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So the question is: Why don't you have the ideas?

My overflow stems from looking at what happens everyday, and seeing suck. When one of the phones in my family is lying on a shelf and is about to run out of power, why doesn't it warn the other phones on the WLAN? Or if it's latish and the phone knows that unless someone picks it up and charges it, it'll run out of juice during the night and be a hard-to-find brick next day.

So... could you try to talk a little bit about why such things don't strike you? (I realise I'm digressing here, but I'm curious about the difference.)
A Laser Built for Mars Has a New Gig: Authenticating Honey
Broke despite inventions such as the wind up radio due to losing patent
4 BRs, $29,750 a Month: a Story of Inflation
Give Node s try before judging, Node gives you same productivity as other popular languages used for web development but with C-class performance
Heh, also got from older cousins a total of 3 buckets. One of Lego, the other two from non-compatible brands.

It pissed me off that the Lego bucket had tons of pieces, but one of the other two had some custom pieces from a space shuttle that were awesome, but fitted nothing else.
He did have plenty of youtube videos as proof :)

or maybe it was just random drunks...
Yes, that would be the real-world scenario.

As I understand it, CR were tracking exactly how much they charged the Tesla at their office (in w, I guess). And he didn't want to mess with that. He also wanted to test the "projected range".
exactly, not warning them.

that's why when i see microsoft 'selling' office to people that are used to buying office and they do not realize they are 'renting' it for a year, i think it should be illegal.
If the web development industry moves from PHP to JavaScript as the main backend language... well, from quality perspective nothing will change. IMO.
Maybe in the U.S., but in Australia they must repair the device. We have strong and unified consumer laws that companies like Apple can't get around.
Let's get in touch I have many ideas
I don't think side projects should necessarily be profitable or money-making. What about the process of just creating something to solve a problem you, or others, have? What about it just being fun?

I have been working on and off for a couple of years on a personal finance manager simply to track my finances in the way I wanted. I am pretty sure no one is going to pay for that, but I do it because I need it and because i enjoy coding and building stuff. In the process, you might get other ideas.

Also, I'd like to echo another comment here that says to take up a non-tech hobby. Lots of problems to solve in everything but the challenge is to find one that people would pay for.
It sounds like your family has problems that are easily automate-able. As suggested elsewhere in the thread, listen for problems, then look for a way to build a solution.
LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base [video]
I actually don't think so, not that I have downvoted you.
V8 was such a breakthrough at the time, it blew off the competition. Since then, many competitors have picked up the tricks and as shown in the bennchmark, uWSGI holds its own against Node/V8. As a result, the Node/V8 combination is not going to be so dominant in a few years in terms of performance. Another factors will come into play such as the language and the libraries available (the ecosystem). I would find it much harder to predict the dominance of the Noode/V8 ecosystem compared to that of Python or Java in a few years' time.
an uncle that worked too long on banks used to tell that when he started, he would be writing mainframes applications to calculate the 'cost' of a client for the bank. Basically, the bank would give the service as an investment to get the client money, and make money investing that money.

At some point banks started to charge for services and nobody could live without banks anymore, so he was writing cliper86(?) scripts to discover the 'profit' of a new client.
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I'm talking about the initial standardization of the test, where they determine which results correspond to which test scores by taking the results of an initial population and fitting it on a mean 100, SD 15 normal distribution: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.881,y.0,no.,conte...

Some scoring systems use an initial standardization where the standard deviation is 15 points, others use 24 points, so the same test performance can get you IQ 115 or IQ 124 depending on whose test you take.
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I was thinking of doing the same since I used to track all my finances manually. I switched to Mint for 2012 but their UI isn't to my liking, specifically the part around tagging and categorization. Do you mind sharing how your finance manager works, and how you built it over time
Macro test of Heisenberg’s principle may aid hunt for gravitational waves
> Lego (not legos)

Actually, "Lego® bricks." Lego severely admonishes using their name as a noun, whether pluralized or not. But, due to that admonishment and a thing called reactance[1], I was being purposefully breezy with my language. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)
You really shouldn't list subjective things like Usability, Extensibility because for me Usability is the same and Extensibility is laungably better for Firefox. Also I don't think Developer tools are that much bigger win.
Fault, error, failure, hazard. Technically speaking, nothing actually matters until it becomes a hazard (if you're a cynic, this means "costs you money"). I think that this is one way of thinking that engineers could benefit a lot from, in that framing issues within these boundaries gives you a lot more perspective.
> So that's why jars are always 100 MB! I don't think the python community will ever perceive this as the "right" way to distribute libraries.

I'm not advocating it as the right way to distribute libraries. It's the right way to deploy applications. Compiling everything into one simplifies deployment. It does not simplify public distribution.

> the sysadmin is responsible for security [...]

It just means that whoever is responsible for security (which should be operations _and_ development, IMO) need a list of the libraries used as part of an application. In Python this is normally stored in the file "requirements" in the root of the source tree. Java projects have similar things, so does Haskell.
According to wikipedia that figure for Feynman seems to be based on 1 IQ test he did in high school.

I'm assuming IQ testing practises have improved since then, it is also possible that his IQ raised significantly as he got older due to extensive study as it is also possible that his IQ test was simply poorly administered for whatever reason.
I'm amazed at all the attacks on Matt Taibbi and Elizabeth Warren in this thread. They are standing up for what they believe is right in their own unique way. They have worked hard to get to where they are. Give them some respect.
libguestfs uses qemu to open and edit disk images. http://libguestfs.org
Having fun, obviously, but that's not the title of your article.
Qemu is ridiculously easy to compile on every Linux. Really. Just git clone, ./configure && make. The number of dependencies is tiny.

It's also available in every Linux & *BSD distro of significance as a binary.

It's also pretty easy to compile on Windows, although of course Windows lacks a compiler out of the box, but that's entirely the fault of Windows.
What I am saying is that if you coerce someone into getting out of an addiction that he got into because he has been having some frustrations with his emotional/social life, then you are just pushing the frustration relief that alchool has been giving him so far, into something else (another drug addiction, over-eating violence, ...).

You can't automagically fix the brain. We live by feelings, which are the world most powerfull "things", in both positive and negative sense.

If an alchoolist had by himself the means to rationalize why he is an alchoolist and what to fix in his life or mindset to not be one, then he would have stopped himself immediately.

But he got into this in the first place and because he has not stopped yet, it means that he has not yet achieved these understandings.

I am no psychologist here, just a random guy who, from time to time has been experiencing some time frames of deep demotivation and feelings of social inadequateness due to some parents relationship issues and probably a bit of over-sensitivity.
In those time frames alchool consumption got higher than average (but didn't reach an alchoolist level).

So I am just elaborating on what at that time would have meant to me to make me hate my only stress relief (which also worked to me as a little mood-booster to push me to have a bit more social life).
Where would I find another stress-relief ?
Inside myself ? I was not ready to understand myself, and sometime you just don't have around you the right friends or people who will help you doing that.
So I would have probably stuck to some other substance.

As for everything (and as we say many times for IT), when you don't know something, you don't even know what you don't know about it, and so wheter or not and where you need to search for help.

It's only now that I can rationally understand what was going on.
But at the time I'd probably told you that I had no issues, and that anyway, I was following a "right" path.

If I was a totally-alone person, if you had fed me that pill and wash your hands afterwards (which is exactly how modern-world government & health care systems would manage it) then you would have basically got me lost in some other psychologically wrong behaviour.

Not everyone is like me, I know, but I think that:
magic pill + hand washing = streets are clear from drunken people -> governent & lucky people are happier -> general society applaudes on itself for being able to defeat alchoolism plague -> unlucky people are just struggling somewhere else with other dangerous stress relief: bad habits, behaviours or substances.

At least alchoolism is visible, it's not hidden like some hard to see pathology with subtle or no symptoms at all, so let's use this evident symptomatology to cure the cause, and not the effects, let's just not hide them !

Clear now?
The title is misleading. You could already use subscription billing using the old (v2) inapp billing API[0] for quite a while. They added that feature to the new API as well.

[0]: http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/v2/billing_...
I'm a broke entrepreneur, like everyone else in SF.
I'm curious now, whats the median valuation of YC companies?
NO to DRM in HTML and broken audio/video
I am puzzled by the non-commercial restriction. If someone could produce those kits and sell them at scale, it will make such kits more universally accessible.
May be you get some jump reading this nice article on Side Projects by Sacha Grief: http://sachagreif.com/the-side-project-project/
I just checked out your web site (assuming you are talking about PayAus). From a brief once-over it looks super technical, try focusing your content on business problems, not technology. I know it is OT but if you want some tips from a sales/marketer get in touch with me and I'll be happy to give you some free advice.
Pretty sure someone here would - look at the comments on any similar HN post from one of these blog personalities. Not everything has to be about sexism.
The mean helps put it in perspective, but the exponential distribution is perhaps more telling. If, say, 50% of the wealth is accounted for by 15% of the companies, the mean doesn’t give you any intuition for how the game actually works.
Ask HN: where do you store your movies?
I'm getting close to terabytes of movies and music. I'd like to know a good way to store them for easy access.
Couldn't agree more. And be genuinely interested/excited in whatever you are doing - if it becomes a project you'll need passion and not just technical skills to see it though to completion.
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Chinese struggle through 'airpocalypse' smog
Bitcoin would not prevent (or disincline) private banks from setting loan interest rates based on LIBOR. You can lend out 100 BTC at LIBOR+5% just as easily as you can with USD, and for all the same reasons. All bitcoin does is remove all control over creation of hard currency (not money in general - just M0, hard currency) - for better or for worse.
I would be interested in this. Does it work?
True, there is a difference, that is a style you tend to to see on the more technical mailing groups.
I remember a talk by Joi Ito, where he reasoned all his pro bono activities in a similar way: You want to be in the room when the next Google takes the stage - because they will chose their investors, not the other way round.
I find your dogmatic faith endearing, but would point you to the experiences of Clang when considering whether open source solves monoculture issues.
This is the ultimate linkbait title: "Sentence that is completed only if you ...".
I have too many ideas, way too less time. This is why/how:

1. "Scratch your own itch". You can't possibly be living a life where you didn't want to make something easier for yourself, something different.

2. Don't worry about money for side projects, especially initially.

3. Read a lot - fiction and applied CS. It'll take you to a lot of different places you haven't been and won't ever be. My personal bias is towards fantasy fiction. In applied CS, read books like "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby: Learning About Everyday Things" [1]

4. Be curious and observant. Look around you and ask why things are the way they are.
Example - People enjoy watching soccer/football (on TV and live). But in a lot of high profile games the referee makes a mistake about whether the ball has crossed the line or not. Try reading about goal line technology. Maybe a book on Computer Vision[2] to figure out how you would solve the problem .

[1] http://amzn.to/YpwqkL
[2] http://amzn.to/Z7mcGB
Note: None of these links are affiliated
Zalando "fastest European company ever to reach €1 billion in sales"
Contact me (address in profile) - there are two projects right now that could benefit from fresh eyes - and I will be happy to share some lessons from 15 years in the trenches.

And no, no one on HN will kill for saying you are willing to work hard, have already tried and just want help.

Cheers
I don't have enough space on my laptop anymore so I have an external hard drive but what I really do is just stream most of the time.

There are great legal and illegal options, the downside is of course if you have no or bad internet then it's all inaccessible but my external hard drive is inaccessible a lot of the time too anyway.

Between retina and HD I don't think it's sustainable to store stuff locally anymore unless you give up SSDs and ultraportables.
Unfortunately, the Makerbot is no longer open source, which rather ruins their point in mentioning it (the UCK was first published before MB went closed and evil, MB technology is entirely derived from originally open hardware and software).
You mean "give everyone else shittier prices"
The question here is whether or not you should be an expert to review a car: the author of the Times article did seem confused about some aspects of the car that would not be confusing to an experienced user. Making matters worse were the weather conditions that are extremely unforgiving to an electric car.

So while I wouldn't call it a perfect review, the points it made were relevant. You can't expect people to change cabin temperature settings to be uncomfortable, drive 45mph on the freeway, not drive when it's cold out, and to know the nuances of the car's range estimator. (If the range display says "0 miles", it's reasonable to assume that the battery is dead.)

Remember: the car mostly worked fine, which is a huge coup for electric cars. The article emphasizes the negatives, but the negatives are all things that can be fixed -- many with a simple software upgrade. So on that note, I don't think the review was particularly bad, and I certainly don't think the Times was compensated to make the car look bad, as Musk accuses.

(The article is also a good human factors and UI case study. When customer service and an electronic read-out disagree, one implicitly trusts the read-out more. It happens to airline pilots, too.)
Neither is providing value.
Maybe I'm out of my scope in your points about nature or political freedom as I haven't really experienced life in other countries enough to comment but I would like to explain the military part a bit more.

True it is compulsory but I think that a great majority of the people who experience it are better off for it. Our country has the highest rate of millionaires(1 in 6) and the kids that come from these households are much better off for the work ethic, value of money and socialization that we instill in them. The training that they go through may not be as rigorous as those who go through full spectrum military training in other countries but it teaches them mental discipline and the ability to give and take orders(20% of each years' intake go on to become commanders) which I'm sure you would agree too many kids learn far too late in their lives. It also has the side effect of providing baseline physical fitness, allowing for a much healthier population in the long run.
I see. Thank you for clearing that up
I'll usually just delete them. When you can download any movie in 5-10 minutes, there's really no need to store.
"“BGI has scaled up very impressively,” says Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which operates the largest academic DNA sequencing center in the United States. “But I think that absolute scale is much less important than what you do with it.”"

Why wouldn't those 4000 people would figure out what to do with the data? Surely without the data it's hard to even get started?
Any time you see a demand to use special characters or formatting in 'how you should refer to our stuff', feel free to completely ignore it, since at that point it's just marketing fluff.

I remember one company whose marketing department demanded that every mention of our product be in the assigned font, bolded, with part of the name subscripted and ®'d. Even in support emails. Even in followups. They never saw just how amazingly artificial it was and how it actually created (mild) barriers to rapport with users. Needless to say, everyone in sales and support that had a clue decided to put that directive into the round file.
I actually read the entire article and still not sure how to finish that sentence. Her main conclusion is "hustle", which has nothing to do with joining an accelerator.
So you're saying "it's OK for me to lie to people because they're probably believing in some things that aren't true anyway"?
I used to use Del.icio.us and _loved_ they version 2.0 look. It was beautiful service I would happily pay for using if I had to. I was so dissapointed at the time they were killing it, I never switched to pinboard or anything like this.

Now I defaulted to bookmarks in Chrome, synced and encrypted + Session Buddy extension [0].

I sort heavily using folders:

'by Topic'(abbr. to 'bT') with subfolders for current research projects (eg. Juicer,...);

'People' with subfolders 'Friend A's name',... where I put links received from / sent to folks;

'Track' with 'Year.Month' subfolders;

I rearrange folders so placement of a folder is also a queue - both left-right on the toolbar and up/down in a dropdown (Chrome does not force 'byTime' or 'A-Z' sorting and allows dragging).
I also keep folder names as short as possible: S would stand for 'Services' - web apps I use on daily basis, 'R' would be 'Research'. Most frequently used services get bookmark without text - just an icon on the bar.

'I defaulted to bookmarks in Chrome' means its the simplest thing, bare minimum, but it kind of works. Saving pages on mobile? - I get lost here (Opera Mobile on the phone has 40+ open tabs - 'bookmarked', so to speak).

Session Buddy is a beast of its own. You can name sessions there, merge them, edit them, search them and so on.

Tools we use shape us in more subtle ways than we usually realise. I certainly miss 'social' part of using Del.icio.us and I would definitely reach out more if using social bookmarking service instead of bookmarks in a browser. Maybe I should come back.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...

Edit: For me 'How do you manage your bookmarks?' is a sub-problem of a topic of 'How you take/manage notes' (including lists, todos and all that stuff). I don't even wanna start it.
Is it true that Dropbox/AirBNB make up most of YC's (monetary) value? I know they're the big ones, but it still sounds fishy. What about Reddit, for example? Heroku? The company that built Draw Something? (I forget their name).

Also, many of the 400 companies who have been through YC are very recent, and simply haven't had a chance to grow as much as Dropbox has.

Other than these questions, I think the article does make a few valid points - it does seem to me that there are a lot of programs around, and I'm not sure they are worth the time for most people. I'd be interested to know if the prevailing sentiment among VCs really is that most seed accelerators don't matter (discluding YC).
You're right about the time it takes to copy. Whenever I've encoded video it's always been a time-consuming process so I wouldn't see this as a major obstacle.

As for picture and sound quality being terrible, simply not true. Recording from a projected image is one way to do telecine, and it works fine if you can set it up properly. [1] A half-decent telecine is very different from surreptitiously recording a film in a cinema.

The stream will be re-compressed but this isn't such an issue as many people think. Back when TV was recorded on analog tape in the 90s, you were allowed 8 generations of copying and it would still be considered acceptable for broadcast (for news).

[1] "The quality of a good telecine is generally comparable to a DVD without any post-processing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine_(copying)
> a niche which continues to be totally unoccupied till today's date

Leaving all about Python aside, what exactly is that niche? I'm not being ironical or anything, I really want an answer to this question, that's why I started this piece of the discussion. Seeing that things like Metasploit, that I would have expected to be written in Perl, end up being coded in Ruby, makes me unable to see any "special niche".

(About what people are learning: indeed we programmers pursue the new hotness, but of people that just started learning how to code, I bet 80% of them are learning Python, Ruby or Javascript, and since this the language they will first learn, this is more likely to become and remain their "go to scripting language" - bar Javascript...).
Make something for other developers? The success of FUSIONCHARTS is one of many examples.
Sure its a Disneyland with a death penalty if you want to call it that but you seem to be implying that either I'm in acceptance with the way things are run or if I'm not, I have no business living here.

I think that uprooting from your home, leaving your family, friends and culture behind takes more than just disagreement with the wayyour government is run. This is of course assuming that you or your loved ones are not in immediate danger of any kind.
Look at what happened with DNA sequencing[1]. Linear extrapolation isn't always the best predictor of progress.

[1] http://www.dnasequencing.org/history-of-dna
I agree. However - 'Legos' is just stupid. Who decided a single brick was a 'lego' and therefore the plural was 'legos'? It sounds bizarre to me as a Brit :)

PS It's maths, not math.
Experiences. Try to get involved with people and events of this world.