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I'm not sure I would reject anyone out of hand for something like this unless I had an excessive number of applicants to review and needed cheap ways to cut that number down.

This is certainly a good way to filter applicants out, but, you may miss a good opportunity as well. I hired an ex-architect with no web design experience at all (and no online portfolio) because she was cheap and had a great attitude. It worked out great for everyone involved. Can't say I'd recommend that for everyone, but it's amazing what can be accomplished by someone with the right attitude in the right environment.
You see negligent security practice. I see clever marketing ploy.
I found the original article where this image appears. This is a simulation, not a measurement of the actual radiation.

Original Article (German) http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,750835,00.ht...

Google Traslation: http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?js=n&prev=_t...

EDIT: More information

The Original Original Article is from ZAMG. They have many updates and variations. I will link only two:

The I-131 in the title means Iodine-131. They have the linked map and a wordwide map of the (simulated) distribution of C-137 (Caesium-137):
http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?js=n&prev=_t...

Simulation of the radioactive material distribution if they do a short-term release whith optimal winds and if they do a continual release with changin winds: http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?js=n&prev=_t...
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They're mockups, but we'll try to make the HTML to match. Our designer is, to be honest, 80% part of the success. The other 20% is the one doing the HTML. And I just code here...
Sorry, going to cancel dinner tonight for lack of response. Hope everyone enjoys SXSW.
tl;dr version: Its illegal in MA to discount booze 'cuz that cuts into the tax revenues. Groupon changed their coupons to specifically say they don't count toward booze.
Not just nearly every hour, around every 20 minutes there's an aftershock. Most of which would be a magnitude that'd make the news here in the US no matter where it happened. It's just mind boggling that there's been over 500 of them now and it's not really slowing it seems.
Daaaaarn, that's what you get for trying to add links to the tweets while drunk on excitement after the launch. Fixed, the ones responsible executed, working on putting the links back ;)
Interesting release. I had to click through the API docs to figure out exactly what that was though - it's a utility library like Google Guava or Apache commons-*.

It adds a bunch of missing JVM core library functionality and appears to have some easy hooks into ZooKeeper, Thrift and Kestrel.

Thanks for the release, Twitter folk.
But don't they say, ``There is no future in time travel.''? ;-)
I just hosted your php script over here : http://khao.kodingen.com/test.php and it's a lot faster but still not perfect. I get about 721ms when I run it and when I run the javascript version in firebug it's a lot slower : 1188ms.

I guess the browser you're using is compiling the javascript more efficiently (probably by doing some kind of crazy optimization in the for loop) while PHP is not as good for optimizing for loops.
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The worst program I ever worked on was spaghetti code with HTML, Javascript, PHP and PERL all entangled in one file. This was in 2003.

In 2010, I encountered something very similar at a well known start up. Some things never change...
Sorry about that, there's a direct download link at the top you can use if the HTML5 player isn't working for you.
This is the first thing i thought as well. Build should be #1. The reading you do should directly support your building (finding help on HN or SO that help you solve the specific problem/bug at hand)
FYI the embedded viewer just shows the Google Docs landing page for me.
Thanks for the inforamtion. I have a combination of Linux or Windows machines at home and it would be handy to be able to use the same tool on both.
Cut down 2 months to 2-3 weeks and your offer will pass for a reasonable probation period, albeit free to the hiring company. Alternatively, and this is more in line with what others are saying, - say "free 2-3 weeks of probation period and then pay me for this time if we continue working together."

I am just looking at this whole situation from employer's perspective, and the ability to test a developer for few weeks (and not needing to pay if he does not work out) is a really attractive proposition. On the other hand I would not consider dealing with a dev who's ready to work completely for free. Based on my past experience such devs are either seriously underqualified (and through that unreliable and require lots of mentoring and hand-holding) or they would gear down and slack if the project is not truly interesting for them. The money factor serves as a retainer and the conditional payment works as an incentive.

Think about it ;)
Will this be free to use? It kind of reminds me of Geckoboard but their prices are rather expensive.
But you already have that what I want. You collect everything (?) and then filter out the trendy ones. Now do the opposite - show me everything minus trendy.
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I agree. I think it is more like 99 times/day. Luckily the one time you feel like you are going to make it, it's give you enough high to not worry about the other 99.
OTP-8941 - erlang halfword emulator (32-bit VM with 64-bit address space for non-gc data - binaries & ETS) is great fit for my data-intensive project.

Repeating type specs twice was very annoying - now edoc will pick up type specs.
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That email solicitation popup is rather annoying. I closed the webpage immediately.
It's not bad. I like the simple design of it.

The previous logo had some details that got lost at smaller resolutions and the icon itself was kind of a nondescript colorful futuristic object. This one looks more like an icon and doesn't leave me asking, "What is it?"
I'd love to see this succeed. Vendors are shipping their custom (and expensive) toolchains with a variety of kernels and that makes it hard to escape lock in.

I'd also love to see some of the very good debug tools from Keil, GreenHills, IAR, etc. integrated with Eclipse with standard support for Cortex-based SoCs. That would go a long way toward standardisation and we could finally get rid of the awful IDEs from those vendors.
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Everyone is doing htis, but always as a hosted service - any thought to something a customer can purchase and roll out themselves?
60 years is approximately how long we've had nuclear power for, I believe.
I signed up for a Twitter account (which I've since deactivated) when I attended a jQuery conference in Boston a few years ago. The live tweets that went around were not only hilarious, but also relevant to the discussions. In addition, I started following some developers and discovered some great links via tweets (for instance, Paul Irish tweeted his coding standards a while back, which I think is a great read for any developer and their team. http://na.isobar.com/standards/)

Do I think Twitter is a requirement for being a web developer? Definitely not. I agree with you (and voted you up.) But, I do believe, if you follow the right people, it will help you become a better one.

My only reason for deactivating it was because of Hacker News (and other aggregate sites) - A lot of the great content on Twitter ends up (or begins) on sites like HN.
If you want a second set of eyes or want to talk about optimizing, plugins, etc. shoot me an e-mail. I know enough WordPress to have a solid love/hate/don't ever want to have to dig into the way certain things work ever again relationship: terry@icedteapowered.com
Sorry, missed it. Thx!
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When you compare the PHP with the Javascript version, do you do it on the same machine? It sounds like you run the PHP on the Server and the JS on your client.

My question was: Why is the Javascript version 20 times faster on the same machine. I mean.. 20 is a really big factor.
This for me marks an interesting shift--before this, we thought of YouTube as a place we upload movies after we finish editing them, if we edited them at all (Sure they had the Video Editor on their site, but was it really used?). By adding advanced options, however, YouTube could become perhaps something more than just a place to store videos, but create and edit them as well.
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Out of curiosity: what city and neighborhood was this?
actually 9 mom months. so 1 month with 9 moms working on it.
How right do you have to be when running a payday loan scam?
I don't get it. I have read the description and have no idea what the hell this is.
have you looked at http://padrinorb.com its based on sinatra and has still open tickets.
You should put momentum in your timeline drag.
while that's generally good advice; i think vlad goal is lead generation, he hit the top of HN, im sure he'll find gainful employment
I find it hard to imagine deriving $1900 of value from the class relative to spending the same amount of time learning independently from Halloway's book, which I can buy for approximately $30.
Ask HN: What's the single best decision you made as a founder?
Mine would have to be re-writing Disrupt.fm using the CodeIgniter Framework. Although I had already been live for about a month, I knew if I wanted to scale and add new features, my spaghetti code wouldn't hold up. I had read horror stories about code re-writes but I went for it anyways.

It's almost ridiculous now how fast I can add a new feature to Disrupt.fm...What used to take days now takes hours, and the site is much more secure, stable, and structured for easy maintenance.

So HN, what's the best decision you've made regarding your startup?
Something similar on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY
Hidden feature, not a bug :)
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They also have a 10% default rate. So just to break even, they need to charge 440 GDP.
I really thought it was a japan in a "quake GAME" map.
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You could tape over the button and at the same time put the iPad into developer mode. Then you can use gestures to go back to the home menu.

How-To: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/13/want-new-gesture-controls-in-...
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Thanks for all the interest!

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Don't have the extra cash and still want to help? Upvoting is free ;)
No it's not the same machine as I don't have any php running on my pc right now. However, I just tried the same javascript snippet in the Chrome console and it takes 179ms instead. As I said, it's a matter of optimization that is happening with the interpreter (Chrome doesn't run javascript the same way Firefox does, as not every php version will interpret php code the same way based on different versions and compile options)

Edit : Think about that : web browser are always on the cutting edge of javascript performance with the ton of javascript libraries that keep popping out each day. Everytime a new browser comes out, tons of bloggers test the javascript speed of those browsers so there is a lot of work going into optimizing javascript to make it as lightning-fast as possible.

On the other hand, PHP hasn't been pushed like that towards compile-time optimization so that's why Javascript can sometimes beat PHP in terms of speed tests.
That was actually standard Fortran practice, back in the day when variables were case-insensitive and could only have four characters. You haven't lived until you've ported some of the Fortran code aerospace companies have been running since the '50's.
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I hate to sound cynical, but I am genuinely interested in how you see a "deals" arrangement being successful in a market where the majority of the products (or viable alternatives) are free already.
Did I say tomorrow? Tomorrow's Saturday, isn't it? I meant Monday. You can do a bit of time this weekend, can't you?
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We are planning to offer an edition aimed to be deployed on-premises... no estimations yet, but expect it around Q4.

Thanks for your interest :)
That's surprising. It even has a wikipedia page.

Given the fact that no new languages will ever succeed ever again due to the deletionism in wikipedia I've started making a list of languages everyone should have heard of:

dao, nimrod, pure, rust, factor, coffeescript, boo, scotch, ela, vala, ooc, x10, bitc, arc, newlisp, cobra, seed7, wirbel (no longer developed)
I would be a customer for an on-premise version.
1. The murder in that news story was not triggered by the anti-litter. It seems highly likely that he murderer was already out for blood.

2. Litter travels beyond the boundary of the litterer's clothing, so I do not see the consistency of your model.
Why do you think this is possible when you have basically rogue apps that will abuse any provided infrastructure? The only real way around it is to review every app and only allow trusted programs.
Applying to Y Combinator.
A mock-up was linked on HN a few days ago, it was quite close to the real thing. I still think non 3d-logo's look really ugly on the OSX Dock. (another example: Handbrake.) Ah well, replacing the icon is easy anyway.
They're a deeply sleazy company, along with lenders like PayDayUK.

They mass-cold-call people asking to "discuss their application for a loan", when those people haven't made an application.

They send threatening emails to folks saying that loan installments haven't been paid, when those people haven't taken out a loan.

Their tactics are basically bullying and fear.

(No, I haven't ever taken out a loan with either of these companies. Yes I have had to experience both of these annoyances. Yes, so have various other people I know).
Let's see if the parent comment gets the same 9 upvotes as the submission itself.
I looked at the Apogee One way back but thought it was a little pricey still, and this Jam at $99 isn’t cheap either. Are you getting genuine quality or is it like getting golden HDMI cables?
> That sounds like an argument for any language, though.

Not really. Unless the language gives you access to the computer (either directly, or by emitting machine code and scheduling for execution), you'll have hard time implementing it efficiently. Compare IronPython (python implemented in python) with the mainline Python (implemented in C).

Yes, there are meta-circular interpreters. But that's not the holy graal.

> I think C is a fine language, but it's missing some significant niceties. Like a decent native string class.

C++ is what happens when you sprinkle a few niceties here and there. The C++ Faq Lite [1] is longer than the whole C specs. The kitchen sink language can do everything, but porting it to a new environment is quite a task. Never mind the compilation time.

You can get an optimizing C compiler [2] in less characters than C++ Faq Lite has.

If you want modernized C with niceties, (Google's) Go probably comes close enough. No string class, thou, just string type.

--

[1] http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/

[2] http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/
I like how your homepage has some personality! I'm not sure if the content for the blog will be appropriate for your customers, though. If so, you should give it some personality too and work on the design a bit.
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They don't lose the full amount on all defaults. Many will pay back eventually, even paying some penalties, providing higher profits. As the article mentions, it's the defaults where traditional providers make most of their money.

Defaulted loans are almost always worth something. They can be sold to collection agencies, who typically buy them at around 10 cents to the dollar.
Yeah, we realize real time is not strictly necessary for many people. For the ones who need it, it's a killer feature, for the ones who don't, a nice-to-have.

The game-changing point is that we're always gathering data at the same pace, even when you're not connected. This means that when you visit the page (or see read your daily report email), you'll see a datapoint for every event as it happened, like a visits spike during the night, or a sudden increase of CPU usage of your AWS machines.
As I explain here,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2331182

the problem that the companies the law applies to aren't necessarily rich; they're not being taxed on their revenues, but on their valuations, which reflect investors' hopes about their future revenues. So they're effectively being asked now for money they don't have yet.

But in any case it would not be "special treatment" to exempt them; this is one of those laws that is so weird (zero other cities have it that I know of) that the only reason it has stayed on the books is that it has not actually been enforced in the past.
Good point - it happened mostly when shuffling things around so that would make sense.
No decision yet... we've been reading good and bad experiences from SaaS providers who offered a freemium plan.

What features do you think would be interesting in a freemium plan?
I'm curious, how come you went with a whole sign up page (asking for a name, and password) rather than simply putting an email box on the main page like the most deal sites do?

Do you really need to call a person by name in emails? Is the sign up friction worth it?
I agree with absolutely every point on that list, and I definitely wish I had read something like that when I was starting out.

The only thing I would add: Be curious. Eliminate as many magical black boxes from your day-to-day work as you can. To some extent, yes, you should be playing around and experimenting. But some of my most rewarding self-taught lessons are from diving into areas that I took for granted (how a web server works, jQuery and Django's core, protocols, etc) and exploring until I felt like I had a good grasp on what was happening. Those monstrosity config files for things like Apache and PHP? Delete them. Now watch them fail. Learn what the default are, the bare minimum that you need to get it up and running, and expand on it. Find the areas you're uncomfortable with, and beat the living hell out of them.
I'm surprised Wordpress haven't built caching into the platform yet. wp super cache will fix your problem, though.
Cool. Yes, I know that Pure had to do some fighting to keep its wikipedia webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...
If you're selling to businesses then it really does come down to value. Most businesses won't hesitate to pay much more than you might think is reasonable IF the product offers a value that exceeds that cost. If there's real value to your product then you should definitely start on the higher end of what you're considering.
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You shouldn't apply to YCombinator if...
I worked with a guy a couple years ago who used the planets and nearby stars as a version numbering scheme. For example, the first revision of a file might be "Jupiter" and the second revision might have been called "Mars." (Of course, he didn't use the planets in their natural order)

He also refused to use real version control or even any kind of on network backup and insisted on using a Zip drive to back up all of the code he was working on. Needless to say, we had an intervention that involved hiding the Zip drive, and he quit in disgust shortly after.
As someone in the know, I have to say you are completely wrong.

At that UAC, you could turn a nice profit just upselling users to join Match.com or eHarmony.com.

Your biggest problem will be maintaining a UAC that low at any sort of scale, unless you've discovered some magic bullet which means you'll be the next PlentyOfFish.
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I've only had good experiences with them. I use them to boost my credit rating (which is going well, it's now above average!) and I've never experienced any of that. I was at one point late with a loan repayment (they took the payment a day early because of a bank holiday, caused me problems) and they didn't harass me or phone at all, they simply increased the amount that I owed.
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Last time I used OS X it didn't have program updates or user notifications figured out. I had to use Growl for the latter, and apps had to individually use Sparkle for the former, which is basically the same as the Windows situation. I agree that Windows should have centralized solutions for these problems, though.
Since when have payday loans been a scam? That's a very silly view and in my opinion doesn't fit the entrepreneurial spirit. Payday loans are valuable to a large number of people and a large number can and do handle them successfully. It's not a scam, it's just easy to screw up with.

is gambling a scam? are mortgages a scam? are "normal" loans a scam? are vc investments a scam? etc etc
> My understanding was the same as yours above, but it seems that if there is a valuation event – an IPO, for example – then the rise in value of all shares is counted, not just the ones which were sold.

Well, that would explain a bit of the whining, but I will need a nice solid citation before I believe a word of it.

First, because I cannot fathom how it could possibly work: What's a qualifying "valuation event"? What if another event comes along and the valuation has dropped -- is the company entitled to a refund, then?

Second, because that would be the only tax scheme I've ever heard of, except maybe some proposed & hair-brained wealth taxes, that directly taxes unrealized gains. (Wealth taxes I'm aware of that actually exist tax unrealized gains under simple growth assumptions, not based on any sort of actual valuation.)

Third, because if that were the case you'd think that the vocal opposition would be able to articulate it more clearly.

> To me, tax becomes unfair if it is arbitrarily applied to some people, but not to others, e.g. letting Twitter and Zynga off, while taxing other start-ups.

Exactly the problem that the options tax was introduced to solve, as well. If there is a tax on employee compensation, why shouldn't the executive compensation of $1 salary + $300 million in options be taxed at the same effective rate as the janitor's wages?

(N.b.: I think a payroll tax is dumb, but a regressive payroll tax is dumber!)

(Edited a bit for clarity & removed a side comment.)
That's a fair point -- but, by asking for a name and a password (and admittedly, we can forego the name) -- you get an account.

For regular users, this is probably worth deleting. But for app developers, the 'having an account' means that they can add, upload and manage applications that they'd like to have featured.
Could I have a peek at your resume, please? (Your profile page doesn't list any website).
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