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I think the most interesting thing about this article is the discussion about NYC vs Silicon Valley. Having visited the Silicon Alley area of NYC recently, I think there is still some time before NYC truly becomes a startup hub. That being said, I have no doubt that it will
Yes, an SQL DB does the digging for you, but with NoSQL you'll be doing it yourself, right?

Your app will most likely have some kind of "entities", and then records to represent them. How much information can and should you cram into records of various "types"?

How much information do you typically end up duplicating across all those "entity records", and is it not a problem?
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I am curious to know which one has contributed more to the open source scene. Github has released many non trivial code of its backend and popularized the use of git outside the Linux kernel.
The do have the contents of a woman's purse. Talk about context!
I genuinely like the product. I was not simply recommending it in order to get a custom icon. But I kinda really do want a custom icon :-)
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Cathay Pacific has said two of its employees caught in a set of Internet photos apparently engaging in oral sex on board an aircraft have left the company.
In the Netherlands (Dutch language) we still use "per se" in our day to day speak which means, just like the article points out, "in itself".
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They can easily release news, commentary and talk shows programs on the Internet, including as torrents, because their value decays exponentially once they're aired.
The American networks aren't exactly set up to sell advertising to all of the other 192 countries in the world...

Sure, there are a few global brands that might buy in anyway, but the advertising would be less targeted and there would be less competition for the same slots, so rates would be significantly lower while costs would stay the same (or even be higher.)

All this is ignoring the myriad existing deals that the networks have with peers in other contries offering exclusive region-wide access to certain content. Working around this would be possible, but would result in numerous IP blocks anyway.
Strictly, it reads Suunto logs converted by libdivecomputer to XML.
Probably, I just had a look what I was currently running and noted them down. Could probably do with uninstalling it ;)
I find it amusing/insane that a government gets to decide what is and is not an allowed religion.

The government gets to define everything for government purposes. I'm not sure why this should surprise you.
It's such a sad irony that the tragedy that took his own life was the biggest test and success of his technology.
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Now we know how they store the data gleaned from wiretaps!
Back in the 90s the US Government prohibited export of SSL stronger than 40 bits. I believe this is what they're referring to.
I’m really not sure what point you are trying to make. What do you want to tell me? What do you want to convince me of? I don’t feel very strongly about the points I was making and I’m certainly willing to be convinced, I just don’t know of what.

Let me just recap the point I was trying to make: If there are situations where something is not accessible to a small group of people (for whatever reason) and making it accessible would be a lot of effort (for whatever reason) then market mechanisms alone are likely not sufficient to make that something accessible.

I was not advocating alternatives to market mechanisms (I was trying to not advocate anything), I was trying to make no value judgments about that situation.
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The Dunning Kruger effect is talked about a lot on here.

More recent research casts doubt on their original study. I first heard about this on [Overcoming Bias] where they talk about a 2006 study which showed "on difficult tasks, where there is a negative bias, the worst performers are the most accurate"

[Overcoming Bias]: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/all-are-unaware.html
Often managers are not brave enough to cope with a person with significant differences with respect to the team's culture.

If you hire this person, you must be ready to deal with other managers and other team member's reaction. If they trust you and you trust your ability to work with the person, then it can be an enriching experience (for instance, an outspoken person will make manifest a lot of the problems your team may have, and that others would ignore)

In the end, it's not just about that particular person, and rather about the whole group dynamics. A particular person's qualities & defects may well be mitigated by other persons's qualities & defects.

(In particular I dislike the default behaviour that team have which is not to deal with cultural or behaviourable differences at all, and only look for homogeneity. It's pure lazyness)
The blame shouldn't be laid at the Guardian's door. Yes, they intentionally released the password - but they released the password to a file they were told only they had a copy.

It's the fault of Wikileaks for releasing a copy of this file in to the wild, and for (as might be implied by the article linked to) using the same passwords repeatedly.
That's the saddest thing, didn't know this.
I'm surprised by how uniformly negative most people's experiences are. The positive stories seem to be the exceptions.
Let me give my thoughts on this, being a .Net developer and running a company in Croatia. A bit of background on me first, to understand my thougts better - as Croatian economy is structurally in a really bad condition for IT, I've been trying to join some company/project on a telecommuting basis.

Now, this is where I'm having a problem - as most companies that would consider remote workers are startups unable to find enough local talent, I've noticed that there really aren't any/much startups running on .Net stack.

Which I find a bit unfair, as .Net ecosystem has a lot to offer, if you just look out of the walls of Microsoft a little bit. And with the raise of cloud platforms, the license price difference will be a less of an issue than before. For development tools, there are programs within MS where a development company gets all the tools for a negligible amount of money. Still, it seems it's not enough for most of the startups to adopt that technology.

On the other hand, I've gotten into Rails lately and I find it really interesting platform to work on, so I'm expanding my skills in that space trying to reach companies willing to have remote workers on that stack. I haven't fixed any deals yet, but I've had several contacts compared to literally none in the .Net ecosystem.

You've said you're into Python, if you look this month's "who's hiring" theme, you'll notice a bit of a rise for Python. So, if you're targeting startups, Ruby and Python may seem better opportunities than .Net. If you're targetting getting a job in some (stable) company outside of the lights of the startup scene, that's where you've said .Net is in demand. After all, it's mostly what are your goals.

Hope it helps...
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I do not think I have ever seen it used with that meaning. I know it as "insistingly". Vandale.nl agrees with that.
> Work to live, don't live to work.

Noone's allowed to believe this in the startup world ;)
You won't, because you specify a maximum daily spend in the budget settings. So when you get slashdotted the scheduler will spin up X hundred instances, your budget will run out in 1/2 hour, and your site will be down for anything up to the next 23 1/2 hours.
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You raise good points.

As the events demonstrate, it is extremely unwise to take such an over-the-top unnecessary risk with such a critical password.
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That would be great, but only after someone integrated this with SickBeard and has coded an automated script to remove ads at the defined locations in every video file.
There's another way to look at this as well.

Many great novelists and authors have mentioned "rewriting" when it comes to their novels and books. "True writing is rewriting", "books are not written, they're rewritten". My experience is that comes with code too.

You write the functionality to do what you want, and then you keep to keep re-writing it to make it beautiful/readable.
How is this a startup and not just a website? How will it make you a ton of money?
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I would be glad to share that information with small site owners privately for free, one on one.

Panda hit my site almost 5 months ago. Though I've made lots of changes, I'm not seeing any recovery. So clearly I'm doing something wrong. As a small site owner, I'd be ecstatic to receive any advice you can share. My email address is waltergr@aol.com.
Ask HN: What's the best way to hire HN users?
Is there an existing site where I can hire HN users for development or design work?
yes its gone
More than 100,000: http://goo.gl/wiDj6
Both interesting and depressing. No matter who you think should ultimately take the blame for the housing crash, it's easy to forget how many people other than just the homeowners are affected by this crap.
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No, those are charged particles interacting with the magnetic field of the earth. Gravity is such a ridiculously weak force that you can safely ignore it in situations like that.
Can't agree more. Another symptom of the same issue is that the Internet startup scene is becoming auto referential as hell.
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Once: nothing. (Except a mac mini which the founder was nice enough to buy me as a kind of `exit bonus' :)

Despite my options having vested, investors held preferred stock which (since the exit was small-ish) left no liquidity on the table for the employee option-holders.

Then, because I was no longer working there at the time of the exit, nothing was negotiated for me as part of the sale. (Those employees who did stay on got something I think, not tonnes though AFAIK and they came with `golden handcuffs').

I had worked hard for them at well below market on the basis the options would make up for my opportunity cost. They didn't, despite the company getting an exit.

My advice would be always treat options as a `nice to have' not a replacement for salary, they're so hard to value effectively, and even in the event of an exit their value can still depend to a great extent on the goodwill of founders and investors at the time, on whether you're still working there and whether you want to work for the acquirer, and in general on so many factors outside your control.
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Just like YC is equalizing informational asymmetry between twenty-something founders and people with signatory authority on hundreds of millions, I'm really glad that HN contributes to education of prospective employees like this.

I like to think I'm smart. Two years ago, prior to HNducation, many common-as-dirt features of cap tables like e.g. liquidation preferences would have been a totally successful ambush on me. (If you can't explain three ways why 2% of $40 million is zero, consider carefully whether your best interests are being represented in a negotiation with someone who can.)
Thanks Zappan, glad to hear it's not just me struggling :P
Good luck!

I'm in your shoes (well, more or less) about 6 months down the road.

It's actually currently making me enough money to support myself for at least a few more months, but it's a long and stressful road, and even tho I'm making marginally enough money it's less than what I used to earn as an employee (and significantly less predictable).
I have thought about making the kind of joke you are making but I am female in a 98% male forum and I think it would be put me at risk of being taken seriously and getting unwanted emails. Besides, my post-divorce relationship history has been dominated by foreigners so I would hate for such a joke to come back to bite me should I, in fact, happen to marry a foreigner. I would hate for such a joke to get turned up by immigration and used as evidence that it was merely a green card marriage.

In all seriousness, I always find these discussions about immigration baffling in part because my dad was career military and so was my ex husband, so I have known a great many people who immigrated to the US by marrying a soldier (mostly foreign women marrying American men). In some cases, there was a lot of paperwork and all that, so it wasn't always smooth and easy. But I have spent most of my life surrounded by immigrants who never dealt with the types of immigration issues that routinely get discussed on HN. I know someone who wants to immigrate and I find myself frustrated with not knowing how to help them because this type of immigration is so alien to my life experience and I just don't know where to begin. Some part of my brain cannot comprehend why on earth this should be so hard. It so doesn't jibe with my personal experiences.
Did you see these?

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Two reasons to come:

1. London loves YC!

2. It's the 3rd biggest startup ecosystem in the world
Same for me.

As a beginner's project I plan to take my FON access port apart (a serial connection is required to install a better/different firmware).
So - not for me. Would take a lot of fun out of the learning experience, I guess.

But hell, this _is_ a cool thing for education/schools/introduction courses.
Ghostery is a general tracker blocker. FBB only blocks, as the name implies, Facebook related stuff - at least that's what I infer from a quick skim through the description.

So, if you only want Facebook gone, by all means use FBB. If you don't want trackers in general (Google Analytics etc), use Ghostery.
What extra does the user get from an additional installation of Python and Ruby as contained in this package? (OS X already has Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP and a lot more, since forever.)
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(To clarify, I did have fun there and learn quite a bit; if you like the work, you've got to take that into account too when considering opportunity costs vs working at a bank etc. But my advice on options still stands.)
Sorry..I misused the word "startup", maybe it just a weekend project. Yep, it's not just a website, there's also a mobile app which I'm currently working on it.
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I think that generating a PDF of a menu is likely to be substantially less work than scanning a menu to get an image. Nobody types a menu on a typewriter anymore, it's all text on a computer at some point before it's ink on paper.

What if the restaurant only got a final image from the graphic designer? I know it's silly and restaurants should ask for the proper files with layers & text etc., but lots of them don't know about this.
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I'd just like to add that a search for "git hosting" on DDG ("duckgoing" if you will) yields, aside from the SO quick info box (which mentions Gitorious and Redmine), unfuddle.com is the first result, github doesn't show up until the fourth of fifth, and I haven't scrolled down to look for Gitorious. It does, however, show http://git-scm.com/tools as the second result, which includes a summary of the most popular hosters divided by categories.
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Also: Number of private repositories that have their _root_ in your account. You can fork private projects between users with access to the root repos and not have them count against you limit.
It is very difficult to motivate others to do their best. In fact I would argue that the only effective way to motivate others is to lead by example, to practice fairness, and to control the things that could potentially de-motivate them.
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I'm writing a small dev tool for Android developers. I'm into the home stretch now and will be releasing it in a month or two I hope.
Please forgive me not saying what exactly it does yet.

Difficult decisions remain; how to price it, how to market it.

It's a small tool but the selling point is it should shorten a time consuming task I found myself having to do almost every day and should be a common experience for many Android devs. It's not trivial to re-impliment there is nothing that does this that I am aware of and I hope to compete on quality should someone copy the idea but the main point is it is supposed to save developers a couple of hours a week.

I'd love to open source it but I have no idea how to live off an open source licence in this case.

A starting point would be say $49 and hope people won't copy it too much and stay honest. I've got to sell quite a few copies a year to live off that though. Some have suggested to me that I should price higher and hope enough companies buy several copies and loss lead with individual devs copying it.

It will not do everything in it's domain perfectly from the 1.0 release but I intend to continually improve the tool by adding new features and paying attention to bugs and offering regular updates (e.g. weekly).

So what are your experiences and/or advice?

thanks.
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That was E.E. "Doc" Smith's assumption in the Lensman series when "negaspheres" were developed (planetary scale antimatter objects), in Grey Lensman written circa 1939. They had an "opposite 'gravitational charge'", a tractor beam would repel them while a pressor beam would pull them in, etc. It would be amusing if this turned out to be true (well, ignoring the yet to be if ever invented beam technology).
Well, the chamber is supposedly filled with an inert gas, so the lifetime of the microfilm should be much larger.
I believe that they also told the Guardian that the password was "time limited", whatever that means. There was probably some melodramatic chat about it self destructing in 10 seconds. I don't see The Guardian as being on the hook for this.
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I'm torn.

Should everyone and his mom be allowed to create certificates? No.

Should we limit ourselves to 'the big players' in the US? No. That would drastically reduce the competition and make certificates far more expensive again. One could claim that quality has it's price, cheap competition probably cuts costs in the process, yadda yadda. I don't buy it.

Give me a list of 20-30 CAs over 3 every day. I don't care about the number that much.

What I would like to see is

- a site where I can get information on the usage, origin and track record of CAs

- a site where I can see where a a CA is based. A lot of people are already removing CAs from China. Different places of the world have different trust values already (and, frankly, the US is not high on my list of 'trusted' places. I very much know that we're discussing a big failure of a dutch CA here, but I'd usually prefer to trust a CA from the EU or Switzerland instead of an US one).
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Baumeister actually wrote a book about this?! It's definitely a must read. If you haven't picked up anything of his before - he's a very good writer, and one of the most "correct thinkers" I know. Not a shred of idea that's not justified by research.
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I keep hearing that there's always electrical activity taking place inside the human brain.Our heart and various other organs function because it receives electrical signals called impulse.But what's the "voltage source" for the brain? Where does it receives signals ?Does it generate on it's own ?If so how?
Really? I think archaeologists are fascinated by the later excavations at Pompeii because it captures all the little things in daily Roman life so well. A lot of that was not written down at the time ...
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A minor nitpick, but the author also breathlessly describes how he realises he was one of the "few people in the world" to have access to this information, in spite of the whole reason it is available in the first place being the breadth of its distribution within the US military. It seems that no one can avoid getting drawn in to the Le Carré-esque intrigue and excitement that seems to infest this whole saga.
That sounds scary. How does that affect your energy levels? Are you able to do much work, physical or involving hard thinking? I find that on days I'm working on hard programming problems, I feel hungrier.
Hmm he seems to have left out the unit tests.
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Auto referential in what way?
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There's a Hollywood blockbuster waiting to be made out of a story like this (as noted in some of the Reddit comments). Something along the lines of Fight Club (grimy house scenes, top-notch monologue) or Lord of War/Up in the Air (someone doing a toxic job but good at it).
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It's a lot easier to criticize someone AFTER you receive data. Hindsight bias.