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Just a quick suggestion, you might want to make it so a developer cannot apply to a particular startup by preference. For example, I may have been fired in a past life from Dropbox and never want to work there again, or I may be currently working at Kayak. I can only imagine the hilarity that would ensue should your boss happen to come across your resume.

Also, you have a small html entity encoding issue: http://cl.ly/3h2R240m0K2D1z2M1M3k .
I just started reading the book he swears by (The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First by Dr. Mark Hyman) and I am appalled at how sensationalist and unscientific it is. It mixes well-proven facts (e.g. exercise, diet, sleep, and relaxation promote mental health) with absurd claims like "Just as brain problems all stem from the same root causes, they all have the same solution - The Ultramind Solution". Has anyone else read the book?
From reading the comments here, I think in my attempt to bust out this article quickly I failed to emphasize that I do NOT think that ALL cul-de-sac and curvilinear loop neighborhoods are bad.

Many of the comments here are completely For or Against Grid or Cul-De-Sac street layouts. This isn't about that.

I myself live in a very moderate curvilinear loop design, just a block and a half away from a major road. I am against EXTREME and OVERDONE versions of these street designs. I would HATE living in a grid street design (for reasons I'll cover in my next article). This is about isolationist and protectionist culture taken to such extreme levels that they are illogical and add 8 miles a day to your commute.

We all know why people love the suburbs, it's more than just white flight. It's because city planners failed to listen to the needs of people. Better schools, actual lawns, nature, smaller curvier streets to give the feeling that you live far away in a cute little town where everyone knows each other. These are all legitimate emotional needs.

Still, 3 damn miles to see your neighbor. Common.
It's a lot of time and money to impress people. Buy Italian sports car instead. Grad school should be about intellectual curiosity first, connections second, and brand third. Unless you get an MBA, in which case the order is reversed.
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There is something behind this that people from genetics and evolutionists don't talk about and even don't want you to know. The reason why there are so many men in our history who were prodigies is very simple, and not a result of female oppression. The genes of men are much more randomly activated/mutated/spread than those of women. Why? Because changing the genes of women could be dangerous to giving birth or raise children. As men can have much more children than women, let's call the reason "nature", nature decided that women have a dense distribution of qualities and men a very high variance. You can see this in the distribution of shoe sizes, the number of men with small feet is the same as those with big feet. And women all have the same, ask Al Bundy.
Now if men have a much higher variance in their genes, chances are this affects their way to understand problems and therefor the huge mass of different approaches and a wider spectrum will produce solutions in a collective much faster than in the dense normal distribution of women.
If we now keep on insisting that all humans are the same and no one is different and therefor better at understanding a specific problem, we might never solve a problem if it's not in the solution space of our normal distribution of the average human.
(If you think I said women are less smarter than men you did not understand me. Women and men are equally smart with the same median, but there are more idiots and geniuses amongst men)
See also http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/doom_eng.htm
I've had something like this for years as my personal cms. Lately I've seen a lot of valuable content hosted on closed platforms like g+ or even facebook and it makes me kinda sad - the people are willingly gifting their content away. If these companies decide you are no longer valuable to them (real name debate, anyone?) you may loose all of your stuff.

If hackerhub goes offline tomorrow, every user will still have their content.
It wasn't there. Came in as an edit.
Funding varies state-by-state. For example, in Michigan most school district funding comes from the state level, and local districts are limited in their ability to raise more funds.

http://www.michiganinbrief.org/edition07/Chapter5/K12Funding...
This thread reminds me of an old slashdot post about the original ipod... Ubuntu is investing in a better Linux desktop experience and they've been doing that successfully for quite a while now.

Unity is new and it's probably going to take a while to work out the kinks. I'm very pleased that Ubuntu is looking to move past the GNOME vs KDE paradigm that has dominated Linux desktop development for the past decade. I think they will be successful in Unity.

I was really impressed with 11.04 when I installed it. About 2 hours later when I had to do some real work it was less useful and I started using Xubuntu instead but I'm confident that they will get it right because they have made it a priority and they are trying something different.
I came back to say I've thought about your argument a couple more times and I think you're on to something there. The idea that long variable names, even when they add to readability, are a secondary indicator of code badness (because the code is too complex not to be able to get away with short names) is a subtle and interesting way to frame the problem. I'm surprised it didn't get more pushback from the 95+% of programmers who take the opposing view. I suppose this little corner of the thread is a quiet enough backwater that nobody noticed.

But I still don't see how you get around the objection that, according to your preferred metric, if you replace all the names with arbitrarily small character sequences, you get significantly smaller code - yet clearly not better code.
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That is really a dumb problem - I am sorry for this. I'll try out some other fonts by tomorrow
As someone considering paleo, I'd be interested to hear what studies you thought well supported the claim that saturated fats aren't the problem and why you thought those studies were more reliable than the ones that indicte the contrary.
This man is correct
Time-lapse was a "cool feature" requested by one of our early companies that we decided to implement on the main InterviewStreet site. If you cut and paste completed code, it won't affect your score whatsoever, and it's up to the specific company whether or not they consider being able to see your in-code thinking process as important.
I don't think anything is impossible. Heck, take a look at the Million Dollar Homepage: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Nonetheless, you do have to convince 100,000 to do it (if they all took the cheapest option). That is quite hefty.

I think you may have to set your sights a bit lower, but it is worth a shot. Try to raise some funds via Kickstarter or IndieGoGo - both have a heavy focus on indie films.

Good luck
The code is owned my employer!

My point about not personally having the relevant accounting expertise was more about having the credibility to sell such a tool - not building it.
From the list, this is surreal (and not for the faint hearted):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichelt.ogg

Franz Reichelt, a tailor and inventor, died in 1912 while testing his parachute contraption. He jumped from the Eiffel Tower and the whole incident was captured on camera. He told authorities he'd test it with a dummy first.
I've had one good manager of programmers. he basically pushed us all to finish our tasks with timelines that were reasonable and then encouraged us to come up with new ideas for the company and then he's be our political advocate throughout the company for those ideas. It gave his employees a lot of loyalty for him.
PG argued pretty effectively against this kind of "tribal reflex" in Keep Your Identity Small:

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Well, it is a bit different to pastebin as with hackerhub you need to host the content by yourself.

That said I am sure there are plenty of ways to abuse the service ;)
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You learn one, you can mess around in all. Go with either Ruby or Python, and you will be fine. I'd go with Ruby, because if you decide to do anything for the web then Rails (Ruby's web framework) is more beginner friendly than Django (Python's web framework).
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It is open source (be aware that the [sourcecode](https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/hackerhub/src) is not pretty)

> add some basic federation

How? Any ideas?
Look closely at the image he includes. He draws a line diagonally through each of the respective Apple and Ubuntu menu headings being discussed, in each case from the upper, outer corner of the menu item to the opposite, lower, inner corner. This line forms an angle with the neighboring vertical edge of the corresponding menu (which is more or less also the edge of the display area/screen). That angle is what he is describing.

In Apple's case, the angle is wider, making it -- in his description -- easier to move the pointer from the menu header, after triggering the menu, onto the menu items. In Ubuntu's case, the angle is narrower. Further, in the Ubuntu case, since the menu text is justified against the far side of the menu, the pointer has to travel further to hover over it and, for the top few items, that travel cannot be a straight line because a straight line would cross the neighboring menu header and so trigger the neighboring menu to drop down. At least, that's how I interpret his argument.

Looking further at his image, I notice that he is including some horizontal space between the Apple menu header and the screen edge as being part of the Apple menu; however, that area carries a different coloration. Not having a Mac at hand, I'm unable to test whether that area also functions are part of the Apple menu header. If not, then he's calculated the Apple "angle of escape" incorrectly.

Also, on my installation of Ubuntu 11.04, running Gnome Classic (aka 2.whatever), in the menu under discussion, one does not have to hover over the text in order to activate a menu entry. In my view, this makes the "angle of escape" argument somewhat less important -- at least, under Gnome 2.x -- in that one can use menu items by moving the pointer in more of a "straight down" direction. Although, the inclination may still be to move the pointer over the menu item text, thus requiring the user to learn to avoid attempting such a straight line pointer movement for the first few menu items on this menu. I don't know whether Unity -- the Ubuntu desktop environment he is actually describing -- handles these menu entries and their activation differently (my Ubuntu machine's old graphics processor can't handle Unity -- to which I sort of say, yay!).
Did you check the validity of your JSON?
Great idea! Any ideas of how such a categorization could look like?
Her father, registered in that school district, obviously pays the taxes; So there's no reason why it would not cover the tuition of her chidren.

You're just dropped back from "it's fair that way" to "the rules say that way".

It's not like that his taxes are of a different color than her taxes, right? So it should not matter where the children go to school, it's still fair.
I disagree. Each of those things he compounded by adding one to the other. He's successful and that support structure he's built around himself along with his nutritional discipline allows him to essentially "overcome" the disorder.

The guy is giving speeches on networking to the first group of Thiel Fellows and he blogs on Forbes. Nothing he's saying seems irrational or ridiculous. Being a so-called "beast" in your field doesn't mean you are mentally ill.

Cures exist for mental illness; mostly by nutrition, therapy, hard work and strong social ties.
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I'm not arguing preference here. All of your examples still apply. And I would simply say that right and wrong are poor constructs to let us formulate ideas about how we should live.

There's a good chance that atheists who choose to live only among atheists are going to suffer worse outcomes. Living in a diverse society leads to more perspective and better ideas, and an eventually better society.

Only living with other gay people or other Hacidic Jews or other white supremacists may feel comfortable, and it might lead to a functioning society. But is it ideal? Does it leave the people better off? Society at large?

I don't actually know the answer tho these questions, but I suspect you're better off meeting all sorts of people, living in all sorts of places, and absorbing all sorts of ideas.

I don't really believe in right and wrong.
Well you do not need to necessarily have a product that suits the Chilean market per se. Plus, you have one lone data point - perhaps he doesn't know the market as well as he thinks.

In any case,I think the connections would be great, the publicity would be very helpful and the cash would be extremely beneficial (with no strings attached).

If it is tech then you can always run things remotely anyway. You'll be in a cheaper environment for a few months and then you can go wherever you'd like. What is your product? That might help us with the decision (though I understand if you do not want to share openly)
A $300k salary is absolutely not necessary to live in Silicon Valley.

Also, a $1M house is affordable if you earn 300k a year. Why would you think it's not? You could probably pay that off in 10 years, far short of the 30 year time span on most mortgages.
The title on HN seems to have converted the 'not equal to' in the original into 'equals'
Damn I wish I lived closer. Flying there and back for a 1-day is steep for me atm, but I think it's an awesome opportunity.
I'm all for this recent trend in understanding how nutrition affects us in many ways, but both Mark Hyman and his book looked dubious to me. Googling revealed this Salon article, which is worth of read after reading the Forbes article. http://www.salon.com/2009/03/12/mark_hyman/
We're mainly focused on US university students, so we don't anticipate it being a big problem, but we do have company preferences in the profile (yet to go live), so students can pick and choose which companies they want.
We'll get the encoding fixed.
To answer your question - it depends on a few factors. If I'm being paid more than what I can find in the USA, I would move absolutely. If I were getting paid the same as in the USA, most likely. If I were getting paid less, but I could have the same standard of living, it is a toss up. Depends on location etc.

I've visited India once and my mother is Indian so there is a little more "pull" for that reason.
As I read it, he may be arguing against this sort of "tribal reflex", but he's certainly not arguing against it's existence. My point is that I am agreeing with the parent of my original post, segregation can arise from phenomenon not necessarily codified into law or even recognized consciously by the participants. Whether this "tribal reflex" is "right or wrong" is irrelevant, the important and seemingly undisputed point is that it exists.
Actually, levels of American taxation are amongst the lowest in the developed world.

Yes, and the ideological forebears of American conservatives today had a penchant for lynching people with a different skin colour. See how blanket statements are easy?

Back in the '20s people had a different perception of what is a reasonable thing to do to people. No Progressive today believes in eugenics, blah blah blah.
The image is correct, while only small space around the Apple logo highlights upon clicking, the clickable area for the Apple menu runs completely to the left edge of the screen. The Spotlight icon behaves similarly.
I recall reading (probably in Steve McConnell) empirical evidence that most bugs come from a small number of modules and that it's typically better to rewrite such a module than try to fix it.
I don't think you two actually disagree. You want to send your kids to a place where the parents value education, and you're using ethnicity as an easy indirect way of measuring this. A lamentably reasonable strategy.
Hmm, well my last statement still stands. If you believe in the project and want to work on it AND the VC group is faltering, then perhaps you should contact them.

Or it was not a viable business in the first place and that is why they are failing (in which case that's karma and you can move on).
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I installed Kod a month or two ago. It's buggy and crashes all the time. Needless to say, I don't program on it (I use TextMate) but for what I use it for (cheatsheet reference) it's fine.
It would help if the site mentioned this. It reminds me of an old analysis of the Mozilla website where, upon launching, it showed a full screenview that preached the gospel of Open Source Software to the visitor instead of providing the user with a link to the Firefox browser.

You have to provide some context to visitors, like maybe those who are not coming from HN.
Because Michael Ellsburg's (the author) new book has just been launched we get this pretty old article on the first page of HN... sort of crap.

The article itself is interesting, though.
AS if anybody cared - how it works in Russia:

- There are virtually no private schools, every school is public.

- There are better schools and worse schools. In a big city there are a few really good ones and a bunch of mediocre ones.

- A school have to accept anyone living in a proximity, but it may also accept anyone else. So the good ones set up entry exams. Mediocre ones enroll everybody.

- I guess there are some bad schools, some really poor ones, but there are probably none or a very few "failing" ones, with meaning as in article.

By the way, where do illegal immigrants' children go to?
I fully agree that these sorts of segregation are ultimately bad things. I merely disagree that we should label them "wrong", since I think that doing so expects too much of the individuals. Society will certainly become better off if Athiests spend more time with theists, however I cannot in good conscious really fault them (say that it is 'wrong') for their decision.

I think we pretty much agree in other words ;)
I dunno. Windows 7 and Mac OSX kinda make Gnome look dated.
Noir newbie here, was really happy with how easy it was to deploy to Heroku. Heroku's tutorial isn't tailored for Noir but this article made it very straight forward: http://thecomputersarewinning.com/post/clojure-heroku-noir-m...
Entrustet.com has been doing this for several years now. They have been on TC in some capacity a few times:

http://entrustet.com/
Only in the US will you find people that go to prison for arranging better education for their children.

Utterly ridiculous. The best way to ensure that people do not do stuff like this is to make sure that all schools are held to the same high standards.
You should edit your subject line to make it clearer what you're asking for - and what you're offering. It's unusual enough that someone may take you up on it.
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Same here, only leaving the master password for my laptop and 1Password in my parent's safe. They would need to fly 2,000 miles to get physical access since the passwords don't work on my gmail account.
>A moving train generates a standing wave that is a function of the train's weight and its speed.

No, it's really not. It's a function of the unsprung mass, the roughness of the wheel, the roughness of the rails and other factors (fastener type, faster spacing, etc). Train weight never enters in to the equation (literally), only the combined weights of the train components south of the primary suspension.

>Feeling the ground move down as the wheel trucks pass is dynamic, yes, but it is not vibration

??? That is exactly what ground-borne vibration is!

>its "frequency" would be the rate at which the wheels passed by,

Among other factors (wavelength of roughness, spacing of supports, etc), yes, and you can see that in train vibration spectra. You can also see the primary suspension resonance and other components. I'll refer you to the report "Vibration Characteristics of the Transrapid TR08 Maglev System" - (yes, I was a coauthor) were we discussed these issues in the section about the TR08 force density. http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/rrdev/fra0206.pdf section 3.3. It's not a perfect analog with steel-wheeled trains but a lot of the same principles apply in terms of the different factors that go into the input force.

You mentioned "the early days of trains" - what era are you talking about? Specifically are you talking about the days before trains had suspensions, or had very stiff suspensions (which was common as late as the 1950's-1970's in transit vehicles until it's effect on vibration was well known - this was a huge issue with BART)? In that case I could very will see that vibration was proportional to gross weight since a stiff suspension is basically a short circuit to ground. That generally isn't true any more, the only exception being some types of freight cars.

edit: a quick Google search provided a paper that supports my thesis: http://library.witpress.com/pages/PaperInfo.asp?PaperID=1957...
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This is unmitigated apologetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics) for some really bad corporate decisions Microsoft made in the mid-to-late 80s.

I suppose that's humdrum enough that I don't care about the apologetics per se, but rather, why bring this up now? Does Larry Osterman feel the need to work for a moral and compassionate corporation? He needs to get over it, no such entity exists.
The problem with that in America is that allowing entrance to schools based entirely on tests scores results in large numbers of Asians and whites and very few black and Hispanics and you end up with this racial discrimination mess.
Have some stats to support this assertion? You've not only got to support the assertion that it is more likely than not that a school with >=51% black and Hispanic students is going to be a "bad school" (which you've failed to define, but I'll take it to mean "underperforming"), but in addition yo'uve also got to prove that a school with >=51% white or Asian students will be a "good" school, or a school that is performing up to some standard. (Which?).