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Reinvent software testing
We are a pair of YC hackers, and we're building testing as a service. We are in Alpha and have ~300 companies waiting to use us. We just raised enough money to keep going for over 24 months.

Let's address the elephant in the room; testing sucks. We agree. But _reinventing_ testing is a serious challenge. It involves solving many complex sub-problems, and touches on practically every discipline within CS. We're taking a super-complex, multifaceted problem and making it simple.

We're looking for full stack engineers who care deeply about simplicity and elegance in interfaces _and_ in code.

Our application is written in Ruby (+ Grape) and Backbone, but smart hackers can adapt, so we're more interested in what you've built than what you've built it in.

You will be one of our first hires, and will be treated like a co-founder. Friendly debate and strongly-held opinions are the foundation of our company, and we like people who are capable of both.

You will be integral in shaping our company culture. We have music constantly playing in our office, we hold weekly hackathons where the only rule is it can't be work, and we cycle / swim / gym every day.

If you are our first hire then email us at letsrevolutionizetesting@gmail.com. Send whatever you think would help us understand who you are and why you're awesome; Github and Twitter links and previous projects you worked on are great.
love this idea, cant wait to get started!
It's interesting to consider how much of the legislative and voting process actually impacts the act.

A lot of voters probably view marijuana as positive/neutral, though how many were actually swayed by the 25% tax?

In the end there's a larger systemic problem, where you compromise and are either hurting consumers of a neutral/positive product or benefiting as a governmental system by feeding off of a negative product. Either way, regardless of your views it's a forward step for society, though with somewhat perverse implications.
I was thinking of Android in the sense that they didn't make a phone so they could insert ad slots into the basic UI, but you're totally right.

And personally speaking, just last night I signed in to the dashboard, saw the ads, and thought to myself, "So it's come to this: I have to choose between being monetized by ads, or by rootkits. Great."
I suggest buying the books. They are excellent. If you have to pick two, I would suggest the O'Reilly book[0] and the Joy of Clojure[1]. The first is an excellent primer and the latter is really great at explaining the thinking behind the language. I also enjoyed Amit Rahore's Clojure in Action, as well as Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway. I haven't read Practical Clojure.

The books are the best resources if you're trying to learn the language at a fast pace, but there is plenty of information to be found through Google as well. In the end the best way to learn is by doing.

Good luck and welcome to the Clojure community!

0: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920013754.do

1: http://joyofclojure.com/
There are plenty of shops making tons of money with HFT who do not have deal flow at all - it's got nothing to do with luck.

Survivorship bias would mean I simply got lucky. If you're going to say that you're at least going to need to look at my P&L charts and say how I could possibly achieve that much success with luck alone.

Finally, machine learning has everything to do with my success. There were hundreds of variables in my algorithm that were ALL optimized using ML. If you read the article you would know that I built an accurate model for backtesting that I used to optimize variables as well as confirm that I was going to make money before I even started live trading.

I'm pretty confident that whatever you were doing in 2004 has nothing to do with what I was doing.
He died in 2011 but his flatware lives on. A whole year. OK.
The Happiness Project - Why StartUp Founders are Always Unhappy
everything he does comes off as elitist and egotistical.

http://www.dustincurtis.com/ - Dustin Curtis is a superhero

are you fvckin' kidding me?
Author here. You're right, and this was an intentional omission because it was irrelevant to my larger argument. If you want to go to the full depth of determinism then yes, with complete knowledge you can eliminate any chaotic factors in the model.

The greater point though is that with our current capability of determining state we can eliminate a huge amount of chaotic factors from elections, but very, very few chaotic factors from sports and lotto drawings.

We're not anywhere near the ability to determine state to that degree, and even if we were there's the certitude that unless the system was completely closed before the measurements were taken, the minute changes that result from the prediction (a team getting a sense of security, a fan cheering louder, a teammate changing a stride into the locker room because he read a tweet spawned by the prediction) throw the prediction out the window.

So yes, on a scientific basis you're right and that's the grist for another blog post, but on a practical level it's irrelevant.
He says:

"My theory is that a founder’s happiness is tied to the rate of change of their startup’s success. In other words, your happiness graph is the first derivative of your success graph."

He is stating a theory, not a peer reviewed scientific journal. He isn't saying it is a fact, just a theory.

Personally I found his first derivative theory to be interesting and in many ways true of my life.

I know when things feel like they are about to go well, that is as enjoyable as when things are actually going well, but when they slow down I become unhappy.

If you have concrete evidence his theory is total garbage, by all means post it, but providing a random link and saying that anecdotal evidence is complete garbage is obnoxious.

Maybe someone who has the time to spend to prove the OP's theory or disproves it sees this post and it becomes a landmark paper you feel comfortable citing or reading.

It isn't the OP's job to prove it. His job is just to provide something interesting and insightful for people to read which helps get his startup's name out there. In my mind he accomplished both parts flawlessly.
Not at all, but in re-reading my comment I can see why you'd think that. My intention was to make a devil's advocate comment: 2 sides to every coin, etc.
Hm, that's a good point. I've found that most people have a text message plan which allows for unlimited incoming text messages but we'll take that into account and make it clear to the user.
OK, cool. There are some places that offer equity trading for ~$0.005/share, but that says nothing about overcoming bid/ask. Looks like the OP did that by throwing a bit of market making into the mix.
Autotools, how I hate thee
Would rather own one pair of $100 jeans than ten pairs of $10 jeans

I bought jeans that cost way north of $100 and I also grab jeans on the Gap's clearance rack that cost me around $13 after tax. There is a definitely a huge difference. When I bought my first pair of Rock Republic, I told myself I could wear these for the next 10 years.$100 jeans are worth the money in the way they feel, and fit; $50 t shirts and $100 shirts, not so much.
Referencement appears to be a black-hat-SEO French company: http://m.pinterest.com/visual3d/referencement-seo-smo/

I didn't realize, France has UK-style libel laws, where complaining about getting ripped off is punishable?
That seems unreasonably harsh. Feel better? I somehow doubt it.
I wonder if the cancer rate has increased. Burning trash releases nano-particles in the air that according to some studies increase cancer rate on a 70km radius.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2000/may/18/pollution....
Windows 8 isn't bad or good. It depends what _you_ use it for.

Ads get in the way for me. Some people don't mind ads. I use computers to code, multitask and use open source software. The majority of people don't do these things, so Windows 8 is a perfect piece of software for them. You don't use a hammer when you need a screwdriver, and Windows is just a tool. It depends if you like the software.
Hey Benny, I couldn't comment on your comment directly because you're in ban hell. But I get what you're saying.
In the past week, Dustin has posted a few articles [1,2,3] that have gained a massive amount of attention here, which all try to drill home the point that we should be out there living our lives as if they're going to end tomorrow. We shouldn't put off decisions, we should act on impulses that will make our lives better in ways we won't even realise. In summary: Life's too short, so get on with living it.

Now he gives us this. Cutlery.

He should take his own advice and get out of The Waiting Place, get back in The Fight and Do more than obsess over subjective things that even his own opinion will change about in time.

[1] http://dcurt.is/the-fight

[2] http://dcurt.is/the-waiting-place

[3] http://dcurt.is/do
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They are separate for user generated subdomains.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdom...

It is possible that on that fateful day, Google noticed zlio is user generated sub domains, and lost power.
> Example: Those forks may be best for Curtis at his dinner. They are certainly not best for me, on my camping trip. Or best for a tribe in Africa with different shaped mouths and habits etc. Or best for someone eating Chinese takeout. etc

Did you really read that article and understood it as Curtis saying the set of flatware he bought is the best in the world?
This is the first one, to my knowledge, that offers styling. You can drag and drop elements easily with divshot and jetstrap but if you want to change the colors and fonts etc, you can't.

I'm stoked to try this out!
Came here to say this. At least its not another competing javascript framework, but a full blown web-tool.
Simply not true.

Marijuana has been decriminalized in California since 2010. The proposition to legalize the drug failed to pass. But I would hardly call this "backward momentum." It's not like there was a ton of incentive for Joe Pot to rally behind the move--cheap prescriptions, cheap dispensaries, and cheap penalties is keeping him plenty happy and stocked.

There was no such "cracking down" in Amsterdam. And I would hardly call what happened in the Netherlands "cracking down." Many cities were weary of tourists entering the country simply to get high. So those cities combatted the "anti-social" tourist by requiring marijuana IDs at their coffeeshops. Citizens are free to use, but unless other countries adopt legalization laws in the Euro Zone some Dutch cities feel they must enforce these policies.

Will be interesting to see how Colorado/Washington deal with this, as they will likely encounter the same issue. If I lived in a border city like Vancouver, I'd be prepping for an influx in 2014.
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I think this kind of obsession (about things that don't matter) was best portrayed in American Psycho's business card scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y
Eh, I prefer the cutlery from Pott. (https://pinterest.com/pin/278519558175121239/)

Guy DeGrenne does nice cutlery too. (https://pinterest.com/pin/278519558175121407/)

The worst? (http://pinterest.com/pin/278519558175126518/) - this abomination.

Pinterest links used because, let's be honest, that's the best place for this kind of stuff.
Interesting. I haven't attended TypeCon in a couple of years but last time I went algorithmic kerning was a fairly hot topic amongst event-goers and some of the people giving talks. Machine kerning is still sort of looked down upon as far as I can tell (in the design world) but as a practical tool it's great that people are working on it and it has certainly improved many times over.

It looks like a great article and I'm looking forward to going over it fully to see if there's anything really new but overall it looks quite clear and covers at least a few things that I've tried (maybe less than successfully) to describe to others.
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You may not be able to get a no-ads version of Win8, but let me observe that I didn't even know Win8 had ads until this article- I've never opened those apps.
Nifty, although it's going to cause problems (or at least be harder to use) on sites that enforce password expiration and prevent re-use of previous passwords. But I use a proper password manager for those anyway.
>I conclude that the voters were not persuaded by philosophy.

Very astute, Plato.

Welcome to planet Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay.
It's nice that Amazon offers an unsubsidized version, but honestly it is not, and should not be, a requirement.
I guess running out of the cash allocated to keep it running for the past five years. What do you put on your resume to find work in a difficult economy? When your specialized skills are business leadership and marketing? How do you sell I'm skilled? People are still using the service, and we have a ton of their media. Every couple of days someone clicks they like us on facebook and are continuing to sign up and people return after a year without uploading media. But its not converting to profit.
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Thanks - I'll contact you to discuss more :)
I heard that Romney's number crunchers believed that they were winning till late evening Tuesday.

What other blunders did they make early on in the campaign?
He chooses to take his time to do things right, once, and then spend the rest of the time focusing on more important things.

The key word you've missed is "trust" - just like I buy things once, and expect them to last, so I can spend more time on real life, mostly on people.

Your argument is ... based on an utter misunderstanding. His goal is the same as yours. I'm sorry you can't understand this.

Life is too short to buy forks more than once.
I'm the author of the stack exchange post. I work as a paramedic, but I do start ups as my weekend work. I was lying awake at 3am this morning at work trying to solve this issue.

I know there has to be a better way - but I need to be able to 'prove' it...
Halloween party-yacht in bay area: "Largest crowdfunded party to date"
New routing framework for .NET
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Interesting concept, love the intention.

At first glance it seems OpenHack provides the organizer with the concept, branding, and inclusion on their site... anything I'm missing? what are the next steps?
We have a Norco 24-E which is not a system case, but an external drive enclosure with a SAS expander. I don't know if its the same backplane but I don't know why it wouldn't be. This article scared me because we have 24 SAS 15k rpm drives on it.

Then I checked the drive spec and saw that we are pulling 0.8A on the +5V rail and 1.2A on the +12V rail which is even more than these 3TB SATA drives without backplane issues for months.

We did have to upsize the case's PSU from the shipped 500W though as beyond 15 drives we got voltage warnings from the expander.

So I think YMMV.
Because it's my fault I can't spell this non word?
ITT we confuse talking points and identity politics with PHILOSOPHY.

Jesus. You know the intellectual landscape is bleak when even hackers are willing to entertain the notion that democracy/mob rule has anything to do with philosophy, or that politicians operate in line with some sort of rational ethic other than straight forward power broking.
It doesn't matter if, in aggregate, 50M people buy more than a manufacturer does. Each of those people will still get worse pricing than the single large-volume manufacturer would.

The economies of scale in producing the raw material will likely mean that its price will drop a bit, but the guy buying 5 tons a month will always get a much better price than the guy buying 5 lbs a month. Even if there are 50 million guys doing the same thing.
Was Intrade being manipulated over the last month?
and give my password to you? why is that better?
One of the dangers of A/B testing that the author didn't discuss is actually measuring statistical validity. Simply split testing with a low sample size or low level of difference between versions could just be random chance. I find it is always important to figure out the statistical significance of your results to ensure its not just the roll of the dice.
way to go James and co!!!! (plus damn great party)
Thanks for the feedback! You brought up a valid point. It's something that will become more of an issue as the website increases it's user base and we'll think of ways to address it.
If one attacks the OP for being materialistic, then one misses the entire point.

This post is about minimizing hypocrisy. Too often we do not pay attention to the things that others have built for us. We, the builders and the makers, do not pay enough attention to the builders and the makers that influence our lives! Don't we wish that our customers would pay close attention when they are deciding whether to use our products? Of course we do.

Dustin's materialism is the symmetry to the Hacker ethos of making, and if you think he's doing something wrong than you sir are no hacker.
Agreed. It's one of the first setting changes I make on new devices; if it's supported: changing the clock to 24 hours
Yep, it's more of a "flag" to fly under, and a template to run meetings. We should definitely have a page for "How do I schedule my first meetup?".
We're using Meetup to help RSVP for the Buffalo one. The github page is here to organize them all and provide a more centralized "home" for them.
Hi, I'm the author. Thanks for your thoughts. Think about it less literally. Remember the part where the machine choses from one of 725 variations on a part? Think about all that goes behind that. It's the accumulation of decades of hard work that has led to technological advances in manufacturing processes and hardware designs to lead to this moment. No other civilization in history could have dreamt of manufacturing something so refined on this scale, so (relatively) cheaply. And think about the historical macro-scale of the iPhone and Mobile in general. The Massai warrior in Kenya has more information in his phone than Nixon did in the White house. That is a civilization-scale accomplishment.
Awesome! We have a page on how to get started. Let me know how it goes. http://openhack.github.com/yours/
Sorry about your demo document on signup not loading. All should be fixed now.

And Max (yesimhuman) is right: it's pretty early, and we're all approaching the problem from different perspectives.
Thanks to whoever added this to Hacker News! Great to find it here.
Where did you get the term consumerism from? Do you think consumerism and materialism are the same thing?
It's all very well deserved Ron, your app in fact demystified to me how to actually play the piano.
Not to mention that my toddler loves it.

Greetings from Kyoto ;)
Very cool stuff. Something that immediately comes to mind is if this can be done in an even more inclusive way (not necessarily dependent on Twitter Bootstrap). I.e. if there is a WYSIWYG kind of way to create divs, containers, and easily drop elements into them.
When I was in fourth grade I bought a tri-fold leather wallet from target. My older brother wanted me to give it to him because he would need one for his permit some day but I refused. I've went on to use the wallet for 20 years before I finally retired it. It held my money and cards perfectly every day of those twenty years and I spent maybe 2 minutes picking it out. I paid around $20 for it.

The point is, almost everything we buy these days is of pretty high quality - even the cheap stuff. Far more often do we throw away of give away perfectly good objects because we want to upgrade or because we no longer have a use for them than we do because they have stopped working.

I can see the appeal of owning what you perceive to be "the best" of a particular item, but you're kidding yourself if you think it's somehow fulfilling. It's just stuff.
I think you are both right. Whether it is defining yourself through how perfect your purchase is or defining yourself through continual purchase-and-junk-it cycles, your are defining yourself through the things you purchase instead of the person you are. And often, these attempts at defining oneself this way are ways of self-medicating other issues by replacing the issues with the purchases.
http://www.embeddedrelated.com/usenet/embedded/show/44205-3....
To provide a counterpoint, the section about the "Remember Me"-cookie is rather terrible (I stopped reading after that).

It's not fundamentally flawed but rather inelegant (and potentially expensive) to store a magic number server-side for each session. You can implement the same thing more easily by handing out tamper-proof (HMAC) cookies containing the start- and end-time, and storing only the last_logout-timestamp for each user on the server-side.

Any cookie where expire_at < now or created_at < last_logout is to be rejected at validation time.
I believe the author is a woman.
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This is a good point, and something we definitely consider. Our A/B testing tool, ABBA, performs the necessary statistics and is mentioned in the "Test everything" section of the post.
I should also mention that the big-L Libertarians, as instantiated in the U.S., are not the fiscally-conservative socially-liberal party that centrists would even entertain. They're far too radical to be at all politically viable (abolish Fed and Education, open borders, legalize drugs, etc.).
People congregate around narcissists. The more epic the narcissism, the more epic the congregation. And it goes in the other direction too: epic congregation implies epic narcissism. It pisses me off too, but I guess this is just life.
I fail to see how researching before buying stuff is materalism. Our grandparents used to buy one thing, and it would last decades.

Materialism for me is impulse buying lots of cheap crap just because China happens to have many mouths to feed, destroying the environment in the process. That is short sightedness.
>What is ultimately important in life are people

What's important in life is whatever you define is important.
So do I, and I can be harsh too. You are not alone my friend.
This is not legal advice.

Go here: http://www.probono.net/

Find your state and see if you can find a pro bono attorney or two. Give them a call. See if one can refer you to someone who does pro bono patent work. Gather whatever materials you can that prove your business was created prior to the filing of the patent, and have it ready to give to a lawyer. Do not reply to their lawyer again until you speak to a lawyer yourself.
I wonder how Dustin would react if he discovered that the company he bought the cutlery from was actually mass producing them and floating the whole "Japanese product designer from a family that made Samurai swords" story to help sell their product. Would it matter to him? Is he buying great silverware or a great story?
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