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Ezra, thanks for all your help while at EngineYard. I recall many times where you would help out when I was having problems with client sites. Looking forward to hearing what your next project is.
isn't this pretty similar to lowbrow or fml?

regardless, you need to clean it up, at least. right now, its just a blog with a voting option. you need to focus more on the user experience and the display/reading of the stories. why am i clicking "continue", just to get to see the three more words and to get to vote? are the extra ad pageviews really worth losing users interest?
I think the problem will be that the previous salaries have anchored the company's idea of his/her worth. Regardless, I agree that it's best to ask for what you feel you are worth.
Yes, beware selection bias and all that, but note that he specified developers.
wow- where did that website come from??
It's a lot easier to deal with 10 spammers sending a million spams each than it is to deal with a million spammers sending 10 spams each.
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I really don't understand the strategy here. DDG Seems to be entirely targeted towards people who want to be ultra secretive about what they're searching for. People looking for kiddieporn? Terrorists? Who are the users here?

I'm not being negative here, I just have no idea what 'problem' is trying to be solved here.
In a study by useit (Nielsen's group), they found reading the Kindle is slower than reading the iPad is slower than reading a book.

So, to say that using a Kindle is more like reading a book than an iPad strikes me as bogus. I don't understand how a backlight or not decides an item's bookishness. Certainly, neither has pages.
this is really a great service. caution: I've read many horror stories about people running exit nodes, and being charged with things that probably they had nothing to do with , but are very serious charges. Thats why exit nodes take the most balls to run.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601253
I wonder if you're right... To the casual observer this seems to undermine the GPL.
I can't understand why we aren't seeing companies producing ARM-based notebooks. The high end Tegra chips would be great for ultra portables and tossing them into even 15" notebooks would probably be feasible. The chips are capable of 1080p H.264/VC-1/MPEG-4 video decoding!

Really, if you're at the point where ARM isn't powerful enough, you shouldn't be using a laptop for whatever it is that you're doing.

I suppose the largest issue is probably OEMs shying away from an architecture that doesn't support a mainstream desktop OS, but I think that there is a lot of money to be made by playing to ARMs advantages.
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"Openly" was poorly phrased, I merely meant "that I know about". I don't actually spend a lot of time vetting bookstores.

I liked Village Books, but I haven't lived up in Bellingham for well over 18 years.

I like Elliott Bay.

I like the UW bookstore, but that's largely because of their fabulous SF&F selection.

Of the big chains, I prefer B&N.
It's not a strategy, just good policy.
Dalvik isn't a JVM, and Clojure won't run on it without modification.
allow posting anonymously could work too, but that could open up a whole new can of worms.
I can't speak on the issue of the German language, but France has the Académie Française, whose job it is to standardize the language and approve new changes. They carry no legal clout, but where they go, the french language usually follows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise#Fu...
Since the slogan "don't be evil" is already in use, I'm guessing Oracle is going for "be evil" instead?
For those of you who are relatively new here, meta-discussion is discouraged on hacker news. Now everyone quickly downvote me!
Sorry, missing reference. I probably overstated the cause and effect, but it does seem to me that it contributed to the morale problems of the American troops.

>> The American commanders in the field reported that the Czarist reign of terror was far more horrific and disturbing that the actions of the Reds. The American forces also discovered that the vast majority of Russians sympathized with the Bolsheviks and supported the revolution. In the end, the American troops were brought home without any fanfare, and the ordeal was considered one of the most ill-conceived interventions in American history up to that time.

From http://rationalrevolution.net/war/russian_revolution.htm
Thanks. Sorry. I'm stupid...
Why?

What about when your service is used exclusively by law breakers? Will anonymity be a great policy then?
There is a big difference between laws against actual crimes (mala in se) and pure redistribution, ie robbing some to pay others, which is all welfare and social security are.
Have you actually used a Kindle or another device with an e-ink display? It is uncanny how simliar it is to paper. It literally looks like a piece of paper morphs into new page when change page. It is really out of this world.

Anyway, there are many reasons why the Kindle is more like reading a real book besides the display that looks identical to a piece of printed paper. First of all, neither books nor the Kindle have a backlight which does, in fact, make the Kindle more simliar to a book than an iPad despite its lack of pages... You can read a Kindle on the beach or on a deck in the brightest sunlight you can imagine and the screen will just look better. The same goes for a real book. Just try that with iPad with a backlight and you will see a difference there.

Also, due to the lack of backlight the Kindle is much better suited for reading before sleep just like a real book. The backlight of a computer monitor is the reason computer people struggle with falling asleep. A good fiction paper back is the best sleeping pill in the world and you just can't get that effect with a backlight screen.

Finally, just look the article we are commenting on. Do you not notice how similar the Kindle character is to the newspaper, magazine, and book characters at 400x? I would dare sare it is sharper.
I'm not sure if I got the exact word for it (english isn't my first language) so I'll call it the "anchor price" effect.

Basically, if you are the one who mention the first number, you can set the "anchor" of the conversation. This mean that if you ask for 55$ first and they try to offer you 40$ You can focus on the fact that it's around 30% lower than your asking price.

On the other hand, if they mention 40$ first, you are the one who has to convince them to give you 30% more.

PS : I'm not saying you are wrong, just bringing another point of view on that.
Strangest language feature...
Not all of us can go to college.
I the localhost:3000 address in the screenshot will be a little confusing to non-tech people. Not that big of a deal, but I'd change it.
If I remember from my economics classes correctly, a bank has to have around 10% of its assets liquid. Meaning if you have $100,000 dollars in the bank, they need to have $10,000 in cash on hand. Of course, the 10% is all assets, not just yours, so 100 customers have a total of 1 million dollars, the bank needs $100,000 on hand for withdrawals.

That is just a broad overview that I remember from college. The numbers probably are wrong (10% is a nice round number) and I don't know how that works with a bank with 1000's of branches across the country. Of course I could be completely wrong, since I didn't really care about economics at the time.
I'll clean it up. Thanks for your feedback.
Something strange (my point of view), the pricing page listing is from high to low. imho this should be the reverse.

Also, you are not telling (I haven't found the info) if your source is a realtime provider, or not, (nor whom). I think this is very important..

Good luck with your service and congratulations for the launch.
Notice Stallman's revised comment at the head of the article:

"Since this article was first published, Sun has relicensed most of its Java platform reference implementation under the GNU General Public License, and there is now a free development environment for Java. Thus, the Java language as such is no longer a trap."

This case is among few high-profile instances in which the GPL may not be free enough -- that is, Oracle may have a strong claim despite Sun's licensing of much of the JVM and JDK under the GPL, because the provisions of the license only extend to VMs which fully implement the Java spec. The license grant for the Java specification explicitly does not apply to VMs implementing a sub- or super-set.

See the patent grant released in Dec 2006 [1] – specifically the portion where it's stated that the implementor must "not modify, subset, superset or otherwise extend the Licensor Name Space," and that the VM must "[pass] the Technology Compatibility Kit." Under this interpretation, Google's App Engine platform might also be considered non-compliant, depending on the underlying VM.

While I personally choose to release code under BSD or MIT-style licenses to avoid the GPL's viral restrictions, it is interesting to consider cases where liberal licensing alone is not enough to ensure the liberty of a platform.

[1] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/jdk-6u21-doc-license.txt
Out of work again; seeking your advice
So I just lost my job today - not enough work to keep me busy, apparently.

I'm so frustrated with my career path, and I'd like to seek your advice on how to get someplace.

I was diagnosed with ADHD five years ago at the age of 30. Having undiagnosed ADHD was a major cause of job difficulties in the past, as well as making poor choices (working short-term contracts in the late 90s, for example).

I have worked (via contract) for some nice names - Microsoft, Texas Instruments. I have a wide range of experience in tech support / helpdesk, web design, web applications.

I'm slowly increasing my programming skills, but I am self-taught. I speak PHP and Python.

I'm not amazing at web design - although my various clients have all been happy. But I don't have the skills to make those Photoshop templates I see. On the other hand, I think I do a pretty good backend... so I've been trying to focus on that.

I'm a computer generalist - I think I fit well in situations like I just found myself in: For example, the company wanted to take photographs of all their products. I'm not an expert photographer, but I knew enough to get the camera to get good results - and they were ecstatic with the results.

But right now, I'm looking at being out of work again - thank goodness my wife works. I can't afford college when I'm unemployed; and with my resume, companies looking for experienced developers overlook me - and companies looking for entry-level tend to want a degree.

If you were in my shoes - what would you look for? What skills would you work on? What direction would you head in? Do you have any advice?

I'll be glad to answer any questions you have (i.e. to be able to give better / more specific advice).

Thank you for your consideration.
I'm assuming he was talking about the cold war period. Russia and the US didn't have nukes 1918-1919.
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It looks like he already received a cease and desist request:

Someone at AMU got in touch with me; a C&D was (is?)
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Dynamic scope. Not really very strange but very unusual; not supported by many languages. AFAIK Perl and Lisp(ish) languages are the only ones. For example:

sub foo {my $x='fish'; local $y='chips'; &bar;}

sub bar {print "\$x is >$x< and \$y is >$y<\n";}

This will output

$x is >< and $y is >chips<

It's quite handy - saves passing around a "context" object, for example. The remarkable thing is how few languages implement some form of it.
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Seems like a good side-project and I want in. I mostly do whatever visitors see: HTML, CSS, JS, some 'good' UI/design skills (+ hacking python/django most recently).
"but I'd like to make sure they go to people who'll appreciate it, actually turn up, can't afford to go otherwise and who'll get something from it."

You are trying to accomplish something you can't measure, except for the "showing up" part. The ticket is only part of the costs - there's airfare, hotel, etc, too. Keep it simple and raffle off the tickets. If it looks like only half the winners will show up, do another raffle. Anyone who wins AND shows up will have met most, if not all, of your criteria anyway.
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That's pretty odd thinking.

If I'm running MySQL on some servers, and it works great, it's not going to suddenly explode, or stop working.
Might just be me, but in IE I get an auth login that never goes away...had to go through Task Manager to kill the browser.
"What about when your restaurant is frequented entirely by murderers? Will steak knives be good utensils then?"
I used to really like it. There's a lot of good, but in the last 2 years, increasing content that I'm not so much a fan of. For the most part the stuff in his "Best of" column on the blog is worth reading.

One of my favorites was applying the 30-day free trial to life habits: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/

Also found his article on timeboxing useful.

More recently, posts like http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-be-a-man/ don't really ring as helpful to me:

2. Put your relationships second.

A man who claims his #1 commitment in life is his relationship partner (or his family) is either too dishonest or too weak to be trusted. His loyalties are misplaced. A man who values individuals above his own integrity is a wretch, not a free thinker.

Just not my flavor.
My favorite examples from Perl. The reset function. The dump function. And the fact that pos($x) = pos($x) is NOT a no-op. (It clears an internal flag allowing a zero-length regular expression to match again. Yes, I've used this.)

Another fun one is that in Perl that local can operate on data structures. As in local $foo{bar}. (I use this every so often in recursion sanity checks. But it is still an odd feature.)
Wouldn't Highrise be ideal for this? (sans pretty invite integration, of course)
Good going; taking action while working a day job is extremely hard, so nice job doing what most people only talk about.

My product: Bidsketch http://www.bidsketch.com
One thing you have to say for Oracle that you couldn't really automatically say for Sun: they're not chickenshit.
Seems like everything I saw was posted "a days ago".

When I open a story, it seems to skip to the comments - I have to scroll back up to read the story (Firefox 3.5).
In my ten year career, I haven't found there to be a correlation between having a degree and being a good developer. I've worked with a number of awesome people, most with degrees, some without, and plenty of bad people, most with degrees, some without. To me, a degree isn't a positive nor a negative signal for anything. You can talk about value of the intangibles outside the education component, but in my experience, a degree doesn't necessarily confer this either.

EDIT: Actually, thinking about it further, I haven't come across many bad developers without a degree. This is surely selection bias: bad devs with a degree can hide in the bowels of BigCo with HR departments who don't actually know how to hire good people, but absolutely require a degree. The bad devs without a degree can't get these cushy, hard to be fired from positions, and therefore don't last very long and probably find another line of work.
I think that it's more memorable this way precisely because it's unlikely to happen. Think of the riddle: "Why does Dog Food taste like shit?" "Because nobody ever eats it."

If the saying was "Eat your own croissants," it wouldn't have the same punch because most croissants are reasonably edible and indeed people who make croissants do taste test them.
I quit because I wanted independence and I felt I couldn't learn new things in my previous job. But the perspective of making money helps me focus and continue working hard in my startup.
Looks to be about 15,000 regulars atm in Iran alone:

http://metrics.torproject.org/graphs.html#recurringusers

Plenty more graphs and stats on that page. Also read this for information about the type of people who use it:

https://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en
Why try this when id Software has released the source code for Wolf and Doom on the iPhone?
Aren't all networks created equal, Google and Verizon?
The only possible way it can strike you as bogus is if you have never taken both of them outside and tried to read them. If the focus group was conducted in an office, then the results are basically meaningless.

I use my kindle on my boat. 99.9% of the time I'm sitting in the sun reading it. I can do that with a book, and I can do that with a kindle. The iPad or anyother backlit screen is just not an option. I can barely see my cell phone or camera screen on the water, but I read the kindle becuase it is a fundamentally different technology.
A lot of compiler texts cover similar territory. The goals are different, but the basic tools and concepts overlap. (I particularly recommend Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_.)
Slip scope, never rate. Rates can only rarely be raised.
Not using Taskforce (although I just signed up - sounds very interesting) - this seems similar to the "Defer" feature of the "Mail Tweak" add-on for Thunderbird.

I love being able to defer emails until a specific time. I use it for the smallest things - deferring "poke" messages on Facebook to slow down the poke war - to any email I need to remember later, but don't have everything I need at present.

So, sorry this isn't specific feedback at this time, but hopefully it'll still help. ;-)
I'm not talking about RMS priming the lawyers, I'm talking about his general stance about patent-laden, open-source-but-not-really technologies. He must feel vindicated today.

As many other said before, the fact that OpenJDK is GPL licensed doesn't mean anything for Dalvik.
If you are like me and use Google all the day (without giving much thought to the fact that you are logged in, e.g. via gmail), it can be pretty scary to take a look at https://www.google.com/history/

Total Google searches: 21717

None of these searches are in the categories you mention, but I bet you can still make up some interesting statistics about me.
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You can setup Yahoo stock alerts from here:

http://alerts.yahoo.com/st_watch_editalert.php

But anyone that's going to take action on these types of alerts likely already has a brokerage account with more-advanced alerting capabilities.
Dynamic scope is supported in older Lisps (eLisp is the only widely used variant with it), and a variety of scripting languages including PHP, Perl, TCL and vimsh (that's vim's internal scripting language). It is rarish because it has been recognized as a bad design, but it still turns up because it is easy to implement.
Okay, at least now I don't have to think about what language to learn next, Clojure or Erlang…
Next submission: DuckDuckGo raided for child porn...

(unfortunately)
Sometimes, I admire Oracle more than the supposed do-gooders at Google.

Oracle is a for-profit entity, they will take any legal or tactical advantage they can get (e.g., lawsuit over Java in Android), and they make no bones about it.

I don't like everything they do, but you know what you get with them.

Google says "don't be evil", yet they back off that principle when it's inconvenient (e.g., caving in to Chinese censorship demands, deal with Verizon over net neutrality, etc.).
Tansey,

Thanks for the feedback. I will clarify that these are US equities.

The target market for now is somewhere around casual investors who invest themselves in the market generally, but less than professional customers that require exchange specificity.

I think the notion of complex filters is a good idea, but I am unlikely to get to it -- Including complex algo trading (or notifications based on those signals) becomes a monster project very quickly and suddenly trying to compete in the space of real Goliaths.

You hit the nail on the head though about "only sending updates". That's sort of exactly the service I needed a few months ago and couldn't find one I liked. Of course executions can be done with just stops and limits, but there have been times I've been filled after a news event and wished I had been there to insert the human decision making process between signal and trade.
That's a very very poor analogy.

Advertising your service as an untraceable anonymous service, is attractive to certain groups of people. A large amount of those are going to be engaging in unlawful activities.

The analogy would be advertising your restaurant as one in which you are permitted to enter wearing full body disguises and helped with your exit through various escape routes. The restaurant owners will provide gloves for you, remove any traces of your DNA, etc.

Don't you think such a restaurant would then be used by murderers?

I would agree with your analogy in that an 'anonymous restaurant', where you are granted complete anonymity whilst inside, would also be a recipe for disaster.

You kinda forgot the 'anonymity' bit in your analogy though... Convenient ;)
There are many unjust laws, especially in countries other than the US.

Each of us has a right to privacy. This allows for nefarious activities but it also enables many forms of creativity.
E-ink displays are very expensive. The one in the kindle costs > $60 to the manufacturer.
My question is only this. in the heyday of altavista or yahoo, could PG have known that a hackercentric culture is whats most essential. Remember this is a completely new economy and business - just like the automobile industry in 20th century, could anyone have predicted who would be the most important players then ? dealers? mechanics? engineers? manufacturers?
"You can trust we will always be honest about our profit motives"
... and why would making up some statistics about you be scary? They might be able to show you relevant advertising???? OH NOES!
So why not just disable web history?
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Privacy = good

Anonymity = bad

Just my 2c.
raffle off the tickets? no. Yes we are all aware of the other expenses... that is why a lot of us cannot afford it. I can afford the flight/hotel... but cannot pay $2K on top of that which is what the ticket costs. I agree that showing up is only half the battle... you need to take some immediate action on what you see and learn there as well as make any connections as possible that could help you down the road.
Ezra and team helped a client of mine accept HTTP chunked transfers back in 2007, for custom uploads from a mobile Java app. That might be simple today (or more likely, unnecessary), but in 2007, virtually no one had done it. Googling returned the HTTP spec and one (1) incomplete howto article. They spent a ton of time getting this set up. Thanks, Ezra!
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