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> Would be cooler if you had a job board where consultants could outsource bits of their work to other GitHubbers.

Turning GitHub into rentacoder.com?

I don't see what would be cool in that.

> It would also create a special Github community, where people could trade out work.

Moving the reward from being social in nature (the appreciation of your peers, either those who use/contribute to your project or those whose projects you contribute to) to being an exchange of good, cheapening the whole community.
Boy, it's hard to answer such a flattering comment without letting it get to your head and sounding like a pompous jerk!

I'll give the same advice I give as a teaching grad student to undergrads who think us grad students are incredibly smart: it only takes a tiny amount of knowledge or training for someone to have that you don't for them to seem so much smarter. Don't be fooled. As a grad student enslaved by a university, I have become quite familiar with all the arguments about the purpose and place of research vs. teaching.

Anyways, this confusion between normative and empirical claims is extremely common; once you become aware of the difference, you see it everywhere. The easiest way to familiarize yourself with this and related ideas is to take a introductory course on moral philosophy or read an introductory textbook. Unfortunately, even if I thought the book I used in college was all that great (it was OK), I forgot the name of it. The material is fairly universal at the introductory level, though, so any decent book would do.
> don't the US corn subsidies for ethanol actually make corn more expensive?

My understanding is that the subsidies are there to incentivize corn production. The video says that the subsidized cost of corn production is actually negative -- that you can go plant a corn field and will have made money before you sell a single ear.

Once the corn is produced, if there are additional subsidies for ethanol production from corn, then that may divert corn from food uses. It may increase the cost of HFCS production.

But the cost of corn production is still lower despite, or perhaps even because of, the ethanol subsidies.
How about a law that prevents unrelated laws and pork hidden within another law.
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A lot of these seem to be just random statements extracted from the camel and llama books, and some of those statements are not even particularly funny or pithy. Just skimming these books and reading the footnotes is probably more amusing than reading this quotes page.
"Besides setting the direction of the entire institution, an effective president will raise far more income for the school via fundraising than the cost of their salary."

To what end?

The answer does not seem to be "providing a quality education to the university's students." So, regardless of the dollar amounts raised, "contribute nothing whatsoever" may very well be an accurate assessment of value. It depends on what that money is going towards, and what you consider a worthwhile contribution.
> I think this is a great idea, but, are Job Boards the new "thing" for "community-type" sites to implement?

Community sites implement job boards not because they're the hot new thing, but because they're trivial to implement and wildly profitable.
I have a pet theory that says that they are the first and last generation every to retire wholesale. I'm pretty sure my generation (I'm 31) isn't going to get to retire in the same way that my grandfather did (two sets of government defined benefit package money + teacher's retirement). Don't misunderstand me, I think he worked hard for it and played the system well, but I don't even have the opportunity to play the system the same way he did.
Are all the weightloss, health and training webapps good enough?
I have recently lost 20 pounds in about a month and turned my life over and got back to training and stopped eating junk food.

Are the health programs out there good enough?
What is missing in them?
This must be a huge market but it might be already taken? I mean how many millions in the world are overweight? And those 2.5 billion indians or chinese will soon start to be...

I have googled some but haven't found anything...there must be right?
Then why do they have undergraduates? Surely, they could produce more knowledge if they eliminated that distraction from their mission entirely.
John, what is Twilio's position on remote working? The senior engineer's job looks interesting but I can't relocate right away (baby on the way, misses wants to give labour in the home country). I'd be willing to fly in for a couple of days each month.
Which is why Somalia is just full of the things. And they were invented circa 2,000 BC.

You're so far off I despair of even imagining where to begin trying to correct you. You have to have a base level of wealth to even come close to building them.
Thanks for the props. It really is strange how every social even in NYC happens on third-party ground like a bar.
Thanks Sebastian :) A lot of new entrepreneurs ask me this same question and I figured instead of repeating myself each time, why not write a blog post about it!

Goodluck with your newsletter business!
Two things on the Jobs page (Chrome 5.0.375.125 on OS X):

1. If you click the "Next Geek" button in quick succession, the geeks start queueing up vertically while the current one fades out.

2. The "Our DNA" box near the bottom isn't lined up with the one above it.

Neither of those would stop me from applying if I were in the market for a job right now, I've heard nothing but good things about Twilio.
I don't see him knocking schooling. Rather, he is criticizing seeking schooling for the sake of schooling.

And he has a valid point. There is very little economic benefit, outside of research and some professional fields, to pursue additional degrees.
It doesn't seem right to state "He's pretty unclear on economics, yes." and then go on to make an unqualified statement of amazement that soviets were able to maintain some level of parity as long as they did.

Like it or not Russia defeated the bulwark of the German war machine, there is no question they suffered the brunt of the German military force that would have easily overwhelmed other allied nations, even possibly the US. Russia did so using that inefficient system to allocate resources.

They did not do this by simply chucking their soldiers at the Germans with the threat of being shot by a Peoples Party Officer if they tried to run back, and often repeated myth of why Russia was able to halt and then pursue the Germans back to Berlin.
I'm a happy Pastebot customer and use it all the time, but I don't think I'll be using this feature. It's ingenious, but it just feels like the kind of hack I associate with less UX-focused platforms.

I'm actually kind of glad the silent version wasn't approved, though. As logically strange as having to play music while using clipboard sync is, having another music app interrupt that sync is almost worse.

I'd rather Tapbots had gone the Task Completion API route, where they can run whatever they want in the background for ten minutes (what the Colloquy IRC client uses). That kind of functionality has an intuitive, physical analog in timed light switches; one can't say as much for a light switch that requires the stereo to be playing.

Apple really needs to increase that time limit, though.
When bills are 2000 pages long, every bill is a "special interest" bill. It doesn't matter what your rep's voting record is, by the time the bill is up for vote the sausage has already been made.

Asking the public to pay attention to amendments made in committees and subcommittees is wishful thinking. The inexorable economic logic of special interests fleecing a Democratic political system crushes the intentions of the do-gooders.
> Is learning LaTeX anywhere near as useful to a professional developer as say learning vim or emacs?

I would say no (even though I use latex nearly every single day).

On the other hand, it is indispensable if you're doing maths or anything that involves lots of formulas, citations, footnotes and what not, because it decouples the structure of the document from the formatting.
As a VERY satisfied customer, I want to know "what you have in store for the future"... NOW!!! Any hints???

Come on... your boss will never know ;-)
That's just it. In the U.S. we the people uniquely can make a difference. The U.S. is currently deployed in over 150 countries around the world; we've been in Korea since the 50's. When Congressman Ron Paul ran for president it exposed many of his ideas to a broader audience, some of which make a lot of sense. I'm not saying I agree with everything he says, but his warnings for straying from the Constitution bear truth, even in recent history when we look at things like the Iraq war. At one point Bush specifically said we were on course for World War 3, presumably with Russia and China, backing up Iran who was in our sights for military action next. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjGX2Gdj2Y4
If only you practiced what you preached. Imagine the amount of self-righteous bile that your servers wouldn't serve.
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Thanks for the reply. That's definitely true. I'd imagine a gene sequencing system using two bit encoding would allow for the gene data to be more compact and more performant in many cases.
For the PHP version: Why is the search method static? You are forcing whatever class you are using to be tightly coupled. Dependency injection can be done in PHP, too.

Better:

$bt = Braintree_Transaction_Search::someFactory();
$collection = $bt->search(array(
$bt->orderId()->startsWith('a2d')
$bt->customerWebsite()->endsWith('.com'),
$bt->billingFirstName()->is('John'),
$bt->status()->in(array(
Braintree_Transaction::AUTHORIZED,
Braintree_Transaction::SETTLED
)),
$bt->amount()->between('10.00', '20.00')
));

If you're really up to it, there is no reason you couldn't use an even more fluent interface in PHP...

$collection = $bt->where()
->orderId()->startsWith('a2d')
->and()->customerWebsite()->endsWith('.com')
->and()->billingFirstName()->is('John')
->search();

Also, please make sure the search method returns an iterator, not an array. Just because PHP allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, doesn't mean you should.
You just explained part of why a centralized system is less efficient, though even if you remove all those problems a centralized system still can not beat a capitalistic system with its superior capital allocation via pricing mechanisms. But those things are an intrinsic part of having a fully centralized system. Somebody not in the favored central government is going to want to be in the favored central government clique, and in the absence of other mechanisms to keep them in check (like letting the market decide who wins or even having both win), it's going to turn to violence. Proponents of centralized government can't ignore this aspect of their proposals and thereby forget they are talking about governing humans, and not abstract beings without ambition, happy to be drones.
shrug

Why do you trust anyone to do anything? Why do I trust AT&T not to be recording phone calls for the NSA (oh wait...) or Sony not to install rootkits on my Windows PC (hang on a second...).

At the end of the day, unless it's open-source, the possibility of malicious intent is everywhere. It only takes one disgruntled/incompetent employee.

That said, Gruber's last post on this indicated someone of repute had looked over the exploit, and they hadn't mentioned anything about such nastiness.
Update: Google now ranks it as highly as DDG. Great job!
Usually you just don't know. I got shamed in front of a prof once by saying that a given paper title was a good way to make people not want to come to your talk, and he responded by explaining why he thought it was an interesting talk.

There are plenty of examples of things that might be meaningless to a graph-theory professor that are a core part of the language of a combinatorics specialist.

And of course, undergrads and humanities majors best keep their mouths shut.
> but where's the evidence what people see for active/total ratios in the real world?

Yes Zed, where the fuck is it? You're claiming SCIENCE! based on your worst-case synthetic localhost benchmarks, and then turning around and wildly guessing as to real-world performance characteristics with internet latencies.

Worse, your whole thesis hinges off of ATR but you made no effort to measure it anywhere, instead you're passive-aggressively berating us to do it.
I find his proposed changes somewhat naive.

Of course laws can be simplified, however removing the idea of due process is a horrible idea.
You gave me a point-by-point rebuttal, so I'll give a similar counter-rebuttal.

1) Queens is way too far away from lower Manhattan. Believe me, I tried looking elsewhere. It wasn't much cheaper. The solution I ended up with was moving into a tenement in LES with the girlfriend, who had a lease dating back five years. That was the 'cheap' way to go.

2) I'll quote the managing director on my desk: you need about 500K a year to live normally in Manhattan with a family. That's like 10 families in the flyover states.

4) At least in 2005, if you tried using CL to find an apartment in NY, you'd find it completely taken over by broker spam. As Craig Newmark himself mentioned in a recent interview, de-spamifying the New York CL rentals listings was one of his biggest challenges. I can't imagine it's much different now, although I'd love to see otherwise.

6) Dude, Starbucks isn't a cafe'. The fact you're even counting them proves my point about New Yorkers.

7c) Actually, New York delis can't sell wine by law, probably as a kickback to the liquor store owners. So good luck finding that bottle of Sonoma at 2am on Friday. I never did.

8) Yeah, and try getting to those big box stores from Manhattan. It starts with a subway ride to midtown to rent a car from one of the agencies next to the Queen's Midtown tunnel....

9) Eh, actually they did talk to me, once I dropped the G-bomb, which is kind of the point of the post. I wasn't a startup geek when I was in NYC.

That might be enough for one reply....
Hell with 51%, try something like 40%.
turned my life over and got back to training and stopped eating junk food

That is the secret to losing weight and staying healthy. There's no money in that though, since you can't charge people money if all they have to do is stop eating doughnuts and start jogging.

People will spend money on magical gadgets, miracle pills, and mystical potions that promise to "melt away the pounds." It's pretty sad, really.
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Yes, because clearly they didn't have enough enough versions of this product already.
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I think they missed the important point that the redshirt's attractiveness is also attributed to the expendability of the wearer. Or perhaps they just mistaken the men for senior officers or merely want to use the redshirts to get to the more powerful members of the away teams.
> Do you have numbers on the dial-up users for your server? My understanding is that there's far fewer, so this is bogus. Show evidence of high dial-up penetration first.

He doesn't need to show that it's high, only that it's high enough to cause a significant contingent of ordinary webservers' requests to be lingering slow connections.
I think it's possible for a group to share a common goal, without a person connecting them.

Of course, if people in the group don't share goals - I think it necessary to have someone keeping everyone 'on track'.
The pointer referred to by the process is not accessible by the kernel because when the user process was running, it had a different vm space than the kernel vm space. So if it just passes the pointer (without copying the pointer's data), then the kernel will point to a virtual address that won't exist until the user process gets swapped in again.
> for a segment of the market that covers only about 5-10% of desktops.

Wait what?
I agree completely. In addition, they seem to have achieved "meta-arrogance" by blogging about it as if it's the right way to do things.
Thanks, this site looks awesome!
Eh, my thought about the article was, "obvious troll is obvious."
i assumed the half of the population who weren't allowed to take off their shirt would wear some kind of minimal sports covering. even an a-shirt or something similar would still expose one to a sufficient amount of vitamin D, perhaps with a few more minutes exposure.
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How about you get measurements of ATR from real-world deployments instead of the wild conjectures you've laid in this thread? Your challenge applies even moreso to yourself:

Measure it or GTFO.
The first four digits of 1/0.6 would be 1666, the Annus Mirabilis. So you could compare Mongrel2's multiple request handlers to Isaac Newton first splitting light with a prism.
There's a Mathematical Theory of Communication? Wow!
China overtakes US as world's biggest energy consumer
I would personally find it a sad, sad day if enrollment in liberal arts rapidly declined. People that major in liberal arts bring great joys to our world. Film, music, art, dance, and great books are all things that truly enhance life, and honestly, is also the cultural force that makes the United States so great.

One of my biggest regrets of my collegiate education was not making a conscious effort to expand my curriculum by taking courses in the humanities department.
Where do we see a specific citation in the thread below my question or nearby? A lot of different phenomena have been labeled "epigenetic" in the last few years, without great consistency. I have quite a large number of reference works on genetics at hand in my office, and I was asking specifically which study the HN participant to whom I was replying had in mind.
While you visited your mum regularly, didn't you feel guilty not being in MD with her?
Wow, this research is really applicable to job interviews. I'm adding some questions that are designed to get at this trait to all my interviews from now on.
> Soon, you’re going to be in total control of your financial future

As any Warren Buffet would tell you this ^ is possible iff your balance is zero :)
Ask HN: How do I get involved in open source projects?
I want to get involved in an open source project, but am not sure the best way to do it.

I figured I would just get on github, look for an interesting project, and would start working on it.

But it turns out, most of the projects I have found on github are just a single guy or a small group and they do not have a list of bugs anywhere for me to try to fix. Also, I don't know enough about the software to just start adding features.

How do you do it?
Minimalism in feature implementation presentation from Social App Workshop
Without trying to hijack your thread, I'm curious exactly HOW opens are tracked by these apps. They seem to stand by them (but they're evil marketing people).

Seems liek they just embed an image in your email. When it loads, they have a unique ID so they know which email was opened. Now, most email apps are starting to block images from displaying by default. Wouldn't this HUGELY skew the open rates? And if these rates are inconsistent (image week 0 default gmail is to open images, week 3 it's turned off... how could you make that comparison?)

So you could have massive swings in open rates due to a specific provider changing their policies. Or any number of other reasons.

So why do you track opens at all? Isn't that metric so inconsistent and inaccurate that it'd be better to track something else entirely?
I have to disagree that he is showing sufficient dedication to job hunting.

I recently moved away from a secure job that paid well to live closer to family. All my old friends asked me what I was going to do. I assured them I would have a job after my first day of looking.

I did. I worked serving fast food for three weeks before I found a job more in line with my previous employment. During those three weeks I worked serving food, I was emailing my resume out, making calls, and dropping to on local places. I worked my network and heard about an opportunity.

Having a college degree and working for 4 hours a day to find a job while mom and dad pay for your rent, food, and entertainment is a sign of utter failure.

I have been independent since I was 19, after my freshman year of school. I've said it before and will always say it. If I have to move back home after what I've accomplished thus far, I have failed.
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These aren't assumptions. These are business I have personally dealt with in my product development company who have made this exact decision for this exact reason. We always have to council iterative development, etc, instead of a large impressive release, as Apple is capricious.

I have companies who've been willing to write Apple a 20k check to get a go-nogo call on an app before developing it.

>2. If an app store has <200K-budget-apps, it will be full of junk

No, I'm not assuming there is junk, I can see this just by looking. I can also see companies actively not publishing apps due to the rejection risk.

>3. If Apple pre-approved apps and more >200K-budget-apps were in the app-store, the app-store would not be full of low-quality apps.

No, I'm saying it would be more reasonable to invest more in your applications. In the current rejection climate, it is not reasonable to assume 30-80k is safe if you make an app. You may have to spend 50% again to get up to whatever apple thinks is copacetic. Apple may change policies while you're developing an app (One client of mine had this exact issue).

>On (2) you can create high-quality apps on a small budget

You can? Small apps can be high quality, for sure, but are you pricing your developer time? Can you not imagine apps that involve a lot of developer time (for instance, work with lots of external API's, work with intensive processing, do something completely new).

> the presence of high-quality apps (whether low-budget or >200K-budget) isn't going to dissuade junkware publishers.

No, it's not going to dissuade them, look at the web for that. However the issue is people have a disincentive to invest in the platform, which means there are proportionately more crapware people than non-crapware people.

>The first assertion is a bit extreme. I understand that some big companies may hesitate to create apps that aren't pre-approved, but many other big companies (ranging from Volkswagen to Pizza Hut to New York Times to Microsoft) haven't suffered from any inhibitions when it comes to creating iPhone apps.

You think so? I've talked to several large companies, some of which household names, which have made the OPPOSITE decision when making apps. The companies that have made apps in general make them when they're clearly safe from rejection, which not everything in the world is.

Additionally, relatively recently, apple made a A company B Company C company D company classification system for processing rejections. This means something like PizzaHut can put out a non-standard app where RandomCo3 can't.
Thanks for the reply. Can you further expand on the one-click deploy to staging/production? Which tools/methods/scripts do you use?
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How to finally understand Unicode.
Part of the issue is that there aren't enough "Stores within a store". Apple needs to explicitly allow people making their own app stores that are strict subsections of the full appstore.
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