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Ask HN: How do you pick a software mentor?
As I've been building CodeRook (http://www.coderook.co) I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to evaluate software mentors. How do you (as a relative beginner) know when someone would make a good mentor? How do you evaluate this? Software development is a highly opinionated field, which I think can make this challenging. What do you look for?

Interested in general ideas/thoughts, as well as how you might do this on a service like CodeRook (we are thinking of using the StackOverflow API, but I think this might be limiting). Alternatively we could just ask people some questions and screen them, but I think there might be a better way.
I think you'll find that most people were unimpressed when the specs leaked. Then the price was revealed ...
Bit of the Streisand effect going on here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
That strikes me as terrible reasoning. People living in these communities (as well as others in the deep south) have generally lived in these communities for generations and will likely continue to do so even no matter how much affirmative action you enact. That slavery is the original reason that they are where they are is irrelevant because it hasn't been the reason for generations.
That's the first time I had heard that as the reference. Most people think it is from Aperture Science from Portal. I actually used to have a camera icon (with a big lens in the middle) as the 'O' of Memorylage, but then replaced it with just the aperture of the camera, to make it cleaner. That symbol is actually pretty common in photography apps.
Yeah, see, I'm AT work (in St. Louis). I was trying to check Facebook links in an e-newsletter that goes out to 20,000 people when I found that they were all coming up blank.
Totally agree. No one buying fitted dress shirts cares if they're $29.99 or $69.99. There is a market that cares, but it isn't affluent geeks reading kickstarter.

People in this domain care about fit, look, quality, American made and then maybe price.

I can fufill all of the requirements above except American Made in SF with my tailor and an $80-90 shirt isn't going to make me cry.

Get the hard stuff done, and then don't worry about the price point so much until you scale. We get it, we'll support you and we'll take the price break later.
We could work something out and probably ship it to you internationally if you want to print something.
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Show HN: A Minecraft Social Plugin Worth Watching
While I'm a huge Minecraft fan, I've always been surprised at the lack of social features within Minecraft. When my sons get home from school, they call their friends on the phone and ask what Minecraft server they are on. And we yell back and forth across the house 'what server are you on?'. It reminds of the days of Halo before Xbox Live when my friends and I were using GameSpy and unlimited cellphone plans to play Halo across the Internet.

That was the start of an idea that is now called FriendsForMinecraft. It is a client mod, supported by a backend service that enables a number of Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare-like features for Minecraft. Here are some of the features:

- send messages/chat back and forth between friends regardless of what server they are on
- see when friends are online/offline and what server they are playing on
- a camera feature, allowing friends to share, comment and 'like' photos
- 'check-in' to servers, 'like' servers, discover trending/popular/new servers
- live activities feed / instant notifications and control over what/where/when notifications you recieve
- a one-click installer that installs Forge if necessary, installs the FriendsForMinecraft mod, and backs-up your existing minecraft.jar while doing so. :-)

I launched my private beta program last week and plan to go into public beta in the coming weeks. In preparation for handling what I hope is a bunch of users... I need more private beta testers to validate that we are indeed ready to go public.

If you're willing to give a fellow Minecraft fan a hand... please help me as a private beta tester before I open the doors to the public. It's really simple, just leave me your email address at http://www.friendsforminecraft.com and I'll send you instructions for testing. I pinky swear I will not spam your email or let it fall into the hands of anyone that would spam you.

Thank you!

nwkayaker

Founder: FriendsForMinecraft.com
Silicon Valley’s list of demands for Obama’s second term
Look at it another way. What is the goal of their product? A person should be able to sit down, and draw something. That person has a model in his head of what the drawing should look like. He picks and mixes colors to achieve this according to his intuition. So the goal of the program is to match human intuition, not to match reality. Why would real world paint be the optimal painting tool? The best way to match human intuition is to base the behavior of the program on data collected from human intuition.
That's still not an argument for treating the possibility of detecting visibility as "user hostile"
Syria in Ruins - "live and die in Syria" - "I am tougher than Gaddafi."
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Everything. If the path changes at all (different username) then you either have to re-import everything (losing playlists, counts, ratings etc) or edit XML files and pray it works. Deauthorizing/authorizing itunes account, just the time required to copy the data, including the fact that windows copy is likely to fail part way through. Likely the library isn't all consolidated in the itunes folder so dealing with hundreds, or thousands of gray !'s (file cannot be located). Copying apps (if they have an IOS device), trying to synch IOS devices to the new computer without wiping them. That's all I can think of right now, but I assure you there's more.
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I'm writing a book on how to get seed funding with a team and an idea _for no equity_ in exchange (up to 120000 eur). There are three methods, all EU based, but you can apply no matter what nationality you have. I'm preparing a launch page now.
>Make sure to stay in the loop and let us know what things you'd like us to work on next!

I just went to the original link to sign up for your e-mail list, but . . . there was no signup box. You should really have one in the top right of every post and every page. Wordpress.com does this automagically with a check button (you can see an email signup page here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/), and it's a pretty easy to drive engagement, especially for people from HN.
I didn't get anything of value here. The bullet points:

* Most lists have a subscription rate of 1-2%
* Most lists have an unsubscription rate of 1-3%
* Not surprisingly, most lists aren't growing at all or are growing very slowly.
American Apparel had a real novelty value when they launched. Not only was it made in the US, it was made in LA! It struck a chord with hip urban audiences.

So I'm left wondering how From Holden differentiates itself with AA. Pricing, branding, location and fit seem roughly equivalent. Would love to hear from the founders on this.

My gut says that it may have been better to stay in Boston and be (for all I know) the only men's apparel company in Beantown; the East Coast AA. Currently, in my below-average monkey brain, From Holden has been classified as "that other LA clothes company."
Not All Platforms are Created Equal - Scaling a product to multiple platforms
I did a similar post about a year ago, though the focus was on other things than best time to post:
http://foundation.logilogi.org/2011/5/9/the-best-time-to-pos...
Think of this mathematically. We did something very wrong at time T = 0. It is a matter of fact that economic wrongs are self-perpetuating and long-lived. Thus, at time T = 450, you can isolate, statistically, some economic disadvantage in any black person who can trace their lineage back as being affected by that original wrong at T = 0. It doesn't matter how rich they are--they would be incrementally richer had that wrong not occurred.

At the same time, the poor white person benefited from that original wrong, and you can isolate, statistically, some economic advantage to him tracing back to that original wrong. It doesn't matter how poor he is, he would be incrementally poorer had that wrong not occurred.
One thing I noticed is that their library is essentially Backbone and Underscore, and their docs state that it has all existing functionality...except I keep finding functions that aren't included, so I still have to load my own version of Backbone.

But you're right: for my next app, I'll probably just use their REST API directly.
He mentioned that ethnic Chinese in China were not subject to systematic oppression (which is debatable, especially depending on your definition of "ethnic Chinese", it's a big country).

I think the point he's making is that the same areas which were populated by black slaves under systematic oppression 150 years ago were populated by poor blacks under systematic discrimination 50 years ago and are populated by poor blacks today. To me that's a clear pattern that deserves to be corrected.
This reminds me a lot of the Flint and Tinder kickstarter (locally sourced and manufactured clothes).

I'd recommend you (they?) take a look at the issues that arose during F&T's fulfillment.
Except for Waking Mars, which as the site notes isn't currently on Steam.
Good point. A few reasons:

- On the phone you can use it in stores with a UI specifically for touch.

- There are a bunch of geo and camera-based features coming which will need phone hardware.

- We threw up a quick web test and there was less interest than now, partly because it felt less novel on the web.

- My guess is researching at home will shift to picking a product on the fly since it's in your pocket and it actually works well.
Well, it not only implies that black people don't move, but white people DO move. Either that or it assumes that the ratio of black to white was much greater than it likely was. It also assumes a lot of other things.
Gotta say, these guys are really killing it... and love the quick turn-around @csmajorfive on my comments last month, now just get going on the local caching :-)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700062

I'd say Parse is aiming to take on SF.com / Heroku with this, it's certainly causing me to rethink a custom Rails3 stack we have in the works...
How we promote the quirky phrases & references in our company culture
The rounded rectangle was NOT the design innovation. That's a strawman thrown around by people who don't understand what a design patent is.
Awesome, I love Android humble bundles - I've bough them all so far. A great match for the Nexus 7 as well.
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It was fun, but definitely a waste

I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes: "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" --Bertrand Russell
Thanks for the comment. We appreciate the kind words on the ui.

To address your concerns:

- The stylesheet from the demo seems to work as expected. It mixes absolutely positioned elements and elements inside containers. The goal of that demo is to show the flexibility. I suppose the usage of absolutely positioned elements isnt obvious.

- When using the bootstrap containers, elements snap to bootstrap's grid systems. When you dont use the containers, you can use the built in grid. Under the grid menu, you can turn on/off the grid and a 960gs grid system.

- I'd like to know more about the bugs. We'll fix the issue with the upgrade path. I didnt see your email address in your hn profile. Please email me at ben@easel.io and let me know which features dont work and which ones are an eyesore.

-- did the bootstrap dropdown not work? There should be 2 other options: 'Easel Pack' and 'Icons'

-- We'll think about the best way to allow hiding/resizing of the inspector.

Thanks again for the comment.
How to say "I love you" with style
If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, you can say it to him/her. I am sure he/she would be really happy after hearing these words from the person that they also love (that's you!)
This reads more like "Why MIT is better than Harvard and Harvard can suck it and how MIT's dad could beat up Harvard's dad" than MIT becoming the most important university in the world...
It was doing more harm than good, but XTERM_256_COLORS is set to 1.
I hope we'll change TERM to xterm-256color soon.
Has it changed? Didn't see polo before on the $29 pledge. Thanks for pointing it out!
Can anyone confirm if the games will show up on the Steam Linux beta?
What's the deal with EST or PDT? Can't you Americans just use some GMT-n so we can all convert it? Despite most stories being American-based or focussed here, the world does not center around you. Yeah it does on your maps - it's confusing, I know - but no the world is not actually about you.
Does your high karma impact ranking?
The hardest part is to know what actually people _want_ because many product developer make things which they assume people want while in reality they don't.

There's no such resource available to learn what people are actually looking. Atleast not an easy way.
I can reproduce your issue.
Please don't mark everything with your mouse for the time being :)
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Odd. I wonder why they didn't just override Backbone.sync.
Why does casual need to mean "communicate poorly"? When I type out emails, casual or not, they're designed to at least get the message across.

For something as important as an acquisition, I wouldn't want to feel like I'm dealing with an intern.
I felt disappointment when the resulting object was just an extrusion of the drawing. If I had been told ahead of time that I could make a "physical object" out of my drawing -- or in some other way assuage my curiosity and anticipation about how you would make a 2D sketch "3D" -- I might not have felt so let-down by the result.

Mentioning how long it would take added to my expectations that it would be some tricky, sophisticated, new trick. It's cool, it's just not as cool as I led myself to expect, given the copy.
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This only depends on game makers not, but its safe to assume they will be added once they are on steam and steram goes out of beta.
Geez, I feel stupid about that comment now. Was too much in the "monitors are RGB, CYMK is only for print" but of course, when mixing colors it might be good indeed.
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I honestly thought this _was_ a canned message; one from a 'sales associate' eager to get a commission.
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Ten things I didn’t know about HTML, CSS and JavaScript
"Affirmative action means that equally qualified workers are then selected to be as representative of the population as possible."

Maybe this is what Affirmative Action means to you, but not to everyone. In fact, the University of Texas is currently at court regarding this very issue, where the university intentionally admitted minority students at the expense of white students who were otherwise better qualified in order to meet vague race quotas.

The case is currently being argued: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas
Does anyone here have experience with the relationship between search and social advertising? It would be nice to see more public data on similar cross-network campaigns in different industries.
Using inotify to make speedup your learning and experimenting
Anyone got any examples that don't just seem to be trivially extruded surfaces? Or is that _it_?
Ack, great point. The original article we had written had an explanation, but we stuck to using just the link for simplicity. Thanks for the feedback!
http://vandafineclothing.com

As you will see on the site: 1) pricing is not cheap, and 2) they get kind of wonky, providing all sorts of construction details on each item. But that's the target demo here: guys who care a lot about quality ties, and who will pay a lot when they see them. Their initial word-of-mouth customer base was a web forum with a particularly upscale, subject-matter-obsessed userbase. (Sort of like launching a new sci-fi series on a Battlestar Galactica forum).

(Incidentally, the company is based out of Singapore, and targets a more international base -- especially the emerging Asian luxury consumer. But lest anyone get the wrong idea: Singapore is not a cheap base of operations for manufacturing. Quite the opposite. This is not a make-it-cheap-overseas and sell-it-cheap-in-the-US business model).
Charge people $7.95 for your printed catalog - D. landreth
D.Landreth the oldest seed house in America, has a great website but if you want them to send you a catalog you pay them $7.95. And guess what they have thousands of people doing it every year!

Yea they're selling seeds and have been since 1784, but I love the unconventional move they make in selling their catalog.
Okay, WTF is up with Space.com's website? Takes forever to load on a new iPad, which is usually quite zippy, all the while the entire page appears as a columnar thumbnail sized in the left 1/4 of the screen and hangs out there, frozen, then the entire thing re-refreshes at least 3 times? What kind of amateur crap is this?
As another commenter pointed out, it's become rather cliche for NASA to make grandiose plans for 15-30 years out, only to change direction a few years later.

Solve cost-to-orbit, guys. Get it to $100/kilo and we can build a dozen manned stations for the amount of money the country spends on potato chips each year (around $10 Billion)

But enough with the grandiose long-range plans that only serve to allow contractors to bill for a few years until the next grandiose long-range plan.
Assuming that poverty alleviation programs are consolidated, than using the shorthand of race for disadvantages on only the education portion does not actually reduce paperwork/costs.

The strong and convincing argument for affirmative action is that African Americans and Indians have been severely wronged in the past and should be recompensed.

But what about would Hispanics, more recently immigrants who never suffered from Genocide or Slavery.

Or what about Asian Americans, who actually suffer reverse AA (need higher scores than whites) for no reason other than being smart. They're aware of this and don't mark Asian on applications if it can be avoided.

Racial discrimination does cause problems. Personally, I really do feel that Blacks and Indians need to be compensated for past ills. I'm not sure how the best way to do that is, however.
relevant: http://i.imgur.com/EurpF.png
2 issues:

(1) What about determining the right size? What if the size I ordered doesn't fit? Are you prepared to to take back the wrong size and cover the shipping costs for an exchange?

(2) What about more colors? One of the big advantages of AA is the color selection. What kind of selection can we expect with From Holden?
Everlane employee here. We're a year old. Here's an infographic with some of our growth stats: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mctj8bQNXI1qf7nhfo1_1280.j...
This is probably not the best way to try to hijack this thread. If it was interesting and/or warranted discussion I'm sure folks would have started discussing it.
It may just be the "this is the way we've done it in America" in me talking. But I'd probably be OK if we at least had some sort of instant runoff voting, or something similar which didn't make the voter strategize between choosing a candidate that they most agree with and choosing between the lesser of two evils.
The relationship between search and social is described at a super high level in the article (which isn't bad). The idea of direct intent (search) and indirect (social).

Social seems to do really well for "branding" (aka CPM advertising) where you are looking to just get a lot of views to create recognition.

Search, when optimized properly, seems to do really well on direct conversions assuming your landing page is up to snap.
Since you can download them directly anyway - it doesn't really matter.
What about using acquisition costs vs. profit per customer, and ads to get people to use an app?
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I was just thinking this the other day. What form do you think this would take?

I have only a fuzzy understanding of how this works, but I was thinking you could run a bunch of .wav samples through Web Audio to get their wave shapes ... save them as arrays, and then synthesize sounds from a single js file? (Rather than lugging around the .wav files themselves).

If this is possible, it would be awesome.
It's interesting to see the lack of symmetry in the photograph. I wonder how much of that results from the initial arrangement of fissile materials in the bomb, and how much from turbulence as the explosion occurred?

Photographs taken years ago at this level of time resolution must be helpful today in validating computer simulations of nuclear explosions. Simulations, rather than actual tests, are how the ongoing safety of the nuclear arsenals of the major nuclear powers is currently assessed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing
I'm all for what you're doing. I think these over priced brands are not worth the cost in quality. I'm happy to pay more for items that I believe are quality, and support good overall ethics. Keep it going.
What's a "lucky packet"? I've never heard that term before.
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But how the law is applied is just as important as its text. A just law applied in a discriminatory way is discriminatory.
You bring up a good point: Do ads work to get user adoption? I'm not sure - I certainly haven't heard of an app that used ads for more than just jumpstarting the viral loop.

Are there examples of apps that have gotten adoption through ads?
Most browsers have keyboard shortcuts to go to full screen already.
If I shoot a gun and the guy in front of me drops dead of a bullet wound, are you going to wait for the forensics to come back on the bullet before you suggest that I shot him? It could be that I shot past him and some guy on a grassy knoll is the real killer, but it is not unreasonable to say that I "apparently shot him."
>However, the fact that you see something wrong with providing help in finding employment for native people

I didn't say this. I said that stating a racial preference in an employment advertisement is wrong and discriminatory regardless of the noble aims of the reasons those ads exist.

>That you yourself took a position to defend normative ideas that actively perpetuate real, actual violence and harm

What the actual fuck are you talking about?! Saying that all discrimination is wrong perpetuates violence and harm?? Explain yourself, please. I don't appreciate being tarred with the racist brush for trying to comprehend this.
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I think I will stay away from those...
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This is awesome! Very excited about this technology
Neat idea. Neat design too, however, the "thi" in anything blends into the background pic.
Mashup videos (and especially videos documenting them) are a form of art and commentary that is worthy of protection.
> Still, Google Ventures lacks superstar companies such as microblogging service Twitter or online bulletin-board company Pinterest.

Neither of those companies are on the road to profitability, IIRC, though Pinterest would of course have a much easier time of it.
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