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Ask HN: Product blog about getting 10 first customers?
Can anyone point me to the product blog which was documenting how to get to initial ten customers for their own startup? URL was something like gettingto10.com or something similar if I remember correctly.
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Hi. I've tried alcohol a couple of times, and I don't understand what the big deal is. Intellectually, sure, I'm aware that it decreases social inhibitions, but it didn't do much of anything for me, and it tasted pretty bad, so I haven't bothered with it any further.
How is Xen better in this context than a general-purpose OS kernel, be it Linux, BSD, or Illumos?

For a "truly elastic cloud", what one really needs is a homogeneous pool of host machines on which heterogeneous workloads can be quickly started and stopped. For this, I believe a general-purpose OS kernel is better, even if one dispenses with the usual accompanying userland, because such a kernel is already equipped to run more workloads directly.
Agree. And this probably works if you want to be a programmer ie something quite independent and you don't 'run' things.

I used to be a lot more entrepreneurial before my son. Having a child changes things, a lot more than marriage. There was a constant feeling of guilt of working on something when he was there to play with. I always felt I would miss out on something if I was working. Ultimately, entrepreneurial pursuits weren't as much fun as they used to. At some point (subconsciously), I decided my time with the kid was time I would never get again and gave up on my side projects.

Only time will tell if my decision is what makes me have no regrets :)

That said, I certainly believe that having no family commitments make you do 'big' things. If you see history, most 'great' people achieved things at the cost of family - Gandhi, Einstein, etc.

There is simply no time to do 'great' things and be with your wife/children.
A big problem with sprays is that they are cold.
They do show the first result even if you are not logged in (there is a dismissable modal popup that forces you to register though). Google indexes first result and that makes quora pages show up in relevant searches.
Ask HN: Do you donate to the EFF?
Do you donate[1] to the EFF[2,3]?

[1] https://supporters.eff.org/donate
[2] https://www.eff.org/about
[3] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/
In this post:

* You start with "people should have the right to do whatever the heck they want with their property"

* Provide a concrete example of why that's a bad idea

* Use that example to argue that an even more accessible distraction is a good thing

Do you not see the problem with this logic? Less distracting maps/directions definitely would be a good thing, but that is only a tiny part of Glass.
> I really should have realized that my attempt to help kids learn something would degenerate into another pointless trolling argument over which language is better.

What argument is that? You don't have any possible justification for choosing PHP. Ask anyone with more than a few months' exposure to computer programming.

With Python (as just one example), if I am a student, I can run the language in a bare-bones text terminal and get useful results and feedback. I cannot do this with PHP.

With Python, I can start an interactive, graphic session to get immediate, instant feedback in my experiments (IPython and others). I cannot do this with PHP.

With Python, if I happen to be underprivileged and want to learn programming, I can support my efforts with a simple computer with few resources and no HTTP server running -- like a Paspberry Pi. I cannot do this with PHP:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/python

If I make a syntax error, I get immediate feedback, with a description and a line number. I cannot do this with PHP.

If I want to learn object-oriented principles, Python and Ruby both support full-fledged classes. PHP's support for object-oriented programming is, like everything else, a weak substitute.

It isn't possible to imagine a worse choice for students. In fact, I just realized you're not serious -- you're trolling. You want to have a pointless discussion about a crippled language.

> Why don't YOU write your own book using whatever language you want ...

As a matter of fact, I have written several languages in my 40-year career, and I was programming before you were born.

PHP is not a general-purpose computer programming language, it is a dedicated tool for designing server-side content, and it possesses a number of serious drawbacks. Teaching programming with PHP is like teaching mathematics with an abacus.

And if you were qualified to have this conversation, you would already know this.
I also got the same message. They always had better features but Foursquare got more popular and from then on, they were just catching up in popularity.
Yes this is something you learn not to do by accidental deodorant spray :) ouch!
I remember when hearing about this asshole MBA standing on a stage in Singapore talking about how he wouldn't hire developers who were parents.

I've not done my own startup yet, but I suspect developers that also were parents would understand responsibility and dependency the best. It's a bit of a generalisation, but so is the fact that most MBA's are useless cunts. Not going to name this person, but googling could help.

I'm not a father, and I have no need to become one, but I've noticed parents are usually incredibly responsible.
Actually Knuth wrote "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." It's premature optimization that Knuth says is evil, not all optimization. Big difference.
Teenager built a web design blog reaching 650k uniques/month in 1 year
The Kindle Fire is not a phone. Not having Google Maps/Gmail/Google Now/Google Chat/etc isn't that big of a deal on your reader or tablet, but it's a lot bigger deal on your phone.
Show HN: Control your SlideShare presentations via your mobile
preso.ly is an enhanced presentation clicker. Currently it's only limited to controlling your SlideShare presentations, Google Drive and Dropbox are next. The project is still in beta, you can give it a try at preso.ly
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Already possible with extensions, see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...
In Sweden you get to put a condom on a realistic dildo.
I was 12.
According to the article, the judge created a new standard that it is copyright infringement for a one-sentence clipping to be on a website that is a substitute news source in the sense that people go there to read the news. Any news and opinion blog qualifies under this new standard.

This ruling changed copyright law and fair use. Adding your own original content, if it leads people to read your blog rather than click through to the AP article, enhances the claim of copyright infringement because your blog is now competing with the AP as a substitute source for news. Your original content no longer enhances your fair use defense, as it did before this ruling, but now enhances the copyright holder's claim of infringement. RTFA!

We're not talking about what Meltwater did. We're not talking about blogs that mindlessly copy and paste content. We're not talking about what used to be considered fair use before this new ruling that changed the law. We're talking about the new standard laid down by Judge Denise Cote that would make copyright infingers of every ordinary blogger who played by the rules of what the rules were last week.

That new standard is that if people might view your blog as a place to read the news, you are guilty of copyright infringement if you quote as much as a single sentence of another person's news article. RTFA!
In light of the instant stop-bleeding gel[1], I started thinking about the concept of a gel that could serve as an even better form of protection than condoms. I wish I knew my chemistry better but I am sure that scientists can determine a way that this can be done.

[1]http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11409/the-gel-that-stops-blee...
Oh, I see. Zerovm[1,2] is built on top of NaCl, and does indeed appear to be a "javaosification" of NaCl -- with no bytecode, no dedicated language, but a sandbox/lockdown of native code.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746222
[2] http://zerovm.org
Removing the clutter is a good solution. I've been doing that for a while to make it easier to read, but I didn't think about it having the side effect of eliminating distractions.

I use viewtext (similar results to the parent's solution, but less customizations).

http://viewtext.org
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Show HN: ChroniclerJ, efficient record-replay for Java programs
ChroniclerJ is a record-replay tool designed to reproduce crashes in your code that occur in the field.
A typical new house in the US is wired for a 200A 240V circuit, or about 48kW.

By contrast the energy flux of a garden-variety gas pump is in the tens of megawatts.
Funding is prelevant. Governments, foundations, charities, donations, kick starters. What we lack is proper priority. We value things such as wealth & imaginary gods higher than knowledge.
I doubt Tizen will take off. Samsung's software prowess is nowhere near to companies making and capable of making world class/sophisticated OS(or mobile OS). There is a lot of things that goes against Samsung which is in the company's DNA (culturally embedded it) and those are the things that hinder innovation and cutting edge research(esp. from s/w research perspective). (Probably the same things actually help them do great in the numbers game and on factory floor)

And even if it does. Samsung is the one vendor that actually sells Android phones - those millions of phones and I am sure Google gets a cut from it, not to mention ads and other ways of monetization. So, it is unlikely Google is denying them early code access. Other OEMs have failed on one more front - providing upgrades and this is where Samsung beats them all (except Nexus line; last 2 Nexus were from Samsung BTW). HTC makes good phones(better than Samsung IMHO, at least some models) but their users are doomed on upgrades. LG is not even worth mentioning. We have their phones in test lab and almost they all suck. We've yet to see where Moto goes and what it does. I guess Google will try to pull an Apple with Moto(though it's just a guess, I've no solid backing for this argument). Sony just keeps trying to make their devices all the pretties and they end up screwing the overall design and their s/w support is even worse than LG.

Tizen is not fragmenting Android. I also had doubts about it and talked to the guys working in that team and they explained it doesn't. They also said that Tizen Android app experience is nowhere going to be near the native Android experience.
There's a lot of work to make sure this is actually a safe thing to use. I know lithium ion batteries are pretty dangerous, but you need to be damn sure this is as safe or safer. How does it hold up to heat, cold, punctures, short circuits, etc? What about degradation over time?

Also, there's a lot engineering that needs to happen about how to integrate the proper charging circuits. Plus all the work that needs to go into actual mass manufacturing.

In all there's a shit ton of work for any product to actually make it to a mass market.
> there are always those who wants to conserve the status quo and try to find any arguement

Driving without people being physically incapable of being distracted by their text messages is a status quo I'd like to preserve.

There are a lot of potential awesome application of Glass, including to driving, but to ignore how it would extend our current technology-while-driving-issues is simply being myopic.
Perhaps sit down 30 minutes before going to sleep and read some? It's doubtful you're doing much right before going to sleep that is productive and it also forces you to lay down and relax before sleeping with the added benefit of accomplishing your goal of reading. I find reading before going to sleep to be the best time as I have nothing else to do and it's a better alternative to say, watching television
I imagine most everyone with kids will agree with this at some level. The environment changes dramatically.

For me, I discovered that work and programming and problem solving slowed down, in a good way. While not suggesting comparability, it's something that top athletes have consistently remarked on -- how the game slowed down for them and it made them able to move about more effectively as they competed.

I experienced the same thing as a developer after I had kids. Problems seemed more clearly defined, challenges seemed not so insurmountable, and alternatives with little/no chance of succeeding became more clearly defined. I absolutely attribute that to having kids, and the mindset it imposes on you as a responsible parent.

It may have been that I needed something else to focus on in order to ensure I was not missing the forest for the trees. Nonetheless, having kids and being a better programmer? No one could ever convince me that's not the best outcome for my own circumstance.
Alright, I managed to read it. I guess that makes me a hero in this thread.

The professor uses mediation to hone focus, then hyperfocusing on a task. It sounds a lot like a fancy description of the Pomodoro technique, except that the argument is that meditation can extend the amount of time we can give to a task. The other central argument is that we can't actually multitask, and it does more damage to try. The point of not being able to read a whole book seems like bunk to me, though, since I read for recreation, and it takes the amount of time it takes. I can't sit and read a whole book, just like I can't sit and watch a whole season of a television show.

I don't buy in to Pomodoro since I think it hurts to force a time limit in either direction, but I do believe that hyperfocus helps get tasks done. I notice this most of all when coding. I will fall in to a deep zone and just go. Eventually, something will bring me out of it (either hitting a wall, or finishing a block of functionality, etc), and that's it for a while. I will toggle out to Facebook or something and recover. Eventually, I'll go back. This cycle has been successful enough for me, just not forced to 25 minute blocks.

The one big point I did agree with is that, in a way, I have become a slave to my phone. I react when it dings, without much respect for what I'm doing. Just last week I disabled notifications for my work email, and have been much happier. I still see the badge count, but that's under my control to check, and I just don't. Same for desktop notifications - they're off. As important as I like to think I am, my email can wait, and I'm starting to think the same way about social notifications, although they are still more sparse and don't really hurt my focus.
"extraordinary power to confiscate property"

Confiscate property? Gold coins were to be traded for $20.67 per ounce, not simply taken. No confiscation occurred; the nation simply ended the practice of using gold currency by taking it out of circulation.
I'd really like to be able to save the rendered svg as a file.
> Not everyone has connections!

Not everyone has the specific skills needed to do the job, either: to be maximally employable, those are both things that you would do well to develop (I'm much better at the skill side than the connections side myself, but that doesn't stop me from recognizing the fact that connections matter a lot.)
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Show HN: SendhubDroid, an android client for SendHub
I hacked together an android client for SendHub a while ago. It requires you to register on SendHub and then you can use the app to login using your API key (SendHub has no support for auth using passwords at this point, or I don't know how to get it to work with Android) and send SMSes to people.
100% agree. Typically lack of time is prioritizing it to other distractions that could be removed. Doing some self examination of how one spends their time makes you realize how much time you spend doing other things that could be eliminated if you really want to read instead.
Why would they ban voice-enabled cars and force people to hold phones? That doesn't make any sense.

If you cannot comfortably see the map while driving: stop, memorise fragment, then drive. Where you cannot stop, road signs are usually available. Most automatic assistants in cars say the instructions out loud exactly so that you don't have to look at the screen.

New cars already display that kind of information on HUDs. They're usually minimal, so that you do no see the whole map.

(PS. Please do not drive with a phone in your lap. This is extremely dangerous. Just stop and find your way.)
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Dude sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Not hiring parents is a great idea if you just need some warm bodies willing to kill themselves for beanies, but that doesn't say much about your company. If you're looking for people with real expertise, then you're limiting yourself greatly by focusing only on people who are still single into their 30's (not that there is anything wrong with that, it's just atypical).
They don't give fig about playing with Glass. They care about money. It's a shake-down, don't you see?

New technology emerges, gets a lot of buzz, and catches the attention of corrupt legislators, attracting "interest" in the way a successful fruit stand on the Lower East Side would attract attention from mafia types selling "protection". Google responds by commissioning studies showing the fear is baseless and hires lobbyists to present these findings, along with large checks made out to the reelection campaigns of the legislators in question. Wash, rinse, repeat.

There's a variation on this racket in which a business with a competing product or service registers the development as a threat, commissions its own study detailing the dangers, and hires lobbyists to present these "findings" to lawmakers. And of course, these also come with checks. A skillful politico will play one side off against the other, shaking them both down for more and more contributions as the issue is "studied" in greater and more excruciating detail. Barring any reason for the general public to get involved, and start sending letters, this racket unfolds in peace, day-in-day out.

"So why", you ask, "don't we set up a system of public election finance and attack this system at the root?" Because (mumble, mumble, mumble) Freedom! Also, "Ah don whan ta see mah tax dahllers goin' to some pinko commie freak tryin' to destroy America."

Okaaay.
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Ah, so Google's work on self-driving cars is just a ploy to remove one objection to Glass. These guys are playing a long game.

I'm not sure whether I'm joking or not.
The title should be rephrased "Samsung wants its future to be Tizen, not Android".

I doubt they will succeed, though.
> What you propose would reduce output; if it was optimal for firms to hire the unemployed, in place of those already employed, then they would do so - unless they are prevented from doing so by labour legislation, which doesn't seem to be the case the U.S.

Payroll taxes definitely do work in that way (not as an outright barrier, but by acting as a market distortion which encourages investing in expanding production through expanding capital rather than doing so by expanding employment rolls when, before considering payroll tax costs, it would be equally or more efficient to expand production by expanding employment.)
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Unfortunately, when approaching an issue like this you cannot do so without adopting a sexist viewpoint yourself. To begin to analyze workers in terms of sex or gender to begin with, itself is sexist, the same way that affirmative action is racist.

It's fine and good that companies want to hire more female engineers. But this article is lame, which you should have picked up on when the author used the word "rockstar"
> The only sensible conclusion I can come to is that making a desirable mobile OS is far more difficult than it appears,

I'd say making a desirable OS is much less difficult than trying to displace two operating systems which, combined, take up more than 95% of the current OS mobile mind share.
Git is not an immutable data store. The refs are very mutable and change-sets get garbage collected.
The major problem I see from data driven decisions is the lack of logical failsafes for causation versus correlation. I think you'd have to know more about the waste disposal landscape for this particular anecdote to be able to draw these suppositions about individual restaurant compliance.
I think the Dakotas would like to have a word with you.

Also, Wyoming.
I did. It is a good read.
Yes, it's a flat fee, it only increases if you want extra coverages (full pay on day 1 of sick leave, unenmployment, etc).

The mandatory minimum doesn't increase which income†, but since you are also paying towards your retirement, you can choose to pay more, if for example you are in your final working years, so that you get a better retirement. But I'm not thinking about that right now :)

I am not the right person to ask about these things, and I may be wrong, but I think the workaround you are suggesting would cost, in the best case, the same as being autónomo on your own. You'd be paying about 250 € in taxes for a worker with the minimum wage (758 € in 12 wages).

†: of course you will have to pay income tax later (annually if >=70% of your income is B2B, quarterly if not, so many random rules!).
There's no reason to believe that google glass wouldn't be aware of the fact that you are driving (e.g. Looking at distance traveled) and tailor information accordingly (traffic reports, best path)
Current devices in the car cannot cover the centre of your view with some graphics. In most cases they're designed so that it's actually impossible. Can the same be guaranteed for Glass? I'm not even thinking about notifications and apps. What about a random app crash / reboot - how will that affect your visibility while driving?
Once you start getting to large scale purchases you'll tend to need to do a lot more hand-holding to close the sale in any case.

It's not about pulling out a credit card and just paying for the service, but about multiple people in the customers company having to approve of the purchase (including the team manager, their manager, the CIO, the purchasing department, legal, etc.)

One of the key parts of an enterprise salespersons job is to help the individual at the company who wants to purchase the product to navigate their own internal purchasing process.

Enterprise sales can often involve more work in-term of onboarding and ensuring your capacity scales to handle them correctly. Enterprise customer will also often want to negotiate pricing and have custom legal terms drawn up (NDAs, etc.).

Because of all these factors it doesn't make sense to have an upfront price because the sales price will vary from customer to customer.
Anyone else remember when this was posted a few months ago? (I wish my account was named pepperidge farm, just for occasions like this.)
How does this compare to the commercial system Chronon[1]?

[1] http://chrononsystems.com/
> Google Glass is a distraction in much the same way a mobile phone is while driving - it's removing your attention from the road to do things such as texting.

Google Glass could be a distraction in much the same way as a mobile phone is while driving, it also could be a huge help in driving. A driving app could display speed, navigation, highlight pedestrians, provide blind spot assistance, etc etc. It's really too early to tell and definitely too early to legislate.
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