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I'd expect more intelligent people, which this community
claims to consist of, to not react the way it has to the
events, with nothing but hyperbole and sensationalism.

Your first comment here on HN contains this:

Even within this submission, the comments here still talk
and insinuate Aaron was facing life imprisonment, danger to
being raped daily, and suicide was his only option.

Talk about hyperbole and sensationalism. There's been some of that but I've seen none of those three specific statements and if that's all you've got out of these discussions, you're seriously missing something. Just because you disagree doesn't make it all "hyperbole and sensationalism".

People are emotional and justifiably angry. Maybe some of it has been a bit ridiculous but that doesn't invalidate the disgust with these events and with the larger systemic issues.
That's not how these petitions are used by the current administration. Just take a look at the responses to completely rational petitions, like the ones about legalizing pot. Scientifically and medically, marijuana is way way safer and less damaging than alcohol. The response we got is absolutely insane, political bullshit.

The goal of these petitions is to create visibility of some sort of interaction with citizens, to create an illusion of participation, an illusion of a democracy.

Hey, it does fool most people.
What's the preferred request rate to be polite?
Learning via Shipping is the only certain way to be sure you are spending your time learning useful things. You can, of course, learn things that are useful that don't involve shipping. But if you are learning something that results in shipping, then it was certainly useful.

That's not to say you shouldn't spend time learning things that don't involve shipping. Just that these things should be the exception, not the rule.

This extends beyond software. For example, learn Mandarin when you are going to actually be going to China, not because you think it's a "useful skill." Learn accounting when starting a business. Start reading Tufte when you have a tangible information design task at hand.

In general, it's another form of lazy evaluation, which is almost always a good idea ;)
> if you are using IB

For anything nontrivial, IB is more of a hindrance than an aid. You probably are constructing the view programmatically.
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Course he wouldn't - they are all lauding him.

So basically, the ends justify the means?

That's like suggesting that me giving away your credit card number is okay if you end up buying the product that the third party tries to sell you.
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How much would facial recognition help in the ER? There's already id bracelets, charts, and other ways to track patients and learn information about them. You'll still need a backup system because babies, identical twins, sunglasses (think "often worn by blind people") and people with face damage or head bandages are just some of the people who aren't easily be tracked via facial recognition. Better to have one system than two, no?
I agree with much that you say. Sensationalism satisfies many of our base neurological desires. Indeed, I know that I share many thoughts with "sensationalists" and I responded similarly.

I cannot make any statements of blame, since being sensationalist is to be human, as we all are. However, I'd ask that everyone please inform yourself as much as possible. The indictment is available [0]online and is well worth reading.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217117-united-states...
I find analogies very good for explaining concepts (to make the details easier to understand), but absolutely horrible for debates. Analogies generally over simplify issues, and hackers are particularly bad at arguing the analogy to an absurd extent instead of arguing the main premise behind it. It happens here all the time.
No no, he's talking about the collective fantasy in which we own that startup.
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You must like bloating your project with pages of trivial javascript accomplishing trivial functionality.

I really don't want basic stuff in my application logic.

Allowing users to flip arbitrary booleans is a bit like declaring a public variable though. You can of course make them go through a setter if you prefer encapsulation.

<input type="checkbox" ng-click="setDone($event.target.checked)">
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it simplifies playing a zero sum game. you don't see the utility of that?
The better model would be those "dev bootcamps" type that popping up locally almost throughout the major USA cities and Toronto.

Their business model is excellent:

1) Pay us $4k-$6k (let's say average $5k)

2) We'll train you for 4weeks or more

3) We'll find you jobs guaranteed with min salary $60k-$80k (whatever) or money back.

[Hidden] 4) Companies pay these guys "recruiting fee" between 10-20%

Some of the bootcamps were public about their recruiting fee but most of them are not (I'm not judging whether it's good or bad but merely pointing out the behind-the-public-business deals).

Let's say there are 20 potential candidates with 5 that will get the job (success rate 25%).

Income from Bootcamp = 5 x $5k = $25k

Income from Recruiting = 5 x $6k = $30k (10% of $60k)

Total Revenue = $55k for getting 5 people a job.

These are minimum numbers.

Loss occurs when either 0 gets hired or for certain threshold (I'm guessing pretty low).

These people are increasing the chance of replacement.
I'm not sure there is a universal answer to this.

It's not about the duration of "Free", it's about the emergence of a recognizable business model, and also about the general complexity of the product and how frequently I would use it and come to rely on it.

Another issue is that we all know that nothing is "free", and as the saying goes "if you're not paying for it, YOU are the product". I don't like the idea of business documents with my signature somehow ending up in an ad-based business model.

B2B sales models and tactics are (IME) very different than B2C. On the plus side, B2B is more likely to be receptive to a paid-for product, and the down side it can be somewhat more difficult to get the viral exposure you get from a B2C product since not as many people are likely to be interested in it, or able to decide for themselves if they can use your product.

A freemium model works good here. Have pricing set upfront and clearly defined. Let me test the product with no risk for some period of time and then convert to a paying customer (or not).
You could take photos and submit them as potential portal locations (you can share the photos with ingress from the android camera/gallery). That could encourage more people to play and give the current players more to do.

The downside is that I think it takes a few weeks for portal suggestions to be processed.
I applied for my Georgia Firearms (Concealed Carry) Licence today. My problem with the idea of gun control is that it assumes making something illegal will make it go away(We have seen how well that worked with Drugs, and Prohibition)

Sure its a bumper sticker slogan but there is some truth to the slogan that "If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns."

To me the only truly effective way to neutralize criminals or insane irrational people with guns, is to surround them with sane and rational people that peacefully also have guns.
Here is the explanation:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-css3-color-20101028/#transparen...

The CSS3 spec describes that the element with opacity < 1 should be composited off screen. Therefor, an element with opacity < 1 must create a stacking context, because its content layers cannot 'intertwine' with other layers not inside the element.

Let's say you'd have a rule that pokes a hole in a layer. If that layer contains several pieces of paper, then the spec would say to take the layer with those pieces of paper aside, poke a hole though all of them, then place the layer back where you found it. This way, other layers on the page are not damaged. /end analogy.
Ha! I didn't even consider my opening sentence. Thanks for noticing, I guess?
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Thorium has an enormous potential, but R&D + regulations cost will be huge. In case of the nuclear energy, they were covered partly by military, but that would not be the case for Thorium.

I would be extremely happy, if instead of paying for war we would bet on that technology, but unfortunately it is rather unlikely that it will became commercial available soon. Still looks more promising than fusion reactor - ITER.
His final point about a nuclear kickstarter project is made in jest, but may be truer than he realizes...
I really like your comment, and I really wish to reply with a video with a Louie CK stand-up comedy piece about a lion and a giraffe. But I'm not sure if I can post the link here.

Edit: oh well, what the heck, maybe mods can delete this if it's inappropriate. http://www.putlocker.com/file/718CD52BD479CE4A#, the joke is at minute 2:00!
I doubt it. Carrier terms of service make the SaaS model for this difficult if not impossible. I also don't understand why anyone would pay a percentage per label when the carriers offer free APIs. Sure the APIs are a pain but there are good libraries out there for them.
There's already at least one:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/lower-petition-cou...
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Blake Masters has a great overview from Peter Thiel's Stanford CS183 class about the future of Thorium and why it may be a very promising cleantech energy solution:

http://blakemasters.com/post/23787022006/peter-thiels-cs183-...
> It seems that StumbleUpon’s newfound profitability could make the company more attractive to a potential acquirer.

Needing to be profitable in order to be an attractive acquisition target? Yow, it's a new world.
I very much doubt this is Dell's primary hope for righting the ship. It might be an skunkworks / "interpreneurship" effort inside of Dell --- but I'm sure it's not the only thing behind Dell's thinking about why it might be better to take the company private.
Question since I'm in the middle of interview sright now (I haven't experienced anything like this other than the last part of negotiations): how and what do you look for in terms of team and company for? for some reason in not sure myself.
While I can't speak for the OP, in that situation, I would take this to mean that they aren't sure of the skills they actually need so they're asking general questions that may or may not reveal whether or not we (the company and myself) are a good match.

Granted, if they ask a few of those and then jump right in with more specific questions I would just count that as the qualifier/anti-BS filter.

If I was only given general softball 100 series CS course questions I'd probably end up trying to wrestle more info about the position out of the interviewer unless I was really hard up for a job and was willing to put up with potentially unfulfilling work for a while.

Edit: Grammar
Honest question - Are they losing ground due to onslaught from social/content discovery apps (like Flipboard) in last couple of years?
Why build a "USB"-based device. Just make an Android/iOS app.
There are a couple recent-ish case studies where super long landing pages outperformed short ones even for SAAS stuff:

http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/seomoz-case-study/
Friendly advice ... don't settle for an offer, make a request. The team is too important in helping determine if you'll be happy working at a given company.

When I'm interviewed, I take it as a bad sign if I'm not allowed to meet other members of the team. Typically they're included in interviews, in which case it's a non-issue. In other cases, I make a friendly request to meet 2-3 members of the team for a short conversation. I've only had to do that once though.
I would bet money that China will get there first.
Yup. Thorium isn't all sunshine and roses, there are some difficult fundamental problems requiring novel research to tackle, aside from all of the complex engineering issues of designing a real reactor. Uranium/Plutonium fission power is already billions of dollars and decades ahead of Thorium in those regards, so it'll likely be quite some time before a Thorium power plant is able to compete head to head with a Uranium one.

More so, fission power in the developed world has been in a bit of political trouble for the last 3 decades or so, no one is building new fission reactors of any sort. Maybe the developing world can trailblaze the technology and prove that it's an order of magnitude or more superior to fission power, which might re-ignite interest for fission power in the US, Europe, and Japan.
Microsoft Surface sales off to slow start: is it too early to call it a flop?
For testing - try to keep it reasonable (a few req/s).

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Right and my point still stands. If you don't have the expertise that they require specifically, don't waste your time, or worse, lie.
There plenty of good things about Thorium, however the advantages are generally overstated. Yes it's more common but uranium is plentiful and a small fraction of operating costs. Yes, it produces less waste but The difference is minimal. In theory it's safer, but current designs are vary safe with a multi decade track record where Thorium's is unproven.

So, while there are benefits the ROI on a multi billion dollor Thorium R&D progect are probably negative.
haha I was wondering about this too, I actually asked in quora http://www.quora.com/Fallacy/What-are-some-famous-examples-o...
Thanks so much for saying this.

Is there a way to contact you directly?
The dart board analogy was a great idea. We've been gradually moving through each of the pricing strategies; I wish I'd seen this when I first started my business.
seems like a CD-R would have been a better choice. if they needed something more permanent take it to another system that is out of the control loop and copy it off the CDR to a flash drive.
could you outline the problems with thorium reactors that you know of? i've been searching high and low to figure out what they are. obviously they exist, but they often seem brushed over and ill-defined. any extra light you can shed on it would be useful. thanks!
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The situation you describe is almost certainly not a crime under the prevailing interpretation of the CFAA.[1] (Although I do grant that your theory could potentially be correct, which is part of the reason it's such a bad law.[2])

The CFAA criminalizes "unauthorized access" and "exceeding authorized access."

The unauthorized access provision applies to various means of hacking into a computer. The exceeding authorized access provision applies (in general) to company and government insiders. "The term “exceeds authorized access” means to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter." 18 U.S.C. §1030(e)(6)[3]

Your contract with your ISP gives you access to the network. By spoofing a device, you would breach your agreement with the ISP, but you would not be obtaining or altering information that you are not already entitled to under your agreement with the ISP as an authorized user.

In sum, for an authorized user to commit a crime, he must break through the access level he was granted by his authorization and reach information that was effectively closed-off to him.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Drew#Guilty_verdict_set_as...

2. http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/EF_Cultural_Travel_v._Explorica (One of the most inane cases I've ever read.)

3. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
I'm not in favor of gun regulation, but I disagree that the way to have less violence is to have more guns.

I just wish people liked guns less.
I agree with the commenters that there is just too much competition for Sudoku apps. I don't think the game I have on the android market https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moore1474.... is nearly as polished as yours, but it gets a couple hundereds installations a day with little marketing from me, because there aren't very many games like it on the market.
I have to disagree. An application connected to a network is never "private" unless you configured a strict firewall and are sure that other running services don't contain exploits. Besides, if an employee leaves the company, this "private" app is now known to an outsider.

Also, just because something needs to be "stable across deploys" doesn't mean it needs to be in VCS. Are your application's third party passwords and API keys all stored in its version history? We picked a solution where the deployment tool configures the sensitive pieces of the application.
Let me make myself more clear. The article says that the Germans are planning on repatriating all the gold from France. But why is that a sign of distrust in the Euro, whereas bringing back gold from New York is not distrust in the dollar? Gold is gold, right?

For me the whole thing about being able to get foreign currency quickly sounds less credible. Even if the Euro collapsed and the gold were in Germany they could get American dollars quickly, should the situation arise.

Isn't is more a distrust in all the institutions and all the systems as such, in case one or more of the major currencies collapses?
The frame of mind I have with Glass is to think of problems where the "taking phone out of pocket" motion is inhibitive enough to be a barrier for a successful app.

For example, QR codes today are something that pretty much nobody scans but will be relevant overnight if people start wearing these. Or, any app that is useful for you while you are driving, like parking assistance or finding nearby gas stations.

Also there could be some interesting applications that arise when you consider that if you are wearing Glass software can know when you are looking at a particular display, like your phone or computer.
I've been running into bad google experiences lately. I have a work email address that uses google for domains, and my account was completely disabled by google about a week ago with no response yet to my repeated contact attempts. Their error message was not exactly comforting, it included the following:

Google reserves the right to:
Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.

I don't particularly care about that particular gmail account, but it's terrifying that they believe they have the right to do the exact same thing to my personal gmail account, which I definitely DO care about. That seems unethical, even if it's perhaps legal.
Hah, now you've got me thinking about how one might technically satisfy that requirement. None of the possibilities I've come up with are good ideas.
"Start working and receive 20% cash back on our fee, typically $3,000 to $5,000+"

What does that mean? Somewhere else it says that it is free to developers. Is the hired developer receiving a portion of the fee you charge the employer?
Honestly read the comments in the submission.. It was insane the amount of misinformation being thrown around. I'm sorry if my comment was exaggerated, I was just trying to highlight the issue.
"What this change does do is it brings us into a profitable situation.”

In the same article, we find out they were founded in 2001 and bought by eBay in 2007. In 2009, the original founder buys the company back and runs into problems. And NOW they're hoping to be profitable.

It must be the "not being from/around the Valley" part of me, but I don't understand businesses that operate for years without turning a profit. Yeah, I suppose after X years you MIGHT be a Google or Facebook or whatever. I guess that's just not the dream for me.
tl;dr: platform to add server-side multiplayer features (challenges, tournaments) as well as monetization through sponsored tournaments. sounds pretty win/win/win to me..
I absolutely wouldn't pay for more than ~5 years of service at any given time. That said, a model like NearlyFreeSpeech.net would make a lot of sense -- pay-as-you-go out of a fund that you keep putting money into.
I can't speak to the Twilio API, but you certainly can with the Mogreet SMS/MMS api. When an MO (Mobile originated) message is received from your user, we decode and store any media included (like images!) and then we make a web services callback to your app with the message content, the info about the user that sent it in, and a url to the media payload of that MO message.
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> Yes, it produces less waste but The difference is minimal.

As far as I understand, the difference is orders of magnitude!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Benefits_and_challenges

> So, while there are benefits the ROI on a multi billion dollar Thorium R&D progect are probably negative.

It could be possible to rebrand Thorium and overcome many of the PR challenges of nuclear power. A solution to a substantial part of the global warming problem is indeed worth hundreds of billions.
There are gaps all over like that yet everyone goes for another Sudoku app, another flashlight app etc.

That's because developing real-people software and value is hard. :(
I would love to find out if other YC candidates on HN felt similarly. I strove to keep my suggestions realistic, while reflecting honestly on the benefits and disappointments of our YC interview experience 2 months ago.
Well within what I was planning (1 request per minute).

Thank you!
I recently got hired through Developer Auction, and I just want to say that it was a really great experience. +1 from me :)
"Trivial" views are the rule though. And with autolayout, IB is much more important since it's the only way to effectively test the behavior of your constraints interactively. (By setting the screen size to "free form" and dragging the control handle, like a web browser window.)
I recommend the Thorium Remix 2011 for a good overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4
I was in the Federal Reserve gold vault a few weeks ago and you realize that gold is just a very heavy metal that is inconvenient to store and move around. The NY Fed keeps this gold for free, and having this gold in their vault is forgive the pun "as good as gold". Moving the gold is a political move that just costs a lot of real money.
Thorium is not a fuel that could be use alone, you still need an enriched uranium:
http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thorium2009fac...

So thorium reactors will still have some problems similar to uranium reactors.
In the heyday of that military funding, the military wanted the plutonium. Now the military mostly wants to get rid of plutonium because it is a liability if it gets into the wrong hands. Thorium reactors are one of the few ways to get rid of plutonium, so maybe they'll fund this too! (/dreamy optimism)
Here's a possibly more comprehensive take on the same idea, illustrated by creating a badge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkvUX_4Ros

It demonstrates the creation of a graphical element in a live coding environment. The finished badge is then transferred to an iOS app and tweaked interactively.

One thing that isn't shown is that the code is simultaneously saved to a file within the Xcode project, so live tweaks and XCode project stay in sync.