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I generally aim for

1. Make it right.
2. Make it work.
3. Make it fast.

Once code works, it's all too easy to move on and leave it the way it is. It also usually takes significantly more time to take code that works but is god-awful and clean it up than to take code that is well-factored and make it work correctly. The former usually involves rewriting large fractions of the code (frequently breaking it somehow in the process), while the latter usually just requires minor tweaks after automated testing.

"Make it right, then make it work" seems to me to take about twenty percent more effort than just "Make it work", but half the effort of "Make it work, then make it right." And dramatically less effort as the time between "making it work" and "making it right" grows.
GitHub donates private repositories to women learning open source software
Markdown is in the same bucket as make, bash, and C. While many people today (thanks to the benefit of hindsight) could make an improvement over any of those, it's virtually impossible to make a big enough improvement to outweight the cost of giving up ubiquity.

Already being installed on the machines and minds of millions of users is incredibly valuable for a system. It's fantastically hard to compete with that, which means that many successful systems end up being a local maximum.

You could make a new system that's strictly better if you could get everyone to use it. But before everyone is using it, it's not better enough to get them to switch.
Slap a couple of singles on an album, populate the remainder with filler, charge more, profit.

Do you also consider a novel to be a couple of short stories mixed in with a pile of filler? Or songs to be a couple of choruses surrounded by filler? What you say is true to some extent for pop artists who live and die by the single but there are lots of excellent albums where the different tunes are thematically related, and gain substantial extra depth from their juxtaposition. I much prefer albums, even in electronic music genres.

At $15US for a CD that consists of the two songs I want, and the rest crap

Maybe the problem is that you're listening to inferior music.

As for relying on touring, there are a lot of artists who are excellent musicians but who don't like touring or live performance - Kate Bush springs to mind, as well as many bands in obscure genres that can't build large enough followings to support a tour, and only perform occasionally. And new bands, for whom this is a particular problem. You don't just decide to go on tour and watch the money roll in, it's actually a bit challenging for new bands to find bookings which is why managers still exist. Then there's expenses that go with touring like a vehicle, gas, posters etc (for marketing) and so on, which have to be paid for up front. Add on the cost of hiring session musicians, stagehands, and so on and it starts to mount. Touring around a single US state and playing 20 gigs over the course of a month for a 5-person rock band requires about $10,000 up front. Chances are that if the band is good they'll break even after the first week or two, but people like sessions musicians and roadies have to be paid whether or not anyone shows up to the gig.

One of the things that record labels were good at was providing advance money for such things and doing the marketing required to build an audience outside of a local area that would support the expense of a tour in the first place. Musicians don't usually have much money. A manager will have the contacts and enough seed capital to build a band into local popularity with small tours, but scaling things up generally requires a much larger chunk of capital.

Think of a band like a startup, the manager like the lead angel investor, and a record deal like the series A. Some companies are well suited to slow but steady organic growth, others need that injection of VC money at the right stage in order to succeed. Companies like Twitter or Instagram can't necessarily rely on organic growth because their value derives from network effects at scale, and they could never afford to do that if they tried to extract money from their first 1000 users.

It's one thing not to like the RIAA, but most criticisms of arts industries on HN are severely uninformed about the economic facts of life in those industries. Musicians don't automatically make income from touring any more than programmers automatically get rich from stock options.
And this is the top rated comment? None of these "misconceptions" have much to do with the main point OP is making: we think too small, and we pick the wrong analogies and frameworks when we discuss an alien visit.

If anything, your post is yet another manifestation of this. It simply doesn't matter what happened to native americans, when the entire Columbus story does not apply.

And what do your comments about googles in pockets and drake equation have to do with anything? Do you have anything to say about actual point the OP is making?

Ugh...
Just a note for Amateur Radio operators, they are seeking help in hearing the packets!
This was certainly a pleasing change to read. We need more women in tech!
I consult God.

God said 640x480

God said no child windows.

God said single-voice sound

God designed Solomon's temple and my temple.

God says...

and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel unto Ramah, 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art
old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us
like all the nations.

8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to
judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected
thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that
I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have
forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall
reign over them.

-----

ROFLMAO

God says...
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Perhaps- then again G+ has a volume for each of your circles so you can get less of the less interesting stuff on your feed.
This is impressive wants me to start using Curb just because it's easier to pick up this way. I am still waiting for the grid parts for now though :)
Thanks! That's very inspiring :) I worked in a similar position for a short time long time ago but after that I hadn't been able to find something similar. Good thing to see that people can find those sweet spots! :D

It's very true what you said about all the implementations available now. Although, for most algorithms I tend to try to implement them myself as a learning experience, maybe the biggest exception is standard SVM since it is kinda tricky but even for that there are some online algorithms that are easy to implement.

Thanks for sharing your experience!
How to build a sales team
I'd add one thing, though about an optimized stack for a startup with a lot of unknowns. I've attended a couple hackathons and such and seeing how much traction and how quick small teams are able to piece stuff together with a JavaScript/Node.JS/MongoDB stack is pretty staggering. Not sure if it scales far down the road or what issues people will run into, but having a single language across the entire stack seems to have some productivity benefits. Especially when you have a developer that has to work in two or three of the layers (UI/Server/DB) all at once...

There was some VC around here who talked about the advantage that startups have because they can choose some of these tools to quickly develop in and such...
So, most people agree that the point of music copyrights is to incentivize the creation of music.[1] Has there been a steep decline in the amount of music created since 2005 compared to the heyday of CDs, 1995-2005? Putting aside arguments along the lines of "pop music these days is so much worse than pop music when I was a teenager", is there any serious argument that music is of lower quality?

If not, shouldn't this be an argument for a reduction in copyright strength?

[1] Occasionally people argue that copyright protects the artists moral rights to the music, regardless of societal impact, but let's ignore that minority opinion.
Sounds like a good deal - selling direct rather than through the traditional dealership bs, they can make people a lot happier.

Wish I could iterate the model S's industrial design... plastic nose bulb would be first on the chopping block.
I'm under the impression that this is a British/US thing. I've always associated use of IT to include software in general with British authors.
I agree with you.. something else to keep in mind is that a lot of these startups have millions in funding too. If you're bootstrapping you can't afford to just rely on cloud services like AWS.

Picking the right infrastructure DOES matter if you're hosting it in 1 machine in your basement. It matters less when you got millions in funding, a team of developers, and machines with 32 GB of RAM in your disposal.
The problem with this is that we're all in the business of making money. You want to put constraints on your customers to give them urgency to complete their trial, so they can then become paying customers...thus keeping you in business.

With any business that requires configuration (like setting up tracking on your site or entering candidates in a CRM), you need to push your users to get over that initial hurdle. A short time constraint forces them to act quickly to try to get value out of your product. They can always sign up for the trial at another time if they're not ready to really commit to setting it up and using it right now.

The added benefit of all of this is your sales team then works with more qualified leads and spends less time talking to people that would fit into your "paused" category, which can often become a deadpool of unactivated users.
The fact that the other ambiguity references a stackoverflow article suggests that the author may not have actually looked at the spec.

TBH the article reads like an elaborate advertisement for Creole.
I haven't read the article, but when I say, in a certain context, that I don't consider clojure a Lisp, what I might mean is that clojure is not descendant from the original McCarty lisp. You can trace Common Lisps or Emacs Lisps roots from MACLISP back to that. In such a context where the definition of "lisp" is sufficiently narrow, I might call languages like clojure and scheme "lisp like languages", or "distant dialects".

It isn't any different from saying Linux is not Unix, but the various BSDs are. It doesn't really matter at all, and when used in the wrong context, such phrases can be confusing.
How's this different from Balanced Payments? Other than the supported countries. Do they do ACH? What's the holding period?
I feel exactly the same. For whatever reason, it seems like at every point where markdown and reST diverge, the way that I naturally want to write lines up with markdown (so I rarely have to look at the docs) and reST does something completely unintuitive (to me). So writing reST just feels like it's fighting me on every little thing while markdown almost always Just Works (for me). Sphinx and ReadTheDocs are great, but I dread having to write reST to use them.
I want to thank HN for possibly saving my arse. During my lunch break, I put some gas in my car. During the fill-up, I noticed the anti-tamper stickers on the pump were all broken. I paid it no mind, finished the fueling, bought some lotto tix with cash, then left.

Came back to my desk, fired up HN, and read the article upon which we are commenting. Simmered in paranoia for a little while, then called up my bank and told them my card might have been compromised. New card with new number on the way.

Now just have to remind myself to check my transactions until the new card arrives.
Just email me directly and I'll get your private community setup.
Karmanetics is like Intrade, but legal
I found an online posting of a secondary school textbook reprint of Arthur C. Clarke's essay "We'll Never Conquer Space,"

http://www.olivenri.com/conquer_space_files/Conquer_space.pd...

which lays out just how vast outer space is, and how time (with travel being strictly limited by the speed of light) as much as distance limits the feasibility of voyages between stars, especially back-and-forth voyages between stars.

A blogger on a planetarium website

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/why-we-will-never-conquer-s...

and the maker of a Prezi based on Clarke's essay

http://prezi.com/uxc2owcv5ekp/well-never-conquer-space/

both emphasize that traveling to a nearby star is already a huge task.

The probable density in the universe of intelligent living things (the "aliens" of the title of the submitted blog post) among all the many stars is low. All those aliens run into the same hard physical laws we run into if they attempt to make a voyage to another star. To the most relevant correct approximation, our probability of meeting interstellar voyagers is even lower than our probability of being interstellar voyagers, and our probability of being interstellar voyagers during the lifetime of anyone now reading Hacker News is nil. Remember, we have not even visited Mars, not even on the proposed one-way trip,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5390730

and humankind has delayed in traveling to Mars far beyond my imagining (I thought that the trip would be made in 1980s, and even dreamed of being on the landing crew) because humankind has higher priorities and better claims on our shared resources. So the submitted blog post title is correct, even if you quibble about the blogger's reasoning (as I do). We won't meet the aliens, because the aliens won't make a trip here before we all die.
Just reread your blog post. I wonder if the answer is not about being careful simply with the people you choose to bring in your network. Maybe it's too hard: you choose to trust your immediate connections, but what about their connections? Is the friend of my friend my friend too?
You see that question on social sites where you can choose how far you wish to share your "privacy". Friends? Friends of friends? Everyone?

Another way is perhaps to have a dedicated setup, like the dedicated pizza boxes that google rent to customers. I know a guy who does something like that, he's got something offering a panel of functionalities similar to linkedin, but I don't know if that would correspond to what you're looking for.
Attacking Generals and Buridan's Ass, or How did the chicken cross the road?
Maybe not off that market cap but from everything I've read, Bezos and the Amazon leadership isn't focused on market cap. They're making a tidy profit, even if it's not as much as you or the market might want, and are running a great business. That might be enough for them.
Privacy is "off the table," says New York City police chief
Accessing root on a device by using the built-in debug mode counts as "jailbreaking" now?
Jailbreaking isn't quite as fun when it's a matter of

> reboot-bootloader

> fastbook oem unlock
Is this the first working triple gear? I'm having troubles understanding the significance of or uses for this device.
All Skulls On: Teaching Intersectionality through Halo
>When I'm programming, I close all email and instant messaging applications

You can't do that when you code and also run a business. I'd love for this to catch on, I'm going to discuss it with my team at least for IM.
Super, moi aussi. Still impressive - translating/maintaining our materials in French seems daunting even though I'm a native speaker. Perhaps it'll be more feasible with community involvement.
Hi, shark developer here.

First of all, we are glad that our library is discussed on this board! We are happy for every feedback we can get!

Regarding Performance: we try to get the key algorithms as fast as possible. And for the hardest parts we rely not on ublas, but use optional bindings to ATLAS. Speed was one of the key design criteria. We hope that we achieved that. Clearly this is no guarantee that every algorithm is fast, but in this case: just add a ticket!

Please bear in mind, that Shark is still in beta stage, and we are heavily developing it (I am right now working on the family of multi class SVMs). So for example parallelism using OpenMP is not fully integrated.
No, it can't. The chip works with a challenge/response system (and this only works after the pin is input to the chip)

What happens is that they clone the magnetic strip, so sometimes that and pin is enough to produce a card that does withdraws.
Put Your Head Down
I don't think it is so obvious that almost everyone should choose to base their projects on PHP. The only time it should be an obvious choice is if you have lots of PHP talent.
So you create a graph that maps all music distribution methods until, say, 1999, and then you ignore everything else that happened except iTunes, and blame iTunes.

Sure.

Remove iTunes from the graph, and what you'll see is a big gaping hole where the next generation music industry product should have been.

But more importantly, it shows that said next gen product should have already been in place well before piracy even became a factor and iTunes was just Steve Jobs' wet dream. If anything, it illustrates the utter failure of an industry coasting on the unprecedented success of the CD when everyone else could see that physical carriers were already on the way out.

The industry had the time, means and opportunity to shape the download culture. Instead Napster and iTunes did. Not because technology moved so fast, but because the industry stopped moving.
Oh wait, she's busy making tens of millions per tour with $150 tickets.

...and this is why going to a concert is so much more expensive than a generation ago. Which has the awkward side effect that young people in particular don't go to as many concerts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/business/26excerpt.html?pa...
Yes

And then your card is useless when in a place that only reads the stripe (like, that uses Square)
Whatever Tahoe is, maybe it's not succeeding because their web server is throwing Connection Refused errors?
This is really great, can you make the same thing for bootstrap?
> The challenge, I guess, is to advertise that these places do exist - but I see so many 'Geek Girl Dinners' type events I can't believe that is really the case any more.

I wish it was that simple and this was already solved, but even in the Bay Area it can be frustratingly hard to connect with people who come from similar perspectives. I was just at a women in tech event last night and three of us went off for sushi afterward and we all talked about how frustrating it can be to find people who feel like us and how nice it would be if it wasn't so difficult.

I think the starkest variant of this I've seen was when one woman asked another: "Why should we even bother trying to increase the number of women in tech? Sometimes it's not even a good field, why should we be working so hard to get women into it?"

The other woman's response was simple and to the point: "I do it because it'd be nice to have someone to go to lunch with."

The truth of that statement isn't so much in that she couldn't have found anyone to go to lunch with ever, but the relative truth that exists when you feel less comfortable in a group because you're the one who is so different. For many people, tech is a place where everyone is different and different is cool and great. For women, different is often still just different.
I heard about a similar incident in the Santa Clara county jail. In that case, the inmate, ironically facing a federal counterfeiting currency charge, managed to make a skeleton key to the jail by cutting plastic from a jail-supplied Rubbermaid bin that was supposed to be used for storing personal property. The inmate got the general shape of the key by looking at it as guards passed by, then perfected it over a period of weeks by sticking it in the lock and attempting to turn it. The lock made marks on the plastic where the teeth were supposed to go. The inmate was caught and all plastic bins removed from the jail after the key was finally good enough to open the lock, which set off an alarm.
Cool thanks for the heads up. Might have to check that out, since I'm still searching for how I'm going to manage my websocket connections to a server....
>Kids like this are usually doomed unless they can get proper mentorship. In an academic environment where the outliers are picked on relentlessly, they'll develop a talent for appearing "adequate" and nothing more. Being unusually smart is just as big as social liability as being unusually stupid.

Maybe.

I came up through the public school system and worked in it for a while as an adult. Based on my experience, I'd say you're overstating that that liability a bit.

>"Gifted" programs are a start, but these often include children with wildly varying skills, from extreme right-brain thinkers (highly artistic, under-developed math and language skills) and left-brain thinkers (highly analytical, poor artistic skills) means it's very hard to keep all members of that group sufficiently challenged. What is effortless for some students, is nearly impossible for others, and vice-versa.

Again, I I'm not sure how you would qualify saying "often".

>I went through a program like this. The learning experience was terrible, but at least as a collective group you didn't have to be too concerned about being an outlier. You were in a whole group of them, safety in numbers and all that.

Of course we're different people and programs, but that surprises me.

My social experience was miserable at times, but the teaching was great with few exceptions.
I don't buy the idea that they wouldn't need to come here, because their statistical models, based on remote observations of conditions, would be able to predict everything they would find.

I think we've learned enough about complexity and sensitive dependence on initial (and later) conditions to say that, unless we're wrong about complexity, the outcome of all these historical accidents wouldn't be predictable. They would still have to observe, meaning explore, to see what ended up actually happening around the universe and, in addition, they would never know for sure if they had already found all the Black Swans out there.
I don't think markdown is anywhere close to this.
This is interesting. I've started out in digital and start-up consulting in the last 6 months or so, since i feel consulting suits me best, but recently i've been having second thoughts. Especially since i'm in the UK, and possibly the kind of companies that might want to work with me are probably in high tech hubs or similar.

But the blog has given me new food for thought.
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I like reStructuredText since it is very readable in plain text form, which I think Markdown sources are very often not (and it bugs me).

Just like the other markups, there are nice tools like rst2man, rst2pdf etc, and you can use it for making both slides and reports.