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ah, the phdcomics style of 'oh god life is so terrible as a grad student yet also strangely appealing'.

it's not really like that.
"Selling stuff online isn't an artistic exercise-- it's an analytics and psychology exercise."

Does these imply Apple does sell much online?

I do like the idea of setting up some tests and doing some measurements. The tricky thing is testing for the right thing. Guys typically think of shopping as: I want X, I search for X, I buy X. But when it comes to women and fashion it's about window shopping - not knowing what you quite want until you see it. How does one measure a UI for such a use case? Browsed items per minute? Number of items of interest found per until time?
Have you actually tested this on a complex system?

What? Have you actually tested the multiplication table with rocks or buttons? That's simple math. Memory consumption is in front of you: I already pointed you to tools and told you what numbers to use.

Your last paragraph only restates what I already said: Java is for few-processes-per-machine use case. And cloning 42MB of code into every process is insane, I can't believe you're actually proposing this. BTW, that's compressed 42MB, you seem to actually be using J2EE download size to estimate your RAM consumption. Nice.

I am amazed by the damage done by Java lobotomy at US schools and have very little hope for progress moving forward: UNIX clones from the 70s are here to stay, not only we can't hope to advance in that area (OS design) but I'm afraid we're losing skill to even comprehend existing systems.

One more time: right now, as you're reading this, nearly all processes of you machine have much, much larger code segments than data segments. Most of your RAM, young man, is consumed by code, not data. The code-vs-data ratio becomes even more ridiculous if you're running a few instances of VMWare. Most of the time you're waiting for your Macbook Pro to do something, it's pushing code around. And the reason Vista is so bloated and so much slower is because it loads a lot more code into RAM than XP did. So yes, code sharing is hugely important. A server machine, however, is very different: there a very few applications and lots of data, so using something inefficient as JVM makes sense if it speeds up development/deployment.
I work for the Austin American-Statesman news company in central Texas.

This is how our Internet Editor answered that question http://thequig.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/op-ed-how-the-states...

Here are the many twitter accounts our reporters use to distribute and collect news and information http://www.statesman.com/news/content/standing/twitter.html

The team I work for wrote a tool to aggregate/retweet tweets from our staff and "widgets" to display them on various pages of our websites. This is mostly used during major events such as SXSW, elections, or Longhorn Football games as a fast way to collect and publish news and tidbits from our staff in the field. And also, of course, to engage/serve the Twitter community with news and information.

In general Twitter is a communications tool. If your business benefits from communicating with its customers (not all do) then it can benefit from Twitter.

But, like all things, it takes effort and can be done "wrong". It, like all things, is not a silver bullet.
It's not illegal to pay for an anonymizing service in most parts of the world including Sweden.
Nothing a little bit of good old fashion American financial wizardry can't solve.

Take a $60k cash advance out from a credit card (or other source). Next, invest $60k into your start up. Finally, pay yourself $60k, and use that to pay off the credit card.
Yet many birds learn complex vocalizations from their parents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vocalization#Learning
"Naïvety balanced by an experienced advisor’s cynicism can be a healthy combination."

Neat and well written - agree wholeheartedly.

But a team of entirely newbies, first timers, and folks in their twenties should have an experienced advisor - or a few - to help them avoid hurdles. Up there with Passion is Experience, I say.
How does Python help anyone control anyone else better? Especially versus something like Java or C# where you can just replace cogs and not have to train them when you bring on new staff.
"a video element that isn’t interoperable"

The img tag isn't hugely interoperable, but it'd be a sad web without images. <audio> is a huge step up from the current madness of <object> <bgsound> <embed> or <flash>.

Are people out there really using XHTML still? It'd be interesting to do a poll to see how many are using XHTML vs HTML.
Ruthenium is rare, I would not be surprised if later research centered around the use of more available platinum group metals such as palladium.
Actually, I didn't change the link (not sure how/who did, but that's fine) - and didn't know I could post "Ask HN" posts. Now that I know, I will in the future. (still not sure how to...but can figure it out now I know its possible)

Looking at most everything in the new section, they all link to outside links, so I thought that was required - like Digg. I restated the question here AND linked, so I could get responses here without the need for people to follow the link. Extra traffic to Trogger was a bonus, sure, but after SXSW and the hype of Twitter that continues there, I was curious.
I fail to see the point or message behind this piece, it's all pure speculation and fantasy. Disgustingly so.

> Mainstream publishing is focused more on creating the market through one hit wonders. Mainstream publishing spends millions on trying to find the next Brown, Rowling, Meyer, or Roberts...

Erm, no it actually doesn't. It doesn't spend a penny on trying to find anyone, because you can't. It's not like music where you can scour a few 'battle of the bands' and maybe find some kids with talent.

Writers arrive at random and unpredictably when an agent takes on their manuscript. Mayer had a dream, wrote a book about it, got an agent (who realized it was good) and someone at Little, Brown and Company recognized that the 4 book series was worth an advance of $750,000 dollars so she wouldn't go elsewhere with it.

I'm sorry, but suggesting a single anything will kill mainstream publishing is preposterous. There's three things that could do it: #1 lack of new talent (doubtful, if anything there's more talent now than ever before), #2 lack of readers (again currently doubtful due to the fact that global book sales is increasing, even in the UK which currently authors more new titles per year than the US, despite having 1/5 the population) and #3 they fail to adapt to new technology (again doubtful, many publishers seem to be well involved with eBooks, which seems to be led credence by the fact that virtually every agent on planet Earth is walking around with a Kindle, Sony Reader or equivalent). The only thing currently affecting book publishers is the economic recession, which just like any industry is putting poor performers out of business and in a couple of months will reward good performers richly.

The suggestion that self-publishing is ever going to do anything is stupid, which tells me a lot about the blog. Anyone who knows anything about publishing, is that you should avoid self-publishing like cancer, because that's what it is. When a company will offer $750,000 to a new author with a great story, why would anyone want to pay thousands to a company that just hands you a giant pile of unedited books?

This blog article honestly disgusts me, as does the blog. Their knowledge is sub par, their criticism and judgment is equally so.

For Amazon to get anywhere in publishing it would be by offering bigger advances, bigger percentages and offering more money to the authors. Amazon can't do a thing without authors, and Amazon isn't going to get anywhere without being able to draw masses of talented authors, which they cannot possibly do without offering crazy percentages and advances to authors... which will only make the amazons 'publishing' more likely to fail. Bluh, it's just stupid faulty logic and it hurts my brain.
Nice lesson in bottom-feeding.

Although I currently am on a diet which precludes alcohol, I've always had a couple of favorite Australian wines. I've even gone so far as to contact some of the wineries and have them ship a case or two for my cellar on occasion.

It's a shame to see some of these good brands being lumped into the rest of the rabble. But I guess wine is a market which naturally subdivides by region, so that makes pricing strategies very interesting.
My read on Apple is that they're not a software company - they're a hardware design company that feels passionately about the software not sucking and detracting from the design of the hardware.

Last time I knew, Apple's turnover on engineers was fairly high, higher than I expected for a company of that stature.
Somewhat OT -- how do you have negative karma? I thought you can only vote up on hacker news.
I wouldn't worry, paper books aren't going anywhere soon.

I just bought sony's e-reader on the weekend (the kindle is too closed-down for my taste). It's nice, but I think most people will prefer paper books for some time to come. It's great for Project Gutenberg books and open content though.
Andrew's sister is "the Girl" of Keith and the Girl, the wildly popular podcast. So, the whole lot of them seem to be ridiculously talented.
If it is transmitting patriotic North Korean songs, then it shouldn't be too hard to find it.
Doesn't necessarily mean there are 55% fewer job openings. Could mean that jobs are getting filled before they make it to Craigslist.
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It disgusts me on levels I cannot describe that this is standard operating procedure for ruby modules (gems, etc) and is the main reason I could never use it. Adding and replacing methods on builtin classes? Are these people out of their minds?! I don't understand it. I've used monkey patches once or twice and it always feels really dirty.

Which is why good Rubyists use these tools sparingly and sensibly. It is not "standard operating procedure."

Programmers of any language can misuse the tools made available. Tarring the language with the brush of its poorest users is disingenuous.
In fact, since the kindle is a closed platform, feel free to lock me into amazon until I have bought enough books to pay it off. I would immediately order a kindle for $0 that forces me to buy the first 100 books at amazon (as long as the pdf function is not crippled). $100 / 50 and other combinations would also work.

I do consider myself an early adopter. But the current asking price is too steep.
Yeah, I didn't realize only admins could change links, so I apologize for that.

Still, I'm not sure what your role at Trogger is, but if you're involved in marketing or promotional stuff you should understand why I and the other people who voted you down reacted the way we did.

Next time act in good faith. Ask the community directly and if you want to post a link to your own startup don't pretend that you "found it" on "some community site." Tell us up front that it's your startup and gosh HN is great and we'd love your feedback, etc.
SEO Advice from Someone Not Selling It (Some Contrarian)
> it used to be the case not so many decades ago that you might only hear your favorite piece of music a dozen times in your lifetime.

That depends greatly on the category of the music. If you are talking about a symphony, then certainly. But if it was a song you and your friends all liked, then you might have sung it often.

Let's remember that music, particularly singing, used to be something that people did when they got together. That's what folk music originally was. See also "drinking songs", which were the music in bars before everyone got used to listening to top-notch musicians all the time, and collectively decided that ordinary people singing wasn't worth much.

But today "folk music" gets performed on a stage.

In the U.S., church meetings are pretty much the last remaining environment where large numbers of people regularly sing together, but it's fading even there.

Sad, I think. (And, yes, I realize I have wandered from your point.)
Also, the animation transition going for one tab to the other is cool, but it's too much, it will soon get on people's nerve.
Where did you go to grad school?
I started to twitter a few weeks ago, and I was occasionaly posting links to promote my content, but when I check my google analytics, i hardly see any referal from twitter. So at the moment, i'm still unsure about how effective twitter is to my business.
Actually if you read the article it's a metal complex with an organic complex attached. So it is, in fact, both.
"their definition of those terms just differs from yours."

That is what most people don't understand.

There is a best language. It just varies from programmer to programmer. Also picking the "right" language for the job is overrated. Should pick the "right" language for the developer(or switched around pick devs who's right language is the one your code base is written in.)
Isn't it so that the harder the spammers try, the easier it is to pick out their signatures?
Part time programming work in Silicon Valley is hard to come by even when the economy is good. I'm not sure why exactly, but people here treat employment as an all or nothing proposition. I found it much easier to do random short-term and part-time contracts in Boston.

However, there are some niches where companies are more likely to hire part-time contractors: systems administration, "creatives" (i.e. flash) and recently, iPhone programmers. Thus, if you can stomach doing systems-y Rails stuff, I would could check in with the Rails hosting places. EngineYard & Heroku come to mind. I know people in both crews and they seem like they might be amenable to a part time thing if you're good. Also, Twitter contacted me about a systems position last week and the guy on the phone hinted that they may also be looking for full or part time Rails contractors.

Good luck!
Ask HN: Do you keep old e-mail?
I've been cleaning out my e-mail recently, getting rid of superfluous newsgroup subscription emails, old newsletters, unimportant messages, and the like (GTD-style). I keep my inbox at zero, but only clean out the archive every so often; I have Mail.app set to send all messages to Gmail's archive by default.

If I'm honest about what I need to keep, the only things left look like they'll only be a few messages for sentimental value or product registration info, both of which I could export into a filesystem if I really want to keep them. But most software and websites let you retrieve your licenses if you forgot them anyway, so perhaps that isn't even really necessary.

The last time I went through my box, I went from thousands to a few dozen e-mails; I haven't missed the deleted ones one bit. I did the same cleaning of my old hard drives earlier, with the same results.

Do you keep any old e-mail? If your box dropped out of the cloud today, what would you wish you'd have kept?
If the FBI allowed them to have access to their data by copying the hard drives over, why not let them have the rest of the system back? After all, the original hard drive is the only part of the system that retains data/evidence.
I sometimes wonder if it's an age thing. What's the media age of management at the AP? Could they all just be hoping to eek it out for another 5 years until they retire?
"Let’s do the math. We paid webmasters 10 cents every time one of their users used our greeting card engine. We got paid up to $3 by venture-backed firms every time we got those users to register for these venture-backed firms’ services. That’s how we got our margins."

I think the lesson here is that making money on the internet is greatly facilitated when other people are willing to pay irrationally large amounts of money for what you're selling. Product quality may have played a role in this story, but it sure sounds like the critical step was recognizing the ridiculous inefficiency that existed in the market for eyeballs (i.e. paying $3 for something acquired for $0.10)
A lot of people are using Twitter desktop or mobile clients which wouldn't pass a referrer. Have your direct accesses gone up?

Also, just posting links to promote your stuff is a really ineffective way to promote your stuff on Twitter. Twitter is about the conversations, not the broadcasts. Engage in some meaningful conversations related to what you're trying to promote and you'll see the benefits.
New Web address endings could be start of turf wars
If the data has legitimate evidentiary value, the FBI should be taking images of the drives then returning the full servers to service... and not the other way around, where innocent companies only get disk images back.

What's more, with the right equipment and staff, this could have been done onsite at the colo facility, in the first 24-48 hours, turning machines back on as soon as the FBI had a forensic copy of their persistent storage.
Ask HN: advice for my startup
Hi everybody,

my name is Darwin and I'm new to this community. Very excited to have found HN and have been following all the threads for quite a while before thinking of asking your advise.

I have a one year old baby and I'm concerned because he doesn't walk or talk yet, he's not social and not very active, the big guys like techcrunchie, lifehackerz or scobelicious don't want to play with him. we feed him regularly and he seems like growing day by day, but i guess we are concerned that he's not growing fast enough. And Oh, the baby's name is TripnTale.com

any tips on SEO, usability or marketing I can do to drive the awareness?
Lisp is also expressive, readable, and writable.

Honestly, Python claims to sacrifice expressiveness and writibility for readability. That whole "there's only one way to do things" is the opposite of expressiveness.

If you want to optimize for writibility and expressiveness, you want a language that won't prevent you from doing anything you want to do. Lisp is definitely one of these languages.

Anyway, your comment reads of blatant fanboi-ing. If you like Python, that's great, just say that instead. It's much better than inventing bullshit "reasons".
Point definitely taken, and I will. I'll also definitely use the Ask HN feature now that I know it exists, since that is what my goal with that one was. I do think there is a really knowledgeable community here, that I'm working to learn from as I start to get into this field.
I find myself checking the date, because this sounds like such a professionally stupid move (after looking at what the SFC has actually done... AKA a few unwatched youtube videos) it looks like 95% proof mid-life crisis.
As I said, I'm against gun control too. But I'm also in favor of facts, and the facts seem to indicate that having more guns around just might allow more people to impulsively kill themselves.
I wonder if that's why twitter search is one of the few useful sites that my big-company IT department doesn't block.
how about being a freelancer, will that violate the visa requirement for part time job?

if you're talking about bay area, i'd start with craigslist.
very nice intro article... though was surprised it didnt mention anything about FUSE - a way of writing file systems outside of kernel mode - and writing it quickly...
We've started posting announcements, conversation starters and small contests on our company twitter account (I've been doing it on my personal account a little longer).

It's still early, but I think it's a promising way to get the word out on stuff and start conversations. When we release new site designs or app features, it's another way (besides our blog) to get the word out.

Also, another strategy is to use the search feature and find people looking for product recommendations (this happens more than you think).

Search is also good for finding people who are frustrated with your customer service–or your competitor's.
Excellent read. Just excellent. I know this comment is a little pointless, but there's just nothing to add.
I've done this process of quitting a job while on EAD (pending GC) recently. You need a) a letter from a full time job which pays at least as much as your GC application.
b) transfer the GC application to yourself/your lawyer.

Yes, financial wizardry can get the job done but when push comes to shove, you will end up paying employer taxes yourself.
I think one of the arguments raised in one of the Jurassic Park books was that parents are necessary to teach "culture"; in the novel, the raptors were incredibly aggressive, going as far as fighting each other and killing each other over food, instead of just fighting hard enough to show the beta male his place.
Marketwire for distribution of your press releases. They have a "tech hotspots" (or something like that) package that's startup affordable, and well targeted.

If you're in an area with a decent tech scene go out and meet relevant people to your industry. Talk to them in person. In my experience this is exponentially more productive than anything else.
I hate to suggest this, but I've had friends who've had a lot of luck with coughLinked Incough put you email address somewhere easy to read so potential leads do have to jump through any hoops when trying to contact you.
The reason most architects don't reach prominence until their later years (NY Times Architecture critic Ada Huxtable pegs the age at close to 60) is not due to a disconnect with the education and actual profession, but moreso because clients are less willing to trust and untried architect with a multimillion dollar project. It's similar in almost any industry, you need to slowly climb your way up the experience ladder, except a single architectural project will take years to complete, thus lengthening the amount of actual time it takes to get a "trustworthy" amount of projects under your belt before you can win big deals.

The exception to this rule are open competitions, as this give young architects the opportunity to vie on a level playing field (e.g, the Pompidou)
There is something these articles never address that I am wondering about.

Cloned animals are very susceptible to certain kinds of defects. Now, is that propensity to problems something they would pass on to offspring? If not, then the goal we need to have is to get cloned animals that survive long enough to reproduce; their offspring would be physically normal.

Essentially, callous though it may seem, the clone would be just a "throw-away", while the clone's offspring would be the real goal.
All else being equal, requiring less effort is a good thing. Artists who optimize on that variable are better than those who don't. Sure, you can trade it for depth (which is why good art often takes effort) but it is backwards to therefore disparage work that is easier to understand.

Nabokov is a great writer who, unlike Joyce, was able to make his work relatively accessible. A first reading will be very rewarding. Nevertheless, repeated readings bring out more depth and continue to be rewarding. I think this is a skill to be admired.
You forgot a step: Lose about 20% in credit card fees, employment taxes, and income taxes.

Still might be worth it, though.
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Huh? Lisp is very expressive, readable, and writable.
I'm also planning on targeting the LLVM. I am just interested in using the PCT to minimize annoying parser work...
No, the "metal-organic" catalyst mentioned in the article. It's apparently a "metal complex of the element ruthenium". H2O2 is produced as an intermediate product. My comment only makes sense in the context of the article. :-)
Wasn't it that they paid $.10 per user, and then, if they converted, got $1-$3? Without knowing the conversion ratio you wouldn't be able to say what the margin was.
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Getting past the pie chart