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Another Mexican giving its point of view here:

On human resources, the culture here is a job culture, you finish your career, you get into a company, work 30-35 years and retire, that's what the community expects of you. Starting a company is awkward, working in something without payment or having immediate profits is a waste of time or foolish. But that is changing with the crisis, everything goes now.

Getting people can be a bit difficult, most candidates I have interviewed had little experience (if at all), with free software technologies we use and demonstrated little will to learn (education tends to be centered on specific technologies), most don't work well unsupervised, thus our remote working experiment failed, they don't use modern development tools such as version control, bug tracking and project management software, etc. That is a generalization, of course there is brilliant people here too, but way more difficult to find, hopefully if a startup community concentrates in a place the skillful workforce will also concentrate there.

Government paperwork has always been abundant, complicated and time sink.

Taxes are not well leveled, either you are of low class (you have a small shop "changarro/tiendita") and pay a low tax, or you are middle class, a professional, you do consulting and give out receipts, your tax is relatively low and simple (you may require an accountant to make sure you don't fall into an obscure tax law and have problems), or finally you are the rich class, you are a corporation, you pay high federal taxes, state taxes, enterprise taxes (IETU), and retain value added tax (IVA, the equivalent of sale tax or VAT), only this bracket you will be able to give out invoices (invoices are centrally controlled by the government), which is a requirement when your clients are companies.

Most startups (incorporated) and companies will fall in the top bracket, even if you don't make millions, in other countries you are most likely to pay taxes based on your yearly income.

Financing is thought, the problem is government financing which is very prone to corruption, which means all those stimulus mostly go to friends, family and the corporate backers of those in the government (some politicians promise those stimulus to their backers beforehand in campaigns).

Finally, lets not get started with crime and violence, I live in a very peaceful part of the country but I have still received 2 or 3 calls arguing that they have a family member kidnapped, asking for money, a friend of mine even got a visit of an extortionist asking for "piso" money.

I can understand well why Julio is leaving, I was tempted too to apply to Startup Chile and start a new, but Mexico also has its key areas that are unexploited on technology and will be great business in the near future.
Credit cards act as a buffer between steady salary income and patchy spending. Many people both in the US and Europe live within their means across the whole year, but take a big holiday or trip in the summer and spend more in one month than their usual disposable income. Having a credit card makes it easier to accommodate lumpy spending like that.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) which uses a deck as an innocent-looking keystream having a lot of entropy.
Because Java is designed for projects that can scale up in size. Large php/python/ruby projects are nightmarish to maintain.

When you've got a project with dozens of teams and hundreds of components having things like static typing and well designed exception are really important to ensure data integrity.

There are also many features that languages like php lack, such as multithreading and atomic operations.
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Without input validation, and without any clear motivation as top why this experiment was important, I was perfectly happy entering garbage or blank forms.

What I'm getting at is that without any real motivation for submitting a form, I don't really care what I enter. This is different than when I enter a captcha "in the wild" - in that case I would try really hard because I care about successfully submitting the form.

I'm not sure what this experiment is trying to prove, but without that motivation, I don't believe it's a proper simulation of real captcha use.
just to provide even more context. In our previous system, you entered your email to be in our beta queue. You could enter 3 of your friends' emails to move up the queue. Pretty standard stuff. We didn't think much of it.

In our last HN post, a reader named zem had commented that they didn't like the 3-invite system. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3194012 (click parent to see the original post). As i mentioned earlier, we saw it as pretty standard practice and hadn't given it an extra thought when we implemented it, but the comment sparked the question, how could we make beta invites more engaging when just about every other company out there is doing the same thing.
Yes. A painter's gotta paint. Because he enjoys it. Not necessarily because he thinks his art will change the planet. But art collectively has a huge impact.

So if people built businesses because they like to do something and found out that they can make money doing it, why does it all of a sudden have to change the world? Because same as the painter example above, one biz doesn't have to change everything but collectively they can have a huge impact.
The one that said something about "type the red moving characters" never worked for me. The spinner just sat there for > 30 seconds before I gave up.

(Chrome on OS X with Flash installed, if that makes a difference)
I am always looking for new things to learn, and I love video as it helps me both learn using auditory and visual, however the guys speech in this video is simply too slow and made me fall asleep half way through the video, and it is only 30 minutes long.
"How many years in the Hundred Years War"

This was my favourite one. Easy to solve -- not at all trivial to parse mechanically.
that might get expensive for SendWrite...
I could be wrong but I think ICEfaces [1] for Java does something like this. I remember seeing a presentation on it at a Rails vs Django vs Java "debate" a few years ago.

It may not be quite the same thing, and I can't really parse the website very well for how it really works. I do remember it holds a copy of the DOM server side then manipulates it over HTTP.

So if you want it in Java, there's that.

[1]http://www.icefaces.org/main/home/
It is a form of humor on the part of the HN submitter. Though for the life of me I can't recall what type. It's not irony. Gross understatement?
Thank you for your kind words.

Well, some people are lazy. There's no getting around that. Some people would rather take bong hits or play video games than turn in homework. I don't understand those people. Especially when (as some people have told me) they've done the homework.

I think usually in 'lazy' cases the laziness is because they don't care about the bad grade or the lack of learning. The canonical stereotype is the frat boy with his parents paying his way. Stereotype's priorities are not aligned with seeking a degree. They are aligned with parties or making sure parents are happy. So they have no 'skin in the game', and they are not 'in it to win it'.

I didn't run into very many really and truly lazy people. Most people who didn't turn stuff in (that I talked to - please note the qualifier) simply didn't have priorities aligned with getting the degree with decent grades. Priorities in these cases might be "getting drunk", "arguing with girlfriend", "got sick", "other class had test".

My personal opinion is that Universities in the US are both training and education. We set our sights on education - we the academy - but our clients are often asking for training. I heard a slew of griping by the engineers (EE, ME) in a more theory-based linear algebra course. "Give me numbers so I can stick them in my calculator and crunch them" was the usual desire. When people's priorities are not aligned with learning what you are teaching, you get some poor behavior. My priority was "take hard classes, learn what they teach, suck up the weaker grade". So I sucked it up. I also have a bent for wanting to understand principles, which fits in well in academia.

I think the academy needs to contemplate the idea of "white collar training" and take that as potentially realistic option. Something like a three-year bachelor's degree. I am not sure. I think some CS students could use another year past the four just for code-mashing.

One college I heard about has two options for incoming students. Four year BSCS, or five year MSCS. The extra year adds theory.
They are selling them to anyone, these are not another OLPC.

As for programming abstraction; that is a ship that sailed long ago!
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Especially if it changes the life of its user. It has tremendous value.
Ususally the types of founders who want to build massive ginormous companies (that's a technical term) are different: they a) fail and/or b) don't make things; they're "idea guys" to steal a line from Signal vs. Noise.
Ask HN: Light weight project management tools
I've been using Unfuddle.com and I have been mostly content with it's features. Simple ticketing, git repo, milestones. The only thing it's lacking is a simple non-repo way to manage project documents - non git repo so that non-coders can manage them without learning git.

So I'm taking a look around to see what other developers are using for light weight project management for small teams (less than 10 people total) with multiple projects.

GitHub.com is a natural suggestion but it's too light on the PM feature set (milestones and tickets) for this kind of team work.

Jira is in my opinion too heavy. Same with RedMine and Trac.

Suggestions?
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Upvote this on Reddit for more volume: http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsendwrite.com...
cynical-me wonders who's signup process they're "crowdsourcing"...
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This is not the same kind of purchase a fart app, a coffee, a nice T-shirt you like or even a bigger TV, this application changes what its user is able to do, in that sense it is closer to the purchase of a car, or household appliances.
Trelloapp is pretty intuitive and not bloated at all, might be worth giving it a try. Also there is the app interstate, YC backed.
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Doesn't the birthday paradox also come into play here, significantly increasing the chances of a duplicated shuffle?
Is there a transcript? Or, alternatively, can anyone recommend some speech recognition software that could facilitate transcription?
This is neat; I like the focus on simplicity. As someone who would, from time to time, like a framed photo but have no interest in comparing 500 different frames in a store, this is pretty neat.
This misses the case where the plausible solution space is much larger than could be explored by the smart people that have attempted to solve it in the past.

Also, a lot of times the enabling new technology or new customer behavior doesn't obviously solve the problem. So there may be new technology and/or behavior that make the problem solvable, but it's not obvious until you try to solve it. There is new technology and customer behaviors that make a whole slew of seemingly unrelated problems solvable now, and if I knew the mapping there, I wouldn't be posting here, I'd be running a company that solves the problems.
That is a very good point. I am sure that if all I had done was read about programming and see people scribble on a blackboard about it, I would quit and go be a jazz musician. I know I liked the computer as a teen because unlike chemistry, biology, or physics, I could do really cool stuff without putting together a lab. That's an AMAZING advantage of the computer.

The chemistry student I know has been involved in her university's chemistry research labs since freshman year. Mechanical engineer students here frequently do projects, there is a ME lab for them to mess around with. Biology students have some opportunity (unsure how much) to participate in the university's activities.

But, maybe this University is more hands-on than other places.
it's been awhile since I've done much with PHP,so I thought this was symfony...are these two CMS/frameworks related?
http://www.symfony-project.org/
I'd only want an estimate of the travel times between destinations, not an estimate of how long I'd actually spend stopped at each (which I wouldn't attempt to estimate in advance anyway).

For me the use case is this: I want to drive from (say) San Francisco to Denver, and want to plan out a schedule which involves stopping every two hours for a break.
Convergence is a secure replacement for the Certificate Authority System.
Rasberry Pi is not a project run by broadcom, just using their SoC (and featuring one of their employees).
They are selling the first round to nerds / hardware hackers, and I doubt many others will choose to pay 4x the price to keep using the beagleboard.
You very well could be right. But what's meaningful here is that Berkeley is hard, and that was the original point :)
because they've been raised to be that way since preschool? the few friends I have that are on faculty seem to feel that its just more trouble than it's worth to give students low grades, and then face the evals.
I think most schools have those opportunities, but it's something the students have to seek out. I could be completely wrong here, I'm basing this observation off of my understanding of what curriculums I did not go through were like.
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I believe they were implying the R Pi may have cost $100 with a more compact board.
Here's mine https://github.com/rjenkins/instagram-html5-unshredder

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I got about 4 questions in and then it started giving me basic authentication boxes saying the site is password protected, and I couldn't do anything or click any links on the site without logging in or something.
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Here. But lost. Where exactly for those who are new to this bar?
The chances of you sharing a birthday with one of 22 other people is pretty low. the chances of at least two people in a group of 23 is 50%. In the first case, you're fixing the day that some other person must have.
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Great idea, just sent letters to both of my Senators.
even if you're preserving blocks of 3, 17! is a big number. it's not 10^44, but still, 10^14 is pretty big.
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These two are regularly confused due to their unfortunately similar spelling. SymPHony is the CMS, SymFony is the completely unrelated framework (capitalisations for emphasis only).
funny, that's exactly how mine works. Haven't heard anything either
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I would have paid!

For those who have yet to do it, I should point out that there is a PayPal donate button to support this effort that you are shown after submission of your entry. Send cards to all your representatives, then send those nice folk a couple of bucks to cover the postage at least.
They spoke of 10k initial run.[1] They have also been considering limiting purchases per person.

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9cmxoSmOxU
Hm. See, I don't think paying twice as much for a place to sleep is that big of a deal for a younger Engineer. I mean, if you are a young single person, so you pay a grand for a studio rather than $500 in some flyover state. or $600 for a room rather than $300. Not really a big deal when your salary starts at $80K/year.

As you get older and want to buy a house and have a family? Eh, during the bubble, it was a problem. Five hundred grand for a 1bdroom condo? crazy. But these days? rents might be high, but you can get a small 3bdroom house for $300-$350K in a very safe area. By that point in your life, an Engineer's salary is going to be at least 1/3rd of that, which seems like a pretty reasonable ratio of salary to house.

I mean, yeah, if you can take a 20% paycut to live in a flyover state where you can get something giant and nice for $100K, that might look like a good deal on the face of it, but the thing is, here in the valley? there is a multitude of employers to choose from. If you are in idaho and your employer shuts down or you want to quit? likely you are going to have to move. There's a huge advantage to the employee of having many potential employers within easy commute distance.

so yeah; personally? I don't think it's a big deal for Engineers.
Ask HN: Any Good Programming Competitions?
Anyone know of any good programming competitions out there?
Sorry about that; I'm a developer, not a system administrator. It's fixed now.
Damn, that would've been a pretty good business model. As it is, we're doing nothing like that.
> LOL - as a married father of 2 kids in the Midwest I find this quite a funny comment. After renting for many years and dealing with horrible landlords ex: coming home on a cold winter Friday night to find my apartment bedroom with no windows with a little note stating "Be Back on Monday" - sleeping in a sleeping bag as a result.

> So yeah, we "needed" our own home.

This might be semantic wankery, but you didn't "need" to buy a house, you needed a place to live without a shitty landlord and - unfortunately, I would argue - the easiest, most feasible way to do that where you lived was buying a house.
Nice apps. Both different takes on PM. I'm checking them out.
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That's a good point. We'll have to think about how to address that.
I have. But banking here in NZ is different.
Actually, these numbers mean that LESS than 50% of families cary a CC balance (58% of 74.9%)
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Email works better, actually. All of Congress uses web forms that categorize and route the messages directly to their CRM systems. So it is easy for them to tally and respond. Mail, on the other hand, has to get irradiated for bioterror and takes 4-6 weeks to arrive. The letters are made brittle and staff dislike handling them, and they have to be typed or scanned into the office CRM.
What patio11 is saying is that Dwolla underestimated the scam potential by accepting payments with are rechargeable and giving non-rechargeable "digital cash" in return.

Basics of the scam: Deposit in Dwolla, buy Bitcoins on an exchange, send bitcoins to your own wallet, chargeback Dwolla deposit.

A couple of months ago TradeHill, the second largest bitcoin exchange, discovered Dwolla billed them $30K in chargebacks despite their claims of never doing that.

It's this Dwolla issue that stopped the influx of new money into Bitcoin and now the price is 90% down.

This is a key problem for growing any kind of digital cash like economy: somebody needs to take the risk of turning chargeback-money (USD) into cash-like money (bitcoin), or you need to have a network to somehow take physical cash.
In other words, the odds that a deck you are holding is unique are high; the odds that all decks ever shuffled are unique is low.
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Oh I am sorry, does the F word scare you?

The equity part I'll rather take with someone who might be interested.

And you don't seem to be grasping that;
I work during the daytime and during night time as well.
If that's the case, which orders are more common? Do decks come in a set order? Assuming they do, I guess imperfect shuffling would result in orderings influenced by that original order. Of course, once you cut the deck a few times, I would think any statistical influence from the original ordering would be nullified.
Was wondering the same thing. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but I don't see any utility to this at all.
For me it's the opposite but I'd love to be able to manually toggle these things on or off.

My ideal setup might be to get url bar searches to show regular google and ctrl-k searches to be google verbatim searches.
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> I don't think that becoming a life-long renter is a smart choice either.

As someone contemplating if not life-long then seriously long-term renting, serious question, why do you not think it's a smart choice?
Thank you for your compliment.

I have coded since my early teens, so a lot of the code-adoration has faded through the simple wear of time. And, like people seem to as they look towards the end of their twenties, I've made a few mistakes and had a few growing up experiences and those have really broadened my mind about career and goals.

The cyber-valhalla is fun and after a while - for most - the fun palls and you stumble out of the soda hall one day and realize that there's a whole world with unexpected complexity and richness that you've neglected in your pursuit of the code. There's a whole book - Microserfs - about that experience. It's worth reading.
"But numerous recent FPS blockbusters have largely been remarkable for how reluctant developers appear to be to stray outside of their (and perhaps the mass audience's) comfort zone." The same thing that happened to the movie industry is happening to AAA game titles. As the budget increases the willingness to risk new ideas shrinks. Graphics continue to improve, but we're essentially playing the same single player games we were 5 years ago.

IMO though multiplayer has been steadily improving, albeit a little slowly.
I wonder if a computer science degree counts as education in a branch of mathematics (which qualifies), or in "technology" (which does not).
A quick search turns up this link. Looks like the birthday paradox does not apply in this situation.

http://hatlogic.blogspot.com/2010/04/cards-and-birthdays.htm...
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As I edit my thesis, I am observing the sad state of my own technical writing ability. Can you point me to a paper you find clear and in good taste?
Both TradeHill and MtGox stated a couple of months ago that they were the two largest clients of Dwolla.

Than Dwolla did chargebacks and SHTF in the Bitcoin world.
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Ads has a very sophisticated system of matching ad topics against queries. That's how they make the big money. :) I work in search though, so I don't really know anything about how it works except at an extremely high level. I'd be really surprised if that sort of effect actually happened though.
What's exactly the difference between NFC and RFID? The NFC Forum FAQ isn't very clear.

Here in Portugal (and AFAIK in multiple European countries) we use contactless cards for public transportation, but that's about it; payments are still done with debit cards or cash.
I'm with you on this one, we're a rare breed. I think people underestimate how much good software engineering can go into these "boring" enterprise projects. Of course, there are a lot of shops where programming skill is lacking, so you're actively discouraged from doing anything the least bit interesting. But if you can find a gig that welcomes skill and creativity, you can end up having a lot of fun doing these types of projects.

For me, an interesting project is not the topic but the technical challenges behind it. Your typical web front end stuff just doesn't have any appeal. It's just programming gruntwork.
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