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A total crock. Having worked for an OTA I can guarantee you that the last thing TA will do is try to build an entire backend to book the hotels themselves. In hotels you only make good margin on huge volume since they more you bring customers the better numbers you can demand. It's not just the processing, it's the relationships with thousands and thousands of hotel chains and individual hotels. It's customer service and dealing with all of those hassles. It's competing in all the different types of hotel booking submarkets (tonight, opaque, long term, vacation, packaging etc). Getting a small percentage of so many sales with almost no expense is way easier than getting more margin but having huge outlay and competing with the big guys (namely Expedia mostly in the US and Priceline mostly everywhere else in the world outside of China). They would be insane to switch their business model. Orbitz is too dinky to compete effectively and Travelocity gave up and is essentially Expedia now. Tripadvisor is in a great place where they bring traffic to everyone but compete with no one. Once they lose that they will lose period. I highly doubt E and P miss their percentage at all.
Fully agree, the bootstrap / vc funding metric is commoditization.

People pay a lot more for 'ancient grains' than 'hard winter red'.
Hahaha. No, don't write levels in a text editor haha.

There is a blender model loader coming soon, that will help with level creation. It will provide very in-depth integration with the Blender suite.
If you're playing a multi-player game, you could easily lose touch with the servers or other players for more than 10 ms. So the game engine needs to be able to handle these pauses and extrapolate what happened with physics during the time you lost touch. It's the same thing here.

I developed games for Android at one point. GC pauses were common there. In the 1.0 version of Android, the pauses could be up to 200 ms. Now, it's more like 5 or 6 ms on average, as they improved the Dalvik VM. The GC hasn't stopped a lot of good games from being written for Android.

People need to be aware of the realities of scheduling on commodity computer hardware. A 10 ms guarantee is actually very good. You can't get much better than 10 ms timing on commodity PC hardware anyway. Even a single hard disk seek or SSD garbage collection event will probably block your thread for more than 10 ms.

Whether this guarantee is good enough for you depends on what you're doing. But I guarantee you that 99% of the crowd here doesn't know what you need to do to get better guarantees than 10 ms anyway (hint: it involves a custom kernel, not doing any disk I/O, and realtime scheduling).
(While we wait for expert views) I would say it was no different from any other medical trial (you would have two populations, one getting a treatment and one not getting it, and you would observe them and see if there was a statistically difference) - With a preventative drug you would be looking for people getting cancer - this is a rare event (and so need more people under observation) and would take many years before you had a marked difference in the two populations.

Compare this with late stage cancer trial where you are monitoring people dying - this is going to, unfortunately for the people under observation, give you a much quicker 'outcome'.
How much are you willing to take to give up to take a normal job (noting you're probably locked in for a year or two)?

This is very important if your company is already making money/providing you with a salary/dividends.

You're not just being acquihired, but you're essentially losing control of an asset that makes you money. In the wrong circumstances, you could be hired, fired within months, and have no income, so the acquisition needs to be enough to cover thriving through that worst case.
But presumably you are going to have co-founder(s) or employees. The decision is not just for yourself or your family. Your co-founder(s) will have to accept the same situation and anyone you employ would also be expecting health coverage.
Actually he has no comments outside of this thread that is less than 91 days ago, so it's not so easy at all.
That's not quite an "acqui-hire", though, that's a technology purchase.

"Acqui-hire" has a strong implication of, "we don't need your technology, and will likely discard/discontinue your product... but we want your engineers, as a cohesive team with relevant domain experience."
I've enjoyed my experience with lob.com. I have sent one post card, done a Zapier integration, and introduced them to folks at my company that send a lot of postcards. Also had a conversation with the founders after signing up--that's always nice. (It is interesting that the API isn't really RESTful, but rather form/param based.)

Frankly, I've been wracking my brain (and those of friends at coffee meetings) trying to think of a business to build on top of this API.

Reminders and marketing are the two broad markets that jump to my mind, but I'm struggling a bit to find niches where the attributes of postcards (or letters) win vs other solutions:

* cost (94 cents vs free for email or far cheaper for text messages)
* timeliness (5-7 days vs immediate)
* point of delivery (physical address vs device or computer)

This means it has to be a fairly high value marketing or reminder opportunity.

Regardless, I'm impressed with lob.com and when the right mail business opportunity comes along, I know who my API partner will be.
This is arguing for longer patents for drugs, since the 20-year-long patent causes the industry to only look for drugs where you can get through development and trials quickly enough that they enough years left on the patent to make revenue.
>>I suspect a THAT is the heart of capitalism<<

I'm assuming this is a typo, but I can't quite make out what you mean. Are you saying that inheritance is the heart of, presumably, the capitalism in practice today?

Even if we accept this as true, I don't think it refutes the main point that delayed gratification is the heart of capitalism. Even if you have inherited capital, this is almost certainly because your ancestor practiced delayed gratification. That capital was accumulated because someone didn't gratify himself by spending it. Simply because the current owner of the capital didn't have to delay gratification to get it doesn't mean that delayed gratification isn't the ultimate source of that capital (nor does it mean the current owner doesn't practice delayed gratification to keep or grow that capital).

Of course, in some very, very rare instances (which of course are highly publicized, so it's what we immediately think of when we think of "inherited wealth"), so much wealth gets accumulated that its more or less impossible to spend it all, and thus no delayed gratification is necessary. But, pick out any time frame, and you'll find that the vast majority of this hallowed class of inheritors squander the inherited wealth by the end of the third generation. If they managed not to, it’s almost certainly because they have learned to practice delayed gratification.
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Its still 750K - 1.5M per employee, its not like engineers are less valuable if they are bootstrapped. But a better question is given the businesses involved what values change. Does the acquiring company become more valuable? Is there less competition? Is there intellectual property involved? Customer contacts?

A much better way to start this process is to do a fund raising exercise. How much would you expect the company to be pre-money and post-money, and why? If you have been unsuccessful raising money it is possible your post money valuation expectation is too high. At the end of the day though its value not a 'rule of thumb' for these things.

People will use the 'rule of thumb' to cross check the value of their offer. If they feel like they are only in it for the employees and offering more than a 'typical' acquihire they will need to understand why that is. If less then that is another data point.
Awesome, love what you've done with the front page so looking forward to the comment pages. Thanks
Give a bunch of people the drug and a bunch of people a placebo, wait a long time (decade+), see if there is a statistically-significant decrease in the thing that it is trying to prevent.
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30 times more clinical trials for recurrent cancer drugs than for preventive drugs

How do the economists know that it's for economic reasons? Maybe it's a lot easier to theorize and conduct trials for one class of drugs versus the other.
There are examples here:

https://github.com/azul3d/examples

But there aren't any screenshots. I know of at least two others (than myself) writing serious games with Azul3D, but none have released any screenshots or demos yet.
Wow. That was a really fast turn-around from blog post to an app that makes it really easy to pull off without reading all the documentation.

I figure this is also a great marketing instrument. Nicely done!
> losing a job has a much higher impact on a person than for a company to unexpectedly lose an employer

This is true, but not without context.

In my scenario above, the circumstances were similar. 2-3 weeks into a new job.

Excluding someone who has been unemployed for an extended period of time, it seems odd that in 2-3 weeks, losing your job would shatter their life.

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And I wouldn't exclude companies for being "shattered" either. It's very possible for companies to be formed around the reputation of a single individual, and if that individual left, would be shattering. Especially in early stages of a financing round.
To get an idea how they grouped zones a bit, this picture was taken showing the expansion zones for Burning Crusade, apparently you could move between them with a few tricks.

https://i.imgur.com/768UM.jpg

I was always more impressed with Asheron's Call management of areas, as they initially had one zone friend world, it would load land blocks as players accessed them.
Security through obscurity. Don't worry the development tools for Android are so shit I don't think hackers will bother with it.
The "truth" is only what can be proved in court. Lots of folks have been tripped up by that before... so be careful.

In this specific case the legal is likely very low. It's a startup and it's unlikely they have money to fund a lawsuit. Plus there's that whole "he's from another country" bit which would make collecting on a judgment pretty damn hard.
Look at his startup idea that's hosted on appspot.com - the route to the YC company is found easily from there, with a couple of creative web searches.
"can't" is a far cry from "rarely". Multimethods can be dynamically created during runtime.
Ew, don't do it by hand. You can use tools like govers to rewrite the import paths to newer versions. It's not hard to manage at all IMHO.
The parent comment was deleted, but I saw this on Reddit[1] before it popped in here.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2cyu9d/closeups_of_wow_...
There really isn't a market price unless you have a couple of bidders interested in you. That'll set a market price nice and quick. But without a second bidder or at least the threat of one the fair price for them to pay is the minimum it would take to stop you from just walking away and taking a different job. Anyway, your range sounds about right if you have options on the table.
How about using http://peabrain.co/ ? One can update via SMS, and there's no need to download any apps.
I understand that objective in theory, but it seems impractical in the wild. Most employers won't look beyond the surface level of "This person had issues with a previous employer and feels the need to discuss them here." They won't bother to ferret out who was right, who was wrong, and whether your grievances are legitimate -- even if they are. So you're basically raising a flag, and a lot of interviers or hiring managers will treat it as such.

Think about it from their perspective. They don't know you too well. All they know, at a quick glance, is that you have had problems with a previous employer. They get your side of the story, perhaps, but how are they to know if you're telling the full story, or if you're just the kind of person who complains about things and causes morale issues? They don't have the time or the process to sort that out, so they'll default to the conservative position of assuming you are more trouble than you're worth.

I've seen this torpedo people in job interviews. I've seen it sink the candidacies of people who were otherwise in very strong contention. Is that fair? Of course not. But it's something to keep in mind.

In a perfect world, sure, this would serve as a nice filter to determine if employers are worth working for. In the world we actually live in, this filter will, more often than not, filter you out of a lot of job opportunities. Meanwhile, there are more effective and less risky filters you can apply when vetting an employer.
Granted... his point one falls off if you, as he does, completely neglect the marginal costs of the books.

That is, if I shouldn't consider the costs of paperback books in comparing physical books to ebooks as to why they should be cheaper, than you can't do the same for why they should be more expensive. No reason the books at the local store couldn't also be 9.99.
Let's be honest here, I would say most publisher's aren't filtering to keep the quality of writing high but to publish anything they think will sell a certain amount. If they rejected a book because it wasn't written well but it was then self-published and ended up being very popular and selling well I would imagine most publisher's would wish they had signed the author, regardless of how bad the writing is.

A publisher filters to find books that will sell, not to find great writing. In some instances great writing will sell quite well, in others that crappy romance novel can be a hit with a lot people. Publisher's release garbage all the time, it's not like they're some guardian angels of good writing. Maybe it would be awesome if we could just let the readers decide whether a book is good to them or not?

As a side note, the assumption here is that reviews are legit and not bought. To me the non-ideal situation of fake reviews is a separate issue vs the principle of whether legitimate customer reviews can serve as a good filter for readers. My experience has been that they certianly can.
>Personally, the social aspects are what eventually drove me to quit MMOs for good (so far) not long into the life of WoW.

Likewise, though for a different reason. I never engage enough, even in a guild or similar, I guess because I usually end up playing MMOs without RL friends jumping in, and I find the limited interactions sufficiently boring I eventually leave the game, as the gameplay isn't enough in any MMO to keep me.
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Daily downtime is 11.00 to 11.30 UTC, usually less than this (10-15 minutes most days).
Hey, so sorry about that, we weren't aware somebody posted about this! But like krisshd said, we are fully functional and have several websites running on us.
This. (BTW, I'm the author, sorry.)

Although the renderer is GL 2.X based -- it supports OpenGL 3+ features using extensions. It was written against OpenGL 2.X so that the lowest OpenGL 3 hardware could be targeted.
6) The kind that spends too much time on HN
A point on negotiation strategy-- find out what the other side wants, let them make the first offer.

Recommend reading Roger Dawson > http://www.summarist.net/book/secrets-of-power-negotiating-1...
Awesome info. Thanks!
I just found my winning bid e-mail: I got Quel'Thalas for $212.50 on 2011-10-24. I remember that freak Halloween snow storm.. somehow it managed to avoid hitting me the capital region.

I'll probably sell the server at some point but I have no idea what a fair price for it is. Perhaps I'll sell it using a double-blind auction.
Exactly on point, Dokku is great when you want to manage everything yourself, but Fortheon takes care of all the hairy server interactions.
Getting IPMI controllers to do what you want is anything but trivial :)
He ends up calling that `mapping` later

mapping :: (a -> b) -> Transducer b a
mapping f xf r a = xf r (f a)

which, modulo a little renaming, eta-expansion, and point elimination is the same as your `trans`
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"Add revenue. Reduce costs." needs to be balanced not only with relationship and leisure but also other goals in the workplace such as solve interesting problems and learn new things. I understand that as a business my employer may not care how interesting my work is, but I do care.
I think equity is the hardest concept in accounting for people to intuit. It's easy to understand what Assets and Liabilities are, and what Revenues and Expenses are. It's not even that hard to understand accrual concepts of depreciations.
The simplest solution would be to significantly shorten the patent duration for pharmaceuticals, and start it the day a drug gets FDA approval. This would uncouple two things that should have never been coupled in the first place: development time and window of exclusivity in the market.
I've worked extensively with HP equipment. I've just sent August an email with a ton of extra detail about this blade.

The 'weird custom card' mentioned in ChuckMcM's comment is actually a SmartArray 6i raid controller. The black slot is to put a small stick of ram into to act as cache.

Happy to answer any and all questions about the server :)

Out of interest, there are two CPUs in this server, and they're both an AMD Opteron 275 (2.2 GHz, dual core). The 512MB Hynix ram sticks would have come from the factory, while the 2GB micron sticks would have been an upgrade.
They MIGHT get your book into B&N and other large bookstores (Walmart is a different story). But so what? It just sits on the shelf. Is that really worth giving up 2-3x more royalties to be able to say your book that might sell 1-2 copies in physical stores is available down the street? (Which it often won't be.)

If you self-publish and are wildly successful, you can always sign with a publisher to get an in-store deal later when you have more leverage.

I've been through both paths. James Altucher also wrote about it on his blog and I totally agree with him.
Scaling Guild Wars for massive concurrency (2012)
All of them apparently.
I can see this as being really helpful for university profs, for making it more difficult for students to send vague, impossible to answer questions about assignments.
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Not yet, it's definitely on the top of our priorities list!
A corollary to that is that even if you work out the legal obstacles (it's possible to get a tax ID and even start a company without having legal status), it's difficult to accumulate the seed capital if you can't work a regular job.

That'a s bit less of an issue for people in tech startups - if you already have a laptop and internet service, then you may not need any additional physical capital - but it can be a huge barrier in other lines of business where you may need to invest in a fair amount of equipment in order to be basically competitive. Say someone wants to start a photography business, for example, which is pretty lightweight sort of business - you're still looking at maybe $10k of gear and a year of studio/office rental expenses, potentially much more. You don't have to go that route to succeed as a photographer, but absent that starting capital it's going to take considerably longer to get established. And while that's not a huge amount of money, many immigrants don't have access to credit or jobs that pay enough to accumulate savings.
Most green cards today are family-based instead of employment or skill based. Family is a golden word in America, according to the Godfather: "But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again." In addition, there are many diversity (lottery), refugee, and asylum green cards.

It's funny while America is hated, and some other countries are touted to have better systems and will soon take over America's leadership, tons of people are voting for America with their feet, and crying for green cards.
I wish there was at least a mention of available storage (disk, choice of databases) and its price.
Multimethods in general are not very common in Clojure. My point is that in order to understand Clojure you shouldn't think about it as you do about most dynamic languages, because its core mechanisms and abstractions are based on OO interfaces rather than dynamic dispatch.
Seems like this will most effectively work with high profile people / people in demand.

As an average Joe, my thought process:

- I'm not going to make my friends and family contact me this way. It's just too impersonal. If a friend insisted I contact them this way, I probably wouldn't bother.

- I can't enforce this at work, as much as I'd like to. Not to mention I'm cc'd or included in on a lot of emails that go to multiple people.

But for people like Dan Ariely, this could work great.
Most of the writing are Python 2 and 3 compatible (sure the print statement is enough to throw Python 3 off) and this was written back in 2012 when Python 2 was still the center of the community. Maybe the author thinks writing down the interpreter (Python 2.7.1) on the first chapter is good enough. Also, this was prepared for a training if you read the side. So students who took the author's training probably knew it was for Python 2.

Although I do spot a couple really "non-standard" practice, for example, the classes still using the old Python 2 syntax:

class Name: vs class Name(object):
> How much has doing the startup cost you. If you're
> bootstrapped you've probably both put personal funds in as
> well as a salary opportunity costs. Thats your base.

This is irrelevant. If you've blown $50M of your personal funds on a startup with nothing to show for it why would it be up to the acquiring company to have $50M as the floor price so that your losses are covered? If you bought a used car, would the base price incude the cost of gas that the seller spent?

It boils down to some combination of three things: people acquisition costs, domain expertise value, and technology worth. There's a fourth factor of inherent value of the business itself (outside of technology and people), but the OP stated they have neither revenue nor customers so that's likely a zero. All these are values that the acquiring company can put a number on. Price accordingly.
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Feel strongly? Which way?

"I feel strongly about violence" - Mr. Bungle
Here's a fun fact for you. Under Canadian employment law/case histories if you as a senior management employee with many years of service are "romanced" away to a new company which then fires you... your years of service at your original company should be used to calculate your severance.

For management positions this means 1 month severance for every year of service.

So if you romanced an executive into joining your startup you and then fire them you could be on the hook for a very large severance package.
I have a closely related dilemma more around the salary negotiations involved in the acquihire... How much should the cofounders ask for?
What I could use is a way to add an iphone as a dumbphone to a shared data/minutes plan. I have a spare iphone 4s (Verizon US), unfortunately, and I want to be able to have my son use the phone without data without paying the $40/mo that adding the iphone to the shared plan would cost.
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DNS to CDN to Origin
What if your neighbors (or anyone else) look up something illegal on your Wi-Fi?