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Oh Great Ghu.

We float in a sea of fraud. The investment laws are not about stopping it, they are about giving Goldman Sachs a percentage of every fraud. Goldman would implode tomorrow if random assholes could just cheat each other directly. Take the fucking red pill, Neo.

The historical evidence is that complete fraud control produces water empires that are destroyed by the first barbarian to ride into town. The destruction is generally so complete that a dark age follows. Forget taxpayers holding the bag, you need archeologists to figure out what happened from the bits of that society that would not burn.

Conversely, the Western Enlightenment showed that you can get growth and prosperity undreamed by the kings of old even in the face of pervasive investment fraud. What counts is a culture of liberty, optimism, and a commitment to basic policing. Or to put it another way, it's worth the life savings of a lot of senile grandmothers if the wild-eyed schemer sometimes actually delivers a goose that lays gold eggs.
OK, I know I'm old, but really, did she have to lead with that?
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Point taken, but they still have to invest a lot of man hours in slicing and building the theme to work in most popular browsers.
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Traders should be in before the market opens, but being late on this is less disruptive than being out sick, and being absent the whole day. Although there's an ethical distinction between being legitimately sick and "throwing a sickie", and the latter will usually get you fired if caught-- although it's unlikely that this would happen-- they're both equal in terms of disruptiveness and loss to the firm.

My point is that it's counterproductive to have an incentive system in which being 8 minutes late is worse than missing a whole day.
If sorting in PHP is 4000% faster than sorting in the DB, then it's a failure of the DB. That shouldn't be the case.
This is really cool. There are a lot of areas where the state of the art really is Word and Excel. For some use cases, a horizontal application is perfectly adequate. However, all the rest are opportunities for enterprising hackers.
Well I can, simply because there are a lot of people here that would be able to emulate exactly what I'm doing.

Like I posted just before I went to bed, what I'm doing isn't concrete, it could end tomorrow and so, in that respect, I'm going to keep my mouth shut for as long as possible to reap the rewards.

Sorry, I hope you can understand.
It's a social hack. I think it's pretty clever.
In the real world this person is probably going to get a writing job eventually and when she does her perspective on life is going to be her most valuable asset.

A lot of industries claim that they value well-roundedness, but the fact remains that her experience cleaning is going to be valued at zero in determining the jobs and assignments that she gets.
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Vertica is designed for scaling. That's based on postgresql and under active development to that end.
I don't think it is possible to let your own company to sponsor your H1B visa anymore.

http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/messag... < a random google link.
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Yeah, and there's a big difference between the hyperbole of "roach infested" in an article that clearly benefits from creating a juxtaposition and what his reality actually is.

I've lived in a "roach infested" apartment on Beacon st. (most aptmt buildings have some) in Brookline Mass on a "dirty couch" (coffee stains--my own damn fault) and paid quite a lot of money to do that... But if you're writing a story, you're going to focus on the drama.
> The main problem with your logic is that most people make the same choices.

You are right, my analysis is terrible. Boom, inferiority admitted.
tptacek, would you consider that a 'bug' even if you noticed it and carefully traced it? I think I'd assume the guy previously referred to a CSS file but now included it inline and forgot to remove the old <link type='text/css'>. Maybe I'd be suspicious if python responded with headers that said, "hi this is a python web server!". But linking to an empty CSS (or getting a 404 !) would not ever raise my suspicions. That's part of its beauty!

Hmm, on 2nd thought, getting the server to send a 404 while tracking the resume's travels is even more elegant.

I'd only be annoyed if in the interview he bragged about bugging the resume!!!
I actually made a poetry book in LaTeX. It wasn't THAT hard.
Exact same situation in Turkey. There are a lot of students but not enough universities. You are expected to take a 3 hour and 15 minute exam of diverse topics to determine a score which will determine whether you can apply to a certain department of a certain university. Then, you may get in depending on how many other people also applied to that department and how they scored compared to you. The end result is people saying "Oh, I couldn't make computer science, I guess I'll be a marine biologist." I think pretty much everyone unanimously agrees that it's dumb. It used to work 30 years ago when the number of university applicants was not even an eighth of the current number and the exam was reasonable. When more people started applying, the amount of universities didn't scale up and so they had to filter out more people, and the exam got progressively harder to the point of having trick questions to throw students off.
Not on Arch
Damn man, your account is only 30 days old and you're already at -3 karma? Shooting for a record or something?
I was similar. Towards the end of high school I moved far away. School started at 8:30, my alarm was set to 6. Bus left just before 7 down the road a little.

It was interesting taking a bus + train + bus to school, but I wasn't really a fan of waking up that early.
just to preempt responses of the form "higher education is a rip-off, it's way better to just learn stuff on your own and start your own software start-up", keep in mind that we in developed countries (I can only speak for the U.S., but it might be true elsewhere too) have the privilege of living in a relatively wealthy and stable society where one can flourish without much formal education, with the right entrepreneurial determination (coupled with great luck, of course).

in the U.S., the income and lifestyle disparity between someone who went to a top-ranked college and someone without formal education might not be noticeable (controlling for cost-of-living), but just from anecdotal evidence, i've heard that in developing countries, there can be orders of magnitude differences ... life in the underclass can be pretty darn crappy. keeping this in mind might help people understand a bit better why youths and adults in these countries obsess so much over their test scores and admissions into universities.
I guarantee that sorting in PostgreSQL is faster than doing it in PHP. MySQL is the problem, not databases in general.
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Pretty cool. I do have to say that I prefer LaTeX though. If you're not into writing LaTeX you may want to try LyX (http://www.lyx.org/). It's a WYSIWYM LaTeX editor for Windows and UNIX-like (including OS X).

Heh, although when I say "Ulysses" out loud it makes me think "useless."
So is Greenplum (more so, actually.)

Neither are useful for the Digg usecase. Edit: That is to say, they're optimized for large datasets, low concurrency, medium latency, medium-to-high consistency and medium-to-low availability.
Nice! Thank you.

One thing: "this assumes you can pick a loser from round 1"

You can pick a loser from Round 1, because all selections are made before any games are played. So it looks like its:

1 / 2^32 * 1 / 4^16

(And we should probably add another 1/2 term to account for the play-in game =)
Real poor people (c.f. India, China, Africa, the US in the past) don't have a lot of "trinkets" (like cell phones, cable TV, AC, refrigerator, flush toilets, a car or a house), are typically skinny due to lack of food, can't afford housing in any place worth living in and will likely die if they have any health problems.

Last I checked, death is much worse than having your debts discharged but losing some of your assets.

A place not worth living in: http://i.pbase.com/o6/54/380754/1/73947048.Hk41wYFV.Bombaysl...

My neighborhood in the USA, which is full of poor people: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Journal_S...

Dude, get a clue.
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You flatter yourself by saying your expectations are high. Actually you're just not a good judge of very early stage startups. If you saw Google when they were Backrub, or Microsoft when they were making Basic for the Altair, you would have said the same thing. Minor, derivative products.
I used to go into work and have the operations staff thank me for solving last night's problem and have no idea what they were talking about: seems I can perform perfectly rational problem-solving when answering the telephone in my sleep.
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How does that stop them? Most 3rd party readers have basic editing capabilities and any unethical recruiter could trivially afford (or unethically obtain) Acrobat Pro.
Well my strategy has always to just pull over to the side of the trail or pull the bottom of my shorts to the side and make squiggly lines in the dirt.
What would you use instead of MySQL?
As pointed out in the comments on your last article:

Unpaid internships are illegal.
They are perfectly fine. Sure the body takes a pounding, but it also recovers. The most importantthing to remember is that you have to keep your body chemistry as "normal" as possible. Ie, eat foods, drink water, replace electrolytes. All that will help maintain body mass and will keep you from getting pulled.
Surely HN hasn't descended to making fun of startups' names?
Most big resume processing systems mangle them anyway. I have referred friends during my time at both Google and Microsoft. Both companies ask you to paste a plain text version of the resumes.
I love this mentality. Helped me get my job I have today.

"Everybody can think of something they are good at; all you have to do is figure out how that relates to some aspect of what we do on a daily basis. "

Don't ask, do.
i'd use tat extension lol.....sounds good
Or another alternative is multi-sport, you can get a good mixture of activities so you can spread out the physical punishment.

A good example: http://www.coasttocoast.co.nz

3km beach run, 55km cycle, 33km run over a mountain pass, 15km cycle, 67km kayak, 70km cycle
"I will lie in bed, awake, forever thinking and rethinking whatever happens to be on my mind at the time."

I can sympathize. I used to have a ton of trouble falling asleep until I learned some basic meditation techniques to shut off the inner dialog.

I quite literally focus on turning off my brain. I'm not really doing that, of course, but that's how I visualize it. With a little practice you can drift off at will.

Also, I read once that the meditation masters would carry a bamboo stick for students that fell asleep, for a good reason. :-)
Not really. (a) Gmail has a lot of users, even if it doesn't have more yet, and (b) I bet Gmail's growth is faster.
wise-but-poor people... have to satisfy other non-financial criteria

...which limits them to a tiny fraction of the private investment opportunities available to millionaires. Why make things harder on the wise-but-poor? Or those who have wise-but-poor friends-and-family?

...to turn your argument on its head, why not get rid of the limits altogether...

That's not the argument on its head -- that's the argument itself! Net-worth-based discrimination has no place in securities regulation.

If an unwise or gullible person can throw their entire net worth -- and then some, via leverage -- into a single risky real-estate transaction, or risky options trade, or risky loan to an unreliable acquaintance, or risky superbowl wager -- then there's no rational basis for preventing them from buying private securities.

Some will be burned, and learn (and teach others via their example). They'll do better the next time -- as with all the other expensive failures we let people experience with their own money.

Fraud can be prosecuted under existing fraud laws. And the majority of honest entrepreneurs and wise-but-poor investors will have many, many more opportunities to explore the small-business solution-space with angel capital.
Nope: http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/blog/are-unpaid-internshi...
We are in a different position now than we were a year ago. We are happy to offer paid internships.

That being said, if we (and other startups) don't want to hire you because you are inexperienced, offering to work unpaid may make it easier to get some experience. If, for some crazy reason, you really want to work for a startup, you should do what it takes to break into that community.

That's what I did in college, and for a year after college. No way I would have been able to found WePay without those experiences.
A friend of mine worked at a general electronics repair business and he said 90% of the work is in the diagnosis. Customers would bring in their equipment, he would crack it open an examine, and a lot of customers either didn't like the repair price or simply didn't come back. Since he'd done most of the work just finding out what was wrong with it, he almost always fixed it. So they ended up with a lot of extra electronics to sell.

How much work goes into determining whether the laptop is fixable? Probably enough to warrant a charge.
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It's also the fact that a good amount of people in not-as-developed countries (I speak for Turkey, at least) use the diploma as a hiring heuristic to a much larger extent. No diploma? You must have been a lazy bum. Graduated from a good college with the lowest grade in your class? You'll probably have a well paying job regardless. It's getting better though.
Wow leave it to a post about ultas to pull me outta my lurking shell. :)

I love running ultras, IMHO it is the single most self inspiring act you can do without having to spend a thousands of dollars(like say climbing Everest).

My goal is to complete the "Grand Slam" which is 4 100's in 4 months. I'm aiming for next year, pending I get in to western states again next year.
I guess that one wasn't crafted with consumers in mind.

That is exactly right. These descriptions were written for investors.
Better yet, do. I have no patience for those that just floss big.
Thats a very insightful comment, especially for someone who doesn't stay in India :-)

Just to give an example, as to why its important to get really good scores in school and college. I and my (now) wife graduated from a reasonably well known college of engineering as classmates. I had decent marks so I got a job during campus placement. It was a good pay for a fresh grad from industry wide perspective. My wife didn't have the greatest scores (but the scores weren't too bad either). She didn't get a job for ~8 months. After that she did get a job in a tiny company (~5-10 people) that took her in as a trainee for zero pay. 3-4 months after working there, she could use that experience to get a job that paid her about USD 60 (INR 3000) per month, which is quite low (I pay my cook that much now a days for an hours work, this was about 10 years ago). And then over time she worked in different companies and is now has a good job with in a well know cellphone provided. As for me, I comfortably worked for about 8 years in different companies, following which I dabbled in a startup with an ex-colleague and now taking a breaking to work on a few hobby projects.

The point being, that in India, getting good scores required to having a comfortable life. There may be exceptions, but if you don't get a good score you will pretty much be struggling for the first few years irrespective of how good you are.
Congrats!

We have been using Sinatra for our installer at Amahi (http://www.amahi.org) and it has performed well with a couple of caveats.

1) Things can get messy quickly if one is not careful to impose and keep on having structure. It's hard to read what's going on very easily.

2) They released 0.9.5 which produced crashes in ruby (!) and this bit us hard. This is really a bit of a ding on how gems are packaged and distributed. We tried to package is as an RPM (Amahi is Fedora-based) and it was harder than other (bigger) gems due to some things we could not figure out quick enough. I really like it, however, the community did not really help much in getting to the bottom of this, probably because it's still a bit small, I guess. No question that it will grow. :)

3) (ok more than a couple, though this one may not be a Sinatra issue). We rely on periodic http calls to get our installer progress shown on the browser (via jQuery). Some times one http call breaks (to localhost no network involved!) and we have not been able to figure out why. We believe we have mostly eliminated jQuery, leaving Sinatra as the main suspect. Maybe we have another bug in there we're hitting? It's not too repeatable, sadly.

Congrats on the 1.0 release!!
Anyone here ready to earn some karma by vouching for it and giving a few paragraphs on why I absolutely must try this out? :-)
Man, I'm addicted to the buckles!! All those "short" races have puny medals!! 100's have belt buckles, some times the size of dinner plates!!!
Teaching is about as creative as waitressing. You learn to play games and make people like you in the hopes that they will reward you after your service is complete (tips, student evaluations).

As for salary, teaching at university pays less than many lower skilled jobs (e.g., waitress at high end restaurant, plumber, MTA worker).
"Most importantly: Drink continuously."

This seems like bad advice. Many of the recent deaths in marathons have been due to water intoxication rather than dehydration.
Hamlet makes the mistake of killing the king. Of course, so does his uncle.
(w.r.t engineering..)
Unlike in US , where you have many universities of repute & cutting edge research - in India we have only the IITs or at the next level perhaps the NITs(with quite a level of difference).And with millions of kids longing for that coveted seat in the iit , we have cut throat competition.Coaching for entrance exams has been a
thriving industry in India.
Don't even tell, just show ;)
Theoretically the insurance rates won't rise because the healthy young people who aren't buying insurance now will be forced to do so legally. With a lower risk pool, the insurer would hopefully be able to keep rates stable.
gpl v3 requires code (even hosted) to be shared upon request by users

with gpl v2, it was a requirement. hence gpl v2 licensed applications such as wordpress and drupal don't need to be shared with site users

code built upon the framework is derivation and thus, has to be licensed accordingly
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This would have definitely helped me out in school. One bathroom, 4 people, standing at a bus stop at 7am outside in freezing temperatures, lack of coffee (not allowed in my school even in HS), lack of transportation for after school activities before 5PM, staying up late to use the phone line on my computer after everyone else went to sleep, staying up until ungodly hours to watch MST3k on Comedy Central, etc. Gotta imagine kids today still face some of these reasons for needing a later start. These are the type of people who in the real world would gravitate towards jobs that allowed them the same respect & flexibility.
I can tell you why I like it. There's an app that's been repped for here called Scrivener, and like Scrivener (it predates Scr., actually), Ulysses is an application that is supposed to make writing large amounts of text more sane than standard word processors. It essentially combines elements of outliners and information managers with a composition interface.

In general the UI for Ulysses is very thoroughly thought out, and somewhat idiosyncratic for that fact. Many people find it lacking or uncomfortable in one way or another, but I can tell you that every element of the UI has been considered and applied to fulfill the designers' very specific goal.

One of those UI values is that it's very semantically correct. There's no formatting at all, except auto-formatting that you define yourself, which will recognize plaintext tags. The way this shakes out is that I will write a sentence like this: The &&quick&& brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

And then define a tag called 'emphasis', which is formed by a '&&' wrap, and displays itself in a certain way depending on whether it's being viewed in a window, fullscreen, printed, et cetera.

If you are a fan of working in plaintext and you are interested in more structured ways to write long-form text, I think it's a great program.

EDIT: changed example markup to something more exotic for HN's own parser
computer science was the philosophy department, the psychology department, or the math department.

you never know what will be useful.
It just makes it more difficult. Everyone has Microsoft Word, but not everyone has Acrobat Pro, or the other 3rd party tools. If you're really paranoid, you could digitally sign your PDF, but that seems like overkill.
Was anyone else really thrown off by the strange choices in bold and italic?
exactly... i think he has to come up with another group to describe the personality he really means...

in for money but ethical?
MongoDB is a running joke with you but, seriously, probably MongoDB along with Redis. It wouldn't be using the same algorithms as it did on MySQL, though. There are better ways to structure that sort of data nowadays.
it's also misleading in the sense that there is no "one number". You can't say something increased in performance after just one run. You need a few to know that it's consistent, but at least 200 runs to be statistically sound, and you're not gonna get exactly 40x on each of those runs. Sometimes it will be 40x, sometimes 35x, sometimes 1.5x.

What the article doesn't mention is, was that the highest measured performance increment, or was it the mean or median or most common? Also, what was the margin of error in that reading?
It certainly emphasizes just how much YC is built upon the backs of the starry-eyed tech youth...
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I definitely appreciate articles on the actual nuts and bolts of setting up and structuring your company.

Advice about "fail quick" and "benefit vs features" are great, but there are so many of them out there.
How many healthy uninsured young people do you really think there is?

I hear 36 million total uninsured getting thrown around.

Let's say 15% are healthy, young, & gainfully employed (able to afford premiums), but until now - health insurance "scofflaws".

Do you really think these 5.4M people offset uncapped, unrestricted benefits of the other 300+ Million people?
No. The chance of being incorrect in the first round is factored into the first term (since that term is calculating the probability of picking an entirely correct first bracket). The second term need only represent the chance of picking correctly from the teams in the second round, given that the first round was correctly predicted.

In other words, it's a straightforward application of the chain rule for probabilities:

p(A,B) = p(A) * p(B|A)
How could something pitched as the "Ferrari of undewear" possibly be crap?
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These kinds of contests have really turned design into a commodity -- bad news for designers. Designers argue vehemently that they are unethical and implore other designers not to participate in them.

I wonder when there will be $10,000 contests for the best CRM or the best Supply Chain Management System.