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Hey Jonathan,

I am the person who wrote the coderwall tip and I am sorry to hear that you feel like this. Especially because I did read your post a while ago, forgot about it and lost the link. I then just searched the GData docs and it's a documented feature. https://developers.google.com/gdata/samples/spreadsheet_samp... so I just spread something lesser known and didn't mean to "steal" anything.
That's quite understandable. In English, we often say 'guys' and it refers to everyone. There are more inclusive ways to speak, but it often goes unaddressed. In writing, it is much more alienating. Good luck with your project!
The article says you have to trade in your existing Glass to get the new pair for free? Is this incorrect?
Similar to SpaceX and most other space programs, they take from the research and technology developed previously to implement their own version.

For example, NASA developed different forms/methods of long distance communications which allow the spacecraft to communicate with the ground. That 63 million for development of the ISROs Mars Mission takes advantage of that. Saving cost.

Further, because some to many of the parts have been produced for decades and NASA retired their rockets, there are parts "on the cheap."
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Yeah. One thing that some people seem to miss is that you can have multiple man pages for a topic-- perhaps one that lays out the general outlines, and one for more specific information.

git does this: it has "man gittutorial" and "gitcvs-migration", as well as man pages for each command. It makes a lot of sense and avoids the "giant wall of irrelevant text" approach.

Bash, on the other hand... yeah. Just try finding anything in there.
got invitation! now booking flight from tokyo.
At this point I don't even know what will convince me that stuff like this that Google releases isn't yet another dead-in-a-year product. We've seen a number of great service being killed just in the past few months alone. What makes this any different?

My only advice to kids is: don't make this something you depend on. Remember if you aren't paying for it, you're the product, and Google could care less about you and your silly needs when it comes time for some Spring Cleaning™.
Here's my initial stab at crowdsourcing educational standards, if you're curious:

http://opencompetencies.org
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All our open positions are listed on our careers page so if you don't see something there that fits, we don't have anything (sorry!). Right now we can't support initial visa applications but I believe we can sponsor renewals.
I suppose the mass of 1337 kg increases the PR effect of the tax payer funded show?
I wonder if this uses WebRTC. Or regardless maybe I should make a clone using WebRTC.
With regards to piping, yes this can sometimes be true. It's very dependent on the actual program. Programs on windows take a string array as the argument to their main function, so if the program is written in such a way that it iterates across every element of the string array argument and then does something with them, then this'd work. Most of the Microsoft programs behave sensibly with this, and execute an Open command against each of the files dragged onto them, but this isn't guaranteed to be true.

I'd still like a nicer, general purpose way of manipulating multiple files in Windows. That does seem to be one place where it's definitely lacking, but it could just be that I don't know how to do it.
Got that dreaded email. Rejected. Now back to work.
Hi,
your thinking about right now. In a few years time, eye tracking will be as widespread as webcams are today. Plus there are already tens of thousand eye trackers in the world. And as the technology is maturing, its becoming more available
Strange that they say "we", because in the previous interview, they said Dan Bernstein helped them to create some new 205-bit curve or something. Previously they were using the NIST curves in the SCIMP protocol. They should probably just use Curve25519, unless they think that's too overkill.
Just got my rejection message. At least its worded very thoughtfully it makes it a bit easier.
Am I the only one that doesn't understand all the google hate? (about discontinuing a few of their products)
No, you don't need to buy anything. We have all real eye trackers. What you need to do is to just register and add the tracking code to your site. It is very similar to google analytics and crazyegg but here there is data from real eye trackers.
I seem to also recall them getting sanctioned by EU countries(?) on trying to still call products "chocolate" even if they had no cocoa butter in them -- but I can't seem to find a citation.

There is also the child labor involved in cocoa bean harvesting, the bottled water snafus that others have mentioned, and other various things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversy_and_cr...
This reads like a list of 50 random complaints that got crowdsourced down to the best 13. I.e. actually interesting.
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Feels less Odesk, more Clarity.fm to me
I'd like to drop this link, which was posted to HN before without any reaction:
http://hitboxteam.com/designing-game-narrative

Especially after the impact that Minecraft has, my impression is that creating games is your best bet to create new ways of story telling and user interactions. My feeling is that we didn't even scratch the surface of what is possible.
There is always a balance between trying and exploiting new technologies, whilst not being distracted by them to the detriment of the product.
Awesome, the features like:
4X more memory
2X more CPU performance
132X more disk I/O
8.3X more network bandwidth
2.6X better overall performance

WIll make it different :) Good team work
I didn't get into YC – here's my project
Also remember there are lots of fantastic YC companies hiring at https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs if you want to see firsthand how a startup works and you feel like you need a little more experience.

I can't speak for the other YC companies, but ours is bootstrapped (unless you count the $20k we raised from YC) and we are now a profitable 14 person SaaS company. I really think we're a great place for a person wanting to learn how a SaaS company works. Details at http://www.polleverywhere.com/jobs or talk to me via email.
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"It's like never-never land - people never grow up. They drink at all hours, socialize constantly, play games, and do little to no work."

I was wondering how Google make their programmers work. Looks like Google haven't found a solution to this problem either.
Holy false dilemma.
The we you're referencing includes very few people in the world.
This is amazing. I have 3 new SMS tones now. (See: http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/downloads.htm )
Oh well. Here's to next time!
What does HIPAA compliance in that setup mean? That any physician can discuss your disease with someone else? I am not a deep expert in HIPAA but I can hardly believe that this would be compliant, even if the name of the patient isn't disclosed.

I would be pretty upset if my physician discusses my diseases using Google.
'Indictable offense' is a particular kind of crime, and one that changes over time as laws change and reporting improves. It even says that improved reporting is responsible for part of the effect in the first dot-point after the graph. The graph itself is explicitly titled "known to police" because of exactly this issue. To take that graph and claim a 50-fold difference in actual crime is extremely disingenuous.

Moldbug is saying that the Victorians nearly abolished crime and that the modern UK government can't - so is the solution the same as in Victorian times: just don't record so much of it?

Edit: Thanks for providing the links
How much do they cost? Seems like this is a response to Digital Ocean.

I wonder how long until Rack space and the rest provide a Docker container service.
Yep, they're targeting tutors. They contacted me (SAT Tutor) and got me to signup. I haven't completed the registration yet as they want me to schedule a phone interview with them and I don't see how it can help me yet.
> I wonder if enough people avoid new Google products due to shutdown fears [...]

I doubt it. That attitude is mostly a HN/geek thing. I like that they're willing to try things and test for viability in the real world. I'd rather have something and for it go away than to never have it at all. (And yes, I do understand the frustrations with Reader but I wouldn't go back in time and never use it from the start)
I am pretty late to this but i wanted to raise an important point.

Dont overanalyze yourself. Since passing out about a year ago because of an infection and not drinking/eating anything that morning i have some serious anxiety issues that affect my life in a bad way. I started to monitor my heart, my blood pressure, my pulse and freaked out whenever something was slightly off. I went to numerous doctors and cardiologists, nobody could find anything of relevance, no risk factors at all. I still worry.

With time it got better but there is a reason we dont usually think about bad things to happen or us or even death, because it affects our psychology in a bad way.

I am not saying do not care for this, but also trust the doctors. The advice of eating healthy, exercising regularly and stop overanalyzing yourself is the right approach and will lower your general risk considerably. Of course go and check your blood once a year but overall there is only so much you can do.

In the end theres many,many risks in life that you cant really pre proactive about because we also dont really know the human body yet. If you get into this you will find hundreds of people suggesting different things, you will learn about all kinds of diseases you shouldnt really worry about in the back of your head because it will bring your quality of life down in the end.

I myself am not very good at what i suggest here, but i wish i was.
Actually, you'd be wrong. Consider a clinical study carried out by the inventor of bypass surgery and another doctor, in the best heart hospital in the world considered by US News & World Report.

It would be so much easier if you could provide some names, or better - the title of the study. I'd like to read it, but can't find it easily. The inventor of the bypass surgery appears to be Michael E. DeBakey, but which of his publications should I read? Thank you.
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Somebody please do a panel about The Future of Journalism analyzing how you can use an established newspaper brand to market whitelabeled content from an Internet publisher which is itself content-farm levels of editing applied to crowdsourced posts from a Q&A site, and profit from the CPM advertising sold to brand advertisers which cannot appear on the Q&A site itself because stooping to pick up those pennies would murder their implied valuations.

Here's the Quora thread which Business Insider added 25 words of synopsis to:

http://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/Whats-the-worst-par...
Not saying it isn't true, but it reads like a giant humblebrag. "Everyone is awesome" is the number one complaint.
wonder if this will get integrated into google search results as a way to help users with subjective questions not well addressed by google search ... e.g., search for "best way to bake a cake" and see as an option the ability to chat with an expert live.
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Yes, there is. There are purposes for which it may not be the most important metric, but it certainly exists.

Can you please furnish a link where someone describes 'the crime rate', actually giving a number? Preferably from an LEO website and not a sensationalist newspaper. I've not seen a 'the crime rate' number before, and I'd like to see how its presented.

[ambiguity of murder]

Which is why I said 'fairly' unambiguous - and it's one of the least ambiguous crimes, especially when comparing across time, countries, or culture.
Congrats! I looked up who you were and we worked together a few years ago at Tonchidot. I went to the interview for S13 and applied again this time, haven't got a reply yet though.

Anyways, good luck at the interview!
Good work. 100k transactions? wow! What is your site?
This is so ethereal. What do you really mean by this? What is it that programmers have to figure out? That they have been bad boys and girls using cryptic code? ...

Ok go make video editing package without any of ths "coding" nonsense and then explain it to us childish programmers. :)

No but seriously I don't think there is a lot here ...
So what does a user need to have for you to be able to track their eye movement?
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DigitalOcean isn't really Rackspaces competitor in terms of pricing.

Docker works fine with rackspace, doesn't it?

edit, pricing:
As Performance Cloud Servers roll out, they will replace Standard Cloud Servers as our default offering.
Wouldn't it be ironic if both the established newspaper brand and the Q&A site both used Google advertising...
Regular people have a hard enough time doing every day tasks. Full stop.
Yeah, secure hashes are (hopefully) not mathematically reversible - but when you can try 350 billion combinations per second on a GPU cracking setup, that stops being such a great defense. This is why you have to use a slow hashing function.
Every time India space programs discussion comes out a group of people will bring up India's poverty and other problem that should be fixed instead of investing on space program.

I used to be one of those guys (I am from Bangladesh), then I looked at the actual cost of this space program and realized that its not a lot of money (~$70 Million) even by India's standard. For example, in india's domestic cricket tournament (IPL) one of their franchise was sold for $370 million.

I also don't buy the wholesale "you shouldn't do x, unless y is achieved/fixed" argument. It might apply to some instances, for example india defense budget is about $46 billion, a big portion of it could have been certainly spent to alleviate the living condition of poor Indians in general. But most of the problem in India and other south-east asian countries are corruption and inefficiencies, not (always) lack of funds.
Looks good but just not something that fits Google's DNA. A smaller & hungrier startup could have been a better place for this kind of marketplace
That sounds like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhUiYMek2c ("Alpha Build"). I've never played it, but I loved your story so I had to dig a little. Very cool. :)
Is it too early to propose a Google Hangout like thing between teams got rejection letters? So we could share some ideas and encourage to take further marching/pivoting. Up vote?
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I learned it the hard way: if an API is not official it is likely to break.
Your forgot a link, I'm guessing this from your profile? https://www.cameralends.com/
And battleships were very important in the first world war, and cavalry charges were very important in the civil war, and muskets were very important in the revolution. Proponents of aircraft carriers had to fight very hard to get funding or attention right up until WW2 began; everybody was focused on building battleships right up until Pearl Harbor.

The point is that you're always fighting the last war. In the meantime, technology changes, and the concrete details of what worked in the last war won't work in the next one. The lesson you should learn is not "air superiority is important", it's "being facile with the latest technology and understanding how it might apply on the battlefield is essential".

I would bet money that the next big war will be fought with cruise missiles, UAVs, microchips, satellites, and infantry on the streets.
Unicode should be easy to standardize. It's never going to be, but making arbitrary decisions on what's 'useful' or not just makes the process harder by making everyone's blood pressure go up every single time that kind of decision has to be made.

Frankly, one of the biggest advantages of having so many codepoints is being able to burn some of them on less-useful shit simply so the standards folk can move on.
I spent hours driving through the never ending nature around the actual track. What a fantastic game.
I misread your original comment your right, a visitor/user needs to have an eye tracker, but a website, only needs to have a tracking code
I believe they speak ironically of Bertrand R., he of philosophy and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament fame.
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Well, it sounds like you have something that is doing well and you should be able to manage without YC!
There was a similar startup a while ago that was acquired by fb, http://gazehawk.com/

Goodluck
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Games are entertainment, leisure time, fun and ignite creativity. If your game can provide that to people, its probably doing alot more good to them than many of the "life-changing" social apps out there.

Apart from that it poses many interesting technical challenges and will make your a better programmer.
That wasn't a technical commentary.
Digital Ocean / EC2 - any other on-demand cloud providers?
I've put together a quick online calculator to help you figure out how much your IaaS provider is going to screw you for: https://secure.slicify.com/Calculator.aspx.

I have EC2, Digital Ocean, and some others. Am I missing anyone else that sells compute by the hour? (I know there are tons of VPS services that sell monthly, but this is specifically for hourly rates).

thanks
Steve
Of course I am talking about right now. Why would someone want to sign up for a service that they could "possibly" use several years from now?
The wonderful thing about analytics is that it doesn't affect the user experience. If you user knows that a camera is going to be turned on when they visit your website, your user activity is going to drastically drop.
Not to mention you are relying on the fact that not only will it be adopted by users as "acceptable" but also adopted as a pre-packaged hardware. Otherwise, you are going to have a difficult time convincing end-users to purchase an eye tracking device that they won't personally use.

The only way that this would be remotely feasible is if you were able to remotely turn on a user's camera - which won't happen and wouldn't be taken lightly by the end-users.

Ofcourse - all of this doesn't include the cost of awareness that it would take just to make remote use of eye-tracking.
You say "tens of thousands" of eye trackers are on the market. With 7billion+ people in the U.S., it's highly likely that you wouldn't receive one person using an eye tracker in the next 10 years - in which you would need hundreds just to make a reasonable estimate on potential site adjustments.

I get what you are trying to do, but the market just isn't there.
A better way would be user predictions - or predicting user actions and engagements. That technology is around but not heavily used yet in analytics and would be able to make similar predictions.
It's the easiest problem for a company to solve, but unfortunately it requires the management to also do their work.
Oh please drop this "Oh Google killed Reader" drama already.
If you are interested in this use it. Engage as a user first if you do not trust. This is not a life and death application anyway (Reader or many of the dead services were not either). Products may or may not live they need to see if this will float or sink.
maybe it's good that it's not easy to go get alcohol at this time of the night (3am east coast)
Reddit had a discussion about it a while ago http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1pto3b/google_e.... Also the comment posted at this context http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/comments/1pvgjx/g... comparing about environments of Google and Microsoft is now at top of r/bestof.
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I minimise costs by using a mix of GAE and AWS: Host the main application on GAE but for background services use AWS. E.g I use AWS SES for mails and S3 for storing uploads and blobs.

Also storing objects that don't need indexes as pickled blobs in a parent model helps a lot. The advantage over JSON is that you don't need extra code to parse, (de)serialized and validate the object.
Yes, that would be feasible. In that aspect they have actual "testers" and not genuine users that you are generating data from.
If it was debunked, it's news to me. What sources are you referring to?

Edit: I did a few more web searches but am yet to come across any article that "debunks" the narrative that Van Riper "defeated" the US naval force. So, I'll wait for your sources.
My name is Jason Cornwell & I think I know better than 80% of Gmail users...
Why not come to Thailand and drop a few hundred dollars on comprehensive imaging studies, like I'm doing this week?
I completely disagree.

The F22 termination is a good thing, it means the US stops wasting money that could use to other things.

There is a "law of diminishing returns" in fighter aircraft that makes improving them extremely expensive.

They are also designed by committee, with such expensive things risks are minimized. It is big company thinking versus startups thinking.

In a real world those super expensive machines would me destroyed in a minute by UAVs that can accelerate and decelerate 4 to 5 times what any manned vehicle, and are 1000 times less expensive, and could be programmed for doing risky things by Johny the geek.
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Unless you're blind, or trying to render the page on a different-sized browser and the tables are fixed size (because 640x480 is a Law Of Physics).
Business Insider is a tabloid, despite its name.
As a general rule, Keith Rabois is correct.

Look at the CEOs of AirBnB, Dropbox, SpaceX, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. when they were really growing or fighting to survive. None of them seem to blog.

There are exceptions.

But to be clear: if you're a CEO doing something big, chances are you don't blog much. If at all.

Just like you don't go to a lot of conferences and become a "conference ho", as one of your better CEOs once wrote.

I would argue blogging is not a big value add to the startup itself or the CEO.

Someone wise once said, Startups = Growth.

Startups should focus on 5%+ weekly organic growth in revenues or user engagement well after Demo Day when it is much, much harder to grow at that rate.

The rest is not important. Including blogging.
Nice comment, old sport.