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Review my startup, wordcradle.com
I'm looking for feedback on a novel writing software website I started last summer.
It's http://www.wordcradle.com/ I'm a CS major at UMD and work on this website with a few friends as as a hobby.
Right now we have 150 users and I'm trying to figure out how to get more exposure.
Feedback on site structure, interface and suggestions for how to access potential users would be super helpful!
Thanks so much!
Intro to R Programming (Chinese)
> In many universities, major programs for CPSC, physics, etc. require courses with prerequisite chains that take several years to go through.

At my university, UCSC, math and CS courses tended to be "structured" in the opposite way -- once you'd completed a modest suite of lower-division courses, you tended to be qualified for almost every upper-division course. I assume this was meant to make it easier for people to graduate on time.

The considerable downside was that nearly every class devoted a substantial percentage of the total time to review at the beginning.
Yes, my first thought at those blog posts was "From the Qt Marketing Department at GNOME".
Would prefer it showed me the total price of the room, rather than $-per-occupant. Note I would use this to book rooms for my family rather than for a group of adults.
I appreciate you taking the time to reply, but perhaps you should go back and read what I wrote instead of skimming it.

TLDR: New construction is about twice the size now as it was in the 1950s, with more amenities, while housing fewer people.

This goes a long way towards accounting for the higher housing prices alongside rising homelessness. You don't need fancy economic explanations. Houses that are nearly 2500 sq. ft. instead of 1200 and loaded up with vastly more amenities straight up cost more. Period.

And as long as new housing averages nearly 2500 sq. ft., no amount of basic income stabilizes the bottom third of the population because the housing they need simply does not exist. Period.

No amount of money gets you well if the cure you need simply does not exist. Ask anyone with an incurable medical condition.
ok I'll start:::

I work mostly on upwork projects. Located in AL(local jobs are EXTREMLY shitty). Started 2 years ago @10$/hour, currently @ 34$/hour. 62K last 2 years (only did fulltime ~8 months). Mostly backend, sometimes full-stack (no fancy angular though). After building a profile it's pretty easy to get new jobs. Nice if you live in cheap country.

Pros: Compared to local it's insanely better(local sucks). Better than a job I got in NL doing back-end-python for 42€.
Better compared to a remote-job I got in Ireland for @20$/hour. Work from your toilet etc. Cool way to build portfolio. Sucks if you are in (expensive place to live) etc.

Cons: Ceiling is at about 40-50/hour so I'm getting out. Always be on the lookout outside (ex: went to final stages of job for 2.5x my income which I found on other site).

How to do it: Apply to small jobs and ask only for rating(they will still pay you). Get 5stars rating. Incrementally apply to bigger jobs by building your cv and successfully doing them all. Focus + be expert in an area (only way for humanity to advance).

I want from a job: great payment or free time to work on my stuff(strict 8 hours) or crazy stuff + getting smarter at work (don't have time to get smart on weekends). Hopefully it has them all (they exist!).
the law will ultimately be the deciding factor however adding in some relevant T&Cs would be a good first step.

Ultimately in most countries you will be required to delete personally identifying information upon request, I would expect this to include name, address, dob etc. It would not include meta data which is not really identifiable if the previously mentioned data has been deleted. Messages in a forum is perhaps something you need to consider but I would push this onto the user, i.e allow them to edit/delete old posts.
On the contrary, the answer to such a question perfectly illustrates the sort of critical thinking that is taught in a history degree program but not necessarily in a technicaly degree program.

After reading enough about the history of mathematics, it is nearly impossible to arrive at the conclusion that today's mathematicians do not have their own set of ideological beliefs. However, obtaining high scores in a mathematics degree program is easily achievable without seeing these beliefs as ideological ("that's just how it's done" is a profoundly common and profoundly ideological answer to questions of the form "but why not do things this other way" -- especially in upper-level undergraduate mathematics).
It's hard to prove a negative but....

No one in "mainstream" neuroscience or cell biology takes these proposals seriously. Hameroff and Penrose have proposed some possible mechanisms (e.g., dendritic lamellar bodies), but none of these have panned out experimentally; for example, the DLBs are in the wrong place. They keep revising the theory around these data, but I think a lot of experimentalists have lost interest. I gather there are other more philosophical/first principles arguments against this too.

It would be neat if it were true though....
When I first started university, I had the same attitude as most other STEM majors, that history and all arts degrees were useless and a waste of time, I used to joke that BA stands for Bugger All. The only non-stem degrees I thought were worthwhile were law and accounting.

But then I actually met some people doing history, and how interested they were in it, and I realised that it's perfectly valid to do a degree just out of interest, if it's what you're interested in. Some of the people I know doing arts degrees are more passionate about their field than I am about programming.

The people that were wasting their time and just accruing debt at university were the people doing commerce or criminal justice degrees. I never once actually heard them talking about their degree, they had no interest in the subject matter, they just wanted to live the university lifestyle, or were told they needed to get a degree. Criminal justice was the worst for that, because anyone actually interested in that was doing law.

So these days, I think as long as it's something you're passionate about, then there's nothing wrong with doing an arts degree. Universities don't solely exist for vocational training, there is validity in learning for the sake of learning.

The fact that tuition is a lot cheaper, and interest free student loans in New Zealand means that it's a lot more feasible to do a degree that interests you though, without crippling you financially.
Because at the national scale, there are only a few outfits that could feasibly make the bid.

IBM, Accenture, a couple of others.

CGI is maybe the biggest 'go to' shop for this stuff. They have zillions of developers ready to go, and a deeply entrenched lobbyist/salesforce.

It's not as though the US Gov could just go to some little startup. Even though the probably should have - big governments and companies don't understand innovation and how these things work.

They see it like building 12 football stadiums - how could a small team do it? They need massive industries, tons of experts, lawyers, business analysts! :)

These things are hard.
We do offer preemptible VMs (https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms), which for our n1-highcpu-2 (a 2 vcpu Haswell) comes in at 2c/hr; when you toss in our per-minute instead of hourly billing, we're often 2x cheaper and all without any guesswork or bidding.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, and specifically preemptible VMs.
And the very worst stuff we've learned about is some of Sid Blumenthal's emails, who shouldn't even have access to this stuff, forwarding highest level NSA stuff, the sort that can get people killed in real time, the stuff that's protected at as or higher a level than, say, nuclear weapons secrets (I have friends who've worked for both the NSA and LLNL).

There is no possible way she has the authority on her own, or the State Department by itself, to allow her kitchen cabinet blow the covers of these people and methods, she in fact had a duty to report such breaches.
bigger projects have bigger risks ... no shit sherlock
I'd love to visit (or work in) Berlin. Can you find whole dried chili peppers, or canned? They're obviously not as good as fresh, but they'll still be delicious.

Dried chiles are very lightweight, so probably not very expensive to have shipped to you in bulk. They're easy to rehydrate (and you can use hot stock instead of water for extra flavor):

http://www.chilipeppermadness.com/cooking-with-chili-peppers...
canary could also mean that starting now company begun gathering information for giving it away to NSA :)
Two things:

1) I did not qualify the viability of basic income in my statement. I just gave my opinion on what the author might say on this issue given that he is highly critical of the financial viability of the US social system. (he wants to reduce spending)

2) YCombinator doing a test doesn't mean that it is a viable model.
It seems that the first quote is still in the middle of the industrial revolution.

That is a period were human activity has been dramatically changed in a way that has not happened before. I remember reading that the 40 hours is only good compared to that period, we have always worked less than that earlier in history (1). The changes in that period were so dramatic that we even forgot how we slept before it.

Seems that both the article and xkcd make the mistake of comparing the same period in history which is also only a very short 200 year period to lightly suggest that things never change. Well, that's like observing that soccer fan are as anxious about the score 30 min in the match than they were after 15 min. It gives some idea of how the match is going, but not really anything concrete.

Not saying it is not interesting or informative, but there is limited wisdom to extract from it.

(1) http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
I suggest emailing up-and-coming VCs who are more eager for any kind of dealflow.

Look for people/funds who just raised their first fund. They are hustling, likely not drowning in leads like Michael Siebel is, and willing to do just about anything to make their LPs happy including spending countless hours evaluating investment opportunities from complete strangers.
> Labor needs to start acting like its the 1920s again and get organized and push back politically.

But it's not the 1920s again. Acting like it is isn't going to work in this climate.

You want to demand higher wages? Great. Yet more jobs go overseas, priced out of the US by the higher labor costs.

You want to protect against cheap imports (created by cheap workers) with tariffs? Well, you just made everything everyone buys from overseas more expensive, so the cost of living went up. You also just broke a bunch of trade agreements, and there will probably be retaliation from quite a few trade partners, resulting in fewer exports, which will cost jobs.

The world is a much more complicated place than it was in the 1920s. Simple responses aren't likely to fix things. We need to fix things - I'm with you there, there's a lot that's broken from the point of view of the working person - but an antagonistic power struggle is unlikely to produce an improvement.
Saying that history professors do leftist indoctrination is a ridiculous statement, is just like saying that astrophysics professors are doing "anti-bible indoctrination". You can study history and support right-wing positions, as many have done in the past.

In fact, studying story has no direct connection with leftism. The problem is that right-wing people feel very upset when historians view history outside their traditional models. This is always a big problem for conservatives, because the work of the historian is exactly to discuss new views and interpretations of history. Doing otherwise would be scholastic work, not critical thinking. For this reason, most historical research ends up being an analysis from a point of view that is complementary or even antagonistic to conservatism.
Err...I was actually thinking of Brain Voyager, which is closed source and incredibly expensive. However, luckily for me, there is also a closed source package called Brain Surfer(!)
It's really useful to distinguish technical fields from engineering and especially natural sciences fields once you get past K12. STEM is not actually a very coherent grouping.

Almost all CS programs are relatively flat, but many science programs have longer chains of linear or parallel pre-reqs.

Math programs differ from both because long chains of pre-reqs in Math often correspond to required maturation rather than required knowledge (e.g. the Calc sequence as a pre-req for algebra courses).
Agreed. On our 8 vcpu and higher instances, you can do ~16 Gbps. Even on AWS you can do upwards of 10 Gbps. So worst case scenario, you stream a ton of data at a recovery box.

More likely, you just checkpoint along the way and save to PD / EBS (and then reattach the disk post preemption) or even do ~X Gbps to GCS / S3 and pickup whenever with a fresh VM.

Disclaimer: I work on Preemptible VMs at Google.
It does cost you to have letters in the alphabet that you don't use (as in, you have minimal pairs with that letter). You don't understand how to pronounce it and it becomes confusing. For example, Italian doesn't use k, j, y, x, w except in loanwords.

And 'z' sound in Italian means two different consonants; in English it also means two different consonants, both also different from both Italian ones. Both are "phonetic".
Effect of Calorie Restriction on Mood/Quality of Life/Sleep/Sexual Function
GWAS identifies 74 and 162 SNPs associated with educational attainment [pdf]
It’s a Bad Time to Buy an iPhone
Is there really THAT much difference between a product and project manager?
I was eye scanned on entry to the US at Atlanta Airport a few years ago.

I have also been fingerprinted this month scanned at the US embassy in London for my Visa, to go with my photograph.

The US has more biometric data of mine than the UK govt!

I don't know what point I'm trying to make.
Congrats on the wedding, but this site just shows me that I was right not to invest in polymer. On android chrome, 5 second pageload, which seems to be taking place after the download, followed by laggy animation? Yuck.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I prefer Mithril, or at least React. Or heck, even the horrific, broken, awful mess that is angular 1 is better than this, for crying out loud!

I know that Polymer may make things easier as a designer, but newsflash: the end user doesn't give a damn. They want a fast, responsive, stylish site. And Polymer just isn't there.
I wouldn't have a problem with it. (And I'm really not saying that just to win an argument.) It would be odd, for sure, but no more odd than having Abraham Lincoln fight vampires.
Scientists may lack resources and proper incentives, but it's pretty bold to claim that they lack the ability to propose new testable/semi-testable theories...
> I'm not really a fan of the trend of "branding" vulnerabilities, but it is just harmless silliness

It's probably harmless but I'm not so sure it's silly. It's much more distinguishing than monikers like "CVE-2016-0093". It can sometimes convey the seriousness of the relevant exploit (not sure if that's the case this time though). These branded-vulnerabilities are also probably much more valuable on a CV as such.
I feel like history isn't quite as important as we currently emphasize. The ability to manipulate your surroundings is far more useful than the exploration of how best to do so. I feel we would be better served to reinforce how to change the world, than to show how others have changed the world (a slightly different view).
If he was that unethical we wouldn't be discussing public disclosure here.
I think the last thing rurban needs is to jump into another VM. He's already got a few forks of Perl on GitHub[1].

1: https://github.com/rurban
I like the Geo-Libertarian idea of basic income. Thomas Paine wrote something similar in Agrarian Justice.

It basically goes like this:

1) Governments have claimed a monopoly on the land and resources. Basically through military conquest at some point in the past.

2) Before there was any government people were able to use the land freely. So basically they were robbed of something that they could previously use.

3) Fairness dictates that compensation for such a loss must be made.

4) Charge people for the use of land, resources, airwaves, etc.

5) This income goes to all people in the country equally.

This type of basic income does not violate any economic reality that I am aware of.

Now, it will not be enough to so that people can choose to live without working. Such thinking is anti-reality. Absent work, decay (entropy) is the law of the universe. This can not be changed. But it will be fair compensation for no longer having access to the land resources that hunter / gatherers had.
We could lose things of value all the time, but losing things of value isn't always bad. Plus we are gaining things of value all the time as well. Seems we are generally on the winning side of things given how well humans have done.
John Deutsche was specifically using his unsecured home computer to work on and email out TS/SCI and/or SAP material. That should tell you all you need to know about why what he did was so verboten, it was material at the level where you're only allowed to access it in secured facilities, you're not allowed to remove your notes from them, etc. etc.
"Every person can make a living doing something they love" is the "Let them eat cake" of the 21st century.
Huh. Do you not use say EMR? We've got lots of folks running Hadoop/Spark either directly or through Dataproc (https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/).

All of our Monte Carlo finance customers as well as the genomics folks at the Broad Institute seem pretty happy.

If you're saying they're a bad fit for stateful applications like databases and web backends, I agree ;).
I'm running Ubuntu on a Yoga 2 Pro, I hadn't heard about that issue. Either the exploit is now a transparent part of the Ubuntu installer, or it doesn't affect the Yoga 2.
Hi, there is a AB test for that running right now. If you want the total price in the search results there is a checkbox for that in the filters. Thanks for the feedback!
I actually know him through a close personal friend. He's not the type to trust the government for anything which is why he created the product in the first place. That being said, he's not longer calling the shots so who knows now?
Thanks for responding and starting. Really great and detailed answer. Why do you think ceiling is at about 40-50$/hour?
Have you ever worked from outside US? How does tax filing works?
I have been thinking of moving to some good asian country (Thailand,Malaysia) and work remotely.
What do you mean by unchallenged? Marxist ideas are challenged every day, almost everywhere you go. Now, even if they are wrong (I am not going to enter into this discussion), studying them would increase your critical thinking abilities in trying to disprove them. So, the professor was right all along!
Since when did HN readers develop a problem with reading comprehension?
All degrees bar philosophy come with bundles of ideological perspective.

To truly think critically you must free yourself from ideology as best you can.

The demarcation between the humanities and social sciences and the so-called hard(er) sciences is not a division of technicality. To say that you can split the degrees awarded by our academic institutions into technical versus non-technical and then claim that the more technical are freer of ideology is a supremely ideological statement.

Also, you've managed to conflate not two but three distinct ideas in order to make the claim that you've made: for the purposes of this conversation subjective judgements come in two flavo(u)rs - the first is where you evaluate according to some standard, the second is where you impose your values. It is only the second of these that can be in any way said to be ideological and only then it is only when you become identified with the values you are imposing on the world which happens rarely - and get this, people in technical degrees do this all the time.
This decision isn't finished. There will be extensive discussion about it during the followup hackfest in August.

But as for shipping -alpha, -beta, etc, it would also look very weird if GNOME shipped -alpha as a dependency.
or you get laid off,
or you get diluted,
or it takes 6 years and you want to do something else with the rest of your life, ....
I agree 100% that a history major should important critical thinking skills, but how often does that happen in the real world? My concern is that critical thinking is frequently not taught in college.
There isn't. Because most of the antibiotics are given to non-human animals which then provide billions of evolutionary pools for resistance development every year. Nothing can beat that.

Humans as pools of evolution for bacteria, aren't causing this problem.

Recent AMA https://reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4q920m/askscience_a...

points out that animal agriculture is a huge problem.

Not pseudoscientific idiots.
Economics is also the source and home of some of the most bullshit-prone theories and explanations. That's why I ultimately dropped my Economics major. It's full of people that got into the field precisely due to their passion for of their highly politicized opinions. Those people generate elaborate theories, data sets, and models to justify their almost always a priori beliefs -- always under the guise of supposedly rational debate.

I would argue -- as a non-physicist and non-biologist and non-chemist -- that physics or biology or chemistry should take the crown. All explain historical phenomena via models and also extend those models to the present day and even the future, allowing eminently testable predictions. Additionally, the questions these fields pose are typically but not always far less likely to ground out in political preference and are therefore less susceptible (though not invincible) to bullshit.
Awesome, thanks netgusto!

I'll to do that within this week or next week.
(so sorry - cannot resist)

It's not just awesome. It's frigate amazing!

(please don't hate me. someone had to say it. once again, i apologize.)
I think I picked it up from looking at Angular PRs but have spread it to my team so now we all use it.
A couple years back I managed to get Open Genera talking to a reasonably modern (ca. 2013) X server, which has to count for something. In fact, getting it talking to the X server was practically the only aspect of the project in which I didn't have problems.

Too, when I decided in a (thankfully transient) fit of madness to write my own window manager targeting whatever x.org package you got with Debian jessie around Q4 2015, I managed to do so based almost entirely on what I gleaned from a partial set of ancient X manuals which were already yellowing and musty when I picked them up at my city's free book exchange years ago, plus the manual and info pages that came with the system and the Emacs build I put on it.

Not what you'd call an exhaustive evaluation, and maybe things have changed, but I'd say there is at least anecdotal reason for hope with regard to backward compatibility in X.org.
Nah. The team that hired me kinda gave up too early(it was a side project to them and ~me).
Math and CS professors and students complained loudly about the lack of prerequisites. It did great harm to the curriculum. Defending it on the grounds that math and CS don't need long prerequisite chains in the way that other fields do misses the point.
That only makes sense if you don't intend to learn from any of the ways other people have tried to change the world before you try yourself.

Which seems like a bad idea.