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> Agreed. At the most, tea should be left to infuse for 1 minute (loose tea less than that), especially for Black tea blends. Any more and it just kills the flavor.

Depends. I can leave my Pu-Erh in overnight, and the flavour is still fine. (But Pu-Erh is well known for that.)
its brilliant, i dont know how they do it!
> Drinking green tea with impurities like fluoride [...]

That's not an impurity. Camellia sinensis picks up fluorides naturally.
Xkcd - Time
Yes. But it seems that lady made her tea from bags.
that being said, i get emails about fashion startups from tech-y outlets like general assembly and the like most every week now...
The image in the comic changes as time goes by - Reference - http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=101043&p=3301862

One of the earlier images - http://origin.imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time/8eb156cce408df8bb835...
That would have been my answer a year ago as well, however we've (continuum analytics) put out our own distribution now which gives you much more - all for free.

https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda
How are they not making any money with the large margins they see? Could you elaborate?
I've been reading up on all of the hacker schools (Dev Bootcamp, App Academy, etc.) and I was really excited to find out about Hack Reactor: I have very minimal programming experience, but have found JavaScript a pleasure to work with.

I look forward to applying to Hack Reactor when it's financially feasible! :)
OP, please do not listen to this advice. I understand it represents what might be considered the "realistic" perspective but it is not. No one is saying that it is easy.

But to pursue another career? That's ridiculous, given your apparent skill-set -- it's ludicrous.

Clearly, the parent here is wrong because there are plenty of people that have felony convictions and work in tech. So, this advice, on the face, is really horrible.

A felony is a serious matter. You may have excluded yourself from many jobs, possibly all the companies the parent has worked for; keep in mind the companies the parent has worked for must be a small subset of all the companies you could work for.

Even being completely honest and open, I think you can find a job. You may or may not have to go outside of comfort zone (moving or what have you) or, perhaps, do some work in non-security related areas of programming (or maybe not, I just mean to say if you broaden your search you increase your chances).

A felony is not good but if you tell your story, I think there are smaller companies that would take a chance on you; perhaps you'd even find potential employers, because of the nature of our industry, that will not think as negatively of your conviction as if you had been convicted of some other kind of crime.

There's a lot of fish in the sea, you don't need every one to hire you, you don't even need one of the companies the parent has worked for to hire you, you just need one of the many more that are out there to give you a chance.

Be honest, tell your story as eloquently as you can. Someone will give you a chance. I believe there are some on HN that would.
This might be off-topic, but it reminded me of some recently uploaded documentary footage of a 1996 LA teen subculture "Dirty Girls".[0]

0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3MxEHQk644
I created a demo login user: demo@reader.is password: demo@reader.is
I would hire that dude. Why not.
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Recently bought an older Asus model for just $40, and it also happens to have a 3G mode, allowing you to plugin a 3G USB dongle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_ci...
The Carrefour logo is an excellent example. I only noticed the C a couple of years ago; i had lived 20 and something years thinking the logo was just a weird arrow. But once you see it, you can't unsee it hehe.
Tigran L. Petrosian (the younger) is no relation of Tigran V. Petrosian (the late world champion).
This is what happens with companies who get too slow to innovate. Oracles best days are behind them, I feel.
Sure about that? Romania is not in the Schengen area..

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/bor...
You inspired me, i will follow my dreams and nothing will stop me.

Thank you so much.
Sites like these have huge expenses. In addition to having to pay staff ranging from programmers to models, they take on a lot of risk when they buy and warehouse the products. Consumers are fickle. If the site buys the wrong stuff, they are perpetually losing money on it as it takes up space in the warehouse.

The business model for online fashion retail is for the founders to extract as much cash as they can for themselves while it's hot and leave investors holding the bag when it's not.

I would take any article about such a company with grain of salt. One thing these companies do well is PR. Getting media placement often comes easy for them as employees of magazines, newspapers and blogs are often into fashion themselves and are eager to run a story about something they are personally interested in.
She said that eBay was a terrible place to start a business.
Since I've never heard my entrepreneur friends say stuff like that about 500 Startups ;-) and it's probably too soon to rank accelerators on performance, I went looking for something more scientific. This evaluation is the best I could find -- 500 Startups is #10: http://tech.co/reports/startup-accelerator-report-2012
Chess has many lessons to teach the entrepreneur, or indeed any businessperson. One is the difference between strategy (aka planning) and tactics, and the vital importance of strategy.

I've seen too many companies run entirely in reactive "what do we do next?" mode - you can't do that and win at chess or life.
> He is allowed to share his life experiences and offer his advice to the readers of an online discussion forum

Of course he is, but it's embarrassing that HN has voted his comment to the top.
Actually I suspect the reason Datastax is growing is less because of Cassandra but more because they are one of the only cohesive enterprise class database, analytics and search platforms around. Having Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr in a tightly coupled, well supported package is pretty compelling.
One can also use a disjoint-set data structure. Make a list of walls as tuples containing the "room number" (cell index) of both adjacent cells. Add all cells as disjoint sets in a disjoint-set data structure. Shuffle all the doors (tuples) randomly. Then go through the shuffled list and for each door: IF both sides are not part of the same set already: remove the wall. ELSE save the wall, it is part of the final maze.
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I assume that the D and E in the Wired PR logo is meant.
The world would be a much better place if there were more straightforwardly helpful posts like this. +1,000,000 internets.
yeah but you can't ask Product X to tell you about Product Y because they honestly don't know Product Y well enough to speak to it.
> we must be active in the fight against conversation degradation.

Pardon me for using slightly political terms, but I feel this phrasing has weird totalitarian undertones.
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If you mean ContentProvider [0] that is really only useful for highly structured data. Falls apart pretty quickly for non-relational data files and documents as well as media, or do you have some counter examples I could consider?

[0]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Conte...
Worst use of lmgtfy ever?
Is there seriously a sex scene in the background?!
that's true and a really interesting company.
> than any government agency raiding everyone's bank accounts, and keeping cash at home won't protect you from it

Why not? They will be busy going through houses from the "citizen armed lives here" list. Don't keep cash; I said keep most in silver coins. Don't keep in bank ready to be raid; keep at home in safe.
Not scrapping. For different reasons I am using a private proxy on AWS and I have to turn it off to access HN. Anyone knows if it's a temp issue?
That... is tacky.
Yup, I used to believe it until the Bush administration drove up the deficit more than any Dem administration ever had and all but the Tea Party gave him a pass. The GOP pays lip service to the idea, but they are anything but small government.
Awesome bike mate! I'd love one of those but I currently get by with a racer for work and panniered up road bike for shopping but that bike is the bomb! Some couriers use them in London, if I had somewhere to store one I'd buy in a shot! Enjoy!
Datastax, Datastax. Must have appeared 20 times in the piece. I'm sure they are a great company but Oracle's real problem is Postgres (and, to a lesser extent, SQLite and the various MySQL forks). Oracle might want to consider paying $1B to the Postgres devs to sidetrack development for a few years like they did with MySQL.
you seem to know about the costs associated with fashion retail. I would love some advice for my own start-up. Can we chat? My email is in my profile.
Banks have always been a counterparty risk. To some degree, what's happening in Cyprus is just making that abundantly clear to everyone.
You really haven't convinced me. Inconvenient to use? Whe dollar will get heavily devaluated you will see the green paper you hold in your hand losing value. People will be trying to get a rid of it. You know what happens when more people wants to sell than buy; make yourself the rest of the story. Meanwhile silver or gold is an "international" currency. IT will hold more or less same value in each country. Using silver coins will be very convinient to use.
I don't even know if it's that Oracle has slowed, but rather their product has become too complex for them to sustainably innovate. They tried acquiring other options for the low end, but it hasn't worked. (Berkeley DB is theirs, for example.)

That said, there will always been a need for the product Oracle provides in the largest of companies. NoSQL isn't going to be running reports on the fortune 500 anytime in the next two decades, and neither is Postgres, as much as I like it.

Death by a thousand cuts will probably still be profitable for decades.
I would say, take the same mixture of creativity and willful persistence that led you to crack systems and apply that to getting a job you are happy with. That combination of character traits will destroy most obstacles in time.
Wait you can what!?? Holy moly, I've been writing JS for like 3 years now and I never knew this.
In a way yes, the hypervisor is the new OS, although a very thin one.

Some kind of microkernel, yes. With the set of required features for hardware abstraction and virtualization, with everything else being provided by the respective language runtime.

This is much faster than traditional operating system stacks, and may provide a way into bringing microkernels into mainstream OSs.

When using programming languages that come with batteries included, meaning with a good set of libraries for all the usual OS services, then removing a few layers between hardware and application helps running everything faster and increases security due to a smaller set of code.

The guys behind Microsoft's Singularity project are also researching something similar for Windows, a project named Drawbridge, where the full OS runs on a hypervisor as a set of libraries in user space.

Anyway this is nothing new, the idea of a virtualized OS goes back to OS/360, it was just kept away in the mainframe world and is now becoming mainstream.
Samsung seems to be actually making hardware for Tizen, though, unlike HP.
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90's hacker ethics
Isn't this exactly what UIDocumentInteractionController, etc accomplishes? [0] Each application registers the data types for which it is a "viewer". Application with the content provides a way to open the document interaction controller with reference to the document, iOS supplies icons of apps that can open it, user selects app and it opens with a different launch options so it opens the content directly.

There is nothing more fine-grained than file-type but mime-types, win32 registry keys, etc have always just been conventions really outside of a few well-known types. BFS (beos) tried to add in metadata attributes to the filesystem and it was pretty slick, admittedly.

I guess I can kind of see the complaint about wasting space on duplicates but if one app is a viewer, and the other is an editor... well I think the OP comment is kind or obtuse. Sandboxing files is a much better approach for lots of reasons.

Apple made the right decision, let each application organize access to its information in the way it best sees fit. If it's a tree view, ok if it is some skeumorphic bookshelf, ok.

[0]: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/...
It couldn't happen to nicer people... After my last upgrade of the Java virtual machine on my laptop, I found the installer had kindly installed the Ask toolbar on all my browsers, too. It left me with quite the bad taste in my mouth.
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yeah, that's crazy. luckily i had an old passport with a us visa (for complicated reasons) that was still valid. otherwise, they wouldn't have let me on the plane...
There are JVMs that run in bare metal, specially in the embedded space.

This was also the Lisp Machines and Smalltalk.

Native Oberon and AOS are also two systems were the language and OS follow the same principles, although the code is usually compiled to native code, or JITted on load.
This is cool, very cool.
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I consider UNIX the C language runtime in a way. :)
Since when has taking cash deposits been risky?

The Cypriot banks have been paying much higher interest on deposits than other Eurozone banks. (You'd get something like 5-6% in Cyprus versus 1-2% in stable Euro countries like Finland.)

When you're paying much higher interest than market rate, obviously taking a lot of deposits becomes a huge risk. The same thing happened with the Icelandic banks before the 2008 crisis -- they attracted lots of European deposits with high interest rates and lost most of that money on ill-advised investments around the world.
The sooner Oracle dies and hands Java over to someone less evil, the better.
I've recently made something that I hope to use to teach our new hires (who will all have programmed before, but probably not in javascript) the ins and outs.

It's called "New to JS" and is available on github at http://caplin.github.com/new2JS and the source is https://github.com/caplin/new2JS.

Keen to get any feedback / pull requests.
Yep - as long as dev tools are open. Works everywhere, even in eg. underscore templates, backbone init functions..
yep. definitly top-down chess enthusiastics - their former president is president of the world chess association and every kid learns chess in school since his "reign".
Because it follows a picokernel model, where it runs an hypervisor directly on top of the hardware to assure the minimal set of hardware integration features.

Everything else not required by your application just wastes hardware resources.

This allows for a higher use of applications per physical machine.
I work for an enterprise company (10K employees) and you are spot on.

Oracle will forever dominant HR, Payroll, SCM, Billing, FM etc type systems where more often than not they have custom software on top of it that has been built exclusively for Oracle. There is simply no good reason to switch. If anything the threat to Oracle will come from hosted apps e.g. Salesforce.

But what I've been seeing in our company is MongoDB dominating front end web apps and Datastax/Cassandra for more of the big data, analytics type workloads.

Oracle should be far more concerned with Amazon Web Services.
Ummm.. they did. [0] Let me know if you have any questions, happy to answer them but I really get the feeling you're not an actual mobile app developer?

[0] http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/FileMa...
It seems exceedingly obvious to me that you should leave. Which makes me wonder in the first place why you are even being hesitant about this decision.

1. You should not feel bad about anything. They could fire you at any time (assuming control is split equally among the three of you). You do not owe them anything. As long as you're respectful in telling them you're leaving, there is nothing wrong with quitting.

2. That being said, I also believe that you're a bit misguided about the best direction for a startup at this stage. I disagree that it is smarter to focus on developing an audience instead of building the product. In order to build an audience you at least need an MVP to show to potential customers/users. Your slow audience growth numbers are easily explained by the lack of a minimally fleshed-out product. You are not going to see huge numbers for a landing page. And many products require some sort of education / early adoption before they get mass traction. Speaking for myself, if I see a landing page I'm not going to even bother putting in my email on the invite list. I'd like to see a demo at the very least. The fact that you guys don't have an MVP after two months is a bit of a concern for me. I'm not sure how much responsibility you bear for that. This point is irrelevant as to your decision on whether you should leave, but it's something for you to reflect on if you ever want to start another company (by yourself, with others, etc.).
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I just finished working on my latest work, zigzaglab.com.

It's fluid-responsive and retina-ready. Everything has been achieved using only CSS3 (except for typekit and google map loaders).
I wonder how much support Intel is going to be investing into Tizen. On paper, a Samsung/Intel collaboration sounds considerable, but based on other comments it seems like there hasn't been much cooperation so far.
Outsourcing is something I need to get better at. For some reason I never feel at ease giving away control of my projects, which is why I often end up spending time on peripheral things like setting up servers or coding up mockups.

There's also the fact that I would feel bad about hiring someone for $12/hour when my own hourly rate is more than 10 times that. But at the same time, I would definitely not be able to afford somebody as expensive as me (or even half as expensive)…
also our dutch startup, fashiolista.com
Thanks! I actually was really wondering what it meant :D
It is not only your opinion. Numerous experiments show that playing chess does not add any skills across domains. As well as any other types of simplistic gaming.
This only shows how far Armenian education system from real rationale.
All my friends from Canada and South America find this hilarious.

But then South Korea simply calls itself Korea and ignores the north.
1. Someone paid $12/hour is actually a good pay in some regions of the world. Even paying a virtual assistant $5/hour in the Philippines make sense financially for them. So don't feel bad, you allow someone to be paid well and have great flexibility at home.

2. That's why the mini-project helps, you get to judge the person's trustworthiness. There is a risk in outsourcing, I can't deny it, but the returns far outweighs the risk for me.
And people think the homeless guy on the corner has mental health issues...
Ditch jsFiddle - Codepen is awesome
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I haven't used it for programming languages (though I intend to the next time I learn one), but I used it for my maths degree (for sit-down exam at the end of the year), and it seemed to be very effective. The danger is always that it can be time consuming to create the content for it.

Anki does look a bit raw, but worked absolutely fine for me (though transferring LaTeX-ed decks between devices was a hassle). There's also memrise.com, which mostly focuses on languages, but allows users to create content on any subject. It's also more easily shareable there, I think.

In any case, the science behind SRSs is good, and in my experience it helps a lot with memorisation!
What's wrong with "just using ImageMagic"?
Interesting story, but I find the whole cinderella angle extremely tiresome. Isn't cinderella about women dreaming about being courted by a rich man? Seems to me there are plenty of rags-to-riches stories/legends that are better fits - but then again, those are not about women...
they have spent more than 1000$ to pay for the video and want less than 1000$ funding. clearly marketing for mothers business
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Interesting article, but it gets a little too political. It lashes out at the Bush Administration, but those ships have been there since the 50's; a mothball fleet is also not really much concern for any high-ranking officials. Also:
“rusting and leaching toxic heavy metals"
Is there any evidence of this? Most nuclear-class ships contain their reactors far from the hull, and the only two types of ships that have reactors are modern aircraft carriers and subs. Also I think there may be some security concerns here - usually we are very protective of sub designs (just sail around San Diego's facilities and you can see the measures they take to protect them) -- do you think they patrol these waters for such a reason?
John Resig makes a good argument for JS as a first language. [1]

[1] http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/
I'm no expert, but [1] says:

> bcrypt is an adaptive password hashing algorithm

[1]: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
I wonder if they had called it "XPhoneOS" and targeted some type of gaming integration/compatibility with XBOX/XBLA if they would have had better luck.
I don't give that ranking any credibility.

Personally speaking from a Silicon Valley perspective (and having worked at a YC company before), 500 Startups is tied with TechStars on my list. I've never heard of any of the other accelerators on that list except AngelPad.