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qt 5 and android
| i love qt on desktops. it's amazing for cross-platform development and it's a shame that much shittier alternatives like gtk+ are far more common.but it's just not going to work on cross-platform mobile. the user interfaces in, say, linux and windows (7) use very similar if not identical ui components and patterns. and... | qt (especially qt 5) is one of the most portable toolkits out there, its almost like webkit in that respect. lot of excellent work has been done in qt 5 (and qt 4.8) to make it easy to port to any platform with minimal dependencies. it already works on windows (albeit win32, not winrt), linux (x11, wayland as well as a... |
qt 5 and android
| qt (especially qt 5) is one of the most portable toolkits out there, its almost like webkit in that respect. lot of excellent work has been done in qt 5 (and qt 4.8) to make it easy to port to any platform with minimal dependencies. it already works on windows (albeit win32, not winrt), linux (x11, wayland as well as a... | note this is (currently) using a custom android build modified for wayland support, so it doesn't sound like qt 5 on normal android phones is particularly close. |
qt 5 and android
| note this is (currently) using a custom android build modified for wayland support, so it doesn't sound like qt 5 on normal android phones is particularly close. | i hate jni so much that i would actually go an extra mile to port everything to qt. please make it happen! |
qt 5 and android
| i hate jni so much that i would actually go an extra mile to port everything to qt. please make it happen! | it extremely saddens me that qt is still not heavily working on mobile. i would gladly pay for official support on android and ios. they could have become the cross-platform mobile toolkit. i wonder if nokia is the reason why that's not happening. |
regrets of the dying
| i have already posted this once in a similar thread, but thought i would post it again as it quite relevant to the article and others who have not seen it before may appreciate it:"instantes" by jorge luis borges:if i were able to live my life anew, in the next i would try to commit more errors. i would not try to be s... | sometimes i think that i might be one of the few people who will be on my deathbed, regretting not working harder.when i look back on my life, it's mostly been unfinished projects, or good ideas that didn't get far.i've always been told how much potential i have, and i even feel this in myself. but so far, there's not ... |
regrets of the dying
| sometimes i think that i might be one of the few people who will be on my deathbed, regretting not working harder.when i look back on my life, it's mostly been unfinished projects, or good ideas that didn't get far.i've always been told how much potential i have, and i even feel this in myself. but so far, there's not ... | i guess it remains to be seen conclusively when i fall terminally ill or get close to death of old age, but in my mind, it is not possible to have a life without some kind of theoretical regrets. every choice you make to spend every moment a certain way is necessarily mutually exclusive with spending it any other way,... |
regrets of the dying
| i guess it remains to be seen conclusively when i fall terminally ill or get close to death of old age, but in my mind, it is not possible to have a life without some kind of theoretical regrets. every choice you make to spend every moment a certain way is necessarily mutually exclusive with spending it any other way,... | i read the book "meditations" from marcus aurelius recently. it's very interesting to note that the human condition hasn't changed that much.
here are a couple of quotes related to the article.1. "how much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." -- marcus aurelius2. work will a... |
regrets of the dying
| i read the book "meditations" from marcus aurelius recently. it's very interesting to note that the human condition hasn't changed that much.
here are a couple of quotes related to the article.1. "how much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." -- marcus aurelius2. work will a... | i wonder if there is a way to bring realizations born of other people's experiences home in any meaningful way. i sometimes think about what advice i'd give my 17-year-old self if i had to attend college again, but i admit that the younger me likely wouldn't have listened. it's hard to know what to value in the momen... |
game designer brenda romero quits igda following party with hired female dancers
| you're invited to a conference that's relevant to your position and your industry.when you arrive, a number of hired twentysomething men are milling about wearing tight tee-shirts, padded crotches, and skintight jeans. they're dancing, drinking, flirting with you and your coworkers, and subtly drawing attention towards... | i'm tired of this shit. i'm tired of these people getting more attention than they deserve over inane pc-bullshit.so she quit because at an after-party, where the vast majority of attendees were men, there were exotic dancers? apparently i should be in a hissy-fit where i work because every other friday my company has ... |
game designer brenda romero quits igda following party with hired female dancers
| i'm tired of this shit. i'm tired of these people getting more attention than they deserve over inane pc-bullshit.so she quit because at an after-party, where the vast majority of attendees were men, there were exotic dancers? apparently i should be in a hissy-fit where i work because every other friday my company has ... | gender politics is still politics.2 off-topic: most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. if they'd cover it on tv news, it's probably off-topic.is this an evidence of some interesting new pheno... |
game designer brenda romero quits igda following party with hired female dancers
| gender politics is still politics.2 off-topic: most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. if they'd cover it on tv news, it's probably off-topic.is this an evidence of some interesting new pheno... | in case somebody wonders what constitutes "women dancers in revealing clothing".<link> |
game designer brenda romero quits igda following party with hired female dancers
| in case somebody wonders what constitutes "women dancers in revealing clothing".<link> | igda's official response, which i don't see on their own website: <link> |
2013: a year of open source at facebook
| i help with open source @ facebook and wrote this article. ama. | i did not know about react. it looks to be like the solution i need for one of my personal projects. in your experience, how does a react code base evolve as it grows? i've bumped into other libraries and frameworks that look simple at first, but then evolve into a big mess.i ventured into the careers area of the site.... |
2013: a year of open source at facebook
| i did not know about react. it looks to be like the solution i need for one of my personal projects. in your experience, how does a react code base evolve as it grows? i've bumped into other libraries and frameworks that look simple at first, but then evolve into a big mess.i ventured into the careers area of the site.... | say what you will about facebook and some of their privacy concerns, but they definitely are full of true engineers. |
2013: a year of open source at facebook
| say what you will about facebook and some of their privacy concerns, but they definitely are full of true engineers. | missing from the list is phabricator (<link> we've started using it recently and found it to be fantastic. |
2013: a year of open source at facebook
| missing from the list is phabricator (<link> we've started using it recently and found it to be fantastic. | eh, what the heck, it's the holiday season. good job, facebook. |
what's really driving the toyota controversy?
| asides from the lobby groups, there's also that the issue is wear flaw (ie, gradual issue) but being presented as a sudden behaviour, and the mean age of those who have apparently been affected is 60+.toyota sell a lot of cars all over the world. nowhere in the west has covered this to the state i saw while in the us, ... | "this is not what madison and jefferson had in mind. their vision was of a strictly limited government, which would perform one basic function, guard individual rights. its role was to protect the individual’s rights to life, liberty, and property from infringement by thugs and frauds, while otherwise leaving people fr... |
what's really driving the toyota controversy?
| "this is not what madison and jefferson had in mind. their vision was of a strictly limited government, which would perform one basic function, guard individual rights. its role was to protect the individual’s rights to life, liberty, and property from infringement by thugs and frauds, while otherwise leaving people fr... | tl;dr: a perspective on corporations, governance, politics and stakeholders from an analyst at the ayn rand center. |
what's really driving the toyota controversy?
| tl;dr: a perspective on corporations, governance, politics and stakeholders from an analyst at the ayn rand center. | sure, first someone took out a hit on tiger woods... apparently next in line was toyota. |
what's really driving the toyota controversy?
| sure, first someone took out a hit on tiger woods... apparently next in line was toyota. | much better skeptical article with numbers to back it up minus libertarian bs <link> |
inequality: a piketty problem?
| there's obviously a strong intention to find some way of rationalizing your existing political opinion when a book like this is published, either against the status quo (in the sense of agreeing with the book) or in favour of the status quo (finding some way of 'debunking' it). this is made worse because there is a who... | ft was quick to compare piketty to reinhart-rogoff. felt like a hit piece. |
inequality: a piketty problem?
| ft was quick to compare piketty to reinhart-rogoff. felt like a hit piece. | for me, the money quote from this article was:scott winship, a scholar at the manhattan institute who disputes mr piketty's overarching narrative about inequality wrote on twitter last night:"i’ve spent time with piketty u.s. wealth ineq[uality] spreadsheet and lots of time with his income data. he’s not up to fun... |
inequality: a piketty problem?
| for me, the money quote from this article was:scott winship, a scholar at the manhattan institute who disputes mr piketty's overarching narrative about inequality wrote on twitter last night:"i’ve spent time with piketty u.s. wealth ineq[uality] spreadsheet and lots of time with his income data. he’s not up to fun... | i'm glad to see the debate and discussion surrounding piketty's work. i'm very slowly reading through the book itself and it's almost like relearning my economics degree 10 years later. |
inequality: a piketty problem?
| i'm glad to see the debate and discussion surrounding piketty's work. i'm very slowly reading through the book itself and it's almost like relearning my economics degree 10 years later. | you don't often see scientific work having implications in world economic policies that much, but when it does, it's really entertaining to watch.it's still weird that it takes the work of an economist to prove something that everybody already knows. that's a big elephant in the room.it puts a little faith in my politi... |
things not to say to a graduate student
| as a former graduate student who m.a.'ed out of a ph.d. program, i don't have a great deal of sympathy for people at the c. phil stage of their graduate career. by the time a grad student qualifies, they should be well-aware of the current exploitive state of academia. grad students at this stage of their career are tr... | there are much tougher things than to be a grad student. everyone who is working hard at whatever they are doing deserves the proper respect, and so does someone working on a thesis. but, i dislike the tone of this article. it makes it sound like grad students are somehow special and deserve special treatment. this is ... |
things not to say to a graduate student
| there are much tougher things than to be a grad student. everyone who is working hard at whatever they are doing deserves the proper respect, and so does someone working on a thesis. but, i dislike the tone of this article. it makes it sound like grad students are somehow special and deserve special treatment. this is ... | as some of the other commenters have said, some of the language here is a little strong, but it does do a good job covering the nature of grad school - people do seem to think that it's like undergrad (likely because many of them know what that's like). it's not, it's really more like an entry-level professional positi... |
things not to say to a graduate student
| as some of the other commenters have said, some of the language here is a little strong, but it does do a good job covering the nature of grad school - people do seem to think that it's like undergrad (likely because many of them know what that's like). it's not, it's really more like an entry-level professional positi... | all work and no play makes jack a dull boy.it makes me seriously sad when people say that their occupation takes all their time, they have no time off and no time for what we call "life".this is a sad state of affairs. we all should be working 40 hours weeks and take the honest time off for the remaining 128 hours in t... |
things not to say to a graduate student
| all work and no play makes jack a dull boy.it makes me seriously sad when people say that their occupation takes all their time, they have no time off and no time for what we call "life".this is a sad state of affairs. we all should be working 40 hours weeks and take the honest time off for the remaining 128 hours in t... | as a grad student in chemical engineering, i'm not sure i entirely get the joke. i can answer both "how is your research going?" and "how long until you finish your thesis?" at least at my school, there's a general plan that most students are expected to follow to get their degree.progress must be reported to receive... |
a study of assassination – cia (1953)
| "automobile accidents are a less satisfactory means of assassination. if the subject is deliberately run down, very exact timing is necessary and investigation is likely to be thorough. if the subject's car is tampered with, reliability is very low. the subject may be stunned or drugged and then placed in the car,... | that was probably true back in '53.since; the science of accident reconstruction and cause determination have improved vastly.back then the mafia (or whomever) might have thought, eh, cyanide, who's going to trace that? nowadays tests would prove something untoward likely happened. it's how nowadays nurses are caught... |
a study of assassination – cia (1953)
| that was probably true back in '53.since; the science of accident reconstruction and cause determination have improved vastly.back then the mafia (or whomever) might have thought, eh, cyanide, who's going to trace that? nowadays tests would prove something untoward likely happened. it's how nowadays nurses are caught... | the changes in technology since then have been dramatic. i can't imagine anyone suggesting a falling-block rifle as a suitable assassin's tool today, and poisoning an alcoholic with morphine seems like it would alert any coroner immediately. |
a study of assassination – cia (1953)
| the changes in technology since then have been dramatic. i can't imagine anyone suggesting a falling-block rifle as a suitable assassin's tool today, and poisoning an alcoholic with morphine seems like it would alert any coroner immediately. | reading about the "conference table technique" was a bit too specific and caused me to promptly close the tab. |
a study of assassination – cia (1953)
| reading about the "conference table technique" was a bit too specific and caused me to promptly close the tab. | proof, if it were needed, that the past was not the golden age that people sometimes make it out to be. |
ask hn: how do i leave a startup on philosophical grounds?
(i want to apologize for the length of the text below, if i had more time i would have made it shorter)<p>i have been working for a startup here in beautiful san francisco for a little while now as a programmer and mathematician, i was drawn to the startup beca... | you need to get out. "are you hiring?" everyone is hiring. especially in sf. you have absolutely no reason to stay at a "job" that isn't both compensating you extremely well and respecting you, and this one is doing neither.and don't worry about dooming the company. you owe them absolutely nothing. zero. well, negative... | ob. disclaimer: i'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, if you want legal advice you should contact a labor attorney in san francisco.line up a paying gig, get it confirmed in writing (heck, start if you can since you're working on this "part time") and then resign. do not get into it with the ceo over appropriate... |
ask hn: how do i leave a startup on philosophical grounds?
(i want to apologize for the length of the text below, if i had more time i would have made it shorter)<p>i have been working for a startup here in beautiful san francisco for a little while now as a programmer and mathematician, i was drawn to the startup beca... | ob. disclaimer: i'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, if you want legal advice you should contact a labor attorney in san francisco.line up a paying gig, get it confirmed in writing (heck, start if you can since you're working on this "part time") and then resign. do not get into it with the ceo over appropriate... | you're not being paid a salary... but you don't have equity?get out now. it's a deathtrap. |
ask hn: how do i leave a startup on philosophical grounds?
(i want to apologize for the length of the text below, if i had more time i would have made it shorter)<p>i have been working for a startup here in beautiful san francisco for a little while now as a programmer and mathematician, i was drawn to the startup beca... | you're not being paid a salary... but you don't have equity?get out now. it's a deathtrap. | tons of people are hiring, and anyone that said "you only know computers, so don't tell me how to do my job" is not "a nice lady".however, your ceo is correct in that you are absolutely, incredibly naive.you are being taken advantage of, and are being naive by staying. you are also being naive by thinking that your lac... |
ask hn: how do i leave a startup on philosophical grounds?
(i want to apologize for the length of the text below, if i had more time i would have made it shorter)<p>i have been working for a startup here in beautiful san francisco for a little while now as a programmer and mathematician, i was drawn to the startup beca... | tons of people are hiring, and anyone that said "you only know computers, so don't tell me how to do my job" is not "a nice lady".however, your ceo is correct in that you are absolutely, incredibly naive.you are being taken advantage of, and are being naive by staying. you are also being naive by thinking that your lac... | it's during situations like these that i wish the votes could be displayed in hn, just so that you would get a feel of how opinions weigh. there are many answers that i'd vote up in here, but that doesn't convey to you the strength of the message. so we have to resort to reiterating it:- you're saying the ceo doesn't ... |
what every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
| personally i think one of the hardest things to wrap your head around is how it's power-of-two fractions that can be represented exactly, not power-of-10 fractions. in other words, 0.5 can be represented exactly as ieee floating point, but 0.1 cannot.this is not inherent to floating point; a floating point representat... | this article seems to appear every so often on hn and reddit. it used to be at sun.com. i'm glad oracle didn't 404 it.the title isn't accurate though. the article is mostly about using ieee 754 to manage computational error, which is a pretty esoteric subject.most programmers spend precious little time using floating p... |
what every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
| this article seems to appear every so often on hn and reddit. it used to be at sun.com. i'm glad oracle didn't 404 it.the title isn't accurate though. the article is mostly about using ieee 754 to manage computational error, which is a pretty esoteric subject.most programmers spend precious little time using floating p... | the d programming language takes the (so far as i know) unique approach that the implementation is allowed to evaluate expressions in the highest precision it wants to - the different floating point data types only represent storage formats.the idea is that algorithms should be designed with a minimum required precisio... |
what every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
| the d programming language takes the (so far as i know) unique approach that the implementation is allowed to evaluate expressions in the highest precision it wants to - the different floating point data types only represent storage formats.the idea is that algorithms should be designed with a minimum required precisio... | what every computer scientist should be asking about floating-point arithmetic: why aren't there types for fixed-point/rational arithmetic exposed by your language and/or standard library? |
what every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
| what every computer scientist should be asking about floating-point arithmetic: why aren't there types for fixed-point/rational arithmetic exposed by your language and/or standard library? | i think the latex typeset pdf is much nicer to read.<link> |
quantly: news for quants
| does anyone have any suggested reading on learning about this sort of thing? it looks like a fascinating area but i can't figure out where to start. | quants in banks are generally not working high-frequency trading which this website seems to focus on, and which generally requires very limited modelling. therefore hft is often the province of it teams, though quants may have some input. the role of quants tends to involve hedging, calibrating models, and sensitiviti... |
quantly: news for quants
| quants in banks are generally not working high-frequency trading which this website seems to focus on, and which generally requires very limited modelling. therefore hft is often the province of it teams, though quants may have some input. the role of quants tends to involve hedging, calibrating models, and sensitiviti... | there's also hacker news for business news: <link> |
quantly: news for quants
| there's also hacker news for business news: <link> | fascinating. gotta love the hn format.any sense of what the quantly user base looks like? geographic diversity and all that jazz would be interesting. |
quantly: news for quants
| fascinating. gotta love the hn format.any sense of what the quantly user base looks like? geographic diversity and all that jazz would be interesting. | quantly is woefully inactive: <link> says the latest 3 posts (not counting the 3 that were posted after the hn post) were 1, 7, 18 days ago respectively. |
why i'm rooting for google+
| i don't get it. isn't anyone else as creeped-out by the idea of a google social network as i am?i'm definitely not thrilled at the idea of facebook being the one true social network, but the idea of a google social network makes me sad, and more than a little nervous. the fact that google is trying to exploit their s... | off topic, but the op links to a post called "be your own bitch" that contains the following paragraph that makes me happy:"the thing that i have come to appreciate most about founders is a deep obsession about one thing over a long period of time. when we first met joshua schachter he had launched three versions of wh... |
why i'm rooting for google+
| off topic, but the op links to a post called "be your own bitch" that contains the following paragraph that makes me happy:"the thing that i have come to appreciate most about founders is a deep obsession about one thing over a long period of time. when we first met joshua schachter he had launched three versions of wh... | although i'm no fan of walled gardens, i have much greater faith in google adopting an open, federated protocol, given their track record, than i ever had with facebook. and if they did, that would push facebook to adopt it as well. |
why i'm rooting for google+
| although i'm no fan of walled gardens, i have much greater faith in google adopting an open, federated protocol, given their track record, than i ever had with facebook. and if they did, that would push facebook to adopt it as well. | i really like the idea that there won't be "one social service to rule them all": i know that facebook and twitter serve different purposes for me, and i'm also occasionally active on niche social services like linkedin and goodreads. but i'm concerned that the pain of managing multiple friends lists will force one or... |
why i'm rooting for google+
| i really like the idea that there won't be "one social service to rule them all": i know that facebook and twitter serve different purposes for me, and i'm also occasionally active on niche social services like linkedin and goodreads. but i'm concerned that the pain of managing multiple friends lists will force one or... | i am not on facebook but i think it is "good for the world" if google+ becomes succesful. i agreed with the poster that likened facebook to dirty jeans. i don't know where that analogy came from but it resonates with me.
however, i am undecided if google+ is something for me. what i fear (hopefully unfounded) is that g... |
year-old iphone 4s spontaneously combusts and oozes acid
| "
she panicked and tried to remove the battery by prying open the back of the iphone. as she did so, the battery, she says, was “in the process of melting and oozing liquid (acid).
”you can't "pry out" the back cover on the iphone 4s. it requires a specific pentalobe screwdriver which is not your garden variety philip... | "source: linkedin" ...there's a reason why kara swisher of allthingsd is so critical about the tech blog reporting scene's way of "breaking" stories at all costs - even if they're factually untrue. |
year-old iphone 4s spontaneously combusts and oozes acid
| "source: linkedin" ...there's a reason why kara swisher of allthingsd is so critical about the tech blog reporting scene's way of "breaking" stories at all costs - even if they're factually untrue. | "(...), woman claims"
serious tech journalism right there, folks.a guy in the comments suggests that this was caused by spilled coffee. he could be wrong, but i just don't see why apple should be the bad guy of a story by default, when the writers haven't bothered to investigate the matter. |
year-old iphone 4s spontaneously combusts and oozes acid
| "(...), woman claims"
serious tech journalism right there, folks.a guy in the comments suggests that this was caused by spilled coffee. he could be wrong, but i just don't see why apple should be the bad guy of a story by default, when the writers haven't bothered to investigate the matter. | who the hell would open the phone and remove the battery when its 'oozing acid' and is thermally unstable?i don't want that liion flash in my face. |
year-old iphone 4s spontaneously combusts and oozes acid
| who the hell would open the phone and remove the battery when its 'oozing acid' and is thermally unstable?i don't want that liion flash in my face. | i don't think there is any acid in a li-ion battery. |
ask hn: review my startup, <link>
hello hn community!<p>i'd like to ask you guys for a favor.<p>everhour is a time tracking app. we enjoy using evernote and wanted something like this but in time management world. something fresh, personal, less bureaucratic, more user-centered, easy to use, simple but yet powerful and... | i say drop all of the 'ever/evernote' references/nomenclature asap, unless this is just a side project or experiment with no plans to become a business.invite page needs more description, i can't really tell exactly what it's supposed to do (i'm not familiar enough with evernote to make a connectioni also recommend usi... | curious to see how this is implemented. i don't use evernote, so more marketing detail would be appreciated. for me the ideal time tracker would be something like rescuetime. an app where every activity you do is tracked automatically, but to a deeper level. at the end of the day/week/month, you can just look back and ... |
ask hn: review my startup, <link>
hello hn community!<p>i'd like to ask you guys for a favor.<p>everhour is a time tracking app. we enjoy using evernote and wanted something like this but in time management world. something fresh, personal, less bureaucratic, more user-centered, easy to use, simple but yet powerful and... | curious to see how this is implemented. i don't use evernote, so more marketing detail would be appreciated. for me the ideal time tracker would be something like rescuetime. an app where every activity you do is tracked automatically, but to a deeper level. at the end of the day/week/month, you can just look back and ... | i'd like to try it, but how is it similar to evernote? is it similar in that i can use it from the web and the phone? or because i take photos and store documents along with my tracking information? just throwing random questions because i'm kind of lost : )can you share some details? |
ask hn: review my startup, <link>
hello hn community!<p>i'd like to ask you guys for a favor.<p>everhour is a time tracking app. we enjoy using evernote and wanted something like this but in time management world. something fresh, personal, less bureaucratic, more user-centered, easy to use, simple but yet powerful and... | i'd like to try it, but how is it similar to evernote? is it similar in that i can use it from the web and the phone? or because i take photos and store documents along with my tracking information? just throwing random questions because i'm kind of lost : )can you share some details? | i'd share all updates on <link> |
ask hn: review my startup, <link>
hello hn community!<p>i'd like to ask you guys for a favor.<p>everhour is a time tracking app. we enjoy using evernote and wanted something like this but in time management world. something fresh, personal, less bureaucratic, more user-centered, easy to use, simple but yet powerful and... | i'd share all updates on <link> | just a heads up - there is a typo on the front page: "tracking your time helps your to stay
present" |
nerds in mourning: a friend, father, and founder leaves us
today, the dev community in minneapolis got word that the wreckage of the private plane piloted by the ceo of the nerdery, luke bucklin, was found in the mountains east of jackson hole wyoming. the plane had been missing for more than a week. luke, and his thre... | i'm terribly sorry for your loss, and for the enormous shock to luke's family and friends. my condolences.i run the risk of getting flamed for this post.this seems to me to be a perfectly appropriate place for a memorial.apropos of which: is it inappropriate, in a memorial for a wonderful hacker, to point out that the ... | i didn't know luke or his family, but as a private pilot and father/husband, this story saddens me for the non-zero possibility that my own wife and kids would be left in a similar situation.because different people grieve in different ways, and i suspect a non-zero number of "us" will want to know more about the incid... |
nerds in mourning: a friend, father, and founder leaves us
today, the dev community in minneapolis got word that the wreckage of the private plane piloted by the ceo of the nerdery, luke bucklin, was found in the mountains east of jackson hole wyoming. the plane had been missing for more than a week. luke, and his thre... | i didn't know luke or his family, but as a private pilot and father/husband, this story saddens me for the non-zero possibility that my own wife and kids would be left in a similar situation.because different people grieve in different ways, and i suspect a non-zero number of "us" will want to know more about the incid... | here are the links from the original post since they didn't show up as clickable above:http://blog.nerdery.com<link>!/search/%23lukecomehome<link> |
nerds in mourning: a friend, father, and founder leaves us
today, the dev community in minneapolis got word that the wreckage of the private plane piloted by the ceo of the nerdery, luke bucklin, was found in the mountains east of jackson hole wyoming. the plane had been missing for more than a week. luke, and his thre... | here are the links from the original post since they didn't show up as clickable above:http://blog.nerdery.com<link>!/search/%23lukecomehome<link> | thanks for the nice memorial. i didn't know luke, but it sounds like he's leaving behind a great example and a lot of inspiration. |
nerds in mourning: a friend, father, and founder leaves us
today, the dev community in minneapolis got word that the wreckage of the private plane piloted by the ceo of the nerdery, luke bucklin, was found in the mountains east of jackson hole wyoming. the plane had been missing for more than a week. luke, and his thre... | thanks for the nice memorial. i didn't know luke, but it sounds like he's leaving behind a great example and a lot of inspiration. | "the more sincere the effort, the more genuine the return. best. roi. lesson. ever"
so simple yet so few are able to follow it...
terrible loss. |
revenue management for meth dealers in flint (fiction)
| who said microeconomics was not useful :-)for those who are not used to that, it's a very simple linear regression, followed by an estimated demand equation, which you then turn into profit by multiplying each side by prices.to find the local optimal, you look for the spot where the 1st derivate cancels (and the second... | i find the idea of putting together what is nominally dry economic analysis with a colorful story about drug dealers an interesting technique for making it more fun to read.i'm guessing that guys who run state wide drug businesses do not show spreadsheets of their business to blogging economists :-) |
revenue management for meth dealers in flint (fiction)
| i find the idea of putting together what is nominally dry economic analysis with a colorful story about drug dealers an interesting technique for making it more fun to read.i'm guessing that guys who run state wide drug businesses do not show spreadsheets of their business to blogging economists :-) | "but it’s been confined to enterprises like airlines, car rental companies, and hotels implementing crap like teradata and oracle. this field has not been democratized, so it’s kindof gone unnoticed in the big data conversation."this is precisely what we do.please check out, <link> if you are interested in a price opti... |
revenue management for meth dealers in flint (fiction)
| "but it’s been confined to enterprises like airlines, car rental companies, and hotels implementing crap like teradata and oracle. this field has not been democratized, so it’s kindof gone unnoticed in the big data conversation."this is precisely what we do.please check out, <link> if you are interested in a price opti... | site has already been knocked over..here is the google cache: <link> |
revenue management for meth dealers in flint (fiction)
| site has already been knocked over..here is the google cache: <link> | i saw a documentary, not so long ago from one city in napoli, where it were the biggest drug dealing in europe, the drug dealers do it all in the walls, most of them didn't know how to sum properly. they made so much money that kind of errors were normal. |
why intel's new iptv service will do what google, apple, and microsoft can't
| i don't understand how the writer supposes intel can acquire unbundled content and sell it per-channel or even per-show.yes, that's the consumer's dream, to be able to subscribe to and pay for only one's preferred channels (or even shows), but that well-known desire has been consistently opposed by the cable and satell... | there is no check sufficiently large to convince a $130b industry to smash their business model into bits. and the second they unbundle, half of their content pipeline evaporates overnight. |
why intel's new iptv service will do what google, apple, and microsoft can't
| there is no check sufficiently large to convince a $130b industry to smash their business model into bits. and the second they unbundle, half of their content pipeline evaporates overnight. | i'm pretty doubtful. intel have been doing in-out dance for tv solutions for a few years. they don't have consumer product experience or media market experience. would be stunned if this happened on a substantial scale. |
why intel's new iptv service will do what google, apple, and microsoft can't
| i'm pretty doubtful. intel have been doing in-out dance for tv solutions for a few years. they don't have consumer product experience or media market experience. would be stunned if this happened on a substantial scale. | this article doesn't say anything about where the content will come from. possibly intel hasn't got that resolved, unless they will front for the content providers as an independent initiative (you bring the hardware, we bring the content).apple is just toying around the market. it's obvious for everyone that:
a. peopl... |
why intel's new iptv service will do what google, apple, and microsoft can't
| this article doesn't say anything about where the content will come from. possibly intel hasn't got that resolved, unless they will front for the content providers as an independent initiative (you bring the hardware, we bring the content).apple is just toying around the market. it's obvious for everyone that:
a. peopl... | intel has been willing to work with hollywood in the past. there was a lot of controversy over their inclusion of "drm" hardware in their sandy bridge chips.<link>'d love for more competition in this space. if real iptv could finally happen it would be great. i use a htpc with windows media center as my main tv, and i'... |
a simple explanation for why hp abandoned palm
| i think his interpretation of the facts is very plausible. sadly, larry ellison was absolutely right when he said, at the time of hurd's scandal, "the hp board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the apple board fired steve jobs many years ago."good ceos who can revamp stagnant companies are hard... | webos was for hurd just a fig leaf to make a future orientated impression, in reality were all the profits he made short term.what hp needs now is focus and that is what apotheker is doing. some people are disappointed that it is not consumer orientated, but when you look at the "smart phone wars" this seems reasonable... |
a simple explanation for why hp abandoned palm
| webos was for hurd just a fig leaf to make a future orientated impression, in reality were all the profits he made short term.what hp needs now is focus and that is what apotheker is doing. some people are disappointed that it is not consumer orientated, but when you look at the "smart phone wars" this seems reasonable... | i have no faith in hp's leadership.i was talking to an insider last year about how hp wanted to be a computer maker. i said, "i know them for their printers, they make awesome printers." he said, "yeah, they're not so interested in printers these days. they think the money's in computers."i guess it's whatever the "... |
a simple explanation for why hp abandoned palm
| i have no faith in hp's leadership.i was talking to an insider last year about how hp wanted to be a computer maker. i said, "i know them for their printers, they make awesome printers." he said, "yeah, they're not so interested in printers these days. they think the money's in computers."i guess it's whatever the "... | the hp board made the decision, and i am surprised that nobody has yet made the link between andreessen's editorial in the wsj (he sits on the hp board) and this recent shakeup. |
a simple explanation for why hp abandoned palm
| the hp board made the decision, and i am surprised that nobody has yet made the link between andreessen's editorial in the wsj (he sits on the hp board) and this recent shakeup. | hp has a highly distinguished board of directors. i find it strange that no one is highlighting the fact that léo apotheker is definitely enjoying the vote of confidence of the top level executives, otherwise this would have never been possible. |
yext scores a $25m round from ivp
| let me try to understand this:1. "pay per action" is paying for a qualified lead, as opposed to a raw lead (which could be anything, e.g. even a wrong number).2. doing it with phone calls (as opposed to clicks on online ads, or emails etc), because that is how many businesses and their customers contact each other. e.g... | i was at tc50 and it's impossible to overstate how dominant this guy's presence was during his demo. no one could believe their eyes or ears that here was this amazing, large, profitable company doing something everyone wants and no one had ever heard of them. i would have offered them money on the spot. |
yext scores a $25m round from ivp
| i was at tc50 and it's impossible to overstate how dominant this guy's presence was during his demo. no one could believe their eyes or ears that here was this amazing, large, profitable company doing something everyone wants and no one had ever heard of them. i would have offered them money on the spot. | interesting article on a veterinary site in which one person accuses yext of ripping her off while a few others tout pretty impressive roi from using it.<link>"dr. randy wiltshire reported in a vin discussion that he’d used yextvets for six months, and during that time, was directed 67 new clients from the site, for wh... |
yext scores a $25m round from ivp
| interesting article on a veterinary site in which one person accuses yext of ripping her off while a few others tout pretty impressive roi from using it.<link>"dr. randy wiltshire reported in a vin discussion that he’d used yextvets for six months, and during that time, was directed 67 new clients from the site, for wh... | the real news here seems to be that a company with $20m in revenue (yext) was allowed to pitch at tc50. |
yext scores a $25m round from ivp
| the real news here seems to be that a company with $20m in revenue (yext) was allowed to pitch at tc50. | i'm really surprised that they managed to grow so big and stay so low profile for so long. |
why is the nsa spying on innocent people?
we finally have proof that we are, in fact, all being spied on, all the time, and there's little or nothing that can be done about it. great.<p>but one aspect of this story still baffles me. why would they go to such great lengths to amass all this information, the vast majorit... | your title makes no sense. according to such agencies, there are no "innocent" people. from their perspective, there is only definite threats and potential threats.and yes, the vast majority is doubtless completely useless. they're looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. their rationale is that, in... | it's quite simple. they are collecting everything that might be of use in the future. since you can't know exactly what you might need from an in-tel stand point then you save every bit of data you can.also the ability of big data to find correlations in data gets exponentially better with the more data you have. this ... |
why is the nsa spying on innocent people?
we finally have proof that we are, in fact, all being spied on, all the time, and there's little or nothing that can be done about it. great.<p>but one aspect of this story still baffles me. why would they go to such great lengths to amass all this information, the vast majorit... | it's quite simple. they are collecting everything that might be of use in the future. since you can't know exactly what you might need from an in-tel stand point then you save every bit of data you can.also the ability of big data to find correlations in data gets exponentially better with the more data you have. this ... | because you can't just selectively spy on the real terrorists (if there are any). you have to gather all the information on everyone, then you can narrow it down, by searching for "bomb" in all internet traffic for example. |
why is the nsa spying on innocent people?
we finally have proof that we are, in fact, all being spied on, all the time, and there's little or nothing that can be done about it. great.<p>but one aspect of this story still baffles me. why would they go to such great lengths to amass all this information, the vast majorit... | because you can't just selectively spy on the real terrorists (if there are any). you have to gather all the information on everyone, then you can narrow it down, by searching for "bomb" in all internet traffic for example. | you can't have total power without total surveillance. communist dictators and others knew that very well. to remain in power you need to crush any and all dissent, as early as possible. for that you need near perfect surveillance/spying on every one.dhs was already giving surveillance info to the police through the &q... |
why is the nsa spying on innocent people?
we finally have proof that we are, in fact, all being spied on, all the time, and there's little or nothing that can be done about it. great.<p>but one aspect of this story still baffles me. why would they go to such great lengths to amass all this information, the vast majorit... | you can't have total power without total surveillance. communist dictators and others knew that very well. to remain in power you need to crush any and all dissent, as early as possible. for that you need near perfect surveillance/spying on every one.dhs was already giving surveillance info to the police through the &q... | sorry, but what do you mean we "finally have proof"? we have insinuations that they are ahead of the field in cracking encryption standards and that they work with companies to easy surveillance, but that alone is not enough to show that they we all have been "spied on, all the time"...and certainly... |
pushing ios
| nice mock-ups, but i disagree with most of the premises here. as far as i can tell, ios doesn't have much problem with people leaving due to some quibble with the ui's supposed lack of sophistication. i'm sure there are some exceptions among hn readers, but among the very few people in my circles on android, all cite... | >seriously, for a device so thin in features and actual stuff to do, performance is disappointing.really? have you checked well written apps and what they can do?>the google chrome browser scrolling is horrific at times with a huge delay.how is that an ios's "performance problem"? use safari. it's not l... |
pushing ios
| >seriously, for a device so thin in features and actual stuff to do, performance is disappointing.really? have you checked well written apps and what they can do?>the google chrome browser scrolling is horrific at times with a huge delay.how is that an ios's "performance problem"? use safari. it's not l... | this idea is cool, except for the gesture. there needs to be a way to summon a block with one finger so that one-handed use is still possible.i'm assuming that the drive to stay as close to the current experience as possible influenced that - there's currently no "free" one-finger gesture/action on the home s... |
pushing ios
| this idea is cool, except for the gesture. there needs to be a way to summon a block with one finger so that one-handed use is still possible.i'm assuming that the drive to stay as close to the current experience as possible influenced that - there's currently no "free" one-finger gesture/action on the home s... | i have yet to see a situation where widgets are actually useful. |
pushing ios
| i have yet to see a situation where widgets are actually useful. | this guy needs a windows phone, can we get him a windows phone? |
jumpstart training
| this actually looks like a pretty interesting idea. "turnkey private cloud" might be attractive. especially if they sell the open source/we teach you/you're independent part well.could potentially sell like hotcakes in europe if they play the nsa-angle.i can also envision a very sweet secondary market (partne... | "canonical engineers will deliver an orange box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"they need a copy editor. that's a very awkwardly worded sentence. |
jumpstart training
| "canonical engineers will deliver an orange box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"they need a copy editor. that's a very awkwardly worded sentence. | "canonical engineers will deliver an orange box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"
this statement had me thinking... weird, ok, what's the orange box, but then it got even stranger below... the orange box is a "complete mobile cluster and an easy, low-r... |
jumpstart training
| "canonical engineers will deliver an orange box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"
this statement had me thinking... weird, ok, what's the orange box, but then it got even stranger below... the orange box is a "complete mobile cluster and an easy, low-r... | i don't have a clear picture what all can be deployed on this... thing. obviously the basics of a webserver, database, docker containers, etc., but this isn't where the value is.it appears to have a wifi antenna— can it manage a corporate wifi deployment, with radius or whatever? what about ldap? samba shares?can it su... |
jumpstart training
| i don't have a clear picture what all can be deployed on this... thing. obviously the basics of a webserver, database, docker containers, etc., but this isn't where the value is.it appears to have a wifi antenna— can it manage a corporate wifi deployment, with radius or whatever? what about ldap? samba shares?can it su... | "the other orange box" |
google reject a reconsideration request for a non-english language site.
| the explanation for this is actually quite straightforward. google fights spam in 40 different languages and we absolutely take reconsideration requests in many different languages, including italian, french, german, etc. we've also improved our reconsideration requests in the last few months to tell webmasters whether... | hi,
the purpose of my post was not to "justify" what my friend did. i, and he first, am very aware that he did things that were not allowed by the google guidelines or very low quality link building.
remember also that he is not an seo and that he was simply following what "all the the world" was doing, especially in... |
google reject a reconsideration request for a non-english language site.
| hi,
the purpose of my post was not to "justify" what my friend did. i, and he first, am very aware that he did things that were not allowed by the google guidelines or very low quality link building.
remember also that he is not an seo and that he was simply following what "all the the world" was doing, especially in... | it would be easier to make that case if that site owner had had "clean hands", so to speak. it seems you are faulting google for enforcing its own rules. |
google reject a reconsideration request for a non-english language site.
| it would be easier to make that case if that site owner had had "clean hands", so to speak. it seems you are faulting google for enforcing its own rules. | "he said he was aware of the violations"so, your friend willfully and knowingly violated the guidelines? |
google reject a reconsideration request for a non-english language site.
| "he said he was aware of the violations"so, your friend willfully and knowingly violated the guidelines? | how can one of the most globalized companies and one behind google translate not have support in your language? the point here isn't about violating some guideline its in the email that google somehow has no support for any italian language websites.this is embarrasing for them, you think that a company as large as goo... |
yourmechanic (yc w12) launches in south bay (at tc disrupt)
| another very happy customer here! my car wouldn't start one day, and after determining that it wasn't a dead battery, i was dreading the nightmare/cost of having it towed to a shop.fortunately, i remembered yourmechanic from when they were working out of the hacker dojo. i gave them a call, and a mechanic arrived withi... | i am very surprised that there's so much work mechanics can do without a lift.one very obvious thing i'm sure ym considered was used car inspections; having a place i could sign up on a website to have a potential used car inspected would be killer. |
yourmechanic (yc w12) launches in south bay (at tc disrupt)
| i am very surprised that there's so much work mechanics can do without a lift.one very obvious thing i'm sure ym considered was used car inspections; having a place i could sign up on a website to have a potential used car inspected would be killer. | is the idea of a mobile mechanic new in the us? lube mobile [1] has been in australia for at least 25 years and has spawned a bunch of local copies. i'm not knocking yourmechanic, but i find it interesting that the idea hasn't made it to the us earlier than this. is there some difference to lube mobile that i am mis... |
yourmechanic (yc w12) launches in south bay (at tc disrupt)
| is the idea of a mobile mechanic new in the us? lube mobile [1] has been in australia for at least 25 years and has spawned a bunch of local copies. i'm not knocking yourmechanic, but i find it interesting that the idea hasn't made it to the us earlier than this. is there some difference to lube mobile that i am mis... | another happy customer here. what really surprised me about ym was they told me upfront how much a service would cost and while getting the service came the most pleasent surprise of all, the mechanic said i did not need front brakes, just the rear, and the quote ym gave originally was chopped in half! and finally, the... |
yourmechanic (yc w12) launches in south bay (at tc disrupt)
| another happy customer here. what really surprised me about ym was they told me upfront how much a service would cost and while getting the service came the most pleasent surprise of all, the mechanic said i did not need front brakes, just the rear, and the quote ym gave originally was chopped in half! and finally, the... | i wish these guys the best of luck. but, as someone who operated the same kind of business successfully for a long time, i have to say that their work is cut out for them. you think people are hard to deal with when it comes to computers? its 100x worse with cars. computers are cheap, and relatively easy to replace/rep... |
free online crash course in startups from the founder institute
| dear friends on hacker news,do not worry about the 1000 person limit. we'll release more codes if we need to. you are all welcome :). i'm a huge fan of hn. just please enjoy the course - we spent a lot of time convincing the founder institute to release these videos and i hope you like them.best,
gagan biyanico-founder... | spoiler alert, that password is "readwriteweb"first of all i was going to complain that i couldent get in. i was going to reply as an angry raging code monkey and demand a password. then i kept reading. =\the first 1000 readers that use the code "readwriteweb" will get access to the course materials, which is currently... |
free online crash course in startups from the founder institute
| spoiler alert, that password is "readwriteweb"first of all i was going to complain that i couldent get in. i was going to reply as an angry raging code monkey and demand a password. then i kept reading. =\the first 1000 readers that use the code "readwriteweb" will get access to the course materials, which is currently... | first off i feel as though i dont know much about how a startup works yet. im trying to learn so i could eventually launch something in the future.watching the first video "holy shit , my idea sucks" around the 15:30 mark or if you look at the slides, its slide 11, the guy says that an idea "must be new or better".how... |
free online crash course in startups from the founder institute
| first off i feel as though i dont know much about how a startup works yet. im trying to learn so i could eventually launch something in the future.watching the first video "holy shit , my idea sucks" around the 15:30 mark or if you look at the slides, its slide 11, the guy says that an idea "must be new or better".how... | it's great way for udemy to acquire 1000 more users!
provide some free course, 10% of those 1000 will buy several paid courses, each one ~ $100. |
free online crash course in startups from the founder institute
| it's great way for udemy to acquire 1000 more users!
provide some free course, 10% of those 1000 will buy several paid courses, each one ~ $100. | why are they limiting it to only a 1000 people? |
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