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You can't treat Xamarin as one... e.g. you can't write a simple calculator UI in a cross-platform way - You would have to code the UI part separately for iOS and Android.

At least, that's my understanding and OP (Miguel) confirms it.
And I guess your mileage won't vary in this aspect ;)

Although, Xamarin.Mobile is a step in the right direction, as commented here.
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Yes - realistic employees are the worst - they are so unexploitable!

What companies really need are wide-eyed, earnest, new college grads who have no idea what goes on in the real world, and how much they are truly being screwed by their current startup.

Those guys rock! They work 100+ hour weeks, they don't have families, or commitments and are willing to do it all for mere peanuts and empty promises of golden rainbows!

Sadly - a few years of this turns them into realistic employees - and you need a whole new batch to replace them.
Voxel.js brings Minecraft-style games to the open web
This is a very interesting topic, I recommend you read:

"Generalizing from one example" - http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/

and watch Temple Gradin's TED talk "The World Needs All Kinds of Minds"-
http://blog.ted.com/2010/02/24/the_world_needs/
Heroku operates in EC2, which is an Amazon service providing virtual machines spread across several datacenters. Rapgenius' nodes, as well as all of Heroku's internal infrastructure (e.g. routing) run as EC2 virtual machines. EC2 VMs are multitenant environments because you share them with other virtual machines. The disk, CPU, and network are all virtualized, shared resources, with wildly varying latency, throughput, and reliability characteristics.

RapGenius doesn't need a hundred nodes to do their routing, but Heroku does, because they're responsible for lots of customers pushing a large volume of traffic. Their routing infrastructure needs to share global state about which dynos are available for which applications, (and which versions of those applications) belong to a given HTTP request, and that routing infrastructure is broadly distributed. I'd phrase their routing TCP load as "nontrivial", in the sense that if I had to build a system like this on physical hardware in, say, Portland, I'd start by buying five floors in the Pittock building.

That's not to say Heroku's architecture is optimal, just that their problem is not as easy as it may appear.

[edit] As for why companies choose to run in a heavily virtualized environment which has so many drawbacks... it comes down to a tradeoff in time, personnel, and costs. Running in EC2 allows for dramatically shorter lead times in hardware acquisition--and when your customers can increase their traffic by an order of magnitude without warning, I think that comes in handy. It also frees them from running their own power, network, physical security, hardware acquisition pipeline, associated vendor contracts, etc. I suspect both Heroku and RapGenius have weighed these costs carefully, but I don't really know their specific constraints.
Do you see any discount feasible for giving out? It seems to me that you just lose with discounts, no matter what percentage you share with the middle man.

Edit: later on someone pointed out the usefulness of discounts for repeated transactions. The question is for daily-deal discounts.
Anyone know how they are doing outside the US? Over here in Asutralia for example they seem to be selling plenty of vouchers. I know some businesses that use them often.
Yep, but think outside the box can be a momentary act. It can bring yOu great insights. But behaving outside the box for long periods (against your oun will) is much hardther, but also are the benefits.
I occasionally say controversial things. And get into heated discussions. Here and elsewhere; I recently had a bit of a bunfight with a very good friend on Facebook, of all the stupid places to be stupidly stupid in public.

Usually the best part of such occasions is when I walk away and forget about it. I did that with Swartz's suicide. After the first discussion I just didn't click through to other discussions.

Often, when I take a break from a site, what is meant to be a short holiday turns into a few months. Or a permanent thing.

If a website makes you unhappy, why waste your time and stamina there?
Try Accelerometer enabled Android Apps in Browser
More - http://blog.appsurfer.com/accelerometer/
I think a lot of NaCl games are also written in MONO.
The examples are pretty impressive. Would be a great way to learn piano with a bit more work.

https://github.com/qiao/euphony and
http://mudcu.be/piano/

And
Simon Says: http://labs.uxmonk.com/simon-says/
I think it was called Automated Coin Toll System (ACTS). I don't think it is used very often anymore, if at all.
I'm seeing an indefinite "Loading: Soundfont..." spinner. Looking at the console, it looks like a few assets take a long time to download and then fail before finishing. Could it be your server is serving assets itself and killing the connection after ~10s?
But its high number of votes is because of the connection :)
You sound like management.
Sony PS4 as a 3D media creator
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See here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365778
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If you're going to use a daily deals site, come into it not expecting a profit and look at it for what it is ... a form of cheap marketing. I know a couple of businesses that have used them and found it generated a decent amount of additional sales. Mind you that was about 2 years ago.
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Yes, and I'd argue the daily deal model never worked in the first place. Why? No real value add to small businesses.

The daily deal model was an experiment that went on too long, overfunded by delusional investors - some playing with other people's money - and media and social media hype.

You know what model isn't broken?

Positive cash flow businesses. :)
What do those two things have to do with each other?
I like it. Today, I saw copy.com's landing page and really enjoyed that too. Bootstrap without being bootstrap.
29 new universities from 4 continents added to Coursera
Gamification in the Serengeti
In the early 1980s I used to call a BBS with a private section that had "950 codes". I didn't really associate with people doing this sort of thing until the late 1980s though...

I have to laugh at the article. The people I knew were not blowing 2600 tones into multi-frequency trunks, they were not even logging into their local TIRKS or SARTS or COSMOS or 5ESS/DMS-100 switch. They had the whole system "owned". The x.25 networks to - Tymnet, Telenet etc. As well as all the key Internet machines and networks. We're going back over 20 years though...Not that I think things are more secure, the opposite actually.

One of the guys I knew later went to work for the tiger team of one of the big four accounting firms. Their success rate? 100%. He complained it was not a real test though, as he could not hack into Verizon or AT&T and get in via those back channels...

As to what happened? Others I know set 1995 as the year it ended, and I agree. Between 1994 and 1996, everyone I know started working at ISPs, security companies, dot coms and so forth. Including myself. Some of the people who hung out on the IRC channels became CEO/CTO/CIO/CSO executives in companies which got millions in VC (back then and recently), or were bought out for millions, or their companies IPO'd. I would say how well some of the people who used to hang out on IRC and go to cons have done, but I don't think people would believe me. I'm not even counting stuff like the founding of Apple, which I think Jobs said would not have happened if him and Woz didn't build blue boxes. The way things really happen are covered up, or not brought up any how. "Every fortune of unknown origin began with a crime" - Balzac
Heres an example from the UK. Like everywhere in the world we have laws which govern how you construct buildings. In most cases the actual law concerning disabled access just says 'PART M ACCESS TO AND USE OF BUILDINGS
Access and use
M1. Reasonable provision shall be made for
people to:
(a) gain access to; and (b) use
the building and its facilities.'[0]
There is then a whole set of pre approved conventions for what constitutes 'reasonable provision'. But crucially if you could show that, say, maglev chariots would satisfy this part of the regulation rather than a ramp then you can do this. About 10 years ago I also worked briefly on a building in New York and I was surprised how inflexible the building codes were. I don't claim to fully understand the code, but in some cases the law even appeared to specify a particular manufacturers products had to be used. From this, I suspect that the US has a culture of writing over complicated and voluminous laws, but I don't know enough to say if this is really the case. Maybe someone can argue otherwise?
[0] http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_ADM_2004....
Creative destruction frees resources for more viable ventures.
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This exists. I saw Royal Bank of Canada offering this service for $15/mo or thereabouts. It felt like a rip-off of gullible customers more than anything.
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Isn't all entertainment just about Dopamine release (catchall for all other known and unknown 'pleasure' neurotransmitters. Zynga's games were decent enough at first. The problem is that for a business that is in the business of purveying entertainment, to be successful, it has to figure out a way of continually squirting out Dopamine in a subject without harming them (harming is more from business point of view than moral). Zynga's current game plays simply can't achieve that. Now if they can get the gambling license...
(it is approaching midnight, so please pardon my incoherence)
No, there isn't. Nor for that matter is edw519 banned in any way.
What if you just like the people and product you are working on?
Nobody expects you to go down with the ship. Everyone involved is much better off with you putting positive energy into an effective completion.

You can shut down anytime so pick a date and inform your investors and customers. Give everyone enough time to migrate then turn off the lights.

You'll feel much better the moment you pick a date. I guarantee it (I've done it myself).
I know very little about network programming, but this article was remarkably easy to understand.
Linux is designed with a much friendlier user interface. I see no way of doing this in America, but I'd like to see an experimental society where engineering principles are applied to writing the laws.
This headline is misleading, because it implies the common stock was worth something at one point. :)
Yeah, bad employee!

Why arent you working harder to give shareholders a disproportionate share?

They called 'dibs' on it before you did, so don't go around with sour grapes.
Come into my igloo: online dating as an 8-year-old
A somewhat unrelated conceptual question: if Chrome is putting web apps alongside desktop apps, what does that do for usability of apps on a platform in general? If a web app was created to emulate a native OS UI, wouldn't that be taking a bit of a step backwards (in terms of recreating all the widgets) compared to just coding in the native toolkit in the first place?

I guess what I'm really asking is, what's Google's plan for unifying the Web Store apps visually the way Android and iOS do with their UI kits?
Ask HN: Are you a crypto expert? Help find flaws in my new app.
You can read more about the project at:

https://github.com/p4x/gandhi

I'm just looking for a few guys or gals who really know their stuff to look through the code and make sure I'm not doing something totally bone-headed. ;)

Anyone interested?
The results of mining the first 3.5 million records - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5255962
Is it just me or people in the startup world are taking failure too hard. OK, so someone put some money in your idea, you tried your best, and you failed. Big deal. Just move on to the next thing in your life, without losing enthusiasm. The startups scene is supposed to be dynamic and fast, no?

It's all just a game anyway, especially when all you lost is OPM (other people's money)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death

"With tiger sharks 3–4 metres (10 to 15 feet) in length, tonic immobility may be achieved by placing hands lightly on the sides of the animal's snout approximate to the general area surrounding its eyes."

Nah, that sounds easy.. ^^
About as much as a fly on a windshield.
That works for personal use, but when sharing between multiple people KeePass will get locked up when multiple people have the application open at the same time (despite warnings people will keep it open for long periods of time). This means you can't write to the DB and can lead to corrupted databases. Its more work, but we moved to using Git to manage our Keepass DB.
When you tell a guy in distress to "man up" (an opinion that was obviously upvoted by many in HN) and the guy ends up committing suicide, then, fair or not, you gotta take a hike. Or else someone will start a shitstorm in your direction (in this case it was Arrington/TC) and enough people will support that shitstorm just like enough people supported his dick-ish comments. It doesn't really matter if they all start eventually sounding like the guy they are directing their anger towards. Ed should have simply stayed quiet on Aaron-related threads instead of offering condolences - it was bound to tick off many.
I'd also be wary of such "simple word" laws containing common sayings or cultural references.
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It would require a good deal of work to keep up to date, and it wouldn't benefit the startups in any way. If we're going to spend our time on something, I'd rather spend it on something that will help the companies we fund.
What risk?

Did they forget to incorporate and will be personally liable for the debts?

They took the risk of renting out a couple $5 a month servers, and buying a domain?

The last startup I was at I had 33 times the equity a guy hired a month later did. I didn't take anymore risk, I just negotiated better and first.
Double secret probation, just admit it.
I remember reading about these for the first time in MIT Technology Review when I was in high school in the late 90s. And e-ink screens. I think that I always thought I'd see these first. Funny how that works out.
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You're trying to paint the picture that everyone else thinks the same way, but you're completely unique and think your own way. Would it not be more likely that everyone thinks in their own way, based off of their own experiences?

It seems quite believable that there is a multidimensional Gaussian distribution of thinking styles, and people at the edge of one or more dimensions can legitimately say that they don't think like most others.
Thanks, I obviously did read all of their books :-)
We Know When We're Being Lazy Thinkers
No more Hadoop for bioinformatics
The PS4 sounds like a pretty good reason for consumers to demand capless data. Along with services like Netflix this should diminish the market for crippled net access.
A quirky recent story about being honest and accepting what you have accomplished rather than trying to act like you're a basketball bigshot:

An American basketball player, having not had much luck with NBA aspirations, took a job in Western Australia, playing for a state league team. These state league clubs have a player budget of about $60,000 spread across a men's team and a women's team - 20 players in total. The league in question is not likely in the top four leagues in Australia.

Said player told his hometown paper that he had a three-year deal for $1m, that he was going to be playing in the best league in Australia, that it would be on a tropical island in the West (it's mainland), that he'd get a beachfront 3BR apartment, that the club was flying him and his family the last leg on a private jet (it would've been a bus from Perth) and that his signing made news across Australia (fat chance).

His club found out about these claims, learned a bit more about his character besides this, and cut him before he'd played a game.
"Hadoop was built for software engineers — not geneticists. It’s not the easiest thing for science researchers to wrap their heads around"

Sounds to me like

"Someone told me it's a great tool, but I downloaded it and couldn't make it work :-("
I live in a bogus reality. No Republicans or believers in God on my Internet, yet 50% are Republicans and 75% are believers.

Yeah, I get pedo bait on reddit, but yesterday I discovered they fill it with shit posts. I had to go down about 5 pages past the shit-posts.

That's so I run-out of stuff to read!

Youtube search for "Torvalds,today" shows nothing!
Looking cool is definitely threw hardest problem for glass, ahead of UI or even battery life, so it's all about scarcity and social proof.

Don't want to wind up like the segway hah
James, great! Those are stories I'm looking for. I'd like to blog post about your story on my blog (http://blog.eerlings.com/), would you mind an email interview?
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One theory I forgot to mention...of why phreaking and hacking died out as it was in the mid-1990s...

From the late 1970s until the mid-1990s, communication via a computer and modem was done for a great deal of people via BBSs. Someone, often a young man, would set their phone line and computer to act as a BBS when they weren't using the line themselves. So you had a network of independent, autonomous bulletin boards, run by young men mostly, called by young men mostly. They created their own culture.

It is not the Verizon/AT&T high speed connection, with Usenet servers being pulled, torrents being throttled with MPAA/RIAA letter being passed back and forth system we have now. I mean we're talking here on a board owned by venture capitalists. Or Slashdot, owned by a public company. Or chatting on Facebook. All of this was not so corporatized then. I mean, things like Usenet, P2P, anything autonomous and independent and similar to how things were done back then are beset upon by the powers that be. There was freedom back then, now things are back to typical USA - corporate-run, unfree, policed, boring etc.
Most of the supermarkets round here do it, whether in tokens (40% off your next milk purchase!) or points-based loyalty cards which can be exchanged for gifts when you've collected enough.
Being cynical and realistic doesn't mean you don't work hard and produce great work product. It just means that you demand to be compensated appropriately for the work you do, without being fooled by gimmicks. See, e.g., anyone who works on Wall Street. These folks live and breathe their work, yet are smart and realize that the only real way a company values your contribution is in the size of your bonus checks. That doesn't mean that culture, collegiality, perks, etc, are unimportant. It means that they aren't a replacement for compensation and/or time off.
I would have preferred he simply turned off optimization, for clearer results, rather than obfuscate the code (and who knows what other optimizations were still in place).
The Jaguar is a relatively low-IPC and low-power though, it's aimed for the Bobcat/Atom segment.
There is no failure, only feedback.
> They don't want to keep making 30% of $60 games that sell 10 million copies when they could be making 70% of a $10 game that moves 50 million copies.

I don't understand. Are you saying that Activision should kill CoD and fund the next Angry Birds so they could sell more copies of a cheaper game, or are you saying that CoD could sell 50 million copies if it was priced at $10?

Both of those claims are questionable. I am pretty sure Activision is scared shitless of becoming the next Rovio, and I doubt CoD would even break even being priced at $10.

Considering that CoD had a 200 million dollar budget, they would need to sell 20 million copies to break even vs 3.33 million, and consider to date (4 months) they have sold 20 million copies.

Even if such a price cut caused sales to double, you would have:

20 million * $60 * 30% - $200 million = $160 million dollars

40 million * $10 * 70% - $200 million = $80 million dollars.

Again, they would break even with their old model if they sold ~50 million copies, however, I don't think "hardcore" gaming is that price sensitive, and I doubt we would see a 150% increase in sales if you cut CoD's price to $10.

Lastly, where would these people come from? I don't think Activision has an untapped market 5x their current market size that want to buy Call of Duty but only for $10. Even if you talk about opening to the "casual" market, Nintendo showed us just how toxic that is. Casual gamers don't buy games. I'm sure its a lot smarter to sell to the gamer who buy 3 games a year @ $60, than it so to sell to 5 people who will buy 1 game /year @ $10. So if Activision could sell 50 million copies of CoD, would that stick them in the same position as Rovio, where all they can do is sell CoD, while WoW and Diablo bleed cash?
The fact that investors are putting up the money means there is some hope to the business. Not every startup gets that ...

People seem to really focus on the negative. Startups are known to be bimodal outcomes. Either you retire from them or your income is down a few years. If you don't believe in a specific startup, don't work for them. If you don't believe in any startup, go work somewhere else.
A CEO of a company I worked for once told me that the best thing to do here is realize the end is near and do everything to save some of the money from going down the drain early so you can return something to the investors. This will get you more respect than just waiting hopelessly for the bottom to fall out and losing everything. They may respect your effort and invest in you again, or at minimum protect your reputation enough to stay in their network (useful for getting a day job afterwards).
But the point is that if they (XRP) come to have any monetary value at all, the whole thing reduces to a ponzi scheme with benefits.
You got to the NBA, but you were not Michael Jordan.

Or maybe he is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
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I could invest $100 in two competitors, assuming that one will fail, but the other will be worth $1000. Risky - of course. A third company might come along and I end up with nothing. But still a reasonable strategy.
Windows 8 did to the start button what England did to William Wallace, quartered it and buried the parts in the 4 corners of the territory.

My solution add the following to the task bar and metro screen: 2 start orbs (blue orb = metro screen; green orb = Windows start screen), Restart and Shutdown

Screen shot of my Window 8 task bar: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6jnvIhOPJO7Y0NWQm56THVrbDA/...

Screen shot of my Metro screen: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6jnvIhOPJO7WVF1ZjBVOFc3MFU/...

Update: Even though I described the end of the start button so violently and added 2 start orbs to my own taskbar, I am not knocking MS choice to do away with the button.
Were your founders taking a salary from the jump? I suspect not; maybe your situation was out of the ordinary, but most founder types I know work pretty long hours well before seeing a dollar out of it.

Opportunity costs are a form of risk; being paid a salary reduces (or eliminates) those opportunity costs and thus reduces risk.
I have not loled to a comment like this in years. Thank you.