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> Both Microsoft and Google should offer small businesses packaged services where you bring your own internet service, then buy telephone plus email using your own domain name from them for a flat fee.

Microsoft is focusing on the enterprise, because that's where the money is. For example, CERN is using Microsoft Lync as an IP PBX, using the Polycom CX300. It looks like a desk telephone and works like a desk telephone. It can even retrieve voicemail. But it plugs in to a USB port and uses Lync for calling. https://espace.cern.ch/mmmservices-help/UnifiedCommunication...

It's a lot simpler to sell to CERN and pick up 2500 users, than to sell to 2500 different barbershops. For one thing, CERN has competent IT staff who won't be costing Microsoft a lot of money in support calls.

As for Google, they seem to actively be avoiding telephony. For example, Gizmo5 used to offer SIP connectivity, and then Google got rid of Google Voice forwarding to Gizmo5. And now the elimination of XMPP and the option to use Obihai. Even Google Fiber was set up as a double-play instead of a triple-play: they'll sell you Internet and television, but not phone.

I get the feeling that Google wants to make absolutely sure that it is not regulated as a telephony provider, with all the hassles around 911, service availability, being able to call high-cost rural exchanges, etc.
In most cases, the Python standard library is bundled with Python.
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Little late on the reply. It's non stop 9-6pm everyday for 3 months. This would be you quitting your job to learn the whole data science stack (SQL all the way through machine learning)

Since the focus is on practical/hands on, with only the needed theory, concepts are retained enough on a practical level to become a productive junior data scientist.

Note that our acceptance rate is also very low though. We are bringing in people who already will have phds or some sort of a software engineering background. The job placement is worth it though. We are seeing avg salaries of 115-120k starting. The problems being solved are also really interesting.
Surge pricing equivalents will motivate people to adjust/stagger their working hours. I already arrive early and leave late to avoid peak hour.

Pod-based transport would also make public transport easier and closer to a door-to-door experience.
This aspect of the problem is underrated compared to others. Thankfully, there are a lot of strong admissions about it in this article, which is unfortunately not seen too often.

"But to be good at maths was to be in solitude – or elitist and removed from friends."

"It was my secret shame – hanging out with the most beautifully intelligent (yet socially inept) kids of the school did not bode well on my social resume."

"In high school I sat an IQ test and got accelerated in mathematics and in science. It was social suicide."

I have stressed this on HN before in articles about "why aren't there more women in tech" -- one of the major un-addressed problems is that younger women don't think of tech as a cool thing to go into. Younger men don't mind being social outcasts as much, and tend to deal with the solitude that results from such activities, because they are often socially isolated anyway. If we want to get more women in tech, we have to make it socially cool, not just socially acceptable.

I think this also explains why a lot of men have knee-jerk negative reactions to "we should do more to get women in tech" articles. They believe that suffering through all that social ostracism at school was the price they paid for getting into tech.
Interesting idea but so far poor start. We need more information, less errors. I would like a video on main page explaining what you are doing here and why anyone should use you. Outline strengths of your idea and give much more details please.
The next few hours will be probably a turning point if this idea will work for you or not. So be quick and fix all the issues!
The flip-side is that IndexedDB being an independent spec means they are able to extend it in ways that wouldn't be possible with WebSQL. For example, in IndexedDB you can store arbitrary Blobs as values. This means you could store an HD movie if you wanted. With WebSQL you had to base64 encode blobs to store them.

I think this articles kicks on one key thing that explains the lack of enthusiasm around IndexedDB... people primarily want a database on mobile. And iPhone doesn't support IndexedDB yet, that is enough to kill it.
Why would any prosecutor do that. They're as smart as you are, and they know they'd kill the golden goose by doing that. There is a never ending supply of poor black men to add to a prosecutor's career tally; no need to rock the boat.
How much of the product depends on your partner? If his area of expertise is something that will be hard to replace you may have issues. If you did the majority of the work then it may not be an issue.
It wasn't clear to me that the prototypes would be web only - I'm an iOS developer and figured I'd sign up.

To be fair, I think the idea would work for different platforms, but perhaps be explicit on the front page.
Explanation required, please.
Agreed. An example scope of a prototype would be very valuable to see if it's worth the time signing up. Additionally, I'm guessing that rudimentary design skills would be required because there's a helluva difference between a functional bootstrap proto vs designing a product with specific design goals in mind.
It's nice that the dollar figures are all upfront on this page, but it seems a bit strange to say "Get a working, launchable prototype for $3,500" when the client actually pays $3570. It seems that you're putting half of your fee on the client side and the other half on the programmer side, but in doing so the client's seeing a mixed message that could be off putting.
Also, would you mind sharing with us what you are pitching? Maybe someone here would be interested.
I don't think an OS is intended to run on the Parallela chip at all; it's more of an accelerator.
The government does everything it can to avoid having a jury trial, and when a jury trial does happen, the government does everything it can to prevent the jurors from being educated about their role and abilities as jurors.
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Will need to do 10,000 apps to make $1.4M in revenue. Pretty tough business. If I were CEO I would raise your 4% fee and charge more than $3,500 per app.
I could come by and be your co founder if that would Help.
Just for The meeting though.

Steve.
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> Automatic payments without any hassle.
We'll drop money into your bank account on a rolling basis.

What does this mean exactly? My prototype will be connected up to your Stripe account and then you'll transfer the money my app makes to me through periodical bank transfers?
I run http://builtFromIdeas.com, where I build apps, generally for non-tech entrepreneurs, for $5,000. I've had a few clients "succeed" without continued input from me. I consider success a lifestyle business, where income each month was at least enough to move onto the next venture. With a well-built app and enough knowledge of your vertical and marketing, it's definitely do-able. At this writing none of them are millionaires.
Interesting.. signed up for this. I wonder what the scope of work is for $3,500.
Nice story especially that the infos here could be of great help for people who are suffering from the illness.
I think you should take more than a 4% cut, that doesn't seem sustainable.
Much of what she lines out isn't necessarily related to gender. Any kind of creative type will find dry CS classes boring. As someone else points out, the fact that the teacher that almost failed her was a male is completely tangential to the story.

A better title for this article would be "Why aren't there more people with similar interests and motivations as me in tech?".
It happens all the time. I have been involved in such businesses, and there are public examples[1].

Entrepreneurs who don't code do not need technical co-founders. There are plenty of talented firms and solo developers with product management chops who will collaborate with you to build a product. The entrepreneur pays a fair rate and the service provider delivers a solid foundation on which to pursue the business.

Many if not most of the folks looking to jump into bed with a technical co-founder they have no existing relationship with are doing so because they don't have adequate capital. Undercapitalization is one of the top reasons new businesses fail, so most equity-only/deferred comp. technical co-founder opportunities are unattractive from the start.

[1] http://www.groovehq.com/blog/technical-co-founder
As a prospective programmer, I would love to hear this answered.
Thanks for commenting.

He is a EE. The part I really needed him for is now over, and I can either get interns to carry on or do the lightweight stuff on my own.

The idea, the design, the parts, pretty much everything was stuff I spec'd out. He took them all and got them to work together, which is no small thing. Now that he has done that, I know how to go from here.

Great comment, though.
2pm in Atlanta on wed, you game?
Does not work, I get no resources when I drill to the white spot. I can kill the enemy, but that I all I can do in the game.
I have to agree that Wikipedia is not a good target for a redesign. Also, I don't think its on every designer's bucket list. But, Its fair to assume that a lot of people select Wikipedia specifically because it has such an uncommon set of constraints.

To make assumptions about design process based on something like the choice to do a "redesign" of Wikipedia sounds generally useless : Especially coming from a junior designer who I guarantee is not thinking that hard about it.

I am just saying : Everyone is getting way too serious about unsolicited redesigns. I think the article makes valid points about what design is and what defines user experience but It feels mean-spirited and the targeting at redesigns is mis-directed.
> It has nothing to do with "network neutrality"--a phrase that is vague and hollow enough to mean absolutely nothing.

The definition that google gives when searching for "define network neutrality" matched my understanding and does not seem vague:

"the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites."
The company's only product is an enterprise-targeted version control system. If they lose track of commits so easily , that would be rather damning for their product.
>Why would any prosecutor do that. They're as smart as you are, and they know they'd kill the golden goose by doing that.

I know :(

In my heart I always hope there are people out there that will put doing the right thing ahead of their material comfort and status. Right or wrong Snowden did show there are some people who do.
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Any ideas?
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Assuming this is 2-3 weeks of work, I hope there are a lot of strict controls in place concerning requirements to stave off the "wait, this should be simple" chronic under-estimators, but I've been in plenty of spots where quickly getting a project like this would have meant a lot. Hope it works out for this site.
>Life expectancy as about 17 years less for those with the diagnosis

That's interesting. Is that due to some sort of biological action of the illness itself or is it due to behaviors that are associated with the illness?

To put it another way, is it due to illness itself shortening their life span or due to behaviors like self medicating with alcohol or a higher suicide rate?
Related:

* Non-profit: Measures for Justice (http://measuresforjustice.org)

* Book: "Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court" (http://www.ordinaryinjustice.com)

Plug: I'm putting together a list of developers and data scientists who are interested in working with Measures for Justice to do something about this. If you're one of them, let me know.
I hope that more and more data becomes available around healthcare and outcomes!

Medicare recently produced this data http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/09/health/medicar... and the center that my wife works at used it to to produce this graph http://blog.parathyroid.com/parathyroid-surgery-medicare/. They are quite a bit better at this particular operation than anywhere else in the US, not surprising given how many more they do, however it is often difficult for patients to know or understand that - who should they trust? More data please! Interestingly this operation is one that Atul Gawande (who wrote this article in 2004) specializes in too.
I would be more than happy to, and appreciate you asking. But I would like to wait until this angel thing is over with in case they read HN.

It's in a market that you're seeing in the news a whole lot right now.
That was from 2002. Pretty heartbreaking to see that this has been going on for so long.
Download from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Is https://mip.li a functional site? I can't seem to sign up.
Except that has nothing to do with gender. It's just as "boring"/"uncool" for boys too. Boys are also discouraged from going into tech. Being good at math/science/technology skill are stereotyped as "nerd" and considered low-social status by our culture. I think this is even moreso for boys than girls but maybe it's both.
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This is why I never try to get out of jury duty even when I could. Everyone willing to go to trial deserves at least one person on the jury smart enough to at least be able to get off.
Strange—ingenious. Hill climbing is bad for these sorts of problems since it gets stuck in local maxima—an as the charts in the evaluation show, there are often multiple maxima in the floating point precision of a program. So instead you need any of a variety of methods that guarantee finding a global maximum eventually. Luckily, MCMC gives you such a guarantee, with better asymptotic probabilistic bounds than simulated annealing. In the evaluation, they have a comparison of MCMC to annealing and hill climbing.
Very nice...let us just hope they add Geo and/or Latency based routing. ;)
As per the evaluation, STOKE works great. So if they made a hard problem harder, they clearly didn't make it too hard.
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Awesome, let's fake it till we make it .
> Also a designer can tell a dev exactly what he/she wants in terms of animation values (assuming they're using origami)

Thank you for introducing me to Origami! My time on HN today was not wasted.

(It's at https://facebook.github.io/origami/ if somebody else reading this also did not know about it.)
Dereference a NULL pointer and use the result to initialize a reference. Sure, it's undefined behavior, but so are all the problems that result from NULL pointers, and in practice it doesn't crash until you "dereference" the reference by looking at the value, so it's probably as hard to track down as a NULL pointer crash.
Mix of factors. Drugs play a role (especially alcohol and cigarettes) but a surprising percentage of the deaths are non-drug cardiovascular deaths, related to poor diet (many mentally ill people are obese and diabetic by middle age) and high levels of chronic stress. Being low on the socioeconomic totem pole, even for a short time, is pretty dangerous to the heart, brain, and immune system.
As someone who is a member of both of this site's target audiences, I'd be curious to actually see some live samples of products that were developed on a $3,500 budget. I think that would help give "idea people" a realistic expectation for what the scope of their project should be in it's first iteration, and it would set some expectation for the developers as to what they should be able to produce on a $3,500 budget.

Another thing I'd like to see Betatype providing is some sort of franchised coaching and guidance to both the product owner and the developer on how to best set themselves and the other party up for success.
If you think about it, feeling less actual pain is necessary.

For example, you are alone at your home and bump your little finger on a chair, it hurts like hell.

But in a warzone, or if you are fighting for you life with a a animal attacking you, or if you are fearful in a certain situation, you can get shot, stabbed, break bones, and still function much better (of course, to a point...) than when you hit your finger in a chair... Not because you are pretending to have less pain, but because if you feel pain now, you die (after you are "safe" you can feel your pain later...)
My hypothesis (although it is not proven by any means, it is somewhat bolstered by the social experiences of many men and women I have talked to about this) is that men prefer to take the social hit of being ostracized, since they work alone on their pursuits anyway, more often than women. (e.g. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/why-wome...)

Totally agree though, that both men and women do face this social ostracism, and that eliminating it would be hugely beneficial. I think we differ in the belief that it is the primary reason for the low number of women in the tech sector.
> There are limited resources so defining success on growth will eventually lead to a point of no more growth and no longer be successful by a growth definition.

Growth depends on resources AND technology. Its quite possible to have growth without any change in resourcing.

> Comparing to GDP gets tricky. Is GDP growing due to actual output growth and wealth generation or due to inflation?

It doesn't make a difference. In this case we are definitely talking nominal growth.

My bottom line would be that a business would generally(!) not be classed as successful if it is not growing.

Of course there are other factors that might make a stationary business considered a success.
I wouldn't say I have much of a "process" to be completely honest. I just start with a theme or idea that is on my mind, then start writing. When I get to a certain point, I may start looking for references to cite, or other material to link to, or whatever. If it's something really important, I may actually go Google around looking for a specific quote or other piece of supporting material. But mostly, it's a sort of "stream of consciousness" thing where I just write.

At times (but hardly always) I will try to stick to something roughly like the "tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em, tell 'em, tell 'em what you told 'em" thing, but even then, it's not like I sit down, draw out an outline, or use a mind-map or anything.

After I have something that seems like it's "in the ballpark" I edit and tweak and revise and massage it until I consider it good enough to publish.

That's about it.
how close are consumer eye tracking devices? It'd be interesting to see. My group works w/ the PD side of things, and doing a desktop-based eye test might be something we'd be interested in...
Any stories on this / links?

Some of these programs kick out some successful applicants in the first few weeks, further reducing the field from which they pluck these success figures.
Realistically, this would only bring the systematic destruction of any exculpatory evidence.

Is the US (Texas?) law enforcement that corrupt? That's actually pretty shocking that the only realistic outcome of holding those who execute the innocent is that the system would get even more biased.
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Time was, that was Sun's core product...
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It was confusing for me as well. Press the spacebar to send out a shockwave. That shockwave will reveal the resources in yellow.
Assuming a non-symmetric distribution of driving skill, 90% of drivers may in fact be above average.
That's is a Windows thing. I think you could uninstall Skype plugin.
All of these public shootings done by mentally ill people represent less than 1% of the mentally ill population, but the news media takes delight in vilifying the mentally ill as all being violent.

If you factor out drug use, the mentally ill population isn't more dangerous than anyone else.

I don't think that the media intentionally vilifies the mentally ill. Instead, I think that people in general seek mental illness as a partial explanation for extreme violent behavior. "He must be one sick fuck." It's much easier to explain human badness in terms of illness than to confront the more complex truths: (a) sometimes good or average people do bad things, and (b) some people are just horrible.

If you start concluding that all extremely violent people are mentally ill (which is probably false) and use the flawed (A -> B) -> (B -> A) thinking that passes for logic among many people, you start thinking of mentally ill people as all potentially violent.
You don't even need a stuct ...

http://play.golang.org/p/GHzsNdtiNf
Drill those yellow spot, which must first be identified with the "sonar"
price should be higher to have a decent output. Around $5000.
Neat idea. Initial thought is that I have trouble seeing this be profitable, given how little Betatype is taking. Betatype itself is only getting $140 / project and for this is promising to "help clients flesh out their idea into a clear list of requirements." That alone could take many hours of back and forth.
> Dustin did successfully withdraw funds the first time only a few days before.

Those funds still have not been transferred to my bank account. I didn't omit anything. The article has two paragraphs detailing that the wire was sent and that I was informed that it would take 3-5 days to reflect in my bank account.

> Documents were provided on this day but did not pass our process. I personally looked into this and it was for good reason that the anti-fraud team rejected them.

Do you ever plan on emailing me the reason? I've only asked a dozen times for an explanation.

> I personally looked at the accounts and was present when the team called (at about 7pm NY time) both Dustin (who didn't answer) and the employer to resolve the matter.

It has been four days of that runaround. I emailed you personally the day before and didn't receive a response. I called the phone number you had listed on your whois for your personal blog, got your voicemail, left a message, and received no response. You still have not responded to my email.

> The employer told our team "he does not wish to cooperate or assist us in any request" along with several expletives. We informed the employer on that call that in that case we were likely to refund the payments back to his credit card and that he would have to pay direct.

My employer accomplished in one phone call something that took me a week. Clearly, I was being too nice about it.

> Both Dustin and his employer were, to say the least, unhelpful in getting this resolved.

I complied with every request you asked. The only requests I did not comply with were unreasonable ones such as "get a national id".. The U.S. has no such thing, and "get a passport", which would have taken weeks to obtain.
Most people I know who have such small business phone needs will just use their mobile phone.
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