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We use HipChat at work, and I use Slack for some other projects; both pale in comparison to the simplicity, flexibility and client-options of IRC. But for those less technical it's a fantastic and easy to setup alternative. Pointless in an all-dev company, but anywhere else, priceless.
This is certainly a concern. However, I believe that if the NSA or local law enforcement have a way to mine your search history internal to Google, they will not be stopped in this endeavor just because you told Google not to save your search history. They can just gather the data in real time and maintain their own history for you.

The solution to this is not to turn off Google's search history, but to use a search engine (like DDG) who purportedly have security and anonymity built in.
That's a good question... but where are all the 50-60 year old firemen? Electrical engineering paid pretty good back in the day... so I can assume that if they managed their money wisely, they are sitting on a boat on some lake in Wisconsin.

I'm working on a hardware project right now and the guy that's doing the board design is 57 and retired. I can only call him between tuesday and thursday and he has an aol.com email address, but he knows what he's doing... so who knows...
SQL is scary.

I've talked to hundreds of customer prospects for Treasure Data, and by far the biggest surprise I encountered is how few people know their way around SQL. I am not talking about just "business" people but also programmers.

Contrast this dearth of SQL-proficient population with the massive, massive Excel user base: I jokingly tell my friends that Excel is by far the most popular programming language =p
Update on NPAPI Deprecation
Ease of use, mainly. We started with the basic premise that Bitcoin is too complicated and that wallet software needs to be much easier to use and to get started with.

I'd love for you to try out and compare QuickCoin to CoinBase and Blockchain.info and let us know if we came anywhere near are goals.

We're bootstrapped and have been in development for only about 10 weeks. I'm sure we have a long way to go.

I'm counting on the community here at Hacker News for some feedback so we can make the product and business better!
Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans
When I scroll away from the top of the page it makes the header disappear, then reappear when I scroll back up to the top of the page.

Isn't that what scrolling does? :)
It's like the world doesn't have enough problems for people to bring some obsolete meaning to words completely out of context. I think "mistress" is a very sound way to teach a lesson. Just recently somebody reminded me some obsolete meaning of "gal" and that it could be offensive to some. I think there are too many people trying to justify their existence with pseudo rights and freedoms. At the end of the day, all these small "victories" are used to take our attention away from the indisputable crimes that NSA and the likes are doing to us! Let's focus on solving real rights and freedoms problems!
A stack of type t things blowing up because of lazyness... How appropriate ; )
"Community Connect" Rural broadband grants availalbe [pdf]
Surely insurance companies exclude driving for hire or similar from the insured uses of vehicles in the USA? They certainly do in UK. If you drove as an unlicensed taxi-driver and took a consideration you'd be driving without insurance.
Ruby already has the ability to spin up a quick webserver for the current directory. This is supported through the un file in Ruby's stdlib: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/un/rdoc/Object.html.

ruby -run -e httpd -- --port=8080 .
>Both Uber and Lyft have $1M liability + casualty insurance while you're transporting passenger

Well, I'm not going to claim to be an expert on such matters, but I believe $1MM is the minimum that is offered for liability insurance on a driver's policy here in Canada. I'm not sure how far that'd go if you killed multiple passengers in a vehicle accident, especially if you were found negligent.

Again, this isn't to say that these are insurmountable problems, by any means. You can insure anything for the right price. But how many people are actually sufficiently insured? And how many users are checking, or even care? I can't see this not being a problem in the future.
Nice utility to have !!!
There's quite a bit of data on the distribution in the post as well. Quoting from the summary:

Most of the returns have gone to a tiny minority of super-successes. The founders of AirBnB, Dropbox and Stripe are worth about US$7 billion, about 78% of all founders’ equity, although they account for 0.5% of the companies.

Outside of the most successful companies, it was still possible to earn significant returns. 12% of companies from the first five years of Y Combinator are now worth US$40 million or more, and a further 10% have sold for US$5-40 million. The remainder probably earned little more than their (low) salaries.
Alternatively however they're sending password reset links in plaintext to users. Either way if the communication chain is compromised so is the user's security.
> don't even have a notion of being run

They actually do have such a notion - in Excel you can set the calculations to Manual and then you hit F5 to refresh everything in one go. Useful when you deal with current date and time.
Monte Carlo and the Bomb
I guess "quick return" is a remedy for "infinite scroll" making you lose top and bottom navigational elements, too.
> When I scroll to the top, I can see the top.

Instead, when you begin to scroll to the top you can see the top. If you have an iphone, it's navbar behavior is identical to this.

http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/24/the-scroll-up-bar/
The point is that you should not have to scroll all the way to the top to see the header. Tools like headroom.js add predictive behavior to your site to improve user experience. I personally really appreciate sites that have it.
I've found Video Chat to be pretty terrible. I find it weird to market that as the upsell. Most of the time, we give up with Hipchat Video and switch to a Google Hangout.
Thank you! I was thinking the same thing about the constant being exactly representable in base 10.
Just moved our team to slack as well. Has definitely been a better experience.
Can you explain to me why you don't want Google seeing your search history? Remember: you are voluntarily submitting these searches to Google. Why would you search using an engine you don't trust? Or is it that you don't want them to have the historical data?

I submit that if you don't want Google to know about your searches, you should not use Google (or at the very least, not use Google with a browser logged in to a Google service).
> The feature I love about it is the ability to invite someone to a room.

Wow. Groundbreaking stuff here. There were chatroom perl scripts in 1998 that did this.
I'm suggesting the hybrid approach here, exemplified by the Rendr and React.

Give the full html of the first page, load the JS necessary. You get the best of both worlds.

On the first request, the client receives a rendered html page, gets to read the page, then JS functionality is attached.

On any subsequent pages, you do a simple JSON request and update the DOM.

The approaches come together without sacrificing anything. You get to write a single code base using JS (with a node.js backend doing string manipulation so it doesn't even need a DOM), the user gets a page without having to wait for external resource loads, and all page transitions past that are a simple data-fetch away.
They are working in lots of other locations besides just Mozambique. They are also good at sniffing out whether a sputum sample is positive for TB! Check out their website. I've been giving them money for several years now. They were featured in an article in the NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/opinion/17kristof.html), a list of different ideas for Father's Day gifts. My dad got a kick out of it.
I think they should learn from Slack and make all the integrations at least as awesome as them, and also have some kind of more modern interface.
Facebook gives up on automatically posting everything you do online
No, no, a thousand times no. Passwords should never be stored in a reversible format. Your users get shafted if you get hacked (more like 'when', these days). Here's a guide to handling passwords properly: https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm
I went to college at Binghamton in upstate New York in the 90s when I first heard it said. And the mantra was "choosy developers choose GIF" based off the catchy "choosy moms choose JIF" (peanut butter) advertisements that were popular here in the US at the time. And it was just 'developers' not designers at the time since the web was so new and people talked about as web development, not design. I never heard it with a hard G until years later, mostly from younger web designers.
The piece starts out by very nicely warning us about the THREE HUGE OUTLIERS but then, surprisingly, doesn't take them out of the remaining analysis. (Well, they sort of do in the "founders that didn't win" part).

Would be useful & interesting to see the bulleted stats list in the first paragraph with averages & medians (with and without the 3 big successes).
The Future of the Book is Unfinished
Orient themselves used to offer a hosted service, but they shut it down. IMHO there are some things that need to be ironed out before a hosted version is really viable.

In terms of sysadmin, it works pretty well out of the box for all but the hugest of datasets and busiest sites, and the configuration is well documented. It's no more difficult to set up than mysql for instance.
For those interested in more technical details here is paper I found -

http://isif.org/fusion/proceedings/Fusion_2011/data/papers/1...

https://www.informs.org/ORMS-Today/Public-Articles/August-Vo...
http://pointclouds.org/ has a subproject called (http://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/using_kinfu_l...) that you can feed with a kinect or a similar device. It's quite fun!
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Hey everyone,

This event is for hackers/founders that have built or are building products and are thinking about how to grow it.

Drinks and food are provided. Come out, learn, meet cool people, and have fun.

As always this event is free.

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Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.
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Loss of 1/3 working-age population is due to central family planning by chinese government.
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I'm not sure why you assume that the drivers pay no taxes given that they're provided tax paperwork by Uber. No doubt some don't but, then, no doubt some regular full-time employees don't either. As for driver liability insurance, it's provided by Uber: http://blog.uber.com/uberXridesharinginsurance
We've got a lot of reviews/interviews on Course Report (http://coursereport.com). Here are a couple with the schools you mentioned:

Code Fellows: https://www.coursereport.com/blog/instructor-spotlight-brad-...

General Assembly: https://www.coursereport.com/blog/a-house-divided-zeke-grang...
Ask HN: Is the skills cap in tech as wide as we think?
Just had a support call escalated to me where the resolution involved unplugging a network cable, and plugging it back in. For about two seconds I was annoyed with the help desk operator who sent me the ticket for overlooking the first troubleshooting step, then the end user having the problem told me these words:

"I'm not smart enough to do that".

Which, had this been something involving poking around with network settings or pinging a server and looking for certain responses...I'd give a pass on.

This was literally reaching over to a desk phone, unplugging the only cable connected (because PoE is awesome like that), and then performing the steps in reverse.

Got me thinking...is there really a gap in tech skills, or has our tech gotten us to the point where we are unwilling or incapable of rudimentary problem solving tasks?

You're a savvy bunch, what are your thoughts here? How can we resolve this gap or deficiency in critical skills in the workplace?
If you haven't already, check out http://fontcustom.com/. Its like Font Awesome, except you drop a directory of SVGs at it and it generates a ton of fonts. The project could use help in a few areas including:

- Sprockets asset pipeline integration https://github.com/glaszig/compass-fontcustom

- A PNG sprite compiler for compatibility with IE8, Win7/8 phones, and older versions of Android.

I can't say enough good things about these projects.
The thing that I find most interesting about this part of the AF447 story is this:

> But Stone and co chose to include the possibility that the acoustic beacons may have failed, a crucial decision that led directly to the discovery of the wreckage. [Emphasis mine]
Intuit is buying Check for $360 million
Thanks for the suggestion, logicallee, unfortunately I'm just a sensitive artist who wants to meet new peeps in the city. Coke dealing sounds too stressful, a bit too much for me to handle, I'll leave that to the professionals.
But, have Yahoo or Bing or DuckDuckGo made the transition to be able to crawl the web with a full JS & DOM rendering engine?

They can just use PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/), which is free and open source.
Great talk, and a satisfying introspective side to Meyers compared to his usual "Meyers explains it all" talks and books (which frankly, have been controversial in some respects in glossing over the "tool use" complexity to enable readers/viewers to reach the "tool application" side of C++). That said, you can never win... a couple of the C++ examples in this talk could have used a few extra words of explanation and rationale, but he erred on the side of not losing the audience, which is good.
Ask HN: How to sell my SAAS startup
Hi,

I have a side project that I don't have the time for anymore. It's a SAAS used by SEO professionals. It pulled in 35K in revenue last year. How can I go about selling it?
MIT celebrates 50 years of Project MAC, Multics, and other computer foundations
Are any of you currently or planning on developing for Firefox OS?
no worries, I didn't take your comments to be confrontational at all; and the article irritated me too, which is why I'm here offering better information!
Reminder: https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/04/25/hey-were-changing-our-te... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649524
The easiest way to think of it is a halfway house between fixed and static. You get the benefits of static (maximising vertical screen space) while keeping the benefits of a fixed header (primary navigation always close to hand).

Edit: it's not a joke, it's an established pattern found on both iOS and Android.

Slightly interesting backstory with android: this effect was originally added to the stock browser on android 3.0. I loved how the tiny enhancement gave me more screen real estate, so I decided to build a JS lib to emulate the effect. The pattern didn't make it into the original chrome for Android, but after I mentioned it to Paul Irish he made it happen there too :)
OK, according to a reddit AMA[1] from a few months ago, UberX drivers can accept cash tips as long as they explain at length that it's not required.

But there's no way to do it from the app, and I'm thrilled that Uber is making a go at trying to maintain good service from their drivers without an expectation of tipping. For one thing, it makes their prices even more competitive vs. local taxi rates.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ypjd5/hi_reddit_iama_...
https://slack.com/

We switched from HipChat recently, so far it's working fine. The only thing we miss are cross team notifications, but apparently they are working on it (can't find the link at the moment).
Beat Mobile Fragmentation Before it Beats You
while reading the source for implementation, as a non-primary JS developer, I can't help but think that the actual functionality could be implemented in around 10 lines of code if we remove all js oo-ization and customization code.. actually I need the minimum lines of code to implement this inside to paste in my project.. any help would be appreciated..
Not the OP, but here's a link: https://slack.com/

I've used it, and it seems pretty good, but I don't have enough time behind the wheel to provide a review.
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It's interesting to note that people always leave off the other end of the wealth inequality figures. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Share_top_1_percent.jpg

The top 1% share is roughly the same now as it was in the 1930's. The "Great Compression" afterwards was largely fueled by government regulation (as best as I can understand it - not being an economics guy) so I'm not convinced that the gap will continue to grow.
Also openrefine (formally google refine)

http://openrefine.org/

is like a GUI version of csvkit.

It can do external look ups, fuzzy matching, and has its own programming languages Jython and GREL.
I just recently compared Slack and Hipchat and Slack seems to be the more advanced of the two at this point.

The magic bullet in collaborative chat like this seems to be presence awareness. We used to use GTalk for this but since moving to hangouts we can't ever tell who is at there desk when we need them.

Here's to hoping one of them gets it right; especially when you install on your desktop and your mobile device.
Since I've only dabbled with it I can't provide a proper review, but the link is https://slack.com/
"Vesper is a simple and elegant tool for collecting notes, ideas, things to do — anything you want to remember. Organize your notes whatever way comes naturally to you, without complications. Vesper's focus is on how it feels to use."

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vesper-simple-elegant-notes/...
Look at the upcoming Alcatel Fire E (http://www.gsmarena.com/alcatel_fire_e-6139.php)
Beautiful IPS screen, very slim design. I saw it next to an iphone 5, browsing the same web content and it was totally on par.
Could something like tokens from dragonfly BSD be adapted in the way that Matt mentions:

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2004-February...
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> The feature I love about it is the ability to invite someone to a room.

Which really means that you can force people into a room, and there's no way to say "leave this room and don't let anyone force me back into it."
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If they can feed them, yes.
Nintendo announces plan to share ad revenue with YouTube streamers
The biggest problem with MH370 is that there is not a single "higer quality" location datapoint available. In AF447 you had dead bodies and iirc debris, which at least helped to roughly identify the area of the crash site.

With MH370, the possibilities are next to infinite. Nothing is known except radio data with dozens kilometers of accuracy.
oops, I deleted an above comment 'unless I'm confused, i have tipped an uberX driver'.

I appear to have been confused.
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Software vs hardware again. I've worked in both sides of things (EE and software) and despite it being my income now, I distrust software people more than hardware people.

Hardware people have to get it right first time and generally have better engineering discipline. They are also supported better by their tools (software tooling is crappy at best compared to say SolidWorks or an EDA platform).

Software people tend to accept a fuck up on day one and fix it later approach.

Hardware and software people need to work together. Someone with battle scars from both arenas needs to lead as they understand the compromises at both ends and can direct the product.

Software isn't eating hardware.
The idea is that one should 'fall on the grenade' to protect his criminal comrades. When he instead throws them to the wolves to save himself, people get up-in-arms about it.

I guess I'm missing some context. Whose idea was the first sentence?
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The actual paper on the topic.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.370...
Thanks for the responses!

3. From what I've seen customer acquisition is the key challenge of any startup. If you can acquire customers for less than their life time value then you are set!

Without a process to acquire customers your business is much less valuable.

Someone would likely pay more for transcoder.io if it had a scalable way to acquire customers but no tech, vs what you have which is tech but no customer acquistion.

5, 6. I did read that blog post before posting the questions.

From the end user perspective they just want their videos transcoded, it seems like all 3 of these services do that. I was hoping you could summarize the tl;dr of why someone would use your service to get their videos transcoded vs someone else's.
Definitely true that the median can't expect to earn much. In fact, looking at the data, we can see that about 70% exit with only their salaries (typically under $100k).

Like we say in the summary, since all the value is in the tail, an individual should be thinking in terms of 'what are my chances of creating a new DropBox or AirBnB' i.e. revolutionising an industry.

The problem is, no-one knows who exactly that's going to be.

This post shows that getting into YC provides some useful information. It shows you're now in a reference class of ppl who can be expected to earn millions of dollars per year (although the median is still zero).

Beyond that, there's lots more to consider when judging whether to become a tech entrepreneur e.g. are you exceptionally technically able, gritty, able to accept risk, in possession of a potentially huge idea etc. If you got into YC but it's clear you'll never be Drew Houston, then your expected outcome is probably still pretty low.