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This always reminded me of the dualistic nature of light. The entertainment industries seem to want the product to behave both as a physical item or a license depending on what benefits them most in any given situation.

Lost it? Its a particle. Buy it again, full price.

Want to sell it used to your bud? Its a wave. License doesn't transfer.

There's my thought of the day: DRM is like a Huygen's slit: the weird interference pattern makes your "purchase" cease to exist in some places.
Out of anyone I've met personally in NYC, Rap Genius dudes seem by far the smartest investment. Hard to make sweeping calls like that until you see numbers, meet the founders, and hear about the vision.
Check out ponoko (http://www.ponoko.com/).
Sometimes, anyway. Recall that the Canadian Supreme Court invalidated the parent on Viagra last week for failing to disclose the active ingredient.
I was referring to the part where you said women would get offended; it haves nothing to do with the actual effectiveness of the approach (asking them).
I'm sure people will find a way to lose my luggage.
>For instance, I doubt Andy Grove, at the end of his tenure, would have been able to do that kind of tech work in the moment, but he had a PhD in engineering and had a very deep knowledge of the technology as well as the business. He did make some very typical-of-engineers mistakes when intel decided to raise its consumer profile.

Grove is a great example of a successful technical CEO. I would never say Otellini was a failure, but Intel flourished under Grove in a way that it didn't under Otellini.
In this case the money they're receiving is closer to grant money than payment from a customer. But in any case, the further-up-the-thread post was just arguing that whether SpaceX will go to Mars (or anywhere else) depends in significant part on convincing their one dominant "customer", the U.S. Federal Government, to spend taxpayer money on the goal. The alternative, funding a trip to Mars entirely from private-sector funds and private-sector customers, does not appear so far to be close to materializing, considering that they haven't even successfully funded a trip to low-earth orbit via that means.
This doesn't really make sense, or have much to do with options trading, pricing, or theory. Kind of a cool narrative, though.
Okay, if I wanted to get started writing a webapp in Dynamo using Elixir, how do I start?

I looked at the GitHub repo and there didn't seem to be much.

All I could find was:

https://github.com/josevalim/dynamo/blob/master/examples/sim...

Can I mix a websockets server into a Dynamo app? Websockets are a key use-case for Erlang for me.

I've been looking into how to do a WS server on Erlang and this was the most modern example I could find: https://github.com/ostinelli/misultin/blob/master/src/misult...

To be frank: pretty fucking gnarly.
Have you tried http://lanyrd.com ?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

Most people are reasonable; most founders are unreasonable.
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I'm looking for something better than the usual Chrome Bookmarks or Delicious, I have hundreds of urls that I need to organize... any suggestions please?
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How could he not think you're talking about VC funded entrepreneurs only. Some selections:

"we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund...now you know why I’ve had many nights away, many airports and much time on the road."

"Raise money. Need money. More money. Yes, please give me money. "

"I mean you never know if your investors are REALLY going to keep backing you. "

"If I told my VCs would they then lose interest in our next round? "

Your slides are from Seedcon which is all about VC.

Almost nothing about making money from paying customers. Almost no worry about if customers are really going to keep backing you, or keep interested. Almost entirely about keeping VCs happy.
Their FAQ explains there is a mildly cheaper upgrade path for people who already purchased v1.0:

> The final release will sell for $69.99, with an upgrade available to registered users of Kaleidoscope 1 for $49.99

So, save $20. Not terrible. My gripe right now is that to save the most money, I have to pay for software that is incomplete and I have no promises about what will happen if it never makes it out of beta. Granted it seems likely they'll finish it, but not knowing their plans for failure bothers me.
I disagree with your first two points.

It has everything to do with it. It also makes sense.
A $15/mo itch though?

We play a lot of office table tennis and even have occasional tournaments with online stats, a trophy, live tweeting, etc. We're looking at rolling our own leaderboard that calculates a running champion (rather than event-based champ) and I'd have considered a once-off fee to use this, but closed the tab at $15/mo. And that's even knowing it would probably take one of us a few hours of stuffing around to build something.

Hope that feedback is useful.
>Otellini's successor will be playing a different game, fighting ARM rather than AMD.

Contra the ARM fans who seem to be dominant on HN, I think Intel is well positioned to win that battle. Cutting-edge fab capacity is a pretty big advantage, even if they're using it mostly for high-power CPUs at the moment.
What do you mean by "running out of ways to make more money"? Didn't MSFT post their highest revenue ever this year?

Also, even for Apple the app store doesn't seem to be a big profit center. I really think that consumer preference is driving the move to app stores, not greedy platform owners.
This one is the best:

http://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Hedging-Managing-Vanilla-Optio...

The first thirty or so pages offer the most intuitive introduction to vanillas I've read. The middle is must read, and the end gets into exotics if that's your fancy.
"Product and revenue can trump co-founders in the eyes of investors"

I think this is the shining star of the post for solopreneurs. I'm just getting started starting up, and I'm going solo. What gives me hope is that, if the product is good and people actually pay for it, then cash will still be king, and investors will come.

I'm building a project estimate and client approval app. It's in open beta right now. All feedback is super appreciated!

http://projectionable.herokuapp.com/
It's been an itch at our work for the past five years, at least for me anyway (Table Tennis is our game of choice).

Unfortunately, this is not the type of thing the boss would be willing to pay for. He'd more likely just get us to build a module for our product to do it - in the vein of our "Pizza Friday" pizza ordering module (Tallies up all of the half-and-half orders, shows a history of orders in the "fat graph" and most importantly, prevents people ordering unless they've done their timesheets for the last two months).

However, I hope it works out, because it looks like a nice piece of software.
Now that Barack Obama has been reelected there's no way the ACA is getting repealed before January 2017 (he's not going to let his signature accomplishment get repealed, and there's no way Republicans will amass a veto-proof majority in the legislature). After that, it likely will be too entrenched to repeal wholesale.
The gist of your comment is correct, in the sense that a megacorp job in Japan is safer than a job at an American one.

However, the principle of lifetime employment in Japan has been slowly eroded in the past couple of decades. Toyota's employees still enjoy lifetime employment, but most of the manufacturing needed to make a car gets done by Toyota subsidiaries or subcontractors. These employ people on a contract basis, and they can stop renewing the contracts at any time. E.g. while Toyota was bragging about not laying off employees, their subcontractors were slashing jobs. Lots of workers were unemployed; the government kindly invited Brazilian workers to go back to Brazil and not to come back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigran...

By the way, Toyota employees do belong to a union. It wouldn't be easy for Toyota to have a layoff. For comparison, JAL (Japan Airlines) got sued after laying off people, even though it was basically bankrupt.
My first web hosting company ran away with my domain and I never got it back until it expired [0]. They ran away with 40,000 customers' domains. I had to learn how domains expired and catch it. I am thankful I guess, because I got involved with domain catching and made a fair bit of money from buying expired domains. But I don't wish those months of downtime and uncertainty on anyone because the hosting company went under or did something malicious. That isn't to say that registrars are immune either (RegisterFly is an example). But at least that is only 1 layer in many cases, you and the registrar. In that example, ICANN intervened and GoDaddy took over their accounts if I recall correctly. Many web hosting companies have reseller agreements, so you are stuck in between the hosting company and registrar. That can complicate things. Some even put domains in their own name rather than yours.

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I get in early and do the concentration intensive work then if I can. I've (re)trained myself to tune out stuff. I naturally tune people out but I got rusty when I worked alone in my home office for a few years.
Yeah, it's my project. It's OSS so I figured a shameless plug wouldn't hurt anybody.
Vardan Kushnir also had quite the adventurous life and death!
On the contrary, I think icons have become indicative of actionable text or a button. Just today there was an article on HN that criticized Windows 8 of being too minimalistic-- it was hard to understand at first glance what was merely a label versus an actual button.

And in the real world, icons, symbols, or colors help users immediately understand how to use something (while driving, I would stop at a red octagon even if it didn't explicitly say STOP).
I was pleasantly surprised that this post by PG was not from Feb 2001.
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What. You take Bitcoin? I might have to transfer for that reason alone.
There was really no need to respond so pointedly or awkwardly, the parent posted a genuine question and it really begged a slightly more polite response.

I understand that you are an extremely busy man and I don't mean to bag on the owner of the site, but at the risk of getting hell-banned or massively down voted your response came across as being unhelpful and rude, if it had been someone else making the comment they would likely have been down voted for it, or at the very least treat with indignation and ignored.

Perhaps you didn't meant to come across this way and perhaps I'm in completely the wrong mindset about it, but such a short answer does nearly nothing to help the parent, you simply stated they had set off a trigger and gave no details as to why, what they could do in the future to prevent this or any kind of statistics or advice to aid them.
What is mysterious about it? It's the annual thanksgiving day sale... Pretty much non-mysterious as it can get
Professional options traders prey on ineffiecent markets, never curse them. Beta and CAPM literally have nothing to do with options trading, pricing, or theory. VAR, like all models, is a trap. Options traders would know this; they are ingrained with a deep distrust of models since they forced to use them all day every day and understand their appropriate uses and limitations. It would be unreasonable to expect any serious options trader to blame her model or worse, "all of it", for failure.
While I enjoyed most of Brian's talk, I wasn't particularly convinced by his dislike of refinements. Essentially, it boiled down to "this feature is hard to implement, it hides complexity, and it isn't well specified". The first and third arguments shouldn't matter to us nearly as much as the middle one. And I fail to see how namespacing monkey patches can do anything but decrease and contain accidental complexity (in the same way that method dispatch and polymorphism are better at limiting complexity than explicit conditionals).
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I see. I now see the "foreigner" factor must have been huge and the police must have gotten worried about international media causing this issue to blow up in their face (even if, possibly, you didn't have that power). You should be happy that you were probably, as big a factor as that lawyer!

That is a very relevant hack.
Also, if you watch the video, at about the 30 minute mark he does a demo writing code on the spot... it's pretty cool.

Also, props to yrashk (HN handle) - part of why the elixir community rocks.
Can you point me to links where they got negative publicity for this? I'd love to read the comments since I'm interested in software licenses and community reactions to licensing policies and policy changes.
My point is that the title suggests that the content of the article explains how to build a business as a solo founder. So I would expect that it talks about things you should do to get your business going overcoming challenges, etc. that are unique to a solo business owner. Just going on about why a team is important and how to build it seems almost the opposite of what the title suggests.

Conventional wisdom is that you have to have cofounders. I was interested in reading an article describing running a business solo. This article did not do that. It basically reads: Don't have cofounders? That's okay, you can hire them. But whatever you do you shouldn't try to run a business by yourself.

That does not explain how to start a business as a solo cofounder. It's basically like writing an article with the title "You can read with terrible vision" and then writing an article about why you shouldn't try to read without getting glasses to improve your terrible vision first.
I wonder if Satoshi Nakamoto even is a single person.
http://pinboard.in is my bookmarking organizer of choice. Simple. Powerful. Fast. Initial entry fee (<$10 right now I think), but in my opinion worth it.
What a beautiful insight!
Correct facts can be used to mislead.
Why I said misleading was not primarily because I thought or maybe assumed (as I am no legal expert myself) but because the way you made a sweeping statement which might have been either done knowingly or merely in the flow of writing that comment you included the line. Incorrect because it was actually incorrect and when I wrote the comment I didn't have Set Theory in mind.

I just wanted to clarify the scenarios where laws are intertwined with religion, tribes or caste. Regarding the last term caste I have not been able to find any instance but have read in articles that there are such provisions.

I would like to add that your mention of Polygamy in India needs few lines - it's not enforced in India until and unless you are someone famous where people take interest out of the celebrity nature and hence state intervenes or the case/issue has blown up. It's present even in religions other than Islam. It's 'sort of' legal in most of the tribes based on tradition (this term often comes up in all sorts of legal cases in this country and is given importance) and it's common in rural areas.
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Indeed. The ability to click on an interval and immediately hear it -- and/or simultaneously see it played on the piano -- would be quite nice. (Or, conversely, the ability to see piano notes instantly rendered on a staff and have the intervals identified.) Combining two learning pathways -- visual and aural = win.
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Dynamo seems to be still pretty early in development. You might want to watch the video linked to the page from the 0redev conference. He doesn't talk about dynamo much, but he does give "2013" as the date for Dynamo.

On the WebSockets issue, I'd check out Cowboy. Cowboy seems to be the new hotness in erlang web apps. It has at least some support for web sockets.

https://github.com/extend/cowboy

If you're looking for a full featured web framework with built-in web socket support then maybe what you really want is Nitrogen: http://nitrogenproject.com

Finally, and just for completeness, since I'm mentioning web frameworks, you'll probably want to see what ChicagoBoss's WS story is: http://www.chicagoboss.org or if someone's done something with WebMachine and websockets: http://basho.com

I think Nitrogen sounds like the best bet.

Since Elixir seems to mix effortlessly with Erlang, you should be able to write your code in Elixir using any of these frameworks.
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Not true. Elixir records are exactly what they are in Erlang — tuples
> Not one of these suits comes from a competitor. No one claims that we surreptitiously “copied” their technology. And in our opinion, not one of the so called “software patents” being used against us and other businesses that are actually developing software is valid or infringed.

> Instead, all of these suits are from patent trolls . . . .

That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one.
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What I want to know is how I get tons of HN traffic daily months after my post is off the front page.
I didn't downvote, but if I did, it would have been for the part about Git. It's (IMHO) a very poor comparison. Git is easy to use to a point (centralized, just push/fetch), then it becomes an order of magnitude (or more) harder. Also, everyone I know that doesn't use Git (i.e. stuck on SVN) is scared to death of it because they're scared of the decentralized aspect - definitely no one thinks it's going to be easy.

Even if it were hard to use, it remains an apples and oranges comparison.
If pg gave "details as to why, what they could do in the future to prevent this or any kind of statistics or advice" he would be giving advice on how to get around the voting ring detection. I imagine he probably does not want to help people evade the process he worked to put in place to cut down on spammy/fraudulent submissions.
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The web, a platform with seemingly unlimited extensibility in terms of UI design, has fostered some of the worst designs ever seen.... but also some of the best designs ever seen. But most importantly, we all all richer because of the competition and diversity in interfaces that it has fostered.

I don't know why you wouldn't wish the same in the iOS ecosystem as well, especially since it is an ecosystem with a comparatively better sense of taste relative to other developer communities, meaning that when it does deviate from the norm it is more likely to get it right than other communities might. Why would we want to neuter the creativity and taste that community has?
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Must have hit few people who don't know the difference between a CNAME and an A record but who nevertheless manage their own registration.

Elitism is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
It always depends on the situation. :)

C++ encourages hiding the data inside an object, in which case the lifetime of the data will be the same.

Sometimes the wrapped data has to be exposed directly, e.g. graphics pipeline needs direct access for performance reason. Even in that case it is useful to have a class. For example the VTK image reader class will handle a lot of bit depth related differences transparently. Makes it possible to store different image types with different bit depth in a single container and most of the access is still trough interface (e.g. GetWidth).
Thanks for the feedback.

If you never get around to building the module (I was toying around with the leaderboard/stats app idea for a few years too :-P) then you are always welcome to join Athletable :)
Apropos of nothing, but a few times in my life I've actually gone to the theater to see a movie I knew nothing about. Nothing about the plot, the cast, etc. No trailer. It's a distinct experience, and sometimes highly pleasant. (I say "Heat" this way. Which was cool because the whole beginning of the movie is that long sequence with DeNiro stealing the ambulance, but I had no idea what the movie was, not even genre, and it was fun to try to figure out what was going on :)
In this case it points to a flaw in the system itself - if having any details of it at all allows you to game it, it only takes one lucky person to stumble across some aspect of it accidentally and we will have multiple unknown exploiters using it.

In the case it was absolutely, imperatively impossible to give no details whatsoever, then stating this would probably have been helpful.
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I wrote a lightweight library that eases the use of localStorage. I'd be interested in your opinions and feedback.

(Apologies for the absurd title. I was attempting to make a commentary on the superfluity of specifying one's age in a title.)
Zero work isn't quite a fair assessment. There's NRE associated with implementing the emulator, and probably a fair amount of play testing. Games might have specific quirks that depend on the hardware implementation. As anyone who's ever done emulation on a PC knows, it's can be very good, but rarely perfect.
Yeah, same idea as previous years: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/apple-black-friday-...
Yeah pricing is hard. All Athletable trials are 45 days at the moment so I figure I've got a few weeks of pricing tests to work it out.

Cheers for the feedback.
In fact I just a few weeks ago lined up a nice little contract on this exact basis. A customer had a budget allocation that they'd won but had been slow in lining up the work from another department in the same organisation. So now it's come to me, because they "need" to spend the money before the end of the year.
Hey, great write-up. I feel that if you're creating a simple app you can only get so far with the built-in theming. Custom animations/themes are critical to make a fun, useful, and simple apps. I would love to see a blog post/tutorial on this topic.
Bah, nothing here about wild drunken partying. ;)

To his credit the correct word is used throughout the article, just got a miss in the title.
Please share the postmortem after the first person swallows a couple of stray magnets.
It maybe set off the vote ring detector because your costumers seem to be located all around London. So it may be possible that some of them shared the submission with other London users or that because they know your company they up-vote it; making it look like it was ringed but it was just selection bias.

Anyway this is a tricky problem; because at the end of the day intent is a fundamental part of vote rings and that can be really hard to see by algorithms alone.
Lots of clients require you to say, in your contract, who will be working on a project. They will inquire after individuals.
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It's not really flame-worthy because you're mostly right. I do however, think Black-Scholes is an appropriate starting point for options theory, even if it's not used a ton in practice. Without some sort of framework, you're effectively lost. I doubt many people could realistically develop any sort of options based strategy (besides simple leveraged long / short of the underlying) without a deep inside-and-out understanding of the BSE. The reason being not that you need to use it to calculate anything, but because it lays out a straightforward conceptual model of how various greeks interact with each other.

Of course, understanding the shortfalls of it are equally important. But the same could be said of DCF, P/E or any other valuation method.