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Its a weird document to be put up on HN!
As someone who's just recently started working on iOS, I agree. It's now relatively easy to get started with even if you don't have much background with stronger-typed, compiled languages, as there's no longer a need to deal with memory management anymore with reference counting.

The real challenge for me was finally deciding what project worked well as a mobile application, as I've wanted to learn for a very long time. Once I finally found one, the rest was relatively easy - although there's been an absurd amount of googling and subsequent browsing of StackOverflow (big surprise). Then again, I've been programming for over a decade now with plenty of OO and MVC experience, so Obj-C/Cocoa was largely just a syntax change rather than this giant new thing.
you can also programmatically force it to refresh the cache via a POST to https://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://google.com&scrape=...
One of the problems with process, the best intentioned process, is that you always create perverse incentives.

For instance take the transfer process that was being extolled. The incentive now is for managers to evaluate their best employees poorly, and mediocre ones highly so they will keep their best and lose their worst. Many people who have worked in large companies have seen this first hand.

Secondly there is a very real problem of fit between the person and the job. If a person is not doing well, and the problem is fit, then the transfer restrictions will leave no place for that person to go but out of the company. As a concrete example I offer SRE at Google. They need an unusual mix of "able to program, but sysadmin mentality". So Google tends to hire one skill set and hope that they get the other. But when they don't they may get a perfectly good software developer in a role where they won't do well. This is a loss for everyone.

The result is that even well-intentioned and supposedly good processes result in routine bad decisions. If this bothers you, then you probably do not want to work in a large company.
I'm not great with math, so seeing your take on it is exciting. I think $29 for the print copy is a good price, and $19 for the PDF (and I wouldn't go much lower than that).

I think after a few iterations of this book, this should be a real money maker for you.

BTW, the language is a bit strong, and may distract from the message. I have two daughters in University but I won't buy your book for them until the language is toned down. There are probably others like me as well. Worth considering.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell as I'm sure many folks on HN have read really digs into how external factors (time, school registration dates, etc) have a significant impact of the success of individuals. Having just completed reading it, I thought this was an interesting article.
Wow that swiping issue sounds pretty bad. My Sony Vaio doesn't let my touchpad accept swiping gestures and I'd never heard of that happening before. Are there certain laptops this happens with?
I just have one: unslideshow, a Chrome extension which takes slideshow articles and turns them into single page articles.

https://github.com/jgross206/unslideshow

It's very rough because I'm the only one that uses it. It only works with one site (complex.com) because their slideshows are egregious (100 items with a full page load on each slide) and I got really frustrated one night.

I currently have plans to extend it to other sites and polish up the UI a bit so it's actually worth publishing, but who knows.

I had a lot of fun writing it and learned a lot, it was my first Chrome extension.

Bonus: I left my Ruby POC in the source tree because it was so fun to write. 17 lines!
Congrats. Nice looking site! It's an interesting space - we've been working on AppLaunch (http://applaunch.us) for around 6 months and have been blown away by the user response and the press response to a consistent format of submission.

Would love to chat some time if you're interested - Chris -at- applaunch.us.
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I listen to a lot of Bon Iver, The Weeknd, Rihanna, Charlie Simpson, Florence + The Machine and Ben Howard.
So, soft and emotional music. Hard rock and pop music distracts me into the song. I'm increasingly moving over to instrumentals.
"after thinking very hard the mathematicians were able to classify all the different number like objects into sets"

Granted I am only going from the quote but I see nothing in there that indicates he considers them disjoint. Given most people have seen the Euler diagram of numbers since grade school i think the default interpretation would be correct. Could be clarified but not a howler.

quaternions, and octionions,

Considering the intended audience I do not see what purpose that would serve beyond intimidating the audience with how clever he is. Counter productive. This is just intro physics - the places where quaternions might be useful are just not there. And in the cases where introducing the terms actually served a purpose one would be better served by just going with the neater geometric algebra framework.

There are some helpful suggestions in some posts but it would be nice if people swapped their easily flabbergasted expert tones for a more helpful one. He has a vision and has begun acting on it. Has a good start with lots of potential. No one gets it just right from the outset.
Right on, that's the only way to live.
Yeah, sorry, I have little tolerance for government created monopolies that are overly bureaucratic. We actually did have an SBIR for which we needed it.

D&B seems to be a good company, but the DUNS system seems broken and requires payment just to signup for no value being provided.
Sorta late but another commenter above linked to it.
Agreed! I am pleasantly surprised that someone else is doing this! I have been drawing "concept maps" for myself for the knowledge they taught in high school and undergrad school. I have always thought I was the only one to draw such things :) I am a very visual person and these maps help me memorize stuff but also understand how everything fits together.
I launched two ebooks with a 1 year old son. You just need to set aside a bit of time to work on it every day. Now working on a SaaS app. We'll see how it goes!
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I got my 5 yo daughter a Pi but I think there's several more layers of complexity (and purchases) to get it going with hardware hacking. It's a more fully fledged computer and can get people started with basic programming with Scratch, then on to things like Python and then C if you dare :)

I went to a hacker space open house in Orlando (FamiLAB) and a colleague and I were asking whats the difference between a Pi and an Arduino and a guy said what do you want to do and I said make an LED flash...And he said to start with an Arduino and I can see why now, if you want to get in to electronics (and you already have a computer) an Arduino is the way to go.

A Raspberry Pi is a fully functional computer so you have to wait for it to boot in to linux before it can do any other tasks. An Arduino is (almost) instantly on and running you program. Both are great teaching and learning tools but it depends what you want to do with them.
I didn't downvote this and I know that's an issue but mine was not a port. In fact I created the Android version even before the iPhone version. The app as Steko mentioned below also has a very good rating so its not quality as he mentioned.
"Why have both an if-statement and a ternary operator?"

Because one is for control of statement execution and one is an expression that returns a value. Two similar-in-purpose but different-in-meaning constructs.

In my experience, if the ?-: operator is written in the same way as the if-else (condition, true, and false parts each on their own line), nested expressions are quite clear and understandable.
Same here - I was excited to see this kind of book, as I'm trying to improve my maths knowledge and the conciseness and structure of Ivan's book was attractive, but no eBook option stopped me right there.

While we're on the topic of exams, I've recently came across the following book[1] that deals specifically with doing better in maths heavy exams - you might want to have a look whether it's something that can help you in your exams:

[1] Exam Mastery - How to excel in maths-heavy exams
http://www.amazon.com/Exam-Mastery-excel-maths-heavy-ebook/d...
More popular alternative. Either dedicated or collocating.
Netflix has done such benchmarks [0]; TLDR: _their workload_ cut costs in half with hi1 instances.

[0] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-perfor...
Thanks for this guys. Just to add info, I never use chat

1 - My ex's cuzin (restricted my ex from viewing my profile). I sometimes like her stuff, she never likes or comments on mine.

2 - An old mate. He never ever comes on Facebook. I never visit his profile.

3 - A girl in my course who I have a crush on. Sometimes interact

4 - My close friend. Regular interactions.

5 - My ex. No interactions at all over last few months.

None of these ppl are in my 'close friends' list. On this i think it's based on each profile views both ways. & not upon frequency of views but relative to Facebook use.
The only issue I have with your characterization of government is that you make too much of a distinction between "the government" and any other organization of individuals, such as a corporation or business. What you call a democratic government is still less accountable than a normal capitalistic business, and I'll argue that the government is strictly less accountable, because the government is the only organization (with a few potential counter examples) that can and does use a massive campaign of organized violence to maintain and exercise power. The ability to vote is no more powerful in affecting government as the ability to choose who to engage in commerce with is in affecting businesses. But businesses don't get to use violence to earn revenue, public schools to indoctrinate children (which is way more effective than advertisements), welfare and retirement campaigns to incentivize government dependence, etc.
The probability of an event being 1 is _not_ the same thing as that event being completely certain. For example, if you pick a random real number between 0 and 1, the probability of getting something rational is zero. It's clearly not impossible, though.
I generally enjoy longer, continuous pieces of music so that my mood can flow with the music and I don't have to spend time tinkering with playlists.

I started by listening to prog-rock (Pink Floyd, King Crimson), then moved onto sample-based stuff like Dj Shadow and RJD2. Now I mostly listen to EDM/Mashup dj mixes from soundcloud which are great. I've been enjoying them so much I built a small site for finding the best mixes (http://mixtrss.com/).
Good idea, but I thought of that. They don't have my grandmother as shared friend (she's from the other "side" of the family as we call it, not sure if that's proper English).
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Yes, and I am sorry, but nothing I can do.

The last thing I wanted to mean was that bored people were boring, as this new title seem to imply. I find this a little insulting, and definitely wrong.

My point was about Michael Arrington only, and referring to this latest post and his "I am bored because of you guys" insinuation.

So, ironically, by removing the "Michael Arrington" the title has become more "uncivil" and disrespectful IMO. I wish it could be reverted back (I will put a foot note in my article to apologize to HN readers)
This doesn't seem especially plausible, or supported by the data on that page (eg a CCW permit holder observing that he considers his firearm virtually useless in that situation).

A more realistic explanation for not holding weapons is that there are significant additional penalties for any criminal arrested while carrying a firearm. Instead of a few months or a year in prison for simple theft, a person could be facing 5, 10, or even life.
They're normally called first world problems, not humility...
If a complete copy of the pdf is not available you might want to make a draft wip copy available for purchase. If the feedback in this thread is any indication I think a lot of good will come out of it. (You may also want to honor Knuth by paying people who bought the wip pdf and spotted mistakes :)
Hard rock does distracts me too. I'll add some Florence + The Machine to my playlist to add some variation to the classics and see how it goes for me. Thanks
Good god I'm so tired of this stupid inaccurate meme implying that Android comes with ads. It is the stupidest thing I continue to see here.
Have you shown this to Planetary Resources? Just for the fun and some PR of it (at least)?
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But Irish people do, and that's partially the point.

If this can happen in Ireland or Belgium, you can bet that organizations in other countries will consider doing the same thing.
Not only is it realistic, but sometimes necessary. I have a 3yo and have been managing my own product since before he was born. I wouldn't be able to support him if not for it. So to answer your question, yes.
It depends on what you mean by "launch." I started a web-based personal finance app (PearBudget) and launched it five years ago (2008/01/02). I had a three-year-old and six-month-old twins at the time.

It's gone relatively well, and has essentially been my sole income since then. BUT. I already had a small audience on it (we'd had 100,000 downloads of a free spreadsheet version of the tool; what would now be considered an MVP), so I wasn't trying to forge a new market for it.

It was a pretty brutal time, but I made it through. (It followed a year where I acted as the general contractor for the house we built, which was horrific, so I was kind of in a world-of-hurt groove at the time.)

Honestly, the flexibility it gave me to be home with my family — especially when they were so young — was an amazing gift.

What worked? Getting up very early. Having an understanding and supportive wife. Having parents who were willing to support us with money to live on while the subscriptions built up. (As I mentioned,) having a product that I knew had some traction already.

I'd be happy to talk more. E-mail is charlie@pearbudget.com.

Also, listen to Dan Benjamin's new podcast, Quit, especially the most recent episode: http://5by5.tv/quit/5. It's great.
I mean its something perceive as a burden rather than a benefit.
"The varieties of humblebragging represent a breadth of motive and technique. Most humblebrags are attempts to convey one of three messages: “I have too much work”; “I am an idiot/impostor”; or “I have firsthand knowledge of the gritty gilt to be found inside the gilded cage.”"

zainny is a villain ;-)
>That's why Android apps have never really held a candle to their iOS counterparts; piracy has been easier on Android.

Bullshit. Both on Android apps "not holding a candle to iOS counterparts" and your assertion that this has anything to do with piracy.
Yeah, and such "off the critical path" work is very often where creative-but-unstable people end up. My current project is like that; I've done high-priority team work before, but I asked to be put on something off the critical path both so I could take more professional risks and so I could deal with some personal stuff.

My point is that if you can only do work off the critical path, you're marginalizing yourself because such work is by definition "on the margins". And if you ever discover something huge that's worthy of investment, they'll have to take it away from you and give it to somebody reliable to lead so that people can work under him. (Many startup founders find themselves in this position; they'll come up with a brilliant breakthrough and then VCs will kick them out and hire an outside CEO because they're fucking up the company. Hell, that's basically what happened to Steve Jobs at Apple the first time around.)
I seem to have interpreted many, if not the majority of those tweets as delivered with humorous intent, if not straight up jokes.
Oh good, I didn't realize it was not hard to jailbreak. Can you tell me where to find a jailbreak for my 4S running the latest iOS? I haven't been able to find one.
The trouble is that piracy reduction is the wrong end of the stick. What content creators benefit from is increased purchases, which does not necessarily follow from reduced piracy. I would agree that it's fairly clear that DRM reduces piracy, but it's not at all clear that this then results in increased sales.
After doing a lot of web development, this is how I'm starting to feel as well. That's why I'm shifting my focus to AI and deep learning; it's a field with a lot more real computer science problems that you actually get to think about and solve on your own.
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if you like GPW check out anything that's FIPS181 compliant:

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip181.htm

APG is one of those: http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/

but it's old, around ten years since its last update.
If a simple circuit doesn't work (happens) it could be a faulty part (happens). Or something is installed with the wrong polarity (diode for example). Or a wire that should be conducting isn't.

If you have spare parts, try them. If you don't, start building a junkbox. If you don't have an exact replacement, swapping in something reasonably similar will show you if that might be the bad part. Learn to test simple components for functionality with a multimeter (it's your BEST FRIEND).

The book of experiments you did yourself is the best book to own. Expect some smoke (learning by fusion), and try adding stuff to see what happens. No book can replace the fun you'll have.
Have you considered creating a secondary html interface for the website to target phones/tablets? I don't see any functionality of your service that would require a native app. Just a thought.
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I would have to disagree with the general statement that "textbooks suck". Stewart's calculus ("the violin book") is really a great textbook, and it's used very widely. Serway Jewett is a superb Physics textbook. The examples, in particular, are excellent (sometimes humorous or intriguing.)

Also, textbooks are long. But most courses don't use the entire textbook. I took 3 math courses and 2 physics courses in first year using those two textbooks and we didn't use every section, nor did we have to read every page.

I think having example problems which have stood the test of time (more than 20 years for those 2 textbooks, I think) is worthwhile.
This is extremely common, except that instead of a plain "you should buy this" nag, they put up paid advertisements in the free version.
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I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple, but:

- QtzWeb - https://github.com/daeken/Qtzweb (Quartz Composer -> JS+WebGL compiler; used it to partycode http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=60732)

- QuestCompanions - https://github.com/daeken/QuestCompanions (Online labor marketplace for help in MMORPGs -- complete failure from a commercial perspective!)

- SteelBreeze - https://github.com/daeken/SteelBreeze (Xbox emulation platform, mainly to test out new ways to write emulators)

- WebGLEnabler - https://github.com/daeken/WebGLEnabler (Enables WebGL on iOS devices)

- GenShaders - http://www.displayhack.org/2012/genshaders-part-1/ (failed experiment for evolving fragment shaders; still need to write a followup article)
Adding on to eigenvector's point, there's a certain beauty in a self-contained mathematics textbook.
Brilliant post kas. I'm impressed by your loyalty and cogency.

If the two of you ever considered having kids, there'd be a few things you'd do well to prepare for. I am the child of a severe manic-depressive/alcoholic. I can't begin to tell you the myriad ways this has effected my development, but the influence runs deep and strong. Your children will grow up in an environment of chaos, where crisis is often the default state of affairs. I'm not saying your kids will, in the grander scheme of life, be any worse off for the potentially unstable environment in which they grow, but it can make them feel unusual, left out and alone in comparison to their peers. With any luck, they'll be as well-rounded, if not moreso than anyone else, not in spite of but because of their experiences with a close relative suffering from severe mental illness.

I wish you the best of luck and send all my love to you both.
I love the innovation in the guitar lesson space, and I signed up for this in a heartbeat. That said, does anyone have suggestion for a piano alternative?
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Very interesting! What's your location, or is the applicant's location irrelevant?
He neglects one possible explanation: that some of the apparent braggers are actually trying to abase themselves to prevent themselves from becoming too arrogant, and perhaps just doing a clumsy job of it.

I remember reading something once by a guy who was annoyed to hear rich people talk about the days when they were poor. He thought they were bragging. But I find I do this all the time, and mostly not to anyone else. I do it to fight the pull of the hedonic treadmill-- to try to get my old poor self back so that I can appreciate not being poor anymore.

Possibly some of the people he thinks are humblebragging are doing something similar.
I can't be the only one here whose main knowledge of Salesforce.com comes through its ownership of Heroku...Salesforce is huge but is not the type of company that excites the crowd here...whereas Heroku is much more developer-focused. I hadn't seen much about how the two companies actually coordinate so this was a nice insight piece.
He had mentioned in the article she can no longer have children.
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I actually used to have a ui that worked on mobile devices. Recently I did some ux/ui work and it was just a pain in the ass to make the adjustments. I think the users are wanting something more native feeling than what I used to have as well.
Honestly, it's a bit strange to read that while you are actively seeking funding (even if your attempts have fallen through so far), and so are clearly aiming to make a profit in the long term, you expect a developer to work for free.

If this was a nonprofit/open source venture, it might be a different story, but why should a developer (who could pull in 100-200/hr or get salary + significant equity at any number of startups, based on the qualifications you're looking for) put in his or her time for nothing, when any future profits would just go to you as the ceo. You are basically asking a highly skilled, highly paid professional to accept a role as an unpaid intern. Imo, if a skilled developer is willing to invest very valuable time, you should at the very least be putting a big chunk of equity on the table.

Best of luck to you in any case.
Could you share the reasons for your choice in technologies in the stack?

i.e node.js, mongodb, heroku, php, ruby etc.