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According to what I've seen and read, there is no special talent to knowing what another side is thinking. It's just good listening, not assuming anything, and asking lots of questions. People who don't do these things will rely on guessing to understand the other side and will often be wrong.
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No, the shirt alone won't tell you anything. But if really want to know, you can and will know.
Thanks, techiferous! Great call on the on the main text box. It's fixed to be more legible now. Learning that good looking slab-serif stacks are pretty much non-existent without font embedding :)
Greetings techninja42. Welcome to HN. I hope that you'll stick around HN and share this kind of insight as there are quite a few "hacker dads" like myself around here who find this kind of thing gold.

Its interesting how HN reaches out and pulls people who do cool stuff in. I'm assuming you created your account here in order to respond to all of the traffic sent your way by the story reaching #1 on HN. I've seen this happen a few times in the past. I wonder how many members we've pulled in over the years just noticing the cool stuff they've done and posting it.
Looks very clean and simple, love it!
Putting up a place on your website to receive DMCA takedown notices, having a policy in place, and responding swiftly seems like good practice for any app that accepts user-generated content.
This always worries me a bit. Even if I start using HTML5 and CSS3, how many people will be able to render the site properly? Especially in my area, where people don't tend to be on the very leading edge of browser technologies.
Honest question: What is the point of all these specialized hosting sites? At least some are succeeding so I assume there is some value being delivered to some customers, but I am curious what that is. From where I sit it seems like Node.js, Rails, etc are just apps on an OS and while there may some tuning opportunities it's not like the difference between a specialized Node.js/Rails/etc optimizer is going to get ten times the performance of a general purpose skilled optimizer out of a stack. (I assume that if you're building a business on one of these stacks that we can safely assume that we're not talking the totally unoptimized case.)

I explain my assumptions so you can better answer my question; as I say, I am assuming there's a positive answer, I just don't know what it is.
Nonsense. Read up on which sites the DHS has been shutting down and the sloppiness of their processes. Any site with any kind of user-generated content should seriously think of basing itself outside of the US.
Do you write code like this? If so, you have bigger issues than ASI!
Having some trust with contractors is really important. I hired someone to work on a pet project for me and i'm thrilled so far. First revision is mostly done. He makes man decisionsn his own and I just run with it.
EddieC on that page (http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/international/buy-ethically:-b...) says:

>No, it means that without the distortions to incentives FairTrade and the like introduce, the market signals to all the most effective allocations of land, labour and capital.

The thing is, and why we need fair trade, that the market signals that human lives are worth nearly nothing because there are a lot of them.

In effect a purely market lead system would have (has!) people working in dangerous conditions without safety equipment (like the workers sprayed with pesticides in non-fairtrade banana plantations leaving them sick and infertile) until the supply of people runs low enough to make a sufficient price difference.

If you want to live in that sort of world, a world that ignores child slavery in Western Africa because it produces cheaper cocoa beans for example, then I really have nothing but contempt for you.

Fairtrade doesn't produce oversupply, it doesn't lock people in - how can sufficient funds to access healthcare, education and approach crop diversity be locking people in?

It's a well put argument that nonetheless is wanting IMO, it's oozing with malevolence and contempt for humanity.
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Which specific sites has the DHS intervened with improperly?
How did you determine what you wanted?
For a lot of sweatshops, e.g. in Bangladesh producing loads of textiles for european discounters, it would be a progress, if they would work, say 9 hours (with a 164M population, it should be possible to work shifts, too, if the demand is really that high).
Problem is that once you've said "between $45 and $65", you've indicated that $45 is acceptable. Otherwise, why did you say it?

I've made this mistake before, and find that people always zoom in on the lower number and think that's your actual offer. And then it's quite awkward to say "Well, I didn't really mean $45, I won't do it for that little."

I've found that offering a range works much better when I make the lower number of the range quite a bit higher than what I actually want. That gives me room to come down, so that even once they've talked you down from that lower range, it's still higher than what you wanted.
Too bad for you. Hearing the actual voices and what they enunciate actually ads a ton to the story.
Given the style of the document itself, the language used in the header introduction ("Web apps that people actually want to use"), and the fact that every one of the "Previous Work" items has a gray "HTML/CSS" circle, I think/hope that she's trying to convey herself as primarily interested in front-end design work.
Here's the link to the actual article: http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2011/02/04/how-to-get-a-job-at-...
If negative feedback is what drove you into wanting to be an entrepreneur, you may want to reconsider.
They're claiming the right to shut down sites that link to infringing content, and using it to shut down hip-hop sites (and others).

From TechDirt:

"The Marketplace radio show from American Public Media spoke to Special Agent James Hayes from Homeland Security, who was apparently in charge of the "raids" (if you can call them that) that involved the seizing of domain names under the legally questionable theory that linking to infringing material is, by itself, criminal copyright infringement. I've yet to find any legal expert who seems to believe that the law actually says this anywhere."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110203/22422912958/homela...
Current salary, what I wanted to make more than that, what I felt was reasonable given other roles advertised at the level I'm at, the normal things.
Have kids or babysit? Kids are awesome negotiators, because they don't care about the other party at all, they just want to get the best deal for themselves possible. They also start from a position of weakness in most negotiations, which means they need to try some wonderfully creative strategies to get what they want.

Actually, I wonder why most adults lose that ability as they get older. My guess is that sometime in the teen years, people start caring about what others think of them, and that is poison to negotiations.
The OP is paraphrasing:

First They came... - Pastor Martin Niemoller

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Only a moments thought should be enough to demonstrate why this should matter to anyone with a site 'web-based business' or no.
People put headshots on resumes all the time.
I learned to communicate my programming desires and thoughts in concrete ways including but not limited to domain modeling via UML-ish diagrams on the white board.
> If someone offers you what you want, why waste time negotiating for more?

I have and will continue to waste swathes of time on far less beneficial pursuits so I can find plenty time for that!
Look at state/national parks in the area you want to camp and see if any of them have nearby/related campgrounds and what kind of facilities they have. Once you know that, you can figure out packing.

KOA is a chain of popular campgrounds that range from bare bones to almost resort-like -- look up the area you want to go to there and see what they have available: www.koa.com
Wow, that was quick! It's more readable now. Best of luck; I hope it goes viral for you!
Putting aside the obvious geekiness (which, of course, we all love) I think this is a stunning example of how the whole family can get involved in creating something absolutely wonderful.

Truly an inspiration.
Maybe it's sampling bias, as in that's the average South African woman whose picture was identifiable on the web? I'd like to know more how this was done.
> 3) Exclusivity during expansion.

I'm not sure this helped. A social networking site is only as useful as the number of people on it. I expect Facebook would have grown faster without exclusivity.

I think exclusivity was key - and probably facebook's main difference from other networks (in it's early days). A social network isn't only about aggregating as many people as possible - this can also have a contradictory effect. What is much more important is the relevance of the community to you. Would you rather join a network with ~500 weak contacts or one with your 4 most important? The current popularity of facebook is also inherently causing a lot of people to stop sharing their personal lives on facebook.

But lastly let's not forget, that many elder social networks simply screwed up - both friendster and myspace got big troubles to scale their systems (database integrity etc.) - whereas facebook has a culture strongly driven by engineers (however that's gonna turn out... but facebook definitely has got fantastic uptime).

One last thing: build a social network that effectively and nicely solves the problem of the different social communities a person belongs too - and you might just as well build the next fb.
If someone said "fuck you" to me, I would no longer want to negotiate with them, plain and simple.
That's great until the person you're selling to immediately jumps on that. At this point, you are left wondering, "Gee, was my offer that good? Was it too low? I wonder what he was expecting to pay. Damn, I could have made 20% more had he made the first offer." Same goes the other way around. The trick is to have both people negotiating to leave feeling as if they won. In your case, you will leave feeling as if you lost.
I concur. This individual could not be the serious type of employee that a serious business would seriously pursue. Matter of fact, and if I could be frank here, the candidate appears to be one of those who think outside the boundaries of normal business discourse and would be a distraction to her colleagues who spend most of their waking moments trying to to stay with the established norms and as we like to say, "not making any waves".

(Actually, in comparison to most self-declared artists out there, her work is pretty considering the limits of her experience and she read, and probably reread the memo suggesting that she get her ass on Git and by quite possibly has a Github/Gitorious/Unfuddle account where here code can be scrutinized. I'd probably hire her)
Because all of what you said about how we think has nothing to do with the informational density of the two formats. Words trump pictures for complex ideas.
Hi, I'm Tim from the Sukey team and editor of beyondclicktivism.com. I'd like to address each of your questions.

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The whole aspect of being guilty until proven innocent should give a future US-tied web businesses some pause to consider their choices.
Yep, made an account just for this!

I check the oursignal.com aggregator regularly (though the delicious.com content it adds is of seriously dubious quality). The hackernews and reddit posts are almost always interesting, insightful, or relating to what I do (full time+ contract web dev).

Glad to hear there's more hacker dads out there, it's hard to find them sometimes! I'm glad we have such a diverse audience, and if we can get more of the right kind of audience in (those that not only watch, but -actually- get out there and make something with their kids) then the point will be just. We want to hear "Hey look what I did with my kids!".

Some of the projects tend to aim for the lazy or skeptical, trying to make it -so- easy you've got -no- reason not to go spend time making (and possibly failing) with your kids. Adam Savage's "Failure is always an option" motto stands with us everywhere we go. If you're not failing, you're probably not learning.
This is a perversion of the original meaning. The "angry TorrentFreak user's" version is essentially the same as:

First they came for the manufacturers of counterfeit products, and I didn't speak out because I didn't manufacture counterfeit products.

Then they came for those who served alcoholic beverages to six year olds, and I didn't speak up because I didn't do that.

Then they came for people who sold phony insurance products to seniors, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't selling phony insurance products.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
speaking as someone whose college education was aided by a significant amount of AP credit, this is a silly thing to brag about. Schools will vary by which AP exams they accept and how many hours they award, and I'm sure this is true about all pre-college transfer credit.

It's at least equivalent to bragging about your SAT score.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1903833 (which also, conveniently, is the printed word and not audio or video, which is just plain annoying).

But I guess the difference between then and now was then I lived in Australia. Now I pay through the nose to live in Manhattan. But hey, I'm not 20-something. :P
Ask HN: Teaching Web Development to Middle Schoolers
At the beginning of the school year I visited my kids' school and got to see their computer lab, where the kids were learning typing, Microsoft Word and other productivity applications. Being the hacker dad that I am, I immediately volunteered to teach the kids some web development stuff.

Well, the school has finally taken me up on it. Now the question is, where to start? I'm currently thinking we should start with some basic HTML, mix in a little CSS, and then move on to javascript, but I'd love any insights the community has to offer.
Rockwell is a nice slab serif font. If you're looking for a good @font-face compatible slab serif font, check out Museo Slab: http://www.fontspring.com/fonts/exljbris/museo-slab (the 500 weight is free)

(That is, if you felt like spending your time messing around with fonts. ;)
Make a quick site with HTML and CSS as a "final product" to show the kids, to say that they can make something like that too.

Then open the source and take them through it bit by bit, show them what things are and what they mean, explain how HTML works, explain how CSS works, and let them build/modify their own site along the way.

How much time do you have?
First up, yes, we are going to OS all the code and have been talking with Richard Stallman himself about which is the right licence (yes, really - you should have seen the response when he emailed us. I stopped dead in the street and shouted "Oh my god!" to the bemusement of passers by when the email popped up on my phone).

This project has come about at great speed, none of us has slept much in weeks, there are many, many things we need to do - we're not hiding the source because we're evil, we just haven't had a minute to put it up on git or whatever public svn system we decide to go with. Please be patient with us :)

More answers to follow as I read through the comments below.
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
- Don Henley
chin splints presumably from your jaw dropping?
"isn't that half a degree?"

Probably not. Most "college credit" earned in US high schools is unfocused coursework that gets you out of (some of) your general-ed requirements. Lots of universities won't even transfer the stuff, and if they do, it's not typically treated as real college credit.

Aside from that, thanks to the prevalence of AP courses it's much easier (and more common) for high school kids to get college credits today. It's definitely not as impressive as it used to be, and citing the number of credits earned as if it were some kind of score is silly, at best. It's the sort of thing you brag about when you have nothing real to brag about.
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Very nice. I have to ask, though, aren't you concerned at all about the NFL taking issue with this? They're pretty agressive at policing their trademarks. Using the term "Super Bowl" and images of the teams' helmets is probably a no-no, even if you're not making money off of this.
But what happens when the Magog come pouring across it?

(Just wondering.)

Edit: I don't know if people don't get the reference or think I am merely being flippant. I'm not. I don't like burning bridges either. But sometimes I find it is the only way to put an end to a problem situation where the more I try to be polite and all that, the more neurotic and demanding and blood-sucking they become. If someone here knows how to handle that effectively without "burning the bridge", I would love to hear their take on it.
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Fewest votes, rather than least votes, in the main block of text.
Sometimes, whilst DDG's partnerships can be great for getting quality content to the top of search results; it's definitely not the sort of thing I'd want to see a dominant search engine doing. DDG obviously needs to do things differently in a way that can drive them traffic, but if Google were to do this, they'd quite rightly be blasted because such partnerships could massively impact the ability of other site's to grow organically without the engine's blessing.
"4: Avoid incorporating as a US business"

It's one thing if you are a big company, but if I was creating a startup and planning to incorporate in the near future do I (as a startup) want to consider incorporating in another country like Ireland?
Getting started with game development and Common Lisp
Being out of the drivers seat made me realize all the things that I wasn't doing when I was CEO, and which were still not being done the way I thought they should be. But it was easier to see on the outside.
we are going to OS* all the code*

Don't let RMS hear you say that!
Correct, but it's the irrelevant half: general education and introductory courses. Also, Florida actively encourages dual enrollment, where high-school students in their 11th year begin working on an associates degree at a community college. The students picked for dual enrollment have to be decent, but the aren't exactly the cream; plus the community colleges they attend aren't very good either. It's basically a way of having something like the AP program (minus the rigor) by outsourcing the education to another school.
One hour a week until the end of the school year.

I figured I couldn't REALLY complain about what the kids are learning in computer class if I'm not willing to help fix it.

I like your idea.
Certified fairtrade standards do indicate that which the parent was asking to be shown, that factories have safe and ethical working practices.

If you buy fairtrade certified goods then you know (as much as one can, even if you were to inspect the factory yourself) that they don't "beat the workers or subject them to environments that rapidly cause sickness and death either".

See some of the assessed standards (certification is by physically present assessors who visit at least once per year except in historically exemplary establishments where visits may be reduced) - http://fairtrade.net/653.0.html, in particular http://fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/2009/stan... are the generic H&S standards, see for example Section 1.6.

Here's another reason to look for the mark, http://fairtrade.net/single_view1.0.html?&cHash=18ecb39c... "ILO and Kuapa Kokoo partner to combat child labour in cocoa" ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6575713.stm "Labouring for chocolate" BBC report on "child slavery" in cocoa plantations.

Of course if you think kids are better off slaving away to keep more of the money you spend on chocolate further up the supply chain, rather than being in school, then don't look for the Fairtrade mark.
"I tracked, over a one year period, every single defect that made it into production that I had to correct. I did this at the inspiration of a book on continuous improvement I read."

Which book?
OR

I invested three years in gaining important startup experience for my next project
I think he has regrets. He lost a lot of money and most of his friends. A lot of people would say that learning about marketing and coding do not make it worth it.
Wow, may I ask which continent and why there? Someplace neutral or the like? Australia?
I'll get one of the team who specialises in security to answer your questions. I've emailed everyone but it may not be until tomorrow if they are out or asleep right now.

You're right that it is paramount that we be open about security and I apologise for the rushed nature of our security pages. Rewriting all of the copy on the site is on our road map right now.
google's not going to do anything because they're in the business of making money off of search and duckduckgo is not
...that came directly from Google's algorithm

That is a lie.

1. User searches for specific string
2. Google pulls up the results
3. User clicks on the result

Bing makes a corelation between the user's search string and the URL they end up on and takes a note of it. There is very little algorithm involved here because there is only one listing for that string. The algorithm is primarily used to rank pages. In order for Google to convince me that Bing is copying them, they would need to show a consistent before and after of Bing copying the search results and its order. Emphasis on resultS--in plural.

Neither are present in the Google honeypot. There is only one search result returned; and there is no question of the order of search results cuz of that. Two items central to the algorithm are entirely missing.

Going back to what Microsoft does copy:

1. it copies the user's input--imo this belongs to the user

2. it does not copy the order of search results nor scrape the returned search results returned by google

3. it copies the url the user ends up on, which is effectively a user's browsing history that the user has opted in to share with Bing.
Agreed. But that's still better than many.
Then what is their business?
>I don't really know what I'd do with more space than that

Have higher heating/cooling costs.
Yeah, definitely give them some kind of walkthrough, then.

If the school has digital cameras and will let you use them in class (or if you have a point and shoot), you could also let them take pictures and use tables to make a basic photo gallery.