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Good luck with your startup! I like the need you're meeting. Videos are important, and they're not easy to make. It's something I've thought about before, but I don't have the technical skills to implement it.

I actually think I'll be fine getting funding.
1) I'm confident that I have something people want (better college reviews).
2) I plan on offering $100 to the best answerer, and $20 to the 5 next best answerers, and doing this for every school (I've exhausted the methods of getting kids to do it for free, and it's not working). I'm pretty sure kids will be willing to answer questions with this incentive. I'm gonna use my own money though to test it at 5 schools to prove that this method works.
3) 2) shows that they could fill out my website's content by giving me a $60,000 investment. If investors believe in 1), then success should be pretty simple.
The lesson here is not that there is an expectation of payment - lots of companies don't give bounties.

It's that if you do give a bounty, don't make it an insultingly low value at your corporate store.
Is this a compelling OSS replacement for Splunk?
I implemented something like this once. The trick is embedding the digital signature into an ebook file format that was not designed to accept it. For instance, the following method is secure, but the result doesn't look like an ebook:

1. I email the author my public key.

2. The author hashes a copy of the ebook, signs the hash with his/her private key, and puts the resulting PKCS #7 file on a web server or emails it back to me.

What is needed is an extensible ebook format (or a permissive one like JPEG that lets you append arbitrary data to the file without corrupting it).
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All of Glenn Greenwald's Reddit AMA responses
The "one day we will write tests" hits more than a little close to home.
I see that their convertible note financing is in beta. Could I still use it? And I think I'd still need to do some incorporation paper work, but it seems like with Clerky, this all could be done for under $1,000. True?
This is how it played out in Australia too. Pre-iPhone data was expensive. My pre-iphone "smart" phones were hobbled by a lack of data which the iphone didn't suffer from.
You don't know what league you're in until you try. With sports, it's relatively easy to see why someone isn't a pro player - startup founders are harder to judge. In fact, judging the potential league of a startup is such a hard problem that even VCs, who are in the business of making such judgements, have to make a lot of rather unsafe bets.

How's a person to know they're not good enough? Should everyone who doesn't come into the game already rich and well-connected just stay away?
There's none. Welcome to the world of bullshit. Dropbox all the way.
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GPL may make certain commercial models harder, but there's no "can't use" prohibition in the license.

The condition on all potential uses (commercial and non-commercial) is the same: your derivative source code must remain available under the same terms.
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Ask HN: How important was selling in the success of Apple's products?
Apple was always waiting for the right moment for a giant leap forward in consumer satisfaction to become possible; it's the opposite of the incrementalism of the usual disruptive product.

Few companies would consider such an approach because it seems to be a much, much bigger risk, leaping so far forward in consumer satisfaction that you are practically creating a new market.

But there is an enormous leverage opportunity created when you take this approach:

A visionary new product can generate a lot of marketing leverage from a strong sales pitch. It really is better. Using a strong sales pitch for an established "me too" product doesn't generate a lot of marketing leverage. And Apple had the head visionary as head salesperson.

The flip side of the potential sales pitch leverage is that the product can likely only be sold via strong sales pitch. It's too new.

So the best positioned company to take advantage of the strong selling opportunities of the Apple approach is one with a strong brand as an innovator. Upstarts or stodgy old companies won't know how to really pitch the product compellingly, or will be at too large a disadvantage from their non-existent/badly matched brand.
I worry that Apple with Jobs gone will forget to sell their next big innovation strongly enough, and will just rely on their existing customer base and strong brand. It will probably only work well the first time (existing huge base/incredible brand).

I say "I worry" because I want Apple to continue creating products that are great leaps forward, and I don't think they can do so perpetually without acknowledging the huge role that a really strong sales pitch plays in the success of such products.

Compare this to disruptive products. As initially defined, thery are reliant on advances in technology to become good enough over time to challenge established markets (while they advanced via emerging/self-created markets).
Agreed, I actually had some trouble with this sentence:

"Science — psychology in particular..."

Psychology, in itself, is not a science. This diminishes any of his further arguments and not being evidence based.

PS. Sorry was meant for parent comment.
Embarrassing story time: I was this guy at one point. I had the vast misfortune of finding a compiler bug early in my career. It was in a somewhat obscure variant of gcc cross-compiling for a slightly obscure architecture (PowerPC). I still remember learning PowerPC, reading through the code, and determining that it was indeed the dcc compiler at fault. It was, frankly, an awesome feeling. Especially because this bug took two weeks to track down.

My coworkers naturally doubted that I had found a compiler bug. Correspondence with the compiler's developer confirmed my initial finding. I was vindicated, and could prove I had caught one of the most reclusive bugs of them all.

Fast forward two years, and my coworker is having trouble with MSVC 6 (an old compiler, even at the time). The behaviour seems odd, and my mind jumps back to that one bug I found previously. We isolate it down to one line, and I state with confidence that the compiler generated incorrect code.

My coworker agreed at the time. But the next day, after re-reading the code, he pointed out that I had read it incorrectly. The compiler was doing exactly the right thing. To further my embarrassment, it wasn't even some obscure feature of C (like trigraphs). I made a common mistake and misunderstood basic pointer arithmetic. I still feel an urge to slam my head into my desk right now.

Morale of the story: compiler errors are rare. Really rare. I essentially caught bigfoot on my first hunting trip. Now I have to reassure myself I'm not seeing him again every time I'm confronted with a difficult debugging problem.

Or in technical terms, only declare you have found a compiler error if you have:

(1) read the generated assembly

(2) re-read the code several times alongside the relevant language specification

(3) developed a reproducible example

(4) formulated a plausible theory of what went wrong in the compiler, and contacted the vendor who has confirmed your suspicion
A beer for the 3 minutes that you take to notice the key and tell him is about $120/hr.

By contrast, assuming the vulnerability in Yahoo's system took just one work week, their offer was $0.31/hr. That's 384 times worse than your neighbor giving you a beer for finding his key.

This is why your neighbor gets his key back for a beer and people are recommending black marketing Yahoo's vulnerabilities.
Government shuts down and stocks continue to increase. Is that weird?
I'm having a hard time figuring out how this happens and stocks are not affected much
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Ask HN: What are the New Computing Ideas for the next 50 years?
What are some of the most exciting ideas in Computing that will transform our world in the next 50 years ?

I want to know the craziest ideas you've read or thought about. Lets share them.
This isn't really true in poker - the online poker boom created tons of new poker celebrities and lots of online pros who are technically better and more profitable than old-school grinders.
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That seem's to be the desirable outcome, if the trade-off for perceived speed is a larger memory footprint. Users directly feel the speed, but are less likely to be affected by a larger memory footprint.
>They adopt a different definition of obfuscation, called indistinguishability obfuscation. The criterion for success is that an adversary who is given obfuscated versions of two distinct but equivalent programs—they both compute the same function—can’t tell which is which.

I don't follow this part. Obviously, if you have two distinct programs, they are different and you could arbitrarily label one A and the other B. And even if you couldn't do that, so what? Anyone care to explain?
You know what's really crazy about this project? They have two guys named giorgio, on a four man team.

But seriously, this project looks pretty cool. It's an interest way to create quick visuals without writing any code.
Nothing prevents the Congress from adding a COLA to the Presidential proposal. The GOP-led Congress under the Bush Administration did it all the time.
I remember Slashdot before it went green (circa 1997?) From memory it was black & white I think.
Thanks! What's your research on?
Russ Cox is a g'damn genius. You can spend hours being fascinated by his code and writing: http://research.swtch.com/
For how many generations have we said that Artificial General Intelligence will be "solved in our lifetime". Seems like it is alway a couple of decades away.

But, if the definition is narrowed, there might be parts of the field that can be solved.
As one of those older, experienced coders with a family, I'll tell you right now that statements like "it should never be about the number of hours your [sic] working" immediately sets off my skepticism. Part of having a family is that you have responsibilities outside of work, and these are not responsibilities you can change easily like a job. You can't honestly commit to a job with open ended hours requirements. You can occasionally do long work weeks and sacrifice your family, but that builds a relationship debt you must pay back in the future, so it'll happen very sporadically.

I've been around silicon valley for two decades. I know how fast I work, how startups work, and how to contribute to a team. I know that if you hire me as an individual contributor, I will be ahead of you in line for equity losses and behind you in line for financial rewards, which affects my motivation. If I'm doing my own startup, then the situation is entirely different and I will move heaven and earth to get the job done, and try to make it work with my family, but this isn't something that can be carried on too long without burning out.

One day, you will find that even when people pull 100 hour weeks willingly, they stop being effective at half that load, and end up making mistakes from exhaustion. They slowly burn out, quit, get cranky, and you have big emotional explosions at work about the workload. If you want your company to succeed, and retain good people, you have to find a way not to burn out your people, and this applies to any age. Crunches shouldn't last more than a couple weeks and should be an exception to the norm.
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This is a marvelous story, thanks.
For my recent technical book, I spent 3 weeks writing over 200 pages and then 3 weeks editing to get the book down to under 80 pages.

It's funny because I then had several complaints (from non-buyers particularly) that the book cost too much for an 80 page book.

Someone can certainly save their money and reproduce the experience of the book by spending a couple of painful weeks combing through documentation and hitting their head against walls. OR, they can spend less than what they probably make in an hour and get the same knowledge in 80 pages.

My target audience was people that value their time far more than their money, so that's why I spent so much effort making the book as succinct as possible.

As an aside: I'm really glad I put a price on the book. Initially I was tempted to have it be "pay what you want" so it would be more accessible, but that would have devalued it I think. Instead, I've offered a special cheaper option for students, junior developers, and those in countries where the book would be prohibitively expensive. So far, I've had about 50 people take me up on that.

The book has been successful enough to give me another month where I don't have to take contracts and I can focus on creating more content. If I hadn't charged sufficiently for it, then I'd have to pause everything and do contract work.

So, spending that extra 3 weeks making the book shorter and more focused was a win for both me and my target customers.

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Seems like it's a good pre-filter. The designers who do know Jekyll are likely to be pretty good and well rounded. If they only required HTML, you might end up with a bunch of guys that think they know design because they're great in Dreamweaver.

Designers these days have to do more than picking the right font and background color. They have to consider different devices, proper i18n, and accessibility. Back in 2002, only knowing html was good enough.
The saddest thing about the little tech world we live in, the one only WE care about, is that somehow seemingly smart people have managed to convince themselves that 1)this is a zero sum game, 2) you need rock star any/everything (what ever that means).
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>Not seeing how this follows from the data and analysis and seems to be a rather bold claim. There is a real chance of smartphones getting commodotized and it has already happened to a certain extent in China and India, where local OEMs are calling the shots.

I spend time in both countries you mention and couple more in Asia. Local OEMs are calling the shots because market as a whole is growing. But, the smarter OEMs realize that they have to make phones that are less shoddy. That is why you see brands like Oppo. What I have seen in the last couple of years is that as people get busier, they don't have time or patience to handle rubbish phones. They will not mind spending more money to get an iPhone or a Mac. Many analysts in the west try to say something like we Asians buy these gadgets as a status symbol. It might be true to a certain extent, but more people are getting them these because they are tired of cheap and crappy devices.
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I haven't renounced yet, but it's so very tempting. The arrogance of the US's dual-taxation bullshit is enough of a reason to consider it.
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Thanks. Still trying to make the docs better though.

I've got to tip my hat to Flask (python) project for their docs you can tell how much effort has gone into it.

Oh and most of the code for Bytengine is written in Golang.
I don't think you're right. Even in professional sports, bad scouting reports happen just like when VCs make the wrong call.

Sometimes a persons particular skill-set scales really well at the next level and scouts and VCs may not expect that (Tom Brady 6th round pick versus a VC who says wow I wish I invested in ____).

Sometimes a persons particular skill-set looks like they will play really well in the big leagues but they never really do, or a well-funded startup never really gets traction for whatever reason.

I think the sports to startup analogy might actually be quite good.
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Surely most (all) lights leave a significant gap between one set of people going red and the next going green. Of course, people noticing this gap may think "well it only went red two seconds ago, so I have time" - which would mean not shooting off at the green makes you safer - but if people get used to everyone else waiting 2 seconds after it turns green, then suddenly they have even more time after their turn goes red to make it through...
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Have you used Firefox's pinned tabs[1]?

I have just two bars[2] for either browser, enough real-estate for me (wish I had a high resolution though).

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I still wonder if MongoDB is really that "harmful", or if the rush to use it inappropriately, or in the wrong use cases, results in the expected failures.
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Isn't the point of using this frame of thought that one needs to look beyond? Just as, "iphones are not better phones, they are computing devices", then wouldn't it be, "Google glasses are not better smartphones, they are ____ ?"
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OT: if Google thinks you have an account (based on a cookie I guess) it requires you to login to access this document. So you either need to login or delete the cookie or enable incognito/private mode to access the document.

Why doesn't google treat non-logged in users the same as those w/o an account?
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This looks cool but I think Apple should focus on Apple Tv to become a gaming console and this can be the controller.
Looks like a hoax to me. The ending shows whil the company...
What I'd be more interested in is if there is harassment for doing so. My daughter is an American citizen unfortunately (happenstance of birth), but won't be living in the US for any foreseeable reason. She'll be burdened with tax and reporting issues all her life if she doesn't renounce. But if she does renounce, will they hassle her when visiting family? What about if she does do some temporary work in the US, will they deny visas?
> There are explanations aplenty.

I clicked on some links and some of them explain the phenomenon by presenting people that say all kind of conspiracies and are not credible, others have confused it with sleep paralysis and some others cases that make the usual 99.99%.
Also sleep paralysis can't be an explantion because as Jacobs says here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Jacobs "in numerous cases people report they were abducted when fully awake and conscious, and that therefore sleep paralysis is not a tenable hypothesis"

So I can say the same thing, where is the undeniable proof that the abduction phenonemon is not real? Because there is no scientific explanation to explains all cases yet.
The same thing as in ufo sightins happens, the 0.01% is hard to see from all the hoaxes and disinformation.
Ok, if you had to fill in the blank, what would fill in? "Google Glasses are not better smartphones, they are ____ "?
Can someone tell me why the images are fading in on the homepage on desktop? Is that a performance enhancement? bandwidth saving?

Is that for help mobile browser, it's just weird to me, I just want to see the image and it seems to be affecting my scroll at times.
Unfortunately the US gov could not care less.

I'd be inclined to say "well if you left, then fine", but with the dual taxation and the inability of Congress to pay their bills (it is not just Democrat money, by a long shot)...what exactly are we paying for and why should everyone be responsible for it?
Avoid HN if your thinking of launching here.
This post will probably sound defeatist. Its not all happiness, hugging, changing the world, kicking it or other such mantra but I feel the following.

Long ago, before this account was even created, I commented and posted on HN. It was great, having karma but like all great things, if you use it daily, eventually you burn out, the fun wears off and I abandoned that account.

Eventually, I came back. I stopped lurking, opened this account and started again. First I avoided commenting, just submitting but the new submissions of HN flow so fast that most of what is submitted never gets looked at.

So if your thinking of launching just on HN, I wouldn't bother. The front page changes so fast. Some great sites and articles fall through like grains of sand through a sieve. True there is lots of crap. This site is kinda hammered by the social media types trying to plug their blogs, sites and apps that.

It used to be pretty quiet. A submission would lurk a few hours. The front page would be constant with posts falling from that page over the day. Now its minutes.

So if you want to launch on HN and use it as a springboard, unless your well known, your submission will just blend in with the rest of stuff that gets submitted.

Another thing is, sometimes commenting on HN isn't worth the hassle. Sure you can try build a name for yourself, being the one that makes great points, who is helpful but in reality, the audience of HN has a heavy dose of cynicism. It has evolved now to a point where you can be berated over the littlest of things. Great points languish and just simple point scoring comments rise to the top, get debated and well the "circle jerk" goes on for pointless karma.

There really isn't any point commenting or submitting to HN now. It really isn't worth the psychological baggage. Its just now another social media site with a high school mentality. Sad but true but its good days are behind it.
If a US-born citizen (as opposed to naturalized US citizen) renounces their citizenship, can they claim it again afterwards? Or is it forever gone?
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So make it case insensitive?