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>I don't understand why older people hang on to less optimal way of doing things?

Because they are used to it and it works for them, so they couldn't be bothered? It's not all about "optimization" of options and full utilization of potential features, sometimes personal convenience is more important.

>Same with newspapers. You can't share newspaper content easily. You can't click on a word and Google it or look up information about Ukraine's president while reading the news paper. Newspapers take up space in your house and unread newspapers are a huge waste. I get some people like distraction free reading, without a glaring bright screen so the case here isn't as clear cut as with a TV, but the point is valid.

Not being able to "click on a word and Google it" is exactly why some people prefer newspapers. And it's exactly why some people who read the news on the web actually read 1-2 articles, skim 90% of them, and end up with cat videos somewhere on the corners of YouTube.

Also some people don't like sharing content. Why would I want to share a news item? As if I'm the purveyor of news to my un-englightened friends? Finally, "newspapers taking space in a house" is a first world problem if there ever was one. Let's be honest: nobody really considered "newspapers taking place" a real problem...
How your smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service
What I'm saying is that an app which claims to be secure & private should not be running any kind of analytics on user behavior in their browser.
Wanted to say I appreciate your in-depth reply. Quite nice hearing from someone who's had the experience and chose to introspect for us.
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I'm curious; would you share your preference for not using Stripe?
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$5/month for unlimited everything seems ... problematic. Let's say I implement a lightweight service for backing up photo libraries (we're not even talking deliberate abuse here).
Does putting an analytics piece inside of a Chrome extension allow the creator to see which website a user is currently viewing when using the extension? Or are the analytics limited to the extension itself? For example, a simple extension that makes the background-color of the current page red, if there are analytics on that extension could the developer potentialy know which site the user is on?
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magit mode in emacs has bailed me out numerous times from git messes. If you're an emacs and git user but not using magit, you're seriously missing out.
I'm glad you like it, but we have no plans to take payments in any other form.

Is there a reason you don't want to use Stripe?
If stable longevity for your project's implementation is important (as your question implies), then I think Scala does present additional risk (relative to stable/mainstream languages). It sounds to me, too, that they are thinking of changing fundamentals in the language/system. This could lead to something like the Python2vs3 scenario for a while. If you base on current Scala, you might (likely) later find yourself doing either a re-write, or being relegated to a "compatibility" library. You're wise to ask.
> No way it would be an investment that would give investors a 10x return.

I think this kind of expectations ruin good business ideas.

A thing like Dinnr may have worked well if run for years, not just tested out for 18 months. It may have not produced a 10x return, but it may have been enough for four people to live on and, maybe, then expand to another city and have four other people live working at Dinnr 2.
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Ok, not exactly real time, but I will update this sheet throughout the day with battery usages and notes.

Here's the sheet's link:
http://goo.gl/w78Q1S
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Where in Australia? I lived there for a few months in both Melbourne and Sydney and everything was almost double the price compared to the US.
i consider my IP address a personal detail as well as all the browser information that gets used as a fingerprint. The web would be a nicer place without all the analytics, I miss the 90s.
When someone starts hitting us with a lot of concurrent requests or storing a lot of data, we do sometimes have to ask people to change what they're doing.
That's cool. I just had a look, and noticed a couple of rbl checks. Very smart idea.

However, I have to say, I had occasions where the IP was not listed on any RBL, but Yahoo was still flagging my IP.

I don't remember the exact error Yahoo were returning, but I think it was basically blocking all email... Perhaps even from the entire network range, since it was listed as residential or something of that sort (apologies, but I really don't remember the exact details, it was quite a while ago)
If I set currency to RUB, I has "руб." at left of price, but it must be right of it.

Ex. now it "руб.150", but must be "150 руб."
Yes, SRAM has close-to-zero remanence. But if I were running, say, a Haswell, my L3 might indeed be DRAM (depending on the model).

Saves die space, even with the controller overhead. They love it on SoCs in general, particularly where anything with embedded graphics is concerned.

I'm curious what mechanisms you're talking about. Did you mean physical access? General-purpose processors don't have those (why would they?). Specialised cryptographic SoCs which try to prevent physical attack… well, let's just say for now that results may vary and that if a determined adversary has unlimited physical access to a device, you cannot prevent its compromise.
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There are a lot of different modes of entertainment. One that you describe is pretty rare - "Show me something I would like to see, I don't care what, maybe something new".

Obviously this is a useful mode to have. TV channels about wildlife and history are good examples - you can turn them on even for 10 minutes while you do some chores, for example. But for "stateful" content like sports or TV series this is suboptimal. And that's the bulk of entertainment.
> Fact: Recording user behavior most certainly is a privacy issue...

> My opinion: ...and it should be both disclosed and opt-in.

And, perhaps, avoided completely–once your shop has resources to spare for in-house testing and usability research.
This is great! Thank you so much.

I basically use Freshbooks.com as an invoice generator. This is way cleaner.

Some polish-level things that would make it cleaner to use for a SaaS product:

* There aren't really "quantities" or "rates". You are a customer of my product, which costs $X amount, so there is just a line with cost $X.

* Needs to comma-delimit amounts greater than $1,000

* Want to be able to put my logo where "INVOICE" is.

* Want to be able to include an "Amount Paid" below the "Total", and then have "Amount Due" under that, which is Total - Amount Paid.

Also, I want to be able to save invoices (local storage or server is fine), generate a new one this month from last month's per customer, etc. etc.

Feel free to email me (harry@periscope.io) if you want more feedback or some examples.

Also: Charge your customers money!
Why the huge jump between S3 and Cloudfront served hosting? Just market segmentation?
I've seen loads of extensions that use Google Analytics to track user behavior. They of course post this on the details page with a link to the Opt-Out.

Could you tell us more about the "new analytics startup"? It seems like that's the code the reviewer was referring to (which you have said is no longer there in the extension)
While I am not the first person to defend Paul Graham's writing, I must admit that the author of this article has zero understanding of what is actually meant by the phrase "just do it."

All that statement relays is this: there is no secret formula to having a successful startup! So, the only way to figure things out is to actually be out there doing it.

It is very true that you can learn things working for someone else that would contribute to your future startup. But that is highly dependent on who you are working for and what you are doing for them.

As in regards to the cited studies. The first study actually lists a total of 8 important factors for startups that lasted longer than 5 years and were started between 1991-2000. Interestingly, startups during those years had a 1 in 5 chance of survival. (Sidepoint: Does anyone know if the survival rate for startups today is anywhere close to this rate?) In other words, industry experience is only one of many factors ... and industry experience means having worked in the same industry as your startup, it doesn't mean working in any industry for any employer.

To list the 8 important factors for everyone (and I have a feeling that these are in order of importance):

1. supply chain integration
2. market scope
3. firm age
4. size of founding team
5. financial resources
6. founders' marketing experience
7. founders' industry experience
8. existence of patent protection

[0] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5885.2007....
AFAIK - Yes. The developer could potentially run the analytics in the background html and from the content scripts track events sending the url as parameters.
"There is a huge gap in wealth between generations thanks to debt via housing and education"

You sound like there's a ton of incentive to make TV channels for teenagers, promote mortgage and colleges on it.
Capture all the unserved audience, make $$$s.
If that's where all money go in this generation.
Proper link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DMfEZInVsb4XJ9E2fbVr...
There's some mixing in this thread of "watching via cable programming" and "watching TV/movie content on a TV versus a computer or mobile device."

For the former, even among people not paying at all, or not paying for it through the traditional cable company means, big-studio TV content seems more popular than ever (unsurprising since it's higher quality than ever, with still-increasing amounts of money pouring into it). This shift ultimately seems like one that will only hurt the traditional broadcast networks, as well as the cable networks that fill themselves with "passive watching" content versus the stuff that (currently, at least) plays much better in the newer distribution channels. Or maybe stuff like reality will just move online later when that demographic moves online if cable starts to fail. That's probably an area where the "it just works, and it's on, set it and forget" aspect of cable is actually a very large advantage, though. Otherwise, about the only non-large-content-library advantage of cable is that fast forward/rewind on my DVR work way better than on online streaming.

Extreme space and budget restrictions seem to be the only reason to give up the latter. The couch or recliner + TV viewing experience is hard to do without (I did it for a couple of years after moving and being short on space, and then couldn't believe I'd done it for so long after getting a TV again).
Not at all. There are plenty of counterfeits that are not functional - some don't even have a die in them.

Also, these parts have a brand logo on them, but are not made by that manufacturer. If Hyundai sold cars with the word Honda and a Honda logo on them, without permission from Honda, they would indeed be counterfeits.
Simple anonymized analytics, like clicking of a button. Basically the analytics without which nowadays apps/websites are considered incomplete.

Chrome doesnt allow extensions to get that data unless the extension asks for daring permissions like "Access your data on all websites".

Currently the app asks for no such permission. There were some features I planned to integrate like user right-click a text and click on 'send to Sticky note', but now terrified whether to even ask for such permissions.
This kind of attitude is exactly the reason I took so long to tell anyone when I started getting symptoms of depression. Whether or not it's true, there's a very thin line between complaining about over-diagnosis and encouraging a very damaging stigma against people with what is, at the end of the day, a mental illness they can't help.

Secondly, when I did finally get some help, the absolute first thing I was told was to try exactly those things -- improve my sleep, diet and exercise. Your problem is with the attempted treatment you've seen, not really the identification.
Of course. Testing always appears to work, if there is no reliable way to measure the measurements. It's not specific to testing students.

If you benchmark on your bug count, it will go down, but there is no reason to believe quality will improve.

Regarding the over-performers in school, I've always had this idea that they should help teach in some way. It can give meaning to bored children in a way that few other things can.
A house may have multiple people living there, multiple devices, visitors, etc.

You could track a person connecting through multiple locations by using their MAC address used to assign their IP. i.e. if I am connecting with my laptop from various places, my IP address will be roughly the same, only the network prefix will change.
We're discussing a pretty solid technical article, one deeper than the typical HN programming article, and this is a very superficial criticism. It's like you're proudly advertising that you're so disengaged with executable file formats that you can be derailed by idiosyncratic punctuation.
That is unknown providence too. If you want to be sure of getting an original chip, you need to buy it from one of the official distributors as recommended by the IC vendor, or one of the well-known distributors (Digikey, Mouser, Farnell, ...). The well-know distributors can have high shipping to some parts of the world, hence the appeal of ebay in some cases.
The thing is, "toughen up" is not taken to mean that, particularly by someone who is depressed. It's taken to mean "stop complaining, there's nothing wrong with you", which can be very damaging for someone in an already unstable mental state.
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Is the stuff from Amazon Marketplace sellers really any more reputable than professional traders on Ebay? In my mind they're about equal.
This is with all seriousness the most informative thing I read this week. Took me right back to my abortive flirtation with EE as an undergrad. If thing had been explained this clearly, I might have stuck with it.
A kind of love what this author has been doing for the past several months: taking personal deep dives into systems technology and then just enthusiastically writing up what they learned. I wish more people would write this way. I know I have a hard time doing it; I want to know that anything I write is novel, which is a crippling and stupid limitation I put on myself.

The reality is that one great way to get to novel value is to apply your own take on something that people have done before; you may find a way to teachably express a concept better than others have before you.
It is meticulously researched, though, and the bibliography is as good a place as any to look for further reading on Rockefeller.

Above and beyond that, simply as a history of the most important substance in all of human history beyond sheer biological necessities, it's utterly fascinating. It's principally through Yergin's work that I came to pretty much diametrically opposite conclusions of the future of energy from his.
Actually, the post says it explicitly that this 20% includes only failures. --> "... entrepreneurs who previously failed have a 20% chance of succeeding."
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> I currently follow the Firefox pattern/language choice:

> [ ] Share performance, usage, hardware and customization data anonymously with the developer to help make ___ better. <<Learn More About Data Collected>>

IMO the wording is really important here. If I were to write this section of user preferences, I'd go for something like:

▸ Help improve X

Click on which expands the panel:

□ Allow collecting anonymized information about the usage of the application. It will be used for <reasons>. Only the following data will be sent to us over encrypted connection: <easy-to-understand list>. <<Learn more>>

(I know it's easy to give advice, though, and I don't have my own product on which to test copy ideas yet.)
What stylistic means, if you don't mind my asking?
Habit? That said, many (most?) Amazon marketplace sellers are eBay sellers as well. I don't really think Amazon is "safer".
Price. You can find lots of cheapo regulators for pennies each: http://www.aliexpress.com/7805-voltage-regulator_reviews.htm... However you usually get what you pay for so it's worth getting a genuine part.
This is something Linus addressed quite a while ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/132513/
This is just a PR stunt!

This whole project is a scam. Its just a cheap $60 Wordpress theme hooked up to a music distributor. It would take a day max to set up this site.
Has anyones else noticed every single ad banner on the website is for his own music!

http://themeforest.net/item/keronchong-band-music-event-wooc...
In Java 7 it was pretty trivial to create a closure with an anonymous class and if that anonymous class implemented Callable or Runnable it was effectively a lambda with strong types.
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Bill Gates with Microsoft.

At its peak Windows was running on 90% of computers and the biggest rival Apple (Steve Jobs) was taking money from Microsoft (Bill G) to survive.

Bill was able to leverage almost all other software companies to create software for Windows to create a lock in fro the customers.
Couldn't you simply write a disclaimer next to your signature?

"My acceptance of the previous terms requires the following company policy to be waived:

- Watching pornography at work is grounds for termination."
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Funny, I just bumped into a startup[0] that seems to do the same thing, and looks like it received some funding[1]...

I wonder how well these guys are going to do.

[0] http://signup.marleyspoon.com/ - it's operational in germany at https://www.marleyspoon.de/

[1] $1.5M Seed according to https://angel.co/marley-spoon/
This is just a PR stunt the website was made using a $60 Wordpress theme attached to a music distributor.
http://themeforest.net/item/keronchong-band-music-event-wooc...
Every single add banner on the Ghostunes site directs to his own album.
When you google Ghostunes the url directs straight https://www.ghosttunes.com/garth-brooks/
He's even the sites featured artist.
Why he only spend $60 on making this website if it was meant to be better than iTunes?
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Blowing up competitors comes to mind.
In the presence of closed-source drivers that manage them and compile the shaders? I'd say probably not. Something open-source with actual direct access to the opcodes (would Mantle work? Intel's embedded GPUs?)… maybe. I don't know if I'd consider them secure. Some running hot and loud and by the seat of their pants? The presence of DMA? Hm. I have my doubts they'd be better than the CPU safety-wise.

What I do know is they can usually run them very fast if asynchronous low-communication parallelisation is not undesirable - GPUs overtook PlayStation 3 Cell processors for the "throw watts at it, but we don't have enough money to burn FPGAs or ASICs" class of crypto attacks quite a few years ago now. (As anyone who runs a Bitcoin mine knows!)

Might be effective on, say, the Raspberry Pi, where the "GPU"'s the ringmaster and the ARM's the clown. That vector processor looks tempting, and if I could figure out how to get it to do diagonals, it's a poster child for ChaCha.
s/Unfortunately/Fortunately/

Go is a terrible, terrible name.
I thought the "What Amy Winehouse's death can teach us about small business" fiasco put a bullet in these types of articles.

Correct me?
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> I learned that most startups fail, and that when they fail, the people who end up doing well are the ones who were looking out for their own interests all along.

Pay attention to this.
Oh. In that case I got DDG and StartPage confused.

Maybe StartPage still displays Google's ads? They display some ads.
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To some degree, although I'd really like a more thorough pantry management system - which tracks expiration dates, estimates quantities, &c, and integrates with meal planning and shopping.

On a related note, some knowledge of substitutions could be another great feature.
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Bitcoin invoices?
Google does a little of this already although the mechanism is not as direct as your version. E-mail from certain senders gains "importance" based on your interactions with that sender, such as if you'd first sent a mail to that address, if you'd ever replied to that address, if you open a certain amount of mail from that address, etc. Mail from senders considered "important" is then more likely to hit your inbox.

It seems to work reasonably well, although there are some interesting ways you can game it. One I learnt from the Internet marketing world was some list builders (using legit methods, but perhaps promoting things that often get caught by spam filters) hire people or implement techniques to encourage new list signups to reply to mails sent from the same address as the list by asking them questions, etc.
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You use Moscow as an example so I'll assume you are from there. I am from Germany. That means we both have experienced countries with a well designed public infrastructure including public transport. Americans do not have this background. In America, the general attitude towards providers of public infrastructure (be it government or private like Caltrain) is that they are assumed to be incompetent, their actions should be opposed, and their business disrupted.

I ride Caltrain every day and the experience annoys me a lot (still less than driving), but I feel sorry for the people running Caltrain because despite providing a valuable infrastructure service that is in huge demand, they are considered the lowest priority by everyone they interact with and have to deal with the most ridiculous restrictions and regulations. For example, Caltrain knows that they are always behind schedule during rush hour and want to adjust their schedule. But to do that they have to consult everyone and their uncle over a year-long process where every nutjob's concerns about a five minute scheduling change can stall the entire process.

Infrastructure projects deal with such problems everywhere, but I have not seen a place where this attitude is so deeply engrained and systematic like here.
I don't see this as an issue, the fact that OCaml is such a great compiler language means that plenty of good compiler writers already know and use OCaml.

Facebook wrote the compiler for their Hack language (basically a better PHP) in OCaml, for example.

Bootstrapped compilers are nice but can come later, after the language gains traction in the community. This language is brand new.
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Thanks for writing it up. Processing what went wrong will lead you to better opportunities up ahead.

Interesting though on #5: "As one of my first investors later told me, you must have developers on your core team in the same room."

I think this is never the guess and am surprised when some startups take their devs offshore.