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Ask HN: Amazon AWS / Microsoft / Oracle / $company Partner programs worth it?
I would like to look into starting a business and cant really think of any products to start off with. I feel offering businesses implement solutions can be a start as I am using my technical and business skills and then if I can see a need for a product I could eventually develop it. Worse case just continue running a solutions business. To that effect how good are the partner programs that big companies have ? If I wanted to become a AWS partner and turn that into a successful business what are the big risks and how easy or hard is it to find clients purely using the partner program ( Say I dont have that many contacts in personal network) ? Would this kind of venture be a good idea for a technologist who current full time job is that of a solution architect?
None of the clients I've used have passable lists support. Bitlbee (my current client of choice) doesn't have /any/ lists support.
I'd hate to see a significant rework of the UI for Craigslist--it's so bloody simple that it exactly solves the problems I have, and the site is so barebones that I can browse it on near anything without issue.

New shiny is emphatically not needed here.
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this is the internet, you're free to omit the 2nd e and just call it MEANR. hell, http://mea.nr is available.
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They just want people to start pumping all their life savings into a stock market bubble happening right now that's about to pop, so goldman sachs can get other people to take the wrong end of the trade in 9..8..7...
Yeah, the capitalist part or definition of freedom. The freedom to chose is vital. Think back to all those articles posted about silly insane interview, bad employers, etc. If you are financially independent, you can simply walk. You can choose. You are free.

I often wonder is this is partly what goes on in the UK with our welfare state. We have, or once had, that freedom to chose because we could rely on a base level safety blanket.
Please expand further. I would be very interested in what you base this comment on and examples of better versions for these.
I'm really surprised to see this comment on Hacker News of all places. I would imagine the commenters here would embrace with open arms a period where thy can stop working and really do the things they want. Really do anything. All of those projects you've been kicking around. Do that. Its' really not far off from what you said about working part time for the challenge, but instead you're working for yourself.
After using Airbnb for quite a long time, I’ve gone back to hotels precisely because of this. Holding up my passport next to my face for 10 seconds at a hotel is sufficient to get me checked in, while my Airbnb hosts never bothered to check my ID. Now a photo of my ID is going to live on some third party server with questionable security for ever. Choosing “Confirm Details” yields an empty list, so I’m SOL.

If somebody swiped your credit card, you can get a new one with a new number, and call fraud protection right away. Almost nobody laughs at you because your card is ugly. Not so with any form of government identity.

What that will really work for me is an obscenely high security deposit set by the host.
Some do, as a concession to lousy software.
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Now burnt on my retina

Cannot unsee this
Yeah, ok.

But none of this is what Dustin's post was about.

The post was about people asking him if he thought their product could be successful, and how he mistakenly dismissed them as being destined to fail.

Your views maybe valid, but your commentary is off topic.
Exactly. With Twitter, it's impossible to make sure I've at least glanced at the important stuff. With RSS, I can go through my list a couple of times a day, and know that I'm caught up.
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I really hate tinfoil, but sometimes I read things like this and just get a bit worried:

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2012/12/01/school-allows-privat...

Even at the level of "Well, they just needed a contractor and look who shows up", this sort of thing is deeply disturbing.
didn't Tagged get sued for this?
Rather, SagelyGuru is describing how to manipulate an Overton window.
Where we require a constant supply of freaks and side show accidents, of clowns and strongmen to feed the show of 3rd rate tabloids. And remember, any circus can only have one director in his impeccable top hat shouting down to the audience, not more and not less.
Yup, this is the notorious nProtect Gameguard (http://global.nprotect.com/product/gg.php).

It is even worse than most anti-cheat clients which "only" monitor and notify.

Not only will it actively pre-emptively change the state of your programs, some changes irrecoverably, but in addition it cannot be independently uninstalled, i.e. the game publisher who bundles it has to provide an uninstaller for it or it will not be uninstalled if you remove the game.

Gameguard is also believed to contain a keylogger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard).

It is basically a commercial rootkit that is relatively easily circumvented by cheaters anyway.
I don't think anyone is saying it's a solution to all problems, just that it might be a problem to some problems.
What I'd like is the ability for two editors to work on a file at the same time, so layer locks might need to be built in. A db seems to me, a novice in everything relevant(!), to be a good way to allow multiple applications access whilst controlling for collisions.
A sensationalist tabloid in the UK might well call candy ( sweets UK) and fizzy drinks "house hold chemicals" to ramp up the "evil" factor.

Frankly I am please to see the word "terror" hasn't been weaved in just yet.
If you like the Microsoft ecosystem, an MSDN subscription can be a really idea because it gives you a lot of software licenses for the money.

As a marketing channel I'd be skeptical of a partner program. If you've got a contract that has some kind of exclusivity or otherwise gives you a special edge, that's worth something, but being in a program that thousands of other organizations are in just makes you a face in the crowd.

A partner program might be helpful if you've already got something to distinguish yourselves from competitors, but until then I'd avoid it.
"very limited datatypes"? You haven't used Postgres very much, have you? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype.html

And those are just the built-in ones, not counting PostGIS and other ones that you can define: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/extend-type-system...
Cant some science favouring educational establishment give her a scholarship?
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(Disclaimer: I'm not a developer.)

I still use a resume. In my opinion, if I were hiring a developer, if the person doesn't spend the minimal effort of sending an updated resume, it shows lack of interest on his part. Providing additional links would be a great supplement, but I can't see that as a pure replacement.
150/360 = 5/12, so 150 deg = 5pi/6 rad.

Clearly we could use this calculator. :P
So... I must ask you... are you, what america would consider, "African american" or of african descent?
Where I live, fruits and vegetables are ridiculously cheap, and meat is rather expensive. For example, apricots (which are just now in season) are $2.50 per pound. When the height of apricot season kicks in, the price will come down to around 50¢ per pound. But if I want a steak I can expect to pay at least $12 per pound.

I take a certain comfort in the notion that this price difference reflects the true cost of producing meat. Likewise, everything is locally sourced because there isn't really any other option, so everything taste fresh. Produce is only available when its in season, but this adds a fun sense of anticipation as the seasons change.

That's one point of view. The other point of view is that feeding antibiotics to cattle improves yield. Transporting produce long distances ensures that it can be grown where conditions are best, and flying fruits in from Chile means that supermarket customers can find what they crave even in the middle of winter.

The US has a long tradition of asking "can we?" not "should we?" Sometimes, as with the Apolo mission, this is a very good thing. Other times, as with the issue addressed here, it can be rather bad.

Edit: Also, as I always do when this topic comes up, I'll point to this extremely useful list on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antibiotics . This battle is occurring on two fronts: the bugs are becoming more resistant, and we're having an increasingly hard time finding new weapons to fight them off.
Yep, it used up most of what they had set aside for college though, which contributed in large part to my not finishing college, but that is something I am also glad turned out the way it did.
Ask HN: How to find viable product or service ideas for small business 
My objective is to work for myself and eventually turn that into a sustainable business, but I am having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly are the next steps in order to move towards my objective. My current perspective is one of trying to find a idea for a product or service as starting point. Do I need a different perspective ? or Just not thinking hard enough on what product or service to build ? Thanks for your help !
+1

"Tobacco has made a small number of people incomprehensibly rich, to the great detriment of humanity."

incredible isn't it how we still allow manufacturers to sells products (at considerable profit) like this that have been proven to make people ill, or at worse, die.
The OP is right.

Twitter has replaced RSS for most people, most of whom never used RSS in the first place.

That does not mean that Twitter is superior to RSS, though. I loathe Twitter and love RSS. It makes me upset that Twitter is winning, but that doesn't mean that the OP's headline is wrong.
"Worst case, you might mix something like bleach and ammonia, and kill half the school."

Wow, alarmist much? Two seconds of googling suggests that it makes chloramine, which isn't exactly mustard gas ( http://chemistry.about.com/od/toxicchemicals/a/Mixing-Bleach... ).

As for not knowing what the mixture will do--well, there's a really obvious way to find out, right? We're all about TDD here.
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> I think most of us agree that good ideas are solving problems.

I'd agree that some good ideas (i.e. ideas that survive) are solving problems. But "solving problems" is only a (decent) heuristic for good ideas, not something that causes them to be good. Satellites stay in orbit by tricking laws of physics into not crashing them on the ground, and not because they're useful for us. In the same way, ideas survive by tricking social dynamics, not because they're solving some problems.
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Range Rover Sport models. The fastest SUV ever built by the Land Rover is a prime target for an up gradation and redesigning due to its demand.
Your _personal_ ethics can easily get you _fired_.
What will this Medium post look like in two year?
Good point. Your comment about being face in the crowd is similar to the gut feeling I had. I guess the question now becomes how does one really start a professional services business (read I'd like to have a business where I can help other businesses migrate to the cloud, which I think can be a viable service business)
Yeah, multi selection has pretty much replaced my use cases for find/replace. And I work faster that way too.
I like it! I though it had a simple, smooth, and intuitive interface. I tried my local zip code.

What is your business model?
That's an intro course for non-majors. Scheme is use in the curriculum for majors (the 151 course), but it uses the How to Design Programs text, not SICP. The Honors curriculum uses Haskell as its functional language, with touches on some other bits.

On a personal note, I learned using SICP up at Northwestern, but I'd be hard-pressed to justify it to a non-engineering school. Much of the math used in it hits harder on the engineering-style calculus (compute all the things!) than a more discrete math-y style that would be more appropriate for CS programs with a closer affinity to a math department (or schools like the UofC, which does not have an engineering program at all).
Exactly. An interchange format should be editable with standard tools included with windows, and it should be easy to write all the code needed to extract part of the file yourself. Sqlite has many benefits, but realistically the only way to interact with it is through someone else's code. That rules it out as a suitable interchange format.

Any performance benefits sqlite might have are easily outweighed by the ease of interacting with the zip-based format.
No, I am not, I am very white and nerdy.

I am surprised at how much of the discussion here has focused on race and racism. I don't see that being a factor here; this is simply how public schools in America work.

I did not, however, have a perfect disciplinary record; I had been suspended a couple times for "hacking" type activity.
I'm not sure if it's any better, but the standard term for what you're describing is "having FU money", the state of being able to say "FU" to your boss. You can and probably will keep working, but it's on your own terms.
It could be interesting if we could follow someone only for some hashtags. This would be an interesting way to filter the feed.
Wow. In the EU wire takes 0-1 days, but often in a matter of minutes.
To me, she is almost the perfect kid. She is curious, proactive and resourceful. What more could she be?

I really, really hate to conclude this, let alone say so in public, but I think the answer to my question is: "white".

If she were my student, I'd have her back after school, under decent supervision, to see what else she want to blow up, or to put it the proper way, experimental with. Hell, use it to kick of the most inspirational after school chemistry club ever.

Man, what are these people thinking? So sad, a child's natural curiosity becomes criminal. That should never ever happen.

Reminds me of child hackers who end up in the clutches of the law. The whole thing is perverse and absurd.
Depends. In many cases of antibiotic resistance, the actual "resistance" is a matter of degrees. For example, Penicillin interrupts the cell walls of bacteria, so in Gram negative bacteria it is only active in the periplasm. Some forms of Penicillin resistance work by metabolizing the Penicillin before it can do its thing. Other forms work by simply pumping the Penicillin out of the periplasm. The former mechanism requires a specific enzymatic activity. The later usually just requires tuning the pre-existing pumps that maintain the environment of the periplasm to be more specific to Penicillin or pump faster over all. In fact, most "multidrug resistance" genes are simply pumps that can exclude drugs from the insides of bacteria in general.

But really, this is just the shortest of short answers. If you want to know more about how these things can evolve, you should read about Richard Lenski's long-term experiments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_exp...
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I like this quote:
"This isn't really about a particular scientific
breakthrough. The movie is really a conversation-starter
to get kids and other people talking about - and excited
about - math, science and technology."
Technology gets the momentum once it is demonstrated to be used in some fun or even crazy ways.
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That's a very good comment.

But I'd like to know what chemicals were in the bottle before going too far into a conversation on this, as that defines how dangerous her experiment was. There are certain household chemicals that you do not want to see in a reaction that generates a small explosion and smoke. Some that will burn the lungs severely or cause blindness.
He's using 5% which I assume is the real (after inflation) growth rate.
Well, IMHO, this story is about racism. I've read too many stories on african americans ending up with criminal records for things I've seen non-african americans do without consequence.
Also, I have a similar experience with chemistry class in high school. While a white kid burned holes, dropped chemicals he had no business messing with, and other moderate damage to school property more than 5 times, _in front of everyone including the teacher_. I did one thing, that didn't endager anyone, didn't break anything. I booted up an old AppleII computer and played music on it(the bubble-bobble invincibility theme music I coded in BASIC)..... ended up in the priciple's office for "tampering with chemistry class computer system". This computer wasn't doing anything; it was covered in dust.
Mom & I went to the principle and, as it turns out, the principle totally tore up the write-up from my chemistry teacher in front of us, then she said "Don't worry about it. I know that teacher of yours. This isn't going on any records. It ends here." She was white, in case that impacts this little story of mine. Chemistry teacher was a white male. And my parents were born & raised in Nigeria.
At the website:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Or as a pdf:
https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf
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There's been a recent blog by John D. Cook about doing the same thing with SymPy, which is fairly nifty:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/30/recognizing-numbers...
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FWIW, while I disagree with your stated opinion, I can also see how you came to it. I think most of us here realise that your opinion is separate from your past employment.
Seconding sohamsankaran and natrius on this. Joining an improv club easily counts as one of my best decisions.

Let me recommend the book Impro (http://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-John...), in particular.
Sure, it's probably more prominent for someone like me who doesn't code for a day job. So it's not just limited to the context switching associated with syntax, it's the peripheral things like language / framework conventions, packaging systems, etc.

I am definitely curious about other languages, but I don't have the inclination to spend the time to learn them well enough to build something I would put on the internet. At least not when I can put together a pretty performant / scalable app with a modicum of effort using this stack.

These things may not be of much significance to a seasoned polyglot dev, but for someone who only really knows JS and is an infrastructure guy by trade, it makes a big difference :)
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This seems quite backward - if France wants startups to succeed, why would they block a majority buy-out for nationalistic purposes?
"Yes, they do. All the Microsoft Office formats (DOCX, XLSX, etc.), all the OpenOffice formats, all the iWork formats, ePub, Safari extensions, Chrome extensions, JAR files, and countless other general public-facing formats are exactly that: loose collections of files that contain an index file (or multiple index files) and are combined using zip. "

In other words, a single encapsulating file... Which was my point?

The exact implementation is hardly relevant is it?

"No, you couldn't."

Of course you can. Just include hashes of the different resources within the file and only the parts of the file that contain changes needs to be downloaded. Or implement something more general along the lines of the rsync algorithm.

Taking html as an example you could also do everything transparently on the server if you wanted to. Or do everything transparently on the client instead if you wanted to keep a snapshot of each visit as a single file.

But no, I'm not arguing that we should encapsulate all web pages. But on the client side, if the user chose to save a webpage, the result should in most cases be a single encapsulating file.

"Many PDFs do, in fact, rely on this capability.[1] It's generally transparent to the user."

The keyword was only used linked resources. I think my point was, and is, rather obvious. PDF would never be where it is today if it weren't for its ability to encapsulate resources.

EDIT: My point isn't that all files should be encapsulating all the linked content. There must be a point to it. Web pages on a server, hardly beneficial... Image files? Absolutely.
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I think it works well in the writer's case. He knows his audience and has probably worked with them long enough to know where they like to go to eat. He's not taking the risk of McDonald's every day. There wasn't a chance that would happen anyway because even if one or two person wanted to go to McDonalds two days in a row, the group would win out and override it.
In response to mob / crowd politics and mentality (heavily driven by the tort problems, fear of lawsuits), America has become a lazy nation that does what's expedient to shut the most people up and 'resolve' a situation. That by default tends to drift toward harsh penalties, since the draconian level of the punishment favors what the squeakiest wheel in the mob wants.

If you want to fix the drift toward criminalization of trivial things, get some heavy momentum going on tort reform. Sooner the better.
The main reason you should do this is not so much as a CDN fall-back, but to prevent users from downloading redundant files retrieved from other sites.

Also remember to always use the https URL for the assets, whenever able.
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Agree. I guess they (the school) really fear that this could be a repetitive trend and they want to crush it by throwing the expulsion in for her. It is unfortunate because - like you said - she doesn't seem malicious.
Javascript libraries come and go, especially as Javascript is a tepidly developing language. It's very likely that in a few years the current crop of JS libraries will be out of date and people will have moved on to something else. Compare this to the relatively stable world of LAMP. Linux hasn't changed, nginx is popular but Apache is still the standard, databases come and go but MySQL is still here, and PHP is still quite a popular choice for web applications.

Will the MEAN stack stand the test of time? How many forgotten JS libraries litter the timeline of web development?
It's really amazing, glad that I'm one of the backers when it's on kickstarter.

And I know it's shameless, but my LIVEditor project also allows you to "navigate to any page you want and start live modifying the it", I just made a 1-minute demo video here: http://youtu.be/t91IoDxo9aY
Exactly, there is definitely a market in further improving Python as the go-to language for scientific computing. Matlab shines with its toolboxes and Python has a long way to go in that respect but as a language is much better thought trough. When I read "Matlab in the cloud" I also figured they simply meant a Python in the Cloud toolset with the appropriate environments/libraries/IDEs.
I am fucking bored out of my mind.
I am fucking bored out of my mind, I will build your MVP with the most scalable/ well written code for your product. I have scaled products to millions of users, ex 500 startups cofounder /CTO.

My promise is to build a well written/ designed MVP, in exchange for equity in the product. Pitch your ideas to me and hopefully ill help you get started.

My email is Kevin.sakhuja@gmail.com, Skype is ksakhuj

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