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I grew up in Mexico, and I had more interesting professional development opportunities in Spain, and later Canada. I've actually saved enough for a two year runaway in Mexico, which I will do in August to create a MVP.

Mexico (or any 'third world country') is a great environment to bootstrap, but not to generate income locally.

Speaking frankly, not all is great. When you switch your social context entirely you instantly lose all your friends and the safety net you have living close to your family.

There's a TED talk that talks about about how people who win the lottery often end up less happy than they were before winning because of different factors, such as moving to a fancy neighborhood with people with whom you share nothing in common.

It feels an awful lot like that, except you don't have millions of dollar to cushion your exile. And this goes for both sides (moving to a "better" or "worse" country).
I don't see why it wouldn't work. The protocol spec is listed in the post. You just need to have enough EEPROM to store the instructions.

The Teagueduino code editor will try to communicate with whatever serial port you specify, so if you're willing to build a realtime interpreter for Netduino (actually much easier than it sounds) it should work just fine. Check out the Teensy/Arduino firmware code (also in the post) as a starting point.
Or, you could aim for less prosecutions of crimes that don't matter, and could aim for fixing social problems that cause people to commit crimes.

For example, work towards reducing homelessness. Towards harm minimization policies for drug users.

For example, do not allow media companies or other corporate companies to abuse criminal courts to collect civil debts.

Work on fixing those problems, and then there will be less waste of the courts time.
Indie artist Aaron Static on How to Save the Music Industry
The tricky thing about MLM schemes is that the house is a gradient. When you sign up you hope you can keep it stretching.
An utterly useless analogy. Obviously that line of enquiry is going nowhere.

How about arresting a journalist in order to seize his iPad is like holding the owner hostage while his TV gets stolen?
> Its a pity that javascript is so in-grained in client-side web now, as its really a terrible bytecode...

Gilad Bracha complains about this at http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/03/truthiness-is-out-there....
Cultural antecedents are not a necessary pre-condition for modernisation. The USSR modernised very rapidly and it started off with mass illiteracy.
'Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described “Buddhist” is to be complicit in the world’s violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree.'

This is why these guys find it so hard to be taken seriously. Oh, you're a Buddhist? So you belong to a tradition which has certain religious aspects, and you have done nothing to disassociate yourself from the rest of the religions of the world. Sounds pretty violent to me.
I'm not clear on Venmo's money transmitter license situation, especially in Pennsylvania. Anyone know how they can operate legally nationwide?

(I am a competitor but this is a real question.)
Pretty ridiculous to try and hire a founder fresh off a VC round for an engineering position. That's enough of a tip off right there.
Seriously? .28s is 280 milliseconds, for a result with zero content. That is already at the outside acceptable threshold for being perceived as slow response, and that's before we spend any time at all rendering the page. Certainly a VM of some kind could boot faster, but milliseconds count.
I wonder how many people actually read the article before commenting
That's how ARPA used to work: find the best people, give them the money they needed to do the research they wanted to do. Worked pretty well.
The great irony is that if you believe what the Buddha actually said about religion and its trappings, you should shun it.
Children?
Startups, China, IP
It got "yahoo"'d.
you have done nothing to disassociate yourself from the rest of the religions of the world. Sounds pretty violent to me.

This makes no sense to me. Have you studied Buddhism? Violent? No dissociation? Read anything the Dalai Lama has written?
Ask HN: Practice project idea
so the deal is i have, imo, a pretty good idea for a startup. a fantastic idea actually and for the past couple of months, i have filled pages and pages of a dedicated notebook describing the site and its functions. ive also been researching and reading blogs and stuff about how this all works. Now the thing is i have little to no programming or developing experience but have read enough blogs and posts about how you wont get anywhere without having at least a bit of programming knowledge and at least a skeleton of what you want to build. so, the past month or so ive been trying to learn ruby on rails following a tutorial to built a twitter like site. i have to admit though, programming just confuses the hell out of me and is just one of those things that i can't just get or understand easily. but, im gonna continue to try to learn it (while brushing up on my webdesign skills and learning css and html) and maybe try to learn some python with that one learnpythonthehardway tutorial.
NOW, in the meantime, i want to try to work on a smaller and much simpler project but i need help doing so. the very basics of the site i would like to achieve would be this: users come to a site where they can login (with twitter/google/facebook/etc) and post "tips/tricks" (not gonna say about what atm). then other users can vote up or down. these posts are accompanied by tags. users not logged in can only view these posts and not vote. thats the skeleton of this idea. i want to know if there are sites similar to this. ive seen some code snippet sites but i cant recall their names. even better is if there is a tutorial out there that can help guide me in making something like this, even if it is just the very basics. thanks!
Google Irvine hosting Intro to Analytics Event
The OC Tech meetup group is holding an event next Thursday at the Google office in Irvine, CA. Myself and a couple other Googlers from the Google Analytics team in Irvine will be present to give an intro to using Google Analytics to improve your decision making and answer any questions you might have on the topic. We unfortunately only have room for six more attendees since space is limited, so register on the Meetup site soon.

http://www.meetup.com/OC-Tech-Startup/events/18189851/

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/irvine/
Australian journalist arrested after exposing a security flaw in Facebook
It will be interesting to see how this pans out...
digg, reddit, even textfromlastnight and fml
Feeling depressed? You are not alone. [A lighthearted take on the subject]
These clowns deserve to be laughed at
Naturopathyworks - food cravings...
If an actor disagrees with the director's note, the rule is to try it once and see how it goes. Once you've done that, you can toss out additional ideas or expand on it, but you have to at least do it once.

If the actor simply wants to give the director or other actors general notes that they aren't immediately involved in, the answer is "no way." The director was hired to shape the overall vision of the show. However, that's not to say that they are infallible. Good directors will generally ask people they trust to come in and watch the show and give feedback. The Artistic Director (the director's boss) will also usually give feedback.

And ultimately, directors get reputations. Actors can choose who they want to work with and theatre communities are small. Just a few months back I watched a director get fired and completely ostracized because she was downright mean when it came to giving feedback. She would use insults and fear to control actors. I doubt she will ever work in this area again.
Why do they have to end the reign of the mobile carriers? If they made the carriers turn into pure byte peddlers its a win. The problem in the mobile space is the carriers want to insert themselves into the application space and end up becoming annoying.
Thanks both of you, jsbeautify extension now installed. :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kkioiolcacgoihiiek...
Another interesting view on why Google's hiring process will bring it down sooner or later - http://geekrage.tumblr.com/post/5237818153/why-google-or-eve...
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I hate it when I agree with both sides of an argument :-)

So on the one hand this guy is clearly in the 'make money stuffing envelopes by selling information about making money stuffing envelopes to other suckers' genre of advocacy. That being said, he was in a place that is probably worse than what the average reader is in and is now much happier with his life now that he has 'taken control of his life.'

I read his story and liked how he discovered he was being held back by his own pre-conceptions of how he "should" be living his life. Now that he's doing something he loves doing he's both happier and more successful than he has ever been. Score one point for doing what you love.

The cautionary tale is that his 'recipe' won't work for everyone, and probably not for a lot of someones. Writing, like drawing, or programming, or fine carpentry, or any of a number of things takes dedication to learn to do well and hours and hours of practice. If you don't love to write, trying to re-make your life as a blogger is going to fail and fail big. So exhorting people to "Do what I did, be a blogger!" is ultimately bad advice for the verbally challenged. (I guess in that regard he's not helping people but we'll set that aside for a moment)

It does also reinforce the notion that one's quality of life is most affected by your attitude about it. I had an opportunity to hear a great commencement speech from Doug Ulman (CEO of Livestrong Foundation) where he very eloquently put that into perspective, his advice to accept that you aren't in control and to live fearlessly is solid advice, regardless of your gifts.
Interesting to see the Howard Hughes Medical Institute mention. I'm a Fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of HHMI. I get a big budget, two people in my group, the ability to use massive internal resources (electrical and mechanical engineers, software developers, histology, etc.), no teaching requirements, no administrative requirements, and a 5 year contract.

I'm swinging for the fences, no point in doing otherwise; this is my shot.

If anybody is curious: http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/bock.html

Browse big data: http://openconnectomeproject.org/catmaid/?pid=4&zp=0&...

Papers: http://reid.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Bock-Lee-etal-Reid-2011-Natu..., http://reid.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Bock-Lee-etal-Reid-2011-Natu...

And (last but not least) I am hiring: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504657
Seems like a rip off of:

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Bed-Little-Critter-Pictureback/dp...
Convert TS to MOV on Mac
This is a good idea. How far is the Windows client, in the works?

Will you charge?
There are some good nuggets in this article, but he seems to miss a point that I feel is very important and yet is often overlooked in real-world web load testing; emulating an actual client behaviour under different real-world scenarios. Hitting a page or pages X times usually bears almost no resemblance to how a real-world application is used and therefore gives no indication of actual performance and capacity.

To test a web app properly you need the ability to script and/or replay real-world session browsing behaviours, simulating typical interactions. This can be both very time consuming and difficult to set up but yields far more useful and realistic results. In the past I have reasonable success using tools like The Grinder (barely maintained and poorly documented, but very useful and scriptable in Python), and even Microsoft's Web Application Stress tool (scriptable in VB). There are probably better tools than these out there but these at least allow you to code a detailed interaction with you site.
PG, can you please give us a description of what Office Hours means.

cool, whomever down voted this you are a pretentious ass - rather than explain, you downvote.

As a side thought:

Given that we have had this ongoing discussion about the comment scores being hidden to preserve real dialogue - we should require a comment for every downvote, such that every downvote comes with an explanation or talking point for further discussion.

As it stands, the downvote is a silent and anonymous point of disagreement -- is allowed, and becomes visable (through greyed out comments) -- where the ability to see the comment's upvote count is not allowed and not reflected in the font size/color of the comment and thus invisible.

PG, I respectfully disagree with any and all reasonings you may have of hiding comment upvotes, and my opinion is only reinforced through the visable effect downvotes have on comments.
iPads are wrecking the PC market
Whoa, that looks awesome (and really good looking). Thanks for the tip :)
Facebook "clickjacking" exposed
Wave-And-Pay Rumor For Apple Stores Would Revolutionize How You Shop
Please. Someone who has actually been to boot camp debunk this ridiculous metaphor.
I think Google does listen and try to improve in response to feedback. Interviews and hiring can be especially hard, because of the number of resumes, phone screens, and interviews involved. For what it's worth, I think the interview and screening process has gotten better over the years, even if we have a ways to go.

Sorry to hear about your experience though.
It really would be nice to have open office hours where any team can come into chat in private. When I move down to the valley I would like to chat with people I think would be interested and not have to chase people around or feel they are too busy. As an entrepreneur I think we should be able to score a meeting with anyone, too bad its not the way it goes. In reality some of us sacrifice so much and for a meeting to never be setup at times is such a waste for entrepreneurs and then again I understand not everyone would fit the "YC" type. I do love YC and many others, but its time for the entrepreneur to be on stage interviewing the Angels and VCs. Without us they aren't much :)

I guess if were that good they will find us or at least hear about us later.
The three attitudes to mobile accessibility
ASP.NET MVC is a far closer imitation of Ruby on Rails than either CakePHP or even Groovy on Grails. Django isn't even an imitation, by any stretch of the imagination.

The similarities between ASP.NET MVC and Rails aren't just that they both use MVC, that's shallow. ASP.NET MVC is blushingly similar, nothing else comes even close, not even those who claim to try to imitate Rails.

I'm not saying ASP.NET MVC is bad, in fact it seems pretty good. But anyone using and liking it really ought to have a look at the original, from where Microsoft lifted it wholesale. Those guys must be doing something right.
Sam Harris is one of these "new atheists" that take a hard anti-theistic stance. Religions tend to have a fundamentalist core that is intolerant of any belief that does not fit their dogma. The idea is that even moderates and other more casual observers of a religion tacitly support that religions fundamentalist core.

It's a sound argument but there are two main barriers of acceptance. First the anti-theists do not acknowledge that religious beliefs (and indeed many unfounded beliefs) are rational. Religious people are not crazy or uninformed. This is a separate issue from having an inconsistent and / or scientifically unfounded belief system.

Second, the anti-theists do not provide much of an alternative. Dawkins seems to say, you guys are obviously nuts, so you must see that you simply have to adopt my world view. It's off putting.

Anyway I've gone from bemused to agnostic to naturalist (a way of saying "atheist" without mentioning theism). I quite enjoy reading these authors ... I just don't see how they'll affect a change.
Some part of me really thought that a "Y Combinator is so great" article can't be more interesting to HN people then understanding Fourier Transformation or discussing the development of ML research.

Maybe I'm just too naive. Thanks for that lesson.
the article reads as an appeal to anti-religious bigotry.
Being Frugal Makes You A Loser
Never really thought of it as minimalist.
If you were going to categorize like that why not just use an etc/ and home/ folder inside your repo?
> There are some good nuggets in this article, but he seems to miss a point that I feel is very important and yet is often overlooked in real-world web load testing; emulating an actual client behaviour under different real-world scenarios.

I don't think he missed that point; he specifically limits his scope to HTTP daemons:

> A lot of people seem to be talking about and performing load tests on HTTP servers, perhaps because there’s a lot more choice of servers these days.

Testing web apps for performance is, as you point out, more difficult. There are tools for taking integration tests and running them in large batches. With some good instrumentation this is a kind of systemic profiling of your app architecture.

But all of his points will still apply.
Hello cynics.

This is one of the most inspiring stories I have read in a long, long time. A guy who is paralyzed from the neck down builds a lifestyle (similar to what I want for myself) for himself, through willpower, dedication and determination.

This might not be everyone's cup of tea, but a truly inspiring read for me, that will help motivate me to live life on my terms. No, it's not about "blogging your way to riches". It's about conquering fear. letting go and going for what you want.
They also thought, at the time, that they would "make money on the flow of money", without charging any fees (presumably by investing it and having some sort of fractional reserve scheme going on). That didn't pan out either and they found they could just charge sellers 2% or whatever.
> They are catching up to status quo

Yes they are catching up. Three quarters of the countries in the world are catching up -- or trying to -- the most advanced countries, and that's been roughly the situation since the industrial revolution. The difference is that China has been more successful than anyone else at catching up; to the best of my knowledge no other country has ever managed as good a performance (except for poor countries that discover oil, which doesn't really count).
convenience - yes, safety - not so much. I wouldn't want the back sit with the kids to be open while I'm still in the car. I want to personally open it while standing outside.
La reina del sur capitulo 56 - tah hanyir
Why Isn’t Google Chrome A Part Of Android?
Yea, agree with bifrost that this article is stating the obvious. But I guess it might not be so obvious to those not in Silicon Valley.

Seems to me that this is just enabling companies to pay engineers what they're really worth without having to deal with the HR repercussions of having really large salary disparity.
As it stands now, our courts are jammed up. Courts set 10-30 trials to start when there is only one courtroom available. People have to wait in line for hours to pay for traffic tickets.

So you're saying the justice system needs to take shortcuts with people's civil liberties because it is too disorganized/broken to do things the right way? Yeah, that pretty much like the way the government is thinking.

If there is lots of really important spying that the police really need to do on ordinary citizens, I suggest they lobby for the repeal of a number of drug laws. That would save them a lot of spying too.
What is Greplin's current P/E ratio?

Clearly P/E on its own is not the complete story.
Why the downvote? I am not the OP but I agree with the basic premise. Any start up dealing with money has to think about people who will abuse the system. I hope they have checks in place to avoid something like this.
A big portion of the article answers this question.
The tools built into the more recent versions of Visual Studio (which I believe are different from the Web Application Stress tool) are quite good for modeling accurate load testing. Setting up specific scenarios that are each then segmented into percentages of the overall load test was super straightforward with the test suite tools.
I'm probably not the only one who'd be interested in an alternative list...
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Killing the Buddha has a second deeper meaning beyond Buddha is not sacred: to detach from all past teachers / buddhas.

Buddhism (at least the Zen Buddhism tradition I am learning) teaches one to detach from all things. This is part of opening the mind and experiencing things as they are and not through one's misconceptions.

So eventually a student masters this and all other teachings by his masters and all past buddhas. At this point the student must detach even from these buddhas.

So if you meet the Buddha? Strike him down! You have no need of him anymore.
At the end of the day, we have to recognize the fact that for a large section of humanity, it is far more comfortable to surrender part of your free will to some form of authority, rather than take responsibility for our thoughts and actions. If not religion, it would be something else, e.g. pseudosciences like homeopathy.

I don't think Siddhārtha Gautama, Confucius, et al, wanted their teachings to be institutionalized into meaningless doctrines and dogmas.
Video posted on youtube on september 2007, and the domain registered that same year.

Here's the horrible website: http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

And Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/disappearing-car-door/

Has to be a hoax...
Ask HN: Where do you expect Facebook to be in 5 years?
Make predictions like this one (from 4 years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991
hnofficehours.com

I worked on this webapp with ez, guz, and others. The idea is that people with knowledge/expertise in a subject can "hold office hours" with (strangers?) people looking for advice.
Thanks but no thanks.

I've lived in paradise (Hawaii). I had a view like his. Frankly, it was rather dull.

I quickly missed having meaningful conversations with people. Island time is quite real. It was so easy to slip into doing nothing but go to the beach every day.
Oddly enough, Leahy seems to be one of the ones who introduced the (draconian) "Protect Intellectual Property" act. I wonder what the EFF's strategy in lauding him is.

http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=142072
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "that religious beliefs (and indeed many unfounded beliefs) are rational". How can a belief be unfounded, yet rational?
Agile vs. Open Source: They're Actually a Little Different
Enki (http://www.enkiblog.com/) is a pretty good free, customizable and lightweight blog if you're into Ruby on Rails.