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When I was a lad, I didn't understand that some of Weird Al's songs were just funny. I though that, for every Weird Al, there was a corresponding pop song. The best part is, even though I was wrong, I still sometimes hear a song and think "Oh. That one was a parody, huh."
My old phone had a bunch of branded stuff that could not be removed by app mover (unless that's something extra to the default app moving tool).

One example would be the "Orange Wednesday" cinema ticket software. I wasn't an Orange customer, I have alternative cinema ticket arrangements, etc. Just having to have that software on the phone was annoying.
Any way to contact you? I work with clients in this space and I'm always looking for better software to help our NGO clients.
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This is a classical example of bad trolling. (GOOD TROLLS WOULDN'T MAKE IT BLATANTLY OBVIOUS BY ABUSING CAPS LOCK.)
> I go to Hulu Plus; surely they will have the whole season, that's why you pay the sub, right?

No, you pay for Hulu Plus so you can watch ads in pay TV...
The FemSF are pranksters, the people behind C+=.
How about having two statements for running queries, Exec, and Query, but unlike other database engines where you might expect to be able to execute a PQ query that returns values like:

INSERT INTO PERSON (NAME) VALUES ('JACK') RETURNING ID_PERSON, CREATION_TIME

...no, actually, you cannot perform a query for an INSERT statement, even if it returns values.

This isn't a database driver issue even, apparently. It's just the way the database API was defined. Query is not for inserts.

Or the fact that if you run a query (eg. CREATE TABLE blah...) you get a result set that you have to call Next() on to flush the query to the database, even if you close the connection.

...because obviously, running next on a create statement is what you would do.

Or how you have to import a singleton to load the database driver you want.

import (
_ "github.com/lib/pq"
"database/sql" <----- Previous import has side effects.
)

How is that idiomatic go? -__- It's totally a hack.

It's nothing major, but the database/sql library api just doesn't feel right.

It's messy.
I'd offer in counter point that pop music normalizing some of the most base human behaviors in ease to digest packages is actually bad for us, and outweighs the benefits you propose.
You weren't just naive. You were anomalously naive. It's funny you should mention PGP: the 1990s were the time of the crypto-wars, which were in part sparked by PGP. Remember "this t-shirt is a munition"? You couldn't even sell products with crypto in them without jumping through hoops.
For a brief second, I believed this to be real. It's sad, because feminism is not a negative thing - but many of the actions of these "femnazis" discredit the whole movement and make such satire accounts look like "real feminist" accounts.

Just look at the Femen protests... they should all be locked up in prison. Disrupting a religious service in Germany just for the show... the freedom of the individual ends where the freedom of others begins!
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That's just silly. Most rappers write their lyrics. You don't become a rapper by buying ghostwritten lyrics, at least in the overwhelming majority of cases.
San Mateo is not "an archetypical midwestern suburb" with "strip malls, chain restaurants, vast residential areas... centered on a big shopping mall." Most of the restaurants are not chains, or if they are, they're local chains like Curry Up Now or Pacific Catch. It's not "centered on a big shopping mall." There is a smallish strip mall called the Shoreview shopping center which I don't think many people visit any more, on the east side of the tracks (the bad side of town, according to some.) There is also the Hillsdale mall which is more out towards Belmont. I think it's technically in the city of San Mateo, but very far from the center. The center of the town is the downtown area where the Caltrain station, central park, farmers market, most of the office buildings, and so forth are.
Ask HN: Amount of market research for app in industry I work in.
TL;DR: Should I build something exactly how I want it or do quite a bit of market research to sort of average the app design into what market research interviewees say they want.

If building an app in an industry I work in, how much market research should I do or should I just build what I want to exist?

I've worked in this industry for eight years, and realized a few months ago there's been a lack of innovation in consumer oriented web apps for it (though there are quite a few premium software options).

There are a few apps that I can think of that I would most certainly pay for if they existed.

I won't mention the industry to keep your brains open-minded and thinking at a meta level.
Built http://sideprojectors.com - a market place for buying and selling side projects - I use it whenever I need to!
I agree.

Very few people can come up with catchy tune on consistent basis.

He reminds me of a prolific young Japanese orchestra-style music composer Sawano Hiroyuki who has written some terrific soundtrack for TV, though I'd consider him many level above Max Martin.

Just a few of his work.

http://youtu.be/GiL5_FCbstk?t=19s

http://youtu.be/WG2o3wWtrsU

http://youtu.be/M1eh_d382hA

(my personal favorite)
I need to start carpooling more
Hi there, developer of noot here.
Anki was actually the inspiration of noot for me. In my opinion, Anki's clunky and has too many options. While I understand it's good for power users, it also presents a learning curve which I feel might turn off a lot of prospective learners. I envision noot as a simpler, nicer alternative to Anki, with more stuff hidden behind the hood (for example, answers can only be right or wrong, instead of Again, Hard, Good, or Easy) so people can just focus on their material and not spend hours configuring and designing templates for their cards. Also, Anki doesn't currently have a good way to sync cards; AnkiWeb feels outdated and more centered around the computer version of the application. I want noot to be a lot like the Rdio music service: with nearly all user info stored on the cloud and the various platforms just to be interfaces to that service.
The photograph in that article contained such a powerful dose of hipster that it transformed my laptop into a pair of skinny jeans.
Mmm, you changed my wording from "unable to work" to the much more ambiguous "unable to contribute to society."

But otherwise, yes. Given the massive improvements in efficiency over the last 200 years, why should the relatively small number of people who are unable to work be forced to live in poverty?
Where to submit your startup?
I have launched my first start up ever, Poucher (http://poucherapp.com) and I can say among all the things I have tried Hacker News, even though without a single comment, helped a lot with the traffic.

Here comes my question though and I'm sure many people like me tried to figure out the answer. Assuming that you've just launched your startup, weekend project or hobby how would you get it heard?

Which site would you submit your startup that takes less than 10 minutes. The reason why I am pointing out the 10 minutes is because most sites require 48 hours to review your project.
Also, this list of names are the ones that are lucky.

At the low end of things, some songwriters end up selling their songs completely to the label and don't keep songwriting credit or royalties and those end up getting attributed to an artist or producer.

Go dig for names of people who write incidental music for TV shows (especially soap operas) and you'll find people who ghost wrote songs for major rock bands where no one will ever know about it. It's something I wouldn't have even known about myself had I not worked with a guy that did just that.
The other most well known non-writing rapper is Puff Daddy, famous for the line "Don't worry if I write rhymes, I write checks." I wonder who actually wrote that line...
You're right. This is a just landing page I put together really quickly after I got annoyed with managing my flashcards in Anki. However, I want to use the interest and feedback of HN as motivation and inspiration to really flesh out the details of noot.

edit: fyi I do have prototype working in Django but it really looks terrible and I'd be embarrassed to show screenshots of my work so far.
It may have worked at some point. The language evolves pretty quickly at the moment.
You would also be shocked by how many pop songs Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic has written.
"Poverty" is a term that pretty much scotches any chance at reasonable discussion from the start.

What's "fair" for someone who really can't contribute? Is it fair for them to live better than those who are paying for their life style? What about the fact that the person who really can't contribute probably also seems some sort of relatively expensive accommodations? "Minimum living + basic accommodations" may still come out to more "money" being spent on them than a normally-abled person making a reasonable low-end wage, even if it initially appears they're living in "poverty". Is that fair?

When it comes to fair, you have to remember that the money is coming from somebody else, who has their own claim to "fairness" themselves. There's no infinite money fountain that allows us to simply forget that; it's always a balance. How much work should the normally-abled be forced to do by the men-with-guns (government) for those who can't contribute? It's a really, really hard question. I don't have answers for my rhetorical questions in the previous paragraph.
You mean that takes less than 10 minutes to appear on the net ? :) I'd advise http://firespotting.com as I wrote in my blog post about generating traffic: http://bondero.com/boost-startup-traffic-free
Well, I do hate -- Max Martin and other slimy pop makes it embarrassing to be Swedish. :-)

At least there is Meshuggah and other good Swedish stuff to be proud of. And yes, some of that is pop.
Can't fundamentalists just be crazy without having to discredit anyone else?
Ask HN: How does one find startups to intern for?
I'm looking to intern for a startup since I've worked in a corporate mobile company already. I'd appreciate everyone's opinion of what they think are the best companies to apply to.

EDIT: Assume moving anywhere isn't an issue (currently living in Canada if it matters).

Thanks
I failed to convey my experiences. Which is that the third party drivers are very hit and miss (along with the documentation). Understandably due to how young the language is. But yes, the golang docs are very nice.
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That's what I get for taking the first spell checker correction.
I don't think this is really "ghostwriting" for the most part - the credits are usually in the open, the writers just don't get much publicity.
digedu (www.digedu.com) provides an alternative for K-12. Much more comprehensive -- not just software, for instance-- but our Learning Engine is a sort-of next generation LMS. (disclosure - I work for digedu.)
I live in Ashburn, VA. I've had a package routed through Ashburn, GA. Someone got confused between Washington(the state) and Washington(DC)...? Occam's razor people...
Hopefully this means I might actually be able to remove the Apple Stocks app and Game Center app.
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That's the whole point of the brand though. I don't think Beats is trying to convey the image that they're the objectively best brand of headphones. However, they are saying - these are endorsed by Dre, popular athletes & other profile musicians & that wearing them is "cool".

That's like complaining that Nike can markup a pair of Jordans for $150 even though they're objectively "just as good" as a pair that costs $70-$100. A "brand" is valuable.

Case in point - that "rebranding" of the wine, just got you an extra $17 in margin.
It's amazing. It record tasks, notes and ideas, especially it shows the battery life on the corner to indicate that the week is burning out. Unfortunately, there are only four days in a week. Depending on how many days you are working, maybe four days is enough. Or if you work for seven days a week, you can use the note page for additional days and leave the last page for notes. This way, we can physically count the number of days in a week passed, so quickly.
You should submit it to sites that are directly relevant to your customers. Don't confuse "traffic" for "good traffic".
I've noticed that the tech industry accords Asian women more respect that they are generally shown in other industries.

I believe that other industries, especially law and political lobbying/activism, claim to value women, but actually they are just making up for one kind of bias (believing that women are incompetent) with another: wanting to have attractive women around, and therefore giving them disproportionate respect and reward. White women especially seem to fit the preferences of these employers in this regard.
My point was that the modified keyboard alone couldn't do it. It's not a FireWire device that can read/write things from/to memory however it pleases, insta-pwning a computer as soon as it's connected (unless something like VT-d is being used to contain DMA transfers). It's not even a USB device that could abuse some poorly written driver to gain access.

If a hypothetical modified keyboard is logging keystrokes, someone has to eventually retrieve it to get the logged data. If it's transmitting keystrokes via radio, someone has to be nearby to capture them and then steal the laptop to get at its (presumably encrypted) data.
Thanks a lot for the comment. That really makes sense. If you have reviewed the site, would you recommend a few that you find relevant?
The claim is made in the article.
Absolutely!

[blatant self-promotion and links to all of my apps]
Well, you're right. But honestly producers have been the most important players in the game since Rick Rubin when producers started to contribute more to songwriting (actually that's sort of a lie - I'd argue it started with Keith Olsen). It's sorta shocking that people don't know. I only even mentioned ghostwriting because some other comments mentioned it and because it actually does happen where the credits aren't in the open.

I'll add parenthesis to make it more clear.
No surprise they often work together.
> You were anomalously naive.

Now that type of thinking I find naive.
Ford & GM (Holden) are ceasing car production in australia over the next couple of years. I'd love to see tesla sweep in and pick up all the manufacturing plants on the cheap and take over.
FWIW, I started to work on an erb-inspired templating package:

https://github.com/karlseguin/gerb

I didn't get to finish it before leaving on a trip, but I'll be back on it Feb 1st and can hopefully wrap it up in the first week.

I did finish a liquid-inspired template:
https://github.com/karlseguin/liquid

but I wasn't particularly happy with it (neither the implementation nor liquid itself).
I think I'd use it as a reminder for time/task management to boost the daily performance and productivity, not for information capturing.
I've got a feeling we're going to look back on this era of music with wide-eyed wonder and recognize many of his pop hits as the masterpieces they are.

Unfortunately, social norms prevent us from listening with our ears.
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Thanks a lot! I just commented on the motivation for this project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7127884
> And there are good reasons to do so, but its popularity alone should not be one.

It's its popularity, alone, that forces me to have to listen to it. Sometimes.

I don't believe that people can have "bad taste in music", or that pop music is bad. But I'd rather listen to what I like, which I guess is why I shun the radio.
AnkiWeb is probably outdated because nobody cares about it. That's because their Android, iOS and PC apps are great.

How accurate can your spaced repition algorithm predict my forgetting curve? The time between repitions can be substantially different depending on the answer I give to Anki (a day between a week or something like that)

In which other aspects do you want to be like Rdio? Closed source, analyzing user data, advertisement, monetization?
No it isn't. Do a 3m time range instead of a 1m range.

Traffic is still down 25%.
I built wearther - http://web.wearther.cc/ to help me determine my daily clothing combinations. Been using it daily ever since :)
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First of all, you need to explain what your "Defense agency" does.

Actual defense is almost impossible if you want any mobility. Even US presidents get shot by determined citizens.

If someone is willing to give their life to kill someone else, it can be done.

With current technology, real defense is absurdly expense and still not effective.

So the way society currently works is on a system of retribution. You basically have a big paddle, and you whack people who get out of societal norms. You rely on people's (usually) occurring desire to not hurt themselves without enough reward to maintain a reasonable level of order.

So your "Defense agency", are you basically paying them to avenge you in case someone does you wrong? This has actually existed for thousands of years, it is known as "blood feuds" (except your family members do the avenging instead of a hired party).

What it leads to is different families killing one another for generations, some have lasted for multiple hundreds of years.

OK, but now in your system, it isn't families killing eachother but hired guns. Lets say now instead of 1 big paddle (the gubment), you now have 5 smaller paddles.

Human nature will have it that each of the owners of those paddles will threaten some people (usually where he lives) to give him money or else he will whack you. Now you don't freedom of choice. If you think you can funnel some more money to a different paddle to save you, that may work... until now that paddle is the biggest of the bunch and he controls your area as well. Human nature will... (look into what warlords are, read some history on the 1000-1500 years in Europe, Central Asia, Asia)

Listen buddy, humanity started with anarchism. What we have now for government is at least close to the best that we ever had before. If other forms of human cooperation were better, then they would have survived.

Human cooperation is a survival of the fittest, and currently in the world, people strive for western ideals. That means democracy, capitalism with a bit of socialism, is the best we have (and have had) so far.
It's not his completely his fault because other people upvoted it.
>Does anyone here seriously think that the mechanism the NSA uses if they want to tamper with a laptop on the way to simply change the destination address to be the NSA? And that no one has noticed this before?

No that doesn't pass the giggle test. If it has anything at all to do with the NSA, it's a blunder.
I'm sure he gets plenty of credit in his professional life already. There's no reason to champion people who trade in valueless <whatever> simply because they are able to make a living at it. Of course he is probably a truly nice guy, and great source of conversation, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's making a valuable contribution of some kind.
I'm also an Engineer and I'm not smearing the profession. Most of us don't want to work on something that doesn't make logical sense.
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If I was at a meeting, I'd certainly write on paper; that's one of the easiest cases! For one, it's more socially acceptable to be writing on a piece of paper than to be looking at a smartphone. When you pull out a smartphone, everyone assumes you're just doing something else (checking email, chatting on IM, whatever).
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Unfortunately that's not an advantage unique to Blue side in this analysis. The Su's have a networked co-operative radar as well. There are a few public lectures you can watch from the designers if you like. Su in general favors continuous upgrades of existing inventory so customers don't have to wait for production of a new jet to field it either. They're quite confident in their electronics gear, even to the point of claiming purely passive detection of the F-22 at 50km.

Comparing feature bullet points is a pointless exercise. Neither of us being an actual expert on this stuff (I assume), it's most reasonable to take the pros at their word. Doubly so when they're being critical rather than cheer-leading.
Hint: it's not spying
That's probably more to do with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I :)
I guess it's not working then :)

By the way - it looks really nice. I'd use it if I weren't on Arch Linux.
I'm not spending my full time doing that because helping homeless people isn't my life passion. My life passion is to create technology that will impact the world for a greater good. That doesn't mean that along the way I can't do things to help others out who are less fortunate than I am along the way. I don't think taking a few hours every year to help others would qualify me as a jack of all trades. I spend far more time burnt on HN, DN, and running my OSS GitHub project, than I do helping. I just feel that if everyone helped a bit, we would probably be received better.
Does anyone know if that also includes Motorola's patents ?
It goes way back before that. The whole Brill Building/Tin Pan Alley era, Holland-Dozier-Holland, etc.
Where do you live? Are you prepared to move to the Bay Area if not already?
Places where restaurant and food aficionados hang out? I don't know where that is but there will be communities devoted to them. Also foodie blogs. Maybe gourmet recipe sites.

Less good sources of traffic would be app review sites, maybe lifestyle sites, where the traffic will still be well targeted.
No, you may not.

First: This is XKCD 386 here. There are limits to how much I care about you. http://xkcd.com/386/

Second: it's a dispute about matters of fact. Originality per se has no meaning here. Accuracy does.

Now, what you may ask is that I issue better citations in the future. Of course, in this case a citation is just a courtesy, since we're in an two-bit good-for-nothing zero-impact argument on stinkin' Hacker News which no one will care about in a week. But there's no reason to be discourteous if you can help it. So apologies, Walter.
Wiki.vc - building a wikipedia about entrepreneurship
Hi, I wonder what HN might think about building a wiki.vc? -> I am thinking about something like an aggregator about entrepreneurship and digital startups, markets, etc. Your thoughts?
I wonder what she's going to do with the keyboard when she gets it. Send it back and buy one locally? Examine it in detail for bugs/weirdness, and then use it normally? Connect it to a spare laptop, and use it to do searches for the weirdest porn you can think of?
Or http://mnemosyne-proj.org/