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I am not at all sure that those big decisions should be made by consensus, however.I once worked on a deal where the founder was very experienced in group dynamics and he insisted on solving all major issues by majority with all minor issues by consensus. Since then, I offer that solution to groups and generally they take it. In my experience consensus is so subject to the "holdout" that only the most sophisticated groups can avoid it. You don't want the major issues to be hijacked by one unhappy party. Its way too time consuming.
I do believe a blog post about how to practically implement such things into a framework (say Rails or Django) would do well.
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I'm 16, so I don't think so :-)
Thanks; sorry about that!
I think you forgot to finish your sentence. You were about to say how to do it?
Yeah, cooperatives can be implemented on top of whatever legal distinction you choose; Texas happens to have a "cooperative association" status that operates as a sub-set of non-profit and makes a lot of the decisions for you (as in, you are required to have a 5 person board, membership meetings, pay equal dividends, etc, so there is no point even discussing it). Also, tax benefits.
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"Do you object out of hand to non-peer reviewed science articles regardless of quality?"

In general? I find it distasteful but I don't really give that much of a shit.

Topics like nutrition or medicine have a large potential to cause bodily harm however, and I firmly believe that non-rigorous studies should not be shared with populations that don't have the capacity to understand the limitations present.

Example: Shoddy studies about vaccines and the general public mix with disastrous results.

All so this journalist can make a quick buck, instead of finding something more appropriate to "report" on.
the multiple timelines feature makes me wish there was a desktop version. or that i had an iphone.
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I was actually looking through several year old hackernews articles relating to sysadmin best practices, but I could not determine which comments had the "pearls".
I started FeeFighters, which is like Kayak for merchant accounts.

I have seen a lot of misery from folks who used the recurring API of the gateways (such as auth.net, braintree, etc).

If you are going to do recurring payments either roll your own using tokenization (its not that hard if your billing logic is simple), or use Recurly/Spreedly/Chargify.

A big advantage that a lot of people don't immediately recognize is that using R/S/C gives you a really good CRUD for your users/subscriptions/payments/etc. Building out that interface properly isn't a good way to spend your time (spend it on customer facing stuff!).
We look at what we need in order to develop the next stage of Tutorspree - high density of students, focus on education, willingness to experiment with new technology and methods, design talent, engineering talent, etc. and we put that on the scale. For us, those factors all point to NYC as our optimal first market to conquer.

Funny, I look at those factors and think, "Boston".
The ordering of comments approximates this.

It would be nice if there was some way to re-nest comments, based on scores, while retaining their logical relationship (as replies). e.g. It could be done with lines or labels, but it sounds too messy.
But if the CC info ever hits your server, your server, apps, etc. fall into scope. Not storing it just gets you out of a small part of PCI.
"October 5th 2001, when 0.02, the first public release was made?"

Uhh....
"...Because a language has to be relearned by every individual born into the language environment, there is a lot imperfect copying going on, leading to individuals having slightly different parameters of their Universal Grammars."

My point with respect to the parameters notion is that the more closely we examine every aspect of language, the finer the distinctions we discover. At some point, the number of necessary "learned parameters" grows so large that it's like claiming that all books are the same except for the character parameters. The characters ARE the book, with some near-universal exceptions such as paper and binding, and the learned language parameters ARE the language, with some near-universal exceptions that are general cognitive properties of human brain architecture that apply to much more than just language.
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The terminology of payments is so weird:

Payment processors refer to their business customers as "merchants".

Entrepreneurs ALSO refer to their payment processors as "merchants".
Obviously, feedback is part of learning language. B. F. Skinner argued that it was the whole explanation, as you're claiming. That was the idea Chomsky challenged.

You're not addressing the crucial point. The suprise isn't that people can invent new sentences. It's how well they can tell if other speakers will regard those sentences as valid English (or valid Ebonics). People can evaluate sentences, and forms of sentences, that have never been spoken. They could not have learned that by feedback, and linguists stuggle to state the precise rules by which they do it.
Yes, so the question then becomes, what is the definition of net worth?
Twitter trademarked "Tweet".
But a lot of people from really screwed up places don't have that privilege ... there are many that would rather take a 3-$5k salary haircut than go back to their home country for any reason, because there is nothing but hard living there.
solid advice. just fiddled the css over to make it easier to read. now i can stop squinting as well.
"Failing that, I think it might be fair to add interest to that IOU."

Sure. That is treating that early founder as founder + lender and recognizing that IOU as a debt of the company.
Making the worst case worser is the point. My assumption here was that the issue was catching this type of optimization problem during development, in which case using row values would help. The idea isn't that a table scan is better than an index scan, but that an index scan that isn't very selective will progressively get worse in terms of performance as the table grows, and possibly not be caught during development. Row values are the developer's way of saying "I want this condition to match an index on all columns, or not match at all".
Literate style documentation: http://indexzero.github.com/rest-easy/
I keep forgetting to ask anyone about this, but I signed up as a student (which I am) awhile back and never received any issues or a confirmation. (This is one of those "meant to do" tasks.) Should I e-mail the general inquiries address? It looks like the original offer isn't present any more or I'd just try again.
Agree that it could start in any city, but the question is more around what gives you the highest chance of success. AirBnB did focus heavily on particular places (NYC, in fact). Makes sense as they'd want to understand the dynamics of how they would grow, what would work, etc. on a knowable playing field before repeating that success in place after place.

At least, that's how we think about it.
I particularly like the pie calculation as it addresses more variables more effectively. I would add that the agreement used (probably an LLC or Limited Partnership rather than a corporation) should provide sufficient flexibility that when things change (and they certainly will) the agreement is ready to help adjust the relationships. Thus, I would, among other things, use the pie chart each year to help adjust the relationships to meet changes that have happened over the year. The prime example is the founder who left after six months to do something else. Or the manager who is brought in after the idea is making money, but not much money.
Maybe not model all your entities as "friends"?
I agree.

(no seriously, I do, but I enjoy the irony as well)
Extensions will be automatically marked compatible with the new release, unless there are known problems: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/04/13/add-ons-review-upd...
Yeah, Boston would also be a great town for what we're doing. That's where the social/personal element helps us decide.
Grandma Moses didn't start painting until her late 70's and she was successful enough to have a New York holiday in her honor on her 100th birthday.
Assets - Liabilities?

Your business surely can be considered an asset. The difficulty is in the valuation as you've mentioned. Cash on hand. Multiples of revenues or profits. These are all options.

Not sure what the SEC says on the matter.

The easiest thing to do, if you need to be 100% certain, would be to get a bank loan based on the value of your business and have the cash on hand to prove you meet the requirement.
Making ideas "open-source" to facilitate their "meeting and mating"
Six naming myths to ignore
If you know of any exceptional engineers or designers, please let them know that we're hiring: jobs (at) tutorspree.com.
I was surprised to see CLI listed as the current champ for games instead of c++. Is it really widely used on other consoles, or for non-windows games?

Is Unity and XNA enough to crown CLI as king?
And who watches 3 TV shows at one time?

I do. I'll start one, and than pause it to go do something else (write code, grab a snack, etc) and come back and start watching a different show. Eventually, I'll get distracted and pause the show I'm watching and talk on IRC or read Twitter for a bit, at which point I'll read about another show that I've been meaning to watch. So, I'll start watching it. Only to remember the first show that I started two hours ago and never finished. Its worse when I catch a reference to another show that I'm watching but can't quite remember what its referencing or its baseball season and I have a Mets game to watch..

This works really well with Quicktime, where it opens a new window for every video file I tell it to play. Not so much with VLC or Movist (mplayer UI) on OS X, that use a single window for all videos.
Especially important for lean startups when considering payment providers for subscriptions is the ability to "take your customers with you" as you grow. When using Paypal, Clickbank, Fastspring/ Saasly, they are the merchant of record, so they "own" the customer data. If you ever want to move to a different provider, get your own or switch merchant accounts... the customers that signed up with these providers will need to signup for a new subscription and submit their CC data again to transition them to your new provider. The other option is you can continue to use these old providers for your existing subscribers, and use your new providers for new customers, but that adds a bunch of complexity for technology, customer support...

This isn't a unique issue with "merchant of record" companies, gateways like Auth.net have a real issue with this too, check out:
http://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/Integration-and-...

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/open-letter-to...
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Part of negotiating is making tradeoffs... give something, and get what you want in return.

For example, if you and someone else are going to lunch and want to go to different places, offer to buy them dessert or something to go to the place you want. They get something, you get something.

Just being pushy can backfire - you might get what you want initially, but the social problems it may create might have negative results.
The differences are there; superficially, all clients display tweets in a timeline, and provide the functionality that Twitter.com does. The differences abound, though. Check out http://shawnblanc.net/2011/04/tweetbot-review/ for more.
I think it's shared hosting.
We've discussed query hints before at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179433 along with why they don't exist in PostgreSQL. My opinion is clear from that discussion.

The other feature in this list that I really, really like is session tracing. When I used to work with Oracle I implemented a feature that allowed any web page to have the database session logged if you passed in a magic parameter. This was unbelievably useful in debugging performance problems on the live system as they were happening. In fact it proved so useful that we would turn tracing on for one session for some period of time each day, inserting pointless marker queries at the start and end of each web page. We then ran a script through the log to be able to break it up by web page, looked at the slow web pages, what they did, and thought about how we could make it faster. This exercise suggested optimizations that resulted in something like doubling the capacity of our website on that hardware.

This is invaluable data that you simply cannot collect in any other way. You certainly can't turn on logging for the whole database - the website will crash. Sure you can log things at the application level - I did that as well. But it just says, "We ran these queries and got this timing." It doesn't shed light on what is happening inside of the database.
The site has two major goals:

1. Enabling people to find collaborators with the right skills to help them turn their ideas into reality.

2. Developing an 'Open Ideas Initiative' so that ideas may become "open source".
Pg_restore is pretty flexible. You can have it generate a list of the objects in the dump, and then edit that file to create/restore only the objects of interest. You can omit/change permissions, schema objects, restore order, etc. You can also specify data only restore as a command line option. If you don't want the index, just remove it from the table definition and do a data only restore on that table.
Ask HN: What's the best service for sending money to your users?
If a start-up wants to support either paying its users or facilitating payments between users (possibly keeping a percentage of the payment), is there an alternative to PayPal?

Are there gotchas associated with this process? For example, ebay has buyers send payment directly to sellers and then bills the seller for ebay's fees after the fact. Is there a reason for this approach? Are there other online businesses that facilitate transactions, and what payment services/approaches do they use?
Multicore aware dump and restore would be a big win. I've hacked something up to do it in python queues and threads calling out to pg_dump. The drawback is that when I do it, I'm not getting a consistent, one transaction dump. But then usually, I'm shutting down the system to do an upgrade when I thwack it like this, so it's a reasonable tradeoff. With a fast set of drives, I can generally dump and reload with a concurrency of roughly O(#cores) in approximately the time it takes for the largest table, rather than the sum of the times for all the tables.

(there's a caveat there, and that's that my biggest tables tend to be toasted, so there's a decent processor load uncompressing the toasted bits. Also, Power law governs table size, and the biggest table is ~ 50+ % of the database, with ~ 100 tables. YMMV)

I wish there was a way to transparently parallelize operations over more than one core. I've got enough operations that are actually processor bound that I could benefit (some) from it. I could partition the database, but that's a management headache.
Dell has 4, 5, and 7 inch tablets that are nicer than this, play flash, and are lower cost.
How about if points are hidden for the first 2 hours or so after a story is submitted? This way initially there wont be any bias on the comments, and eventually we can see the comments that are the most meaningful.
>They could not have learned that by feedback

Why not? I'm not saying that grammar doesn't exist, I'm asking why it needs to be innate?

The existence of grammar rules is what allows us to determine if a sentence is grammatically correct. These rules could be learned through experience. Why do they need to be innate?

I believe you don't understand Chomsky's argument. I'm not a die hard behaviourist I just know the behaviourist position well enough to know that your particular formulation of the "language is special" theory is easily refuted.
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thanks, would never have noticed l337 day on my own :) and yeah, same zem! dropped off newslily due to having too many social networks to keep up with; nice to see it still going strong.
I like HN without comment scores, because it avoids the bandwagon effect, also username biases become more important that the actual content, BUT comment score do solve an important problem, to highlight the quality of a comment, in a threaded discussion.

Solution - May be instead of say "37 points", mark it in a range, (say "20-50" points), to give some idea of the comment quality.

OR

Even better, Show the percentile range for the comment, within the thread. (Say "80-90"%ile comment, would be better than a "40-50"%ile comment.)

OR

Grade them ("A" - "E") for the thread comments.
They have said it's fine if it's pure Twitter apps.
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Creating a pivot table is very different from simply opening an excel file. Conceptually (it may be more optimized internally) it tries to create a cube of all possible results with all others. (An OLAP cube.)

So if you have columns 1, 2, 3, 4 and rows 1, 2, 3 it will create a cube for a combination of all dimensions.. So for all rows you will have all columns instantly queryable but also 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 1-2-3, 1-2-4, 1-3-4, 2-3,4, 1-2-3-4 so that you can query any combination of rows/cells and instantly get your result.

As you can imagine this cube gets exponentially bigger as you add dimensions (columns) and will quickly kill excel if you load in too much stuff.
How will this be integrated? Does this just mean when I generate a rails project, I'll see:

gem 'haml'
gem 'coffee'

in my Gemfile? That's cool, I just hope this stuff isn't vendored.
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The other problem with the approach is it increases the risk of the guy who goes without salary, without any reward (that theme seems to be a strong justification for compensation in Joel's article, though I'm not sure it is intrinsically fair).

If you go without salary, while the other people don't, and get IOUs, but the company goes bust anyhow, you'll be out of pocket but the other people won't. You're taking more risk; why not have more upside?

But the other side is this notion that reward is necessarily justified by risk. What if the company is motoring along steadily for a couple of years but as a lifestyle business, and then gets a star employee who creates a new product that takes off? Are they necessarily not justified in seeking more compensation - perhaps they have created more value than even the founders? Or are the founders better off with a bigger slice of a smaller pie, and not trying to reward innovation in their employee base?
Anandtech's review here: Some of the stuff that Joshua said wasn't working (WiFi sync for example, more stuff on BB Bridge) is included. A slightly more positive review, but all and all the same. "Great hardware, good start, needs much more".

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4266/blackberry-playbook-revie...
Often when I hear someone talk about Android, their first argument for the platform is: "it's open".
I don't see that likely to change.
"Open" has become as synonymous with Android as "Apps" are with the iPhone.
Ask HN:How Animoto.com works?
I am Keen on understanding how Animoto works. Users can upload images(or syncs with flickr/picasa etc) and a music file, Animoto generates a video slideshow for you. Heard that it creates 720P video using GPU cloud...thats amazing. My understanding is it takes this image and audio data and gives it to a video Encoder on GPU cloud and generates an encoded video. On my macbook, using iphoto its just a click away. But I am not able to grasp how it works on the web? Do you guys have any idea how complex is this to achieve and what web technologies are required for this??
I love seeing what other people in the community find interesting. Points let me see not just the comment, but how others felt about it.
Yes; there needs to be some highlighting of comments that are a few standard deviations above the average, otherwise they'll get lost in the noise, particularly if they are in child threads.

As it is, I find myself commenting less to replies on my own comments, because I'm not invested in furthering my argument - I can't see how many votes those replies got, so I don't know if I need to keep arguing my case.

(That could be a good thing or a bad thing; a good thing if I'm wrong, a bad thing if I just didn't express myself well to start with.)
Even if you aren't storing card information you still are subject to PCI compliance if the card information passes through your application/server. In the case where you are processing but not storing you would need to complete the SAQ-C questionnaire and still probably be subject to quarterly scans (the self-assessment where are you storing data is SAQ-D)

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/merchants/self_assessme...
I saw this company http://www.memberdesk.com/ give a presentation last night to tieaz. http://www.tieaz.org/2011/04/13/rapid-angel-pitch-winners/ (they were not the pitch winners).

Caveat emptor, I am merely passing the link along, but I believe what they are trying to provide is making subscription membership easy.
You must have accidentally looked at rankings for subgroups of runners.

In the 2010 Boston Marathon, the runners between 2:40 and 2:41 placed from 208th to 227th. This group included a man in his 50's. 2:40 is a nice PR for a hobbyist, but it was a bit much for that guy to start talking Olympics and make a documentary of himself.

http://www.marathonguide.com/results/browse.cfm?MIDD=1510041...
Also, for your post title to display properly, it looks like you need to make your h1 {line-height: 1.2em;}

cheers!
Yes, Oracle's tracing capabilities are awesome. I too have regularly traced individual production sessions. A quick tkprof later (well maybe some dev time too) and that 10 mins report now runs in 10 secs.
Sounds like reasonable advice. And I'm reminded of how good of a writer Joel is when in peak form. I'm also a fan of Inc. magazine and it's been great to see both him and Jason Fried contributing in print there as well.
The alternative to Universal Grammar is Skinner style behaviorism; which is clearly wrong.

Think of Universal Grammar is a rule for building grammar rules.

It's pretty clear that humans have a distinct innate ability to learn language: no monkey can learn English no matter how much you try to teach it. You can teach animals all kinds of interesting behavior but you can't teach them language.

> Yet despite the fact that nobody starting fresh with what we know today would ever propose a theory of innate, universal grammar, we still have most people calling themselves "modern linguists" claiming to believe it.

Quite the contrary. Anyone starting fresh would probably start with an assumption about some innate ability to learn language.
Are you looking for something similar to flag -j, --jobs of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-pgrestore.html, which implies the number of jobs running in parallel (which to my understanding depends on the number of CPU cores.)

Granted, this only exists for pg_restore (8.4 onwards), no equivalent functionality in postgres for pg_dump.
The role of timing is interesting. It makes me wonder if a time-of-day-and-week based weighting could help out to reduce the need for posters to be so concerned about when they are posting.
I vote to remedy imbalances:

valuable && low points => upvote
valuable && high points => read, no need to upvote

Does anyone else do this?
12 petabytes isn't really that much nowadays.
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