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Thanks for the advice, I've several small projects I think I could start out with. Django definitely looks like a good next step.

Looking at the resources available I wonder, should I be learning RUBY instead?
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I've been to their open office hours in NYC and, though we don't have a support contract, they were incredibly welcoming and helpful.
If you don't have paying customers (Foursquare), you're not going to lose much in hard dollars when your service falls over. Reputation points? Sure. Dollars, not so much.
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Female entrepreneurs: Hell yeah
Occupiers are blaming the wrong people
Although I agree that this does not seem like a big deal, your tone reads as very hostile. We should strive for a higher standard at HN.
I don't really understand why they would buy Growl. It wouldn't take long for them to add in to OSX themselves.
A) you can bring a lawsuit for anything - just the threat of tying up small districts might "keep them in line".

B) there may have been some unspoken agreements with earlier decision makers which, while not contractual, might still constitute some good faith issue.

I really think there's probably less a chance of lawsuits specifically, and more likely variable pricing, with "use of free texts" thrown in as an equation that's not shared with anyone but mgt and sales teams.
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> After all, infringement is a matter of permission

The obvious solution is to make it impossible to give certain kinds of permission, like how it's impossible to give up your 'moral rights' under German law, for example: If the government sees someone using something without being able to show they have paid for it and are operating under restrictions, they are committing piracy. If you gave it to them without enforcing those restrictions, you induced them to commit piracy, probably a more serious crime.
Why bother? Lisp will never win.
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Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish–French physicist–chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry.
Sounds like all these providers should move to the US. The laws here are much more favorable for them.

Who would have that the DMCA was so helpful?
The verb conjugation is 'meet, met, met'. I can't help it, that's just the way it is.

http://www.verb2verbe.com/conjugation/english-verb/meet.aspx
They're betting it's the 1990s again and they'll be able to get their laws enacted and enforced everywhere that matters.
Should you try to get endorsements from YC alums?
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When isotopes decay, the process is known as fission, so there is certainly fission going on.
Probably close to zero. But the number who play games on the device is probably close to 250 million. I'm not sure what the point is.
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One of the physics teachers at my school wrote a textbook for his students. He did so because he wasn't happy with whatever you can buy. I haven't taken the class yet, but it's supposed to be one of the best at my school.

The district won't let him sell the book to his students, so they have to print it out online. (It's here for anyone that's interested: http://www.tamdistrict.org/Page/3217)
This is a good sign. Market salary for a 30 y/o corporate lawyer in NYC was north of $250k this year, and for a 30 y/o banker it was probably 1.5x-2x that. Yet Google makes more revenue per employee than any law firm or investment bank.

Professional salaries are a function of both objective factors (supply and demand), and subjective factors. Engineers have long had a disadvantage on the subjective side because it is difficult to quantize their contribution to the revenue of the company. Hopefully signs like this mean the perceptions are changing.

Like it or not, the Valley needs to pay more to attract top people. If you're a science/engineering major at a top school at the top of your class, how much would you be willing to give up to go into engineering? Prior to these recent salary spikes, you were looking at making $30k less to start versus finance, growing to $300k-$400k less by 30. It takes a lot of love and dedication to turn that down for what is at the end of the day just a another job.
I'd also be afraid they'd put lobbying efforts into state legislatures to make home grown text books illegal or set standards that are difficult to meet for teachers and which are easy for big publishers.
Don't know if you have seen this or not: http://bugherd.com -- I've been using them to work with our developers. Really simple, just click anywhere on the page where the bug is and input the problem.
This type of approach seems to beg for collaboration between schools. If something like this can be done for such a fraction of the normal price, what's stopping a school from molding this existing text to their own curriculum or building their own book from a repository of texts and other existing "open-source" books? Then they could allocate spending elsewhere.
Kudos for not blaming the tool when that would have been the easiest route. It's worth mentioning that 10gen has MongoDB Monitoring Service out now. It makes monitoring MongoDB instances a lot more accessible and convenient.
Leap years are unnecessarily complicated? No, I think they are exactly as complicated as they should be. And horseradish sauce is both tasty, and quite easy to make.

And not having timezones would be even more complicated.
AI are taking jobs
In an ideal scenario that is what would happen. Unfortunately the invisible hand of adam is now tied behind his back. When 2008-2009 happened I was mildly optimistic that a new kind of finance firm would emerge - one which would use technology more intelligently, have a lower cost structure by virtue of having no bad assets on their books and one that would accept lower margins in order to make a headstart against established firms. In a well functioning market that is what would have happened - established players who got it wrong would have gone out of business leaving room for newer younger firms to spring up and do things in a better way. I still cannot place my finger on what exactly broke but the deadwood does not seem to burn in forest fires anymore.
"I didn’t get the first phone number I asked for, nor the second. In fact, the first number probably came somewhere between tries five and ten."

This applies to so many different areas of life that it should just be made a rule, if it isn't already.
As someone who left software engineering for law, I have to say that partnership is a great motivator.

I don't want an incentive scheme to help make you money. Pay me 20-25% of the revenue I generate for the company and give me a non-zero chance to be a stakeholder and I'll work my ass of for you.
See, I'm the opposite; I dislike the new UI (even though I like what they've done with the redesign of Gmail).
Maybe I can shed light on why some of us are "shocked" about this number, while others seem to think it's no big deal.

I work for Cisco, which is certainly not considered a Google or Amazon, these days, but still a fairly respectable place. I'm a software engineering doing embedded work for the last three years out of my BS in CS. I got hired on at $73k with 300 options (now underwater).

I have had consistently good reviews, though only given one promotion and one raise - with a whopping $79.5k in salary afterwards. A bonus is typically 6%, though this year I've got the highest rating possible, so I had a 12% bonus. I've been given RSUs once, at a value of about $10k, though the stock price dropped and they are sitting at around $5000 now.

So, my yearly compensation is about $90k or so, though they've jacked up our medical costs, taken away free drinks, raise prices in our cafeteria, taken away the home broadband reimbursment, etc etc since I've been here.

So, Anyone need an embedded engineer with a network security focus?
I don't know about lawsuits but I do expect increased lobbying of the state legislatures to make it illegal. They certainly won't just take these changes lying down.
I built a fairly extensive Pinboard plugin that gives you a keyboard shortcut - Ctrl+D - and other options for Google Chrome: https://github.com/josegonzalez/pinboard/downloads

You can then export the bookmarks from your pinboard account quite easily.
The author of the people-will-forget-JS-in-the-future premise is specifically referring to the future. CS specifically solves a present-day problem--ugly JS syntax.
Yes. Yet, when I posted The Pardo Axiom in a recent HN thread related to talent acquisition and hiring, I received an irrational, angry response. I don't get it. If there is a huge demand for engineering talent, then it seems obvious to me that companies haven't even approached the top end of what they can offer.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180674
Pinboard has the ability to give rss (and json) feeds of a users bookmarks (you can even use the tag share and get bookmarks specifically with that tag) see in: http://pinboard.in/howto/

Other than that there might be easier ways and pinboard does cost an initial sign up fee.
> and the databases that don't speak SQL are all over the map

And have been since the punchcard days. For many people, it's hard to imagine there have been databases of all types, feature sets and performance characteristics before the dawn of SQL.
Yet the partner/director carrot in law/banking/consulting convinces tons of Harvard, Yale, etc, grads each year to work 80 hour weeks for their 20s for a shot at equity (which realistically is more like 5-10% at big NYC type places and upwards of 30% in secondary markets).
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From what I've heard, that's because they use the money from selling the current supply to pay for the next shipment.

If you think about this for a minute, how could it work any other way?
He means there is no sustained chain reaction going on. It's neither critical nor supercritical. I have a chunk of uranium ore on my bookshelf doing it right now.
Excellent links. And this was just on my mind in fact.

In most web-servers there is a list of regexes - typically starting stems, almost more glob-like - that are defined in precedence order to match requests to handlers.

Are there any libraries that can treat this as a single effective operation, rather than just testing against each regex as an island until there's a match?
The discomfort in typing I think is partially a generational gap.
"My point is: an hour here and an hour there adds up! You have time, its just a matter of what you choose to do with it."

This trivializes the situation for full time employed programmers. Sure, you have spare hours intermixed throughout your work day, but these are not _productive_ hours. Your brain is worn out due to the effort spent in your 9 to 5 and distracted since when you're not at your job you have all sorts of other life responsibilities to manage (eat, exercise, socialize, family).

The author has a busy family life and a full time job and is still able to find 20 hours a week to work on his own thing. I find this very impressive.

I worked like this for a time before leaving my full time job last August. I found full time + half time + the rest of life was unsustainable. At first I made progress but quickly the rest of my life began to suffer. My relationship with my girlfriend became strained. I barely saw my friends or did things I enjoyed. Burnout started to appear. I got to the point where I realized that none of my programming hours were as productive as they once were. I was working more but getting about the same amount done.

I'm not saying it's not possible. It's just not as easy as he is making it sound. He is right that as a developer I was sitting on a gold mine but the mining didn't really begin until I quit my day job and focused.
Someone has to first motivate the students to use the KA resources. My point is that let's not pretend that KA solves the fundamental problem.
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Coming from the point of view of somebody who gets pitched daily...

I can barely distinguish them from each other.

Sure, I'll give you my card with contact info, but it doesn't mean I will be interested when I get the email.

Yes, you did more than most people and had the balls to approach me. Great. But that won't fix a mediocre product or a product I'm not interested in. I'll just end up ignoring your email.

I look for cues, such as who is funding you, your background and whether you got an introduction from somebody I trust. These things are my filters to finding the stories and startups that matter.

Beyond that, I agree with PG: I prefer ordinary conversations. Again, the people I know and find genuinely interesting are more likely to catch my attention when the time comes to pitch me.
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Why would you conclude that MongoDB was "fast" and SQL Server was slow? Did you run SQL server on the same SSD's and multiple HDD's?

to willvarfar's comments, what was the real fsync cost and didn't you get ACID with SQL Server? Now, if ACID is not really required, and you really really need flexible schemas, then by all means ... I understand that you want distributed-queryable-notepad, not a relational database!
But isn't that... test-driven design? ;)

I mean, if the tests have 100% coverage, there's no problem with the education only covering what's on the test, right? It just means kids have to sit through exams that are perhaps eight hours long.

(Which is fine, really, if those exams get split up so that they're given one exam per unit, rather than one humongous state-wide test. And while they're at it, if those exams were also, say, given online, accessible at the student's whim, and able to be repeated indefinitely without penalty (because of some form of procedural question generation), they could even be used as gates to determine when the student was ready for the next level of material...)
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If you ask the guys at CatchyLink.com he sure can! CatchyLink.com uses a simple and short word combination to turn a long and hard to remember web-link into a short and catchy web-link, a one that even your grandma can easily remember. In addition CatchyLink.com is an open and free service that anyone can use.
Thanks for this response. I am currently working at a small company developing a system that will use Mongo. We originally looked at Mongo and thought we had 'better go with something safe.' However, the data we are working with varies unpredictably for different customers, and Mongo really helped. We eventually decided to switch to Mongo, and it has been a great thing for developer productivity.

We are hoping to go live with the first version of the system this spring. It will initially have a small amount of data (less than a hundred MB), will always have a high read to write ratio, and even the read load will be low by most standards for many years (the business provides a large amount of value to a small number of customers, rather than vice versa, thus the low volumes).

Anyway, on seeing this thread trending, I thought "oh, man, are we in for it when we hit production?" Your response - the openness of it - was reassuring. We will certainly be counting on not losing data next spring. We plan to use MongoHQ, and hope their expertise will help us there as well.

The development benefits have been so significant that I deeply hope Mongo is focusing on issues like not losing data. We would hate to have to switch to something less flexible.
You're talking about The Pardo Axiom:

"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." ~ David "Pardo" Keppel

If you're having trouble hiring, it's probably because you're not paying enough. It turns out that talented people are worth paying a lot for.
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my thanks to josegonzalez and wx77 for their comments. I will check out pinboard. Thanks!
Working with the Javascript HTML DOM API is a terrible situation, and you have to go out of your way to work around that brokenness to do anything good with the DOM.

Javascript the language, and most libraries/APIs written for Javascript using Javascript idioms, are very pleasant.
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Actually it would be more accurate to say that the safe harbor provision didn't block (all) innovation. It certainly didn't help in any way.
Where from, what cost, any requirements for potential owners?
Uninstalling Growl can also save you some embarrassment. I was interviewing someone last week with my laptop hooked up to a projector (forgot to disable Growl). It took me a while to figure out why someone was giggling. Growl had just broadcast across the bottom of the screen, "From Mint.com: You have exceeded your Fast Food budget for the month."
Microsoft Windows did it right, all notifications are standardized and put into the icon tray. If I want to disable notifications I open the tray settings and disable them there. MacOS never standardized anything, and so every MacOS app creates a new non-standard tray icon, with its own notification system, and some of them now use Growl and some of them don't. It's a mess that even Microsoft managed to standardize 10 years ago.
Actually, it should be a feature of the graphical (or non graphical) environment you are in, not the underlying OS. The OS should not be concerned with how or what things appear on a screen.
Anyone know of a free alternative? pinboard.in has a charge (not that I am averse to paying it, just that I would prefer free or freemium)
I found something: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html search for "What kind of computers are used on the Voyager spacecraft?"
I can't eat history: it is of no use to me, especially in an article about maple syrup.

The title "Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best" asks a question and the article refuses to answer it quickly. I ddn't miss the point - I merely took the title at face value.

I still don't know any more than I did before about the history of maple syrup and that's good - less of my mind wasted on irrelevant information. But I _do_ know that grade B tastes better - something infinitely more useful. And I don't need the history as a referent, since the syrups themselves are the referents (though I shall be loathe to buy any grade A as a referent - perhaps you can do that and we shall taste).

The article was a poor example of bait-and-switch journalism.

I don't know why fools bother to downvote someone because he finds a meandering plotless plodding article to be uninteresting!
I think Khan should be a teacher at least for a year. He would realize his stuff is a great for those students who already have access to good mentors (parents, teachers). But for those students with parents who don't value education and are stuck in bad schools, these students need a good teacher not video lectures. My point is that let's not pretend KA addresses the fundamental problem in Ed.
I've always thought it would be nice to write an engine to crawl the entire classical ouvre looking for more examples of cockney influences, in a homage to the great Bill Bailey[0]

Looks like these people have sort of genericised that idea, but what I'm talking about is more of a fuzzy search. Shame the code isn't available along with the dataset.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQyR0HRxNEA

EDIT: the "shave and a haircut" riff is better known in the UK as the "cockney intro," so I guess it's not there?
Checkout out adaptly.com if your interested send an email to sean@adaptly.com. Articles:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-29/tech/30216948...

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/05/lessons-from-1...
I've been thinking about something like this for a while actually. My dreams have come true...
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You don't understand. What happens is that once the teachers/professors (this happens more often in universities) realize that they can force the students to use their textbook, they do a deal with a publishing company and sell the book to the students for $120 a pop.
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The absence rule only applies if you're in the medical field, or if the J-1 included got a government sponsorship.
Apple already take 30% of the apps' revenues, and they're not expensive.

Are they going to increase their cut? Doubt it. Why would they? Apps are not what makes them money: devices are - and they make a lot more money from having a healthy app ecosystem than they do from squeezing every penny out of developers.

Of course, Apple's ways are mysterious and unpredictable. But they have so far shown no interest in increasing their cut of app revenues. Much like iTunes, they're happy to leverage this huge library of "media" to boost sales of devices.
"Voyager 1 changed to the backup for this same component after 353,000 pulses in 2004."

Impressive.
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Looks like E-PARASITE (nee PROTECT-IP) may fix that oversight.
Here's some projects you could look into https://github.com/clyfe/cywiky/wiki/Check-source-Rails-proj...
I agree overcoming "approach anxiety" is key to just about any goal that requires someone else to be attracted to you in one way or another - dating, investing, friendship, ordering a drink in a crowded bar, ....

However, the key to ultimate success in all of these is that the person needs to like you and respect you. Girls don't like guys that approach them and rattle off about how funny they are, how much money they make, and what a great lover they are. Girls respect guys who are confident and layered, not guys who throw all their cards on the table in a 30 second pitch in a desperate attempt to be liked. Bartenders will first serve patient, confident, respectful customers, not eager, aggressive douchebags flashing twenties and snapping fingers.

Not being a super-experienced investor or fundraiser, I'll leave the translation to investment pitches up to others, but I have a mixed reaction to this post. For most people, the hardest part of reaching out to others is shutting down the the internal chatter that talks them out of opening the door. How you conduct yourself afterwards though, is also incredibly important.

I suspect investors as a class try to grit their teeth and discount awkwardness and narcissism in the hopes of finding the next Mark Zuckerberg, however I also think being a genuine and likable person - which for the most part means genuinely liking other people - is a great path to a good relationship in this and any other circumstance.
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Last week (when the UK change was) there was the bi-perennial news about if we need it or not, and basically the Scottish don't want it the way we want it, and just because they might soon be independent doesn't change that. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12536056
This is kinda how Montessori schools do it - at least the one here where my partner teaches. They aren't online, but the student gets to chose to some degree what they are working on, however they can only move onto the next level of a subject once they've passed the 'works' that come before it. The grading of a work involves marking problems correct and incorrect. Note that this is 1st - 3rd grades
Yes if you need that sort of clarification I was referring to the MacOSX "graphical environment".
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OCaml's garbage collector doesn't deal with concurrency!