wallet page :) It reads "Nov 13 Google Inc. received your order."
The Super Talent RC8 has a peppy SandForce SSD controller.

http://www.everythingusb.com/super-talent-usb-3.0-express-rc...
Quora: What are some of Facebook's best kept secrets?
Without meaning to be unnecessarily negative; what I find most interesting about this post is that neither the article, nor any comments in this thread so far, even mention Google Plus. Cuban seems to write it off as a contender, even a revived MySpace seems more likely to him as an alternative. Why?
For all that is holy, why can't Google show to folks outside US/Canada at least some specs and promo pages of the device? I'm not even asking for ability to put a preorder, but why are we left only with the silent void with literally nothing but "Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet"? What a brilliant way to disappoint people and divert thousands of potential customers away.
No it's called LinkedIn.

And while valuable in it's own right has no where near the engagement numbers of Facebook.
Besides the silly wall between the divisions, the Nexus 4 was probably designed before Google bought Moto.
Please excuse the meta but I see articles from quartz and, while I won't comment on the content, their UX is awful for me. Am I alone here? Articles will often not load properly (this one loaded to an article about the BBC), and stuff moves that shouldn't be moving. I feel like qz is built to piss me off. Running Chrome, if that matters.
I've been following this case for a while (Ken's blog is great) and suggested extortion a few times, but they seem keen on pursuing the wire fraud angle.

Probably because it's so open and shut. If the people running the site have gotten someone to send them money, it's essentially game over.
Had about 7 failures after hitting the 'Buy' button. Hopefully more 16GB are available soon.

I can't imagine the 8GB would sell out, with only 5.5GB of usable space that's pretty small for a phone today.
I understand VAT just fine. Meanwhile you don't seem to be responding to anything that I actually wrote.

The exact specifics of VAT accounting don't matter to the question of whether selling Nexus 4 to the UK from Ireland is sleazy tax optimization or not. I think it clearly isn't, and have argued why not. If you disagree, could you perhaps address that point rather than bicker about the exact VAT semantics?
It _is_ a reality show. The decisions are made before the person ever gives their first on-camera pitch.
This is just the kind of thing comes along with the philosophy that the user shouldn't be the ultimate owner and controller of their computer.

Why isn't the app given an opaque 'twitter handle', which may be a real account, a no-op, or has a moderated posting ability? And why is the app allowed to view general properties of the system, looking for system software which it deems unfavorable?

Because Apple decided that instead of implementing the above security features (and giving their UI designers the task of making such capabilities understandable and non-overwhelming), they would simply only allow "good" apps. Well guess what - "good" doesn't scale.
Teeny bit of traction - what next?
Wman: Man pages + wikipedia.
Because owning 93% of a company that's even 2x more successful than it'd otherwise be is still a good deal for you.
Have a look at http://www.coworfing.com, saw some cool public places with wifi around me.
it was. I was able to add it to my shopping cart, but kept getting errors when pressing a 'proceed' button. Others succeeded though.
From an non-scientific back-of-the-envelope thought process, it would seem that at least the "perception" would be higher.

At lower income levels, a much higher percentage of one's total income is spent for life's basics (i.e., food and fuel being the big two). Therefore any increase in food or fuel costs (both of which have risen rather much the last few years) takes an ever bigger bite out of an already small income pie. Therefore making low income individuals very sensitive to price changes in these basics. Potentially leading to a perception of a higher overall inflation than what is actually happening in the market as as whole.
> "Being an active FB member requires me to give them my mobile number"

That is not true. I have a Facebook and no where have I ever been required to give my mobile number. I think you only need an email (and I think, it doesn't even necessarily have to be valid) to create an account.

> "...spend a questionable amount of time"

I created a test account for an app I'm working on (the other month) in less than 5 minutes, give or take. For an app you are building with their API, 5 minutes of time and getting to use it for free is the same as "($50/year)" as you mentioned? That seems a bit exaggerated to me.