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As an indirect response to the OPs question the next step after that good intro tutorial is something like this, which is a medium level application of org mode once you get the basics down, in a well known format: (Edited to emphasize if you know the basics of GTD, and its not terribly complicated, this is a good example of applying org mode tools to a known problem, presumably this will help you in applying org mode to your individual problem, assuming its not just setting up GTD of course)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.h...

I actually used this, or many ideas strongly borrowed from this, for some time until I was kind of forced into evernote in order to inter operate both mobile and with some evernote users (OK specifically the other user is my wife). It turned out to be easier to implement something like GTD in evernote than to teach my (techie, pbx programmer) wife how to use emacs. But emacs org mode did work perfectly and was quite effective and fast while I used it.

The mobile client for evernote a couple years ago was far superior to the mobile org mode client. As of years ago. This may have changed. The big problem from memory with the mobile clients is the mobile app model is inherently windows-ish where all the worlds features are in one self contained app, so you gotta make a good gui and a good sync in one app, where as the unix-ish philosophy of using a suite of tools perfectly designed for individual jobs is not permitted in mobile, so its a hard fit. Although the evernote guys got it to work pretty well, so its obviously possible.
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We started out with no-login, but without the ability to save emails and have some kind of session persistence we ended up with a lot of abandoned conversations.

It is pretty much no-login now, you can just send an email and go, even if you don't have an account. But we store your email and previous conversations.

Great idea, we are actually doing that :). If you don't participate in the realtime chat you get an email summary of the messages you missed.

And yes to this as well, if you cc go@chat.cc on an email thread all future replies get funneled into the conversation.
I'm going to get downvoted for being a grammar nazi, but this disingenuous "spokesperson" should know the difference between "insure" and "ensure."
Honestly, not that surprised. I basically live at my co-working space. Showers, lots of comfy desks, couches and bean bag chairs, well equipped kitchen (gotta buy your ingredients though), well heated, even at night.

Apparently someone lived there for a couple months before someone found out.
Here is update on this theme:

Every now and then I post a resume on the big job boards to see what kind of crap the people I recruit have to put up with so I know why they have generally lost that loving feeling toward recruiters. Last night I posted one.
The responses make me question whether or not I am in the right industry.

I can't help but ask myself how the hell I chose to work in a profession where my customers and the people I interact with are going to be judged by the behavior of my peers. This reminds me of why so many developers get angry at recruiters.
If nothing else, it reminds me why I have not paid for a job board account since 2007.

Here is a link to my blog post with some selected emails from recruiters who responded on Dice, Monster and CareerBuilder:

http://staffmagnet.com/some-really-bad-recruiters-dont-judge...
I was thinking about "broadband" a while ago, and I think it's about time to add minimum/average latency to "broadband" definition. It's huge pain to handle hundreds of milliseconds of latency in real-time applications (like games) - sometimes even impossible for some applications like OnLive, unless you implement some really sophisticated algorithms ie. MS DeLorean.

Assuming that web is slowly moving from static content to real-time experience, we should start educate consumers that bandwidth is only part of the story. In 10 years we'll have plenty of bandwidth, but without consumers demanding low latency now, we'll still have to waste money on high latency hiding - or worse - adapt application designs to it.
aktau (commented below), Justin Keyes, and obviously Thiago are certainly driving a ton of the development. The amount of time they put into the Issue tracker and coding blows me away. It's all really impressive and they definitely have set the tone for the project.

aktau: https://github.com/aktau

Justin: https://github.com/justinmk

Thiago: https://github.com/tarruda
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This is a workable plan, but as a note, I had a friend in this exact situation do this exact thing (except with 4-plex apartments instead of houses). He burned out pretty quick. Dealing with tenants can take a lot out of you, especially if you try to leverage yourself by buying properties in the bad parts of town.
I love this but its a pity that paths vanish when I click-drag the frame.
Why I moved in with college students to build a better app
Last (school) year, I spent 6 months living with undergrads, attending classes, and getting involved with extracurriculars at UC Berkeley. I'm 30. And a startup CEO (ex TaskRabbit's 2nd eng. /1st product mgr).

This was a design experiment taking observation / user testing to an extreme: complete immersion. I published my notes on VentureBeat, but really would like to hear what the hn community thinks of using immersion as a design technique. Innovative customer development or ridiculous waste of time?
The mailing list was nice while it lasted. After a day or two, I started receiving "CLICK TO VIEW TODAY'S STYLE" e-mail links to force me to visit the site to see the style. E-mailing me links to your site everyday is basically spam. With no content coming from the mailing list, I promptly unsubscribed.
Ah got it. Makes much more sense.
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I am working on an idea and have short listed a couple of names, but unable to decide what would work best based on factors such as SEO, easy to remember, catchy, availability of domain, facebook & twitter handles etc.

I came across Name Mesh (http://www.namemesh.com) and it provides some recommendations based on some of the criteria I listed above. Are there any tools that the HN folks would recommend for this?
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No recruiter, out of every recruiter I have ever spoken with from Google down to smaller startups, has ever discussed code with me beyond what languages I know and if I have experience writing tests.

It is absurd to talk with someone about code for an hour and assume they are a recruiter.
Of course they can. You provide no counter-arguments to the facts that it's cheap and convenient.

I sleep in a Previa fairly regularly, often with my kayak next to me. I only need it for sleep and charging gadgets so don't need a loo, heater washing stuff or a cooker. Never done more than a couple of nights in it but can't think of a good reason why I wouldn't if required.
I think there's going to be some sort of breakthrough using it as an authentication device. Possibly using heart rate as biometric identification combined with a clever universal challenge-response mechanism (using audio, maybe). That's my prediction. :)
I prefer the term cloud-encumbered device. Tethered does not sufficiently convey a negative connotation.
Why are they asking for Macbooks? Is there some particular need for OSX? Why not just throw them onto Linux, if they're going to learn an operating system it might as well be something they don't have to shell out 1000+ for a computer for.

If only there were some sort of cheap computer that is very bare bones and small. One that can hook up to TVs by HDMI or RCA so the kids could use them at home. Have it cost around fifty dollars (with case and power adapter), and get people to donate extra keyboards and mice. If only.
What, what? YouTube has been doing an HTML5 based web player for quite some time now[1], and I believe it supports FLV video as well, though I can't find a reference for that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=CA
I am currently wearing an iPod Nano on my wrist using a wrist band that was designed for the nano. Yes I want an actual iWatch.
People even write their dotemacs in Org mode and use babel in their init.el to run it

https://github.com/thomanil/dot-emacs/blob/master/thomanil.o...
It'd be nice if more opportunities like this existed outside Silicon Valley.
Resumes are becoming less relevant than they used to be in some fields, but many other people still need them. Take career fairs for example - you still need to bring a hard copy resume to a career fair. Sure the need might be diminished, but the need still exists.
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Indians, in particular, make it even more interesting with the extra half-hour offset. :-D
Partnering with employer on a side project?
I'm an entry-level engineer working at a small (20 man) start up part-time. I'm going to school full-time, which is my main priority right now. In the past I've launched my own web-based products. Now that I'm employed, I have an idea that could be a massive opportunity for start up I'm working for. It overlaps slightly with a product that the company has. My employer agreed to allow me to work on my own projects on the side, and he/she is is very open to the general idea (not IP paranoid). Although leaving and taking a shot at it on my own is a possibility, leveraging my company's product that the idea overlaps with could be a win-win.

The problem is I've only been at this company for 2 months, and I was planning on being part-time for the next 8-9 months while I finish school. I have no experience with this sort of thing - I've never worked for someone else, always been a contractor with my own projects on the side. Due to this, I don't have the business-smarts to see how I should maximize the potential of this idea. I don't want to bring it up to my boss, and have him take it and hand it to someone full-time with more experience, but that could happen. I also don't want to have to quit and do this on my own. Ideally, I could keep my low-paying wage, but cut over to work on my idea full-time once I get out of school. Why would I do this? Well - in exchange for working about 1/4 of what I should make as a full-time employee, I'd have majority equity in the product.

Is this a type of deal I can approach an employer about? If so, how should I do it? I want to maximize my risk/reward for this, but partnering could be a huge benefit for me, as well as my employer. Any suggestions?

- throwaway since some of my co-workers frequent HN :) -

Thanks for reading!
>Mark is performing for television

That, and most of the deals he (a Billionaire) is talking about investing in on Shark Tank involve him doling out incredibly small and insignificant sums of money for equally small and insignificant (in his eyes) returns.

He really doesn't care if you take the offer or not on Shark Tank, because even if you do and you succeed beyond your wildest dreams, it's not going to make him any richer than sitting through a Dallas Mavericks game would.
Guess: The building outside is actually a stage where Dre will perform.
We'd love to work with you on building this out! I'm from Detroit so I completely agree. Email brian@missionbit.com :)
I agree that a sinecure is probably not the best long-term strategy, but "work even harder and earn even more" doesn't sound any better.

There's simply no guarantee that working an extra 10 hours per week, for example, will gain you enough extra cash to make up for the activities which might have been more meaningful to your life (such as spending time with a significant other, pursuing a hobby etc.).
Apple fans can justify anything - so don't expect anyone to say, yeah they are behind the curve on this.

The better answer is probably: "They simply don't care". No ifs and buts. Probably making it a bit exclusive and hard to get to only adheres to their marketing philosophy.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you suggesting that because there are more male programmers in total and hence more male programmers that are 'above average', that a randomly selected male candidate is statistically more likely to be 'above average' than a randomly selected female candidate?

If so that would be incorrect.
We've generally gone with Macs because most of the tech companies around here have Macs can donate them as they roll out their old computers giving all the students a similar development environment. That being said we could make it work with other computers :)
My other beef with this is not being able to close the tools in order to see the bottom of the screen. This something you can do in Firefox Aurora. You can open the dev tools, hit the emulator tab, and the responsive window runs on its own you so can see the whole window.

The one thing this does really well is the touch events. Firefox dev tools have it too, but it doesn't seem to work as well as on Chrome.
I disagree with him on one core point--while I like the upgrades to my iPhone 5S--it is a great phone, but I don't like the screen size. It is too big. Probably the reason I feel this way is I never--never!--use my phone two handed. I've got moderately big hands, and I can't comfortably hit the back button on the upper left of the screen. That is the foundation of his argument, so for me the rest of his argument falls down, because I don't agree that the screen size my 4 inch iPhone is better than my old 3.5 inch iPhone.

While every one is going gaga over the possibility of new bigger phone, I want to know what is the future of the smaller phone? Next year the 5S or a cost-reduced version will presumably be the free phone, then the following year, will I be forced to carry an oversized phone in my pocket?
> I don't think the customer should be required to be an engineer before noting that something is wrong, nor the company should be able to use its own deficiencies as an excuse about why they won't solve it.

I think you misunderstood his point. He was calling out "why would you wait for a fare increase to do that" as being naive, not "this is a problem that needs to be fixed".

Nothing wrong with calling out the problem as needing to be fixed, just saying that making two changes at once is vastly superior to trying to make two sets of changes in these situations.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/978/ "Citogenesis"

Wikipedia touches briefly on this problem in "Reliability of Wikipedia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Infor...
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I hate to break this to the author of the linked article, but in reality, it's the other way around. Ideas have supreme value, and how you "execute" them is close to irrelevant in the big picture.

Consider Gregor Mendel's pea-growing experiments. His way of executing his idea wasn't at all important compared to the idea itself, which didn't come to fruition for decades after his death. How Mendel arrived at his results -- his "execution" -- was irrelevant to the ideas of genetics he discovered.

Consider Einstein's relativity ideas -- they were philosophical curiosities for most of Einstein's life, not an exploitable commodity, not "executable" at all. Only decades later, after they and Einstein were well-seasoned, did their "execution" make any difference at all.

Consider quantum theories -- conceived in the 1920s, at first they had no practical value at all and even created widespread doubt about their connection with reality. As with relativity, they didn't see anything resembling "execution" until recently.

The history of technology and science flatly contradicts the author's thesis. It's the other way around -- ideas have absolute value, and how one executes them is irrelevant.
If DreamIt accepted you then a few weeks later after you had plans to move there pulled their offer in order to accept another team how would you take it?
I am not saying I would have not taken the YC admit but I would understand DreamIt being a little pissed.

Of course PG helped you wriggle out of your DreamIt acceptance. He sees you as an investment. Who wouldn't try to protect their investment?
I noticed the link was greyed out but didn't recall visiting it. I searched and realized it had been linked a few times on HN a long time ago and then recalled seeing it before, but I'm sure it looked totally different(?)

It'd be interesting to hear the story of what experiments you've done and how you've progressed to get to what you have now :-)
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Two reasons.

1. Price volatility

2. Bitcoin is designed to be deflationary. Most people that buy Bitcoin are letting it sit there and hoping that their investment will go up rather than using it for purchases.
Twenty year old machines? I would certainly believe it.

Also you would want to test every machine that gets the update in either case, so you need some kind of tech to touch every machine.
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I love how they're also contributing upstream to libuv. This is how you do an open source, community-focused project.
Even better, use VLC:
http://9to5mac.com/community/how-to-stream-apples-sept-9-iph...
I was going to ask that as well. Thanks!
Why a countdown? Probably because they're launching a watch. Wait and see. My guess is they hint at the why during the event, probably in the opening minute or so. They will also probably use time-based headlines in the slides.
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I thought this was one of those things that Bitcoin actually could do.
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Have you worked at Oracle, or just bashing them for fun because they're a large successful company?
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... must not down vote ... all opinions are equally valid ... even when they're wrong ...
Because Bitcoin holds no value to me.
None of the videos even loaded for me, so I guess that's graceful degradation right there.
> Given the very large number of experiments and studies being conducted everywhere, and the selection for positive results, statistical anomalies are being accidentally selected for and then not being extensively enough re-evaluated much later.

I once heard a natural language processing professor observe that a typical NLP conference might have twenty presenters, each giving results to a 95% confidence. "So even if everyone does all their work flawlessly, every conference will have on average one set of bad results."
I'd love for it to be able to be an input device for macbook & imac. Something like the Leap Motion but worn on the wrist and auto linking with the nearest device.
They are not a minority of the population, but definitely a minority in the tech workplace.
It's a price change! They don't reprogram cash registers each time a price changes. (On a side note, I do happen to be a software developer!)
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Some companies still provide (everything) for employees who are highly mobile. An obvious example would be container ship crew.

But I am also aware of defence companies that take on apprentices at 18, ship them across the country, and provide a room and free cafeteria meals. The company feel that, kids that age are still kids, and need looking after while they transition to independence in the same way as kids that go to university instead (dorms).
Seconded! I've been wanting to replace an older iMac with a mini for a some time now. The mini is in dire need of a refresh given that it's been since 2012 that the guts were updated and 2010 since the design was updated.
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Remember it is just a price change on the page. The machines are already online and they change prices with every fare change. I bet they can do it.
For the ones having problem with slow speeds to download the iso, try here https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_DSLR_Linux
As a vim user for many years, I'm also glad to see this project take off, and will give it a spin soon.

Just curious, how is this project being received by Bram Moolenaar, the creator (and BDFL I believe) of vim?
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Just found an answer https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_dev/x0BF9Y0Uby...
Oracle wants you to buy support contracts. They'd be perfectly happy to have those be for Oracle Linux rather than Solaris since they don't have to do all of the engineering that way.
To be fair, handling refunds has a real cost that may not be considered in the cost of the ticket. Also since most of these are government agencies, the lost fares are probably counted as part of the money they need to collect.

Thus fixing the issues could require higher fares to compensate.
The principle doesn't just apply to changes of government, it means that a commitment by parliament is only good so long as parliament consents to that commitment. It can be changed or overruled at any time.
Perhaps she was somebody who figured out that writing books and consulting about interviews and recruiting was more lucrative? I'm not about to doubt somebody's credentials because she saw and opportunity and took it.
Dammit you ruined the canal boat dream! Must admit, renting one for a month or two would probably be worth considering before buying one. I hear it's all about finding a mooring space.
iBeats smart headphones with voice-only UI. "Wish we could say more".
Considering I get this: "Sorry, your browser doesn’t support our live video stream."

I'm pretty sure compatibility isn't the reason of that choice.
The thing is that any cable company in the US and Canada that streams content to their customers via the Internet is using adaptive bitrate streaming either using HTTP Live Streaming, MPEG DASH, HTTP Dynamic Streaming, or Microsoft Smooth Streaming.
It is far from impossible.
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