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Big thanks for the input from everyone. Very helpful to see where we're on and off track. Thank you!
I agree with what Michael said and would add that the CTO role encompasses far more than just development. A good CTO needs to understand product management, business development, and sales. He or she has to be able to present to customers, partners, investors, and the board. Managing a growing team is also part of the role, as is balancing business and technical demands. It's possible that your PHP hacker co-founder can do all that, but your VCs just might know someone more qualified.
I think the vast majority of Americans would not object to the government building solidarity and shared values. That is and always has been a core function of the educational system. The debates, to date, have raged about what those values should be.

My pet theory is not just that homogeneity of culture makes it easier to share wealth, but that it makes most things easier: dealing with crime, dealing with education, etc. E.g. in Chicago, there is a deep schism between the heavily black south side, and the whiter north side. Now, every city has poor parts and rich parts, but what's really stark about Chicago is how completely the two parts disassociate from each other, due to in no small part a lack of shared culture.[1] This is, of course, to the detriment of both. The school system (CPS) is a primary example. Its a deeply dysfunctional piece of welfare: generous on one hand (relatively high spending/student), but crippled by the fact that whites and the middle/upper classes all but "opt out" of the system (CPS is 90% minority and 90% low-income).

[1] My wife grew up in a small town in Iowa, where there were also rich people (doctors, store owners) and poor people. But there was tremendous shared culture: everyone went to the same high school, one of a small number of churches, participated in the same set of after-school activities, etc.
I'm by no means arguing that the DMN is a great source for any tech or business news. I am arguing that it is the most read publication in the area and it is representative of what is deemed important by our populous. And what is deemed important by our populous is not startup and tech information. Now if you want to vote for the best burger/margarita/whogivesafuck in town, then you are in luck. There is not enough interest/understanding of the startup world in DFW to even be remotely considered a startup/technology hub or up and coming scene.
Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
What do you consider good pay? If you have no candidates it may not be very good (or you haven't advertised the position properly).
Obama wants to crack down on patent trolls. That’s not enough.
Yeah, this program meets even the literal wording for nanny state program.

Even on a fiscally conservative level, this isn't a bad government program. It address a specific education / health problem and fixes it for everyone at a much lower cost than a lot of other attempts in other countries (think much fewer personal and administration costs). It is statistic-based[1] and save total cost[2].

I shudder to think of how expensive that box would be in the US after all the contractors and graft.

1) Although one would think infant mortality would be a straight forward stat, it actually isn't because of how people class "viable". Even inside the EU it is approached differently by different countries. One of the big dangers of comparing statistics across countries.

2) think problems that could be fixed in childhood / pre-natal as opposed to living costs later.
+1 for a Sickbeard setup. Been using it for a while with SABnzbd and it's great; I've got all the shows I want waiting whenever they air, or if I decide to download a full series.
Man AMD had better pull up its socks & provide some competition or there will be much more of this nonsense in future.
America also takes in taxes from it's vast population, so it still "costs" the same per capita.
Ease development of SOA components with Rack service stubs
What happens in Turkey... should not stay in Turkey
Seeing that many people from other countries are perplexed about what is really going on and why, I wrote this. Any input is appreciated.
They did design and manufacture a chip that is completely capable of all of the functionality - the economies of scale are completely in their favor. And now they want to make more money by pretending as though the chip is not capable.

In fact, it took them even MORE effort to design and manufacture in the ability to ACT STUPID, until you pay up.
Whether by design or accident, Go is filling the use case of "you tried Python but performance wasn't good enough". People will bring up cases like "you can't write a generic map function, or tree data structures!", but Go isn't the language for those things. In Go, you would just use a for loop or a dictionary-based map. If your program gets to the point where that no longer cuts it, then it's time to move on to a different language.
I've been facing this exact same problem for a while now. I've always wanted a network where I'm not confined by just the "friends" I know or the people I follow. I want content, conversation, not fame driven profiles. This isn't a spam or commercial for my own service. But my friend and I just released our own service to address these issues. We created raveler to focus on "tags", aka categories of content. You follow tags and receive the contents related to that. On top of this, we made sure that everyone (people who follow or not follow the tag) can contribute to the conversation by simply reply. Kinda like HN I guess. Take a look and I'd love to improve the service based on your feedback. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/raveler/id641285606?ls=1&...
doesn't answer the question, why should Tesla be granted an exception not available to other automakers? Chrysler has had all sorts of problems with franchise law in California in regards to operating their own.
The 386SX and 386DX were exactly the same silicon, but the cheaper model had a fuse deliberately blown to disable the maths coprocessor. It all comes down to whether you take the view that you're buying a piece of silicon, or a slice of R&D.
Uh-uh. This is called market segmentation and it's as old as the street. Haven't trains had a first and a second class for centuries?

It's great when I'm not interested in the top tier, I'm really glad the prices for my train tickets are (probably) lower than they would be because I'm being subsidised by people in first class. But I do like having the best CPU and a subconscious part of me feel cheated.

I know how it works, but I understand people feel cheated.
Mattermark (Formerly Referly) Wants To Be The Data Signaling Platform For VCs
Database replication explained
Ask HN: HIPAA help. Anyone know a good HIPAA consultant?
Working for a startup on a web app that stores patient information online for later retrieval by healthcare professionals via the web. Anyone know a good HIPAA consultant we can talk to that has a good understanding and familiarity with network security/encryption/web frameworks?

I've done several google searches but many of the results look like they pander to enterprise software suites and large companies.
But then the debugger can't be called ogle.
Startup uses Facebook data to help you discover new apps
To really get at this, you need to get people to make predictions about the future, not just about what some panel of judges thinks "correct" (even if I'd be more inclined to agree with the judges on any particular issue).
When Tektronix aged my 'scope out of support, the last free firmware update unlocked all those extra cost firmware-locked upgrades. A real class act.

I wonder if Intel will do the same a few years down the road?
When should YouTubers consider Venture Capital?
If I understand your solution correctly, does it mean that it's now the client's obligation to get the content from the revert-to version and create a new version and POST it to /posts/X/versions? That should work, but what if I don't wanna give the client the ability to create version arbitrarily (only allowed to revert to a pre-existing version)?
Securing WordPress: Hardening Basics
Obama Orders Changes to Combat Patent Trolls
Functionally, it seems like the logical combination of binning and the market pressure for cheaper machines. (Binning-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning)

Say you are Intel and Gateway/Dell/OEM orders X lower-end CPUs... great. However, you don't have enough that binned that far down. So, you have to cripple some ones that are more capable. Do you write it off? No, offer a way to have the end-user pay for the difference! Hey user, you want to unlock the difference between what OEM paid for and what we happened to give them? Here's a painless way to unlock it.

Functionally most of the electronics you buy are capable of more. Take a look at this: http://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippli... Okay, so what happens? Either everything's great and you got a free upgrade or the thing has a bad shader or memory chip and now you have an unreliable card.

I don't agree with the whole up-sale aspect of it, but, it just strikes me as Intel trying to make back some money on what likely was a crap deal for them.
Any particular risks you're alluding to?
How is it even *my* company anymore if “the market” tells me what to do?
Portal-inspired scene using only CSS
"Repulsive" needs some logical support. If your first developer lacks the necessary skills, it doesn't make sense to put the company at risk by setting him or her up for failure.
I just discovered that the Windows 8 Desktop can be closed like an App
It's a free market, always be interviewing so that you have offers to leverage your current employer. The cost of talent acquisition is high enough that it's always worth it to bump your salary than loose you to another company.
To be fair, comparing the costs of ACL surgery to Ron Paul's costs for 'making house calls' isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison either.

I'm merely pointing out that this is a complex beast with many contributing factors:

- The money/time investment to become a medical professional.

- The increase in the number / complexity of procedures over the years. Our medical knowledge keeps increasing we keep getting more and more ways to fix things.

- Comparisons without details. For example, people like to compare how cheap MRIs are in Japan, but the MRIs that people get in Japan aren't as powerful/accurate as the ones that are charged for in the US. Does this justify the cost difference? Maybe, but maybe not.
Leadership, Strategy and Tactics: Vision or Hallucination?
Cartoon Hope In a Jar
- Product Management: style/agile/waterfall

- Iterations: how often do they ship/what does QA cycle look like

- Pair Programming/Code Review: how does the company keep everyone in the loop?
Exactly. I agree with you that car manufacturers should be able to sell directly. I'd love to buy a BMW directly instead of dealing with a dealership. The laws prevent BMW and other car manufacturers from doing so. The laws need to be changed, but until that happens, IMO everyone should be following the same rules.
The original intent of the law was not to prohibit manufacturers from selling direct. The intent was to prevent manufacturers from competing against their own dealerships. Tesla has no dealerships.
If you ever have the misfortune to work near or in social services, then you realize yes they exist and are not an urban myth. Sadly, some government programs encourage the behavior (e.g. "free" cellphones).
What if you're self-taught? Getting actual, resume-usable job experience must look better than open source contributions, at least outside of the SF startup/hacker culture.
Show HN: Replay HTTP traffic in real-time. Use staging wisely.
ResearchGate Tackles Social Networking for Scientists
Your comment doesn't make sense, the locking functionality is perfectly legal and is actually a net-gain for the consumer (they now have the option to upgrade when otherwise they would have received a hardware locked chip).
Such absolutist, black and white descriptions of these situations are, quite frankly, terrible.

I mean, you take business and politics and compare it to a life or death struggle against cancer. Could you be any less fair to the interests of the other side?

You could, extremely easily, reverse the tables and let the massive automotive industry and the millions upon millions of people in it's employ describe Musk and his electric startups as a cancer on one of the backbones of American industry. That his "I won't come to the table" policies of "my way or the highway" are disease on a century old industry that has provided for multiple generations of American's livelihoods.

I don't see how your ridiculous demagoguery does anything but turn this into a "us vs them" false dichotomy.

I support Musk and Tesla but comments like this are just ridiculous. The guy is selling a few thousand $80000 ultra-luxury sportscars. Let's not decry the end of a century old industry _quite_ yet with such dramatic language, eh?
Welcome to any amalgam of people bigger than a start up that isn't some sort of cult.
HATEOAS is first and foremost about the API being self describing.

Quoting from wikipedia: "A REST client enters a REST application through a simple fixed URL. All future actions the client may take are discovered within resource representations returned from the server."
Great how-to on some advanced CSS features (keyframe animation, perspective, skew, scale).

Demo: http://hop.ie/portal/
Sbt with sound
Life stages of digital marketing
Three cheers. Never trust a "referrer" header. But now you're a "hacker," right?
Again you are not reading what I say. The user is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cletus
OK, let's imagine Intel only sold fully enabled chips, so their cheapest processor is now $300. Do you want that? Does your mom want that?
Note that sometimes this is done for partial failures, for instances if the tests for the maths coprocessor failed, they could just disable that bit and sell it at a lower price point.

Historically that happened a lot more than today however.
Self service requires information, which requires design
Perhaps you could use a table view with static cells (even just one cell with everything in it) instead of a scroll view in most cases. With container views, you can make the static table view a subview of another controller easily now, too.
If you talk to a Pennsylvanian about it, chances are they will tell you about how they have "Communist liquor" (and yes, the "communist" word there has all the negative connotations you might expect from such a rural state).

I suppose Pennsylvania does not quite have that same 'exceptionalist' attitude as Texas does.
There are some cheap panel materials available at Home Depot/Lowes that work great as cheap whiteboards. In our first year of grad school, we spent <$30 on a 3'x4' or larger sheet, screwed it to the wall in our apartment, and got to work.
It's a cute idea but I would hope they'd remove the signs once they get the point across, because it's visual clutter. It'd be better to have no signs at all, eventually.
A possible way of not been that guy is providing a better visualization. I downloaded the data and tried to do a better graph, but I think I failed :( . http://imgur.com/a/HEcFu

In the linear graph, the size of the U.S. column is so big that makes the sizes of the other countries difficult to see.

In the logarithmic graph () the sizes are too deformed, so it doesn't look good neither.

(() Is it even legal to use a logarithmic scale with percents??)
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…or a data structure that uses interface{} and you manually unpack. Or a hand specialized (rather than generic) data structure.

Bear in mind that with the new release of Go, maps are already hand specialized for primitives.
A Handyman's Toolbox
It's in the AWS docs -- basically, EBS (and RDS built on top of it) is more reliable than a standard hard drive, but nothing like S3 -- you need to expect RDS to fail eventually, just like you would with a server of your own.

But, that's why AWS gives you RDS backups, AZ failover, etc. -- the backups won't fail (they're stored on S3), and with AZ failover, you can make downtime vanishingly small. But you need to actually do that.

A lot of people seem to confuse S3's 99.9999...% reliability with the EBS-backed stuff, which you must plan for eventual failure with.
Sometimes Great Service and Transparency Are Enough
I can't give you any specific names, but this sounds like high-end advertising agency work on one-off campaign pieces (say, for BMW's new car or similar).

Or, get on the Chrome/Firefox team and hack as part of their their showcase team.
IP is a case of the government forbidding you from using the matter and energy you own in certain ways. I never understand libertarians who love government-granted IP rights.
Sorry. I shouldn't have over simplified that point about it being just data. I meant to emphasize that you really want to just call an operation and "just do some work". The data being just function parameters with optional data returned.

I'm currently working on a few large B2B APIs and it's been difficult to implement REST. The value of these APIs come from the actual work performed and not just updating the state of a few rows in a DB. I have very "business logic" heavy endpoints which take many parameters and return very different payloads. As much as I hate it, sometimes business and practicality comes before purity. :)

I actually asked for some feedback in a comment below buried somewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819821
Not sure I agree that Marketo's business is unsustainable - clearly they want to make more headway in the B2C space; the B2B Marketing Automation market would seem to be saturated, but I would argue that there's still plenty of growth for them for the next 3-5 years, at a minimum.

As far as I can tell, ExactTarget's marketing automation capabilities vastly pale in comparison to Marketo or Eloqua, I could be wrong though.
I am usin bazqux, I feel it's the most simmilar to google reader. (also, it can fetch blog comments while reading the rss)
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Some reasons I can think of:

1. Writing C extensions is a horrible experience. Also, they have to manually yield priority so if they crash, the whole BEAM crash so the whole "fault tolerance" propaganda becomes a lie.

2. Erlang doesn't cooperate well with it's environment. Starting, supervising and communicating with external processes correctly is tough in any language but harder in Erlang.

3. BEAM:s memory usage is hard to predict, so running multiple vm:s on the same system can easily run you out of memory.

4. It's hard to run Erlang code as standalone scripts. Points 2-4 address the same issue which is that basically that Erlang's environment is a walled garden.

5. While Erlang is open source, it's mostly run by a group of developers at Ericsson and doesn't have much of a community. For example, it doesn't have a public bug tracker (maybe that have changed).

6. It's syntax is, objectively, butt-ugly.

7. Maybe most important: It is not a good fit for about 99% of all programming problems which are mostly sequential and doesn't benefit at all from rock-solid (Erlang) process communication.
RFC2050 p8: if you didn't use your allocated IPs it will be returned
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/abx4dbyh(v=vs.80).as... The msvcrt.dll is now a "known DLL," meaning that it is a system component owned and built by Windows. It is intended for future use only by system-level components.

Msvcrt.dll began shipping as part of the OS around the Win2K/XP timeframe, IIRC.
I don't see any argument that Bootstrap's HTML is in any way becoming a standard. When you start a project, if you are not using Bootstrap, do you reference the Bootstrap guide when you write your HTML? I don't, and have never seen evidence of it in any code base.
Despite a set of politicians views, that wouldn't be the logical conclusion.

The services provided by the government are paid for by the people (citizen and non-citizen) as taxes, foreigners as duties, or debt. The logical conclusion is that a person or company is paying for those roads and infrastructure. It is just another service, no more sacred than the cellular contract or rent on office space. We don't generally attribute the rent to our success.
Omni, I did change the title on one of my four points from 'Work for free.' to 'Intern/volunteer', as that was my original intention. I used the phrase 'work for free' to make a point - that when you start out, gaining the best experience often does not go hand-in-hand with a big pay-check. I also added a couple of sentences to reinforce that point. Sorry - I didn't think of that as responding to criticism, but rather clarifying my poor choice of words. The feedback posted here showed that I was unclear on that.

I appreciate everyone's feedback here. This is my first post on Hacker News, and I didn't expect this kind of response.

I realize that the idea of not valuing one's own time can be dangerous, and lead to a bad dynamic down the road. This is especially true for freelancers. That said, I stand by the point. For a student or beginner, the idea of getting involved with real-world communities, whether its a company you respect, an open-source project you support, or even a non-profit that you believe in, can be very valuable. Sometimes the best way to get involved with these groups, particularly if you have little to offer on paper, is to be creative with how you can help them, knowing that your biggest reward for the contribution will be the experience you gain. I don't see this as being unfair to yourself at all, nor do I see it as selling yourself short.
Trains are slightly different. First class gives you nicer seats, and potentially other benefits as well, the same scenario would be if first and second class passengers were all together, but first class were allowed off first. Of course, first class could be subsidising second. But it's also possible to structure prices such that it is the other way around.
In raging over this practise, there's an unstated assumption: That the alternative is selling the full, unlocked chip at the consumer price point.

This is very unlikely to be the case. Like first class on a flight, the pricing of the high end is likely subsidising the lower end. Of course, there's still a profit margin on the low end offering, just not enough that it can stand on its own.

So the alternative to this practise is a cheaper high-end chip for everyone, it's more expensive (or same price) high-end chips, which means the low end of the market get's priced out and have to make do with last years model.