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After about 10-15 plays, my last 3 games were:

Valuation: 312,057,919 Cash: 1,228,670 Ending: Still in Business

Valuation: 168,777,006 Cash: 949,141 Ending: Bootstrapped (was trying for this one)

Valuation: 788,748,152 Cash: 1,257,966 Ending: Still In Business (http://i.imgur.com/Js2ZOYx.png)

What I did was (roughly):
Left the price at $1.5 nearly the whole time. I dropped it down to .50 in the last sprint.

First 5 days researching to get PMF.

Next 15 day designing to get Award

11 days on sales, accepting everything (all 3 carts, salmon, rappers, etc.) but not the investors. I wanted the extra marketing/sales from the other things, not the money. Equity be damned! (Damn that "second life" cart, it steals m'equity! As does the salmon one too. You need all the equities for the Fruitbook ending.)

Next 8 days on development to get the drops

Then the last 17 day on marketing, always accepting the PR/video/etc throughout the whole time.

It will largely depend on the weather that last day, but this routine should give you a good deal of valuation each time. On my $788M run, the last day was 29c "sunny with clouds"
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Heroku employee here. Yes there's been a PHP community buildpack for some time. I'm glad you got it working. Moving PHP to be officially sanctioned and "supported" by Heroku is subtle but significant:

We've hired a full time PHP owner. We've got PHP docs on the devcenter https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/php-support and more importantly the features we document are "supported". If you've got problems with them we will provide application specific support (to the extent of supporting our docs and the platform). It also means that the experience will continue to get better as new features are added, and that PHP has a voice in the future of our platform.

PHP on Heroku has been a highly requested feature, and we're investing a good amount to make the experience a good one.
What you described is actually the default way the Docker provider works, which aligns with the best-practice of how Docker is used: you can launch a set of single-process containers that don't support SSH, but have volumes mounted, links, etc. Then you use `vagrant docker-run` to launch one-off containers with bash, or run scripts, etc. The first two videos and examples show this.

To be clear: see the first example Vagrantfile that is in the blog post. Then read down further and see `docker-run`. You can use that to launch another container to get a bash prompt. This is _exactly_ the workflow you describe.

We built exactly for this. :)

We also support SSH-based containers, but you can see that it is explicitly opt-in (you must set "has_ssh" to "true"), also showing that it really isn't the normal way things are done.

Vagrant is about flexibility, and we surface both use-cases.
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Yeah, part of me was thinking that too. Use container volumes. Use dockerfiles. And don't all containers support lxc-attach (as opposed to SSH?).

I didn't want to be negative -- it'd be great to be able to have an environment set up in 10 seconds with vagrantfiles -- so until then I'm trying to see the positives.
The machine was about 6K euros with the base memory of 32G I forgot what I paid for the memory upgrade but it wasn't all that much.

DL 385 G7 iirc, cpuinfo gives 2 times (AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6274), max ram is 256G
After reading that article, I actually came away with a very positive view of the field of parapsychology in general. Of course psychics aren't real, but the Flying Spaghetti Monster can be used to make legitimate points about the study of religion, to use an analogy.
What does it have to do with VMs, though?

There are lots of languages with native code generation compilers that have GC[1] support.

Since the Xerox PARC days there have been system programming languages with automatic memory management (Cedar, Interlisp, Modula-3, Oberon, ....).

They were just ignored by the mainstream OS vendors, that were busy creating UNIX System V and VMS clones.

[1] RC is usually GC chapter 1 in CS books.
Also happened to a company I worked at, despite years of working with them with strong revenues we were told our account was banned for illegal click activity. We asked for multiple re-reviews and each time two days later we were told it was still denied.
I pay for app engine, if I want human interaction then I have to pay an additional $150 a month. Google does this for services it charges for, so it is hardly surprising that it does it for ones where it is paying money.
> unless you're an expert who knows everything that goes on in his system.

I'm saying that this is a prerequisite for Arch. It is not supposed to be or marketed as "for non-experts", quite the contrary.

I'm not disagreeing with his point that Arch shouldn't be used in production. I'm disagreeing with his:

1) Expectation that maintenance (of an Arch Linux system) should be hands-free; and

2) Arch breaks inexplicably, almost insinuating that Arch breaks on purpose.

> Is that what you want to hear?

I do not like the "tone" of this line. Pray tell, what are you trying to imply?

Aside: It would be great if downvotes came with explanations.
Crashes on 10.8.5 [1] due to NSColor being used improperly

[1] https://aroch.io/cakebrew.log (Sorry for the self-signed cert...)
I've never used Tower, but I haven't found diffs and rebasing on the command line to really cause me much trouble. I will agree that there is a segment of users who find such tools useful. I think part of the problem is that the segment of people who want GUI tools and the segment of people who build the underlying tools rarely overlap.
There was a service a while back called "Please Return Me" or somesuch. I found their Facebook page but it looks like it's dead. Anyhow they had tamper-resistant labels with a serial number that you could put on devices. That way if it was lost, someone could get a reward from you to return it.

A similar process might work with this idea.

My one concern is that what happens if you have A selling legitimately to B, then B tries to resell to C? A could trigger the alert, making C think B is a thief.
Is this kinda like GrubHub but more general? Or is it more about making it easy for businesses to take pickup orders on their websites?
A new study reveals that men are often the victims of sexual assault
Hey, feel free to bitch about how much internet access costs in the first place -- I'm right there with you.

But the definition of metered billing is that people who use less data will be charged less and people who use more will pay more. That's probably a good deal for people who use less than average and a bad deal for people who use more than average.
Since they are in an unregulated commodity profit margins are thin. This leads to a "paradox"(in the sense of the birthday paradox not a real paradox): when costs fall profits shrink, i. e. 1% of 1000 is larger than 1% of 100. Therefore if you have a huge mountain of debt that other competitors in your space don't have, plunging costs can be deadly as either your profits dry up chasing the market or all your customers leave because you are too expensive.
So this is transferring a server to someone else basically, not sharing a setup (which is the use case I really want) - move instead of copy.
Thanks for the fix. Interesting how asking a simple question can get you downvoted into the basement these days.
Hell, to take this to the extreme level, look up the PPC 615 — mid-90s IBM processor that sadly never made it to market. It ran x86, PPC32, and PPC64 code natively in the mid-90s, socket compatible with the current Intel Pentium and with comparable performance. Sadly, it was cancelled as IA-64 was expected to enter the market soon, and those at IBM presumed IA-32 (i.e., x86) was about to be killed.
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"Articulate programming" looks a lot like Lisp macros to me. Can anyone explain the difference?
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I'd argue that the optimal thing for a compiler to do is to use SSE when the processor supports it... and then the optimal thing for customers to do is not buy processors that run reasonable code slowly.
I was upset about this too, but fortunately
there is a way around this using the Vimperator itself:

:set gui=nonavigation
Ask HN: What's up with the trend of calling the Tech industry "sexist".
It seems everyone thinks blaming the Tech industry practices for the lack of women is "fair game". One ex Dropbox employee even went as far as saying that the lack of social life of people working there discourages women from joining (huh ? You work in Tech, expect hackers, nerds, and geeks. You go to jail, expect criminals. How's that hard to understand? Let's not even talk about: It's none of your business what they do after work).

It is trendy, apparently, to blame the Tech industry. How evil are those hackers. Such nerds and socially inept making it hard for women.

But I recently watched a fabulous music video of Miley Cyrus -Jolene-. It was a beautiful song, great notes and lyrics with a 60's, 70's vibe.

I discovered that, it is, indeed, a 70's piece originally. But watching the music video, all her musicians were males. And it got me thinking: Wait a minute, I don't see that many women musicians.

By musicians, I mean people who play instruments (guitar, drum, base, keyboard, etc).. The band itself, not the lead singer.

It got me thinking: Why isn't the music industry getting as bad a rap as the Tech industry is? I'm not hearing or reading mean tweets about how there are mostly male producers, male bands, etc..

I mean, what are the top 10 women rock bands who made History? And how come nobody is going on a rant about how evil and misogynistic and industry it is..

My question is: Why. Why everyone is almost exclusively only talking about "tech"..

I already know the answer. And can't voice it because it became such a crime to step back, think it through and say something logical, because then I'd be called all names: You are not allowed to think, you're only allowed to react, the same way everyone does, and just condemn and show outrage, to belong and fit in. If not, you are racist and misogynistic and homophobic and a bigot.
Agree, I don't understand how every major browser came to adopt that popup thing instead of just putting the link preview into the address bar. I use this addon which does exactly that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-location...
> The engineering world would be a much better place if more people built beautiful, easy to use GUIs on top of the confusing command line apps we all rely on.

I can't tell you how much I agree with this. Far too little engineering effort is spent on nice GUIs, especially for 'niche' applications (I'm talking the sciences here in particular), because the GUI doesn't add any functionality. It's true, but it sure as hell adds productivity.

In regards to homebrew specifically though, I think the 'brew' command line app is actually one of the better ones and is actually pretty easy to use.
To my knowledge Oncor is not part of EFH. Though I could imagine they were left with some kind of stake after the split. More specifically though, Oncor is only the delivery side. Basically meaning, meters and maintenance. Retail providers contact Oncor to have service started. Oncor then send back usage data which the retail side use to bill the customer. If there is a problem, say a line down, Oncor will dispatch the technician.
in germany you get paid if you bring paper to commercial recycling centres. virtually nobody does it though, because the regular municipal waste disposal picks it up for free. and yes, it really is free, you only pay for disposal of unsorted waste, which goes in a different bin.
I agree on the separation of input fields, but wanted to point out that the search functionality you mention exists in Chrome too (Mac equivalent in parens):

ctrl(cmd)+l to focus omnibar, alt(shift)+enter to open results in a new tab
The article states that they initially tried to do this with mail forwarding contracts, but those really aren't designed for this kind of use case (more on this in another one of my comments[1]). To accept mail on behalf of someone else requires a much more complex signup process: you have to get a special form from the postoffice signed in the presence of a notary public and then send that in physical copies to various parties; to get mail forwarded is much simpler. Earth Class Mail tries to help you with this, but as a happy user I honestly had kept putting off signing up due to it: I imagine these services could easily have many more customers if they didn't need such a "hard" form.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7668877

I imagine, then, that it primarily comes down to this attempt to minimize the perceived pain of the signup process: specifically, the idea that you have to move all of your mail senders to a new address is really off-putting to potential customers; it is effectively like moving from your current home "to" the other provider. I was myself a little against doing this at first, and in fact only came around when I finally physically moved to a new apartment and realized "omg, this is so annoying, and I am not even certain I like my new place, so maybe I'll move again in a few years... I'm going to do this once to ECM instead and maybe then I won't have to do this for another decade".

At that point you first look at mail forwarding, and then fall back to "undeliver" while you attempt to argue people into submission that mail forwarding should let you do what you want, or try to get the government to pay you to replace their existing service with yours ;P. But to try to say "our service is so easy: all you do is contact anyone who ever sends you mail, and have them all send mail to us instead! then, if you ever get tired of paying us to receive your mail, you get to do this all over again!" is a really difficult sell, especially for a "hip" "web 2.0" company. I almost want to say they had no other option but the path they took (and no other option than the resulting failure).
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They have two X chromosomes.

The Y chromosome contains vital genes, for males, that code for things males need. Its really pretty much that. Take away the Y chromosome and most mammal species aren't going to survive. Even the rats that lost it had the equivalent genes on the X chromosome. The gene expression of females isn't the same as males in short. In spite of the fact that females and males share an X chromosome.
It's not something "they" do, it's an option that any video uploader has. Of course, you can sideload unauthorized YouTube viewers to get around this.
That's a good point. I kinda wish ISPs were just in the ISP business and didn't have other revenue lines to protect/favor.

Otherwise, I'm not sure I get the big deal about metered data. It's gonna suck for people who use a ton of data, but aren't those people currently kinda being subsidized by the customers who pay the same rate but use a tiny fraction as much?
Appreciate the input, thx!
I feel the same way.

Amiga and environments like Smalltalk and Oberon spoiled me for GUIs.

I do master the CLI across multiple OSs, but only use them when I really need to.
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Ask HN: Is this an employee confidentiality breach?
This is from a friend:

"Unbeknownst to me, I was granted stock options back in January by my company but the VP gave the RSU letter to my coworker (not clear on why) and she's had it for 3 months. I don't go in the office much (work remotely) but that doesn't seem like a valid excuse for her to hold onto it and I've seen her multiple times since January. No one told me about the stock options...not my boss, the coworker, HR, etc. and I was unaware of the letter until my coworker randomly mentioned it, also that she read it. Not everyone in the company gets stock so it's not as if this is some generic form letter. I am really pissed off but not sure if this is a breach of confidentiality or just plain unprofessional."
I only agree with your first three examples (the third being debatable). Square or higher roots of arbitrary integers are definitely less famous than the golden ratio though...
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Ask HN: What is a fair price to write a tech book?
Dear Hacker News,

I have recently been contacted by a publishing company and have been asked to write a 150 - 180 page book covering the essentials of Zendesk (a large company that sells support request software) and I am wondering what would be fair compensation for this work. My timeline is 1.5 months for the 1st draft and here is their explanation of payment:

"We would be paying you an advance against future royalties of 16% which is worth around $1000 (depending on the estimate writing timeline) and split across the writing timeline. Shorter the timeline higher the advances. Normally the breakdown of the advance is:

50% of advance for delivery and acceptance of the first draft of all chapters.
25% of advance for delivery and acceptance of the final draft of all chapters.
25% of advance upon publication. "

If I understand this right, 1000$ with no future royalties sounds extremely low, given the time it would take to write a book, but what would a fair price be?

Thanks,
Eric
I really like Gary's videos. I wish I had stopped to meet him at Pycon this year (but I didn't know who he was until after his talk! Derp).

Thanks for pointing that out though; I didn't intend to assert

dhh's opinion <=> rails community's opinion
The address bar works as both now, it seems that the search bar is left there so that it doesn't startle all the neophobes even more.
Is anyone else disappointed this thread is not about brewing your own beer?
I realize that you were highlighting some specific, well-known examples, but I'm finding it pretty funny that you could have just said "the nth root of any integer", which encompasses all of the numbers and sets you mentioned before it. (I'm a maths student; it's finals; everything is hilarious now)
I'm not likely to use this personally, but kudos for taking the time to make what looks like a lovely GUI to sit on top of HB :)
Is homebrew that confusing though? I thought it was much simpler compared to other CLIs. Primarily, all you do is search, install, and uninstall.
"The genesis for DI was to facilitate the testing of objects that are dependent on objects that are not easily constructed, such as DAOs. And the whole reason this was done was so that these classes, the ones that have a DAO dependency, could be more easily and quickly tested."

I disagree with this central premise. If you have introduced DI simply for testing reasons than you have missed the point. The reason for DI is that a very common point of change with software is at the interaction between clients and services. Tight coupling at this point of change is usually a design smell. That DI enables automated testing is a by product of it being loosely coupled not the point of the loose coupling. That TDD drives you to this sort of solution, all other things being equal, is one of the advantages of TDD.

If DI has become cumbersome and is making your code hard to reason about/read/maintain etc then blame DI, not the testing. You also might want to consider the higher level architecture of your solution if you are finding yourself with lots of complicated dependency chains.
Thx! Sounds like php is the consensus in the comments.
I wouldn't rely on the Watson connection to influence their chip division strategy.

It's not something they spread around, but from what I recall from a Q+A with IBM engineers the Watson prototype was developed on AMD xSeries servers, and only moved to pSeries machines late in the development before the Jeopardy! matches.
Deskover: screen scraping and UI automation solutions
Oh I guess also for checking plant, soil and water, possibly also for rock formations. Seemingly those are not interesting subjects to you, so it may be remarkably useless to you. In any case, it's expected that a "molecular sensor" will be more interesting for those with an interest in the sciences (especially on the field) than for the average, dieting joe.
That's a fun read. It is true that in time sharing systems the ability to attach an identity to things the mainframe was doing was a direct requirement of the accountants who wanted to distribute the cost of that machine to the users.
I'm impressed at how straightforward they are regarding their plugin's future:

Longer term, however, we expect that the performance and feature gap between the Web Player and WebGL will become much more narrow, and we expect that browser vendors will make the Web Player obsolete by dropping support for plug-ins, at which point WebGL will become the prime solution for targeting the web with Unity.
So, you're talking about design choices for which PHP (amongst many other languages) is the wrong tool, and your complaint is that... PHP is the wrong tool.

Therefor, PHP is shitty.

Yes, I'm not surprised people phase out when you start talking.
I'm going to have to disagree. Command line tools can be composed and allow you to do more than the original tool builder provided as well as make it easier to automate tasks. I find it very frustrating to work on systems when everything needs a custom GUI to interact.
I don't know the first thing about AngularJS.
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+1 Crashes on 10.8.5 on launching.
The oddball history of the 80/20 rule
"Expect more information on IL2CPP soon"

...and how to fork it, ideally?

I hope Unity3d will follow Microsoft and partner with Xamarin. They wouldn't be in business without Mono - time to give back to the community.
For the record, Mozilla is working on it:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

You can track the E10s team's progress through their weekly meeting notes:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/E10s-meeting-notes
> What I really like is the whole toolchain that comes with it. Fast compile times, cross-compiling, static binaries for easy deployment, gofmt, godoc, gocode, etc.

If it also had an OS coded in it, it would be called Oberon (1992).
Personally I loathe having to use any sort of GUI because in general its slow and I cannot as easily automate tasks to customize my workflow. There's a reason there are more command line tools and GUI tools, the command line tools can be easier to build. Compound that by the fact that a lot of engineers lack a certain design sense to create a beautiful easy to use GUI but they can build powerful command line tools.

I respect the people who take the time to put together a GUI that make the end users life easier, it undoubtably takes a lot if not more work than the original application to get right.
there is an app on the market for med identification: medsnap.com

(disclosure: i worked as a subcontractor on parts of the app)
who's to say? please see ridiculous amount of references to bathrooms in other comments. next time i'll just submit something on bathrooms. i think it'd do great on hn.
"The new policy was officially called AdSense Quality Control Color Codes (commonly called AQ3C by
employees)."

You know, you'd think that if Google had a 2-years-running official policy, some other bit of leakage about it would have occurred by now. Two years is a long time for an official policy on a giant company's largest product to have never even been whispered, in accident, on the Internet before.

Let me do a quick search...
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22adsense+quality+control+c...

Nope. Just three instances of Pastebin (Hm, wonder why three?).

Oh, I know what I did wrong. I'm using the wrong search engine!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22adsense+quality+control+colo...

Hm, nope, only one result there too.

Curious.