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I think you misread my post. My point is that everyone optimizes their implementation so that their benchmarks run fast. Furthermore, people pick benchmarks that run fast on their implementation. Neither of these are a 'little dodgy': They are how benchmarks get used.

You might note that they make for bad science, but benchmarks tend not to get used in anything resembling a scientific comparison. Benchmarks get used for comparative testing (did we make thing X faster than it was before?) and to try and prove that your product is better than the competition (in which case much larger lies are going to get trotted out either way).
Couple that with how he reported it, the script he used to download the data, and everything else he did. You can't look at each action in isolation.
And this is why the author will slowly realize why the other datepickers aren't so "lightweight" - because they solve a hard problem.
I just took a look at the Oatmeal Studios website and some examples of their greeting cards. They don't seem to be in the extreme 'Grandma/kittens&&puppies' sector of the market, so I wouldn't automatically assume they would consider Inman's sense of humour detrimental to their brand. This might be settled through financial consideration.

Then again, without direct knowledge of the principals, it is impossible to predict how this might play out.
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I don't like this current tired of promoting a start-up when there is just a landing page, Its just not interesting. We know nothing about what they are doing.

I would never enter my email address into a "LaunchRock" powder landing page, it could easily just be someone collecting email addresses for another purpose. I think there is also a trend of people putting up these "landing pages" with absolutely no intention of making anything unless they get some interest.

If you are starting something interesting, show us what you are building! If you aren't ready don't promote it!
Is it a kind of change.org?
After running debian on an ARM box for the past ~5 years, my experience has been pretty favorable. If there's a solid community following (which is a good bet with this product given the hype around it) the drivers should be a non-issue. Installation went very smoothly for me. Everything else, if it can get built from source, should be fine. On my box apt-get install "just works" for almost all of the software I use, and maybe 75% of make installs go smoothly with relatively little tinkering required.

For getting actually work done, I use an x86 laptop. I wouldn't ever go back to using a netbook or any non-mainstream notebook with iffy linux support. It's just not worth your time to deal with technical issues. Buy the best tools that you can find (best being what works for you).
For some time I always create user deploy and install nginx through passenger on rbenv (if there is only one app on server) or create separate user per app and run everything using rbenv+unicorn+nging from apt. Works flawlessly. I can't agree more, that reating chef recipe is step forward.
You are ignoring or ignorant of the other facts of the case and his other actions. Looking solely at the technical side ignores realities. Furthermore gaining access to sensitive data does not install you with special rights for that data.
Just to clarify, I like the idea a "non-profit organization established to teach high school students how to build for-profit startups" but you have nothing just that sentence to show.
Here's my laundry list of feedback:

- The lead text is too chummy. Make it concise and professional.

- When facing a blank page, one copywriting technique I've come up with is to make a list of all your features, and then next to each write the benefit. Now flip each around and write a sentence matching the "get benefit x from feature x." Group and edit from there.

- "Who said that the desktop was dead?" is too defensive when the desktop should be one of your selling points. You may not read about it on HN, but many people prefer desktop software over web based and mobile tools. And many prefer one-time purchases to ongoing subscriptions.

- There is very little text for search engines to crawl. At the very least, add a blog and start writing about CRM and related topics.

- You need an About page. People want to know who they are buying from.

- You should have a privacy policy as well.

- Cannot order more than 1 license at a time. E-junkie is a good interim solution for selling via PayPal.

- Why is there a link to Mixpanel in the footer? I'd remove it.

- The video is full screen and blurry at my monitor's resolution. Also, if you're creating a screencast without sound, you need to use text bubbles so viewers can follow along.

- Why does the Support link go to another site? A simple contact form would be better than taking visitors off site.

- Chrome gives a security warning for the download. You should get a real digital certificate as opposed to self signing. K Software (http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/) sells code signing certs for a relatively low cost.

- The installation has no instructions. Unzipping and running the setup file may seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people would get tripped up by this. Technically challenged people have money, and they do buy software.

- The download isn't very fast. It looks like you're deploying the entire DevExpress library. Do you need to deploy all those components?
I don't think the tunnel would need to be pressurised. If the air moved at the same speed as the train, no resistance would be met.
Is that a kind of Quora thing?
Very Douglas Adams.
Is there an excuse for excessively short variable names?
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Yup.

IIRC big blue's software group are slowly trying to blur the lines between their various brands in order to seem more integrated and go back to just being IBM software.
Yes, except that we focus only on question types that generate data (binary, multiple choice, rating, slider). We don't provide open text questions
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_keyboard_la...

Also, why would one ask mjg (who doesn’t do X11 stuff AFAIK) instead of googling? :-)
Change.org is really about petitioning. We focus more on opinion data
Is RAM upgradeable? does it take SATA HDs?
That's what I meant by using the carriages as the impellers, so effectively they push against the air in front of them up to the next carriage, which pulls on this air because it leaves a partial vacuum behind it. So there is no external source of pressure, it's just the carriages moving and 'drafting' in each others wake.

There will still be resistance though, both from the walls as well as leakage between the carriage and the walls (there can't be a really good seal there or the friction between the carriage and the wall would become too large, and since the wall is stationary and the carriage is moving very fast this friction is likely sizeable).
"China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days".
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The cost of buying eight chairs is negligible compared to the other costs associated with hiring eight people. It may be that the company's expenses were too high, but if so, they needed to be cut by hiring fewer people. Buying cheaper chairs is a piss-poor way to save money.
FWIW: IAmA founder of a startup in Stockholm (sharing offices with Wrapp), AMA.
Not surprised by the title given the site itself, more advertising than content. Ugh
SQL-like queries for C++ code: is this the task for static analysis?
From the title I assumed this was going to be about how we have such a volume of law that it's pretty inevitable that you're already breaking several, if not several hundred.
What gives you the right to sell that data? What gives you the rights to what a reasonable person would understand to be sensitive and private data? You can't look at this from just a technical standpoint, but also the intent of the people involved.

Your question about forgetting to wear pants is a perfect example. In California, it's legal depending on the intent. The mere act is not a crime without intent, and looking at one without the other is pointless.
Your subconscious knows: The bench didn't eat the zebra
Your problems hurt simply because you are so sorry for yourself. Get over yourself.
The article missed Tobii, which this year got a $20 million investment by Intel, and has raised over $50 million in total. They're making a very cool eye tracking product that you (among other use cases) can use to control a computer with your eyes.
The spelling is difficult but sounds great. I love the platform. Great design
600 kilometers / 80 million carriages gives me 7.5 mm per carriage length so I think there is a bit of a problem with that calculation.

The limiting case is when the whole tube is full of carriages, say they're 4 meters long that would mean there are a maximum of 150,000 carriages in that 600 Km long tube at absolute maximum capacity, something that you probably should not want to get close to.

More realistically, a regular roadway has a spacing of about 30 meters per vehicle at 60 Mph, you might be able to pack them in that tight in a tube like this but that's still pretty tight and leaves very little room for error when shifting carriages in and out of the loop.

At that spacing you could stuff (600,000 / 34) = 17650 carriages in (none of those assembled into impromptu trains, which of course would increase the density).

If we assume train like assemblies of 10 cars with 30 meter spacing you'd be looking at a 40 meter train + spacing is 70 meters, or 8500 trains, so 85000 carriages.

Those would then be pushing a column of of air 30 meters long ahead of them.
1.4 million in the urban area and 2.1 million in the metropolitan area is not exactly tiny.

Tel Aviv is for example smaller, but I guess that the comparison is to the bay area/silicon valley or something like that.
Where does the name come from? Because in French it sounds like the word "putsch" meaning "military coup" or "takeover" and in English it does not seem to mean anything except if you look to "to pout" or "a pouch" ?

How would you pronounce it and are you sure that someone hearing you would understand how to write the name of the application and reach the website or email you easily?
It's a falsehood that appears intuitively obvious. Working stupid hours destroys not only your productivity and personal life but also your judgment, to the extent that you lose the ability to judge your degree of cognitive impairment. It's like coming into work blind drunk: not only are you a liability to yourself and others but you don't realize how much of a liability you are. You may well end up being outcompeted by someone who put in forty hours a week of smart, correctly applied work.
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awesome. Thanks for the feedback. I will work through some of those this week!
Trademark owner should defend trademarks.

Trademark owners have to defend their trademarks, or risk losing them.
This is why I said 'reflects'. An index reflects the market, so any research that goes into the market goes into pricing the index fund.
On tip #1, how big does the chunk of other people's code need to be to teach you about the things he's talking about? I've really enjoyed reading algorithms but struggled when looking at source code for large projects on github. I often feel lost and don't really know how to dig in.

Any suggestions?
Given the same volume, a tablet has more space for batteries than a laptop. A laptop has to use space for the hinge, keyboard, trackpad, peripheral ports, and display. Worse, you can't fit batteries behind a laptop display without ruining the balance. On the other hand, a tablet is practically a screen with a ton of batteries behind it.

Here's some real-world data: The 3rd gen iPad has a 42 watt-hour battery. The 11" Air has a 35 watt-hour battery. The Air is 25% larger in one dimension and over 50% heavier, but it still can't fit the same amount of batteries as the iPad.

And of course tablets typically have slower processors, less memory, and less flash than laptops. Their lower specs mean tablets draw less power.

With so much going against them, I'm surprised that some laptops manage to come close to tablets in battery life.
Out of curiosity, what company?
Population-wise, San Francisco is also smaller than the city of Stockholm.

But it is a tiny tiny tiny startup ecosystem.
wavesounds made a really good point, your product looks exactly like Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. I don’t know who your customers are and what are their needs but I think the first question I would ask myself is why your customer would choose you and not MS CRM or any other CRM if both offer the same functionality.
Very nice library!
One question though: how easy would it be to make the datepicker responsive?
The meaning behind it comes from the german word "putsch" ... a coup d'etat. But we feel that U.S. people will have a hard time with the "ou" of poutsch as well as with the "sch". Hence my question...
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It's a "loop", so it won't be a single tube, but a torus ("donut"), probably stretched.
For big files, I separate it into "important" (photos/video I've taken), highly-categorized medium stuff, and unimportant.

Important is backed up on 2 colo servers, CrashPlan, spinning storage at home, and some USB drives kept offline (at home and in storage). Flickr also has most of my photos, except for anything sensitive, and I'm transitioning to Facebook, Flickr, 500px combined.

Medium stuff is all mp3s, and is on a few drives and iTunes Match. Or games, at Steam or EA Origin.

Unimportant (TV shows, movies, etc.) I just keep on the seedbox and on a mac on the home theater system. I have maybe 2-3TB of storage total for those, so I periodically delete stuff I've watched or I don't care about.

I'm buying a Synology 1812+ and 8x3TB drives for a RAID6 NAS; probably 10TB will be random media library, and some will be backups, working space for audio/video/photo editing, etc. It would be nice to have a content library for visitors, girlfriend, etc. to use.
Tel Aviv is probarbly larger than Stockholm though.

The Swedish definition of "metropolitan" area is skewed, it consists of several cities and according to wikipedia its 6,519 km2 that is compared to Tel Avivs metropolian area of 1,516 km2. Still Tel Avivs has a metropolitan population of 3.4 million people compared to Stockholm's 2.1 million.
And if an app has to be started in advance, still don't see how the proposed solution is easier than QR codes, where an app has to be started in advance too.
More like we don't know yet. It could be but I wouldn't jump to the 80% accounting/audit error/failure at this point.
Yeah ok so it is the same word as in French. I'm not a native english but I'd say that adding the "O" changes the pronounciation you're looking for if you target an English market. And having T-S-C-H at the end of the word seems a bit "too-much" because the word "pouch" in english should have the exact pronounciation you want so people might write that and be confused.
So which framework comes out on top with the least developer friction metric? Not just convenient features like an ORM but also, your ability to do stuff without the framework getting in the way.
Hyperloop should start as a high speed alternative to road and air freight
I haven't seen any discussion of this Hyperloop thing outside of the admittedly interesting speculation on how it might work. Until we learn more on the specifics, I'd rather talk about the changes and opportunities being able to much more cheaply and quickly move things between distant locations will open up.

Using such a system to transport goods in its early days has a number of advantages.

1. The risks are much lower than going straight to ferrying humans around.

2. Cheaper to get up and running.

3. Potentially larger market for shipping goods than human traffic.

4. Removes traffic congestion on our roads, and lessens the environmental impact of road freight.

5. Provides an opportunity for the public to gain trust in the technology.

6. Given the higher speeds, and with efficient dispatch mechanisms at origin and destination stops, it might become feasible to transport perishable goods that must currently be sourced locally or shipped at high expense.

I'm sure there's others.
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google for "paul graham". That's pg
I think there is, but only if there's a recognised convention in both the context and the short name. Examples:

for n in [some list of numbers]

def my_view(req):

Monad m => m a

(x, y) = coords

I think this is a case when know if it's a good idea when you see it with enough experience [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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For those who didn't bother going through the list, here is one of the listed sites that caught my attention:
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

The art is extraordinary and the background sounds match perfectly and are very relaxing. Definitely worth taking a look at.
Thanks Microsoft
Thanks Microsoft.

In my spare time in an attempt to learn something new, I built a little Hacker News Reader for the Windows Store called "Hacker 8 News", I thought it would be cool to implement the share and search charms. I ran the certification checks app and it passed fine so :

I submitted it to the store to be approved, was taking ages waiting on approval ( more than the 7 days advertised ), finally received a message saying :

Failed Certification : Your app doesn't meet requirement 5.3.

"5.3 Your app must not contain content or functionality that encourages, facilitates or glamorizes illegal activity"

The irony of it all, is that there are a couple of Hacker News Readers on the store already!

http://www.stionasoftware.com/Blogs/post/2012/11/05/Hacker-8-News.aspx
I was trying to compare the energy required to overcome friction of the air against the tunnel to driving the route conventionally. 80 million is an excessive number to expect want to travel at one time, which implies that driving is much more efficient from an energy required perspective.
This is fair. I agree, this is very premature, but I think we were just very excited with the fact that we've reached a stage where publicity is our greatest ally. Since this is going to be a high-school powered organization, we figured it'd be best to have users who are interested in the idea "ready to go", that way there's no downtime between our live app and traction with schools.

I didn't mean to plug our startup with empty words, I just wanted to see what sort of traction could be garnered from these outlets. Early-adopters are the backbone of any startup, for-profit or not-for-profit.
Where did you get the money from to start it? No-one's going to buy anything from a startup that does nothing, and doing anything means at a minimum some labour (and usually buying some stuff as well). Unless you're very well-connected, if you're not investing yourself why would anyone else do so? If you happen to be wealthy already then great (I suspect most successful startups are founded by children of rich families), but if not your choices are either spend time acquiring money to put into it, or use the money/credit you have.
However, somehow using pressurized tubes for mail failed in the long run. I find those very fascinating, and apparently once upon a time some big cities were actually connected with a lot of such pressure tubes for sending mail. But apparently they were too unreliable and ended up going into oblivion.

Would be interesting if some of them could be resurrected somehow.

Another idea for improving transport: with modern technology better routing should be possible. Instead of all people boarding the same train that stops at every station, why not only board a carriage that goes directly to your destination? That could save a lot of time, I think.
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I have no opinion on this fork, but note that keeping /usr separate shields valuable hand-edited configuration data (/etc, sometimes /root) from problems with the (much larger, and therefore more likely to suffer from e.g. bad sectors) /usr.

(The usual "/bin, /sbin are statically linked, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin are dynamically linked" also makes it much easier to recover from some problems. Of course, putting stuff in /usr/etc/ or dynamically linking /bin makes these benefits moots - but that would be Doing It Wrong.)
You should try creating a roughly equivalent app for the Mac App Store, see what type of response you get there. It would be interesting to do a compare and contrast based on your experience writing (and submitting) to each of the stores.
A startup asks, ‘What if you didn’t have to analyze data at all?’
Thks... we'll see what we can do with pouch.com
Is it still as freaking expensive as when I was there last time, about 10 years ago ?
You should disable images in mails by default (the way gmail does it) or at least add an option for disabling them. Images are usually used to track if and how many times you read the mail.

You're also missing the chat.

As for your question. I would not consider switching from gmail or paying money for an email client.
Good lord, this article is inane. For a rebuttal (and many, many clarifications) please see: http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/11/goodwill-hunt...
I guess that depends a bit on your users. If you want a broad appeal, it might be difficult for people to remember. This is merely based on my opinion, but I do think that the "tsch" is very uncommon and that would itself put off a lot of people.
a little hard to spell
Yes, I got that, but the fact that there isn't room in there for that many carriages means that the friction can't be that high. Unless there is a way in which the friction in a tube is so high that the little bit of air surrounding the vehicle would exert that much drag on the tunnel wall (so one vehicle length + say a few mm distance to the tunnel wall).

I'm not sure what the figure should be but this seems very high.
Don't change your name just based on my comment! At least wait for some other opinions!
Moreover, using "pouch" you will lose the original meaning your were going for and people might think you sell small bags or something (which is the meaning of the word "pouch").
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Hum, in Greek, it's reminiscent of the word for "dick", so not to me. Also, I can see English speakers being turned off by it.
I like how I put in parens that it is debated, and it gets debated :P

But yes, they were the original reason for the widespread propaganda spree against pot, but today it is due to big pharma. And people on the internet always argue about it!
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Perhaps the civil discourse and common sense preceded the issuance of proceedings, but was to no avail.
My bet is that he is already outside of Belize and this is some kind of crazy joke.
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True, but I don't set the "impressions" that old hands have of new entrants to a market.
IMO it's kind of hard to pronounce (-tsch is not common in English) and remember how to spell.
Yep: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/23/travel-like-the-1-top-10...
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