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Programming and business managament are two different fields. You can't compare them.

I agree, you can't become a good chemist without proper education, the same goes for particle physics. Business is not a hard science, it's a set of skills you have to develop such as: perseverance, creativity, people-skills and confidence. You can't learn it in any school, even the top-ones.

You can be a great actor, amazing cook, great musician or artist without having any degrees. Running a business is similar - it can't be simply in schools because it's not a hard science.

You get the experience from running your own company, look: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison

They don't seem to have any degrees and there are thousands of CEO's just like them who didn't get higher education yet built something amazing.
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That is surprising :( I haven't noticed my site go down recently. Looks up to me right now though :)
I hate to be a naysayer but I'm not sure how helpful this would be to your average poet. Things like rhyme and meter counts are rarely involved in early drafts of poems. If you're shooting for a certain style or form typically you keep that in mind as you produce but I'd wager the vast majority of work being produced today doesn't follow any major scheme.

This seems like a tool made for poets without the input of poets based on a skewed idea of what a poet needs.

EDIT: I've been writing poetry for about 4 years and have taken 5+ university poetry classes. I'm by no means a "poet" or in anyway an expert on poetry but to me, I'm not sure I understand the strength in this.

First, when I'm looking for something to write in I absolutely want a minimalist interface. Anything more than that is an immediate distraction. I use iA Writer on a Macbook Air or on an iPad. I've heard combinations like this described as "typewriter" like in their single-task orientation.

This app has too many distractions. While writing the last thing I would want to break my flow is a barrage of information about bits and pieces of my work that, for the most part, aren't relevant. I do not write with any sort of meter or rhyme in mind (rhyming as a crutch is an amateur device and the biggest red flag of someone with an incomplete knowledge of poetry) but after critiques from peers and layers of revisions sometimes these elements do come out and get accentuated in my work.

In the ballpark of features I would like? Collaboration! Workshopping poems is by far the most satisfying and useful way to improve your poetry. Find ways to share documents with multiple people, get feedback and respond to it. Things like Google Docs/Drive have barriers of entry that if you can remove would make this app excellent for sharing with peers who aren't local.

Right now I use a combination of Google Drive, iCloud and email to share my work, keep track of revisions and send out requests. Its probably the most major hurdle in my workflow and something begging to be addressed for writers.
Do you think the MBA and banking was a boost, or a five year delay in getting his career going?
I didn't even realize it had this.

For me, I'd love to be able to snap my phone in to a mount/charger in my car. My original Motorola Droid became useless to me when the micro USB connection started falling out unless I physically held it in place. Otherwise I'd still be using it.
I read a post about this on quora, it's actually very rare that they will ask questions. It's the exception rather than the rule.
While I have zero knowledge of this particular situation, I've spent a fair amount of time in Central America and "corrupt law enforcement does something creepy" really does not seem all that far fetched to me. The rule of law does not work the same way it does in the US or western Europe - I too would hesitate to trust the legal system, especially if I had been around long enough to piss off (eg fail to bribe) the local authorities.

Of course McAfee may very well be a nutter. These are not mutually exclusive propositions.
Something along these lines - one piece of life advice I often hear is that everyone should work in retail/sales for a bit, just to get a taste of rejection and learn to deal with it.
Many health apps are based on flimsy science at best, and they often do not work
They do. Which is with they don't care for the USA.
Naively, some readers though this thread was going to be about a car. Some of them actually fail to see how where a car is produced should influence its merits.

They didn't realize that as the USA were involved, the discussion was doomed to degenerate into a mediocre and moderately interesting patriotic blabber. These readers simply lake basic knowledge of the average American state of mind.

As someone who used to be one of them, I give you our sincere apologies and invite you to keep going on your war veterans and industrial pride.
Well, yes. Of course it is, but that's precisely because one of the best ways to advertise a product is to make the ad look like an honest, positive review from a trusted source.

So by your standard, every "I like this product" post on every well-read blog should be suspiciously viewed as potentially paid advertisement. That seems way too far off the cynical deep end to me...
I agree that if it was an advertising then it would be... well, 'immoral' is a strong word, but I get your point.

Simply I don't think that's the case. I follow his blog every now and then, and I never was under impression I was being sold something.

If people would perceive something like this, I think the damage to the image of the blog would largely offset any financial gain of 'sponsoring' a particular product.

Jeff has been blogging for years, has an incredibly successful company behind him, and probably more money that he knows what to do with.

For the life of me I cannot see him 'selling' his blog like that.
I am in London too.
Congrats on committing.

Do be aware you may owe regular income tax on the distribution as well as the 10% penalty.

For others looking to tap retirement capital you might research self-directed IRAs and 401ks. I don't have one but considered it for a real estate deal recently.

Quick Tax Reference:
http://turbotax.intuit.com/support/iq/Less-Common-Income/Wit...
An example: DJB posted something about why crit-bit trees are superior to hashes, I replied asking about cache-issues with crit-bit trees and he responded back with information about how to make crit-bit trees cache aware.

That is a very useful public conversation to have; indeed 20 years ago it could have happened on usenet.
An App That Turns Any Surface Into An iPhone Keyboard
yea seriously. cables are death.
I think this is true. However, the LC model was sharing - for free. So, I'm in the LC network, I can use any other space in the LC network. It's predicated on those folks being on the move quite a bit. Not sure how they could have monetized that.
If you have some other machine on which to install a simple daemon you could just use one of these for $35

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822

It's a low-power WiFi client with a bunch of IO that you can configure to periodically do a TCP call to some server you own to get orders on what to do. If you don't mind having it always on you can invert that and have the server initiate the call. You lose the ultra-low power usage in that case. I've been evaluating it to create sensor/actuator networks and it's been great so far. It also has a serial port so your display example would work as well.

It's amazing that a full computer (the raspberrypi) can come so close to this on price but the raspberry is an energy guzzler compared to this and for anything you want to battery power that's a big deal.
Absolutely. I should have made this clearer, I've added a note in the first para of the post.

The intention was not to attack any trade but to highlight a worrying misconception that seems to be particularly prevalent amongst MBA grads and ex-consultants. A segment that I feel my background makes me particularly able to comment on.
I would humbly suggest you rethink what the term "power user" means.

Even my parents have saturated their 256GB home computer drive with pictures and videos of their grandkids and nieces and nephews as well as various old time radio programs and old movies courtesy of archive.org.

I'm an amateur photographer myself and just since I got a decent rig 5 years ago I've amassed something north of 300GB of photo stills. Add in a music writing hobby, some VM images, artwork and a decent retrogaming archive and I'm well over a couple of TBs.

My personal MP3 collection (amassed over a decade or so) is around 200GB by itself. If you can find me a decent streaming music service that'll handle that I'd switch, but even Google music saturates after 20,000 files, and the web interface is virtually unusable at those volumes.
It seems interesting, unfortunately while trying I got a 404 after submitting the test bug, I was really interested in seeing the part behind the scenes ...
Linux 0.0.1 was not a sophisticated piece of code.
It's ironic how their tagline is "The Global Communications Enabler"
I've found that in areas that have LTE it is a big deal. HSDPA 3G can theoretically get you 21Mbps but I've found this to hardly ever be the case. I have friends that regularly post speedtest screenshots at >35Mbps.

Also the lag on 3G is atrocious. When I'm streaming iTunes Match it's click, wait, start, pause, wait, and then start again. Apparently the ping times are much lower on LTE and this is a bigger deal (for me) than the bandwidth.
Typical feminist nonsense. Not interested.
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There are some problems with TOR (Some have solution):

1. Someone with enough resources can create and add to the network enough servers, especially entrance and exit nodes, to effectively nullify the TOR router.

2. Some web tools can have side channel attacks that break out of TOR and use the internet to get a specific resource.

3. Another popular side channel attack is fingerprinting the browser, best demonstrated by the EFF here:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/

4. TOR itself might have a bug or a backdoor, although this is getting a bit into the realm of conspiracy.

This is of the top of my head, but I'm sure I missed some.
I think your point is key.

I'm finishing an MBA-type program (it's a Masters in Technology Management actually, but 2/3rds of the courses are shared with the MBA), and I definitely wouldn't have gotten so much out of it 5 years ago.

Similarly, many of the things I was taught as an undergrad only made sense many years later (and I regret not having given them more attention).

In fact, my MBA-type program actually has an emphasis on entrepreneurship - we had an entire class based on Steve Blank's Customer Development model, which involved "getting outside the building" a lot.

They encourage startup building so much, I'm planning to turn my business plan into a startup :)
The website seems to be overloaded, it keeps throwing errors whenever I try to place my order.

[Edit] tried many times, further I went was the Visa processing thing which never went thru as the devices ran out of stock.

I understand the limited stocks, but I find it peculiar that Google can't handle the load on the Play Store.
I actually knew this. I should have mentioned it. As I said: any argument that "no MBA has a clue about startups...[is] demonstrably untrue".
There are quite a few large players in the market and many middle men between the producer and consumer. The secondary market is very inefficient - the default is to sell to a traditional merchant who will take 10-25% of the price. Auction houses take around 25% and prefer volume to single cases.

This gives us several angles to attack. Market size was a concern when talking to investors - and we took money from people who would be happy with that kind of scale.
i usually don't mind sending a tweet to get free stuff. i did it to get an awesome free font the other day for example.

what bothers me with this site is: after sending the tweet you are not done. you still have to create an account first. and the "login" function via twitter redirects you to a sign up page. whats the point of offering single sign on services if users have to fill in a signup form afterwards? btw. i'm 5 minutes into to process and still haven't gotten to the content.
Web Audio API on iOS 6 is pretty cool, because <audio> on iOS is so limited it's pretty much impossible to use for games... and the Web Audio API works great, even with polyphonic audio! So it's an actual valuable improvement. AFAIK both Web Audio and WebGL are planned for Chrome on Android, but I can't explain the delay - it's still stuck on version 18 there, while desktop is 23. Can't speak for Google's plans there but I'm pretty sure they will eventually do it.

I think our perspectives differ because my view is different to yours: we develop a large, does-everything HTML5 game engine, and I suppose you're arguing more from the point of an independent developer hand-coding a game. So I can see where you are coming from, but I still disagree about WebGL. Our engine doesn't care about how anything as drawn, as long as it looks right. Both WebGL and Canvas 2D achieve that goal, and one happens to be faster. Since we don't need two identical interfaces and can happily maintain two renderers, this is a win for us. In fact, WebGL can render absolutely everything Canvas 2D can, just with a different (and still standard) API. I think it's fair to compare the performance of two different APIs, especially when they are drawing identical content.
I wouldn't do this. You're already gambling your future by not earning income, depleting your stored reserves, and potentially missing "standard" career advancement opportunities. Don't you realize that most financial advisors recommend you do not put your company's stock in your 401k as a diversifier?

Good luck.
Did you guys consider Heroku PostgreSQL? It's inside of AWS. If so, can you shed some light on why you opted against it? I don't want to sound like a fanboy of Heroku (I am not) but I am just interested in whether or not you guys considered it.
An amazing story. I just wonder how many more victories Charlie Beljan will be able to endure. :)
Deploy apps to the cloud right from Eclipse
HTTP Pipelining Benchmark on Firefox 16
Google Says Government Surveillance is on the Rise
Agreed. I don't think the market for non-coffee shop workspaces is still that sizable, particularly in non-city environments. It's definitely growing though and I think in five to ten years, this market will be able to sustain a more viable business model once the shift in work patterns from full-time cubicle farm dweller to freelancer takes place in greater numbers.

I personally used Loosecubes to find a great space in midtown NYC and built some solid friendships with a few of the folks there as a result. They'll definitely be missed and I wish them well.
While I'm sure that is true, I'm sure he also learned a lot of lessons from writing that code, which goes against the idea suggested earlier that such things are only learned in the interest of formality. What it really highlights, though, is that anyone can jump in and start writing an OS (or whatever else you want to learn about). You don't need a degree to do that and people without them do.
It is theoretically possible, but this area has a huge problem wihbfalse positives and artificial signal boosting. An MRI can read brain activity from a dead fish bought at the market.
Look at all these hackers,
Using an app, rhyming their prosaic chapters.

Are they gone? The times when love and loss,
Inspired mankind, towards poems and songs?

Quit bitchin' & give it a spin,
You silently curse,
Didn't you see? I already joined; this fucking circus.

Awesome hack OP! Thank you for doing this.
Am leaning towards SaaS products right now so do reach out if you have something!
Here's what I get now when I search for Nexus 4 on the Play Store:

"We're sorry, there was an error. Please try again later."

They simply cannot handle this kind of event on their own.

If I try to check out, I also get this:

"An error occurred while processing your purchase. Please try again later."
7%, seriously? I had no idea.

Why are people clamoring to get accepted by YC? I'd be doing everything I could to make it a last resort, not a means to succeed.
Look beyond the front page -- it's an entire webapp dedicated to hardware hacking tutorials.
Beyond being impressed by Taobao's scale, I would caution HN readers not to fall into the trap of thinking about China as a monolithic unit. Assuming that China is homogenous is just as foolish as assuming America is homogenous. Taobao's success is also tied to their ability to understand the drastic cultural differences between different areas of the country, and understanding how to market to these "countries within a country." If you are unfamiliar with China, I would highly suggest reading about Patrick Chovanec's "Nine Nations of China."

1. http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/the-nine-nations-of...
2. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/the-nine...
That is what the headline says, in fewer words.
No, NO, we do NOT need a car mount. I've personally seen people fumble with GPSs to the point of near-total distraction while driving, we do not need something twice as massive and thousands of times more ripe for use to be right in the face of drivers.
Middleman 3.0 extensions and execution order
The 920 also has a much better camera, which is a big deal for some people (myself included).
Thanks for giving it a try! Could you give me a little more info about the problem you saw? We just gave the system a quick test and everything seems to be working. If you have specifics please email me at doug <at> redline <dot> cc.
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>Security through obscurity never worked.

In order to know this for a fact you would need to know all the instances it was tried, and that every single one of them failed.

Somehow I doubt you know that, and are just repeating an operating system platitude as if it applies everywhere.
No nice visualizations, as my son discoverd . :-(
> the fundamental rule of startups: ideas & strategies are worthless, execution is everything.

Oh boy... I agree with the whole "idea-guys are hacks" thing but this phrasing is no less alarming. Don't worry about the product, we can always jut pivot!
I agree. all those price elasticity examples depend on at which point you are on the demand curve for your individual product offering.
MPG(e) measures one aspect of efficiency: how much stored energy it takes to move the vehicle a given distance. If you use MPG, then a bus loses big time since a bus gets way lower MPG than a car.

Another measure is per-passenger MPG(e) A bus now looks a whole lot better, and a full Model S with jump-seats is more efficient than a full leaf in terms of per-passenger MPGe.

Another measure of efficiency is how efficient it turns the energy stored (gas, electricity, etc.) into kinetic energy. In this measure the weight of vehicle is irrelevant. The bus probably does pretty well as large diesel engines are typically more efficient than small gas engines, but pretty much all electrics will beat out all ICEs since the best ICE vehicles are a shade under 50% efficient, which is trivially beatable in an electric.
Why I’m nearly ready to switch to a tablet as my only mobile device
Wow, how is it even monetized? And if not, why bother with proprietary?
10:50 CT

I am able to add the 16 GB version to my cart, however, I am unable to click the Proceed button without generating a Google Wallet window with an "Uh oh. There was a problem." message inside.
Campbell is a rock star. Really disappointed they will be shutting down. Their product and culture were so uplifting! It's a great idea, but the market didn't pick up in the way they expected. I agree the market was a little ahead, but there were a few corners they could have cut. AirBNB did it well and it's possible they could have galvanized support for the co-working movement in the same way that AirBNB made it happen for travelers.
That's a great piece of advice. Puts it across really well the emotional connectedness of a founder with his Startup.
Just a caution that these USB flash drives tend to have good sequential performance but lousy random write performance. So for copying lots of small files the performance might still be quite low. The reason is sequential performance is easy to achieve with NAND flash and a simple controller but random performance requires a powerful controller and better algorithms.
We didn't - it's a fantastic product (I'm really impressed with how easy they've made it to set up followers and forks) but we were ready to move to dedicated hardware. It's also a pretty expensive option.
I'm so glad other people noticed this. They did it quite a few times in recent episodes with the T-Mobile phone. Another episode it was used was when Robert Herjavec visited a past invested project (where they show the "how they are doing now" segment) and they exchanged a document by holding the two T-Mobile phones back to back, and then proceeded to say some cheesy line. I typically love the show, Shark Tank, but the recent blatant product placement is starting to rub me the wrong way about the shows integrity, and the people coming on the shows.

Also, slightly more off-topic, but is anyone else annoyed with the recent emotional break-downs on the show that, in a few cases, led to getting investments over the person awkwardly crying and/or having a break-down? It was also more obvious it was only cause of the break-down (it seemed) because on one of the instances everyone was "Out", but then a "Shark" came back in after the break-down. It's starting to feel too much like a reality show to me, as of this season. Which disappoints me, because the show used to be one of my favorites.
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I managed to make it all the way through on my third try. My first try got pretty close to the end before dying. I'm fairly sure that I didn't order two phones, but it's certainly possible that I did. I imagine it will be pretty easy to unload if that happened...
It's not that I won't look at any MBA but that when I do I'm watching out for particular things. When nine out of ten apps that display a particular attribute share or lack another common attribute, that seems like a sensible response.

Like you say, the key is the ability and desire to execute.
Is it just me or does $3000 seem like a really cheap price for the Dallas Mavericks to reach 1M+ fans? Would it make any significant difference to their marketing budget if the price were cut to $1000 or doubled to $6000?
I had the same issue for the last 20 minutes. Now it appears to be sold out... so clearly it worked for someone?
"...in previous cases the courts have made it very clear that they expect a defendant to demonstrate that he or she has engaged in responsible journalism before the defence will succeed, including verifying the story and giving the subject an opportunity to comment."

This is just lunacy and only highlights the urgent need to abolish current libel/defamation laws and introduce new ones protecting free speech.
my immediate reaction was to blame food prices (and gender roles), so i was surprised to read that food prices in ohio have risen less than other products. i am pretty sure that's not the case here in chile, and i thought that it was a global effect (there have been various "scares" related to poor harvests over the last few years). see, for example, http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/rising-food-prices

so how come food prices are so stable in ohio?
A fellow Ivey! I did my HBA however.
It would essentially be a 'like' button on Superpages.com -- and like you said, it wouldn't catch on. Communication would be glorified, targeted mailing lists.