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Ask HN: What to do instead if you are not ready to startup your company now?
Currently I'm not ready to startup my company because I have no (proven) idea and no network/team. What you think is currently best to do until I have a proven idea and reliable network?

Apply for Master/PhD? Join another startup company? Join a big company?
While I don't know if it's actually deserving of the title "implausible nonsense", I think its important to remember that stupid is as stupid does, and same goes for smart. Someone isn't smart because they have the trappings of intelligence, its because they did something smart.
These guys have a fantastically simple-to-use platform. We've been at a number of hackathons with them and they always get killer adoption because it's something you can get up-and-running within a few hours.
Python hunting in Florida: 5 reasons it's a terrible
Webmachine (https://github.com/basho/webmachine) has a very nice, declarative approach (Erlang). It was ported to node.js, but hasn't been updated in a while, unfortunately.

If that sort of thing floats your boat, you should check out Yesod as well (Haskell).
Is there any actual evidence that supports this hypothesis?
"A random walk down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel is the classic layman's introduction to investing.

I would also recommend "Fooled by Randomness" for the introduction of the essential idea that most returns are not "normally distributed" - most profit and loss happens via wild swings, and most successful people are lucky rather than good.

Finally, for a more technical but very entertaining read: "Trading and Exhanges" by Larry Harris. eg in this book I learnt about "the Brazilian straddle" options position: a naked short option position hedged with a one way ticket to Brazil. (in case the bet goes against you) ;)
If android 4.4 could run on 256 RAM then Froyo will die instantly
Data to Dollars: Using Cohort Analysis to Plug Your Leaky Holes - Skillshare
arxiv is not a peer reviewed journal
Run Netflix App on Ubuntu Linux [Tutorial]
Interested in pointing a few customers of rules.io toward a class like this but wondering if anyone has any experience with it? Or perhaps another online class re: cohort analysis?

Thx
Wow ! Beautiful !! :-)
Could Android's growing dominance also be its downfall?
http://techcrunch.com/tag/kaching/

If I understand correctly, that is exactly what Kaching (now wealthfront) did in the beginning. I've heard of a couple of other startups doing basically the same, but the only one that ever had any traction AFAIK is kaching.

There's a regulatory minefield out there that would have to be cleared, e.g., if I myself am sharing my portfolio, I would need a really good opinion that I'm not on the hook for going "investment advice" by the SEC.

Also, I subscribe to a couple of investment newsletters - I might be in violation on their TOS if I "publish" their advice automatically, even if I keep their analysis to myself. Completely automatic publishing would be unacceptable for me - it needs to be at least screened by ticker / market, and probably at the individual trade level.
Is the appeal just that it's a strobe affect achieved in JS?
There is an example which turns infix math expressions into sexps. Could Strucjure be used to write a Computer Algebraic System (CAS)? I would guess that most algebra is probably simpler than the Red/Black tree example.
Hackers get Wii Homebrew Channel working on Wii U
Yep, should have mentioned this, definitely a sensible idea - I believe this specific snippet is taken from HTML5 boilerplate. Google is blocked in some countries!
Why You Can Never Truly Delete Your Email
I completely agree with your dislike of the word being used that way. Having said that, you may not be far off with the "addictive drug" comment; anecdotally, I can tell you that I know people living below the poverty line who spend on the order of 30% of their gross salary to have a mobile phone (Southern Africa).

The circumstances which lead to that are probably pretty complex, but I'd say they include: a not very competitive market, geographical and other factors making mobiles the only effective technology for communications, marketing and social norms making mobile phones almost a necessity, a lack of basic financial education for many, etc. While I'm sure that people's lives are enhanced in many ways, I'm also sure that there are more responsible ways of spending the little money they do have.
Using the Internet for free-samples gaming
Wherever I've worked, no matter how quiet it's been, keyboards still make noise.
The main site is down, however the code library (http://code.jquery.com/) remains operational.
Why do some viral Facebook apps "jump the shark" [2008]
The term "junk DNA" is not used in science anymore, much of it is repetitive regions that serve regulatory functions, or other unknown reasons. "Junk" DNA has been renamed to "noncoding DNA", the recent ENCODE-project stated that 80% of human DNA has some purpose. See: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6099/1159

P.S.: That article reads like the ENCODE-project killed the term "junk DNA", however, that term wasn't in use before the release of ENCODE, either.
Apple is NOT acting in the best interest of its customers. The main reason I got an iPod touch was the ease of updating, combined with the presence of Microsoft software I like and use elsewhere - OneNote, Skype, SkyDrive, Photosynth.

From the article (emphasis mine): "Microsoft has a new version of the application ready, INCLUDING A KEY FIX THAT RECTIFIES A CRASHING BUG, but cannot get it through."
Iran Launches Its Own Hyper-Censored YouTube
Here's another counterpoint:

Moths can remember experiences they made as caterpillars. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13412-butterflies-reme...

These findings suggest that they are not two different species - I can't remember the experiences of my dinner, either.
roff: still the normal way to generate an IETF Internet Standards Draft text document. This mechanism is showing its age though, especially regarding UTF8 and width limitations.
>Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style

Really? Why not:

"Psy Makes $8.1 Million DESPITE Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style"
Sure, but do you really want a world where Apple is the only possible provider of storage, books, etc. on their devices?
Instagram shutting down Twitter integration is smart but bad for users
Show HN: Gupload
Cron based glacier automated backup and deletion bash/python script.
Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites
> As demand for purchasing housing goes up, demand for renting typically goes down (ie. either levels off or regresses)

While it's true that we had a rather large anomaly 2004-2009 (a.k.a. the housing bubble), and that there are tiny boom/bust cycles in which it is possible to get a little leverage to cover switching costs, prices and rents seem to be mostly linearly correlated [1]. This means that as prices go up, rent goes up.

In order for prices to be divorced from rents, you have to hypothesize some weird market externality, like a major recession, or crazy incentives for mortgages, city suddenly becomes a tourist destination, etc.

[1] http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4fb9fad169beddbc290...
Crap, that's my boss =/
There are so many reasons not to do this. The potential site reliability risk of relying on someone else's free CDN (page not loading/loading slowly) far outweighs the slight benefit of CDN acceleration.
When you CloudFront/Akamai your content, you have some sort of SLA, but don't complain when Google pull shared library hosting as they have many other free services.
Android, too complex for its own good
I upvoted your comment because I agreed with it, but then realised my upvote was for the wrong reasons.

On a side note - I think "in good conscience" is the more appropriate phrase in this circumstance.
AirBNB (and hotels in general) are still renting. sure, short-term renting, but you are still renting a residence, even if it's for a day.

Note, by 'outlaw' I did not mean "breaker of the law," I mean "not materially protected by the law" (or, more correctly, protected less by the law.)

If you don't have a place to keep your stuff, well, you aren't going to receive the same protection for that stuff as someone who does. You also aren't going to receive the same level of personal protection against, e.g., harassment that you would in your own space.
The title is incorrect. Apple isn't blocking SkyDrive from the App Store. Microsoft has decided that they didn't want Apple taking a 30% cut of revenue generated from iOS devices. This is a fine distinction. Like it or not, Apple controls their ecosystem, and your choices are to either play by their rules or not play at all. Microsoft decided that they didn't want to play by those rules, so they took their ball and went home.

I can't say that I blame them, but don't make it out like Microsoft is getting any kind of special scrutiny. It is worth noting though that both Dropbox and Box.net have found ways to live within the iOS ecosystem.
$35/mo. with no contract ... on T-Mobile is amazing.

Walmart does it for $30 on t-mobile
Very cool stuff. But it makes me want another computer with a few more kilobytes of ram, a z80 inside, and a k7 tape recorder for permanent storage. :)
There was once talk about this, but it's not the case now.
The typical formulations of all of those proofs are by contradiction, though—so it may be worth distinguishing “prove” from “demonstrate by proof”.
Finally Retina support for Photoshop and Illustrator
That's a great solution, actually. Think of it more like a credit card processing fee.
Because Evernote allows users to buy them through iOS in-app purchases.
It's a bad example to use because the prosecutor claims to have Skype chat logs of Megaupload assisting in the upload of illegal material as well as uploading their own illegal material.

This would instantly remove their DMCA safe harbor protections as it relies on Megaupload not being aware of illegal material on their platform. Further it also requires that Megaupload have no financial gain directly attributable to the illegal material.

So basically if the Skype logs are real and the prosecutor can prove this then Megaupload was rightly indicted and should be prosecuted without the protection of DMCA safe harbor.

As a final note, though, I do note necessarily believe they should have the power to take down the business until after they've proven the illegal activity. Just in case anybody got away with that impression.
William Kamkwamba was 14 and living in Malawi when he built a windmill out of scrap parts based on a design he found in an old textbook.

Here is a quote from an interview[1] with him:

"So, when Tom told me I could find any information on the Internet, the first thing I did was search Google for windmills. I was amazed that I could find pictures and information — even instructions about how to build windmills. When I built my windmill I just used a book with pictures! I was amazed. Everything I needed to learn had been hidden in the Internet the whole time!"

Here is his TED talk about building the windmill:

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_how_i_harnessed_t...

1 - http://blog.ted.com/2009/09/23/how_my_windmill/
There's a huge opportunity in monetizing the library. (the link on the lower right)

HN is a pool of knowledge ranging from true-to-life successes to know-it-alls who just hang around and keep re-quoting philosophies which they never really live out.

Emphasizing on 'HN is a pool': the place is a firehose of information that drowns most minds. This like-minded community, new or old members, in turn affects each other to become passionate. That's the thing, passionate about what? How do they start spending this passion? How do they go about in creating a cable company?

There must be a way to organize this pool of thoughts and posts into digestible streams of water in which, I believe, some people or corporations would actually pay to drink from.
Leave aside first billion people. The next 2-3 billion people on the planet now have access to a computer that can truly help them in their everyday activities.

That seems like a disruption. But then, getting a ticket booked through a friendly travel agent over phone is definitely easier and affordable than using smartphone and using self service - effectively takes more time.

Self service is a compulsion in developed world due to play of economics.
If your parents took out a loan when they bought the original house, you're likely neglecting the cost of interest. If not, that's fine too.

So they "made" $1.25MM at the sale of their house. That's a taxable capital gain. The rules for that can be complicated, but let's just say 15% to keep it simple. So that drops the gain about $188k down to $1.06MM.

Let's say they live for the rest of their lives in the 2BR apartment (I have no idea how old your parents are, but lets just say that's another 30 years). So you say your parents' housing costs will be $25k per year. Let's say that goes up 2% per year. In a rent-controlled area it might be a little lower than that, and otherwise it might be a bit higher. Over those 30 years, your parents' housing costs will be $970k. So now your $1.06MM is down to about $90k.

So, effectively, your parents have "made" $90k on their $250k home. That's 36%, or about 1.5% per year. Not great, but better than most savings accounts. Er, wait. Inflation. Wolfram Alpha says that 250k 1987 dollars is worth just over $500k today. So under this model, your parents just "lost" $410k.

Not to mention that your parents are now living in a 2BR apartment instead of a presumably-larger house. And maybe that's fine: you can say that your parents' innate housing short got smaller because they've decided that they don't need such a large house anymore, and something smaller and not free-standing will be fine for them. But that's basically like saying you bought a case of beer, then decided you didn't need that much, sold it, and bought a half-case of beer to replace it. Sure, you now have a half case of beer worth of money that you didn't have before, but you can't say you "made money" selling the beer.

Now, I'm sure I left out some costs (housing upkeep, property taxes, etc.), and didn't get the capital gains tax quite right, but I hope you see my point here. It may make financial sense to sell your house and downsize, but this in no way means that a home purchase was an "investment".
Google launches Campus Tel Aviv
That is precisely the case. In fact, if you go to the effort of using the browser on your iOS device, Apple considers that an "alternative means of purchasing." Indeed, if you past a link to the webapp onto your springboard, and launch it from there, Apple _still_ considers that an alternative means of purchasing.

You really have to be purchasing through an native application before apple asks for a cut.
Can someone please translate the trader jargon out of this article?
ok , let me enjoy your work for free , you should be lucky i'm sharing it ? let's apply that fact to developers then.
Its a hosting environment for SOA type applications. It gives distributed corelation, monitoring, persistent workflow and caching capability for WCF Services. Incredibly powerful and a beautiful piece of software but wholly misunderstood by the industry as a whole.

We use it for our back end on a couple of things.

Yes it is a trademark as well which is going to be interesting.
Her videos introduce mathematical concepts in a fun and entertaining way. The way math is taught usually quickly convinces people it's a very dry and boring subject when it doesn't need to be that way. Especially in high school/middle school.
Are they all the same model?
How long have they been running?
Is it a relatively similar load on all of them?
Can you share smart attributes for them? (in private if needed)

On a very low fire I'm trying to create a disk survey project (http://disksurvey.org ) and such information is of great interest to me.
>As soon as you see the word "leverage" you should start getting scared.

Meh, that's mostly how I've played it so far, and I've done... poorly compared to the people I know who have leveraged. Especially in the housing market.

Especially in housing, I mean, as long as you don't have other assets, and the potential upside is large enough to make up for 7 years of poor credit, if some damnfool bank is willing to lend you a bunch of money to buy a house in a volatile market, why not leverage? If housing prices go up and you sell out before the fall, the potential for profit is huge. If prices fall, at least in California, my understanding is that most home loans are 'no recourse' - meaning that you can give the keys back to the bank and they can't come after you for the balance. Worst case, bankruptcy.

So yeah, uh, I can see how people that use leverage generally do better than I do.

What is really sad and irritating about my position is that yeah, I'm profitable, I own my servers free and clear, I have no outstanding debt, etc, etc, but I still have leases. And leases? as far as I can tell, are treated /exactly like/ debit if you want out early. Before the year is out, I'll likely be signing a five year datacenter contract worth as much as a nice silicon valley condo, and at the end of those five years, I'll own nothing. (and that one lease will save me rather a lot of money over the two smaller leases I currently have.) That's a lot of money. It's very rare that the value of my servers is higher than the remainder of the lease. (well, the amount I could actually get for the servers. the 'replacement value' is considerable. Retail is hard work.)

I mean, I own my servers, but after five years, the thing is worth a tad more than it's value in steel (yeah, there's gold in them circuit boards, but not a whole heck of a lot of it.)

For me? that's what changed my view of the rent vs. buy question. Leases, especially commercial leases are usually less flexible than buying. And every time they renew? if the landlord thinks it's hard for you to move, prices go up. It's terrible. I'd much rather have a payment I can count on for the next 15 years, and then know I'll own the place after that (modulo property taxes)
Alas, Hacker News - - - I knew ye well.

(poor subject for this site)
Yes, it is a bit, but not like iOS6 would run much better on these devices anyway. If the new chips can use some decent GPU's the experience should be significantly better on ICS/JB than on Froyo, though, because the UI wouldn't use so much CPU time anymore, and wouldn't choke as much doing regular operations.
Your second bet should be greater than 100x for it to be worthwhile. Still scary, but not for the reasons that you were thinking of.
Bummer, was just now trying to get a copy of KeePass.
http://www.isup.me/sf.net

http://www.isup.me/sourceforge.net

Looks like it's just that particular domain. I didn't investigate more, but I'd guess some DNS problems.
it will NEVER be efficient to integrate these two technologies. A phone is something you carry in your pocket, a solar cell is something you leave out in the sun all day.
Will Nike 2.0 Look Like Apple Or Google?
I just checked Dropbox and Google Drive apps, both offer in-app upgrade of disk storage, giving Apple 30% cut. Appears that you can not simply just remove the upgrade option from the app. So I don't see how MS could be any different.
The fact that Apple even refused when Microsoft offered to simply remove the subscription option from the app, is well.. fucking retarded.

Shame on you, Apple.
Is... is your "warehouse" a spare room in your office?

The use of the amazon warehouse image is a funny comparison.

"Fake it 'til you make it" I guess.
I decided to run a couple partitions on several computer with btrfs about a year or so ago. At some point I noticed that things were going really slow. I ended replacing all my btrfs partitions with lvm + xfs a couple months ago.

It made me sad because I loved the design ideas behind btrfs and really wanted it to be great. But right now with lvm and xfs I have a very stable and fast system (we're talking an order of magnitude faster--seriously).

I think SUSE is crazy to call it ready at this point.
They way they've used videos on their homepage to tell the stories of their customers is great. It's unique for a dev tools company to take this angle, but I think it's very smart. You should be selling the end and the means.
a modest mortgage and their own property is a sensible investment

== Mortgage is a Liability, not an Investment
This will have big implications on Microsoft's plans to release Office for iOS in the new year. It has been reported that to use the apps you'll need an Office 365 subscription, obviously purchased from outside the app store. Apple have probably seen this coming and are drawing a line in the sand now.
Tweets complaining of the site being down go back to before 8pm PDT tonight!
True, IMO. They didn't disrupt anything because there was nothing to be disrupted. It's not like they had our version of Verizon, Comcast and DirectTV offering services in their village.

Smart/cellphones made it possible for them to get connected, if it was for wires, good luck waiting.
Actually, you have profited much more. If you put 25% down and your home appreciates by 25% you have doubled your money (net of interest and other costs). Also, newsflash: interest rates are very low these days.
silky smooth onboarding process - loved it!
sure, sure, I can avoid paying taxes, too, if I talk my mom (or more realistically, my boss) into paying them for me... but that's not what I was asking about.
Parody is considered to be "fair use". Commercials aren't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_and_parody

Actually copyright laws were pretty clear, we just had massive regression due to intense lobbying of greedy entities.
To each his own, so the star ratings are absolutely meaningless if you think about it.
Yep the old correlation is not causation fallacy with the correlation calculated from a single datapoint for extra validity.

Now it may be that permissive distribution was key to the success but it is not shown by this article.
Because your edit implies that Psy's success was solely on the merits of his music video and official marketing, and that infringing parodies were not able to dent that success.

The original (and the one I prefer) implies that Psy's success was due in part of the infringing parodies, because of the network effects created by these parodies.
Yeah but it could recharge a small battery and that can recharge a puny phone.
They have decided.
Sure, you could buy an RV, or yaht, but now you are just lawyering the definition of 'housing' - I would argue that putting wheels on a house doesn't make it less of a house. Same with floating it. And both of those solutions are way more expensive than traditional housing.
>We marvel at our smartphones, but so what. They make them in china for $50.

look at those stupid roses, I bet they're cheap to produce and they're hardly the best thing I've ever smelled. I've seen award winning roses on the internet, your roses are unimpressive.
Stallman's Attacks Are 'Childish', Says Canonical Community Manager
How is the title incorrect? Microsoft have the app waiting for approval, which Apple has blocked.
get a pair of noise canceling headphones and get to work. I like quiet space to work in as well and I see need for work places where people can communicate in the most comfortable way. I suppose there should be quiet working rooms for people that do really need the silence. I use AudioTechnical ATH-ANC23 and they are fantastic: portable, enegry efficient and work well without battery power to get to a quieter space within noisy working environment.
That's exactly my point. Efficient solar cells being mass produced cheaply will be world changing, but no one is going to try sticking one on a phone unless they're a little dim. You have a solar cell at your home/town center that you recharge at.
The best iPad keyboard: is it time to finally ditch your laptop?
Imgur Expands Its Revenue Streams With Latest API Update