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Why C++ Is Not "Back"
It's not the "EU" as in the EU Parliament. In fact they've passed a resolution to oppose this sort of changes at ITU's WCIT. The article talks about ETNO, an European telecom association. So it's the ISP's and carriers from Europe pushing for these changes. Nothing to do with the EU Parliament or EU governments (well, Russia and China's censorship proposals are entirely different from this). Just corporations being greedy. The EU Parliament has actually legislated their roaming prices twice in the past (downwards), because they thought roaming prices should be much smaller than they were, within EU's borders.
More info in my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636785

One change from 2.5 years ago, now the scene does FLAC releases (finally): http://i.imgur.com/YZjUw.png
Sometimes pre-release sources are rewarded financially. I have no idea where the money comes from[1], though. This was the case for the Academy member that was busted a while back. IIRC, he was just selling his DVD screeners to pirate groups.

[1]: I get that the group pays for it, but what the source of the money is, I don't know. Are people just sinking money into for the 'props' of being first? Is there a greater financial reward for being first (if so, where does it come from)?
Is anybody else creeped out by the idea of training our children to be comfortable being monitored by drones?
But his claim, as stated by his title, was that the "The future will not be cool." If the author is allowed to reach this conclusion by saying "all present and future gadgets are just boring solutions to ancient problems" then his claim is true but basically tautological.
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BufferBox will solve this problem.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to give 15-20 minute tech talks which are incredibly engaging. I can do normal meetings, elevator pitches (not as well as I'd like), and hour long talks, but I'd really like to master the 15 minute tech talk format.

I'm doing a 20 minute talk at RSA 2013 (traveling across borders with laptops/other devices), and running the 15-20 minute talks at BSidesLV 2013, so I'm trying to put together the resources for that.

It is tempting to also try to crack the 10 minute YC format (which I think is useful in other contexts as well -- maybe just the transition from elevator pitch into a breakout conversation?).

I haven't found any good advice, books, etc. on this. I've been watching TED talks, which are sometimes compelling, but fail to communicate technical content to a knowledgeable (if out of the direct field) audience, which is the target IMO. Someone with a decent engineering or science undergrad education, 5-10 years out, with a couple years of work experience, should be able to fully understand.
I think you are overestimating the skill level of the average Staples customer.
People don't write bad emails because they don't care. They really do care, but the emails that come from startups are often written with a mixture of fear of being perceived as spam, and a lack of understanding of how to connect with people.

Before I started an email startup, I would probably have written the same types of emails. It's amazing that once you start to focus on something, you notice the little things.

I taught a class a few weekends ago on how to write better emails (slides: https://speakerdeck.com/sudonim/write-emails-people-will-rea... ). I'm happy to help anyone (for free) who wants to do things better than they are now. Contact info is in my profile.
I'm very excited about your idea. I've worked with some of their APIs and they are definitely lacking.
Thanks for this thoughtful reply. I think you articulated the power dynamic between tutors and students very well. I was reluctant to use the word "tutor" in my post, and picked "coach" instead, for this very reason, but I did a poor job of explaining it.
Furniture. Not cheaper, though.
Did you go to the link? The caption says "Image comment: This is a GE jet engine component created exclusively through 3D printing"

Also, the leading company, 3 d systems, did 90 million in revenue last quarter. Not Apple numbers, but not exactly "nothing to show for it."
Premium computers still come with spinning disks? Quaint.
> I can't help but think that non-upgradability isn't a decision made in the interests of their customers.

(triple negative yay!)

When is a decision of a for-profit corporation in a cut-throat market ever made in the interest of their customers? Sometimes, the corporate and customer interests align, but it is never made "in the interest of their customers" per se.
I'm saying if someone can't do intellectual work

So anyone who can't do intellectual work is fucking idiot?
Stop saying "awesome".
It is very easy to return that carbon to the atmosphere if needed. So easy, a caveman could do it.
The problem test domain was inverted. Multitaskers see the water fall because they are not focused on singing Kum ba yah. The ones in the test set were told to ignore blue; they were really thinking why would they tell me to ignore blue. Blue has color, it has purpose, it must be relevant and when it is they would be the only ones to see the pattern thus making them true folk legends.
The GNex camera isn't awesome but it isn't awful. Several folks have commented on improved quality of the photos I've taken post JB.
I'm not sure how that would guard his son from threats. Wouldn't it be more useful (and simpler) to just walk with him to the bus stop?
That doesn't speak to recyclability.
That may be the case, but what you are proposing is already addressed by the Intuit Anywhere Platform. You can use their APIs to import customer, invoice, product data, etc. And it supports both QB desktop and QB Online.
If anyone in NYC wants to meetup I'll most likely be going to the Health Hackers meetup on Broadway in NYC - http://www.meetup.com/HealthHackingNYC/events/93407462/, and the Holiday Demos and Drinks at the Gallery Bar in NY http://www.meetup.com/techinmotionnyc/events/91691122/

If you're in healthcare IT and want to meetup, let me know
I don't see this as a bad thing as the more relevant you can make ads, the more useful they are to the user, the more advertisers will bid and the more publishers (websites) will earn.

Having complete strangers scrutinize, classify, parcel, and sell my life to those wanting to sell me things I don't need is not terribly useful from my perspective.

I don't begrudge any publisher their source of income, but I am not a commodity.
I really hope this site works out. Posted a few of my films:

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http://www.filmbreak.com/projects/strange-human-custom

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I suppose times have changed, but back in the 90's music software companies used to leak their software to groups to get cracked (this was back when Radium was the defacto group). In fact, #audiowarez used to be a 50/50 split between devs and users iirc. Memory is a little dusty.
What would it mean for a 79th percentile person in 2012 to have a better life than a 109th percentile person in 1950? Percentiles don't actually go that high.
> Since the replication cost is nearly $0
> they really are guessing at consumer value.

There still is the fixed cost of creating the DVD content. Maybe not encoding the movie, but putting together the menus, extras, easter eggs, packaging, etc. Also, the fixed costs grow when considering things like 'remastering vault copies.'

The variable costs might be close to $0, but the decision to create the DVD still costs something.
HN and corporate blogs are all ad supported, just not third-party ad-network supported.
They don't sell your life, they sell the right to have an ad shown to you. It is different.
What interests me is the first use case the author uses - where he develops a profile of a Republican by visiting Mitt Romney's website and then sees Romney ads on other websites. To me this is unlikely to be a RTB - it seems to me to be more likely based on retargeting. Granted, retargeting can be served via RTB, but my point is that they likely aren't using demographic or behavioral data to target that profile - they're more likely simply pushing an ad to someone that has visited the Romney website before.

Also, Bluekai, who is highlighted here, has some of the worst data on me of any of the providers - Google is the most accurate (not shocking given the number of Google services I use). Bluekai has me listed as 60-64 - and I'm old but not that old.

Finally, I think the article combines two ideas that are really very different things: RTB and then behavioral profiles. Now the two are connected and inter-related, but there is nothing that says an RTB-based ad has to be targeted using behavioral information (as opposed to content-based targeting for example). And there's nothing to say that a company can't target using behavioral data but not do it using RTB technology - you could come up with a behaviorally targeted list and just execute it through direct buys.
>I feel sorry for you, really.

After reading your comment, I assure you that the feeling is mutual.
If any Ruby people want to use some sections of this a bit more cleanly - https://github.com/defunkt/colored
How does a corporation contradict communist economics?
> I said that if you're only considering the cost to the recipient, then the same analysis could apply with equal validity to theft.

If I choose to redistribute a piece of software, there is zero opportunity cost to either me, the supplier, or to the receiver.

> Talent is both rival and excludable.

...No, it's really not. "Talent" isn't even a good; it's an attribute - the fact that you're using the word in this way makes me suspect you don't really understand the underlying economic principles.

> The marginal cost of transmitting the information is essentially nonexistent,

As is the cost of producing a copy, which cannot be said for physical goods.

> but the cost of producing it in the first place (which depends on a finite supply of talented time) must be taken into account

I understand that you're trying to draw a comparison to the logic behind drug patents, but when you're dealing with a good for which the redistribution and production of all units beyond the first has zero opportunity cost, artificially imposing (by fiat) a cost on the redistribution and production is neither feasible nor efficient[1]

[1] In the economic sense of the word, not the ways it's often used colloquially.
Newly-Minted Billionaire Is Spinning eBay Scraps Into Gold
This article could use some editing.

super antenna's can

super antennas can

companies like Hyperloop

Not a company.

These kinds of little details definitely raise questions about the general quality of the research, especially since the article seems "too good to be true." But I hope this doesn't discourage the author; it's a really good article.
We are also hiring Sales, Marketing, and Business Development.

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We have one project currently in talks for financing, and several that found us after completion and used us for distribution. We're hoping to continue the momentum!
Slightly off topic: the introduction the author recommends using, "(name) is the best (product category)", was slightly annoying a couple years ago when I first heard it and is now just a full-blown obnoxious cliché. Whenever I hear a startup type guy talking about how their product is "the best" blah, I automatically append "according to me". You may as well just say "my favourite".

Startups, please don't introduce your company as "(My company) is the best (what we do)" - that's for the market to decide, actually, and for you to just claim it up front is presumptuous, at best.
Interest based targeting may be less annoying. Chasing me around the web harassing me with retargeting pisses me off.
The article mentions a potential application using lenses with incredible properties. Could one use these materials to make a lens that focuses x-rays? It has been postulated for decades that if one could use an x-ray light source for microscopy, it would be possible to observe the machinery of cells in real time (assuming the energy doesn't obliterate the cell). My understanding is that it isn't possible to make a lens to focus an x-ray as you can with visible light or using magnetic fields for electron microscopes. If these materials allowed this, it would usher in an incredible era of biological understanding.
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Define "objectively".
Free too! Thanks so much.
Yes, of course it tops out. Apologies for the lack of rigor.
I think that where AI will shine is not in being the analogue of a human, but in further taking over chores that would otherwise be assigned to a servant many years ago. For example, if you take some variations on the Roomba autonomous vacuum... Imagine a lawn version that automatically sniffs out dog poop and picks it up for you. Or a laundry basket that sorts your laundry, transports it to the washer, then puts your items on hangers and in the closet for you. That's the type of technology (along with self driving cars) that I actually see in the next 20 - 50 years.
It's fundamentally a culture difference. The West Coast is not the East Coast, and SF will never be NYC.
>Personally I don't see this as a bad thing as the more relevant you can make ads, the more useful they are to the user, the more advertisers will bid and the more publishers (websites) will earn.

Note to google: everyone who doesn't work at google giggles a little every time you say, in all seriousness, that ads are useful to the consumer, outside of supporting services they like.
Stalker builds WiFi interception software to walk rival's son walk to the bus stop.
Multitasking is for people who don't have to do work that requires deep concentration.

Concentration and multitasking are mutually exclusive. If you can't tell this from your own experience, then I implore you to actually check the literature out there.
I fear this is going to be taken poorly, but this really made an impression on me. This is not a criticism of the author, nor really a condemnation of the lifestyle depicted - but only an observation. I find the "Myths of The Valley" both very interesting and very frustrating. This is about the Myth, not about the author.

This reads like a religious testimony, or a classic Campbell myth.

It begins with scripture from one of the prophets, "Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded. - Paul Graham" then moves to the (self-acknowledged) epiphany where the author expresses how his eyes, once closed are now open. In monomyth terms, its a mix of "the ordinary world", "call to adventure", and "the refusal":

"I’ve learned more and done more in the last four days than I have in the rest of my 22 years of existence."
"Until last week, I was pretty convinced that I was a lazy, talentless fuckup."
"We are so good at it that we can easily convince ourselves that we are happy doing something when in fact we are not. ... Then I woke up."

We then bring in several of the common Valley mythical elements:

The "all-nighter" - "This week I worked 15 hour days and was disappointed when I got too tired and had to sleep."

The "garage" - "On day one, I ... slept in a garage next to my motorcycle.

We then have, in monomyth terms, the "meeting with the mentor": "On day two I met with one of the biggest investors in the valley."

Testimony as to how life prior seems trivial: "There’s not not enough time to argue about what movies to watch or what restaurants to go to."

And the conclusion where the author warns about being led astray on the journey: "Between the time that I left Facebook and the time I joined Pixlee, I received a literal metric fuckton of advice, from respectable, well-meaning, intelligent people. I compiled all of the advice and in the end, went with my gut."

We're now at the beginning of Act II, I'm honestly (really!) excited to read the next part where we have "tests", "allies" and "enemies" and "the ordeal".

I think the whole startup experience fits with the monomyth quite nicely, and we already have a few epics coming out of the Age of the Valley - the Jobs myth and the Zuckerberg myth, among others - both of which fit the classic pattern pretty well.

Anyway, I wish the author well, it really is an amazing experience!
I do this. My best success story? I started mentoring my little brother in July when he graduated with a B.A. in philosophy. I code reviewed, wrote assignments, helped him choose his own projects, gave advice on what study, and pair programmed with him on weekends. He worked hard; just started his first job as a software engineer last week.

I used to be a schoolteacher before getting into development, mentoring combines my two favorite things: teaching and programming. Feel free to contact me, I'm open to take on one or two select individuals interested in working hard.
I think that it's generally understood that we mean '3rd party ads' when referring to advertisement (at least in this context).

Google's blogs are obviously ads for its products, but you go there knowing this, yet still want to read the content anyways. When you go to NYTimes to read about world news and get shown an ad for a blender, that's entirely different.
That... is a big stretch. That's like saying my personal blog is ad-supported because it advertises me. I mean, it would be more correct to call it an ad than to call it ad-supported. Same with news.ycombinator.com; it does a lot to advertise ycombinator.com, sure... but calling it ad-supported is really a stretch from what most people think that phrase means.

I mean, if we are going that far, every article published where the author was compensated mostly in ego (which is to say, nearly everything written) is ad-supported.
According to BlueKai I'm:

4-6 yrs old
Make 20-29
Rent
Am female

Funny, yes. Accurate? Not a chance in hell.
This stuff seems like science fiction. Small-object visual cloaking within five years? Room-temperature levitation? Really!? That would be, uh, somewhat revolutionary.

Does anyone have a more conservative layman's introduction to the field?
The server does not send the charset in the response headers, and the document that is generated does not contain a charset like this:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Either of those two options should fix the page, but I assume Japanese browsers have different default charset than ours since no one has fixed it yet.
Thanks Venus. No I don't recommend that across the board. I did use "X is the best Y" 2 out of 5 times in the examples (both are directly from their value props on the site or on Twitter bio). Personally, I don't find it annoying anymore but I do agree that it is devalued. Do I believe they are the best X for Y? Of course not. Maybe I'm more lenient since think of it more in terms of vision and ambition.
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Ask HN: CrossFit or Not?
Does anyone have experience with Crossfit or suggestions as to whether or not you would recommend it? Thanks!
I just watched that video (2 hrs!), and I have to agree with NatW on his recommendation. Really, really well done.
I was ecstatic when I saw the link, then my heart drooped after clicking and seeing only 4 hackers were part of the group :(.
What do you think of my website?
It is a scam. Just lift weights and do cardio. 8-12 reps 3 sets. Eat right. Don't buy into fitness fads. :)
Just joined. I'd be down for a meetup as long as it isn't 30* out. Can we do something downtown? Cambridge is great, but it's an hour each way for me.
Exactly : Wearing a uniform you're doing things that you would never do wearing civilian clothes. That's a psychological threshold, for soldiers and for the society.
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the ceo of my last company took it as an article of faith that "you don't need to be liked in order to get results" (which, of course, was his self-justification for being an asshole to everyone, but he had really managed to convince himself of it). i was never able to explain to him how wrong it was, he just dismissed it as me being a techie who "didn't understand people".
I am speaking way over my head - I did work with researchers doing optical metamaterial work one summer as an undergrad, but my knowledge is very naive - but one of the main draws of superlens (hyperlens was the term that I was familiar with) is that you could magnify past the "diffraction limit" on a live sample.
So I think you and I are more or less in agreement: to make an animated globe, Flash may require less lines of code for the average developer.

But what I argue is that this D3 implementation, because of its code structure, is easier to build upon with even more data and interactivity. I would bet that whatever it takes you to build in 5 minutes with 0 lines of code, will take up many, many multiple times of work to do even trivial changes. Sure, you'd win in the scenario in which only a simple animated globe is called for, but I don't think that's what most of the OP's audience cars about.

And I wonder if you can even claim to do what you want in such a short time...for the simple matter that doing is in the Flash designer environment requires a lot of point and click (for 180+ MovieClips).
That's a little vague … could you elaborate?
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Completely agreed. Like pointed above by venus, the "best for" format may annoy some people and is not necessary in all cases. Your more generic example works as a better template.
It was fun when I want to the corporate site of one of the advertisers and Ghostery blocked some resource that caused a lack of CSS on the page. After doing a double-take, it took me a minute to figure out why the page was so broken.