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We aren't using Google Analytics goal conversion tracking.

Mixpanel was extremely useful just to see where the huge holes in our funnel were. For example, only 30% of the people that see our signup page end up signing up. Now that we know a lot of people are following through with signup, we're focusing attention this week on improving that number.

We just started using Optimizely and so far it's been great but I haven't used it enough to really comment. Optimizely seems to be really great for micro-optimizations and we've been focusing on bigger complete page redesigns thus far.
This is disruptively (subversively?) awesome, not just for its initial incarnation but all the ways it could iteratively evolve.

Right now it's like a per-person "0 [fees] and 20 [carry]". Will AngelList try to enforce a 20% carry standard or let it vary? [UPDATE: I see a tweet by @naval confirming angel chooses carry rate.] How about the 0%?

Does the answer change if and when syndicates-of-syndicates arrive? Is that powerful or too much like an MLM-downstream?

Will loose affiliations of syndicate-leads cross-syndicate (simulating a mini-VC-firm)? What kinds of support services will syndicate-leads need (and perhaps share)?
The facts are more complex.

"I'm a firm believer in open source software and open source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table will be built on top of the technologies that are freely available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed source. At some level, this is an experiment in how open source and business can mix - it will be educational for us all."

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers...

I take this promise in good faith, unless I see reason to believe it will be broken.
One certified Apple trainer told me that managers closely scrutinize every call

This will be a myth, otherwise you're paying a manager's rate plus a low-level employee's rate for every call. It's likely what they tell the employees to put the fear of god into them.

My money is on Apple recording every call and having the managers listen into the odd one here and there, and if there are specific issues on a past call, the recording is there... just like any other large call centre.
Windows should NEVER be used in anything mission critical.

Windows programmers and their 'Just reboot the machine' mindset should NEVER be allowed anywhere near a mission critical application.

Why? Here is your answer, straight from the original article:

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... Intergraph keeps telling us, “Shut your computer down and reboot. It’ll just take a minute.”

How many lives can you lose in a minute? ...

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> It also does not help that the leading APL implementations cost thousands of dollars to license.

I'm wondering what your opinion is of A+ (dialect of APL from Morgan Stanley)? GPLv2 codebase, supposedly is/was used in a commercial context, so should be pretty stable. Unfortunately, the last activity on the project seems to be from 2008. To my uninitiated eye, it still appears to be the best thing out there for learning and dabbling in APL.

The A+ website is at http://www.aplusdev.org/
You're going to have a very hard time owning anything in Canada that isn't subject to seizure without paying taxes. So this hypothetical property you'd be trying to protect would cease to be yours.

We don't throw people in jail or point guns at them, and frankly even if you weren't paying income tax you would be paying tons of sales tax that you can't avoid. Worst case scenario you'd be forced into bankruptcy, tax debt is dischargeable up here, unlike in the US.
It sounds like you're really talking about app bundles plus some kind of container (to make the app bundle a single file instead of a directory).

The thing about that is various *nix machines do not have a standardized user interface. Every Mac has Finder for example, so if Finder wants to call into various components (eg. to mount a .dmg on a double click) or create a metaphor layered on top of the directory concept (app bundle), there are a number of places to put that. A Linux system has no similar "one place" to make that consistent where it will be seen by everyone.

Personally I consider that a feature rather than a bug. One person's idea of a better way of working could break another person's perfectly good workflow. If you want a Mac, get a Mac, and leave the rest of us alone. :-)
"Car accidents at 50 MPH result in 80% death."

Actual stats from Great Britain in 2008 on motorways, presumably always speed limit above 50 MPH, "6% of the total killed, 3% of total seriously injured, 5% of total with slight injuries." at least per wikipedia.

So there's about a 9 in 10 chance if you crash on a GB motorway, at least in 2008, you'll walk away without a scratch, rather than your 1 in 5 stat.

Also all minor aircraft accidents involve flying faster than 50 MPH although death from anything but fire is relatively rare. True though, that controlled flight into terrain at cruise speed doesn't usually leave many large pieces on the mountainside.
By having a server error page? Seems a strange strategy.
Here's a Q&A thread with the creator of Clay, KS Sreeram (a good friend of mine from back in the day):
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ctmxx/the_clay_...

It's over 3 years old so a lot of it is probably out of date, but still interesting to see the thought process behind the language design.
For cross platform we just use Facebook message and SMS. I looked it up, and Whatsapp has very little market share in the US. In China it's pretty dominated by Wechat.
The problem with the US Government is that they try so hard to garner support from everybody, which leads to situations where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. With all the wheeling and dealing going on, allies turn to opponents where convenient (and vice versa).

Today we're helping a certain group of people, tomorrow we're bombing the shit out of them. Why?

> it would be difficult for the Congress to get involved in trying to track the designation of which are the affiliate forces

Translation: when their usefulness ends then we stop supporting them, at which point they turn against us. This happens so frequently that monthly briefings would be a pointless formality.

In their effort to control everybody, more spitefully slip through their fingers.
Yes, and not mildly context sensitive.
I see you now link to completely another example. But the example of the listener you linked first, that is, at the time I've made a comment still just contains

http://golang.org/pkg/net/#example_Listener

---- begin example ---
package main
---- end example ---

which is a good example of a nonexistence of one good example.
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FYI it's an aerosol can of ether starter fluid, which its intended purpose is to be sprayed into carbs to get engines to start. There is literally no way to do this other than how the guy in the video is doing it.

Your concern for safety is rather laughable for the size of the engine he's doing this with. Ether if improperly stored is the most dangerous thing as a can of 50% either having crystallized is a good few grams of TNT equivalent, which would make it a small hand grenade. (however an aerosol can with peroxide inhibitors in is extremely low risk if its new)

Talk to anyone who has worked in a mechanics garage and this video is extremely weak tea. Try being near a V12 when you've just filled every spark plug with ether and you're spraying it into the air intake. Now that'll give you an uneasy feeling like you've just made a potential bomb, but the fact of the matter is that the failure points in engines are valves and gaskets long before any metal part fatigues and becomes dangerous.

His piston chamber appears to copper piping, which don't fragment they split, so there's really no risk there. Think bronze cannon over cast iron.
If I understand your question correctly, you're asking if we optimize for traffic -> any plan vs. traffic -> total revenue? Right now it's pretty unsophisticated and we're not really measuring/optimizing on getting people to select a higher plan vs. a lower plan. I'm sure as we nail more of the basics down this is something we'll focus on in the future though.

Generating top of the funnel is actually really hard and something we struggle with a lot. Writing blog posts and posting them on Hacker News (like this one here) result in huge bumps of traffic but it's not really scalable. We added a small "powered by statuspage.io" at the bottom of every status page and are going to do more SEO-minded blog posts.

For early stage startups where there isn't already much of a market (there aren't a lot of companies doing status pages as a service), a lot of traffic and eventual customers come in via word-of-mouth. We have some plans to really give our customers an amazing experience with our product and company as a whole with the hope that it will get people talking about us.

Do a google search for karma based marketing - Colin from Customer.io does an amazing job getting people talking about his company.
You have information bias. US mainstream media reported widely on Chavez praising Chomsky and Chomsky condemning US foreign policy towards Venezuela. But years later, Chomsky denounced the arrest of journalists in Venezuela but this time it wasn't US MSM news worthy.
and my gut tells me that's how our nervous system works... :)
Many-to-many relationships come with their own overhead -- you use additional resources for foreign keys, indexes, etc.

If your data is seldom updated (or not that big), not used for database operations, and having it all in memory is fine, it can be better to use native arrays.
This is Huxley's future not Orwell's. It's not that "the people" can't change society, they just don't want to think about it and would rather watch television, whether that be sports, sitcoms, or infotainment.
This is the documentation for the development version of IPython. I don't think they care that they're "missing out on installs" by releasing documentation about what's changed in version 1.0

However, if you'd like to try out IPython 1.0, it's an open source project. You can checkout the latest code at https://github.com/ipython/ipython
> Somewhat related is how they and much other modern agriculture is done - huge fields of exactly the same species only - a monoculture. This too makes it easy for invaders. The fix of multiple species being grown together is often shown to work, but makes the farming and harvesting considerably more complicated and expensive.

It's not necessarily optional. Humans have cultivated the food supply through cross breeding since we have been around and even common foods aren't "natural" anymore. A lot of what we like to eat doesn't like to reproduce itself so we end up reproducing what we like to eat.
Or abandoned. I appreciate github projects, and seeing open issues and pull requests. Helps to make the determination if something is "feature complete and stable" vs. abandoned.

This is especially difficult with NodeJS where you have a lot of options for almost everything, and half of which is abandoned. Though, it seems to be getting a bit better and easier to follow.
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PostgreSQL is an object/relational database, and it is not clear that pulling this out to a relation is "better". This isn't a case of denormalization, as the data isn't being duplicated, and the database supports indexing the content correctly, even having appropriate primitives for manipulating it.

Let's put it this way: the set of tags an object has on it represent its location in an N-dimensional (where N is the number of possible tags) coordinate system, much like a longitude/latitude pair represent a location in a 2-dimensional coordinate system. Tags are just more discretized.

If you are thinking about the search space of tags like this, wanting to ask questions like "find me documents close to this one in tag-space", then it is not just less efficient but semantically incorrect to pull this information out into a separate table: this isn't some NoSQL BS, this is math.

To put this in perspective with the longitude/latitude scenario, this would be like storing a separate table that had "post, axis, value", with post as a foreign key to the post being located, axis being either "longitude" or "latitude", and value being the floating point coordinate.

Many, including myself, would say separating longitude and latitude like this is a misunderstanding of the relational data model; its the kind of thing an ORM would do to our data, and ORMs are not known to think much about semantics in the database: they are just mapping concepts blindly.

Pulling tags out into a separate table is doing the same thing, conceptually, and causes the same issues asking questions like "similar document" as separating longitude and latitude causes "similar location". You can't index that location as a single "thing" anymore, as it isn't one.

However, if the questions you are asking are more "give me the list of posts tagged with this specific tag", and the tagging event is a "thing" that maybe even has who performed the tagging, when the tagging happened, then you'd want a tagging relation. It's all about semantics and use cases.
Or suppose the company that built it were party to a data-sharing arrangement for the purposes of marketing. This is a weakness of SaaS in general. I remember not too long ago when ZoneAlarm would ask me if I wanted application X to access the internet, usually I'd think "WTF for?" or "I'll update manually, TYVM."
I was interested to see that Wiegley's config file is notated in org-mode, using the Literate Programming extensions that come built into Org. That's why the file looks more like documentation than code.

For Emacs to actually evaluate the file, it must first be tangled to an .el file, but tangling the file is a trivial step. I write my own Elisp the same way, as .org files. Thanks for the link and Redshank too.
This looks awesome. Does Android offer access to text messages the way iOS does through iTunes?
Region-based memory management in Rust makes it possible to deal with shared memory without having to deal with life-cycle maintenance that you deal with in C. C++ has some similar concepts but like most things in C++ they are horribly complicated and rely on large template libraries.
I agree with the principle of "extraordinary proof", but in practice, what qualifies as extraordinary is highly subjective. To a Creationist, spontaneous generation of life is extraordinary. To a Truther, the buildings falling due to fire alone is extraordinary, etc.

I prefer the idea that an extraordinary amount of certainty requires extraordinary proof. Skepticism should be the default position.
I don't have to provide a statistic to disprove you, because I wasn't the one rabbitting on about how 'every' statistic 'agrees with me'. If you make the claim, you have to provide the evidence. So far you're presented one statistic, and it doesn't reflect what you've had to say so far. And again you resort to an 'everyone knows' argument ('in all the books!') which again is bad argument style - if it is that easy to source, then source it! Don't deliver it with an underhanded ad hominem, because it's not my responsibility to support your argument.

A criminal breaking the law and paying attention to any nearby police will.
Contrary to popular belief, criminals are humans too, and frequently let their guard down or are just plain stupid. You really are assuming we're dealing with an idealised Hollywood world, where everyone is an over-the-top stereotype. This comes back to the point I made about not commenting on police procedure if you're that unaware of what the work entails.
I think a more reasonable threat would be that the company that discovers the resistant gene patents it, and then owns the entire orange market.

Throw in some Monsanto-style "you cannot plant the seeds" and you have a real problem.
Martyrs are only possible if the populous see them as such.

In today's world you need the media to treat him as a martyr to make him one in the general public's eyes. There is currently a smear campaign against him stating things like, "he is no longer just a journalist, but actively aiding and abetting the enemy", "aiding a fugitive", "helping to commit treason", gay with a green-card-denied-gay-lover, etc

The knives are out. He would be a martyr to a few that cared. The ambivalence in the masses to this subject is truly scary.

Greenwood is being treated like Applebaum and the other Wikileaks personnel surrounding Assange. They are viable targets as they are aiding dissenters that are determined, effective and dangerous to the status quo.

I don't actually believe that the US is going to try and remove Greenwald from the picture now, but not for the reasons you state.

The dam is breached so he is no longer a real threat. The usual process now is to control the response, public opinion and any senators that might raise any opposition.

They are very very good at it; well practiced and effective. You don't go up against the combined resources of the United States government and expect to win. This is like a gnat attacking an elephant.

If Greenwald strikes any more than a flesh wound on the US government then I'd be surprised. They are already back to business as usual and now with the added cart blanche, which is the knowledge that the public know they are being spied on, but the NSA now know that most of them don't give a shit, as long as they can still read status updates on Facebook.
Nationalism is indeed horrible everywhere it is found. Patriotism should be treated just like racism wherever it is encountered. It is a mechanism for one group of people to dehumanize another or at least feel superior to another. But I think the most powerful nations are the most frightening.
No, actually it's not that complicated.
Interview with former CIA, NSA chief Michael Hayden
If you come from a Scala background, you will find Go pretty 'Meh' feature-wise (No offense). It's a great language, but still it has a long way to go. With that said, I personally want Go to succeed as I love it's syntax (compared to Scala's slightly hair-pulling syntax).

Also, the lack of robust battle-tested web-frameworks is right now a show stopper for me.
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$9/hr during training (seriously!), $33K at your first assignment.

Pay follows a "public school teacher" trajectory, or at least like the trejectory in my district. Such that you'll start your career eating ramen and living in your car, but by retirement you'll be hauling in $100K or so.

The FAA workforce is gray. No other way to say it. So you tend to see ridiculous averages like your local TRACON might pay on average $80K. However as a noob you'd only get $30K or so... you need 30 years in to get rich.

Most pilots get to know ATC people for obvious professional reasons. You can probably get interesting anecdotes from a private pilot.

Also more than a few ATC personnel ARE private pilots. Helps to understand the other side of the radio, so to speak.

I am told there is a narrow window where you're "too old" to be an ATC and get mandatory retirement, yet still young enough to be a CFI, and this is where gray haired flight instructors come from. I do not know if this is true or not. In other words mandatory retirement age for CFI > ATC but not by much.
Way to miss the point of the article, it's about the future of oranges not the future of any orange grower. If you live in one of the few places in the world than can grow an orange you will soon find the very same disease affecting your precious personal orange supply.
Given traffic in the UK, I don't think it's a safe assumption all those accidents were at > 50mph.
Another HN user mentioned being frustrated enough that they aliased 'fucking' to 'sudo', so when you use your trick, you get a bit of catharsis:

fucking !!
So this is a patent for self payed advertisement for your own comments?
Sounds like you're using ecommerce APIs. Check out https://www.semantics3.com. It might help you take some risk out.
Not very likely considering they are clones of each other. This is similar to the current dominant banana species being doomed.
It we accept this analogy, the question that arises is - if nature hasn't figured out how to eliminate allergies over millions of years of evolution, what magic do we expect a government to perform?
Web mail hosted in a relatively "safe" European country (privacy laws vary a lot in Europe).

Also, a web-based calendar.
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What does non-native plagues mean to a fruit that was cultivated and spread by humans? The orange is already non-native everywhere it is grown.
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Well basically you're both running through a proxy, just one is assigned "kid" privileges and one is assigned "adult" privileges. This is how my high school handled it way back when, Student accounts were put into kid privileges so obviously porn was blocked but also flash games, etc. However it was easy to circumvent by just finding a different site not on the blocked list and it'd take a couple of weeks for the proxy to update with the new games sites and then the hunt began again.

It was always a race against time as the proxy company was constantly supplied with the sites we were going to. So when 50 something kids are accessing some bizarre dutch domain name, they'll eventually look and find another site they had to ban.

The primary concern is that anyone who opts out of the filter will be being used to supply sites for the proxy to block, which is an ingenious way to do it when you're a commercial company. However, this is the government and being on a 'naughty' list is just giving them a blackmail list to compile against anyone.

I never get this logic either that the people must be oppressed, because surely people would read a fucking history book and figure out that always ends really poorly for the necks of those doing the oppressing.

Oppress people enough and you won't see them voting by the masses for an upstart political party, you'll be seeing a Maoist revolution from the downtrodden working class.
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I'm confused about how something like this actually affects us in the startup world. Should I stop trying to innovate because everything I could possibly think of is already patented.. or simply disregard the existence of these patents?
Hey, nice job. A few things:

1) When I first opened the app, my eyes were focused on the central area where the visualization would appear. So, I completely missed the "Working..." text at the bottom[1] and thought it was frozen for a second. I would suggest moving that higher up.

2) It doesn't work, at least not for me. I've opened and quit it multiple times, waited for stretches of fifteen minutes, etc. Nothing. And I have less than 1,500 messages - I've had this iPhone for exactly a week.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/OrDTD0G.png

Edit: I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm running the iOS 7 beta and the OS X 10.9 beta.
The London Ambulance Service had similar problems when switching to a different system back in 1992.

It's actually an incredibly well studied case of an IT project failure. It's studied as a textbook case in just about every IT project management course in the UK.

Interesting that NYC is repeating what sounds like exactly the same mistakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Ambulance_Service#System...

(or just Google for "london ambulance service case study")
Maybe it's just me, but such a training would just push me to quit.

I work from home once a week and it is the only day where I get a good amount of coding done, because of fewer interruptions.

It takes certain kinds to work from home. I do not think I could work from home every day, it would be too hard to motivate myself; but who knows, I haven't tried.
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