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All three previous generation consoles were almost perfect in terms of the security of their design, the problems were due to bugs in the software implementations. As such the actual architecture of the processors didn't matter too much.
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They are flawed unless you can do something about retention.

Has anyone tried the concept where the "deal" is that you go, name the site, and get a coupon giving you a deep discount the SECOND time you go back to that store? That would seem to make more sense. Because everyone that the store gives the deal to, has actually paid full price once. And wanted to go back. And if you've been twice, you're more likely to go 3x. And furthermore most of the failed leads were a sale, so nothing was lost.
One thing this article leaves out is the sky high attrition rates in PhD programs. The grim statistics presented are for the people who actually finish. Overall attrition rates for PhDs in engineering, the best of the bunch, are about 35%. It only gets worse for science and humanities. Keep in mind that attrition rates for elite law or medical schools are generally less than one half of one percent. So it is no exaggeration to say people fail out of elite PhD programs at roughly 100 times the rate for elite professional schools.

It does frustrate me to watch congress base public policy on the notion of a shortage of scientists and engineers when the evidence clearly does not support that assertion.
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The point about taking other people's money is a big one. I am in the process of starting a business doing cloud computing for accounting and ERP and we decided specifically against taking other people's money. I know that will sound like heresy on HN, but I want to discuss why we made that decision. I think other founders may find this to be a useful piece in that it may confirm that taking other people's money is a good decision or it may help question that. I don't think our decision was right for everyone.

The basic issue that made us decide the way we did was that accepting VC money locks you into the VC exit strategy. This means you are building either an acquisition target or a company you want to take public. If that's what you want to do, partnering with VC's makes a lot of sense. They may help you get there faster. If you aren't sure that's what you want to do there is nothing wrong with taking the first steps on your own before committing to such a strategy.

There's a second issue too, which is what I call "overfunding syndrome." The basic truth is that the vast majority of businesses will fail before they succeed. If you are funding it yourself and the like you have more options than if you are racing towards the VC exit strategy gamble. This is why bootstrapping can often be a real business saver.

I suspect we could find investors if we wanted or needed to. But the fact that we don't need to at the moment and aren't sure we want to lock ourselves into the acquisition-or-IPO cycle means for us the best option is keeping our options open. That doesn't preclude changing our minds down the road, but it is a lot easier to decide that "you know, maybe we could use venture capital after all" than it is to change one's mind and get out of the funding cycle. To my mind this is part of staying upstream of the larger problems.
What's the average Internet speed in, say, the Bay Area?
>Arabs have a reputation for dishonesty...

Thats a fairly significant comment to make. Considering the historic record generally portrays the Arabs more positively than the Crusaders I'm not sur ewhat point you're trying to make. People are making a lot of statements and arguments but there is little actual substance that can be debated, more conjecture.
PlayStation 4 Announced, Packs 8-Core AMD 'Jaguar' CPU
Mind if I ask what you are running Chrome OS on? I have been interested in picking up a Chromebook, but the reviews for them are very bad. It seems that locking up, crashing and even flat out dying after a couple of months is surprisingly common.
Help: Possible To Scale Up/Down Entire Website Using jQuery?
I have a fixed aspect ratio design that I will be keeping fixed (not standard website design, but useful for my case). I designed it in pixels to ease the burden while designing (not having to constantly calculate percentages for every single element). However, I don't think there will ever be a time that converting pixels to percentages will be anything less than torturous.

So, I'm looking for a jQuery solution to simply scale all my CSS up or down. As long as the script can properly scale everything just as it would if the CSS were all in percentages, then a lot of time and pain will be saved. Not just now, but for all future development as well. Hopefully the solution can be relatively lightweight as well (as comparable as possible to the speed of CSS in percentages).

I am crossing my fingers that the above is possible. I'd prefer to scale the website up against browser window size (100% height or width, depends on browser aspect ratio). It seems far simpler / cleaner than converting all my CSS to percentages and adjusting parent container to browser window size.

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
Indeed, it may be possible to radically reduce expenses, get a moonlighting job, and make the business more easily maintainabile at that point as well. If the investors won't call you back, and you and (and presumably co-founders) want to commit to being successful, it may not even be too late if you are willing to get secondary jobs to pay bills with.
I'd like to disagree that biege boxing COCOTs wasn't useful.

First off COCOTs were owned by customers, so the magic did not happen at the telephone switch. Quite the opposite.

When VoIP started emerging, a handful of COCOT companies and their operators figured out how to place long distance calls for a fraction of the usual price. Instead of placing LD calls over the telephone network, any LD call would be intercepted by the COCOT firmware. Instead, a local number would be called and rerouted over the Internet. This was a type of extender, and one could beige box these pay phones to pick up DTMF tones and figure out the number of the extender and its access codes. Sometimes an access code was even optional for a call to go through the extender. Like many extenders, these became abused like hell.
Animate the body element maybe? Not tested :D
I wonder how many people from the 1st year of HN are still active commenters today? I wasn't here from the start, but did get in pretty early (in the first year?); I've seen many names come and go! But in the early days, I did not pay too much attention to the usernames....
GEMA demands royalties for performances it has no rights over (2009)
From my (admittedly quite limited) experience with investors and entrepreneurs here in the bay area, it's quite the opposite. Failure in itself is not at all a black mark. Product/market fit not existing is a common reason for startup failure and it's well understood in the investor community.
No meritocracy and no trust. Bane of every civilization, army and society
One point, much to Oracle's dismay, Android is not Java. Java is used to do dev, but the phones themselves run a completely different VM (Dalvik).
"Google are pushing crap"

Is Google plural?
I like the menu, it's a good change from the standard bootstrap sites that are everywhere now.
The end result of that bug report from last spring is that the PEP (which is a proposal, and not the primary documentation) does not describe the actual implementation. The PEP will be clarified when someone gets a chance.

This is nothing at all as serious as the bug reporter first thought, and the title of this HN post comes from that (somewhat scary) first impression and not the final resolution.
Please define "good" and "human progress." In my experience these terms are often so nebulous as to be meaningless when applied to companies.

EDIT: How can you conclude that I'm wrong if even you haven't defined "good" and "human progress" in your argument?
I didn't find out until a couple days later. I seem to remember that I was complaining about how Reddit had jumped the shark, and dfranke then replied to my comment with a link here.
What would be interesting deviations from the bitcoin model if breaking compatibility wasn't an issue?
It depends how much work went into finding the idea. Some niche ideas could be really valuable in itself if it comes from the person's first hand experience and frustration.
I recommend reading "The Devils Teeth" http://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Teeth-Obsession-Survival/dp...

Excusing the anthropomorphisation, one interesting tidbit is that the great whites have different personalities. Some were just plain mean while others were playful.
This is not (initially) a retention issue. This is a pricing, inventory and product issue. The retention issue can be solved (I'll explain)

Daily deal sites that offer a discount coupon at a price to the consumer which they have already negotiated a steeper discount for themselves, while cheaper for the discount site, is too cheap for comfort for the vendor.

This is a negative incentive for the vendor to keep going with with discounts, thus reducing inventory. further, the discounts are typically on ephemeral things that people dont NEED but just want.

The model should be flipped a bit: offer progressive discounts on repeat business. i.e.: 20% off on first visit, 30% on second, 50% on third - etc.

Incentivise repeat business.
With all the legal burden, I wonder how can any music be produced or played in Germany:

"German courts have agreed. The burden isn't on GEMA to prove that GEMA-covered music was performed -- but on the accused to prove that no GEMA-covered music is performed."

Then later:

"Oh, and lest we forget, it appears that even if you do fill out GEMA's own forms listing out all the non-GEMA music you played, you have to pay GEMA to file the forms. So... you end up paying no matter what."
My first thought was "I would totally pierce a couple of holes in my head and put in some geometric mounting studs for one of these"

I don't even have any piercings but it would be pretty awesome.
> We're waiting on a Supreme Court ruling that could have significant impact on first-sale that hinges on two plausible interpretations of the phrase "made lawfully under this title."[1]

Not only that but Bowman v. Monsanto is another first sale case and it has to do with whether the first sale of a soybean seed reaches the sale of the soybean's offspring by sexual reproduction.
Just wanted to say, yeah BinRev was awesome. I was there, and (without dropping handles/names/etc.) I'm pretty sure we used to talk quite often ;)
Hey, I'm an undergrad considering a phd in Econ. Could I email you some questions about your experience?

I'd also love to hear about the big data work that you do.
I miss menloparkbum.
I think I still have my Kali key somewhere. Brings back great, old memories.
CVS, El Pollo Loco to name 2 that I've interacted with lately. When you buy something there, they give you coupons at the register for next time that are pretty deep. I'm guessing this is a proven effective marketing technique judging by the big companies using it.
At least if she's wearing Google Glass, it will maybe look like she's looking at you and paying attention, even though she won't be.

But I totally understand. The good thing is that many non-chemical addictions, like internet addiction, can be easily beaten.

And, it might not be as bad as you think. Part of what is perceived as "internet addiction" at night is due to the blue light from the screens keeping us awake, according to a study I read: http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Let...

I think e-ink without backlighting and incandescent lights in the home or carefully chosen warm light LEDs (with as little blue light as possible) is the way to go for nighttime use.

Conversely, blue light is good during the day; you need it to avoid depression http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/seasonal-affective-disorder... , and certain blue wavelengths have actually been associated with an increase in intelligence: http://realdoctorstu.com/2011/05/23/blue-lights-shown-to-giv...

Just avoid blue light starting about 45 minutes before you go to bed, and tell your girlfriend how you feel.
Or the ones who were genuinely interested in the inner workings of networking pursued careers in that area.
> But that's implied in a contract. If it becomes something you didn't (objectively) intend to agree on, it's not a contract anyways.

In which case Google's severability clause is legalese by omission ;-)
If you're in the US, you may not notice it, but Bing is plain awful for international users. Google has spent a considerable amount of resources improving their engine to serve results based on your location and Google's Search Engine is clearly the best by a long shot. This is also why I'm not using DuckDuckGo.
Point taken, and I'd rather not even attempt to define the two because I think that is outside the scope of HN altogether.

I'm pretty new around here and the last thing I want to do is be starting political/moral/religious flame wars in a post about LivingSocial.
Is It Time To Yahoo?
Solving it isn't really that hard.

Having spent a fascinating day discussing this problem with Heroku's routing team, I'm inclined to disagree.
Billboard Makes YouTube Part of "Hot 100" Formula
Is that true? Isn't that basically what hedging is?
That's like saying The Odyssey was written in plain Attic Greek, which is false.

As an amateur linguist, I would say that legalese (like Homeric Greek) is a specialized dialect which is both hyperdefined and formulaic (except that lawyers call formulas "terms of art").

As a piece of interesting trivia, Calvert Watkins suggests that formulas of Roman legalese derive from pre-Roman liturgical, magical, and mythological poetics so there probably is a connection between the formulaic dialect of Homer's epics and the legalese of today to the extent that it is related to Roman legalese.
Over 5 years ago I turned down an offer to work at LivingSocial. Last year, I would've been worth $10 million on paper. All of that fake wealth evaporated today. What a mess.
I have gone thru this state of mind.

We got A+ investors but we failed to deliver. We had founder breakups early on and I was made a single founder for the last two years. I ended up working twice as hard to make up for my founder's departure. (The stress and long hours actually made me less productive.) It almost killed my health and my relationship with the loved ones.

Don't take it personally. You have given your best shot and remember you have your own opportunity cost. It's a fair deal to the investors. The important thing is to handle the wind down professionally. Try to savage what you have (team or product). You or your investors may not get anything out of it but they sure would appreciate your effort.
Uhh... starting philosophical tangents is common and encouraged on Hacker News.
Daily Deals aren't a fundamentally flawed concept. We use them at my company and they are a great channel for us. They just need to be managed correctly.
And yet I have never seen a legal opinion to use the words "see above" or "see below." They always fall back on the Latin.
Comcast and AT&T, two of the largest ISPs in the US, also have data caps.
Tell HN: You guys scared edw519 off Hacker News
Which is a pity, because he had some really good comments. Here's his comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=edw519

His last post was 37 days ago. Years of high quality posts, one "debatable" comment, a great deal of criticism, then he's gone.
Running it on the ARM Chromebook which has been absolutely perfect so far (~2 weeks). No locking up or crashing at all. Great battery life, keyboard as good as my MacBook Pro and a great trackpad for the size. Overall very, very happy with my purchase given my use case (just a second computer for class/travel).
I disagree, it is will within the scope of HN especially if we're to prevent this sort of thing happening again from a founder/person on the ground level.

The other guy is wrong, good and human progress can be paired well with technology and business solutions. It's called social venture, and it's possible. It's just not what the valley focuses on.
I can't see Living Social surviving if it really is short that much money owed to merchants. Why on earth would any new merchants join at this point knowing that Living Social is reasonably unlikely to be able to pay them?

I'm a bit surprised the company is so nonchalant about running that far behind on merchant payables. An easy argument could be made that it should not have dipped in to merchant funds at all and all that cash should have been "restricted".

Also, the cheap shot on Groupon is pretty lame considering that Groupon has something like 2x the cash on had as it owes merchants (if I'm reading Sep '12 Balance Sheet correctly).
I was t00ph / sl0ppy on #phreak if anyone from those days is browsing :)
Being in somewhat similar situation:

1) Ordering online from supermarkets.
2) Ordering from restaurants.
If they're professional investors, they know all the investments don't work out. Communicate honestly about what's been tried and failed, but don't ruminate excessively about having "let them down".

If 'doom' is still a month or two off, but inevitable, attempt orderly wind-down. Maybe a corporate entity is bankrupt. Maybe employees need a fair warning. Maybe there are salable assets. You can ask for help, even from strangers, even non-anonymously. It will be hard to get help if still presenting a facade of "everything's great", and since the 'doom' will be public knowledge soon enough, stop pretending. Instead, use this as practice in confronting the worst and making-do as best as possible with bad options.
Congrats! :) It's my most visited site.
I wonder what this means for Amazon.
I'm the same way. But I've also really wanted to be able to run web pages as their own Windows app. Like have them occupy a space in the windows task bar, which it looks like this may provide for. I don't really know why I want this, my brain just has a strong urge to have certain app-like pages have app-like prominence, and have their own focus outside of being another tab in Chrome.
5 reasons why you should consider blogging
Some of us do work hard to build profitable businesses. I don't think that one bad investment deal is going to make a big difference.
http://thecityswig.com/, but you emailed me so I'm assuming you figured that out!
Forgive my ignorance, but why isn't CAP applicable here?
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What a weird, weird company. There was a time when fully half of the talented rubyists I knew were joining LivingSocial all at once. And none of them could tell me why the company needed such incredible firepower. I guess they never figured it out.
They sound like a bunch of stand up guys. My, how times have changed.

In a sad way, all the TOS/EULA/Contracts and other legal mumbo jumbo we sign away our rights with are just more nails in the coffin of free expression and exploration. Now, I can understand companies get upset if you take more than a fair share of services without paying for it, but we don't really get a fair share in the first place. And if you break the TOS (provided it hasn't changed since you signed up), it's fair to lose the service, but not your freedom.
Also dfranke, byrneseyeview, and jwecker. For the first year it was basically all the same 20 or 30 people.
I do believe this reply has OP's best intentions in mind, but I find it to be a bit fatalistic. OP may very well have "the touch", it just may be that this particular venture wasn't the right opportunity for that to shine through. My point is, noone can tell you how far you will or will not go in life; a single failure is a data point, sure, but only one among many. If OP wants to go on continue being an entrepreneur, he should learn from his mistakes, dust himself off, and go at it again if he can find the opportunity.
I believe Newton and Galileo worked alone for much of their lives. Kepler was far more intellectually generous.
It’s not just games: how learning to code could change the education system
> So I think you answered your question, the effect is not fucked up, the effect is that the team doesn't get

> distracted and this possible future employee doesn't feel alienated. Paypal avoided hiring people who would

> feel bad at work, Stripe gave their interviewers a way to ask themselves "how do you really feel about hiring

> this person."

I agree that the effect is that the team doesn't get distracted.
I agree that the effect is that the employee doesn't feel alienated.

But is that enough?

There's a lot of casual sexism / brogrammer culture in our industry. Is a company that excludes women because it makes sure the team doesn't get distracted OK? Is a company that thinks "we can't hire her because she'd feel alienated if she was here" OK? A lot of the time I think that the "culture" fit moniker is used to systematically enforce a monoculture of young, white (or sometimes asian), privileged men.

And this can lead to less distracted, more focused, more successful team (especially in the short term)!

But is that ok? Maybe? If that's absolutely the only way to maintain team cohesion, but I don't think that's at all obvious.

> Stipulate her assertion: We reject qualified candidates based on superficial and unimportant reasons.

Go ask a random person on the street if rejecting a job applicant because they said the word "hoops" is a superficial or unimportant reason. 99 times out of 100 they'll say yes.

> Stipulate: We avoid projects that require strict coordination across the company so that we don't have to have meetings.

I, in fact, think this is a big problem in our industry. Talk to any company as they move up to ~100 people. Nearly all of them have huge communication challenges that they didn't have before and this directly impacts their ability to execute on larger scale work.

> Stipulate: A mostly female team exists that gets the mostly male workforce to stay late.

This also happens all the time. I bet eng teams at startups are 90% male. Then take a look at who the office managers, or recruiters, or HR, or assistents. Largely female.

> I don't think she has surfaced any deep cover up or deception.

She's not talking about a cover up. She's not talking about a bunch of evil startup managers sitting in a room thinking about how they can deceive their staff. It doesn't work that way. She's talking about the lies we all tell each other, and how those lies can have negative consequences.
> Degrees are not worth anything like they were before because everyone has one.

the degree isn't worth anything to differentiate people, but saying that getting a college degree isn't worthwhile is not true - at least, if your personal goal isn't to _just get a job_, but to learn how to learn, to make friends and form a network of peers. But i agree that the amount of debt you have to carry to get all of that is quite a problem.
thera are multiple models of bluetooth headests. Doesn't help the slighttest.
For Google glasses it will be 1000x so.
I wonder what will be of talent acquisition happened along the way.
Like I said, I'm a bit of a lot of newb, but I appreciate the correction :)
Tell us about the app. You still have time. Why is it failing?
Thanks for the correction. I guess a more correct wording would be: Given they already had it solved, keeping it... etc
Microsoft does dev tools remarkably well.
I'd rather have a standard API than "chrome.*" to be honest.
Thats what I meant, but you put it in a nicer manner. Thanks!
A proper gaming PC is still way more expensive than a console.