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In the attractive cities housing is very expensive, even a small place might be out of reach for a family.

However, you made me realize that it is of course a choice to live in the city (kind of, depending on job availability), and in the countryside things might be cheaper.

Actually I wonder if the "one person sustains the family" thing was mainly a thing of the countryside. In Germany there are some cities that are dominated by one big company. If you were around when those companies started, you probably had very good living conditions (good wage because of the successful company, cheap housing because of the countryside).

Not sure if such companies even get started anymore these days. Perhaps the IT companies have to go to the cities because IT workers prefer the stimulating environment. Less of a concern for the factory workers of the past? Just a thought off the top of my head, though.

Actually the perhaps biggest German IT company, SAP, is one such case of a big company dominating a small city. But it also started quite a while ago already (1972). SAP has it's main base in "Walldorf", a village of 15000 people. I suspect people working for SAP in Walldorf don't have trouble to afford a house.
The point about the "very early stage" is that it's unlikely for one single person to have all the skills you want unless they had no other choice, i.e. they were the first or second engineer in a startup.

So, to find one person to satisfy your job description, look for someone who was an early engineer at a startup.

Or, hire two people (who will usually cost you less money).

In SV, the recommendation is to hire that one special person, but I'm not so sure. This is particularly true if you live outside a hub (SV, Seattle, etc) and this type of employee becomes even more rare.
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That's odd. Because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb3Wed9M25A this new hangout they clearly said they have 2 interviews, and then a round of matching, and if anyone finds you interesting you would work with that team. So you are saying they make the team description so cool but in reality it's just an obsolete party like Google Code? Damn :( But it's cool you worked for two big companies.
Apple was a niche player with Macintosh, but along comes iPod and then iOS, and it's the king of the world. Now, each release of the Mac OS is another step in the transition to iOS. Why improve that ridiculous "Finder" with a dual pane view for organizing your files when you can go the other way and eliminate access to files and folders altogether, like iOS? You never did understand "folders" anyway, did you? Soon, you won't have to. Just point at the pretty pictures and buy something from our store, and you'll feel better.

Microsoft now wants to be a toymaker, too, like Apple. Computers are soooo last century. Computers are for people who are literate; the future is about serving the "if you see what you want, poke it with your finger" market.

What I'd like to suggest is that all Linux platform developers seriously consider going the opposite way and providing real "computers" to those holdouts, like me, who still need to get real work done and know how to navigate a real file system and even [gasp] a command line.

I'm not saying that no Linux device should compete with iOS, just that, if the mainstream makers are going to run away from power users, desktop Linux has a huge opportunity to become the "computer for the rest of us, version 2" by going the opposite direction and intentionally focusing on being a power tool for smart people with work to do.
I think eventually some kind of "cutoff" point will have to be defined. I imagine that in the future it may be possible to keep people "alive" indefinitely while attached to expensive machines. So the costs may well be infinitely high.

In the UK I heard you don't get Dialysis after a certain age, which I always found quite shocking. But some equivalent of that will probably happen everywhere :-(

Also the worthiness of the previous comment probably referred to people actively ruining their health. That could be seen as freeloading off society.
Looks like a line for a ride at Disney World, or cars at ferry terminal.

Don't like the chauvinism in the title. It is one location in Japan, not "how Japan does it".
Almost a year ago I tried to see how short of a cyclic tag system I could make in Ruby. The result: https://github.com/elitheeli/stupid-machines/blob/master/sho...
Wow, thanks for the clarification. That's incredibly stupid, I can't see the upside in that, aside from the telecom being able to charge more minutes per call (which is likely why it still functions that way.)
Hi, thanks for the feedback (and don't worry about being that guy - it's important to have critical feedback too).

I agree that there's a specific size of brand that would find Recon useful - huge brands will have a big social media team working (almost) around the clock, and small companies might not get many mentions, but I do strongly think there's a huge number of companies that fit right in the middle that Recon is perfect for. Have a look at how 37signals have been thinking about this problem, for example: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3317-behind-the-scenes-twitte...

That 37signals post also highlights a problem with companies of that size that Recon solves - there's so much noise. You could manually search for your brand name throughout the day, or set up an alert that sends you everything that mentions you - but you'd waste so much of your time just sifting through information.

Thanks again for the feedback though - I do appreciate hearing it.
How does the traffic logged in Wireshark imply that the app "pushes the store part in your face constantly even if you do not desire it"?
I said “post”, not “send”. You can insert messages into a mailbox with APPEND.
Yeah it also has an interesting aspect where the loser can win all of the sudden. It makes it a little more exciting. To win you have to plan carefully. If you leave the wrong set of black tiles on the board, you can get surprised.

Also I like how you can attack and defend simultaneously. If the opponent goes first, then they'll stake out a corner. And then I will attack their corner and stake out my own corner simulataneously, as long as there's a big enough word on the board.
It is quite simple to install windows in unibody construction. I did it on my Macbook Air.

Really, this is a fashion thing, like all-concrete condos.
That doesn't match my experience at all. Just to check my sanity, I flipped open Minesweeper and played a game on easy. Between the loading time and my 23 second win, I spent about the 30 seconds you mentioned from start to finish entirely. I didn't notice any ads at all, and the only Xbox Live interaction I saw was the non-modal growl-like notice that I was signed into Xbox Live as Encosia.

Also, there's nothing about Windows 8 that prevents you from running an older Minesweeper.exe from a USB stick like you mentioned.

Speaking of ads, here's a panorama of the entire app: http://encosia.com/i/minesweeper-wide/. The ad only takes up about 4.5% of the landscape, in the least conspicuous possible spot. That ad is like putting a small banner ad in the footer of a website. If you're jumping into the app to play a game of Minesweeper, you'd never even see the ad unless you're using a 4,850 pixel wide display.
I wonder if the great un-teched see this kind of thing as a crime or even terrorism, rather than a protest, and the victim (NISD here) thereby gains sympathy.
"Transmitting" advertisement/commercials into our dream ala Futurama cannot be far off (I hope I'm wrong). Perhaps this would be something a hotel could offer to reduce the cost of the room? Trying to think of a positive application of this idea.
> Isn't the whole point of shipping container housing that it's cheaper and quicker to build?

Actually I think the whole point is "we have a shitload of shipping containers that we're never going to send back and we have no idea what to do with them".
Perhaps, but why is there an attitude that doctors are evil and that all of them are so well off that we shouldn't care what happens? Seems to me that's the prevailing attitude. They're continually getting pinched: Tens of thousands for malpractice insurance. Hundreds of thousands in debt just to get to the point where they can practice. Seems reasonable if you have a good upside, but that upside keeps getting pressed on. I don't see how that can continue without serious reform in the other direction (tort limits and forgiveness of student debt for medical school)
“I miss being in private practice and being my own boss,” says Alexander, the Illinois cardiologist. “I would have said 30 years ago that I planned on dying with my boots on and practicing until I couldn’t practice anymore. Now, do I look forward to retirement? Yes.”

This will be the single greatest cause behind the looming physician shortage and subsequent decline in standard of care. How much harder do you work, for yourself, in a startup - versus for someone else, as an employee? It's NO DIFFERENT for doctors.
I would suggest that you should start applying MVC practises as soon as you start adding Javascript to your page. You don't necessarily need a complex framework, so long as you stick to the separation of concerns.
The UI of this game is so impressive that it appears to be nothing special on first blush. Everything just fits and works like it should. It's a beautiful example of the near invisibility of some types of good design.
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Already updated showing that the page had software from Microsoft, and that when the software was removed, the dmca notice was revoked. Non story.
That wasn't the original intent of GNOME. Frankly, GNOME is misnamed. It had a great start, but they seem to have lost their way.

Removing options does not make user experience better, it merely limits it. I don't want to be limited.
When he was skipping class, he wasn't flying back to Korea. He obviously had a lot of cultural exposure to the US.
This, my friends, is an incredibly stupid move.
I've heard that these containers are full of toxic chemicals used for pest control (also to prevent spreading foreign species of plants and animals).

Hopefully it is possible to get all that nasty stuff out before converting them to housing? Maybe a bit of sandblasting does the trick, but still, not my first choice for a home...
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> What would be interesting would be to compare how long these people stood in line to how long they would stand in western systems. Given that western people are famously impatient (and that shopping centers know this), I am guessing that ours are better optimized.

It's an apples and oranges thing: this is of Comiket, so everyone involved has different motivations from shoppers desperate to grab the doorbusters. You'd have to compare to another convention or event.
I think what you're arguing is a form of premature optimisation. High utilisation of the equipment is a low priority, and not a matter of public policy.

Consider the possibilities that the payment structure hampers. Could the doctor instead go into partnership with other doctors? Or rent space in a complex that has lots of specialists in it giving some kind of equipment pool? Or contract out scans to a nearby hospital? Or have a nearby hospital refer some matters to the doctor? Equipment could be rented per day. Or maybe fancy equipment isn't justified, and unit cost is lower.

Having government anoint winners and losers streamlines industries away from innovation. It reduces price competition, delivers reduced patient choice, and creates environments more friendly to rent-seeking behaviour.
When someone drops something on the floor in one of these, everyone else in every other room will hear it like it's being dropped next to them.
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Totally agree that a great design cannot overcome poor functionality, and that it is too frequently a distraction from the core mission, but I think the bigger takeaway in this article is the need for/benefit of iterative testing during the development process and the establishment of proof of concept based using a minimum viable product to see how users actually interact with and respond to your apps. Design also shouldn't be an afterthought, as form and function must work together in order to deliver a compelling user experience. If you're curious, the app she talks about (DrawChat) was listed on Apptopia.com
> Really? To me it seems to be more American than anything else. There are guys dancing and pretty girls and special effects. That seems pretty much like an outgrowth of MTV culture, rap videos, etc. which are of American origin. I'll grant it has a unique sense of humor.

I would like to differ. People dancing, pretty girls as eye candy is a universal trend that definitely didn't start out of the MTV generation. See for e.g. Bollywood movies.
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I yearn for the early days when the juvenile 'M$' was against HN etiquette and was properly dealt with. Now HN is more like Slashdot and that's reflected into the story selection, comments, moderation and flagging.
There is no legal claim against parodies. The copyright allowance was in allowing people to distribute the original video and/or audio (for example, reusing the audio track in a new YouTube submission)
While I think GWT is a pretty good project and has some way to go before it can be categorized as failing, some of your other remarks make me think that you have not given appropriate consideration to the alternatives to its approach.

First and foremost, you can write javascript in such a way that your code does nothing weird and only what you intended. A good place to start is still "JavaScript: The Good Parts"[1]. Then I suggest finding some examples of nicely written javascript code on GitHub or some such site. I personally think underscore.js[2] and backbone.js[3] are rather nice.

If you have really given javascript a fair shot, and still strongly dislike it, there are many other languages that compile into javascript, but match its style more closely that Java does. I have been enjoying working in CoffeScript[4]. There is an excellent interactive book[5] that shows the javascript generated by the constructs in the language, which is also a good resource for discovering idioms to do things that are not obvious in javascript, like creating classes. TypeScript[6] and Dart[7] are both interesting languages with syntax more familiar to Java. There are a lot more languages that compile to javascript that I haven't mentioned[8].

It's possible that GWT and Java are the best fit for you, but don't pigeonhole yourself by thinking that they are the only good options out there.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...
[2] https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/blob/master/unde...
[3] https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/backbo...
[4] http://coffeescript.org/
[5] http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/02_syntax.htm...
[6] http://www.typescriptlang.org/
[7] http://www.dartlang.org/
[8] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
"If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." - Some German dude :)
Typically you won't have your app's UI on your server in a PhoneGap app. You'll include the UI in the app, and what's on the server is data services. It's not that you can't do what you described, but if your app is little more than a browser, you increase the odds of being rejected.
What are you talking about?

"No App services – Calendar, Docs, Drive, and all Google App services are completely blocked. These are not critical for this domain in particular, but would be high impact if denied for some of my other domains."

Email is the only thing that got broken AND mattered. And having all your eggs in the same basket has the implication that the owner of the basket can take your eggs as hostages, so you better be careful when you talk to them. Also, remember to carefully read the ToS every day because they can change without notice and f*ck you up.
I find the ad more offensive than obtrusive. This is an operating system I paid for, one where Minesweeper has traditionally been bundled - for free, and without advertising. This also changes the dynamic where now Microsoft has a vested interest in learning everything they can about me to deliver more relevant ads to improve click-through rates. The whole idea of my OS tracking me sends shivers up my spine.

Also, there's nothing about Windows 8 that prevents you from running an older Minesweeper.exe from a USB stick like you mentioned.

For now. It's clear the direction that MS is taking Windows though, and I don't know how long I can reasonably expect to have such control. And if I want to throw that older exe onto a new WinRT machine, it would not function.
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Are there any good C++ or Python SciPy libraries for building and training deep learning networks?
I've had people call me, where I explained all this to them and said I would call them back, only for them to say "do you want me to give you the phone number".

So then I have to explain that if I don't trust them to be who they say they are, then I certainly don't trust them to give me a phone number...
Considering that streaming is free (w/ ads) showing content from the store I'd argue makes a lot of sense. Spotify does the same thing.

With that said, iTunes has added "In the Store" picks in iTunes... while I'm sure you'd argue that it's distinct, given how seamless it is integrated in the new iTunes UI, I think most people won't view it as much different than the XBox Music Store -- and even worse in some regards since you can stream for free from the XBox Music Store.
To recap: In order to receive support from a human being for Google Apps the account holder needs her account associated PIN, but since this guy was locked out of his account he didn't have it available to take advantage of the phone support. So after a week and by using some trickery he got hold of someone on the phone and the issue was resolved.

I’d argues that Google Apps has reasonable support (bigger accounts, I assume, have direct support lines) and these occurrences are relatively rare considering the user base, but they get amplified rather loudly, especially when there are plenty of cloud haters, and Google haters (and competitors) ready to pounce.

There might be some risks or trade-offs involved but they’re much less pronounced than some of the comments on any “Google support sux” thread lead you to believe. I haven't had an issue with my personal Apps account but my case is statistically insignificant, same as the case discussed here.
> Apple tried and failed.

I've been using Apple's Server.app (Formerly OS X Server) for quite some time now at my home. Its definitely a bit of work to maintain, specifically on the CalDAV and CardDAV integration. But failure is something I would hardly attribute to the setup. It's certainly not any worse to use than configuring and maintaining Postfix/Dovecot/Roundcube and CalendarServer individually.

In what way would you suggest Apple's Server.app has failed (outside of the obvious hardware compatibility)?
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What is Sponduu?? Finding people in your area with whom to pursue your favorite activities is a major challenge, and Sponduu easily solves this problem by helping you to:

* Find a tennis or chess player in your area who plays at your level
* Organize a last-minute golf foursome
* Find last-minute players for a pick-up basketball game
* Get rid of extra concert tickets
* Secure rideshares and carpools
* Find people with whom to attend a new museum exhibit

* The possibilities are limited only by users' imaginations

Sponduu is fun, highly useful, free, easy-to-use, and mobile
Exchange will ignore MX records and deliver directly to accounts that exist in AD. This is true for some other email systems as well like Mirapoint. I'm not sure about Gmail.
The problem with counting "side effect" products is nobody ever takes into account the supply/demand for that product. Sure making enough biofuel for the entire US produces 100 tons of X. But if the worldwide demand for X is 5 tons, then you've now generated 95 tons of waste that needs to be disposed of.
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As an LLC, you may elect to file (with the IRS) as an S-corp within the first 75 days of your calendar year. You can't just yo-yo back and forth from one filing classification to another so you should take some time considering the consequences. See http://answers.onstartups.com/ for answers on this topic.

Some LLCs make this election so they can take a distribution at the end of the year at a lower tax rate. The IRS monitors this, and expects you take a "reasonable salary" as income. I recently made the election for similar reasons, but also to allow me to run my company more like a startup, and less like a consulting service.

There's enough information out there to make a decision, I think, but if you're still in doubt get an accountant.
Woah. This is eerie! I literally just tried to buy recon.io this morning for my sideproject, only to find out it was taken. Now I see it on HN.

Love the design of the landing page and the easy access to the demo. Very cool.
There's also the "hero night." It's pulling off an all nighter to accomplish a seemingly impossible task with a hard deadline. This happens about once a year, and it was in April for me this year. The company had 24 hours for an opportunity to be on national TV, but we needed a landing page built, with a contest, and a Facebook integration. Small company means you gotta take the chance.

Grabbed my earbuds, fired up my Spotify, and got to work. Got it done and deployed a couple of hours before airtime in the morning. It worked great. Unfortunately, the TV spot didn't pan out quite the way we were told, and it didn't provide much value after all, but everything I built worked. I would have felt terrible if the opportunity was in fact huge, but what I had built was subpar.

It's a nice feeling to be the hero, even for yourself. But it's also easy to overvalue a success like that and assume that it will always be that way, and always be the hero. Unfortunately, it turns into "stupid hour" most of the time.
But it displays fine on the iPhone (and probably on many other devices and browsers). So, for its purpose it functions reasonably well.
Ads in desktop software have seemed on their way for a long time, but the only high-profile bundled-with-the-OS example I can think of before this is Apple's Sherlock that came with Mac OS 8.5 and 9.

That was a bit of a special case, for similar reasons to the ones in Metro apps. Search engines had ads anyway, so ads in a program that gave you search results in a desktop app wasn't a huge leap. (There was still significant backlash, though.) And ads in mobile apps are fairly commonplace, MS has just gone a step further integrating them into their first-party ones. Which is a curious decision—how much revenue are we really talking about?

I also feel like there's an interesting parallel between Sherlock—a specialized program for getting results from the internet—and "apps" in the mobile sense. They're both ways to get around at-the-time-limited web user experiences. Desktop apps like Sherlock, though, did not last particularly long as the web itself got more usable.
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That is partially true, it doesn't have to be a physician, but it does have to be somebody with real knowledge and skill and not just a 3 Month course somewhere.

Someone I knew, would optimize the billing codes so that she could "write-off" non-covered items, and maximize patient care. Her salary was still quite low compared to other doctors in executive roles.