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Submitted this mostly because I think it's an idiotic way of thinking. As an example, I'm contemplating moving to Austin to springboard what I hope to turn into an industry leading content/media business for several reasons:

-I don't have a developer's, investment banker or lawyer's salary to fall back on while I learn to code and/or fiddle around. Any consulting I do, I'd have to do more of living in SF or NYC, which takes time from building the business. Any savings I have gets eaten up faster in SF or NYC and lessens my runway. That's reality.

-I don't need to look for a developer/technical co-founder in order to get started. My Wordpress instance is up and I just write.

-I don't have a trust fund or a rich uncle to mooch off of to help subsidize a lifestyle in either SF or NYC. My parents live on social security and aren't coming to my rescue.

I can understand the point of it not making sense for an already growing (read: revenue producing) startup to move to a cheaper locale. That I get. But I fail to see how you're not aiming high enough by starting out somewhere cheaper. Once you're making enough to where you aren't worried about where your next meal is coming from, then sure, move to SF or NYC. But the argument for not starting it in a cheaper place is flimsy at best and outright bullshit at worst IMO.
He got 25% starting from a base rate of 4%. The base rate for terrorists is a little lower than that. I agree that the essay probably ought to emphasize this point so skimmers won't take away the wrong idea.
Just saying, I think it should be documented in the README.md as SQLite would be fine in those scenarios, which it tries to compare to.
Unlikely. MtGox is not a bank. They charge commission on every trade and make pretty good money. They were running just fine 1 year ago when the volume was few times less so it's unlikely they are having financial problems now.
May be he's talking about the value of patenting DNA ;-)
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I'm afraid I just blue myself.
Yes lack of dates has always been a big complaint at the Palo Alto MENSA meet ups.
Maybe he just hacked it "as a challenge". The evidence is there, so I find it quite believable that he could do it.
I actually prefer doing all of the design and drawing myself and avoid things like NIBs and Storyboard. It's not really difficult, just takes time to absorb all that there is because there is so much customization you can do. And watch out for iOS 7, especially with animations, there are loads of new options.
I'm still completely shocked their current model of separating smartphones and tablets works. Are there any other popular subscription services that do that? It is pretty standard to charge differently for a tablet app and a smartphone app, but with subscriptions the NYTimes is the only thing I can think of that makes this distinction.
Bloggers will not drive much traffic to your app, do not worry about this. You need to be in the top lists or have a repeatable paid marketing strategy. And usually bloggers will not give you enough of a bump to initially crack the top lists, unless it's a huge amount of them and all synchronized... which would never happen from cold tip submission anyway.
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I had the opposite reaction. He sneezed something onto the App Store in mere hours and it made quite a bit of return in a short time.
12% on i7 means one core out of 8 is fully booked. Windows never has more than 100% CPU, unlike mac and linux, which have 100% for each core and then tell you "Xcode uses 390% of CPU". :)
No I get that, I'm not saying it should support those things, just saying you should probably document it clearly. People don't like to lose data.

And append-only doesn't make you immune to corruption. There's still a possibility of two processes writing at the same time corrupting what gets written to the file.
Do you know of any non-Java (ideally GTK+) ZRTP+Jingle clients?
It boggles my mind how people don't understand the point you're making here.
I was about to add this to Chrome and then it asked for "all of your data on all web sites" which is too much for me.
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Reminds me of this funny story:
http://www.today.com/id/32774116/ns/today-today_news/t/blue-...
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Their article pane resizes to an extent, but I assume it stops expanding after a certain size because they don't want to exceed an optimal width for readability [1].

Without being able to see it on your monitor, can't tell for sure.

[1]: http://www.pearsonified.com/2011/12/golden-ratio-typography....
There are many people who are allergic to penicillin. That does not make it any less useful to the rest of the population.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin_drug_reaction
Silver exhibits low toxicity in the human body, and minimal risk is expected due to clinical exposure by inhalation, ingestion, dermal application.
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I see why you would think that, this part of the README is not well formulated and I'll change it. What I mean is that is similar to SQLite since it is an embedded database, but the key difference is that it's pure JS so you don't need to compile or install anything, which makes it very handy for Node Webkit, low concurrency Node.js webapps an rapid prototyping.
Well, I disagree that the original comment was "tearing people down". I find it incredible constructive to reflect on the reality of a given situation. What he said was not disparaging to the developer - it seemed more pointed to the general nature of web development.

If you'd rather have a community where nobody can speak their mind and everybody walks on eggshells though - perhaps you should start a smaller online where you can implement that rule. Otherwise - let's just keep adding to the noise, shall we?
"also: Don't go to starbucks everyday and learn to brew your coffee" -- HA! As if I could afford Starbucks as a student. I'll give you money-saving: live at home, commute to school on bicycle, pack a bag lunch :P
This is why it is so hard for people to make informed decisions about anything anymore. I turn around and with one quick Google source I can find the opposite being written.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/17/cnn-poll-oba...

FiveThirtyEight is essentially the only source I trust on polls anymore :-/
The app only took a total of $12 hours of development time and fluctuated between $20-30 a day as a paid app. If he could crank out several more in that same time frame he could get a quasi-steady income going. But honestly, that sounds like a grind, constantly replacing older apps that have run their course. I can understand your discouragement and the same feeling keeps me on the fence as to whether I would like to try earning extra income through a web SaaS or try my luck in the app store casino.

I wish we could have seen revenue numbers if he had put ads on the app the day after he shot up the popularity charts and was doing 10s of thousands of downloads a day.
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Ask HN: Early stage startup looking for engineer
I am a startup engineer. I currently work in a senior role at a high scale, high profile, very fast growing startup where I manage the majority of the backend and operations. I've helped grow the company from 5 employees to now over 60 in about a year and a half. I'm looking for a startup that is still less than 5 employees (or at least less than 5 engineers), funded and tackling interesting problems. You don't need to have a ton of traction (or any all really). You don't need to be profitable. I enjoy seeing a startup grow from those early stages to something big.

If that sounds like you, and you want to chat and see if it might be a fit, email me at anonjobseeker2@gmail.com and tell me a little about your company.

I'm only looking in San Francisco.

Thanks for taking time to read this.

p.s. I'm doing this anonymously because pretty much everyone I currently work with reads HN.
With all the recent discussion about privacy and data access laws, I'm wondering which international datacenter service providers would people trust for data privacy and general integrity in their operation.

Assume that the startup is a scalable provider with user content, but not trying to skirt the laws with regard to DMCA etc.
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If you put any faith into the CA systems verification process then you'd be correct.
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Initial setup is only part of the equation. You must now maintain everything you setup or forked. I predict you have many hours of repair, patching, migrations and upgrades ahead of you not to mention any downtime suffered because you can't put in as much effort into making these systems as robust as your main product/service.

On the other hand, I was always taught "cash is king" in entrepreneurship. It's the easiest to spend and the hardest to make. Besides, if you are a start-up and don't have it...hacking something together is your only option.
> It's almost a negative version of the Tragedy of the Commons / Public Goods Dilemma. If every small company stood up and said "no, we will not settle" then there would be far less incentive to pursue bogus infringement claims. On the other hand, it always, locally, makes sense not to challenge claims and let some other small company deal with it.

If you're looking for the name of that dynamic, that's a pretty classic Prisoner's Dilemma. :)
We just had a poll regarding this two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5899263
We switched over a lot of our operations to open source alternatives around a year ago as well (a writeup is still in the works). We were partially motivated by the money, but more so by the control over our's and our clients' data.

One thing to note though is that there are a few things that just make much more sense as a service, or take more effort to actually run yourself than expected. For example, the way they set up Uptime. They moved a lot of stuff over to Digital Ocean, but it sounds like they still have a lot running on Heroku (e.g. all the apps mentioned in the post). But you need your availability monitoring app running on completely separate servers than everything else you run, otherwise it can't tell you when the service behind your apps goes down. In this case, if Heroku or EC2 go down, then the app that is supposed to alert them will also go down, and thus no alerts.
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If you think this is interesting you might also enjoy a little thing I made a few years back (move the mouse around, and hold down mouse button to rotate):

http://genesisbbs.com/appstem/appstem.html

(Warning: uses Flash!!)
I've always thought that companies like Google miss out on many talented, hard-working, passionate developers simply because those developers can't tackle the ridiculous programming questions in interviews. Then these same companies turn around and complain that there aren't enough qualified candidates.
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I vote for just using real numbers instead of percentages, like "0.4 chance" instead of "40% chance". The reason is that a lot of people get the math of percentages wrong simply because it involves a lot of back and forth mental conversion between percentages and fractional representation. I always found it easier to just use the latter.
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I think it's better now, it handles as least 1.4GB in the heap. That said if you have a database with more than, say, 300MB of data, I think you need a more large-scale database.

As an aside, I'm considering enabling large datasets for NeDB as some users asked, but that would be a lot of work so I'll wait for more requests.
Why wait until he's flamed out then? The same amount of dev time will have be spent whether he adds ads on day 2 or day 20, why miss the bulk of his opportunity at the top of the charts?
Why does Google want the PERFECT candidate, isn't anything less better? Aren't they ok, with 90% of the human population?
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This is one of the long term goals of Tent (https://tent.io). Store all your highly personal data somewhere you control it completely with the option to share it under certain conditions with others.
Everyone keeps saying that everyone has committed a jail-able offense if you just look hard enough, but no one has any examples. I'm not denying that it's true, I just have no response if someone says, "like what?"

Are there any examples of crimes that many people have probably committed? Maybe software piracy, but isn't that just a fine? And I hope that isn't the only example.
Thanks for the response. I have created a few low quality android apps and make about $30-40 a month. It is a hobby, hopefully something more in the future.

I'm just amazed at how freely the term 'startup' is used to label anything and everything.
Comparing marginal utility gains for small numbers of people with the difference between mechanised transport and horses is just such ... well, the horses used to leave it behind them:

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• If you purchased a physical disc game, your game was tied to your account and you could go to any other Xbox One and be able to have access to your entire library without carrying physical discs around

Who cares? The device would sit in front of the TV.

• You could re-sell your physical disc game to Gamestop or any participating outlet that opted into Microsoft’s revenue sharing system

Second hand console games. A never before heard of thing.

• You could buy a used physical disc game from a participating retailer and play it like a new game

Yeah, a never heard of before thing...

• You could install all your games onto your hard drive and not have to get up all the time to swap discs

Oh, the hardship!

• You could buy a digital copy and sell it or gift it to a friend (a previously unheard-of policy in digital games)

This is just an outright lie. You can do that on Steam today.

• You could potentially share your entire library with 10 friends/family members, with the only limitation being that you couldn’t play the same game at once

So, just like with the disks.

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Cool. Just one thing, animation stops when you move your mouse cursor to nearly the right end of the line between the head and left hand on Firefox 21 and Chrome 26 but not on IE 10.
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The US is a constitutional democracy

Actually, it's a constitutional republic.

But my real concern here is with the "constitutional" part, because most reasonable readers seem to agree that the PRISM surveillance violates the Constitution. Yet the federal government only seems concerned about Constitutionality when it suits them, (literally) laughing it off otherwise:

CNS: Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?

Pelosi: [Giggles] Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNS: Yes, yes I am.

Pelosi: [Takes question from another reporter.]

So I'm concerned that the degree to which we're "consitutional" at all is becoming increasingly tenuous.
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I'm unsure what you point is. Our current antibiotics are already producing resistant strains. We can either develop something completely new, or lace existing antibiotics with silver. Unless you are in this field and have some insight to bestow on us, I don't know of any other approaches at the moment. Improving our current methods by bolstering them with silver could be what we need to gain a new advantage against resistant strains.

Is it possible that we will eventually produce strains resistant to even this? Yes. Is the answer to just give up drop all attempts at antibiotics? Probably not.
$1000/day isn't a company. It's a one or two man shop. It doesn't sound like the economics are there to build the next EA, id Software, etc.
Why would coding guidelines for PHP projects be in the language's changelog?
I was planning to post a sarcastic "Great! Now I can live longer just by walking fast!" comment, but your comment makes that pointless. Damn.
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The plan is to temporarily use Digg Reader until Reeder 2.0 for iPad comes out, then use that app standalone without a syncing backend (because I don't find RSS important enough to need ubiquitous access).
He's referring to things like the attempted ITU power grab last year [1]. We'll see something like that again, using the NSA as the explicit|implicit justification, and it will be much harder to stop. = "blowback"

[1]: http://blogs.computerworld.com/internet/21500/victory-unitu-...
It's a positive thing from an anti-phishing and anti-spam perspective.

It's a negative thing from a surveillance perspective. Any government with at least some jurisdiction over Microsoft can request this information under their legal processes.

As you point out, there are ways to get the positive aspects while diminishing the negative. Hopefully MS will evolve the implementation.
I am asking this out of genuine interest and lack of knowledge - was there a representative legislative body in the USSR in the 1920s?
I think companies would be better off hiring people not based on their IQ or skill level but by hiring people who love what they do, have done side projects and achieve flow in their work. People who achieve flow in their work will work harder and are more creative than others because they enjoy the process of solving problems. So the interview process should be to identify how often the given candidate achieve Flow (as defined by mihaly csikszentmihalyi)

http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.htm...
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Unfortunately I don't know any other clients besides Jitsi, that work with ZRTP (it doesn't mean there aren't any, I just didn't find them).

Pidgin/libpurple don't support ZRTP yet, as well as Telepathy, which means all major clients based on them don't support it either (such as KDE Telepathy or Empathy for example).

There are long standing bugs about it, but nothing seems to be moving:

https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11221

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29904

See also: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891

About ZRTP itself, see for example: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/telephony/9780321437341...
I think the comment is good because it responds to a frequent misconception about Wikipedia seen here on HN (I am a Wikipedian of several years' experience, and I have to live with those issues), not at all because tptacek (who has also been a Wikipedian) posted it. I would have upvoted that comment for its little-known (here) content no matter who posted it.

It's a fair point that there have been other comments in other threads about Wikipedia here on HN.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=Wikipedia...
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I become more wary of the word "reform" every day.

From a hacker's perspective, it feels the same as, "Hey let's go edit 100 lines of existing code today." It's completely arbitrary, and probably not a good idea.

The media unfortunately bandies about "reform" as if it's always a good thing.

Maybe we should go back to the word "change."
I'm just telling you what I've read. I don't agree with it, but it's reasonable to assume they ship a kinect with every xbox one, they want people to use it and they probably aren't thinking of mute people.
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To add: Genius isn't even a predictor of success. Granted, intelligence is a useful tool, its only one of many things that govern success. Sometimes "genius" can be in impediment to success.

Humans are hive minded despite our best attempts to assert otherwise. A modern computer or a modern bridge can't be built from scratch by one person. A genius can certainly help raise the bar, but a cohesive unit capable of achieving the end result is going to be a better optimization strategy.
The goodness of that reason is highly debatable.
Well, to clarify, my normal posting style is semi-similar to what I laid out. I try to always allow for the case I'm incorrect, since personally I believe absolutist statements about relative matters to be of little use.

That leaves root level posting and polarizing comments. Neither in itself a bad thing, but I find them generally time sensitive. By the time I see and read a post, my sentiments have usually already been expressed, and adding what's essentially a duplicate post seems counterproductive for the community, no matter how productive it would be for my karma. :) Anything extra I would have added works well in a reply to the similar comment.

As for polarizing opinions, those come when they come. I'm not willing to manufacture any when they aren't my own. I see my online persona as an extension of me, not some mask I put on so I can adopt other characteristics. I would feel just as bad as if I had lied to someone in real life.

All that said, if I was more in the habit of having a few drinks before or while reading HN, I'm sure I would have reams of data to play with. ;)

Actually, that would be a fun experiment. Have two accounts. One used exclusively while sober, the other exclusively while slightly buzzed or more. Maybe multiple accounts for different drugs of choice, although increasing consumption just to provide roughly similar use times may yield negative consequences...
Thanks, I missed that. Case (probably) closed.
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Silex is better , i hate all these static classes everywhere. That's the only reason i'm not using Laravel "Core" . Eloquent is nice though.
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...not to mention: knowing what the law is in the first place.
Knowing how compilers work is very useful foundational knowledge, but that's different than knowing, off the top of your head, the underpinning algorithms needed to implement a compiler!
That's fine. It would still have been quite vulnerable to a ~1990 Iraq. Even a ~2000 era Iraq wouldn't need to conquer the country, but merely strike critical oil infrastructure. They were thought to have chemical weapons, etc.

If you don't believe the US cares much about such things, I recommend the book (unfortunately titled) "Blood and Oil" by M. Klare.
Pop media is awful about these correlation versus causality studies.
You are thinking from your New York or Silicon Valley bubble? Don't worry, I live there too.

Actually, if you are bringing in $1000/day in the Ukraine, you might have quite a little startup indeed.
This assumes they haven't already spent some of their depositors' bitcoin and can run out. (Not claiming they have done this, just pointing out this scenario is possible)
They could still use this tech for HDD, right now a HDD uses similar tech to DVD just with more precision, this would make things still more precise.

(though I don't really know about it being obliterated when exposed to sunlight)
Skype under Microsoft really infused itself with MS spirit.

- you cannot turn off Skype updates. Please try. For longer than 2 week, Skype will update itself anyways and will keep telling you "would you like to update". Totally deceiving. Turning Skype updates don't help. They are done through Windows 7 updates. Turning those does not help either LOL.

- on the top of those forces updates, each time (at least on Windows 7), you have to re-do the following: - delete "echo / test account", re-do your notifications, re-do sound settings, re-do all confirmations (delete contact, close skype, accept file, etc).

- I beg someone to give me a genuine, smoothly working alternative with ios app. Honestly at this point, security comes second as long as I can avoid Microsoft.