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I really don't want to see ads, but that's preferable over selling my data for a free option. I'd still recommend you give people an ad-free trial (and please make the trial only count days you actually open the app, like Beyond Compare). I'm a free software guy at heart, so the more generous you are with your trial, the more willing I feel to turn a blind eye to opening my wallet for software. Suggestions for how I'd be willing to pay:

1) $20-40/yr for a web service. Most of the world is Windows, so if I'm on the go without my OS X laptop, my phone has died, and I want to check my email I'd have to remember my other email passwords to login to their own services after I got in the habit of using Inky... that wouldn't be good. I'd still want data security, so I'd expect any data that hits your servers to be strongly encrypted in a manner similar to SpiderOak's approach (though I'd prefer Scrypt over PBKDF2). If you open-sourced your client and just sold the service I'd pay more.
2) $50 for the app itself. Less if you want me to pay every year for upgrades.
If its harder in EVERY WAY, why are you doing it ? There must be some positive points.

There certainly are. It comes down to how you want to pursue your career.

I also get the point you're making with your list, but know that most of those aren't exclusive to 9-5 jobs, or don't hold true in some cases. Two points in particular:

- I wasn't able to cite work from my first year as a full time freelancer in my portfolio. The company I was contracting with at the time didn't allow it. However, I was able to include the side projects I had completed when I was a full time employee.

- Some consulting or freelance gigs have a 100% on-site requirement. A full time job I passed on last year was 100% telecommute.
And I'm porting the Symfony2 profiler over to Silex :)
Well this OS X emulation layer is not ready for prime time yet. Don't expect it to run 100% of your Mac OS X apps.

I'd really rather see more projects that focus on cross compiling XCode source code on Linux, so that companies can take their OS X software apps and cross compile them for Linux with little to no changes in the source code. I'd much rather trust native Linux code than OS X emulated code.

I'd also like to see some 'byteswap' projects that take the machine language of OS X apps and convert them to Linux format by converting each API or system interrupt, etc from OS X to Linux for apps that don't have the source code anymore.

Also anyone remember the Apple Darwin Project? I guess it stopped releasing binary install ISOS and instead releases the source code. You got the core of OS X right there, and it would be a good place to start to see the migration from Darwin to Linux right there.
Isn't having your request to obtain information reviewed by the FISA court judge kind of like having a warrant issued for it?

I also thought that part of the point of the FISA court was that it contains the spread of classified information to just a few judges, who gain increasing expertise in understanding how to handle it, rather than spreading classified info all over a sea of amateurs.
> Barbells aren't the only thing. They're important, but great athletes mix in other types of training

I think it mostly boils down to what you expect out of your workout. If you want to get stronger the big three lifts (all barbell based) with eating big is the best way to go.
Nice post. I suggest you add a top posts on your sidebar as it will make it much easier to make a rss subscribe decision for your first time visitors.
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I don't think we'll see more simply because once Apple made the transition to Intel, it became somewhat "easy" to install an Intel supported version of OSX on vanilla hardware. I don't think it's the lawsuits keeping the emu guys at bay, I think it's just the "why bother" factor. If it's nostalgia, I completely understand.

I did install OSX 10.2 Jaguar a couple of weeks ago on PearPC because my son is obsessed with the different releases that came out before he was born. I wanted to show him all that pin-stripey goodness.
I received mine about a month after I backed the indiegogo campaign. They shipped mine using DHL and it arrived before they sent me the tracking number.
I think the whole name is Mozilla Firefox OS (as is Firefox OS from Mozilla)

But by this logic Apple Macs should run Apple OS?
Parallela, featured on HN a few months ago, is aiming to do exactly that: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...
Read starting strength. Its a small, cheap book, and it goes into more detail on form than you will probably need. It has chapters on each of the major lifts and I used to read it on my phone (kindle app) before/during the workout at the gym until I got everything right, using low weights of course.
Oh BTW DAE remember ARDI's Executor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_%28software%29

It is not OS X, but the Classic Macintosh System translated on the fly to native code. Because it didn't get enough funding, and lack of interest, and very few buyers it sort of went DOA. I am sure if they had enough funding they could have modified it to OS X translation. Maybe someone should help them do a Kickstarter project?
Working on a twitter bot.
I'd be more focused on the personalization database Amazon is building/has built. There will be a market for "I need it now" but the larger opportunity is answering the question, "What do I need?"

Luckily for smaller businesses, they can compete with Amazon and other big box retailers on that front, but they're still learning how to use/leverage the tools the big guys have been using for years.
Ask HN: Who were you before you were a silicon "valley-type techie"?
I read this comment regarding the post about being the doctor on board http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974122

"I think it's awesome that you're a commercial pilot and participating in HN. It can sometimes get too insular with valley-type techies here. Thanks for participating."

We aren't just "Silicon Valley" after all, it seems like almost everyone I meet is from somewhere else. I love this community, and would love to hear where people came from and a bit about their identities that aren't particularly sexy or ready for reality TV. Here's an example the kind of answer I'm looking for, this is me:

I was living in Seattle, grew up riding horses and teaching tennis in the parks and rec and moved out my senior year. I was convinced that I should be a writer, but I knew there was no money in it and I started in the family business. I college I was playing in a (terrible) metal-core band and making coffees. I dropped out of community college after 1 year to work for a big global logistics company at 19. I was into coding on AS/400 systems and automating business processes with a combination of Delphi, Pascal, Excel spreadsheets, and Windows OS automation so no "real" developers wanted to talk to me. I joined a cover/jam band with a lower pressure schedule, got married young, and moved here with Twilio when I was 23.
Does anyone know of a small ARM computer board supporting gigabit Ethernet? The ones I find are physically too large, eg: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/24233/via_introduces_amazing_4...
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[T]he total agony of loving two things can help you be better at both. The choice between one or the other is fake.

This is brilliant, and I think that combining strengths in this way is going to be the key to success in the new economy. There can't be very many people in the world who are the best at doing X when there are only O(N) possible X's, but when you go for being one of the best at combining X and Y, now you have O(N^2) choices.
I was a Recurly beta user. 2010 I think. Just after I finished integrating them and pushing it live on a 50k user site, they upped the pricing (and changed pricing models entirely) with no grandfathering. There was some big hooplah on their blog over that which led to some kind of special offer for existing users, but it still wasn't the same as when we signed up. You were probably in during a later price change.

I wasn't cool with having the company I was about to entrust my income -- putting food on my table -- changing the rules on a whim like that, so I had to roll everything back and do billing myself. I'll never trust 'em again.
I was the son of a wheat farmer. And I am not yet, and may not ever be a "valley-type techie". Wheat farmer, by the way, of my Dad's generation was a way of life more affected by technology than any other.
I remember it well. I still remember the Webcrawler/Yahoo/Altavista search that took me to it. I just had this inkling that it was something that HAD to exist. Sure enough, it did. And the demo version was awesome. Even more awesome was the clean room techniques they used to develop it.
What is your project? At GigE line rate you have approximately 8 CPU cycles/byte at 1Ghz, which doesn't count for much on ARM
You are a former professional athlete so I assume you would know better than me, an amateur with only a few months in the gym. However

> A simple rule of thumb.... if you're not talking about periodization, you're working with the wrong person (and doing it wrong).

From everything I have understood so far, a novice is better served with a linear progression program for as long as they can steadily increase the weights. Why would they think of periodization? I thought before you moved to periodic programs you needed to have built a strength base of 1x bench press, 1.5x squat and 2x deadlift. Is my understanding incorrect? Or are you targeting experienced lifters with your advice?
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What about those of us who are SV natives? Startups are what I idolized as an adolescent and I have grown up to live the dream!
You could simply pay a bored technically-minded university student such as myself to do the work :)
Trying to figure out how to sed script all of the double spaces in gtypist to single space. I know that the sed line would be:

sed 's/ / /g';

I'm just not sure how run to through all the files and do the switch. I think I might just do it by hand. Theres only 46 of them.
Ask HN: How do read it later sites make money?
This came up in another post and I wanted to know how sites like pocket, read it later, readability and others make money? Instapaper is the only service with a semiclear business model, they sell subscriptions and apps. The others don't sell apps, their apps are free. They don't sell a service their service is free. This leads me to believe they are selling the users.
You are so rare! Where did you grow up? I grew up with the lore of Microsoft, what was it like growing up with the companies of SV? It seems like there are/were so many more.
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The aisle of an airplane would be an awesome place to intubate someone. One of my favorite intubation positions is having the patient lying supine, then lying prone 'above' them. This obviously only works of you have a fair amount of space in at least one direction (like an airplane aisle).
Surely it can depend on the computer and the kind of work you need to do. But I doubt there are any systems which "just work" for every single use case and scenario in the world. So if you found something that fits your particular needs (and wasn't achievable on Linux) - good. But for many use cases Linux is even better than Mac OSX. So it depends.
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Seasonal flu is implicated in anywhere from 3k to 49k deaths per year in the US alone (depending on how rough the seasonal variant is). So 774 worldwide from SARS isn't much of a 'pandemic' to fear.

If over 7k people had confirmed SARS and survived, many more probably had mild cases that were never disambiguated from other seasonal respiratory illnesses. Perhaps they 'superspread' milder viral variants which spoiled the 'herd' for nastier variants.
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Sure, whatever. I don't really want to play pizza snob, I just wanted to point out that some places have some multiple more ingredients than 20.
In college, before I became obsessed with startups, I was a policy debater at Michigan State. Any other ex-debaters hanging around on HN?
Asking this question in earnest. What other applications does one use this apart from sexting? I thought of it, even read articles that talk about how it changes how we communicate, etc. I just can't think of a use for this.
>What is the purpose of this, other than just to see if it can be done? I can't think of any software that would be worthwhile emulating that doesn't already have a Linux or Windows version (which is covered by Wine), other than xcode.

It's not about having a "Linux or Windows version", it's about how good OS X's version is. For some people, there are NO alternatives.
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>I don't like outsourcing subscription logic at all. It's not difficult to do yourself, yet expensive to outsource

I disagree, and I say this as someone who just finished writing a recurring billing engine.

If your needs are simple (basic plans that vary in price but not necessarily in length) and you don't have much need for being able to precisely control things like add-ons, discounts, etc, then going with something like Stripe, Recurly, or Braintree is the best option.

If you need custom logic, which we did, definitely roll your own. But it's a lot trickier to do than you'd expect.

I'll give you an example of a case we need to support: handling a case where a user purchases a monthly subscription, upgrades to a yearly subscription of a different plan, but mid-way through decides they don't like it (during the trial period) and want to rollback to the monthly subscription. Writing generic logic to handle refunds, billing dates, etc is tricky, but doable.

In my mind there's no need to go through the pain of writing the whole thing yourself if the use case is simple and you don't need complex logic.
n im reading this on HN
Mary Mallon wasn't merely an asymptomatic carrier. She was informed of what she was, and refused to listen. As a result she was held in isolation for three years, but eventually released after promising to give up being a cook. Five years later, after another series of outbreaks, and several deaths, it was discovered that she had changed her name and was once again working as a cook. She was imprisoned/quarantined for a second time, that time for the rest of her life.
It probably is not very nice to call uninformed asymptomatic carriers 'Typhoid Mary's. ;)
I believe it's open source now.
Here is a link to a blog post about our company working remotely.

https://creativemarket.com/blog/2012/07/31/working-together-...
Having worked on a translation layer for a large API (my project Alky converted Windows games to run on Linux and OS X), building something like this solo is just asking for pain. An open source project with solid direction is much more likely to end well. Also, Executor really couldn't be changed to support OS X; totally different architecture, no processor emulation, etc.

At the end of the day, it's really just API translation; not a technically difficult project, just an incredibly intensive one.
It's a good point. Even so, it's all still in about the same order of magnitude, totally different ballgame than running a grocery store.
I grew up in Palo Alto (I count myself extremely fortunate to have been raised in such a wonderful place). I attended PALY highschool. Stanford was literally right across the street, so lots of kids took (and likely continue to) advanced mathematics courses over there. Google used to advertise in "The Campanille", the school newspaper (this was circa 1998-2000).

These days I'm hanging out in Menlo Park at SendHub, and I look back on having worked for a number of small to medium sized startups all over the bay area. There are a few other people I know who have stuck around in tech and other things, but I'm perplexed that more people didn't stay here!

I love it.
I like reddit's Askscience's method of having a short tag next to the username. This could be helpful.
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This is not a new message. Mauro knew this already. He just didn't internalize it. Sometimes, after saying the same thing quietly, and being ignored, you have to raise your voice in the hopes people will listen. Ultimately, of course, if people continue to refuse to listen, all you can do is fire them (which in the open source world, is to publically tell them not to bother to send you pull requests). Short of taking that drastic step, it's not like an open source maintainer can dock someone's pay.

In general, Linus only yells at people who should have known better. Mauro definitely fell into this camp.
Web designer/programmer working in agencies in London, back in 2004.

A freelancer who was working for us quit and raised some money for a product idea. And friends, who had founded Last.fm, started getting a lot of traction.

About that time I realized "oh I don't need to work for agencies my whole life". Was very inspiring. I think that unless you've grown up in SV, gone to Stanford etc, that kind of idea is very uncommon.

Moved to Japan, started a startup.

All been downhill since then :) Gotta get off this crack :)
Yes, he clearly should have taken into account any possible subunit denomination, including exotic native tribe money units like sea shells, because international programmers reading HN are not expected to think of that of their own.
I grew up in the North Bay and started coding on the web as a teenager in the mid 90s. Not sure there was ever really a "before"

But there's been a lot in between
I'm from the UK. As a teenager I was really into making music, and I was determined not to go to college, as music was starting to work out pretty well professionally.

My parents convinced me to go to college for one semester, I ended up staying and graduated with a computer science degree. It pretty much killed my music career unfortunately, but I really enjoyed it.

Afterwards I worked as a game developer in Cambridge and then went back to college for a CS PhD, but I dropped out a few years in, and moved to California to start a company. That was a year and a half ago!
I have to comment on this line:

> Some libraries implement an unsafe, but fast, JSON parse using “eval” for older browsers

eval is not fast! In fact it is the opposite of fast. Most JIT optimizations go away in the face of eval()! Do not use it even if you know it's safe. Use JSON.parse instead.
I'm not suggesting that they're lying, but saying "works for me" doesn't help. What's more, if they never had to 'make' it work - just worked magically - they've never even understood that it really truly doesn't work for other people - they think the other people are explicitly doing something wrong. But no, they're not lying - it's working for them.
It would be certainly amazing to be able to develop iOS apps on Linux, but I doubt Apple will entertain the idea.
I was conning a ship while the captain stood on the bridge-wing to watch our boarding party inspect a potentially hostile vessel. He was generally considered a really good, competent, and gentle captain. I was good at conning. I mean, throw a ring in the water, and I could maneuver the ship so the bos'un only had to stick his arm over the side and drop the grappling hook straight down through the ring to retrieve it. Every time. But this time, I had to keep the ship in a very specific position, to make sure the captain could see his men now on a potentially hostile vessel, we had intel that they were a mother ship for the cartel's cigarette boats. 450' ship vs a 150' ship, with 6 degrees of freedom each, rough seas, sundown, and I was off by 10 feet. A rather critical 10 feet: CO couldn't see inside their bridge. He blasted in front of my entire watch team. That was 14 years ago. I will never forget it.

I was in the OR with the coolest neurosurgeon I've ever seen. WashU grad (the med school's mean MCAT score is at 99th percentile for individuals). This guy could operate without disturbing the venous plexus around the spinal cord. I had a hard time focusing on the work because he was moving so little it didn't even disturb the smoke under the operating microscope. I could literally inspect individual specks of particulate smoke hanging in the air. He was moving microns at a time. He had asked for and rejected a specific pituitary in every surgery that week. This time, looking at a patient's dura mater, and trying to sneak around to the other side, seeing the wrong rongeur, his head didn't even move. But he grabbed the pituitary in both hands, bent the stainless steel, and flung it the floor so hard it bounced as high as the table and hit a wall. BA-WHONGGGG! The fact that it was this guy that did it is what everyone felt. I mean, it was palpable. That was 3 years ago. That scrub tech, I guarantee, will never forget that experience. I doubt I will.

I was taught years ago to carry two bags. Put the leadership tools you like in one bag. Put the ones you don't like in the other bag. Remember.

Sometimes the leader looks in the good bag, and comes up empty, or just decides that she's had enough.

Was it the right thing to do? It doesn't matter. Just decide which bag you're going to put it in.
Picked up programming at a young age, but then worked as a bicycle mechanic all throughout high school and barely had any interest in computers. I thought I would go to university for civil or mechanical engineering, but I ended up coming down ill and postponing my matriculation. While I was still recovering, I started picking up freelance gigs doing Wordpress installs and writing god-awful code. I somehow turned that into a software development internship at a big pharma company, quickly left that for a fledging startup, and now have a fellowship doing startup-y stuff in the US Government.
I was always interested in programming (started programming on my ti-83 calculator in middle school ~2002). Parents both worked at dotcom companies from late 90s to 2000s. Went to college to study finance and went into banking, but always kept an eye out on the technology sector and became more and more interested in startups. Decided to leave after my banking stint to renew my knowledge of programming and be a part of the tech/startup scene! Haven't regretted it ever since :)
> Happiness at work frequently has more to do with your circumstances at work than with what you do at work.

It's not just work, but the rest of your life. This is something glossed over by a lot of people, particularly in the HN demographic. But I'd look at engagement with family, non-technical hobbies and interests, health and fitness, relationships, community, travel and vacation, and the like.

Work does matter, but it's only a part of the puzzle. The advantage of additional anchors outside the office is that these are often areas in which you have more control. You can be self-directed and cannot be fired in your hobbies, interests, and health (though relationships can and do end unpleasantly at times).

My suggestion is to provide more bases for your self-worth and engagement.
I love Gengo, and I know a lot of people who need to break out of agencies - I'd never heard that part of your founding story before. How did you decide to start your company in Japan, were you originally from there (you mention the UK)?
Sabre lite and nitrogen6x. Supports SATA too.
I mean the core UI for all cars serves the same purpose: to make the car move. The functionality of the car (lame dash apps notwithstanding) is also confined to a very simple use case.

App functionality and theoretical purpose is by contrast infinite. Therefore it's easier to pass judgement on car designers when they do crazy inscrutable interfaces because it's generally a solved problem, whereas with apps there are many more valid reasons to try something new.