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A self-interested, economically rational business would hire the worker for $1.50 an hour.

This assumes that MTurk is an exact substitute. It isn't even close.

I know of a person who made this exact choice - instead of going lean and using MTurk at $1.50/hour, he is paying close to $5/hour (loaded cost, wage is probably about $2.50) for live humans and suffering with monthly contracts and renting office space. (I'm helping him with the data analysis.)

Among other things, with a single turk at $1.5/hour, you need to hire 2 more turks each at $1.5/hour and get a majority vote on their work. You also need to hope you didn't hire two colluding spammers. You don't get to give them live, in-person training, and checking work is more difficult.

Then there are statistical issues. If you have 10,000 HITs produced by 100 turks, you need to check 100 x 15=1500 HITs and you have a low confidence that any individual turk did a good job. If you have 10,000 HITs produced by a single employee, you can check 200 HITs and get a much higher confidence rate. Do this for a few rounds, you now have a set of employees who you can trust. Additionally, you can control when the work is done. If something is important, it will be done in precisely #HITs / (employees x HIT rate) hours. On MTurk, you hope it will eventually be done one day.

0% unemployment with an average low-income wage of $0.50 is not 'better' than 5% unemployment with an average low-income wage of $7.

The average low income wage in the US is far lower than $7. Most poor adults (about 70%) have a wage of $0 due to having no job.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf
Why is it a cop-out to be ambivalent?
Among people I've seen use it, there's this tendency to dive in head first to use it.
I get the impression that the general thinking is to differentiate themselves from the crowd (and since I'm in school, the thought is they'll get better marks). In reality, a bad presentation is a bad presentation, no matter how you package it (lipstick on a pig anyone?).
Once Prezi becomes a norm like PowerPoint (I think it will), I'm curious how Prezi will position itself
Is the answer:
4x3x2x10x9 / (14x13x12x11x10) * 5!
Is there some easier way to solve this?
Are you an average Python developer?
I use duplicity+S3 as well for backups, it's the best for that. Hmm, I might sync everything to my home NAS and back it up to S3 with duplicity, now that you mentioned it, it might actually be cheaper.

Thanks!
Apple's market share is still relatively low, a bigger risk is if MS tries build something like this into Windows too.
The USA is a huge economy, but debt can't just be swept under the rug forever -- interest payments are huge and getting bigger. Everyone is starting to realize we can't keep borrowing forever -- we're nearing the end of that way of living.
Well look who is commoditizing it, and it isn't Google.
Just look at the geolocation of the last few pictures you took. There you are!
> The reason why English is rather hard for speakers of Asian languages should be pretty obvious: there is such a big difference in sounds.

I disagree. The problem is the grammar. Asian languages are rather "grammar-less" (not that such a thing is technically possible), at least compared to Indo-European languages.

English tenses in particular are hard for even continental Europeans to understand. I learnt German for awhile and Germans just struggle with English tenses. There are only a handful in Germans and many in English.

While English grammar is far more streamlined and less brittle than continental European languages (ie we have almost no case, no gender of nouns except for people, no agreement of adjectives and a word order that front-loads the verb in the sentence) native Asian language speakers still struggle with plurals, tense and the informal way we use tone (compared to the tonal languages).

The phenomes used in each language seem like the least important part.

Lastly, it's worth pointing out that there is as much variety in Asian languages as Indo-European languages. Arguably more since several language families span Asia.
Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, I run Ubuntu so that's a pretty big prerequisite :)
I basically live my life inside org-mode and I love reading well written stuff about how others use org-mode since I always find new ways of doing things, and new stuff that can be done in org-mode.

The slogan of the good old board game othello comes to mind; A minute to learn. A lifetime to master.

So far the most advanced thing I do is my org-mode-blog: I create a blog entry directly in emacs, or from conkeror including the URL of the page I'm on. I write it in org-mode. It gets git-ed to my server that has a submit hook that publishes it directly to my blog through jekyll.

So thanks for the submission. I skimmed through it, but I will read it again on the bus home this evening.
I'm highly tolerant of spelling/grammar errors, normally. Who cares about "it's" vs. "its" in this context, right? But in this case, I needed to re-read every sentence. Even after re-reading it a few times, I had to guess the author's intended meaning. That is just a failure to communicate.
Yes, Dropbox will have to up/download the entire multi-gigabyte file container each time, as far as I know.
This definitely rings true:

"...I tend to be rather cynical (wow! what a surprise!) about it all myself because it’s wonderfully easy to read about this stuff and feel better about yourself rather than actually do whatever it is you need to do."
MixPanel also offers a platform capability that lets you offer analytics to end users of your application. I haven't used it personally, and am not affiliated with them but here's the link:

http://mixpanel.com/platform/

Might be a quick way to offer something and see how it sticks with your audience.
Sweet, we get self-driving cars and commodity headless servers.
Once again, no mention of the real reason we use Uranium:

Thorium is not fissile. It only becomes fissile through transmutation to Uranium 233 by neutron activation. The only place with high enough neutron fluxes to transmute a significant amount of Thorium? A nuclear reactor.

So, one needs a working nuclear reactor (as well as a reprocessing plant to extract the U-233!) to produce fuel from Thorium.

Basically two whole levels of pain in the ass that don't exist in the Uranium cycle, for a system that, no matter what its advocates say, is not that different from a safety perspective.
Unison does fulfill the zero-knowledge criteria, but it's not a daemon that runs constantly, although I might give it a shot, thank you.
Who cares? The Uncle Bear video was stupid and funny and if that offends you then don't come to the conference because you are uptight and I don't want you there. And if anyone that makes fun or uses Charlie Sheen (because he is the IT thing right now)to promote themselves then you will need to write a blog post for every comedian and news anchor out there who have bombarded us with his face for the past 2 weeks.
> It's irrelevant if someone is foreign. What matters if people are informed.

I disagree. Since our classification scheme arguably has next to zero effect on someone who isn't inside Australia, their opinions on what we decide to enact are irrelevant and nosey. A variation on "Why should you be able to tell me what I can/cannot do in bed with my wife?" really. It'd be different if we had any effect on the ability for foreigners to see or enjoy what they want in their own markets.

I should be clear and make a distinction between my support for the classification scheme as it currently stands with it's clear benefits in informed choices for parents and transparency that it is run with, and my opinion on the proposed internet clean feed filter, which is one of disapproval.
That isn't like Google at all. Apple is divided up by function, Google is divided up by product. So the Android team has it's own designers, as does Chrome and Search. Whereas at Apple the same design team works on all the products.
You have an outsider perspective, while the article was written from an insider's perspective. It appears that the technology team was at its peak when it changed from Live to Bing, and has declined since then. The success of Bing has been due to marketing, but without a sound technical team behind it, it's going to die.
I'll hazard an estimate for Silicon Valley: $60,000 + $3000 per year of experience +/- 20% if you rule/suck. I'd make the same estimate for people in most technical fields. I think it's hard to get more precise than that.
Part of the problem is that downvoting is used to express disagreement. We have this discussion often on HN (perhaps too often): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

Note: the following unexpectedly turned into a bit of a rant, with a dose of whining thrown in:

Many of us "old-timers" think that downvoting without giving a reason is mostly bad form (the exception is for a rude or obnoxious comment). I've personally noticed an increase in this behavior.

I believe that doing so decreases the user experience. I've had plenty of disagreements over the years and have almost always learned something from them (even if it just required me to do a bit of soul-searching). Posts would be painstakingly composed (one of the big complaints we had was that the post-page timed out while we were composing- so we had to result in using a separate editor to compose, then click "reply" and copy-and-paste.

But now-- why bother? I've been around a while. I'm on my second (third?) career. Not a hacker extraordinaire by any means, but I'm well educated technically and have maintained my involvement with a broad array of interests (I like to learn new things). I've seen some things, and I'm willing to share- and even be challenged in my own conclusions about them.

But when I make a post that the "average HN-er" (age 25, so I hear) may not think is very smart and I immediately get downvoted with no reason given, it sends a signal that HN has changed in a very dramatic way.

The site is far less valuable than it used to be.
That's why small organizations are preferable to most hackers. I don't see how that changes flat == good. GE, IBM, Walmart, or the U.S. military would be places I'd never work, given any choice. Scaling is not necessarily good, it usually means dumbing down to the average.
Who cares? This argument is a waste of time. Go find someone that is actually sexist and stop making mountains out of mole hills.
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The question surely isn't "As cheaply as possible", after all, you could just delete it - that'd be cheap.

Tape is still the cheapest, reliable option, and your main options are Quantum, IBM, and Oracle (Sun).

The Quantum Scalar i500 can store up to 600TB of data, and is relatively cheap, or you could buy 4 or 5 smaller models and use tape management software to track where the data is.
They probably compete for the same finite electrical sources, too.
iOS provides more than just UI widgets. There's a lot more stuff given to developers on iOS vs Android. So if you 3mo to develop app on each platform the month you spend on Android recreating the libs Apple provides is spent making the iOS version "nicer".
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Nicely complicated--- useful if the boss or client wants verbiage. If asked directly though, I usually say "If I've done it before, I know how long it takes; if not then not."
Check out http://www.glassdoor.com. They have anonymous salaries from current and former employees, along with actual interview questions and reviews. Look up the company name there and see what it says. For example, I looked up DreamWorks in Los Angeles, and there are 10 salaries listed for software engineer, with a range from $74k-$98k. There are 3 salaries listed for senior software engineer with a range from $98k-113k. That is valuable info when negotiating salary, and you get an idea of advancement potential
Github is still hugely biased towards Ruby, which is one reason I still haven't included it in http://www.langpop.com
$100,000

Please do not listen to anyone who even mentions that the average salary is below $80,000, which is completely uninformed and basically an insult to the profession.
Correction. You created the Cloud.
Or the Taiping Rebellion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
I'm pretty sure that Dropbox uses [EDIT: was "something like the rsync algorithm."] something like Tarsnap's algorithm: break a file into data-dependent blocks and upload all changed blocks (optionally with rsync). (For a toy implementation, let everything between two NUL bytes be a "block" - you see how this is a big win for detecting changes and deduplication.) This is supported by e.g. http://serverfault.com/questions/52861/how-does-dropbox-vers....

TrueCrypt and alternatives definitely make sure that writing one unencrypted sector only changes one encrypted sector worth of data - compare their performance with gpg'ing the entire disk on each write, and you'll quickly see why.
Is there any difference between x and * operations?
"typically in a 1 to 5 scale in which 1 is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly disagree."

I would agree that we're doing something wrong.
I've seen this site before and frankly I think it's rather irrelevant. Recent innovations (past years) in search are mostly spelling corrections/related topics suggestions, visual presentation of aggregated results (how many images, results from suggestions) and stuff like that. The pure ranking order delivered on a fixed search is more and more useless, the imo important part is how the search engine guides you until you've found the correct search query that delivers what you're actually looking for.
Hmm, I will have to look into that, although I think that Dropbox only does per-file diffing... Thanks for the recommendation.

EDIT: Interesting, that makes the TrueCrypt suggestion not only viable, but desirable. Thank you.
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Hmmm, it's giving me the wrong results... it shows the results I voted from are from "Bing", but when I went to Google it showed me those results, and Bing's results where the ones marked "Yahoo".

See here

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=21+de+setiembre+y+sarmiento&...

it would have me believe that Bing's were the better results (they weren't for this particular search).

Also, when I'm logged in and using my country-specific search, Google is way, way, way better than the competition.

Edit: I'll probably message the creator (parent is not affiliated with the site)
I keep seeing long articles about org-mode, but nothing very helpful to use it.

It tried downloading it once and it didn't seem to come with any useful documentation, and as a non-emacs users, couldn't really even make it "start", never mind do anything useful.

As a non-emacs, non-lisp users, is this really worth trying to learn? And if so, how can I get started with something small and useful?
There is no easy way to see what Android version you are exactly running

Is Menu|settings|About phone not enough for you?
Good call. See also:

http://www.indeed.com/salary

http://www.payscale.com/

Most importantly, look for evidence. Don't trust unsupported numbers from people you've never met.
Haha, yes. That is the bottom line. But once they ask "why?", then OMG, worms everywhere!

My post is definitely not suitable for most management, but in a discussion with a bunch of fellow geeks, it did fit in with the discussion.

Explaining this to management/clients is not easy. It's a problem that needs tackling, but it's a separate problem.
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I read about a scam somewhere (probably apocryphal) that a doctor could guarantee a boy. People cheerfully paid the fee and undertook the procedure.

If a boy was born, everyone was happy and the doctor kept his fee. If a girl was born, the parents would go back to the doctor where he would explain that the technique wasn't 100% reliable but happily gave a refund with a little extra as a goodwill gesture.

The scam was thet the doctor wasn't doing anything at all. Births remained roughly half boys and half girls. The fees paid by parents of baby boys more than covered the running costs and the goodwill payments.

(I'm not going to check Snopes. Its such a good story I don't really care if its real or not.)
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> Since our classification scheme arguably has next to zero effect on someone who isn't inside Australia, their opinions on what we decide to enact are irrelevant and nosey.

I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic here, but in case you're not: the idea that people are not allowed to have opinions on things that don't directly affect them is startling.

The "variation" you provide is false. Someone holding a reasoned opinion on something is not equivalent to someone issuing rules on what you may or may not do with your wife.
Yes. How many software bugs are traceable to lousy global design? No one here would be surprised that a system built on lousy principles exhibits many particular problems. Why is it surprising that an economy built on bad principles has all sorts of particular problems?

And if anyone here suggested that the best response to a badly designed system was some additional "bug catching" layer, or just tweaking all the details, well, it wouldn't go over well. Patches might do just to keep things running, but none would suggest that's the right way to build the thing in the first place. And the patching approach would be doubly suspicious if the same crummy programmers that had the bad design where then tasked with patching up the bugs.

And no, this won't happen here in the US. If you think the average US consumer is as ignorant as the average Chinese, you aren't thinking it through. Go look at what passes for a college degree in China, the government has massively expanded the "colleges" past all capacity to actually teach that many people. And the average US consumer has far better access to enough expertise to diagnose the problem. And US retailers make major investments in brand reputation, which they will not simply abandon. US consumers have far better resources for understanding fraud, and far better recourse against it.

Now, my "ideology" is founded in a lot of solid theory and hard evidence. It is a world view that explains a _lot_, and often in advance of events. If you think I'm walking from all that b/c of one unfortunate example, if you think I'm not going to look for some explanation that is consistent with what I already know, I don't know what to say. Here I admit that this cheating is what I expect in these circumstances -- not really a free market advertisement -- and admit that I'm looking for some consistent explanation. And you have a problem with that? My biases are right here on my sleeve, where I can keep an eye on 'em. Where are yours?
I've been working on the idea for a while now, in a nutshell it's a less bureaucratic version of paypal. I've been seeking advice from a lot of different sources. To be honest, i think the main reason is the fact that i'm a sole founder and that I've been doing everything on my own. Which is stupid, but it isn't easy to find technology entrepreneurs my age in the UK, or ones who are as committed.

The prototype has been developed, so I'm going to take it to market within the next few weeks. Then apply to YC again in the winter, with a bit more grounding and social proof.

It's not really the money I was hoping to receive it's the support/advice/mentorship, especially on legal matters. Most of the lawyers i've spoken to don't really have a clue about the SAAS model.
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I only downvote people who are rude, condescending, youtube-esque, etc. Not comments which are incorrect, or that I disagree with.
For example, I program in SUN's Forte's 4GL TOOL programming language (sadly, our legacy system is built on that), it's a dead language, but it probably counts for the other 4GL searches or results.

And I doubt you'll find it on Github.

Same for the local Genexus 4GL .

Edit: it's also English-biased. Genexus 4GL returns over 77.000 results, much more than listed. This blog post seems worse researched than TIOBE's index.
Seen before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2104408
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I didn't say someone can't have opinions, but I did say I find their opinions irrelevant. I realise that example was poorly worded, but I think you get the idea. It'd probably be better phrased as "Why do you think we're interested in you telling us what we should/should not do with our wives in our own homes?"
It's because developers are rubbish for not being pyshic ;) I'm always suprised how few estimates take account of environmental contributions!!
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Markets aren't that big, not enough investors/capital, different culture.
Why not the direct link to http://www.patternify.com/? I realize you are a part of talentopoly.com (if not the sole founder), but it adds utterly nothing to the content.

Meta discussion aside, I think the base64 export is a really cool feature in a webapp that otherwise is simply MS Paint.
good use of prezi, the presentation on the chip & pin break from last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3dxjvqk7Y
It's because developers are eternally optimistic. How else can you explain someone hitting a "compile" button a hundred times a day, hoping each time to get no errors?
Ask HN: I quit my job .. now what?
So I had this idea, and I want to bring this idea to reality. In this process, I realized I would need to devote a chunk of time to this end, and as such I quit my job in finance [which paid a pretty penny].

So here I am now, at home. Day 1. And for some reason I feel paralyzed by the lack of a clear pathway [finance makes sense, startups for some reason does not].

I feel like I have everything I need to proceed, but I guess I'm not used to not having a roadmap. To those who have quit their jobs, how did you make the mental transition to a 'startup' mentality?
I was under the impression that they were waning in Japan, with many newer ads simply encouraging people to "Google XYZ" to learn more.
A lot of these are laughable, but I think Tron: Legacy did a really good job of mixing something realistic as well as futuristic.