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>The top panel of Figure 1 shows Low Countries’ summer temperatures from 1301, smoothed using a twenty-five year moving average. The Little Ice Age is immediately evident as a declining trend from the mid 15th to the early 19th centuries, with markedly cold episodes in the late 16th, late 17th, and early 19th centuries. But looking at the unsmoothed graph of summer temperatures in the panel below, the impression is one of randomness, without any major trends, cycles, or breaks: something that our statistical tests confirm.

actually the paper exactly confirms the
Little Ice Age - given that climate effects are cumulative (drought previous year, rain this year - nice, whereis rain previous 10 years makes your environment a swamp no matter what current year is), the smoothing with 25 years moving average is a very reasonable thing and produces result meaningful for climate and its effects upon, in particular, human civilization.
That's in just four months. Let's hope nobody is doing a round-the-world trip, or afk for a while, or ill. Those people will lose their data.
What country are you in? We (china) have security getting on the subway and trains, Thailand and phillipines have security going into malls.
It was not the opposite in the US 30 years ago, when I chose EE over CS, because EE was clearly more respected as being the more intellectually demanding. This had a lot to do with the capabilities of hardware at the time and the locus of value. IBM sold its hardware for millions. It gave away the software. The hardware was the differentiator; software was generic. EEs who could improve the expensive hardware were a lot more valuable than programmers who could improve the free software. In fact, since doubling a hardware resource such as RAM far more than doubles what you can then build with software, the hardware guys were more important than the software guys--even to the software.

As hardware limits were relaxed over the years, what you could accomplish in software, even with cheap hardware, grew so enormously that the primary value was increasingly in the software. This was such a rapid transition in the computer industry that it nearly destroyed IBM, it propelled Microsoft to power, and I ended up with a career in software.

Toyota and other Asian "hardware" vendors are in some sense where IBM was. They sell prize-winning hardware and whatever software that comes with it is essentially free. (Apple is a lot like this, which is why their hardware keeps getting better and their software--well, did I mention the hardware is thinner?)

The Toyota "platform" still can't do much in software, but it's growing exponentially. Eventually the software in a car might matter more than the (commodity?) hardware, but that's not the world in which Toyota managers were formed. They are obsessive about hardware, but software is an afterthought. It's for guys who couldn't cut it as "real engineers", as was the case in the American "computer industry" until the 1980s.

I also lived and worked in Japan. I was a strategy consultant, and I was told by some big Japanese and Korean companies (whom everyone has heard of) to emphasize my hardware background and not be seen spending too much time hanging out with the software guys if I valued my reputation.
I'm another person who doesn't want my tabs to sync. Partly because I have too many of them.
> I don't need bug reports unless you are also willing to fix the bug yourself in a pull request or by emailing a diff.

That sounds very condescending and off-putting.
A lot of work an analyst would do is very repetive and dull. Sometimes they may be just changing font size, color, etc. for hours.
Related study from 2013 [1]:

"Unfortunately, too many well-intentioned products fail because they feel like “haftas,” things people are obligated to do, as opposed to things they “wanna” do. Schell points to neuroscience research showing “there are different channels in the brain for seeking positive consequences and avoiding negative consequences.”

"When faced with “haftas,” our brains register them as punishments so we take shortcuts, cheat, skip-out, or in the case of many apps or websites, uninstall them or click away in order to escape the discomfort of feeling controlled."

[1] http://www.nirandfar.com/2013/07/why-behavior-change-apps-fa...
Wow, that's quite a surprise. I just checked the terms you quoted - https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html - and of course you're absolutely right.

I can see why Google specify this since a store filled with spammy apps wrapping popular sites would be bad for everyone. But this puts the kibosh on privacy-focused apps like Tinfoil for Facebook or the Twitter equivalent, and bloat-reducing apps like the OP's. I imagine that these have yet to be suspended simply because nobody at Google has noticed them.
Keep the app free, and if ad-free, keep it like that. Try to make it bigger. This is your investment in the future. If you have an app with +1 or +10 million installs, that's a beautiful item on your resumé. If you really want to use that app for money, create new functionality via in-app payments, or give all old users a life-time free version that can be transferred to other devices. Better use it to attract attention from investors and let them give money to you for a second app.
Yet not a single word about dong-protection.
Every time this article comes up on hacker news there are a few comments that show up talking about how no one was able to prove that the bugs definitely caused the crashes, and thus the criticisms of Toyota are overblown. I'm left wondering how on earth to reconcile those viewpoints with general software engineering (which is a huge part of what this community is about), where we regularly see articles about new concurrency frameworks, fault-tolerant programming, formal methods to prove correctness of code, etc. If it's important enough for Amazon to use TLA+ to prove correctness of DyanmoDB then shouldn't it be considered outrageous that Toyota doesn't do the same thing for something that is potentially an accelerating death machine?
Thanks for the report. We're using a service called Mailchimp (hence the monkey) for mailing list management and their subscription API seems to fail in about 2% of cases.

Would love to hear more details if you can reproduce the issue.
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Because, compared to those other vehicles, the difference between a plane and a guided missile is small.
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The existence of the little ice age has become a pawn in the arguments about global warming.

I don't know enough about the topic to say what the truth is, but I can tell you that arguments for and against it have little to do with the little ice age itself, and everything to do with belief for or against global warming.

Here is one conservative report on the subject: http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/119745/
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If you do this I suspect most users will move to "Tinfoil for Facebook". It does exactly what you describe and is popular and open-source.
Do the whatsapp thing. Free for 1 year. $1 afterwards. Its affordable even in all those countries.
Treatment is continued indefinitely, but the patent isn't. It won't cost $100K * remainingLifespan.
Wind farms are usually built in windy areas. Dirigibles are less controllable in windy conditions.
Congrats! This is really awesome. You've found some amount of product-market fit, and that is really really amazing. I think you should keep going, as this is when things start to get hard. You've cleared a few hurdles, and now you need to clear some very different obstacles.

From the countless hours that I've spent trying to figure out how to get users to give me money, I can confidently say that a surveying your users about monetization is the worst data you will ever see.

I can also say, with 200% confidence, that ads are not the right decision at this point. Here is why:
1) They aren't your users. These are FB users, and if you start showing ads to them, FB will view this as stealing ad space from FB. Not a good spot to be in.
2) The geo distribution seems pretty clear that the light weight solution is a compelling feature. Ad SDKs are notoriously heavy on the binary, sometimes 20MB. Ads also use a large amount of data and are often slower than everything else. Most web pages could load in a fraction of time if they dropped the ads. So, putting in ads seems to kill the biggest feature of your app.

I don't buy the argument that you can't monetize that geo distribution. It's true that those geos are overlooked by larger companies, but that also means less competition. Just know that you're fighting for low ARPU users. Whatsapp used this strategy wonderfully. When their competitors were fighting over iPhone penetration in the US, they were building for feature phones in similar geos. They also kept the price point low, keeping in mind they had lower ARPU users.

I suspect that your best solution would be to find a compelling in-app-purchase (IAP). To do this, you'll need to start knowing everything about your users. What features do they use? What features do they not use? When do they use the app? What do they want to accomplish with the app? Remember, Line started selling stickers when everyone could use emotiacons. Sometimes the winning business model is the thing that no one thought to try or everyone thought was too dumb. What is FB missing from the experience that you could add? I've always been impressed at how user's actions can be the opposite of what they say. Your users will reveal their intent by what they do, so watch them very carefully.

I suspect a very telling analysis would be to start comparing users who hit the day-7 mark and leave vs those who hit the day-7 mark and stay. My guess is that you'll start seeing some patterns about how retained users are interacting with the app, and then double down on that.

As a side note, your DAU to installs ratio seems to imply poor retention for a social app. This may be because the growth is targeting the wrong type of user. Regardless, this is a number that you'll probably want to get to know very well. If you do have lower-then-average retention, find a way to turn it into a strength with other numbers that are really impressive, such as engagement.

This is really, really awesome and you should be proud of what you have accomplished. The next stage of growth will be harder to scale, but the bragging rights are a few orders of magnitude higher up there. Keep it up!
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I don't understand neither of you two. Why bother with jj or jk when there is
<Ctrl-C>? There are few cases when it differs from how <Esc> works, but those
are rare and make changes big enough to justify jumping to <Esc> anyway.
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I also never really understood the 'throw it away' (or stealing) mentality. If you forget to pull your laptop or iPad out of your bag, they lecture you and run it through again. If you leave a small pocketknife on your keyring, or you forget to put your cologne in the plastic bag, the seize it and throw it away. It seems to me like the proper thing to do is delay you slightly (to encourage you to comply to the instructions next time - just like they do with laptops) but allow you to put your cologne in a bag, finish your orange juice, or pay a small fee to mail your restricted item back home.

It would be incredibly easy to have some flat-rate boxes and charge 2x what the post office charges. Given how many items they confiscate it's probably a decent revenue source!
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I strongly disagree. In my experience, people are more than willing to pay for a service that they view as valuable, regardless of where they live. But understanding the value proposition is key. You'll need to find ways to engage users at lower price points in those geos. Your users are spending money, you just need to convince them to spend it on you.
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Trolling/confused/off-topic. seems to have other credible non-bot-like comments
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Working for a US startup from Europe
I just agreed to start working for a US startup, but I live in Europe.

The startup is still small and I am the first hire out of the USA.

We trust each other and want to do this in a clear way, so neither of us has problems with the country we live in ( I am in Netherlands ).

So, I would like to hear some suggestions on what the employement status should be and if there are any contract templates, I would love to see them.

Am I an employee or a contractor? How is that defined in the US law?

(We agreed that I will work full-time for the company, and we don't have a set length for the contract)

I am asking here, because I guess more people have similar work-relationships and would like to know
>> if your strategy involves holding on to your stocks, it is probably speculation (=gambling) rather than investing wisely.

Holding onto your stocks is the opposite of speculation, isn't it? Most sensible investment advice, e.g. Bogle, recommends index funds that are held basically forever.
How is it handled differently in tech vs say big FTSE 100 companies.
Truth. It’s like how ridiculous shutting down Napster was.

However, it does set a precedent for future things of this nature. For example, shutting down Megaupload caused a lot of other file-sharing websites to shutdown or clean up their act for fear of a larger crackdown. If anyone thinks they can just run a website like Silk Road and get away with it longterm for the sake of just being a middleman (like the file-sharing networks were), it’s now been demonstrated what kind of attention that will raise.
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Which android smartphones in your experience have the longest battery life? I am looking at Lenovo S860, Id love your thoughts
Wouldnt the users get a better experience using the browser rather than using webview wrapped site?
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How about a Soylent, but where you build your own from modules. The modules could have different nutrition profiles and you could mix them how you like. Maybe they'd taste different too.
How exactly do you start contracting?

For instance I've made a couple of decently popular jailbreak iOS apps, which is nice passive income, and a good niche, but I don't really know where to find clients... through friends, on a website, or what?
The GP said $10k after tax, not before.
Not all countries have the same risk profile
Another open source one: https://github.com/indywidualny/FacebookLite
May I ask why? It doesn't look quite terrible to me (as much as I can judge out of context).
> this is far more important than a fucking social sharing app

Yes. I don't see how this is 'overpriced' in comparison to tech exits
Hi OP I'm from morocco and I can tell you that NOBODY in Morocco will pay your app. Why ? I'll tell you why.

Here in the 3rd world countries we don't have credit card unless we get a job, and when I say "get a job" I mean 28 and up . Morocco is very different from Europe and US because we don't have unemployement and just to make a living is really hard.

Also Piracy here is something commun because our ISP ( and we have only one lol who fuck the market with their High price and low value) Doesn't block torrent, as long as you stay out of Illegal stuffs...

Also even if I have a credit card at 21 ( I worked in a call center in the last summer so I can afford it) I will never lose money on apps. First: I'm poor Second : We only have 10 000 Dirhams ( 900 Euro ) to spend in a whole YEAR. Wich means we're very careful on what we spend money on.

So the best thing I can tell you is to add a banner and one or two Interstial ads and NOBODY will bat an eye .

Hope I gave you an insight OP :)
Good luck flying the holiday season this year if they ramp things up in response to this.
i think law wise and culturally wise you will be seen as a contractor
it is but a bird int he hand is worth 2 in the bush. Got to wonder how many people saying use it for resume have had a similar experience, used it for resume and then gone on to their dream life vs people who tried to monatise, maybe failed but learnt something along the way. Personally no experience of either but when you have soemthing its always worth attempting to leverage it, you still have the figures later even if you fubar
It's quite funny. I didn't know what I was reading when I read it, so I didn't catch on until he suggested he should have a statue in his honor lol.
How is critical 'life or death' software tested?
Tab sync is not about having the stuff you see on one browser show up on the other, but about being able to bring up the tabs from another device.

Delicious to my knowledge does not fix that because (unless something has changed) it depends on you actively bookmarking something.

Typical use case: I have to run out of the office, and suddenly remember I need the address to that place I was looking at. Tap the tab symbol, and find the tab from my office desktop, and I have it without having to search.

I agree with you it'd be nice to add an account that is separate from all my other stuff, but tab syncing is one of those features that you'll likely not use much, but when you happen to want it, it can be immensely useful.
I don't want my tabs to directly sync, but I do want the option to open the tabs on my phone that I have open on my desktop. Also, it is really convenient to have auto completion on urls that I frequently open on either device.
I am/was in the same situation as far as popularity goes with my desktop application (for OSX), and I personally went the route of not monetizing at all. To me, the knowledge gained through every feature I added and every bug I fixed is/was more valuable than the money I could have made.

Then again, I have a great paying job that I love, and I primarily built it because I couldn't find a similar application with the features I was looking for, so other people finding it useful is just a bonus. Plus, it's a great way to show that I have passion for development outside of work, and that I'm continually trying to improve myself as a programmer/engineer. I even provided detailed Arch/Design/Req docs in the github repos, just in case anyone was interested in looking.

Of the options listed in this thread, I like the idea of adding an "in-app" purchase for the feature you mention gets requested a lot (photo uploads I believe). The knowledge that will give you is immensely valuable (being able to turn features on/off in the same application), if you don't already have that built in.

Anyway, that's just my opinion, but you should do whatever you think will make you happy.
No, legacy const is not spec'd by ES5. It behaves differently in FireFox and V8 because it was added at different times with different semantics in the live range hole case. In strict mode, it will throw on V8 as well.
Of course its fair to compare the two, by comparing attempts to implement them. In fact, we'll never be able to compare them empirically any other way.

If its harder to get one right, then its riskier to try it at all. There is much to learn from the history of attempts to convert.
Thanks for your comments, lots to think about
Depends what you want. There are repeatable ways to get richer.

Probably not repeatable ways to get extremely rich.
You are about to become a contractor with the same contract as an employee. You'll make less than everyone else on your team and your contract will put on your shoulders the same responsibility as it would on an employee.
It's faster, in my opinion. Using ctrl is one of the reasons people end up with the pinky things in emacs. jk is in my home row. I would rather avoid having to reach the ctrl key. I think ctrl-[ does the exact same thing as ctrl-c. It's just a matter of preference.
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Uh, you're both really missing the important part:

> If it turns out that you're objectively wrong, the clash will focus your attention and you'll learn.

Yeah, if you have a bunch of ill-informed wrong opinions and, out of some stubborn ignorance, you refuse to update them when the conflicting evidence comes crashing in all around you, then you will be a stupid person. However, if you have a bunch of wrong opinions which you then turn into right opinions after reality keeps kicking you in the ass, then you are on the road to being a smart person.

But if you're apathetic, you won't even notice reality kicking you in the ass. Reality won't even bother with you. You're right that having wrong opinions as a steady state is worse than having no opinion, but the whole point of GP was not to be in a steady state in the first place.
yeah, for the most of the world (read - outside US, roughly 95% of mankind), 9/11 isn't anything significant - vast amounts of people die/are murdered all around the world, all the time, and very few really care.

sad part is, and this is subjective but for me very visible pattern, the immediate seizure of this opportunity to radicalize/permanently install of fear into US population, pushing for surveillance policies, unjustified wars, mass killings of civilians for money&power equation (Iraq/Afghanistan, you can call it how you like it, I call it like this since it's pretty damn obvious). And american society swallowed this as a whole, without questions, even proudly.

14 years rewind, now look at current situation...
> Why don’t links just open in apps?

I am not familiar with iOS but in Android they do, since day one, how is iOS different in that regard?
Was in the same place as your top-dev. Was exhausted after a day of coding, without getting real appreciation, neither monetary, nor in terms on mindshare. I was always looked upon as an "IT guy" or "technical staff" that gets in the way of implementing great business and marketing ideas created in the heads of great minds, that were so great that it wasn't even possible to write them down accurately.

Then I switched to management path, I found out that although I do only a very limited amount of coding at work right now, I'm enjoying it much more. As an added benefit, I am not mentally tired anymore when I come back home, since at work I only do blah-blah social, blah-blah report, blah-blah management. This leaves me with enough time and energy in the evening to work on really interesting projects for an excellent hourly rate, or on my own hobby stuff. The drawback? I don't watch TV anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9386790
Hey nice! I've actually done something similar myself as a weekend project - https://page-watch.com

Also checkout the following projects, https://visualping.io/ and https://dpxdt-test.appspot.com/

If you are using something like phantomjs to generate website screenshots I wonder how you are dealing with dynamic content. A lot of pages have continuous animations that can screw with simple image diff comparisons. For this reason you may want the option to limit your compare to a subset of the page.
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