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Forge-Driven Development: An Agile Primer
The real estate agent is incentivized to make good suggestions because they work with the same people frequently and they want the house to close and get their check. However, the lending broker also has the same motivation and frequently is the one that handles all that stuff.
Their product is nice, but I'm waiting for it to improve. It isn't so much the functionality, but the quality of iBeacon itself. It rattles if you shake it, unlike any other Beacons we've tested. There isn't much weight to it and there is tons a wasted space. I know these things shouldn't be heavy, but they should feel like a nice product. I'd prefer not to be locked into their system, but I understand why they do it. My company has just preferred working with Accent Systems, but if Kontakt becomes less restrictive then we would reconsider them.
I've no issues at all w/ my Yamakasi 30" IPS ($300~400). Got it on ebay, straight from Korea, looks a lot like my old iMac's IPS but it's matte (and not 27"). 2560x1600 :). I've had it just a few months now, not quite a year. I've also got 3 thinkpads but I can't recommend those screens :(.

Also, if you haven't seen fonts on a glossy Retina display, visit an Apple store. Fonts at that resolution just look different/perfect in a way that's hard to express.
Why You Should Fire Your CIO
A good open-source set of tools to assemble good dashboards and reporting would be useful in many areas, including the work I am involved in. We are looking at building some of this ourselves at the moment.
>So within, basically 2.5 blocks, in a cookie cutter suburb, we have almost $100k variance, with Zestimates at least $50k under market prices in some cases, and $50k over in others, and smaller homes Zestimating to be worth more than larger homes next door.

Zillow will only know what a house is worth when it is either sold or when you have it appraised and manually enter the details. I don't think any reasonable person would expect Zillow to know about improvements made (like work done inside a house or landscaping).

My neighbor just listed his house for a price that I thought was kind of high. He sold it within a day of holding an open house. My zestimate went up 2 days later.

I think Zillow actually works surprisingly well, for what it does.
CoFoundersLab had been working on solving the problem of cofounder matchmaking for about four years now. It's a big problem: research suggests that of all startups that fail, about 33% fail primarily due to cofounder related issues!

In this quest, they have brought onboard various experts such as former executives from Match.com, and leading researchers for the Kauffman Foundation. Furthermore, CoFoundersLab has acquired several companies over the years enhancing its IP portfolio, and execution capability.

Through CoFoundersLab, members can search a self-selected pool of cofounder candidates, while getting a much better sense for wether the cofounder candidates posses complementary skills, and have compatible personalities, goals, and values!

There is no "silver bullet" solution, but CoFoundersLab.com is an out of this world better approach to embarking on the journey of cofounder search!

Disclosure: I am the CEO at Onevest and we just announced a merger with CoFoundersLab.
In a less known project, it is really easy to find an issue where I can be useful. They have lots of created issues and nobody working on them. If I understand the issue, I can just dive into the code and make a patch.

In a large project, in some cases it is even dificult to know where to start. Mozilla definitely did a good job to mitigate this problem.
There is also http://camelegg.com for Newegg

Those 2 sites are probably the most I purchase from, however generic is nice for the other non-popular stuff!

Another cool addon is Hoverhound: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newzon/ I can see how low it has ever been vs just a price drop, and it prevents me from buying on newegg when it sees a lower price on amazon
beets? the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.
New contributors are always welcome to tackle the growing list of issues/wishes <https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues?state=open> !
Cool! This is just the start, so I'd be glad to discuss more about it ;) (twitter: ocolot)
Or that no one has local files, it is all served via virtual desktops to client machines.
>Could it be possible such a thing of a world's single currency?

With the world's currency, I didn't mean the "single" currency. I meant the world's currency like the gold was for many years, or the dollar is nowadays. You used to be able to go anywhere and either buy things with gold or exchange it fairly easily for local currency. Same thing happens nowadays with the dollar. However, the American dollar is losing its preponderance in world trade. The Chinese are pushing really hard to fill that spot with the yuan, this is one of the reasons behind their recent gold fever. [1] Even though, they don't have a gold backed yuan, and probably never will. Gold reserves, together with foreign exchange reserves[2] make a currency stronger, since in case that the Yuan starts to depreciate the Chinese Government can always sell those reserves and buy Yuan's increasing it's demand and consequently increasing its price.

>What is the subject that I should study to understand all of this and stop asking a question like that?

I have an economics background, and I've studied some finance, but I don't think I can give you a good enough answer. If you are really interested I rather you looked online or asked somewhere else (maybe reddit?). Nevertheless the straightforward answer is: Monetary Policy. However, in order to get into monetary policy, I believe that you'd probably need to know the basics about economics, the Mankiw is a good start [4]. Afterwards, I would suggest you to read something from Taleb, maybe The Black Swan, since economics it's full of BS, and this book will serve as a compass. Finally, I would advise you to take the class: Economics of Money and Banking [6] from Columbia on Coursera.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-gold-fever-rises-showing-no-si...

[2] China has the highest foreign exchange reserve in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_reserves_of_th...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/... If you are interested don't get scared by the price tag, buy any older editions which are almost as good as this one and will cost you a fraction.

[5] http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness/d...

[6] https://class.coursera.org/money-002
The Display That Does Away With Glasses
Well they bought hotpads + several others and left them up in this same way. Acquire, put on back-burner, repeat. Not a bad strategy, I suppose.
Yeah, but then you're driving a minivan.
I agree with most of the advice here. In addition, I'd suggest finding ways to vet people before you commit to a "full" cofounder role. Some ways that work for me:

* Write about the topics and projects that you want to work on
* Connect with people with similar interests
* Make time to do small trial projects
* Get outside your comfort zone
* Focus on building something and/or testing a business hypothesis
* Structure your collaborations with tangible deliverables

Once you find some starter projects -- assuming that you are starting off without external funding -- I highly suggest using a dynamic equity split based on time and resources contributed.

Give people a nice out (e.g. "thanks for helping test out that idea, sorry it didn't pan out like we hoped") if the project doesn't work well. Think of it like dating.
Whitepaper Comparing Information Security Compared to Bloodletting [pdf]
Dark Magic (Libraries) for Debugging your iOS app
well... 3 mins ;) ... ok, I could remove it!
We get all the information from public sources: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp, Google Places, AngelList, etc.

You can always mail us to contact@contactive.com for any privacy concern. We would remove any phone number upon request.
>Its existence, however, precludes other competitors from entering the space.

Amazon and Paypal are still both way bigger than Google Wallet is. I sincerely doubt that anybody looking to get into the payment processing industry is saying "crap, we can't do this because Google already does". They're worried about competing with Paypal. Hell, even Bitcoin is accepted at more places than Google Wallet is, from my own life experiences.
Just because a phone number is publically available doesn't mean that the owner of that number wants all of their public information aggregated for an unknown purpose, which looks to be a pipeline for sales lead generation.

What use case is your product addressing?

And I'm sorry, but 600 million unique data entries isn't "big data" that would fit into a single Excel 2013 worksheet if you used multiple columns (570 ish columns) but still 1 worksheet.
What we need is like a spotify for news. Anybody can put their news in and if a reader reads an article that news company gets part of the subscription fees.

I don't know if that would be better or worse though!
> rather than acting like a society with its members' interests at heart, has been acting as a for-profit publisher

It's not just their publishing arm. Try letting your membership lapse. I had to block their call center's phone number.
It's about as oxymoronic as refusing to play Sun City to support freedom in South Africa.
therogerwilco: No one called you a problem. Thanks for not being part of the problem. Now can we stop ignoring the problem?
The highest producing agents are indifferent negotiators, but work hard to convince you they got you a great deal. They are trying to get you to buy quickly. Every hour they spend showing you more houses dilutes their commission on an hourly basis. Plus if you think you got a great deal you will refer your friends.
Why cans of soup are shaped the way they are
Ah cool, Boiler Room sets are usually great, to my taste! Would you be willing to filter by max duration, tracks vs mixes, or something else?
Yes it's Diplo. Although souncloud.com/stream page and reposts[1] work quite good for my needs already.

Diplo has second account for reposts[2][3] only.

I personally prefer a curated approach, like blip.fm[4] offered/offers, to any automated methods so far.

[1]http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/527370-w...

[2]https://soundcloud.com/diploapproved

[3]http://doandroidsdance.com/news/diplo-approved-soundcloud/

[4]http://blip.fm/all?p=1 Is this site more than a zombie? Still no soundcloud integration in sight.
Ask HN: Resources for 15 years old to learning coding?
This is a smart kind passionate about technology and looking over my shoulder when I am coding, with a dream of being a developer like me. I am not sure what resources should I give him, so he has a great start and will not be discouraged by boring websites about coding. Any suggestions?
My beef with this article is that he knew something was wrong, hence his questions basically asking, "Which of my many actions violated copyright law?" And tattles on himself when he admits everything about his "app" revolved around unfair use of others' copyrighted material: "I 'borrowed' your icon and your name when I created my 'app.' Is that wrong?"
Wow, that's really terrible. I've always wanted to visit Morocco but now (as a male) I'm not so sure.
It is definitely R&D to find a vulnerability in TOR or lack thereof, it's just that BBC as usual is arbitrarily choosing what to report and what to stay silent about.

Look no further than the tender page: http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/zkk44/view/common-inf...

Here they explicitly state that it's a tender for 'Выполнение научно-исследовательской работы, шифр «ТОР (Флот)»' (Research and Development works, code "TOR (Navy)")

Then it's a closed tender (stated in the same document), meaning that they come up with a list of organisations they invite to participate in this tender. No organization they did not invite can participate.

So you see this is nothing like a bounty.

>it seems like researchers have to pay to enter

I wager they are required by law to demand some sum of money, maybe this sum is determined as a function of a tender value; I don't believe there is some additional meaning to asking people to pay 5500 usd to participate in a closed tender.
Show HN: Course Island – MOOC Review Site Written in Clojure
Keep in mind that would not matter even if you could pull it off. Everyone already knows who the prime thieves of military / defense contractor technology are. Despite knowing that, nothing has ever been done about it. The routine will continue to be to 'fight back' with defense, because of the fear of overly angering China.
A cross-over SUV like a Ford Edge gets similar gas mileage to a Minivan (say a Honda Odyssey), is easier to park (a foot and a half shorter), and the higher ride-height makes it much easier to wrestle squirming toddlers into their car seats.
"or every story you hear about investors behaving badly,"

Specifically with investors, how are you going to legislate against how someone feels about investing their own money? If they don't want to invest in a woman company, it's their right.

"Why do I have to go to gender-specific investors? Our company is pretty gender agnostic, at this point."

Investors are very fickle with their money. The gender-specific investor might have a higher rate of investing in women founded companies. You may not like this, but it may give you a higher chance. There are also investors that are biased against the type of company you have. Some refuse to invest in social networking companies.

"When you’re a single mother, says Sheri Atwood, founder of SupportPay, it’s even tougher to be taken seriously"

I don't think it's because you are a woman. An investor might think that you don't have the time and energy to spend 100% on your company, which is true if you have a child at home with nobody else but you.

"They saw that my being a woman and my age was an asset"

So you spend an entire article talking about how you don't want to be discriminated against because you are a woman..and then conclude that you only got an investment because you are a woman?! How about..they liked your product/company idea and you and think you will succeed?Investors talk money. They want to see an ROI.

"Now, we’re in a time where someone says something horribly racist"

Now we are in a time where you accidentally say something that is construed as racist, and the Twitter mob gets you fired.

The Mozilla CEO even had to step down because he donated a few hundred dollars to a campaign he believed in 10 years ago. If I would have gotten someone fired at a christian owned company for donating to a pro-gay marriage fund, there would be outrage.

It's outrageous to me that free speech is being eroded every day and the same people that write articles like this about discrimination support it, because it coincides with their beliefs.
Chemicals Manufacturers
He hasn't even tried to reactivate the wallet account. They requested information to verify his identity, which he claims "will be used to confirm and blacklist his address", so he hasn't provided it.
I like that idea. Although I have to say switching from lots of sources to a few good ones has increased my productivity (less time wasted reading similar articles). There are some things that I think people like NYT need to sort out with their subscriptions. Charging for web access separate from mobile access is a joke. Charge one fee ($20 per month) to read on any electronic device. I can't see how their current fragmented pricing model doesn't seriously hurt their conversion rate.
I love this: Five Chinese Military Hackers Charged with Cyber Espionage Against the US. Just 5? On the other side there's an entire entity known to spy/hack/attack virtually everyone.
How I Optimized F-1 Spirit for Mobile Processors
Here’s some advice on how Not to fire people
PPC Lessons from a For-Profit University Spending $60M Per Year
Ask HN: How do you build your founding team?
Hello HN community.

I am very excited, since this my first "AskHN" post on HackerNews. I am not sure if they ever get noticed, but I will give it a shot.

During the past six years, I co-founded 3 startups. They had all failed at the founding team level. So, I've decided to create a service to help startup founders and young entrepreneurs build their founding teams and get expert advices along the way.

I would like to get an objective opinion from other geeks/hackers/creators whether it's a problem you've experienced. I am very interested to know how startups build their founding teams right now and where do you find your dream co-founders? By the way, I need one also!

You can find more info about my startup at http://flou.io

Thank you and have a great day!
Stuck in the Ivy League Mentality? Go Make Something. – Re: William Deresiewicz
Some agents provide a hugely invaluable service.

If I am going to move to a new region, first I pick the area I prefer by renting a few months and learning the reality on the ground, then I grab the best agent based on specialization for that area, not a "generic" one for the whole city.

In my experience, the value of the agent is great there. But it lowers drastically if they are just "whole city agents."

Experience: moved to 3 metro areas in past 10 years.
I don't understand his whole logic. He publishes the same app 10 times for different channels. One after another gets banned and he even thinks this proves that the rest is OK. He says that he made "beta apps written for my kids", but he puts it on the biggest app store in the world. He says an app to display videos is worth 50.000$, 10 times the same app is worth 500.000$. He says it was a free project, but he made it to collect user data for his commercial project.
Pricing: We’re Doing It Wrong
Samsung Postpones Launch of Tizen Smartphone
Yes. Apparently Chinese are awesome at getting caught too. Especially in cases where you can't prove anything. Weird that Americans never get caught, who knows. Maybe US doesn't do that sort of things.
You probably should at least phonegap it asap, someone is bound to copy this, its a good game! well done
I would love to help but I'm not much of a web developer :) I'll definitely be following closely though so if I see a way I can help I'll let you know.
aha! thx for the advertising ;) check soundcloud.com/olivier-colot/television-rules-the-nation-daft-punk-remix for a cool remix ;)
"But unclear about their benchmarking method". That can be said for every single performance claim they make. There's a rather distinct lack of objective facts.
Voting up flame-baity comment because I agree with it.
Self Publishing is Real (Now what?)
As we're on this, it's worth watching The Loving Trap, a funny Adam Curtis parody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
Thanks, I also liked reading the last article about ice cream.

Your articles remind me how much calculus/math I have forgotten since leaving school and, sadly, how little use there is everyday to use calculus :(
Create, Save And Report Custom Social Media Metrics With QQL
Would it be feasible to launch a sealed biome into space and have it function autonomously? A bit like this fellow's terrarium linked here a while ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The-s...

The idea of a mini-Earth orbiting Earth monitored by cameras and fed just enough filtered light fascinates me.
At About $2m in ARR, Every Great Hire Will Be Accretive
> Personally I can't stand the handling of tall vehicles.

There was a time when I loved the handling of my 3-series with sport suspension. Now, I just want something that makes my toddler less pukey on these shitty northeastern roads.
This is unbelievable. I was just now writing another related post over here regarding my startup to solve this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8097145

I will follow up here also. Thank you for the question!
Against the larger phone
It's a comparison, an analogy if you will not a 1:1 equivalence.
No one mentioned legislation. This is a cultural problem, not a legal problem.
I had a difficult time parsing this. Maybe I still am, because that sentence continues to tell me that using this app will somehow make my most beloved musicians listen to my favorite music.
>The conclusion is that an irresponsible and deaf company now holds power over huge swaths of people.

Walled gardens and all that. We're all choosing to play in them.
"Twice now I’ve deeply investigated NoSQL for an upcoming project, and twice now I’ve come to the conclusion that it would be a bad decision. Many of the comments I received on that post illustrate one of the big problems with evaluating NoSQL - there are a million niche solutions and the common guidance is “it depends on what you need”. Even if you know what you need, it takes significant research and understanding to know if a particular NoSQL engine is right or wrong for that need. You can’t possibly evaluate them all, there are far too many."

I don't understand this approach at all. You want to investigate using a NoSQL solution. Why? You know that you need to do research and evaluation but you give up because there are too many choices? You've heard that you have to compromise on transactions and add application complexity, so you stick with "good old SQL".

I'm not sure what this article is advocating. It doesn't explore any "NoSQL" (I hate this term) solution and it doesn't even mention which RDBMS the author is using instead. The analogies and examples given show that the author did not really deeply study anything, and that is supported by the first paragraph.
ugh, capitalism. someone somewhere will actually do work towards this goal with that much money in mind as a worthwhile payoff. ending tor anonymity should have at least 2 more 0s on the end of the figure.
Mining music and law for original meanings
This is a well-written appeal. I'm sure, however, that there's no intention of getting Instagram to actually do anything - the fact it was posted publicly, along with the "hurts us more than it hurts you" line makes that obvious to me.

But maybe that was obviously the point to everyone, and my comment is rendered unnecessary.
I advice against using your ISP's email service. What happens with your email address when you switch providers? Are you going to mail all your contacts with your new email address and update it at every service you ever registered for?
what about all the 2048 clones?
I don't catch the error in Rollbar so I believe this would happen within the soundcloud player iframe... :-/ I will investigate, thx for noticing

Edit: Soundcloud quota are not explicit unfortunately.
TL;DR version "Didn't read the rules, broke the rules, :("
They'd open them inside VMs without networking. Try phoning home inside a setup like that setup by a professional hacker.

...ya I don't think you'll phone home either.

You have to realize these hackers are people who have to deal with honeypots & law enforcement without getting infected/exposed/whatever. They are going to take some precautions if they are to be successful in the long run.
I find it very hard to believe that this supposed investor blatantly told her that women are inferior and then she politely said thank you and left. I'd have to see this in person to ever believe that actually happened. I'm willing to believe it is some exaggeration after she was declined and now she is upset and thinks it is because she is a women.

I'll probably get downvoted, but I'm just really skeptical of this story. To be clear I have no problem with women and am a strong advocate of equality, but this just sounds fake to make a point.
Do you have a source for that? Basically, IMSI catching does not require any cooperation with telcos. On the other hand, it is easy to imagine that some telcos might betray their customers – especially under the cover of secrecy.
Everything you said here is a damned lie
it's now planned for next release! thx and let me know if you have other improvements ideas