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I think the problem is what happens with time. Imagine that you have a graduate in a time when the economy is doing poorly. There will be lots of people out of work and competing for jobs, so salaries (in general) should be less generous. Later, if the market picks up, then that year's crop of hires will have higher salaries. Fast forward a few years. Assuming that the difference in skill levels is negligible, salary differences could still be significant. Now, imagine that salaries become public...
thanks! i'll try to get in touch with them.
That's a really clever idea. I'll have to give that a shot - I wonder how hard it'd be to wrap up that pattern for use in the popular ODMs?
See, I think Borg-like archiving is the easier part of the problem (although of course, I have no idea to capture and save perception, I believe it can be done, and anyway simpler capture process, like yours can be created). The real challenge is how to catalog and browse such a database. When I enter my personal history, it needs to be analyzed, main themes (and memorable parts) labeled using an ontology and all this needs to be presented using an intuitive UI.

Researchers have pursued similar goals for image/video databases for more than a decade now, with little success (think how you search YouTube or Flickr: mainly through manual tags). Any that is a much simpler problem.
i have no problem thinking all these thoughts even without [ or may be precisely because of not ] knowing other people's salaries :) Knowing other people's salaries would allow to stop my imagination run wild about their huge salaries (while i'm getting peanuts :) and may be turned my thoughts into useful way, like for example :

"Joe earns 25% less than me, yet shows up at 10:00 - 2 hours earlier than me - may be i should start busting my ass a little bit." ( and if he does happen to earn 25% more, than, well, nothing lost and changed :)
This is my main reason for using it as well. For me, MongoDB is less about any of the NoSQL features, but more about the fact that I can be more productive with it. Pair it with a good library like MongoMapper, and persisting your data is trivial.
>Am I the only one who feels that TechCrunch is the startup world's Jersey Shore?

I don't think it's ever truly been taken seriously by hackers, except in a pragmatic sense.
Only if you assume that there's a one-to-one correspondence between transistors and processing power. That is, it doesn't take into account improved microarchitecture (e.g. speculative execution, pipelines and cache management) that more efficiently use a given number of transistors.
Not entirely, do you remember Intel's NetBurst fiasco in early Pentium 4 CPUs? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Netburst#Succ... Power usage is free to increase until you physically have trouble removing heat as fast as you're generating it. Today, you can crank a i7 CPU to 4.0GHz without much trouble, if you have decent cooling. The architecture affects both performance and power consumption. Just having smaller transistors isn't the whole story.
Your argument is not really convincing, because you have neglected to consider that wages paid in foreign markets have quite different purchasing power from the amount that they would have here. Furthermore, the element of coercion is absent.
I actually started in Riak before Mongo, and what made the decision for me was...not having to install Erlang. I realize that's not really a compelling argument, but when I was evaluating alternate DBs, the one that gets up and running the fastest is likely to get a little more attention from me. Once I got spun up on Mongo, I didn't find a compelling reason to switch away from it.

"Download and unpack the package, run the binary, and you can instantly start playing with the examples from the console" is a hell of a good way to get people interested in your software.
And here I thought the site was going to be about generating "alpha" puns via artificial intelligence.
give researchers a little more credit. they aren't pants on head retarded enough to ignore the most obvious of all confounding variables.
Offer users a competition. The competitive nature in most people can be enough motivation for them to work for free short-term.

A small prize/perk for the winners is good, but only if multiple users can't join together to increase their chances of winning.
You see few businesses in general established by twentysomethings. Silicon Valley is and always has been the exception, not the norm.

Although yes, generally one gets married before starting business ventures with one's partner. But that's still a very, very common setup.
The reply from LivingSocial is disappointing; the defense of the issue as "well, you don't know what we know" may be true, but doesn't make much sense on the surface. How can that be good for a company, given the buying public doesn't know those things either?

A more reasonable response, that would have been more believable, would have been something like "We have read the studies and want to work with the researchers to share our data on retention, engagement, and (whatever), as we think there are pieces of this complex problem missing from the analysis" - even better, point out if the researchers didn't reach out to them.

After the Groupon fiasco, both companies need to embrace a more open, transparent process (and communication style) if they want to change the perception of their market space.
I like small helpful apps like this. But for any larger project I might be tempted to write a small app for a task like this myself.
Would you have bought that idea for $1 million?

No one says ideas don't matter. Without a good idea even the best execution will yield nothing. Ideas alone are just not that much worth. (Other way round this is true too.)

I'm sure that if 100 teams would have tried to execute this specific idea many of them would have failed.

Don't be just the idea guy and don't be just the execution guy. Try to be both :)
A short, probably biased and not 100% precise answer would be: no, you don't need to look for a commercial RDBMS.

The real answer is: always evaluate options. Make sure the solution you choose supports everything you need and that you will be able to learn how to use it or hire people who can. Without knowing what your requirements are it's impossible to say, but in the vast majority of cases, PostgreSQL will be as good as Oracle, MS SQL Server or DB2.

If your evaluation indicates that you need to pay for one of these, double and triple check it... and only if you're 100% sure that's the case, shell out for a commercial RDBMS.
Can you explain what this is in reference to?

I only see a game for sale on the android store.
Show HN: Pendipity: Chatroulette for drawing (iOS/Node).
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why is this being downvoted? it was a ridiculous assertion by the OP.
You must have the American S2. The review was of the 'international' model, which is much better, supposedly.
Yeah, working on creating the demo. I'm just trying to sort out in advance what OTS tools I need (or whether this is something I can even do independently with no technical skills) to create an 8tracks style search feature.

Thanks for the comment on the video. I just took some of the most recent videos I had shot and edited them together on final cut pro.

Pass it around if you know of anyone who might find this interesting! Id love to see it get some traction on hackernews!
The interesting thing this article seems to suggest is that languages and speaking styles naturally seems to self-correct to provide the same amount of information, i.e, as density goes down, speed goes up- the ratio is essentially always the same.

I'd be interested to see a larger sample of languages, that is, is there a language in which the decrease of either density or speed isn't combined with an increase of the other. (or the opposite) Or are humans all naturally predisposed to generate/accept information at a similar rate?
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I like the fact that an experiment was done. I don't like the conclusion that batching is always bad. Yes, for this arbitrary subset of tasks, batching was slower. But if we had included walking to the nearest mailbox to the flow, batching would have won. Or if we had included printing the flyers at the beginning, batching would have won again. The steps done in the video are what I would consider one step in a larger batch process: Step 1: print X flyers. Step 2: stuff X flyers. Step 3: mail X flyers. The take home shouldn't be that batching is always bad, but that we have to experiment to find what the best mix of batching/OPF is.
But Michael already has several investments in various companies, so what is the principal difference now? He kind of was a VC already, wasn't he?

I am also not sure if TC will be the same without Michael. I personally don't think so, but we'll see.
500 days with the iPad
good. Why do liberals support taxes then turn around complaining that half of tax dollars go to war? Starve the beast.
Looks like this is a repackaging of http://caniuse.com/, which does test in each environment: http://caniuse.com/#info_faq using this custom-built site: http://tests.caniuse.com/.

No word at caniuse about devices tested, but if that matters then you have a bigger problem. It should be consistent if you have the same software version.
Taking cash from an investor isn't free - investors want some return on their investment. My companies never really exited, I just pivoted into areas that I found more interesting/profitable.

If I had sold stock, I wouldn't have been able to keep 100% of the profits.

Angel investments are not free cash, there is an expectation that the idea will work and provide a return on investment.
That's funny, I thought the void was in the making as soon as Arrington & co. decided to sell TechCrunch.

It's not like we all didn't see this happening 11 months ago.
Nothing against your method (it's what I did) but with a family things might look different.

I'm perfectly fine living from pizza and internet for 2 years. But if I had a wife (+ kid) I guess I wouldn't be too comfortable with that lifestyle.
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Original headline: Corporate Taxes: How Low Can You Go?

I understand wanting to re-headline to bash Google. They deserve it. Even so, original headlines are almost always better.
Isn't that what building in a plugin or extension pattern enables?
Everything I've read indicates productivity improves when you have employees who take vacation. I really like the idea of shutting down for a few weeks per year (in addition to normal vacation time, whatever policy that is). Shutting down means nobody is looked down on for not being there.
The game appears to be a location-based game where you plant 'virtual' bombs around town in various locations as a bad guy? I think the poster was saying that this game could be misunderstood as terrorism plot in the USA? or at the least another videogame in a long line that allows you to do things in game that could be viewed by the general public as 'very screwed up' or 'that should be illegal'
Posterous used to be: Tumblr that worked, with better third-party service integration.

Not sure what it is now. That's a problem. I've stopped recommending it to people because I can't summarize it like this anymore.
This omni places guy is absolutely brutal.
The examples in the article are simplifications for the purpose of illustrating the points. We'd almost never use nesting to any element all the way back to the HTML or BODY laments. But when you have elements like SECTION, ARTICLE, LI, DIV, etc which can be nested infinitely in HTML judicious use of the child selector is a godsend.

The examples in your gist would not benefit from additional use of child selectors, but I'll bet they'd appreciate it if the parent elements did :)
You're assuming that their goal is real-world cash. A lot of people play MMORPGs seriously as a hobby; 8 months of graft in return for (almost) total in-game economic freedom is a great payoff.
It took me a while to learn how to talk to lawyers.

It is always wrong to ask a lawyer 'What do you think?' of a contract, they will always have different ways of saying what it says, covering different contingencies.

The right question is "What rights does this give me and the other guy?" followed by "What is my financial exposure?"

As an entrepreneur you probably want to leverage your work and sell it to multiple clients so a contract clause that prevents derivative works might be bad. If a contract clause asks you to indemnify someone else, you need to understand if they are going to be sued and for what.

A friend of mine once sagely said to me 'Errors and Omissions insurance is cheaper than a lawyer.' which was basically use insurance and good business ethics to keep your financial risk of being sued low.

That being said, you should read all contracts you are asked to sign. If they are full of a lot of distasteful clauses you can always just say 'no thanks.'
I can't speak for anyone else but the only reason I'm browsing this site is so I can see a giant orange & white 5 emblem. I found one but it's a little hard to notice, they should consider making it two or three times bigger.

In fact, I don't know why all this space is being wasted by this stupid chart thingy. Maybe they should push the chart off onto another site so that they can stay focused on what is important about this one.
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Sorry, has check-in been "won" by Foursquare now that Gowalla and Facebook have bowed out, or is it actually the case that check-in is just dead?
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I thought the same. But who am I to judge them for their choices. If they can live with it (maybe even they have really fun working on their coupon aggregator) then why not.

Now I'm not sure about the sustainability of that business model. Investors seem to pump money into it because of Groupon's "success" but I'm skeptical if the group coupon hype will persist for more than the next 2 years.

I'd squeeze all the money I can out of the groupon thing and prepare to start another startup in some time.
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surprised to not see more positive comments here. this sounds like color done right (or better, at least).
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I think you plant and/or defuse bombs - a rather controversial take on location based gaming. Is planting a 'virtual' bomb considered a legitimate bomb threat ?
Is the argument for lower taxes for corporations a red harring or is it usually to get it to a point where we actually get the money rather than it being sent offshore?
There's no reason to consider race unless you're talking about removing barriers for one or another. The differences aren't racial. They're socioeconomic.
9/11 and the web
Unfortunately, IE has always been behind and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.
You have obviously never stuffed 100 envelopes if you think you learn everything you need to learn from the first one. If you attempt to be mildly efficient about it your process has continuous improvement. "If I spin this pile 90 degrees I can start the folding easier." There are things you don't realize until you've done 5 envelopes, done 10 envelopes and done 100 envelopes.
MailChimp: Should you keep 1 & 2 star rated subscribers in your Mailing list?
Same here. I tried to engage a conversation with my beta users when they registered, but I got 0 replies (out of 30 signups) and the 1 thing I got was more instant unsubscribes.

I guess it depends on the service offered (mine is file sharing for companies in french) but in that case interested users just don't seem to be willing to send an email after already taking the initiative to subscribe, confirming email etc.
> I'm not sure how much I agree with this approach. When you do what this article is describing, you are creating a very tight coupling of your css structure to your dom hierarchy. This can create a lot of issues when you are trying to refactor your code or getting new people on-boarded to the project.

We've found it to be just the opposite. Because nested selectors don't repeat the names of parent elements it's a piece of cake to grab a block and move it up or down in the tree or just plain move it somewhere else. We find that we refactor more because it's so much easier to hold the style model in your head and so clear where to move a block of styles in order to increase or decrease their scope. That just makes for better CSS.
Just Ship.
Haitz's Law: Moore's Law for LEDs
I feel like each browser is better than one another. (mostly)
Check-ins are just going for a swim in the Chasm: http://www.relativelydigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/...
Seems like an obvious FAQ would be, "How does this compare to jQuery UI?".
My understanding is that Processing always "compiles" (or more accurately, transliterates) to some other language -- originally Java and now JavaScript as well.
As it happens, CCP (the company that runs the game) employs an economist who advises them on how to keep the in-game economy stable (so that commodity/game item prices are not subject to so much volatility that people give up and stop playing), and he also produces quarterly reports for the players on how the economy is functioning. There have been some academic papers written on virtual economies, it's an interesting theoretical tool.
Well, multiple editors were at work. The approach described creates selectors that were generally more specific than they needed to be. Eventually, people needed something to be styled differently in a context that was already heavily specified. So they needed to have even more specific selectors to override an existing selector. As soon as someone stuck some ID in front of that whole selector (which is almost too easy using SASS/SCSS) it was basically game over.

I think OOCSS is an approach to help here, but once you have such a mess it is pretty hard to refactor.
The way I see it it's diversionary to the real issue: tax loopholes. Companies will always work to maximize profits / shareholder value, and a part of that is minimizing taxes paid on income. What the tax rate here in the states doesn't make one lick of difference if these loop holes continue to exist. If Exxon-Mobile can make tens of billions without paying a single cent of tax on any of it, they will.

No the real thing that needs to happen is to first close these loopholes, THEN look at the tax rate and see if it's too high (it probably is, 35%? really? Is it this high in an attempt to offset the billions lost from tax loopholes?) and drop it appropriately.
I think they mean the headline is linkbait. The article has a positive tone, while the headline is extremely negative.
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"With per-column collation, you are being advocated to have two fields, one english_name, and one french_name, that have /the same content/, but are defined using a different collation, so that the ordering condition on them becomes language-dependent."

I don't think that's the intention. Think of column collation as the "default" for that column, and you override it with the COLLATE clause. So if most of your ordering/range queries are based on american english, set the column collation to "en_US", and when you have a query that requires french ordering, then use the COLLATE clause by the column reference, and the ordering will change for french.

I agree that SQL makes all of these things more confusing than they need to be, but supporting the standard for this concept has some value.

"CREATE INDEX my_index ON my_table (a english_collation_ops);"

I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not, but CREATE INDEX accepts a COLLATE clause in addition to the operator class. So the collation is kind of an extra parameter to the operator class (or something like that).

So, it's not a question of capability, because I think the capability you want is readily there. However, if you are saying that it's more confusing than it needs to be, then I agree.
I said 'can learn', not 'will learn'. You -can- learn all those things from the first one.

My point is that the lessons are different for each function, but the same for each envelope.
> figure out that those classes don't add any styles
> in that particular context

That's one way to learn that you don't add classes for styling. Just style the markup you have.
What's so "nuclear" about it?

At best, it's an "interesting tidbit" that might cause a bit of embarrassment to the Times.
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I couldn't say if jQuery UI is better or this is better, honestly seems they are just different. Even if Kendo UI is faster I have never had a speed issue with jQuery UI (not speaking for everyone, just, I personally have never had a speed issue).
I'm having a hard time nailing down what the killer features are here. For example, I saw that they advertise drag-and-drop with support for touch devices, but I couldn't even find the drag and drop demo on the site.
I appreciate the graphic, but Foursquare is way beyond early adopters at this point. My mom has been asking me about foursquare and within a month it's going to eclipse FarmVille. http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare%2C+farmville&c...
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The interface is really a bit too hard, generally she have to explain to me when she want to do something more complicated, but she can drag and drop stuff from the sidebar to the active area and rearrange the stuff there, also entering numbers is fun generally she wants all numbers to be at 100.

I would really want to have a scratch version for the ipad. The graphical visualization of programming is excellent, but it's really too complicated with a mouse. Also, painting with a mouse really sucks when compared to painting with a touchscreen.

Looking at her with the ipad, the mouse really feels like a legacy device.
Pointers - ok. But can't you (or are you better off not to) do recursion in Java? Why is that exactly?
> "There's a big difference between McJob and software development."

Yes and no. The basics are the same: you need to document responsibilities, goals and performance. Document performance that doesn't meet the goals. Document some sort of plan by which you try to help the underperforming employee meet their goals and then document their continuing performance.

Is it potentially cheaper to just pay a modest severance or unemployment insurance? Quite possibly.

But documenting performance is not voodoo and the fact that just paying a modest severance or unemployment is cheaper than documenting performance rather undercuts the assertion that unemployment costs are onerous.
You know, I hear this all the time ("get a higher paying job in industry...."). But, as one who has degrees in mathematics (but no professional experience in the field) and is actively looking for a job to apply them to, I'm not finding this to be the case. So, I'm left with one of two conclusions: either I'm "doing it wrong" with my job search, or the jobs don't exist. Whichever way it is, I'd sincerely like to know, so I can do something about it.
TL;DR: He finds their lack of profit disturbing
Childlike logic. Just because someone else is doing something wrong doesn't give you license to do it too. Arrington should have brought it up as an issue, not used it as a trump card.
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