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We raised money from Kima after our incubator. They have a fast process and understand technology well.

This is much better than incubator terms, and if I had this before committing to a incubator, I would have done this instead.
Obviously you're right on a practical level: if you want to have a phone you can hack there are far better alternatives. That said, I think part of the principle here is that all devices should be hackable, and doing so can be fun for those involved and maybe improve life for some stuck using these things. I won't be writing them a check, but I don't think it's a pointless cause either.
Persona is great! I'd like to see something like it that can also be used in native apps.
For being a flagship phone, the GS4 is damn pathetic.

I blame TouchWiz primarily, as my fiancees N4 and my N5 are both an absolute dream to use.

So perhaps one of the things in Apple's favor here is the unified UI across all devices.
Just published an app to the Google Play store for your site. It's called Banker News and is available here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mattyork.b...

It is also open sourced here:

https://github.com/MatthewYork/BankerNews

An iOS version will be available soon. Great work! I love finance, so I hope the site does well.
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It is called an opportunity cost.

The employee/employer relationship is a business relationship. As such, think of yourself like a business. Sometimes you have to spend money (time/effort) to make money (paycheck).

To view it any other way seems entitled to me.
Unfortunately, lawyers have to check that the company exists, request info from founders, check that the IP is owned by the company etc...So cost is 2.5K to $4K (and it's not expensive)

We HATE paying lawyers... :-( We are not investing in a company for that. So we will try to work with all good lawyers with great prices.
As you said, it's not so difficult.
I don't know too much about opening stores so I can't comment on the content but I really don't like the layout. Too much stuff and too little that is actually useful. The sidebar takes half page, leaving very little page to the actual content that is what interests the user. This is definitely a nono for me.
> expressed at the top through corruption and dishonesty and nepotism

So how do you explain Obama becoming President or the large number of immigrants who are wildly successful?
Explaining the Seedsummit, term sheet, creating the bespoke shareholder agreement, handling small details over back-forth emails, creating employee contracts (for the directors), filing relevant forms with local companies registry....

Depending on the home country of the company will mean each deal will need customised docs too I guess
The author is totally a moron.

"By not providing full national data, China is in effect cheating."

PISA only conducted their study in Shanghai, how can China provide full national data? By faking one?
Five held over Bitcoin scams in China and Germany
Luck and / or referencing a number of lines of javascript...

(I am sorely tempted to re-submit my old links with "in 0 lines of javascript" at the end, since I'm a python programmer :P It'd be fine if they were viewed but not upvoted, it just makes me sad when my work gets pushed off the front page by 100 "blah in pure CSS" links before a single person takes a look :( )
Great offer I guess but I seriously had to shut down the page after looking at it for 30s..
I'm very much against "eye for an eye" as a general principle, but in this particular case -- in the inner workings of our judicial system -- I think it has utility.

> "Never mind the consequences, like incentivizing prosecutors to avoid long sentences..."

That is indeed part of the point! If we can agree that sentencing has spiraled out of control in this country (and I suspect we can), then perhaps a strong disincentive for misbehavior within the system would be beneficial?
> Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean?

It means everything that came after that statement by way of explanation, come on.
Make a good SaaS.
Re: Markdown support

This is my biggest gripe with Evernote. I've used Evernote and OneNote and settled on OneNote because the text formatting and editing in Evernote desktop client and mobile client needs serious work. I've created notes in the desktop that the mobile client said it couldn't open[1]. That's a showstopper. Not to mention the weird quirky text editing in the mobile client.

[1] To be fair, this was over a year ago on iOS, but I have no reason to go back at this point.
In my case, it was just luck.. That's the only thing I can attribute it to. A blogpost I wrote about 2 years ago was front page on HackerNews and the Programming subreddit for at least 24 hours.

I never understood why. It was just a basic article highlighting basic common sense practices. I even remember thinking to myself that people really don't have something important to do if they made my article the front page for both of these places. It was almost as if I wrote something along the lines of "Water is wet; Oranges are fruits" and everyone responded with "Ooh, aah.. That is brilliant." Really? Give me a break. It wasn't that graet.
> Now think about what happens to their turbine in a stiff breeze of 30mph?

If the wind that goes into the turbine goes faster than a certain threshold, let some/most/all of the wind flow past the turbine. Maybe there is even a way to have the wind itself do that mechanically, similar to a pressure valve.
Google's not an ad company, they're an AI company. Ads just support them as they develop the tech. Articles like this keeps reinforcing that world view for me.
Absolutely agree about marketing. We just got started about a week ago so the content will really start to flow in now. There's actually quite a large post about email marketing getting wrapped up right now. We plan to do in-depth guides about marketing, legal, insurance, technology, and everything in between. If there's anything specific you'd like to see covered, just let us know and we'll do the research.

I do agree about the design. I'm not crazy about it and do think the home page especially is a little over-the-top. I wanted to change it drastically but wanted to just get online asap. We'll certainly take your feedback into consideration when we start to refactor the UI.

Thanks!
For fans of this, the biggest project on this subject is traditionally Celestia, but that's pretty long in the tooth now.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
> Headlines offer a promise to the reader and it is the writers job to then deliver on that promise. I believe I do so in the post itself.

You don't. You don't have anything in the post that really addresses how the jobs, individually or collectively, might change anything, much less everything. Heck, you don't, in the body of the post, even discuss what it is that the programs these positions involve leading are.
As with startups, it's not about luck, it's about timing. The original article was posted on a Monday, which typically leads to the most amount of activity (and with the greater amount of activity, the faster the snowball effect of vitality.)

See also: a heat map analysis I had made analyzing which day-of-week and time blocks result in the greatest number of viral posts on average on Reddit: http://i.imgur.com/ct5LNcG.png
> the hint was normally that content was disappearing off the bottom of the screen.

Which is another reason all those great looking but horrible to use single page sites that make it look like what you land on is all there is are an atrocity.
About to be interviewed on an NPR station about Bitcoin. Advice?
The interview will be at 12:30 on http://news.stlpublicradio.org/content/cityscape I am not an expert in this at all, just a guy who wants to see ideas like this move forward. Any help or support would be deeply appreciated. Particularly around how quickly this technology will permeate regular culture.
I feel out of the HN clones, designer news is the best because it didn't copy HN. Love to see better design on boredbanker.

Also, is it illegal to copy the HN design?
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How does communication protocols exchange streams of data.?
unless you actually have a product to show, it's his word against yours. Devs always brag about how fast their html apps are, these "fast" apps are nowhere to be seen, or do very little things that require performance.
There is a HUGE gap between elements on the page, is this intended, if so, why? Any chance to get a demo? After clicking sign up I saw a demo link but it just takes to the homepage and I would rather see something before subscribing. I have to say that the screenshot looks nice. More(and bigger) screenshots would do ok too.
Thanks for the feedback. I do agree with everything you said (if you see my comment below about the same thing). The entire theme/design needs a lot of refactoring and it will be done once we get the content really rolling in.
Agreed - it was painful but worth the time to change background to teal w/ StyleBot Chrome extension. Really like how this is all laid out and the term sheet is right there at the bottom.
I'd let the "scale planets" go to more than 100x. Even at 100x they're crazy small when looking at a full map.
Remember, you need the employee. The employee doesn't necessarily need the job if they're already employed (and sometimes even if they aren't).

Sorry hiring people is a burden, BTW, my 1-day contract labor rate is $25,000/day. Why should I waste my time doing your labor for free?
The problem is that I'd like to read what they want to sell without having to check the HN comments.
If you're still a student, a great way to get to know them is to attend the various events they organize. Many of the thinktanks I've been involved in hold events that allow students to attend for free, or at a really low cost. It's great networking (everyone else is paying quite a bit to be there) and you get to know the thinktank staff as well.

Volunteering could also be a good way to do things. Many of the people I know in political parties, NGOs, etc. know people working in thinktanks as well.
Interesting, the slow demo was using a Samsung phone and had many animations. Next time I am going to do some comparisons on different manufacturers and with/with out animations.

The app wasnt one I was involved in so I didnt have chance to mess around with it.
Some alternatives, self-hosted and otherwise, are listed at http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/
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A demo or some screenshots would definitely help me understand how this works. I understand what it does, but have no idea how it does that. Most people wouldn't bother signing up without that info.

Also, as you scroll down, there is a very large amount of white space, which seems to be just wasting screen real estate.

All the best to you.
> Few if any legitimate Kickstarter funders would be bothered by this

Except those that only come to Kickstarter to back a specific campaign, instead of backing lots.
Good old times piloting a cp500. I remember the chicken game crossing the street! That was epic!
You can also avoid syncing too much data with a little organization, by specifying which folders should be synced to which devices.
As opposed to Apple which just doesn't allow tethering on any networks.
Officially, GCC has it built-in, but I don't know of many projects using it. As far as I understand, Clang's API is more pleasant to use.
Love the "fast" approach!

Now, it only it was a convertible note, possibly discounted but a convertible note...
I'm blind, it's too red, what does the page say?
I wrote one up when I implemented Persona for my blog:

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2013/sep/05/persona/
Yes, I don't see it as completely pointless either, it's just a question about priorities for me (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6848177 )
I prefer the iPhone even without a jailbreak. But I prefer a jailbroken iPhone if I can get it. Is that not reason enough?
Don't be silly yourself. What happens if you add or remove a blade, or change their shape or pitch? The swept area stays the same, but the energy captured changes. The "swept area" is a useful abstraction that gives us the total energy that you can extract from - with your formula - but it's the blades being there with their length that extract that energy.

These wind towers on the other hand capture and manipulate the whole air flow from the area of their intake, not just the part directly interacting with the blades of a traditional turbine. That's why it is physically possible to extract much more power than with a traditional turbine with an equivalent "swept area".
It is just luck. I'm a frequent reader and upvoter of the new section, and even considering possible auto-penalties, what gets upvoted can be just as dependent on non-content factors (which I'll conflate with "luck") as it is on actual merit.

The easiest non-controllable factor is: external exposure and canonical IDs. Some stories jump to the top not because a whole bunch of people were reading the New page, but a whole bunch of people were on Twitter/Reddit/Slashdot/NYT and then tried to be the first to submit a story...if they all used the same link, then the first submitter gets all the upvotes, and the OP benefits from that.

The second uncontrollable factor -- ostensibly -- is title. Did the OP have a great link-baity title? That'll catch the eye of New post readers. Obviously, you can take the vigilante action of writing your own title and hoping that it isn't egregious enough to get flagged before it hits the front page...but that is also "luck"

And of course, time of day and activity is important. Did your great tech blog post come at a time when Apple announced a bunch of new products, or when the NSA got caught red-handed again? Instead of 30 possible open spots on the front page, you may have been competing for 20.

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I've seen great stories not get a single second upvote, and then resubmitted the next day and get hundreds of votes...and nothing about the user or submission would suggest that the first submitter was punished. It's just luck of the draw many times. I've managed to rack up a decent amount of karma but I've never thought it was because my submissions are higher quality than anyone else's...and conversely, people who feel they don't get any traction shouldn't take it personally.
Monetary compensation for something like that is hard, though. There's no societal standard on the value of a person's day, and it opens the possibility of abuse on the other end (professional interview-taker). In practice, there is an intangible compensation, in the form of a reasonable expectation of being hired.
The $80k is a convertible note though, so expect it to be converted into another ~25% equity at that valuation.
well, that just suggests that HN viewers heavily skew interest for javascript/CSS rather than python. Either that or its total blind luck.
No offense, but this isn't a new idea. I've built this feature into Flask-Security, a Flask extension I maintain.
Is correctness less important in small scale apps?
Kima Ventures is probably the fastest and most efficient VC I had the pleasure working with.
I recommend all companies pre-seed to try simply try it out.
Jonathan Messika
www.Vodio.com
Agree with you that for it's not for everyone but for most early stage startups, it's a great deal.

For the others, Kima Ventures still exists and we are investing at differents valuations (lower and higher)
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Yes, it highly depends on what your foundation "does".

The ASF does not hire developers to work on projects -- it just provides the infrastructure for development to happen. Once you start hiring developers, budgets for foundations go up way too quickly, and once you do that you get into the whole fundraising trap. (Need to raise 2m? Better pay an ED $250,000 to do that, and then they are motivated to get it to $3m, etc)
> This is the problem, everything and the kitchen sink is tossed into Scala without any consideration for how well things work together because they've let it be a PLT grad students playground.

I'd love to see a concrete example for that!
The webserver being in a blacklist can be solved by signing up to some SMTP relay. The domain blacklist can be solved by just buying another.

This is the perspective of the service provider. From the user POV, if their domain gets blacklisted, they can still receive emails, and therefore can still login as usual.
That's just not even remotely true. What Apple does (to my annoyance) is allow the carriers to control whether or not the phone allows tethering. But they do allow it if the carrier does, and plenty of carriers allow it (usually after making you pay extra). I've been tethering with my iPhone on AT&T, officially, for years now.
(Or take the world hostage.)
The nice thing about android is that you don't have to care what Google and your your Provider do in many cases, because the "jailbreak" is official: You can install CyanogenMod or even Replicant.
Just a weird question that occurred to me in the first few paragraphs...

Why is it always a ping-pong table?

I don't get it. Pool tables are way more fun.
We already invested in Pakistan too ;-)
so nope, it's for everyone ;-)
The already make trailers and cookie cutter homes that are simply assembled on premise.
"Stories have fallen off the front page sharply despite doing well" is an instance of flagging overcompensation, not punishment for vote rigging.

Also, some domains have been penalized, which is why some articles fail to make the front page even with many votes on r/newest (e.g. medium.com)
Counterpoint to First: What is comfortable to you as a Rails dev is immaterial to what's the better solution, so that's a moot argument. My take on that particular issue is that you accept headers, offering them as the supported way of interaction, but extensions or other content-type declaring suffixes as convenience

Counterpoint to Third and Fourth: Scraping was mentioned as to why keys are not necessary, not as a real solution. If you can scrape the content without a key, why should you need a key to get the JSON version? Nonsense. If you are worried about misuse and abuse, you should put in place throttling and other countermeasures regardless of it's standard HTML version or JSON.
"""Some 7% of U.S. students reached the top two scientific performance levels, compared with 17% in Finland and an amazing 27% in Shanghai."""

I'm not normally a stickler for this kind of statistical bullshit, but this is particularly bad. They compared a country of 300mil with a country of 5mil with a city of 14mil. I think the percentages are interesting, but this is ACTUALLY comparing apples and oranges. I'd be interested to see how Boston (or whatever US city with the highest "scientific performance level") does in that mix though.
On the other hand, many people already have jobs are were contacted by the company looking for a candidate. I would have to take a day off work to go in for a full day interview, so some compensation is also reasonable.
Air marshals are superflous at this point, in my estimation. Post 9/11 regular passengers have intervened admirably every time the opportunity has arisen.
> It is a jack of all trades but does not surpass any competitor.

I think this a statement which deserves some actual facts.
In cases where forced pushes are disabled, deleting whole branches are typically disabled too, and generally for good reason (if someone else already pulled the branch with the removed commit they can end up in a mess and/or just repushing the unwanted thing by accident.

So actually reverting a merge in git isn't that painful. It's typically just
git revert -m 1 sha_1_of_merge_commit

The problem is that if you then do more work on the branch and fix the problems that caused the merge to be reverted, redoing the merge doesn't work the way you expect; the commits that were previously merged don't get re-merged. So re-merging the branch consists of reverting the revert and then merging to get the new commits. Which is painful in-as-much as it requires you to know about the previous revert.

My favoured solution to this is to never merge, always rebase, which also has the property of giving a nice linear history that can actually be understood. However some people prefer a merge-based workflow (and if you happen to use github it is very difficult to enforce anything else, due to the Big Green Button), so it is a real problem.
Throwing many millions of dollars on a non-existent problem is fine?

Checked bags get screened. They sometimes get opened and rooted through by hand. Sometimes they leave notes saying they have rooted through your checked bags just for "peace of mind." I've gotten such notes.
I doubt it.

Most indy studios use a tool like Unity or gameplay3d to build games, which can already target Linux.

Triple AAA titles from studios like EA already have OpenGL ports for the PS3/PS4, so it's just a matter of adding a layer to interact with X and the input APIs. With their huge amount of resources and budgets, this is child's play.
I saw this reasoning flying around a lot when Valve started working on linux. I saw the move from linux initially as a natural extension of developing for the Mac OS. GabeN was quoted saying something on the lines of how the games were running much more stable on OSX then windows and said the problem they had wasn't related to there code.

Then I heard how performance issues. Using games performed (slightly?) better on Linux then on Windows. There was talk about mouse issues on Windows 8 and how some bench marks could be faked.

All this sounded to me was Valve wanted a better gaming environment.

Side note, I don't know how many people would be switching to Windows' store and gaming social features over Steam.
Everything is luck, and everything isn't luck. I make the comparison talking about my app business. Making a great app is like buying a lottery ticket that happens to have an expected outcome of greater than 0. The better you make the app, the more likely it is to succeed. If it's a great app, it will make some money, but to have a hit you also have to have a lot of luck. You pretty much can't have a hit though without making it good.

It's the same with a post on HN. You have to actually have good content, but that is not enough to guarantee the front page. You have to have good content, and you have to get lucky. I've had stuff get near the top of the front page and get > 15k views and I've had similar content fall off the new page with just a few views and no votes. As with the apps though, you can't have hit if it's crap. You have to be good and lucky.
I agree, but I'd still like to do it. Control center and officially-sanctioned WiFi tethering took care of most of my jailbreak-related needs. However, there are still some features I miss, like the add-on I used that looked up incoming calls from unknown numbers.
check out some good C++ open source projects, like Chrome from Google and Folly from Facebook.
Right, but is the mfging and installation costs of the 90m blade vs. the structure of the same size?

I see this as a cost optimization, not a way to get more energy from the same source.
You can't imagine how most US startups will be happy to get that deal.
There are thousands of startups trying to get funding desperately in the US too
There are also founders who are not interested to lose their time by pitching many VCs...and prefer to get that term in 15 days instead of better terms in 5 months...