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I see this here on HN in various forms e.g. this comment[5] saying "women are less likely than men to engage in deeply focused solitary activities".

I don't understand this. Are you saying that statements like that are objectively and obviously false, that they're meaningless, or that their truth or falsehood is irrelevant because it's not something that should ever be discussed?

Really, "essentialism" being entirely false would be a surprising result. Men and women have these very different hormones flowing through our bodies, which have no effect whatsoever on our mental processes?
If another language has something similar to the Acme::* area of CPAN then I think it probably qualifies itself has having same sense of humour :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1356954

Here's a video which you may also find amazing, appalling and entertaining all at the same time! - Barely Legal XXX Perl http://oslopm.blip.tv/file/1903160/

Video summary: Acme::BadExample is a grammatically correct Perl program which is impossible to run! The challenge is to bend the perl5 VM to make it run!! No spoilers now :)
I would love feedback on content, style, usefulness, etc.
Why would he tell you of salary raises. You're his son, or is it daughter. Maybe you should ask him first?
I'm curious how you respond to my comments/questions from another thread from today, on the same topic. Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572858

I'm actually planning on implementing this tonight for my startup. We're going to try using SendGrid. It basically allows you to send your own emails, relay them through the sendgrid smtp server (or you can API interface). Then you get a bunch of tracking, etc.

It seems super cheap, and pretty easy to integrate. I can't speak for my experience (I just signed up today, haven't used it yet), but it looks like it could be a very powerful tool for those of us who don't feel the need to use MailChimp's API or interface for sending transactional / personalized emails (I just prefer to send them myself).
Disagree. Weight Watchers is a publicly traded company and I believe the part about helping people stop eating so much is the core of what they do.
As someone who's developed a similar app for Android, I'm actually a bit surprised that they have to resort to such workarounds in the first place.
I'm not sure Scott wasn't to be an entrepreneur though.

When I first started looking for a job back in high school, my parents (both entrepreneurs) told me to accept the first job I got and then keep applying to the ones I was looking for.

Having a job currently shows that you are at least likable enough and capable enough to have someone else want to hire you at the present time.
> the problem is that they pretty much allow anything

1. That's not a problem, they just need to allow curated subsections of the appstore itself, which allow people to go through and make subsections of the store which are highly reviewed for quality.

>Another problem is, if you're not a talented developer, it's much easier to dump piece of crap after piece of crap on the store and just hope someone dumb enough to search for random stuff on the store and buys it.

That's the case with the web too. That's why there aren't comprehensive lists of the web, there is google, reddit, and hacker news. We just need the app version of those apps.
That question is somewhat addressed in Sean Carroll's post that I linked to:

> If it weren’t for the fact that it’s hard to get alumni donations when you don’t have any alumni, serious consideration would doubtless be given to cutting out students entirely. Sure, some would complain that they enjoy teaching, that it keeps them fresh, or that students can be useful as research assistants. But those are reasons why the students are useful to the faculty; they are not assertions that the purpose of the institution is to educate students for their own sakes.

>Don’t believe me? Here is the test: when was the last time Harvard made a senior tenure offer to someone because they were a world-class educator, rather than a world-class researcher? Not only is the answer “never,” the question itself is somewhat laughable.

Honestly, once you realize that private research universities use undergraduates as a source of money, all sorts of seemingly strange behaviors by the university become simple. Why does Princeton allow so many academically unqualified students in to play sports? Alumni donations. Why does it charge $40k+ per year (albeit with financial aid) if it really wanted to attract the absolute best students (since it doesn't actually need the money)? Because the students aren't important and, heck, might as well pay for a couple more buildings.
They've said (in the comments section of their post) that this will not get interrupted by other music apps. They tested with iTunes and Pandora running.
"You just explained part of why a centralized system is less efficient,"

Um.. No. I explained some of the reasons why the Soviet Union collapsed. No other "centralized system" had the particular history that the Soviet Union had. It was absolutely unique. And I can see no reason why any other "centralized system" must have all, or even any, of those negative factors which caused the Soviet Union to collapse.

"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"

This statement of yours sounds like an avowal of ideology (an ideology that's sadly all too prevalent on HN), rather than any sort of argument in favor of capitalism or against communism.

"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."

Are you saying that "favored central government cliques" and violence aren't possible in capitalist systems? Even a superficial look at a model capitalist country like the US will reveal their presence.
>However that would not explain why a majority of applications are sub-par quality.

Oh I can explain that: Investment is low, therefore finacial risk is low. That's pretty much the case in any low risk investment client with any product. I mean, look at the web.
You have measured nothing about real world workloads. You have applied completely artificial benchmarks and formed some possible conclusions from them that mean absolutely nothing until you demonstrate that this is a real problem in the real world. There's ample evidence to believe that FDs spend the majority of their existence idle--between HTTP keepalive, processing time for the queries themselves, network bandwidth and the generally sparse nature of HTTP traffic, it is extremely plausible that the ATR, as you call it, is well below 60% almost all the time. Your numbers demonstrate that there is a tradeoff between epoll and poll, which is of some interest, but unless you actually measure the ATR of a real site you're shooting off your mouth.

I cannot collect this data because I don't possess a sufficiently high load web server. Go forth and measure, but measure useful information.
You're not going to be able to write your own payment gateway. That's the short version.

The long version is that it'll be much more expensive to write your own, than it is to use an existing one. I would guess it'd cost at least tens of millions (if not HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS) to build that. What would you need?
- the actual software (not an easy undertaking)
- fraud protection on said software (takes years to develop, ask Paypal, or read their story in "Founders at Work")

On top of that, you have to get the banking industry to allow you to tap into their existing infrastructure. Unless you're a pretty well proven company, this will be a non-starter.

Throw on top of that the cost of compliance (not basic PCI, either -- you'll need top fo the line stuff going on).

Yeah, I'd say it'd cost you > $100 million AND take > 3-5 years to accomplish.

Use an existing payment gateway.
So is the web. We just need better indexing apps, which are either human curated or have better search parameters (for instance, filter out things with less than 2 stars, etc).
Gender is a binary state now?
The linked article from H-Online article is probably the best coverage I've seen today. The Illumos homepage is here: http://illumos.org/

I noticed that The Register's coverage has also been submitted, but I refuse to upvote that link. Apologies.
My position as an Evangelist requires me to travel a lot, and I happen to live in a nice startup town (Boulder) so it's the right situation for working remotely. There's another Evangelist located in NYC. Outside of that, our core engineering team is all in San Fran, so those positions require being located there.
Haven't used Amazon payments or Spreedly, so I'm not familiar with their cost structure.

What're you looking for, primarily? Same recurring payment month after month, for the same amount? I think Paypal has a recurring charge option that would be good.

Otherwise I'd suggest using AUthorize.net. They'll get you a little bit less than paypal, in some circumstances. They offer a Customer Info Manager (CIM) that allows you to store a reference to a credit card, so you can charge it in the future again (even for a different amount, which is nice if you expect people to move up or down on your pricing plans).

Basically expect to pay around 3% for processing a credit card. Not sure what the companies that do your recurring charges will add on top of that for the funcitonality that they offer.
Your money will be appreciated. I can tell because I'm doing Glioblastoma Multiforme research myself, so thank you.
It's especially great for the tipa (IPA symbols) and synttree (Syntax trees) packages, as they can get to be pretty finicky.

For diagrams, WhizzyTeX and TikZ is even more amazing! (Although, it doesn't seem to do node text properly. Still, it's the layout of the diagram that's most important.)
That is actually a great point. When was this law made?

Also, this only protects people who are aware of it and willing to fight for it
In Lisp I would write a macro that could be used like this:

(for-each (transaction)
:where
((order :starts-with "a2d")
(customer-website :ends-with ".com")
(billing-first-name :equals "John")
(status :one-of '(:authorized :settled))
(amount :between '("10.00" "20.00")))
:do
(print (id transaction)))
Atlas is shrugging.

EDIT: I meant this only as a connection to the work of literature not at all indicating that the Mega-Wealthy Class actually makes the world go round and is "a good thing"(tm)
Why do people even pay attention to this drivel? Who is going to dream up their fancy meals, drive their fancy cars, clean their fancy housing, and manage their financial empire? This just touches the surface. Who's going to educate the middle class they depend on for execution, protect their property and legal rights? The rich have more to gain through society, law, and government than any other class.
Ugh, more laws. NO Thank You!

Ever see that youtube video of a law professor discussing why you NEVER EVER talk to police? His point is basically, "we have so many laws that you never know which ones you're breaking, so you could be confessing without realizing it."

We have plenty of laws. Our legal codes are so complex and absurd that no one person can know a fraction of them. Even in their specific niches.

What we need (from the comments below) is a way to get rid of laws. Maybe some sort of a battle royale between laws that are already on the books, where the winner stays in the code.

Or maybe we should make a law that you cannot add a law to US codes without first deleting an equal portion of text. Want to make a new law? Fine, you've got to edit down the existing laws to make room.
Which "Atlas" are you referring to? If you mean that the American people are tired of supporting a billionaire welfare class, then yeah, maybe.
The 2.7 release of GLFW (sort of like GLUT but different).

http://www.glfw.org/
I'm in Bushwick, right now, 20 minutes from downtown on the JMZ. Pretty cheap. So cheap in fact that most of the hipsters here don't even have jobs!

If you can affordably live in NYC with "having good taste in music" as your primary occupation, you can probably do a startup here.
On a Mac, the MacTex suite simplifies things pretty well [1]. I typically write my documents in Vim, and then render them to PDFs with TeXShop. It installs all of the standard TeXLive stuff, so if command-line LaTeX is where you're comfortable, that works too.

[1] http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/
Presumably the ads would be in the RSS feed as well.
Except the casino part of the economy has vastly outsized the productive part. More money changes hands in a day in currency speculation markets alone than does in the productive economy in a year. Thus, what favors the short term gains of a few wealthy gamblers can take precedence over what benefits the people at large.
They're not calling "all engineers" their calling all software engineers/devs/programmers/etc. I suspect that if I sent in a resume that documents my MIT MechE degree, MA PE license, 15 years of acoustical engineering experience, and basically 0 software development experience, it would take all of about 5 secs for it to wind up in the Trash folder.

Yeah, it's a nitpick, and go ahead and downvote me, it's just that I'm annoyed at the propensity for tech firms to equate "engineer" with "software dev". A software dev may be an engineer but the relationship is not reciprocal.
Perl has taken care to address some of these issues. See 'Algorithmic Complexity Attacks' in perldoc perlsec. For example, the keys of a hash table are guaranteed to be returned in random order, to prevent hash collision attacks on the hashing algorithm itself.

It appears they punt on the particular issue of regex's running out of memory though. Developers are told "careful crafting of the regular expressions can help," and told to read "Mastering Regular Expressions."

As I recall, Boost's regex library will throw an exception if evaluation of the regex is getting out of hand.

It's funny, I generally judge a regex library on how compatible it is with perl's implementation. In this case though, I might actually prefer the behavior of Boost and PCRE.
This this this this.

Caveat emptor.

Now, there are some cases (health standards, for example) where the laws prevent a lot of bad things that we wouldn't otherwise be aware of until something damaging happened.

But, really? Limiting the size of fine print text on a TV advert? If you can't figure out that the latest wunderpill from Merck has side effects that include death, perhaps you should start taking responsibility for yourself. (BTW, this wasn't aimed at you, maxharris... just the general "you" that I should when I rant)
"Europe, on the whole, balances lower individual buying power and higher unemployment against taking substantially better care of its citizens,"

"lower individual buying power" means much higher taxes and less freedom with your money.

Right now, the unemployment rate in most European countries is almost the same as it is in the US:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&...
> Queens is way too far away from lower Manhattan.

Too far for what?
yup agreed, and even if developers would like to write up their findings in an academic-style paper, they aren't likely to be accepted at top-ranked conferences, since they're so selective and only publish papers that are presented and polished in a very academic way

fortunately, i think now some good conferences have more 'applied' or 'industrial experience' tracks
I've not tried org-mode, but I've started using Markdown with pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) to do much the same thing. Markdown makes actually writing much quicker and more readable, but you can still insert raw LaTeX where you want to do something extra (e.g. \cite).

Additionally, Markdown is far less threatening to technophobe collaborators. I've successfully written grant applications with clinicians using Markdown in an etherpad document (free hosted version at http://piratepad.net/), which I later converted to LaTeX/pdf for submission. They would never have put up with writing lists or headings in straight LaTeX.

EDIT:I should have stated that pandoc is a nice tool for conversion between a bunch of formats including Markdown, Latex, Html, s5, reST, RTF, epub and a few others. In response to the comments below about conversion to word always sucking, pandoc provides the least sucky attempt I've found so far.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are trying to argue for some type of self-defeating isolationism? What does the nation's current troop deployments and/or geopolitical strategy have to do with the constitution?
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A text web browser wouldn't require window management but omits a lot of content.

It does, but after using one for a while, most of it seems superfluous.
This very much echoes my own personal experience. My father was diagnosed with a terminal disease when I was high school. At the time he was given two years to survive. But my father is a fighter and he found a cocktail of food supplements that has allowed him to survive for 17 years now. After college, I have found that startup life provided both an outlet when I needed to hide from the world and offered the flexibility to be there for my family when that was required -- with all the overtime I normally put in no boss I've ever had gave me crap about taking time away or working remotely when needed.

I'm really happy to see this subject getting attention in the tech community. Caregiving is hard and can be a huge strain on families and caregivers. That's why I became the first employee at caring.com when the opportunity came my way. Being able to apply my technical expertise to such a personal subject and hopefully help make some peoples lives go a little smoother during one of the roughest periods of their lives is immensely satisfying.

Thank you for sharing your story, Alexis.
As I've said elsewhere, I'm not disputing your central claim that NYC tech scene is a pale shadow of the Bay Area scene. But your arguments for why that is are bizarre and nonsensical.

1) I was just picking someplace random. It's not a two hour commute from anyplace in the city to any other place (unless you count coming in from as far out as Jamaica or Mt. Vernon during rush hour I guess). But there's plenty of places 10-20 minutes outside of the Financial District that are way less. BTW CL is not the only place that lists apartments. There's a 2 BR in the NYT real estate section for $2k/mo in Ft. Greene right now. That's <25 minutes, bring a book and there's a ton of >500 sq ft. places on the Island for <$2500/mo.

2) I guess that's true if you want to live in a building with a doorman in a 3 bedroom apartment and an au pair. I wouldn't call that living "normally" in Manhattan though. I'm also mystified with the requirement to live directly on the island. There's other boroughs that are much cheaper. At that type of income, you're looking at around $10-$13k/mo in housing costs. There's not a lot of places you can't live in the city for that.

4) I don't disagree, that's why there's a half dozen other cheap/free ways to find apartments in cities.

6) I will agree that the cafe culture in NYC is not nearly as prevalent as places that are ~70deg year round. Heck, there's more cafes in the D.C. area. But they are there. I've actually had some very nice evenings sitting outside sipping a latte and chatting about the weather. But restricting yourself to cafes and only cafes is like going to Paris and talking about how the Tex-Mex food culture sucks. You know the old saying "When in Rome..." In NYC you do delis, coffeeshops and diners, not cafes. The last time I was in the city a month ago I spent half a day in a deli responding to email next to a guy hacking out some code. It's not like they kick you out so long as you buy something.

7c) All I can say is, I've never had a problem finding cheap CA wine in the city. I usually go out and pick some up and bring it back to my hotel instead of paying $30-60/btl at a restaurant. Much more satisfying and not terribly hard to find - did nobody in your social group in 3 years ever figure out where to buy a bottle of wine?

8) I think my point was that it's not necessary, nor does it make sense to equate big box hardware stores with a hacker's paradise. I mean, I guess if "hacking" has changed meaning to mean "I need some lumber and an industrial dehumidifier" then you make sense. Calling SF such a place because you can get all your gardening and plumbing needs taken care of at one store just simply is nonsensical.

9) Hang around superficial people and they'll expect superficial things.
"I think the fact that we're seeing a lot of articles, stories, and publications revolving around the thoughts of college becoming useless and the importance of starting businesses says something about the way our culture is changing, and perhaps waking up."

When I was 19, 20, and 21, I didn't see the importance of college. Now that I'm 29 (with a bachelor's degree), I do. I suspect that many of these articles are written by students or people that don't have a lot of life experience.
"Some would argue this is a vast overstatement." - always nice when a link-bait-esque article has the counterpoint built right in.
The claim that the Word layout engine is as good as TeX's is not correct.

Even for math-free text, TeX does a better job of hyphenating and line-breaking. The TeX algorithm specifically tries have low variability in line-to-line fill density. Word does not care, which can result in a loose line between two tight lines, causing horizontal stripes in a block of text.

For much more, including ligatures, kerning, and transparency, see:

http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex

My point above is his point #7.
While both remarks were somewhat snarky, I'd like to hear your evidence that "the American people" are supporting the "billionaire welfare class". It's the first time I've ever heard the table turned like that and would like to learn more.
Tokyo has even smaller space. Parties are almost impossible to throw at home for most people, but there are great restaurants instead.
The article's claim isn't that they don't need the middle and lower classes, just that they don't need the American middle and lower classes (instead, what they need from those classes can come from foreigners).
People almost never want war. They have to be spurred into it by a combination of heavy propaganda and desperate economic circumstances. The first is often enough if the war is one that most citizens will only see on TV, like all 'wars' America has waged since WWII (they are 'wars' in the sense bullfighting is 'fighting'.)

Real wars, on the other hand (e.g., an hypothetical Germany invading France), would require a big crisis.

Which, on the other hand, is almost guaranteed, cyclically, by the current money system, and otherwise easy to summon, by contracting the money supply.
Rock, I'm about 10 blocks south of you at Moore St.

(If we were talking california, it'd be "45 minutes away on the freeway")
"Sigh, another blogger trotting out the tired, false cliche that college is useless."

Hello, very definition of a straw-man argument. I'm surprised this is rated so high on this site.

To reiterate, his thesis is not about college, it is this:

"I am offering encouragement to a crop of college kids infantilized by terrible advice from parents and TV who have the freedom and opportunity to try something; while simultaneously describing the only long term solution to America's economic problems: more businesses."

Now, you can certainly take issue with the thesis he presents, but there is no point arguing about something unrelated to the point of the article.
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The source link 500s. I'd like to see it.
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