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>>Anyway, there are sub-1000 touchscreen machines that are nice, like the dell xps 12, but its obvious the vendors consider touchscreens a premium feature. They're wrong. Laptops no longer have the luxury of not shipping with touchscreens, at any price point. Even apple gets this wrong, something which amazes me. Imagine someone trying to sell a tablet with a trackpad instead of a touchscreen. The very idea is ridiculous. Every reason you want touch on your tablet also applies to your laptop.

Apple did usability studies on this very issue and came to the conclusion that combining a mouse and keyboard with a touch display didn't work. The screen was too far away to make using a touch device comfortable for a long period of time. Of course, figuring out how to design software that works both with a mouse/keyboard system and touch devices is a challenge. I'm not sure Windows 8 has succeeded here. I don't enjoy the metro environment when I'm using a mouse and keyboard and I don't like the desktop when I switch over to a windows 8 tablet.

I'm a bit mystified by all the hype about touchscreen laptops. The use cases for tablets and notebooks are just too different and I feel that Microsoft is making the classic mistake of trying to cram as much features as possible into a product without understanding how these devies are actually used. For one consumer confusion is likely to result with the plethora of different configurations that Windows 8 devices are sold in. This a recipe for bewilderment.

I still feel that Microsoft would have been much better off developing a tablet version of windows phone 8 rather than extending the desktop down to the tablet market. Now the desktop and tablet version of windows are joined together and Microsoft won't be able to respond to changing market conditions as quickly.
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> The FTC's decision also shows how anti-Google lobbying from rivals like Microsoft Corp. MSFT -1.87% had little effect.

They managed to initiate and sustain an 18 month FTC investigation into someone who did nothing wrong, generating a mountain of FUD and anti-PR along the way. It sounds to me like their lobbying had a pretty big effect.
not having interviews at all would seem to imply building a very insular company

Why? Job interviews aren't the only way to connect with the outside world. It's a failure of imagination on our part to believe that bureaucratic grotesque is the only way to build up a shared endeavor.

Open source work is one example of people coming together that has nothing to do with job interviews. Other disciplines have other approaches – e.g. auditions. Conferences are a way for people to meet who otherwise might not. There are many avenues.

I say we haven't noticed yet what an inhumane thing the job interview really is. We'd never inflict it on our friends. Why inflict it on prospective colleagues?
Answered above. Would love feedback. This is the most important part of my job.
Take this idea to its extreme, and you've arrived at StumbleUpon.
Ask HN: What is your startup?
I am planning to launch a new blog about startups. So I am in hunt for some awesome tech startups that I could write about. I don't want to publish startups that have been on techcrunch, rww, tnw, I want to publish totally new ones and I know HN is the right place to find some.
If people are actually paying him $1000/hr regularly then it is making us look bad, but only because we are allowing ourselves to be so woefully underpaid. However, I suspect (but don't know) that he isn't being paid $1000/hr regularly (let's say for more than 3 hrs a week on average, which would be regular enough for most folks at that rate).
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You do know that your attempt to educate people are a futile waste of time, right? And that they're probably counter-productive, just driving people further into their weird belief systems?

Climate change is real, and it's important that people have the facts, but there's no point trying to give the truth to people who have their hands over their ears and who have their eyes closed.
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Well, good luck to you on your search, my friend!
Especially when people do projects with 10000000 times the difficulty... for free.

Thats imho the wrong way to look at compensation. People are not being paid by the difficulty of their projects but by the value of the problems they solve. Being a construction worker is certainly a lot more physically demanding than an office job. Still they are (usually) paid a lot less because they are easier replaceable, less training, etc.
Thanks for the lil' shot of dopamine :)
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Then you or they shouldn't do this for free. Put a price up front and treat the relationship as a business. Otherwise people will take advantage of you for free. But people will pay if there's a great need for the product or service
Because he got bored working alone and lost his motivation.
You're batshit crazy to try selling for this price. The most recent reviews suggest it loses data and isn't very innovative. I tend to agree. It's yet another fish in a sea of todo apps.

Your craftsmanship and attention to detail on the UI and experience are great. I'll give you that. But this is a todo application. Not only that, but it's open source. Hell, I've built it and run the iOS app myself.

The only thing you're selling is 33,000 free users (rather, a list of them, not necessarily 33k active pekple) and a Ruby on Rails app. You also said it requires 4 dynos to operate, plus a Postgres db. I'd imagine the reason you're selling this is that it's costing you $200 per month and not making anywhere near that.

While I'm grateful for everything you have done with cheddar in terms of transparency and sharing with the community: I think you shot yourself in the foot. Reverse engineering the back end (from the app and api docs) and rebranding the iOS app would take me 2 weeks tops.

$125,000? Good luck man. If you can get that.. You're an even better magician than you are a developer.
Why the fuck do I want to touch my laptop (or phone or whatever to be honest).

It gets dirty and stops working, you end up with curled up hands, even the best ones wobble like an old person when you push on them, you can't type on the things as they are completely non tactile, the touch resolution is so bad that all you can do is finger paint badly, doesn't work with gloves on, and everything is not designed forbthe touch screen apart from metro which is just fucking horrible and the list goes on.

Its like fixing a watch with jacket potatoes on your hands.

I've tried every touch device out there and they are abhorrent productivity saps.

I want a laptop with a normal screen.

I am actually the majority non-consumer of media opinion - you know the people who use the machine to do work.

The only reason we have touch screens is hype
"Andrew Huang was one of the engineers behind the open source Chubby."

chumby, but close enough! Not the first time someone has called them Chubbys, sometimes intentionally... there was lots of snickering about the 'Chubby 8"' product.

Also, I've never heard anyone call bunnie Andrew, even in real life.

(Source: I worked at chumby).
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Anecdotally, I have two close male friends who want to get married, but their female partners do not.
I've been thinking about my inability to fix such stupid shit in my life a lot over this past holiday season. And then once again, I woke up late for work. After doing some math that morning while in the shower, I figured out that I've probably been on-time to stuff maybe 20% of the time. I've been engaged in full-time work for 6 years. 6 years x 50 weeks x 4 days a week late x 3 hours increased stress = 3600 hours of stress.

For what.. to "stay up late"? What am I, a fucking 9 year old?

Then like a tidal wave of self-hatred, I saw my recent life in the third person, and was horrified. It was one long pattern, that runs on a week long loop at best.

My new years resolution had come together, entirely by accident. I decided I was going to be uncomfortable in 2013. Inspiration struck (albeit with poor grammar) and I posted the following to Facebook:

"""
2013

Our goal is to feel like a phoenix. To be reborn into this new age. New from the past, inside out, and birthed from an experience of the last.

And yet I sit here, a fixed point. A mapped function, an obvious recursion of my previous self.

In 2011, for the third time in my life, I changed everyone I knew. I moved 3000 miles, I bawled my eyes out at a rest stop in South Dakota, and I found out why people move to Salt Lake City (it's gorgeous). But now I realize my fault, the mistake in my goals. I blamed the symptom not the disease. 2012 was my year of addressing symptoms. Of seeing the forest for the trees.

The disease is ease. The comfort of the familiar is the death of the new.

So I say fuck the phoenix. Screw last year, disown the past. For us I hope for only one thing:

Be unnerved. Shudder, cry, and find new people to misunderstand.

Be uncomfortable.

I don't know what the future holds for me, and I pray the same is true for you.
"""

Stepan - I wish you the best of luck. Habit change has never been "just habit change" for me. Need to eat less? Get a depression counselor. Want to meet new people? Cancel NetFlix. As they say, nothing is easy because if were easy you'd already be doing it.

(well that was more than I expected to write)
Not too long ago I made a service, http://textbelt.com, that wraps many email-to-SMS gateways with a simple API:

curl http://textbelt.com/text -d number=5551234567 -d "message=Blah"
No amount of Ruby on Rails, agile standups, or awesome design is going to help make that unique special connection between two people. I think if you're looking systematically for the love of your life, you're doing it very wrong. Let it just happen.
I've been working on this for a while now: http://blogmate.is/

Saving, organizing, highlighting, and annotating blog articles you find.
A capital humanist: Best Fiction Reads of 2012
Math notes to take you from one year of college calculus to grad student level
http://www.nodemesh.net - Although I am the only person working on it, I could use some traction!
right. I'm on android so not too familiar with the iphone's clients. It's just the simplest works-everywhere (mobile, desktop, laptop, etc.) scenario for me, and I'm in the same place, same windows, buffers.
Again, I don't have much experience with Scheme; I've read about half of SICP. So that's a huge caveat here.

It may have been misleading to say that Clojure was immutable by default. It is immutable; it does not have set! or the moral equivalent. You can use concurrency primitives to update in place (sort of? AFAICT you're mutating the var itself, not the data it contains) but each primitive comes with its own semantics.

As far as first-class is concerned: in Clojure, maps, sets, and vectors are functions. They're functions of their data as well as being data, and there are literal representations for each.

Examples:

user=> ({:foo 1} :foo) ;; maps are functions
1
user=> (:foo {:foo 1}) ;; keywords are functions, too
1
user=> (filter :name [{:name "foo"} {:surname "baz"}]) ;; filter by key
({:name "foo"})
user=> ([\a \b \c] 2) ;; access vector by index
\c
user=> (#{1 2 3} 4) ;; test set membership
nil
user=> user=> (filter #{2 4 6} (range 1 10)) ;; filter by set membership
(2 4 6)

To what extent is any of that true of Scheme? I am reasonably certain that these data types can't operate as functions in Scheme. Glancing at such as the Racket docs, my impression is that generally you use a specific set of functions to interact with each type (e.g. hash-map-get, hash-has-key?, set-member?).
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The key to learning quickly is to iterate quickly and get feedback immediately. I don't think this point is particularly controversial-it's a lot easier to learn from a REPL than from a system where you have to wait overnight to compile anything.

The question is how to structure your work to get feedback quickly. Feedback can be self-directed. Bob the Builder has an idea for a building, draws up some preliminary blueprints, and sees that his idea is unfeasible. Or it can be external-Bob's satisfied with the design and shows it to his customer, who then realizes that having 17 spires arranged in a heptadecagon looks stupid after all.

This is why outlines, specs, designs, etc. are so important. The goal is not to achieve 100% accuracy with the spec and then build the software. It's to iterate quickly to get to 70% accuracy, and then switch to a finer level of detail once you're not learning rapidly from the outline. It's not just about saving time or building a higher-quality product, it's about learning as quickly as possible.

Another fun, famous example is the Wright brothers: they had less funding and less education than most people trying to achieve flight, but they came up with a way to iterate in days instead of months, which meant that in a few months they made more progress than others had made in years.

If you want to get incredibly good at what you do, find a way you can iterate faster and learn more than others in your field. You're effectively buying time and experience. And if you create a structure that allows others to iterate faster, you can allow a swathe of people to become massively smarter and learn more, which to me is one of the greatest feelings in the world.
It would be exceptionally helpful if you put your email address in your profile, too (in the "about" section).
What about the memory wall ? being limited to few gigs because of the GC stop-of-the-world is not very exciting.
The best sentences on that page are

> This rate is designed to weed out less serious clients. Serious clients generally have more exciting projects. I'd rather not freelance. I need to focus on Cheddar.

I guess now that he's no longer focussing on Cheddar he can lower his rate.
An unmarried woman with a child isn't necessarily carrying "massive baggage." What a rude and borderline misogynistic sentiment.
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Thank you for making HackerNode. It's a great app.
also, fwiw, irssi itself can be a persistent proxy, so you could just implement a native client.
> And many of the subreddits are run by totalitarian dictators, so you end up with large and powerful subreddits that are curated by crazy moderators.

You might want to consider posting to /r/drama or /r/subredditdrama .
Foresight Streaming Systems is a Twilio for video.

http://foresightstreaming.com

Feedback on the landing page appreciated!
Perspective.

When I read the original announcement for this app. It sounded cheery. The design is really pretty good.

Over time, though, I've learned to keep an eye on these announcements. Not just cheddar, but all of the 'check us out' posts. Sure enough, a lot of these do not succeed. Some even blog during their process, to share some epiphany. Building a successful product is hard. Filtering the noise on HN is hard as well. When I see a new announcement, I look at the 'good' in the product, but only time
will tell if the founders have hit the right mix.

Sam, the OP, is not one to hold back from backlash. He doesn't have too much pride. He shows his product on HN to ask for users. He isn't afraid to admit failure when it happens. He needs the money, so he asks for it. I'm sure there are hundreds in a similar spot. Yet, they will not make a similar post.

It is super important to see the lifecycle of projects here. It adds a good perspective to this community.

Back to Cheddar. Without a passionate founder, a product like this will die. It isn't a turnkey business. It will require much more product work to become a success.
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Just a little feedback, but I had to go to the AppStore page of HackerNode to find out what Nodemesh actually is. Although I'm still not sure what the relation between Nodemesh and hackernode is exactly. It's a company that develops iOS apps?
I just launched an internet of things startup for gardeners yesterday. I'd be happy to talk with you.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1387729422/plant-link-li...
Not outsourced at all, I live in Ireland. Many American companies are here now. My current employer does all development here.
From the corporate side, not having managers do their own hiring seems to make sense. But from the employee's side, it means that you don't get a chance to meet and evaluate the manager and team who you'll end up working with. I'm sure that Google is similar to most companies in that the quality of managers varies widely and different departments have very different work and environments. Not being able to evaluate the manager and team that I'd be working with if I were to accept a job at some company would be a deal-breaker for me.
I am not personally aware of anything like that happening frequently, although I do know that Facebook has previously invested (amongst other things) in evaluating the use of certain types of questions before, with some interesting results.

It sounds like it could be a fairly unreliable indicator. I'm not sure what the interview-to-hire rate is, but there are only a pretty small number of people that are offered positions - and even then sometimes you don't win against a competing offer, or a sudden realisation that they want to stay geographically where they are. So even for the top few percent of interviewers who interview ~100 a year, you might only have 2-6 hires, which isn't really a large enough population to evaluate.

In an interview, the best you can do is try probe talents, skills, and knowledge, but you'll also get a point-in-time view into their current attitudes and beliefs, as well as the possibility for swagger and misdirection (even self-misdirection).

We do look carefully at situations where one or sometimes two people get strongly negative or positive signals while the remainder get strongly in the other direction, in case there is a problem. Most times it has turned out to be valid concerns, and it also helps us give feedback to interviewers on how to write better feedback, how strongly to weight certain traits ("not knowing the name of a particular useful function/method under pressure is reasonable, so let them just use it even if they got the name wrong"), or how to evaluate a particular type of candidate (newly graduated candidates, for example).
Hey, thanks for the info. I currently work for NYSE, in Ireland, do google offer H1B sponsorship?
Sorry! I always thought the thing was chubby. The name made sense in my head as the mascot octopus is a bit gooey.

I was not sure if I could call him Bunnie since I thought that was a nickname. Is there a chance Bunnie is not pronounced "bunny"? I think there is a chance I may not be very good with reading words.
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It seems to me that you do not want to be able to say that. You want to see relevant and interesting posts.
"Especially in this slow economy, more employers are asking “Star Trek or Star Wars?” (as a programmer was recently asked by an employer)"

If you ever ask me something this irrelevant in a job interview, i'm getting up and walking out
I have proved myself wrong as being a professional cricketer, roboticist, hustler businessman and lot of the other gigs. All in the quest for learning from failing. I did learn, but after a while you realize that sometimes you need to work on a skill/goal to the point of absolute failure before positive results come out of it.
You can't really draw any valid conclusions from a sample size of two. The fact that this happened with the two employees who Rachel interviewed doesn't give us any information about what the attrition rate of new employees at Google is.
you know what this means? arxiv.org needs a cryogenics section, for potential resuscitation of mathematical campaigns using future technology. it'll be challenging to keep out the crackpots, though --
Just limit the number of first contact outbound messages a user can send per day to something ridiculous(like one). Response rates on free sites are abysmally low because its not hard to write a generic message and send it out to every person you see, poisoning the well for every poor guy writing a well thought out message and waiting patiently at his inbox.
Here's a short list I'd add:

Tyler Cowen, Scott Sumner, Reihan Salam, Will Wilkinson, Conor Friesendorf.

Picking just one conservative I'd choose Cowen without blinking because he's a volume blogger with a wide net so you'll often get the best of right leaning commentary on the subjects he's interested in.
I don't think you should be fine with it. It's wrong for groups like those you've mentioned to decry intolerance when they're the victims, only to turn around and deliver intolerance to some other group of people. It's hypocritical, and it's counterproductive.

Instead of banning the detractors, they should try welcoming them into the community, and maybe even try to understand them and their viewpoints better. They may not change the attitudes of those with differing opinions, but at least they won't have made the situation worse by introducing more intolerance.
> Invited to meet Peter Jackson, the Tolkien family preferred not to. Why? "They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25," Christopher says regretfully. "And it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film."

no, hobbit is worse. the first episode of hobbit was a 3 hour long trailer with zero substance.
Agreed, I have no idea what it does when coming to the home page which makes me want to leave. Maybe a couple of sentences would help with context.
It's easy to show, using the binomial theorem, that if x < y and x^n + y^n = z^n, with x, y, z, n positive integers, then we must have n(z-y) <= x.

For the given numbers, this puts an upper limit on n of 1, and so x, y, z cannot be a Fermat counterexample.
+1, I was just on my way to suggest this also.
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Microcosm is a platform for forums, discussion boards.

http://microco.sm/

We're funded by our users (we already own some forums).

London based, but if you're in SF we'll be passing through first week of Feb if you're into having a beer at Zeitgeist.
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It is pronounced the same as bunny (as in the killer rabbit from Monty Python & The Holy Grail) and it is technically a nickname, but I've never heard anyone call him anything other than bunnie even in a work setting.
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Is that required by some local law? Or was that insurance needed for your clients to trust your product?
This information is pure gold to someone trying to manufacture their first products. It's the kind of thing that's not in books, companies learned the hard way, and engineers learned from on-the-job experience at said companies.

Also, Dave Jones http://www.eevblog.com/ has a good video series https://www.youtube.com/user/eevblog that includes things like part selection, tolerance, and PCB design for manufacturing.