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The same visa also exists in the US. Have $500k-1 million? Then you can get in the short line to get a greencard.
As opposed to all those students who leave their VP Sales jobs to go get an education?

What Thiel and many others (this seems to be something of a theme in libertarian circles) are saying is that a college education is not relevant to certain kinds of activities. Sure, it may be beneficial, but not beneficial enough to forgo something more beneficial for four years.
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I work from home, and either run or swim during lunchtime. It's great, I get so much more done. If you start, the first weeks you will feel very tired and it seems counter-productive. After a while, you suddenly realize that you are way more productive. If you run races regularly, you'll also see progress, which is great for motivation and general self-esteem.

That being said, the trick to keep running is to stay injury-free, and this is harder than it may sound. Don't run very long distances, take a lot of rest (I run every other day and sleep a lot), and do lots of interval running. Listen to your body: never, ever ignore injuries. If you feel pain, don't run until it's gone. Don't think you're special and tough and you can run through the pain (I did that, and it didn't work).
If you host a coding blog Posterous' support for gists is really awesome. Posterous can be a tad slow though and I've experienced more downtime I would tolerate in a professional setting so if its a vital part of your being I'd say roll/host your own.
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Mmmh..Was gonna do a few side projects. :)
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it's not clear if hristov is actually arguing that it would be a mistake or just putting forward as a possible motivation for people getting upset
Now all you need is an app that shows the video feed in multiple windows you can drag around and you can get the exact same effect.
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Aside: Does anyone else have problems with left/right keys not going to the next slide as normally happens on slideshare? I got a bit annoyed having to use my mouse 223 times.
Two hours is kinda long if you aren't used to it. I would try to build it up from half an hour or so upwards. Though I don't believe in any (continuous) exercise that is supposed to take more than an hour or so.
Ask HN: Fool-proof backups of a WP blog offsite. Suggestions? 
Hi All,

I own a WP blog and had a few questions about backups. My blog receives good traffic, publishes a fair amount of text and image-rich content every day and is hosted on a Linode VPS.

Currently, I have the database backups emailed to me every day via a plugin, and have a script set up that backs up / syncs all the files and data to Amazon S3 every 2 hours. All this has been set up by a tech guy I hired. I ain't good with coding and all. :)

I have been trying to find the perfect tool that can download files from the server via SFTP to my desktop, and do an automatic sync every day or so. That way, I'd also have an offsite backup. I haven't been able to find the right tool so far. Could you help?

Also, I'd love your tips and suggestions on creating a fool-proof blog backup system. Thanks.
Maybe the best answer. I would just add, that if you need to integrate with a special system like an already existing business application, just be sure to have a supported set of libraries to access it from within your web application. This is the only constraint that would make me discriminate a language against another outside of the very good points of Tam.
Can someone please write the pros and cons for NY and LA?
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One of my friends pointed me to this site: http://ruby-toolbox.com/, it's great for finding maintained plugins.

To answer your question: I used thumbs_up for voting, acts_as_commentable for comments, clearance for authentication and paperclip for file uploads.

I found thumbs_up before I knew of ruby-toolbox: I went to the acts_as_voteable github page, clicked on "Network" and scrolled to the right as far as possible. Most rubyists are very active on github, and a lot of the packages are forked.
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Treadmills suck of course, if you are on treadmill, you could more easily and cheaply just go outside to walk/jog/run and get some fresh air while you're at it.

But I disagree on "lifting weights". I suppose that most people don't see it as a sport, which "lifting weights" isn't, granted. But things like powerlifting, olympic weightlifting, strongman competitions are sports, which require coordination, skills and progress to become better at them. And they can be very satisfying since they are so easily measurable. I still remember the first time I dead-lifted twice my body-weight. Feels good man.
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The problem with this argument is that all of the websites that you mentioned were founded before Ror or alternatives were mature enough. Adam D'Angelo (former CTO of Facebook) said that if Facebook was created now, they would not use PHP (source: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=137376312958147). I can imagine that the situation is similar with the other websites.
Incentives are one of those things that people just want to be true (like e.g. "one true soul mate") and do everything they can to reject any and all evidence that contradicts this belief.
I was just coming to say the same thing. here in there UK (land of bbc iplayer and now youview.com) metered broadband packages are the norm. all that has happened is that customers have become more aware and he pushed for better deals, and switched isps.

on a side note, so were all Canadian broadband packages unmetered / unlimited use until now? wow, nice, what sort of speeds can most people get?
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With the recent decriminalization of pot in California, it makes no sense to me that people would vote against this.

Half of my friends have "green cards" (medical marijuana cards) that can be bought for around $150 from random doctors after you say you have "headaches," "trouble sleeping," or "anxiety." The ease of getting a card, combined with the availability of "clubs" has made pot for anyone with disposable income trivial at best to legally obtain.

Teachers are being laid off, random services are getting budget cuts, income tax returns were getting IOUs last year, and pot is already trivial to access: Why aren't we manufacturing and taxing this?
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Ask HN: LGBT Programmer for Startup
Hi developers,

I'm working on a start up with the basic premise of providing closeted LGBT athletes an outlet to voice whatever fears, questions, or problems they may be having. Its goal is to provide a safe-haven while developing relationships with an "advisor" with the kicker being that it is completely anonymous, very simple, and easy to access.

I'm looking for a developer with a strong passion for LGBT issues and one who cares deeply about the problem that young kids are facing day in and day out. With the obvious impetus of the suicides, I feel it is vital to get programs like this up and running as soon as possible.

Please let me know if this is something that interests you.

Thanks!
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I was once advised that one should go look for customers who want to buy your data before scaling and planning to scale... it's very offline-ish and hack-y but I suppose it was good advice
This kind of nonsense is why I became a consultant. I get my bonus every day now and I don't have to do any go through the "performance review theater" anymore. If they really have a problem with me then don't renew my contract. It's simple and honest, just how I like it.
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I'm submitting this article for the discussion from the HNers. I don't necessarily agree with its content or how the content is presented.

I'd love to hear more about the "alternative methodologies" and why they're more "efficient, extensible, and far more economical".

Also, do people think the fees are that outrageous? A common complaint about the .com TLD is that it is too cheap; thus, making it susceptible to squatting. I've no idea about the real costs involved in creating custom TLDs, but I wouldn't be surprised if the fees are in part set high to avoid people buying custom TLDs, like .inc or .fb (facebook) and squatting them.
> Which is kind of ironic because universities overloaded themselves with libertarian professors (some w scholarly credentials) in the last ten years in order to suck up to the Bush administration and the right wing donors that are getting more and more important.

Holy random statement, batman. Do you have a citation for this? The idea of libertarian professors being a plus to the Bush administration makes effectively no sense whatsoever.
Well, that still doesn't explain why pilot's union doesn't take 95% of their profit, does it?
Thank you :) I was looking for something that integrates rating (not voting) and commenting in one package. I found this https://github.com/grimen/is_reviewable through the toolbox. But last commit is from 2009. Hopefully someone has forked it or I will have to fix it
One nice thing about PHP is that despite its archaism it keeps growing as a language. The 5.3 release alone added anonymous functions, namespaces, consts and many internal improvements. I recently rewrote one of my projects from the 4.x era for version 5.3 and found myself thinking that I don't hate PHP so much anymore. I still don't like it either, but at least I know the language is in good hands anyway.
Well, fuck. InnoDB is now a premium feature. So long, ACID compliance?

Edit “Classic Edition” — what a cop-out name. It should be “Crippled edition.”
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funny fail, but... I reckon that Sydney store was planned to either open first, or take precedence on the page ( be om the left) . but once the Melbourne store opened, they thought it looked odd to have the copy on the right.

but I wonder who made the call to have it like it is...
I find that biking works well if you get bored of exercising for only exercise sakes.

1) Commute with it rather than taking a car or bus

2) Explore the neighborhood / local trails /etc with it.
So Royal Society agrees that Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035?
Can we admit now that fragmentation is going to be a problem for everyone and Apple is not immune to it.
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though i'm both an iphone user and a mac user, i'm not happy to see the app store coming to osx. it's not because i don't think apple needs a better "package" manager for their OS, indeed they do. macports is great, but limited. though software installation isn't a major problem i feel needs fixing in osx, it's true there's no real "apt-get" for a mac.

i'm unhappy about the coming changes because i feel they signal apple's becoming more meddlesome in OSX which, aside from drivers and such, has remained remarkably open until this point. with the iphone i'm willing to give up some degree of freedom/control, as i'm rewarded by the appliance-like stability of the device even though so-called "iOS multitasking" is a nightmare and needs much work.

however i can't help but fear that in trying to monetize the mac in this way, that there are some dark clouds looming over the horizon. and maybe that's all it is ... fear. i hope my fears are not founded.

that said, i can't look at apple's showcase products (iphone, ipad) and somewhere in my mind not start making preparations to move back to ubuntu at the first sign of trouble.
If you're going to call Deschutes a Portland beer at 160+ miles away (and at the same time, leave out Rogue? That one confused me.), I think it's fair to call Russian River, North Coast, Lagunitas, Bear Republic, Anchor, and Sierra Nevada all San Francisco area breweries — and it's a little hard to argue with those. (As long as you like hops, at least.)
I meant for the customer, and while I agree that grocery stores don't care about deadweight loss for their customers, I think they could.

I think the chief reason line length is considered noise rather than signal is because it's so unpredictable. When it's known, people do a great deal to minimize their time spent in line. They go to the store at off hours; they switch lines once they're standing in them. I know my local Taco Bell gets a lot more business from me because of their speedy response time, vs. the teriyaki place next door that I like more, but takes forever. And my college's bookstore has had a great deal of success with putting live camera feeds of their lines (or lack thereof) on their website.

But with grocery stores, I couldn't really tell you which of the two grocery stores in my area would have a longer line. They're about the same, and that's close enough.

So you'd need a pretty big delta for line length to become a differentiating factor between stores. The current system of a cashier scanning items individually probably won't see drastic efficiency improvements without drastic changes, so...drastic changes are needed.

After a certain point, changes in "line length" become "presence or absence of a line at all." As jonnathanson says below, electronic scan-as-you-buy is probably the future there(Smith's, in answer to my cousin's email inquiry, mentioned they were testing a portable bar code scanner). I'm under the impression that grocery stores have pretty cruddy margins, so maybe I shouldn't read that much into "in testing." If anyone out there is dying for a startup idea, I think this one is worth a look. (Before you say it, I'm working on another project, and my cousin left for grad school.)

Since few things are more self-satisfying than sailing out of a store without waiting in line, maybe Whole Foods will be the first? ;)
Still, MySQL is under GPL, InnoDB is under GPL.
Thanks for making him cupcakes =) He's on my list of top five favorite teachers ever, and he teaches on the other side of the country from me.

Incidentally, what makes that his favorite matrix?
Wow, yeah hello PostgreSQL
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I don't believe your example with opensource is relevant, because most people in opensource don't get money for what they do, thus, it's fair that they're looking for fun stuff.
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Just to be clear, "Classic Edition" is not the free open-source MySQL that we all know and love. It's a separate product for inclusion in other proprietary products. MySQL has always been a dual-license product, and this is similar to previous offerings by MySQL AB and Sun.

The "N/A" price probably just means "contact us so our sales team can squeeze you for all you're worth" -- which is how enterprise software deals typically work.
Are you saying, that a model which does not fit past data will somehow correctly predict the future?
Well, you could argue that the 4.0 update was an active stance against fragmentation, by rendering all old devices unusable and therefore forcing customers onto a commond new platform: the iPhone 4.
But is this true of most users? Or only people like us? (I'm really asking, I'm not sure; all I know is that I don't like using Facebook Connect.)
Practical? Yes. Ideal? Maybe.

There are a lot of really good PHP developers around. But for ease of development and community support on a brand new project I'd probably go with Ruby or Python.
> There's a 200 year old frigate in the harbor that used to do battle with pirates and there are lots of cool old buildings all around

I didn't realize the music industry was that old.
Furthermore, the totality of all nuclear accidents in the world has caused less deaths than coal soot alone.

This is where the current environmentalist movement has really failed: "Don't burn shit, it's bad for the environment and it's bad for us" was a compelling story, because it's pretty obviously true and hard to fight back against. When environmentalism was all about smog, coal burning, and all that nasty stuff, it was hard to find much fault with it.

But now it's all about carbon. And global warming involves a lot more analysis to evaluate, to the point that even the most scientifically minded non-experts can't claim to fully understand the evidence for or against it (if they even have access to that raw evidence), not to mention all the possibilities of fudged data, which turn this more into a guessing game about who's telling the truth than a matter of science.
Judging by the comments people are confused. The free, GPL edition of MySQL ("MySQL Community Server") is still what you've always had. These are the commercially licensed products. Oracle's shifted around some features and pricing on support plans and such, but if you're not a commercial customer, nothing's changed for you.
How is this different than before? MySQL was always a dual-license product. You can use the product if you comply with the terms of the GPL, or purchase a commercial license to get priority features, priority support, and get around the GPL terms. This is the same business model that MySQL AB and Sun have used for the last decade.
The Community Server editions are still available.
I read the article carefully and I do not see Thiel discussing that at all.

Note that Thiel does not target kids that are about to go to college but kids that are already going to college. So he intentionally wants to interrupt an ongoing college education, not merely delay it. People say you can always go back but that is often not the case. If you are in a very competitive school or program it is very doubtful they will take you back if you took a couple of years off. Actually it would be probably impossible. And believe you me he will choose kids from competitive programs in order to get maximum news exposure. I can imagine how this can be a huge mistake at least for some kids.

It is just a very perverse situation ... he says here is all this money but you have to give up something to get it. Usually when one does charity one tries to help the people one does charity to, and does not pose to them difficult and maybe even dangerous bargains.

If he thinks these kids are so valuable, why would he not give them the stipend before they go to college or after they finish. It is just a couple of years difference either way?
Looks like people are already squatting for app names too, which is lame. See: http://twitter.com/iTod/status/29635860674
I've thought about this a lot, too. The conclusion I've come to is that it's a lot like the stock market-- the greatest rewards go to those who focus on a currently undervalued variable. Just as buying stocks primarily based on P/E is useless in this day and age, so is counting the number of people in a line. Looking at how much is in their carts is a bit better, but far too many people do that, too.

My solution is to focus almost entirely on how competent and quick the cashier appears to be. If and when most other people do that as well, I'll look for another undervalued variable.
Moved for the startup, stayed for the city.
> However, when I asked for local beer, I was given a bottle some fairly unexciting porter from New York for $8.

Not sure where you went, because even most chains have Summit in the twin cities. And you can definitely find places that at least come close to stacking up against the Colorado/Oregon scenes.

> I saw a hipster in Minneapolis riding his fixie in just a hoodie (no gloves) in sub-20 degree weather with snow on the ground... It may be cold there, but the natives don't seem to mind.

Also, they plow the bike paths with bobcats, often faster than the roads. Studded tires are rarely needed, although watch out for hardened ice shelves flinging you into the middle of the lane :)
I highly disagree that PHP has more quality information available than Ruby on Rails. Any time I've ever looked for anything on PHP all I get is ExpertsExchange quality (with the occasional gem on Stack Overflow), but a search for nearly any problem in Rails turns up a multitude of amazing blog posts, Google Groups posts, or gems that solve my exact problem. Failing that, IRC (or just digging through Ruby code which is easier to read than almost any language I have worked with) has been very helpful.
You can just as easily say RoR is slower (than, say,
Symfony 2.0 on PHP with an opcode cache)

You can say that, but is it true? I did not investigate it, but the last time I saw some comparison PHP frameworks were horribly slow compared to RoR.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67715 was filed in 2001 asking for this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67715#c13 explains the principal reason why it is not done, namely that incremental reflow at the paragraph level and the effects of triggering incremental reflow after initial layout (e.g., by :hover ...). How "jumpy" we'd look.
Can anyone offer numbers on how many commercial clients MySQL has currently/had before Oracle bought SUN? I've never seen any numbers.

I also wonder how these pricing changes impact the already hurting community of open source developers supporting the community version.
The entire UI was horrific for me. I had to use full screen since the slide didn't show up fully otherwise, and even in fullscreen Page up/down keys didn't work, arrow up/down keys moved terribly slow (like 1 page/minute slow), and the only way for me to navigate was to use the mouse scroll wheel (or the scrollbar on the right).
I'd really like to know if I missed something or it was this way for everyone.
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Even the $10,000 cluster edition (which is based on NDB) is GPL.

So clearly they can not be selling software, I can only assume these are prices for support, not for software.

Have they taken down download links? Removed source code?
What's the difference between community and commercial customers, aside from support? Is InnoDB a feature? Why would MyISAM support be free but InnoDB support have a yearly fee?
That sounds a bit like people who buy stock in a company and then, after the company deteriorates, stubbornly refuse to sell until they "get their money back".

The next line is open, but I've already invested 10 minutes waiting in this one and switching will mean it was time wasted!
You generally pay what something is worth to you, not some small percentage more than the creator invested to make that something. eBooks are very convenient compared to books. I can get them easier and they don't have the issues of a physical book. I can have literally rooms worth of books on my iPad and if I move I don't have to dread carrying my library around.

If technical books weren't already so expensive I would be willing to pay more for an equivalent eBook than a physical one.
Yeah, and also Drizzle, MariaDB and Percona Server.
MySQL is dual-licensed. If you download the community server, it's GPL licensed. If you want to distribute MySQL as part of your application, then your application may have to be GPL licensed as well, which is often undesirable. ISVs and others that need to distribute MySQL can buy one of the commercial editions to get it under a non-GPL license.

If you're worried about the future, Oracle agreed to maintain the dual-licensing strategy until at least 2015 as part of the EU negotiations before acquiring Sun.