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Right up until the guy says something disagreeble to a politician or federal law enforcement bully who just wants to ruin the guy's life. Allowing law enforcement to amass information that it "doesn't care about" does lead to abuse of power. See 'National Security Letters' for more information.
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No where else has more sky scrapers than Shanghai and Beijing, which easily affects your GPS signal.
Its a shame they dont sell the most useful C book of them all.
It's not quite the same idea, but WebPutty (www.webputty.net) targets a similar problem and works cross-platform (it's a web app).

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Full disclosure: I'm one of WebPutty's developers.
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Ask HN: What is a startup's growth team?
I was watching Startup School, there's a few mention of a Growth Team in the video. Er.. what exactly is a Growth Team in a startup? What does Growth Team do?
I studied the martial arts (Cha Yon Ryu = "natural way") for many years. Our instructor quoted T.S. Eliot to us:

"And the end of all our exploring - Will be to arrive where we started - And know the place for the first time."
There is a defensible reading of that story which goes "Our engineering and marketing teams stumbled into a ridiculously inefficient process to do something critical for the business. After a bit of reorganization, while the new process has some kinks in it, we're increasing sales faster than ever while simultaneously not wasting thousands of dollars using senior engineers as glorified typists."

n.b. I don't want to criticize engineering choices from afar, but if people can bork production with malformed XML, that suggests opportunity for further process improvement to either check XML or render it unnecessary. Visual Website Optimizer, for example, mostly abstracts that away.

P.P.S. Quantify the problem to management, fix it, get heavily rewarded. You could even use the proceeds to take a trip to Wall Street, if that floats your boat.
major chip manufacturers probably have reference designs you can get, which include some of their parts, and which should be a good starting point.

you will indeed need to have access to advanced PCB fab and assembly subcontractor, but with some digging around you can find those.

the biggest problem is that you'll need hardware and software engineers who really know their job and can do the schematics, layout and firmware - doing a cell phone well is not an easy or small project, certainly not if you want to do something at a serious level and go beyond hobbyist type hacking.

you'll also have to do research on where to get an OS - developing this yourself is a huge project, probably just as big if not bigger than doing the hardware design. I don't know if it's possible, but perhaps you can get android OS source code and use that as a starting point.

you'll have to make each part of the hardware talk to the OS which means writing some driver or glue code, which is a whole other job. I'd try to use standard peripherals/ICs in your design for which android already has drivers.

without knowing more about your project, I can't really help more than this - if you want to talk about it feel free to msg me.
Surgeons don't learn on their own, as many software engineers attempt to. That was my point.
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Assuming you mean you’re writing more concrete (less abstract) code as a means of productivity, if you want to go back to writing abstractions, you might need to go into academia. That seems to be the only place where the necessary years of thought go into creating abstractions that actually stand up to the problems they intend to solve. I’d cite Haskell and GraphiViz as examples of this.

Personally I’m also interested in deductive databases and ontology but, on the whole, those are too ambitious even for academia these days, which I think is a shame because to me logically organizing information is probably one of the most important problems in IT since the web was created.
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I would be far more impressed and gratified if Prentice Hall were cool enough to offer Kernighan & Ritchie's classic "C Programming Language" (2nd Edition) at 1/2 off their $57.99 sticker-shock price.

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernigh...
Do 3D applications really need quaternions?
Don't bother with any of these until you're read K&R.
This seems to relate quite closely with the Hype Cycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
That only works as long as he's not opposing the state or any corporation or individual with powerful state connections. I dare this guy to go down to the local Occupy Wall Street protests and then see how little the government cares.

The fact is, we violate laws every day. In addition to actual violations, we do many more things that look suspicious and can be construed as potential violations. The government doesn't have to convict you in order to radically lower your quality of life. It merely has to investigate you.

For example, I knew a person that protested against the RNC convention in 2008. Though they were protesting peacefully, their group was broken up and arrested by the FBI. For the next two years, their case was bounced down from federal court to state courts, and then from state courts to county courts. Two and a half years later, the case was dismissed without any explanation or apology. However, while the case was ongoing, this person was unable to get a job, unable to get housing, unable to do anything that would require a background check or a credit check.

Was this person involved in major criminal or subversive activity? I don't see how she could have been, given that all charges were dropped. However, the actions taken against her can only be described as harassment.
>"1) when have you actually encountered sexism as a man outside some women's club meeting? "

I've done work at various charities, lunch lines for the homeless, etc...

What I've seen in the US is many, many shelters and other charities that will accept women and families but not single men, and I've never even seen one that refuses single women while accepting single men. This is despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the homeless in the country are men.

Whether a person goes in engineering or marketing isn't nearly as important as whether or not a person has food and shelter. Disappointingly, I regularly see high traffic blog postings and news articles about the sex imbalances in CS, and rarely see any concern about those in our charities. I can't help but suspect that if a city somehow did have charities that discriminated in the opposite direction that it would be headline news.
From 2003-2005: 143,074 National Security Letters, 0 terrorism prosecutions
The predicted (by some) squeeze has arrived. Should be interesting to see who makes it through the filter..
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How easy would it be for an open access startup to be profitable?

I'd like to see the cause supported and this sounds like a fun way -- but it's not clear to me how that would work as a business.
1.9.3 is not an unstable release. Ruby uses the third version number to represent a point release, i.e. you can expect 1.9.3 to be more stable than 1.9.2 over time.

I think that the versioning policy did work the way you describe it at one point, but it's no longer the case.
Didn't have much time reading through out the whole article and beyond the analysis of the subject it self, i really enjoyed the way the article was written. Giving the ground on theory and mathematics behind the problem in a way that anyone could understand. Thumbs up for authors writing/educational skills.
What do you think about independent action from the editorial side? The number is still fairly small, but there have been several successful instances of a commercial journal's editorial board resigning en masse and setting up an open-access journal intended to replace it.

A few examples:

http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=442

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=581

JMLR, at least, has gone on to successfully eclipse the journal, Machine Learning, that it was intended to replace (about 3x the impact factor).

I do notice that the examples I find are all in computer science and mathematics, and the new journals have basically zero budgets (and like it that way) and don't charge authors any fees. Is this because in CS/math a common expectation is that the author can use LaTeX, produce their own figures, and submit a print-ready PDF, whereas in other fields authors expect significant formatting work to be done by the journal?
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Good to know! I didn't realize 1.9.1 was considered stable.
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I think working on the funding agencies (i.e., getting them to adopt sensible policies) is the right strategy. For the individual researcher, the incentives for code & data sharing are pretty limited right now, at least until the culture changes.

On the technical side of code/data sharing--I think one obstacle (in least in the fields I'm familiar with) is that may researchers put together papers in a way that makes reproducibility needlessly hard. If you do all your stats in something like Stata or SPSS, then paste tables/figures into an MS Word document (which is passed around among colleagues), finding your own errors is hard enough---never mind some third party trying to re-produce your results.
If instead, you use tools like Sweave & script the data analysis & paper assembly process (ideally with version control), reproduction/sharing becomes much simpler.
Practical C Programming was my introduction text into the world of programming and I found it to be very good. K&R is also a great book if you want to start C
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I think you make the pdf a step further to make it into a printable photo album or calendar, etc.. and thru supplier like zazzle, cafepress, etc... to have an actual album, etc.
This is a very good piece. I've been on Ubuntu (initially Kubuntu) since Dapper, but just moved to arch (with xfce) last week for the kind of reasons the author discusses.
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I've always thought the chaining methods thing that jQuery popularized was a pristine example of an anti-pattern. It might save a few keystrokes, but I question whether anyone really writes code like this the first time through. I suspect people actually take perfectly fine working code and refactoring it into a chain just to make the code appear more clever, all the while making the code harder to read and debug.
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A map projection issue would show up in other places on the map, and would have been fixed by now.
...still?
Friends and family loan? If I were in your shoes, I'd talk to my gainfully employed brother or that uncle who once told me that living abroad was the most important thing he ever did and that I had options if the scholarship fell through (it didn't).

Assuming you're a middle class American, many people you know have $10k sitting around somewhere.
A map projection issue could a) easily be fixed, and b) would have been noticed and fixed already, as it would manifest in more places than just china.
I was very hesitatnt, but moved to arch last week and I love it. Pacman is great too. Debian and ubuntu are so good that they are hard to quit, but the recent UI situation pushed me over the edge and I am rather pleased so far.
Is hn:classic how you started reading HN?
I think we're probably losing 3 to 6 new software features every year due to the administrative burden on you alone. We all lose out when the labor of any of us is destroyed needlessly.
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I'm not sure it's easy for many startups in any space to become profitable.

However, it is possible.

One open access startup that has met this challenge and come to profitability is the Public Library of Science: http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2011/07/2010-plos-progress-update... They are now making a great deal of money, which is presumably why organizations such as Nature Publishing Group are looking at replicating PLoS One.

There is a lot of online discussion of business models for open access startups. Here's one useful guide: http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/incomemodels/
Scrobbling applied to upvote weighting? Weight other people's upvotes according to those who align with your own upvotes - if you upvote pictures of cats that's fine; it's just unlikely to align with other peoples front page who don't what pet photos.
Or you could examine the Twisted answer: Use Ampoule and defer long-running CPU-bound work to external processes which are bootstrapped into Python using your already-existing worker code. Node does have subprocess controls; I just checked the documentation. If somebody hasn't built an Ampoule for Node, then maybe somebody should get on that.

(Or just use Twisted and Ampoule. Seriously, guys.)
Apparently the licensing has changed as well - it's now BSD dual-licensed, rather than GPLv2:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_3_0/NEWS
Jeff Moser's blog is full of good articles, I revisit it from time to time hoping he's posted something new, but I think he's been too busy these passed few years.

One of the most accessible and interesting is his HTTPS breakdown[1]—highly recommended, and I'm sure it's been HN'd more than once.

[1]: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...
Not submit or upvote stories which are fundamentally about politics (even politics within a thirty mile radius of a computer!), because they predictably descend into value-free flame wars. That destroys the sense of community even on good threads: after seeing "you're a fucking idiot" on some article about how the TSA is cracking down on Wall Street music piracy, people often think "Did you read the fucking post?" is acceptable discussing minutie about a particular startup's use of Redis.
A friend of mine in grad school in Atlanta, which hosts a bunch of conferences in the big hotels downtown (partly due to the well-connected airport), used to crash them mainly for free food, but found some pretty interesting conversations as a result. One pointer was to go to "boring-sounding" biz conferences where people are mostly there because their company sent them. The novelty of you not being from the conference makes it fairly easy to talk to people, they don't usually care about you crashing it (unless perhaps they're the organizers), and it's a good way of finding out what people in an industry/sector think is broken in their industry (by the 2nd or 3rd day of a conference on Subject X, many attendees have a lot of rants about Subject X collected on the tip of their tongues).
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IMNSHO there are two things that would help HN be a "better" place - of course as with most folks who respond to this better will correspond to what THEY would like to see. So you should take any comment in this discussion with the requisite boulder of salt...

1) Hire a Benevolent Dictator/Community Manager. Usually the second title is just a euphemism for the first. I will go ahead and state that said person should have some history on HN, should be evaluated on a reasonably consistent basis by both pg and the community, and should have a commitment to be here more often than not. They should be able to cull some stories and promote others not only based on their personal interests, but also to the betterment of the community (even if the community doesn't always agree). I am also willing to put myself up as an applicant for said position assuming pg is willing to work with someone remotely - as much because I don't want to see the argument that no one would be willing to do it as that having run a few BBS and forums I have some reason to think I could actually do it.

2) A full-featured API that would allow members of the community to have more control over how much of HN they view and participate in. As any community grows you get more diversity, and it becomes harder to ascertain a common "always good". Instead give folks the ability (preferably through tools) to modify how they participate in and view the community. If there's a subject that always bothers you, perhaps it's best for everyone if you can avoid having to even see it. If there's something you're particularly interested, being able to see more of it is probably worthwhile.

My .02 worth for you :-)
I "personally" would prefer that such discussions still be made available, but that people have an easier way to block those if they don't want to discuss that (or at least don't want to discuss that at HN).
Little know trick (I don't use it) that O'reilly himself probably frowns upon but doesn't discourage is that if you regitster a physical book with the ISBN you can get the ebook for 5 bucks. You only need the ISBN for this. O'Reilly has said many times he prefers that as many people as possible read the books. And hopefully enough will pay for them to make them viable. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on his belief about this).

I remember O'Reilly himself saying that the pricing on Ebooks was currently an experiment and they are trying to figure out what is best. That's why, in my opinion, they do eboook deals every day.
Manning has a 45% sale off everything, if you use code "halloweekend45". They sell Clojure, Erlang and other books. We can pretend it's a McCarthy Day celebration. :)
You can be an entrepreneur any where in the world. Why does it have to be in the US?
At the moment the impact of these actions seems significantly smaller than policy. But perhaps it's a useful complement, showing policy-makers that many faculty support open access.

As regards your CS/math question, it's a good one, and I don't know enough about the cost structure of the journals in question to answer. I suspect from conversations with journal editors that it's not a whole lot cheaper to produce CS/math journals than other types, but that's just a general impression, not a certainty.
Generally buying national map data is expensive in europe.

The naming of streets is also quite complex, if the street has been there for 1000years then it's likely that various of layers of government aren't quite in synch with what they are calling it.

so if google maps just uses a free public domain source it might not match what the city council or the post office use
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Funny that. My Maytag just failed with the same problem he mentioned except where I live (Canada) it's 300$ for the part + installation.
I don't even want to think about the cost of this book right now. I recently cleaned out a huge pile of old computer books, stacking them into "keep" and "trash". My copy of K&R is currently missing. Odds are pretty decent that it's floating in a slurry of paper pulp.

With any luck I loaned it out and forgot about it. I'll still never see it again, but at least it's still doing something useful.
Exactly: http://www.businessinsider.com/make-no-mistake-google-is-tak...
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Does PG listen to the StackExchange podcast? There's some great information on there sprinkled throughout the various conversations they have. Jeff Attwood is very passionate about online community management and he and Joel Spolsky get into some interesting debates about some of the community-related problems that they have to deal with on StackOverflow and the other StackExchange sites.
No its just a hunch/intuition and me being bitter.
Exactly. And even for those people who _do_ know, it can be useful to be reminded of just how powerful it can be.
You can Greasemonkey the threads but you can't Greasemonkey the culture. This is why I favor "we make effort to keep HN focused on what it does well and imposed a collegial, supportive tone by consensus when possible and fiat when not" rather than "we'll allow the tone that prevails on Slashdot/Reddit and implement a poor imitation of Reddit-esque interest filtering."
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There's the obvious allure of Silicon Valley given the investor/startup culture there. I suspect the question was probably more focussed around SF than the US in general.
in case any of you are using rvm, "rvm get head" should update the rvm from the git repository and then you can install ruby the usual way ("rvm install 1.9.3")
I'm on my second one too now. I loaned it a while back to someone and never got it back. In a way I feel good about that. Someone is now a better programmer because of that :) And they obviously liked it enough to keep it.
Yea, as Google etc are pushing against it, I predict deadlock for years just like net neutrality and the telcos ended up being.
That's interesting, because last night I just watched the "Fog of War", the documentary about Robert McNamara, and he makes that exact quote. Apparently this idea applies to war as well. When I read this article I was surprised by the coincidence.

BTW I strongly recommend that film -- it was fascinating in so many ways.
to install with rvm :
first update rvm,

bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

then

rvm install 1.9.3

and

rvm use 1.9.3 --default

And you are on fire
Absolutly no politics, current mainstream news, or anything that comes near them. No OWS crap that keeps getting submitted. There's a lot of pieces from the Atlantic, Vanity, and other places that are being submitted and upvoted that are essentially political in nature but seem to be viewed in a good light simply because of their publisher. Cut out all that and the biggest problems will go away.

Promote civil discourse and find a solution to all the pedantry. There's lots of threads now where people are arguing for a long time essentially over semantics. It's really bone-headed and doesn't reflect well on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555595
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