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What else is there is that you like to do?
How tired you are of coding? Could you do it another 3-5 years? Two years is not long, so perhaps you've picked the wrong field.

If your main marketable asset is your coding skill, consider being a trainer, writing a book, becoming a software architect.

You may find it more interesting to work in a small start-up in which you will not only code, but likely manage servers, do the testing, and whatever else needs to be done.

Another option is to work in the same industry, but perhaps in a related area, such as sales, application engineering, or some business function such as purchasing.

That'll be $0.02, please.
Yes, in the same way that a knife is "just a bunch of atoms".
How do you scale art-directed longform storytelling?
That's a completely incorrect read of the USV thesis. What about marketplaces like Etsy? What about networked enterprise businesses like siftscience?
Haven't seen flats sell as quickly as they are now. Living a 3 minute walk from Liverpool Street station and the flat I wa renting sold by the second viewing. It was on the market for three days but things are cooling off.
why shouldn't be here? because its not hacker related.
Not sure why this is on HN but I read a Huf Post article that left me a bit unsure of what to think last night.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-a-rizvi/post_8056_b_560270...
No, what you write down is just one implementation of the idea outlined in the article. The general case is closer to:

BAD: counting on the intrisic quality of your software to keep competitors at bay

GOOD: using switching costs / network effects as barriers to entry
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Out of curiosity, does "burner & co" mean the same thing it'd mean in the SF Bay Area, i.e. the Burning Man scene? Or something else?
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107394
Assuming that you're working remotely for clients who are outside of Thailand, is this actually a problem?

I've worked from various places while traveling, and never worried about this, though obviously it would be an issue if you wanted to pick up local clients.
Agreed. Losing 300,000 is much worse.
Another way to screen out bad tenants is to offer zero deposit for high credit score applicants. Several large apartment buildings in my city (DC) do this, and the buildings are full of professionals.
This is also true. The time allocation committee for the Hubble Space Telescope, for example, has a policy that projects are judged solely on their scientific merit, without any regard to the amount of time being asked for. This, of course, leads to a strong bias towards very large projects.
Payments giant First Data acquires digital gift cards startup Gyft
Bombing Gaza in reprisal and continuing to isolate it from the West Bank and the rest of the world will not solve anything.

Extrajudicial assassinationsand wholesale bombing will only escalate the situation further.

When IRA bombs were set off in London, there was no call to bomb West Belfast. The situation was solved by bringing justice to those guilty within a legal framework, and negotiation. The situation here is no different, but the response is to shell and bomb a city of mostly civilians.
A blog article of mine (hosted on Squarespace) was on the top of the frontpage for most of a day back in January and received approx 25,000 pageviews.

(And also, incidentally, 42 article comments and counting, without a single nasty/sarky/snarky one.)

The same article has since received 500 Facebook likes and was tweeted around 360 times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7075537 | 334 points
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Community stories of VMware and Apple OS X in Production: Part 1
We're afraid because they have nukes because they're afraid because we have nukes because we're afraid because they have nukes because they're afraid because we have nukes because...
Link to theme's landing page: http://themeforest.net/item/fluxus-portfolio-theme-for-photo... (affiliate)

Direct link to the demo: http://inthe.me/demo/fluxus/
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There should probably be a way to flag things as wrongly categorized. Just in a quick glance, I came across a decent amount of wrong gender posts.
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I dig the focus on smaller size & more interaction.
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How to improve your User Experience using Jetpack
seems to me you're lumping everything into marketing. i can understand that from a scholarship perspective, of course.

however, i would bet that if you told game designers (product development) they were marketing schleps and not part of the dev team, well... let's just say cliffyb might bring back bulletstorm.
Shrinking the (LVM) log-partition on Linux
Google Fiber is going to change that. I can't wait.
My business partner and I started Snow in Seconds (http://snowinseconds.com) on the side, 6 years ago. It is a powder thats been around for decades (used in diapers) but when you get it at just the right grain size it looks, and feels like snow when water is added. We found a good source, designed a professional looking brand, made a TV spot (kinda), bought some search ads, and boom, predictable income.

Sales are online only (have not pursued wholesale yet) and is enough to live off of if all else fails. After 6 years we are have about $600K in total sales.
On Growing Up: Skift Turns Two
Honestly, no. Both Google and Bing's APIs are too restrictive, even in paid mode. They basically require that you show a Google/Bing map in conjunction with the lookup, which isn't something a lot of people want to do.

Admittedly a lot of people don't read these fine prints, but they are overly restrictive for a lot of uses.

I looked at various services to do postcode/zip to lat/long and eventually settled on just doing it in-house using downloaded data. After a bit of data massaging it actually works really well.
While the idea is great, it bases everything off of averages. Average housing, average internet, average everything. It would be better to show tiers if possible.

For most remote workers, knowing the highest affordable speed is more important. For example, Red Wing, MN offers gigabit fiber to the home, but NetIndex shows 33Mbps for the average internet speed. A lot of people aren't paying a few bucks more because they don't need or know about better internet access.
Hummingbirds edge out helicopters in hover contest
Doesn't seem to be there.
How did you decide on the placement of adds and layout of site? Glad it's doing well for you.
MyComponent({realProps: immutable props}) comes to mind..

In a flux application you typically always ask flux for the state, though, so it becomes this.getFlux().myThing.
Well if the guys were willing to pay and adult friend finder were willing to give him the affiliate fees then I really can't see that it is morally wrong. I can see it being pretty awesome.
San Antonio was never an accidental or incidental choice of venue. It's also not a place where either AWS or SoftLayer has a major presence.

It's also hard not to think of it as TechStars Rackspace when you're in a space sponsored by Rackspace, run by a former Rackspace exec, in a building named for the Rackspace chairman, and in a program administered by a former Rackspace exec. With Rackspace sponsoring, of course.
Hm, only within the U.S. I'll be impressed when they roll this out globally.
Not sure yet. 11main.com in particular has a more "local" feeling to it style-wise. I find it aesthetically pleasing to look at, instead of the blocky old look/feel of amazon.com.

I think 11main.com is only their first recon assault wave. More will come.

Alibaba is the parent company for a lot of child companies -- they have an equivalent for most of our major US companies[1]

It's a little intimidating when you realize the scale these guys are playing at.

[1] http://qz.com/206283/all-the-western-companies-youd-have-to-...
Things like BetFair let you place bets both sides (unlike some shops like Ladbrokes where you are betting against them). This allows you to track the current betting prices and create situations where no matter the outcome you can make money.

There are a few places on the net explaining this in more detail.
Mind sharing which game this is? I'd simply be curious to see what sort of/quality of game generates that sort of (as you said, very favorable) income characteristics in this current market.
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You need way more data points. I would add crime statistics to this for example or probability of getting arrested and beaten by the local police, and the average cost of bribing officials/administrative workers.

For example, Sofia is #5, but, having lived there for a few years, it is absolutely not the #5 best choice, by far. That said, it's not a bad choice, it works for Telerik after all.
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The law is full of contradictions. Pointing out an inconsistency is not a victory[1]. One principle or the other will lose, and the one that loses might be yours.

[1] http://xkcd.com/651/
Ask HN: Can we talk to your mom?
My friend and I are on a mission to build a health app that our parents will love to use. We think 45+ year-olds have important health needs and deserve a better tech and design solution than WebMD and Yahoo answers.

We want to build something that solves a real problem. This means that we need to have phone or in-person conversations with as many 45+ year-olds as possible (these are non-directed interviews designed to create meaningful, free-form discussions).

We would love it if you could intro us to your mom (or dad, uncle, grandmother, plumber, neighbor, etc) via this link: https://ethn.io/49608

Thank you!!!! If we select someone to be interviewed, they’ll receive an Amazon gift card for their time. Also, we’d love to hear your advice and feedback in the comments :-)
Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
IMHO, it's yet another gross over-valuation of a tech startup. The Over-valuation Bubble will burst... eventually. These companies are not really worth their current valuations.
You're worrying about all the wrong things.

Chances are that this idea will go absolutely nowhere (as most ideas do), and as you're new to this you're prone to vastly overestimating the probability of success and estimated returns.

My advice is to relax, and focus on learning what you're doing instead of focusing on "monetizing a web service".

If you want immediate practical direction, set yourself up with a Stripe merchant account (and whatever is necessary for that), and start selling. If you can't get past this, everything else is a waste of time.
May I ask where do you recommend in Sofia for cheap pizza?
The Recession Generation: How Millennials Are Changing Money Management Forever
That only makes sense in small deployments where you aren't multihomed.

What's frustrating is that I don't think Docker currently has an elegant way to make you not care if the remote service is local or not. What'd be interesting is if there was a special tun interface for that kind of communication and you could bind that to local containers or just dump the traffic back onto your LAN, NAT'd to a remote host.
PureRenderMixin[1] is doing this without having you to enumerate all the props

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/pure-render-mixin.html
If only that were so, and if only that were enough. Sadly the steady rise of the militarized police state begs to differ.
aka http://www.netbooknews.com/wp-content/2012/04/vivaldispark-5...
Where I live (or have lived). Aim to get other people to pay for my mortgages. Started out by renting out a spare room, then moved and rented out the whole property, then moved again and rented out both properties. When I started out the rent was around GBP300 per month and the mortgage peaked at GBP450 per month (interest rates were unusually high at the time), and now (after many years) two lots of rental income total approx GBP2700 per month after fees and three mortgages total approx GBP1800 per month (although interest rates are unusually low at the moment). Calling it passive as I've never bought a propery as an investment, just a place to live. Not entirely passive though as there can be a bit of work when there are problems with tenants. I reckon the hassle factor is worth the free accommodation though, given how large a chunk of people's income accommodation usually is.
You hit the front page yesterday, no need to double-dip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104352

Additionally, I've noticed that you'd been deleting-then-resubmitting your posts to your website, which is against HN rules.
Red Hat starts work on 64-bit ARM servers
I read it a few years back. It provides pretty detailed and interesting explanations for naming certain cultural regions and drawing divisions the way they are. But even in '81, and especially now, there are a lot more aberrations than Garreau sees fit to point out. Myself, and others, have highlighted some of these unacknowledged aberrations elsewhere in the thread. Some aberrations might be large enough to even designate new "Nations". But for someone living outside the US, or anyone else unfamiliar with the general cultural differences and boundaries within the US, the book would still be worth reading and learning from even today, even if it paints in broad strokes.
Interesting - I've had the Project Naptha (http://projectnaptha.com/) Chrome extension installed without really looking under the hood.
Turns out it has Ocrad.js and Tesseract as two engine options - it uses them to automaticaly convert images on the page to selectable text.
Has a company ever rejected acceptance into Y Combinator
I always love reading applications of companies that were rejected from YCombinator (Eg. Buffer). What are examples of companies that got accepted into Ycombinator, but for whatever reason decided to not enter the program?
Been using this for quite some time now. Great feature. I've talked with numerous people that have no idea you can do this. They are HEAVY gmail users too.
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OK will delete. Wanted to share something I thought was awesome a user made!

I end up editing titles because messaging is super hard.
I'm a-okay with my job, and it's great that you're not. That means one less person I'm competing against in the applicant pool. And that pool is already substantially limited by excluding non-citizens.
Show HN: Mapplas – Location aware app discovery
Thanks for the feedback though. Didn't know that was a rule.
It actually seems like Consul still might be an easier way to go than this. Dnsmasq is sure easy, but consul isn't exactly challenging and is happy to run in its own container when local dev is a key.

Why have a different methodology for local dev and deploy when you could have the SAME methodology for local and deploy with almost no extra cost?
AWS for everything: EC2 with VPC's, S3/CF, Load balancer, OpsWork, running on Ubuntu 14.04.

Then Ansible, Git, Nginx, Varnish, Redis, Angular and Bootstrap. And CloudFlare for DNS/CDN/optimization/DDoS protection.
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Not enough independence. Need an entity that reports to someone outside of the chain of command and has as much teeth as the executive.
I think we're losing something here.

We're all inherently working within the movie/prop company's framework while brainstorming fake money ideas. The prop company has two goals:

1. Make something convincing on camera.
2. Make something readily distinguishable from real money.

They've already succeeded! New solutions may be fun, but it's still reinventing the wheel in the end. (Which may explain why programmers are falling over themselves to do it...) But there are two extra constraints that Hollywood isn't meeting with some of their current solutions:

3. Make something which meets Federal laws for fake money.
4. Make something which could not be passed ever.

3&4 are potentially the same, in that 3 is written to try to achieve 4, but I think it's important to note that Hollywood is (or was, until the recent innovations mentioned at the end of the article) failing at.

I don't think most of the solutions suggested in this thread actually solve 4. I think mirrored, cut in half, and even bills with 'FAKE' printed across the middle could still be passed with a fair success rate, and moreover a criminal could laugh it off as a mistake if they were caught.

So what couldn't be passed, aside from the absurdly large/small bills the Feds want, or the glued together blocks used now?
Scalzi, like usual is ~90% correct and what little he is off about is easy enough to ignore. ;)

I easily see #3 resulting in the bottom end selling at $5 and the top end selling at $9.99 because I suspect the reason Amazon picked that number is, overall, it generates more total sales [by dollar volume]. One of the few things Amazon is good at is accurately pricing products to maximize gross revenue.

That being the case, I don't think its likely to be the disastrous price point Scalzi thinks it is even if it squeezes the publisher's margins on the higher end books. Ebooks, once created, are a sunk cost...not an ongoing one so maximizing gross revenue works in everyone's favor.
That pretty much would have been the choice if, for whatever reason, a shooting war had started - which it nearly did on a number of occasions.

Of course, deterrence based on MAD is the least worst idea - but once shooting actually started, what is the rational thing to do?
For those who don't like Python, and want to think like a real computer scientist check out Interactive SICP (http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/)
It is also aimed at introductory CS classes.
There's already a lot of dirty things Amazon does -- try selling in the same sector as them. You can't compete with a company that is willing to take tens of, sometimes hundreds of millions in losses for years just to ensure 10 years down the road, they have a controlling interest.
You could make a lot more if you did two things:

1) Remove that under construction thing. Granted it has no gifs, but as a potential user it distracts me.

2) Describe what value I can get from using it. What problem do you solve?
> social, decorative, nostalgic

This is subjective and not monetary value. The only people that care about social, decorative, and nostalgic value of books are also the people who probably wont resell books.

> works without power

finding a place to charge your device is easy and ereaders last months without recharging

> easy to share, resell

Sure but the money you save by reselling a book is probably less than what you save by buying the ebook

Space and weight are real, expensive costs. Owning a library has negative monetary value. Owning a library of ebooks doesn't. It's stored on the internet and you can access it from anywhere.

Basically, if your books aren't furniture and you aren't sharing your books multiple times a month ebooks provide more value.
I think you'd have more success if you twist your games a wee bit, and try and turn them educational. That way you'd be able to put them in the educational category, where this guy who has similar word styles games as yours, is doing very well:

http://blog.lescapadou.com/2013/12/my-experience-in-educatio...

Also, I couldn't find your contact info on your blog - is it there somewhere? You'd want press to be able to find it if so....
But you're still up against freely available libraries that let a web developer build similar functionality, as as jquery.payment from the folks at Stripe:

https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment

While it's not a completely like-for-like comparison, I suspect it will be tough to justify $299 per single web site for many businesses that might use these tools in the first place. Personally, I'd want solid data about conversion rates to back up the marketing on the creditcard.js website before I'd consider spending real money on anything like this.
Of course. Since Snapchat didn't go the way of Tumbler or Instagram, they have to monetize their platform with ads like Twitter or Pinterest.

It will happen one day.

The real value that they have is the huge user base of kids who will forget about snapchat once they go to college.
It is, but that's the problem - Air Force, Army,Navy and SAC controlled their own missiles and apart from the fact that they would all launch theirs if they got an order from the president, they didn't coordinate when it came to which targets each one of them would hit. So the Air Force might have had a plan to hit 100 points around Moscow, and so did the Army,and so did the Navy,and so did the SAC. So at the moment of launch 400 rockets would be hitting the same spot,because the attack would not be coordinated.
Hey, I'm the author of this library. It's definitely inspired by mori (and clojure and Haskell) and the reason I ended up building something different was to present a more JavaScript friendly API (and academically, to learn about HAMT). I've built this over the last couple weeks, and we are not using it internally yet - but I wanted to ensure development of it happened in public.
Once in a while I have the same issue, and I had the same worries that you do. It usually occurs after some really intensive time working/studying. I've been so tired that simply reading or listening about coding would make me feel nauseous.

After being there several times, I concluded that it's something I must live with. I don't know if it's related to my depression, but even so, it's not something that will simply go away.

The good news is that I always feel better after a while. I've developed some techniques to help overcome these moments:

- Take a break. Do something that don't have any relation to coding, like martial arts, painting or playing music (in your case, music may not be an appropriate escape). Preferably something that doesn't need much analytical thinking, and that forces you to move your body. Mind(s) and body are connected, and the act of programming usually makes us exercise only one side of our minds.

- Do some cowboy/passion coding. Take a problem completely different from those your are used to solve, learn a new paradigm, put yourself out of your comfort zone; in other words, dive deep on the unknown. This will help your mind to remember why you love so much coding.

- Do nothing. Lie in the bed for a whole day or two, watching some garbage on Netflix. Don't take any baths, and only eat junk food. Hit the rock bottom, let your bad feelings hit the peak, and your body will eventually heal itself. I usually do this only when I'm so demotivated that I can't even manage to get up and do the stuff I should be doing.

That's it, I hope the best of luck! You'll be fine!
"These ideas were initially worked out in the 1970s and 80s, and, in the 90s, were carried up by a huge wave of hype—the object-oriented programming revolution. Suddenly, there was a large tribe of people declaring that objects were the right way to program, and that anything that did not involve objects was outdated nonsense.

That kind of zealotry always produces a lot of impractical silliness, and there has been a sort of counter-revolution since then. In some circles, objects have a rather bad reputation nowadays."

Eloquent JS, maybe, eloquent writing. Not in this book.
Great initiative, but I would add more smaller cities. Also temperature should have some sort of average. Surely it's not great to live in a scorching heat all the time.

That said, I dream one day to work remotely from a live aboard sailboat. Connectivity could be somewhat a problem, but 3G covers a lot of globe and if you are smart enough, living aboard can be very cheap.
Can you point to some recommended reading for someone looking to learn about these design principles?
Austin seems to qualify as a separate city-state though, rather than being representative of Greater Texas as a whole.
I think it's based on the expectation that at some unspecified date in the future Snapchat will find a way to make an unspecified amount of money via an unspecified method.
Do you have a definition for the word todle? I can infer from context but not find a definition online.