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That's like a friend of mine with a math degree. He didn't want to work in finance, but despite his best efforts he could not find anyone offering him a job where he would get to use his degree. So he ended up in finance after all and gets paid lots of money and works on interesting math problems.
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Thanks, Sam. This is is a nice list. I would only add, don't listen to advice. For example, "make something people want" is fine, since most startups fail because no one wanted what they made. But it's also all too similar to a music industry exec asking for artists to "make what people want to hear." That's a great strategy to get more Top 40 hits but there's a risk of turning a whole generation of musicians into Michael Bubles producing well-received, cheaply-conceived pop music. I think I would say, "Be conceited enough to have a vision and, if money interests you, be humble enough to potentially throw some of it out to meet the market half-way."
That's really sad. :*(
personally I prefer Linux on a Lenovo hands down.. (calm down fan boys.. it's a personal preference). But the Mac has some nice things.. I do like the UI of the Mac better than Unity.. though I hate the menu bar only showing on one screen.. always had to tinker with the Mac to get that on multiple screens.. the biggest thing I need from the Mac isn't really Apple's.. Its M$ Office.. Every day at work I get a spreadsheet or a word doc that just doesn't quite work in Libreoffice..
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Hi - Jeff from Twilio. We're here to build the a great company for developers. The real story is APIs, not IPOs. Anything else is pure speculation :)
what's the name of the Merchant company?
I'm curious what is the basis for being anti-vax? Is there science behind that notion? To me it appears irrational, but I'm up for an alternative take out of curiosity.

Sometimes I wonder why people with this conviction dont just move to locations of low vaccination. I hear places in SE Asia, some parts of Africa have low vaccination rates, more out of poverty than conviction, but low rates non the less
I actually have to agree. Everybody is easily able to imagine what the world should be like - no war, no crime, no starving, no destroying the planet. And what are we actually doing? We are so incredible far off. And there are zero real obstacles, only human stupidity and evilness. Everybody on its own is only a bit stupid, evil, egoistic or what not, but all off us combined are anything but good. We are making little baby steps, ridiculous tiny baby steps.
I'm a native French speaker and fluent in English (and of course, as luck would have it, I'm going to stick grammar mistakes in this post)

Some have pointed out that French is almost always longer. It's a bit more complicated than that. French uses a wider vocabulary than English, and uses many different words to convey different connotations. Words, as a result, tend to be longer, because they carry more information.

English tends to be much more modular and flexible. Nouns can be made into adjectives, adverbs and verbs rather easily, and "prepositions" drastically alter the meaning of verbs.

The end result is that English can be much shorter than French when trying to be concise. A short UI message will always be much shorter in English than in French. However, when conveying nuanced ideas, I believe they will be much closer in length, with perhaps a small advantage for French.
I was just thinking about this topic the other day -- how hard was it to develop the genes that separate human intelligence from other primates? In other words, if all humans disappeared from earth, then given another couple dozen million years or so, what is the likelihood of another intelligent species coming about?

Of course, human intelligence is hard to pin down -- for my personal definition, it is the ability to specifically communicate new ideas to other members (i.e., not other members just picking up a skill from observation only, but for one to be a teacher), and to be able to (as a group) remember and pass down history. Oh, and the ability to develop a space program.
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Wallet, pens, a notebook. Got it. I don't really get the point, is it the hipster obsession with expensive "artisan" brands?
Haha, that is cool.
Anyway Segment io is awesome!
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netbsd has a pretty comprehensive testing framework called atf.

http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/testing_netbsd_easy_does_it

http://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/atf/

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?tests++NetBSD-current

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/tests/?only_with_tag...
I experience this phenomenon on a less immediate time scale: in the days following a new episode of Breaking Bad, etc, there is discussion and camaraderie with other fans. With the "binge-only" model of House of Cards, that same social experience is not possible.
I wasn't taking an action. I didn't know if it was a completely custom layout as seeing it was Wordpress layout.
I like the all Enlightenment stack - the ideas are all good. But, everytime I install it, I run into some issue or other.
Developer as customer model seems to be Stripe's MO too.

This seems to be driven by a few phenomena:

- For large companies, developer hours are becoming a large source of cost, so companies can charge a premium by lowering developer time demands.

- For independent developers, these services enable rapid prototyping and increases probability of finding product market fit.
What do you think is the downside? Affecting evolution is kind of the point (we don't want them to go extinct).
Your second point is off the mark - I teach a load of kids (12-16 years old or so) who know all about pressing F12 and looking at source code, but who know next to nothing more about HTML, CSS, Python etc.

Whether or not they'd be interested in reading a book when you can just watch it on Youtube is another matter entirely!
I'm wondering the same thing. As far as I understand, the proxy is local to the machine, so HTTPS traffic over Wi-Fi should be past the proxy and therefore encrypted using the real certificate.
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And that's a perfectly sensible reason. :)
In short, the finance sector lures away high-skilled workers from other industries

LOL. When other industries aren't run by chinless public schoolboys where engineers are second class citizens, call me.
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Maybe you have better internet than me, but my streaming quality isn't always HD, and if I fastforward/rewind I generally have to wait a while to rebuffer. Do an advance download of everything in my watchlist, and the next episodes of the series I'm watching, and everything will by high quality, no wait, all the time.

Besides that, just because something's available on streaming doesn't mean it'll stay there forever.
You should look into some of the stuff MS did in the glory years, such as deliberately breaking rival software from Lotus, Borland, and Apple.
Even too much. Taxis at Sydney airport sometimes charge you 10% more for using a credit card. That's legalized theft, in my view.
I'll try to write up a simulation this weekend. I'm not entirely sure where we are disagreeing, though. I'm not saying that you have 1/2 chance of winning the game. Only if you have the chance to swap, you win half of the time if you do. That seems to be what you said in a sibling thread.
... that the presenter should buy a laser pointer!
>> French uses a wider vocabulary than English

This seems an extraordinary claim, given that English is generally considered to have the largest number of words of any modern language (mostly because we just steal them).
From what my professor told me, they were almost exclusively in their mid-20s, having just finished undergrad degrees in math.

You're right — knowing if 1 is prime is kind of a trivial point, but this was a course for would-be math teachers specifically about how to teach _math_ to high schoolers. In fact, the specific context of the story was an in-class presentation about teaching kids about primes.

I definitely should have mentioned that in the OP.
Relevant subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/edc
> I don't see any information on Twilio's net expenditures. Am I missing something?

Whats more important than net expenditures is CAC/LTV/Churn, etc. I would expand more but it's more eloquently put here: http://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-valuation-prim...

People often forget that many of the companies featured here on HN are venture businesses which means their returns are high risk-high return financial structures, and their profits are being predicated on EXTREMELY profitable business models coughFB/Googlecough.

> Also, how many customers do they have who pay them more than 100-250K/year? Where are these "big deals" coming from?

Take a company like Mavenlink or Basecamp who might be bringing in $50-$150mil in revenue every year. They would easily be coughing out $250k+ on Twilio. No idea if those companies use Twilio specifically, but it's foreseeable many CRM/PM tools would.
I thought of something similar when I clicked the Mont Blanc pencil and found out it was 500 + USD.
See my comment to the other reply. Ordinarily I'd agree, but these were all graduated undergrad math majors in a course about how to teach math (specifically prime numbers) to high schoolers.
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Even if it's two decades instead of one it is going to be a huge huge change worthy of the hype. There will be huge consequences. For example the job that employs the most Americans is truck driving.
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cool have you talked to the The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives?
Would be great if someone could say how they got their personal connections to work for their startup in a meaningful way.
At the risk of sounding completely ignorant, what's wrong with what she did? In most classes I've been a part of, your total score was based on a weighted average of scores on particular tasks. The normalization here is a typical test curve -- a normalization that attempts to compensate for measurement error in one particular test, independent of the total class score. That's why she referred to "extra credit".
I get what you mean.

I think the Natural idea that sucks (has no market or solves no need) will still suck regardless of how much passion and energy that you put into them, maybe just suck a little less. To me an idea still has to either have an existing market, or a definable market with a way to monetize the product/service. Otherwise what is the point, other than if you want a lifestyle business?

From my experience, it seems like when advertising products/services is involved (like Blippar), companies and investors do seem more willing to toss some money at the less defined markets and wackier ideas and see if they stick or create change. So at least from the very tiny bit I read about Blippar, my initial impression is that is where they fit in today. Effectively, a concept that got tossed a little money to see if they can make something stick with consumers and test out some technology that might benefit Qualcom (assuming Crunchbase is right about who their seed investment was from). And who knows how they are paying bills otherwise, maybe it is with significant market consulting to learn about problems which also gives them more runway prolonging an idea that is doomed to die (not saying they will, just a point).

To your other point, I think timing is critical too, there have been some really good ideas that were just to early for the market to accept, yet 10 years later a startup tries it and is successful. Happens to really well funded projects from large investors and firms, e.g. Microsoft, Apple etc.
I do not see the "View Full EDC" link below many of the pictures:

http://i.imgur.com/xnhvYVt.jpg

And I see very few interview questions asking why they use the specific products they use and what they use them for. Asking what someone uses their EDC for does not lead the interviewee towards that kind of answer. I see the list of items, but the link doesn't even direct to a product page, just what appears to be an Amazon referral page.
This is our first 3dPrinter review and i would like to hear your opinion on where we can do better/what you want to read in future reviews.

Video of the Printer is following soon.

Also, do you like/have used the Zortrax already? What's your impression?
>and their original series (in my opinion) eclipse what HBO currently offers.

I realize it's your opinion, but...really?

HBO has a massive catalog of brilliant shows[1]. Netflix isn't even on the same planet when it comes to original content (but I hope they get there, better for all of us).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_H...
"Mostly" - but iOS 8 makes it mandatory, not?

"That being said, it is unfortunate that we still need to include a JavaScript library to workaround a limitation of the mobile web."

Thanks for the great link though!
If you do it often enough, you should also learn where the point of burial is so you can avoid it.
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For a discussion of the ease of rhyming in French versus English, see, e.g., this book [0]. Rhymes are widely considered to be easier to form in French; partly as a result, however, classical French poetry developed several additional stylistic constraints related to rhyming, such as the distinction between "feminine" and "masculine" rhymes of words with and without a final devoiced "e".

I wonder what you would accept as "empirical evidence" of the relative ease of rhyming in different languages. The demand strikes me as typifying one of the obnoxious impulses of the Hacker News community (another of them on display elsewhere in this thread) to dress up a vapid criticism as scientific skepticism.

You could, I suppose, try to do a combinatorial analysis of the ease of rhyming by writing a program to find rhyming pairs in a phonetic dictionary; just make sure your blog post about the results properly acknowledges the shortcomings of your analysis in its title.

0. https://books.google.com/books?id=ByVoAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA60&ots=...
While that sounds really interesting, CSS animations are somewhat limited and its hard to do gesture or physics-based animations with them. We really need good, fast JS-based animations. Also, whatever handles touch input needs to apply the animation in the same thread.

The React Native devs have a lot of reasons for the above, if you want more reasoning might be good to check it out when its released soon.

Still, that sounds really cool!
Think about the most beautiful, breathtaking beach or vista you've been to. I'm talking blow-your-mind, stop you in your tracks to contemplate the natural world caliber of beautiful. Maybe you've never had that experience, but if you have, how long did it take you to get there? how many people were around?

My point is, the beauty of these places is in many cases derived specifically from their remoteness. Their inaccessibility is precisely the nucleus of what makes them what they are.

Sure it's absolutely unfair that disabled persons won't have that experience without far more effort, if at all.

But is the solution really to make it such that no one can?
Ask HN: Which general science magazine is the best?
Which english-language, general science, printed lay magazine is the best? I can hear it now: "Well, what do you mean by "best"? Yes, very clever and precise. It's up to you! Thanks, All
The intended audience depends who's doing it and how:

1) someone like sama, president of YC and successful in his own right, shares his experience and everyone starting up is better off for his advice, including whatever subset end up in YC. This is someone people other than himself would call a "thought leader" and we benefit from their perspective.

2) someone like DigitalOcean, years spent creating a vast archive of content for their customers that is going to lure millions of new people searching google etc to their platform. This is like the longterm, aggregate effect of what YC is doing.

3) established companies trying to reach HN cause tons of developers are here and they're hiring. Best case scenario is they teach us something that touches on our own work.

4) someone who turns to HN and hopes to sell us something or hire us or use us for SEO by way of an unrelated blog post they design for us.

There was a recent example - http://blog.desk.pm/viral/ - that turned 50,000 visitors into $1,000. The developer estimates 50,000 ideal customers would generate $25,000 in sales.

If you had to pay for HN traffic it would not be viable for most startups. If you rank #1 on Google for "email etiquette" and you're not selling an email app or an etiquette course ...
Well if the whole thing is a union, what does it matter? Americans don't stress about the smartest Floridians heading to New York for work.

And there's the problem... you're either a union or you're not. Can't pick and choose which elements of union and sovereignty you want.
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I have a deadly, incurable medical condition for which an annual flu vax is routinely prescribed. I was diagnosed late in life, just before I turned 36. Doctors told me bluntly "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game." But it is genetic, so I was born with it, so I felt strongly that now that we knew why I was always sickly, we should be able to do a better job of dealing with my health than the years before that when I knew something wasn't right but did not know what and doctors acted like I was a hypochondriac.

In part due to happenstance, in part because doctors were not really doing much for me, I sort of fell into a lot of alternative med stuff. I began getting gradually healthier, even though I had spent a year at death's door. All of the people who were actually helping me get stronger while doctors wrote me off for dead were very strongly anti-vax.

The first two or three years following my diagnosis, when I was prescribed the flu shot, my doctor said 'Sign here and roll up your sleeve." and gave it to me right then and there. Then one year my check-up was a few weeks before the vaccine was available, so he wrote me a prescription. By then, I was already seeing a lot of gains from the "crazy" alternative med stuff I was doing. It was easy enough to just not get that prescription filled. I haven't had another vaccine since then.

Fourteen years ago, I nearly died and spent 3.5 years in bed. Now, I walk four or more hours a day and I am gradually getting my life back.

I am not on some campaign to convince people that vaccines are bad. I don't have strong feelings one way or the other. For complex reasons, I happen to be in a position where I can reasonably comfortably fence-sit on this issue and not develop a strong opinion. But, as things stand now, I don't plan to get any more flu shots. I think I am better off using other tactics to protect my health.
You sound like you have a deep psychic wound from this.

"Too many people everywhere, all the time don't care about anything but the answer."
FTFY

Cannot believe this site has devolved to someone bitching about an incorrectly loaded dishwasher.
Right. But I guess I can't include jQuery Mobile alongside jQuery on a fully responsive app (no specific mobile version at this point of time), can I?
Except that Down syndrome isn't the result of inbreeding. Down syndrome is a very specific genetic disorder.

That's a dumbed-down explanation from a third-rate viral site, which exists solely to generate clicks from Facebook, and not an actual medical or scientific description of the tiger's condition.
Awesome, with their announcement that "all major API revisions are finished" this seems like the turning point where I will finally invest my time into thoroughly learning the language! I'm really excited!
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I think that would be even harder to achieve than a simple unification of QM and Relativity. Who knows what kind of phenomena we don't know about? There could be millions of theories that are consistent with current physics and still possible, given particular observations. In a few words, nobody can anticipate the kind of phenomena that could be observed by future physicists.
I think French spelling plays a part here, though. If I were to write your example phrase in French written as pronounced using Finnish language spelling rules, it would look like this:

"Se preskö tuzuur ply lon on franse kon angle."

This "phonetic compression" made the printed sentence about 25% shorter.
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People have suggested that Grumpy Cat might have a feline version of Down Syndrome as well.

Edit: It looks like the very definition of Down Syndrome (three copies of the 21st chromosome instead of two) doesn't really allow for an "animal version", since the 21st chromosome is specific to humans.
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> ... if they allowed me to mark things I'm not interested in and never show me those things again

You can literally do exactly that. If you hover over a title there should be a button that says "Not Interested". It should appear just below the stars as if you were going to provide a rating.
> As we’ve gained experience, we’ve found that the 20th documentary about bicycling will mostly just take away viewing from the other 19 such docs, and instead of trying to have everything, we should strive to have the best in each category. As such, we are actively curating our service rather than carrying as many titles as we can.

This sounds like a bad move to me. Maybe carrying a huge breadth of content is a good way to attract new users, but unless they have depth of content, they aren't going to hold onto those users. Most people aren't that eclectic in their tastes, so if you only have one film in each category (even if it's the "best" one) people are going to drop them after they've watched everything they like.

Put another way, bicycling-documentary fanatics aren't going to keep paying $8/month indefinitely for access to one great biking doc.