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My girlfriend got this last night. Scared the shit out of us with a bunch of beeping and buzzing. Then just went away as soon as we looked at it...we still don't know what the actual alert was for.
Q: How do I get attention from VCs?

A: Make something that the VC, personally, himself, wants to use.

Love it.
I have a 1.07GHz Core-i5 laptop (with Nvidia Optimus) at home and 3GHz Core-i5 desktop at work. I happily use Firefox (Aurora) at work, but at home I have to use Chrome because Firefox is simply way too laggy (it improves a bit when run with Nvidia).
I've always been envious of those that get invited to Foo Camp, but it always felt contradictory to take dozens of introverts who do their best work alone and glue them together to build ideas. I like socializing while drinking occasionally, but it's only about making connections, not coming up with ideas. For me, I need personal time to brew ideas.
Not necessarily. You can make an ajax request to a static resource. The server doesn't have to be a dynamic process. Static resources are just files.

A client-side JavaScript Twitter could be done this way. Every tweet, or timeline can be pre-baked into a static json file, and ajaxed in.

Twitter can then be simplified to a backend application that updates these files.

Granted, tweeting is a separate matter; that requires an endpoint that processes data.
Countered.
Well, it looks like this story is no longer on the front page, or the second page, or the third.. I guess the oppressive streak of the US government against those acting in gray areas for the common good is not germane to "hackers"
Also, getting a Costco membership if there's a store in your vicinity is a good idea, their wipes are great and the diapers are cheap.

If you do decide to go with a breast pump, don't buy it, rent instead. A lot of women find that after they get it they cannot really use due to different reasons, or their milk is not adequate.
Well, yes and no. It was a little snarky in places, and I apologize for that. But it's given me pause for thought ...

There are lots of things about how HN works that some people just don't know. The flame war penalty is one of them (and comparatively new), and the way flagging by ordinary people is another. There are more, many more. And the regular sort of FAQ just won't help. Even if people do read it the bit they want, and the bit that's relevant, could be buried among huge amounts of information that isn't relevant and they don't need.

How can we surface such information in a useful way?
It's not the same as configure,make,make install as you can always: configure --prefix=$HOME/whatever

and later run it on some unprivileged TCP port over 1024.
For anyone who doesn't know, he's the guy doing time for the CIA torture program. Not for torturing, of course, but for confirming the fact that it was happening.

He was interviewed in January just after being sentenced:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/30/ex_cia_agent_whistlebl...
Fake reviews?

http://www.amazon.com/LEnfant-tasse-portrait-Jean-Monet/dp/B...
Cool, thanks for the pointer. I'd never scrolled past the start of the enormous list of notification center apps.
What price range do you consider "poor people art"? If an artist (even an amateur) spent say 20 hours on an original piece that you absolutely loved, how much are you willing to pay today to that artist?
This is very routine when you make games for mobile.

Every successful game company for mobile had lots of investment in marketing.

This also applies for non-mobile too actually, Activision for example famously spends more money in marketing than development, Modern Warfare 2 for example had a marketing budget of 250 million.

Because of awful mobile "discoverability" you need marketing, there is no other way, you just need it, people WON'T EVER find you unless they see a ad, someone refers the thing to them, or they see front page in the store (and when this happen, you already is doing well...)

EDIT about viral: My company in particular makes games for children, we cannot rely on anything that looks remotely anti-ethical... All our competitors (both with success and failures) rely mostly on marketing while they don't have a brand.

about Marketing expenses: The need for money, is mostly to test what works, and what does not, with some things is easy and every small company (including us) already do, that is test campaigns in AdMob, AppBrain and so on, the problem is the next "tier" is with companies that charge 20K USD upfront for their basic services... We all know that you need to hire them, but for obvious reasons everyone is secretive about WHO you hire, ensuring a sort of barrier of entry, where newcomers must waste money around until they find the company that really deliver.

And finally, organic growth and small marketing works, and the amount of users do climb, the problem it is not fast enough to cover fixed costs for a LOOOONG time, way longer than the runway.
Don't you want this to alert you for things like floods/earthquakes/etc even with do not disturb? I don't think do not disturb means ignore alerts about weather or other life threatening (to you at least) alerts.
It's also worth pointing out that while the Espionage Act charges were dropped as part of his plea bargain, he did plead guilty to a charge under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act[1]. The judge didn't buy that his prosecution was politically motivated:

Kiriakou, who wrote a book detailing his CIA career, had tried to argue after the charges were filed that he was a victim of vindictive prosecution by government officials who believed he portrayed the CIA negatively, but the judge rejected those arguments as well.

[1] http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/22/14626249-...
The intriguing thing about the article for me is that it combines a pretty sophisticated description of an alternative management structure with a characterization of "traditional management" techniques which is just daft. There's nothing remotely novel or "flat" about a corporate culture where managers and their reports are happy to discuss their personal lives and socialize with each other; it's pretty standard in lots of very hierachical, old-fashioned corporations whose managers have an above-subnormal level of social skill.

And for that matter, asking employees to rank their "SCARF" priorities sounds like some new form of torture a pointy-haired middle-manager might devise to torment you with the unforeseen consequences of picking the "wrong" order ("in view of your desire for greater autonomy and ambivalence about 'certainty', you're now part time")
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Libby didn't "burn" Valerie Plame. Colin Powell's deputy Richard Armitage did.
Angry is pretty strong. But I am one of the ones this happened to and let me tell you, it was not pleasant. The alert was more like "oh shit take cover in a bomb shelter" than "hey, be on the lookout for this". Not to mention that after the initial alarm that gave practically no information the whole thing disappeared.

If you're gonna send out an alert as disturbing as that one, at least include some relevant information.
Which system are you talking about? The AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, named after a specific child abduction case that I remember watching the news reports of with my parents while in high school) Alert system is specificaly designed for child abduction.

I actually am not certain if there is a similar large-scale system for "natural disasters [or] nuclear wars". In Santa Barbara (a specific county) we have a way to sign up for that kind of alert run by the "County Office of Emergency Management", but AMBER operates over a much larger arena. Sure, war might sound important, but think of the children!

> The AMBER Alert™ Program is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and the safe recovery of the child.
This has nothing to do with OCR. It's an issue with the JBIG2 compression re-using similar patches as substitutes for certain areas of the images if they're "close enough". This issue is exacerbated at lower resolutions.
I'd love a system that could warn me of earthquakes.
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This makes sense when there is, in fact, a story to tell. Depending on the item, I think that the story can be simplified by concentrating on the BENEFITS of the item. For example this is the description of a watch for sale in a daily deal I just received on email:

Lancaster XXXX
Quartz movement
Case diameter: 43mm
Mineral crystal protects watch
Stainless-steel case; black dial
Water-resistant to 165 feet (50 M)

Rewrite, with story:

When you hit the street, do it with style and confidence. The Lancaster XXXX features a big face, steel case (unapologetic rhyme there), and a quartz movement that is more reliable than your cell phone service! Oh yeah, and if that unassuming pothole is deeper than you thought, this watch will survive a dip in the water.

So you get the general idea, there is a story in the benefits. After all, how many people buying a $10 watch really care or know what a quartz movement or mineral crystal are?
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While I understand why they made this system on by default and opt-out, I feel like that's unethical and should have been opt-in. Adding such things to people's phones without their permission is a bad action done with good intentions.

Making it impossible to disable Presidential alerts is even worse.
The problems with retirement savings going forward are many and varied.

First, it is increasingly difficult to achieve good average returns in the financial markets as a small-time retail investor. There are myriad reasons for why this is but the fact remains and is unlikely to change soon. That so much capital is chasing increasingly meager investments is one of the reasons we have cycles of overheated markets and crashes.

Second, Americans are terrible at saving money. An unbelievable amount of income for the average American household is wasted on frivolous consumption and collecting status symbols. When I was genuinely poor I always managed to save some money (indeed, it is what put me in the habit when I was not poor) but I know countless people who make six-figure incomes who have no savings and lack even the most rudimentary discipline to do so. In most cases, socking away 20% of their take home pay would not even require a material lifestyle change, just making more prudent financial decisions. This falls squarely on individual Americans; few have legitimate reasons why they cannot save at least some money.

Lastly, the government really can't solve this problem for us by doing the saving for us. As poor as the return in the markets is for many people, the returns on capital handed to the government are consistently even poorer.

For most people, the second point is the most important. Live below your means and save the balance. 401(k) is really beside the point. I don't even put my savings into retirement accounts, in part because the investment options suck in those accounts. Simply not pissing money away on frivolous and imprudent expenses is sufficient to start building significant savings for most people.
> Most newer phones are automatically set up to receive the alerts -- which look like text messages but are free -- meaning customers must contact their cell service provider to opt out of the program.

FWIW, on the iPhone, AMBER is a switch under notifications; you don't have to contact anyone to turn it off. (The alerts also come with a "Settings" button to help users turn them off if the notification was unwelcome.)
What are advantages over nginx? Memory footprint, higher through-output?

I mean, what's the main "selling point". Why should one use this instead of battle tested nginx?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing, I'm just curious.
Actually someone at work shared it on Yammer and I thought people here might like it. I didn't realise Karma was of any value to be farmed. Sorry for... trying to share things?
The city of Keene says its three parking inspectors have been taunted, insulted and followed by the group — to the point that one of them says he has suffered heart palpitations and is thinking about quitting his job.

In case its not clear from the headline (its not) they are being sued for harassing the parking inspectors, not simply putting money in meters. If they were just wandering around feeding meters, they would probably have been left alone.
> I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific.

Also on Verizon iPhone. Received Tornado warning alert via iPhone Emergency Alert night we had 5 tornadoes...it was awesome!
If you want a steady stream of this kind of thing, check out the following twitter bot: https://twitter.com/ilikelikeilike

Darius Kazemi writes a lot of twitter bots and I find @AmIRiteBot pretty funny (if only in a it's so bad it's good way): https://twitter.com/amiritebot

For example: #YouDontKnowWhatStruggleIsIf? More like You Dont Know What Snuggle Is If, amirite?
I don't quite understand why feeding parking meters is illegal.

Bear with me...

In some cases of abuse, like with NYC metro cards, there is a legitimate reason not to use a single metro card for a number of people (the limit is four I believe). The reason is because putting a large enough money on the metro card to accomodate those people automatically gives extra money as an incentive for large purchases.

But if you use this other people, you're technically ripping off the system, because those individual $2.50 cards wouldn't have gotten any extra percentage.

So in examples like the foregoing, I get why it's illegal to "share" money. But feeding parking meters has no such incentive anywhere, as far as I know. Why would it be illegal?
First off, there's no control in this experiment. You'd need to find out how much they sell for on ebay without the story. Otherwise, the entire factor of 27 could simply be from listing it on ebay.

Second, it's iffy whether this advice generalizes to other types of products. It's obvious when it comes to art and antiques. It's less obvious when it comes to technology products.

But to some extent, while this article doesn't provide good evidence, the "story" concept can arguably be applied to many other consumer products. Most consumer products are purchased at least in part for status, regardless of the buyer's conscious intent.

For example: A tech savvy person buying a laptop may actually need the laptop, but anything they buy over the bare necessities is likely driven largely by the perceived status boost obtained thereby, not by the extra convenience those features will afford. The reason it feels good to imagine having lots of computing power at your finger tips is not that you are conceiving of that convenience, but that your status-increasing hardware is perceiving that in that fantasy, you have higher status than you do now. You are imagining being the kind of fancy schmancy person who has a computer with that much power. Whether you realize that consciously is irrelevant.

The telltale sign of this is that after purchasing the laptop, the thrill of those features dies off rapidly. That's not just that you're getting used to the convenience; that would take longer. Rather, your status seeking instinct has assimilated the high speed computer into "status quo" and has turned its avarice to other status symbols.

So in that sense, "stories" attached to consumer products can increase their value. There's a reason that Steve Jobs liked to mention that the Titanium PowerBook was made of the same alloy used in space shuttles, for example.

What I wonder is whether businesses are as susceptible to that kind of pressure. My gut tells me "no", but perhaps the people making the buying decisions will still want to bring high status talismans back to their "tribe".
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How do you plan to support private-cloud deployments? In particular, I'd like to deploy this on bare-metal servers, using containers (presumably via Docker) but not VMs.
No, if the panels are on rooftops, and the electricity is mostly used in the same building, you have the same net thermodynamic effect of the sun hitting the building. No additional entropy is generated.

If cities at large become net exporters of electricity it would in some small part alleviate heat bubbles.

If the panels are next the the city, you do concentrate heat more in the city as electric is delivered, but no more than electric supplied and consumed from non solar sources. If the panels are adjacent to the city, you again alleviate the heat bubble to some small extent because you're cooling one area and increasing the thermal gradient between the hot city and cooler solar panel farm.

I don't know how one would conclude that any of these effects are of a magnitude to "wreck the local ecosystem".
I want emergency notifications to wake me up. When the message came out, my phone made the exact same noise you hear for emergency broadcasts. I expected my phone to give me a message regarding a storm or a coming earthquake, but I instead got a pointless amber alert.

This is a great way to destroy the credibility of our emergency alert system.
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An author trying to make a living needs more than $50. Did Walked really take into account the true cost of goods sold?

Of course, if nobody knows you're doing it, you can sell more than one $51 jar of mayo.
If I have access to your browser, I can get your credentials for Amazon by just going to Amazon.com. Either you already have a session open, and then I can do what I want (including changing your password), or the browser (or your password manager) is going to fill in the password automatically, and with a trivial knowledge of how the browser works I can copy the password.

I use LastPass, and it is possible to set it so that a master password is required before any password is automatically entered, but in practice no ordinary user can suffer the loss of usability there.

Passwords are not actually the thing we are trying to protect. We're trying to protect against a user being able to use your credentials. If they have access to your browser, they have that already.

Maybe requiring you to re-enter your login session password, as a pseudo master password, would slow down a really naive attacker. But it will probably also annoy people who just need to get their passwords for some other reason. I would like to hear more from the Chrome team here on their reasoning but I would not be surprised if a 'master' password just leads to more users storing passwords on post-it notes.
There's no OCR involved here. None.

All it's doing is recognizing "similar" patches of the image and coalescing them, which is what it's supposed to do, according to the standard. Yes, it's too aggressive.
"The idea of getting more eyes on Amber Alerts is a fundamentally good one, I think we can all agree on that."

Can we? It is not clear that the Amber Alert system is an effective way to find kidnapped children, and it may actually cause more harm than good.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/20/...

http://www.psmag.com/culture/amber-alerts-largely-ineffectiv...

Like most attempts to protect our children from strangers, the Amber Alert system was a knee-jerk reaction to a shocking but exceedingly rare crime.
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It's not. They're being sued for taunting and harassing the parking inspectors, not for feeding the meters.
I would love to look at the code behind this work.
His concerns are about law and policies constraining freedom, not about building things from scratch. You need not write your own compiler to be consistent with the principles he advocates - Stallman would say you're fine using gcc, because it is legally open for the "four freedoms".

And physical goods are already "free" in the Stallman sense, if not patented or subject to restrictive contracts. Both software and hardware have use-value and costs to produce, but only the physical goods have intrinsic market value.

The hammer needs materials and significant per-unit labor as well as intellectual contributions, and in the absence of IP, has market value approaching its intrinsic (use) value. Commercial software that is published rather than used only in-house (i.e., monetized on a licensing model) has market value only because of artificial scarcity, and could hardly exist in a "free market" (without state-enforced monopolies).
I think he means the regional emergency message system thing on cellphones. That system(s ?) is currently meant to be used by several things (most commonly dangerous weather I think. I recall getting "flash flood" warnings with it before in Philly.), and was presumably not initially created for AMBER Alerts.

Stuff this sort of system would really be useful for is things like Tsunami warnings. I assume it is use for that where applicable.
Thanks for noting this. I think it's still technically illegal to put money in meters, but you're right. It amounts to a teenage prank.

They probably shouldn't have harassed people and tried to be "activists."
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This was full on alarm and blinking lights on my old Android Droid X. About 30x the sound volume of a text message.

It only woke me up, but I wondered how smart they were. I mean, someone driving might have been shocked into an accident. The cost-benefit of a really loud system might be more cost.
Wrapping unwanted objects in fabricated stories, however colorful, is not an ideal way to use stories to raise prices or facilitate sales. It's also hardly helpful for startups looking to build products people want (as opposed to peddle junk nobody would normally want).

Let me suggest a more inspirational example of leveraging stories in sales:

http://thisisstory.com/

And the founder's TEDx talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbnWY-swsK0

This company uses stories to sell without relying on outlandish fiction. They have interesting blends of off- and on- line operations, merchandising and branding angles, and opportunities to introduce products for companies or conduct marketing research for potential new products.
No problem - I didn't detect any snark, at least nowhere near what I'm used to getting on HN.

"How can we surface such information in a useful way?"

An unofficial HN FAQ or HN Wiki?
I use the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension for Chrome (by HN user etcet).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

When you revisit a comment thread it marks which comments are new since your last visit. You can see an example in the second screenshot in the Chrome Web Store.
Because you're depriving the city revenue they would make from writing traffic tickets when the meters expire.
Would this really work? Won't they be sharing cookies unless the static files are on a different domain?
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The headline is misleading in a way that this is not even a story
I was thinking of voiding the warranty on a magic mouse and a developer edition Leap... but alas... I didn't get one.