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Ask HN: What's your enterprise pricing plan?
Everyone says "for enterprise plans, call us." What do you say when they call? Are you fishing for what they'll pay, or is it just a negotiation?
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The opposite is happening at our company, twelve years in. Many employees determine their own working hours and schedule, and the more of us do it, the more people realise it's better and join the movement. I have no idea how our company will work 5 years from now, but I guarantee those principles won't have died.

It's possible to keep improving in this area, but you need a strong culture to support it, and inspiration from companies that show you that it can be done. In our case, the Valve handbook was enormously motivating: if a 300+ person company can operate with so few rules, what is our 50 person company really complaining about?
I already replied higher up with a suggestion to check in to the sciences. Seeing as you're in Maryland you're pretty much right in America's Biotechnology hotbed.
Calling preventDefault on the mousewheel event stops swipe navigation in Chrome. You may want to restrict this to when the tab pane's scroll position is 0.
Public statements like that do not supersede the Constitution; when presidents say things like that, the unspoken context is that their actions are constrained by the rule of law. You need to understand that; otherwise you will drive yourself crazy with all the things that politicians say.

In this particular example, the president can issue orders that control how government agencies operate, so long as they do not contradict a law passed by Congress. He can do this because he is the executive charged with leading government agencies.

What he cannot do--what only Congress can do--is issue an executive order that controls how private companies operate. He does not have direct legal authority over what private companies do; only Congress can set those laws.

The way presidents nuance this is to order that government agencies are only allowed to do business with private companies who do things in certain ways. This way he can influence any companies that want to do business with the federal government (which is a lot of companies). He's not ordering them--he's offering an incentive.

This is similar to how Congress sets the national drinking age. They can't tell states what the drinking age should be, so instead they tell the states that they can only get federal transportation funds if they maintain a drinking age of 21 or older. Since the states all want those funds, they comply.
I've heard that XP is widely deployed, but in what world does a business persist in keeping Win2K deployed? Wifi support is weak, and USB support was still shaky.

I doubt Win2K is the reason. It's more likely IIS-specific ActiveX-infested enterprise code that requires IE6... Microsoft (and their partners) have a rather sizeable consulting presence that has in the past 15 years pushed out a lot of MS-specific web solutions.
I'm laughing my ass off... Great and insightful post!
ouch... that's ... insane.

When I saw the headline I was vaguely thinking maybe this could be an alternative to the awful apple maps... ><

I guess nokia's basically given up any idea of supporting japan.
You either reinvent messaging or reinvent todo-lists. "Reinventing" an implementation such as email is nonsensical thing to say.
Parse Adds Support for Windows Phone 8
Thank you so much for this comment. It's legitimately eye-opening and helps someone like me answer a lot of questions.
Will do, thank you for the offer jbk. Again, great work. I can't begin to imagine how painful it must've been to get everything relicensed! Sometimes it's such "non-technical" work that ensures the continued success of a product.
A killer feature would be auto-generation of the tab from the audio. Then you'd instantly have tons of content.

Does anyone know if this is remotely possible? I messed around briefly with this a while back, and I remember it being very difficult to get a note (much less a chord) from a noisy signal.
IANAA, but... Remember that these vacation policies also offer a very significant accounting benefit compared to PTO polices that let employees accrue & bank PTO. The accounting downside for these PTO policies is that many employees end up with huge PTO balances (lame for other reasons) that they build up in advance of leaving the company. Because the company must pay out in cash the whole PTO balance when the employee leaves, the company actually has to keep (often very significant amounts of) cash on hand in proportion to the collective banked PTO amounts. This is lame and it's avoided in "you get 0 but take as much as you want" scenarios.
Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Three.js and WebGL
Are we the product of HN, then? Or if HN is "not the same", how are Identi.ca users its product?

It's a nice soundbite, but it's oversimplified. There are many business models, and some don't involve neither direct payments nor ads/tracking, and others have ads even when you pay (e.g. Cable TV). It's just not that simple.
They could potentially do wireless inductive charging through the same coil they (hypothetically) use to do magnetic communication. That, or the top/bottom half of the device are isolated and act as the -/+ terminals (probably wouldn't be good for the swimming application though).
I'll venture for an answer: none. The moment you decide to check for a pen, you sealed his fate ( ie. which rotation it has ) and also of the other pen. So to say, you collapsed his wave. Kind of a Schroedinger's cat experiment.

The reason you know about the both pens in the moment you look at them is, well, because they are "entangled". But no information has been sent. You had this information all along with you, bound by the space-time and it's C speed limit.
I don't know which I find more puzzling- that you have figured out how much Mercury costs, or that you've decided to buy it.
Unbelievable: The IDF Has Gamified Its War Blog
He did say experiment but that implies that PG wishes to manipulate the site in order to observe outcomes - when you manipulate something without due regard to the possible detriments it is known as "toying with" that thing. Ergo I asked the question as to whether PG's goal was merely to observe the community and manipulate it with no regard for the community itself or if it was perhaps something more lofty.

From what I've seen I think the community has grown organically out of the noble work of Ycombinator and that largely the tool of HN has been a relatively passive element in that growth. PG appears indifferent to HN as a tool - neither wanting to experiment with it, develop it, improve it, nor disregard it.

>nobody's forcing you to be here //

Nice.

Do you feel passive-aggressiveness is the way to build a valuable community?

It was not spin it was enquiry with an attempt to dig in to the nature of calinet6's statement: calinet6's response makes it apparent that the important feature of the statement was not the choice of the word "experiment" but instead the apostrophe-s, ie that HN belongs to PG. I feel that by asking the question in the way I did that I shortcut to this result.

[Aside: in general, would you say my presence as part of this community is to it's detriment?]
I don't understand why you'd read their document, find the worst possible interpretation imaginable - one which no reasonable person could assume was valid - and then post about that on Hacker News.
Chinese scientists teleport data, groundwork for interplanetary internet
It's the HTML5 <video> tag.
Did the US defeating Japan/Germany/Italy/etc. in WWII involve genocide?

I think Western civilization as a whole has completely forgotten how to win wars. Now, they only know how to keep them going for decades.

Please spare me your genocide tripe. An overwhelming military victory saves lives in the long run. That's the truth. Constantly wringing your hands and freaking out over every little thing leads to this ridiculous ongoing violence which harms the quality of life for millions on both sides.
You can also do it in Keynote. Just create hyperlinks between slides (which you can do with any shape, via the Inspector). Then export the presentation as a PDF, and the clickable image hyperlinks will be preserved in the PDF file. Then it's also very convenient for sharing with designers/developers/investors, etc.
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The thing about the emscripten version is that their own demos seem to GC-pause constantly on Chrome. I'm assuming the emscripten-generated code is making tons of incidental garbage, but I haven't profiled it or anything; it's all Closure-compiled and impossible to read. I'm still using the old old old actionscript port of the old version, and wish I had seen box2dweb sooner.

btw disasteroids is hilariously awesome. Great work.
The mutual bloodshed is terrible, and, as a resident of Tel Aviv I'm personally affected, but there is one thing that has always perplexed me a bit, which is the perception of the actual ferocity of the conflict. Obviously, every death is a terrible loss, but this forum is fond of numbers, so while we're on the subject, here are some numbers:

The total number of deaths in the entire Israeli-Arab conflict over the past 70 years or so, is - according to Wikipedia - under 100,000. Out of which, about 25,000 are Israeli, a similar number are Palestinians, and the rest, I guess are casualties of all the other fighting arab countries combined, although the total seems to me a bit high. That's the total for the past 70 years.

By comparison, in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars, Wikipedia puts the number of deaths at about 30,000 in each country in the last year alone. And the Mexican drug war has claimed the lives of about 56,000 since 2006; some estimates go as high as 100,000.

So, not to compare suffering, but the entire Israeli-Arab conflict has claimed, over the last 70 years, more or less the same number of lives as the drug war in Mexico in the past 6.

I'm not even sure what I wanted to say by that.
Thank you for this, it's really helpful. I couldn't find the C8051C020 at silabs and wondered if you meant the C8051F020 [0] instead. While this was already a long and helpful post I was wondering if you had any plans to elaborate further (maybe somewhere else) on programming for micro-controllers and RTOS programming.

[0] http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/mixed-signalmcu/Pages/C80...
"Brand as a friend" to get an in game bonus feels more honest than "spam your friends". Paying attention to an advertiser so the advertiser pays the game is just a small price for me.
I was being a little ridiculous but only because rhizome seemed to be implying that Google shouldn't have hiccups like this because they've been hiring intelligent people.
I don't think he's trying to attack you personally, and I do think his comment helps the discussion.

Whether it's a good or bad thing, a writer's reputation (which is often based directly on past actions) does impact how people understand his or her work.

My opinion is that it's important to know such information when reading an article, regardless of whether it can be taken in a positive, neutral, or negative light. It does help the reader get a deeper comprehension of the article's message, and where the writer is coming from.
I think it was just out of curiosity; I had the exact same question.

Also, "Why is it free?" is another way of asking "What's the catch?". It's important to understand this before you put in a bunch of work...
Can someone explain why the discouragement of IDEs is seen as a good idea?
NASA says staff information was on stolen laptop
YC W13 Applicants
Maybe they should be taking some programming courses, or reading some programming books, rather than glaring.
Ask HN: Offline Marketing Strategy For Smart Phone Apps?
I'm building an app which helps golfers network with each other and pairs them up for Tee times. I'm having hard time coming up with suitable marketing approach. With my customer development hat on, I'm thinking about approaching golf courses, and having them push this to their club members. The challenge is for a given golf course say 500 members / month - with 30% of them using iOS and 10% (optimistic scenario) initial interest - I'm already down to 15 members / month. Ideally with infinite resources - I would support all smart phones, and cover multiple golf courses in a city. But with given resources and time, I need to focus on best way to take-off. I can't be the only one trying to use offline marketing for building customer base.

How did four-squre get their first 1000 users. Did they collaborate with the businesses from the get go?
What are your experiences for building a smart phone app which required offline marketing? How did you get your first 1000 users? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Didn't they already announce this? How is this different from the last blog post?
What does a company need to have in order to be considered a monopoly? Is there a legal definition of monopoly in the U.S.A.?

For the E.U. I quote Wikipedia:

"By European Union law, very large market shares raise a presumption that a company is dominant, which may be rebuttable. If a company has a dominant position, then there is "a special responsibility not to allow its conduct to impair competition on the common market". The lowest yet market share of a company considered "dominant" in the EU was 39.7%." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Law
Would be nice to see some examples of completed games on the site, even if they're just YouTube walk throughs.
That's how I build the base part for most of my little robots. Be aware that fiberglass can cause allergic reactions in your skin. Wear long sleeved shirts and gloves.
You may also prototype with cardboard, wooden sticks (like those used in popsicles), duct tape, and a hot glue gun. If you want to mess with plastics, you can go to the junkyard and buy some inner fender covers from wrecked cars. Then just use a heat gun to mold or melt the plastic to whatever shape you need. If you make a mold with fiberglass, you can easily fill it with this plastic. It is quite durable and can be drilled/tapped. Bondo is another great thing to use, but be aware that it is very dusty and messy.
No one's perfect and we all make mistakes, given the circumstances we find ourselves in - we all make choices with incomplete information.

Admitting that there's a better way to do things is a good first step to become better. To share what you've learned is a sign of being humble.
This is an unfortunate title. It should read: "Facebook Pages: Why I don't like things anymore". There are going to be more than a few people who might have been on the fence about buying a Nest thermostat and will make a snap judgement based on this title.
If it were me, I'd remove it. You're basically trying to piggyback off of their reputation and advertising, and they clearly aren't down with that. It's better to make friends (yes, even competitors) than enemies this early in the game. Best of luck.
Buddy makes it simple to build Facebook commerce apps
We're creating a list of companies that applied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791386
Google Now dubbed Popular Science "Innovation of the year"
I worry more than before my first sex :|
Great work! Some things I'd like to see:

- Ability to loop sections of a song.
- An easy way to restart the current song from beginning.
- And, because I'm not great... Slower than half-speed playback.

Thanks for providing a great service!
Email is more than the tools we use. Its the nature of the communications - its permanence, the store-and-forward thing, the fidelity (text/mime/images etc), the namespace.

Messaging differs in one or more of these. Phone calls have lower latency (unless you don't answer) but higher fidelity - you can go back and forth in seconds.

Just like there's a gadget every $50 between a simple phone and a laptop, there's a communications tool from snail mail to phone call/voip filling every ecological niche.

So yes, I believe you can reinvent something that's the size and shape of email, including its latency and permanence but maybe with better fidelity or authenticity or whatnot.
> ... most hardware companies hire only Computer Engineers for low-level programming work (among other things).

I have a computer engineering degree—I will cheerfully work with anybody who can get the job done. EE, CS, physics, you name it. My experience has been that low-level skills are only weakly correlated with degree. You want the person who was writing device drivers in high school.
This is just fantastic. Wish you guys were around while i was trying to learn how to play guitar. Seems like i m going to have to buy a acoustic guitar and give it a second shot. Good job.
Twitter Oauth Down?
Anyone having trouble logging into services running on Twitter Oauth?
around here it's common to see senior positions filled by 0.8-1.3 "engineers" on that scale

That's scary.

One thing I'm finding is that it's really hard to get into a position where you can function at a 1.5+ level. Most companies want reliable mediocrity, not excellence. The reason there are so few 1.5+ engineers is that there's so little 1.5+ work out there. I think that if a few companies had the balls to man up and go to open allocation, we'd see a dramatically higher level of software talent in a few years.
Except wind energy has no practical future promise.
It is good to see messaging become more popular! It has been around for a long, long time, but it has never been given the spotlight.

going meta for a bit...

When I see the number of comments here, I have optimism for the system that is distributing the important knowledge (the Internet and good online communities ( HN )).
I don't think the ACM or any of the engineering related orgs are ahead of the curve
on these things. Engineers need to share with engineers on this topic.

I just read the paper by Richard Gabriel on CLOS and Mixins.
One of the tl;drs for that paper is that engineers are the driving most of the innovation in this field. (or at least as much as academia). This reinforces the point above.

In contrast, throughout the 80s,90s or even 00s, when I talked or asked about Smalltalk, Objects, and other interesting tech... I was usually told that those were failures. "Go with C++ or Java". Those languages are the very ones that made MOP and other interesting
paradigms feel like you were going against the grain.

Even if you were following some usenet newsgroup that had good discussion. There was usually a bozo factor or too much religion (aka not much cross pollination)

So glad to be in the future and see positive discussion occurring!

... going un-meta

tl;dr - It is good to see people look at the existing paradigms with an open mind.
just like functional programming. Overall the post linked to is not that interesting.
It is the discussion in the comments here that is inspiring.
Please dont go and change the name to mercur.ly. Where Synergy meets Space.
There are two examples in the docs, a side scrolled and a platformer.
It is interesting that such conversations would be on private phone lines between the two countries. Though it is in many ways nicer for both sides to play with words than weapons. First side to challenge the other to a game of peace wins.

It is also worth mentioning that when a individual or group of start taking to social media in with such posturing intent that the countries goverments try and often suceede in closing them down. When countries do it then the moral echo of any form of standards becomes defining. Free speech is just that as long as it is just words.

Let them play chess or farmville, pixels alot easier to replace than people.
Y Combinator, Don't Be Afraid Of Webcam Integration (24 Hour Hack)
Dirty Word Searches In iTunes Store Suggested Apps for Disney...
No mention of multiplayer support is worrying.
Totally come of age. It's been literally months since the top US exchange has been hacked.
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No, that's a very commonly stated point, and it's completely wrong from the perspective of someone trying to reduce carbon output.

Solar usually gets this criticism more than wind, so let's use that: the argument goes that you need enough power generating capacity to handle peak usage, but of course solar only works in the day. So if your peak usage happens at night (it doesn't, but let's assume) then the solar panels have "displaced zero power plants".

But who cares? If you have them built, then during the day the solar plants are operating and generating (much cheaper, looking only at marginal costs) power. And the coal and gas plants, by virtue of having higher marginal costs, are idle. And at night the fossil plants fire back up and do what they were doing before. So the net effect, assuming excess solar capacity, is that carbon output has been reduced by a factor of two (actually a bit more than two in practice).

And of course then the market will accomodate, such that "day power" being available in higher quantity and with higher excess capacity becomes cheaper and "night power" more expensive. So the legacy coal plants will probably still even make money as they're selling into a "premium" market.

So... how is solar (or wind) a toy in that scenario?
Ask HN: Total Dick or Totally Awesome
I recently turned my hosted Google Drive code editor, https://neutron-drive.appspot.com/, from being free to $3.99/year. Many people think I'm a dick for switching from free to paid. But something has gotta pay for the hosting and development time in the future. I also gave all existing customers a free year. So is this a total dick move? Or am I totally awesome for trying to make a sustainable product? Also what alternative ways of generating revenue are there if this is too much of a dick move?
Maybe they should have raised the cost to 10c, and advertised that you get a bonus, second Coke 3 in 4 times.
Monophonic pitch estimation isn't too hard these days (see e.g. the YIN frequency estimator). Polyphonic pitch detection of even a single instrument is a hard problem. Real music, with multiple instruments, becomes a very challenging unsolved AI problem with current technology.
How would you suggest achieving your 'overwhelming military victory' in Afghanistan, or Iraq?
Bicep Workouts – What You Need To Know
I got an interview email at 10:01pm EST in the past. It came through Mailgun so everyone that gets chosen will probably get that email at the same time.
Our previous announcement was for Windows 8 support. This adds support for Windows Phone 8 (whose SDK came out after we launched the Windows 8 version) as well ;)
Even from early beta versions it's been surprisingly addicting. The first time I tried it I went for a walk, and found myself still wandering the streets at 2am, only returning home when my battery was giving out :). If I'm at all average, you won't be too disappointed!
hey, i'm playing with some MOP like systems on the side myself. I haven't figured out how to make the code language independent yet but have ideas. Most of it is mostly exploratory. If you are interested in a discussion, contact me. It would be cool to discuss witha like-minded engineer.
I really only use Siri while driving, but there it is amazing. "How long until I arrive at my destination?", "I need gas", "play song X", things that are helpful without taking attention away from the road. I understand some higher end cars come with that functionality from the factory already, but I'm just a poor farmer, so it is amazing to have in an affordable device from my perspective.

I often wonder if Siri, and the new maps, is ultimately intended as a play for Apple to enter the automotive space in a big way. Perhaps as a hedge against Android/Google Driverless Car integration?